understand a man has been arrested after a car smashed into barriers outside the parliament building earlier today various feeds and footage coming through to a social media as well that this is a satellite picture coming to us showing heavily armed police in the form of response units arriving at the scene with the area outside the building completely sealed off of course there was an incident about a year ago where somebody smashed a vehicle through an outer perimeter fence having driven across the bridge that's immediately by the house of commons and he'd gone from south of the rivets and north of the river and he moved down various people and he didn't manage to get into the main part of the secure compound that is in effect the british parliament but he did do a lot of damage but that's not in direct relation to what we're talking about today that's just give you a little bit of back story when it comes to security of the parliament building but the top line on that this is all we know so far a man has been arrested after

a car smashed into barriers outside the house of commons he was arrested at the scene we're being told as well as soon as we get as soon as we get any more on that for you we'll bring it to you here just as soon as we can several people have been injured nobody dead several people have been injured more on that in the coming hours. a leader of a party educating hong kong's independence has accused china of suppressing freedom of speech rival protests and the chance he arrived at the territories foreign correspondents club to give a speech with the chinese and hong kong government wanted the event cancelled now last month the police put forward an unprecedented proposal to ban chan's party for national security reasons due to the nature of how the chinese public machine works the national party was instantly demonized as some sort of extremist group due to these. independents in reality what the national party is chasing now there

is no difference from what many homeowners wish for the dream of democracy and now as you all know the government is trying to. complete the calling us an illegal society. our correspondent rob mcbride is live for us this hour outside that foreign correspondents club in central hong kong joining us live what's he been saying. that's right andy chan the independent advocate has indeed now left the building peter his speech wrapped up a short time ago it's lunchtime here early afternoon in hong kong these lunchtime news events happen quite often here this it's been a fairly regular scheduled event and suddenly and the chant found himself being the man of the moment with his organization the teams being earmarked to be potentially

banned here in hong kong for having this position of advocating for independence now as you heard there and the chant says that this is not talking for any kind of violent overthrow of chinese rule here he said talking about this autonomy or independence through peaceful means and that's what he's been talking about at this event but that for many people for the protesters who've been angrily making their voices heard all around this building here that really goes across a red line any talk of independence as far as pro beijing protesters are concerned is really treasonous kind of talk treasonous behavior and a lot of their anger i think peter has that been directed not only at andy chan but also with the journalists for here for giving this man a platform for their part the foreign correspondents club says that it has under the in the constitution the basic law by which hong kong is governed as being a chinese city but with special rules and special privileges it has freedom of speech and that's merely all they've been doing here indeed the journalists here

say that if they didn't have this news baker to come and speak to them and hold him to account they wouldn't be doing their job peter and wider implications for press freedom what are people making of that aspects of someone trying to deliver this kind of speach. i think part of the worrying part of this peter is the way that lots of people have jumped on this political bandwagon and that particular people like see why long the former leader of hong kong a pro at beijing that now a statesman who goes out that very often to beijing itself it's a really asking why the foreign correspondents club it goes back seventy five years in its history why it should have this building here in the center of hong kong why it's with its government the shouldn't be put out to general tender and that has been taken by many people here as really using this issue of attacking the freedom

of the press here itself peter rob thank you. still to come here on al-jazeera he won't be going to jail the highest ranking catholic official to be convicted for concealing child sex abuse however has been sentenced. hello the concern of flash floods is back with us now the next cold front sweeping through western europe tiles off in the alps but it's not a white cloud here so the sun isn't tall will showers thunderstorms in there's a potential now ahead of it the air is about eight degrees warmer than that behind that's what you can get rid of the swarms we pushed out the way for the time being as it will be from northern spain and northern portugal and a good part of france so overnight and during the first hours of the morning that

green mousie's was used to get the heavy potential just moves down the domination coast stretches out through austria to the head of it all which is denmark and then sudden sweden so it's cooler than it was a temp is back down to where they should be but wet and windy are the two most obvious was a whole lot keeps moving eastward so wednesday takes it almost to moscow leaving sunshine behind telling off the shasta seeing a rise in temperature of the paris in london back up to the high twenty's so there's action in the west in the central mediterranean south of that a shower or two possibly in algeria we see them dusty right now here in tunisia but not much to it however we still do have showers along way north lists on the in the saddle in those in chad and northern nisha.

