they are still in hong kong that is the will situation so high in course hong kong hong kong in the world press freedom in the ex has gone from fifty fourth place to seventy third over the last five years you proud of that. the reality is that the mass media in hong kong still quite independent and they will not be intimidated by by and the are our passion from the hong kong and this treasure not essential government that is that we are that i see in hong kong today well they say they are being intimidated they're saying the being threatened they're saying the journalists are being courage to self censor and you saying what they just don't know what i'm talking about can see from the loose paper every day there's still much criticism is allowed in hong kong in twenty sixteen you said. you you said you were keen to push chinese subjects in secondary schools especially history and you said the situation was urgent and it was necessary to make chinese history compulsory as every student should be clear about the nation's history do you think that concourse children are going to be clea

kong and china the express train links hong kong to forty four mainland cities it's hard travel times delivering passengers to go on joe in less than an hour he moves all through the integrate hong kong and macau into the overall development plan of china but the project has been shrouded in controversy hong kong's legislative council passed a bill to allow joint immigration checkpoints in the terminal passages from china will be inspected here not at the border for the first time mainland officials will enforce national laws on hong kong soil around a quarter of the terminal will come on the mainland jurisdiction to be designated signed which will include the joint immigration checkpoints but critics argue importing nationals here in hong kong is yet another attempt by beijing to tighten its grip on the former british territory. by pro-democracy groups have led the protests they say the joint checkpoints undermine hong kong's autonomy under the one country two systems deal adopted when the territory was handed back to china for certain it's damaging to one country two systems and tha

kong express rail link will connect hong kong with friends and one job and give travelers access to forty four mainland stations on a high speed network dramatically reducing travel times it cuts the journey from hong kong to shands in across the border from one hour to fourteen minutes a journey from hong kong to beijing via joe was twenty four hours the new express rail will reduce that to around nine hours but critics say it's still longer and more expensive than flying sarah clarke reports from hong kong. it's three years behind sched jewel and three billion dollars over budget the hong kong china high speed rail link is now officially open carry. the city's chief executive kerry lamb was joined by the governor guandong declaring the megaproject a bright light on china's calling card so yes i'd fight so if further perfect this transport system and promotes cultural economic and social exchanges between hong kong and china express train links hong kong to forty four mainland cities it's hard travel times delivering passengers to go on joe in less than an hour he moves all through

kong i mean what does this tell us about the state of democracy or the state of hong kong's freedoms now. and shows us that these freedoms only exist within very strictly defined boundaries and these boundaries spaces are shrinking and the beijing government is making it very clear what is within this space and what is outside and apology calling for independence of hong kong that is far sighted is anything that beijing is going to allow his then far outside anything that even you know twenty one years ago would have been considered reasonable i mean are you are you know are you surprised by this party being banned or do you think ok they should have seen it coming i think twenty one years ago we would have been surprised looking at how china has developed and huge in ping this is not a surprise we had the berlin movement in two thousand and fourteen occupy central and ever since then the beijing government has been very wary of any protest in hong kong and they've been very aware that young people are very frustrated about china and them how hong kong is developing you are they afra

hong kong is no stranger to typhoons. we experience this every different, but mangkhut was the most powerful storm of the year. the most powerful storm of the year. it's believed to be one of the most powerful storms to hit hong kong since they started reporting typhoons here in 1946. we have seen on this road, which is normally a very busy highway here in hong kong, very few cars here. but police, cars, ambulances coming through, first responders asking to the cries of help out there. there's been some debris flying about. we are watching the cranes overhead. this is a sky-high city. lookout for the scaffolding debris. we are hearing of partial building collapses. and this is a rainmaker, that means the adiscussional dangers of rising floodwaters and landslides are going on. back to you. >> this has been called the strongest storm on the earth, the biggest storm this year. you have seen a lot of storms yourself living in hong kong for a good while, how do you measure this to others in the past? can you? >> reporter: just

us about the condition of the government in hong kong. particularly it being able to act somewhat of a bore work against the need of the communist party in beijing i mean is it basically is it just caving in over time. and fan is this still is one country two systems a lot of liberties that they have in hong kong that don't exist in china but when they came up with this concept one country two systems in the eighty's basically. expectational then was that china would eventually become more democratic and hong kong would be the oratory for trying to mock received time of that but there were there were fears even back in the eighty's i remember that people were saying that once you give hong kong back to china eventually they will absorb it into what the one nation principle. and they are doing that or do it now we be seeing that now. in fan is in the eighty's it was a totally different discussion of a totally different expectations where china might be moving but and he can ping the spaces are shrinking and he's very much aligning the gove

