found its way into the mainstream can you trawled through line between the rhetoric of president trump and the conservative media in america to what happened here in el paso license to hate on al-jazeera. hello and welcome to the news hour i'm fully back to go our world headquarters in doha coming up in the next 60 minutes. fires and explosions as hong kong police stormed a university held by protesters after an all night standoff. iran's president says subsidies will stop going to pull families from monday as he tries to calm hillary overhype prices also this hour sure lanka's former wartime defense chief wins the

presidency after a national scam pain promising to crush what he calls religious texts treatments and we'll see how doctors in the democratic republic of congo are convincing reclusive and reluctant villages to get vaccinated against ebola. thank you very much for joining as police in hong kong have stormed a university campus held by protesters after an old night standoff this is what it looks like as riot officers moved in not long before dawn with fires raging inside and outside the university buildings early as some protests is hurled petrol bombs and even shot out at officers who fired back with tear gas and water cannon at one stage police warned that they would use live bullets now this is a scene right now inside the building the polytechnic campus in hong kong that

police tried to storm early as you can see a number of security forces on the ground there no word on whether there are still any students inside the campus inside the building but there seems to be some sort of clearing operation going on there let's bring in joining us on the phone from hong kong it's not. early monday morning in hong kong tell us about what you're hearing about what's happening at the campus of the polytechnic university as we watch these live pictures from inside right now as you mentioned there's been a marked long standoff between police and protesters over numerous days on sunday the situation in the last place of trying to really. protect the students hadn't blockading will fall into and as mentioned the police have come in the university. at the front and inside as well as those as opposed to another have been contentious is pretty much the radio approach. has been made but certainly

that the situation has if so why should the universities where a clock is ticking for. locating the place of the nearest guy in the last couple of hours the situation has changed the place want to move to the politics we live. in the challenge it's where the the central hub for tunnels the tunnel entrance just need to be and it's the mind connection the mind the brain hongkong and tele island and quality side certainly attention please have been my place has. been there but the students are being told that ping and miking within. this particular. cancer and that includes the picture of bomb another 1 place pressley says it is the hour it's almost. at the moment the situation as i mentioned is

with the place of trying to clear that particular yeah the live pictures that the reuters news agency showing right now are of inside the campus and paintings look a bit more quieter than they did a few hours ago we saw earlier also images the 1st aid teams carrying injured. people is it clear how many casualties they have been. a on how many casualties it has brain but certainly the students the process is certainly there are calculating that you mention with. bringing out particular people on this trip. and as you mentioned as well whole universe it's a big it's a big university where they redid the put on various tables. anything they could find to my block the block i. will be an easy situation to prepare to launch and the global been there i believe covering with particular side because they've

always created it like that. with a fortress to extent the participants above and around. the place cleaned of where they were creations the picture. that i could use in their defense i think the place is. a guy. and this is a lot the last chances are the ones where. they respect the situation to continue as you say fair this was one of the last university campuses that was still occupied by student protesters and unlike the other campuses i understand that polytechnic university sits at the center of the city as you said close or a number of major roads so presumably what happened here overnight will cause a lot of destruction as the work week gets underway know. if this is this is. over not they're trying to do with this particular entrance and as i mentioned this is

a tunnel in hong kong it's a tunnel that is the access point between hong kong island and telling that the fuselage traffic of fanfare my to highlight of course has been blocked tided and if you don't see what the police want trying to clear. normal in hong kong was normal as they can. all right sara thank you very much for the moment our correspondent on the line there from uncle with the latest on the standoff between protesters and police state speaks or more about this not to steve son who is director of the china institute at the school of oriental and african studies which is part of the university of london thank you so much for being up so late with us. every week steve hassan we seem to be reaching a new level of violence of confrontations between police and protesters in hong kong could what we saw today this standoff at the polytechnic university mark a turning point in this crisis that's been going on for 5 months now how do you see the spraying out. i think i see it as a major escalation is

a major escalation in terms of the level or repressive course that the police and the government are willing to use and they're all 'd a corresponding ash relationship in the violence that the protesters are using in response i think we're moving into a state. that the government in hong kong is acting under the orders of the government in beijing to try to crack the protests will mention on kong and took over control all but the campuses in hong kong but we haven't seen any major interventions since this crisis began 5 months ago from the central government in beijing we did see the chinese troops a few days ago helping with the cleaning up of the streets in hong kong if the situation deteriorates further or can we expect that to change. absolutely