welcome back you're with al-jazeera lining's peter davi let's just have a look at our top stories again we got that developing story for you coming to us from a side the house of commons in london you can see a vehicle there so the rights of the shot clearly is taken a head on collision to one of the security barriers several people have been

injured the driver of the vehicle has been detained what you're looking at right now is i think think i. an aerial shot looking from east to west so the main part of the house of commons is off to the left of the shot we've got this shot to show you as well so that's looking alone towards college green and milbank tower so behind where the camera man is filming from that's whitehall that's the ministry of defense it's ten downing street as well clearly security outside the house of commons always always phenomenally tight and the police aware that there's been a track record of incidents in london nobody is saying anything. to quantify the nature of what's happened it could be something mundane and predictable it could be somebody who was taken ill behind the wheel of a car it could be somebody who's got an axe to grind clearly the london

metropolitan police force assume as they have more information i suspect that president dick the boss of the london metropolitan police force will be conducting some sort of news conference in the coming few hours but just to get you right up to date on that the top line on that story coming to us that breaking story car smashes into a barrier at the house of commons the driver is alive he's been detained presumably if he's not in a good way he will be in one of the local hospitals being looked after police will be waiting to talk to him for several people we don't know specifically how many but several people have been injured more on that for you soon as we count. the former president of argentina has denied any wrongdoing in a corruption scheme saying the accusations are politically motivated christine appeared in court on monday to reason has the story from buenos aires. she was one sided. but things have changed.

of allegations over corruption. which a name is reportedly mentioned in the notebooks of a driver in the. history in which he details how millions of dollars in cash were moved in his vehicle and delivered to the presidential palace. and then christina waring office in the past week businessmen and politicians came to this courthouse to testify in this enormous corruption investigation several businessmen admittedly they paid millions of dollars in bribes to members of the previous administration in exchange for public works contracts the lot was the first one to see the old folks as it was. a neighbor had a friend who was a driver who gave them a series of notebooks which described how corruption operated in the previous administration and he was supposed to reveal them only if something happened to his friend. carried out the investigation but did not publish the findings instead he

took the notebooks to a state prosecutor so he could initiate an official investigation silence was crucial not only for the case to move forward but also for his own safety. i held back publishing because i believed much more needed to happen i only published it when the investigation was on and those involved were being questioned what it shows is that the history of corruption in public works is not unique to the previous administration but it did happen and it is this that brought christina again to court. on monday she tweeted that this is a regional strategy to prescribe leaders of movements some political forces that have increased people rights and allow thousands to leave poverty behind for many the corruption investigation is the biggest in a country that has failed to prosecute white collar crime over the years you know. the reality is bigger than what we imagined we all knew that there was corruption

but not that it was systemic like the notebook's revealed it is a difficult case to put on trial because it involves so many things it forces us to rethink the whole judicial process the former president her aides and important business men for the prosecutors say all part of the same plot that shows for the first time the vicious cycle of corruption between private companies and the state . heavy rains and flash flooding in the philippines to force more than fifty thousand people from their homes at least three people have died in the country's northern islands polter judge again now reports. a swollen river overturned cars and thousands of filipinos desperate for help. tropical storm yagi hit moneyless marking a city with heavy rain causing major flooding. this jim is one of the places many of the displaced found shelter now i'm going to know my floodwaters

inundated our home the river overflowed we have no place to stay and that is why we are staying here in disaster management official said that in just eight hours the merrick you know river rose from sixteen to twenty one meters just shy of the record twenty three meters nine years ago when seven hundred people were killed this weekend's flooding left behind mounds of mud and debris everywhere and we now have was if our house was flooded and then we've been back this morning to clean it it was all washed out and in the middle of the room. city officials are asking the international community for help they want to strengthen and build up their flood control infrastructure. for eighteen or was and we are now improving our reading me inch. networks. and as the typhoon season continues making a city and other low lying parts of the philippines are bracing for more flooding

