but their fate still lies in the hands of their colonisers. another paradise i witnessed a documentary on a. constitutional law hong kong court rules against a ban on face masks amid a violent standoff between police and protesters at the university. hello from doha when i'm come out santa maria and this is the world news from al-jazeera iran's president condemns protests over the rice rise of gasoline costs and says poor families will start seeing some benefits also severe food and fuel shortages hit bolivia supporters of the former president barricade major roads and

the victims of the worst mass carried out by colombia's far rebels are now being buried 17 years on. so hong kong's high court has ruled the emergency law which band face masks worn by pro-democracy protesters is unconstitutional you remember chief executive carrie lamb announce the ban back in october as she tried to stem the violence the thing is that actually dates back to british colonial era law the court has ruled it incompatible with the basic law of today the ban of face masks only inflame the situation though there was an escalation in protests and violence and destruction in fact on monday right police surrounded a university campus after protesters who were holed up inside threw petrol bombs and then shot arrows at them and then just. hostile police have started to arrest

a number of protesters who are trying to leave that campus we're going to talk to sarah clarke in hong kong in just a moment but 1st this is her report on how the standoff unfolded. with parts of the polytechnic university a blaze police moved in to clear the protesters they barricaded themselves on campus students fled as riot police fired tear gas and made arrests. if you. will for our proposal also we are told. this came after a marathon standoff with protesters blocking all access to the university liking petrol bombs and devices to keep police right squad surrounded the university after a day of violent confrontations an officer shot by an arrow some students fled on roads and an overpass others refused to leave i wanted democracy and freedom will come home call put this in syria file way from dallas the stay will let just fights

at the last moments to see this. and just get down. hong kong central cross harbor tunnel mines blocked causing major traffic congestion on monday schools are also shut for a 2nd week as well as classes at major universities this area remains in lockdown major roads are blocked in one of the busiest parts of hong kong as rock place move in to mike arrests and crackdown on those protesters who by this area the new battleground the anti-government movement. demonstrations now in their 5th month the government has warned it will escalate its efforts to restore calm in a city that's been rocked by its worst political crisis in decades. so sarah clarke with that report and here she is live in hong kong now hi sara it looks quiet behind you can you explain to us what's actually been happening today. it's eerily quiet at the moment but still in the last 2 hours with the same problem. the

most action on this campus for some days where we had. a huge number of place moving in and a wrist a master wrist of the students in the protesters would hold up. the campus behind me this is the polytechnic university i encountered at these protesters had been there since friday and the place to describe them is creating what i thought was a weapon factory we had a mass number of. petrol bombs that had been devised and created and we also had as you mentioned bows and arrows being used to try and keep the place but certainly the softer tone here in hong kong on monday the right place moved in and they've made a huge number of arrests they've also fired multiple rounds of tear gas and various branches of devices and weapons on the protesters so we've certainly seen the level of escalation between the confrontations between the police and the protesters escalate in the last couple of hours but yes it is quiet at the moment at the fires that were burning we had a big cloud of black smoke on the campus as happened when they tear gas was being

fired on those protests this is certainly a lot of action the last couple of hours but at the moment it's eerily quiet however we do still have quite a heavy police presence on the campus and surrounding this whole area in kelowna sir just a quick word on the face. and being ruled unconstitutional by the court i guess that's a victory for the protestors but also part of me thinks it was a pretty ineffectual thing in the 1st place. it was it was a certainly hard to police that was introduced under as you mentioned the emergency laws back in october and the place had been trying to enforce this mosque but it was a difficult one to police and as a result of the various a big group of pan democratic lawmakers one of the parties here the pro-democracy groups they took that to the high court requesting an injunction on that as well as describing it as unconstitutional now the high court today deliberate on that decision and they've decided to side with the democratically back is described as

unconstitutional so certainly that's not the last quarter that can still the government can still take that back to the final court of appeal if they wish to challenge that decision. in hong kong thank you. 2 other news in 2 explosions in the afghan capital kabul a spokesman for the ministry of the interior says an individual threw 2 grenades at guards stationed outside a military training center at least 5 other people have been injured iran's president says families will start receiving financial assistance on monday this money will come from a steep rise in petrol prices which has triggered protests around the country at least $2.00 people have been killed since those demonstrations began president hassan rouhani says while people have the right to protest they cannot spread insecurity more than 87000 people have demonstrated across iran since friday according to security officials quoted by the fox news agency around a 1000 of those people have been arrested and in one particularly hard hit province

