Own musical identity. Announcer live from our studios in singapore and london. This is bbc world news. Its newsday. Good morning. Its 8am in singapore and in hong kong, which is waking up after one of the most violent weekends of recent months. Protestors defied Police Orders to stay at home and commercial areas usually filled with shoppers were instead turned into war zones, thick with tear gas, officers armed with riot shields and masked demonstrators hurling bricks. And for the first time, Chinese State officials have scheduled a News Conference in beijing later on monday to make a statement on the situation. The bbcs nick beake reports from hong kong. Theres a predictability to sundays in hong kong this summer. They start peacefully, and end very differently. Once again, tens of thousands turned out, this time to condemn alleged Police Brutality during previous demonstrations. The police had tried to ban todays event and had warned that anyone who marched through the streets could
Now, it is hot and dry. Though it is getting a bit late in the season, folks near salinas on the evidence of a scary but muchneeded preplanned controlled burn to read a high fire prone area of grass, brush and debris that could promote the destructive runway wildfires. We are looking at doing statewide, increasing when possible, the areas that we do burns. I believe this last year, we have done approximately 15 to 20,000 acres of burns. The bulk of those are occurring on private lands. Reporter experts say much more is needed. We are trying to come up to about 250,000 or 200,000 acres in california over the next 5 years. Arendt as canyon road was closed most of the day as it will be each day this week to clear as much brush as possible from under big trees. The lowlying stuff is what can allow fire to reach the crowns of big keys trees, finally, the state has provided major funding. 200 million per year are available for Forest Restoration and prescribed fire. Those kinds of numbers ne
Next year. And portuguese football star Christiana Rinaldo will not face charges over allegations that he raped a woman in las vegas 10 years ago. The u. K. Is calling for a stronger western military presence in the gulf as the standoff with iran over captured oil tanker continues ek foreign secretary jeremy hans wants a european led Naval Mission to ensure safe shipping through the straits of hormuz thats where iran sees the british fired or oil tanker at the center of the storm claiming it was violating International Maritime law the u. K. Is calling it an act of states piracy well of rockets hoping that it can lower tensions between iran and the west regardless the stand off will be a priority for the incoming british Prime Minister this week widely said to be Boris Johnson. I think it is very important for voters johnson ask here and. 10 downing street who understand that iran does not seek confrontation iran wants to have normal relations based on Mutual Respect lawrence lee has m
Got to come away with something hes got a very very narrow majority in the countrys parliament he doesnt control the senate so certainly he will want to return to islamabad with something tangible out of his meeting with President Trump to be able to shore up the position of his government like in washington thank you. Im still ahead on the program set for an unprecedented majority in ukraines president followed him as a lengthy snap election gamble pays off. On burning anger in the philippines thousands protest against president bush rico to take his state of the union address. So we got a really ramping up across western parts of europe at the moment might see want to see records broken over the next couple of days the air being pushed in from the south quite a bit of cloud here just tumbling across scotland down into the north sea running across scandinavia pushing down into the low countries and that will make its way further east with will be some showers and thunder pools certain
Them. They took on way too much. Reporter now they are under criminal investigation by the california contractors state license board, and it faces an avalanche of suits from homeowners who say the company owes them a combined 3 to 4 million. Attorney richard freeman. I have a half dozen clients from whom money was taken and not one thing was done. Not one piece of earth moved. He absolutely took their money as late as april of 2019 and gave them nothing. Morally despicable. Reporter last may, pam defended the companys motives. Were not some fly by Night Company and we didnt go up there as ambulance chasers to go up there and do Something Like this to almost 100 people is just, just unconscionable. Reporter thats carol. She estimates they owe her 90,000. Since then shes hired another contractor and filed suit. It will be finished when i see the contractor in jail. Thats when it will be finished. Reporter so the next question is what happens with the Sonoma County district attorney. We