of course, china, mainland china, has the great firewall which normally blocks google and facebook and government wants to control the message coming out of hong kong here. meanwhile, the young demonstrators, 18 and 19-year-olds, they vow to stay in the streets until they get what they demand which is true democracy. the right to nominate their own candidates for elections in 2017. a big question is how long can they and hong kong's economy afford to really paralyze the downtown of this financial hub. how long can students afford to boycott classes? how long can this disrupt financial markets? it is really the first working day of this. this is a test for this former british colony and for this very young protest movement performing an act of civil disobedience that hasn't been seen here in generations. >> remarkable to look at the pictures, ivan. remarkable. hong kong is a buttoned-up very efficient financial capital. to see all of those people -- we were talking to the banks this morning. the banks closing doors and suspending operations, unheard of. we know the chinese authorities g

unlike in mainland china pro-democracy demonstrations here are tolerated. d the tiananmen square massacre can be openly commemorated. in 2007, china promised that hong kong residents could vote directly for their territories leader in the 2017 election, a print this -- a position previously appointed by beijing officials. >> the timetable for universal suffrage has been set. hong kong is entering a most important chapter in its constitutional history. >> but now after several years of pro-democracy protests, activists are crying foul. beijing confirmed in august that hong kong's chief executive would be elected by universal suffrage, but a committee will decide first which candidates are allowed to run. an announcement that caused hundreds of thousands of people to take to the streets demanding their civil liberties. >> time for another developing news story here on france 24. jihadist militants from the islamic state group are now moving in on a key city on the turkish-syrian border. they are now the closest they have ever come to that strategic syrian town

the images could be viewed in mainland china until sunday, when chinese censors appeared to block instagramu can check web sides like blacked in china to see what sites are blocked in mainland china. outside of mainland china, protesters in hong kong have not reported censorship of social immediamedia media. but say cellular internet connections are moving slowly. many have turned to the fire chat app, which doesn't need an internet connection. it allows you to send text messages and photos. but uses a combination of bluetooth and wi-fi to send messages. the company says it was downloaded more than 100,000 times in hong kong alone, between sunday and monday. samuel burke, cnn, new york. >> censored or not, you have been watching cnn's special coverage. we appreciate it. i'm errol barnett. >> and rosemary church. >> if you are watching in the u.s., stay tuned. "early start" begins after this break. enjoy your day. >>> explosive new information about the armed white house intruder. just how far he made it inside the president's home before he was stopped. this as the head of the secret servic

macau is an 11-square mile enclave on the southern coast of mainland china. for over four centuries, it was under portuguese rule. today it is the closest place to china where gambling is legal. in 1962, chinese businessman stanley ho was the first person to usher in a new era of casinos in macau. it raked in billions. he paved the way for other investors to make it big in macau. today, one of those investors is stanley ho's son, lawrence ho. >> my father revolutionized the casino market 40 years ago in macau. he brought in a new style. throughout my career and life, it has been about trying to prove myself. >> it was important to you to prove that you could build a company from scratch? >> yes. definitely. >> determines to break out of his father's shadow, he partnered with james packer, himself the son of a famous tycoon. together they formed melco crown. their properties include two extravagant resorts. >> it is the ultimate destination for urban entertainment in macau. >> lawrence refers to the "city of dreams" as an integrated resort. where tourists come

the images could be viewed in mainland china until sunday, when chinese sensors appear to have blocked access to instagram. you can check websites like blocked in china bnt net to see reports of what sites are blocked in mainland china. as you can see on your screen, instagram is blocked in all the regions they monitor many outside of mainland china, protesters have not recorded censorship of social media. cellular internet connection is moving slowly. typical in any place where there are protests. many in hong kong have turned to fire chat app which doesn't need an app. you can send text messages and photos, you just need wifi or bluetooth. it was downloaded 100,000 times in hong kong alone between sunday and monday. >>> to the fight against isis, the mill tanneds have an advance on the syrian city of kobani. the fastest flight of refugees in syria's 3-year civil war is taking place. the observatory says more than 200,000 syrian kurds have been displaced. and most are seeking safety along the turkish border, many of them women and children. they desperately all of them need aide, arwa

