i don't think promoting democracy is the job that kerry has been given by the beijing government the basic law said that potentially hong kong could have free elections it's not very definite there is it's a it's unclear no but that is what hong kong people have been hoping for the longest time that at one point there will be full democracy and beijing has made it very clear in the last couple of years that that is not going to happen and it's carried . through to no squash these protests in pismo taking says it could happen but. it should have causing the basic law is that eventually and gradually it would have but not put tension is so we believe that in the end it would happen and we're looking forward to this ok cerium you also pointed to earlier social media very much part of china's propaganda warfare aimed at not only the people inside all gone but the mainland chinese as well it shows that beijing really wants to get control of this process the protest process quickly as possible is there a fear in beijing in how this question would apply the use well that that the protests w

but what beijing has promised is a promise, and so we are simply asking the beijing government to do something that is clearly stated in this contract. see, i'm not sure it has promised that. let me quote to you from five years ago, this is quoted in the south china morning post. sir richard 0ttaway mp, who was then chair of the british pa rliament‘s foreign affairs committee, who had been banned from visiting hong kong by the chinese when he wanted to investigate the trouble that was there a few months before. he said, "the sino—british joint declaration is considered by chinese officials now void, and only covers the period from the signing in 1984 until the handover in 1987." lu kang, who was then at the chinese foreign ministry — "as a historic document has no practical significance. it is not at all binding for the central government's management over hong kong." the uk has no sovereignty, no power to rule, and no power to supervise hong kong once the handover had happened. well, we do not agree with that, of course. it is up to beijing to defend their position. but again,

kong protesters want china to respect the rule of law and the city's semi autonomous that but will beijing give them the freedom they're demanding talking about that coming up on the point britain's. quadriga next on d w. how's. view of the world. where i come from and not only that glitters is gold it's just like this chinese food doesn't matter where i am always reminds me of home after decades of living in germany chinese food is one of the things i miss the most but that taking a step back i see things i need to live differently now. many of you expressed as american nations that exist the other part of the war haven't been implemented in china the cats leave not the time of people wondering if they're going to take it but if you have the right to learn reading is this is the job just understand my how i see it and understood why i had nothing my job because i tried to do it exactly the hour a day my name is the name too and i was added up to. 2 a lord welcome to quadriga international talk show coming to you from berlin i'm brian thomas on our show today you've seen them for about 3 m

i don't think promoting democracy is the job that kerry has been given by the beijing government the basic glow said that potentially hong kong could have free elections it's not very definite this it's a it's unclear no but that is what hong kong people have been hoping for the longest time that at one point there will be full democracy and beijing has made it very clear in the last couple of years that that is not going to happen and it's carried. through to no squash these protests some peeps more peking says it could happen but. it should have both because they know the basic law is that if in chile and gradually it would have been well put tension is so we believe that in the end it would have been and we're looking forward to this ok cerium you also pointed to earlier social media that's very much part of china's propaganda warfare aimed at not only the people inside all gone but the mainland chinese as well it shows that beijing really wants to get control of this process the protest process quickly as possible is there a fear in beijing in how this question would apply the us

no matter what their rhetoric might be no matter what moves they've made do you believe that beijing really understands what lies at the heart of these protests and these demands from protesters. i don't think it's coming from abroad i think those favor is a wacky at best and wild conspiracy wildly conspiratorial of work but i think that some of the videos and things put out by our state media is quite comical there is just no evidence for meetings with officials like consulates and and others abroad are pretty normal including meeting those of the opposition i've seen videos of kazan to present at the protest and we know a lot of them as journalists or local residents and most comically we've seen local lawmakers point to some of the good protestors are using like walk lead source winning floats or you know a laser pen and gas mask of these things are available really you know here i don't think the ca cia has much of a budget if that's what they're furnishing the protesters with the fact is. this is an organic you know home grown movement that has come out of years of pushed ration

ok to 2 countries to use 2 systems one country one of the systems is clearly totalitarian the one in beijing hong kong has been frayed to this point bernard you say hong kong is on its way to becoming a police state. at least the police have played a role in the last couple of weeks that i think has surprised a lot of hong kong is because in hong kong there was a lot of trust in institutions and the police and the police violence that we've seen and that hasn't been independently. researched is something that has shocked. hong kong and is really at the heart of this conflict which for hunk owners and knows better than we all do is a conflict about what is our city going to be like in the future is it going to be just any chinese city or is it going to remain. a different system ok let's one of our viewers that it's 2047 right that reverts to complete chinese rule so there's this window of opportunity there a cherry as a hong konger how is this city different from the rest of china. in that race in hong kong. people from there we always say. at. almost the same standard as how the us of woe i

