know that they're not going to dominate the district council votes in the same way that the pros tabish macam has but they do want to show surge and support proof for proof that they're pro democracy cause these protests are legitimate it legitimizes them on a more practical level these voters do have a scent degree of significance as well that's because 6 district counselors will be awarded seats in the legislative council that century hong kong's parliament and a number of district councils will then be put on the body the committee that appoints the chief executive going forward so if you speak to pro-democracy candidates here they'll tell you that any gains that they may make will be a more significant step to shaping the future in hong kong the you've been covering the protests and often the violence for weeks and months now do you get a sense that there might be more of that today. well the weeks ahead of this they have been marred by some of the worst violence that we've seen over the last 6 months the days ahead of this they have been there's been an easy calm have been hearing

watching i was there or were listening to the impeachment inquiry into president trump which seeks just tabish whether president improperly tried to pressure ukraine's president dyleski to investigate one of his main democratic challenges joe biden but the 2020 lection hearing from key witnesses today to morrison a former national security council official who listened in on a phone call between trump and the ukrainian president and ambassador volcker you see there on your screen as a former u.s. special envoy to ukraine who is closely involved in negotiations with the ukrainian officials would you claim he was out of the noob in terms of any linkage between the security aide and any potential investigation into joe biden and his family let's listen back in i don't and mr marson do you have any information as to why the vice president was unable to participate in the delegation no. besar volcker you testified during your deposition that it in fact does get held up from time to time for a whole assortment of reasons is that i wrote that is true and sometimes the hold ups are rooted in something