Autopsy For Palestinian Authority Minister Has Conflicting Results
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.</s>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.</s>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?</s>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.</s>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?</s>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.</s>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.</s>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.</s>JIM BOULDEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: And you're worried that that grip is tightening -- those who want to get a stranglehold on it.</s>BERNERS-LEE: The people we've asked showed on -- in general net, when you look at the world this year, that stranglehold has tightened.</s>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.