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Fifty looks more and more. Thank you very much for being with us we are awaiting. A News Conference held by carrie lam the chief executive of hong kong will cross that. Immediately this of course a main story hong kong is seeing unprecedented scenes they set monday protest is taking over the Assembly Building the Hong Kong Police seem to be standing by. As angry young people talking time vandalized the premises. During this time the interior of the alleged the chain wasas vandalized looking some using tear gas at the protesters were forced out of the three hours. At one point the processes attach the old colonial flying to the premiseses. This is s the latest. Development in ththe ongoioing unrest over proposed extradition bill to make it easy to dispatch criminals and persons of interest to china. Armed with pepper spray and batons hong kong right Police Charged the hundreds of protesters gathered outside the legislature building. Our goal. To retake parliament from Anti Government pr
The area when we came we found virtually empty in a community because almost everyone had fled to neighboring communities where its much safer for them. Actually. We speak you know over 100 people you know from the same community has fled into an Even Community where theyre being taken care of so you know isnt there the risk that these children who have lost their parents or who are left orphaned might be lurd by armed groups that are trying to find new recruits or by militia men that are really exacerbating the conflict in the center of mali. From being only into groups if you want to defend the security of the communities but it also. Needs protection. Of protection right now in the community you know children are often. Not going to school you have a. Lot of these days. Actually items for the population including children and of course were at the height of the dry season and the effect of Climate Change and Global Warming is affecting this area of mali how are the population dealin
Embassies reopened. In sport seth blatter names the date when his successor for fifa president will be reelected. Change wont be happening quickly with an election scheduled for next february. At least 28 people have been killed in a large explosion in turkey. Around 100 have been wounded. It happened at a Cultural Center just north of the border with syria. Its not known what caused the blast, but the Turkish Interior Ministry called it a terrorist attack that targeted kurdish volunteers deading to nearby kobane for relief work. Home to a refugee camp housing 35,000 Syrian Refugees fleeing the war. A Foreign Correspondent has been based in turkey for over 20 years is also the author of turkey, what Everyone Needs to know and joins me now from london. Good to have you with us. On this attack, it is now thought to be an isil linked attack targeting youth workers who came to help rebuild the syrian city of kobane, just over the border there. What do you make of it . Well, that it is a ve
I was publisher of the wall street journal. I spent quite some time overseeing the Digital Businesses of the journal. I consider myself, in fact, maybe the oldest possible digital native. I oversaw businesses that were based on what we then called electronic publishing even before the internet in the 1990s, so i lived in a time before the internet, before Technology Policy was aimed at encouraging innovation back in the 80s and 9s 90s and before government was heavily involved in regulating communications telephones, other technologies. The internet was different in the 1990s. It was liberating, it was permissionless, it was very little government regulation. Were all beneficiaries of that, and my column tries to identify areas where we may be black siding backsliding or where we may be suppressing innovation or not making the most of this extraordinary opportunity. Host well, youve written that washington is a disaster for innovation disaster area for innovation. Why do you write that