change decades of u.s. policy to officially recognize the occupied golan heights is ready territory of more on the state's cross to force it to use in west jerusalem and harriet all of these events happening with the backdrop of benjamin netanyahu running for election for the 2nd time this year. that's right this 2nd election that he didn't want to have it has been forced on him or at least he's chosen it as the best option after he failed to form a coalition of the the last election on april the 9th and so already the informal campaigning is extremely obviously underway and this is part of that he's gone up to the occupied golan heights with his cabinet for this ceremonial meeting his critics point out the opposition points out that as a transitional government it has no power to actually enact and you settlement in the golan but he's there anyway and he's getting kept what he says is cabinet

approval for the naming of this yet to be built settlement trump heights it's clear that there are 2 audiences in play here one is president trump himself it's a way of thanking him for what was an intervention just a few days ahead of the last election when he recognized israel's claim on the golan heights and as well as that there's obviously his own base here in israel that he's trying to court as he tries to shore up as much of a vote as he can and hopes to get his government formed a 2nd time around and as well as that the issue with zahra netanyahu today throws into relief that the corruption issues for netanyahu while his wife they're over with this plea deal being cemented they aren't over by any stretch for him he's been trying to organize some kind of immunity legislation there were attempts to try to ensure that the courts couldn't overturn any such immunity were it granted all of that has been thrown into doubt by this 2nd election being called

there only a couple of weeks between the voting on september the 17th and his 1st indictment hearing at the beginning of october so he's very much got a lot of concerns post-election but with this cabinet meeting he's really sort of firing the starting gun on his own election campaign ari thanks very much her for the reporting. so ahead here on al-jazeera why many people in iraq are worried about the energy supply. and legend in a target of racial abuse australia's difficult relationship with one of its greatest sportsman. hello again it's good to have you back well we are looking at some flooding here across parts of china and there's been an ongoing issue because it is that time of

season where we see the maya by a front across that area heavy rain is on the increase again now we did see a break in the rain particular here towards the east where we had seen some nice sunny days but the rain is starting to increase a little bit more towards the east here in the central parts this is where the biggest flood threat is going to be over the next few days as well as down along the southern coast for hong kong though it is going to be a rainy day here on tuesday with attempt a few of $31.00 degrees well across india of course we had been watching our cycle own has been fairly erratic in the path but it is expected to make a turn more towards the north in the northeast we could even be seeing a landfall as a tropical storm affecting garage or up some of these rain showers and the clouds have been in the arabian sea but the clouds of ash extended all the way over here towards oman forecast looks like this as we go towards monday possibly a land fall here with some clouds coming in but temperatures across the region as well as rain is some good news there it wouldn't expect to see the winds too heavy

at times but here across central india we are going to see the rain pushing in up towards new delhi though your temperatures are coming down to about $37.00 degrees and kolkata it is still going to be sunny few with a temperate there of $38.00. big stories generate thousands of headlines with different angles from different perspectives chilling out of sun just a long standoff with international news finally separate the speed from the facts the misinformation from the journalism protesters complain about the under reporting of police violence the sensationalizing of the demonstrations we've been listening post on al-jazeera.

and again you want a reminder of our top stories this hour at least 4 countries in south america have been hit by massive power outages agency to uruguay paraguayan brazil all affected . the hong kong government says issued another apology for how a proposed extradition bill was handled protests continuing into the night off the chief executive curry and not said she would suspend the bill the protesters want it scrapped completely. the wife of israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has been ordered to pay $15000.00 after she was found guilty of misusing state funds so you know who admitted to the charges on the people of. iran is set to announce on monday the next steps it plans to take to scale back its compliance with the 2015 you trade deal on saturday iran's president hassan rouhani reissued an ultimatum

that his country would continue scaling back its commitment to the deal and as other world powers did more to protect iran from u.s. sanctions terror and stop complying with some elements in may that was in response to the u.s. withdrawing from the nuclear pact and reintroducing sanctions. so to get serve hit targets in the yemeni capital sana off the rebels attacked 2 saudi airports riyadh says its defense system has brought down a drone headed for port millions border. is a single runway regionally airport despite being in saudi arabia this week it has been at the heart of the war in yemen who the rebels have launched multiple attacks against the 100 kilometers north of the yemeni border on saturday the group claimed drone strikes against military hang is and control. airports and then for the 3rd