year and when the government in beijing the signs that the government in hong kong and police in hong kong cannot restore order and stability in hong kong then state will send in the people's armed police as well as call of the people's liberation army garrisons in hong kong i think we're probably still hopefully a few months away from that yet because when the government in baiting me get this isn't to escalate about 2 weeks ago they talked to view that the problem was not the policy but the implementation job it and it will they will need the government in hong kong to we double its effort for for which they have to give a bit more time to do so why as a protest movement radicalize itself. well the protest movements start all of us one of the most peaceful protests you could function on earth but

because of the steady spiral and use of repression by the police and the corresponding increase in violence by the protesters we saw a stereotypical says all radicalization of some of the young people in the protest movement and there's also a change in public education in hong kong hong kong started off as a place where it absolutely does not tolerate violence now you still have a small majority of people on call who fears that the violence used by the protesters are understandable and they are supporting them they mostly blames the police for the use and the increase in the use of violence he spoke of a small majority of people who support this protest movement what about the wider population and this has been going on for some 5 months now is there perhaps

a certain fatigue of this demonstration of this protest movement since it has been rising it is what it what it what it is demanding. there is huge amount of frustrations and mumbles of the people in hong kong the disruption of everyday life i have is now getting very very serious and therefore i think most people would hope that it is all over but on the other hand most people in hong kong still feel that the demands of the porter esther's are justifiable and therefore they still support them and so we get into a situation that we do see more resistance on the hunt up some of the protesters but the government in hong kong and in beijing will not try to reach out for a political compromise so we are likely to see further escalation in the use of violence

on both sides and to eventually the security forces get the upper hand of it. all right steve sang thank you very much for being with us send giving us your views there on the situation in hong kong we'll of course continue to follow developments here on al-jazeera and bring you all the latest as send to other world news now and iran's president says families will start receiving financial assistance as of monday to help pay for an increase in fuel prices on rouhani condemned protests against his government's decision to hike the price of petrol he insists the revenue will go back to the people through social welfare funding at least 2 people have been killed in often violent confrontations with security forces across the country authorities have shut down the internets in an attempt to thwart the protests not sure having more doubt it we have witnessed how some people have gone to the streets after the implementation of the situation to increase the price of petrol people have the right to protest but we will not allow the targeting of

security or the spread of chaos and riots in the country the decision to increase the price of petrol belongs to the regime and not only to the government the people should not worry about the implementation because its revenue will be distributed back to the people. now more than 87000 people have demonstrated across iran since friday according to security officials quoted by the fos news agency around a 1000 of those people have been arrested in one particularly hard hit province more than a 100 banks and 57 stores have been damaged or set on fire dorsetshire he has more from tehran. 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

a 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 and 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 inside. iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali hominy also spoke on sunday giving his support for the fuel price increase he also denounced those he described as hooligans for rioting adding that the nation's enemies have been cheering the unrest how many areas iranians to support their government's position is full of you know them as are you i'm not an expert on this issue but i said if heads of government make a decision i would support it and i will tell you the heads of 3 branches have made a decision based on expert study so it should be implemented now as it has in the past the white house is defending the demonstrators and criticizing the response of iran's leaders but of a statement raised the united states support the iranian people in their peaceful protests against the regime that is supposed to lead them we condemn the lethal force sense of

a communications restrictions used against demonstrators well it's now speak to us rod who is a senior fellow at the national iranian american council she joins us from ervin in southern california via skype thank you so much for being with us on al-jazeera let's start with what's happening inside iran there were similar economic protests in 20172018 do these current demonstrations have the potential to turn into something bigger something as big. i think if we're going to be honest in terms of predictability there's very little predictable value in these types of situations. we have a lot of analysts will come out and say this will happen that is what will happen but of course i think if they're spraying has taught us anything it wants on syria iraq lebanon all these different places taught us anything it's that it's very difficult to know what will spark something that becomes greater and will eventually eventually die down case of iran stop the 1st time of course that they've had unsubsidized instructions a large demonstrations that were similar would actually probably go back 220092018

