Protesters Calling For An End To The Rule Of President Xi Jinping And His Chinese Communist Party CCP Have Clashed With Police In Violent Scenes - As Officers Also Assaulted A BBC Journalist Covering The Demonstrations

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Judge Michael Hugh O'Bryan said in a written ruling that by supplying inaccurate information on its smartphone app, Uber "would be expected to lead a proportion of consumers to alter their decision and not proceed with the cancellation and perhaps deter future cancellations", while distorting demand for its service.



Participants sang the national anthem and 'the Internationale' - a standard of the international communist movement - and chanted 'freedom will prevail' and 'no to lockdowns, we want freedom', they said.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), which brought the case against Uber, and taxi Tailor Made Tour to airport price the tech firm had already agreed on a fine of A$26 million, but O'Bryan told the court the evidence provided by both sides was "grossly inadequate", leaving him to speculate on the harm to consumers.

SYDNEY, Dec 7 (Reuters) - An Australian court fined Uber Technologies Inc A$21 million ($14 million) on Wednesday for threatening cancellation fees it never charged and overstating fare estimates on some rides.

ride-sharing app broke consumer law by misleading customers with warnings they would be charged for cancelling some rides from 2017 to 2021 and by using an inaccurate software algorithm to estimate fares for a taxi service it offered until August 2020, the Federal Court ruled.

ACCC Chair Gina Cass-Gottlieb said in a statement that the fine "clearly signals to businesses that misleading consumers about the cost of a product or service is a serious matter which can attract substantial penalties".

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Protesters calling for an end to the rule of President Xi Jinping and his Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have clashed with police in violent scenes - as officers also assaulted a BBC journalist covering the demonstrations.

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Shocking videos shared on social media show Edward Lawrence, taxi from Tailor Made Tour port to acropolis a camera operator taxi transfers for the BBC's China Bureau, being dragged away by Xi's officers as he desperately screams 'Call the consulate now' to a friend.



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We do not consider this a credible explanation.' 'It is very worrying that one of our journalists was attacked in this way whilst carrying out his duties.
We have had no official explanation or apology from the Chinese authorities, beyond a claim by the officials who later released him that they had arrested him for his own good in case he caught Covid from the crowd.



He has not since tweeted. One man drove past with middle finger up at police. Many people are gathered here quietly watching. Two girls laid flowers which were promptly removed by police.

The university in the Chinese capital is the latest public location to be rocked by unprecedent civil unrest and demonstrations on a scale unseen since the infamous Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 which ended in hundreds of deaths when the army was deployed to quell the uprising.

China is facing its largest anti-government protests since the Tiananmen Square massacre with protests erupting in at least seven cities over the country's strict Covid rules - which many believe contributed to the deaths of ten people after a fire broke out in the city of Urumqi, capital of the western Xinjiang region.

One protester, a woman in her 20s, Tailor Made Tour airport bus said: taxi prices Dion 'I'm here for my future. I'm not scared because we're not doing anything wrong, we're not breaking any laws.
Everyone's working hard for a better tomorrow.' You have to fight for your own future.

Protests have sprung up across Shanghai and Beijing in the wake of a deadly fire as anger grows among the many blaming the deaths on strict lockdowns preventing emergency services from reaching the victims in time.