hong kong peeps its political system in hong kong, the capital is the system. but do you think anyone will realistically expect the hong kong can be misused as a strong hold against china? no, i the answering or even today, i know all the way to try to do 47 could go unanswered. the question was, which is where the beijing imagines hong kong would except the kind of restrictions that poses on its own people on the mainland. after 2047, china has full discretion to decide what kind of political system will prevail in hong kong, much more known one people of hong kong get in return for being subsumed into children or a chance to be spied on by what human rights watch. one of the world's most intrusive mass surveillance systems, whatever happens will happen in hong kong after 2047, their finest records of arbitrary detention torture and violations of right trial. you really think the people of hong kong are 2nd class. i need some of that in my life. not really looking forward to that, i think in today's world that we should be very objective and non-biased about c

of hong kong. get in return for being so soon, then to children or a chance to be spied on by what human rights watch called one of the world's most intrusive mass surveillance systems. whatever happens will happen in hong kong after 2047, their owners records of arbitrary detention torture and violations of right to trial. you really think the people of hong kong are 2nd class. i need some of that in my life. not only looking forward to that, i think in today's world that we should be very objective and non-biased about china. let's look at how china is developing. let's look at china lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. let's look at how hong kong has benefited a tremendously over the past 22 years after being part of the one country to system. nathan law. is there no way for the pro-democracy movement to negotiate now with the whole government or has that door closed for good? i think if we look at the escalating aggressive behavior from the central government, the disqualifica

and in hong kong, do you think you'll ever go back to hong kong? i'm an actress, i'm not entitled to lose hope. so i am hopeful that i can return home cong. but in that case, time see the democracy and freedom in hong kong. but it takes a long while. you really believe that? i do? i think many individuals not only in hong kong, but in china they, they also have to have hope. and it takes a lot of efforts or maybe sacrifices from our generation or maybe fischer generations to achieve that. but i think the fate of people will never die and will never give up after panted enforcement. and some thought by society discarded children on the streets of the philippines, searching for homes. but what they find is persecution in prison and violence. a film about minnows, homeless children who are fighting for survival every single day, 15 minutes on d.w. . why are people forced to hide in trucks? there are many resurfaces there are many cancers. and there are many stories make up your own body. double you made for mines has a virus spread. why do we panic? a

zone on the crisis in hong kong. over the last year, we've interviewed several probate janan pro-democracy figures, and we challenge them all to justify what they've done and said some of their arguments have clearly failed to stand the test of time. nathan law, a leading pro-democracy activist, fled to london in june after a warrant was issued for his arrest. this week i asked him if you'd ever believed his movement could take on beijing and when i think we have already achieved a lot of things where demonstrate the courage and bravery of how come people and making sure the well knows that well received thing and collaborating in combating the authoritarian expansion of china. so i think we have awakened the world, but the result isn't in doubt is it, china will get its way, will get its way, won't it? while beijing has been suppressing hong kong people at the cost of our basic freedom. and as a matter of fact, the world has been reacting to that suppression, a lot of sanctioning to an embargo always. and also, plen

hong kong peeps its political system in hong kong, the capital is the system. but do you think anyone will realistically expect the hong kong can be misused as a strong hold against china? no, i that day, all the way to try to do 47 could go unanswered. the question on us, which is where the beijing imagines hong kong would ever accept the kind of restrictions that poses on its own people on the mainland. after 2047, china has full discretion to decide what kind of political system will prevail in hong kong. more known, one pole of hong kong get in return for being subsumed into children or a chance to be spied on by what human rights watch called one of the world's most intrusive mass surveillance systems. whatever happens will happen in hong kong after 2047, their finest records of arbitrary detention torture and violations of right to trial. you really think the people of hong kong are said, gosh, i need some of that in my life. not really looking forward to that. i think in today's world that we should be very objective and non-biased about china. let's now

kong, improving the well-being of hong kong's people, and promoting better integration of hong kong into the overall government of the country. i will now give a brief account of the results which achieved during my visit to beijing and will explain the relevant policy areas later. and promoting the development the gba, the central government supports the implementation at the end of this year of 24 policy measures that have been approved in principle by the leading group for the development of the greater bay area. in addition to what was rolled out earlier, including property purchase, support for young entrepreneurs, technology funding, and liberalization of services, further measures to be medicaled include devices in hong kong owned institutions on the mainland, limitation on exporting genetic resources to hong kong for research purposes, facilitating and kong -- bridge, expediting cross boundary wealth management. on consolidating and enhancing hong kong status as an international financial center, the central government supports further deepening the mutual access between the

