riot police in hong kong threaten to respond with live bullets if protest as used lethal weapons in that standoff at a university campus. no i maryam namazie in london you know with al jazeera also coming up on the program iran's president announces subsidies to help poor people pay for the fuel price rise that spock's protests around the country. another rajapaksa win sri lanka's presidency race time aides go said by a the defense minister who oversaw all the brutal and to the country's civil war.

and venice is hit by its exceptional high tide in a week sending a surge of water through the night the city. welcome to the program our top story police in hong kong of warn that they will fire live rounds of protest as don't stop using lethal weapons eckart engaged in a standoff with demonstrators outside a university campus in the city this off to another day of clashes during which protesters held petrol bombs at the police reports from hong kong. a long day of fighting at this college campus has continued well into the night to most of the battling has been taking place at this junction behind me but in recent hours more police have been arriving and they have been confronting protesters that the number of different other entrances and to this campus most notably

a fly over behind me where protesters have set up a barricade and there have been fierce exchanges between them and police the police firing volleys of tear gas and also i think like rubber bullets the protesters responding with more fire bombs and at a number of different barricades around here many protesters have been getting ready expecting that at some point the police will try to retake this campus another sunday another hong kong street turned into a battle. at the end of a week that seen a marked escalation in the level of violence. between protesters and police students took over several college campuses polytechnic university is the last under their control and they seem determined to hold on to it i think. because. we have a path for the freedom. they say we're not behaving like students but we are fighting

for a better future. violence began early sunday when people turned up to clear surrounding streets of bricks and barricades and students resisted police quickly arrived with water cannon and write big bills. and broke the mortar cannon are now working as they are banned from the barricades as they do so the protesters seem to be falling back but are still wrong. the college campus is located next to an important cross harbor tunnel which is being closed for days it will likely remain closed until police can retake the campus also close by is a camp occupied by china's people's liberation army p l a soldier's looking on closely police say they've been targeted with long range projectiles fired from the campus buildings with one officer hit in the leg with an arrow. they say the students now inside the campus faced riot charges

which carry a lengthy prison sentence in spite of the warning the students show no sign of giving up. just what the plan is for these protestors there from when the police do storm in is not clear except for some vague idea that they will fall back into the campus buildings that they have occupied which then poses the prospect and the very dangerous prospect of doing battle in the corridors and rooms of this building order why is an associate fellow in the asia pacific program at chatham house he says it's basically a battle taking place on the university's campus we've always been surprised by the length and duration of the protests but clearly they had been escalating much more quickly into a much more serious situation in the last few days especially since the police decided about a week ago to go into university campuses and we now are. her to pitch

battle on me on the campus at the ali technique university where it all ends goodness only knows i mean i think the police really have the resolution and the ability to eventually clear the campus what. got will in tell you in terms of. tactics and injuries and wrists still very much remains to be seen. iran's president has announced that poor families will begin to receive subsidies on monday to help them cope with a controversial fuel price hike has sat rouhani says the decision was made by consensus and has criticized those protesting the increase demonstrations broke out across iran after the government announced the move late on friday the authorities

have shut down internet access across the country now in an attempt to thwart the protests all since then more than 87000 people have demonstrated according to security services quoted by the fars news agency around a 1000 of those people have been arrested and in one province alone more than 100 banks and 57 stores have been damaged or set on fire by demonstrators. well al jazeera has dosage of baris following the story now from the capital tehran . president has some rouhani has been making a few comments following his weekly cabinet meeting on sunday evening in the capital he said that it is the right of every iranian to protest but it is not their right to cause riots he's referring to over a 1000 people that have been arrested over the past 48 hours as a result of a number of incidents that have taken place over all over the country number of cities over $87000.00 people have turned up to demonstrate and show their

frustration at the news that the price of fuel has tripled overnight at the government made this announcement in the president was defending the government's decision on sunday evening saying that they were trying to help the poor families in the country by increasing subsidies to them and that's why they had a decision to make and that the situation was made it wasn't an easy one he said they had 3 choices one was to increase taxes across the board inside iran the 2nd one was to increase the sale of oil that was not going to happen because of the u.s. ascensions of the moment on the rainy and and the 3rd was to increase the price of fuel for iranians and that's what they decided to go with this decision has had some very serious consequences number of people have turned out across the country to protest and show their anger there have been 2 deaths reported so far one of

