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donald trump as it emerges he sought help from another foreign leader in a bid to discredit the molar investigation. that i'm in london with the latest from europe including fears parts of the glass on the italian side of more could collapse within days sending an avalanche of ice snow on the roll call to the popular tourist spot. and i'm peter stone of the international stadium with 4 gold medals are up for grabs at the world championships. looks for his 1st world title in the 200 meters final here in doha. hello for the 1st time in the month of unrest in hong kong police have shot a protester with a live round leaving him in critical condition the incident on the large scale

protests in the city are overshadowing. the 70th anniversary of the people's republic of china on a day when the communist leadership wanted to present its best face to the world so these are pictures right there of the moment to the officer pulled his pistol and shot the protester in the chest at close range the hong kong police force was quick to explain the officer's actions in a post on social media by quite. a large group of protesters were attacking police officers despite warnings from the police the assailants still continued the violent attacks the police officers lives were under serious threat to save his own life and his colleagues lives he fired a live shot at the assailant 118 year old man was shot his left shoulder area was injured he was sent to the princess margaret hospital in a conscious state the police do not wish to see anyone injured in the incident it is really heartbreaking here we must again warn all rioters must stop all illegal

acts police will continue to enforce the law seriously earlier some 100000 protesters defied a police van and took part in what they called a national grief march the rally turned into some of the worst violence hong kong has seen recently 180 people have been arrested and dozens injured in street battles across the city but it was a very different picture and over in beijing that's where the latest military hardware and thousands of troops were paraded across gentleman square well more on how china marked its national day in beijing but 1st let's look at how the day on folded in hong kong adrian brown begins our coverage. the police should warm the choose they would be very dangerous it was the pitch battles carried on into the night with protesters defying repeated police warnings for people to stay off the streets even diners ignored the call the. this clash spread from one side of hong

kong island to the other and then back again. police it earlier banned all marches but people still took to the streets not to celebrate 70 years of chinese communism but to moon it but don't come until they were may have. this is an illegal notch designer of the oh oh oh oh no there were more than 100 arrests some of the most intense violence was on the other side of the harder in cow loot a much watched video and social media appears to show a policeman shooting a young protester in the chest with a pistol the hong kong police force say it was in self-defense but this was the 1st time someone had been wounded from a police bullet since the protests began almost 4 months ago the anger of recent weeks had been building up to this day the most important date in china's political

calendar this year. many train stations and shopping malls were closed in the security clampdown. just a few months ago hong kong was regarded as one of asia's most law abiding cities a model of good governance now all of that has been turned on its head with the police left to solve what is effectively a political problem these prochoice in a protest also see themselves as defenders of hong kong. today's the 70 birthday of our model and our modern and to have prosperity hong kong to have peace people to be happy national day celebrations here were low key this year the annual flag raising ceremony was held in a secure area well away from the protests which what was never going to be a day of celebration adrian brown al-jazeera hong kong as we mentioned the anniversary is being marked on mainland china in a very different way large parades have been held in beijing at

a sensitive time for a chinese diplomacy as well as its economy about some reports from beijing. aircraft funded through the skies of beijing armored vehicles rumble through chan in the 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 their peaceful ignited one country 2 systems. to keep hong kong and macau is a long term prosperity and stability 70 years ago in china and square communist party chairman mao zedong announced the founding of the people's republic of china . in the following 27 years so-called great leap forward plan to boost farming and industrial production led to famine and the deaths of an estimated 30000000 people his cultural revolution clamped down dissent a year after mao's death in 1906. new leader dench 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 is 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 as 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 adversely 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 198911 squares all bloodshed when pro-democracy demonstrators stood up against tanks in 2019 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 newfound respect little rock madison. beijing. aragon is a policy analyst for defense and foreign policy studies at the cato institute in washington d.c. he says the military parades are a message to the u.s. in particular. if you look at the long history of china from the p.r.c. it was 1st established 70 years ago to now that china is no longer the sort of defense backwater or underdeveloped country in that regard and that they've invested considerable resources in the parade the military assets came 1st and the

