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. 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 the retreat i was going 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 upon us all from the complex that's often also from above while the protesters are fighting against what they see as increasing control from beijing they doubt change will come quickly highlights and i say generally much i look at we know that this will not change the current situation us all as you can see the more peaceful protest is than hard code to test 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 an illegal gathering but also for covering their face scott either al jazeera from the . chinese soldiers also warned protesters or sean that lays. there are lights at

their barracks in hong kong that they could be arrested it was the 1st direct interaction with military forces from the mainland in the city's 4 months of anti-government protests a yellow flag was raised from inside the barracks in tone morning demonstrators that they were breaking the law and that they could be prosecuted. north korea has accused the u.s. of falsely suggesting both sides are open to meeting again one day after it broke off the nuclearization talks in stockholm young young says it will not meet washington for more quote sickening negotiations unless it abandons its hostile policy against the north the chief negotiator kim myong gillis said such saturday's talks broke down because the u.s. came to the negotiating table empty handed washington says the 2 thought sides had good discussions. thing the u.s. 4 people have been killed and 5 wounded in a shooting in kansas city police are still searching for the 2 gunmen they fled

after opening fire inside a members only bar in the early hours of sunday morning the motive remains unclear but police believe it was an isolated incident. in the u.k. there are growing calls for justice for a british teenager killed in a road accident reportedly caused by the wife of a u.s. diplomat 19 year old harry dunn died in august after his motorbike collided with a car which was on the wrong side of the road the american woman who was driving left the country shortly afterwards claiming diplomatic immunity britain's foreign ministry has urged urged the washington to reconsider allowing the woman to use her immunity. sauza as a people have rallied in paris against the new law there will widen access to i.d.f. treatment to lesbian couples and single women under the current french law only heterosexual couples can access the medically assisted reproductive treatment if

the law passes it will bring france in line with other european countries that ash about the reports from paris the demonstration in paris began outside the french senate protesters want senators to change a proposed law the would allow access to i.v.'s for single and gay women not just those in a heterosexual couple they say the french government's new bioethics bill would deprive children of a father and destroy the moral fabric of french society and some worry could be expanded to legalize sarkozy. one of the law doesn't take into account all the right of the child or it future it only accounts for a woman's desire to have a child. it's important to defend the family unit a mother and a father for the balance of french society and for children's welfare the march was peaceful but police officers broke up a small council protest the controversial bill has divided opinion in september

french m.p.'s approved it but only after a fiery debate over the report how dare you decide to inscribe into law that a child be deprived of the father this shocks me yes i'm emotional you are playing with fire these protesters going up access to. women this was a very serious crisis recent immoral to call like many of these people in the street 6 years ago to protest against gay marriage but the supporters of the proposed no they say it would be a victory for women's rights when she reached her mid thirty's benedict wanted to become a mother as a single woman she was unable to access i.v.'s in france so she travelled to denmark and portugal with the treatment is legally of a. to all women i fell out low in my own country because i just wanted a baby. that wright was ok in other european countries but not in france

benedick son is now 14 months old he doesn't have father per se although that mother though and though the fact that he was wanted if the bioethics bill becomes law it will fulfill one of french president emanuel mark ross campaign promises and create hope for single and gay women who dream of becoming a parent but these protesters say they won't give up their battle to protect traditional family values and stop the legislation for being passed. al-jazeera paris thousands of rallied in the ukrainian capital kiev against a plan to hold local elections in the rebel held east protesters say the move is as a major concession to russia here in moscow signed a tentative agreement with the russian backed separatists on tuesday that set a road map for the vote around 13000 people have been killed in the 5 year conflict between separatists and ukrainian troops in the east ukraine's president says the

deal is a vital step towards a peaceful settlement. that for many in the west incomes are stagnant but in russia for the past the 6 years in a row wages have actually been falling it's estimated half of the population around 70000000 people earn less than 5 $150.00 a month that's forced some to take out loans to help with the shortfall but that creates other problems as the vast and reports now from the capital moscow. 4 weeks anastasio your diet has been receiving threatening phone calls that collectors are telling her they will hurt her child or family if she doesn't pay back her loans she lives in a town 2 hours drive from moscow and the salaries there are so low that she can't afford the rent she was offered loans despite being a single mother without a steady job but with high interest rates she's been able to pay them back his chair i am disappointed in myself but it's true that these loans are available to

everyone and it's very bad there are a lot of sad stories i think i managed to do with this emotionally because i have a child and i need to fight for his sake but i heard very tragic stories of people who commit suicide heard a lot of these stories thousands of credit companies have opened up in recent years with many offering so-called fast cash on line a recent survey shows that 39 percent of russians believe they only paid about half what they deserve for the work they perform to help people to get better jobs moscow has started a pilot project that offers advice training and psychological support to 250000 people who have fallen below the government standard of living. the 1st thing we do is to clarify their situation what has happened to them and that their income is lower than the living standard what is their psychological condition their qualification level and if it corresponds with the job market do they have

