{"id":5732,"date":"2019-08-05T10:40:53","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T01:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2019\/aug\/05\/hong-kong-protest-brings-city-to-standstill-ahead-of-carrie-lam-statement-live"},"modified":"2019-08-05T23:31:42","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T14:31:42","slug":"hong-kong-protest-carrie-lam-to-speak-amid-transport-chaos-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=5732","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong protests: second car rams protesters as fights break out \u2013 as it happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Second car rams into crowd as chief executive Carrie Lam warns city is being pushed to \u2018the verge of a very dangerous situation\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/05\/hong-kong-riot-police-fire-teargas-at-protesters-as-two-cars-ram-crowds\">Full report: Police fire teargas at protesters as two cars ram crowds<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2019-08-05T14:26:36.399Z\">3.26pm <span class=\"timezone\">BST<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p><em>[The protests have] seriously undermined Hong Kong\u2019s law and order and are pushing our city, the city we all love, and many of us helped to build, to the verge of a very dangerous situation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/05\/hong-kong-riot-police-fire-teargas-at-protesters-as-two-cars-ram-crowds\">Hong Kong police fire teargas at protesters as two cars ram crowds<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2019-08-05T14:10:31.856Z\">3.10pm <span class=\"timezone\">BST<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p>A journalist has been arrested, according to the South China Morning Post.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING A journo was arrested in Sham Shui Po as police accused him of assaulting police officers <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1iNS3Zlp8U\">pic.twitter.com\/1iNS3Zlp8U<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2019\/aug\/05\/hong-kong-protest-brings-city-to-standstill-ahead-of-carrie-lam-statement-live\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Second car rams into crowd as chief executive Carrie Lam warns city is being pushed to \u2018the verge of a very dangerous situation\u2019Full report: Police fire teargas at protesters as two cars ram crowds 3.26pm BST [The protests have] seriously undermined Ho&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5732"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5840,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5732\/revisions\/5840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}