0. where ever you are. still angry violence in the french capital this protest is the anniversary of the yellow vests. this is al jazeera live also coming up. the price of fuel and introduces rationing we'll tell you why that is triggering protests. police and protesters face off in hong kong again confirms it or did it clean up by

. we will leave the e.u. on the 29th launch to. another breaks at battleground how a rival parties a using the online world to get their election messages across. it started as a protest against rising fuel prices in france a year on people who are part of what's known as the yellow vest movement still showing their anger at it's just after 6 o'clock at night in the capital paris where they've been demonstrations for more than 10 hours to mark the anniversary at times police fired tear gas to try to break them up the movement to protest against the cost of living with the violence across the country they've is in paris. the plaster italy in the center of paris it's very much become the epicenter of clashes between demonstrators from the yellow press movement and lines of police

many i take a couple of 1000 demonstrators amassed here earlier on they have permission to do that but the scenes quickly became violent you can see probably a tremendous amount of damage around what's left of some wooden buildings over here smoldering the fire brigade have been over here trying to put fires out from the police over here have been doing what they possibly can to remove the square of the remaining protesters they've been firing tear gas that live and that over there is a water cannon this being used very very liberally in deede to push people out of this area we just found ourselves unfortunately on the wrong end of that water cannon just a few minutes ago let me explain that what we're looking at here is really a hard core element within the yellow best movement this isn't anything like the huge process that we saw earlier on in the year where many tens of thousands of people took to the streets of paris and other cities like bordeaux and to lose

these people oh very much the fringe as it were and we did also come across some people who had come by bus from power some the outskirts of the city very disappointed by what they're seeing here they feel that it doesn't send the right kind of message it doesn't strike a chord with the other breast movement is all about but the reason perhaps why the movement has dwindled over the last few months primarily that's going to be just going off that few of them the reason why is to windell in support over the last few months just because they see one of its main aims sort of overturning a new tax on diesel fuel and also present a manual back crawl and it's being forced to cough up $11000000000.00 in aid to help the poorest sectors of french society. well fuel is also the source of anger in iraq. with protests against an increase in prices one person has been killed several others injured as they tried to enter an oil refinery in the southern city

of st john the government says the rise is needed to combat fuel smuggling those reports. anger frustration and growing concern in tehran as people protested against a 200 percent increase in fuel prices. many simply turned off their engines on major highways across the city to show their disappointment at the sudden decision to raise petrol prices overnight. as heavy snow blanketed the capital people still lined up at the gas stations to fill up the quota for remarks driving this is not a wise decision considering our horrible economy and sanctions we are under it's a cruel decision because it won't affect the wealthy people only the poor people will pay the price. this will 100 percent impact everything else it's not just about the press of gas or commodities will be impacted for those issues this will only hurt low income families they were supposed to increase subsidies 1st then

raise the price of fuel they will find another excuse to cut their subsidies later . the protests have not been limited to the capital this was the scene in the southern city of abidjan inclose us on province overnight here state t.v. announced a number of individuals it described as unknown elements fired into crowds of people injuring some. the shock of this news has yet to sink in here with the new prices motorists now pay about $0.13 a liter that's a 3 fold increase the government expects to earn nearly $2500000000.00 from the price increase and says that it will help millions of families in need had that sort of out of the 1st payments will be handled within the next week or $10.00 days and transferred to the families in model year a strong president believes that if there is going to be petrol price reform all of the new revenues will be paid back to the people. that many people here fear that this decision could have far reaching consequences it stems from

a number of issues while iran has huge energy reserves its refining capability is limited and that makes it difficult to get fuel to the pumps. the government is also fighting fuel smuggling to neighboring countries that's because iran has some of the cheapest prices in the world due to its heavy subsidies and a weak currency the economy here has been struggling for years but since the united states withdrew from the 2015 nuclear deal last year and reimpose a series of new sanctions on iran things have been getting much worse inflation is just over 40 percent with unemployment rates at over 14 percent officials here say that this fuel price increase will help people but it's proving very difficult to convince ordinary iranians door so to al-jazeera tower on. again flared up in hong kong police have fired tear gas at protesters with homemade

