deepening further the territory's leader has invoked emergency loss to postpone september's legislative council election by a full year kerry lamb cited coronavirus size of reason for the d.n.a. this comes after beijing imposed a controversial national security law on hong kong and is a major blow to the city's pro-democracy movement the opposition had said such a move would amount to a power grab so you're gonna get your thing the announcement i have to make today is the most difficult decision i've made in the past 7 months the legislative council general election is held every 4 years which is really a tough decision to deliberate but we want to ensure fairness we want to ensure public safety and health. as for individual pollen in hong kong for as diddy as expected carry lamb announcing a delay in september's legislative council vote tell us more about how she's justifying this decision and when's of all going to happen now that's right she hasn't fixed particularly said when that vote is going to happen yet but they had been building up to this announcement over the past week or so saying

that the election the legislative council election which is scheduled for september could in fact be delayed by the government they're citing of course coronavirus size the reason for that how is that likely to go down. rights of all i need to point out in the next 2 hours the nominations close for these legislative council elections and pro-democracy activists are scrambling at the moment to get signatures for backup candidates for those who were disqualified and also for the other $22.00 that are waiting to hear whether they would be disqualified to the prodemocracy campus not given up giving up but all this they do understand could be futile as the government has mentioned several times that indicated that those legislative council elections could be postponed under the threat or due to the risk of the outbreak of the latest corona virus outbreak but many critics and opposition are saying that this one founded on congress many times dealt with the outbreak and contained it rather swiftly the elections are more than a month away and the government is using this to make sure that su

arena for the 1st time she'll run as an independent candidate in the new territories at the legislative council elections in september despite china's newly imposed national security law she's prepared to take the risk and fight for greater democratic reform in hong kong of course i'm concerned about my future of course the people here concerned about the future we also know that if we do not do something if we do not resist the other tarion or even to authoritarian rule there's no future at all for us to concern about you know in last year's local council elections the pro-democracy camp secured 17 of the 18 districts and that's put greater competition in the pro-democracy bloc more young independent candidates are now standing for election to the city's legislature the probation camp which holds the majority acknowledges it might lose some seats but it's confident voters will support the central policy to restore order in a city rocked by months of political unrest. the upcoming election will be a tough one we will focus on issues such as restoring social stability because of last year's soci

election invalid and ridiculous wrong is one of 12 opposition candidates disqualified from the legislative council polls he says the new national security law is being used by the government as a legal weapon to silence dissent electoral authorities accuse wong of advocating subversive ideas and colluding with foreign forces. for you and it is the most scandalous election fraud ever in hong kong history they could this qualify us they could arrest us influence into a carol they could even call of the election and create a puppet parliament elsewhere just gather with beijing loyalists however long of this overturned a strong mandate for more this $600000.00 hong kong has passed the bail it's the city's 1st ever a primary early this month i will boyce is clear allow to the world why or what did you go palin is in hong kong with more on josh. he also said that he's not going to stop the fight against what he calls beijing's oppression of hong kong's political freedoms he says this is qualifications were were promoted or rather were motivated by the government's fear that for the 1st time ever the pro

hong kong disqualifies 12 opposition candidates from september's legislative council election and uses a new law to arrest who wouldn't s'posed in content on. the air. play watching al-jazeera live from doha with me for the bad people also ahead bella rule says is tightening border controls after detaining suspected russian mercenaries accused of attempting to disrupt next month's election the united states records more than 150000 goby $1000.00 deaths as a global infection society tops $17000000.00 and more trouble for the airline industry the world's biggest plane maker airbus polls the net loss of $2200000000.00 in the 1st half of this year. the end. we begin in hong kong way 12 opposition politicians have been disqualified from running in september's legislative council election leading pro-democracy activist joshua wang is one of those disqualified he says it shows a total disregard for the people of hong kong electoral authorities have asked the candidates about their views on beijing's national security law and u.s. sanctions the move has been denounced by the opposition as a po

election is invalid and ridiculous is one of 12 opposition candidates disqualified from the legislative council polls it says the new national security law is being used by the government as a legal weapon to silence dissent on kong's electoral authorities accuse wong of advocating subversive ideas and colluding with foreign forces he's just held a news conference. but you know and it is the most scandalous election fraud ever in hong kong history they could this qualify us they could arrest everyone into account they could even call of the election and create a puppet parliament elsewhere just gather with beijing loyalists however long of this overturned a straw man paid for modest $600.00 in hong kong past the bailiff's the city's 1st ever primaries early this month i will boys it's clear allow to the world. ok for more let's go to do go paul in hong kong it's quite clear that joshua wong despite the fact that he's been bon-bon from these elections is determined that some sort of fight for democracy in hong kong is going to continue. yes robbie very clearly said that the fight against what he

