well this is absolutely an interference in their internal affairs i think mr wong would know best of all that china but that one kong is governed by something called the basic law and the basic law does look for full and free elections but says that that is an ultimate goal there's a pathway to get to that ultimate goal ultimately goal that is something to which can be realized down the line but one country 2 systems is a complex arrangement and it requires both sides and i mean both sides i mean the hong kong government and the civil society to engage with each other to find a way to be able to implement one country so 2 systems in that spirit mr mr wong is not interested in implementing it in that spirit here rather wants to have full democracy which he wants to use as a foundation there after for self determination which he has looked at and that self-determination frankly works look seasoned scenes in the eyes of beijing as being just plain subversion and the protests that we've seen in hong kong at times that spilled over into violence certainly that's sure to unnerve some inves

mr. wong. >> good morning, chairman, co-chairman rubio and members of this commission. it's an honor to be invited by k to capitol hill to speak about developments in hong kong. you may recall that i last traveled to washington more than two years ago and testified before this commission in this same building on may 1st of 2017. whi what i said back then hong kong's done country two system was becoming one country one and a half system. i don't think there is any doubt to those who have followed recent events, the present state reflect beijing's inability to understand let alone govern a free society. the ongoing demonstration began on june 9th. when one million hong kongers took to the street in protest of proposed litigation that would have allowed to expedite to china where there are no guarantees of the rule of law. before the night end the cheer executive announced the bill's reading into resume in three days. hong kongers were preparing for the last fight on june 12th. and then the unthi

just wong is in washington where he's expected to attend congressional hearings now mr wong is a prominent student activist who organizes protests against the chinese government in support of hong kong's independence the 22 year old is also a leader of the pro democratic party demo system he's already served several jail terms for his activities well just a visit to new york over the weekend drew huge attention from the media take a look at some of those are that's reuters the new york times bloomberg they were among those who asked for an interview or invited him to their headquarters he also gave a speech to students at columbia university well as part of his overseas tour mr wong visited germany to where he met prominent politicians including the foreign minister heiko mouse he also met with the leader of the white helmets humanitarian group accused by damascus and moscow of staging chemical attacks in syria and today as we mentioned he's expected that u.s. congressional hearings senator marco rubio has introduced the bill that proposes support for hong kong from the u.s. to tell me you

which would monitor the region's autonomy for beijing in return for ongoing special economic favors mr wong has already visited germany where he met prominent politicians in his push for the act to be passed. the protests in hong kong i'm not likely to stop because we fighting for our fundamental rights and democracy which is whole country iran could fool instead of issue a statement they can have concrete action to support hong kong people causing human to human rights and democracy is really a good move so what we hope is full will lead to errors and country i want a world actually is getting worse well it just is a problem in student activists who organizes protests against the chinese government in support of hong kong's independence the 22 year old is also a leader of a pro-democracy party system he's already also served several jail terms for his activities let's go over to our other news wall to see how mr wong is visit to new york over the weekend drew huge attention from the media the reuters news agency new york times bloomberg are among those who asked for an interview or invited

putting in drywall is like mr. wong has said, normal construction noise. >> okay, thank you. >> thank you. >> we will now hear from mr. wong, the permit-holder. >> thank you. first of all, i am a native san franciscan. i went to school here. i went to college here. i work for the fire department. i am a fire department retiree, 9/11, big day for me, but i have to be here, but thank you for being here with me. i plan to be occupying this building. this citizen that said, why do i need four bathrooms and three bedrooms? i have boomerang kids. i am 58 years old. i have adult kids who are boomeranging back after college. if you need to know, why did i condo the building, perhaps one day i would like to convey the unit to my kids. i don't know why she's kind of grouping me in with a rogue developer, building a wing or the tajmahal. this is adding a residential unit so i can house my family. and the thing that is really the hardest to digest is miss lee is my neighbor next door. i barely know her. i said hi to her passing twi

we'll begin with you, mr. wong. >> good morning, chairman, co-chairman rubio and members of this commission. it's an honor to be invited by to capitol hill to speak about the violence in hong kong. you may recall i last travelled to washington more than two years and testified before this commission in this same building on may 1st of 2017. what i said back then it was becoming one country, one and a half system. today, we are approaching dangerously close to one country, one system. the present state of affairs reflect beijing's inability to understand let alone govern a free society. the ongoing demonstrations began on june 9th. there are no guarantees of the rule of law still. carrie lam announced the bill's reading would resume in three days. hong kongers were preparing for the last flight on june 12th. and then the unthinkable happened. beijing had a vote, protesters surrounded the complex earlier in the morning, preventing lawmakers from convening. i was then serving my first jail sentence. for a moment i won

