going on for a while we are in a neighborhood that just white dirt a working class neighborhood a place where there had been several protesters over the past weeks where people some of the protestors years are very angry they say that police have been very brutal with them and they have been quite flying from what i understand the translation i got from what they were telling the police when they were using white i would say insulting language still was to put is now at the moment police has been quite restrained using this show blight that you see to try to blind the protesters who continue to use these laser pointers that all right for now thank you harder abdul hamid live in downtown hong kong. and millions of people have been affected by those protests in hong kong but is not limited to those inside the territory itself is actually spreading across the border but to kill or lily to one city just next to hong kong a mainland china has

a story from. the primary gateway from mainland china into hong kong she engender a constant flow of arrivals and departures many people here are concerned about the protests in hong kong from both sides of the border with hansen still waiting for that hong kong is not safe anymore that's why i'm coming back my family was worried but my safety the protests to coast inconvenience to local people i hope. the protest post made an inconvenience to local people i hope this would be ended soon this is too bad but image of hong kong syngenta received a great deal of international attention earlier in the week when state run media aired video of columns of paramilitary vehicles and soldiers whoring into the city there due to hold according to the government a large scale exercise soon their deployment clearly meant to send a message to the protesters the father of try. form an opening movement 41 years

ago. his economic reforms it was also his idea for the one country 2 systems approach that's being heavily tested just across the border in hong kong. the economic impact from the hong kong protest now in their 11 week is being felt in chin gen as with elsewhere in mainland china its stock market had seen negative numbers since the protests moved to the hong kong international airport but there was one standout chin jen airport shares soared it's the closest major airport to hong kong and during the closures this week some flights were diverted there to continue turmoil in hong kong could make more attractive to airlines and passengers the airport just received approval to expand allowing it to nearly double its yearly passenger numbers to 80000000 so while the view from jet into hong kong remains the same the impact from what's happening across the border is be keenly felt by the people here al-jazeera. lots more to come on this al-jazeera news hour

including while struggling german economy means bad news for the e.u. . the family of a jail saudi women's rights activists say she's been offered a deal in return for her freedom. and i'm we are starting in north macedonia where pilots in the sport of paragliding are taking on. the iran's president has criticised the united states for the military buildup in the gulf has some rouhani says foreign forces aren't needed because gulf states can protect the region themselves american and british warships as started joint naval patrols to protect shipping after a rainy and full says seized a british last month. at the age of 4 all talks about establishing a new coalition in the persian gulf and sea of oman going to be practical no doubt

that it won't help the security of the region there is no need for the presence of foreign forces to provide security as well from our correspondent in tehran i said bank. well it's the 1st time president rouhani has addressed reports that israel may be participating in this u.s. led naval coalition in the region which the united states says is to guarantee freedom of navigation in the gulf now president rouhani said that the idea that israel will be paid taking part because of security is absurd and that if israel was able to provide security it should do so in its own region you also said that wherever israel has a presence it causes insecurity terrorism and massacre but he also said that iran is willing to establish relations with neighboring countries and says that the u.s. goal in the region will solve discord and boot money he said that coastal countries are fully capable of providing security and stability in the region there's no need for foreign troops now the context for this is that the united states unilaterally pulled that 2015 nuclear deal last year and post. actions on iran and in the last

few months there have been an increase of tensions with drones shut down tankers mysteriously attacked the united states and its gulf allies then you're wrong of course iran has denied that but also iran seized a british tanker after united kingdom seized during tanker in gibraltar now this coalition only has 2 countries in it the united kingdom and the united states and that's because european countries are still trying to salvage a 2015 nuclear deal and they feel that any presence of troops in the region would jeopardize that do in fact germany has refused to join it join this coalition because they say everything should be done to avoid escalation donald trump says he'll delay new terrorists on chinese made products the u.s. president says he doesn't want americans have to pay more for things like laptops and smartphones during this shopping season before christmas i white house correspondent kimberly have it has more. financial markets are reacting positively

to that news coming out of the u.s. trade representative's office that there would be a delay in some of the tariffs put on chinese goods into the united states specifically when it comes to things like clothing toys even electronics now these are all things that americans buy and like to give as gifts during the busy december holiday shopping season now the president has been talking about this ongoing trade war with china and he says there is still optimism that this can be resolved that trade officials on both the u.s. side and the chinese side have been talking and he feels there is still room for a deal. you. know very.

