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enriching more uranium that it read to u.s. president donald trump that's playing with fire. to be the stargazers and astronomy lovers poking to spot in town to watch a rare eclipse. so it is just past 10 am in hong kong where a massive cleanup operation has begun a day after hundreds of protesters stormed the city's legislature monday so violence left debris scattered all over the building police used tear gas to clear the area of the demonstrators smashed windows and splashed graffiti on its walls all this on a day the government held ceremonies to mark 22 years since the end of british rule and hundreds of thousands joined a peaceful march when hate begins our coverage. after

another day of protests in hong kong police ran out of patience with tear gas and battens they moved in to clear the area around the legislative council hong kong's parliament it's become the focal point of anti-government rallies over the past 3 weeks because protesters believe it's now largely controlled by mainland china this time they had little choice but to flee and quickly disappeared into the night. the catalyst for the police action was a decision by the protesters to seize control of the legislative council after hours of smashing windows and doors they went inside vandalizing the building as they went after several protests over the past 3 weeks some of them turning violent in clashes between protesters and police this group was able to force its way into the debating chamber in the legislative council facing very little resistance along the way they say they had no choice but to escalate the situation after becoming

frustrated that the government wasn't listening to them and i think for many many young people. they didn't expect that it took so long for the government. to respond there are rallies every year on july the 1st which is the day 22 years ago that hong kong was handed back to china by great britain but there were a bunch of large numbers this year because of a proposed extradition law it would allow suspects in criminal cases to be sent to mainland china to face trial in the justice system that critics say is deeply flawed. the bill has been suspended but opponents want it scrapped altogether and the resignation of hong kong's chief executive who spoke earlier on monday at a ceremony to mark the anniversary of all the new year's us incident that happened in recent months has led to control the free and disputes between the public and the government this has made me fully realise that i as a politician. i have to remind myself all the time of the need to cross

a public event missing accurately the system agreed between great britain and china 22 years ago was one country 2 systems for 50 years but protesters believe that deal is being pushed aside by kerry lamb and 2 governments who they say are increasingly being dictated to by beijing. soon after police moved into the latest rally it was over the streets in the legislative council empty their defiance dispersed but they left their mark on what's supposed to be the center of power in hong kong there will no doubt be repercussions but they're vowing to continue a fight that they say has become about much more than a proposed law it's about the future of the city wayne hay al jazeera hong kong hong kong slater kerry lamb condemn the actions of the protesters there who stormed into the legislative council on monday evening the extreme use of violence and vandalism by protesters who stormed into the legislative council building

over a period of time so this is something that we should seriously condemn because nothing is more important than the rule of law in hong kong so i hope community at large will agree with us that with these violent acts that we have seen it is right for us to condemn it. and hong kong's police chief justified their temporary retreat which some say created a gap for protesters to break into the legislative council we found that there were some protesters tampering with the electricity box i only find that some of the lights have gone no. and in fear of a total tough out there the protester while charging someone turned off the like i'm afraid that there will be people stepping people there were already

a toxic powder. attack on my office in the afternoon so without knowing whether this is another toxic powder tech we have no other choice but to temporarily retreat from that cold. martin lee is known as the father of democracy in hong kong he's the founding chairman of the democratic party and joins us now on skype thank you very much for joining us mr li and you have lobbied the governments both under british rule and under beijing's rule for decades pushing for more democracy and more freedom for hong kong but you've always use nonviolent means peaceful means and dialogue samaj said to get your reaction to what we saw last night because i don't like this at least see the little edge that we cannot use and. that i want people to know

what the boat. i spent 35 years trusting that. they move. and i trust in the nuances provided alopecia law because you can try know the money to fit in hong kong the 5th. east to importing conviction if you fill the bill actually and they go along with the mostest amounts and none of this is that and i did not need to. because it was already written into the law to the who had made a big change yes after that had those ready not just 22 years in this bill but in sight so you can see the frustration i also if you thought they did but i've been a few months years old then i would not judge x.

