growing resistance of hong kong. china will eventually. and finally we're very pleased to have with the activist he was involved in the umbrella movement that emerged during the hong kong democracy protests in 2014 he was granted asylum in germany last year he says we don't want hong kong to become just another city in china. so welcome to all of you let me ask you just start out by talking a little bit about the current situation even after the suspension of the proposed extradition law the protesters have made it clear they're not calling it quits apparently messages have been circulating on social media your social media expert calling for protesters to escalate their actions quote unquote what could that mean what do you expect the protesters on now organizing. demonstrations and. i think they don't expect to have such. to which they fall then they stay what they said that they would come back that. the chief executive said it will be withdrawn and that they also. charges on the protesters who were arrested so we

well 1st of all the fact that there are demonstrations in hong kong speak to the fact that hong kong is a democracy people in hong kong have the right to protest and demonstrate they need to do that within the rule of law of cause secondly for china and hong kong one country 2 systems they are 2 different jurisdictions or god continues to practice what we call capitalism or democracy in the sense where as meaning china practice is socialism. with chinese characteristics they are more or less 2 different jurisdictions now for a tradition deal to be executed between or among different jurisdictions that's the rule farm in the world many countries or many regions have such an arrangement china have such execution arrangements in practice or theory with many countries and regions and also it is true that in the world today there are many criminal offenses which are happening across bungler is across different jurisdictions therefore going forward is specially in the internet age to have a tradition will become more and more common practice right ok for it to be surprising that a male in

of hong kong. jerry how far would you expect the government to go to suppress a protest if as you said there are continuing rallies. escolha tory actions even what do you think the government's likely to do -- i think the suppression of the protest will only be justified if they it's clash and violins. all yeah clash between police and protesters and so as long as the protesters they keep a calm. and remain peaceful i don't think the government has a reason to stop people going on the streets just to say things that. they wouldn't like and so we'll have to see it like what the protesters plans are -- in but i wouldn't say the government will still make a lot of the efforts. to to hi ed this bus the people. address it's sometimes difficult to get a reading on carrie lam at least i find -- the chief executive of hong kong -- at times in the beginning she sounded like the mother of a recalcitrant child very strict. then when she apologize she actually sounded at least genuinely distressed you said she

i think it is the most serious challenge to the autonomy of hong kong and the rule of law in hong kong and the rule of law in hong kong since we left in 1997. i'm kasia madera in london. also in the programme: one of the leading contenders to become britain's next prime minister admits committing a crime when he took cocaine 20 years ago. and we meet one of the london—based students whose idea for helping rice farmers in asia has won them a million dollar prize. good morning. it's 8am in singapore, one in the morning in london — and the start of a new day in hong kong, where the police chief said his force will bring to justice those who participated in violent clashes that followed one of the biggest marches the territory has ever seen. organisers say as many as one million people took to the streets on sunday, to protest against controversial new extradition laws. the authorities put the figure atjust under a quarter of a million. this report from our diplomatic correspondent james robbins. late into the night, a series of clashes between hong kong police and protesters determine

i think it's the most serious challenge to the autonomy of hong kong and to the rule of law in hong kong since we left in 1997. at least 3 people are reported to have been killed in sudan, on the first day of a campaign of civil disobedience. one of the leading contenders to become britain's next prime minister admits committing a crime when he took cocaine 20 years ago. hello, and welcome. hong kong's police chief says his force will bring to justice those who participated in violent clashes that followed one of the biggest marches the territory has ever seen. organisers say as many as one million people took to the streets on sunday, to protest against controversial new extradition laws. the authorities put the figure atjust under 250,000. 0ur diplomatic correspondent james robbins reports. late into the night, a series of clashes between hong kong police and protesters determined to resist what they see as further erosion of their already limited rights. after a peaceful day, a far more troubled evening. some demonstrators piled high metal barriers, and pushed them towards police surr

