Australian intelligence officials investigate allegations of a plot to get a chinese spy elected to parliament. And we meet the malaysian punk rocker whos leading the Straight Edge Movement, by promoting a totally sober lifestyle. Live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. Its newsday. Good morning. Its 9am in singapore and the same time in hong kong, where leader carrie lam has said the government will seriously reflect after local elections saw Massive Gains by pro democracy candidates. They secured almost 90 of District Council seats in sundays poll. Its being seen as a stinging rebuke of ms lams leadership and a show of support for the protest movement. From hong kong, Rupert Wingfield hayes reports. This is not the sort of Media Attention usually given to the winners of a local council election. But last nights victory for hong kongs democrats was no ordinary win. It was an unprecedented landslide. These newly minted young politicians won 85 of all the
This is your tuesday briefing. A warm welcome to the programme, briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. Also in the programme, could you cut back on your emails . Climate campaigners say we should think before we thank on email and cut back on unnecessary messages. Just this simple act could significantly reduce the energy used. Tell us what you think. Just use the hashtag bbcthebriefing. Lets get started. Hong kong police say theyve entered the Polytechnic University where protesters are staging a sit in to ask those holding out to leave, but no immediate arrests will be made and theyve guaranteed their fair treatment. In a separate development, in her first public appearance since pro democracy candidates won a sweeping victory in local elections, the territorys chief executive, carrie lam said she was aware voters had expressed unhappiness with the governments handling of months of unrest. The large number of voters coming out to cast a vote, perhaps
Years after the meltdown at fukushima, contaminated water is still licking from the plant. Is the crisis till out of control . We will speak with David Mcneill , author of, strong in the rain surving japans earthquake, tsunami, and Fukushima Nuclear disaster. And we will also speak with astsushi funahashi, director of, Nuclear Nation the fukushima refugees story. But first, as tensions rise between japan and china, we look at the japanese government increasingly proNuclear Nationalistic stance, even as its citizens become bracingly antinuclear. We will speak with professor naoto kan of Sophia University. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. From tokyo,casting japan. Members of the White House Panel reviewing government surveillance have publicly rejected some of the nsas key claims in justifying warrantless, mass buying. Appearing before a senate hearing, former cia Deputy Director Michael Morell and former
S to an abandoned school near tokyo, where they lived in cramped, shared common areas, many families to a room, and are provided with three boxed lunches per day. The refugees were given permits to return home to collect personal items, but only for two hours. Just before this broadcast, democracy now producer mike burke spoke with an evacuee from futaba. She was one of hundreds of anti nuclear protesters who were outside the official residence of the japanese Prime Minister demonstrating. I am from futaba. Right now we have evacuated and we are living in temperate housing in tokyo, in a space provided by the government. I am coming here every friday to demonstrate. Against the Nuclear Power facilities. Fled futaba, we have nothing. We lost everything. We couldnt bring anything from our house. We did not have a toothbrush. We did not have a blanket. We did not have towels. We had nothing. It was truly hell. And we thought it would be much better to die. But now we are here. We want to
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