the hand over, has there been a wide-open political culture that's separate and distinct from mainland china. >> i think that the political culture of hong kong is very different from china. because under british governance, starting in the 1970s, the british government did some reform and opening in the 1980s and 1990s, and the legislative council has been over, and the council is the lowest body, and they have been opened up. and since the 1960s, there has been a long history of freedom of press, and also freedom to assemble and freedom of speech. so it continues [ audio difficulties ] so it's going on, and this space of freedom has been smaller and smaller, but hong kong still maintains this kind of freedom of expression and freedom to protest. so i think that hong kong, in that regard, has had a long tradition of peaceful protest that's quite different from china. >> but professor, when you read about, for instance, china shutting down parts of the internet, and censoring websites with particular words or afraids, that doesn't apply to hong kong t. does it? >> it doesn't apply to hong ko

. >> neil: many go from hong kong to mainland china? >> a lot of people do business in mainland china. >> neil: let's say china succeeds to hong kong to calm them down, if you're in mainland china wouldn't they say you did for them do for us. >> if you look at sort of of the short history, there's a long understanding that they're two separate systems. it sounds like they really want to preserve what's there because of the increased communication. >> unfortunately it would ruin the hong kong economy which they built so -- so much up, and it's everything. it's succeeding and we should be emulating it. they're going to crush it. >> neil: we hope not. no, that's great. meanwhile, is the tea party over? four years after taxing up already, are republicans saying enough with the tea party already? >> neil: we're at five weeks to the election. static control coming down to five races. on those races and what could shape them. how do you see it now, lare? >> neil, i've not changed my forecast. i've said the probability is that republicans will

the number from mainland china topped 253,000. the highest in the month. that's up about 50% -- 56%, as well. visitors from the philippines and vietnam also surged. tourism officials say the rise is due to more international flights at tokyo's haneda airport as well as more charter flights going to regional airports across japan. an increase in the number of incoming large cruise ships from china is also supporting the trend. the officials say this year's total visitors could reach 12 million. citing more travelers from mainland china and south kor. >>> well, two american companies about to take a giant leap into outer space. u.s. space agency nasa has chosen boeing and california based venture firm spacex to build transport shuttles for the international sp >> today we're one step closer to launching our astronauts from u.s. soil on american spacecraft, and ending the nation's sole reliance on russia by 2017. >> under its commercial crew program nasa is helping u.s. companies develop spacecraft to replace the space shuttle fleet which was retired back in

china. so has there been any sort of reporting of what's been happening in hong kong on the chinese mainland well, basically the chinese media has been most likely forced to toe the party line more strictly than usual even. because they are all quoting shing wa, the main media here in china. that effectively means that the chinese government, the communists want to control the message to the chinese people on the mainland, what is going on in hong kong. as we've been reporting, protests are pretty common in hong kong. in fact, some would say it's a way of life on some level. but this is very different, because it's setting up the protesters in hong kong, directly in our position and potentially to clash, eventually directly with the communist party here in mainland china. that's a very different situation than we've seen in the past. andrew? >> just going back to an earlier conversation we had, david, how much influence does hong kong have in beijing? it's a special case, hong kong, within the chinese political system. because it has its own mini constitution. it has its own mini rule of law

investors are worried that the protests could hurt mainland china's economy. the south korean kospi ended 0.3% lower and hit a fresh two-month low. china is one of south korea's largest trading partners. investors also focused on hsbc's manufacturing report on china. it came in at 50.2 for september. that was unchanged from august. the shanghai composite hit a new high for the year for the fifth day in a row. meanwhile here in tokyo a report on weak industrial output raised doubts about the strength of the japanese economy. the nikkei average ended the day lower 0.8%. 16,173. investors also avoiding risks on the final day of the second quarter in japan. and in sydney shares rebounding and closing up more than half a conspiracy, 5,292. strong banking stocks supported the market today. >>> government officials in japan have released some figures that give insight into the state of the economy. they say in august the labor market showed signs of recovery. officials at the internal affairs ministry say the unemployment rate fell to 3.5%. that's the first time in t

