hong kong is in uproar. each weekend for the last two months, thousands of people have taken to the streets. alvin yeung, who leads the civic party, shares their fears, first of a plan to give beijing a greater say in extradition, then for wider cause, to defend hong kong's freedoms. but as local authorities struggle to contain the crisis, and beijing's grumbles grow ever louder, could the people's liberation army be on its way? alvin yeung, welcome to hardtalk. late into sunday night, protesters clashed with the hong kong police. it is the eighth weekend in succession that we have seen street protests and skirmishes, some of them violent. what has gone wrong? well, hello, shaun. things are not doing so well in hong kong, and of course, we have seen and witnessed protesters taking to the streets, and of course, we have seen clashes between the police and the protesters. we have been accusing the police for abusing their powers, and of course — and using excessive force. they are totally disproportional to

let's bring in our guests from hong kong chris chang is a journalist and editor in chief of hong kong free press an independent publication in nottingham professor steve turned director of the china institute the so us university of london and author of him warden history of hong kong also from hong kong joseph chang political scientist and convener of the project office a group of alliance for true democracy welcome to the program chris what are the protesters trying to achieve here i would put it best of 5 demands which they did save the past 2 bombs it was on the floor busy they'll want the protests got the carrot or ice that's right name one or the process is to be released they want to depend it best occasion it or to events in their lives and how to be the 1st soccer coach mr steve one of the take in the protest now to the airport is here to put more pressure on the chinese government or its face to the pro-democracy movement. demonstration movement through the airport i think is aimed at causing maximum disruption and therefore seeking attention and. domestically in hong kong a

kong has been frayed to this point a baronet 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 as because in hong kong there was a lot of trust in institutions and then the police and the police violence that we've seen and that hasn't been independently. researched is something that has shock. collar hong kong has 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. differences ok this point of view is that it's 2047 right that hong kong reverts to complete chinese rule so there's this window of opportunity there a cherry as a hong kong or how is this city different from the rest of china. in that race in hong kong. people i mean from there we always see freedom. almost the same standard as how the west and woe is seeing it we also know people from china with friends from mainland china wh

researched is something that has shocked hong kong hong kong most 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 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 point out for viewers that it's 2047 right that hong kong 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 freedom at. almost the same standard as how the us and lo is seeing it we also know people from china with friends from mainland china and when we talk about this because we know that we have a friends a freedom for example we always have a relatively high freedom of speech freedom of media we can get access to a face for. the internet without any restrictions which is very different from the mainland china ok there's also the court system as well hong kong has been so successful because it has an inde

could be essential hong kong if the c.e.o. of the leader of hong kong officially a speeching to do that but i'm not sink kerry lamas the leader of the city is going to do that ok well how is the west responded there's been a mixed response french and german leaders have called for dialogue about the situation the us congress has condemned china's heavy handed police response president trump has called on the chinese president to exercise restraint. but like to see hong kong worked out in a very humanitarian fashion i hope prisoner g. can do it he sure has the ability i could tell you that from personal logie certainly has the ability to do it if he wants to so i'd like to see that worked out the humanitarian fashion i think it would be very good for the trade deal that we're talking about. believe is only don't trump responded to this in terms of a high level world of politician is the us the only country that can bring pressure to bear on beijing i think hong kong people are trying to. the international community not. only th

obviously the integration will work in hong kong's favor but it will also kind of make hong kong just another city in the region so it has a double effect for the chinese government in terms of bringing an end to instability in the region. most you'll realize that there is intense competition between these cities that we've mentioned in that area and that's right i mean as you were saying earlier no they all in existed independently for so long and they were such major such major cities in their own rights of course is a great example was a tiny fishing village 4 decades ago and now it is evil and i know i mean the scale of development there you know you go out and shenzhen to places that didn't just didn't exist 10 years ago you know it's a constantly evolving city so you have this incredible city shenzhen for example which the chinese government is now really pushing it's got special tax rates for tech and innovation lower than hong kong which is up 15 percent already very low is the actual target to companies out of hong kong it's more to bring talent in for one thing that's a big

