times is no. danger on us from erbil thank you. thank you to other news and protesters in hong kong appear to be defying a ban on face masks which came into effect in the last few hours demonstrators were out in parts of the city center setting up fiery blockades in the streets after chief executive carroty made the announcement on that ban well from saturday if any protest a court wearing a mask during rallies faces up to a year in jail and a fine to put the ban in place lam invoked the colonial era law which gives the greater freedom to clamp down on the increasingly violent protests to see movements it is the emergency regulations ordinance law which effectively gives carry the authority to pass rules without having to go through the legislature but she is insisting it doesn't mean hong kong is under a state of emergency as supporters of scott. face mass have become one of the main symbols of the protester movement here in hong kong they're also

a way to hide identities from surveillance cameras now it's illegal for protesters to cover their faces. their protests have become increasingly violent and initial peaceful rallies the largest ever seen here calling for the withdrawal of a proposed extradition law had escalated into running battles in vandalism. their demands became more of a broad push back against what protestors see as growing control from beijing chief executive kerry lamb has turned to a british colonial era emergency law not used since riots in 1967 anyone who wears a mask could face up to a year in jail and a $3000.00 fine hong kong it's not in a state of emergency and we are not proclaiming that hong kong is entering a state of emergency. but we are indeed in an ok sion of serious danger

which is a state a condition in an emergency regulations ordinance that was many of the protesters said that they were not deterred by the emergency law and will carry on as before. other so that might stop some demonstrators but the banner won't help end the crisis possibly having the opposite effect goes i think some people with the afraid of bearing the legal consequences and are not going to protest in the future i also think that such a hot line approach is not going to work in the long run might come the dia this group of protesters was has been moving about here in the central financial district of call it started with a march of thousands now it's pared down to the hundreds so what they're doing is they're bouncing between main intersections and blocking them off after work hours the number of protesters swelled into the thousands again. barricades were built fires lit. they then moved on from the financial district to marching mass of people growing the majority the protesters ended up in causeway bay clogging the

streets and vandalizing m.p.r. subway stations and businesses the protesters unsympathetic to their movement. as routine now riot police came in to push the protesters out most left but small numbers faded into the smaller streets and with the announcement of more protests planned for this weekend it's a routine that will probably be repeated it's got harder al-jazeera hong kong here's what we've got coming up. we're looking at how young voters in britain will shape the country's next general election. i make our reporting from 130 kilometers of the case to french guiana in south america as dive teams prepared to explore beyond is a race where no one has ever been before and in sport with far we'll see how south africa took a big step towards the rugby world cup. well

the u.s. justice department is facing a deadline to hand over all information about the whistleblower complaint that spock's impeachment inquiry the house intelligence committee conducting the inquiry against the president says once all the material by friday night comes as ukraine's new prosecutor says he will be reviewing 15 or so cases which were handled by his previous is and it includes the criminal case involving a natural gas company that employed the son of former us vice president joe biden meanwhile house investigators have really several text messages between state department officials about withholding aid to ukraine the former special u.s. envoy to ukraine kurt volker handed over the texts when he testified before 3 committees on tuesday and vice president might pence is now out of the spotlight as well after reports trump also involved him in efforts to pressure ukraine's president pence though defending the president's call for some foreign

investigation. i mean the fact that that my predecessor had a son who was paid $50000.00 a month to be on a ukrainian ford at the time that vice president biden was leading the obama administration's efforts in ukraine. i think is worth looking into and the president made it very clear that he he believes he believes our other nations around the world should look into it as well here's our correspondents on the story how does your account capitol hill where more impeachment hearings are expected to be with you shortly heidi with starting though at 1600 pennsylvania avenue the white house our correspondent there is kimberly how could so mike pence getting drawn into all of this the vice president and then the president himself with more to say. that's right and there's new reporting that u.s. president vice president mike pence in fact had knowledge of that now infamous july

