those people realize it's good for the whole of you and just want to expect you. to. carry on. i used to be a d.j. for 10 years and everyone in every club every. soldier everybody go to touch my sister 21st century bush has had a. plan to close for me radio is possibly the most unusual traditional yoga mixed with race culture minus the drugs and alcohol travel this it's really hard to get a ration along. the way we. see. how this is really easy to. say. to.

me. is that we'll build a little building up to this very traditional thing i say yoga and it was started to kind of talks he was. going on the outlook that everyone has. all these new forms of yoga on just a fringe they represent a massive growth in the yoga market with international apparel companies like lemon athletica opening in downtown london to grab a piece. i think no question mentality is a lot about business and how soon you come out and sell certain things and that's very different from the certain tradition and what you know that was originally and many believe that even you know being in jail for a month earlier here you can take your is out there you know the. image adapting

the westerns and in a way it's going to be seen but i think it's alex sifting and evolving and it's a matter of making. the integrity at what it was originally. but what was meant to be originally and how is it moving away from that i went to speak with stuart gilchrist who teaches a traditional and physically rigorous form of yoga. released into really straightforward. yeah the aha. the won't do you. feel good about life is not about i like to believe the. gymnastics i miss the boat life it's what we do in years and never going to the highway what you like with your friends and your family what you're

like in the restaurant how you on a bicycle how you are at your work every day what you're probably not just what happens not to do is run over and i have to be do it all for my yogas all of them. i think i'm probably one of them was filing a pregnancy to post them i didn't do them right off the top like drop it and drop the do you think i'm feeling just if i recently had a very serious accident and i do a bike and i had to be a spinal injury and i was pretty much over my guilt is just anger they got me didn't and then that opened my eyes up to the broader picture of what you're good the boys your good detachment. from edison mental and physical your possessions. and your desires your senses. everyone's attaching way to yoga to their studios in gym and what have you there's all kinds of hybrid yoga

coming out boxing yoga cycling yoga naked yoga all kinds of stuff but what your opinions on the. topic ideation and consume and ideation of yogurt is appalling it's become so much of a business and become so much of a profit i've been in the revenue stream or the us he might have a point when. 5050 you regret folks in the beer that i've got there you start a state of siege in the studio it's very interesting since you do not want to be on the road so. it was a really tough class it was a really tough class. because yoga is really about the mysteries of the universe's effect we're kind of commercializing the mystery and usually there isn't going to try to stay oh absolutely just what do we do about it we keep teaching we keep teaching something more from the old. i'm headed to the u.s. where yoga was 1st popularised in the west it's one of the biggest yoga markets in

the world it's mainstream fashionable cool glossy it's well american. am their styles and it's all about working hard and playing hard i apply the same philosophy to doing yoga sandstone and working. i believe in making my own tools and injecting fun and everything i do tara styles is symbolic of the modern transformation of yoga in america she has created her own form of yoga stronger and has marketing campaigns for the w. hotel and reebok should be easy forget about being and start getting. the 1st person up to you tube videos but you know the line like 2006 and all my friends were like that's so crazy like what do you do we're going to make my friends like oh my back pain i have things i am sure i just what i do like here something you get out of your eyes with your palms the other thing if i was right

about your heart being here. the new york times described you as a yoga rebel made it. do you see yourself a hero the rebel so the whole rebel yoga idea i think really came out of rebelling against the fact that it has to be in sanskrit or has to be super serious or it has to be has to be a certain way but if you look at. the approach of what we are doing it's it doesn't look rebellious it looks very simple and soft and it's all about ease and finding what works for you and it's very soft percent. higher who. says you're you're you know you're you're quoted as saying why be when you can be fabulous. like her is that a correct quote was part of the double you can do that indefinitely i read talk yes said this i mean i think the point is to get everybody talking it's like you know beings and i think is that was my point of view going to be like like you said connected with yourself i would think beings and it is fabulous you know it's the

