working staff within the legco and to leave legco do to the incident.9pm, we have been told that all working staff have left. that means that we are sure there are no other civilians within the building. my office rs civilians within the building. my officers had no other choice but to temporarily retreat and do a regrouping, and try to do some redeployment to legco later on. regrouping, and try to do some redeployment to legco later onm is not true to say that the government has not responded. we have not responded to every demand asked because of good reasons. first of all, if the course of the social tensions that we have seen is a bill to amend the fugitive offenders ordinance, on 15june, i have announced the suspension of the bill. and subsequently we have explained and elaborated that by suspending the bill and this point of time with no timetable and no plan to resume the debate of the bill in the legislative council, the bill in the legislative council, the bill will expire or die onjuly 2020, when the current term expires. that is a very positi

have they undermined their cause by causing so much damage in legco?to these are the words that carrie lam wants to tell the world. she held a press c0 nfe re nce wants to tell the world. she held a press conference at 4am hong kong time because he wanted to make her narrative known to the entire international media, especially the us and europe. so this is one thing. but then they also have two look at what extent the violence has done, people broke a lot of glass and vandalised pictures of high officials. but in the eyes of these young protesters who are trying to send a message, they feel they have done everything, they had a 1 million strong march, a 2 million strong march, they have gone into headquarters, three people have committed suicide. they think they have done everything and they couldn't achieve anything, this is them driven to desperation. in 2014, before the umbrella movement, there was also a crowd movement in taiwan where young people also stormed into the legco they are and eventually they were all released, they all had they were al

i think you are tearing the legco apart? i think you a re really tearing the legco apart? today. i have been there for two weeks and people have been speaking to me saying they feel incredible frustration against the government but also particularly carrie lam. she has not been seen in public the ten days. they have been protesting peacefully, the biggest protesting peacefully, the biggest protest in hong kong cosmic history, on the sunday when i was there. one protester said we have protested peacefully, we protested, 25% of hong kong cosmic population, still the government does not listen to us, carrie lam is ignoring our demands, and i think tonight we saw this explosion of anger and frustration amongst especially the young people of hong kong who are saying you need to listen to us and we will go to this level of violence to make you listen. but it will be interesting to see, as nick said, how the wider population in hong kong is going to view this because hong kong has been called the city of protest. it has always been very proud to wear peaceful protest, and to see

you can see these more radical activist have just broke through the window of the legco building behind me and managed to smash through this toughened glass and they are trying to get insideth e legco building. inside you can see there are large numbers of riot police. so far ty have held back. the destruction continued, but s the policeod by. it looked very much like they had been ordered nin to rvene. meanwhile, across town, hundreds of thousands of other hongs kongerre on the march in a second huge antigovernment protest. this one was completely peaceful. bt even here, there was sympathy for thoieging parliament. >> i understand what te doing and i thank them for taking the risk to go to jail and try to stop the government frf handing over the rights hong kong people. rupert: back outside parliament, the trashing continued. the police now nowhere to be seen. now they' trying to smash the way through the steel shutters, and the crowhere shouts "keep going, keep going." what is the point of this? >> we only know peaceful protest is not useful anymore. you can say it is drawing attentio

our correspondent has been able to get inside the legco as well and give you something ofa legco as welln place in that building today. the scene speak for themselves, really. there is an eerie silence. you can see the complete mess. these barriers were used to ultimately get through the glass. umbrellas were used to shield protesters from the pepper spray used to shield protesters from the pepper spray that the police at this point but also as a way of hiding their identities. they were worried about the repercussions of coming in here. not a huge amount to see in here. not a huge amount to see in here but this was one of the room is the protesters came into. if we go further through, it's extraordinary to think this is the beating heart of the democratic process here in hong kong but it's completely defaced. we have wires falling from the walls, graffiti all across the protesters made their way in, occupied here and those are the steps they went up to head to the chamber where what followed people could not believe. they spray graffiti on the walls, date sum of the portraits of the pol

