sunny spells around, but there are these showers, i'm ben bland with bbc world news. most frequent towards our top story. the north—west of the uk. police in hong kong shoot heavy, thundery, wintry on hills, a protester at point blank range could see some hail as well. using live ammunition. pushed in on brisk north—westerly winds, some will travel all the way east and south across the uk, footage shared on social media show but relatively few across southern the masked man collapsing i'm sharanjit leyl in singapore, the headlines: and eastern parts. so in the afternoon, to the ground. it happened during the morning commute at an intersection more on the way of dry and sunny in the heart of the city. weather to be found here. temperatures for the most part in single figures, police in hong kong use live ammunition feeling colder than it did during clashes with protesters. on sunday, because there's a demonstrator has been shot a strong wind. overnight and into tuesday, see the showers still keep on coming there have been clashes as at point blank range. in here, some clearer spells pro—democracy activists tried to to the south and east. disrupt transport by setting up all down to this area of low a state of emergency pressure still close by on tuesday. barricades. it's likely to push a longer spell australian authorities declare is declared in new south wales a state of emergency of wet weather south across the uk, in new south wales and now queensland, with warnings and now queensland — that bushfires in australia and from monday into tuesday, after warnings bushfires could pose a ‘catastrophic‘ we will see the rain totals mounting in the country could also pose a ‘catastrophic‘ threat to sydney. into the peak district, bolivia's president evo morales has threat to sydney. some snow to the high hills here, announced his resignation but that could influence after weeks of protests over last the flooding. month's disputed elections. bolivia's president evo morales so we will keep an eye on that. the announcement came after the head announces his resignation after weeks of protests over last there is the spell of wet weather of the armed forces called on him moving south on tuesday, what is clearly another cold day. to step down. and this story is month's disputed elections. a bit of a lull to start wednesday, trending on bbc.com: with frost and freezing fog patches, it's the heavyweight contest in the english premier league i'm ben bland in london. but another area of low pressure between the two title favourites comes in, some better weather liverpool and manchester city. also in the programme. the reds won it 3—1, cyclone bulbul rips through coastal for northern ireland, wales, areas of bangladesh south—west england on wednesday, which puts them eight points clear and india, killing at least 13 then thursday, this band of rain at the top of the table. people and forcing more than two sitting through parts of england current champions manchester city and wales, and it could well be are just fourth in the league. million out of their homes. raining in some of the areas seeing

the worst of the flooding at the moment. living with hiv in pakistan — weather warnings in force, details on our website. time now to go live to singapore if you're concerned about more rain we find out how families are coping in a part of the country where you are, you do really need to keep across the forecast where infection rates are growing. live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. it's newsday. as we go through this week. we begin with breaking news. police in hong kong have used live ammunition during clashes with protesters. footage broadcast on social media appears to show an officer shooting a demonstrator in the chest at point blank range. the masked man is seen collapsing to the floor. pro— democracy activists have been trying to disrupt transport in hong kong by setting up barricades. months of demonstrations in the territory have turned increasingly violent. on sunday, an international panel of experts expressed support

for an independent inquiry into the behaviour of the city's police force. we will bring you more on that story as we get it. in australia, a state of emergency has been declared in new south wales and now also queensland. dozens of bushfires continue to burn in the region. earlier, authorities issued the highest level of warning in some areas — known as catastrophic — for the first time since new fire warnings were introduced a decade ago. for more here's the bbc‘s phil mercer in sydney. well, we have heard that 850,000 hectares of bushland has been burnt in new south wales since the start of this year's fire season. so that is a huge area of land. today we have heard that both new south wales and queensland have declared a state of emergency.

what that does, it gives the fire authorities greater powers to protect life and property. so that just gives you an indication as to how serious this is. dozens of fires are burning in both eastern states and the forecast for tomorrow here in new south wales is pretty bad. the authorities in sydney, near sydney, say that catastrophic conditions are expected around the sydney region, in the blue mountains and the hunter to the north. so the authorities are warning people in bushfire prone areas to leave as soon as they can because they can't guarantee that if people call for help when the fires are at their worst that the authorities will be able to respond. indeed. how stretched are the resources now in new south wales and queensland? are they able to hold back these fires? well, many of these fires are burning uncontrolled. so what the authorities are doing, it's almost

like a military style operation. they are having to strategically plan to protect life and property as best they can. now, hundreds of firefighters are on the ground. they are being supported by a squadron of water bombing aircraft. weary firefighters, once again, having to fight fires today before the onslaught expected tomorrow. new zealand has sent in reinforcements for australia and there is a discussion between fire authorities here and their counterparts in the united states and canada, too, about perhaps getting reinforcements from there as well. and once again that gives you an indication just how serious it is, just how thinly this emergency line is being stretched with so many fires and the forecast being so grim for the next 24—48 hours.