same thing but then you do and say about you can say you can let's be zen and fabulous so are you know fine i think but i think it's changing the perception and speaking to the people that have had abuse from the community it's like oh you went in and they said you're not this and said hey let me put a blanket over you i mean people have been like humiliated by the you know the community thing there's a little bit a sense in the younger industry of sort of holier than thou. you know i don't know going to sit around like complain about if i just think it's more important you know help people to feel better like so your thing is like stripping out i don't know the sanskrit the indian spirituality maybe i don't know and i. truly how would you like took the name you know got out of my company a couple years ago nobody noticed so it's a struggle. but you to feel sure so what i was taking i think it's a new definition it's an evolution of you know that you know i mean who are we really answering to. who are we ultimately answering to india ancient

yogis can india still claim yoga as its modern cultural heritage. of the hindu american foundation seems to think so in 2010 they launched a take back yoga campaign to raise awareness about yoga's roots says obviously but i'd be too if it was considered you know the father oh gosh i'm going to be is the . question to come under for a lot of these he's considered by the supreme yogi and master lester you're yeah. one big you know no one really. needs it as a matter that people should recognize as a hindu practice is that a 1st thing to say i like the term rooted in hindu thought because when you say it's a hindu practice it gives the impression that people have to convert you know your average person thinks of him who isn't as caste cows and karma and they have

political arms and multiple heads what you're going to espouse is this pluralistic view you know that anybody can do it the same way that him there was and has this pluralistic view of anybody can reach divine what's happened is that people have forgotten that you're going to is much more than just exercise we have seen so many manifestations i guess you know and we're seeing it in the kind of society we live in now when the something stop becoming you know i think that a lot of the new forms of yoga are there not you know that america is great at like taking what it likes from different cultures and then just like making it its own and i feel like that's a little bit of what's happened with yoga like it's kind of made it into its own version of yoga. who are. already on. this for everyone but within the roots it is definitely rooted in hindu philosophy

. i'm just like confused because i'm a hindu i'm a hindu by me because of the way i was raised and i believe in you know the general teachings of hinduism but i'm a very open minded individual. but i can understand what she thought was saying i really understood it that a lot of what yoga teaches us is what him the wisdom teaches us they're the same thing so i'm conflicted now because. i want yoga to be a secular thing the problem is if yoga is seen as a hindu practice it might drive people away from it i think it's the variety and diversity of yoga that makes it so popular it fits the practitioners. barstow population $23000.00 halfway between los angeles and las vegas in the heart of the californian desert it's an unlikely place to be doing yoga but i'm not here

to do just any yoga i'm meeting the ladies a priest moves a christian alternative to yoga this is the very true as my husband and i got married and he never thinking he would be a pastor you know i went to yoga class in kansas ok and i you know i can do any of my you know what i'm here yeah it's such a workout it is hard i came and i asked my husband i don't want to offend and yeah you know but i said hey can i do a yoga class and barstow i know they have can i do it and he said wait a minute it all sounds from a religious. you know hindu you know we're not we're not you know and we respect you guys sure yeah absolutely yeah and so he got on the internet and he found this well this priest my. where you do similar positions but we quote scripture your body is the temple of the holy spirit who is in you whom you have received from god you are not your own you were bought at

a price therefore honor god with your body 1st corinthians 619 and that's why we're thrilled to see after we have prayed to. take care of our bodies and learn scripture and get in on this going to join our class today that's really exciting. stephanie said then to. you for ok we're going to start with mount zion posture and let's roll our shoulders cakes i've been sitting for a while. the strikes the movements of the arms who are here the skin nice movements back and forth the are going to come forward reaching down kind of like a windmill and it's good if it could all go the same way effect a fervent prayer for prayer of a righteous man all right avails much shame 516 by 16. i'm doing yoga poses while reciting biblical scripture i don't have any problem with the exercise but i find the whole situation rather odd it looks and feels like

yoga is it. 334. certainly aware that it looks like yoga you know that's totally fine if people say that but we believe yoga is a spiritual practice and we're not doing now dear lord thank you to learn i say. we can all pray. we just think you are that's really all we have to say you know some god and we appreciate you giving us your word so we can move our bodies and say healthy. the debate over whether yoga is religious isn't just limited to the walls of churches and temples in america it's found its way into the courtrooms to. their parents and in sydney to california have their own warrior stance on free

