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welcome to. it's good to have you with us. images such as these ones behind me out of trigger in the back of the hearts and minds in hong kong and across the border on the chinese mainland depending on how you look at it it's either a struggle for democracy or a dangerous riot that battle of perception is also being waged online and social media giants and facebook have revealed that the chinese government isn't fighting fair. these posts such as these on social media. groups and individuals in the pro-democracy movement. has also spent over 200000

accounts and plans to ban advertisement from state run media facebook has also taken action it has also closed a number of. we also a correspondent in hong kong if the chinese propaganda is having any effect on the protest movement. propaganda. on sunday these protests still can gather an enormous crowd they still do have broad support here we say 1700000 people on the streets and one of the really. defining features of this protest movement is just how inventive these protesters are how creative they are to try and counter the narrative to keep momentum going. on the streets night after night they plan different ways of protesting they remain as peaceful as possible that big fear of course is that any image of protesters behaving violent i

will go around the world on social media they need to show that this is as calm as possible. i didn't lose or george earned is here with me in the studio for more on the story journey welcome so what. part of this whole distance from mission been the sort of do so the facebook and twitter accounts that were taken don originate in china and they appear to be amplifying messages and images that portray hong kong as free fall and an extreme. example as we can see that post of by the chinese link accounts one of them says. i as fighters what's the difference and there's another post that's written in english it's very notable because this same set and i know if this campaign's they're targeting global audience and there are actually a lot of promoted tweets on twitter trying to say messages of the hong kong prothesis as well and this tweet they have been selected by the social media

blocking sites pinball and even one to it it says every day i go out and see stuff with my own eyes and then i go to report it on twitter and see promoted tweets saying the opposite of what i saw today is taking money from chinese propaganda outfits and running these promoted tweets against a top hong kong protest hashtags. exactly. but all of this so facebook said eliminate to 7 pages 3 facebook groups and 5 accounts involved in the campaign and the 2 to also said that it deleted 936 accounts and in the press release it also said it would bend state backed media from from oh think traits after they placed ads suggesting the protests were sponsored by western interests and were becoming violent. so even though many of these polls that we're seeing they were not necessarily fake news but instead

they are really focusing on the father nature of their protests and they never talk about the routine miles of protests and so this social media platforms they have to make clear that they don't want to be part of any government's propaganda campaign we're talking about facebook and twitter and as far as far as my understanding goes these are banned in china you can't really legally access them in china right facebook and twitter they are officially blocked inside china and so people there instead they would use their own social media surfaces like we chat oh wait all. the content on these social media platforms they're actually under very tight control but then in hong kong and facebook and twitter they have feely x. this is bold and this facebook and twitter activities by the chinese government shows really shows that beijing is china it's trying to change the narrative on the internet so i just have to also draw mean i know that you're sort of order is there live from hong kong and hong kong has enjoyed

a fair degree also freedom not seen on the chinese mainland do the start to a trip to work would suit people who don't go. home call people are they actually very sensitive to any social media polls or media reports by the state media and they really don't listen to any of these kind of opinions and what they do is instead to laugh about it to make fun of and it really wouldn't change any openings among competences so they know where the truth lies gerry journ thank you very much for coming into the studio and break that down for cause. riots have swept through eastern indonesia with protesters burning buildings clashing with police and blocking roads west pup was that instead of building and a prison were also torched the worst. provinces in indonesia's east far east so to speak they've been home to

a long running separatist movement against the indonesian government a pup would say indonesia illegally annexed the territory in the 19th sixty's those tensions were evident last week nearly 3000 kilometers away in. in central indonesia here more than 40 puff when students were allegedly racially abused as police detained them during indonesia's independence day celebrations this set the stage for the latest protests. indonesian police and protesters clash near sarong prison in west papua officials say over 250 prisoners escaped on monday when the jail was set ablaze protesters also damaged parts of the airport and set regional government offices on fire as they went on the rampage in the city.

violence to end the provincial capital monaco arre as rage spill dives into the streets. videos like this circulated widely on the internet have whipped up the protestors anger activists say it shows and students being called monkeys during an operation by security forces a nice job for the students were accused of damaging the intonation flag and taken into custody police later said no evidence was fined against them. in tunisia as minister for political legal and security affairs has promised an investigation. the government regrets the incident involving the indonesian flag in east java province which is now under investigation who. entered and was followed by negative statements and is treated on wrist in several

parts of pub and west papuan provinces. papuans are also responding to the allegations of racist abuse on social media sharing images and hashtags with the slogan we are not monkeys. indonesia's president has urged an end to the riots saying telling the protestors it's ok to be emotional but it's better to be forgiving. about it. and someone who's been following these protests is human rights lawyer veronica we can't serve or she's joining us from for security reasons but only got good to have you on the program with us we just played a reporter on the basis of i need to ask you is there some sense of discrimination that you think people in power poor and worst are responding to.

yes it's thought that the 5 the origin of all sin also initiate the worst west point people that's racism all along and finally reached a tipping point this past 2 days so when the people say that oh it's good to the incident in surround by you know where the. students don't want attacked and racists lots of monkeys it's just. it's just bigger this they finally have reached a tipping point how would you describe so far the the indonesian state's response to the protest and also overall the reverse of poor poor have been witnessing a separatist movement many decades now how would you rate the response of the indonesian state to. their response saw from an asian government has been fine they are not using security approach since the since the beginning in the one to 6 this until now are international been using stood the

approach that been sailing and that's why. these past few days. used to elite down under international law if you want to protest you have to submit the letter of it can treat aspired to the protests but this protest this last good blood test that no one on now to additional after stuff made it to the police and but yet they can't take to the streets are you saying that the indonesian government does not know how to deal with the protests and the feelings in papuan west are all. i don't think so because the yes they made the indonesian president and chief security munis already responded to this last protest but the the president didn't apologize but instead the president said now don if you mean be emotional but let's forgive each other of

course today there was 5 months to this race again the nation of the us as well said that they're going after social media accounts which redistribute look at the news of heart west. in stack off going off to report transfers of attackers so it's been really disappointing so far right we have to leave it there for the time being but on a couple months you very much for joining us right. the because of the far more updates on the double talk golf ball the special is shot that's all for today we leave it all with a look at a dramatic chemical to rescue all fishermen stranded in the fact that obviated up in the. jumpers is a motorcycle but the be. the 1st. the

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a trial of self driving buses. come to do business asia want to get jones in berlin thanks for joining us political unrest in hong kong has prompted china to speed up its vast regional development program the greater bay area project has long planned this but believes the promise of strong economic growth will ease anger at hong kong which will lose its special status in 28 years so the government wants to make hong kong a key part of a cluster of cities in the pearl river delta creating a vibrant economic area chinese president xi jinping describes the greater bay project as central to china's great a national reach of a nation and hong kong is just a pot.