injusta injust a few in just a few minutes we will bring you another date from the new south wales rural fire service, later in the programme. —— bring you an update. let's take a look at some of the day's other news. the president of bolivia has resigned following the turmoil after his disputed re—election last month. in a televised address, evo morales described attempts to force him from power as a coup. he's been under pressure to step down — the head of the armed forces had called on him to leave. mexico's foreign minister has offered evo morales aslyum if he so chooses. this was the scene outside the government palace in la paz earlier. crowds began to gather as news of his resignation emerged. protests against mr morales had been turning increasingly violent. i asked monica machicao, a journalist with reuters news agency, who's in charge. well, since the person that was going to be in charge is a senator from the opposition. her name isjeanine anez.

she's the second vice president of the senate. and she is the one that will take evo morales‘s place starting tomorrow. and what has been the reaction? i gather you have been wandering around la paz and getting a sense of that. how have people been reacting to this decision by the president? after 19 days of protest, peaceful protest, mostly, people have reacted joyfully. there are people in the streets wrapped with bolivian flags. they are making a lot of noises with the cars. they went downtown to express theirjoy. because this has been a very long fight for most bolivians. you have to understand that most of the population in the country has been blockaded, basically. no jobs, no public offices were open. things were really working very slowly. so now everybody thinks things might get to normal as soon as the congress decides what will be the steps to follow in order to get

a second election, another election. and what you think it was, in the end, that brought things to this point? because, as you said, priests have been going on for some time. what was it in the end that led the president to decide it was time for him to go? well, there was a loss of violence that was mainly provoked by evo morales‘s followers. and all of this violence ended up with four people have died and more than 300 injured. and somehow police and somehow the armed forces decided to stay with the people, respect people's will. and this is how things have developed. this is why evo morales could not keep the presidency.

what in your view of the most important, what are the crucial next steps in the immediate aftermath of the president stepping down for bolivia to move on and also to maintain stability and security? probably the steps that we will follow will be constitutional. the congress has to gather and they have to accept the resignation of president morales and other officers. they have to makejeanine anez the new president and constitutionally she has to call another election. which is basically what the 0as said today on their preliminary report. they said there were so many doubts and they had committed so many crimes in the country because the electoral fraud is a crime in this country. so they have to renew the tribunal, they have to call for elections. and that's the way, i believe, that things will calm down. in fact, people in the streets are not moving right now. they said they're going to follow

the vigil until these results are accomplished. also making news today: an investigation has been launched into whether apple's credit card discriminates against women, by offering them lower credit limits. it follows complaints — including from apple's co—founder steve wozniak — that algorithms used to set limits might be inherently biased. the card is run by the investment bank goldman sachs — they say credit decisions are not made on factors like gender. a top united states military commander has said that the us is likely to keep around 500 troops in syria. general mark milley said it was important to maintain a force there to prevent a resurgence of the islamic state group. president trump was heavily criticised last month when he abruptly announced a complete withdrawal of american troops. later, he said a force

would stay in order to control valuable oil fields. chinese e—commerce giant alibaba says sales for its annual singles‘ day shopping blitz hit $13 billion within the first hour. that's up nearly one—third on last year. the sale began at midnight after a performance by american pop star taylor swift and local celebrities in shanghai. singles‘ day was once a celebration for china's lonely hearts. but it has become a 24—hour extravaganza that outsells the combined sales of the american black friday and cyber monday. and we'll have more on asian business report following newsday. the leader of spain's socialist party says he will call all other party leaders on monday to get them to tackle the political stalemate after the country's fourth election infouryears again

delivered a hung parliament. pedro sanchez‘s party will remain the largest — just as in april's poll. there's been substantial gains for both the conservative popular party — which is the second biggest party — with the right—wing populist vox party surging to third. 0ur correspondentjenny hill reports from madrid. it's four years since spain had a stable government. can this man deliver one? pedro sanchez knows the eyes of the world are on him. his socialist party failed to win a majority in april. it's unlikely they have done any better today. "what spain needs now", he told reporters, "is stability". he won't find it in catalonia. the independence crisis has exploded into violence in recent weeks,

and dominated this election. take the far right, campaigning to crack down on separatists. the anti—immigrant party vox is winning over spanish voters. it will complicate coalition building. viva espana! but spain is struggling under the burden of high unemployment and slowing economic growth. this religious festival, comfort for some, but it is the fourth time the country has gone to the polls in four years. many are losing faith in spanish democracy. i think that is not ok when you have a vote in april and now in november are you voting another time. translation: i'm worried about the stability of the country. i'm worried about the economy and i'm worried about catalonia.