paul church on al-jazeera. the highest ranking official in the catholic church to be sentenced for covering up child sex abuse has avoided a jail term phillip wilson will serve his twelve month sentence in home detention after the court was told he suffers from the early stages of this disease the former bishop of adelaide will be fitted with an electronic monitoring device and won't be eligible for parole for at least six months. has more now from sydney. well the survivors wanted to say tougher penalty they wanted bishop wilson to be serving out a custodial jail sentence as opposed to home detention at his sister's house the line from one survivor was that bishop wilson will be eating the best food and drinking wine at his sister's house during the course of his sentence the siblings of another survivor is mounting a campaign for tougher penalties for those who don't report crimes like this. at the moment the maximum penalty in a stroller is two years bishop wilson has been given

a one year sentence for his part in failing to report the child sex abuse at the hands of a priest of two altar boys he will be eligible for parole within six months though and he's planning to appeal this conviction but there are broad implications moral implications on the church regarding this particular case and the major impact of this case is that of accountability no longer can the church hide behind canon hide behind the confessional seal in order to prevent or escape reporting crimes like this on this day five years ago at least one thousand people were killed by the security forces in rubber square in egypt's capital cairo human rights watch described it as one of the world's biggest killings of demonstrators in a single day in recent history the group were protesting against the coup which topos the democratically elected president mohamed morsi and the effects still being felt

in egypt today. his bonus with. the wizened and you'll sit in warms the voice from egypt's ministry of interior. everyone wants to avoid any bloodshed. but by now hundreds of people had already been killed by the country's security forces as they moved in and the last of the major protests by supporters of president mohamed morsi he'd been deposed in a military coup for forty seven days they'd occupied a square outside. a mosque we have someone from can kill us just secured ours just to kill our president is morsi that's according to legitimacy this is all going to feel that's all i know killing us since this is this is most. this is mostly you know are they out and they are not in the war. most of

the protesters had little to defend themselves with the security forces said that some of them were probably big trouble yes yes look look. everyone in the square including journalists covering the protest came under a hail of apparently indiscriminate come find this was a team from al-jazeera was five years later more than seven hundred people arrested at rabaa a standing trial together the cases of seventy five of them have been referred to egypt's top religious all party to decide whether they should be sentenced to death . among those on trial is photojournalist mahmoud known as shall count he was arrested for taking pictures of the security forces as they broke up the protest. god willing the trial is fair with no in justice he's a man who's been wronged at the end of the day journalism isn't an insult or

a crime. more than a thousand people were likely killed on august fourteenth twenty thirteen that's according to human rights watch. no one from the egyptian security forces has ever been charged with any offenses relating to the massacre burnitz made al-jazeera a. lot more news than if you want to see on our website al-jazeera dot com is the address you need and also follow us and tweet us on facebook myspace facebook and twitter as well the headlines are next. top stories so far today and the main headline for you still developing as we speak a man's been arrested after crashing his car into a security barrier side the house of commons in london within the past hour to the scene live police say a number of pedestrians have been injured the whole area has been sealed off by

heavily armed police it happened at seven thirty seven local time clearly the height of the rush hour so that area outside the police cordons now will be completely and utterly gridlocked because they've sealed off the millbank area parliament square and victoria tower gardens as well armed police still at the scene ambulances and firefighters they had attended the scene that's all we know at the moment more for you soon as we can. the weakness of the turkish currency is starting to affect other emerging markets the indian rupee hit a record low just hours ago and currencies from argentina to south africa all fell to on monday so he has fallen by more than forty five percent against the u.s. dollar this year fighting is continuing in the afghan city of gas any more than three hundred people have died over the past few days around half of them civilians according to the u.n. afghanistan's military is sending reinforcements to help defend the city from a taliban attack. the leader of a party advocating hong kong's independence has accused china of suppressing

freedom of speech rival protests and the chant as he arrived to the territories foreign correspondents club to give a speech with the chinese and hong kong governments wanted the event to be cancelled due to the nature of how the chinese public and machine works the national party was instantly demonized as some sort of extremist group due to these thing go word independence in reality what the national party is chasing now there is no difference from what many homeowners which will the dream of democracy and now as you all know the government is trying to. complete the calling us an illegal society the highest ranking official in the catholic church to be sentenced for covering up child sex abuse has avoided jail phillip wilson will serve his twelve month sentence in home detention off the court was told he has outsiders the form of archbishop of adelaide will be fitted with an electronic tag. up next