who runs or supports the hong kong national party can be fined or jailed so from hong kong it's not possible to move it's an historic move for the hong kong government to make this party back and set the first time this type of move has been made since hong kong was headed back to china back in one thousand nine hundred seven so certainly it's quite historic. two hundred billion dollars in u.s. tariffs against china have gone into effect it will start at ten percent and climb to twenty five percent in january next year china says it will retaliate and is accusing the trumpet ministration of trying to intimidate other countries two superpowers have already levied tens of billions of dollars in tariffs against each other thousands of people have been attending funerals in r vers for those killed in saturday's attack on a military parade iran has declared a day of mourning for the twenty five victims the president has accused the u.s. of helping support those who carried out the attack an accusation the u.s. has denied india's prime minister narendra modi has launched his ambitious new

work in honging to kong but there is debris in the streets. hong kong is trying to back to normal. stock trading will continue per usual. precautions are being taken. schools are still closed today. let's look at how we are shaping up across the markets. stocks are falling for the first day in three. trey concerns are not dampening the mood in sydney. we have caution ahead of the moon kim summit to be held in pyongyang this week. we have trade from singapore and in asia due out for august. we will look at reactions to china's home prices. we have people in malaysia and japan joined a long weekend with markets shut this monday. japan is coming back on mine later this week. election could see president abe clinch a third year term. let's get you to first word news with ramy. >> the typhoon is weakening as it heads into china coming having left damage across the philippines, hong kong, and the cap. 200 -- 2.5 million people have left their homes and 15,000 fishing boats were ordered to return to port. schools and universities are shut today. casinos will reopen. tropical storm florenc

the government in hong kong said it had decided to ban the national party because it was a threat to security announcing the move hong kong secretary for security described the group as extremist it has also make it very clear that it will make use of all means to achieve its goal and this includes the option of using force. is also used terms of the revolution. the young leader of the party twenty eight year old andy chan predicted the crackdown at a meeting of foreign correspondents in hong kong last month due to the nature of how the chinese public and machine works the national party it was instantly demonize as some sort of extremist group do these things go work independence. chan denies accusations he wants to foment violence but he accuses beijing that eroding freedoms in hong kong and says the only way for the territory to get full democracy is to break away from china caused. he says he was inspired to set up his party after the failure of what became known as the umbrella protest movement back in twenty fourteen demonstrators there also accuse china every meeting on a prom

kong where the church has issued its highest storm alert this joins us live from hong kong sara so still a very powerful typhoon tell us what you're seeing on the ground as the weather worsens. yes it is a t ten which is as you mentioned it's the most powerful type of harken signal that can be issued it was issued early this morning it's still in force now that the full cost adjusts that the storm is just getting about one hundred kilometers south of hong kong at the mine where experiencing terentia wind and wind. force winds auction site up to one hundred ninety five kilometers an hour with the storm surges we've got a little flooding writes close so certainly right now where we are in the thick of it and what home is experiencing really one of the bus powerful top students of experienced in some time etc how prepared is hong kong for a storm like this one. the government's been telling people that. was certainly home he's planning to talk things out when there are regular and we haven't talked in season having said that this is certainly as i mentioned one of the most powerful with exp

in hong kong thank you very much. and now to another controversy in china the country is defending its controversial reeducation camps for up to a million muslims despite international calls to shut them down they are thought to be dozens of state indoctrination centers in the northwestern province of young a largely muslim region home to ethnic and. recent years in junk has seen a series of violent attacks from radical riggers with hundreds killed now the chinese government calls them terrorist attacks readers say it's retaliation for china's destruction of their culture for the past year beijing has targeted muslims for so-called reeducation supposedly to guard against extremists and separatists but it's not only adults who are being swept up the children of riego detainees are also being sent to stay off not just far away from their parents. with its music and cartoon characters the whole ton kindness kindergarden seems like just another place for kids to have fun but the barbed wire and barricading betray its real