a policeman in kemah city and another a protester in. now news from iraq one protester has been killed in clashes over strategic bridge in baghdad medical officials say they were hit in the head by a gas canister as police try to retake the crossing to the queen's odd that there are a couple of buildings 32 others wounded as police use stun grenades to stop demonstrators from reaching the other side of the bridge some days who were demonstrations across the country after an influential pari called for a national strike your good name has more now from baghdad. other roads were quite quad coming into tahrir square we're seeing a lot of students in the numbers do seem to be bigger than we would typically see this time of day on a sunday if you look behind me you can see pretty significant plume of black smoke you mentioned that the prominent shiite cleric solder called for a nation of wide strike in iraq it's probably because his followers comprise the largest bloc in parliament they are the primary opposition and they are united with

the protesters in calling for the resignation of prime minister maliki and calling for elections in baghdad as i said we're expecting more people in tahrir square than we would typically see on a sunday in basra things appear to be quite tense the ports the operations there are once again halted as protesters block the entrance we're told that they've blocked the roads to several oil fields in the lock the primary road leading from basra to baghdad there's no school today in basra in may soon and the 3 of the local councils have actually given people the day off from work and school so we expect to see significant numbers of people attending protests there so really what was the is that protesters are continuing to maintain their momentum and try to keep the pressure on a government that they believe has not gone far enough in its reforms right now we

have drafts of an election law and a new electoral commission that are waiting to be reviewed by the parliament but of course the one thing that protesters want which is for the prime minister to step down has not happened. at least 9 people have been killed and several others injured and a strike in northwestern syria it tackett 2 villages on the main road from damascus to aleppo an area that remains under the control of rebels. president bashar assad says he aims to retake the region soon syrian observatory for human rights says the air strikes were conducted by russia. a power transmission towers collapsed in egypt at least 5 people were killed when a pylon came down local media reports say that several others were injured in the incident it happened in keizer governorates just outside of the capital cairo. of the 1000000 a men trying can politics is back in charge former defense minister got to buy rajapakse has been declared the winner of saturday's vote is rival. conceded as

a result rajapaksa more than 50 more than the 50 percent mark required to avoid a 2nd count than it's method ports now from colombia. to his supporters mainly from the sin hello produce majority got a buyer rajapaksa is the president sri lanka needs they believe he can strengthen security after the easter sunday suicide bomb attacks 263 people were killed the government ignored intelligence warnings that the bombings were imminent it's paid the price for that and other perceived failings at this election national security was that during mr cobb calming the. trading people were crying in fact every other day there was some agitation and obviously there will be it in for a opportunity to get in the government rajapaksa is a divisive figure many tamils in sri lanka's north believe the former defense secretary should be tried over allegations of killings and disappearances during the final stages of the war against the tamil tigers the country's muslim council

says his victory realizes all our worst fears their fear food because. election campaign stressed national security and national security to get at least mine or do something a little bit fearful because it means that they are the ones being viewed as security threats and for the muslims in particular they have bad memories of the period before 2015 because there were riots against them even though there was a very good military under. the military and the intelligence didn't protect the muslims and i hope that that will change in the future as all the brother of former president mahinda may now become prime minister as the rajapaksa family returns to frontline politics. excited and super excited and happy for the country that the majority of the sri lankans have been expecting for

a long time. we wanted someone like this to save the country so the taught children the future generations will have a country one of got a buyer rajapakse as priorities is to rebuild state intelligence and surveillance networks he says they were dismantled by the outgoing administration and international pressure i asked about those allegations of human rights abuses when he was defense secretary the now president elect says people should stop talking about just. going to al-jazeera. to have free on the program olivia's ousted president evo morales tells al-jazeera he wants to return to finish off his time. getting the message out how medical staff are reaching out to the most reclusive communities of the democratic republic of congo to get vaccinated against a boner. venice

