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a new law in hong kong fails to deter tens of thousands of people from taking to the streets. the latest protests came despite a ban on face masks, sparking violent clashes and scores of arrests by the police. they started firing volleys of tear gas over the wall through these trees and down into the street. the protesters a re responding by pouring water onto the tear gas canisters or throwing them back. as the hong kong government's latest tactic to quell the demonstrations appears to fail,
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we'll be asking what could be next. also tonight: days to decide if there can be a brexit deal. emmanuel macron tells the prime minister his proposals will be evaluated by the end of the week. an emotional appeal from the parents of the teenager killed in a car crash involving an american diplomat‘s wife. i wouldn't want to think that she put herself on that plane to go home to avoid what she's done, because i couldn't live with myself. the agony of endometriosis. bbc research reveals the hidden toll on women's lives. and ginger baker, ground—breaking rock drummer, has died at the age of 80.
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good evening. scores of people were arrested in hong kong today after under new emergency laws brought in to try and end months of civil unrest. tens of thousands of demonstrators took part in the latest protests and there were violent clashes as they were met by riot police. the new law forbids people from wearing masks to try and conceal their identity at demonstrations, with a possible one—year prison sentence. our asia correspondent rupert wingfield—hayes reports from hong kong. loud bangs. at what point does a protest movement become a rebellion? today in hong kong, it felt close to that edge. it is now illegal here to cover yourface in public. but look at these people. young and old, parents with children, nervous but defiant, determined they will not be stopped from protesting or wearing masks. chanting.
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if carrie lam and her government were hoping that the new regulation banning the wearing of masks was going to stop people coming out on the streets, well, they've been proved wrong. even in this pouring rain, tens of thousands have come out again today, many, many of them wearing masks. it is a sign ofjust how little credibility and authority carrie lam and her government now have here. many protesters are now scared. they fear what is coming but say they cannot give up. actually, we are afraid but we still go, come out, because we... we know that this is the last chance for hong kong people. look at the kids. honestly, look at them. they are very young, and you know, they are fighting for us, you know, it is really for the entire of hong kong. i think really we should really stand up and help, honestly. even though i know that maybe it's useless. after two hours, the police decided this illegal show of defiance had gone on long enough.
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loud bangs. the police are now behind this wall here inside the police station and they have started firing volleys of tear gas over the wall, through these trees and down into the street. the protesters are responding by pouring water onto the tear gas canisters or throwing them back. these are the black—clad radicals, the hardcore activists who the facemask ban is aimed at. the government says they are hiding their identities so they can create chaos. explosions. the tear gas barrage intensifies and the protesters now fall back in a chaotic retreat. police whistles, shouting. the race is now on to get into the back streets before the police can catch them. but many are too slow and the police overrun them. among those arrested are two young women. they look like teenagers.
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the atmosphere is tense, the angerfeverish. as the police finally withdraw, the crowd cheers in victory. cheering. for now, at least, the streets again belong to the people. rupert wingfield—hayes, bbc news, in hong kong. the prime minister has urged the european union to, in his words, "grasp the opportunity" to seal a brexit deal. it comes as the french president emmanuel macron tells mrjohnson that the eu will decide whether a deal is possible by the end of the week. eu and uk officials resume talks in brussels tomorrow and as our political correspondent iain watson reports, the next few days could be decisive. deal or no deal? this is the week when that question may finally be answered. borisjohnson is pushing brussels to open serious negotiations on his latest proposals, and government ministers are warning time is short. we have set out very serious
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proposals, including compromise on our side, and we now need to see creativity and flexibility on the eu's side in order to reach that deal. under boris johnson's plan, after brexit, the northern ireland assembly could decide whether to remain more in step with some eu rules to ease cross—border trade, or adopt any new uk rules instead. critics say this would give too much power to northern ireland's dup, and the government seems open to a rethink. but i'm told there will be no major modifications to the prime minister's plans. and in a phone call today, the french president emmanuel macron told borisjohnson the eu would evaluate whether a deal was possible by the end of the week. the prime minister has a much better chance of getting a deal with brussels if he can convince eu leaders that he can get it through parliament. but borisjohnson doesn't have a majority in westminster, so he'd need at least some help from labour mps. and the party leadership are demanding that he makes
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much bigger compromises than he is currently contemplating if he wants labour support. he has got to move. he has got to compromise in the national and international interest if he is going to get our support. but what happens if borisjohnson doesn't get a deal? ministers have already been discussing how to disrupt eu business if he is forced into seeking a brexit extension that he doesn't want. however, some european leaders are insisting the uk can still leave on good terms. it certainly is possible but it depends upon one crucial element, that also mrjohnson, as well as the eu, are willing and ready to move on a compromise manner. if the offer from the uk turns out to be a sort of take it or leave it, it's going to be very difficult. the eu will tell borisjohnson within days whether a deal is possible, or whether he'll have to fight with his opponents at westminster to leave without one.
