Amounts of attention particularly outside hong kong but this year that is radically different. Im melissa chan welcome to news asia thank you for joining us the European Parliament has awarded its pristine just human rights award the soccer off prize to iran toady he is the professor and member of the ethnic Muslim Minority called weekers who mostly live in china beijing has gone after this group putting an estimated 1000000 of them according to the u. N. In detention camps yes you heard that right detention camps its the largest internment of people since world war 2 toady is serving a life sentence he probably doesnt even know hes won this award china says hes a separatist but what he said and why. He tried to do with simply to convey the feelings weekers had about how china was running. The territory where most of them if i may you may want to thank you but we have no representative no newspaper of our own right as i thought what can ordinary people do when they encounter in just a
Unrest in iraq as the country faces its worst crisis since the defeat of Islamic State with dozens killed in 4 days of rioting people are calling on iraqs leaders to hear their demands. And ukrainian women have want the freedom to let their hair down and leave their headscarves at home but its against the law in iran and can bring fears consequences well take a look at why some women are defying the will anyway. Omarion i havent seen its good to have you with us. We begin in hong kong where protesters have been to find a government ban on wearing face masks to conceal their identity hundreds of people have formed human chains with their faces covered risking jail and hefty fines the citys subway and many shops remained closed after a night of violence on friday there were more clashes today as police confronted masked protestors we spoke to some of the demonstrators who hit the streets today and asked why they decided to defy the facemask ban. To the time you go. To numerous rallies be
To lead a new government and general snap election but which party he choose as his Coalition Partner is anybodys guess. Underway in afghanistans president ial election the vote took place in the shadow of taliban attackers several people were killed and Dozens Injured in a blast near polling station. Thanks for joining us whats being called anti totalitarianism demonstrations are taking place in hong kong just 2 days before chinas leadership celebrates 70 years of communist rule clashes have broken out between the demonstrators and Hong Kong Police officers used water cannon and tear gas to disperse the crowds. The last 4 months have seen violent confrontations in the semi autonomous territory between activists and police on most weekends. Lets go now to hong kong where our correspondent Charlie Charles until is standing by charlotte i have to say that weve been watching the live feed here and weve been seeing periods of relative calm followed by intense clashes between the police and
It will be rolled out to launch within two months to me president kennedys goal of landing on the moon in this decade. If apollo 11 goes as well as planned, they will take an extra couple of months to get a good reading on the rocks and so forth that are brought back. And then they will send apollo 12. We have an announcement coming up from Launch Control. This is apollo seven Launch Control. 16less than 60 minutes, minutes, planned liftoff of the vehicle. All going well at this time. The astronauts have had a chance to rest over the last few minutes. They havent been busy with procedures with the spacecraft. We have been performing final checks on the guidance system. Once we get down to the three minute 10 second mark, we will go on an automatic sequence. Aspects from there on down will be automatic, run by the ground master computer in the firing room. This will lead up to the 8. 9 minute mark in the countdown when the ignition sequence will begin in the five engines of the first st
Slight increase, or maintaining the rate at the same level as it was. And in these seconds, im just watching and watching ribbons. Yes, the regulator published a release, the rate was raised by one percent to 13 . Well, let me remind you that many analysts were still of the opinion that the rate would be kept at 12, and the percentage was saying that previously the regulator had already had enough sharply raised it from eight and a half percent to 12 , and now we already have 13 and, in general, and analysts say that it still takes time for, uh, this Interest Rate to start, and work to feel the economic effect from it. Somehow, well, let me remind you that some people predicted a rate increase. Uh, because annual inflation is still gradually accelerating and continues to do so last week , the ministry of Economic Development provided data on annual inflation of five and a half percent at the end of the year, the department expects seven and a half percent. Well, let me remind you that