early on t.w. . to get out of the. plane. this is d w news live from hong kong as leader backs down on extradition chief executive kerry lamb says she's indefinitely suspending debate on a divisive lot of what allowed people to be handed over to mainland china for trial it comes out for massive street protests and the worst political violence in the territory in the decade also coming up protests across brazil has

a nationwide strike against planned pension reforms the country's president insists the changes are needed to kick start the economy but struggling workers say greater part. i'm calling aspen thanks for joining us after days of unrest and street protests in hong kong the city's government has relented and announced they will indefinitely suspend its push for a proposed law that would have allowed people to be extradited to mainland china the bill caused widespread concern with many fearing it with pride hong kong's rule of law and its status as a financial hub. it was fractious scenes outside government house in hong kong preceded a remarkable turnaround from the leadership so repeated in turn no deliberations

over the last 2 days i now announce that the government has decided to suspend the legislative amendment exercice restart all communication with all sectors of society do more explanation work and listen to different views of society lam statement acknowledged the pressure of recent days where protesters thronged the city streets and clashed with police was instrumental in her decision to suspend but not withdraw the bill that suspension drew strong opposition voices to criticized for not scrapping the law completely with some demanding her resignation kept at home all this month and she must pick up others who are inclined to agree i think that is something that would definitely edge of the protest tomorrow born in hong kong raised in hong kong

i think. bill should have never gone through anyway. and for her to. take this amount of time and not step down through. a day of protesting police brutality things that the system is the worst i've ever seen in hong kong statements like these along with the peaceful protests on friday against police violence show a steely resolve to resist the government. is in whole hong kong he's been following the situation there for us but why do you think kerry lamb has relented and postponed this controversial bill. we've been demanding ourselves after what happened on wednesday how is she going to govern a city where so many people just hate the government i think in the end the pictures were too much and they were doing more harm to her government than the benefits

could have been out of this bill and beijing must have come to the same conclusion so she refused today to confirm or to deny that she had been making a high ranking chinese official beijing off initial in the last days but. both sides must have come to the conclusion that continuing this producing more pictures like this. would do more harm to them than keeping going with this event and then bringing this bill through could have a benefit them how surprised are you by this retreat i mean even the protesters themselves on the streets they've been saying that they didn't think that their movement had much of a chance to succeed. and they still are not really convents that they have succeeded they think the government has made a tactical retreat but it has not surrendered this ability it has not scrapped it

and that the government has has really sad that it would rediscuss the bill more defiant discuss with its own lawmakers maybe do some concessions to the business community who also oppose it but they have not said that there would would meet the protesters on any steps in between so we don't know with these they have been rumors since yesterday that this would be announced i think it was just not possible to put this rule i think in the in the in the probe aging unease was also growing given those doubts you just mentioned from the protesters you know there are more demonstrations planned for the coming days what do you expect will we see those take place. we will then take place they have announced it will take place many people we've talked to. they will go they don't trust the government they did this government has not scrapped the bill so they will continue to protest whether their turnout would be as big as it would have been if they had

to push the bill on high speed through the parliament we don't know we will never know but nobody here thinks this conflict is over. and over pouring for us from hong kong thank you very much let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world sana has been sworn in as slovakia's 1st female president the 45 year old boy or has never before held state office she entered politics as an environmentalist fighting against a toxic landfill in her hometown. thousands of venezuelans rushed across peru's border before restrictions on their entry came into effect at midnight on friday many even this wayland's have been fleeing their country's economic and political crisis under the new regulations they must have valid visas and passports to enter a route. around 60 people have died in central and southern china following 2 weeks

of heavy rain and flooding authorities have rescued thousands of people while hundreds of thousands more have been ordered to evacuate their homes. celebrated italian film director franco zeffirelli has died aged 96 he was perhaps best known for his 1960 s. films of shakespeare plays the taming of the shrew starring richard burton and elizabeth taylor and the oscar nominated romeo and juliet he also directed opera working with rocky and to make. well 2 months ago today a fire tore through notre dame cathedral in paris the blaze destroyed the gothic churches roof and toppled its famous spire despite the efforts of firefighters later today the church will rise from the ashes holding its 1st mass since the devastating fire only around 30 people mostly priests and restoration workers will

be allowed inside the cathedral and they'll be wearing hard hats the catholic faithful can watch a broadcast of the mass on a religious t.v. channel. of course many years of restoration and repair still lie ahead and you might think it's all being paid for by the flood of donations promised by billionaires and companies after the blaze but it turns out the church is still waiting for much of that money reporter jared reed has been following up on those donations i mean 1st just remind us again how much money was pledged for these these repairs after the fire well after the fire there was some pretty determined philanthropist and we had all these rich billionaires and companies line . not to say i'm going to give 100000000 euros 2cw4cw and eventually around a 1000000000 euros was raised in a very short amount of time which you know created a lot of publicity for these people also some criticism because it looked like they were all sort of trying to one up each other as you correctly say the fire happened

