well i spoke today to be a correspondent mathias biddinger in hong kong earlier and i asked him where things stand in hong kong now after the intense clashes between police and demonstrators over the weekend remnants of the yesterday's clashes have been quickly cleared you can see maybe it's obstructed now by this car over there but some places they are rebuilding the pavement because protesters have taken out bricks but that's pretty much the only damage that we see after these protests these were really clashes between people between the police and the protesters we have seen enormous amounts of tear gas fired there were clouds around all these places the place where i'm standing now is one of the one of the centers where all these clashes have happened the metro station that we just saw in these pictures is just over there on the corner so. this was an escalation that was an escalation from the side of the police who were early on and it big amounts using tear gas rubber bullets than before and we've also seen an escalation from the side of the protesters who are now more willing t