actually done that he's also promising social reforms this was probably saying economic reforms so it's that kind of language that we're hearing from him that suggests that he is under pressure in the corridors of power they are discussing this idea of an early election now the early election hasn't been confirmed but we're hearing 3 political blocs calling for an early election we're hearing religious parties backing the idea so yes the prime minister seems to be certainly under the most pressure in his prime ministership so far it's actually worth just taking a listen to what he had to say. i'm ready to go with brotherly proteus is stationed and meet them or seen them on voice to other locations in other provinces without any armed forces i will go and meet them without weapons and sit with them for hours to listen to the demands and if this will ease the situation the number 80 to do that in the coming days in the sense we return we call on halting the protests in baghdad streets and also in the provinces and iran

the protest movement itself any sign of slowing down. no in fact actually looks like he's getting bigger as these political parties try and back the protesters certainly within the south itself we've seen very significant overnight demonstrations and protests in fact in nasiriyah and this is very interesting in the protestors burned down the headquarters of all of the political parties and said now syria is now free of political parties that just goes to show you that it's not just the government they're angry right now they're angry with the entire political system here in baghdad we are hearing that protesters are gathering normally what happens is the protesters gather and then they try and get a critical mass of number of people together and they try and march into the center of baghdad and that's really when we see those violent clashes take place so although the protest movement has been going on for 6 days now it doesn't show any

signs of slowing down or what is happening is the protesters are now angry about 2 very different things firstly the very angry about what sparked the initial protest economic situation a lack of jobs opportunity but there are also angry about the heavy handed tactics that the the iraqis have been using against them imran khan from baghdad thank you ron. hong kong protesters of turned out in the thousands to demonstrate against a british colonial era emergency law which has been used to ban face coverings police fired tear gas and threaten to arrest those who shine a laser point is that a chinese army building scott i'd like has more now from hong kong. defying the mask bad and flouting the police who projected approval for their march thousands of hong kong protesters also ignored heavy rain most of them covering their faces beneath a sea of umbrellas this was the 3rd successive day of protests against the mass ban

imposed by chief executive kerry lam she said emergency legislation last invoked during riots 50 years ago was needed after 4 months of protest against her rule the protest continued after the high court rejected an injunction challenging the ban judges say they'll review it later this month. after police blamed vandalism for shutting down the entire system on saturday more than half of all m.t.r. metro stations were closed on sunday. the protests which started peacefully quickly changed those there just to march fled from the front line as demonstrators regarded as hard core began to confront police hurling bricks and rocks at them. their offense met by tear gas the demonstrators forced to head back to where they came from but not just as you can see on a pretty stiff overtreating i what's been happening now a couple of hours into this month that started peacefully but the major confrontation is taking place right around the police headquarters police pontiac

us out from the complex itself and also from above while the protesters are fighting against what they see as increasing control from beijing they doubt change will come with the highlights and i say generally michel look at we know that this will not change the current situation us all as you can see the more peaceful protest is than hot coal to. however i think the meaning of these protests is more important we need to let the government know that we will not surrender. some protesters were arrested and could be charged with not only dissipating it illegal gathering but also would cover their face scotter al-jazeera. here is what's coming up for you on this news hour i just long to baby. by some women's desire to become a mother is causing an uproar in france hoping for a better life in palestine while living in fear survivors of domestic violence

demand. and in support of france clinched their place there would be both cup quarter finals that is coming up but for a lot. of our saying in the 2nd parliamentary election since the revolution 8 years ago sunday's vote is seen as a test of the established parties accused by many of failing to solve the economic crisis a number of newly formed political groups are now trying to gain some support with us now from the distance in capital how are those new parties doing. well come out of the voter turnout has been so far. very isolated 7 percent about 3 hours ago but many people expect that number to further climb later in the

afternoon but it shows a sense of voter apathy a disillusionment with the political establishment there are 2 key contenders in these elections the conservative and not the party which is vying for a larger number of seats of the parliament but he's facing a tough competition from the secular heart of which was found recently by the media tycoon the beatles and recent polls suggest that hard to tease you could win these elections but however no party is going to be able to form a coalition because the heart of tunisia and in this midst teaming up and forming a coalition government. has shown we always used to refer to news here as the success story of the arab spring or at least the country which had gone the furtherest i mean does that still. does that still hold water or does what we see happening into the now show that actually it hasn't gone as well as we might have thought. what is still it's still of the case the e.u.

