First to hong kong where i want to build up a picture of rapidly moving events, in the last few minutes we have seen these pictures of at least a0 people arrested near Polytechnic University. The people were detained outside hotel icon on Science Museum road. The university has been the scene of intense clashes between Anti Government protesters and police over the weekend. At 5 30am local time, the police advanced in to the huge campus. Protestors set the main entrance on fire. Police used tear gas and water cannon. Our correspondent gabriel gatehouse witnessed events. The assault on the campus started about five minutes ago. We saw several dozen black clad Police Officers suddenly materialise out of nowhere and start storming the place. They were firing rubber bullets and tear gas and in response, the protesters unleashed all the petrol bombs they had, sometimes hurling whole boxes at a time which caused two huge fires at the main entrances to the campus. You may be able to hear a fi
First to hong kong, where i want to build up a picture of some rapidly moving events. A short time ago, saw pictures of at least a0 people arrested near the Polytechnic University. They were detained outside hotel icon on Science Museum road. The universitys been the scene of intense clashes between Anti Government protesters and police throughout the weekend. At 5 30am local time, the police advanced into the huge campus. Protesters set fire to a barricade on the main entrance. Police used tear gas and water cannon. Our correspondent gabriel gatehouse witnessed events. The assault on the gap is has started about five minutes ago. We saw several dozen like clad Police Officers suddenly materialise out of nowhere and start storming the place. They were firing rubber bullets and tear gas, and in response the protesters only stole the petrol bombs they had, sometimes hurling hold boxes at a time which has caused two fires at the main entrances at the campus. Everyone is milling around, th
A warm welcome to the programme, briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. Also in the programme, new Research Suggests a desk at home and keen parents will help a child get to university more than smaller class sizes and a good school. Do you agree . If you went to university what was key to your success . Get in touch, just use the hashtag bbcthebriefing. We start in hong kong where pro democracy activists have continued to occupy parts of hong kongs Polytechnic University after a night of clashes. At one stage activists set fire to two of the entrances when police moved into the campus. A0 people have been arrested and police have been clashing with other protestors in the surrounding streets. Rich preston has the details. The battle for the university lasted a whole day and a whole night of the hundreds of protesters made this their base, barricading themselves inside. Police did try to enter the building, but were met by a barrage of petrol bombs. Fi
Battle for a tiny piece of Literary History as a work by 14 year old Charlotte Bronte goes up for auction in paris. Good morning and welcome to the bbc news at 9 00. Police are surrounding a Hong Kong University campus after a violent overnight stand off with hundreds of protesters inside. Dozens of protesters tried to leave after sunrise but turned back as police fired tear gas and rubber bullets. At least a0 people have been arrested and police have been clashing with other protestors in the surrounding streets. Several hundred people are thought to remain inside the university. Lets go live to hong kong. Robin brant is there for us. What is the latest . The latest is, we now know Police Arrested 154 protesters. Most of them on the periphery of this University Campus, about a third of those were women, about a third of those were women, about two thirds were men. The youngest was 13, we are told. When we left this campus late last night we left this campus late last night we research
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