Online. This is the news line from for land police in hong kong threaten to use live ammunition the warning comes as protesters use Deadly Weapons of the rhone including bosun arrows and the university descends into violence well go to our correspondent on the ground also coming up take brawn takes a tough stance on that unpopular fuel price hike irans Supreme Leader says he backs the sudden decision to raise fuel prices even it as a wave of violent protests grips the nation. Plus britains Prince Andrew speaks
publicly for the 1st time about his links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in an interview thats being called disastrous if you take a look at the interview and the fallout. Im called assman welcome to the Program Police in hong kong have threatened to fire live bullets of protesters dont stop using but officials called lethal weapons and the latest flare up during antigovernment protests the warning followed fresh clashes outside a university in the center of hong kong
publicly for the 1st time about his links to convicted sex offender jeffrey epstein in an interview that s being called disastrous if you take a look at the interview and the fallout. i m called assman welcome to the program police in hong kong have threatened to fire live bullets of protesters don t stop using but officials called lethal weapons and the latest flare up during anti-government protests the warning followed fresh clashes outside a university in the center of hong kong where protesters hunkered down behind a makeshift barricades and hurled petrol bombs at police authorities said on sunday one officer was treated in hospital after being hit in the leg by an arrow and another had his visor struck by a metal ball although he was not hurt. we re joined now by our correspondent
arrows and you see cutter poles that are used to throw stones and molotov cocktails at the police and then we also see these. these enduring battles where they stand in front of each other and fire at each other for hours and hours today around this university the lines have all most not moved or 20 years we heard something there about those different weapons being used by the protesters now we hear police threatening to use live bullets how serious of a threat is that especially given the situation how tense things all right dan thanks we are seeing that the police is really. has really shifted all show in this field we are seeing these emotional announcements by the police t.j. i would take this threat very serious they have said if they saw somebody firing one of these bows and arrows for example at the police they would use live rounds
a besieged fortress we have people being treated in here for injuries then ammunition being brought to the front and the protesters who do not think mostly that they will get out of here anyway without being arrested throwing everything they have to words to the front which is very dramatic. 70 years it seems like different weapons being used by the protesters occupying this area near this university is this a change now in the in the tactics that you re seeing by protesters. here we ve seen this whole week several universities in hong kong have been occupied and the standoff between police and the protesters were very different from what we ve seen before they resembled media of. battlefields with smoke and fire and these lethal weapons you met mentioned they were there their bows and
he s been covering these protests in hong kong for us since the very beginning of the t.s.a. university now the epicenter of these protests what s happening where you are right now. i am now at the polytechnic university. where police today lays siege so the protesters had occupy d.c. university since a tuesday and have been fortified it with barricades they have producing hundreds if not thousands of bottles of molotov cocktails and this morning they started the police started to move in they have been fighting during the whole day and in the afternoon police late siege they surrounded the university nobody can get out of here now at some point they said that they would leave their people leave by a certain area but then they arrested those who left including their 1st aiders so what we are seeing here now resembles really