of the city you know how it operates both on the civil level and on the economic level. how much of a hit just from a political point of view from your position has had these demonstrations had on the economy of the island we touched upon it not in our news broadcasts as well but also on inside story many times but you know we're in october now we're several months so from down the line from when these protests began it's becoming pretty serious oh yes it's very serious and many restaurants and shops have closed and there are more closures on the way and i guess and people have been laid off and there will be more unemployed man and the people are really very unhappy but there is still strong sympathy for the protesters because actually the people themselves want those demands to be met but of course not too many people support

violence that's why i hope the contest can continue but i hope they will be more peaceful and every time when you have protests if you have 100200000 people turning out it is very good but of course it affects business juris and not how many conferences exhibitions many are cancelled and i think singapore is benefiting from it quite a lot and some people are just sending their money to singapore and elsewhere so so it is better so that's why i hope the business community will speak out i hope they will find some courage to speak up because the hotels are empty their restaurants are empty their shops are empty so i think it is hurting badly but kerry len she has to be pushed up this way get into accepting the people who steal my ok let me bring in roderick here because. when you hear sort of the financial hit the

whole const taken again somebody else that's been writing in south china morning post dr shirley you she's a senior visiting fellow at the london school of economics she's a fellow at harvard kennedy school and a former news anchor for the state broadcaster. roderick she says that china would rather see whole lose control of its financial gateway that ever seed political power that's quite a dangerous statement in lots of ways to come from an academic but one that you know perhaps should be considered and talked about even at this time. i think it is sensible to consider it i don't think we're at that kind of turning point at the moment but yes i think that is one of the sort of fundamental end if you like unchanging elements in this series of problems that we're facing at the moment and that is that beijing ultimately puts politics before economics and its interests in hong kong are huge for from the economic side but

they would be prepared if necessary to compromise them in favor of of their politics but we're not at that position yet hong kong has been damaged the economy has undoubtedly been damaged and will suffer more damage but it is interesting actually that overall confidence in hong kong seemed to remain pretty strong and as emily was saying you know the people significant numbers of people are still prepared to turn out on the streets to protest and that would not be happening if if people were putting their own economic short term economic interests. in the brinkley bring you in here that because with the thought of holding a financial center and still being at the heart of these protests at the moment that how important are financial center such a shit shanghai beijing and then in terms of the bigger picture for china itself

when it what it calculates their importance in whole holes importance. well there are about almost 400 international banks in hong kong is the 5th financial center of the world shanghai cannot compete to be that strong from hong kong and you can just see the reaction of the world the european union the united states many other countries are you know on hong kong's side despite china's heavy rhetoric so it means that the soft power in of hong kong is larger actually than the soft power of china so in that sense china has to has to change i have seen china change in the past 4 months for example earlier they were saber rattling you know organizing military drills just across the border nothing happened all the party of china for 70 s. birthday was all overshadowed was eclipsed by the protests you know how go and

that's what the world was seeing and that's what the world was siding with with hong kong about that it's not so much the just the economics but they understand that you know if hong kong is truly a 2 systems experiment the china should allow because china is trying to paint hong kong as a separatist it's not a separatist movement they want universal suffrage they want to vote for someone who can speak for them and that this is the problem is that a separatist movement and china tries to sell this idea that you know yesterday the presidency jinping says that the anyone who's tries to split china will be crushed to the bones that's nothing that's not how the world understands hong kong and i think as i said this is no mother home much hard power chinese they cannot defeat at the moment still is because hong kong is very strong in that soft power especially in the therms of its financial strength ok let me just give emily the

final word welcome to the end of the program really just want to the basically bring in the fact that you know as ruben suggested the international community is watching especially the united states and the. house has just brought a new legislation to say that they are watching whole call very carefully and they will decide whether it has a special trade status in the future if the realities on the ground don't improve is that an encouragement is that a warning how do you read that in the context of the politics of hong kong and how it could be received in beijing i think many hopeful people welcome passage of that act in the house of representatives but whether it will actually become real remains to be. the same thing and what this president's trying to say but it's good for them to penalise of his shots well i don't mind human rights but of course we don't want them to take the call out of separate customs territory treatment that will hurt the whole you know and will be a big a blow to me but if they can send

a signal to these gnostic people and say ah if you undermine human rights we will. coming to america and we hope the u.k. and other countries will do the same and also we will free us because as you know many of these people have access in the rest and they said get your hand believes over there so i think that we're house in date and that we have to leave it i'm sure that'll be a topic for another inside story in the future emily thanks so much to emily lau and reuben mangia in hong kong and of course to roderick why in london to all of my guest thank you for joining us on this edition of inside story and thank you for watching as well but you can see the program again any time by visiting our website at al-jazeera dot com and to further discussion you can to our facebook page answer facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter and i handle that is

