his once irrepressible wife, lui xia, was placed under house arrest, where she fell victim to depressiony two weeks‘ ago the world learned of liu xiaobo's illness. hong kong, the one place in china citizens could call for his release. chinese censorship is formidable, and few here know of liu xiaobo's life, his death or his nobel peace prize. many chinese see the one party state as an unavoidable fact of life, and under the strong arm rule of president xijinping it has become even more dangerous to challenge that. liu xiaobo once warned, "if you want to enter hell, don't complain of the dark." he felt no ill—will toward his jailers. he said he'd committed no crime, but had no complaints. i've been speaking to jared genser. he is the lawyer who provided legal counsel both to liu xiaobo and his wife, liu xia. he has not been heard by the world since he was sentenced to prison. i began working on his behalf in may of 2010, and a few months later i spoke to him about what might happen if he won the nobel peace prize. his wife decided to stay in china with her husband. from the moment he won

his once irrepressible wife, lui xia, was placed under house arrest, where she fell victim to depressionnly two weeks‘ ago the world learned of liu xiaobo's illness. hong kong, the one place in china citizens could call for his release. chinese censorship is formidable, and few here know of liu xiaobo's life, his death or his nobel peace prize. many chinese see the one party state as an unavoidable fact of life, and under the strong arm rule of president xijinping it has become even more dangerous to challenge that. liu xiaobo once warned, "if you want to enter hell, don't complain of the dark." he felt no ill—will toward his jailers. he said he'd committed no crime, but had no complaints. let's take a look at some of the other stories making the news. a congressional committee in brazil has voted not to send corruption charges against president michel temer to the supreme court. the charges will now be debated by the whole of congress, but it is increasingly unlikely that mr temer will face prosecution. meanwhile, the former president, luiz inacio lula da silva, has challenged his corru

his once irrepressible wife, lui xia, was placed under house arrest, where she fell victim to depressionu xiaobo's illness. hong kong, the one place in china citizens could call for his release. chinese censorship is formidable, and few here know of liu xiaobo's life, his death or his nobel peace prize. many chinese see the one party state as an unavoidable fact of life, and under the strong arm rule of president xijinping it has become even more dangerous to challenge that. liu xiaobo once warned, "if you want to enter hell, don't complain of the dark." he felt no ill—will toward his jailers. he said he'd committed no crime, but had no complaints. the chinese political dissident liu xiaobo, who has died at the age of 61. an italian delegation has been in libya today in a new attempt to stop the people smugglers sending thousands of migrants across the mediterranean to italy. most of them set out to sea from libya, which has no effective government. italian coastguards have taken to burning the smugglers‘ boats to stem the flow, despite criticism that it makes the migrants more vulnerabl