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We're now suspending our live coverage of the dramatic and fast changing events which have been taking place in Hong Kong.

Live footage suggests that the situation is calm now, with riot police fully in charge and no sign of demonstrators near the government district.

This is a dramatic turnaround from only a few hours ago, when crowds stormed and ransacked Hong Kong's parliament.

It followed weeks of unrest in the city over a controversial extradition law.

You can still follow all the latest developments on this and other news stories on the BBC News website.

The BBC's Grace Tsoi at the scene on the dramatic events in Hong Kong

"At about 10:30pm police said they would be clearing the protest site soon. And protesters near the Legislative Council building were expecting them to come any minute.

They were barricading themselves with railings, water-filled barriers and umbrellas.

Minutes past midnight, hundreds of police officers in full gear - batons, helmets, shields and gas masks - closed in on thousands of young protesters, many of them in their early 20s, from Lung Wui Road.

Police raised black flags warning the protesters that “tear smoke” would be fired.

Within minutes, we saw at least two canisters of tear gas fired at the protesters.

In response, umbrellas were thrown at the police.

But protesters gave up their barricades very swiftly and dispersed to Harcourt Road. More tear gas was fired - but we couldn’t get a clear view.

In the space of about half an hour, thousands of protesters were cleared.

Their supplies - first aid kits, goggles and bottles of water - were left on the roads."

Fernando Cheung, a member of the Legislative Council, was in the building with the protesters.

He told the BBC that those inside had deliberately avoided a violent confrontation with the police.

"It is fortunate that I think all of the demonstrators retreated and they basically left safely without any actual encounters with the police.

"We're glad that is what happened. If they resisted, or anyone who would resist leaving the Legislative Council [sic], I'm afraid there would be bloodshed, or I think the police wouldn't be hesitant to use force to disperse them.

"There were a group of protesters who came back and grabbed the few who said they would be determined to stay, even risking their lives, and, of course, the rest of the protesters didn't agree and they came back and they dragged them out.

"And we're actually glad that happened," the legislator said.

The parliament building has been retaken from the protesters.

Live footage shows riot police moving around the building to fully secure it.

Protesters have left the Legislative Council after smashing their way through glass doors and metal shutters.

Here's what the storming of parliament looked like in pictures.

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Jeffie Lam, who works for Hong Kong's South China Morning Post newspaper, tweets that protesters had requested a dialogue with Chief Executive Carrie Lam - but the request was rejected.

Protesters were seen dragging out those who wanted to stay inside the Legislative Council chamber.

They were heard shouting "Let's leave together."

Claudia Mo, a Hong Kong pro-democracy legislator, was out on the streets when riot police moved in.

She told the BBC she was scared.

"I am now away from the scene of the clashes...there were fully armed, fully geared police force against, mainly the students, the young," Ms Mo said.

"The young are now vowing to stay on for the night. They're saying that they would beat the police by sheer numbers - and that sounds very scary to me.

"I was a journalist and I did cover the Tiananmen bloodbath 30 years ago, and that's exactly what those students said back then in the Chinese capital."

The BBC's Danny Vincent reports from inside parliament after protesters broke into the debating chamber.

Hundreds entered the building, spray-painting messages on the walls and damaging portraits of council members.

Many of the protesters have chosen to catch the last MTR train home from Admiralty.

Harcourt Road outside the legislature has been mainly cleared by police.

This how protesters stormed the parliament building.

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On the surface, these protests are about plans that would allow extradition from Hong Kong to mainland China.

Hong Kong-China extradition plans explained

But this is not all happening in a vacuum. There's a lot of important context - some of it stretching back decades - that helps explain what is going on.

Why are there protests in Hong Kong? All the context you need

Earlier in the evening, protesters charged their way into the Legislative Council chamber.

This is the scene from the inside of the chamber a few moments ago. Many of the protesters have now chosen to leave.

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Most of the demonstrators have already left the building - though a few remained in the central chamber alongside numerous members of the media as the police advanced.

The unrest followed a peaceful protest involving hundreds of thousands over a controversial extradition law.

Pro-democracy demonstrators had taken to the streets on 1 July - the 22nd anniversary of the city's handover from British to Chinese rule.

The riot police moved in at midnight local time (16:00 GMT) after warning protesters to clear the building.

Protesters were seen running away as the police advanced.

The police were later seen forming a cordon around the parliament building.

It was not immediately known if there were any injuries.

This is the current scene outside Hong Kong's Legislative Council.

Police are now approaching the building. Earlier this evening, the Hong Kong Police Force urged protesters to leave the vicinity and said it "will take reasonable force."

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Riot police are moving in towards Hong Kong’s Legislative Council building after protesters stormed the chamber.

They used tear gas to disperse the crowds.

Earlier, a group of protesters smashed through glass doors and made their way through the building.

Some spray-painted messages on the walls.

The Hong Kong emblem inside the chamber was painted black while a union jack was raised at the seat of the Legislative Council’s president.

The protesters are a breakaway group of peaceful demonstrators who took to the streets of Hong Kong on the 22nd anniversary of the handing over of the region to China.

Hundreds of thousands of people marched through the streets on Monday calling for a controversial extradition bill that would allow extradition to mainland China to be scrapped.