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iain watson, bbc news. the chief constable of northamptonshire police has urged the us embassy to waive the diplomatic immunity of an american woman who is a suspect in the investigation of a fatal car crash. harry dunn, who was 19, was killed six weeks ago when his motorbike collided with a car. our correspondent duncan kennedy has been speaking to his parents, who have made a direct appeal for the woman to return to the uk to face justice. he was the son who always smiled, the teenager who loved life. harry dunn's parents, tim and charlotte, say their pain is profound, especially as the police suspect in the case has now left the country. for this to happen is just unbelievable. i would just like her to come back and tell us why she left, why would she leave, and explain to me why she thought leaving was the right way to go. harry died here, when his motorbike
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was hit by a car driven by the wife of an american diplomat. but despite telling police she would co—operate, she has now flown back to the united states — something harry's parents simply can't believe. from mum to mum, knowing or believing that she is a mother, i wouldn't want to think that she put herself on that plane to go home to avoid what she's done, because i couldn't live with myself. if you could meet her, what would you say to this woman, this mother? emotionally: come back. we're not out to get her or put her behind bars, if that's what the justice system ends up doing, then we can't stop that. but we're not out to do that, we're out to try and get some peace for ourselves. the woman lived at this us air force base 200 yards from the crash site.
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tonight, the chief constable of northamptonshire has written —— at the american authorities say they are cooperating closely with they are cooperating closely with the british. tonight, the chief constable of northamptonshire has written to the american embassy, urging them to letjustice take place — for harry and for harry's family. duncan kennedy, bbc news. a second whistle—blower has come forward in the impeachment inquiry into president trump's conversations with the ukrainian president. a lawyer involved has told american television the second whistle—blower is another us intelligence official. our correspondent chris buckler is in washington. how much is known about this second individual? this latest whistle—blower is said to bea us this latest whistle—blower is said to be a us intelligence official who has first—hand knowledge of some of theissues has first—hand knowledge of some of the issues surrounding that conversation between donald trump and volodymir zelensky back in the summer. and volodymir zelensky back in the summer. in that phone call, you
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might remember, donald trump asked ukrainian president to launch an investigation on his potential presidential rival, joe biden. there are growing questions about what pressure was put on ukraine, suggestions that they may have dangled the prospect of a visit to the white house or even threatened to stop security assistance to the country or at least suspend it. mr trump has firmly denied that, saying that isn't the case and he only wa nted that isn't the case and he only wanted corruption to be investigated. but despite many allegations againstjoe biden and his son, hunter, they have not had any evidence of wrongdoing appear before them. as far as democrats are concerned, they are very strongly trying to find information, perhaps documents from the white house, and they will want to hear what the whistle—blower has had to say as well. chris buckler in washington, thank you. the united nations is calling for an end to "senseless loss of life" in iraq — after days of anti government protests claimed more than 100 lives and injured another 6,000 people. iraqis have been demonstrating for the last five days
