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again i missed. a reminder of our top stories this hour turkish forces and kurdish fighters continue to battle in the border town of russell lyon considered a strategic point for both syrian forces moving north and also become a major obstacle attacking. a high level u.s. delegation is on its way to tacky hoping to convince the turkish president to call off his offensive in northeastern syria it's believed vice president mike pence and secretary of state mike compare to try to broker a cease fire. northern islands do you pete has said it cannot support the current plan being worked on by u.k. prime minister barak and the e.u. the d.p. statement comes just hours ahead of a key summit in brussels on the u.k.'s exit from the. well hong kong leader kerry lamb has been shouted down for a 2nd consecutive day in the territories legislature opposition members protested in the chamber and called for her to step down at least 10 people removed by

security lam was trying to answer questions regarding her on your policy address she was forced to deliver that speech through video link on wednesday after the legislative session was cancelled well some pro beijing politicians have condemned the recent protests against them. police think that the homegrown citizens are not is that anyone to use my limbs in any way so we all also know that while this cannot solve any problem still as a legislative council i don't think that any electrical members should use any kind of one that is including. old physical law and stay in the chamber to express their will. correspondent scott hina joins us now live from hong kong scott it was already an embarrassing day for kerry lamb yesterday how did today pass. and this does another embarrassing day is the best way to put it now what's very

exciting is this is supposed to be a question and answer session 90 minutes with those members all members of the legislative council a day after she delivers her policy address this tradition the day after every year she gives the address chief executive gives the address there's a chance to have an exchange with those members of the legislative council obviously that was heated straight from the beginning now if there was interrupted it actually had to come to a halt the session twice much like we saw on wednesday she actually exited the chambers and then came back in and only 3 members of the legislative council got to ask questions of carrie lamb you know most of the. block the pro democracy bloc within the legislative council they were escorted out that's because of what we saw in that video that they were very vocal when she 1st came in and it's going to be a good thing to see how she manages this moving forward you know these are the 2 1st big days if you will of this next session of the legislative council and they couldn't even go through with exactly what they were supposed to do because of this

this anger directed at harry lam inside the chambers and outside the time to scott i believe has been a very violent attack on a pro-democracy activist and it's not the fast time. no it's not jimmy sharon was attacked wednesday evening in the monk cock area of here in hong kong now it was a very brutal attack the assailants they say are so 4 were using hammers he got hit in the head and we know there are reports he got hit in the knees as well he's in stable condition he's issued a couple of statements now he is a very prominent figure with these protest movements over the last more than 4 months he was the organizer of this group that put together the biggest marches that hong kong has seen over the last 4 months plus the biggest marches there were very peaceful you know a 1000000 people plus he is also planning he in the organization are planning one for sunday and actually was supposedly going to a meeting to continue with the planning for that march supposed to take place on

the sunday when he was attacked and as you said this is the 2nd time he's been attacked he was attacked back in august as well this one a little bit more severe but again he hasn't come out personally and spoken to anyone but he's passed messages on through messages the main one he said continue with the march on sunday it's important that we continue with the movement of years and you see because of what has happened if we'll see many more people coming out on sunday it still has yet to be approved by police that is pending at this moment scott out of there for us and live in hong kong thank you scott. form a senior adviser to u.s. secretary of state mike pumpin as the nicest person to testify and the ongoing impeachment inquiry into president donald trump michael mckinley was questioned for 5 hours by house committees after abruptly resigning last week politicians are examining whether trump pressured ukraine to norm's an investigation into joe biden and leading candidate for the 2028 democratic presidential nomination. the president of spain's catalonia region kim torah has called for an immediate halt of

violence that's rocked barcelona for a 3rd night the protests were sparked by the jailing of 9 separatist leaders on monday over their role and catalonia failed independence bid 2 years ago torah says the riots are harming the image of the separatist movement. well mexico's president has called on people to lay down their arms and not solve their problems there through violence to to mass shootings the attacks happened and 2 of mexico's most violent states where rival drug gangs battle for control of smuggling routes they have been almost 30000 murders in the country since under as manual lopez obrador took office and he's found himself forced to defend his security policies reports from mexico city. 2 days of terror have left dozens dead in southwestern mexico.