the legislative council election is the only way people in hong kong kept influence who will run their city legislative councillors are partially responsible for choosing the chief executive and monitoring their performance in recent years china's leaders have been accused of interfering in this process and with the disqualifications and the delay in elections there are concerns whether another basic right is being stripped away the vehicle pollen are just there hong kong well now president trump is leading u.s. pressure on chinese company by stunts to sell the american on of its popular video up to talk us media also reporting that microsoft is in talks to buy tech talk the us government has expressed worries that data collected through the app could end up in the hands of the chinese government. will look you know tech stocks we may be betting we may be doing some other things or government options but a lot of things are happening so we'll see what happens but we are looking at a lot of alternatives with respect to the. now the leading us infectious disease expert says he'

pro-democracy parties has been higher than expected the results will decide candidates for legislative council elections in september that vote will be the 1st since a new security law was imposed by beijing today the pollen is live for us from hong kong vivia the strong turnout a sign of how much concern there is for hong kong's future. definitely that's the way it's being looked at sammy from here there were many there was much concern prior to the starts of this that many people wouldn't turn out particularly due to the fact that officials had warned that this exercise government officials i should say this exercise could violate the newly enacted national security law on top of that there were many hitches ahead of this including venues pulling out due to pressure from their landlords and also organizers were concerned about the situation in hong kong at the moment hong kong is facing an upsurge in corona virus infections but the organizers say they're very surprised by the kind of turnout more than 300000 people have come to polling booths such as the one behind me they've come in drips a

holland spoke to geoffrey andrews the 1st ever minority democratic candidate to run for the legislative council. i want to ask you you've chosen a very curious time to make your debut particularly with the democratic camp in the back on the back foot and also the fact that the national security law has been imposed why now well i always ask myself when when then when is the best time of 5 years ago i don't think minorities had much of a say in society i think the social unrest a lot of minorities came out like ourselves we did this fantastic water distribution outside chungking mansions which in hong kong we now call the we connect moment so i thought to myself it's time now to be part of this political structure because we're not having a voice in this direction you know you're always seeing national security law national anthem law hong kong's education system but then you don't already see if the minorities be part of a forget of the miners ex-pats or vulnerable groups so i told myself it's time to force the issue about hong kong as an international city is a truly a diversity with diverse v

the legislative council election is the only way people in hong kong kept influence who will run their city legislative councillors are partially responsible for choosing the chief executive and monitoring their performance in recent years china's leaders have been accused of interfering in this process and with the disqualifications and the delay in elections there are concerns whether another basic right is being stripped away the bigger pollen art is there hong kong on millions of muslims worldwide to celebrating the start of it but events in saudi arabia and elsewhere a much different this year because of coverage 19 sora higher up report oh yes. muslims on every continent scow the phrase and on top praise be to his major differences facing one direction they pray new unity but stand separated by current virus forced by a pandemic to social distance even in worship something no muslim ever thought the tough to do. standing shoulder to shoulder is integrity to islamic prayer is an important show of equality regardless of age race to even say shoe status but that's no longe

primary polls held by pro-democracy parties the results will decide which candidates run in legislative council elections in september. mali's president is promising to form a national unity government in this over the constitutional court to bring him back and cater is attempting to address issues raised by protesters who want him to resign. thousands of people have blocked traffic in bulgaria capital so fear in protest against corruption for a 3rd day demonstrators called on the prime minister and chief prosecutor to resign and anger was sparked on thursday after the offices of the president were raided part of 2 separate investigations president ruben rather has also been a vocal critic of the prime minister's cabinet. people in poland are voting in a presidential runoff that could shake up political parties and the facts relations with neighbors the office is largely ceremonial but the president can veto legislation from parliament sunday gager reports this is a stark choice for voters in poland one which will shape its identity in europe and the rest of the world because of it you must. th

