chiles national people's congress has passed this draft this all seems to be moving very quickly. that's right the standing committee of the national people's congress which is the highest most powerful legislative body in china has been reviewing this national legislation for hong kong security legislation they began that on thursday morning in fact up until wednesday this wasn't even included on the agenda it was inserted it seems right at the last moment is china in a hurry well yes or no we have elections here in hong kong in september and i think this new security legislation enables china to in a sense create the conditions that would make it possible to despise our candidates the china hong kong government deemed to be disloyal as to when this will become law well an obvious state is july the 1st that's china's national day just a few weeks off from now a lot has been happening today to do with this not proposed law or the law that's going to happen earlier on might pompei of the u.s. secretary of state met with china's top diplomat in hawaii and after that meeting young g.

the bars so haitian haves persisted and in persisted in ignoring these realities so the national people's congress can just sweep aside the basic laws it feels like the bar association says it would appear that the national people's congress has no power to the national security law that it's proposing. on the article 23 the n.p.c. has not swept away the powers of our are under the basic law the decision the decision of the n.p.c. the 7 point assertion in 2 of the points they urged the hong kong government to get on with and acting legislation locally on our own to fulfill our constitutional obligations you know our duty under article defeat does not preclude baiting or thora teams from doing their own thing to protect national security certainly every country has a right to protect its security and territorial integrity let's look at what happened back in 2003 when you were security minister and you tried and failed to push through a security law against subversion and treason for hong kong it brought the people out in the hundreds of thousands against it and you had to resign your post because w

frankly, i think as long as you leave it up to our national congress, we're going to be log jammed. i think the solution is city by city, state by state, and hopefully legislatures and city councils can be more productive than our national congress has been in addressing the dire needs of our nation. >> we're seeing people by the hundreds of thousands, if not more. they are gathering in cities all over the country. mr. secretary, thank you for joining us. >> thank you, wolf. >> take a look at this. we got some live pictures coming in of protests in los angeles. huge crowds have gathered in l.a. right now. we'll check in on the very latest. look at that aerial shot. those crowds are continuing to march in l.a. we'll go there, when we come back. hey! lily from at&t here. i'm back and while most stores are open, i'm working from home and here to help. here's a tip: get half-off the amazing iphone 11 on at&t, america's fastest network for iphones. second tip: you can put googly eyes on your stuff to keep yourself company. uh for example, that's heraldo. he's my best friend. oh, sorry na

appalled by the treatment of blacks and people of color he created the armed wing of the african national congress to fight against the apartheid regime that i many people feel that it is useless and free theater for us to continue talking peace and nonviolence against the government was a blood is on its savage attacks. under defenseless people. in 1962 mandela was arrested 2 years later he and his fellow accused were sentenced to life imprisonment for sabotage and conspiracy he was 46 years old. during his incarceration and social unrest spread and intensified among the black people who represented almost 3 quarters of the population in the state who responded with increasingly savage repression. in the 1980 s. the country was subjected to the iron fist leadership of peter both or head of the national party regarded as a hard liner he was nonetheless aware that profound change was inevitable among his most influential ministers was frederick vellum declare an ambitious afrikaner who entered politics in 1971 f. w. as everyone called him came from an influential conservative family. one must remem

a review of the proposal is due to end later on saturday the standing committee of the national people's congress is expected to pass the law despite widespread criticism and india's prime minister narendra modi is downplaying the worst border violence between his forces and china in nearly half a century modi has denied that chinese troops squashed into indian territory before soldiers from both sides got involved in a fight at the border on monday 20 indian soldiers were killed and 70 were injured in the fight you're upset with the headlines on al-jazeera i have more news for you right after that listening post i hope you do stay with us thanks so much. as we understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the world. so no matter what you see al-jazeera will bring you the needs and current affairs that matter to you. how does iraq. number of fire is case in russia has been soaring despite culmination of a campaign that i trust that all the time. i said response from sharon every time i am pushing by the team to a spring break. hello i'm richard just britain you're at the listenin

