on al-jazeera. the. new clashes in basra and in baghdad despite a call for calm by iraq's top cleric 23 people are reported to have died since sunday. hello i'm maryanne demasi and london you're with al-jazeera also coming up on the program. a protester is run over and killed as a joint turkish russian patrol is pelted with stones in northeastern syria. the death of a student who fell from a car park during

a rally fields and on the streets of hong kong. and australian firefighters are saying they are in uncharted territory as they struggle to contain bush fires raging across 2 states. welcome to the program our top story that been more violent clashes in the iraqi capital and in the south of the country this despite iraq's top shia cleric urging the military and the police to avoid using excessive force against the protesters security forces fired tear gas and through stun grenades into crowds of anti-government demonstrators in baghdad and then in basra a security forces fired live rounds at demonstrators staging a sit in the iraqi commission for human rights says at least 23 protesters have been killed in the on rest since sunday mama john germ has more from the iraqi capital. in baghdad thousands of demonstrators demonstrators of all ages

men women children across the social divide they came out to tahrir square in the area surrounding to hear your square but they were expressing a real resolve these protesters committed to continue coming out day after day demonstrators determined to effect some kind of change they said that through their demonstrations they wanted to make sure they could help ensure build a better future pour it up and put up these when we arrived it to have your square earlier in the day we didn't really know what we would find there had been reports of deaths in basra protesters being killed in basra and protesters overnight being killed in baghdad when we arrived into here's where earlier in the day we found a real jubilant crowd a real festive atmosphere not just people discussing their political concerns that really people are going out of their way to express their creativity we saw plays being enacted in the streets we saw musicians performing the national anthem and

singing for others they're trying to boost the morale of those who continued to come out a real sense of resolve from the people that we saw throughout the day many of them told us that when they hear government officials talk in the past few weeks it's almost as if those government officials are in a completely different planet and yet they say they're going to going to continue to raise their voices until their voices are heard until more is done to ensure changes going forward. and our other top story this hour protest has been run over and killed by a vehicle carrying a joint military patrol with russia in northeastern syria now the man who was killed was reported to be part of the protest says in the village of sorry videos have also been circulating of residents hurling stones at a turkish russian convoy in the town of. nearly a month ago tucky launched an offensive in northern syria again. scottish y p g finance the joint patrols are part of

a ceasefire deal brokered by russia to push the white p.g. 30 kilometers away from turkey's order. brings us more now from gaziantep have a techie syria border. so this is what is happening now the joint patrols will be traveling through the area of us which is the obviously all the way to maliki on the border with iraq they won't be able to get into the city of commissioner because it is not part of the sochi agree of it and because the syrian government troops maintains a military presence inside the city after misty and then maliki the 2nd phase would be to. conduct those patrols in kabbani around could barely tell if i'd been busy and this is where you have some problems because russia says that all the y.p. 2 fighters have pulled out from those areas something which is contested by to you turkey still believes of those fighters are still operating of those areas along with their weapons and this is why they would like to ensure through their joint

patrols that everyone has left at a later stage turkey is intending to. set up observation post a longer safe zone a very of us pressures from albuquerque all the way to words. to ensure that they asked their fighters not stage any come back to the areas all the border with turkey. meanwhile take he's saying it will start sending back captured members of myself from northern syria to their countries of origin starting from monday its interior minister said around $287.00 i still members including women and children were recaptured since the offensive began almost a month ago. shut dozens upon dozens of whatever you object clings with and take their citizenships all nolt we would be poor to burn clothes on myself only to see who are your own people and your citizens no mater what you do then you'll know what to tell us as we've said before we don't know who these hotels are.

