From the mugabe era Zimbabwe Office to give back land seized from former white fog. Up in smoke rain falls and some fire ravaged parts of argentina bought one of south americas major Wetland Ecosystems remains under threat. We begin with he said protests in lebanon against the countrys leaders and their failure to tackle longstanding corruption protests broke out outside the Parliament Building with riot Police Moving in quickly to disperse those crowds taking place as french president emanuel makes a 2nd visit to beirut since that devastating port explosion has been making clear his demands for lebanons leaders to set the nation on a new course he says failure to shift direction within 3 months risks punitive measures and sanctions but lets not speak to aljazeera as in aqaba who is at the prime residence in beirut thats the official residence of the french ambassador where we do expect him to speak a bit later zain i believe back on his mission with political representatives today aft
A 2nd day of protest in minneapolis after the death of an unarmed black man at the hands of police. And in sport all the large sigma sound so much chance to go 2nd in the german bund is legal. And now knowing points adrift of leaders are finding. More Chinas Parliament has given the go ahead for a new security laws in hong kong despite protests and International Warnings a wide ranging legislation includes a ban on treason secession sedition and subversion and it could now be in effect within weeks adrian brown has more. Hong kongs people had no say in the decision to impose a new security law on this city that was not a concern among people we spoke to in the north point district where many mainland immigrants live. Of course we will have peace now hong kong has been so chaotic the protesters even went to the United States to ask them to put sanctions on hong kong what a mess they have made. The young may have different thoughts before as the elderly there are we make our country pros
Im sorry so much going to thank you for joining us a long list of conflicts and uncertainty over the wests role in the world those are the top issues at the Munich Security Conference that is kicking off this hour a World Leaders top Security Experts diplomats are all now gathering for the central meeting in southern germany on everyones mind the big global issues the war in syria where a government offensive and it live has triggered a full blown humanitarian crisis another issue concerns over the shrinking influence of the west in shaping Global Security it is even spawned a new term west lists next. And we have our chief Political Editor michelle you look at the Munich Security Conference for us where she is watching in on everything thats happening there for us jaime said and i want to ask you about that term west listener what are people there saying about this. Well many feel that it is kind of appropriate and thats exactly what the security conference always aims to do is kind o
British Prime Minister who will demand an early election for the second time in a week. We either go forward with our plan to get a deal or somebody else should see if they can get us in beyond october he tells cnbc that bond market holders need no longer be called saying investors need to take the asset class. You will lose we had a major player in the bond market that is involved for noncommercial reasons. Happy friday. First lets recap the price action over the last 24 hours. Very positive session for u. S. Equities and actually u. S. Indices are about 2. 5 from record highs yet again despite volatility those indices continue to make a come back and that after better than expected Services Data yesterday. So weakness on the unemployment sub index but better data on the services but but of course the number one narrative and the expectation of a meeting between china and the u. S. In washington next month thats giving a little bit of relief to investors. Well have to see what happens
A breakthrough victory in one or 2. Im assuming some us going to thank you for joining us for a special coverage here on d w polls are about to close in Regional Elections in 2 states in eastern germany with possible significant consequences for chancellor Angela Merkels government in berlin as well the voters in the states of funding both in saxony have been casting their ballots until now both states have been governed by traditional establishment parties of the social democrats were s. P. D. And chancellor merkels christian democrats the c. D. U. Base but this time both parties are facing a stiff challenge from the far right alternative for germany the a. F. P. The latest opinion polls show that the party is running neck and neck with the s. P. D. M. One bug and just a few points behind michaels c. D. U. In saxony. Well we have complete coverage of these potentially pivotal elections on we have a Political Correspondent with us here in our studio and we have our chief Political Edit