He is 18 years old and in his final year of high school. Election. Reporter lau was born in Guangdong Province in mainland china. His family moved to hong kong when he was a third grader in elementary school. Since then, lau has enjoyed relative freedom in hong kong under the one country two system policy. As a student in junior high school, he went to an event in memory of the 1989 pro democracy protests in Tiananmen Square. None of his teachers on the mainland had ever told him about the episode. Translator had i remained in china, id have never known what really happened at Tiananmen Square and would never have taken an interest if politics. Reporter then something happened two years ago that deepened his interest even more. Hong kongs leaders announced a plan to introduce National Education for students from elementary through high school. The goal was to foster support for chinas communist party. Lau joined many other High School Students in staging massive protest rallies. They a
He is 18 years old and in his final year of high school. Election. Reporter lau was born in Guangdong Province in mainland china. His family moved to hong kong when he was a third grader in elementary school. Since then, lau has enjoyed relative freedom in hong kong under the one country two system policy. As a student in junior high school, he went to an event in memory of the 1989 pro democracy protests in Tiananmen Square. None of his teachers on the mainland had ever told him about the episode. Translator had i remained in china, id have never known what really happened at Tiananmen Square and would never have taken an interest if politics. Reporter then something happened two years ago that deepened his interest even more. Hong kongs leaders announced a plan to introduce National Education for students from elementary through high school. The goal was to foster support for chinas communist party. Lau joined many other High School Students in staging massive protest rallies. They a
They are young and they have a smile on their lives and a song in their hearts. Tom unlike friday, on a cynical surveillance. Vonnie Angela Merkel is stamping out any optimism of a solution to the greek crisis. She met late in the night with leaders of greece and france. Merkel says there is a lot to do before that can happen. Angela merkel i will have some bilateral talks and have already spoken last night with the french president and the greek Prime Minister. It was a friendly, constructive exchange, but it is clear further work between the institutions is necessary. Vonnie merkel is referring to the imf, the ecb, and the european commission. President obama says the u. S. And its allies are not losing the fight against Islamic State but he says more needs to be done to help iraq. He told the atlantic several days after he told that to the atlantic several days after ramadi was captured by isys. By isis. Maybe this is a prediction but i say it with full confidence. The president wil
And tuneishen authorities have arrested several suspects after a deadly museum attack and theyre pledging to tighten the nations security. Many people in japan paused on march 20th to reflect on what was a scary and painful time in their history. 20 years ago today members of a religious cult released sarin gas on the tokyo subway system during the morning rush hour. 13 people died and 6300 others were hurt. People held a Memorial Ceremony at one of the subway stations targeted in the attack. They held a moment of silence at 8 00 a. M. Around the time members of Aum Shinri Kyo released the nerve gas. Families of the victims and others laid flowers and offered prayers. Translator ive always thought i could have been one of the victims. That thought brought me here today. Translator as a bereaved Family Member i want to keep on telling the next generation about this tragedy. But theres a limit to what i can do. I want young people to become interested in knowing what happened in the Aum
I suspect because the Combustion Engine is Getting Better and better, dont need tax credits handouts, pay more for miles per gallon. Maybe the real test is a battery engine. But i dont see natural gas vehicle being a competitive threat in the future to gasoline. Here. Thank you. David kroicher from heritage foundation. Wanlt to thank you, this is an interesting panel. I was wondering if you could go back to the cameron government one of the main plans was to go after shale gas, and whether they can do it whether we will be able to our Service Companies will be able to get business there, is it the right kind of rock, whatever it is thats interesting. Thats a big issue. I dont know whether it is the right kind of rock. I can tell you that there has been significant antifrack back lash. But youre right, the cameron government has been enthusiastic, has been pushing this and just got another five years. So i would certainly keep an eye on that. Theyre going to run into i think the same pr