Administer chinas takeover of hong kong. Blake burman is at the white house as we await the president s remarks. Blake, what are you hearing from the folks at the white house about what he will be telling us . Reporter hi, there, lou. One source telling me the president will make remarks about china, upcoming a press conference from the rose garden we expect to hear from the president moments from now. You mentioned reuters report about hong kong, the autonomy act passed by congress. Keep in mind with one thing on that, the president , that was signed or passed, rather by both the house and the senate, overwhelming support earlier this month, without getting too granular, the way that it works is, the president has to sign that into law or at least take action on that, give or take within 10 days. That puts the clock at about that time that the president would have to take some sort of action as today, on the hong kong autonomy act which would allow, call for sanctions on certain indiv
With looking at you, sorkin you are on a huge, huge screen you havent seen that. No one has a tv set. How big is that thing . 108 can you get one of these. A little too close. Back it up a little. I almost said this morning, futures down this morning after yesterdays yesterdays 300point gain so, okay they are down today. How do you sell this it was weird yesterday, wasnt it all morning long virus and all of this. End of the day, i looked it up up 300 i dont know look, the problem is that these swings we are seeing, weve all become kind of unnerved to it that was only after a loss from the day before we are looking at these up and down swings. The dow right now is still down for the week the nasdaq is indicated up for the week well continue to watch that looking at u. S. Equity futures the dow was up 300 points and the s p up 33. Nasdaq up 107 points also up about 1. 7 this morning, nasdaq is hanging in there up about 6 points and s p is off just over 3. 5 points. Yesterday, the 10year
A 13 year old whos taken on the job of filling teacher in gaza during the pandemic. After months of protests in hong kong against the Central Government china plans to introduce a new nor to clamp down on protesters its expected to rubber stamp National Security laws at its biggest political gathering the u. S. Has warned that it will respond strongly in beijing to respect on kongs autonomy katrina you reports. On the eve of Chinas National Peoples Congress the announcement of a terrorist National Security law which criminalizes secession foreign interference and a subversion of state power in hong kong jungle could be asians entry hong kong as an inseparable part of the peoples republic of china the m. P. C. Is the highest organ of state power in light of new circumstances and need the n. P. C. Is exercising the power enshrined in the constitution to establish and improve at the state level a Legal Framework and enforcement mechanism for safeguarding National Security in hong kong. Th
Decision. And why football fans are rejoicing in costa rica as the country gets closer to its goal of defeating the corona virus outbreak. Chinas unveiled plans to rebuild an economy badly hit by coronavirus and clamp down on the protest movement in Hong Kong Premier League has shown that laid out the program for the next year in the opening address to the annual National Peoples congress a few hours ago it in the set of growth target for the economy is the 1st time thats happened in decades hes also told more than 3000. 00 delegates that new laws will be introduced to ensure National Security in hong kong were going to speak to adrian brown in hong kong in a moment 1st lets go to katrina you in the Chinese Capital katrinas presently Given Premier League i should say giving a confident message that china has covert 99 to control but he has been more cautious when it comes to the economy. Thats right cautious being the operative term and we had a hefty speech 23 pages got here but actua
Closer to its goal of eradicating coronavirus. Hong kongs government says it will work with beijing to introduce a new National Security law soon as possible Chinese Premier League announced the bill at the annual National Peoples congress now expecting more details later but its believed the bands addition secession and subversion of the Central Government in the semi autonomous region territory news of the plan has already been met with protests in hong kong and leading prodemocracy figures are calling it the end of the one country 2 systems principle lets go straight over to adrian brown in hong kong so what does reaction look like now adrian. Well sadly this has been a very dark day for those people here in this city state who were d already worried about hong kongs autonomy and where it was going are china has said that it wants to enact this new law because its worried about the growing threats from subversion also foreign interference and also separatism and it says this is a la