the 1st ever democratic primary elections the vote will decide which candidates will stand in legislative council elections in september and it is the 1st such poll and also comes after beijing imposed its new national security law reports the race for the 1st ever democratic primaries heated up as a long queue is formed in one of the hottest days sort of the summer. the villagers task was to choose the person they believe would best represent them and september's legislative council elections due to your candidate's campaign throughout the weekend including democracy activists joshua wong who is looking to run in the legislative council elections for the 1st time he is on trial and could face jail for taking part in un authorized protests last year fight for democracy is a longtime battle we doesn't imagine or expect one day off to hong kong without any result in free election but f. we have trust was due to come out of vote that's the reason why i run for office in such a primary election even with a race of disqualification organizers say they faced many obstacles including a resurgence in cur

whole run a reminder of our top stories on cons the to carry land has postponed september's legislative council election for a year in a major blow to the pro-democracy camp she described it as the hardest decision she's made in months and cited krone virus as the reason that opposition politicians say the decision is politically motivated. the top infectious disease expert in the u.s. has just begun testifying before a few professional subcommittee dr g.'s appearance comes after president donald trump's administration initially refused to let him appear. that vietnam has now reported its 1st krona virus after being virus free for months the victim was an elderly man in denying city where the virus reemerged and in melbourne australia and australia hundreds of hundreds of cases were recorded on friday despite a 3 week lock down. the full impact of months of covert 19 lock downs and limitations on trade in euro zone countries is being revealed figures just really show the eurozone has shrunk by more than 12 percent over the past 3 months that's the biggest drop on record for the bloc of 19 natio

deepened further the city's leader kerry lamb is expected to announce a delay to september's legislative council election for up to one year on thursday electoral authorities disqualified 12 opposition pro-democracy candidates including activist joshua wang he called the decision to block him from running invalid and ridiculous wong says a new national security law is being used by the government as illegal weapon to silence dissent electoral authorities accuse wong of advocating subversive ideas and colluding with foreign forces. but you know and it is the most scandalous election fraud ever in hong kong history they could this qualify us they could arrest us influence into carol they could even call of the election and create a puppet parliament elsewhere just gather with beijing loyalists however long of this can overturn the straw mandate for more this 600000 hong kong who have passed the bailiff's the city's 1st ever a primary early this month i will boyce is clear and loud to the world my overcoat and speak to defend the palin in hong kong for as t.v.'s has been disqualified by joshua long

opposition politicians in hong kong have now been disqualified from running in september's legislative council election and for the 1st time the police is the near last not security law to crack down on opposition activities on live t.v. reports. taken from their homes and arrested late at night before students aged between 16 and 21 are accused of violating hong kong's newly imposed national security law the father touch up fish. all right aisha pros. in the united so show media about their stuff usually and often over the edge of a note card that we need to hold at the independence of the home they are from a disbanded political group student localism which advocated for hong kong's independence on june 30th just hours before the law took effect the group seized all their operations in hong kong but continued to call for support from abroad police here said the arrests were carried out by a newly formed national security department they also confiscated phones computers and documents all without a warrant they arrest marked the 1st time the new law has been used against activity on the inter

the legislative council election is the only way people in hong kong can influence who will run their city legislative councillors are partially responsible for choosing the chief executive and monitoring their performance in recent years china's leaders have been accused of interfering in this process and with the disqualifications and the delay in elections there are concerns whether another basic right is being stripped away the bigger pollen art is there hong kong. the boston marathon bomber has had his death sentence overturned by a u.s. appeals court 3 people killed and 260 others injured in 2013 when dzhokhar so naive and his brother detonated 2 homemade bones in the boston marathon finish line the court says the judge who presided over the this or night of skate this and i have case allowed the jury to include people who already thought he was guilty a lower court will re-evaluate his sentence 3 people have been charged over a major twitter hack which targeted politicians celebrities and amazons jeff bezos prominent accounts in the u.s. were hijacked 2 weeks ago in a

the goal is to secure a majority in the legislative council.lectronic voting accounts for more than 90% of the total. those results show prominent activists garnering a substantial number of votes. they include josh wua wang and jimmy sham. analysts say those opposing the territory's new national security law may be tripped of their candidacy. >>> a spokesperson for china's liaison office in hong kong said in a statement the primaries could be in violation of that law. the statement said an attempt to paralyze the administration, such as rejecting the budget in the legislative council, is aimed at toppling the government. >>> and now for world weather, let's check with our meteorologist tsietsi monare. hi tsietsi. >> hello. >> more rain is expected in many parts of asia. what are we expecting in the week. >> there's actually quite a lot happening. we're expecting more rainfall to continue as the seasonal front has been just one of the most devastating ones, bringing flooding and lots of damage to crops, residential areas, power supplies. it's b

