Seriously. Im on me and he said good to have you with us more than 300 people have been arrested in hong kong at a bend demonstration reports say at least 10 arrests were made under a controversial new security law imposed by beijing the law makes it illegal to advocate independence from china and carries stiff penalties up to life in prison prodemocracy activists worry this could be the end of hong kongs autonomy. Despite the new law will and a ban on holding marches doing that corona pandemic hundreds of protesters showed up. After a short warning it just took minutes for the police to roll into action i. One protester was arrested for holding the hong kong independence flag dozens small were arrested later. At a News Conference prodemocracy lawmakers found themselves in a peace our situation now not allowed to speak english or address the media. I usually say a few words of english today the National Community and the media but the high court. Because of this law. If i say anything
Autonomy. A moment is of good to have you with us u. S. President donald trump is dismissing allegations that russia paid bounties to taliban linked fighters to kill u. S. Troops in afghanistan and claims that his administration failed to act on the intelligence its not clear how many u. S. Casualties in afghanistan are under suspicion but the white house is coming under increasing pressure from lawmakers of both parties to provide answers. 3 American Marines killed by a car bomb in afghanistan planted by the taliban the radical Islamist Group allegedly received a bounty for the i. P. O. 2019 attack thats according to a report by the New York Times which details a Money Transfer from russian. Intelligence services to a bank account linked to the taliban the American Secret Services have reportedly known about the transfer for months the allegations have set the white house on the defensive did President Trump know about the alleged russian bounty as the New York Times article suggests.
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The land and the people of West Virginia its a beautiful and powerful film but she has also been covering the recent protests against Police Brutality so well be getting into that as well later in the show naomi here vani will break down the militarization of our police and i wonder is really will get into the insurrection act of 18007 which trump said he wants to use to go to war with protesters but 1st heres my interview with eleanor goldfish eleanor thanks for journeying all the way from our podcast to my show i appreciate it. Thanks so much for having i want to get to the new film in a moment but lets start with the nationwide black lives matter protests youve been at some of them as have i but you were pepper sprayed and saw some harsh Police Action can you talk about that and how journalists have been treated so far in these protests. Yeah i think its an interesting thing that the folks kind of erupted in shock folks that arent already familiar with alternative journalists and an
Reporters were arrested during the minneapolis protests everyone lost their minds like this is so unamerican and when i went to the protest here in washington d. C. Roughly a week ago i remember connecting with a fellow journalist friend of mine and we both kind of chuckled at that like really thats unamerican because im pretty sure thats very american you know this is something that weve had to deal with both as activists but also journalists who try to report on these things from the front lines places that often times reporters from Corporate Media dont even go you know im thinking about like pipeline fights and things like that where journalists just like the activists that they were courting on are routinely brutalized by the police and other Law Enforcement agencies so the idea that this is somehow a new is really absurd its just because of the scale of these protests and because Corporate Media was actually paying attention and then got into the line of fire with other journalis