Fifty looks more and more. Thank you very much for being with us we are awaiting. A News Conference held by carrie lam the chief executive of hong kong will cross that. Immediately this of course a main story hong kong is seeing unprecedented scenes they set monday protest is taking over the Assembly Building the Hong Kong Police seem to be standing by. As angry young people talking time vandalized the premises. During this time the interior of the alleged the chain wasas vandalized looking some using tear gas at the protesters were forced out of the three hours. At one point the processes attach the old colonial flying to the premiseses. This is s the latest. Development in ththe ongoioing unrest over proposed extradition bill to make it easy to dispatch criminals and persons of interest to china. Armed with pepper spray and batons hong kong right Police Charged the hundreds of protesters gathered outside the legislature building. Our goal. To retake parliament from Anti Government protesters. As the night went on Police Officers slowly began moving in and clearing the hundreds of demonstrators still inside the building. Earlier monday evening they had made their way into the citys legislature after smashing windows and opening metal fence. Several demonstrators spray painted slogans and slurs on the chambers walls. Inside the chamber this Council Member explained his fear of seeing the violence escalates. One two hours of this is. In a political way that would be crackdown. By. The people solution. The chaotic scenes came after a day of demonstrations during which thousands took to the streets calling for greater democratic freedoms. Monday march the twenty second ananniversarary off hong kongss return to china from britain. We want to express our views the government never this is so our our anger and our we do want to express today because today is the day went home corn. Turn yeah turn to china. Hong kong has seen unprecedented protests over the past three weeks sparked by a bill that would have allowed hong kong citizens to be extradited to mainland china. While the legislation is now definititively scrapped the demonstrations have since grown into a Wider Movement calling for the resignation of beijing back leader carrie lam. But despite the growing discontent beijing has so far been unwilling to make any concessions. Well we know the tech carrie lam is speaking right now in cantonese talking about the impact this is having on ordrder in the quality both former colonies six billion h happy by doing to this and talent. Hi this is we can set translationn saturday. She turns. An english version. We are expecting for the moment about correspondent shell alan grant has been observing these protests as theyve beeeen happening and hes been basicalllly sayi that such caroline was expected to face strong questions from beijing over the disturbances and the prototests have a growing amount of support among local people. I i feel like a lot of people i spoke to were actually surprise that people were trying to break into the Legislative Council lot of people thank god this isnt exactly in their playbook its a very is if it is a fairly non violent to movement. So lot of people were surprised but once they got in it was actually quite surprising to see how a number of people rallied behind the people go behind. Who got inside thihis really showows reallyy the the despr of a number of of of pro democracy activists and protesters here in hong kong that in the end i had such a such a desperate actor could seem like one that was worth supporting and whats worth sustaining it even if it was for three hours people sending in water sending in food sending in makeshift barricades and shields so. There was a mix the feeling people were both. At first not really keen on this concept of entering the Legislative Council but then a lot of umph rally behind it well after what happened tonight im sure thats a the higher ups in beijing will be asking a few questions. How to carry that message why the police the response was so slow i i indeed the the p Hong Kong Police said had been quite strong against the protesters in the previous protests hi but this time around and they did not. Provide the same kind of resistance to the protesters trying to enter the Legislative Council the only acted much later in the evening. Shop hologram that join this a little earlier from hong konog lets show you the images coming now weve just heard from coe carrie lam a speaking cantonese. Transaction just from him not to charge. Yeah. The twowo main are. In t the territory. This is a hastily arranged. News conference a what is something like. I have dealt with her. Justice committee. Four oclock in the morning home conduct yeah this is this is an early one they probably you know theyve had to come out of the big force to come out of the shadows the leaders have its not as s if theyve gone into hiding but they havent been seen much in public over the course of of what i is really a sort of seris of protests markets culminated in what we see today by far as sort of the most audacious a protest that this city scenes inside hand over twenty two years ago and these leaders are are directly in the line of fire why because carriee lam as as chief executive is the one who ultimately calls the shots in hong kong but whoho her direct boss b boss ultltimatelye reports to beijing and she repoports cgg g. Jing paying the you know the demonstrators basically its not simply a matterer of the extraditionon bl anymore obviously thats what triggered these protests thats what led to the suspending not the withdrawal of the bill notably in these projects but they really morphed into something bigger than that and what we see today is all a lot of this pent up anger. A lot of pent up resentment and and just outright fear mark apprehension at this chinese encroachment at what these protesters see as not just creeping encroachment but its happening rather