well. with the sticking points in resolving this dispute between the united states and china concerns about intellectual property theft and also currency devaluation the united states accusing china of just that also accusing china of not delivering on a promise to once again begin buying agricultural goods from u.s. farmers who have taken a big hit when it comes to selling things like soybeans and pork to china us so the president expressing some concern and frustration on twitter but still saying that he expects china to follow through on the buying of agricultural products expressing some optimism for change but critics here in the united states saying that the president sort of outward expression of frustration the fact that the u.s. trade representative's have dialed back or delayed tariffs at least until december and some chinese products means that the u.s. may. we have lost its power in terms of negotiating that it has blinked if you will

in this ongoing trade war and that the shift has now gone to china now having a stronger hand as the 2 sides attempt to try and resolve this dispute in ongoing negotiations saying that this issue involves in the u.s. a facing the biggest challenge in decades is the trade war between the u.s. and china continues the unions are saying that prices of fooling and demand for goods from china has dropped i think out of the ripples from iowa where the dispute has already cost the state an estimated $2000000000.00. io or is known as the tall corn state part of the american rural heartland where agriculture and food production dominate the economy so all the beans have been exported to china for decades but the trade war is changing all that in july china placed a 25 percent tariff on the crop and stocks piled up prices dropped and i was farmers have been caught in the crosshairs you know corn and soybeans are 2 major

crops that we've april has just returned from china as part of a soybean growers delegation like many farmers in iowa she's been hit hard we knew someone had been there when china something had to be done you know we don't like how it's going down because at the end of the day agriculture usually always takes it growers woes of being hampered by an unusually wet spring and as china deals with an outbreak of african swine fever the need for feed to make using soybeans has dropped several farmers have told us they feel trapped in the perfect storm there's reduced demand from china poor weather is led to a bad growing season and now there's a trade war with no end in sight there anyway farmers in iowa are keeping their heads above water is through government subsidies and many say they're on fairly distributed and simply not enough economists to say that federal aid is only a short term solution so the longer this trade war goes on the tougher things get

now let's go on what do you do professor chad hart says aid is needed but a long term trade strategy would be better government support is coming here is a nice injection if you will of care action a time that farmers are looking to pay some bills but at same time too it doesn't address the long term issues of not having stable trade relationships farmers in our adjusting by finding new markets and planting alternative crops china is making similar boosts importing from other nations there is a fear here though that the trade relationship between the u.s. and china may not. to be the same again you guys have filters for like many in a state that president won comfortably in 2016 brian sampson is generally in favor of trump's approach on trade with china as the months passed though his confidence is wavering politicians in general love to use a problem to your boat so i like him trying to solve problems check the boxes move

on i hope that's what happens now. the president of the american farm bureau federation described the trade war as a body blow to thousands of farmers trade not aid is a familiar refrain here but without a resolution the u.s. is farming states may be facing a different landscape ahead and agalloch are al-jazeera ames iowa u.s. attorney general has ordered the removal of the warden at the new york jail where finance year jeffrey at same is found dead 2 prison guards have been put on leave after his apparent suicide following a previous attempt the justice department has condemned serious irregularities as that scene awaited trial on sex trafficking charges he had a previous conviction for procuring an underage girl for prostitution. and saudi arabia the family of a jailed women's rights activist say she's rejected a proposal to secure her release they say luzhin al how flew was offered her

freedom if she was prepared to declare that she wasn't tortured in custody she was arrested last year along with other women's rights activists rights groups say she is one of several who have been abused while held in solitary confinement for months the international human rights lawyer kathman says despite reforms saudi women are still treated like 2nd class citizens. i think one of the one of the things that we're also seeing now is more and more women fleeing saudi arabia because of the draconian guardianship laws and various other group represents a number of saudi women who have sort of to flee from saudi arabia and you are asked these women how has the situation changed since this this great announcement of reform with women being able to drive me even being allowed to go to the cinema those changes have had no significant impact and even what we're seeing now is that

