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A professor mentioned something he mentioned that people should protest peacefully and there are a lot of discussions fright now in hong kong whether they should go a peaceful way or whether they should go violence way and we will see in the coming day we will see you know it may it may seem like it's a long way off but the year 2047 will come faster than we think times when we here in the studio with me and professor steve song the director of the china institute at the school of oriental and african affairs in london to both of you thank you. well and frank is one of the best known victims o...

Date yes you absolutely rights there when the agreement was signed in $98.00 it's people in whole cong as in pete people in the u.k. and many us off that website belief that opening and reform and on shouting will eventually recent instrumental changes in china movie in the directions to us and i'm not saying. it was not in a recent will expect a shouldn't in the meet $980.00 s. but it seems to tenement mexico or $99.00 it has become clear that china and commons fathi will not move in that direction so how did you come to agreements as already so professor let me just ask you before we run out...

Dominated by probeijing legislation, it should pass. it would allow suspects accused of crime such as murder and rape, hong kong has extradition already with some 20 countries. the courts will have the final say on whether to grant such requests and people accused of religious and political crimes will not be extradited. but protesters worry that china will exploit the rule to get activists. they say it also goes against the one country two systems policy that was put in place when british handed it back to china in 1997. it was known as the basic law which protects democratic institutions unt...

See the invisible hand of the chinese communist party behind it. >> by 2047 they're going to do whatever they want to do, the chinese can do that legally by law. if you're in hong kong now you have to know it's coming. >> you do, but you enjoy a certain degree of human rights, independence from china. so they're seeing this acceleration of the integration as threatening to that independence. i think we in the united states should be cheering on any kind of protesters making a case for democracy, for independence. the chinese -- the mainland chinese courts aren't all that independent. we found ...

A million people turned out 24 hours ago and she has not changed a line on her position despite this massive protest. >> and andrew, they have the numbers for this. they can push this through. look, the concept of one country, two systems is the prevailing framework that defines the relationship between mainland china and hong kong but there is an expiration date to that arrangement. son this just another example, andrew, of china poised to gain more control in a transition that is an inevitable reality for hong kong? >> well, yeah, it's a great point. the transition guaranteed under the basic...