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coronavirus pandemic. benyamin netanyahu becomes the 1st sitting israeli prime minister to go on trial as he faces corruption charges just days after beginning his 5th term in office. and in week 2 of the bonus league has returned from a forced break iron showed their heads above the rest after dispatching frank 1st the stars are aligned for a match up with 2nd placed. on pablo foley as welcome to the program protests broken out in hong kong after china sparked outrage with proposed new legislation that would ban was beijing cold secessionism and subversive activity it could allow chinese security agents to.

operate in this territory prodemocracy campaigners are calling it a threat to hong kong's autonomy for. tear gas once again shrouds the streets of hong kong. protests returned after china pushed for a strict new national security law for the territory under cover of the coronavirus . the national security law is even more damaging and harmful than the extradition bell last year introduced by the government and now when time is running out in hong kong we would describe now as the beginning of the end we don't have enough time but we still need to continue the fight. for opponent see this is the end of hong kong's one country 2 systems relationship with china the legislation that gives paging more surveillance powers is supported by hong kong's pro chinese legislators and local security chiefs.

were not of the great majority. i don't think mature the hong kong people in the interest. of good things or central government so i don't think that is an issue. beijing's rubberstamp assembly is expected to approve floor next week but protests on the small island may prove difficult to stamp out. of a more on this let's speak to journalists. in hong kong hi florence just why are protesters so angry. well if you also do tasters this simply tell you that d.c. and the whole goal he going to do is all this regions that they are so attached to because unlike china as you know hong kong we see very much a free place where you can oppose in criticize the government again there is a credit free press etc so actually to these protests was initially and against and

not a low called a national flag and in penrose which is seacrest to report on the mental let's go arms thursday and this flag an anthem row is meant to stock people from not respecting the chinese flag or the national anthem which hong kong people have actually been doing a lot like burning the chinese flag blowing in stadiums and showing a constant every to distract us and body of the fighters to its power but of course now that china has announced it is going to impose a new national security no intended of clamping down on anything in equity even remotely associated to reason sedition secession foreign interference terrorism the whole thing goes up become even more concern and worry and some of them think that to the is one of their last chance to protest and on a common rule of hong kong as just protesting could soon be seen or treated by the courts as something much more serious. is there much opposition to this long hong

kong lawmakers than. yes absolutely the lawmakers up through the not proceed camp out very strongly opposed to this you know the problem is that they have lost them majority in parliament because the government has disqualified 6 of them so that you can't deploy democracy can't pass new means of blocking any that station at the moment and you know any case even if it looks like beijing eskom it with the procedure well they don't want to even need to go through it would be directly by the chief executive. briefly why were those the pro-democracy movement go from here when i think through the notice you movements best option is taught me to put all its efforts into coming out legislative elections which i planned next september teaching is indeed extremely worried that the spine to the system that is generally made to the aging can then reason risky to lose its majority.

from hans to she in hong kong thank you for that update. muslims around the world has been celebrating the annual festival that marks the end of ramadan but this year celebrations are subdued the coronavirus pandemic means no prayers at the mosque for the faithful no family reunions and no meal together to mark the end of fasting. filmed at this time last year this is what dhaka in bangladesh normally looks like in preparation for 8. now measures introduced to curb the coronavirus have left it unrecognizable. from the normally we see many customers coming in ahead of aid but this year there are far fewer we've opened our shop for the last 4 days and sold nothing. more than 400 reported deaths and 30000 and factions prompted the country to extend its lockdown

restrictions until the end of man. confined to their homes many will find a 3 day holiday a very different experience this year. as there is a nationwide and we can't do our aid shopping because the markets are closed we have donated the money for all our aid related expenses to the pulled it. was. even in europe where some countries have begun to ease restrictions faced preparations have been hindered by rules that prevent blood gatherings. i think this will be a sad byrom for me because no one will come to visit and i will spend to learn but i will buy groceries and cook everything just as i always do and i will send what i make to my loved ones to enjoy it hard. for strictures or not most are determined to celebrate the end of a long month of fasting with plenty of comfort food. well let's take a look now at some other stories making news around the world despite the threat posed by covert 19 americans have been heading to the beach to celebrate memorial