sanding committee of the national people's congress is expected to pass a law despite widespread criticism it previously failed to pass in hong kong legislation due to a strong backlash edgin brown has more from hong kong where efforts are on already underway to organize a petition to rejects that security laws. we're in one tyson which is traditionally a place where people come to have their fortunes told in hong kong but of course no one can predict at the moment when this new security law is going to take effect we're outside a church a catholic church which has been turned into a makeshift polling station for this vote and workers are being asked to support a general strike now these workers represent you know people working in about 20 different industries here in hong kong not just that students are also being urged to support a classroom boycott now the results of this vote of juda be released sometime over the weekend on the other side of hong kong on saturday morning we met people who are in support of this new security legislation their probation group and they maintain they clai

the bill that each of these 16 had 2 observers from hong kong who are members of china's national people's congress and they were observing this process of discussing this bill which led to this morning the bill being unanimously passed now this is an extraordinarily fast process this bill was only announced about 40 days ago during the opening of china's national people's congress in the name political assembly that happens once a year was announced during the opening speech which sleeker chant gave and now we are we are here 40 days later with this bill passed still no details we expect to hear more of that later today but usually this person takes you know at least a year in chinese have any kind of law passed so they really tried to fast track this whole process and i think after this there are a few 4 more legal steps to go but essentially they will completely bypass hong kong's only legislative procedure and this will be inserted into hong kong's many considerations or its basic war going forward of course the treaty you've actually touched upon the the the law will be seen by different commi

red line and called for resolute action as the highest organ of state power in china the national people's congress has to constitutional and the duty to enact national security legislation for the hong kong as. marley is the founding chairman of the united democrats which became the democratic party of hong kong he also became the face of the democracy movement in the lead up to the 1997 handover he explained to hong kong's power is being eroded. my party will stay on and i will stay in hong kong of course we realize that the prospects of our being put into prison would be very high but the prestige of this law but what is really frustrating is that even though b. no this law will be operative tomorrow none of us have seen a copy of it so we don't know what sort of offenses we might be committing tomorrow i mean this is ridiculous but i'm not too concerned about the actual contents of it because i expect them to be very good code in and and reasonable but the real impact on is much 3rd that is much more serious than that what this piece of legislation in fact for me means what it is that when the

in the capital have called a meeting to all hong kong delegates who are members of the national people's congress that is china's polman so as we understand they're having a closed door meeting to be told the details of this national security law still don't know details out in public yet but the beijing office has also announced that tomorrow wednesday morning local time at 10 am local time there will be a press conference so we could expect some more questions and some more details about the nitty gritty what exactly this national security law entails and we may have to wait when's a morning local time for that but we do know that china standing committee its top legislative body held a meeting 9 am local time today choose day to vote on this law and it was unanimously passed shortly after by the 162 members of that body it's a hefty law they discussed it's a 6 chapters including 66 articles that they've been discussing since sunday we were told there were 12 hong kong observers taking part in that discussion but so far we are yet to hear the exact details as i mentioned earlier we do know that

all joy that's why the national congress came together yesterday to protect the constitution against the dictatorship. back then our witness your ego rob ski was 18 years old during his military service he joined a special unit and was soon integrated into a newly founded intervention force called saba where he spent 5 years finally receiving a promotion. he keeps copies of important documents in the refugee home where he's staying and tells us that the originals are in a safe place. this is my membership card for the special units veterans association the. people are served in the fighting units of the ministry of internal affairs get one of these i was deputy commander in the 1st group this is the card you get if you were in the sober. bella ruse has several special units made up of hardened soldiers who are loyal to their president here they show what they're capable of in the men's football stadium images from 20 years ago. saw his mission was to tackle smugglers and the mafia but our witness says that wasn't this solved. sauber was also deployed to forcibly eliminate the opposit

