to ro back right to hong kong. that's the view of human rights watch. certainly the view of all those other organizations and that's exactly what you wanted, isn't it? hong kong re, unified hong kong re unified with china under the kind of repressive rule that tolerates no descent. do you happy? now with that that's extremely unfair and biased view. you know, there's no rollback of freedoms. all freedoms are well under basic law, which has incorporated the international covenant on civil and political rights on electro rights. we even allow foreign nation knows to vote, you know, and you know, vote electro rights are subject to restrictions all over the world. so our civil and political rights are alive and well, you know, there has been no delegation whatsoever. doesn't look like it the, the big clamp down on political opposition began in november 2020 didn't. it paging imposed a new law allowing the disqualification of so called an patrick artic opposition members from the legislative council. you approve of that

you care about hong kong being a flourishing business... in hong kong and china. international businesspeople suggest they're extremely worried about hong kong's future for two reasons? 0ne, because of the increasing control coming from beijing and a sense that the political situation is changing very fast and therefore the investment situation may change, but also covid restrictions as well, which have been incredibly tight in hong kong. do you worry hong kong's future as an international hub for business, for foreign business, may be coming to an end? well, once i agree with you — that people vote with their feet, you know, politicians, media can say what they want. but the reality is that the gdp of hong kong has grown for... it's projected to grow by 6.4% in 2021, which means that even after the implementation of national security law and the revamp of our electoral system and with all the covid pandemic situation, companies still find hong kong an attractive place to do business in. and i think they are right, because we are riding on a growing chinese market

hong kong and china. was that the best charges could come up with? good news is iris and we lie at mixer than so. he said themselves. jimmy lodge said it himself publicly. he told c n n otto calling on very senior us officials that he shared common values with us. and he's actually shared common that anyone who are the ones china, what he is regarding china, as you, as an the me ground, you know, you know, if he's not a u. s. proxy or as u. s. h a, what is he by his own admission. this is public record, he said to c n n. and he also said in tul, 14, that he is at the for funds i'll be occupied central by his own admission. why shouldn't he be? why shouldn't he has opinions? if he works for you as interest, if he use has newspaper as a u. s. papa ganga tool or platform for in site one of succession. why should we charge him? why should we charge him? the question is, from the point of view or poll, texting our national security, why should we charge and why should we investigate? what's wrong with that? wh

hong kong re, unified hong kong re unified with china under the kind of repressive rule that tolerates no descent. do you happy now, with that that's extremely unfair and biased view. you know, there's no rollback or freedoms. all freedoms are well under basic law, which has incorporated the international covenant on civil and political rights on electro rights. we even allow foreign nation nose to vote. you know, and you know, vo, electro rights are subject to lose restrictions all over the world. so, our civil and political rights are alive and well, you know, there has been no delegation whatsoever really doesn't look like it. the, the big clamp down on political opposition began in november 2020 didn't it paging imposed a new law allowing the disqualification of so called and patrick, artic opposition. members from the legislative council you approved of that, didn't you for sitting members were kicked out with immediate effect, you know, right. to respond. it's totally unfair to describe that as a claim. don't work. so i'm central authority. that is to make a decision, requiring o

can you tell us a little bit more about citizen news in hong kong? what kind of stories did a cover, how popular was it? so citizen news was founded in 2017 a number of veteran hong kong reports. and it is supported entirely by crowdfunding . and they are very well known for their investigative reports as well as data journalism. and they want to human rights christ and was in 2019 for peace about a train attack during the pro democracy protests. and another feature on, you know, police officers hiding their id numbers to escape accountability. and their chinese news team is also very popular as they're not afraid of covering sensitive topics in china. and this move, i understand was preemptive, wasn't it? the government hadn't yet gone after the newsroom. what did the editors anticipate could happen? well, yes, christiane, the chief writer, as citizen use, told reporters today that the decision to shut down was made within a very short period of time. and the trigger point was the fate of stan use. so just a few days ago, our national security polic

