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chinese security forces fill the streets of beijing and shanghai. moving to stop another night of protests, demanding an end to cope with locked arms. ah, i'm your entire, this is out. is there a live from london? also coming up, somali security forces stole my hotel in mogadishu, ending a seizure by our bomb fighters, which killed at least 9 people's a anthony har. y'alls are the niece of iran, supreme leader enters the world to cut ties with terran over its crackdown on nationwide protests and relief from brazilian fans after the tea leaves it late to secure a one. no victory. i was switzerland. ah,

i hello. chinese security forces have been out on the streets of several cities, which are seen large protests against the government. strict code 19 policy. social media uses say, police was talking people at demonstration sites in beijing and shanghai checking their phones for the telegram up. all vpn virtual private networks, neither are allowed in china, but they believe to be a been used to organized protests. the demonstrations started 3 days ago, out to 10 people died in a building far in the northwest city of rome, cheap. but just to say locked down measures were partly to blame. despite the toughest restrictions in the world, china reported more than 40000 cobra cases on monday, record high for a fixed consecutive day, but a few restrictions happening relaxed in some neighborhoods. patrick folk in hong kong begins our coverage. yet as move generally goes into locked and frustration continues to build. we can demonstrations in shanghai and other cities reached

a scale rarely seen on the mainland. so now we want to cave it 19 measures based on science. i think we should go back to normal. we should go back to normal life. the protest respond by the deaths of at least 10 people in apartment 5, which reports just curve 19. restrictions may have hanford rescue efforts. authorities deny that's the case in hong kong on monday, an expression of sympathy and a sign of discontent in this activism minded city. there's a feeling of affinity. oh, hold on. one guy has got this is something that has connected us before during the 2019 protests, many people on the mainland sources aggressors. and as people who solved problems through violence today, i think they said that it's normal for people to come out and say what they want and do what they want to like. what to protest on mainland have brought back a lot of memories, all the demonstrations that took place here in hong kong in 2019. and that's why it

struck a chord for many people here. thought to say how many people have turned out for this video. but a lot of people have been leaving behind the candle lights as a mark of respect for those who died in the room g and also leaving many messages of support for protest as well. the protests are putting unprecedented pressure on china, 0 carbon policy. there are among the toughest in the world, with tens of millions of people currently under some form of lockdown. that has been some softening of the rules in certain areas. but overall the government is bowing to stick to its approach. can you? china has been following the dynamic 0 coven policy, and has been making adjustments based on the reality on the ground. we believe there was the leadership of the communist party of china and the cooperation of the chinese people from our fight against coven 19 will be successful. artist o ever witness to corporate may be waning. the crackdown has been swift and

decisive. ah! after 3 years of 0 covered, this could be the policies biggest test yet. patrick falk out 0. uncle. how did you as katrina you is in beijing? she says many people are still obeying the lock downs. and coverage of crowds of mass chris fans enjoying the world cup as re some questions. well, i think still people are sticking to it. generally, the streets are eerily quiet around here, which is very strange for china's capital. there are still hundreds of cases being recorded by authorities every day and people are being told to stay harm. i think on top of that quietness, things are also very tense. now where i am located, it's about 10 to 15 minutes walk from virginia leon's, mom river, which was the site of that per test on sunday night here in bay. jane. and i went there earlier today just to have a look at what was happening. and there was a very heavy security presence they, i saw several police vans filled with police officers just waiting every 25 meters

or 50 meters or so there was a security guard or a uniformed police officer there waiting. so it's very clear that the authorities are expecting more crowds to form their to day, and people are worried that there could be some violence interrupting violence, akin to what we've seen in many other a protester. locations around the country. if you look at will comp coverage, every or a pretty much everywhere else in the world who seeing these jovial crowds of people gathering in pubs in horror, mr. to really watch this dis, spectacular sporting event from whatever public place they can gather in that you're not seeing that anywhere here in china. and we have to remember chinese, a chinese of sports fans a very big fans of football. they really are watching this very closely, but what they are seeing is that they're sitting on their couch in their arms watching. cctv which is the state broadcaster broadcast these games. and they are seeing the stadiums full of people not wearing mosley. because of all these

