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Whos died aged 96. This is bbc news, the headlines campaigners in hong kong are promising to continue demonstrating after a week of mass protests forced the government hello and welcome to bbc news. To suspend a bill allowing extraditions to china. Hong kongs government has the government had argued suspended its controversial plan to allow alleged criminals to be the proposed bill would plug legal extradited to mainland china. Loopholes and prevent the city the proposals resulted in mass becoming a safe haven protests in the former british for overseas criminals. Colony some of which turned violent. People are expected to return to the streets on sunday, dipomatic relations with iran despite the pause in the governments plans. Continuine to be strained our correspondent Rupert Wingfield after saudi arabia blamed tehran for the attacks on two tankers in the gulf, and says its prepared hayes reports from hong kong. To defend its interests. Both the United States and United Kingdom say i
Will by iranian oil and so on and so forth then i think that would put pressure on the throne administration to act because for the time being while sanctions are there but the escalation is going on the strategy is not really working. But particularly on the part of china we have seen in an unwillingness to. Really follow up their words with with any solid action i mean with that possibly change if. Because obviously now they know that withdrawal from the nuclear deal what happens if iran starts ramping up the reining in enrichment beyond the terms agreed in that way on top of these incidents happening in the gulf look i think china would have rather there was no trade tensions with washington and there is no iranian crisis because china since the 1980 s. Had been building up its economy and its military in order to become a world superpower and clearly the biggest challenge and the biggest threats to Global Security for the next many many years to come would be china versus the Unite
The governments plans. Our correspondent Rupert Wingfield hayes reports from hong kong. Fellow citizens and members of the media. As she stood alone at the podium, carrie lam must have known every pair of eyes in hong kong was watching her. After a week of mass street protests and running battles between protesters and police, would she or wouldnt she back down and drop the widely hated extradition bill . I now announce that the government has decided to suspend the legislative amendment exercise. Not a withdrawal, then. So is this just a trick to pacify the protesters . It has nothing to do with an intention or wish to pacify. How could i restore, as fast as possible, the calm in society, and how could i avoid any more Law Enforcement officers and ordinary citizens being injured . The fear of more angry protesters returning to these barricades is what has prompted carrie lam and her administration to make what is clearly a major climb down. This is not a temporary pause to the extradi
Protests and running battles between protesters and police, would she or wouldnt she back down and drop the widely hated extradition bill . I now announce that the government has decided to suspend the legislative amendment exercise. Not a withdrawal, then. So is this just a trick to pacify the protesters . It has nothing to do with an intention or wish to pacify. How could i restore, as fast as possible, the calm in society, and how could i avoid any more Law Enforcement officers and ordinary citizens being injured . The fear of more angry protesters returning to these barricades is what has prompted carrie lam and her administration to make what is clearly a major climb down. This is not a temporary pause to the extradition bill this is an indefinite suspension. Nevertheless, it may not be enough to prevent very large crowds from coming out here again on sunday for another huge show of discontent. On wednesday, the policejust. This young protester and many of his friends will be out