so the other issues even if the democratic camp which wins more the majority of the legislative council seats in september for the elections is there any real guarantee that they will be able to be effective within the government given the way we've seen things have gone been going if beijing sheers not to cancel the election on early september i'm still of the news that we can't take much royalty in the legislative council but once beijing used the national security law should stop the election or even do not recognize to resell it off the election it would just shut them all and will backfire so now it's time to encourage the global community to put hong kong election under the global spotlight when beijing hope to override the election results and hope that this qualified candidate we need to realize that the world is watching you have been tireless in your campaigning for democracy in hong kong but as looking in from the outside it almost seems like a losing battle so why do you keep continuing despite the fact each time you move forward it seems to have gone one step back that more

around half the 70 members of hong kong's legislative council are appointed by the beijing backed government after a year of often violent protests and the imposition of a heavily criticised security law the opposition had been optimistic. for the 1st time there were hopes of a democratic majority beijing will not let that happen and seize the rising number of coronavirus cases as an opportunity to delay the vote. let's bring in our political correspondent simon young for more on this high 1000 men what more can you tell us. well see me your foreign minister heiko maher said today that this decision to postpone these elections and also to disqualify a dozen opposition candidates from taking part in them was a further encroachment on the basic rights of hong kong citizens including the right to free and fair elections and they said the german government is really worried about the general situation there also the arrests of democracy activists and that's why they've chosen to take this action now i should sell quite a few people here in berlin and questioned whether this is really going to ma

around half the 70 members of hong kong's legislative council are appointed by the beijing backed government after a year of often violent protests and the imposition of a heavily criticised security law the opposition had been optimistic. for the 1st time there were hopes of a democratic majority beijing will not let that happen and seize the rising number of coronavirus cases as an opportunity to delay the vote. now to some of the other stories making news around the world. officials in portugal say at least 2 people have been killed and dozens injured after an intercity train collided with a maintenance vehicle hundreds of passengers were on board when the crash occurred near the central city of colima. police in zimbabwe have arrested a claim novelist's. after she defied a ban on protests coinciding with the anniversary of president emerson the non-god was election she was detained after opposition lawmakers called for demonstrations in the capital harare against alleged state corruption and the slumping economy. british filmmaker alan parker has died at the age of $76.00 after a long il

the legislative council election is the only way people in hong kong kevin influence who will run their city legislative councillors are partially responsible for choosing the chief executive and monitoring their performance in recent years china's leaders have been accused of interfering in this process and with disqualifications and the delay in elections there are concerns whether another basic right is being stripped away the bigger pollen are just there hong kong vietnam is reported its 1st to covert 9000 related deaths as well as a record daily high of 45 new cases to be virus free for a month vietnam's prime minister is warning that breaks are possible nationwide more than 90 vietnamese infected with the virus in the past week in the city are all connected to the same hospital. russia says it has intercepted a u.s. surveillance plane over the black sea for the 3rd time this week if similar incidents reported on monday and thursday in the latest confrontation a fighter jet was scrambled from the american plane to change course as it approached the russian border presiden

recent primaries are calling for greater unity within the pro-democracy camp in september's legislative council election they say there's no room for division in the face of china's crackdown on the city's freedoms. and at least 11 soldiers from azerbaijan and 2 from media have been killed as fighting escalates at the border of the 2 former soviet republics have been in conflict over and on trade inside azerbaijan controlled by ethnic amin and it's. now u.s. researches say the 1st phase of testing an experimental curve in $1000.00 vaccine has shown promising safety results and produced an immune response the human trial run by the biotech company madonna tested the vaccine on 45 healthy volunteers of those who received 2 doses had higher levels of virus fighting had 2 bodies compared to others who had recovered from the corona virus and no serious side effects were reported. well now japan is calling on the united states to better manage the spread of the coronavirus at its military bases after more than 130 soldiers tested positive in okinawa the local governor says he was shocked by the clust