all that in hong kong. and our last wednesday about $200.00 national security police officers arrested and 7 people associated with the publication and they froze about $7000000.00 us dollars worth of assets from the company. and the all that was forced to shut down immediately and its website was defeated on the same day to former senior editors were charged with conspiring to publish a seditious materials. and they were d 9 l. and now the crackdown came less than a month after hong kong security chief chris tang publicly criticize the news saying is coverage of the government was bias and demonizing the young authorities have to repeat $89.00 that they are eroding press freedom, but express that the rate on stand use clearly extend the chilling on journalist very quickly. is there any free reporting left in the city? well, according to our survey, published by the foreign correspondence club of hong kong in november, more than 70 percent of correspondence in the city were concerned about being arrested or

all on a genteel hong kong accused of the state government. not to be able to provide the subsidiary or for the rescue plan as they promised. but yet at the same time, the scape state government also accused om gent in hong kong of not be able to meet some of its demands. and from the federal government level, it's the same, like the federal government asked, leant in hong kong to prepare some fund. 10 percent of the rescue funds that the federal government prepares to plan, but there are no agreements. so this where we are right now that they are blank ends and they are also like this on words and mouth. so it's not looking very good . this is obviously terrible news for the people that work at those 2 german shipyards. is there any hope for them or we don't know what happened to the 2 vessels, which are now complete in germany. there is so glock to right now in cruise ships. we have seen the scrapping of cruise ships, non stop. unlike the 3 largest crews, companies that we know carnival royal caribbean and norwegian genting hong kong doesn't

that has a kid and all that's destabilizing hong kong is destroying this, the and farming of state. but at the of security that people have been living in d, w, correspond at phoebe kong has been following the trial. she has more on chow and the significance of the case. what shall home toe is a $36.00 yo barrister and also the 5 chairman of the now defunct home co lions, which is on the, on the visual organizing group of the very iconic commemoration in hong kong. over the past 3, that is over 3 decades actually. but the alliance was a forced to the soap in 2021 after police investigation under the national security law, and also a serious over of arrest on this call. members, including chow hung tone and a chairman, the check in of a permanent pro democracy that goes in hong kong. that how home tone is one of the key factors in commemoration campaign, the hong kong, which was very iconic because these campaign has a basically distinguish home home from the rest of china. that hong kong used to be one of the remaining places on chinese soil to a legally commemorate to tenement crack

but they are now worth us after the hong kong use out less. he walked for shut down and mid pressure from beijing. i've been a reporter for 6 years over news outlet, so i've worked for a gone one after the other. it feels like my identity is fading away to. this is the 3rd time allen, which is not his real name lost his job in just 6 months. he was an investigative reporter for apple daily, but the police detained several editors and a paper closed. i used to work closely with the people arrested. it's terrifying and the threat feel so imminent. at 1st i thought things would get better after a while, but then you heard a former colleagues being brought to the police station and going missing. it's like the clearing, frontline journalists pro democracy, publications like apple daily stand, news and citizen news went dog after enormous government prussia authorities have insisted, debt press freedom remains protected. i recent survey by the hong kong foreign correspondents club found otherwise more than 70 percent of the journalists that they we

in 2020 to day, chow accused hong kong courts of criminalizing free speech. dozens of hong kong activists have been arrested or jailed under beijing's national security law, of which chow has been a strident critic. here she is, add a protest last april. it's actually a mapping of mazda for, from, for hunger. i would say the government was criticized us, the active as the, the, the pro them up as a can for this stabilizing hong kong i thing is the government that has a kid and all that disabled having hong kong is destroying this, the informing of they've been at the of security that people have been living in dw, correspond at phoebe kong has been following the trial. she has more on chow and the significance of the case which ohio is a $3060.00 barrister, and also the 5 chairman of the now the phones home alliance, which is on the, on the visual organizing group of the very iconic commemoration in hong kong. over the past 3, that is over 3 decades actually. but the alliance was a forced to the so in 2021 after police investigation under the national security law. and also a serious over

