i don't think promoting democracy is the job that kerry has i mean given by the beijing government the basic goal said that potentially hong kong could have free elections it's not very definite there's 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 taking says it could happen but. it should because in the basic law if that if gradually it would happen well potentially 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 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 use well that that the protests will will l

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

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

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

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

calls a breakaway province not the chinese government is putting pressure on companies over what beijing views as disagreeable ads joining me here in the studio is china expert fairford coonan clifford good to have you on the show the examples we just we just talked about they aren't the only ones but other companies have been in beijing's crosshairs i think it's almost like a roll call of the greatest russian bronze for example we've seen code. calvin klein versace and not just fashion we've got sore all steve jewelry footwear we've got a 6 telephones we've had some song and cars more c.d.'s have been in trouble and also we've seen things that aren't even brand related as much as you know facebook is by twitter is by. google is beyond so there's a lot of there's a lot of pressure on some of the biggest companies in the world on the cover real real make a real difference to your bottom line and how exactly is beijing applying this pressure and are companies giving in well it's not there have been been relatively little relatively few direct interventions for how it happens is through thi

of protests in hong kong police charged protesters of surrounded a police station in a city district beijing has also warned punishment is only a matter of time but how and when will it act get the view from chinese artists and dissidents by way way also coming up. the last charge with general thomas time to follow a 10 year old spends wrong days not at school but working to support his family we speak about the pervasive problem of child labor. i'm going to welcome to do the news asia it's good to have you with us but i suppose in hong kong are in no mood to relent and if anything's clear it's that they aren't afraid to confront the police either these what the scenes of this week in china are special administrative region crowds of protesters surrounding police facilities unafraid of police warnings projectiles what also hold of those inside police responding with tear gas and arrests. estimates put the number of injured in these clashes at around 41. the continuing protests over the past 9 weeks have prompted the harshest warning yet from beijing well quality here i warn all criminals not

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

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

nike's and they will meet a 1000 do you have the autonomy to withdraw the bill or not or does beijing need to give i've already i'm supposed to question the magazine no makeup on sees you and she has also repeatedly refused calls to step down but as the pressure builds on the streets and from beijing where does this leave hong kong's embattled do you think 2nd of yes did i miss phoebe kong from the protests at hong kong airport. carolyn asked to top that off the special ministry to preach on this it was the politics up in the city in terms of the mess to get a spot in provence from beijing. housekeeping increasing significantly that somehow it's more decisive and if you are on time government especially when they are facing a political crisis like the smith and other a we have to vary my they carry them just not enough radically elected she's not just responsible for hong kong citizens but also the central government in beijing as well even if she wants to resign she still has to get the approval from beijing and should be amidst this point oh you're given the fact that beijing has de

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

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

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

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

if beijing acts impetuously and does ta ke beijing acts impetuously and does take action in hong kong, it would be bad for its reputation. carrie lam's administration has taken a big hit. the students, there are lots of sympathy for them, the protesters, lots of sympathy for them, but they would be an issue for them reputation so it could be a lose lose situation if it goes bad. also making news today, the british prime minister borisjohnson will tell eu leaders there needs to be a new brexit deal when he makes his first foreign trip as pm later this week. it comes as one newspaper printed leaked government documents warning of food, medicine and fuel shortages in a no—deal scenario and suggesting that would make a return to a hard border in ireland all but inevitable. reports that huawei will have its licence in the us extended for a further 90 days have been denied by president trump. the existing agreement will lapse on the 19th of august. the president says he doesn't want to do business with the company for national security reasons. huawei is a company we may not do business w

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

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

weeks of mass process to hong kong show no sign of coming to america but how long will beijing put up with you more than a few weeks ago a few days ago that if things got worse the chinese army might consider taking to the streets you said when there's trouble in hong kong when things turn sour there's violence in our street our fear is that if the police are now able to control what is happening here there's a remote risk the chinese army would get involved how remote is that risk if it's so well known of the why why did you why did you mention no i hope you will never happen why did you mention if it was a remote risk trying to frighten people you know it's a fact everybody understands you you don't understand it. hong kong is a place where it is being operating is operating under the one country 2 systems it is a not very successfully is it calm it's a huge political compromise we are part of china under the basic law china has a responsibility to ensure that hong kong is stable everybody who is doing business here want to see hong kong to be stable all right so yes under the basic