25th phone call between donald trump and the ukrainian leader and what is not clear from the reporting is whether or not he had any knowledge of the request allegedly made by donald trump to is in essence investigate his political rival joe biden well donald trump has been talking about this for reporters he says that he has a right and duty to investigate which he says this is corruption and if a foreign country can assist with that he doesn't care if it involves joe biden the former vice president or anybody else now in the midst of all of this we are expecting the white house to formally object to the impeachment inquiry into that july 25th phone call what does this mean come out this means essentially that the white house will no longer cooperate with supplying documents or even with testimony from trump administration officials in fact donald trump himself spoke about this earlier when he departed from the white house south lawn. offering i

guess that's up to the lawyers i know the lawyers they said never seen anything so unfair they've never seen anything so i just i've been president now for almost 3 years and i've been going through this for almost 3 years it's almost become like a part of my day. now donald trump went on to say when it comes to joe biden he doesn't really care for him very much he doesn't think he's very bright and he also said that he hopes that he will eventually become the democratic presidential nominee because donald trump believes that he can beat him come november in fact he underscored what he believes is a mistake of democrats continue to push with him this impeachment inquiry donald trump believes that will help him win reelection in november of 2020 ok thank you kimberly how good at the white house now we head up the road to capitol hill here isn't it joe town stirring up today heidi with the hearings and these new text messages. hey kemal so house investigators are hearing

a closed door testimony from the inspector general of the intelligence community right now but even as they gather that new evidence they're still reeling over the text messages that were revealed by yesterday's witnesses that was the special envoy to ukraine who quit his job last week kurt volker he revealed with these text messages what democrats described as a very compelling case that the u.s. state department officials and ukrainian officials both had a clear understanding going into the phone call between the 2 countries president exactly what was at stake that being a meeting for is a linsky an invitation for president alinsky of ukraine to come to the white house when trump said to do us a favor and of course the favor being the trump wanted ukraine to open an investigation into trump's own political rivals back in the united states then the text messages go further to say that the follow up after the call with the u.s.

diplomats pressing ukraine to draft a public statement committing to opening this investigation when that statement was not forthcoming that's when the military aid enter the question and that solicited rather incredulous question coming from the current ambassador to ukraine bill taylor who texted are we now saying that security assistance and white house meeting are conditioned on investigation to that came a response from the ambassador to the e.u. or did sunland call me but bill taylor pressed on he said i think it's crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign someone responded bill i believe you are incorrect about president trump's intentions the president has been crystal clear no quid pro quos of any kind we should point out that son lindh was a wealthy. hotel owner and a trump donor before the president appointed him to be them baster to the e.u.

and in fact the white house lawn this today pointed to that last text message defending his intentions saying that cleared him of any wrongdoing but it's also notable that someone sent that text messages just as u.s. media was catching when that all of this was about to be made public because of the whistleblower report come on ok thank you heidi joe castor in capitol hill. now the american tech giant microsoft says a cyber group believed to be linked to the iranian government has tons of those accounts related to the u.s. presidential campaign the company says the cyber group called phosphorus has targeted hundreds of accounts including those of current and former u.s. government officials and journalists over the pedicle in washington on this one patty it sounds interesting tell us more details. well it's interesting in the sense that this is

a much different response ritek company than we saw let's say in the 2016 election this is microsoft saying because this is such an important issue we are going to take this unusual step of notifying people that this is happening again this is microsoft making the claim that they believe this group that they are labeling phosphorus can be linked back to iran and the iranian government important to point out they have not offered any proof of that but the allegation is that it wasn't particularly sist sophisticated attack but that the this group looked at about 24 almost 2700 people and they try to identify information about them their phone numbers what maybe they're in mail addresses were then they tried to hack into those possibly using secondary e-mails that are associated with that account trying to find phone numbers for that 2 part of the authentication that we all have to use now and so they tried this with 2700 different names they targeted according to microsoft to the 141 people and were very successful a least according to microsoft again they're saying that they were able to gain

access to about 4 accounts and they say none of those were related to the presidential campaign still this is obviously something that microsoft is trying to send the message they say that this was a presidential campaign they're not saying which one current former government officials journalists and also prominent iranians living in america so this is a new step we're seeing from the to tech companies but we expect more of this as the election campaign gets underway thank you for the update petticoat in washington for us the hundreds of facebook and instagram accounts pages and groups have all been removed for what the tech giant is calling coordinated in authentic behavior facebook says the accounts run misinformation campaigns mostly targeting the middle east and north africa most supported the u.a.e. saudi arabia and egypt and were critical of qatar iran and turkey dozens talking in tunisia were also removed. now hosts catherine hoping for

a golden night at the world ethics championships here in doha with the preview here is forest. yes kemal it's all eyes on the high jump it's the 1st of 6 titles up for grabs later here at the khalifa international stadium already for it and defending champion motors bar shame is in action right now in the final of the hijab or have the latest on the final conditions for the road races have proved testing for the athletes so far these championships they return later with the men's 20 kilometer walk or also have action from the rugby world cup join us here at the cle for international stadium in about 20 minutes ok look forward to that far is. and still ahead in the news for the 1st time in more than a century an ancient tradition goes back to ethiopia's capital and the conservation efforts that have led to this species making the giant comeback.

