you're watching bbc news at 9:00 with me, carrie gracie. the headlines: protesters in hong kong try to break into a government building, on the anniversary of its handover from uk to chinese rule this is the scene live. jeremy hunt promises £6 billion to support farming and the fishing industry if there's a no—deal brexit. borisjohnson says he'd give public sector workers a pay rise if he becomes prime minister. a blanket of ice in mexico — a freak storm leaves hailstones piled up to a metre and a half high damaging homes and vehicles. now, all it takes is a text — new rules come into force making it easier to switch mobile phone networks.

good morning and welcome to the bbc news at 9:00. riot police have used pepper spray and batons during clashes with protesters in hong kong overnight, on the 22nd anniversary of its shift from british to chinese rule. the protests are the latest against a law that would allow suspected criminals to be sent to mainland china to facejustice. the hong kong government has since suspended the plan, but protesters want it to be scrapped altogether. this is obviously the scene that you see as protesters are outside government assembly buildings. let's go live now to our correspondent karishma vaswani who's in hong kong for us.

in the last few minutes we have seen protesters arriving from the march that began at victoria street. the scenes behind me, people chanting. this is the group of pro—democracy protesters that have been marching from victoria park annually. this is what they do but this year it has taken a special what they do but this year it has ta ken a special symbolism what they do but this year it has taken a special symbolism and significance. all day throughout today we have seen clashes between police and protesters right here on this main arterial street in hong kong. you can see behind me, the scenes between police and protesters is still tense. over there, there is a stand—off between riot police and pro—democracy protesters. earlier today, some protesters, a small group of them, tried to get into the legislative council building by ramming a trolley through the glass windows. police pushed back and now the mood remains tense. in the last

few minutes, hundreds of people have arrived here on one of the main arterial roads in hong kong and there is a sense of some jubilation in the air, i have to say. this has been very hard for many of the hong kong protesters. they want to show a symbol of solidarity. young people here are applauding, waving pro—democracy flags... a real image of defiance to the hong kong government here. but even though it has suspended that controversial extradition bill, for many people here, that simply is not enough. many of the young people we have spoken to hear, say they want that bill completely withdrawn. they want hong kong's chief executive carrie lam, to resign and they want their fellow protesters who have been detained at some of the mass of events over the last couple of weeks, they want them released.

these protests have caught the attention of people all over the world and they come on the handover anniversary of hong kong to mainland china from the united kingdom. the former government of hong kong, chris patton, has also been commenting on the events today, remarking onjust commenting on the events today, remarking on just how precarious that system of one country, two systems is. if it has been breaking down, it is because of the behaviour of the government in beijing under shi jingling. of the government in beijing under shijingling. i of the government in beijing under shi jingling. i think particularly, ever since the democracy demonstrations in 2014, they have been throttling hong kong, they have been throttling hong kong, they have been involving themselves far more in hong kong's affairs. i think the la st in hong kong's affairs. i think the last straw as far as the great majority of people are concerned, was getting rid of the firewall between the rule of law in hong kong and what passes for the law in communist china. i think that

really, did worry people make them upset. there is a terrific piece along those lines by a great chinese novelist, who was expressing his concern about what that would mean for the freedoms of hong kong. it was said, he sometimes had to demonstrate because it is the right thing to do, because you are trying to make right things happen. there isa to make right things happen. there is a seriousness about what people in hong kong are doing, which should mean that we are much more interested and concerned here and the rest of the world too. that was chris patten, the final governor of hong kong from the years of 1992 to 1997, speaking with the bbc earlier today. you can see that what he was talking about, the desire to demonstrate, the inherent right of hong kong people that they believe in so strongly. amongst that, a very valuable right they had, the right to an independentjudiciary, one of

the reasons why we have seen these mass protests over the last few weeks is because they feel those freedoms are under threat. it is precisely because of that you have seen precisely because of that you have seen the number of people out here on the streets today. it is not simply the extradition bill, it is also this rising sense of unease and discontent that many of the basic freedoms hong kongers have are being chipped away by chinese influence and beijing runs things here, at least that's how many feel. many more of the protesters are coming through from the march. you can see them chanting and waving their flags as well, also posters in support of one another. this is something that has caught the attention of notjust people around the world, but legislative council members in hong kong. this is one such member. legislative council members in hong kong. this is one such memberlj think kong. this is one such member.” think they are making a big difference. they are just telling

