Question we have to leave it there unfortunately the head of the regional asserted center of Foreign Policy think tank in yeah that armenia thank you. Thank you. Another victim of the Global Pandemic has been press Freedom Journalists have been harassed arrested for reporting on the spread of the virus while some governments have introduced the laws punishing those who share information that doesnt support the official government like muzzling the press can also endanger public health. Behind the mosque of corona virus censorship spreads journalists around the world have come under attack for reporting on the pandemic it started in china where citizen journalists dared to deviate from the official narrative. Images of overstretched hospitals in which hundreds of viruses right in front of me are chinas criminal prosecutors are behind me im not afraid of death do you think im afraid of you coming this party of china or possibly going well. Chang she should wear disappeared in february an
Smog well take a closer look. Im melissa chan welcome to news asia thank you for joining us south korean boy band b t as has fans around the world and their stardom scenes unstoppable except it might come to a sudden halt because of south koreas mandatory military service where they spend 18 months out of the spotlight training for potential war on the Korean Peninsula fans say they should be exempt while others say they need to do their duty frank smith reports. So korean boy band b. T. S. Reigns supreme over billboard charts as their fans their army fallen over their good looks and slick moves but as they move through their twenties an ominous obligation approaches a minimum one and a half years mandatory military Service Required of every healthy south korean male between 18 and 28. The issue of mandatory military service for entertainers like b. T. S. Is complicated by the fact that high achieving south korean athletes have seen their army obligations reduced after winning a gold m
Palestine tells the Un Security Council any israeli an exception is a crime. A major victory for Donald Trumps former National Security adviser an Appeals Court dismisses criminal charges against Michael Flynn after he pled guilty. In the show must go on but when it the british theatre industry struggles to find a way forward with the covert 19 pandemic. A watershed moment that will cause the most serious violation of International Law thats how u. N. Secretary general Antonio Gates had as has described israels plans to an expanse of the occupied west bank members of the u. N. Security council of the arab league have been meeting to discuss israels move which could be put into motion as soon as next week most of them were united in their opposition with warnings that israels unilateral action could trigger a major escalation in the region. If implementing these tests could dramatically alter the local dynamics jury and civility and probably occupy part of them in turn and maybe beyond
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Jobs saying it has to shrink to survive the pandemic and. Russia stages ground world war 2 parade storing patriotic fervor ahead of a vote that could extend that of evolutions presidency. New growth of ours cases in the u. S. Have risen to their highest level in 2 months thats now recorded almost 2 and a half 1000000 infections and 121000 deaths and researchers at the university of washington and now predicting that nearly 180000. 00 could die by october about half of the 50 states is seeing a surge especially in the self and southwest cases arising in the states seen hair and dark orange falling in those shaded gray light orange states are considered steady. And York New Jersey and connecticut have imposed quarantine perrie its for travelers from states with the highest infection rates we worked very hard to get the truck viral transmission rate damn we dont want to see it go up because a lot of people come into this region and they could literally bring the infection with them the. I