is still suffering from high tides are also yet more rain is gathered in northern italy right across lavinia and into the tearaways fullness snow is just this perpetual motion now on monday the focus is light to still be in it's a bit of a get beyond that whereas the cold has been pushed back a little bit to western germany the high ground at least in southwest germany in the sun's out in vienna and there it is the warms up a book quest is it 20 kids 8 in warsaw 14 it's all relative they should not be at these temperatures the code is further west but those extremes it was with dreads best to get the sunshine to bring up the 12 degrees but paris is going to be disappointing and london another raining or windy or both in the picture between monday and choosey doesn't change in the same draw of warms means more rain for italy more rain is lavinia more snow for the tour of the east and out spec towards switzerland you can see otherwise things haven't changed

a huge amount but some about what has been spilling off into our jiri i'm not sure if had any snow in the atlas mountains it certainly rains in the forecast near the coast for north korea it's all part of the same system for drugs clearly eastwards because from 14 to city in the sunshine and tunis case the rain on tuesday. talk to notice there are we know they don't believe in the 2 state solution the do you still believe in the 2 state solution we listen what i said was that pakistan would never start a war i'm anti war we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter although is there a. god. i'm. not. you know no no no.

a come back a look at headlines now police in hong kong logs in a standoff with protesters outside a university campus they live bullets of any protesters throw petrol bombs or use lethal weapons. iran's president has announced that whole families will begin to receive subsidies on monday raise from a controversial fuel price hike the increase widespread protests around the country among protesters been killed in clashes over strategic bridge in baghdad 32 other people were also wounded as police use stun grenades to stop demonstrators from reaching the other side. well now to lebanon the country is the deeper into

political crisis after a top candidate with drew his name from contention to be the next prime minister former finance minister mohammad safadi had the backing of 3 major lebanese parties but he said it was too hard to form a harmonious government and he hoped outgoing prime minister saad hariri would be renominated hari was forced to resign last month over widespread anti-government protests. with joel from the ballot has been celebrated by protesters in beirut who consider the billionaire part of the same elite establishment they want to dismantle. has more now from beirut. the withdrawal of mohamad sort of the from becoming the next prime minister or something god has been received positively by those protesting our sunday marks the one month anniversary since this uprising began your movement against corruption against the sectarian set up of the government not want to do away with all the symbols of lebanon's political elites and liberals but it's called stablish which obviously they were angered that moment

suffered his name was even considered considering his name has been linked with corruption from the days when hume self was minister however it is far from enough that people here say that they want to be technocratic government one that the. is not belong to any political party and the crowds are continuing to gather they may not be huge in numbers however there is still a few 1000 cure in martyrs square in central beirut their numbers are expected to increase over the next few hours in the evening and their messages are aside from not technocratic governments they once they're saying that they will continue their protests not just in terms of gathering but there are for example general strikes that will be taking place on tuesday they are calling for the banks that have been closed for several weeks now they were expected to reopen on monday however their workers union said they will not reopen allegedly because of fears for their security so this is your policy or country that has already i to grapple with their

economic woes and downturns over the past couple of years and unless a government is assigned in the coming few days there is fear that this crisis could drag on a lot longer. but live ins are facing serious food and cooking fuel shortages as supporters of ousted president morales continue a blockade on roads the government says it's created a temporary aberration to the capital with military planes delivering meat products officials hope to do the same with other major policy and says he's cut from supplies protests began following the nation's october 20th election and continued until i was ousted as president and fled to mexico. spoke to john holman and outlined his next nerves. up until sunday if more rallies was latin america's longest standing current leader now pressured to resign by the military after accusations of electoral fraud he's suddenly bolivia's former president and the

next in mexico but after less than a week here he told our dizzier he's already planning to go home. i can't be outside of the country i'm used to being with the people as a union leader president doing work i miss it a lot that i'm looking for a legal way to go back and be with the people as they resist the dictatorship of the coup he says if allowed back he wouldn't seek to run in fresh elections that's a bone of contention between him and the opposition but he still wants to complete the last 2 months of his term. i don't know why they're so scared of evo they don't want me to participate that's ok everything's the life for democracy i retire my candidacy but they should let me finish my term is that understood then you will not understood by now interim president to me and years she said he could face charges if he goes but it's the culmination of discontent that started back in 2016 when moralists to change the constitution program for a full time there was

