this is d.w. news live from berlin anchor in hong kong as police and protesters clashed police fired tear gas to disperse the crowds but the streets remained full of pro-democracy activists demanding change. also coming up tunisians go to the polls to elect a new parliament it looks like more voters than ever could throw their support behind outsiders candidates as dissatisfaction with mainstream parties grows.

omarion evanston it's good to have you with us tens of thousands of pro-democracy activists in hong kong are defying a newly introduced ban on wearing face masks during protests and that's despite a legal setback angry protesters clashed with police and then response authorities fired tear gas to disperse the crowds pro-democracy lawmakers had attempted to get the banned overturned but that was rejected by hong kong's high court the territory's chief executive kerry lamb imposed emergency law and a ban on face masks on friday. correspondent mathias building is following developments in hong kong and he joins us now for the latest so. the court has now rejected the challenge to the emergency law so how have protesters been responding

to that decision. well protesters are out again today where you have seen some of the pictures and it has been pretty much the same as in the other week and protesters coming out in big numbers in the beginning clashes erupt police firing tear gas i have witnessed several dozens of rounds of tear gas the amounts are getting more and more liberal and then at some point the protesters they put police charges at them and the protesters leave if anything was different today than it was in the beginning off the march before violence erupted more protesters than ever were wearing face masks they're clearly not accepting this law and this injunction that was not granted today is not changing anything. so much here is you know these protests have been going on now for months and months and up to now hong kong's leader kerry lamb more or less seem

to be taking a kind of hands off approach i mean she has had a few statements against the demonstrators but now it appears she's taking more of a firm stance with this emergency law which has been upheld by the court so what's next as far as the protesters are concerned. the government from the beginning has left it to the police to try to end these protests this has clearly not worked as we have seen an escalation from both sides since the beginning gradually. police house beam charging earlier they have been using more violence we have seen videos of corley's beating up protestors clearly violating their. powers abusing their powers and we have seen protesters getting more and more violent we are seeing petrol

bombs now regularly so this is these emergency law is. something like. more of the same the government seems to be convinced that if more violence sparks more violence than more violence will probably solve the problem there has been no attempts to to meet the demands of the protesters to open a political way of diallo guy i think it's probably as we said least what we hear that kerry lamb sounds also tight that beijing does not want to appear weak now this. emergency law is something that is really controversial lawmakers democratic lawmakers see it as in conflict with a mini constitution of hong kong their law is much older than the constitution and days they see this use of the executive imposing emergency law

without asking the legislature the parliament. something that is unconstitutional if she gets this through and this is not the end get off the judicial process it's just an injunction that was not granted but the whole law the whole. application of the law will be under revision later this month then it would open a pub the path for more draconian measures could fuse and media censorship being some of the right mention as being a bringing us up to date on developments in hong kong we thank you very much. let's get a check now some of the other stories making news around the world. north korea has broken off talks with the u.s. . nuclear program north korean officials and blamed us inflexibility for the collapse of the talks in stockholm the american delegation says it put forward some constructive initiatives. and ecuador indigenous groups and union organizations

have returned to the streets to protest the government's austerity measures this comes after 2 days of violent demonstrations that saw hundreds of people arrested president leonine moreno has declared a 2 month state of emergency. pope francis has urged bishops to take bold action to protect the amazon rain forest and its indigenous communities he blamed what he called a destructive interest for the forest fires that have been devastated in the region francis made the comments as he opened a special vatican assembly dedicated to caring for the amazon. voting is underway in tunisia as citizens elect a new parliament today's poll comes just weeks after the 1st round of presidential elections where voters turned their backs on traditional parties in favor of independent candidates and that trend is expected to continue candidates are contesting 217 seats in the country's parliament the legislature has been dominated

by the islamists and knocked a party it's ruling an alliance with the secular party to name high unemployment and a lack of public services are fueling discontent. d.w. reporter and north africa analyst is here with me in the studio to talk about all of this hello to you i so according to some political analysts around 80 percent of tunisians don't trust in the established parties why is that so high why do they not trust them my impression is that most voters feel like they've given established. parties enough enough of a chance this is the 3rd legislative election since the outbreak of the arab spring in 2011 tunisia was the country where this wave of revolutions started and throughout throughout these 22 parliamentary periods the deep seated reasons of why their spring happened in tunisia haven't been solved so this election is happening

