League. Tens of thousands of pro democracy demonstrators have taken to the streets in hong kong in defiance of a police ban. Petrol bombs were thrown at officers, who responded to the protesters by firing tear gas and water cannons. The event was called to mark five years since beijing ruled out fully democratic elections in the territory. Our correspondent Stephen Mcdonnell gave this update from hong kong. I am beside a couple of officers here. You can see water cannon is being deployed. People here are ducking down beneath the parapet to also avoid tear gas which is being fired. You can see from above. To the right here, you can see the protesters coming in and they are moving forward towards the government headquarters, where they may be able to throw molotov cocktails at closer proximity to the police at times. There goes one now, catching fire on the barricades. This is the violent showdown people predicted when permission was denied to have this march today and also follows the a
Hello. Most of us have seen some rain so far today, as the weather system moves east across the uk. Its behind that, were getting this on returning for the rest of the weekend, but it is cooler. Now, the last of that weather system with cloud, a bit of patchy rain pulls away from east anglia, and the south east of england, as we go through the evening. The heavy rain in northern scotland easing to showers, but quite a lot of clear weather around overnight, and temperatures dipping away quite widely into single figures, as we start the day tomorrow and as we start september. Showers tomorrow from the word go in a northern and western scotland. But fine, sunny weather across many other parts of the uk, but the showers will move further south and east during the day. Some of them likely to be heavy and possibly thundery, whereas much of south wales and southern england will avoid the showers and stay dry. There will be a fair amount of sunshine around, around any showers, so its a cooler
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