time this week again airport saudi arabia media says the strike was forward by security forces well i have a. there is a clear contradiction from saudi on immunity media because they always downplay the significance of these drone strikes but in return they rush to urge the international community to stand by them in condemning the attacks in a bid to stop us from carrying more strikes. this shows the moment a cruise missile hit airport on wednesday who things have labeled it a strategic enemy target one of 300 they plan to bomb several saudi airports have been targeted in the past year including the king her lead international airport in the capital riyadh it's part of a grand plan by the rebel group it's a skill a ship is tensions have risen between iran the u.s. and its gulf allies. have not had that every day we have a goal and we will not rush to bomb all the targets to bomb the targets that we think we must bomb at

a specific time we will threaten them as they threaten us and we will close their airports as they close our airports and close their ports as they close down saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin selma responded on state media we support it all if it's to reach a political solution to the yemeni crisis but unfortunately the hooty militia would rather work for the iranian agenda and iran's space interests over yemen and its people. the us saudi arabia and its allies have consistently blamed iran for the yemeni crisis critics temper the connection to tehran the situation in yemen has its own internal sources of of of conflict in tension you know if you run hypothetically wouldn't exist there would still be a problem within yemen with respect to the who these their demands for recognition representation and distribution of resources to who things are making those demands increasingly clear whether they're firing iranian made weapons or not they are

aiming at saudi infrastructure shelob ellis. the vigil has been held in mali's capital after a series of attacks between communities the international criminal court is looking at allegations of crimes against humanity mali's president is under increasing pressure to deliver on his promise for peace because her has more now from bamako. they've come to this open air slaughter house to escape death. still vivid is the smell of burnt flesh. the lost his father. doggone lost his son. they said i'm a light in front of my eyes. going accuse fall on the sinful on these blamed dawns each community accusing the other for the killings in attacks on their villages along with no harm done to them we can never go home it's not safe anymore. this is

what is left of barry's home for loney say doggone hunters were behind the attack last sunday hundreds of dawn died in what appears to be retaliatory killings while the international criminal court investigates what may constitute crimes against humanity hundreds of thousands of people are fleeing the center of mali turning this meat market into a makeshift camp. and fall on these have come to the capital bamako not just to escape the violence but to be closer to a government that has failed to protect them in their villages and they hope that here. can deliver on its promise to bring back peace to my. time and i. want unity and yes despite the support of $20000.00 u.n. in foreign troops the president seems unable to bring the country together. he's facing mounting protests with calls for his resignation including from the

influential cleric. leading the demonstrations. will be gentle see the president as my friend but i will continue to denounce his governance people from the north the armed groups the people fighting against each other we're all mali and we need to promote dialogue bring an end to the violence that's turning into a senseless war. it is a country in crisis deeply divided with each community mourning their dead i need to break this cycle of revenge nicholas hawke al-jazeera bamako. mali and picking a new president 1000 people are vying for the top job to succeed the president jimmy moralists none of them is expected to win an outright majority and that means the poll is likely to result in a runoff gang violence and poverty are the main issues that have dominated campaign in the us is granted iraq a 3 month away the extension to buy electricity from iran but after that sanctions

against countries doing business with terror on will go into effect iraqis rely on iran for vital energy supplies in the summer months that's not enough as charles traffic reports from basra. hussein roddie starts the generator he helped build using an old engine. it's surprising that tricity 2 families in this poll neighborhood of basra saw. there are hundreds of generators like this one across the city because daily power cuts often last for hours. we provide electricity to the poor it comes on for an hour then it's off for 5 children really suffer in the summer heat we are so tired inside i have nothing joyful in my life it's all been misery the government has forgotten us. iraq cannot meet its own electricity needs even a city like basra which because of its huge oil wealth could be one of the richest cities in the world of aust amounts of the electricity comes from close by across

the border in neighboring iran the us has increased sanctions on iran in recent months and this could seriously affect neighboring iraq which depends on iran for its promise apply when. iraq relies hugely on iran for this vital resource and a decrease in that power supply could cripple the local economy further we so angry demonstrations over the lack of services in basra last year the situation hasn't improved since then that there america's just extended a sanction waiver for iraq so it can keep buying iranian electricity and gas for another 3 months the us is trying to help iraq be less dependent on its neighbor for fuel as a means of increasing its pressure on iran energy giant exxon mobil recently signed a $53000000000.00 deal with the iraqi government to develop 2 southern oil fields

