Hong kong and the growing independence movement, what is going on . There are people who think hong kong should separate from china and go off on its own. It is a small movement. But it has taken more root than most people expected. A couple of years ago, there was a lot of protests about hong kongs role and its relationship with china. And people dont like that china was insisting at one point that they come up with the nominees to be the chief executive. Anyway, this is a continuation of that debate. Hong kong is very dependent on china for water, food, lots of things. Of course, it has a history as being a british colony. And sort of the future of hong kong is still being hammered out. Carol the economy was doing so well, but now not so while that is making it trickier. Ellen it is making it trickier for the chinese and the people who live there. The economy is really in bad shape for a variety of reasons. Housing prices are very high. There are a lot of people who live in hong kong
And go off on its own. It is a small movement. But it has taken more root than most people expected. A couple of years ago there , was a lot of protests about hong kongs role and its relationship with china. And people dont like that china was insisting at one point that they come up with the nominees to be the chief executive. Anyway this is a continuation of , that debate. Hong kong is very dependent on china for water, food, lots of things. Of course, it has a history as being a british colony. The future of hong kong is still being hammered out. Carol the economy was doing so well, but now not so while that is making it trickier. Is making it trickier for the chinese and the people who live there. The economy is really in bad shape for a variety of reasons. Housing prices are very high. There are a lot of people who live in hong kong who have dual passports because when the british were withdrawing the question was where they were going to go. There is a lot of uncertainty. Carol y
It is all about people losing jobs and sometimes thinking they lost jobs to people abroad. Makes a point that while economists are almost , there is free trade a reality that people lose their jobs through jobs going abroad. Lowwage jobs are moving to places like china where things can be produced more cheaply. Things are moving out of china to vietnam where they can be produced more cheaply still. They had these programs where workers are compensated when they lose their jobs to trade but they have not been that effective. To economists, the idea is when you loose your job to trade, if the markets are efficient, you will find another through some new business coming up. A really incredible feature in this issue, how to hack an election. Introduce us to the man at the center of that profile. He is in custody in columbia. A rare interview. This is the first time that he told his full story. Him in aiewed courtyard deep in columbia. He is talking now because he would like to say how he h
Of Curt Schilling over a Facebook Post about transgender bathroom laws. Trump himself was asked to that issue on today. He called a push for such laws discriminatory and said he believes the transgender individual should be able to use whichever bathroom they choose. Mr. Trump there have been very few complaints the way it is cap people go, they use the bathroom that they feel is appropriate. There has been so little trouble. And the problem with what happened in North Carolina is the strife and the economic, the economic punishment they are taking. Do you have any transgender people working in your organization . Mr. Trump i dont know. If Caitlyn Jenner were to walk into trump tower and wanted to use the bathroom, you would be fine with her using any bath and she chooses . Mr. Trump that is correct. Mark those comments made it today town hall. Drew an Immediate Reaction from a rightwinger of talk radio. Senator cruz donald agreed and attacking the state of North Carolina for passing h
Of the borders were taken down, and the European Union was flows so there would be of goods and people, and it meant that workers could cross borders, and now, in the wake of all of the terrorism, some of those borders have gone back up. David what are the effects we are seeing from that . Trying to get to the austrian hungarian border. it really is causing problems because it takes longer for goods to get to places, and people are paying for trucks longer, and the estimate is it will cost 500 billion and an extra cost in gdp because people cannot get across these borders, and france has put up borders, germany, austria, sweden, and they are not everywhere, but there are more than the were a few months ago. David you were looking at the area around chernobyl, and there was a report on this. Radioactives activity from 30 years ago. the original container put around the damaged plant was not meant to last forever, and so they have been building a new structure, which they are calling it