Hong Kong Protests Turn Violent; 560 Arrested in Moscow in Crackdown on Opposition Supporters Demanding Free, Fair Elections.
CABRERA: Two massive protests today, one in Moscow, the other in Hong Kong. In Moscow, more than a thousand protesters have now been detained at election demonstrations. And more on that in a moment. And in Hong Kong, police pushing back as tens of thousands of people take to the streets for the eighth consecutive weekend. The action is centered in a small town near the border to China. Protesters turned out in force against today for the continuing pro-democracy protests. Last week, a mob attacked demonstrators with iron bars and sticks leaving dozens of people injured. Today, police in riot gear fired tear gas and things got extremely violent in a subway station. That's where our Anna Coren and the crew got caught in the chaos, right before they were about to go on air. Watch.</s>COREN: Just wait.</s>COREN: Oh, my god!</s>COREN: Come on! Are they coming to us? Linda? Linda? Let me talk to you. Linda, let me tell you what is happening. We have just been charged by riot police into the train station. This is absolute mayhem. They have just come at the protesters, wielding batons. It is pandemonium inside here. I have no idea how they are planning to disperse these crowds. It is absolute chaos.</s>COREN: We were just chased -- outside.</s>CABRERA: That was Hong Kong. Now to Moscow, where Russian authorities have banned a number of independent and opposition candidates from taking part in municipal elections in September. CNN senior international correspondent, Frederik Pleitgen, is in the thick of it there as protesters make demands for free and fair elections.</s>FRED PLEITGEN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: There's another huge round of protest in Moscow. And the police are out in full force with riot police. They've been on the scene for hours before the protests started. The cops have been quite aggressive in their strategy. They started arresting people even before the protests took place. And we saw, at one point, people by the minute getting hauled into police vans and into police buses. We also saw some smaller skirmishes as well. At least two protesters, you see their bloody faces. And while the protesters have not been able to go where they wanted to go, which is the mayor's office, they are still out here in force. If we look in the other direction, you can see there are a lot of people trying to get past this police barricade. You can see a lot of them are wielding Russian flag, which is something, under Russian law at a protest, they're not even allowed to do. Now, on the face of it, this protest is about the local election here in Moscow where several opposition candidates have been barred from taking part. However, of course, there's a larger element to this, as well. Some of the chants have we've heard here has been against Russia's President Vladimir Putin. Fred Pleitgen, CNN, Moscow.</s>CABRERA: Back here at home, when you think about things that go bump in the night, this probably isn't one of them. You are live in the CNN NEWSROOM.