could be sent to hong kong if the c.e.o. of the leader of hong kong officially a speeching to do that about of not sink kerry lamas a leader of the city is going to do that ok well how is the west responded there's been a mixed response french and german leaders have called for dialogue about the situation the u.s. congress has condemned china's heavy and police response president trump has called on the chinese president to exercise restraint. but like to see hong kong work out at a very humanitarian fashion i hope prisoner g. can do it he sure has the ability i could tell you from personal logie certainly has the ability to do it if he wants to so i'd like to see that worked out in the humanitarian fashion i think it would be very good for the trade deal that we're talking about. jerry i believe it's only donald trump has responded to this in terms of a high level world of politician is the u.s. the only country that can bring pressure to bear on beijing i think home people are trying to. the international community not. o

going to change for hong kong well to be honest hong kong profit a lot from the development in the last 22 years. the g.d.p. has doubled from hong kong in the last 20 years but still because the region. for example the neighboring city it used to be a fishing village 40 years ago the g.d.p. is almost as high as hong kong shipping as mentioned is even higher the port is actually bigger and then hong kong already so i think there's not much what town the hong kong people can do to stop this development especially it is also profiting it's only that the importance of. what they are losing and yeah that's a problem for the hong kong people so what will you reckon they will receive will. will keep their special status the special freedoms that but not for very long i mean. the basic law is only. only for another 28 years that means hong kong will only half the special. status for the for the 28 years on the other hand you never know what what will happen in d.c. 20 years so. yeah we wait and see thank you very much felix the thing it's almost driving is one of the next big things in the car

thank you so much hong kong. landed.air 27 just the flights are significantly diminished in the last hour. this is video from yesterday. this.s what is captured the close proximity of these believe rubber bullets at the protesters ended the headline item. joining us in new york and we are honored to bring them in. carl with his important china note. michael joins us with ian opener, what is your comment on what you were writing about in the u.s. monday? is serious.ong it the rhetoric from beijing is worrying but we still see a fairly high bar for beijing contemplates. give us jonathan spence 101 on the separation of hong kong from the political elite in beijing. costs,e are political financial costs and their geopolitical costs. if the intervene aggressively. probably the political cost is the most serious. you can imagine what this would ,o for u.s. china trade issues it would escalate the situation in hong kong. we have an election in taiwan coming up on how the government in taiwan should deal with the possibi

ryan and the others urged the influential chamber of hong kong computer industry to hold hong kong's first major esports tournament. the venue was the city's largest exhibition hall with 15 different games played over four days. the event attracted 12,000 visitors. >> their success didn't go unnoticed by the hong kong government. in 2017 the tourist board held an event that mixed esports and mumusic. cga was invited to help run the event. ryan andnd his team wanted peop who were new to esports to get involved. so they set up dance contests to encourage a variety of visitito. fansns c camerom h hong kong, maland china, and even e europe. the event hosted 30,000 people in just three days. >> and since hong kong is very open and very reemerging the east and west culture, we'll be connecting other neighboring city, and we can be a hub for esport. we believe that by creating a good, vibrant ecosystem, we will develop new startup companies, new games, new events, new content for our young people. and at the end of the day, wewe can create more employment. >> hong kong's growing interest in

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 the southern port city of aden one targeted of military parade while the other had a police station agent is where yemen's saudi backed government is based who the rebe

hong kong time. accompanying that there are rallies taking place across seven districts in the city, including -- we have seen suspended mtr lines as protesters are attempting to block the means for workers to make their way to central and other districts across the island. we are still waiting on carrie lam, what she has to say at a presser this morning. rishaad: what is the mood like? there is so much being canceled. what about air traffic control? have they made a statement there as well? when it comes to air traffic control on sunday if you recall, there was an update that several operators had requested sick leave ahead of the monday general strike. that essentially is what has affected operations today, along with a trade union including flight attendants who say they will participate in the general strike. if you look around me you are seeing passengers and travelers move through the airport as usual. wehay pacific earlier when arrived at about 7:00 a.m., it was packed right up to the railings

