no demonstration of the back and forth between reality and fiction that he's real stories played out on sad. episodes of soapbox mexico on al-jazeera. china condemns the storming of hong kong's palm and calling the demonstrations a blatant challenge to the way the territory is run. time sam is a this is now just here on live from so coming up france wants to rant against breaching the 2015 nuclear deal of the to han announces an increase in stockpiles of enrich uranium. european leaders hope to finally decide on the e.u. stop jobs when they meet for a time and we look to the skies from

a small town in chile to watch a rare eclipse. of china is calling the overnight protests in hong kong a blatant challenge to the one country 2 systems principle it's the strongest condemnation from beijing since protesters stormed hong kong's main government building on monday night the protesters are angry about an extradition bill which would allow suspects to be tried on the mainland. well those scenes followed a peaceful rally through the streets of hong kong around 500000 people attended that march on monday which happened on the 22nd anniversary of hong kong's handover to china from britain. we're get more on the reaction from beijing in just a few minutes but 1st let's go live to hong kong it's peak to wayne had a so the clean up operations going the day after now.

i think at the moment for hong kong people it is about digesting exactly what unfolded on monday night and into tuesday morning the focus as you mentioned has been on that cleanup operation a huge amount of debris was left behind by the protesters who'd been camped on the streets outside the legislative council building they left that debris behind items that they had been holding umbrella's barricades things like that as they fled when the riot police formed up late on monday night and came in with tear gas and battens to very quickly clear the protesters from the streets and also from the legislative council building behind me the building itself well it is a crime scene a police investigation is underway the building is cordoned off they are trying to figure out exactly who it was that went into the building tried to trying to identify some of those protesters who stormed into there illegally of course and

cause so much damage along the way a lot of damage vandalism done to the building as they went in there capping off what was a remarkable monday into the early hours of tuesday morning carrie lamb the chief executive of hong kong who is being of the focus of so much anger from these protesters over the past 3 weeks gave a media conference at 4 o'clock in the morning local time and offered her reaction to what it unfolded here. 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 on down 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. now what's next for the pro-democracy movement. well i think as i say there will be some time spent digesting trying to come to terms with exactly what did unfold here on monday night. morning not just for the protesters but hong kong residents in general i think there was a feeling that nothing was achieved in terms of the dumond's of carry lamb and the government that extradition bill is still there even though it's been suspended they want to withdraw on all together and they want kerry lam to resign those things have not happened and there's no sign that they're going to so i think it's probably inevitable that this protest movement which is being very organic led really by the youth of hong kong by students will return to the streets of the city some time in the near future but there's no indication yet from them that they're going to do that soon at the moment also there is

a lot of debate going on about whether that decision to go into the legislative council building was the right one even some of those protesters that you mentioned joined that joined in that very large march on monday that happens on july the 1st every year to mark the handover from great britain to china of hong kong 22 years ago they commented a lot about the decision to enter into this building they said they didn't necessarily. i agree with what that core group of protesters did but they are on the same page when it comes to their old tibet goal that the movement the aim of these protesters and that is to see the resignation of kerry lamb and to get some greater rights for them secured going forward. live from hong kong. truly you is in beijing with more on how the chinese government is reacting. chinese state media have begun broadcasting reports about the events of last night

in hong kong but we're seeing very different pictures on chinese state media compared to what we saw on other channels for example the chinese state media broadcast very much focused on kerry land very much focused on her condemnation of this violence and also focused on what the hong kong police have said probably criminal acts committed by these protesters beijing has very much said that they're going to back any investigation in any prosecution in pursuit of prosecution of a possible crimes that took place last night now here in china this is very much of the point of view that beijing is trying to get across that that these are not brave daring protesters who are frustrated these are fact probably just dogs and to emphasize that message what we did see here on chinese state media on 2 papers here english language chinese state media newspapers the 1st in global times an image not of protesters not of a trashed alleged car but of people having

a very nice time celebrating the anniversary of hong kong's return to the mainland by gathering in and forming a sign that says i love hong kong and similarly on the front page of china daily you have a picture of some locals joining in with the chinese military officers to celebrate the event and to say how happy they are about being part of the motherland so that is definitely the image that beijing would like to convey to the world trying to dismiss anything that happened last night is really nothing more than outliers and that's what we expect to hear more of when china's foreign ministry give a statement later on today the french president is calling on iran to immediately reduce its enrich uranium reserves the un's nuclear watchdog confirmed around the stockpiling more enrich uranium been allowed on the 2015 nuclear deal. joins us now from paris and tasha we understand french leaders are saying they're

