the home. express and. the. in the headlines this morning hong kong's leader addresses the election drubbing by the opposition as protests resume again in the chinese territory. as the us presidential race but the news network. coverage should face or other democrats come but will keep up the pressure on. people in new york with. you know this to be independent competent both and. also seems one sided have a little bit of reservations. i want to america's biggest newspapers comes out swinging against the president and his party to saying it's time the republicans. rush in the propagandists.

in moscow this tuesday 26 of november just as kevin 0 in here with the update for you. i'm starting in hong kong then the protest part of china where the chinese territories embattled leader has acknowledged the weekend election route where antigovernment candidate secured a landslide says it may reflect unhappiness with because. people felt that the government has not handled competently the. legislative exercise and. and we have started a public dialogue with the community but unfortunately with the unstable and vironment and a chaotic situation i could not do more of that sort of i hope that the the environmentalists allow me. do it now following sunday's record turnout opposition

candidates swept up 90 percent of district council seats the wins largely symbolic because councils deal mostly with local issues that got little political leverage but they do all that said have some say in choosing hong kong's leadership or for a brief election lol the protests resumed in hong kong police urged rather people police to go easy on the dozens of protesters who've been barricaded in the polytechnic university campus for 9 days following pitch battles with officers the vote comes 6 months into a violent anti beijing protest campaign which supporters in the u.s. congress describe as a response to authoritarian pressure. rising resentment hong kong is not simply a result of ill fated acts of the old faded extradition war championed by chief executive curie lam but the continued encroachments. on freedom and liberty used by president xi jinping and the chinese communist party meantime elsewhere the u.s.

has been hailing what it sees as a democratic transition over in bolivia and even though the self-appointed right wing government is being accused of abuses against protesters. next this morning explains washington's approach to both hong kong and bolivia. sticks stones on a row can bow amidst the increasing violence hong kong took the weekend off to head to the polls and the results were overwhelming a landslide victory for those who have made it their mission to wrest themselves from beijing's grip of victory apparently not just for the city but for the whole walled those desperate sin china have finally been put in that place. there is now an opportunity to find a way through the crisis with political dialogue the reflects the legitimate aspirations of the people of hong kong and respects the one country 2 systems model democracy at work the people of hong kong's voices being heard loud and clear today

as votes are counted communist china should take a close look and reconsider their current posture or turn to me in human rights belong to hong kong. freedom wins over 2900000 hunt congress went to the polls to exercise their right to vote the monumental defeat of brick communist china lawmakers sends a powerful message to beijing keep your 30 terran regime on the mainland so they say beijing needs to keep it all for terry and tendencies out of hong kong others the same tendencies that saw an armed policeman industriously tidying up rubbish after another night of flames and fury all the ones that saw almost 3000000 people free me cost the votes and what was a rack court turnout of over 71 percent or maybe those that led both the chinese and hong kong authorities to gracefully accept defeat the government will listen to the opinions of members of the public come billy and seriously reflect. no matter

what happens hong kong is a part of china jungle she joined which leaves previous accusations of beijing's disregard for its people's freedom the chinese government should respect their right to speak out somewhat knol unfortunate but when you've got a beer in your bonnet about a rising power that's set to eclipse you both economically and technologically perhaps it doesn't really matter but what is happening in hong kong is the. worst particularly of the united states to smear or discredit china and the reason is that china is exceedingly extremely successful go from the band middle of the world to whatever each other alerts are diverse to continue intimidate the china beat or the economic growth of those who seek knowledge the same shows a great war or they don't do it through south china sea or hong kong the

situation over 19000 kilometers away bolivia has been restless too and there's also been some significant shuffling of power. in. the. i was. offering himself up as political sacrifice in a bid to calm the protests the democratically elected president evo morales stepped down and fled pass rising from obscurity to fill the void came to me and i knew as a 52 year old lawyer and senator whose name didn't really rang any bells even and bolivia and why would it they didn't vote for her in fact no one voted for her she

came. to power because the 3 people who constitution have the right to take the reins that is the president the vice president and the head of the senate one forced to move on out and what many are describing as a coup but apparently to some that's just mere detail we call on all bolivians to support the bolivian transitional government as a god the democratic transition through electoral reforms and to a new free and fair elections as soon as possible and as the west praises bolivia for throwing off its socialist chuckles and turning its face towards the democratic sun let's see how that liberty is shaping up. on the. oh. there was an obvious one was right. there. well.

