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Scuffles broke out when riot police armed with pepper sprayon and batons cond prodemocracy protesters inside levion news has our report. Ent reporter midnight hong kong time, and the protestors whod forced the cancellation of all outbound flights for the second day running,me beca suddenly agitated as a thin blue line tentatively entered the arrivals hall, terminal e. Laser pens blinded the officers, who were immediately forced to retreat. S the blackshithought for a moment theyd seen the police off. Then the riot police arrived. Initially they picked off individuals. Be some weraten, then cuffed one riot policeman became immediately trapped inside the doors to the terminal. You see him attempting an arrest, then hes set upon. S beaten withn i his own baton. The intensity of the mistrust and hatred that has plbuilt up, exing. The cop pulls a hand gun but shows restraint; he does not fire. Hes finally rescued. Beijings rhetor of no leniency, noil mercy l echoing round hong kong, a city in the throes of chaos and escalating violence and ow gripped by fear of what china might. At 12 40am, the protestors surround another cespected poli spy and cuff him with plastic cable ties. It the edor of a chinese per, tist party pa englishlanguage global times, tweeted that fu geo hao is o h is Hong Kongbased reporters. There is an ugly symmetry to all this. It followed other violent incidents on sunday in which Hong Kong Police fired tear gas into underground stations, chased and beat fleeing protestors, and, across the harbor, shot a young female protestor in thewiye a baton round. Carrie lam, the probeijing political leader of the semiautonomous territory, held a News Conference this morning. translated hong kong has become unsafe vd unstable, iolence, not matter who commits it, is pushing hgng kon onto a road of no return. Reporter this is chinas Counterterrorism Force and tellingly, the protests in hong kong were yesterday described by beijing as emerging terrorism. Hong kongers watch anxiously; as carrie lam sticks to her guns, they know its big brother beijing whos calling the shots. Nawaz that report from Jonathan Miller of independent television news. Also today, the u. S. Announced its delaying tariffs on some chinese goods until december 15th while removing other items from its tariff list altogether. The duties had been set to go into effect next month on products incding laptops, cell phones, and video game consoles. President trump was asked about the timing of the delay before departing for an event in pennsylvania. Were doing this for christmas season, just in case some of the tariffs would ha an impact on u. S. Customers. But so far theyve had virtually 10ne. Nawaz plannetariffs on about 300 billion in other chinese goods will still be imposed. E word of riff decision sent stocks soaring on wall street today. Rae Dow Jones Industrial age gained 372 points to close at nearly 26,280. The nasdaq rose 153 points and e s p500 added 42. Scrutinyntensified today of the manhattan jail where accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was found dead on saturday. The Justice Department said the two guards assigned to watch epstein have now been placed on administrative leave. The jails warden ws also temporarily reassigned, pending the outcome of both the f. B. I. And Justice Department investigations into epsteins death. A coalition of 29 states and cities filed a lawsuit against the Trump Administration today to sp a rule easing restrictions on coalburning power plants. The trump rule rolled back anob aera regulation that set limits on Carbon Dioxide pollution from power plants. The outcome of the case could set a precedent for how futuremi strations can fight Climate Change by restricting pollutants. Most of the southern ud parts of the midwest were under heat advisories and waings today, from texas to south carolina. The tripledigit heat wave was st intense across arkanss, tennessee, mississippi, louisiana and alabama. But some relief is on the way. The National Weather service said an approaching cool frontdu will help the heat and humidity in some areas tomorrow. Cbs and viacom have agreed to reunite. Theyll merge their networks and the paramount movie studio in the face of growing competition from streaming Services Like netflix. The combined company is estimated to have 28 billion in revenue. The merger is expectedo completed by years end. And, a new report out today finds child care costs in most states exceed federal subsidies for lowincome parents. Ats according to the Inspector General for the department of health and human services, or h. H. S each state decides how to allocate funds from an 8 billion National Block grant, meant to offset child care costi for over a m children. But many states set their payment rates much lower than commended. H. H. S. Has now put 33 states on watch to ensure they comply with equal access requiments. Still to come on the newsh ar what we knnd what remains hidden about the shadowy Russian Nuclear prram. The multiple Sexual Harassment allegations against celebrated operatic tenor Placido Domingo. How Online Casinos target gambling addicts and the devastation it wreaks on their lives. Plus much more. E nawaz losion at a remote site. Shifting stories frovethe russian ment and Nuclear Officials. Public