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of a commission of inquiry into all the events that lead these to and including the disturbances in the last few months and that's going to take a year maybe truly years when the commission to report and on that basis they can also then say that we are not charging anybody police or demonstrators until we have hurt the result of the commission's report that mood give them a significant period of time to cool things down and charge you who diffuse the situation it can be done without the chinese government accepting that it has some comfort in it in mom's demonstrators but they will not do so because we see it us we condemn precision and kowtow injured demonstrators it is where we still are just of do do you think the other side his government is facing more pressure now to reinvent the. post of
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a chief executive wishes elected by nettled calos chosen by the chinese government when now the developments on the ground indicate that the people are looking for something different for someone democratically elected in the universe or suffers for example why are. from the hong kong people's pawn up we'll be can easily tell the chinese leaders that how come people the vast vast majority are on people do not want to turn and 170 off a deterrent tory do not want to endanger state security hong kong people simply book once to be one to be let alone so your tits heave it separately of understands their lives can keep hong kong people happy and able hong kong to feel their are their rights are. protected it then there will be hope major contribution to
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the development of china rather then all the time trying to talk it is 9 very crossed at the moment the. in a crisis is already quite. deep so you're part of me have to let our carrier and to step down so go there will be reorganization of the government not the secretary of justice but we see things on step down as well and then to give the shape and independent commission of you get an e.c.v. be done but i think as we have already the it's thing the chinese authorities are unwilling to make the kind of concessions it is a descent concern that given the deterioration in domesticity and international environment of china chinese the this cannot be seen to be weak in dealing with the
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best and external crisis i see a point at reception on the view you have all said repeatedly of that you don't think china is genuine about about reforms and which brings the question to chris if the impasse continue is that and it can so that china might call in troops. well i think that there is no beat the chinese court fluids because. we have seen who would be said gen what they're trying to do to stop the iran the border city seem to walk on but they're only garrison to talk on with the obvious side and that the way that china works is that it if it can do something if we don't warn the public about it they would just do it considering the consequences but they did report the financial times in other places which seemed that the chinese army command that hong kong actually promised to the u.s. side that the same day people said that the chinese on the it would not be deployed
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off so if china it could be the ability to. ignore all the international consequences of being caught if the da told us that it will do so so i don't make the risk of the goblin's hi steve do you think the chinese government will listen to the concerns voiced by the international community britain and the u.s. and many other countries said it's about time for the china to listen to the people of hong kong the chinese government should pay attention to what will of being sent in the international community but that doesn't mean that they will do want the. international community in damage to do. with all due respect to chris i think he is completely wrong the idea that the chinese government will not use force in hong kong is totally unrealistic the chinese government is and has always been very clear that the garrison in hong kong is there to defend and fault china's sovereignty although hong kong when
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a chinese leadership used the term kind of revolution to describe events in hong kong they are beginning to see hong kong as poss in a basic challenge to the florentine communist party in china that east a pre-condition ok damage to all i have obtained i have a last question vertica question to joseph busy less than a minute with you talking about the impact of the process movement on hong kong what kind of long term impact on china if the crisis continues it simply means that economic growth and longing will not guarantee political stability he certainly hope that you can only grow through bring about genuine political reforms so that people's rights people's dignity will be respected this is exactly what hong kong people want and i think this is exactly the challenge that decide these leaders who have to face you enjoy mediate a non-computer thank you thanks to our guest joseph chance to sand and chris chunk
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and thank you to philosophy you can see the program again at a time by visiting our website al jazeera dot com for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com author was last a.j. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter our handle is a.j. it's a story for me ash and i have are the whole team here in doha by phone and. from mother to daughter an ancient craft kept alive by a bustling matriarch. from start to finish. all traditions intertwined with new designs making this family's place unique into an easy as a rich tapestry. to throw on
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i'm richelle carey this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up side by side pakistan marks its independence day as its prime minister emraan condit clara's a day of solidarity with kashmiris. i mean asylum seekers on the mexican border who say they aren't a terror by mass shootings and racism in the u.s. plus. i'm on the gallica in iowa where a trade war with china is having a very real effect on farmers will be asking if i recall china still supports the president. china's condemn protested hong kong airport as near terrorist acts after 2 men from the mainland were beaten by demonstrators on kong's airport authority says it's now secured an injunction to stop protesters from disrupting operations planes are
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flying again after thousands of demonstrators flooded terminal buildings causing mass cancellations there were violent confrontations on tuesday when riot police moved in with the tongs and pepper spray mcbride reports from hong kong. it was late in the evening when home combs international airport descended into chaos. protesters had detained and roughed up a man they suspected of being an undercover agent from mainland china. paramedics tried to intervene but in vain so police was sent to help it. given the current animosity between protesters and police violence seemed inevitable. scuffles broke out even though officers had clearly said their mission wasn't to disperse the sit in now in its 5th day. and anger at what protesters say is police brutality in dealing with them has fired up these airport demonstrations
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. after bringing the airport to a standstill on monday there were again calls on social media on choose day to converge on the departure hole and protest the numbers began to build jawing the day. they blocked access to the security and immigration areas and used cars to close down the check in desks just a short while ago we watched as the check in counters were closed and then it was officially announced that departures have been canceled again for the 2nd day running one of the world's busiest aviation hubs to a standstill into the evening passengers kept arriving to learn the bad news and try to figure out what to do. hundreds of flights have now been cancelled with a growing backlog hong kong's government is continuing to stand behind the tougher police tactics after they said they were facing increasing violence. earlier in the
