Melissa chan welcome to news asia thank you for joining us the Catholic Church has renewed a deal it made 2 years ago with china which is an officially atheist communist state concerning bishops there the agreement now gives the pope a file say over the appointment of them but beijing is the one who gets to come up with the choices chinese authorities had previously selected bishops without the say of the vatican and a division formed between state sanctioned clergy and underground bishops who operated outside state control the former bishop of Hong Kong Cardinal joseph dan has spoken up about this a prodemocrat he has expressed concern over the churchs engagement with china heres the interview with cardinal to china and the facts occurred recently renewed a secretive agreement signed 2 years ago it allowed the. With beijing and the holy c. S. A. In appointing bishops in china salma Hong Kong Bishop Cardinal Joseph sand accused the secretary of state cardinal pyra lynn of betraying the
Turkey has launched another military offensive against armed kurdish separatists in Northern Iraq. Deployed troops to the 100000 in the region near the border to fight the p. K. K. Warplanes have also targeted the groups positions around 3000 fighters are believed to be in Northern Iraq turkey the u. S. And the e. U. All lists the p. K. K. As a terrorist group. A correspondence in turkey and iraq a monitoring developments faultiness in baghdad but 1st lets go to city of course yahoo who is in istanbul for a sit in so this is the 2nd to cross border operation within a week. Well the a fact of the turkish mother of 3 has on an awful peroration is to the region especially since the 2018 in the military intensified operation and the reason is not only the presence in Northern Iraq but the link between the Syrian Kurdish functional group. In syria basically the idea of the sofa ration by the Turkish Military it is actually to cut the logistics line between the p. K. K. And the y. P. G. In s
Its a rough road ahead for britains car and Aerospace Industries that as the u. K. Economy records its biggest monthly decline on record. Thank you for joining us we begin in india where Health Officials have recorded the biggest single day jump in grown a virus cases with nearly 11000 new infections in just 24 hours hospitals are so overwhelmed with patients theyre turning some away the rise in infections comes as the government eases its nationwide lockdown indiana has around 300000 cases the 4th highest in the world and at least 8 and a half hours and people have died that speak to our correspondent in new delhi Elizabeth Ron im in is this rising number of cases and deaths has doctors and nurses struggling to deal with this crisis. Absolutely folly and not the day another record high in the number of cases and deaths of thats important to remember that india is still not testing enough so we dont have the complete picture of cases and both medical workers and patients are struggling
And the mutual aid that weve gotten from departments from santa cruz just sonoma has been invaluable as well as the state of california we have called in for reinforcements and they have come in the form of the chp a couple 100 officers that have been deployed here in the bay area that have been integral to our plans. Certainly we are constantly assessing the conditions and our intelligence to determine whether a curfew is the appropriate Law Enforcement tool. Lets be clear last night we chose to focus our Law Enforcement resources on the actual vandals. Looters people that are engaged in even in violent acts last night and it was a very different situation then say friday friday we had a very large scale demonstrations, almost 8,000 people where vandals and looters hid inside of that people otherwise peaceful demonstration. Last night we saw much more indiscriminate different shops all over the city getting targeted and i and im really pleased that our Police Department arrested 60 in
Looking at 2 men who came out here this morning with their brooms scooping up the shattered glass other Community Members are out here now as well with their brooms all working together to help clean up these businesses have been looted it happened yesterday then during that time at Broadway Plaza Police Received more than 100 calls for service in the afternoon hours heading into the night you can see hangers scattered everywhere with yellow caution tape. Theres dozens of people here Looting Stores like macys nordstrom the old navy victorias secret to a lot of stores here that have been completely ravaged even saw an entire Cash Register taken from what sells pretzels. The tory secure was looted. Uh you can see inside and i think in the window, the racks were empty mannequins are toppled over. I talked with a lot of people this morning, including along the creek resident whos been here for 40 years he saw the looting happened even said he saw 2 women with their hands full of clothes ju