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trouble for donald trump reports he sought help from another foreign leader in the pits to discredit the miller investigation. i'm joanna gash of the at the world athletics championships in cattle where it's been a dream run for african athletes as they ignite that passionate. well as if celebration has turned into escalating violence on the streets of hong kong tens of thousands of people have defied warnings from police that it would be very very dangerous to protest on what's the 70th anniversary of the founding of the people's republic of china around $6000.00 police officers have been stationed across the territory they've confirmed that they have used law of brians of

ammunition as well as tear gas and water cannon to break up the cried of the demonstrators. well let's see if we can go straight to our reporter sara couric who's in hong kong for the latest syria we're seeing dramatic she's here in that situation is deteriorating by the air just give us a sense of what's happening where you are. what we've seen so dramatic scenes and stuff. in number of different locations across hong kong there was earlier a peaceful rally tens of thousands of people march from causeway buy into central that were quickly dispersed assemble and terribly left the area but others hung around and it was around the edges of council building the chief government offices the water cannon was used on those protesters and they were moved out and they've dispersed in a number of different directions at the front line and one of the front lines is in one child which is where we are now this right here is normally a very very busy road but we've had fires lit the whole way along this road where

now boxed in with police and out front and placed behind me and we're talking hundreds if not thousands of place across the island as well as color and the other side but certainly the right place for the water cannons have been moving and most trying to disperse the crowds you mentioned live fire has been has been used that was used in one area in the new territories and one area in calhoun but tear gas has been used in every single location there was 6 different rallies that were prepared or were organized today on october 1 china's national day and the eye of these rallies was too spoiled by birth out of every celebration and they've certainly done that and the police have use different methods today they're moving them at all different directions but they're showing that they're prepared to use as a present separate for live bullets on some of those crowds that they still in one charge imtiaz which is the train station used for the transport system the rail transport system used in hong kong at least 32 of those a shut down so the police have been trying to stop the protesters from moving around and hence as i mentioned we are blocked in the fires have been put out in

front of me but there are more fires being lit around where we are ok cyril it's. it's really 2 of us who are here in the front lines this is the sort of language we normally use and we're covering war zones and saw in a just of for viewers who are outside. of hong kong watching this internationally that birthday party really has been ruined not least because of those reports of live ammunition being fired and us as a tykes on the police it seems neither side is covering themselves in glory right now. those acid attacks were enough to mortgage the other area on the mainland no no no no place to place a complaint at this we've seen the images of those police they've been scarred and burnt by that after the us has gone through their uniforms and we've seen the scars from the blisters so it shows that both sides have ramped up their efforts so much we've interviewed some of these organizers of the rally we organized it with respect of yesterday on monday and they said that they're prepared to go to battle

on october 1 and they certainly have and unlike other rallies that we've covered before on these weekends i know today it's tuesday and of course it's national day but this group has this 1st in 6 different rallies around the entire city which is makes it very difficult to try and find the protesters and get through these police blockades that's i mentioned the earlier the police were showing a very kind of limited or restricted profile there in the empty hours but they weren't on the streets but they've moved in quickly because i want to get the crowds out of the straights and one child there on one of the overpasses in they've been firing the tear gas down on those protesters to try to disperse them so certainly today's efforts tuesday's efforts have been wrapped up from both sides ok sara car we'll leave it for now but thanks very much indeed for bringing us the very latest very dramatic scenes that we are seeing in hong kong the day the started much more peacefully there have been celebrations. in china to mark 70 years since the communist party seize power we've got 2 reports for you one and

a moment from matheson in big ching but 1st let's. take this report from scott hyde in hong kong. the end all national day flag raising ceremony in hong kong this year was watched by dignitaries and guests of the government on t.v. for security the $12000.00 attendees were inside the hong kong convention center for the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the people's republic of china officials were concerned that the protesters would disrupt the ceremony a heavy security ring was placed around the convention center matthew chunkin chung stood in as acting chief executive as kerry lamb along with a delegation from hong kong travel to beijing for the ceremony there he addressed the ongoing protests now in their 17 week. hong kong citizens have been shocked and saddened by the violence which has turned the city that will call home and into an

unfamiliar place and desperate for a way out of this thailand a group of about 100 beijing supporters gathering here with the flag raising ceremony was earlier in the day this is one of several groups who have gone to different locations around hong kong to wave the chinese flag and to sing the anthem. a small group of pro-democracy protesters made their way close to the venue for the national day ceremony led by an activist politician the group was quickly met by riot police part of intense security in the territories m.t.r. train stations across hong kong were closed to stymie protesters from gathering a protester group's petition for a march was rejected by police several rallies were still planned. for those in hong kong who see this as a day of national celebration not a national calamity as the protesters call it it was an opportunity to fly their colors it's got harder al-jazeera hong kong.

