exposing deep rules in denmark's adoption system and. the. girl in return a witness documentary on al-jazeera. deepening anger against police in hong kong as a student danger during demonstrations dies in hospital. fully back to you watching al-jazeera live from my headquarters in doha also coming up the high cost of calling for change at least 10 protesters are killed in iraq by security forces. chile's president announces new measures to crack down on violent protests and another no show the

former u.s. national security advisor refuses to testify in the impeachment inquiry against donald trump. thank you for joining us protesters in hong kong are calling for a citywide vigil after a student died students gathered at a memorial to mourn child who fell from a building during a protest on monday he died in hospital on friday on thai government protests have been ongoing in hong kong for 5 months said speak to sour who's live for us now in hong kong sar what more do we know about the circumstances of this student's death what are police or the government saying about. this with hospital here in hong kong confirmed his death this morning which is friday here that he had a brain injury underwent to a corrections since. full on monday morning very early on monday morning from that

cop hock at the smalling on friday he had a cardiac arrest and died now as you mentioned some the circumstances of how he fell you mention this earlier but he fell from the 3rd floor to the 2nd floor in a cop park in this was during a particular protest and during the dispersal operation by police at the angle here from these students and from the protest movement that they're accusing the police of failing to and here to these guidelines during this dispersal operation and as a result this particular fellow the 22 year old student fell as a result you mentioned that's a memorial happening here where we are which is the university he attended he was a 22 year old student doing a computer science undergraduate at the hong kong university of science and technology now today's graduation day here in hong kong at this particular campus and at that particular graduation a number of those students have joined this memorial to pay tribute to this particular student who died on friday now the head of macho earlier down to the vice chancellors office where they've actually graffitied his office or the

exterior of his office that now marched up behind me and they're now basically vandalizing graffiti and trying to attack and damage some of the operations on campus that are affiliated with mainland groups or certainly a chinese operation so certainly there's been a lot of mourning here in hong kong and a memorial but there's also anger from the friends and colleagues of this 22 year old student i was going to ask you about the impact this death is likely to have on the protest movement which has been going on for what 5 months now how is it likely to continue. we're looking at some of the you were talking to some of these students here today on friday that this of course my anger escalate this movement of the coming weekend where we have more protests planned now as i mentioned the anger towards police has been growing over the 5 months of these protests and no doubt this weekend. people my lockley or hot were highly likely to join these

protests were just scattered across saturday and sunday now the government has issued a statement it said it's expressing deep sorrow and regret towards this event this the death of the students at the hong kong this university has also issued a statement stating that they want these students not to embark on conflict to exercise restraint and show peace now certainly earlier these protesters where all these students were showing a peaceful moral but no doubt this particular event the student death which is the 1st death of someone being involved in these rallies over the 5 months this is the 1st one if you don't include the number of suicides so no doubt we do expect this potentially to escalate the protest movement over coming days thank you very much for that sara clock reporting there live from hong kong meanwhile 2 pro-democracy activists are in court in hong kong joshua wang and agnes chara charged over an unauthorized protests outside the police headquarters in june 1 has called for

everyone in the city to wear black t. shirts to show their solidarity with the pro-democracy movement. but with the power to prosecute the activists who will continue the fight in such a pure battle. pollock's possibly this morning. we heard. where it. was so dark you think you. know it's a fine putting to set up an independent investigation on the fly we need to know the secret truth and justice. to iraq now where continued anger over the political situation has led to a night of violence security forces shot dead at least 5 protesters in the southern city of basra that came after reports that protesters tried to break into government buildings earlier security forces broke up a sit in at the entrance of qatar port that's the country's main port. for oil and

food meanwhile in iraqi capital baghdad at least 6 more protesters were shot dead on thursday skirmishes broke out on show how to break security forces used live ammunition against demonstrators that's get the data from al-jazeera is natasha good name in baghdad for us natasha some big protests expected later this friday what's the mood like in the city today. each day we have come 6 to talk rare swear the anger among protesters just keeps mounting and this internet blackout in place for a 3rd day is especially infuriating protesters one told me the government is isolating from us from the world and killing us and no u.n. report has actually made any of the things that protesters have been telling us the last few weeks the u.n. report is citing human rights violations that include tear gas canisters being thrown directly at protesters heads and bodies killing them the suppression of the

