facebook on out to 0. protesters in hong kong set fire to the entrance of a university campus as police attempt to enter the building. hello i'm watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up on the program protests against a fuel price rise in iran are reported to reach 100 cities president rouhani says the subsidies the hike is funding will start on monday. and anti-government protesters killed in iraq a make clashes the control of a strategic bridge in baghdad and russia moves 3 ukrainian navy ships that captured

last year saying it's getting ready to return them on monday. well we begin in hong kong continuing our coverage of what's happening there has been a new surge in violence as but he's attempted to clear at the end to the polytechnic university campus which protesters had barricaded themselves into the demonstrators have set fire to the main entrance of the building in order to stop police from entering the have already been barricades erected to prevent. hong kong's police had warned that they would fire live rounds of protest as it did not stop using lethal weapons against them. joins us live now on the line from hong kong and of course that was the fear from this recent upsurge in violence that police had threatened to use live bullets against the demonstrators in response to the fire bombs in the bows and arrows that was being thrown their way what information are you getting about the situation at the campus now.

well apologies for that we'll try and get real mcbride reestablished he is in hong kong following the situation there for us the has been a bit of a shift in the situation at the politic university in the past hour also a fire has been burning we understand that the protest is set fire to the main entrance in order to prevent police from getting inside but this of course is just the latest upsurge in violence off to 5 months of of anti-government protests and clashes between police and protesters and the protests have often been peaceful but of times have also descended into violent clashes between police and protesters and actually brides is back on the line for us rob what are you hearing

about the situation at the campus now. same with the lungs threatened. by the police trying to break through and it's a case that the protestors that had a permit to reinforce as finally got under way i think there was during the evening a big build up of police of a number of different campus entrances where they were facing off when angry angry more violent clashes with protesters. have been happening throughout sunday according to the thing i don't what happened the case if i can. test the strength of the defense coming up again looking for an opportunity to be up when the time is right to try to. really enforce and to carry out a final clearance it does seem is now in the early hours of monday morning we're just hearing it's just after 6 am local time where the police have seemed to think

that the time is like to try to move in the last one we have seen. they have cleared away some of the barriers the numbers of students have been depleted and it remains to be seen what's going to happen in the building itself there was a general plan amongst strangers they have occupied this building it's taken over the building this is always one of the kids the university on here that they were having access to. in the building and according to pew to 1st degree access to chemical inside those buildings to possibly create more weapons to use against the police and i think concern was that they couldn't be left there indefinitely they had to be. taken out of the building remains to be seen exactly what is happening in the building itself how many protesters were simply left with her disappearance

the street remember. that philosophy being as they call it starting something at least the way to take them are not just. clearly we've seen in the past day or 2 that they have decided to take on a. barricade a huge number of cocktails have been remains to be seen how many of the students are back inside the building still trying to resist and if the police will proceed further into the building and try to take this presents all kinds of extra problems for really. such an angry confrontation violent confrontation that we haven't seen before which is on the part of the protesters which are calling for colleagues. to live ammunition because they are being chased by what

they say are. lethal objects such as firearms they. use. lethal force a great specifically to carry this fight in the congress. of this campus situation we have here going through into monday morning. waking up to the. university campuses basically. we're always saying that 1st day tames are on the scene at the campus where saying people are being carried away in stretches not sure whether these are students all members of security forces because while the police have threatened to use live ammunition against the demonstrators we know that that was in response to an arrows in fire bombs and petrol bombs being deployed against them because we have seen

this renewed intensity to the clashes with an element of. quite organized tactics you might say being used on the part of the protests as he was saying that the numbers inside the polytechnic campus had been swindled wendling so we have any idea how many students might still have been inside the police for trying to then. i did get to go to another state where there have been the past 2 days we found protesters dining barricades running around forcing barricades with the big barricades have they have looked fairly silly in the past but the whole protest has developed their tactics have developed some of the barricades the bricks of the bricks the bank together have. certainly have a problem but it. may be imposed by the protesters

a lot stronger. much resisting the police. is increased levels of use by the police also increases against does the south leave your injuries we will watch you go through. partially barricades in the lower bowl. game back in may they get the kind of injuries you would expect with lisa lamination that they called. things like rubber bullets so-called beanbag rounds. that are not meant to kill protesters kill anybody but. rob not sure if you're still with us on the line there. well we are just looking at live pictures coming