on monday 14 police officers were killed in the state of michoacan the officers were ambushed by gunmen associated with the hollies school and they were handed a cartel. the families of the lawman blamed regional leaders for the deaths saying local police are under equipped to battle the region's well armed and highly organized criminal groups. yet you sent innocent people to their that why didn't you train them to defend themselves these boys were 18 and 19 years old now dead dead on tuesday a gunfight left another 15 dead this time in the state of good little the incident involved mexican soldiers exchanging gunfire with armed civilians. between 6 and 8 people managed to escape into the bush we are conducting a sweep in cooperation with other security forces deadly incidents like these are becoming increasingly common in mexico i have no no. and to add to the

$27478.00 homicides nationwide since president and that is monday lopez obrador entered office despite the escalation in violence the president insists that advances are being made as if. the past there's a lack of peace in the country but we will achieve it however there is momentum behind this problem it was allowed to grow for far too long but we will find a way to resolve it while the majority of violent deaths are increasing in only a handful of mexican states there has also been an increase in crimes so along with an increase in the perception of insecurity nationwide in a national public security poll conducted by the government in the summer more than 70 percent of people say they consider the city they live in unsafe many here worried 2900 all previous records for homicides nationwide if the current trend of violence continues that may just be the case but ended up in mexico city. the longest serving president in bolivia as history has wrapped up his campaign ahead

of sunday's general election even more as is being challenged by carlos massa who had the country before him from 2003 to 2005 john holman has more from a capital in the past. this is several more or less last push his final campaign event for sunday's election in bolivia is already the longest running the country. is running for a. yucky believe it is good meals today bolivia has to pass return to the past or continue with our change surely we must continue with our change next sunday don't abandon me you have never about me we want to continue working together to show that bolivia is full of hope. people here who support him working him because he's consistently been able to grow the info to me and significantly over the. most awful years listed to be and he's the source of your future

he's also particularly used the country's wealth in natural gas for social programs . has built schools he's made things better it wasn't like up before i met. this guy but this time around he's being pushed harder than ever and that's because many people in bolivia believe he's a roading democracy change the constitution to be able to run again despite a referendum in which would make sure it's a 'd living there are a majority said that they can they don't want the people that don't want to see more of that of the rallies would be hoping that his nearest rival. a centrist candidate will triumph in sunday's election but everwhere ali's remains the clear front runner even if it's predicted to go to a 2nd round. protests. in guinea's capital over a proposed change to the constitution that would allow the president to run for

a 3rd. 81 year old alpha condé is also accused a few winning ethnic tension. a warning you may find disturbing a city divided this is where ethnic windmilling can live side by side in peace and this is where the full on the live. move shouts this paratrooper they're armed with live rounds of ammunition and since the beginning of the protest against president attempt to extend his stay in power the capital's full on the district's look and feel like a war zone security forces are shooting down protesters this is mobile phone footage of mr and mrs bollinger unconscious one was shot in the leg the other had a large rock thrown to her head they were mourning the loss of 2 of their nephews who were shot dead by armed soldiers when they came back after them. they

survived the attack still in grief and seeding with anger. the soldiers told me they are to kill the colonies and that they will kill us one by one the one responsible for this is all fucked all day soldiers are being paid by the president to assess and aid us. of the ethnic majority in guinea never has a felony come to power hundreds of them are being rounded up and arrested because they're protesting against the 81 year old president's attempt to change the constitution and to run for a 3rd mandate. opposition leader chooses the president of fueling ethnic divisions . that we have to fight tribalism in ethnic politics because it's dividing us and it could create so much hatred and violence that it could cause a civil war. the information minister why the government are targeting for money but he would not allow us to broadcast the interview this is

a touchy subject he explained after several days of protests calm has returned in most neighborhoods but not in full on the areas. this is what remains of a military outpost it was burned to the ground by protesters because it's inside a full on the neighborhood now the military has replaced it with this big white tent and they're just behind me keeping a close watch on the situation because earlier on demonstrators threw stones at them they responded by firing shots it's still very much a tense situation here despite calls for dialogue by president. susu in full each ethnic group has its political leader with its own grievances something that president alpha condé will have to address if you want to extend his stay in power and unite a population divided by politics because hawke al jazeera conakry in nigeria at least 2 people have died after an oil tanker crashed into