hong kong policy act and this essentially gives trading privileges to hong kong in its ties with the united states the united states effectively treats hong kong as a separate entity but the u.s. is now saying that unless the hong kong government shells this proposed extradition law then the united states might have to reassess that relationship that it has with hong kong now those words which were really unsettle the business community in hong kong and also actually unsettle you know major chinese firms that also invest in hong kong because remember most major chinese companies when they list they list on the hong kong stock market so china has an awful lot invested in hong kong and will want to ensure that the protests come to an end and investors don't start having 2nd thoughts about staying in hong kong china correspondent adrian brown speaking to us there from beijing thank you adrian. well japan's prime minister iran's leaders to pay a constructive role in securing peace in the middle east and to abide by the 2015 new kid shinzo albay has warned of an accidental conflict in the

for more on this i'm joined from hong kong by amnesty international's hong kong director. mr tom good to see you and thank you for making the time for us now the leader of on kong has said the government will in any case go through with this bill as part of what she called the government's commitment to hong kong other planned protests on wednesday therefore. well i don't think so will carry them to push forward with these changes is actually an insult to the one we had in. this week's on sunday who call for the dangerous mr dish and i managed to be wrong it is. rod i was 8 that is the policy on this and equal but then the government doesn't seem to be listening to the people and this is not the 1st time protests such as these are happened in the streets of hong kong. well i i see what you need and i think that we have been through these kind of that's the ration not only this time but also e 2003 when the national security law was proposed also. all. the young. and bold we manage to. request of. the national security at all and then. we actually opt to. be a. new democrat

well there's a danger here for hong kong a very big danger because you know in the past hong kong has been treated as a sort of separate place from china by various u.s. administrations but increasingly politicians in the united states are starting to say we may not be able to continue allowing hong kong to enjoy this special status special because it gives hong kong special trade and economic benefits and you know it could get to a situation where eventually you know the united states under president from will say you know you're either with china or you are with us and of course that would have a devastating impact on the hong kong economy. and adrian just to remind ourselves back in 2003. the hong kong government had retreated on legislation in the face of protests before there was this was seen as a controversial national security proposal after half a 1000000 people hit the streets but in recent years the current chinese president xi jinping has shown no signs of of bending as beijing seemingly tightens its grip over here government in hong kong yes. you're absolutely right i mea

kong to china they can do whatever they want in hong kong. very interesting so let's take a look then at the links between hong kong and china hong kong in fact has long served as a bridge between china and the world acting as a conduit for trade and investment in both directions let's take a closer look at relations between the 2 and what that means for the rest of the world. boasting over $7000000.00 inhabitants the special administrative region of hong kong is one of china's most important trading hopes. when britain transferred sovereignty upon come to china in 1907 beijing agreed to guarantee the existing political and economic systems for 50 years according to the principle of one country 2 systems. hong kong's autonomous status guarantees civil rights such as freedom of the press and the right to protest but these are under increasing threat as beijing's influence continues to grow. only hoppe of the 70 seats in parliament are elected directly. and chief executive was appointed by a largely probation election committee. arrests of the

kong —— and hong kong. some protesters who arrested early on when police moved against protesters, the court said they had no business arresting them and ordered them to be released. the exceptional seems to be something that will undermine the things that makes hong kong distinctive. ultimately didn't really achieve what the protesters were trying to do, is this different? can this change this one country, to systems situation? it just change this one country, to systems situation? itjust doesn't seem that thatis situation? itjust doesn't seem that that is feasible. it's hard to imagine changing it. it's partly an effort to prevent erosion of things that i wrote on going on, it's driven in part by a sense that we should all be aware that there has been a tightening of all forms of control across the prc in recent yea rs control across the prc in recent years which is very worrisome around there. but i think one of the things that's important and i was in hong kong briefly during the arbella movement, i was