yoga classes being taught in their school district saying yoga is a form of the doctrine in the character of this room that don't want yoga taught and practiced in the interview to school districts say that it cannot be separated from religion children were being allowed through sun salutation and while being asked questions about why they were thankful to the sign they were being asked to pay for things they were lied to and something called a number a circle where they were asked to acknowledge the white and each other and what i found was that they were not at all talking just about x. or science they were talking about teaching children a life skills based on your think about the almost a direct quote you know the whole lot the fee is the very specifically religious philosophy the big story here is that america has been sold a lot yoga is being marketed deceptively dean broyles is a lawyer who represented the pair. since in their lawsuit against the ensign he to school district american started say oh i can adopt this and exercise because we like to be healthy and they think that by removing the meditation in sanskrit terms

that that suddenly transforms yoga into a non-religious practice but social science research has proven that just doing the poses and just doing yoga breathing is enough to cause spiritual transformation so have you ever done yoga before by accident actually you know not possible to well you know if it was just 2 moves i think it appeared 90 video ok yes i realize later were were i think one of them was a downward dog and i think one pose was a warrior pose and i realized later that those are yoga poses and so i don't do that anymore but if you call your god it's just a pose right if you're going to take you away from god if you do that pose when i know i'm not going to find that out because i stopped doing it. but if you asked hindus in india if you was religious what do you think they would tell you i think you'd get a mixture of answers to be honest with you why i think the mid vast majority would say yes it is children all over in c.d.'s are spontaneously at birthday parties

playgrounds on at weekdays and weekends getting into the lotus position putting their hands in the shonar mudra and and meditating. it seems to me the dean broyles and the n.c. need a school case is part of a larger cultural war in america and it's hard for me to see young get dragged into that battle back in l.a. my friend karen invited me to her neighbor's 4th of july party and i suspect dean would have had a problem with what was going on there for 1st tonight in america and i couldn't ask for better the flyer for america con artist kids to build up great kids for it should be using the kids are the ultimate yogis. living in the moment i saw her do we have to learn a lot of good. stuff. i.

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being attacked by loudly. in order to ensure the country exits its current problems and to achieve its aims and the revolution for which many young sudanese have lost their lives in the interim military council have ensured that we are on the side of the revolution we will work closely. ensure the development and progress for the country at this very historic moment the military and other forces were in their stations and stones were thrown at them from within the demonstration the rapid support forces moved in and managed to hold those who are firing at them accountable investigations are being carried out at this moment police have used tear gas and pepper spray on protesters in hong kong it comes as the territory marks the 22nd anniversary of its handover from britain to china these pictures you're seeing are protesters running the doors of the legislative council building there's been an end of an exhibition bill that could allow criminal suspects to be sent to mainland china for trial they want the proposals to be completely withdrawn

so a clause has more now from hong kong the practice is. to try and smash their way through the glass of hong kong the let's the council. rally here yelling . at the police the police are only place they've got the black eye when the black signs which indicates that they don't believe backed by this is backed by pepper spray gas 10 people have been killed in an explosion in afghanistan's capital kabul . smoke has been seen believing from the downtown area near the u.s. embassy. syrian state media says government dead defense systems of intercepted missiles fired by israeli fighter jets syrian media say the attacks targeted military positions in the city of damascus getting 4 people homes was also hit in the cells when the words from lebanese airspace where israeli aircraft are said to be spotted making low altitude flights. well those are the headlines it's not about

al-jazeera correspondent stachel that's what i thought. diamond dallas page is a former w w f wrestler and he's created his own brand of yoga d.d.p. yelps flexibility is one thing core strength is a whole nother and one true focus on your breath. and lock it out due to be out of baby and age your mama's yogurt. i wonder how flexible he is how are you read it to me if i'd only very good to me which person funny by new gas or mano a mano yes exactly how are you i'm a guy who wouldn't be caught dead doing yoga for the 1st 42 years of my life you

know we guys and i was brought up with yeah well that scene is like and heard about feminism and it's so far from the truth but i wasn't going to do it until i blew my back out i was assigned a multimillion dollar 3 year deal so i'll try anything and definitely so that i started to figure out ok lucy perplex here in a pool here i just took a whole week just like i'm gauging just like i'm curling the grammarian right now at 115116 just pulling them to someone so mike watched flexing my glutes i'm going to pull you away and help you feel better and then you're going to want to do more and then you really get excited what's not broke. back that's the d.d.p. yoga is at any level anyone can do this and i take all the spiritual stuff out of that i can spiritual mumbo jumbo not that there's anything wrong with that it's just that it's because i'm not for you doesn't work with my people you inhale. touchdown i developed this for guys ritually exhale. brown the fox 4 can

