a the boys they're all wrong calling and and and and and i mean one china a vibrant place which has been basically unlocked 5 this point because of what's happening here. we can see the scuffles local television between the police and protesters if we look at the live pictures right now that's easy to groups very close to the scene one with a holding large groups of umbrellas. trying to protect it seems an individual and then another group not carrying umbrellas but heading towards you might see the police lines how would you describe the atmosphere right now well i think those who work there number all of the really meant to protect the. water bottles or any other materials being thrown up. i guess is the essentially what this is about. so far it's quite

a charged up situation where you can see that the police really are struggling to contain the situation that we're seeing right there is actually moving at this point. and we're seeing protesters advancing further and. set up barricades. the reason for the people of hong kong to gather in this particular location was quite specific wilson told saturday yes. yes exactly he was really essentially about other demands for the hong kong government to better regulate and control trade coming from mainland china what they call power a to the concert for the items and not possibly pay the right amount of taxes and sell them back to me that there are a lot of other personal things that they had complete about triggers coming from mainland china but essentially they're asking for better protection from the government and they're also asking them to please the police to pull back and allow

them to exercise their. 9 test we were seeing that earlier when the situation was quite calm when the message was still quite clear but at this point there is a standoff. and they do the jugular it seems that the people of hong kong certain groups feel emboldened after the extradition will push to one side that they can demand they can protest about the issues that matter to that end and get the voices heard because they know there is a groundswell generally of opinion public opinion that will join them on the streets and is not afraid of actually coming out on to the streets to protest. exactly precisely and they feel involved in the saints and it's no longer just about the exhibition dale there's been bottled up discontent over the last few years with the issues about you know university. yesterday we were at the university of hong kong where university students were demanding why their vat

chancellor basically issued basically almost a condemnation of the violence in the villages that the council conflicts they were hoping that their vice chancellor would be fun to them not only that there are different forms of protest developing here in hong kong there are what you call also john lennon walls that have gone up in almost every single district letter is a board for protester letters of anger and discontent and 1 the resignation for kerry lamb so the things are evolving quite quickly but this has gone beyond the extradition bill you know we've spoken to protesters here will say that despite being almost a month old already series of protests there is no shortage of deal or anger because they continue to push beyond police boundaries essentially because they feel that their way of life the rule of law in hong kong is threatened by an increasingly autocratic form of government which they can sing if we reject and discipline manic occasion of that kind or it will even come back later in the

program going slow to jamila. well plenty more ahead here on the al-jazeera news hour including we'll have the latest on the heavy monsoon rains causing havoc in the poll plus sudan's military leaders and opposition groups are expected to sign a power sharing deal announced last week also. the sprinter's legs were working but his aides cost him the race. has more that it's. the 2nd shipment of a russian missile defense system has been delivered to turkey the 1st arrived at a military base in the capital ankara on friday while components of the s 400 system are expected over the next few days in defiance of a warning from the united states it's threatening to impose sanctions on its nato

ally and partnership in developing the f. $35.00 warplanes. now libya's coast guard is on alert as the battle for control of tripoli threatens to expand to the sea forces loyal to the ward cleaver have to have been fighting for months on the capital's outskirts now that's threatening to launch a naval offensive but the u.n. recognize government is taking measures to prevent it has not moved up the wirehead reports from the coastal city of al hold. the coast guard on alert in western libya. there are more used to combating people or smuggling and illegal fishing and now their daily patrols are keeping a lookout for naval forces loyal to their have to tell them that we've been commanded by the navy commander of the volcano of wrath operation to secure the coast extending from search city to tripoli through conducting patrols and surveillance to spot and prevent any intruder ships. the coast guards get older the

from central command in tripoli. but libya's naval forces are divided. here in western libya navy unit with the u. n. recognized government. in eastern libya have those warships patrolled the coast they were recently sent to the eastern part of. eastern city to support his troops deployed in the nearby sidra oil terminal. this is a home a sports about 120 kilometers east of tripoli it is one of the biggest and most important ports in western libya after his forces have threatened to block ships coming into and leaving this facility and other ports in tripoli and misrata but the naval officers here say those threats are unrealistic libya has been under arms embargo for the past 8 years despite that weapons are from foreign backers