to get democracy how can you blame example. they did he just really think join us in this huge boxes 1000000 and then 2000000 and of course the government did this bit of duty i could venture that heavy play and have a execute a very good. match which is to enable some people using hard objects to knock on the door of the let you come to the doors are. secure a day with their kids. will approve and so so you have got 2 or 3 people who should have you looking looking. for all hours when the police are pressed they were just behind that curtain that got the all of the inside of the building we just watched until they were able to remove the then the humans some time

before the raid and if the lead picture that it needed you could see it. due to the big. left then of course. who complained that after so many days of the. war and the government more people on. they did what. yes. this big. battle but where do we go from here that's why they're eager to me for interrupting i give you for you've all you've lovey lobby the beijing government and you've seen that instead of giving in to protest before but then instead don is heightened controls of our own con so how do you think they're going to react when it is this really the way to get more freedom from hong kong this is not the way. you can buy for question it can be

played. and i'm sure very sorry for that. but. it is not given what they promised we are not asking which is not already not only promised but ensuring. that the british government. and britain know our constitution they have moved to live in these promises made to the international community. not to anything. and. you have. your mom still don't agree she doesn't buy this is home anymore. live. by the british. no. 2. who gave google the. new

new. well i do feel for her. when i spent 34 of my time in marketing. and diva to give from 2nd if i think we're. done live to city within a city of people getting more. money transfer. ok mr mr lee i'd like to go back to that point and that is the issue that triggered all these protests and that has led us to this point but the fact remains the chief executive did say that she was shelving that extradition law which would allow suspects in hong kong it doesn't matter where you're from to be tried in mainland china as a pig judicial system she shelved that law and and i think in a sense it has been seen as that may mean that it's been suspended and it's a way for the hong kong government to still save face do you really think that they

are going to completely get rid of that law particularly with in the face of protests not just the ones we've seen yesterday but the ones previously disputed to not. say they should withdraw the i should. because it's something it's not just a matter of. the will to come introduced to both the government wanted to do. wants to change that message just whereby people in hong kong could not be transferred if a child in existence we don't trust if you do choose this we believe that they won't give us that at all the things that most teens so. in fact is going to burst and then because the pediment media and the president of china could just get lost yet pictures said we should and he wrote on that too that

you are in china you of course both subplot the party the party must must be must control the government this jury and the legislature so the courts exist to consume it the moon the power of commons so who can trust to do justice to this verse in the hall and now they want to change it so we wanted to be with you on so as to show that the government doesn't want to change the status quo but by suspending what we did it well the time will come again maybe later on the next year or right and they will do it again but change that so that you will be sitting on call can be brought to china because they didn't like a piece of art news of the thing that you did in hong kong and ago and they couldn't make a trauma charge again and if you transfer to china for trial and you know once you get the bit you confess before t.v. cameras need all that and the students were prepared to sacrifice even the young

white defendants so i do agree but. i could did what they did or did but how can you blame them thank you very much marginally founding chairman of the democratic party in hong kong great to speak to great to get your thoughts thank you. we can now go live to sarah clarke who is also in hong kong standing in front of that damaged legislative council buildings is her house communicating along. for the last few hours we've heard a number of stuff from inside the lives of council building as well as police who've been deployed to clean up the aftermath we have piles of rubbish scattered around the entire floor so let's of council building is a large block i mean it goes down to the harbor front and within that is rubbish tiles we have everything from hundreds if not thousands of umbrellas we've got the

big blockades the prokaryotes that we used to cordon off this area yesterday we're talking heavy very heavy metal steel block we've got street signs you know there in those policies if you look behind me this is all that the glass too much every door and every window he smashed around the lips of council building and here you can see that the glass the front you can see behind this metal and it actually managed to get those roads through the mud a hole through those metal rods and padding inside so they are this cleanup quite some time away just outside we have been inside inside is also being trashed by the protesters who stormed the lives of council building on monday now i should say this building where we were before which was inside were just on the out on the cover i should say where they come through it's now been locked off other place have moved just off and cordoned it off because it's now become a crime scene sara hong kong and perhaps macau are the only places in china where the press can operate freely so how is the media they're framing what's happened.