kong hong kong and we don't want that to happen and we don't want hong kong just to become and like in our the city in china right you won't and alan lee were taken into custody in 2016 the accusation there where involved in violent riots one of their fellow companions was sentenced to 7 years in prison on the same charge but the 2 feel the punishment is disproportionate fearing what might happen the 2 fled to germany while on probation they lived in limbo for 6 months until germany granted them political asylum. i think the history of germany true for me personally is quite encouraging because after i came to germany i pop with some old german they told me that. when they were young they had never imagined germany west germany would be. united a reunion again but somehow it happened saw. that those german told me don't lose my home because everything could happen both men hope for hong kong homeland where democracy and the rule of law prevail just like in germany. joining us now is mine cape town of amnesty international hong kong man k. now that germany has done this do you expect

they want democracy in hong kong. but i must say i think hong kong people this time around compared to 2014 they really way smarter and more careful because we see a lot of protests organize in different countries in australia in the u.s. in europe and they really are trying to get as much international attention as possible so with the international pressure i would say it's something too for the government to back down a bit but as for china. i don't think it's been a place that big grow in can if this is how they want to go off and. under is how much to hong kong stability and prosperity matter both to the west and also to china as i was looking at the figures i found it quite interesting to see that hong kong share of china's overall g.d.p. g.d.p. has dropped quite dramatically so question is would china really care if hong kong were to go into an economic tailspin. they would care but probably not as much what china has up to now. needed hong kong for is a finance center that brings capital in and out so a lot of

it is hong kong. from where you sit and with your barclays team, how discrete is the hong kong economy from the rest of china? christian: obviously, hong kong over the past decade or so has become more closely aligned with china and has benefited from the trade, capital flows that have found their way into hong kong. none of this has been clamped down. the bigger picture is whatever happened to hong kong, china overall may be getting to a critical juncture whereby according to our forecast, china growth will slow below 6% next year. that is something we have not had since 1990 and how does china deal with this, the party being a party that delivered rapid income growth, and the promise was to escape the middle income trap. now we are seeing the situation where chinese growth is likely to slow. will they accept it or become more draconian? this with a population, not only in hong kong, which are, but in the chinese cities where there is a middle-class limited access to social media. this may be a cruci

inside hong kong. we will keep across events as that continues. let's get more on that story. alkira reinfrank is a journalist with the south china morning post who observed the march. she has been describing what she saw. it was a historic scene yesterday, i've never seen so many people. it's the middle of summer here so it's about 32 degrees and 90% humidity, yet it didn't deter protesters. i was stuck in an area about two football fields for a good two hours before we even started moving because there were just so many people that came out to protest this controversial extradition bill to china. and hong kongers have a history of protesting but this was on a whole new level. organisers are saying over a million people turned up for the protest, but police are saying only 240,000 people there, at its peak. now, hong kong police are notorious for underplaying how big crowds are. i've never seen a million people, but i was in the crowds for about 8—10 hours yesterday, and the protesters just kept com

in hong kong. this is where the march has come to an end the government's main office complex and also the legislative council building many thousands of protesters have been streaming away from here to go home but many thousands more have been staying on in fact so many they've now spilled out onto this main highway completely blocking it this is cool road which 5 years ago was at the very center of the occupy movement so symbolically it's very important for hong kong's pro-democracy activists important that they occupied at least for a few hours on this very important evening for the moment there are no signs of any police they do appear to be keeping a very low profile allowing the protesters here to be very much in control at the moment after a 5 year we don't see that people are getting down but increasingly we are getting too old hat our own freedom we do you think the government here is listening to people and he's having. yeah sol i come here to support them every day and i want to show the