issuing threats before i think i'm not sure beijing has a clear strategy or has a clear idea what to do at this moment we have also seen more soft and softening. comments the week before by the governing body that is responsible for hong kong the hong kong and macau affairs office. this i think they they're keeping them all the options open right now they're putting all the threats on the table and they will decide later what they are going to do interfering cliff it's not bad of course a big risk to them as well they've been shuttling back and forth between beijing and hong kong if you're still with me there mathias what impact do you think that these warnings from the chinese military likely to have on the protest movement in hong kong. feel afraid we have lost our line to beijing again but if you can still hear me mathias thank you very much and of course to clifford kuhn in our policy our china policy analyst here in our studio thank you to now to some of the other stories making headlines around the world in yemen dozens of people are dead after 2 separate bomb attacks struck th

twitter and facebook take action against chinese government propaganda targeting hong kong protesters beijing has been trying to counter the pro-democracy movement with social media dissin from asia some 200000 accounts linked to that campaign have now been suspended by twitter also coming up. germany agrees for the very 1st time to take back the children born to german islamic state fighters in syria but will their parents becoming back with them. and a landmark case in el salvador court acquits the young woman accused of murder after suffering a miscarriage a 21 year old was facing 40 years in prison. i'm brian thomas thanks so much for joining us also show media platforms twitter and facebook have shut down accounts targeting the pro-democracy movement in hong kong the platforms said the accounts were part of a chinese government disinform ation campaign aimed at groups and individuals facebook as close a number of accounts as well now some of the posted images showing protesters as terrorists and cockroaches twitter suspended about 200000 accounts and plans to ban advertisements from stat

in beijing. if we look at the past we look at what's happened in tibet what happened at tiananmen square the interminable week gore's i mean. beijing is not adverse to at reverting to force at the end of the day it could work because local has nicer legal framework. this is the part of another system the legal frame with says the purity could be sent to hong kong if the seed the leader of hong g kong. officially off pigeon to do that but not sink. a carrot damage leader of the city is going to do that. okay well how was the west a responded there's been a mixed response french and german leaders. called for dialogue about the situation the us congress has been damaged by this heavy handed police response for drop. as call. on the chinese president to exercise restraint. for the trade deal that we're talking about. i believe it's only donald trump who's responded to this in terms of a high level a world a politician is the u. s. the only country you can bring pressure to bear on beijing i think lo

thanks so much joining beijing is going even tougher. thanks so muchjoining us beijing is going even tougher. thanks so much joining us from washington, dc, zhaoyin feng from oui’ washington, dc, zhaoyin feng from our chinese bureau. indian administered kashmir remains under lockdown during the islamic fistival of eid. all the big mosques were closed amid concerns that a large number of people gathering could spark unrest. the region has been tense ever since the indian government revoked its special status last week. the indian government says law and order has been maintained across indian—administered kashmir. from srinagar, the bbc‘s india correspondent yogita limaye reports. after they said their eid prayers, hundreds took to the streets in one part of the city. they were protesting against the indian government's decision to remove kashmir‘s special status. two days earlier, a rally in the same area had turned violent. today, it remained peaceful. the rest of the city wore an uneasy calm. security forces were out in full st

congolese city of goma with a population of 2000000 fears of an epidemic are growing also coming up could beijing be planning to use force in hong kong that's what some people are reading into the army's release of a video that includes an exercise in riot control. plus paying tribute to poland's freedom fighters in world war 2 in the polish capital the presidents and the people have been honoring those who died in the warsaw uprising 75 years ago hundreds of thousands were killed in the ultimately few tile battle to drive the nazis out of focus. on well i think you so much for your company everyone in the democratic republic of congo a 3rd person has died of ebola and goma near the rwandan border the latest victim is a one year old girl whose father the 2nd confirmed case in the city died yesterday about 2000000 people live in go mom so there are fears now that just a few cases of the deadly virus could easily become hundreds even thousands on has been a year since the original outbreak. of ebola in another part of the d r c and that al brake is still claiming lives. after another death from a b