inside story i'm back in thirty minutes. capturing a moment in time. snapshots of other lives other stories. providing a glimpse into someone else's work. on al-jazeera. some call it a sea others a lake for decades its status has been in dispute five countries want to share in the oil rich but landlocked caspian sea a deal is now been done but will it hold and will it lead to a new global energy and political alliance this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm jerome five countries have now agreed the

caspian is neither see nor lake so what is it the nations who have longest fugitive status have agreed it has special status iran and four post soviet union countries have contested how it should be split for more than two decades now they've signed a deal to share the surface commonly and divide up the seabed the caspian coastline is shared by russia iran kazakhstan turkmenistan and azerbaijan the new agreement will open the way for oil and gas exploration rory chalons reports. with the signature of five leaders more than two decades of troubled waters could be receding into history the disputes over the legal status of the caspian sea has been churning since the collapse of the soviet union. in kazakstan four of the u.s.s.r. successes states and iran took a big step towards resolving it is that because you have passed the security and stability on the caspian sea are determined by the convention which we have signed naturally it opens a wide perspective for the type cooperation of the caspian states for solving

economic and transport issues these questions will improve the living standards of our peoples hand cheney and that in some admonish and we have shown in this convention that we stick to the principles of fairness although we did not determine the borderlines we mark that the countries with coast a particular significance should take a special position that includes iran. the dispute is centered on whether the largest inland body of water in the world is a lake or a sea defining it a lake would mean the caspian should be divided equally amongst the five countries but if it's a c. then each state gets a share in proportion to the length of its shoreline the new agreements is that it's not quite either not a lake because of its size and not a sea because it's not connected to the world's oceans so the surface will largely be open for joint use whereas the floor will be divided between russia iran

turkmenistan azerbaijan and kazakstan though the exact size of each country's lot is still to be agreed. at stake cost several trillion dollars worth of oil gas and pipelines for years the full economic potential of this has been blocked by the lack of a settlement the u.s. government estimates caspian gas could boost global production by twenty seven percent over the coming decade but it's not just about energy. which it which to security is very important and this is what underpins our agreement this region has an influence on afghanistan on the middle east this really affects the basic interests of our states and we need to pull together to combat the threat of terrorism and transponder criminality of this summit also makes the caspian sea a lockout zone these leaders don't want anyone else meddling in their waters no country that doesn't share the shoreline will be allowed a military presence there rory chalons al-jazeera moscow.

before one thousand nine hundred one the caspian sea was considered a lake and shared between the u.s.s.r. and iran but after the fall of the soviet union the emergence of independent countries complicated the issue iran says the caspian is a lake according to old treaties signed with the soviet union in one thousand twenty one in one nine hundred forty three former soviet states as there by john turkmenistan and kazakhstan consider it a sea and that the seabed should be divided based on the coastline tehran had insisted the caspian be split into five equal parts were jointly develop all its resources none of its neighbors agreed let's bring in our panel joining us in moscow stanislav princeton an analyst at the russia and eurasia program at chatham house in tehran for it is out a professor of world studies at the university of tehran and in london will it give or again a country risk analyst at the firm i.h.s. market welcome to you all sound as well let me start with you the dispute over the caspian sea has been going on for decades what is the political calculus that led

to this why is this happening now. i think it was enough time to finally agree the key principles and the mission even for cooperation in the region and especially in circumstances when the nuclear diri iran in the year is under question after the withdrawal of the united states from these of from this agreement it was extremely important to show for regional cooperation that iranian neighbors are ready to support this country in such difficult circumstances so we can see that this it was enough time for cut for negotiations and this is a good political time to to sign this agreement finally forward what has to happen now i mean there's very few details as far as what this agreement will encompass

ultimately so what has to happen next it's the lawyers that are really going to be involved right. yes. obviously engineers there are going to be some environmental scientists that are going to be concerned about the environmental implications of having all types of pipelines going across the caspian sea. so they have to be careful with regard to the environment making sure that they don't. damage it. i agree that this was about time you know. caspian region sense of asia. has lots of energy potential. having the segment basically opens up the way of making sure that the countries of this region can benefit from the natural resources that they exist and for you know and i can

