post. and on. language courses. video or. w. . this is the news age are coming up violence once again in hong kong a weekend that started out peacefully there and an armed confrontations between police and protesters we'll look at how and why this leaderless movement is carrying on trust sky high rents and low wages crushing dreams of a better life we go beyond the protest lines for a look at the economic woes feeling some of the discontent there.

i'm melissa chan welcome to news asia thanks for joining us protests in hong kong have taken another violent turn the 1st gunshot has been fired by police a warning shot that hurt no one but nevertheless marks a new war dangerous phase of 12 consecutive weeks of on rest in the territory here's a look at that moment. you can see police beaten back by advancing protesters wielding baseball bats and metal poles. and then the police draw their guns. they're pointing guns oh you don't cut. there are police deployed water cannons along with the usual tear gas against protesters some who lobbed petrol bombs back with increasing violence comes more in. and the well

equipped protesters are equally prepared for that we have this report from deal be used charlotte tells until i sprinted towards the end of heat as others run for cover pecial bombs and tear gas sent kelly and yasmeen adopting to action another night on the frontlines tending to those in need but i guess mina among those caught off guard but she's unfazed the old. people all the people. i and live by shopping center becomes their makeshift clinic is courage test isn't passes by shelter from the chaos. i mean these 1st aid is of volunteers kelley's of freedoms journalist yasmina a kindergarten teacher. just a few weeks ago they were strangers now they stand side by side night talk tonight

. as the chaos dies down it's time to move on. throw her out now got rid of our car drove our cargo gardner. kelly and yasmeen a lurch from one battles when the other as multiple clashes crop up across the city their reason is simple we are on call in the us. messaging that works help them connect and coordinate with other volunteers reports come in of clashes across town it's becoming one of the most violent nights yet news that police of fired live gunshots into the air quickly spreads to the other 1st aid it's a you guys not afraid for your safety. heard of all of them right every day to do that well there will be afraid of that are afraid i'll die are afraid of gunshot yeah i'm afraid of i get injured but we have with you have to do that. and

it's not just both they risk by whacking on the front lines they also fit arrest there is a 1st rate for a fade our courts a lot of police and there are all 4 new social workers that court so. are more for that if that court to tonight they remain safe in a few hours yes mean it will be back at school as students none the wiser about to weekend on the streets and we have journalists in hong kong to tell us more give us a sense of what's happening you've been out on the streets what's the fraction of protesters who have been violent it's hard to say what percentage exactly of the protesters are violent i would say it's certainly a small number considering the amounts on the streets for a peaceful protest just last week we saw an estimated 1700000 people go out in the street during a peaceful protest on a weekend where there was no cheer guys on the front lines where protesters are

being violent i would say than the hundreds maybe thousands of the relatively small number but of course the impact they're having is big and they are willing to fight until the very end as they have shown and as they have seen to as they have said to many journalists now are the protesters who are protesting peacefully wanting the same things as those who have taken more extreme measures do they all want the same thing. yes i think this is what's been quite remarkable considering the protests are of leaderless as has been said many times before there are no clear leaders to move in there's no clear person that you can go and talk to but they have been very consistent in their demands and they have 5 demands no matter the type of protests whether it's a peaceful march whether it's. a rally organized by students or parents or relatives of the police or whether it's a violent protest the albert people seeing exactly the biggest one of course is to

withdraw the extradition bill and that is what sparked the protests to begin with almost 3 months now. the other demands probably the most ambitious demand is for genuine universal suffrage and the other demands are an independent inquiry into what the police do too many accusations of excessive violence as well as they were drawing of the term rioting that they've applied to the protests and which the government reiterated just last night and as well as the release of all arrested protesters so those 5 demands have been made very clear and they're not wavering that little if you can stay with us here we're going to get back to you in just a moment but we want to look at besides the calls for democracy and concerns about the political direction the territory is headed there is economic frustration and that's a very real thing you see hong kong is a rich modern 21st century city considered one of the top financial hubs of asia but many residents have deep anxiety over how to make ends meet one in 5 people

live in poverty the minimum wage is 4 year olds and 30 and in one recent poll 2 thirds of residents said they were unhappy with their quality of life that's not a surprise considering it has one of the world's longest working hours and some of its highest rents as the pressures now and cramped families have little hope that things will get better as mathias bolinger shows us in this report. hannah is the youngest of a family of 6 sharing this tiny 2 room apartment in eastern hong kong she lives with her mother sammy the father and his family in roughly 40 square metres and although this is quite common for families here the grandparents have asked us not to film them and not to take any close ups of objects in the flat i think. the flat is so small that we have to use every corner to store our stuff it feels

like our whole life is on display it's embarrassing. i. the young family she has a small bedroom 3 others sleep in the living room and whole sammy's husband has to work 2 jobs while she takes care of their daughter to escape the tiny space she spends most of the afternoons with her daughter at the playground downstairs. i am a base fortunately we don't have any serious conflicts most of my friends have regular fights with their in-laws because of the lack of space i suppose i mean well by the way our. young people in hong kong find it almost impossible to rent they don't buy a flat or rent for a 25 square meters or 2 you can easily cost 2000 euros per month an average salary and to change. this is one of the factors fueling young people's pangan the current crises get it and it's just a train our government has come up with

a grand plan to solve the city's housing problem with. reclaiming a land of about a 130 head tariff nans from the scene. and this small bay is just the beginning 3 artificial islands are supposed to follow a total of $1700.00 hectares they would be the biggest such islands in the world. we are expecting that is. a wide housing units for some 440-000-2700 extension 000 people and 70 percent of these housing units will be public housing is 40 on the people. but the project is controversial in a city where officials plans are often met with suspicion opposition lawmaker parky suggests that there would be enough industrial wasteland on the fringes of the city that would be quicker and cheaper to develop i think this is something very peculiar the only reason that we can think of why we need these projects is.

this length how the commission areas is actually at the center of so-called are quick to be areas that project is a government initiative to integrate the city's economy further with the chinese mainland since last year the world's longest bridge connects longto island in the territories west to july and macau on the other side of the pearl river delta the island's good link to the city center. these issues have little impact on sammy's life good child will be grown up in the islands are completed she is betting on public policy you know they always how to tell me how though is that we've already tried 5 or 6 times now let's see but what can we do we can't afford an apartment on the free market value dad like so we'll try again. since we're a young family we're hoping to move up the waiting list now with the idea was how

that. until then she will do her best to get along with her parents in law and spend as much time as she can hold doors. coming back to laurel often with political unrest it goes hand in hand with economic unhappiness to a lot of people forget for example that the students who protested on tiananmen square back in 1990 it was happening in the context of inflation in china without discounting the genuine demands of people for political change a talk a little bit more about the economic challenges in hong kong can they really be 60 whether it can be really fixed is a question for the government announced there are a lot of solutions that the government has a huge surplus they could be using a lot of that money odd building public housing there is a lot of land that's not used there's a lot of solutions that could help solve this crisis for regular people and i think

there is a graffiti that i saw a few weeks back that i think really sums up the sentiment that protesters there is feeling it was there you know i'm paying 7000 hong kong which is about 700 euros for an apartment the size of a cell and you really think i'm out here afraid of jail so i think people right now in hong kong feel like. they don't have there is no space for them in hong kong's future right now the city is not taking care of them because afford to buy a house they don't see future for themselves in the city the way things are going so they're desperate and they basically feel like they have nothing to lose and they're fighting for hong konger fighting for their future their credit identities so i think what we'll see is that protesters really think this is their last stand and like you said this is certainly exacerbated by the economic situation. thank you. we'll stick with the hong kong

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