birthday next month. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the australian opposition labor party leader, anthony albanese, has said he is humbled by his party s victory in australia s general election. addressing supporters, he pledged to transform the country into a renewable energy superpower and to work towards lifting wages and profits. our correspondent shaimaa khalil reports from sydney. this is the labour party s first election victory in almost a decade and it will be led by one of australia s longest serving politicians. we should be making change and, you know, that s what we hope that this government will do. it s been a long time in the darkness and now, finally, we can smile again. anthony albanese has promised voters safe change as he worked to kick out the conservative liberal national coalition which has been in power since 2013. coalition which has been it says a lot about our great country that the son of a single mum who was
The Jefferson County grand jury has indicted a man on a charge of a threat to bomb a courthouse, although investigators say he never named a particular courthou
A student at Palmyra-Macedon High School will face felony charges after being arrested in connection to a threat made against the school district, police said.
for kurdish political rights and kurdish activism is criminaliszed, is considered terrorism. in sweden thatis is considered terrorism. in sweden that is not the case and there are no speech crimes and can be guilty by association. what turkey really wants which is the extradition of these figures in a crackdown on their right to free speech is in fact a deal breaker for these democratic countries. i think on the arms embargo we will probably see a compromise. we see in other countries including the uk lift all restrictions on arms to turkey. that is something where we do not a part compromise is possible. the other is that erdogan has more demands in mind or may broach them in the coming days and that might have to do with concessions that only the us can deliver for example unst arms sales packages that are winding their way through congress. if that s the case were in for a long slow to get turkey on side. of course this whole time sweden and finland are waiting at nato s door and as
In China, don’t question the heroes.
At least seven people over the past week have been threatened, detained or arrested after casting doubt over the government’s account of the deaths of Chinese soldiers during a clash last year with Indian troops. Three of them are being detained for between seven and 15 days. The other four face criminal charges, including one man who lives outside China.
“The internet is not a lawless place,” said the police notices issued in their cases. “Blasphemies of heroes and martyrs will not be tolerated.”
Their punishment might have gone unnoticed if it wasn’t for an online database of speech crimes in China. A simple Google spreadsheet open for all to see, it lists nearly 2,000 times when people were punished by the government for what they said online and offline.