Bbc. Co. Uk news and the news app. Now on bbc news, live to singapore for Asia Business report. Hong kong violence flares. How the ongoing unrest threatens to push the Asian Financial hub deeper into recession. And yahoo japan mergers. They confirm its plan to create the countries exist internet company. Hello and welcome to Asia Business report. We start with hong kong because police have moved on hundreds of protesters occupying a University Campus after a long stand off. University campus after a long sta nd off. Protesters a re Polytechnic University have been hurling petrol bombs and shooting arrows at police from behind barricades and that comes in the latest fla reu p barricades and that comes in the latest flareup of Anti Government demonstrations that have convulsed the city for over five months. The u nrest the city for over five months. The unrest has already pushed hong kong into its first recession in a decade with concerns that the ongoing protest will trigger a longer an
Helped define the 1960s, the photographer terry oneill has died. First to hong kong, where i want to build up a picture of rapidly moving events, in the last few minutes we have seen these pictures of at least a0 people arrested near Polytechnic University. The people were detained outside hotel icon on Science Museum road. The university has been the scene of intense clashes between Anti Government protesters and police over the weekend. At 5 30am local time, the police advanced in to the huge campus. Protestors set the main entrance on fire. Police used tear gas and water cannon. Our correspondent gabriel gatehouse witnessed events. The assault on the campus started about five minutes ago. We saw several dozen black clad Police Officers suddenly materialise out of nowhere and start storming the place. They were firing rubber bullets and tear gas and in response, the protesters unleashed all the petrol bombs they had, sometimes hurling whole boxes at a time which caused two huge fires
First to hong kong where i want to build up a picture of rapidly moving events, in the last few minutes we have seen these pictures of at least a0 people arrested near Polytechnic University. The people were detained outside hotel icon on Science Museum road. The university has been the scene of intense clashes between Anti Government protesters and police over the weekend. At 5 30am local time, the police advanced in to the huge campus. Protestors set the main entrance on fire. Police used tear gas and water cannon. Our correspondent gabriel gatehouse witnessed events. The assault on the campus started about five minutes ago. We saw several dozen black clad Police Officers suddenly materialise out of nowhere and start storming the place. They were firing rubber bullets and tear gas and in response, the protesters unleashed all the petrol bombs they had, sometimes hurling whole boxes at a time which caused two huge fires at the main entrances to the campus. You may be able to hear a fi
First to hong kong, where i want to build up a picture of some rapidly moving events. A short time ago, saw pictures of at least a0 people arrested near the Polytechnic University. They were detained outside hotel icon on Science Museum road. The universitys been the scene of intense clashes between Anti Government protesters and police throughout the weekend. At 5 30am local time, the police advanced into the huge campus. Protesters set fire to a barricade on the main entrance. Police used tear gas and water cannon. Our correspondent gabriel gatehouse witnessed events. The assault on the gap is has started about five minutes ago. We saw several dozen like clad Police Officers suddenly materialise out of nowhere and start storming the place. They were firing rubber bullets and tear gas, and in response the protesters only stole the petrol bombs they had, sometimes hurling hold boxes at a time which has caused two fires at the main entrances at the campus. Everyone is milling around, th
Here and also coming up firming up their grip on power sri lankas new president appoints his brother to be Prime Minister. And a show of support for hong kongs protesters as the u. S. Congress threatened sanctions if human rights are not held. A man once considered to be an ally of donald trump has publicly stated the president wanted to withhold military aid to ukraine in exchange for an investigation into his political rival americas ambassador to the European Union testified before the impeachment inquiry into the u. S. President on wednesday hes gotten some deal and he also implicated other top officials saying quote everyone was in the loop alan fischer reports from washington. From the u. S. Ambassador to the e. U. Stunning testimony and said it was abundantly clear to everyone ukraine would not receive military aid from the u. S. Or a meeting at the white house unless it announced an investigation into a Company Connected to the son of political opponent question joe biden was t