a couple of hours or so as you mentioned there it has been a large the good natured day a peaceful protest by hundreds of thousands of demonstrators in the streets once more but we are into the evening now and it is certainly not that good natured the there is a feeling as though the we are about to see a clearance by hong kong police as you mentioned that we are down near the china's liaison office is probably the most significant representation of china here in hong kong if i can step back a bit and let jol zoom in we are in the western end of hong kong island and further down the road here about a kilometer down the road in that direction is the liaison office now that is where the demonstrators ended up many of the demonstrators they were going to be held at a place called one char which is a couple of kilometers from here but the size of the crowd was such that the police wisely perhaps allowed them to continue their march they went to the and did up at the liaison office they have now largely pulled back many of the demonstrators

chose that to be the end of the march they have left but there are thousands more demonstrators still on the streets there here now they have built a barricade down there expecting that the police have already announced that they will be clearing the streets working from west to east so they will be coming from that direction they have been busy building up barricades and we've been watching in small groups if i can are scheduled to pan around here there are small groups who've been working moving around stores supplies other pieces of barricade there is a 2nd barricade built here across this highway this is running in the direction of central and admiralty that's where the main government offices are and also the hong kong's legislature which was stormed on the 1st of july there are mixed mixed signals going back and forth between different groups some saying let's stand here and fight they are making chants such as this is the time of revolution.

and terry porter regardless of what the police are going to do others though we've seen have been moving back as though they are likely to want to stay in a more familiar area perhaps around the government buildings where they have occupied streets before to wait and see if they can hold on to those streets without being cleared it has to be said that throughout the day the police have largely played a kept a very low profile they have been very much in the background there have been many protesters have been surrounding some of the government buildings including the police headquarters and police have been stuck on the inside but it seems as though as the evening progresses they are going to be coming out in force it seems to clear away some of these protesters it remains to be seen if they will allow some of these protesters who many of whom are extremely young they are a lot of school students here and so on will be allowed to leave before the police

move in in force we will have to wait and see elizabeth and rob we know that the 7 weeks of protests have been about china's what seem to be china's increasing political influence in hong kong but how much of an escalation is the targeting of the china's league a zon office how significant is that. well they do tend to choose different targets it tends to i mean as the protesters will tell you themselves they don't have any leaders that was one of the problems of previous protests because those leaders get rounded up and some of them do time in prison so they are very keen to say that this is an evolving and evolving movement they don't have that they don't have any. they don't have any leaders to speak up so their targets to change that is a slight surprise that the original target of today's demonstration was going to be the quarter final appeal government office that is involved in this extradition

route that seemed to be the target but then as this march progressed to the. fact some of the protesters have been marking in spray cans on the pillars of this fly over that we're standing on this saying it's the liaison office so they're very careful about not using too much social media to give away their identities and so on so they're using other means of communicating or telling what their target is yes it's the 1st time that the liaison office has been targeted in this particular movement but it has been targeted before it often is the the end of a number of different marches over a number of different issues concerning homecomings relationship with mainland china elizabeth. rob thank you very much for that for now and that is bob mcbride with the latest monitoring those protests for us from hong kong thank you. but plenty more ahead on the news hour including election day japan launches cost their

ballots to choose their representatives and the upper house. will look at china strategy to remain one of the world's major economic plans and. while the luck of the irish people change lowry as he heads into the final round of golf championship the home. we'll be here with the sport. thank. you craniums of voting in the snap parliamentary election president saddam is the lenski dismissed parliament following his landslide victory 2 months ago the 41 year old is the youngest post soviet leader there his newly created parties predicted to when nearly half the vote with the young m.p.'s in parliament for the 1st time to push for change well let's get more on this we're joined by valentyn yaku schick professor of political science at the national university of kiev morning academy and he's