a lot of people are saying this is killing hong kong. i am questioning whether cathay pacific can survive. would you agree with this assessment from the european chamber of commerce that this because of your policies could isolate hong kong through 20 when he for? >> obviously public health considerations is number one, but i am optimistic because in the past two years, the hong kong government has filled out capacity in terms of fighting with the virus and also different measures we are taking. from the public health perspective, the most important thing is to protect our people from health and safety. on the other hand, the other ministers, business ministers, commerce ministers, and the overall government takes into consideration the overall situation and other considerations, including not only public health but also economic situation. stephen: we talked about the potential hitting of the ceiling on the facilities. we know penny's bay, the camp where quarantined individuals have to go, is reaching capacity. can you tell us how much

as a whole in hong kong. it absolutely appears that way citizen news is windy operations in the building behind me after announcing that it could no longer continue citing the safety all that stuff. now it is the 3rd media outlet to close off to the raid and arrests of stan news last week. and the 4th closure of apple daily in june. now, citizen news described itself as a little boat in the middle of tremendously rough seas. the citizen news found a chris young said that he hoped it wouldn't deter all the journalists from taking part in the industry. and that there is still a role for media to play here in hong kong. however, it's, it's hard to see it any other way a chill has taken hold of the media industry here, and it's unclear where the other remaining outlets like hong kong free press can continue to survive here in hong kong. hong kong authorities have repeatedly denied any crack down and say that there is no attack or target of the major. in particular. however, the hong kong journalist association sa

the company's crews business is listed at the hong kong stock exchange. and it's in serious trouble with hopes for a rescue from the german government dashed. it's been looking for an investor to take over so far without success. well, let's get more on this from our correspondent in ty paid some hon. so thanks for joining us. can you just explain to us how getting shipbuilding business in germany has ended up going bankrupt midway through this mega cruise project or off that 2 german shipyards were bought by a yen ting, hong kong to build 2 vessels, global drink, which is now 75 percent complete, and one that has not been named and built plans were for the global dream to enter service the last year and the other this year. they haven't yet because of the covey restriction, apparently it's financial health, rapidly deteriorated, and this led to insolvency. genting hong kong weren't, it may not be able to meet financial obligations without the funds from the government and trading of you and in hong kong. i'm shares on the hong kong. stock market has been

that's going through hong kong. hong kong is solidified.tion it has ever been. haidi: that's bill winters speaking with bloomberg's tom keene and jonathan ferro. let's get you a look at business flash headlines this hour. goldman sachs shares slumping the most in more than 18 months. a surprise drop in stock trading while compensation costs soared. revenue sank 11% in a sign of the covid pandemic training -- trading boom. compensation also surged to 33%. $17.7 billion last year. at&t temporarily delaying switching on hundreds of 5g cell towers near u.s. airports. they say they are voluntarily limiting their 5g services after last-minute talks with governor fisher and presenting -- coming up next, hong kong -- hong kong's rig -- travel restrictions are a top concern for american businesses. and there you have it. woah. wireless on the most reliable network nationwide. wow. big deal. we get unlimited for just 30 bucks. sweet, but mine has 5g included. relax people. my wireless is crushing it. that's because you all have xfinity mobile with yo

also coming up, another other independent voice in hong kong is silenced. website stand news says it is closing down after police raided it and seized assets. and caught on tape, a syrian family hit by a u.s. drone strike while driving their car. a child passenger who barely survived captured the attack on video. ♪ i'm william wilk croft, welcome to the program, including our pbs viewers. the omicron variant is causing skyrocketing rates of covid-19 infections in countries all around the world. french authorities reported more than 200,000 infections in a single day, a new french and european record. italy and portugal have also announced record numbers of new cases. in poland, authorities recorded nearly 800 deaths in a single day, the highest number for that eastern european country. three quarters of the deaths were reportedly unvaccinated people. here in germany, the official rates have dropped, but the health minister is skeptical we are seeing the true numbers. he says they could be two to three times as high. and the director general of the world hea