say that the prosperity of the other four countries is going to be prosperity because being part of a region that prosperous countries would generally benefit everybody that isn't around. security issues who portion of the segment dictates that no country outside the five that are bordering caspian sea is going to be allowed to be present militarily in that area so that makes sure that certain that countries like the united states are going to be out of the caspian sea which is good news for you obviously we've mentioned this already but one of the issues at the heart of this dispute has been what is the definition of the caspian is it a sea or is it a lake i want to ask you specifically when it comes to maritime law what is the difference between the two as designations. well i think in the introductory

segment this issues was covered quite well from the international law professor perspective if caspian sea is regarded as a sea than literal countries will have around twelve nautical miles of territorial waters and this will apply also to see bit from the. from the lake perspective earrings that has been insisting there will be shared use of it reaches so to speak i'm saying this as an old lawyer but this is the impression of course following the years long discussions and negotiations on the caspian sea status stanislav russia had long objected to resolving this issue about the caspian so what has made them more agreeable now is that the same sions from from the us or is it the trade competition from china or is it both.

i think that it was not just about issues which you mentioned this is mostly about the. to finish this long term process for russia this is important to have a clear and transparent legal environment in the south borders of russia to have their pragmatic and transparent framework for cooperation and in security and fishing and shipping in this region and that is why russia was one of the countries we. are insisting each time and trying to to prove in this negotiation process so a breakthrough happened last december when there was a ministerial meeting in moscow in december two thousand two thousand and seventeen when mr lavrov after these negotiations of this meeting said that definitely

a summit will happen in the first part of two thousand eight hundred saw police deeply for russia this is very important to to sign this convention not just for completion with china or in geopolitical struggle with the united states. you spoke a moment ago about the benefits that iran will reap from this convention but you know there are some that are saying that because iran has the smallest coastline of the countries on the caspian that it is potentially the biggest loser in this agreement what do you say to that. i don't think any. iran. is benefiting from the agreement because if there isn't like them and then using whatever it has it's not going to be possible so having an exam and making sure that iran. is available iran actually accessing the.

resources that the caspian sea has for. the second point i think which is important is that iran has joint ventures that both talk of the sun and john with regard to. energy related industries and pipelines and different types of activities and iran's expertise in these areas given the fact that iran has been in business for many decades now much longer than the two other countries is going to benefit iran as about i think the third point is the relationship that you're seeing between iran and russia. as you describe then of the day interest in this statement for some years there or not but now the interest that. iran. the issue of the nuclear actually made after the u.s. sanctions and after the fact that the europeans are not really going to be able to

do much with regard to them if it actually meant is looking towards iran is looking towards not russia and these other countries are for and i'm sorry for it i'm sorry interrupt you but let me let me let me just for it sorry to interrupt you but let me just pick up another point because after the agreement was reached iranian president rouhani called it a very important step but he also added that we should recognize there are more important issues that need to be addressed what specifically is he alluding to when he says that. i think you're talking about geopolitics the fact that. iran is. so your sanctions you don't need to make sure that its relations with its neighbors are normal and advancing. iran is looking at ways of going around the sanctions that are going to are designed to hurt it's so making sure that iran

has good relations with russia turkmenistan it does a region is going to be important for iran stopping these countries progress with regard to their legitimate rights that they have as independent countries is not going to be in iran's benefit it's going to be in iran's benefit to be friendly towards its neighbors especially given the fact that you don't have serious enemies and making sure that the resources that the caspian sea has is going to provide benefits for all countries that. is at the end of the day is going to be more important for the iran because there are countries back to the united states to choke the country and you know have a regime change so i bend of the day i think iran is benefiting from this and the final resolution on exactly what percentage of.