it's hoped that project will also help iraq be more self-sufficient in gas needed to few electricity power plants considering the potential boil wealth of basra the poverty and lack of general services is shocking piles of rubbish lined the streets that are open drains buildings long ago fell into disrepair even with the help of iran there isn't enough electricity being distributed here to a city that people like hussein say has suffered years of government neglect. that al-jazeera basra. algeria's former prime minister in the previous finance minister of appeared in court as part of an ongoing corruption investigation. and it cut him to both being questions there among a number of other senior officials to be involved in a corruption probe it began when nationwide protests broke out earlier this year to demand the departure of the ruling elite. peru has deployed riot police to guard

its northern border to stop an influx of migrants from venezuela only venezuelans holding a passport and a humanitarian visa being allowed in the new requirements came into effect on saturday a military official says around 10000 venezuelans and to prove a day here earlier rushing to get in before the new rules went into effect. that document is very very valuable not so much because of how much it cost from venezuela to peru. the power off the taste on your feet tonight so that 18 and not having a home to sleep it's all worth it. now is there a journalist margaret hussein has now been held without trial in egypt for more than $100.00 days new investigation against him was open days after an egyptian court ordered his release last month they say is being held without charge trial or conviction after he was arrested in egypt while on family holiday. racism in australia is in the spotlight on the big screen at this week's sydney film festival the final quarter tells the story of adam goodes

a top footballer who faced discrimination on and off the field and dared to speak out against it reports now from sydney. listened to the group. for more than 3 years at the end of his playing career australian rules football star adam goodes was booed every time he touched the ball he's doing. he's watching it. with a new film is explicit about why racism inside the stairwell. continue to stay in sydney swans player adam goodes was an ozzie rules legend but a match in 2013 indigenous australian did something that upsets many fans a 13 year old girl in the crowd shouted something racist at him and he pointed her out to hear people. call me and.

the 1st time out of $44.00 it was a monkey. it was it was shattering goods became a vocal anti-racism campaigner australia's government awarded him the title of australian of the year but the abuse and booing just got worse good his treatment from the sports pages to the front pages many accused him of being overly sensitive that others said that not recognising the bully was in reaction to good as anti racism activism was itself racist in a country with a history of white supremacy where aboriginal people were only recognised as citizens in the late 1960 s. the final quarter makes uncomfortable viewing i think a strategy that has always had a difficulty talking about rice and when this happened it really highlighted how challenging this was we came up with every excuse we possibly could as. to why adam goodes was being voted but we weren't prepared to actually on the fact that rice's

m was involved the film has become the hit this week city film festival and another film which includes new interviews with goods is due to premiere at the melbourne film festival in august suddenly it wasn't just the food he was angry at preaching . or through one man and 2 films australians are confronting what many cool the country's casual racism andrew thomas al-jazeera sydney. so this is a 0 these are the top stories and a massive power outage in south america has hit at least 4 countries millions of people across argentina paraguayan and brazil have been affected everything from traffic lights to train services and shops so without electricity it may take a few hours before power is restored completely. sold out which is issued another apology over how

a proposed traditional bill was handled protests are continuing into the night after chief executive kerry. she would suspend the bill the protesters want to scrap completely. the wife of israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has been ordered to pay $15000.00 after being found guilty of misusing state funds sorry netanyahu admitted to the charges as part of a plea bargain she was charged with fraud last year after allegedly spending $100000.00 of state money on lavish meals the husband is also facing charges in a corruption case and this all comes as the israeli cabinet approves a settlement in the occupied golan heights that will be named after u.s. president donald trump the settlements will be called trump heights in march the u.s. president changed decades of u.s. policy to officially recognize your compiled golan heights as israeli territory. iran is set to announce on monday the next steps it plans to take to scale back its

compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal on saturday president hassan rouhani renewed an ultimatum that his country would continue scaling back its commitment to the deal unless other world leaders world powers did more to protect it from u.s. sanctions their own stop complying with some elements in may that was a response to the u.s. withdrawing from the nuclear pact to reintroducing sanctions. algeria's former prime minister and the previous finance minister have appeared in court as part of an ongoing corruption investigation. and cut into jude both being questioned there among a number of other senior officials who've been involved in a corruption probe this began when nationwide protests broke out earlier this year to demand the departure of the ruling elite in algeria. state with the headlines here on al-jazeera got more news coming up here right after the listening post from. the thirty's the red cross has provided

a lifeline for afghanistan's physically disabled one i want to meet 3 remarkable people risking their lives to help to decide to an afghanistan on al-jazeera. yes i'm. just. like i. can take such counsel like that in order. for. hello i'm richard desert and you're at the listening post here are some of the media stories that we're covering this week now you read him now you don't iran dissin from ation and the curious case of not hong kong and why journalists are among those who fear a proposed new law that could land them in a chinese prison the u.

