Ill be back tomorrow. Mike will be here at the top of the hour. Now on bbc news. Hardtalk with stephen sackur. Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. The International Outcry prompted by chinas imposition of a draconian new National Security law in hong kong has been long and loud, but will it make any difference . Inside the territory itself, protests have been muted and the main pro democracy activist movement, well, its disbanded itself. My guest today was one of the founders of that movement, nathan law. He is now in exile here in london. So, is chinas hardline hong kong strategy working . Nathan law, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you for the invitation. Lets begin with your current situation. Why did you decide to flee hong kong . Well, as we all know, the hong kong government, well, at least accepted, or the Central Government directly enacted, the National Security law in hong kong, which. It is written in such a broad and fake term that could well possibly be used as a legal weap
White house chief strategist steve bannon, and in the middle of all of this senator ron johnson continues his deep dive into the russian collusion hoax and joining me live with breaking news on his obama gate investigation all that and a lot more as we look ahead right here right now on sunday morning futures. First up this morning a fox news alert as the National Guard is mobilizing 5,000 troops across 15 states and washington d. C. , our matt finn is reporting live on the ground in minneapolis. Matt what can you tell us . Reporter maria were around the corner from the fifth Police Precinct heavily targeted by violet looters and you can see the extensive damages to businesses here they were looted , set on fire and suffered water damage. Wells fargo bank across the street was also lit on fire and vandalized, and some good signs this morning, lots of city workers now helping clean up some of the devastation here and there were several nights in a row of destructive and violent riots he
At the ecb, Christine Lagarde says the central bank will be resolute on inflation. Manus we kick off bloomberg daybreak europe, waiting to hear exactly what the list of unreliable entities are from the chinese back to the u. S. Alive and well against argentina, brazil, france. That is the market angst in global trade. It is not going down. If anything, we are ratcheting higher. Man back at it, and this is the first time President Trump has explicitly tied tariffs to currency issues. We sigh risk on session yesterday and that started to sour in the u. S. On the terrace risk and on the factory data out of the u. S. After optimism around china. Manus of course, you are quite right. Interesting how his view on currencies the bloomberg john, crazy from like a fox in terms of understanding how currency markets move. The backs rose on a of issues. Socgen says the fed will cut 100 basis points year and the u. S. Faces Recession Risk, and you may see yields drop to 1. 2 . Bloomberg say if you s
On this International Day to end violence against women thousands rally across latin america trip to protest the alarming rate of time in size in the region plus another bout of extreme weather brings flooding and landslides to 3 European Countries. Thank you for joining as the United Nations is calling for calm in eastern democratic republic of congo after hundreds of protesters in the city of beni stormed un buildings and set fire to the Mayors Office at least 4 people were killed by gunfire but the u. N. Denies that its peacekeepers shot at anyone reports on why the compound was talk it. This is the moment protesters in beni rachele time from inside a United Nations compound. The libyan people accuse the u. N. Mission in the democrat. Sick republic of congo a failing to protect them against the allied Democratic Forces rebel groups. Determined to kick out one of the biggest peacekeeping missions in the world protesters stormed this u. N. Building and a few others. That was suffering
Holland it will or you merely need to do is look at the so cool protesters in hong kong and in my opinion they are no longer protests as they are militants look at the flats they are waving theyre waving american and british so lets look at the absolute theyre singing they are saying in the american and british out from look at the support the Political Support they are now citizens from america this week we had donald trump signed in seoul all. Package which condemns china and risks american tariffs because of the socalled ritesh and in hong kong so it is my opinions that american and British Services are tense in to the stabilized destabilized no right yes no it hong kong is a big revenue. Beijing well. You know what what is happening here is that theyre hurting themselves hong kong and in the process here demon one of the interesting things is that if you look at the media you know its all about democracy or you know why you think waving a British Colonial flag there was no democrac