would die down. it doesn't appear to be the c e case. >> reporter: well, there has been a real shift is in the mood here in the last 30 minutes or so. protest organizers announced they had some 800,000 people out on the street, those are their numbers, police are saying tens of thousands. regardless all day long all sides have been appealing for this day to be a peaceful one, however, as the evening set in we saw the black clad protesters preparing for confrontation with police, setting their barricades, getting their weapons ready and now after an appeal from organizers to please disburse as soon as possible we see people walking around and peeling away. a lot of people appear to be leaving, heading toward the major thoroughfare over here. the police are still at this end of the street, there are a number of police vans, they prepared their front line, but they had also raised the warning flags that it was time for people to leave.