this is deja news live from berlin another weekend of anti-government protests in hong kong ends in violence police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse thousands of demonstrators as protesters seek refuge in a train station or attacked by dogs thought to be triad gang members. also coming up another big win for ukraine's president exit polls give lot of mirrors a lens of his party a commanding lead after sunday's parliamentary elections but will he get the

absolute majority he's hoping for. and the countdown is on again for an ambitious launch in the hopes of becoming the force nation to land a probe on the moon blast off is in just a few hours. i'm brian thomas thanks so much for joining us in hong kong 7th straight weekend of antigovernment protests have descended into violence the demonstrations began peacefully as tens of thousands rallied against a controversy or tradition bill they fear will erode that city's autonomy now as protesters headed for the office of china's communist party police fired on them with rubber bullets and tear gas and in a new development suspected triad gang members. attack demonstrators.

it was a vicious assault. videos shared on social media show anti-government protesters and reporters being attacked as they tried to exit a subway station. by a seemingly coordinated group of men all dressed in white t. shirts. elsewhere in the city dispersal we fire this was the warning from riot police as protests continued well into the night. demonstrators used whatever they had on hand to avoid clashes as others threw eggs and paint at the china liaison office. some managed to find shelter to recover from the effects of tear gas. many a calling for an independent investigation into police actions i can't believe i did i don't know if we are calling this violence we must look into the roots of it

we need to look at the bigger picture and that's why we need an inquiry which. although the controversial that should issue there which sparked these rallies has been suspended the demonstrators are backing down. with momentum building and the protest showing no sign of abating all eyes are now on the hong kong executive and beijing. did abuse phoebe kong as in hong kong and was after those demonstrations i asked her for more on the a density of the suspected triad members who attacked demonstrators. this is through a big question mark most of the hong kong people and you have mentioned there are many room is saying that they are coming from some like gangs or like try society and is the one cleared out what their thought was what they identity i mean these are these mosque man r. and r.

and so far there is no organization and means any responsibility on these kind of attacks. but we can but i can share facts that you that you long use of this trade which are controlled or like where the gangsters always lie here and get their very often so this may be something related to thai society but some rumors also suggesting that this may be something like related to some probation lawmakers it's because one of the probation lawmakers appeared at the are somewhere nearby the crash scene right before the attack so. it is still unclear and i think we have to wait for the answer off the police and the any investigation of the police ok good this represents though no matter who these people were a real escalation in hong kong what about the protesters what demands are activists leaders making now and are they directed to hong kong's leaders who are beijing.

this movement this anti extradition deal movement has lasted for like over a month and so far right now it's more than are something more than like asking the government to scrap the field but most of the people there are also very angry with how the police handled the clashes over the past few weeks and also what we have seen last night so an animation of the maoists they are asking for the government to set up in an independent inquiry to to investigate on. controversies and also the asking for them to step down and more importantly they are asking for true democracy which is something they failed to to fight for 5 years ago and so right now it's not just about extradition below the asking for more about to defend hong kong freedom and fighting for democracy which is guaranteed in the state

constitution located freedom democracy this is what they're looking for now does this mean that the protesters are looking for a complete break with china and political independence from the mainland is that where this is heading phoebe. a someone not suggesting some ideas but by what you have mentioned like specially on some of the protests this day demonstrate in front of the beijing liaison office in hong kong yesterday and. some of them they do support phone call independence but that is not the majority off their protest to the monks and that is just a minority of them and more like over why many they're asking for what i mentioned a steam office and they're asking for a 100 governments and also the chinese government to uphold the autonomy which has scanty and promised in the sino british that cloyd declaration and in cities in

this constitution so on independence it's not something like most of it you know but asking for yeah to diffuse phoebe column for us in hong kong many thanks. this is news still to come on the show one week after a technical glitch forced a last minute delay india takes a shot at the movie one of the latest from delhi later in the show. but 1st in ukraine a lot of mayors lenski servant of the people party looks set to become the master of the poll the new party of the comedian turned president is on course for a resoundingly train sunday's parliamentary elections early counting shows him well ahead of rival parties but possibly short of a complete majority he may need a coalition partner than to open push through promised reforms. the former comedian who attended ukrainian politics once before by becoming the country's president is set to do it again exit polls put flood mr lensky 7th of the people

