17 MARCH 2019

Sunday, 17 March 2019
Daily Tribune
Leader of change Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with deputies from the People’s Liberation Army and armed police
before attending a plenary meeting during the 13th National People’s Congress in Beijing. Xi called on the whole army to adhere
to the guidance of the thought on socialism with Chinese characteristics for a new era.
XINHUA
NZ attacker captured
BEIJING — President Xi Jinping stressed
fulfilling the set targets and tasks of national
defense and military development as scheduled.
Xi, also general secretary of the Communist
Party of China Central Committee and chairman
of the Central Military Commission, made the
remarks when attending a plenary meeting of the
delegation of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA)
and armed police force at the second session
of the 13th National People’s Congress, China’s
national legislature.
This year is the key year for completing the building
of a moderately prosperous society in all respects.
The entire armed forces must clearly
understand the importance and urgency of
implementing the 13th Five-Year Plan for military
development, firm up their resolve, intensify the
sense of mission, forge ahead with a pioneering
spirit and go all out to carry out the plan so as to
ensure that the set targets and tasks are fulfilled
as scheduled, he said.
Xi called on the whole army to adhere to the
guidance of the thought on socialism with Chinese
characteristics for a new era, fully implement the
party’s thinking on strengthening the military
for the new era and the military strategy for new
conditions, concentrate on war preparedness and
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Xi prods meeting military goals
intensify reform and innovation.
On implementation of the plan, Xi stressed
that it is imperative to strengthen overall planning
and coordination, as well as make breakthroughs
in key areas.
The Chinese leader pointed out that it is
necessary to take into consideration the overall
situation and coordinate the task plans, resources,
and management procedures to ensure orderly
advancement of various projects.
He stressed the formulation of the 14th
Five-Year Plan for military development
should serve the demands of the
national development.
Focusing on the overall layout of the plan,
the military should give prominence to key
projects including urgent necessities for military
preparedness, crucial support for combat systems,
and coordinated projects for the reform of national
defense and armed forces, he noted.
Xi stressed the formulation of the 14th Five-Year Plan
for military development should serve the demands
of the national development, security and military
strategies and should take into account both the actual
condition and long-term development needs. Xinhua
Terrorism has no religion
by white power groups across the globe.
The attack has prompted He did not request bail and was taken into
deep shock in this usually custody until his next court appearance
briefs
peaceful country
which is scheduled for 5 April.
A short distance from the court, 39
100 missing
people were being treated in hospital for
At least 100 people are missing in parts of eastern
CHRISTCHURCH — A right-wing extremist
gunshot wounds and other injuries inflicted
Zimbabwe hit by the peripheral effects of tropical
who filmed himself on a shooting rampage
in the massacre.
cyclone Idai which has lashed Mozambique, a local
that left 49 mosque-goers dead flashed a The attack on the Al Noor and Linwood
lawmaker said Saturday. Thousands of people have
white power gesture as he appeared in a New mosques has been labeled terrorism by Prime
been affected, power cut off and major bridges
Zealand court Saturday charged with murder. Minister Jacinda Ardern and is thought to be
flooded in parts of the Manicaland. AFP
Australian-born 28-year-old Brenton the deadliest attack directed against Muslims
Tarrant stood in the dock wearing handcuffs in the West in modern times.
Two-stage delay
and a white prison smock, as the judge read The attack has prompted an outpouring
A senior European Union official is floating the
a single murder charge against him. A raft of grief and deep shock in this usually
possibility of a two-step delay to Britain’s departure
of further charges are expected.
peaceful and hospitable country, which prides
from the bloc, currently scheduled for 29 March.
The former fitness instructor and itself on welcoming refugees fleeing violence
Britain is expected to seek a short delay if lawmakers
self-professed fascist occasionally turned to or persecution.
finally pass a twice-rejected EU withdrawal deal. AP
look at media present in court during the For Pakistani Prime Minister Imran
brief hearing that the public were excluded Khan, “This reaffirms what we have always
from for security reasons.
maintained: that terrorism does not have a
Flanked by armed police he made an religion. Prayers go to the victims and their
upside-down “okay” signal, a symbol used families.”
AFP
Washington — Donald Trump
signed the first veto of his presidency
Friday, overriding congressional
opposition to secure emergency funds
to build more walls on the US-Mexico
border.
Trump declared in the Oval Office
that he was “proud” to sign the veto.
It came after he suffered an
embarrassing defeat on Thursday when
senators, including fellow Republicans,
voted to terminate his declaration of an
emergency on the Mexican border.
Surrounded by law enforcement
officials, senior aides and people who
have lost loved ones to cross-border
crime, Trump said the veto reaffirming
Hyderabad, India.