there. i was oh the. it seems that when the shoe fits all thora tarion as a man democracy can actually be used interchangeably and there is a dog with a principle ration between bolivia and home god god will be gone soon hong kong mainly the rioters are a guy could believe this during the public property and they're being supported by the worst in bolivia and they're dying finding it dying for democracy they're being smeared the situation is big on the border and actually. there i'm so cold in their government. is hailed as a government which is trying to reach peaceful solution between the well between

the 2 sides. reporting next american billionaire and former new york mayor michael bloomberg officially thrown his name into the hat for the 2020 presidential race he's been setting out his pitch then and why wants to defeat donald trump. if president trump wins another term in office we may never recover from the damage that he can do we must win this election was a bit of a small snag for part of the bloomberg empire the news outlet the bears 'd his name was put in something of an editorial quandary of for it so in a swift move bloomberg news announced that it won't be doing any investigative reporting on its own or any other us democratic hopefully the leading critics to accuse the firm of election bias than with more caleb maupin this morning. running for president of the united states certainly invites scrutiny the media digs into the personal lives and history of the major candidates but one of the major

candidate for president of the united states also owns a major media network well michael bloomberg a presidential candidate and media tycoon seems to have found the solution bloomberg media owned by the 2020 presidential candidate will not be investigating the life of michael bloomberg or any other 2020 democratic hopeful we will continue our tradition of not investigates mike and his family and foundation and we will extend the same policy to his rivals in the democratic primaries we cannot treat mike's democrats a competitors differently from him now this of course means no discussion of the many controversies surrounding michael bloomberg when he was mayor of new york city no discussion of his stop and frisk policy of searching people on the street for weapons without proper cause no discussion of his surveillance of the muslim community no discussion of his ban on large soda drinks or his controversial subway ad shaming teen mothers and sure why would limburg pay somebody to write bad things

about him now this is all supposed to be fair news won't be saying anything bad about the boss at the top but they also won't say anything bad about any of his potential rivals well except for one for tension rival that would be donald trump. for the moment the team will continue to investigate the trumpet ministration as the government of the day many voices say that simply violates the principles of honest journalism there is something to be said about not covering yourself i don't have a problem with the us in general there are many other outlets but it seems like a problematic idea if you are running for president of the united states how do you refuse to round this icons editorial board members joining the boss's campaign pledge not to investigation apparent pledge to not investigate any other democrats is that news gathering or a campaign contribution what's the incoming value of this was bloomberg news will not be investigating bloomberg or any democrat in the primary and senior members of

the editorial board are joining his complain i think what's so shocking about this announcement is that it's a public confirmation. of very large media institution which of course is owned by bloomberg isn't going to do its job we are idea that they won't investigate bloomberg doesn't mean they won't cover bloomberg it means they will cover bloomberg uncritically and essentially they will act as a propagandist for bloomberg now what's interesting is that there are some key similarities between bloomberg intro. both are quite wealthy both are media personalities with ties to me york and both entered politics after getting rich elsewhere and both of them have a knack for blurring the political divide. donald trump has switched his political affiliation 7 times since 1087 michael bloomberg was 1st a democrat then he ran and became mayor of new york city as a republican and now he's back to being

a democrat once again he says both trump and bloomberg speak of using their own resources to fund their campaign and also of an apparent love of power i know what it takes to beat trump because i already have and i will do it again we decided to ask new yorkers what they think about the new presidential contender who is also their former mayor do you think that bloomberg news will be fair during the election i hope they're saying they're not going to cover bloomberg or any of the democratic candidates to be fair but they will cover trump what do you make of that it also seems one sided have a little bit of reservations i think they should cover both and and i think they you know they should be independent and cover them both independently so i want fairness what's good for the goose is good for the gander he's wealthy he's from new york he's a media personality do you feel like he's the democrat version of trump. now. i don't think so i don't really have an opinion on now there is no democratic

version of trump he's almost the democrat version of trump do you buy that probably in a way. and i can understand why democrats might be upset because he's not going through a lot of the preliminaries like they did. the health of wiki leaks founder julian assange has been put in severe risk during his 50 week sentence in a british prisoners the next headline infer 60 doctors say the whistleblower could dog in an open letter they've written to the home secretary in the u.k. outlining their concerns. mr assange requires urging takes but medical assessments of both his physical and psychological state of health were such assessments and treatment not to take place we have real concerns on the evidence currently available that mr assad could die in prison the medical situation is thereby urgent there is no time to lose doctors from numerous countries including the u.s. strayer and italy made their assessments based on eyewitness accounts following his

