foreign ministry spokesman gang shuang said mugabe was an outstanding national liberation movement leader and politician of zimbabwe throughout his life he has firmly defended the sovereignty of his country opposed foreign interference and actively promoted china zimbabwe and china africa friendship and cooperation. stephen chan is from the school of oriental and african studies at the university of london he says no matter who pays tribute violence on mismanagement will define how mugabe is remembered. living through the legacy of right which is an economic collapse living through a legacy of fraudulent democracy basically the country is on its knees economically there's no productive plan to bring it back on its feet and so the legacy of the book up is going to be a tragic loss for quite some years to come i think. from the robert mugabe years the 1st is a lack of operational planning for productivity the idea of going out of borrowing

yet more money to rescue the country that seems to be the only idea in the head of the planners and the head of the minister of finance the other hunger the republican base yes is that you said. i can simply when citizens great as if the government has no response or the proper dialogue with its own citizens i think. we can mount it for a period of time i think that after the burial after people have come to grips with the idea that nothing has changed in terms of the legacy bequeath to that they'll start asking questions of the current government the government which is representing the party of robert mugabe it's true mugabe was a great liberation nobody could take that away from him it's also completely true that his policies left the country to pack up see saw the come in the south syrians our. police station surrounded its your

gas and rubber bullets fired why this is still going on after the government backed down. with warnings the u.s. china trade war could take years to resolve we look at the challenges and opportunities it's. creating. and then sport tributes are paid to south africa's pioneering former rugby player chester williams after he dies aged $49.00. but 1st n.p.r. space agency has lost contact with its moon lander as it made its final approach there were scenes of disappointment in the mission control center as the bad news became known it's still not known of the lunar lander. lander called vic crashed prime minister was hoping to celebrate he told the crew so hope for the best.

when he saw that the communication. but this wasn't a small. country is proud of you of a christmas carry to the moon on the chandra around 2 mission and the orbiter is now 100 kilometers above the surface mapping the lunar surface the lander separated from the orbiter on monday and had been descending towards the moon's unexplored south pole when things went wrong the lander was supposed to deploy a robotic rover which would collect samples had it been successful india would become only the 4th nation to land a spacecraft on the moon tariq malik is the editor in chief of space dot com and he says despite the setback india still has its eye on the moon. everything seemed to be going really really well until the final moments they got about 2 clint kilometers above the lunar surface when they lost contact with their probe they don't know if it crashed or maybe redirected itself to a secondary landing site they're hoping to figure that out in the next few hours

and days but it was you know definitely really tense in india's mission control and a big disappointment after a mission that's gone really really well over the last month to reach the moon there are folks still listening for signals but not having any signal from the spacecraft nasa deep space network with antennas around the world also lost contact they weren't hearing anything from the spacecraft that's not the best of signs it is possible that the spacecraft might have been able to land itself and just lost contact you know they have their orbiter in orbit around the moon nasa has an orbiter as well you can be sure that they'll be looking for that but not hearing from the spacecraft during that critical period isn't a great sign india has resolved to keep at it to to keep listening and to keep shooting for the moon and they do have plans for a 3rd mission later on. hong kong police to fire tear gas and rubber bullets at a few 100 protesters who surrounded

a police station. the crowds blocked roads and sudbury caves on fire before being dispersed thousands of others held more peaceful rallies rejecting a call from hong kong's leaders to end their movement after a hated extradition bill was killed off demonstrators have denounced the bill's withdrawal as a hollow gesture. as a latest from hong kong. now here we are protesters confronting right to take another major. meters away from the police station they had surrounded there earlier that said. that's been their will to try to take the police believe. they were taking breaks at the police station the protesters here say the issue is really under the extradition bill that was how the protests started 3 months ago they say now the issue is how the how can government to handle these protests and how the police have behaved towards the protesters in the protestors have accused

the police that's this if they want an investigation into several incidents that have taken place over the past few weeks. that the police are remaining their. backgrounds. and the protesters. may run to the ground that they are about to fire tear gas at the protesters sleep but instead of dispersing the protesters. people are driving this protest down this. contentious area. after 14 weeks of protests china's central government in beijing has warned it won't allow the chaos to go on forever and that has people worried about whether soldiers in the people's liberation army will be deployed on hong kong streets when hey reports. was as protesters have marched and gathered in different parts of the city over the past 3

