BERSIH! BERSIH! Protest on the streets of Kuala Lumpur goes

into a second day as the demands for the resignation of Malaysian Prime Minister build.

Hello and welcome to the program. The streets of Malaysia's capital are again

turned yellow as huge crowds in the distinctive shirts returns to large parts of Kuala Lumpur.

They are calling for the resignation of the Prime Minister, Najib Razak over a financial

scandal. Well many protesters camp out overnight after

a first day of rallys. Crowds are demanding to know why 700 million

dollars was paid into Mr. Najib's bank account. Our correspondent Jennifer Pak joins us from

the Malaysian capital. Significant numbers there.

What is the sort of estimates of numbers on the streets?

Jennifer Pak: Well of course it has been coming and going but certainly tenths of thousands here,

although organizers put the total participation

up to 300,000 for the last two days. The police significantly less saying maybe

30,000 but just take a look behind me at the energy that is flowing through this crowd.

They been here praying, singing, giving political speeches, taking pictures, they are having

a lot of fun. But of course they are directing their anger

towards one man, Prime Minister Najib Razak. He has been accused of mismanaging a state

fund called 1MDB and more importantly also accused of taking public money.

Now he has been cleared by the anti-corruption agency of any wrong doing but many of these

protesters still believes that he has done something terribly wrong.

Protester #1: Our Prime Minister has lot of accusations to answer. The 1Malaysia DB, the

2.6 billion. Where is the answer?

We want the answer. We need a clean government.

Protester #2: The leaders of our nation. They don't want to answer. Something like

the excuses they give us is so stupid. STUPID ANSWER like 'donation'

Billion, billion US dollar in your bank account, and then you said that it's a 'donation'.

What kind of "alasan", what kind of answer is that. Oh my god! You think, we all Malaysians

citizens are stupid. NO!

Protester #3: Lot of people are saying that

this is a waste of time. But I think we will look at the number of

people that are here, who left their work, today I think they left everything else they

can do this weekend. They are here because they think they can

make a difference. I think we are showing that the people do

have a huge power. We might not make a change tomorrow but this

is a start to show that we are headed somewhere.

While you hear from the protestors, even if no change comes immediately they are not

going to be dishearten simply because this country has been ruled by the governing coalition

for almost 6 decades. These people want to send a message to the

government that they cannot take their vote for granted.

How long though will the prime minister and the authorities put up with the demonstration

like this, like if it will go into another day?

They didn't want the demonstration to take place, and there is a significant security

presence there as well, is there?

Yes of course, the police has deemed this rally as illegal but as of yet we haven't

seen at least here in Kuala Lumpur on independence square, they blocked off the area for rehearsals

for independence day but they haven't really move against protesters because they say they

have respected the barriers that were set up by the police and so far everything seems

to be peaceful between the two sides. Now the protesters have said that they will

only hold it over the weekend, and they will be out of here when it comes to tomorrow,

when the country celebrates Independence Day. So it seems the organizers are going to keep

to their word, and people are fine with that but again they important thing is they want

to register their anger towards the government because in recent weeks prime minister has

actually moved against his critics. He has shut down media that that has been

following the cases too closely, he has sacked his deputy for questioning of his handling

of this scandal, and he has also replaced the attorney general investigating into the

funds that had gone into his bank account. There is a suspicion here that Prime Minister

Najib is not going to reveal the truth of where this money has gone to and is not willing

to give any more answers. So Malaysians here want to register their

voice to the governing coalition that this is not good enough.

Okay, Jennifer Pak at Kuala Lumpur. Thank you very much indeed.