but it is in hong kong and joins us now from ohio mathias good to see you so people are back on the streets in the numbers what's happening now way way you walk. well people have gathered around the government headquarters and the parliament the legislature there have been dispersed with tear gas. water cannons from there and then they're now they're moving around the city just a moment ago there were a lot of protesters here now they've moved to other streets and they're really regrouping over there as you can see so everybody is on the move the protesters in the streets of hong kong and the police behind. the at the protests were initially triggered by an extradition bill that has since been withdrawn why are people still taking to the streets why are they still protesting if this withdrawal had come in the very beginning after the 1st mosque demonstrations then probably everything would have ended soon but since these protests have begun so much anger has built up anger mostly at the police force that has been using tear gas and rubber bullets and protestors and many hong kong a c. has e

surviving communist state and let's go to date of use my ts filling and he joins us from beijing hi mathias good to see you huge preparations are underway there how important is this anniversary for the chinese leadership. for the last 30 years the. legitimacy to its legitimacy that the communist party attributes to itself has been mainly sustained by nationalism and the narrative that the communist party has made china powerful again has made it and is sending world powers and this parade is designed to support this we're going to see a lot of military. soldiers but also technology china sees itself as a nation rising to one of the technology powers so this is extremely important and it comes at a moment when china is facing several challenges economic growth slowed down so. narrative that it has made china will be is somewhat at the end of. of offa certain iran that it had so this is this is how china wants to see itself how the communist party wants to see itself and that whole parade is at the scent off attention mathias you mentioned this is coming at a somewhat difficult time for china the

have our chief political editor michelle or krisna with us and our beijing correspondent mathias building a good to have you both with us here in our studio we said let's start with you here because hong kong protesters are calling for the chancellor's clear and on equivocal support to can they count on it but they didn't quite get in the statement that we saw so far but they certainly need a message of standing up for guaranteed rights did resonate with the german chancellor let's just have a quick listen to what she had to say. one starts one country 2 systems is the basic principle and based on that we have an agreement signed by china and the u.k. in 1984 and the hong kong basic law guarantees the freedom and rights of hong kong citizens. during the meeting i pointed out that the freedom and rights of hong kong citizens should be guaranteed and the agreement in 1904 should still be valid under the current situation we should do the utmost to avoid violence. and this very much is the narrative that we've seen so far from the german charts and reminding china of its own commitments towards hon

is going to do both sides will they will try to maintain good working relationship mathias ballinger in berlin right now are trying to correspondent from beijing and michel it doesn't thanks very much. let's review down some the other stories that are making the news at this hour the death toll from hurricane dorian will be staggering that's according to hama's health minister at least 30 people are now confirmed dead many more are missing after plowing through the bahamas dorian's now threatening the u.s. states of north and south carolina bring tornadoes and coastal flooding. clashes have broken out in southern mexico between migrants and security forces the migrants mainly from haiti and african countries want visas to continue north mexican authorities have stepped up their efforts to restrict migrants passing through mexico on their way to the u.s. border. sudan's newly appointed prime minister abdullah has announced his cabinet it's the 1st since military ousted president omar al bashir in april and includes 4 women and as part of a power sharing agreement between the military

me now from hong kong is correspondent mathias bellinger mathias another evening another weekend of protests ahead what keeps these protests as good a. job i well thank you the people go and thank them but their banks discovered this that they are many thanks to stanch this was also another thank you sam go in and thank you as they have experience because i'm so that when death notices again i stop protesting thank god there was a truck bomb on i'm going to see movement. band thank you council and i think she has tightened its grip on the city because there is a fear amongst these protests stop c the bands and this is also was keep stand go away was a new wing they feel they have not achieved enough yet to stop them oh so then the protesters are determined to make themselves heard as we can see it is robust chanting and singing that tell us there's also a light show which is planned for this evening what's that about. today is a traditional chinese holiday one of the most important chinese holidays the mid autumn festival and one of the traditions is to bring lanterns and to light lanterns on this day so the protesters have someho