just one other news to bring you from iraq the military is saying about 17 rockets as landed near a military base hosting u.s. forces in northern iraq now the rocket attack near the military base caused no injuries or major material damage there's been no claim of responsibility but it does come against a backdrop of unrest and instability in the country with protests rocking iraq in recent weeks. now the acting white house chief of staff has defied a subpoena ordering him to testify at the impeachment inquiry into u.s. president donald trump investigators wanted mick mulvaney to explain why the office of management and budget blocks millions of dollars in aid to ukraine in organist the inquiry is looking at whether trump withheld a to pressure kiev to investigate his political rival joe biden and his son hunter

the closed door phase of the investigation is now wrapping up with public hearings to start next week let's get more from our white house correspondent kimberly how kit just start by explaining what the latest on the inquiry is today. yeah well mick mulvaney has not shown up he is the acting white house chief of staff and he is the among 13 people scheduled to testify this week but just 2 actually showed up so what democrats are building in their case in part of this impeachment inquiry is also a case for obstruction of justice because not only do democrats allege the president has abused his presidential powers back when he had that telephone call with the ukrainian president where it's alleged that he withheld military aid as he tried to pressure crane into investigating his political rival former vice president joe biden but also now the white house at the direction of the president allegedly blocking witnesses from testifying or allowing democrats they say to do

their constitutional requirement of congressional oversight so this is where things stand what we have now mariam is the end of one phase and the beginning of another this is the end of the closed door hearings that took place on capitol hill that the president in talking about these hearings called them a hoax that he's been very transparent up to this point well now there will be the opportunity if the president is transparent or not as he says he has been not only does he say he's willing to release a 2nd transcript of another call he had with the ukrainian president but also we're going to have these very public hearings beginning on wednesday now and all the big story today is the billionaire former mayor of new york city might bloomberg reported to be considering jumping into the presidential race possibly. yeah and you know this this election is still just under a year away but it's already picking up steam in intensity especially now that we

have a very prominent name suggesting that he may be filing to become a presidential contender him self michael bloomberg is a very well name in the united states not only is he the former mayor of new york city but he's also a billionaire businessman many people in the united states very familiar with some of his business holdings well the president trump was asked as he spoke at the white house today as he was leaving what he thought about the contender and this is what he had to say he doesn't have the magic sit there well. little michael will fail to spend a lot of money he's got some really big issues that's a personal problem and he's got a lot of other problems but i know michael bloomberg fairly well but so well fairly well well enough he will not do very well and if he did i'd be happy there is nobody i'd rather run against than a little michael well couple of things from the congress there by the president

whenever he's a little bit nervous or doesn't like somebody he gives them a nickname and you can hear there he gave michael bloomberg the name little michael the other thing that this shows is that democrats perhaps are feeling a little bit nervous about the candidates that are in place from the democratic side to try and defeat donald trump well they certainly don't like him the fact that there is this emergence of a potential additional candid it signals that there may be some discomfort with the candidates that are existing right now and even further discomfort about the chances that they can defeat donald trump and prevent him from re-election thank you very much for the latest from the white house committee. now in hong kong hundreds of pro-democracy protesters mourning the death of a student have lit street fires and clashed with police demonstrators blame police for the death of 22 year old log who fell from a building during a protest on monday protesters held

a vigil for chalo died from his injuries on friday but police and are insisting that they are not to blame for his death as sarah clarke now reports from hong kong . the hospital confirms the student's death on friday morning child chinook suffered a brain injury after falling from a car park during a protest on monday but after 2 operations he died of a cardiac arrest was of course. the family wants to tell the media and the people of hong kong thank you very much for showing your support and encouragement to queen elizabeth hospital in the past few days they are very thankful. child was a computer science undergraduate at the hong kong university of science and technology fried i was the graduation ceremony for many of these students that event became a memorial as his colleagues paid tribute to the 22 year old i think is a very grave day and we all have we all have i think a lot of home people not just so us the members have

a man talk operation for this but still when it comes to fact it hurts a lot this could be the 1st death as a direct result of the confrontations between police and protesters in hong kong the anti-government movement blames the police for a chance injury which occurred when tear gas was fired on students during a dispersal operation she was trying to employ. from the police fired tear gas was caught for them from caught and so today we want. our house and also obviously my. government the police to launch a fleet that's because the government has expressed its regret and sorrow of the death of the 22 year old student standing in sympathies to the family but this incident is lucky to further anger the anti-government movement more protests is expected to join demonstrations this weekend. high profile pro-democracy activists

