>> if they can't afford rent, they can't afford food. >> the strain is on charities to fill the void and depend upon donations to keep feeding new york's hungry. . >> al jazeera. . >> hello, and welcome to the newshour live from doha. i am marin dennis. these are the top stories we will be looking at in detail. security forces fire tear gas as the pro-democracy protests in hong kong gather momentum. more airstrikes againsts isil targets come under attacks from coalition forces. running for their lives. hikers try to escape the volcano

eruption. more than 30 people are believed to have died. >> i am robin adams with all of your sport. madison world record. details coming up. still ahead as well, the latest from the final day's play at the ryder cup. golfers are edging closer to a victory. gubut first, police in hong kong have used tear gas against thousands of protesters outside main government buildings. demonstrators want the chinese government to scrap rules which allow it to choose the candidates for the 27th election. rob mcbride reports from the proceedtest. >> reporter: as more reinforcements arrive, they were hopelessly out numbered. a growing crush of people trying to find their way back into the occupation site locked. tempers flared. every way knew what was i don't

meaning. umbrellas blocked pepper spray and it started. the umbrella were ripped apart and then the spray but on to no avail. the line was preached. officers down and hurt. both sides are calling for restraint to pull them out of the crush but now, it had gone, so had event did. from across the highway, more protesters from the occupation site now saw the moment. racing across the lanes and urging others on this side to do the same. they met in the middle and the occupation just got bigger. in a certain area, it has ended up with the protesters going to be taking over the whole center of the city. now, it was the protesters in charge of the traffic. at this moment, arguably in charge of this city's fate.

it's unprecedented. today, it is something that we are proud of. the hong kong authorities this day started as a crisis. at the end of it, it still was but now one for beijing as well. rob mc, al jazeera, hong kong. another of our correspondents there in the protest in hong kong is scott heidler. he joins us now. scott bring us right up to date. >> still on the streets are tens of thousands. what we are going to be looking at over the next couple of hours, quite honestly no one really knows what's going to happen. you have the movement leaders, the student protest leaders. they have said that if a certain criteria, certain demands aren't met by midnight, they will have a general strike in hong kong. they have been holding a student strike over the last week. they have support from some labor organizations, movement

groups and they say they are going to call for a general strike, an indefinite general strike. the head of the government here in hong kong resigned and some other things are tied to this election situation. hong kong is known as a sentencer of finance and industry. how much is their call for general strike likely to have? it won't be heavily in the banking and other city. it will be the other workers, if you will. and what is bringing that into the equation is where these protesters are in their tens of thousands again. what happened when the work week starts monday morning? >> a big concern for those industries, that industry, the banking and the stock exchange that's right around the corner from where these protest orders are. what's going to happen in the

morning? is business going to go on asub? probably not. to what degree, that is what is going to be very closely watched over the coming hours. what are the police going to do and how are they going to be able to do. here and there, they kind of squeeze over and moved in to another part of this central area and this area around the government complex. >> scott, give us a sense of how representative these people are. as you say, they are in the tens of thousands, vast numbers. but are they very vocal minority? >> they are primarily right now, the people you see on the streets are still students. the occupy central movement, they have joined ranks with the students, but not -- i wouldn't say it's equal when you look at the faces on the streets now. they are young. a lot of the students out there you see some of the people possibly from the other groups, pro-democracy groups coming out

as well but not nearly as much as these students. one thing that's interesting, later in the afternoon, several hours ago, the father of democracy here in hong kong came out and kind of, there was a big cheer when he kind of walked through an area where there are a lot of protesters where we were and i asked him what's going on here. how do you think the movement is going? and he said, we are winning, but we need to be very carefully, meaning that they need to be careful in the confrontation or the push back when it comes to dealing with the police. they had been trained, they had been instructed that the protesters, if there is any kind of confrontation, they throw their hands up at any rate above their heads. we saw that several times when protesters were moving out, moving in protestors have thrown their hands in the air to make sure they are non-violent. >> okay. all right, scott. >> the confrontation becomes more intention. >> scott heidler giving us the

latest. we will be following that live demonstration continuing through the night. about less than an hour now until the deadline imposed by the protesters. we will check in with scott and other correspondence as we get closer to it. now, the bodies of more than 30 hikers have been found on the slopes of a volcano which suddenly erupted in japan. as wayne hay reports near tokyo, the mountainous area is portsmouth with weekend walkers. it caught people by surprise. it happened at one of the busiest times on the mountains with hundreds of climbers en jewing a clear autumn day. >> for a while, i heard the pounding of numbthunder a numbe times. soon after, climbers started descending. they were covered with ash, covered in white and i thought to myself, this must be really serious. >> one hiker managed to capture the eruption on camera but he

