underway to iraq where the government is denying accusations its security forces have shot protesters during 6 days of violent demonstrations at least $104.00 people have been killed since the protests began the reuters news agency is reporting 15 people were killed overnight we'll go to baghdad in just a moment but 1st his report. after days of demonstrations across iraq the number of dead continues to rise in the aftermath of the killings iraq's interior ministry pushed back an eyewitness account that security forces by law i mean nation are protesters out of limb cannot take everyone knows there were no armed battles clashes or confrontations between the security forces and the protesters but there were wicked and he knows hands that targeted the victims on both sides when we went and checked the bodies of the martyrs the injuries were in the head or the heart it is clear that the shooting did not take place from a close distance or from the area where the security forces were present

a serious investigation is ongoing to find out who is behind such a wicked and he miss operation. there have been schools casualties of demonstrators vent their anger at a government that's only been in power for just over a year. the protesters are mainly young men youth unemployment has now reached 25 percent according to the world. we the youth are protesting peacefully what do they want from the youth why are they killing us the protesters say they've had enough of a system that they say is corrupt and serving the interests of a few they say they don't support any political parties but that hasn't stopped the political opposition from backing the protesters and calling for new elections i think this is a case of political point scoring this is a systemic issue so when you have parties refusing to take part in parliamentary debates making sure there isn't a core and so they can go ahead this is also that they can pressure on the part

prime minister i did i did many on sunday the iraqi government played 17 reforms covering land redistribution increased welfare payments to those in need and the construction of 100000 new housing units the government launched a program of home demolitions in september targeting makeshift shelters of the poor . the head. u.n. mission to iraq a call for violence to stop in a tweet one of the few international voices to speak up as iraq's bill shore goes to deal with the aftermath of the invasion by the u.s. and its coalition of the willing in 2003. and i've not in non-con in baghdad so iran day 7 of the protests this monday how much momentum is saying still the protests do seem to be getting larger much more vocal despite the fact that the government to shut the internet down here they're getting very little international support and their voices seem to be being stifled and now what we're hearing and

you heard that in the report is that the government and the army are apologies for that we seem to have lost our connection with iran khan in baghdad there hopefully we'll get him back on iran a then. i am they can you hear me as i was talking about the i was talking about the general state of the country and when it comes to the politicians and the army there what they're saying is they're denying that they were targeting protesters all the video that we've seen suggest that they were there was indiscriminate fire also the testimony from the protesters suggest that there was indiscriminate fire the protesters have rejected this statement in chances they've been using overnight no there has been more violence overnight and at least 15 people have been killed thank you for that imran khan live for the forests in baghdad there with the latest on the government anti-government demonstrations there iran can't thank you. plenty more ahead on this hour

including from new zealand to the u.k. primates activists promise a week of chaos square live in london. blasts crisis moment the world health organization meets in manila after a new set up to 11000000 filipino children are at risk of death or disability and find out why an n.b.a. team keeps apologizing to china on that with joe in spain. but 1st to hong kong where protesters have become the 1st people to appear in court to face charges under a controversial on time mosque law they were arrested on saturday shortly after the ban came into effect the government use colonial era emergency regulations to impose the ban by decree and spot another round of unrest in the past 2 days as

mosques protesters faced off with police south clock is across the developments in hong kong joins us now live talk us through 1st what happened in court this morning . what happened in court where there were 2 people who were charged for the 1st people being charged under the anti maslow's 19 year old man and a 3rd yet you old woman that was in the east and much to court now though released on bio but if they do that i'm found guilty they could face to up to one year in jail and they could also be hit with a heavy fine of $3000.00 but as a bit you don't release on bail but place of confirmed 13 others were arrested under the n.t. moscow on friday and saturday to me appeared in court today on monday with i was arrested in colorado on sunday now where we are today but now it's another part transplant for this evening this is at the prince edward imtiaz that's the chinese system here this is where on the 31st of all there's nowhere place a big feast all bonnet behavior and bonnet clashes. with the protests in the m.p.r.

