Name: 香港のデモ隊が「法の支配を踏みにじった」 - ニュースレビュー (Hong Kong protestors 'trampled the rule of law' - News Review)
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Review from BBC Learning English Hello and welcome to News Review The program where we show you how to use the language from the latest news stories in your everyday English I'm Dan and joining me this morning is Katherine.

Today's story Everybody is about a protest.

Okay, let's hear more about that from this BBC World Service News report Beijing has condemned the ransacking of the Hong Kong parliament by pro democracy protesters.

The Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office said it backed the territory's authorities to investigate what it called the criminal responsibility of violent offenders.

It said the demonstrators actions on Monday had trampled the rule of law.

So we're in Hong Kong for this story and we've just had the 22nd anniversary of the Hong Kong handover to China now.

Protesters in Hong Kong broke into the parliament building and they caused significant damage.

This action has been condemned by the Chinese government and also Hong Kong's leader Curry Lamb.

They say that the actions taken by the protesters were illegal and they showed no respect for the rule of law.

I see okay, so we've got three words and expressions that our viewers can use to talk about this story.

Yes, We've got three really good words today.

We have deface blatant Andi zero tolerance deface blatant and zero tolerance.

First Hong Kong protesters storm on deface parliament on handover anniversary deface ruined something's appearance by damaging or writing on it.

Now this looks like a word building word.

The thing that you look at the world with on the idea of face is about appearance.

Now this wood is preceded by the prefix d d e.

So the prefix days often has a negative meaning, and in this case, it means spoil or ruin somebody's or something's appearance.

So if you deface something, you do something to spoil its appearance.

So it's a verb that relates to kind of vandalism, isn't is often used, almost always used to do with vandalism.

It's a deliberate act of making something look bad by painting on it by damaging it by using graffiti by ripping it down.

It's some kind of visual damage to something.

Okay, so the protesters defaced Parliament.

Well, defaces after news for things which are in the public arena.

So we've got signs, notices, statues, public buildings, trains, public transport, things like that.

Anything that's public, the visible and publicly available, you damage its appearance.

Okay, so we could say the protesters defaced the building with graffiti.

Yes, you can defaced with graffiti with paint, or you can do by damaging it by hitting it so within, by all propositions also, you can use the proposition by to say who did the defacing.

Okay, so the public building was defaced by burglars.

You may notice that I have a rather flashy shirt on today, as usual.

And I just wondered, what if I was sitting next to rob and in an active, malevolent jealousy?

Because my shirt is so nice, he takes a pen and defaces my shirt.

Probably a police officer might charge him with defacing, but no you wouldn't say that.

Ruin, You can also say spoil disfigure vandalized this figure Now that looks like another word.

It's absolutely another prefixed with another word after it.

This is again has a negative meaning figure it means shape or form.

You can disfigure something and it means spoil its physical appearance.

Thank you very much for explaining that and we'll move on to the next headline on the Telegraph Hong Kong protests Beijing says storming of Parliament is blatant challenge to system of government blatant Done openly in an easy to see way.

And ah, what kind of words would be use it with its Imagine Well, and the meaning of blatant is something's obvious.

If you do something in a blatant way, you you obvious you're brave, your bold you don't care who sees it.

In fact, you warned people to see it quite often on.

It's about not caring what other people think.

OK, so not everybody would like what you're going to do.

So in that sense, it often has a negative meeting.

You do something negatively, but it's a negative action.

Let's see it so you can have a blatant lie.

You can have, in this case of Bladen, protest a blatant challenge.

If you don't care about something that the effect of something, you can have a blatant disregard for the results of your actions when a child is Northey.

When I was naughty when I was younger, my mother said.

I'm sure you were terrible, Thank you very much.

It's usually, but but you can have, you know, you can have a blatant attraction for somebody you can have you can do blatant flirting.

You know you conducing things, obviously is not always, but but there's always a sense of your being bold.

You're being brave and you don't care who sees it.

All right, well, thank you for that blatant and easy to understand explanation.

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Okay, let's go to our third and final headline, please.

Okay, we're looking at the New Straits Times.

Chinese newspaper calls for zero tolerance over HK protests Zero tolerance enforcing a rule with absolutely no exceptions.