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From there to here and then they pulled up and they gathered along this main avenue behind me is Government House thats the Prime Ministers Office is so they pulled up here thousands gathered in the Late Afternoon through the evening but then several 100 stayed overnight at 4 am about 3 hours ago this emergency decree was issued protest leaders on makes of stage on this avenue just next to me they told the protesters to leave peacefully and they did so but we do know that still dozens of protesters were arrested 3 of the main high profile protest leaders were arrested themselves but you know again when we look now it was very interesting you know weve been here for about a 90 minutes and we 1st came up there are still street sweepers the avenue was blocked off street sweepers cleaning up from all those people here overnight now the avenues open and its almost as normal rush hour here on thursday morning so right now we know dozens of protesters have been arrested and 3 high profile pro
Worrying scenes in the last hour or so this was a lot fuller than than it is now a lot of the protesters a lot of who were supporting various different opposition groups that its a very peacefully gathering here showing some sort of unity. Basically left because a group of rival opposition supporters from maine who support the new Prime Minister a man that was voted in by an emergency parliamentary session. Last week who was freed from jail by those protesters a group of them came into the square they were both tools projectiles thrown. Scuffles the statue behind me that you can see there were indeed gunshots. And as i say a lot of people here are very nervous and have left the square now the supporters of the Prime Minister most of them have gone back to where they are protesting around the Prime Ministers office but there is a great sense of factionalism here in tension this evening and as you say the president has called this state of emergency concern what he says about possible co