well as you can imagine the it's the front page of every newspaper we've got such just 2 of them here that this is apple dully which is considered to be a more progeny kind of pipe but with a readership certainly would be it's just that the strike headline of protests is still can see here that's inside the council chime because that's a restricted area where only lawmakers are allowed to go and that's where those protesters got into this is a pro beijing will consider that. this is the government will never be the sign certainly with regard to the privacy eighty's front page it's a number of pages within and i should start as well to die here and choose to in hong kong carry land what's called an executive council meeting this is the 1st time in some weights that this music making is being held and this is the cabinet so clearly they moving ahead trying to think of what to do next and how to deal with yesterday's monday's storming of the lips of council building sorry clark of

the government headquarters thank you. andrew thomas takes a look at the extent of the damage inside the legislative building we just saw sarra outside a 5th this is after protesters were cleared by police. you can see the face either the protest is he's still one of the still they says one. is not china and that is the same throughout the building even in the legislative chamber itself which is from here the faces and everything smashed this is the gift shop of the legislative shined up again completely smashed up and all over the flow proceed. and there are things that the for justice themselves goes into this building a lot of rubbish a lot of eggs in front against the loans and the financing units that were used to smash down the doors in the 1st place to get access to the building and then of the drive in as well throughout this process is felt they needed to occupy

they still the to make a point but the place wanted to make a point as well that they weren't going to get involved until they felt they had to say and once the protesters were in a people in this building that is when they sent out messages on social media the place and via phone comes media telling those inside that they were going to come in that they weren't going to stand for this kind of disruption and about an hour and a half off of that but we started must be said most of those inside the 101 point must have left but then they arrived in their eyes with a lot of fools to gas fastens and they went off to those who remain very hard. well the chinese government has so far remained silent on these developments in hong kong but an editorial published by the state run newspaper global times described monday night's protests as nothing short of mob like behavior of blind arrogance and rage protester showed

a complete disregard for law and order it doesn't open in symbolic attack and that expressing contempt for the rule of law the paper says while trampling on the fundamental interests of society. well we have plenty more still ahead this news hour including foreign observers give a thumbs down to crucial election that took place in albania over the weekend. and we reported on the conflict in libya and the increasing involvement of 2 foreign players. and in sports a 15 year old causes one of the biggest shocks in wimbledon history. now u.s. president donald trump says iran is playing with fire that's off to the un's nuclear watchdog confirmed that terror honest talk piling more and rich to raney i'm that allowed by the 2015 nuclear deal that washington warned it will never

allow iran to develop nuclear weapons and that it will continue its maximum pressure campaign until tehran changes course there's a trump told reporters at the white house. move us into a room. to do that even with the airplane with i think they're playing with fire so no basis to run it whatsoever. and earlier iran's foreign minister said terror on the us have the right to exceed the limit because the 2050 nuclear deal has not been upheld humanitarian aid as i've been informed iran has exceeded the 300 kilogram limit to enrich uranium we had previously announced this and we were transparent in saying that what we are going to do we considered a tower right reserved in the nuclear. coffee. actions by the europeans have not been enough so we will move ahead with our plan we are in the process of doing our 1st phase of action increasing our stockpile of enriched uranium as well as our

heavy water reserves we have already announced a 2nd phase which would be surpassing the rhenium enrichment limit of 3.6 percent this will be our next step. ports from tehran on what to do next. the international atomic energy organization says iran has surpassed its 300 kilograms of low enriched uranium at the level of 3.67 percent now this is something the iranians have said they were going to do as part of their scaling back their commitment to the nuclear deal of 2015 because they feel that the european signatories are not upholding their end of the deal of this agreement now the foreign minister has says this is the 1st step the 2nd step is coming on july 7th which is the end of the 60 day period that has been set by president hassan rouhani and for the europeans to respond to the concerns the iranians have on july 7th it is believed that the 2nd step will include the increase of the level of

enrichment that means it will go from 3.67 percent anywhere to up to 20 percent that is what iran is capable of enriching so we have yet to see what that number will be but regardless they have decided this is the 2nd step that is coming and today's announcement is just another sign that the iranians are adamant that they're not really in this agreement with all the other signatories and the other parties involved really must do more to uphold their end of the deal after the united states withdrew from this agreement last year and iran will continue to pursue the path that they believe is best for their country's best interests and let's not go to natasha bucknor in paris where she looks at the challenges facing the european signatories to the nuclear deal. over the past few weeks as tensions have been escalating between washington and tehran european powers of repeatedly called on the 2 sides for calm to deescalate the situation and they've also called