more than 100 banks and 57 stores have either been damaged or set on fire no cio having more doubt it we have witnessed how some people have gone to the streets after the implementation of the decision 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. more on these developments now and also jabari in teheran. 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 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 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 the u.s. sanctions 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 inside. now bolivians are facing food and fuel shortages orders of the former president evo morales continue to block roads the new interim government says it's created a so-called bridge to the main city with military planes delivering supplies they're working on similar plans in other cities now resigned of course and fled to mexico after winning an election many believe was rigged but he still has a lot of support in poorer areas report now from a stronghold in central bolivia. the city of the province of mourning. penis was shot during a protest carried out by supporters here his relatives say she was shot in the head . we are said and her to because he is not the only one that was killed they took

the others a few hours away we want a solution because when we took him to the clinic we had to pay a lot we won justice. last week after being accused by the oas of committing fraud in the presidential elections but for these people he was the man who dignified. most of the people are from indigenous communities and our coca leaves growers and they were trying to go through the main road towards the capital but they were prevented by the police they had to escape and they're telling us that they were ambushed right in this. facebook live video filmed by one of the protesters. was 18 years old and was shot in the stomach while filming the clashes live. he was killed that day. militarizing this because they want to believe. they shot at us from everywhere and

they can do it because. the actions of security forces are being investigated they're accused of using live ammunition and. at least 9 people were killed and over 130 were injured. man says the response by the military was disproportionate to what happened was a massacre in this country they want to say it was a confrontation on friday the government issued a decree that exonerates the armed forces of any killing and one hour after that decree the police and the military started using live ammunition against protesters . the government says the protesters were infiltrated by foreigners and were using improvised weapons it will be the real i have asked the attorney general to investigate what happened he told me the delay was because the rule it of did not

want to view the bodies we have asked the attorney general to investigate this as soon as possible because the tropic was the launching pad for a will more or less political career as a leader of the coca leaf growers federation many people here remain loyal to him and do not trust him a new interim administration many say at call for elections and political negotiations are crucial to prevent further loss of life. in the news ahead sri lanka's new president is sworn in after a nationalist campaign promising to crush what he calls religious extremism. i'm from either mill and i'm in the kalahari desert in south africa with the world's fastest cars being tested to break the land speed record.

you know venice is still suffering from that also yet more rain is gathered in northern italy right across slovenia and into the tearaways foremost snow is just this perpetual motion now on monday the focus is light still be in it's a bit of a get beyond that whereas the cold has been. 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 but dreads managed to get the sunshine to bring up to 12 degrees the power is going to be disappointing and london other raining well windy or both in the picture between monday and cheesy doesn't change in the same draw of warms means more rain for its lee more rain is lavinia more snow for the tour of the east and outs fact towards switzerland you can see otherwise things haven't changed

a huge amount but some about what has been spilling off into our jiri are not showing 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 slowly eastwards because from 14 to city in the sunshine and tunis case the rain on tuesday. every piece of devastating impact on. earth tries explore some of the efforts to recover what was lost from the syrian scientists safeguarding one of our most valuable resources these are important we have to make sure they are surviving to the refugees striving to co-exist with nature ok so what's going on there simulating what happens when an elephant comes to conflict on al jazeera.

top stories for you this hour on al-jazeera there has been a victory for pro-democracy protesters in hong kong after the high court ruled a ban on face masks was unconstitutional decision follows a violent standoff with bryant police at a university iran's president says families will start receiving financial systems on monday the money will come from a steep rise in petrol prices which triggered protests around the country at least $2.00 people have been killed since those demonstrations began and bolivians are facing food and fuel shortages as supporters of the former president continue to block roads the new interim government says it's created an air bridge to the main

city of military planes delivering supplies. the inauguration of sri lanka's new president is underway in the city of the poorer. claimed victory after a campaign marked by nationalist rhetoric and promises of better security you know has caused the task of lifting the country out of an economic slump made worse by the bombings back in easter. is there where that ceremony is taking place what's been happening there today. it's all happening here in the no doubt the poor of the historic sort of religious sites to the center of sri lanka where the new president got up there rajapaksa has been sworn in as the new executive president now there were basically all roads leading to the ruined valley say or ancient historic temple dating back centuries where go

target rajapaksa has decided to take the oath of office it's a not all divorced to the huge majority of single of british voters that placed their faith in him with an overwhelming sort of a number in terms of that victory so it was basically a mix of families carrying young children you know diehard loyalists supporters the usual sort of political bandwagon that follows politicians around so it was people of all sort of shapes sizes backgrounds that decided that they wanted a piece of the action in the rajapaksa basically swearing in ceremony here today in an rather poor a minnow a obviously the nationalist side of things the security side of things was a very important part of his victory but i mentioned in the intro there is an economic slump as well what will you just tell us more about how bad it is and what

the new president needs to do. that's right i mean essentially on the outset and particularly coming into the campaigns that sort of security angle national security post the easter bombings were a big big factor official lankans who had had the kind of ground pulled from underneath them after those bombings of the huge loss of life and that was one of the key sort of advantages gore topit rajapaksa played to in his campaign but the huge task he has ahead of him in lifting the sri lankan economy out of the dodgems is a mammoth task for him now obviously the country the economy has a huge debt burden this obviously something that the current government inherited from go to bear rajapakse as brothers regime and the rajapaksa did to go in for a lot of loans to rebuild the country after the end of

