Hong Kong’s December 31st protest saw 8,500 businesspeople demand independence and British rule, accusing China of repression while citing Xinjiang-style facial recognition in Sha-Tin. Election Day revealed 90% pro-democracy wins, with candidates like Andrew Xu pushing the five demands—universal suffrage, extradition bill withdrawal, and police accountability—while pro-Beijing figures dodged issues. Trapped students at Poly U face potential retaliation after eight days, as Beijing tightens control amid police brutality, arrests, and claims of orchestrated provocations by figures like Regina Ip. Global pressure is needed to uphold freedoms before Hong Kong’s autonomy vanishes entirely. [Automatically generated summary]
We take you into the heart of the Hong Kong democracy protests staring down Beijing.
It's December 31st, and this is the Ethereal of Ant Show.
Why should others go to jail when you're the biggest carbon consumer I know?
There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
The only thing I have to say is government Hawaii publishers.
It's because it's my bloody right to do so.
China is a evil party.
Hong Kong, no more to stand with China.
We need independence.
Yep.
And what's your message to...
Have you seen Donald Trump?
Do you think he should step in?
Donald Trump, don't trust China.
China is SO!
He wants the British government to come back and rule us again.
We don't want the Chinese government to rule us anymore.
You want the British to come back?
Yes, of course.
The Chinese government is terrible.
What's your message to people who call the old British government a colonial power that used to abuse the entire world?
No, simply we just want the British government to come back and rule us again.
It's that simple?
Okay.
So you think the British did well?
The British government did very well.
Why have we got an American flag here today?
Because we appreciate the American spirit.
We fight for freedom and democracy till death.
Okay.
And so if you could send a message to Donald Trump, what would it be?
Mr. Trump, we are very humble, powerless people in Hong Kong.
And we know that when the Americans fight for their independence, they need to pay a lot, like for bread and life.
And we are prepared for that.
And in any moment, if you can help us, like the American people and President Trump, please help us.
I would like to have this chance to thank President Trump that speak things in Hong Kong for us.
Especially a few days ago, he speak with a lot of powerful people in different countries about Hong Kong situation.
And we appreciate that.
And thank you for him to help us speak out the situation in Hong Kong.
And something we want to say to the American common people is that be careful of the Chinese business activity because actually this will slowly corrupt your whole country.
The workers who are in Pafe.
The crew that joined the protest, China requests Pacific Cafe Pacific to give out a list of their crews that joined the protest.
And then the CEO refused.
So we think that he is forced to resign his position.
Two of them, one of them is CEO.
I mean, Cafe Pacific is our company.
Why the hell the communists can remove the CEO from us?
We are very angry about this.
And a few days ago, a few days ago, something happened in the residential area in Hong Kong, a city called an area called Sha-Tin.
In the residential area, the government started to build the facial recognition system, which is the first step of their social credit system.
They are trying to make Hong Kong like Xinjiang right now.
I mean, if we fail this time, Hong Kong will be the second Xinjiang.
And all of us, they already arrested 700 people.
I'm sure they will end up in Xinjiang concentration camp.
In my mind, the commoners, right now they're actually like Nazi.
I mean, this is what I want to say to the American people and Trump and also to the rest of the world.
This is our duty to fight against something like Nazi.
If we don't fight here now, we'll lose forever.
It's no more Hong Kong.
If we lose in this battle, Hong Kong is not even an international city.
It's just a state inside of China.
Why should Americans care?
Because Americans are very...
How to say it?
They care for the freedom and democracy.
And we are fighting for this now.
So I think they can choose not to care.
I mean, it's actually practically, it's really practically not their business.
In my heart, I know that.
But it's like we are raising conscience, consents.
It's like, if you want to save us, if you want to safeguard this world, then support us.
We're in the central district of Hong Kong documenting a protest that was unfolding at noon.
A protest full of business people.
They were in high heels and business suits.