beijing and the whole world how angry we are with the chief executive, carrie lam. you might have seen her speaking this morning at the celebration, so called. but there was nothing to celebrate. she again, did not respond to any of the protesters' demands, like having an independent enquiry, like withdrawing this extradition bill completely. these are very reasonable demands and she has not appeared for over a week. today she appeared for over a week. today she appeared for over a week. today she appeared for a short time i did not address those demands. that is why the people are very, very angry. we certainly hope that carrie lam and the people around her will have some sense and come out and address the people's demands. in fact, that's what she said in her speech this morning, she will listen to the people. look at all these young people. look at all these young people and other people protesting. she is not listening to us. sol

guess people are unhappy, but i think they will continue to protest. i certainly hope they will protest ina i certainly hope they will protest in a peaceful and orderly way. pro—democracy activists and the legislative council member for the last 25 years, expressing some of the sentiments i have heard time and time again from young people out on the streets of hong kong today. it is not simply about the extradition bill. many people here feel they are not being heard by the ones who run this government. they say they will not give up their protests until their demands are met. all throughout the day today, we have seen these altercations, clashes between police and protesters but by and large this has been a peaceful demonstration, an opportunity for young people here to show their government what they want and how they really feel. joining me now from oxford is rana mitter, professor of history and the politics of modern china

at the university of oxford. thank you forjoining us. i want to get a sense of where china and beijing stand on all of this. we had chris patten saying it is pretty much a self—inflicted injury by beijing, what is going on in hong kong? beijing has never understood the dynamics of politics in hong kong, which arejust the dynamics of politics in hong kong, which are just completely different of those in mainland china. mainland china has been since 1949, a one—party state run under a highly authoritarian system. it is more liberal than it was being run by chairman mao when you had red guards filling tiananmen square. but it's still a different system from hong kong which is more liberal. it is left over from british rule where you have free media, universities, separate judicial system. all of this is very alien to a generation of leadership in china who of course

grew up in a system where none of those things are true. in some sense, this is a clash of cultures, with the beijing side simply not understanding the way in which the dynamics of operating in hong kong. it often feels frustrated because they cannot work out what is going on. the dimension of that is the personality and instinct of the personality and instinct of the person in absolute charge in china, shi jingling. person in absolute charge in china, shijingling. because of person in absolute charge in china, shi jingling. because of the person in absolute charge in china, shijingling. because of the point of thejoint declaration shijingling. because of the point of the joint declaration and the point of the handover of hong kong things seem to be a lot less contested about the idea of one country, two systems. since the umbrella country, two systems. since the u m brella protest country, two systems. since the umbrella protest in 2014, we have seen a move towards conflict because shi jingling seen a move towards conflict because shijingling is pulling in the other direction, ina shijingling is pulling in the other direction, in a more autocratic direction. that is how the hong kong and people would see it, would you agree with that? i do, but there are two elements to that. one is shi jingling, the current secretary of

the party and president of china is someone who is trying to centralise authority much more even than his predecessors over the last couple of decades. but the other factor is the change in hong kong's economy and its significance. at its basic, when the colony was handed over in 1997, hong kong made up of 18 to 22% of china's gdp, today it is about 3%. so whoever is president of china they don't regard hong kong as having the economic significance it did in the 1990s. that is why they are spending less time trying to think through and keeping it calm because it is no longer the goose laying the golden egg because the goose is getting elderly and not so profitable. if you are xi jinping sitting in beijing and watching what is going on in hong kong today and over the past month, do you keep

running those pictures of a battering ram on a loop and saying to your public of 1.4 billion, they area to your public of 1.4 billion, they are a disorderly rabble making trouble, it is not in the interests of hong kong or any of the rest of the decent, law—abiding chinese citizens. will that wash if you are in beijing, or do you think they will think they have to do something to get a grip of this? they will either ignore the whole hong kong protest, which is what happens mostly in chinese media, or create a discourse of it being a violent protest. what would be more productive is to find ways to bring the dialogues in beijing and hong kong together. one of the problems has been, leadership has never been found that both understands the aspirations, notjust in terms of money, but in terms of values and rights and so forth in hong kong, along with the reality it is part of china and is going to remain part of that. bring those two things together, having a genuine one

country together, having a genuine one cou ntry two together, having a genuine one country two systems operation as opposed to try and bleed one into the other, is the solution that could provide some kind of compromise. but it is not obvious right now the leadership is not able to make that leap. perhaps they will. i presume it xijinping sitting here, he might say that is all very well, but i don't need to bother because hong kong is becoming an ever smaller golden egg and i have bigger golden eggs, so i will wait it out and it will run in my direction in the long run? if you can get xijinping into direction in the long run? if you can get xi jinping into the direction in the long run? if you can get xijinping into the bbc news studio, i will be the first to congratulate you. but if he were to have that conversation, hong kong is doing fine in one sense as it is, there is very little bleed over in terms of the system in hong kong across the border into china. china is strong and economically prosperous but the governmental system is not being undermined. the simplest thing to say is just let hong kong get on with being what it is not try to change it too much.

