during 6 days of violent demonstrations at least 109 people have been killed since tuesday with most of the violence concentrated in the capital baghdad more than 6000 people have been injured imran khan has more from the iraqi capital once again the scene seems to be sent from all clashes between protesters and iraqi security forces we are expecting to see more protests not just in the south of iraq in the center but here in baghdad as well but it's also been a day of politics the iraqi army has said it didn't use live fire against the protesters it didn't used indiscriminate live fire against the protesters i should say however it did say that it would investigate incidents of live fire being used that was a view echoed by the head of the popular mobilization forces who went on to say that actually what was going on was the protesters were being used he didn't say by who to try and topple the iraqi government now we've also heard from

mike pompei or he was on a phone call the u.s. secretary of state he was on a phone call with the prime minister of iraq are all of the mahdi he said. of the mahdi told him that the security situation in iraq was back to normal and he. offered iraq a support however it there's been very little international reaction the u.n. have spoken they've condemned the deaths of the protesters so a lover of the russian foreign minister was here but he didn't mention the protests we went into all instead he talked about an arms deal for iraq so there's been very little international reaction we are expecting more protests to come in the coming hours and the scene does seem to be set there is a normal enormous amount of security out in the streets of baghdad. a series of global protests has seen 250 people arrested at the organizes extension rebellion say the protests will span 60 cities this audit in australia where at least 30

people were arrested in sydney for blocking traffic on a main road central train station at least 7 protesters were arrested in brisbane for chaining themselves to a bridge in new zealand's capital wellington 30 people were arrested for blocking roads near palm minutes protests to across europe in berlin people occupy the city's famous victory column ronda bought nobody's been arrested their police blocked access to the 5 roads that feed the roundabout instead 50 people were arrested in amsterdam and 3 in madrid but as we mentioned most of the arrests by far where in london where extinction rebellion is based at least 135 people have been taken into custody the group wants to achieve net 0 carbon emissions by 2025 let's speak to john a whole who is live in london for us to tell us about what's happening on the streets of london today and how big are the crowds.

hi folley well as you said the latest numbers as of about half an hour ago confirmed both by the organizers here and by the metropolitan police suggest about 138 people have been arrested this no violence this is abundantly peaceful that's really front and central to the ethos of the extinction rebellion movement the maximum a the aim here is to cause maximum disruption and they're really extremely effective at doing that i'll show you the scene looking down there is whitehall you can see a little demonstration over there which is blocked whitehall that's the road that leads to number 10 downing street the bridge over here westminster bridge has been blocked there are no cars on the streets lots of bemused tourists enjoying the car 3 spaces that's millbank blocked as well parliament square here and the police doing what they can with really a very difficult job ahead of them trying to police. these protests because as i said there are just 20 or 30 people over there part of a very diffuse decentralized group they don't answer to a central organizer necessarily if you move those away or they just join another

protest or or start a brand new one we've seen people with their hands glued together we've seen people chained to railings chained to vehicles the police were criticised the last time this happened back in april for being too even handed in allowing it to go on for too long that said they'll be more agile and proactive this time but i can tell you that the great majority of the people out on the streets today are here with sleeping bags and backpacks they're intending to be here for the duration which they hope will be a full fortnight from today the aim journeys to cause my maximum destruction but to what end what are protesters hoping to achieve. this disruption i hope i didn't say destruction maximum disruption look they're trying to get the attention of government essentially here this is about the environment it's about climate change it's about bringing change and effective change to deal with those things they want the government to declare an emergency both on the environment and

on climate and to start doing something about it this is a group that formed a year ago they 1st appeared last october as i say they made a big splash back in april they got an awful lot of publicity for closing down roads in central london for about a week then they were 1100 arrests the organizers say they're up to 5000 people now who are signed up and willing to be arrested for this cause they're not all not all out on the streets today they're going to be sort of drip fed into these rolling protests over the next fortnight a maximum disruption of maximum awareness and particularly aimed at government thank you for that join a whole life for us in london. plenty more ahead on this hour including more street fighting in hong kong as protests shut down much of the city's transit system plus a break fit victory in court for british prime minister boris johnson while i've been in london and find out why and n.b.a. team keeps apologizing to china that's coming up in sports with joe.

