will fail. and no surprise to him because essentially said that he is president for life. what should we be looking out for to see possibly in the future if that could happen? why do you make that prediction? i think that prediction because this is actually more dangerous than 1989 the tenement square massacre. because then protesters really wanted to keep the communist party in place but just wanted to replace some leaders. this is more like 1949 with the chinese people had just given up on the national and the communists came in. you know, i ve been wrong on timing with the communist party. i could be wrong again, course but the point is you can see the seething across the country that on friday, just erupted simultaneously and leaderless. it just shows the nature of what the chinese people are thinking right now.
party has the support of the chinese people. while clearly it doesn t. a lot of people have said this looks like 1989. 1949. 1949 that nationals of the other so much stronger than the communist, they melted away or they melted away because as a great chinese historian that said that nationals had lost people s hearts. we are seeing this today in china. the communists now have lost a people s hearts that is why these protests across china spontaneous, leaderless are so significant. we are showing our viewers where cracking down on these protesters. of temperate nominal threat to xi jinping in the chop communist party or is this an existential threat? i think this is existenial in these protests might fade as the anger over the fire on thursday
the beginning of the end. how this will end is hard to tell. the army under the shah declared neutrality, that is how the raging fell, here the army has been encouraged and kept underfor 40 years, i m not sure what they can do, but i think the fact that the movement appears leaderless, as in some sense positive, because the regime can t arrest one person, and then not the movement. person, and then not the movement. thank you for exoiaining movement. thank you for explaining how movement. thank you for explaining how that - movement. thank you for i explaining how that protest movement is panning out currently. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: these twinkling paris christmas lights may be more energy efficient
western capitals and frankly what s being asked here on the street. any more protests, raf, happening across the country in russia, especially as they re feeling the heat from these sanctions? reporter: so protests have been continuing, they ve been sporadic. what s interesting about them, yasmin, they re spontaneous, org income and leaderless. so it s not like alexei navalny or one of the high profile dissidents are behind them. they re popping up on social media. one of the code words has been going for a walk. people say i m going for a walk in st. petersburg. they mean they are going out at enormous personal risk to protest against vladimir putin s war, knowing that it could lead to arrests, prosecution. we re seeing an intensified crackdown on the few remaining independent media outlets in moscow. echo moscow was closed overnight, the russian government is threatening to shut down wikipedia if it