hong kong protest leader joshua wong this week china says it repeatedly asked germany not to allow mr wong into the country through. indonesian prior have president b.j. habibie has died at the age of $83.00 his presidency was the shortest in modern indonesian history but his legacy was significant introduced to many democratic reforms that allowed an independence referendum in east timor. and the body of zimbabwe's long time ruler robert mugabe has been returned to the country president emerson mr mugabe's closest ally before ousting him last year met the plane in the capital harare the mugabe family invited zimbabweans to welcome the remains home and a few 100 gathered to pay their respects the former president died in a singapore hospital on friday age 95 his body will lie in state for 3 days before being buried at an as yet unannounced location. t.w. correspondent privilege listening was at me at all times from the gobby spadea arrived i asked him how the country's planning to commemorate him over the next few days what is going to happen is that there's a in friday the body will i can

hong kong process leader joshua wong this week china says it repeatedly asked germany not to allow mr wong into the country. under the values of catalan separatists have gathered in barcelona on the region's main holiday asking for a break from spain on the release of the latest 11th of september marks a for barcelona to spain in 1740. and the body of zimbabwe's long time ruler robert mugabe has been returned to the country president emerson manning diagram mr mugabe's closest ally before he ousted him last year i met the plane at the airport to meet captain harare the mugabe family invited zimbabweans to welcome the remains home and a few 100 gathered to pay their respects the former president died in a singapore hospital on friday aged 95 its body will lie in state for 3 days before being buried at an as yet unannounced location interview correspondent privilege was on here it was at the airport that mr mugabe's body arrived i asked him how the country is planning to commemorate that that they have president mugabe over the next few days. but is going to happen is that the pairs in and t

of meddling in its affairs in this war but a high profile meeting will damage bilateral relations mr wong world leaders to back the ongoing protests in the territory. dozens of people have been killed in a train derailment in the democratic republic of congo the dead are reported to be stowaways who were riding the freight train when it went off the tracks in the province of tanganyika the aussie has seen several deadly rail incidents in recent years blamed on old equipment. southeastern spain's been battered by severe of rain in flash floods and they valencia region trencher right course the cloudy on a visit to burst its banks flooding homes and forcing the evacuation of surrounding areas more extreme storms are expected in the coming hours. the new u.s. ambassador to the united nations is taking a post kelly craft were previously u.s. ambassador to canada she takes over after a 7 month they can see in the position this crafters 5 push for humanity for the 5 anti israel actions in the international body. evacuation has been one of the greatest successes of public health saving an estima

i have been asked by mr. wongwhen the building went next to him on the market, he said i'm concerned about this family, they been there for many years, they are chinese, and i am afraid that some speculators going to come in, and try to get them out. i did drop off some tenant resource information at their door,, i have been very worried, because there have been already 59 people within four blocks of this building, who simply disappeared. they were all elders, we are losing our ethnic, our cultural diversity in north beach. this is very dear to me, and especially these elders who have been able to remain in their home come and go down the hill, whether a real chair -- wheelchair, or walker, two washington square and meet with the cronies in the morning. this is very wrong. the final buyout was not filed, because what happens when a final buyout is actually in existence at the rent board? there are constraints on the building. we are losing affordable housi housing. this is creating luxury housing. these have been

.-- mr. wong. the subject of is 120-124 varennes street, peeling the denial on april 26, 2019 to michael kirwan, and alteration permit. existing three story, unit building, the permit was disapproved by the planning commission upon a determination that exceptional and extra ordinary circumstances escapes with exceptions exception to the project sponsor, as a means of dislodging existing tenants on a rent control. 0644. this is permit no. 2018/01/30/9824. we will hear first from the appellant. >> welcome. >> thank you very much. always nice to be here. >> good evening. ryan patterson on behalf of the appellant, michael kirwan. we are here disapproval of apartment. with the best of intentions, the planning commission sometimes steps outside of its legal boundaries, outside of its mandate. the applicant is a longtime san francisco renter, local business owner. after years of renting he was finally able to purchase his first home here. he bought a modest two unit building, with the intention to fix it

