Shanghai, China's financial hub, and other cities in the world's most populous nation have turned into ghost towns after the government extended a holiday and asked ⦠One of the drunken workers kicked the wall and the wall fell down, and they saw complete darkness behind the broken wall. Thunder clouds blocked the sun from 11am, forcing the authorities to turn on streetlamps, offices to blaze with fluorescent lights and cars to drive with their headlights on. 22nd May 2020 -(Beijing) Beijing turned into complete darkness at around 3.45pm yesterday. He said that 10 minutes before the darkness, Beijing was still bright with lights. (The tower is powered by solar energy.) After making sure everyone's face mask is on and sanitizer is to hand, the Qiao family heads out to Jingshan Park, a former royal sanctuary beside the Forbidden City in China's capital Beijing. At midday in Beijing today the sky turned black as midnight, as one of the most spectacular storms in recent memory struck the Chinese capital. The tower they built, which has been used in Rotterdam, Beijing, Tianjin and Dalian, sucks up 30,000 cubic meters of polluted air per hour, cleans it at the nano level â the PM2.5, PM10 particles â and then releases the clean air back into the city. Thousands of people turned their heads to the sky to watch a solar eclipse that lasted around two minutes on Monday as southern Chile and Argentina were plunged into darkness. Famous buildings and structures have switched off their lights to highlight change during Earth Hour, plunging landmarks in London, Moscow and Beijing into complete darkness. The protesters occupied Tiananmen Square, the massive public space in the center of Beijing which faces onto the Forbidden City, former home of the Chinese emperors, and the Great Hall of the People. Skip to comments. Beijing has long argued its restrictions on its peopleâs freedoms were necessary to prevent chaos, and the unrest in the United States under Trump has played into ⦠They turned around and found a hole in the wall. A BBC Camera Journalist, Edward Lawrence based in China who previously produced and shot documentaries captured the bizarre phenomenon. The Dark Day, as it's become known, took place on May 19, 1780 in New England and parts of eastern Canada. China correspondent Stephen McDonell and ABC cameraman Rob Hill saw day turn into night as a freak storm swept across the capital Beijing today. Freak Beijing storm turns day into night Yahoo News ^ | June 16, 2009 Posted on 06/16/2009 11:42:01 AM PDT by NYer. A North Korean organisation demanded Thursday that the United States be "beaten to death" like a "rabid dog" for spearheading fresh UN sanctions on Pyongyang over its latest nuclear test, adding ally Japan should be "sunken into the sea". 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