Hello and welcome to world news today. Several people have been injured in pitched battles in hong kong after a third day of violent clashes between pro democracy campaigners and riot police. Some protestors had defied orders to disperse after an Anti Government rally, setting up barricades and blocking streets, before rounds of tear gas were fired. This is the eighth week of demonstrations, sparked by a proposed new bill which would have allowed extradition to mainland china. Although the plans were eventually shelved, mass protests continue, amid fears of a gradual erosion of freedoms at the hands of the authorities in beijing. Our correspondent, nick beake, has sent us this report from hong kong. Gunshots they say its one of the safest cities you can find, a peaceful place. Not today. Not this summer. A heavy cloud has descended on hong kong, and there is no sign of it lifting. Police and protesters now in a battle for the future of the place they both call home. And tonight, yet an
This is making an untreatable disease treatable. Alison riske and then we have the mixed doubles and in the cricket new zealand are playing india. Ben has the weather. One or two showers are forecast. Some hefty downpours elsewhere but nothing like the rain we have seen on the other side of the pond. Some oppressive pictures for you. Also coming up, i am 0k oppressive pictures for you. Also coming up, i am ok for the next decade and all of us here because we will not face the problems. But the problems in the next 20 to 30 years and major ones that will cause great social unrest. Upping the heat Sir David Attenborough criticises World Leaders who he says are not doing enough to address Climate Change. Hello everyone this is afternoon live im simon mccoy. He cant have been up very long this morning before President Donald Trump took to twitter to write more personal comments attacking the uk ambassador to washington Sir Kim Darroch. a wacky ambassador, he says not someone we are thrille
Correspondent daniel new howser and congressional reporter pitterson, later anthony from the center for strategic and International Talk about the Foreign Policy challenges that are facing in 2018. Social media. But voters, wed, should make it a priority that basic knowledge pertaining to our government. Amy says it helps. I have learned so much from the social media. I can adjust my opinion to include new facts. Ive change my mind is some because of conversations with people online. One more from saul. A lot of people do not care about the research, it hurts, they end up spreading false information. That is a sampling of the discussion on our facebook page. Here is a poll. Different wording, but same idea, this is from surveymonkey from october, asked whether social media does more to help, promote democracy and free speech or does more to hurt it. 51 surveyed in the late october poll said it did more to her democracy, 45 said it did more to help. Large majorities among hispanics and
It through the impeachment. Amy today we spend the hour looking at the growing political crisis in brazil and air an exclusive extended broadcast interview with ousted brazilian president dilma roussef. She was impeached last year in what many described as a legislative coup. This comes as brazil is engulfed in a major Corruption Scandal. Rousseff is a former political prisoner who took part in the underground resistance to the u. S. Backed brazilian dictatorship in the 1960s. She was jailed where she was repeatedly tortured. When a was a prisoner in Rio De Janeiro, they would throw water at you and it would also connect wires to your toes. They would alslso place on your headad these electric cables. Is worst thing in torture electrical shock. Amy we will first speak with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Glenn Greenwald, who is based in brazil, about how the countrys major Corruption Scandal has only widened. At its center are many of the rightwing politicians who orchestrated rousse
Exclusive extended broadcast interview with ousted brazilian president dilma roussef. She was impeached last year in what many described as a legislative coup. This comes as brazil is engulfed in a major Corruption Scandal. Rousseff is a former political prisoner who took part in the underground resistance to the u. S. Backed brazilian dictatorship in the 1960s. She was jailed where she was repeatedly tortured. When a was a prisoner in Rio De Janeiro, they would throw water at you and it would also connect wires to your toes. They would also place on your head these electric cables. Is worst thing in torture electrical shock. Amy we will first speak with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Glenn Greenwald, who is based in brazil, about how the countrys major Corruption Scandal has only widened. At its center are many of the rightwing politicians who orchestrated rousseffs ouster, including her successor, president michel temer. He said troops into the streets of the capital brasilia this