the back. so to hong kong where there's been more fighting between a group of protesters and police on the streets but he fired tear gas on a crowd that had formed outside a metro station it follows another round of unrest over the weekend protesters have been defying you on thai facemask rules government use colonial era emergency regulations to impose the ban by decree. live to sour clock who's across all the developments in hong kong for us tell us about what's been happening today sara how tense is the situation compared to previous days. when we're at the prince edward station which is where i am memorials being held for those people who've been injured as well as people coming here to support the protesters who they believe were violently attacked by police on the 31st of august

so in august this year and now that particular rally it was gathering numbers support about $500.00 or so but they started to block some of the streets around us and that's when the right place have moved in and they fought a number of rounds of tear gas at those protesters and those supporters who are rallying here what they described was an unlawful assembly on the bench to clear them out now but they keep coming back and there's also a lot of groups of onlookers this is a quite a. suburban residential area i should say for the it's quite tight the pathway so it's always possible blocked in front of me behind me along this area and that's when the place have moved in again and 5 more rounds of tear gas to try and clear that crowd it certainly was peaceful but these are some of the supporters were hurling abuse at the place because they are angry at the place because i believe that the have acted improperly and violently towards the protesters over the 4 months of demonstrations and talk us through what happened in court earlier this morning. we had 2 people who were the 1st to

be charged under the new anti mosque rules which were introduced under the emergency rules which were enacted on friday by carrie was an 18 year old man and a 38 year old woman now they were released on bail but if they are found guilty they could face up to a year in jail as well as about a $3000.00 fine and that we know that 13 other people have also been charged with those and he moscow's that was on friday and saturday at those other demonstrations over the weekend and now at the moment we've seen some arrests tonight. but yes i'm sure there are some people here that sicko demonstration he did have must have a city has lost the people's assembly defines the place and the government requests to remove the mosque at lodge simply thank you very much for that sour crock lifeforce in hong kong japan says it's rescued dozens of north korean fishermen after a collision see a japanese patrol vessel collided with a north korean boat in the water is in the sea of japan it was in the area looking

for ships illegally fishing is japanese waters 40 salami has more from tokyo now we're getting good information from multiple sources that the number is about 60 members this gives an idea of sites of this fishing boat it's quite large for fishing boats in the area which is open rated to order which is the japan exclusive economic zone and it seems that the japanese ship which is operating under under the ministry of fisheries in japan it's inverted to give several warnings to the north korean ship which was poaching in the area and asked them to go out from the from japan's exclusive economic zone but after they refused we don't have details how this collision happened but it's very clear that the north korean ship sank totally and all of the crew members were in the sea and they

were rescued actually all of them there's confirmation from multiple sources from multiple media sources that all of the crew members were rescued and they have been transported to another north korean ship. a scottish courts has rejected a legal bid to force u.k. prime minister boris johnson to ask for a brick sit delay judges considered whether johnson could be jailed if he takes the u.k. out of the european union without a deal johnson has previously said he will comply with a new law which forces him to prevent a no deal breck said on october 31st he said mid new proposals on wednesday which he hopes will lead to a deal for britain to leave the european union by that deadline paul brennan is across the story for us joins us now live from london so paul what are the judges written ruling say and what does it mean. what the judge has accepted on the face of it is boris johnson's face value essentially the

prime minister had promised the court in written submissions that he would comply with the 2019 ben act the european withdrawal number 2 act and that's despite public utterances from the prime minister to say that he would rather die in a ditch rather than ask for an extension and he said that repeatedly that he will not ask the european union for an extension to delay breck's it past october 31st those 2 statements would appear to be contradictory between the written and the verbal however what the judge panel and in the scottish court of sessions has said is that he is inclined to trust the promises written assurances and i'll give you a couple of quotes from the judgement he said that it would be very destructive of the core principles of constitutional propriety unusual trust that is the bedrock of the relationship between the court and the crown for the prime minister to remain on what they've assured the court they will do now the government had an issue that the judge said an unequivocal assurance that they would comply with the 2090 act and therefore the judge was not persuaded it was necessary to grant the