going to come up with something to keep the deal a lot of what exactly is going on. well what we have is a statement from the elise a saying that the french president is very concerned about the fact that iran has decided to exceed its uranium limits of the president emanuel markhor is calling upon tehran not to take any further steps that could in any with any way break their commitments to the 2015 nuclear deal and also the president back on the coming days might make more effort or do more to try and support and save this deal now the statement very much echoes what we heard from the british foreign minister jeremy hunt on monday who also talked about how european powers are really focusing on trying to maintain this deal they still believe that for them it is the best deal out there in terms of ensuring peace and security in the region and the focus

for european powers is very clearly on trying to prevent iran from taking any more steps that could be seen as violating completely the jay c.p.o. way this 2015 deal because if that was to happen of course it would mean that the deal would collapse it would be a great failure of diplomacy and of the efforts of those european powers britain france germany the e.u. who've been fighting so hard to save it ever since donald trump pulled the u.s. out of the deal last year and reimposed u.s. sanctions on iran the problem is you have iran saying to the european powers that they're not doing enough to shield the iranian economy from the full blow of these u.s. sanctions the europeans of god in place of payment system called in stakes to contour some of those u.s. sanctions those dollars payments but is not enough iran wants that a payment system to be much wider than it already is just for a few small goods humanitarian aid they want it perhaps even allow for iranian oil exports but the europeans haven't been able to come up with anything like that yet

so they're so in a very difficult position the pressure is on in the days to come for a firm so much natasha. iran's foreign minister says duran has the right to exceed the limits because the 2015 nuclear deal has not been up held. it up as i've been informed iran has exceeded the 300 kilogram limit to enrich uranium we had previously announced they said we were transparent in saying what we are going to do we consider it our right reserved in the nuclear deal. per your coffee and. actions by the europeans have not been enough so we will move ahead with our plan we are in the process of doing out 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 u. rhenium enrichment limit of 3.6 percent this will be our next step.

us president donald trump is warning it will never allow to iran to develop nuclear weapons washington is vowing to continue to maximum for its maximum pressure campaign until the han changes course. sharon they know what to do you know what they're playing with and i think they're playing with fire so no message to iran whatsoever negotiations to select the european union's top official is underway with repeated attempts to reach a consensus it's the 3rd meeting to pick the blocks top jobs including the president of the european commission a math and 20 hour negotiation on monday broke down over eastern european opposition 2 friends to moments a dutch socialist politician has the backing of germany spain and france. here's a breakdown of what's at stake in these negotiations the major debate is over the top job the european commission president well that takes the role will steer policy for the next 5 years also up for grabs are the presidencies of the european council and parliament for the next 2 and

a half years they'll lead then represent their respective arms in a unity goshi ations finally there's the e.u. foreign affairs chief and the president of the european central bank will set monetary policy for euro countries to fill those roles e.u. leaders will not only have to reach consensus but also fulfill a number of criteria including a geographic and gender balance and then barbara joins us live from the european parliament in brussels so nadine does it look like it's going to be a case of 3rd time's a charm. very hard to tell sammi you were just outlining some of those top jobs and behind that there is a real power struggle going on here in brussels because vote 3 of those top jobs are currently held by the center right members of the european people's party group in the european parliament and the problem on sunday night going into monday was vote in fact the man who was the front runner for the commission president seen as

the top prize was a center left politician friends timmons who you were referring to now coming into the resume talks just in the last hour or so listen to this from the polish prime minister one of the countries which has had a real problem with mr timmons saying here he expects these talks to be very difficult the czech prime minister and regarded as well saying again that mr timmons is quote absolutely unacceptable and that his appointment would be a tacit a total catastrophe angela merkel as she arrived on tuesday said that everyone should know they're going to have to budge a little while it doesn't sound like those countries are ready to budge that much what is the alternative well in those talks. starting on sunday night we saw a series of meetings in which members of the p.p. the center right group proposed alternative candidates of their own people like michele bunny the chief breaks it negotiator and. other figures which are less well

known but still popular among some circles what's not clear right now is whether we are going to move to those alternatives or whether the big countries are still trying to stick to the proposal the plan that they had before sunday if they do i think it's going to be a very long process. i wonder as well. the deadlock is a sign of just how politically fractured europe has has become is that what's cooking here. you're right sammy it shows it's a reflection of how how diverse now the the range of political parties is in the european parliament why do i say that because the european parliament is driving this process that's known as the candidate system the lead candidate system in which under european treaties the top jobs must take into account the