a market and then exploded the accident happened in the city of on a chat that's about 500 kilometers south of the capital of purchase. now the king of morocco has pardoned a journalist who was sentenced to prison for having an abortion has a right sunni have fiance and 2 doctors had been given a one year jail term human rights activist said the conviction was politically motivated as rice really works for a newspaper which has been critical of the government. hello again i'm the star as you today in doha with the headlines a high level u.s. delegation is on on its way to tacky hoping to convince the turkish president to call off his offensive in northeastern syria it's believed vice president mike pence and secretary of state mike pompei i will try to broker a cease fire meanwhile turkish forces and kurdish fighters continue the battle in

the border town of russell lyon considered a strategic point for both syrian forces moving north of also become a major obstacle for taki northern islands do you pete has said it cannot support the current brics a deal being worked on by british prime minister barnes johnson and the e.u. the e.u. peace statement comes just hours ahead of a key summit in brussels on the u.k.'s exit from the block hong kong leader kerry lamb has been shouted down for a 2nd consecutive day in the territories legislature opposition members protested in the chamber and called for had to step down at least 10 people were moved by security cameras trying to answer questions regarding the annual policy address. a former senior adviser to u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o is the latest person to testify in the ongoing impeachment inquiry into president donald trump michael mckinley was questioned for 5 hours by house committees after abruptly resigning last week politicians are examining whether trump pressured ukraine to launch an investigation into joe biden

a leading candidate for the 2028 democratic presidential nomination. the president of spain's catalonia region kim torah has called for an immediate halt of violence that's rocked barcelona for a 3rd night the protest was sparked by the jailing of 9 separatist leaders on monday over their role in catalonia failed independence bid 2 years ago torah says the riots are harming the image of the separatist movement. in nigeria these 2 people have died after an oil tanker crashed into a market and then exploded the accident happened in the city of our nature that's about a 500 kilometers south of the capital of. the king of morocco has pardoned a journalist who was sentenced to prison for having an abortion. have fiance and 2 doctors had been given a one year jail term human rights activist said the conviction was politically motivated as rice sunni works for a newspaper which has been critical of the government well those are the headlines

do join me for more news here on al-jazeera after inside story do stay with us. we understand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world so no matter where you take it. will bring you the news and current of the matter to. 0. heckled and cheered hong kong as leader faces more calls to step down as politicians disruptor annual policy address can carry lamb hold on to her job and what needs to be done to end 4 months of unrest this is inside story.

hello welcome to the program i'm so hell robin hong kong's chief executive kerri lam is struggling to maintain public order there have been 4 months of antigovernment protests that have turned violent protesters have been calling on lam to resign she's refused hoping to move all with a new legislative agenda but it seems she's struggling to do that as well on dry ground now pay me tell you there's opposition politicians twice shouted down her annual policy speech in the legislative council had to resort to giving a pre recorded address through a video link the protest movement has once again calling on her to meet their demands which include direct elections for the city's leader amnesty for arrested demonstrators and an inquiry into police actions our 5 demands are very

clear not one. and i really urge her if she can't govern hong kong and she has no determination to govern hong kong and she has no ability and even incapable. i mean it's treating hong kong police that town but lam sidestepped these demands and urged people to end the protests. are they the whole we're very wary that a small number of people have escalated the level of violence perhaps some people don't like the government's combination so we must ask what can balance a chief for hong kong and i mean can it solve our crisis or pull a spread their way from michael's urge once again for everyone to cherish the city and that hong kong return to peace like some rights activists have condoned lums address as pointless. i think you've today's most pressing concern isn't addressed along with the fact that carrying arms government has not responded to the people's 5 demands and i think this policy address because no i mean i might be but for 4

months. playing down. for the public. but to get it. to get it for ourselves but it because of. the introduce the panel on today's inside story in hong kong joining us via skype is emily lau chairperson of the international affairs committee of the democratic party welcome in london roderick y. a fellow at the asia pacific program chatham house and also in hong kong ruben want to judge a professor for asian initiatives at the i e s e business school welcome to all of my guests and to you here on inside story just to get a brief snapshot of what we feel about what's been going on in hong kong and i just ask you the generic question 1st the people there have varying opinions about what is going on and how they feel about kerry land as we know it the political divide

