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soon the streets of kowloon were once again ablaze.the street behind me here, about half a mile away, is the hong kong polytechnic university, which is still under siege. around it, in many, many places tonight, are scenes like this, of complete chaos, of running street battles between protesters and riot police. this, where we're standing here, is right next to many five—star hotels. this is the heart of hong kong's tourist and shopping district. trapped in their rooms, tourists gaze down at the scenes below. late tonight, a handful of underage protesters were allowed to leave the university campus. but for everyone else, the police here are now taking an increasingly hard line. their question now is what happens next? there are many voices here loudly calling for carrie lam, the hong kong chief executive, to come out and show leadership, to defuse the anger and accept some of the protesters‘ demands but i have to say tonight there is no sign of carrie lam and her government appears to have decided on this course of using ever harsher

soon the streets of kowloon were once again ablaze. is the hong kong polytechnic university, which is still under siege. around it, in many, many places donate as things like this of complete chaos, running street battles between protesters and riot police. this, where we are standing here, is next to many 5—star hotels. this is the heart of hong kong's tourist and shopping district. trapped in their rooms, tourists gazed down on the scenes below. late tonight, a handful of underage protesters were allowed to leave the university campus. but for everyone else, please here are now taking an increasingly hardline. —— police. there are many voices here calling loudly for carrie lam, chief executive, to come out and show leadership, to defuse the anger and accept some of the protesters' demands. but tonight there is no sign of carrie lam, and her government appears to have decided on this course of using ever harsher police tactics to crush what appears like a full—scale revolt. events in hong kong are being closely watched in beijing. hon

soon the streets of kowloon were once again ablaze.the street behind me here, about half a mile away, is the hong kong polytechnic university, which is still under siege. around it, in many, many places tonight, are scenes like this, of complete chaos, of running street battles between protesters and riot police. this, where we're standing here, is right next to many 5—star hotels. this is the heart of hong kong's tourist and shopping district. trapped in their rooms, tourists gaze down at the scenes below. late tonight, a handful of underage protesters were allowed to leave the university campus. but for everyone else, the police here are now taking an increasingly hard line. just under an hour ago hong kong's chief executive carrie lam spoke to the media. in the statement she claimed that the presence of people's liberation army troops in the city streets, who had been seen helping to clean up debris left in the wake of the protests, had not been at her request. this involuntary act of the garrison did not come under any provisions i

soon the streets of kowloon were once again ablaze.n the street behind me, about half a mile away is the hong kong polytechnic university, which is still under siege. around it, in many, many places donate as scenes like this of complete chaos, running street battles between protesters and riot police. this, where we are standing here, is next to many 5—star hotels. this is the heart of hong kong's tourist and shopping district. trapped in their rooms, tourists gazed down on the scenes below. late tonight, a handful of underage protesters were allowed to leave the university campus. but for everyone else, the police here are now taking an increasingly hardline. the hong kong chief executive carrie lam hasjust begun making her weekly address. 00:03:22,925 --> 2147483051:38:26,177 let's speak to our 2147483051:38:26,177 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 correspondent andrew wood. one of the things carrie lam has said is that she thinks the protesters and ambulances should be on hand and she believes there are a lot of injured people there. lookin

soon the streets of kowloon were once again ablaze.street behind me, about half a mile away is the hong kong polytechnic university, which is still under siege. around it, in many, many places donate as scenes like this of complete chaos, running street battles between protesters and riot police. this, where we are standing here, is next to many 5—star hotels. this is the heart of hong kong's tourist and shopping district. trapped in their rooms, tourists gazed down on the scenes below. late tonight, a handful of underage protesters were allowed to leave the university campus. but for everyone else, the police here are now taking an increasingly hardline. we are going to go into the campus right now to speak to a democratic party lawmaker, a legislator within hong kong. he is within polytechnic university. can you explain how many people are still within the campus building, within the grounds?” people are still within the campus building, within the grounds? i can hear you. i estimate that there are still around 200 students still on

