Matt Rivers, international correspondent CNN, I spoke to you about these protests in Hong

Kong back in June.

And since then, it seems they've been turned up to 11.

What changed?

You know, in some ways, I think that everything has changed since mid-June and nothing has

changed.

And I kind of feel like, you know, in terms of what hasn't changed, you have a city in

Hong Kong, a little bit more than 7 million people in population who have vast majorities

of that population who are just frustrated and still, they don't trust the government.

But how these protests have evolved, how the police have responded, and also how Beijing

has responded in a more forceful way to these protests.

That's what's been changing over the last, let's say, six weeks or so.

Can we start with the demands?

The impetus of these protests was this extradition bill, but Carrie Lam tabled that, right?

What Carrie Lam, who's the chief executive of Hong Kong, she's a leader that is basically

appointed by Beijing, what she agreed to do was to withdraw the bill.

So basically, take it away from being debated by Hong Kong legislators in the parliament.

You know, she didn't completely kill the bill.

She only temporarily withdrew it from the debate schedule.

And so what protesters said is, well, that's not good enough.

At any point, legislators, when things calm down, they can just bring the bill right back.

They basically called it a trick that the Hong Kong government was going to play on them.

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