tubers chronicling and powering the protests in algeria plus the me too movement and the voices that have gone on her we begin with iran and 2 stories over the past 10 days that show that when it comes to the coverage of the islamic republic all is not as it seems 1st the online opinion writer who was it. was one cited by the white house as a credible commentator on iran but he'd have far more credibility if he actually existed it turns out he's a fictional persona reportedly created by the ne k. mujahideen. a shadowy group opposed to the iranian government and supported by washington then there's the iran dissin from nation project funded entirely by the american taxpayer a stand simply to counter iranian propaganda it trolls and sometimes smears iranian american commentators and journalists online the government in tehran is no innocent player in all this it also tries to engineer what gets said and read

online as the trumpet ministration continues with its hawkish talk on iran dissecting this debate and figuring out who's driving it is proving more complicated by the day our starting point this week is washington d.c. . a self described human rights and political activist with 30000 followers on twitter a critic of the iranian government advocating regime change and a remarkably prolific writer widely published his columns appeared on the websites of the american business magazine forbes as well as the hill the federalist and the daily caller on the saudi owned. on the voice of america's persian website until the american news outlet the intercept published this story saying that hash marks did not even exist that he was a creation of the m.e. k.

an iranian opposition group schooled in the black arts of propaganda and that all the news outlets that had published all of it in forbes this case 61 times had been gained. what was shocking was dark force magazine daily caller federalists the hill published a person who did not exist were talking about someone who they thought existed but never bother to verify in any way shape or form and i don't think you would ever see that happening on any other issue i think this is an iran specific thing in which the standards and the bar in the us media particularly on the right is essentially non existant and his content wasn't a very subtle if you go back and record of what was published under you can see where he's coming from but the fact that nobody realized just shows

a lack of responsibility on the part of the media and he really utilized that and yet it flat record of published articles that then made his ideas on twitter believe that he's a real person and he's a credible and published author for failed on so many levels if one journalist could discover. that has. a fake fictitious character an entire organization as well funded as forbes could have challenged matt several times and the misinformation that it was propagating online and never never responded so naturally i you know at your commute at that to. join a list with gigantic ego or someone who is very busy but now we know.

that those media outlets the end ek should have been well known to all of them the us considered it a terror organization until 2012 and since that classification was dropped the m e k has cozied up to american officials who share its hawkish views on iraq one of them president trumps national security advisor john bolton spoke at the group's annual conference in 2017 there is a viable opposition to the rule of the. opposition is centered in this room today. enrique runs a sizeable troll farm in albania where it's all part of target online voices who express support for the iranian government the iran dissin from ation project does a lot of that too only it's based in washington and is paid for by american taxpayers its brief is to counter dissin from ation from iran but the project has gone much further than that among the people it trolls iranian american journalists

and in geo workers like superior of human rights watch she landed in iran disinfo crosshairs after sending this tweet seeking information from iranians on how economic sanctions are affecting the availability of medicine there. was a purely research base to. and it was in persian it was intended to towards the iranian audience to help me find some evidence that i could use for my research they retreated my tweet and said something along the lines of despite the fact that hundreds of protesters have been killed since 2018 human rights what the researcher is working hard to prove iran's right any moderate or nuanced view or reporting of iran has been triggering there it highlights i had been called a mouthpiece

a lobbyist for the regime other people had been called apologists or lobby just for simply voicing their criticism against president trans policies or a nuanced view of what is going on inside iran that was seen as hardline enough by the iran disinfo group here you have an entity that was supposed to fight iranian propaganda online instead it was actually spending almost all of its time attacking critics of the trumpet instructions iran policy to make it worse the fund that came from the state department was actually designed to fight isis propaganda and russian interference in the united states instead the trumpet ministration diverted that money to fight critics of trump's iran plans. including jason rezaian a washington post writer iran disinfo went after him which was ironic because just