months. one of the cries has been stand with hong kong. where it's a call to their own people and to the international community to support their action against the increasing control of china that runs hong kong under a one country 2 systems policy of sorts with taiwan which china views as a rogue province that it will eventually retake well one country and. we urge. him to stay on call lam when key used to sell books in hong kong that were critical of the chinese government and in 2015 was detained in china for 8 months this year he decided to leave for taiwan to avoid the possibility of being sent back to the mainland under hong kong's now withdrawn extradition bill which was the catalyst for the protests. to power the hong kong government comes from beijing and it's become a dictatorship the people have no voting rights so the government can ignore their

opinions undermines them there have been protests both pro and anti china in many cities around the world the government in beijing says the movement is backed by foreign powers who want to destabilize china the main suspect is the united states which is involved in its own dispute with china the tunnel from administration has length the hong kong crisis to the strain of all the seas so be doing is also under pressure not to be seen to be intending to hong kong if. beijing has warned that it may get tough soon prompting concerns it could deploy soldiers who are based in hong kong since the start of the protests many world leaders have expressed concern about the situation in hong kong and china to respect the rights of the people here those words of course given encouragement to the protesters but those world leaders know that given china's economic power there's only so much pressure they can apply

. for now china seems to be willing to be patient in the hope that the momentum of the protests will fade along with the international attention on the street fighting for the city's future determined to achieve the opposite way in hay al jazeera hong kong. u.k. prime minister boris johnson has accused his opponents of making an extraordinary political mistake after they agreed not to back his post for elections next month and he suffered another setback parliament's upper house has approved legislation preventing the country from leaving the e.u. without a deal and the hayward has more from london. he's been struggling to control parliament and even hundreds of kilometers from westminster boris johnson wasn't having an easy time of it britain's prime minister was in scotland to announce extra funding performers he hasn't got the election he wants yet both photo opportunities like this the campaign certainly feels like it's on the way johnson

insists he has no intention of resigning if he doesn't get britain out of the e.u. soon that is not a hypothesis i am willing to be called but i want to get this thing done and you know i think the people of this country. and there's an opportunity to be so much more positive about this earlier at a fish market he promised again that britain would leave the european union by the 31st of october we're going to go there are going to be opposition parties are continuing to pile on the pressure saying they'll vote against his plans to hold an october the 15th general election just days before what could be britain's last e.u. summit and is hoping that he'll be able to secure the support of 2 thirds of m.p.'s in the commons to push through a general election and middle tobar over 15th is the day that he's proposing but the opposition just simply aren't going to budge they don't trust him and they want

to make sure that this extension. it is in place before they agree to anything it's been quite a week the prime minister johnson said. on thursday his only brother resigned as an m.p. a minister saying he was torn between family loyalty and the national interest his majority has been obliterated through expelled 21 m.p.'s trying to stop and breaks it and a bill to stop the country crashing out of the e.u. is going through parliament there's been a small bit to put the government though with the high court in london ruling that the decision to suspend parliament put 5 weeks is legal the saying we can politics is a long time has never felt more appropriate boris johnson is a man under pressure to deliver the promises he's made and keeps on making there may not be able to keep the general election it seems likely but the electorate is wary of rex it and he would al-jazeera in westminster. an investigation is being

launched in several u.s. states into whether facebook or stifling competition and putting its users at risk the new york state attorney general is leading the antitrust probe that's part of a wider check on anticompetitive practices among major digital companies reportedly including google amazon and apple has more from washington d.c. . most of those investigations are federal investigations that are being carried out in a number of companies particularly google and facebook but this particular move that was announced by the new york attorney general in the course of the day is different to the number of states coming together the attorneys general from at least 8 states who are coming together to jointly probe the activities of facebook at this particular stage now the significance of this is that it is a bipartisan investigation facebook would be unable to say that there are political motivations behind such an investigation now the new york attorney general