continue to be delivered. he says the u.n. recognized the government is entitle to import weapons. have terrorist forces have admitted they received arms through sea land in air so we will demand u.n. monitoring of the eastern ports if they target our vessels or shores they will be indicted by both local and international laws. as have those ground forces have failed to interest tripoli over the past 3 months and with no international intervention to in the fighting his naval forces could turn these sure's into a new battlefield to try and turn the tide of the war. more than. south african soldiers are being deployed in wall of the country's top tourist destinations after a surge in violence. cape town struggling police force for 3 months and.

neighborhoods identified as criminal hotspots police figures show the city has of africa's highest murder rate almost 900 people have been killed in cape town and it's probably western cape in just the past 6 months turf wars between rival gangs is being blamed for fueling the bloodshed western cape provincial leader albert for it says it's become so bad that people are effectively living in war zones for me to miller joins me now from cape town and for me to this general spiral in the death toll really came to a peak within the last week when 5 women were shot independently in one house and then the next day 5 men the government really had to do something. so this isn't a new problem and if you speak to people here on the cape flats they say this has been going on for years and now it's out of control and this is why we're seeing government taking action by they say deploying soldiers to areas on the cape flats

and just to give you an idea if you look at the number that you've just mentioned these 10 areas within the boundaries of the city of capetown contributes to almost half of the number of people killed and most of it related to gang violence we're going to speak or 2 or 3 to listen she has been living in man and boy for decades now or do you explain to us just how dangerous and the sense of urgency that the sense of desperation people here have because of the high level of violence yes it is so and every day the awesome so we are experiencing some sort of a community are experiencing some some sort of violence and by the end of the people are living in a lot of because they don't see hope and they don't see any other way out and so we as the community we try our best to help but unfortunately we are limited in their farm and our children as well they only know violence they don't see they

don't even see a bit of a future for themselves with every day they see violence so they pick up on this and then tomorrow when they get up they start getting out of but they will it is thought as show them to act it out because this is the examples that they see so this is the only thing they know violence has become normal in areas across the cape flats and now that the army will be deployed do you think it will make a difference i would like to serve or. maybe shorter but. i can say this is not a solution to the the problem in a whole because in that it's coming too long been as a child the army were also deployed in manenberg of what i can remember. in the past and so i just hope i can make some difference but i don't think so because there's more social ills that need to be addressed and sorted out that are on the council because that's going to be

a short them solution is bigger fish to fry out right audrey thank you so much explaining some of the difficulties in areas in the cave flats and the government has said it's preparing to deploy these troops to try and stabilize the high level of crimea but as you've just heard their concerns around just that being a temporary measure one of the greatest concerns is the police and how they're under resourced and they've also been accused of corruption of protecting in some cases gang bosses and also just being under resourced not being it not having the capability to deal with the extent of the problem here in cape town sale of a moment we'll leave it there for me to villa in cape town thank you. because the owners in new zealand are surrendering their semi automatic weapons which are banned possession was made legal following the christ church mosque shootings in march 51 worshippers were killed by a self-proclaimed white supremacist the government set aside $140000000.00 to buy

back thousands of weapons of course in ecuador as a power they really preventing the government from selling land in the amazon rain forest to oil companies the ruling was celebrated by the indigenous were only people who argued they weren't properly consulted on the sale of their ancestral land acquittals indigenous communities have been taking action against oil companies since the 1960 s. . the edges of tropical storm barry lashing the u.s. state of louisiana close and. donald trump has declared a state of emergency people have been ordered to evacuate lying coastal areas tens of thousands of homes are without power but there's some good news for consumers expect the mississippi river to remain below the levees protecting the city of new orleans well and b c correspondent wendy woolfolk is in new orleans and is following the story for us the city on the states bracing itself really for that

