Admired around the world for his wit and humour, has died at the age of 80. Good morning. It is 9 00am in singapore, 1 00am in the morning in london and 8 00pm in washington, where President Trump has signed into law legislation backing protesters in hong kong. The law has been passed by both houses of congress, but until late on wednesday, the president had no shown huge enthusiasm for the bill. He said he had respect for chinas president , xijinping, and was sure he would resolve the situation. But now, he has signed. So what difference does this make . Joining me now, ben bland, a Research Fellow and director of South East Asia project at Lowy Institute in sydney. Thank at Lowy Institute in sydney. You so much forjoinin tell thank you so much forjoining us. Tell us how significant that President Trump signed this bill, and what does it really mean for the Pro Democracy Movement in hong kong . This is a really big, symbolic victory for the Democracy Movement in hong kong. Activists h
President trump is under growing pressure as the impeachment inquiry puts two of his key aides under the spotlight. His personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, has been ordered to hand over to congressional committees all documents relating to his work foertrump in ukraine. And its been revealed that last week the president asked the australian Prime Minister to cooperate with an investigation, led by attorney general william barr, aimed at discrediting the mueller report. Last week, evidence emerged from a whistleblower of concerns among white house officials that mr trump tried to pressure ukraines leader to interfere in next years us election. In response, mr trump has suggested, without offering any evidence, that one of the senior democrats investigating him could be arrested for treason. I made a call, the call was perfect. When the whistleblower reported it, he made it sound terrible and then you had adam schiff who even worse, made up my words, which i think is just horrible, ive never
China is hosting enormously lavish events to mark october 1st, the 70th anniversary of the founding of the peoples republic of china. The communist leadership has organised a huge military parade in beijing, and is hoping the big day isnt overshadowed by demonstrations in hong kong. Live now to beijing our correspondent robin brant is there. What you can probably see what you can policy now is a long shot. That is why the consequences of the industrial progress. Over the last seven decades, since its founding in 1949. I keep picking down to the left. The only one amongst the senior leaders. The most Senior Leadership here in china. He is now 93. This is the beginning of the parade. Taking part, about 600 pieces of military equipment on display. About 160 aircraft flying over. The military on the run up to today, have said they dont want this to be seen as a show of force, china flexing its muscles. There might be some scepticism about that. It does want the world to see this parade the
February weather recently into northern parts of the philippines said you see some flooding here lose on does stay very much in the mix from more heavy downpours that wet weather staying in place as we go through monday on into choose day a nice loading watching a little further north as that china wet weather makes its way across southern parts of vietnam right into a good parts of thailand. 0 world meets 2 arab immigrants who left the middle east and built exceptional lives so for seeds. Weaving into the fabric of society of their adoptive countries finding success in germany and canada yet never forgetting their homelands of syria and lebanon remarkable human stories of arabs abroad the politician and the inventor on aljazeera. Watch it all just a reminder of our Top Stories Police in hong kong have used tear gas to break up protests here the headquarters of the chinese army tens of thousands of people have been marching in the city in defiance of a ban theyre continuing their push
That more new man the reminder of what happened here. The attacks have spread to the east and north of the country about 500 people have been killed and nearly 300000 displaced. Like ben no good to be in law whos hosted by well wishes in a town about a 100 kilometers away from where the leaders are meeting she fled from her home father north 2 months ago. They came to our village and began shooting everywhere weve played with our children we walked for over 15 kilometers we came out with nothing. The leaders in was the only way to help millions of people like bill maher and had children is by walking together implementing what will be decided at the summit will be the hard part catherine saif al jazeera. Still ahead in aljazeera were going to take a closer look at whats behind the new soybean meal deal between argentina and china. How the weather the last 2 days and probably the next one is going to be and has been pretty severe in east and spain the circulation of clouds around was an