Three pro-democracy student leaders
from Hong Kong have been stopped from boarding a plane to Beijing.
They had hoped to meet China's leaders as part of their push for greater democracy, but were told at the airport that their travel permits were invalid.
Protesters have been camped out on the streets of the territory since late September.
They want Beijing to allow more candidates to stand in the territory's next leadership election in 2017.
The group were greeted at the airport by fellow democracy activists, who unfurled yellow umbrellas - a symbol of Hong Kong's democracy movement.计划到北京表达普选意见，已在网上预办登机手续的4名学联代表，在航空公司柜位前被航空公司职员告知不能上机，航空公司职员表示，收到内地通知，4人的回乡证已被注销，因此拒绝让4人登机。
The group was mobbed by other protesters and the
media before trying to board the flight They were led by Alex Chow, who heads the Hong Kong Federation of Students, which has played a key role mobilising the protests
The three said they wanted to talk directly with national leaders because so far, the Hong Kong government has told them it is powerless to offer them any concessions.
A spokeswoman for the students said they were prevent from getting on the plane because their return permits had been cancelled.
Beijing has in the past blocked Hong Kong activists from travelling to mainland China.
'Naive'
The BBC's John Sudworth in China says few observers thought the student leaders had any chance of making it out of the arrival hall at Beijing airport, let alone securing a meeting with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang.
An editorial in China's state-run Global Times, written before the activists were stopped, said the group were "naive".
Hong Kong's Occupy Central movement had "failed", the editorial concluded. The protests drew tens of thousands to the streets at their peak.
A few hundred people remain at three key protest sites in organised "tent cities", complete with infrastructure such as food stalls, toilets and study areas.
Less people are on the streets of Hong Kong but the
protests continue学联反应
学联秘书长周永康在记者会上表示对事件感到诧异，质疑泱泱大国为何会怕学生到北京与官员对话。他认为有关做法不合逻辑，反问法理何在，又说被没收的不只是他们的回乡证，象征意义是一整代人的自主命运权利被没收。
各界反应
立法会议员公民党党魁梁家杰批评内地当局注销学联成员的回乡证，是以傲慢态度对待学生，表现出政权的虚怯，容不下同学以最和平方式表达意见。他说， 事件反映政改“有商有量”之门已关上，政府不需要做政改第二轮咨询，因为结果根本不会改变。
Analysis
It seems that there are recontextualisation in the Chinese version. These included the response by different groups towards Hong Kong protest leaders denied Beijing flight which could not found in the English version. Also the English version focus on the broader event, instead of mentioning Hong Kong protest leaders denied Beijing flight, it pays more attention on the effectiveness of the whole umbrella movement such as 'Hong Kong's Occupy Central movement had "failed", the editorial concluded. The protests drew tens of thousands to the streets at their peak.' but the chinese version simply describe the Hong Kong protest leaders denied Beijing flight.
The English version include more mode of presentation, video clip, picture and word while Chinese version includes only picture and words. For me, I prefer English version to the Chinese version as it is more comprehensive(includes video clips) and more accurate( investigate the effectiveness of the whole movement)
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