party has invested considerable resources in making sure that they have the military capabilities to reflect their rise as a general power and then this military rises also i think a big focus of concern among the united states and also other regional countries china's nuclear force structure is not very much like the united states they're not trying to match in terms of number of warheads but they're trying to keep an arsenal that's significantly smaller but has a guarantee of surviving 1st strikes and retaliating and as the united states has become more concerned about china's rise i think there is a tendency to see nuclear developments as particularly threatening because china is fielding new systems and there's a tendency to sort of overhype what they mean or misunderstand what they mean iraq's government says at least one person has been killed during violent protests in the capital baghdad on the side rubber bullets and tear gas on the anti-government protesters another $200.00 people were injured in the

demonstrations there have also been protests in other regions of the country including measure up and also the many young protesters accuse the government of not creating enough jobs and longtime is joining us live with an update from baghdad and do we expect the number of those injured to rise. we are expecting the number of injured to rise the health ministry said it will issue end of the statement in the coming hours early into the next morning but in the last hour or so things have been very quiet just a couple of hours ago when i was stood it. about. the story that way you heard gunshots ringing out you heard people shouting you heard sirens but now in the last hour we haven't heard any of that talk risk way itself is now completely claimed fact there's actually a major cleanup operation going on from the government in the square right now so the protest seems to have come to an end now it began around lunch time this

afternoon when there was a very small protest in tahrir square what happened is these people came out in very small numbers and they were quickly dispersed by the security forces then a call came out on social media a call that was heated and thousands of people turned up in the square that call to the security forces by surprise what they did then was they sealed off most of central baghdad and they try to contain the protesters and disperse them through different routes now what happened was the protesters started fighting back the clashes that took place and indeed it took a good few hours for the police to try and gain control of a pitched battles going on back and forth between the security forces and the police and eventually about 45 hours later right now things have come to an eerie you have to say calm hit within baghdad but this has a lot of people in the government very very concerned and i walked out of that is

one of the most influential shia clerics in iraq his party is part of the ruling government in iraq he's tweeted saying that the government needs to take a really hard look at the events that took place head now the protesters are using social media to get their message across what they've been saying is that there are simply not enough. no it was not enough opportunities for young people and it's forced them to come out on the street now it's not just in baghdad as you say it was an area and jeff and that also has the government concerned as well because according to the social media what we have what we're seeing is calls for protests to take place nationwide now let's see what happens in the coming days all right thank you the speaker for iran's parliament has told us. is open to the idea of opening a dialogue with saudi arabia and follow saudi crown prince mohammed bin saying he would prefer a peaceful resolution with iran in settling regional security disputes as opposed to a military conflict. with all the most of the iran is open to starting

a dialogue with saudi arabia and other countries in the region and already in the saudi dialogue could solve many of the region security and political problems what we can say is that it's not an ecstatic the for saudi arabia to rely or depend on america riyadh can submit its proposals to be discussed at the iranian saudi dialogue table without preconditions from our side we also welcome what has been quoted that prince mohammed bin sultan man once dialogue perhaps it is good to know saudi arabia is thinking of the region's interests 1st we say to the who these in yemen that any cease fire will be very important we also confirm that it will be for the interest of saudi arabia. because more from to her on. the speaker of parliament a leader in johnny has said he welcomes reports that side the crown prince mohammed bin to resolve issues that he has with iran through dialogue he said they want all this favors dialogue and many of the political and security issues in the region

can be solved through dialogue and without the help of the united states i mean there are calls for a security system to be set on the region that didn't involve the united states he also said that iran would be calling on the booty rebels in yemen to accept a cease fire and would be telling me that it's also in their favor to do so that the hutu rebels are iran's allies he said that he didn't rule out negotiations with the united states but said that the sanctions must be lifted 1st and this is a longstanding policy longstanding policy of iran now president rouhani is visiting armenia for a summit where is expected to meet with president vladimir putin now the main issues on the agenda all of the increase of tensions at the strait of hormuz in the gulf where we know the united states has put together a naval coalition made up of the united kingdom a stray grain saudi arabia and the u.a.e. now president rouhani did present an alternative at the united nations general assembly where he called upon regional countries to solve the security and stability of the region and not just the united states iran seizing artist states

