Decision to limit voters choices in a 2017 leadership election. Strau translator we must stand up and teach younger generations what democracy means and what real freedom means. Hong kongs chief executive spoke at a ceremony to mark chinas national day. I know there are different ideas, but a direct election is definitely better than an indirect one. They have not responded to protesters requests to meet with them. Theyre demanding he step down. We hope that hell resign by tonight or by thursday. Otherwise, well escalate our protest movement and occupy or surround different government buildings. Protesters say they wont leave the streets until the demands are met. They say theyre mobilizing more demonstrators over the internet. The protests have left people divided. Nhk world reports. The protesters in hong kong are the largest in is years. Beijing has placed one country two systems. Protesters are weary of that promise. This University Student joined the front line of the protests. Th
Choices in a 2017 leadership election. Strau translator we must stand up and teach younger generations what democracy means and what real freedom means. Hong kongs chief executive spoke at a ceremony to mark chinas national day. I know there are different ideas, but a direct election is definitely better than an indirect one. They have not responded to protesters requests to meet with them. Theyre demanding he step down. We hope that hell resign by tonight or by thursday. Otherwise, well escalate our protest movement and occupy or surround different government buildings. Protesters say they wont leave the streets until the demands are met. They say theyre mobilizing more demonstrators over the internet. The protests have left people divided. Nhk world reports. The protesters in hong kong are the largest in is years. Beijing has placed one country two systems. Protesters are weary of that promise. This University Student joined the front line of the protests. The 19yearold is worried th
[speaking foreign language] the school now lies empty, ghostly remembrances of what has happened here, strewn across the playground. The worlds tention will once again moveon from syria, but for those whose lives have been torn apart by war, the suffering continues. A journalist who has been visiting syria for some time, she joins me now. Thank you for being with us. Some people say that there has been rather too much concentration on chemical weapons and what they can do, yet this report really ss very powerfully why getting rid of chemical weapons is so important. Yes, but the thing is that the chemical weapons have only contributed to a very small percentage of the more than 100,000 deaths that have been recorded in the two and a half years syrian conict. Most people are killed by conventional weapons. Very few people are talking about what is happening on that front. Apart from the weapons, there is simply the humanitarian consciousness. Your report mentioned those displaced inside
Us to pass what was an unpaid for Prescription Drug benefit. My members, the caucus in the house felt this unpaid law was thrust upon us without due consideration and at that time when we shouldnt be racking up further debt. Many of us on my side of the aisle were literally reeling with anger after it passed. It also passed in ways with which we disagreed, in the middle of the night literally. The desk in the house was kept open for four hours in order to find those votes. I was angry, i voted against that Prescription Drug benefit. I was as angry as some of my colleagues were when the Affordable Care act passed over three years ago. So what i wha did i do . I what did i do . I took a deep breath. Listened to counsel of people i respect, listened to my own counsel. I decided to start town halls and listening sessions so i could help my constituents sign up for it. I knew it was the law of the land, like obamacare is today, and i wanted my constituents to be best served by its implement
They will go crazy. The movies that have total immersion entertainment, not just a flat screen with sound. Thats the movies of today but total internal, total emotional content. And perhaps in the far future, talking the next century, if we have a disk with your memories, thoughts on it, perhaps we can send it into our space. In fact, we can send it on a laser beam at the speed of light. This may be the way to explore the galaxy, to send data into outer space at the speed of light on a laser being to explore the universe. So now let me close on a note and then take some questions from the audience, and then ill sign your book. And just remember, after i signed your book you can go to ebay and make money and auction them off. [laughter] let me end on one last note. When i was a child, i had a role model. And i idolized albert einstein. My favorite einstein story is this. When einstein was an old man he was tired of giving the same talk over and over again. So one day someone came up to