so it's very clear that the authorities in mainland china are trying to really control the message. and the incredible thing about that is hong kong is technically part of china, but since the british handover, it's had a pretty different system of government. so people have been able to get out in the streets. have been able to criticize their government, criticize the communist party without the draconian really violent memories of repression you would see in mainland china. that gets to the crux of the dispute here. people say they don't want this city to become like just another chinese city. >> ivan watson, be careful. continue to check in. a quick reminder, make sure you set your dvr so you can watch 360 whenever you like. we're on for two hours tonight all the way to the 10:00 hour on the east coast. >>> the suspect in the hannah graham disappearance. does it link this man to at least one other disappearance? a deadly one? at od, whatever business you're in, that's the business we're in with premium service like one of the best on-time delivery records and a low claims ratio,

this is a very different kind of protest movement from what i have seen not very far away in mainland chinanderscores how different hong kong is, this former british colony, from the rest of china and the real fear that many of the demonstrators are expressing. they're afraid, as the central government tries to impose more and more of its authority on this port city, that hong kong could become like many other chinese cities living under a much more authoritarian, and that's what these -- most of them kids, 18, 19, 20 years old, don't want. >> so long people in hong kong celebrating a sort of independence and a level of freedom that mainland china has not been able to enjoy. ivan watson, thank you so much for that. we'll check back with you. >>> how worried should we be about lone wolves on american soil? candy crowley talks with the deputy national security advisor and then later candy pulls double duty. we'll explain. ♪ i thought it'd be bigger. ♪ ♪ (dad) there's nothing i can't reach in my subaru. (vo) introducing the all-new subaru outback. love. it's what makes a subaru,a subaru. ♪ [ m

and there's a roar now coming through the crowd but, again, in mainland china, this simply wouldn't be tolerated and there is much more censorship, much more authoritarian system of government in mainland china and that is what these young people are worried will be imposed on them as they say that they have seen some of their freedoms chipped away at over the course of the past year by the hong kong officials and by the central government. so this is really a large group of young people standing up to a very powerful government that has shown very little reluctance to use force in the past to crush people who challenge it. randi? >> i van, how long were they able to stay there? you were hit with tear gas, how long before police try to disperse this crowd again? >> well, we saw a much bigger police presence sunday night and in the early morning hours, much more willing to use force against these demonstrators and then they pulled back throughout the day so there is a token police presence here. police officers who are not armed, who are not wearing riot control -- riot protective gear

is mainland china seeing this coverage at all? >> reporter: they've seen some of it.llowed to be broadcast yesterday and in the hours during those pepper spray and tear gas attacks. so there has been some coverage in mainland china, but remember, cnn is limited a very select number of television viewers in china. as far as social media is concerned, there is very little social media. the big social media that we're familiar with, facebook, twitter, youtube, all banned. instagram is available in china and it has been closed in so many areas. so they really are putting a lid on what's information is getting out across the border here into mainland china. obviously, the last thing they want to see are street protests which could theoretically at least lead to a change in politics. beijing does not want to see that. >> makes the arab spring pale in care opinion. >>> the paparazzi and police competing for pictures the of george clooney and his wife. jeanne moos on the super bowl of photo ops. ♪ who's going to do it? who's going to make it happen? discover a new energy sour

many pictures out of the city cannot be viewed in mainland china right now. clamping dunn on coverage of the protests. we're going to be looking at how worried the communist leadership is with rising calls for democracy. >>> and this is the scene live in venice as one of the world's most eligible men is now officially off the market. george clooney's four-day wedding to amal alamuddin continues today and it's a beautiful day in venice. >>> also on the program, aaron is back, and xbox enters china. >> yeah, lucy. for 14 years, the game console makers have been banging on china's door. but they were band, however, from today. the likes of microsoft has access to the country's multi-billion-dollar market. so we're going to find out whether the chinese will embrace these consoles, and how will the makers protect their kit from the black market? >>> we start with those pro-democracy protests in hong kong. they are continuing as demonstrators are refusing to leave key parts of the city's central business district and government offices. remember, night is falling i

