Disproportionate with violence against protesters. And hong kong newspaper publisher in beijing critic jimi lie is released on bail after his arrest under a controversial security lol. With grief rage and vows for justice people in beirut of marks one week since a catastrophic explosion shattered that city crowds gathered to near the lebanese Capital Support the site of the blast to hold a vigil. Survivors held a moment of silence for the more than 200. 00 People Killed and read the victims names allowed people also walked through some of beiruts worst hit neighborhoods marching towards the parliament a blast injured thousands of people and left hundreds of thousands homeless. Well anger has spilled out onto the streets as clashes between protesters and Security Forces continue for a 2nd day demonstrators have set fires and holed stones at parliament now a report suggests lebanons leaders had been warned just last month about the explosive materials told to beirut port au lets go live
Australia, part of the report examined japan and australia and how chinese influence works there. Todays conversation is to look at how russian influence works in the United Kingdom as part of that broader work, we also looked at germany. The reason that malcolm was so important was because we used his framing of influence activity. We looked at covert, coercive and corrupted influence factors. Many reports have certainly examined the supply of influence activities, but very few look at the demand side. How democracys use and except these influence activities. So i record and focus much more on the demand, how democrats in the government in societies influence that activity. This report was made possible by the u. S. State Departments Global Engagement Center during the Information Access find and administered by the institute and we are grateful, of course, for their support of these views. Of course, the authors and not the state department if i may, let me briefly go over some of th
The importance of the relationship between drugs and war of course, i know that the intensity of feelings in china about the century of humiliation that began with opium war t butt the same time its easy for a lot of people, including myself, to think of Something Like the opium ware as may be an anomaly or something very particular to a very particular time and place and i have to say im guilty of thinking about the opium war that way but great scholarship, truly great scholarship, like killer high and a lot of the work done here at the Washington Institute forces us, forces me to see the world in a totally new way this book has forced me and i think it forces all readers to focus on the eternal and incredibly expansive relationship between drugs and war. That relationship extends from war conducted by people who are often on a form of drug and some kind of psychoactive substance and it extends to wars and conquest of drugs or the Raw Materials and extends to wars for markets and for
Health care workers accuse the government of letting them down the number of deaths the passes and 1000. And how indigenous communities in malaysia are trying to protect themselves from coronavirus. China has reported its highest number of new coronavirus cases normal 6 weeks Authorities Say 108 people were infected over the past day mostly travelers returning from abroad while that number is low its adding to concerns of a possible 2nd wave of cases begin with china now sarah clark joins us from hong kong so is this the 2nd wave the much feared 2nd wave. Well so this is a cluster thats been reported out of china on monday with 100 new cases there the latest figures from the National Health commission in china and thats up from 99 the previous day and thats the highest number of daily cases weve seen in the last 6 months 6 weeks i should say and most of these cases have been reported in a province in the north east of china this province is called the Heilongjiang Province and it borde
Humiliation that began about the opium war but at the same time it is easy for a lot of people including myself to think of Something Like the opium war like an anomaly or something very particular to very particular timer and place and i have to stand guilty of thinking about the opium war thatbo way. But great scholarship, truly great scholarship like killer hi, a lot of work that is done at the Lawson Institute forces us and me to see the world in a totally new way. This book has forced me and enforces all readers to really focus on the internal and incredibly expansive relationship between drugs and war. That relationship extends from work conducted by people who were often on a form of drug, some kind of psychoactive substance and it extends towards an conquest of drugs or the raw material for drugs and it extends to wars for markets and for outlets of drugs and of course were all familiar with wars against drugs. But as peter argued so effectively, this phenomenon, this interacti