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
Gangs overseas, sometimes as far flung as not just the middle east, but the far east. Two this is a global and sprawling problem , and there are some big problem, and there are some Big Questions about labour roping in spooks from mi5 to start to deal with it. They seem to have won over Natalie Elphicke , their new over Natalie Elphicke, their new conservative defector. But is it all as it seems . After all, she once said that Yvette Cooper did not have a plan at all and that the labour party was simply an open door immigration party. Has she changed her tune or has the labour party . I want your views. Gbnews. Com forward slash. Your say is the way to get involved in this program. Well be getting to those as we analyse what precisely the labour party is proposing all that to come and so much more, including a sit down interview with the Prime Minister after your headunes Prime Minister after your headlines with sofia. Headlines with sofia. Tom. Thank you. Good afternoon. Its 12 02. Im
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He makes it look easy right now. And the United States is onto the quarterfinals. This was a tremendous routine. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today at the Olympic Games with matt lauer live from rio de janeiro, brazil, and Savannah Guthrie live from rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to a split edition from rio and new york. Can we start by saying its a Beautiful Day. Can we show you a shot of the most decorated u. S. Woman in olympic track and field history. That is Allyson Felix. She now has [ applause ] a dramatic finish to the 400 also it was the finish that people will be watching for a long, long time. It was a dive that ended in basically a photo finish. Today is also the final day of gymnastics. Simone biles is looking to bounce back on the floor. She finally proved by the way that shes human, all right. She lost her balance on the beam. Ende you have to give it to 16yearold Laurie Hernandez. She made the most of her lone individual even