al-jazeera. where every. hong kong police used tear gas of water cannon as protesters tried to reach a group of demonstrators holed up in a university campus. i'm stan grant this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up in georgia's capital tbilisi police move against protesters blockading the country's parliament. iran's president condemns protests over the rise of gasoline costs and says poor families will start seeing some benefits catalonia is regional leader goes on trial accused

of disobedience for refusing to remove separatists symbols from public buildings. protesters are confronting police in hong kong as they tried to rescue people caught up in a university standoff demonstrators have been holed up inside the campus for several days before dawn on monday police entered the grounds and faced a barrage of petrol bombs and arrows they responded with tear gas and water cannon most alarming they did weapons were used in the party target university which has become a weapon factory spell as a gravity for extremely violent viruses 50 betterman so overall risk has reached a critical level rochus. so intention murder. at all costs. well later a number of demonstrators fled the university buildings some on motorbikes several

were arrested it's not known how many remain inside now large groups of people have been marching to the campus to try to break through police cordons and free people inside mcbride has the latest from hong kong. another night of running street battles on the streets of hong kong this is the cow loon district of the city again the sidewalks have been ripped up for the bricks to turn into ammunition to throw at police barricades have been set up and there have been clashes between protesters and police all around the streets here the call went out for protesters to turn up in this particular area of cow loon because it's just a couple of blocks away from polytechnic university for the protesters to be in support of the besieged students inside who are still there after several days although there have been a number of them came out today there were clashes and

a number of them have been arrested by police these protesters were determined that by creating hotspots in other areas of town loom they would draw away police manpower and take some of the pressure off the police cordon around the university of allowing some of those protesters the chance to get away because all of them do face lengthy prison sentences the police say that they will be charged with a number of offenses including rioting which does carry a lengthy prison sentence for the protesters themselves obviously wanting to avoid that they've been looking at opportunities of trying to get out but the police are determined that all of them will have to give themselves up eventually and will face prosecution. joseph charney is a political activist and member of the alliance for true democracy group he expects the violence to escalate as more hong kong demonstrators try to leave the campus.

it's approaching the end game so to speak they've done publicly believes that now it has arrested more than 4000 baucus has and with the surrounding of the party 10 made you it may well be the last batch of arrests and give you the that you can break the hot coffee of the radical potus has your police has surrounded the stool and box the sky is the fearless is to allow them to leave peacefully and the months i just surrender all 3 future arrests and that the prosecution certainly desist not be sceptical and that is why there's still have. rather a violent confrontation going on some of these are you protestant supporters are coming in from the outside apparently they want to break the. siege of the police

so as to allow the children potus those who will have been so rounded and kept in captivity in the public telling you to be able to escape to rule can freedom and that is exactly why we expect said the actions perhaps in the coming 12 hours or so. riot police in georgia moving in on protesters near the palm of police. to demonstrators protesters and set up barricades around the palm and to prevent it from entering and they calling for early elections. promised electoral reform bill. joining us now from tbilisi tell us about the security situation right now. looking to. open you might hear that. in the background. but they were very.

very dramatic rightly. very quickly create the streets that you see counted. they they they had to back the. protests. school a school away from the parliament 18 tinka we understand have to be changed as a result of those actions. so that's the situation right now as you would say your position. that he could very greedy decision to renege on the promise of a letter to rules risk pool i understand that now some of the opposition party leaders holding talks with members of the international diplomatic community they will simply say that concern last week when the pollen the dominee to by governing thought the n.t. chose not to support chose not to vote for the democratic reforms that would have

introduced the proportional system of representation here which would have cost given a more reflective. number of seesaw physician policy reflective of the popular vote in parliament in election next year so now robin those elections you cite next year the protest is a sign that $1000.00 elections sooner what's the prospect is that if we leave it there. i suppose from the perspective of the people who paid out today and was being fooled some momentum on a protest action the prospect that not looking good the government is doubling down if you like on the. protest movement we've seen signs of that i was with it so long because the extension had been going on now for some time. in june there was mass demonstrations which resulted in the police using tear gas and rubber