in hong kong have been calling for gracey unity within the pro-democracy camp in september's legislative council polls now most of the 600000 votes went to so-called localist candidates including prominent activists joshua wang many of them expected to be disqualified from running due to their political stances but they say they will not stop fighting against china's crackdown on the territory's freedoms. all we need is a little voice be heard in the local community because i'm not sure if right off baking we used to sit around and 3 days. from the protest camp full of the press conference and raise the hope to have a lot of discussion close to lots of candidates in the primary election to last through the traditional protocol credit card with the prep going from beijing with no room and then he tries to have a different vision it's time for us to and has refused and unity. now the united nations is warning tens of thousands of migrants most ethiopians stranded in war torn yemen at least 14 and a half 1000 have been rounded up forcibly moved around the country and some even detained out of fear

we're right so tomorrow friday will be the last day that for the nominations for those legislative council elections and the hong kong government is expected to hold a meeting at some point after tomorrow to talk about whether these legislative council elections should be postponed and they're saying under the current corona virus outbreak where we're seeing a steady increase in new infections it is too risky to hold those elections but here's the problem those elections are still a month away hong kong has previously been able to contain the coronavirus outbreaks quite effectively and so critics are saying that this is being used as an excuse because the government is concerned about the support for the pro-democracy camp there's a lot of concern for that for the 1st time ever if these elections go ahead the pro-democracy camp could get a majority and this would definitely infuriate beijing which means that a lot of hong kong's inner workings of the government a lot of bills that need to be passed will have a definite say or a definite way to with the promote majority camp so there are co

hong kong have been calling for gracey unity within the pro-democracy camp and september's legislative council polls most of the 600000 votes went to so-called localist candidates including a prominent activist. many of them expected to be disqualified from running due to their political stances but they say they will not stop fighting against china's crackdown on the territories freedom. still ahead here on al-jazeera slashing india's high school so that's why some are questioning the government's motives plus rising inflation and private 19 and nigeria leaving many struggling to feed their families. well i was it continues to rain in china in japan the rain pulses in the night as you see it's on its way mostly out but waltz the next pulse rebuilds over the yangtze you've got this thing creeping across the east china sea to sudden q issue over the city of kharkiv as a result of that look at the full cost because sheen you have got $3.00 days of showers all thunderstorms in sunk you sure an area of course affected by the floods recently an area to watch that looks like it'll just skirt away an

government has created and so if the extended for one year where is the parliament with the legislative council in the coming 13 months will they only meet when they are summoned they actually can act as legislator the afghan government has freed more taliban prisoners to release current sites with a 3 day ceasefire jury. both sides have signaled the peace talks could start when the holiday ends talks which is scheduled february delayed because of disagreement about christmas warps. the plenty more still to come here on the program looting caught up in libya's battle for tripoli why teenage presidents recruited by a warlord have been released plus. i'm katherine story i'm going to find marking if out and hang out with hundreds of thousands of world events on making that on your migration they're not toys to see them other telling you why. hello it's time for yet more rain fairly heavy rain for the korean peninsula this is the time the year when you get the rains the season rains about fun also going to go with significant you get rain further north but this is where it tends to be persistent an

that's right now those legislative council elections were expected to take place in early september and all indications so far show that the democracy camp had been gaining a lot of support for this in fact they held primaries a few weeks ago to consolidate their support base and turnout was rather impressive and so many of these candidates that were disqualified were all the ones that were seen as being able to run in these elections being a having a good ground support and possibly being even successful in these elections so the opposition says that this is definitely politically motivated although the government says this has nothing to do with politics it's according to the election officers and it's because they did not support the national security lawfully thank you for that digger palin live for us there in hong kong well more now on that national security law in beijing impose this national security legislation in hong kong on june 30th let's take a look at why it's been so controversial a law criminalizes loosely defined a version secession terrorism and foreign collusion this

voters task was to choose the person they believe would best represent them and september's legislative council elections. to get candidates campaign throughout the weekend including democracy activists joshua long who is looking to run in the legislative council elections for the 1st time he is on trial and could face jail for taking part in un authorized protests last year fight for democracy is a long time battle and he doesn't imagine or expect one day after hong kong without any result in free election but f. we have charles we still need to come out and vote that's the reason why i run for office in such a primary election even with a race of disqualification organizers say they faced many obstacles including a resurgence in current virus infections and shops and offices earmarked as ballot venues becoming unavailable in the last minute. to counter that some district councillor's hard to bus as a mobile polling station that proved popular the territory's 1st ethnic minority democratic candidate is also running the hong kong born social workers making his political debut on a tough battle

