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Added on the 01/10/2019 13:50:00 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
A few thousand demonstrators, including office workers in shirts and suits, muster in a Hong Kong park and begin marching through the city's commercial district in an unsanctioned rally, chanting anti-police and anti-government slogans. IMAGES
Hundreds of Hong Kongers stage a sit-in outside the school of a protester who was shot by police as authorities said the wounded 18-year-old was now in a stable condition. The international finance hub has been left reeling from the shooting, the first time a demonstrator has been struck with a live round in nearly four months of increasingly violent pro-democracy protests. IMAGES
Protesters gather outside Downing Street, calling on the British Government to deport the Chinese officials who are alleged to have attacked a pro-democracy for Hong Kong protester who was demonstrating outside the consulate last week. IMAGES ANIMATED TWEET
Hong Kong's chief executive Carrie Lam announces a ban on protesters wearing face masks, invoking colonial-era emergency powers, in a bid to end months of violent protests. SOUNDBITE
US President Donald Trump urges China to protect Hong Kong's "democratic ways of life". He was speaking at the United Nations General Assembly. SOUNDBITE
Supporters of Zambian President Lungu hold a rally in Lusaka during a tense presidential race, which has been marked by clashes between rival supporters. The presidential election will take place on Thursday. IMAGES.