Trump’s first veto
his power to get the funds without
Congress was to “defend the safety of
all Americans.”
“The mass incursion of illegal
aliens... has to end,” he said. “People
hate the word ‘invasion’ but that’s
what it is... Our immigration system is
stretched beyond the breaking point.”
Trump’s emergency declaration
allows him to secure funding for
construction of border walls after he
failed to get authorization from Congress.
Opponents, who accuse Trump of
executive overreach and overhyping the
problem on the border, could now use
court challenges to halt the emergency
measure.
AFP
BEIJING — China issued recently
a white paper on progress in human
rights since its reform and opening
up drive.
The white paper, titled “Progress
in Human Rights over the 40 Years
of Reform and Opening Up in China,”
said reform and opening up has
WASHINGTON — Students across a warming globe pleaded for their
lives, future and planet Friday, demanding tough action on climate
change.
From the South Pacific to the edge of the Arctic Circle, angry students
in more than 100 countries walked out of classes to protest what they see
as the failures by their governments.
Well more than 150,000 students and adults who were mobilized by word
of mouth and social media protested in Europe, according to police estimates.
But the initial turnout in the United States did not look quite as high.
“Borders, languages and religions do not separate us,” eight-year-old
Havana Chapman-Edwards, who calls herself the tiny diplomat, told
hundreds of protesters at the US Capitol. “Today we are telling the truth
and we do not take no for an answer.”
Thousands of New York City students protested at locations
including Columbus Circle, City Hall, the American Museum of
Natural History and a football field at the Bronx High School of
Science. Police said 16 protesters were arrested on disorderly
conduct charges for blocking traffic at the museum.
The coordinated “school strikes” were inspired by
16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, who began
holding solitary demonstrations outside the Swedish
parliament last year.
The culprit This image grab from a self-shot video that was streamed on Facebook Live by
Australian-born Brenton Tarrant who was involved in two mosque shootings in Christchurch shows
the suspect in his car before he entered the Masjid al Noor mosque.
AP
The CPC has always
prioritized the people’s
interests
helped liberate and develop social
productive forces, opened up a path of
socialism with Chinese characteristics
and ushered in a new chapter in the
development of human rights.
Over the four decades, the Chinese
people have worked hard as one under
the strong and coherent leadership of
the Communist Party of China (CPC),
the white paper said. Huge changes
have taken place and living standards
have significantly improved.
The CPC has always prioritized the
Students spark global climate uproar
Borders, languages and religions do not
separate us
Since then, the weekly protests have snowballed from a handful of cities to
hundreds, fueled by dramatic headlines about the impact of climate change
during the students’ lifetime. Unless emissions of heat-trapping gases start
dropping dramatically, scientists estimate that the protesters will be in their
40s and 50s, maybe even 30s, when the world will reach dangerous
levels of warming that international agreements are trying to prevent.
Thunberg, who has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize,
said at a rally in Stockholm that the world faces an
“existential crisis, the biggest crisis humanity ever
has faced and still it has been ignored for decades.”
The coordinated “school strikes” were
inspired by a 16-year-old Swedish activist,
who began holding solitary demonstrations
outside the Swedish parliament last year.
Alexandria Villasenor, a 13-year-old co-coordinator
of the New York City protest that culminated in a
die-in at the steps of the American Museum of
Natural History, said while she was pleased
with the number of demonstrators, a big
turnout isn’t the point.
“It won’t be successful until the world
leaders take some action,” Villasenor
said.
AP
Deadly collapse
Twenty people are confirmed dead in the
school building that collapsed in Nigeria on
Wednesday and most of them are children, an
official said Friday. Forty-three other people
were rescued.
AP
China cites human rights progress
people’s interests, ensuring that reform
is conducted for the people and by the
people and that its benefits are shared
by the people, it added.
China has showed respect for,
protected and promoted human rights
in the course of reform and opening
up, blazing a trail of human rights
development that conforms to the
national conditions and created new
experiences and made progress in
safeguarding human rights, it said.
The country has summed up its
historical experience, drawn on the
achievements of human civilization,
combined the universal principles
of human rights with the realities of
the country and generated a series of
innovative ideas on human rights, it said.
China has brought into being basic
rights that center on the people and
prioritize their rights to subsistence and
development and proposed that China
should follow a path of comprehensive and
coordinated human rights development
under the rule of law. Xinhua
rome, Italy.
Madrid, Spain.
Young voice with a big heart
Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old
from Sweden who started a global
movement of schoolchildren striking
to demand climate change
action, has been nominated
for the Nobel Peace Prize.
AFP
lisbon,
Portugal.
london, United Kingdom.
dublin,
Ireland.
paris,
France.