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The bloomberg candidacy. He is bypassing the caucuses and primaries. His eye is on super tuesday. Our phone lines are open, 202 7488001 is the line for republicans, 202 7488000 if you are a democrat and 202 7488002 if you are an independent. We are also taking her text messages, that phone number is 202 7488003. Be sure to tell us where you are texting from and your good name. Good sunday morning. We begin with president ial politics. We are in the february season of caucuses and primaries. All eyes are on the nevada caucuses a week from saturday. Virginia is a key state for bloombergs super tuesday strategy. If there is a state or Democrat Michael bloomberg could expect a return on investment, it is virginia. By investing millions, bloomberg helped democrats take back the statehouse last fall with full control of government in virginia, democrats have started pushing through legislation on everything from gun control to gayrights. The state could serve as the centerpiece of the strate
Cleared off the streets of hong kong where they block those main highways off guard is in the Central Business district which is where we are now and traffic has returned to normal that these protests were nisshin just about the anger of the extradition bill but the anger over the message is now broader these protesters want beijing to withdraw or restraint pull back from its tightening grip on hong kong that we have more rallies planned again next weekend i should also start there was a separate incident last night in a place called good long which is in the New Territories where we had a group of people wearing a white we targeted those protesters returning from yesterday as much as another in the mob wearing white they were holding a big metal devices and they beat those passages i think journalists and they beat politicians who tried to escape from the trying to avoid these violent confrontations and now the police have defended themselves they took some time to attend 10 this part
A significant sector of the population has been protesting for days i am aware of the dissatisfaction and the uneasiness that you feel your right to express yourself will always be safeguarded by our constitution to which puerto rican i have heard you and i hear you today i have made mistakes and i have apologized i am a man of good that has a great love for my island and for everyone. Gabriel and his aunt who has more from san juan. Huge protests are planned for here in san juan puerto rico and all over the island actually organizers saying they expect hundreds of thousands of people it was planning to be the biggest protest so far since this crisis began the biggest political crisis this island is ever seen and so up to see on monday how big these protests are to see how much of a game changer this is i will tell you though having been here for a week and talking to everyone i was asking people even before this saying if he said he would not run for reelection but wanted to stay in p
A document a sick piece of security a letter of undertaking a promise to pay a certain amount on settlement or final judgment an appeal ok that gets around the world all the time theres a confusion in the world now between sanctions and simple civil rights all right on that note i have to leave it there we thank you very much to all of my guests which i have any ari show the icon of Lawrence Brennan thanks very much for joining us and thanks for watching the show you can see the program again any time by visiting our website aljazeera dot com you can have further discussion by going to our Facebook Page thats facebook dot com forward slash a. J. And type story you can also join the conversation on twitter our handle is a j inside story for myself and the whole team here and buy a sprint. Perception is validation we believe want to be seen but in one life time we cannot see everything that we would lie experiences of others and the legacy of previous generations. Of that testimony we le