kong and china the express train links hong kong to forty four mainland cities it's hard travel times delivering passengers to go on joe in less than an hour he moves all through the integrate hong kong and macau into the overall development plan of china but the project has been shrouded in controversy hong kong's legislative council passed a bill to allow joint immigration checkpoints in the terminal passages from china will be inspected here not at the border for the first time mainland officials will enforce national laws on hong kong soil around a quarter of the terminal will come on the mainland jurisdiction to be designated zines which will include the joint immigration checkpoints but critics argue importing nationals here in hong kong is yet another attempt by beijing to tighten its grip on the former british territory. but for democracy groups have led the protests they say the joint checkpoints undermine hong kong's autonomy under the one country two systems deal adopted when the territory was handed back to china certainly it's damaging to one country two systems and that

in hong kong. i am haidi stroud-watts. this is "bloomberg markets: asia." ♪ haidi: investors countdown to the new tariffs, also said to be threatening action against japan. asia-pacific markets had for a seventh straight decline in the biggest weekly drop since march. slumped-market stocks as fear of contagion spreads throughout the developing world. i am tom mackenzie in beijing. how will china respond to a new blow from washington? we examine the possibilities as the trade standoff heats up. this is "bloomberg markets: asia." haidi: for all the reasons mentioned, that collapse continuing. asian markets in a bad mood. take a look at how we are tracking market starting to joining trading. semiconductors, worries demand is falling in that sector. that is playing out and korean stocks and taipei, singapore .5% lower. a little upside from malaysian stocks. it is the countdown to escalation. new tariffsg for from the u.s. at a maximum 25% on $200 billion worth of imported goods. dhe public consultation perio expires at midni

kong and china the express train links hong kong to forty four mainland cities it's hard travel times delivering passengers to go on joe in less than an hour he moves on through the integrate hong kong and macau into the overall development plan of china but the project has been shrouded in controversy hong kong's legislative council passed a bill to allow joint immigration checkpoints in the terminal passages from china will be inspected here not at the border for the first time mainland officials will enforce national laws on hong kong soil around a quarter of the terminal will come on the mainland jurisdiction to be designated signed which will include the joint immigration checkpoints but critics argue importing nationals here in hong kong is yet another attempt by beijing to tighten its grip on the former british territory. for democracy groups have led the protests they say the joint checkpoints undermine hong kong's autonomy under the one country two systems deal adopted with the territory was handed back to china for certain it's damaging to one country two systems and that is

about hong kong let's return to china the hearts of hong kong people have not returned. still anyone attending retains all given political donations to the group so you did vigils bill also his prosecutor and this is quite dangerous and frightening to the hong kong people who feel that their core values and their lifestyles have been flattened a second woman has come forward with allegations of sexual misconduct against the u.s. supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh these allegations go back to cavanaugh's time at yale university it comes as the senate judiciary committee is preparing to hold a hearing on thursday for cavanagh and christine for the first woman who said he sexually assaulted her as a teenager cavanagh has denied both accusations john hendren has more from washington. in an article in the new yorker magazine a woman says that in college in gaelic from the one nine hundred eighty three to one nine hundred eighty four there she attended university with kavanagh at a drunken party she says he exposed himself belligerently to her and she says she did not talk

kong at this stage we believe it's now past the storm has passed hong kong and it's perfect towards milan china they'll be hoping it wakens by the time it hits the mainland simply to avoid the damage that hong kong has witnessed today. across the sea in the philippines at least twenty five people were killed by the same weather system on course we can see after it made landfall on the largest island in the early hours of saturday which left a trail of destruction in the northern province of germany is there. a food arrived just as predicted vicious force pounding over most of the north through saw in the early hours so power and phone lines cut off city in the province. incessant rains and strong winds crippled many of the operations planned by emergency teams. but the destruction here is nothing compared to what we saw when we ventured out of the city. throughout rural communities we saw homes and farmland destroyed access into these remote areas is difficult which means eight may be slow to arrive to. like so many places here the town of bugout bore the brunt of the thai food sphe

in hong kong, the spotlight is going to be on the hong kong dollar as it continues to trade at the weak end. some expected to intensify intervention efforts after spending $400 billion last month to shore up the currency. yip says that was just a rehearsal given the absence of dollars strength then and that it will likely drain liquidity at an even faster pace. he suspects the aggregate balance will go below the red line as soon as the end of the month, especially as the dollar's decent start to september looks to be intact for the rest of the month as rate differentials come to sharper focus. in your chart to keep back pocket as we march to a likely fed rate hike in three weeks time. the fed rate has widened the premium even further as noticed by the blue line on this chart, which is above a 1.5 percentage point for the first time since 2006. ois futures, the white line, they are pricing in 82% gap in eight years' time. this picture will continue putting the pressure on to intervene and perhaps they might boost liquidity. >> we will see. sophie, thank you so much. as sophie was pointed