3 years ago the same state department that funds the project was lobbying to free resume on from prison in iran the authorities there are notorious for their treatment of journalists this past week they revoked the credentials of the new york times as bureau chief there without explanation tehran also invests in its own . online dissent from asian campaigns setting up fake news websites generating spurious articles and creating online personas that was what iran disinfo was created to fight against before it turned to trolling critics and lobbying for regime change and is just one of the many players in washington lobbying on one side of this story or the other some iranians accuse the d.c. based national iranian american council nayak of in fact being the unofficial lobbying arm of the iranian reformist movement. in the m e k

pushes their own political agenda by creating fictitious characters such as the. brands of people who do not agree but as of war mongers iran descend for engages in similar tactics so what i'm trying to say is everybody is engaging in those tactics iran has multiple diverse voices and for certain groups with more financial resources to be able to monopolize this space is doing them the service certain positions are much more marginal and certain viewpoints are much more mainstream and the viewpoints that has represented you know holding iran responsible for its human rights violation but at the same time and gauging and dialogue rather than and war is vastly supported by the iranian american community if there are any campaigns by anyone to manipulate the debate

manipulate social media then obviously that should be shot. iran disinfo has avoided being shut down so far but it has taken a big hit over its rude behavior so the filing does remain suspended. and there with good there's a review process that's ongoing right now. together iran disinform nation project and the m.e. case hash mat deception provide lessons for anyone news outlets included dealing with the iran story with talks in the trump white house flexing american muscle and placing maximum pressure on iran iran has been a very dangerous player a very bad player they are a nation of terror and we will put up with it the times call for extreme caution in separating fact from fiction legitimate voices from paid trolls and credible commentators from virtual ones. for analysts reporters

policymakers anyone who is trying to make sense of iran these days if they're only point of reference is what's happening on social media they should think twice before publishing it as this is how iranians feel about this things one thing that these 2 seemingly unrelated stories that have come out at the same time prove is that this space is highly manipulative and it's far from reflection of iranian public opinion. we're discussing other media stories that are on our radar this week with one of our producers johannes joe hundreds of thousands of protesters on the streets of hong kong this week demanding that the government scrap this proposed new extradition law journalists were among those protesters why is that well primarily because of fears among press freedom at forgets that this new bill which would

allow the extradition of alleged criminals from the semi autonomy city of hong kong to mainland china will be used by beijing as a way to target political enemies and critics including journalists and their sources once in china they say those extradited would be at the mercy of an opaque justice system and at risk of serious human rights abuses according to reporters without borders china currently holds at least $111.00 journalist under law. threatening conditions in an open letter sent to carry law who is hong kong's head of government 23 human rights organizations including the committee to protect journalist and penn hong kong urged the government to scrap the law and what are both news outlets on the chinese mainland how have they been covering this story well they've either completely ignored the protests china's state broadcaster for example that not mentioned them at all or they are parroting the communist party's line on this in some cases blaming the unrest on foreign interference and collusion with the west the chinese edition of the global times was one example of that

saying quote some international forces have significantly strengthened their interaction with the hong kong opposition in recent months the english language paper china daily also played down the story it said that more than $800000.00 people had backed the new law in an online petition in but titian countering a protest by about 240000 people which clearly is a very conservative estimate of the numbers out on the street online searches for news on the demonstrations on china's twitter like way bow or the messaging app you'll get no results at all nothing and well no such answer ship currently exists in hong kong activists are warning that those liberties are slowly being eroded as beijing moves to tighten its grip on the city ok thanks chad. for 4 months now algerians have been hitting the streets demanding political change while they've succeeded in toppling the country's long time president abdullah as he's beautifully they are done they're demanding a comprehensive dismantling of the ruling elite there rallying cry they must all go

many algerians are far too politically aware to trust the state owned news media which initially under played the protest story and continues to spin it long before the demonstrations began a generation of youtube people like garage and nest tina emerged as unofficial spokespeople for algerian youth and as yon is a musician now living in exile in prague and tina is a comedian still posting material from his home in the algerian capital both get clicks in the multimillions we spoke with the 2 of them about the grievances they articulate the political and social changes they advocate in the videos that they've produced that are now part of the soundtrack of the algerian revolution.

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a play on words on balance tone paul the french incarnation of me to the song features women of all ages and varied backgrounds and their stories of sexual harassment and gender discrimination however one group is notable in its absence muslim women and that did not go unnoticed by 3 belgian you tubers the mowlam sisters who tweaked on gels lyrics to make this song their own highlighting the islamophobia and the harassment faced by women purely because of their religious dress not the kind of discrimination that often makes the headlines we'll leave you now with some of that video and we'll see you next time here at the listening post . some of wendy. sick again if you yet.

