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Mask. its been a couple hours since the peaceful demonstration,s the peaceful walk. there are thousands of them here today. they have started to set up barricades, smash up windows. fire bombs. thats what we are witnessing as the street battles and protests. its interesting, george, last weekend we were covering, we were following at one of the hard line protesters smashing up shops. and there werent enough of them to take on police. today obviously is a very different situation. there are thous...

>> translator: boycotting these restaurants is a way people can express their thoughts. >> reporter: when violent protests paralyzed the city, most hong kongers take heed of the police alerts sent to their mobile phones and avoid going out entirely. that means no dining, no shopping, no local consumption. the hong kong government announced august retail sales plunged 23% from a year earlier. thats the worst year-on-year decline for a single month on record. the government cited subdued economic ...

>> its hard to backpedal when you say that in front of a bunch of news cameras in the course. >> is there a difference between hold back and stand down? >> yeah. you can hold back if youre trying to hold a certain line protesters from reaching a certain point. and standing down completely and let them line them up throughout the city. the bottom line is that police departments, especially larger police departments like new york like baltimore, they are trained -- they have officers trained for l...

♪ and aids... ♪ aids is going to lose. aids is going to lose. ♪ >> i have never done a fox news alert involving kim kardashian. this is a first. breaking news out of the arab kingdom of bahrain. the a.p. reporting kardashian apparently spawn ago violent protest. riot police firing tear gas to disburse more than 50 hard line protesters there to denounce her presence in the gulf kingdom. the clashes taking place just before kardashian was set to open a bahrain branch of her millions of milk ...

Demonstration, and thousands of people. there is traffic coming in and you had the people painting the sides of curbs making things look better and welcome back tourism of course, a huge part of the egyptian economy. in 48 hours its hard to really explain how much this place has changed. of course on the other hand you still have the huge army presence, tanks everywhere and guys with ak-47s and machine guns all offer the place and its intimidating and everybody smiling and waving at each or and ...

Advice guy answer them for you. >> dave: start with whats happening in egypt in tahrir square. celebration has given way to confuse. its the beginning of the work week and the thousands of protesters are still there. several thousand are going home and chanting that everyone should go home. and what did that do? well, that spurred on thousands of protesters to leave their homes and come into the square, all the while, traffic driving through and trying to get to work. its a bit chaotic. >> clayt...