Drove the socalled down bro movement pushing for greater autonomy and that remains unresolved today the problem seems to be one of inherent dysfunction freedom of expression where you can and your grievances combined with a political system that ensures a pro beijing government seems to guarantee a high degree of unhappiness especially among young people a situation that the prodemocracy groups say can only be resolved by beijing the ultimate solution would be for china to seriously open up and look at hong kong as a positive a window case a positive example for chinese Democratic Development the prob aging camp says the more hong kong people push for change the more futile this movement becomes as chinas leaders wont be seen to be giving way most hong kong people belief that there must be some kind of. Actions. And although we cant prove that we can have any evidence at this point but i think most people believe that beijing behind or this mourners attended a vigil on wednesday night
President trump has said hes dropping his attempt to add a Citizenship Question to next years us census. The move was blocked by the Supreme Court last month. Opponents fear it could deter immigrant households from taking part in the census, lead to an undercounting of the population in democratic districts, and benefit the president s republican party. But he still hopes to press on, announcing instead an executive order, requiring all Government Agencies and departments to provide records on population. Today im here to say were not backing down in our effort to determine the citizenship status of the United States population. I stand before you to outline new steps my administration is taking to ensure that citizenship is counted so that we know how many citizens we have in the United States. Our north america correspondent, peter bowes, explains why the citizenship issue is such a politicised and controversial issue, and so important to President Trump. It has become increasingly p
We start with struggling travel giant thomas cook. The 178 year old british firm, which pioneered package holidays, has been facing an uncertain future. Shares have slumped and debt has soared amid growing fears for its survival. Now it could be headed for a new departure under chinese ownership. Ramzan karmali reports. The worlds oldest travel company. Last year, thomas cook served 19 million customers, but for some time 110w million customers, but for some time now it has been struggling. Million customers, but for some time now it has been strugglingm million customers, but for some time now it has been struggling. It has faced fierce competition from the budget airlines, and perhaps more significantly from internet travel firms. In the first half of this year it made losses of 3. 8 billion and has been under pressure from creditors. Shares have also slumped, down 85 this year alone. Thomas cook said it was convinced that brexit had caused some customers to delay travel plans. Now,
Heart of government lawrence lee aljazeera in london. Always good to have Bill Schneider with us Public Policy professor at George Mason University in our washington new center hi bill this is pretty serious stuff the more i think about it the more information that comes out and when you consider the socalled special relationship which these 2 countries have and basically President Trump has decided. The future of a diplomat something thats never really been done before bill its come out here and im not sure if youre hearing me. Not thats a shame ok we will come back to Bill Schneider shortly on technical crew will reconnect with washington there in the meantime. Speaking of President Donald Trump he has issued another threat to iran over its Nuclear Program hes done it on twitter. That iran has long been secretly enriching. In total violation of the terrible 150000000000. 00 deal made by john kerry and the Obama Administration remember that deal was to expire in a short number of year
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