kong people and also to the system of hong kong to the legal system one country 2 systems of hong kong is how can people or if a foreign or you know chatter that's coming that could be sensed it in mainland china but when the firelands of the police. has been escalating in this 2 or 3 months how come people to not only to mouth 40 retraction of the complete retraction arctics tradition lol but also an independent investigation over the fire that some police and also the most important thing is a democratic system of democratic political system and universal suffrage and will come very great jump in there elizabeth 2 while will be the context that we can jump back a little bit to chew and we 1st had a 1000000 people march on the 9th of june and demanding that we will go on and off and 1000000 people to the streets we really had no response. from the government and the government had insisted on pushing forward with the 2nd reading the bill which was the next step in the legislative process that then eventually all went to plan and it wasn't until that fall when the ones they when things

one example of the impact the processor having in hong kong. also in the programme — the road to electric in india is getting a boost — but the switch to the cleaner car technology is proving problematic. we'll explain why. we took it with the main issues gci’oss we took it with the main issues across the financial markets in europe. style and substance. we meet the man who designs everything from jewellery to furniture, from bikes to video games. but what exactly makes good design? complaints about british betting firms have soared 5000% in 5 years — and last year gamblers lost a record £14.5bn. so is gambling too easy? should more be done to keep players safe? let us know — just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. hello and welcome to business live. welcome to the programme. thank you for your comments on gambling. one asked if it is so easy why have they lost 1a billion plans? good point. we start in hong kong, where it's the tenth week in a row for demonstrations and increasingly businesses are having to choose between staff's right to p

in hong kong. it's a big question i know but after looking at the images of tiananmen square from thirty years ago better if we could start with you. should we be concerned about the possibility of another tiananmen square. in hong kong. i think we should be concerned but i don't think it's very likely. tenement is still the trauma for the chinese communist party. beijing knows that it would be drastic if the p. l. a. the people's liberation army actually went into hong kong and i don't think it's necessary nowadays because the party has different means of putting people under pressure it has all the- technical means it has. the companies that are being put under a lot of pressure now cathay pacific and many others so. i don't see a big likelihood at the same time i don't see a very good outcome for the hong kong people it's going to be a very unhappy ending i'm very unhappy ending okay what do you think that means jerry what would be a very unhappy ending have you excluded as- it has the possibili

in hong kong. 50 of law is top priority right now in hong kong. so you are saying that ageing is in charge and the hong kong leadership has no independence and no autonomy and has no say? no, just the opposite. i think the chinese central government is strictly abiding by the basic law, and up until now is leaving the management of hong kong affairs to the hong kong government. and beijing has expressed complete trust and confidence in carrie lam and her government as well as the hong kong police. i hope they will be able to do thejob police. i hope they will be able to do the job and bring law and order back to hong kong and restore normalcy to hong kong, and prevent such great breakdown of social order in hong kong. but victor, a protest over the past few months have shown that these demonstrations will not let up until the extradition bill is withdrawn and carrie lam resigns, and the freedoms are returned to the hong kong people. first of all, the demonstrations, as you called it, many of which

kong island a very busy part of hong kong that is the main shopping district of hong kong so that had been an area that was suggested earlier in the day that could be a target of the protesters so that's what they were saying at the time that that that they would do that they would go to that area we're not seeing any evidence just yet that that is what they have done but undoubtedly in the hours ahead we will see them pop up in other parts of the city usually the numbers are a lot less than what we saw here in the last 2 hours but they certainly will pop up in other parts of the city they will perhaps use tactics that they've used many other nights blocking roads again usually just for a short time. the police will move in and chase them away and they get in they'll move on to another part of the city it's certainly become a very familiar pattern semi or right of way and as you're talking there we've got pictures up on the right side of the screen let me explain it's kind of linked to what you were talking about why i'm not sure you can see this but not very far not too far i'm told