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over the next three days sarah clarke has moved from hong kong. the hong kong observatory to shoot in harken thinking that the most powerful other by. them i mean. here i think we've got to mention right in the morning to protect from landslide warning to bring on the ten feet high where we are with. the transport very surprising government services to it this is the shutdown who if you rebels in yemen say the united nations has agreed to transport critically ill people out of the country for treatment they say a memorandum of understanding was signed out talks with united nations officials in amman but the saudi led coalition fighting the who are these in yemen has not commented on the agreement last week talks in geneva to end the conflict collapsed before they even began members of the remote liberation front an organization once banned in ethiopia have been given a hero's welcome on their return back home the group's leader and fifteen hundred fighters have returned to addis ababa after twenty six years in exile refugees stranded in bosnia say

kong and naturally hong kong people feel that their core values their lifestyles in fact hong kong is a semi autonomous territory under the so-called one country two systems deal which is part of the official handover from great britain to china more than two decades ago that means hong kong enjoys freedoms unsane on the mainland including freedom of speech but that space for political dissent is shrinking. pro independence activist and the chair was prohibited from standing for election six democratically elected pro-democracy politicians were. disqualified from the city's parliament the national party plans to hold a public protest on tuesday but the government says any member of the group will be fined up to twelve thousand dollars or face up to three years in jail if they speak out sarah clarke al-jazeera hong kong. is one of most prestigious prizes in the art world but this year is turner prize has a tangible difference with four films on issues such as police brutality and human rights at this year's exhibition is being heralded as the most political in its history charlie angel

plus hong kong authorizes authorities formally banned a political organization the hong kong national party led by any chance promotes independence from china the government says it is a threat to national security how far away is hong kong from direct rule by beijing . and we visit the beethoven fast and bog one of the highlights of peace commissioned by d.w. and performed by german and indian musicians. i'm brian thomas a very. warm welcome to the show we start here in berlin where chancellor all america has apologized for being out of touch with voters now that after leading members of her coalition became embroiled in a dispute over how to handle her controversy or domestic intelligence chief the decision to move into a higher paid position in the interior ministry met with a huge backlash the coalition has since walked back his pay raise and now america was trying to repair the damage just a month ago the punters lined up outside the chancellor's office for open day the chancellor they experienced was down to earth and approachable but this sense of connection sometimes gets lost

do you see it that way in hong kong? >> yes. we have been monitoring this very closely, and we are preparing ourselves. in fact we have been preparing ourselves not just in the past months -- in terms of property market, we have been tightening up on the borrowing. also our banking system is very strong, 0.6%, very strong. >> but how vulnerable is the property market? there have been signs of weakness, or at least signs that it will hit -- intelligence analysts say it could fall off between 10% and 15% by the first half of this year. market, the property shows some signs of cooling off over the past few weeks. i think now it is perhaps too early to say this is a turning point, but of course, the downside risk is getting higher. the u.s.ntioned, interest rate hike, we expect the hong kong interest rate will adjust in september. flows, wef capital have seen these situations in other emerging markets. but on the other hand, if you the totalperspective, amount of money flowing into of 2016g up to the end whilst in the order of about

look at this hitting a house in hong kong. the storm passed through the southern edge of the city and just made landfall in southern china. the storm has weakened since plowing into the philippines on saturday damaging homes and leaving thousands of people without power. >>> and in massachusetts, thousands of people are returning to their homes after deadly gas explosions and fires in three towns on thursday. many homes just burst into flames after they exploded. meantime, the national transportation safety board is investigating a pressure increase in a natural gas pipeline as it tries to determine what caused the incident. >>> theresa may is defending herself as critics speculate about her future as british prime minister. mrs. may told the bbc she's a little bit irritated by it. in an interview to mark six months until britain leaves the european union, the prime minister says she's focused on the u.k.'s future, not her hundred. >>> tropical storm florence is now downgraded to a tropical depression, but it is still dangerou

