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		</div><p>The train service to Hong Kong’s airport has been suspended as pro-democracy demonstrators gathered there, while protesters outside the British Consulate called on London to grant citizenship to people born in the former colony before its return to China.</p>
<p>Hong Kong has been the scene of increasingly tense anti-government protests for nearly three months.</p>
<p>They began in response to a proposed extradition law and have expanded to include other grievances and demands for more democracy and the resignation of the territory’s leader.</p>
<p>On Saturday, protesters threw petrol bombs at government headquarters.</p>
<p>Police stormed a subway car and hit passengers with clubs and pepper spray.</p>
<p>On Sunday, several hundred protesters gathered at the airport on Chek Lap Kok island in the early afternoon and set up temporary barricades at a bus terminal.</p>
<p>A dozen blue-uniformed police officers in riot helmets formed a line across an entrance corridor to keep them out of the terminal.</p>
<p>The operator of the express train to the airport from central Hong Kong said service was suspended.</p>
<p>MTR said trains into the city from the airport are still running.</p>
<p>Police issued a statement warning protesters were violating a court injunction against disrupting airport operations.</p>
<p>The protesters were mostly peaceful, but a government statement said some threw objects at police and airport employees.</p>
<p>A separate statement said iron poles, bricks and rocks were thrown on to the tracks of the airport train, “seriously obstructing” service.</p>
<p>About 200 protesters outside the British Consulate in the city waved British flags and chanted <em>“Equal rights now!”</em> and <em>“Stand with Hong Kong!”</em>.</p>
<p>A saxophonist in dark glasses played God Save The Queen.</p>
<p>Many wanted London to grant citizenship to people born in Hong Kong before 1997.</p>
<p>The British government refused that, instead giving people in the colony British National Overseas passports they could use to travel abroad but not settle in the United Kingdom.</p>
<p><em>“I hope the British Government can change its nationality law,”</em> said protester Gary Law.</p>
<p>Police had denied permission for a march on Saturday to mark the fifth anniversary of a decision by China against fully democratic elections in Hong Kong, but protesters took to the streets anyway.</p>
<p>Two police officers fired two warning shots into the air “to protect their own safety” after being surrounded on Saturday by protesters near Victoria Park, the government said.</p>
<p>It was the second time police fired warning shots following an incident the previous weekend.</p>
<p>Protests erupted in early June in Hong Kong, whose 7.4 million people were promised a “high degree of autonomy” under an agreement between Beijing and London.</p>
<p>Opponents saw the proposed extradition bill as an erosion of that “one country, two systems” framework.</p>
<p>It would have allowed crime suspects to be sent to the mainland, where the ruling Communist Party controls the court system.</p>
<p>Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam suspended work on the law but protesters want it withdrawn completely.</p>
<p>They have also called for Ms Lam’s resignation and democratic elections.</p>
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