there were demonstrations as well but up until now all those demonstrations have been really stifled by the iranian government so it's really hard to say where it could go but of course there's the potential for more violence and the supreme leader is blaming what he called opponents of the islamic republic and foreign enemies for the rest as he has in the past does this still resonates today with the iranian people i think there's. we're going to have an honest conversation on both sides i don't think it resonates with the iranian people nor have i nor do i think it's resonated for a long time with them i think you're i mean people are intelligent they're educated and know well aware of the fact that their own government is corrupt and mismanages in terms of the economy and they're also you know the messages from the united states that says well with the iranian people also because of course one of the reasons they're in this economic situation of course can be attributed to the

government itself but also u.s. sanctions that have severely exacerbated economic issues in iraq after trying to g.c.t. away over a year ago and we imposing sanctions so i think you're i mean we're very aware that there are both sides and as you say. iran not the only country in the region where the discontent among the population we've seen protests in iraq since october in lebanon isn't it surprising that the government the iranian government cut the subsidies now given the protests that are also rocking iraq and lebanon on it don't they fear some sort of contagion. i mean to be fair again the protests that we're seeing in the region are actually even outside of the region right so you see similar types of protests in chile when metro tickets there's a hike in prices of metro tickets which is similar to the gas high prices in iran but these things are really just sparks and catalysts of these much larger economic

issues that are hurting all of these nations and we're seeing on a global scale protests that are happening because of austerity measures because the masses of populations and countries are being hurt by these economic measures in terms of iran and that the decision to do it you can certainly see how it's ill timed given regional conflicts and of course it's a very tense situation right now ever since the united states pulled out of the 2 c.p.o. where we had a hopeful moment where your audience thought they would come into the international old and become a part of the international economy and of course that was stifled by u.s. sanctions as well so what the iranian government is saying and what some in a state of themselves is that they don't see it as having another choice because they're in a dire economic situation and i thank you so much for sharing your views with us and for your insight. the iran american council joining us today from california thank you very much for a time. in the news ahead of the leaks government documents shedding new light on

china's kuantan and muslim way towards the us campaign is celebrated as a death row inmate gets a temporary reprieve in the u.s. and in sports peter has more on this 21 and tell a woman to be in 2006. first at least 9 people have been killed in a strikes on rebel held territory in northwest syria the attacks took place in the village of and on the outskirts of the town of. cape just east of local media says that it was coordinated by russian planes several people were also injured it's. to sri lanka now where a familiar name is back in charge former defense minister got to by rajapaksa has been declared the winner of saturday's presidential vote his rival conceded as any

results put rajapaksa at more than 50 percent the market needed to avoid a 2nd count. to his supporters mainly from the senhor put his majority got a buyer 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. a car coming the. training people were crying in fact every other day there was some agitation and obviously they were waiting for an opportunity to change 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. election campaign stressed national security and national security that minority is 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 it was good there was a very good military undergo. 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 mahindra may now become prime minister as the rajapaksa families. turns to frontline politics. excited and super excited and happy for the country and the result that majority of the sri lankans have been expecting for a long time up the outlook on the us

a up we want to someone like this to save the country so the top children the future generation will have a country one of gotta buy rajapakse as priorities is to rebuild state intelligence and surveillance networks he says they were dismantled by the outgoing administration and international pressure about i asked about those allegations of human rights abuses when he was defense secretary but now president elect says people should stop talking about just. bullets with al-jazeera colomba. but libyans are facing significant food and cooking fuel shortages as supporters of ousted president ever morale has continued to blockade folds the interim government says it's created as a temporary bridge to the capital with military planes delivering supplies they're working on similar plans in other cities resigned and fled to mexico after winning an election many believed was rigged but he still has a lot of support in poor rural areas of bolivia. lebanon has slipped deeper into

political crisis after top candidates withdrew 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 stable government any hopes outgoing prime minister saad hariri would be renominated perry was forced to resign last month over widespread untied government protests in iraq protesters a seed to seize control of a strategic bridge in baghdad following a call for a national strike influential iraqi kerry made the appeal to protesters on sunday demonstrators stop traffic paralyzing work in iran the capital there's been reports of violence between security forces and protesters. not to the u.s. an impeachment inquiry into president donald trump is still dominating the attention of congress from city tractors and defenders are speaking out before another round of high profile sessions in washington rob reynolds reports with week