we shall see, professor, thank you for joining we shall see, professor, thank you forjoining us. the conservative leadership candidate, jeremy hunt, is promising to set aside £20 billion to help the economy in the event of a no—deal brexit. in a speech this morning he'll say that his government would cover the costs of tariffs that would be imposed on the exports of the farming and fishing sectors to the eu. meanwhile, plans by his rival, borisjohnson, says he would give public sector workers a "fair" pay rise if he becomes prime minister. well mr hunt says he will pledge £6 billion to the fishing and farming industries in the event of a no—deal brexit. the money would come from what he calls a "no deal war chest" — cash the current chancellor philip hammond has earmarked for a brexit without an agreement with the eu. he will also promise to set up a no—deal committee to make sure the government is ready to leave by 31 october. meanwhile, his rival borisjohnson, says he plans to give public sector workers a "fair" pay rise and that the days of pay freezes were over. he's also vowed to cut taxes if he becomes prime minister, predicting this would stimulate

the economy, and increase government revenues. and on brexit, mrjohnson says he wants to negotiate a tariff free area with europe and that he doesn't want to leave without a deal. let's speak to our assistant political editor norman smith. no man, have i left you anything to say? the only thing i can say is both mrjohnson and jeremy hunt have discovered the proverbial money tree in their back gardens because both are promising huge spending pledges. jeremy hunt saying he will set aside £6 billion to help the fishing and farming industry. he has promised around £12 billion of cuts for corporation tax and this morning, mr johnson's people suggesting the days of austerity in the public sector are over and public sector workers can expect bigger pay rises. this of course, after a whole stream of other pledges on boosting the national living wage, tax cuts for the low—paid, tax cuts for the

better pay, more money for the police, more money for schools, roads, rail, infrastructure, broadband and the list goes on and on. this morning, matt hancock used to work for george osborne, so he was part of the brain is behind austerity and he says it is a strategy to bring the country together. this need to unite the conservative party and then the country, which i believe we can do once brexit is delivered, that is absolutely central to what we need to achieve. and i am part of a party that has a broad range of views and always had and part of being able to deliver when you are in government, when you are in politics, is about uniting people who may have, now have a range views and boris' ability to bring people behind him from different parts of the party is a great strength. asi as i said, mr hunt has his own

spending spree under way but his is focused on trying to mitigate against the sort of impact against no deal, which is why he has floated this idea of help for the farming and fishing community, to try and offset the possibility of tariffs being imposed by the eu. it is all about trying to say to those tory party members, who are the electorate here, borisjohnson may be fine with the big picture, but our man has got the detailed plan to actually work through no deal. at least that was the argument put by the international trade secretary liam fox, one of his supporters. we have to put in place the details of what a no deal would that lie, including how we would protect crucial industries like fishing and farming and how we deal with small businesses. it's not good enough to simply say, we are going to have a no deal. we need to prepare for it and that is what government is all about. it does raise the question, where will the cash come from? the answer

from both mrjohnson and mr hunt, it is going to come from mr hammond's back pocket. he has suggested he has around £26 billion of what he calls her dream around £26 billion of what he calls herdream in his around £26 billion of what he calls her dream in his current fiscal forecast which means he has got the scope to borrow, borrow an extra £26 billion. what mr hunt and what mr johnson are saying, we would borrow more to pay for the spending commitments. too many tories, it sits at odds with the whole sort of thrust of tory thinking, mainly living within your means, sound money. that is what we heard from chris patten, the former tory cabinet minister, tory elder this morning. slightly incredulous at the spending commitments the two leadership candidates are now making. two the debate is awful that the latest campaign on both sides making john mcdonnell, with all the tax pledges and spending pledges they are making, making the labour party looking like fiscal moderates.

how we are going to in future, if it comes to an election labour against conservative, make a case out against labour as being irresponsible, heaven alone knows given what these two candidates have been promising. the other thing that makes the spending pledges more dubious is the fact that mr hammond has said we have got this headroom, but boy, oh boy did we crash out with no deal all the money will have to be put into trying to prop up the economy are getting us through new deal, so in other words it will soak up deal, so in other words it will soak up the cash and they won't be this extra borrowing potential to meet the spending commitments you guys are making. we hear you norman, thank you. the mexican city of guadalajara has been hit by a severe hail storm, which dumped more than a metre of ice on the streets. cars were stranded and half buried, with drivers trapped inside. almost 500 houses were damaged. pictures and videos shared on social media show streets totally covered with ice. earlier in the week, the city in northern mexico, had been basking in temperatures

