and there it is shaft acme's well he's saying can you like to think that there's nationalism is not as ugly as someone else's nationalism in studio would be unscripted on al-jazeera. after a day of violence and arrests in hong kong police and protesters and locked in a tense standoff at a university campus. hello and welcome to al-jazeera live from my headquarters in doha with municipal purana also ahead and georgia's capital tbilisi place move against protesters blockading the country's parliament. catalonia is regional leader goes on trial the bottle and accused of disobedience. and iran's president condemns protests over the rise in

petrol prices and says poor families will start seeing the benefits from the revenue. we began with a tense standoff in hong kong between riot police and pro-democracy protesters at a university where demonstrators have barricaded themselves inside the polytechnic campus for several days now before dawn on monday police entered the grounds and they were met with a bag of petrol bombs and arrows they responded with tear gas and water cannon most alarming they did weapons were used in the 43rd if you do this 3 reach has become a vet in fact treat his family as a refugee for extreme any violence via just 50 bettman so rallies this reached a critical level right just so intention murder he said it cost.

a number of demonstrators fled the university's building several people were arrested it's not unknown how many remain in size and there are large groups of people on the streets of the city reportedly making their way towards the university campus let's go now to our correspondent rob mcbride he is joining us live from hong kong so what's happening there now rob. just as you join us here elizabeth. fear some clash between those protesters who've been gathering close to the university campus to try to be in support of the besieged students and police riot police who have used. to canada and all sarah hughes immense tear gas in the front line of this protest has just broken people have just come back many of them coughing spluttering. from the effects of the tear gas and. back to this school and the police are now pushing

through that barricade and we could expect i suppose another encounter i think of a ferocity of the whole to canada and also. many people by surprise just seeing a lot of people here elizabeth many hardcore activists who got all the care but also we've been seeing here a lot of people who just had faced. young people almost stepfamilies you suspect and it almost feels like some of the protesters at least seem to be coming out for the 1st time. a number of them seem to. help out moving brick stop to the front line which then get thrown at the police helping to pull up the bricks off the side. and we've also seen as you often see that these protest now a little group the other protesters covered by to try to disguise

what they're doing but basically it's a little. a little petrol bomb factory where they back off. student these protesters have fallen back on a number of sides. and i would estimate there's a kurd couple of 1000 people here on this monday evening this is a tactic that they have adopted. to support the students inside the campus. pressure on the police they cause trouble in surrounding streets to try to try to take pressure. from those who are procedure the campers maybe in the hope that some of those protesters are able to escape we haven't seen that so far today monday many protesters have been arrested or that's a situation here at the moment as we just wait to see how this develops further

elizabeth. and rob i know that you don't have access to some of the pictures that we can look at last hour we have been seeing extraordinary pictures of protesters it looks like they're absolutely down from. a bridge to vegas police who have been making a number of arrests and it's extraordinary that people are still coming out in their thousands often they've seen the water carrying the tear gas and the arrest. that's right absolutely you do get the sense. i mean you don't want to use the word revolution without some used by these protesters that's obviously a very subjective but it certainly does at times have the feeling of some kind. times you sense the anger the emotion. having said that it has to be said there are many people who think this this is

this will go nowhere in hong kong attorney got to anger china and it ultimately will lead to hong kong's demise but you can tell these people that this particular evening i said this is we are now well into the mid to late evening here there's no sign of this crowd diminishing and i just want to see the police as i said broke through the 1st defensive line. the protesters were pushing up and i think they could find to try to stop the turn to stop the water cannon and one thing they were pushing up a very large street umbrellas this is this is an area of a number of quite fashionable. each arrays people can eat out on the street and people are using those umbrellas to try to fend off the water cannon well obviously all that does is it just creates more resistance and you get washed away. we don't

want to count and that's what we have seen. many other protesters are calling for people to stand. down but i have to say this is quite. a dangerous situation here this is this street. a very narrow street there are lots of streets in cairo loom like this they're actually quite fashionable you know lots of boutiques. i can see one or 2 like this isn't a jacket and we have got a nice hotel here with an awful lot of very big mused. hotel guests and tallest stuck in the lobby looking out and wondering just what is going on here on this particular evening lizabeth and rob it's very hard to imagine would the pictures that we're seeing how those local council elections that are due for sunday can

take place like this. well the government is still insisting that they will go i had lots of people who wanted to go ahead because they believe it's one of the few. how people really feel about what's going on at the moment it's a district council election it should be about bread and butter issues like who cleans the streets and the water supply and things like that but everybody knows that in this highly charged political atmosphere it will be anything. to be anything but bread and butter issues it will be just about how this place should be run so everyone will be looking to see how people vote will they vote for a candidate that says stick with china get off the streets let's raise a really strong nor in order. vote for the people who are saying we should have more autonomy within china right try and. basically

