Hong kong leader carrie lam fails to aleve fears and big tech takes over privacy concerns and signs of recovery fo bmw as they say sales in china were stronger compared to a year ago. And european chip makers slump despite a forecast of a 23 jump in the Second Quarter as chip demand offsets weaker smartphone sales thanks for joining us. And lets take a look at the Market Action were witnessing in the trading settle here in europe we have been trading in the red for the past hour or so. In terms of the core arkets, were seeing even more selling coming off the stock market here in the uk. It was one of the better performers yesterday as we saw a bounce investors responding to the Risk Appetite that we saw globaglobay and individual news too, hopes that they might try to furthermore transactions in the property space and there was a strong move for the builders but away from that story, you can see we are negative across the board. French and german were up more than 1 yesterday. So a giv
Reform villages in sudan central dufner are demanding the government do more to protect them from armed groups. So the Worlds Largest social Media Companies are reviewing their operations in hong kong after beijing imposed its new National Security law chinese short video app to talk has announced it will stop its operations altogether in the territory well zoom and linked in theyve joined a growing list of social media platforms including google and facebook who say they will now deny government requests for user data that more details of the law have now been revealed trees can conduct searches without a warrant stop suspects from leaving the city and intercept Online Communications and sarah clarke is in hong kong and she says there have been reactions on multiple fronts. Yes the reaction has been swift not just from western countries and governments but also from the tech giants in the social media platforms these new powers for the police force they were unveiled overnight by hong
Particular committee is chaired by hong kongs chief executive kerry lam its also attended by beijings top official in hong kong some of the key new powers introduced granted to the police they can now conduct searches without warrants in special circumstances they can order social media to remove various content they blamed believe triptans are hong kong or chinas National Security they can also see a quick note from social media giants and they can demand information from political operations which happen operating outside of on common failure to comply with these new laws carrying a 13000. 00 fine as well as to use now weve had a swift reaction also from the legal jurisdiction some say these powers are broad and lacked proper oversight another a barrister described them as scary stating that these powers should be within the legal jurisdiction not granted to police to conduct and the critics more that this is simply a way of china silencing its dissenting voices and its critics not k
Leader kevinrity mccarthy spoke to reporters today, answering questions on the possibility of more economic aid in response to the coronavirus pandemic, reauthorization of the federal Surveillance Program and President Trump saying to curtail the power of social Media Companies by executive order. Mr. Mccarthy before i begin this weekly press conference, i want to do something different. I want to spend a few minutes paying tribute to an American Hero that we lost yesterday. You all knew him. Congressman sam johnson. He was a hero in every sense of the word. Sam was a republican member who served in this chamber for 28 years. Before being sworn in, sam had already done to this country than anyone else. You see, sam was an air force pilot and flew missions in korea and vietnam. He was shot down and served in hanoi hilton seven years. 3. 5 of those years was in solitary confinement. He was one of those type of individual it was just an honor to get to know. I want to tell some personal s
Questions on the possibility of economic aid in response to the coronavirus pandemic, the federal Surveillance Program and President Trumps aim to curtail the powers of social Media Companies by executive order. Mr. Mccarthy before i begin this weekly press conference, i want to do something different. I want to spend a few minutes paying tribute to an American Hero that we lost yesterday. You all knew him. Congressman sam johnson. He was a hero in every sense of the word. Sam was a republican member who served in this chamber for 28 years. Before being sworn in, sam had already done to this country than anyone else. You see, sam was an air force pilot and flew missions in korea and vietnam. He was shot down and served in hanoi hilton seven years. 3. 5 of those years was in solitary confinement. He was one of those type of individual it was just an honor to get to know. I want to tell some personal stories so the rest of the country can no who this hero was. Sam was on my deputy whip t