This wasn't the regular protests that you've seen typically in international media.
This is basically the Wall Street of Hong Kong.
And while they were protesting, in a show of strength, following an embarrassing defeat of the pro-Beijing loyalists last night, Regina Ip, with her squadron of Hong Kong police force, pushed their way through an entire group, an entire block full of peaceful protesters in maybe a show of strength, you could call it, even though last night her party met an embarrassing defeat.
How does it feel to betray the people of Hong Kong?
Are you excited for the sanctions?
How does it feel to betray the people of Hong Kong?
Now as she left, she got into a taxi cab, a nondescript taxicab.
It was very well orchestrated.
This was a pre-planned provocation of these peaceful protesters.
She got into this taxicab and fled.
And the police got into their van and as they did, the crowd went nuts, booing the police officers, in fact.
And they eventually left and the crowd almost immediately dispersed to get back to work.
This is the Wall Street of Hong Kong effectively.
And these are not the typical protesters that you see wearing black and graffitiing the streets.
These are people who sit at desks at work throughout the day.
And they came out to protest and celebrate even the victory that the democracy movement had last night.
I think it seems like they were trying to get a reaction, trying to get people to break the law, to assault her even, so that she could act like a martyr, so she could show the world that these protesters are violent, vile people.
They weren't.
She went through without a hitch.
They just shouted at her and booed her and exercised the liberties that they're allowed to exercise for the meantime until 2047 when those liberties expire.
We're standing here in the central district of Hong Kong where their daily lunch protests, they call it, are happening.
Now what happens here is at 12.15 in the afternoon, they send out a text on Telegram saying where exactly it will happen.
Yesterday it happened on a street, sort of in their Wall Street area, their equivalent here in Hong Kong.
Today it's just in a mall and you can hear them shouting right now, stand with Hong Kong, fight for freedom.
There's also posters like what we saw at the rally outside of Poly U yesterday.
We heard from candidates who went into Pali University to mediate with the 20 remaining political activists.
They said that hopefully the university will be taking custody of the campus today.
We haven't heard an update on that yet.
We don't know if that's going to be happening for sure.
And we also don't know if the police will actually agree to that.
Now, Carrie Lamb today came out with a few statements that were a bit surprising.
Following her huge collapse in the polls on Sunday, she said today that the results meant that Hong Kongers were, one, disappointed in their government, which, yeah, that's pretty true.
But the second statement was that Hong Kongers want to go back to normal.
Now, that didn't really make much sense to me.
And I'm going to ask these folks here today if they really believe that.
Do they want things to be going back to normal?
Or do they want the government to give in to their five fairly reasonable demands?
Let's go ask and see what they have to say.
We cannot go back to our normal lives without fighting, without having the five demands.
That's what we think, because we were being silenced for almost like 20 years after we turned to China.
This is the time we should stand out, step up to say what we really want.
So we're not, there's no going back unless we the government meets the five demands of us.
What does your sign mean?
No one political party will forever be in power.
All people like peas, but we also want justice.
If justice is not done, how can people return to normal?
Yeah, we won.
But they need to stop the violence from the police first.
I think it's more that things have been difficult recently, but this year has presented an opportunity for genuine reform and for things in Hong Kong to genuinely get better.
Monday to Friday, we come out to speak to Carrie Lam.
Please satisfy our five demands.
Unless she satisfies our demands, we will not rest.
I believe government should work for the people and they should be scared of people, not the people who should scare off the government.
She was elected by no one.
She represents the Communist Party.
The people of Hong Kong gave their verdict on her and her government on Sunday.
And if she chooses to ignore it, she must bear the consequences.
and they are not going to be nice.
We got back to the hotel room to edit this video after we met one of the chief people here in Hong Kong.
And as we did, we were sitting down and we had the Do Not Disturb sign on the door.
And all of a sudden, we heard a quick knock.
And before I could get to the door, the door was actually opening.