joining us live from the ukrainian capital very good to have you with us on al-jazeera so the popular president seems to have massive support is he on course to get what he wants here and parliamentary elections do you think. it is kind of a 3rd round of elections we had 2 rounds of presidential elections which ended in $73.00 support of the new president will admit to zelinsky. his party servant of the people wants to get also huge support probably less than 50 percent but still it will be able to be a high general in ukrainian political system really people of ukraine thrust on him a lot we need to have peace in the east resolve the issue of separatists movements in the east we need to find

a viable compromise with russia russia has the next one of the ukrainian freedoms and we need to have some interim solutions we need to have national reconciliation and during the 5 years of revolutionary government corruption priest hugely and people expect new solutions and isn't it interesting that the corruption did increase because the previous president carried out a purge in 2014 volodymyr the lenski is promising to do the same thing. yeah it's an interesting situation when the revolutionaries purge they are pretty censors presidency lenski said he wants to do with this with these people who rule ukraine from 2014 till 2019 the same because they were inefficient corrupt and they failed well the west is saying that it's not

a good idea even though they were put a blind eye on what was happening 565 of the 4 years ago now i hope it is just the threat we will find solution within the rule of rule of law approaches it's like you threat for corruption corrupt people that they will be called to court and we know that the president is young he doesn't have a lot of political experience and there's a lot of new young m.p.'s in the new government so does the people want experience though to support these young politicians carry out all of these very big tasks in ukraine. it's a serious trap for ukraine ukrainians in the majority they do not trust in old politicians and those new are coming to power with the presidency landscape and

with the rest of political parties they are on experience and it will be is serious test definitely it will not be in easy work for presidency lenski and for his majority or for he's called listen. we will need advice real support for our for the reforms because the previous they call them 144 reforms we do not see them ukraine is the poorest nation in europe can you imagine that such a wealthy nation is the poorest one we have a few that next year will have to pay $18000000000.00 us dollars that the next year again $18000000000.00 it's incredible how we will be doing that so many people i was thinking about default we need to find viable solution to increase national production we became a country with poverty european countries where

a lot of people live in poverty so people want to trust the new president and his future government to introduce real changes state grain and especially national reconciliation and more political and cultural group pluralism because it was lacking during mating revolutionary years now people want to have peace and fairness and equality and i say yeah we thank you very much for your time and your expertise on this that is valentino live in kiev thank you. now exit polls and japan's upper house of action product promise to ruling coalition has won a comfortable majority ave needs 2 thirds of the vote to pave the way for planned constitutional reform including a change to restrictions on japan's armed forces state t.v. says that may be possible if the existing coalition is joined by other parties now

the upper house is the less powerful of palm and to chambers it's made up of 245 seats of which half a contested every 3 years budgets and treaties can be enacted without its approval but it can temporarily block other bills approved by the lower house promise to sions our ruling bloc needs to win a 2 thirds majority in the upper house to have a childs of revising japan's pacifist constitution a constitutional amendment requires 2 of both chambers of parliament and a majority in a public referendum a fatty salami has the latest from tokyo. both indicates solid win for the ruling coalition in japan in the upper house elections the main themes here are amending the constitution increasing taxes consumption tax from 8 to 10 percent and fixing the defaults on bobbins in the pension and social security system by mr rabin who

has the liberal democratic ruling party is growing the same voters ability he has been by mr for 6 and a half years and he's now becoming the longest serving prime minister in japan's history after the war amending the constitution would mean changing article number 9 in the constitution which are announces war and defines the status of the self-defense forces many of japan's neighbors they're worried about this change if it takes place and they are both changing the pacifist constitution they're afraid that it could mean that japan is heading again to leave militarize. prime minister shinzo abe is known to be a close friend to president from who has also talked your many times through what's rates morning got into being the security and stability or very pro-military cooperation so all eyes now on that is all of this important elections. as a professor of asian studies at temple university and he says that even if they