bombs those pictures coming to you live from hong kong right now as the latest demonstrations were happening china confirmed it said it's in on friday they hope clean up debris one of the universities government says it did not request that hope rob mcbride has more from hong kong. it was a very quick operation lasted less than an hour and the soldiers didn't have to travel far this is their base here their sentries are standing just off to my right here and basically they came out there they didn't travel very far they came up this this road here moving bricks as they went and turned the corner at the top long the perimeter up there and then were back inside inside the camp where they weren't wearing uniforms they were in their sports a kit so they could be looked at is quite symbolic depending on your politics and as we go there is a lot of politics here on the one hand it could be seen as a fairly innocuous gesture this is just a public spirited action by the local garrison coming out and as you mentioned

there it's not the 1st time that troops have been deployed they came out a year ago to help clean up in country after thai food so it has happened before but then this is not the country parts we are in the urban area the middle of callaloo and over on this side is one of the university campuses where we've seen protests and there have been an angry standoff between students from this campus and soldiers inside here who they were show pointing their lasers at having said that we have not seen any angry responses from protesters at the removal of their bricks in fact if anything they've been really played it cool they've kept a very low profile there's been some chatter on social media saying it doesn't really matter we'll just replace the bricks when we are good and ready but there will be others in the pan democratic camp who will see this you know as a further gesture as a further symbol of more erosion of hong kong's autonomy and the autonomy it's

meant to have within china. vote counting has begun in sri lanka's presidential election that has seen rising religious tensions and a slowing economy take center stage former defense secretary got a rajapaksa. the 2 main candidates national security has been a main talking point on the campaign trial that's after the easter bombings that killed hundreds of people learned smith reports from colombo. to the buddhist priest that he could rely on support from voters within sri lanka's majority faith. but he also needs support from minority muslims and tamils too if he's to win this presidential election many of them are nervous of the prospect of a return to power of the rajapakse it's got a pie was defense chief and his brother mahinda was president at the end of the civil war which the u.n. estimates killed 40000 people that party also courts nationalists this is a big clue lanka get in with. some stuff in sri lanka center

for monitoring election violence say the poll has been free but not necessarily fair with reports of people being pressured on how to vote we have never seen that much influential factors like leaders leaders are coming forward from or one particular political party. such as prima das is the only other realistic contender in this election he gets support from rural buddhists and minority groups who could swing the result in his favor. the ruling coalition is choice but this is a government that ignored warnings about the easter sunday suicide attacks that killed 263 people prompting rajapaksa to announce his candidacy we are hoping for a new future 3 lanka and. there are a candidate and the same there are many candidates so it's going to be a very competitive place so i just hope there. you know whoever gets elected can

deliver on their promises and ensure a safe nation and a prosperous nation and everyone can sort of believe in peace 60000000 people were eligible to vote they had 35 candidates to choose from. the run up to sri lanka's last presidential election was marred by violence and widespread intimidation this time it's been more peaceful it is though a tight race where passions are running high earner to make out is there a colomba. the italian city of venice is bracing itself for more floods putting people's homes at risk the waters have already damaged several major historic sites including setbacks for silica on tuesday high tides caused the worst floods in 50 years. still ahead on al-jazeera a car bombing near a busy bus station in northeastern syria turkey blames why d.g. fighters were the attack that killed 19 people i don't want

a man is i am scared i could lose her if she gets really sick. where in zimbabwe where both doctors and patients are suffering 2 months into a strike to demand better pay. out of those bits of useful and heavy rain in lebanon has been snow in iraq not much she'd think from the satellite picture but what is there is traveling south and changing the seas and therefore crosswise it looks like we'll be fine 11th more as the whole event however that's not true of iraq where rain is about to fall in kuwait too it's been snowing in the higher ground in iran and tear around might get some more is probably 7 degrees it won't last long if anything this area of iran is getting slowly colder this is all high ground of course come down to the sea level

and you've got a lot of rain and probably sundry and to be hanging around kuwait drifting south is a possibility of some storms in society of course they might reach bahrain even catarrh on sunday or monday now north of it is not particularly cobbers will be the winter change i think south of all this still quite warm 30 in the middle of oman but we are talking about squeezing 39 not easily getting to say you can see how we're heading towards wintry weather the present time of year is also quite undone in southern africa particularly south africa or so storming kwazulu natal the rains and head across to madagascar though it does look like sunday is dry and jo'burg nicely warmer 28. this powerful social network is sculpting a global cyber society and regulation is playing catch up but as scandals begin to

