you can see scenes that they began at victoria street. enes right behind me, people chanting, this is the group of pro—democracy protesters that have been marching from victoria park, annually, this is what they do but this year it's taken a special symbolism and significance. all day throughout today we've seen clashes between police and protesters right here on this main arterial street in hong kong. you can see right behind me, that these scenes between police and protesters is still tense. right over there, there is a stand—off between riot police and pro—democracy protesters. earlier today, some protesters, a small group of them, tried to get into the legislative council building by ramming a trolley through the glass windows. police pushed back and right now the mood remains tense. the conservative leadership candidate, jeremy hunt, says he will set aside six billion pounds to help the farming and fishing industries deal with the impact of a no—deal brexit. meanwhile, his rival, borisjohnson, plans to give a pay rise to millions of p

this is bloomberg. ♪ francine lacqua on queen victoria street. -- i'm tomkeen keene. the streets of hong kong at the council building. we have been looking at images of a substantial protest against the architecture of the legislative council government offices buildings. it is extraordinary images of umbrellas being piled up. is that something unique to these protests or something original? this particular event the be considered unique at legislative council building. there was a break into the glass panes. the police are behind that barrier waiting for a standoff. a red alert was issued today regarding the area around the building. francine: will lam have to resign? sophie: resignation is being called for by this pro-democracy movement. whether she is pressured to resign remains to be seen. whether or not her pro-government camp will support her remains to be seen. like carrie lam will be focused on that. we have the foreign secretary of the u.k. i'm one of two contenders to become the next u.k. prime minister delivering a species -- a speech in westminster. this is

we've seen protesters arriving from the march they began at the victoria street.ehind me, people chanting, this is the grip of pro—democracy protesters that have been marching from victoria park annually. this is what they do it but this year it has taken a special symbolism and significance. all day throughout the day we've seen clashes between police and protesters right here on this main street of hong kong. you can see behind me the scenes between police and protesters is still tense. right over there there is a stand—off between riot police and pro—democracy protesters. earlier today some protesters, a small group of them, tried to get into the legislative council building by ramming a trolley through the glass windows, police pushed back and now the mood remains tense. in the past few minutes hundreds of people have arrived here on one of the main arterial roads in hong kong and that there is a sense of some jubilation in the air, this has been a very hard—fought moment for many of the hong kong protesters. they want to show a symbol of solidarity, young peo

a march started here in victoria park, went through the streets of hong kong for hours. ultimately finishing near the legislative council building. and it was for the nearly the entire thing was very, very peaceful. that march brought out roughly 2 million people, according to organizers. we're not sure how many are going to turn out for this one, but the numbers, you know, there is no way for me to accurately estimate it, but it is certainly thousands and thousands of people that have been streaming into the park. eventually, anna, they're going to come to where you are for what hopefully remains to be a peaceful protest in their march throughout the streets of hong kong. >> matt, i want to ask you as someone based in beijing, living in china for the last few years, we know people on the mainland will not be seeing any of these demonstrations and certainly won't be witnessing what is happening at the legislative council building. but tell me, how will chinese authorities be viewing this? they have been sitting on their hands. surely they can't continue to do that, consi

streets yesterday. i arrived at victoria park around 3pm. he extradition bill to be totally withdrawn. we arrived at the headquarters and we are getting more angry and we are shouting at the police and say that the police are actually not doing legal things. but still we are peaceful. we do not fight with each other. how is this all being covered by the chinese media? beijing is traditionally very nervous about any protests within, what it sees as chinese land. so hong kong, the message comes across consta ntly hong kong, the message comes across constantly that hong kong is an integral part of china. when his protests started in earlyjune, they we re protests started in earlyjune, they were outright centred on social media platforms, they were not mentioned in traditional media so the pictures we saw all over the world of tonnes, hundreds and thousands of people taking to the streets, they were outright centred online. but as the protests have increasingly turned violent, there have been protesters in the last 204i have been protesters in th

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my name is victoria truong i am one of the program planners at the safe streets evaluation program which takes a look at some of our key bicycle, pedestrian projects. i want to showcase some of our highlights of the program specifically 15 new projects as well as a few citywide safety treatments. we just released our year end reports, this may, and i have some copies here if you're interested. we talked a lot about our safety proposals and plans to projects. how are we doing generally on those projects? overall we are performing well in locations where we made upgrades we have lessons learned. people feel safer and more comfortable walking and biking in locations where facilities were upgraded. vehicles are traveling at safer speeds with the reduction of a traveling and traffic measures. more people are biking on streets with newly upgraded bike lanes specifically protected bike lanes and lessons learned include the mixing zones generally help the conflict but don't necessarily solve the problem. following the implementation of folsom street where we put in a protected bikeway along with

