correspondent mathias berlinger is in hong kong and from there he sent us this update. protesters have made clear that they are planning to continue their protests in 202-2020 is an election year the legislative council will be re elected and the protesters are demanding universal suffrage for these elections among other demands that include an independent investigation into the operate police operations during the protest movement today's march started largely peacefully but then at around 6 o'clock clashes broke out after protesters vandalized the branch of a bank and police responded with tear gas now the police have made a large number of arrests and 2020 is beginning the same way that 2019 has ended. but he's building out on the streets of hong kong with a fire at a zoo in western germany has killed dozens of animals including some from endangered species officials in case their worst fears were realized the fire broke out overnight and tore through and enclosure police are investigating the cause for . people laid flowers and candles for the more than 30 animals t

let's get the very latest now with our correspondent mathias berlinger joining us from beijing good morning to you i'm a ts can you bring us up to date on data on what authorities are doing to get this epidemic in check yeah the authorities have gone from 0 practically 0 response to everything they can throw in within one week now as we have seen one and almost the entire province is locked and everywhere people are warned not to go out as you can see here behind me this is a fever clinic some people are queuing up there but it's not a lot i think here in beijing the number of cases is not that high yet but people feel very uncertain about what that means the number of infected cases the or fishel number is now 4500 that might not sound like a lot for a country of 1400000000 people but it is double of what it was yesterday and we still do not know whether this numbers are accurate at all we have lots of reports that people have not been reported by oath or of his death have not been reported and people have been quickly buried without registering them as linked to this epidemic all of this

the police in hong kong is not universal some are risking their jobs or worse by speaking out mathias berlinger filed this report when david chan joined to hong kong police force a few years ago he never thought that he would see scenes like these david chan is not his real name. they say was last november when protesters and police clashed for hours on a university campus hong kong police had come under massive attack. and david says it's not only the physical threats that affect morale. they've been working long hours they've been blamed fingers pointed at them it's very exhausting both physically and mentally. this is what he's talking about criticizing and if you could sing at the police many offices are on edge they've been accused of indiscriminate arrests beating up subdued protesters and threatening to shoot tear gas into apartments if videos of alleged police brutality circulating online. bystanders would get into arguments with officers risk getting pepper sprayed a clear violation of the rules as david. i'm just frustrated because some offices really just like the protesters and hone