unfold they will witness is that we should not be in this position. they want as much extreme content as they can get. to gauge how ethics weigh against profits and how the rules are being written. and signed facebook on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera here's a reminder of our top stories this hour. french protesters have been on the streets for more than 10 hours as they mock the one year anniversary of the start of their movement police have tried to break up the yellow vests with water cannons and tear

gas. iranians are protesting against a hike in fuel prices the government says it's part of a plan to combat smuggling one person has died during the demonstrations in said job. violence has broken out again in hong kong protesters and police clashing there it comes hours after china's people's liberation army troops by a rare appearance to help clean up which all comes government said it did not request. turkey is blaming kurdish y p g fighters for a car bombing in northeast syria at least 19 people were killed and dozens injured in the explosion it happened near a busy bus station in the city of arbab in aleppo and countryside. is an assistant professor of international relations at the university of nottingham he says that violence is likely to continue as long as syria remains under an unsteady regime i think that what it tells us is that we have a very confusing and complex situation where there is no overall control in the

state we've got as you pointed out several players the russians the syrian regime the turks and also some others who are involved in the state and whenever you get this lack of governance in control as we discovered in iraq and in the finest are you create a situation where terrorism is rife where you will have these sort of events happening and so what we will see is more of these incidents. as the confusion over who controls what who is responsible for what and who is saying was becomes ever more increased over time so i think the solution to this really has to be to restore the territorial and and governance integrity of the state of syria if we are to ever hope for induction in these sort of terrorist incidents. a

shaky cease fire in and around gaza has been tested after 2 rockets were fired towards a town in israel israeli warplanes struck hamas targets in gaza in response $34.00 people died earlier this week in the worst cross border fighting in months kerry force reports from gaza. israel's assassination of the senior islamic jihad commander but. led to a fierce round of escalation and more than 33rd the deaths inside gaza. it's also revealed and made worse the frictions between hamas which governs the gaza strip and islamic jihad which threw rocket crews had been the trigger for repeated escalations in recent months. has been pursuing a negotiated truce with israel it chose to stand back after the assassination i was i mean jihad fired hundreds of rockets and was in turn targeted by israeli airstrikes 'd a senior hamas figure tells me the differences are well on the way to being

resolved but that hamas had no interest in going to war you talk about being dragged towards a bigger conflict by whom by islamic jihad by their action and way beyond the way i'm talking about no i think that it is not either said to take or this is going to enter a war with israel so it's not easy i think we have to have calculations about the pros about that going to school as is about the results and the tactics how different our civil people how not to put more there than our people i think we have to put all these calculations in the chair but it is not easy i think it's not a lot for any policy of virtue to get this in a lot say ok i want to fire missiles. but in the aftermath of heavy israeli airstrikes one of which killed 8 civilians including 5 children there have been calls across gaza for hamas to do just that in the early hours of saturday morning 2 rockets were fired at the israeli town of a shaver intercepted by the anti missile iron dome. sister

a few hours later israeli warplanes struck hamas site here in gaza a sign babson hamas says military wing had responded to public pressure. there's been several protests since thursday ceasefire and in a sign of the continuing tension a senior hamas figure was even barred from paying his respects at those mourning tent islamic yeah this very angry that hamas did not join the fight against israel and with the shooting that the 48 hour israeli escalation. it seems to me that we might even see further fiction and further complicated the relationship in the future. israel said it killed in order to stop the rocket attacks he directed perhaps also hoping it would in hearts hamas is control of the gaza's weaponry the question now is whether his death has removed an obstacle dividing gaza's 2 biggest factions or whether the events of the last few days have done yet deeper damage to

their relationship ari force it gaza the iraqi high commission for human rights says at least 7 people have been killed and more than 170 injured in protests over the past 2 days security forces fired live rounds during anti-government demonstrations on friday iraq's top shia leader grand ayatollah ali al sistani called for calm and he's with the sermon protesters are angry about widespread corruption unemployment and poor basic services. protests in the west african nation of guinea have led to at least 20 deaths since they began last month thousands are demonstrating against proposed constitutional amendments which they say would allow president alpha condé to run for a 3rd term in office vole reports. the family of abdullah is devastated they say he was shot dead during an autograph in the protest in the name