2 of televised impeachment hearings approaching democratic house speaker nancy pelosi pushed back against president donald trump's complaints that the process is unfair he has every opportunity to present his case but it's really a sad thing i mean what the president did was so much worse than even what richard nixon did that at some point richard nixon cared about the country and off to recognize that this cannot continue palosi said trump made a serious mistake when he tweeted criticism of former u.s. ambassador to ukraine more real than of it even while she was testifying on capitol hill that the words of the president weigh a ton they are very significant and he should not frivolously throughout insult but that's what he does i think part of it is his own. insecurity

as an impostor i think you know full well that. he's a gnat office. way over his head and so he has to do nish everyone now one of trump's most ardent congressional defenders insists there is no 1st hand evidence trump sought a quid pro quo with ukraine to hand over military aid in return for a ukrainian investigation into his political rival joe biden and biden's son hunter who served on the board of ukrainian energy company no one's testify that there's been a quid pro quo i was got 2nd 3rd hand for 10 information another republican lawmaker who worked closely on ukrainian affairs suggested the entire matter being investigated in the impeachment inquiry should simply have been hushed up having this all come out into public has weakened that relationship is has exposed things that didn't need be exposed so this would have been far better off if we would just

taken care of this behind the scenes this week the hearings will pick up steam with 8 heard or former u.s. officials due to testify one of them is important sunderland the u.s. ambassador to the european union and some will be on the hot seat because it omissions he made in earlier testimony about key phone calls he had with trump over ukraine robert oulds al-jazeera watching. russia says it will return 3 captured naval ships to ukraine on monday ahead of a planned peace summit the vessels have been moved to a handover location which is understood to be in the black sea russia sees the ships off the coast of crimea a year ago more than 13000 people have been killed in eastern ukraine over the past 5 years in fighting between pro russian separatists and ukrainian forces much more ahead on this al-jazeera news hour including czechs mock 30 years since the end of

communism and many also demanding that current need to step down we look at why violence. in northern ireland a generation ago may soon take center stage in a general election and in sport peter will have the action from an independent films pressing him back. however there is still rain rolling up the coast from the carolinas northwards and the still cold air in the plains as cold as it was but of course we are an event that has a temperatures have come down the picture then from monday is single figures here maybe subzero in ottawa and the rain comes up against it so there is that meeting age where i think in parts of new england there will be a bit of wet snow falling but not much comes out of it otherwise well apart from

coastal flooding it's an improving situation as this thing rolls north to the western side of the states apart from washington is looking fine dry not particularly windy as you can see if i move you to him monday and tuesday everything's got his general trend to move in his direction takes the rain away with it slowly warming up new york's 9 but the stow is coming back across the border you can see towards the rockies. going suckers and it's probably not that often you're going to see temperatures dip down to us was $25.00 in havana since 13 kingston but that is sort of the winter front that allowed the coated come down off is now obvious the sun is still strong so terms are going to be dropping that much but i think the big thunderstorms a likely in kingston jamaica possibly in parts of cuba and the main rain there is still further south in panama and costa rica. an inspiring quest for knowledge that led to remarkable achievements al-jazeera

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welcome back our top stories on al-jazeera. they have been fiery explosions in hong kong way university campus has been the scene of an hours long standoff between police and protesters police stormed the area early monday morning after hundreds of demonstrators herb's petrol bombs and sheltered behind barricades during the night. iran's president is insisting the revenue from a controversial hike in petrol prices will go back to the people protests continued throughout the country on sunday with occasional violent confrontations with security forces at least 2 people were killed on friday and sri lanka's former wartime defensive go to buy