let's come back to hong kong. it doesn't look as though it's one country 2 systems that have running in the national security organs have and imposing their security laws on hong kong. it doesn't look like 2 systems. it looks like one country, one system, if you do that, they are and acting. they are trying to enact a hong kong specific version which is consistent with our common law systems. if they just wish to implement, impose china's system on us, they could just apply this to us, china's national security law, but they are not doing this. they are now consulting hong kong experts about and drafting a hong kong specific version for us to take account of our separate systems. those comforting predictions turned out to be wide of the mark when beijing security law was published. it was all that the pro-democracy movement had feared, and more whole cases could now be handed over to the mainland for investigation judgement and punishment trials could be held in secret. and though the new security agencies were no

al jazeera, hong kong. ♪ anchor: let's bring in our guests from hong kong. emily lau, former chairperson of the democratic party of hong kong. an author and conservative columnist from new jersey. joining us from hong kong is a journalist and author of several books on the relationship between hong kong and china. welcome to each of you. let me start with you, emily. how much is this going to reshape hong kong's political landscape? >> very much. some of the peoe that i've spoken to are saying that things are going to get a lot more worse. so i think we have to fasten our seatbelts. it seems beijing, the administration of carrie lam, they don't give it about public opinion or internationally. they are hell-bent on cracking down on dissent. now that the democrats have left the legislative council, because we have the pandemic and social distancing rules, people cannot turn out to march in huge numbers. there's a lot of pent-up feeling of anger and frustration. concern. i think things are going to get worse. we are ready. don't think we have thrown in the towe

hong kong peeps, it's political system in hong kong. the capital is the system. but do you think anyone will realistically expect the hong kong can be misused as a stronghold against china? no, i the day all the way to 2047 could go unanswered. the question was, which is where the beijing imagines hong kong would set the kind of restrictions that beijing imposes on its own people on the mainland. after 2047, china has full discussion to decide what kind of political system will prevail in hong kong, much more no. 90 people of hong kong get in return for being subsumed into children or a chance to be spied on by what human rights watch called one of the world's most intrusive mass surveillance systems. whatever happens will happen in hong kong after 2047, their finest records of arbitrary detention torture and violations of right to trial. you really think the people of hong kong are 2nd class i need some of out in my life. not really looking forward to that. i think in today's world that we should be very objective and non-biased about china. let's do look at how

they must obey hong kong law. when i said this, it is not clear yet what any new national security agency would be responsible for . it could simply be responsible for public education publicized here and promotion . you know, you cannot come to the conclusion that they are, they will be enforcing hong kong law. that's what they bring. that's what they do when they bring in their national security organs of the central police government does it, it was central people's government. that's what they are looking for.

between hong kong and china. welcome to each of you, emily. let me start with you today. how much is all of this going to reshape hong kong's political landscape? well, i guess very much, and some of the people who did that spoken to, or saying that things are going to get a lot more worse. and so i think we have to really fasten our seat belt because it seems beijing and the administration of kerry lamb just they don't just give a damn about public opinion here or internationally. and they're hell bent on cracking down on dissent. now, depend, democrats have left the legislative council because we have a pandemic and social distancing loose people cannot turn out to march in huge numbers. so there is a lot of pent up feeling of anger and frustration and concern. and i think i think things things are going to get worse. so. 6 we're ready and don't think that we have seen that. i'll know we are ready and we will continue with the struggle. but things could turn nasty. stephen, how much does all this damage or dama

latest ad from hong kong. a u.k. inquiry scrutinising, undercover police tactics is expected to hear evidence 5 years after a list set up. it will look at how undercover officers spied on hundreds of left wing organizations or has a story from london. the back in 1903 and notice austin led a protest against the far right british national party as head of youth against racism. she wanted an end to racist attacks in london as was a peaceful group that police decided to infiltrate them. i found out in 2010 that i had been spied on by peta francis for about 4 or 5 years. and pace of francis was the chief. we saw, so he was a member,, he was on top of police officer working for the s.d.s.,, for many years. the s.d.s., so special demonstrations squad, was set up in 1968 when a wave of protest against the vietnam war caught the police by surprise. deciding intelligence was needed to control future demonstrators, and then leaked and highly secret squad within the metropolitan police was created . over more than 4 deca