capital conakry on fares that his wife was left to bring up the 3 month old baby on her own she says she tried to prevent him from going out to join the protest. i am of the military one my husband did not come home and after his friend called my sister and said they had killed him i said it's a joke we had just parted before he left i told him don't go out and i tried to call him and ask him to return but he was not picking up my calls and he never came back. police killed 2 other people opposition supporters wearing a doctorate stoop to the streets to voice a president up for condi and to object his plan to change the constitution so he could run for the moon i'm going to. read the good man knew the protesting in order to prevent the foundations of the republic from being destroyed in order to keep him men in power we are not against him in person but we are against him remaining in power beyond his term in office. the latest demonstrations were called for by

the national front for the defense of the constitution the alliance leading the protests young protest has been tireless in the streets of the capital and torched abbas police said they used force off to protest as little stones at them was public anger against constitutional reforms began several weeks ago and there have been many violent confrontations with security forces since then i thought least 20 people have been killed. i'm listing to national has condemned what to describes as a human rights abuses in guinea including the deaths of protesters and the huge number of arbitrary arrests. are dizzying so the former president bashir had deigning court facing charges of corruption and possessing illicit foreign car and see the shia admitted receiving millions of dollars from saudi arabia but says he didn't use it for private purposes police discovered foreign and domestic currency stock polities home after his arrest bashir was forced from

office and i probably have 2 months of government protests morgan has the latest from culture. the corruption trial against sudan's president ahmed bashir is in its 3rd month and on the 9th session on saturday the defense team presented the odds general as the main witness now the auditor general was supposed to testify during the past 3 hearings but because he was out of town he has testified today and the judge has accepted his excuse of being out of town and agreed to listen to him this saturday now the defense team is also saying that the media has been trying to sway public opinion people on the streets have been saying that the president is not facing the real charges which he should face which are work rhymes and crimes against humanity in the western region of dar for and the southern regions of blue nile and south kordofan a newly appointed state prosecutors say that it's not their job to hand over the ousted president to the international criminal courts where his facing those charges as well as charges of genocide and an arrest warrant has been issued

against him the state prosecutors say that it is up to the justice ministry and up to an elected government in 3 more years time to decide whether the president will be tried for this crimes here in sudan or whether he will be handed over to the international criminal courts like many of the war victims in those regions have been calling for over the past few months. so barbara's government is threatening more disciplinary hearings if doctors don't return to work they've been on strike for nearly 3 months of a poor pay and working conditions. has more from harare principle tao was fired earlier this month along with hundreds of other genia doctors in zimbabwe. the government dismissed him for going on strike to demand better pay and work conditions in public hospitals he says he wasn't paid in october and because he's now unemployed he won't get paid in november soon he will have to move out of this department. 2 weeks. and opinions.

from. junior doctors. in terms of ford the bar was once busy public health facilities are new usually quiet the waiting areas and awards are deserted the strike has dragged on for more than 2 months most doctors were fired after they failed to attend disciplinary hearings the reason was that they couldn't afford to pay for transport zimbabweans are struggling to deal with the worst economic crisis in a decade they are shortages of foreign currency fuel power and medicines this doctor strike is a nother hardship that many people here say they have no choice but to enjoy. for mirror watching her daughter braxton suffer is painful the 3 year old's temperature is very high but neither nurses nor doctors are working at a local clinic. nice. a lot of people are going to die if my child starts having fits in the middle of the night she could die if the hospitals were working doctors would tell me what medication

and injections she needs i am scared i could lose her if she gets really sick. mary says she understands doctors want to better pay like millions of others in zimbabwe story inflation has eroded salaries and life is hard but the worried mother just wants her daughter's pain to end. like she thinks it's a tonsils but says right now there is no one willing to help her. venezuela's opposition leader has renewed his push to force president nicolas maduro from office. who has called on people to join protests nearly a year after he launched his campaign to remove the 36 year old came to prominence in january after he was named leader by the venezuelan national assembly a long time white house employee has arrived to testify at the impeachment hearing