questions it raised. cctv has now sense it or changed it's edit of what it's showing in terms of these of football matches. so instead of showing close ups of people not wearing masks, it's simply just showing long shots of people in the crowd. so you cannot see that people aren't very moss susan's, our is a professor of chinese politics and foreign policy at denver universities. joseph cobo, school of international studies, he joins us live by zoom. thank you very much for being with us. i wonder if you can give us an impression of what the momentum is behind these protests. whether they going to get bigger there's us very strong frustration over so we years are of locked on. people cannot log, can no longer endure this type of a long time, knocked down the sac in their life, hold and they call me and everything. so this is an exclusion of these are 3 years of problems

and i don't know how these could be interpreted by the west. the as a pro, to moxie a movement is just the, their own life hold has been a fact. it says why the have gone to the streets? and i mean the, there is, is it a suggestion to the government has made small changes to the, to the coven restrictions? how likely is it that people will be satisfied with that? oh is that those are adjustments? i think people have not seen what they wanted. the government in fact that issued a 20 items earlier. nah, samantha, which i eat, eat, eat, i mean relaxed the quite few instructions. the problem saw now is a local government. they have added their own a restriction so, and they are afraid alpha, if they don't, and it reinforce that the way they think the correct way,

they will be polished by the central government so that them fresh and so far have a focus on those a local governments and also their neighbor hose, not rudy. there are some individuals that will protest against the central government and editor and not over over all in that direction yet yet so. so you say that that some of those circles we've heard for she to resign all for the communist party to stand down. you think that's isolated at this stage? yes, so it's very important sick though, so for sure. but i don't think that happy widely shared by the population in the chinese situation is a very strange different from the west. that people still have relied upon the government for many, many of their lees, including these up control over that pandemic. in fact, they're looking at the south one earlier this month. and when the government, local government implemented the got central government do recommendations,

people become scared because they are afraid that government, though hookup and would leave them alone to show their those responsibilities such as that, that the cost for the tasks. so the, that the people have a lot of these kind of concerns for the opening up. so what i thought options, do you think the chinese government has for, for dealing with this now the several things they, they could do as you are better the earlier they mix. i'm a small adjustments then also the plan, local governments. they have done that are already in the meantime, they would tighten control to prevent that not your scale all nationwide that protests, in fact, the put that so far are mostly i organized, spontaneous and i submitted. so determinedly that contest, i don't think they are so fred and they don't have they have not taken very,

very tough measures to surprise them. if they're organized for tests, i think the government will not hesitate to take a very tough decisions against those the pastors. what we saw you, hong kong 2019, is a very good example that she didn't, government would do whatever, try to suppress those organized the protests. you will not admit any mistakes and they will not be this very difficult for them to just to step back because back adjustments without the meeting, any mistake. that's what i think they are due at this moment. suzanne, thank you very much. indeed for talking to us. thank you. your account. ah, somali security forces have stormed the hotel in the capital, mogadishu, ending a siege in which at least 9 people were killed.

i shall have fighters had been hold up in one of the rooms in the village rose hotel for 20 hours. somali forces a 60 people were rescued and they've now regained control of the area fighters armed with explosives and guns, stormed the hotel, which is near the presidential palace on sunday. i was, there is over my mood has moved from smalley, capital a room for the attack targeted the hotel, which is located in the secure fortified area close to the presidential palace, security officials. parliamentarians and other prominent figures from the somali government were present in this hotel, the attack started with some explosions outside the main gate. then gunman affiliated with al, bob entered the hotel and stayed inside. after that extensive security operations began by the security forces of all kinds, and there were direct armed confrontations over a period of more than 12 hours. the

