cowed into silence. my guest is dominic lee, a legislatorfrom the pro beijing new people s party. has hong kong s governing principle of one country, two systems already morphed into one country, one system? dominic lee in hong kong, welcome to hardtalk. hi, thanks for having me. it s a pleasure to have you. now, mr lee, you were recently elected to hong kong s legislative council. what word would you choose to describe hong kong s political system? it s a revamped system, and i think it s an enhancement to the previous system, which was characterised by filibustering, excessive ones, and violence was incited in the legislative council chamber. and right now, with the new legco, we are three weeks into swearing in and the environment is a lot better now. the chief executive came to the legislative council for an increased session two weeks ago, and there are a lot of enquiries from different legco members asking them about different social issues. so the legco right now is mo
now on bbc news, it s hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. it seems there is no room for political opposition or dissent in today s hong kong. legislative elections at the end of last year saw pro beijing candidates sweep the board. pro democracy activists have either been arrested, forced into exile, or cowed into silence. my guest is dominic lee, a legislatorfrom the pro beijing new people s party. has hong kong s governing principle of one country, two systems already morphed into one country, one system? dominic lee in hong kong, welcome to hardtalk. hi, thanks for having me. it s a pleasure to have you. now, mr lee, you were recently elected to hong kong s legislative council. what word would you choose to describe hong kong s political system? it s a revamped system, and i think it s an enhancement to the previous system, which was characterised by filibustering, excessive ones, and violence was incited in the legislative council chamber. and right now, wi
pro beijing new people s party. has hong kong s governing principle of one country, two systems already morphed into one country, one system? dominic lee in hong kong, welcome to hardtalk. hi, thanks for having me. it s a pleasure to have you. now, mr lee, you were recently elected to hong kong s legislative council. what word would you choose to describe hong kong s political system? it s a revamped system, and i think it s an enhancement to the previous system, which was characterised by filibustering, excessive ones, and violence was incited in the legislative council chamber. and right now, with the new legco, we are three weeks into swearing in and the environment is a lot better now. the chief executive came to the legislative council for an increased session two weeks ago, and there are a lot of enquiries from different legco members asking them about different social issues. so the legco right now is more focused on solving socioeconomic issues in hong kong, as oppose
now on bbc news, hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. it seems there is no room for political opposition or dissent in today s hong kong. legislative elections at the end of last year saw pro beijing candidates sweep the board. pro democracy activists have either been arrested, forced into exile, or cowed into silence. my guest is dominic lee, a legislatorfrom the pro beijing new people s party. has hong kong s governing principle of one country, two systems already morphed into one country, one system? dominic lee in hong kong, welcome to hardtalk. hi, thanks for having me. it s a pleasure to have you. now, mr lee, you were recently elected to hong kong s legislative council. what word would you choose to describe hong kong s political system? it s a revamped system, and i think it s an enhancement to the previous system, which was characterised by filibustering, excessive ones, and violence was incited in the legislative council chamber. and right now, with th
the icelandic capital, reykjavik the fifth in six months. hi there, thanks for being with us. we start in new york where the 12jurors in donald trump s hush money trial have begun their deliberations. in the first ever criminal trial of a us president, mr trump is facing 3a counts of falsifying business records. prosecutors accuse the former president of an elaborate scheme that violated campaign finance laws. they say he and his campaign team tried to cover up a $130,000 hush money payment to adult fim star stormy daniels, in order to supress her claims of an affair with mr trump in 2006. mr trump speaking outside the court. so it seems that there - are a lot of witnesses, a lot of people that they could ve called, that they didn t call. they didn t call them obviously because they would ve - very bad witnesses for them. but take a look at the list i and because of the gag order, i won t go down into individual names. i but you have a lot of big players that would ve