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Plus some hopeful pandemic parenting advice from Dr. Sanjay Gupta. But first, today's one big thing. The end of Hong Kong's relatively free political

system is no longer looming. It's here. No more free press. Arrest by secret police. The end of Hong Kong's political freedom is here.

Bethany Allen Ibrahiman is our China reporter and she's been following these developments

since the Chinese Communist Party forced a

national security law on Hong Kong. This new law made it illegal for anyone,

anywhere in the world, to promote democratic reform in Hong Kong.

So in the past 24 hours we have seen to promote democratic reform in Hong Kong.

So in the past 24 hours we have seen a very dramatic raid on the offices of Apple Daily,

which is a pretty pro-democracy newspaper in Hong Kong.

Also, the owner of that newspaper,

Jimmy Lai, who has long been an outspoken critic of Beijing,

was arrested and marched out of those offices.

We've also seen the arrest of Agnes Chow who was a major student

leader of recent protests in Hong Kong. In addition, Hong Kong Chief Executive

Carrie Lam announced recently that she would be postponing the scheduled

elections for one year. Now she said it was because of the coronavirus pandemic, but no one really

believes that.

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