party on course to win the biggest share of the votes in ukraine's not parliamentary election was why they're. speaking off the exit polls were released selenski outlined the goals he hopes a convincing win would bring more easily within reach. of pretty theatre was about them and us. well our main priorities are small and i repeat it is for everyone craning and greens. to end the war me return our prisoners home and defeat the corruption that persists in ukraine. you've got to. let your guard dorsey's those types of agree the likely victory for his new party named after the sit com in which he played a president is vital for selenski to consolidate his political power after being elected president by a landslide in april the political novice faced a parliament full of his opponents threatening to thwart his pledge to implement

radical reforms lucky to come short of a majority selenski will still need a coalition partner to form a government the president said he has invited the goalless party led by rockstar yet to slough back for a coalition talks but. many ukrainians welcome to the results of the exit polls putting the president's party ahead at the expense of the old guard. good girls who are not only the servant of the people i believe all others have already shown themselves they've done everything they could for the ukrainian people and it's time for them to retire. you know we're going to we're just i'm happy that the servant of the people got as much as they did. because i'm really inspired by what our president is doing right now and i hope you. continue doing the same things with the same pace and enthusiasm. but even with a loyal parliament behind him selenski faces a host of challenges and

a country scarred by years of war with russia but separatists with the selenski can overcome these problems or become just another in a long line of politicians either unwilling or unable to affect real change is the question that remains on the lips of many. let's find out more now is because of dress all senior policy fellow at the european council on foreign relations focusing on ukraine good morning to some thanks so much for being with us as lenski wants to up and ukraine's political system is a former comedian but his party is composed of novices like himself you know how likely is is real change ahead for ukraine well it's going to be enormously tough the 1st hurdle is getting a government together. probably full shoulder or a majority so we have found the parliament is sort of takes a seat now the other half still counted assessing the seats you could but you would need another 100 wins out of 190 might get the majority if he makes

a coalition he has basically sort of the poisonous set of the. opposition plus form which would lead to street protests whatever and they actually don't have an agenda with together and then he has 2 parties who are. very much confronted during the election campaign which is. publishing his party's respective fuse for the party of the previous government he wants to distance himself from and the reform. party around rock star has about 6 percent so they have tipped the balance so he's in a very tricky position he will probably he will have to turn to one of his former enemies for whom from want to form some kind of coalition government what are you crazy voters saying with his election what do they want to see. happen in the country. basically it's about change and it's about corruption that's that's the main issue and those who voted for selenski they don't trust the established

parties to eradicate corruption and they for them corruption is the main issue the other thing is and that is interesting is that exit said it was leading far more in the polls before but in a recent freeze other topics like prices energy prices liberalization which would add additional burdens came in the ticket again and that's far too much incl came back in she her party was about to be dropped or be dropped out of parliament because a few voters and she reached a point with a very populist agenda and it was popular especially amongst the elderly so you have both changed but also kind of insecurity about the future resentment towards reforms and that's what driving yeah the pot ok so they were economic issues that dominated this this election and corruption as you mentioned simmering though in the east of the country is the separatist movement in the donbass how does how does this factor and is alinsky willing to give separatists more autonomy to end the

fighting there well he has promised that he will do whatever he needs power to end the war and he made office to give the separate interest autonomy the problem is moscow that controls these entities once authority over key if and he's not willing to give them that this means at the end mosco we'll wait to via the these puppet regimes to any deal and he's still in that predicament ok now the predicament is that he's tied to the minsk accords lines here the nation as will he have independent talks with moscow is he open to for direct bilateral talks outside of the minsk accord no he once told with russia but in a different setting so in a company of british and american at least diplomats as they've are signatory powers to the budapest memorandum. he will. probably trying to set an agenda that makes him independent from publishing but the such and the