joshua wall and agnes chow have called on protesters to join the rallies which are now in their 5th month they were charged with organizing a legal assembly in june. before friday's court appearance they demanded an independent police inquiry into what they describe as excessive force being used on protesters it's now is the time for the government to step up in the band as investigation on the clash we need to know and seek for truth and justice. the police have denied any wrongdoing and will conduct a comprehensive investigation into the circumstances of the student's death sarah clarke al-jazeera hong kong. and with al jazeera live from london much more straight ahead a victory for ukraine is the un's highest court says it will hear its case against russia for allegedly supporting rebels in ukraine's war torn east. and looted to silver supporters gathered outside the building he's being held in

our 1st supremes court ruling which could see brazil's former president for 8. remained is still enjoying what is an enduring summer not entirely alone eastern europe is doing quite nicely for the walls of further west as a matter cloud is being spun out of circulations to the west and once again this one the bay of biscay having brought some snow to the north of spain is bringing a bit more night temperature who bit of course we're talking about high ground however at 7 degrees london won't feel very warm nor will madrid but the skies should be clear the rain where it's falling heaviest has produced some flooding and the chance of that flood risk continues in italy for example western greece and up through the balkan states with the snow confined to maybe the italian and the

austrian alps this is the warm bit fear has come down to 10 berlin's disappointingly grey 7 degrees things haven't changed by sunday much is still very well been bucharest and it's still raining in northern spain in the west and meds developing another storm system which i'm sure will come back to the bucharest is again a place we can focus almost which is hovering only a few degrees below the november max from the record which of course was reached again a couple days ago some of this rain will come down from the veterans the north and shoals of algeria tunisia and libya that's a position for such day. a story of blackmail. and. ask you i have strangled i have a story of courage or whatever the feeling is real. passion.

and very simply just. welcome back out of the headlines now iraqi security forces of clash with anti-government protesters in baghdad and in the southern city of basra iraqi commission for human rights has at least 23 protests protesters have been killed in the on the rest since sunday. a protest has been run over and killed by a turkish army vehicle during a joint military patrol with russia in northeastern syria

a man who was killed was reported to be part of the group of protesters. and the hour the headline acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney has defied a subpoena ordering him to testify at the impeachment inquiry into u.s. president donald trump investigators wanted more they need to explain why millions of dollars in aid to ukraine was blocked in august. firefighters in the australian state of new south wales say they are in uncharted territory with several major bushfires threatening lives and homes more than a 1000 firefighters and 70 water bombing at craft have been deployed and there are reports of people trapped inside their properties. has more. thanks ever so much parts of australia go up in flames in hot windy conditions wild bushfires a common but this season an extended drought has caused the fires to spread more rapidly than usual it was a sort of came over our house house yesterday afternoon and then died down i have no idea and then with their winnings at lunch time is picked up again so i think

it's all sort of complete out of hand at the mine if it out of control here. the bushfires in new south wales and queensland cover a 1000 kilometer stretch of countryside police have voted 4 and a half 1000 people to leave their homes along queensland's sunshine coast local radio stations have stopped normal programming instead they're broadcasting advice about how to survive a house fire and local officials say they're struggling to get the bushfires under control because of the draw most of the fuel and the flammability of the fuel even the smallest of embers are landing and taking hold and developing as you far's very quickly so you end up getting this exponential rapid spread of the mine far from moving across the landscape and unfortunately we can expect more of that to die for those whose homes are in danger difficult decisions will have to be made oh my god thank you and you go. near in 10 minutes i'm going to be you know. i'm going to be