kong and naturally hong kong people feel that their core values their lifestyles have been sacked a phone call is a semi autonomous territory under the so-called one country two systems deal which is part of the official handover from great britain to china more than two decades ago that means hong kong enjoys freedoms unsane on the mainland including freedom of speech but that space for political dissent is shrinking. pro independence activist and a chair was prohibited from standing for election six democratically elected pro-democracy politicians were disqualified from the city's parliament the national party plans to hold a public protest on tuesday but the government says any member of the group will be fined up to twelve thousand dollars or face up to three years in jail if they speak out sarah clarke al-jazeera hong kong. but the philippines is at risk again of landslides as another typhoon brings more rain the death toll from a landslide last week has gone up to fifty five while forty seven people are believed to be trapped or buried in the rubble families of victims are cal

against mainlanders in hong kong. this isn't the first time this party has been in the spotlight. last month, its leader andy chan gave a hugely scrutinized speech at the foreign correspondents club. it drew global attention, because of attempts by both beijing and authorities within hong kong to try and stop it. hong kong police considered it to be additional evidence in their case against chan and his party. in his speech andy chan said he wanted "democracy for hong kong" and "there is only one way to achieve this — independence." with me is the bbc‘s laura westbrook, a former hong kong reporter, who covered the elections for us in 2016. tell us more about this party. because it's actually really small. yes, it doesn't have a lot of followers are members, it is considered on the fringe of hong kong politics and it must be said that most hong kong people don't advocate for independence from china, but what is important here is that this law, it's an old, draconian law from the colonial era and until now it has on

dollar rates are higher versus the hong kong dollar rates. unattractive to the hong kong dollar. we will see at this will keep going. anna: thank you to just enough and christina. i'm going to give it to christina. that is all the time we have on the program for today. this is bloomberg. ♪ comcast business built the nation's largest gig-speed network. then went beyond. beyond chasing down network problems. to knowing when and where there's an issue. beyond network complexity. to a zero-touch, one-box world. optimizing performance and budget. beyond having questions. to getting answers. "activecore, how's my network?" "all sites are green." all of which helps you do more than your customers thought possible. comcast business. beyond fast. >> u.s. stocks close at a record, investors shrug off trade tensions, and china has a good day. trudeau works as the summit ends. macron grants the campaign. apple's newest iphone hits stores as consumers and investors price the newest model. i am francine lacqua

hong kong was pumping in the liquidity to stop the hong kong dollar from going past the 7.85 barrier. inevitably that turned around a bit slower than it perhaps should have when you consider that the pboc said it was time for the yuan to stop falling. they are also both closely tied to the u.s. dollar. with that liquidity being drawn ,ut, all of those investors they became disturbed. away we went. then the rates side, all of that creates a very noisy picture for hong kong markets. yvonne: is it likely to get worse? rishaad: possibly. [laughter] if you think we are getting more calls now, rates are picking up, property sector could be under some pressure here, it seems like there's a lot of bad news. >> china, even after last week's recovery, chinese markets are still a long way down from where they were. to expect trade certainty and a rebound before you know it, that is not going to happen. japan is a nice little guide. japan seems to be deciding that it is time to rally. there is some level of comfort, i think, with what japan is doing. are getting back up -- they've actually breach

seeing landfall just to the west of hong kong and it's going to be those provinces to the west of hong kong this can be seen quite a bit of rain we do expected to see a thai food when it makes landfall right now it's equivalent to a category two if it was a hurricane probably down to a category low category two equivalent to a category one then tropical storm where you see this track it is going to cause a lot of rain across much of that area so flash flooding is going to be a major problem briefly people are saying home. kong preparedness very good hong kong is kind of used to this china different ballgame though rural china as well that's right when whenever you talk about landfalls in any of these countries we know that certain countries can handle it better the philippines is getting better over the last decade taiwan is very good china of course in the structure in certain areas is not so good but hong kong yes they are very good at handling these but we are going to sing see how much rain there we can be seeing well over two hundred millimeters so flash flooding and a lot of muds