and nominations opened in hong kong for candidates in the legislative council elections to be held in september it'll be the 1st election since a new security law was imposed by beijing which critics say restricts freedoms. the confederate flag has been affected lee burned from the u.s. military sites following months of anti racism protests defense secretary mark asper announced the policy of telling commanders that only flanks which promote unity and respect to all the rawest the confederate flag was flown during the civil war by breakaway southern states supported slavery to continue it seemed by many as a reminder of the enslavement of black americans at a symbol of white supremacy supremacy ashley lawrence sanders is assistant professor of african-american history at the university of dayton in ohio she joins us now live via skype from cincinnati good to have you with us this could perhaps see this be seen as a progressive step it's hard not to view it through a political prism what do you think the pentagon is doing here and what do you make of the very fact that the word confed

election is invalid and ridiculous long as one of 12 opposition candidates disqualified from the legislative council polls he says the new national security law is being used by the government as a legal weapon to silence dissent hong kong's electoral authorities accuse wong advocating subversive ideas and colluding with foreign forces beyond and if not if the most scandalous election fraud ever in hong kong history they could this qualify as they could arrest everyone they could even call of the election and create a pop at parliament house where just gather with beijing loyalists however long this overturned a strong mandate for modest 600000 hong kong passed that bêlit the 1st ever primaries early this month i will boyce is clear allow to the world by. video paul and has the latest from hong kong. we very clearly said that the fight against what he called beijing's repression of political freedoms will continue and he will not give up now i just want to point out when he mentioned the 600000 people voting is that the democratic camp had held these pretty primaries about a few weeks ago in which a

the legislative council election is the only way people in hong kong kevin influence who will run their city legislative councillors are partially responsible for choosing the chief executive and monitoring their performance in recent years china's leaders have been accused of interfering in this process and with the disqualifications and the delay in elections there are concerns whether another basic right is being stripped away the bigger pollen are just there hong kong. a prominent author and an opposition spokesman are among dozens arrested in zimbabwe as police try to stop anti-government protests the government banned the protests which president amas in the one god was says constitutes an insurrection by the opposition or burden reports. protests being planned across the border but these scenes were not what opposition groups had hoped for in the capital how are you doing it looks shots and abandoned streets after the government declared the protests illegal a few people tried to defy the power to quickly stopped by police and soldiers we have been in the past 2 days. o

primary polls that are being held by pro-democracy parties these will decide candidates for the legislative council elections in september that vote will be the 1st since the imposition of a new security rule by beijing hong kong government minister has warned that those involved may be committing an offense under the new law speaking to al-jazeera pro-democracy candidate just how long said every vote cost is a message to beijing. the race of think this qualified well being sent out from the bailouts in official election we still realize that the primary election is important and every boat show at this content of beijing and what no trust to the company's reach him after the implementation of the national security law so to date is the primary election day is also the 1st type of people to waltz right after the law is implemented to hong kong it is time for us to fight back but more than 250000 people come out the world which is really impressive and we hope to finally have almost half a 1000000 people come out of the protest vote and let the well you know that we should not to kowtow to china if

elections these legislative council the job this would allow them to influence bills rules in hong kong and decisions made in hong kong what they say would be unpalatable for beijing so the opposition camp says that now all these candidacies popular candidates are being disqualified just a day before their candidacy or there is no candidacy ends as of tomorrow all nominations close so that they will not be able to front any new candidates or any new people to replace them so they say that this is definitely an affront to the democratic process in hong kong and this is the government's way of ensuring that the probating establishments will still hold the upper hand in the upcoming elections to be a pall of the whole goal thank you let's cross over to the british capital and the challenge of standing by rory i mean what reaction from the u.k. really to the arrests that we're hearing about in hong kong and also the sideswipe really from the chinese ambassador in london about sort of the u.k. interference in china as a. well we're still waiting for responses to bias of those thing

