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a boy's football team. i'm going to spend a day welcome to do the big news asia good to have you with us from democracy protests in hong kong up getting university students against each other 7000 kilometers away in australia over the last few months some university campuses have become battleground between pro beijing students and those supporting the pro-democracy protests in hong kong the old occasions of raised fears of chinese government interference in foreign universities i'll be talking to students and an analyst later in the program but 1st this report. still falls of australia's university of queensland in july when probation. bracers

disrupted a rally in support of the hong kong protests. video posted on social media showed the 2 sides hurling abuse of each other while the chinese national anthem blasted from a speaker. right out. oh. this was not an isolated incident on a campus where about 17 percent of students come from china protesters critical of beijing's policies are frequently come fronted by chinese communist party loyalists . it's a situation echoed in other international universities with large chinese student bodies at the university of all clinton new zealand a video posted on you tube showed the he said exchange between pro hong kong demonstrators and supporters of china. is different from china was part of china

china. china ok i think what time it was i told you that. lenin will at the college and others around the world have been vandalized multiple times the walls made up of messages of support have been a key feature of the hong kong protests at simon fraser university in canada a man was filmed ripping down the notes. it's tactics like these that have raised concerns because they could threaten freedom of speech on campus. protesters also say they have been intimidated and threatened after taking part in student rallies against china with much of the abuse happening on chinese social media platforms like we chat or weibo. did not your mamma does a student of the university of adelaide in australia has been to

a number of these demonstrations where pro and anti china students have faced off against each other i began by asking how these interactions have generally been. at some of the protests it does it is quite simple as the others they do get a bit heated so on one side you have. this chanting or having a couple of speeches and on the other side you have the perpetrator nice practiced . singing chinese national and the also chanting it's like. a lot of these printers they are. open mike and we allowed to approach a nice students to come and speak if they want to when those who do speak quite civilized they do try to put civilized in the traits of. our experiences but they're also quite close minded and they don't want to answer although they are asked to understand it also don't want to so they do get

a bit confusing seeing them in perspective of the pray pray chinese students there are none of your friends are. and there have been reports in the media of a perhaps there is some state backing for a lot of the pro china students do you agree with that do you find that do you think do you see on campus that potentially there could be some backing from certain quarters for these proton us towards. i do believe that there may be some sort of financial backing also pulled from the chinese government was these changes as i haven't seen it firsthand in regards to the students here in adelaide and. we had a student politics elections a couple weeks ago we had a critical international voice which is majority chinese students international international chinese students there were reports afterwards that those students were telling the chinese students that if they didn't support them if they didn't

vote for them that they would eventually they would be deported back to china so there were these kind of threats that may be linked to woods the government system but they're not quite proven to have been other instances with all the presenters in the last couple years where chinese communities trannies families and chinese international students have come out. supporting perhaps chinese official member coming to australia with protesting against his arrival. have been supported by the chinese consulate student id like job muhammad there let's bring in alex yassky from the australian capital but on now alex is and i'm most of the australian strategic policy institute and he has done a lot of research on and that chinese interference in australia and it's good to have you on the program can i just ask you of the outside doesn't look like the

chinese state is on this treaty supporting students who are protesting on australian university campuses. thank you the very least we know that the chinese government is encouraging these kinds of activities the consulate has really statements encouraging students to show their patriotism and protect china's sovereignty and there's a lot of evidence that groups linked to the chinese government are involved in orchestrating some of these protests the australian government has set up a task force to look at chinese interference in australian university campuses how is the task force going to proceed what are the things they're going to be looking at least to be looking at a whole range of areas including research collaboration freedom of speech and some of these issues around what the chinese communist party is trying to do to influence students and discussions on university campuses to be