however, hong kong has been reacting to this most hong kong hours have been anticipating this days to come. many of them on disappointed and very strong that beijing is bypassing the basic law, which is the meat constitution off home call to just disqualify. you know, pro-democracy lawmakers with immediate effect and many of them saying that without any opposition forces in the legislative council in the future, the legislature will only become a robust and polity, which is just like the legislature in china where they approved. all right. correspondent joyce lee in hong kong. thanks very much for speaking to us. let's look at some other stories making headlines around the world . now. typhoon vanco has lashed the philippines, leaving millions without power. rescue teams were overwhelmed in city. close to the capital manila where around half the houses have been flooded. it's the 3rd typhoon to hit the philippines within as many weeks. the storm has now weekend and is heading towards vietnam. violent clashes broke out in peru's capital leymah after the former head of congress, manuel

, given what has happened in hong kong. it does not seem like beijing is worried about this. beijing did take a very curious timing to push this move, when america is distracted by the covid-19 pandemic andlso the presidential election. today we have not heard from the u.s. state department the biden team regarding hong kong. however, i think this beijing move sends a very strong signal to the president elect joe biden that this is no longer 2016. he is going to deal with the very different china. laura: now that those independent lawmakers have resigned in hong kong, what is next for their calls? -- their cuase? correspondent: it is a very difficult position for them. hong kong's election has been delayed till next year. after all of this mess, it is very tough for any opposition party to make a voice in the lawmaking process and hong kong. but they are doing right now is what is called international lobbying. for example, hong kong in the u.s. and in the u.k. talking to policymakers, lawmakers, to try to push the agenda f

these senior judges are in hong kong because they believe in hong kong judicial independence and that the u.k. should allow them to be here to make sure our court systems are fair. comment, them not to it's actually doing us more harm so i was so surprised about this, made by u.k. politicians or diplomats because that's exactly the opposite thing from what they should do. they should encourage more judges with common-law background to come to hong kong. youcourt system here, if we have hong kong news, the boot camp, the yellow camp. that is good news. the fact that the courts have been criticized by both sides, meaning they are mostly doing the right thing, that should be how it should be done. people like me should not comment on how the court operates. it should be completely independently on politicians. i continue toing believe that judicial independence is the key to success for hong kong so i just -- locallyolitics and overseas, it should not matter what court system. -- it did, china also not matter for the ecosystem. they leave us alone, too, because they see the importance of

it breaches both hong kong -- both china' commitment that hong kong will enjoy a high degree of autonomy and freedom of speech under paragraph three of the declaration. ros: china's view differs significantly, as this chinese official explains. >> allow me to emphasize, the one country two systems principle itself does not allow any sedition or violating china's sovereignty er hong kong. on that condition, all democratic rights in hong kong should be protected. ros: this is connected to what happened a few months back when china passed a new security law that makes it easier for chinese authorities to punish protesters and hung wrong and deal with anything it sees as a serious challenge to its authority in the territory. crimes of secession, terrosm, collusion with foreign forces are punishable by a maximum sentence of life in prison. damaging public transport could be considered terrorism. and beijinhas a new security office in hong kong with its own law enforcement personnel who don't come under local authorities' personnel. this was the scene in the hong kong assembly this morning, a

so important for hong kong, right? now, because its economy has been reeling, not just from the effects of, you know, the protests which have now largely been suppressed. but also of course, from the effects of covert 19, as well as the, the repercussions of that national security law. what carry around was trying to do today also was to deliver the people of hong kong. some hope. also, of course she wants to do something about her own approval rating, which is very low right now. just 26 percent compared to 64 percent. when she took office just over 3 and a half years ago, and a reminder also today. so she was addressing very much a sort of shrunken legislature because there are no opposition figures sitting in that parliament building. today. they are be there resigned or been disqualified, which of course means they carry for the past couple of hours has been addressing very much an echo chamber i guess for the moment. adrian, thanks course, we'll keep monitoring what caroline says through the day and join you as an