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against corruption and high unemployment. the security forces' response has included live ammunition. the former high courtjudge who wrote a report on how the metropolitan police handled what turned out to be entirely false claims of a westminster paedophile ring says there were then "shocking failures" at the independent 0ffice of police conduct, which investigates police officers. sir richard henriques' stinging criticism will be in tomorrow's daily mail newspaper. our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford joins me now. what has he said now? as you said, so what has he said now? as you said, so richard henriques originally investigated how the police had carried out 0peration midland which looked into the false claims by carl beech of a paedophile ring operating in westminster. he said the search wa rra nts in westminster. he said the search warrants of senior military and political figures had warrants of senior military and politicalfigures had been obtained unlawfully in that police investigation because the district judge had been misled about the credibility of the key witness. the iopc which then looked into what he
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had said has now decided that no police officer should face any further action. so richard henriques has written an unbelievably critical article in the daily mail tomorrow, saying this was a gross and inexcusably delayed investigation with minimal, unprofessional and flawed decision making. he said it isa flawed decision making. he said it is a matter of profound regret that one of the most unsatisfactory, error ridden criminal operations and history should be followed by a lamentably slow and inadequate process which fell well short of an effective investigation. the iopc tonight have insisted theirs was a proper and detailed investigation. daniel, thank you. a rapper who was attacked backstage at a bbc music event last night has told his supporters he's well, and will be back in no time. krept, who's 29, suffered a slash wound at ixtra live in birmingham. he was treated at the scene and the event ended early. the bbc says it's cooperating with the police to establish exactly what happened. it's often described as a hidden epidemic, one that affects 176 million women
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across the world. endometriosis is a condition that can affect women from their teenage years and causes intense pain. more than 13,000 who suffer from it in the uk have now shared their experiences with the bbc, their stories revealing the far—reaching impact of endometriosis on their education, careers, relationships and mental health. sarah campbell reports. you know that feeling before you go on an aeroplane, when you're right nervous? yeah. you just think, "it'll be nice if i get there, but it might crash". the risk is that i'm not better, but hope is like a magic word because if you've got no hope, you've got nothing. it's a short walk. michelle middleton is about to have her womb, ovaries, fallopian tubes and cervix removed. her last chance, she says, to ease the agony of endometriosis. show me the top of the uterus. each month, cells similar to those in the womb grow elsewhere in her body,
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and then bleed. but unlike a period, the blood has no way to escape, leading to swelling and scarring. michelle had two children in her 20s but the condition can also affect fertility. it had such a detrimental effect on my mental health that i tried to take my own life. the pain isjust like a constant, like, root canal toothache pain, deep inside of you. an hour and a half later, michelle is out and in recovery. 0k, michelle, you're just waking up. michelle? at 42, her menopause will now begin. # because all you've got to do is break free...#. abigail isjust 15. she shared her struggles with endometriosis online. if, like, i am around town, going in my wheelchair... i've never felt something like that before. i missed all of year eight. it was quite hard because initially, i was told that i was making it up,
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and, like, iwas doing it to seek attention. but eventually, we found a doctor that wanted to help and completely understood and, like, took me seriously. so it's the night before my surgery... in february, the pain was so bad, she chose to have an operation to try to cut out the affected areas. abigail's is a severe case. months after the operation, she's still struggling. even walking causes her pain. there's lots of treatments out there... endometriosis affects women in different ways and campaigners argue a cure won't be found until research is properly funded. i think it's a disgrace that 1.5 million young women in the uk alone, never mind the rest of the world, suffers from a very painful condition that is not being investigated as thoroughly as other diseases. it's 48 hours since you had the operation. how are you feeling? i'm feeling, um, positive, actually. it's too early to say whether michelle's hysterectomy will permanently ease her pain.