hear you 3 to one and hold it up on the backboard hole 321 hold the only oldies over you're all doing all the typical yoga cool. if you limit it to over here though you know because they're going to love the energy of that like i would if i saw someone who when i was the article over here because of sound want to be a part of that makes. sure. that. i mean a lot of money and professional wrestling really towards the end of my career in the game to be getting for years but. the p.o. has already doubled everything i've made there i'm not trying to change yoga in any way i'm trying to change the way people look at the work you know that's it. it ain't so mom of the yoga. and ha ha ha. one thing is for sure

the opportunity for money in yoga is changing the way people think about yoga and maybe even the way they're practicing it according to a recent yoga journal study there are 20000000 yoga practitioners in america and over 40 percent of i don't say they want to practice at a yoga journal conference in san diego business is booming. school with a trip. to stimulate. paddleboard on the water right now we just do it. all out 1st thing i am attracted to a growth industry that's where you're going to expand and you're going to make some money. you'll bill is obviously one of those it is because you remember when he can go out go yeah gotta go into this appears to be from a booth where i can get my picture taken. and put on the cover of a yoga journal it's kind of cool. so i came here. a lot of people just

hope it you know too much but now i'm like a kid in a canvas i'm totally falling for you know all these great products. you know. from media. spiritual materialism. saccharine and we don't know very much those people are that they're not in this sort of way to you know to make money there are you there trying to write that you are but the same time for us to exist we have to be persistent going to get as more and more people capitalize on the growth of yoga that means being competitive in the business world one area hotly contested today is intellectual property ownership. in the yoga world the battle over intellectual property started in 2002 when became chaudhry tried to copyright his sequence of 26 poses in a heated room big room is arguably one of the most influential and controversial names in yoga today with over $900.00 affiliated studios around the world he's

facing allegations of sexual misconduct from former students and criticism over his efforts to copyright his sequence but i want to mark droste is a former student who spent many years teaching at the become school in l.a. when he left to start his own studio he was sued by bikram he sued us on many different fronts many false charges but the core of it the goal of it was to get us tied up in court on the issue of the sequence and a summary judgment was won on our part to dismiss that idea because it's very clear that there is no such thing as a copyright protection for a yoga sequence and united states law one company that successfully got a patent for its approach to yoga is yoga glow a leader in online yoga classes they patented the way in which their classes are filmed derek males is yoga clothes founder this is it her knife this is where we hold our classes we have this set up such that the camera is at the back of the

room where you want. to create an experience that was not like a filming studio recording studio is it the placement of the camera and the height is that sort of relevant to yeah yeah. there are variety of specifications or the camera placement the high court or the details of the court or and there are other specifications as well ok you know them off the top your head. all right i don't put your i don't leave on a lot of numbers involved i leave that to the intellectual property turning a lot of work goes into the entire class creation process to make sure that you know what people experience online is a high quality safe experience it's a look and feel that people have associated with yoga class and it's a look and feel that we certainly plan to protect last year goodloe did set out to enforce its intellectual property rights the informed competitor yoga international

did some of its yoga videos would be in violation of their pending patent. we received a letter from a from a legal firm who was representing an organization called the older globe a letter essentially said that we were in violation of their pending patent is come to our attention that you know international operates the web site you're going to national dot com which streams and i'm going to disclose is that mimics the method and techniques set forth and you know it was u.s. pandemic asian which is in quotes for you reference the patent is pretty straightforward i mean they've patented putting a camera in the back of a yoga classroom having an aisle down the center which seems fairly obvious because that are now you would be able to see this the teacher and press imply and that doesn't seem to a lot of people like a particularly novel idea or something that's really worthy of an invention which is what patents are for protecting intellectual property rights of inventors are

