cuba thanks al jazeera oh. wow. i'm maryanne demasi this is the news hour live from london coming up in the next sixty minutes. police in bangladesh fired tear gas at students protesting over road safety as they warn of a heavy crackdown if the demonstrations continue. eighty two people now reported dead as a second big earthquake in a week hits the indonesian island of long ball. six are arrested after what venezuela's president says was an attempt to

assassinate him using explosive dragoons. and why a rock music festival dubbed russia's of woodstock is providing a stage for the kremlin heavy weapons as well as heavy metal. manchester city when the first trophy of the new english football season the defending premier league champions. single to lift the community shield. to the program our top story police in bangladesh fired tear gas at thousands of angry students rallying for an eighth straight day in the capital dhaka demanding safer streets after two teenagers were killed by speeding buses last week the government has promised to crack down both on dangerous driving and the protesters and pro-government activists have been attacking the demonstrators and journalists

. student protesters have blocked streets and boggle desh for the past week they're demanding government action to improve road safety traffic accidents kill at least seven thousand bangladeshis every year two young students were knocked down and killed by a bus last week and even though the net i'm going to we have been protesting on the roads for a few days with some of that demands with demanding justice for those students of the college to buy a bus and we want safe roads i saw. over the weekend the peaceful protests became violent when police tried to break up the crowds demonstrators were further incensed by a government minister who questioned why there was uproar about two deaths in bangladesh and a lack of anger about thirty three dead in a bus crash in india the previous day i'm not sitting on a subway i'm the government that's out there we all are feeling threatened and we wanted a peaceful protest we don't want any trouble occurring around here yet rubber bullets

were shot on our brothers at mirpur neighborhood they were dispersed one told us the government ordered schools and bus services to shut down the government's trying to quell the violence by cutting internet services to cripple social media and censoring both bangladeshi and international media on the topic a lot of them of the pro-government students attacked us then we broke the locks of a building around fifty boys and girls took shelter there and now the journalists how to us to leave the place the police fired tear gas and used the tongs pro-government students also attacked and roughed up those. pro-government students are seen in this footage beating up an associated press journalist government leaders say they're going to implement the stew's demands for improved road safety but more protests are feared as both the ruling in opposition parties campaigned for elections due in december paul chatterjee on al-jazeera the senate take a closer look at the number of deaths and accidents in bangladesh well than twenty

five thousand people have died over the last three and a half years change him. having an excessive speeding mass amounts to more than twenty people killed per day with most of the victims children all use our lifeline for their families and more than sixty two thousand have been injured on the roads chadri is in the bangladeshi capital dakar and has more now on the latest violence there were clashes in different parts of the city several students were injured major concerns been brought up by the journalist community at least five members of the journalist community were beaten up a.p. photo journalist was marketed between in front of the police by the ruling party member of a lot of court of journalists but also britain and this just happened today yesterday also at least five other journalists were beaten including a primo journalist who was given not only bitten but you were told that she worked for a major leading english daily i don't know what the government's trying to do why

the police are stunned by that you're only five in iraq and this will be a major come from we're covering an event in coming days home minister gave a stern warning against anyone who has a limit on the patience of the government the prime minister's made today. some people are trying to catch. cloudy water he was even critical of like many of the media for their coverage this is quite unprecedented why i should criticize the media or most of the media covering the event from the ground or bangladesh's home minister has issued a stern warning to anyone considered to have crossed the line he said lorne forces a showing patience it doesn't mean that they will keep crossing the limits and we will sit idle and watch we will go to tough action if the limit is crossed which is a bangladeshi photographer and social activist told al-jazeera that people haven't

been happy about the situation for a while. it really is that and and the energy emotion and anger that was being let loose this particular incident sad as it is really the. allowed to go through under pressure the prime minister of that reforms but then renee don't says this and that's also part of the reason that this time when the student did go on protests. it again it went to a situation where they cannot control it and the prime minister has promised that she will see to that demand that people no longer believe she has no credibility she's made promises before it's not been accepted so now they don't do it but i think what we need to look at is what's happening in the streets today the police typically ask for help from these goons to from but students demanding they roads i mean how ridiculous is that today i was in the