aircraft are funded through the skies above beijing on more vehicles rumble through china square a display of china's military strength as president xi jinping calls for economic and political confidence and sends a message to hong kong. we have to maintain the peaceful united in one country 2 systems. to keep hong kong and macau as a long term prosperity and stability 70 years ago when chinaman square communist party chairman mao tse dong announced the founding of the people's republic of china. in the following 27 years most so-called great leap forward plan to boost farming and industrial production led to famine and the deaths of an estimated 30000000 people is cultural revolution clamped down in dissent a year after mao's death in 1986 new leader dense helping declared china would open up internally and to the outside world. the china of today bears little resemblance

to the china of chairman mao the new middle class is getting wealthier and the country's transformed itself into an economic global power but one of the central messages of the celebrations today seems to be a cautionary one yes we should acknowledge what china has achieved so far but there could be tough times ahead. for president xi centralizing and strengthening control in beijing some of the president's political rivals have been swept up in his crackdown on corruption as well as the ongoing protests in hong kong and allegations linked to human rights the trade war with the us is forcing china's economy to slow and this is not a adversity of high expectations that is going to be very glorious in the near future it's an anniversary in which we look back on what china has been able to attain and we talk about a new era of sacrifices and struggle. in 198910 and one square soul blood shed

when pro-democracy demonstrators stood up against tanks in 29 china is determined to show that its military is stronger than ever but the success of president xi jinping his leadership may depend on how he handles china's new found perspire written up matheson. beijing. legend brian has been reporting on china and hong kong for 30 years and joins as ny adrian you covered the handover in 1997 people are excited about the prospect but today in hong kong chinese flags being desecrated where did it all go wrong. you're absolutely right on july the 1st 1907 i remember standing in the street watching people cheer waving red flags as chinese troops arrived in hong kong there was real excitement that hong kong was now part of the motherland that hong kong was going to have a really bright future because it had been promised so much it was going to be this

exclusive region of china and there was real optimism that the one country 2 systems formula agreed between britain and china was going to work but then after about 6 years come 2003 things started to go wrong that was when the local government sided to push through a sedition bill that brought half a 1000000 people onto the streets a few years later the government tried to push through a new education bill that would promote patry arctic education and then fast forward to 2014 and we have the national people's congress in beijing china's parliament ruling that yes on kong can have universal suffrage but china would fit the candidates out of course brought thousands of people onto the streets for the occupy movement and these in many ways this the people you see on the streets today the students are they are the same thing. well there were there in occupy in 2014

but came to the conclusion that actually peaceful protest doesn't work so they have reversed they have decided to resort to more violent means and you know what we're seeing is much more intense violence with no sign of that violence ending so yes you know we have come from a period when there was great excitement about being part of the motherland to a period now where many people in hong kong are rejecting that and if you would you say this is an inherent tension within this one china 2 systems or was it always doomed to failure. i think you know we can establish now i think that you know i remember thinking at the time in 1907 i'll be really surprised if this work says so much that can go wrong we were taking china at its word and you know china at the end of the day was a communist country it remains a communist country but was being expected to tolerate this sort of thing on its

doorstep democracy it was always going to be a tough cool and i think the strains of that have now become very very apparent and so you know a big question mark remains can one country 2 systems work i think you know that is all going to become clear really in the days and weeks ahead you know we are in for you know what is going to be a very very tense period after october the 1st i think it's what happens after october the 1st that's going to be very telling because everything in the last few days and weeks has been building up to this moment and here we are in causeway by a where the protesters that were behind sara not long ago and now making their way towards causeway bay on the eastern side of hong kong island now today we have seen you know plenty of violence we have had you know live rounds used once more so the violence is becoming much more intense

a much more sporadic much more widespread. ok a.g.m. brain things do seem to be heating up behind you won't let you are get back to it there in hong kong but thanks very much for bringing us some context see this unfolding situation. thank you report 7 march that suggests president trump sought the help of another foreign these are for political gain u.s. president donald trump ostia strangely and prime minister to help the justice department investigate the miller inquiry which examines russian interference in the 26 election history and governments has admitted so it's agreed to help when the president is already facing an impeachment inquiry into his dealings with the ukrainian president. reports. for us president donald