. >> it could be political noise but a distraction for what is happening in mainland china.ow concerned are you about that? >> we think is political and if it an important issue. and could be slightly more. china is the on in slow down. slowdown and a week property market. the bad debts rising. that has been a concern which is been in the background and out of the foreground and probably come back again. really looks toward inflation. >> the consensus seems to be an appreciate for china to handle this. there is no historical prece dence for a historical boom this big to play out. >> it has been a big concern for the credit markets and i can probably, back. it is messy. some of the loans are taken off of the books. managed and that is fine. they are doing it anyway that is quite tricky. i think probably the focus will come back on again. >> of moving from china and we will talk tech. thatu mission will unveil apple may have cut an illegal deal. hans nichols joins us for more. talk to me about what is at stake here for apple. >> well, potentially back taxes. is out for has fou

the chinese government was running allowing our images to be beamed into mainland china until this morningically. we've gotten reports that instagram is shut down there. obviously the censorship is quite heavy. the great firewall of china which blocks facebook and google and twitter even on a good day also kind of controls the flow of information over there. what i'm feeling here is kind of eruption of kind of a collective demonstration of defiance and of pride from young people here in hong kong. many of whom born after the 1989 tiananmen square crack down and brutal time in 1989 which was a mainland for china. many of these people born after that moment. just standing up with a full throat at war saying they will not leave until their demands for democracy are met. randi? >> ivan, when you look at the size of that crowd, you have to wonder how long will they be allowed to stay there. what is the plan to eventually disperse these crowds? >> reporter: it's a very good question i don't think anybody has an answer right now. this will clearly cost the hong kong economy millions of everyday t

china. and there are a lot of mainland chinese living there. na is fearful what they're seeing there could spread to the streets of china. so they're between a rock and a hard place here. they don't want this to grow. it's already a serious challenge to their leadership there. but also on the other hand, tla don't want another tiananmen. the trouble is, who's going to back down? doesn't look like either side is going to back down. >> stand by for a moment. i want to bring in mike chinoi, former senior asia correspondent for all of us here at cnn, now a senior fellow at the u.s.-china institute. no one knows this story better than you do, mike. give us your perspective. where is this story heading? >> reporter: it's very hard to say, wolf, at this point. the problem is that there's no obvious compromise in sight. the protesters here are making demands that beijing abandon the plan for the way in which hong kong's chief executive is going to be chosen. beijing says that's impossible. hong kong's current chief executive says that's impossible. so i

residents of mainland china, groups say china is slowly taking those freedoms away. police use more than 85 rounds of tear gas, pepper spray and batons on protesters sunday. the number of people on the street continues to grow despite the police crack down. hong kong stocks have actua tum. vulnerable to riot police once more. soon after dark on monday as the crowd swelled it became clear all the worrying now belonged to the authorities. at times a sea of illuminated cell phones. and then booing of the cy chong. >> one of the protesters say have yo you you heard the sing? >> the night before it was facing tear gas. on monday night, no gas, and hardly any police presence. >> given the fact they launched tear gas and you know pepper spray the past couple of days i think people are quite prepared for both. i mean they knew what to expect. and they still have the courage to come out anden tel and tell e government what they want. hong kong people actually do want democracy. >> i think hong kong people grew up to another level, we are wanting to a real democracy tonight fo