red line and called for resolute action as the highest organ of state power in china the national people's congress has to constitutional and the duty to enact national security legislation for the hong kong as they are the germans accused of instigates you need 2017 iranian economic protests has been sentenced to death. use the messaging platform to post videos and information about iranian officials. india's prime minister has addressed the nation as the country deals with rising coronavirus cases they're introduced as a timely lockdowns of save millions of lives people to follow social distancing measures or face penalties the u.k.'s prime minister boris johnson says that britain's cannot continue to be in his words prisoners of the current virus crisis he's been outlining his vision for boosting the devastated economy after the pandemic the full roadmap will be unveiled that next week we must work fast because we've already seen the vertiginous drop in g.d.p. and we know that people are worried about their jobs and their businesses and we're waiting as if between the flash of lightning and the

colleagues were behind the prime minister's murder, following palme's support for the african national congressdemnation of apartheid. the suspect was named as a likely suspect in a book in 2017. >> i'm glad they came to the same conclusion i did, that he is the killer. palme was an internationally and is seen asan perhaps the best of sweden. and this whole case has been dramatic. olaf palme was an unusual swedish prime minister. he had an impact outside his country. his anti-colonial views made him a fierce critic of superpowers. he welcomed immigrants. those policies may have put him into the grave in which he has lain for more than three decades. the love many swedes have for him has endured, but since the case is closed, it looks as though the unanswered questions will endure as well. paul reese, al jazeera, stockholm. barbara: more than 10,000 people have rallied in support of the black lives matter movement in the dutch capital of amsterdam. protesters are highlighting the country's colonial past. and that is not the only focus. our correspondent explains. ]emergency sirens close correspo

international human rights standards also of the law it's going to be drastic and passed by the national people's congress to any committee which is not part of the whole consciously interest nation and it would be promoted by the hong kong government directly which means it will completely. bypass the hunger legislation and meaningful public consultation so when i ask you about the protest movement itself the pro-democracy movement because over the past year it has proven to be very resilient and resourceful we heard joshua walking in our reports say protesting works but if it's the national security legislation comes into force in the way that you described can that protest movement continue. we can see in the past year that. the protest movement in hong kong is actually very vibrant of course there are people who use violence but it seems that many including the government make such a specially to go to. put straight protests move movement as one that is particularly silent but let's not forget too many people actually took to the streets stary peacefully to say no to the extradition bill and when that

when beijing and the standing committee and the national people's congress committee could simply addo article three of article 18, as you just suggested? they could have avoided this if this was going to be the end goal anyway. anesa: one has to make important distinction. when we talk about national security, like any other country in the world, national security is within the purview of the central authorities. within the purview of the central authorities, the central authorities can come as it is now doing, or vied for legislations and other policy matters. so that is different from what you were just discussing. let me just finish. why do we need it? because of what has happened in particular over the last six months of 2019, and of course also the fact of the social unrest with a lot of people chanting slogans of independence, etc., and there is also the problem hong kong has faced in the past 23 years, that we are not able to for one reason or another pass any take onion that would national security in any way, shape, or form. so the central authorities need to provide for tha

let's turn to china and hong kong and while others are grappling with covid, beijing held its national congressocked the world by passing national security legislation for hong kong. critics say it will damage the autonomy that they have been promised hong kong under an international treaty until 2047. president trump said the us will now revoke hong kong's special trade and travel privileges as the old hope that authoritarian china would model itself after a free hong kong has given way to accepting that china is determined model hong kong after itself. well, let us start. who wants to take us away with china, hong kong? yasmin, do you think that analysis that china is no longer modelling itself after hong kong, if it ever did, but the other way round, that it wants hong kong to look like mainland china, that that is a fair analysis from trump? well, i never want to agree with donald trump at all. and i don't want to agree with him now. but to move away from him and his curious analysis of world problems, there is something very interesting happening that the economic engine that was hong kong

the standing committee of the national people's congress which is the highest most powerful religious of body in china has been reviewing this national legislation for hong kong security legislation they began that on thursday morning in fact up until wednesday this wasn't even included on the agenda it was inserted it seems right at the last moment is china in a hurry well yes and no we have elections here in hong kong in september and i think this new security legislation enables china to in a sense create the conditions that would make it possible to despise our candidates the china hong kong government deemed to be disloyal a new book by the former u.s. national security advisor says donald trump told china's president he approved of the mass detention of muslim weakest while publicly condemning it comes as trungpa signed into law sanctions for officials of the repression of weak. there are also accusations made in john bolton's book that donald trump asked the chinese they defend his help and his reelection says it has no intention of interfering in the vote lawyers in malawi hav

