Melissa chan. Welcome to news asia. Thank you for joining us. Hong kongs legislature now has effectively no opposition. Prodemocracy lawmakers have announced they will all resign. Its to protest against beijings new bill passed today. Wednesday, the law would allow the Hong Kong Government to expel legislators without due process. And as soon as that law went into effect, the executive expelled for lawmakers. The opposition called the act quote, ruthless and said it quote, sounded the death knell of the citys democracy fight. Joining us is holmes chan. A political journalist in hong kong holmes. Im a little curious this decision from beijing did that come as a surprise . Now the decision actually came as a result of chinas top law making Body National Peoples Congress standing committee. And the reason why i came as such a big surprise to people in hong kong was because this was not announced on the agenda beforehand. It was announced very rapidly and passed very quickly and taking eff
Election results. Anyone whos running for office can exhaust concerns about counting. In any court, there will be a smooth transition to a 2nd term of nutrition. Right, were ready. The world is watching. Whats taking place that were going to come all the votes. When the process is complete, will be electors selected. Theres a process, the constitution lays it out pretty clearly. The health care system, Republican Leaders do not want to take a nice trunk space, which they urgently need in georgia, where 2 republican senators face run offs in january. The republican majority in the senate is on the line. It is time past time for Republican Leaders to stand up and say, we should accept the results of this election. And i continue to work with colleagues to urge them to do so. They call me to say, you know, congratulations, please convey my well wishes to the president elect. But i cant say that publicly yet. Thats might be because despite losing trump managed to mobilize 7000000 more vote
Sparked by a regulatory crackdown. Tencent earnings are out later today. Kongs of hong prodemocracy lawmakers resign as beijing tightens control. Carrie lam supports banning those not deemed sufficiently patriotic. Lets look at how things are shaping up when it comes to the start of the session. It continues to get some of that rebounding onring concerns might want to stick to. Rade could berecovery somewhat stop start. It did not move on rates and did at stimulus and effectively pushed back expectation for the timing of relative rates aired the kiwi market not pricing that in all of 2021. The nikkeis little bit negative but the top x are wiping out all of its losses for the ear and looking like that momentum could be sustained. Take a look at futures up about s p hittingsaw the the 10 week i. High. Prodemocracy lawmakers in hong kong are set to resign en masse after beijing passed a to ban politicians not sufficiently stock. I would not say that for members remaining in a Legislative
Michael dukakis. Candidates took questions on taxes, the budget deficit, defense spending, and each candidates choice of running mate. Good evening, on behalf of the commission on president ial debates, i am pleased to welcome you to the second president ial debate. Im bernard shaw of cnn, cable news network. My colleagues on the panel are and cotton of abc news. Margaret warner of newsweek magazine. And Andrea Mitchell of nbc news. The candidates are Vice President george bush, the republican nominee, and governor michael dukakis. [applause] for the next 90 minutes will be questioning the candidates in a format designed and agreed to by representatives of the two campaigns. However, there are no restrictions on the questions that my colleagues and i can ask this evening. And the candidates have no prior knowledge of our questions. By agreement between the candidates, the first question goes to governor dukakis. You have two minutes to respond. Governor, if Kitty Dukakis were raped and
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