and that — their perception of what happened that night in legco is much more nuanced.it gives an excuse to the government to crack down. but there was a demonstration just the other day of mothers coming out in defence of young people, this is after the legco, because now they're afraid that if people are persecuted or sentenced too, it could be up to 10 years in prison. that at some point they could also be transferred to the people's republic. so it's clearly a very complex picture in hong kong itself and i take your point on the hearts and minds battle there. but what about hearts and minds in the chinese mainland? i mean, you'vejust been in china — you just got back. so the vandalism inside an assembly building in hong kong, i mean, that is — it's hard for me to imagine that going down well with the chinese public. indeed, and when you think that is the only news they get. because, if you're trying to follow this from inside china, as i was last week, it's either not there on the chinese language services, or on the english language services, as soon as the word 'h

you mentioned the hong kong standard, legco occupied.egislative council. they quite literally managed to stop it. the police were holding them off. 8:55 p-m-, police were holding them off. 8:55 p.m., the police who were defending the metal gate backed away and within five minutes the protesters had gone through. there are not details as to why the police stepped away but one could speculate that they did not want this to increase into violence because they have been reports of teargas getting into uncomfortable territory. it is interesting the role of social media playing a part in this practice. so far the chinese government do not know who the organisers are but they are know who the organisers are but they a re clearly know who the organisers are but they are clearly very well organised. they are communicating by telegraph, a social media app and they are using the famous phrase from a bristly, the cog food master who said, like water. they go into the legislative building and as soon as the police come, they evaporate like water and

nick is still in the legco building.already looks like a calmer scene than it was just, what, barely an hour ago when you stepped in? you are right. the protesters have gone and i can tell you that because this is the actual place, this is the chamber they occupied earlier today. it was the scene of such extraordinary pictures. normally it is the politicians of hong kong, the people who shape the future of the city who sit here, they debate, they vote, today the protesters came streaming in, they we re protesters came streaming in, they were the ones in control, empower, they made their way down to the front and you could see the graffiti they daubed, the sentiments they wa nted they daubed, the sentiments they wanted to put forward, and up there is the symbol of hong kong. remember this is a 22 years to the day since hong kong was returned from british rule to chinese rule. but these no other people who have to deal with this mess, you have the police commissioner on the left, carrie lam, the embattled chief executive m

the doors at the front of legco building. not just because there is a thought that the protesters could really stream inside and run amok, but merely for what it symbolizes. the government whose decision that the protesters here want to overturn. this is what it's about. this is symbolic in some ways, but the police at the moment still remaining relatively calm inside. indeed, i see police officers filming me right now as we are live. the police recording all the events that they're able to record here, but most of the time these police cameras have been looking at the protesters and focussing on the protesters at the front line here to see what they're doing. but i have to say, anna, going back to this and the police, there isn't a sense that the police are about to charge. there is a sense that they're ready for anything, but maintaining their position. the crowd here for their part seeming to be debating amongst themselves what to do. should they try to rip through the rest of the glass here and puncture this standoff as i

after midnight, they will clear the entire area around legco, they could do it.eally went, they through it in order to lure protesters into doing so. you are quite right. carrie lam, the chief executive, is trying to shape the narrative and why on earth that she would call a press conference at 4:00 a.m. hong kong time? medias international her mind. she wants to condemn the use of violence. shery: you have worked in the hong kong democracy movement, all right? when we -- movement, right? where do they go from here when you look back at 2014? nothing much happened and president xi jinping really got no backlash from all of the violence we saw back then. so what is next? theoria: this is exactly great question precisely because iter the movements in 2014, was seen as total failure. afterwards, not only that, they did not get genuine suffrage. all the organizers, many other people, were all locked up, so this time around, the protesters , they got smarter. all the leaders were the people who claim to be leaders are all going to be arrested and sentenced to multiple

a separate, more aggressive group smashed windows of the legislative council, known as legco, and briefly occupied it. last night, our foreign affairs correspondent nick schifrin reported from inside the building and interviewed one of the occupiers. today, nick spoke with a

you can see these more radical activists have just broken through the window of the legco building behindve managed to smash through the toughened glass and they are trying toughened glass and they are trying to get inside the legco building. inside, you can see there are large number the right place. so far, they have held back. the destruction continued and the police stood by. it looked very much like they had been ordered not to intervene. meanwhile, across town, hundreds of thousands of other hong kongers on the march in a second huge anti—government protest. this one com pletely anti—government protest. this one completely peaceful. but even here, there was sympathy for those besieging parliament.” there was sympathy for those besieging parliament. i understand what they are doing and i thank them for taking the risk to go to jail and trying to stop the government from handing over the lives of hong kong people to ccp. back outside parliament, the trashing continued. the police were now nowhere to be seen. now they are trying to smash their way through the steel shutters. the crowd,