last 15 minutes, portugal of secured their place. in last 16 of the world comp, they were to new winners against your g y at the sale stadium. bruno fernandez called both girls, coming from the cross, which went straight past the keeper, christiana, rinaldo. miss the header. here go, i will have to win the last game to have any chance of getting through during that night to protest to run on to the field holding a rainbow flag. a man was wearing a blue t shirt that said, save ukraine on the front and respectfully iranian women on the back. security officials quickly intervened and escorted him of the field. only a brazil also qualified for the knockout stage, is despite being without their injured star strike a name or a joined france in the last 16 outer beating. switzerland, one mill at doha stadium, 97 for

a go by midfield because im euro came late in the 83rd minute. snohomish has me on the 5 time camp, they managed to get the job done tonight and they beat within the one. and now the mad their plates and the last big let's talk to some brazilian. i did a lot of them go to herb regarding a general reba gern 10. so let's go to the, let's go to that so you can feel name are me in this, but the guys to together do and then really made it electric for everyone. do you think they can go further? i think they have with them and spray in the show, the biggest potential we have a young man, a lotta lotta amazing skills so they can take it if they say focus, i'm very happy that we one of the art was really amazing and i think we have a good sport, so when they did the code change was much sports,

much better seminar for how do you think there hopefully to the final on the when takes up the pressure off of brazil as they fade cameroon. the team and they played in the last 2 wall carpet now the time, but boy can focus on the knockout status. gonna have given themselves a good chance of reaching the last 16. they defeated south korea, $32.00 education city stadium, west africa nation were 2 up at half time before korea to level any for donor to school. late winter cameroon, kept their hoops witching last 16 alive after making an incredible come back against serbia. they were 2 goals down, but recovered the game ending in a 3 all draw. both sides can still reach the knockout stages. more in that well cut today at 2130 gmc life and death. ha. as more still to come, this half hour president did as he urges ukrainians to prepare for another hard

week. ahead as the country versus for more russian massage tribes. and a london museum transfer as ownership of its entire collection of been in bronze is to the nigerian government. ah hello. there will be more stormy weather coming in across southern parts of italy, easing over towards the balcony, easing across a decrease over the next couple of days. i'm afraid we have got this nasty airflow pressure now developing across the western side of the med that will make its way further eastward cit, sir, being force that way because we have high pressure up towards the ne net making sure that so the disturbed weather stays across a central and southern parts of europe with the high it is cold temperatures, no higher than around minus 5. in moscow,

similar temperatures as we go on through the coming days can be minus 7. as we go on 3 way to stay cool enough further west as well, single figures, for the most part. so 87, maybe 9 degrees into london and paris over the next couple of days. wet and windy weather will make its way in across islands into the u. k. as we go on through the next day or so. there's an area of low pressure that swirling away across the western side of the mad. so sardinia, corsica molto seeing some very lively weather. strong winds and some heavy rain, sundry down paws area to southern parts of italy, pushing a little farther east was as we go on through the next day or so in that same system bring some very heavy rain across northern algeria. northern passage. soon as you, northern areas of libya for the most part, west africa is dry with a few showers at which was the gulf of guinea. ah, to inculcate a culture of knowledge, openness and pluralism, world wide had to reward merit and excellence and encourage creativity. the shake

ahmad award for translation and international understanding was founded to promote translation and honor translators, and acknowledged that road and strengthening the bonds of friendship and co operation between arab islamic and wild coaches. lou ah, are mountain top stories here now to 0. chinese security force has been out on the streets of several cities trying to stop another night of protests against kobe lockdown. several people have been detained. ronnie's mark and unprecedented challenge to president. she had pain. somali police have stormed a hotel and