. strong winds and high temperatures are expected to ease this weekend but low humidity levels continue to make it challenging for firefighters and worrying for residents whose homes and lives are at risk. gates and be algis their. well the bushfires have also devastated a koala park in new south wales the lake in nature is of about 400 kilometers north of sydney had half of its qualities and 2 thirds of its quality habitat wiped out by a fire last month and now a new blaze is threatening the remaining animals injured qualities are being cared for though at the reserve's animal hospital now an earthquake in northwestern iran has killed at least 5 people and injured nearly 600 more the magnitude 5.9 quake struck tabriz in east azerbaijan around 400 kilometers northwest of to iran it was followed by more than 40 aftershocks those injured were

mainly hurt while fleeing in panic iran is prone to earthquakes as it sits on major seismic faults. un human rights experts are saying brutal conditions inside egyptian prisons might have led to the death of former president mohamed morsy and thousands more prisoners are risk they say they have proof morsi was denied lifesaving and ongoing care for his diabetes and high blood pressure lack of treatment led to a loss of vision and several diabetic coma as according for an independent investigation into the death of morsi and all other prisoners who have died in custody since 2012 the international court of justice says it will hear a case filed by ukraine against russia kiev has accused moscow of supporting separatists in the country's water on east it comes as ukraine's army and the rebels a jew to withdraw more troops from the front line on saturday projects it is part of a series of measures aimed at ending the 5 year conflict that's killed more than 13000

people predict this the preliminary object should embrace it by the russian federation the court to lax jurisdiction on the basis of article $22.00 of the international convention on the elimination of or for missile for issue of discrimination set off and brings us more now from moscow. a convincing win for ukraine in the international court of justice against russia a majority of the judges decided that the court can hear the case against what they say the russian backed separatists in the east of ukraine and also the downing of i made 17 and the into the racial discrimination towards the ukrainians and tartarus live in an extra media which was annexed by russia in 2014 it's a win for ukraine because russia was objecting very heavily against this this case

because it's out it has no jurisdiction and we can actually solve this case still between ukraine and russia itself but now this will be a very strong international instrument that ukraine has against russia although the case will take a while to develop and probably will be finished only in a few years from now if russia loses the case it's also possible that it has to pay compensation to the victims in the east of ukraine or even in the crimea but also this is also raising questions about how this is going to affect the peace process that it's been under way now the new president's alinsky is in power since a few months he has basically of pushed this peaceful process forward the will be and not are. the troops withdrawal on saturday between the 2 forces one ukrainian forces on one side and the russian backed rebels on the other side there has been some protest in ukraine against this peace process that this is

a capitalization to russia but there is some optimism that it's fighting which has been going on for 5 years and which has cost $13000.00 lives could be ending any time soon but with this ruling there's a big question of course how moscow will respond and how willing it will be to participate in the peace negotiations that are expected in the next couple of weeks . well here in the u.k. police of a field that 10 teenagers were among those who died in the back of a refrigerated truck in southeast england last month the identities of all 39 people found dead have been released to 15 year old boys were the youngest victims of what's believed to be one of the country's worst cases of people smuggling all of those killed were vietnamese police are working to repatriate the bodies. now in the next hour spain's prime minister pedro sanchez is due to address his final campaign rally head of the country's 2nd general election this year but suggest his socialist will win the most seats in sunday's vote sanchez called the

election after failing to form a government following april's inconclusive election is holding his final rally in the catalan regional capital barcelona saying he refuses to let separatists in catalonia on the minus pains democracy to addle he joins us live now from barcelona hard to how heavily will the catalan independence issue feature in this election. around and. also that they haven't heard from any of the. any kind of feasible solution or was the way out of this crisis is that. in the final hours of. local time.

we were getting. out of the total of $120.00. percent of the. people out it felt about it. because it was. the presence of the government. now we're expecting to hear from. and of course we've seen talks attempts to try and form a government collapse is there much hope that this election will resolve the deadlock we've seen in spanish politics what's he likely to say. well that's a big question. if they were.

