Chinese premier defends human rights

The Chinese Premier has defended his country's record on human rights on the second day of his official visit to Ireland.

Meanwhile a crowd of protestors has assembled outside Dublin Castle ahead of thie evening's state banquet, to highlight China's treatment of the followers of the Falun Gong spiritual movement and its occupation of Tibet.

Mr Zhu Rongji has been meeting with Mary McAleese at Aras an Uachtarian.