Highest daily death toll since the coronavirus pandemic began. At a different type of exam season hala for 1000000 students in south korea tackle the most important day in the academic calendar. We begin this news in hong kong where the prodemocracy movement has suffered a huge setback yet another prominent activist is facing time in prison and media tycoon and prodemocracy advocate jimmy lie is the latest to be taken into Police Custody hell be held until a court case in april next year hes accused of fraud it comes just a day after 3 other leaders were sentenced joshua was this child ivan lamb 1310 and 7 months in jail respectively the Hong Kong Government says that all those activists broke the law protesters say that trumped up charges to silence critics of Mainland China to view the pollen reports now from hong kong. This is a very significant move here thats being seen against hong kongs prodemocracy movement jimmy la is in jail at the moment he on wednesday night reported to pol
Some real important things going on in the world today on this program and i want to talk about sanctions mania because this is all too familiar marcus it is a political weapon that is a kin to war. It is an assault on the spot where you know these countries are and as i said in my introduction here you know its never explained why it is in the National Interest why civilian populations in these designated countries are punished repeatedly and to know that it doesnt have any pull the real political outcome except for on the ground misery oh hemmer well with the well once cast as i would say its and indeed distracted by what is now 19 the American Government has continued its aggression on the International Stage and continued to suppression on the basis its a move we have seen in recent days is. Washington impose new sanctions on a cuba venezuela and iran hands i believe peter that we really need to see these new sanctions true. Russia. How are all of the International Say yes on the o
Epicenter of the crisis. And the e. U. Unveils plans to try to resolve the real lifetime limits caused by Artificial Intelligence. Nowhere is safe for civilians and province that was the message at the United Nations as the Security Council met for a briefing on syria the u. N. Says almost 1000000 people have fled since the start of december thats the biggest displacement in the nearly 9 years long conflict there being squeezed into ever smaller areas near turkeys border under her render. The uns humanitarian chief told the council at least 100. 00 civilians have been killed so far the smalled in air and ground strikes 35. 00 of those victims with children the presence of turkish soldiers is complicating the fighting and it and neighboring provinces along with russia are walls sponsoring a cease fire and the u. N. Special envoy is calling on them to find a way to deescalate the situation mike hanna reports now from the United Nations. We have repeated violent confrontations between tur
Thousands fill the streets to mourn as some of manis body is brought. Also this hour indonesias sinking capital massive flooding increases worries jakarta could become the 1st big city submerged by Climate Change and the people simply rule the day sports over and out for the reigning super bowl champions of the new England Patriots lose in the playoffs. Thank you for joining as the u. S. Assassination of Senior Iranian commander kasim cinema any is causing major reverberations across the region with every passing hour iraqs thought a moment has just passed a resolution telling the government to expel foreign troops early a rock scare take a Prime Minister action from parliament no no you do the allergic be. No foreign troops are to do military actions in iraq eisel has been defeated and now the government of iraq must make a timetable to schedule the withdrawal of foreign troops for the sake of our National Sovereignty as iraqi Prime Minister was speaking in baghdad in lebanon scampere
President trying to discredit the investigation into his campaigns potential collusion with russia there was absolutely spying into my campaign go a step further in my opinion it was illegal spying unprecedented spying now this report from the Justice Departments Inspector General says it wasnt that the investigation was launched with credible information and that the people behind it did not have political bias or improper motivation a headline heralded by democrats. For. I think theres spying did occur but the head of the Justice Department the attorney general william barr is dismissing that conclusion sending out a statement writing the Inspector Generals report now makes clear that the f. B. I. Launched an intrusive investigation of a u. S. President ial campaign on the thinnest of suspicions that in my view were insufficient to justify the steps taken the report says the f. B. I. Did make mistakes agents withheld a lot of information about carter page a trump aide when trying to