hong kong this growing fiercer protests are likely to continue in the coming days. or for the very latest from hong kong let's cross over to tom grundy he's editor in chief of the hong kong free press web site john thanks for being with us sir tell us what's the situation in hong kong today just a few hours ago we saw of course in anagrams in the local parliament that somebody pro-democracy lawmaker threw a rotting plant on the floor and just in the last hour or so we've seen a few more protests crop up in the central business district people chanting pro-democracy slogans that's despite about 360 arrests yesterday some of them schoolchildren in uniform pepper spray pepper balls as you mentioned a huge police security operations surrounding the legislature as it debated that controversial national anthem law and then we saw the pattern that was chase is right the shopping and extends well into the night with protesters trying to invade some of the roads wired to make sure barricades but it seems the police very much have the upper hand at the moment they're very compact and there's been a huge police presence on the streets in the last couple of days now today authorities in mainla

beijing's attempt to tackle its grip on hong kong is growing fiercer protests are likely to continue in the coming days. tom grundy is editor in chief of the hong kong free press website we asked him what sort of pushback we're likely to see from beijing if these protests escalate. when we hear these murmurings sometimes of military intervention in fact the there is a garrison in hong kong of the pair lay but it seems that this at this nuclear option of inserting these laws into hong kong's basic law will enable the local authorities and even some security agents from the mainland to to enforce this it seems perhaps at 1st to be targeted and pro independence of the kurds and perhaps front line protesters but the fear is it may expand to n.g.o.s even media like us or or even mainstream democrats and then possibly cross-tab richmond figures who who might not be falling in line but certainly we've got some key dates coming up 10 of the massacre anniversary pro-democracy protests due on july 1st song sure there will be further protests in the next couple of months before this law kicks in. tom grundy from the hong kong free press now if you can you were to record

hong kong is growing fiercer protests are likely to continue in the coming days. let's go straight to the territory that will join tom grundy who's editor in chief of the hong kong free press website welcome to day w m i suppose the big question here is other countries have similar laws against desecrating their national anthems or their flags while hong kong are so concerned about this proposal well democrats of deem this the death of hong kong the encroachments that they've seen in recent days by beijing the difference is i guess that this anthem law could see you jailed for 3 years along with a very hefty fine and on top of that although that's being debated in the legislature the national security law will be inserted directly into the city's mini constitution and that will balance addition successions a version and in china we know that these laws are applied very broadly and they're worded very vaguely to silence dissenters so this being a free city where freedom of the press freedom of expression freedom of speech are all meant to be guaranteed it has a lot of residents democrats activists and companies very concerned. we're safer from the film that we've just been

and earlier i spoke to tom grundy editor in chief of hong kong free press she's been following the protests and standoff with police. while a bit of us can stand up at the moment and we're up to about a 240 arrests some of them children in uniform we've seen pepper balls have to spray been fired by police we understand 3500 officers the quoit in this huge security operation today with alleged they're surrounded by water. and now it seems we may be descending as we have throughout the day in some sort of. situation between the protesters and the police as monk called the shopping districts of polls a day and the central districts central business district became sort of giant. of the police and protesters giving chase but a lot so arrests today with them being loaded on to at least. tom we understand that protesters today are protesting against this national anthem long we don't do know that other countries also criminalize desecrating the flag or the national anthem so why are they out protesting this law today. well the difference is in hong kong this law is passed as it most certainly wel

right let's get an update on the story now we can speak to tom grundy editor in chief of hong kong free press tom thanks for joining us you are currently on the streets where protests as we understand have been escalating give us an idea of what's been happening. well a bit of us tense standoff at the moment in montauk we're up to about a 240 arrests some of them children in uniform we've seen pepper balls have to spray been fired by police we understand 3500 officers the quoit in this huge security operation today with alleged or surrounded by water. and now it seems we may be descending as we have for the day and so sort of. situation between the protesters and the police as monk called the shopping districts of calls a day and the central districts central business district became sort of giant. of the police and protesters giving chase but a lot so arrests today with them being loaded on to at least vans tom we understand that protesters today are protesting against this national anthem law and we don't do know that other countries also criminalize desecrating the flag or the national ant

number of hong kong's nascent digital outlets for which the protest movement presented a new story and even a financial. like no other outlets like stand news international and hong kong free press were some of the go to new media outlets that protesters turn to for news last year so what was it about your output that appealed to so many on the streets. malveaux we are famous for bloggers blocks written by ordinary citizens or columns by opinion makers even more important in 2900 we really saw the emergence of online journalists and reporters brokaw through life videos online is not a new trend but a feature on you tube and facebook was especially useful for us we're broadcasting the democracy movement live rather than 000-000-0000 extension 0000 reader. really allowed us to fume hong kong policeman to document their actions and behaviors on the front line as stand news we explicitly stated our support for the freedom of democracy those who cared about the movement felt stand news share the same values there was a sense of collective empathy although the. people really sold the independent and new houses. showing what was really happening on the frontlines and they didn't feel t

