we are not seeing this aggressive clash as we saw in letpadan. here ift was a rather unwelcome reminder of this country's tragic past. >> thanks for joining us. wonder how many might come out in support of the students. that's part of the political message we are going to see? >> it is. in fact the students started with a small number, but gradually, the number grew. also people who are promoting democracy, we'll call them dmom si advocates. they believe in reform. they give support to the students. it's created a poor image of the government, promising reforms in the country and to a lot of people that think the response is strong. >> do you think this is changing the mood within as well or it's just the message we are now getting? >> well the extent of violence that took place this morning, this afternoon, it shows that the government is prepared to crack down. the protesters, if they protest. we only see the protest into the student protest, but, factory workers are also protesting in rangoon and promising to join forces with the students. tha

they have been held in letpadan for two weeks now. le's speak to the correspondent in myanmar joining us from yangon. how violent is that becoming? >> reporter: pretty violent. we saw the police using batons to beat back the students. what happened was the cull money nation. today, they said they were going to breakthrough. that eesz why we saw these attempts to go through the riot police. in the end, the riot police lost patience with the students responded aggressively, a dozen students arrested and taken away. effectively, the police moved in to clear most of those parts of letpadan to make sure it was the end of the student demonstration. there's a solidarity demonstration here in yangon that i have just come back from. also, 100 or so student demonstrateors on the street from where i am now. it was broken up by the police in an aggressive way. not as bad as we saw in latpadan, but aggressive. the students in the end were dispursed by the police with riot shield and attempted to arrest some of those students. today has been a day,