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KRISTIE LU STOUT, HOST: I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong. And welcome to News Stream where news and technology meet.

Now Hong Kong police carry off protesters and break down tents as the main protest camp in the heart of the city is cleared.

The inventor of the world wide web tells CNN he is worried about the future of the Internet.

And will the ambitious Boyhood score big at the Golden Globe nominations? We'll bring that to you live this hour.

And we begin this hour with an eerie calm here in Hong Kong, in Admiralty where thousands of pro-democracy protesters once filled the

streets, only a few remain.

Now police cleared out the final protesters, sometimes even carrying out the stubborn ones.

Now, demonstrations have been there for nearly three months now. They are challenging China's hold over local Hong Kong elections.

Now remember, all of this started in late September, but the protests really gained steam after this.

The use of tear gas by riot police shocked many in the city and caused an immediate backlash. And authorities then eased back. But tensions soon

surfaced again after several weeks.

Now clashes would break out whenever police tried to force protesters to leave. Now there were also some reports of police brutality.

Now student protest leaders continue to call for peaceful resistance despite increasing frustration over failed negotiations with government

leaders.

Now one of the main faces of the student movement, Joshua Wong, went on a hunger strike for nearly five days.

Mong Kok was the first site to be cleared by court injunction two weeks ago. Canton Road in Tsim Sha Tsui, another site on Kowloon side

fizzled earlier. And Admiralty, the biggest protest area was shut down just hours ago. Causeway Bay is next.

Now for more on the Umbrella Movement and its impact on Hong Kong, I'm joined by Zoher Abdoolcarim. He is the Asia editor for TIME international.

Zoher, thank you for joining us here.

And first could you tell us about what was lost as a result of the police clearout in the main protest site? Because there in Admiralty, you

had art installations, protesters, it was an incubator for activism. What was lost today?

ZOHER ABDOOLCARIM, ASIA EDITOR, TIME INTERNATIONAL: You know, that's an interesting question, Kristie, because when you think of Hong Kong you

think of Hong Kong as a fast pace place where people don't have much time other than for themselves -- you know, people are working, studying, making

money, trying to make money.

And I think what we had for the last few months at Admiralty was this sense of community that you don't really see in Hong Kong. It was almost

like it was peace, love, freedom, art, togetherness. And I was watching Cantonese cable TV earlier today. And they interviewed a young woman at

the site while the clearance was going on. And she said that she was quite cheerful and she said this is the best that I've seen Hong Kong.

So, I think that's -- I think people have lost that. It goes beyond just politics and democracy and political reform and so on and so forth and

China.

LU STOUT: It goes beyond, but where does it go next? Because the physical occupation of that street, that stretch of highway, other areas

throughout the city, that's effectively over. But what's next for the Umbrella Movement?

ABDOOLCARIM: You see, this is the thing, the umbrella movement comprises of so many groups across the political -- the liberal political

spectrum. So you've got the moderates, you've got the so-called radicals, you've got the students. You've got the Occupy -- the original Occupy

people -- you've got the academics, you've got the legislators.

So, I think they've got to go right now all of them, surprisingly tonight, they're all together for the first time in detention, otherwise

they haven't been able to get together.

I think the key thing is where the youth take it and where the students take it. And if I were them, I would get into the political

mainstream. I mean, next year...

LU STOUT: But that's what they vowed to do, to start a grassroots movement.

ABDOOLCARIM: That's right. Form a political party. I mean, you know, Alex Chow, he's 24 years old. He's 25 years old. I would think that

he could run for office. Next year we're going to have legislative council elections, he can try for a geographical constituency.

Because I think the arena is going to move back into the legislature and to the lawmaking process. And I think Beijing has had trouble dealing

with the youth and with the students. I think they consider them more troublesome, if you like, than the regular pan-Democratic legislators.

Maybe they might find that they need to talk to the legislators now because they're actually -- you can negotiate with them. It's harder to negotiate

with a student.

LU STOUT: It's been interesting to see the lack of response from Beijing over the last 75 days. You know, early on there's a lot of concern

that Beijing was going to crack down, about what Beijing's response would be. But how is Beijing regarding what has happened in the last 75 days?

And what will happen next as the Umbrella Movement continues to gain momentum?