And I stand in front of the door as the doors open.
And I see three men in suits.
One appeared to be a hotel staff member.
And two, it wasn't clear why they were there.
And then I said, well, what are you doing here?
and they said, oh, do you need the room clean?
Your cleaning crew is sort of mixed Cantonese English.
And then I was like, no, we don't need that.
The do not disturb signs on the door.
What are you doing here?
And they said, oh, don't worry.
And in Cantonese, I think, said goodbye.
And I thought that was really curious.
I've never seen a situation where three men in suits are coming to clean rooms.
Maybe if they were checking to see if a room needed to be cleaned, but I don't know why they would need three of them.
I don't know why they would be in Sioux and why they wouldn't send a maid there.
And I certainly don't know why they would enter a room while the Do Not Disturb sign was on the door.
We were gone from the hotel most of the day, so maybe they thought we weren't in there and they were coming to check out the room.
I mean, we're quite clearly journalists.
When we came into the hotel to check in, we had to give them our passports, which I thought was weird on the get-go, but I guess that's standard practice here in Hong Kong.
Helps Beijing keep track of political dissidents who are coming into the country.
So I thought this was all curious.
Closed the door and we went back to editing the video.
And I was, you know, I was a little bit concerned.
And then as I was walking, we sort of looked around the room on a little bit more high alert than what we were before.
We thought, well, maybe they were coming to bug the room.
Maybe they were coming to pick up a bug that was in the room.
We didn't know what was going on.
But we looked on the floor and something I noticed was a little chip and it was a SIM card.
And I don't want to say too much about it because I'm sure.
Well, I still have the SIM card on me.
We're going to be bringing it back to Canada to analyze it, but I have it on good authority that this is something from what looks like a burner phone or it's something that could trace a phone if it was in a device.
Now, we checked all of our devices.
There was nothing strange about the devices that we saw.
But what I imagine this was, was sort of a phishing attempt.
This is just a guess.
It seems like a phishing attempt where you drop a SIM card and hope that the people who find it will put it in their phone out of curiosity.
And when they do that, it could compromise the device.
Now, we have no idea.
We're going to bring it back to Canada and have our security guys analyze it.
Hopefully they can figure something out, figure out why it was there.
But what's curious is that it's not mine.
It's not my cameraman's.
And it was certainly most definitely not on the floor when we took custody of the room.
We had the room for about three days before we found it.
And the do not disturb sign was on the door the whole time.
We didn't want any maids coming in and going through our stuff or anything like that.
So there's no way this could have gotten here.
We just don't understand why that SIM card would be in our room.
It's just such a curious thing.
So we're going to look at it and see what we can find from it when we bring it back to Canada.
We're here in Hong Kong today on Election Day.
This is the day that Hong Kongers are coming to the polls to vote for their district councillors.
It's pretty much the lowest level of government here in this city, but it's being taken by many as a referendum on the Free Hong Kong movement that we've seen grow over the past 36 weeks here in Hong Kong.
The polling lines have gone around the block a few times, actually.
It's the longest polling lines I've ever seen.
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We've actually just interviewed a few of the candidates here, both pro-democracy and pro-Beijing.
And as we were doing so, some police in full riot gear showed up.
They had shields and the whole riot gear get up.
Right now, there's been no whispers of any sort of protests or demonstrations to be had.
The protesters, we have it on good authority, they actually want to remain very cautious just yesterday and today because they don't want to get arrested.
They could be detained to the point where they're not allowed to vote because poll stations could close and they would lose out on their opportunity.
The protesters are very eager to vote.
Like I said, the turnout here already, the polls have been open for just three hours and more than three times the usual amount of voters have showed up.
It's about 160,000 people have already voted by now, the point of filming three hours into the polling day.
We're going to throw to my interview here with Andrew Xu.
He was the pro-democracy candidate who actually lost an ear.
