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i'm sharanjit leyl in hong kong — where protesters are still on the streets. organisers say on sunday there were nearly two million people on the streets. if confirmed — it would be the largest protest in hong kong's history. the territory's leader carrie lam apologises for proposing the bill that demonstrators fear will increase chinese influence. i'm kasia madera in london. also in the programme: millions of people are still without electricity after a massive power cut across almost all of argentina and uruguay.
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india defeats pakistan in a cricket world cup match watched by an estimated billion people. we are on top of the world. i am so happy! we love virat kohli. thank you. good morning, it's 7am here in hong kong, where the outcry over a controversial extradition bill has led to the third mass protest in a week. the bill, which was indefinitely suspended on saturday, would allow extradition to the chinese mainland. hong kong's chief executive, carrie lam, issued a rare apology for the upheaval. this report from rupert wingfield—hayes.
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but before then let's have a look at life is from the scene. there are still protesters in the street this morning after what has been dubbed as one is the biggest protest in hong kong history on sunday. chanting. in the sweltering heat of a sunday afternoon, they came out again in their hundreds of thousands. a sea of black t—shirts, the now unofficial uniform of these protests. today they wore no facemasks or helmets and had just one chant. "withdraw the bill." these are truly remarkable scenes we're seeing here in the centre of hong kong again this afternoon. it's notjust this street that is jammed with protesters, it's the next one over and the next one beyond that. all of these people chanting, "withdraw the bill".
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all heading to the centre of hong kong to surround the government's offices. this is a massive display of discontent with carrie lam and her government. your message for her today is what? is to stop it. to stop hong kong people from being two groups, going out and fighting with each other. we are one hong kong and not two hong kongs. so she should stop what she's doing so in order not to make the people so angry and so going out and fighting with each other. yesterday carrie lam said she will suspend... not acceptable! withdraw! totally withdraw. not acceptable to hold. we need to withdraw it. this is what we want, all the people — hong kong people. tonight, under immense pressure from this huge protest, hong kong's chief executive released a grovelling apology. "i admit deficiencies in the government's work have led to substantial disputes in society", she said. "i apologise to the people
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of hong kong and pledged to adopt a more sincere and humble attitude." butjust as mrs lam was sending her apology, protesters were setting up a shrine to the first martyr claimed by this movement. the flowers and candles are for a man who fell to his death on saturday night after climbing a building to unfurl a protest banner. the sea of protesters then surrounded the government headquarters. the police were on their best behaviour, no helmets, shields or barriers in sight. but if today's protest shows anything, it's the public anger here will not be assuaged until the hated extradition bill is gone. rupert wingfield—hayes, bbc news, in hong kong. you saw the crowds in rupert's report there and the estimates are that according to organisers, nearly 2 million people took to the
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streets. if that is true, it will be the largest demonstration ever in the largest demonstration ever in the history of hong kong, not since the history of hong kong, not since the protests against tiananmen square in 1989 here have we seen so many people take to the streets. of course, police are suggesting the number is much smaller, they say 338,000 people took to the streets on sunday. , of course, we were there covering the story and it looked like a lot of people. they certainly closed a lot of roads as well to make way for all of them. i will return later in the programme with a guest and we will talk about how the press coverage has been looking at this particular issue. fantastic. we will see you then in a little bit. we will be coming back to that story is protesters a re we will be coming back to that story is protesters are beginning to regroup. a massive electrical fault across south america has left tens of millions of people without access to power. the exact cause is still unclear,
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but a blackout of this size is unprecedented. argentina, uruguay and parts of paraguay have been affected, according to one of the region's largest suppliers. it's caused major disruptions in cities like buenos aires. chris buckler has more. at first light, much of south america was left in darkness. a massive power outage left tens of millions of people without electricity and crippled communications in city after city. in argentina, people were preparing to go to the polls, but with trains halted by the power cuts and all the traffic lights out in the streets, several provinces took the decision to temporarily delay local elections. this was a failure on a quite remarkable scale. a 25—minute trip took me almost an hour and a half to be completed,
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and during the journey i saw three collisions. the collapse of argentina's national grid caused a blackout that stretched notjust across this country, but throughout uruguay, and even into some parts of brazil and paraguay. businesses were left scrambling to fire up generators in an effort to save their stock. translation: we don't know much. what i read was on facebook, where it said that the problem came from argentina, but the truth is we really don't know a lot. energy companies have been struggling to determine the cause of these unprecedented problems. slowly throughout the day, customers have been reconnected, but by early evening that's still left half of argentina without electricity and preparing for what could be a long, dark night. chris buckler, bbc news. let's take a look at some of the day's other news.