on iran to keep its commitments under 2015 deal what they don't want to be is in a position where we're going to have paris berlin london the e.u. suddenly being in a position where they're going to have to concede that iran has broken its commitments to the deal that would be a concession that their diplomatic powers of collapse would be a huge blow to their diplomatic credibility and they would be very worried indeed about the possibility of iran having a nuclear weapon is something that of course this deal is supposed to prevent the problem is that the european powers have not yet come up with some sort of method or mechanism to shield the iranian economy from the full force of u.s. sanctions they put in place something called in stakes it's a payment system that quanta was dollar payments that allows for some trade between europe and iran so far it can only be used for humanitarian goods or some medical

goods food and aid it is not enough though to try and persuade big multinationals like the french oil giant total to do trade with iran again and risk u.s. penalties and that really is the problem because european powers simply haven't managed to come up with something to shield the iranian economy from the full force of u.s. sanctions and in a way iran is certainly turning up the pressure on european powers to do more. to get the view from washington let's go to john hendren who joins us now live john reheard president strums reaction briefly what else are you hearing in washington. the reaction has been wide ranging but not terribly unpredictable moments before minutes before the president went on the camera to say that iran was playing with fire the white house issued a statement that said in part maximum pressure on the iranian regime will continue until its leaders alter their course of action the regime must end its nuclear ambitions and its malign behavior but also responses have been pouring in much of

it in the 280 character format of twitter and there you hear members of the administration saying what you might expect them to say mike pompei oh the secretary of state of the u.s. is the world's top sponsor of terrorism can never be allowed to enrich uranium at any level john bolton the national security advisor for the president says there is no reason for iran to increase its enrichment unless it's part of an effort to reduce the breakout time to produce nuclear weapons but on the other side of this debate a number of democratic presidential candidates have weighed in among them bernie sanders one of the top polling candidates who says he's pushed us to the brink of war with iran and kept us in the horrific saudi led war in yemen we need real diplomacy he says and any club which are a centrist candidate says now iran is closer to a nuclear weapon than before he took office this did not need to happen and we

should negotiate back into the agreement that is the 2015 nuclear agreement the u.s. has withdrawn from and then joe biden the top polling candidate in most polls here in the united states the former vice president says trump's iran policy has alienated us from our allies and taken us to the brink of another war in the middle east everything the president does is backwards those are the responses from the democratic candidates who have been very critical but the administration here has spoken with one voice and is simply not backing down with iran and that's a dramatic contrast from its approach on nuclear nonproliferation with north korea you know indeed then the thing is iran clearly wants to end those sanctions that are squeezing their economy and that somehow up the ante so what are their options now. that's right dave you have the thing they want is the end those sanctions they can do it through the us they could trying to do more trade with the europeans but

the europeans face secondary sanctions from the u.s. if they were to engage in more trade so iran has a couple of options it can do what it's doing which is to not comply with this nuclear agreement ratchet up pressure and hope that diplomacy will take place in the u.s. and other allies will come in and come to an agreement it can also apply pressure in the strait of hormuz where it recently shot down an american global hawk surveillance drone and the american intelligence services say also attacked for commercial ships but really in the end this could end with an agreement this could end with the kind of military conflict that president trump says we were 10 minutes away from just a couple of weeks ago or we could have the kind of prolonged standoff that we face right now either of a where a very precarious situation john hendren thank you very much.

both in yemen say they have launched another attack on an airport in saudi arabia 9 people were injured when airport in the us air region was targeted it's not far from saudi arabia's border with yemen yemen to these have launched repeated airstrikes in saudi arabia which has led to a coalition against the group for almost 4 years now forces loyal to the libyan war load khalifa haftar have launched more air strikes targeting the u.n. backed government in the capital tripoli and number of people have been killed and injured in monday's attack the strike also damaged several buildings forces launched a campaign to take the capital in april. well the u.n. backed government forces in tripoli say the jet that carried out their strikes were from the u.a.e. these accusations come just days after we captured the city of. forces and they found boxes of u.s. made weapons tamped with us. but. today there were airstrikes

