and for more details cherie chan joins me now from hong kong sherry what exactly are the protesters demanding today well actually these protests today is call organized by different generations and many protesters here they were over 50 or 60 years so it may look at and t. now but just now there were 5600 protesters here some of the protesters i talked to they were over 60 years ago and they told me they were here today because they think this is the only thing they could do and they wanted to think that young the young generation for sacrificing their time for the freedom of the society their yesterday police lifted their siege of the polytechnic university how significant is this move. right so the police have officially left the campus and they handed back to the school administration and the police said that they have around 10000 petrol bombs and they said that they were actually trying to adopt a flexible approach and to show their intentions and they hope that the society. go back to the peaceful and rationality and also but then there are a lot of protests who are actually very cautio

reporter sherry chan good to see cherie the activists obviously please but tell us more about beijing's response. right after trying signed the legislation beijing react to fear is the m s expected it has summoned the u.s. ambassador to demand the u.s. not to interfere in china's internal affairs and it also asked the u.s. to stop causing further damage to file a tro relations and also actually in a statement the foreign ministry also said that the legislation have a sin is saying tensions and it's also an act of bullying is also accused the u.s. of being the culprits of instability in hong kong beijing also want that they would take a firm contemn measures although they didn't mention what come to measure would be and it also said that the u.s. will bear consequences if it insists to past of all right so what about then on the ground itself has the university for example now been cleared of those protesters. it is very hard to estimate actually how many people are still inside the campus actually in the past 2 days there were several different groups trying to enter the university to t