could not be wider at this moment in time what do you make a certainly the last few hours that we've seen in the legislature. well as you can see how it's split asunder people are very unhappy and i think many others like me want that situation to stay we're down a carrier that it's just doing the opposite so we don't know where did this and read it's going to end we should see why and london perhaps an impartial view from thousands of miles away certainly what's your view of what's going on at the moment i think it is very difficult still to see a political end to this and surely there were the way forward is through politics because the hong kong government treating this tso only as a law and order issue has has not worked the there is still strong support in hong

kong for the for the changes and reforms and the hong kong government does not appear to be listening ruben lundy a political a political view but with the economic background to your certainly portfolio what do you make of this. well we have to look at this in 2 ways one is the short term and one is the long term the short term there is an anger a seething anger and that has to be addressed quickly and then the long term i think is quite good it will be good for hong kong and china in general so you are looking at the one country 2 systems so there's a target war and what we are seeing is the tension between the one country and 2 systems but when this is over it will be a lesson for china it to us will be a lesson for hong kong indeed i will try and pick all the bases and touch all the bases along this conversation to inside story today only let me just come back to you on wednesday we saw. failed in her attempt to address the

legislature sure on a policy statement yet we have a video recording all of this obviously of what she had to say and she talked about financial help sort of low income families who need better housing and a promise to listening gauge with opposing politicians and the public she said this in a variety of forms i'm paraphrasing here is it enough. well you look at what happened in the legislative council complex if she is students here in wishing to engage with the pro-democracy politicians i don't think they would have treated her like today. there's no injects talking to them and that's why they're so angry just going back to the legislative absolute next tomorrow to answer questions i don't think it will be any different from today this is this is this is crazy she really has to go out and engage and listen to people who have very different lives roger

why in london has has the tipping point been reached to a certain extent for curry land in that so much has happened since what april earlier this year when all of this began with the anger over an extradition legislation that would have maybe taken suspects from hong kong but to the chinese mainland has so much happened in the time span that it's sort of too late to turn back and some new way of being gauging the public has to be thought up beyond carry this is a case that beijing has to get involved in some shape or form or give her guidance at least i think. i'm sure beijing is telling her quite a lot of what to do and say. i think beijing is still very reluctant to be seen to be acting directly on our in this in this matter and prefers to leave it to the hong kong government but behind that a very strong statements that people should not expect that they can get away with

from beijing's point of view that the violence and these kind of things for ever but i think for the moment beijing is not still not interested in involving itself directly affairs to use kerry land and she has. completely failed as emily said to both to engage in anything other than a formal kind of a way and and to listen and more than to listen to respond to the. reasonable requests that have been coming in the past and this failure to listen or respond is exacerbating the violence in hong kong at the moment. you're nodding in agreement but just one quick call to you roderick and it is is kerry land between a rock and a hard place because basically if she then goes into the legislature legislature on thursday as we expect she will and she receives the same sort of reception where

does that leave her because she can't keep getting giving video messages to the whole cold people and certainly to follow politicians who expect to be able to engage even if they disagree with the leader of the administration of the island i think this is the real real problem that hong kong faces at the moment that there is really very little trust in the hong kong government and in and in the police forces but there's also sort of no real avenues for sensible political discussion because as we have seen the sort of legislative council which should be a real debating point. has not been able to do so and part of the reason for that is the intransigence of the hong kong government but part of the reason is also that it's very difficult for the protesters to find a political voice and somehow that needs to happen. bring it here you were nodding in agreement with what project was saying. yeah you know 3 months ago i thought

kerry lamb should stay on to sort of manage what's what's happening but now after 4 months i think she should go and i think now the protesters and also the opposition the democrats in the alleged course should ask beijing to just let her go and replace her with that not the number 2 matthew trying because now she has become a hate figure so the anger has to be solved a psychological so people are very angry just seeing her face so there are actually several people that there are several people that are figures that inspire anger in the protestors that's mrs lamb at the research chain which is the secretary of for justice the secretary for security john lee and the head of the police they should all disappear and be replaced by their number twos just psychologically just to have kind of to quell the current emotional anger of the people and then

