In two mass shootings. President trump condemns extremism but stops short of announcing tighter gun controls. Announcer live from our studios in singapore and london. This is bbc world news. Its newsday. Good morning. Its 8am in singapore, 1am in london and 8am in hong kong, where the residents are waking up after yet another day of widespread disruption. Police arrested 82 protestors as tens of thousands of people took to the streets in the territorys first general strike in more than 50 years. Protests spread right across the territory, with major roads blocked, public transport severely delayed and more than 200 flights cancelled. The normally buzzing city was brought to a standstill. Our correspondent nick beake has this report. Hong kongs deepening crisis is exposing a dangerous clash of cultures. Pro democracy activists, dressed in black, fought street battles with men loyal to the beijing backed government. Violence rained for a third day running and this, one of more than 1,000
Speaking as the crowd at a big move on big ideas summit forum encourage her harris to come back. Harris as you can see was just fine. This happened at the democratic gathering in San Francisco. She was fielding questions. The protester popped out of the audience. Direct action everywhere claimed responsibility for the disruption. It is an animal activist group. It is unclear at the protest it will face charges. Harris is one of more than a dozen president ial candidates for the state Democratic Convention. Melissa is at missoni center. Reporter here in the Convention Center 11 candidates gave speeches today. You might think kratz give speeches the democrats would be an easy go. While it was generally warmly received some speakers got the audience participation. Reporter former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper did not get a warm reception. He said america has problems but socialism is not the solution. In response he was booed. If we are not careful we are going to end up helping to
The Senate Committee on health, education, labor and pensions will come to order. Let me get to the point of this hearing. Today in our country, over 60 about where people are living paycheck to paycheck. And millions are working for starvation wages. Unbelievably, despite an explosion in technology and huge increases worker productivity, the average American Worker is making 50 a week less then he or she made 50 years ago after adjusting for inflation. Unless we change the nature of the way our economy works, it is all too likely that our Younger Generation will have a lower standard of living then their parents. What this means in reality is that workers throughout our country are struggling to pay for housing, struggling to pay for health care, and prescription drugs, struggling to put food on the table. Struggling to pay off their student debts and to deal with other basic sensitize of life basic necessities of life. And while that is the reality for the working class of this count
Station. The crews splashed down off the east coast of florida. Cnn this morning starts right now. Good morning, everyone. I often see these moments at burning man and think interesting, probably something ill never be a part of. Except this weekend everybody seemed to care about it because everyone was stuck. Yeah, it is an Epic Burning Man id say. They always say it but this one actually is. Just hour fwrs s from now roads finally reopen. Organizers will make the decision this morning. Roads leading in and out of festival have been shut down since saturday after heavy rain created ankle deep mud. Officials say the thick mud made it virtually impossible for cars, buses and rvs to leave. A lot of people walked for miles through the mud to get out. And here you can see some vehicles that tried to leave but became hopelessly stuck. So much water. We are flooded. Well be stuck here at least a couple days. This is nuts. This is what people have been trudging through for days now. Festivalg
Former partner, who was convicted of assaulting two women. However, the labour chair, anneliese dodds, says shes already been held to account. Well, those were very , very well, those were very, very serious issues. The Sexual Assault that was rightly prosecuted. And of course, there was a parliamentary process that followed that, including a parliamentary process that appued parliamentary process that applied to Natalie Elphicke. So its absolutely right that there was accountability there. Its an incredibly important matter. Every workplace , including every workplace, including parliament, has got to be free of sexual harassment. Of sexual harassment. And the home office has removed figures on french efforts to stop small boat launches from its website. The u turn comes a little more than a week after it first started publishing the data. In an effort to show cooperation between french and uk authorities. Well, the most recent figures had shown french authorities stopped more than a