The u. S. Embassy calling on the u. S. To push through a bill that would give them greater powers to safeguard hong kongs autonomy and as i mentioned the protesters are now sending out an International Appeal for help and their efforts and jim brown has more on that part of the story obviously these protesters want global attention their target on sunday the United States. To chinas leaders this will fuel their suspicions that foreign powers a behind the 3 and a half months of unrest in hong kong the protest his message is for the u. S. Congress and the act they want passed that would lead to close a scrutiny of human rights in hong kong and u. S. Sanctions against hong kong leaders he wants to u. S. Congress to pas that hong kong human rights and you know see as as chance was about this you were so important for us because you can selectively punish those off issues who trample on our freedom riot police blocked the road in front of the consulate and were braced for trouble. As in pre
A very busy place on a sunday night and as you can see its been brought to a standstill with white police over here blocking the roads they chased the protesters 2 here from the financial district and tried to disperse them using tear gas among the shoppers and the crowds on a sunday night long long ago we saw people running with small children without any protection away from the tear gas so instead of just protesters here confronting the police what were seeing is regular shoppers and regular people trying to confront the police off them why theyre using such Excessive Force when there are people who have nothing to do with the protests this has been a constant or a fein and this has been the next step in the protests that we are seeing where people want Police Accountability for their actions this is in stark contrast to the protests we saw earlier today when thousands of people marched to the u. S. Embassy calling on the u. S. To push through a bill that would give them greater pow
Of his ministers resigned including his own brother and he sacked 21. 00 conservative m. P. Is one of them the grandson of former Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill or its the reports. Londons Parliament Square is graced with a statue of britains most famous politician and the ghost of Winston Churchill his legacy and beliefs have very much been on peoples minds in this extraordinary contradictory week. When Parliament Resumes Prime Minister Boris Johnson himself above refers churchill invoked the language and even the intonation of the wartime leader to suggest that the u. K. Was somehow in a conflict with the European Union he used the very same words about the e. U. That churchill had done about nazi germany in 1940. Never surrender that sort of language comes from the playbook of johnsons new chief of staff Dominic Cummings a brick city idealogue behind the slogan take back control and cummings many believe was also behind the brute. Treatment of those conservatives who could not
Expected to make much of a difference if the oppositions strategy what is socalled successful it will give a signal to the government that opposition is growing just before the polls close the oppositions call to participate in the vote didnt seem to have been heeded similar to previous elections turnout was only around 20 percent steps aljazeera moscow. The Israeli Government has approved legislation to allow cameras and polling stations in the upcoming election the bill must now go before parliament before polling day on september the 17th opposition groups say the governments decision to allow cameras is a political tactic to intimidate israels arab population Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says its the only way to prevent voter fraud. Election problems must be resolved before the election when do they want to. After the election there is no need for special arrangements no need for special training no need for special equipment any monitor to confirm with a cellphone this is wha
Party that despises the European Union but it will no longer brook any dissent it was faraj who status in british politics forced the bracks referendum in the 1st place and now it seems he is driving the conservative party to adopt his views. Consequently Todays Conservative Party finds itself at war with the European Union and with itself its legacy and relationship with its most famous son the irony isnt often any one that after the 2nd world war churchill gave all of his most famous speeches in which he called for the creation of a United States of europe and working together economically and socially for the greater good that phrase United States of europe is used by brick sitters including those inside the johnson ministration as the biggest insults of all. The. New found love of the European Union from those terrified of bricks it is now forced johnson into a corner and could easily lead to his resignation in the coming weeks the conservative party has a lot of thinking to do Law