cocktails towards the police a number of them have been vandalizing buildings that have links to mainland china but there has been an immense amount of tear gas and water cannon on the streets today clearing the protest is in fact a mosque was targeted by that water cannon it was hit by blue dye which is so often seen in the water cannon that's being used by police at the moment police have issued a statement saying it was unintended that the mosque was hit but out really is something that has upset a lot of people here today ok so clearly a very tense atmosphere charlotte but as you were saying the police seem particularly jumpy they're clearly responding responding with force when one of your own experience has been one of what have you been seeing. well tensions have been building off by over the last 20 we can see now that we've seen these protesters police and protesters ally you can really feel the tension building we have an experience here on this evening as we are trying to leave the