concern about radiation exposure. Were not talking about chernobyl 33 years ago. Were talking about two Russian Military accidents near the arctic circle, one just last week. Our William Brangham has the details. Reporter somber crowds lined the streets of sarov today, bearing witness to funerals cloaked in mystery after a Nuclear Reactor explosion at a nearby missile testing sit killed at least seven scientists. The final death toll is unknown. Russian Nuclear Officials have been slow to disclose details. But with long faces, they admitted thursdays blast at the nyonoksa testing site was a tragedy. translated a chain of ndagic incidental events uncertainties led to this happening. Although, after a preliminary analysis, we ha seen the testers were fighting to get the situation under control, unfortunately, they did not cceed. Authorities say they will evacuated the town. Gamma radiation there is four no 16 times greater thabackground levels. Analysts believe the accident involved a new Nuclear PoweredCruise Missile, the kind russian translated a real technologic breakthrough is the creation of the advanced Strategic Missile system with a totally new combat equipment,se programming crnit, its testing was completed successfully. Reporter moscows push for new Missile Technology is aimed at outsmarting defene se systems s. Is building, and this resurgent arms race has cost other lives. Just last month 14diussian sailor after an explosion on one of their nuclear submarines. The people who were a killed we very high ranking, and thats not typical to have so many highranking officers on a submarine. As relations between the United States and russia get worse, tha ru are stepping up all these kind of traditional cold war behaviors. So, were seeing allinds of new systems and new systems often have problems. So its its sad that these people keep dying, but this is kind of what an arms race looks like. Repter these developments come as a major u. S. Russia arms control treaty is set to expire in 2021, and after the u. S. Withdrew from the intermediate range nuclear forc treaty, saying that russia was in violation of that agreement. On top of that, with westernsa nctions mounting, the russian economy and putins Approval Ratings are both dec. Moscow has also been erupting in enormous protests, as russians took to the streets to complain about the kremlins tight grip on domestic politics. Police turned violent as they arrested more th a thousand nd whstrators this wee were out demanding more open elections. Brangham for more on what these military mishaps and protests mean, we tuangela stent. She directs the center for eurasian, russian and east European Studies at georgetown universitys school of foreign servic her latest book is putins world russia against the west, and with the rest. Angela stent, welcome back to the newshour. I wonder if you could. Is there anything else that you can tell us about russiatesting or this accident that happened around this missile . I think no more than what we already heard on troadcast, which is they really are giving the minimum amount of b information, bause of chernobyl and because of what happened 33 years ago, the russian people are very suspicious when they heard about this. This is why there was a run on io dine immediately after they heard rumors. I think most american specialists will say the u. S. Tried to develop a Nuclear PoweredCruise Missile and gave it up in the 1960s. Its just not practical. Its, as we heard, lying a flying chernobyl, and so w dont really know what the russians do or dont have. We do know that last year Vladimir Putin, as youaid, demonstrated a picture, a video of this misse, which c evade u. S. Missile defenses and finall landed in florida and dropped something on what suspiciously loed like maralago. The russians are trying to develop weapons that can totalld the elaborate Missile Defense systems that the u. S. Has been creating. Brangham with this secretive shifting story, tightlipped response from various russian officials, is w thhat were just supposed to expect when this kind of a ilitary mhap occurs . Well, we have never hiseen an else from the russians. When the kursk submarine sank, there was a total blackout n information for a long time. They are not good about giving outccurate information or at least enough information to try and save their population from needless radiation and other effects. Myself was in moscow during the chernobyl explosion, and i know how frightening it was for everyone to figur out what as happening, where the radiation was, and this pattern doesnt teem to have changed. Brangham amidst these two different accidents that have happened, this seeming escalation in the arms race between russia and the u. S can you give sense of the lay of the land with regard to arms control and arms developmenbetween the two nations . Certainly. So as you said, the treaty on intermediate range Nuclear Forces is dead since august 2nd of this nth. So neither the United States nor russia abound by that, and whe will bow be developing new classes of intermediate range missiles our defense secretary has said that we will. Pclold be dd is in asia. Ace they thats if well have any allies or take tem. The russians have also said theyre developing a new class of weapons. I think the real to watch is the new star treaty regulating strategic