incoming storm. by daybreak could be what's the situation like right now. hi so hale if this point i can tell you the winds along the mississippi river where we are standing right now are really beginning to pick up barry slow down overnight by became more organized and these conditions are only going to get worse as the landfall gets closer that is expected by midday today there is a shelter in place order for the immediate city of new orleans but those coastal low lying areas have been evacuated and right now they are already taking on water with as much as $25.00 inches of rain expected in some areas of louisiana historic flooding is also possible this is the 1st time they've ever close the floodgates

all of the floodgates surrounding the city because the mississippi river was already so high before barry even formed this deadly storm surge that comes with these kinds of storms will put the levees that are protecting the city to the test right now though so help i can tell you officials believe that those 45 levees that are now heavier and higher since katrina and the improved pumping stations they be . only that they will hold the water back from this storm again though people who live along the gulf coast reason region know that with any kind of storm only mother nature knows exactly what's going to happen let's just say this here just outside of new orleans when you will folks now back to you. that the emergency services stretched to capacity nobody wants to see a repeat of that sort of 2005 hurricane katrina disaster so what lessons have been trying to preempt the way water does affect new orleans and the way flooding

affects the lives of millions. right they've they learned a lot of lessons so health 1st of all as i mentioned those improved pumping stations and the higher levees so they improve the infrastructure also and in front of this storm they placed 300 buses that could get anyone out who just sided to stay in their homes at the last minute they need to get out there are buses that can take them to a very large shelter that they have put in place in central louisiana and they've also in front of the storm put about 373000 national guardsmen activated with all of their rescue equipment helicopters and tanks ready to go if they need to get into the city so they've learned a lot of lessons unfortunately this city is always going to be below sea level so

any kind of rain any kind of flooding any kind of storm surge is going to put the infrastructure to test they've learned and now we're going to see if it actually works do believe that the weather will focus with media part of the u.s. since the much fuel tone and of course we'll have all this because rob will be here to talk about the severe weather in the u.s. along with the global weather forecast but also ahead here on the news. the u.s. house of representatives music again to cut off american support for the saudi led war in yemen. and roger federer pledges his final place he will have all of the options of the man 7 finals. yes let's catch up with barry who called it barry now barry is

a tropical storm and isn't going to become a hurricane but we need to get hung up on the actual strength because these things are determined by the strength of the wind and this is devil going to be a wind damaging storm its current winds are about 100 kilometers per hour it's gusting more than that so it's notable not do some minor damage that's not its main problem as i'm sure you're already aware because it's spinning out over open water it has winds going around it and where these winds are on shore you tend to produce a push up of the water if you like went current certain high tide gauges significant storm surge in this case it could be 2 meters above the current high tide which is jew in an hour or 2 maybe 3 hours so this is we don't we're close to this sort of crest so that's problem one the whole thing that is circulating here this is the forecast model now and it's almost about to make landfall so throughout most of the day it will be windy and wet with the range filling the shoes or man of the way inland that actually is more significant than you are think doris movement

of the next 2 days is going to be slowly inland almost following the mississippi there with this wind of course that storm surge is quite notable but for the next 2 or 3 days the amount of rain that comes up this guy could be pretty significant maybe half a meter. sponsored kantaras. discover developments in surgery under the cover of the. and here ashima japan to meet the surgeon pioneering new techniques in regenerating money and could a breakthrough medical trial provide some much needed on to cystic fibrosis sufferers based on all the evidence we have the myers is at least 105 more active right now i think the cure revisited on al-jazeera information indicates that you have or associated to regaled us with a least our data has the potential to be biased in

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of rallies against china's influence on how the city is one. turkey has received the 2nd shipment of a russian missile defense system more components are expected over the next few days in defiance of a warning from the united states which is threatening to impose sanctions in retaliation. and the edges of tropical storm barry lashing the u.s. state of louisiana as it moves closer to land a state of emergency has been declared with dangerous storm surges heavy rain and high winds predicted. the head of hezbollah says the troubled ministration is seeking channels of communication despite imposing new sanctions on the group of the u.s. designates a terrorist organization has a mistrial or has been speaking of to the u.s. that it hezbollah members of parliament in lebanon to its sanctions list for the 1st time senator has more from beirut. they conveyed a message of business as usual but 2 of hezbollah m.p.'s are now on a u.s.