orders sort that is orders to force the prime minister to write this letter demand asking the european union for an extension so what impact will this have now paul on the u.k. stance in negotiations with the european union. yeah i mean it's interesting on the one level you could say it kind of weakens the prime minister's hand as far as the negotiations go what stage are those negotiations i mean the. u.k.'s negotiators are actually in brussels at the moment but the talks such as they are do not seem to be bearing any fruit the reaction from european sources european officials speaking in brussels has been to dismiss on many levels the british proposals as simply unworkable and i did see some interesting analysis though from the eurasia group this morning and the suggestion was that this was all

part of the prime ministerial strategy to have him draw having self dragged kicking and screaming towards asking for an extension and thereby burnish his own credentials as a breck's it prime minister forced into asking for an extension and thereby he complies with the law but when a general election comes around he capitalizes on the political power if you fact if you like of him having tried but failed to deliver bracks it's a coincidence $17400000.00 that many books is like to quote so from the prime minister's point of view won't harm him according to the eurasia group and some analysts to actually be defeated in this way by the courts thank you for that poll brennan outside the houses of parliament in london thank you very much for that update us president donald trump may be forced to release 8 years of his tax returns after a judge rejected his challenge against their release judge victim that arrow said he cannot endorse trump's quote categorical and minute less

a session of presidential immunity from judicial process that returns are being sought in a criminal probe by the state of new york it's traditional for presidents in the us to release their tax returns but they're not does not actually require them to do so. i time now for a check of the world weather with rob in the u.s. the weather pattern is changing it is in d.v.c. in the solstice go through therefore we should be looking at all to more fall if you like usually brings floods with us just no surprises northern arkansas so this isn't surprising seeing anywhere in the south and stays. that bushy any time but there's a distinct line here which is a frontal system always produced when the temperature difference across it now the remains of summer down here in the bottom right hand corner $28.00 to surge midlands down to romney were in the twenty's or below elsewhere so there's a sort of change in the field the season already the colors the leaves change no regular frost at night they haven't quite come and they're not going to be here so

let's not focus on this let's focus on what's happening the other side that cold front there is bringing in some really big dramatic changes in temperature and weather tight to the northwestern corner of calgary down to minus 3 still freezing brought are we get to wednesday that is incoming snow starting off in canada going cross the border into washington oregon and probably won't turn a quite a significant change if can for the snow congress forecast possibly shows it rather well. thank you very much still ahead on the news hour another whistleblower comes forward in the u.s. to back up accusations in the impeachment inquiry was a lifelong dream the benefits for this woman and her family in the 1st country to iraq 8 this mess. i applaud the committee staff for taking the courage to do it. and we'll tell you how this team showed jumped its way back to

its 1st olympics in 15 years that's coming up and just. one simple mistake could. frenkel. fishing as a deep sea diver carries immense risk to the lives of those winning to take the chance but for former north korean soldiers the opportunity for a prosperous new life in the south with his family was an even bigger risk to take . old marine boy a witness documentary on al-jazeera the story of one of the most successful p.r. campaigns in the us. study after study has demonstrated that israeli perspectives dominate american media coverage part of this case you get through your thick heads hamas a terrorist organization the only thing that you're going to say is what we want

and if you don't say it we're not going to speak it would be very hard for ordinary americans to know that they're being deceived the occupation of the american mind on al-jazeera. welcome back 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 2 observation posts in northeast syria and says american troops want to protect kurdish forces turkey has said it's repairing to launch a major offensive in the region kurdish forces say they will defend themselves iraq's government has denied any of its security forces

a fight directly on protesters during 6 days of violent demonstrations this as another 5 people have been confirmed dead in baghdad and 2 protestors in hong kong have become the 1st people to appear in court to face charges under a controversial on time asked law the government to use colonial era imagines the regulations to impose to ban by decree. now their least 4000000 stateless people in 78 countries across the world by the un says that number could be significantly higher now one man from kyrgyzstan is being recognized for his efforts to tackle the problem hoda abdel-hamid to travel to southern kyrgyzstan to find out what his organisation has achieved. up until last year there was no proof she ever existed with no birth certificate or any other legal document to prove her identity didn't those or should we say grew up in the shadows 1100 without documents you want nothing it's very difficult i couldn't take my children to