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last month. an army of volunteers has come together to help with the influx of tens of thousands of evacuees. but their retreat to a church shelter has brought new challenges an outbreak of norovirus and other gastrointestinal problems. smoke from the massive wildfires now blankets much of northern california leading to some of the worst air quality in the world but with more than 12000 structures lost in the wildfires concerns remain about long term accommodations jobs and medical care. local officials say there isn't enough housing stock available. and counting the cost india has lost that crowd as the bass was growing bigger connie put it all go wrong for modi so soon after his landslide election victory was no longer the world's garbage can

china disrupted the multi-billion dollar global waif industry counting the costs on al-jazeera. i really felt liberated as a journalist was. going to the truth was that i would not for this job. this is al-jazeera. from doha one on come on sons of maria this is the news hour from al-jazeera and unprecedented power failure across several south american countries and leaves tens of millions of people in the dark. ah ah. also in the news hundreds of thousands of people dressed in black through the

streets of hong kong saying they wanted to accept any future plans by the government to allow extra. it into china. intensified fighting between 2 tribal communities in a democratic republic of congo forces 100000 people to move we have an exclusive report and as his wife is found guilty of misusing state funds israel's prime minister holds a controversial cabinet meeting in the occupied golan heights installed the cricket match being watched by a 1000000000 founds is on the way will be live in manchester for the latest on india and pakistan the world cup. so we started with this massive power outage in south america which is hit at least 4 countries millions of people across argentina uruguay particle and brazil have been affected everything from traffic lights to train services and shops have been without electricity now power is beginning to be restored to some areas but it may

be some time before power is fully restored so let's check in with rio de janeiro brazil bring us up to date don't know. where the power when since 7 minutes past 7 local time that's about 5 hours ago so people woke up on sunday morning across most of argentina all if you are quiet items and small parts of the neighboring countries we understand the power in the last 5 hours or so has been gradually restored but it caused massive problems right across argentina uruguay trains were not working traffic lights not working communications were down as i say that is being slowly restored difficult to make contact with people in these in these regions simply because telephones unless your phone is fully charged people were not being it were not able to be contacted the reason given i mean people have been wanting for a reason for telecast few hours the official reason is that it's been extremely

heavy rain in the north of argentina for the last 3 days. i think so many argent times will view that explanation with some cynicism although it is true that the rivers have been rising quite substantially in recent weeks but i think that's going to the energy companies are going to have to provide more details explanations for people to be satisfied with that because it has caused a great deal of inconvenience right across the region as i say power is being restored across much of your required parts of argentina there were elections in many provinces of argentina they continued without power in the provinces of santa fe san luis form or sun the only parts of argentina we understand not affected was the far south here the wiggle where elections continue they're the only one which actually had power but it's a great deal of being from venus and as a danger in some places there's been a heavy storm you know around one osiris so it has been

a very very difficult few hours for the population and most of the population of argentina and uruguay so this is obviously we would hope no one the major. ones in a 1000000 sort of event but i'm just wondering about levels of infrastructure anyway in a lot of these countries a problem with problems with infrastructure regardless of something like this do they exist already. i mean power cuts in themselves are relatively common especially when there's a great deal of demand when they when the weather is very hard everybody turns their air conditioning on i mean they're around when osiris it's a fairly common occurrence but on this scale to affect this many people i mean we believe it's related isn't into connected service but with the main power plants in the north of argentina are affected so it's really the scale of it the fact that it affected several areas at the same time so people are used to power cuts but to say this is something the like of which i think of this size people in these countries

have never seen before but again questions will be asked about the quality of the infrastructure why were there not security measures in place. to prevent when the power one power station goes down why it should have a knock on effect on neighboring power stations so people will be asking questions about that and wanting firm explanations in the last few weeks for the energy companies say for now they've given an explanation their main priority now is to get power back up and running as quickly as they possibly can but there will be pressure on them to provide answers help it thank you for that update daniel in rio . an update from hong kong now with the chief executive has once again apologised for her government handled a politically charged legislation that sparked massive protests carry lambs as you sorry for causing conflict and disputes but the roads are still packed with people dressed in black in a sign of protest they want the proposed bill scrapped entirely and carry alone to step down the law change would allow people who are wanted for certain crimes to be

