New protests in Hong Kong
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
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🗓️ 30 May 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The streets of Hong Kong have erupted into protests after mainland China proposed new security legislation, to outlaw the undermining of Beijing's authority in the territory. This comes after last year's demonstrations and pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong. Danny Vincent reports. The Lake Turkana area in Kenya's Rift valley is considered the cradle of mankind. On the surface, life in this semi-arid remote land appears to have changed little in centuries. But now with locusts swarms and fears about Covid-19, suddenly everything has changed, as Horatio Clare has been finding. In Papua New Guinea's central highlands region, two tribal communities have been fighting each other over ownership of a large coffee plantation. Violence has flared up, and some have committed atrocities. There is only one policeman for the whole region. And now he has handed in his notice, as Charlie Walker reports. We have all been told to wash our hands to avoid infection with the coronavirus. But as Bethany Bell reports, when hand-washing was first introduced in a hospital setting by Dr Semmelweis, an obstetrician in Vienna, in the nineteenth century, it was controversial and seen as downright subversive. Moscow has been living under lockdown like many other places. One of the shops Steve Rosenberg has been missing the most, is his old newspaper kiosk. Imagine his delight when he suddenly found it had reopened. And after weeks of isolation, it wasn't the newspapers that he was most pleased to see again.
Presenter: Kate Adie Producer: Arlene Gregorius
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Good morning. |
| 0:06.4 | Today we're in Kenya's Rift Valley, |
| 0:08.9 | where man has been for over a million years |
| 0:11.4 | and now has to contend with both virus and locusts. |
| 0:16.0 | The Central Highlands of Papua New Guinea might seem a faraway place, perhaps untouched by |
| 0:21.4 | modern life, but there's tribal violence, and only one policeman to deal with it, and he's just handed his notice in. |
| 0:29.0 | The mantra about washing your hands is everywhere and seems as old as the hills, but it's not. |
| 0:36.4 | We hear about its quite recent origin in Vienna. |
| 0:40.0 | And how to bring joy in Moscow with the reopening of your favorite newspaper kiosk. |
| 0:47.0 | First Hong Kong and a dark cloud over its future, protests over an extradition law last year turned street demonstrations |
| 0:55.3 | into an anti-China and pro-democracy movement. Anxious to avoid a repeat this |
| 1:00.8 | week the Chinese rubber stamped a resolution for a new law which would |
| 1:05.2 | make it a crime to undermine China's authority in Hong Kong. For the first time |
| 1:10.8 | Chinese security agencies would be installed in the territory. |
| 1:15.0 | Many see this as the end to Hong Kong's unique status and Danny Vincent has been watching the violent reaction on the streets. |
| 1:24.0 | Hong Kong is no stranger to protest. |
| 1:27.0 | Last year hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets, |
| 1:31.0 | but Beijing's proposal to introduce the national security law |
| 1:34.0 | sent this city into an almost immediate frenzy. |
| 1:38.0 | Thousands of protesters once again took to the streets, |
| 1:41.0 | willing to break the law of illegal assembly and the social distancing measures imposed to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. |
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