there are so many things that are enjoyed which the mainland china does have.far as the compromise, it doesn't like like it. it seems reading between the lines of the government, they are hoping this may blow itself out. four day nooss into it, people say enough is enough and they will go home. if there is a significant impact and the hang seng is down a bit. this could force a backlash against the protesters. they don't want to see the city suffering. the government is playing along with that might happen. i think short-term, expect to see more people join the protests here in hong kong for the next two or three days. >> we expect to see it. people in china won't see it because it is censored. thank you, andrew. >> you have to wonder if something will seep in. >>> the arrest of the man suspected of abducting hannah graham may have led to a break into another case. the 2009 murder of morgan harrington. evidence belonging to jesse matthew jr. matched evidence collected in the harrington investigation. for harrington parents, the news is a relief, but they say ti

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since then, it has operated under different economic and political systems than mainland china as partf a policy known as one country, two systems. the crackdown is being felt in mainland china, where the government has blocked the mobile photo-sharing app instagram and heavily censored references to hong kong on social media. for more we go to hong kong where are joined by tom grundy. a journalist and blogger, he was tear-gassed over the weekend while covering the protests. tom, why don't you lay out the scene for us. describe what happened, how people gathered his weekend and what has happened since. >> well, on sunday morning, it seemed the movement lost some momentum. students gathered around the closed off area around government headquarters, but as the day progressed people were watching scenes of them at home being crap -- pepper sprayed and tear gassed. the buildingg area. by the next day, it seemed the police presence had almost disappeared and you began to see waves of protesters coming into three different areas of the city. causeway bay and another shopping thoroughfare. in

>> reporter: of course, that was 20 years ago and that was mainland china, and this is hong kong. this is what the proequivalent iters looking to protest. one of them, that we see on display here, is the freedom of speech, there's also some legal freedom here, too. so in many ways, what's happening on the streets, what protesters are hoping will happen, is that the world will take notice. very little of this is trickling into the mainland this morning. i picked up the jupp, the china daily, the main english paper, did have some coverage on it. but the only coverage to the protests is how it was delaying traffic and making people delayed and sending the stock market out. >> seth doane on the phone, thank you, seth. >>> coming up on the "morning news," an unexpected link between two missing women in virginia. how hannah graham's disappearance helped police connect the dots. >>> and look out. hail the size of golf balls come hammering down in colorado. wait till you see what they did to a bunch of cars. i use wipes and toilet paper on a normal basis. why? because you feel cleaner. i

it doesn't prevent people from posting, it just prevents people seeing them in mainland china. >> this morning facebook is rolling out atlist, which could create a new revenue source for facebook. facebook bought at list from microsoft last year. 4:44 right now on your monday. for your look at business headlines, we turn to kate rogers, who is live this morning on a monday. good morning, kate. >> good morning to you. it was the worst week for stocks in about two months, the dow closing up or down by more than 100 points every day last week. and we get data today on personal income and spending and home sales. the nasdaq added 45 points. and shrek may soon be answering to a new boss. this deal for more than $3 billion. now soft bank has been on the top of media deals, has reportedly been leaniinked to yahoo!. it would be the second japanese company to own a hollywood studio. and gm is warning corvette owners not to use one of the car's high tech features. it's called valet mode and lets drivers of the corvette secretly record conversation and performance data when they're not behind the

but due to a blackout, most of the 1.4 billion people living in mainland china have no idea what is happening is "outfront." >> reporter: they braved tear gas and police battles in hong kong, demanding democracy from china's communist rulers. back in beijing, the hong kong protests are largely ignored. out on the street, state media has been warned to tow the party line, this headline saying "occupy movement" creates instability in hong kong. it is very difficult for chinese in the mainland to get the full picture of what is going on. i don't know about the protest, says this man, no, what news? haven't seen it, she says. i think there are people with ulterior motives, it is probably the u.s., the americans are always doing evil things. one person said the ultimate battle it on the internet, facebook, google, internet cut off in china after protests began. the party censored the photo-sharing site, instagram. >> when it comes to spreading ideas, the chinese government would prefer it not be spread in china. >> those ideas, the freedom to vote, expression and assembly are all openly debated in