outlining the probe has said that it's going to be focusing on facebook's dominance in the market and the way in which the starman and squid be misused it is going to look at facebook's use of consumer data about whether it is responsible for the increase in the cost of advertising so it's a widely spread very significant investigation the last time a major investigation an antitrust investigation such as this was done on this basis was concerning microsoft 2 decades ago when attorneys general came together to launch a bipartisan investigation so a significant move indeed for the white house economic adviser larry kudlow is warning that the trade war with china could take years to resolve both sides have increased and added terrorists in recent weeks affecting global markets and supply chains but despite some disruption there are also opportunities for businesses in asia sky high low reports from bangkok. with trade negotiations between the

world's 2 biggest economies still a work in progress china's close in reliant neighbors are feeling the impact. on the outskirts of bangkok wrote the poem runs a house where a company started by his father the medium size business is heavily dependent on china factories their supply raw materials wrought upon users to manufacture products for his thai customers the trade war is costing him money but despite that he sees an upside. down i think there's a benefit to be made china may have all the materials that are needed but here we have skilled labor who know the we can export our products without going through china worry about the trade war in one high profile case thailand has actually won new business as a result of chinese tariffs on u.s. goods u.s. motorcycle giant harley davidson announced that it's moving the manufacturing of its china bound bikes from the u.s. to thailand by the end of the year this to avoid tariffs levied on imports of

american vehicles. the company had actually opened a factory in thailand before the trade war to supply the growing east asian market but an economic advisor to one of thailand's largest companies warns of a threat not just to thailand but to the global supply chain if china and the us can't settle their differences soon. cleared going to last longer they're going to have. long lasting chanting of the team. that you seem to me going to be become all in the now don't know rice that you called on me that means china will rely less on neighboring countries for materials and goods producing more of its own that be bad news for countries like thailand its largest export market is china the economy here relies heavily on its big neighbor to the north so businesses could be forced to recalibrate their

supply chains it's got harder al-jazeera bangkok. here's what's coming up next on the al-jazeera news hour we'll look at the plan of action that's been agreed between line american leaders to fight the amazon fires. why none of the candidates in moscow's upcoming elections are representing president putin's party also. i may well exhibit a starving girl were an extraordinary thing to do when your own is still breaking records and still scoring goals. how i welcomes another look at the international forecast just looking glossy dry and fine across a good part of china just around the fringes of the country we have of course got some wet weather in the forecast on that's because we have typhoon ling-ling just

off shore that just around the east china sea at this stage pushing up towards the yellow sea safe assess that. 30 celsius in shanghai warm sunshine to 34 to 4 hong kong perhaps a little more shabby right just pushing into western parts as we go on into sunday now trading on straw mats high say we have got some rather wet weather just pushing its way down towards northern parts of the philippines so that said here that going to be the case over the next diode say this legacy of plant just rolling its way down sunshine and showers here sunshine shot was to just into a body i think for many it will be fine and dry showers across a good part of malaysia into in the asia still a bit wet weather around the bely peninsula pushing up into town of bangkok at 31 celsius maybe 32 as we go on into sunday that's going to the main focus for the west the weather across the region joining up with a heavy rain that we have across myanmar still some really heavy rain pushing in across the eastern side of india and those monsoon downpours continue to the west.

the weather sponsored by catalona. with a plummeting birthrate and families moving to the cities south korea's rule schools are shutting down one on one east meets the grandmas who is saving these schools while finally getting an education on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. where ever you are. 3 months of protests are unprecedented scale have virtually paralyzed hong kong what began as opposition to an extradition law has escalated into a broader pro-democracy anti-government movement. so how and why has this crisis developed what the protesters want. in the 1st of 2 special reports people in power

traces the dramatic evolution of hong kong summer of defiance on the. fellow again the top stories on the al-jazeera news hour the devastation caused by hurricane dorian in the bahamas is being likened to a tsunami with entire neighborhoods flattened at least 30 people are known to have died across the caribbean nation but officials are warning that number could rise dramatically. zimbabwe has declared days of national mourning until the breal of its former leader robert mugabe has died in singapore aged 95 president emerson one god one name of god a national hero but others are remembering

a brutal dictator who. broader economic ruin. on the us president donald trump's national security advisor has tweeted a satellite image which he says shows an iranian oil tanker has reached syria despite assurances it wouldn't go there the adrian dario one previously called the grace one was held by british authorities in gibraltar suspected of taking its cargo to syria and breach off. let's meet more about this with richard whitey's the director of the center for political military analysis at the hudson institute he's joining us from washington hi there richard thanks for being with us once again on the al-jazeera news hour or so. john bolton's tweet doesn't really confirm whether the ship has docked in syria nor whether it's delivered or oil to syria which the u.s. had accused the ship of wanting to do so we must take this tweet really with a pinch of salt don't you think. well it seems full i mean the

