Amanpour: Emily Lau, Christiaan Triebert, Eliot Higgins and James Carroll

Amanpour

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4.1 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Emily Lau, former Chairperson of the Democratic Party, talks to Christiane Amanpour amidst the unrest and mass protests occurring in Hong Kong in response to the extradition bill. Eliot Higgins, founder of open-source, investigative website Bellingcat, Christiaan Triebert, Bellingcat alumnus and New York Times journalist, discuss their new documentary and the importance of fact checking in the era of fake news. Our Michel Martin sits down with James Carroll, former Catholic priest, to find out why he thinks the Catholic church should abolish the priesthood.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Ammonpur. Here's what's coming up.
0:07.0	Police continue to fire tear gas and rubber bullets into the biggest protests in years in Hong Kong,
0:16.0	that democratic outlier in China.
0:18.0	We ask a key lawmaker about a controversial extradition bill that could threaten
0:23.4	Hong Kong's one country two systems principle.
0:26.4	Then, don't believe me?
0:28.0	Here's the evidence.
0:29.4	Could a group of independent citizen journalists be the best hope for truth in the age of fake news?
0:37.0	We talk to Bellingat, standing up to official lies, and...
0:42.0	Why aren't more Catholics enraged protesting?
0:47.0	The Catholic Church should abolish the priesthood to save itself.
0:50.8	That is the radical proposal from a former Catholic priest James Carroll. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London. In Hong Kong today, violence erupted between police and protesters after days of escalating
1:18.1	tension over the government's plan to push forward a controversial bill that would allow extraitions to mainland China.
1:24.9	Tens of thousands of demonstrators poured into major commercial thoroughfares and
1:30.0	surrounded the legislative council building which houses
1:33.5	Hong Kong's main government offices. More than 70 people are injured
1:37.9	in what police are calling a riot. Hong Kong Chief Executive
1:41.5	Carrie Lam also condemns the protesters and
1:44.0	defends her decision to bring the extradition bill forward.
1:48.0	I want to Maikong.
1:50.0	What do you have to make it go? They say I sold out Hong Kong. How could I? I was born here and I grew up here with everyone.
1:59.0	The love I have for this place has led me to sacrifice a lot personally.
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