Tension still high in Hong Kong

(ANSA) - Rome, October 3 - Tensions remained high in Hong Kong Friday where students occupied the centre of the metropolis and kept their defences up pending promised talks with the government.
    The young democracy demonstrators scuffled with police, who reappeared Thursday night shortly before Chief Executive Chun-ying Leung announced overtures towards dialogue while insisting he would not step down.
    The People's Daily, organ of the Chinese Communist Party, said the protests were not "legal nor reasonable" and their movement was "destined for defeat.