bullets a number of people lost its light in their own life being hit by those rubber bullets the interior minister that sign was widely condemned 1 but then he was promoted to the prime minister at the scene as an indication. the government killed the people in control had no intention of. compromising with the opposition and the move to have this electoral school was just a way of pacifying people for a bit but that seems to have what the result of not supporting those reforms that would permit now seems to have stabilized the situation in georgia once more said robin just clarify for us as well with those electoral reform what would the impact of if you'd gone from a mix system to a proportional system in terms of who would have suffered the the more in terms of loss of seats. so the. people who are standing candidates in

your a chariot area so i think that's when you have a a constituency and an individual standing in that constituency of the party. they would have then become known to the populists then they would know that the standing in that constituency and i said that we had most to lose and they were the ones who opposed the legislative reforms that the opposition is saying that nobody in the country who is in the company party makes fixation with the leader of that party the prime minister hate the chairman of this policy but he's also the country's richest man and oligarchs and i think this is that deep it's frustrating the opposition has which is that there is in full rulings you will judge when it's the oligarchs who's calling the shots he was the one who made the

promise of these electoral reforms the opposition believes that everything is decided by him and if decision not to go ahead with the reforms with the reforms may also be his decision. joining us. on the line. well iran has report. they breached the limit of the 25th a nuclear deal the un's nuclear watchdog says it's exceeded $130.00 tons of heavy water and that's a further breach of the agreement after iran announced it was increasing its uranium enrichment capabilities earlier this month the revolutionary guard in iran says $150.00 people are under arrest for leading petrol price rise riots $4.00 people have died during the demonstrations dorsett are reports from tehran the. hooligans and thugs that's how rainy and authorities are describing these demonstrators who have come out for 30 days in a row. there are no rallies or marches instead petrol stations have been set on

fire banks and even police stations attacked. the scenes are not taking place in the capital tehran but in other major cities including shiraz as fond masha. and now a security crackdown has been ordered to make sure they don't happen again. the intelligence ministry the revolutionary guard and local police say they will be out in full force the violence started when the government announced a sudden 3 fold increase in fuel prices. a decision which the president says was not made lightly the government says the revenues raised will be used to help the poor. we explored all avenues to try and help those in need we had 3 choices 1st to raise taxes across the country 2nd to increase the size of oil and 3rd to increase the price of fuel we need that revenue to help millions of people who are struggling it was not an easy choice to make the spike government

reassurances that this fuel price increase want to fecht the price of other goods in the country many iranians are not helpful almost on a member of a matter of course it will affect other prices the press of gasoline has always been important here are we supposed to make up the difference with a small subsidy from the government it was in the kitchen and some people's lives lose depend on fuel and this will impact the lives you do in the present fuel goes up it impacts the price of other things. the government defends its decision and maintains that those causing the disturbances are not part of what it considers to be the general public. the government recognizes the people's right to protest but a protester is different from a writer i think today's demonstrations are 80 percent less than yesterday and i think by tomorrow it will all be gone in the capital security forces were highly visible in certain parts of the city on monday aiming to prevent any further unrest it's not just the security forces that have been deployed across the country

officials have also announced a complete internet blackout and as nearly 60000000000 iranians wait to receive their subsidies many are wondering if the disruptions will be worth its north as a bari teheran. catalonia is on trial in barcelona for alleged disobedience tora is accused of ignoring orders from the spanish electoral starting to remove a symbol of support for the separatist movement from a government building tensions have been high in the region since the jailing of a number of cattle on leaders last month. has more from wakin torah is in full. ahead of his arrival at the tribunals the castle and 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 catalans however the view of the electoral board smain taining that his actions