constitution and as you join us we look now people seem to be trying to move back up police are shining the light on here the strong lights and what they've also been using which we hear occasionally this so-called non-lethal ammunition it's things like rubber bullets. rubber bullets pink balls do you hear that you hear them through these umbrella's and sadly these are the things that do . cause quite bad injuries among the protesters but from the police point of view they have said repeatedly that if a are facing a mullah tough cocktails which they regard as lisa i mean it should they are quite within their rights they say to use live ammunition. rob thank you for that for now the. road. rob thank you for that that is. the latest live from

those protests in hong kong. well let's move on now to georgia where riot police are moving in on protesters near the country's parliament police used water cannon to disperse demonstrators from earlier protests to set up barricades around parliament to prevent m.p.'s from entering their calling for early elections after parliament failed to pass a promised electoral reform let's go to our correspondent robin forestry record he is joining us i believe on the phone from tbilisi seeing reports that police are detaining a protest as robin. what's happening there. 1 right now. standing outside the parliament. crowds. still standing but they've been cleared from the main streets and side streets leading around the building the main building of the parliament earlier they had to attend and erected sandbags and they had had to load the gate close

to the entrance gate to parliament but the police we saw them earlier been very quickly in riot gear. touching the protesters or the down to the to the area but the front of the building and then using water cannons to ready extinguish the fire to the protesters and. ripping up the tent the tent candidate and basically clearing people off i had built myself seen any. stage quite possible that in some detention but i think the old rule a government was the people very quickly off the street that soon as they began this action which was the basically blockade parliament because they say the parliament no longer has any credibility off to that trauma by the government. really negative all day to strongly to change the electoral law to one of

proportional representation that would have allowed for the next year of the popular vote in the country they reneged on that and he made up for me during the summer and that's why addition protesters came out in response to that looting parliament to say time for a change they want the government to resign but the way the government now has responded. decisively makes it look as if the potential for trouble ahead of the opposition ongoing willing to go quietly. and this is the 2nd day i take it off these protests something like 20000 people are valid and tbilisi tbilisi on sunday. it. certainly was number one in the several 1000 when i would say. 3 you know i will listen to it difficult to gauge believe treaty busy pretty time last night in knots when they

decided that they were going to stay on and and and make their statements which was the effectively we have no confidence in the government is able to this is a good time said late. into it a long running standoff between the o.p.c. in the government which really began in the summer when. people came out i agree the way the government was handling its ongoing crisis with russia because russia continued to control georgian territory 20 percent of jordan territory and people are angry that the government here is seen as being too soft on russia not being proactive enough not getting those territories but they also feel that there is a full ruler of the country which is the country 'd. that beneath all they go to happen to be the chairman of the governing party and they take all of the blame on him and they think that he is basically moving to consolidate his power his control

over the country and so that is an ongoing defeated on goalie. contest between the opposition to be say to countries had enough of this government in the government which by the way is in no mood to go anywhere at all concede to any of the opposition. 7 thank you for that so now that it's all been tossed the walk over the latest on those protests joining us on the phone from the capital tbilisi thank you. a big week ahead in washington and the impeachment inquiry focused on president trump and just in the last few minutes while the president has shaken things up again using his favorite medium twitter. is joining us live from washington d.c. i'll give you the pleasure of talking us through this tweet. yeah it's a couple of tweets but the main headline is that the u.s.

president has suggested that he may testify in the house democrats' impeachment inquiry the u.s. president writing on twitter in just the last few moments that he would potentially do it in writing he says even though i did nothing wrong i don't like giving credibility to this no due process hoax i like the idea and will in order to get congress focused again strongly consider it so in that tweet he said that he will testify and then he's also strongly can sit testifying so kind of some mixed messages there and a little bit surprising considering if we think back to the other big probe of this presidency and that was the one conducted by robert muller the special counsel into whether the risk lucian between terms 2016 campaign and russia the president went to great lengths not to speak publicly or to speak to the investigators directly instead doing it in writing so he's intimated there that perhaps he could testify

in the impeachment inquiry in writing but then also saying he might actually testify this is astounding we've never seen anything like this from a sitting president so it's hard to know what the president is trying to do we do know he's trying to sort of direct the narrative on a monday morning and we also know that he seems to be a little bit rattled by an interview that was given by the house speaker nancy pelosi just about 24 hours ago when it aired centrally what she said was that she felt that the president was in imposture that he is in secure in his role that seems to have rattled the president who now says that he wants to speak publicly about this he may even speak publicly about this as the house continues to investigate whether or not he overstepped his presidential powers trying to get a former rival or rather a rival former vice president joe biden investigated for political purposes when he helped that phone call back in july with the ukrainian president committee thank

