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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, ....
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 ....
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 beijin ....
Say after seeing a fellow protester news. And fellow hong kong is committing suicide to protest against the stay with us on bbc news. Extradition bill, seeing other friends issued, injured and families its hardtalk with stephen sackur. Scared, i say that i am ready for welcome to hardtalk, all the consequences that may come with the fight we are now in stop im stephen sackur. In hong kong, Extraordinary Events it almost sounds like some people on have become the norm in the last three months. The front lines are now ready for the territory has become a cockpit martyrdom. Well, mr sackur, if you of political protest and sporadic violence as many thousands continue to demand democratic reform. Put yourself in the protesters position, particularly this my my guest is closer to the centre of generation of hong kong people, who the storm. Have never known life under the Britis ....
The taliban has condemned a decision by President Trump to cancel secret afghan peace talks at camp david, warning that america has the most to lose. Its a sudden halt after nine rounds of talks to try to end nearly 20 years of war in afghanistan. Our chief International Correspondent lyse doucet reports from kabul. A busy kabul junction. The attack said to have changed President Trumps mind. A young us soldier died here, a romanian, ten afghans, aged ten to 70. The president vented his fury on twitter. There is not a day without violence. Taliban struck this kabul neighbourhood last week, the very day last week the us said it had reached a deal in principle with the taliban to start bringing its troops home. Theyve been negotiating for nearly a year in the gulf state of qatar, and the taliban almost hit t ....