hospital because we didn't have i.d.'s now i have a birth certificate i feel equal and they know there is a community living in central asia she inherited her stateless status from her parents and was to make sure her children grow up as fully recognize citizens this piece of paper is the only proof of birth they hold for now people like then those are stateless without any basic rights i describe as national ghost not recognized by any nation a problem do you any agency for refugees says affects millions around the world kyrgyzstan is the 1st country to have eradicated this this starting point is the talent. so i applaud kyrgyzstan for taking the courage to do it. marketing exercise all over the country not be some bits and pieces not partially

but the whole country saw that that's quite amazing there was a political will to do it and the person decided to press down at least 13500 people have now become kyrgyz citizens statelessness became a real problem after the fall of the soviet union in 1901 new borders were drawn and many found themselves on the wrong side of the border or without the proper documents it took people i can read the book anymore from the fair ghana valley lawyers without borders to sky wood a country sometimes remote areas reachable only on horseback to find the thousands of stateless people in need the founder of the organization as it is because true of is no being awarded by do you are in. complex their problem whether they're a defect of status people who had invalid soviet passports or no way to prove where they were born there are also those big wives who automatically lost their

citizenship after 991 it's complicated set up but cooking over is one of them she came to kyrgyzstan as a young bride there were no borders then put on until i only had a piece of paper from the collective farm where i worked which allowed me to go back and forth i was very happy when i got my passport now i get a pension and i have a chance to visit my brothers. and she get past all her characters nationality 2 or grown up son it's difficult to know how many exactly but millions of people around the world still remaining in their lives many going from birth to death without any official trace of their existence but at the summit al-jazeera incident. are less now speak to cower bachelor about this she's a u.n. refugee agency special adviser on statelessness and joins us now live from geneva thank you so much for being with us on al-jazeera we saw a success story there in kyrgyzstan but statelessness is

a problem that seems to be affecting millions of people around the world just how widespread is it and why is it so persistent today. well every country in the world has to decide which people are in the body of such a sense which people are members if you like of the country and so each country faces the risk that they might overlook someone that someone might be marginalised and we unfortunately continue to see this not least because stateless people themselves often live in the shadows they don't have a legal identity they are very fearful frequently to come forward and say that they exist they don't know who to approach so we continue to see the problem of status this both in the extreme as you mentioned the issues of state succession overnight the state moves and everybody on its territory might be at risk of statelessness as

well as all the way to individual cases where a child's birth might not be registered and as a just an oversight they don't get a legal identity and this is what you and h.c.r. is seeking to change to draw an end and i statelessness by 2024 we launched the ib long campaign for this purpose so where a stateless people concentrated mostly today and what is being done to help them. most stateless people that we know of and i have to stress that because it's $78.00 states in the world that report statistics on status people on their territory that's not even half of the state's globality so we know in those 78 states there are almost 4000000 stateless people but we don't know the details for all states globally so this is one of our objectives in the campaign that we have better data

we have statistics from states on who is on their territory and if they're state less what's being done to help them and u.n.h.c.r. this particular responsibility is to advise states to advocate to provide technical and legal advice to go out and find stateless people if that's necessary to encourage tapes of people to come forward once we can identify the problem and the scope of the problem then we can start to be truly effective in solutions and that's what this came campaign is about i'm pleased to say that some states have removed gender discrimination from their nationality laws so that women can convey their nationality to their children that helps to avoid statelessness we've had 24 new excess sions to the statelessness international legal framework this is just in

the 1st 5 years of the campaign today here in geneva we have states organization civil society formerly stateless people we already have over 200 pledges to end a stateless ness by 2024 so the men out of this do that what is the best approach to ending state in this mess is that a trans national approach how are you going about to achieving this objective. i think that's an insightful question because if we if every country does it in isolation always someone will fall through the cracks we live in a world where people move from state to state people marry people from another state children are born every day families expand and so it's very important that states collaborate it's not enough to say well the person might be on my territory