a form that brings together these trade in government with university officials to deal with these issues but at its why is it so easy for the chinese embassy or for the chinese government to be able to encourage and support these protests on australian university campuses surely there must be some of the australian government can do for a long time the history in government and universities have really turned a blind eye. to a lot of the work that the chinese government does on our university campuses to do influence networks and to be able to mobilize chinese students and in fact there are very few she levers that the government currently has to deal with this issue there is simply this initially such a large number of organizations and into the chinese government operating on campuses to influence politics influence discussions and protect the interests of the chinese communist party so how effective will this task force really be that the government has

a point of. i think it will be effective in getting the universities and selves to do more because ultimately the real challenge should be a university to do more to integrate chinese students to protect him from surveillance and intimidation by the chinese communist party and it's only by getting your losses on more the government can deal with these issues the alternate argument of course there would be that chinese students or if you call them probe aging students they have an equal right to protest and to voice their opinions on australian universities and that should not be seen as interference would that be fair to say i think i think there is or is a i think in history as a free and democratic society we do tolerate voices from all kinds of perspectives but a difference and part of the concern here is that the chinese government does seem to be having a role in some of these activities so rather than being genuine expressions of

political picture like sentiments these activities this irritated by the chinese government and also also facilitated by the time weekend and all that it is going overseas through platforms like the certainly at we chat alex from the australian strategic policy institute thank you very much for that they did. their photograph the way of determined dr divers are racing against time and water to rescue 12 boys and their soccer courts from a flooded cave in thailand they've been trapped for more than 2 weeks inside a deep mountain the ordeal in 2018 had barely ended when film maker thought at their own race to get the man biting drama into cinemas the 1st of those films it's the screen this weekend with director tom well as their cave premiering in south korea. i already know they read right words from the internet. with that work you don't think you're going. to want to have miles in there the

behind a wall of water in the rescue mission like this ever been attempted it's unprecedented it's the 1st big screen retelling of m.s. down during a rescue operation. the boys were sedated with mosques and then dragged to freedom through kilometers of narrow passageway. the caves director says his film features some of the many ordinary people who gave up that time and helped to save the boys' lives so in the film you'll see the story of the unsung heroes you'll see the volunteers of the local people who came to the mountainside to help you'll see divers travelling from across the planet to arrive at tom long in the north a time to literally jump into a cave and go pull these kids out 4 of the divers involved in the actual rescue are

acting in the film under their real names. whatever happened in the cave and the feelings that i experienced that it was experienced and the scenes that we saw something that nobody has ever seen on screen or heard of. him when he says the experience was terrifying but an important one to share at a time when many people's involvement with the natural world is confined to the indoors and the screen. i was afraid. i'm always afraid when i go ok but if. we manage those fears and over fears there's something to humanity really needs. to be premiering at the busan international film festival in south korea this weekend the film will go on. tool and it's set to come out in thailand movember. of the world what triggers

a post today hong kong's government banned the wearing face masks as protest with random things of up to or you're a jerk for not complying mosques have become a symbol of the protests to relieve some of the more recent ones thank you for watching the thick of it. after the fall of the berlin november 9th d w. it's time to take stock.

and face. time on your own just search the now. and find for the truth. time to over compound trades and connections. it's time for w. d w d is coming up ahead. lines. hong kong a city in danger but not in a state of emergency according to officials tourists though leave one of the world's leading luxury holiday destinations high and dry as riots turned violent again and the government invokes of emergency powers. watering prices for onions across parts of asia major producer india bans exports following poor harvests.

and a thirst for beer abroad keeps german rulers in business at the time of continually falling consumption of hard. i've been fizzling it's to business hong kong leader kerry lamb has evoked emotions in power as implementing a full band on facepalm asks prompting even more on rest protesters took to the streets in opposition of the law which was made under the colonial emergency regulations ordinates the measure allows hong kong's leaders to create new laws that are in the public interest months of civil unrest to grow the city and negatively impacted hong kong's economy especially the tourism industry. the violent clashes between protesters and the police are hurting hong kong businesses the number of tourists in the city state plunged 39 percent compared to the same time last year according to official figures dog it was i'm sorry if i use right now business is down by at least half or even more we see 0 income every day

it's really obvious i want to expenses are the same so.