It s not only one type of employee or skilled employee we can t find, it is the whole range of employees in our industry. but ministers insist that part of the point of brexit is to encourage employers to recruit and train workers already in the country. vicki young, bbc news, westminster. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story is. hong kong s leading pro democracy newspaper apple daily is hong kong s leading pro-democracy newspaper apple daily is newspaper apple daily is publishing its final addition newspaper apple daily is publishing its final addition after newspaper apple daily is publishing its final addition after sustained - its final addition after sustained pressure from the authorities. britney spears is due to address a court in los angeles in the next two hours, as she continues her attempts to remove her father as controller of her finances. this is britney spears. her $60 million estate has been under the control of legal guardians since 2
Cleared from the deck, so to speak, there are some smaller online platforms that might be next. with that said, that s a negative side of things, but the positive side is that there has been a lot of saluting of the people, of the journalists at the apple daily, as well as pride in its founder, jimmy lai. now, in prison and could be in prison for the rest of his life. everyone here who has been a supporter of the pro democracy movement has looked up tojimmy lai as well as apple daily to try to be their voice when they could not speak up or when they became fearful of the government trying to target them over the past year or so. apple daily was one of hong kong s biggest newspapers with a strong circulation, around 80,000 copies a day. as as business it was solid too financial records at the end of march showed it had more than 500 million hong kong dollars cash in the bank, that s around 70 million us. it s clear apple daily would, have continued, had it and its employees staff
Destinations added to the so called green list with no quarantine required. and britney spears will get her day in court. she s tried to overturn a legal arrangement which gives her father sweeping control over much of her life. back to our top story now, and we re going to look more in depth at what is apple daily and how did we get to where we are today? apple daily is one of the most popular newspapers in hong kong and it s closing. this is the story of how it found itself at the centre of beijing s efforts to restrict press freedom in hong kong. we ll start on july 2019. this was one of a series of protests against a new extradition bill in hong kong. a bill that would have made it easier to extradite people to mainland china. the protests were covered by apple daily. the founder of the paper is the businessmenjimmy lai. and injuly 2019, he met then us
Russia sees from the ukraine. moscow has called it a violation. at britney spears is going to have her day in court, she tried to overturn a legal arrangement against her father sweep the control over much of her life. one of hong kong s biggest newspapers has shut down in what s been described as a major defeat for free speech in the territory. apple daily has often been criticial of the beijing government and supports the democracy movement. after the authorities seized its assets and arrested senior staff it decided to close. this is the final edition thursday s being printed. these copies will soon hit the newstands in hong kong for the final time. let s look at what led to this moment. it reads hound congers bid a fitting
Advertise in pro democracy papers, their market might suffer in the mainland. so apple daily has been the key outlet that people go to. also there is the difficulty of online media, if they struggle to get authorisation for certain events because print media takes precedent. so it s extremely difficult for pro democracy media to really survive in hong kong now. and there s a lot of rights groups that have said hong kong s press freedom has diminished in recent years. always appreciate you coming on, thanks very much. two covid 19 updates for you. in a moment we ll turn to australia but first, the uk. people in the travel industry are taking part in a day of protests. they re calling for the list of countries deemed safe for tourists to be expanded,