well you are talking about mainland china you're not talking about hong kong in hong kong you know we have the common law system and we have the presumption of innocence anyone arrested can apply for haiti as kopper's conviction on criminal offense needs a very high burden of proof in fact proving beyond reasonable doubt which with all these safeguards here they're over we already implemented the international covenant on civil and political rights through our basic law and the bill of rights in hong kong so called has a different system you shouldn't alum our system to gether what mainland china's system we have stronger protection of person no data privacy so what you just said simply does not apply to hong kong where you say you have these common law safeguards how long are you going to have them for when the new law comes into into effect look in detail at how beijing uses its national security laws on the mainland to curtail personal freedoms and snuff out dissident voices that's that's what is in store for most of the us do you know you don't really understand the real situation

and canada have even suspended their extradition treaties with hong kong hong kong a separate treaties from the rest of mainland china and then the late as germany has suspended its extradition treaty with hong kong incidentally one of those dissidents or activist wanted by hong kong's national security police forces a pro independence activist and a protester currently seeking asylum in germany vivi gopalan for inside story u.s. citizen samuel choose is one of the activists wanted by hong kong police he told of his there at the chinese government is determined to stamp out all of position even abroad. i think that i was outrage and really not surprised but this is such an outlandish claim that somehow they have jurisdiction an american citizen lobbying an american government is just completely out of line spoken to a number of congressional offices and i as i said from the very beginning when the law what's and if they're going to come after me they must love marched down to capitol hill and arrest speaker pelosi and senator rubio this and everybody in the white house because they too

and hong kong residents faced down the police.helle and sanford had never seen their home in such a state. as the movement wound down, michelle returned to hong kong for the first time in a while. but she recalls feeling an indescribable discomfort. >> this is the city of taipei, taiwan's most important city. many immigrants from hong kong are now living in suburbs around the city. although some elderly people in rural areas only speak taiwanese, mandarin is also spoken the city, making it easy for immigrants to live here. taipei also has many shops run by hongkongers. >> the memorial hall has a statue of the former leader on display. after a conflict, the party retreated to t taiwan. for decades the nationalist party led by chiang kai-shek governed with a one-party rule. taiwan's first direct election was held in 1996, realizing the democracy that citizens had long hoped for. one hour's drive from taipei is a small restaurant run by a family from hong kong. the family had believed that beijing would maintain the one-country two-s

ryan and the others urged the influential chamber of hong kong computer industry to hold hong kong'sst major esports tournament. the venue was the city's largest exhibition hall with 15 different games played over four days. the event attracted 12,000 visitors. >> their success didn't go unnoticed by the hong kong government. in 2017 the tourist board held an event that mixed esports and music. cga was invited to help run the event. ryan and his team wanted people who were new to esports to get involved. so they set up dance contests to encourage a variety of visitors. fans came f fm honong kong, mainnd china, , and even europe. the event hosted 30,000 people in just three days. >> and since hong kong is very open and very reemerging the east and west culture, we'll be connecting other neighboring city, and we can be a hub for esport. we believe that by creating a good, vibrant ecosystem, we will develop new startup companies, new games, new events, new content for our young people. and at the end of the day, we can create more employment. >> hong kong's growing interest in esports h

kong to try and bring hong kong's voice to the international arena do you plan on leaving hong kong or sure. we can get you plan to fight for freedom that's my decision. joshua long pro-democracy activist speaking to us from hong kong thank you very much for your time so clearly joshua walling is determined to stay and fight for democracy in hong kong but many others in the chinese territory aren't so sure continuing political instability and fears of an erosion of the territory's freedoms have forced people to look for exit options quite literally gary and his fiance have to just a few more months when the life in hong kong before they say goodbye to their hometown and then equate to a stadia when gary filed the application 5 years ago leaving was only a backup plan says then hong kong has been through massive social and political upheaval but it was the unprecedented antigovernment protests last year that finally pushed him over the ets. into this isn't the hong kong i grew up with any more freedom has been restricted but hong kong will soon be no different from the rest of china

i held hong kong flag on the roof, and that went viral in hong kong. talk about that photo to anyone. they know about that photo. i don't think nothing changed. the government didn't changed, but the society changed. people awakened. benjamin: sorry. my hand is trembling. ha ha ha! i love to use cameras to record this city for some disappearing landscape. when u.k. agreed to hand over hong kong to china, china has agreed the living style in hong kong is not going to be changed in 50 yearars, but we cannot seeee china is fulfilling its promise. i don't t think we c c change te situation now. maybe what we can do is j just taking photos anand keep those memoriries in our r d of how this... i don't know what to say, but... oh! oh! i am quite lucky that i can live with my parents. it is too expepensive to buy a a flat in e future. [cat mews] mmm. airin: hong kong is now the lleast affordable city in the world. i still live with my parents, and we always have conflicts. in a small flat, you see every day, there would be conflicts easily. i think they don't