happened in hong kong government, cody imo, is a hong kong pro-democracy politician, she says the opposition lawmakers had no choice, but to resign. we need to quit and the protest against this of beijing grew by the crazy that the, i mean the, this is not even though who by law now it's moved by the crazy they do, they order whatever they want. and 2, we cannot simply afford to stay on because a minus hour for colleagues who are ousted the afternoon of the 15 of us will simply don't have the minimum number to a protest that ourselves from being unseated. eventually one by one of the by the beijing type. and so they're just let us, let us so full of fake names that we just cannot carry on. and we need to support our colleagues who are viewing it, telling anyone who was not patriotic enough to keep all politics. you have no place here. and so i would work the to be a great player, frank. i think it's possible that things will be in the don't, but then you do not under estimate on com people, especially the young that anguish. so little things will have a really fun eventually, because you nee

kong or, and, and continuing solvency over hong kong. so the chief executive of hong kong has just given a speech, speaking to the media here,, and she said that the hong kong government had the n.p.c., which is china's highest decision making body to make a decision on these for these 4 had been in the legislative council, they are lawmakers with published lawmakers and they were going to run in the legislative council elections, which are set for september. and then at that point they were disqualified for, for the reasons i gave you. those elections have been delayed, but they managed to say on as lawmakers in hong kong and apparently according to the chief executive, the chief executive approached beijing to make a decision on whether these lawmakers should be allowed to stay within the legislative council. not this efficient made by the n.p.c. essentially sets a precedent now where beijing can make a decision or can essentially do child lawmakers from there without going through the traditional process through the legal system. so t

well, mike is in hong kong to resign on mass. politicians took a step to protest down to 4 of their colleagues were expelled from parliament, also on the program to hear coded back saying has raised hopes of ending the pandemic across the world. will it only be available to people in breach countries and violence flares in the polish capital? far right, protesters clashed with riot police in also as thousands rally to mark poland's independence. i'm rebecca riches. welcome to the program. china has condemned the mass resignation of pro-democracy lawmakers in hong kong as quote political fast and a blatant challenge. the opposition bloc has said it will resign on mass. out of 4 of their colleagues were expelled from parliament for what china described as being unpatriotic. who carried out a way of saying they were the last remaining pro-democracy lawmakers in hong kong. now they are resigning in solidarity with their colleagues who were deemed threats to national security by beijing. it is yet another blow for their pro-democracy

actually, the police in hong kong are trying to deal with any collective action in hong kong in any kind of way. so wherever there are people calling for protests, there is lots of risk that's going to be taken. and that is why recently we did not have any collective action in hong kong any more. and after the national security law, whatever your speeches or participation in protests, you taking further risk for being arrested. for sure, t is not only for the national security law, but they are just trying to do everything they can to tackle down the freedom of the hong kong people. so realistically, what is your assessment of what happens next? actually, i think the liberty in hong kong, especially for the freedom of expression and the political spectrum, is extremely important right now. but certainly to say under the disqualification of four members and the resignation of democrats, it seems there would only be a rubber—stamp right now. and there are a lot of things at the hong kong government wanted to do without the people's mandates, including trying to impose a policy which allo

actually the police in hong kong are trying to deal with any collective action in hong kong in any kind of way. so wherever there are people calling for protests, there is lots of risk that's going to be taken. and that is why recently we did not have any collective action in hong kong any more. and after the national security law, whatever your speeches or participation in protests, you taking further risk for being arrested. it is not only for the national security law, but they are just trying to do everything they can to tackle down the freedom of the hong kong people. so realistically, what is your assessment of what happens next? actually, i think the liberty in hong kong, especially for the freedom of expression and political spectrum is extremely important right now. but certainly to say under the disqualification of four members in the resignation of democrats, it seems there would only bea democrats, it seems there would only be a rubber—stamp right now. and there are a lot of things at the hong kong government wanted to do without the people's mandates, including trying to

