A virtual session on the ethiopian river nile down project thats caused a bitter dispute with egypt and sudan. Its the development hong kongs prodemocracy movement feared the most Hong Kong Media reporting that chinas top legislative body has begun voting on a National Security law for the territory criminalizing acts of dissent and imposing heavy penalties for offenders well the Chinese Communist party has released virtually no details of the bill its expected its going to reshape the future of the Financial Center and drive another way edge in relations between china and the u. S. Beijing has taken up the run precedented step of circumventing hong kongs own legislature to impose the bill directly on to the city lets get reaction out of Hong Kong Adrian browns live for us now weve seen significant and often violent protests in hall against this bill and other positions of Chinese Authority in hong kong over the last few months how do you think that people are going to react today. Wel
Africas largest lake is drying up threatening to devastate entire communities by generations to come. But a protest leaders in hong kong say 800000 people turned out for a mass march through the city on sunday theyre demanding greater protection of their democratic freedoms and human rights it is the culmination of 6 months of protests even though police approved the event they warned they would not tolerate a repeat of recent violent protests earlier they said they confiscated a handgun and ammunition in raids that resulted in several Arrests Police say the weapon would have been used in their words to create chaos during the rally way jim brown is live for us in hong kong so adrian we saw some impressive numbers of people out there earlier but apart from removing that controversial extradition bill which was kicked off these protests what what have the demonstrators achieved up to this point over the 6 months. Well i think possibly theyve achieved quite a lot they did manage to get t
. the battle of the baby shark one of the world s latest catchy songs at the center of a south korean courtroom drama. the 1st has been a huge surge in the number of corona virus infections across china more than 15000 new cases were confirmed on wednesday alone and that s up from 1600 just the day before that 200 $54.00 more deaths have been announced and that brings the total to almost $1400.00 there for officials from her bay province at the center of the virus have been sacked over the handling of the outbreak and that includes the province s communist party chief jan shall yang. when $60000.00 people in $26.00 countries have now been infected in japan for instance $44.00 new cases were confirmed on the diamond princess cruise ship that s currently docked in yokohama and that brings the total on board on that ship alone to 218 then there s vietnam 10000 people in a community just outside of hanoi they ve been placed under 20 day quarantine 5 people there have been infecte