One week ago it was a million. Organisers in Hong Kong claim it was double on Sunday. Two million marching, despite the suspension of a bill that would allow the extradition of political prisoners to mainland China. Protesters remain unmoved by the freeing of activist Joshua Wong and the apology of the territory's Chief Executive Carrie Lam. So where now? Do residents of the former British colony press their advantage and call for more rule of law, or is it best not to push Beijing too hard?

Can the junta in Khartoum shut down Sudan's Spring? The military certainly shut down the internet, forcing protesters to come up with creative means of resisting the crackdown which last week left dozens dead among the movement pushing for a wholesale handover of power to civilians after the ouster of Omar al-Bashir. We discuss whether the alliance of activists, opposition parties and rebel movements can stay united.

What is Shinzo Abe doing in Tehran? The first visit by a Japanese prime minister to Iran in 40 years follows the recent state visit by Donald Trump to Tokyo. Trump and Abe enjoy strong relations. Japan is not a signatory of the nuclear deal from which the US walked away from last year and has had to bow to US warnings not to buy Iranian oil. So is Trump willing to shrug off his most hawkish allies in the region – the Saudis and the Israelis – to try to do a deal with Iran?

How blind is justice in Brazil? Justice Minister Sergio Moro is in the hot seat in the wake of leaked messages and audio tapes that show the then-crusading anti-corruption magistrate conspiring with prosecutors to hasten their case against the country's most popular politician. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who was prevented from running for president again last year, instead sits in jail - convicted over kickbacks and money laundering as part of the Operation Car Wash scandal.

How much does China still need Hong Kong in its current embodiment? The Beijing-backed authority in that former British colony remains unmoved by the sea of humanity in the streets on Sunday to protest a bill that effectively allows extradition to the mainland of political prisoners. Hong Kong is due to keep its "one country, two systems" status until 2047. Activists accuse Xi Jinping of moving the clock forward.

It is a little piece of US soil inside an 80-kilometre stretch of Normandy coast. At the American cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron paid tribute to the 150,000 Allied troops who landed 75 years ago today to free France from the Nazis. Before lunch between the two presidents and their wives in nearby Caen, Macron awarded the Legion d'honneur, France's highest award for merit, to five US veterans.

This week, the world is marking the 75th anniversary of D-Day, the beginning of the end of World War II. On June 6, 1944, 150,000 British, American and Canadian troops stormed the beaches of Normandy. It was a dramatic bid to free France from the Nazis with the biggest combined land, air and naval operation in history. We take a closer look at the strategy and intricate preparation it took to prepare the Normandy invasion but also the effect it had on the thousands who took part.

"A regime that shoots on its own youth has no future", said France's then president François Mitterrand in reaction to the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. Back then, Tiananmen seemed like a prelude to what could only be the irreversible drive of history towards universal liberal multiparty democracy. But today, China has gone from strength to strength without the reform the youth demanded. A sizable portion of mainland China's population is even completely unaware of what happened.

European elections have never been so significant and the fall-out keeps on coming. In France, the leader of the centre-right party Les Républicains, Laurent Wauquiez, has resigned, citing the poor results for his party in the European elections eight days ago. And it does not end there. Andrea Nahles of Germany’s SPD has also walked - another party caned by the voters. The political landscape of Europe is changing, or so we are led to think. But where will all this lead us?

Neither Israel's prime minister nor his far-right former defence minister Avigdor Lieberman are blinking in their showdown over whether ultra-Orthodox Jews should do military service. Is this the Jewish state's new political divide, between secularists and the religious? With the left fading from relevancy, we ask if this will become the new hot-button issue when Israelis vote again in September. The stakes are personal for Netanyahu: he is seeking immunity in several corruption probes.