Coming up. Former defense minister go to buy a rajapaksa has won the countrys president ial election has made opponents has now conceded defeat paving the way for that to become sri lankas 7 meter. And germanys green wave the green party is surging in the polls thanks in part to a popular pair at the top of the greens eventually step into on the mantle since. Im married to evanston its good to have you with us we begin in hong kong where there have been fresh clashes between prodemocracy demonstrators and Police Protesters barricaded hong kongs Polytechnic University as part of a week Long Campaign aimed at disrupting traffic and hitting the local economy riot police fired tear gas in a bid to clear the demonstrate. Hers threw petrol bombs and started fires on the street chinese troops were deployed in the city for the 1st time since the protests began. Well earlier i spoke to him and he is building a whos in hong kong and i asked him about the significance of the chinese soldiers bein
Bbc. Co. Uk news, and the news app. Now on bbc news, live to singapore for Asia Business report. The hong kong tests. Investors look to todays election result and tomorrows alibaba listing for clues on the territory future. The splinter net, the internet fracturing along us china lions. Lines. Good morning, as you. Hello, well. It is a monday. Glad you could join us for another action packed edition of alibaba. Im rico hizon. Lets start off with hong kong, because of huge week is starting for the city both politically and in the financial markets. This is the territorys Pro Democracy Movement has made huge gains in District Council elections, a major challenge to the embattled chief executive, carrie lam. The latest, lets cross over to hong kong and i am joined by my colleague, sharanjit leyl. Sharanjit, the hong kong stock market has opened for business. What sort of reaction are we seeing . Thats right, the hang seng is open and it is rising this morning. It was up i at the opening b
Donald trumps call with his ukrainian counterpart is the focus of public hearings in the u. S. This week what do people in ukraine saying we take you to kiev to find out. Sri lanka elects a new president told saturday many hope a change of guard will help to ease tensions resulting from the Easter Sunday turnover syntax that killed more than 250000 folks we have a special report. Hello im terry martin good to have you with us a man has died in hong kong after being caught in clashes between prodemocracy demonstrators and police the 70 year old street cleaner was hit in the head with a brick on wednesday so clear who threw it earlier that this month this. Student fell from a car park and later died from his injuries the unrest in hong kong has worsened in recent days after more than 5 months of government unrest. Well lets cross over to hong kong where our correspondent mathias bullinger is standing by for us but he is this is the 2nd death related to the protests within a week what mor
Dedicated their lives to a murderous regime. Hello im terry martin good to have you with us a man has died in hong kong after being caught in clashes between prodemocracy demonstrators and police the 70 year old street cleaner was his in the head with a brick on wednesday its not clear who threw it earlier this month a student fell from a car park and later died from his injuries the unrest in hong kong has worsened did recent days have to read more than 5 months of antigovernment unrest. Well lets cross over to hong kong where our correspondent Mathias Bellinger is standing by for us but he is this is now the 2nd death related to the protests within a week what 4 do we know about how this particular incident happened. We know that 2 groups of people were standing were confronting each other hurling bricks at each other one of the groups were protesters and the other groups the other group were people who were against the protest it is not very clear where these people came from it hap
Also still to come on the news hour including calls for an uprising in cambodia leads to the arrest of 9 members of a bands Opposition Party. Heightened security across afghanistan on the eve of president ial elections and in the sports with some of the tackle that seem very serious rugby player sat at home in the front big world cup. With. Thousands of protesters are in Hong Kong Central Business District in support of activists attains near the border with Mainland China many are in the hold and center were later treated in hospital some with broken bones on thursday the embattled chief executive kerry lamb said part of a Community Dialogue session with members of the public was the 1st time she sat down with her critics since the protests began 16 weeks ago well as cross to hong kong then get the latest live from sarah clarke sorry youre up that process what are people there saying. Well this protest its been building over the last hour and a half or so i would go thousands of peopl