jury in the april election period of painting their yellow ribbons to public offices amounted to using tools of political propaganda now those yellow ribbons are the symbols that the procession of us 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 daughter himself could be to spot 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 full a government in itself the catalan issue is 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. still ahead on al-jazeera russia returns gunboats captured from ukraine a year ago will have the latest on the apparent goodwill gesture. and using the word says weapons in iraq protesters build a makeshift library when they fought for change. hello wind has worked its way down through most of china now it may not be obvious in satellite picture because the clouds to going west to east but temperature wise on the ground with that single figures in good part of the lunch hour it's cold at night shanghai's it's 13 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 a little small warming but there is colder and certainly for the north in china. they haven't said goodbye to the monsoon rains in the southwest we've got the northeast months in 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 not about chennai's involved and in sri lanka otherwise it now looks dry the rain in study 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 eventually 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.

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a tense standoff is continuing in hong kong between riot police and pro-democracy protesters at the university demonstrators have barricaded themselves inside the campus for days there are a large groups of people on the streets of the cities reportedly making their way towards the building. riot police in georgia moving in on protesters outside parliament police used water cannon to disperse demonstrators calling for early elections after parliament filed to pass a promise to electoral reform bill. catalona whose leader kim torah is on trial in barcelona for alleged disobedience he is accused of defying orders from the spanish electoral farhi by not removing the yellow ribbon that's a symbol of support for catalan independence from the government building. russia has returned 3 captured naval ships to ukraine ahead of a planned peace summit next month the best. been moved to ahead of relocation in the black sea russia seized 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 russia separatists and ukrainian forces alexandra steele one of which government has more from moscow 3 ukrainian ships started their hours long journey back to home to the home port of ukrainian the black sea port they've been transferred or released to ukrainians by 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 u.n. maritime tribunal 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 since russia says that ukrainian ships actually violated stated tauriel 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 a line of positive steps towards returning to the negotiating table. but libyans are facing food and fuel shortages supporters of former president. continue to block roads where all those resigned fled to mexico after winning an election many believe was rigged but he still has a lot of support in poor rural areas to resemble reports from stronghold of in

central bolivia. the city of the province of bison mourning. a penis was shot during a protest carried out by it will more 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 want justice. even what alice resigned 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 that. most of the people are from indigenous communities and are coca leaves growers and they were trying to go through the main road towards the capital they were prevented by the police they had to escape and they're telling us that they were ambushed right and this. facebook live video was

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. they are militarizing this whole area because they want to believe we are criminals they shot at us from everywhere and they can do it because we are poor. the actions of security forces are currently being investigated they're accused of using live ammunition and excessive force on demonstrators. says the response by the military was disproportionate. 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. i have asked the attorney general to investigate what he told me the delay was we couldn't rule it of did not want to give the bodies we have asked the attorney general to investigate this as soon as possible because tropic was the launching pad for political career as a leader of the. federation many people here remain loyal to him and do not trust in the new interim administration many at call for elections and. crucial to prevent further loss of life. president has promised a set of reforms after weeks of violence and wrist which of rock the country. the referendum on replacing the constitution that dates back from the dictatorship era he also criticized police actions during last month which have killed at least

$22.00 people as prosecutors investigate more than a 1000 cases of alleged abuse. needs a social pact. during the past 4 weeks chile changed the chileans changed the government changed when. have all changed because the social pact under which we have lived crashed down and showed its wounds and cracks we all need to renew the social pact together. his new president has been sworn in and says all communities must move forward as one nation rajapaksa has the task of ending the economic slump by the east to suicide bombings on churches and ourselves though for the reports from you know the russian sermon the. city. the new leader of this country striking a conciliatory note on all communities to get together to work with him as one nation to rebuild this country and move forward now go to obey 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 and 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 obviously 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 our bill rajapaksa will have his work cut out for him in uniting all these communities and taking this country forward it's quite tall ask it's not an easy job but 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 he ended the war and now the whole issue is hoping he can bring the same efficiency with the economy and in moving this country forward. banks will reopen in lebanon on tuesday a week after stuff went on strike nationwide union leaders agreed to new security measures for employees complained of intimidation from clients demanding money. a building in baghdad has become a symbol of weeks of anti-government protests it's all keep by iraqi protestors complaining about mass unemployment poverty government corruption and following a failing public services including the education system the buildings also on to a newly established library the task as the story from iraq's capital.

