protests in defiance of those truck kone and laws here in thailand that ban any criticism of the mauna kea and it is punishable by up to 15 years in jail they have marched to the palace grounds they have only been stopped. you know not far from it by the police but they have given their demands to representatives all feel florentines that they are actually criticizing and they are protesting against so this demonstration can be qualified as a huge success for the protest as. you speak of draconian measures are possible to take against protesters and how are the authorities responding so far that. well overall the house been quite lenient we had seen massive barricades being put up last night close to the government house the siege at the government and the prime minister all so massive blockades in front of the royal palace equipped with bob wires so that actually looked like a military zone so the police basically have confined themselves to just making sure that these protesters would not stormed these sensitive location. but otherwise to have been pretty lenient they have even accepted

gathering in the thai capital for protests demanding a change of government and reform it to the mauna kea as well these are the largest protests the country's seen in years at the student that process they've been ongoing for some months now since the month of july and they've been given a boost by a very well established pro-democracy movement a scot hider a ports from bangkok. with the grand palace says a backdrop and what's known as the royal field under their feet thousands of pro-democracy protesters gather in bangkok. as they began to flow into the original venue at thomas at university it became clear that those coming out were not just students anymore. but red shirts were arriving in strength joining the protesters calling for reform in the government and monarchy the red shirts are a populist movement started by former prime minister taksin chin or what his sister yingluck was removed from office in a coup led by the current prime minister. a veteran of the red shirt movement citywalk. organized dance to bring supporters down from the north. and have been pm can lead this is the