in kowloon, i think they are disrupting things quite a bit more, now.the authorities, they close the schools last week and remain closed today. there are problems on the trains, some services are not running. the hospital authority has wanted you don't have an urgent appointment, don't have an urgent appointment, don't go to your local hospital. and one of the pro establishment figures here has suggested that perhaps there should be a curfew in some of there should be a curfew in some of the worst hotspots for the protests. that was sort of floated last week andi that was sort of floated last week and i think the government stepped back from it, that's what it looked like, anyway. so perhaps the curfew might be back. don't forget, this weekend we have local elections here in hong kong. carrie lam has said in the past that if violence continues, those elections could be cancelled oi’ those elections could be cancelled or suspended. at the moment, there doesn't seem to be any sign that the protesters will pull back, so it will be up to carrie lam whether

soon the streets of kowloon were once again ablaze.ind me here, about half a mile away is the hong kong polytechnic university, which is still under siege. around it, in many, many places tonight are scenes like this of complete chaos, of running street battles between protesters and riot police. this, where we'e standing here, is next to many 5—star hotels. this is the heart of hong kong's tourist and shopping district. trapped in their rooms, tourists gazed down at the scenes below. late tonight, a handful of underage protesters were allowed to leave the university campus. but for everyone else, police here are now taking an increasingly hard line. ted hui is a democratic party lawmaker and has been at the polytechnic overnight and in regular contact with those inside. i spoke to him a short time ago and asked him whether he knew how many people were still inside the university building. i estimate that there are still around about 200 students still on campus right now. they are still trapped. but many of them are ready to leave the

, and they area, we are in kowloon, and they are bringing supplies but many are seeking to block they been a confrontation with riot police earlier where tear gas was exchanged but the number is growing and it is definitely in the thousands. this is all in support of those few hundred protesters who are in the university which is about half a kilometre in that direction and that the stand—off that shows no sign of ending this evening but i think there is more evidence of some of the protest is seeking to leave with some images of them coming down ropes and exiting the university campus. the warning has been that they will not be violence from the police but anybody will be arrested by police tonight and charged with rioting. robin, many thanks, our correspondent robin brant in hong kong. borisjohnson has said the government will postpone further cuts to corporation tax. speaking to the annual conference of the employers organisation the cbi, mrjohnson said the move would save £6 billion which could be used for other priorities, including the nhs. the labour leader, jeremy corbyn, set

beingtest being a line disrupted as well as parts of west kowloon as well.erators have come out and said there's disruption, diversion, or cancellation into many roots run throughout hong kong. one other throughout the bloomberg that the english schools foundation has suspended all classes in hong kong this tuesday, so we are looking at a very disruptive set of events as the city braces for more chaos. let's get the market perspective with the next guest. the head of research joins us this morning from melbourne. great to have you. i want to start up with a chart which really paints the market reaction, how investors aren't feeling about the chaos and the violence and the clashes we continue to see and what is supposed to be a shows global business city. right? hong kong stocks, what a terrible monday it was. at one point, it fell the most in over a year. virtually every single stock listed they closing lower. we have already seen the economic ramifications, and so far, market sentiment has held up pretty well. where do we go from here given it has seemed li

which is the link, really, between kowloon side to hong kong island u a. that has been shut down now for days. so that key piece of infrastructure has been out of use because of these protests. and many of these protesters, nick have come from chinese university. we saw those very violent scenes last weekend and throughout the week. many of them now have come here to polytechnic university, and this is now the new flash point as some of these protesters said to me a little bit earlier, we at war. they believe they are defending the university. the police obviously, have deemed everyone here to be rioters. they've told journalists not to get in the way of their work. a medic inside the university, nick, told us that they are expecting live gunfire to be fired, prance later in the evening. so this is an incredibly tense situation here where protesters are concerned that police could very well charge in the coming hours, nick. >> anna, as were you talking, we were just seeing pictures there, live pictures of petro bombs. thanks very much, please stay safe. >>

investigation said repeatedly i have the goods i have the evidence evidence that shows that russia didn't kowloon with president trump well that counted dissipated and then we know that he lied the other day say and this is what the transcript said it did not say that we also know they were say and there's a whistleblower who apparently worked for both obama brennan and i guess biden. he apparently was confident all of that is a treasure. of americans understand that americans understand fairness and the president isn't given and it's got lucas way to american stand on this recent poll shows that americans approve the impeachment investigation but i only a 3rd of the people who approve it say the inquiry should be a top priority for congress so what does that say about where the american public stands on this. well those were roughly the same percentages when the watergate hearings began in 1904 so in other words i think instead of saying where the american people stand it's going to be a question of what comes out as evidence in the hearings and then we'll see how the american public reacts to t