there's a saying here the egyptians write the lebanese publish and the iraqis read they're doing just that in tahrir square the epicenter of the protests in baghdad iraqis are stopping by a library opened last month it's in an abandoned building that has become a landmark during weeks of anti-government demonstrations have meant to me that i said home there are people who didn't finish their studies or they have a low educational level this will motivate them when they see people reading here their educated people encouraging them to succeed and return to school. this library is a gift to protestors is operated by the well known al mada institute which publishes a daily newspaper thousands of books in arabic and english ranging in topics from cinema to science have been donated. has a new set is an injured veteran of the iran iraq war in the 1980 s.

he says it's clear someone doesn't like this library in the building nicknamed the turkish restaurant which used to be on the top floor when there's the other sort of site being attacked most here in the turkish restaurant is the library it upsets our enemies and the officials that attack the protesters it's not about using weapons we can fight using knowledge and culture. one of the protestors main complaints is what they say is the deterioration of the educational system such as 50 students often packed into one classroom illiteracy is also a concern the iraqi human rights commission says around 8000015 to 25 year olds can't read or write including a high proportion of young women. of course what happened with the deterioration of the educational system in iraq its own purpose for the iraqi people 2900 we have schools made from mont it's

a catastrophe. news of the library has spread more books are on the way the ministry of culture is planning to set up a tent in tahrir square filled with reading material. the war veteran has the news if hopes the government understands these young people are creating what he calls a revolution of culture and ideas intended to transform iraq it's going to aim al-jazeera baghdad the bearer of venice is urging the united nations to study the effects of climate change following the worst flooding in the city for 50 years water levels have started to fall but the titans and tourists are still whiting through several parts of the famous city and so we're going to take you up to venice is a way to give a signal that europe exists we need scientists here they need to come here and create a permanent place where they can study and then recount what is happening here because of climate change with all its effects been this is

a frontier we are in the trenches we all the trench of the world think of all the little islands that risk being completely submerged by the sea and then all the natural calamities that are happening like right now not just in europe but also in the united states. and there is more on our website the address for that is w w w dot al-jazeera dot com. this is al jazeera and these are the top stories a tense standoff is continuing in hong kong between riot police and pro-democracy protesters at a university demonstrators have barricaded themselves inside the tatars for days there were large groups of people on the streets of the city reportedly making their way towards the building. most alarming they did weapons were used in the 43rd at university which has become in fact treat despair as

a gravity for extremely violent fire just 50 betterman so overall risk has reached a critical level rochus so intention murder. at all costs riot police in georgia moving in on protesters near the country's parliament police used water cannon to disperse the demonstrators well the protesters had set up barricades around the palmach to prevent the m.p.'s from entering they calling for early elections after polman filed to pass a promised electoral reform bill catalona is leader kim torah is on trial for alleged disobedience is accused of defying orders from the spanish electoral 40 but not removing the ribbon a symbol of support for cattle on independence from a government building. russia has returned 3 captured naval ships to ukraine ahead of a planned peace summit next month the vessels had been moved to ahead of

a location in the black sea russia seized 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 separatists and ukrainian forces. in breaking news the saudi state news agency is reporting yemen's who the rebels have hijacked a vessel south of the red sea the ship was towing a south korean drilling rig the saudi news agency says a group of armed to the rebels seized the vessel on sunday the official has told reuters they will release the vessel once they confirm it belongs to south korea they claim to have captured 2 military ships owned by the saudi emirate eco aleutian the how data those the headlines of news continues after counting the costs.

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