w. . this is d.w. news live from berlin hong kong protesters keep up the pressure we're seeing live pictures of mass rallies calling for hong kong's probation leader to step down this comes after she vows to pressure and drops plans for a controversial extradition offer also coming up. or apply and argentina go completely without power in one of the biggest blackouts ever reported to get the latest from white house arias.

omarion epstein it's good to have you with us. hundreds of thousands of people are again rallying in hong kong they're demanding the resignation of the city's probation leader carrie lam she bowed to pressure and apologized to the public for her handling of the proposed bill that would allow extraditions to mainland china of pro-democracy demonstrators want the bill scrapped completely they worry that the bill is one of many steps to chip away at hong kong's freedoms and legal autonomy oh. after more than a week of mess of protests the human tide showed no sign of abating it was kerry lem's a 2nd back step in as many days on sunday a day after she promised to suspend the extradition bill hundreds of thousands of people clogged the streets of central hong kong to demand that she remove the bill permanently and that she steps down they began together early on sunday morning

umbrellas a symbol of their pro-democracy desires as much as protection from the blazing sun by evening the streets of downtown hong kong were packed that kerry lamb had taken one step back wasn't enough the people demanded an apology and eventually they got one she apologized for the way her administration tried to pass the china extradition law saying she had misjudged the public mood she admitted that the law had led to conflict and distress but still hong kong's people don't feel lam went far enough. i tend to believe this is not a moment that we see if you had to have out although we are united as swine they've got more than a 1000000 people going on street this is a very sad that entire so that is good that we can see people getting united and they all stand together as one could help like angus still seeds following violent clashes on wednesday when police used tear gas rubber bullets and bean bag rounds

to disperse tens of thousands of protesters. so the other you're basically we must teach the children to tell right from wrong. hong kong students came out peacefully to express their opinions so you know even though they were a little impulsive the police should not use rubber bullets tear gas and bean bag round assigned to deal with students over the hot sun. now it appears that nothing short of kerry lem's resignation will make the people back down. w.'s but he is building is following the developments in hong kong and he joins us now for more and he is quite late already in hong kong and yet we're seeing so many people still out on the streets why are they still so angry. i think anger has built up over this week and this is due to a in

a big part to the handling of the government of this crisis when you have a 1000000 of people on the street like last sunday you have to react to it you cannot say thank you but we are going to carry on then police brutality. with nourished anger further last wednesday people felt that the police had been overly brutal in getting people out of this area that you see now behind me so when caroline finally made a step back it was already very late and it was only half of what the people had expected people feel entitled now to go on the streets again they also feel their power we have seen more people even than last sunday today so this is going to last i think. all materials so many people have been comparing the current protests in hong kong to the umbrella movement 5 years ago i mean back then protesters were

trying to gain additional say in the political life of hong kong that movement unfortunately did not yield any results how likely is it that the protests this time around are going to change anything. similarities are striking it's the same streets the street you see behind me was one of the hot spots in 2014. it's very hard to say because it does not depend on the hong kong goes on not even on the hong kong government in its own to what will happen next beijing has a say in that and beijing is not known for seeking dialogue with people who protest it as we all know so it's very hard to predict what's going to happen next. it's also unlikely that the government will put forward this bill any time soon be. as it would just ignite the whole city again so if we just look at the the main issue

of this bill i think protesters are already more successful than that time but in getting more freedoms and getting more say in the city's politics i doubt there will be significant steps in the near future. just how much is hong kong's otani and its independence from mainland china really at risk. pos rhythms are eroding they have been eroding slowly over the past few years we have seen for example beijing abducting people from the city and putting them in jail in china so this is probably presumably a reason why beijing also wanted this bill although now the probe it income says it was kerry lam's idea but beijing would have had a legal handling to just have people from hong kong delivered to mainland china and there wouldn't have to dock them critical books are disappearing from the

bookstores and people were fearing that exactly this bill that would it would tear down the fire wall because between hong kong's rule of law that still exists and this arbitrary mainland system. all right the devil is mathias turning out reporting for us from hong kong we thank you very much. let's turn now to some of the other stories making news around the world saudi arabia has blamed its rival iran for the recent attacks on oil tankers in the persian gulf tensions are escalating after the united states released a video that it says proves that iran is behind the attacks for its part tehran says the allegations are baseless. jerusalem cora test victim sara netanyahu the wife of israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu of misusing state funds after she spent thousands of dollars on

