hey, everybody. good morning to you. i m yasmin vossoughian here at msnbc headquarters in new york city. speaker nancy pelosi s husband violently attacked in the couple s home overnight. what we know about the attack and mr. pelosi s condition at this hour. plus, it s official, the world s wealthiest man now in charge of one of the most powerful global tools for spreading information. twitter. the changes he s looking to make there. could we see a return of one former notorious tweeter? the former president. a big boost in the peach state showdown between raphael warnock and herschel walker. tonight barack obama hitting the campaign trail in the state of georgia with just 11 days to go until the midterms. early voting already breaking records there. how much of a difference will this make? and right now alarm bells sounding across this country. doctors, hospitals overwhelmed by a new challenge. covid-19 combined with a potentially bad influenza season and now we re se
raining. the outer band still lashing puerto rico. t a least four deaths reported so far. emergency crews have rescued more than 1,000 people. the efforts are still ongoing as responders try to get to people in hard to reach areas. parts of puerto rico are still recovering from hurricane maria that made landfall there five years ago today. cnn s leyla santiago is live for us in san juan. what are you hearing? brianna and john, as i checked in with families this morning, if you were in san juan, the metropolitan area, there is a small portion of areas that have had power restored. they are getting water back this morning. but if you are in the interior, if you were on the southern coast, really hit hard by hurricane fiona, there is still no power, no water. there are still people at shelters, and there are still crews trying to get access to some areas because of that flooding. i know you went over a lot of the numbers in terms of how much water has come down, the deaths
the minister of humanitarian affairs told journalists that more than 1.3 million people had been displaced in the worst now on bbc news, it s hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. in the increasingly overt struggle between western liberal democracy and authoritarianism, hong kong s position is unique. it is chinese sovereign territory granted special autonomous status under a handover deal done with britain. many hong kongers hoped that deal would guarantee theirfreedoms, but those hopes have been crushed. my guest is ted hui, a hong kong pro democracy politician exiled in australia and convicted in absentia by a hong kong court. has beijing neutralised hong kong s dissenters? ted hui in adelaide, australia, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. my pleasure to talk to you. you, of course, arejoining me from australia because you fled from your home, from hong kong, in late 2021, and you said you left with a very heavy heart. did you also leave with a sense of defeat? i
my guest is ted hui, a hong kong pro democracy politician exiled in australia and convicted in absentia by a hong kong court. has beijing neutralised hong kong s dissenters? thank you. my pleasure to talk to you. you, of course, arejoining me from australia because you fled from your home, from hong kong, in late 2021, and you said you left with a very heavy heart. did you also leave with a sense of defeat? i don t, because. it s common that people might think that way. it s like an escapist guilt. but as long as i m still fighting, as long as i m still speaking up for hong kong s freedom and democracy, doing my lobbying works and advocacy work, i don t feel that at all. i feel that it s a new battleground for me to speak out so that the world hears hong kong. you fled whilst facing charges. you were on bail. did it come as a surprise to you, what happened to you? cos you d been a legislator in the legislative council, you d been an activist on the streets. i m just wondering