october court appearance it was reported that a science couldn't recall is dead a birth at the hearing and when asked whether or not he could understand what was happening it seems history replied that he could not think straight cofounders also complained about the conditions of his imprisonment on multiple occasions as we've reported a son is currently being held in london's belmarsh prison where he's serving a 15 week sentence for breaching his bail conditions in 2012 separately of course is also fighting a us extradition request over wiki leaks publishing classified information on american political and military dealings let's go live to melbourne australia one of the medical experts who signed the letter is dr margaret beavers good morning doctor thanks for your time today. when you look at this is a very serious prognosis i could even die in jail and all this is based on eyewitness accounts i none of you esteemed doctors i believe physically examined him it's a huge jump to make from simply seeing someone who you're saying in the letter has got physical problems with his shoulder is depressed has some psychological

problems to saying that could lead to his death is a huge jump or not what am i missing here. i think what's missing is you need to look at the people who are talking that do able to get access to an access to is extremely limited. mr meltzer who. report un special rapporteur on torture put out a report that was extremely clear that when he went in with 2 health experts that his health has been really seriously affected by the extremely hostile and i'm trained by him and he's been exposed to family is and those 2 experts said that he showed all the symptoms typical prolonged exposure to psychological torture. including extreme stress chronic anxiety intense psychological trauma. and again those experts said he had been 'd deliberately exposed to this cool and inhuman and degrading treatment. that lead its death to literally wither away if you got too much psychological pressure on your yeah we saw what looked like when it came out

of the embassy in april our cameras there were a few tick up to capture it at the time it looked like a different man but is that this is sarah going to lead to someone's physical death . i think was absolutely clear that he's not getting good medical care specialist x. is adequate there's no. assessment that's being done in what he needs to know and is transferred to the university hospital where he can get good tertiary. and i think an article in government is not by looking. good it is a true axis. question as to what's. what your immediate worry for of your one of the secretaries correct me if i'm wrong to this letter are you as concerned as the other doctors are here. i think he's clearly showing signs of enormous damage and pressure he in when. at the end of this trial hearing that was just to the sorting out the timing for his next appearance he couldn't understand he said

to the judge i can understand i didn't he didn't really understand what was going on and the judge said are bad luck lawyers can explain it to you later this is one of the smartest people in our generation we publish information on the iraq war he's published information on the afghanistan war this guy has been put under significant pressure for many years and psychologically here but as a doctor you politically involved in this is that while you have kind of. signed this letter or you just concern with the medical side of it is there any way at all that maybe you know you're getting involved on the bottom on the politics of this i think the claim that we're asking for his military basically good medical care he needs to be able to have his. ability to be thin and so is he in this shambling where they saw in the court he's going to have not bill is he to himself so what he needs is good medical care and bargain on the u.k. government to provide that and they're not doing it at the moment he thickly in i'm going through it with. very isolated i think he's isolated 23 hours

a day and i think this is what is treatment of terrorist i think what he needs if he's going to be able to defend himself adequately you need proper and effective medical care in the british government is not i mean i have to say it is a strain. i'm very disappointed. thank you for being on the program we could leave it there but have a great day thank you you too. what's ahead the washington post warning that the u.s. republicans are wall no less with russia probably look at all the rest. that's geysers financial survival they say money the balance or. close to it is it

this is the central plank supported by a government kind of problem right now so you stop to.

think. patiala choose to morning donald trump's been accused in a major american newspaper of being disloyal to the united states and a damning washington post opinion piece the columnist also said it's time that the republicans were called out as russian propagandists a senior correspondent has been taking a look. we're going to go in a journey you and i a trip into another dimension a magical place written a new rated by the washington post where there are assuming the russian agents in the united states they will soon outnumber americans themselves president trump has been disloyal to the united states not only and given russia a leg up in its war against ukraine but also in broadcasting his propaganda and for

that republicans are just as guilty like to point out that it was the democrats who bad the sale of lethal weapons to ukraine and republicans who gave ukraine hundreds of millions of dollars in those weapons but what's the point there's no piercing this bubble of unreality an anomaly in the space time continuum of common sense that the washington post exists in it is up to mainstream media to directly challenge republicans who yes engage in an american activity the ingenue britney system in a russian propaganda operation in this wondrous realm that jennifer rubin has brought to life everyone who disagrees with her is a traitor a traitor as anyone who mentions that democrats accepted foreign meddling in the election willfully eagerly accepted foreign help to try to get clinton elected

