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Follow on down jordan this is out of there alive from doha also coming up Hong Kongs High Court a sentence prodemocracy activist josh along just three months in prison. Is providing Vital Services to the Palestinian Refugee population the u. N. Says a decision by the United States to cut funding for Palestinian Refugees will affect stability in the region. And another crisis for yemen as the World Health Organization says the Diphtheria Outbreak is spreading fast. Your secular state Rex Tillerson is calling on the world to step up pressure on north korea until it abandons its Nuclear Program hes joined representatives of nineteen other nations to discuss ways of tightening sanctions on pyongyang was in jordan reports. A show of diplomatic commitment in vancouver to ending north Koreas Nuclear Weapons Program but the meeting cohosted by canada and the United States yielded just one new tactic for the fight an agreement to prevent socalled ship to ship transfers of outlawed goods to p. O
And london. This is bbc world news. Its newsday. Its 7am in singapore, midnight in london and 7am also in beijing, where chinas president xi jinping has become arguably chinas most powerful leader since chairman mao. In the next few hours the party will announce the names of the new Leadership Team who will work with him. They may not be household names outside of china but these men, and they will probably all be men, give the world an important insight into his priorities. And it shows how president jinping has consolidated his power ever since he first became leader five years ago. Robin brant is in beijing for us. Todayis today is the big reveal, the new Leadership Team of president xi jingping . Leadership team of president xi jingping . Yes, it is very important we get this visual moment where these seven men walk out from behind a hoarding and are revealed. They walked out in seniority. We get xi jingping, then his premier. Then the five new faces. As you say, not household name
And london. This is bbc world news. Its newsday. Good morning. Its 8am in singapore. 1. 00am in london and 8. 00am also in beijing, where chinas president xijinping has become arguably the countrys most powerful leader since chairman mao. In the next few hours the party will announce the names of the new Leadership Team who will work with him. They may not be household names outside of china but these men, and they will probably all be men, give the world an important insight into his priorities. And it shows how president jinping has consolidated his power ever since he first became leader five years ago as our correspondent robin brant has been telling me. Yes, its hugely important. Firstly we get this very visual moment where these seven men walk out from behind a hoarding and are revealed to chinas 1. 4 billion people, but also to the world. They walk out in seniority. So we get xi jingping first and his premier li keqiang, he stays in post. Then the five new faces. As you say, not