A pro-Beijing hooligan actually came and bit it off while he was demonstrating with other Hong Kongers.
Here's what he had to say.
In the early November, I was attacked by an attacker when I tried to protect the citizens, avoid the attackers' attack.
If the time is, we have time machine and better at that moment, I will still come out to protect my Hong Kong citizens because actually it's a duty call as an elected representative in the constituency.
Do you support the five demands?
Of course.
As a Democrat, we understand that the Hong Kong government now is not responsive to Hong Kongers.
Terry Lam and her government just responsible to the CCP and the Beijing authority.
The new ambassador from Beijing to Canada just recently threatened the Canadian government that if they follow suit with the Americans with the similar bill that their Congress just passed, there will be severe repercussions.
What do you think about that?
That is the evil side of CCP.
You can see that Beijing government try to use their influence power all around the world and try to be gained from this influence.
No matter try to cover all those negative messages or evidence in the foreign countries or try to threaten the government or those politicians to just keep silence for the Chinese government's something bad behavior.
So this is not a core values for our world.
As a global citizen, we truly believe that democracy and freedom of expression is a very core values for human beings.
And we cannot fear for these kinds of threatening and we must stay firm to support democracy and freedom.
And I do hope that Nomada is from Canada and the virus around the whole world can continue to support our democratic movement in Hong Kong and stand with Hong Kong.
Now I want to compare that interview to a pro-Beijing candidate, his opponent, Andrew's opponent.
Here's what he had to say, his responses to very similar questions.
Should Donald Trump sign the bill on his desk?
This is a district election, so no big international issues.
My main focus today is this district, Thai Ku West constituency.
And all along, during the last few years, we only focus on community level matters.
For example, the traffic, for example, the hygiene matters, and anything else, we are not going to say anything about it.
Do you support the five demands?
Anything too big, any big issues is not proper in this small community.
So all along, we emphasize peace, quietness, and better environment for the residents in this constituency.
So anything extra than that, I'm not going to comment on it.
Thank you so much.
Now you can tell the stark differences between those two interviewees.
One was happy to conduct the interview, and one was very tight-lipped.
He was on a very tight leash from Beijing, it seemed.
We also caught up with a third pro-democracy candidate.
Now, you can see that this is like a de facto referendum.
This is a very uncommon situation in Hong Kong because, ordinarily, normally for district council election, we have less turnout rate than the legislative election, but the legislature election.
But now you can see that probably the turnout rate is the highest so far and would be record high.
So, it's like a de facto referendum and it's allowed the people to express their opinion directly.
And I think this is a very important election.
And I hope that people will turn out and cast their vote and show their determination and support.
Hong Kong is like a showroom or show flat, and showing to the world that whether the Chinese government in fact will honor their promises and whether one country, two systems can work, and whether the Chinese government respects the rule of law and freedoms and human rights.
And obviously, you can see that just 20 years after the handover, we can see that the erosion of one country two systems.
So, it is, and so this is if we have this Human Rights Act, this would at least help Hong Kong people to have some kind of confidence in maintaining our present system.
And at least those who want to destroy or want to affect adversely of our human rights and the present system would have some kind of consequences in the future.
So, this is, I think, at least to make sure that Hong Kong people still have confidence and it is kind of like a motivation for us to embrace our values.
And I have one last question.
Do you support the five demands, all five demands?
Absolutely, absolutely.
No one less.
Yeah, not one less.
So, I support all these five demands and not one less.
Excuse me.
Hi, can I ask you what the priority is for the police today?
To make sure the environment for all voters is as safe as possible so people can vote without any fear of intimidation from any side.
Are you expecting any irregularities from any interference?
Hopefully not.
We don't have any information that there's going to be any problems, and hopefully, there won't be any problems.
You're here for the protests.
Can you tell us what is the protest movement?
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What are they fighting for?
Well, initially, it was about an extradition bill which would allow the government to send people from Hong Kong to mainland China for trial.
