later described tony blair ——the pol pot regime in the late 70s.ty to mark the start of 2024. and in australia, huge crowds gathered in sydney for one of the world's most spectacular fireworks displays over the harbour bridge and the opera house. countries across parts of asia the latest to welcome in 2024 as rachel mcadam reports. five, four, three, two, one! new year celebrations have officially begun. auckland in new zealand became the first major city to mark the start of 2024 with this light show on its harbour bridge and sky tower. sydney followed on from auckland with huge crowds gathering to watch a spectacular firework display over the harbour bridge and the opera house. japan has welcomed in the new year with this bell—ringing ceremony in tokyo. followed shortly after by seoul in south korea. fireworks then lit up the sky in hong kong while in taiwan crowds enjoyed this display at the taipei 101 skyscraper. countries across the rest of the world are still gearing up for midnight celebrations and in some places preparations are still under

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khmerov, who came to power in cambodia, chose beijing as his patron, but the pol pot regime was overthrown long-term war with the united states. as a result, both sides declared themselves winners, but vietnam repelled the attack, although both sides suffered heavy losses. there is still conflict between the two korea in the fifties... escalated into a full-fledged war, but tensions still persist. japan disputes russia's sovereignty over the four islands of the southern kuril chain and the adjacent equator. but these are not japan's only territorial claims. there is a dispute with south korea over liancourt island, which japan considers its own. the country also claims part of the antarctic territory. this week the asian conference of the valdai club took place in moscow. we asked participants how they rate conflict potential of the indo-pacific space. by the way, six of the nine nuclear powers are present there, directly or indirectly: the usa, china, russia, india, pakistan and the dprk. the largest source of potential conflict in asia is taiwan. superpowers are involved. china wouldn't

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he also helped expose the extent of the cambodia genocide under the pol pot regime, and later described cold weather — plenty of people like to go for a swim in the sea. but there remains concern over the quality of water off the coast of the uk, and there�*s a call for water companies to provide real time data about when and where sewage dafydd morgan reports. you can never have a bad swim, but do you want to come out feeling ill? robert morgan lives and breathes the gower coastline, but enjoying this beautiful part of south wales comes with its risks. you can actually see the sewage come out of the pipe. absolutely disgusting, the smell. i�*ll go for a swim today. sometimes you can smell that detergenty smell. you can actually see it. sewage discharge means that some families now consider their local beaches to be unsafe. paddling on the stand—up paddle board on a beautifully clear evening. and as soon as we�*re over that pipe, on one occasion, this smell, the colour of the water went from crystal clear to brown. and again, unmistakably, you know, a sewage slip. combined sewage system

do after them really important and we'll talk about that but just few other classic examples was pol pot, the murderous regime in cambodia. where a million people were murdered? 2 million died of exhaustion and starvation and? he mastered the art with this extreme maoism of taking kids again. the separate from their parents, teaching them to actually be stool pigeons on their parents, to report on their parents to get their parents in prison and killed and at the heart of this brutal social experiment was to destroy family life by turning them, their families. vietnam liberated cambodian 1979, but there were still left millions of these child informers indoctrinate kids. how do you undo that? i think we'll i'll turn it over to next person and then we can go back into islamic state. and what they did later, that's a very, very. that's a very sort of a it's promise of more of more horrors listening to your story of queen hands is not easy. but you mentioned this elements that indoctrinate is different from education in, that you're forcibly turning people, their families, getting them to r

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