investigating president donald trump mark zandi works in the office of management and budget he is the 1st member of that department to testify in the probe sandy's closed door deposition is expected to include details on the hold up of military aid to ukraine. as britain's political parties fight for undecided voters ahead of next month's general election they're increasingly turning to online platforms much of the content is slick and well produced but is that in barber reports they're also creating amateurish names designed to go viral. we will leave the e u 29 march to. it's made to raise a lot but it also makes a serious point about the conservatives failing to deliver when they said they would this online video is the work of momentum the grassroots movement that supports labor leader jeremy corbett one example of how political parties are using eye catching digital content in the battle for undecided voters and boris johnson's

conservatives are firing back with a series of memes all with a similar message but with different treatments depending on whom they're aimed at sean top him and ben gearin the young new zealanders behind many of them were hired after helping australia's center right liberal party score an unexpected election victory this year we're posting 30 posts a day and more than 250 a week that means you have to generate and publish a new piece of content every 20 minutes. that's how you get what we call the boomer means because you have to crank stuff out quickly i love this one here this sort of horrible mix of neal being a very bold canary yellow this advertising professional who runs his own blog on the latest political means says this deliberately garish content is often counter-intuitively popular with older voters we have seen some of the advertising in the conservative party. under 30 five's and i actually it's got more of a sort of retro cool eighty's vibe to it where it's actually quite polished and

well crafted in the way that city uses. the visual language of the internet in quite a quite nice way for the digital team momentum the emphasis is on spreading content with real people talking about their lived experience of issues like health care but they say they'll continue to put out satirical videos too you can talk very seriously about the things this government has done you can talk seriously about things like grand fell into it seriously about things you know like excess deaths as a result of austerity but then you can also talk reverently because i think you know people are just always communicating one time in their communicating and so many in this campaign we're seeing online content that's generating lots of laughs and then we're seeing content that's getting laughed at now some experts say what really matters is simply that people are engaging with the outputs but are those sounding alarm bells. i think the important thing is that in trying to get those simple

catchy messages across they don't lose sight of the importance of being honest with the electorate because sometimes the simple message isn't necessary the most accurate message well i can't hide it from you i've been thinking a bit about this general election campaign what's clear is more than ever before the search for hearts and minds is happening only as much as it is on doorsteps. 0 . this is al jazeera these are the top stories french protesters have been on the streets for more than 10 hours as they marked the 1st anniversary of the start of the movement police have tried to break up the demonstrators with water cannon and tear gas iranians are protesting against an increase in fuel prices the government says it's part of a plan to combat smuggling one person has died during demonstrations and. violence

is again in hong kong police have fired tear gas at protesters armed with homemade bombs as a demonstration for happening charlie confirmed. on friday to help clean up debris near one of the universe. but counting has begun in sri lanka as presidential election that has seen rising religious tensions and a slowing economy takes center stage former defense secretary rajapaksa. are the 2 main candidates turkey is blaming kurdish y p g fighters for bombing in northeast syria at least 19 people were killed and dozens injured in the explosion that happened near a busy bus station in the city of al-bab. eastern countryside. a longtime white house employee has arrived to testify at the impeachment hearing investigating president donald trump box and he works in the office of management and budget he

is the 1st member of that department to testify in the pro side is closed door deposition is expected to include details on the holdup of military aid to ukraine venezuelan opposition leader. who has renewed his push to force president nicolas maduro from office wide or has called on venezuelans across the country to take part in protests a year after he launched his campaign to remove material from power the 36 year old time to prominence in january after he was named leader by the venezuelan national assembly the italian city of venice is bracing itself for more floods putting people's homes at risk the waters have already damaged several major historic sites including setbacks pacific those are the headlines and used to tease here on out 0 after inside story.

inhumane and dangerous our rights groups describe conditions in a positive migrant camp post-meal struggling to cope with the influx of thousands of people fleeing foreign policy taking the new bulk of the route to europe so who should be tackling this crisis and how this is inside story. hello welcome to the program i'm adrian finnegan no running water or electricity portable toilets that are rotting flimsy leaking tents and rubbish everywhere built on an old landfill site next to a mine field.