And with his country in the grip of massive protests colombias president begins what hes calling a National Dialogue. The big. Thank you for joining us prodemocracy candidates in hong kong have won an unprecedented and symbolic victory in District Council elections voters turned out in record numbers after almost 6 months of protests that have cause a territorys worst political crisis in decades live to soft rock in hong kong in just a moment but 1st this report from scott hyde. In a sweeping victory prodemocracy candidates made huge gains in hong kongs District Council elections gaining control from pro beijing parties. The voters sending a clear message in the 1st polling since the protest movement began. Even before the polls closed it was clear that this was an extraordinary election and a record breaking day for hong kong elections the highest voter turnout ever over 70 percent of registered voters cast their ballots after nearly 6 months of at times violent demonstrations the pol
In washington really thinks that erdogan was going to go put it on harms way american troops which had been keeping their presence there very small contingent had been keeping this from happening so the president obviously feeling defensive but you just saw him there and over the last couple of days hes been trying to create this narrative and he came out he said with the cease fire pause he said its a great day for civilization i solved it sounded as if he thought he had solved the conflict between the turks between turkey and the kurds obviously thats not what this does and weve seen a lot of criticism people coming out and saying what the president did twice now is he told to turkey to involve it to go after the kurds and theyre saying that was a slap in the face of the kurds and theyre saying that he did it again with this agreement to the cease fire basically giving turkey everything they want so a couple of things in that brief roundtable with the media i think its important to p
Against the demonstrators and this is what also pushed to the students of the private universities to join in and under another number of demonstrations happened in 17 different cities across colombia this and they had this way with their empty placers and the students running away but they are promising that their movement there will continue until their demands are met lots more to come here on aljazeera in israels arab towns the crime wave palestinian israelis say is being the collected by the police. Fighting intensifies in the mountains of being as ethnic groups step up their campaigns against the government or not stay with us. Legal. Well there are 2 seasons in the us at them are the best summer in the south but rather more winter this is montana is not the 1st die and fall of snow in montana is a 2nd but hes. Toast a little bit early in the season but its not to stay in montana which is maybe not surprising you know Montana Mountains its going to come down to the plains that is
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The deliberations on syria they were held in the closed consultation room next to the chamber perhaps they didnt want yet more division on the latest phase of syrias long war to be seen in public behind closed doors they couldnt agree on words for a joint statement instead the u. S. Ambassador tried to sum up her countrys position after days of controversy and confusion in washington on whether President Trump had given the green light to the Turkish Operation we just finished our consultations on syria and as the president has made abundantly clear the u. S. Has not in any way endorsed the decision that the government of turkey to mount a military incursion into northeast syria. President trump has emphasized to the government of turkey that they bear full responsibility for protecting the kurdish population and religious minorities including christians and ensuring that no humanitarian crisis takes place the ambassadors of e. U. Countries who sit on the Security Council we also came