a rajapaksa will become the country's next president his rival conceded as early results put rajapakse at more than the 50 percent mark needed to avoid a 2nd round. the new york times has published leaks chinese government documents it say is revealing new details about the crackdown on muslim wage wars in the region about a 1000000 wage wars are believed to be interned in what the chinese call vocational training centers intended to reeducate people leaning towards extremism the documents include instructions to local authorities on how to handle students returning home and finding family members detained or missing they also give details on how to control way goes and plans to extend restrictions on islam elsewhere in china and the documents reveal how the crackdown worsened after a hardline local party chief took control of shin jiang in 2016 the league also suggest says resistance within the communist party against the crackdown sophie

richardson is china director of human rights watch she says the international community can do more to put pressure on china. as a legal matter it's now incredibly clear who's responsible for these highly abusive policies at the same time one reads the story and thinks about all of the people in the league or at the asper a world wide who are reading the same information and really having their worst fears about what happened to their family members concerned and that must just be an excruciating reality for them and i think increases the pressure for chinese officials to be held accountable i certainly think it brings that much more pressure to bear particularly on member states of the united nations to push for an independent fact finding mission to the region ideally under the auspices of the high commissioner for human rights you know and for any of the governments that have resisted the idea that chinese authorities are actually carrying out this

campaign over oppression you know the facade of support for china's position really is starting to crumble and this report goes a long way towards you know denying people the ability to say well it's not really happening or there's no credible evidence here and we think it's been urgent to that kind of investigation for well over a year and now and i think every day that goes by without holding china accountable reinforces an extraordinary kind of impunity and if anybody thinks that those abuses are going to stay within china borders we've got news for you they're not and that's why china really needs to come under pressure brant now to play by the same rules as every other government the world is expected to. the family of a u.s. man whose execution was halted just days before was due to be carried out is holding a thank you vigil outside the texas governor's mansion in austin rodney reid was convicted of raping and murdering a 19 year old woman in 9096 the state's top appeals court blocks the execution on

friday afternoon evidence emerged raising serious doubts about his guilt at my school the innocence project says race played a key part in conviction john hendren is at that vigil in austin texas joins us now live so how are people feeling about the stay of execution and john. fully fully that vigil has just wrapped up most people have left it was held outside of the governor's mansion here in austin texas and that is because the governor of texas governor abbott is best known in this case for not intervening to stop the execution of rodney reed he didn't do that but it appeals court did on friday and the appeals court decided there was enough new evidence that it should be heard his lawyers have a lot of work to do but his family is relieved i talked to roderick reed his brother just a little while ago and he said he cried when he heard the news on friday he said

there's a lot of work to do his brother is not freed yet this is what he had to say. the fight continues we've got to keep it fresh own despised in the pressure and we have to keep awareness we've got to keep people out there we don't want people to get complacent to sit back and think that decide so we keep moving back to we keep moving forward. rodney reed found out about this in a rather high profile meeting at the prison where he's being held on death row his lawyer quincy mcneil brought kim carr dashing west the reality television star she just happened to be there at the time when the warden called them out and explained to the lawyer that the stay had been issued and so they were able to tell rodney read been in there that his execution had been state and we are told that the mood lifted immediately but everybody in this case knows that there's there's a long way to go here this is a case that happened the murder happened in 1906 rodney reed has been on death row

for decades now and in order for him to be free he's got to go through this appeals court process his lawyers 1st of all have to prove it is civil rights were violated that that procedure was flawed and then they have to offer the new evidence in it is compelling one witness ties the murder to the fiance of stacy steinitz a man who according to another witness confessed while in prison on an unrelated sexual assault charge that he killed stacy sites because she was having an affair with a black man so there's a lot of evidence to be heard in this case but the lawyers are still fighting to get that together and to ensure that they win this appeal because the assumption is that he is guilty he has to show that he is not only thank you for that john hendren i force in austin texas. our political security and cultural complications have made it difficult for health workers to contain any ball or outbreak in the

democratic republic of congo so doctors are getting help from local leaders in a vaccination drive to reach one of the most hard to access communities catherine sawyer reports from beni. health workers in bailey have set up a medical comp next to an open chat service on the sunday morning the service is attended by a reclusive beagley community living in villages in the congress or its 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. put as many people as possible to say yes to the vaccine. and to convince them to bring in community leaders like s. done once yelled to talk to the rest i couldn't when i was vaccinated in man deno to share my people there's nothing wrong with it i tell them this is a war we're fighting. jerrine jacqueline has brought her 3 children to be vaccinated. she is reluctant to fast but tells us she now sees the importance of it

in general. i was convinced by our community leader i came for docs initially with my children because i don't want this deceased 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 the dense forest where rebel fighters also hide where we are now in this village we can come into. so they moved to another place is for that that we are working we would close with them getting them involved in the vaccination make them aware of the weeks that they have.

