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Hey Hong Kong, @CBSNews signs off for now from your great, but divided, city. We’re watching what happens next and we’re ready to return. Message me anytime. Big kudos to our entire CBS News team on the ground too: our Asia bureau chief @chrislaible, cameraman @cbs_randy and local fixer @stanley_mousse. Please give them a follow on Instagram and Twitter to see more of our Hong Kong reporting through their eyes. Leaving you with #bts images of LegCo, gas masks, face masks, pepper spray, youth protestors and establishment and opposition legislators we spoke with: Long Hair, Michael Tien and Lee Cheuk-yan. For the record, Chief Executive Carrie Lam didn’t get back to us on our interview request. Our invitation still stands! Thank you, Hong Kong. Be safe. #cbsnews #asia #team #thankyou #hongkong #hongkongprotests #handover #democracy #march #rally #protest #legislativecouncil #legco #storming #behindthescenes #photos #history #dreamjob
Caught in action. Our @CBSNews team was filming inside Hong Kong’s legislature after protestors, angry at their government and by extension Beijing, stormed it on the 22nd anniversary of the city’s return to Chinese rule from Britain - the first time such a breach has *ever* happened. We were snapped by another photographer who kindly sent this shot over. I’m calling it the ‘mural of chaos’ - so many people doing different things as we recorded history unfolding before our eyes. Protestors demand the city’s chief executive, Carrie Lam, resign. Watch our reports on @cbsthismorning and @cbseveningnews. : @HongKongFP photographer Thammakhun John Crowcroft
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Tens of thousands of Hongkongers took to the streets and stormed the legislative building on Monday to protest what they see as China's increasing influence over the city-state. On July 1, 1997, Britain handed Hong Kong over to China on the condition that Hong Kong would largely govern itself for another 50 years. But many in Hong Kong see a controversial new extradition bill as a sign that Beijing is trying to cut that timeline short, and they’re fighting back.
The bill would allow Hong Kong authorities to arrest people and extradite them to face trial in mainland China on a case-by-case basis. The proposal has become part of a larger fight to preserve the independence of a democratic Hong Kong and the freedom of speech that goes with it. Follow the link in our bio to see more photos of yesterday’s demonstrations. #hongkong #hongkongprotests
Hong Kong police have fired teargas at demonstrators and moved to disperse crowds after protesters stormed the legislative council building and raised the territory’s former colonial flag on the 22nd anniversary of its handover to China.
The dramatic scenes came after a peaceful march of half a million people made its way through other parts of the city as its deepest political crisis in two decades showed no sign of abating. For the past month protesters have been demanding the withdrawal of a bill that would allow extraditions to the Chinese mainland as anger has grown against Hong Kong authorities and the territory’s chief executive, Carrie Lam.
The police action came against a breakaway group of protesters, some of whom had forced their way into the legislative council building and vandalised its main chamber.
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Videos of the escalation. You can see how many people were around, thousands. At first the front line had at least 15 feet between them and the police. It diminished to no space at all, and then police were smashing umbrellas with batons, pepper spraying, and eventually tear gas. You can’t really tell what’s a gunshot or just people banging on fences. It’s hot and humid in the crowd, easy to feel faint especially when trying to gauge an exit route. We jumped over the divider to get away from the cloud and went back to the front of the bridge to see how far the protestors had advanced. But the tear gas stays in the air and everything starts to sting, luckily we had goggles. That’s when we decided to leave and I’m glad we did. This whole area, completely full of people mostly standing around waiting and not violent at all, has now been forcibly cleared with rubber bullets and lots more tear gas. It looks like the apocalypse.
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