tom grundy is the editor in chief & founder of hong kong free press, an independent news outlet in the on the ground is tense. i am just hearing some shouting now with police sweeping into the causeway bay shopping district. it has been a full day, about four or five hours of cat and mouse chases throughout what is usually a very busy district of hong kong. police have fired tear gas, pepper spray, they have deployed the water cannon and protesters, you can see behind me, they have been making makeshift barricades, some of them are still gathered here. the police tactic is to try and split everybody into smaller groups and prevent them from marching on to causeway bay. this originally was meant to be a protest of the national anthem law, which could see people jailed for not singing the national anthem, but it seems it is quickly evolving into dissent over the upcoming national security law, with people chanting, ‘independence for hong kong‘ and ‘revolution now,‘ phrases which may very well become illegal in just a few months‘ time. just give us an idea as to why people are so angry th

let's cross to hong kong and speak to tom grundy, the editor in chief & founder of hong kong free pressdent news outlet. tom, thank you very much for being with us. what is the latest on those protests 7 with us. what is the latest on those protests? i'm just hearing some shouting now as police sweep into the causeway bay shopping district. it's been day of cut and mouse chases throughout what is usually very busy district of hong kong. police have fired pepper straight, water cannon, tear gas and protest is behind me had been making makeshift barricades, some of them gathered still here but it seems the police tactic is to try to split everybody into smaller groups and prevent them marching on to causeway bay. this originally was meant to be a protest about the national anthem which could see people jailed for mocking the national anthem but it seems it's very quickly evolved into dissent over the upcoming national security law with people chanting independence for hong kong and revolution now, phrases which may well become illegal in a few months' time. give us an idea of why people a

used as a political weapon let's speak to jennifer creamery she's the managing editor of the hong kong free press and joins me now via skype is good to have you on the program thank you very much for joining us how important is this watch dogs report in the wider context of the public's relationship with and vice versa. that's right so the end of pendant police complaints council has just released this report looking into last year's and rest of the course the democratic reform now the i.p.c.c. this is the watchdog it is seen by critics as a toothless tiger and that it cannot summon witnesses and it cannot launch investigations but this is a highly anticipated report now it has been delayed it was originally meant to come out at the end of last year and one of the main calls from protesters is for an end dependent investigation into alleged police brutality so this report is incredibly and also but has lost a lot of the public trust behind it so much so that a panel of 5 and national experts last december decided to step away from the watchdog saying that it lacks power but it has been highly ant

the fear from those in hong kong, pro-democracy activists and lawmakers is that it will further undermine the autonomy of the city and undermine the free pressn free speech that hong kong enjoys. or s you noted there, one both pro democracy lawmakers in hong kong said it could ult montanaly spread the end of that city. the trump administration is new empowered by the bill passed by congress at the end of last year on hong kong to review the city's status. he could revoke some of hong kong's special trading rights that the city currently enjoys with the u.s. nejra: that takes mu me to our next question. we'll talk about the growth target in a second. what we heard overnight in terms of hong kong, what's that likely to do in terms of u.s.-china tensions have have been ramping up recently? >> the situation relationship now between beijing and washington is toxic. the one thing that seems to be holding the two countries together nominally at least by a thread is the phase one trade deal. we talk about that in more depth. it certainly pushes the two countries further apart and you're seeing the senators bypass it once again in the u.s. pushing a

hong kong as an international city. the concern is it could give the police and security services in hong kong the powers to interfere with free speech, the freedom of press, in ngo's and other areas, and undermine the semi-autonomy hong kong had. there is a potential u.s. response as well. president trump is likely to come under pressure to reveal hong kong's special trading status. that could have broad implications for hong kong's economy. rishaad: tom, one thing which wasn't really addressed was the language coming out of president ts,ald trump's twee particularly yesterday. that wasn't addressed. certainly it is something that everybody is thinking about. tom: suddenly this will be a shadow over the national people's congress. it will be discussed in the halls of power. for the first time, president trump taking aim at xi jinping, someone who back in january -- is it in trump said he had an extraordinary relationship with. in the past 24 hours, president trump saying there is a disinformation campaign perpetuated by china against the europeans and united states, saying "it was coming the very top." apparently firing at xi jinping for the first time.

suggest something has really changed in hong kong and it will also mean china has given up on it being a major international city because rule of law and free pressings that make hong kong distinct and give the international business community confidence they can keep their investment in resources there. this idea, one country, two systems that has operated in hong kong, are you effectively saying it's going to come to an end? i'm not saying that, i'm saying this isa i'm not saying that, i'm saying this is a very dangerous moment because if this law is enacted and technically it is true that beijing is entitled to do it, how it is implemented and how the promises of autonomy, freedom and the ability to descend and speak more freely than the rest of china that is unique to hong kong within greater china are saved from taiwan which is not ruled by beijing, if that changes it will make the rest of the world extremely nervous about how china is going —— aside from taiwan. keeping hong kong aside from taiwan. keeping hong kong as it is is one token that china has given the world that they still stick to international treaties and how they handle this

