down. it is opening its boarders, allowing citizens to go anywhere they wish. the future of the berlin wall is now up in the air. the east berlin leaders have taken a sledgehammer to that wall. it s conceivable that the real sledgehammers will be brought out on that wall. there s just no point of it being there, a prospect that no one could have predicted a year ago or even a month ago. this has been a city physically divided for 20 years, but now it s come together, east and west, in a spontaneous outburst of emotion. this could be the first move to dismassagesing the berlin wall that has stood as the divided germany since it was built in 1961. one after another, drivers and passengers alike say they plan to spend a weekend in the
regardless. and they say that this is their right. this is this is police brutality. they want rest. they now want universal suffrage. that has become the mane goal really of these protesters so we ve heard from the city people. it s never going to happen xi jinping says any act of separatism will be crushed. so for the people here, this is an act of defiance. four months into these protests and they are turning out in their thousands. we make sure they hammer their sledge hammers. they are setting up shop.
independent inquiry into police brutali brutality. they want the hong kong police force to be disbanded and of course they now want universal suffrage. that has become the main goal really of these protesters. we ve heard from the city s chief executive carrie lam who says that is never going to happen. we ve also heard from chinese president xi jinping who said any act of separatism will be crushed. for the people here, this is an act of defiance. four months into these protests and they are turning out in the thousands with their makeshift weapons, their metal pipes, their hammers, their sledge hammers. they are smashing up shops that are seen as pro china. they are vandalizing train stations that are seen to be the eyes of the hong kong government. they are taking to the streets
up shops. today they have the numbers. they know they have the numbers. they can create these road blocks basically egg on the police to take them on. petrol bombs have been thrown. we play this game of cat and mouse. i have seen so many protesters with sledgehammers, metal poles. these are your hardline, frontline protesters looking for a fight. and these people are angry. here they have gone into the bank of china. and no doubt yeah. they re on the inside the bank of china. you can hear the alarm going off. but the riot police are 500 meters in that direction. i will show you. there are hundreds, if not thousands of protesters, dressed
we were i was very nervous. we got in the few cars that were still functioning. one was mine. we had to make the trek to the complex. we didn t know what debris was in the road. my biggest fear was getting stuck on the road. as 185 miles per hour wind on the backside came in. because there were actually a lot of deaths from flying debris. it s lethal at those speeds. that s what a lot of people forget about. not only the wind picking up things but the storm surge coming. there s all sorts of debris in water. that can kill people. i know you tweeted the wind were described the force of 1,000 sledge hammers. 185 miles per hour that s incomprehensible particularly for a low lying area. yeah. where i rode out the storm in the front side was in a school on a hill.