pro beijing supporters have gathered at a rally on the other side of the city they calling for an end to the violent protests which broke out over the last 3 months. data charlotte shell some still joins us now from hong kong china what's the situation where you are right now. 2nd right now i'm outside police station where earlier on tonight a small group of protesters gathered this is something that we've seen night up tonight as part of this protest movement protesters gathering outside police stations demanding the release of fellow activists who've been arrested over the past few weeks now riot police moved in fairly quickly and did dispersed those protests as we saw them running through the streets very close to where i'm standing right now sending those protesters being some of them know gathered on top of some of the balcony overlooking the main street is some of the main thoroughfares through this area and our cameraman did catch footage of some protesters throwing handing objects at police vehicles down below we sue one image in particular a big bin being thrown on to a polic

two, beijing's government has held press conferences to warn against the protesters. apparently the carrie lam government in hong kong has the full backing of beijing at the moment, not to back down to any demands of the protesters. and we also see more aggressive tactics by the police, and even the mobilisation of some gangsters underdogs, beating up protesters. so in this regard, yes, beijing has been stepping up its effort to try to intimidate the protesters. we saw protests at the airport, peaceful protests. we a re protests at the airport, peaceful protests. we are expecting more over the weekend. do you think protesters risk losing the freedoms they have if they continue down this line? for one thing, beijing's handling of the protests in recent weeks, even though it has been stepping up its rhetoric, it also shows the limits of beijing's capacity in intervening directly in hong kong, and cracking down. beijing has been talking about the possibility of the use of the pla, the people's liberation army, but also, it stopped short of any concrete warning about usin

it takes its orders from beijing a number of the trucks shown in the video. to end up in a stadium in. what looks like. the sports center. and this appears to be satellite images from a u.s. based space technology company that. bucked in the stadium. but could they be given orders to drive into hong kong if so it would take them long to do to do so sean john is just 27 kilometers from hong kong and well connected to the special administrative region the presence of miniature vehicles so close to hong kong is raising questions about beijing's intentions but how do hong kong protest as we've been described as temporist by beijing. spondon phoebe kong spoke to one of them so as a home call and support has this are you worried that beijing would actually into fim to protest on the street home. i think they would during the thing we do all the way he can do it so i put but i don't scare so you are just come never never mind. so what is the reason behind like you're saying you're not scared was the reason behind it and we used to carry on to protest even if this ha

they saw straight go to beijing and to our correspondent. what is strong words there is this meant to be a shock warning to those china's calling criminals and madness. yes it is meant as a warning you can imagine if you heard these words in a mafia movie you would shudder now and you would expect something to happen however this is not a mafia movie and we can also notice that this these these words did not were not followed by any specific means that beijing plans to implement he did not elaborate on how these people would perish in the fire that they have said as he put it so it is still giving us a hint that beijing has not made up his mind on how to react to these clashes in hong kong on how it should deal with them other than that he has said that beijing stands firm behind kerry land the chief executive and that it would be hong kong's government's task to resolve this issue so in that regard there was nothing new with this press conference but in what he did talk about punishment the beijing spokes line what kind of pressure can in c

business community is beginning to feel the heat off of cooler heads prevailed at the weekend's protests beijing is increasing pressure on western companies to distance themselves from the protests. and 2 years after the war against islamic state has ended the economy of the kurdish regions of northern iraq is finally showing signs of a revised. this is t w business i'm good how else is in berlin welcome. protests in hong kong continued over the weekend but remained largely peaceful but hong kong is gearing up for more protests this week meanwhile beijing is putting pressure on big companies to distance themselves from the protesters central government government has taken an increasingly firm tone over the protests accusing foreign countries including the united states of inciting unrest u.s. president on notrump on sunday want to china that carrying out a tiananmen square style crackdown protesters would harm trade talks between the 2 countries china agreed to allow hong kong to keep its unique freedoms when the former british colony was handed back in 1907 but many homeowners feel those freed

intentions but how do hong kong protesters who've been described as tempest's by beijing see it. spawning phoebe kong spoke to one of them so as a home call and support has this are you worried that beijing what ashley intervened to protest on the streets of hong. i think they were during the thing we do all the way he can do it so i thought i don't scare so just come never never mind. so what is the reason the highlight you're saying you're not scared was the reason behind and we used to carry on to protest even if this happened if our core my my poke my or my protest ok. it is not chance to recap if you don't. i don't i don't know you don't run how freedom how how much freedom we got this moment i tried tried our best to cry against. the press. but we also seen some balance happening at the airport like last my some of the force has to come pick up questions with the police and also some of the. some of the people like el paso and yeah right now we have to balance over the last few days so i speak as a homo how do you feel about that i think. the police nice to have i think for