wishes of the electorate across the there are elections in may and the big emerging parties were largely liberal parties the greens and nationalists are now better all saying that very should have a say in who gets these top job zone in fact pedro sanchez the spanish prime minister on tuesday has said that the way out of the deadlock here if it continues to be deadlock would be to listen to the wishes of the european parliament the directly elected body of the european union all right we'll leave it there for now thanks so much standing barbara. well as we mentioned politicians remain divided over who get the top jobs but a new european parliament has been inaugurated in strandberg politicians will submit their candidates by the end of choose day and elect a new president for the parliament on wednesday but many leaders say they'd prefer the election to follow the appointment of the european commission's president. so ahead on al-jazeera we look at how iraq has been left littered with unexploded

booby traps on decades of war. and we'll tell you about a foreign invader choking nigeria's rivers. we're seeing some very nasty weather across the philippines or recently underneath this huge massive cloud see some flooding rains there into well lose on lots of wet weather pushing through and it's going to stick or as we go on through the next couple of days notice 32 celsius wetter weather a little further north elsewhere across southeast asia the issue of showers there into malaysia want to see showers still affecting indonesia as we go on through the next a day or 2 as well meanwhile for thailand where we see highs of around 29 celsius in bangkok looking rather humid and showers never really too far away but not too

many showers in the forecast across australia at the moment spell the cool side recently sunny for jane it was the coolest and driest weather that we've seen for quite some time and one of the coolest driest that was seen for much of this decade high pressure in charge here's the thing settled and sunny 13 celsius in melbourne so a great shake 16 celsius there for a 70 but we're getting up to 21 in perth and 4 back to around 17 on thursday the cloud and the rain that's going to slide is why again for much of australia as you can see it's fine and dry the same can be said for new zealand we have got some disturbed weather fading its way in south and looking pretty wet on wednesday we've been east. from cutting edge medical technology. could be a vast resource to the development of lifesaving drugs to advances in the most difficult regions of the world releasing gametes into thank you for getting new.

innovative solutions to global health care problems that didn't make a difference maybe out of all these were good sure we saw the cure on al-jazeera. and watching out just reminded our top stories this hour china is calling overnight protests in hong kong a blatant challenge for the one country 2 systems principle that's the strongest condemnation from beijing since protesters stormed the city's main government building. the french president is calling on iran to immediately reduce its enrich

uranium reserves the un's nuclear watchdog confirmed iran is stockpiling more enrich uranium than allowed under the 2015 nuclear deal. just like the european union's top official is under way again after repeated failed attempts to reach a consensus it's the 3rd meeting to pick the blocks top jobs including the president of the european commission. sudan's protest leaders of the step up demonstrations they've called for nationwide civil disobedience later this month and sandra chappelle reports they blame the military leaders for the 11 deaths during sunday's rallies under schapelle is more on the mind of the minute you're my hero. but you are right i mean you mean that is going to be someone claiming the latest victims of the fight for civilian rule in sudan killed a security forces broke up some of the largest demonstrations in weeks. but once the funeral processions began some cried out blood for blood and down with

military rule. despite an internet blackout that curbed their ability to organize hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets in the capital khartoum and other cities demanding an immediate handover of power to a civilian led government. sent a message i think maybe if. we don't trust the military council this is something we're not hiding we have doubts about them and we will not put down our weapons which is the crowds of people to just follow the road of negotiations alone and move. the african union any theo p a r mediating between the 2 sides last week the military junta said they were ready to resume talks on a transition but there are already plans for more street protests next week. 3 months after the fall of president omar al bashir after nearly 30 years of rule those calling for complete change in sudan say there is still a long way to go and a chapell al-jazeera iraq's prime minister is all out of the country's powerful

paula meant military groups to be integrated into the armed forces the lab that monday wants fighters to comply by the end of this month the prime minister says offices and checkpoints operated by militia groups must be shut down. decades of wars in iraq have left contaminated with landmines and in recent years the battle against isis has diverted money away from projects already struggling to help clear explosives where the worst affected region is around the city of basra where charles stratford reports. he's led home by her teenage nephew. zahra was blinded almost 20 years ago when she stepped on an anti-personnel mine in a field close by. her brother was killed by a landmine 2 years later. it is had deep psychological effect on my life i often feel like i'm a dead person what used to my to anyone the area we live in is still contaminated

with bombs many young people have died zahara lives in the basra neighborhood of bet wrong in southern iraq its name roughly translates to the place of amputees will know 150 people have been killed and many more injured in but. by buried bombs from iraq's wars over the last 30 years. in a house close by we meet malik need his leg was blown off 6 months ago when he stepped on a mine while searching for scrap metal which he used to sell to supplement his income as a construction worker. now i live off the charity of my friends i survive on their generosity i have no social security or a pension the depression is overwhelming i can work to support my children and that frightens me this is the area where malik was injured it is littered with military debris from a war that finished 3 decades ago the iran border is around 6 kilometers in that