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but for the first time in a long time, she is hopeful she will be able to live a normal life. where do you think you're going to be this time next year, michelle? 0n holiday in gran canaria! i think i'm just going to be in a much better place, hopefully not in this bed. michelle middleton ending that report by sarah campbell. with all the sport now, here's 0lly foster at the bbc sport centre. good evening. ten days of competition have come to a close at the world athletics championships in doha and great britain have failed to hit their medal target after a disappointing night in the relays. our sports correspondent natalie pirks is there for us. it was perhaps fitting for a championships riddled with controversy that britain's knight finished in drama. confusion, there, and great britain and northern ireland gone. it meant the nation fell two medal short of their target, the team's was championships
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since 2005. the women's 4x4 hundred metre quartet came forth but were briefly bumped up to bronze but then we re briefly bumped up to bronze but then were out of medals again. but it doesn't tell the whole tale. sunshine off the track and an assassin on it, dina asher—smith became the first british athlete to win three medals at the same championship and became a world championship and became a world champion to boot. it's dina asher—smith! she's the champion!” don't know what to say, i don't think it has properly sunk in. i dreamt of this but it is real now. and katarina johnson—thompson came to dhofar like a woman reborn, the stadium now forever etched in the memory as the scene of her greatest heptathlon victory. that's an excellent run, 13. 08! heptathlon victory. that's an excellent run, 13.08! it actually felt like a dream, the lights and everything, it'sjust felt like a dream, the lights and everything, it's just been unbelievable and i can't believe this is the result. world athletics is in this is the result. world athletics isina this is the result. world athletics is in a very healthy state and british athletics are very much part of that. we have gold medallists, finalists here and that means we are punching with the rest of the world.
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well, the performances here at the khalifa stadium have been fantastic, but away from the track there have been plenty of issues for organisers to deal with. the atmosphere here tonight is amazing but it hasn't always been this way. when dina asher—smith made history last weekend, the lack of crowds was a depressing sight. the humidity was also an issue, a third of the starters in the women's marathon, held at midnight, failed to finish. when the news broke that mo farah's former coach alberto salazar had been banned forfour yea rs salazar had been banned forfour years for doping offences, it hung over the stadium like a dark cloud, shrouding his star athletes, who'd done nothing wrong. and human rights we re done nothing wrong. and human rights were also high on the agenda, with the governing body defending the decision to hold the championships here. i passionately believe that sport can shine a spotlight on so many issues that other areas of the world simply do not want to address. with the world cup looming, lessons have undoubtedly been learned by
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qatar, and as the curtain goes down on the first world championships in the middle east, britain's games can turn further east, to the tokyo 0lympics, with some optimism. natalie pirks, bbc news, doha. all today's premier league goals are coming up on match of the day 2 after the news, but here are the results, if you want them. the champions manchester city lost at home for the first time since december. a 2—0 defeat by wolves sees the champions head into the international break eight points behind leaders liverpool. elsewhere, manchester united lost at newcastle, and there were wins for chelsea and arsenal. rangers are top of the scottish premiership after they beat hamilton 5—0 and celtic lost. the champions were beaten 2—0 at livingston. they played for over an hour with ten men, slipping to their first league defeat of the season. there were two matches at the rugby world cup injapan. the reigning champions new zealand scored 11 tries in a huge win against namibia, 71—9. france are into the quarterfinals after a tight game against tonga, the french winning 23—21.
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they'll now play england in their final pool match, with the winners of that likely to face australia in the last eight. and that's the sport. mishal. the drummer ginger baker, widely considered to be one of the most influential and innovative musicians of his generation, has died at the age of 80. nicknamed ginger because of his flaming red hair, he helped form cream, one of rock's first supergroups. david sillito looks back on his life. drum solo it was in 1966 that ginger baker decided he wanted his own band. cream with eric clapton and jack bruce was described as a supergroup. and his freewheeling jazz—inspired improvisations marked him out as one of the great rock drummers. i play to what i hear
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and it's all that's happening all the time, which is why it's never the same. born in lewisham in south london, he'd started out playing jazz. and there were many bands over the years because he was not always easy company. the director who made a documentary about his life ended up with a broken nose. nevertheless, his work with african artists at his lagos studio, his melding ofjazz and rock, he was a pioneer. it was a turbulent life of drugs, feuds and a love of polo. but behind the drums, he was one of the greats. ginger baker, who's died at the age of 80. that's all from us. now on bbc one, it's time for the news where you are. goodbye.