kong and hong kong thank you so much for that. before this new security law was implemented hong kong's pro-democracy activists were facing a challenge from a different law one related to rioting which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years some $600.00 protesters were charged last year during the government protests among them the couple featured in this next report they were eventually acquitted of the charge but not before it had impacted their lives in profound ways. this couple has gone through the toughest challenges and they are now ready to rebuild their lives. but just a month ago their fate as a couple was very uncertain henry tong and elaine tov worked as fitness coaches at the gym and hong kong their dream career and life. until last year when police arrested the couple at a proto mock receive protest and charge them with rioting they thought they were going to jail for potentially up to 10 years. to get there what to me the most is i couldn't see my dog if i'm sent to jail and i couldn't see him if we were both put in

this isn't the hong kong i grew up with any more freedom has been restricted but hong kong will soonbe no different from the rest of china i feel even more unsafe under the new national security law from what we've lost so we have to find it elsewhere or you want. to fight or to flee that's a tough question for many homeowners like gary starting a life abroad will likely be a rocky path even in his job as an engineer gary and his fiance but that's not want to be interviewed because she fears for her job here are prepared to start from scratch a price they're willing to pay in exchange for liberty. it's time to abandon our well paid jobs friends everything we've established here where we were born in ranges we did struggle to make this decision but around a 3rd of my friends are also considering leaving or at least sending their children abroad to. the. official figures show that the number hold co-residents leaving is at its highest in 7 years around 30000 people left in 2019 a 40 percent search in just a year and that's expected to keep growing since the new chinese security law was

law into hong kong.hey are trying to argue that they have the sovereignty over hong kong and they have the rights to control what is available on the internet. the central government says the introduction of the new law is to restore order after a year of often violent protests. it criminalises state subversion. punishment could mean life in prison. the law gives the authorities the power to force internet providers to delete content. china is evolving into a digital superpower. they have really smart and comprehensive approaches in controlling its people including hong kongers. they have the great firewall in china, and they're implementing it in hong kong. not the physical infrastructure, because we have the open telecommunication system, but then they are trying to implement it through having this national security law because that will encourage platforms and their users both to censor themselves and their users, and therefore we have limited access to information. this footage is from a livestream o

kong from the hong kong i know i mean i grew up in hong kong on a personal note i have never felt this kind of insecurity and anxiety ever in all my years in this city on top of that hong kong is changing culturally too books are being taken off shelves people are self censoring libraries are removing anything that can be deemed sensitive and as a journalist my job is getting a lot harder people are afraid to give interviews they're worried that what they will say may not may cross a certain line as this law is seen as rather vague and on top of that as an international media company there's a question if they say something with they be colluding with foreign forces so there are so many questions and so much insecurity over the situation here in hong kong now in the whole environment has changed so rapidly. that's the situation of course inside hong kong with relation to this law and the implementation of it this is the 1st time this law is being used to target people outside the country and that's significant isn't that. that's very significant but analysts say this is a very strategi

that's right daryn this is being called hong kong's 3rd and deadliest wave previously hong kong has been able to contain the previous outbreaks quite quickly and quite successfully but this time when they say the main issue is tracking and tracing they're having problems figuring out where those clusters are coming from and they are growing quite rapidly according to hong kong standards now compared to the rest of the world this would seem almost minimal just triple digit daily increases but for hong kong this is one of the worst outbreaks it's seen as so far so hong kong has some of the most strictest social distancing measures in place which includes only 2 people gathering at any point kerry lamb met with other government officials and health experts overnight to try and understand what else needs to be done at the moment no one can go outside without a mosque and they also offer the testing for all of hong kong's residents that's up to 7500000 people but here's the problem hong kong hospitals already almost that kept pasadena there just not enough beds and the labs here and the clini

dollars and compared with the madeleine hong kong alyson hong kong always attracted more coverage and more reports from multinational investment bank and research institute that's not here to track overseas investors probably not usually more companies yeah that is if they talk on that that that is exactly the point where i want to bring in chelsea because when you talk about hong kong and its traction especially to foreign investors chelsey hong kong is no longer the gateway to china it is technically speaking china now and will that affected states is in the financial world you think. well after china introduced the national security law for hong kong over the summer there was obviously a huge political blowback and many people thought that hong kong would lose their special status as really the gateway to china a lot of investment company as a lot of hedge funds were threatening to pull out but now that the dust has settled it doesn't really look like much has changed and if anything hong kong status has actually been strengthened because normally a company like and would have done