hello there we have got some rain across the middle east is know exactly why it's spread you can see where the cloud is across more areas tools east but as we go through the next couple days some rain showers pushing into southern areas of iran and working their way across into southern areas of pakistan as well it's already cooled off quite a bit across much of off ghana's down 20 celsius in kabul and then the clouds and the rain pushes further in the general direction so reading comes the much of central and northern areas of pakistan but drying out across much of iran meanwhile some showers to northern turkey much cooler and on chrome sunday high that of 19 degrees celsius so some nice sunshine in beirut with a high of 29 is still pretty warm across much of the arabian peninsula fairly calm . missions no real strong winds and focus is still feeling quite humid particular

in doha saturday 37 is the high temperature has gone as the clouds along the southern areas of both oman and on into yemen time of july is a sin that i thought is a muscat i recall 30 on sunday and then into southern africa at the time which is a still on the high side 70 calls into had been in johannesburg there is some cloud just a sliding by the south coast 21 is the high that if you cape town on saturday. international trade would you support it having free trade would not change your money or the japanese or chinese dogs or germany controversial immigration policies that anyone who has a well founded euro persecution should be able to comment the wealth minister from syria is closer to the syrian refugees like the buffalo maybe his son goes head to head with syria trumpet fights are still coming this year the trump deficit crossed

a trillion dollars you will be urging everyone not to reelect me from well no not now to calm down. when the news breaks you and i came here to vote in order to get someone who can get this country out of the crisis when people need to be. brought to live a little crossed that border area without that they should just be around as teens on the ground for the last month these have become familiar with the hong kong think about deploying. troops and. on and on line.

here on the news hour here at al-jazeera these are our top stories the speaker of iraq's parliament has within the last 30 minutes given the government 10 days to implement reforms in response to 4 days of unrest across the country but it's 50 iraqis have died and 2 and a half 1000 have been injured members of parliament are big someone to an emergency meeting on saturday as well to address the project's protesters in hong kong appear to be defying a ban on face masks which has come into effect in the last few hours chief executive kerry. announced the ban on friday using a colonial era law which gives her greater freedom to clamp down on the purchase states. and the u.s. state department is facing a deadline to hand over documents relating to the whistleblower complaint to the impeachment inquiry at the same time ukraine's top prosecutor says he will reexamined several criminal cases including a company at the center all for the impeachment firing. a number of syrian rebel factions fighting in merging according to the turkish backed opposition the groups

are joining the national army the main rebel group which is supported by turkey it's a move that may help widen the opposition's influence in a loop simcoe so you has more from the turkish city. close to the syrian border. syrian opposition factions have gathered and split several times so far but they say that this time it is different because for the 1st time free syrian army f.s.a. factions and the national liberation front have gathered under one umbrella national army of syria which is only going to answer to the defense ministry of the syrian opposition run interim government the interim government is a part of the syrian national council which is internationally recognized here they say that their primary principle is to protect their territorial integrity and liberate their soil and we are not sure this shouldn't top up today terror groups ongoing airstrikes by the regime and russia threaten syria's territorial integrity that's why we wanted to boost our resistance against them we merge 2 of our armed

forces this is a message to anyone who threatens us the men of this is to defend liberated areas in the. north west of the country. and we are preparing for the future. of some military operations to the east of structures and we look to the region to the east of river. as a part of syria and we have civilians was kicked out of the region and. it is now important that they go back to their homes the united states sees the syrian the political forces as the primary force in order to fight against iceland 30 claims that it's comments it is a mostly by the y.p. g. forces now these factions believe that they are a union under under one umbrella as the military as an as

a conventional army of the interim government will also challenge the legitimacy of the wife e.g. in the fight against isis also mosco has been pushing turkey for the last 2 years in order to organize a for say factions together under one umbrella now. it's a question the how of the h.t.s. and hey a tough sell will respond to the situation in ad lib as well israeli soldiers opened fire on protesters in gaza killing one and injuring at least 18 others gaza's ministry of health says 28 year old son died after being shot in the chest the friday purchased near it was the latest in 18 months of demonstrations on the border against the israeli siege and a former colleague of the murdered saudi journalist jamal khashoggi says his phone has been hacked for months by saudi memorize the agents the baghdadi worked closely with shoji on arab media projects and is now a democracy activists living in norway shoji was killed by