streets today. i was peacefully walking from victoria park but i know some protesters were near the legislative counciltesters, including my friend, was inside the legislative council. ada, do you think the process will continue? we heard from steve that saying the authorities have some restraint but there will only be so much they will tolerate. do you think people will continue to come back out on the streets over at this extradition bill? i think extradition bill? ithink so, extradition bill? i think so, yes. because we won't give up until the government do something. because the protesters have five basic demands, including the stepping down of the current chief executive, carrie lam, the government pays no attention to us. 0k, ada. i am government pays no attention to us. 0k, ada. iam gratefulto government pays no attention to us. 0k, ada. i am grateful to you. government pays no attention to us. 0k, ada. iam gratefulto you. thank you very much indeed for sharing your experiences out on the streets of hong kong today. joining me now is former us defense secretary, william cohen. great to have you

and thousands out on the streets as you mentioned there still demanding the complete withdrawal of this controversial extradition bill now the march has just started from victoriapark is the traditional place that marches start from about a block or so from here there are literally tens of thousands of people on the street what makes this march different is the fact that the police are going to try and stop the march in a place called one choice halfway between here and central which is where the marches wanted to get to down joining me here is a well known protest leader just to warm just what do you make about this decision by the police to try to stop this more to one side of the reason us and reasonable suppression from coal is forced to stop other protest or central a phone call that we as you know that for the past of what we hope that you will show i would request us the government headquarters but when the rally stop at watch high we can express i would have to terminated a bill delivered to our voice to government you have tens of thousands of people here on the streets what is going to happen when police try to stop people from much unnecessary and ex

street. for decades epstein handled michlts for former high-profile clients like leslie wexner who owns victoria's his rolodex also includes britain's prince andrew, former president bill clinton and president donald trump, who in 2002 told "new york" magazine this about jeff epstein, "i've known jeff for 15 years. terrific guy. he's a lot of fun to be with. it's even been said he likes beautiful women as much as i do and many of them are on the younger side." and that's not epstein's only connection with the current white house. he evaded federal sex charges more than a decade ago similar to the ones he faces now. the u.s. attorney of florida back then was alexander acosta, trump's current labor secretary. with high-profile attorneys ken starr and alan dershowitz representing epstein back then, acosta cut him a plea deal on lesser state charges which sent epstein to county jail for little more than a year and required he register as a sex offender. the sentencing so lax, though, epstein was allowed to continue working while serving time. >> i really don't know too much about it. i know he's done

protesters return to the streets on the anniversary of independence from france they call to freedom and democracy and for those they call the ruling elite to give up power victoria and he has been. a day of mixed emotions. celebrating independence from france in 1962 you say demanding the complete overhaul of the establishment its rule. on algeria as independence day we see the police helping the clonie with some power and the special occasion we ask for full freedom. many of jerry and say they feel betrayed by their political elite and have lost trust in the government they will say down the interim president is the right person to run the country at this critical time. on thursday abdelkader ben salah called the national dialogue about arranging a presidential election but didn't set a date or when that might be on the streets the discontent continues as you knew she was laying there you know i think it you who learned by ukraine i did you come out by trying to deny and jillions of the origins most of the us. out of weeding to sacrifice their time they inforce for the future of their country. the same protesters who forced out president abdelaziz bouteflika in

street. for decades epstein handled investments for former high-profile clients like leslie rexner who owns victoria's secret and including britain's prince andrew and former president bill clinton and president trump who in 2002 told new york magazine this about epstein. i've known jeff for 15 years. terrific guy. he's a lot of fun to be with. it is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as i do. and many of them are on the younger side. and that is not epstein's only connection with the current white house. epstein invaded -- evaded federal sex charges a decade ago similar to what he faces now. the u.s. attorney in florida back then was alexander acosta, trump's current labor secretary. acosta cut epstein a plea deal on lesser state charges which sent him to prison for a little more than a year and he registered as a sex offender. >> i really don't know too much about it. i know he's done a great job as labor secretary and that seems like a long time ago but i know he's been a fantastic labor secretary. >> reporter: epstein's lawyers calling the new charges a quote, do-over of the florida i

