featuring a lead role like you've never seen before let me be clear with you i have to act in ways that i feel necessary to people to understand that. there's not a mirror image to the ends justify the means. of witnesses starts december 13th on t w. this is. coming up. to suppress people's protest. of the u.k.'s hong kong. chinese police. but he isn't the only ok to have experienced is. another the same thing happened to him. and the i don't presidents who would decide he. gets to be the

world's newest country. i've been a strategy welcome to dr news asia it's good to have you with us over the 6 months of protests in hong kong china has repeatedly claimed that foreign forces often meant to unrest in the data tree now it appears used to try to prove its claim a former employee of the u.k. consulate in hong kong says he was tortured by chinese police while on an official trip to the mainland in august simon chiang had been tossed by the consulate to report on the protests in hong kong he says that could be one of the reasons he was detained by mainland police chung has claimed that why did detention police wanted him to confess that the u.k.

was instigating under arrest in the territory and to extract this confession police used torture as a tool. i paid hank coughed and i've been playing for to. stop the torture for example like. me had stopped. and for several hours and that's you feel very painful. and then for example you need to do a lot of extreme exercise distract task stack for example again into something like this. for several hours as well and you will shift will get a little shuffle in a standstill and if you try to sit down or stop what would happen there were pitney . china has responded to these claims saying it did nothing wrong you know what a foreign ministry official had to say about john one which is simon chinese name. during john one g is detention the public security unit guaranteed all of his

rights and interests according to the law and he also made a full confession about his illegal actions the illegal actions their efforts to allegations simon chang solicited prostitutes something he denies but simon story of being tortured in chinese custody isn't an exception corresponded much as pulling a spoke to another hong kong whose account of detention is chillingly similar to simon's it started like a routine business trip and indeed in china a secret detention system stanley was crossing the border to mainland china when he was stopped. would a police searched his phone and questioned him for several hours. then in the evening 2 police officers came they handcuffed me and put a black hood on my head. then they took me away.

for fear of retribution we cannot show his face stanley wong is not his real name his accounts cannot be very fide independently but his story is in line with accounts from other detainees. at that time border police have begun systematically and searching the phones of hong kong was crossing the border between hong kong and the mainland a photo of wong attending a peaceful march in june caught their attention he explained it was unauthorized march and that hong kong allowed him to participate but they wouldn't listen. they said this was about a matter of national security and that it wasn't up to me to decide what in danger in it means national security is above all other laws when national security is concerned they said we can catch you in hong kong or any other place in the world. one was held in a single cell that had been covered in soft material

a glass door was translucent from the outside only lights left permanently on over and over they interrogated him asking about photos on his vote and contacts to foreign nationals i had to crouch like this for the whole generation of the interrogation they placed me right under annakin disha with the wind blowing at me constantly each interrogation lasted a few hours. and whenever they thought i didn't sit well they would beat me like this. punch my back or kick me in the legs. the number of people who've been detained at the border remains and no one says he was able to catch glimpses into other cells that help people believes were fellow hong kong escorted the border after 36 hours he was released. my family tried to ask the public security where i was but they just wouldn't say anything the police

even denied they knew me and that i had crossed the border i understood that i could easily be disappeared any time. he's dealt with the experience quite well he says and he won't let it stop him but now when he crosses the border his heart starts to beat a little faster. and remember to vote. for continued coverage of china's handling of the protests in hong kong. a small pacific archipelago off a quarter of a 1000000 people could be on the cusp of becoming the world's newest country the autonomous region of bogun vale is located in the solomon sea and is currently a part of pop for new guinea or b. and g. for short starting saturday its people will head to a referendum to determine if they want to be independent or have greater autonomy

the referendum is part of a peace process that ended a decade long war between buffalo new guinea forces and bogun with separatists in 1908 although the voters non-binding many are hopeful that referendum will be the last stop on the path to peace. these men used to fight any and soldiers for independence now they're hoping to achieve in a nonviolent way. they handing in their weapons as part of a gun amnesty ahead of a landmark referendum on bogles future. it's one of many reconciliation ceremonies being staged in the province in the hope they will heal the wounds of the past. who.