ABDOOLCARIM: I have talked to a lot of, you know, pro-establishment pro-Beiing people in Hong Kong. And they have -- they don't agree on

everything, but one of the things that agree on is that basically Beijing underestimates it -- the scale, the scope, the strength and the resilience,

the persistence of the youth movement here. They didn't think that it would go so far.

Well, now they know that it's pretty serious. And I think it's very hard for them to back down. They made a decree to back down. They made a

decree on August 31 saying that the political system would be like this, you know, that there would be limited number of candidates and so on and so

forth.

If they don't deal with it now and kick the can down to deal with it further, it's going to -- I think it's going to get more difficult, because

tactically they may have won today and the authorities may have won today in Hong Kong, but strategically in the longer term this is not going to

disappear.

LU STOUT: That's right. And as we have seen with these student protesters and the leaders, they are disciplined and they are determined to

really make this a long-term movement...

ABDOOLCARIM: They feel they have time on their side.

LU STOUT: Yes.

A final question for you. You are a Hong Konger. You were born and raised here. So what are your personal thoughts about what has happened

here in Hong Kong, how the city has been transformed as a result of this pro-democracy movement?

ABDOOLCARIM: Well, I'm -- my personal values and my professional values actually they coincide and that is basically I am for more openness,

for more freedom. And let us -- I think we get -- we get sidetracked by the D-word, democracy. What people anywhere want is that they want

personal choice. And they want control, not someone controlling them, they want control in their own lives.

So it's not just being able to choose your own leaders, but being able to travel where you want to, read what you want, surf the Internet as you

would like, see the movies that you would like, it's about personal choice so long as you're not harming anyone.

So, think that's what it really boils down to and the sense that I think people have in Hong Kong now is that that level of freedom, of

personal choice is narrowing.

LU STOUT: That personal choice and being able to determine your own political fate isn't it?

ABDOOLCARIM: And that's part of it, Kristie.

LU STOUT: We'll have to leave it at that, but thank you so much for joining us here. Zoher Abdoolcarim, Asia editor for TIME magazine, thank

you very much indeed.

ABDOOLCARIM: Now, while many protesters have cooperated with the clearout, they say that this is not the end. Now my colleague Saima

Mohsin, she joins me now from the former Admiralty protest site. And Saima, describe what's the scene around you right now?

SAIMA MOHSIN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Kristie, I'm not sure if I'm ever going to be able to stand in the middle of this highway in Hong

Kong every again. The westbound lane has (inaudible) and the eastbound lane remains closed.

Now, it's extraordinary to see cars on this highway after almost five weeks, Kristie, of absolutely no traffic here. It's been an extraordinary

day seeing the protesters, some of them move away peacefully and some of them stand up and meet the police with some resistance.

There is still the last row of protesters just a few meters away from me refusing to move. They're being carried away -- Kristie.

LU STOUT: You're experiencing this very eerie limbo movement where all the tents, a number of protesters have been cleared out, but the cars

have yet to return to that stretch of highway. And Saima, right before the clearout, we saw those signs in the protest camps saying we will be back.

What are the protesters trying to say here?

MOHSIN: Yeah, that's an extraordinary way of them trying to obviously spin this around, but also they are trying to be realistic. Earlier I

asked billionaire businessman Jimmy Lai whether this movement had been a failure. He was one of the people that were trying to do the people

resistance and was arrested and who said, look, we are disappointed we haven't had the political response we wanted, our demands are not being

met, but we are not naive, this is just the first battle in a long war.

So, we probably will be seeing them again in some way shape or form.

And let's be honest, will we be able to see them in this shape, in this way once again in the middle of Hong Kong? Probably not. They didn't

garner the numbers and support that they had hoped for. A lot of people turning against them, being angry that they were disrupting life in Hong

Kong so much.

But a number of them saying they will return in different ways, in different forms. A few of them telling me that they plan to go to schools

and classrooms and universities to educate the next generation about the fact that they should have the freedom of choice to choose their own

political leaders -- Kristie.

LU STOUT: All right, CNN's Saima Mohsin reporting live at the Admiralty protest site which has been the focus of that police clearout

operation today. Saima, thank you.