is still looking at the situation monitoring the situation about tunisia hoping for a smooth transition to democracy and they believe that the fact that you're having elections today and you have a presidential election sunday is an indication that tunisia is considered dating the. democratic gains made after the 2011 revolution but however the remain pretty much concerned about the growing disillusionment of the tennesseans about the political elites and this election in particular has become more about economics people are saying that. the government 8 consecutive governments or 9 consecutive governments that took over a 1011 failed to deliver on the promises they made about improving living conditions reducing the budget deficit and also reducing unemployment and as we speak unemployment is exceeding 15 percent and the inflation is at 7 percent which

means that whatever wins the election whether manages to form a coalition government we have to grapple with the biggest challenge which is basically how to answer the growing demands of the tunisians have the latest on the tunisian elections thank you have. 2 other big votes happening right now as our people in kosovo casting their ballots in a snap parliamentary poll there it was call when prime minister. resigned back in july after being summoned by kosovo's war crimes prosecutor he wants to ask out of the knowledge about his role in the conflict with serb forces 20 years ago polls are just no party would have enough support to form a government on its own and it is general election day in portugal the opinion polls there suggesting the governing socialists could win but without without an outright majority again prime minister antonio costa's minority government has been

backed by 2 far left parties since 2015. there's a protest on the way in paris against a change in the law allowing single and day women to get fertility treatments final parliamentary approval is needed to end the restriction on in-vitro fertilisation treatment i v f which is currently only for women in a heterosexual asian ship conservative and catholic groups in france a medically assisted reproductive treatment deprives children of having a natural father. one of the protests in paris but the details for thousands of people have been marching across paris they are protesting against the french government plans to open up i.d.f. access to women so that would include women and single women at the moment i.d.f. are to treatment is only available to women if they are in a heterosexual couple that want these demonstrators say is that is wrong that is going to erode the traditional family unity scared to deprive children of

a father and they say that in a way it's part of what they see as the moral decline that is happening in front 6 years ago many of these people were in the streets protesting against gay marriage and they're worried that in the future this will signal could be expanded to include sarkozy and that perhaps sarkozy could become legalized by the french state support this no other say it would be a victory for women's rights and for equality a more they say is that it doesn't matter whether a child has a mother and the father because often feast days couples don't stay together for the family unit is a multitude of combinations what they say matters is that a child is wanted and the child is loved. but the recent death of a 19 year old palestinian woman in suspicious circumstances raise concerns about domestic violence in the occupied territory protests have been held against what activists say is a cultural acceptance of attacks against women as needed

a brain now reports stitch by stitch seem to start a different life after escaping her abusive husband and returning to her father's home she says her family locked her in a room and tortured her they didn't want to divorce her. so she set the room on fire i thought to myself if people see the fire and smoke the fire department will come to my rescue i felt like i was dying anyways but luckily i wasn't harmed by the fire after that the police entered to a safe house but many victims of domestic abuse are far from being safe and theory we have a good system that protects women the problem is with implementation and culture some professionals don't have the knowledge required to identify victims of abuse and they don't have the awareness to approach them with him to to take. activists believe the system has already failed including 19 year old disruptor you her family members are accused of beating her to death sparking approved locally and

international. protesters say there is tolerance of violence against women that makes reporting abuse much more difficult since the beginning of the year human rights organizations say 19 women have died in suspicious circumstances through the sometimes these are calling upon the palestinian are to end up with and in the draft law that has been at work here is to provide no protection that. the palestinian government responded to public pressure with a promise to adopt the mosque the current being a law dates back to the 1960 s. and is criticized of being too lenient especially when it comes to perpetrators of violence against women the palestinian president has previously introduced some amendments to the law but polls still exist for wanting women's rights and laws might be controversial in some circles of society and might provoke.

criticism to the p.a. that they try to avoid it back at the house seem has filed for divorce and custody of her children but she can't guarantee she'll be safe once she leaves. the occupied west bank. i mean with us now from me is a gender equality and human rights consultant and the civil society activists thank you for your time need to mentioned in her report that there is a draft law that has been in the works for some time how long are we talking about this and so effectively what i'm asking is how long has this been ignored by those in power. i'm sorry i didn't catch that. well i just wondered about the draft law that talked about in her report she said it's been in place for years but it's never happened why is that why is this not properly been acted on.

