Landslides we look at the scale of the salvage mission. Here evidence emerges of chinas repression of more than a 1000000. Prodemocracy candidates in hong kong have won an overwhelming majority in Council Elections voters turned out in Record Numbers a most supported party is concerned about beijings influence in the Territories Affairs chief executive carol lam has promised to listen humbly chinas foreign minister reiterated that hong kong is part of china no matter what happens in the elections sarah clarke reports. As dawn broke hong kong to a new Political Landscape altered 70 percent of voters cast their ballots in sundays district Council Elections the prodemocracy party secured a Record Number of seats a lot of people actually sacrificed a lot of the base of our lot in the last 6 months. 2 to actually get this result and i think people are very. United and. To actually try to win something joshua long was disqualified for running but his party claimed victory in his electorate o
Thousands of people stayed away from work on the 5th of august our. Rallies were also taking place across the city. In the residential neighborhood one tyson the call for action came early. Last. Was even before the end of the granny some protesters had decided to take over a nearby aground. A small group of Police Arrived shortly after. But they quickly were treated under a hail of umbrellas plastic bottles and hard hats. The bigger better armed group returned that if a later time. The streets was soothing golfed in tear gas. Huge. Long tyson is home to a police dormitory. 2 days earlier protesters had alleged that someone inside it was putting firecrackers up the. Police used tear gas to push the protesters back but they kept returning. The standoff lasted several hours. Elsewhere similar scenes were unfolding in areas where rallies were also being held. Police said they fired more than 800. 00 rounds of tear gas that day and arrested 148. 00 people. Chinas office in charge of Hong K
Is there live in an attack air in techie that japans Prime Minister says he expects south korea to work on rebuilding trust after seoul ended an intelligence sharing agreement between the neighbors this comes amid a trade route and a dispute over compensation for South Koreans who were forced into war time labor by the japanese government bride reports from Seoul South Korea says it had been hoping until the last minute to avoid pulling out of the pact blaming japan for whats now become the most serious deterioration in relations in decades young japan created a green change in bilateral Security Cooperation we have determined it would not serve our National Interest to maintain an agreement to exchange sensitive military information. The intelligence sharing agreement was set up 3 years ago to counter the nuclear and missile threats from north korea its breakdown comes at a time of increased missile testing by pyongyang what anymore because the south korean decision completely misjudg
We hear from the russian authorities that its more likely to be hit by an asteroid than a disaster for one of these floating plants but as you say its a new design and to some degree is unproven. Indeed i mean we know the. Result of must take precautions and they say that its a new variable to tsunamis but we also know that this wessel is going to be sent to the arctic to the far north where changing weather conditions and to some degree severe medical missions can become a problem for any vessel and to transport it could become a problem for the tugboats are helping in the rest of the movie because it doesnt self self propelled and at its destination we know that its very far from Emergency Response capabilities which are based more to the west in russia boucle him and that makes us worry that in emergency situation. Russia would have problems responding quickly enough to any unfortunate events. Could we see a situation this being a prototype if its successful or the like it would mea
Of fighting in Northern Nigeria. Opposition activists in syria say rebels have withdrawn from the strategically important town of homs shakun in Southern Province recapturing it is a significant victory for the Syrian Military and its allies russia the towns being in rebel hands is 2014. The rebels withdrawal follows days of fighting which saw them firing rockets into government territory and the l. Me has warned its forces that the battle isnt over yet. Rebels have also retreated from the last pockets of land they held in neighboring Hama Province their foothold in hama. Earliest days of the war then the holder has this from beirut. A major blow to the opposition they have lost significant ground what we understand is that rebel forces have withdrawn from the strategic town of and in southern that town was close to collapse saying the rebels have been also forced to withdraw from towns further south in the northern countryside because losing. Would mean they would be besieged in north