well 1st of all the fact that there are demonstrations in hong kong speak to the fact that hong kong is a democracy people in hong kong have the right to protest and demonstrate they need to do that within the rule of law of cause secondly for china and hong kong one country 2 systems they are 2 different jurisdictions how god could do this or pact is what we call capitalism or democracy in the sense where as meaning china practice is socialism. with chinese characteristics they are more or less 2 different jurisdictions now for a tradition bill to be executed between or among different jurisdictions that's the rule farm in the world many countries or many regions have such an arrangement china have such execution arrangements in practice or theory with many countries and regions and also it is true that in the world today there are many criminal offenses which are happening across bangor is across different jurisdictions therefore going forward is specially in the internet age to have a tradition will become more and more common practice right ok for it will be surprising that we do

hong kong policy act basically treats hong kong as a separate identity separate entity from the people's republic which enables hong kong to enjoy all sorts of trading privileges which is one of the reasons why hong kong has been spared some of the worst effects of the trade war but if that were to happen that would unsettle a business community that is already deeply unsettled by the events of wednesday indeed for the moment i do we'll leave it of course come back to you as and when we get reaction from beijing thank you all in a few moments we'll have the weather with steph but still ahead here on the al-jazeera news outrage in brazil after leaked documents appear to show a conspiracy to keep leftist leaders out of the $28000.00 election race plus strike it rich forbes releases its latest list will be here to tell you who are the top sports earners this year. the web sponsored by cattle and ways. if you think. it's. likely you. know. florrie and. it is just feel. like. every. run for. the weather sponsored by qatar airways. i was. using. every. here watching i was there is news hour wi

rights of hong kong residents as well as people visiting hong kong. we go now to hong kong where we are joined by mary hui. she is a hong-kong based writer and reporterer for the news outt quartz. she has reported on the extradition bill and has been covering the mass protests. welcome to democracy now! can you start off by talking about the significance of this bill that was passed? just explain it. >> sure, and thank you for having me. the significance of this ill is that it will threaten hong kong's price prejudicial and legal independence. as the former governor said, there needs to be -- between hong kong's legal system and china's. with this bill, that firewall will be done away with and it means -- it will mean the death of one country, two systems, because the world no longer be this firewall and people will be -- there's a possibility people will be able to be extradited to china to face charges were they .ace an uncertain fate nermeen: could you outlinene wht the key features of this proposed amendment is? are? >> sure. so as the law current

rights of hong kong residents, as well as the people visiting hong kong. one of the most prominent pro-democracy activists in hong kong, 22-year-old joshua wong, was released after a month time bars. in 2014, he helped lead the umbrella movement, which protest protest -- silentill not be kept under this under president xi and carrie lam. carrie lam must step down. otherwise i believe in the next few weeks before the 22nd anniversary of hong kong transfer of sovereignty, more and more hong kong people, not -- will come and join our we get back our basic human rights and freedom. amy: we are joined now b by two guests. in hong kong, nathan law, a pro-democracy activist who helped lead the umbrella movement. he andnd joshua wong have been nominated for the nobel peace prize for their activism. he was with joshua just after his release today. and here in new york, minky worden, director of global initiatives at human rights watch. worked and lived in hong kong in the 1990's. we welcome you both to democracy now! nathan, can you describe what took place this we

we urge the leader of hong kong parallax must. fully withdraw the extradition law that my extradite hong kong people to mainland china face the unfair trial i serve jail sentence and just leave prison today mourning is lucky that even i missed those large demonstration now i can join a fight and lead people to iraq to know that under the rule of china we would not keep silence. safety trade wars on the growing security challenge in the gulf are causing concern at the paris air show french president is attending one of the industry's largest events it will likely see more deals so after boeing's troubles with its 737 max aircraft the play was grounded after 2 fatal crashes within 5 months you haven't seen the rebels say they've targeted a saudi airport with a drone for the 4th time since wednesday riyadh has not confirmed the attorney can close to the yemeni border on saturday the who these want people to stay away from airports and certainly arabia and the united arab emirates when you try to between ethnic groups in the democrati

