Viewsroom: Rising Hong Kong tensions
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🗓️ 21 November 2019
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:40.5 | Hello. Hello, you are listening to the Views Room. |
| 0:43.7 | The world is watching Hong Kong, where an extraordinary standoff between police and protesters |
| 0:48.8 | at a local university has captivated detention after more than five months of anti-government protests. |
| 0:56.0 | I'm Yuna Galani and I'm joined by my colleagues on the ground in Hong Kong, Robin Mack and Jeffrey Goldfarb. |
| 1:04.0 | A siege on the campus of Polytechnic University extended into its third day on Tuesday. |
| 1:10.0 | Although the size of demonstrations across the city |
| 1:12.8 | have shrunk, the clashes have grown in intensity becoming more violent. The site of billowing |
| 1:18.5 | fires, water cannon and gunshot wounds have shocked all of us familiar with Hong Kong |
| 1:23.7 | as a peaceful and stable financial hub. Robin, maybe we can start with you. Thanks for |
| 1:29.4 | joining us. So until recently, people in Hong Kong were pretty much able to live and go to work |
| 1:37.2 | as normal. What's changed for you in this last week, you know, for you, your friends, your colleagues, |
| 1:44.0 | you know, in practical terms? Yeah, your colleagues, you know, in |
| 1:44.3 | practical terms. Yeah, I think so when a lot of these protests and demonstrations, they first |
| 1:49.8 | started a couple months ago, they were largely confined to specific areas. They happened, |
| 1:56.7 | you know, over the weekends and at night. So for ordinary people going to and from work or |
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