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Pro-democracy demonstrators holed up in a Hong Kong university campus set the main entrance ablaze Monday to prevent surrounding police moving in. Overnight, there were intense clashes as police tried to retake the Hong Kong Polytechnic University campus. Today, protesters gathered around the university in support of the students trapped inside. Peter O'Brien has more.

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