you trying to patent your own style of shooting a class now here at this organization the truth is we've thought about whether it's prudent to seek to patent our own camera angles because what happens if those get taken up i mean it leads to those types of questions. how do we know what's going to be left if we don't do it what you would think would be the most important thing is what is the quality of the teaching you're giving are you doing something that is helping people are you doing some of it is not helping people but this doesn't even look at that this is looking out what camera angle you feeling from it's not even about yoga at all it's really about this core business but it has deep reaching implications into what the future of yoga is going to look like yoga glow has an impressive repertoire of classes and teachers but owning a camera angle and stopping others from filming a certain way seems to me like it could prevent people from sharing yoga and besides people have been filming yoga this way for more than 20 years i showed derek a video of pataki joyce teaching yoga. at that video was shot in 1903 clear central

as you can see obviously the mats are in a different place but i don't see how that's different from your patent so the mats are configured differently well they are configured different but so basic what you're telling me is the difference. is the configuration of your math correct but the math is facing you know forward and you know in parallel to the corridor or you are transformed you're you're taken into the studio with with real students there may be other differences relative to what you don't understand people saying how is that an invention can you can you understand how people would ask that question i would encourage you to go look at the specifications of that and because there are there are you know variety of them a few weeks after filming this interview derek published a block post saying that yoga glow has forfeited its patent however he says they will continue to protect the look and feel of their online classes which to me

sounds like just another approach to owning yoga. not everyone whose contribution to the evolution of yoga feels they need to protect it brazilian born harmony try is a respected yoga teacher in new york city he's been practicing yoga postures for decades and he's even created some of his own offering them as a gift to the world with a pleasure to meet you i'm busy doing like i have to practice so like quite a few. i have a hand as a. like i'm i'm not saying i create but due to lots of practice these variations came but i don't say it belongs to dominate

this is universe is from yoga not from dharma i don't have any ego here. egress and this can cause a bang as suffering is that in this good that every thing i do i don't think is that perfect you understand i think here in this physical plane. impossible to do something perfectly but of course deep inside you have your good intention to do it perfectly and do your best so that's the main thing i don't care about very sour. on hold on. did you go to study in india or where did you who do you know consider i never been

named in my life. watch the part i love i want to see all of this holy place but there is a point to neo there on your find something shy that you knew you would i and the law am got to live while. i was heading to india to the roots of yoga before going i spent an afternoon with sharon dan and david life at their home in upstate new york we're looking for a cat totem so we've been told. if you do yoga you've most likely heard of them they're the founders of jeevan mctee a widely practiced yoga method. no god must atsugi no obama into means may all beings each and everyone everywhere be happy and free and may the thoughts

words and actions of our own life contribute in some way when we started teaching yoga was not a career in fact it was seen as kind of where losers might have a possible last chance to do something in their life you know because they didn't have anything else going and it's not that now it's the big business it's a big business and the career of choice traditionalist on the one hand and innovators on the other david and sharon have turned yoga into activism animal rights and veganism in particular a yogi is someone who is striving to live in harmony with the earth with the environment with other animals like a fairy had. never entered the yogis were not supposed to become involved in politics or activism of any sort they should be passive self-satisfied and content in their little lotus hut right. our students come to class yeah and they find peace but then they go out and they make peace all over the west you know that has

turned into a purely physical practice what are your thoughts on that and do you think even the physical practices is a good place no such thing as a purely physical practice that's the 1st there we need to have a new perspective so that no longer is spirituality in opposition to physicality but that nature and the world the earth is seen as a spiritual place as well. and whether oak trees nectar oh yeah for it on your phrase. grandmother oak tree i speak on behalf of humanity you forgive our bumbling now you guide us so that we can live more kindly on this planet and enhance all of life on this earth yes we were tree huggers and we're not ashamed.

for many in the yoga community india isn't just a country it's a place to find yourself to find wisdom the birthplace of yoga for me india is all of those things and a part of my heritage. you would think yoga has always been popular in india but like in the west europe has experienced a resurgence in recent years and no one appeared in my says that revival more than swami ramdev he's a household name in his yoga is a political one he's an outspoken supporter of the nationalist party a jump of party and prime minister narendra modi who himself practices yoga and recently spoke about its benefits at the united nations. the b.g.p. won a landslide victory in the last general election so i mean ron dave was credited with bringing people out to vote get on the ballot your car on the.