and so efforts continue to get this community vaccinated have authority 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 story al-jazeera benny is then democratic republic of congo. thousands of people have been marching in the greek capital to mark the 46 anniversary of a student uprising that helped topple the former military dictatorship but he's were armed forces prevent violence arresting almost 30 people john. young and old laid combinations to move the occupation of the athens polytechnic of 973 when hundreds of students defied the military dictatorship then ruling greece tanks had to smash through these gates to empty the campus. beside the gates. time and remembers the brief taste of freedom. but you don't take part in an uprising to

die you take part in order to live and for others to live i remember that even though i was injured and was on a stretcher i really like the smell of the city's 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 like and they claim to be on their kids but in reality they operate like a small army with a 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 reminding people that 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 euro zone who imposed stiff corsairs the measures upon the national budget which have weakens not only social security measures but also the national debt. friends this couple brought 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 taylor sleep with jobs or open. affluence. and similar celebrations in the czech republic where people have mocked the 30th anniversary of the velvet revolution and the end of communism 250000 protesters in prague also used the day to demand the resignation of prime minister andrei babis over allegations of his involvement with communist era speakers secret police is also been accused of funneling e.u. funds into his own businesses allegations he denies david drucker is the director of transparency international's office for the czech republic he says the

revolution brought a lot of changes but many challenges to. we got rid of a very oppressive and inefficient regime and we gained a lot of positive things like democracy freedom you know ability to make a business study and everything but after 30 years it seems that a lot of people actually are not completely happy about the way the country is governed we have a you know a lot of you to a folk oligarchs who are now at the ring politics who are buying media and day in our in my view they're actually putting the country on the wrong way actually that are kind minister or current prime minister mr bush is actually the 2nd richest person is covered over to this color so and that's what brings people to the streets and to protest we are concerned about the rule of law accountable government about quality of our institutions and these people represent them so at this moment the protesters are calling there and they are calling for there is

missile and a call for political solutions of the current situation but obviously the concerns are much deeper we have to think of this very complex transition of our economy and society which is fascinating on one hand but it also brought a lot of challenges there are those very bumpy and we even after 30 years we are still we have a lot of work to do because like a democracy is never over as it heads towards what polls predict will be victory in elections on december 12th the u.k.'s conservative party wants to better protect soldiers from what it sees as unfair trials under a proposed law veterans would not be prosecuted for historical offenses committed in iraq afghanistan and northern ireland now and see explains. as well as being bogged down in elections it's that time of year when the u.k. honors its war dead and the sacrifices they made in the 2 world wars when asked to

go and fight the conservative party now wants that unequivocal support to extend to the actions of soldiers in more controversial conflicts. it's widely expected that in the coming days the conservatives will include in their election manifesto the pledge to protect by amnesty all british soldiers who fought in northern ireland during the conflict there including those already accused of crimes the newly appointed veterans minister in boris johnson's last government said as much on twitter suggesting the new law of armed conflict with a plan the battlefield and would override the human rights acts to protect soldiers past and presence from prosecution the implications are politically volatile one former soldier has already been charged and is awaiting trial over the killing of civilians on bloody sunday in northern ireland in 1972 would his case be dropped under the new law that would be explosive in republican parts of the province

already deeply unhappy over bracks it's i think a lot of these things will depend a political reality on where he sits on the political spectrum possibly you know in this in play politically for all sorts of things but like a blanket amnesty is it you know it's a major precedent because certainly bouts of. the new law would also provide blanket legal cover for any party soldier accused of a war crime or a human rights violation in any recent conflict in the middle east or afghanistan. would have been soldiers found guilty of torture being let off and as well as protecting rank and file soldiers but also give cover to more senior officers who gave illegal orders i would say that trying to share with all of this. is that there are attempts to prevent those hywel those with the greatest responsibility from being looked at the law is aimed directly at

