Area notorious for its exclusivity since the British Colonial era and the single most expensive neighborhood in hong kong it overlooks the rest of the city and is home to billionaires bankers and celebrities its areas like this one that make hong kong one of the least affordable cities to live on earth internationally hong kong is known to be wealthy and prosperous but thats not the case for all its residents. One in 5 people is in poverty here and that number becomes one in 3 for the elderly and when it comes to housing over 200000 people live in what soco Hong Kong Social Services organization calls inadequate housing like these subdivided flat in a subdivided flat your bed is your living space kitchens and bathrooms are shared in this flat by 24 people some flats dont have kitchens and the rent is more expensive if you have your own toilet in hong kong the gap between the rich employs a bank seelye shan as a Community Organizer with sopo i think that the minute you. Step onto the 50
Basic structural challenges may have eventually sunk the deal even if hong kongs conditions an early disclosure of the talks had not become issues. Talks in hong kong have been raging much of the focus has been to chinas extradition bill and understandably so however underwood ported in the wake of the turmoil has been climbing costs of living in the region recently are 2 correspondent Michelle Greenstein was on the ground in hong kong where she documented the issue and filed this report. This is the peak an area notorious for its exclusivity since the British Colonial era and the single most expensive neighborhood in hong kong it overlooks the rest of the city and is home to billionaires bankers and celebrities its areas like this one that make hong kong one of the least affordable cities to live on earth internationally hong kong is known to be wealthy and prosperous but thats not the case for all its residents. One in 5 people is in poverty here and that number becomes one in 3 for
Im melissa chan welcome to news asia thanks for joining us protests in hong kong have taken another violent turn the 1st gunshot has been fired by police a warning shot that hurt no one but nevertheless marks a new war dangerous phase of 12 consecutive weeks of on rest in the territory heres a look at that moment. You can see police beaten back by advancing protesters wielding baseball bats and metal poles. And then the police draw their guns. Theyre pointing guns oh you dont cut. There are Police Deployed Water Cannons along with the usual tear gas against protesters some who lobbed petrol bombs back with increasing violence comes more in. And the well equipped protesters are equally prepared for that we have this report from deal be used charlotte tells until i sprinted towards the end of heat as others run for cover pecial bombs and tear gas sent kelly and yasmeen adopting to action another night on the frontlines tending to those in need but i guess mina among those caught off guar
Our viewers that its 2047 right that reverts to complete chinese rule so theres this window of opportunity there a cherry as a hong konger how is this City Different from the rest of china. In that race in hong kong. People from there we always say. At. Almost the same standard as how the us of woe is seeing it we also know people from china with friends from Mainland China when we talk about this because we know that we have a difference when we look at freedom for example we always have a relatively high freedom of speech freedom of media we can get access to facebook and twitter and the internet without any restrictions which is very different from the Mainland China ok theres also the court system as well hong kong has been so successful because it has an independent courses then there is the rule of law that is also a main difference along with freedom of expression isnt it yeah exactly in hong kong we always trust such a system and we know that is independent from and ministratio
Done and reform but this is a very sensitive issue as we all know we have taxation thats high on the agenda so we might get some kind of minimum tax form which a National Corporations we have migration on the agenda we have to digitize ation how to educate people how to use digitisation as a source for economic froze so there are many issues that need to be tackled but actually everybody will look at how does Climate Change in trade come out of it so its will be a very critical summit ok climate. Climate politics and trade the 2 areas where we could see progress claudio thanks very much for coming in. Lets break down some of the other stories making the news this hour at least 5 people have been killed in a stampede at a packed raf concert in the old carrion capital of cheers thousands of gathered at a concert by a local rap artist. Video posted online shows medics attending to some of the us. The prominent kremlin critic alexy has been released from prison after serving 30 days a mosc