a referendum the majority voted against you having a 4th term and afterwards. if you did it you did run again and that seemed to go against the spirit of democracy in the country where you could interpret it like that but so you know on the 21st of february 2016 the lie won enough lies to beat us with $70000.00 votes moral less the right united and beat us based on the lie you and c.n.n. were in on it the u.s. embassy prepared that lie he's on repentant the moment and he also insists that there wasn't fraud in the elections a month ago this by investigators from the organization of american states saying that they too was diverted to a secret service that there were clear manipulations he says that organizations politically motivated. i had a lot of trust or some trust but now i don't have any in the oas i should be called

the organization of the states of north america not america he did call fresh elections after the oas preliminary report but by then it was too late many c.f.l. morale is as a good leader who simply stayed too long you managed to almost have poverty the economy grew under you and you brought stability. now. given what's happened if you could go back in time would you run again for this 4th term would you have gone against that referendum or if you could have your time again would you have bowed out gracefully walk was a was you don't look for the post of presidency at 6 you out that's my experience in the unions and my experience in the presidency and i want to tell you that after the 1st mandate i was happy content to go back to cochabamba is that when you when people say trust and go again and. that's in may have been his undoing and then his

way livia is in crisis with police killing protesters violence from both sides. you can only look called for before john holmes how does it make scarcity. one of the democratic republic of congo a political and cultural complications and made it hard hard for health workers in the d.l.c. to contain an ebola outbreak that's killed more than 2000 people since it started last year doctors a using local leaders and a vaccination drive targeting pigmies one of the most reclusive communities in the country from benny in north kivu province catherine sawyer reports. health workers in beni have set up a medical comp next to an open chart service on the sunday morning the service is attended by reclusive bigley community living in villages in the congo forest doctors tell us the community has also been affected by it but convincing them to come to treatment centers will get vaccinated has been difficult yet they hope as

many people as possible will say yes to the vaccine. and to convince them to bring in community leaders like. to talk to the rest and i didn't want them i was vaccinated in man kenya to show my people there's nothing wrong with it i tell them this is a war we're fighting. jerry and jacqueline has brought her 3. to be vaccinated. she is reluctantly passed but tells us she now sees the importance of it and. i was convinced by our community leader i came for docs initially with my children because they don't want this disease to find us in our house i was told it kills people horribly pygmies in the democratic republic of congo have been historically marginalized. from hospitals or schools this is a community that moves around a lot leaving in villages such as this one in the forests those here have been vaccinated but accessing many others has been difficult this doctor tells us

sometimes it takes hours walking through dense forest where rebel fighters also hide where we are now in this village work and come into the wood. so they moved to another place is for dad that we are working very close with them get involved in the vaccination make them aware of the that they have. and so efforts continue to get this community vaccinated how far it is run to reduce the cases. to 0 by the end of the year and for that to happen they tell us no one can be left out catherine. is the democratic republic of congo russia says it will return 3 captured naval ships to ukraine on monday ahead of a pompey summit the 3 vessels have been moved to a handover location agreed with care of reportedly in the black sea russia sees the ships in november last year off the coast of crimea more than 13000 people have

been killed in eastern ukraine during fighting between russian separatists and ukrainian government forces over the past 5 years. a summit aimed at ending the conflict is due to be held next month. now thousands of people have been marching in greece's capital to mark the 46 anniversary of a student uprising that helped topple the country's military dictatorship well then 5000 police officers were deployed in central athens to contain the annual march news carried a blood stained flag that belonged to the students who took part in the 1973 revolt people have also laid wreaths at the athens polytechnic university where the strike denouncing the u.s. backed intent began the former prime minister alexis tsipras was also among the protest as adam jones dropping his joins us live now from athens we've been hearing about skirmishes between protesters and police in the last half hour what's happening there at the moment. it's lloyd skirmishing we've

