hypocritical because those countries i'm so have national security laws now earlier on choose day carol lam addressed the media here in hong kong but on that occasion she dodged all questions about this security law she did though attend a meeting at hong kong's central liaison office here in hong kong which is sort of china's defacto embassy where a number of hong kong representatives have now been consulted about this deal because it seems that actually up until a few days ago carol lam herself had not even seen a draft of this legislation according to the local media that there are still a lot of details about this law as you say that are not known but it's a ready having an effect on hong kong's politics a dream. oh absolutely right it's had an immediate and sort of chilling effect joshua warned earlier on tuesday announced that he was retiring from the party he helped to set up joshua one of course one of the most famous of the pro-democracy activists here in hong kong young pro-democracy activists appears after that the party itself announced that it was desponding and then we heard t

human rights as well as freedom of speech but if beijing is overriding the hong kong judiciary and carol lam can't really guarantee anything. well you're exactly right the truth is no one in hong kong including carrie lamb has seen that the bill it's kept secret and what they are saying is that the law may be passed in the next few days maybe on sunday or following monday and then it will be reviewed i mean have you heard a bit anything more ridiculous if you're going to pass a law on hong kong i think common decency would mean that the hong kong people should be consulted and be allowed to express their views but they say good draft law is secret so nobody can see it so without seeing it how can carry larry come out and through everybody by saying oh don't worry a human rights will be protected the independence of big judiciary will be in check i think that's nonsense and that's an important point to make because she also says the security law will not harm the judicial independence in the cities i degree of autonomy but how do hong kong's judges regard this new law how much do they see it

national security law from beijing many fear the legislation will erode the territories autonomy carol lam admitted she hasn't seen for details of the war but said rights will be protected. in the content published so far it's stated clearly that the law must respect and protect human rights and for human rights and freedoms to be protected the law is in line with the international covenant on civil and political rights and the international covenant on economic social and cultural rights it's also stated clearly that these rights include press freedom and freedom of assembly. emily lau is from hong kong's democratic party she says carrie lamb come down and see the law protects human rights. and no one in hong kong including carrie lamb has seen that the bill it's kept secret and what they are saying is that the law may be passed in the next few days maybe on sunday or following monday and then it will be revealed i mean have you heard of anything more ridiculous if you're going to pass a law on hong kong i think common decency would mean that the hong kong people should be consulted and b

that was fueling more anti-government anger during the months of demonstrations we saw in 2019 but carol lam has always said she will prioritize this particular bill she wanted this passed and last week she reintroduced it and today we had a vote but we also saw some kind of like scenes with or 2 of the pro-democracy lawmakers throw liquid across the china and that was a key tactic to try and disrupt or delay the debate but in the end of the vote was passed we had 41 people supported we had one person one of the lawmakers rejected and of course all the pro-democracy lawmakers there and boycotted that but the concern is that the chinese national anthem or the critics this particular laws they are forced patriotism and it's an impingement on hong kong's freedoms and democracy. and if you are as from not of the 1st in a series of memorial gatherings for george floyd will get underway in the us city of minneapolis it's june to be attended by friends civil rights leaders and others who shared in the outrage over his death in police custody all 4 officers on the scene when he died now face charges

territories stability and prosperity where sentiments were echoed by hong kong's chief executive carol lam was in beijing to meet chinese officials i can only say that the international community and some of the foreign governments have been adopting blatant double standards in dealing with this matter and commenting on this matter that is with the in the legitimate jurisdiction of any country to enacting laws to protect and safeguard national security. usa is no exception u.k. is no exception so why should they object to resist for even condemn and take sanctions against hong kong and the people's republic of china. well the people who would have access to what johnson calls a route to citizenship are those with a b.n. opar sport which stands for british national overseas the b.n. is issued to people in hong kong when it was still a british colony before it was handed back to china in 1907 it's a travel document but it doesn't automatically give holders british citizenship or allow them to live permanently or work in the u.k. around $300000.00 people hold the passport but nearly $2900000.

sought to reassure the public about the national security law that china's drafting for the territory carol lam admitted she hadn't seen full details of the north but said it will protect human rights activist group made up mainly of north korean defectors has managed to evade south korean police and fly propaganda balloons carrying leaflets and money into the north the government in seoul had tried to stop them to prevent relations with the north getting worse young young has announced it has millions of propaganda leaflets and thousands of balloons ready to fly across the border. the saudi coalition fighting in yemen says it's intercepted a ballistic missile headed towards saudi arabia's capital the coalition spokesman says the attack was launched from the yemeni capital sana'a toward civilian targets in the kingdom who the rebel media say they released details of what it called a large scale operation on tuesday. well those were the headlines the news continues on al-jazeera after al jazeera world station that's what. 3 dozen countries including all $28.00 members issued saudi arabia with it

but none of them wanted to come and that's very unusual here in hong kong now the chief executive carol lam who wouldn't speak to the media about this new law on choose day morning has though been speaking in an international address for the united nations human rights conference that's taking place in geneva she as you might expect defended this law saying it was going to improve hong kong's legal system and significantly she said this new law would not be used retroactively so people who have committed offenses like you know desecrating china's flag or desecrated one of china's symbols will not be prosecuted but this is more of what she had to say to that united nations conference no central government could turn a blind eye to such threats to suffer n.t. and national security as well as christophe's of their ship of state power all in all these acts have crossed the one country red line and court for a wrestler to action as the highest organ of state power in china the national people's congress has to constitutional power and the duty to enact national security legislation for the hong