i guess the fear is the broader space to the mainland china. similar are the people of hong kong and what they're fighting about versus the mainland chinese? do you expect anybody, any of the coastal export hubs to get involved in this type of protest? >> they already have. china has arrested one man for posting pictures about the internet. they are censoring the internet. they are afraid for them spreading in china, taiwan. and it is important. it's not a legal issue, it is a political issue. this is just two years into xi jinping's -- for years. i agree with melanie. it took weeks before the chinese communist party intervened in tiananmen. there is no way they're not going to intervene. the business community doesn't support it yet. if they do it will be a very different situation. >> thank you very much. michael, melanie, thank you for joining us this morning. appreciate it. >>> when we come back this morning, walmart trying to hift the blame on to tracy morgan for the injuries that he received when a company tractor-trailer slamped into the

while millions of iphone 6's are assembled in mainland china they're not legally available here yet. the delay comes as foreign technology companies fall under increased suspicion here. >> if it's cool in china to have an apple iphone, to be the first to have the new apple iphone in china is about as cool as it gets. so people are willing to pay top dollar to make that happen. >> reporter: cory johnson, an editor with bloomberg west, says the iphone 6 which went on sale to cheering customers in japan has a larger screen which is a plus in this part of the world. >> the chinese characters are so complicated and difficult to see on a small form a larger format phone has a unique appeal in asia. >> reporter: many of these black market phones we were told are smuggled in from hong kong which has a different set of regulations. this student says he bought these phones in australia and brought them home to china in hopes the profits will pay for his flight. >> that was seth jones reporting. chinese customs officials seized 2,000 phones before they hit the streets. it's estimated as many as

china. and they do often block, as we know, our reporting here in the mainland. andrew? >> just by way of comparison, david, for our viewers joining us from the u.s., the differences between hong kong and china, it is all now china but hong kong operates under the special policy of one country, two systems. it does enjoy a lot more privileges than most mainland chinese citizens, david. but is it likely that the chinese government is going to go that further step and allow a full democratic process, full universal suffrage, to unfold? >> i would be very surprised if they did. and certainly everyone i've spoken to to a person has said that the chinese government is unlikely to bend. the communist party has said what they think should happen in the 2017 proposed elections. they say they're not going to change from that. and very few people think that xi jinping, the president of china, is the type of leader who will be seen to losing face over all of this. this is one country, two systems setup, which is sometimes quite hard to get your head around. one way to describe it is

hong kong's role as a gateway through which the world trades good and finances with mainland china makes it a vital channel for china to advance its international aspirations. they have this desire to restrain hong kong and also leave it the way it is. >> they need it the way it is but the communist party calculations is going to be, first and foremost, it's own survival. what they're seeing going on in hong kong, where people want to vote in meaningful elections as being an exsensual threat. in the best of all threats they would like hong kong to continue as it is, they are not going to permit things to go on there. i think they see the situation because hong kong is a threat in that sense. >> >> i don't think it can last very much longer. you see not only in hong kong but around china people just demanding not to be treated like infants. everyone wants a greater say in their lives. you're starting to see this as you have more and more prosperity in china itself. and so this is completely unsustainable. >> gordon chang of forbes, appreciate it. >>> three things to know on this tuesday.