Now students have been at the forefront of this protest, becoming the new face of protests and activism here in Hong Kong, the most famous of

them all is 18-year-old Joshua Wong. He was one of the student leaders who kicked off the Umbrella movement by rallying thousands of protesters to the

streets after a campus sit-in.

Also with him is Alex Chow, the head of the Hong Kong Federation of Students. Now he led group members in an unprecedented, though short-

lived, negotiation with the government in October.

Now he is helped by his deputy Lester Sham. And this photo of his arrest, it took place during a police clearance last week, has gone viral

online.

Now social media of course has played a very important role in this protest. And Glacier Kwong is the organizer of the activist group Keyboard

Frontline. One of her YouTube videos of the protests received more than a million views.

Now you're watching News Stream and still to come thousands in the West Bank attend a funeral for a Palestinian Authority official whose death

has sparked fresh anger toward Israel.

Plus, the person who founded the world wide web says the free and equal platform he envisioned is fast turning into something else.

And new details are emerging about a hack attack on Sony Pictures that has exposed celebrity secrets. Stay with us.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

LU STOUT: Welcome back. Now with protests going on for over two months here in Hong Kong, it is easy to forget that Hong Kong is part of China. Now Beijing has

consistently blamed foreign interference in the protests.

Now the People's Daily had suggested that the United States is behind the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong and said, quote, "the mainstream

media of the U.S. have showed exceptional interest in Occupy Center, depicted as the Hong Kong version of the Color Revolution."

Now Hong Kong's chief executive CY Leung had also said that the protest is not entirely a domestic movement. Now the feeling that young

protesters are being manipulated is echoed by a former Beijing official who spoke to CNN.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

CHAN ZUO-ER, FRM. CHINESE VICE MINISTER OF HONG KONG AFFAIRS (through translator): The passion of Hong Kong's young people is commendable. They

care about current affairs and politics, care about the future of Hong Kong and China, but they tend to be gullible and excitable as their class

boycott and peaceful sit-in became Occupy Center.

Some adults, I mean those with beards and raincoats, suddenly show up in front of the youth to tell them what to do, what not to do, what should

be done, what should be their goals.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

LU STOUT: And we'll have much more on the end of the main protest camp here in Hong Kong a little bit later this hour.

Now in the West Bank, a funeral for Palestinian minister Ziad Abu Ein, he died during a confrontation with Israeli troops.

Let's get the very latest from Ramallah. Our senior international correspondent Ben Wedeman is there. He joins us now.

And Ben, what are both sides saying about how the minister died?

BEN WEDEMAN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, both sides are saying very different things.

What happened was after the death, the Palestinian authority contacted the Jordanian government and asked them to send a team of pathologists to

conduct the autopsy on Ziad Au Ein. They were joined by Palestinian pathologists and an Israeli -- a team of Israeli pathologists. They

conducted the autopsy overnight, but what we are hearing are two different things.

The Palestinians and the Jordanians released the autopsy in which they indicated he was killed as a result of asphyxiation caused by the fact he

was essentially choking on his own vomit after inhalation of tear gas. In addition to the fact that he was hit on the chest and one of the Israeli

soldiers, you can see in video, put his hands around his throat. So that, they say, was the cause of death.

The Israeli pathologists, however, have a different version. They said that Zia Abu Ein had a heart condition and that he had a heart attack

that may have been induced by the fact that he was physically manhandled by the Israeli soldier.

So there's a difference of opinion on his cause of death. A Palestinian Authority staged this state funeral for Ziad Abu Ein today.

And his body was buried in the al-Bireh cemetery. There were lots of people there, there was some firing in the air by supporters of the late

minister.

Now, the Israelis have beefed up security in the West Bank and Jerusalem. Yesterday, the Palestinian Authority said they had halted

security coordination with Israeli forces and the result as we've seen in scattered areas around the West Bank clashes like where I'm standing. Just

a little while there was a lot of tear gas, stun grenades being fired. But it seems this clash is subsiding -- Kristie.

LU STOUT: And Ben can you tell us more about the deceased Palestinian minister, I mean tell us more about who he is and what he did for the

Palestinian Authority?