national anthem. several members of the u.s. congress have lost a video conferencing from zoom to clarify its relationship with china as well as its data collection practices and comes a day after the company admitted suspending the accounts of rights activists at the request of the chinese government zoom initially said it was following local laws when it disrupted their meetings on the 31st anniversary of the chinaman square massacre the firm says it will no longer allow requests from beijing that affect users outside of mainland china not sure why is a chinese china researcher at human rights watch and she says beijing's censorship of sensitive content will only get worse. i think you know what have impacted because you know we're literally banned chinese people from joint national meetings if you know the chinese government doesn't approve but to you know i think the situation has again become worse in a word is so i mean eventually you know the population they really wanted to jump over of the great firewall and to know the you know

gone and those are still taking place we know that hong kong delegates are not to china's national people's congress that is china's polman are in attendance in those meetings and we expect that they are currently being briefed on the details of this new national security law we are yet to hear any announcement from china's state media any confirmation of this but we do know that the legislative affairs commission of the n.p.c. as well as the hong kong office will be holding a press conference wednesday to g.m.t. that is 10 am local time to announce the details of this national security law to the public so we may have to wait until then to hear more about it certainly if we do that will be a very symbolic for china as that is the anniversary of the handover of hong kong from britain back to the mainland 23 years ago or japan in taiwan armando's condemning the new law by china is brushing concerns aside. china has already made clear its position on the japanese opinion regarding hong kong issues hong kong's affairs a chinese internal affairs that there is no place for foreign interference this impro

national. congress of course loving foreign minister pays us a visit here to ascertain not just for a game of table but also from an exclusive interview where he touches on claims about the death of democracy in his country. hello there good morning it's thursday the 25th of june you're watching r.t. international where on the 11 o'clock am in the russian capital. voting is underway in russia one amendments to the country's constitution the package includes more than $100.00 provisions some of which they have been widely criticized today both online and early voting begins all leading up to next wednesday's general vote but it has more to. 7 days a vote now underway across russia across 7000 polling stations set up for this vote and you know vladimir putin he never misses an opportunity to remind everyone how the world this year. how quickly it's changing and how important are these for russia to stay ahead of the curve these obviously these changes of what the government of visions is paving the path f

old house which is the british national. congress to allow them to stay in the u.k. . and that will be a pathway to citizenship so i can be and i don't order hong kong to move in the. right. porting for us there thank you so much german air carrier lufthansa has announced it will undergo a major read them as opposed to a net loss of 2100000000 euros in the 1st quarter the airline says the restructuring plans that from job cuts to asset sales are necessary in the face of the coronavirus course as it comes after the board agreed to accept the terms on a 9000000000 euro bailout during the global travel lock down passenger numbers fell to one percent of previous levels. let's go right to frankfurt where our correspondent chelsea delaney is standing by for us hi shall see it sounds like a pretty big shakeup is underway at lufthansa what do we know about this revamp. well have tons of been saying for weeks really that they're going to have to shrink that they're going to emerge from this crisis as a smaller airline and this is really the 1st real detail that we're seeing wha

we remember of the national people's congress, so they have consulted, but they are very determined toe unrest last year, with all the political interference they can wait to pass this national security law. >> thank you so much for joining us. we appreciate your time with us. bernard chan, top adviser to the chief executive carrie lam. before we hand it over to "the china open," let's get your look at how markets are trading. the nikkei 225 off by 1.6%. moderate uptick when it comes to month on month retail sales figures, but still showing weakness across consumer sector. the cost befalling by over 1% -- .ospi falling over 1% an extra budget will not be granted. 1.7%.tralia, downside of trading resuming after the chinese holiday. >> here's how futures trading looks at the moment. a bit of a mixed picture with u.s. futures down 0.2%. that's it from "daybreak asia." ♪ tom: it is 9:00 in beijing and shanghai. i am tom mackenzie. yvonne: i am yvonne man. we are counting down to the open of trade in the chinese mainland and hong kong. protests return to hong kong as china's lawmaking body

