WATCH | #HongKongProtest: Almost four months of protests - how did we get here and what's going on?

The 70th anniversary of communist China's founding was marked by the use of live ammunition during defiant “Day of Grief” protests in Hong Kong on October 1 2019.

Pro-democracy activists ignored a police ban and took to the streets.

Protests in the Asian nation have been ongoing for almost four months.

Here is everything you need to know.