WEDEMAN: Well, he was a minister without portfolio, but he was the head of a committee -- the committee that's against the wall and

settlements, that was the name of the committee. So he's quite active in protests, in demonstrations, against the wall or what the Israelis call he

security barrier and the continued construction of settlements on the West Bank.

Now the man has a history that goes back many years. In 1982, he was sentenced to life in prison by an Israeli court, accused of being part of a

squad that planted a bomb in Tiberius in 1979 that left two Israelis dead.

Now in 1985 he was released as part of a prisoner swap between the PLO and Israel. Afterwards, he did spend a good deal of time in Israeli

prisons, but he has been in recent years mostly active in these protests against the wall and settlements in the West Bank -- Kristie.

LU STOUT: Yeah, and tension is even higher now as a result in the aftermath of his death. Ben Wedeman reporting live from Ramallah, thank

you, Ben.

Now Russia and India have signed a deal to build at least two additional power units at a nuclear plant in southern India. And reports

say that the deal also includes some 10 additional reactors in India.

Now these agreements were reached as President Vladimir Putin met with the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in new Delhi.

Now the person who invented the world wide web says the internet should be a basic human right. Tim Berers-Lee says increasingly the online

world is becoming marked by the same kinds of inequalities we see offline.

Now his World Wide Web Foundation has just released its annual web index. And CNN's Jim Boulden sat down with Berners-Lee to discuss the key

findings.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

TIM BERNERS-LEE, WORLD WIDE WEB FOUNDATION: On the one hand we'll see people getting -- a lot more people getting online because the mobile web

will continue to grow very rapidly as prices come down of devices and access, so I'll see us crossing the 50 percent mark and then getting to the

interesting point where the last 20 percent, 10 percent may be more difficult.

Meanwhile, I'll see really that the battle is joined between those who are fighting to keep the web open and those who are trying to get a

stranglehold on it both in industry and in government. And in many countries in industry and government where it's hard to tell the difference

between the two.

JIM BOULDEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: And you're worried that that grip is tightening -- those who want to get a stranglehold on it.

BERNERS-LEE: The people we've asked showed on -- in general net, when you look at the world this year, that stranglehold has tightened.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

LU STOUT: World wide web founder Tim Berners-Lee there. And you can see the rest of Jim Boulden's interview with Berners-Lee in about an hour

from now. That on World Business Today right here on CNN.

Now you're watching News Stream coming to you live from Hong Kong. We'll be back right after the break.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

LU STOUT: Now the race to find new ways to make the world's demand for energy has perhaps never been more important than it is today. Right

now, wind power churns out only a tiny percent of the electricity produced around the world. That industry is getting a big lift from some amazing

new technology as you're about to see in this addition of Tomorrow Transformed.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

RICHARD QUEST, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: For centuries, the humble windmill has been used for pumping water and grinding grain. Its

role grew when the wind turbine was created, designed specifically to generate power. So today around 2.5 percent of the world's electricity is

produced by wind.

And the industry hopes its output will quadruple in five years. Its technology driving growth.

TOM KIERNAN, CEO, AMERICAN WIND ENERGY ASSOCIATION: The technological advances have been what has driven the wind industry. When you compare

turbine to turbine over the last couple of decades, we are 30 times more efficient than we were several decades ago because of the use of

information and computer technology.

QUEST: Squeezing more energy out of thin air involves equipping the turbines with lasers that allows them to communicate with each other as

operators keep a watchful eye in high tech control centers like this one in San Diego.

KIERNAN: We can then communicate with the utilities, with the grid operators, to say here's how much wind we're going to have available in the

next hour, the next two hours, so that they can effectively manage wind onto the grid.

ALICE HEBERT, OPERATIONS CONTROL CENTER, EDF: Before it was like calling the turbine, and then now you have those big screens that are

showing everything in real time like this.

QUEST: Worldwide, there are now more than 200,000 turbines on land and offshore. The future is to take wind energy to new heights.

Imagine if we could untether the turbine and send it up into the air where it could then adjust its location and catch the strongest winds.

Altaeros Energy in Boston is preparing one such structure to do exactly that. It's called the bat.

BEN GLASS, ALTAEROS ENERGIES: The wind turbine sits in the middle. and the idea is that this inflatable structure if filled with helium, which

essentially it's like a balloon. So when there's -- even when there's no wind it'll float up to the high altitudes.