dollars and compared with the madeleine hong kong alyson hong kong always attracted more coverage and more reports from multinational investment bank and research institute that's not here to get tracked overseas investors are probably not usually more companies. when they hold on to that that that is exactly the point where i want to bring in chelsea because when you talk about hong kong and its traction especially to foreign investors chelsey hong kong is no longer the gateway to china it is technically speaking china now and will that affected states is in the financial world you think. well after china introduced the national security law for hong kong over the summer there was obviously a huge political blowback in many people thought that hong kong would lose their special status as really the gateway to china a lot of investment companies a lot of hedge funds were threatening to pull out but and now that the dust has settled it doesn't really look like much has changed and if anything hong kong status has actually been strengthened because normally a company like and would have

hong kong claims to have freedom of the press. i do not think they should be reading the reading -- reading the media's preferences. >> he has beeeen the only high-profile person to suffer criticized beijing. the arrest comes days after the u.s. government announced sanctions on hong kong and chinese mainland officials. a clear signal china is determined to enforce the new security law despite growing international pressure. brent: today's arrest is highlighting the climate of fear and uncertainty taking hold in hong kong in the weeks since the national security law came into effect. situation is forcing lifelong hong kongers to make a difficult choice, stay put, or leave their homes for good. >> ga and his fiancÉery -- gary and his fiancÉe have a few months in hong kong beforee they emigre e to australalia. when he fililed t the applicatin fifive years agogo, leaving wawy a backckup plan. since then, hong kong has been through massive social and political upheaval. but it was the unprecedented antigovernment protests last year th

we have hong kong stocks up by more than 2% right now.kong stocks have been the brunt of escalating tensions between the u.s. and china calling it collateral damage. and relative to its global and asian financial crisis and it is down 11.5%. chinese and u.s. stocks are doing way better. blow to s been quite a tocks two day loss and 66. that stock is higher. and over the two days we saw on friday and on monday. that came after the stocks was 70% and valuable company. and i want to show you the chart as well and shows you. and under a lot of pressure and among the weakest performance so tech has been upfront and center. the executive order which was igned and -- indiscernible] yvonne: bloomberg intelligence. they are mapping out the worst case scenario if it goes beyond other parts. meantime, let's stick to hong kong. a chilling message to jourmists and broadcasters to the city. the founder of apple daily and most aggressive action under china's new national security law and what might come next. our next guest is a lecturer at the universi

hong kong.decent heavy losses. decent is probably not the right word to use. heavy losses led by financial. friday that decision on to push the elections back to september the fifth of 2021 and a strong response from mike pompeo. the pboc governor saying he wanted to see more support for sme. 52.8 is the highest number on record. looking at the cost speed that is flat. japan in terms of the nikkei is doing fairly well. we can look at the final board we've been looking at. the virus situation we just discussed with rachel chang remain squarely in focus. this is down almost 4% with heavy selling in the philippines. rishaad: more on the way in the next hour of bloomberg markets. stay with us. you doing okay? yeah. this moving thing never gets any easier. well, xfinity makes moving super easy. i can transfer my internet and tv service in about a minute. wow, that is easy. almost as easy as having those guys help you move. we are those guys. that's you? the truck adds 10 pounds. in the arms. -okay...

this isn't the hong kong i grew up with anymore freedom has been restricted but hong kong will soon be no different from the rest of china i feel even more unsafe under the new national security law we've lost so we have to find it elsewhere or you want. to fight or to flee that's a tough question for many homeowners like gary starting a life abroad will likely be a rocky path even in his job as an engineer gary and his fiance who does not want to be interviewed because she fears for her job here are prepared to start from scratch a price they're willing to pay in exchange for liberty. to abandon our well paid jobs friends everything we've established here where we were born in ranges we did struggle to make this decision but around a 3rd of my friends are also considering leaving or at least sending their children abroad to. the. official figures show that the number hold co-residents leaving is at its highest in 7 years around 30000 people left in 2019 a 40 percent search in just a year and that's expected to keep growing soused a new chinese security law was enacted last month a num