now to the state of press freedom in hong kong. in recent months, the city has seen several well known media outlets shuddered as, as china's cracked down on defend moves its focus from democracy. activists to journalists, fear of being arrested, has prompted several journalists to abandon hong kong for safer places to work abroad. he w joyce lee met with some recent arrivals in taiwan just 2 months ago. alan still had hope for his future as a journalist. he brought his prescott with him when he moved from hong kong to ty pay. but they are now worthless after the hong kong use out less. he worked for shut down and made pressure from beijing. ah, i've been a reporter for 6 years old. the news outlets. i've worked for a gone one after the other. it feels like my identity is fading away to. this is the 3rd time allen, which is not his real name lost his job in just 6 months. he was an investigative reporter for apple daily, but the police detained several editors and a paper closed. i used to work closely with the people arrested. it'

the hong kong jealous association says that attacks on the press threatened the status of hong kong as age as well. city. hong kong was once known as a thriving hub for media outlets. but since the national security law was introduced in 2020, that change. and now there are big fears over whether independent journalism here is being crushed, live out to london and long new global justice campaign, and also of hong kong in revolts out long. you welcome to the news of these comments from kerry lam. proportionate to the posture of self styled independent media in hong kong. no, i don't think so, and i disagree with her because if you look back to yes and it is very clear that yes, aging and kerry lynn is finishing all the freedom of press in hong kong. is it your reading of the situation? yeah. pardon me for interrupting you. the is it, you're reading of this later situation that this particular outlet, citizen news, is closing itself down as opposed to being closed down. so clearly the people that run, that is a news think the atmosphere is so toxic. there's no point being there. yes, up

but they are now worth us after to hong kong use out less. he walked for shut down amid pressure from beijing. i've been a reporter for 6 years old. the news outlet, so i've worked for a gone one after the other. it feels like my identity is fading away to. this is the 3rd time allen, which is not his real name lost his job in just 6 months. he was an investigative reporter for apple daily, but the police detained several editors and a paper closed. i used to work closely with the people arrested. it's terrifying and the threat feel so imminent. at 1st i thought things would get better after a while, but then you heard a former colleagues being brought to the police station and going missing. it's like the clearing, frontline journalists pro democracy, publications like apple daily stand, news and citizen news went dog after enormous government prussia authorities have insisted debt press freedom remains protected. i recent survey by the hong kong foreign correspondence club found otherwise more than 70 percent of the journalists that they we

>> hong kong is in a pickle. in a global scale of hong kong is in a say, they did not have much of a delta outbreak, because hong kong has been adopting this covid zero approach but at the same time it has a low vaccination rate compared to other developed economies. one out of every three people here are not vaccinated, and those who are vaccinated have a vaccine proven to be less potent against omicron. we have three weeks before the lunar new year on the date where families get together and we have already had increased cases come into hong kong and local infections of omicron, 38 cases, 34 of them yesterday were inputted -- imported, but we do have one local case that is untraceable. hong kong has had a local infection they have not been able to trace the source. maybe an anomaly. hong kong pulling out all the stops to make sure this does not turn into a fifth wave. it is if you are seeing 38 cases. here is what the authorities will be doing. starting at one minute after midnight tonight, forget your bar hopp

that how hong kong is one of the key factors in they are commander ation campaign. the hong kong, which was very iconic, because these campaign has a basically distinguish home from the rest of china. the hong kong are used to be one of the remaining places on chinese soil to a legally commemorate to tenement are cracked out, which one of the remaining as a political took boy in china. but now, ah, it seems that this all has gone. phoebe call reported from hong kong there. thank you. phoebe the fire, south africa parliament has flared up again. even though emergency services said it was on the control. flames and smoke billowed out of the historic assembly building in cape town. as dozens of firefighters were cold back, a man is due to appear in court on charges of arson. ah, as night fell, south africa's parliament was burning again. the fire re ignited by winds, a full day after the initial blaze was brought under control. dozens of fire fighters called back to tackle the flames, which have destroyed the national assembly chamber. president civil rom, oppose. i vi