i think you are referring to the family protection. as. as well as defined in the broadcast yes it has been under development and discussions and through consultations as some provisions were added to where the other provisions were don't move to not met but until. it is yet to be enacted the family protection better and the main reason behind. that so far it hasn't been a knock on this is of the palestinian legislative council for looking at the division between the west bank and gaza strip. so then do you have any hope that it will become law at some point obviously women are out protesting now though if they want to be heard do you do you feel they will be

heard. it's not just about the protests yes i do believe that the law will be in that target. quite soon hopefully there that has been significant advocacy of women's rights and human rights organizations over the past 6 months 7 years to enact the family protection but now many times and think is this i'd focus our efforts were that in the forms of protests or the form of holding policy meetings or do many other types of engagement with the palestinian government sometimes they would lead to an amendment in the pin the code which was also mentioned. that it poured earlier but the family protection board is here to be in luck because that hasn't been completed consol on its content over the past years now we hope that it will be in the arctic soon

because we have seen significant differences in the approach of this government and its in gauge amount of discipline is about society over the rights groups. formation. in april some are even if the law is enacted if it was an actor tomorrow is the bigger problem not the cultural problem the one which says there is a tolerance of violence against women how do you change that mindset. while i do believe that there in that moment of the law would be a very significant step and that i had that action of course other things will need to complement the stop this was the need for the introduction of a new or piano chords is important even though that has been months about like it was certain that i poured their remains some of the poison that in your opinion

that all appeared on court should be and heard there. additionally. of course there's always the issue of the culture and the occupy and we cannot negate the occupation it to be enforcers proud to be your kid and it dripped reproduces violence in the palestinian society but i do believe that other compliment that it's types who are to be to utilize lation of the media to this some innate culture of gender equality and more strategically the. did leave for them of the palestinian educational system such that. likewise a disseminates that equality principle of concepts to moderates for me joining us from ramallah thank you we do appreciate your time. it is the final day of the world athletics championships here in doha qatar is smiles at the studio and the international. thanks mall we've got 7 titles to be decided here at the stadium

before the curtain comes down on the championships one of the closes finals is expected to be in the 1500 meters one look ahead to the day's action on the road to the last of the insurance races saw goodnight for e.p.o. we'll have a round up from the men's marathon and we'll hear from cattery hurdler merriam for a who's become something of a local hero after competing at these championships also have action from the rugby world have joined us in about 20 minutes looking for to that far and also in the news ahead back in fashion the american brands that are shifting production to bangladesh. a major thomas in australia where recent fall is combined with the worst drought to record having devastating consequences for farmers and it's not even summer yet.

however in eastern iraq and afghanistan there is still cloud produce significant maybe active season rain that is the big of course most of iran is dry but they're all close showing as a live band of parts of egypt for example sauna over turkey the season afterward is slowly changing but the changes are great yes except in turkey the temperatures slowly dropping down in for example i wouldn't they were sent to 20 the bug that stood at 40 and turns going up to 30 so the warm sun prevails there is no particularly strong breeze anyway humidity still fairly hari around the gulf states this green here is telling we've had some good some storms recently in the u.a.e. up to. among the high ground and just across the side of the strait in southern iraq they are easily repeatable during sunday and monday but will probably

disappear after that otherwise little changes the potential of showers in yemen disappears the how do you feel it's going away if it hasn't already left. active whether in the change of season in south africa of coals showers in angola possibly maybe that kind amounts to very little i think of a good part about swapna all south africa but it's quite windy around the cape tickly eastern cape was more rain to come.

the latest news as it breaks this is a consortium made up of various multinational companies from the united states china and europe with detailed coverage the election results will be announced on november the 7th but it's not just important who wins but whether the other candidates and all the other groups accept them and agree to work with them from around the wild both prime ministers modi and khan met separately with the president on trumpet nothing from office to mediate between. you on the news are here at al-jazeera and these are our top stories

a 2nd whistleblower in the impeachment inquiry against president donald trump has come forward and there could still be more a person's lawyer says his client has spoken to the inspector general of the intelligence community iraq's prime minister says he will meet protestors to urge them to stop violent actions as demonstrations now into a 6th day of its 105 people have been killed and more than $4000.00 injured so far . and 2 museums are voting in their 2nd parliamentary election since the revolution 8 years ago sunday's vote is seen as a test of the established parties who've been accused by many of failing to solve these economic crisis. saudi arabia says it is working to remove sudan from the united states sponsors of terrorism list sudan's new prime minister abdullah one doc and the leader of the sovereign council. now in saudi arabia have been meeting officials there the saudi foreign ministry also says it wants to increase investments in sudan and improve existing projects it has in the country or this