you for that for now that his committee held it and washington d.c. thank you. still ahead on the bulletin as news president is sworn in and after a national campaign promising to crush what he calls religious extremism. hello winter has worked its way down through most of china now it may not be obvious in satellite picture because the close to going west to east but temperature wise on the ground we don't single figures in good part of inland china it's cold at night shanghai's it's $38.00 in hong kong $25.00 the sun is out certain feel cold just cold and if anything that's where it stops for a day or 2 little bit of a retreat maybe lose small warming but there is colder and certainly for the north

in china. i haven't said goodbye to the monsoon rains in the southwest we've got the northeast monsoon which means big showers sometimes occur anyway down this east coast we had some decent ones just yesterday to be honest but the focus is going to be further south if you're lucky tell a lot about china is involved and in sri lanka otherwise it now looks dry the rain story recently right up here in the foothills of the himalayas they are gone as a forecast feature for the next couple of days 29 still in karachi this is where the rain snow is going to appear snow on the iranian side of the gulf but rain will go down through bahrain and qatar this is the picture for tuesday it fades off into saudi arabia it'll be persistent rain and to some degree sundry once it's gone through the show miles in and things cool down. on culture the cost with briggs it make america great again to make it india are we

seeing a backlash against globalization or is it just a robot government or. richest man is worth $100000000000.00 we find out if this is an unequal society comes in the cost 0. 0 again out of the problem and the headline on al-jazeera a tense standoff is continuing in hong kong between raja printings and pro-democracy protesters at a university demonstrators have barricaded themselves inside the campus for days

and there are large groups of people on the streets reportedly making their way towards the building riot police in georgia moving in on protesters outside parliament police used water cannon to disperse demonstrations there calling for early elections after parliament failed to pass a promised electoral reform bill. now the no news leader kim thought to is on trial for alleged disobedience is accused of ignoring orders from these foundation led to authority to remove a symbol of support for the separatist movement of a government building or tensions have been high in the region since the jailing of a number of caution on separatist leaders last month song a guy go has more nowhere in court. ahead of his arrival at the tribunals the castle. regional president thought about said that he wasn't merely turning up just to defend his position but to accuse the central spanish government of violating his rights and the rights of catalogs however the view of the electoral

board says maintaining that his actions jury in the april election period of painting their yellow ribbons to public offices amounted to using tools of political propaganda and now those yellow ribbons are 7 the symbols that the procession is have been using to identify and support the politicians who have been since jailed for sedition it is part of the on go in crisis that is ongoing here in this region signifying the fight between the central government and pro separatist sympathies of the government in catalonia meanwhile. himself could be disposed for up to 2 years for those actions if he is found guilty but this is certainly not going to be in any way laying any of the issues here with spain's government still struggling to try and find the numbers to be able to form

a government in itself the catalan issues still very much at the focus of that and they're going to need the catalan politicians if they're going to be able to successfully form some kind of government in the future. russia has returned a 3 captured naval ships to ukraine ahead of a planned peace summit next month the vessel had been moved to a handover location in the black sea russia seized the ships off the coast of crimea a year ago 13000 people have been killed in eastern ukraine over the past 5 years and fighting between pro russian separatists and ukrainian forces alexandra steele janowicz guard for it has more from moscow. 3 ukrainian ships started their hours long journey back to home to the home port of this or you could a me and the black sea port they've been transferred or released to ukrainians by the russians in the neutral waters of the black sea today some 30 kilometers off the coast it has been

a year since russia arrested after opening fire and wounding several of sailors are arrested this 3 ships nearby the crimean peninsula territory russia actually alex from ukraine in 2014 now the un maritime tribune as a provisional measure ordered russia to release both the ship and the sailors say lives have been released as a part of an exchange of prisoners a deal in september and now comes the ships the russian says they're not doing this because of this order but because they finished their investigations and russia says that ukrainian ships actually violated state authority waters of russia this step comes ahead of the 4 way summits on east ukraine and that is a summit between the presidents of ukraine or russia france and chancellor of germany to discuss how to solve the conflict in the east ukraine that has been lasting for 5 years this is the last in the line of positive steps towards

returning to the negotiating table. a spokesman for the iranian government says protests of an increase in petrol prices are coming around the country the government has confirmed though that 3 people have died since demonstrations began iran's president hassan rouhani says $20000000.00 people will start receiving financial assistance on monday generated by the proceeds from the fuel increases the divide has more from tehran. nearly 20000000 iranians will receive the subsidies that the government has promised later on monday evening into their bank accounts following that the government has announced the next batch will be released into the people's bank accounts on thursday and the last group will receive their subsidies on sunday so nearly 16000000 iranians will get some kind of assistance from the government but it's not clear how that will help them with this increase of they've seen over the past few days in fuel prices they woke up on friday morning to find that the price of petrol had gone up 3 fourths in the

