addressed the crowd and said look we have so many problems back home in south africa we have trying to show you what we can achieve if we are all united if we all stand together. to. uphold called weapon nice of use tear gas to break up rising by black clad pro-democracy protesters demonstrates a set fire to street barricades around metro stations and attack the local office of china's news agency protests against china's perceived meddling in hong kong freedoms of now and today 22nd week beijing has indicated that it may now tighten its grip on its semi autonomous territory. clouds of tear gas fill central hong kong as the democracy protesters gathered for a 22nd 2 week they were met with the forceful police response.