one with him or going in khartoum now this is quite a big deal isn't it to try to be removed from the u.s. terrorism list it can change a lot of things. yes indeed now let's go back to when sudan was placed on that list it was placed more than 25 years ago in 1993 after from the u.s. of sudan sponsoring some groups which the u.s. deemed as terror groups like hamas and hezbollah and in the recent general assembly meeting the sudanese prime minister came out and said that it's because of sudan being on that list that sudan is facing economic crisis which led to the toppling of our former president ahmed bashir and which the country continues to face he says that has made dealings between sudan and many foreign countries difficult and made sudan an outcast in the global community and has spoken to many countries and many leaders of many countries to try to get rid of that list so that it can stand

up on its feet once again and we've heard from saudi arabia that they are working to remove saddam off that list so that it can make some progress but we've also heard from the prime minister saying that that is not the only thing needed they say that sudan needs other countries such as saudi arabia which it is it considers an ally to do to support sudan economically with development and not with the grants as saudi arabia had initially been doing when the performer president i'm going to bashir was ousted in april and is saudi arabia already a big investor in sudan i think with a lot of our from tony we usually associate china with the big investment there what about saudi arabia. the prime minister says that he wants a relationship between sudan and other countries including saudi arabia to be based on mutual interest and he says that the relationship between saudi arabia and sudan go back a long way and that saudi arabia basically helped with the sudan's revolution that

was his words during the u.n. general assembly and in the days when he was appointed as prime minister and the days after so there is a lot of involvement a lot of relationships between saudi arabia and most notably and most significant. sudan's involvement in the yemen worth to them has more than $10000.00 soldiers are fighting in yemen for the saudi arabia united arab emirates coalition so it looks like these are things that they will be talking about besides the bilateral relations but it seems that the prime minister is focusing on how relationships between saudi arabia and sudan can get sudan out of its economic troubles as well as getting sudan out of the list of states sponsoring terrorism by the united states very interesting thank you for all that have a morgan how to. libya's internationally recognized government is calling on the u.n. security council to take action against the war khalifa haftar half his forces have attacked 2 major airports since the start of their offensive to seize power in tripoli nearly 6 months ago the attacks on me and mistrusts airports resulted in

deaths and damages half his forces say they were being targeted by jet speeding flowing from those airports the government in tripoli is also calling for measures against countries who have been supporting after more from the one he's in tripoli . libya's tripoli based foreign ministry is demanding the united nations security council to take action against forces loyal to the warlord plea for help for targeting the 2 major airports and the worst of the country namely may to get airport in tripoli and misrata airport and the city of misrata about 200 kilometers to the east from the capital tripoli the foreign ministry is also calling on the security council to hold the countries supporting the health of responsible for the attacks committed by his forces and tripoli we know that egypt and the united arab emirates are major supporters of the world khalifa haftar since have to launch

a military offensive on a part of the 4th to see is the tripoli has warplanes have been targeting the 2 major airports several times causing human casualties in some cases and also damaging the airport facilities and causing state of panic among civilians we know that hatters forces say that the runways and the airports in misrata animated the airports have been used to fly drones and warplanes that have been targeting their locations their locations in southern tripoli and also in al jawf or area in the central deserved of libya. but the trade war between the united states and china is proving to be a bonus for clothes factories in bangladesh some chinese manufacturers are switching their production there but bangladeshi workers say wages and safety standards are still too low the support from tampa choudhry. bangladesh's garment

industry is 2nd largest clothing exporter in the world after china it accounts for 80 percent of the country's total exports and it's expected to benefit the most from the fall out of the u.s. china trade war u.s. retailers are placing more orders with bangladesh to offset increasing tariffs on chinese goods because of the fact that there is now our trade war buyers in the us because of the present age they're looking at this region and bangladesh is certainly one of the beneficiaries of those orders coming in. to avoid the effects of the trade war chinese factories are relocating to elsewhere in asia bangladesh is low wage gives it a competitive edge in this labor intensive industry bangladesh has the most sustainable supply chain currently and we are the most compliant therefore there is no reason for bangladesh not to gain from this from this opportunity but we would