spain's socialist party headquarters tonight. weeks of negotiation likely lie ahead. what they, what this country fear most, ongoing political paralysis. jenny hill, bbc news, madrid. just to remind you of our breaking news this hour. police in hong kong have used live ammunition during clashes with protesters. footage broadcast on social media appears to show an officer shooting a demonstrator in the chest at point blank range. the masked man is seen collapsing to the floor. pro—democracy activists have been trying to disrupt transport in hong kong by setting up barricades. months of demonstrations in the territory have turned increasingly violent. on sunday, an international panel of experts expressed support for an independent inquiry into the behaviour of the city's police force.

we will bring you more on developments there and the reaction to this breaking news as it comes into us here at newsday. more now on the situation in australia where a state of emergency has been declared in new south wales, as dozens of bushfires continue to burn. firefighters say they could now start to threaten sydney. ben shepherd is from the new south wales rural fire service — he says the next 2a to 48 hours could put a real strain on firefighters. yeah, obviously this time, this is where the community will have to play a substantial role. we are talking about an area that stretches from one border to another. so thousands of kilometres that are potentially at risk here. so we are actually asking for the public to ensure that they know what they are going to do if threatened by fire. but in many areas we will ask the public to move out of those areas into city environments to remove them from that. we are looking at incredibly dangerous conditions of the next 48 hours. the worst thing is behind that we're

seeing really any reprieve. we might see some reduction in the fire behaviour and the fire risk. but there's no rainfall on the horizon. these could still burn for days, weeks, if not months. now there is this morning that there could be catastrophic —— now there is this warning that there could be catastrophic consequences for urban centres like sydney, where are people going to go? it is mostly for the fringes of sydney itself. so it is moving into more densely populated areas, actually into the city. sydney is surrounded by national parks and bushlands and there are communities that actually stretch into those. so that the actual notification of the advice is for those communities in what we know is bushfire—prone land. so we want them to move out of it for the worst part of the day. under these conditions fires will start incredibly quickly and move rapidly. we don't want people in the path of them because there is the potential for

them to be killed. and we have heard measures could include firefighters coming across from new zealand, other parts of australia, even the military, perhaps, stepping into help. so the military can actually help us here in moving people around, obviously, and also logistical support. and those other firefighters from other states, they are moving into help. but we have got problems obviously in other states as well. look, this is a massive effort and unfortunately we have already seen a huge start to this fire season. currently there are some 970,000 hectares of bushland that has been burned or is currently burning. at this stage, without any significant rain on the forecast this will be a long and protracted period of fire activity and that is why we are asking for community support at this time. and there is, annually, a season where these fires tend to happen. just wonder is this something that your firefighting teams are used to or is it particularly bad this time around? there is no doubt that the fire dangers we will see in and around

sydney is unprecedented. it has been an incredibly long season already. we started seeing fires during winter. we are seeing those breaks now between fire seasons start to shorten. but, look, ourvolunteers along with other fire agencies stand ready to actually fight these fires. some of them are very tired. but we need to ensure that we continue to step up. we have good support. we know this is a long battle. but, look, the community is definitely helping us with that as well by keeping well—prepared and well informed. that was ben shepherd from the new south wales rural fire service. you're watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme: the true extent of the devastation caused by cyclone bulbul is yet to emerge, as 13 people are killed in india and bangladesh and two million are forced into emergency shelters. also on the programme: living with hiv in pakistan — with hundreds of children infected — we visit their families to see how they're coping.

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welcome back. this is newsday on the bbc. i'm sharanjit leyl in singapore. yes, once for staying with us. —— thanks. i'm ben bland in london. our top stories: a protester is shot at point blank range by hong kong police using live ammunition. new south wales and now queensland in australia declare a state of emergency, with warnings bushfires spreading across the country could pose a catastrophic threat to sydney. let's take a look at some front pages from around the world. the international edition of the financial times reports on proposed reforms at the european central bank, as christine lagarde takes over. senior figures at the bank are said to want more involvement in key policy making decisions such as setting interest rates.

