online. this is the news line from for land police in hong kong threaten to use live ammunition the warning comes as protesters use deadly weapons of the rhone including bosun arrows and the university descends into violence we'll go to our correspondent on the ground also coming up take brawn takes a tough stance on that unpopular fuel price hike iran's supreme leader says he backs the sudden decision to raise fuel prices even it as a wave of violent protests grips the nation. plus britain's prince andrew speaks

publicly for the 1st time about his links to convicted sex offender jeffrey epstein in an interview that's being called disastrous if you take a look at the interview and the fallout. i'm called assman welcome to the program police in hong kong have threatened to fire live bullets of protesters don't stop using but officials called lethal weapons and the latest flare up during anti-government protests the warning followed fresh clashes outside a university in the center of hong kong where protesters hunkered down behind a makeshift barricades and hurled petrol bombs at police authorities said on sunday one officer was treated in hospital after being hit in the leg by an arrow and another had his visor struck by a metal ball although he was not hurt. we're joined now by our correspondent

he's been covering these protests in hong kong for us since the very beginning of the t.s.a. university now the epicenter of these protests what's happening where you are right now. i am now at the polytechnic university. where police today lays siege so the protesters had occupy d.c. university since a tuesday and have been fortified it with barricades they have producing hundreds if not thousands of bottles of molotov cocktails and this morning they started the police started to move in they have been fighting during the whole day and in the afternoon police late siege they surrounded the university nobody can get out of here now at some point they said that they would leave their people leave by a certain area but then they arrested those who left including their 1st aiders so what we are seeing here now resembles really

a besieged fortress we have people being treated in here for injuries then ammunition being brought to the front and the protesters who do not think mostly that they will get out of here anyway without being arrested throwing everything they have to words to the front which is very dramatic. 70 years it seems like different weapons being used by the protesters occupying this area near this university is this a change now in the in the tactics that you're seeing by protesters. here we've seen this whole week several universities in hong kong have been occupied and the standoff between police and the protesters were very different from what we've seen before they resembled media of. battlefields with smoke and fire and these lethal weapons you met mentioned they were there their bows and

arrows and you see cutter poles that are used to throw stones and molotov cocktails at the police and then we also see these. these enduring battles where they stand in front of each other and fire at each other for hours and hours today around this university the lines have all most not moved or 20 years we heard something there about those different weapons being used by the protesters now we hear police threatening to use live bullets how serious of a threat is that especially given the situation how tense things all right dan thanks we are seeing that the police is really. has really shifted all show in this field we are seeing these emotional announcements by the police t.j. i would take this threat very serious they have said if they saw somebody firing one of these bows and arrows for example at the police they would use live rounds

we also get reports from other parts of the city that the police have been extremely menacing today that you would see protesters are people who come from police so if i were a protester i would take this very soon as the tears falling over pouring for us in hong kong thank you very much. so we ran our protesters are also of on the streets venting their anger over a sharp rise in gas prices iran's supreme leader is refusing to reverse the controversial 50 percent price hike the announcement took many by surprise and sparked widespread anger the regime responded with a veiled threat of a crackdown saying it would not allow what it called insecurity some of the demonstrations have turned violent at least 2 people have died as a result of the protests but many more injured. iranians have taken to the streets in the capital tehran and a number of cities across the country in protest against

a government move to hike the price of petrol by 50 percent. the demonstrations started with protesters blocking roads but it's collated quickly petrol stations and cars were torched and all manner of public property was badly damaged banks and government buildings were also a focus for people's rights which failed to sway iran's leader ayatollah khamenei he stand steadfastly in support of the price hike. so i don't know long top officials have sat down and made a decision for the country based on expert assessments this decision must be executed. the move is in part of response to the failing economy as a result of u.s. sanctions money says nothing justifies the response from protesters. then using a bank on fire is done not done by the people this is what. these words were indicative of a strong line being taken by the government in the face of the wrist police have

threatened more tough measures and the communications minister announced that the internet has been shut down for 24 hours to re-impose control. here's a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world trade lanka's former defense minister go to. as one of the country's presidential election well wishers gathered at his home to congratulate him as the south asian nations 1st major polls and it was rocked by the easter sunday bombings that killed more than 250 people the vote was largely split along ethnic lines. russia will return 3 captured naval vessels to ukraine the cord to russian media the boats were seized by russia last year as they tried to break through to russian blockade that closed access to several ukrainian ports the ships return comes ahead of talks between the 2 nations to discuss the conflict in eastern ukraine. the people of bella bruce have voted in a parliamentary election the opposition groups say was neither free nor fair

president alexander lukashenko dismiss those allegations after voting in the capital minsk many prominent opposition figures were ruled ineligible as candidates . floodwaters have exceeded the $1.00 metre mark in venice for the 3rd time in one week submerging famous sites like st mark's square in need deep water more than 70 percent of the city is currently flooded damaging monuments shops and homes the crisis is expected to cost italy hundreds of millions of euros. britain's prince andrew has spoken publicly for the 1st time about allegations of sexual misconduct and his links to a convicted sex offender jeffrey epstein in a b.b.c. interview on saturday he defended himself against claims that he had sex with an under aged girl trafficked to him by epstein was also grilled on his apparent friendship with the american financier the hour long interview was being slammed by many in the u.k.

