the extradition laws that have since been scrapped that have now gone into a room into against what seen as beijing's increasing influence to decompile and has more from the territory well this is exactly what the police did not want they cleared this area hours ago from protractors using tear gas and pepper say spray sending protesters dispersing then it up in the heart of ponce the mantle district setting up barricades there once again taking over the streets since then police have again fired tear gas arrested people but the protesters have come back here this has been the scene of most weekends this is how the protesters have been operating with the philosophy the water now this week protesters are angry about the fact that they say hong kong's only democratic process the legislative council elections has been interfered with with beatty from beijing they say the disqualification of democracy icon joshua wong from the legislative council elections is politically motivated and shows that hong kong's autonomy and freedom

is being squeezed. protests today and pakistan where tens of thousands of people are demonstrating against the government and calling on prime minister in long tongue to resign people involved in the so-called freedom march has gathered in islamabad after arriving from towns across the country the group led by a conservative opposition party is angry over pakistan's faltering economy and imran khan's leadership have given him 2 days to step down but he's refused to allow high has the latest from the capital. a day that 2nd broad day most of the protesters are living on the roadside making their own bread and whatever they can find in order to get by most of these people appalled me but who have traveled from all over boggart on from baluchistan province from the khyber book to the wall from the punjab and even interior of then prague and most of these people say that they

will stand behind their leader i'm a lot of older mon and are waiting for him because they have come here. they're determined to stay here for months if they're made to do so all progress on is going through an important part critical political crisis the political instability is going to bite hard into the economy but more to report like growth by august on are fed up with the economic crisis they want clean drinking water they want jobs and they want their children to be able to get a proper education but instead what they're fine is go top leadership richard been taking money from the people and spending it on themselves in exile. it's been almost one year since iran contra causes but he's failed to deliver the prices of basic commodities have skyrocketed and it's hard to live we want change

and we want to now look suddenly god knows but you imran khan has not only been to the. by the day i party but also by all opposition parties one he came through the elections and 2 he didn't fulfill the promise he made that he will provide jobs houses and improve the living standards apply instead he made people jobless and homeless we will stay until he resigns even if he has to stay for months. the next $24.00 to $40.00 or dodd will be critical the leader of the broader role on a $400.00 m. on kerry will make a proper announcement after the deadline. the government of emraan hahn had her day ignored or 2 of their strong broader grades boarded a serious challenge towards government and a miscalculation on their part gordon lead to a major crisis. well there are some of them have a and spoke with a man of the government is committee of a short while ago a son in law says worries about inflation are legitimate but he insists the

pakistan strained economy is on the right track. so far we have heard a lot of bluster from them but it's all a bit considering this we have not made a definitive announcement their mission committee met today and then be open to the need to find out the motorway to be my personal assessment is that it is unlikely to take a turn for the us the man who is leading the charge. the man who defeated him mr dale fought in my brigade my seat is a federal minister he said the good my seat and let's have an election again. as part of the economist and some economy is going through a difficult adjustment period the i.m.f. team is head like now and they have said the economy is on the right track to stabilization it's coming from a very very difficult situation and it's starting to improve so that's the international view about what's happening in parts of the economy which is dramatic he adores me people are body that is inflation that is no doubt about it and that is a slowing down of the economy 2nd order the pakistanis. believe that the problem

that we are facing right now the difficult situation that we're facing right now is that is out of the mistakes made by the boss of government and business is trying to now improve the situation when you go to a stabilization program after a crisis you go through some pain and that's what you're seeing right now but as i said even the international agencies are saying we're starting to move in that i get action. well there's plenty more ahead on this news hour including a u.s. annual terror report says the blockade against katsa is hindering efforts to combat problems in the region. violence and as thousands of protesters keep up pressure on the government and the reigning champion such as a high speed setback in the asia. to 53 soldiers and one civilian have been killed in an attack on

a military base in northeast and mali as happened in an outpost in the minako region and no group has yet claimed responsibility our correspondent has reported extensively in that region and he talks us through the security challenges that. it's very clear that the the campaign that has been going on for years actually since 2012. has failed to to finish those groups there despite the convergence of thousands and thousands of to $5000.00 you have mentioned from the g 5 countries. including mali and 4 other side held countries you have thousands from. you and has all sorts of big existence there un peacekeepers despite those efforts despite those armies it's very clear that that campaign has not given there is the result that were intended and thus probably according to analysts because the intention itself in many accuse those troops