for another weekend as violent antigovernment protests are growing fears of a chinese crackdown as beijing now says on the day it folds on the border we'll get the latest from our correspondent life in hong kong also coming up the zimbabwe's government strikes back to protesters who are accusing it of corruption and olsen is managing the economy police attack demonstrates those 3 times out in defiance of the players and. plus the bundesliga kicks off in the very 1st match of the new season champions by munich held to a shell controlled by cats that. i mean you could mackinnon thanks so much for joining us hong kong is facing a nother weekend of demonstrations by the pro democracy movement and the situation is growing increasingly tense there's uncertainty about possible chinese plans to quell the unrest a large force of on the vehicles has been assembled in chen's and just across the border out with hong kong and the restaurant is ramping up chinese state media all condemning the protest as early actions as the beginning of terrorism. now. joins us now from hong kong welcome charlotte tell

our beijing correspondent spoke earlier. beijing is that losing patience although they are keeping to the official law that they have been holding since the beginning of this protest that this is the responsibility of the hong kong government and they support the hong kong government and police force to deal with ththis on thr owown terms but they are showing that if they deem it necessary, they will step in to resolve this situation. a little bit of context on this video. anniversaryhe 92nd of the people's liberation army which is the communist party's army which is behind the foundation of the people's republic of china, since 1949, it also is being aired about a after theter a week -- about a week after the -- the people's liberation army can intervene in hong kong at the request of local authorities, so again flexing their muscles, showing that this goes too far, they will step in. there is also another thing that has happened in the last week which will show beijing resolving this issue is the fact militaryuesday, a dri

is this actually a push back toward beijing? in other words, can the hong kong government actually address the underlying demands, but also say face for beijing? >> you are right that hong kong is caught in a cycle of protest and crackdown in protest again -- and you are right, it is always some issue that triggers the immediate cause, but underlying that is anxiety of hong kong's autonomy under one country, two systems. way thateally the only can be addressed is with a higher degree of people participating in the governance of hong kong, and that's why i think the universal suffrage for the chief executive is something that has to be revisited. >> but what it really ever happened? that's probably not the case. what about the underlying factors? no public housing built into thousand three, not a single hospital bill. these are fundamental problems that people are looking at on thingseets of hong kong, they couldn't disagree with in building these things. >> that's right, and i think they do matter. for beijing's press conference

our china correspondent joins us from beijing. how much gold has beijing amassed now? >> they added 10 tons in july. bear in mind that between december and june of this year, they added 84 tons. in total up until this point, you have 94 tons. seen as been -- has gradual increase since december. economists say this is likely to continue, and china is doing this to diversify their reserve away from the u.s. dollar. economists expect it to continue at a gradual pace, and it comes as gold tops out $1500 an ounce level, the highest price for gold since 2013. the latest numbers for july came out yesterday afternoon beijing time. fx reserves in china 3.1 trillion u.s. dollars, so slightly down from the june number of $3.12 trillion. they have reduced just gradually. it does not seem that there has been intervention. outflows have been relatively balanced, but we are going to keep a close eye on this going forward because it's one lever they could reach for if this depreciation -- if they lose control of that depreciation, they could reach for reserves and provide some kind of

beijing calling the protests "terrorism." president trump saying he hopes no one gets hurt or killed. >> it's a very tricky situation. i think it'll work out. i hope it works

for another confrontation and maybe growing fears of a crackdown and across town supporters of the beijing backed government staged their own counter demonstration also coming up. easy rider legend peter fonda dies age 79 born into hollywood royalty the actor and producer will be remembered as an icon of the counterculture. plus the bundesliga kicks off and in the very 1st match of the new season defending champions by munich held to a shock troll to belive. i'm rebecca read his welcome to the program hong kong's being rocked by another weekend of pro-democracy demonstrations fears of an imminent crackdown by the chinese authorities as stoking tensions night has now fallen and police have begun deploying deploying on the streets and chasing down protest is chinese state media paying condemning the protesters actions as the beginning of terrorism meanwhile thousands of pro beijing supporters have gathered at a rally on the other side of the city they calling for an end to the violent protests which broke out over the last 3 months. de devotees charlot shells until joins us now from hong kon