carry lunch and say ok i go and then what happens next is for beijing to agree that new faces should appear because some people of the take responsibility for the the past 4 months did this is that this is the this short term you need those real importance of these hate figures indeed are those the talking points that we've said we touched upon in many inside stories because i believe you're smiling away through the response from reuben i do understand because even if kerry lyman her top tier of a government officials step or saeed and you don't have the number twos as is stated taking the position the issue is still is it not about voting one person one vote in voting for the people that you want in charge rather than being imposed upon. by by the leaders in beijing the fundamental issue is still about being able to vote is it not. the people that will administer the island and they should

be the choice of people for the whole cold absolutely right but i agree that these people were made redundant and of course the biggest crisis it's in hong kong in whole history everybody agree this is the biggest crisis and we don't even know when it's going to end so i think those people have to gulp and i fully agree so we should have of course this chief secretary will be acting for 6 months and then we'll have a by election and your rights this committee of 1200 people may need to and from the business and political elite able to choose another one maybe in another kerry land but still whatever make the mistake has to go up and then of course we will also have to address the problem of how to give all got people to right to

choose their chief executive and all members of the legislative council but even then i think this independent inquiry that so many homes of people what whether they are probate jame or democracy many of them support this inquiry which is a very reasonable thing and we've had such inquiries in the past so it's not as if we're asking but independents i think well perhaps but some people have the girl but we still have it in life and of course to hold hold hold office is a city state and can i bring you in here roderick why when you have issues that caroline mentioned today that sort of was trying to appease the public which was about housing about health helping those on low incomes to be able to afford the right type of housing being having a conciliatory nature she actually said that politicians need to be aware of and i paraphrasing here feeling the need of the people the need to be tolerant and open minded and listen to all views. i got

a sense in that speech on wednesday that she was trying certainly to reach out what was your reading of the way that she tried to form ho words for the public in hong kong i think you're right in the sense that she was trying to reach out she was using this idea that there is a strong economic motivation behind the demonstrations and that if you could. satisfy the economic problems then the some of the causes of the grievances would go away but i think that sort of putting the cart before the horse in a way that the problem really is to me is a is a political one it's not a it's not a not an economic one the 2nd thing about listening to the people but we've heard this so many times before and the fact is that although she may listen there is no

evidence really of her properly hearing those voices or responding to them and i think as far as putting a new team in charge is. i mean it that is not going to solve the problem if the new team come up with the same line as the current administration is it's interesting there's various articles being written globally you want to pick a few of them out for the guardian a gentle howard w. french academic and an author he suggested that several decades ago when china began this idea of sort of creating wealth an open market you know it would create a much richer middle class that would maybe tip the pendulum in the future when they would want more participatory. behavior in electing their officials because there was a wealth and therefore strength came with money and therefore democracy or would

would lead people to head in that direction. as it backfired slightly in the way that china's policy has developed over 2030 years that giving people the opportunity to create money create wealth has also said well we want some more say now in politics in democracy inverted commas. yes actually i was i think what is happening in hong kong is a brick cursor for what could happen actually in china later because they are passing precisely through that stage in development in market economics in which after you have already tasted the euro you are the full gamut of the of the basic needs. of. maslow's 5 needs then you want to have a say in how you are governed china that is not shared at that stage but you know for maybe 20 years and the they could be at that stage so is i'm not saying that

they are not heading towards that direction i think that that's we're actually china is heading in these are let's just it's not a question of or now it's hard kong style concern but later it could be china's turn in the let's just give our viewers a little bit more sort of background are we coming back to emily in a moment because we'll take a closer look at the impact of those protests on the whole concept colony because the numbers of visitors to the city fell by nearly 40 percent in august compared to the previous year arrivals from the main tourist market the mainland china dropped by 42 percent no hole calls biggest airline cathay pacific has experienced a string of resignations while some workers have been suspended for taking part in those protests and last month the credit agency fitch lowered hole calls rating it blamed the protests for destabilizing the region's business environment emily can i come back to you because obviously you've got a great sense of history of the politics of the city you know how it operates both

on the civil level and on the economic level. how much of a hit just from a political point of view from your position has have these demonstrations had on the economy of the island we touched upon it not in our news broadcasts as well but also on inside story many times but you know we're in october now we're several months so from down the line from when these protests began.