the chinese station which is currently closed at the moment they're leaving flowers and remembering things you've been injured in this particular clash however we have run at the moment the police station which is always a spot where there are still issues between confrontations often bonnet between the police and the protesters so we've got a small gathering here now but the numbers we do expect to pick up the next up 45 minutes when the actual protest here which again people are already some wearing masks some are not but these protests we get under way and are we expecting any violence today i mean today is a holiday in hong kong what sort of preparations up means making. and displaced. it's always. it's always hard to tell particularly at this particular area again because we're so close to the police station the monkey play station at the peak the people here often hurl abuse at the police because they are angry at the place

and again there and he's a member of the violent behavior towards the protests over the last 4 months of demonstrations and when the take us now i bought a number of times here before that simply because of the geography and the why this particular place is planned we've got the protest here we've also got the police action right above me we've already had primates might want to read something i mean for that sarah cop lifeforce you know of course we'll keep an eye on all the developments there with you thank you very much for the moment all right returning now to one of our earliest stories any time and coast guard are saying that a migrant boat has capsized killing at least 9 people had overturned near the island of lampedusa a patrol vessel arrived to rescue those onboard let's bring in. those in tunis what more are you hearing about this. fall it is in use. and shoes are saying today that they believe they were too busy and also involved

in the incidents were. trying to reach the italian island of lampedusa but they don't know for sure whether they were among those arrested by the italian coast guard or those who. lost their lives when the boat capsized it took place at midnight when the boat carrying dozens of migrants was this way to the island of lampedusa but there were very rough weather conditions that and suddenly most of the biography of the pandemonium rushed to one side of the boat that's cup sized polities ballast a risk to $22.00 mine died and and there is the search continues for the missing and over the last few months the number of migrants trying to reach italy has picked up particularly from north africa algeria 2 days in july 82 vibrance died when the boats cup sized off the coast of those these which is

a citizen city in the south of the country raising many concerns about the need to tackle this now when the italian government implemented this hardline approach when it comes to dealing with african migrants to the point where they are fighting and trying to rescue those biogas for up to 50000 a year as it has created a very very delicate situation and with the situation now volatile in libya the concern is that the number of migrants trying to leave libya towards europe is definitely going to further climb in the coming weeks thank you for that. life forests in tunis and as staying in tunisia exit polls out of the country show that the main villages party and how has won the most votes in monday's election but with only 17 percent of the votes counted it could struggle to form a governing coalition for to turn up was at 41 percent reflecting voting

frustration with stablish parties and their failure to solve the economic crisis is just the 2nd time to nations have been able to choose their parliaments since the revolution 8 years ago. now william norrin says professor at george washington university he says despite not his victory its last significant support in recent years. i was surprised that no other did so badly they've gone from 37 to 27 to 17 percent of the vote in the 3 successive parliamentary or constitution some of the elections and that's a significant drop off tunis was founded 3 months ago but it was founded by mr karzai the one in jail who was a founding member of needed tunis so to in some sense since need to tunis got nearly 40 percent the last elections and the party derived from them got only 15 percent i don't see that as a huge success i see that as a bit of a failure to and the next parties are unknown so what we have is a fractured and potentially fractious parliaments coming together to try to solve

huge problems that the government's facing and i'm not so sure it's going to be that easy with such a variety of opinions that will be in the coalition an important step in his upcoming presidential election is underway the candidates are finding new their nominations with the electoral commission in colombo the incumbent president metropolitan areas he now has announced he will not seek another term after 4 years in office a spotty constitutional crisis last year when he sacked and replaced the prime minister the decision was overturned by the supreme court's me now fernandez has more from colombo. a record number of candidates their nominations being accepted 35 of them here at the election commission the office building you see behind me now all eyes on the former defense secretary go to abi rajapaksa when he was handing in his nominations to election officials these papers were accepted the problem being that to go to harvard rajapakse his eligibility has been in question

