Checks marked 30 years since the fall of communism. And in iran traffic grinds to a halt in the capital tehran as people there protest against a 50 percent hike in fuel prices irans Supreme Leader says he backed the decision despite breast. Im rebecca read his welcome to the program we begin in hong kong where there have been fresh clashes between for prodemocracy demonstrators and Police Chinese troops have been deployed for the 1st time since these protests began in june activists have dug into hong kongs Polytechnic University and vowing to defend it from police its part of a week Long Campaign aimed to disrupting traffic and hitting the local economy. Another assault on the voices of protest Police Fire Tear gas at protesters occupying hong kongs Polytechnic University and blocking nearby roads massed demonstrators hurl molotov cocktails in response to the street battle pits water cannon against fire bombs and armored trucks against umbrellas and police claim protesters shot arrows
So far facebook and the commission have both declined to comment. Our financial correspondent joins us now from new york and so what sort of answers is facebook actually supposed to provide here. Well i mean one of the main questions really is in this case at least the possibility of competitive behavior and if you look at facebook they have more users than the combined population of china and the u. S. So so there is this claim there and then also facebook will probably face questions if there are any plans to somehow connect. To some of facebooks Services Like for example or also the Messenger Services but this is really only one of many regulatory issues that facebook is facing with libra and with its other services in general as well now staying on tech giants french president and model and urged the u. S. To get big tech to pay more taxes now is washington washington under any real pressure to do so well i mean if you look at the United States there is old soul that trend and ther