trump right now it's all about the investigations the impeachment investigation into his dealings with ukraine and now another one published reports say that the president reached out to australian prime minister scott morrison for help look into how the investigation into russian election interference got started and he's not alone his attorney general william barr reportedly did the same with the united kingdom and italy if true this would be unprecedented u.s. officials asking allies to help them investigate u.s. intelligence agencies and the congressional investigation into the ukrainian controversy is speeding ahead and monday new subpoenas for trump's confidant rudy giuliani's documents and his dealings with ukraine giuliani responded saying he might testify but is still claiming he is trump's lawyer which could imply attorney client privilege but analyst jeff hauser says giuliani has publicly said something

very different rudy giuliani has said that he has not actually trumped personal attorney is doing essentially emissary work on behalf of trump as an individual on the trump campaign and that does not provide any sort of privilege which would protect his documents from going to congress the president has been taking to twitter and to the cameras to pronounce he's done nothing wrong the response from democrats in congress we'll find out and fast decline al-jazeera washington landed thomas has the reaction from sydney. that's bud's person for australia's government has essentially said that there's nothing unusual about this phone call in a statement they said the ghostwriting government has always been ready to assist and cooperate with efforts that help shed further light on the matters under investigation and the prime minister scott morrison confirmed this readiness once again in a conversation with the president so i've characterized it there merely as the prime minister of australia helping out the leader of a friendly country the us president in an ongoing investigation or the opposition

party here in australia sees things very differently that i think this is scott morrison helping donald trump with what is essentially a political investigation into a political problem the militia investigation and they have said that his assistance is in disparate saying that mullah investigation and answer the elder naisi the leader of the opposition here has said that australia's prime minister has involved himself in what is essentially a domestic issue inside the united states and has a lot of explaining to do well australia is involved in a with a stick because it was a conversation between an australian diplomat in london and an aide to the then crump campaign back in $26.00 saying that kick started the more inquiry george papadopoulos a young aide on the trunk campaign told alexander downer the australian high commissioner in london at the time that the russian so you believe had on hillary clinton that they were going to leak during the campaign and that meant that trump

was more likely to win the election than he might otherwise have been on the down effect that information back to australia's capital camera and in turn his superiors in town berthold important enough information to tell the f.b.i. and that is where the whole millette investigation began well there's a lot of conspiracy theories perhaps in the us that that initial conversation in london was in some way orchestrated by the clinton campaign and that in many ways is what donald trump is trying to prove in some ways through this investigation so that's australia's involvement and there is still more. ministers say he will do what he can to help. those inquires. the speaker of iran's parliament has told al-jazeera that tehran is open to the idea of dialogue with saudi arabia informal saudi crown prince mohammed bin sandman saying he would prefer a peaceful resolution with iran and sets settling regional to speeds as opposed to

military conflicts let's get more from this hour on this from who's in tehran those revelations coming to us from an interview done by our sister channel al jazeera arabic what else did we learn from that discussion. well the speaker of the house has said that he welcomed reports that crown prince saudi crown prince mohamed bill son man favors dialogue he said that security and political issues in the region can be resolved through dialogue but also that news will be welcome by some in iran also be seen as a victory because they will see that iran's military strategy is working that iran is seen as a strong military power and countries that may not necessarily be friends of iran favor dialogue over military conflict he also said that iran will speak to the hootches now this is very important because iran has been accused of being behind the attacks the against or facilities in saudi arabia that the rebels came

responsibility to and he said that iran will speak to the hutus and encourage them to accept any cease fire until the saudis that it's also in their favor this is a ron whose allies are the hutu rebels saying that they will tell the who g.'s and were to accept a cease fire and work for peace in the region he also spoke about talking to the united states and he said he didn't rule that out but iran's longstanding policy is that there will be no negotiations with the united states until those sanctions that washington has imposed unilaterally on iran after they pulled out the 2015 nuclear deal are lifted so it's some of it's encouraging in terms of dialogue with saudi arabia but the other thing about the united states is still the same a longstanding iranian policy that there will be no negotiations until those sanctions are lifted meanwhile us that has said rouhani is citta meets with thoughts or putin in armenia what morkie tell us about this. well president rouhani is in armenia for this economic summit and he's already met

or does armenian counterpart and said that iran is ready to offer engineering services but there will be 2 main issues on the agenda between president putin and president rouhani one is the tension in the strait of her most strategic waterway between iran and oman where at its most natural point just over 30 kilometers but water the water routes the routes where the oil is transported through is around 3 kilometers that's just to give you an idea of how strategic that is now the united states has put together a naval coalition which the united kingdom australia eurabia are a part of and they say that's to protect freedom of navigation but there has been an increase of tensions there president rouhani did present an alternative peace plan that he called the hormuz peace initiative or hope for the strait of hormuz in the gulf and iran's position is that any. security issues can be resolved within