And of course, although we are not a democracy in Hong Kong, but we have the rule of law, independence of the judiciary.
But in mainland China, it's complete lawlessness.
So, people are very frightened and could not understand why the government of Kerry Lam would want to do a stupid thing like that, particularly ever since 1997, when Britain handed Hong Kong back to China.
They have been negotiating with the mainland for a deal and could not get anywhere.
So, you know how difficult it is.
And suddenly, out of the blue, because of a Taiwan homicide case, Kerry Lam came out to make the proposal.
So, the whole town just blew up.
And then, in the end, because so many people marched and many foreign governments, including the Canadian government and others, spoke out.
So, she came out and said, Okay, okay, we stopped the bill.
The bill is dead.
And people say, What do you mean?
Why didn't you just use the proper language saying the bill has been completely withdrawn?
And she refused.
And then in the meantime, there were many demonstrations.
Many were peaceful, attracting one to two million people.
But some, the young people, they had confrontation with the police.
And the police beat up a lot of people.
And so far, they have arrested over 700 people already.
So the people say, well, there should be an independent inquiry, looking into the whole saga.
Why did the government make such a blunder?
And why did the police behave in such a brutal way?
And of course, some of the protesters also attacked the police.
So we want a comprehensive inquiry.
And she refused.
So that's why today the Civil Human Rights Front, which organized the big march for 1 million and 2 million, they're organizing another march.
But the police said, no, no march.
But you can have a rally in Victoria Park.
But the capacity of the park is only about 100,000.
And there may be, you know, a million or more people joining.
So what do we do?
So the organizers said, okay, no violence, no disorder.
So you people, you go into Victoria Park.
Once it's full, then we'll get ushers to take you out of the park.
You go to the nearby station to take the train.
And if there's so many people, then the streets next to the park will be full.
Causeway Bay will be full.
Wan Chai will be full.
Central will be full.
Then the government would know that there are many people who want to join this peaceful rally.
The organizers said, also, please come.
Don't wear any mask.
Don't wear any goggles.
Don't wear any gear.
We are peaceful.
But then some people say no, we will come fully armed.
So we don't know what will happen.
Well, we did see last night some of the escalating on the streets and a lot of the people wearing masks tell us that they wear it because the police are very heavy-handed and use different tear gas, etc.
Do you understand?
I understand, but the organizers say this is a peaceful thing.
And maybe you think the organizers are naive.
They say that if you're peaceful, if the park is full, then you walk out.
And that is not an illegal assembly.
So if you walk out, that is fine.
And the police will not attack you.
But some say, oh, no, you don't trust the police.
They may attack us.
If they want to protect themselves, that's fine.
But I hope people will not come fully covered up and all that, waiting for trouble.
And how do you see this all ending?
Do you feel, we see China at the moment is building a military might on the border.
Are you worried of an invasion?
Are you worried that this is going to escalate?
First of all, my dear, it's not a border.
We are the same country.
So it's a boundary.
I have to correct all these journalists time and time again.
Of course, they are amassing troops there.
And in fact, they allow the foreign press to go in and film them, which is totally unheard of.
Why?
Well, they want, A, they want to show you so that you can show the picture, see all the military might.
But then they also have people.
The police here gave an off-the-record briefing to the foreign press two or three days ago saying, no need.
We are all ready.
We don't need any help from across the boundary.
We have had no training exercise with them.
We can control the situation.
So I think the police, they are very aware of the bad image they are getting internationally.
So they want to tell the press, no, we're not going to invite them to come in.
But on the other hand, there are some people over there who want to scare the Hong Kong people.
So I think by and large, the people don't expect them to march across the boundary.
In fact, the People's Liberation Army have been stationed in Hong Kong ever since 97.
There's always 6,000 of them here, but they are invisible.
So now they are flexing their muscle.
I think they just want to tell people to calm down, don't fight with the police.
