straight to hong kong where we joined journalist laurel cho a welcome so when present gives carry law he's full backing his other diplomatic nicety how does it actually carry weight i think it does carry it shows that the beijing government hasn't changed their stance they are still fully supporting not only carry on but also the police trying that they do can down everything they've done so are showing off that they are continuing to not address the protester demands it also shows that there isn't really a solution in sight the protesters aren't backing down from their demand or the aha government are not backing down from their stance either so the situation seems like it's just going to continue as it is right now after well. ok so the china backs the status quo the demonstrators don't change their demands does that we're looking at an escalation or are we looking at a further crackdowns. it's hard to say in the past few weeks there has been a slight well. or that we can we ask for the person in 2 weeks as it is quite rare and it's been quite rare in the last 6 months to get a week