to us from in and around the polytechnic campus university in hong kong a fire has been burning we understand protesters inside we don't know exactly how many student protesters remain inside that building but they set fire to the entrance of that building which they had already barricaded in order to prevent police from coming in but i guess this is all in the context of well you have 5 months of protests unfolding in hong kong but more specifically in recent weeks we have seen university campuses become the latest battlegrounds of mounting confrontations between police and protesters this university campus one of a number of locations occupied by student protest as many of those other locations have been abandoned by protesters but we saw a very determined group of student protesters remaining at the polytechnic campus asking others to join them determined to keep the police out barricaded themselves in and perhaps this was the moment where police thought now was the time to try and

clear that campus out and so that's what police and security forces have been trying to do as we would now be in the early hours of monday morning in hong kong. that the day just starting the week just starting in hong kong but these are just some of the scenes coming to us from the city from the polytechnic university which was the last remaining university building being occupied by protesters the other sites we understand have been pretty much abandoned by protesters but really determined group of people and renewed escalation in hong kong certainly very is no sign of. the willingness to protest the few 1000 of the protest is still very much there and we can see perhaps a quieter scene now the 1st eighteen's are on the scene and we saw people being carried away in stretches what. wiring is that rob was mentioning that the students

had access to chemicals that might have been inside this building and certainly if there was a fire inside that would fuel the fire and so it's not clear if there were any casualties how many casualties there might have been if there is a death toll from this how many injuries there might have been none of that is clear at this point we have just seen scenes of clashes and really chaos says the security forces try to extinguish the fire and get that situation under some control. the united states has condemned the use of lethal force and communications restrictions against protesters in iran demonstrations broke out across iran after the government announced a controversial fuel price hike late on friday and now reported to us right to 100 cities and at least 3 people on known to have died iran's president is saying poor

families will begin to receive subsidies on monday paid for by a price rise of shut down internet access across the country in an attempt to thwart the protests or the country's supreme leader has blamed to iran's opponents and foreign enemies for the violence. our 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 with the people it is the work of criminals order forces antagonistic to us have supported such acts though such a bari has more on this now from top. president hassan 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 in 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 u.s. sanctions at the moment on the rainy and the 3rd was to increase the price of fuel for iranians 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. meanwhile in iraq one protester has been killed in clashes of a strategic bridge in baghdad attica officials say they were hit in the head by a tear gas canister as police try to retake the crossing to the green zone by government buildings and ok to 32 others were wounded as police use stun grenades to stop demonstrators from reaching the other side of the bridge sunday school demonstrations across the country off the influential character in total sunder hold for a national strike social going to name has more from baghdad. other roads were quite card 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 what else thought are called for an issue know why the strike in iraq it's probably because his followers comprise the largest bloc in parliament they are the primary opposition 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 block the primary road leading from basra to baghdad there's no school today in basra in may soon and 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 elect. commission that are waiting to be reviewed by the part of love it 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 in as strikes in northwestern syria the attack hit 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 sued syrian observatory for human rights as the strikes were conducted by russia. you have al jazeera live from london more still ahead on the program we look at greece the country is marking 46 years of the violent passion of a student uprising against a military dictatorship and venice is hit by its 3rd exceptional high tide in

a week sending a surge of water you can see. the head of the been a few sparky showers and song queens interesting they're on their way out and a picture of a monday doesn't show any for visitation temperature but where they should be more or less here so it has been hot in perth that come down to 30 so you think on the face of it nothing much is happening of course there is towards france to worry about but the winds become lighter and the next i think major change weather wise are going to be the movement of heat this isn't looking as jordan or iraq to the 31st regime sydney northwards purses cool down to about 21 now this is tuesday now watch adelaide and watch the winds this is wednesday or winds point sykes the

hot interior lifts adelaide up to 42 and this is the hot area now so perth is i've said it still 20 that it hasn't reached east coast or new south wales or victoria just to any particular degree but that is when says a few days ahead that's far as do zealand is concerned we're still seeing a spillover of cloud and some degree of rain and this all coming from the western side so if you're in the east you probably least some show to sunshine optically woman 15 to 18 oblique cloudy picture greets you on monday not with much rain i don't think is it maybe in the far south as for tuesday slight improvement in oakland. capturing a moment in time. snapshots of other lives. of the stories. providing tips into someone else's what. they.