or so, thousands and thousands of people, most of them are young, have descended onto this area of kowloonghly disruptive and it is another sign of the tactics they are using to convey their message to the people of hong kong and frankly to disrupt day—to—day lives. there are bricks on the streets, we have seen highways blocked and we have seen the entrances to tunnels closed as well. all of this is a show of support for the protesters who are holed up for a second night now. so, is there an end to this crisis? with me now is christopher hughes, professor of international relations at the the london school of economics and political science. he specialises in china and chinese foreign policy. we should pick up with the comments from the chinese ambassador these images undermine the idea there is stability in the country and it is all one country so you can see why they are starting to run our patients? you described it, the future is unimaginable. it is already unimaginably bad and he has to ask why? who is causing this? what is the root cause? the chinese government and the hong kong gove

it was, right across the southern end of kowloon, scenes of complete mayhem last night.een a lot of cleaning up going on this morning. now, at the campus, the siege is still going on, although it is much smaller than it was last night. we understand around about 100, we think, protesters remain inside there, the holdouts, either because they are hardliners or because they are just too scared to give themselves up to police. since yesterday around 600 people have given themselves up. of those, we understand a third, around 200, were minors under the age of 18. they have been allowed to go home after their details were taken by police. that's one of the concessions carrie lam and the government has given to try and defuse the situation. anybody under the age of 18 will be allowed to go home, but all the rest have been taken into police custody. and police this morning say they have taken more than 1100 people into custody over the last two days. rupert wingfield—hayes. borisjohnson will go head—to—head withjeremy corbyn tonight in the first of the general election live tv

one of the tunnels, the cross harbour tunnels that goes between hong kong island and kowloon, that waseekend and the protesters don't seem to be letting anyone through. thank you very much. the british government and armed forces have been accused of covering up illegal killings by british troops in afghanistan and iraq. an investigation by bbc panorama and the sunday times newspaper has spoken to a dozen british detectives who say they found credible evidence of war crimes. but the investigators say strong cases were not prosecuted. the ministry of defence here in the uk has denied the claims. richard bilton has more. across two decades, british soldiers have fought wars in afghanistan and iraq. most did their duty and came home, but some were accused of committing war crimes. panorama has found evidence the state covered up what they did. like the killing of rahid al moussaoui in basra in 2003. translation: when rahid opened a door, the british soldier was crouching behind a pile of rubbish in the street. as soon as rahid walked out, the british soldier shot him, here. detectives fro

police have already clashed with protestors on campus and city university in kowloon tong, and trainshools and universities have suspended classes. speaking in the last hour chief executive carrie lam has described the action as selfish. it's a second day of disruption after monday became one of the most violent days so far during five months of pro—democracy protests. one man was shot in the chest by a police officer and another was set on fire during an argument with protestors. well, train stations are being shut down, mike, as we speak now because of apparently attacks by protesters. and now, rather thanjust one university you have mentioned, the city university of hong kong, there's two other universities, at least, who are — with protesters, and possibly students from there as well, who are holding up barricades against the police, and there is some sort of stand—off, at least in the chinese university of hong kong, as well as the university of hong kong itself. so there is a stand—off everywhere. and in the past few hours, i myself took at least an extra 30 minutes to get into

and the university, this is a strategic position because we are very close to kowloon. that has been closed for days. really these protesters, and we have spoken to a number of them, 22-year-old archer said he has done archery all his life. he said they were just training arrows but they were going to fire them to defend their university. and as far as they're concerned, michael, these students are at war. . >> one of the ongoing questions is mainland china and its responsiveness. tell us about the optics of soldiers, mainland china soldiers who left their base and they got involved in cleaning up. i mean, it's just cleaning up. but is that a concern sign for hong kongers that they were out on the streets? >> reporter: yeah. look, they said it was a cleanup operation, something responsipo from where we are. this has become a major flashpoint here in hong kong. certainly hong kongers were alarmed by this. there was a lot of chat on social media. people were concerned does this mean the chinese troops are going to move in, the military is going to move in? but the governm

