ms. kong's allegations that we're exploiting them, we literally have no -- we literally make no money. as far as i can understand, as far as the co-op law works, people that are -- once you become a member of a co-op, you have -- i'm sorry, i wasn't prepared to have to go through this. once you become a member of a co-op, you are an owner and we decide at the end of the year to decide what to do with our money that we've made. we can either take it and put it back into the co-op or we can take that money, which of course you said dividends. when we started the co-op we decided to just put the money that we had back into the co-op. that's what we've done. the people that come there as volunteers, the first 40 or 50 hours can -- from what i understand in the co-op law, can be recognized as trainees. and they would become worker owners. that's my understanding of that. as far as the person that we have, one employee that was hired, at that time, and now the laws are changing with contracting, she was a contracted employee. so under that contract situation, it wasn't exactly the same as a

kong. thank you. [ applause ] ms. ho, welcome. >> thank you, chairman mcgovern, co-chairman rubio and the members of this commission for holding this hearing and for having us here at this very critical moment for hong kong. for more than 100 days now young people in hong kong have been at the forefront of our resistance. this is a leaderless movement with widespread participation from people of all walks of life. it is a fight for democracy, a fight for human rights and most of all a fight for universal values. what started in june as a one million people march has moved into a struggle for fundamental political reform in hong kong. chief executive carrie lam's misjudgments and care gans worsened the situation resulting in a total clamp down of the beijing government over hong kong's affairs. to date more than 1,500 hong kongers, the youngest at the age of 12 years old, have been unreasonably arrested. sadly, it has become a daily occurrence to see youngsters being pinned to the ground with head concussions if not bei

so it is very important that the west puts pressure not only on the hong kong government, but also on beijing. but in your view, msally impossible for the hong kong government and beijing to give in to the protesters‘ list of demands? of course it is not. i think the sar government and beijing need to realise and understand the aspirations and expectations of this generation of hong kong people. the protests will not end until and unless beijing and the sar government give in to some of the public demands, the most important of which currently is the setting up of an independent commission to enquire into the causes of this whole debacle, and once facts and truth are established, we can take steps to begin this very necessary reconciliation in society. but we need facts. in particular, there is growing concern over perceptions of brutality on the part of police and excessive use of force by the police. but of course, the danger is that the longer this protest movement goes on, the higher the risk of escalating violence, not only on the part of the police, but also on the part of the people taking part in the prote

reporter: now the chinese government repeatedly said it will step in if it feels hong kong authorities and mssing control. the clashes between police and protesters, which made the streets of hong kong echo to sound of tear gas canisters and rubber bullets being fired, beijing exercised its right to impose emergency rule. >> translator: the central government will not allow the chaos in hong kong to continue indefinitely. if the situation in hong kong deteriorates further, bams uncontrollable by the sar government and turmoil threatens the sovereignty and security of the country, the central government will not sit idly by. reporter: last week, of course, china sent military vehicles troops across the border into hong kong. the chinese authorities said that was routine rotation. a diplomatic source i spoke to today, melissa, acknowledged a rowcation would imply, a certain number of troops comes in hong kong, a certain number of troops goes back out to china. that has not happened yet. that source said obviously if it does not happen in the next few days, then it is very clear that china is bo

the unrest, soed what are you going to do to bring back relative peace to hong kong and setting up an independent inquiry? ms. lam: thank you. , theu read my statement actions, it is not directly to stop these protests or the violence. it is really to extend my sincerity to start a dialogue so in our view, violence should be stopped for the benefit of hong kong, but riftg forward, to mend the in society and to bring back piece, we are very willing to engage people directly in dialogue -- to bring back peace, we are very willing to engage people directly in dialogue. as i said in my introductory remarks, we are willing to go into the community to dialogue with the people, and the first priority in order to achieve the objective of bringing peace and order to hong kong is for all of us, all people of hong kong, to say no to violence. tom: ok, going to leave things. carrie lam taking questions from the media. getting back to our guest now, marcella chow, a global market strategist. what is going on in hong kong, a huge rift in society. we can see that, and we can also see the effects on her reputation and the s

today, ms lam said she had "never tendered any resignation", but did not deny the authenticity of the recording. hong kongrs‘ anger. now matt has the weather. a cloudy start for many areas but things are set to get brighter. we had sunshine across areas of the midlands, if my graphics don‘t want to play... let‘s get that going. the cloud is producing a little bit of rain here and there, particularly across the north and west at the moment. western scotland, northern ireland, into west and wales, where the cloud is because, some light rain and drizzle so far will turn heavier through the day, particularly across parts of scotland, northern ireland and the far north—west of england. some brea ks far north—west of england. some breaks in cloud, the midlands, eastern and southern income. a pleasa nt eastern and southern income. a pleasant enough afternoon, temperatures a degree also upon yesterday. a cold day in shetland, 12 degrees. this evening and overnight, rain spread south and east, across all parts. a welcome drop of rainfall gardens in the south early tomorrow. temperatures are 15 or16 south early tom