a young hong kong lady was killed and the suspect fled back to hong kong. the case caused deep sorrow for the victim's parents while at same time revealed a clear loophole in our -- >> you've just been listening to the chief executive of the hong kong government. that's carrie lam. so she has just been explaining what we expected and what we heard over the previous hour, which is that the hong kong government is suspending the controversial bill that has brought hundreds of thousands of people down to the streets and caused some of the worst unrest that we have seen since the handover of hong kong in 1997 to china. let me go to steve chao. he's been listening in with us. steve, it's what we were expecting. it may not be a full win but it's at least a partial win. >> reporter: well, very much so. and you heard carrie lam strike a very conciliatory tone. she said yes, i believe that we likely talked to all facets of society when drafting this extradition bill. but these recent demonstrations though there was perhaps a great deal of anger and division. on that

through hong kong. the law itself is complicated. it allows hong kong to extradite people to countries it doesn't have agreements with, including mainland china. critics call it evil and believe it will allow beijing to target anyone in hong kong under any pretense. the new york times reports christians are among the worried and fear shipping copies of the bibles to mainland could attract punihsment. that's one side. hong kong's commissioner to the us dismissed those accusations in this letter to the new york times and says the amendments won't affect the legal rights and freedoms of individuals. for more on that angle, here's a former senior hong kong official, andrew leung. beijing is backing the hong kong government 100% and there the hong kong government has already made a stand. but this law is necessary. do not forget that there are fugitives, criminal fugitives hiding in hong kong. and if the loophole is that it is allowed to be continued, then it could attract more fugitives, not only from mainl

to hong kong's. she said she will... unacceptable, withdraw! we need it withdrew. under the immense pressure from these protests, the hong kong chief executive released a groveling apology. i apologise to the people of hong kong and pledged to adopt a more sincere and humble attitude. as night fell, this sea of protesters around the hong kong government and police were on the best behaviour, no riot shields or helmets but barriers. public anger here will not be assuaged until the hated extradition bill is gone. to show you the live pictures from hong kong and you can see there are still people out on the streets even though it is very late at night and refusal to give in. sitting down on the road, such as their determination to press home there message. charles parton is a former british advisor on china and a senior associate fellow at the royal united services insitute — a defence and security thinktank. hejoins me now. thank you very much for coming in. how will the scenes of hundreds of thousan

it's very hard to say because it does not depend on the hong kong was on not even on the hong kong government in its own to what what will happen next beijing has a say in that and beijing is not known for seeking dialogue with people who protest it as we all know so it's very hard to predict what's going to happen next. it's also unlikely that the government will put forward this bill any to. time soon because it would just weeknight the whole city again so if we just look at the the main issue of this bill i think protesters are already more successful than that time but in getting more freedoms and getting more say in the city's politics i doubt there will be significant steps in the near future. when just how much is hong kong's otani and its independence from mainland china really at risk. pos rhythms are eroding they have been eroding slowly over the past few years we have seen for example beijing of ducting people from the city and putting them in jail in china so this is probably presumably a reason why beijing also wanted this bill although now the probe it income says it was kerry l

traded follows hong kong stocks. that is down just under 1% and then the big fxi that is probably the largest of the mainland china large cap stock etfs that is a live trade that is down 1.4%. >>> all right, let's talk more not just about this, but about the world generally with a guy that travels the world and invests in it. ceo of london based investment and we appreciate you coming on and talking. >> thank you for having me >> we wanted to talk about the global market, brexit. they might start back up, again. growing unrest on mainland europe now you've got this in hong kong is there a way to price in the costs of unrest at all >> so, to some degree, there is. higher risk. if you go back 20, 30 years where we're used to political, not unrest, but political destruction and then we got used for a long period in which the world was stable and not withstanding the crash because essentially that was not based on political destruction increasingly, we've seen political destruction and political destruction hits in two w

