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BBC-Hong Kong: Police & demonstrators in clashes
Published on Dec 1, 2014
There have been clashes between police and protesters in Hong Kong, as prodemocracy activists attempted to encircle government headquarters. Tom Grundy is a journalist in Hong Kong, who was at the protests.
Story At BBC.com
Hong Kong: MPs get emergency debate on Chinese rebuff
1 December 2014 Last updated at 14:03 ET
Commons Speaker John Bercow has granted an emergency debate about China's decision to bar a committee of MPs from visiting Hong Kong.
The Foreign Affairs Committee has been told it cannot make a planned trip to the ex-UK colony, which has seen months of pro-democracy protests.
Requesting a debate, committee chairman Sir Richard Ottaway said the refusal was an "affront to this House and to men and women of the free world".
The debate will be held on Tuesday.
Emergency debates are rare in the House of Commons. They can last for three hours and take precedence over all other business.
Read more @ http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-30275320