a saudi hit squad in istanbul just over a year ago a daddy was among several of his friends warned by the cia of potential threats to their lives. now the british prime minister boris johnson insists he will not delay brags that despite his lawyers saying he will comply with the law which calls for the october 31st deadline to be postponed if there's no deal let's try to make some sense of that with felicity on the team in our london news center. very confusing isn't it come all yes papers submitted by the british government to a scottish court reveal that johnson will send a letter to the european union asking for a delay if no deal has been agreed by that the 19th boss in what appears to be a contradiction johnson says the law will not stop the country leaving at the end of october deal or no deal and he backs a campaign has began the lakshman to try to make sure the prime minister follows the north or have judges write to the e.u. on his behalf asking for that extension johnson submitted new proposals to brussels

on wednesday which he hopes will allow britain to lead with the deal at the end of the month on and step the prime minister says that while those proposals will not form the basis of an agreement a deal is still possible. we we recognize that this is a serious proposal from the british but we also acknowledge that there are a number of big problems with us. and so if it is the basis of a stepping stone if you like to a proposal that can be the basis of a deal then i think it's a really good thing of the deepening political turmoil over britain's decision to leave the e.u. is galvanizing the youth vote millions of young people are turning to university and being encouraged to register so they can vote in any upcoming general election or referendum and as there is a haywood reports from southampton. it's an exciting time for new students in southampton at 18 their full of hope and ambition living away from home and with

the prospect of being old enough to vote in any upcoming u.k. election they will starting college like a sporting prepares to leave the e.u. the result of a referendum they were too young to vote. the fact it taken 3 years and like it was now i would have been able to vote whereas like i wasn't able to vote i feel like it's affecting me the people of my vote maybe things may have turned out differently 2 years ago and a void remain but. you're making it so difficult for us please don't think that's emotion you'll stick by this direction of the student leaders are calling on young people to get on the electoral roll so they can vote if there's a general election the u.k. prime minister is reported to have wanted october the 15th as an election days so fewer university students would have had time to register so soon after starting a new term she didn't have such a powerful voice but so often the marginalized it's his disgraceful because it's that you know that the new generation of leaders and they should be having

a say southampton is split politically at the moment so every vote will matter the student population here runs into tens of thousands so if they choose to vote it will have a big impact on the result here if there is an election and of course here in southampton there is a highly marginal constituency at the last election there were just 31 votes in is in 2017 younger people tended to vote and other smaller parties rather than vote conservative the older generation still going to the polls in bigger numbers younger voters are certainly a significant part of the electorate in any forthcoming general election one thing that's important to say though is that as we have an aging population and the rates of turnout still higher among older voters it's easy to over overestimate the extent to which the youth vote is going to swing it in a particular constituency and that sense you know every vote counts when this

generation of students graduate in 2022 the impact of britain's prime departure from the european union on younger people looking for work should be clear i mean he would there in southampton. greece's prime minister has accused turkey of appearing to exploit europe's migrant crisis during a parliamentary debate carry across in its attack it said ankara can and must control migrant flows to the continent's creases only with a rise in the number of people reaching its islands by boat from turkey after a relative 3 year melt the influx has increased the pressure on its overcrowded migrant camps and prompted the new conservative government to announce stricter policies turkey's foreign minister says his country is being unfairly blamed for the refugee crisis because i know that you noticed another letter and fortunately there have been baseless accusations against turkey after there was a small increase crosses the greek islands is the fact that the french president

criticised turkey when he addressed the european council parliamentary assembly is not acceptable as he said of making such accusations we need to see how we can solve the problem together turkey is fulfilling its obligations cyprus is accusing turkey of violating its sovereignty as the dispute over offshore drilling intensifies turkey has sent an oil and gas drilling ship to waters off southern cyprus where greek cypriot authorities have already granted exploration rights to italian and french companies says some of the areas where cyprus is exploring are either on its own continental shelf or in sloan's where turkish cypriots have equal rights with greek cypriots over any finds new says turkey should immediately cease illegal drilling and respect the sovereign rights of cyprus. ukraine says it plans to carry out another prisoner swap with russia next week ukraine's foreign minister