sanctions list including the head of the bloc in parliament mohamed rod the u.s. has long considered hezbollah a terrorist organization not differentiating between its military and political wings but it's the 1st time its elected politicians have been targeted this way misdeed will what's new about sanctions is adding elected representatives of the wise there's nothing new such tactics one side line is because we are a big force the latest move is seen as part of the trumpet ministrations maximum pressure campaign on iran and its allies across the region while in beirut in march u.s. secretary of state mike pompei ago told lebanese officials to stand up to the group but has below and its allies control parliament and government making it hard to target it without targeting the country sanctioning someone who's an elected parliament area and head of the parliamentary bloc for the next 24 years is not simple and this means that the us government has no problem and also legally it has

the right to sanction action the parliament or any government abuse government institution this has to be a clear message that the lebanese have to fall in line and to be part of the international community or actually face sanctions themselves. the u.s. state department did say the lebanese government needs to sever its dealings with the hezbollah politicians it's sanctioned along with one of the group's security officials with sheikh suffa his job is to coordinate with lebanon security agencies the government cannot do much because i got to the house side was hezbollah which is. a major part of the government but this would put him in contradiction with the whole word. order here too. to be too to comply with. with the u s and this is impossible to do it has become difficult to disassociate lebanon from hezbollah has. the valar and its allies denounced the sanctions they say the members of parliament were elected in free and fair

elections but the trumpet ministration says hezbollah has been using its political power to advance iran's agenda and using state institutions to support its financial and security interests. the u.s. expects action to be taken against the most powerful player in lebanese politics but opponents of iran's domination are weak raising fears that the next round of sanctions could target the lebanese state itself senator al jazeera beirut a political transition agreement between sudan's military joint and a pro-democracy coalition is due to be signed on saturday is a reminder of the significance so far well after weeks of protests against the rule of the military by the military they removed president omar bashir in a coup on april the 11th the generals then set up a transitional council now while a must sit in continued outside army headquarters protest leaders held talks with the joint they agreed on a 3 year transitional period to democracy the talks soon broke down over who would

lead the joint transitional government the military wanted a soldier to be in charge of protesters demanded it be led by civilians on june the 3rd security forces raided the protest camp outside the army headquarters killing more than a 100 people and injuring many more all contact between the 2 sides was then shut down talks finally resumed on july the 3rd or within days they were agreed to they agreed to set up a council little govern for about 3 years while elections are organized leadership of this council will switch between apparently the military and civilians. is the founder and president of the sudan policy forum joins me here in studio it seems like we haven't really moved very far from july the 3rd in terms of we've been waiting for this agreement waiting for the scream and it hasn't turned up why. they are trying in the absence of trust between the f.f.c. and the t.m.c. there are trying to change politics agreement transform a political agreement into

a contractual agreement which is very difficult because any time you do that you run the risk of making it to move to loose. or making it too early to accommodate for any changes so it seems to me that jane doing this document into a contractual agreement arises from the fact that there is a lack of trust between the p.m.c. and the f.c.c. if that is the case then with a lack of trust comes disagreement let's just focus on the disagreements here about the area of disagreement there are 3 major areas of these agreements he had. f.f.c. the forces of freedom and can't insist. the investigators can be the perpetrators of violence ongoing fear. in other words they are not approving of the committee

the investigating committee that has already been appointed by the transition and military council and they would want an independent counsel the 2nd disagreement is they would want an ultimatum on the number on the number of days that both groups should take to appoint if body maximum an area between mean a period of 45 days to 3 months and transition in military council or do want an open ended process and i think the 3rd. most important point is the fact that. the forces of freedom and king have differences as to whether. the t.m.c. should indorse or approve of the of the names of the nominees of course in britain. the endorsers the prime minister in the united states is the

congress that approves the. normally nice so there are to me good differences in arabic they used the word. but it can be interpreted in 2 different ways it could either mean indorsement or approval in terms of. again if you look at the other side the disagreements disagreements within the specific groups are also very. transparent to a certain extent the military might say a thing of the same hymn sheet but in terms of the civil society movement they themselves have their own differences and that is another problem that. impacts on the negotiations with the transitional military council that's a very important point because it is a problem between the forces of freedom and the transition of military council then it is a problem among the different factions within the forces of freedom and king themselves so far after the committee of 8 legal theorist for reform the t.m.c.

