legendive council. matt rivers, many thanks for your reporting. joining me now is minnie lee, one of the protesters who took part in a hunger strike, after the violent clash by police. you were hospitalized. you collapsed. tell us what happened. i had low blood sugar level and i had a heat stroke after 90 hours, yeah, hunger strike. why the hunger strike? after 1 million people going out to the street to protest again this bill, and they continue to ignore our voice, what else can we do? it s the only thing i can imagine i can do. i m not that strong, that i can go to the front, to fight against the police. i can t do that. but i can sit there and use my
we understand the front of the legendive council at the interest, there s an extreme police presence. to put this all into context, i now want to welcome frank ching. he has been following the story closely. frank, what do you make of the protests and the protests over the past week? i don t think these protests are going to have any effect. they will have no impact on carrie lam and her administration. we saw a week ago, a million people protesting. the government, an hour later, said we ll proceed with the bill. it took bloodshed. it took violence in the streets for the government to rethink its position. it seems to me like a million people peacefully marching, has no impact on this government at