Soldiers. Police used tear gas to break up protesters demanding quicker reform from sudans Transitional Government. European union is opening its doors to visitors from 14 countries but not to the United States amid a resurgence and coronavirus cases that. Now china is imposing a new security law on hong kong 23 years after it took back control and promised a one country 2 systems policy its been signed by a chinese president xi jinping and is now in force critics say the legislation erodes hong kongs freedoms brown reports. It normally takes a year for Chinas Parliament to pass legislation this time it happened in record time just 40 days the new security law completed its passage after a vote by the countrys most powerful political body the Standing Committee of the National Peoples congress in Hong Kong China supporters were also celebrating before the news that even being confirmed. A contentious measure that spits it he divided the city was once more defended by its chief executiv
Foreign Relations Committee of the senate will come to order. The chair would note we have a full house today and an enthusiastic audience, im sure. We ask you to be respectful, remind everyone that holding up signs or making verbal outbursts is disruptive and appropriate action will be taken if need be. This morning, we have a hearing on a matter that is really of pressing National Security importance. That is the relationship of the United States and for that matter the world with iran. This hearing is intended to do three things. Number one, we will consider the facts behind the maximum Pressure Campaign against iran. We will examine the elements of irans necessary Behavioral Changes that would satisfy u. S. And the worlds National Security interests. And thirdly, assess irans willingness to behave as a responsible member of the International Community. Their pursuit of regional domination following 1979 revolution transformed the fabric of the middle east. Dangerouslyregime weaponi
Were required to go for lead goal on this project and meet as many features as possible in the budget. This is an emergency staging site right now. That combined with the fact that we are serving youth is driving us to go for a more robust, seismic performance standard. This shows the landscape. We worked with the trust for public land along side the studio. Playground here. Its anticipated that the ground floor multipurpose room would be largely youth serving. So theres visibility between the multipurpose room as well as the Basketball Court out to the playground. The idea was that the outdoor Basketball Court could also serve as a platform for festivals. There are a lot of festivals at this site currently. There could be movie nights and other things in the future. Here are some precedent images. There are some concrete steps above the court, again allowing for viewing and an informal hanging out space for the older youth. Some benches and we anticipate a mix of some playground struc
Potentially a very embarrassing one for the french government because the french government have always said that they are not supplying any weapons or to libya that would be in breach of a u. N. Arms embargo and over the Years Campaign is and critics have accused france of supporting. In the sense that france perhaps feels after is someone that they can partner with in the fight against fighters in the region but france has always denied that theyve denied that support and said that they backed publicly the u. N. Peace process. Now the International Atomic Energy Agency is going into emergency session in vienna to discuss Irans Nuclear Program Washington has accused iran of Nuclear Extortion but says it remains open for talks without preconditions hours earlier irans president said the decision to increase its uranium enrichment is still within the framework of the nuclear deal and house and rouhani warned the u. K. Of consequences after it seized in the Iranian Oil Tanker off the coa
Thanks for. The Research Associate in the Africa Program at Chatham House in london chris welcome back to news how much credibility does he have. So i think that this is being seen really as zuma coming out and defending himself as we heard claiming that this is a political agenda that has been put against him that as weve just heard is over 20 years old and dates back to his. Time but then so there is there is this push from him of this is a political thing but theres also within what hes saying there will of course be. Credible. Evidence and that this is a man who was at the center of state capture and this is the man around which this holds on the commission has been set up to look into what went on on in south africa under his presidency so of course he knows a lot about what was going on weve heard that hes denying a lot of what was going on a lot of the allegations against him but hes also going to use this as a political means to try and shift the attention away from him persona