kong. thank you. [ applause ] >> ms. ho, welcome. >> thank you, chairman mcgovern, co-chairman rubio and the members of this commission for holding this hearing and for having us here at this critical moment for hong kong. for more than 100 days young people in hong kong have been at the forefront of the movement. it's a fight for democracy, a fight for human rights and most of all a fight for universal values. what started in june as a one million people march has morphed into a struggle for fundamental political reform in hong kong. the chief executive carrie lam's misjudgments and arrogance worsened the situation, resulting in a total clamp down of the beijing government over hong kong's affairs. to date, more than 1,500 hong kongers, the youngest at the age of 12 years old have been unreasonably arrested. sadly, it has become a daily occurrence to see youngsters being pinned to the ground with head concussions, if not being knocked unconscious. riot police and plain clothes officers have deliberately hidden their i.d.

today, ms lam said she had "never tendered any resignation", but did not deny the authenticity of the recording. hong kongrisps and processed meat, suffered irreparable sight loss. eye doctors in bristol cared for the young man after his vision had deteriorated to the point of blindness. tests revealed he had severe vitamin deficiencies and damage linked to malnutrition. details of how bbc news bulletins were used to send secret messages to resistance fighters in the second world war have been released today. 80 years on from britain and france going to war with germany the archive recordings reveal how big ben was sometimes replaced with a recording to confuse german bombers. here‘s our arts correspondent david sillito. big ben chimess radio announcer: this is the bbc home and forces programme. here is the news, and this isjohn snagge reading it. the sound of big ben and the bbc news live from london. radio: a service that links the world by radio. however, during the second world war, big ben wasn‘t always live. the bbc has just released archive recordings from people from the second world war, who reve

leads with hong kong's chief executive carrie lam's decision to withdraw the controversial extradition bill. the paper says that despite the move — protests continue, with many calling msnews leads with a new report by the un estimating that over 1,000 civilians have been killed in idlib, syria in the last four months. the paper says that the number of children killed from the end of april to the end of august stood at 304, and warns that a generation of children are at risk of being denied an education. and the japan times leads reports on the uk prime minister boris johnson's ongoing brexit battle. the paper says that his brexit plans are in tatters after the events over the last few days. as we reported earlier, protest leaders in hong kong have rejected a package of proposals from the territory's chief executive carrie lam aimed at ending months of unrest. but some opposition figures say they will continue to protest until other demands are met, including direct elections. stephen mcdonnell reports from hong kong. in earlyjune, many hundreds of thousands of protesters marched streets of hong kong did they fully posed a bill that would allow for people to be extradi

kong. this is one hour and 40 minutes. good afternoon. i'd like to welcome our third panel that will explore relationships we will start with miss ms. bonnie glaser she's published wildly in academic journals. as well as media outlets. and we will hear from dr. lin. her commentary on the political economy of greater china appears in english and chinese media. and we will also hear from dr. hui. she is written on hong kong democracy movements. i ask all of the witnesses to keep your comments to seven minutes so that we can ask lots of questions which we are very good at. we will start with ms. glaser. >> thank you. for your invitation today. as you know this marks the fourth year of deteriorating relationships between the china and taiwan. at a time when it was inaugurated in may 2020 610. since then we have seen a range of military tactics including poaching several diplomatic partners. recently even more radically reducing the mainland tourists allowed to visit and ramping up military exercises and operations. in response to this mounting pressure we have seen the adoption of tougher rhetoric, and attempted to secure greater suppor

kong. it's an incredible development as a result of the smart phones. >> we'll get to that and one thing that mss saying earlier as a function of this trade war you do expect to see the supply chains being shifted there's an actual change taking place within the chinese economy to be less reliant on overall foreign input going into the way they construct their own industries. >> chie is certainly going to work closer with asian countries inside that region so, rebuilding supply chains will happen but boost kind of its relations with the neighboring countries, but still china is becoming more and more independent even despite this in terms of producing its own high-tech components. >> all right we'll pick up the conversation in a little while, but i also want to take your attention to something that mr. mobius just mentioned the protests once again turned violent in hong kong over the weekend. police used a water cannon and fired tear gas to break up protesters the unrest erupted aphthouses of pro-democracy protesters marched through hong kong defying a police ban hong kong exchange vowed to pres