quickly you know two thousand forty seven which is that Expiration Date when hong kong fully reverts to chinese control. You know you say that date it sounds like you know a century and a half away. To a lot of these protesters two thousand forty seven is in twenty eight years or whatever it is white its now its sort of happening right now. And this is their drawing the line very firmly in the sand and today yeah like i said was what tatius this Breakaway Group that stormed the p parliament butut n many respects they felt they had no choice and in a sense carrie lam whos been the woman like i said in a line of firire the one that theyve been calling onn to reresign time and again step down she had no choice but to come out and and at least Say Something after the dramatic events of the state albeit like you said it for the morning indeed and what we could so far from what you said is used to about the impact. Of what this is having on hong kong per se as the territory not hurt that would resignation yep not heard anything beyond that we can only guess at what might be coming next but clearly this situationn i think the fed to sy unprecedented on president and i can tell you one thing like i said gee jining ping insult her ultimate boss. She has obviously been given some wiggle room to work things out i would suspect the judging paying you know a man is hardly known. For his love for a democratitic pluralism m multi party democra freedom of the press and Civil Liberties being express so loudly vocally on the streets of us of a big cityy of of seven point five million people. Im sure hes made it clear and the other officials made it clear. Gett your act together sort this out because sooner or later will have to sort it out doesnt mean theyre going to start to use force there is a Peoples Liberation armyy markup italian in hong kong itts actually noa one knknows it but im. I dont know until recently its its at the time in which theres actually you know Peoples Liberation army chinese mainland soldiers all sort of canteens based in this garrison on on Hong Kong Island itself they never come out they stay in there as they did today its theyre more symbolically to show that yes there is a chinese mainland military presence and im not saying theyre going to be sent out into the streets but thehey are there. And that sooner rather than later you see scenes like this and you the question begs how far will she jing ping go to rein in hong kong d does h he st of hold up its status as this sort of free wheeling democratic you know. Model thatt the west loves he cant afford to what d anythingg too foforceful with itt or withs patients run at a certain point and he just figure i have to rein it in somehow and perhaps employ you know Hong Kong Police to do his dirty wor. Indeed unless the situation continues duck as you say that the more it looks embarrassing the more it seemsms to bebe on e front pages around the world the more countries take action for instance like the u. K. Stopping seventy auaugusta hong ko. A few weeks ago the issues being discussed the use of the sickest on saying this is wrong what time this is an over reach by china at the more becomes embarrassing exam likely Something Else has to happen. Its a itts a question a question of what that might be china. Chinas hong kongs entire value its cachet so to speak mark has been the fact that its been this sort of glittering gleaming International Financial hub which is being the soo called sort of safe place to do business in asia right. You have all the advantages you could be right up there along side china with that extremely dynamic economy about to overtake the u. S. In a few years time sosome say t already has and new York Hong Kong which is been this place with rule of law these things dont exist on the mainland right. Independent judiciary free press and the thing that businesses and investors value most prpredictability you know if you go there basically youre gonna be able to do your business. Without knowing that youre going to be sort of muscled out of four stat or some sort of you know. Youll you know whatever malpractice is going to force you out that is what hong kongs greatest asset is angie drinking isnt stupid you know he knows that now he also knows how kongs economy isnt what it usused toe anan end chinas is fast going d now a lot of the mainland chinese. Cities can go toe to toe economically with hong kong but the fact of the matter is twenty two after two years after the handover suree thehere you can y theres been a rotation of the basic freedoms but hong kong still remains. Ratherer glittering rather gleaming and to many people it remains a ratheher attractive place to do business in asia whether thats jeopardize right now well thats something thats going to play out in the next week its weeks or days b but thats why i think gee jing paying. Has a very tricky calculation of the senses instincts as political instincts would tell him that he hates what hes seeing he hates any any semblance of this but his the pragmatic side of him perhaps the realist in him is saying we have to sort of let hong kong the hong kong for now. Douglas of it for now thank you very much indeed douglas of course will join us of analysis that later on but expect to get translations of out whats being discussed that in hong kong as soon as we possibly can we go back to that. As soon as there was any Development Carrie Lam still before a bank of microphones and a group of reporteters putting questions to her. Regarding the Current Situation and we are following every step of the way for you. Next to life in paris the eu summit has been adjourned until tomorrow i made quote. Enormous frustration. Over the inability to choose the right peopople for t the topop s presesident emmanueuel macron sd he fears this indecision is harming the blocks repeputatioi. Chief among the roles to be filled of course is that of president t of the european commission. Success