countries in the region and it sees united states as a destabilizing force so mr president putin will be concerned about those tensions because it threatens so much of the oil supply and stupidest ability in the region the other issue is the 2015 nuclear deal now iran gave 60 days to the european countries before it steps back from some of its commitments not its 3rd phase of those commitments now we know that iran has said that they are using more modern centrifuges which can enrich uranium quick and to a higher level but we don't know what level the 2 but what iran has shown previously is that is willing to reverse those moves so russia sees iran as an ally and iran is looking to other countries since the 2015 deal has been falling apart to shore up its economy for the long term and build strategic alliances beg life as terror on thanks very much indeed. but and central bank says it will secure u.s.

dollars at a fixed rates of pay for imports a good in a bid to ease food and fuel shortages as well as demands on the dollar but many nights fear a drop in the value of the local currency will worsen an already dire economic situation so you know how to reports from beirut's. fuel importers here had threatened an open ended strike because of a shortage of foreign currency their customers pay in lebanese pounds but they need dollars to import fuel lebanon's central bank is intervening it plans to provide dollars at a fixed exchange rate not just to importers of fuel but importers of medicine and to wheat supplies of which have already reached dangerously low levels economists say levanon which imports at least 80 percent of what it consumes needs an injection of foreign cash because government is so exposed to the region the pulse of what's happening in syria what's happening here are the problems i suppose but

you see countries. who tried to be. a decline of the us. and now the local currency has lost value it's the 1st time in 2 decades exchange dealers won't speak on camera although banks are still men taining the official price pegged at $1500.00 pounds to the dollar black market prices have emerged. oh how much can i sell my dollar. $155000.00 and if i want to i cannot buy right from $1.57 ok thank you. the central bank denies that lebanon is facing a dollar crisis and describes her ports of a shortage as an exaggeration but there are attempts to limit daily dollar withdrawals and more and more merchants are no longer accepting local currency they

too refused to speak on camera as a. lot of. lebanon's economic conditions have long been precarious this is one of the most indebted countries in the world a decrease in deposits into the banking sector denies the state a critical source of finance but there are other reasons behind the shortage of cash in the country u.s. sanctions on iran for example affect its funding for its ally in lebanon which is also under sanctions this is disrupted the flow of remittances arab countries also stop providing help to a country they believe is controlled by their rival iran people are starting to take to the street there is panic over the currency losing value which has hurt their spending power last month the government declared a state of economic emergency for these protesters however this crisis is not new and they want those in power to be held responsible for years of mismanagement and

corruption. beirut. prue peru's police and military chiefs say they still supports marse in this current president despite congress forcing to suspend him from office opposition politicians and symbolically sworn in his vice president after his car dissolved congress to stop its elected judges to the constitutional tribunal but the opposition members divided the executive order and remains in congress for the full. now it's been a night's over african delight the world. in qatar with more let's go to join our in our sports studio for international stadium yes that's right there's been success but ethiopia kenya and uganda on the track and off it their fans and celebrated in style here in doha so coming up at 1045 g.m.t. we have a big upset in the women's 800 meters final as this ugandan runner hopes steps away

to gold and of 2 of the favorites. how one to finish ethiopia in the men's 5000 meters got fans on their feet and dancing in the stands. and somewhat less energetic by the end of his event norway's hurdling hero in a race where the hosts claim that this medal. join us in about 20 minutes time. well a few moments we'll have the weather with rob but lots more still to come on al-jazeera including greece looks to an energy lead to economic recovery but a coast to the environment. the typhoon season starts to mature and taiwan has been the latest target country

this was before it got dark yesterday the approach of time from mid tag big waves over sea fairly strong winds it was only about a category one to the time but that's quite enough if you're an ardent nation and is currently running up the cursed mainland china this is a satellite picture in the last 24 hours or so you can almost see a night but not quite and i've been studying the reports from the kosi for gusts about 100 kilometers per hour at the moment the potential around the heart of the storm is 12250 calories per hour so the winds are potentially damaging but he's off shore all the waves they've been 5 meters is moving quite quickly so you generate 5 meter winds and waves you saw them video at the surge which is the lift in the water it brings with it and what the wind helps is about 1.6 minutes because you add that to the height of the tide now for a fast moving storm it's not too deadly this thing in the next 2 or 3 days goes up past shanghai and then through south korea and eventually to the north of japan it