in hong kong. >> the u.k. has dominic raab putting out a statement saying china's move is an assault on hong kong's freedom we will be speaking to people from all spectrums throughout the morning, including a pro establishment lawmaker a pro democratic lawmaker including a member of carrie lam's cabinet. haidi: we also have an expanding response from the u.s.. the national security advisor issued a statement saying this is just another fig leaf for the ccp's expansion of a one-party dictatorship. response senator rubio saying democracy in hong kong's quote gasping for air what is this potentially mean for a biden administration? >> the timing is interesting because is there enough category for the administration to respond to this adequately? we did hear they will continue to put the pressure on beijing over numerous issues including on hong kong. a lot of people thought the biden administration would allow .or a reset of tensions andalled xi jinping a thug has vowed to fully enforce laws to punish

and pledge allegiance to the hong kong s. . they are of the people's republic of china, and no country will turn a blind eye to the acts of betrayal of the country by public officials, including members of the legislative council who break their oaths of office. today is the last day for us pro-democracy legislators in the legislative council. last night. we are now is that we will all resign together today. we are all coming separately to hand in our resignation, letters before the end of the day. so from now on, you will see that hong kong's legislative council will have completely new style. pro-democracy law makers will not be in the council to carry out our duty of monitoring a government or things like that. this is a result of what the hong kong government and the central government have done to destroy our constitutional order. joining us now to discuss is, boom, bust co-hosted, investigative journalist, ben swan. now ben, it seems like hong kong was the biggest story in the world about 12 months ago, and then completel

kong full many people in hong kong suffered. what they need is stability and respect for the rule of law and promotion of democracy through rule of law rather than launching illegal and unauthorised assemblies. this is not allowed in hong kong because it is bad for stability. they were calling for universal suffrage for the legislative council and the chief executive. a basic democratic demand. first of all, if you look at democracy across the world, not every country or region has the same system. look at the united states. do you really think there is universal suffrage where everyone has an equal vote in the united states for the election of the us president? look at the legal paralysis right now and president trump refusing to concede. this is very complicated, the electoral couege complicated, the electoral college et cetera. it is not a simple asa college et cetera. it is not a simple as a universal one man one vote voting system in the united states, as many other countries now see. in hong kong it has a unique system and

as a pal and has more from hong kong's. chief executive had said that she had already sought our approach to be.

coming up today, is hong kong's pro-democracy movement from us resignation of hong kong opposition. lawmakers now removes any resistance in government to beijing. we follow one lawmaker who joined in this time of defiance. but a protester tells us this defiance is too little to do. the best time for that recognition has already passed, and the impact here now, minimal state, you know why he believes hong kong's pro-democracy movement continues in subtle ways. and finally, a happy ending for the world's longest and from having been rescued from conditions in a pakistani zoo in cambodia, where he retired in peace and with company i've been welcome to do. glad you could join us in less than 24 hours hong kong spot about to will in effect, seize to have any opposition. that's when the resignations of 15 pro-democracy lawmakers come into force. they're designed some 2 weeks back to protest. a law passed by beijing that gives the government stop right to expect lawmakers without due process. the resignations mean the city's probe aging administration will be able to pass laws without even

hong kong, seoul and tokyo. it comes after singapore and hong kong announced a two way travel bubble for international conventions. india's second biggest carrier -- and is in talks tash boeing, and is renegotiating various contracts, as the coronavirus continues to batter air travel. the indian government has so far restricted financial help to airlines. alibaba's singles day shopping asee breaking records e-commerce comes under increasing scrutiny from regulators in china. alibaba added new shopping windows and additional services. orders, 580,000 in one second. looking at markets. weities just coming off of had. hank sang negative. shanghai weaker. nikkei shut off for the lunch break around 24 minutes ago. upside, certainly the story is one in reverse of what we have had in recent days. investors assessing what going on with the coronavirus situation, particularly in europe. perhaps also taking a look at some indications equity markets are becoming a little bit overheated. shares coming back. that's represent

so i think seeing a grassroots push to it's the revival of our hong kong culture and hong kong community . that's a way of resistance. yes. so yes, that's the main thing. we'll leave it there for the time being. but thank you so much for speaking to us. conor, speaking to us from uncle. thank you. the world's elephant has arrived in cambodia to begin a new life at an elephant sanctuary. spent his whole life in islamabad, pakistan, while there he developed psychological and physical problems due to the way in which he was treated. freeing him became a cause for animal welfare experts. and in particular, u.s. pop star cher, who campaigned actively for his release. here's a look at his journey changed caged and restricted hatefully for the last time. it's a necessary measures to me and out of islamabad. many here support the me if. but it's also an emotional moment. we think it is the right decision to let him go . are good regarding him after 37 years of giving happiness and joy to the people of van brought joy to others, but he suffered the elephant, lived in miserable conditions, and was