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a small bit of good news for the hong kong flyer, which is facing tough quarantine rules and legal complaints against its own air cruise. and what's a winter wonderland without snow will take you to colorado were climate change. has ski resorts making their own powder? hello and welcome to the show. i'm see from beardsley in berlin. and we've been talking about the global crunch in energy supplies in recent weeks. now turkey is feeling the strain on kara has ordered its biggest gas consumers among them, electricity producers and large factories to scale back massively for 3 days. in effect, that means power outages and stoppages on factory floors. now behind the decision is a supply problem in a ran, as the source of about 16 percent of gas supplies going into turkey, ran stop gas flows to the country for 10 days, siding a technical problem on its end. its own gas consumption has been while jumped to the cold. temperatures are in turkey, local and international companies are suffering from turkish car maker, turf us to french car maker, renault, which is shutting down production for 2 weeks.

that's been especially tough for hong kong airlines. kathy pacific passenger numbers have plummeted, and staff absences increased. now the company is even facing legal troubles before covey. 19 this was one of the world's busiest airports. now it's more like a parking lot. hong kong has banned flights from 8 countries deemed to be higher risk for coven 19, including france and the u. k. and bar flights from more than a 100 other countries that use the city as a transit hub over fee as of an outbreak at the airport. the sump in tourism is let the services in town checking the center for the airport being suspended and new arrivals who are allowed into the city are expected to spend up to 3 weeks, self isolating in a hotel room before they are allowed out into the community. a, the ation analysts say the strict rules and making it hard for airlines to manage their crews. they get test, of course, when they get into hong kong, if they pass a positive, we're one of them gets that the positive, the whole crew will be put into a government fa

now, from hong kong in hong kong, shrinking media space, another loss in a statement on social media, independent, online news sites. citizen, you said it would stop operating from tuesday saying it needed to ensure the safety of its stuff. it described itself as a little bows in the middle of tremendously rough seas. that announcement came less than a week after stan use announced it was closed down. alas, after the independence publication had been raised by police and 7 people were arrested. in october, hong kong security bureau accused citizen news is misleading its readers. when reporting that free speech was no longer guaranteed under the national security law . found a chris young settled though citizen use not been contacted by national security police. it was impossible for the small outlet to continue. overall media is facing a face and increasingly tough environment for those who are being seen as critical or troublemakers. they are more wonderful. young said he hoped young hong kong journalists wouldn't be put off saying there's still a role for media to play in the territ

no one is safe in hong kong, saying that recent arrests had nothing to do with me of freedom. hong kong was once known as a vibrant hub for media outlets, but a national security are imposed on the region and 2020 has changed that and left many faring independent journalism is being crushed for clinic. i'll just 0 hong kong they talk to me. rebel fighter has been killed in a gunfight with security forces in india administered. kush me please say celine perry was the commander of the bucket on base lasher if they buy group customer is claimed by both india and pakistan. i buffalo way construct taiwan on monday nights now. the epi center of the magnitude 5.7 quake was off the eastern coast of the island. the tremor shook buildings in the capital to pay. there were no immediate reports of injuries or serious damage. more than 20000 people in indonesia have been forced to flee their homes after days of torrential rain. several districts in north actually have been inundated by water authority say one child has died, residence waded through st, salvaging what they could from their homes, vac

and that is going to hong kong. hong kong is solidified. the strongest it has ever been.nda: standard charters speaking with tom keene and jonathan ferro. the outlook for india's gold industry looking for a rollout to modernize the sector. the council will join us next. this is bloomberg. haslinda: you are watching "bloomberg markets." asia. lincoln at mumbai. two minutes until the trading day. futures pointing to a lower opening. the second day in a row for the benchmark. rishaad: a look at gold. the world gold council saying the outlook for demand. the second-biggest consuming nation of commodities that things remain strong. precious metals in november. and the peak weddings that followed. let's bring in the regional ceo india at the world gold council. give us a sense of the demand and how it compares to previous years. >> demand during the pandemic was affected partially due to lockdown and all of the functions. what we saw in the last quarter of 2021 was a spurt in demand. partially because festivals and weddings came back. prices soft and. savings were higher. peopl

