Im melissa chan welcome to news asia thanks for joining us tear gas street battles hundreds of people injured indonesia has been rocked by days of protests against a set of proposed new laws demonstrators are angry about possible changes to their countrys criminal code that they say will roll back democratic reforms and in danger Civil Liberties for example one of those laws could mean that anyone who insults the president or Vice President might face 4 and a half years in prison another would regard sex with consent but outside of marriage as a criminal act punishable with up to one year in prison indonesian students are saying no to all of this. This. City streets turned into a smoke filled Battlefield Police in jakarta fired tear gas at thousands of protesting students who fought back hurling rocks and torching public property. All the way. But. Since the beginning of the week thousands of students have taken to the streets angry over a slew of proposed legal changes they say restri
Im melissa chan welcome to news asia thanks for joining us tear gas street battles hundreds of people injured indonesia has been rocked by days of protests against a set of proposed new laws demonstrators are angry about possible changes to their countrys criminal code that they say will roll back democratic reforms and in danger Civil Liberties for example one of those laws could mean that anyone who insults the president or Vice President might face 4 and a half years in prison another would regard sex with consent but outside of marriage as a criminal act punishable with up to one year in prison indonesian students are saying no to all of this. The citys streets turned into a smoke filled battle field police in jakarta fired tear gas at thousands of protesting students who fought back hurling rocks and torching public property because of it. But. Since the beginning of the week thousands of students have taken to the streets angry over a slew of proposed legal changes they say restr
lost. after the laughable landscaping company press conference. even after the attack on our nation s capital. no. instead it is escalating. that anti-democratic cancer is metastasizing. just look at pennsylvania today. the two high-profile races for the open and the governor s mansion and have huge implications for both the commonwealth and the nation at large. as they do every year. the editorial board of the philadelphia inquirer, one of the nation s biggest newspapers, in a crucial swing state wanted to endorse a republican candidate for those races. but they couldn t. they write that they sent every republican candidate in the senate race a survey to see where they stood on a number of issues. but the candidates felt the questions were quote, biased and unfair. what hard-hitting questions did the paper ask these candidates who want to represent the keystone state in congress? in their view, among the most problematic queries that we asked was: who won the 2020 presid
it is escalating. that anti-democratic cancer is metastasizing. just look at pennsylvania today. the two high-profile races for the open large. as they do every year. the editorial board of the philadelphia inquirer, one of the nation s biggest newspapers, in a crucial swing state wanted to endorse a republican candidate for those races. but they couldn t. they write that they sent every republican candidate in the senate race a survey to see where they stood on a number of issues. but the candidates felt the questions were quote, biased and unfair. what hard-hitting questions did the paper ask these candidates who want to represent the keystone state in congress? in their view, among the most problematic queries that we asked was: who won the 2020 presidential election? the only two options and the multiple choice format were george biden or donald trump. only one candidate agreed to acknowledge reality. one. one candidate agreed to acknowledge the reality that joe biden won
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