Being forced from their homes as serious head back to rebuild their lives, to revive a culture. So hong kong prodemocracy activists, joshua wall has pleaded guilty to Unlawful Assembly during last years mass protests. He was joined in court by 2 other activists, agnes chow, and ivan lam. The 3 will be held in custody until sentencing nest next week. Im sorry and could face 5 years in jail. Last years protests outside of hong kongs Police Headquarters were triggered of course, by the introduction of the controversial extradition bill. Well ahead of his appearance in court one promised to continue his fight for freedom. Perhaps apologies. Wish me to stay in prison, but im persuaded that neither person balls the election bias nor any other arbitrary power will stop us from activism. What we are doing now is to explain the well of freedom to the world through our compassion, the home we love. So much that we are willing to sacrifice the freedom of the court now in hong kong. So he says, de
Police teams to senegal to tackle criminal gangs behind an upsurge in illegal migration, prodemocracy activists, joshua warn, could be facing more jail time after pleading guilty at a trial in hong kong. Hes accused along with fellow activists agnus child, ivan lamb, of his involvement in a protest there Police Headquarters last year. It was part of demonstrations against a controversial extradition bill on this following events at the court in hong kong. At the moment the prosecutor is laying out the evidence against joshua long and the other 2. Theyre playing footage of that night on june 21st of the protesters around the Police Headquarters blockading those building. They say joshua war and the other 2 were incited the protests. They charged them with Illegal Assembly the, the video that theyre showing is of them chanting slogans and calling on the Police Commander to come out and face the public. Now, as you said, that joshua long has pleaded guilty to 2 of those charges which incl
To be precise, where we meet a man whos been fighting for the environment for 40 years. As an activist, as a government minister, and now as the head of a countrys reforestation agency. Now its i, we have the Conservation Foundation in lagos, also coming up, a young woman in kenya uses flies to talk. Oh, we just remembered using hyperbole and how villages in south to evolve by class size as our community and our community in mozambique got the recycling box. There are many across the continent who are giving their all for the environment. Today we meet one of them. This man, a former senegalese environment minister, is dedicated to read greening this region, not just from his desk as a lobbyist, but on the ground together with local residents. Hes been planting mangroves and other trees, even using rather unconventional methods. At times. Senegal needs more trees and he does who heads a large scale refer station project is busy getting them planted. Scientists say that without major th
A week amid a serious political crisis. And saudi arabia has bought 17000000000. 00 worth of alms from g. 20 nations since 2015. When look into the oxfam ripples we begin though with a situation in northern ethiopia, where gray rebels have refused to give in to the government. 3 days ago, Prime Minister had issued an ultimatum to stand down or face war attacks. On tuesday he delivered on that threat. The air force says that it carried out the strikes to the regions main city of the. Its the primary base for the tea, great Peoples Liberation front told pti p. L. F. Which governs the Prime Minister. Ill be all bad, says the attacks will continue until the tea p. L. F. Is brought to justice and its leaders are replaced. The un and foreign leaders calls for mediation, a request which has been largely ignored by both sides. The government deployed extra troops on monday, and its more soldiers move in the living that ill sleeping in troops. An estimated 25000. 00 have crossed the border into
A after 3 weeks of fighting Prime Minister abi ahmed said, thousands of militia and special forces had surrendered. This follows accusations that a group killed at least 600 people in a rampage. Earlier this month, a Turkish Court has handed down life sentences for 337. People accused of an attempted coup in 2016. Many of the defendants are former Army Commanders and pilots. They were convicted of crimes including murder and attempting to overthrow the government. This is g. W. News from berlin. Follow us on twitter and instagram. D. W. News or visit our website, w dot com. Americans are gathering today for thanksgiving. Is this a super spreader of it in the making . Will know when a few weeks in the United States and here in europe, the coronavirus pandemic is now at a perilous point. New infections and cope with 1000 deaths are swelling just as the holidays begin. Germany plans to ease its lockdown in december in time for christmas. What will that mean for january . A new year of hop