i was a chairman before alan leong, all right, and i have been a queen‘s counsel and a senior counselplete disagreement with the legal... i have not finished! ..of the bar association and all of the senior respected independent lawyers in hong kong. this is absolutely ridiculous. you know, there is no way to carry on an interview like this. you should be ashamed of yourself. i‘m not ashamed of myself, mr tong. i‘m really looking for answers. you can‘t get an answer with questions like that, because you are not putting it properly, and you don‘t seem to be in a position to give an opportunity for the interviewee to say something. there is no point to carry out this conversation if you do it like that. let me ask you another question, and see if you can answer this one. we have seen people arrested already under the new national security law, at least ten of them, as i understand it, in recent protests and demonstrations. it seems that those who have been charged under the new law were waving banners, asking for greater democracy, some of them asking for independence for hong kong. do y

its leader alan leong has been giving a press conference.laration, under basic law. our china correspondent stephen mcdonell explained what's behind the move. the excuse being given is that these candidates haven't sufficiently shown their dedication to hong kong under the leadership of the mainland chinese government. in a statement from hong kong's leaders, it is not good enoughjust from hong kong's leaders, it is not good enough just to sort of idea to the rules in the city, you have to somehow or other actively embrace the system there and encourage people to appreciate, i suppose, that hong kong is under the central leadership of the communist party and ultimately, and that this somehow or other has to be reflected in their applications from standing. now, i don't know how you show your enthusiasm to a significant level, but these returning officers have said that it hasn't been good enough. a very controversial decision and i think that it could be one that is in fact challenged in the court because these are sort of vague concepts, id