the guardianship laws are supposed to be relaxed or removed within 3 months is that going to have any impact on women's lives in saudi arabia generally know that most women consider it will not because of the the cultural problems that are faced with women and even men who are trying to exercise fundamental rights rights that we take for granted in a society which is a brutal dictatorship so yes largest economy could be heading for recession growth in germany went into reverse over the last 3 months the economy will officially be in recession if there's another contraction this course at a slump in exports and falling call sales taking their toll so there is a prospect of a new duo breck's it as well trade was sashes between china and the u.s. this week that's a class of business and he's chief here is an economist at pantheon macro economics

and these joining us live from new castle in the north of england what's behind this contraction in growth and for the germans which is widely seen as the engine of your. well i mean as you mentioned is definitely external demand which has slowed a lot of construction investment also fell in the 2nd quarter and i think that consumer spending slowed as well we don't really know we don't have the full picture yet but i think that in general it is germany is a very open and export oriented economy so when you have a trait disputes such as the one that's going on between china and the u.s. at the moment germany really takes it on the chin and that's what's happening right 6 months plus explain want to explain for us then how germany suffers when there is a trade dispute between the united states and china. well because that it's there's a there are still remain linkages of those there's

a link that through what we can say export growth has slowed if you look at global data for export that has slowed in the trade war and the uncertainty has. has you know excessive baited that another a link is via our confidence you know you have this huge degree of uncertainty which has been weighing on on the global economy for arm for such a long time and that is starting to feed through to production cuts and slowing investment and that's really what we've seen in german economy i'd say since the beginning of of since the beginning of the year which and that's come on top of of a slowdown in car sales as you mentioned because of some new emissions rules in the e.u. and some some some some change in regulations there so there's a lot of things that's not working out very well for the german economy at the moment right in the rest of europe is not looking too great either is it staying

either very little growth or none none at all i mean is this a consequence of the slow slowdown in germany which is a set is the biggest strongest economy in the euro zone and what about the impact of breck's it. well i mean i think that the fact that the europeans based economy is now slowing obviously affects the eurozone as a whole we can kind of split it up italy and germany are doing very poorly and that's to some extent linked to domestic factors but also external factors spain and france are holding their own better so there's a little split between them but the euro zone as a whole has definitely slowed down for exit at the moment is a real is a nonevent and in the sense that it's not really impacting growth because we don't know what have been spotted it's certainly impacts confidence and and a heart rate of let me put the no deal breaks it would certainly at further weakness to the eurozone economy by the export channel ride this descent talking to

us live from newcastle in the united kingdom thank you very much. in just a little while kevin will bring us the weather also coming out and in fact we won't have any more they just go straight to kevin now and the level that's right we do have an active pattern across here we have a heat wave we have wildfires and we have severe weather all happening today so i want to take you down here and show you exactly what's happening 1st of all down here towards greece where just from monday and into tuesday we have seen $56.00 while far as breaking out so take a look at the images that have come in across the greece just over the last 24 hours now the island of just to the north east of athens is where the seeing the most activity right now a 1000 firefighters have been displaced across much of the area have been put out to field for much of this area and they're still battling it because the very high temperatures the dry conditions as well as the very windy conditions across much of this area the heat is also playing a big part across much of the balkans i want to you over here towards. where the balkans we are all human kosovo seeing some very very high temperatures now that's

not going to break down probably until this frontal boundary starts pushing through where we start to get some relief there is you notice the temperatures down here towards the southeast we are talking very high for on correct $39.00 degrees over here towards bucharest at $33.00 but it's this frontal boundary right here that is going to be pushing through causing a lot of problems tonight in terms of severe weather up here towards ukraine and belarus we do expect to see possible tornadoes as well as large hail down here towards the balkans it is going to be very windy as well as we go towards tomorrow that starts to break down some better weather conditions there but out here towards the west we're looking at a big storm because need to push through parts of the u.k. . kevin thank you very much still to come. a teenage climate activist sets sail on what she hopes will be a carbon neutral journey across a atlantic. and all floating found had to come back seeing the effects of climate change in bangladesh. football rivals liverpool and chelsea prepare to play for

a major piece of european silverware that's coming up in. 0 explores prominent figures of the 20th century and why bill rees influence the course of history the souls that did not get enough credit for it in a book that you want to be the big historical figure but he was mondello the biggest called in the world the prisoner and the president who came together to end up partite in south africa nelson mandela and f.w. de klerk face to face on all jesse. it's my privilege to name al jazeera english the broadcaster of the year the country has a fight each other and we've been told that we constantly hear this is the largest demonstration that's been held by will lead to refugees since over $700.00 he lived here some of the images movies of the fun here all they think of it could be

