Good morning and welcome to the bbc news at 9 00. Riot police have used pepper spray and batons during clashes with protesters in hong kong overnight, on the 22nd anniversary of its shift from british to chinese rule. The protests are the latest against a law that would allow suspected criminals to be sent to Mainland China to facejustice. The Hong Kong Government has since suspended the plan, but protesters want it to be scrapped altogether. This is obviously the scene that you see as protesters are outside Government Assembly buildings. Lets go live now to our correspondent Karishma Vaswani whos in hong kong for us. In the last few minutes we have seen protesters arriving from the march that began at victoria street. The scenes behind me, people chanting. This is the group of pro democracy protesters that have been marching from Victoria Park annually. This is what they do but this year it has taken a special what they do but this year it has ta ken a special symbolism what they do b
More than a decade after ba naz mahmods death in a so called honour killing, her sister speaks out for the first time. The moment you choose to ignore actually what happened and not talk about it, you will never get past it. And 13 years on, we still havent had that conversation. Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Riot police have used pepper spray and batons during clashes with protesters in hong kong overnight, on the 22nd anniversary of its handover from british to chinese rule. The protests are the latest against a law that would allow suspected criminals to be sent to Mainland China to facejustice. Lets have a look at the live pictures from the streets of hong kong. You can see the numbers are building, there is always a dispute on at that between the protesters and the police. This is the third enormous demonstration weve seen in hong kong in the past month. The organisers typically say the figures are aroundi organisers typically say the figures are around 1 million. Th
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