earlier we spoke to our correspondent bellinger has been following the protests in hong kong for us. we have not seen what most people feared most that these white clad thugs would attack the demonstrators today but we have seen extensive clashes between the police and protesters both sides are hardening more and more more and more protests and in violent clashes this movement is really getting more radical and the police is getting more ready to use force and at an earlier stage of the protests isn't it intervening with massive amounts of chagas driving away the protesters at the bottom of all this is a deep mistrust between the hong kong government and a big part of the population people accuse the government of being. of acting on behalf of beijing rather than on behalf of their own population and the government has done little to counter these accusations it has almost not been seen leaving