a motivation and what their needs are but since it opened 3 months ago 22000 people have visited the center most are women staff here say men are less inclined to look for help because they feel poverty as a taboo. that it may put in as promised to have the number of people living below the poverty line by the end the 1st term 5 years from now but some economists say this is unrealistic since the economy has to grow at least 3 times as fast as we able to achieve this and they say low oil prices and sanctions imposed on russia are only part of the problem and structural changes are needed. put in has criticised his government for working too slowly on a national project aimed to increase state spending but even if they are implemented efficiently some economists don't believe they will fix russia's economy problems. what happening isn't reasonable distribution of the revenue

mistakes in the budget planning i think until the paradigm changes the political paradigm and the political paradigm on the top of the will remain at the current level we know that despite all the new national projects the state statistics agency had to report to the level of poverty hasn't decreased but even increased this year when i must see i couldn't see a way of clearing thousands of dollars of debt she decided to look for help on the internet her emotional letter is typical of many that now can be found on russian websites the advice she got is to file for bankruptcy but even if she did that she still need a job that space for a whole one bedroom flat step fastened al-jazeera stooping low russia. libya's u.n. recognize government is calling on the security council to take punitive action against a military commander highly for have tired and countries and support him more than where he'd has more now from tripoli libya's tripoli based foreign ministry is

demanding that the united nations security council to take action against forces loyal to the warlord have for targeting the 2 major airports in the worst of the country namely may to get airport in tripoli and misrata airport in 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 in 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 force to seize 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 a state of panic among civilians we know that hatters forces say that the runways

in the airports in misrata animated 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. protests have been held in the occupied west bank against what activists describe as a cultural acceptance of attacks against women the recent death of a 19 year old palestinian woman in suspicious circumstances has raised concerns about the prevalence of domestic violence in the occupied territories in the abraham reports now from family. stitch most each sima tries 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 daughter. 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 her 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 site these are calling upon the palestinian up to end up with and in the draft law

that has been in the works here aims to provide more protection so that. the palestinian government responded to public pressure with the 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 up 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. one and a half 1000000 students in jordan have returned to school after the teachers' union

announced the end of a month long nationwide strike the deal came after the government began legal steps against the union because they rejected an initial pay increase offer last week teachers had been demanding a 50 percent pay rise which the government had said would put too big a strain on the country's finances the new deal will see salaries rise by up to 60 percent from next year. lots more still to come on this news hour including the end portugal socialists a celebrated election win widely attributed to the country's economic turnaround by the bush fires burning for the last 2 months in parts of australia have started and usually early and the in sport manchester city feel the bite of war so far will have the details coming out.

hello proper autumnal weather is about to turn up in the military in that stormy weather and it's because of this really just like cloud and indeed it is but behind it behind us a cold front therefore there is theoretically and actually a little bit colder now overnight that rain is going to head south it is snow over the alps and then there was cooler air over the adriatic and the central mediterranean and you know what that means thunderstorms aplenty from sudden italy stretching back into north africa and across into greece and probably beyond and sundry weather 10 suggest the potential still for flash floods is colder dryer and sunny air in much of central eastern europe 8 to 11 degrees fairly typically and still in the teens in the west near the atlantic i suppose not quite that cold yet still very breezy and there's the next band of rain is on its way to choose day so the british isles the low countries denmark stretching down to germany well which

time the story weather will spread across to the g.n. up towards the black sea greece looks a bit better and italy looks a bit better because that rain does have the tail end into our area and maybe more specially to d.c. to temperatures come down the potential for flooding comes back and that rain slow moving crossing into libya. when you're from a neighborhood known as a hotbed of radicalism. you have to fight to defy stereotypes. i don't know the meaning all shall join the stories we don't often hear told by the people who live them but in all not only joined one when they. were in a cave and survived the initial. sound of the boxset this is europe i'm out his era

. being located outside that western centric sphere of influence we're able to bring a different perspective to global events when you peel away all of the lists a covert military in the financial dog and you see the people in those words and those policies are affecting see the emotion on the face of the situation they're living in that's when all of us can identify with the story. welcome back here's a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera a 2nd whistleblower has come forward in the impeachment inquiry against u.s.

