Im Michael Oakley thanks for joining us we begin in hong kong where prodemocracy activists are brushing aside a legal setback to protest an emergency law banning face matts tens of thousands have been braving the rain to defy the treaty this even after Hong Kongs High Court refused to grant an injunction blocking the ban the territorys chief executive kerry imposed the measure on friday she said it was needed to prevent more violence prodemocracy activists hope the law can still be overturned the high court will hear their petition against the measure later this month. After the court ruling prodemocracy Lawmakers Said the face mask ban could say a dangerous precedent. There are extremely important constitutional implications coming out of this case because if the chief executive can be used and large and see housed in this way there is nothing stopping her from using it to do other things such as prolonging the Detention Time and to contravene the fundamental human rights and freedom
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Omarion evanston its good to have you with us tens of thousands of prodemocracy activists in hong kong are defying a newly introduced ban on wearing face masks during protests and thats despite a legal setback angry protesters clashed with police and then response authorities fired tear gas to disperse the crowds prodemocracy lawmakers had attempted to get the banned overturned but that was rejected by Hong Kongs High Court the territorys chief executive kerry lamb imposed emergency law and a ban on face masks on friday. Correspondent mathias building is following developments in hong kong and he joins us now for the latest so. The court has now rejected the challenge to the emergency law so how have protesters been responding to that decision. Well protesters are out again today where you have seen some of the pictures and it has been pretty much the same as in the other week and protesters coming out in big numbers in the beginning clashes erupt Police Firing tear gas i have witnesse
What the protesters did it was not just attack government buildings but they attacked Political Party headquarters which they burned and now in syria theyre chanting that syria is free of Political Parties and thats crucial because there is a political Crisis Brewing here as well a lot of the opposition politicians a lot of the religious parties are taking a look at this protest movement and theyre thinking to themselves its not going away if anything its getting bigger and more popular and theyre trying to appeal to the protest protestors in my report that you. See the speaker of the parliament hes been even more explicit in the last few hours saying that he wants to join the protest movement and whether the protest movement actually take him to. Actually blame politicians of all of the problems remains to be seen but what were seeing now is the biggest challenge to Prime Minister. Year old government hes appealed for calm he wants the protesters to give him a chance to put in place r
And the airwaves at the moment are just dominated by these in the church and proceedings i was listening to Stephen Miller a close advisor to President Trump this morning one of the architects of his immigration policy talking about this all being part of some kind of deep state inside job basically saying that the officials within the white house are trying to bring down the president but its important to note that the whistleblower he or she we dont know who they are they dont know their identity and the director of National Intelligence in a hearing before the Judiciary Committee said that that person followed the rules that they this was a credible report that needed to be followed up so that narrative is something i think were going to hear a lot from the republicans even from President Trump unself meanwhile the democrats staying laser focused on this call between selenski and President Trump because this issue is far simpler to explain far simpler to. See what the actual damage