But the people say, I don't want to fight with the police.
We just want the government to accede to our demands, which are very reasonable.
Set up a commission of inquiry, withdraw the bloody bill.
We're not fighting for independence or self-determination.
Maybe the Canadians would those in Quebec may support it.
But we're not fighting for those things.
We're fighting for very reasonable things.
And in the past 24, 48 hours, the Canadian Prime Minister has spoken out, the British, the German, the Australian, the European Union.
And today, just an hour ago, the European Union issued another statement and then they issue a joint statement with the Canadian government.
So you can see the international community is very alarmed.
And they're calling on all parties to exercise restraint and to find a political solution and not to use force and violence.
And how do you see it ending?
Well, I hope it will end like that because at the end of the day, my dear, Hong Kong is important to China.
In spite of the fact they say, oh, China is so rich, we are just a tiny percentage of their GDP.
Be that as it may.
We've got the rule of law.
We've got international connections.
We are an important international financial center.
They come here to raise capital.
They use Hong Kong a lot.
So I wouldn't think anyone in Beijing in his right mind would want to come in and smash Hong Kong to smithereens.
And I tell you, this is Hong Kong.
This is not Tenement Square.
You remember what happened 30 years ago?
They say, the Chinese say they're not going to repeat that.
And I certainly hope they won't.
And the whole world is watching.
Last time they stopped the bill, not because a million people marched.
They stopped the bill because there were 67 statements issued by foreign governments.
Not 67 bombs, 67 statements.
So I call on the international community, particularly the Canadian government, because I don't know whether you know, there are 300,000 Canadian citizens living and working in this city.
Many Canadian companies.
So Canada has a real interest here to make sure that peace is restored, that the government can enter into negotiation with the opposition and settle this amicably.
Right now we're in the middle of the demonstration outside of Pauly University.
Pauly University is the campus where 20 students are hold up following eight days of being blockaded inside of the campus.
They're running out of food.
Some say on Telegram that they've been contemplating suicide.
Now this crowd has gathered here in the aftermath of the election that happened on Sunday where there's an overwhelming Democratic win.
Now that means that the pro-Beijing loyalist parties lost a ton of seats here in Hong Kong.
And in light of that, all of these Hong Kong students and graduates have come to the periphery of the Pauley University campus and are chanting five demands, not one less.
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Liberate Hong Kong.
And now, if you look up there, we'll just point the camera up there.
I'm not sure if you'll be able to see them, but there's police officers pacing along this walkway that goes straight into the campus from over here from the street, from the main market area right next to the campus into the campus.
There's police walking along there and what we're seeing is the crowd is heckling them.
I've never seen anything like this.
Thousands of people shining their phone lights.
They're shining their phone lights at them, chanting at the police officers walking along that walkway.
This is surreal.
Now, we were just over there where that flag is.
And right where that flag is, is the front line of this demonstration, where there's thousands of people here.
That's the front line, and there's about two dozen police officers dressed up in full riot gear, shotguns, tear gas, the whole works, bear spray.
And they're there guarding the entrance.
There's a thin line of plastic that the media are pressing up against, and the protesters are pushing the media forward.
And it's just getting closer and closer to the police officers.
The tension here, you could cut it through the air with a knife.
It's unbelievable what's going on here right now.
It makes me think of protesters in Canada and the United States.
I've been to many of these protests where Antifa is protesting in Portland and what have you.
And it just, when you juxtapose their issues with what's going on here, it's like you cannot even compare Antifa to the five demands of these people.
They're fighting for five things.
Universal suffrage, the withdraw of the extradition bill completely.
They want the withdrawal, the renaming of, they want the renaming of these demonstrations from riots to peaceful demonstrations.
They want a full inquiry into the police brutality that they've seen here.
There's been huge amounts.
There's been huge amounts here in Hong Kong of police brutality.
Police actually curb stomping some protesters.
A huge overuse of tear gas.