neil: the scene right now in hong kong, this is the hong kong international airport, one of the busiest i said on the planet. 73, 74 million passengers a year, picked up pays of late but , hong kong, to my memory, one of the most cleanest, organized airport i've ever been in. wouldn't top switzerland. the point about that airport, when you get there, everyone goes to the same place, the the arrival hall, your area or zone, to fly out of the country. they have another point for all point europe and then towards south america, europe, africa. very rigidly organized. if you disrupt people in the arrival, they can't get beyond that, that is exactly what the protesters did starting yesterday. the thing is, they sent out word to the fellow protesters, everyone meet outside of the airport. flood the arrivals hall, which is this gigantic area that almost from above, it just looks like a large baggage handling area although it is not a baggage handling area. it is a cavernous area of the airport where people first check in to go to all of their other point its very design feeds this activity. if

over hong kong. critical thing here is for the hong kong special administrative region government to try and strike a balance between what the chinese government want, and what the people of hong kong want. on this occasion, the chief executive of hong kong has failed spectacularly and we are seeing the consequences of that.|j was seeing the consequences of that.” was there in 2014 with the umbrella protest, it was a different chief executive, protesters were out in tents for 79 days demanding more liberal democracy. at the time, they got nowhere, the chief executive lost their trust. is it even possible now for a leader in hong kong to have the trust of the public there? i think it is still possible for the situation to be diffused. the problem here is that neither carrie lam in hong kong nor the chinese leadership in beijing is prepared to consider that option for the hong kong government to agree to withdraw the bill and set up a judge led enquiry into what happened in the whole of this summer.

from hong kong, here's jonathan head. this is how it starts every weekend now in hong kong. they've turned improvising barricades into an art form. they work with impressive speed and coordination. there's never much time before the police arrive. these confrontations are now a familiar routine in hong kong's streets. generally, the protesters retreat, avoiding direct contact. but, by nightfall, the clashes were happening in multiple locations across the city and getting worse. the police are stressed and acting at times with little restraint. this was tai koo underground station, where protesters were corralled by the police and then beaten and driven down the escalators. the foreign secretary dominic raab has called for an independent investigation into police tactics. it's one of the five demands made by the protest movement, but his intervention has not gone down well with china, which views this as an internal matter. the longer this goes on, the greater the risk of more overt intervention by china. now, that's something that clearly worries britain as a joint guarantor

kong affairs to the hong kong government. and beijing has expressed complete trust and confidence in carrie lam and her government as well as the hong kong police. i hope they will be able to do thejob and bring law and order back to hong kong and restore normalcy to hong kong, and prevent such great breakdown of social order in hong kong. but victor, a protest over the past few months have shown that these demonstrations will not let up until the extradition bill is withdrawn and carrie lam resigns, and the freedoms are returned to the hong kong people. first of all, the demonstrations, as you called it, many of which are illegal demonstrations, as classified by hong kong law, they constitute illegal gatherings and also lots of violence and chaos and rioting have been committed, and hong kong airport has become such a huge crime scene. lots of illegalities have been committed, and i think something needs to be done to apply the rule of law to those criminals who have committed such heinous crimes, not only on the hong kong a

deems necessary to protect hong kong there is a garrison of chinese military already in hong kong between $8.10 troops which could also be deployed if necessary i think the troop movements an inch and jan are more of a warning shot. something serious i think to be saluted just pick issues i mean if they came across the border for example that they probably all speak. mandarin rather than constant ease which is the dialect which chinese spoken in hong kong they might not know their way around there's a lot of logistical issues but i think if there were to be an intervention would possibly more likely to happen from within hong kong is a different stand by for just a 2nd because we've we've just got contact with our correspondent in the field there phebe kong who is joining us from hong kong you're actually at the airport there phoebe and you know we've we've heard about all these flights canceled again just walk us through the situation there on the ground right now because we know that there was a tense press conference a bit earlier kelly lamm kerry lamb essentially saying that there is

