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welcome. it's good to have you with us now it seems like these behind me that wants to avoid a head of massive celebrations on tuesday china 70 and these clashes on the streets of hong kong don't fit in with the narrative of a happy he's full prosperous nation and the people on the streets of hong kong. as to why they don't believe that. it's images like the. chinese president xi. instead mass demonstrations have dominated the countdown to. the 70th anniversary

of the people's republic of china these protesters are no mood to celebrate. with the world watching closely they want to capsulize only attention and make them and ahead we should be a great day but we really can find a reason to start to bring we feel more sorry and sorrow for what do you have suffered i hope to make our country attention to understand more wides we are going to fight for this this thing is a good one to protest. to show the whole we all lose. 50 feet of where we will go much to our all. also artie's hit their mass on rest on cheese day they want to avoid a repeat of more scenes like this. images of angry young play chess is threatening to pull focus from beijing celebrations and embarrass authorities police have made

clear this weekend that un sanctioned rallies will not be tolerated by us there's only so much they can do to keep people off the streets instead of massively scaled back the annual celebrations to prevent them from being swarmed by protesters ordinarily this area behind me is packed with people marking the anniversary this year though all the ceremonies have had to be moved inside into that building that roadblocks like these ones stopping people from even getting close in the evening a massive fireworks display that usually lights up the sky behind me drawing thousands has also had to be councils. if you look hard enough you will find some signs of support for the anniversary a few lone flags lined the streets of a neighborhood known for its prey beijing sentiment. one local shop owner tells me he's looking forward to the anniversary but even he will be marking it privately. so once you juggle it i will spend the day doing my duty as

a chinese citizen i will do my best to run my business well and keep working. as the night for these few symbols of support for beijing atoll into the ground pro-democracy support is unwilling to let even the slightest hint of celebration go untouched. joining us now is john in hong kong already good to see you is a hong kong a reading it's full a day of clashes on tuesday yes tomorrow october 1st is going to be a really big day it's 77 year anniversary of the founding of the people's republic of china so it's a very sensitive dacre that beijing government and and it's also a public holiday here everyone's off the protesters are planned events all over the city i think it will probably be the worst day of protests that we've seen so far in almost 4 months of protests and everyone sort of bracing themselves for their

course we also don't know exactly what's going to happen but the police has already put out warnings they've sent out of warning messages to everyone's balance saying that tomorrow should be very dangerous what exactly is the minute in which the government plans to deal with these protests because as you mention it deserved it out of a story of china's founding a very important day in hong kong as well and on a day in which protesters will be protesting how does the government plan to counter them. well the governor in the parlor you be using more of the same tactics that they used so far so yesterday for example we saw the use of water cannons they sprayed water that is also laced the blue dye with pepper spray and chemical in years a lot of tear gas and rubber bullets from well it's pepper spray bullets so it's probably more of that but on a more intense level they did fire one live round yesterday i believe that's the 3rd or 4th time that they have hired live warning shots they have not used it to

aim at anyone so far so i'm not sure if we'll see an escalation in the methods but i think we'll see an escalation in terms of intensity in terms of the number of arrests made in terms of maybe the violence you ras becoming increasingly violent so we'll see tomorrow the run of these protests have been on for more than 3 months now just help us understand is that a hong kong how's your daily life impacted because of these protests or the protests almost all the time or only on the weekends so donna weekends they generally start in the early afternoon and go into the evening and they don't go that may be usually and before midnight or shortly after that because that's when the subway closes and most protesters do have to get home so on the weekend i would say people's lives are disrupted they have to know where the protests are happening

they have to avoid them nowadays it's very common m.t.f. guard the subway to shut down stations specially in response to more and more vandalism against n.p.r. stations so people's lives are disrupted in that they're not able to get to certain places or they have to watch our grazers they're mostly on the weekends and people are still going to school there so bike to work and they're still in gauging social activities that's normal and just you know where john is laurel george's big draws from hong kong thank you so much for that and. and while hong kong remains tense beijing finalizers celebrations there was a roundup of the burden for. every note and every step carefully choreographed hurst china is deploying $15000.00 personnel for its largest ever military parade a display of strength that will flow into a ray of hardware from fighter jets to supersonic drones on its 70th anniversary

the people's republic wants to showcase its transformation into an economic and military power host. for president xi jinping it's a key moment to assert his vision for china on the eve of the communist states birthday he paid his respects to its find a mouse a dong she has set out to secure his own place in history with efforts to establish china as a major player on the international stage. those efforts lately undermined by a trade war with the u.s. as well as protests in hong kong which have drawn attention to china's human rights record. but no dissenting voices will be alive to ruin the atmosphere on tuesday the parade is invitation only and beijing has stepped up internet controls ahead of the occasion with the capital festooned with decorations patriotism is the order of today. but i think if our country is powerful then we won't be pushed around any

more by other countries. will have even more of a voice on the international stage and will be able to safeguard our people's interests i mean that he turns over and i'm very excited i can't wait to see it because it's a national parade and as a kid i really wanted to be a soldier and each time our own national day when we have this parade i feel that our country is very powerful i feel that we're very safe. with final rehearsals underway that's a message of a came to podcast they've even distributed over 600000 t.v. sets to ensure people tune in more than just a spectacle this is a narrative for the masses xi jinping chinese dream brought to life. corresponding with his bowling goes in beijing and here explain the significance of the celebrations that have been planned the communist party has built its

legitimacy what it sees as its legitimacy on nationalism during the past 30 years as obviously communist ideology does not really match the situation on the ground in china so these parades these nationalist displays of power are extremely important to the communist party and of course there will be little mention of the economic problems the trade dispute but also internal economic problems and of course hong kong protests have been censored carefully during the whole sum up at the specially in the cost days. but is building of that more on those celebrations and possible protests tomorrow and of course more details on our website dot com isha. that's one thing you can never get back and it's always a running out. it's

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