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hello. this is bbc news. tens of thousands of demonstrators have been on the streets of hong kong in a day of violent clashes that's led to scores of arrests. protestors defied a new law banning them from wearing face masks and aimed at ending the unrest that's gripped hong sincejune. earlier i spoke to victoria hui, who is from hong kong and associate professor of political science at notre dame university in indiana. she told me there has been a rapid escalation of violence in the past few months. the government imposed this ban on masks and people believe that firstly the police will not issue a permit for protest and now
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we cannot even wear facemask. what's left? so they're defending the last threat to their freedoms. carrie lam, the chief executive, said the ban has come into effect because the protests are destroying hong kong. she said they can't be allowed to continue, and she has a point, doesn't she? they're having an impact. there's been a lot of violence. a lot of destruction of buildings and subway stations. yes, in a way that's true but at the same time we're seeing a lot of provocation the police. there have been videos of the police burning stuff in the station and then also we are seeing videos of police officers following molotov cocktail. so it's hard to know which side is doing what. but you're quite right, if the police are instigating violence, they do so for a point. they really want to get the protesters to become more violent in order to justify this mass ban. probably they're going to cancel the upcoming district council elections in november.
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so it's a bit of a chicken and egg situation. what should beijing do now to resolve this? one thing is that even very pro—beijing business leaders have been saying that you have to formally withdraw the bill which carrie lam did. at the same time, because people really reacting to the police force and increasing police brutality, hitting people with batons on the heads and breaking the bones at moments of arrest and making these detention centres. these are terrible things that may be the government should not further add oil to the fire. at the same time, maybe protesters can learn that they need to appeal to international attention and support. they have to think in politics now. this spontaneous reaction to police abuses has to be also channelled in a different way. the police would obviously say they are responding to events
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and they aren't instigating abuses of the protesters. they are getting a lot of international attention. the media around the world, such as us, are talking about this, showing pictures. what do you think the international community should do, if anything, in response, or is this a chinese issue? china has been saying that this is their internal affairs, but hong kong is an international city. hong kong enjoys a special status because chinese leaders in the 1980s went around assuring the world that hong kong would be different. this is why the us, in 1992, enacted the hong kong policy act. this is all being reviewed and many hong kong people are lobbying the us congress passed the hong kong human rights and democracy act. at the same time, hong kong people should understand that the rest of the world supports them, notjust because you know, when there is violence, it always goes on the front page, but hong kong people want to say that they stand for universal values and they are fighting against a one—party dictatorship.
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at the same time it means they have to really demonstrate and exercise some restraint and use other members. time for a look at the weather with ben rich. good evening. most of us have seen wet weather at one point or another this weekend but for some, the weather has been relentless and caused some problems, especially in eastern england. that was the scene for a weather watcher earlier on in norfolk. this is the radar picture from earlier. you can see how the rain piled its way in over parts of norfolk and suffolk in particular. the rain now starting to fizzle away and clear south—eastwards, so we have a drier interlude to come through the rest of tonight. some clear spells overhead. it may turn a bit misty in places. the drier interlude won't last long because we've got more rain pushing in from the west by the end of the night and increasing strong wind. with the cloud and rain and wind it will be fairly mild in the west but a cool night further east,
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some spots dropping down to around five or six degrees. so, into tomorrow. low pressure once again is in charge of the weather. a lot of isobars on the chart. really strong wind blowing over the north west of the uk. the western isles may see gusts of 60, 70 mph for a time. strong wind elsewhere. a band of rain pushing its way east. there probably won't be quite as much rain as we saw in same places during today, but still, 20, 30 millimetres on top of what we've already had could cause some problems, may be some further localised flooding, and the potential for travel problems. brightening up for scotland and northern ireland later in the day, a mixture of sunshine and showers as we go on towards the end of the afternoon. tuesday, low pressure still in charge. showers coming our way. these little weather features here may cause the showers to join together to give longer spells of rain. hard to be too precise about the detail but certainly
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on tuesday it looks like we'll see some showers which mayjoin together into longer spells of rain. some sunny spells in between. a windy day, 13—17. similarly on wednesday we'll see showers. these perhaps focused over the western side of the country. further east, not as many showers. some spells of sunshine. temperatures 13—15 degrees. as we head through the week it is going to stay unsettled, heavy downpours, sunny spells. it will often be windy.

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