media and this internet and for weeks prior to that a social media blackout the government says that social media has been showing quote killing and hatred and exploiting the minds of young people the government continues to insist that it is not firing live ammunition on protesters but in baghdad where at least 6 people were killed overnight as you just mentioned back to have commander is saying that they will investigate who is firing at protesters and will file charges if necessary in basra where the iraqi human rights commission is confirming that 5 people were killed overnight the government is accusing infiltrators get the iraqi human rights commission is saying that it was in its heart riot police witnesses say that people came into the sit in on motorcycles and began firing at them now the government is acknowledging that an amnesty international report is. to read this report issued last week foley said that.

there were at least 5 pieces confirmed in baghdad security forces using both military grade tear gas grenades to kill protesters the government is acknowledging that the entire riot police was using these banned tear gas canisters and says they will no longer use thank you for that natasha good name for us in baghdad. kenya's president has announced new measures to clamp down on violence as demonstrations continue for the 3rd week presents a bastion pinera proposed laws that would tough and penalties for noting and rioting a latin america had a tendency in human reports from santiago. it's been 21 days of mass disturbances and demonstrations in chile and amid mounting criticism for not controlling the violence that often accompanies peaceful protests presidents have us jumping it addressed the nation with a series of measures getting. we want to announce

a public agenda to strengthen public order and better safeguard our citizens security we've lived days of tremendous violence vandalism and delinquency provoked in most cases by groups of organized crime. the temple and plan includes outlawing barricades and the use of masks and other methods to disguise one's face including and stealing the role of intelligence services and the use of helicopters doing protests among others. wednesday the uptown headquarters of the conservative party which is part of being it is governing coalition were attacked and ransacked. we are facing coordinated and organized groups who are acting in a directed way we need to investigate this so that we can find the leaders of these violent groups who are causing destruction in our intelligence system wasn't prepared for this type of violence and the threat of higher penalties hasn't dissuaded protesters perhaps not surprisingly the president's new and security

measures coincide with the mass demonstrations moving uptown to an area that had been considered off limits a kind of always peace in the middle of 3 weeks of demonstrations but as you can see this area which is the epicenter if you like the headquarters of the biggest businesses in the country are now being closed and surrounded by protesters. while most protest is insist they don't support violence some argue the current upheaval is a. necessary evil larry should make the money if it doesn't it but piniella says he listens to peaceful protests but what about those been demonstrating for more than 4 years to better pensions if those who started those protests had written a letter to the president he said rushing to metro with the president listened no. while he knew that called for a rare emergency meeting of chile's national security council opposition members and demonstrators accused the president of trying to criminalize the protests while

others lamented that he had not been so energetic about increasing penalties to curtail police brutality. you see in human al-jazeera santiago. atman is a lecturer of media and culture at the university of cambridge he says pinera is focused on punishment has fueled frustration among protestors and missed ration of so often piniella has found a problem he has found himself in a problem his target this spiral against chilean people the very file in the way if we remember the 1st days of this mobilization he declared war on people on the 2nd the 3rd day since the mobilization of started so since then he has never made a gesture in terms of talking or making a dialogue weed people and actually not offering a real answer a real political answer or staging a table of dialogue so instead he kept going with this criminalization so there is

a whole narrative in the way opinion has been developing his are to to to would similar sation that is really close to that to a military solution so he's in a way he's cornered into this. profile into this perspective and it seems that he doesn't we don't know he doesn't have the answer or the tools or he doesn't simply want to get out from this approach where everything falls into some sort of. raising the bar of punishment of criminalizing dissent or or increasing the prerogatives off intelligence or police officers. still ahead on al-jazeera facebook and plans to avoid methe information in the lead up to the u.s. elections after it was criticized for not doing enough to remove misleading political posts plus. i'm dominic and at the berlin wall finding out the lengths

