Im melissa chan welcome to news asia thank you for joining us the government of thailand has announced it will cancel the countrys state of emergency and in an attempt to call the ongoing student led protests since last week democracy protesters have assembled daily in bangkok demanding the Prime Ministers resignation the redrafting of the constitution and a reform of thailands monarchy Prime Minister prime you know it just said on wednesday it was time for people to stop taking to the streets there up with the protestors have made their voices and views heard why it is now time for them to reconcile their views with those of other segments of thais society or through their representatives in parliament. But demonstrators have pledged to. New gathering they want the Prime Minister to step down in the next 3 days they say the protests have been steadily gaining momentum since mid july echoing last summers protests in hong kong and that parallel has not been lost on activists from both p
Drumming up the pressure argentinians demand the government stops for and debt repayments as they struggle to make ends meet its. Fellow armenia and azerbaijan are accusing each other of violating a deal aimed at pausing fighting over the disputed nagornokarabakh region the as re military released a video on saturday showing what it says the destruction of an Armored Vehicle that breached the agreement the cease fire was announced by russia on friday after 10 hours of talks in moscow it allows both sides to Exchange Prisoners recover bodies Bernard Smith is in chorus in our armenia he says its a shaky cease fire. We were in step out of the main city of no go no karabakh earlier today and while we were there we heard shelling in the distance there are accusations that both sides actually have breached the cease fire and they go no kyra backs defense ministries accusing azerbaijan of using the cease fire to ready itself for further military action they said the only way to achieve real p
Cut the spread. Ireland has become the 1st european country to go into a 2nd log down during the 2nd wave of the coronavirus central dublin has was deserted look at this during the morning rush hour today nonessential businesses have been forced to close with bars and Restaurants Limited to take away service and everyone has been told to stay within a 5 kilometer radius of their homes ireland has recorded nearly 10000 new cases in the past 2 weeks and the government says it has imposed these measures to save the Public Health system. Lets get you more on these measures im joined now by governor riley he is a Political Correspondent at virgin media news ireland a very good day to you again evan ive won im guessing the people of ireland are not happy about the 2nd lockdown. No i dont think anyone would ever very enthusiastically embrace a 2nd lockdown but i think there is a widespread recognition that something had to change because arnold has already gone through a lot of the other prec
Boris johnson is due to the side on fridawhether to walk away from the talks. New zealand prepares to vote with polls indicating the Prime Minister will be a comfortable winner. Both party leade are criticized for not doing enough for women. Breaking news out of south korea. We are getting the jobless figures for the month of ptember coming in at 3. 9 , which is much higher than analysts had expected. Its also larger than the previous month, when it came in from august at 3. 2. 300 92,000 jobs were removed in september from a year earlier and we have seen the jobless rate ssawing. We did have the virus resurgence in south korea so that hit the labor market negatively and we had typhoons in september that might have skewed the numbers. The positive boost for the labor market in south korea is the governments planned fourth extra budget that should help the employment market. S p saying it will take many years for employment to return to prepandemic levels. We have seen the bank of korea
Their activism by this years right livelihood award. And the shop that throughout hong kong around the world we speak to the protester injured last year by the 1st Police Bullet fired during the citys prodemocracy demonstrations hes now facing years in prison. Good to have you with us authorities in belarus have suspended the popular independent news outlet to be for 3 months the site has covered the ongoing protests against the reelection of authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko for people to be has been a key source of information about the government crackdown on the demonstrations has broadcast images documenting Police Violence and mass arrests including those of all the. Leaders journalists and photographers. Government is also making it increasingly difficult for foreign journalists nic connolly whos reported there now for weeks shows us how belarus is trying to stop the cameras from filming and what that might mean for the protest movement for weeks of protests capturing im