thank you very much. >> chair heinicke: thank you very much, mr. wong, for your eloquence and brevity. >> clerk: i'm going to read a few more names. >> chair heinicke: sir, we'll wait on your minute. >> clerk: david lee, shou long sheng, harlen wong, eric mar, santiago ruiz, pai zheng, ron usitu. >> chair heinicke: very good. i've forgotten the list, so if you could remind us your name, please. >> i'm al mar. >> chair heinicke: well, that was a helpful clarification. you now have a minute. >> thank you. rose pak i've known since i was a young lawyer and now i'm an aging lawyer. she could be your best friend and she could be your worst friend. but as imperfect of a person as rose was, she did have a vision for more perfect community and a more perfect city. one of her visions was the central subway. they say that success has many parents and failure is an orphan. if there was a tiger mom for the central subway, it was rose pak. he would kick, he should claw, he would make this project happen. central subway was always her vision to unite people, communit

meddling in its affairs and has warned that the high profile meeting will damage bilateral relations mr wong urged world leaders to back the ongoing protests in hong kong. or relatives of zimbabwe's former leader robert mugabe have snubbed a plan to have him buried at a national monument he was overthrown in a coup 2 years ago and replaced by a former ally in the squabbling over the location for mugabe's funeral as even thrown into doubt the date of his burial at the moment he is due to be laid to rest on saturday. the. robert mugabe's body being carried into harare is rafah a stadium to lie in state his black clad widow grace was at her late husband's side his final journey several people were injured when mourners broke through the police called and around his coffin. thousands are come to pay their last respects here in harare many hot emotional words of tribute. everything that ended with this committee at home was the man deeply touched. this has affected me and yes let's look at the way teaching i don't even know how to express it as you said and that changes curtis was exceptional. an

speaking in berlin he called on the government to suspend trade negotiations with china and hong kong mr wong met germany's foreign minister moussa on monday beijing some of the job the passage of the foreign ministry to protest of the meeting. north korea's state run television has broadcast pictures of its leader kim jong un overseeing the testing of a multiple rocket launcher the launch took place only hours after the north offer to resume nuclear diplomacy with the united states. the hong kong stock exchange has made a $39000000000.00 bet for one of its biggest european rivals the london stock exchange a proposal envisages a single exchange joining the euro with asian. this is data life from birth it still to come the northern white rhino on the brink of extinction but not conservationists have created every rose using eggs harvested from the last 2 surviving females we'll show you how scientists are trying to bring new life into a species that has almost become stick to. the british prime minister's decision to suspend the country's parliament has been declared unlawful scotland's highes

in berlin he called on the government to suspend trade negotiations with china and hong kong but mr wong met germany's of foreign minister high cost on monday asian has some of the german ambassador to the foreign ministry to protest meeting. north korea's state run television has broadcast pictures of its leader kim jong un overseeing the testing of a multiple rocket launcher the last took place only hours after the north offer to resume nuclear diplomacy with the united states. former indonesian president of b.j. habibie has died at the age of 83 his presidency was the shortest in modern indonesian history now his legacy significant introduced many democratic reforms out loud independence referendum in east timor. thousands of cattle and separatists have gathered in pass alone on regions made holiday the calling for a break from spain on the release of their jailed leaders the 11th of september the fall of bosler to spain 740. of the british prime minister's decision to suspend the country's parliament has been declared unlawful scotland's highest court ruled today that boris johnson's

the pro democratic party demo system he's already served several geale terms for his activities mr wong's visit to new york over the weekend drew huge attention from the media the reuters news agency new york times bloomberg were just among those who asked for an interview or indeed invited them to their offices he also gave a speech to students at the prestigious columbia university now one has long supported the hong kong human rights and democracy act and recently said he expects it to be passed easily the bill proposes support for hong kong from the u.s. so long as it remains governed out arm's length from beijing if not that could trigger washington to revoke the city special status of reports. they are many they've won the fight with the authorities by early submission but they are anything but done the american flag waving taskforce among the hong kong protesters are sending their poster boy to convince us legislators to do something big on autonomy. well for those of you having difficulty making out the absence of this boilerplate script it's that human rights and democracy act an

that much to protest about but they have now escalated their demands and these sort of when meeting mr wong and the congress u.s. congress getting in the act it just provides that much more oxygen for the movement to keep going on even though their protests have been met which is in dibley then drifting towards violence ok let's look at quickly at some other world news now starting in buenos aires where thousands to the streets there to vent their anger at the country's economic situation people are demanding better wages and food aid elections are coming up at the end of october and under the current administration argentina took out the largest lovin i.m.f. history which is seen the country's economic crisis only worse. in iraq a religious holiday turned to a tragedy when a worshiper fell over during a mass ritual starting a stampede that killed 31 people over 100 others were injured witnesses say the man's fall led to a domino effect of people tripping over each other offices say the stan paid half. and when i walk way collapsed in the european space agency says the amazon rain forest fi