streets there are people with michelle in in their hands chasing. and the police standing by watching it happen in some cases they're actually helping it out i mean i've been on that this morning there was gassing and i saw the police going gang up trying to catch these are non-citizens where's the goons are going we'll take the mission at a walking past. and they're standing. and following that interview with al jazeera scheidel al and was arrested by bangladesh a police at his home in the capital dhaka. well now indonesia's national disaster management board says at least eighty two people have died after a magnitude seven quake hit the popular tourist indonesian island of long book video from the island shows people running from damaged buildings the government says hundreds more have been injured and thousands of homes have been destroyed

a strong quake in the same area killed more than a dozen people last week step vasant has more from the capital jakarta. only one week after a powerful earthquake struck the island of lombok earthquake happened on long but an all too a strongly felt on the neighboring island of bali both tourist destinations also both in the peak season lot of tourists on both islands damage has been reported both on bali and long book but the exact extent of the damage will only be known in the morning at the moment of thought these were very busy trying to evacuate people from the beaches and shores because there was a tsunami warning in place that warning has now been lifted and only a very small tsunami a small wave has hit the beaches of not more than fifty centimeters high but it was a huge branagh especially in the areas where also last week's earthquake struck a lot of people were still sleeping on the street didn't dare to go back to their houses of course you can imagine the panic and trauma in that area but this

earthquake had a wider range and it was also strongly felt in the capital of lombok that with more than three hundred thousand people a lot of panic there as well and also the airport a lot of travelers were stuck for a while stranded they had to wait at the tom mark to make sure that the authorities would give a clear again so now flights are flying in and out of lombok again. venezuela's interior minister says six people have been detained after what president nicolas maduro says was an assassination attempt on him president accuses colombia and a group of u.s. finance is of trying to kill him venezuela's opposition fears it could pave the way for a government crackdown rob reynolds reports. i don't understand the concept this was the moment when two bomb laden drones allegedly exploded during a military parade in caracas on saturday you know the. security agents quickly surrounded president nicolas maduro and he muscled him off the reviewing platform

meanwhile venezuelan soldiers marching in formation broken ran in all directions witnesses described loud blasts and smoke so me i looked out and i started seeing people running and that's when the device immediately collided there and everything started coming out. but duro immediately blamed his right wing will be apparent attack elements which he said were active in the united states also implicated colombia's president juan manuel santos. they tried to assassinate me and i have no doubt that everything points to the right the venezuelan ultra right in alliance with the colombian ultra right and that the name of juan manuel santos is behind this attempt colombia's foreign affairs ministry called that accusation absurd and in washington president donald trump's national security adviser strongly denied any u.s. role i can say unequivocally there was no u.s. government involvement in this ad all it has been widely reported that trump

repeatedly suggested a military invasion of venezuela last year but was talked out of it by senior officials. bolton speculated without providing evidence that government may itself be responsible for the apparent drone bombing now with respect to what happened last afternoon could be a lot of things from a pretext set up by the majority itself to something else i don't know but on sunday venezuela's interior minister showed pictures of the type of drone he claimed was used officials allege each carried a kilogram of the plastic explosive i want to see for ses. we have so far six terrorists and had been detained several vehicles seized several raids in hotels are being carried out in our nation's capital or very important evidence has been gathered caracas released pictures of defense minister vladimir padrino visiting

with seven soldiers said to be wounded in the incident and time a douro political leaders fear that the government will use the case to justify a harsh crackdown on the opposition the broad front opposition coalition tweeted that the government would take advantage of the incident quote to criminalize those who legitimately and democratically oppose it and deepen the repression and systematic human rights violations robert oulds al-jazeera washington so i've worn this when joined from washington by as his vice president of the council of the americas thank you very much for taking the time to speak to us well now there is a great deal of information we don't have about this an incident and not that we convair a fight but what do you think happened. well you're right we can't know

precisely at this moment there are a lot of plausible scenarios a group of disaffected military personnel have actually taken credit now for this attack but it's also possible as the u.s. national security advisor suggested that this might be something that the madeira government did on its own the a.p. reported yesterday that there was a gas explosion completely unrelated to these activities in an apartment complex a couple blocks away that might have been what everybody was reacting to so the bottom line is it's murky we don't know for sure but that's part of the problem in venezuela today nothing really appears as it really is but nonetheless the mood there or government as well practiced it taking any excuse for repression and crackdown so no matter what is responsible or who is responsible i would anticipate that a further wave of repression is probably on the way and we have seen attacks direct attacks on the government in the pos perhaps most prominently in two thousand and seventeen when the supreme court building in the interior ministry well there is

