Luke Grants talks to Kirsty Needham, China Correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald & The Age, about China celebrating the 70th year of Communist Party rule as Hong Kong demonstrations continue.

Security in Beijing had been tightened ahead of the National Day celebration, which involved 15,000 People’s Liberation Army soldiers, officers and reservists marching in synchronised step... as the months-long protests in Hong Kong reached a new level of violence when a form five student protester was shot.