Free Britney?

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🗓️ 24 June 2021

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Summary

Britney Spears’s fight to end her conservatorship. An experimental brain surgery that could treat substance use disorders. And the forced closure of a Hong Kong newspaper.

On Wednesday, Britney Spears made a rare statement on her own behalf to a Los Angeles court requesting that the conservatorship that has taken her finances and lifestyle out of her own control for more than a decade be terminated. Ashley Fetters on Spears’s fight for freedom.

Can an experimental brain surgery help treat substance abuse disorders? Lenny Bernstein reports on the deep brain stimulation that surgeons are using to battle addiction.

Apple Daily, a pro-democracy newspaper in Hong Kong, ceased operations this week after the government froze its assets and arrested top editors. Shibhani Mahtani on China’s move to close the free press.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post.
0:07.0	Hello, Hayo.
0:08.0	Here's the Elizabeth from the Washington Post.
0:10.0	Hi, this is Beth Ryan,
0:12.0	Heart of the Washington Post.
0:13.0	Glory, Artony, over at the post.
0:14.0	I'm...
0:15.0	This is Post Reports.
0:16.0	I'm Martine Powers.
0:19.0	It's Thursday, June 24th.
0:25.0	Today, Britney Spears speaks out.
0:28.0	The hope of an experimental brain surgery.
0:31.0	And the end of a newspaper in Hong Kong.
0:38.0	Britney Spears!
0:45.0	So, yesterday afternoon in Los Angeles, Britney Spears, the pop singer,
0:49.0	participated in a court hearing about her conservatorship.
0:52.0	This legal arrangement that she's been in since 2008, so 13 years now.
0:56.0	There have been a lot of hearings over the last several years about this,
0:59.0	but this particular hearing was special because Britney requested to speak on her own behalf.
1:04.0	Usually in these hearings, it's lawyers talking to lawyers or to a judge.
1:07.0	But yesterday, Britney spoke for herself in the court.
1:11.0	After I've lied and told the whole world, I'm okay and I'm happy, it's a lie.
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