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Good morning and welcome to the bbc news at 9 00. Riot police have used pepper spray and batons during clashes with protesters in hong kong overnight, on the 22nd anniversary of its shift from british to chinese rule. The protests are the latest against a law that would allow suspected criminals to be sent to Mainland China to facejustice. The Hong Kong Government has since suspended the plan, but protesters want it to be scrapped altogether. This is obviously the scene that you see as protesters are outside Government Assembly buildings. Lets go live now to our correspondent Karishma Vaswani whos in hong kong for us. In the last few minutes we have seen protesters arriving from the march that began at victoria street. The scenes behind me, people chanting. This is the group of pro democracy protesters that have been marching from Victoria Park annually. This is what they do but this year it has taken a special what they do but this year it has ta ken a special symbolism what they do b
More than a decade after ba naz mahmods death in a so called honour killing, her sister speaks out for the first time. The moment you choose to ignore actually what happened and not talk about it, you will never get past it. And 13 years on, we still havent had that conversation. Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Riot police have used pepper spray and batons during clashes with protesters in hong kong overnight, on the 22nd anniversary of its handover from british to chinese rule. The protests are the latest against a law that would allow suspected criminals to be sent to Mainland China to facejustice. Lets have a look at the live pictures from the streets of hong kong. You can see the numbers are building, there is always a dispute on at that between the protesters and the police. This is the third enormous demonstration weve seen in hong kong in the past month. The organisers typically say the figures are aroundi organisers typically say the figures are around 1 million. Th
Straight day of declines the nasdaq trying to snap a twoday losing streak. Industrials the worst performing sector following a downgrade of 3m, and for more on all of this and what is sending the dow lower today, lets go to bob pisani at the New York Stock Exchange an important thing, scotty, here is were down three days in a row, and this is not so much i would call searching for direction as i would say that we really need to figure out where the market is going. Were waiting for news, essentially here were waiting to see if the fed really decides they needed to cut rates aggressively, we really need to see if there is any progress on trade. And we really need to find out if the earnings estimates are too high going into the second half of the year take a look at some stocks moving here. The good news, the low print was at the open. I see semiconductors like advanced mike row are doing well, all the metals have had a terrible year. They have no traction at all amazon has a new breako
Described as cold blood. Norah. Imtiaz tyab. Thank you. For a look at how the weather will impact the fires in the days ahead as well as a potentially historic blizzard on the west coast, lets bring in meteorologist mike bettes. Hes from our partners at the weather channel. Good evening, mike. Norah, good evening. Unfortunately the weathers not leng matters across the lone star state. We know dry and windy conditions will persist into the weekend. We have fire weather watches and red flag warnings extending from new mexico and texas all the way into iowa through saturday. And heres the major factor in all this. Significant wind picking back up, especially this weekend, where winds may be gusting as high as 50 miles per hour. Again, fanning those flames. We expect rapid spread of the fire to continue. The rain thats falling actually falls well to the east of where the Smokehouse Creek fire is burning here in the panhandle of texas. Then our attention turns to the west. Weve got a monste