quickly realized he and his group were in trouble. just seconds later, they were informed by the ash cloud as debris rained down on them. it's one of the most popular climbing destinations in japan, and some were trapped on the mountain overnight. >> i am so relieved. i couldn't sleep. >> the rescue workers, a defense personnel who were ordered by prime minister. they are being met by a mountain still spewing ash. the immediate area surrounding the volcano is closed. but so far, nearby towns haven't been evacuated. mount ontaki is more than 110 active volcanoes in japan and one of 27 under 24 hour surveilans. the last time is it had a major eruption was in 1979. there was an increase in volcanic earthquakes earlier this month but they had slowed down prior to saturday's

eruption so the alert level wasn't raised. wayne hay, al jazeera, kanagawa, japan. >> u.s.-led airstrikes have targeted three oil refineries in syria. this is video that is said to show the aftermath of overnight raids near the isil controlled town close to syria's main oil field. the airstrikes have cut off a major source of funding for isil fighters who sell oil on the black market. airstrikes have also been targeting isil fighters surrounding kobane, a major kurdish town on the border with syria -- with turkishey in the northern part of syria. an isil building and two takes have been destroyed very close to the town. meanwhile, on the ground, itself, isil fighters are also being attacked by kurdish fighters. stefanie dekker reports from the syrian border with turkey. the sound of fighter jets in the

sky above kobane. multiple airstrikes around the town on saturday. but this is an sxwoiongoing bat and it is not over. as we drive east, we come across a crowd of refugees receiving aid dependent upon handouts, human desperation caused by this war. >> we have been humiliated. there is no water or e he electricity. there is some food but it's not enough because we are so many. we are eight families living in a basic small house and we can't go back because they are fighting. >> ten kilometers east of kobane, we experienced the battle firsthand. we are told that the kurdish fighters are in charge of that village and right in front of them is the position where isil is holding the other side and its turned into something of a spectator sport with many people lining up here to watch the action on one of the front

lines. isil has positions around kobane in the east and in the south and in the west. as we return to the town, the earlier hope of the airstrikes now gone this is an isil attack. they are not inside of indikoba but this remains an active front line. it has made more kurds cross into turkey. >> we don't have enough weapons to supply them. nobody help us. a klasnokov, how can we destroy tanks? we are dying here lots of people. they are dying. >> kobane is a war that has displaced so many years. three and a half years on. there is no sign it will end any time soon. >> well, stefanie dekker sentence us an update from the mercid pinaw crossing. >> the syrian did you evered issue town of kobane lies

nestled across the border. it's been a relatively quite day relatively on saturday, four shells landed in kobane fired by isil. there were injuries reported but just in the last few hours we have heard more military activity around here on the eastern side. we heard heavy weapons used and also a couple of really loud explosions and we have spoken to sources with the ypg, the kurdish fighters protecting this area from those isil advances and they seem to be firing artillery from behind that little hill toward the west. remember, three flanks here, west are closest, two kilometers, at the most, 12 kilometers, also around 10 to 12 to the east. still a very fluid battle and humanitarian impact has been enormous, over 150,000 people here in to turkey and they at the moment, it is an incredibly difficult situation for us. they are terrified of these advances, but i have to tell you

at the moment, the kurdish fighters have been able to keep isil back from reaching the town. >> meanwhile, in neighboring iraq, isil has been managing to capitolize on sectarian control many sunni areas. sue turtan reports that is evident in kurdish-controlled kirkuk where sleeper cells operate with relative immunity. >> in a building site in the south of kirkuk city, kurdish special forces follow up on a tipoff that an isil sleeper cell is hiding here they soon discover a container buried underground. hidden inside, a large cache of weapons, ammunition and explosives. three men were at the site. they reportedly just moved to kirkuk after fleeing fighting and had boasted to the officers that they were isil. the men and the evidence were handed over to the local iraqi police to be processed and sent to the courts. but the kurdish security

officers tohought the suspects would be convicted. >> many judges of the court told us that their homes are in the south and are not protected, so isil attacks them. others are too afraid to put their families in danger as they have been getting death threats. we also found some of the judges are arab sunnis and are nationalistic. >> that's why they released them. . >> the sunni arab population in kirkuk is over 100,000 fled the fighting and made kirkuk their new home. it's become a nervous city with the security forces trying to track down those of being loyal to isil hiding in this community. >> there are two kinds of sunni arabs. some are in league with isil. some are against them. it's very important for us to get updated information to the airstrikes so they don't attack the wrong side. >> that's crucial for us.