as a destabilizing factor in the region though the issue is the 2015 nuclear deal now iran has given 60 days for the europeans to come up with a solution before they start taking the 3rd face back from their commitments towards that deal now russia will be concerned we do know that iran has said that they using modern centrifuges richelle allows them to enrich uranium to a higher percentage and faster we don't know what percentage that your brain will be but from previous step back from the commitments iran has always left the door open for iran to reverse those decisions now iran is an ally of russia and russia was important in organizing this 2015 nuclear deal and they would be very much concerned about the increase of tensions and iran stepped back from that nuclear deal and would want iran to stay in the 2015. but iran is looking to other countries to build economic ties to shore up its economy in the face of unilateral united states sanctions. plenty more ahead on the hour including

a leadership crisis strikes. the clock is ticking but the problem of the irish border and. raising the bar sport including qatar is a big old world championships. but 1st that's been revealed the u.s. president sought to enlist the help of another foreign leader for political gain donald trump the australian prime minister to help the u.s. justice department investigate the moeller inquiry which examined russian interference in the 2016 election the australian government says it greta help us president has already facing an impeachment inquiry relating to his dealings with ukraine's president let's bring in our white house correspondent what more you're learning about the 2nd allegation of trump asking a foreign leader for

a personal political favor. well it just underscores and weakens the defense the president has been launching for days and today is no exception on social media the fact that the allegations that has launched this impeachment inquiry is is a very serious 11 that is the accusation is that the president use and abused his office of the president in order to harm a political adversary in this case former vice president joe biden and so this 2nd revelation certainly does nothing for the president who has on social media repeatedly been trying to declare himself not only innocent of the accusations but go even further making the case that this telephone call now is the focus of this impeachment inquiry with the ukrainian leader back in july. the president saying on twitter that it is the perfect color he is trying now very hard to find the identity of the whistleblower who reported in flag this to the intelligence

community inspector general the problem in all of this is that the president continues to almost weaken his case and also incriminate himself further many have started to suggest the president behaving almost like an imperial president trying to demand that he knows the identity of this was a lower without sort of acknowledging the fact that there are rules and procedures in place that are better than the u.s. constitution and that is cause pushback from the senate level as well not only the top democrat but the top republican on the senate intelligence committee now calling for protection for the whistleblower in all of this now the president as i said continues to make the case that he has nothing has done nothing wrong and if anything this is emboldening increasing his support among his base in fact the president tweeting out a map that is very visual in that the president tried to say or make the case in

this map if you will that is mostly. typically signifying the republican party with just pockets of blue for the democratic party to show 2 that even with this pietschmann inquiry underway that he has a lot of support saying try to impeach this i can tell you this is helping the president raise money since the impeachment inquiry was launched in just $2.00 days he gave $50000.00 new donors and more than 8 and a half $1000000.00 ok kimberly thank you for that update from washington peru school leeson military chiefs say they still support martin van scotto as president despite congress voting to suspend him from office opposition politicians had symbolically sworn in his vice president after scotto dissolved congress that was in a bid to stop the congress electing judges to the constitutional tribe you know but the opposition members defined the order and remained in congress for the vote against scotto where on

a sunday shows has more from the peruvian capital. well there's a lot of police here in the area of the congress which is behind me blocking all entrance to with the situation right now is of much uncertainty bizarre to say the least now proof has to precedence one sworn in vice president but says house sworn in as the new interim president for 12 months. well the presidency was declared vacant after legislators filed a motion last night and right after that approved a vacancy for moral incapacity without a trial without an impeachment so there's a lot of questions about the legality of this move on the other hand this president has been discovered at the presidential palace he swore in the new prime minister he received a visit of the top military who issued a communique saying that the legal precedent of peru is my belief and for a president who doesn't have a party in congress he has received the support of thousands of peruvians who have

been marching not only since last night but throughout the last few months demanding the president who discovered the soul of congress because many people associate congress with corruption argentina's president far richer man korea's pledging to lift salaries and economic growth as he begins a final bid for reelection arjun times go to the polls in a few weeks time and has to raise about reports chances of victory have largely been written off. theories used to work as a welder 4 years ago he says these days he cannot find work and needs to collect cardboard for recycling to make a living. but i used to have a job and now i'm on the street because it's the only thing i can find i have 3 children and it's a challenge to support my family i believe the government about a few marquee for everything that is going wrong. on monday official statistics