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the wife of the israeli prime minister, sara netanyahu, has admitted she misused public funds and agreed to pay the state $15,000. under a plea deal with prosecutors, more serious fraud charges against her were dropped. yolande knell reports from jerusalem. although she was smiling in court, this long—running case has been humiliating 41 matt netanyahu and reinforced public perceptions that herfamily reinforced public perceptions that her family lived reinforced public perceptions that herfamily lived a reinforced public perceptions that her family lived a lavish lifestyle. mrs neta nyahu was her family lived a lavish lifestyle. mrs netanyahu was originally charged with ordering in hundreds of restau ra nt with ordering in hundreds of restaurant meals with around £80,000, paid for with public funds and that wasn't allowed because the prime minister's residence employs a cook. under her final plea agreement she admitted intentionally exploding the mistake of a member of staff. prosecutors dropped the more serious
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offence of fraud but she will be left with a criminal record. meanwhile, the prime minister still faces his own legal troubles. three corruption cases in which he denies wrongdoing. he faces a pre—trial hearing weeks after another general election in september being called because he failed to form a government after an earlier vote. staying with israel and prime minister benjamin netanyahu has unveiled a new settlement in the occupied golan heights, named after us president donald trump. speaking at a naming ceremony, mr netanyahu said trump heights honoured mr trump for his decision to recognise israeli sovereignty over the territory. critics have called the move a publicity stunt with no legal authority. the deposed president of sudan, omar al—bashir, has been charged with corruption and the illegal possession of foreign currency. making his first appearance in public since he was overthrown in april, he was driven in a heavily armed convoy from prison to the prosecutor's office.
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his trial is due to start next week. wildlife experts in bangladesh say the first indian grey wolf to be seen in the country in eight decades has been killed by farmers. they said locals in a town near the sundarba ns, the world's biggest mangrove forest that straddles india and bangladesh, captured and killed the wolf after it attacked their livestock. the group of twenty major economies have signed a commitment to reduce plastic waste. the g20 environment and energy ministers made the annoucement at a meeting injapan, ahead of the g20 summit there later this month. little detail has been revealed on how the pledge will be implemented, but local media are reporting the scheme would be voluntary. this pictiure has been shared by the duke and duchess of sussex of their 6—week—old son archie, with prince harry on father's day. the image posted on the couple's
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instagram account is the first to be released showing the baby's eyes open. it was captioned: "happy father's day! and wishing a very special first father's day to the duke of sussex." @sussexroyal on instagram it isa it is a grey morning this monday. the day after the fifth third mass demonstrations took place here in hong kong over the last week. but if we look at some of these live pictures, the weather does not seem to be putting people off at all. protesters are still out on the streets, even though it is threatening to rain and, of course, they feel strongly about an extradition bill they feel is another sign of china's growing influence and they are also
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concerned about the excessive use of police force, they say, against stu d e nts police force, they say, against students protesting last week. they all took to the streets and what organisers are saying is potentially the biggest march hong kong has ever seen. they are estimating 2 million people on the streets on sunday and of course police put that number at far less. lets make sense of it all with my next guest. a professor assistant professor of political science at a ling young university. now, samson, you are there at the protest a nd now, samson, you are there at the protest and doing research. you a survey in some protesters. what is difference —— different about the protests we see now? it was truly phenomenal. i was a word to describe it. it was certainly the largest protest in hong kong and we surveyed around 700 people and we found that 40% of them actually did not want ——
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went to last sundays protest so they we re went to last sundays protest so they were new. what are you finding out about these people. students seem to be the main core of protesters, at least that's what we saw last week. so was it a combination of different segments of society? definitely a combination. when we asked about their political stance it seems that they are from across the political spectrum. with sold moderate democrats, we saw local list independence, and we also saw a lot of people who have no obvious political stance. basically people from all across hong kong society. also their demands were very firm, to ask the government to retract the bill but not just to ask the government to retract the bill but notjust to support and it. it is quite clear from what we see from the survey of the 700 people here. tell us about the crux of what they are concerned about in this bill. many people are saying that
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this is a growing interference from china. big give us a sense of the mood, the relationship between the people of hong kong and mainland china. people are mostly scared about the political and economic consequences. i will seem about the political and economic consequences. iwill seem mostly about the political and economic consequences. i will seem mostly the political consequences. they are not afraid that they will be extradited but they are afraid that people who are outspoken against the government 01’ are outspoken against the government or critical of the chinese government might be legally snatched away from hong kong. and yet the government here, carrie lam and her team, they have been reassuring many of them that safeguards will be in place. so why don't people who trust their own government? what we see is that people see the hong kong government as a rubber stamp, a puppet of the chinese government. and they certainly do not have a lot of trust into what carrie lam has assured hong kong people, that even though those safeguards are in
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place, they are mostly rhetorical and not legally written into the law. and that's why carrie lam has said she is staying as leader, even though she were issued a rare apology. thank you so much. we will talk to you later as well. she has issued a very unusual apology, this is a day after the press c0 nfe re nce apology, this is a day after the press conference she held in such day and she announced a suspension of this controversial extradition belt is at the crux of the matter. that is what most people are unhappy about here but she failed to apologise then and of course many people have been asking for her resignation, that is among the chance we heard the crowds are making yesterday to have carrie lam resign, the crowds and many of the protesters i spoke to were saying that if she stays, they stay. on the street. and that is the sentiment here. i will be back a bit later.
