Welcome to. Its good to have you with us. Images such as these ones behind me out of trigger in the buckle for hearts and minds in hong kong and across the border on the chinese mainland depending on how you look at it its either a struggle for democracy or a dangerous riot that battle of perception is also being waged online and social media giants and facebook have revealed that the Chinese Government isnt fighting fair. Posts such as these on social media. Groups and individuals in the prodemocracy movement. Has now suspended over 200000 accounts and plans to ban advertisement from state run media facebook has also taken action it has also closed a number of homes we also correspondent in hong kong if the chinese propaganda is having any effect on the protest movement the. Propaganda. On sunday is that these protests still can gather an enormous crowd they still do have broad support here with say 1700000 people on the streets and one of the really. Defining features of this protest movement is just how inventive these protesters are how creative they are to try and counter the narrative to keep momentum going. On the streets night after night they plan different ways of protesting that remain as peaceful as possible that big fear of course is that any image of protesters behaving. I will go around the world on social media they need to show that this is as calm as possible. I didnt lose a german is here with me in the studio for more on the story journey welcome so what. Part of this whole disinflation been the sort of do so the Facebook Accounts that were taken don originate in china and they appear to be amplifying messages and images that portray hong kong protesters as fairly violent and extreme yes i mean we can see that post of by the chinese link accounts one of them says. As fighters whats the difference and theres another post thats written in english its very notable because this same set many of these campaigns theyre targeting global audience and there are actually a lot of promoted tweets on twitter portraying the same messages of the hong kong protesters as well and this they have been selected by the shoshone be able knocking site people and even one to it it says every day i go out and see stuff with my own eyes and then i go to report it on twitter and see promoted tweets saying the opposite of what i saw today is taking money from chinese propaganda outfits and running these promoted tweets against a top hong kong protest takes. Exactly. But all of this so facebook said it eliminated 7 pages 3 facebook groups and 5 accounts involved in the campaign and the 2 to also said that deleted 936 accounts and in the press release it also said it would ban state backed media from from oh think tweets after they placed ads suggesting the protests were sponsored by western interests and were becoming violence. So even though many of these posts that were seeing they were not necessarily fake news but instead they are really focusing on the father nature of the protests and they never talk about the root the muscles of protests us and so this social media platforms they have to make clear that they dont want to be part of the governments Propaganda Campaign were talking about facebook and twitter and as far as far as my understanding goes these are banned in china you cant really you could you access them in china right facebook and twitter officially blog inside china and so people there instead they would use and they all social media surfaces like oh wait all. The content on these social media platforms theyre actually under very tight control but then in hong kong and facebook and twitter they have freely access is bold and facebook and twitter activities by the Chinese Government shows really shows that beijing is china its trying to change the narrative on the internet showing you via i just have to all strongly know that youre sort of order is really from hong kong and hong kong has enjoyed a fair degree of freedom not seen on the chinese mainland do these start to a trip to work with people going. Home called people are they actually very sensitive to any social media polls all media reports by the state media and they really dont listen to any of these kind of opinions and what they do is instead to laugh about it to make fun of it really wouldnt change and. So they know where the truth lies gerry john thank you very much for coming into the studio and break that down for us. Riots 1st for through Eastern Indonesia with protesters burning buildings clashing with police and blocking roads west was that a state of building and a prison were also torched the west. Papuan provinces in indonesias east far east so to speak theyve been home to a long running separatist movement against the indonesian government a couple and say indonesia illegally annexed the territory in the 1960s those tensions were evident last week nearly 3000 kilometers away in. In central indonesia here more than 40 puff when students were allegedly racially abused as Police Detained them during indonesias Independence Day celebrations this set the stage for the latest protests. Indonesian police and protesters clash near sarong prison in west papua Officials Say over 250 prisoners escaped on monday when the jail was set ablaze protesters also damaged parts of the airport and set Regional Government offices on fire as they went on the rampage in the city. Violence to end the provincial capital monaco army as rage spilled drives on to the streets. Videos like this circulated widely on the internet have whipped up the protestors anger activists say it shows purple and students being called monkeys during an operation by Security Forces a nice job for the students were accused of damaging the intonation flag and taken into Custody Police later said no evidence was fined against them. In tunisia as minister for Political Legal and Security Affairs has promised an investigation. The government regrets the incident involving the indonesian flag in east java province which is now under investigation who. Didnt was followed by negative statements and is treated on wrist in several parts of pomp and west papuan provinces. Papuans are also responding to the allegations of racist abuse on social media sharing images and hashtags with the slogan we are not monkeys. Indonesias president has urged an end to the riot saying telling the protestors its ok to be emotional but its better to be forgiving. Of. Them by the fact. That someone whos been following these protests is human rights lawyer veronica recounts overshoes joining us from for security reasons but only got good to have you on the program with us we just played a reporter on the basis of i need to ask you is there some sense of discrimination that you think people in poor and west are responding to. Yes its thought the 5 the origin of all sin also initiate the west west papuan people this race he said all along and finally reached a Tipping Point this past 2 days so when the people say that oh its good to be incident in surround by you know where the west bank was students dont attack and racists lots of monkeys its just. Its just bigger this they finally have reached a Tipping Point how would you describe so far the the indonesian states response to the protests and also overall the reverse for poor or poor have been witnessing a separatist Movement Many decades now how would you grade the response of the indonesian state. Their response saw flom an asian government has been finally yeah im not using security approach since the since the beginning in the month this extends down till now are international been using stood the approach that been sailing and thats why. These past few days. Used to elite down under International Law if you want to protest you have to submit the letter off but you can treat aspire to protest but this protest this large scale test that no one odd not to get in a lot of stuff made it to police but yet they cant take the streets are you saying that the indonesian government does not know how to deal with the protests and the feelings in pop or in west all. I dont think so because the yes that may be in a nation precedent and chief security minister at you responded to this last protest but the the president didnt apologize but instead the president said now dont eat you may be emotional but lets forgive each other of course today it was about months to this race again the nation the police as well said that theyre going after social media accounts which distribute look at the news about west papuan in stack off going off to report traitors of presses to take attackers so its been really disappointing so far right lets leave it there for the time being but on a couple months you very much for joining us right. The because you can find more updates on get up adults also lets flash to show up thats all for today we leave it all with a look at the dramatic Helicopter Rescue of fishermen stranded in the fact it obviated off in the. Woods im sure that some of us play. To. Play. The flame to. Play. The flame. S. O. S. Europe. Is in crisis. If it still has a future it will meet champions young champions. For. More countries. Such as. Do they stand a chance. And they say yes to good. Close home i need to stand up for European Values and contribute to something important that shit. Future as europe starts september 2nd on d w. Part of an erosion of hong kongs remaining independence or sensible Economic Policy beijing pushes a plan to make hong kong a key part of a cluster of cities in the cold river delta creating one of the most vibrant economic areas on the planet its. Also coming up germanys chemical in Life Science Companies by itself its Animal Health units to counter it being revenues and profits. And fasten your seat belts singapore is getting ready to launch a trial of self driving buses. Welcome to new business asia im going to get jones in berlin thanks for joining us political unrest in hong kong has prompted china to speed up its vast Regional Development program the greater bay area projects beijing us long planned this but believes the promise of strong Economic Growth will ease anger at hong kong which will lose its special status in 28 years so the government wants to make hong kong a key part of a cluster of cities in the pearl river delta creating a vibrant economic area chinese president xi jinping describes the greater bay project as central to trying us Greater National reach of an asian and hong kong is just a part of a greater plan