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 to lose food behind the mask. Im married to evanston its good to have you with us a series of twists and turns in the u. S. In the run up to the november president ial election and 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 now 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 and time. Disloyal says that trump is guilty of the same crimes that landed cohen in prison. Well talk about this im joined by reporter joel dolerite whos in the studio with me hello to you joel ok so can you tell us what exactly is cohen alleging in this new book cohen is referring to payments made to silence 2 women who claim they had affairs with the president one of them being th
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
And interestingly so the this leaked the leak details from this book follow a report in the atlantic magazine that also came out the other day that alleges trump made disparaging comments about American Military dead now according to that report trump refused to visit a military hostile Military Cemetery rather in france because it was quote filled with losers that now not surprisingly trump denies this story heres what he said you know it was a fake story written by a magazine that was probably not going to be around much longer but it was a totally fake story and that was confirmed by many people who were actually there it was a terrible thing that somebody could say the kind of things and especially to me because i dont work for the military then almost anybody else all right so we just heard it trump a denier. Is these original story but joel parts of it are actually being corroborated by different Media Outlets i think right so it 1st came out in the atlantic magazine but since th
A tell all memoir. Further damage the president. And the Venice Film Festival gets underway but might not be quite what you expect our film critic at the scene to tell us behind the. Im glad to have you with us at least 90 people have been arrested in hong kong in protest against the governments decision to postpone Elections Police fired pepper balls at prodemocracy campaigners. 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 government protests have been held across hong kong since last june i. And. Joins us from hong kong now phebe hundreds of people. Today against the push phoning of the elections what exactly are they worried about. Im not that i at least have to lloyd have to tell it to Disperse Protesters hours ago and now some skeptics system nowadays and. Its on the street not leaving them like in months is that they dont want to protest against a decision off th
Seeming to tell us whos who behind the mast. A michael oku its nice to have you with us we start with a massive show of police force in hong kong thousands of officers in riot gear have swooped in on antigovernment protests making nearly 100 arrests demonstrators are furious about a decision to postpone todays planned legislative elections there are also angry about a sweeping National Security law imposed by china that gives beijing unprecedented power to crack down on critics in hong kong. Reclaim hong kong they chant and hong kong people unite. These private democracy. Pain is should be voting today in elections to the citys legislature instead that out on the streets after authorities delayed the poll until next summer citing a spike in coded 19 cases the what was it that protests have been met with an andris bonds with Police Firing pepper balls at some. And using stop and search on others was the was there but the the new National Security law imposed by china bans demonstrations