he would still be in the leading position. with exactly the same issues about how to form a coalition those talks with folks at the beginning of the summer much has changed . the far right party. some of the. would be going from clinton. again we have to with. but most people with the. political this country has been facing. after the election thank you very much for the latest from barcelona reporting. lawyers for former brazilian president to silver a father

a quest for his release from prison after the supreme court overturned a rule requiring criminals to go to jail after losing their 1st appeal. supporters gathered outside the police headquarters where is being held following the decision he's among several 1000 convicted criminals who would have the right to remain free until they've exhausted their options to appeal was sentenced to almost 13 years in jail earlier this year on corruption charges but he denies the allegations and says they are politically motivated. today the supreme court strengthen democracy and the constitution with that decision especially in a moment where we have a far right government attacking the democracy and constitution. has more for us now from point of cyrus. just a while ago his lawyers entered the prison in order to talk to him and see what he wants and what they're saying is that they will request he's freedom immediately we

know that it is also requesting this whole case against him to be to be cancelled and that's one has been a very very strong request because he's been painting that these he's being politically persecuted and that the whole case against him has been false and created by the opposition and all of this is happening after the supreme court over overturned a ruling that says that a convicted criminal can needs to remain in prison once he loses his 1st appeal well the situation from now on is that that person could remain free and till he has exhausted all options in order to defend his case in any type of investigation and this of course affects not only former president lula da silva but also thousands of other people in the country among them politicians businessmen i'm one others that i've been part of what is known as the carwash operation this is the

largest corruption investigation in brazil's history and it's been led by judge set of your mortal selves your model is currently the minister of justice of presidentially and it was an adult and his methods and his impartiality in the new landscape have been severely question especially after some audio recordings were revealed revealed that he was working alongside prosecutors in order to in jail hullo. another story from brazil the pace of deforestation in the country's amazon basin last month but is still 5 percent up on october last year this is according to the latest figures from brazil space research agency it says the rainy season has helped to prevent fires and also made conditions more difficult for illegal loggers well a series of fires in august led to a huge increase in deforestation up a massive 80003 percent on the 1st 9 months of 2018 the amazon is the

world's largest rain forest and it plays a key role in absorbing greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change. as more everything we're covering our top stories and of course everything else al-jazeera dot com is way to go comment in the us this there as well and you can watch us on life streaming. quick look at headlines now iraqi security forces have clashed with anti-government protesters in baghdad and in the southern city of basra this despite the country's top cleric urging the military and the police to avoid using excessive force against protesters the iraqi commission for human rights says at least 23 protesters have been killed in the unrest since sunday. protesters been run over and killed by a turkish army there called during a joint military patrol with russia in northeastern syria a man who was killed was reported to be part of

a group of protesters videos have also been circulating of residents hurling stones at a turkish russian convoy meanwhile turkey is saying that it will start sending back captured members of eisel from northern syria to their countries of origin from monday its interior minister said around $287.00 i saw members including women and children a recaptured since the offensive began almost a month ago. chuck the sense that whatever you object clings with you take their citizenships or not we would be pork burned clams eisel fighters who are your own people and your citizens no matter what you do then you'll know what to tell us as we've said before. hotel for. now to developments in the u.s. acting white house chief of staff middle veiny has defied a subpoena ordering him to testify at the impeachment inquiry into u.s. president donald trump investigators wanted mulvaney to explain why millions of dollars in a 2 ukraine was blocked in august. in hong kong hundreds of pro-democracy protesters

mourning the death of a student of lit street fison clashed with police demonstrators blame police for the death of 22 year old child she log who fell from a building during a protest on monday protesters held a vigil for a child who died from his injuries on friday and here in the u.k. police reveal that 10 teenagers were among those who died in the back of a refrigerated truck in southeast england last month the identities of all $39.00 people found dead have been released to 15 year old boys were the youngest victims of what's believed to be one of the country's worst cases of people smuggling all of those killed were vietnamese police are working to repatriate that bodies oh the headlines coming up next on al-jazeera up front with the housen.

we will not receive even one muslim that's the view of my guest today who speaks on behalf of the recently reelected nationalist polish government i'll ask him if he's defending a racist immigration policy. dominic touch inskeep thank you for joining me on out front you're an m.p. and an m.e.p. elect for poland's law and justice party which was recently reelected to government and which is often criticized for being anti immigrant and refugee but actually you are not anti immigrant you.