on political dissent in hong kong. politicalave the u.s. and legal reaction to that, and you end up in a scenario where hong kong is all of a sudden a very, very different place in china, in asia, and in the world. vonnie: you bring up a good point. we haven't had any administration reaction to this. but if the u.s. were to weigh in on what is happening, would that escalate tension between the u.s. and china very greatly? jacob: i certainly think it would make it more difficult for president xi to back down because obviously, then he would be viewed as essentially bowing to political pressure from president trump, which is very difficult for him given the standoff they are already embroiled in over the trade relationship. so in my opinion, the best scenario here is for carrie lam to basically pull this legislation sooner rather than beforeand hopefully donald trump starts tweeting about. guy: we will leave it there. jacob, thank you very much indeed. theb kierkegaard of peterson institute joining us live from berlin. l

investment banker in hong kong, you have absolutely no rationale to stay in hong kong. you move to singapore or move your assets out of hong kong. the reason you are seeing a spike is the mass of the quiddity shortage in hong kong. >> president trump says he has no official deadline for china returning to trade talks. washington saying aging the negative on the terms of a deal d on the terms of a deal. president trump is also stepping up his criticism of germany, threatening berlin with sanctions over support for a new gas pipeline with russia. lead -- leaveld germany hostage to russia. he might move troops to poland because of berlin's low spending on defense. and spacex has launched free canadian satellite that would take scans of the country. they took off from a military base in california and were deployed successfully and hour later. the canadian space agency says images.l provide global news 24 hours a day, on air and at tictoc on twitter, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i'm ed ludlow. this is bloomberg. shery: let's

but it is not just hong kong residents who are concerned as artie's evangel sips us explains. for days there hong kong has been gripped by protest over an extradition bill that would allow alleged fugitives to be extradited to mainland china as well as taiwan. the. did you notice the banners written in english or doesn't seem the best way of getting the government's attention in beijing but american politicians are receiving the message loud and clear the extradition bill imperils the strong u.s. hong kong relationship there has florrie's for 2 decades if it passes the congress has no choice but to reassess whether hong kong is sufficiently autonomous under the one country 2 systems framework the extradition law proposed by beijing loyalists in hong kong would allow political dissidents minorities and foreign travelers in hong kong to be spirited away to china's secret police on the mainland the people of hong kong are assembling in the streets to resist this threat to their freedom and send a message to the chinese communist party we stand with the people of hong kong that pe

kong can be extradited to each other's countries but many people in hong kong are not sort of persuaded by kerry lam's arguments that there are sufficient safeguards in this new bill to address their concerns carrie lam says that people who are facing potentially sentences of more than 7 years would not be extradited to to china sure so says that people who would face political or religious persecution would not be sent back to the mainland but that still hasn't been enough to reassure people and that was made abundantly clear by those protests on sunday but you know the real issue is this more and more people in hong kong feel let down dissatisfied by the leadership not just of carrie lam but also by her predecessors they feel that they are continually patronized by not just the hong kong government but also by the government in beijing they're not being treated in their eyes as adults adrian brown live for us there in beijing thanks a.j. . sudan's military genter has defended its crackdown on protesters saying it is their job to ensure the safety of the country at least 4 more people

kong so lots of cache of humility that as we hear how important it is hong kong for china what it's extremely important i think hong kong's openness and its freedom is something that china needs its own capital markets are still heavily restricted we've seen since 2012 the chinese companies have raised 156000000000 from i.p.o.'s in hong kong where they've raised 143000000000 in their own mainland exchanges so it's really very important to them all of this of course takes on a different character as well with the u.s. china trade conflict at the moment china is being squeezed and it needs what hong kong has to offer in terms of international exposure more than ever and. that squeeze on home calm of the moment that we are kind of feeling of our other financial centers in asia are benefiting from this singapore for example where you are. well you know i mentioned again has that you know the issue 7 with the extradition lock was a threat to china's democracy but it also symptomatic threats all of that is you is singapore as a top financial center rival it stands to gain a lot from these