president donald trump the person's lawyer says his client has firsthand knowledge of some of the allegations made in the old regional complaint iraq's government has denied any of it security forces are fired directly on protesters during 6 days of violent demonstrations this is another 5 people have been confirmed dead in fact that taking the total number killed to $100.00 in. the exit polls show to main religious party and nothing coming a 1st in parliamentary elections just ahead of its main rival the heart of tunisia turnout was low across the country amid growing frustration with the established parties. now to opposition parties have taken the lead in costs of those elections preliminary results show the center left self-determination party 1st with 26 percent and then the center right democratic league of kosovo on 25 percent the snap election was called the following the resignation of former prime minister i

wish i had of the now i he's been summoned to appear before a war crimes court in the hague overspray vs role as one of the commanders of the former kosovo liberation army fit. ok let's go now to yosef shot each in prishtina for a say of so we have the exit polls the 2 parties a very close or what is it likely to mean going forward for the government of course. well and now. almost 80 percent of the votes counted and it shows that these 2 parties will be in the election but that that mission party will be in need at least by how full of the percent. over the 2nd party on the election so they have a deal before the election that the winner will give prime minister in a future of correlation it means a lot of people here because these 2 parties their main program was based on the

economic situation in kosovo which is not good on employment rate is almost 30 percent unemployment with the youth the young people is almost 50 percent and that also has the youngest population in europe. with. usual a prospect of 29 years currently this year so they really focus on economy but the key question is their relations with the serbia. not supporting. the taxes on imported goods from serbia of 100 percent that was. implemented by the prime minister but they say they want to do. with relations with the syllabi on the basis for i suppose it is so what they were simply to do to citizens of course or they will do the same to the citizens of serbia and they are ready they said they are ready for a. dialogue with the serbia but 1st they want to talk with the serbs who lives in

kosovo they want to explain to them that kosovo is independent state that they will be no. change of borders between kosovo and serbia and they're hoping that they will respect it so there are a lot of issues before this future of correlation but we will see how the faster they can form the government and yes of course as as we mentioned dia lection was actually called the because of the resignation of the prime minister on which side of the nie was being summoned to appear at the hague and how did that impact the election and what else do we know about his appearance at the hague. no. not not so much if he was there just for one morning he said he gave his state their intended there is nothing new about that but in that time when that call came of here resigned he said the is bad for image of course of all to have

a president that is such a suspected for war crimes and he was hoping to be prime minister after that he was scoping it will give him strength in these elections but it was miscalculate calculation and tonight he acknowledged that he is defeated and we can say this important that for the 1st time since the kosovo independence in the government of kosovo will be the people who are not members of course the liberation army in a war against serbia in 1990 so it is a time for a new generation the. prime minister candidate of this 2nd party democratic leader of course always the woman there for a 1st time in the course of us history she is a young woman 37 years old and the. atmosphere here tonight these hopeful that course will have a new leader is for a new generations for

a new century you know some reporting there from forseen a yasid thank you. let's go to another election now because exit polls put portugal's ruling socialists on track to win between 34 and 39 percent of the vote prime minister antonio cos the socialists will predict that the come out on top the opposition p.s. the party looks at the coming 2nd winning between 27 and 31 percent of the vote cost us prospects of being helped by portugal's economy which is growing more than the e.u. average thanks partly to a booming twenty's an industry. well vicky pryce is the chief economic advisor to the center for economics and business research and she joins us now in the city of thank you so much for joining us vicky so the whole european scenario hasn't been great in the past few years and portugal is almost an oasis in all of this it was in economic trouble like almost all the other eurozone countries

are certainly in the south it seems to have recovered to see a center left government which seems to be able to stay in place what's it secret what happened when thinking about 40 years of course it was the 2nd country that went to get a bailout after greece and by that time which was early 2011 there was already some support mechanism had been set up there were funds available with greece they had to make it all up as they went along portugal was able to borrow quite a lot of money actually something like 73000000000 euros at the time it had a serious problem with its deficit at the time and what it had to do was abide by quite a lot of very strict conditions it did reasonably well it followed the rules it didn't fight against it it didn't really have to reduce wages hugely like greece had to do and it managed to do recently well because of course in a way it's very close to spain which wasn't doing that well at the time but but at

least the big economy there it was very linked with so the majority of its exports go to spain the majority was imports come from spain in a very very vibrant trade so interestingly enough it managed to exit the bailout in 2014 so we've for the last few years portugal was able to start expanding again if you like you take it easy it's very very tough conditions introduce this deficit from 7 percent where it was in 24 to something like 2 percent now quite a big achievement nothing like this because greece had to do so it was helped by the fact that the you could economy of the time wasn't doing that badly interest rates came down and we had world. trade picking up particularly in 2017 so it found itself in a position where it could benefit from what was going on around europe without extra austerity imposed on it so it did quite well because of this but it is still left with a number of problems we mustn't forget that you mentioned the difficulties of