we're asking for a technical term that can be used at legco. three predecessors and leave office early? well, we very much hope, and this is one of our demands, that she should step down. and imagine — in any democratic society, with historical turnout, we're talking about millions of... 2 million people took to the streets on 16june and demanding her to step down, and she can stay in office for month? and nobody, nobody from this administration, including the chief executive and her cabinet, is taking responsibility of this chaos. this is totally impossible. you said a little earlier in this interview that you're not that bothered whether it is the hong kong authorities or the authorities in beijing, but somebody needs to get a grip of this situation before it turns violent and fatalfor someone, or many people. article 14 of the garrison law permits the chinese to send in the army if there is a request from the hong kong authorities to help them to keep order. clearly, plainly, the hong kong government has failed to keep order. have we not rea

they've managed to smash through this toughened glass and they are now trying to get inside the legcog. inside, you can see there are large numbers of riot police. so far they have held back. the destruction continued but the police stood by, it looked very much like they had been ordered not to intervene. meanwhile, across town, hundreds of thousands of other hong kongers were on the march, in a second huge anti—government protest. this one was completely peaceful. but even here there was sympathy for those besieging parliament. i understand what they are doing and i thank you to them for taking the risk to go to jail and try to stop the government from handing over all the lives of hong kong people to ccp. back outside parliament, the trashing continued. the police now nowhere to be seen. now they are trying to smash their way through the steel shutters. and the crowd every so often start shouting, "jiayou, jiayou" — means "add oil" — in other words, "keep going, keep going". what is the point of this? we only know peaceful protest is not useful any more, at this moment. so you can

they've managed to smash through this toughened glass and they are now trying to get inside the legcolding. inside, you can see there are large numbers of riot police. so far they have held back. the destruction continued but the police stood by, it looked very much like they had been ordered not to intervene. meanwhile, across town, hundreds of thousands of other hong kongers were in another march, other hong kongers were on the march, in a second huge anti—government protest. this one was completely peaceful. but even here there was sympathy for those besieging parliament. i understand what they are doing and i thank you to them for taking the risk to go to jail and try to stop the government from handing over all the lives of hong kong people to ccp. back outside parliament, the trashing continued. the police now nowhere to be seen. now they are trying to smash their way through the steel shutters. and the crowd every so often start shouting, "jiayou, jiayou" — means "add oil" — in other words, "keep going, keep going". what is the point of this? we only know peaceful protest is no

she is outside legco. what has been the media reaction to all this? she is outside legco.he media reaction to all thi57m is really interesting. i was looking through the pages of the second—largest chinese language newspaper here in hong kong. you can see on the front page, images of what went on inside that ransacked parliament building, the legislative council and the focus on the damage. computers are wrecked, cables torn out of the walls. the headline something along the lines of hundreds of billions of hong kong dollars of damage and focusing on the repairs they will have to get under way in order for the legislative council building to be used again. and these messages of support from the police from pro— beijing civic society groups all saying the hong kong government needs to crack down on the protesters, urging authorities to find people who were responsible. and that is what we have heard from the hong kong government as well. carrie lam, into that now infamous press c0 nfe re nce carrie lam, into that now infamous press conference at 4am the morning in the early

street signs and street barricades and various other implements that they could get d charge into legco by breaking into the extraordinary their thick plate glass windows. we're looking into the legislative council forecoirment. it's been korn cordoned off because it's now a crime scene. there was no arrests last night. the protesters wore hard hats and masks on their faces so they quounlt be recognized. they were, of course, dispersed around about midnight and after press aray lamb gave a conference at 4:00 a.m. >> quite incredible to see her out and will be -- about giving a presser at 4:00 in the morning. >> this is actually a very interesting question. why was it that she came out at 4:00 in the morning to give this press conference where she condemned the violence. one things people are looking at was whether that condemn nation of the violence was a way of moving the public sentiment towards the government away from the protesters. we had 2 million hong kongers in the streets protesting not just the expedition bill but also protesting the government and beijing's incurrings into t

