are wanted for certain crimes to be extradited to mainland china. 1 in the morning in hong kong scott hyla still going strong for us hi scott how the protests going. yeah a lot fewer people than we saw earlier for certain the organizers of this protest saying that about 2000000 people turned out for this protest this comes just a week after a 1000000 people came out and marched from victoria park here to the legislative council complex behind me that announcement coming probably in the last hour hour and a half we've seen people kind of trickling out slowly and we heard kind of a reiteration of what these protesters want these their demands if you will and what right at the top of that list is the resignation of harry lam the head of the hong kong government they want her to resign she earlier apologized for the way her government has handled the situation the people here say that's not enough they want her to resign they also want this bill that has now been suspended was suspended saturday they want the bill killed they also want the government the hong kong government to reclassify what

since sunday when a 1000000 people took to the streets for express tauranga as get the latest from scott hyla who is live for us in hong kong so the protesting against this controversial exhibition bill has not convinced the government's got to scrap aid but it has delayed the process what's the latest. it has fully and it has delayed that process we've got official word from the legislative council that they're going to delay it was supposed to start several hours ago to 3 hours ago but also now coming out from the legislative council another official announcement and that is they have asked the protesters to move from where they are surrounding the legislative council building that's the group the black building over my shoulder they're asking the protesters to move so they can carry on with business obviously there hasn't been really any kind of response yet from the protestors well i guess there has been they're not moving so again you know we saw over the last several hours these protester numbers grow steadily and again you know we look at what happened on sunday over a 1000000 people c

so-called commitment here it's completely lacking in sincerity let's go live to scott hyla who's in hong kong so scott the opposition not too happy with the back down by the hong kong leader. no not too happy right now i mean obviously they got a little bit of a victory if you will because at least now it's been suspended this bill but there are alternate goal and they've always said this is to have that bill killed and obviously there was we heard some of the opposition members there they wanted killed and they're going to continue and as you mentioned there will be another march another protest march tomorrow sunday expecting a lot of people coming out just last sunday's only saw nearly a 1000000 people come out and that was the beginning of a week that saw a lot of saw protests get violent and things so obviously both sides continuing on the track obviously with the government and they're putting the bill forward that is suspended but they didn't kill it as we heard from the leader of hong kong there say she wants to better communicate what is this what's in this bill why this bill is

scott hyla joins us now from bangkok let's start with regional trade pacts how they shaping up. some of the regional trade pacts you know it's very important to this region because so much trade comes through its waterways and that ties into the territory disputes in the south china sea but also as a trading block you know you have 650000000 consumers in this block of 10 nations so it's very important it's also very important what they trade with the united states and china but one of the bigger issues yes that is 11 of the bigger issues on the agenda that's not really being talked about fully are things like the range of crisis another human rights issues now to discuss this further let's bring in i mean hill who is with the international commission of jurists thank you very much and one for joining us scott for bringing us here so let's look let's take that we're going to issue to begin with this is a massive internationally recognized crisis that's been going on here and a lot of the nations here have to deal with it but they're not really discussing it as as much as you woul

government and there's now a disagreement over whether to fast track or suspend further discussion scott hyla is live for us in hong kong so scott we are expecting to hear from kerry lamb at any moment and the expectation if the local media reports are to be believed is that this extradition bill will be shelved for now. pozen that is what we're hearing yes and that press conference is supposed to start imminently probably the next couple of minutes here at the legislative council building in central hong kong we know that kerry lamb was meeting with probe aging members of the latest of council earlier today scheduled this press conference for 3 pm local time here and again that's now so we're expecting to hear from her straight away and as you mentioned housing this is something that's been very very controversial here and you know we saw a week ago on sunday a 1000000 people came out to the streets marched against this extradition proposed extradition law and then on wednesday we saw protests kind of escalate here and for the legislative council building got a little bit violent there and t

relieve the time being scott hyla reporting for us that's enough remember. leader of the democratic party in hong kong and spent nearly 25 years as a legislator and she says that despite lymes announcement many in home cole will still be unhappy. people want to just kill the bill we don't want it we don't want to sort hanging over our heads and that is what it is that was so i think many people are going to be very dissatisfied it's offend fundamental issues of 2 different systems in hong kong we have the rule of law independent judiciary protection of human rights with a mainland china is complete lawlessness that's right a people feel barry very unsafe if you send somebody back there at the trial you cannot guarantee the president of the get a fair trial so it's not a communication from what she said it's not us of course the protests will continue tomorrow and i don't know how many hundreds of thousands will turn out some may be a bit relaxed that have been just not pushing ahead or a boat next week in the legislative perhaps or the matter fact of the mat

the anger expressed by so many people there but future still at this point to remain uncertain scott hyla is standing by force listening to all of this so scott as expected this is being put to one side. that is going to be that something that many people are against us in hong kong are going to be happy about at least for now. at least for now has an absolutely and what carrie lamb was describing there is that she believes there's a lot of misunderstanding about this proposed extradition law we heard kind of detail why they wanted to put this law forward why they were such a fast track in this law again that 2nd reading of the proposed law was supposed to take place on wednesday that's when we saw those those clashes she said that it brought a lot of disharmony to hong kong what we saw over the last week so it is her responsibility she said to take a better look at the law to better explain the law she said there's a lot of misunderstandings about it so that's very interesting this is something she said kind of straight the way through she believes that people don't really understand wha

to prevent it from moving for but right now it sounds like it will and again a couple hours time scott hyla outside the legislative council in hong kong for us well now let's speak to adrian brown who's in beijing adrian we've been hearing that china's leaders have been supporting kerry what are we expecting to hear today . well i think that china's leaders will regard what is happening in hong kong as really another threat to the people's republic just as they regarded the occupy movement of 2014 as a threat to china's sovereignty and of course they have long memories especially when it comes to the student led protests here in 1989 which of course were brutally suppressed so when it comes to student china's leaders have very very fixed ideas so i don't think president xi jinping the most authoritarian leader that china has had since chairman mao is a sort of person who is going to back down he wants carry to remain resolute the government here continues to stress that it supports kerry lam and her bid to push through this proposed extradition law but china's leaders also feel that there a