A scaled down ceremony is held in paris paying tribute to the Nations Health care workers. Im Claire Richards and welcome to the show u. S. President donald trump has made good on his threat to end hong kongs special status trump has signed an executive order to strip the city of its trade privileges and bring it in line with Mainland China he also announced sanctions against officials and banks involved in beijings crackdown on Civil Liberties in the territory to their side legislation. And an executive order to hold china accountable for its oppression of actions against the people of hong kong. The hong kong or tanami act which i signed this afternoon passed unanimously through congress this law gives my administration powerful new tools to hold responsible the individuals and the entities involved in extinguishing hong kongs freedom weve all watch what happened not a good situation their freedoms been taken away their rights have been taken away and with it goes wrong in my opinion
And more visible especially when it comes to Domestic Violence millions of women have been physically abused by their partners during lockdown staying at home and parent time did help protect women and children against the virus but not against Domestic Violence according to the w. H. O. Emergency calls from victims rose by 60 percent. Domestic violence is a big issue in russia after the kremlin opposed and they show wide lockdown in march womens rights advocates sounded the alarm about a search in Domestic Violence cases and called for action to protect victims but only few were able to escape their plight after all many official shelters were full moscow Hotel Operator volunteer consented stepped into the breach is set of accommodating tourists she officer rooms 2 women seeking protection. Constantin of a has put the past few weeks to good use shes turning these old window frames into decorations for the rooms in her Hotel Valentino has time for interior Design Projects after all her
Protect household progress and prevent a devastating resurgence in the 2nd wave of the violence and the u. K. Announces compulsory quarantine to any want to ride in from abroad with fines for those who dont comply. We begin with serious accusations against brazils president jaya both a tape released by Brazils Supreme Court appears to show him threatening to fire Senior Police officers as their bosses and even a minister to protect his family the video of a Cabinet Meeting was released as part of a probe into allegations that bolton r. O. Was meddling in a criminal probe of his son the claim was made by the former Justice Minister said joe morell he resigned last month because of what he called political interference from the president John Heilemann joins us live now from mexico city john so what more do we know about this video and to what extent it may incriminate the president. I think to tell the story you have to go all the way back to april which is when sergio moto the Justice
And hong kong activists call for people to rise up against beijings plan to impose National Security laws on the ity. Hello. Brazils Supreme Court has released a video showing president bolsonaro trying to interfere in Law Enforcement appointments to protect his family from investigation. John holman joins us from mexico city. What more do we know about this video and how it came about . This is quite a complicated situation so im just going to try to break it down for you. This all started when severageyow moro, brazils justice minister, a star in his own right, quit. What he alleged is that president bolsonaro try to replace the Regional Police chief of Rio De Janeiro where his son is being investigated for graft. He then went bun level above that and fired the federal police chief. Sergio moro said that was so he could replace him with someone more pliable, who could pass the president information about those cases. Thats what he alleged. The Supreme Court which has just released th
A long down could reopen the economy place long term limits on Civil Liberties. I. Follow the World Health Organization has warned that people who recover from the corona virus may not be immune from reinfection the w. H. O. Says there is no evidence people who developed antibodies were protected from getting it a 2nd time and without that guarantee the Organization Says by some governments to roll out socalled immunity possibly could be risky but an increasing number of countries are easing restrictions India Pakistan spain and some american states are among the latest to lift some of their lockdown measures its now been confirmed that more than 200000 people have died from the virus globally but in china where it all began there is optimism the country has not reported any deaths from the virus for 10 straight dates for which alans begins our coverage with more on that warning from the w. H. O. The u. K. Is one of many countries that has been looking at the idea of immunity passports