revealed poverty rates have gone up by almost 8 percent this past year the devaluation of the currency which began in 2018 has led to an over 50 percent inflation rate pushing more families below the poverty line and it's all happening in the lead up to the presidential elections in october the presidential campaign has officially started in argentina in the middle of a deep economic crisis that has heard my chances of being reelected opposition candidate i led the fight amanda says that market friendly we formed have damaged argentina's economy and has deteriorated the living conditions of millions of people around the country. for a man who's running mate is former president cristina fernandez de kirchner defeated machree in an august primary vote by a wide margin. mr president don't come and tell us all that it's time to work when you've destroyed millions of jobs in the country and don't tell us you will fight

poverty because you've already forced at least 5000000 people in the country into poverty. c mockery is not giving up he's touring the country telling his supporters that he can still turn the tide and when the coming election he told the crowd here understood the message voters sent him in the primary election. i know that these years especially the last year has been very difficult i know that you the middle class are the ones who have made the greatest effort but i want to tell you that i have listened i have taken note and i have understood but some analysts say the chances of markey winning the elections are slim and we believe. it's very difficult to win an election when the economy is as it is and the opposition is united this year the g.d.p. may for almost 3 percent which generates recession and poverty so wrong that the

government is now desperately trying to win back the support it has lost. time for an update from the world championship. joining us from national stadium hi peter. how the rainfall totals are being decided over the next hour the highlight is the men's 200 meters final know a lot of the hot favorite for gold but can britain's added maybe spring up so it will look ahead to the big race a big hope for home gold has been an action as well we'll have an update on. title defense in the high jump and i've been speaking to one of the men involved in the championships most sporting moment so far he's now made a friend for life will stay here from triple jump gold medalist christian taylor that's all to come in about 20 minutes doing all right peter we'll see you then still ahead on the al-jazeera news our currency crisis for lebanon why many

businesses are only accepting u.s. dollars. into the. new government despite a night of violent protests. maybe surprisingly for october as a hint once again of cloud in southern iran in pakistan list surprisingly is the wintery stuff trying to get into the caucasus and the far north of iran but we're not talking about when to get a proper very high ground on the edges off the himalayas was because snow which is warm sunshine once more but maybe a shower too still possible run the straits of hormuz more especially south and pakistan in the next day or 2 for most of its sunshine still well below 30 in tehran about 40 in baghdad clearly cooler only slightly on the coast and it's

raining that's around the arabian peninsula it's quiet the wind is not strong. this is a please not no for the most part it's quite humid during the morning in the evening in doha as an example as it should be so i was seeing rather more of the sunshine than of late that morris is finished and this green stuff is potential showers in yemen to the far south west to society of the next couple of days travel to office to africa still active in southern africa maybe more active still with the changes season of course we're going through spring to summer this is not to frontal system so yet more ideas possible over the next day or so. on the streets of greece anti immigrant violence is on the rise there or you have to go from other potential understand that this is all from forces them and increasingly migrant farm workers of victims

a vicious beating. is helping the pakistani community to find a voice the stories we don't often hear told by the people who live them undocumented and under attack this is iraq on al-jazeera. subzero temperatures the stream altitudes. this is where the hard part is the extraordinary journey from polish to tajikistan braved ordinary joy to what we do high up there's no oxygen. just to experience life simple pleasures. risking it all in kurdistan on al-jazeera.

well again the top stories on the al-jazeera news hour trying as they have celebration has turned violent in hong kong mass rallies became running street battles between protesters and police on the 70th anniversary of the founding of communist china police use live rounds of ammunition and one person is reported to be in critical condition after being shot in contrast to the violence of hong kong china's capital is marking the anniversary with mass celebrations a large ceremony and did a day that highlighted beijing's military might and police in iraq have fired rubber bullets and tear gas on antigovernment protesters in the capital baghdad iraq's government says one person has been killed and more than 200 injured there are protests in other regions including and. let's get more on one of our top

