Im melissa chan welcome to news asia thank you for joining us the European Parliament has awarded its prestigious human rights award the soccer prize to iran toady he is the professor and member of the ethnic Muslim Minority called weekers who mostly live in china beijing has gone after this group putting an estimated 1000000 of them according to the u. N. In detention camps yes you heard that right detention camps its the largest internment of people since world war 2 toady is serving a life sentence he probably doesnt even know hes won this award china says hes a separatist but what he said and what he tried to do was simply to convey the feelings weekers had about how china was running the territory where most of them live. Maybe they will in the time when we have no representative no newspaper of our own eyes as i thought what can ordinary people do when they encounter in justice oshanter from some of them will fight resist. Even though why a person violence i believe there will be
is a lot that kier starmer, the labour party and government would accept because they don t want to be open, renegotiate the whole deal, but there are some things that they would like more alignment time. it remains to be seen just how far that alignment would go because, of course, we would have to see what the eu response would be to kier starmer s position that he set out today. starmer s position that he set out toda . ., ~ , ., starmer s position that he set out toda . ., ~ i. ,, . today. 0k. thank you. so, the speech has been delivered, as today. 0k. thank you. so, the speech has been delivered, as i today. 0k. thank you. so, the speech has been delivered, as i say today. 0k. thank you. so, the speech has been delivered, as i say come - has been delivered, as i say come irish embassy close to east grand central london. the labour leader, kier starmer can outlining labour s new relationship regarding brexit. working with the brexit decision. before he made that spe
Please be brief in your questions so that we can take as many questions as possible. We have a press conference in russian, but you will have some translations into other languages, and in the broadcast is available on our website and social media. Good morning ladies and gentlemen. Hope you had a good holiday season. A good new year and we are very grateful to you for taking part in our annual press conference. I dont think i should spend a lot of time on my introductory remarks. Just recently, the president gave an end of the year press conference. A few days ago, president putin met with the editors in chief of Russian Media news agencies. I think you have been following these major events and you are familiar with the president s comments on those issues, including foreign policy. I will say briefly that once again, we have to say that this year was not easy. We see various hard spots around the world, and the middle east, northern africa, and the ukraine, our neighboring country.
[speaking in foreign language]. Translator colleagues, good morning. We begin our Traditional Press conference by Russian Foreign minister sergey lavrov. The highlights of last years efforts. Please be brief in your questions so that we can take as many questions as possible. We have press conference in russian. But you will have some translation into foreign languages. And the broadcast is available on our website and social media. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Hope you had a good holiday season. Welcome to the new year. Very grateful to you for taking part in our annual press conference. I dont think i should spend a lot of time on my introductory remarks. Just recently, the president gave a big end of the year press conference. And just a few days ago, president putin met with the editors in chief of russian news agency. S in chief of russis agency. You are well familiar with the president s comments, including foreign policy. I will say briefly that once again, we have to say
Fukoshima dafrt, more closure of reactors. Asia and pacific fall into daytime darkness after a total Solar Eclipse. Under dog Bernie Sanders has pulled off a surprise victory against Hillary Clinton in the race for the u. S. President ial nomination. Sanders narrowly won the primary vote in michigan, a state in the grip of economic problems and unemployment. Our correspondent reports from washing done dc. Reporter it was the win he was waiting for. The u. S. State of michigan where Young Democratic voters there overwhelmingly backed president ial candidate Bernie Sanders. I just want to take this opportunity to thank the people of michigan who repudiated the polls that had us 25 points down ago, who said i was not going anywhere. Reporter instead he is still collecting delegates vowing to take that he calls his Political Revolution all the way to this summers democratic president ial nominating convention. It was a big night too for republican front runner donald trump who also defied