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shelling kills dozens in. asian and european stock markets plunge as wall street losses spread around the world. for how britain is marking a hundred years of women getting the vote. a lot of three hong kong pro-democracy activists are walking free this tuesday after their convictions were overturned on appeal joshua one nathan law and alex chow had been sentenced to six months jail for unlawful assembly outside the court says the fight for the right to protest is far from over. even the judge just allow us to live to cause we still face the same

range of prison sentences in the future which means that the court of appeal have fully a sat and thought the principle of the judgment from the court of appeal in the future if at a well organized action related to civil disobedience just like regains its core action will still face the sentence to be a lot of in prison for feel was even more than a year that's why i will say that is a long time battle for us well as teenagers the trio brought hong kong to a standstill in two thousand and fourteen as leaders of the so-called broiler protests thousands were out on the streets calling for greater democracy on kong is of course part of china but operates on a different political system to the mainland activists are warning of growing

interference by beijing in the territory sarah clarke has more from hong kong. what's certainly good news for the three student leaders are night in law alex child and joshua wall who had their gel term squashed into days final court of appeal hearing the other three have walked free the five judges unanimously agreed to drop those jail sentences in stark reversal of an earlier ruling that the three were found guilty for unlawful assembly after that were involved their involvement or their role in what was described as a storming of a government full course in the legislative assembly back in two thousand and fourteen there initially given community sentences will serve a sentences as well as a suspended sentence but the government intervened calling for harsher penalty and the court of appeal then delivered on that saying all three to judge they were granted to appeal and today that final court of appeal delivered on their request now the judge did however not that future offender is involved in an unlawful

assembly and were believed to be involved in inciting violence would end here too strict guidelines as of now so that certainly has raised some concerns from pro-democracy groups that the future ability to protest will now be more strictly scrutinized but overall one would have to say good news for those three student leaders after today's final court of appeal decision now european markets of open to heavy losses with london paris and frankfurt all dropping by more than three percent in early trading and before that asian markets crumbled as investors took their lead from a huge selloff on wall street the dow jones tumbled more than a thousand points on monday or more than four and a half percent that was the biggest fall in percentage terms since august twentieth eleven and japan's benchmark nikkei closed down four point seven three percent earlier on tuesday while hong kong's benchmark hange saying index closed down more

than five percent china correspondent adrian brown has more from beijing. well the markets here in asia really took the lead from wall street the markets in cheyenne zen and shanghai were both down around about two percent in morning trading hong kong did a lot worse though down by more than five percent the reason for that is that in hong kong a lot of international companies trade on that index and a lot of those companies are exposed to the united states whereas companies here the traders on the markets in shanghai and then tend to be domestic companies that don't trade internationally we haven't seen the falls that we saw of course in two thousand and fifteen when the markets here in china plunged by between five and seven percent on that occasion we did see panic we did see anger and we did see government intervention now chinese people have very few places to invest their money it's either property or shares and neither have been doing particularly well

in recent months but overall chinese people seem to feel their economy is doing ok that's what a columnist tell you in state controlled media and there is a sense that perhaps g.d.p. is in fact a little bit higher than the government been hoping for and we'll get confirmation of what china's g.d.p. forecast will be in the year ahead when china's parliament the national people's congress convenes in just a few weeks' time and chinese leaders will be hoping that the market volatility we're seeing right now will be over by then i suggest you take a shooter is a professor of management at the university of she's a walker he says the forces in asia are bad but far from catastrophic. well actually in japan what we're seeing is obviously reaction to other markets in the us and of course in europe and with the acceleration of the yen obviously there's been a sell off the japanese exporters could been leading the market so there is negativity