ground. but you were planning to leave them in the yard or. that was. it a genetic grunty will be genetic but it would be all there. but yoga is facing the same political battles in india as in america the supreme court in india is now considering whether yoga is secular and should be taught in schools so i mean dave thinks it should your busy honey get your honey. or your secrecy got my 70 without. your 100 percent secular secular trek to school got him up at the get. the battle isn't only over the secular nature of yoga it's also about national heritage in response to us

copyright claims the indian government has taken steps to create a traditional knowledge database of yoga poses to prevent anyone from trying to own yoga yoga your but you seek out corporate news that. if you think about the negativity that you need that he'll get you said get. your gimmick is out of the process york make it to be regularly with. you that you put that that you need. a mind to be it that your get it done. dave has shown that yoga can bring about political change but i'm concerned that politics can change over too and that using yoga in politics could be just another way that people try to only. have come to southern india to meet such a good judge give us a dave who describes himself as a mystic and

a yogi and his followers around the world. i'm drawn to such guru he appeals to the young and urban middle classes of india he speaks their language he speaks to me. first of all of girl born a man builds a new satchel she also known as the id yogi the 1st ever yogi the whole system of how to your god is just this to bring your system to a certain level of symmetry where there's a certain genetic perfection to you that if you sit or stand here everything is at least. how do you think india is changing today and is that having an impact on yoga in

india it's not just india the whole work the moment human to human intellect starts asking put in and relevant questions belief systems will start collapsing they will look for something more sensible more scientific which appeals to their logic and are both all something that works. so is that why you think becoming as popular as it is other reasons it makes sense and it works you know the reason there's a lot of innovation in yoga is that a good thing is that it's just part of the that is the most painful part ok explain that to me you don't let a garland put it straight you wear it for your flowers but there is never a garland without a thread it is the most wide the pain so you can add whatever you want but you don't distort the facts you cannot do innovations in the fundamental dimension of yoga but from your experience you can add weight as dimensions to it without

distorting the fundamental nature of what it isa has yoga moved beyond being indian just because sun touches indian shores before it the doha can reclaim sun is indian because your guys just like that it's it's a certain life that arose here 1st this does not mean it's an indian in any sense india is an identity today's a national in the political identity yogurt does not belong to that identity at all it is the sickness of modern society today that if i discover something in nature i must own it intellectual property what i'm saying is the nature of this culture has always been if something is for the wellbeing of human beings nobody can ever own it did must belong to everybody. busy busy busy

i agree with such proof yoga should belong to everyone but i'm afraid that simple truth is getting lost in a world that's so commercialised and politicised. i set out to ask who owns yoga but i'm finding the question and possible one to answer what i have found in my journey is that no matter how much people try to own it yoga remains deeply personal. that is all about attention it doesn't matter. whether you can stand on your head or where you can do a handstand or something like that it's the intention that you come with to the mats and so the attention that you come with to the ganges or any other place of faith or a pilgrimage. is a beautiful thing. before

heading back home i went to meet an old high school friend of mine who's now living in delhi i'm at the nih both practice yoga but we've had very different journeys i came to yoga as a physical exercise i'm it came to yoga as a last resort he's a recovering cancer patient who turned his life around when the doctors said there was no hope he brought it all home to me. meditation was such a key part of getting mentally to the right place to not only fight the disease but to accept it and then one step further to embrace that oh i'm. here i'm a product. of having tried so many different things and finding the right combination that worked for me and i think we all need to be on those journeys of self exploration to find what works for us because that is what's going to get us

there. i'm back in doha back to my life working in a fast paced newsroom and teaching yoga. and. i've come to realize that there are as many yoga is in the world as there are people when i see the diversity of yoga today and all the fascinating people i've spoken to even those i disagree with i can't help but feel proud that this ancient indian science of the soul is relevant and apply even now no matter where i am in the world i think by virtue or connecting your breasts with your body i think is a profoundly powerful activity it sounds so simple but i do try and live my life or see the world through ok guys.

