Finished welcome to the news asia its good to have you with us prodemocracy protests in hong kong up getting University Students against each other 7000 kilometers away in australia over the last few months some University Campuses have become battleground between pro beijing students and those supporting the prodemocracy protests in hong kong the old occasions have raised fears of Chinese Government interference in Foreign Universities ill be talking to a student at an analyst in the program but 1st this report. I. Still feel is of australias university of queensland in july when probation demonstrators disrupted a rally in support of the hong kong protests. Video posted on. Social media showed the 2 sides hurling abuse of each other while the Chinese National anthem blasted from a speaker. This was not an isolated incident on a campus where about 17 percent of students come from china protesters critical of beijings policies are frequently confronted by Chinese Communist party loyalists. Its a situation echoed in other International Universities with large Chinese Student bodies at the university of all clinton new zealand a video posted on you tube showed the he said exchange between pro hong kong demonstrators and supporters of china. Is different from china was part of china every day like china. Right ok i got a lot of time it was ok i told you that it was. Lenin will at the college and others around the world have been vandalized multiple times the walls made up of messages of support have been a key feature of the hong kong protests at Simon Fraser University in canada a man was filmed ripping down the notes. Its tactics like these that have raised concerns because they could threaten them of speech on campus. Protesters also say they have been intimidated and threatened after taking part in student rallies against china with much of the abuse happening on chinese social media platforms like we chat or weibo. Are they like your mama theres a student of the university of adelaide in australia has been at the number of these demonstrations where pro and anti china students have faced off against each other i began by asking how these interactions have generally been. Some of the protests it does it is quite simple as the others they do get a bit heated so on one side you have. This chanting or having a couple of speeches and on the other side you have the perpetrator nice practiced. Singing Chinese National and the also chanting slogans a lot of these princes. Open mike and we allow the Chinese Students to come and speak if they want to when those who do speak quite civilised they do try to quit civilised in the traits of. Our experiences but theyre also quite close minded and they dont want to answer is that although they are asked to understand it also didnt want to so they do get a bit confusing seeing them in the perspective of the pray pray Chinese Students theyre going out of their friends are and there have been reports in the media of a perhaps there is some state backing for a lot of the pro china students do you agree with that do you find do you think do you see on campus that potentially there could be some backing from certain quarters for these proton a student. I do believe that there may be some sort of financial backing also flow from the Chinese Government was these changes as i havent seen a firsthand in regards to the students here in adelaide. We have student politics elections a couple weeks ago we had a Critical International voice which is majority Chinese Students International InternationalChinese Students there were reports afterwards that these students were telling the Chinese Students that if they didnt support them if they didnt vote for them that they would eventually they would be deported back to china so there were these kind of threats that may be linked to woods that government system but theyre not quite proven to have in other instances with all the princes in the last company is where chinese communities trannies families and Chinese International students have come out. Supporting the haps chinese official member coming to australia with protesting against his arrival. Have been supported by the chinese consulate. Student id like John Muhammad there lets bring in alex yassky from the australian capital but on now alex is and im most of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute and he has done a lot of research on and that chinese interference in australia and its good to have you on the program can i just ask you of the outset doesnt look like the Chinese State is this treaty or supporting students who are protesting on australian University Campuses. Thank you the very least we know that the Chinese Government is encouraging these kinds of activities the consulate has really statements encouraging students to show their patriotism and protect chinas sovereignty and theres a lot of evidence that groups linked to the Chinese Government are involved in orchestrating some of these protests the Australian Government has set up a task force to look at chinese interference in australian University Campuses how is the task force going to proceed what are the things theyre going to be looking at least to be looking at a whole range of areas including Research Collaboration freedom of speech and some of these issues around what the Chinese Communist party is trying to do to influence students and discussions on University Campuses to be a form that brings together these trade in government with University Officials closely to deal with these issues but at its why is it so easy for the Chinese Embassy or for the Chinese Government to be able to encourage and support these protests on australian University Campuses surely there must be some of the Australian Government can do for a long time the history in government and universities have really turned a blind eye. To a lot of the work that the Chinese Government does on our University Campuses to do influence networks and to be able to mobilize Chinese Students and in fact there are very few shell have is that the government currently has to deal with this issue there is simply this initially such a large number of organizations into the Chinese Government operating on campuses to influence politics influence discussions and protect the interests of the Chinese Communist party so how effective will this task force really be that the government has appointed. I think it will be effective in getting the universities and selves to do more because ultimately the real challenge should be on how universities do more to integrate Chinese Students to protect him from surveillance and intimidation by the Chinese Communist party and its only by getting your losses on more the government can deal with these issues the ultimate argument of course here would be that Chinese Students or if you call them probe a. G. Students they have an equal right to protest and to voice their opinions on australian universities and that should not be seen as interference would that be fair to say i think i think that is very fair i think in history as a free and Democratic Society we do tolerate voices from all kinds of perspectives of a difference and part of the concern here is that the Chinese Government does seem to be having a role in some of these activities so rather than being genuine expressions of political picture like sentiments these activities to see rotated by the Chinese Government and also also facilitated by the propaganda double that it is garner sees through platforms like the me at we chat alex from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute thank you very much for that they did their photograph the way of determined dr divers are racing against time and water to rescue 12 boys and their soccer court from a flooded cave in thailand theyve been trapped for more than 2 weeks inside a deep mountain the ordeal in 2018 had barely ended when filmmaker started their own race to get the mail biting drama into cinemas the 1st of those films its the screen this weekend with director tom well as their cave premiering in south korea. I already know the only real driver is the internet in the attic you have with it were going to look a good. Hour on this one i have miles and there are the behind a wall of water in the rescue mission like this ever been into the 200 president and its the 1st big screen retelling of m. S. Down doing tai rescue operation. The boys were sedated with mosques and then drac to freedom through kilometers of narrow passageway. The caves director says his film features some of the many ordinary people who gave up that time and helped to save the boys lives so in the film youll see the story of the Unsung Heroes youll see the volunteers of the local people who came to the mountainside to help youll see divers travelling from across the planet to arrive at tom long in the north of thailand to literally jump into a cave and go pull these kids out 4 of the divers involved in the actual rescue are acting in the film under their real names. Whatever happened inside the cave and the feelings that i experienced that it was experienced and the scene it was that we saw something that nobody has ever seen it on screen or heard of. Him when he says the experience was terrifying but an important one to share at a time when many peoples involvement with the Natural World is confined to the indoors and to screens i was afraid of the cave im always afraid when i go cave diving but if. We manage those fears over fears its something that humanity really needs. To premiering at the Busan InternationalFilm Festival in south korea this weekend the film will go on top. All set to come out in time. Today hong kong the wedding. Of october dropped. By so become a symbol of the protests some of the. Thanks for watching because. After the fall of the berlin. Hong kong a city in danger but not in a state of emergency according to officials tourists leave one of the worlds leading free holiday destinations high and dry as riots turned violent again and the government invoked submergence the towers. On. Watering prices for onions across parts of asia major producer india bans exports following poor harvests. And a thirst for beer abroad keeps german brewers in business at a time of tinubu the fall in consumption of hard. And painful extra visits. Kerry has about to merge and powers implementing a full band on face masks prompting even more on rest protesters took to the streets in opposition of the law which was made under the colonial emergency regulations ordinates the measure allows hong kongs leaders to create new laws that are in the Public Interest months of civil unrest have row the city and negatively impacted hong kongs economy especially the tourism industry. The violent clashes between protesters and the police are hurting hong kong businesses the number of tourists in the city state plunged 39 percent compared to the same time last year according to official figures. Are you high right now business is down by at least half or even more. Income every day its really obvious