that is a statement from beijing. still having difficulties getting hold of arin again at the airport. while we wait for further developments, we will keep an eye on the scene. it has calmed down a lot, the scene. it has calmed down a lot, the pictures from an hour ago where a very worrying when scenes of some panic and chaos in an airport which is normally a model of order and efficiency. just at around 11 o'clock, as we were saying earlier, ...the o'clock, as we were saying earlier, the pictures were coming in of the disorder there as trolleys were being pushed in the way, as i write police were coming in, some pepper spray, some arrests, a police officer or a man down, spray, some arrests, a police officer ora man down, it spray, some arrests, a police officer or a man down, it was unclear whether he was a police officer. a mainland undercover operative, some doubt and suspicion in the minds of protesters because they have had confirmation early today that some police officers were involved in presenting themselves

beijing -- yuan tumble. the latest escalation in the trade war has pushed a key treasury recession indicator to its highest warning level since 2007. rates on 10-year note sank, almost erasing the search that followed president trump election. at one point, they yielded 32 basis points less. that is the most extreme yield curve inversion since the lead up to the 2008 financial crisis. china is expecting to comment again later tuesday on the protest in hong kong. second a second public statement. -- they will make a second public statement. they fought in the district late monday after a general strike disrupted business. andce arrested six people say some have been linked to games. -- gangs. jeremy corbyn will call a vote of confidence to prevent the prime minister quitting the european union without a deal. corbyn says johnson is trying to deal split past lawmakers and voters and labor code table a motion on september 3. global news, 24 hours a day, on air and @tictoc on twitter, powered by more than 2700 j

not or signals coming out of of beijing of the last few weeks. and but i think i think we have certainly seen a a posture in recent days by the chinese state. releasing videos of these exercises involving security forces in troop movements but i think really the risk of military intervention at this point is low to moderate that's it's not it's not imminent beijing has a range of tools at its disposal you know to forestall a memento of the protests and we've really seen beijing bring a whole set of 2 kids in in trying to suppress the current arrest without actually adopting military force up to this point just yet if it's really low to moderate twice beijing moved all that hardware into the football stadium area then. yes so again i think this is posturing. i think. i think it's no imminent such a move would have significant economic and political costs for beijing i think the missing is a message of threat rather than a sign of imminent military action but that being said look the situation on the ground is very fluid in things could change very

could beijing the planning to use force in hong kong? that is what some are reading into the army' release o of a videos that includes an exercise in riot control. ♪ brett: i'm brent goff. to our viewers in pbs in the united states and around the world, welcome. fears of a new outbreak of ebola are growing. a third person has died in the city of doma in the democratic republic of the congo. the latest victim is a one-year-old girl whose father was the second confirmed case that died yesterday. this is a city of about 2 million people so there are fears a few cases of the deadly virus could quickly infect hundreds, thousands even. the city is close to the border with rwanda. it has been a year since the original outbreak of ebola north of goma. that outbreak istill savining lives. reportrt: after another death from ebola in the goal -- congolese border city, rwanda. this thrhreatens the likelihoodf those that commute three and the countries. hours later it was open again with the u.n. saying border closure makes it harder to contain the

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is beijing basically dictating what is happening in hong kong? yes, it is. previously they had allowed the hong kong government to take control, but when the hong kong government thoroughly made a mess of things and these protests spun out of control, beijing really stepped m, of control, beijing really stepped in, particularly over the past couple of weeks. ageing's spokespeople have really been speaking on behalf of the hong kong government, and the chief executive carrie lam has basically disappeared from public view. the one country, two systems, which operates within hong kong, is that feasible? will that continue into the future?|j think that continue into the future?” think it will continue but probably not in its full form. there are certainly some aspects of one country, two systems, which suits china very well. having a separate currency under separate financial system and a place where its own companies from mainland china can do business freely with the rest of the world suits the purposes of beijing. but certainly i think many of the political