as you noted, we had some protesters entering the legco building after police had given way. there was little to impede the protesters from entering the building. somewere seen vandalizing of the interior chambers. once it was learned that please would move into clear the area, we had protesters move on their own volition. some of those trying to stay in the legco building were carried out by fellow protesters ahead of the police entering the scene. seeing now, we are and eerily quiet area. shery: 1:00 a.m. there in hong kong. we have seen the tickets -- executive carrie lam suspend that build a protesters are against. so what is the issue now? sophie: in a statement issued by the organizers of the annual july rally, the civil human rights front, along with democratic lawmakers, they say they were disappointed that the government and carrie lam have yet to respond adequately to the demands of the movement, that the government has turned a deaf ear to their calls for issues such as an independent inquiry into the june 12 clash. among their demands is the resignation of the exe

they have cleared at legco think they are trying to disperse the crowd. legco.y are trying to disperse the crowd. update you as news comes along. live from new york, this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ most of us don't know how much data we use, but we all know we're paying too much for it. enter xfinity mobile. america's best lte with the most wifi hotspots, combined for the first time. when you're near an xfinity hotspot, you're connected to wifi, saving on data. when you're not, you pay for data by the gig. use a little, pay a little. use a lot, just switch to unlimited. get $400 back when you buy the new lg g8. call, visit or click today. mark: mark crumpton with bloomberg first word news. in hong kong are escalating as police clash with demonstrators. police are using tear gas to disperse the demonstrators, some of whom have smashed their way into the city's legislative building. pro-democracy lawmaker jeremy tam told police investors were left inside the building. trying to get hong kong to withdraw a controversial extradition bill. mr. tam told police know protesters

feel that their voices have not been heard, and they feel that government has failed them and that legco, whom voters put ofinto fice, as a whole, have not beelin stening to them or addressing their concerns. i think the massive turnoutes about do still have a high degree of autonomy that was promised us or has it been eroding. uroding. >> reporter: so eem to say you understand their frustration, anger and anxietyab t their futures. why is that? >> all the vandalism, all the graffiti, anything, it's not meant do any permane damage. it's simply to show their frustration because of the fact that 22 years down the road, we still have not moved forwardwi any kind of political reform, all right, the relationships including chief executive has gone sor. making it more democratic od a governmethe people has not materialized, so the high handed way the government handled the bill with the government coming l out in fulsupport of the bill, i think further adds to the frustration. >> reporter: let's talk about how the government should respd. should carrie lam step down? >> that's not up to her. >

the headline in the hong kong standard, legco, that is the legislative council.iament. do you think the protesters in a way, did they go about to far? have they been too provocative to the authorities in hong kong and beijing's will be watching this with absolute horror won't be? because they fear if people on mainland china get to hear about this, they might be incentivised to do the same kind of in the long run?” might be incentivised to do the same kind of in the long run? i am sure there is for long that. there have been accusations that it did get to the island and it moved from being a peaceful protest. but that hasn't pushback on that. britain's final, of hong kong has come out and said we knew to take a firmer stance against china with these people of hong kong are trying to highlight. it isa hong kong are trying to highlight. it is a fine line sometimes between violent protests and people protest, but one of the things these protesters were emphasising was that there are still protesters from the last time when they were pushing back on those exhibition

a separate, more aggresse group smashed windows of t legislative council, known asef legco, and bri occupied it. last night, our foreign affairs correspondent nick schifrin reported from inside the building and interviewed one of the occupiers. today, nick spokwith a legislative councilor who was a member of two litical parties considered pro-beijing. michael tien began by striking a conciliatory tone towards protestors who, just last night, ransacked his office. ey are very frustrated because they feel th voices have not been heard, and they feel that government has failed them and that legco, whm voters put into office, as a whole, have not been listening to them or addressing their concerns. i think the massive turnout is about do we still have a high degree of autonomy that was promised us or has it been eroding. eroding. >> reporter: so you seem to say you understd their frustration, anger and anxiety about their futures. why is that? >> all the vandalism, all the graffiti, anything, it's no meant do any permanent damage. it's simply to show their frustration because of the fact that 22

