Journalists around this that, you know, this was shut down. And much of that has now been admitted to in the conversation welcome to hardtalk. In the wake of this book. Im sarah montague. The journalist ronan farrow won a Pulitzer Prize for his investigation but it is not the same catch of Harvey Weinstein. His revelations about the film and kill practice in the literal producer prompted an outpouring sense which involves the acquisition of rage at the way women had been treated and triggered the metoo of the rights to a story in a financial transaction, movement an attempt at breaking and then the killing of it. The silence around Sexual Assault. Ok, now nbc would probably not i mean, they rebut a lot in his new book catch and kill, hes posing difficult questions of the allegations that about the powerful media youve made about them, institutions he says tried but why do you think, to suppress the story. When you where there working so how did the hollywood insider, for them and tryin
Investigation. The bribe is to. And a low birthrate crisis in south korea is an opportunity for these grandmothers to go back to school. Hello, its 9 00am in singapore, 1 00am in london and 9 00am in beijing, where chinas president has made his strongest comments yet on hong kong. Xi jinping called on the territory to restore order and bring an end to the violence following the latest violent protests. Chinas president also warned that the unrest could threaten the principle of one country, two systems, under which hong kong has had significant autonomy from beijing. Earlier, protesters barricaded themselves in University Campuses in anticipation of possible police raids. Verna yu is a freelance journalist based in hong kong. Yes, i actually believe this is the first time that president xijinping has spoken out on the issue. Previously, in the communique of a key Party Meeting over a week ago, they made a pretty strong statement about the signalling the need for tighter control in hong
And now we have the best of the weeks exclusive interviews and reports from the Victoria Derbyshire programme. This group of men all of whom have lost a close relative or friend to knife crime have told this programme they feel ignored when it comes to grieving for their loved one. In the year up to march this year, there were round 43,500 knife crime offences across the uk. That is an 80 increase over the previous five years. The number of People Killed with knifes has been steadily rising since 2015. Back in march this year, we spoke to m mums all of whom had lost a son to knife crime. They told us then how it had affected them and what they wanted the authorities to do to stop it happening to others. Now we have brought together 13 dads, brothers, uncle, dads, brothers, uncles, cousins and friends, who have all experienced the same thing. I am going to ask each of you first of all if i may, if you could tell our audience who you have lost and what that person meant to you. My names
And coming up, was this song from the biggest album of the 21st century . Hello, and welcome. Turkish forces have continued to strike targets in North Eastern syria on the fourth day of their offensive against kurdish militias. Pressure is building in the United States to stop turkey continuing its military operation. Kurdish Authorities Say more than 190,000 people have been displaced as result of the turkish incursion, triggered by president trumps decision to withdraw us troops. Turkey says it wants to create a 20 mile deep buffer zone across the syrian border, what it calls a safe zone, free of kurdish militias. From akcakale on the turkish side of the border, our middle east correspondent martin patience sent this report. Despite the growing international pressure, turkeys not backing down. At the border, the build up continues. As turkey claims its taking control of a key syrian town. This pro turkish fighter says theyve just entered ras al ayn. Almost immediately, theres incomin
Boats than this to take the journey, and the owners here say it is far too dangerous. Climate activist Greta Thunberg arrives in new york, after 15 days crossing the atlantic, to minimise carbon emissions. A warm welcome to the programme, briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. And you can be part of the conversation. Tell us what you think, just use the hashtag bbcthebriefing. Good morning from a chilly westminster, where the news is still sinking in of borisjohnsons decision to prorogue or suspend parliament for more than four weeks. Theres fierce criticism here of the decision, which was requested by the Prime Minister and approved by the queen it means members of parliament who want to prevent the uk leaving the European Union without a deal have even less time to do that. Outside downing street, in cities gcioss outside downing street, in cities across the united kingdom, protests against borisjohnsons across the united kingdom, protests against Bo