hello this is bbc news. the headlines: hong kong police have again fired rubber bullets, water cannon, tear gas and pepper spray to break up anti—government protesters in another weekend of increasingly violent clashes. thousands took part in the unauthorised rallies. the british prime minister has again refused to rule out a no del brexit, despite parliamentary red legislation to prevent an outcome like this. he also said there would be misunderstanding in his recent use of language in parliament. austria's conservative people's party is heading for victory in a snap general election, nearly all the votes counted and it has won a 37% share of the poll. people have been paying their last respects in

paris the former french president, jacques chirac, who died on thursday. his coffin is on display. at ten p m, clive will be here with a full round—up of the day's news. first, it is time for our world and fighting for rojava. i wanted to support the revolution, and, because i wanted to participate in the revolution of women that is being built up here. in 2017, a young british woman went to syria to fight the islamic state group. she joined the all—female kurdish militia, the ypj. one year later, she was killed. she knew that her

life was in danger. i want to know that my daughter did not die for nothing. i want to experience what it was like for anna. anna's father is travelling to northern syria, to learn about the kurds and find out what his daughter was willing to die for. i feel a lot of guilt. a lot of grief.

i obviously feel her loss all the time, every day. i'm never going to see my daughter again. well, it began when she went to sheffield, when she went to university. she fell in with a group of quite radical left—wing thinkers. there were student protests at sheffield, which she took quite a central part in, and here she was, a cause to fight for, to engage with it with all her heart and soul, with all her, kind of, instinct for defending the oppressed and the weak. this is mrs koala, she owns a hotel. this is mrs fox, and the reason why she is holding a flag

is because they are going to have a barbie war, they are always having wars against the barbies. woman: what, even the women fight? sadly the women and children do usually fight. anna kept her feelings to herself. she was a private person, she probably felt that she had to take on her mother's role as a kind of pioneer activist. which she might not have done to the same extent if her mother hadn't died. two days after andriana died, anna said "dad, come to the anarchist book fair". and there was a meeting on about rojava. i did not actually know a lot about the ins and outs of the situation in the middle east. shejust said to me, "dad, you know i am going to rojava to fight."

around 36 million kurds live in the middle east. living in syria, turkey, iraq and iran. they share a language, but have never had their own state. syria's 2 million kurds face brutal oppression under the assad regime. even their language was banned, and their leaders imprisoned. i'm trying to learn as much as i can, find out what life is like for the locals, just get a sense of this whole place, the dynamics going on here. in 2012, a civil war swept through syria. the kurds in the north—east of the country took control of their territories for the first time in 100 years. reporter: the kurds say they will not be silenced again. they're calling for autonomy

in a democratic syria. they established a region called rojava. men and women would be seen as equals, and they set up military rings: the ypg for men, and the ypj for women. over the past 4 years, hundreds of international volunteers have made their way to rojava, mostly to help in the fight against is. we are on our way to the internationalists academy of the ypj, which is where the young women from foreign countries receive their initial training. anna spent a lot of time there. in herfirst months, anna lived and trained with rojbin, who became one of her closest friends. it was here she was given

a new kurdish name: helin qerecox. good to see you. this is the shared space that everybody uses. can you tell me what the education consists of? but what is the enemy? what is the aim of education, what do you hope to achieve?

i think that is why anna loved being here, because the new movement was creating the ideal society, which was involving everybody. byjoining a foreign militia, anna and other international volunteers ran the risk of being prosecuted as terrorists upon return to their home countries. your name... avesta. is that a kurdish name? meeting the ypj internationals

is a powerful experience. their commitment came through, absolutely strongly. in the beginning i wanted to come here, more like to understand, to learn, but of course i came here to fight. i am ready for this, as so many people are. it is notjust fighting, it is like building up a really, really beautiful world of hope, of freedom. a key part of the rojava revolution is the liberation of women. 0ne village in particular is trying to help by putting this feminist ideology into practice.

it's beautiful. i love all the colours. so, so bright, so cheerful, so positive. can we see inside the finished one? ceiling timbers, i want to live here! the total number of those displaced across rojava is believed to be in the region of 200,000. since rojava was established, the lives of the kurds in syria

have been transformed. but in 2014, they faced a monumental battle for survival. the syrian border town of kobane has

been engulfed in the fiercest fighting yet between kurdish forces and so—called islamic state jihadists who are trying to seize it. the so—called islamic state threatened kobane, a city in the heart of rojava. very trusting, the owners of these vehicles. the whole thing could come falling down on top of them at any time. during the three month siege, the 115,000 population fled, leaving the ypg and ypj to defend kobane.

after three months, the coalition declared their support for the kurds and air strikes began to turn the tide against is. air strikes, not the first, but by far the most concentrated. again and again throughout the day coalition war planes hit jihadi targets. these turkish tanks have been in position for about a week now. kurds are infuriated that while kobane suffers they've remained still. officially, turkey was an ally

of the coalition forces in the fight against is. but the kurds now accuse the turks of fighting with the jihadists. we don't need their weapons. we don't need their support. theyjust stop supporting isis. they claim that turkey wants to destroy rojava. a claim that turkey deny. the battle for kobane was a key milestone in the fight against the so—called islamic state in the region. a historic victory for the kurdish forces. but it reignited a decades long campaign for kurdish independence in turkey. many of the 1a million

kurds in turkey support the idea of a nation—state, but their efforts have been brutally repressed. the kurdistan workers party, or pkk, is a prominent kurdish armed separatist group in turkey. a classified terrorist organisation in the west. after kobane, the pkk unleashed a series of bombings in turkey, killing scores of civilians. the injured were taken to a nearby hospital. again, it appears the pkk had struck with deadly effect. alongside her military training, anna engaged in discussions of ideology and politics. she trained under nisrin abdollah, senior commander in the ypj.