kong and china the express train links hong kong to forty four mainland cities it's hard travel times delivering passengers to go on joe in less than an hour he moves all of this will help integrate hong kong and macau into the overall development plan of china but the project has been shrouded in controversy hong kong's legislative council passed a bill to allow joint immigration checkpoints in the terminal passengers from china will be inspected here not at the border for the first time mainland officials will enforce national laws on hong kong soil around a quarter of the terminal will come on the mainland jurisdiction to be designated zines which will include the joint immigration checkpoints but critics argue importing national laws here in hong kong is yet another attempt by beijing to tighten its grip on the former british territory. by pro-democracy groups have led the protests they say the joint checkpoints undermine home. homes autonomy under the one country two systems deal adopted when the territory was handed back to china for certain it's damaging the one country two sys

al-jazeera hong kong. and in addition to everything on the ground or healer problems in the air there's a lot of conversation about online as well kemal typhoon monkhood is actually trending in southeast asia people are documenting the destruction around them and posting it all online it's become a nightmare especially for travelers cathay pacific and cathay dragon canceled all flights in and out of hong kong on sunday with winds reaching one hundred fifty kilometers an hour and lines before the council one thousand two hundred flights out of hong kong and this is what it looks like when you're the only one that's an airport burns took this picture of a check in counter at hong kong international airport earlier we spoke to him he's trying to get to the philippines but is just camping out now waiting for the storm to pass. i'm here from the airport and then my flight was kind said yesterday he said trying to book myself you know what though but i feel yeah it's almost certain for people and it's quite. wei

what other parts of hong kong might that now applied to? will they carve out some other part of hong kong and effectively make it part of mainland china for the purposes of law? democracy activists and some politicians there are quite worried about that. and there were protesters just outside that launch as well. thank you so much for keeping us up to date with that, stephen mcdonell in beijing. now, this isn't the usual thing you'd go searching for to buy online, but an australian couple found an ex—new zealand warship. for a few hundred thousand dollars, paul and wilma adams became the proud owners of the royal new zealand navy dive tender manawanui. earlier, they told me why they bought it. it seemed the best way to do it in today's world, they told me you can pretty much get anything on the internet and they prove me right i guess. i want to show the viewers the mammoth beast you bought. my director, die, wanted to know if you pay for postage and packaging? we had to pick it up ourselves, we sailed it back from new zealand in july thi

so why first there from hong kong. now u.s. tariffs on two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese imports have gone into effect it is the latest and largest round of levies in a growing trade war between the world's two biggest economies the us has now imposed three rounds of tariffs on a total of two hundred fifty billion dollars worth of chinese goods that that means about half of all chinese imports to the u.s. have these levees on them china has already hit the u.s. with tariffs on fifty billion dollars of imports and it's pledged to slap on another sixty billion dollars of american made goods let's go now to scott hyla who is live for us in beijing so scott this is the day that these tariffs are now going to bite what what effect are they having in china . well you have these tariffs on both sides and have gone into effect just in the last couple of hours as you said now collectively tariffs on chinese products going to the u.s. two hundred fifty billion and then the other way chinese tariffs on american products coming

. -- h-shares in hong kong. we have seen a huge diversion's and how the u.s. outperforms china significantly. there is room for catch up, but not necessarily because the markets are connected. the u.s. market, earnings growth expectations start to plateau, and you may seek there is a catch up or convergence over the course of the next 12 months. rishaad: and how does the yuan factor into this, slightly weaker now at 6.85. >> i am skeptical we will get much weaker because of potential damage in china, defaults for dollar-bond issuers in china, so it will be measured in terms of leading to currency devalue. it depends on the tray tension and how they evolved them up but a big part of that is behind us and should provide a potential positive for investors looking into the chinese markets. yvonne: policy support. we talked about how they are , triple-are cuts , trade frictions, how supportive is that for the market? less likely to see a sledgehammer approach of triple-r cuts. we did see more medium-term funding prov