but at the same time people were expecting this correction to take place so i don't think at this moment there is a crisis feeling that is amongst the japanese investors at this moment i don't think it's going to prolong or it's going to be a serious previous crash is the reason for it being is that this is back to very good earnings in the states europe and in japan so off from that point of view we can see that it's not as bubbly as it was in the past but that said the problem here is if this prolongs and if we see a downturn in the united states and europe obviously what will happen is that there will be a lot of money flowing in safe haven money into the yen which basically it's a yen obviously that would result in a very bad earnings forecast for japanese exporters that would be a very big negative scenario for the japanese authorities thirty people have been killed in syrian government and russian as strikes in eastern hooten near the capital damascus syria's government has also deployed new anti aircraft missiles to the front lines in aleppo and where it's battling rebel fighters the area's been

seen more fighting and bombing in recent weeks with hundreds of civilians killed the new weapons follow the downing of a russian fighter jet five rebels on saturday turkey's president wretch have type two and says military operations and serious african and italy province will continue with no set deadline. he says at least a thousand members of kurdish groups including the p.k. k. have been killed last month in turkey launched the offensive that aimed to drive out kurdish fighters from turkey's border at least sixteen turkish soldiers have also been killed. an opposition leader and two supreme court judges in the mold these have been arrested the president has declared a fifteen day state of emergency and the military is in charge of the parliament soundman javid has that. just hours after

a state of emergency was declared in the island nation of maldives this board carries a prominent opposition leader to the country's main jail on a remote island the. moment of the un was arrested on charges of bribery which the opposition says this politically motivated. his family released a video earlier in which he urged his supporters not to lose hope. in this police came to arrest me i'm going with them i don't even know why they are arresting me i've done nothing wrong or unlawful i urge the people of multipath to be strong and stand with us we will win. with a rested but two judges for the deepening the political crisis. it all began on thursday when the supreme court called for the retrial of nine opposition politicians including exiled former president mohammed defeat just also reinstated twelve m.p.'s who had lost their seats for supporting the opposition but president of the yemeni refused to comply with the ruling and celebrations turned into

protests the. yemeni also declared a fifteen day state of emergency and ordered the military to secure the parliament building for an indefinite period. actually and this is. in addition to the two judges police raided the house of the administrative head of the supreme court the court says police didn't have enough evidence to arrest the judicial executive president gamin who happens to be the half brother of arrested leader came to power in two thousand and thirteen that was a year after moldavian police and army overthrew president mohamed nasheed but in a shaky democracy president i mean has also faced similar allegations of becoming authoritarian and being corrupt that the supreme court was expected to do favorably on a petition to impeach i mean opposition leaders allege the president's loyalists made

it clear that they would not comply with such a verdict and launched a crackdown. for now the country best known for its tranquil beaches is struggling to deal with yet another round of political turmoil some of the job there. kenyan politician has been charged for his role in the unofficial swearing in ceremony of main opposition leader raul. mcgoohan a mcgoohan is accused of taking part in an unlawful assembly and organized criminal activity going to stood beside the danger during the mock inauguration in protest at last year's election in what was taken from his home in a dorm raid on friday. let's get more on this now from catherine sawyer who joins us from the kenyan capital nairobi success from what would you know about this. has them right outside the million million man you low called where supporters of

the opposition have began gathering all year police used tear gas to disperse them and we're going to be hearing within the hour the lawyer will be giving he's ruling on whether or not to me going on because when i should be presented before him and whether to hold the inspector general of police and the director of our criminal investigations in contempt this is after they failed to produce me going to me going to this morning even after the judge instructed for this to happen so the day has been has been quite baffling because we were waiting for the when i mean when i hear in court in nairobi and then we are told that he has been taken to a court in ca jagger's this is in the south about eighty kilometers from here and charged with being present and consenting to the administration of an old which resulted in trees on as well as taking part in an unlawful assembly and engaging in organized criminal activity that the administration of old being poked about is