ship is turned off its. transmission it's been. showing of course it's going back and forth between greece and so on we know that other ships moran have. oil and other. articles in syrian port so it seems possible that the ship could be heading towards or already in a syrian port but what do you think the message is that bolton is trying to send out and is there something to be said about the timing of this. well i think the message is as he said that the iranians apparently gave assurances that they weren't going to do this and yet they've done that and so his argument is well take you can't trust them it's not been like this you can't trust them in general and this is another justification for the sanctions the time mean that we've seen rand

take the 3rd step to its draw from the. way 1st it began by exceeding the enrichment levels then it went ahead and increased the level in richmond and now it's now it's well no more tomorrow but they've announced they're going to engage in more research so that might be it but i think the time is related to the fact that ship is now approaching in our entering syria could this all be part of the u.s. says maximum pressure campaign on iran yes i think that this the this the administration has a comprehensive approach to iran which includes sanctions but also diplomacy and how there are measures and this is one component of that. we obviously have to wait for confirmation on where exactly this ship is and whether indeed it has delivered oil to syria are not but let's say if that were to be true what would be the

implications of that. well i think that the administration is straight in the correct position of not trying to intercept the ship or take other strong measures i think we got in a bit too focused on that ship and the more important issues are what's going on with the europeans are they going to close to the u.s. or not what's the say it's a policy when we'll see talks or not let's say of the iranian nuclear program and so on i think this this preservation of the ship of the understandable when it was 1st seized is really drawing his attention away from the more important issue is how do you read the state of diplomacy as a final question because the french president had recently said that a french diplomatic initiative could perhaps lead to a summit between the u.s. president and the iranian president i mean do you do you see that happening at all you know i think that what we've got now is that both sides are prepared to wait

a while the. saar and hoping for that a non reelection of president trump that a democrat will come in and reinstate the deal and the administration is counting on it sanctions over time to increase its bargaining position to the point where eventually the iranian government will will come to the negotiating table so i think in this way if both sides think that time is on their side then we're just going to see a continuation of this low level escalation punctuated by incident superior i think raised the level of tension all right richard why it's thank you for joining us from washington thank you thousands of people in northern syria have been protesting against russian air strikes more than 500 have been killed in the province over the past 4 months russian backed syrian forces have been trying to recapture the country's last major rebel held territory. to palestinian teenagers have been killed by israeli forces during protests along the border fence

separating gaza and israel since march last year palestinians have been gathering at the border to demand an end to israel's blockade of the strip and a right to return to land seized after israel's creation in 1948270 palestinians have been killed by the israeli army since the demonstrations began nigerians in south africa are being offered free flights home after violent anti immigrant riots in johannesburg this week says it will seek compensation from south africa for attacks on its citizens south africa's government has closed its missions in nigeria after a wave of retaliatory attacks on the streets has more from the nigerian capital of . the reactions from such an african countries are been swift an angry regarding the events in south africa for example reports from zambia said riot is a typed south african businesses or south african own businesses in that country in

nigeria police of a arrested dozens of people in the commercial capital lagos for rioting and also targeting south african businesses in that city similarly they've been some street protests in lagos and a buddha at a time when the nigerian government is walking behind the scene with a south african all forces try to resolve the crisis now i did us despite a high power delegation to meet the president of south africa and people in his government to try to resolve this crisis early a one off you shal of the nigerian government of say that there will reach seek for address and compensation for victims will been attracted by the xenophobic attacks in south africa now business between south africa and nigeria and particular a is estimated at more than $60000000000.00 u.s. dollars so both countries up on lot to lose if that is any breakdown in sort of business activities between the 2 countries and echo was also stepped in to warn that this could affect regional integration as specially you know that african