europe anyway here we are now europe slowing down of course portugal itself having had to borrow quite a lot of money even though it's not paying very much for it in interest rates it has a debt to g.d.p. ratio of about 121 percent it's its overall debt it's about the same in size a little bit smaller than the greek one its economy in terms of population is about the same as in greece so it still is a burden to deal with but it has been able to take part in the european central banks quantitative easing greece isn't being do that some just comparing the 2 so he can see the difference that exists and he said absolutely nobody to supported around it because it doesn't have that type of trade agreement and political does with spain which of course we know spain has been doing very well in the last few years in it's interesting sort of looking at the link between the comics and the political situation always we haven't seen portugal have unlike almost all the other certainly southern countries either a far right or we could call

a populist movement and using the 2 are linked this absolute to i think the financial crisis and everything that happened afterwards particularly of course the eurozone crisis. it did give rise to quite a lot of very extreme right wing parties doing quite well in the opinion polls and then of course quite well in elections but not predominantly so so the interesting things are we haven't had any of them really running the country yes of course you had a bit of that in hungary but if you look at the countries that went through bailouts we haven't really seen that tall so even in greece the right wing party hasn't done particularly well the vexed when we had a very left wing government for a while we had quite left wing governments we do. actually right now rescue me the portuguese results are going to be that way in spain and in portugal we haven't really had any serious populist governance in ireland so despite the fact we've been worried about this and yes indeed some parties across europe which are quite extreme right have collected a lot more votes overrule the whole political balance hasn't changed particularly

and that is quite surprising that the eurozone particular has been able to come out of this without serious populist all right wing governments in place was good to get some some good news out of the eurozone and certainly at the south of the you for now vicky pryce thank you so much thank you. now sri lanka's president my 3 palace city center has decided not to run in the upcoming election citizen his name was not on the list of 41 candidates who applied the court contest than of amber vote he caused a constitutional crisis last year when he sacked and replaced the prime minister a move later overturned by the supreme court has also faced criticism over the government's handling of an intelligence report warning of the easter bomb attacks in saudi arabia says it's working to remove savan from the united states sponsors of terrorism list this is sudan's new prime minister of the law had and the leader

of its sovereign council of the father of boredom visited saudi arabia meeting officials the saudi foreign ministry says it also wants to increase investments in sudan and improve existing projects it has in the country it morgan has more now from sudan's capital khartoum. let's go back to when saddam was placed on this u.s. list of states sponsoring terrorism that happened in 1993 following accusations from the united states of sudan supporting some groups like hezbollah hamas and al qaida which at that time the u.s. deemed as terrorist organizations now saddam had at that time denied the sixty's ation now so do review had come out and said that it is supporting to try and working to try to get today of that list to try to get the country standing back on its feet again and it comes after the prime minister said that today not only needs to get of that list but it also needs other countries to support it with economic development rather than grants like saudi arabia has been doing following the ousting of former president almost bashir in april now the reason why this visit is

significant is because besides bilateral relations the 2 sides will be talking about sudan's involvement in the yemen war where saddam is participating with more than 10000 troops fighting on the side of the united arab emirates coalition side people have said that they don't want saddam participating in this in this war but the transitional government has said that it is up to an elected government which will come in 3 years time to decide whether sudan should continue with that participation or whether the troops should be withdrawn so for the time being the prime minister said that the focus will be on bilateral relations economic and political relations between sudan and saudi arabia and that people are hoping that whatever the outcome of this visit is it will not hinder down a path to so to save all democratic transition. several 1000 african migrants are stuck in limbo in southern mexico they want to get to the united states but mexican border guards have stopped them moving north after pressure from washington to stem

the flow of arrivals from that patrolling chpa state john home and reports i was there protesting because they're stuck african migrants who've made the dangerous journey over thousands of kilometers up through latin america in the hope of reaching the u.s. but instead they've ended up here in tapachula south mexico. mexican government wary of incurring the wrath of american president donald trump won't let them cross the country to get to the u.s. border he's only prepared to let them leave by the south back to guatemala. so for the last 4 months around a 1000 people have come through on the gates of the top or to live migrant the tension center in limbo made out of going to georgetown not even. look at the conditions here it rains every day camped amidst the water the authorities haven't told us anything we're being dehumanised. this bottlenecks being caused by a change of policy in mexico before they give asian and african migrants permission

to cross the country and leave by which have a border they could including the u.s. one i know with the pressure from the states but ended with the hopes of those like 17 year old russo but not his real name thought he was almost there but many he came in through brazil where visa requirement salusa amid the lawless jungle between colombia and panama he lost his father older than the multiple and that's how we were coming down just like. in the steps of it that i did the walk then went to the window that's the way it's looking all the old school still is on the current i know he's frightened to show his identity he says that as a leader he's under watch before i know the authorities of tolerate the presence of the camps that have been occasional brushes i do not. think i was trying to think i was good at it or you know for she was.