the caspian sea belongs to each country is not finalized the final draft is. sort of. providing some guidelines but the final percentage is not final a so if iran decides to. make a point out of the percentage issue later on you don't has the room to do so little that russia had previously objected to a natural gas pipeline being built across the caspian between turkmenistan and azerbaijan this would have allowed turkmen gas to bypass russia on its way to europe can we expect that this would potentially build be built now would russia allow it. well i'll go back to your previous question whether we have a definite. resolution of the past is that this and i will start from there by saying no and the fact that the uranium side also mentioned that there has to be

fed to negotiations about critical issues such as the limitation of seabeds also goes back to your question about pipelines there's also an article in the convention about the environmental concerns which again creased is the same loophole if any literal state is concerned about the environmentally implications of pipeline let me just stop you when you talk about some of the environmental concerns you're talking about the concerns about the sturgeon you're talking about the oil pollution what else might you be talking about. well exactly stage and a fishing business is quite important not least because of the renowned casting caviar they has been they have been incidents of. pollution from the already existing coal fields these are the main concerns when we talk about

the environmental issues so they the convention to the last convention. keep in place the precondition then is that an environmental standards have to be met but at the same time there is a degree of vagueness i read the latest news as. no clarity when it comes to for example turkmen as a pipeline i think there loopholes are still there for for those countries as seen this this project commercially conflicting with their own economic interest to block the pipeline development there of course other issues as well such as infrastructure and capacity on the as a side or the general makeup of the energy markets and what's happening in europe in terms of demand so. i don't think that we are seeing.

clarity in terms of business in terms of those projects that for example european union has been very much interested in and in diversifying it imports away from russian energy supplies so we and the fact that there will be another summit indicates that. critical issues have not been ironed out yet the stanislaw you heard that speak about this issue at length right now the fact the matter is there really is not much clarity at the moment the agreement or the aspects of the agreement that we've been told about is fairly vaguely worded at the moment i mean the devil is really in the details here is there any chance by which this would fall through. first of all i fully agree with the previous speaker about the bad economy of such kind of project because trans custom by plane will be very very expensive project and i

don't know what will the cost of the gas which will be really delivered from took minister on through trans guston pipeline through or by john georgia turkey to the europe so it will be a cold guess returning to their legal framework. in the end of july it was agreed this special protocol regarding their big infrastructure projects such as transco spent by playing the shell of projects with production more than five hundred tonnes a year at a. refinery plant so all of these. objects all of these projects should be agreed by all sides by all parties and this product sets up very clear and transparent procedures how

parties should do it for example as a regiment organist on are going to construct a trans custom pipeline they should give all information about this project about this characteristic about this capacity about. dredging storage or graphical tragic story after that all countries have will have right to request any additional measures to protect the environment and in three months all countries shoot. our guys within three months countries should organize a special session for consultation so it means that now russia and iran cannot. stop such kind of project but they will have all the information about about productions these. and we'll have rights to ask the participants of this project to improve for measures for protection of for my environment and this

budget position is very close to the russian official line their main goal of russian russian position words transco spent by the end was environment these concerns about pollution about because this is a very special interest from the earthquake has them there i'm sorry to interrupt you just where we're starting to run short on time and i want to i want to follow a point you were making with the with we're talking about the diplomacy around this there are diplomats that have called this a regional constitution that's what they're alluding to when they talk about this convention that was signed this agreement so i want to ask if you think that that's a correct interpretation and also does this set up a new regional alliance. it is an agreement the constitution refers to national intel know there's a stations and guidelines i think this is more of an agreement but i do agree that

and this is one reason i was interested in this that creating iran being part of a region of setups it's going to be very important for iran yes the gun that's out there is anyone wants to join. cooperation council and other regions. bodies that basically protect iran from pressures that iran may be receiving from the united states or other hostile powers because if you don't it's part of a bigger. region on a cord or a cream and then the united states or whoever is having difficulties with iran has to deal with these other countries not just iran so this becomes a very important for iran and this was actually the main reason iran went along with the agreement so i do agree that this is going to be a. beginning a step for caspian regional cooperation among the countries that sound

a little at what do you foresee this meaning for the global oil and gas market. i have to say that what we're seeing is just an increment imprisoned principle their number of factors that will determine the future of pipelines both gas and oil pipelines coming from central asia through the caspian sea. there are a number of factors and developments in no global energy markets will that would term in the commercial viability of these projects but above all since we're talking about the recent convention on caspian sea i will highlight the again that there's still a lot of questions unanswered there's still no clarity when it comes to

