Independence. Im rebecca riches. Welcome to the program. China has condemned the mass resignation of prodemocracy lawmakers in hong kong as quote political fast and a blatant challenge. The opposition bloc has said it will resign on mass. Out of 4 of their colleagues were expelled from parliament for what china described as being unpatriotic. Who carried out a way of saying they were the last remaining prodemocracy lawmakers in hong kong. Now they are resigning in solidarity with their colleagues who were deemed threats to National Security by beijing. It is yet another blow for their prodemocracy movement. Well, i got that they got over i think the decision made by the National Peoples Congress Today is extremely ridiculous. It shows that the Central Government has completely given up the basic law and given up one country 2 systems. Dennis kwok is one of the 4, expelled lawmakers. He told d. W. That despite the setback, they are not giving up. But i think he can still feel the passio
Dont wait. 15, lawmakers walked out after 4 colleagues of theirs were sacked under a new law banning representatives deemed to be threats to National Security. I bring to our viewers. Joining us on p. B. S. In the United States and to all of you around the world, welcome to the european commission, have signed a deal to secure up to 300000000 doses of a coded 19 bank. See the bank seen developed by germanys buying on tech and the u. S. Pharmaceuticals giant pfizer. The e. U. Health minister saying today that the e. U. Is setting up a health union to improve the response and coordination Member States in future health crises. And the vaccine is seen as the best chance to break the chain of covert 19 infections. The German Pharmaceutical Company buying on tag says it could start shipping the vaccine to e. U. Countries by the end of this year. Are the talk more about this . Im joined now by you to go to learn from the european parliaments Public Health committee. Its good to have you on t
Mistaken, the foghorn buddy . I will have to check. Foghorn boogie . We do have low clouds in place, 40s and 50s on temperatures, it will be cooler as the fog bank has a pretty good wrapup, inland 70s but the coastal bay getting into the 50s now and off to the 60s. Cell sal is here now. Amazingly it looks like a normal day. People on the road, some people may be avoiding transit and taking a car, that is my educated guess, ridership on the transit is down but, the traffic here looks about normal at the bay bridge which is to say 10 minutes 50 minutes for a delay north and south looking okay, no trouble getting to the airport, highway 4 slow, so is the 680, i noticed that slow traffic along the same corridors for Park Services are available on some of the other areas, we dive into that a little more in just a few months. Now lets go back to the desk. More breaking news, the market had a very tough morning, so much so they actually halted trading out of the gate and is reopened, actually
Antigovernment protesters in iraq to find an army curfew fowling to stay on the streets until the nations leaders step down in the holy city of karbala 18 protesters are killed. But at 1st you dont succeed try again british Prime Minister Boris Johnson pledges to renew his push for an election on december 12th despite parliament to feeding his plans for an early ballot. And 2 big wildfires consume california and the northern wine Country Homes and wineries are turned to ashes in the Los Angeles Area thousands are forced to flee. The boy. Thank you so much for your company everyone. Turkey is threatening to resume its assault on the kurds in Northern Syria ancora says Kurdish Forces have not pulled back from the region which is one of the conditions set by turkey and russia and the agree to a 6 day ceasefire that and later today on meanwhile more salient details are emerging about the raid in which the Islamic State leader Abu Bakar Al Baghdadi died a Senior Adviser to the kurdish alleg
London with the top stories from europe including a Tumultuous Times in british politics continue on to the dramatic suspension of Parliament Prime minister Boris Johnson insists a new press it deal is possible. And this for somalia have suffered a world cup heartbreak against him by way a last minute goal denied africas lowest ranked team a place and the next round on the road to qatar 2022. So the u. S. National security advisor john bolton has been fired by President Donald Trump in just the past couple of hours in a tweet the u. S. President said he had numerous policy disagreements with bolton as did apparently others in the Administration Bolton was trumps 3rd National Security adviser we will have reaction from washington in just a moment but well start with this from mike hanna looking back at john boltons time in office we think the sanctions. Fighting john bolton was the 3rd National Security adviser pointed to by President Trump since taking office and hes the 3rd to resign