seems to move fairly quickly and that's probably saving grace but that will be a streak if nothing else we're fairly heavy rain today and $53.00 agreement it is not streak. the weather sponsored by cattle anyways. growing in harsh and unforgiving circumstances children learn to play dangerous games they say if i throw stones then destroy the house and take more and down by frustration and broken promises young men living under the constant threat of imprisonment i think took me to the jeep and blindfolded me the time for them to regain control of their lives is when the boys returned prison my hiding out at this time. subzero temperatures extreme altitudes. this is where the hard part because of the extraordinary journey

from polish to touch it you start braved ordinary joined us with too high up there's no oxygen. just to experience life simple pleasures. risking it all in kurdistan on al-jazeera. this is i'll just say a reminder of the headlines this hour demonstrations in hong kong have a rough seas in violence as china celebrates national day police have used my fire and tear gas to break up the crowds one protester has been shot in the chest and is reportedly in

a critical condition some demonstrators are building barricades and setting fires. all beijing has marked the 70th anniversary of communist rule with a display of military strength in a speech the parades president called for a unified china that includes hong kong. well that's around 6 30 pm in hong kong right now let's head back to sara clark for the latest dramatic images coming from the city old day really we've got reports now of someone being farmed by live ammunition what can you tell us about the casualties there. we have some dramatic scenes across hong kong and numerous districts and yes we have had to take gets used every single at every single rally and as you mentioned a live fire has been used at 2 rallies that we can confirm one was alert for a warning to those protesters that we can't confirm that one particular protester

has been hit now the local media is saying he's in a critical condition is also cite they're also saying he's high school student now he's been admitted to hospital the hospital authority has now confirmed that at least 15 people have now been hospitalized and the age group is around 18 to 52 years of age but we can't confirm from local media that that particular person was here at close range. with live bullets is now in a hospital and it is reportedly in a critical condition that we've seen take us if stained rubber bullets between live bullets and we've seen sponge going to jesus every single rally throughout today which is tuesday october 1st in hong kong another place have wrapped up their efforts we've got $6000.00 places been deployed across hong kong to deal with today's rallies now there was one earlier that was the big rally tens of thousands of people here much from causeway by to central but these other protests are continuing throughout the city ok sara karkare with a live update from hong kong thanks very much indeed for let's stay with this story martin jackie is a senior fellow in the department of politics and international studies at

cambridge university and joins us now by skype from london this is a significant day for china but a lot of the international attention is focused on hong kong right now you just heard these scenes being viewed in beijing would you say well i think there's obvious. you know the situation or you know whole goal. and so far they've tried as far as possible structure to a great strength which i think is to their credit but it doesn't look very restrains when we hear of live ammunition being far to protesters tear gas rubber bullets and the whole gamut of arsenal being lobbed at these protesters to try and commentary and would you say this looks like restraint. well i mean if you look at the picture 'd since the demonstrations started which began with that huge $3000000.00 demonstration which obviously expressed the strong views of probably

a majority of uncle opinion that extrusion bill was not something that they wanted . but that spain in some ways at least in the media coverage overshadowed by these kind of great demonstrations attempts to close the airport. a lot of violence against property and so on which by and large in most advanced countries would never be allowed to continue so. so i think that h. to the critics of china that they have not into the in a much more violent fashion. and i would challenge anyone to disagree with them i got represents if we see these protesters that we're seeing on our television screens i representative are they of the whitest sentiments in home home. well that's a really good question and it's a question that at least in the western media hardly anyone has tried to answer but

it seems to me a very critical one 0 i oh i think that they that i think there's a much my guess is that there's a majority opinion against the extradition bill which has now been with gold as far as the damage than a demonstration is concerned i think they are a minority of hong kong opinion and most people in hong kong don't agree with it and they're very worried about the consequences because let's face it it's doing a lot of harm to hong kong economically choice wise and so on ok martin jack abbott well i'm afraid we will have to leave it there but thank you very much indeed for bringing as you refuse martin jack joining us live from london. well jeff rabbit was a stray bastard to china for 2007 to 2011 he says beijing is using today to project its senses but challenges remain i wouldn't overstate the economic issues the economy is still growing somewhere in the range of 6 percent which for

