<span style="color: #222222;">In Hong Kong, protesters gathered at a sports stadium today as city braced for more anti-government rallies. This came a day after clashes returned to the streets following several days of relative calm.<br />'' <br />'' The city's metro, MTR, said that it would close stations near the main demonstration area in Tsun Wan, the second day of station closures in a row. A second rally of a few hundred, some of them relatives of police, was also held this afternoon.<br />'' <br />'' Yesterday's clashes saw police baton-charge protesters and fire tear gas, while demonstrators threw rocks and bottles later into the night in a working-class neighbourhood. <br />'' <br />''Hong Kong has been gripped by three months of street demonstrations that started against a proposed extradition bill to China, but have spun out into a wider pro-democracy movement.     </span>