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Curriculum and other things. in 2014 hong kong erupted in months of demonstrations known as the umbrella protests. they were calling for universal suffrage, a crackdown followed, the protest failed and this year is court handed down sentences to three organizers. today's protester focus has transitioned from an extradition law to the idea of democracy itself. for beijing these protests on the small island could have seismic repercussions. afterall, if hong kong should be governed democratically, why not china? the two sides are locked into positions with little room to compromise. whatever hap...

They were calling for universal suffrage, a crackdown followed. the protests failed and this year a court handed down sentences to three organizers. today's protesters focus has transitioned from an extradition law to the idea of democracy itself. for beijing these protest coz have seismic repercussions. after all if hong kong should be governed democratically, why not china? the two sides are locked into positions with little room to compromise. whatever happens, we are seeing a drawnout process of hong kong not entirely willingly cleaning its history, fate and national character to the mainl...

Earlier today i also spoke to a group of masked middle schoolboys, boys who are 14, 15, 16 years old. i asked them about why they were taking part in this protest and they said that it was because they were against what the police did last weekend because we also want freedom and also asked for universal suffrage, scenes that the protests today has very much changed from the beginning of this big long hot summer of protests here in hong kong starting with a single issue and turned into a challenge of the political institutions of hong kong and people really questioning the hong kong police for...

Suppress and just be silent. this is not the way. this is not hong kong. >> reporter: paula, the protestors are here because they're angry with the political institutions of hong kong. they're angry against the hong kong police. earlier today i spoke to a group of masked young men. they were middle school students, young boys. 14, 15 years old. i asked them why they were here. they want their freedom. they want universal suffrage. one of many demands of this protest movement as it continues to drag on this very long, hot summer of protests in hong kong. back to you. >> speaking to that younger...

At protesters and again today, those protesters remained in defiance, they've been told to cool it. they're not cooling it. they hit the nation's airport for those travelling in and out of the region that this is all going on. it's been much more peaceful sin since. and the guy literally wrote the book on this and many, many years ago, gordon chang. i think this eighth straight weekend of this sort of stuff, eighth straight week, what's going on? >> well, i think in hong kong right now, this started over a particular piece of legislation, the extradition bill and now it's going beyond that and...