a major country that's been going through 4 decades of uninterrupted economic growth is still an impressive figure people's incomes will still double in 30 in 40 years if that type of growth rate sustained the trade war with united states is a headwind but it actually feeds nationalist sentiment and the way she has played it i think he's been playing to his strengths in the party strengths and reminding people that it's a hostile world out there and that chinese people need the communist party to stand by them a defend their interest so. well so headwinds are the biggest and biggest challenge to she of course is hong kong and she's enemies of the leader at the at the top of leadership in china will be watching how he plays this very carefully because of course she has created many many enemies with ease and corruption campaign the use of that to lock up political opponents removal from power there are many enemies

who are waiting to pounce and how can i think if you touch her for she. whether it provides an opportunity for his enemies to attack him. north korea says nuclear negotiations with the us will resume on saturday the countries have had a months long stalemate over withdraw the sanctions in exchange for disarmament when in june donald trump and kim jong il met south and landmark summit in singapore where they signed an agreement promising to work toward denuclearization of the korean peninsula. u.k. prime minister boris johnson is asking the e.u. to relight extending the brics a deadline according to the times newspaper here case due to leave europe in 30 days johnson says he will presents new ideas for solving the issues but how did his predecessors deal including irish border shortly well brussels and dublin have both been skeptical johnson's also under pressure after allegations of corruption during

his time as mayor of london that he grew to reporter 20 years ago we have to correspondents on the story so you're going to go is in london 1st let's cross live to laurin sydney at the conservative party conference in manchester lawrence is a big day for boris johnson is be doing the media rounds already but he still has quite a few positions to defend as. well i mean the point is out of the truck the dollar bill it was something of a head of steam before his speech some more oh well it sounds like he's going to start releasing some details of his proposals to brussels to break the deadlock the trouble is when you look at the rumors of what some of them are they all look like dead ends whether there's one room with their might put in customs checks and borders in which they said that that would do that's never going to work for obvious reasons with the europeans equally if the conservatives say we won't have a border we're just gonna let food go through freely but impose customs act other things that we're europeans either because it's in breach the single markets to

your points in your introduction about whether the brits light say to the europeans look just let us go because if you keep us in we get to behave so badly you know we should never been on the europeans will give that only the because they know elections coming and boris johnson like a voted out of office and so that rather keep him in just for a bit longer just to see how the whole thing shakes down him in the end. you feel this sense that the government knows these things all going to work but there was a present something that says that we're trying to do it but it was those ideas europeans that just didn't want to go ok lawrence lee live at the conservative party conference in manchester thank you let's cross to london where sonia gago is standing by sonia nothing has changed appears to be the the current position with what was happening back at westminster and what are the government's opposition rivals trying to. well in effect what they're trying to do is trying to try to try to put forward

a joint plan to try and remove boris johnson but so far they've really found little common ground amongst all the different sectors who are making up this opposition for example you've had the leader of the scottish national party in westminster saying that really there were running out that remember it's only 30 days to go until that date of accepting the european union for the u.k. they say they have to knuckle down and go the extra mile to try and oust boris johnson the problem is is that who would then take over as caretaker prime minister the scottish nationalists have said that they would be open to having jeremy corbyn the leader of the opposition labor party but this has not really found any agreement with the other opposition party the liberal democrats who have been enjoying a boost in their own popularity not just from. labor supporters but also from former conservative party some members of whom have joined the party in protest at

mr johnson's leadership of that the liberal democrats the leader of the liberal democrats have said that they cannot back mr coleman he's been proved to be divisive and that he just simply would not get the votes required from those opposition conservative members of parliament they would not back him at all so therefore they would not even have the votes in the parliament to be able to pass that as well so then who would then come up with that there have been a few other names that have been floated about but really they are are really at the sticking point here where they don't know who they would choose to do that until they can actually. circle around one figure that they can all agree on they're really not going to get very far with this particular plan and as you said time is ticking. for us in london thank you. greece is all saying its 1st summits on the mediterranean burgeoning oil and gas industry country will soon become a hydrocarbon producer it's hoped the revenue will help pay off its billions of

dollars in debts but says johnson operates reports the drive for cash comes at the risk to the environment greece produces only about one percent of the oil and gas it consumes it spends more than $13000000000.00 a year importing the rest the government wants to keep more of that money in the greek economy it has spent a decade selling concessions for oil and gas exploration along the country's west coast on and off sure the benefit of the greek state from the royalties only significant. really were the 1st months of 2000. in the future for all. the state we. have from that old thing will be more than $215000000.00 per year these royalties could be repeated dozen times over if other areas of

