Hundreds arrested in Hong Kong protests as security law comes into effect

It's 23 years since Hong Kong stopped being a British colony and returned to Chinese control, but there were no celebrations. (Subscribe: https://bit.ly/C4_News_Subscribe)

Instead hundreds of demonstrators have been arrested, and thousands defied a police ban to oppose draconian legislation imposed by China last night.

Today, the British government said the new laws were a "clear and serious" violation of the handover treaty and promised a special visa system that could allow millions of Hong Kong citizens with British National Overseas status to come to the UK.

Jonathan Miller reports, plus, our Political Editor Gary Gibbon is in Westminster.
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