As the wind starts to pick up it sort of behaves like a kite and it kind of keeps itself up there by going up to 2,000 feet you have typically

around eight times as much power available in those winds as you would have for a turbine closer to the ground.

QUSET: Altaeros hopes to launch the first Bat in Alaska in 2015, targeting remote areas where energy is elusive and expensive.

GLASS: Think of communities in India or Brazil where there really hasn't been an option for cheap energy. I think the Bat has the potential

to really transform those communities.

QUEST: From windmills to high flying turbines, a way of producing energy that's more than hot air.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

LU STOUT: You're watching News Stream. And still ahead, the cyber attack on Sony's computer systems is far more damaging than we first

thought. We got the details straight ahead.

Also ahead, Hollywood's award season kicks off with the Golden Globe's nominations for television and film. The live announcements are coming

right up.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

LU STOUT: I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong. You're watching News Stream and these are your world headlines.

Now this just in to CNN, Reuters says a suicide bomber detonated explosives inside a high school in Kabul, Afghanistan. Afghanistan's

deputy interior minister told Reuters that at least one person was killed and 16 wounded. We'll bring you more details as soon as we confirm them.

Now police here in Hong Kong have cleared a pro-democracy camp on a stretch of highway in the financial district. As you can see, cars are now

using that highway for the first time in almost three months. Now many protesters had already left the scene, but a couple of hundred people

stayed put and some had to be literally carried away. Now the demonstrators had occupied the site for again more than two months.

Now in the West Bank, meanwhile, a funeral for the Palestinian minister Ziad Abu Ein, he died on Wednesday during a confrontation with

Israeli troops. now Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has suspended all security cooperation with Israel.

Russia and India have signed a deal to build two more power units at a nuclear plant in southern India. And reports say that the deal also

includes some 10 additional reactors in India. Now the agreements were reached as President Vladimir Putin met with Indian Prime Minister Narenda

Modi in New Dehli.

Now we have new details about that massive cyber attack against Sony Pictures. Now internal emails detailing the private lives of Hollywood's

biggest celebrities have been leaked. As Pamela Brown reports, investigators have uncovered more evidence about who might be involved.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

PAMELA BROWN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: While it's still unclear if it was North Korea, an anarchist group or even a former employee with a grudge

that breached Sony's computers, what is clear is that the infiltration was deep and damaging. In new posts online, a group known as the Guardians of

Peace, is claiming responsibility for breaking into the studio's computers, leaking personal information of celebrities as well as scathing email

exchanges between producers and directors, some even badmouthing A-list actors.

In one exchange, an Oscar winning producer calls Angelina Jolie minimally talented and a spoiled brat.

AMIT YORAN, FRM. U.S. NATIONAL CYBERSECURITY DIRECTOR: And I think it's a very scary trend and it's something that organizations, which has

sensitive information, have to be very concerned about.

BROWN: The documents also reveal the social security numbers of more than 47,000 people, including celebrities Conan O'Brien, Rebel Wilson and

Sylvester Stallone as well as the aliases stars use to check into hotels or do business.

Tom Hanks apparently goes by the name Johnny Madrid; Jessica Alba as Cash Money; and Sarah Michelle Gellar as Neely O'Hara.

JAMES FRANCO, ACTOR: Look at this.

SETH ROGEN, ACTOR: Kim Jong un wants to do an interview with Dave Skylar (ph)?

BROWN: The leaked documents also show actor Seth Rogen raked in nearly $2 million more than co-star James Franco for The Interview, a

comedy about a plot to kill North Korean leader Kim Jong un.

The cyberattack appeared at first to be about leaking that movie online before its theatrical debut, leading to speculation North Korea may

have been involved.

While North Korea has denied involvement, it has called the film an act of terrorism and the leak a righteous deed.

But CNN has learned the code used in the attack was written in Korean and was used in previous attacks against South Korea.

YORAN: It's important to realize depending on how sophisticated your adversary is, they may be routing attacks through a certain country, or

they may be using known attacks from a certain language codebase in order to throw your attribution thoughts off.

BROWN: Pamela Brown, CNN, Washington.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

LU STOUT: Now ahead right here on News Stream, we are just minutes away from hearing the nominees for this year's Golden Globe awards. Find

out Hollywood's favorites next.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

LU STOUT: Welcome back.

