Melissa chan. Welcome to news asia. Thank you for joining us. Hong kongs legislature now has effectively no opposition. Prodemocracy lawmakers have announced they will all resign. Its to protest against beijings new bill passed today. Wednesday, the law would allow the Hong Kong Government to expel legislators without due process. And as soon as that law went into effect, the executive expelled for lawmakers. The opposition called the act quote, ruthless and said it quote, sounded the death knell of the citys democracy fight. Joining us is holmes chan. A political journalist in hong kong holmes. Im a little curious this decision from beijing did that come as a surprise . Now the decision actually came as a result of chinas top law making Body National Peoples Congress standing committee. And the reason why i came as such a big surprise to people in hong kong was because this was not announced on the agenda beforehand. It was announced very rapidly and passed very quickly and taking eff
With riot police in warsaw as thousands rally to mark poland, independence. And hong kongs prodemocracy legislators resigned in mass graves. 15 lawmakers walked out after 4 of their colleagues were sacked under a new law, all banning representatives who are deemed to be threats to National Security. Im burnt off. Its good to have you with us. The European Commission has signed a deal to secure up to 300000000 doses of a coded 19 bank seen developed by germanys buying on tech. And the Us Pharmaceuticals giant pfizer. The e. U. Health minister announced that the easy was setting up a health union to improve the response and coordination of Member States in future health crises. A vaccine is seen as the best chance to break the chain of coded 19 infections. The German Pharmaceutical Company buying on tech says that it could start shipping the vaccine to e. U. Countries by the end of this year. Hard to talk more about this. Im joined now by you to go to learn from the european parliaments
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Race. But the big stories from the past 7 days and right up to the moment developments as well this is the weekly on r. T. International my name is donald quarter welcome to the program now 11 people have now been arrested following the butchering of a history teacher in france its believed samuel paddy was targeted for showing caricature of the Prophet Muhammad to his students to debate freedom of expression. Large crowds turned out in central paris to pay tribute to the victim who was decapitated many people came carrying flowers and Holding Signs proclaiming jase we are. Several other vigils have been taking place across france hundreds gathered in toulouse and lille to decry violence and support freedom of speech a National Tribute for mr paddy is planned for wednesday. Prosecutors say the beheading was carried out by an 18 year old of chechen origin who was born in moscow his family moved to france 12 years ago seeking political asylum and russia says in such cases citizenship is
Race. Here. With the big stories from the past 7 days and right up to the moment developments as well this is the Weekly International im donald quarter welcome to the program. Now 11 people have now been arrested following the butchering of a history teacher in france its believed samuel paddy was targeted for showing caricature of the Prophet Muhammad to his students to debate freedom of expression. Large crowds turned out in central paris to pay tribute to the victim who was to capitated many people came carrying flowers and Holding Signs proclaiming jase we prof several other vigils have been taking place across france hundreds gathered in tulisa and lille to decry violence and support freedom of speech and National Tribute for mr peggotty is planned for wednesday. Prosecutors say the beheading was carried out by an 18 year old of chechen origin who was born in moscow his family moved to france 12 years ago seeking political asylum and russia says in such cases citizenship is usual