That's what they're fighting against here in Hong Kong.
They're fighting for their right to live in a peaceful and democratic country, city, really.
And the police aren't having it.
Although, I will note that today the police seem to be acting more withdrawn.
They're acting almost like they don't want to antagonize this vast crowd of protesters.
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So credit where credit is due.
They're actually being a little bit restrained.
We're going to keep going through this protest and keep up our coverage.
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What happened in there?
What happened in there?
What's happening there?
No, I think the university is going to make the announcement.
They will take over the process.
Did any students come out?
Not at this moment.
How are the students faring?
They're healthy.
And they can communicate with us properly.
Are they concerned about charges?
Should they come out?
Is that a serious concern for them?
Well, they are concerning about whether the police will withdraw tomorrow.
And then we hope that, yes, our wish, well, the police will withdraw tomorrow because the authority of the university will go in tomorrow and then to take over the possession of the premises.
When will the university statement come out?
Do you know?
I think tomorrow morning.
I don't know.
I'm not quite sure.
But I think they are going to do it.
You were in there with the students?
I was, I was, yeah.
Okay.
And what was the mood in there?
Some reports were saying that they were hurting themselves, and many were suicidal.
Is that in fact the case?
I'm not sure, but actually we were, six of us were inside and then we just met up two people.
Yeah, we just met up two people and we don't know the number, the exact number or anything else.
Yeah.
And then what we are going to do at the moment, we have to like pushing, we want to pushing the, we want to push the university to take over the university later by tomorrow and then so the police will retreat.
Yeah.
And then to settle the conflict.
No, these are just hopes.
They don't know what's going to happen.
The police haven't responded to those demands from these five new councillors that have been elected.
We're going to have to wait till tomorrow morning to see how the university responds with this new request from these candidates and if the police will then fall in line with that expectation.
My guess is the police won't.
My guess is Beijing is going to want to throw the book at these students.
They're going to want to make sure that they are crushed after they've stood up to Beijing, to carry Lamb and to the Beijing loyal government here in Hong Kong.
That's just my guess.
We'll have to see what happens tomorrow.
Just came
to Hong Kong trying to uncover the other side of the story to share with the world, the side of the story that Beijing doesn't want the world to hear.
We came to Hong Kong just a few days before a massive election was held and it really was a historic election for Hong Kong.
There was a massive sweep for the Democrat Party here.
The pro-democracy camp won an overwhelming victory, over 90% of the seats.
This is an amazing movement that we're seeing here today and it's being capped off here tonight in an evening of song.
They're singing glory to Hong Kong and Can You Hear the People Sing.
Tonight is a time when they're thinking about the folks that are trapped in Poly U. There's still 20 students in Pali U and their fate is yet unknown.
These folks here held a moment of silence amid their song and it really was an emotional night.
It was something like I've never seen before.
When Rebel News came here we weren't sure what we were going to find.
What we did find was millions of Hong Kongers passionate to hold on to the liberty that was left to them at the handover from the British Empire to what they have today with their basic law.
We found people willing to stand eye to eye with riot police to stand up for their fellow protesters who are now locked in Poly U.
We found people who will gather in an auditorium like this to sing and remember those that they've lost in these protests.
Don't forget, many people have been arrested, thousands.
Many people have committed suicide allegedly at the hands of what looks like to be the police.
We faced off with Regina Ip.
She's the head of the new People's Party here in Hong Kong.
She's someone who has a direct hand in the police brutality that we've seen here.
We've seen people who have been curbstomped by the police, people who have been bowled over with riot shields.
These people really have something to fight for.
And I know I speak on behalf of Rebel News when we say we stand with the people of Hong Kong.
To the world at large, I would like them to keep reporting on Hong Kong.
The world needs to know that our government is lying to the world, that they make it sound like it's just a small number of people trying to defy the government, which is not.
A majority of Hong Kong people are fighting against the government.