Numbers since the protests moved to the Hong Kong International airport but there was one standout chin jen airport shares soared its the closest major airport to hong kong and during the closures this week some flights were diverted there to continue turmoil in hong kong could make more attractive to airlines and passengers the airport just received approval to expand allowing it to nearly double its yearly passenger numbers to 80000000. So while the view from journey into hong kong remains the same the impact from whats happening across the border is be keenly felt by the people here its got harder aljazeera. Now to iran the president criticize the u. S. For its military build up in the gulf region has said rouhani is saying Foreign Forces are not needed because gulf states can protect the region themselves american and british warships have started joint maritime patrols to protect shipping in the strait of hormuz after Iranian Forces seized a pushback last month at the age of 4 sam
Ends in increasing levels of violence and as we move towards the weekend we know that some big demonstrations are planned for saturday and sunday is about increasing levels of violence rob that ive seen china use increasingly Strong Language about the protests how nervous would you say people in hong kong about that language and also the presence of chinese troops there even if that something that isnt actually out of the ordinary. Yeah i mean that is at the back of peoples minds in china has said that if things do spiral out of control they will at some point into being which could mean deploying troops onto the streets of hong kong and doing the rounds being circulated widely on social media is this clip of video showing Chinese Military trucks on the streets of kalou now this does seem to be a bit of fear mongering by the prodemocracy activist we dont know where. In this video footage was taken but the fact that it has been widely circulated i think does indicate the kind of sense o
Still got a look at winds of very very strong across much of this area in terms of rain though in some locations we have seen about 140. 00 millimeters of rain fall just in the last 24 hours across much of the southern part of japan now the forecast looks like this as we go towards tomorrow moving quite quickly up here towards the sea of japan but as you notice many places in japan as well as into the russian maritimes still getting a lot of rain out of this particular storm so even though were talking Tropical Storm intensity were talking the potential for flooding across much of this region on saturday the storm makes its way towards the north southern parts of japan do clear out the get much warmer they do dry out but up here towards the north were still looking at some very heavy rain particular pier towards sapporo where the likelihood of flooding will continue there down here towards a sock a 33. 00 degrees in tokyo a warm day if you at 35. 00 well here across much of china is go
A message that message being we are here and were actually very close and those pictures to the words of the Chinese Ambassador in the u. K. He said that this was the grievous crisis facing hong kong since the british handover in 1907 he also said that he wont china wont allow protesters to bring home kong down into the abbotts and he also said that china is monitoring moves among certain protesters that he equated to terrorism. Ive been speaking to Richard Wright susan defense and security analyst and with the structure he says foreign powers of go to tread a very careful line when intervening in hong kong. Well the u. S. And other external plyers that might happen might have some role such as the british are in a difficult situation in the sense that if they are. Do are too quiet and dont seem to signal any concern than that removes a possible restraint on Chinese Military action or completely conflicts with taliban but if they are to openly tied to the protests look like theyre behi