or for the very latest from hong kong let's cross over to tom grundy he's editor in chief of the hong kong free press web site john thanks for being with us sir tell us what's the situation in hong kong today just a few hours ago we saw of course in anagrams in the local parliament that somebody pro-democracy lawmaker threw a rotting plant on the floor and just in the last hour or so we've seen a few more protests crop up in the central business district people chanting pro-democracy slogans that's despite about 360 arrests yesterday some of them schoolchildren in uniform pepper spray pepper balls as you mentioned a huge police security operations surrounding the legislature as it debated that controversial national anthem law and then we saw the pattern that was chase is right the shopping and extends well into the night with protesters trying to invade some of the roads wired to make sure barricades but it seems the police very much have the upper hand at the moment they're very compact and there's been a huge police presence on the streets in the last couple of days now today autho

and earlier i spoke to tom grundy editor in chief of hong kong free press he's been following the protests and standoff with police. on a bit of us and standoff at the moment and we're up to about a 240 arrests some of them children in uniform we've seen pepper balls have to spray been fired by police we understand 3500 officers the quoit in this huge security operation today with alleged they're surrounded by worlds of gold barriers and now it seems we may be descending as we have throughout the day in some sort of . situation between the protesters and the police as monk called the shopping districts of polls a day and the central districts central business district became sort of giant. of the police and protesters giving chase but a lot so arrests today with them being unloaded on at least vans in town we understand that protesters today are protesting against this national anthem law and we don't do know that other countries also criminalize desecrating the flag or the national anthem so why are they out protesting this law today. well the difference is in hong kong if this law is pas