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That has now been closed down. so im running on a very short piece of road, and that was one of the main reasons why i decided that being a journalist in hong kong is very high risk, so high—risk that it would be better not to be there. high—risk in what way? you were running out of options, you say, the roads were narrowing, but you talk about high risk. what specifically are you talking about? well, i mean, the process of arresting and keeping in jail journalists has already begun. the pro...

At the beginning, but actually more recently i have been working for the opposition, the sunday times, but i did indeed come to hong kong with the observer and i was working for them as well as a number of other outlets. more recently i have been working quite intensively, both on television and radio, for radio television hong kong, which is the public broadcaster, and those programmes have been subject to considerable censorship. i was a columnist for apple daily, which was the only remaining ...

And i was working for them as well as a number of other outlets. more recently i have been working quite intensively, both on television and radio, for radio television hong kong, which is the public broadcaster, and those programmes have been subject to considerable censorship. i was a columnist for apple daily, which was the only remaining opposition newspaper in hong kong. that has now been closed down. so im running on a very short piece of road, and that was one of the main reasons why i de...

Well, i hate to be somebody to create a surprise at the beginning, but actually more recently i have been working for the opposition, the sunday times, but i did indeed come to hong kong with the observer and i was working for them as well as a number of other outlets. more recently i have been working quite intensively, both on television and radio, for radio television hong kong, which is the public broadcaster, and those programmes have been subject to considerable censorship. i was a columni...

Previously thought. and the window for countries to take decisive action to avoid the most dire consequences, that window is narrowing. the report authored by more than 200 climate scientists from more than 60 nations says countries have delayed curbing fossil fuel emissions for so long there is no avoiding a hotter future. the u.n. secretary general calls the report a code red for humanity. it comes as the world experiences historic droughts, landscape altering wild fires and deadly floods. ext...

Screen understand sometimes when you leave an hbcu, youre not inheriting a trust fund, youre inheriting a payroll because you have family to support, cousins, your nephew who needs to go to prom. whats your take on funding from alumni and if theres something more that we could all be doing? >> sure. so one of the things we find is that, in studies, we find that african-americans are more philanthropic than any of their white counterparts, but the matter is scale. when we look at the number of ne...

Judgements about the longer—term implications of any current polling situation anywhere. i think you are going to mention australia, for example, where the government was perceived to have done quite well early on. and now, its perceived to be done quite badly because they dont have the vaccines, theyre still cocooned with people not allowed in or out but its spreading. still have these persistent regular lockdown. regular lockdown is in big cities. so inevitably, the incumbent suffers, and th...

Government was perceived to have done quite well early on. and now, its perceived to be done quite badly because they dont have the vaccines, theyre still cocooned with people not allowed in or out. still have these persistent regular lockdown. regular lockdown is in big cities. so inevitably, the incumbent suffers, and the main opposition party labour are ahead in the polls. you can see something of that happening in the united kingdom. polls here are unreliable narrators. but during the sort o...

So inevitably, the incumbent suffers, and the main opposition party labor are ahead in the polls. you can see something of that happening in the united kingdom. polls here are unreliable narrators. but during the sort of euphoria of the vaccine roll—out, the tories were miles ahead as the incumbent. now whether there are doubts about opening up and some of the incoherence of policymaking is a bit clearer, the polls are narrowing. to make sense of politics in any democracy at the moment, you ha...

The tories — euphoria of the vaccine roll—out, the tories were miles ahead as the a comment _ the tories were miles ahead as the a comment. now whetherthere the tories were miles ahead as the a comment. now whether there are doubts— comment. now whether there are doubts about opening up and some of the incoherence of policymaking is a bit clearer, — the incoherence of policymaking is a bit clearer, the polls are narrowing. to make sense of politics in any _ narrowing. to make sense of po...