Territories current and former Police Chiefs are among 11 officials targeted the sanctions were prompted by president trumps executive order last month to punish china over a sweeping National Security law imposed on hong kong so a clock has more from hong kong. A beijings top Representative Office in hong kong has released this statement strongly opposing and condemning the u. S. Treasury sanctions on hong kong and this is that this reveals the unscrupulous intentions of u. S. Politicians to support anti china color chaos in hong kong thats a quote from that particular statement and that he said these particular actions are really ridiculous again another quote its now we have had some comment as well from members of the Hong Kong Government weve had no official statement from carolan as yet but weve had ministerial representation do some feedback on media press conferences on saturday morning in particular the commerce and Economics Development minister it would yeah and he said thes
Practical support in the terms of the medical teams and Financial Assistance to beirut and hes offered a routine moral support as well but hasnt come from lebanon zobel little classes they havent been able to do that and theyve been conspicuous by their absence from the streets since the catastrophic explosion did not i know is that the people of lebanon have electricity shut down every day and its not working the provision of imports and exports has collapsed because of the Financial System so there arent as for the short term that we need as we know the answer is to fight corruption reform the energy and electricity systems the customs we need transparency for imports and exports we need reforms for all the sectors and insist on these changes quickly. Many beirut as most people have been left to their own devices we spent the day Walking Around parts of beirut and we saw armies of young people with brushes and dustpans and pickaxes and shovels beginning to clean up we didnt see the m
Dozens of people remain missing many of them employees at beirut port the site of those massive explosions they were telling us its not enough that these the authorities were that diligent enough to keep highly explosive material at the ports but the search operation is just so slow but we managed to talk to red cross workers in the Lebanese Army and theyre telling us that the destruction its just very very difficult because lebanon does not have the equipment and now rescue teams from abroad are coming to help in the search operation but there is little hope that they are going to find more people alive over 100 people dead and thousands injured many of them still in Critical Condition one woman said i dont know if ill ever see my husband again he was a daily wage earner barely earning 2. 00 a day and now she has nobody left to help her feed her 3 children so there is anger at a government that has not stepped in at a time of crisis and this anger like you mentioned is not new levanon
Suppression of freedom of expression. The fate of a small 1106 where kilometer corner of china was determined by opium. And it was here in the 19th century that the british manufactured the drug and sold it to china. The chinese emperor tried to stop the opium trade but the british increased pressure attacked china and occupied hong kong. In the years that followed treaties were signed the grant of the british 99 years of rule over hong kong. During those years it grew into a financial metropolis in 1907 the leasing agreement expired and the british handed hong kong over china agreed that the socalled Administrative Region was to remain autonomous for 50 years but then beijing began to intervene politically and more and more members of the prodemocracy Movement Began taking to the streets. In 2019. The situation escalated and more than a 1000000 hong kong residents took part in protests originally the demonstrations were against a proposed extradition law and then turned into oppositio
To lebanon greek and kasuri planes arrived in beirut on wednesday carrying medical supplies Turkey France and germany also plan to send help and the french president emanuel will travel to lebanon on thursday to meet with its leaders earlier i spoke with dr i mean could see from the American University hospital in beirut he told me about the patients the hospital was treating on tuesday. We. Had the opportunity the fortunate the fortitude to train for the mass casualty instance so most of our associate get sent to the hospitals have gotten some extent experience and the plans for deployment getting such incidents over certainly has. An excellent one thats one that weve discovered and published internationally so however yesterdays mass casualty incident was peculiar when the blast happened we went immediately into for activation for explore the disaster plan and automatically all our faculty and their sis and stat activated then mobilize and showed up on scene without making phone call