So 5000000 people in the city of melbourne again back into lockdown after a spike in cave in 1000 infections the government has admitted its lost control of spreading infections and drastic action was needed to hold the spiralling situation for wednesday residents can only leave their homes for essential purposes for 6 weeks pretoria state border with neighboring New South Wales is also closing. It is simply impossible with keiser right at this level to have enough context rising stars to have enough physical resources no matter where they come from no matter what uniform my way in order to continue to suppress and can time this virus without taking significant steps if we were to file to take those steps then we wont be a couple of 100 cases paradise it will be many more than that and it will quickly spiral well and truly out of control when i was there is no clear gauge says the state of victoria wasnt expected to coronavirus resurgence like this this really isnt the outcome the gove
Reform villages in sudan central dufner are demanding the government do more to protect them from armed groups. So the Worlds Largest social Media Companies are reviewing their operations in hong kong after beijing imposed its new National Security law chinese short video app to talk has announced it will stop its operations altogether in the territory well zoom and linked in theyve joined a growing list of social media platforms including google and facebook who say they will now deny government requests for user data that more details of the law have now been revealed trees can conduct searches without a warrant stop suspects from leaving the city and intercept Online Communications and sarah clarke is in hong kong and she says there have been reactions on multiple fronts. Yes the reaction has been swift not just from western countries and governments but also from the tech giants in the social media platforms these new powers for the police force they were unveiled overnight by hong
A damning insider account. And the new us sanctions designed to further isolate syrias president and force him to make concessions. Welcome to the program a day after north korea blew up a Liaison Office that was used to communicate with south korea its military is announcing further escalations the army says it will redeploy troops near the heavily fortified border Demilitarized Zone it also intends to resume regular military exercises and rest up his guard posts in frontline areas on top of this north korea has rejected souls offer to discuss reducing tensions for its part south korea says it will no longer accept what it calls unreasonable behavior from its neighbor well robert kelly is a professor of International Relations and diplomacy at Busan National university it joins us via skype from there robert weve seen a number of recent military threats by north korea in the last few days but what message is pyongyang sending by blowing up this legs in office and why now. Hi yet thank
A count. On the World Trade Organization find saudi arabia broke global rules and failing to stop a pirate broadcaster stealing content from a qatari sports network. Welcome to the program a day off the north korea blew up a Liaison Office that was used to communicate with south korea its military is announcing further escalations the army says it will redeploy troops near the heavily fortified border and Demilitarized Zone it also intends to resume regular military exercises and reestablish guard posts in frontline areas on top of this north korea has rejected souls offer to discuss reducing tensions and for its part south korea says it will no longer accept unreasonable behavior from its neighbor well rob mcbride has more now from you on the south korean side of the border. I think generally there is a feeling of disappointment and how this all seems to be unraveling and unraveling so quickly i think also among a number of people there will be concern about just how bad this war of w
Turkey has launched another military offensive against armed kurdish separatists in Northern Iraq. Deployed troops to the 100000 in the region near the border to fight the p. K. K. Warplanes have also targeted the groups positions around 3000 fighters are believed to be in Northern Iraq turkey the u. S. And the e. U. All lists the p. K. K. As a terrorist group. A correspondence in turkey and iraq a monitoring developments faultiness in baghdad but 1st lets go to city of course yahoo who is in istanbul for a sit in so this is the 2nd to cross border operation within a week. Well the a fact of the turkish mother of 3 has on an awful peroration is to the region especially since the 2018 in the military intensified operation and the reason is not only the presence in Northern Iraq but the link between the Syrian Kurdish functional group. In syria basically the idea of the sofa ration by the Turkish Military it is actually to cut the logistics line between the p. K. K. And the y. P. G. In s