spotty get a big majority has proposed constitutional reforms that will be difficult to pos. poll show he's going to win a solid victory l.d.p. is you know on track to get a majority but it's going to be tough maybe to get that 2 thirds but more importantly is coalition partner. is opposed to constitutional revision and the leader of that party made very clear during the campaign that they don't support base west or revise the article to sion that would a legitimate the nation's military forces so i think obviate bases quite the uphill struggle but you know the electorate you're not interested recent poll shows that 7 percent of people think that constitutional revision is a priority people are interested in pocketbook issues what's the state of the economy which way are wages headed the fact there's

a tax hike coming in october the economy seems to be stagnant nobby nomics is pretty much dead in the water but he is the east obviously is the opposition is fragmented and there's no alternative. now an end to a trade dispute between china and the united states may be a long way off and that concerns beijing is not willing to bow to u.s. demands for political and industrial reforms talks appear to have stalled despite the declaration of a truce when the 2 presidents met last month when hague takes a look at china's economic rise and what's at stake for the world's 2nd largest economy. the thousands of years people in china have been gathering around tables trying to outsmart each other in the game of my job it's increasingly caught on around other parts of the world to a source of pride for experts in the game teach foreigners visiting the chinese capital beijing this game bring people together you know during this game isn't as

to winning but if a player does want to win they need to strategize something china's communist party has done very well to survive and succeed in the late 1970 s. the party changed its strategy of isolation to modernization by opening up to the outside world. by embracing capitalist ideals of business and trade china became the factory of the world with the 2nd largest economy behind its current trade war enemy the united states but economically china is slowing down recording its lowest quarterly growth in 27 years and the world is watching what happens next the great wall of china was built primarily to keep invaders out the greatest fear of today's rule is the communist party is of domestic political instability which could lead to their overthrow that's why they know they need to continue to reform and develop the economy to ensure most people have jobs and an opportunity to improve their

lives the theory being that as long as it's delivering those things it can run the country largely the way it wants continuing to restrict free speech and stamp out disinter long the way. if the economy becomes stronger the party has a last incentive to change it will only change we did feel its roots challenged in the opening and the reform process only happened because the economy was collapsing if the economy grows there will think the model is successful with more than one. and it's been able to use that model to become an economic superpower while rejecting scrutiny of things like alleged human rights abuses most recently the government denounced 22 nations for signing a letter condemning china for the detention of we get muslims in shin jang province but it embraced a supporter of letter signed by $37.00 countries including several muslim majority nations that have large economic deals with china. but many chinese believe there's

a lack of understanding about this country and its people which leads to what they say is unfair treatment by others particularly the united states they reveal that it's a look at another country they're refused to look at another perspective so they only hear what they want to hear china's strategy is to be a modern powerful socialist country it's proved it's a serious player and in some cases is rewriting the rules of the game like wayne hay al jazeera beijing. now to kenya where more people are using mobile phone apps to borrow money but as it becomes cheaper to borrow hundreds of thousands of kenyans on the government's credit blacklist some companies are being used accused of using methods to pay for them to dead catherine sort of reports. this is a financial technology in africa so firey com kenya's leading mobile network launched

the 1st mobile phone based system in partnership with some banks 5 years ago since then more lenders have joined the easy access loans markets do what it does it provides somebody who. wants to do business with the hostler segment able to take a loan and be able to extend the business it looks at what we call. the ladies you can go to market or to get to take a loan at 4 am go to market buy products and services go to a construction site. and actually be able to make a profit from the business and repay the loan but here is a problem many kenyans are often aware of heated charges interest rates up to 200 percent and what it means if they don't. many people. borrow money but the basic.