a 26 year civil war and in the absence of other sort of countries and systems coming up we did turn a lot to china where there was a lot of loans taken in we are in a lot of debt as a country the laundry payments adichie pit demands are quite crushing almost so in terms of economic indicators performance sort of importation all the key indicators of this economy needs to be taken sort of very very seriously and the new president will have a huge challenge and that is what the people of sri lanka are looking towards him to bring that same sort of efficiency of management almost as many people we spoke to have pointed out the way he brought the war to an end they're hoping that he'll lot he sort of approaches the economy and other issues with that same sort of single minded drive and he produces results. you know in

a mood about in sri lanka thank you for that. now a new report from human rights watch says a violent crackdown on protesters in sudan back in june could amount to crimes against humanity the rights group says sudanese forces opened fire on protesters and also committed crimes of sexual violence witnesses say members of the forces were seen throwing bodies into the river nile paramilitary units commanded by the deputy head of sudan's transitional government is also accused of leading those attacks activists are demanding an independent inquiry and that those responsible are held to account here morgan now has more with the support from khartoum. walking down the street brings painful memories for a key he says he was here on june 3rd one a found participating in a city that had been going on for 2 months when soldiers raided it he gets in the car to show us the scar left by the bullets. the soldiers came from all directions

and started firing at the protesters they burnt the tents where some of the protestors were we ran and hid inside a nearby building but they raided that and started beating us when i saw them beating the girls who were also hiding i told them to let the girls go and beat the men instead that's when one of the soldiers took an aim and told them to shoot. the sit in started in april after a month of anti-government protests against former president ahmed bashir the demonstrators demanded bashir step down accusing him of corruption and mismanaging the country which he ruled for 30 years these after the sit in fact the military council forced him from power and took over but it continued even after he was gone as talks between protest leaders and the military council dragged on they argued over who should run the country during its transitional period protesters demanded a civilian rule. after nearly 2 months the system came to a deadly end. medical groups aligned to the protest movement say 120 people were

killed and over 400 were injured during the raid by soldiers dozens were reported missing. the june 3rd attack did not just involve shooting at an armed protesters women and men reports of being raped a survivor was reported witnessing protestors some still alive being tied to a block and thrown into the river while a few feet away. the rights group human rights watch says what happened bad day could amount to crimes against humanity the evidence points to a clear pattern that is widespread and systematic and points to. a policy that the government had adopted of using live ammunition against peaceful and unarmed protesters when crimes like this of the serious nature are committed as part of a systematic pattern of attack they can qualify as crimes against

humanity a committee to investigate better cause to to by the transitional government sworn in in september it includes members from the military and the police sides protesters accused of being involved in the attack. that there were offenses. that took place on that the. offenses or all is not all or was committed by individuals not even even if it is executed by a 4th protesters say they want justice for the lives lost that day and they won't rest until it's delivered people morgan al-jazeera. russia is to return 3 captured naval ships to ukraine ahead of a planned peace summit next month the vessels have been moved to a handover location in the black sea russia sees those ships off the coast of crimea a year ago 13000 people have been killed in eastern ukraine over the past 5 years

in the fighting between progress the separatists and ukrainian forces. no survivors of the worst massacre committed by fog rebels during colombia's civil conflict are finally receiving the remains of their loved ones 74 people were killed when a cylinder bomb fell on a church in the town of bor yeah. the reports these miners have waited a very long time for just the remains of the victims of the worst massacre committed by 5 rebels during the country's civil conflict are finally back where they belong almost 2 decades later oh oh white coffins for children brown for adults. the young there is a 1000000 upon last year my father unnecessarily and my mother and i mean also he's my brother many of us while i was waiting for 6 of them for you for the 1st time i feel some peace because we got our family back it's an important step because they

will receive a christian burial but will never forget the pain and time they've left behind a may 2nd 2002 confrontations between 5 gravels and paramilitary forces erupted in the riverside town of book in the western jungle province of choko a cylinder bomb blanched by the rebels fell on the church where the community took refuge at least $74.00 died in what became known as the massacre nearly everyone here was affected there's not much left of the old city of. the bodies mutilated by the bomb and get up in communal graves and the community fled to the closest city more than 3 hours down the river when they came back they found their town it been razed to the ground. eventually a new town was built not far from the old one but the community remained in a state of suspended grief until the signing of a peace deal with 5 gravels in 2016. then a 2 and