riot police stormed the legco. they fired tear gas at protesters. monday was the anniversary of hong kong's hand of a chinese rule, these demonstrations take place every year but never before like this. nick beake was watching this all unfold outside the building. he isjoining us live from hong kong. tell us more about what you are please. they are outside the building now, we have been into the main chamberand saw building now, we have been into the main chamber and saw the destruction ready and that debris that was left behind, the parties have been asking people to come down to this point, and you can see some of the graffiti behind us, this smashed glass as far as that eye can see and this gives you an indication of how these protesters were able to make their way indoors and they were able to occu py way indoors and they were able to occupy this building and in an incredible fashion and they were able to do that because the police did not stop them. you can the sum up did not stop them. you can the sum up his is now taking off their riot gearan

we had a big protest in monday which ended them storming and occupying the legco building. of hours‘ time but the focus is not a political target. they say the focus are people coming to this side of hong kong, i‘m on the kowloon side, the bit attached to the mainland. chinese tourists coming here to shop, they are getting the train or crossing the border and protesters say they want to focus on them and explain their cause, what they are upset about and persuade them to support them. different targets this time but i think momentum is very important for the protesters. as for the numbers, we just do not know. we expect around 2000 protesters to gather here and walk around two miles and end outside the express train station, the station that can take you to the mainland and all the way to beijing. the police are ready, there are 1000 or so on standby in case anything does go particularly wrong. they are a little jittery on either side, we do not know what to expect, what will the weather do? the police are urging protesters to act peacefully and rationally. the headlines on

applause legco you‘re watching the briefing. 0ur headlines: hong kong‘s government leader admits the "total failure". president trump says he will no longer deal with the uk ambassador in washington, following leaked memos criticising his adminstration. a uk inquiry is under way. freedom of the media has been deteriorating around the world over the past decade, according to press watchdogs. hundreds of journalists are in prison and last year dozens were killed. campaigners say there is a worrying trend of decline, even in long established democracies including here in europe. 0ur chief international correspondent lyse doucet has been to hungary, a country that‘s seen a dramatic transformation in its media landscape. where is hungary heading? this democracy onto the danube, its magnificent parliament one of the biggest in the world. but the space for independentjournalism is shrinking. i have come to budapest to meet a leading journalist, and opposition politician and the government chief spokesman. they have been a lot of demonstrations happening around in hungary but they have not b

government who try to interfere, voiced support for demonstrators, and when these rioters stormed the legcoan't use this violence as a protest for repression. so they try to obstruct the legal process. and in answer to your question in a simple way, we have a full confidence in the hong kong government to do that, and it shows they are capable of handling this situation. the conservative leadership candidate, borisjohnson, has reiterated that he is "not bluffing" about the possibility of a no—deal brexit. speaking to the sunday telegraph, mrjohnson said eu leaders need to understand the uk will leave the european union on october 31 — with or without a deal. but the former leadership candidate sam gyimah who backs another referendum — says up to 30 conservative mps are willing to vote against the government to block a no—deal brexit. with me is our political correspondent, jessica parker. what sam gyimah is referring to, is something that parliament has previously said it would do, and has said we don't want to leave with no deal. it has been pointed out many times that they're one thing th

urged them to be "rational" because we saw something far more aggressive and far more violent when legcoy. so we had about a quarter of a million people on the streets here, according to the protesters, and it went well, i think they will be pleased with that. in the last hour or so, things have changed a bit and the police are now in the process of trying to clear the streets. but i do want to stress we haven't seen any actual violence, actual fighting, between protesters and the police and i haven't seen everything, but from what i've seen, we certainly haven't seen criminal damage and there are plenty of shops around here. the headlines on bbc news: the foreign office investigates the leak of classified e—mails from the uk ambassador in washington describing president trump's administration as inept, insecure and incompetent. the shadow chancellor, john mcdonnell, sasteremy corbyn must get on and back another public vote over brexit. one of the city's biggest employers, deutsche bank, announces it will cut up to 18,000 staff worldwide. 0ur sports correspondent katie gornall reports. l

this is the government building here, the legco. legislative council building.alent of the white house in the united states. the protesters here are systematically breaking through the windows of this building. there are thousands of young protestors around me here. some are coming armed with cameras, other with metal bars. this is one of the bars that the protesters were using to try to break through the windows. they're improvising in whatever way they can to try to show their disapproval of the government. this is the seat of the government. their message to the government is to repeal those extradition laws that would send some extreme criminals to china for trial. they see that as an erosion of their basic fundamental democratic freedoms here. it's the tip of the iceberg here, if you will. that's the way that they see it. sort of a bridge head, if you will. that they see that the chinese government would slowly, slowly eat away the democratic freedoms that they have and that their heirs have had. we are literally at the front line of this protest. what you'