lavish meals at her official residence fraud charges were dropped as part of a plea bargain in which shall pay a fine. now a massive power outage has left all of argentina and uruguay as well as parts of neighboring countries in the dark residents of or a boy's capital montevideo were among the 10s of millions of people affected by the outage which began at 7 am local time why is power company blamed the outage on a fault in the argentinean that work sunday's power blackout was one of the biggest ever recorded. while lucy ahead is a freelance journalist based in when i was arias and she joins us now for the latest so what is the situation like at the moment has any power come back on. yes some power has come back on it the concede there is life currently here in this

neighborhood in want to fight which is by not unlike one of the most central neighborhoods in the speed but i have a lot of call friends that are living just a few blocks away from here and they still haven't gotten the lights back since as you were saying the power outage suitcase at 7 am local time it affected the whole country so over $40000000.00 people are without light right now the government has said that it will take about 6 to 8 hours for everyone to recover as a tree city the most affected areas are the south but i warn you in particular because this area that's further away from the central electricity faces so as you can see lights are slowly coming back up but the city is completely paralyzed and what a cite is there are no train services no subway service we are being told by the main water company i sat to limit our water usage because the water distribution

system is completely dependent on the electricity system so everyone has been affected and we're waiting to see what happens next with that with the light on when it's going to come back for everyone has there been any information from officials on what caused this massive outage yet so there have been the government has identified the probable site where the problem has originated probably originated from the failure of the hydroelectric dam that in the northeast of argentina there has been storms and months of rain in the past few days so that's was probably has caused a failure in this and that's part of the whole failure in the whole national system all right journalist haber porting from windows iris many thanks indeed. people in guatemala are today voting for a new president and parliament but after 2 top candidates were barred from running

there is widespread distrust and many doubt that today's vote in the central american country will be fair. the ballot boxes a ready papers prepared but many quotes and unconvinced that today's election will bring any real change. unemployment violence and corruption top voters' list of concerns instead of sparking hope a chaotic campaign period appears to have done the opposite. of what i guess so let me every 4 years it's the same people and every 4 years they come for the same thing and the one thing we're not so i'm not really convinced by any candidate in being but i love what they're my pick for guatemalans the truth is we need change and with these candidates who are leading the polls we won't have anything for bill change for guatemala and will stay the same or even get worse. the country's former attorney general fell now donna had been top in the polls before

she was kicked off the ballot over allegations of fraud and lying she was well known for leading several anti corruption investigations in the country and her supporters saw her removal from the list as a move driven by corrupt politicians since then former 1st lady sandra torres has emerged as a favorite with a strong support base in rural areas her main rival is right wing candidate. who is seeking the presidency for a 4th time but it's likely neither of them will gain the majority needed to avoid a runoff round in august. there's a sense of disillusion among protests and authorities on alert amid concern that on the lection day that dissolution could turn to violence. several 100 people have rallied in the russian capital moscow in support of investigative journalist yvonne alone off today's demonstration was authorized by the government but an unsanctioned rally marking go and also release earlier this week led to more than

500 people being detained a journalist was freed 5 days after being arrested on drug charges that supporters say he was framed by corrupt police and they're calling for action and authorities abuse of power. our moscow correspondent asked protesters why go enough skase mattered so much to them. you need to be an actor citizen if anything is going to change for the better if you don't take any action nothing will change in the present you are not that much there's really journalistic solidarity should not just exist in words but needs to be shown through action. that you don't look at deliberate where. the way russian society has stood up for your own color not from those you know that's the way it should protect all the citizens of this country. show of fear get out of the regardless of whether they are journalists or just normal citizens beutler. so the women's soccer world cup now and sweden have

qualified for the last 16 after beating thailand $51.00 the times were thumped a record 13 nil by the u.s. in their opening game and they were also quickly behind against the swedes with linda some bronze heading in their 1st goal on 6 minutes thailand threatened sporadically but it was soon to know for sweden after him both keeping air force over i.a.s. launay with the goal sweden added 2 more but lucky thailand struck a late through kunj on the last of the one who forced me to attempt. a get you a quick reminder now of our top story. protesters of kong are calling on the city's probation leader to step down to carry lambdas shelf controversial plans to allow extradition from the city to china but opponents say that's not enough.

to hear up to date now on t w 2 news coming up next is reporter with a look at violence against paramedics in there in essence dean for me and the entire news team thanks for watching. carefully. don't move. to do good. actually.