let's get more on this with the bbc‘s asia pacific editor, celia hatton. have you here. first off, you know, coming to work at the weekend, you know hong kong will be on the agenda, is this the new norm? yes, today is slightly different. last night we saw some of the most violent uprisings, you know, to mark the past four months really, in response to the chief executive's announcement that facemasks would no longer be allowed, even at peaceful protests, and we saw relative chaos last night in hong kong. today it is eerily quiet, really, across the territory, and we have seen small protests pop up, many ordinary people, modernists turning out to mark their displeasure against the facemask ban. —— moderates. we also hearing reports of violence against businesses that are perceived to be owned mainland chinese people, and so owned mainland chinese people, and so that is another development. but he has come a month four of these protests a nd he has come a month four of these protests and it is the weekend again, this is supposed to be a holiday weekend in hon

here's celia hatton, bbc‘s asia pacific editor.ese nationals might have a container truck bound through belgium, bound for the uk. but what we do know is that there is a long history of people smuggling, well organised crime networks that operate to take people outside of mainland china and put them in low—wage jobs around the world. the us state department estimates that around 100,000 people or smuggled out of china every year to around 60 countries around the world — often there put to work, forced to work in low—wagejobs. in china, some of these people are desperate. the chinese economy has seen a sustained downturn, exacerbated by the us— china trade war. that downturn in the economy is affecting some of china's poorest people, and that has really led to desperation in the search of employment. so sometimes people smugglers approach very poor chinese people, charging them around $50,000 us to give them forged documents and a route to a job overseas. when those people arrive at their destination, they often realise that they ha

earlier i spoke to the bbc‘s asia pacific editor, celia hatton, who gave me her assessment of eventsight, we saw some of the most violent uprisings to mark the past four months, really. this is really in response to the chief executive‘s announcement that face masks would no longer be allowed, even in peaceful protest. so, we saw relative chaos last night in hong kong. today, it‘s eerily quiet across the territory. now, we have seen small protests pop up — many ordinary people, moderates, unarmed protesters, turning out to mark their displeasure against the face mask ban. we are also hearing of reports of violence against businesses that are perceived to be owned by mainland chinese people and so that‘s another development. but, yes, i mean, we are into month four of these protests and, yes, it‘s the weekend again, this is supposed to be a holiday weekend in hong kong, but really this is a city that once prided itself on its efficiency, now the underground system has been shut down for the first time really in memory and you know this is a place that really has been changed. now you