so, mr tsang, i'm sorry to jump by the protesters. so, mr tsang, i'm sorry tojump in here. carrie lam to step down and let someone else get hong kong out of this mess? well. it is not even up to mr —— ms lam herself to decide because that position can only be appointed or dismissed by the central government. the central government would have to consider whether there is a better substitute before they can make any decision. so, ithink substitute before they can make any decision. so, i think the — carrie is now committed, so to speak, to clearing up the mess she has created. but it looks like she is not helping out with the situation at the moment. the mess is getting even worse. don't you forjoining us, jasper tsang. i would not say that. thank you forjoining us from hong kong. thank you. -- thank you for joining hong kong. thank you. -- thank you forjoining us, jasper tsang. you're watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme: as the world solar challenge race nears the finishing line, we hearfrom one of the team leaders about the challenges of using the su

a little earlier i spoke to professor steve tsang, director of the china institute at the school of orientalican studies, who explained why the invoking of the emergency regulations ordinance is so signifcant. it is about the escalation on the pa rt it is about the escalation on the part of the authorities in hong kong. it will enable the chief executive in counsel to exercise a very wide range of power, the kind of power that will be available to countries in looking to a state of emergency. hong kong will not need a state of emergency to do so. it means they can arrest thousands of people and be putting them away for a long time. have these arrests started yet because we were expecting to see widespread arrests taking place? why do you think carrie lam and the security forces held back? i think they are trying to use the facemask ban partly to distract attention from the unlocking of the emergency ordinance and also to put people off to coming out demonstrating. in the short term it will have the exact opposite and get more people coming out to demonstrate. but over the long term, whether

let's cross now to nottingham where we can speak to professor steve tsang who is director of the china institute at soas, the school of oriental and african studies in london. thank you for speaking to a site bbc news. first, what worries you the most about this introduction of emergency regulations ordinance, what does it portend for kong? emergency regulations ordinance, what does it portend for kong ?m emergency regulations ordinance, what does it portend for kong? it is escalation on the part of the authorities in hong kong. the emergency regulations ordinance will enable the chief executive to exercise very wide powers, the kind of power that would be available to countries in a state of emergency. in the case of hong kong, they will not need a state of emergency to do so. not need a state of emergency to do so. it means they can arrest thousands of people and put them away for a long time. have these arrests started yet because we were expecting to start seeing widespread arrests taking place? why do you think carrie lam and the security forces have held by?” think carrie lam and

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tsang chi—kin is now in a stable condition.scale of tuesday's protests. so just put that into context, as stephen was saying, police fired 1000 rounds of tear gas on just 1a00 on that one day during those biggest protests. but if you see what they've been doing over the past two months, they fired 1000, so that the contrast is really, really staggering. 1000 and 1a00 injust one day. so let's hear from steve now on the impact of tuesday's protest. the fact that police have now used a real gun that they've shot an activist with the bullets, show it to may deter some, but others, i think it might embolden them to take more drastic action against the police, and the fear is that the violence could actually escalate. to tell the truth, it had always been something we thought was going to happen, there have been so many close calls, whether police have pulled out their guns. i mean, even yesterday, the police say they actually fired live rounds six times. one into that activist. five warning shots in the air. so it was always going t

i'm joined now by the director of soas china institute, professor steve tsang on webcam.oday, the 17th —— 70th founding of the republic of china. once the original issue was not resolved and the protest was widened to become an issue of demanding the democratic rights in hong kong, it was going to last. the original it should be in the extradition agreement. i wonder if you have a view of what china will do next, having got through the day of celebration, the day they may say enough is enough? the police shooting of one of the protesters may potentially be a significant turning point. if the protesters should die, i think we are going to see a major escalation by the protesters in hong kong and the dynamics may well change and we will see an escalation of force being used on both sides. now if the protester should, and i hope you will, survive, then we are probably still going to see some sort of escalation, but it will be much bass potentially controllable and therefore the escalation in terms of therefore the escalation in terms of the repression is that the government

it's going to tsang takeake a l to dispel that sense that america is an unreliable partner. >> mattis has not spoken out, he's held his tongue. but if you read his resignation letter, he quit because he felt when america does not stand with its allies, it suffers irreparable harm. he repeated that yesterday. be nice if he said it more specifically. but i think we all get the point that the damage that was done by the syria decision will be lasting. >> well, we're going to be talking a lot more about this issue. the admiral will be joining us ahead the. >>> also, "snl" tackles the past week's headlines and joe biden as the punch lines. >> he explained withdrawing troops from northern syria saying we didn't need to defend our kurdish allies because, quote, they didn't help us in world war ii. but with world war ii it's hard to know who trump means by us. joe biden for the first time called for president trump to be impeached and removed from office after he realized finally that that joe biden trump keeps attacking was him. >> we're going to -- we're going to talk more about the 2020 ra