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World Service,02 Jul 2019,53 mins

Hong Kong: call for 'zero tolerance' for protestors

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A state-run newspaper in China has called for zero tolerance for protestors in Hong Kong after demonstrators stormed the Legislative Council building. Huge protests have been sparked by a government proposal to allow extradition to mainland China even though the plan has been since suspended. The rights group, Amnesty International, has called on the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo to withdraw its armed forces from a mine. Amnesty says it's received reports that the Congolese army is planning to forcibly remove an estimated 10,000 small-scale miners from the Tenke Fungurume copper and cobalt mines in Lualaba Province. The tragic story of the suspected stowaway believed to have fallen from a flight into Heathrow and found in a residential garden in London.

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