a three decade if not longer relationship >> joining us, co-owner of the nba sacramento kings, andy millerwner of e sports team, san francisco shock, founder and ceo of nrg e-sports. good morning >> good morning. >> can the nba thread this needle, support free speech and stay popular in china? >> i'm sure adam silver can figure it out. you know, it is a pretty complicated political and business issue nba has a long-standing relationship with china. china loves basketball they love the nba. full faith in adam who has done an amazing job in his tenure as commissioner to work through this >> you have an e-sports team as well what would you do in this situation if a player or somebody involved with that team said something about hong kong that angered people in china would that be a business deal breaker for you in china would you try to regulate their speech in some way, put out a different message? >> well, that's a tough one. we're all for freedom of speech, especially video games are very different animal than traditional sports in that it is boundariless with new leagues like overwatch le

got activision blizzard, after his support for the hong kong protests -- yesterday we spoke with andy miller about what the ban for a pro gamer would mean for him. >> we're all for freedom of speech, especially video games are very different animal than traditional sports in that it's pretty boundariless. with new leagues like the overwatch league, which we are in, there is a local component and then in other games it's more of an international everybody is a fan of their favorite teams and players so that's a real political issue. we definitely back freedom of speech. >> at the same time, we've got apple in a bit of i don't know how hot the water is, but it's at least uncomfortably lukewarm over this app that isn't available in mainland china but is available in hong kong and outside that would allow people to track police movements in hong kong. back to the activision blizzard thing, arguable that the e-sports gamer here, he's the colin kaepernick of hong kong right now. during this game, he took this political stance, got people riled up, got punished for it, and continues to say, no, act

the people i told you about, allison krauss andy sawyer, and jeffrey miller, those are the four students who died. nine students were wounded and one was crippled for life from the waist down. i would like to turn this over to any questions anybody would have. i would be more than happen to share what i have here. (applause) yes. >> i'm interested in your transition from a family that had many people in the military and the military that you served in and how -- if -- how your experience in the military affected your view of what was going on if you became an antiwar activist at some point or just even antiwar without being -- i'm just interested in that transition or relationship. >> well, growing up in a family much seven boys born eight years apart, and my dad never drove we actually didn't have money for college. and as a young, you know poor middle-class kid, i stayed out of school for a year working several jobs and trying to go to an extension school realizing that it is not all going to work out very well. and a kid decided to join the air force and asked me if i wanted to join t

andy swiss, bbc news, tokyo. time for a look at the weather... here's nick miller. on the way in the weather. for many others there has been a lull and we have enjoyed some drier days. that is about to change and perhaps heading out this evening, there is patchy rain across western parts of the uk. that becomes more extensive and pushes further north and east as we go through the night, avoiding northern scotland. cloud moving in with temperatures dropping nowhere near as low as they have recently, particularly in scotland. a mild start but worked for some, rain pushing north for the rest of scotland, through the east of england and behind it drier brighter spells coming through, with further rain pushing in. with that there will be a strengthening south—westerly wind. the winds start to pick up and it will be much milder with some of us tomorrow in england and wales and northern ireland, on the cool side in parts of scotland. potentially stormy conditions across southern parts of the uk. more on thatjust before 6pm. this is bbc news. the headlines: labour launch th