Violence and unrest as protesters in hong kong begin the new year with another massive march demanding greater political freedom. Supporters and members of an iran backed group of withdrawing from the u. S. Embassy compound in the iraqi capital baghdad after 2 days see each of americas biggest Diplomatic Mission leaders of the Popular Mobilization forces ordered them to leave but theres a condition they want to Iraqs Parliament to vote on our timeline for the withdrawal of Foreign Forces the protesters are angry about sundays airstrikes by the u. S. On the hezbollah brigades camps that killed at least 27 people now earlier on weapons day the crowds threw rocks and looked fires outside the comp. Irans Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has also condemned the u. S. Strikes and warned tehran will defend itself if threatened the u. S. Dispatched an extra 750. 00 troops to the region following the protests President Donald Trump threatened to retaliate against iran said later he didnt wa
How you act. Today we spend the hour with 16yearold swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg. She launched a School Strike for the climate last year by standing in climate last year by standing in front of the Swedish Parliament every friday to demand action to prevent catastrophic Climate Change. Her protest went global, with schoolchildren worldwide launching their own strikes and now she has come to play a leading role in the Climate Justice movement. Greta has refused to fly for years because of emissions, and now shes arrived in new york after crossing the Atlantic Ocean on a zeroemissions racing yacht to join the Global Climate strike september 20 and join the u. N. Summit. Greta when you hold the people in power accountable for what they have been doing to us and other enerations and living species on earth and we need to get angry and understand what is at stake and we need to transform that anger into action. Greta will also talk about addressing the european and british parlia
How you act. Today we spend the hour with 16yearold swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg. She launched a School Strike for the climate last year by standing in climate last year by standing in front of the Swedish Parliament every friday to demand action to prevent catastrophic Climate Change. Her protest went global, with schoolchildren worldwide launching their own strikes and now she has come to play a leading role in the Climate Justice movement. Greta has refused to fly for years because of emissions, and now shes arrived in new york after crossing the Atlantic Ocean on a zeroemissions racing yacht to join the Global Climate strike september 20 and join the u. N. Summit. Greta when you hold the people in power accountable for what they have been doing to us and other enerations and living species on earth and we need to get angry and understand what is at stake and we need to transform that anger into action. Greta will also talk about addressing the european and british parlia
Divisions in education. We will have Public Interest in education and pilot comprehensive Higher Education reform. Li comprehensive Higher Education reform. ,. ~ reform. Li qiang there talking about education reform. Li qiang there talking about education and reform. Li qiang there talking about education and the reform. Li qiang there talking about education and the needi reform. Li qiang there talking i about education and the need to develop it for a modern economy. Well get the thoughts of our Business Reporter on that in just of our Business Reporter on that injust a of our Business Reporter on that in just a bit. But first, lets come back to that big sort of Headline Figure thats come out, where theyve stated, or li qiang has stated, that target for gdp for 2024 is 5 . Thats right. So that all emerged in the last five or so minutes, steve. Maniage is wondered whether or not theyd be able to back up that figure. 5. 2 , of course, in 2023. Whether or not, given its coming off now a
From all sides. For more on this joining me now is dr yujie, Senior Research fellow on china, at the think tank chatham house. Can you put that 5 target into context for us . For more on this joining me now is dr yujie, is it achievable . Thank you for having me. As many reporters described, the term ambitious because it is a very similar target to china put forward last year but only last year china started youre coming from a very low base of 5 seemed easier but this year 5 is a hard reaching target for beijing. This year 596 is a hard reaching target for beijing. Target for beiing. Weve been talkin target for beijing. Weve been talking already target for beijing. Weve been talking already or target for beijing. Weve been talking already or i target for beijing. Weve been talking already or i mentioned, we saw those clips from the premier. We listed some of the big issues for china, property crisis, youth unemployment. What, ifany, Concrete Steps were announced to address those . Wel