Dismisses claims he called Fallen Soldiers losers also on the program at the Venice Film Festival gets underway but it might not be quite as you remember it our film critic is at the scene to tell us this food behind the mask. America evans team thanks for joining me a series of twists and turns in the u. S. In the run up to the november president ial election another in a long line of tell all books from former white house insiders has been leaked this one from President Trumps former personal Attorney Michael Cohen cohen was known as trumps fixer and is now serving a 3 year sentence for Campaign Finance violations and lying to congress one. Line from his book entitled disloyal says that trump is quote guilty of the same crimes that landed cohen in prison and this follows a report in the atlantic magazine that alleges trump made disparaging comments about american war dead. According to that report drawn profuse to visit a Military Cemetery in france because it was quote filled with l
Im michael okun welcome to the program at least 90 people have been arrested in hong kong in protests against the governments decision to postpone Elections Police fired pepper balls at prodemocracy campaigner protesters are angry that authorities will hold elections to the citys Legislature Next july instead of this sunday authorities have blamed the coronavirus pandemic for the delay antigovernment protesters have been held across since june last year. And correspondent phebe kong joins us now from hong kong by phone phebe hundreds of people are protesting there today against the press boning of the elections what exactly are they worried about. Yeah i have been writing that sos has all i said all afternoon in hong kong today and all this week with her protests so kind of like give me back my clothes and i want to kind of like those guys on the street so today i originally on this is just an election day one of the most important election in a city. Like this and so it acts like a st
The way they want to this specific case under touches off the National Security office later on they found another light opened is more appropriate charges but anyway critics say is this a pretty much 0 what they see as speech crimes like the i thought you wanted us to talk at the opposition fighters t. V. We have about 15 or 20 seconds besides the rest that. We have seen at this point is that been any of the reaction from hong kong authorities. What im asking i am the act that they sent to the wealthy to lay off the folks knowing that they stop its not going this is not politically motivated it is this but i think a Public Health and court like we have seen day rally today out in the latest and you know a little bit chaos so we will expect that all sorts of welcome damage but thats not the rally held today as they stand on its own authorized becoming much appreciated. Lets highlight some other stories making news around the world at this hour people have been gathering in the belushi
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Correspondent phoebe kong on the scene there to explain what the protesters have been calling for them like in months is that they dont want protests against the decision of the government to postpone the last state election for a year so the governance of this is for the sake of Public Health reasons and also to help to contain the coronavirus endemic but this is and the reason seen as an excuse by the protesters and police not to see campaign is they have a message and we have out this show so they go out today to protest against it and also from that many of them also wanted it to want to express the end gets worse the newly in finance have National Security always has already been imposed for what it too much so on is this like one of the reason they want why they come up today to defy the ban on the police and also to your chest opens up like what has been now banned by dell for it. To become their. Speaking earlier lets have a look now at some of the other stories making news aro