not only on the hong kong airport but in many other places in hong kong. estimation of rule of law as a top priority right now. up to now, i think the whole responsibility is firmly rested on the shoulder of the hong kong government and the hong kong police. i hope this will be sufficient to restore order and the two hong kong but if it's proved to be insufficient, something else needs to be done, including participation by the central government. i don't think it's the chinese troops, why should mildura be involved in this? i think police forces in china can be mobilised and sent to work in hong kong when for example, at the request of hong kong government, or to be decided in the sole discretion of the national people's congress standing committee. all this is not against the basic law, it is purely by the rules of the basic law. claudia mo is a member of the legislative council — she's in our bureau in hong kong now. thank you very much, indeed, for your time. do you think this time will last? would you expect to happen next? to start with, i have to

has more from hong kong. many passengers are still turning up tuesday evening at hong kong's international airport to learn that their flights have indeed been cancelled they may be still here on the departure board but gradually this is all now turning red as it did indeed 24 hours ago when thousands of protesters came to this terminal and brought the departing flights to a standstill once again there was a call went out for protesters to come here but they didn't come in the same numbers but they were enough of them pushing trolleys many which got overturned here blocking the check in aisles to once again force the airport authority to cancel all of tuesday's remaining flights it has to be said that many of the protesters have now cleared out those trolleys are in the stacks many of those protesters it seems are now leaving the terminal having achieved their objective of bringing one of the world's busiest a.b.a. shin hubs to a standstill for a 2nd day running but it does remain to be seen just what impact

they wanted to prepare that hong kong. economic autonomy is increasingly being eroded and the world the special status that hong kong has also for global international companies is is changing in a manner that they're becoming or hong kong is becoming increasingly like a just any other chinese city but of course hong kong so far has the special status and this one country 2 systems status is due to end in 2047 that's still some time is beijing speeding things up i think the latest developments are certainly efforts to accelerate this process but it should also be clear that one country 2 systems was never a status quo it was a fluid process and china has over the past years are very trying to influence and to apply its own interests in hong kong i think this is something that now is a reality many are just waking up to the next segment thank you so much free time. the forest fires in brazil could also set of the trade agreement between the e.u. and the mare course or countries ablaze ireland says it will block the deal unl

hong kong, still in the district which is close to the hong kong airport. from what we're hearing is that hundreds of protesters amassed, police went in, live rounds of tear gas have been fired, and they say, the police say they were provoked by the hong kong protesters who were shining laser beams at them. as you see, we have these ongoing confrontations between the protesters and the police, especially in the late hours here in the city of hong kong. now, it looks like things are getting a little more calm. they have been trickling down a bit. there hasn't been as much action as we have seen on the streets just in the past two hours. but here at hong kong international airport, eighth busiest in the world, operations are taking off once again, planes are taking off. as you see, we do have arrivals and departures after being shut down for two straight days. especially yesterday, with the violence and the fisticuffs you saw on your screen. today we still have a few dozen protesters camped out here. they are still, of course, talking to international passeng

hong kong worried about the. wall this kind of mass they show this kind of the picture is kind of a mania with hong kong local citizens because it's not the 1st time for china's government to send such warnings by. the chinese troops and intervening in hong kong so this is not something new to hong kong such as those and most something i'm including the police have this somehow mentally they can't prove that this is the west the system that can't happen but many are there is that it is they actually don't believe that the chinese government will handle it this way because obvious will be up to sauce to go to hong kong to me and that will be influential to the chinese economy as well and this will be a base to a hong kong international law repetition. and that was phoebe kong there reporting from hong kong a little earlier you're watching the news still to come proud papa we take a trip to the berlin zoo where 2 penguin. are expecting. explain that one for you in a minute well meanwhile she's become the poster gir

kong it's one conks main main carrier i was in hong kong last week and the and hong kong international airport are still with cathay but cathay pacific aircraft the legislator resigned he had been an expired lit with cathay i think he was he felt he was bringing negative publicist. he took after making things harder for them but also as we've known beijing as applied some stringent rules out here including denying any cat a pilot caught up in the protests from not just one cafe but flying over chinese airspace and so i think beijing has really targeted on the place a finger on cafe hong kong government have to have followed that line and i would submit that kathy is a very specific info company and that this is not necessarily the case that will be more widespread i believe there was a full page advertisement recently by by by forbes who worked at some of the big accounting phones what they did it in their names and not under the name of anthony young et cetera et cetera and the companies have been has. have chosen to not not to be at associated with that advertisement so i think compa

