Tuesday briefing: Arrest if you challenge Hong Kong laws, says Carrie Lam news


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Bookshelves purged and Tik Tok pulls out … Melbourne, Australia put in six-week Covid-19 lockdown … ode to devilishly good fiddle player. Top story: Tik Tok pulls out after US ban threat Hello and welcome to Tuesday morning’s news with me, Warren Murray. Hong Kong police have been given sweeping new powers, including raids without a warrant and surveillance, as part of Beijing bringing down a guillotine on the territory’s freedoms. The city’s chief executive, Carrie Lam, suggested that even questioning new national security laws imposed by the Communist party central government could be deemed an offence. She warned “radicals...