The president goes jet skiing. And why the new normal for lebanon is not good news for businesses already struggling to survive. And top level sport returns to north america for the 1st time in nearly 2 months and ultimate fighting championship event took place and a battle for your reader in Jacksonville Florida. Now fighting is intensifying between libyas warring sides after forces loyal to world Khalifa Haftar attacked the capitals are in a functioning airport libyas u. N. Recognized government launched a counter offensive to saturdays attack damaged planes and set fuel tanks that lice have to us forces also struck nearby residential areas killing at least 4 civilians the tripoli government says more than a dozen have died just in the last 2 days while our correspondent. Joins us now live from tripoli what were now seeing this promised retaliation from the government whats the strategy here. Well the governments strategy is to reach the have to the forces locations from which the ro
Theres cass thats one of the wells busiest airports protests bring trouble to a standstill china hands at serious consequences so with a disruption sway Public Opinion on the demonstrations and would beijings patience run out this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program. The protests a whole kong began 10 weeks ago sparked by a controversial extradition bill but theyve evolved into why the concerns about democracy in the summit thomas chinese territory the citys leader is warning the protests up putting hong kong stability in danger it is one of asias most important transport on financial hubs and a mass sitting in a port led to the consolation of flights businesses are feeling the effects tourist numbers are down and the stock market fell to its lowest level in 7 months on tuesday rob mcbride has more from hong kong. Many passengers are still turning up tuesday evening at Hong Kongs International Airport to learn that their flights have indeed been cancelled there maybe stil
President says he doesnt want to merican stupid a more for things like laptops smartphones and video game console during the shopping season before christmas a White House Correspondent Kimberly Halkett has more. Financial markets are reacting positively to that news coming out of the u. S. Trade Representatives Office that there would be a delay in some of the tariffs put on chinese goods into the United States specifically when it comes to things like clothing toys even electronics now these are all things that americans buy and like to give as gifts during the busy december Holiday Shopping season now the president has been talking about this ongoing trade war with china and he says there is still optimism that this can be resolved that trade officials on both the u. S. Side and the chinese side have been talking and he feels there is still room for a deal. You. Know very. Well. With the sticking points of resolving this dispute between the United States and china concerns about int
In the concern in the us among these protesters that the closer we get to that deadline but the worse the situation here for them is going to be that were going to see a continuing deterioration of democracy in this country a deterioration of human rights of freedom of speech of freedom of assembly and that is why the people have come out so strongly over the past few weeks all right for the moment wayne hay live for us there in hong kong lets get the view from beijing now katrina you is standing by for us there in the Chinese Capital so its an open question as to how. Mainland china is going to be viewing this and how theyre going to respond to this. Well that is the question i mean certainly the people here in beijing with be watching this and asked this is something that they would have thought is unthinkable really from their perspective now. If so far its you know later tonight after midnight and we havent had any official response from beijing but its its been quiet here and in f
as the coronavirus crack the great wall of china people demand government action after the virus kills the daughter who sounded the alarm can china as the does contain the online anger about the cover up this isn t science story. hello welcome to the show i m sammy s a than china senses the internet more than just about anywhere in the world and i think critical of the government is usually immediately removed but the sense is a struggling to contain the outrage of the corona virus outbreak and there s widespread anger that the disease has killed one of the 1st doctors to sound the alarm over the new virus leigh when liang warned colleagues in december before he was arrested by police and forced to confess to spreading rumors uses of china s social media network way both described his death as a national humiliation even state media as backing public calls for government leaders to say sorry for silencing him. well there she did in the future i deeply regret his death and fee