extradited to mainland china. here is scott hodler in hong kong a little bit past 11 pm on sunday evening scott bring us up to date. right now within just the last 5 minutes of the page behind you. this is that let's go legislative council building and there was an announcement by the organizers of this massive march today that they said nearly 2000000 people participated today that is the biggest protest in hong kong's history this is bigger than what we saw last week and last sunday so that just coming out from the protest organizers we knew that there was probably going to be the case at least that they claim that these numbers were this big just because when you see these images these aerial images of just how many people started in victoria park and made their way heat here to legislative council complex just streaming through the streets teeming through the streets over the last several hours and gathering behind me again you

know it's kind of the announcement we've been waiting for on the stage behind is put out by the organizers and they just announced that nearly 2000000 people participated today come on tell us about kerry lamb as well scott the pressure on her i mean she apologizes again i wonder actually how that sort of thing goes down not so much with the protesters but with her bosses if you like in beijing. yeah you know not not so well we you know there were there was someone who was based in beijing who kind of studies the relationship between hong kong and mainland china and the central been a straight there and he believes that this really will not go over well quite honestly because when you look at it and she's apologized publicly for the mishandling of this or how poorly this was handled by her government she said she's going to change a lot of focus is going to be on providing information better information about what this bill is all about but when you look at how many people have come out on the streets damage has already been done really for the public perception here in

hong kong about this bill so obviously the relationship between how she's doing and how beijing views what she's been doing is obviously going to be strained because of this outpouring now what moves forward with the protesters obviously a lot of people still here tonight we're expecting some to stay here we know that there's probably going to be a strike some are telling us on monday right now as they arise the organizers are saying nearly 2000000 people participated. very interesting thank you scott heide lawyer in hong kong there now of course we have multiple teams covering the events in hong kong and rob mcbride sent in this report just about an hour or so ago have a look at the. this is where the march has come to an end the government's main office complex and also the legislative council building many thousands of protesters have been streaming away from here to go home but many thousands more have been staying on in fact so many they've now spilled out onto this main highway completely blocking it this is cool road which 5 years ago was at the very center

of the occupy movement so symbolically it's very important for hong kong's pro-democracy activists important that they occupied at least for a few hours on this very important evening for the moment there are no signs of any police they do appear to be keeping a very low profile allowing the protesters here to be very much in control at the moment after 5 here we don't see that people are getting down but increasingly we are getting too old hat our own freedom we do think the government here is listening to people and he's having. yeah soul i need to come here to support them every day and i want to show you the whole world that this is not riots this is a peaceful protest in hong kong 5 years ago a whole community existed here with tents even classrooms food distribution recycling and so on and it seems that these mainly young people students are trying

to recreate some of that on this evening still determined that in one form or another the quest for full democracy will be kept alive here in hong kong. let's get a little analysis now particular the view of all of this in beijing and a tangan political analyst who actually advises the chinese government believes beijing's patience will soon within. from beijing side i don't know that they're terribly impressed with kerry lamb's handling of things and the one cardinal sin in china is not to be able to handle the situation correctly so it could be difficult for her to have expressed unconditional. support for her but with this newest round of concessions and and protest i think it will go very difficult on the other hand it seems that hong kong is deteriorating with the kind of mob rule despite having elderly and people and children joining the march you cannot

simply every day get out there and demand that the government be changed the idea of having an extradition treaty with china after 20 years is not unreasonable how you get there and what terms are involved i think if you anyone was actually looking at was proposed it was quite mild if you were to use of a crime by the u.s. government it was more than a year you could be extradited to the united states but if you were involved in china you could only be done literally for rape murder very very serious crimes crimes that would take more than 7 years in terms of a sentence apostles. and now joseph chang is with us professor of political science and excuse me at city university of hong kong who was at those

demonstrations today nice to see you joseph what do you think of what imus said there that will has in his view you just can't be out there in the streets every day when these people demanding that the government change i guess there are about 2000000 people there who feel differently the pro-democracy movement and hong kong people are now. very much emboldened by one wouldn't turn out not sunday and 2000000 turn now to day is really scholz hokum people are angry i disagreed with what was sits us before all hong kong people do feel very much flattened by this amendment bill because according to this amendment bill hong kong people may be extradited to mean then steiner and face trial when you've been china obviously how can people do not have confidence in the judicial system the minute china in.