dimension is of for example the speeding a challenge from literal fade there is still no clarity about the elimination of the. of the seabed so i would remain hesitant to make any comments about the contribution of for. oil and gas to global markets from central asia via these pipelines i think it will take a while to see any of these protests projects to materialize stanislav very quickly because we just have about thirty seconds you were alluding to the environmental impact of all this a moment ago so just very quickly i want to ask you do you believe this convention will help when it comes to pollution or will ultimately hurt when it comes to pollution in the caspian so according to these conventions and according to the current practice of going to ration countries now have experience to corporate together to to work with any pollution

and were any accidents so i think now our custom five can protect the environment all together. all right we're going to have to leave it there thanks so much to all our guests stanislaw friction. and little it. and thank you for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our website al-jazeera dot com and for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com for which slash a.j. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter our handle is at a.j. inside story for me mama june the whole team here bye for now. full of struggles but. would not show me the balmy pull long pull that i'm walking up on the full of pleasure. and i'm getting it out on you but i'm not

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afghan city almost cut off and a rapidly rising death toll is the battle for ghastly drags on. and the divide over hong kong status talks beijing want to raise these questions about freedom of speech. ok let's get you right up to date with the developing story police have sealed off several blocks around the u.k. parliament building the house of commons by the river thames in london after a car smashed into security barriers the incident happened a little over an hour ago seven thirty seven am london time the police say a number of pedestrians were injured as well as cyclists although moments ago they said none of them were in a life threatening condition several police cars were very quickly on the scene and a man was detained a nearby underground station has been closed by the police lawrence lee is our

correspondent tracking that story for us lawrence what else do we know. sorry i lost you i lost you for a second then just as you came to me i'm speaking to you from. a road junction of millbank which is the right of the house to commented on the times and lambeth bridge nonstick raised and that's where the police called and he's the moment that's where the major been pushed back to the car that crashed into the barriers outside the common there's a good three or four hundred meters away from me as a police helicopter overhead a number of police cars and and another emergency services on the scene it looks as though they have it on the control because as he was saying no one was was killed a man was taken away in the incident in that sense. but the police are clearly taking it very seriously because i think they're working on the assumption that this wasn't an accident and was

a deliberate attack and the the space that the car ended up in was almost like a kind of a run off area to the left hand side of the road towards the college green area. and i think i think people. well above happened outside parliament here i think dating a whole lot of parliaments in all all over the world really is that there are a concrete barrier is all around the outside still to stop someone from driving a car or something else deliberately into the actual building and so for some time now have been enormous red and white pine concrete blocks all around the entrance and they're about is that and heavily armed police that people might remember last year there was there was a spate of it's actually polluting a man who ran over and killed a number of people in western westminster bridge and then turned down millbank and

ran in to run his car into parliament and ended up killing a police officer and so that was a much more serious incident than the. and if it is deliberate clearly it isn't the first time it's happened and so even though it's the volunteer recess it's very very quiet and there's no politicians around that the whole essential london is very quiet because it's the holidays if it was a deliberate attack and in that sense it's kind of come out of nowhere. and it doesn't look like it's been tremendously successful from the point of view of the perpetrator for all that clearly if he was going to have the police who want to know why why they didn't have anything about it on their radar and it must've been responsible for that and obviously lawrence it's crucially important not to speculate on this but social media reports news agency reports from the scene saying the first responders were there on location within seconds so they are geared up ready to deal with

a quote security situation. well i mean they're all heavily armed police outside parliament you know they're there they carry by the. time also i think rifles will kind of thing a equally just over westminster bridge i mean as the crow flies and i two hundred metres away is in some of his own spittle you know which is which is a major accident emergency center and so if anything happens outside parliament they themselves can picture him getting within it within a matter of seconds of the course the police on the scene anyway so in that sense yes of course they get out that it is the houses of parliament what was once more a concern for them given a doesn't like anybody's being killed is a where on earth is that came from because there have been no attacks of this sort this year in london that's all ramadan passed entirely peacefully and as i say that i think is that they were entirely blindsided by this and it even though it was it was a very full piece of timing by if i'm standing it was attacked and all the eyewitnesses

say that they looks like you're the car was deliberately target in the areas it's close everybody blindsided lauren so keep us posted i'm sure in the meantime many thanks. we move on the weakness of the turkish currency is starting to infect the rest of the world techies precedents in the central bank when trying to reassure turks and outside investors offer for the forty five percent since the start of the year but currencies from argentina to south africa all fell on monday and the problems of continued as the asian markets opened on tuesday the indian rupee has hit a record low in the past few hours in the cost of around seventy by one us dollar president ratchet type one will be addressing a meeting of the ruling ak party very shortly on monday he blamed the falling earlier on a plot to attack his country and he vowed to punish what he called economic terrorists not the central bank is easing restrictions on local banks to stabilize the currency it says it will provide banks with all the liquidity they need.