principle of this. they use the money to place bets on sports events hoping to make a summit meeting that they struggle to pay back and end up being blacklisted by the country's credit. comic conic joseph is one of them he took out different loans with a $100.00 from several lenders 2 years ago he was unable to repay the loans and now nearly $200.00 because of that he's been blacklisted by the credit trafford's bureau. i have to. buy food and took my children to school with money get businesses not been doing good even if i get $100.00 of the end of the month with all the responsibilities paying but my lawn is a little disappointed priorities. 54 percent of people polled recently by the central bank in kenya bureau of statistics. status had wasn't the poll also

indicates a credit reference bureau has blacklisted more than 400000 boras some $4040.00 badly at least $2.00. back a bigger than you are and his friends discuss how hard life has become most are repaying several and some are on the block least all tell us that even eat alone companies have helped them in times of need they still feel and trapped in debt cathy zoi al-jazeera arabic. and it's time for the weather now has ever turned well it's got temperatures rising really rising quite sharply coast vast parts of western europe over this week by the end of the week one of 2 spots could come very close so their all time records you can see how the clearer skies are there across that western side of year up in this area cloud that we have here as making its way across germany towards the baltic states and a bit cloudy out towards the northwest but let's not worry about that for now we can see where this weather system is just making its way across the navia pushing

further east was take a look at some of these temperatures were 30 in warsaw 26 in 23 in london 23 in london is about what it should be look further south look at these deep red sea over spain and it over portugal we have got some wildfires burning 39 celsius there for madrid and as we go through into monday much warmer air starts to push its way across southern and central parts of france shoes day that's going to make its way up towards paris northern parts of france paris could well touch 40 celsius by the end of this week so that's something to watch out for a 32 in london some real heat tucking its way in so as we go on through the next couple of days a safe we have got a much warmer air pushing into those western parts further race we've got some showers which are going to sink their way further southwards in these woods into that western side if europe eastern parts of europe but much warmer list to the west. ever have thank you now still ahead on the news our.

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it's good to have you with us on the al-jazeera news hour these are our top stories iran's foreign minister mohammad the reef is accusing the u.s. of trying to drag the russian into a quagmire after the seizure of a british oil tanker the u.k. government has written to the u.n. security council calling for the ships release. a suicide bomber has killed at least 6 people at a hospital in northwest pakistan the attack happened the city of there this mine comes soon after a gunman opened fire on a police checkpoint into offices the pakistani taliban has claimed responsibility and police in hong kong are trying to clear the streets of protesters after tens of thousands of people marched through the city for the 7th weekend demonstrators want to keep up the pressure on the government officially withdraw a controversial extradition bill. we're going to get more on our top story now the tensions in the strait of hormuz we're joined by mohamad but andi the head of the

american studies department at the university of fed on and he is joining us live from the iranian capital on the summit on the always good to have you with us on al-jazeera no doubt you've heard the british government saying that they're sending assets to the strait of hormuz how worried do you think that reality and government will be right now. the iranians aren't worried the british don't have a very powerful maybe and it is already overstretched that the iranians have a very strong presence from the northern tip to the southern tip of the persian gulf the strait of hormuz and the gulf of oman and the iranians will protect their sovereignty they'll protect their dignity and the iranians believe that the british have been abiding by. the dictates of washington and the white house and probably bolton in particular by. hijacking an iranian supertanker the iranians believe that this was done in order to help the u.s.

carry out their economic war against the iranians after all trump has said that he is carrying out an economic war which means it's targeting women and children by claiming that the iranian supertanker has violated sanctions is nonsense because e.u. laws are related to the states iran is a 3rd party iran can do trade with whoever it once and the syrian people are if if we assume that the tank was actually going to syria the syrian people are being targeted by the un and the iranians so the feeling in tehran is that the iranians have no option but to stand firm against the united states and the british have foolishly fall into a trap that bolton has one day for them mr marandi what is the way out of this trap now that the bush and iranians have seized each other's oil tankers what does iran want the u.k. to do what is iran willing to do to escalate tensions here with iran release the

stolen pair of bush and release grace one. yes i think that would probably be the solution the iranians. believe that if they do not take preventive measures that the united states will begin to confiscate all of its 7 tankers as well as its other ships. the united states is targeting ordinary people at the moment the united states is also bullying the europeans into completely violating the nuclear agreement it's impossible even to import medicine using the banking sector and those people have died as a result so the iranians recognize how brutal and barbaric the americans can be and therefore if the iranians do not take preventive measures and to show the british that they will have to pay a price for obeying trump or obeying bolton then this would

