but, of course, you won't find them in victoria harbour where the tourists are. to be in with a chance of seeing the dolphins you have to leave hong kong island and head west towards the airport. land reclamation, population growth and pollution are all being blamed for destroying the dolphins' habitat. huge new infrastructure projects like this new bridge and tunnel to macau might be good for the economy but environmentalists claim it is playing havoc with the dolphins' natural environment. the hong kong government has announced it will create a new 2500 hectare marine conservation park in northern waters to help counter the effects of building another runway at the airport. the conservationists say that the marine park is in the wrong place and won't help the situation. so, when we go out to sea we use a long lens to take high—quality photos, as you see, because there is the information we use to identify the dolphin, just like the fingerprints in our hands. like this one, there is a round tip and a big notch. so from this one we can know exactly this individua

or the tourists are. “— victoria harbour or the tourists are. —— where all the tourists are.amed for destroying that dolphin's habitat. huge infrastructure projects like this bridge and tunnel might be good for the economy but environmentalists claim they are playing havoc with the dolphins' natural environment. the hong kong government has announced it will create a new 2.5 thousand fair marine park in the waters to help counter the effects of building and other runway at the airport. people say it the airport is in the wrong place and won't help the situation. what we are proposing is detect what is important to be animals first. —— protect. it is not about quantity, how many kilometres of the habitat is being protected but also where it is protect that and those core areas should be highly prioritised areas to protect in terms of stopping the development, lowering the fishing effort so basically reducing the pressure on the animals. give them a place to survive. determined to try and see some pink dolphins, i headed along with the adverse is —— advocacy group who have been

executive, carrie lam, after a flag—raising ceremony which is about —— is currently underway at victoria harbour same time protesters are preparing to march in an annual rally to demand democracy. there we see the red and yellow flag marking this particular moment in the territory's history. and president xijinping is on the territory's history. and president xi jinping is on the first visit to hong kong as china's president. after the ceremony, there will be the swearing in of carrie lam, the city's first female leader. julia liu is with us are ready to talk to us. she is in hong kong are surrounded by some of the protesters there. the protesters are ready to make their voices heard? absolutely. we are in the middle of the crowd. there have been scalpels for more than an hour between the protesters who are trained to make their way to the ceremony. —— scuffles. they have been scuffling with police are being trained to move us along for the last few minutes, as well as the pro— beijing demonstrators, that you can hearjust pro— beijing demonstrators, that you can hear just by pro— beijing demonst

. ♪ west kowloon on the other , nine: victoria harbour 20 9 a.m.you down to the start of the trading day. yellen,forward to janet one eye on what she has to say in her semi annual testimony to congress. sessiona meandering when it came to wall street over night and how that is playing out in the asian pacific. the earnings season kicking things off in the u.s., emirati suggesting coming in at consensus. saying the rba cannot do anything and they don't see a rate hike coming through until 2018. take a look at business conditions, continuing to be expectations, june coming through at 15, accelerating from 12 the previous month. business confidence at nine, also picking up comes a positive and hitting another multiyear high when it comes to business conditions with most industries performing well. stronger trading conditions in terms of sales, profitability driving improvement, conditions study. month on month for may at 1% homeland data -- home loan data coming in under expectations of 1.5%, but still reversing that the client of 1.9% in april. prett

beautiful day outside victoria harbour. betty: gorgeous there in hong kong.and humid, if you like that kind of thing in new york. it is 7:30 p.m. thursday here in new york. we close higher. liu, here inu, -- new york. yvonne: i am yvonne man. you are watching "daybreak asia ." >> talks between the world's two biggest economies at a rocky start, with the u.s. it is sizing china for its trade imbalances. rossrce secretary wilbur complained the trade gap -- about the trade gap in unusually blunt terms. the open criticism is a change from the past where publicly the two sides pledge cooperation. the supreme court dealt a further blow to president forcing theml ban, to accept people with grandparents, cousins, and other relatives in the united states. the court plans to hear full arguments on october 10. the president's march 6 executive order has been criticized for unconstitutionally targeting muslims. the investigation into the trump administration's links to rusher will hear testimony from donald trump jr. he will be to a senate committee next wednesday, along