hong kong is the lightning rod of the day. this: how do we know at point what will happen to the markets if we don't get a minimum resolution to this trade war? what happens to the markets if this is an ongoing process that gets delayed and delayed, for months on end? ashleigh: a protracted trade war is not ideal. we will likely see a chipping away. you have seen emerging-market assets performing poorly. investors are uncertain about the future of emerging markets. amanda: we have been watching inversion. damien says we are now watching the 2/10. where do you rank the risk of global recession? ashleigh: td estimated at over 50%. the 2/10 inverting is certainly a harbinger for a lot of people. their arguments to be made that we are in a different situation now, and there is a reason for curves to be this flat. accommodative central banks, low and flat yield curves, this is all a backdrop in which emerging markets could perform well, considering stocks are only 5% off of highs, and credits are only marginally wider. shery: new z

in so far as the hong kong concerned, the hong kong monetary authority has all the tools necessary to maintain that over the medium term. what is interesting is i went back to my desk. it is a very fluid situation. this.ality is up the back of the trade on the part of the u.s., the china yuan basis hase completely reversed. for the last week it was the opposite. risk reversals, the curve has flattened. people are no longer demanding protection, demanding dollar protection. there is less demand for it and it has flipped on itself. this is very fluid between what has gone here with the u.s. retracing on trade and with the riots in hong kong. a very fluid situation. difficult to stay on top of. stephen, let me get your thoughts on the china trade situation and the yuan. think the u.s. move to declare china guilty of currency manipulation just ratese the bilateral cross appears the 7% threshold -- vonnie: we have to cut you off for a moment. we have to get to president donald trump who is speaking right now in new jersey. trump: a good talk yesterday with china, very productive. i think t

through hong kong now it's less than 3 percent so already by this you can see that the hong kong. importance of hong kong is much less than 20 years ago and and there are cities just across the border sion gen which was mentioned she has a more successful economy knowledge more power you growth rates in hong kong and holiday so it's getting harder for hong kong felix where do you see this going i mean both sides are just so entrenched in their respective positions do you feel that beijing is also partially to blame by how it handled the situation for its spiraling out of control absolutely i mean 5 years ago the people off hunger were already protesting wanting more democracy and it was a peaceful protest back then and beaching and the hong kong government did nothing since then made it even worth and now we see that the especially young people they are frustrated and that's why the turn out into violence to felix a leader who was the china correspondent for the berlin daily the toughest sayto thank you for a thank you. russian authorities tell people to evacuate after a rocket ex

that's what hong kong understood. they think that's in question now. >> the proposed extradition law really just sparks and energy among hong kongers that didn't seem to be there before. this is brought by the broader idea for them to see freedom flourish over the long-term. i think they are questioning whether they will have to potentially surrender their freedom to beijing, and of when hong kong was supposed to be returned to beijing. i think people are worried that with this extradition law and other signs, that maybe beijing is looking to interfere a lot sooner than we originally thought. >> harris: interesting. we had a previous guest on "america's newsroom" who was talking about potentially -- maybe he's been a few places, too. potentially there being, in a reporting, some chinese -- i don't know if they were military or police, whatever they are, on the ground. are you hearing something like that? that would change the scope of things, too. or no? >> there have been reports over the last two days and weeks that

could be essential hong kong if the c.e.o. of the leader of hong kong officially os paging to do that about i'm not sink caroline is a leader of the city's going to do that ok well how is the west responded there's been a mixed response french and german leaders have called for dialogue about the situation the us congress has condemned china's heavy handed police response president trump has called on the chinese president to exercise restraint. but like to see hong kong worked out in a very humanitarian fashion i hope prisoner g. can do it he sure has the ability i could tell you from personal logie certainly has the ability to do it if he wants to so i'd like to see that worked out the humanitarian fashion i think it would be very good for the trade deal that we're talking about. believe is only donald trump has responded to this in terms of a high level world of politician is the u.s. 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.