the philippines star reports on the ongoing war on drugs in the country which is now being spearheaded by vice president leni robredo. the country's human rights commission is said to have requested documents relating to the government's new efforts in the campaign against drugs. in britain, the daily telegraph reports on possible improvements to alexa — also known as the amazon echo. that could include developing eyes and the ability to walk! the paper has interviewed a senior scientist involved with the popular device. now, what stories are sparking discussions online? yes, let's look at what is trending right now. lots of interest in the english premier league today — specifically the heavyweight contest between title contenders liverpool and manchester city. the reds won it 3—1, which puts them eight points clear at the top of the table. current champions manchester city

are just fourth in the league. at least 13 people have been killed after cyclone bulbul struck the coasts of india and bangladesh. seven people died in india's west bengal province, and six in bangladesh. parvin kumar ramchurn reports. the cyclone has caused widespread damage to coastal areas in bangladesh. officials say at least 6,000 homes have been partially or fully destroyed. prompt evacuations are thought to have saved many lives. as many as 2 million people left their homes and sought protection and emergency shelters. but not everybody was able to get out before the cyclone made landfall. translation: we didn't go to the cyclone shelter because my mother is an elderly woman, and we couldn't move her. allah saved us. when we returned from the cyclone shelter we found our cattle were squashed under the fallen house, and everything is ruined. the true extent of the disaster

is still emerging. authorities say they are concerned about fishing boats that went out during bad weather and failed to make contact. at its peak, the cyclone recorded wind speeds of 120 kilometres an hour. it is expected to weaken as it travels north over the sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove forest. services at seaports and airports in the region have also been affected. in neighbouring india, the military has been put on standby to help in emergencies. in may this year, pakistan was shaken after it emerged that large numbers of people in just one region had been infected with hiv. within six months, about 12 hundred people in the sindh province in the southeast of the country were declared hiv positive. nearly 900 of them were children and the number of cases is constantly growing. the bbc‘s shumaila jaffery travelled to the region to find out how the affected families are coping.

they are frightened and traumatised. a few months ago, in the small village of ratto dero, 32 children were found to be hiv positive. the community is still reeling with horror. translation: our children's lives are at stake. how are they going to cope with this disease? people hate them. people even discriminate against us. they ask us not to shake hands and not to visit their houses because they fear that they will also get sick. a massive screening was carried out in the whole district of larkana, in southern pakistan. 1,100 people were found hiv positive. more than 800 of them were children under the age of 12, with no family history of the disease. this used to be the busiest paediatric clinic in the area before the outbreak. it is sealed now, and the doctor who was running it is under trial. the initial enquiry report suggested that he was one of the main sources of spreading hiv among children — a charge that he denies.

dr muzaffar ghangro, who is himself hiv—positive, was accused of reusing syringes and cannulas on children. he was soon arrested, but was later cleared of the charge of spreading hiv on purpose. he was released on bail and says he is innocent. translation: health officials were under a lot of pressure to cover up their incompetency. they needed a scapegoat and they made me one. and it was also jealousy. my practice was popular, so some doctors and journalists made this up. but health officials now say that dr ghangro is unlikely to be the sole cause of the outbreak. according to a government report, local doctors reusing syringes and iv needles are to blame. and the government admits that

what happened in the larkana district was a wake—up call. doctors often don't think about the well—being of their patients. they give them injections even when they are not required, as a quick fix. and that's not the only issue. one of the biggest barriers to containing hiv in pakistan is the strong stigma around the disease. keeping quiet about things doesn't make them go away. so this time it is very important that we address this outbreak in a proper way and take action which is sustained. the government is trying to address this. for example, they are looking to introduce autolock syringes, disposable devices that self—destruct and cannot be reused. but poor practices are deeply rooted in the pakistani medical system and will take a long time to resolve. and in the meantime, a whole generation in larkana will spend the rest

of their lives living with hiv. that's all for now. stay with bbc world news. thanks for watching. don't be fooled by sunday's sunshine. there's more rain on the way this week, and to areas that really don't want any more. this is how thejet stream's looking this week. it's taking aim at the uk. it's on a more southerly track than it might be at this time of year, nestled within these dips, we find areas of low pressure bringing wet weather, and the uk is staying on the northern side of the jet stream, and that means in the cold air. a chilly week to come. so this is what we can expect this week from this weather pattern. i am afraid low pressure will be around with further rain at times, cold enough for some hill snow. it will often be windy, low pressure, temperatures below average and frost occasionally overnight. and this is how we're starting the day. a wintry start to the day across northern parts of scotland.

we've seen wet weather throughout the night, the bulk of that clearing away. it has delivered some snow to relatively modest hills north