positive. here into the show around recipients of the new crystals called close to . the city of. time to take over the top stories here on the al-jazeera news hour pakistan's prime minister has compared the indian government's ideology to naziism imran khan addressed the assembly on the pakistani side of the to speciate territory of kashmir he dedicated the nation's independence day to the kashmiri people and promised to respond to any indian aggression hong kong examples is returning to normal after it secured an injunction to stop protests as disrupting operations

china has condemned the protests at the airport as near terrorist acts of the 2 men from the mainland the beaten by demonstrations iran's president has criticised the u.s. and the u.k.'s efforts to build up a military presence in the in the gulf how some are han the says go for states can protect the region and foreign forces are needed tensions have been high since the seizures of a british under the radian tankard last month. of the teenage climate activists gretta is setting sail across the atlantic ocean the 16 year old is heading for new york to attend a u.n. summit. climate change from clima right in the south of england the voyage is a 0 emissions yacht and is expected to take 2 weeks also a border a father to experience and the filmmaker live in

plymouth mayflower marina is our correspondent. and i'm to understand that this boats the grasses sailing on is not a tall comfortable. not at all if you look at the specifications on that it's going to be a very tight fit for everyone and of course that journey is by no means going to be a guaranteed a comfortable one as well it's all going to be very very basic for them no facilities for showers no other bathroom facilities either no or the luxuries such as bridges or where conditioning like that and of course it is also that time of year where hurricane do start to develop over the atlantic as well so it's not going to be any kind of comfortable sail or tall when we asked her how she felt about it if she fell to the anxiety about the journey she simply said well she was just going to wait and see and that she had been training with the crew but

really quite a daunting task for a 16 year old schoolgirl but this of course is no ordinary 60 year old school girl the one who's managed to galvanize an entire global movement dedicated to raising awareness over the climate change crisis and i'm joined now by another school girl who has been influenced by greater so. this is a subject that is close to your heart as well. tell me why did you just like to get involved with the following graters message. been doing lots of climate policy what because i did my a level government politics 5 years and i saw the inaction as where disenfranchised as young people we can't control the composition of the legislature which doesn't really give the government incentives to act so for

example if we were adults and really passionate about this they'd want to adopt this in their money festers because they know that we wouldn't vote for them then that's not possible but when. devised a way of striking from school it was a direct form of the lobbying the government and it was something that all ages can do which is what we're calling for the 28th of september for adults to join us in striking and that's why i just completely got behind this movement you also handed greater a note just before she managed to prepare for that what did you say in that so we met yesterday myself my friend francis we thank her for being so lovely we wish her the best flyer on her journey as you said it's going to be very turbulent the boat for us it's a lift out of the water to deal with the rapids we thought into her representing us at the summit and we know that she would be amazing in representing us and. showing solidarity so we also made a video that's on our social media strike for you on twitter which is about 20

people all over the world saying good look different but a strong message scholar at west point thank you very much course needless to say that this is going to be a 2 week journey as well and when i did ask. what exactly that she wanted to she had to choose one thing that she wanted to achieve during this this journey this trip she said that she just simply wanted to raise awareness and with awareness with more people knowing about what she says is the emergency that the planet is facing and that can be real more direct pressure upon countries leaders to actually do something about the threat that is facing the planet martin so america a lot of employment in the u.k. thank you. that's how his government is encouraging tourists to visit an ancient city which was controlled by isis alone not that long ago neve barker reports now from kaka mesh on the border between turkey and syria meters from turkey's

fortified border with syria are the ruins of an ancient capital buried for millennia this is car commish founded 3 and a half 1000 years ago once part of the hittites and neo assyrian empires. emerging from the earth sculptures of rulers and armies recent excavations via talian and turkish teams have uncovered some of the finest mosaics of the ancient world and. each city in turkey has lots of its cultural heritage but this site is something different we have found layer upon layer of different civilizations including a village dating back to 6000 b.c. the site straddles the modern border 40 percent of it lies on excavated in syria a turkish military base now sits on top of the ancient acropolis it's still the designated active military zone but from next year it will be an open air museum