need the help because consistently bangladesh has suffered a decline in prices so we seek the corporation and empathy of the rest of the world a parlor export has boomed in recent years but workers are not satisfied with the new minimum wage set by the government last year president trade war with china is turning out to be a blessing for bangladesh's garment industry which has benefited from a rise in demand for its good but on a recent study 91 percent of the workers said their income is not enough to feed themselves and their families there has been criticism from the workers union and n.g.o.s that the rise in export benefit only the factory owners and international buyers not the workers gloppy part being a garment worker lives with her family in a small one room quarter she struggles with her monthly expenses without her husband's income it would be hard for the family to get by. on

a lot of this it's still very difficult for us i have to spend a considerable amount for my children's school fees and other expenses like medicine food rent and so on although the country's government export to the u.s. market grew in recent months things may not remain so rosy if president trams goes ahead with his plan and impose additional tariffs on app or a limb ports bangladesh already plays 15.3 percent duties to the us amongst the highest of any nation tender child really i'll just. bangladesh. sri lanka's president has decided not to run in the upcoming election my 3 part of that is sena caused a constitutional crisis last year when he sacked and replaced the prime minister but that decision was later overturned by the supreme court he also faced criticism of the government's handling of an intelligence report warning over the easter attacks the next presidential election is due on nov 16th in elfin and as with more

now from colombo. a record 41 candidates posting cash bones for the election head of handing in nominations on monday but the president might be policy received not being among that group now when he believes he's pretty sesar that's former president mind the rajapaksa it was a complete we've where he sort of swept that election saying that he was only in for one term to bring change however his tenure has been fraught with disappointment for sri lankan voters and despite in recent months trying desperately to mount a real action bid to try and garner support for that really action bed president citizen there has been forced to admit that he's not going to make it the sort of reasons for public discontent with the serious in the rule has continued just here

in april we did see those tragic sort of easter bombings the fact that it was sort of a tragedy of huge number of errors that led to that spirit of bomb attacks claiming so many lives was not something that people are willing to forget so this is present serious and as we obviously of realizing and meeting that he's not making going to make it so he's just going to stop with that 1st presidential bid. italian police serve from a large caliber scream house at a private residence the entrance was concealed behind this shower of a house. $500.00 square is a space was filled with tubs of cannabis plants police also found a dollar an ammunition and one suspects that arrested. the bushfires have been burning in parts of australia for a month an unusually early start to the fires because of an extended drought the

worst certainly the southeastern australia has seen in recent years and the thomas has the support now from armidale in new south wales for a month large areas of southeastern australia have been burning a month not at the height of summer but in early spring the reason hot dry conditions and the years of drought there's been so little rain to maurice in the ground and replenish rivers reservoirs and lakes that firefighters are fighting fire largely without water we use minimal water but it's just a matter of breaking up before breaking up the fuel. for. that all because of a drought. vi fighters weren't able to fight the bushfires effectively or quickly enough and nearly hayes parents had hundreds of cows in these fields now the earth is blackened some still smolders 2 weeks after the flames huge losses up

to 20250 cows and they cobbs. heartbreaking absolutely heartbreaking most of the animals bodies haven't been found but some have horribly burnt wild kangaroos also unable to escape. the fires have been devastating to some around here but even for those farmers unaffected by the flames things aren't much better. than hasn't been substantial rain on andrew cameron's cattle and sheep farm since february of 28 seen cameron says the near 2 year drought is the worst on record there we're currently sitting on $100.00 millimeters since january laois run for on record nor a 90 with a bad $424.00 millimeters so we're still a long why belie that with only 3 months of the year to guy less than half of your

worst previous year yes they scurried. without grass in fields farmers have to buy grain and hay to feed their livestock there were straightly as government subsidizes animal feed it still costs farmers like cameron hundreds of thousands of dollars but climate change is making this the new normal and fires in spring something to expect we still have people in the northern hemisphere falling forests was it over there as way starting to come into our season over here in the southern hemisphere what we saw 1015 years ago was a distinct delineation between those seasons and they're saying that they're actually starting to cross over a little bit they could yet cross over more andrew thomas al-jazeera armadale australia. coming up on this news hour far will have action from the rugby world cup with new zealand looking in. for.