and i kind of feel like my own life could be a metaphor for what's happening to yoga indian but not indian spiritual but not religious and on that point i feel that yoga has become a more spiritual undertaking for me more so than before but i'm coming to realize that my yoga journey is just beginning and that journey is unique to me. i'm victoria my childhood was not always easy my mother was suffering from c.v.r. depression through making this film i hope to understand my. mental illness and to find out if the conditions for the mentally ill have improved it really means if people can't get treatment we see now on how many patients we all have to keep

trying to change attitudes. mental illness breaking this sign on al-jazeera. going to welcome back well cross parts of the levant we are looking for very dry conditions but thunderstorms could be an issue as they make their way across the caspian that means baku you could be seeing the overnight show as well to clean the overnight hours when we see the heating of the day so a temporal here on monday of $23.00 coming down because we are going to be seeing those winds coming out of the north notice of the rain is going to linger across the southern part of the caspian even tehran may see a passing shower or 2 but for quite city the temperatures are going to be in the mid forty's but dry as we go into mid week here across the gulf though it is going to be relatively quiet in terms of the weather temps wise though we are talking about mid forty's across much of the area over towards of a dobie 40 degrees for you here on monday may be coming down to about 39 but dry

across much of the your money because we did see some clouds earlier across the lola but those are now dissipating at $31.00 degrees and then very quickly across cross parts of southern africa what we did see one system make its way across the southern area that brought some winds as well as some rains towards cape town that is moving towards port elizabeth as we go towards the next couple days but much quieter conditions as make a way towards tuesday and drier across the map durban at 20 degrees there but a cool day in johannesburg at about 14 degrees harare a nice day with police and 25. we are going to announce the biggest step in the monkey. decades activists in seats

of government we didn't want to be part of this institution and all we really didn't want technologically challenging politics and implementing democracy open source code to use the freedom for everyone to look we are innovators we are activists we are. talking madrid and i'm just you know. keeping up the pressure protestors angry about a controversial extradition bill in hong kong or in the legislature. i'm sam is and this is al jazeera live from doha so coming up an explosion and gun

battles in the afghan capital at least 10 people are dead. 7 people were killed in sudan during mass demonstrations calling to civilian rule. turkey warns of serious consequences if 6 of its citizens seized by warlords if i huffed are not released. protesters are back on the streets in hong kong. demonstrators have been trying to smash their way in from a government building it's the anniversary of britain's handover of hong kong to china 22 years ago but people remain angry about an extradition bill that could allow criminal suspects to be sent to mainland china for trial. joins us live from

hong kong so sorry understands reports say some protests were turning violent was the situation. in the last hour or so just over an hour the situation has unraveled here the police had earlier retreated and left the protesters here to occupy the streets and it was during this time that the prices of not match their way through the doors i was right behind me might be able to group of people with helmets on an umbrella that's the mine interest alleged which is the home front. the council building especially right through the they've also got right place in there now holding signs saying no use pepper spray they did use pepper spray on some of those protesters and now we believe we have. the place moving along which is one of the streets that was on early this morning also said not to mention that the man has to take my son which could get up to

a 1000000 people or more this is for the july 1st handover anniversary rally they are going to china the location where they in that protest simply because the situation here is unraveling the police are moving in the protests and now more streets around this place we've been trying to get the story. how much political impact of the demonstrations having. to. the action group that's holding this big rally will be probably a bit more conservative with regards to their protest section they will sit before the march. generations this rally where i am here now it's a lot younger than the groups here and at the moment the political might be some political hit by with in the past few weeks but this is certainly intensifying when it comes to the police confrontations these protesters and what could happen tonight it looks like at the moment the situation could be unraveling even though

the confrontations were about so you're expecting to see in the next couple of minutes or a thanks so much sarah clarke there hong kong's chief executive kerry lam is trying to calm the recent unrest over the legislation she's promising to work with the people. after this incident i will learn lessons and ensure that the government in future will work closer and be more responsive to the aspirations sentiments and opinions of the community the 1st and most basic step to take is to change our style of governance to make it more open and the commentator and also need to reform the way we listen to public views such work should be carried out without delay and will start with me. tango is a china economic and political analyst joins us now live from beijing good to have you with us do you think these demonstrations are going to stop or stall beijing's march to try and bring hong kong further under its control.

