Im michael okun welcome to the program at least 90 people have been arrested in hong kong in protests against the governments decision to postpone Elections Police fired pepper balls at prodemocracy campaigner protesters are angry that authorities will hold elections to the citys Legislature Next july instead of this sunday authorities have blamed the coronavirus pandemic for the delay antigovernment protesters have been held across since june last year. And correspondent phebe kong joins us now from hong kong by phone phebe hundreds of people are protesting there today against the press boning of the elections what exactly are they worried about. Yeah i have been writing that sos has all i said all afternoon in hong kong today and all this week with her protests so kind of like give me back my clothes and i want to kind of like those guys on the street so today i originally on this is just an election day one of the most important election in a city. Like this and so it acts like a st
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A tell all memoir. Further damage the president. And the Venice Film Festival gets underway but might not be quite what you expect our film critic at the scene to tell us behind the. Im glad to have you with us at least 90 people have been arrested in hong kong in protest against the governments decision to postpone Elections Police fired pepper balls at prodemocracy campaigners. Angry that authorities will hold elections to the citys Legislature Next july instead of this sunday authorities have blamed the coronavirus pandemic for the delay government protests have been held across hong kong since last june i. And. Joins us from hong kong now phebe hundreds of people. Today against the push phoning of the elections what exactly are they worried about. Im not that i at least have to lloyd have to tell it to Disperse Protesters hours ago and now some skeptics system nowadays and. Its on the street not leaving them like in months is that they dont want to protest against a decision off th
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