for from the f.f.c. have agreed. on the language and they have already succeeded on the fair pushing the document mediators mainly the african union and if europeans they wanted both parties to go directly to signing the document yet the f.f.c. insist on on their legal document being then back to the different groups of 5 different groups to decide upon it before it can be taken into a contractual agreement it is a very long process and as we analyze it more difficult when it is published we will of course come back to floor analysis when i think you're ready but thank you thank you room. well who is also monitoring developments from over the border in ethiopia joins me now from 3. the protests today apparently as well in sudan here but just tell us a little bit of all about that what are the protests or about. the

protests today and how to whom and actually the all country sudan is to mark 40 days since the attack on the sit in on june 30th and now let's go back to that now infamous the military the minute the transitional military council ordered an attack on a pro-democracy sit in that has been going on for months in front of the army headquarters are these the sister denise central or doctors committee says that at least 100 people were killed as they tried to flee from the military attack so people are commemorating this day the day that their sit in was attacked that the people were killed and they're saying that they are demanding justice they want accountability one of the main clauses of the agreement between the transitional military council and the coalition there saying that there will be accountability there will be investigations but the protesters on the ground are saying that they do not believe that they don't think that the transitional military council which has ordered the attack will investigate itself and deliver justice of course. for

guests here in studio also alluded to that science that's one of many problems that this whole scenario faces including the fact that the the african union is also involved in trying to find mediation away through the scenario they're offering or publicizing a document to presenting a document what so what about. well that document is going to be the constitutional declaration basically it's going to be the constitution that will be guiding let's not forget that when our former president ahmed bashir was overthrown on april 11th the constitution was suspended by the transition military council so at the moment sudan is not being guided by any constitution and the war and both sides the coalition and the transition military council will be presented with this declaration of the constitutional declaration to go through a way to agree on whether they are ok with it or not to see the wordings and see if both sides agree then the mediation is going to say that this is officially going

to be the constitution that will be guiding the transitional period of course we already know that it's going to be 3 years and 3 months 21 months going to be led by the military council and the other the remaining 18 months will be led by the opposition coalition but the most important things for him is that they have to agree on that constitutional declaration which will be the guide like getting. the guiding document for the transition period and they also are yet to sign the agreement of between the 2 sides which they agreed on last week or which is what happens at the moment to have a thanks very much for the update the president. deporting undocumented immigrants will begin in terms of who's this weekend is coming or the renew to turn over his immigration policies with some democrats accusing him of cruelty because of conditions in detention centers or the border why can't a reporter from washington d.c. . the trumpet ministration is trying to change the narrative of 2 weeks of negative attention vice president mike pence toured

a migrant detention facility along the us mexico border different from what we hear from many of the critics. i couldn't be more impressed with the compassionate work that our cause and the border protection of doing here at this facility on capitol hill the house oversight committee heard a different version of conditions inside the centers and what was worst about this mr chairman was the fact that there were american flags hanging all over these facilities that children being separated from their parents in front of an american flag that women were being called these names under an american flag we cannot allow for this as we have seen this current strategy unfold intentional and cruelly created by the top administration dead set on sending a hate filled message that those seeking refuge are not welcome in america and or america president trump has dismissed the claims of mistreatment of their phony

sources that even afterwards they write whatever they want but the scrimmage he made clear it considered the details of maltreatment fully substantiated the report considered by the committee was based on data provided by president trump's own administration officials under subpoena among the facts that they confirmed is the fact that as many as 18 children under the age of 2 infants and toddlers were separated from their parents for periods ranging from 20 days to 6 months the house offense to investigate claims of abuse did not end here the judiciary committee this week approved a number of other subpoenas to be so.