Is National Football team touches down in doha ahead of the gulf cup. Could have a Company Welcome to the news hour prodemocracy candidates in hong kong have won an overwhelming majority in local Council Elections voters turned out in Record Numbers supported parties concerned about beijings involvement in the Territories Affairs chief executive kerry lamb has promised to listen humbly in beijing chinas foreign minister reiterated that whole kong is part of china no matter what happens in the elections or we begin our coverage with this report from sarah clarke in hong kong. As dawn broke hong kong to a new Political Landscape more than 70 percent of voters cast their ballots in sundays district Council Elections the prodemocracy party secured a Record Number of seats a lot of people actually sacrifice a lot of stuff but theres a lot in the last 6 months. To actually get this result and i think people are very. United and. Together to try to actually try to win something joshua one was
Remember the government accuses the opposition of running away from an election they say he broke the law over suspending parliament and fear he might do it again to the sense of democracy unraveling the whole thing is a horror show Lawrence Leigh al jazeera london. Now haitis president is calling for calm after days of protests paralyze the caribbean nation demonstrators in the capital Port Au Prince are demanding the resignation of java now in ways hes accused of corruption and failing to solve worsening fuel and food shortages. And fighting has broken out between supporters of malawis government and opposition groups and the Financial Capital blantyre hundreds of people were calling for the head of the Electoral Commission to resign when things turned violent theyve been protesting against the reelection of president peace in missouri. Where the next but still ahead. Down now but not quite as alice israels Prime Minister gets another shot at staying in power despite failing to win o
Israels president has picked a long time Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to try to form a Coalition Government thats it now has up to 6 weeks to do that the countrys facing a political deadlock after a tight rerun election which resulted in no clear winner arafats it has more details from west jerusalem. Israels president let out the caretaker Prime Minister to announce a result hed been trying to avoid riven rivlin wanted Benjamin Netanyahu to form a National Unity government with his main rival benny gantz those talks failed and instead he chose the man with a bigger potential Coalition Bloc to have the 1st chance at forming a government give it Melissa Block of education who should be handed the task of forming the government depends on who has more chance to succeed currently 55 supported knesset member latanya he and if the 4 supported knesset member benny gantz 10 of them said they wouldnt sit with him in their government before the announcement a 2nd meeting between netanyahu
Know that the dialogue itself has started there was a brief speech by kerry lamb before she started to entertain questions from these 250 Home Congress who are inside and speaking with her the very 1st question was about internal independence i should say independent investigation of the Police Actions over the 16 plus weeks of protests at one of those 5 demands that you hear the protesters chanting quite a lot that they want to happen that was the very 1st question that shes addressing to be addressing a lot of questions she has about 2 hours to go with those 150 people inside and many more outside here chanting in protest and give your thank you very much scott heidi and hong kong for us. And still ahead tonight there are. 0. Under pressure to resign britains Prime Minister challenges the opposition to get reforms. And the community under fire in south africa why soldiers will be fighting Gang Violence for months to come. Hello if youre living or going to accuse you might think will
A particular way which poses posits as an alternative most people many people possibly most people would acquiesce and thats going to be the real test here i think as to whether theres legislatures legislators feel they can get away with his and where are they going to actually strengthen their political position by the suing this particular parts calvin you were speaking before about the perception of indonesia that that if these laws were passed how it would change peoples thinking about into indonesia whether they be tourists whether they be residents you know critics of the bill say that it violates freedom of speech they say that it discriminates against religious minorities including women and l. G. B. T. People so how concerned are different aspects of the government as to if this bill were passed in its current form what the rest of the world would be thinking about indonesia. Well i think that thats kind of a 2 part question when you mentioned how you know supporters within th