you knew anna, my daughter, what was your relationship? nisrin said she did everything in her power to dissuade anna. so it was quite clear that her strength of purpose was too strong even for one of the top

commanders of the ypj to do anything about. she was desperate to be of some practical use and to measure herself against her comrades. the feminist ideology and social views of the ypg and ypj have their origins in the teachings of abdullah 0calan, one of the founding members of the pkk. 0calan were a supporter of violence against the turkish state and civilians. he later pursued the political route to establish an independent kurdish state before his arrest in 1999. turkey sees little difference between the pkk and the ypg in syria. it believes the link between the means the ypg also poses a risk to their national security.

in january 2018, turkey launched a military offensive on afrin in rojava, named 0peration olive branch. 0peration olive branch was a turning point in the war. the kurds, who were fighting is,

were now pulled away to defend afrin from the turks. many international volunteers didn't go as their only aim was to fight against is. they didn't want to get mixed up in a war with turkey. but anna stayed on. i'm very happy and proud to be going to afrin. the attacks of the turkish state against the kurdish people are very shocking and heavy. and i'm happy tojoin my friends to defend ourselves. 0n the 15th of march 2018, anna died in a turkish air strike while defending the kurdish retreat from afrin. when you see the reality of this huge area of graves and it's like the first world war.

you know, there are so many people you can't take it in. in total, nearly 50 foreign fighters and over 10,000 kurdish have died fighting in rojava. today, afrin remains in turkish—backed control. there have been multiple claims of human rights abuses of against both kurdish militia and civilians. i heard about the death of your daughter. what happened ?

you think this was your daughter? this video?

we don't know where anna's body is. my daughter, anna, was fighting with the internationals of the ypj. and she was killed, she became shahid in afrin. i'm very happy that my daughter helped to bring us together. these people are so

hospitable, so friendly. they're very open—hearted. that's how we brought our kids up — to be connected, to be generous. the first thing that we do is, ah, have a cup of tea. she would have been among her own kind here, no doubt about that. the lives of the kurds in syria today have undoubtedly been transformed. the rojava revolution has given them the chance to govern themselves. traditionally, the kurds have been an ally of the west. the question is, what will happen if us troops pull out of the region? the ongoing civil war in syria and the turkish military pushing at their border means the future is far from certain for rojava.

hello. all the heavy rain we have seen recently, the water has been running off the hills into the river catchments and we have seen a number of flood warnings around. if anything, going through monday and into tuesday, more rain in the forecast, so things could get worse before they get better for some. that cloud was the wet weather on sunday, but this one is now approaching from the south—west, this next area of low pressure will be bringing some heavy falls of

rain, and again, it is england and wales that will cop for the heaviest falls of rain, that is where we are likely to see further flooding. for many of us, if i'm stuck to the day with some morning sunshine, established —— a chilly start, some showers in scotland. later in the day, the rain starts to make inroads across england and wales, knocking on the door of northern ireland before the end of the day. it will before the end of the day. it will be turning increasingly wet. 0ver high ground, we could see another 70 millimetres of rain, on top of what has already been a wet spell of weather over the last week or so, so weather over the last week or so, so we could see some further flooding issues. through the remainder of monday night, the rain which is northern ireland, northern england, before pulling southwards as we head through tuesday. as it does so, we will start to open the door to northerly wind for scotland, northern ireland, northern england, some showers in scotland, epic temperature contrast on tuesday. 18 in london in the cloud and rain, but further north, it gets colder as the northerly winds kick in, highs of

just 12 in belfast and nine for aberdeen, stornoway, factoring in the chilly northern winds, it will feel quite cool. the cooler elbow continue to push southwards, so by wednesday, it will have reached the southern part of england and wales, really dropping the temperatures. a cold start to the day as well, some patches of frost around, some mist and fog, and further showers for northern scotland, one or two sneaking down to effect the eastern coast of scotland and england, but otherwise, a much drier day with more sunshine, so hopefully some of those flood waters will begin to ebb away. 13 in cardiff, 13 in london. be on wednesday, the forecast gets uncertain, this is down to hurricane lorenzo, a category five hurricane with the winds of 155 mph. now, this will work north—eastwards, whilst we can, over the next few days. it is quite likely to reach the western azores, probably still is a hurricane, so that will be something

to watch out for, and will bring torrential rain, damaging winds and large waves. after that, later in the week, how this system, which will be a former hurricane, just an area of low pressure, how that interact with the jet stream becomes very important. 0ne interact with the jet stream becomes very important. one solution has the jet stream over running this system, and therefore, the area of low pressure starts to fill, it becomes less deep, and it crosses parts of the uk, probably as an area of cloud with a bit of rain. there is another scenario, this is massively different, it has a much deeper area of low pressure that heads well to the west of the uk and near iceland. so you can imagine, they where they would be very different in that scenario. the difference in position of those two areas of low pressure is more than 1000 mild difference. so it makes forecasting through thursday and friday near impossible. the trend is worth following, though, the weather will turn milder later in the week, but details of how much sunshine or rain there

might be, well, it is too uncertain at the moment.