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florida sees its biggest one-day rise, some of hollywood s biggest names test positive. and china sotest crackdown in hong kong seem to have spurred a reaction at the ballot box, voters have turned out in the hundreds of thousands. let s look at how the week is setting up in asia. a pretty positive lead, asian stocks will keep the rally going. about half a percent after the u.s. stock rally extended that weekly gain on friday. the s&p 500 outperforming the nasdaq for the first time in two weeks. that bifurcation will continue. nikkei futures up 0.3%. trading in chicago after a three i third straight weekly decline, continued concerns about another wave of virus cases in tokyo and elsewhere in japan. 1%ney futures setting up for 1.6% higher. new zealand, blue signals when it comes to trading kiwi stocks after that three-day selloff, up 0.7%. the level of foreign investors piling into the kiwi market suggests we will see further outside with that golden cross, crossin ....
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on the other. that s all, stay with bbc world news. now on bbc news, it s hardtalk, with shaun ley. hello and welcome to hardtalk, i m shaun ley. hong kong is in uproar. each weekend for the last two months, thousands of people have taken to the streets. alvin yeung, who leads the civic party, shares their fears, first of a plan to give beijing a greater say in extradition, then for wider cause, to defend hong kong s freedoms. but as local authorities struggle to contain the crisis, and beijing s grumbles grow ever louder, could the people s liberation army be on its way? alvin yeung, welcome to hardtalk. late into sunday night, protesters clashed with the hong kong police. it is the eighth weekend in succession that we have seen street protests and skirmishes, some of them violent. what has gone wrong? well, hello, shaun. things are not doing so well in hong kong, and of course, we have seen and witnessed protesters taking to the streets, and of course, we have seen cl ....
hardtalk with shaun ley. it is 2:30am. hello and welcome to hardtalk, i m shaun ley. hong kong is in uproar. each weekend for the last two months, thousands of people have taken to the streets. alvin yeung, who leads the civic party, shares their fears, first of a plan to give beijing a greater say in extradition, then for wider cause, to defend hong kong s freedoms. but as local authorities struggle to contain the crisis, and beijing s grumbles grow ever louder, could the people s liberation army be on its way? alvin yeung, welcome to hardtalk. late into sunday night, protesters clashed with the hong kong police. it is the eighth weekend in succession that we have seen street protests and skirmishes, some of them violent. what has gone wrong? well, hello, shaun. things are not doing so well in hong kong, and of course, we have seen and witnessed protesters taking to the streets, and of course, we have seen clashes between the police and the protesters. we have been acc ....