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time for sports and we're joining for a linux championships here and. welcome back to the international stadium where the action is about to get underway on the final day of competition we thought so. the titles to be decided one of the closest races is expected to be the men's 1500 meters final canyon timothy chariot looking to go one better than his silver in london 2 years ago also on the track it's the men's 10000 meters final followed by the women's 100 meter hurdles in the field

it's the women's long jump and the men's javelin a last events of don't 2019 are the women's and men's 4 by 400 meter relay he's out of there as raul patrick is with me in the studio now so we've got 7 titles on the final day what can we expect when you talk about one of the closest races said to be the men's 1500 meters probably going to be one of the finals i think all these championships to the tour is the favorites but there's a trio of europeans that could run in close and it's been a long time since the europeans have really sort of really competed against the africans in this events are live and don't ski from poland to sweden. into brixton of norway now his brother was also competing in the 1500 meters and you may remember him from the heats where he actually punched one of the other competitors on the back straight so i'm not expecting any fisticuffs in this race but i expect him to have a very very close one of possibly quite a quick time as well on traditional end for the championships of the 4 by 400 meter

relay but the difference here they would have the mix maybe the fix mix will buy for earlier in the championships that forced the 400 meters for the men's and women's to be pushed back 3 days meaning they've had less recovery time for this event which takes a lot out of the athletes but traditionally the americans always strong in both the men's and women's events and that also be run close by the trinidad and tobago who are the men's defending champions ok great hole looking for a tall van see a fan of the final road race saw ethiopian police said to see so win gold in the men's marathon it's his country's 1st title in the event for 18 years the heat and humidity have been major factors here and as andy richardson reports scientists have been using the conditions to help athletes and. sure of that it's. a test of insurance for the runners a test of nerve for the organizers doha's aircooled khalifa stadium isn't an option for the road races despite a midnight star time high humidity contributed to more than

a 3rd of the field failing to finish last week's women's marathon conditions were kind of for the men's race with humidity below 50 percent. higher humidity what happens is it doesn't allow the body to court so our star mechanism sweating and the evaporation of sweat off the body is your cooling mechanism skin is your largest organ in your body so the ability to cool and evaporate is important higher humidity you're not a bad hurting that sweat off your body. more than 50 competitors at these championships have volunteered to consume electronic capsules which contain the moment says and transmit is to keep a track on a core temperature during events there are also infrared cameras being used during competition to measure the athlete skin temperature. again these are single use their missions it's the sort of information performance experts can use to better prepare athletes 50 races with heat and humidity set to be

a big factor at next year's tokyo olympics months before these championships runners were receiving guidance on what to expect in doha if you're an elite athlete considering the medical setting we have here and if you have if you have previously been through a committee vision i would say yes definitively it's safe because we have all through our nova skating over equipped medical staff and medical plan in this marathon 18 runners fail to finish from a field of 73 out in front it was a sprint finish to the line as ethiopia's lisa decease a one gold in these conditions are not going to produce a personal best in the world records i mean again you've got to be very well trained but. you know again it's part of the sport that's part of what we're facing in durance events and better some around the world so it's part of the new normal. conditions appear to suit deceased he warned in his best time of the season on the

richardson al-jazeera doha. qatar has won 2 medals at these championships but another standout moment for the host country was marion free of competing in the hurdles she spoke to about her experience. i was very proud of. myself done i competed with my job on. it was very. unusual for people from iran around the world to see women compete thing and track and field in iowa and i did the personal bias and was very proud and honored to represent. in qatar and everyone was here even shipped to me. and the emir of the country was it was there and and. then the president commit see everyone supporting me and came and the problem was. maybe i took their last place but i did a personal bias however people congratulated me as if i took the gold leg i was

always impressed. so that's a variant of the variant i think. away from the athletics and france have qualified for the rugby world cup quarter finals after a tight victory over tonga the french were outscored by 3 tries to 2 held on for a 23 points to 21 victory their match with england on saturday will decide who finishes top of the. new zealand have taken a big step towards the knockout stages after thrashing namibia the all blacks ran an 11 tries to win by $71.00 points tonight all clear at the top of the. and the english premier league manchester city suffered a surprise defeat at home to wolves a damn a tree or a scored twice in the final 10 minutes to clinch. city are now 8 points behind

leaders liverpool also one sunday they were wins for arsenal and chelsea. and 10 as novak djokovic has his 4th title of the year the world number one drop just 5 games as he beat. qualifier john millman in the final of the japan open this is the 76th title of his career. and the china open naomi came from a set down to be top seed ashley barty in the final its 3rd title of the year. marc marc has is the moto g.p. champion for a 6th time the spaniard won sunday's race in thailand to wrap up the title it's his 53rd career win and moto g.p. there are still 4 races left this season. and that is all your sport for now will

have more for you from cliff international stadium later on but for now it's back to come all thank you far just time for a couple more stories one and a half 1000000 children in jordan and going back to school for the government's reach to pay deal with striking teachers to end their month long haul count and they getting a 60 percent pay rise starting from next year good news for the education sector in jordan. and finally the world's largest research institute for giant pandas is preparing 3 cubs to be released into the wilds using newly developed training methods to do so the conservation center in southwest china is 1st introduced in cubs to hof wild environments alongside them all this suspected to help diversify and grow their population which is classified as a vulnerable species last year 11 john and as were released into the wild 9 of them survived the world wide population of wild joy and it's at about 18.