colleagues had been behind the prime minister's murder following palmas support for the african national congress and condemnation of the apartheid regime swedish journalist thomas patterson named angstrom as the likely suspect in a book in 2017 glad that they come to the same conclusion as i did that he is the killer is almost enough and internationally for famous politician of parliament and has some some kind of symbol for. perhaps the best of sweden and this unsolved case has been tormenting us all of parliament was that's most unusual of swedish prime ministers one who had an impact outside his own country his anti colonial and anti racist views made him a fierce critic of global superpowers while at home he raised taxes to fund the welfare state and welcomed immigrants. those policies may have put him into the grave in which is lain for more than 3 decades the love that many sweets have for him is enjoyed but as the case is closed it looks likely that the unanswered questions will enjoy as well paul reese al-jazeera stock i. know the u.s. civil war epic gone with the wind has been removed f

national anthem. several members of the u.s. congress have asked video conferencing firms zoom to clarify its relationship with china as well as its data collection practices it comes a day after the company admitted suspending the accounts of rights activists at the request of the chinese government zuma initially said it was following local laws what it disrupted their meetings on the 31st anniversary of the chinaman square massacre from says at low longer allow requests from beijing but affect users outside mainland china and shell wang is china the human rights watch and she's joining me now on skype from new york thank you very much indeed for being with us now is not the only company that has fallen foul of china's requests why a tech companies particularly so scared of china. because they have a huge interest in china and they make huge money in china. that seem tough and in terms of the amount of money that they're making and in terms of the their involvement $1.00 would assume therefore that gives them the gives china tremendous

national. congress supports loving foreign minister pays us a visit here at r.t. not just for a game of table football but also from an exclusive interview.

national mall. in 2014, congress passed a bipartisan act to create a congressional commission to evaluate the feasibility of a national women's history museum here in washington d.c.. >> a commission to study the potential creation of a national women's history museum and other purposes. >> we are half of the population. wherever you stand on women's issues, i am sure there is a consensus in this house that half of the population should not go unmentioned in the textbooks of our country. >> but there is no museum in the country that shows the full scope of the history of the amazing, brilliant, courageous, innovative and sometimes defiant women who have helped to shape our history and make this country what it is. >> in november of 2016, the commission produced a bipartisan report concluding that americans deserve a national women's history museum. that it should be on or near our national mall and affiliated with the smithsonian. i am pleased, that a bipartisan group of members of congress have introduced legislation to create this museum here in washington d.c. on one of two sites at our national mall.

political crisis meaning more conflict between the powers the executive branch the supreme court the national congress. as the number of coronavirus cases rice the political divisions are widening testing the health and the stability of latin america's largest democracy i listened that m.p.'s. nepal's parliament has approved changes to the country's map further straining ties with neighboring india revised map seeks to include 400 square kilometers of disputed territory seen here in yellow there is been on the indian control for 60 years the latest spat was triggered after india opened a new road to a strategic and past a connecting china through territory nepal claims its own will not go to nepal's a house for approval or. lecture in the faculty of modern indian history at the university of cambridge and she says india will not respond well to the new map. i think what has changed in earl in recent yours is that the ball used to be a kind of historic code a buffer between the 2 as it were great sorts of position of nations like china and india and that we are looking into the oil has ended with as it

crisis meaning more conflict between the powers the executive branch the supreme court the national. congress. as the number of coronavirus cases rise the political divisions are widening testing the health and the stability of latin america's largest democracy i listen to them pity and. in other news canada's prime minister says police video of the violent arrest of a prominent indigenous chief is shocking and raises questions about the use of force the dash cam footage shows federal officers tackling chief on an atom to the ground and punching him in the face the incident in march began over an expired license made a video is being used in a legal challenge of criminal charges filed against adam a police known as the r.c.m.p. say they use reasonable force after he resisted arrests. i think everyone who's seen this video has serious questions about what exactly happened about how it happened this way and about that use of force that we saw that's why we're calling for an independent transparent investigation that will get the answers to so many question that people are asking right now is th

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