Starting with what you will see before you. And then second beginning at 315 with the problems of tackling disinformation and we are delighted to start off today with remarks of those run the frontline we have the director performance security and infrastructure security at the department of Homeland Security and then coming right from the frontlines to deal with these issues he will give us an overview of what that government is trying to do to tackle the issue head on. And then most recently was the National Security council and the director for resilience and then to be engaged in Election Security and integrity. At that the Harvard Institute of politics and with that Public Outreach and the various issues so we would be concerned since the 2016 election. Mark will be joined by a david founder for the center for election and research one dad is devoted to this precise issue and has spent many years at the Pew Research Foundation looking at public am pulling opinion. And last but not
A global Infection Society tops 17000000. 00 and more trouble for the Airline Industry the worlds biggest plane maker airbus polls the net loss of 2200000000. 00 in the 1st half of this year. The end. We begin in hong kong way 12 opposition politicians have been disqualified from running in Septembers Legislative Council election leading prodemocracy activist joshua wang is one of those disqualified he says it shows a total disregard for the people of Hong Kong Electoral authorities have asked the candidates about their views on beijings National Security law and u. S. Sanctions the move has been denounced by the opposition as a political witch hunt and for the 1st time in Hong Kong Police have used a new National Security law to crackdown on prodemocracy activists online 4 students have been a rest said there a key is a posting content that calls for hong kongs independence from china beijing impose its controversial law 4 weeks ago david palin has more from hong kong. Hong kong is pa
And its tightening border controls after detaining suspected russian mercenaries accused of attempting to disrupt next months election. Also more trouble for the Airline Industry the worlds biggest plane maker a net loss of 2200000000. 00 in the 1st half of this year. And yet again just go with the sports world number one ashley party pulls out of the u. S. Open saying the risk of catching coronavirus right. Into the program we begin the news are in whole call opposition politicians have been disqualified from running in septembers legislative election leading prodemocracy activists joshua warmed is one of those disqualified he says it shows a total disregard for the people of hong kong authorities said asked the candidates about their views on. Beijings National Security law and u. S. Sanctions now the move has been denounced by the opposition as a political witch hunt and for the 1st time in Hong Kong Police also use the National Security law to crackdown on prodemocracy activists on
People in the city a pathway to british citizenship constitute blatant interference in chinas Domestic Affairs to get to paul and has more from home home. Hong kong is particularly sensitive issue for the u. K. As hong kong used to be a british colony in the u. K. Signed a joint declaration with beijing before it was handed over in 1907 and the ambassador had mentioned that to saying it hadnt violated the joint declaration but the u. K. And the rest of the International Community see this National Security law as imposing restrictions on hong kong that wasnt within the agreements to safeguard hong kongs autonomy and now were seeing the Hong Kong Government using that National Security law as a way of what its opponents are saying influencing elections these Legislative Council elections the only even minor democratic process there is in hong kong that are to take place in september about 12 of the candidates the prodemocracy candidates including activists joshua well worn the more radi
Can also seeking answers from mars nasa launches its biggest rover to the red planet in search for evidence of ancient life. To the program the worlds biggest economy has shrunk at the fastest pace on record in the 2nd quarter the Health Emergency thats turned into a Global Financial crisis saw the u. S. Economy contract by 9. 5 percent in the worst slump since the 1940 s. Now the recent rise in covert 1000 cases there has seen more businesses shut down and another 1400000 people applied for jobless benefits in the past week well also germanys plunged into recession with its economy shrinking by a record 10 percent the pandemics wiped out nearly 10 years of growth and the worlds biggest play maker has posted a net loss of 2. 2 1000000000. 00 in the 1st half of this year its rival boeing announced a similar 2nd quarter loss only wednesday. Well hear more from all will correspond in a moment from paris and berlin but 1st lets go over to our correspondent could be how could he joins me no