Protests and running battles between protesters and police, would she or wouldnt she back down and drop the widely hated extradition bill . I now announce that the government has decided to suspend the legislative amendment exercise. Not a withdrawal, then. So is this just a trick to pacify the protesters . It has nothing to do with an intention or wish to pacify. How could i restore, as fast as possible, the calm in society, and how could i avoid any more Law Enforcement officers and ordinary citizens being injured . The fear of more angry protesters returning to these barricades is what has prompted carrie lam and her administration to make what is clearly a major climb down. This is not a temporary pause to the extradition bill this is an indefinite suspension. Nevertheless, it may not be enough to prevent very large crowds from coming out here again on sunday for another huge show of discontent. On wednesday, the policejust. This young protester and many of his friends will be out
Why are people still planning to march . That is a very good question. Iam standing march . That is a very good question. I am standing in victoria park, the gathering point for todays demonstration. In the coming hours they are expecting large numbers of people to turn out and much to oppose this extradition proposal. Now, there are two reasons why people will still come out. They are saying, one, although the government here was forced into a humiliating backdown, putting its extradition plans on the backburner, they want this that the protest that is it that they want carrie lam and the administration say we will not have administration say we will not have a bill which would allow residents and visitors here to face court in china. They want that bill abolished altogether. The second reason is, they are emboldened, they had a massive victory and it is a people power that hasnt done this. The government, with this system in the legislature has a number to get any bill through it onc
People are expected to return to the streets on sunday, despite the Hong Kong Governments decision to suspend a controversial plan to allow alleged criminals to be extradited to mainland china. The proposals resulted in mass protests in the former british colony some of which turned violent. Our correspondent Rupert Wingfield hayes reports from hong kong. Fellow citizens and members of the media. As she stood alone at the podium, carrie lam must have known every pair of eyes in hong kong was watching her. After a week of mass street protests and running battles between protesters and police, would she or wouldnt she back down and drop the widely hated extradition bill . I now announce that the government has decided to suspend the legislative amendment exercise. Not a withdrawal, then. So is this just a trick to pacify the protesters . It has nothing to do with an intention or wish to pacify. How could i restore, as fast as possible, the calm in society, and how could i avoid any more
Neighborhood. The weather sponsored by cattle and ways. Last wave of heavy rain of couple days ago produced vast amount of flooding in certain parts of Southern China that hasnt gone away as the next belt of rain starts to form as you can see hong kong is not underneath the cloud its gone syas that whats gathering is for the west and you know the grungy towards the yangtze and this is going to develop into proper rain come monday again a bit of a circulation suggests the heaviest stuff is just out of sichuan but the line is down towards those in vietnam and its going in this direction so in hong kong to be a wet day again on monday but the heaviest rain does look further inland and as is always the case this time of year thats going to bring bring some flash floods on the risk of landslides and almost certainly some destruction of property to the south of that well the showers are rather more broken up the still a pretty obvious line through northern sort of icy dental board here and j
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