And now over to the United States. It is early in the morning there in California. The Golden Globes nominations are about to be released any

minute now on the Hollywood Foreign Press Association will be announcing nominees for the 72nd annual awards ceremony.

Now keep in mind these awards, the Golden Globes, they are considered by many in the industry to be a bellwether for the Academy Awards. Let's

listen in.

(GOLDEN GLOBE NOMINATIONS)

LU STOUT: Now there you have it. We now know the nominees for the Golden Globes.

Film critics Richard Fitzwilliams just listened to that live as well, he joins me now to help break down what we just heard. He joins me live

from London.

A lot of nominations for Grand Budapest Hotel and also for this movie Boyhood. You know, really pioneering movie. It was filmed over a span of

12 years. Do you think that movie in particular is getting the recognition it deserve?

RICHARD FITZWILLIAMS, FILM CRITICS: Oh, I think absolutely. Because I was stunned by Boyhood. And I think if you consider that they got the

same cast together over that period of time it makes it a completely unique film and one that deserves the nominations that it's got. And I think the

Grand Budapest Hotel, it's delightful, it's a fantastic, rather surreal comedy that's problem is, of course, it is up in the category of musical or

comedy against Birdman and I suspect it will be Birdman that wins.

LU STOUT: Yeah. And tell us more about Birdman. So it's Michael Keaton. It received the most number of nominations at the recent Screen

Actor Guild announcement. It received a number of Golden Globe nods just then. Do you think that's going to be a big one to watch, especially when

it's Oscar season?

FITZWILLIAMS: Well, there's no question that I think the profession has a particular fascination for films made about actors -- an actor, for

example, who reached the heights of his profession, slumped and then made a disastrous attempt to make a comeback on Broadway. It's hilarious. It's

savagely funny. And it's very often touching.

And there were some superb performances in it. So Birdman basically is the main challenger to Boyhood, but I suspect that Boyhood is

irresistibly in front because of the nature of this film, equally as we have seen in past years award ceremonies do tend to feature individuals who

have certain rather challenging mental problems and we've seen this with Professor Stephen Hawking played by Eddie Rdmayne in the Theory of

Everything, we've seen this with Benedict Cumberbatch's superb performance as Alan Turning in The Imitation Game and also Julianne Moore in Still

Alice as an Alzheimer's sufferer.

LU STOUT: That's right, Julianne Moore, she is up for best actress in a drama, you mentioned her as well as Felicity Jones. A name that got our

attention here was Reese Witherspoon. She's up for best actress for her Golden Globe Award. She is no stranger to acting awards in the past, but

is she kind of having a comeback moment here with this new movie Wild?

FILTZWILLIAMS: She extremely good in Wild. Wild is an excellent movie of its sort, but we have seen this type of movie before, that's why I

suspect her nomination will remain a nomination.

I was disappointed by the way Marion Cotillard who had scored in earlier award ceremonies didn't get a mention for Two Days, One Night. It

does happen to be rather unfair that films of that sort, foreign language films get squeezed out when it comes down to it.

The British, I think, will be very, very pleased, David Oyelowo, Eddie Redmayne, Benedict Cumberbatch, also Kiera Knightly for The Imitation Game

was interesting.

LU STOUT: You mentioned Marion Cotillard being shut out of the nominations, any other snubs? Any other surprises that were announced or

not announced this morning in Los Angeles?

FITZWILLIAMS: I think that Angelina Jolie will be very disappointed about Unbroken, which is I think was expected to do well. I mean, I

thought that we would have two women directors among the nominees for best director, Ava Duvernay, obviously, for Selma. That was expected, but I

thought that Angelina Jolie would be included, which she isn't.

But equally best director will be nailbiting, because there you've got Richard Linklater for Boyhood up against Alexandra Gonzalez Inarritu for

Birdman, that will be the big tussle I suspect at the Oscar where both are likely to win Globes. I think no doubt about it, superb films, but Boyhood

is absolutely unique.

LU STOUT: All right, Richard Fitzwilliams, you've really whetted our appetite for the movie season, what we're going to expect at the Oscars and

of course the Golden Globes. Thank you so much for being available for us, Richard. Take care.