that much to protest about but they have now escalated their demands and these sort of and meeting mr wong and the congress u.s. congress getting in the act it just provides that much more oxygen for the movement to keep going on even though their protests have been met which is in heaven doubly then drifting towards violence. more than a 1000000 tons of radioactive waste water could be dumped into the pacific ocean that's the grave warning from japan's environment minister where authorities are still dealing with the aftermath of the fukushima nuclear disaster only option will be to drain it into the sea and dilute it the whole of the government will discuss this but i would like to offer my simple opinion. groundwater has accumulated at the plant since the events of 2011 that's when a tsunami triggered multiple nuclear meltdowns officials have attempted to remove harmful pollutants but a lot still remain and they're warning the run out of storage space by $2822.00 meanwhile the government spent $320000000.00 on a wall to slow the flow of water to the reactors but it's not worked as well

herself has not met with joshua long and her spokesperson emphasized that this week and this visit by mr wong to berlin is not an official government sponsored visit in any way in fact it is the host group is it is a german tabloid newspaper the boot sayto and it was a reception by that newspaper that was the place where the foreign minister met joshua when they're just one did also hold a press conference here in berlin yesterday what more did he have to say. indeed he had 3 clear messages to the german government he said that he would like to hear a more direct public condemnation of the violence that's been used against protesters and also of abuses of power he also said that he thinks the german government should stop selling equipment to the hong kong police as long as there is ongoing violence being used by the police in crowd control and thirdly he said that he thinks germany should tie trade more closely to human rights for example possibly suspending trade with china or imposing sanctions and or inserting human rights causes into trade agreements with china so 3 very clear messages t

isn't that much to protest about but they have no escalated to the demands and these sort of meeting mr wong and the congress u.s. congress could do and it just provides that much more oxygen for the movement to keep going on even though their protests are being met which is in drifting towards violence. in moscow court has deferred the embezzlement case of a prominent russian theater director back to the prosecutor's office 2 years after his arrest signing inconsistency and controversy around the official charges we go live now to media questioning for the details we do know there's been quite a bit of attention around this case how significant is this decision well it is quite a significant decision as the court has decided to lift the travel restriction for russian film and theater director said he will see the opinion of now moreover the court has also decided to defer this really controversial embezzlement keith's back to the prosecutor's office and this is how the judge explained her decision. the court has decided to hand the case back to the prosecutor's office due to contradictions

minister heiko boss and the hong kong protested joshua wong in berlin this week during the visit mr wong called on the german government to publicly condemn police violence and abuse of power during the ongoing demonstrations in the territory now a direct verbal attack on an important trade partner of beijing is warning of negative consequences for relations between china and germany. it was just thursday in berlin he came to the german capital with a message for angular machall and other world leaders is a must for the chancellor pay attention to hong kong's protests and showed us a part to a hong kong high station safeguard hong kong is not only the responsibility of hong kong people but also the responsibility for world leaders prefer to hong kong to face the next tenement square massacre happened for decades ago on monday while met german foreign minister must prompting shop criticism from beijing it summons germany's ambassador accusing but then of interfering in china as a fads. go. and see what happens you know i'm fortunately have to say we'll have negative consequences on bilate

that much to protest about but they have now escalated their demands and these sort of and meeting mr wong and the congress u.s. congress could do in the act it just provides that. much more oxygen for the movement to keep going on even though their protests be met which was. drifting towards warlords. in moscow court has deferred the embezzlement case of a prominent russian theater director back to the prosecutor's office 2 years after his arrest but did a question about has the details the moscow court has decided to lift the travel restrictions for russian film and theatre director kiel city of a think of more over the court has decided to do further the controversial embezzlement case back to the prosecutor's office and this is how the judge explained her decision the court has decided to hand the case back to the prosecutor's office due to contradictions that hamper the investigation and judgment the case has been dragging on for almost 2 years evidence of was arrested back in september of 2017 the investigators were accusing him of them battling around $2000000.00 allocated by the st

