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WORLD NEWS Wednesday 21 august 2019

Hong Kong’s leader vows to narrow rifts, but no specifics

By KELVIN CHAN “Our goal is to work hard the protest movement’s
Associated Press to resolve differences and demands.
HONG KONG (AP) — Fac- conflicts, to understand “We do not trust Carrie
ing pressure to end months each other through com- Lam, we do not trust her
of antigovernment pro- munication and to walk lies,” he said, pointing out
tests, Hong Kong’s leader out of this social deadlock that the movement’s de-
pledged Tuesday to open together,” Lam said. centralized structure would
up dialogue with city resi- Her comments fell short make it hard to conduct
dents in an effort to narrow of the protesters’ five de- dialogue anyway.
differences. mands, which include gen- “She is fully aware there is
However, Chief Execu- uine democracy and an no leader, this is a leader-
tive Carrie Lam offered no independent inquiry into less movement. What does
concessions to the protest alleged police brutality. she suggest?” he said.
movement and a key or- The protesters complain Jimmy Sham, another
ganizer of the mass rallies Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam listens to reporters ques- that police have contrib- member, suggested that
dismissed her plan to im- tions at a press conference in Hong Kong Tuesday, Aug. 20, uted to the violence by “if Lam wants dialogue, she
mediately set up a “com- 2019. responding to their aggres- should come to a protest.”
munication platform,” un- Associated Press sive tactics with tear gas The Civil Human Rights
derlining the challenge in and rubber bullets. Front has organized sev-
resolving the semiautono- has conditioned dialogue used for “open and direct” Members of the Civil Hu- eral mass anti-government
mous Chinese city’s politi- on the leaderless protest dialogue with people from man Rights Front rejected rallies that have attracted
cal crisis. movement remaining all walks of life, including her plan, calling it a trap huge crowds in recent
The movement held a mas- peaceful. people who have attend- that’s aimed at wasting months and it plans anoth-
sive but peaceful rally on Lam didn’t say that the ed peaceful rallies, she told time. er at the end of the month.
Sunday after earlier pro- communication platform reporters, while giving few The group’s vice-convenor, But many other groups
tests had been marked by will be used to specifically specifics on how it would Wong Yik-mo, said Lam is have organized their own
violence. The government contact protesters. It will be work. “not responding at all” to events.q

Nuclear watchdog: Russia has resumed sharing radiation data

Associated Press ties. That has led to specu- went silent shortly after the
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia lation about what really reported explosion.
has resumed sharing data happened in the town of Lassina Zebro, the organi-
from its radiation monitor- and what type of weapon zation’s executive secre-
ing stations in Siberia after was involved. tary, said Tuesday on Twit-
some were taken offline It has even raised compari- ter that the two Russian
following a deadly explo- sons to the Soviet Union’s stations that were reported
sion at a missile range, a 1986 disaster at the Cher- to be offline are back in
nuclear weapons watch- nobyl nuclear power plant operation and they are
dog said Tuesday. in Ukraine, the world’s worst now backfilling the data.
The mysterious accident at nuclear disaster, when So- He also lauded Moscow for
a naval weapons testing viet officials tried to cover “excellent cooperation.”
range on the White Sea in up the news for days. Russian officials earlier
northwestern Russia earlier The Comprehensive Nucle- Tuesday brushed off sug-
this month has been ac- ar Test Ban Treaty Organi- gestions that they were
companied by changing zation said earlier this week concealing details of the This photo taken on Oct. 7, 2018, shows a village of Nyonoksa,
or contradictory informa- that several Russian ra- explosion from foreign northwestern Russia. Associated Press
tion from Russian authori- diation monitoring stations nations.q