investigation said repeatedly i have the goods i have the evidence evidence that shows that russia didn't kowloon with president trump well that counted dissipated and then we know that he lied the other day saying this is what the transcript said it did not say that we also know they were say and there's a whistleblower who apparently worked for both obama brennan and i guess biden. he apparently was confident all of that is atrocious and. americans understand that americans understand fairness and the president isn't given and it's got lucas way to american stand on this recent poll shows that americans approve the impeachment investigation but i only a 3rd of the people who approve it say the inquiry should be a top priority for congress so what does that say about where the american public stands on this. well those were roughly the same percentage as when the watergate hearings began in 1904 so in other words i think instead of saying where the american people stand it's going to be a question of what comes out as evidence in the hearings and then we'll see how the american public reacts to

it was, right across the southern end of kowloon, scenes of complete mayhem last night.t of cleaning up going on this morning. now, at the campus, the siege is still going on, although it is much smaller than it was last night. we understand around about 100, we think, protesters remain inside there, the holdouts, either because they are hardliners or because they are just too scared to give themselves up to police. since yesterday around 600 people have given themselves up. of those, we understand a third, around 200, were minors under the age of 18. they have been allowed to go home after their details were taken by police. that's one of the concessions carrie lam and the government has given to try and defuse the situation. anybody under the age of 18 will be allowed to go home, but all the rest have been taken into police custody. and police this morning say they have taken more than 1100 people into custody over the last two days. the lawyer for the man accused of murdering british backpacker grace millane has told a new zealand court that she died as a result of co

so this is a street in the middle of kowloon, the heart of hong kong's tourist district with big five—starght. these piles of bricks, these are paving stones, all of the sidewalks, the pavements around here, have been ripped up by protesters last night. early this morning, the streets were absolutely strewn with all sorts of debris. they have now been cleaned back so the traffic can move again. there is some sort of return to normality here but it is still a very tense situation. because of the violence last night and because of the tense stand—off that is still going on at the hong kong polytechnic university, which is about a kilometre down the road here, they still have, we think, around 100 or so students holed up inside there. 0vernight, around 600 of the protesters there have given themselves up to police. of those, around 200 were minors — under the age of 18. now, the government has said they have been allowed to go home. that was one of the conditions for trying to defuse the situation at the university, that anybody under the age of 18 who gave themselves up, their details will b

investigation said repeatedly i have the goods i have the evidence evidence that shows that russia didn't kowloon with president trump well that counted dissipated and then we know that he lied the other day say and this is what the transcript said it did not say that we also know they were say and there's a whistleblower who apparently worked for both obama brennan and i guess biden. he apparently was confident all of that is atrocious and. americans understand that americans understand fairness and the president isn't given in a scott lucas way to american stand on this recent poll shows that americans approve the impeachment investigation but i only a 3rd of the people who approve it say the inquiry should be a top priority for congress so what does that say about where the american public stands on this. well those were roughly the same percentage as when the watergate hearings began in 1904 so in other words i think instead of saying we're the american people stand it's going to be a question of what comes out as evidence in the hearings and then we'll see how the american public reacts the

escalating in hong kong with the police closing the cross harbor tunnel linking hong kong island with kowloon moved to clear protesters from a university there. smoke was seen billowing after multiple fires at the campus. officials warned police may use live rounds as the situation continues. the british royal family is suffering another public relations disaster, this time over plans angers attempt to explain away his friendship with pedophile financier jeffrey and steen --jeffrey epstein. criticism is mounting over why the queen's son decided to talk to the bbc. the prince denied sleeping with virginia roberts, a teenage sex slave. the opposition seeks to revive its campaign to out president nicolas maduro. juan guaido through protesters earlier in the year but venezuela has been quiet recently as protests hit another south american nation from ecuador to chile. many doubt he can unseat president maduro. bill gates is the world's richest person again. it is the first time in more than two years that the microsoft cofounder has taken the top spot. gates was helped in part by the pentagon --