that this is what they are fighting for and that by coming here, storming legco, creating the damage,he chaos that they did, that this is to get the attention of the government. this is their last resort. obviously, carrie lam she came out, she condemned the violence. as has beijing. we heard from the central government earlier saying they strongly condemned these extremist acts. they also said that this is an undisguised challenge to the one country two systems policy. and here, you know, rosemary, i was speaking to fernando chung a little earlier, a pro-democracy legislator, and he said there is just a real sense of despair. people are clearly divided. there is the peaceful element to the protests, and we should remember that 550,000 people turned out to march peacefully yesterday. that's according to the organizers of that march. but there is a core element, a small element of protesters who feel they need to act with force to get their message across. and he said that small group, that it is growing. there is a clear division within these protesters as to how to move forward, but

we should be taking care of folks and trying to legco health care costs, trying to work together to smoothi'm disappointed this partisan sabotage is continuing. >> listen, i want to talk to you about some of this tension, the tensions between speaker pelosi and the squalid squad representing the party's more liberal wing. do you believe that speaker pelosi is working to protect more moderate members like you who flipped red districts? what do you think is going on? >> well, i actually don't think we're as far apart in our caucus as some of the reporting has indicated. there are always going to be differences of opinion. that is pretty normal and natural and also within the democratic party it's nothing new, but i think we're united around a few basic things that, such as, you know, lowering the cost of health care, making it easier for folks to get ahead and chase their version of the american dream. that's what unites us in our caucus, and i think that's what the speaker is ultimately trying to focus on. and i actually think that regardless of kind of the political ideology there, you kno

ms lam's defence for not sending in the police to break up the protesters earlier inside legco is thatt questions are asked about whether this was a tactic to change the narrative in her favour. meanwhile, for the protesters, they may believe that their actions last night will get them closer to their goal, but for many here in hong kong, they are now wondering whether those actions hurt more than helped their objectives. karishma vaswani, bbc news, hong kong. let's talk now to karishma vaswani. that question at the end of your report is the big question for many people today. and the day after those extraordinary scenes, what is the mood light? i am standing in front of the legislative council building the morning after the scenes that you saw in my report when hundreds of protesters stormed the building, shattering the windows, getting inside and really seeing some of the worst destruction we have ever seen in hong kong. the mood this morning, there has been a clean—up operation outside the building and it is people getting back to business. at the same time, lots of questions asked

her defence for not sending in the police to break up the protesters earlier inside legco is that sheoser to the goal but for many here in hong kong they are now wondering whether those actions hurt more than help their objectives. the new european parliament sits for the first time today in strasbourg. among the meps will be 73 from the uk, who were elected in may, but their parliamentary careers could be short—lived. let's get more from our political correspondent adam fleming, who is in strasbourg this morning. the flags resplendent in the background. how short—lived is short—lived? background. how short—lived is short-lived? well, if the uk leaves the eu on the new accent deadline, the eu on the new accent deadline, the 31st of october, then the 73 british meps will only be meps for four months. today is the first official day because they only become meps when they go into the chamber and gets on in. although they have spent the last few weeks in brussels in their offices getting their laptops and ideas. 73. the guest book is 29 from the brexit party. i think they may have a litt

ms lam's defence for not sending in the police to break up the protesters earlier inside legco is thated about whether this was a tactic to change the narrative in her favour. meanwhile, for the protesters, they may believe that their actions last night will get them closer to their goal, but for many here in hong kong, they are now wondering whether those actions hurt more than helped their objectives. the foreign secretary, jeremy hunt, has been giving his reaction in the last hour. of course we in the uk condemn violence on all sides. many people who strongly support the pro—democracy demonstrators in hong kong will have been deeply dismayed by the scenes they saw on tv last night. but we urge the authorities not to use what happened as a pretext for repression, but rather to understand the root causes of one happens, which is a deep—seated concern by people in hong kong that their basic freedoms are under attack. the way to deal with this issueis attack. the way to deal with this issue is to address those concerns. not with any repression that will only exacerbate them. an investig