stories tuesday celebrations marking the 70th anniversary of the people's republic of china will bring in martin jackie is a senior fellow in the department of politics and international studies at cambridge university joining us via skype from london thanks very much for speaking to us on the al-jazeera news hour so it's a significant day for china i know there's a bit of a broad question but when you look at the party the communist party what's significant changes how has it gone through if any over the past couple of decades that stand out for you. oh i think it's changed hugely actually since 1949 i mean the greatest change was at the end of may he died in 76 and in 9078 don't show paying took over and really the party under mao was very ideological it was based on struggle and those were the sort of values that it. it believed in and thought by and with don't shut paying it was very different it

was now a polity of administration of policy of trade chain transforming you know economy and so at it it became it went into extremely practical things. and going forward what do you think the most urgent reforms need to be. well. you know china's bishan reform they have a since 978 with an extraordinary dynamic weight show i don't think any other country in the world could possibly match not just economic reform but little reform social reforms and so on i mean if you're going to transform your society in the way that china has and so your kind of me now is will lead to many times bigger than it was before and so on. then now i think yes what process will continue and the challenges present i think to.

transform the economy into something which is more productive more capital intensive and very technologically dynamic and we all know that china is succeeding is beyond anyone's expectations but there's still a long way to go because this is a country of 1400000000 people of the population still lives in the countryside and one of the questions is how the country try and carry on you know during all the sections of the population into this transformation and making it more egalitarian you're right it has done well economically but how will china deal with some affects criticism which backtracking on human rights is also criticized for its lack of democracy for example. well i don't think china particularly has backtracked on human rights i mean certainly you could make that point about the last several years since she'd been paying but i don't see anything dramatic and. i

think that would be quite wrong to interpreted those terms but certainly the way china sees the question of individual rights and collective rights is very different but it would be an illusion to think that this is just simply a product of the communist party out here i don't think that's true until i think that the that the roots of this law in a very different of character of china and chinese civilization from for example the west and in that sense china is always going to be different and one of the problems we have in assessing china i mean i mean london i'm talking from the west is it to understand china we don't really understand china except we project under china western values and then trip to china or measure china but it's success in becoming west that china isn't west that it never has been and it never will be so if you want to come to grips with china and everyone is going to have the baby because china is going to you know is already the 2nd biggest economy in the well

and will be the biggest country and it will be the most we need to understand this country without constant the denigrates all right martin jacqui thank you very much for speaking to us from london thank you now speaking of london the british prime minister says he'll present new plans for bracks until shortly but nick details have already been met with skepticism for more on this story let's bring in felicity barr in our european broadcast center hi from a city. high that a rain yes forest johnson has confirmed that may need to be custom checks on the island of online and off to bracks it says that one necessarily involve new infrastructure and it's comments to be met with concern in the e.u. and i'm in ireland which is against a return to a hard ball with a chance reports from manchester. he's boris johnson thinking of bringing customs checkpoints back to the island of ireland it's what dublin fears after an irish broadcaster said it had seen leaks bricks of proposals sent by london to the e.u.

and the british prime minister spent chews day morning at the conservative conference in manchester denying it it's of course early days and we're working very hard to get a deal over the line i think the references that i've heard a plan over to papers don't actually relate to what we are going to table i think the some. confusion about what's being what's being reported but yeah and this is going to be a difficult negotiation what breaks it means for the irish border is still as foggy as the landscape itself to preserve northern ireland's delicate 9 $198.00 peace deal its border with the republic of ireland must be kept open and free of physical infrastructure but after brett's it this will be the u.k.'s only land front here with the european union so hardening of the border seems inevitable solving this conundrum has eluded everyone so far or

a strong sense predecessor to reason may and the e.u. agreed the backstop a fudge of sorts there would keep the whole of the u.k. inside the e.u. use custom zone after bret's it until a proper solution could be worked out but boris johnson says he's ditching the backstop for hard breakfasters it's never been a clean enough break. the government is about to send europe its final ideas for whatever will replace the backstop but brussels doesn't like what it's seen thus far have received by now as for documents from the u.k. as of last tuesday we have not received any proposals from the united kingdom that need or the objectives of the backstop as we have been retreating and demanding some analysts think the prime minister knows it's probably futile or since it has to square a circle get a deal the e.u. will approve of which will get through parliament at the moment that looks all but