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you stand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world. al-jazeera. the. goal. a 2nd whistleblower comes forward and this one has closed hand knowledge of donald trump's phone call with ukraine's president. live from doha and i'm kemal santa maria this is the world news from al-jazeera. more than a 100 people have now been killed so the protests across iraq go into

a 6 day. was released in hong kong fired tear gas at demonstrators and arrested these 50 people who defied a ban on wearing face masks and walking a fine line wind increasing number of russians living in poverty. so the 2nd whistleblowers now come forward in the impeachment inquiry against us president donald trump a lawyer who is representing both people says his client has spoken to the head of the intelligence communities internal watchdog according to the lawyer the new whistleblower has 1st hand knowledge of some of the allegations made in the original complaint that is of course trump accused of using his office to pressure ukraine into investigating his political rival joe biden ahead of next year's presidential election so the lawyer who specializes in intelligence cases has been

on twitter and said i can confirm that my firm and my team represent multiple whistleblowers in connection to the underlying organs 122019 disclosure to the intelligence community inspector general but no further comment at this time let's talk. in washington as she had to guess that the key thing here we discussed this last hour is that it appears to be 1st hand information. right sort of pushback from the white house has been as far as the 1st whistleblower complaint is concerned look this is just some cia officer some member of the deep state who has been told about a conversation by others and then raise the alarm through that whistleblower complaint but it's meaningless we've given you a version of a summary of the conversation there's nothing wrong there's no quid pro quo what's the big deal now we have this 2nd and we should be very clear there's no new whistleblower complaint it's corroboration for the initial whistleblower complaint

but now we have this person who it appears. actually to go back a little bit and when the initial whistleblower came forward they gave that complaint to the inspector general for the intelligence community who then did a bit of an investigation to try to corroborate the findings to see whether it's worth them passing on to the director of national intelligence who then is supposed to give the congress controversial of course that didn't happen so what would i think what we're understanding now is that is a bit more of that process of this part of that an issue attempt by the inspector general they spoke to other witnesses who said yeah actually we corroborate that this is who this person is now the fact that this whistle blow up or this person being presented as another whistleblower is being represented by legal counsel may have significance moving forward in the process but right now what we're talking about is corroboration of that initial whistleblower complaint about what concerns the president trump was improperly using the office of the presidency to try and get ukraine to have some sort of role in the 2020 presidential election by

investigating a potential opponent joe biden and his son just having a way look at what if they get the momentum he has been tweeting but i notice it's more. trying to change the narrative to be all about hey let's actually be investigating as he calls them sleepy joe biden right there that is key as far as the president is concerned. and those who support his his position there's nothing wrong with asking a foreign power to help in an investigation that may uncover criminal wrongdoing that's actually part of what presidents do look if there is investigation and there is currently a there's an investigation currently official d.o.j. department just investigation into the origins of the russia gate and how this how russia could actually began given that so much of it turned out not to pan out in the report meanwhile it also seems there's some sort of power parallel investigation led by rudolph giuliani donald trump's personal lawyer into

allegations of corruption in leveled against joe biden now this tweet that we had just a few a few minutes ago actually from donald trump is very is very revealing it's incredible to watch and read the fake news and how they put out all the stops to protect sleepy joe biden and his throwing out of the military son hunter who was handed $100000.00 a month brackets plus plus from a ukrainian based company even though he had no experience in energy and separately got $1500000000.00 from china despite no experience and for no apparent reason there is no way these can be legitimate transactions as lawyers others have stated as president i have an obligation to look into possible probable corruption say saying look it's my job and look you don't have to be donald trump and a lot of democrats also have been uneasy about joe biden now this initial initial complaint was over joe biden got a prosecutor who was looking into these transactions that turned out not to be true but it does seem at the very least unseemly that joe biden's son was receiving money from a ukrainian ukrainian energy for $50000.00

