Hardtalk, with shaun ley. Hello and welcome to hardtalk. I am shaun ley. Hong kong is in uproar. Each weekend for the last two months, thousands of people have taken to the streets. Alvin yeung, who leads the civic party, shares their fears, firstly to give beijing a greater say in extradition, and for wider calls to defend hong kongs freedoms. But as local authorities struggled to contain the crisis, and beijings struggles grow ever louder, could the Peoples Liberation army be on its way . Alvin yeung, welcome to hardtalk. Late into sunday night, protesters clashed with the hong kong police. It is the eighth weekend in succession that we have seen street protests a nd succession that we have seen street protests and skirmishes, some of them violent. What has gone wrong . Well, hello, shaun things are not doing so well in hong kong. And of course, we have seen and witnessed protesters taking to the streets, and of course we have seen clashes between the police and the protesters. We ha
The committee is part of a major transition of American Military leadership. If confirmed as army chief of staff you will serve along side the joint chief of staffs new Service Chiefs for the navy and marine core. You will lead part of the volunteer soldiers and time and time over a decade of time in iraq. The army indured 70 of the casual casual casualties. As the nation confronts the most array of Global Crisis since the world war ii the next chief of staff of army is responsible for making sure the total army and active guard and reserve remains the most decisive land troops in the world. We have drastic reductions in defense funding and the army is going to be forceded to carry out missions with fewer dollars, soldiers and equipment. It has been reduced from 570,000 active duty personal to 490,000 troops this year and last week the army announced they would cut an additional 40000 troops reducing to 450,000. There is talks the army could decline to 420,000 troops and what is worse
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Deployment program to get the numbers back for the Third Marine Expeditionary force to what they should be. Second, the reposture of forces. Relieving some of the pressure and oak at our and rebuilding forces in guam. And the forces in australia. Several pieces. Guam australia, and forces going to japan, and some forces going to hawaii. We are Getting Started with that this year. In the budget 2016 theres a Training Range in guam that is a precondition to bring forces. We will bring 5000 forces to guam, eventually. We are rotating the spring another force of 1000 in australia with plans to bring it up to 2500. In terms of issues you should be concerned about, one is the progress for the replacement facility in japan. That will be critical. We have to have deficit does the facility to leave our current air station and to make the redeployment to guam. To properly support the marines in the area. The other piece is lift. We will better support the Combatant Commanders daytoday requiremen