a capital. mogadishu ending a sage in which at least 9 people were killed. ash about fighters had been hold up in one of the rooms in the village rose hotel for 20 hours. and in the last half hour, portugal of secured their place in the last 16 of the world cup to be to uruguay, to new a join, france, and brazil. also through to the knockout stage, ukraine, the president says, russian forces shelled 30 settlements in ukraine's southern house. on region 258 times in the past week. they've been attacking towns and villages from the west bank of a new pro river, which they retreated to early this month. for maintenance gears, also edge citizens to prepare for a hard week ahead. as the country races for new russian missile strikes, electricity remains in short supply and ukraine. the countries agreed operator says it's currently running at 27 percent deficit. in the statement that said,

it had implemented a series of emergency shut down at several power plants across the country. the russian military has targeted key credit infrastructure in recent weeks. just as winter sets in a news conference earlier nato's sector generally installed in burg, condemned russia's attacks on critically current in infrastructure. what you see is that the president thought in his trying to destroy the power system, the gas infrastructure, and the basic services for the ukrainian that people. and by doing that when we enter winter demo site stuff, president putin is now trying to use a weapon. i used to win that as a weapon, a war against the ukraine, and this is horrific. we need to be prepared for more attacks. that's the reason why may darlise have stepped up, the support to ukraine. russia insists it's still in control of these apparition

nuclear power plant in southern ukraine. ahead of ukraine's state run nuclear energy company has suggested that russian forces may be preparing to evacuate. the area where you crania, staff is still working. russia sees the facility in march soon after invading ukraine. both countries of cues each other. shelling ne, europe's biggest nuclear plant that's resulted in warnings of a possible nuclear catastrophe. took here has resumed as strikes against kurdish fighters in northern syria. it's jets of bombed area is controlled by the y p g, a current group linked to the p k. k, which trickier consider as a terror when i station anchor a blames the y p g for recent attacks and assemble and gaseous tech i station is the group has denied the defense ministries car assessing whether it's a lot to ground offensive. and iranian general has acknowledged that more than 300 people have been killed in unrest across the country is the 1st official word on

casualties in 2 months. demonstrations were sparked by the death of a 22 year old massa, many in police custody. she was arrested for allegedly not following the countries stretched dress code for women. big lamp. well, i don't have the new statistics, but maybe over 300 people have died or have been martin so far. some were among the base young people in the society. why? because we filed last english enemy from meanwhile around says it will not cooperate with you in fact, finding mission into alleged human rights violations during the crackdown progresses. it says the allegations of human rights abuses are empty accusations. the niece of iran, supreme meter ayatollah ali, how many has called on the international community to comp time with terra. and i read more at connie was reportedly arrested 5 days ago. but her brother, who's based in france, has not posted a video of her online entering the well to support the demonstrators. a is on her,

yours either o free people be with us and support her so that your government stop supporting this murderous and child killing regime. this regime is not even loyal to any of its own religious principles and does not know any laws or rules except force and maintaining power in any way possible. now is the time for all free and democratic countries to recall all the representatives from iran as a symbolic gesture and to expel the representatives of this brutal regime from their countries. and as such, showing solidarity with the freedom seeking people of iran, a white man who shot dead 10 black shoppers. a supermarket in buffalo, new york, has been guilty to murder and hate motivated terror charges. a him gender ins play means he will spend the rest of his life in prison without parole. before the shooting, the 19 year old posted documents on line saying he picked

a black neighborhood and was aiming to preserve what he called white power and the u. s. general has already pleaded not guilty to separate federal hate crime charges that could result in a death sentence if he's convicted. east african leaders have been meeting in can years. capital nairobi in that eighty's round of talks to restore peace in democratic public of congo. e. m. 23 rebel group, which is widely believed to be backed by ruined. it isn't part of the talks. a cease fire with government troops appears to be holding for a 3rd day. but the m 23 fighters show no sign of withdrawing from the large swathes of land they've taken in the east of the country. former canyon president who can yetta, has been mediating the peace talks. i believe that at the end of this process, we will be able to see increased coordination and coherence of the night will be process. would be an idiot, says yam groups that are yet to cease was still,