joining me now is hong kong pro-democracy activist place. first of all what is your reaction to jimmy lay's arrest i am actually very shocked and i'm very angry about near as. hard also shows that those communist party in china will not tolerate any kind of press freedom under its regime and it's very dangerous or if we don't stress and. freedom of the access to information and hunt and we bring that c.c.p. it's high it's kind of like holding a whole hong kong as a hostage in response to the sanctions that has been posed by the us yesterday in the last week. you think trying to send a message to activists like well like yourself. yes i believe so i think he is trying to send a message to tell us that one by one they were arrest us all because today not only general i was being arrested agnes chala friend and also a very well resourced freelance journalist in hong kong wilson lee is also being arrested and they are all actually kind of prominent figures were there within the active circle that is clearly sending a message that they have been

law into hong kong.e that they have the sovereignty over hong kong and they have the rights to control what is available on the internet. the central government says the introduction of the new law is to restore order after a year of often violent protests. it criminalises state subversion. punishment could mean life in prison. the law gives the authorities the power to force internet providers to delete content. china is evolving into a digital superpower. they have really smart and comprehensive approaches in controlling its people including hong kongers. they have the great firewall in china, and they're implementing it in hong kong. not the physical infrastructure, because we have the open telecommunication system, but then they are trying to implement it through having this national security law because that will encourage platforms and their users both to censor themselves and their users, and therefore we have limited access to information. this footage is from a livestream of recent arrests of st

as infections rise in hong kong man then health workers are deployed to conduct covert 19 testing for millions of people. time sam is a than this is al jazeera live from also coming up this means that police and others have additional payrolls. strayer's victoria state declares a state of disaster a night curfew to contain corona virus infections. thousands of people call for the israeli prime minister to resign in the largest demonstration in west jerusalem in a decade. and rounded up and thrown in jail the un joins calls for the release of human rights activists in india. specialists from mainland china have started arriving in hong kong to help contain a resurgence of corona virus infections 125 cases were confirmed on saturday the 11th day in a row cases have been in the triple digits the trees expanding testing and making it free for its 7 and a half 1000000 people the expo center has been turned into a makeshift hospital. divya palms joins us now live from hong kong so how would you know what's behind the rise in these cases again. well according to experts and are all of just w

investment in hong kong and he's described it as blatant interference in hong kong or the city's domestic affairs now carry them has defended the introduction of beijing's national security laws in hong kong she's described this is constitutional legal and reasonable and she's on again and again said that the reason why these were introduced it was simply to restore peace and order and to remove the chaos and violence that the demonstrations had paralyzing hong kong last year as a settler saying feedback been fed at all dripping out from certain hong kong government so far has read one minister responding but this latest response from beijing or so in beijing is liaison office in hong kong or as rangoon clearly brewing but how actually damaging could these sanctions potentially be. well given the timing of certainly the response we've just seen from beijing's representatives in hong kong this potential for this city to reciprocate and we do believe in potentially target u.s. individuals in the city and potentially american companies operating here in that the american chamber of commerce

from the hong kong government but also set up by beijing's top representative in hong kong that he hasaid he strongly opposes and condemns the treasury sanctions he said this reveals unscrupulous the unscrupulous intentions of u.s. politicians to support china chaos in hong kong and in quite i am or quote from him and what's believed ork considered a humorous response he said i don't have any assets abroad isn't it a waste of time for president trump to impose those sanctions and he could send $100.00 to the united states if president donald trump wanted to freeze that $100.00. search and rescue efforts are underway in beirut but top of finding any survivors is fading 157 people were killed and at least 6000 injured and is growing with accusations that authorities ignored warnings about explosives being stored at the port the u.s. state department has praised a former saudi intelligence chief who has filed a lawsuit against crown prince mohammed bin son martin washington subtle jab as the crown prince sent a hit squad to canada to kill him in 28 teams. the black box and cockpit voice r

his success will be encouraged to leave hong kong with obviously a detrimental effect on hong kong's economy. well whether rich people professional people young people whether they want to go off stay they should have to freedom and we should not lock them up because we say oh you are an important to the development of the economy so we would not allow you to go no we should create the environment of free and safe and vibrant men and developing democracy and so as to end times that was people to stay and help not just to develop the economy but to develop hong kong as a by britain and free and safe suicide so but i think you're right when the rich people when they see a day of rest of jimmy and i think they move feel big chill in their hot and they will say wow my god maybe this is not the place for me and my family. is chairperson of international affairs committee of the hong kong democratic party we're pretty sure joining us on al-jazeera thank you very much indeed thank you. tensions have boiled over for a 2nd day in lebanon after the massive explosion that tore through the capit