exploration bear fruit and they would be used to create a national pension fund domestic production would also mean corporate tax revenue and jobs every was issued in. in exploration is supported by another 4 positions of the entire industry i mean you have a defining you have 3 have a story you have been supporting most importantly perhaps it means energy security greece currently imports 3 quarters of its total energy needs that makes it one of the most energy insecure countries in europe and vulnerable to rises in international oil prices heloc petroleum believes they could find up to $140000000.00 barrels of oil in these waters in the west petrus gulf that alone could cover greece's needs for almost a decade but there's a serious downside the waters of greece's west coast are a key feeding and spawning grounds for vulnerable populations of sperm whales

dolphins monk seals and other marine animals scientists say drilling could disorient or even kill these animals that greece is here to make sure that oil drilling does not start it's not only an ill conceived experiment for marine environment or are now entering their own it's also very dangerous for a climate for our local communities and of course our national economy a single accident could damage greece's $56000000000.00 tourism industry or oil and gas exploration is to continue for now but it is creating a divide between those who see the potential to monetise hydrocarbons and those who see greece's true treasure in its history and natural beauty. john psaropoulos as live where there's no john greece is still facing significant financial difficulties i mean how strong is the case for environmental protection that a country faced with these financial challenges. well the case in greece is very

strong because the tourism industry which according to some reckonings is worth about a 3rd of the greek economy is extremely valuable and has to be protected and that isn't lost on the current conservative government which is keen to continue with exploration off the west coast of greece where 10 concessions are currently the ratified by parliament or in the process of being ratified including 2 very large concessions south and west of the island of crete which are deemed to be greece's most promising prospects for gas possibly as much as egypt's zot gas field which has supplied egypt with enough gas to be energy self-sufficient since the end of 2017 self-sufficiency is still a distant dream for the greeks it's going to take about 7 years just for the drilling to begin where oil and gas are found from now and

a good deal longer until self-sufficiency is reached if those reserves exist but there has to be a balance with the environment in this economy certainly and in the political climate in which we live where there is so much concern of a climate change as well as biodiversity ok john psaropoulos live for as an author and thank you saying in greece and the government says leaving refugees and migrants from their overcrowded camps where for book rights on sunday at least one asylum seeker was killed and others injured in the maria camp in the arms of les boss has been home to some 12000 people 4 times its capacity the greek government is changing its policy of containing only arrivals to distribute them nationwide's . so korea has celebrated armed forces day by showing off muni to livered u.s. stealth warplanes the display by f. 35 jets is not expected to help relations with north korea as we hear reports from

the south korean capital the 1st of these new stealth jets arrived in south korea back in march but this was the 1st time we had seen them on display publicly with one of them parked alongside other military equipment that was inspected by south korea's president mungy into market forces day 3 more conducted a display from the air last year's armed forces day was anything but a military day really it was more of a cultural event that was held in the capital seoul at the time it was thought that was a gesture to north korea because it came at the peak of the diplomatic efforts between the 2 countries and came just after the 2nd meeting between president moon and north korea's leader kim jong il in north korea views the purchase of these new jets as a direct threat to it so it seems certain that we will see some form of statement come from pyongyang in response to what we saw on tuesday also to mark armed forces

day president moon gave a speech in that speech he revealed that a south korean f. 15 jet had conducted a patrol flight over islands that are occupied by south korea but also claimed by japan in a move that is likely to further increase tensions between the 2 countries who are locked in a bitter trade and diplomatic disputes. in taiwan divers are searching for survivors after a bridge collapse on fishing boats videos saw the $140.00 beats a long bridge gave way at the port of non fun it's reported an all time on the bridge found in vehicles on fire. suspect some fish number trapped in the wreckage another 6 who survived are in critical condition. doubles.

i am. the only. time for the sport let's join joe and the team at the world athletics championships in doha. oh ok. welcome to the world athletics championships with 4 gold medals a set to be won on tuesday monday though was gold a night for africa as the athletes and fans lit up the holy for its national stadium as rebel pac now reports. following reports of poor attendances on previous days it was a very different feel to the stadium on monday thanks mainly to the african fans

they certainly had lots to cheer about with african athletes winning hundreds of the gold medals on offer the women's 800 meter farno produced one of the not its most dramatic finishes ugandan in the kite upsetting the right favorite g. wilson to win gold for the reigning olympic champion caster semenya still fighting the r.w.c. in the courts over the testosterone rules our game could have a very different look to it from the take a woman picks next year because stan as of she was our good friends we still respect her however my sandwich created more opportunity for others but i am very proud of worries and i respect. another great finish and another african success in the men's 4000 meters of motor it is defended his title as he led an ethiopian one to have said i'm on the radio. 2 years ago in london kenya's bitters chip