china is widening the welcome mat for hong kong recent graduates, young, educated hong kong citizens will now be given -- they will create a new three-year open work permit for recent graduates here in hong kong. it shortens the eligibility for permanent residence -- permanent residency to just one year, and are kongers who already in canada will be able to apply for permanent residence latest sooner. this is what the minister of canada said as he laid out plans overnight. marco mendocino is his name. he said hong kong people have made outstanding contributions to canada and the changes we are announcing today will strengthen our relationship. beijing's actions demonstrate a clear disregard for the basic law. canada will stand with the people of hong kong. all of this of course -- let's bring up the gdp bar chart. all of this condemnation internationally just waves on the hong kong economy -- weighs on the hong kong economy and sentiment. they are not as bad as the first and second quarter where we saw 9% plus contraction, but still, we are likely to get a confirmation of that prelim

you just stepping down in protest, more than a dozen pro-democracy legislators in hong kong resigned after 4 of their colleagues were disqualified though again, this is al jazeera live from doha. also coming up, there's been an explosion in saudi arabia. a ceremony attended by european diplomats, france is calling it a cowardly attack to protest and arrests in armenia, where people are angry about a deal with azerbaijan to end the fighting in a form of carbon and bidding farewell to side erekat, the chief palestinian negotiator who died on tuesday, after contracting private 19 hong kong is facing further crisis. after more than a dozen pro-democracy politicians called it quits. their resignation was in solidarity. after the territories government disqualified 4 of their fellow legislations. yet there we are. now china's congress has passed a patriotism resolution, allowing the removal of legislators who pose a threat to national security and challenge beijing's rule. pro-democracy activists say that amounts to the end of the one country 2 systems. principle polland has more for us fr

make his in hong kong. as quote political fast and a blatant challenge, the opposition bloc stood down on mass after 4 of their colleagues were expelled from parliament for china, described as being unpatriotic. who dared outweighed the bad they were the last remaining pro-democracy lawmakers in hong kong. now they are resigning in solidarity with their colleagues who were deemed threats to national security by beijing. it is yet another blow for their pro-democracy movement. or to go that they got all had taken the decision made by the national people's congress today. it is extremely ridiculous. it shows that the central government has completely given up the basic law and given up one country 2 systems. dennis kwok is one of the 4, expelled lawmakers. he told d.w. that despite the setback, they are not giving up. but i think he can still feel the passion, local community, the hearts of people, the aspirations or the rule of law and progress. i think that is not going to go begging, defended the new resol

in hong kong. with 645 u.s. dollars. the hong kong health secretary announced this and will give more details. they are trying to say that this would hopefully encourage more people to come forward to get testing. we know there has been a -- and hong kong specifically linked to centers.nse anybody who went there needs to get tested. the businesses have been linked to these fresh cases and will be shut for five days through november 28. a bit more perspective on the travel bubble delay, our special asia consultant will be joining us in the next hour for his thoughts on the prospect. we will be also hearing from -- international communication. , women have to ask for a promotion and male colleagues are likely to be given the job. on these gender differences in the workplace. this is bloomberg. ♪ shery: breaking news out of south korea. we are getting the trade numbers for the first 20 days of november. exports rising 11.1%. the daily average export number is a gain of 1.6% year on year. when it com

adrian brown al jazeera hong kong. meanwhile, canada is easing immigration rules for people from hong kong to receive citizenship . canada's immigration minister says charges for breaching china's national security law won't disqualify them. the country wants to speed of applications for young people in hong kong who wish to work and study. there not a road tunnel that would go beneath the prince story. stone circle at stonehenge in england has been approved. the tunnel is designed to divert traffic away from the world heritage site. but the $3100000000.00 project has been widely criticized by environmentalists and archaeologists, and charlie rangel reports ancient, mysterious, and at the heart of a bitter dispute. stonehenge is one of the most important neolithic landscapes in europe, with one of england's most congested roads running past it. this section of the a 3 or 3 was designed for around 13000 cars a day, but struggles with double that amount. traffic and local residents say it's unsafe . we have people who wi