let's ta ke let's take a look at the scene in hong kong. it is evening in hong kong. the protesters have not dispersed by any means during the class of the protests which were dispersed earlier by the police, using both tear gas, fired by police officers, some up on balconies above the mean protesters as they attempted to cause the protesters to disperse. some difficulty dispersing, not least because some of the key transport networks have been shut and the stations have been shut because of concerns about possible violence inside the stations and a way of reducing the numbers that were able to get into central hong kong. they didn't appear to discourage a significant number of protesters, according to oui’ number of protesters, according to our concert delete my correspondence. stephen mcdonell was at the heart of the process, you will have seen his latest report about an hour ago as we were seeing some of the tear gas showers explode and the dyed water being sprayed on protesters as well as an attempt to discourage them. it is a little calmer now after the interve

i flew to hong kong. we get off the plane and suddenly it's a totally different world. >> i can only imagine. >> you can feel it. i was a socialist in india. >> thank god for hong kong. >> that's still the hong kong fetzer which the chinese will probably do their best to suppress. >> unfortunately, they are. younger people are fighting for this. you will live to be 1000. >> anyone can predict. >> china wants a new plan for they can't extradite criminals from hong kong and put them in the chinese system where they can disappear people. >> what's a libertarian view of the american economy right now parks. >> keep them out of it. the scariest thing the idea that you will have these oppressive socialist who will increase spending. that goes hand in hand to stifle and smother any economic growth. stuart: which would you rather have? for this inequality of free market capitalism which rewards individual drivability -- >> in venezuela, that's where you see the most income inequality. look at san francisco. they'

kong's freedoms within china oh my life is getting tougher in hong kong people are being ignored i was young i mean listen to what people. thinking now this protest across town lou was technically illegal but it didn't stop thousands from taking time. at the end most dispersed but others surrounded a police station and this is where many of the marchers have ended up a police station where the officers are now simply barricaded inside demonstrators in a wall that's been. julie make itself down towards here despite warnings from police just. the inevitable clash happened. the crowd being dispersed with rubber bullets and tear gas. protesters have adopted a hit and run strategy moving in smaller groups from one skirmish to the next to create maximum disruption. now into its 3rd month the strain on all sides is clearly showing increasing anger and violence from a minority of protesters and from police signs of stress at being on the front lines week after week of what is a political crisis was the battle in chimps choi ended in angry confrontations between police. independent monitors. jo

kong which will lose its special status in 28 years so the government wants to make hong kong a key part of a cluster of cities in the pearl river delta creating a vibrant economic area chinese president xi jinping describes the greater bay project as central to china's great a national reach of a nation and hong kong is just a pot.

. >> normal hong kong pressures resume, but tension mounts hong kong is at a critical juncture. paul: the other top stories we are following this tuesday, oil firststudy after aramco's half showed no surprises. income fell, but still the most profitable company in the world. argentinian stocks in the peso, potential to roil wider markets, too. shery: let's get a quick check of markets closed. in the market session, another down day for submarkets with the s&p 500 falling below 2900. financials and materials led the declines. the s&p 500 at 1.2%. the nasdaq also fell. risks rising in argentina. political uncertainty in hong kong. coined futures following -- falling the most since 2013 on a bearish outlook report. all that added to pressure across the market. u.s. futures up 0.1%. let's see how we are setting up in the markets. selina? selina: after that down day in the u.s., asian futures set for a weak open. chicago nikkei futures change, but futures and seoul, sydney and new zealand down 0.8%. markets were closed yesterday in india, malaysia, thailand, japan. concerns about pol

hong kong, our home. we want to see hong kong fall into an abyss. >> meanwhile hong kong airport says operations are back to normal when hong kong flights were canceled yesterday amid a satan i of protesters. -- amid a sit in yesterday by protesters. are we seeing any signs that civilization might be coming soon? >> operationally, the hong kong airport says things are getting back to normal. keep in mind you had hundreds of flights affected including cancellations. even cathay pacific is saying is going to take another couple of days, tomorrow and thursday to get all of the passengers redirected and to their destinations. so it is not necessarily back to normal for the airlines. by the airport is operating. at regular capacity right now. just trying to get all of those planes slotted and flown out of here. passengers have been arriving. it has been a steady buzz and drum up of more people. behind me, let me step away for second. is not like yesterday where we had an estimated maybe in the high side but ab

