<span style="color: #222222;">Hong Kong's pro-Beijing leader Carrie Lam has said the proposal to allow extraditions to the Chinese mainland is dead, however, she stopped short of protester demands to withdraw the bill.<br />''<br />''The finance hub has been plunged into its worst crisis in recent history following a month of marches and violent confrontations of protesters with police.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"><br />'' Ms. Lam accepted that there may still be lingering doubts about the government's sincerity about whether the government will restart the process with the Legislative Council.<br />''<br />''The rallies were sparked by a now-suspended law that would have allowed extraditions to mainland China. They have since morphed into a wider movement calling for democratic reforms and a halt to sliding freedoms in the territory.</span><br />