A very warm welcome its 11 am here in moscow and youre watching off the international with me the key erin our top story this hour china has approved a bill to impose its security low in hong kong its off to the autonomous territories and Legislative Council failed to pass similar laws because live to aussie sauce to tell it for more now saskia whats the reaction in hong kong to this. Well with current of ours dominating the headlines since february many of the stories have to fall into the wayside but one making a comeback as the wild dogs return to normality the hong kong protests are now up to several months of response they still serious scuffles came off to thousands of protesters took to the streets on wednesday the day ending on a really sour note with around 300 arrests and Police Using Pepper Spray bullets because they suspected that some of the protesters had weapons including petrol bombs. Ok we know that anti China Sentiment has been building in the region for almost a year
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Exploitation. And the opposition hits out of the government for breaking their promise to protect renters from eviction ensuring the crisis ill be discussing this with a housing lawyer. Welcome to r. T. U. K. The government has implemented lockdown measures across the United Kingdom in response to the ongoing Coronavirus Crisis but was no clarity on essential work and no help so far for the self employed many continue to travel flouting rules on social distancing while r. T. U. Case it was dashed joyce for now with the latest hi there shot here so can you bring us up to speed well of course none of us have ever heard the message quite like here and that is because the Coronavirus Crisis is a situation that the United Kingdom has never faced in modern british history and that is why Boris Johnson the Prime Minister announced a National State of emergency just last night he initiated a knock down scenario he really felt he had no other choice but to do so and today weve heard from the ho
Pandemic is gone. Off its good to have you with us. Offered help today in the pandemic she suggested that germany is ready to help the European Union get back to Economic Health once this and demick is over she said that it is in germanys interest that europe should emerge strongly from what she called the e. U. s biggest test in its exact existence at the same time germany is to impose a 2 week quarantine on citizens and long term residents returning from travel abroad. Back in the chancellery after 2 weeks in coron 1003 negative current virus tests german chancellor Angela Merkel made her return. In my opinion europe the European Union is facing its biggest test since its foundation our populations are also facing a huge health challenge. All the e. U. Member states are being affected on varying levels were all affected. And so it must be in everyones interest and it is in germanys interest that europe should emerge strongly from this test. For good as merkel voiced her concerns for