direction this area was effectively the front line during the iran iraq war a war that ended more than 30 years ago and yet this area remains one of the most heavily mined in the world. around 100 kilometers away close to the kuwaiti border unexploded ordinance teams search for cluster bombs dropped by the u.s. air force and saddam hussein's army during the 1991 war there are huge areas like this across southern iraq contaminated from the 2003 u.s. led invasion of iraq to. the tiny fragments of these bomb so potentially lethal up to 30 meters. experts say in addition to the vast areas littered with bombs like these. there's more than 800 square kilometers of mine that need to be cleared around. since the war on ice on the north of the

country the international donors and government attention has focused on refugees and clearance of ordinance there but they must not forget south this region is the most heavily polluted with unexploded munitions in iraq. back in the tran malik sits with his 2 sons afraid for his family's future he says he expects many more people will suffer the hidden remnants of iraq's walls for many years to come. basra germany's foreign minister has called for the immediate release of the captain of a rescue vessel who defied italian authorities to illegally dock in lampedusa. was detained after she hit the police she was that was trying to stop the sea watch 3 was carrying dozens of migrants and refugees rescued in the mediterranean racket they appeared in court on saturday faces 10 years in prison if convicted. fishermen in nigeria say a non-native plant species is choking rivers and restricting trade the water

hyacinth is native to the amazon basin of south america but it started appearing in nigeria in the 1990 s. quickly spread our military's reports from lagos. 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 show that we're able to tackle it appropriately 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 aquatic plants by blocking sunlight and oxygen water horizon for 1st noticed in nigeria in the early 1990 s.

since then the invasive plant has disrupted not only transportation but also hydro electric 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 through mind to stop our band presence of the plants makes it difficult to parse out and cast our net the catch is decreasing in fact the world is becoming shallow. but what you see is a nuisance others see an opportunity. they have is the plan 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 like me at. the what i saw and the long process of my research using the educational metal. plants of what i sing it in water and this is

my. last. i'm now using it for their on their research work innocently years into production of mountains of 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 the fish can return in numbers how much grease al-jazeera lagos. stargazers are flocking to a small town in chile for what they hope will be an exceptional viewing they'll be looking out for a total solar eclipse which is set to darken the skies over south america late on tuesday our latin america has a lucy a new and travel to live where in chile the best place to see the rare event. the transparent skies of northern chile especially the call kimball region have turned

this into the world's astronomic 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 people say well what's question without a why do you want to travel so far this. after you see the eclipse you will know that this will be the american couples 16th we've 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 executor you want to see the next one.

accommodation in tickle kimball and i think karma 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 deals 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 the theory of relativity through these telescopes so you will go to the body if you are able to see weak stars during a total eclipse we will be able to determine if the light to displace them 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. you see in human like good at chile. let's take you through the headlines now china is calling overnight protests in hong kong a blatant challenge to the one country 2 systems principle that's the strongest condemnation from beijing since protesters stormed the city's main government building. those scenes followed a peaceful rally through the streets of hong kong around 500000 people attended the march on monday it occurred on the 22nd anniversary of hong kong's handover from britain to china sarah clarke has more on the clean up operation in hong kong.

where the clean up here in hong kong has been underway for hours we're at the lips of the council building which is hong kong's parliament and stuff from inside as well as place hundreds of place have been deployed to clean up and sort these rubbish piles here and as you can see we have things from the block is not cardboard but the also got its metal blockade you can see the heavy and the metal this metal is extraordinarily heavy but it's those types of devices that we use to smash their way in by protesters to smash their way into this building which can see here this is a fence and i had pillars those pillars have all been dismantled and we used yesterday to break in to the list of council building now this pile up and it's rubbish will play be played up for days if not weeks but the police have now declared this area a crime scene. the french president is calling on iran to immediately reduce its enrich uranium reserves the un has nuclear watchdog confirmed iran is stockpiling more enrich uranium than allowed on the 2015 nuclear deal. negotiations

just like the european union's top officials is on the way again after repeated attempts to reach a consensus it's the 3rd meeting to pick the block's top jobs clued in president of the european commission. meanwhile a new european parliament has been inaugurated in strassburg politicians will submit their candidates by the end of choose day and elect a new president for the palm and on wednesday many leaders would prefer the election to happen after the head of the european commission has been picked those are your headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after the cure revisited and of course you can always stay up to date with all the news we've been telling you about if you head over to al-jazeera dot com. after 25 years of affording the world's waste china through the global recycling industry into chaos . the growing pressure for greener skies eves resulting in change we bring you the

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