this is day 2 of the news live from berlin police in hong kong lay siege to a university occupied by pro-democracy protesters hundreds of demonstrators a barricaded inside following a series of violent confrontations everyone trying to leave faces the rest also on the program. german racing driver saffir flush returns to competition in macau a year after suffering a horrific crash on extreme 30 years. i'm

still get help welcome to the program police in hong kong have sealed off the polytechnic university after pro-democracy activists occupy the site and they want trying to leave now faces arrest despite being described as criminals by hong kong authorities demonstrators have won a victory to the territory's high court you'll hear from our correspondent in the city in just a moment 1st this report. these students are ready to go home camped out at hong kong's polytechnic university they are weary from increasingly violent clashes with police over the weekend. but having failed to dislodge the protesters for days the police are now preventing them from leaving. to a crowd somewhere i exhausted because we've been up since 5 am yesterday we're desperate because the supplies are running low. anyone leaving the university risks

arrest and a lengthy prison sentence the students are worried. you know feeling. a little bit desperate. you can you can say. there's. no way we can get out in the 1st they say they now. the previous night protesters set fire to the entrance of the university to stop the police from storming the campus and they showered petrol bombs on advancing vehicles. but when they tried to break through the police cordon on monday they were met with a hail of fury gas canisters and rubber bullets forcing them to retreat. the. police arrested those that did not make it back into the building. but now some protesters tried to run for it on a highway they have been blocking for the past week. stuck inside the

university the rest are replenishing their arsenal of molotov cocktails. with the police in no mood to compromise the situation remains volatile. straight to hong kong leno where we're joined by correspondent charlotte charles and feel welcome in charlotte bring us up to date. her where we're not wrong are close. while one rule things no matter. unfolding her out leaving the admirable room on the border ground that we're. the protesters who have gathered near the university rally are now about half a kilometer or not you know that sound off. on bearing walls but not progress because it is getting more and more tense today we're hearing talk of protestors

but i want to balance those students who are currently hold up here inside the unit asking how come our live now days now stuck inside that none of us tempests very little things. and arrested by police. several daring attempts by protestors to get away some have models to respond but there are folk ought to be huge numbers of protesters inside that university we spoke to at the parish some of those students who were gathered in a somewhat comical gathered together some only 7 information obviously very concerned about their loved ones who were inside that university campus one father spoke to us he told us that his son of bottles 7 of the university yesterday and haven't come out yet let's have a listen to what he had. done so we are very very. caring about the safety so that's why i am i like to. hear their voice so i like

our denying our request to the government that don't hurt our child. will hurt our case process is appear defiant are we heading for a point of no return. well as you can tell from the onset of the numbers the protesters who off behind me are the only out on the 3rd day off the phone they are determined to keep going it is very difficult at this point to see exactly how this situation with going to be. taking well those students all still inside the university that of course as you saw the warning that came from the police last night that those protesters drums are weapons from us well prepared so you. go folks write us is that something of the people who are. sorry oh no one of them social media but with.

a life or death situation for them having thought that both of those are the icing on the part of protests to take you over the last few days and seen them you think we need to try and target the police i'm quoting here is that both of them are good for the funding i was on part of sometimes. the riot police we know that you think one police officer was one of those arabs who. joins me here in hong kong very hard to put out this moment when we've been. talking to me and let me now jay some of the other stories making news around the world russia has handed back 3 naval ships captured last year from ukraine is the latest move east tensions between the 2 countries before a summit next month the handover took place off the coast of crimea. u.s. president donald trump says he is strongly considering testifying in his own

impeachment investigation he tweeted the announcement a day after house speaker nancy pelosi a challenge him to appear before the committee to speak all the truth that he wants . hundreds of riot police in georgia's capital tbilisi have used water cannon against anti-government protestors outside the country's apollo and building after a demonstration is blocked the entrance people have returned to the streets after the georgian dream party backtracked and promised electoral reforms. venice is getting back to normal after days of flooding caused damage running into hundreds of millions of euros as the waters in the city received other parts of north and they have been swamped by torrential rain which is left whole villages cut off. the rains have stopped life is getting back to normal but in venice that means assessing the damage after 3 floods within a single week still the waters are receding from public squares and the taxis are

