a michael oku it's nice to have you with us we start with a massive show of police force in hong kong thousands of officers in riot gear have swooped in on antigovernment protests making nearly 100 arrests demonstrators are furious about a decision to postpone today's planned legislative elections there are also angry about a sweeping national security law imposed by china that gives beijing unprecedented power to crack down on critics in hong kong. reclaim hong kong they chant and hong kong people unite. these private democracy. pain is should be voting today in elections to the city's legislature instead that out on the streets after authorities delayed the poll until next summer citing a spike in coded 19 cases the what was it that protests have been met with an andris bonds with police firing pepper balls at some. and using stop and search on others was the was there but the the new national security law imposed by china bans demonstrations like the us another reason people are protesting right now the protests. is planned by the phone calls so we have to fight for that space thro

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i'm michael oku welcome to the program we begin with a major political fight in the u.s. over the vacant seat on the supreme court u.s. media reports say president donald trump will nominate amy kone barrett to fill that seat she would replace ruth bader ginsburg who died last week and buried currently serves as a federal appeals court judge and is known for her conservative religious views trump told journalists on friday he'd made up his mind but he refused to confirm the speculation ahead of an official announcement on saturday. for more i'm joined by irwin collier professor. that bored college in berlin irwin it's really nice to have you with us here what do we know about any coney buried in essence what effect would she have on the supreme court to start probably with the most important she is 48 years old which means with good health she could be around for a long time she clerked after law school with anthony scalia justice antonin scalia who was a very conservative justice one of the originalist so. she's part of the school of jurisprudence in the united states th

i'm michael oku welcome we begin in lebanon where the there i'm sorry we begin with a major political fight in the u.s. over the vacant seat on the supreme court u.s. media reports say president donald trump will nominate amy kone barrett to fill that seat she would replace ruth bader ginsburg who died last week barrett currently serves as a federal appeals court judge and is known for her conservative religious views trump told journalists on friday he had made up his mind but he refused to confirm the speculation ahead of an official announcement on saturday. for more i'm joined by irwin collier professor at bard college in berlin and irwin it's really nice to have you with us. what do we know about amy coney buried in essence what effect would she have on the supreme court to start probably with the most important she is 48 years old which means with good health she could be around for a long time and she clerked after law school with anthony scalia justice antonin scalia scale yes who was a very conservative justice one of the originalist so. part of the school of jurisprudence in

i'm michael oku welcome to the program. we begin with a major political fight in the u.s. over the vacant seat on the supreme court media reports say president donald trump will nominate amy kone barrett to fill that seat she would replace ruth bader ginsburg who died last week barrett currently serves as a federal appeals court judge and is known for her conservative religious views trump told journalists on friday he had made up his mind but he refused to confirm the speculation as head of an official announcement on saturday. for more i'm joined by irwin collier professor at bard college in berlin and irwin it's really nice to have you with us. what do we know about amy conan barrett in essence what effect would she have on the supreme court to start probably with the most important she is 48 years old which means with good health she could be around for a long time she clerked after law school with anthony scalia justice antonin scalia. who was a very conservative justice one of the originalist so. she's part of the school of jurisprudence in the united states that bel

a michael oku welcome to the program at least 90 people have been arrested in hong kong in protest against the government's decision to postpone elections police fired pepper balls at pro-democracy campaign protesters are angry that authorities will hold elections to the cities of legislature next july instead of this sunday authorities have blamed the virus pandemic for the delay anti-government protests have been held across hong kong since june last year. and correspondent phoebe kong joins us from hong kong now phoebe hundreds of people are protesting there today against the push phoning of the elections what exactly are they worried about. i'm not standing at least lloyd have to tell us to disperse protesters hours ago and now some skeptics system now they are and also on the street not leading them like in monsey is that they i don't want to ask my case that this is an off the government to the state if you action for a year so the government's up this is to say public health reasons and also to help to contain coronavirus and i make but this is the reason seen as an excuse by the pr