Thank you very much for being with us. Thousands of protesters a settled in for the night in hong kong this the continuation of the weekend protest against the plan. To pass a little to allow extradition to china human Rights Groups say the move threatens freedom the former british colony and business sources say theres already evidence that the move. Is making investors think twice. In spite of the protest the chief executive of hong kong says the lord will be passed. Rain and thunderstorms didnt stop thousands from coming out an online petition called for fifty thousand people to surround hong kongs Legislature Building at ten pm tuesday. And stay until morning thats when the Legislative Council which is dominated by pro beijing lawmakers will resume debate on a contrtroversial extradition bill. One that would allow people to be sent to Mainland China for trial. That maybe we should. Do something less violent but more effective wayss for example like we i am not going to schoo. Some
Say, humanitarian position, he says, but acting on russian society. Mr. Generals, you, you, you said that in the hinterland of russia, people already understand that such is the war with ukraine, but at the same time, over the past few days, we have seen a special operation, or a military operation of the Russian Volunteer corps of the legion of Freedom Russia and the siberia battalion, when the fighters of these formations. Entered the territory and are entering the territory of the Russian Federation, in particular the Belgorod Region and the kurdistan region, and here are the statistics from the legion of freedom of russia that during the week of the limited military operation in the border areas of the belgorod and kursk regions of russia, the enemys irreversible losses amounted to 613 people, sanitary the loss of 829 people, 27 captured , seven tanks, 20 bmps, five armored personnel carriers, six howitzers and. Other equipment destroyed, how do you assess the possibilities of the
Which was a Foreign Policy read story. Alex is an editor of the georgetown journal of International Affairs and former officer in the British Royal navy and holds a master of arts and Security Studies from georgetown university. Also with us is brent sadler, who after a 26 year navy career with numerous operational tours on Nuclear Powered submarines was assigned to chief of Naval Operations staff at u. S. Pacific command and the Senior Defense official in malaysia. As the Heritage Senior Research fellow he focused on Maritime Security and the technologies shaping our future Maritime Forces in the navy and is the recent author of the book naval power in the 21st century, what he describes as a contest in the chinese designs to reorder the world to its interests by playing to u. S. Strengths and chinas weaknesses. We will start on stage by asking the experts some questions and after a bit of that we will go to you the audience for your russians, both online and the ones in the auditoriu
Informed. Cspan, unfiltered, unbiased, word for word, from the Nations Capital to wherever you are. Because the opinion that matters the most is your own. This is what democracy looks like. Cspan, powered by cable. X, a National Defense researchers discuss chinas global footprint and geopolitical relationship. They also consider how Financial Data can be used to predict attentional locations for the next Chinese Naval base. This event is hosted by the Heritage Foundation. We are delighted you could be with us today. A reminder to silence your phone so we can all be uninterrupted here. If there is one area a bipartisan agreement in this town, of which there are very few, there is one, and that is the danger that chinese common is Party Presents to the rest of the world. Congress holds frequent hearings on this topic and has stood up a select committee on the strategic competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist party but most of the attention thus far has focused on
His victory, putin addressed a rally of thousands of his supporters in the center of moscow today, where he said that his election victory will, quote make russia stronger. He called the occupied regions of ukraine novorossiya and declared that crimea, annexed 10 years ago, had allegedly returned home. And according to the data of the russian cec, more than 87 voted for putin. By the way, the turnout is also a record. More than 77 russian citizens voted in these elections, some observers say in this way, the kremlin wanted to show that putin has support among russians for his aggressive policy towards ukraine and the west. About the western reaction a little later. First, whether to expect any changes from putins rule now, whether the next term of putins presidency will be different from the previous one. The bbcs moscow correspondent Steve Rosenberg continues. At his press conference on the occasion of his election victory, one could sense that he was becoming an increasingly confiden