will not go so far as it's maneuvering himself into a way where he's at the mercy of pulte. on the other hand he sold some sort of play mary maines mentation steps on the frontline some bit of the deescalate tory measures there might be more of this he might secure sort of a slightly more calm front line that's for the people who are fighting something but he shouldn't expect big warm there's and sort of big roles there's stuff wrestle senior policy followed european council on foreign relations thanks very much for coming in. let's preview now and some of the other stories making news this hour israeli military forces have started demolishing palestinian homes outside east jerusalem residents were forcibly evicted after a deadline expired for them to remove the buildings israel says they're illegal and

too close to the barrier separating israel and palestinians also means jews israel using security as a pretext to force them out. british prime minister theresa may is to chair a further session of the government's emergency committee to decide on new sanctions against iran after the seizure of the british flag oil tanker stanton pirro iran claims that ship failed to respond to distress calls after hitting a fishing boat. united states east coast and midwest are struggling to deal with the severe heat wave that's led to at least 6 deaths of $95000000.00 people are under a heat warning word vizor it with temperatures climbing above 36 degrees celsius. as to portugal now where some 2000 firefighters are battling massive blazes in the mountainous central region of the country it's the same area that was devastated by wildfires 2 years ago a number of firefighters and civilians have been injured. wild fuzz whipped by

strong winds in gulf in forests and encroaching on villages a familiar scene for people living in portugal's castello branker region. wildfires can be deadly because they happen so quickly it was no new campaign thing i never thought this would happen today it was all so quiet yesterday and this morning i didn't know how i don't understand how suddenly there were no means to avoid the situation i just don't understand how i'm not going to do you around the world while fuzz becoming more intense and while 5 seasons longer she to climate change but because of better precautions since the deadly floods in 2017 no one has died of portugal in the last 2 years but the have the injuries especially amongst the firefights is. police have arrested a 55 year old man in castello branco who suspected of starting a fire on the outskirts of town it's hard to control a fire in such difficult terrain although the winds have died down the fire remains

uncontained. all india is heading to the moon today a rocket carrying a lunar landers due to blast off in just a few hours that is if everything goes according to plan this is the 2nd launch attempt after a technical glitch caused the mission to be aborted shortly before blastoff last week. chandrayaan 2 is india's most challenging mission so far a highly complex undertaking. the spacecraft should reach its destination in the 2nd week of august when it enters an elliptical orbit of the moon. then it will. which the lunar surface. when the landing robot vic separates from the craft the most exciting phase begins india's 1st soft landing

on the moon. to select a landing site is about 600 kilometers from the lunar south pole a region of craters on the dark side of the moon. the blue markings here chauffeurs in ice in craters i spotted by satellites. given the high plateau the landing robot should touch down gently ancient rocks. after landing will open its doors and release india's 1st lunar rover on to the surface small as a briefcase it can travel up to 500 meters. with its on board instruments the rover will measure water bearing minerals in the lunar rock as well as the concentration of elements such as aluminum silicon and titanium. meanwhile the landing robot will

record moonquakes and explore so-called lunar plasma a thin layer of electrically charged particles above the surface. and the rover will be able to collect data for a few earth days then it will go dark for 14 days that's when the temperature drops to $160.00 degrees below 0 celsius. the orbiter will spend a year gathering data about the moon the objective is to fill in the gaps from india's previous mission it has 8 measuring instruments on board their function is to investigate the moon's thin atmosphere and show which minerals and chemical elements make up its surface. for the 1st time a special radar will be used to determine the location and quantity of furze in water. india's mission is the 1st to bring this type of instrument to the moon.

