Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam visits a major mosque to offer her apologies after police hit the place of worship with water canon during another day of unrest in the Asian financial hub
They targeted banks and other businesses perceived to be linked to China, damaging some storefronts and setting fires on the prime shopping and commercial street of Nathan Road in the heart of the Kowloon peninsula.
Many Hong Kongers are angry at what they see as mainland China's attempts to limit the freedoms the semi-autonomous city is supposed to enjoy under the "one country, two systems" principle enshrined in its handover from Britain in 1997. The protests pose the biggest popular challenge to Chinese President Xi Jinping since he took power. Beijing has denied eroding Hong Kong's freedoms and Xi has vowed to crush any attempt to split China.
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