We start with breaking news this hour. Police in hong kong have used live ammunition at pro democracy demonstrations and shot one protester at close range. Protesters had called for a general strike on monday and have been trying to disrupt transport in hong kong by setting up barricades. Shocking pictures of the incident in the sai wan ho district were live streamed on social media. An unarmed demonstrator can be seen approaching an officer, and then falling to the ground after being shot at close local media are reporting that he is in Critical Condition in hospital. Letters across to hong kong now. Martin yip is there. Let us. What are the latest details what has happened there . Well, we are yet to learn what actually happened before the shooting incident. What we can say for now, what they have just learned from the eastern hospital, their press office, that they are refusing to release any information at this stage. While the police, the press office line was quite engaged, asa p
Welcome to the programme. We start with breaking news this hour. Police in hong kong have used live ammunition during clashes with pro democracy demonstrators, shooting one protestor at close range. Activists had called for a general strike on monday, and have been trying to disrupt transport in hong kong by setting up barricades. Shocking pictures of the incident in the sai wan ho district were live streamed on social media. An unarmed demonstrator can be seen approaching an officer, and then falling to the ground after being shot at close range. Local media have reported that he is in a Critical Condition in hospital. Iam going i am going to show them to you now. We will not show the incident its self stop we will pause it. Itself. You can see the Police Officer grappling with a demonstrator. An unarmed officer approaches, dressed in black, a shot appears to be fired on the demonstrator. The ground unarmed demonstrator. The ground unarmed demonstrator. Local media report he is in dem
Police in hong kong have used live ammunition during clashes with pro democracy demonstrators, shooting one protestor at close range. Activists had called for a general strike on monday, and have been trying to disrupt transport in hong kong by setting up barricades. Shocking pictures of the incident in the sai wan ho district were live streamed on social media. An unarmed demonstrator can be seen approaching an officer, and then falling to the ground after being shot at close range. Local media have reported that he is in a Critical Condition in hospital. Our correspondent Stephen Mcdonnell is at the scene in hong kong. Weve not heard much in the turner way of official information but what have you heard so far with my i am standing on the crossing where the young activist was shot but the riot police are here clearing debris from the streets. And then, and they are being abused. You can see members of the public hurling abuse at them. There is a lot of anger here after this protester
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