this is being called hong kong 3rd and deadliest wave previously hong kong had been able to contain the previous outbreaks quite quickly and quite successfully but this time they say the main issue is tracking and tracing they're having problems figuring out where those clusters are coming from and they are growing quite rapidly according to hong kong standards had been largely contained many are questioning why didn't the government prepare for this kind of an eventuality or even take measures to stop the following outbreak also many questions about why hong kong is reaching out to mainland china for expertise and for that help there there had been a rich the original original idea was to send these samples over to mainland china to help with testing and detecting who was at risk but there were also months there was much opposition to that saying that their peoples personal data would be sent across the border and also questions about the fact that they're bringing in mainland officials and mainland experts over here their questions about hong kong's data and people's personal surveill

in hong kong, 1:30 p.m. in sydney.oming up that trump administration authorized a coronavirus treatment ahead of the public and national convention, we have the details. this is bloomberg. ♪ the trump administration has granted emergency use authorization to a treatment that uses blood plasma from recovered covid-19 paceman -- patients. >> 1000 americans have enrolled to receive this treatment and it has proven to reduce mortality by 35%. as we see u.s.es cases starting to show signs of stabilization. let's give more from -- left get more from ross cranny, our washington editor -- ross crosby. -- roz krasny. >> it allows commercial distribution from -- for the allow methodology and may any factors of plasma products to ramp up to more of a commercial level. ros: we have to keep in mind this treatment is being used on a per mental basis -- on an andeme mental basis -- on experimental basis. by the mayo clinic and others. this wraps it up to another level. some would say it is not had enough clinical trials to know how e

hong kong relations. on the hong kong is the reasonable up area and i think the long run it will inflict ruin to us u.s. interest income to as you have seen well i don't fight any sort of reason for this blatant if you're in. a fast 5 own country i don't think this is necessary or a civilized manner to do so and looking at the wide interest between hong kong and us such imposition of a reasonable set of measures would send a very wrong signal to u.s. investment in hong kong and i think ultimately i think that the toll will get back to us and of course it will definitely hurt us relations. said o'clock our correspondent says live for us here on the news hour in hong kong so sara what's been the response from the government there. well looking into the 1st to respond it was actually beijing's top official in hong kong he was the 1st to condemn these sanctions you mentioned some of the quotes mentioned by him in a statement earlier he also said it reveals the unscrupulous intentions of the american politicia

we try to give support moral support to the freedom fighters in hong kong we continue to urge the hong kong government to adopt free election. and to ensure freedom freedom of speech and freedom of media so that hong kong can stand the symbol of freedom in east asia but it's very unfortunate that the chinese government imposed nation's security all. hong kong and i thought that you know we saw the election scheduled later this year has been postponed for one year the rights of the hong kong people he's speaking are taken away by the chinese government the last bastion of freedom of press the hong kong. has been under assault by the chinese authorities there are politicians especially on the democratic side that are being disqualified by the chinese salt already ordered by hong kong authorities and that is a gross violation of political rights in hong kong so this whole situation in hong kong is really a tragedy. let's get more from the double correspondent we have yang who conducted that interview and joins me now from taipei we're in taiwan is clearly concerned but in reality how much

there are thousands of hong kong students in taiwan. in taiwan, we watched hong kong soap operas.isten to singers from taiwan. we have a close relationship. that is why china is using hong kong as a lure to show taiwan, one country, two systems, it works. however, they destroyed one country, two systems themselves. in taiwan, a lot of people say situation iskong's a warning to taiwan costs future. -- taiwan's future. if we give up our own national defense, our sovereignty, our and go to hong kong's model, our future, our children will live hong kong-like lives. it is miserable. in taiwan, we try to help hong kong protesters, especially those young kids, as much as possible. we are using hong kong as a license to let taiwanese people understand, you can never trust communists. so much fornk you that. -yu. was wang ting existentials facing threats, tencent and cathay pacific caught in the crossfire between china and the u.s. this is bloomberg. ♪ haslinda: tencent reports earnings later and is set to report robust sales despite being caught in the crossfire of increasing u.s.-china t

yes i think a lot of people outside of hong kong as well as inside of hong kong are asking whether this is the start of a more widespread political purge now jimmy lie along with agnes chauhan other prominent pro-democracy figure have been arrested on suspicion of colluding with foreign powers now according to the national security legislation if you collude with foreign powers that means you run the possibility of facing not just life in jail but also potentially having your trial held on the mainland because that law stipulates that when it's you know if the offense strays into foreign matters if it strays into defense issues that it becomes complicated which means the trial could i'm not saying will that could happen on the mainland now here in hong kong there has been what you might say a bit of investor activism going on because shares in next media which owns the apple daily newspaper have risen by more than 200 percent on tuesday on monday they rose by a staggering 300 percent which i think is a stock market record so this in a sense is a sign of investors showing a sort of silen