there more swearing in of rial odinga last tuesday the government has already said that was an attempt to overthrow the government that organized criminal activity been talked about is the fact that he is a self declared leader of this national resistance movement that was started by the opposition last year to push for electoral reforms through what they called peaceful resistance that movement has now been declared by their government organized criminal group so me going to go and i is one of three politicians who have so far been arrested to have been released on bail all in connection to this swearing in of today and as you've been reporting catherine things have been very polarized in kenya since that disputed election last year so how out of kenya's been really reacting to today's events. mixed feelings has them a lot of people who are here very young going there saying that the government

basically what the government is doing is rolling back the democratic gains that have already been made in the country through a lot of hard shoots people died for some of the rights that we are enjoying the country right now so people are angry and saying that the government itself is subdividing the low end by taking the food i mean guna to another lol of course this is open defiance to the judiciary and the same the government has already defied several other courts or does but when you speak to other people like he clearly government officials they will say that something has to be done what happened on tuesday was illegal investigations are going on and people really have to be housework council it's going to be interesting to see going forward when this investigations are over whether or not riley lo didn't go himself is going to be arrested. all right for the moment catherine sawyer live for us there in nairobi. still ahead on al-jazeera as asian markets post big losses there warnings potential

financial crisis in the region we report from the hour. a look at the free ambulance service that's on the front line of saving lives in somalia's capital. and i was about eight degrees in tokyo by day it's too warm for snow but it's the right direction or what went right weather pattern to give you snow in japan and it has been falling vastly on the western side of honshu that's your hole card and all that on that breeze comes off the sea of japan here just keep piling up but take care remains as is always the case in shadow now it's not as cold as it walls in south korea still subzero but there's no more significant snow likely to fall and for example. for the winter olympics it's colder for what's there to lie on the

ground which is not adding to it is a hint of a slight warm by the time we get to thursday but stay there so there in pyongyang and his plus two in beijing and still. blue skies above them now the cold has crept science in fact every day this year in hong kong has been colder than it should be compared with the average and fourteen is again lower than you expect over night it is slowly warming we had fifteen on monday but we're only just hinting it suggesting slightly warmer weather largely felt that way because the increase he was to see increasing the cloudy the rest this part of china still cold shanghai's five is probably where it should be do still surprisingly high. more than seven decades ago a country was split in two. and the time.

to be my page all it took was a pen a map of the collapsing empire when the british had to draw a line they pulled its servants who had never been to india before al-jazeera examines the violent birth of india and pakistan and asks what the future holds for these neighbors borders of blood at this time. and again you're watching. our top stories this hour three hong kong pro-democracy activists are walking free off to their convictions were overturned on appeal joshua wallet nathan low and alex child were convicted of unlawful assembly and

twenty sixteen two years earlier they led major protests calling for greater democracy activists are warning of growing interference by beijing. a kenyan politician has been charged for his role in the unofficial swearing in ceremony of the main opposition leader right. took part in an unlawful assembly and organized criminal activity and stood beside. the mock inauguration. european markets of open to heavy losses with london paris and frankfurt all dropping more than three percent in early trading asian markets crumbled as investors took their lead from a huge selloff on wall street. the latest slump in ages markets come twenty years after a much bigger bigger disaster the asian financial cry. i says that began with the collapse of thailand's currency the botton spread across east asia one of the main factors was high public debt in the affected countries including laois and now

similar warnings about governments in the region borrowing too much money are back why in a reports from the laotian capital vienna. the coffee industry in laos is one of the fastest growing in asia its output is still small compared with regional leaders like vietnam and indonesia but fuelled by increasing demand from neighboring china production grew by more than eight percent last year ro is say laos has a real opportunity to take the industry to the next level through improved infrastructure like better processing facilities reverse her financing but despite it being one of the few lao export products there's no sign the government is willing to help. on regard projects on hydropower on mining on purgatory right no small are not enough supporters. indeed the

