Israeli Police Move to Clear Amona
LU STOUT: Welcome back. Coming to you live from Hong Kong, you're watching News Stream. At this hour Israeli police are evicting people from a West Bank outpost. Israel's high court ruled the Amona outpost illegal because it was built on private Palestinian land. Now, police began making the way to the site as protesters tried to block the road. CNN's Oren Libermann is there at the outpost now. He joins us live. And Oren, security forces, they have moved into the area to clear out this contentious camp. What's the latest?</s>OREN LIEBERMANN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Kristie, you get a sense of how this is proceeding here behind me. You see police moving in along the roads in this outpost, the outpost of Amona in the West Bank. Police have surrounded the homes, evicted a number of people, made about a dozen arrests, some of which we've seen at homes right around here as protests have pushed back, thrown stones, thrown a number of different liquids a number of different liquids as well as paint at police as they tried to carry out these evacuations of some 42 homes in the Amona outpost. As police advanced, every step they took, they were met by some 600 to 700 protests, according to police. So it has been slow going. Police have been out here all morning, and it looks like they could be here well into the night. Police say that about ten officers have been injured, carrying out these evacuations as well as about a dozen arrests, that according to police. We'll take a look behind me here. You get a sense of how they are proceeding on a home-by-home basis. They'll surround the home. Each of these homes is barricaded and has dozens of protesters inside. That will be the challenges as they go home to home, but you see how they are proceeding here, surrounding each home, clearing out around the home and then when they get the order they will move in evacuating this outpost one home at a time until the order is carried out -- Kristie.</s>LU STOUT: Oren, we see behind you quite a of security forces wearing yellow vests. How many soldiers, how many police officers have been sent there to evacuate the outpost?</s>LIEBERMANN: According to police, some 3,000 security forces. The vests you see behind me are actually the stretcher carriers in case there are injuries here, and so far there have been, according to police, some police who were lightly injured. There are also a number of medics and other police officers here to carry out the evacuation. Around the police officers in Amona is the Israeli military. They are making sure that no protesters or anyone else for that matter comes in, so they have created a ring around the outpost, and it's police operating for the evacuation inside the outpost.</s>LU STOUT: All right. Oren Liebermann live at the scene for us, many thanks indeed for that update.</s>LU STOUT: Now, turning now to the Philippines where the defense ministry wants President Rodrigo Duterte to clarify the military's role in his war on drugs. Earlier this week, Mr. Duterte ordered police to stop taking part in the drug war. It came coming after the killing of a South Korean man allegedly by corrupt police officials. Will Ripley has more.</s>WILL RIPLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: When Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte declared his nationwide war on drugs around seven months ago, he put a lot of power in the hands of local police, essentially allowing them to kill drug suspects with impunity. Well, now, at least temporarily, he's taking that power away.</s>RODRIGO DUTERTE, PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES: No policeman in this country, in the world, is allowed to enforce law related to the drug campaign.</s>RIPLEY: Revelations that police officers have been engaged in corrupt activities. There were senate hearings, and there was video evidence presented that claimed to show police officers planting drugs at a crime scene. Human rights groups have been saying ever since this war on drugs began that officers have been engaged in corrupt activity. They say that officers have been paying vigilante killers. They say that officers have put things like guns and drugs at crime scenes to make it look like suspects were involved in drug activity or that they opened fire on the police first, claims that the victim's family have denied, but they really haven't had a whole lot of recourse, because President Duarte said officers would not be prosecuted for enforcing his war on drugs. And since he's declared that war, more than 7,000 people have died, more than half of those killings have been the vigilante so-called extra judicial killings. Well, now Duterte says police will not be participating in the drug war. He's bringing in the military and he's also going to be investigating police corruption. He says those corrupt officers are scallywags. He wants wants them rooted out, but he promises that the drug war will continue. Amnesty International just put out a report saying that the poorest of the poor being exterminated and we were on the ground in the Philippines for several weeks and we saw a lot of tragic cases, including the murder of a young boy killed next to his father who was a drug suspect. Family members of these who have died often say that they were trying to turn their lives around, but their lives were cut short. Now we have to wait and see what will happen on the streets of the Philippines, how this new policy will play out, or if the killings will, indeed, continue. Will Ripley, CNN, Tokyo.</s>LU STOUT: A Chinese billionaire reportedly connected to China's most powerful families have suddenly disappeared. Now, a source tells CNN Xiao Jianhua was told that he was seized by security officials from his apartment in Hong Kong's Four Seasons Hotel and then taken to the mainland. Hong Kong police confirmed that Xiao was reported missing on Friday; however, this front page ad with Xiao's name on it, this appeared today. It says, quote, I'm recuperating overseas. Now in the past, other high-profile business people detained in China have been pressed to release messages saying that everything is fine. And this case is also sparking concern about Hong Kong's autonomy under one country, two systems. Now, Chinese law enforcement agents are not allowed to act in this self- governing city. Now, earlier this week, we introduced you to a woman whose family sold her into a sham marriage when she was just a girl. After the break, we'll hear from the women who are going undercover to stop these tragic stories from happening.