Welcome to countdown. It is just 6 00 here in london. Hong kong police are using to takedownnd makeshift barricades. It comes off to the hong kong ceo warned he was losing patience with the demonstrators. We are joined live a from the protest site. Give us the latest. As you can see behind me, traffic is flowing in both directions. This is something we have not seen for 17 days since the protests started. The protesters had blocked off of this road. This is one of the main thoroughfares leaving in and out of the financial district. About three hours ago, the police came in. Bambootesters erected barricades to reinforce steel ones. The police had to move some of those barriers as protesters spent most of yesterday reinforcing the ones they had. Police took them down pretty quickly. Right now, the road opened up maybe 10 minutes ago. The truck is picking up garbage all along the road. There are still hundreds of suree here trying to make that protesters do not come back onto the road to
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