and hong kong thank you. pakistan is marking its independence day that prime minister cameron khan has also declared it's a day of solidarity with the people of kashmir tensions have been on the rise since last week when india affectively annexed a part of the territory that it controls khan is on his way to pakistan administered kashmir to address politicians there and according to the local governor in the indian controlled part of kashmir restrictions on freedom of movement in the region will be eased after india's independence day that is on thursday millions of kashmiris have been forced to stay indoors for a 10th straight day without working phones television or internet some of the age of 8 joins us live now from his office and pakistan administered kashmir so what is expected today i'm not. expecting primus imran khan to be arriving here shortly he is expected to address politicians in the logic that there was somebody here in pakistan mr show solidarity the kind you don't understand is that they the

a lot going on in hong kong. seng, properties index entered the bear market, down 21% since the first of april. we are monitoring anything luxury related, as this will have direct filter through economy. hang seng down 2.1%. firei has hired a u.s. law ehalf as on its b the trump administration pressures to blacklist. huawei increasingly dragged into the trade war. london and from capital still with us. if the trade war, if there is a miracle cure, if talks resume in september, does the economy automatically snap back to pre-trade war? markets, theys of will be in that sort of outcome. they will see that as a positive forward indicator. i think we will get to a situation where if there is some sort of agreement, that risk off the table and economy re-confidence will build again. francine: do you like tech stocks or is it in bubble territory? iser: the risk intact regression. techtively, we have seen be the leader of the last decade. there are good reasons behind that. if we see a blanket market selloff, we are fea

kong continues to worsen into unrest that the hong kong special administrative region government cannot control the central government will not sit back and do nothing. all right let's bring in our guests from hong kong via skype tom grundy is editor in chief and founder of hong kong free press an independent publication from beijing einar tangan is china political analyst and advises the chinese government on economic issues and development and finally from nottingham via skype steve saying is director of the china institute at s. oas university of london welcome to the program steve let me start with you the protests have been evolving what have you noticed changing in the past week well the really big development in the last week was the language chinese government is using. it is now describing events in on coal as coal to that that crucial now doesn't know it very important change in language that we rank something very important to the chinese communist party of revolution and ultimately a boat unseating to parties in china and that is something which the party or xi jinping absol

kong there well as a civil unrest in hong kong continues to swell what next for asia's financial hub freelance journalist di kiersten tatt lowe is from hong kong she has reported extensively from china and is currently based in berlin so happy to have you here with us in the studio d.-d. one of the world's busiest airports a ground to a halt today by this action 2 and a half months now of these protesters they're more determined than ever but the authorities are also entrenched in their position where is this headed right well. what i hear from protesters in hong kong is that there's a sense that they want to do what they call fried together rather than stop and give up on their fight because as the man said just in your report the goal is freedom it's liberty in the classical sense of the word of real liberty and they feel that's tape being taken away from them and will be increasingly taken away from them in the future so it's really a fight to the end however they can fight to the end it's existence will for them yes but it's also existential for the government in beijing but also

nick beake, bbc news, hong kong. let's bring you some breaking news now — north korea has fired two unidentified projectiles, the fourth such weapons test in past two weeks. the latest launch was from south hwanghae province, according to the south korean military. the projectiles landed in the sea. it comes as south korea and the us conductjoint military exercises, which north korea says violate the agreements they have reached with donald trump and seoul's president moon. the bbc‘s laura bicker is in the south korean capital seoul and joins me now. she's been keeping an on it on all of this. laura, it feels a bit like deja vu. i was talking to you about a launch very similar to this last week. what is north korea trying to achieve? there are two main differences to the launch last week. first of all, this has come from north korea's west coast. so it appears these projectiles, there still analysing them, has flown right across the peninsular and landed in the sea. secondly its been times to co—ordinate with..