no, for the for democracy movement in hong kong. yeah, i think we all agree that the sweeping, powell, the national security law makes hong kong's freedom just a lucian for now. so i guess that's the reason why i set a reinforcement of the notion of the end of one time tree to system. because it really shows that the government has sets of legal weapons that can be used to practice it. prosecute people and we have lost our freedom of speech and assembly. so on the role moving forward. i think it's important that we try our best to say got the freedoms that we have left. and we have to defend the professional values in journalism. in could be me, i know education in order to receive these grave threats from chinese authorities say, but how do you do that? maybe some law there appears to be virtually no need to provision left in hong kong for these. it aims to be pursued. how do you differ in freedom of, of assembly? how do you defend for the right to protest? how do you defend the freedom of the press? i think only only one hand, the

a new day in the hong kong legislature without pro-democracy lawmakers. the seats are usually occupied by hong kong's democratic parliamentarians. but now they're empty. as the session got underway a day after the mass walkout, one of the lot, mike is resigning in solidarity staged a protest. rolling out a banner in the foyer, i just pulled this against the chief executive decision to disqualify the police. wished that she would have stood still used their power tool at this point 5. that's a city council. and yet that wave that was they were the last remaining pro-democracy lawmakers in hong kong. they resigned in solidarity with their colleagues who were deemed threats to national security by beijing. it's yet another blow for the pro-democracy movement. i got that they got over the decision made by the n.p.c. . s.c. is ridiculous. it shows that the central government has completely given up on the basic law and the principle of one country 2 systems. beijing defended the new resolution and denied it is restricting hong kong special freedoms. they were

and it is negotiated in the regular hong kong court. joshua long might await a much harsher sentence under the national security law. if he had won this case, they would probably not have left him, let him off the hook. so i am pretty sure that all these conditions to together made it look like a better option for him to do so. and what impact will this court case have on hong kong's try a democracy movement in this court case and its own is probably something that everybody would expected already last year. what has a much wider impact on the protest movement is this national security law that introduces the arbitrary chinese judicial system into hong kong that provides for secret trials and all these things. this is much more scary to the hong kong people and to the protest movement than these a court hearings. these sentences by the regular course under common law, climate is telling us, speaking to us from beijing. thank you. leaders of the wealthiest countries have wrapped up an online summit, promising to supply covert 19 vaccines

our top stories: the prominent hong kong democracy activist, joshua wong says he will plead guilty to all charges — at the trial relating to last year's siege of the territory's police headquarters. may god bless hong kong and we will continue to fight for freedom and now is not the time for us to kowtow to beijing and to surrender. the us says it hopes to approve — and start distributing a coronavirus vaccine in less than three weeks time. and — the perfect present for a russian patriot: what a board game on sale in moscow, says about the increasing importance of patriotism in the country. in the past hour, three hong kong activists have gone into court for the start of their trial relating to the siege of the territory's police headquarters last year. joshua wong, ivan lam and agnes chow face charges of unlawful assembly — mr wong has said he intends to plead guilty. the charges relate to protests in june 2019 against a controversial extradition bill, when thousands of demonstrators surrounded the hong kong police building. the bill, which would have allowed for criminal sus

is hong kong's pro-democracy movement dead from us resignation of hong kong, all positions all because now removes any resistance in governments to beijing. we follow one lawmaker who joined in this stand of defiance. but a protester tells us, this defiance is too little, too late. the best time for the resignation has already passed, and that here now, minimal state you know why he believes the pro-democracy movement continues in subtle ways. and finally, a happy ending for the world's no one hears elephant. having been rescued from conditions in a pakistanis who lives in cambodia, where he retired in peace and good company. welcome to day. glad you could join us in less than 24 hours. hong kong's fall about to in effect cease to have any opposition. that's when the resignations of 15 pro-democracy lawmakers come into force. they're designed some 2 weeks back to protest. a law passed by beijing that gives the government the right to expend lawmakers without due process. the resignations mean the city's administration will be able to pass laws without even a mom or of protest. lawmaker