became a province of papa new guinea in 1975 and many people whenever happy about it. and billions don't feel culturally aligned with p.m.g. and they've been repeated pushes for independence in the past some came at a great cost. in the late eighty's and ninety's secessionist rebels and pup when you give me an forces fought a brutal civil war that killed up to 20000 people it was the worst violence the region had seen since world war 2. after the war ended the people of bogan vell were promised an independence referendum at some point in the future. now the time has come. over the next 2 weeks some 200000 but in valiance will vote on whether

they want greater autonomy or independence from p.n.d. . ex-pats can also vote and it's expected that people will overwhelmingly back the latter. looking worse over the mean for this is an important referendum the people . all of us if the people's writing go on and they will be able to vote on how they see things of the world is the peace process it's part of the peace process and part of building deals culture culture. global and we get. the results of the referendum will be announced in december then papua new guinea's parliament will decide whether it will recognize the outcome. as long as the futurists undecided but in billions are concentrating on reconciling with the past. and the u.s. capitol on but it is one of the world's oldest cities it's also one of the most polluted in order to try to combat smaug from coal fired heating the government

introduced new smokeless briquettes the new fuel limits far fewer fumes into the atmosphere and is even warmer than traditional core but a spate of deaths in relation to the briquettes as residents watered. on a cold night nothing beats a warm cozy home towboats and his family recently made the switch to government issue to pick cats to heat up their house it's supposed to be cleaner but it's also potentially dangerous some mother s. worried. of heart i'm afraid we might suffocate i'm thinking of taking precautions a person talked about a smoke measuring device i'm thinking about getting that. the fear is legitimate this woman's daughter died of carbon monoxide poisoning after using the smokeless coal. the processed few needs twice as much oxygen as roll call and needs

to be used differently. like the many other victims they didn't realize it who. looked at kill cooking we didn't want to use the briquettes we didn't know how to burn them we didn't have the instructions and because of it my daughter died. i have given so much to my daughter to make her who she is the whole of the world. to the horses so hard for me to do a good. one here is very difficult for me to live any longer. authorities introduced a new few in october to replace roco and efforts to combat dangerous smoke levels and. since then at least 7 people have died and at least a vast more hospitalized the capital's emergency unit says they are teaching

residents to burn to feel correctly. the 16 year old tumble doesn't share his mother's concerns about the new cold war. some not so sure but it's true that the only thing i was worried about really was the last time when i left my 2 younger siblings alone. and then i couldn't remember whether i'd lit the fire on not them so that's what that was the only thing that radio. has and so it's all. a burning fear over a scheme that was meant to provide warm comfort. i don't want to our web site www dot going forward slash to this show online and for other stories from the region that's our show for today make sure to check us out on facebook and twitter as whether. or not with images of the u.s. born giant panda. who's made the long journey into his new home in the in china's

sichuan province but what you're doing it's time for. the fun. but i don't need to keep a day about other people's goals for over that's on home the 4th i'm clear. on that nickname by mr right on the fanny that the last dragons this one called to her through your. books on.

does technology promote live it all oppression hong kong protests. it's just connect to the world with that focus but do governments now have the technological upper hand with taiwan's digital natives. it's like no pickup truck you've ever seen tesla's latest electric vehicle turns out to be fragile.

also the latest tech takes to the water at the berlin boat show will see its make he says. this is business as asia. as welcome there are signs of a reprieve in the u.s. china trade war and asian markets crept up on friday on positive vibes coming from china hong kong added half a cent and the nikkei gains 0.3 speaking as an economic forum chinese president xi jinping said he wanted to reach an initial trade pact with the us a based on quote mutual respect and equality relations between the world's 2 largest economies have come under strain after the u.s. congress passed 2 bills backing hong kong protests. and speaking of those hong kong's polytechnic university has been an important place of learning over the years not least in computing and digital engineering.