against the backdrop of high prices soaring prices youth unemployment which is estimated to be up to 30 percent in some rural areas and 15 percent in some of the cities and also inflation and corruption and from some of the people that i've spoken to they feel that the political parties have been too busy discussing personnel issues rather than coming up with effective policy in the past some 9 years and they're they're losing their patience with them we just mentioned it during the presidential poll which was just a few weeks ago voters really punished the established parties. can we expect the same to happen this time around we were talking before the show opinion polls are not allowed in tunisia opinion polls are not allowed into but as you said you know this is this is a very historically unique. moment for tunisia where presidential elections had to happen prematurely because the previous president passed away and you know if this if the trend continues if the result of the results of the 1st round of the

presidential elections are any indication independents are likely to win big they have also made quite headway in some local elections which we've seen previously no party is expected to meet the 109 seats in parliament majority to form a government which means that as as with the previous government there a coalition government is to be expected this will be difficult coalition making is difficult in any part of the world and in a place like tunisia is likely to take more time and the 2 more frustration but independents are expected to make big gains as well so they may now be. to form a government especially if coalitions are involved and yet tunisia is that the only country that has seen democratic reforms since the arab spring i had just how democratic is the country today just certainly a democracy and unlike other countries in the region like egypt for example tunisia

has managed to avoid descending back into military rule so it's certainly also it's a civilian led democracy which is a is a huge accomplishment i mean one might look at the elections in tunisia and they certainly have a lot of problems but i think you know this this kind of discontent with established parties and moving towards independent parties is actually a sign of political maturity for tunisians they are unhappy and they're registering their dissatisfaction through the polls the results are likely to be difficult but that is part of building a democracy and to just also the only country that has evolved its political system they now have this mix party system as opposed to a presidential dominated system which it had before the arab spring. always great to hear your insights thank you so much now the united nations is calling for an end to the violence in iraq which has left nearly 100 people dead and thousands of wounded security forces have repeatedly opened fire on demonstrators who've been

protesting against corruption and unemployment. oh my god erica. another funeral procession in iraq the country has seen almost a 100 deaths in the past week this one is for a protester whose family say he was shot by police well as they got i hope that he went out to defend his rights nothing more. he had nothing on him and was sort of he was targeted by snipers to head shots that go on but the nazi like the feel of us. this is the sound that is greeted protesters in recent days police cracking down on crowds with deadly results. protests began last tuesday sparked by anger over unemployment corruption and a lack of basic services like electricity and water it's a movement without leadership crossing political and sectarian divides. those who

go to parliament wearing suits don't represent us but if 100 of us die next time we will be 1000000 and none of these protestors belong to a religious establishment or party. the government's response curfews and internet shutdown and promises of eventual reforms the speaker of iraq's parliament invited protesters into talk but it's action they're calling for one influential cleric has demanded new elections. but as authorities respond with violence the flames of discontent continue to burn . all right turning to sports news now and at the world athletics championships in qatar saturday saw more success for defending champions and sprint veterans but the specter of doping still haunts the event. dutch

athletes if one hasn't hasn't let the scandal surrounding her coach alberto salazar time in the week for doping offenses the focus in doha she smashed the championship record to what the 1500 meter title to a 10000 meter gold kenya's helena beery retained her title at 5000 made says. 5 and she had a hook at the end for bronze medalists constanza close to how for the germany another of salazar's are fleets. then as well as you limo brewhouse was another who made it back to back gold with success in the triple jump american joe kovacs won a frigging shotput final with wife and coach ashley looking on after a final throw of 22.91 meets as new allows on to the american 4 by 100 meter relay team to finally give sprint veteran justin gatlin his 1st world title in the event jamaica and cuba sure reka jackson won the women's event. giving the great shelley

and phrase a prize the 9th world championship gold. but it was a blow for the u.s. as a limb to $100.00 metres hurdles champion brianna macneill's mate ended abruptly mcneill was left distraught after being disqualified for a full start in the heats. all right shifting gears now to motor sports and honda's mark marquez secured his 6th moto g.p. world title this after storming to victory at the time grand prix mark has left it late but took the lead in the final lap of the race the defending champion just needed 2 more points in his italian to conti rival andre had of it see also finished a distant 4th the spaniard now has an insurmountable lead with 4 races to spare mrs marcus 4th straight title. you're watching news stay tuned after the break we'll bring you the best on the action in the bundesliga that's

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