Welcome to the programme. Authorities in hong kong say flights have now resumed at the airport after mondays shutdown because of protesters. It comes after another weekend of clashes between police and demonstrators, angry about what they believe is chinas erosion of their freedoms. With these alive pictures coming in from hong kong. The chief executive carrie lam is hosting her weekly press c0 nfe re nce. Carrie lam is hosting her weekly press conference. The moment she speaking in cantonese but we will dip into that press conference when she starts speaking in english. There has been another weekend of violent protests. With me in the studio is our bbc reporter bill hayton. A lot of pressure on this woman. You can see from her face, she looks com pletely can see from her face, she looks completely tense. She has nothing new to say. No compromise, middle ground. Remember, these protests started over this extradition bill which was so controversial. But everything she has done has been
To represent the spirit of woodstock. Hello, welcome to the programme. In the past hour, hong kongs leader carrie lam has said that violence is pushing hong kong down a path of no return. She said the rule of law was being damaged and that the citys recovery from Anti Government protests could take a long time. And she outlined what she saw as her role. The chief executives responsibilities to ensure that hong kong remains a safe and orderly and law abiding city. That is my utmost responsibility. Because without the rule of law, without law and order in hong kong, it is extremely difficult to ensure the 7 Million People in hong kong could continue to live in a peaceful manner. So thatis to live in a peaceful manner. So that is my utmost responsibility. And that also requires my support for all the Law Enforcement agencies in accordance with their policies, their rules, there are guidelines. That also means that my responsibility goes beyond this particular this particular range of prot
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Bezos purchases the Washington Post. Year, amazon inked a 600 million Cloud Computing deal with the cia. Now the founder owns the most important newspaper in washington. We will speak to media critics as well as book publisher Dennis Johnson. In the view of american publishers, they are a threat. They have been discounting books so severely they have done great damage to the markets and publishers have been really struggling as to how to control that. We will also speak to mother jones reporter mac mcclelland, author of i was a warehouse wage slave my brief, backbreaking, rageinducing, lowpaying, dildopacking time inside the onlineshipping machine. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Yemeni officials claim to have foiled a plot to blow up key oil locations. Officials say the motives of the planned attack appears to be retaliation for the u. S. Killing a deputyalshihri, health today in the arabian peninsula. A military jet has reduced