i'm married to evanston welcome to the program tens of thousands of people have gathered in the czech republic's capital prague to. mand the resignation of prime minister andre bobbish opponents of bobbish accuse the populist leader of profiting from his office and conflicts of interest he's one of the czech republic's richest men the protests coincide with events commemorating the start of the 1989 velvet revolution that toppled the communist regime in what was then czechoslovakia organizers say they want the czech republic to rediscover the pro-democracy ideals that fueled the protest 30 years ago. standing by for us in prague correspondent jonathan crane jonathan good to see you tell us what is happening where you are right now. well this is the latest in a series of protests organized by the activist group 1000000 women to democracy and initially the estimates suggest that this is by far the biggest the day how safe asa passing the course remains and it came to let just behind me. now as you say this coincides with the anniversary of the velvet revolution the food of communism in

i'm married to evanston welcome to the program we begin in hong kong where there have been fresh clashes between pro-democracy demonstrators and police protesters barricaded hong kong's polytechnic university as part of a week long campaign aimed at disrupting traffic and hitting the local economy riot police fired tear gas in a bid to clear the dead. it's traders many of whom threw petrol bombs and started fires on the streets on saturday chinese troops were deployed in the city for the 1st time since the protests began emerging from their barracks to clear road blocks . correspondent is that inger is following developments in hong kong and he joins us now for the latest hello to you mathias so for the 1st time says these protests broke out nearly 6 months ago we've been seeing chinese soldiers on the streets of hong kong what more can you tell us. yet it was yesterday that they came out off a garrison to clear up some of the barricades they were wearing their sports outfits and they were marching and then clearing some of the debris there they said that was a voluntary action it's spar

i'm married to evanston welcome to the program we begin in hong kong where there have been fresh clashes between pro-democracy demonstrators and police protesters barricaded hong kong's polytechnic university as part of a week long campaign aimed at disrupting traffic and hitting the local economy right police fired tear gas in a bid to clear. the demonstrators who threw petrol bombs and started fires on the street chinese troops were deployed in the city for the 1st time since the protests began. well earlier i talked to him and he is building a who's in hong kong and i asked him about the significance of the chinese soldiers being on the streets for the 1st time since the protests began. yet it was yesterday that they came out of a garrison to clear up some of the barricades they were wearing their sports outfit and they were marching on them clearing some of the debris there they said that was a voluntary action it sparked a bit of concern here because they are not allowed to interfere in hong kong unless they're asked by the hong kong government and the hong kong government has not a

by marrying a evanston welcome to the program police have been firing tear gas in multiple locations in a bid to break up a fresh round of mass protests in hong kong authorities had banned all protests today which were originally billed as an emergency call for autonomy from mainland china but police quickly cracked down on an initial gathering and then in other parts of the city as well this is the 22nd straight weekend event government demonstrations in hong kong. w. charlotte chills of hill has been reporting from the midst of these demonstrations and she's been forced to wear a gas mask to protect herself from the tear gas used by police i spoke to her just a short while ago and asked if the demonstrators were prepared for such a swift and harsh response by police. i think a lot of people are taking to the streets marianna none of that there is always the risk of casting kind of police hot well you know a put up that they use when they're warning that to be going up it was about because i think it came as a surprise to a lot of people that they were following directly into this n