impossible so it's hard lots of believe that actually in number 10 what they're gaining is a situation as to how best to fail to get a deal to go to the electorate to look convincingly as if you tried your best parliament requires boris johnson to ask europe or a brick city extension if he can't get a deal he says he'd rather be dead in a ditch than do so but he still want to explain in any detail how he can avoid it. down to 0 manchester. a man wielding a sword and a gun has killed one person and injured at least 10 others in finland the attack happened at a vocational college in co-op here in the east of the country the suspect who is a student at the school stabbed several people before police opened fire to stop him one police officer and the attacker also seriously hurt during the incident around a 1000 refugees and migrants have staged a new protest in europe's largest migrant camp to demand better living conditions

asylum seekers march for moria camp towards of course on the greek island of les pass before being stopped by riot police somehow signs waiting free us from hell might as come after one came after one person was killed in a fire at the overcrowded camps on sunday for a camp was built for 3000 people are currently houses around 12000 or more than a 1000 refugees and migrants have died trying to cross to europe this year the united nations is calling for expired search and rescue operations in the mediterranean sea. if the figures do show that we have passed the very sad milestone of a 1000 deaths so far in 21000 and that is the 6 here in a row that we have passed a 1000 deaths i can stresses of course the numbers of people attempting to cross the mediterranean a much lower so that points to the fact that the journeys themselves are much more dangerous greece is holding its 1st summit on the mediterranean is burgeoning oil

and gas industry the 2 day conference is being held a mist a growing dispute with turkey over who has the rights to offshore energy reserves has expanded its exploration of potentially lucrative gas resources in the region how does here is john has more from athens. the eastern mediterranean energy leadership summit focused on the energy resources particularly gas being discovered in the eastern mediterranean in the last 10 years israel and egypt are now energy independent they are also exporters cyprus is fast discovering reserves of gas that will not only make it energy independent but also a major exporter but all of this stands in contrast to the position of turkey which disagrees with the other players in the eastern mediterranean on their claims of ownership the turkish ambassador made a surprise visit to the summit he hadn't been invited it seemed but he revealed

himself during a morning panel when other speakers had spoken of turkish gunboat diplomacy and described turkey as a spoiler in the region because turkey has been sending its own state and drill ships and exploration vessels in the eastern mediterranean in areas that cyprus claims as its own exclusive economic zone and this has caused the criticism of both the united states and the european union who have called these turkish explorations illegal the turkish ambassador said that unless there is a bilateral agreement. and between turkey and cyprus to resolve that island's future political status is a confidence or a federation that can be in the exploration or exploitation by cyprus of the energy reserves it perceives as its. thousands of catalan separatists supporters have rallied on the streets of barcelona to mark the 2nd anniversary of the region's

banned independence referendum separatist leaders pledged to keep up their fight in independence prompting spain's acting prime minister petro sanchez to hold them not to play with fire spanish media reporting right police have been sent to the region with fears of violence as it only has 27000 referendum and declaration of independence from spain into its biggest political crisis in decades now experts say a section of a rapidly melting glassy air on the italian side of more blog could break off in the coming days it's really about thor seas of closed road and band hikers from the area fearing the collapse of a much bigger chunk of gases instability has been blamed on climate change and high temperatures over the summer months from plum past you the touch of butler reports . the mall power mountain range is the highest in europe jutting dramatically into the sky on its southern slopes in italy is the plot of past year glazier for as

long as anyone here can remember the vast expanse of slow moving eyes has been part of the landscape but that could soon change scientists say the glacier is melting at an alarming rate because of climate change and could collapse the fate that is happening it's that the movement of the of parts of the print of the glacier is much faster than the rest of the glacier and this means that we have a sector of the glacier that couldn't train. part of it the section at risk is the equivalent in volume of $100.00 lympics swimming pools below it a valley popular with tourists if part of the glacier was to break away would cause a huge avalanche of snow ice and rock that wouldn't danger anyone using this road that is why the local mayor is taking no chances he has closed this road and walkers and hikers are not allowed to access any of the mountain huts in this area

the mayor says the shrinking glazier shows how climate change is transforming the region. this is evidence of global warming we have higher temperatures in the summer and winter now our mountains are in crisis our glass is a diminishing we must take responsibility and stop this as we are increasingly losing parts of our glasses with some tourists staying away livelihoods are also it's risk. and i really hope the ice broke so soon so it's over because it's hard for me to work i make cheese but there's no one to buy it. how long the plane passed you can remain intact is unclear but scientists say its case is far from unique all of the range is shrinking fausta because of climate change was one seemed able to withstand the pressures of time is now very visibly fragile natasha al-jazeera italy