people went to to escape the prison they felt this and put them in. how the autumn is normally a time of big contrast and big changes this is no exception eastern europe a completely different the west is quite warm despite the cloud in the east of the south and it's getting colder in the west these doctored clouds in the bay of biscay are rain at the moment but when they come to slightly higher ground overnight in northern spain in the pyrenees and the alps they produce a bit as snow in the thames friends of a 12 degrees in madrid only 5 in zurich and a cold day to start the sunshine in london but look at this where the sun is blowing book rest is up to 21 degrees in between the 2 the active front yet more rain is likely and we were to seeing floods in montenegro in albania and it's he

looks progun to the same sort of thing if not on friday then also asses all moving down through sicily to was greece as well the place to watch and a point contrast here this is bucharest we've had 25 degrees in the last 3 days that is the november record really one below it on saturday certain remains warm sunny i have to say in this part of europe that just south of the measurements along the coast of morocco algeria tunisia breeze kit's a bit chilly and the increasing cloud might even bring some rain to algiers on saturday. the u.s. is a. tipping points scientists are telling us right now that we have just 12 near miss us the world's leaders to agree upon a solution. to taking matters into their. lives

. which by its actions to get people to understand that it kills people and that it kills people now is ridiculous both from his return to the people's doors on no 0. welcome back a recap of our top stories on al-jazeera crowds in hong kong are demanding justice after the death of a fellow protester a student fell off a parking garage during demonstrations on monday police were firing tear gas in the area but the cause of his fall isn't clear iraqi security forces have shot dead it means 5 protesters in the southern city of basra 6 others were killed in the capital baghdad on thursday demonstrators are angry over

a lack of public services and want a political overhaul and chile's president has announced new measures to clamp down on violence as demonstrations continue for a week presents a bastions pinera proposed laws that were tough and penalties for looting and rioting. brazil's top court has overturned a laws requiring convicted criminals to go to jail after losing their forests appeal that means of prisoners including former president of the silver could be released he was jailed in april last year as part of a wide ranging corruption investigation the ruling means those who are freed would stay out of jail until all their appeals have been exhausted. to the u.s. now acting white house chief of staff may call veiny has been subpoenaed to testify in the impeachment inquiry against president donald trump the house intelligence committee wants him to appear on friday but it's possible the white house will exercise executive privilege and block the order the inquiry is looking into

whether abuse his power by pressuring the ukraine to investigate his former political his political rival joe biden now the president's former national security advisor didn't show up at the inquiry john bolton who trumped fide in september says he will only appear if he's ordered by if federal courts and he gallagher has more from washington. well not much surprise to the democrats i think that john bolton was a no show they did expect that to a certain extent and the democrats are really now focused on the next phase of these in pietschmann proceedings and that will be public open hearings which begin next week they have 3 key witnesses including the former ambassador to ukraine and that really gives the democratic party a chance to show the american public what really happened here we've heard what these people have said in depositions now we will see it on live television across the nation that is an important opportunity for the democrats to show there in

preachment proceedings do have some weight meanwhile president trump is in trouble for something else entirely different the trump foundation was found guilty today and fined $2000000.00 because essentially a judge said that the president was using his charitable foundation to further his own political career for instance using money from the foundation to settle legal claims using it to have a portrait painted that $2000000.00 fine will go to an array of different charities and i think that story will be far bigger if not for these in pietschmann proceedings which of course will start next week and everybody will be watching very closely indeed and a state department official has accused transpersonal lawyer rudy giuliani of helping to conduct what he called a campaign of lies against the u.s. ambassador to ukraine george kent made the comments during his testimony at the inquiry the transcripts were released on thursday ken said senior colleagues told

him to keep his head down on ukraine even though the country was part of his portfolio. an earthquake in northwestern iran has killed at least 5 people and injured hundreds of others the magnitude 5.9 quake struck the town of hofstra in easton east azerbaijan province that's just over 100 kilometers from the city of tabriz officials say rescuers were being deployed to the region iran is prone to earthquakes as it sits on major's seismic faults send experiences an average of one tremor a day booking of fossils president says a national response is needed to improve security after 47 employees of a canadian mining company were killed in an ambush 60 people were wounded and dozens more off missing the attack near bangalore was the deadliest in booking a fossil in 5 years charlotte bellis reports. it's been 2 days since these people's relatives employees of a canadian mining company were killed in