nuke welowr ons. Its set to expire in 2021. It could be extended for five ioars just by mutual agreement, but our nl security advisor john bolton says he regards these kinds of arms control agreements as antiquated and useless and, in fact, he said in a spwoch teeks ago that he didnt really see any reason to exteid ths new start agreement. So what were talking about is in 2021 we could be in the situation, this new start agreement isnt extended, where for the First Time Since 1972, since president nixon went to moscow and signed similar agreement with boston brezhnev,s will be the first time we wont have anaty agreement regulates the Nuclear Arsenals of the worlds two Nuclear Superpowers who between them control 90 of the worlds nuclear weapons. Brangham shifting gears a tiny bit, w we saese protests erupting in moscow over what seemed like somewhat provincial local elections. Does this crack down and this response by the russian citizenry in moscow say anythint broader about and his hold on power . I think it does. I think this is more than just a isswawbl about who will i on a 45person Municipal Council and regulate taxi licenses. I think younger russians who have been t on the street, 50,000 people on saturday, realize looking ahead that they have very little control over their political system. They have very little choice. They understand that even though president putins term doesnt expire until 2024, this interagency and the rivalry for power and the questioning about succession, t already going on, and they would liketo have a different system. They would like to be able to have, again, more choiche system. So it is not just about a municipal election. Its about the principle of having people who are not a homber of the official United Russia Party and have independent views have some say in this system. Brangham weve certainly seen here in the u. S. A lot of discussion about russias lastrference in ou election. Weve also seen russia trying to flex its muscles in europe and the middle east, syria, and in turkey. You wrote a recent piece whweere yo trying to get americans to recognize that judo is putins sport of choice, not chess as a game. That . Id you mean by so what i meant by it, and Vladimir Putin became a judo champion as a young man. He said in an essay it helped him to get out of the rut and the hardscrabble background he had. What i meant by that was that in judo, even if you are maybe weaker than your opponent, if you sense their own distraction, if you sense their owweness, if you can distract them, you can in fact prevail over what would appear to be a stronger opponent. And i think what putin has done very effectively is to take advantage of the opportunities presented to him by distraction in the west by the divisions and by the polarization and by the fact, i would argue, that the united ntates didot have a very coherent idea about what it wanted to do after the soviet union collapsed. When putin came to power hin 2000, ad a good idea he wanted to restore ruia as a great power. Hes managed to restore russia as a global player. When you look at the fundamentals in russia, g. D. P. M. Which is size of that of italy, a declining population, an economy thats overwhelmingly dependent on Raw Materials revenue, hes played a weak hand quite effectively. And hes been in power for 20 years now, and hes seen american president s and other leaders come and go, and he feels that he has the upper hand in many ways, despite all themse prob brangham all right, angela stent of georgetown university, thank you so much. Thank you. Nawaz with more performances than any other opera singer i history, Placido Domingo holds a special place in the performing arts. Domingo is not just one of the most recognizable faces after a career thats lastedly five decades. Hes also a leader and performer with real power. T in the wake of me too, there are now a series of revelations by the a. P. About his alleged personal br. Allegations that raise disturbing questions about the use of that power. Nawaz for decades, Placido Domingo has been one oesf the binames in opera. A multigrammy award winner and one of the iconic three tenors, his star power and industry status are beyond compare. The 78yearold spaniard currently conducts and directs the los angeles opera, ande still attracts sellout crowds across the globe. But a new Associated Press report out today says that rise to fame was littered with sexual misconduct. The story cites nine women,s eight singd one dancer, who say domingo harassed them and tried to pressure them into sexual relationships over 30 years, often at venues where he held a managerial posi all but one requested anonymity. Patricia wulf sang at the Washington National opera in the late 1990s and 2000s. Domingo was the artistic or there and later th general director. H would come up to me this close and he would say, patricia, do you have to go homeonight . And it was arresting, it was very difficult. Nawaz wulf said she started hiding from domingo. I dont know how it could have been shoved under the rug as long as it has been. s gone on long enough. It needs to stop. Me nawaz the s stories followed a pattern. They say domingo would push for private meetings, underhe guise of offering professional advice. That domingo offered them jobs and en sometimes punished professionally those who ref