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Hello to you. President trump has signed into law a bill that backs pro democracy protesters in hong kong, despite objections from beijing. The new legislation, approved by Congress Last week, requires the state department to certify, every year, that hong kong has significant autonomy from the rest of china. That will decide whether hong kong retains the favourable trading terms with the us that have helped maintain its position as a world financial centre. The law also threatens sanctions for ...

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A warm welcome to the programme, briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business, and sport. Also in the programme, british actorjohn boyega has admitted that he left his copy of the closely guarded script for the new star wars movie under his bed and that it ended up for sale on ebay. That was after he moved and it was left behind. So wed like to know have you ever lost anything important or valuable . President trump has signed a bill into law in support of pro democracy proteste...

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Many more are still unaccounted for. Thank you very much for being with us. Thirteen french soldiers have lost their lives in mali they were killed when two helicopters collided in the dark as they h hunted down islamist militants the part of aerial reinforcements cold in during an intense gun fight. With the biggest loss of french troops in a single day since an attack in beirut some thirty six years ago when fifty eight soldiers died. The president of france among american has expressed his de...

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The citys chief minister says the air has become unbearable. Lewis hamilton will start the us formula one grand prix in fifth position on the grid, but is still poised to win the world drivers championship. And click checks out what made in taiwan means now in the 21st century. Thats in half an hour, here on bbc news. Good afternoon. The leader of the brexit party, nigel farage, has announced he wont be a candidate at next months general election. Mr farage, who has tried to become an mp seven t...

A state of emergency in venice after the worst flooding in more than 50 years. And a low birthrate in south korea is an opportunity for these grandmothers to go back to the classroom. Investigators examining the shooting down of a passenger plane over ukraine in 2014 have disclosed intercepted phone calls that they say indicate close links between senior russian officials and the rebels accused of attacking the aircraft. Nearly 300 people on Malaysia Airlines flight mhi7 were killed. In the phon...

An island shaped like a leaf at the Meeting Point of four seas. Between the 1960s and the 1990s, taiwan underwent massive industrialisation in what has become known as the taiwan miracle. Huge tech firms grew, becoming household names asus, htc, acer. At the centre of this was the semiconductor industry, led by a company you have probably never heard of tsmc. It is one of the Largest Semiconductor manufacturers in the world, producing the chips inside some of the best phones, including the iphon...

In less than three months left before primary voting begins and wealthy donors are grumbling as a current democrat prospects of how dramatically could this reshape the whole president ial race . This is bulls bears and im david asman joining me on the panel feathers and moraga gary smith and john burnett. Joe biden telling reporters earlier today hes not worried about bloomberg entering the race calling the former mayor a solid guy but Bernie Sanders Elizabeth Warren is wasting no time slamming ...