…and another angle.

also on #TheNewsroom here ---> bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/li… - 📻 Stephen McDonell on the fatal road collapse in #China ; Katie Gornall on how their menstrual cycle seems to affect women footballers; and #RyanGosling tells Charlotte Gallagher about his appreciation of stunt performers #FallGuy

#BreakingNews :Just days before Chinese President #XiJinping ’s visit to France, President Emmanuel Macron met with Sikyong Penpa Tsering, head of the Tibetan government in exile, in Paris.

Serious clashes between police and protesters against the 'foreign agents law' are now happening in Tbilisi, Georgia.

IRAQ PASSES NEW ‘MORALITY’ LAW CRIMINALISING SAME-SEX RELATIONSHIPS (MSN)

Iraq has passed a sweeping anti-LGBT+ law that criminalizes same-sex relationships and could see gay people sentenced to up to 15 years in prison if convicted.

The law, which was passed by Iraq’s…

ByteDance fired 61 employees for violating laws and regulations, four of whom were prosecuted for suspected criminal activities, The Paper learned from insiders. Douyin Group reported 177 staff corruption and misconduct cases last year.

B. Benoit Germany is considering scaling back plans to step up government scrutiny of Chinese investments, the latest example of how a country deeply intertwined with—and increasingly conflicted about—China is pulling its punches as others get tougher on Beijing.
wsj.com/world/europe/g…

BREAKING: Tamir Morag of Channel 14 reports that the Israeli government has received word that the top echelon of the Israeli government and IDF will receive idictments from the ICC within the next week or so.

The individuals to be indicated include Netanyahu, Gallant, and…

If only censorship were the same as investigation and prosecution: 'Burkina Faso suspended the BBC and Voice of America...for their coverage of a report by Human Rights Watch on a mass killing of civilians carried out by the country’s armed forces.' apnews.com/article/burkin…

And how about the very next track on the same album Stoneage Romoes. Another bewty! ...Tojo! youtube.com/watch?v=-HlGSd…

We spent weeks documenting airstrikes in southern Gaza and found that civilians were killed in areas the Israeli government had explicitly designated as safe zones. Our exclusive report👇

Stephen McDonell Been rocking out to the hoodoo gurus with daughter recently- so many great tracks and fun times

Friday track time, get down to the Hoodoo Gurus - one of the gazillion great bands to come out of Oz in the 80s - and this ripper... Leilani. youtube.com/watch?v=bUWMWB…

In Beijing today, Foreign Minister Wang Yi also said to visiting Secretary of State Blinken that the #US and #China must chose cooperation or “rivalry and confrontation” which could “even slide into conflict”.

Love it when a bit of old #Beijing comes into your day. #China

Blinken to Wang today said he intended to be 'very clear, very direct' about their differences 'to avoid misunderstandings, to avoid miscalculations'.

#US Secretary of State Antony Blinker told #China 's Foreign Minister Wang Yi today that relations between their countries are 'most consequential' in the World. Wang Yi also told his US counterpart that the World was 'waiting for answers' from their governments.