Now, police here in Hong Kong, they have moved to clear the protests that have gripped the city for the last 75 days. And now with new barriers

down many Hong Kongers are wondering just what will come next. Stick around.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

LU STOUT: Now fist it hit the breaks in India and Thailand and now Uber is embroiled in legal troubles on its home turf. Now California says

it is now suing the car service for misleading customers on its screening of drivers.

Now Uber's website boasts its background checks are the best in the industry, even though it does not require its drivers to submit fingerprint

identification in accordance with state law.

And prosecutors also accuse Uber of charging customers an airport fee, even though the company is not allowed to operate at San Francisco's

airports.

Now Google is about to remove one of its search features in Spain. Now the tech giant says it will shut down Google News in Spain because of a

new law that requires publishers to charge Google whenever it shows excerpts of their stories.

Now for those of you not familiar with Google News, it compiles headlines from thousands of media sources. You can browse the front page

or search for particular news topics.

Now Google says the news service itself does not make money because there are no ads on it.

Now Hong Kong police have cleared the streets of protesters. And several lanes stretching through Admiralty have now reopened to traffic.

And some demonstrators had to be physically carried out, but they say that this is not the end of the movement.

Now Saima Mohsin was there.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

MOHSIN: This is it, the last stand of Occupy Hong Kong. For 75 days Hong Kong's pro-democracy protesters occupied some of the city's busiest

roads.

By Thursday, only a few dozen remained sitting on the ground waiting for the advancing police forces.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: All of us have a dream that our society, Hong Kong, will be better. And we know that, as they say, a difficult task.

MOHSIN: Thursday's clearout began slowly as bailiffs removed barricades from a site covered by a court injunction. Then, the police

moved in.

The warnings are over and the police have now got the entire site under lockdown. They are now moving in to remove all these tents and to

remove any remaining protesters.

Ripping down tents, breaking the barricades, police pulled down the mini city that had grown up in the middle of Hong Kong. It was a somewhat

peaceful end to a movement that was not always so.

Initial protests grew to the tens of thousands after police used tear gas on students, an almost unthinkable action in this city. More and more

people voiced their displeasure at a plan by Beijing to select candidates for the 2017 elections for Hong Kong's highest office instead of the

people.

But, as the occupation wore on, patience wore thin. With traffic snarled and taxi drivers losing income, violence broke out between pro and

anti-occupation groups.

In the end, many protesters were resigned to Thursday's clearout, packing and leaving on their own instead of facing arrest.

The police faced resistance only from a core group of students and politicians. One by one they were arrested and carted away.

Billionaire Jimmy Lai was among those who stayed until the bitter end. Before he was arrested I asked him if this movement had been a failure.

JIMMY LAI, MEDIA MOGUL: We would be very naive to think that just by sitting around occupy this place for 70 odd days that we have what we want.

We are not so naive. We know that this is a long haul fight. We know that there will be many battles before winning the war.

MOHSIN: So then what's next? If you can't do it this way, how do you do it?

LAI: We will not know the next until we see the next. We don't know. Definitely there will be a next -- and the next and the next and the next.

MOHSIN: For now, though, Occupy Hong Kong is at an end, the first chapter of this battle clear and so are the streets of the Admiralty

District for the first time in two-and-a-half months.

Saima Mohsin, CNN, Hong Kong.

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LU STOUT: Now protesters in Hong Kong vow to return. And on the night before the clearout, there were plenty of signs that their new

mantra, "we will be back." Now those signs are gone and that stretch of highway is now just a highway again.

But for 75 days, it was something this city had never seen before. That stretch of highway in central Hong Kong became a protest site, but it

was also something more, it was an art gallery, a debating chamber, a spontaneous outpouring in a city often defined by rules and regulation.

Now ultimately all of it was a massive show of defiance against the government here in Hong Kong and across the border in Beijing, a government

that does not allow protests on its soil and a government that will have to contend with a new generation of young leaders, leaders that have found

their voice. They say they'll be back.

We don't know whether they will or not, but it is safe to say that after all this, Hong Kong is a different place.

And that is News Stream. I'm Kristie Lu Stout. But don't go anywhere, World Business Today is next.

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