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
Screen completely different from yesterday and will call it a modest rebound but it was the big tech stocks that fueled the selloff in today though stocks also seen a modest rebound, certainly not recovering the losses theyve seen over the last three days but nevertheless they are back in the green. Take a look at tesla, that stock has lost around one third of its value in just one week. But look at it go today up nearly 7 and by the way well talk to the former Vice President of tesla coming up in this hour. Also tesla rival nikola solid spike after announcing the partnership with gm and come up will talk to the company ceo about the electric Vehicle Market in the fierce and growing competition. Meanwhile talking about competition in the race for the white house joe biden traveling to battleground states michigan to tout his new made in america plan, this ahead of the president s visit tomorrow and this morning by the way President Trump nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize by a member of
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