BBCNEWS BBC News July 14, 2024
Itself for a powerful cyclone. Authorities in hong kong are shutting government offices in the financial district for the rest of the week, after days of protests against an extradition bill that would allow people to be sent to Mainland China for trial. The bill has triggered the biggest street rallies since hong kong was handed back to china by the british in 1997. Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets in running battles with the demonstrators. Rupert Wingfield Hayes is in central hong kong. This was the centre of hong kong this afternoon. Scenes of mass violence, the likes of which have ...