the barricades that protesters have set up, shutting down hong kong s busiest shopping district, once against, it s surreal on a busy monday afternoon my gym down the street is closed. all these businesses that hong kongers rely on every single day are shut down. the city s economy struggling in ore session because of relatively small groups of people who have figured out a way to move in quickly, shut down major thorough fair, set up barricades and bring out the police in force. but there s a lot of bystanders here. there are no protesters. they have already moved on. they moved right down the street. to the next location where they are going to hunker down, build barricades, set fires, spray paint, do it all over again. that s so remarkable. we are more than five months into this protest movement. i can tell you this is some of the worst that we have seen in
to the largest demonstrations in 10 years. this saturday, anti-government protestors stretched out for more than four miles. we re talking hundreds of thousands of people. very angry, calling for the president to step down. despite the fact that members even of the opposition called for a pulling back, they continue today to lay wire and build barricades, set garbage on fire, snarling traffic there. for people on the sidelines, they re worried the battle has no resolution any time soon. for 11 consecutive days we ve had protest demonstrations and repression. and i think we are in a vicious cycle where the government produces more repression and at the end of the day, no one wins. the key group in the power struggle will be the venezuelan military. so far they ve shown no signs of waivering in their loyalty to the president there. many of those high officers were put in place by chavez over the past 14 years but there was a