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Been starker. And coming up. The billionaire former mayor of new york Michael Bloomberg announces he wants to run for president. Hello, and welcome to world news today. The first results from hong kongs local District Council election are coming in and they show the pro democracy parties making big gains. Theyre on course to all but wipe out their pro beijing rivals. Theres been a huge voter turnout in comparison to elections in 2015. With slightly more than half of the count complete the numbers just a few minutes ago showed pro democracy parties have already taken 196 seats. While pro establishment parties have just 27 so far. These are the numbers being reported by local media and there is still a way to go yet, of course. Now, some notable names ran in the elections, including pro beijing lawmaker junius ho. Hes one of the most controversial politicians in the city and is reported to have suffered a shock defeat. Our correspondent Stephen Mcdonell is in hong kong. Stephen, this cou
The News Conference was held in the east room of the white house. Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States and the president of the republic of turkey. President trump thank you very much. Please. Begin by welcoming the first lady with us today and the first lady of turkey. Thank you very much for being here. It is a great honor to have you. We had a very productive meeting. Before we start, i would like to think president erdogan for who was in detainee detention. I appreciate that verythat was. He will becoming back at some point in the nottoodistant future. Thats very good news for the United States and turkey. Turkey is a great nato ally. Our economic relationship is tremendous. It continues to expand and grow. They are essential to ensuring prosperity and promise for our citizens. Over the course of the day, we had a frank and productive conversation on important topics. Among those topics, we discussed the situation in syria. Last month, i had mike pompeo with us.
Out fine. Ok . Thank you. President trump and turkish president aragon held a press conference. They announced they will release a scientist detained on terrorism charges since the failed military coup in turkey. The News Conference was held in the east room of the white house. Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States and the president of the republic of turkey. And the president of the republic of turkey. President trump thank you very much. Please. I want to begin by welcoming the first lady with us today and the first lady of turkey. Thank you very much for being here. It is a great honor to have you. We had a very productive meeting. Before we start, i would like to think president erdogan for releasing a detainee who was in detention. Ry much for being here. It is a great honor to have you. We had a very productive meeting. Before we start, i would like to think president erdogan for who was in detainee detention. I appreciate that verythat was. He will becoming ba
Camps in western china are used to brainwash the muslim uighur minority. The billionaire former mayor of new york Michael Bloomberg announces he wants to run for us president as a democrat. Good morning. It is 1 00am in london, 8 00pm in new york and 9 00am it is 1 00am in london, here in hong kong, where the pro democracy parties are on course for an overwhelming landslide victory in local elections. With about half the vote counted, the pro democracy camps have won seven seats for every one held by parties backing the government. These are only local District Council elections, but this is a huge vote of support for the protest movement, after almost six months of often violent demonstrations that have brought this city to a standstill. Rupert Wingfield Hayes reports. In the Eastern District of Hong Kong Island this morning, the queue to vote at the shau kei wan polling station went on and on and on. Were seeing queues like this in districts all over hong kong today, people waiting f