countries are trying to come together and the the africa free trade agreement that is expected to take of probably in the next one year or so so basically this intuition is come on the streets of nigeria and other parts of africa especially here in the west africa wide the been some angry reactions from citizens because of the situation in south africa sit on has been readmitted to the african union its membership was suspended in june when there was a deadly attack on protesters and heart tunes earlier in the weeks it don's nilly appointed prime minister named his cabinet members it's part of her transitional power sharing agreement between the military on pro democracy demonstrators cameroon's main opposition leader has gone on trial in a military court along with 90 of his supporters were rescan toas accused of rebelling against the government in faces life in prison he was the runner up in

last year's presidential election which many allege was rigged france the u.s. and european union have been among the voices demanding his release. as you can see they're empty right trucks stationed here. patel you know policemen and the security measures sit up here and not only for the security but to stiffen us we have pushed a question is the judgment that will be given to come to be what the people want how can the trial happen in the absence of the people that he is representing the judgment will unfortunately be done in the absence of a concern. the leaders of 6 latin american countries have agreed on a regional action plan to deal with the record number of fires in the amazon they have signed a pact that also has measures for the preservation and sustainable development of the rainforest brazil venezuela bolivia and colombia are the worst affected by the fires the brazilian president variable so narrow didn't attend in person instead joining via video conference critics have denounced his anti environmental policies

in the amazon so much. as we are aware that perhaps for many decades many of the regions of our amazon were left forgotten or quite simply they were not prioritized i believe that this meeting gives priority to the amazon in our country and it also shows to the world that it is a priority for us our land america editor lucy newman has more from mira and the brazilian state of. heads of state and representatives of the 6 south american countries that share the amazon rain forest tried to put on a united front as they signed the pact of amazonia it commits them to taking concrete action to prevent the uncontrollable destruction of the amazon but conspicuously absent was the president of brazil the country that has the largest share of the amazon president. will be undergoing surgery on sunday it will be his 4th since he was stabbed in the stomach exactly one year ago while he was on the campaign trail but many see his absence at the meeting as

a sign of lack of commitment towards the amazon because he has been long arguing that brazil has the right to open it up to cattle ranching and to agriculture for example i am in one of the largest municipalities of the amazon of brazil which is larger in fact than the size of all of the england and it has been burnt large chunks of it in order to allow agriculture and ranching to take over wildfires have forced the evacuation of several villages in northwestern spain founded by strong winds on hot weather the fires have destroyed more than 500 hectares of forest in the galus your region more than a dozen aircraft are helping crews on the grow. and more than $2500.00 firefighters are on the ground in northern portugal battling 3 wildfire it's the flames are sweeping through areas and districts of port of arrow forcing the evacuation of 2 villages. when moscow's voters head to the polls for the city election on

sunday their ballot papers won't show a single candidate openly running for president vladimir putin's united russia party instead they'll be standing as independent candidates for the regional parliament it comes on the back of united russia's declining popularity and large protest against a ban on some opposition candidates some reports from moscow. only the presence of a beer it's a way that this is an election rally for united russia the animal has often been used to symbolize the ruling party and has been hired here to entertain supporters of stephen colbert but the united russia veteran who has been a member of the moscow duma regional parliament since it was founded in 1903 is not running for her party on the ballot she's an independent candidate running for the money i'm running i'm a member of this body i'm

a member of this body everybody wants to have a look. if there are a problem with your part you know we haven't any problem i brought out that i am a member of the right and that's all thank you very much. ratings for the party which was founded soon after put in became president in 1909 dropped 11 percent to 28 percent last year after the retirement age was increased a move that led to a nationwide protest during last year's regional elections united russia lost for governor positions analysts say the party's very name has become a liability a campaign rally for united russia but not a single party flacco banner and you see the candidates here say they're here to hurt people in moscow and they don't need to use the park if name but i'll say it shows how deep united russia has fallen. the usually low key moscow elections have

attracted worldwide attention after more than 30 opposition candidates were banned from running government officials cited administrators mistakes the decision led to weeks of protests candidates and protesters being detained and one leading opposition candidate lubow sobel going on a hunger strike. this shows that in moscow the opposition is to cause problems to those in power problems they did not have before when in previous elections candidates were not allowed to run it was fine today it has led to major political event the chairman of the moscow duma here on campaign trail sasa disqualification of the opposition candidates is legitimate and calls the election process fair. the moscow elections a totally legal electoral process is followed the rule of law candidates can be registered according to the documents we saw and court rulings that have taken place they failed to get proper documents although the moscow duma is not.