there was much talk of them having this taste of victory when carrie lam indefinitely suspended that extradition bill, that as you say they want complete withdrawal. they want remember to resign. they want an independent investigation into the police brutality on the 12th of june. andrew stevens, please stand by and monitor to the situation for us. we ll come straight back to you as soon as there are any developments, but let s now go to our matt rivers who is monitoring the protest, the protest which has begun. which sadly has been overshadowed by what is taking place here at the legislative council building. matt, what is happening? reporter: yeah, anna, i think what is going on at the legislative council building really couldn t be any more different happening where we are, roughly 3 kilometers or so from where you are. we re near victoria park. that is the start of the planned march today. we do believe the march has started to begin. although, when there s this many
earlier of them ramming that steel cage. so it has been going on now, rosemary, for almost an hour, and those riot police, they are still inside the legislative council building. they have held up the red flag saying if you charge, we will use force. now, we know that the police are that they mean business. we saw it on the 12th of june, those ugly clashes between protesters and police when police fired at the protesters using tear gas, rubber bullets, bean bag bullets. there were more than 80 injuries. these were ugly scenes beamed out around the world. there was international condemnation. since then the police have had a pretty low profile. we haven t seen them out in force until today. there were ugly clashes this morning at 7:30 a.m. this morning. there were ugly clashes then. there was a standoff. it then seemed to dissipate, but
be pushed forward, and that protesters were simply immature in their perspectives of what this bill means. i think that s disgusting. you should listen to people. you re a civil servant. so listen to the people. i mean, that s like she s not listening. and she just like disregard like everything that we have done so far. i mean, there were 103 million protesters who came out and then say that hey, you should take this back. 1.3 million, yes. and she just like this is not acceptable. when she just like oh, no, because you re being naive or something like this. you are being naive when you don t listen to people. reporter: so what are you calling for in this period of possible postponement? i mean, for us, like for me, we still demand the withdrawal of the bill. and second, because there are so many things going on or so many things have happened on the 12th of june, so the second will be
end police brutality. and then like it should be someone who has been someone should be held accountable for what happened that day, for the excessive use of force. you re talking about the protests that happened this wednesday on wednesday. reporter: when police fired tear gas, rubber bullets at protesters. yes. reporter: you believe it s excessive force. it s really excessive force. i ve been in touch with the protesters. i mean, like the day before the night before i was here and helping out and then talked to students and a lot of them were just like 14 to 15. and they re like really humble. they were very helpful and very selfless. and they have their own thoughts. for myself, i couldn t even know what i was doing when i was 14 or 15. but they hold themselves together. they unite themselves together. it s a movement that doesn t need any leaders. everyone is a leader. and they just like join forced together, which is beautiful in itself. i mean, like on the day o
on capitol hill. without a public hearing with a witness who s going to explain to the american public from a firsthand account, how the president tried to obstruct justice, i don t think public opinion is going to move on this at all. they seem very, very soft on that. they re going to court and trying to look at documents. the mueller report in of itself is pretty rich. that does not seem to have satisfy them as they look for more. it does not seem like they have been able to effectively figure out how to do oversight on the white house and actually get answers from them in a typical fashion that we would see between a presidency in the past. for the folks keeping scores at home. this and the st. louis lose to to stanley cup tonight. it is the 12th of june, 2019. our great thanks to ashley and michael and clint.