of more than 30 celsius. a heavily pregnant woman who was stabbed to death has been named as kelly mary fauvrelle. her baby was delivered at the scene by paramedics on saturday and is in hospital in a critical condition. police said a 29—year—old man was in custody and a 37—year—old man had been released under investigation. scotland yard said it was keeping an "open mind as to the motive". european union leaders, meeting in brussels, are divided over who should get the eu's topjobs, including a new commission president to replace jean—claude juncker. leaders on the centre—right have joined with some eastern european countries in opposing the appointment of one of mrjuncker‘s deputies. the summit has reconvened after being put on hold late last night to allow for informal talks behind the scenes. let's find out more. we can speak to our brussels correspondent adam fleming.

talks behind—the—scenes, what happened next? who knows? frankly the eu leaders have been here for about 16 hours. they met when i first got here yesterday and then that was suspended so donald tusk, the chair of the summit could speak to individual leaders one by one, even for a couple of minutes. groups of leaders are meeting in the corridor and side rooms to try and strike deals with each other and do a bit of haggling. a couple of hours ago they reconvene for a breakfast meeting. we will find out fairly soon whether they managed to make progress, whether they will continue to talk today or whether the deadlock is so strong they will give up deadlock is so strong they will give upfor deadlock is so strong they will give up for now and come back in a couple of weeks and have another and schedule summit, maybe around the 15th ofjuly to finally knock this on its head. the reason it's taking so long is because it is an incredibly complicated puzzle. there we re incredibly complicated puzzle. there were five jobs incredibly complicated puzzle. there were fivejobs coming incredibly complicated puzzle. there were five jobs coming up for grabs at the same time. there is president

of the european commission, the organisation that runs the eu on a day—to—day basis. eu leaders have to nominate a candidate then has to be accused by the european parliament. so the european parliament has to be consulted on that. then we have the high representative vice president who does foreign policy. they have got to chew someone for that. then the president of the european council who chairs these meetings. that is normally decided by eu leaders alone and it is normally a current or former leaders alone and it is normally a current orformer prime leaders alone and it is normally a current or former prime minister from the eu. then the president of the european parliament who is strictly elected by meps in strasbourg and they are planning to do that on wednesday. but it is still in the mix. then you have the president of the european central bank, which normally goes to an experienced central banker from somewhere in europe. what they are trying to do this year or this time round in this cycle, is linked the job together in a package so you have maximum flexibility to maximise the winners and minimise the losers. what they want to do is balance

geography, so north, south, east and west, big countries, small countries, older members, newer members and gender so there is an equal balance of men and women. and the tricky one, balancing the politics you see across europe, so politics you see across europe, so politics from the centre right, the ce ntre—left, politics from the centre right, the centre—left, the liberals and the greens, at the end of this everyone can say to some extent they got their man or woman in thejob. so it isa their man or woman in thejob. so it is a puzzle with 28 pieces, but only five slots. that is why it is proving so difficult. that was the full explanation, thank you adam. from today, mobile phone users can change provider with just one free text. the new rules are designed to encourage more of us to shop around. the phone regulator ofcom, says almost a third of switchers find it difficult to cancel their mobile service. it is the biggest barrier stopping people from changing, even if the new deal could actually be better value. nearly half of people who wanted to switch but decided against it said they thought it was all going to be too time consuming. but this is costing people money.

uswitch say we are overspending to the tune of about £325 million every year. so from today if you want to switch you send one text with the letters pac to 65075 and the text is totally free. your current provider will then respond with a code. they'll also tell you if there is a termination fee and what your current balance is. you give that code to your new provider and within one working day your service will have switched. there's no need to call your old provider at all. lindsey fussell is the consumer group director of ofcom and shes joins us now. thank you forjoining us. so, you are going to try to simplify this, do you think it will cut out for everyone, the hassle? good morning. we think it will make a huge difference, yes. people have told us the biggest thing that puts them of switching is the hassle of getting

through to their current provider. they keep you waiting on the phone and when you speak to them, they try to persuade you to stay. from now on, he will be able to send a free of charge, simple text message, and you will be able to deal with your new provider, you won't have to speak to your old one and have that awkward conversation. it has never been more easy to switch. another thing, i know we went through the percentages of those who don't switch because they don't want the hassle of getting into the conversation, but i suppose another thing that people feel about their phone contract is it can be complicated itself, so are you really going to clear out the difficulty for people of switching and measuring their deal against a possible other deal? there are lots of great mobile phone deals out there and lots of ways of finding out about them. perhaps using a price comparison website, or going 00:25:55,328 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 into one of the shops on the high