do day or. inspiring documentaries from impassioned filmmakers the but witness on al-jazeera. the be. reminder of the headlines on al-jazeera now protesters in hong kong have set fire to the main entrance of the polytechnic university campus in an attempt to stop police from storming the building the security forces had warn that they would fire at live bullets if protesters continue to use to use lethal weapons against and they've had a bows and arrows and fire bombs and petrol bombs thrown their way and then late on

sunday police decided to attempt to storm the building protest to set fire to the entrance in order to prevent that from happening barricading themselves in but we have another upsurge in violence and perhaps a new level of confrontation between police and protesters in hong kong. iran's president has announced that poor families will begin to receive subsidies on monday raise from a controversial fuel price hike the increase sparked widespread protests around the country and $1.00 protester has been killed in clashes over a strategic bridge in baghdad 32 other people were wounded as police used to stop demonstrators reaching the other side. a former defense minister revered by sri lanka's ethnic majority but feared by its minorities has won saturday's presidential election or by rajapaksa or is also the brother of the former president mahinda. results put him more than 50 percent and needed to avoid

a 2nd count prompting his nearest rival to concede and it's worth reports from colombia. to his supporters mainly from a similar produce majority by rajapaksa is the president sri lankan mean 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 going. cobb coming the. training people were crying in fact every other day there was some agitation and obviously they were waiting for opportunity to join 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

this. in his election campaign stressed national security and national security to get at least minorities 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 god. the military and the intelligence didn't protect the muslims and i hope that that will change in the future as all the brother and former president of mahindra 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 up the argument and those say if we wanted someone like this to save

the country said the top children the future generation 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 under international pressure and when asked about those allegations of human rights abuses when he was defense secretary the now president elect says people should stop talking about past. burnitz and al-jazeera. russia says it will return 3 captured naval ships t.v. . train on monday head of a planned peace summit the 3 vessels have been moved to a hand of a location equate with kiev reportedly in the black sea russia sees the ships in november last year off the coast of crimea more than $13000.00 people have been killed in eastern ukraine during fighting between pro russian separatists and ukrainian government forces over the past 5 years sama aimed at ending the conflict is just be held next month earlier we spoke to global affairs analyst michael asa coon who's the former spokesman for the organization for security and cooperation

in europe special monitoring mission to ukraine of course the most important thing where the return of the sailors that happened quite a few weeks ago now but to the return of the ships comes it interesting time ahead of that peace summit now scheduled to be on december 9th in paris however remains to be seen whether the boats are even sea worthy whether they've been tampered with whether they're handing back the i mean ocean a number of questions there but for sure this is you know more or less good news for the landscape at that summit it remains to be seen we will not know for sure until the very day whether president putin words will show up but if he does this would be the 1st time that putin is alinsky meet face to face and the dynamics of that relationship will be very interesting to see but i'm not holding up but top that things will go well for the ukrainian side is specially given that russia knows ukraine doesn't have the full backing of the u.s.

president who has been a traditional backer of that country. well now to developments in lebanon the country is to 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 he said it was too hard to form a harmonious government and he hoped outgoing prime minister saad hariri would be renominated harry was forced to resign last month after widespread anti-government protests so far he's withdrawn from the ballot has been celebrated by protesters in beirut you consider the billionaire part of the same elite establishment they want to get rid of. meanwhile algeria's presidential campaigns officially kicked off the weekend protests ousted the longtime leader earlier this year 5 candidates are vying to replace abdul aziz groups of ficos forced out of office in april but all of them have links to the formally the vote will be held on december 12th protesters have continued weekly demonstrations calling for an end to algeria's post-colonial political system. thousands of people have been marching in the greek