or the west say is the latest from here in europe that's a good accident and rejoin serving from the city thank you well times are tough for many in lebanon they are already dire economy is expected to worsen because lebanon central bank is changing its rules on the u.s. dollar is in a holder has a story from beirut it'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 that region the pulse

of what's happening in syria what's happening in iraq the problem i suppose and the g.c.c. countries. who cracked the. decline of foreign investors. 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 and if i want to. thank you. the central bank denies that lebanon is facing a dollar crisis and describes her poor 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 an. 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. on iran for example affected its funding for its ally in lebanon which is also under sanctions this is disrupted the flow of remittances countries also stop providing help to a country they believe is controlled by their rival. 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. indonesia's new members of parliament have been sworn in following a night of further protests and hundreds of arrests demonstrators say if parliament passes proposed legislation it will curtail freedoms and cripple efforts to stop corruption we're here the mohamed reports from jakarta but if that money. inside indonesia's parliament the swearing in of $575.00 members taking an oath to uphold the country's laws and democracy. but outside tension is palpable parliament has come under fire for rushing through several controversial bills before the end of the legislative term what initially started as a student protest turned into a wider movement of civil society groups trying to protect their rights thousands of taking to the streets over the past week calling for

a revised anti-corruption law to be repealed critics say it weakens the power of the corruption eradication commission and only benefits the elite and corrupt officials one of. the freedom of indonesia we cannot express ourselves we are really i guess in some cases demonstrations turned violent protesters threw rocks petrol bombs and lit firecrackers around 26000 security personnel responded with tear gas to disperse crowds on monday. mass protests led to president joke of a daughter delaying the passing of some bills 5 will be up for discussion in the new parliamentary term but the most controversial a pending criminal code which could discriminate against religious minorities outlaw sex outside marriage ban abortion and even make it illegal to insult the president protesters say the measures could turn indonesia into a repressive society how can we call our country democratic when the nation is piloting the people's right women one be allowed on the street after 10 we know

that many in the nation women who work late to support their families this is very unfair and demands have grown beyond legislative issues there are calls to end forest fires and military action. in west papua the government has tried to make changes to its goals for many years detaching from the wars that have been the south asian stocks below new rules for many here it could reverse progress already made pressure is mounting on the president as he heads into his 2nd 5 year term in office he maintains the upcoming laws and bills may require more consideration while his caught in a tug of war between appeasing the public and political elite analysts believe all i should be on the new parliament to communicate with more transparency the newcomers can see ok if i'm not. from the public then there was like more write all of these generations and you in the us has shown all of us that they can make a very good public demand and slackness it these are some of the biggest demonstrations

indonesia has seen since 1908 the protesters say they want the president to side with them and hear their aspirations and for now they say that demonstrations will continue here mohammed al jazeera jakarta. still ahead on the al-jazeera news hour there's sports there's a picture of we'll hear from a gold medal winner at the world athletics championships that's next. to strengthen the good you have to shoulder cooked all the more with your gum still fight against corruption. news here on heroes like move the robot who refused a $15000000.00 brian the achievement of euros like him to showcase by the international ace award it shines a light on these heroes because the best way to fight a dark used to shine a light let's make the road to

a better place nominate your anti corruption mirror. talk to al-jazeera we ask what guarantees will you give to the people will be attending them and i'm a workshop we listen i'm supposed to explain apologize for someone who is also terrorizing me we meet with global newsmakers and talk about the stories that matter is there a. hello again time for the sports news and we'll join peter the world. so right here in doha hi peter.