street to enfield town, cheshunt and chingford. there's disruption on southern and gatwick express services between balham and victoria due to a signallingrom the north—west, some cloud through the middle part of the day, but gradually that will break up up into the afternoon and we will see sunny spells. temperatures today heading to 22 celsius which is perhaps where they should be at this time of year. 0vernight tonight, still a bit of cloud but breaking up, we will get some clearer spells mixed in there as well. temperatures not feeling quite as warm. between 9 and 12 celsius. we're in for a similar sort of day as we head into tuesday. some sunshine in the morning. more cloud through the afternoon. temperatures in the low 20s. for wednesday, that high pressure starts to build in a little more strongly so again more sunshine, temperatures on the climb as we head through thursday — that looks like our peak this week. but as you can see, plenty of dry weather with some sunshine. i'm back with the latest from the bbc london newsroom in half an hour. plenty more on our website at the usual address. bye for now. good morning welcome to brea

protesters returned to the streets on the anniversary of independence from french rule they called for freedom and democracy those they call the ruling elite to give up power victoria be hostile the a day of mixed emotions for algerians celebrating independence from france in 1962 but also demanding the complete overhaul of the establishment its rules ever since my dad got you shuffle sucked but i'll jury is independence day we see the police helping the clonie with some power and the special occasion we ask for for freedom . many algerian say they feel betrayed by their political elite and have lost trust in the government they will say down the interim president is the right person to run the country at this critical time. on thursday abdelkader ben seller called the national dialogue about arranging a presidential election but didn't set a date for when that might be on the streets the discontent continues and you knew she was laying there you know i think it you learned by playing ready i did you come out right and unions now do and unions most and unions. are we doing to sacrifice their time day in force for the future of their country. the same protesters who

streets of philadelphia this week resulting in arrests of dozens of protesters. joining me to discuss, professor at the lbj school of public affairs, and also an attorney and nbc.com contributor raul reyes. victoriame start with you. the president seems convinced that these raids are good idea. you're the professor here. any sort of historical precedent or anything to give credence to that? >> if we really want to do something about the undocumented population here, you go to the source of it. especially in terms of the economic migrants. so what we see is a lot of flash about i.c.e. raids, but what about the employers who are breaking the law by employing undocumented persons? if we were to go after them in the letter of the law, find them, then undocumented workers would not come over to seek that economic opportunity. so what work best, it would be that. but politically and rhetorically, that doesn't hit president trump's narrative of being tough on immigration and having that big show of the i.c.e. force hitting the streets. >> and in the meantime, raul, and i want to pop this up on the screen, there is a facebook group unearthed by propublica that shows former and current probably age border

in the last few minutes we have seen protesters arriving from the march that began at victoria streetcenes behind me, people chanting. this is the group of pro—democracy protesters that have been marching from victoria park annually. this is what they do but this year it has taken a special what they do but this year it has ta ken a special symbolism what they do but this year it has taken a special symbolism and significance. all day throughout today we have seen clashes between police and protesters right here on this main arterial street in hong kong. you can see behind me, the scenes between police and protesters is still tense. over there, there is a stand—off between riot police and pro—democracy protesters. earlier today, some protesters, a small group of them, tried to get into the legislative council building by ramming a trolley through the glass windows. police pushed back and now the mood remains tense. in the last few minutes, hundreds of people have arrived here on one of the main arterial roads in hong kong and there is a sense of some jubilation in the air, i have to s

feeling their sense of community is being lost in the high streets and there is a high streets minister. victoriaill. 700 stores and 4,500 jobs. ok, so there are some gambling industry specific issues at play here, too, but it has suffered from the same issues other shops are facing. the government has plans to help the high street. let's ask the high streets ministerjake berry mp, whojoins me now. we spoke to the boss of wh smith a couple of months ago in only his first tv interview. do you regret the government's role in the demise of william hill? these betting terminals are described as the crack cocaine of gambling, i regret so many jobs the crack cocaine of gambling, i regret so manyjobs are at risk but i think the right thing was done in looking to clamp down on these machines which are linked to problem gambling, particularly in some of the poorest and most vulnerable communities in our society. ok. but it has also suffered due to the shift of online —— shift to online gambling and online retail, that's been an issue for high streets. you are launching a high street mind supposed to be he

sweltering heat and thousands of protesters take to the streets once more we are in the causeway bay area of hong kong a block or 2 away from victoria park that's the traditional starting point for all of these marches thousands of people are gathering there the reason why we are here is because when you get into an area like that with $100000.00 plus people then there simply isn't any bandwidth so we have got ahead of the curve as it were and are waiting for the marchers to come down here on the coming down this highway and then marching towards the central district of hong kong it is similar to a lot of other marches and what makes this so different and in some in some respects quite concerning for the authorities is that they intend to stop this march about half way we are in the causeway barrier of hong kong these marches wanted to take their protest all the way to the central business district of hong kong the police in your thirty's here have requested them and are telling them that their march will stop in one child that's an area that's halfway between here and central and we have no idea at the moment whether the protesters