Celebrates its 500th birthday with music dancing and fire spread its not all good against a backdrop tailing of an ailing economy hit by sections. And william good welcome to the program a tense standoff is unfolding in hong kong where police are moving in against antigovernment protesters holed up in a university as police try to storm hong kong polytechnic protesters responded by setting fire to the main campus entrance authorities have warned theyll resort to live ammunition if the small group of holdouts dont put down lethal weapons some of them have used bone arrows and hurled petrol bombs. At police. Were joined now by Mathias Bowling whos there for us in Hong Kong Mathias the scenes out of there are quite terrifying talk us through the situation as its escalated. So about an hour ago a little more the police tried to enter this universities throughout the whole night and the whole day yesterday that been clashes outside of the university with police charging being pushed back re
Your party passed a bill in the house to balance the budget. How did we get to this point . That is not just the spending. That is the deficit. Onhave gotten there based benign neglect. On the democratic side, more versus more. On the republican side, i see no evil, i speak no evil, but it is a great detriment to the american taxpayer, American Dream, but we got here. Hard, soith it will be people dont want to and have left it alone. Troublesomeularly with the weight is president has made promises to eliminate the debt. Be ahas proven to completely empty promise. He raised the debt by 9 billion. He signed off on deals raising additional billions in debt. Is that there has been zero leadership on the president ial level, benign neglect from the congressional level. Debt in one year. Where is the Republican Party that has claimed to be deficit hawks . Malignuld describe it as neglect, not benign neglect. This is a National Security issue. We cant rely on other countries our debt. It is a
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Chinese factory set prices dropped in august at the quickest pace in 3 years its latest sign that beijings economic woes have continued into late summer businesses have slashed prices to cope with flagging commands amid a global slowdown and the trade dispute with the United States new numbers prompted investors to sell off riskier Technology Stocks breaking a week long winning streak on the beijing exchange. South korea is launching an official complaint to the World Trade Organization over japans decision to limit exports of chemicals necessary to make high tech equipment addressing the media earlier on wednesday south koreas trade minister described the restrictions as float politically motivated the 2 countries have been locked in a dispute about compensating victims of forced labor during world war 2 many of south koreas High Tech Companies including samsung rely heavily on those japanese exports. And im joined now by our correspondent taipei William Young william good to see you
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