we are telling them to stay away from isil. we don't want to turn them into our enemy. >> the front line is just 30 kilometers outside of the city. >> i have been asked to deep my voice down because we are so close to the isil position. it's just 50 meters away across the river here the problem the fighters have for clearing this area is the sunni arabs across the way, and they don't want to kill civilians. civilians are saying we can't force sxwil out of our villages. >> coalition airstrikes hit a vehicle across the river three days ago, killing four including two senior isil commanders. the coalitions have launched attacks where civilians are and they cannot help to weed outs isil sleepersells. fully functioning security and judicial system can do that. kirkuk. >> there has been a suicide

attack to the east of the yemeni capital which started houthi fighters. it's thought sxwaid xwaid is responsible. it follows sanaa, yemen's government has finalized a deal with the horthi leadership. they have been employing parts of the capital for over a week. we can talk to an activist who supports houthi demands. he joins us from sanaa. thank you very much for talking to us here at al jazeera. can you tell us why houthi fighters are not giving up the territory they have captured within sanaa as security appendix to this declaration actually requires? >> reporter: thank you for having me. found this yesterday so we have to give it time for this to be

impleme employme implemented. they have left their position. to secure sanaa. we have to give it time and yesterday. >> what needs to be in place in order for this to be implemented? the government has to choose a prime minister and work with the houthis. who is going to take the responsibility? the houthi reduce the presence. the last two, three days, reduced their presence in sanaa, and they will do that, they will continue doing that when there is another one take place. >> we have just reported there has been a suicide attack east of where you are outside of sanaa, and there are reports of many different incidents within

the capitol and outside pointing to the fact that this power vacuum that currently exists is not very good for the country. the country is on the edge and edging ever closer to civil war, many would say. >> yeah. yeah. i know this suicide attacks are no good for the country. we have had many suicide attacks, the ministry of defense, on the american embassy before as well. so, it's not something new that could be blamed on the power vacuum in sanaa. the incidents has reduced a lot lately but you will see, you will still see suicide attacks here and there because it was always before like that. so not because the houthi dissidents in sanaa. >> others accepting this agreement that has been signed in full in total r they satisfied with what's being offered them under the terms of this declaration of this accord?

>> yeah. of course. the people's demands of fuel price and to form a new government. so that's why they signed it. and they will fully cooperate to implement it. >> and is there anything that the houthis are holding out for? because some people suspect the houthis contingent is wanting more than is being offered under this agreement. is that the case? >> it's not the case. they have to implement the agreement. you can't say's haven't done this. you can blame them for keeping some position and checkpoint are houthi lying or wants to keep this agreement. >> thank you for talking to us live from the yemeni capital, sanaa. thank you. ? >> thank you. >> we have a lot more to come

here on the newshour including the difficult job of educating young people who survived conflict in a dangerous boat journey to come to europe. a wave of change, teenagers in south africa found refuge from gang violence by taking to their surf boards. at least 7 people have been killed in pakistan in hangu district in a cap who has been forced to leave their homes, at least 11 people were wounded. >> the indian prime minister is just about to address thousands of indian americans at new york's madison square garden. then o monday and tuesday, he will go to washington to meet barack obama. this is a major political coup before being prime primary, he

was denied a u.s. visa. kristen sal e-mailey has more. >> his visit to the united states is reason to celebrate. to saaverb patel are modi supporters is an understatement? >> we welcome him, you know, all excited to see him. >> patel's father spent seven months in india campaigning for modi who has pledged to lift c regulations on foreigning investment has raised expectations within the indian american busy community ahead of his meeting with u.s. president barack obama. >> we need excellent relationship between u.s. government and indian government. it not only help indian living in america. it helps indian living in india. >> indians make up only 1% of the population here in the united states. as a group, they are extremely successful bunch. the average household income of indian americans far exceeds