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day hong kong's embattled leader kerry lamb gave a press briefing to warn of the economic damage of closing the airport but gave no hint of backing away from her and beijing's resolute stance that you have executives responsibility is to ensure that hong kong remains a safe and orderly and law abiding city that is my utmost responsibility flights have now resumed once more the protesters are threatening to disrupt services again with the knowledge that if they can get enough numbers they can achieve it. and let's go to robin pride now who is live in b. airport in hong kong so how are things progressing today rob. resell it's a completely different scene today at the airport hard to imagine that this i was a go was basically
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a war zone 2 hours ago very strict controls came in all points of access into the terminal staff security staff now want to see your i.d. they also want to see they've got a valid travel document anyone who's wearing a black shirt is under particular scrutiny basically if they think your purely a demonstrator they will try to turn you away in truth we know from social media that photoshop copies of tickets are doing the rounds if you have one of those on the screen of your device and flash that with your i.d. you probably get through and we've seen a couple of suspicious demonstrators who probably have gotten through this system and i think the airport probably knows that yes people will get through but what they want to avoid are the thousands of people who have descended here on the last couple of days causing absolute chaos here i mean that their point is look we've been pretty tolerant we've allowed you to come in and demonstrate but we're in the airport we have to have planes in we have to have planes out we have to have
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passengers moving through here safely and at times as we know in the last couple of days it has not been a safe environment so the airports patience does seem to have run out slightly it has to be said though there are still some protesters here in the arrivals hall who have discovered just how tight these these restrictions are now and realize that people can't get in it remains to be seen exactly what will happen to them if they leave it's doubtful they will be allowed back in again and there was an altercation just down at one of the main entrances here to the arrival hall when they realized that the thousands or hundreds of protesters were not going. to be joining them as they have been joining them the past couple of afternoons there was a lot of shouting and they feel as though they've been betrayed by the airport they thought there was an agreement that although this injunction was in place there were designated places where people could go to demonstrate i.e. where they are but they are now not going to be joined by people it also has to be
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said that this wednesday afternoon we've had a reappearance of police officers who we haven't seen here for the past couple of days and when we have seen them here it has been. led to very serious clashes with demonstrators for the 1st time police officers are back in the terminal but keeping a low profile they're almost hiding behind a pillar actually and certainly keeping away from the demonstrators who are down on the floor below us richelle all right. private and latest there and hong kong rob thank you. pakistan is marking its independence day but prime minister moran call on has also declared a day of solidarity with the people of kashmir tensions have been on the rise since last week when india and india effectively annexed the part of the territory that it controls. is on his way is actually to take that back when a state has just now arrived in pakistan to minister impact kashmir to address politicians there and according to the governor in the indian controlled part of
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kashmir restrictions on freedom of movement in the region will be eased after india's independence day on thursday billions of kashmiri 7 forces stay indoors for 10 straight day without working phones television or the internet some of us live now from as off or bought in pakistan a minister in kashmir so literally in just a few moments before we came to you some we understand that we have pictures of enron khan arriving tell us more about what we expect today or. yesterday you'd be able to see on your screen that crime is down run cons helicopter just nodded a few moments ago. a show of solidarity with the people to be on the other side user i was offered this community is expected to tell the politicians here that sounds good but you should be very august on is rejecting completely what india's done it called it an illegal annexation of a disputed territory that india has taken the unilateral steps to amend its
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constitution and bashir should be resolved by the united nations resolutions imran khan's and also expected to shore politicians that pakistan is going to continue its diplomatic efforts if i can find it insists that there is no military solution to this conflict and it is going to employ all its resources the poor mr within china and we've heard from him in the last 24 hours that the united nations security council will hold an emergency session on what he calls. human rights violations and even genocide according to the foreign minister. that is being committed in indian administered kashmir so these politicians have gathered here in the legislative assembly on the day of the 14th of august which is independent to do pakistan and the pakistani government has decided that it is going to be and it's not going to be celebrating this day but rather it will be a day of muted celebration that it is going to be marking it in solidarity with the community and its people to really flags as well as pakistani flags on this day
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some of what's the latest that we know about the restrictions over over the line of control and any any administered kashmir or any new updates there. but it is day 10 of this lockdown that continues in indian administered kashmir you heard so some statements that some restrictions might be eased. after the independence of the india that's on thursday to more on the 15th of august but we've seen that these restrictions have been eased but article in few areas where people were allowed to go and create for prayers some people were allowed to seek medical care that they wanted to because it is it's been 10 days and what people here on this side have been telling us that there is absolutely no way that they can get in touch with family members here we met somebody who sent his children to the other side to indian administered kashmir and he was saying that is day 10 and i just don't know what has happened i don't even know if my daughter is not alive or not so that's the kind of anguish and problems that people are facing that we've been
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hearing from the indian government that it is going to be easing restrictions but so far that has not happened and even when the sections of the no foreign connection or internet connections have been restored so it is a lockdown that continues and leaders including the u.n. security secretary general has said that they are concerned about what is happening between these 2 nuclear armed rivals are in a some avenge of a but the latest thank you more than 500 refugees and migrants are stranded in the mediterranean sea after being rescued by 2 aid ships the ocean viking vessel picked up 350 people on sunday and monday and the spanish.

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