of not really being there only to finish that phenomenon of so-called terrorism in the region but also countries have interests they have interest in staying there for a long time and coordination with them ali in government also is faltering because they accuse the modern government of not doing its share we have seen those defeats after defeats by them against the mali and accusations there that whatever is give whatever is done whatever help is given to the modern army it's not making this army prepared enough to face the threat we also have their vast desert the fact that those thousands and thousands of kilometers of the south hell are uncontrollable those troops or so from foreign countries are not really going out chasing those groups but merely staying in big cities and mainly concerned about their own safety so lots of interest that factors they're playing a role in making this operation very difficult and making it less fruitful. well

the u.s. state department in a new report says attacks in that region the sahara region doubled and 2018 and in that same report it's also accused iran again of being the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism and also praised gulf countries for making progress but says more needs to be done. reports. iran's spends nearly a $1000000000.00 a year supporting what the u.s. describes as terrorist groups that's according to an annual report on terrorism by the u.s. state department. it says iran uses its proxies to expand its influence around the world on the gulf region the report paints a mixed picture it says that despite serious efforts by governments some individuals and groups is still financing attacks in particular it says the u.a.e. government works well with the u.s. intelligence agencies but hasn't done enough to prevent terrorist organizations

from exploiting financial loopholes certainly u.a.e. did not succeed entirely in its pledges did not succeed. in its efforts to eradicate terrorism certainly it had most of its success in preventing attacks in u.a.e. so i seed in that respect but in terms of terror and for terrorist financing back in tin used to flow in the u.a.e. there needs to be a lot more done the state department also says the 29 month blockade imposed on cattle by saudi arabia the u.a.e. bahrain and egypt is hampering regional counter-terrorism efforts u.s. position is very clear and that is that. the gulf reconciliation is a core national security interest and more than that in the state department report i was just released today. specifically stressed that lack of lack of coordination between the g.c.c. actually hampering counterterrorism cooperation in the region as the blockade

continues the u.s. position is that out. pressure on either side would not help the blockade and such regional instability can only add to rising tensions with iran big turia gates and be al jazeera now that report also warns that isola remains a growing and evolving threat globally even though it lost territory in syria earlier i spoke to brett brewer and he's the director he was the director i'm sorry of global engagement in the white house under president obama and is now president of the global situation room and he says i saw stress as now more complex than ever . it really interesting development what you're seeing is racially ethnically motivated both groups and individuals that are taking a page out of the playbook of isis and what did isis do they were able to use propaganda to fill their coffers to fill their rings and that is a path that can be replicated by other groups such as those like the racially and

ethnically motivated individuals and groups i think it is a issue that merits more attention and efforts to combat just taking back territory even the death of al baghdadi does not reduce the significant serious threat that i still poses to the united states to our allies in the region in fact in some ways the threat becomes much more complicated now because you don't have as definite a target it is spreading across the region it is moving into places like africa and it is certainly moving online with greater vigor and greater potency and that could result in terrorist attacks popping up in many places around the world hundreds of people have gathered in the gaza strip for the funeral of a palestinian man killed by an israeli airstrike on that al-shehri. assassinate morning after israel launched air strikes into gaza the military said it was

targeting sites linked to hamas the group that controls the territory israel says 10 rockets were fired from gaza late on friday nights. now in chile protests for social reforms are now entering their 3rd week an estimated $45000.00 people gathered in the capital santiago on friday and another nationwide demonstration as scheduled to begin in just a few hours this time calling for the president's resignation last america. has. a secondary school student leader is seen here being dragged out of his home by security forces without an arrest warrant. another student leader is taken away illegally from her apartment building scenes reminiscent of chile's former military dictatorship. community activist daniel mina has been sleeping in a different place every night since he filed a complaint with chile's human rights institute so for security reasons he asks to