i agree you know we are the national stadium where the titles on day 5 will be decided in the next hour the highlight is expected to be the final of the men's 200 meters american though liles is the heart favored for gold up to his impressive win in the semifinals on the grass adam jimminy and alex king your miss are expected to be he's main rivals that's what's course one of the only richardson is at the stadium and joins us now andy to animate a final it is the flagship event of full tonight what are we expecting. but i think if we look back 10 years 2009 you saying bolt was pretty much of the peak of his powers at the world championships in that year he broke the world record in the 100 and the 200 meters on that occasion and those records still stands today well know what is the 22 year old american you have an individual who

thinks he is the parents to bowls early this year he ran 19.50 seconds in the 200 meters only 3 men have run faster than that bolt you know and blake and michael johnson now when we come to the olympics next year it's pretty likely that last run in the 10200 this time around he's focusing purely on the 200 meters now it's important to point out that despite his caliber and his form this season is never run in a race of this magnitude he just missed out as as a youngster in qualifying for the last olympics he was injured at the last world championship so the only thing that stands realistically between him and gold is is some kind of form of stage fright the sort of character he has that really doesn't look likely if you runs anything like he should win the 1st of what could be many gold medals tonight. and let's go from the track to the field. high jump

qualifying taking place here on day 5 carter's national hero is a bottom the high jump champion. sebastian what can we say about him is he going to deliver a medal for the home nation. you know let's not understate the quality of him as an athlete he was the 2017 world athlete of the year he was world champion that year as it's up to this point never quite won the olympic gold medal only one man has ever jumped higher than him that was sought some are of cuba who's the world record holder now here's the here's the problem that bush has had in the last year or so he was going for the world record in 2018. and in doing that stretching himself to the absolute limit he picks up a really serious ankle injury and it's taken him a good deal of time to get over that and in some ways normally these championships are held in august the fact that they've been pushed to september has really helped

push him out given him a bit of extra time to get fit he's still not absolutely at the peak of his powers the good news for him is that the rest of the field is not particularly strong he cruised through qualifying and he'll be jumping for gold in front of his home crowd on friday night. and it is and we'll leave it there thank you very much what sets you again later now american christian taylor celebrating his 4th world title in the triple jumper earlier he told you and i go to rob school that he's big goal is still to break the world record which has stood for 24 years. the pressure was on it's going to make such impact back at home it's very surreal moment in i'm happy to be here again and tell me about the pressure because that final wasn't the easiest start to a final with it yes a very emotional roller coaster for friends for a family to pals going into the last jump in that i really are eyes everything was on this world record i keep speaking about the world record in it's a dream of mine this is what pushes me every single day but then i thought if i

don't even make it to the final i'm going to i may just lose opportunity altogether so spoke to my coach and he just said you know compose yourself and just do what you know how to do this what we do every single day and so got to the final and then i thought ok time to rock and roll. one of the standout moments of sportsmanship at these championships so a ruben runner jonathan busby helped over the finish line in the 5000 meters heat speier fellow competitor brymer son called. as we spoke to me about this unusual moment earlier in the studio. i was heartbroken because i didn't achieve at that moment what i came here to do but the table turned around and. it became something that we came together a lot of tension and you guys have become friends since then as well to tell us about that. is the biggest man with the biggest heart that i will ever know

because none of these you will find anybody that will do that kind that act of kindness and in this era this is sportsmanship that is highlighted between this world championship for life and for in this sport and maybe for a not a sport also because this is sportsmanship in a big way in and yes we are friends and this is friendship for life for life. starting with ethel a 6 the former coach of double olympic champion mo for a has been banned for 4 years alberto salazar trained for a from 2010 to 2017 while he was head coach of the nike oregon project the u.s. anti-doping agency found sellers are guilty of a range of 13 offenses including trafficking testosterone salazar says he will appeal the decision away from the athletics the barrett brothers are getting ready to make history at the rugby world

cup bowden jodie and scots are all in the new zealand starting line up for wednesday's pool match with canada it's the 1st time 3 siblings have played in the same team at the world cup the all blacks have had an 11 day break since they opening game win against south africa. that's all the sport for now will have action from semifinals at the national stadium later on we'll see you later peter thank you well renowned american opera singer justin norman has died she was 74 years old. the. grammy award winning singer made her operatic debut in 1969 and gained worldwide fame in 1907 norman became the youngest person to earn a prestigious kennedy center honor she was also awarded the u.s. highest honor for the arts she died from complications related to a spinal cord injury she suffered in 2015. thanks very much for watching the news

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at least 2 people were killed and 200 injured in iraq as police and hundreds protesting against the government.