For a bridal banquet. Its the wedding which fed the guests on sumptuous treats, destined for the rubbish bin. Hello and welcome im katty kay in new york, david eades is in london. There are violent scenes at hong kong airport tonight as riot police clash with protestors. Flights have been cancelled for a second day. Todays demonstrations are more violent than yesterday with Police Using Pepper Spray against demonstrators. Several Police Vehicles were blocked by protestors amid signs that, after ten weeks, beijing is also preparing to get tougher on the demonstrations. The un human rights chief has called for an investigation into allegations of excessive use of police force against protestors. Jonathan head reports. Last week they were just protesting here. Now they control it. Thousands of young demonstrators flooding the terminal, forcing the cancellation of flights, and bringing a second day of misery to airline passengers. They wandered among the marooned travellers, trying to expl
The british Prime Minister says he wants a fast track visa scheme to attract foreign scientists to the uk. Now on bbc news live to singapore for Asia Business report. Hoover disappointing. Shares are down sharply after the firm reported its latest results uber. Brisk domestic demand, japans economy grew stronger than expected, betrayed tensions are expected to weigh the future. In the future. Hello and welcome to this friday edition of Asia Business report. Im Sharanjit Leyl. Edition of Asia Business report. Im shara njit leyl. We edition of Asia Business report. Im Sharanjit Leyl. We start with uber because it shares are falling sightly in extended wall street trade sharply. The firm has lost over 5 billion in the three months tojune. Over 5 billion in the three months to june. The bbcs over 5 billion in the three months tojune. The bbcs Michelle Fleury has more. Responding to urban puzzle make Second Quarter results, ubers Second Quarter results. Uber has turned into the magical mone
The legend they oppose the sale to amc. They will vote against the merger because the price is too low. Those are the headlines on 2400berg news, powered by journalists. Lets look at the markets. Hong kong and china are closed for lunch, but heres how they work trading in the morning. All read right now. Shanghai composite closed with 3 of losses. Here is the picture in singapore and mumbai. Back in half an hour. Time for bloomberg west. Emily i am emily chang, and this is bloomberg west. Coming up, france passes legislation that could affect execs if they do not comply with requests for information. Amazon spending billions to grow prime and compete with netflix. To Mark International womens day, we ask a panel of experts whether there is such a thing as a pipeline problem. A decision in france could give prosecutors the power to force companies, including apple, to unlock encrypted data. French lawmakers are backing a bill that would put execs in jail for five years if they do not co
Wholeyearold morsis rule, we can tell the difference between democracy and dictatorship. People were in different places for so many times in so long, they were unable to attend. Those were people i love so much, people working for peaceful transition. Why should i lose my friends when they are working for democracy . It is a tragic day. I there was build up to this event. There were warnings. Violence seemed to be anticipated as there were warnings that the protesters would be moved. Why do you think the protesters would remain there . That would be the country isnt any closer to democracy now than it was before. You are right. What led us to this moment . It is the coup that removed the president , the first really elected democratically elected president and a suspension of the institution that was upheld by 64 . And removing the upper house of the parliament. That is what led to everything you we didnt have an option. Either we would put in jail or we would live as slaves in a poli
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