working the canals. but it's a different story in land flooded fields as far as the eye can see in central italy . and that field even a see a julia region rivers burst their banks flooding a key road and making access to cut off the ledge is difficult. we just cleaned up the lake and now this if it goes on this way we won't have any prospects for the future. the situation was even more dire in a coastal town. city and the sewer fills up and overflows in the drains. the floodwaters making even the most basic tasks much more difficult but a pivotal figure of the more very limited as you can see when things like this happen we're stuck at home like prisoners has appeared. they merely a romagna in central italy was hard fish with firefighters rescuing stranded

residents in boats and helicopters forecasters warn thousands of protesters in chile are stepping up their demands for a new constitution and the resignation of president sebastian pinera many have suffered serious injuries in recent anti government demonstrations they accuse the police of brutality and having rubber bullets at their heads president pinera says an excessive use of force will be investigated. nelson campos fears he will lose his eyesight he was shot by a policeman cheering a recent demonstration in chile's capital santiago. they will have a detached retina and i have internal injuries inside my eye it's not looking good . the shooting happened during recent antigovernment protests demonstrators have been hit by water cannon or rubber bullets some filled with metal and it's not just

happening to violent protest is peaceful demonstrators even random bystanders have been targeted videos like these published on the internet on difficult to watch medical professionals are alarmed. to hold or to suffer some bullets just scratch the surface of the eye but some hit them directly in 1009 percent of the patient if not all end up going blame for sure is to get us the water it seems unlikely to be a coincidence more than 200 people in chile have lost their eyesight in this way police have been accused of aiming at people's heads human rights advocates say the violence reminds them of the dark times of the chilean dictatorship. amnesty international has investigated some of the latest cases. for the police yelling the police are deliberately targeting certain body parts they're using their guns in

a way that can lead to lethal interests. because so little is chile's president sebastian pinera has sent all cases of disproportionate police violence must be investigated what good exists office and the committee any excessive use of force and breach of police protocol needs to be investigated by public prosecutors and brought to justice. but so far little has happened many police officers don't wear id badges that makes it almost impossible to prosecute them for nelson campus that's no longer a priority then we. have children then where would i need to be able to work and earn money whether i wanted or not. i need to forget my fears but i'm still full of fear and panic. on my legal nelson's life

is now dominated by the injuries he received at the hands of the police. all the sports and german drivers sophia flash has returned to complete in macau a year after suffering a horrific crash on the streets that 18 year old escaped with just a fractured vertebrae after her car crashed into fencing. sofia flares at the start of the race at the fateful track in macau. she didn't make any mistakes in this year's race but just 6 laps from the end the technical problem forced her to withdraw our. macau 21000 is now unfortunately over but it was really awesome macau is such as fresh. yes there is a bit unfortunate now with the talk of the fact that last year i didn't finish this year 2 times bad luck so next year i'll be very lucky. this weekend she was once

again face to face with the corner where her accident happened. there last year it was a little bit different. because of safety reasons they changed the track so there's like that and the kind of fans was the building where pressure into. those ones actually occurred so it's maybe a flight. that was 1st sliding on the ground and touching the right side and then because of those sausage curves in the corner i started flying it happened so fast no think it's before it sort of video i didn't know that i was flying for me it didn't feel that bad i meant to pay such a kicking in doctors repaired $2.00 broken cervical vertebrae in an 11 hour operation just one month after the accident flourish began to fight her way back to racing i couldn't imagine by for the just put so it's kind of. if i would be going back to my call this year old people be really happy kid is the

track is so super cool. shover track. this was an extraordinary dream come true for. me. but i think. that you know. i think change is. flourish adequate easy feeling before qualifying as she drove her 1st laps in macau since the crash the mechanics held their breath as she drove into the fateful corner but this time it all went well. i could work out what i did so. i was ok i didn't struggle. and severe flares has set herself. the goal of making the headlines in the future only with victories on the racetrack. i was reminded of our top story police in

hong kong have surrounded the university park park closed democracy activists and leave faces are. objects they all d. w. help us with that business south africa i'll be back at the top of the i mean a good day. in support. over. you know we were. given a glimpse of it. during leaked from.