Police on one side, protesters on the other, a raging fire in between. 2a hours previously, this place had been completely normal. Across the university, protesters and students formed a human chain to supply the front line with water and food. Others sat in groups are preparing their supply of weapons. You are sitting here making kind of come up what is a better phrase, petrol bombs. Why we are doing this . Because yesterday you know they used real bullets, shooting him right in the chest, and that can kill someone. So if they upgrade their weapons, we need to upgrade our weapons to protect ourselves, too. This scene shows you how drastically the nature of this competition has changed. It started out five months ago with hundreds of thousands of people marching on the streets in peaceful demonstration. Now, at the entrance to a university there is a roadblock on fire, a burned out car blocking the entrance to this bridge, and around me dozens of protesters in black sitting and waiting
Some of bit heavy for a time. Gale force winds, pushing in to the south west and wales. Through the day that will be moving across Northern Ireland, Northern England and over towards east anglia. It will park itself across the Scottish Borders for the remainder of the day. At the same time, another pulse of wet weather moving into south east england. A blustery afternoon for many, a mild afternoon because the wind direction for the time being is coming from the south. Into wednesday, that low pressure moving slowly eastwards across the country, still bringing outbreaks of rain. The southern flank could see some pretty strong Gale Force Winds across channel facing posts, a pulse of wet weather and some persistent rain across north east england and again through southern scotland. Accompanied by a north easterly breeze. Slightly fresher feels tipping is particularly on the north sea coast. Thats a sign of whats to come in the weekend. The northerly wind dragging this cooler air right acr
Grand slam champion taking it on a tie break. But, it was actually the server who started the second is that with something of a lull, and as theim blasted countless winners, he struggled to react. Resilience is the only word to sum up sat three, the only word to sum up sat three, the match swung back and forth but it would be again be a tie break to decide it. Theim was the resilient one, 4 1 down, he rose from the jaws of defeat to take a memorable win. Having already downed Roger Federer, this was a powerful display. He now has a semifinal to look forward to. Paul frostick, bbc news. Roger federer is still hoping tojoin thiem. Hes got a winner takes all final round robin match with djokovic to look forward to after coming through against Matteo Berrettini in tuesdays early match. Watching this one for us was austin halewood. A last walk before a possible early exit, day three of the world tour finals, but already winner takes all. Although, unfortunately for Matteo Berrettini, Roger
In hong kong, a Senior Police officer has said that unrest has brought the territory to the brink of total collapse. In the latest clashes with democracy campaigners, the violence spread to a university campus, where police fired tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannon. Some of the protesters built barricades and threw petrol bombs. Our correspondent robin brant was there. Yelling. Run, she is shouting in cantonese, and they are running, but not for fun. Hong kong students at their university racetrack were escaping the tear gas and rubber bullets as police raided their campus. Moving onto the grounds of the Chinese University is a marked escalation by the police. They said they needed to stop people throwing bricks and other Dangerous Items from a campus bridge onto passing traffic. By night, that bridge became the front line in a stand off, police on one side, protesters on the other, a raging fire in between. 2a hours previously, this place had been completely normal. Across the u
In hong kong, a Senior Police officer has said that unrest has brought the territory to the brink of total collapse. In the latest clashes with democracy campaigners, the violence spread to a university campus, where police fired tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannon. Some of the protesters built barricades and threw petrol bombs. Our correspondent robin brant was there. Yelling. Run, she is shouting in cantonese, and they are running, but not for fun. Hong kong students at their university racetrack were escaping the tear gas and rubber bullets as police raided their campus. Moving onto the grounds of the Chinese University is a marked escalation by the police. They said they needed to stop people throwing bricks and other Dangerous Items from a campus bridge onto passing traffic. By night, that bridge became the front line in a stand off, police on one side, protesters on the other, a raging fire in between. 2a hours previously, this place had been completely normal. Across the u