meet us in a park where they would be said to me i was beaten by the police and then they choked me for a long period that was in a 20 or 30 a police station of point 3 out. and some of them he was eventually released but then nearly lost his right eye 10 days ago when he was hit with a lead pellet during another protest you know what i've done. they operated on me here to take out a pellet to hit me here and fortunately stuck in my eye socket and one of the lucky ones who didn't lose his eye are no people who have lost both eyes off to be shot by pellets and tear gas canisters. a mission from the u.n. commission for human rights is in chile investigating hundreds of charges of abuses by security forces from illegal detentions to excessive use of force to torture and rape the amnesty international says they've been scores of complaints of sexual abuses even against minors. committed but you must take into account that many

people are afraid to take legal action against those who may have abused them or family members even after the state of emergency was lifted on. monday the police continue committing human rights violations against peaceful protesters. a member of the human rights institute was shot by police with pellets earlier this week while monitoring a peaceful protest. here in the capital demonstrators commemorated all saints' day with a silent march to protest against those allegedly killed by security forces in the last 2 weeks of social unrest the human rights charges are contributing to mounting calls for president to get his resignation and in an unprecedented move and chile return to democracy and impeachment request has been presented in congress by members of the opposition. authorities insist that with rare exceptions security forces are respecting international protocols. will continue.

seem to indicate otherwise you see a human al-jazeera santiago while still ahead this news hour the day to shine a light on the deaths of jon lester is killed as walk free and unpunished. and sierra leone's illegal mining and the deadly consequences of stripping away nature . in sports fans force again and please top football and to be suspended andy is here with that story. hello the winter chill went through eastern europe through its have crossed turkey less than stay behind and that's the end of the frontal system is not particularly cold nights not to bring any more snow has been a bit in georgia but i think john in this part of iraq is going to be rain the cold

air is tucked a long way north it will keep going eastwards give the western side of the tibetan plateau of the himalayan plateau some snow otherwise which will be about fine weather and still sunshine for the most part nor is it particularly cold is 30 in baghdad is still $22.00 and aleppo and 17 in ankara no cloud in the sky come monday has been a brief change in the weather the humidity is gone from the gulf states particularly encounter with max and have his near 30 than 35 for the most part but it's only a subtle change in the wind direction determines it all this normally changes to an easterly this is come monday so it could be a bit warmer and dusty but probably no more humid and this circulation here this tropical cyclone in the arabian sea will probably stay in the arabian sea but it might throw the potential for storms again afterwards. southern africa is becoming more and more active now not only this cloud has brought rain but it was some has

and useful rain that no longer is it too hot in botswana. rewind returns with a new series and brand new updates on the best of bounty streams don't mention. to. remind continues with renditions inside libya's prison when the rebels came to tripoli they aren't. so she ended with gadhafi regime it was an office of spying chief a best time to stash of documents which reveal the collaboration between british and libyan intelligence services on al-jazeera. from london broadcasts into 2 special guests and conversation they only want to protect life. and we're going to war your your old unprompted uninterrupted black useful for as long as we've been writing about have been labeled as terrorist intimately reflecting on the issues of

our time people like to think that they're not listening is not as brilliant as someone else's national studio unscripted coming soon on al jazeera. top stories this hour a car bombing in the syrian town of tal has killed at least 13 people and left more than 20 injured the town is under control and pres blaming kurdish groups for the attack. at least 125 people have been injured in the iraqi city of basra the country's human rights commission says many were hurt when security forces have to

break up a protest camp hundreds have been blocking roads leading to the ports and several oil fields and tear gas has been fired in hong kong as thousands of people rallied there for. 22nd straight week and antigovernment protesters smashed the windows at the hong kong office of china's show why news agency. every year the united nations sets aside november 2nd as a day to draw attention to the no global conviction rate for mad as a violent crimes against journalists it's estimated that between 262018 more than $1000.00 reports as a media workers were killed around the wild and unesco says almost all mad a case as involving media remain unpunished syria is one of the most dangerous countries to be a channel list at least 144 have been killed best since the start of the war and 2011 that's according to the committee to protect journalists. to speak more about this is and is about what chael she is an impunity campaign consultant for the

committee to protect journalists and she joins us now on skype from manchester as a thank you for joining us i'm looking at a dictionary unesco report that's just been put out and the numbers are pretty stark nearly $500.00 journalists killed between 2014 and 28 to an 18 percent increase compared with the previous 5 year period so things are getting west not better. yes they are. we're coming off of what's been several years of. high numbers of journalists killings and we're seeing these not just in the places of conflict that you highlighted but we're also seeing journalists killed in places that maybe we didn't previously associated as having any kind of. expression crisis like. journalists have been murdered in recent years the european union. we saw.