by foreign jets these are not have targets such jets are owned by the u.a.e. who attacked more than one place in tripoli before the airstrikes targeted a 3 story building and the building collapsed fully have told doesn't only kinds of missiles their own by the u.a.e. we said this before the jets that have attacked tripoli are the same jets that attacked after have to us forces were defeated. meanwhile turkey's government has announced that 6 of its citizens held hostage in libya have been released earlier ankara had warned of serious consequences for the warlords. those forces were holding them after i say eastern administration tobruk cut all ties with turkey on friday accusing it of supporting the rival u.n. recognized government in tripoli. we have plenty more still ahead on al-jazeera we'll tell you about a foreign invader that's choking nigeria's watch her body. and we'll go to london where scientists are showcasing their ideas for tomorrow in the hopes of solving

today's problems. and then sport there's a spying scandal brewing at the women's football world cup our law have all the details. sponsored by. how much of the heaviest rain in the last day and a half or so in this part of the world has been over the south china sea moving into was vietnam the big white top class and same of a loose arm but that front is still traceable and this is a seasonal one as forgiving heavy rain on the japanese and it's not so active in china immediately but it's coming back again it will bring in some more moisture from the south so the combination mean a wet day again i think for hong kong up towards for germans well clive's further inland but maybe not much coming 100 shanghai's just on the edge of that the rains

it turns back in once more so that's taken much the action away there are still big showers around and re forming this one coming towards sort of way see for instance but mostly borneo virtually all of indonesia is almost reliably drives a car should be singapore and kuala lumpur not quite out of the woods but your showers are going to be short lived at least on tuesday but more chance of them being longer lived on wednesday good news the monsoon i think although the front of the monsoon has jumped forward we've had very little chance to see fairly not mean much heavy rain recently but recently in maharashtra it has been showing itself i mean magic pradesh for a 5 minute 100 millimeters is possible in the next 2 days. the weather sponsored by cattle alleys. on counting the cost trumps deal of the century $50000000000.00 to kickstart a more abundance ready palestinian peace process but not a single dollar pledged plus the chinese electric called make up about to take all

the lights of the job but also industry counting the cost on al-jazeera. new leaders please childred in this refugee camp the latest victims of the unending sectarian violence in central african republic among them are survivors of unspeakable violence 10 year old celine book his mother is dead her father is gone killed because they were christian by their own muslim neighbors this is the least you home in overcrowded refugee camp of 23000 people surrounded by armed militia groups celine wants answers she says she wants to be asking the questions and so we traded places inch took the microphone will we find peace how can we make the violence stop when will i be able to return home.

watching out of there here through mine or our top stories this hour clean up this artwork outside hong kong's legislative council after was told by protesters on monday police had to use tear gas to clear the area the violence followed a peaceful protest earlier on a day the territory marked 22 years from the handover to china. hong kong beijing back chief executive kerry land condemned the protesters for being quote extremely violent he said it's heartbreaking to see so many young demonstrators break the law and want to. rejected calls to resign. u.s. president donald trump says iran is playing a far more and that washington will never allow it to develop nuclear weapons a u.n. watchdog confirmed that iran has talked more enriching uranium that allowed into the 2050 new deal. well let's get more now on monday's unrest in hong

kong jonathan ward is the founder of the atlas organization that's a business consultancy firm which is focused on india and china from new york. good to have you on the program you've been tracking the rise of china over the years and one of the components off that rise is being able to crush descents like what we've seen in hong kong on mainland china what kind of a challenge do you think these protests or these latest protests we've seen pose to the authority of teaching big. thank you dear good evening it's good to be here so yes i mean what you've seen in the last 5 or so years is a rollout of a surveillance state that's beginning to make use of far more sophisticated technologies than china has ever really seen i mean you're talking about a country that was an authoritarian totalitarian country under mao zedong in the founding of the people's republic and you know many people in the us would say that

only now do you have the technology catching up with the true vision of the communist party of china and that you see on the mainly ended items like the social credit score and more advanced elements of the surveillance state and the question with hong kong really is what does that look like for china for the communist party surveillance state to mobilize against a city that the world can actually see. i mean what you have for example in shin jang or tibet or other parts of mainland china is you know sort of extreme levels of repression that the world's aware of that we don't actually get a visual on whereas in hong kong you have people at this point protesting for the sake of the freedoms of what was once a great global city as the communist party encroaches and we will i think are waiting to see what the communist party response will really be indeed. in a as you as you explain are given details of china's tightening control of any kind of open discourse or dissent in mainland china and you know it under being it is

