Exclusively young, aggressive, russia detains leading anti and boiling with rage corruption activists, despite yesterdays release at a government they believe of an investigative journalist, is giving away their freedoms. Held on spurious drugs charges. Hundreds of thousands of people are evacuated along parts of indias it seemed only a matter of time western coast as the region braces before things turned violent and so they did. Itself for a powerful cyclone. Few here have ever experienced the searing pain of being tear gassed. You could see the shock and confusion. I think theres lines that we can authorities in hong kong are shutting government offices have the freedom from fear, in the financial district that we are every day facing right for the rest of the week after days of protests now, so i guess we feel angry against an extradition bill that would allow people to be sent and we do not get respected to Mainland China for trial. The bill has triggered the biggest by our own go
Itself for a powerful cyclone. Authorities in hong kong are shutting government offices in the financial district for the rest of the week, after days of protests against an extradition bill that would allow people to be sent to Mainland China for trial. The bill has triggered the biggest street rallies since hong kong was handed back to china by the british in 1997. Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets in running battles with the demonstrators. Rupert Wingfield Hayes is in central hong kong. This was the centre of hong kong this afternoon. Scenes of mass violence, the likes of which have not been seen here since the 1960s. The day had been tense from the start. Huge crowds surrounded hong kongs legislature, determined to stop any discussion of the hated extradition bill. The object of their anger, this woman hong kongs chief executive, carrie lam. Last weekend, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets here, demanding she scrap a bill that would allow people in hong kong
Lot more tense. Russia detains leading Anti Corruption activists, despite yesterdays release of an investigative journalist, held on spurious drugs charges. Hundreds of thousands of people are evacuated along parts of indias western coast as the region braces itself for a powerful cyclone. Donald trump has declared that he would accept damaging information about political opponents during next years Election Campaign even if it came from a Foreign Government. In an interview with abc news the president denied it would count as interference describing it as opposition research. Russian interference in the 2016 campaign, and allegations of collusion with the Trump Campaign, were significant lines of inquiry in the mueller report. Heres the exchange between mr trump and the abc news presenter george stephanopoulos. This time around if foreigners russia, china or someone else offers you information should you accept it or call the guy . I think you do both. I think you may want to listen,
President trump warns germany over dependence on russian gas and threatens sanctions over the nordstream 2 project to bring more of it to europe. A warm welcome to the Programme Briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. Also in the programme the Us House Intelligence Committee today holds a hearing on the rise of so called deep fakes online, fake videos of people saying or doing something that never happened. How concerned are you about this . How can it be policed, if at all . Send us your comments, bbcthebriefing. Authorities in hong kong are shutting most government offices in the financial district for the rest of the week, after days of protests against an extradition bill that would allow people to be sent to Mainland China for trial. The bill has triggered the biggest street rallies since hong kong was handed back to china by the british in 1997. Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets in running battles with the demonstrators. Joining me now is t
More conservative candidates have launched their campaigns to replace theresa may as party leader and become the next Prime Minister and brexit remains the defining issue. Andrea leadsom, mark harper and rory stewart are among the 10 candidates vying for the topjob. They all now face the first ballot on thursday, when conservative mps cast their votes. The result will be known by lunchtime. The candidates will be whittled down further in more ballots by tory mps, ending on the 20thjune when just two candidates remain. Then the conservative Party Membership gets its say they can vote from the 22nd june. The final result will be announced in the week ofjuly 22nd when we should have a new Prime Minister. Our deputy political editorjohn pienaar looks at their different pledges on how theyll tackle brexit. Good morning, mrjohnson. No time to talk, no time to comb his hair. The silence and that look are still working. Boris johnsons front runner for tory leader and the others are having to c