it's nothing legislators and the council can control states. we are not told what are the rules.red light seem to be everywhere restricting the freedom and of speech is of the legislators. and especially after national security laws passed we are very aware of all these red lines. we've mentioned the national security law a few times already. it was enacted by china, and came into force last month. hong kong was always meant to have a security law, but could never pass one because it was so unpopular, so beijing passed it instead. this bbc article outlines the main provisions of the law, but basically it criminalises acts of secession — that's breaking away from the country. and subversion, undermining the power of central government. critics say it effectively restricts protest and freedom of speech. china says it will return stability. here's the chinese ambassador to the uk. it has nothing to do with freedom of speech, freedom of expression. that has been clearly stimulated in the national security law, that basic human rights will be fully respected. this law is only targeted

a year later, carrie lam is quite forceful and today postponing those legislative council elections, ich the pro-democracy camp had high hopes for having a similar victory like they had in district council elections last november. that is all for naught because they will be postponed within a year and it comes within 24 hours of 12 legislative council candidates pro-democracy -- pro-democracy candidates disqualified for various reasons , including not supporting the law. a big power play by carrie lam. kevin: our thanks to the indefatigable stephen engle. be sure to catch bloomberg tv's one hour special hong kong on edge at 7:00 tonight and airing throughout the weekend. sticking with china, i spoke with tony blinken, joe biden for president senior policy advisor as well as the former national security advisor under president obama under how a new administration might handle the mounting tension between the world two largest economies. tony: right now, by every key metric, china's strategic position is stronger and ours is weaker as a result of the president's leadership. think about

has deepened even further the city's leader is expected to announce a delay to september's legislative council elections for up to one year on thursday electoral or forty's disqualified 12 pro-democracy candidates including joshua ward he called for the decision to bar him from running invalid and ridiculous while says a new national security law is being used by the government as a legal weapon to silence dissent while the electoral forty's accuse one of advocating subversive ideas and colluding with foreign forces. force take you straight to hong kong ways the chief executive is holding a press conference on those forthcoming legislative elections that's just listening to what she has to say transparent and open now this is the forty's press conference that i chaired on our effort to fight the epidemic and of course india enter in the. center for health protection how'd over $100.00 countries do you hold it is so that going to be fully informed of the latest development of the epidemic. now we. see. a situation in our fight against a virus a few days ago. out organization dr. so. that. we no

a lot of the demands we want to filter out the formation of a legislative council that can see fights over the government's activities the 2nd demand is the chief of comprehensive and just peace and the 3rd is a civil state but what about it. when your 3rd demand is a civil state it's a sign there may be trouble there's been a whole set of laws that came out in the last week or cell that seem to liberalize things but other laws were cracking down and there have been conservative protests since then check out some as conservative voices not everyone's happy about the new laws. so if i let enough what i would rather have we won't allow bars to reopen we won't allow prostitution again this people is a muslim people and this is the voice of the people to stop us all i mean it when i saw a gun i guess in sudan men women and children are honest i'm spiny chair we won't allow any interference and we won't allow any distortion of the laws of islam and say it is our duty to talk to the streets until the government falls through in you . and of course these challenges fall on the desk of prime

he was elected to hong kong's legislative council.rison on bail in 2017 after being jailed for his role in the 2014 umbrella movement protests. after leaving hong kong upon fear of being imprisoned under the new security law, nathan law is now in london and joins us live. it's good to have you with us. we heard this announcement that the uk is suspending the extradition treaty with hong kong and extending to hong kong the arms embargo. i know that the opposition leader wants to go further, you have been speaking with members of the opposition party, what extra would you like to see the uk to? we have spoken with mps and they are in support of the democratic movement in hong kong and there is a structural shift. it is becoming more certain that this is shared by both the opposition and the incumbent party, and for them there are several ways we can move things forward. for example, making sure there are more people eligible for that and providing necessary health, working closely with our allies in europe and around the world to make s

disqualify at least a dozen pro-democracy candidates including activists joshua long from the legislative council elections in september clearly beijing show a total disregard for the will for all or whole colas tramples upon the city's loss of famishing autonomy and attempt to keep hong kong legislators under it for however in order to save got the city's future hall callers will not surrender and our resistance will continue and we hope the world can stand with us in the upcoming battle this month hundreds of thousands of people voted in an unprecedented but unofficial primary election organized by the democratic camp to consolidate their support. they said the turnout indicated their chances of winning a majority of the legislative council seats the prospect that would be welcome in beijing authorities say more candidates could be disqualified and i think today we are seeing the results of the relentless oppression that this regime is starting. not only just to take away the basic fundamental rights and freedom that was once enjoyed by all known people hong kong has political freedoms and righ