really the kind of things the chinese government are saying about the kind of information that needs beijing season they have the problem old fashion used to understand each other in order to find a way out at the moment we're not seeing that happen tom having listened to what steve just said do you believe that beijing no matter what their rhetoric might be no matter what moves they've made do you believe that beijing really understands what lies at the heart of these protests and these demands from protesters i don't think is coming from abroad i think those favors the wacky at best and wild conspiracy wildly conspiratorial or worth looking at some of the videos and things but out by state media it's quite comical there is just no evidence for meetings with officials like consulates and and others abroad are pretty normal including meeting those of the opposition i've seen videos of kazan to present at the protest and we know a lot of them as journalists or local residents and most comically we've seen local lawmakers point to some of the good protests that they are using like walk lead or

congolese city of goma with a population of 2000000 fears of an epidemic are growing also coming up could beijing be planning to use force in hong kong all that's what some people are reading into the army slow release of a video that includes an exercise in right control. plus paying tribute to poland's freedom fighters in world war 2. in the polish capital the new president and the people have been honoring those who died in the warsaw uprising 75 years ago hundreds of thousands were killed in the ultimate lee few tile battle to drive the nazis out of cold. the by. plane. on whale rockets so great to have you along every one. a 3rd person has died from a bola in the city of goma the democratic republic of congo the latest victim is a one year old girl whose father the 2nd confirmed case in the city died yesterday well goma is a city of about 2000000 people so there are fears though that just a few cases of the deadly virus could spread rapidly in the region and you can see where goma is located it's close to the border with rwanda and it's now been a year since the original outbreak of ebola el

beijing says this is basically a voluntary vocational training camp. but investigation showed that people are not there voluntarily they're being arbitrarily detained and this comes on at prisons you cannot just come and go so your life. they've been they've even been labeled concentration camps now this video use of video was initially picked up by a wave of rights activist by the name of iceland had a yacht we talked to him earlier today. and he told us by use of wanted to leave pakistan in the 1st place according to him we have been rounded up by pakistani authorities to be sent back to china price paid. so he decided to make the boldly and make his way to europe. now we can verify these claims but it is worth noting the pakistan is part of a group of muslim minority country muslim majority countries rather and that have come out in support of beijing when it comes to their treatment of muslims and basically. dismissing claims that that we can muslims are being held against their will so is there a happy ending the war there is. just a few hours ago

depends on the calculations in beijing. ican depends on the calculations in beijing. i can only guess as you, either they say we don't want attract too much attention to a violent clamp—down in hong kong, are the police here are there is political law being squeezed by beijing, and then the authorities in beijing, and then the authorities in beijing and the authorities in hong kong who answer to them who are looking as though they are moving away from the one country, systems approach to one country, one system approach. this is part of the increasing power in the world of china, but also the increasing threat of authoritarianism in china, hong kong and elsewhere. and we will be seeing protests in russia this afternoon, although in different circumstances, a different country, but a similar theme, wanting more democracy. i know you area big wanting more democracy. i know you are a big campaign, concerned about what is happening there as well. what responsibility on us in particular in hong kong, giving that we signed thatjoint agreement with the chinese? the chinese

no matter what their rhetoric might be no matter what moves they've made do you believe that beijing really understands what lies at the heart of these protests and these demands from protesters. i don't think it's coming from abroad i think those favor is a wacky at best and wild conspiracy wildly conspiratorial we're looking at some of the videos and things put out by our state media. it's quite comical there is just no evidence for meetings with officials like consulates and and others abroad are pretty normal including meeting those of the opposition i've seen videos of kazan to present at the protest and we know a lot of them as journalists or local residents and most comically we've seen local lawmakers point to some of the good protestors are using like walk lead source swimming floats or. you know laser pen them and gas mask of these things are available freely you know here i don't think the ca cia has much of a budget if that's what they're furnishing the protesters with the fact is. this is an organic you know homegrown movement that has come out of years oppressed ratione

well just to respond with carol lam i mean i tend to agree beijing is going to stick by her. so now maybe in a few months we will see a stepping down for family reasons or something like that but this demand that's been brought busy up a couple times during the show of her to be for her to fat down we've not heard that on the streets for a while i think protesters would prefer a lame duck in place so that demand has been replaced with the implementation of universal suffrage for some if with the time was thinking i was ready to defend protesters and some of the violence actions we've seen on that side bearing in mind you know i fin have everything coming from both sides and i'm not going to i've seen them besieged the police station just at the bottom of my building using bricks and slingshots the next day in tear gas canisters in their hundreds thrown in putting indiscriminately against the people outside including resident interests in the heart of the tourist district and as i left to do that showed that the anger on the street was coming from residents and they had a few