here obviously law should learn citizenship when he became a u.s. citizen back in 2003 he subsequently also became a dual citizen giving him back issue one can nationality now the recent changes in the constitution does not allow dual citizens to wise for the presidency and go to harvard rajapaksa says that he really nouns his u.s. citizenship but in none of those in this country have seen documentary evidence of that despite the fact that he maintains that he has renounced his citizenship the other main contender sergeant premadasa also speaking to us on his way out saying he's in a hurry to get down to the business of making. better and getting down to the plans he has for this country go to where having essential his own plans and speaking about those but a colorful array from environmentalists a buddhist monk a former army commander among those 35 contenders for the 8 executive presidency of

sri lanka. in kosovo supporters of the self-determination party has celebrating after the opposition party emerged with the most votes in sunday's general election with more than 90 percent of the votes counted results show the center left party in the lead with 26 percent just ahead of the center right democratic leader of kosovo the snap election was called after the resignation of former prime minister . has been summoned to appear before a war crimes court in the hague over his previous role as one of the commanders of the former kosovo liberation army. the palestinian president mahmoud abbas is planning to hold new parliamentary elections he made the play job to meeting senior palestinian leaders in ramallah the vote would notably include all palestinian factions including longtime rival hamas would be the 1st time polls have been held since 2006 but no date has been announced yet it's. israel's foreign minister

israel cause has confirmed his promoting a so-called non-aggression pact with gulf states israeli relations with some arab countries have improved in recent years cast both said on twitter revealing his efforts to normalize economic ties despite a lack of movement on the palestinians really conflict that says the effort by the u.s. is quote historic and was aimed at eventually forging peace agreements between the countries he said he presented the idea to our foreign ministers at the un general assembly meeting in new york 2 weeks ago. but a few moments we'll have the weather with rob but still ahead on the al-jazeera news hour they call the invisible people of care just on we meet the man who is being recognized for giving them an official home and leaping to gold on the final day of the world athletics championships in doha joe have the best of the action coming up in sports do stay with us.

now arraigned yesterday in pakistan it also rained in afghanistan unusual maybe for both countries this time particularly given that that was the scene in kabul that was significant rain that now is probably an indication of the state of the change of season and that's all going to the way we want to get a trace of cloud in the above that is a jet stream and the other side of it is the waiting winter the changes season however at the moment this is today's forecast the sun's out for the most part in afghanistan and in pakistan there's been significant rain in the street as use it runs down the himalayan edge to him in a play and clatter in to nepal but all this is an indication of also the retreating sophos monsoon through india as you know it has become quite significant. the last

few weeks particularly in much of british and maharashtra and there is still the potential for some more rain there but all the whole the thing is shrinking in this direction so that line now more or less goes from kara through the northeast and through bangladesh towards the north east of india and this from here has been rather light in rain this season so it might be topped up now however the floods are receding around by the next couple of days both see the rain still only if south was leafing finally dry weather behind. the weather sponsored by catalonia is. every week a new cycle brings a series of breaking stories in the listening post as we turn the cameras on the media when the entire in service is control much of egyptian media it becomes an extension of the arm of the president and focus on how they report on the stories that matter the most getting an accurate informative story out of there is not easy

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you're watching the news hour on al-jazeera with me fully back to a reminder of our top stories the u.s. has evacuated to observation posts in northeast syria and says american troops want to protect forces a statement from washington seems to acknowledge a turkish plan to launch a major offensive in northern syria. the time coast guard says a migrant boat has capsized killing at least 9 people it overturned near the island of lampedusa. vessel arrived to rescue those on board and japan says it's rescued dozens of north korean fishermen after a collision. a japanese patrol vessel collided with a north korean boat in the waters off the sea of japan it was in the area looking for ships illegally fishing in its waters. now more than 130 climate change protesters have been arrested in

