And tiny manuscript but a big price. One of the first works by Charlotte Bronte is sold for 500,000. Voiceover live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. Its newsday. Good morning. Its 9am in the morning here in singapore, 1am in london and 9am in hong kong, where activists remain under siege inside the polytechnic university. But around 100 protestors including 50 minors have been led from the buildings as part of a deal negotiated by a group of school head teachers. Theres been more violence as police try to keep the campaigners trapped inside. Outside the university, protesters have tried to break the police lines while police have responded with rubber bullets and tear gas. 0ur correspondent Rupert Wingfield hayes has the latest. For a few minutes today, it looked like the siege of Hong Kong Polytechnic University might end peacefully. The young protesters began streaming down the stairway, that on sunday was set aflame to block the police from storming
Storming the campus. Then, authorities on the mainland but seconds later, riot police began have said this is wrong, a firing tear gas grenades, sending the young protesters scattering in confusion. Misinterpretation, and that only some did not escape. Really the mainland authorities have the clear message from the police the right to say such things and have suggested that perhaps the bake today if you surrender, you will be arrested. Basic law could be amended or that laws in hong kong could be amended in order to take sure that hundreds of protesters are still hold up inside the university, face masks are bad. We have an and some of them, still election coming up at the weekend preparing for a fight. And carrie lam has said in the past this young mans she would cancel it and she has threatened again this week it could brother is one of them. Be cancelled if there is continuing he is 22 years old, violence. What the mainland he graduated last year. Authorities are saying about the he
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We start in hong kong, with activists still under siege inside the Polytechnic University. But around 100 protesters, including 50 under 18s, have been led from the buildings as part of a deal negotiated by a group of headteachers. Theres been more violence as police try to keep the activists trapped inside. Some have tried to escape by abseiling onto the highway. Outside the University Protesters have tried to break police lines. Police responded with rubber bullets and teargas. Our correspondent Rupert Wingfield hayes has the latest. For a few minutes today it looked like the siege of Hong Kong Polytechnic University might end peacefully. The young protesters began streaming down the stairway that on sunday was set aflame to block the police storming the campus. But seconds later, riot police began firing tear gas grenades, sending the young protesters scattering in confusion. Some did not escape. The clear message from the police today if you surrender, you will be arrested. Hundred
But a big price. One of the first works by Charlotte Bronte is sold for half a million dollars. Hello to you. We start in hong kong, with activists still under siege inside the Polytechnic University. But around 100 protesters including 50 under 18s have been led from the buildings as part of a deal negotiated by a group of head teachers. Theres been more violence as police try to keep the activists trapped inside. Some have tried to escape by abseiling onto the highway. Outside the University Protesters have tried to break police lines. Police responded with rubber bullets and tear gas. 0ur correspondent, Rupert Wingfield hayes has the latest. For a few minutes today, it looked like the siege of Hong Kong Polytechnic University might end peacefully. The young protesters began streaming down the stairway, that on sunday was set aflame to block the police from storming the campus. But seconds later, riot police began firing tear gas grenades, sending the young protesters scattering in c