tensions have continued to escalate in hong kong where one of the world s biggest airports hong kong international has been brought to a standstill by a huge gathering of protesters for the second day. flights were cancelled, check in services suspended and demonstrators barricaded access to departure gates with luggage trolleys before riot police moved in to disperse the crowds. these are the latest pictures. this is the moment police moved into one of the terminals. there were violent clashes, including this one where a policeman is attacked by protesters. and you can see here at one point, he pulls out his gun. this has also come in to the newsroom you can see young protesters mobbing a man they suspected was an undercover policeman they ve zip tied his hands together. he was later carried to an ambulance. the editor of china s global times, a nationalist tabloid newspaper, says the man who was tied up is one of his reporters. i affirm this man being tied in this
there s been extensive damage done to the building, with portraits of political leaders torn from the walls and furniture smashed. this situation is out of control and this is very dangerous, both for the protesters and for the security guards and the police. hello and welcome. i m jon sopel in washington, david eades is in london. hong kong is seeing pro democracy demonstrations like never before. after an hours long siege on one of the key government buildings, protesters managed to force their way into the central chamber of the region s parliament. their dissent took the form of maximum disruption and destruction. emblems grafittied, political portraits torn from the walls, furniture smashed. the police responded in kind, charging towards the building after warning protesters to clear it. since hong kong was handed back to china in 1997, it s been governed under the principle of one country, two systems. but as rupert wingfield hayes reports, public anger and the latest v
side is perhaps them trying to use these things to their advantage trying as andrew said earlier to take advantage of perhaps a pivot in public opinion about what these protesters are doing inside the ledges and legislative council building. really taking their time and really going to come down perhaps a very strongly afterwards on these protesters on the people involved there certainly beijing is not going to want to look weak in the face of what s happening there they re going to want to really show a strong arm and they re going to really say that look these are protesters for sauron we didn t we didn t provoke this and they re definitely going to want to send a strong message there. for the moment thanks very much. now let s talk more about this now with steve tsang via skype from london he is the director of the china institute of the school of oriental and african studies at the university of london thanks very much for being with us so 1st of all what do you make of t
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