for the core values of hong kong, freedom, democracy. and we should never give up. the mass resignation was triggered by the hong kong government's dismissal of four legislators judged to have been disloyal to the motherland. they were removed using new powers granted by beijing. only half the members of the legislative council were ever directly elected. the other half selected by a stacked pro—beijing committee. this has led to tensions with pro—democracy politicians struggling to find ways to oppose ever more draconian laws. hong kong's leader says the new powers given to her by beijing to remove opposition politicians deemed to be unsuitable will pave the way for a political system dominated by patriots. translation: if they are unable to uphold the basic law and to support the hong kong sar, of course they are not qualified to be legislators. here in beijing today, the communist party leadership passed a law allowing their surrogates in hong kong to remove undesirable opposition politicians. within hours, it was being used and l

pressure on hong kong. lawmakers. is that likely to have any effect though? it is not likely to be a practical act, but it is certainly on the international no attention that the troll democracy or the pro-democracy camp have valid to fight on. but what if any options lift for the movement? what the they have at their disposal? options are pro-democracy and this now that you know pro democracy and all the space agency and the fair share and he won they could be incorrect. so participating in the election be a fairly effective way to carry on with the democracy as fall of the to see movement on the street. it is also very dangerous. now, the sweeping national security law in beijing in july i have more broadly speaking, hong kong has reacted to the imposition of this new law from china. this created 5 beijing while 6 practice because there were rumors that beijing what disqualified pro-democracy, lawmakers and then hong kong people also quite shocked that beijing paradigm shift in the hong kong political all

building in hong kong. from the pandemic, the politics, to the relationship to beijing, what are we expecting from her speech today? stephen: i am curious to know what her tone is going to be. she is no longer on the defensive as she has been over the last year, through the policies that have been obviously handed down from beijing and also some of her own governments policies. the city has returned to a relative calm. there is still the pandemic and there's more social distancing tightening that happened late yesterday. she will probably spend a lot of her policy address on the measures that the government here is going to take to alleviate the pandemic and also get economic growth back and part of that as well is getting the border with china back open. this is an economy that is suffering its worst recession on record and full-year growth or contraction is expected to be -6.1%. it might even be worse that given the second and third quarter. the tone be very interesting because she defended herself yester

let's go back to our top story now in hong kong. the trial of a prominent activist has begun for more. i'm joined by our correspondent mathias bellinger in beijing mathias, the defendants including joshua. long be the figurehead, if you like, have plaited guilty. what is the sentencing likely to be yeah, they have pled guilty for organizing an illegal assembly that was a day in june where protests surrounded the police headquarters, beleaguered it for more than 18 hours. the sentencing this, the offense can carry a sentence for up to 5 years, although the real sentence is likely to be lower because not all levels of courts come how can hand out top the most severe sentence. so there is probably going to be an announcement in a few days what the amount of prison term will be for the 3 activists. but it's very likely that they will be handed a prison term is based on using this to sic, an example. beijing or the hong kong authorities have arrested a number of people. the courts in hong kong are not completely under beijing's control,

how is it playing out with hong kong? stephen: president-elect biden has been fairly tough on the chinese leadership with regard asa record on human rights well as outspoken against what happened in hong kong with the imposition of the national security lot. it has yet to be seen what a biden administration, if it does the to fruition, given uncertainty in the united states . hits uncertain what we are going to get from the biden administration -- it is uncertain what we are going to get from the biden administration. any continuity is unclear. one thing we do know is the trump administration is still keeping beijing's feet to the fire on trade and on hong kong and on china. though we had a treasury department statement adding four more chinese officials to its specifically designated nationals list but did not give further description. the four were not named. earlier, donald trump started unwinding the favorable trading status that the united states bestowed on hong kong after the imposition of the national security law

no, for the, for democracy movement in hong kong. yeah, i think we all agree that the sweet paying powell, the national security law makes hong kong's freedom just a lucian for now. so i guess that's the reason why i said reinforcement of the notion of the end of one time tree to system. because it really shows that the government has set of legal weapons that can be used to practice it, prosecute people, and we have lost our freedom of speech and assembly. so on the role moving forward . i think it's important that we try our best to say got the freedoms that we have left and we have to defend the professional values in journalism, in the me, i know education in order to receive these grave threats from chinese authorities say. but how do you do that? i've made some law, there appears to be virtually no need to provision left in hong kong for these it seems to be pursued. how do you differ in freedom of all of this? i mean, how do you defend for the right to protest? how do you defend the freedom of the press? i think only on the on