a global demonstration that organizers say will span 60 cities planned by the london based extension rebellion group and he's 21 people have been arrested in london the group is plenty a fortnight of what it cost peaceful civil disobedience brok ing access to keep roads and bridges in cities around the world john hall is live at the climate protests in london jonah tell us about what's happening on the streets 60. hi follett world we are standing in the heart of government in central london here just outside parliament behind me over there is whitehall you can see a protest blockade across whitehall government offices behind it of course the office of the prime minister number 10 downing street behind that i'll move you across over here you can have a look at westminster bridge over there also blockaded there are no cars to be seen lots of police of course and looking down the road there towards millbank similarly one blockade another blockade 30 meters or so behind it another one behind that and

the bridges leading to this area area also blocked effectively the whole of the parliamentary and government area of central central london shut down to traffic this is the of course the reemergence of extinction rebellion the u.k. based group as you said there are sort of umbrella network of climate and environmental action groups highly diffuse from all over the united kingdom all of this happening in conjunction with similar protests as you mentioned in 60 other cities reportedly and they say that they will be here for 2 weeks or until the government meets some of their many demands now you may recall this group 1st emerged about a year ago in october it rose to prominence in april 6 months ago when they blocked a number of central london streets oxford street regent street and so on for about a week there were 1100 arrests at that point this time around they're even more determined they say thousands more are signed up and willing to be arrested up to

5000 people they've told them to refuse bail so that they can try and clog up the city's holding cells and prevent further arrests highly effective this highly determined as i say also highly diffuse because these groups many of them totally autonomous don't know what the others are doing so that even senior members of the extinction rebellion organization say they don't know they can't be sure just how big these demonstrations are going to be. and how words are widespread thank you for joining homelife forests in london meanwhile in australia at least 30 people were arrested in sydney for blocking traffic on a main road near its central train station at least 7 protesters were arrested in brisbane for chaining themselves with rage in new zealand's capital wellington 30 people were arrested for blocking votes on and this in berlin protesters brought the city's iconic figure to victory column ronda bought the arrests and though

police brought access to the 5 roads that feed the round of box returning now to another of our top stories on al-jazeera this hour in japan saying it's rescued dozens of north korean fisherman after a collision at sea let's speak to our correspondent in tokyo fatty salami fatty what more do we know about this incident. yes we are receiving some information that all of the crew members of the korean ship which sank after colliding with japanese ship all of them have been saved and been transmitted to another north korean fishing ship it seems this formation comes from one of japan's local agencies and still not confirmed from. officials here in tokyo. japan is taking this incident but seriously.

any government has said. in the prime minister's headquarters to coordinate this issue as there are more relationships relationships ships korea and it seems that they are very concerned about the timing of this this incident that couldn't be worse than ever because north korea has just threatened. ending its negotiations. session with. the united states in sweden they were threatening of terrible consequences. the end of this session of negotiations so the timing is very bad. seems here the officers in japan very much concerned that maybe north korea could use such an incident to escalate the situation as usual. multiple times the pressure on japan to escalate the situation. to get the negotiators to

negotiate to negotiating table so now we're waiting for more information about the rescue of this crew members which could be a very important step in this situation now thank you very much friday for that update friday salami on the line there from tokyo. returning now to the anti-government protests in iraq. where more than 100 people 104 people have been killed in 7 days of protests by a various groups in iraq demanding better services let's speak now to more yards when da a director foreign relations at the iraqi center for strategic studies is live from amman in jordan thank you very much for being with us we're now what day 7 of these anti-government protests and the death toll keeps rising how long do you expect these demonstrations to continue how much momentum is there still in your view

i think the peak of these demonstrations are already past so we bought it is going down. slightly after yesterday night east baghdad demonstration with sadr city another. young people has been killed total numbers now saying that around 120 already shut down and of our 6000 is has been received injury we don't know yet how many of them were received by unknown groups right under sniper. working freely iraqi government iran arm and says it's a question is not the right the next thing you know me yes let me just ask you about these claims that militias were involved in shooting hero tester's what do you make of those claims because iraqi government says that it's not responsible for shooting the demonstrators who is shooting the 7th street is.

