Across the mediterranean they want more countries to share the burden of resettling refugees. Plus one of the Worlds Largest statues gets an epic facelift renovations rather wait to restore the motherland colds. Monument to world war 2 soccer party. Following terry martin welcome to the program Donald Trumps plan to pull american troops out of syria is drawing fire from both sides of the aisle in washington senior politicians are calling on the u. S. President to reverse his decision theyre concerned that the pullout will allow turkey to launch its long planned offensive against kurdish fighters in the region by others that have been key allies of the u. S. And its battle against the socalled Islamic State. Leaving in a hurry american troops started pulling out of syria within hours of the fischel announcement they gave behind these empty bases near the Turkish Border bases that had been a guarantee of safety for Kurdish Forces. U. S. President donald trump abruptly canceled that guara
That now produces nothing as the uns conference on the certification process will close in india we look at the problems and possible solutions to stay in a world where deserts are dense. Well im sorry martin welcome to the program hong kong is preparing for another weekend of demonstrations but increasingly prodemocracy activists are coming up with innovative ways of protesting they include some protest and i ask you as an ordinary citizens have converged on shopping malls to sing glory to hong kong. These Peaceful Demonstrations have been a respite from. Recent violent clashes which have seen the arrest of more than a 1000 People Police have charged around 150. 00 of them with various offenses and their trials are due to begin soon as Mathias Bollinger reports some of those charged face lengthy prison sentences to shorten your Hong Kong Legislature has been a hot spot of the antigovernment protests daniel chan has spent a lot of time here but that could change soon daniel not his rea
Local elections afro testers got plenty of putins government who are. Im calling asman thanks for joining us Hong Kong Police are cracking down on prodemocracy demonstrators who have defied an official ban to blockade the city center protests were taking place there the Chinese Government office in downtown hong kong when police unlatched of what unleashed a volley of tear gas canisters its the 2nd day of such clashes last night dozens were arrested and injured now the marchers are part of a weeks Long Campaign for greater democracy in hong kong and autonomy from mainland china. I want to go back to our correspondent in hong kong Mathias Bollinger you can see hes on the move now mathias whats the scene where you are right now. I have to leave because. Its coming from 2 directions not there im trying to go into. A lane that is who. Its really bad at the moment actually police is dispersing protesters with tear gas and. People are running away i dont know what else they have used today.
Releases new footage it says proves the rand was behind the attack on 2 ships near the gulf last week and as a rand says its about to breach the International Nuclear accord for the 1st time. Also on the show german investigators say they believe the killing of a regional politician was motivated by far right extremism. It was shot in the head and close range and what some are calling an execution style shooting. Im brian thomas thanks so much for joining us on kongs leader kerry lamb has apologized for her handling of a concert reversal extradition law but has not offered to withdraw during her apology said she regretted failing to connect with young people but the territories leader stopped short of resigning as demonstrators are demanding hong kongs leader didnt say that she takes full responsibility and has quote listened to the people. I have heard you loud and clear and have reflected deeply on all that has transpired the concerns over the past few months have been caused by defi
alliance. sweden s defense minister talks exclusively to the w. ah, i m so gale. welcome to the program. western governments are increasing their pledges of miller, ga, to help you crane found off a russian assault in the countries east. yes, president joe biden says he s country will provide advance rocket systems while germany has promised and bought an anti aircraft, missiles, russian foreign minister. so again, ralph has responded by saying the supplier for us advanced rocket launchers to ukraine, risks bringing what he called a 3rd country into the conflict these at the advanced rocket systems, the u. s. will be sending to ukraine long requested by president vladimir zalinski . keith harps these type of weaponry, we ll give it the upper hand. these medium range missiles could strike into russian territory, but ukraine has a great not to use them to do so. writing in the new york times, president biden announced the latest military aid to help ukraine in its fight against