in mainland china, police don't put up with scenes like this. but beijing has promised to respect hong kong's way of life. and that makes them the only chinese citizens with freedom of speech. >> if we miss this chance to fight for ourselves, i think hong kong will have no future. that's why we are here. >> reporter: it's not just here. the protests spread across the harbor, and to the shopping district of causeway bay. last month, beijing granted voters the right to elect their future leader, but said the candidates must be selected by a nominating committee. it has condemned the protests as an unlawful occupation. so far, these protesters have ignored the government's appeal to leave and go home. they say they are preparing for another night of demonstration. laura westbrook, bbc news. >> i just want to show you the latest live pictures that we're getting in here. there is, of course, a huge number of people out on the streets still today. it does seem that riot police have withdrawn to try and defuse things a little bit, but also what appears

months ago, the paper's website was targeted in a cyber attack that reportedly originated in mainland chinast month, a rival newspaper, the orientation daily ran a full-page 0 pit wary claiming he had died from aids and cancer. lei responded with a video he published on the apple daily website in which he said he was sorry to disappoint. last year, another one of lei's outlets accused three major institutionses from pulling advertisement from the apple daily under pressure from bej g beiji beijing. the accusation has been denied. a 10 year jail sentence opinion acmad humadon whose picture documenting police attacks on protesters were published on opposition websites has been imprisoned since 2012 charged with participating in an attack on a police station. human rights and press freedom organizations say that the photo journalist was doing his job covering the story. >> in july of this year, another photographer, amar rasul was arrested by plane clothed security officers. tests alleg tests. >> the crackdown started in 2011 during the arab spring and according to research by the new york-bas

. >> woodruff: for more on what provoked these protesters and how mainland china is likely to respond, we turn to ian bremmer. he's the president and founder of eurasia group, a political risk research and consulting company. ian bremmer, welcome to the program. are these protests unprecedented? has china ever seen anything like this? and i guess tiananmen comes to mind. >> yes. tiananmen's the last time we've seen this sort of thing within china itself. certainly hong kong there has been nothing like this since the hanover from great britain in 1997. most importantly it is by far the first serious challenge domestically to the president. it really is directly a question of the legitimacy and the support of what's so far been a very popular, very charismatic and very transformative rule. >> how much of a challenge is it to him and to the regime, the government in beijing? these students have been there for five days. they don't show any signs of backing down. >> no, in fact, tomorrow, as you've heard, you have the national day. there have been a number of calls for demonstrations in s

. >> ever since 1997 when hong kong returned to mainland china hong kong kept the capitalist system. people there enjoy a democracy and have the right to demonstrate of the the current demonstrations are a reflection. fact that democracy exists in hong kong. on the other hand i urge people in hong kong who go demonstrations and protests to do so according to law. they cannot do such protests and demonstrations by violating freedom of other people who want to go to work, and get along with their life in the normal way. to do such protests by disregarding police warning and refuse to disperse is counterproductive and not a good way to advantages their cause. >>> the fight against i.s.i.l. is raging on. activists say the u.s.-led coalition hit four provinces. aleppo and others. an air base and a gas factory were among the targets. their strikes attacked three refineries. the command center was hit. and the u.s. president obama admitted that his security officials underestimated the threat of i.s.i.l., in an interview onst television. obama said he didn't realise how fighters in iraq wou

in mainland china markets the shanghai composite is well, up half a percent and trading now at 2,358 and in seoul the kospi index is currently down about 7/10%. it's trading hands at 2012. >>> the people at one of japan's biggest convenience store chains are look to expand up market. lawson executives are preparing to buy high-end supermarket siejo ishi. managers at seijo ishi operate about the 120 stores in tokyo as well as central and western japan. they specialize in imported and upmarket goods. lawson launched a chain of small supermarkets this year with only a handful of outlets. japan has more than 50,000 convenience stores. lawson executives run about 12,000 but it's they have seen their earnings go down. since the consumption tax went up in april. the executives plan to cut costs by combining buying and shipping operations across all outlets and they hope to boost their engines by expanding their customer base. >>> now to some news for visitors to japan. more souvenirs and gifts are becoming tax free. the duty free system will expand on wednesday. currently shoppers at duty f