some precedence that yeah there certainly is there are people are increasingly disaffected with their own government the i.m.f. estimates that inflation will be over one thousand percent this year food is on the vailable to sell its own people medical care hundreds of thousands of people are migrating out of the country just because they can't seem to find living conditions suitable for them in venezuela today so not only have there been efforts in the past but i would anticipate at some level people who are just desperate will try things in the future i think that's what the government is afraid of and that's what it's pointing to and yet something like this may it doesn't make the government in the uk we can vulnerable doesnt it. well it certainly does not the least of which is because faced with an explosion the uniform military cut and ran they fled the scene most military folks would go toward explosions the

venezuelan material military apparently ran away from it this cannot give confidence to the president and government of venezuela that the military is there to protect them so i think there will probably be some soul searching about the state of the institution of the military in venezuela and i think you'll probably also see president maduro try to further radicalize his own personal security guards and those who are more loyal to him personally to protect against this sort of thing from happening again i'm presently there i was quick to blame the united states but also colombia for what took place do you see the when a ship with colombia which has already been deteriorating as being pap's and non the flashpoint looking at. yeah this is something that i find somewhat bizarre i mean before anybody could even have any idea what had actually happened the president of venezuela was already blaming colombia and the united

states and assorted unnamed right wing conspiratorial completely bizarre but yeah colombia and venezuela have traditionally been rivals and with the election of uganda ok in colombia the rhetoric has intensified but why not i mean look colombia is faced now with a true humanitarian crisis caused by what the madeira regime is doing and hundreds of thousands of venezuelans are crossing the border into colombia which now has to deal with this crisis and doesn't have the resources or ability to do so so i think that that's probably something we can anticipate that as relations between colombia and venezuela deteriorate further we're going to hear more of this and hopefully it will stop with a rhetorical battle and not progressed anything further than that but it's complicated and it's historic thank you very much appreciate your thoughts on this story vice president of the council of the americas down washington area. thank you mary. at the news hour live from london much more still ahead on the program rival

leaders in south sudan sign a new power sharing agreement aimed at ending nearly five years of civil war. israel's prime minister defends a controversial nation state law which has sparked angry protests from the country's minority. and it's for the most a g.p. season resumes with a three way to reel in the czech republic and you will have that story and much more. u.s. president donald trump has admitted that his son and all the campaign figures did meet a kremlin connected lawyer to gather information on presidential rival hillary clinton during the two thousand and sixteen election campaign trumpet previously insisted the meeting was about the adoption of russian children by american families so for more let's speak to mike hanna who is in washington mike what's trump and sang. oh

miriam this earth shattering tweet came at eight thirty five this morning and certainly it has raised immense discussion in political circles basically what it means is that president trump is now reversing a story that he contended was accurate not only him but also his son donald jr now just three tracks likely donald jr insisted that this meeting with a russian linked lawyer was to discuss as you mentioned the adoption of children this was borne out in testimony that don jr gave to the senate now it further transpires that he then issued a letter stating that it was for the purpose of adoption and now we do know that that letter was dictated by president trump so essentially what we have got here is president trump insisting about the motives for this meeting such

a need changes completely now president trump admits freely that yes the meeting was aimed at getting dirt on a political opponent it completely changes the entire dynamic in this particular case and is very likely to further away the interest of the special prosecutor robert miller so what might be the consequences of a deliberately misleading statement from president trump on that meeting. what we've heard from president trumps a lawyer in the course of the morning one of his many lawyers jay sekulow who is insisting that should any moves be made to subpoena president trump by the special counsel then it would go to court off the court off the court and would probably end up in the supreme court the law and whether or not a sitting president can be subpoenaed is pretty vague not much precedent in this particular area and certainly is what his lawyers are arguing at least but what has become very clear in the past few months is that president trump is increasingly concerned about the special counsel's investigation i can mention that within the