seen from where we're standing right above the polytechnic campus of the exotica neighborhood that surrounds it which is where these good wishes usually take place we've seen flashes of light and we've heard the puffing noise of the modes of cultures going off or stun grenades typically used by police to disperse crowds i spoke with the police earlier there was a crowd gathered in the central square of this neighborhood and we did see 2 of the police water cannon being driven in. rather originally. well apologies that we're trying to reestablish a connection that would reporting to us from athens where thousands of people have been marching through the capital to mark the 46th anniversary of a student uprising that helped topple the country's military dictatorship but it has been a particularly lively and passionate protest this year john was just speaking about skirmishes there between police and protesters some 5000 police have been deployed

in central athens to try and keep the situation under some control. now to venice cities forced was forced to close a mark square after it suffered a 3rd major flood in less than a week or so levels in the historic city reached $150.00 centimeters on sunday and officials say the damage is likely to cost at least a $1000000000.00 in the worst week for high tides in venice and $872.00 when officials to to sticks were 1st produced school shops and museums have all been forced to close the flood warnings have also been issued for florence and pisa. star inquisition. as i've been here not for it anyway we're also preparing for the new high toned pretty sure it's a difficult time but we're looking forward to a fresh start we've already opened this hotel is always working we're doing the best we can handle both grew up with little figure i think with so i'm not worried

to tool where i'm more saddened for the buildings of venice and the venetians. schoolchildren in india have been protesting along with their teachers and parents to spread awareness about pollution the air quality in india's capital and nearby cities has hit severe levels over the past few weeks children parents and teachers will face masks and waved banners placards and posters during the protest keeping the government of failing to respond adequately schools in new delhi will reopen on monday after closing for 2 days to 2 a spike in pollution levels. and saudi arabia has put a preliminary evaluation on its state on all giant aramco of between $6.01 trillion dollars that is short of the crown prince mohammed bin summer's target of 2 trillion the kingdom is looking to raise more than $25000000000.00 by selling a 1.5 percent stake in its state owned oil company it could make it the world's biggest ever company flotation it's taking bits from investors and the final price will be set after that phase which ends on december 5th. well there is more to

everything right here al jazeera dot com of course the situation in hong kong is out top story they're going to bring you more on that in a couple of seconds and of course don't forget you can always watch us on live streaming. so police in hong kong are engaged in a standoff with protesters outside a university campus in the city water cannon and tear gas we used on the demonstrators earlier he attacked offices with them arrows the territory universities have become a free brawl battleground over the past week as violence in the clashes starts to escalate. iran's president has announced that poor families will start receiving subsidies on monday which have been raised by a highly unpopular fuel price hike has run rouhani says the decision was made by

consensus on this criticize those protesting the increase demonstrations of broken out across iran after the government made that decision on friday authorities have shut down the internet across the country an attempt to thwart the protests. are support the decision taken by the freer for teasin it should be implemented have to make sure that implications of such decision will not affect citizens laws and increase prices for sure there are some people who are concerned about the decision and who don't see it as beneficial to the interests but burning down banks and public entities can never be to work or to people it is the work of criminals order forces antagonistic to us have supported such acts. meanwhile in iraq one protester has been killed in clashes over a strategic bridge in the capital baghdad medical officials say they were hit in the head by a tear gas canister as police try to retake the crossing to the green zone where there are government buildings 32 other people were wounded as police use stun grenades to stop demonstrators from reaching the other side of the bridge sunday

school demonstrations across the country after an influential cleric called for a national strike at least $320.00 people have been killed since the unrest began on october the 1st and the former defense minister got to buy rajapaksa has been declared the winner in the country's election his rivals. conceded as early results put rajapaksa more than 50 percent which is what's needed to avoid a 2nd count victories been welcomed by the majority but its population but has drawn concern from members of smaller ethnic groups coming up next we have talked to al jazeera for you with catalans regional president speaking to us about what spain's election means for the area's secessionist intentions that is coming up very shortly.

as board moves in. catalonia is a region in the north east of spain it is partially autonomous but in recent years independent sentiments have risen among many catalogues in fact karla's puts them on the former leader of the regional government challenge madrid and called for a referendum. i'm afraid of that hamid in barcelona i'm at the palau the legendarily that catalonia is executive office i came here over 2 years ago to discuss with president calloused puts them on his plan for independence this is what he told me that when conflict. into the west of us but you know didn't get the nation on.