confrontation this getting ready aggressor here ramping up quite a bit so one of the key figures joshua wang one of the protest key figures told d.w. today that the calls for democracy will never stop what exactly is the movement's end game here so we can see that now the protests is way more than just. now they have the protesters have way more demands for example they want the resignation of the chief executive kerry they also want an independent inquiry into the use of force by the police and ultimately like what joshua long said they really asked for food democracy universal suffrage and then what about beijing i mean i'm sure beijing is not liking this at all how long do you think it's going to be until the chinese government comes in and says we're going to take a more active role in this actually they. all be in hong kong they just said they will need to press tomorrow to respond to all these protests in the past 2 months it is expected that beijing will take a really tough stance against these protests they were framed as very violent and unlawful demonstrations but then. a lot of pe

we have you there while i want to talk a bit about what the protesters are saying you spoke with joshua wang you heard him say now that this is about more than just the extradition bar is there a sense that now this wave of violence this chaos that is changing on call was i was at house already this summer house already changed that's for sure these have been the biggest protests haven't. history all wrong and that the city is definitely changing it depends of course on what is going to happen whether it's going to change for the better or for the worse because of course we will we might see an escalation of violence we might maybe also see although that is not very deep trouble some kind of a new pontiff tell you that at the moment i don't see it and. people are hoping that you know that this would be peace and thank change this speaking of dialogue where's kerry lamb in all this why haven't we heard more from hong kong's leader. well we can suppose that he has and she has not spent these 8 weeks at the beach but we don't know much more about this. has not a few press conferences mainly aft

you also heard joshua wang saying there that these protests will not stop but they will continue demonstrating to we have a sense now of what may happen tomorrow. tomorrow is monday there are no protests planned for tomorrow so tomorrow is probably going to be a quiet day but it is there's the next weekend coming up protests already planned for next weekend and for the weekend after so i think we are going to as he called it along from off protesters on from our discontent. there have been some some question surrounding beijing's role in these recent crackdowns as beijing been perhaps more active in terms of their response to these protests recently. staging. reiterated that they would be ready to send in the army if this was necessary if the hong kong government would ask them you can understand this of course as a threat it's a basic threat it's something that it's not an announcement it's not that they are planning to do this there have been asked to listen about how to handle this as the hong kong government all over because sending in troops or cracking down intensely more intensely than

that sarah clarke with the latest live in hong kong let's get more on this we're joined now by joshua wang the secretary general of demo psystar that's a pro-democracy organization he is near the protests mr wong it's good to have you with us on our dizzier i want to start with what we've been seeing today which is of course in response to what happened last week are you worried about the presence of the you know some 100 people who came out and attacked protesters last week which is why we're seeing the protests continue in that same area today on saturday and what that might mean for what's been largely 7 weeks of largely peaceful protests in hong kong. and we. just heard and works best there really 7. $100000.00 people do this again and we're going to respond to go towards people. well what happened last week at the broadway stage and. the safety around the world. and more but we still continue to fight for freedom and if we take a step back it has been 7 weeks of protest the government says it's killed the extradition burn which sparked them so right now what are the other changes that