government has big plans to shake off the tag of one of asia's poorest countries it wants to graduate from the united nations least developed country status in the next twelve years and it's turned to china to help fund big projects like this economic zone just outside the capital. which is being built in anticipation of the city expanding quickly and a six billion dollars high speed train line that are run from southern china. but the amount of money the lao government is borrowing for the projects is causing concern. public debt is estimated at around sixty eight percent of g.d.p. and almost half of the money is being borrowed from one source china. financial sources. to be risky because. this is going to be exposed through this business i created. the lao government says big

investment is vital if it's to improve the livelihood of its people one priority is health care which like many aspects of laos society has fallen into disrepair through poor governance and neglect the main hospital in the capital was built by the french in one thousand nine hundred three and is head few improvements since but as part of the government's health care reforms work will soon begin on a new hospital to be built on the same size built with chinese money wayne hay al-jazeera. pollens president says he will sign a controversial holocaust bill into law despite protests from israel and the united states the more would impose jail terms for suggesting poland was complicit in the holocaust his government says it's necessary to protect the reputation of poles as victims of nazi aggression israel has called it an attempt to challenge historical truth the israeli army says it's killed a palestinian man who has who was warned who was wanted over the death of

a settler last month the army shot dead twenty one year old akhmed nasser gerard engine in in the occupied west bank was accused of killing rabbi. in an illegal israeli outpost on january ninth two of the palestinians were killed in raids during the man. african and european leaders are meeting in rome on the to talk about the growing refugee crisis it's been a year since italy signed a deal with libya to stop refugees and migrants from traveling to europe on crowded boats the strategy is part of a broader european approach that amnesty international says has placed thousands of people in abusive detention camps where torture is rife john holl has more from rome so fourteen nations at least forty nations in gauge here the italian foreign ministry in rome in what is an ongoing conversation between the countries in africa

that actors countries of origin and transit for the many many thousands of people trying to make their way to europe and the so-called host countries in europe that receive them which of course italy is a prime one the conference heard that the numbers had been decreasing quite encouraging really over the two thousand and sixteen seventeen period in large part of they haven't said it here because of italian methods of dealing with the libyan coast guard encouraging them to turn people back but in fact turning them back to camps that have been described by aid groups and activists as prison camps and detention centers where smuggling networks are rife and exploitation right as well that will have to be dealt with here in terms of protecting the human rights of those involved in this migration and as well as that as outlined by the italian foreign minister defeating the so-called business model of smugglers but he said finance terrorism and looking out for the return of fighters i still fighters coming back to their countries of origin in europe using these routes it's all

about human rights it's all about protecting and saving lives it's all about bringing together many many countries in a common cause common and difficult cause with multiple competing interests. well the louvre museum in france is investigating the removal of qatar from a map that was displayed in one of its museums it was published by the united arab emirates louvre in abu dhabi museum the head of the national committee for human rights in qatar says the louvre museum has apologized for the admission the u.a.e. saudi arabia egypt and bahrain cut ties with qatar in june. a single ambulance service is at the forefront of saving lives in somalia's capital mogadishu limited medical services not enough in a city often vulnerable to bomb attacks and while the local health care system is slowly improving of the years of neglect for many it is not coming soon enough for me to miller has more from mogadishu. you know i think it's ten am and the

seventh emergency call of the morning comes through you know please it's from this call center in mogadishu that the only free ambulance service in the city is run it's not a huge operation but the staff are kept busy of the following of the. we are very busy when explosions happen when they do i have to do more than just drive i have to help the nurses with patients twelve years ago up to carter had used all these savings to buy his first ambulance today he has a fleet of ten they may be old and some on their last legs but they get the job done oh actually one i came to somalia in two thousand and six there was a war going on one day to have been fishing coming to somalia and there was a lot of people was dying in front of my clinic i was having a clinic in back out of market and destinies of people was dying and getting injured then i asked myself how can i help my people workers are not well trained