democrats cooperated and ukrainian election meddling official show the surprising lack of interest and indications of ukrainian election meddling that deeply concerned the president whose pleasure they serve during the election ukraine released damning information about trump's then campaign head paul manifold causing huge damage to the tycoon in fact we have would you sit nick a ukrainian official using his powers of office then bragging about quote help. hillary. little more i didn't help him trump i helped hillary it would be better for. a fact that ukraine's courts ruled to be interference election meddling ukraine's own courts said that but in jennifer's magical kingdom this isn't true she crossed out the old you his admission the court ruling and cited reports that

it's all a russian psyop and because she crossed it out it's no longer true just because you try proving her wrong if congressional republicans halogens our intelligence community is wrong they need to present it otherwise they need to be called out for deliberately assist in hostile foreign power evidence is something that supports jennifer's point of view if it doesn't it isn't evidence see when special counsel robert mueller root in his report that russian hackers seemingly and apparently quoted from the report hacked hillary's servers that's evidence but when you give her or her car in the recording a confession and a court ruling you're an american in the course of this investigation i would ask that you please not from a politically driven false or clear interests so of newton is good enough for you let me do him some justice it appears the jennifer rubin is

a 2 faced hypocrite allegedly she may also be a foreign agent see that she and her have done and are doing more damage to america as a nation than anyone else after all and correct me if i'm wrong but isn't rabidly undermining the us government spreading fear and hate on an industrial scale to every american home smearing half your country is traitors isn't that about as un-american as you can be. legal meter analyst lionel told us the rival u.s. democrats can say anything to donald trump whether they've got evidence about it don't know. what this is is propaganda the likes of which i've never seen in my life now we've always suspected that sometimes certain news organizations might be left or right or may have

a particular agenda this is 247 not only anti trump but desperately angrily trump they are they're losing control of their losing the ability to focus anymore he still in office we just got done with this impeachment inquiry which nobody knows what that they're trying to bring ukraine into this anything any the it doesn't matter if they perceive it as hurting trump that's why they do it so the good news is don't take anything to heart they will say whatever it is but isn't it funny the people who use the word russia and propaganda propaganda propaganda are the greatest prop again this in the history of propaganda. story we're following carrying over from yesterday delegates of the chemical weapons watchdog conference of wasted no time squaring up to each other on day one in the hague the russian representative questioned the group's report into

the alleged attack in duma in syria saying it distorts reality and called for the reform of the special mission in syria. we cannot take these special missions conclusions at face value the gym approach court distorts reality i would like to read 3. unprofessional. reached by finding mission before the conference got underway a leaked internal e-mail sholden unnamed employee was concerned that the o.p.c. w. report on duma misrepresented the facts. the redacted report states that the gas was likely released from the cylinders the original report purposely emphasized the fact that there was insufficient evidence to affirm this the lead team male centers on the supposed chlorine gas attack in april 28th in the syrian city of duma would so the united states at the time you may recall france and britain launch missile attacks on several suspected chemical weapons facilities and the o.p.c. w.

report pin the blame for the attack on the syrian government but moscow in damascus claimed from the outset that the chemical attack never occurred former cia officer rem a government whistleblower john kiriakou gave us their assessment of the o.p.c. devaney's credibility. what he's not saying is that the whistleblowers information is incorrect what he is not saying is that the report was it changed the redacted report was changed from its original he's trying to protect the organisation right now rather than address the facts of the situation and the facts of the situation indicate that the report was changed it was changed for political reasons with the whistleblowers juicing documentary evidence of this travesty investigations of call of doma they're transparent enough the problem is that the head of o.p.c. w. has said no no no i was right the 1st time i was right and overall in the majority

opinion i thought the trace trace amounts of call reading were enough to pin the blame on jambo blah blah blah the problem is that he continues to say these things and interesting leigh enough it was exactly when he said no no i abide by my earlier conclusions that they have a arsenal class felt that now we go ahead and we say no no the head of o.p.c. w. bides by has a his claims and so all this other stuff is you got it. russian talking points the russians are reporting this so facto it must be wrong. to attack our democracy come on a 4th grader can figure that out now that's the way things are looking for most because so far this tuesday morning so much more of facebook. from kevin to the

rest of the team thanks so much and stick around if you come and go boom bust coming out of my stateside studios but after this quick break. you know world is big news. and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks.