danny vincent has been talking to hong kong tech activists on the front line.very day at midnight, hong kong's most prominent activist, joshua wong, live streams his updates to the world on facebook. he is using the livestream to report his safety to his followers. it's one small way that young activists in hong kong are using technology in the wake of the new national security law. joshua thinks the authorities are building a case against him, and arrest is imminent. we have no confidence at all to guarantee all of our speech, and all of our statements could be illegal under the framework of the nat sec law. hong kong saw thousands of protesters take to the streets last year in opposition to an extradition bill. they say they are now facing an even greater threat to their freedoms in the form of a new national security law. they say they're not only facing heavy policing on the streets, but also online. glacier kwong is a tech activist, she sees the internet as a new battle ground. she says the new national security law limits freedom of speech online. digital

thank you so much, danny vincent.aths from covid—i9 in australia in the past 2a hours — the deadliest day since the pandemic began. the previous record was 17 which was announced on sunday. all the deaths were in the state of victoria which is now entering its second week of level four lockdown. meanwhile new zealand has gone 100 days without recording a locally transmitted covid—i9 case. joining me now is dr suzy wiles, a microbiologist and infectious disease expert at the university of auckland. let's start with australia. what is your assessment of the latest figures? well, it's good to see that the rolling average are starting to trend down now. we have obviously been very concerned. the problem was that they didn't go into a lockdown soon enough. they have lost a few weeks really but now that they are in this level four, hopefully we will see the cases start to drop and continue to drop. you are of course in new zealand where things are very different. i think the country has gone about a hundred days without any

ok, that was danny vincent and danny is online with me now from hong kong.anny, how are you right now? how are you feeling? the new law was a huge shock to not just the activists, notjust the protesters, not just just the activists, notjust the protesters, notjust to ta ke the protesters, notjust to take activists, but also ordinary people. they didn't expect this law and exchanges to come about so quickly and it feels like is really bracing for what comes next. do you get the sense that you are not going to be able to report as freely from hong kong? for me asa freely from hong kong? for me as a journalist working here, the lines have simply changed almost overnight. in some ways you could say it feels even stricter than mainland china, because in the mainland, at least, have a reference point. you know what can be written about, what can be said live on tv, you know what the lines are. but here in hong kong today it's not clear what the lines are. it's not clear what the future will bring. and the city, in some ways, feels quite unrecognisable. and just to

danny vincent has been talking to hong kong tech activists on the front line. every day at midnight, hong kong's most prominent activist, joshua wong, live streams his updates to the world on facebook. he is using the livestream to report he is to his followers. it's one small way that young activists in hong kong are using technology in the wake of the new national security law. joshua thinks the authorities are building a case against him, and arrest is imminent. we have no confidence at all to guarantee all of our speech, and all of our statements could be legal under the framework of the law. hong kong saw thousands of protesters take to the streets last year in opposition to an extradition bill. they say they are now facing an even greater threat to their freedoms in the form of a new national security law. they say they're not only facing heavy policing on the streets, but also online. she is a tech activist, she sees the internet as a new battle ground. she says the new national security law limits freedom of speech online. digital sovereignty, it's a wo

we're joined now by our correspondent in hong kong, danny vincent. the latest, what is happening there? every single year in hong kong thousands of hong kong is take to victoria park to essentially pay their respects to the people who died in the 1989 crackdown. according to the authorities, thousands of people defied the ban. they were not supposed to attend that event because of coronavirus but also later they said it was because it is an illegal assembly stopping now it seems that the authorities have charged 25 activists stopping the activists are wondering why they have been singled out in particular, because there were thousands of people that technically were breaking this rule, breaking this law, and the activists would say this is yet again another example of the extensive crackdown that pro—democracy activists are facing in hong kong. and one of them of coursejoshua wong there, and he is quite frankly in and out of the courts quite regularly at the moment and just today as well. that's right. joshua is facing several charges. he is currentl

here's our correspondent, danny vincent in hong kong.of the most outspoken pro—democracy activists here in hong kong. he's also a media mogul. he's the owner of apple daily, a newspaper which very frequently challenges the authorities and beijing with its journalism. so he's a very important figure, he's very high—profile. he's made no attempt really to restrict his criticism of the authorities over the years. and since this new national security law was enacted, it's been thought that he was perhaps the number one target of the authorities. now, this morning, he has been arrested under suspicion of violating the new national security law. the allegations are that he colluded with foreign forces — critics will say that's a very vague expression. it's not clear exactly what this means at this time. but what we do know is that it's been reported that jimmy lai has been arrested and that will definitely be seen as, once again, another example of how this city is changing quite dramatically since this new national security law was introduced

i'm joined now by our correspondent in hong kong, danny vincent. what more can you tell us?arly hours of the morning, the police arrested jimmy lai, one of the most prominent and most outspoken activists in hong kong and he is also a media mogul. he owns apple daily, a prominent newspaper that the authorities today we have seen pictures of police raiding the premises, the officers of that newspaper so what we do know is jimmy lai and six others have been detained. the police say it is an ongoing investigation. the suspicion is he has couuded the suspicion is he has colluded with foreign forces which means he is suspected of breaking the national security law. pro—democracy activists you will see this as another example of essentially a new crackdown on hong kong since the national security law was introduced onjuly one many activists feel the city is changing quite rapidly. what does this mean for the pro—democracy movement in hong kong, the likes ofjoshua wong and others who are still there? when the law was introduced on july one, many people thought jimmy lai was perhaps

danny vincent has been talking to hong kong tech activists on the front line.is followers. it's one small way that young activists in hong kong are using technology in the wake of the new national security law. joshua thinks the authorities are building a case against him, and arrest is imminent. we have no confidence at all to guarantee all of our speech, and all of our statements could be legal under the framework of the nat sec law. hong kong saw thousands of protesters take to the streets last year in opposition to an extradition bill. they say they are now facing an even greater threat to their freedoms in the form of a new national security law. they say they're not only facing heavy policing on the streets, but also online. glacier kwong is a tech activist, she sees the internet as a new battle ground. she says the new national security law limits freedom of speech online. digital sovereignty, it's a word that china and beijing often use. they use it to describe that they have to have the right to control what information and what is available online for