continue you if you run if the iranians don't. deal with this now it's going to be a much bigger problem so the iranians actually believe that by taking the british tanker they are restoring stability to the persian gulf region and discouraging the united states from. hijacking more tankers mr marandi we thank you for your time your perspective on this mohammad marandi thank you live and ted thank you. now more than 60 fighters have been killed during military operations in afghanistan government jets and ground troops targeted the armed group across 10 provinces and the aim is the director of the center for peace and development studies in kabul and a former adviser to the afghan high peace council and he says the raids were unexpected considering the ongoing peace talks. it's an incident that's happening from both sides if you see the taliban they're just doing that or side bomb being in there

just doing society attacks you have been witnessing all these kind of attacks in the number of provinces in the future and you see that somebody bargeman in killing off taliban leadership in some taliban foot soldier in a number of provinces it's quite sickening it's quite disturbing why the african nation are just hoping for a positive outcome of the peace dialogue that's happening right now in number of countries mostly after doha conference we were not expecting such things in that can really destroy the hope but we have to ensure that it's normal thing that when the peace communication in negotiation happen between the 2 sides both sides try to show them make nonna miti they would like to get a lot of. privileges that's why they're doing such things it's happens in that have to stop immediately. now the main suspect in the killing of a turkish diplomat in northern iraq has been arrested but some of his accomplices remain at launch they were shot dead while donning in a restaurant an f.b.o.

on wednesday to all the custom is also died in the attack natasha going to reports from the town of john down with family members are in mourning. heavy jamelle wife's premonition the morning of her husband nariman giuliani's death last wednesday she told him to postpone traveling to are built to renew his passport. in the morning i told him don't go today for me i have a strange feeling don't go to erbil the last spoke minutes before he went to this restaurant in irbil to meet his friend buzz dar. they were sitting near turkish diplomat on call when he was assassinated sources say their friends were shot as they tried to escape security forces arrested this is spectate gunmen 27 year old muslim. they say he's a member of the p.k. k. the armed kurdish group declared a terrorist organization by turkey. when i saw the convoy i stood on the road

in front of the car with nary man's body i told them run over me i want to die with him i can't stand living without him until now i can't believe he's dead. mourners are paying their respects in the picturesque mountain town where judy army lived. over them for he was a brother but we were so proud of him he was the wisest of all of us after his death i don't know how. the father of 3 children was a sergeant in the kurdish peshmerga militia. and. i want nothing but justice for the sake of the children i decided for the sake of the children i must be the mother and the father. we were with the family as news broke of security forces arresting the suspected gunman the family responded with cautious optimism saying it's still too early in the investigation but they're relieved to know it's progressing. old 0. german airlines

lufthansa human flights to egypt's capital cairo while bush will continue to suspend its operation be a bad bill last week to allow for a security assessment the airlines given no details about what prompted the egypt's wattled tourism sector was already on the pressure after a series of attacks on visitors high winds are fanning 3 major wildfires in portugal more than a 1000 firefighters and 20 aircraft an action in the mountainous and heavily forested. region some villages have been evacuated and roads closed. the united states is in the grip of another severe heatwave with temperatures exceeding 38 degrees in some cities more than 150000000 people affected across the country the heat wave has already claimed 6 lives including 4 in the state of maryland.

hundreds of protesters continue to mass outside the residence of puerto rico's embattled governor demanding his resignation the protests began after a series of leaked messages insulting women political opponents and even victims of hurricane maria became public. has more from the capital san juan. the sounds of the people suffer historic buildings of old sam. banging pots and pans is a sign of political protest outside the fortified mansion where puerto rico's governor ricardo rosso york has been holed up for a week with the people calling for him to go behind a kind of thank you. for you guys. this is just not. going to get real c.e.o. has not been seen publicly since last weekend when hundreds of pages of his leaked private messages were released showing the governor.