The u. S. Embassy calling on the u. S. To push through a bill that would give them greater powers to safeguard hong kongs autonomy and as i mentioned the protesters are now sending out an International Appeal for help and their efforts and jim brown has more on that part of the story obviously these protesters want global attention their target on sunday the United States. To chinas leaders this will fuel their suspicions that foreign powers a behind the 3 and a half months of unrest in hong kong the protest his message is for the u. S. Congress and the act they want passed that would lead to close a scrutiny of human rights in hong kong and u. S. Sanctions against hong kong leaders he wants to u. S. Congress to pas that hong kong human rights and you know see as as chance was about this you were so important for us because you can selectively punish those off issues who trample on our freedom riot police blocked the road in front of the consulate and were braced for trouble. As in pre
A very busy place on a sunday night and as you can see its been brought to a standstill with white police over here blocking the roads they chased the protesters 2 here from the financial district and tried to disperse them using tear gas among the shoppers and the crowds on a sunday night long long ago we saw people running with small children without any protection away from the tear gas so instead of just protesters here confronting the police what were seeing is regular shoppers and regular people trying to confront the police off them why theyre using such Excessive Force when there are people who have nothing to do with the protests this has been a constant or a fein and this has been the next step in the protests that we are seeing where people want Police Accountability for their actions this is in stark contrast to the protests we saw earlier today when thousands of people marched to the u. S. Embassy calling on the u. S. To push through a bill that would give them greater pow
Been murdered here in our pool in killings related to land disputes she shows us where he was stabbed a few years ago the knife pierced his lung this with only 3 Environmental Agency officers assigned to an area larger than all of england its almost impossible to protect the community or the forest has passed a prosecutor said that. The legal activities that impact the environment such as mining and logging are done in the most remote areas where the local power structure is linked to criminals and now we have severe budget cuts for policing along with the government discourse that encourages illegal activities. Most of the members of the community would too afraid to appear on camera but she remains defiant. Even so you dont have to look far to see that at least for now hes losing the battle to preserve his rain forest you see in human and up in brazil. In the United States the former South Carolina governor mark sanford says hes entering the race for the Republican Partys president i
Of his ministers resigned including his own brother and he sacked 21. 00 conservative m. P. Is one of them the grandson of former Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill or its the reports. Londons Parliament Square is graced with a statue of britains most famous politician and the ghost of Winston Churchill his legacy and beliefs have very much been on peoples minds in this extraordinary contradictory week. When Parliament Resumes Prime Minister Boris Johnson himself above refers churchill invoked the language and even the intonation of the wartime leader to suggest that the u. K. Was somehow in a conflict with the European Union he used the very same words about the e. U. That churchill had done about nazi germany in 1940. Never surrender that sort of language comes from the playbook of johnsons new chief of staff Dominic Cummings a brick city idealogue behind the slogan take back control and cummings many believe was also behind the brute. Treatment of those conservatives who could not
Expected to make much of a difference if the oppositions strategy what is socalled successful it will give a signal to the government that opposition is growing just before the polls close the oppositions call to participate in the vote didnt seem to have been heeded similar to previous elections turnout was only around 20 percent steps aljazeera moscow. The Israeli Government has approved legislation to allow cameras and polling stations in the upcoming election the bill must now go before parliament before polling day on september the 17th opposition groups say the governments decision to allow cameras is a political tactic to intimidate israels arab population Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says its the only way to prevent voter fraud. Election problems must be resolved before the election when do they want to. After the election there is no need for special arrangements no need for special training no need for special equipment any monitor to confirm with a cellphone this is wha