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it doesn't like those numbers are building up on the streets, still very early but we will continue monitor that. india continued their world cup dominance over rivals pakistan with a rain—affected 89—run victory as a highly anticipated match came to an end at old trafford in manchester. pakistan, chasing 337, collapsed to 166 for 6 before a rain delay saw their target revised to another 136 runs from just 30 balls — a near—impossible task. with more here's the bbc‘s rajini vaidyanathan from delhi. tonight they're celebrating in this cricket—crazy nation. no match matters more in india. here, no victory tastes as sweet as a win over pakistan. i feel very great and this is a very proud moment for india. we've won the match. i'm really on top of the world. i'm so happy, i'm really proud of my team. we think pakistan is the best
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thing in the world. i feel it's my victory, india won. the excitement here is electric. the sporting rivalry between india and pakistan runs deep. so too do the political rivalries between the two nuclear neighbours. right now the leaders of india and pakistan couldn't be further apart. when both attended a summit last week they barely spoke. pakistan's prime minister, former cricket captain imran khan, said relations between the two nations were at their lowest point. back in his home country the mood was also low as fans accepted defeat. we didn't seem to be playing very well throughout the game, especially while we were batting, so that was disappointing. meanwhile in india the party continues. to many fans here this match means more than winning the world cup itself. rajini vaidyanathan, bbc news, delhi.
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you're watching newsday. still to come on the programme: how australia is making efforts to preserve some of its traditional languages, before they are lost forever. there was a bomb in the city centre. a code word known to be one used by the ira was given. army bomb experts were examining a suspect van when there was a huge explosion. the south african parliament has destroyed the foundation of apartheid by abolishing the population registration act, which for a0 years forcibly classified each citizen according to race. germany's parliament, the bundestag, has voted by a narrow majority to move the seat government from bonn to berlin. berliners celebrated into the night but the decision was greeted with shock in bonn. just a day old and the royal baby is tonight sleeping
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in his cot at home. early this evening the new prince was taken by his mother and father to their apartments in kensington palace. the real focus today was valentina tereshkova, the world's first woman cosmonaut. what do you think of the russian woman in space? i think it's a wonderful achievement and i think we might be able to persuade the wife it would be a good idea if i could to get her to go up there for a little while. this is newsday on the bbc. i'm kasia madera in london. our top stories: organisers say nearly two million people have taken part in a mass protest in hong kong against a controversial extradition bill. let's ta ke let's take a look at how the papers
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have been reporting these huge protests that have been taking place over the last week. i have the south china morning post, you can see huge photo of the mass demonstration and the headline saying much forces, apology. this is something that many people have been asking for was to for her to apologise. that is what they got late this —— yesterday. this is the apple daily and the whole front page is taken up by this incredible aerial view of the march but is not at the front page, it is the back pages well, it is this whole two pages. it goes to show the scale of the number of people who we re scale of the number of people who were out in force on sunday and there has been talk about the organisers projecting that number to be nearly 2 million which would make it the largest demonstration in hong kong ‘s history. that's bring back samson again, you were talking to me earlier about how a lot of new people on the street yesterday, he
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was surveying them, let's talk about the papers now because even though we know here in hong kong there is freedom of the press to a degree because hong kong enjoys the autonomy that mainland china does not. data other chinese papers have been reporting this. — my task.|j have many friends coming to hong kong and they are surprised to find out what is happening here. they didn't know about this in china. there's a lot of rumours in china going on about what is happening here, so the rumours are that foreign forces are at force and at work to purchase. and they didn't know really what people are fighting for here. what they mean by forces though? i think they were referring to the united states or even britain, they are trying to meddle in chinese internal affairs and the
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use hong kong as a springboard to meddle with politics in china. so thatis meddle with politics in china. so that is the view of how it is being reported in china which is of course very little. thank you, forjoining us very little. thank you, forjoining us this great and rather stormy morning here in hong kong. it is threatening to rain here, i should add but i'll be back late in the programme to take a look at some more of what is going on here day after that massive are just we saw on sunday. —— after that massive protest. australia was once home to around 300 different indigenous languages, spoken by aboriginal communities. todayjust 13 traditonal languages are being handed down, most have either disappeared or are critically endangered. but efforts are being made to preserve them. our correspondent hywel griffith has been to kununurra, in far northern western australia. this is miriwoong country. a land of
