data again, like the lse and post rate service they want to grow bigger in that branch as well for antry to attract investors, attract money. >> so it's all about diversify indication you can't stick to the old trade model. charlotte, thank you very much exciting deal no doubt we'll be watching it over the next couple weeks. >>> coming up on the show, we'll head back to the more from the conference east tech west. >>> plus, protesters and police clash in one of the worst days of violence in hong kong all the details coming up in just a few moments >>> welcome back to "street signs" i'm willem marx. >> i'm joumanna bercetche. these your headlines >> china touts progress in u.s. trade talks amidst washington will grant huawei a license. any decision will have a limited impact. >> translator: our products are able to be shipped without reliance on u.s. components and chips. we're able to timely supply our customers with our products. >>> violent clashes grip hong kong as police and protesters engage in a fierce battle at a university campus. while the high court rules a ban on the use of

. >>> and shares in the lse group trade higher as shareholders prepare to vote on the $27 billion takeover >>> well, a very good morning and welcome to "street signs." one of our top stories today, alibaba has closed almost 7% higher after its hong kong debut, the largest global listing so far this year the e-commerce giant listed at a price of 176 hong kong dollars to raise $11.2 billion in fresh capital. and as part of the ipo, the chinese company issued 500 million new ordinary shares. emily tan is joining us live from hong kong emily, the largest ipo of 2019, quite a stellar postmarket performance with the stock up almost 7% in trading how has the reception been overall? >> reporter: you know what, juwana, the newcomer to the market today was the most heavily traded in hong kong with $1.8 billion worth of shares changing hands as you mentioned, the stock closed up more than 6.5%, off the day's highs, but up as much as $189 per share. that's against an issue price of $176 with that, alibaba raising $11.2 billion, making it the world's biggest ipo this year and also helped hong kong beco

have to wait for is direct testimony not which testimony of somebody who says that somebody else said lseestify in an open hearing on wednesday, former top national security council official tim morrison testified that someone was folling the president's orders in demanding ukraine launch investigations into the bidens and the 2016 election,the exchange for a white house meeting and military aid he was discussing these matters with the president morrison told lmakers according to a new transcript of his closed door testimony releas on saturday. according to morrison, someone was told by the president that ukrnian president's alinsky must announce the opening o the investations. morrison ao testified that someone spoke calletween the the july 25 2 presides in which trump asked for a favor will be asking him. >>a lot about the events leading up to the july 25th call. as well the day of the call and events subsequent to that he will be a very very important witness. >>also on the july 25th call was a senior aide in the vice president's office jennifer williams in the just relead transcript o

foreign policy consultant and an associate at lse ideas. that is a think tank at the london school of economics. thank you so much for being with us. appreciate it. >> good morning. >> so how significant might gordon sondland's public testimony be, do you think, in light of these new details in "the wall street journal" that he apparently kept the trump administration apprised of efforts to get ukraine to investigate the bidens ahead of the president's infamous july 25th call? >> i think it's a little bit tricky to decide in advance how significant one thing or another might be. but there is some suggestion that sondland's testimony might be more significant than the testimonies we've seen so far because first of all, sondland had to revise his previous testimony given behind closed doors. he reversed his decision to not testify originally. sondland is caught in the middle of all this. he probably shouldn't have been involved in ukraine in the first place because he was ambassador to the european union and not to ukraine, and of course ukra

he is an associate with the foreign policy thinktank lse ideas. he joins us now via skype. good to have you with us. >> good morning. >> so president trump wants to expose the whistle-blower. we heard it there because he thinks that person is making up false stories despite all the testimony we have already heard so far from the impeachment inquiry, and of course the transcript from the now infamous july 25th ukraine call backing up what the whistle-blower has said. so how significant is it that a u.s. president wants to expose a whistle-blower given what we know so far? >> i think it's less significant with respect to what the whistle-blower testified to than to a chilling effect affecting all federal civil servants. if the standard becomes that if you reveal information that's politically damaging to the president, the whistle-blower protections enshrined in law will no longer be respected and no longer be valid that your identity can be made public, that you can face the sort of storm of public interest and probably from what we have seen a great deal of threatening comm

our decaf was from mexico and then they moved it someplace lse.ayor buttigieg: did you always know you would be expanding? >> it was part of our original lan. le we are recovering well. but i really felt we needed was a place for people to come. i wasn't interested in flipping tables for people to come and sit. we have wifi. we of our artisans here, are a community. and we have wonderful gifts. not in the league of league of new hampshire caliber. we are able to provide some really good new -- anybody else ike a cup of coffee? it's for our people that are here. and we have had great support. we have been here 4 1/2 years. i made a video when i first opened. one of the things i said it can happen in franklin. when i was here as a kid -- you have seen it. mayor buttigieg: how much of a challenge is it getting people to believe? >> exactly. even if i'm not becoming a millionaire, which i'm not, the fact we stayed and showed we could do it. mayor buttigieg: that first move -- >> it does. and then the next guy and you'll meet him. he'll talk about his

the susuggestion that we were engaged inin some irregular or rogue diplomacy is absolutely lse. i have now identified cecertain state d department emails and messages that provide contemporaneneous support for my view. the leadershipow of the state department, , the national security council, and the white house were all informed about the ukraine untilrts from may 23, 2019 the security aid was released on september 11, 2019. tete from some of thehe messages with you shortly. fourth, asas i testified previouslyly, as i i testified previously, mr. giuliani's quo for were a quid pro arranging a white house visit for president zelensky. mr. g giuliani demanded that ukraine make a public statement announcing the investigations of the 2016 election dnc server, and marie's mom. b --urismsma. mr. giuliani was expressing the desires of the president of the united states and we need these investigations were present -- imported the president. nermeen: that was u.s. ambassador to the european union gordon sondland testifying before the house intelligence committee on wednesday. fiona hill

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inaugural your questions answered is professor tony travers, who is from the institute of public affairs at lser than usual? we don't fully know the answer yet. that is not a great answer to begin with. even now some mps are announcing, philip hammond did yesterday that he won't stand again. there will be a number of cases still where people are going to announce shortly whether they will stand down or not. it does look as if the turn over this time is going to be high by recent standards. i think the answer is almost certainly yes. but we can't give a definitive a nswer yet. yes. but we can't give a definitive answer yet. andrew says, do mps still get paid during the election period and do they have to do any work. i guess he means constituency work. i guess he means constituency work. i guess he means constituency work. i think any mp will continue to do their constituency work through the campaign. the reason for thatis through the campaign. the reason for that is actually it is in their own interest to continue to provide such a service. the precise cut off date for when they are paid, i'm

think it's an interesting, again, sometimes we get lost in the formalities and everything lse what's going on here but the discussion of moving offices outside the district and, you know, moving around is an discussion. it should be had. i think there are some very vital to being here in the or as indicates of this organization, arlington, just district, but then there's also some very real concern how we can discuss that. one of the things we lost -- and this here iscuss since we are in this mode, of having honest back and forth on legislation or pieces of legislation or where things need to be. mr. speaker, this is something vitally missing, probably from both sides of the aisle. i think especially this year as at the context of built of bills and stuff that's gone on without the true bipartisan discussion. i think of the arbitration bill recently on the floor in which there were very real concerns that republicans had, real concerns that democrats had. unfortunately -- and when i mentioned this to the chairman, thinking we could get a bill that had 370 votes on the yes, my chairma