2 months ago today and you think that would be enough time to to write that check or hit the send button on the internet banking but none of these rich donors have paid. spokes person for the not true in paris this is a quote from him the big donors haven't paid not a cent they want to know what exactly their money is being spent on and if they agree to it before they hand it over and not just to pay employees salaries he was speaking to me so it's pretty incredible it seems like there are many many strings attached to this money of which around 10 percent has been received overall in these donations the employees he's talking about the 150 restoration work is that being a working on the cathedral at the moment there is already being work done right now i mean who's picking up the check well it's it's coming from much more humble sources it's coming from american tourists and french citizens they're the ones

that are donating much much smaller amounts to organizations non-profits involved with the restoration work in this month they've given around 4000000 euros to fund the 1st part of the restoration we have to remember time is of the essence here historians have told us that through the centuries not being kind of neglected and after the fire president necron gave a timeline of 5 years to get these finished plus there's also a health issue after the $5300.00 tons of lead dust was released into the atmosphere. and so a lot of work needs to be done to to clean that up and to do it quickly to make the site safe for us to rebuild on so these big donors have they responded at all to that quote the we heard from him yet so some of them have come out and said yes it's true we haven't paid the money and that's because we want to see what the restoration plans are and whether they're in line with what we think they should be

and kind of what the thinking is is that a lot of them want their names and their money on the end product in the not necessarily interested in doing kind of the the boring work of making the site clean and safe for the restoration sir we have to see what happens over the next couple of months and 5 years i will see if they can hit send on that. jared reed thank you so much for millions of workers in brazil have staged a general strike to protest planned pension reforms the changes would mean an increase in the retirement age and higher pension contributions brazil's hard line president wilson r.-o. has warned that failing to overhaul the pension system would bankrupt the country. the strike was directed at plans of far right president to reform the pension system raising the retirement age and increasing workers contributions the government says it needs to cut spending to save the social security system from

bankruptcy the unions say the reform would hit the poor hardest was o.b.l. always if the government does not listen to the voice of the people on the streets the future will be dark we're losing our rights in a country that is failing as a society failing in education and we don't see where it will end he always uses up in sao paulo the protests went on late into the evening as tension mounted police used tear gas and rubber bullets against demonstrators. there. the demo was calm it was not us who are doing the right thing fighting for what we have to fight for education is important and the pension reform is unjust but the clashes are shane coming at. rio de janeiro also saw clashes with police deploying tear gas there as well. since taking office at the start of the year both government has

already faced a series of protests by women's and indigenous groups by teachers and by students so far it's simply ignored friday's general strike. football now when in the 1st of today's games of the women's world cup european champions the netherlands have qualified for the last 16 by beating cameroon 3 to one the dutch took the lead on one minutes after a good build up resulted in viviana me dema having in the lead did not last long cameroon levelling here through gabriele in ne she then delivered a message home via her t.-shirt pretty cool but the netherlands scored twice in the 2nd half and that sealed the victory. in yesterday's late game england booked their place in the next round with a one nil win over argentina england dominated the match and had numerous chances to score in the key term paris and a golden opportunity here to put england in front in the 1st half but her penalty

was well saved by the keeper there england finally broke the deadlock 61st minute now beth meet with a perfect cross jodie taylor tapping in from close range and that was the goal that made all the difference england picks up those 3 points. are all the copa america kicked off on friday in brazil with the hosts defeating bolivia 3 nil after a scoreless 1st half in sao paolo philippe coutinho scored twice within 3 minutes the 3rd goal came from everton suarez 5 minutes from pole time to seal the win the action continues later on saturday venezuela taking on a group and argentina will face colombia. and her mind over the top stories we're tracking for you at this hour on kong's chief executive gary lam says she's indefinitely suspending debate on a divisive law that would have allowed people to be handed over to mainland china

for trial this comes after massive street protests and the worst political violence in the territory in decades. and notre dame cathedral in paris for comparing to hold its 1st mass since the disastrous fire 2 months ago around 30 people wearing our taps will be allowed inside the building others to watch the service on television. up next a look at for female artists taking a stand for women's rights some have more news at the top they are. still too tough to get through the bundesliga break without a football thanks again. click the women's world cup in front. of excitement action emotion not some. big swings in ninety's women's.

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