traditional conservative so you think the british military has to a by far too many laws while enemies like i still and al-qaeda don't follow any rules at all but for all that there are concerns that soldiers already accused of serious offenses might simply be let off and also how exactly military commanders will interpret the new law on the battlefields of future wars. support for military veterans fundraising job opportunities better mental health care are normally uncontroversial and are widely backed by the british public blanket protection from prosecution and abuse of power written into law may prove slightly more difficult to argue for largely al-jazeera london. saudi arabia has set a preliminary evaluation of $1700000000.00 on its state on the oil giant aramco that's well below the ambitious target of crown prince mohammed bin solomon $3000000000.00 shares will be priced around $8.00 each our economics editor abu ali

looks at how investors are likely to respond. back in 2016 crown prince mohammed bin some man wanted to float around co with a valuation of 2 trillion dollars immediately investment bankers hired to promote the i.p.o. could not make the math add up or argued with oil prices at $75.00 a barrel the company could be worth $2.00 trillion dollars but opec is warning all demand will slide over the next 4 years and that current prices it's only worth one point $75.00 trillion but there are other ways of following companies one method is dividend and our run co has guaranteed $5000000000.00 over the next 5 years which valued the company at $1.00 trillion dollars even after the sale of the saudi government willow 98 percent of aramco which means the government can decide how aramco spends money there is other geopolitical risks which take

a huge chunk. like the attacks on saudi oil facilities in september and the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi so what is a complete worth investors say a fair prices between one trillion dollars and reluctantly $1.00 trillion. coming up next in sports. if that these. a.j. will tell us about an unexpected interruption that this curling championship. was taken to. and i was severely beaten out. in force today was they don't think he intends to make sure that we're no longer entitled to be their basic rights more citizenship rights once their villages were burnt down were funneled into what is now become complex where the marines are

basically your principal exiles coming soon on al-jazeera. to.

thank you very much stefano sense captured the biggest title of his career winning the a.t.p. finals the greek lost the 1st set to domany team but then came back to win the last 2676 last year the 21 year old won the mixed jan 80 people successfully transitional into the beginning with this victory it fulfilling a route that a 1st time season finale title list has been crowned. another set of tennis stars are preparing for the davis cup final set to start on monday in madrid stars like a raffle adele and current world number one member jack of it sure among those training on sunday there is a new revamped format this year with athletes competing on 3 indoor hardcourt with elimination similar to that of football's world cup dutch driver max a stop on has won the brazilian grand prix at the into largo circuit in sao paolo for his 8th career victory for stop and start of the race in pole position only the

2nd time in his career he had managed to do that it would be an eventful race it was twice 3 stars that have the dutchman overtaking hamilton as many times of to be losing the lead there was high drama when the ferrari's sebastian vettel and charlotte clare collided causing both to fail to finish hamilton also hit the back of alexander out on but the baby long to full stop and as he claimed these 8th career victory the last race of the year takes place in abu dhabi on december 1st i mean i was behind so i was pushing flat out in my out that to try and be close i mean it was my only shot so of course because of that i was close into the directors and we knew that we had great talks we don't hold the whole we can already so yeah that was a guess but i was very happy to to get past will murder g.p. champion marc marc is has finished off the season in style by winning the valencia grand prix on sunday caps a dominant season for the spaniard this is his 12th victory of the year. quite a thought of who started from pole position finished 2nd 3 time former moto g.p.

champion for fellow men so. he sing for the last time as a professional and he finished this is the 6th time markets has one of moto g.p. title was if you go again because oh we do many things but you know we want to get very very hot all the team. was one goal this weekend that was try doing that as an idea. of course. they all that i took on the team the championship because they were they did amazing job controversial quarterback colin kaepernick says he's ready to play anyway despite refusing to attend a tryout session organized by the n.f.l. in atlanta the 32 year old instead switch the venue to a nearby high school and held his own sation he says it was to allow the media to be prisons pathic reports this was billed as the 1st step in calling complex journey back to the n.f.l. instead it became a slightly faster chapter in the ongoing battle between capital and the league and