and hong kong. last pro democracy paper, apple daily that was forced to close in june last year after tacit, was seized and found a jimmy lie. arrested. authorities have also blocked programs on public broadcast, the radio, television, hong kong, and issued directives to stuff. it's now uncertain how remaining outlets, including hong kong free press can survive. the decision by citizen used to close is another sign that the media environment here is becoming increasingly difficult . yet hong kong authorities have repeatedly rejected claims of a crackdown. thank they are not targeting the media. journalism is not sedition, but seditious action activities and inciting other people through public action activities could not be con, don't. under the guise of news reporting, hong kong chief secretary john les criticized a recent editorial published in the wall street journal title. no one is safe in hong kong, saying that recent arrests had nothing to do with me. freedom. hong kong was once known as a vi

hong kong's omicron outbreak.he city reported 125 new locally transmitted cases of covid-19. that is the highest daily tally in a year. 104 new cases can be traced to the cluster at this public housing estate. a number of residential buildings have been sealed off overnight. two buildings sealed off for a five-day lockdown behind me. covid-19 testing is under way all afternoon. we've been seeing lines of people line up here to go for mandatory covid testing. 35,000 residents have to undergo this exercise. over the weekend we heard from hong kong authorities who described the outbreak as exponential. i want you to hear this from the top executive, carrie lam. >> translator: we are worried the exponential growth of cases we have seen in other parts of the world is now happening here. >> reporter: as cases rise, frustration is rising as well, especially among members of the community who are under lockdown for up to five days. when carrie lam was here for a site visit on sunday, yesterday, she was met with angry jeer

no one is safe in hong kong, saying that recent arrests had nothing to do with me of freedom. hong kong was once known as a vibrant hub for media outlets, but a national security law imposed on the region and 2020 has changed that and left many faring independent journalism is being crushed for clinic. i'll just 0 hong kong china, russia, the us, france and the u. k. who pledged to ensure a nuclear war is never ford. the 5 nuclear countries relates to joint statement, vowing to prevent the further spread of atomic weapons. the country say it's a war that cannot be won and should never be fought. the 8th round of talks on the iran nuclear deal has resumed in vienna. it aims to revive for 2015 agreement with world powers. iranian foreign ministry spokesman says western nations have realized they must back down for maximal demands till 6 berry has been following developments from vienna. this week could be one of the most important weeks. and that is because the talks until now, i've been dealing about what the talks will be about. they were talking about the agenda. now there seems to be

i'm in hong kong facing extinction or hong kong, freep free press bases collapse. i just cannot accept that sort of allegations, but nothing is more important than the rule of law in hong kong. and journalists and media organizations like or of us, have to respect and comply with the law if they are fearful for not being able to comply with a lot. and they have to make up their mind and take the necessary positions. brick climate has more now from hong kong citizen, yours is winding up its operations in the building behind me and will now stop updating its website after it said it could no. 1 longer continue sizing the safety of its staff. it's the 3rd media outlet to close after stand use last week. the arrests and raid of a new for and the 4th closure. 1 of apple, daily and june, last year, citizen years described itself as a small boat and for men to sleep rough seas. it's found a chris young said that he hoped it would not deterred young journalists from taking part in the industry. and that there still a role for media here in hong kong. however, it's still un

the most extensive and really shows the extent that the hong kong government is going to to stamp out all me. crohn. i spoke to ivan hong, who's a top epidemiologist in this city. he's also a hong kong government advisor. now he said that these kind of steps a necessary to basically buy hong kong time because the vaccination rates are still not sufficient enough. not where it needs to be. as vaccination rates are about 70 percent here in the city, but among the elderly it's still sluggish. over 80, the 8 here. well, it's around 20 percent. the hong kong government had planned to introduce tough measures next month, but in 3 weeks time it's chinese new year, of course and, and many families, many different friends and groups will want to gather full festivities. so the hope is that these measures will expire in 2 weeks time just in time for chinese, new year. and what about the thousands of passengers being held on this well, the so the passenger crew ship is $2500.00 people on board 9 people have tested positive and at the moment they're still in victoria harbor waiting to just inbox