the city university, just there in kowloon. over to david engel. he joins us in the studio.st flareup does not look like there is any letter get -- let up. -- it'st is now just not on days of weekends or days of called strike's. it during the daytime. we have disruptions of commutes. we have another barricade being put up at the entrance of the chinese university of hong kong. it has spread down here to central, where teargas was fired for a second consecutive day. the protesters are upset at what happened last week with the death of one of the protesters, which they say was at the hands of the police. there was a lot of gray area and i shouldation rumors, say, about the cause of his death. or what led to his death. yesterday, it's wishful thinking if they think the escalation of violence will resolve this. it's in escalation and standoff. both sides entrenched. we start torching and trashing last night. a festival shopping mall. it's a massive shopping mall. i was there on saturday with my daughter. the christmas tree is several stories high. i'm sure it's a fake one. it is

kowloon bay is shut down.he violence is getting worse and worse. , hehat were to be the case would certainly see it impact markets. -- you would certainly see it impact markets. we saw three-month yield differentials between the u.s. and hong kong blowout. we saw the hong kong curve flattened sharply. will seene way -- you default expectations get pulled forward ever so slightly, maybe from the five-year to the two year, the two your the one year. that is one thing traders are looking at. hong kong has been are black swan for the next 12 months. you have a global manufacturing system based on china. the global financial system based on american dollars. hong kong is where these things meet. it is the fulcrum that can explode to damage things good vincent: if the militant -- to damage things. vincent: if the military needs to go in, getting a u.s. china trade deal at that point will be impossible. either the deal gets done soon and then china can do what they need to do to control the situation in hong kong, or

yesterday, it was quite a chaotic day at polytechnic, which is in kowloon.raging fires for part of the day, cars set on fire, arrests as police came onto the campus, sometimes storm to the campus. the government said it was not a police raid on the campus. lots of tear gas fired. late in the day, we saw several thousand protesters take to the streets and report of the students, saying save our children. carrie lam of course, as you noticed, has come out and said that this needs to end, that the protesters need to leave. the question is, how does it end? what will the police try to do today perhaps to end this? there's a lot of concern about how that might go. carrie lam is scheduled to have her regular tuesday press conference this morning. course, those scenes at the hong kong polytech university, not the only evidence of disarray in hong kong. what else is going on and what are the broader implications going to be? jodi: yes, we have seen some other demonstrations in recent days around campuses, although polytechnic university has been where the main activ

police closing the cross harbor tunnel linking hong kong island with kowloon.lowing after many fires on campus. officials warned police may use live rounds. in hong kong, the high court ban isthe mask unconstitutional. last month you may remember carrie lam and pose the ban and for the first time in more than chief executive invoking emergency powers. explainndrew trying to his friendship with the late pedophile financier jeffrey epstein. criticism mounting over why he decided to speak with the bbc. the prince denied sleeping with virginia robert scum one of epstein's teenage sex slaves. over the venezuela, the biggest protest in months. the opposition seeks to oust nicolas maduro. vendors will have been quiet after demonstrations earlier in the year. doubt juan guaido can unseat president maduro. global news 24 hours a day on air and at tictoc on twitter, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. this is bloomberg. with less than four weeks until the u.k. heads of the polls, politicians are focusing on winning over business

they are trying to clear the tunnel from hong kong to kowloon, getting commerce flowing again, are thetainly that protest is winding down but the no the protests in general. we'll see how the group reacts. a lot of people are saying, we've been talking to them. basically they're just angry. they will actually come out in full force later. i don't know if that is the case. one thing that is really interesting about this polytechnic siege. for five months the protesters had basically outmaneuvered the hong kong police at every turn. starting on tuesday the hong kong police turned the tables. they ended up in a major victory by surrounding 1100 protesters who they have taken down. stuart: oh, dear. one friend of mine who run as telecommunications company in hong kong successfully is leaving. he is going to taiwan. >> a lot of people are leaving hong kong now or thinking about it. they realize this will go on for a very long time, and that xi xinping is going to exert tough controls on the territory. will make the financial services industry there untenable. stuart: breaks my heart. i new