if old bosses how to organize an official tryout in atlanta in front of 25 leagues counts they said in an effort to get him playing again although several players and commentators have suggested the whole event was a p.r. stunt by the league but at the last minute the quarterback moved the session to a nearby high school where captain eric held his own tryout he said to allow the media full access obviously with everything today was making sure we had transparency what went on we were getting that elsewhere so we came out here is important here ground here we're ready to play ready to go anywhere my agent jeff now he's ready to talk to any team interview a team any. they're ready and stay ready now continue to be ready for their part the n.f.l. released a statement saying we are disappointed that collin didn't appear for his workout call his decision has no effect on his status in the league he remains an unrestricted free agent eligible to sign with any club. over the last 3 years now

whenever. franchise has been willing to take happening on ever since he left the san francisco $49.00 is at the end of the 2016th season captain it made headlines in that season for kneeling during the u.s. national anthem ahead of games in a protest at racial injustice it prompted similar protests from other players as well as criticism from u.s. president donald trump after leaving the $49.00 ers captain it became a symbol for civil rights and social activism to know if your dreams are crazy but while his celebrity helped him win lucrative endorsements it didn't get him an n.f.l. contract in 2017 cap and it took legal action against the n.f.l. and its commissioner roger goodell claiming team owners were conspiring not to sign him because of his protests the case was eventually settled out of court so we're waiting for the 32 owners 32 teams roger goodell of them to start running start

running from the truth start running from people so cap'n excess he's ready to play but if saturday's events have proven anything is that there's still plenty of mistrust between the player and the n.f.l. back al-jazeera cristiana is now just one goal away from reaching 100 international goals in portugal he scored in these countries to no euro 2020 qualifier win over luxembourg on sunday but if a man is called the other go for now those 99 goal for his country wrapping up the win for the european champions who have now confirmed their place in next year's tournament england's tommy fleetwood has won the tournament known as africa's major . challenge at sun city in south africa missile in the stunning hillside of the country's northwest province fleetwood to beat marcus can halt in a playoff inducement fired a spectacular final round 65 to take the clubhouse lead on 12 under par but then had to wait for the rest of the pack to see if he had done enough victory was confirmed in their playoff win the swede bogeyed fleetwood is now 2nd in the race

to dubai standards. well the same things apply you know just the closer it gets to the end of the season our it gets to look at you know stay in the present do your things you know concentrate on what you do best and. happy for the challenge i feel like i'm very ready i mean i might go on it so you can play terrible but you know it's golf and this experience a little bit forever so. then what's normally a quiet sport there was an unexpected interruption during the european cooling championships. a fire alarm went off in the round robin phase of the women's competition thankfully they was no fire but friends and the teams the 1st evacuees the fooling the competition later resumed with scotland beating out. ok more support coming up from us again later we'll see you then peter thank you very much for the news hour on al-jazeera but do stay with us plenty more coming up after this very short break we'll have the latest on the protests in hong kong to

stay with us. i. think stories generate found some news of headlines these protests are saying down with the system down with all of the parts with different angles from different perspectives just because we came to prison days amazing right stopped at the gate separate the spin from the facts to western media jumps on stories without taking down the misinformation from the journalism it's about telling the stories of those human beings on the ground with the listening post on al-jazeera. every war makes

a devastating impact of fox's earthrise explores some of the efforts to recover what was lost from the syrian scientists safeguarding one of our most valuable resources these are important southpaws that we have to make sure they are surviving to the refugees striving to co-exist with nature ok so what's going on there and they're simulating what happens when an elephant camas life up to conflict on al-jazeera. new leaders place children in this refugee camp the latest victims of the unending sectarian violence in central african republic among them are survivors of unspeakable violence 10 year olds in work as mother is dead her father is gone killed because they were christian by their own muslim neighbors this is the least you home an overcrowded refugee camp of 23000 people surrounded by armed militia groups celine wants answers she says she wants to be asking the

questions and so we traded places inch took the microphone will we find peace how can we make the violence stop when will i be able to return home. fires and explosions as hong kong police stormed a university held by protesters after an all night standoff. watching al-jazeera live from doha also coming up iran's president says subsidies will sought going to 4 families from monday as he tries to calm the fury over higher petrol prices shouldn't this former wartime defense chief wins the presidency after a nationalist campaign promising to.