i didn't expect to get caught up in a typhoon when i booked a trip to hong kong. i've had to scrap all my sightseeing plans i can't go out the subways closed buses have stopped running and there's no ferry service at all. the west the gambling hub of macau closed the doors to its casinos for the first time in history ahead of the storm. authorities here faced criticism for failing to pad residents for a deadly typhoon last year now they face another huge challenge said to be the strongest typhoon to hit the region this year. meanwhile at least eleven people have died in the u.s. as massive amounts of rain from tropical storm florence caused severe flooding in north and south carolina these were the scenes in lumberton a short while ago after roaring on shore on friday florence lingered over the area causing storm surges and flash floods the u.s. coast guard had to rescue multiple victims by helicopter authorities say the devastation is far from over there warning residents not to attempt returning to their homes. let's now go live to d.w. correspondent my schwager

kong where looking at live pictures from hong kong island the weather office is saying waves are three and a half meters have already been recorded in victoria harbor sarah clarke is our correspondent. first in central hong kong sarah they're expecting this one to get into the record books i guess. at this stage they say it's the worst in more than a decade i mean the t. tand it's the highest and most powerful signal on the right are we had one last year but nothing like this and i think it is time it's called many people by surprise as you mentioned it's great to have it across hong kong harbor here in front of us we just watch the ship adrift and rice down the harbor so when that actually hits something or crashes into something they'll be more damage as you mentioned high rise buildings have had their windows blown off or blown out i should say roofs have been torn off so this certainly this with those preparation in place a few days ago the government did say prepare for the worst and this is it appears to be what we've had at the moment still a t. test that will stay in place for

kong and china express try and links hong kong to forty four mainland cities it's hard travel times delivering passengers to go on joe in less than an hour he moves all through the integrate hong kong and macau into the overall development plan of china but the project has been shrouded in controversy hong kong's legislative council passed a bill to allow joint immigration checkpoints in the terminal passengers from china will be inspected here not at the border for the first time mainland officials will enforce national laws on hong kong soil around a quarter of the terminal will come on the mainland jurisdiction to be designated signed which will include the joint immigration. points but critics argue importing nationals here in hong kong is yet another attempt by beijing to tighten its grip on the former british territory. but pro-democracy groups have led the protests they say the joint check points undermine hong kong's autonomy under the one country two systems deal adopted when the territory was handed back to china or certainly it's damaging to one country two systems and th

or sarah clarke has more from hong kong. police made the initial proposal in july to have the hong kong national party banned they stated that it was an imminent threat to national security and the party was taking concrete steps to realize independence now andy chan who's the head of the hong kong national party he had months to put together his response to try and rule out his party being outlawed he submitted that. and today the security bureau issued its final decision which is banning the hong kong national party now this is a first in the city's history it's a first since the city was handed back from the u.k. from the from great britain to china in one thousand nine hundred seven at chance high profile speech back at the foreign correspondents club in august it drew criticism from the place and was deemed further evidence for the case however he stated at this event that his party was not advocating violence that security mysteriously agreed with the place today and has issued this ban now ask for reaction from andy c

kong and naturally hong kong people feel that they are all bad news their lifestyles up in fact hong kong is a semi autonomous territory under the so-called one country two systems deal which is part of the official handover from great britain to china more than two decades ago that means hong kong enjoys freedoms unsane on the mainland including freedom of speech but that space for political dissent is shrinking. pro independence activist and a chair was prohibited from standing for election six democratically elected pro-democracy politicians were disqualified from the city's parliament the national party plans to hold a public protest on tuesday but the government says any member of the group will be fined up to twelve thousand dollars or face up to three years in jail if they speak out sarah clarke al-jazeera hong kong. the philippines at risk again of landslides as another typhoons bringing more rain to the country meanwhile the death toll from a landslide has gone up to fifty five while forty seven other people are believed to be trapped or buried in the rubble families of vict

and climbing aboard hong kong's new high—speed train to china. but will it tighten beijing's grip on the territory? live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. it's newsday. . good morning. it's 8am in singapore, 1am in london and 8 in the evening in new york, where the united states has dismissed claims from the iranian president, that the us was involved in an attack on a military parade in iran that killed 25 people. hassan rouhani says america and its gulf allies backed the assault, but the us ambassador to the united nations nikki haley has told iran to "look in the mirror" for the causes of the attack. mr rouhani made his comments, as he prepared to travel to new york, where the un general assembly will convene for its annual meeting on tuesday. from there, our diplomatic correspondent james robbins sent this report. gunfire. the moment the shooting started. iran's elite revolutionary guards under attack on home soil. many forced to dive for cover, as a parade to honour them is ambushed by opponents of the governm