no i think quite the opposite this kind of fringe radical element that is trying to use violence may invite a response from beijing they're not going to be impressed either by you know kerry or these people if things are do not get under control. you say it's a free vote the numbers that turning out i guess the holders of the protests would say they represent why this sentiment that is not have feel quite concerned about the direction the territories taking. i think there are 2 narratives here 11 is the people who have traditionally come out on this day to observe the handover some are unhappy about it some have ambivalent feelings but on the other hand this is the 1st time that you've really seen this kind of violence by these young people trying to smash things go against

the police provoke them this this is not impressive i don't think anybody in any kind of idea of democracy believes that this is the correct response to you know some sort of regime change has decided to end the one country 2 systems policy and walter mosley does aging want. beijing wants a functioning hong kong i mean remember hong kong would have great difficulties with beijing economically it has always been a gateway to china and you know it can continue to serve that purpose but quite frankly there are other financial centers that are springing up both in chan's and shanghai and it's quite probable that if hong kong can't handle its business that not only will the government in beijing be looking to these new areas but so will

people who want to do business remember the same thing but if i can jump in there when you say they want to have science in their own area and they face the right it is a stop thing the way hundreds of functioning hong kong does beijing still believe for example there is not any erosion of the rule of law and sort of status which hong kong has enjoyed since 1907 could in danger that the this is his role as a conduit for international finance for the entire country yes that's what i was getting on at is that you know the bankers and accountants and people who do the servicing will not want to be in a country where every weekend there are riots people trying to break in or stop the government from actually functioning remember these professionals need the government to function in order to do their business so ironically these young people are so excited about what i'm getting

a country away if they're going to making a little protest as well because beijing is trying to bring hong kong closer to its system rather than keeping it with one country 2 systems visit you know as exemplified by the bill which caroline was trying to get through the legislature to make extradition back to the mainland possible. yes the bill she was trying to get through was actually a very watered down compared to the $3030.00 or 40 other extradition treaties that had basically said nothing political nothing related to tax nothing related to religion could be considered that it would have to be under the courts and that any kind of crime would have to be punishable by more than 7 years if you contrast that to the extradition treaty that's been in force for more than 20 years with the united states the thresholds are much less there only one year so you know it's a quillan to say in england that northern ireland does not want to have an extra

dish and treaty with the u.k. you know the or puerto rico with the u.s. these are intrinsic parts in terms of where hong kong is going remember this handover period what's the transition and that eventually hong kong becomes just another part of china the question is is it able to maintain what has made hong kong unique in difference you know where they drive on the side of the road the the laws etc and they're endangering that by showing that they are unable to govern within the system that they already have. i guess protests of probably say they can see an extradition to some to mainland china where the system of justice might be a little bit different from other parts of the world like the u.s. the u.k. you have mentioned is it's also a concern but we'll have to leave it there for now thanks so much. a gun battle

is ongoing in the afghan capital after an explosion that killed at least 10 people smoke was seen billowing from an area near the u.s. embassy in kabul let's go to wash and while he's on the line for us now from the council in fact joins us from this so what's the latest is the gun battle still going on. indeed it was a powerful explosion this morning here in kabul where that militant was tried to attack a government building close together going to minister of defense area i mean a truck full of exposed explosives or exploded closely about government building and there tried to enter the building where the other militants that they ran into the buildings and high buildings nearby and they tried to engage with the afghan security forces so that they may get ministry of interior told us that 10 people were killed in this explosion so far and the ministry of health confirmed to us 68

other were wounded. it is an ongoing situation the militants are trying to keep the . security forces engaged we were also told by the minister of interior that the special forces also i have at the scene to cordon off the area and they are setting gauge with the with the militants we just received the statement from the taliban they are they are claiming responsibility for this attack and they're saying that our suicide attackers a number of their attackers are there and they're trying to get into the building and to achieve their target. if i heard you correctly that when you said the taliban have claimed responsibility the timing then might be a bit curious given the resumption of talks between the taliban and the u.s. correct. exactly this is very surprising for the people here in kabul that you know from yesterday the taliban are holding talks with the u.s. officials there in doha and they're talking about the peace and reconciliation about afghanistan other hands that are excellent meeting their attacks not only

getting in capital kabul but also in the other provinces as well where they're giving a lot of the lots to the afghan security forces yesterday were we were witness that they had that attack. american military base in the kandahar province where they also killed many of us you could see forces including the members of the independent election commission member. we'll leave it there for now thanks so much for that. at least 7 people were killed in sudan during protests on sunday that were demanding a civilian led government but were met with gunfire in tear gas on hama before. the message remains the same as it has for months demanding sudan's military rulers hand over power to a civilian government. tens of thousands of protesters.