protest the arrest of a student he was in possession of laser pointers which the police regard as weapons lasers have been widely used by pro-democracy protesters in recent weeks to obscure the vision of police officers a world famous chinese artist and dissident ai way way has been here in berlin my colleague kate brady spoke to him about the situation in hong kong. thank you for joining us the unrest in hong kong has certainly reached new levels in recent days and we now have one chinese government official warning protesters that they shouldn t underestimate china s immense strength is that beijing warning that it may step in to deal with the protests directly i think. government. they crash them i need time and a moment under the. same tone when they re dealing with you by the.