at asian culture. The political wrangling continues in brussels as in you leaders remain divided over who should gets the e e. U. s top j. Talks are now set to resume on tuesday after eighteen hours of negotiations. Whats going to happen now. The phone calls and were back tomorrow. And if it if sleep im going to have a little nap yes. Impasses centered on the nominee to succeed Outgoing Commission president Jacques Rogge janka. Socialist fronts to months is the candidate favored by french president imminent mccall. And spanish Prime Minister peter sanchez. However he faces fierce resistance from Eastern European countries. Naturally from poland and hungary content amount has accused of violating civil rights. Speaking shortly after talks broke down on monday. Michael said the current deadlock gave a bad image of europe. Could you be how different abilities disease damage because of these never ending the meeting we give an image of europe that is not serious. All the top e. U. Posts also up for grabs including speaker of the european parliament. President of the European Council and Foreign Policy chie. The choices have to take account of the results from mays european elections as well as political affiliation geography population size and gender. Making decisions all the more difficult. German chancellor Angela Merkel however i said she was confident a deal would be reached in the next forty eight hours. Withth the fun we have limitd time left [inaudible] its complicated. But i hope that with a bit of good will. We can all agree. The clocks ticking leaders are hoping to agree on the list of nominees by wednesday. When the e. U. Parliament select six president . Three and was the watching and balance we hong kong with the yet she presented caroline is holding a News Conference. That said go live to that now what cararoline is addressing the report is in engnglish s this is something that w we shshould seriously on ththem. Because nothing is more important than the rule of law in hong kong. So i hope. Atat large willl agree with us t ththese files and access we have seen. It is right. For us to condemn. And whole society will return to normal as soon as wanted to kno. What kind of . And im sorry i dont. Have a second. You can definitely your response was. Twenty five years old. Because if i its too mumuch thk you let let me on surface. Hi i totally disree as t to wha this gentleman has just s says. Wewe have offices inside electrical the vending latch coal for nearly eight hours. During that period we havee been u under a sieiege of the protesters. They keep on using a violent tactics to try to you into a into the lets call. If t this law iss only until nie oclock at night time there was seveveral incident hapappen. That night that we have to do a temporarily every treree. First of all there was a man the protesters outside the lexical i ming entrancece. And they a are starting i using violent tactics to a charge the union door of the lets go. Secondly due to the as local environment the that we are unable. To use as some of thee force that we can use in open ground. And sadly we found t that there was some protest tampering with the electricity box and the finder some of the lights have gone out. I i neednt fear all fate total topppped out. That. The protester while charging you in someone turn o off the light. Im afraid that there will be peopople stepping people allll f their way to be a wrong move on either side both the police and the protesters. And lastly but not the least. During the charging dave foley in some w white smoke. That day as you know in the afternoon there were already a toxic how the attack on my office in the afternoooon so without t knowing whethther this anotother toxoxic politics sh we have no other choice but to a temporary retreat from thats called. And before we retreat. We have already in the afternoon full. We are i see lets go security. Tool appeal to all working stop with the intellectual actually leave that extolled d e to the the incident the charging by the protesters. And by the time nine o oclock e are. We have e been told that whole looking south have left. That that means that we are sure ththere is no other civilians within the building so all my offices had no choice but t to tempmporary retreat. And to do a r recruiting and try to re deployment i would do some re deployment to take back lets call later on it is notot true o say that the g government has nt responded you have not responded to it every few month. Artist because of the good things. About first of all if the coursef the socicial tensions we have seen. Is a bill to amend the fugitive offefenders order hes. On the fifteenth of june i have announced the suspension. And subsequently we have explplained and elaborate checkd by some spending the fellow at this point in time witith no timetable andnd no o plan. To re the debate of the bill in the Legislative Council. The bill will expire for thehe bill wilill die. In july. Twenty twenty when the current electrical term expires. That is a very positive respons. So the few months that we have. As for some of the other three lines let me come back to this very importatant principle of te rule of law. So the mondego was released without any investigation and checking with the more aboutut withth full fences at the nit that we should release after that. We should not take any follow up action. Against some of the violent acts you have seen or even surprised at i missed. To all those involved in the scriptures. All these responses will not be in accordance with the rule of law. The rule of law isis exactly wht i have been talking a two nightt so i hope we e all agree w with. This is something of importance on call i will continue to die the governments reactions and responses to social issues enter the moms and aspirations of our people. They c come talk honestly wh. Whwhat it can fall below the age and some tononight local time shes been speaking ab