a month actually at the most while joe biden was in charge of ukrainian policy so he's sticking to what appears to be to be something that is wrong that effect of the others plank of donald trump's don't trump augment by which it was another tweet last night as far as the 2nd whistleblower is concerned is that this is all despite another part of the deep state another person of the intelligence community they don't like me they've never liked me because i've always said they were wrong about iraq and so on so it's all part of a big conspiracy so it's pretty clear what the double trouble you it is no thank you she has her tansey in washington. to other news iraq's prime minister has promised to meet anti-government protesters in response to days of unrest that's now killed at least 104 people thousands of demonstrators have been demanding jobs better public services an end to corruption and early the speaker of parliament even threaten to join the protests if action wasn't taken on tunnels go from baghdad. iraqi progress to the mahdi seems to be under

a tremendous amount of pressure within the corridors of power there is a significant move to try and call for elections he's only been in power for a year and he's tried to appeal for calm over the last few days just a few days ago he was saying that he needed time to try and mount a cabinet reshuffle to try to address some of the protesters demands that hasn't worked and protests are still ongoing and they seem to be getting larger particularly in the south of the country and in the center of the country now he's also been speaking very recently in the last 12 hours where he's been talking about the protest movement itself that's interesting he's actually addressed the issue of life eye on the protesters he said what's going on is that the security forces only fire when they come under threat that is being rubbished by the protesters who say the security forces are actually firing indiscriminately he also addressed the protesters concerns and said i'm going to go and i'll sit with them and i'll listen

to them it's actually worth taking a look at what he had to say. i'm ready to go with broadly proteus is stationed and meet them or seen them on boys to other locations in other provinces without any armed forces i will go and meet them without weapons and sit with them for hours to listen to the demands and if this will ease the situation the number 80 to do that in the coming days in the sense we return we call on halting the protests in baghdad streets and also in the provinces. so that's the problem is that they're addressing the concerns of the protesters however we are hearing that the protest movement will continue i was out on the streets of baghdad in tucker a square the focal point on sunday afternoon what i saw was a tremendous amount of security i was also hearing that protesters were gathering in small number around the streets of baghdad so once again we are likely to say numbers of protesters out on the street and some and see some more of those violent clashes that we witnessing over the last 6 days. hong kong protesters have turned

out in their thousands to demonstrate against a british colonial era emergency law which has been used to ban face coverings police fired tear gas and threaten to arrest those who shined laser point is at a chinese ami building scott hardly has more from hong kong. defying the mask ban and flouting the police who projected approval for their march thousands of hong kong protesters also ignored heavy rain most of them covering their faces beneath a sea of umbrellas this was the 3rd successive day of protests against the mass ban imposed by chief executive kerry lam she said emergency legislation last invoked during riots 50 years ago was needed after 4 months of protest against her rule the protest continued after the high court rejected an injunction challenging the ban judges say they'll review it later this month was after police blamed vandalism for

shutting down the entire system on saturday more than half of all m.t.r. metro stations were closed on sunday. the protests which started peacefully quickly changed those there just to march fled from the front line as demonstrators regarded as hard core began to confront police hurling bricks and rocks at. their offense met by tear gas the demonstrators forced to head back to where they came from the pot just as you can see on a pretty stiff that were. what's been happening now a couple of hours into this market started peacefully but the major confrontation is taking place right around the police headquarters. from the power. while the protesters are fighting against what they see as increasing control from beijing they doubt change will come with time i don't know such a totally magical look we know that this will not change the current situation at all as you can see there are more peaceful protesters than hot cold protest his

however i think the meaning of these protests is more important we need to let the government know that we will not surrender. so protesters were arrested and could be charged with not only participating in it illegal gathering but also recovering their face scott had an al-jazeera home. and in what might be the 1st direct involvement spied china's people's liberation army in the protests a yellow flag has been seen within the army barracks in cow loon tongue though it's warm demonstrators they were breaking the law and could be prosecuted sri lanka's president has decided not to run in the country's upcoming election might their policy to send a sparked a constitutional crisis last year when he sacked and replaced the prime minister a decision that was later overturned by the supreme court he also faced criticism over the government's handling of an intelligence report warning of the attacks

that happened in east the next presidential election is june of ember 16th here is mel fernandez in columbia. a record $41.00 candidates posting cash bond for the election ahead of handing in nominations on monday but the president might be policy to say in a not being among that group now when he beat his pretty set that former president mind the rajapaksa it was a complete we where he sort of swept that election saying that he was only in for one term to bring change however his tenure has been fraught with disappointment for sri lankan voters and despite in recent months.