how is beijing assessing this? >> it's authority in hong kong because the beijing government is seeing this challenge as not a challenge to hong kong government but to the authority of the chinese government. >> nawaz: so we've seen whatr president tp has had to say so far. is there or should there be a role for the u.s. in all of this? >> if there should be a role, the role should be very quiet.e, i think one thing president trump can do is to pick up the phone and have a quiet conversation with president xi jinping and urge him not to intervene. >> nawaz: kenneth lieberthal, what do you make of this? how should the u.s.e acting, if at all, at this moment? ho we should be making suggestions abou to move forward in this situation to maintain peace. clearly, if this goes off the rails, it will be enormously damaging to u.s.-china relations, among other things in the region. >> nawaz: minxin pei and kenneth lieberthal, thank you very much to you both. >> thank you. t >> nawazday's 800-point plunge on wallthtreet is j

repeat of tiananmen square map where massacre in 1909 when the chinese army fired on protesters in beijing chinese armed police have been occurring out drills on the border to hong kong where more protests are planned today. and we spoke to do. in hong kong earlier and asked about those statements in the chinese media that seem to suggest that beijing is preparing to send in troops to restore order in hong kong no one has forgotten what happened in tiananmen square as you mention in 1989 but i think most analysts think that it's still extremely unlikely that china that beijing will send in troops into hong kong sanity is certainly imminently people think it's unlikely best because it would come at a huge economic and political cost the beijing people here say that their main concern at the moment is the increasingly hardened rhetoric coming out of beijing and the impact that that will have on authorities here in hong kong people here say that the police have become increasingly violent over recent weeks they worry that that could could escalate even further they were so concerned about the

beijing sending very strong warnings against what they think say as. assemblies so people hear all these things very closely what's coming out of beijing particularly given the fact that in the last week we have seen those images of the people's police how the military police along the border with hong kong people watching very closely to see what authorities next move will be. and kill in hong kong for us thank you so much. sudan is celebrating a historic agreement after months of protests the country's ruling military council and civilian. have signed a constitutional declaration paving the way for a transition to civilian rule and free elections it's a new chapter for a nation that has weathered demonstrations and a bloody military crackdown after ousting of the longtime president obama al bashir . dressed for a day that's historic salamon know is taking to the streets again this time to celebrate she was one of the 1st to join the protests spent months demonstrating time behind bars now she feels her struggle has been worthwhile but if we want to s

and in beijing. okay for now at thanks so much a professor alessio about on from king's college london for joining. us a and giving us your insight into that situatation. well now calling for tougher ininrnationall action against venezuelan president nicolas maduro washington has frozen his government's assets that with national security adviser john bolton saying that the u. s. can now targets. and sanction anyone including foreigners who support the door was a tortilla any transactionon with the venezuelan government has been banned. orgy foreign affairs as robert parsons give us his view. on just how dramatic he thinks this move actually is. find thathey have not gone beyond just simple sanctions directed against members of maduro's government maduro himself hi i'm too if. extended them to. not just individuals but but countries so for instance on this is clearly what one of the targets in mind russia could be. very much in the united states science if it continues to do businessss as it has been

this is the strongest statement we have seen it from t authorities in beijing. what is the significance of that? zhaoyin:he indeed,rotest has been going on for 10 weeks now, and beijing's condemnation has up and up. at first, inrmation about the protests was censored in mainlandna c. beijing called protesters mobs, criminals, separatists sand we ju that they started to say that the protest have shown signs of terrorism. it is a clear gn that beijing wants to send a very strong p warning totesters that the situation in hong kong has come to a stage where they decide to back down. is was triggered by a weekend of escalated violence onsioth s. the police have fired nonlethal llets at close range to protesters, and on the other hand, although protesters are still protesting in a peaceful way, some radical protesters have started to adopt to a new tactic. they threw petrol bombs intos, police statind that likely triggered beijing's new rhetorics. nada: how likely is it that china would respond by intervening with the military? zhaoyin: in the past days, state-owned m