but they have the basic skills they can start bleeding and give patients painkillers but that's about all but transporting patients to hospitals quickly and safely is often the difference between life and death the ambulance service needs more equipment and its staff better trial more training it's often the leading emergency service most recently when two blasts went off last october killing more than five hundred people and injuring hundreds of others for years many people were brought into her. spittles using wooden wheelbarrows often been pushed as far as five kilometers to get help many wouldn't make the journey i mean ambulances are helping to improve market issues health services especially as the few were available ambulances are an affordable for most people this is mogadishu's largest

hospital its director mohamed use of hassen says while they are able to do more surgeries than ever before they can treat everyone some of them you need some sophisticated investigation that you cannot do because you don't have the people in imaging in scorpius all this is needed but you see we are not helpless we have many promises from outside now that help is increasingly coming from within the somalia adam runs the service using his own money and donations he says he dreams of one day having ambulances helping people not just in mogadishu but across somalia for me to al-jazeera mogadishu a family six marks one hundred years since women won the right to vote in the united kingdom activists at the forefront of the campaign well known as suffragettes bonamy phillips has their story. the.

was. an epic victory celebrated in the museum of london one hundred years since the first british women got the vote all thanks to the suffragettes who took on the establishment and won. it wasn't easy they chained themselves to fences outside parliament many were arrested beaten went on hunger strike one even threw herself at the king's horse in the famous darby race. she died but the cause did not. the suffragette struggled but they ultimately won but what would they make the british society today one hundred years on with they believe that women have achieved true equality it wasn't until nine hundred twenty eight that younger and poorer women were also given the vote and says this very in character actor the suffragettes always hoped to inspire future generations when we

went off i that's not going to be the end of all the fights you know we're going to have to keep fighting i'm sure and i just hope that we can set the precedent for that and they keep fighting just as hard as we. she no doubt would agree emily pankhurst leader of the suffragettes and great grandmother of helen who wonders if the glass is only half full every single measure of political equality we still have so far to go in every single parliament and in particular i need you k. we only have thirty two percent representation if you look at all other aspects of democracy so the legal system the the media reporting of parliament and of politics we still have a lot to go so i think. comedy throws light on women struggles today this is humiliating but it also made the families because the first week in our relationship that i earned him. with british

institutions from parliament to the b.b.c. hit by revelations of gender discrimination. it feels like we're just failing over and over but we have to remember the suffragettes failed for over fifty years they only succeeded once and we only need to succeed once they are impossible is our normal life we are the hopes of the suffragettes was. our debt to the heroines of the past maligned in their day as misguided radicals we remember them as being on the right side of history bobby philips al jazeera london . this is a minor the top stories three hong kong pro-democracy activists are walking free after their convictions were overturned on appeal joshua wong nathan law and alex chadwick convicted of unlawful assembly in twenty sixteen two years earlier they

had led major protests calling for greater democracy activists warn of growing interference by beijing. stock markets around the world are continuing their tumble after the big selloff on wall street the day before the main european markets recovering slightly now after they open to heavy losses with london paris and frankfurt all dropping more than three percent in early trade before that asian markets crumbled with big losses in tokyo and hong kong thirty people have been killed in syrian government and russian air strikes in eastern hooter near damascus the u.n. is calling for an immediate cease fire and it wants the call the situation extreme syria's government has also deployed new anti-aircraft missiles to the front lines in aleppo and it liberates battling rebel fighters the new weapons follow the downing of a russian fighter jet by rebels on saturday a political crisis in the maldives is deepening after the arrest of an opposition

leader and two supreme court judges that's just hours after a state of emergency was declared for president may moon a human who's called who's allied himself with the opposition was detained at his home denies the charges they include bribery and attempting to overthrow the government. police came to arrest me i'm going with them i don't even know why be arresting me i've done nothing wrong grow more bomb i urge the people to be strong and stand with us we will win. a kenyan politician has been charged for his role in the unofficial swearing in ceremony of main opposition leader riley police say the guna mcgoohan or took part in an unlawful assembly and they say engaged in organized criminal activity within a stood beside a dingo during the mock inauguration those are the headlines sirat today

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