elections, this is the first time hong kongers have been able to put their vote in place and show whether they are pro-government or pro-protesters. the pro-democracy movement is hoping they have a strong showing today so that they can prove they still have a lot of support behind them. it s difficult up until now to know how much support they had. and if this vote shows they have tremendous support, does that put more pressure on carrie lam there to make concessions? reporter: in theory, it could. but to be fair, carrie lam has had an awful lot of pressure early on in this movement. potentially a million people came out on the streets to push for more democracy. she managed to not respond too much to the sheer numbers of people that came out onto the streets. it s unknown how much pressure she will feel from this vote. what it will do is give an exact figure out to what the support
that? we saw pictures earlier as pro- protesters were starting to come into the area and you saw police create a human wall across a cross walk. they clearly wanted the protesters to be abiding by traffic law. they didn t want them getting out in the middle of the cars. but then what we saw was when protesters made it obvious they did not want to go around the police officers, the police officers acquiesced. they stepped to the side. didn t want to create a confrontation. at a certain point we heard from the police commissioner that s what they re doing, allowing them to protest. but then when do they say, no, this is now an issue of order and we re not going to put up with this anymore? and then where do things go from there? they re basing it on when does this become dangerous to the protesters themselves, the peaceful ones members of the public the businesses in that area if you start having looting or violence then things are going to have to change and the police are going to ha