cynical sort of is that the istanbul stock exchange it was going down the last time we spoke an hour ago is that trajectory being maintained. yes peter currently u.s. dollar is going down against turkish lira it is down to six point one dollar is equal to six point five turkish lira which is good news for the turkish investors turkish business environment also we are hearing that turkey is the union of chamber of commerce's and commodity exchanges including turkish businessmen industrialists as o'shea sions are giving support but however despite their support they also make the warning that the government should take the necessary measures in order to step belies the live without being late this these are good news especially is since the morning today but however on the other side there are some

critics peter some economists say that the measures that the government has been trying to take care of is not enough to solve this problem but is that while the government is insisting that this is a political motorway to its currency crash and some economists say that this was all sort clear that it would come and they say that turkish central bank must increase the interest rates long ago however again the central banks independence is on the table right now because turkish government especially the president our dance school of thought is totally against any interest hike by the central bank that's why the central bank was kind of slow in the increasing the interest this for the last six months also the european german chancellor angela merkel while giving support she said that independence of the central bank is very important for turkey yes the government is trying to take some measures but the markets are

demanding an interest hike by the central bank however the central bank is not going to add act in a way until president don say's yes let's let's increase interest rates. walking through every is a street to people take nervous glances at the foreign exchange screens wondering how much less their money might now be worth. here's a massive yes the dollar is that the prices are up what she wants to buy overrun served budget. give me a discount please her request is turned down turkish lira is down at least thirty percent against a dollar in ten days this doesn't only hurt the buyers but the sellers too. including tibet's cartel he has run this shop for at least twenty years how far his products are imported is cost horizon tremendously. stronger more notice and we are

almost at stagnation waiting for exchange rates to settle i purchase in dollars so my costs increased forty percent i'll have to reflect this in my prices. however exporters are happy with the depreciating. our house owner who has run the silver wholesaler with his brothers for twenty years say's his profits have grown as you know that if another although i import my products export them all we don't have a problem my profit margin is bigger now also we bring foreign exchange to our country but there certainty it worries everyone the finance minister says it has an action plan to help ease the markets concern and turkey central bank has pledged to provide all the liquidity needed by the banks. many economists say the markets the men that you trust to stop the us trouble for this financial are totally against the don't say is this is us attack i guess there are by foreign companies and might

. if it does experts fear it could have a spillover effect into europe where turkey is because lenders are so you have al-jazeera. the battle of the afghan city of gasoline is no into day five and it shows few signs of ending according to the u.n. as many as one hundred fifty civilians have been killed since the taliban began its attack afghanistan's military is sending reinforcements off to the president called an emergency meeting with the police and the military chief correspondent shelob ellis is just back from afghanistan monitoring that story for us the information seems pretty patchy in terms of the percentages who controls what what do we know so it's been patchy since this began early friday morning essential the cell phone towers have been down there been damaged we believe this jam is in place being used by the military so it's incredibly difficult and cell phones come back every so often and we managed to get snippets of information the latest from this morning

being that the taliban is in control of more of the city than the government is which is a vastly different line than what we were hearing from the government they had a press conference yesterday saying everything's fine we're seeing in reinforcements but there's nothing to worry about as far as the government's concerned with the really caught by surprise here because you've got the taliban doing things that they haven't sort of displayed in their playbook before destroying roads so that the government forces can't get in you've got bodies on the streets and the government saying we still control all the central institutions but for how long i mean they shouldn't be surprised because it has been vulnerable to a taliban attack yeah i mean the city it's a provincial capital of this province it's been surrounded by the taliban controlled the villages around it the taliban have been infiltrating the city. but the police have been known that they're there in the town but they haven't acted on it and now they have launched this attack on friday morning and they very well organized residents saying of course.