let's go straight now to. the car following the story for us from the indian capital delhi good morning sagna how confident are indian scientists today about about this launch are they holding their breath this is a really exciting mission. that's true it is an exciting mission and you know by all accounts today's attempt is likely to be trickier and that's because you know reports say that scientists have a very narrow window of opportunity this afternoon to carry out that mission they have don't have very much flexibility in terms of time because the suitable time slot for this takeoff it's literally just a few minutes long so they literally have to get to try it all the kind of preparations leading up to the takeoff have to be carried out there with the exact position they can be no room for deeply so i think we're going to see some jittery moments on india's space station of 300 in the bay of bengal on the country's eastern calls a sun you can can you give us some perspective on just how important this launch is

for the country space program. well this is india's most complex space mission to date you know the term that i'm 2 was attempting a soft landing on the kind of uncharted south region off the moon and if it's successful india would really become only the 4th country in the world to do this off the u.s. russia and china if it if it carries it out it will be a huge technological achievement for india's space agency it will give a big boost to india's space submissions and i think we have to also remember that all the equipment used for this mission the land though that over the orbiter they've all been designed and manufactured in india so it's a wholly indigenous mission carried out at the cost of just $150000000.00 i think it's successful that's also a testament to india's capability to build high speed. high tech space equipment at a relatively low budget this comes also as the the indian prime minister narendra

modi says he wants to expand india's space program further what do we know about the goals for the nation space program. when so we have to remember that india has had the space program in place literally since the 1960 s. but it's true that it's gained new prominence on the prime. in the rain for more the who was a nationalist leader he's promoted india's space program as a symbol of india's you know rising stature internationally but he's also said it's kind of a you know a buddy walk for india's space defense capabilities if you remember in march of this year during the election campaign mode the has a televised address to say that india had shot a new all the satellite with the messiah that's that's a pretty advanced space given that is i think what india wants to do is really show assert itself as a space nation to be reckoned with and i think the current administration there is a realisation that for india to be a major player in the world stage when he needs to have a bigger space program in place ok much of this will be hinge on what happens later

today in that small 2 minute window you were talking about just a few minutes for this launch to be successful sunny thanks so much for that. well in sports filipino boxer manny pocky 0 has become the oldest welterweight champion in history at the ripe age of 40 he beat w be a champion keith urban on points it all say guess back in manila fans are following that for a dream celebrating the national heroes latest achievement now returned to the philippines to resume to resume his work as a senator but says he hopes to fight again next year. of tennis as wimbledon football has wembley and the question world has often here in germany spectators around the world gathering there for this year's c.-h. io international or show the whole riders who are looking to take the top spots in the dressage showjumping events here's how they got. it was

a memorable day for isabelle van't she rode to victory on bella rose in the dressage on her 50th birthday. a dream result on a special day for the german rider made all the sweeter with a standing ovation and 1st a cake. and that's it it was great that it worked so well today and on my birthday that was the icing on the cake. in the showjumping it looked like another german rider would win but $3700.00 ths of a 2nd made all the difference don you know doyce i have to be content with 2nd place to next e.u. commission chief who has a laugh on the lion watched boys put on a perfect performance on tobago to head into the jump-off. he was there to put it all came down to time and farrington from. his hero

was like the quicker i. world champions emotion a balloon from germany finished just short of a medal she managed to clear rounds but knocking down this rail to jump off coaster 3rd place but overall it was a successful day for the german riders on home soil in front of 40000 equestrian funds. in golf it was an emotional day for irishman shane lowery as he won his 1st major at the british open the howling winds and rains at royal portrush northern ireland proved no problem for lowery as he swept a victory 6 shots ahead of englishman tommy fleetwood. let's get your reminder now of our top stories today masked men attacked hong kong democracy activists following the latest protest against an unpopular extradition law earlier police fired tear gas and rubber bullets as tens of thousands of anti-government

demonstrators filled the streets for a 7th consecutive week. and ukraine the former comedian lot of years a lens his party looks set for a big one in sunday's parliamentary elections but his servant of the people party may fall short of a majority slums his promise to tackle corruption and try to end the conflict in eastern ukraine. and india is just hours away from launching an ambitious mission to the moon one week after a technical hitch or so last minute the lank rocket carrying a lunar probe set to blast off from the da one space. this is interviews live from for lend for tomorrow today that's our science magazine this edition shows how the science of looking into d.n.a. is having an impact on developing computing and don't forget you can always get the

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