Into israel hours after a truce went into place. Hello im Maryanne Demasi in london with the top stories from europe including investigators probing the shooting down on the Malaysia Airlines flight in 2014 telephone calls showing close links between top russian officials and rebels and ukraine. And in sports as much cricket as sets returns of pakistan for the 1st time since 2009 acts on the host sri lanka 10 years after the Sri Lankan Team were attacked by gunmen in look. We begin this news hour with the global effort to defeat Foreign Ministers from more than 30 nations are in washington to discuss how to eliminate the group but on the other side of the atlantic turkey is sending more suspected i. So fighters and their families back to their home countries 7 german citizens accused of the longing to iceland in a short while ago another 23. 00 european nationals are expected to be deported in the next few days Officials Say just over 1200. 00 eisel fighters are currently being held in
A clear message in the 1st polling since the protest movement began. Even before the polls closed it was clear that this was an extraordinary election and a record breaking day for hong kong elections the highest voter turnout ever over 70 percent of registered voters cast their ballots after nearly 6 months of at times violent demonstrations the polling was seen as a way for voters to officially take sides in this deeply divided city of 7000000 back the probation candidates in the Hong Kong Government or those who support greater democratic freedoms for hong kong in line with the protesters who have been fighting to push back on what they see as increasing control of Mainland China you know. This election meant a lot to hong kong the older generation who. The Younger Generation hopes for change. Its usually a sleepy election to select a low level local government positions but many woke up early to vote as there was concern that unrest could mean the polling could be cut short for the
Have to take into account when understanding this crisis is that that trauma of to land society of having the military on the street is open again with this repression in human rights violation joining me now via skype is a member of the chamber of deputies of chile the democratic revolution politician or to jackson who is in valparaiso a city that has seen violent clashes between protesters and police want your thanks for joining us before we get to the latest violence tremendous way in the global south and even those in the nation countries look to whats happening in chile as a chronicle of politics foretold the legacy of new liberal dictatorship by a good stupid machine surely. Well thanks 1st of all for this interview its very important where the sap and here in chile we within knock only because of our country but also for the region and also because as you said she was in the in the seventys in the eightys under the dictatorship she doesnt like an experiment of the new liberal po
Ideology these demonstrations have relieved or release some energy who was very tied up inside of their people said mine of the people heart that it wasnt able to get to the end of the months without having to spend with credit so i think that when everything is privatized you can not access to the basic rights that should be granted where anted so i think this is one of the main issues whom people in the streets are. Protesting on if the privatization chicago privatization model is the same can you really look at the dead the wounded and detained in chile today and compare it though premier as policies and positions policies. No i think that the contacts of course are different between dictatorships not only that human one but all the dictator city the seventys and eightys are different the soft dictatorships are different kind of the greater schieber are totally since in the 21st century so i think we are living today a lot of repression. Different marlos that. The democratic whistle
Others will say the city has nothing to fear from beijing. Welcome to news asia its good to have you with us wonderful now should be at the polls to elect their 7th president and they have a choice of 35 candidates this time around a record for the island nation of around 22000000 people its an election that comes months after more than 200 people were killed in cedar bombings on Easter Sunday the campaigning has been vigorous but its tone has oftentimes been decided by video media platforms. The president ial election is here and particular social media timeline is flooded with political content most of which she says is negative nor online campaigning is permitted in the beaded before the vote and election day but proxy just about patika still does not ping but the government should monitor let alone shut down foolishly media. Then when the web sites are restored after a shutdown all the content and accounts are available again not everything can be reported or taken down so whats th