it is 2 other commitments to seize on the activities and to grant unhindered humanitarian access. and before at bremond, and i put, i like this one of these, the african regional force, a museum in london assigned over the ownership of its entire collection of beneath bronzes to the nigerian government wasn't a 100 years of passed since they and thousands of other artifacts were stolen by british troops as part of a recent wave of such repatriation. every faucet has more a major moment in a long campaign in 18. 97 british soldiers sto thousands of finely wrought artifacts like this from the van kingdom of been in, in modern day nigeria. now, london's haldeman museum is returning these 6 pieces and signing over the ownership of a $66.00 other so called ben in bronze is in its collection to

a noble this object to be displayed in museums for people to see people from outside the country to come and see in the context of where they have been looted is a significant moment for us. for now, there is 6 deliberate gaps in the museums display cases. more will follow with plans for a significant number of artifacts to remain on an extended loan from the german government. it is here at the british museum where the largest single collection of artifacts taken from beneath remains more than $900.00 individual objects. the museum says it was to share a collection as widely as possible. it isn't though talking about returning them. one major stumbling block is written into british law and $963.00 active parliament, forbidding the museum from disposing of its exhibits with just a few clearly defined exceptions. in the statement, the museum emphasized its collaborative work in my area, saying we actively engage with partners through the bending dialogue group and the digital beneath initiative. while research and cultural exchange initiatives,

also key priorities that in recent years, other institutions in scotland, france, germany, and elsewhere have been returning items from nobody in bronze collections. something barnaby phillips or through a recent history of the bronzes says as left the british museum increasing the isolated, remember that an institution lighten a british museum is also under pressure from other areas. this a british government with its own interest. there are other significant national museums in this country, like the victorian, albert museum, the royal collection, all of which might be, i guess you would say more conservatively inclined, and they too can exert their pressure and influence on the british museum over the years the debate has taken in concerns over security and conservation area, but increasingly it's become one about justice and restoration. nigeria. cultural custodians say it's time for british institutions and british politicians to write a historical wrong article sit al jazeera, london,

a unesco committee is meeting in morocco to consider $56.00 nominations for inclusion on its list of intangible cultural heritage. one item up for debate is the french by get the french culture ministry said it chose a traditional staple over these inc. roofs of paris and the beautiful one festival . earlier this year, rushes invasion catapulted ukraine national dish pushed on to the list. the rich origins of the soup can be traced back to the engine kingdom of caveat roost. but moscow complained the dish was there too and in no need. a safeguarding and cambodia has been fighting for the ancient marshal out of book at all to be recognised. masters of the art were targeted by the man region, the 1970s. but the practice has been revived since the turn of a century. somebody is collette a dance team is also on the list being considered. me. my number is my son coach, and i'm the director of the dance team that you said. i knew we knew

some rural. well, we door catcher activities from with their significance of their color. last dance is celebratory. done. every trip don't calla duncan, and we have 5 chip dump amongst of people. all these 2 doors up from the same flannel violin on one month. and that is verizon, right? it's only common amongst these people. now what happens is that when we a happy i 10 of the week or the color team got to deliberate and have fun with the color, la guns depicts our social setup. for instance, we have fishermen, you will see one dance would depict people bringing the fish and getting the fish

cooking the fish. now the guns would depict since we our simple for doing it to depict people having to think about pounding and turning into something new. we are very happy that you never go out, come on board to try and promote the present vision of our culture. i think in this way, no contract tributaries. i'm not. tradition will just amount a little volcano in hawaii has started to erupt for the 1st time in nearly 4 decades, causing volcanic ash and debris to fall nearby. lava flows, a currently being contained within the basin at the top of the volcano. but if conditions change the eruption could pose a threat to nearby residence amount or lower as the world's largest active volcano and takes up more than half of hawaii's big island. it's.