plans with hong kong? we have seen activist lawmakers urging president trump to respond, potentially with economic sections against hong kong, if they pass this bill. even speaker nancy pelosi saying his at thed reassess t moment. amber: and it has implications for hong kong as a financial center for asia. it remains to be seen what extent of that could shift to singapore. a lot to watch for the financial markets. shery: straight to those mass rallies in hong kong. we have a bloomberg news editor who is normally based in taipei but is here with us in new york today. great to have you with us. i was covering the protests in 2014 in hong kong, and it really went nowhere. it lasted a few months and then petered out. so what happens next this time? >> in the case of the umbrella movement five years ago, the hong kong government and police broke up the protests quite violently. a direct people wanted save who their leader was then. in this case, they are protesting to prevent any erosion of their rights. what h

he is in hong kong. steve, what is the latest customer steve: what we are hearing is that the pan democrats are having a conference or scrum right now in the legislative conference behind me. it on youritor bloomberg terminal, as well, at the hong kong anchor desk pretty much calling for the chief , to step, carrie lam down. they did use quite significant for us to clear out the protest yesterday, late afternoon, early evening, and into the night as they push them down from here in admiralty toward central, using, as you said, rubber bullets, tear gas, pepper spray, beanbags, even projectiles to keep the protesters at bay. this morning, the weather, there is an amber rain alert, which means heavy rain and flooding. just within the last hour, there was extremely heavy rain. perhaps, that is keeping the protesters at bay for now. they have vowed that they will keep up the fight until the legislators decide, or if they do withdraw it. that is what they want creed but so far, from the chief executive theye l

i grew up here with all other hong kong citizens. hundreds of thousands of people have been evacuated along parts of india's western coast as the region prepares for a powerful cyclone. i'm nuala mcgovern in london. also in the programme. the start of a beautiful friendship? japan's prime minister is in iran, the first visit of its kind in decades. new gun laws are one thing, enforcing them is another. why police in colorado say they don't want to take away people's firearms. live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. it's newsday. good morning. it's midnight in london and 7 o'clock in the morning here in hong kong where the mood remains tense after police fired rubber bullets and tear gas at thousands of protesters in the city centre. demonstrators are trying to block a bill that would allow people to be extradited to mainland china for trial. dozens were wounded in the clashes which the territory's leader described as organised riots. rupert wingfield hayes has more. this was the centre of hong kong this

hong kong zaza. protesters filled the length of the route of the march and spilled over into adjoining streets ah well before the shed you will start time the crowds began forming at the starting point they say hong kong's freedoms within china are being further eroded and a calling on the chief executive kerry lam to quit and we will not stop until we get true democracy in hong kong because even in parallel with that doll the system is still unfair we do not have through the month a real we do not have a election most protesters will black to show their anger towards lam and the hong kong police and many carried white flowers in memory of a man who fell to his death the night before the march while putting up a protest banner. the incident adding to a sense of bitterness towards a government they say doesn't listen to them i don't think i'm alone in the sense that at least we only have the staying out does carry a lamb support your city. your face of course holder said pick this up because. they may

kong's autonomy and its democracy china applies the one country 2 systems principle to hong kong giving the ted a tree the right to determine the laws that govern it but how successful have demands for this to be respected been let's go back 5 years but you will remember these pictures students and pro-democracy activists getting umbrellas protesting in hong kong's business district in late 2014 demanding free and fair elections but what did lead to clearly does of the umbrella movement was sent to jail in 2017 and in april this year 7 others 100 prison terms for their role in the movement also in 2017 for pro-democracy legislators what disqualified from parliament for refusing to declare loyalty to china when they took their oath of office and last year despite opposition the hong kong legislature approved a measure that meant chinese law trump hong kong law in parts of the new west called long train station there are many more such instances but we do turn to the current protests and our correspondent phoebe kong reporting from where they are being held like the umbrella movement 5 ye

