7PM EZ News Intro Good evening. It's 7 o'clock. I'm Brian Foden with EZ News on ICRT. Legislature on revisions Lawmakers are tentatively set to review revisions to military law tomorrow. Revisions to the Military Justice Act were added to the session's agenda due to on-going protests calling for reforms within the armed force's court-martial system. KMT legislative whip Lin Hong-chi says if consensus is reached on the bill, chances are it will be applied in the investigation into the death of Army conscript Hong Zhong-qiu. The statement comes two days after over 100-thousand people took the streets of Taipei Saturday -- demanding further investigation into Hong's death and called on the government to protect human rights within the island's military. Chang Geng Memorial Hospital The Chang-geng Memorial Hospital has founded a research fund in the name of Lin Jie-liang, a well-known toxicologist, to pay tribute to the contributions he made. Lin died of multiple organ failures at Chang-geng hospital where he had worked for many years earlier today, possibly of infections from a certain virus. Hospital authorities say they're still trying to determine what kind of virus it was. Lin was often seen on TV news where he offered views on food safety issues or toxicology related subjects. He became a go-to person for the media due to his expertise in the field and his willingness to be interviewed anytime. BC-ML--Syria The Syrian military is firing ballistic missiles into populated areas where it is battling rebels, killing hundreds of civilians in recent months, Human Rights Watch said in a report Monday. The U.S.-based group said it has investigated nine apparent missile attacks that killed at least 215 people, half of them children, between February and July. The military has repeatedly denied it is targeting civilians during the 2-year conflict, saying its troops are fighting ``terrorists'' hiding in civilian areas. More than 100,000 people have been killed since the conflict started in March 2011. BC-ML--Egypt A top U.S. diplomat met early today a jailed senior leader in the Muslim Brotherhood, part of mediation efforts to end the standoff between Egypt's military-backed government and protesters supporting the ousted president, government officials said. U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns met in prison with Khairat el-Shater, the powerful deputy head of the Brotherhood. Burns was accompanied by the foreign ministers of Qatar and the United Arab Emirates as well as an EU envoy. El-Shater is charged with complicity in the killing of protesters who were against former Egyptian president Mohammad Morsi. BC-AS--India-GangRape A lawyer says an Indian juvenile court has delayed delivering its verdict until Aug. 19 for one suspect in the fatal gang rape of a woman on a New Delhi bus. The delay is to allow India's top court to hear a petition on the legal definition of a juvenile. The verdict would have been the first handed down in the case. Defense lawyer Rajesh Tiwari said today that the Supreme Court had asked the Juvenile Board to hold the verdict. The defendant was 17 at the time of the attack last December and is being tried as a minor on charges including murder and rape. He faces a maximum sentence of three years at a reform center. BC-AS--Japan-US-Helicopt A U.S. military helicopter crashed at an American base on the southern island of Okinawa, Japanese and U.S. officials said Monday. A HH-60 rescue helicopter crashed in a training area at Camp Hansen with four crew members on board, the U.S. Air Force said in a statement. The status of the crew members is unknown, it said. Weather Checking the weather forcasts from the CWB. Should be fair across Taiwan overnight. Current conditions: Taipei is partly cloudy - 32.6 Taizhong - 30 and Gaoxiong is - 30.7 7PM EZ News Outro That's EZ News at 7. I'm Brian Foden. --

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