The way the difficulties facing rescuers in northwestern kenya after dozens are killed in landslides and breathing new life into the worlds coral reefs how the Pacific Waters of palau have become a big can of hope. Im joined again with the sport as crowned asian champions and down to wilder defends his heavyweight boxing title with yet another devastating knockout to win as we match in the 14th enough they can. Become please welcome to the news hour a Record Number of voters have had their say in hong kongs district elections with less than an hour and a half before those polls close about 2 thirds of eligible voters have cast their ballot thats more than 2 and a half 1000000 people the elections follow months of violent protests against the pro beijing government well get an update from bride whos standing by in hong kong shortly but 1st this report from sarah clarke. As polls open to the people lined up around 4000000 who are registered to vote in hong kongs District Council election
Are most prevalent the problems of poverty which is reach 20 percent in many places in the country and can reach up to 40 percent in certain parts of marginalized urban areas and the problem that tourism has really had in the post terrorist period where people no longer really want to come from europe to. Tunisia speeches and that has been a major source of loss in the economy so he has definitely offered to try to affect those but as i say his portfolio in fact doesnt include that its more focused on defense and on Foreign Policy so he will have to work closely with whoever is Prime Minister in order to make those promises effective. And more still to come including set for another 4 years early results show polands conservative ruling party has secured a majority in parliament transactions. And dozens dead many more missing the search and rescue operation continues after the most powerful typhoon in decades slams into japan. Hello there want to share in the forecast across into south
A very few responded was rocks and the other candidates have been going back and forth on trying to protect themselves here because theyre supposed to be a march to call for the resignation of president saddam stamping out all these people were hurt that was really. Having. Protesters were angry that they could not express their constitutional right to demonstrate bend over a couple of additional going before i came here today with my daughters to protest peacefully for all of our rights because enough is enough the rich take everything in every day were worse off and worse all. Others say president needs to be punished yeah hes a quasi well like all the other president s and he needs to be impeached. That is highly unlikely to happen since at least part of the opposition says it wont support a congressional impeachment bid. To get us says hes listening to chileans demands and while he may be the obvious target of these protests. Math most concede that changing the president is far les
Sanctions unless he agrees to a cease fire. So far rejected any attempts to broker a truce says and says his country isnt worried about further sanctions the operation began over a week ago after the u. S. Withdrew support for kurdish allies in Northern Syria those fighters are regarded as terrorists by turkey. Well check in with Charles Stratford shortly about the fighting thats happening on the ground hes joining us near the turkish Syrian Border 1st though across over to politico who is monitoring diplomatic developments from washington d. C. And you know just about 24 hours ago when you and i were speaking on the air we heard from pretty much say let them do whatever they want over there let them deal with it by themselves how difficult does that make the job of the Vice President and the secretary of state who are there to on a mandate really to negotiate with on a cease fire. It was head scratching really because it seems that the president s public statements are making pences a
Are using. Britain heading for its 1st december in action in almost a century a very forest johnson hopes will break the brics it deadlock. Was in doha with all the days sport bangladesh stalled around the shock about a hot sun has been banned for 2 years on 3 trips with corruption charges that some more later in the program. Break in lebanon where Prime Minister saad hariri has submitted his resignation to the president after 13 days of antigovernment protests harry reid says hes reached a dead end in dealing with the unprecedented demonstrations and violence but have paralyzed the country so that honda has been following the days developments from beirut. Protesters welcoming the decision by the Prime Minister to resign there are celebrating in the streets there calling this a victory welcoming a welcome 1st step this is what they have been demanding for the past 13 days demanding a new government is formed a government made up of technocrats which are not or ministers who are not al