hong kong's government she also said that you know their. their government didn't do the best job of communicating this bill she said and she said that she's working to correct that there's really no time line now what's going to happen with the bill again is as we heard her say there it's going it's going to be paused but we know that it's not dead and as far as other celebrations from the protesters obviously this is this is that a good development for them but it's not over they want this bill killed it will probably see some some statements along those lines in the coming hours probably on sunday when they're holding this mass march like they did last sunday that's almost a 1000000 people so that's still going to take place we also know that the kerry lead is is also meeting with going to be meeting with the opposition in the legislative council that's going to be happening later on today she's reaching across the aisle if you will to discuss this further again she's saying that this is something that's not dead this extradition bill pro

>>> protesters packed the streets of hong kong. another long day of demonstrations demanding the government scrap a controversial extradition bill. >>> plus, they're all fighting for a chance at number 10, but the top tory candidate was missing from the very first debates. we will tell you why boris johnson skipped out on a chance to face his rivals. >>> plus, a major power failure across multiple countries, but still no word how such a massive outage left parts of south america in the dark. >>> live from cnn world headquarters in atlanta, we want to welcome our viewers joining us here in the united states and from all around the world. i'm rosemary church and this is "cnn newsroom." >>> well, it is relatively calm in hong kong now just hours after a second record breaking protest in a week. this was the scene sunday. organizers say 2 million people flooded into the streets to call for the withdrawal of a controversial extradition bill. police say it was just over 300,000. opponents fear the bill will lead to dissidents being sent

i'm sharanjit leyl in hong kong. the headlines: violence on hong kong's streets as the protests over a new plan to send suspects to mainland china intensify. the territory's leader defends her record. translation: have i sold out hong kong? how would i do? i was born and raised here. i grew up here with all other hong kong citizens. this is the scene live where authorities have shut government offices in the financial district for the rest of the week. i'm nuala mcgovern in london. also in the programme: hundreds of thousands of people have been evacuated along parts of india's western coast as the region prepares for a powerful cyclone. the start of a beautiful friendship? japan's prime minister is in iran, the first visit of its kind in decades this is bbc world news. it's newsday. good morning. it's 1am in london and eight o'clock in the morning here in hong kong where the mood remains tense after police fired rubber bullets and tear gas at thousands of protesters in the city centre. they were here a few hours ago

kong i mean the the system that sort of governs hong kong at the moment there's one country 2 systems where hong kong is allowed to have the freedoms it's always had until 2047 well that's just another 20 years from now so these are. young people you're seeing on the streets today will be middle age then and wondering you know what sort of future they will have after 2047 ok adrian brain great start see it but for now thank you very much let's return to some of the upper day's news now after a 3 day nationwide strike in sudan process leaders have reached an agreement with the military to suspended talks and if european envoy says in exchange the military has agreed to release political prisoners that reports. this fire in darfur was retribution for allegiance to the protesters nationwide strike according to the sudanese professional association the group says on monday about 10 people were killed and stores and homes were torched by a peer a military group called the rapid support forces or r s f amnesty international says it has evidence proving the r.s.s. is committing war crimes in

would it be beneficial or hurtful for hong kong if the hong kong issue and the extradition bill become a hot spot between these 2 giants? anson: we don't want to be caught in the middle of this trade dispute between our country and the u.s. as i pointed out, if the u.s. feels, quite rightly, that may have an interest in seeing the faithful implementation of one country, 2 systems, that they are concerned that the extradition proposals that will considerably undermine confidence in hong kong, it is entirely their right to speak up. whether in the context of the upcoming meeting between president trump and president xi, or on any other occasion. shery: realistically speaking, president xi jinping pays a little price for ignoring the demonstrations back in 20 14,000 of hong kong people. do you expect this extradition bill to be shoved and for beijing to back down? anson: it appears the extradition proposals are the initiative of the chief executive. the chief executive is accountable to the people of hong kong while also being accountable to beijing. that as our chief executive, she would