capital to mark the 46 anniversary of a student uprising that helped topple the country's military dictatorship more than 5000 police officers were deployed in central athens to contain the annual march but 28 people were arrested john psaropoulos explains now from athens. young and old late carnations to all of the occupation of the athens polytechnic of 1973 when hundreds of students defied the military dictatorship then ruling greece tanks had to smash through these gates to empty the campus. who was beside the gates at the time and remembers the brief taste of freedom x.a. you see. you don't take part in an uprising to die you take part in order to live and for others to live on t.v. i remember that even though i was injured and was on a stretcher i really like the smell of the cinches trees that was stronger than that tear gas. ever since the law has granted universities immunity from police

intervention but this year is different the conservative government abolished immunity known as university asylum shortly after it was elected in july it agrees with a large number of students and academics that criminal groups had taken advantage of university asylum and used campuses a safe havens from which to attack the police sell drugs and recruit criminals and that say security experts explains why this is the only greek national holiday that is accompanied by violence we're talking about people who can be characterized as holy guns or could be talking about people who are actually drug dealers and the you have separate small gangs of people who have a leader of the sect like and they claim to be on their kids but in reality they operate like a small 'd army with leadership a deputy leader and so on and they try to make the headlines in order to attract new recruits violence is far from the minds of most of these marches however it's

the. political point that matters of finding people the freedom is never to be taken for granted. this is the 46th anniversary of the polytechnic occupation and because that event is still within living memory this anniversary more than other national holidays still attracts greater vigor and vitality it is a vehicle through which greeks express their frustrations most recently with their partners in the eurozone who imposed stiff or seriously measures upon the national budget which have weakens not only social security measures but also the national defense this couple's brill's their newborn son we were brought by our parents and we are bringing our children it's important for people to remember that we need to change everything about the society we're living in right now not just here but in the whole world greek society has a long memory of foreign influence the much as paused as they always do outside the

u.s. embassy as a reminder that the 7 year dictatorship survived thanks to support from the nixon administration and collapsible taina sleep with it jobs are open. affluence. than it has been forced to close and lock square off the says he suffered a 3rd major flood in less than a week water levels in historic city waste $150.00 centimeters on sunday and officials say the damage is likely to cost at least a $1000000000.00 has been the worst week for high tides in venice since $872.00 when official statistics were fast but used schools shops and museums have all been forced to close flood warnings have also now been issued for florence and pisa. down cause you see i'm sure i'm todd as i've been here night and day but anyway we're also preparing for the new high tide of the pretty sure it's a difficult time but we're looking forward to a fresh start we've already opened a restaurant a hotel is always working we're doing the best we can to the boat's crew when they don't think i think we're safe i'm not worried at all i'm more saddened for the

buildings about venice and the venetians. are more on the story in venice and everything else al jazeera dot com is right here get more of the stories we're covering but also comment and analysis there and of course the option to watch us on live streaming. i want to bring up today with the unfolding situation in hong kong right now protesters there set fire to the main entrance of the polytechnic university campus in an attempt to prevent police from storming the building this after police sealed off the roads around the campus trapping the protesters inside preventing reinforcements from joining them to protest as had been asking others to join in explosions have been seen inside the building it's not protesters have started a number of fires and it suspected chemical or inside the building as well which had made the fire is worse earlier security forces warned that they would fire live

rounds of protesters did not stop using lethal weapons including petrol bombs and bows and arrows against them wrong bra it is in hong kong for a. few minutes there were no really early out monday morning we're just getting it just after the security at local time here 'd so the police seem to be on the watch truck it will be lucky that we get the. very good chance they got clear that worries them but the. students are being cleated. in there what's going to happen. 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. says the decision was made by consensus and has criticized those protesting the increased demonstrations broke out across iran after the government announced the move on friday authorities have shut down the internet across the country an attempt to thwart the protests meanwhile one

protester has been killed in clashes over a strategic bridge and the iraqi capital baghdad medical officials say they were hit in the head by a tape gas canister as police try to retake the crossing to the green zone where there are government buildings at least 320 people have been killed since the unrest began on october the fust. and russia says it will return 3 captured naval ships you know monday head of a planned peace summit the 3 vessels have been moved to a handover location agreed with kiev reportedly in the black sea russia sees the ships in november last year off the coast of crimea. witnesses coming up next on al-jazeera with the volunteers trying to save the lives of migrants at sea that story in witness in just a couple of minutes. really

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