Now on bbc news, its time for hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. Last weekend in hong kong, metro stations were toilets, the Chinese State news agency was attacked, but hes fired water cannon and tear gassed and 200 people were arrested. That is hong kongs new normal. How long can it go on without a major intervention from beijing . Is there any way out of the impasse between hong kongs government and pro democracy protesters . Government and pro democracy protesters . My guess is former Senior Administration of the territory, anthony cheung. Other territorys prospects leak . Bleak . Anthony cheung in hong kong, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. From the outside, it looks as though hong kong is sliding ever deeper into chaos, is not the way it feels to you, inside hong kong . Well, its really distressing to see whats happening. Protests and violence seems to be continuing and the whole community is getting very anxious. Some people feel they dont see a breakthrough. They d
Making it feel pretty raw so not pleasant conditions throughout the day on thursday here. Now on bbc news, its hardtalk, to the north of it, bright, probably the best sunshine for scotland. With stephen sackur. A few showers which will be wintry on the hill but quite blustery welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. Here and some heavy maybe thundery last weekend in hong kong, showers across southern metro stations were torched, and south western the Chinese State news parts of england and agency was attacked, it will be quite blustery here, too. Police fired water cannon and tear we should see some sunshine gas and 200 people were arrested. And slightly lighter winds. That is hong kongs new normal. It will be a chilly day wherever you are, just about 10 degrees across the south and single figure values in the north. Like i mentioned, feeling chilly underneath the cloud and rain. How long can it go on without through thursday night, a slow improvement. That weather front with the band o
Now on bbc news its hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. Last weekend in hong kong, metro stations were torched, the Chinese State news agency was attacked, police fired water cannon and tear gas and 200 people were arrested. That is hong kongs new normal. How long can it go on without a major intervention from beijing . Is there any way out of the impasse between hong kongs government and pro democracy protesters . Well, my guest is a former senior official in the territorys administration, anthony cheung. Are the territorys prospects bleak . Anthony cheung in hong kong, welcome to hardtalk. Youre welcome. From the outside, it looks as though hong kong is sliding ever deeper into chaos, is that the way it feels to you, inside hong kong . Well, its really distressing to see whats happening. Protests and violence seem to be continuing and the whole community is getting very anxious. Some young people feel they dont see a breakthrough. They dont see light at the end of the t
Now on bbc news hardtalk. It is a vicious cycle. Let me give you some statistics which probably give you more pause for thought. These are from surveys done welcome to hardtalk. In recent months of the mood in hong kong and they compare im stephen sackur. The figures from 2009 with figures last weekend in hong kong, in 2019 today. The number of people confident in the one country, metro stations were torched, two systems model has fallen from 68 to 33 and those numbers the Chinese State news of hong kong people who feel agency was attacked, themselves first and foremost to be hong kongers is up from 37 to 52 police fired water cannon and tear and those who feel themselves to be gas and 200 people were arrested. Chinese is down from 24 to just 10 that is hong kongs new normal. So what you have is a hong kong population which is increasingly how long can it go on without feeling separate and different a major intervention from beijing . From the population on mainland is there any way ou
We have an important interview coming up. But first, lets check in on the markets. The institute has cut its growth forecast. We did have worries about germany and the labor market and some of the things internally. That has a lot to do with trade. A lot are saying that if you look at the composition of the world, is probably the European Union that takes the brunt of all of these concerns. ,uropean stocks are fluctuating but if you look at the stoxx 600 , investors are trying to figure out exactly what kind of clues they will get after these miserable manufacturing numbers. Coming up, a great guest lineup here in italy. We speak to the former italian Prime Minister. Well also talk to the chief executive of a general of generale and the chief executive of campari. Now lets get straight to first word news in your city. Hong kong protesters were planning a fresh round of disruption after clashes sublease shoot a demonstrated for the first time in the demonstrations began. Local media rep