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

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

now the chinese government is putting pressure on companies and what beijing views as this agreeable ads joining me in the studio now is china expert clifford kuhn and clifford good to have you here. the examples that we just talked about aren't the only ones what other companies have been in the crosshairs of beijing here but i've been going through the list and it's a bit like it would make a really good fashion show actually you've got for saatchi calvin klein coach dolce and gabbana as you've known she wearing sorrel ski jewellery and also with their samsung phones in their pocket and driving their numerous c.d.'s the list of brands that have managed to to anger at ticals widespread public anger in china is lengthy and prestigious now let's look at the reaction here i mean surely having your country's territory visually diminished i mean that surely isn't cool but when it comes to other instances would you say that beijing is reacting rather thin skinned here i think i think there is definitely things going reaction here i mean a lot of this is very innocuous in the west but in c

square up for another confrontation i made growing fears of a crackdown across town to supporters of the beijing backed government to stage their own counter demonstration also coming up. a landmark power sharing deal in sudan as the country's military rulers and civilian opposition agree to elections within 3 years. and easy rider legend peter fonda died at age 79 born into hollywood royalty the actor and producer will be remembered as an icon of the counterculture. i'm rebecca route as welcome to the program hong kong is being rocked by another weekend of pro-democracy demonstrations fears of an imminent crackdown by chinese authorities stoking tensions after nightfall police began fanning out on the straights and chasing down protesters chinese state media has been condemning the protesters actions as the beginning of terrorism meanwhile thousands of probation supporters have gathered at a rally on the other side of the city they're calling for an end to the violent protests which have broken out over the last 3 months. de w.c. charlotte shell some still joins us now from hong kong china what

weeks of mass protest in hong kong show no sign of coming to an end but how long will beijing put up with you more than a few weeks ago a few days ago that if things got worse the chinese army might consider taking to the streets you said when there's trouble in hong kong when things turn sour there's violence in our history our fear is that if the police are now able to control what is happening here there's a remote risk the chinese army would get involved how remote is that risk if it's so well known of the why why did you why did you mention no i hope you will never happen why did you mention if if it's a remote risk you're trying to frighten people no it's a fact everybody understand except you you don't understand it hong kong is a place where it has been operating is operating under the one country 2 systems it is a not very successfully is it calm it's a huge political compromise we are part of china under the basic law china has a responsibility to ensure that hong kong is stable everybody who is doing business here want to see hong kong to be stable. all right so yes under

for what they believe in i think beijing needs to understand. a train crashed in hong kong tom i know you want to jump in cement you do that now but i also want to ask you is what's going on now proof to you and many others that china as one country 2 systems model is no longer viable. well yes i want to respond to mr tang and his expertly calling the beijing's line that by trying to refocus on economic issues and the plight of young people which are which exists but that doesn't mean that they can't just you know face math and things that saddam insulting to say that they can't it's quite an educated and middle class you know society a lot of people live with their parents and they can afford a few dollars to buy a what lead to cover to go to the chop at them. a lot of these items are donated and we've seen fundraising campaigns on line in the millions of dollars to support them because they raise a decent level of support locally for what's going on as for the 2nd body question one country 2 systems is the big concern i think these young peopl

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

globally as china's currency becomes the latest flashpoint in the trade war between washington and beijing. when i'm come all santa maria and this is the world news from al-jazeera india the lower house is due to vote on the bill dividing indian administered kashmir into 2 a day after its special status was revoked a cease fire collapses in syria as the government claims turkey resumes military operations against rebels in the north west and made a new trend in fashion putting the environment 1st. stocks are falling globally as the world's 2 largest economies escalated their trade war china is letting its currency slide raising fears that one could be used as a weapon in the trade standoff with the united states also on monday washington designated beijing as a currency manipulator its 1st such move in 25 years china's official communist party newspaper responded saying the u.s. is quote deliberately destroying international order that announcement came hours after beijing let its currency weaken the one has tumbled 2.3 percent in 3 days since donald trump's declaration that he would be ex

and with the upcoming election, and beijing is ino rush. so the thinking is that beijing should just continue toait. for "nightly business report", i'm eunice yoon in beijing. > and late today president trump said he scheduled a call with ,ina's president though he did not say when. >>> with all of the rec about a possible recession and warning signs from the bond market, the actual data isn't badthat july's retail sales rose a stronger-than-expected .7%. business activity gauges in new york and philadelphia showe continued expansion. productivity in the second quarter grew to better than o expected pac 2.3%. that prompted economists to increase their forecast for third quarter growth to a median pace of 2.1%. >>> walmart was the beneficiary of the strong consumer spending. io we me the world's largest retailer reported better and expected earnings revenue and raised its profit outlook, and the upbeat comes as other retailers struggle. that hel sd lift theck 6%, making it the best performing stock in the dow index today. courtney reagan tak

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

twitter and facebook take action against chinese government propaganda targeting hong kong protests beijing has been trying to counter the pro-democracy movement with social media disinformation some 200000 accounts linked to that campaign tapped now been suspended by twitter also coming up. a landmark case in el salvador a court acquits said young woman accused of murder after suffering a miscarriage is 21 year old was facing 40 years in prison. and cole is at the heart of an election campaign in the german state of brandenburg where it's a major employer look at how the far right t.f.t. party is fighting to keep the industry going against government plans to close it down. i'm brian thomas thanks so much for joining us social media platforms twitter and facebook have shut down accounts targeting the pro-democracy movement in hong kong the platform said the counts were part of the chinese government does information campaign aimed to groups and individuals facebook has closed a number of accounts as well some of the posted images showed protesters as terrorists and cockroaches twitter has

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

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

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

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

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

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