but they weren't born here they're not descended from my nationals they don't have their main links here so i will not give my nationality there's another step needed there and that's to find out well who will we need to work together and we've been extremely pleased and encouraged to see particularly at the regional level a number of efforts to bring states together so that they can discuss who is doing what be sure that their approaches are complimentary and that no one's falling through the cracks and this is what you and h.c.r. is seeking to do at the international level thank you so much for taking the time to speak to us cow by the u.n.h.c.r. special advisor on statelessness joining us on the news from jane thank you for your time. a 2nd whistleblower has come forward in the pietschmann inquiry against us president donald trump and lawyer has now representing both whistleblowers says his new client has spoken to the head of the intelligence community's internal watchdog alan fisher has more from washington. an unusually

low profile we can for president trump despite a new development in the high profile between quality lawyers for the whistleblower who expressed concern about the controversial phone call with the ukrainian president have no confirmed on twitter there is another witness it said this government official has 1st hand knowledge and supports the claims of the force was so blown the new witness is cooperating with the intelligence community's inspector general and the real we can tweet president trump dismiss the news writing they are going to the bench and another whistleblower is coming in from the deep state keep them coming but this weakens one leg of donald trump's defense that the original complaint was based on here see he asked his ukrainian counterpart to investigate one of his political rivals to biden during a call in july he insists he has every right to ask another country to examine wrongdoing involving americans but american law prohibits foreign interference in

presidential elections the whistleblower claimed this was part of a pattern of behavior where the president used his political power to push his personal agenda the white house didn't provide anyone for the sunday political talk shows to defend the president in fact republicans were thin on the ground one who did make an appearance insisted the president did nothing wrong i'm not here defending the president i'm not here to denounce him either what i'm here is telling you my my piece of this puzzle here given you my honest assessment of what i heard how the president told me repeatedly in the may 23rd oval office visit on the phone of the 31st the reason here very legitimate concerns and reservations are ukraine is 1st corruption generalizes in damage we all know that. democrats are pushing ahead with gathering more evidence this coming week insisting it's important to get to the bottom of the allegations i'm deeply scared by the positioning that republicans have chosen to take that interview was just

a giant green light to the president of the united states to continue to solicit foreign interference in u.s. elections he telegraph that he's going to ask china to do the same thing that he asked the ukrainians to do this week because republicans are allowing to are allowing him to do it and this entire country should be scared that in a moment when we need patriots what we're getting is blind partisan loyalty public support for the impeachment of president trump is still under 50 percent here's the thing for him though as more information comes out that number is going up alan fischer al-jazeera washington north korea has accused the u.s. of falsely suggesting both nations are open to meeting again a day after it broke off denuclearization talks in stockholm young young says it won't meet washington for more quote sickening negotiations unless it abandons its hostile policy chief negotiator kim yong gayle said saturday is talks broke down

because the u.s. came to the negotiating table empty handed washington says the 2 sides had good discussions. at least 10 people have been killed and 27 others injured in a suicide bomb attack in afghanistan the bomber targeted a minibus that was carrying recourse of the afghan security forces in the eastern city of jalalabad a local official says they were traveling to the capital kabul at the time of the attack. an important step in sri lanka's upcoming presidential election has begun the candidates filing their nominations at the electoral commission in colombo incumbent president. has announced he will not seek another term after 4 years in office his fault a constitutional crisis last year when he sacked and replaced the prime minister that is was overturned by the supreme court. 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 raj boxes 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 longer 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 now needs 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 that to citizenship the other main contender sergeant prayed with us 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 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 hundreds of traders in the pakistani capital islamabad are protesting against new taxes among the measures is a new rule forcing some customers to produce identity documents to help authorities charge tax evaders but it's angered many has a story. although the government in islamabad great tell you that everything is under control and that the economy's doing well however you see a lot of trade. representatives of their trade and israel who are protesting what they say are enemy policies as far as the business community is concerned they say

that the federal board of revenue quality the north business friendly and they're threatening to stage a sit in here in the heart of it. to make sure their degree even. called around the park found we have the trade is of pakistan and we are running this country we also ready to pay taxes but not at the cost of oil owned businesses as the government is in forcing wrong tax policies which are unacceptable we are demanding the police is sure to be carding. public needs guarding to reality which are facing public they are not missing i don't know why are the rulers. they are sitting in they see rooms and designing the by leases they should come in the ground and market and judge what is happening with the public now the business community and also going to the country's top military chief complaint about what is happening here and how their businesses are being hurt that a report.