journalists killed in an avatar in maryland in the u.s. last year so we're seeing not just high numbers but we're just seeing some other. disturbing trends. and there's nothing i want to throw another number at us 191 percent of journalists killed over the past 5 years what is that a shift so people getting killed less and conflict science and actually more domestic. you know i'm afraid it's actually not a shift that is a very consistent statistic for as long as i've been with c b j which is. over 15 years and. so many people don't realize they associates journalists getting killed correct conflicts cases get it with morris mandans. like james foley or recall then but that's actually not the norm we know that it's been for many many years that it's the majority of

journalists who are targeted and killed were murdered are local journalists who are covering local corruption they're criticizing local politicians they're covering crime in mexico so these are journalists who are really really you know focused on trying to expose what's going on in their own communities so it's really wants to see this report also says the killing of female journalists has almost doubled during that same period the 5 years from 2014 why is that. i think that some part of that is maybe that. i suppose you could see it in a positive light in that if you know i think we're seeing more the more journalists in the profession but i think that it is. also reflection of the just the overall increase in danger is indeed in the interest conditions

journalists face and the there are very specific risks that that are associated with gender and being a female journalist that might. have to stand out as a target that rates. that. said think it's some of that is it's something that we're you know because of documenting more carefully as well and elizabeth today is the international day to end impunity for crimes against channel and i record it was established after 2 french journalists were assassinated in mali and that was 6 years ago but their families still don't have any answers today and it's now also been over a year since jamal khashoggi was mad and no concrete on says they either talked to us a little about the prosecution conviction rates were saying. yes so so that is also something that has consistently been alarming it's been between 8590 percent.

for well over a decade and. the you know the reasons for this are there are several but some of it has to do with corruption in the system some of it has to do with weak investigations but a lot of it also has to do with political will there's journalists are often not popular with the authorities so the. there's a lot of reason to suspect why prosecutions don't advance we want to see them but we're also seeing you know. in the 9 or 10 cases that you know is brought to justice. and when we see that alongside the road see it described now as a kind of hostile climate towards journalists who are seeing a leader is. labeled journalist as enemies of the state as the readers of news make after proper marks encouraging rounds against journalists when you have that

coming from one side and then on the other you have this message of impunity that says if you attack a journalist nothing's going to happen it's a shockingly dangerous combination elizabeth which are there from the committee to protect journalists thank you for joining us on al-jazeera now a temporary ban on fracking in the united kingdom is being dismissed as nothing more than an election stunt by the opposition with more on this and the rest of the news from europe let's cross now to lauren taylor. thank you much yes environmental campaigners have welcomed the government's hold on a controversial energy extraction technique after reports raised new concerns about its link to earthquakes but coming a few days into an election campaign led many to jeremy corbin said a conservative government would simply go back on the decision if they were reelected on the december 12th. i think it sounds like fracking would come back on the 13th of december if they were elected back into office we're quite clear we

will end fracking we think it's unnecessary we think it is polluted of ground water systems and also all the evidence from preston you wrote in lancashire is that it's actually dangerous and does cause serious adverse traumas it seems to me like an election stunt i think it's what's called euphemistically a bit of green or. so what exactly is the process of fracking well it taps into oil and gas reserves by drilling deep down into the earth to reach the shale rock before turning and going horizontally for hundreds of meters more the casing of the well is then punctured with explosives and a mixture of water sand and chemicals is forced through the holes at very high pressure this forces the oil and gas out of cracks in rock in the rock before pushing it back up the well so that it can be collected jamie peters is a campaigner on fossil fuels for the environmental group friends of the earth u.k. he welcomes the government move. i think as 3 years ago it wasn't any political