the only country that can bring pressure to bear on beijing i think home people are trying to. the international community not. only the u.s. but also. to put pressure on china but they also very well aware that only if it's only what it would like. even if international coming. if there are no other action for example economic sanctions all. that was for them mean anything ok what do you say. expressing concerns kind of pressure and china has to syria's taken take taking to consider. sanctions not the way out single we are which would be that beijing hong kong they going to negotiate in the framer bung country to systems about the way the timetable at least how the democrats democracy could be implemented in hong kong like a direct like a general election ok i don't know what i'm listening to terry though that's already been decided is 2047 when china resumes control of hong kong until then the chinese people or the people of hong kong rather want democracy the way i'm hearing you is that gerry that's nonnegotiable yeah because for us we don't believe what we're trying to. the

all eyes are on beijing because it doesn't seem like beijing is really in the mood for compromise i mean it just released that video that we aired today of army drills that are taking place just right across the border from hong kong that is kind of an implied threat there do you foresee a possibility that mainland china might actually decide to send in troops. well i think it's more likely today that it was a month ago and those who seem from the the spokesman for the hong kong and macau affairs office in hong kong the categorize ation of their interest has has gradually become more serious and in beijing is how it is from. and today they are why you know from from that office spokesperson there was even referred referred to in his terms of signs of terrorism in iraq in the end it's not and i think this is something not to be taken lightly the presence of the people's own place over the bodhran shouldn't judge which you which you just referred to a 1000 leads probably a psychological pressure. will do to to to bring to protest just to give up on on that amounts but at the same time i wo

and there is no doubt that if beijing would to implement what we call an infrastructure our interest strategy which would imply troops also need to people's own place that would have a devastating short term consequences for hong kong but also for the mainland as well and i'm particularly for breaking his long term goal of unifying unifying the main runway with taiwan. which hong kong's system one country 2 systems on comes formulation of one country 2 systems. is was was until quite recently seen seen as a model for possible reunification the concept is now in texas where the hong kong can retain its identity i think that is possibly or it is not the cool oh oh oh oh this oh yes this. unrest this is on vacation and we're seeing happening mr goh i want to take us now to the embattled hong kong chief executive carry a lamb because she's making a low profile but she made an appearance earlier today let's take a listen as a bit of a very testing noosa conference and a question of whether miss lamb is actually acting independently from beijing will pick up the conversation on the other s

by the probation politicians outside the beijing spankers they all want the hong kong. it is says that there is a chance but china's government to send troops to handle the crisis in. but most of them they have that's just that this kind of message and i think most of the protest is down already frightened by this kind of message. tell us about the impact that the warnings that we're hearing from beijing from hong kong authorities what impact those are having on the protesters and particularly the public support for the protest movement. was mentioned south was a protest this then on i mean they're not frightened by these kind of mass a stand on its feet just because the ha ha language off the basic science here but not on the this is most of them they actually they don't believe that china's government will. take these supposed to and the crisis of hong kong because this go further on the economy of hong kong and that will be at the sas to do phone calls international reputation was has been all eyes something really ideal form on not only comment on chinese staff and

a journalist for chinese state media who is seized and beaten by anti beijing protesters at hong kong airport whose fate went viral on state controlled social media presented as an assault on all of china's 1400000000 citizens. while the demonstrators say they are defending human rights but they deny journalists their right to enter the airport i give that journalist a big thumbs up for the courage he showed footage of. that propaganda is especially effective when it stirs up deeper feelings this side of demonstrators throwing the chinese flag into hong kong harbor triggered outrage on social media and in response an outpouring of patriotic fervor from chinese citizens branding hong kong's pro-democracy movement as an attack on their national pride will soon trollish a city it is a great honor for me to be one of the 1400000 defenders of our flag and i will do my best to ensure it is always respected but as you well know it's injured teacher in china isn't only flying drones at the border close by and the paramilitary people's armed police has been holding drills this week more profit

way of telling protesters that the beijing government can step in directly to stop them well a least a tells the inner truths of what's in their mind they have been doing that since that gets you know they happened seen and you play as we see in the land of china they would do it as oh crash it in this tanks or a military or whatever they have and there they can be very brutal and the very bloody and but this is hong kong so they're really bluffing you know they are the in the situation is much beyond they can imagine and under those young people are not scared they are not easily you know to be. forward or to you know this is their life struggle so do you mean a situation like the 1989 telamon square protests would not happen in hama i would not see a war not and i predict it can happen but alby have a heavy cost on china and that may be come opportunity for time not to change but do you think china of what is about this cost. or is deeply and then narrow facing problem such as is interesting a game you know it's not is supposed to be one country 2 system. and that car they played v