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 guard but shes unfazed the old. People all the people. I and live by Shopping Center becomes their makeshift clinic is courage test isnt passes by shelter from the chaos. I mean these 1st aid is of volunteers kelleys of freedoms journalist yasmina a kindergarten teacher. Just a few weeks ago they were strangers now they stand side by side night talk tonight. As the chaos dies down its time to move on. Throw her out now got rid of our car drove our cargo gardner. Kelly and yasmeen a lurch from one battles when the other as multiple clashes crop up across the city their reason is simple we are on call in the us. Messaging that works help them connect and coordinate with other volunteers reports come in of clashes across town its becoming one of the most violent nights yet news that police of fired live gunshots into the air quickly spreads to the other 1st aid its a you guys not afraid for your safety. Heard of all of them right every day to do that well there will be afraid of that are afraid ill die are afraid of gunshot yeah im afraid of i get injured but we have with you have to do that. And its not just both they risk by whacking on the front lines they also fit arrest there is a 1st rate for a fade our courts a lot of police and there are all 4 new social workers that court so. Are more for that if that court to tonight they remain safe in a few hours yes mean it will be back at school as students none the wiser about to weekend on the streets and we have journalists in hong kong to tell us more give us a sense of whats happening youve been out on the streets whats the fraction of protesters who have been violent its hard to say what percentage exactly of the protesters are violent i would say its certainly a small number considering the amounts on the streets for a peaceful protest just last week we saw an estimated 1700000 people go out in the street during a peaceful protest on a weekend where there was no cheer guys on the front lines where protesters are being violent i would say than the hundreds maybe thousands of the relatively small number but of course the impact theyre having is big and they are willing to fight until the very end as they have shown and as they have seen to as they have said to many journalists now are the protesters who are protesting peacefully wanting the same things as those who have taken more extreme measures do they all want the same thing. Yes i think this is whats been quite remarkable considering the protests are of leaderless as has been said many times before there are no clear leaders to move in theres no clear person that you can go and talk to but they have been very consistent in their demands and they have 5 demands no matter the type of protests whether its a peaceful march whether its. A rally organized by students or parents or relatives of the police or whether its a violent protest the albert people seeing exactly the biggest one of course is to withdraw the extradition bill and that is what sparked the protests to begin with almost 3 months now. The other demands probably the most ambitious demand is for genuine universal suffrage and the other demands are an independent inquiry into what the police do too many accusations of excessive violence as well as they were drawing of the term rioting that theyve applied to the protests and which the government reiterated just last night and as well as the release of all arrested protesters so those 5 demands have been made very clear and theyre not wavering that little if you can stay with us here were going to get back to you in just a moment but we want to look at besides the calls for democracy and concerns about the political direction the territory is headed there is economic frustration and thats a very real thing you see hong kong is a rich modern 21st century city considered one of the top financial hubs of asia but many residents have deep anxiety over how to make ends meet one in 5 people live in poverty the minimum wage is 4 year olds and 30 and in one recent poll 2 thirds of residents said they were unhappy with their quality of life thats not a surprise considering it has one of the worlds longest working hours and some of its highest rents as the pressures now and cramped families have little hope that things will get better as Mathias Bolinger shows us in this report. Hannah is the youngest of a family of 6 sharing this tiny 2 room apartment in eastern hong kong she lives with her mother sammy the father and his family in roughly 40 square metres and although this is quite common for families here the grandparents have asked us not to film them and not to take any close ups of objects in the flat i think. The flat is so small that we have to use every corner to store our stuff it feels like our whole life is on display its embarrassing. I. The young family she has a small bedroom 3 others sleep in the living room and whole sammys husband has to work 2 jobs while she takes care of their daughter to escape the tiny space she spends most of the afternoons with her daughter at the playground downstairs. I am a base fortunately we dont have any serious conflicts most of my friends have regular fights with their inlaws because of the lack of space i suppose i mean well by the way our. Young people in hong kong find it almost impossible to rent they dont buy a flat or rent for a 25 square meters or 2 you can easily cost 2000 euros per month an average salary and to change. This is one of the factors fueling young peoples pangan the current crises get it and its just a train our government has come up with a grand plan to solve the citys housing problem with. Reclaiming a land of about a 130 head tariff nans from the scene. And this small bay is just the beginning 3 artificial islands are supposed to follow a total of 1700. 00 hectares they would be the biggest such islands in the world. We are expecting that is. A wide Housing Units for some 4400002700 extension 000 people and 70 percent of these Housing Units will be Public Housing is 40 on the people. But the project is controversial in a city where officials plans are often met with suspicion opposition lawmaker parky suggests that there would be enough industrial wasteland on the fringes of the city that would be quicker and cheaper to develop i think this is something very peculiar the only reason that we can think of why we need these projects is. This length how the commission areas is actually at the center of socalled are quick to be areas that project is a Government Initiative to integrate the citys economy further with the chinese mainland since last year the worlds longest bridge connects longto island in the territories west to july and macau on the other side of the pearl river delta the islands good link to the city center. These issues have little impact on sammys life good child will be grown up in the islands are completed she is betting on Public Policy you know they always how to tell me how though is that weve already tried 5 or 6 times now lets see but what can we do we cant afford an apartment on the free market value dad like so well try again. Since were a young family were hoping to move up the waiting list now with the idea was how that. Until then she will do her best to get along with her parents in law and spend as much time as she can hold doors. Coming back to laurel often with political unrest it goes hand in hand with economic unhappiness to a lot of people forget for example that the students who protested on Tiananmen Square back in 1990 it was happening in the context of inflation in china without discounting the genuine demands of people for political change a talk a little bit more about the economic challenges in hong kong can they really be 60 whether it can be really fixed is a question for the government announced there are a lot of solutions that the government has a huge surplus they could be using a lot of that money odd building Public Housing there is a lot of land thats not used theres a lot of solutions that could help solve this crisis for regular people and i think there is a graffiti that i saw a few weeks back that i think really sums up the sentiment that protesters there is feeling it was there you know im paying 7000 hong kong which is about 700 euros for an apartment the size of a cell and you really think im out here afraid of jail so i think people right now in hong kong feel like. They dont have there is no space for them in hong kongs future right now the city is not taking care of them because afford to buy a house they dont see future for themselves in the city the way things are going so theyre desperate and they basically feel like they have nothing to lose and theyre fighting for hong konger fighting for their future their credit identities so i think what well see is that protesters really think this is their last stand and like you said this is certainly exacerbated by the economic situation. Thank you. Well stick with the hong kong story and leaving with more pictures of street protests from over the weekend thanks for watching and well see you next time good bye. To you today dont miss our highlights. Program. W dot com highlights. How does time on tax day. D. W. Correspondent susu hard. To do exactly. The various flavors of exotic crazy i found a challenge for you all during him and during. The food the fusion and the fun. 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