co-ax licky took a wrong turn in the 3000 meter steeplechase that the strike cost her a world title. he made amends in doha on monday to win the country's 2nd gold of these championships. one of the noise most eagerly awaited for news was the men's 400 meter hurdles with 3 of the fastest men in history who taking part defending champion cost him hardly turning his title ahead of america right there in japan and cut out of the realm of somber somber winning his country's 1st medal of doha 292. but celebration of the very undoubtedly came from daniel style the swede winning the discus ring on my heel i did for the swedish track team it was. a half hour now does it. well here's how the medal table looks going into day 5 usa a well ahead of the competition with 4 gold medals and 13 in total china jamaica and kenya all have 2 gold medals each and that ethiopian one to finish in the men's

5000 meters has lifted them to 5th in the table. saying with athletics the former coach of double olympic champion bo farah has been banned for 4 years for doping alberto salazar trained for a from 2010 to 2017 also head coach of the nike oregon project the u.s. anti-doping agency found salazar guilty of a range of dopey offenses including trafficking testosterone salazar says he will appeal the decision the doping issue raised its head on saturday following christian coleman's victory in the 100 meters his win was soured by controversy before the championships of the mystery doping tests andy ritchson spoke to the head of the athletics integrity unit david howman who says coleman has done nothing wrong under the rules he missed. the other breach that he was at least to have committed was a failure to provide the proper we're about some from asia so it wasn't

a missed test. the difficulty was that the. use of for those 3 for ideas or 3 breaches occurred in a 12 month period. and i didn't because the rule says the failure s.p. act takes place at the time that you inserted you were about information into the system not the day that you actually filed so. his free elite's breach was to place in a 14 month period not a 12 month period he's innocent. he's still got the possibility of another strike within a 12 month period but you can't cast aspersions on somebody who has an extra broken the rules the way they are written and he hasn't so i think there should be cleared up in the air fleet earlier to get on with his life and in a more normal fashion well coleman isn't in action on tuesday but this is what we can look forward to on day 5 there are 4 titles to be decided at the men's pole

vault and women's javelin in the field events on the track it's the finals of the men's 800 meters but the highlight of the knights will undoubtedly be the men's 200 when new american superstar noah lyles could break the same bolts wild record. all right sale malik has been keeping across all of the action and joins us now in the studios to hail we're hoping to see better crowds tonight we did see slightly better crowds yesterday and the local organizing committee has released a statement to address the concerns that people have had with small crowds what they've been saying well you and. your when i was the local organizing committee you aren't as pessimistic about the situation as many people have said in the media many of the reports i've been seeing actually they call day one into their words solid in terms of attendance what we saw what they're saying that around 70 percent of the stadium was full for those 2 days of condition one thing that we need to point out however is that the dot stadium over there doesn't usually attendance of

a capacity of 40000 seats it's been reduced for these championships to about half basically so just a little bit of caution when you look at those figures they have admitted that they 3 was down on their expectations now you have the women's 100 meters was that we saw that final lap and there was nobody there to greet and when it's exactly shelling out for its price waving a flag except through the national myth you know the british flag not many sounds and that's true to a lot of fans they have admitted that the attendance was down what their explanation for that is that the 3 was on sunday you know over here in the middle east sunday is the beginning of the working week unlike many countries in the west for instance where the working week begins on monday they've explained of course that's one of the reasons the working began and that's why the attendance was down the other issue that they've pointed out is balancing the times of the global t.v. audience finals you have been pretty late at night to make it easier for people in

some of the prime markets to watch on t.v. and the last point that they made in the last paragraph is that the political blockade that we're having here in qatar has been a unique challenge for them to deal with so interesting point that they've raised here and they really want this one championships to be a pan middle east championship but obviously in the last 2 years that's become a to thing to do sale thank you very much well another sport now which we will be going back to our headquarters nowon who will have more from the leaf a stadium a little bit later. thanks very much joe well of course we're almost at the end of this news hour but you can stay on states on our web sites that said al-jazeera thought column from there you'll be able to keep track of all the latest developments with hong kong and of course the celebrations taking place in beijing and beyond will be across that story for you martina dennis is up with you next see keep it here on al-jazeera on the very latest world news right to your

door. as governments jails are cut emissions scientists are proposing drastic measures to save the planet. people in power ways technological endeavors to counter humanity's pollutants against the risks of further meddling with the environment to have a feel like this is playing god it's actually quite unsettling and quite frankly makes me quite anxious. kalina tackles on al-jazeera.

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