last two months he's tweeted forty nine times associates in this investigation with a witch hunt now clearly this is something he's deeply concerned about but the investigation now by his own admission does appear to have a valid basis if you do have a situation with yes there was collusion between members of president trump staff and somebody with russian links with links to the russian government then certainly the special counsel's investigation into kalu collusion has a valid basis indeed thank you very much my canner in washington. rival leaders in south sudan have signed a new power sharing agreement aimed to ending five years of war in africa's youngest country a deal will give south a karen react chance eight months to form a transitional government which will sit for three years and the morgan has more. another agreement signed between south sudan's government and opposition groups and

renewed hopes of ending five years of war this time regional countries brokered more than a month of direct discussions in the sudanese capital khartoum between the leaders of the whirring sides. the civil war started less than three years after south sudan gained independence from sudan in twenty eleven president salva kiir accused his former vice president riek machar of attempting a coup since then tens of thousands have been killed and a third of the twelve million population forced from their homes the latest agreement gives an eight month pretend period after which a rick machar is due to return as vice president the deal stipulates thirty five ministers in a transitional government twenty from curious party and nine from much ours the rest represent of the party's parliament will have five hundred fifty legislators including three hundred thirty two from peers group and one hundred twenty eight from my chars opposition leader rick machar says the latest deal will bring peace

a power sharing deal science three years ago so much i returned to his position months later only for fighting to soon restart some such as florio are also what happened then are cautiously optimistic now. we're one of those games when the two thousand and sixteen fighting happened we were trapped so much has changed since the war my sister lost a husband and we also lost another relative we couldn't do anything we just stayed at home now we just one piece. around six million south sudanese rely on foreign aid to survive with a commie devastated by were many are hanging their hopes on this agreement he morgan al-jazeera. ethiopia's defense ministry is promising to take all necessary measures to restore order in its eastern somali region lile it's broken off to the government deployed its troops there leading to fighting with our military soldiers loyal to the regional government mobs then looted shops and burned down buildings

including two churches in the capital jake chica at least four towns of also been affected by violence and there are reports a number of people have been killed. since somali province has been plagued by violence for the last three decades at the heart of the conflict is tension between ethiopian somalis who make up six percent of the population and the majority are romo people in neighboring or m e a province as well as territorial battles over grazing land there's also the issue of oil wealth not being evenly distributed since coming to power ethiopia's new prime minister ahmed who's a roma himself as preached a line of unity while trying to assert more federal control over somali province paramilitary soldiers loyal to the local government there have been accused of taking part in ethnic violence against the aroma which has claimed hundreds of lives and displaced tens of thousands of people since two thousand and seventeen the central government has also accused the region's officials of human rights

abuses just last month senior prison staff were fired after details emerged of torture at a prison that there is now going to doe has more now from neighboring djibouti. there's a tense in the city of tick tick up a couple of the somali region of ethiopia federal troops continue to arrive some of them by claims and. the residents of the city was surprised to see a group troops walling into the city with tongues and at this point the local or special police exchanged fire with the federal troops and this created some confusion which. began something that's so the entire market of hugo looted to churches and up to fifty people losing their lives the government in addis ababa justifies what the troops saying that there was

a rift between the regional administration and the federal government and that there were plans by the region with russian to announce the suppression of the session from the rest of ethiopia something that goes outrightly denied by the original president stopped him humble. honest on our suicide bombers attacked a checkpoint in jalalabad killing three soldiers and he said recently set up checkpoints around the east and says after a wave of deadly attacks that early as three soldiers from the czech republic were killed in and around the suicide attack they were serving with the nato force an eastern part won province north of kabul one us until afghan soldiers have also have been injured. egypt says its military has killed fifty two people and arrested dozens in an ongoing crackdown in the sinai region egypt launched an offensive in february targeting on groups in sinai the nile delta and the western desert it also destroyed fifteen vehicles loaded with weapons and ammunition which it says were

attempting to cross the country's western border with libya. israel's prime minister is defending a new law which has outraged the country's druze minority during a cabinet meeting benjamin netanyahu said the law is meant to protect israel's status as a jewish state will help to prevent palestinians and illegal migrants from seeking citizenship on saturday drew's protest is rallied against the legislation which they say reduces them to second class citizens even though they also serve in the military and in the police after simmons has more from west jerusalem. what the prime minister had to say doesn't take things further he isn't prepared to repeal the law nor will he amend it and it won't click kate that offer of the committee looking at the whole range of issues won't click eight of the objectives of the druze in particular there will be more demonstrations and parliament is being recalled the knesset will meet on wednesday to discuss this but can't vote on