media some commentators are calling it quote disastrous and that the. reporter. has been following the story and he joins me now with more mean 1st of all remind us about these allegations what are people saying about prince andrew and what did he say in his defense. is accused of having sex with a woman who says she was a sex slave of jeffrey epstein now virginia roberts is a name as she told a u.s. court that she was forced to have sex with the prince on at least 3 occasions and on one of those occasions she was a minor prince andrew says he has no recollection of ever meeting ms roberts even though there is a picture of the 2 of them taken as a townhouse in london the princess you cannot explain the existence of this picture you can see the picture here ms roberts in the middle. now it was robert says one occasion in london they dined together they went to a nightclub called trumps where they danced together he bought her drinks she also

says she won't remember the prince sweating profusely she says that in which they then went back to that townhouse where the photo was taken where they had sex now the princess all of this he denies all of this let's have a listen to what he said. there are a number of things that are wrong with that story one of which is that is that i don't know where the bar is and in trance. i don't drink. have a peculiar move the addition which is that i don't sweat or i didn't sweat at the time and that was. yes i didn't so at the time because i had suffered what i would describe as an overdose of adrenalin the fulcrum is war when i was shot at. so some rather bizarre rebuttal of the princes also faces cribbing facing criticism for staying in contact with jeffrey epstein after he was

convicted of sex offenses back in 2006 now in 2010 prince andrew attended a dinner in new york to celebrate the release of epstein from prison he also went on a walk in central park with epstein we can see the photo of the 2 of them there the princess that he attended the dinner and went on that walk to tell epstein that he wanted nothing more to do with him this interview i mean we saw a clip of it as being blasted in the u.k. tell us more about the reaction to what the princess. because of course made all the front pages of the sunday papers in the u.k. today and what many commentators are reflecting on is prince andrew's failure to show any compassion for the victims of geoffrey epstein it's also being called a bit of a p.r. disaster the conservative will cause the piers morgan for one he calls the interview desperate and he says it's insane that the prince would have agreed to do this interview other people are asking what reasons there might be for him not to

remember ms roberts one of them is ex mick mcgowan macallan she is one of the original cues of the me to me in the right. questions if the reason could be that there were so many young women around f.c. at the time that he wouldn't remember now we're from him but this is really presented interviews like the only works under the motto don't complain don't explain but here we have a british royal sitting in front of t.v. cameras at buckingham palace talking about his sexual life and about alleged sexual misconduct it took the b.b.c. in the palace about 6 months to actually negotiate to even do this interview and if the if the palace thought that this might make the story go away it's they have made a mistake now we have to wait and see what this will mean for prince andrew. it will mean for the charities that he supports for example and what it will mean for the royal family as a whole he has said that he would testify in court if push comes to shove but we'll

just have to see how this story develops still plenty of fodder condit of iraq reporter thank you very much. in formula one red bull's max 1st stop and has won the brazil grand prix starting in pole position the dutchman crossed the finish line ahead of the pack world champion lewis hamilton finished in 3rd place this is 1st up and 3rd win of the seas. or cuba has been celebrating the 500th anniversary of the founding of a band of by spanish conquerors but the city's residents have little else to celebrate these days the trump administration has mostly reversed a modest thaw in relations that a briefly opened up the island to u.s. tourists tentative economic reforms introduced by cuba's government have done little to improve people's lives. have vanished celebrated the anniversary with a gala performance in front of the capitol building music opera ballet traditional dance and

a fireworks spectacle that belied the communist countries economic misery and repressive regimes. united and hope that everything will get better. we cubans build on our dreams and future despite being surrounded by obstacles. president miguel diaz canal open the official festivities without making any remarks as a rule he stays away from microphones have on his best day comes at a difficult time the u.s. has imposed sanctions fuel this gas american tourists have stopped coming to the island gradually the communist regime is loosening its grip on the economy in the hopes that it will boost incomes. cuber needs a certain amount of privatization in the economy and opening possibilities for small business people is one step cubans with capital can invest in the country that makes sense. for vanna tense 500 following local custom

residents touched wood for good luck in the future. coming up next as our documentary series reporter going behind the scenes of a in web office that's more news coming for you at the top of the hour i'm carl aspen thanks water. suitability and now you look at me affectionately agent but as affectionately as you can. approach him in the middle of his election campaign in the year 2000 but documentary was filmed for russian television. to turn the camera back on of course the film.