staging chemical attacks in syria sara flounders from the international action group thinks that mr wong doesn't represent the interests of ordinary people in hong kong or. when may carry us live exe and british flags and colonial her flags had says exactly who joshua is and all of these protesters they want the active intervention of the us against china not just against tang com they want rules pasts and congressional legislation passed that will be used as part of the trade war against china they want to end polls a very rigid and and they are really the spokespeople for this so i think they're not a legitimate force i think they're an extremely well funded well organized force by the they're not representing the crying needs of the people of hong kong for a future and for better lies and instead they're trying to create hatred for their very fact that their chinese joshua long as expect to that those congressional hearings later today retire was some it's a marco rubio's introduced a bill the proposes support for home kong from the us to govern t. of so it's on a me he goes done of r

their age cues he also gave a speech to students at columbia university to as part of his overseas to mr wong also visited germany where he met prominent politicians including the foreign minister heiko mass at the met with the leader of the white helmets humanitarian group you may recall they're accused by damascus and moscow of staging chemical attacks in syria today as we mentioned expected at those u.s. congressional hearings where senator marco rubio has introduced a bill that proposes support for hong kong from the u.s. to guarantee its autonomy it goes down off reports. they are many they've won the fight with the authorities by early submission but they are anything but done the american flag waving taskforce among the hong kong protesters are sending their poster boy to convince us legislators to do something big on autonomy. well for those of you having difficulty making out the absence of this boilerplate script it's that human rights and democracy act and it's meant to show beijing that the u.s. is serious about fighting for hong kong's rights the united states must make clear to

that much to protest about but they have now escalated their demands and these sort of and meeting mr wong and the congress u.s. congress getting in the act it just provides that much more oxygen for the movement to keep going on even though their protests have been met which is in evidently then drifting towards violence. now or some other world headlines today starting at barcelona where thousands gathered for a separatists rally for the catalan region events become a yearly occurrence on catalonians national day the protest comes a few weeks ahead of a verdict by spain's supremum court in the trial of 12 separatist leaders they could face up to 25 years in prison into local policemen 200000 people took part. in iraq a religious holiday turned tragic when a worshipper fell over during a mass ritual and started a stampede that killed $31.00 people over $100.00 others were injured and this is say the bounce fall that would domino effect people tripping over each other to say the stampede happened when it was way collapsed. the european space agency says the amazon rain forest fires have le

that much to protest about but they have now escalated their demands and these sort of and meeting mr wong and the congress u.s. congress getting in the act it just provides that. much more oxygen for the movement to keep going on even though their protests have been met which is in ever doubly then drifting towards violence. has been some news in brief now from around the world starting it is where thousands took to the streets to vent their anger at the country's economic crisis people are demanding better wages and food aid elections are coming up at the end of october under the current administration argentina took up the largest load in our history the living conditions of only gotten worse in iraq a religious holiday turned to tragedy when a worshipper fell over during a mass ritual that started a stampede that killed $31.00 people or $100.00 others were injured witnesses say the months for that to a domino effect of people tripping over each other officers say the stampede occurred when a walkway collapsed. the european space agency says that the amazon rain forest fires have led to

that much to protest about but they have now escalated their demands and these sort of and meeting mr wong and the congress u.s. congress getting in the act it just provides that. much more oxygen for the movement to keep going on even though their protests are being met which is in ever doubly then drifting towards violence. vivienne westwood has revealed details of her prison visit to julian assange the british fashion designer is one of several high profile campaign is calling for the release of the wiki leaks founder he has been locked up in london since april are fighting extradition to the us shadi at least dashti has more on the story. campaign as in solidarity with your innocence continue to up the ante and keep him in the public eye as every single day marks another step closer to his extradition to the united states now i'm here at the belmarsh prison where cheeriness on to us held since april of this year after he was sensationally dragged from london's dorrian embassy where he had been holed up since 2012 he's now serving a 15 week sentence at this belmarsh prison for skipping

that much to protest about but they have now escalated their demands and these sort of end meeting mr wong and the congress u.s. congress getting in the act it just provides that much more oxygen for the movement to keep going on even though their protests have been met which is in heaven doubly then drifting towards violence. moscow caught her as deferred the embezzlement case of a prominent russian theater director back to the prosecutor's office 2 years following his arrest citing inconsistency and controversy around the official challenges in a coach never explained. the moscow court has decided to lift the travel restrictions for russian film and theatre director kiel city epidemic of more over the court house decided to defer the controversial embezzlement case back to the prosecutor's office and this is how the judge explained her decision the court has decided to hand the case back to the prosecutor's office due to contradictions that hamper the investigation and judgment the case has been dragging on for almost 2 years skill set epidemic of was arrested back in september 2017 the