All u. N. Sanctions against iran. Defiance in the face of a crackdown that other museums strength and calls for you elections despite the governments scare tactics. A former white house chief strategist is in custody in the u. S. Charged with fraud by federal prosecutors steve benen who was one of us president Donald Trumps most influential advisors in the 2016 Election Campaign the Justice Department is accusing him of conspiracy to commit wire fraud in relation to a Fund Raising Campaign to support the building of trumps a Us Mexico Border wall well our White House Correspondent kimberly healthy joins us now live from washington d. C. Kimberly what more can you tell us about these charges. Well just to give you a sense of the scale of according to the indictment that has been laid out what this was was it a lab or its team that defrauded potentially hundreds of thousands of those who dont need it in the crowd funding approach that was odd. A line that was put together not just by ste
Particular committee is chaired by hong kongs chief executive kerry lam its also attended by beijings top official in hong kong some of the key new powers introduced granted to the police they can now conduct searches without warrants in special circumstances they can order social media to remove various content they blamed believe triptans are hong kong or chinas National Security they can also see a quick note from social media giants and they can demand information from political operations which happen operating outside of on common failure to comply with these new laws carrying a 13000. 00 fine as well as to use now weve had a swift reaction also from the legal jurisdiction some say these powers are broad and lacked proper oversight another a barrister described them as scary stating that these powers should be within the legal jurisdiction not granted to police to conduct and the critics more that this is simply a way of china silencing its dissenting voices and its critics not k
Whether. Altered the crime whether it had insight to the crime wave there yet failed to prevent a crime but he was somewhere in the picture and thats enough for criminal responsibility and certainly for his liability but the head she also said that more countries need to be present for these proceedings. I call on them to ensure that the last next session in november that they are far greater International Presence so that we continue to deliver that message to saudi arabia and to the rest of the world that you cannot get away with killing a journalist and lets not forget these is a state exit q of course we are focusing on individual respect this is a state executive this is why the presence of other state of other members of the International Community is important. Headlines now in france has a new Prime Minister the palace has announced that it will take over from Edward Felipe a move that paves the way for a Cabinet Reshuffle step down which automatically triggers the resignation
Criticism over the security law which critics say dismantles hong kongs special freedoms House Speaker nancy pelosi has condemned the arrests of protesters in hong kong as a real tragedy its so sad but in the congress in the house and in the senate in a very unified way we have all worked together it has been a from a a joy to be bonding with my colleagues on both sides we are both sides of capitol on this very important issue and the republicans have been there every step of the way i hope the president will be. She have a chance he has more from capitol hill. Unanimous consent for the for this bill in both the house and the senate it says that within 90 days of the enactment an act of the bill the treasury the state department has to come up with names of individuals who are deemed to be to be eroding the basic law of hong kong was agreed upon in 1970 during the handover and Financial Institutions the do significant business with those individuals and bend the administration has a ye
Ethiopia hits a wall sudan says no to an agreement to fill the barriers with water. About conclude and. We hit the road with one of the Contact Tracing teams up in south africa flashed on the cover of infection despite the risk to his own health. Now the European Union is urging leaders to reopen borders closed because of the coronavirus pandemic now under that proposal regions which have contains the virus would open up while others would keep restrictions in place germany and switzerland are among the countries partially relaxing their controls as early as this weekend our correspondent is in paris she explains that not all countries are on board with this plan. Well we just heard from the Vice President of the European Commission you outlined the commissions rescue plan for the Tourism Industry now what she said was that many countries have to of course close the e. U. To close its borders in march at the beginning really of the current virus pandemic in the European Union but the s