A stand-off is continuing between police and pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong following earlier clashes between the two sides.
The worst political crisis in Hong Kong since Britain handed the free-wheeling capitalist city back to China in 1997 entered its fourth week.
There has been no sign of a resolution despite talks scheduled for two hours on Tuesday between the government and student protest leaders.
Beijing has signalled through Hong Kong's leaders that it is not willing to reverse a decision in August that effectively denies the financial hub the full democracy the protesters are demanding.
Hong Kong's 28,000 strong police have been struggling to contain a youth-led movement that has shown little sign of waning after three weeks of standoffs.
Demonstrators in the Mong Kok district launched a fresh assault early today, putting on helmets and goggles before surging forward to grab a line of metal barricades hemming them into a section of road.
Hundreds of police officers hit out at a wall of umbrellas that protesters raised to fend off police pepper spray.
Protesters screamed and hurled insults and violent scuffles erupted before police surged forward with riot shields, forcing the protesters back.
"Black Police! Black Police!" protesters shouted.
Several protesters were taken away. Fire trucks with water cannons were stationed along the street but were not used.
The clashes came hours after Hong Kong's pro-Beijing leader Leung Chun-ying called for the talks on Tuesday. They will be broadcast live.
The protesters, led by a restive generation of students, have been demanding China's Communist Party rulers live up to constitutional promises to grant full democracy to the former British trading outpost.
Hong Kong is ruled under a "one country, two systems" formula that allows it wide-ranging autonomy and freedoms and specifies universal suffrage for Hong Kong as an eventual goal.
But Beijing is wary about copycat demands for reform on the mainland and it ruled on 31 August it would screen candidates who want to run for the city's chief executive in 2017.
Democracy activists said that rendered the universal suffrage concept meaningless and are demanding free elections.
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