Showing posts with label World News. Show all posts
Showing posts with label World News. Show all posts

Wednesday, 1 October 2014

"Gunman" stranger entered the elevator with President Obama

The incident happened on heart-stopping 16-9 when he visited the White House and the Control Centre for Disease Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, just three days before the Secret Service failed to prevent a man carrying knife climbed over the fence and entering the White House. According to the principles of the Secret Service, only officers and security personnel in charge of the agency is to carry guns accompanied the president. Even before each event involving the highest leaders of the land of flags, security officials had to carry out security measures to ensure that all subjects had a criminal record, questionable psychiatric or other risk ... away from the presidency.

According to the Washington Post, the man's identity has not been announced aforementioned entered the elevator with President Obama and "behave unprofessional". Even he was withdrawing and rotating camera phone clip presidency, ignoring the request of the Secret Service. The agents then questioned and identified this person as a security guard of a private company. Security officials also could not detect several dozen fire when his crimes are stored in a database. Then he was sacked security company and require immediate surrender guns.

"They let a man once convicted of violence to the person close to the president that this is not even check my ID ... If he pulled the gun out, this country could have been a completely different world "- Republican Congressman Jason Chaffetz criticism. It is not clear why a man carrying a gun could slip through the checks of the Secret Service. The incident was revealed just hours after the Secret Service director Julia Pierson testified before the United States Congress amid angry lawmakers asked to explain the series of embarrassing incidents from this agency in recent years.

Sunday, 28 September 2014

Hong Kong pro-democracy activists launch "Occupy Central" movement

Police used tear gas, batons and pepper spray against pro-democracy demonstrators in central Hong Kong Sunday, as tens of thousands joined a civil disobedience movement that seeks unfettered elections for the city’s top job.The demonstrations, which were originally supposed to be confined to the Central district, continued into Monday morning and spread to various neighborhoods, including across the iconic harbor in Kowloon. Tear gas even billowed into the city’s famously efficient subway system.Protesters chanted democracy slogans and sang songs by legendary 1980s Hong Kong rock band Beyond. Many were apparently drawn onto the street after becoming incensed that the police had fired tear gas at the crowds. Some 78 people were arrested, say police. “This protest is definitely outside of anyone’s expectations,” says Maya Wang, a researcher for Human Rights Watch based in Hong Kong. “Both the government in Hong Kong and in Beijing are going to have a huge headache on their hands.”
Occupy Central with Peace and Love, as the protest is officially known, aims to foment democratic change by paralyzing the heart of this freewheeling financial hub. It was originally slated to begin Wednesday, but an aligned student demonstration Friday gathered such momentum that its leaders brought the launch forward. Hundreds of students remained at the government complex Sunday while police kept a tight watch. At issue is the restrictive electoral reform plan Beijing prescribes for the former British colony that returned to Chinese rule in 1997.
The National People's Congress Standing Committee, Beijing's core legislative body overseeing Hong Kong's political development, passed a resolution on Aug. 31 that restricts candidacy in Hong Kong's 2017 chief executive election. According to the resolution, a 1,200-strong Nominating Committee controlled by Beijing will pick two to three candidates before putting them forward for a vote by some 5 million eligible voters. The democracy camp described the provisions as "sham universal suffrage" that bars candidates deemed unacceptable by Beijing. The territory's Beijing-endorsed leader Leung Chun-ying, who has called for Hong Kong's support of the NPCSC decision, has shunned the students' demand for a dialogue and has not been seen in public since the student-police clash.