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Prodemocracy slogans and insults at them emotional others not everyone is against them though. Im from china and i support the police screams this woman whos from the mainland the protest is intended target was hong kongs Legislative Assembly but a heavy security presence prevented their attempts to reach the building inside legislators were debating a bill that would punish those who disrespect the National Anthem. This is what supporters of the bill want to stop the booing that drowned out the...

The weather holds the 1st launch of u. S. Astronauts by a private company. Back into the program hong kongs long standing special status with the United States is that to come to an end the u. S. Secretary of state might pompei as told congress the territory no longer has a high degree of autonomy from china and shouldnt get special treatment including business advantages pay or has accused china of trying to model hong kong after itself as it prepares to impose a new security law well more than...

Welcome, everybody, to our hearing. Both those in the room and those that arent in the room. Before we start, i think its important, again, to note whats going on all around us, and that is the acknowledgement of Racial Injustice that has gone on for far too long in our country. I certainly support those who are speaking out and making their voices heard in a peaceful manner to bring about change. While change does not always come easily, i want to remind those watching this hearing today that c...

Kong which has galvanize the beltway and the press. We will be seen much more of that, im sure, through the day. Statements by the administration, the condemnation. I will point out that the idea of will we see protests this weekend . Francine im looking forward to catching up with selina wang shortly. Lets get to bloomberg first word news in new york city. Top hong kong activists are calling for protest. The National Peoples congress is expected to pass a legislation that would force for kong t...

Of citigroup, although Tobias Levkovich will join us later. On a serious note, things deteriorate in hong kong in the last 24 hours. Francine a lot of the focus is on china. We have the National Peoples congress and the premier talking about targets being abandoned because it is too difficult to predict gdp and they want to create 9 million jobs, less than the 11 million jobs in 2019. We will have to see what happens with hong kong, the lobbying passing through. The u. S. Will weigh in and china...

Special envoy for the middle east says israel must abandon its plans to annex parts of the occupied west bank. And measure beat looks to its neighbors for help in the fight against armed group thats responsible for the deaths of more than a 1000 people. You know one of the most powerful storms in decades has slammed into eastern india and bangladesh forcing more than 3000000 people to seek shelter at least 10 people have been killed in the indian state of west bengal a 2nd on pan barrels through...

Slowest increase since going back to march. Breaking down all the action is our markets correspondent abigail doolittle. It really seems like a lot of the travel and leisure stocks are outperforming yet, the s p, not quite at 3000. At 25,000. Quite it was an interesting day all day long. A lot of people scratching their heads as to whether we had this rally without any major headlines. Up to percent, probably something to do with the weak dollar and reopening optimism. You are pointing out those...

We saw a stronger fix, some signs of trying to anchor the moves we have seen. Watching the likes of indonesia coming online. We are looking at another day of gains for jakarta. Hang seng, slightly under pressure as we wait for the npc to vote on that National Security legislation this afternoon. Former,ei is the upper seeing a fourth day of gains for Japanese Equities on the reopening. Currencies, hong kong dollar is the focus. You look at pokechecked seeing 775 but speculators are out there. Th...

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