getting tighter and even more oppressed oppressive so how long do you think china will tolerate this kind of dissent in hong kong. it's a tough question i think right now it remains in the hands of the authorities in hong kong and we have yet to see any overt moves by beijing of course kerry lammas is backed by by the party i mean the administrators are chosen by by those who are you know supported by beijing but thus far it appears to be primarily in the hands of the you know city itself and its authorities so i don't think we've seen this movie yet part of that i believe is because of the g. 20 in a much larger sort of global stage in which she jinping sits and there are many issues that he's trying to deal with but and now that that's past them and with the trade truce happening with with china the united states i think you might start to see the next phase is going to motion how concerned is china about how if this is

what it was a secretly with the. actions towards hong kong does the international attention that hong kong is getting play into how china is now dealing with this well you have 2 sides of the narrative from the communist party and one for example at the g 20 when beijing essentially said we will tolerate no discussion of hong kong at the g 20. you know that foreign countries should not of interfere with our internal affairs i mean that's a line that's commonly used and then inside china in the mainland press you're talking about you have the party talking about foreign interference inside china and how these part of these protests are sponsored essentially by outside powers so it's trying to play the sort of double game and i think in the end it's quite a serious problem for them to have these 2 narratives one inside china the other outside of china so the one party 2 systems you know its system at this point

really allows the world a window in how beijing tries to manage its own you know relationship with the world while also trying to clamp down on what it sees as a very clear threat jonathan more great to get your insight thank you very much. funeral processions have been taking place throughout sudan after 11 people were killed during mass protests on sunday hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets they were demanding an immediate handover of power to a civilian led government the military justice says security forces responded to being attacked by protesters the main opposition coalition is calling for an independent inquiry. we made it clear to the ethiopian african mediation that there should be a time limit for the mediation process and it should not go on forever the struggle of the sudanese people will continue with its commitment to its peaceful methods until the objectives of the revolution are achieving are peaceful tools including

negotiation will continue until the objectives of the revolution are. fishermen in nigeria are worried about it the impact of a foreign plant that's having on their trade the water hyacinth which is native to the amazon basin of south america started appearing in nigeria in the ninety's it's been spread to cover a lot of the reverse preventing a life from getting much sunlight and causing problems for those who rely on water transport i'm a digits has the story. on land hundreds of thousands of cars and trucks clog the streets of lagos. and for those people who have increasingly turned to the water for transport an invasive weed is making life difficult there. because of how enormous it is is the governments the us will kill more machines to rosa's so that we're able to properly the spread of water hyacinth is heading inland covering small streams and rivers at least 26 out of nigeria's $36.00 states affected

it is accelerating the buildup of silt at the bottom of rivers and choking about a quarter plans by blocking sunlight and oxygen. water herself was 1st noticed in nigeria in the early 1990 s. since then the invasive plant has disrupted not only transportation but also hydroelectric generation and fishing in several regions efforts to control it have so far field. you mean a model who's been a fisherman all his life says the job is now getting harder. to stop our band presence of the plants makes it difficult to part of a boat and cast our net the catch is decreasing in fact the water is becoming shallow. but what you see is a nuisance others see an opportunity they have as the plant to create an artwork out of it for sale but importantly scientists say there is

a lot of potential of water hyacinth including electricity generation. scientists at. the what i sense and the long process of my research using the educational metal. plants what i sing it in water and this is. dislodged from me and we now use it for their or their research work recently and use it for adoption about is something that might prove beneficial to nigeria as it struggles to generate electricity to power its factories and homes. back on the river you mean a model which is the weed will just disappear so that the fish can return in numbers how much greece al-jazeera lagos. iraq's prime minister. has ordered the country's powerful paramilitary groups to be integrated into the armed forces they've been ordered to comply with the orders by the end of the month

the prime minister says officers and checkpoints operated by militia groups must now be shut down currently most of iraq's paramilitary groups are believed to be backed by iran. international observers of albania's local elections say they were held with very little regard for the interests of the electorate the main opposition parties boycotted sunday's polls over claims of corruption john psaropoulos has this report from her and albania. the mayor of chicago is tallying voter turnout in sunday's local election it is pitifully low which is good news for the incumbent built on a penny because the democratic party she represents boycotted this election so she wasn't a candid it people they refused it is and this is wonderful this is not political this is being a citizen so because of that i think that it is there and because of what they feel

