Im melissa chan welcome to news asia tensions between china and taiwan have hit a high not seen in years most recently chinese warplanes crossed to the median line the Narrow Strait separating the 2 sides over the past week thats according to taiwans president haiyan one the United States plays a role in all this says taiwans main supporter the trumpet administration plans to sell taiwan billions of dollars in weapons from missiles to Surveillance Drones in order to shore up its defenses against any potential attack by beijing taiwan is a democracy with a separate government but president xi jinping considers it a part of his peoples republic of china. Over ousting reception for taiwans leader as she meets air force offices at one of the territories most important to military bases. President sighing when he was there to deliver a special message following a spike in tensions between time china so were going off as the commander in chief of our National Armed forces i want to assure th
He is definitely no longer this countrys president and that as a result the countrys Security Services were under no obligation to follow his orders tonight were expecting big protests here in minsk the police has closed down effectively the city lots of police and police vans on the streets ready to make arrests people being sent home early from work in the expectation that the police will need to get their streets emptied to deal with protesters and journalists have been arrested doing their jobs out in the streets of mints today so really a sense that events are accelerating here and its now in the 30 seconds that we have together is this going to galvanize demonstrators or is this really such a big blow to their efforts. I think it will defeat galvanize their efforts this is how scared this regime is how its feeling the pressure that it needs to basically do this in private without any real legitimacy or guests on hand to see whats going on so i think if anything this will bring mo
Im melissa chan welcome to news asia tensions between china and taiwan have hit a high not seen in years most recently chinese warplanes crossed to the median line the Narrow Strait separating the 2 sides over the past week thats according to taiwans president high in one the United States plays a role in all this says taiwans main supporter the trumpet administration plans to sell taiwan billions of dollars in weapons from missiles to Surveillance Drones in order to shore up its defenses against any potential attack by beijing taiwan is a democracy with a separate government but president xi jinping considers it a part of his peoples republic of china. Over ousting reception for taiwans leader as she meets air force offices at one of the territories most important to military bases. President sighing when he was there to deliver a special message following a spike in tensions between time in china so were thinking of as a commander in chief of our National Armed forces i want to assur
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The government crackdown lawyer and activist maxime is not is the latest opposition figure to be detained in baton rouge. Below 5 again burning near to a greek migrant camp that was all but destroyed by an overnight blaze its left thousands of Asylum Seekers without shelter but locals are blaming them for starting the fire officials believe it may have been arson started by refugees who were forced to self isolate after testing positive for the coronavirus transfer of press reports from the scene. This was one of europes largest refugee camps morea on the greek island of lesbos fires have torn through tents and dilapidated structures they were thought to have been deliberately lit by people fed up with that desperate existence compounded by corona fires here out there today far far. Far worse. And. Thousands of people became homeless once again precious family belongings hastily bundled together to form makeshift bedding there were no fatalities but these are lives thrust even deeper n