a half year long process to identify the remains started with the help of the united nations. fark leaders have since asked the community for forgiveness but while the rebels are gone many of the factors that led to the massacre remain in new york really you know groups or reorganized or we don't know exactly who they are but certainly criminal groups they are they're going to be a does not need just a military base in but grew that development social development and this is the most difficult. residence a fear persists as a remaining rebel group. and paramilitary gangs vie for control of the region were illegal mining and cocaine trafficking damini in the more careful i think this process and their work and they're all the people that supported us through it all makes sense only if we make sure it will never happen again for now the community is finally able to begin the process a healing

a wound that had remained holding talks to form a unity government says country needs international support after 2 months of anti-government protests made the country's dire humanitarian soup situation even worse there is widespread anger over high inflation and allegations of corruption haiti has been without a functioning government since march. finally it is called the bloodhound and those who built it believe it will soon be the fastest car on earth the british team is testing it in south africa's kalahari desert and for me to miller went to have a look. it's developers say it's the most straight line car ever built it's aim to break the world land speed record at a speed of 800 kilometers an hour the bloodhound ellice are is one of the world's top 10 fastest cars but it aims to double that speed next year it's been bold to break the record see it more than 20 years ago at 1227.9

kilometers an hour it is very difficult to describe because it's a bit like flying a jet fighter and it's a little bit trite like driving a high performance racing car but since most people haven't done either of those things that probably doesn't help in very simple terms it's very hot the cockpit it's very noisy there's a lot of acceleration as a lot of g.'s slowing down again and. the simplest thing i can say is the ground goes past very very quickly despite the sweltering heat the hugs and region deep in the kalahari desert provides the ideal testing ground the open flat surface has been carefully prepared by hundreds of local community members who've removed tons of rock for a smooth ride organizers say it's the largest area of land ever cleared for a motor sport event and at full design speed the car covers 1.6 kilometers in just 3.6 seconds it's powered by a rolls royce each

a $208.00 engine normally found in a euro fighter typhoon jet the thrust produced is equal to $360.00 family cause the 90 kilogram solid aluminum wheels have been specially designed for the desert surface they're built to spin at up to 10200 revolutions a minute more than 4 times faster than the wheels on a formula one car at top speed but our project has been going for 10 years. and it's done an amazing job of inspiring people to get involved in engineering over the years it almost was too good at doing that and it means there are probably itself almost fell by the wayside because it was too good to do an education chart of it and a project basement cost last year going to ministration that's when i got involved once testing is complete the call will return to the united kingdom for any modifications before it attempts to break the world record the bloodhound l.s.r.

is a combination of fast jet f one car and space ship the engineering team says it's bolt the world's fastest car to inspire people everywhere for me to miller al-jazeera skin band in the northern cape. up past the hour here on al-jazeera and these are the tops. stories of victory for pro-democracy protesters in hong kong after the high court ruled a ban on face masks was unconstitutional this is in full as a violent standoff with riot police at a university. with more from hong kong it's eerily quiet at the moment but still in the last 2 hours we've seen probably the most action on this campus for some days where we had. a huge number of place move in and arrest a mass arrests of the students in the protest this would hold up in this campus behind me this is the polytechnic university in california and these protesters had

been there since friday and the police did describe it as creating what they thought was a weapon factory we had a mass number of. petrol bombs that had been devised and created over headlines 2 explosions in the afghan capital kabul a spokesman for the ministry of the interior says an individual threw 2 grenades at guards stationed outside a military training center at least 5 other people have been injured iran's president says families will start receiving financial assistance from monday the money coming from a steep rise in petrol prices which in turn has triggered protests around the country at least 2 people have been killed since the demonstrations began. bolivians are facing food and fuel shortages supporters of the former president evo morales continue to block roads the new interim government says it's created a so-called bridge to the main city. with military planes delivering supplies. you know because new presidents underway in the city of uno to the poor but by

a rajapaksa claimed victory after a campaign marked by nationalist rhetoric and promises of better security he now has the task of lifting the country out of an economic slump made worse by the easter bombings and russia's all set to return 3 captured naval ships to ukraine ahead of a planned peace summit next month the vessels have been moved to a handover location russia seized the ships off the coast of crimea a year ago more than 13000 people have now been killed in the eastern ukraine over the past 5 years in fighting between pro russian separatists and ukrainian forces you're up to date with the headlines here on al-jazeera inside story starts right now. on counting the cost with breaks it make america great again to make in india are we seeing a backlash against globalization or is it just another economic war plus france's richest man is worth more than 100000000000 dollars we find out if france is an unequal society counting the cost on al-jazeera.

it's been a year since hundreds of thousands of french citizens protested against a hike on fuel prices what became known as the best movement against social inequality pose a challenge to president came out of wedlock but what's changed since then this is inside story. hello welcome to the program. when hundreds of thousands of people dress in florissant sleeveless jackets protested in fronts last november not many people realized how powerful a movement it was.