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hello i missed out the attack and this is al jazeera live from there also coming up next it set back a keen northern irish party says it won't support parts johnson's deal ahead of a make or break a use on this. thompson the shouted down again hong kong leader is called a liar by and real position legislates is demanding her resignation. and risen baek awaits the results of its high stakes election as activists complain of vote tampering. i am. a high level u.s. delegation is on its way to tacky to meet president rush up to about 0 on hoping to convince him to call off an offensive in ne in syria vice president mike pence and secretary of state mike pompei i will try to broker a ceasefire deal between turkey and groups but i do on has insisted that his forces

will not stop until his objectives are met trump's decision to pull u.s. troops from northern syria has been met with criticism at home and abroad amid concerns about the face of the kurds and the release of jailed eisel feiss son in kosovo and who has more from the takesh capital ankara. a top level you are still a geisha nisan turkish capital ankara today we expect that they will try to change presidents as zones mind about this military operation conducted in syria against the wife e.g. turkish ses y p g is the sea where a branch of the output kurdistan workers party or the p.k. k. and the organization is listed as a terrorist group by turkey us and e.u. and that's why present our don has accused the west especially washington for grating with an organization that they also designated as a terrorist group and yesterday a while speaking to his his members of the ruling party he's out that's the only

condition that turkey will stop this military operation is the group the wife should lay down arms and sturk it can establish the safe soul so that some millions of the 4000000 syrian refugees residing in turkey can go back so far that they were horse statements between the 2 capitals washington and ancora but at the end of the day what we have witnessed so far in syria the spike their conflicts the spite the horse statements against each other sometimes they come around the table and they agree on. some terms but no one expects president are drawn to stop this fight against y p g as turkey is also in the middle of an unknown where the u.s. pulled out its troops from syria the sit in the syrian kurdish fighters group why puji under arrest you have collaborating with the syrian regime the regime says they are not agreed on any terms it's just yes they have surrendered to them and you have russia but no one can guarantee how each player is going to act on the

ground while turkey seems to have leverage some leverage on each of them can also be left out alone it is it will be surprising to see the outcome of these meetings today well meanwhile turkish forces and kurdish fighters continue to battle in the border town of considered a strategic point for both syrian government forces moving north have also become a major obstacle to turkey senegal reports from the turkish syrian border. the kurdish led syrian democratic forces are holding out in russell line using tunnels and trenches to mount their defense it's been just over a week since the turkey led military operation began. the battle here is key if that operation is to succeed fighting has been fierce. the fighters are mainly from the sciri have kurdish y p g group that make up the bulk of the s. the f. forces turkey considers it

a terrorist organization. this border town is where turkey wants to create what it calls a safe zone that will stretch 30 kilometers into syrian territory the united states which not only abandoned the s t f and pulled its troops out of northeast syria is demanding a cease fire it has already imposed sanctions on turkey as a form of pressure but president treasurer tayyip erdogan who will receive a u.s. delegation led by vice president mike pence on thursday is not budging. all over which takes effect immediately all the terrorists used to lay down their arms destroy their fortifications the beeld and withdraw from the safe zone from which to your regular order that we will establish then our reforms you will be printed. so far 100 kilometers of border has been secured turkey launched the operation with 2 objectives to push the y.p. g. from the border at least 30 kilometers south and to create his own that will allow

syrian refugees to return. the u.s. is now out of the way but russia stepped in deploying its troops on the front lines in a clear message to turkey moscow has called turkey's operation in syria acceptable and it seems that now wants its military presence in syria to end. and clear does have strong cards particularly the role it could play in helping to reach a political settlement to syria's war. make sure. that when the political trolls usually forces in the government is being we will handle all reals in syria including. their only recourse directing and rebuilding these areas russia has not shied away from publicly criticizing turkey for its incursion into syria describing it as an acceptable and demanding it to be limited in time and scale russia insists turkey has the right under an agreement reached with damascus in 1998 to push up to

a maximum of 10 kilometers into syria to conduct anti-terrorism operations but officials insists the addon up part does not allow turkey to remain in syria permanently and moscow won't accept that russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov explained what would be acceptable security cooperation between turkish and syrian army's along the border cooperation with the syrian regime would be a radical shift for turkey but there is a new reality government troops are back in the north for the 1st time in years unprecedented as well has been russia's position and criticism of turkey there will be hard bargaining ahead $700.00 on the turkish syrian border. joins us now from tehran pienaar that's near takis border with syria and also just a few kilometers from charles what's happening there now that's right russell line is just across the border from where we are we've seen pretty heavy

artillery bombardments this morning by turkish forces a lot of heavy machine gun fire in the city now according to syrian rebels that are fighting with turkish forces in that city they're telling us that they're finding it very difficult to take full control of it they say the advances made during the daylight hours of a lost at night what they describe as being tunnels s.d.f. or kurdish fighters hiding in tunnels a lot of snipers as well and they're forced to to pull back. those syrian rebel forces just said to us that they are claiming to have taken control of a number of villages to the west of the city so an ongoing battle here and bear in mind this started over a week ago the city fundamental to what it describes as its 1st stage of this military campaign we understand that the syrian army are. based at various

locations around 30 kilometers back from the border back from that proposed area where the turks want to set up this this safe zone so they say to put refugees in a cleared of what they describe are the terrorists syrian forces in towns like. i and. again reports from the turkish turkish side that syrian rebels are moving north towards that town a potential flashpoint we know already that the syrian army are in money to the west of there we've heard reports of ongoing clashes there were sporadic clashes sorry overnight and now we have the syrian army in the town of kabbani which again is to the west north of. a very important town directly on the border the syrian army in that area too. it's going to be very interesting seeing how things

develop today with respect to these kind of diplomatic efforts this high level delegation coming in from the u.s. thus far no no given from president early on he saying that he is determined to continue this operation an operation which he actually says was planned 40 years ago saying that the kurdish groups that are fighting on the other side of the border are aligned with another kurdish group that has been fighting turkey for decades he says that the only way that things will be stopped was.