a remote ambush in bikini a government ministers tried to appease them as they waited to identify the date and understand what happened. i haven't seen my husband for 2 days i came here today to see his body take it and leave what the minister is a saying here that doesn't work for me it won't bring back the dead. they gathered in the capital ouagadougou hundreds of kilometers from the site of the attack in the eastern corner of the cane a fast so in the border of benign and is year it happened on a public road 40 kilometers from the boom googled mine the victims were employees and contractors of sim a for mining company to get to work they travelled in a military convoy this time there were 5 buses the convoy struck an explosive device on the road then was ambushed by unidentified gunman in a remote area without cell phone reception there were no photos or videos of the

attack the 3rd on a sim of a convoy in 15 months. we must remain dignified and courageous that's why i willing gauge the defense and security forces to track these terrorists and i call all of our people to mobilize against the terrorists. no group has claimed responsibility for the ambush but i sill and al qaeda have claimed dozens of attacks in the region in recent years the kenya fast so the groups have killed nearly 700 people since 2015 and forced half a 1000000 from their homes the. attacks multiplied after april this year when the recently deceased isolator. baghdadi welcomes new affiliates from the kenya fessor and neighboring mali. a joints a health security force french and u.s. . forces have been unable to contain the violence. continue. if the

situation continues it will really be very hard for us we are all worried we don't feel comfortable we really live in fear this is really a disaster for us similar post says it's mine is secure but operations are on hold out of respect for the victims the relatives now looking for not just respects but arts and security challenge ballasts al-jazeera. henry well kinsey's a freelance journalist who says people are skeptical about the international response to the straightest attacks a lot of that it's happening in kenya. have not been a true tribute to 2. groups of groups that are operating in the country. the government has a very difficult time working out who is responsible for them but we do know. that this groups are operating in the country including islamic states in the great.

and small islam but also some of these facts hoping that them to go home who are exploiting the lack of. the floor in particularly the north and the east of the country on monday the french defense minister visited became faster than an answer they were going to carry out the 1st nations appointment of french troops to begin . in terms of the reaction to that from the people there's a lot of mistrust of french troops arriving in decatur fast so a lot of people say it's a throwback to the colonial era 'd in terms of whether it will actually do anything to stop the violence i think it's being sent by analysts. rather. addressing the causes of the violence so. perhaps we will see a reduction but. it's anybody's guess. staying with

africa been in spawn a maint has vowed to introduce a new constitution aimed at easing a political crisis it also plans to issue an amnesty for those still detained as a result of post-election violence in april hundreds protested in the capital cotonou calling for president that's his sentiment to step down the unrest followed the electoral commission decision to ban opposition parties from standing in the election the parliamentary vote so talons are lies when old seats will be delivered. the points of innovation concerns the abolition of the death penalty the institution of general elections with the alignment of all elected mandates the setting of the 1st general elections in 2026 the public financing of political parties and the institution of an opposition leader. more than a dozen wildfires are raging across the australian state of new south wales with properties in danger of being destroyed authorities say they've received reports of

people being trapped in their homes 14 of the fires are now considered to be at emergency level many people have already received emergency text messages warning them to leave their homes around 370000 hectares have already burnt so far there's been no reports of death or injuries. now facebook has revealed more details on how it plans to protect next year's us election from foreign interference and this information measures include securing the accounts of elected officials and making the ownership of political pages more obvious the company has been criticised for not doing enough to remove misleading political posts james warren is executive editor of news god a an organisation that phrase credibility of news and information websites he says facebook still has more to do. the consumption patterns of many people the length of which they spend on things what is bound to have some impacts all good and bad

and the current evidence and the lower or went into this at some great element that russians current evidence strongly suggest that they have a substantial negative impact on the 2060 campaign. unless you are of a trump supporter but still if you are on the clinton side a negative impact and raise the possibility that even with. lots of precautions that facebook is tempted to implement sense that it could have a similar significant impact next year we're not just talking on about a presidential republic thousands of races around this country on saturday germans will mark 30 years since the fall of the berlin wall for generations of people it was the most obvious symbol of the ideological divides that spanned here up there is dominic cain has been hearing the stories of some who attempted the perilous journey to freedom and ellis who stayed behind the iron cat on