country that's when unrest broke out in various cities across the country and there have been a number of arrests and the government has said that although it is the people's rights to protest it is not their right to riot the supreme leader has also made his position clear backing the government's decision to increase the fuel prices saying that it was a necessary step to ensure that ordinary iranians can make ends meet all this is as a result of united states sanctions on iran and the president has said that they tried everything to avoid doing this but in the end it was the only option they had now iranians are still angry and they're worried that that increase will also affect other aspects of their lives for now we are waiting to see what kind of assistance they will be getting later on monday and whether or not that will actually have any kind of major impact on their daily life now protesters and iraq's basra province have set up roadblocks leading to the country's main port in

the fast self the closure hall to traffic making it difficult for port employees to get to work demonstrations began last month of a lack of jobs and public services but i'm going to calls for a complete change in government. the international community is calling for the immediate release of libyan m.p.c. her said again where she was abducted from her home in benghazi in july a family says she was kidnapped by forces loyal to libyan warlord holly for half their without their wives has more from tripoli. so how libby a lawmaker from the eastern city of was abducted and. her family members were brutally beaten by men in military uniform in july now the 12 european countries along with the european union delegation to libya have issued a stronger statement expressing concern over sergei was abduction and disappearance

and also calling for her immediate release the statement is also calling for an investigation into the abduction of sergei and also to uncover her we're about we know that according to his family members who told him or its watch months ago that musket men in military uniform belonging to their brigade number one all 6 headed by have to disarm saddam the son of the warlord khalifa haftar they just broke into her home in july her family members were brutally beaten and they kidnapped now we know that this statement is also calling for the concerted authorities in the east of the country to uncover her word about what's the statement is also confirming that this attack on the lawmakers again is not going to be unnoticed and we know that since the abduction of sigil in july many

international institutions including the united nations support the mission in libya have been calling for her immediate release we know that the attack against politicians lawmakers and political activists in the east of the country has been very common since their operation dignity was launched by have to the forces in the east of the country in 2014. now the inauguration ceremony has been held for 3 long because new president goes the biologic parts that claimed victory after a campaign marred by nationals rhetoric and promises of better security you know has the task of lifting the economy out of a slump the country out of an economic slump that was made worse by the easter bombings that killed more than 260 people but often and is has more from on the other poorer. the new leader of this country striking a conciliatory note on skiing all communities to get together to work with him as

one nation to rebuild this country and move forward now go to rb rajapaksa talking about the fact that he knew that the single biggest majority would bring him victory but he still extended a request of the muslim in time of communities to work with them to vote for him he says that this didn't happen as much as he expected but he says never mind that he's still inviting these 2 communities to join him in basically working to rebuild this country so all the asli trying to address some of the sort of fractions between the communities in what has appeared a very sort of a polarized result in this election but go to arbil rajapaksa will have his work cut out for him in uniting all these communities and taking this country forward it's quite tall osc it's not an easy job with that faces him he has not just the job of uniting and carrying trunk of forward but also to deal with

a host of economic challenges i mean the economy is in the doldrums also exacerbated by really bad performance and economic indicators after the easter bombings so go to a bit rajapaksa has proved in the past that he has a single mindedness the end of the war and now the whole of sri lanka is hoping he can bring the same efficiency with the economy and in moving this country forward. and again out of the problem and with the headlines on al-jazeera a tense standoff is continuing in hong kong between riot police and pro-democracy protesters as university demonstrators have barricaded themselves inside the campus for days and there are large groups of groups of people on the streets reportedly making their way towards the building. most alarming dated weapons were

used in a fairly static universe to reach has become a veteran factory as well as a rarity for extremely violent viruses development so rare is this retreat critical level graduates. this story in turn to move the search costs rise police in georgia are moving in on protesters outside parliament police used water cannon to disperse demonstrators there calling for early elections after parliament failed to pass a promised electoral reform bill. u.s. president donald trump has just tweeted that he might be willing to testify in the impeachment inquiry saying quote even though i did nothing wrong will trump says it's time to get congress focused again and that's why he's considering it but house democrats who are leading the investigation haven't publicly called him as a witness. cutter known as president kim daughter is in court for

a trial of disobedience is accused of defying orders from the spanish electoral authority by not removing a symbol of support for catalan independence from a government building protesters in iraq's buzzer province have set up roadblocks leading to a cause of the country's main port in the far south or the closure halted traffic make it making it difficult for port employees to get to work demonstrations began last month a lack of jobs and public services a spokesman for the iranian government says protests over and encrease and petrol prices a common around the country but the government has confirmed that 3 people have died since demonstrations began president hassan rouhani says 20000000 people will start receiving financial assistance on monday. well those are the headlines on al-jazeera do stay with us 101 coming up next thank you for watching. this powerful social network as sculpting a global cyber society and regulation is playing catch up but as scandals begin to

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