attached to because unlike china as you know hong kong we see very much a free place where you can oppose in criticize the government again there is a credit free press etc so actually to these protests was initially and against and not a low called a national flag and in penrose which is seacrest to report on the mental let's go arms thursday and this flag an anthem row is meant to stock people from not respecting the chinese flag or the national anthem which hong kong people have actually been doing a lot like burning the chinese flag blowing in stadiums and showing a constant every to distract us and body of the fighters to its power but of course now that china has announced it is going to impose a new national security no intended of clamping down on anything in equity even remotely associated to reason sedition secession foreign interference terrorism the whole thing goes up become even more concern and worry and some of them think that to the is one of their last chance to protest and on a common rule of hong kong as just protesting could soon be seen or treated by the courts as something much more serious. is there much opposition to this lon

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hong kong. however, if you talk to international investors right now, they still prefer hong kong because it still has a rule of law, a judicial system and free pressf china. let's hope that continues. neil: i didn't know that. talk about a shrinking asset to china. that explains their behavior. susan li, always great reporting. thank you very much. i want to get the read on all this from democratic senator chris van holland, the beautiful state of maryland. >> good to be with you, neil. neil: we are waiting to hear what the white house response might be, some sort of economic sanctions, that seems to be the betting, more sweeping than we've had. i'm wondering what you think about what our response should be, if any. what do you think? >> well, of course, we are waiting the decision of secretary pompeo and the trump administration on the question of essentially, you know, decertifying hong kong. that is the decision they will have to make. of course, china has not yet passed its national security law. this is why i teamed up with senator toomey of pennsylvania with a bipartisan bill to really focus on holding accountable those who would be violatin

down or just ask for free election will be recognised and has a version by their press macca of beijing of a crackdown on the holocaust protest movement is about a living hong kong to you have concerns about what may happen if this national security bill turns into a national security in your. yeah as a journalist and as someone who talks to. activists so just not even people who really do anything that sensitive i mean the issue being that you don't really know what could be sensitive in the way that people in china often just disappear or get agents visiting them at their homes or in the case of many journalists have not had the abuses or in you know just kicked out outright transgressions that they may not even realize that they had been conducting it's the vagaries of this law that really worry me as somebody who is in this profession and many other people who are not particularly political but also they don't know when they might say or do something that may have crossed the line that to me is the biggest worry. and let me just put this to you i know this is from the cool of enoch who is the new chief right now watching this discussion and and the coup is q

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hong kong, the pair democrats, and the nt beijing forces, but also internationally, is that this is a broad security law that could be used to undermine the autonomy but also to curtail free speech, free press, ngos, and a number of other issues. in terms of what we are hearing from the secretary of state, mike pompeo, he made the determination that hong kong does not, as he says, enjoy a high degree of autonomy from china. he was compelled to review the status that hong kong has because of this bill that was passed at the end of last year. now, the question is what actions is the secretary of state and the trump administration likely to take? they could look at restricting visas or asset freezes. of course, they have been provoked or their decision has been accelerated because of this decision by the national people's congress. beijing to circumnavigate the government in hong kong with this security law. beijing says the security law is one that many other nations have. this is an act in terms of what the u.s. is doing, the response from the u.s. is meddling in hong kong and china's internal affairs. that is the chinese stance. they will respond with strong countermeasures. we have this un

unlikely to deter china's government from pressing ahead with this security law adrian brown al jazeera hong kong. let's bring in kerry brown from cancer free in the u.k. he is a china analyst and author of the book c.e.o. china the rise of xi jinping kerry brown welcome back to the news hour we saw there in adrian's report people saying they're frightened of what may be heading down the lines at them are they right to be expressing this idea that they're scared. well i think it's pretty clear that beijing has kind of had enough of hong kong of the protests last year. 1000 has toughened its views about the security situation and given it license i think to want to impose the framework for the kind of things that the national people's congress have said that they will try and impose. very very broadly at legislation it's sort of typical of the kind of legislation you get in china itself of course hong kong is meant to be different but i think it's really a sort of symbol of the way in which the one country 2 systems framework is kind of less and less clear by the day to the point now where you west wonder whether that there is such a fright

any person in hong kong can be arrested for anything at any time it means any foreigner this important any foreigner can be deported for any reason they eventually will shut down free pressy kicked out "the wall street journal" "new york times," and "washington post." mainland china during the crisis, so and they have calculated this is important, they have calculated if they lose the financial center which obviously, contributes to mainland china's economy, but is not the center gravity but a contributor that is okay they will put that at risk why? they don't want to threaten mainland china and their regime that is what this is all about. they want control and influence. >> they want control and influence in hong kong but way beyond that as well general i mean right now this morning there is a report of this india-china border dispute there are troops at border right now of india and china, and they are talking about a certain part of the country as part of southern tibet china says that is part of southern tibet india contests that is india, so there are troops face-to-face right now china and india should we be concerned. >> well this is all part of their general stra