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Hong Kong's Carrie Lam suspends speech after protests

16/10/2019 GMT

BBC World Service - World Update, Hong Kong's Carrie Lam suspends speech after protests

The Hong Kong leader was forced to abandon her address in parliament.

Carrie Lam was forced to end her annual address, overwhelmed by heckling from opposition lawmakers. They also projected the words "Five demands - not one less" on the wall behind her. It means the extradition bill - the trigger for months of protests - could not be withdrawn formally.

Also on the programme, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has rejected a US call for an immediate ceasefire in northern Syria. A new study shows that pollution could damage your memory and we'll go to Kenya's Mau forest, where squatters are coming to the end of a 60-day deadline to voluntarily leave before being forcefully evicted.

(Picture: Carrie Lam holds press conference after her policy address for 2019 Credit: Bektas /Reuters)

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