day weekend the holiday marks the unofficial start of summer in the u.s. president donald trump celebrated with his 1st round of golf since the pandemic broke i. fire housing goals to wear high boots on san francisco's iconic fisherman's wharf sending a thick plume of smoke over the waterfront the blaze threatened to spread to a historic world war 2 era ship before firefighters brought the flames under control. well in israel all eyes are on of course room in jerusalem where the trial of benyamin netanyahu israel's long serving prime minister is getting under way it was postponed in march because of the coronavirus crisis the court rejected a request by netanyahu is lawyers for him to attend the 1st hearing. one week ago benjamin netanyahu was sworn in as israel's new prime minister for the 5th time. today his trial is set to begin in jerusalem

it's the 1st time in israel's history that a sitting prime minister has been indicted netanyahu does not have to step down until proven guilty. at sunday's court hearing the charges will be formally presented case $1000.00 who is suspected of receiving gifts from wealthy friends case 2000 alleges netanyahu attempted to influence a newspaper to gain more positive coverage and case 4000 alleges that he granted a series of favors to israel's largest telecommunications company in exchange for positive media coverage on a news website. the charges fraud breach of trust and bribery there have been countless demonstrations both for and against him his opponents say he cannot be prime minister and on trial at the same time his supporters say the indictments

are part of a political campaign against him. netanyahu himself has denied all allegations but the trial is expected to go on for some time. well for more let's use tanya kramer who is standing by for us in jerusalem hi tanya what can we expect from today's proceedings. one standing by to be outside the court prime minister binyamin netanyahu has arrived just some time ago now i mean it's very loud because there is a demonstration in support of the prime minister just here next to the court what we are expecting today it's the opening of a long awaited trial it's actually the 1st time a sitting prime minister is standing trial and the panel of the 3 judges will read out the charges against the defendants against prime minister netanyahu well if netanyahu is found guilty time you know what what could the sentence actually be.

both 1st of all prime minister netanyahu one arriving at the court he has again denied all allegations he said. this is a witchhunt against him and his family has maintained that during all the time of investigation now the most serious cases considered to be the case of $4000.00 where it's charged with rivalry that could lead to a charge of more than the sentence to more than up to 10 years in the most serious case but of course it was just at the very beginning i talked to no experts here and they said this could take a very very long time until the verdict is good tania briefly in what way could this actually interfere with prime minister netanyahu is work. what i took to look spends about this and this is of course he will do this work as usual but he will be very much be occupied with the proceedings in court because

they will go on from now on and of course this is what his opponents have said he shouldn't be a prime minister going to court in the morning and then. governing in the afternoon . emer reporting for us from jerusalem. well in the bundesliga on saturday buyer leverkusen celebrated a 31 victory away from home against. leverkusen went into the lead after just 6 minutes when wonderkid it's his 9th gold so far this season the hosts did manage to pull one back in the 2nd half through their own young star . but a penalty soon afterwards so however it's grabbed his 10th of the current campaign to make it 21 to leverkusen and the guests wrapped up all 3 points in the 81st

minute thanks to spend bender's show. later on saturday byron munich pulled off a convincing 52 victory over untouched frankfurt whose central defender martina. had a bizarre and memorable afternoon to quick fire goals from the austrian appear to give in frankfurt a fighting chance in the 2nd tough but in the end it was byron who came out on top with a little help from half. himself the alianza reno hosted its 1st ever blunders league a ghost game as robert love and dorothy and co welcomed frankfurt to munich the lack of atmosphere didn't hinder the action gorecki fired home thomas miller's cross to put the champions one nil up after 16 minutes. miller then went from provider to goal scorer by and the veteran forward is enjoying his most productive season in years and this strike put them on top at half time. if frankfurt were

hoping for a change in fortunes after the break they were left disappointed within a minutes of the restart robert leaven dusky made it 3 nil with his 27th goal of the season but it wasn't quite game over yet martin hinted pounced on a loose ball to cut by its lead in the 52nd minute and 3 minutes later he scored again to make it 3 to frankfurt we're back in the game thanks to the center half. but the visitors just couldn't help themselves when alfonso davies made it for 2 to buy and plenty to gel some finance as his poor touch. and then hinted again made by ns victory sayf the defender's bumbling attempt to control the ball so him diverted into his own net 5 to the final score and league leaders by an edge and closer to another title. reminder now of our top story

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