lord patten served as the 28th and final governor of hong kong between 1992 and 1997.london. lord patten welcome here to the programme. you have watched and warned over the last few months. your reaction to what has now been imposed? i'm very sad, it is a very dark day for hong kong, it is a very dark day for hong kong, it is a very dark day for its very brave citizens. it is a dark day for the work because this is an example of the behaviour that unfortunately i would expect from under the chinese calmness regime since the outbreak of the current virus which in parts of the current virus which in parts of the current virus which in parts of the continent of chinese communist... don't forget that more than half the population of hong kong are refugees from communism and the mainland. they crawled over barbed wire to get to hong kong and because they knew what the law meant in china and now they're having it visited upon them with the destruction of international relationships and rule of law with them running roughshod over political rights which is supposed to pa rt o

this country with things better in hong kong do you think under the british dictatorship when the patten and the disaster. well. it is quite meaningless to come the same types in different era because the time has changed and 2nd which is the last 2 decades actually hong kong and at last in that case of its colonial time all call actually. was implemented with a serious of liberalisation and democratisation measures but it all being returned to the 5 base chain so we can say bache and actually intentional a whole the process of democratization in hong kong and to concentrate power more and more throughout the implementation of one country 2 systems you see the chinese authorities claim that this is imperialist meddling they accuse hong kong human rights groups of being some sometimes in the payments and often linked to cia backed his actions that when u.s. government funded n.g.o.s or the fallout from agent has always been used to stigmatize to home they have enough of profile that i need relevant after the for the accusation because these are not true welcome people come out to protest

choices we think well done i'll meet later today with on con democracy advocate nate alonso chris pattenthe last governor of hong kong i'm sure those will be eyeopening and important discussions to. dominate much of the free trade discussions we've completed 2 rounds more work to do a 3rd round get your for later this month that is a primary focus of the united states to see if we can make progress on this and bring this to closure just as quickly as possible i spoke with the prime minister this morning about this and i hope that we can get it finalized for 2 want when we leave dummy can i will sit down with a british or american business council to hear about how we can get to the right place which is reducing trade barriers and hear more about how we can get opportunities for small businesses and create real wealth and opportunity good jobs for working people here in the united kingdom and for americans to. and finally i discussed about the prime minister and with the foreign secretary the importance of extending the u.n. arms embargo on the slum republic of iran we welcome the recent

but some of them come from russia grosso and patten our. local people have also started planting us here yeah maybe they've realized that it's good business. let most of the people who plant so i come from abroad. not only that. they also use a lot of machinery and those machines take our jobs that went back you might like shit out. hardly any people work in those fields means. business i'm a work for local people and my years in the north of the plantations hire a few to drive tractors jack i might not know that. yet but apart from that they do all the work themselves act like you and your family and you should be issued. you know. that. this building houses the santorum farm workers union. local people are benefiting very little from the soybean. smallholder farmers can't compete with the industrial farming operations which can produce more efficiently. but. what have you got there soybeans no there's no so here no 5. you know you will use them for the. other car products aren't worth anything. only the big farms can make money. on the sm

but some of them come from grosso and patten our. local people have also started planting us. yeah maybe they've realised that it's good business. but most of the people who plant so i come from abroad. what on. earth they also use a lot of machinery and those machines take our jobs i went back in my head like shit out there are hardly any people work in those fields. there's no more work for local people and my education not through the plantations hire a few to drive tractors and get right now back. here but apart from that they do all the work themselves my you and your family you should be sure. coming up to get you guys that back in. this building houses the sometime ram farm workers union. which local people are benefiting very little from the soybean boom. smallholder farmers can't compete with the industrial farming operations which can produce more efficiently. what have you got there soybeans. no there's no so here. and there by. you know you hear some of them. our products aren't worth anything. only the big farms can make money. on the small ones can we can we thin

lord christopher patten — hong kong's final british governor before the 1997 handover — says china isehaviour, adding... the british government says the law is a breach of the treaty between china and the uk, which gave hong kong its degree of independence. here's uk foreign secretary dominic raab. it isa it is a sad day for the people of hong kong, and one which can only undermine international trust in the chinese government's willingness to keep its word and live up to its promises. and the prime minister borisjohnson has sent a strong message by allowing up to three million people in hong kong — who have british national overseas status because they were born before the territory returned to china — to live and work in the uk for longer. we made clear, mr speaker, that if china continued down this path we would reintroduce a new route for those with british national oversees status to enter the uk, granting them limited leave to remain with the ability to live and work in the uk, and thereafter to apply for citizenship, and that is precisely what we will do now. our china correspo

within this gradual erosion of humanitarian access become quite a patten in the security council but i think it's incredibly worrisome at this time when we have covert cases confirmed in this area that the snow western region of syria and in the northeast so in the space of about 9 months we've gone to having 4 u.n. border crossings now only having one and this latest closure of one of the major crossings in into the area around north and aleppo's leads 1300000 people without the support of the united nations and as the u.n. has warned the council this will cost syrian lives the responsibility of the syrian government is to meet the humanitarian needs of its people but we have not seen damascus willing to do that throughout the 9 years of this conflict and the people that are in this area in northern aleppo's it's one of the highest concentrations of displaced people is over 60 percent so these are people that have been displaced multiple times over the course of the last 9 years and they are overwhelmingly women and children so these are the very people that the u.n. was set up to t

my name is patten. i'm the chair of the bayview cac as well as a bayview native and current resident. i wanted to say first that the cac met last night and after an extensive question-and-answer period and discussion we unanimously approved this project. i'd like to add that it is refreshing to see a project come that has the type of square footage per unit that we need for family housing. in addition, after discussion, it is our understanding around the affordable unit that they're going to be at such a rate that we would be able to see families move from renting to ownership in the area. also, the areas that are affordable, the market rate units, are also going to be affordable for others that are currently renting and would have the ability for homeownership. this is a great project. it provides parking which is much needed on that street. and it's also very good for the neighborhood in terms of not having to work -- worry about people finding additional parking in other areas, or parking in driveway

chris patten, who oversaw the final years of administration in the colony of hong kong before it transferredwith the uk has run into a series of difficulties and criticised the uk's stance on hong kong. there has been planted interference from the uk and hong kong affairs, which are internal affairs of china. including accusations against the national security law of hong kong sar. changes to policy... the suspension of extradition treaty with hong kong. these moves have seriously interrupted the stability and prosperity of hong kong. the chinese ambassador to the uk there. more bad news in the business world this morning as the impact of the coronavirus pandemic continues to be felt. oil giant shell took a loss in the second quarter of the year after being forced to write down the value of the oil in its fields last month. french automaker renault reported its biggest half—year loss ever on thursday, with revenue slashed by a third and airbus has today announced net losses of 2.2 billion dollars in the first six months after a two—fold drop in aircraft delivery. earlier, i spoke to our busi