i'm yuko fukushima. a spokesperson for china's national people's congress says the body will discuss legislation to maintainn public order in hong kong. the comment came on the eve of the its opening sessision on friday. the agenda will include national security legislation for the territory. >> translator: the legislalatio to safeguard national security and an enforcement mechanism are entirely necessary to uphold and improve the institutional framework of one country-two systems principiple of hongg ko. >> analyst say beijing has decided national security cannot be guaranteed if it is left to hong kong. multiple hong kong media say the chinese government will likely press ahead with establishing national security legislation at the upcoming parliamentary session. pro-democracy lawmakers from hong kong's legislative cououns aree strongly protesting the introduction of the draft resolution. they say the one country-two systems role would be >>> and here in japan, the government has lifted the state of em

. ♪ ♪ >>> that's it for this hour on nhk "newsline," i'm yuko fukushima in tokyo.for joining us. ♪ >>> welcome to newsline "in depth." i'm aiko doden. we're getting to know an unusual instrument. the world's oldest electronic instrument, an inspiration for the synthesizer was invented about 100 years ago. you may have heard of movies by alfred hitchcock and dozens of tv shows. the theremin doesn't look like it can make music. performers move their hands to control the invisible waves that surround the machine. last year there was a performance in russia to mark the 100th anniversary of the instrument. among the performers was a japanese group led by masami tackayochi. it looks like the russian nesting doll, calling it the matryomin. how was it created? we went behind the scenes at a performance and found out more. >> while the thereremin h has b aroundnd the 19200s. it epermed with russian -- dolls. in september about 300 of them met to break a world record. the challenge was set by masami tatackayochi, a professional player who introduced the instrument to japan o

i'm yuko fukushima.pokesperson for china's national people's congress says the body will discuss legislation to maintainn public order in hong kong. the comment came on the eve of the its opening sessision on friday. the agenda will include national security legislation for