parties who said around to frock and now the liberal democrats agree but green party of always been against the labor of the sort of bomb for uk and drive the tories to this point to the extent david cameron sent and george osborne the up all over c.e.o. gas and no we're a stage where the scene there are drawn from going to seem credible we know there's an election coming up but ultimately people have made the government drop frock in this is been a hard fought of victory and it's testament to these communities across england election or not it's not for obama but it is absolutely a moment to celebrate this saw many people's lives have been taken over with us and history the past few years and it was found on thank you believe me you don't want to be in a stage where we're talking about moratoriums far less in our frock and bad than you carry through banner not a citizen and this or that will be defeated and it's an absolute it's the will at any community house defeats rock and it doesn't matter if it's in lancaster or

argentina our own studio we have to stop perth and the u.k. government been involved in funding fracking operations and walk and worked in argentina is a disgrace and something friends there for competing against as i said the mortal down to front commitment is not here are not anywhere and this industry will be defeated comes as a u.k. citizens assembly has to be formed to help give parliament ideas on how to tackle climate change that is have got out to 30000 households with the aim of finding 110 people who represent a cross-section of the population a citizens assembly as well the key demands of the extinction rebellion protest group which caused major disruption last month assembly has cross party support and will meet over 4 weekends from late january before presenting its findings. a private aid group says an italian offshore supply ship has saved some 200 people making a dangerous mediterranean crossing from north africa the charity alarmed phone says the trenta made the rescue late friday and early saturday it was not yet known

where the refugees and migrants will be taken humanitarian rescue ships need special permission before they can dock in italy but the us with her is a commercial vessel. italian police say they've dismantled an international drug smuggling ring involving $150.00 suspects in europe africa and asia 19 ringleaders have been arrested after a 7 year investigation most of them are from tanzania in eastern africa and they're believed to be directed heroin shipments from asia to italy $144.00 careers have also been arrested and more than $40000000.00 worth of heroin and cocaine recovered since the 1st seizure in the city of peru ger in 2012. on the back with more from london later now it's back to their home thanks very much for a while illegal mining in sierra leone is being blamed for triggering environmental disasters and causing catastrophic loss of life the government is introducing stiff

penalties now for the people behind it but there are fears that it may be too little too late to address reports from freetown. sierra leone's beauty is framed by it and uli to mountains rivers and the atlantic ocean. just to 7 and a half 1000000 people call this hole so also a wide variety of plant and the most we see is but the country's beauty and the tory changing cost mainly because of unrestrained exploitation of the environment in search of natural resources. large scale mining and deforestation have exposed it's fragile ecosystem for the worst thing the country's vulnerability to natural disasters such as floods and mudslides the forests call for. if the big stability for the land structure we don't have huge granites in what we have a lot right rocks and those rights rights rocks are liable to weakness is

when once it is exposed and water gets into it and it happening all over several young from the mountain ranges to the low lying areas then 2 years ago tragedy struck in 2017 this side of sugarloaf mountain broke lose rocks and debris cascaded down the mountain sweeping away homes and people living in them more than a 1000 people were killed hundreds are still missing environmentalist warned that the risk of mudslides happening again is very high but what happened here has failed to discourage developers construction still continues in the shadows of the mountain. with extensive damage already done to the environment government has ordered demolitions and introduced of predators for illegal logging mining and land grabs we have asked people to go to do so much in our communities and see if we can

draw the greenbacks so that people don't go beyond those areas so we are going or that in terms of planning we know what. ground that insurance before you act and the beauty you don't erect your building on water catchment areas in disaster prone areas. but environmentalists say government actions may be too late for some areas and warn of more tragedies if we continue this is going to happen and it will happen again and again on till we just stop the disaster is here and it's going to be we toss it happened very recently last this rainy season and it will happen again. the penalties for environmental destruction are now in place trouble ease demand for housing timber and the money they make remains high but many are still prepared to take the risk degrees. freetown sierra leone now u.s. democratic presidential hopeful

a better iraq has ended his campaign he's been seen as a promising new force in the party after just narrowly losing a senate spot in texas that's a state that's normally fiercely for republican addressing supporters iraq said his campaign did not have the means to move forward but he said he would stay active in the fight to defeat donald trump. in australia according to the government to speak out against recent violence in the indonesian province that they have fled dozens of people have been killed there since mid september with indonesia's government banning foreign journalists and diplomats from visiting the province to help focus attention exiled poplars are put together a book and a music album describing a previous massacre andrew thomas reports. the song commemorates. one. survived in 1908 hundreds of papuans gathered around independence like people had raised about.