happy to be the democratic party accuses the socialist government of corruption it is demanding the resignation of prime minister and the general election president who is sympathetic to the opposition claims declared the local elections cancelled and rescheduled them for october to give the parties a cooling off period but the government under held them anyway. has been a democratic party stronghold since the fall of communism in 1990 but on sunday a socialist party candidate stood here unopposed according to the municipal tally fewer than 7 percent of registered voters turned out to vote and many of those apparently in protest. and some of those are workers in state services who told me they were ordered to vote in resulting political disagreements international monitors blame the 2 main parties the surgery as of june local elections were held

with little regard for the interests of the electorate in the climate the political standoff and polarize ation. did not have a meaningful choice between political options. in february the democratic party opposition walked out of parliament this polarization has left voters confused and disillusioned. the politics of the last years it's very very. you know for people and the people are so so tight honestly we need an opposition even if it's maybe bad without any organization or anything like that. a demi officially ends in august since she doesn't recognise this election as legal she is refusing to give up hope post as a 23 other opposition may as prime minister rubber has invited the opposition to talks unless the political parties reach agreement it will be up to rome whether to

initiate legal proceedings that will put a demi and the other opposition mayors in jail jumpsuit ople us al jazeera scojo german foreign minister heiko moscow's war on the rest of the german ship captain in italy could lead to considerable aggravation and has called for her immediate release carol or a kitty has appeared before 3000000000 court after being detained on saturday when she was illegally or when she legally saw her bessel on the island of lampedusa it was carrying dozens of migrants that more than $250.00 scientists are taking part in a groundbreaking exhibition in london it highlights the cutting edge technology and scientists are hoping their ideas of tomorrow will be used to solve today's problems the barker explained. isaac newton charles darwin stephen hawking they've all come through these doors and for more than 160 years this eminent institution's

been open to a curious public. call us franks a superstar in the field of cosmology he believes in building bridges between science and society being selected to exhibit over our society is one of the greatest honors scientists can have because it gives them the opportunity to communicate the resources of that research to the public at large there's not no point making the great this discovery everything science if only you and your friends know about. this year 250 scientists is showcasing cutting edge research including plans to build a new generation of skyscrapers from wood these are the towers of tomorrow made from gluing blair republic of timber together. every time the word holds 1.8 tons of carbon dioxide you know. and so building cities out of wooden buildings is a way to store that carbon for

a long long time and if you're wondering the wood specially treated and configured to make it fireproof. a science advances a growing number of people fear losing their autonomy to technology driverless car survey recently made headlines precisely because they crashed last year and driving car killed a pedestrian during testing these researchers are trying to prove scientifically that automated cars a safer than those driven by humans this is all about building trust in artificial intelligence by comparing human abilities and driving a car. with a i am driving around a virtual city cousins keep popping out at me at the end of all of this and given a final score for they are not doing very well at the moment i need to kill that cyclist what this simple. data gathering experiment shows is that time after time autonomous vehicles outperform humans when it comes to spotting hazards stopping in time. by 2030 scientists believe self driving vehicles will save thousands of lives

but convincing the skeptics remains a big part of the scientists work. at the royal society of london. on tuesday a dramatic total solar eclipse will darken the skies over south america and will travel across parts of chile and argentina and a journey lasting all about 6 minutes or latin america editor travel to. in chile which apparently is the best place to see the rare event. the transparent skies of northern chile especially the cold kimball region have turned this into the world's a strong many capital. but scientists aren't the only ones rushing to witness a cosmic event that is drawing hundreds of thousands of visitors here to see a total solar eclipse and if people say well what's question without a why do you want to travel so far to see you after you see the eclipse you will

know that this would be the american couples 16th have been chasing solar eclipses the world over in a full solar eclipse the position of the moon appears to fully cover the sun turning day into night it occurs somewhere on our planet roughly every 18 months but they're all different depending on the location the position of the sun and the clarity of the sky and maybe this fringe family just arrived from paris and says they expect this their 5th eclipse to be the best one yet yes it's an expensive hobby but once you see a full eclipse. you get addicted actually you want to see the next one. accommodation in dical kimble and atacama regions have been sold out for more than 6 months. this is like a get up population 4000 where almost everybody is renting a room or their home or even just a little piece of land where people visitors can camp out and the reason is that