made the comments after a breakthrough in talks between moscow and kiev on thursday they saw dozens of prisoners last month in an effort just for relations which have been frozen since russia annexed crimea from ukraine in 2014 the kremlin has not yet confirmed the plans that said work on a swap was underway both sides are trying to end a 5 year conflicts between government forces and progression rebels in ukraine's east now for the 1st time a quadriplegic person has been able to walk again with the aid of a revenue revolutionary mind controlled exoskeleton researches at the university of her nope in france developed the technology to translate the man's brain waves into mechanical movements the excess skeleton suit is still a prototype but it offers a glimpse of a future where people's brains can help them regain the power of the mint paul brennan has more. 4 years ago this man was paralyzed in

a form even today his spinal cord is too badly damaged to transmit signals from his brain teaser limbs and yet he can war. by using the power of the mind of a 65 kilo x. or skeleton. what was performed was movements of an avatar on screen and an exoskeleton in all 4 limbs and that's new it's never been done from the brain controlling all 4 limbs so that's exciting for this domain of research the test subjects name is cheapo a 28 year old french optician. 2 years ago back in 2017 the researches implanted 2 sensors in to boast skull other side of the sensory motor cortex that's the part of the brain which controls movement of the electrodes detectives brain signals and then a computer algorithm processes those signals and within 350 milliseconds the algorithm translates the brain's electrical impulses directly into this mechanical suit the

excess skeleton tivo moves literally using the power of his mind 1st he practiced on controlling a computer avatar now he's learned to move all 4 limbs of the axis gullets and suit this may look slow and unsteady but in technological terms it's a massive leap forward. the french scientists behind this excess skeleton were not available for interview on friday an official media launch takes place next week. are not new the particular ability assistance has been developing rapidly in recent years but experts say this harnessing brain power is still in its infancy people with very high levels of touch are able to control for example electric wheelchairs by puffing and sucking with a device now so if this brain implant is really to transform and bring the promise of people by their thoughts controlling their mobility and their environment it's quite a long way to go. the road ahead may be long but we journey begins with

a single step. well brennan al-jazeera. truly extraordinary that's it for me on the team in london let's take you back to doha and come up thanks for listening you're wonderful story there now a state of emergency has been declared in ecuador as protesters blocked roads nationwide because of rising petrol prices they suddenly increased when the government scrapped fuel subsidies which have been in place for 40 years and the striking workers say they won't end their blockade until the government reverses its decision the support from to race a. taxi and truck drivers block streets in a quote on thursday. transport unions went on strike to protest the end of subsidies on fuel that have been in place for decades but as i was going over there we can to make it what are we going to eat we don't go out to protest because we want to but we cause it's the need of the people the needle purses hurt their soul

because afterwards things will become more expensive the government announced a package of government fiscal measures worth more than 2000000000 a year precedent many more to know who has said the andean oil producer on a centrist path after years of leftist rule says the limitation of fuel. was necessary to lift the economy and stop. a tax reform plan intended to reduce the fiscal deficit. because of the violence he declared a state of emergency. order to preserve citizen security and prevent chaos we have disposed of the state of exception at the national level rights my friends should be requested without hurting those who are fundamental for the country's progress. under former leftist leader. in 2017 but since then he has become his staunchest critic. market friendly economic policies. in

february governments signed a $4200000000.00 agreement with the international monetary fund but skepticism of the i.m.f. run strong throughout latin america where many blame austerity policies for the economic struggles they face every day they. are exploring the coast of french so part of a campaign to better protect the world's oceans this is the 2nd of his reports from the region. alexi rosenfeld is dived all over the world but this is something new along with his team he's diving where no human has been before we're now 135 kilometers from shore and around 600 from the mouth of the amazon. it's a real challenge to diving conditions and no no no one has ever dived here before

we have to go through a really thick layer of sediment from the amazon mouth this layer is about 20 meters deep and after that it's pitch black until the bottom there is a deep and complex dive careful preparation and double checking of equipment is essential. so there they go and they'll be heading down to a depth of 110 meters which is so deep that i only have 15 minutes on the seabed and in that time they've got to collect samples and send them back up to the surface and then they have to stay in the water submerged for 3 hours to decompress . they drop down. into almost darkness the scene lit by their dive lights at the bottom they have to work fast collecting biological son.