>> ever since 1997 when hong kong returned to mainland china, hong kong kept a list of people in hong kong. they have the right to protest and demonstrate. the current demonstrations are a reflection of the fact that democracy exists in hong kong. i urge people in hong kong who do the demonstrations and protests to do so according to law. they cannot do such protests and demonstrations by violating freedom of other people that want to go to work and get along with their lives. i would say to do such protests by disregarding police warnings, and refusing to disperse is counter product ty and is not a -- productive and is not a good way to advance the democratic goals in hong kong. >> it's an interesting point you make about the rights to protest and demonstrate. democracy works both ways. what concessions is beijing going to make here? >> i think at issue is not universal suf ridge. everyone wants universal suf ridge. the goal is to institute universal suffrage in 2013. what is at issue is how the candidates for the chief executive should be nominated. for this issue, of course, differ

and half the countries are from mainland china. china based businesses help to drive the 3.7 million market. on sunday police fired tear gas and pepper spray to disperse the crowd, blocking roads and government headquarters. as of last night 34 people were injured and 78 people were arrested in the area. protesters say they must stand for democracy. >> the message is how can people love democracy, believing it's good for hong kong and china, and are prepared to sacrifice their comfort, freedom for the sake of themselves, their children and children's children. >> protesters are gearing up for a forth day of rallies, scott heidler has been following the protests. >> well into the night, sens of thousands of tro theftors it's something that evolved, numbers grew, there were cop tron stations. teacher pray was used, gas ma s masks. that continued, but we saw something for the first time. the use of tear gas by police, pushing protesters down the channel. around that time, it's interesting, the father of a democratic movement saw the pr

some markets including mainland china and south korea closed today for the mid autumn day holidays. tokyo's nikkei average rose.23%, 15,705. leading the advance was soft bank which owns more than 30% of ali baba group holdings. expectations are growing the giant will raise a record amount of capital in its upcoming public offering. yeah cart sta finished higher than more than half a percent, 5246, that is a record level. investors remain upbeat by economic reforms by the country's incoming president. they believe he will cut fuel subsidies and green light more infrastructure projects. >>> consumers and business managers across japan have been spending less. officials at the cabinet office are seeing the aggregate necks of that on the economy are economy. they say gdp shrank faster in the may to june quarter than estimated. gdp fell 1.8% from the previous quarter, an an annual contraction of 7.1%. officials estimated gdp would drop 6.8%. managers pulled back on reinvesting in their businesses. corporate investment fell more than 5%. personal spending was down by the same margin. hous

many refused to say the they were from hong kong or mainland china or say anything at all.ow why you are here today? what is clear is they are out in numbers. with both sides so deeply entrenched hong kong is in an order of discontent and demonstrations by the prodemocratic group also be marked by more civil disobedience but they will be matched protest for protest by louder groups loyal to beijing and i'm rob mcbride in hong kong. >>> russia foreign minister called on them to leave the east which they are firing on civilians and accused them of providing arms to men and able them to turn the course of the war. dozens of rebels are seen preparing their weapons on the outside of donsk and heading to the city's airport which was shut down at the end of may due to heavy fighting. russia is sending a convow to eastern ukraine with what it calls humanitarian supplies and we have more. >> reporter: i'm in a small rail way town of haminsk and this is the first look, i will step out of the shot here, this is the first look at russia second so called humanitarian aid convoy and i co

at least for eyes in mainland china where social media is being censored. i-tv's lucy watson. >> reporter: there's a decidedly different atmosphere here this evening with protesters chanting peace, love and unity in the absence of any police presence. that's because they believe the momentum of this movement is growing. >> reporter: tonight, a cell phone vigil and an easy memory of tiananmen square as many fear the iron hand of china is tightening its grip on a city fighting to maintain its freedom. katy tur, nbc news. >>> elsewhere in asia, rescue workers hope to resume their search for survivors on that mountainside in japan, the problem, the volcano is still erupting. at least 36 people are now feared dead after it erupted without warning on saturday, blasting ash and rock and toxic gas into the air. it is unclear how many, if any, are still missing. >>> an update tonight on the case of missing university of virginia student hannah graham. citing a new forensic link, police now say the suspect in custody may be connected to the murder of another young wo