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vast open skies that straddles modern day state boundaries. the miriwoong people have been here for tens of thousands of years but in recent decades, the language has come under threat. we can see right across the miriwoong land foster david and agnes are two ofjust a handful of surviving, fluent speakers stop to them, miriwoong is woven into the landscape. everything we see, has language. everything that moves has language. modern things come, we have to give it a name and miriwoong. the first car arrived in our country, miriwoong people gave it a name. and that comes from the sound that it makes. before european settlement, australia was home to more than 200 indigenous languages, now only a dozen are indigenous languages, now only a
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dozen a re left indigenous languages, now only a dozen are left with more than 1000 speakers. languages are normally handed down from one generation to the next but in australia, in indigenous communities, that link is broken decades ago when a general children were taken from their families and put under the care of european settlers. and so, to revive miriwoong, they need a new generation goals, people have lessons regardless of whether they have aboriginal heritage. my favourite word and miriwoong means crocodile. my favourite miriwoong word means grandma. my favourite word means grandma. my favourite word and miriwoong means swimming. word means grandma. my favourite word and miriwoong means swimming! lot of money has been put into trying to save miriwoong but the tea m trying to save miriwoong but the team of linguists working here say the impact is far—reaching. team of linguists working here say
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the impact is far-reaching. there is research that says indigenous people learning their ancestral language are more likely to be successful in life. which means they are more likely to get a job, more likely to attend school. they also are less likely to struggle with substance abuse, they are less likely to commit serious crimes. there is no certainty that all this effort will pay off. but here they are trying everything to make sure miriwoong is a living, breathing language for decades to come. the type that is a successful initiative. we are going to leave you with some of these live pictures of the monday morning, the day after the massive protest we saw here on sunday. there are more strikes planned today as well, this monday,
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we are hearing that there will be strikes from the social workers, the middle school students and there's going to be more commemorations later on in the day where i am, right here. hello, following all the heavy rain that we had last week, all that water has been running off the hills and into our river catchments. this is how the river has been looking, whether you still have a number of flood warnings in. we also have flood warnings in. we also have flood warnings in. we also have flood warnings across monitory spots in the midlands and lincolnshire as well. an area of low pressure has been influencing the weather across the uk every single day of the month so the uk every single day of the month so farand for the uk every single day of the month so far and for monday, the low pressure is just to the west of ireland, continuing to bring that shy was a lengthy outbreaks of rentals. if you are heading outside over the next hour or two, take your wet weather gear across northern scotland. the rain will be heavy here. a few showers for northern ireland, rain working in across wales and parts of north—west
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england. it is, however, quite a mild start to the morning to stop you don't need to many layers. through monday, this weather front continues to bring some wet weather across wales are not posting them, the front itself is not going to move the front itself is not going to m ove very the front itself is not going to move very far very quickly, the north of this, to the finals of angen north of this, to the finals of anger, the northern ireland and scotland, is a day of heavy, thundery showers and emitted omitted bright sunny spells was not across the south midlands and summoning them, the weather should so largely dry with some warm dunes and j. temperatures getting into the low 20s. the good news is we finally lose the influence of this area of low pressure mid week, the bad news is you got another area of the pressure that's going to be moving its way in from the south bringing the threat of some more heavy and potentially thundery rain. this is how tuesday starts off, somewhat weather just up how tuesday starts off, somewhat weatherjust up the day insert highland scotland, wishing it was with time, dressed out elsewhere but started to turn a bit cloudy late in the day and feeling a bit more humid as well. across the south of wales
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and southern positing that we may start to see some showers break out. they did the day as well. the showers, we have a met office warning for these, late on tuesday through tuesday night into wednesday, the amount of rendered regattas going to vary a lot from place to place but given that the ground is completely saturated, we do get these heavier downpours coming through, we could see some surface water flooding tilting up quickly. there is a risk of some disruption perhaps for road and rail. this is open to doubt, there could be a large spread of east—west movement but it looks mostly that it's england at risk. we could see perhaps a bit of friends getting into wales. the wednesday, heavy showers again coming back to northern ireland and scotland, bringing unsettled weather but the weather hasn't been as wet across a spot of the uk as other areas so hopefully that rain would be impact.
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i'm kasia madera with bbc news. our top story: organisers of sunday's mass protest in hong kong against a controversial extradition bill say nearly two million people took part. this would make it the biggest demonstration in the territory's history, but police say turnout was around 3a0,000. the demonstration went ahead despite the government's decision to suspend the bill. millions of people in argentina, uruguay and paraguay are still without power after a massive electrical failure in the region. argentina's president says electricity has now been restored to half of the country. and india's cricket win is really popular on our website. indian cricket fans celebrate after their team defeated pakistan in a world cup match watched by an estimated television audience of one billion. that's all.

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