Police on one side, protesters on the other, a raging fire in between. 2a hours previously, this place had been completely normal. Across the university, protesters and students formed a human chain to supply the front line with water and food. Others sat in groups are preparing their supply of weapons. You are sitting here making kind of come up what is a better phrase, petrol bombs. Why we are doing this . Because yesterday you know they used real bullets, shooting him right in the chest, and that can kill someone. So if they upgrade their weapons, we need to upgrade our weapons to protect ourselves, too. This scene shows you how drastically the nature of this competition has changed. It started out five months ago with hundreds of thousands of people marching on the streets in peaceful demonstration. Now, at the entrance to a university there is a roadblock on fire, a burned out car blocking the entrance to this bridge, and around me dozens of protesters in black sitting and waiting
First to hong kong, where i want to build up a picture of some rapidly moving events. A short time ago, saw pictures of at least a0 people arrested near the Polytechnic University. They were detained outside hotel icon on Science Museum road. The universitys been the scene of intense clashes between Anti Government protesters and police throughout the weekend. At 5 30am local time, the police advanced into the huge campus. Protesters set fire to a barricade on the main entrance. Police used tear gas and water cannon. Our correspondent gabriel gatehouse witnessed events. The assault on the gap is has started about five minutes ago. We saw several dozen like clad Police Officers suddenly materialise out of nowhere and start storming the place. They were firing rubber bullets and tear gas, and in response the protesters only stole the petrol bombs they had, sometimes hurling hold boxes at a time which has caused two fires at the main entrances at the campus. Everyone is milling around, th
A warm welcome to the programme, briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. Also in the programme, new Research Suggests a desk at home and keen parents will help a child get to university more than smaller class sizes and a good school. Do you agree . If you went to university what was key to your success . Get in touch, just use the hashtag bbcthebriefing. We start in hong kong where pro democracy activists have continued to occupy parts of hong kongs Polytechnic University after a night of clashes. At one stage activists set fire to two of the entrances when police moved into the campus. A0 people have been arrested and police have been clashing with other protestors in the surrounding streets. Rich preston has the details. The battle for the university lasted a whole day and a whole night of the hundreds of protesters made this their base, barricading themselves inside. Police did try to enter the building, but were met by a barrage of petrol bombs. Fi
Still and gloucestershire could see a fair amount of rain through the day, and the risk is it is going to edge its way into areas that have already been flooded. Down towards the far south there will be some sharp showers. Drier conditions to the north of this band of rain, but still some showers feeding in on a brisk, north easterly wind. And that certainly wont help the temperatures, which are struggling, mid single figures at best. Into thursday evening, and our band of rain meanders further northwards. And as it does so, it will lose some of its momentum and begin to fragment a little. There will be further wintry showers feeding into parts of northern scotland, and here on friday morning there is the risk of some ice. Temperatures will drop low freezing once again, those temperatures not dropping away quite so temperatures not dropping away quite so far the further south you come, but it will still be a chilly start to friday morning. And it remains u nsettled, to friday morning.
Welcome to newswatch with me, samira ahmed. A public backlash after the bbc upholds a complaint against breakfast presenter Naga Munchetty for comments about racism. Who was wrong . In a week of anger and arguments at westminster, a row has been developing too here at the bbc. Breakfast presenter Naga Munchetty has been found by the corporations executive complaints unit to have breached bbc guidelines in comments she made on air injuly. They were part of a conversation initiated by co presenter dan walker after President Trump had told four democratic congresswomen to go back to the places from which they came. I tell you. It is, it is the president. That was the most telling quote for me last night. I cant remember who said, but she said she had been told to go home times, to go back to where she came from. She is being told by the man sitting in the oval office. Every time i have been told, as he woman of colour, to go back to where i came from, that was embedded in racism. Now, im