anything so where does this go next it will be measured perhaps by the number of israeli jews who actually get involved in these demonstrations we saw so many jewish people at that demonstration on saturday night and though the government may well be concerned about this and watching it very closely right now we have a security cabinet meeting which is looking at the gaza situation those talks to try to get along to a peace deal with hamels we have a un special envoy nicole i'm letting off has been engaged in shuttling to cairo garza and indeed as well right now there will be consideration of a potential deal which will be apparently step by step but when details will come through on this remains to be seen. still to come for you this hour the cost of causing back obamacare insurance premiums are set to rise in the united states as

president john does manage all of his predecessors health reforms. a deadline looms for candidates to register in the democratic republic of congo's election president joseph kabila be among them. and install will have the story of a south african cricket ahead saying i'll record breaking score on his one day international debut. another weekend he did not provide any big broken records for your world to lisbon for example and it's hard temperature forty four there are a few showers around and these bits of white show you roughly where they are the concentration is still going to be eastern europe and down for the out of the going down towards it's early in the arc of cloud of the british isles is indeed another cold front and it's that sort of area where the temperature will drop for a while see these lines here that's

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back quick look at the top stories this hour thousands of angry students have been rallying in bangladesh's capital to call for a safe the streets off the two teenagers were killed by speeding hosses last week. at least eighty two people have died after a magnitude seven earthquake hit the popular tourist indonesian island of long ball it's the second major quake in a week. and venezuela's interior minister says six people have been arrested over an apparent assassination attempt on the president nicolas maduro. now european manufacturers are rushing to deliver a plan. to iran before u.s. sanctions are reintroduced on monday iran as receive thirteen of the twenty planes

it bought from the european firm a.t.r. iran says the sanctions endanger the lives of at travelers because they stop lines from buying new planes and parts when while iranian authorities have detained the deputy chief of iran's central bank to iraq she was arrested along with several other individuals as part of a crackdown on financial fraud in the country same bus ravi has more from to iran. the detention of ahmed iraq the iran central bank's top official in charge of foreign exchange comes just twenty four hours after he was fired and replaced now less than two weeks ago the head of the central bank was fired and replaced and all of this comes on the eve of u.s. sanctions going back into effect against iran also foreign minister zarif is expected to address parliamentarians in the morning about the country's foreign policy matters specifically about u.s.

sanctions and later that day president hassan rouhani is expected to make a televised address to the nation this government no doubt wants to be seen to be doing something about the allegations the perception of corruption amongst top officials and especially in light of the fact that the result has fallen so drastically the iranian currency has lost more than half its value in less than a year just to give you a sense of the public mood in the country at the moment during the friday sermon this week the cleric delivering the sermon said that public officials who were involved in corrupt practices were traitors now all of this high political drama comes in the backdrop of a six night of protest demonstrations have been ongoing sporadically throughout the country and police personnel as well as protesters are out on the streets in various cities across the country once more to demonstrate against. the country's

failing economy so amongst protesters as well as opposition politicians there is a desire to see more than just personnel changes at the mid level what people are calling for is a change at the federal cabinet level which is something that we aren't seeing as yet. russia has given turkey until a summit scheduled for september seventh to settle the conflict in syria's province and stop the government carrying out a military offensive that any renewed fighting would trigger a humanitarian crisis and lead to the collapse of the so-called us down a process and harder reports from beirut. president bashar assad says is the syrian army's next target the opposition controlled northwestern province is home to almost three million people at least half displaced from other rebel areas after so-called surrender deals but the syrian government's ally russia appears to be giving turkey a chance to what it called stabilize the province turkey is being asked to fulfill agreed commitments of the so-called astronaut process.

responsibility for the situation. expected to fights terrorists. russia says turkey was supposed to expel or dissolved the heat a sham the group formerly known as as well as what our city in the syrian branch of al qaida those fighters are designated as terrorists by the international community they are powerful and they have in the past rejected ultimatums to disband.