a correspondent munty has bollinger is in hong kong he's right at the spot where the young man fell earlier we asked him if the police's promise to investigate the death will satisfy protesters they have promised it as you say they have already. altered their version of the events their timetable off the events after some footage by passers by dashboard car footage showed that their 1st version that they had not been inside before he fell was wrong so this did of course not contribute to more trust in the police and we've just heard what joshua long that is the opening of many people here and it's one being one of the team ons for a long time now people want an investor independent investigation into what the police has been doing that day and the weeks before and anything else will not satisfy the protesters they will continue going on the streets as we can see people have no trust in the police they have lost all trust. authorities in australia say an unprecedented number of bushfires are threatening large areas in the states of new south wales and queensland queensland more than 90 blaze

let's go right to our correspondent munty has been a standing by in hong kong find the ts there is violence as we heard there on the streets tell us more about how things have been asking lading in hong kong today. well it started this morning with these shots fired on the protester the protester is in the i.c.u. at the moment that has of course brought a lot of people to the street it's a strike that many people were called to come out today and it happened when protesters tried to block a road and this policeman who was a traffic police not a riot police then got into a scuffle with them he was talking tackling one protester and another one approached and then he shot at him later there were other incidents where protesters have become very violent against people who disagreed with them all woud some kind of verbal standoff with them one very dramatic incident footage was shared on the internet of a protest josey a man in a liquid and then setting him a place that man is also in critical condition in the hospital these 2 events of course are very likely to escalate violence further so far

right now they have complete um munty for publishing hate speech. let them have some liability. think it would change the nature of the debate. >> let me ask you about something fiona hill said during her testimony. she talked about how the idea that ukraine was actually the country that had hacked the 2016 election was part of a kind of russian disinformation campaign. it was fiction, and yet, it has taken hold in a large part of the american public, you know, a lot of people in -- on the hill, the republicans believe it. a lot of people who watch fox news believe it. what does one do about that kind of disinformation? >> there are decades of russian disinformation. the cia caused aids. the cia shot john f kennedy. these things get embedded in our psyches. it's hard to rebut it. it gets stuck in our brains. and the russians are very good at it. i think the other reason that disinformation works is people want to believe it. right? it's confirmation bias. if the republicans are looking for a conspiracy theory to help donald trump, of course they're going to be more receptive to