a sunny day dagmar zoomed on likes to walk her dog on ben now it's a simple pleasure she was denied for much of her adult life because this was where the berlin wall want stood guarded by soldiers with orders to shoot to kill tomorrow and technicians who were firm and over in everyday life the wall played a role in that it was just there it stands before you if you're standing in front of it you just had to accept it. august 1961 the height of the cold war when communist control of the east drove many thousands to flee west using the open border in berlin causing a brain drain the east felt could not continue. so they built the wall separating families and friends over night and when the 1st bricks were laid here rows of houses were blocked off meaning those who wanted to get out had to jump from the

upper windows onto the street in the west. but as the wall became more solid soon that avenue of escape was blocked off and what became known as the death street divided the city and so people had to think much more creatively about how they could free communism. people like who better holbein as a young man he swam across a guarded waterway to reach the west and then decided he wanted others to be free to do so he helped build a tunnel under the center of the city in all $57.00 people crawled through this space to freedom including his own mother it was a tremendous feeling taking part in possibly helping your relatives and friends come over but at the same time it was a strain because i had only just survived the border crossing myself and thought man if something happens to me here then it's twice as bad. something did happen to fuck your heintz as

a student he volunteered to help people flee the east bringing out dozens of refugees over several months using a car with diplomatic plates and adapted to allow people to hide from view but then one day he was caught they had already left saying he had the diplomat that which they confronted me to. their healthy escapees who didn't make it. they had a car i mean for those instead a little nerdy in the end the 2 german governments agreed a prisoner swaps of focus spent less than a year in custody as time wore on most people grew used to the ugly gray barrier that divided the city but then in november 1989 came the moment many thought might never happen a wave of peaceful protests swept through the city and because the soviet government would not help the armed guard stood powerless as people partied on the wall and then finally tore it down. very little of what the east german government

called the anti fascist protection barriers still remains many berliners are too young to know 1st hand what it was like to live in a divided city for those like dagmar who do saturday will be a poignant day dominic kane al-jazeera at the berlin wall memorial. hello again i'm fully battle with the headlines on al-jazeera crowds in hong kong that demanding justice after the death of a fellow protester a student fell off a parking garage showing demonstrations on monday police were firing tear gas in the area but the cause of his fall isn't clear has more from. he fell from the 3rd floor to the 2nd floor in a copy this was during a particular protest and during the dispersal operation by police. the anger here from these students and from the protest movement that they're accusing the police

of failing to hear these tear gas lines during this dispersal operation there's been a lot of a morning near hong kong and a memorial but there's also anger from the friends and colleagues of this 22 year old student meanwhile 2 pro-democracy activists in hong kong are in court joshua wang in agnes child were charged over an authorised protests outside the police headquarters in june wong has called for everyone in the city to wear black t. shirts to show their solidarity with the pro-democracy movement in iraq security forces have shot dead at least 5 protesters in the southern city of basra 6 others were killed in the capital baghdad on thursday demonstrators are angry over a lack of public services and want a political overhaul more than 260 people have been killed since the beginning of last month. chile's president has announced new measures to clamp down on violence president sebastian pinera proposed laws that would toughen penalties for looting

and rioting violent demonstrations have continued for a 3rd week with protesters throwing rocks at police who responded with tear gas brazil's top court has overturned a law requiring convicted criminals to go to jail after losing their 1st appeal the ruling means former president lula da silva and thousands of other prisoners could be released lois put behind bars in april last year as part of a wide ranging corruption investigation and acting white house chief of staff make mulvaney has been subpoenaed to testify the impeachment inquiry against president donald trump but it's possible the white house will exercise executive privilege and rock the order inquiries looking into whether trump abused his power by pressuring ukraine to investigate his political rival joe biden they're up to date with the headlines on al-jazeera coming up next year it's inside story stay with us . what kind of provide a list. anyone willing to pick up the cost we bring you the stories and

developments that are rapidly changing the world we live in so is it possible for trump to actually admit to a piece on counting the cost on al-jazeera. this week marks 30 years since the berlin wall came down it signaled the end of a decades long cold war but bitterly divided east and west so what sort of legacy did the wall leave behind and did it bring about a new world order this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm darren jordan it was the single most important moment since the end of the 2nd world war on the night of november 9th 1909 the berlin wall came down it brought to a close one of europe's dock.