this remote place has some of the best views of the stars of anywhere in the world and which according to astronomers will also give you some of the best views all the eclipse. but for astronomers and physicists who've also camped out here it's an opportunity to see elusive stars gather data or demonstrate this theory of relativity through these telescopes so you will go to the body if you are able to see weak stars doing a total eclipse we will be able to determine if the light is displaced in it and demonstrate once again on stein's general theory of relativity and they said it's wonderful that's what sharon and byrne are bull cults have less ambitious expectations so i'm hoping to see stars in the daytime. if the weather cooperates as meteorologists predict she will more than likely get her wish to see in human light good at chilly. if the west

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thanks very much american corrie golf has caused one of the biggest shocks in wimbledon history the 15 year old doctor at 5 time champion eunice williams in the 1st round is the youngest player ever to qualify for the main draw in the professional era at 39 years old venus is the oldest player in the draw but god who

is ranked number 301 in the world didn't let a 24 year age gap get to her the american dispatching her compassionate and tennis idol 646. i just i never thought this will happen literally living my dream right now in not many people get to say that so i'm just happy that. gave me the opportunity just to play and i obviously never thought it would be this. now only a sock as hope so winning her 3rd grand slam title of been crushed the japanese was defeated 7662 by kazakstan helio save in the 1st round the 21 year old u.s. and australian open champion lost her match in an hour and 36 minutes osaka is the 1st top 2 seed to lose in the women's 1st round since martina hingis in 2001. now bag has begun the defense of his wimbledon title in impressive fashion the

world number one dominated germany's philipp kohlschreiber winning in straight sets 637563 jack riches already won the australian open this year and he's looking to win wimbledon for the 5th time and playing his 16th grand slam overall. and of course you know the 1st match. you know you sleep few times and still kind of finding the right position on the court the right play. but i'm all over all satisfied. algeria made it 3 wins from 3 at the africa cup of nations the desert fox is thrashed tanzania 3 know in their final group game it follows an impressive win over one of the tournaments favorite senegal in their last game looking to win the cup for a 2nd time so while gerry go through his group winners senegal also advance and 2nd after their 3 no win over kenya the kenyans could still qualify for the last 16 is one of the 4 best 3rd place teams morocco when group d.

after beating south africa one nil they move on together with the ivory coast in 2nd after their $41.00 victory over namibia their place south africa will have to wait to know if they'll advance a spying scandal is brewing at the women's football world cup this person was spotted hiding in the bushes while england her training for their semifinal against the usa he appeared to be taking photos and talking on his phone it comes a day after 2 u.s. representatives were spotted at the england hotel they denied spying and said they were just scoping it out as a potential hotel for their team if they make it through to the final england coach phil neville wasn't impressed no sign that we do sensibly round to another and other teams all tile. step problem i'm sure that jill probably would have been happy with that arrangement i would have been if that was my team ops person going

round and i'm sure that she will be dealing with in the short within their own discipline no bearing on the game. i actually found the quite fully. no i just thought what do you know it is just not i think it really is it you know also just think that that's not something that i would allow from our organization. in terms of arrogance i think that's got nothing to do with us that's planning in preparation for war. for staff so i think that's pretty normal i mean i had no idea where we were headed and where we were going didn't know how we would get here yesterday so you know they think of that so we don't have to. there's a huge match of the cricket world cup on tuesday bangladesh take on 2 time winners india they need a win to keep their hopes of reaching the semifinals alive they face an indian side who are coming off a loss to england on sunday but who can advance with

a win. loss their last 4 o.d.i. to india including chap heat stroke coming on in 2017. very strong side in this work up. and it's not going to be easy but you know you have to have to play hard and to design the system in there vs in the west indies made longer be in contention for the samis but that didn't stop one very special fan from coming to cheer them on multi grammy award winning r. and b. star rianna made the trip to durham for their dead rubber game with sri lanka the barbadian singer looked to be giving the windies the much needed spark as they chased down a victory target of 339 but despite putting on quite a show they fell short in the end winning it by 23 runs. and that's all your support for now more later. and that is it from me to beat up on for this news hour but i'll go away there and jordan will be here with more news

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