Today's News 01/07/20 - Hong Kong Protesters / The hunt for Planet X

Just Talking English

Hello, this is the World News Podcast from Just Talking English, listen to the most important news, while learning and training English. I'm Edward Jr and for today, these are our main stories. “Good morning and welcome to Just Talking English News.” HONG KONG – We are going to open the news today with China, more specifically, Hong Kong. What's happening again in Hong Kong? What's going on there? If you read the newspaper today, you will see that dozens of protesters have been arrested or jailed or imprisoned for violating the new law, the security law imposed by Beijing, China. The new law came into effect on Wednesday, or started on Wednesday and in the afternoon of the same day, thousands of people took to the streets to protest. So you migth be thinking: what's the problem with this new law? Why are they, Hongkongers, so angry about it? Well, as I said, dozens of protesters were arrested not because of some kind of violence, which is even normal during a protest, we used to see this sometimes, people destroying things, burning cars, etc. As a matter of fact, they were arrested only because of a banner that said "Freedom for Hong Kong, Independence for Hong Kong". They were holding this banner with their arms up and shouting those words out loud. Under this new security law, Hong Kong citizens are no longer free to express discontent or disagreement with the government, being more direct, democracy does not exist under this new law. I read this news in The Guardian, you can find the link in the description. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/01/hong-kong-protesters-arrested-as-security-law-comes-into-effect SPACE – Beyond Pluto! Do you believe in planet X? Or at least have you ever heard about planet X? Scientists are saying that, possibly, our solar system has a large planet beyond Pluto, a planet even larger than Earth, at least five times bigger, waiting to be found, and the hunt started, the hunt started. Astronomers around the world are working on it right now, and if they confirm the existence of this new planet far beyond Pluto, it will not only change our solar system forever, but we will also have to develop another theory that can explain how it happened. Planets beyond Pluto should be impossible, according to our current theory of how the solar system was formed. Perhaps this planet could be Nibiru, who knows? Zecharia Sitchin, the writer of the books “The Earth Chronicles”, he told us that the gods of the past were actually mortal beings, who come from a planet beyond Pluto not yet discovered, but would be a member of our solar system. He said this in the 1980s, was him right? https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/jun/28/beyond-pluto-the-hunt-for-our-solar-system-new-ninth-planet And that was all for us for now, you can read the transcript of this podcast on the Just Talking English website. I'm Edward Jr, until next time, goodbye.