that of other americans. and many are hoping that better relationships between the united states and india will further elevate their status here. >> modi! modi! >> it's a remarkable turnaround for the indian prime minister who arrived in new york to cheering crowds. until recently, he was bard from setting foot in the u.s. over accusations he did little to stop riots in the state of guzerat when he was the chief executive in 2002. rights groups says muslims were killed in the violence. he is from the south asian solidarity collective. she started an online protest of the visit? >> what we want people to know is it not just about the riots but it represents an ideology that modi is part of. this is a hindu nation and muslim are coming from the outside when they have been there for the thousands of years. >> on friday, a new york federal court summoned modi to respond

to a lawsuit brought by two survivors of the guzerat riots. it's largely symbolic and unlikely to get in the way of business between the two countries. >> there is alternates of debate about how do you define the indian middle class, you know, in monetary terms but it's a vast consumer market, and that's what's always been tempting to a lot of american investors. >> those investors are hoping the excitement in the indian community is matched in washington. kristen saloomey, al jazeera, new york. >> in mr. modi's home country, flash floods in the northeast have left thousands of people homeless. the heavy rain and landslides also killed at least 70 people, many more people are still missing in both assam and medelia province. farmlands and many people are facing huge financial loss. thousands of demonstrate orders in the democratic republic of

congo against what they say is a power grab by the president. they are accusing him of waning to stay in control beyond his mandated term. randolph nagel reports. >> beyond tear gas, opposition protesters say they can see what's really going on. they say president joseph tabila is trying to change the constitution. so they empower him indefinitely. >> against any move to change our constitution. we shall fight with the police as our main aim is to defend our country. >> we don't want the president to change our constitution. if he tries, we shall march because his time is over. . >> opposition leaders accuse him of trying to get rid of the two-temple presidential term limit set forth in the 2006 constitution or perhaps have a new constitution passed by referendum. despite pressure from foreign officials to commit to stepping down. >> we wanted the people,

themselves, to address president kabila directly so he understands the people around him are no longer in synch with reality. it's no to the revision of the constitution and yes, to the alternatives. >> kabila tried to modify the constitution during the 2013 national dialogue when the m-23 group declared an end to its rebeb yol. the three-week exchange even wa bring to go opponents. he promised to act on the hundreds of recommendations put forth but refused amnesty for rebels who did not want to lay down arms. he told the united nations on thursday the democratic republic of congo is on the right path. y you. >> you all know what my country ce looked like just 13 years ago. i am happy to be able to say to you today that the democratic republic of congo is once again a country that is standing tall. it is a country where peace becomes stronger every day. >> millions have died in the many con conflicts in the mineral rich drc since the 1990s

and its hoped a free and fair election in 2016 will strengthen the country's path toward democratic rule. randolph nogel, al jazeera. >> gay rights activists in serbia have held their first pride parade in four years despite hundreds protesting against the event. police held back demonstrators at the rally as they pushed toward the government building in belgrade. the protest was organized by the right-wing party. air france pilots have called off the most damaging strike in the airline's history, but details of the settlement still aren't really clear. the pilots are upset at plans to expands the low-cost carrier, trans saver. phil lavelle has this report. >> if planes are not in the air, they are not making money. air france has been hemorrhaging it for the last two weeks.

$250 million is what a fort night's crimming strike has cost. more than half of sunday's flights were cancelled. skies above paris are a lot kwooirer. the noise on the ground, anything but. unions and pilots furious about what they called gross inequality. this is what has been viewed as the budget options. the likes of britain's easy jet, island's ryan air cut price slicing into air france's profits as they expands their roots in paris. the french national airline's response was to bolster trans salvia. its pilots do not get the generous salary, $100,000 to start, nor the enviable immediately allowances of their airfrance colleagues and they were all refusing to work until they did. on sunday, new talks failed but the snpl union which represents the pilots agreed to call the strike off anyway. it said the conditions of social die local log were not met today

but we decided to meet our responsibilities by lifting the strike and continuing discussions. >> the trans salveia expanding their route network in europe. it's not so much that the long- routes will be operated by trans salve i can't but certainly some of the medium haul roots will be medium haul roots will be. >>, again, is an issue that the pilots' union is concerned about. >> the union says talks can now continue forth in a calmer setting. paris's skies are about to get busy again. the question is: will they stay that well? phil lavelle, al jazeera. >> we've got a lot more to come here on the newshour including, we will be live in kabul where hamid karzi is due to be making his final speech as president of afghanistan.

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