Im melissa chan welcome to news asia thank you for joining us we start with china where often weve looked at how beijing polices its own citizens online activities but the country has growing Digital Power beyond its borders we saw that recently when pro china bots and users campaigned against american basketball executive who tweeted his support to hong kong protesters we know china is actively trying to influence the Upcoming Elections in taiwan and a few weeks ago facebook and twitter announced they took down thousands of state coordinated china backed pages accounts meant to influence Public Opinion Facebooks Mark Zuckerberg pledged to be vigilant this week he said we face increasingly sophisticated attacks from nation states like russia iran and china but im confident were more prepared. Beijing was asked about these accusations including whether china might be influencing the u. S. Elections the Foreign Ministry deny doing anything wrong but would you that you know that i think t
A crime school. Im melissa chan welcome to news asia thank you for joining us we start with china where often weve looked at how beijing polices its own citizens online activities but the country has growing Digital Power beyond its borders we saw that recently when pro china bots and users campaigned against american basketball executive who tweeted his support to hong kong protesters we know china is actively trying to influence the Upcoming Elections in taiwan and a few weeks ago facebook and twitter announced they took down thousands of state coordinated china backed pages accounts meant to influence Public Opinion Facebooks Mark Zuckerberg pledged to be vigilant this week he said we face increasingly sophisticated attacks from nation states like russia iran and china but im confident were more prepared. Beijing was asked about these accusations including whether china might be influencing the u. S. Elections the Foreign Ministry denied doing anything wrong but what you that you on
A crime school. Im melissa chan welcome to news asia thank you for joining us we start with china where often weve looked at how beijing polices its own citizens online activities but the country has growing Digital Power beyond its borders we saw that recently when pro china bots and users campaigned against american basketball executive who tweeted his support to hong kong protesters we know china is actively trying to influence the Upcoming Elections in taiwan and a few weeks ago facebook and twitter announced they took down thousands of state coordinated china backed pages accounts meant to influence Public Opinion Facebooks Mark Zuckerberg pledged to be vigilant this week he said we face increasingly sophisticated attacks from nation states like russia iran and china but im confident were more prepared. Beijing was asked about these accusations including whether china might be influencing the u. S. Elections the Foreign Ministry denied doing anything wrong but what you this Young
Midnight to 5 a. M. Police say they back the plan. Our challenge is still occur at night. Crowds of people that are there selling, selling stolen property, selling narcotics. We have drug users all over. And what the problem is, is that when you have businesses that are open, like Liquor Stores and smoke shops, it just attracts more people. The Mayors Office says the idea has a lot of grassroots support from residents and neighbors. Tim benson is a manager at acenas restaurant in the tenderloin. Restaurants operate late into the evening, and he says sometimes customers or workers feel threatened. And he says he hopes that the city could step in and help businesses that have their hours cut. But he says he thinks that shutting some of those businesses down, where drug users and drug dealers congregate, may help the neighborhood as a whole. Police have been much more active. Dpw has been out helping the cleanup effort, but it seems to be mostly a daytime issue. And at nighttime, its sort
Officials are trying to shield him from protesters. Authorities have glued town pavement bricks to prevent them from being thrown. They started gluing down their sidewalks so that protesters cant grab the bricks and throw them . You have to admit thats a pretty smart solution. Yeah, because it stops the violence and it also makes the protesters look weak ill show you, government aaahhh aaahhh you know, ill just write a letter when i dont want to go to the gym. Its already interesting logic from the chinese government. Theyre, like, should we spend money and address concerns of the citizens . Somebody says, nah, lets buy glue. laughter a story thats particularly divisive in the past few vehicles, the rights of transgender people. With more states restricting bathroom bills, only a matter of time before the president stepped in. The Obama Administration sent out a directive to every Public School in the country to allow transgender students to use the bathroom of their chosen gender. Som