the regional authorities are confident the area is now safe a few years ago this area across the border in syria used to be i saw the country the black flag flying high for all to see this part of southeastern turkey is the cradle of civilization its belief that car commercial is one of the places where agriculture 1st appeared but as you can imagine since the start of the syrian war the number of foreign tourists that venture here has dropped completely will the opening of this site encourage people back will yes this is no ordinary archaeological site it's one a can change the entire history of the world and even made the late he tired era here on the side of the euphrates lending a huge national park and the weak opening will be had next year in maine. before today's front is divided the ancient city this is what archaeologists believe its

walls may have looked like. for generations these ruins have been hidden from view indifferent to the rise and fall of the latest civilizations on the wall that still rages not far from here in syria the fall couches here akaka meshal the turkey syrian border. and iraq clericals a compensation off the homes were damaged by an explosion at a weapons deficit the iraqi government has say 5 refused to say what cole's the blasts in baghdad which killed at least one person and injured 30 others natasha going to name it pulled from the iraqi capital. the explosion shook buildings far away and created a column of smoke that spread across the baghdad sky early monday evening at least one person was killed and dozens injured most of them civilians iraqi security forces say there was an explosion at

a weapons depot inside this military base shared with a paramilitary group iranian backed and other armed groups have been operating in iraq with the full support of the country since 2014 when they join the fight against eisel a new law that came into effect on july 31st requires all paramilitary groups to report to iraqi security forces or put down their weapons other than saying an investigation is underway and compensation will be given to the family of the civilian killed the government has not offered any explanation as to what caused this explosion. to mar and his family were preparing to eat dinner for the ied holiday they say missiles began raining down on their home a window shattered a metal door ripped apart one of the daughters is so traumatized she continues to

shake. well the lead up to the explosion to stop all of us from out of the house we were overwhelmed it's. the explosion happened here at this military base in southwest baghdad rockets and shrapnel flew across the highway and over here into this impoverished area where more than 1000 people live they've lost electricity and their homes have been damaged they're angry and demanding compensation from the government on tuesday morning teenagers walked around looking for and picking up unexploded rockets despite warnings many people are in shock yet eager to show the damage to their home. asked the government to compensate the poor living in this long it is dangerous to live here now we're asking security forces to remove these unexploded missiles as soon as possible. tomar says she's grateful no one in her family was injured but the damage to their home is just another hardship in

a life of struggle that's this thing they tell me we have suffered for a long time and we keep suffering only the poor until the west we don't expect anything from this country. that's because most of the people living in these makeshift homes along the highway have built illegally they say if they could afford to live somewhere out of range from a military base they would natasha al-jazeera baghdad. around 500 refugees a migrants a stranded in the mediterranean sea despite being rescued by 2 charity ships both vessels have been at sea for 12 days waiting for permission to enter ports italy has banned entry and other european countries are arguing over who should take responsibility for settling the refugees. or migrants of the silent seekers from central america who are seeking a new life in the united states say the racist remarks and the recent mass shootings will not deter them i do joe castro went to your dad why it is in mexico

to find out why they're not having 2nd thoughts. for new york us steel last week's massacre in el paso made her no less determined to reach the united states a mother of 2 from cuba is number 15060 on the waiting list of migrants wanting to enter from sudan what is she says the dangers she's a scaping are far greater than the mass shootings north of the border that 100. believe we've always been at risk always in danger but when we try to cross they stop us $125.00 migrants from central america south america and africa are currently staying at this church run shelter in sudan many have been here waiting for months the pastor says since the shooting u.s. border agents have nearly halted the slow trickle of asylum seekers at the international bridge. everyone is nervous about the situation to see how

the shooting has made things lower. and each day of waiting brings its own threats outside the protective walls of the shelter juarez is becoming more dangerous violence between newly fragmented drug cartels is behind a wave of killings across the country that began late last year just as more migrants were arriving here in juarez $139.00 people were killed last month but the trumpet ministration claims mexico is safe for migrants it's use that as justification to force people to wait longer in mexico and to return some to guatemala said are you regus carried her newborn from honduras she says she's fearful to be turned back. though the difference is compared to the u.s. our country.