the people already and you know that the government must at times deny and anything about who and where it was doing these kind of ugly actions by snipers or militias let us see who was behind the. destroying of media offices who was behind the snipers sniping the yanks people from highball name while thousands and thousands of police men anti terrorist groups in the city nevertheless this story will never be non. the most important toss at the moment who what what what will be the next step according to activists now start to consult. academics independent. hi stand of the quality people

what they could do it seems there is agreement among the activists that there should be some change in the political system a coalition government around the gun free while modifying the constitutions but i don't generally government so everything on what you have got out once a week now we're referring to is not how we are required just jump in there and something that you just said you say the activists want to change in government but is that going to solve the crisis is that going to resolve all these issues i mean these protests are happening you know it seems almost every year there was bastra last year again this year i mean it's going to keep continuing is changing the government or holding elections really the key to resolving this crisis. yet as we see last a few days the prime minister of the speaker they would like to keep the situation in a corner or sons are allies on economic and social life issues you know

most of us in the city the yanks people are coming in from the poorest areas and therefore they would like not to say anything on a political reform or fighting about corruptions they already started off a lot of promises for jobs for giving them lands and jobs opportunity but we know that the economy of the continent is not helping anyone now that the government not of the people more of our they don't like to be any political changes because the political situation in the middle east in iraq will never help to restore as a new system in iraq let us be very frankly that the iranians are clear they don't like to see any political change in iraq at the moment therefore they are forces their supporters in the iraq war will stop or. demand

a hard in they are all to keep the situation what is because the tuition as it is men while they could offer some kind of tips to those young citu dance or yangon that are jewels oriented boys to keep quiet market we believe that this kind of demotivation will come back again and again until they force the other politicians fills the line and sharing intimate with us thank you so much for being with us our when dolly director foreign relations that iraqi center for strategic studies thank you for your time. and of korea has accused the u.s. so faulty suggesting both nations are open to meeting again a day after it broke off denuclearization talks in sweden pyongyang says it won't meet washington for more sickening negotiations unless it abandons its hostile policy against the north chief negotiator kim yong gale says saturday's talks broke

down because the u.s. came to the negotiating table empty handed washington says the sides the sides had good discussions. a scottish kong court is set to decide if u.k. prime minister boris johnson can be forced to sign an extension letter to prevent a no deal breck's it scottish judges are considering whether johnson could be jailed if he takes the u.k. out of the european union without a deal johnson says he will comply with a new law which forces him to prevent a no deal on october 31st is submitted new proposals on wednesday which he hopes will lead to a deal from britain to leave the european union by that deadline now the philippines government has announced outbreak of polio with 2 confirmed cases it follows breaks of a fever and measles in a span of less than a year and reports from manila. letisha variance eldest grandson alexis is sick with dengue fever and has been in this public hospital for several

weeks now but he isn't the only one. across the hall her 2 other grandsons are also being treated for a measles infection 60 year old prince center and 4 year old james material she says she is somehow grateful that her grandchildren made it to the hospital in time . it has been very difficult seeing my grandsons like this but i have no choice i have to be strong so long as a hospital is just one of the many hospitals where pediatric wards of big overflowing with children sick with infectious diseases the department of health has recorded at least 40000 cases of measles across the country since january and more than 500 patients have died. while the cases of those who have reached more than 270000 with more than

a 1100 dead many of those who died were children but it doesn't end there the government has announced the return of polio type to an incurable disease that was eradicated 19 years ago public trust on vaccine has plummeted according to the global vaccine confidence index from 93 percent now down to 32 percent which means now that only one out of 5 filipinos believe that vaccines are safe. the health secretary says a recent investigation into a vaccination campaign against thank you fever by the public attorney's office is partly to blame for the falling vaccination rates this kind of is best discussed in a scientific or by scientists the profession. us and should not be in

a senate hearing or on television with people who are informed and educated about the issue making definitely requirements the philippine government says it promises to roll larry's series of nationwide immunization programs. but back at the intensive care unit of sunlight as a hospital every 2nd counts there's a sense of urgency here and parents are desperate for their children to recover similarly dugan al-jazeera manila a 2nd whistleblower has come forward in the inquiry against us president donald trump their lawyer says they have 1st hand knowledge.