this is the news live from hong kong. protesters dozens of activists make a dramatic escape by climbing down from a bridge and speeding away on motorbikes as a burning outside the campus 100 small remain barricaded inside program tennis is floodwaters for seen leaving the city with hundreds of millions of euros in cleanup bills i miss having flooding in other parts of.

iraq imposes a maybe a blackout after deadly protests against fuel price increases. accuses the united states of being behind the last. i'm phil gal welcome to the program and he's in hong kong have sealed off the polytechnic university after pro-democracy activists occupy the site anyone trying to leave faces arrest despite that a group of protesters to stay stay dramatic escape by climbing down from a bridge hundreds more remain trapped inside. these students are ready to go home camped out at hong kong's polytechnic university they are wary 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 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. you can you can say. there's. no way we can get out in the 1st safely in. the previous night protesters set fire to the entrance of the university to stop the police from storming the campus and the 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 tear gas canisters and rubber bullets forcing them to retreat.

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. or more of those activists have now as scape from the university building correspondent charlotte shells and pale. as this. well. there are. just.

no. i want to. hold up. a while. venice is returning to normal after days of flooding caused damage running into hundreds of millions of euros as the waters in the city of receipt other parts of

northern italy have become swamped by torrential rain even 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 therefore you leave an 8 c. 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. the sewer fills up and overflows and the drains.

floodwaters making even the most basic tasks much more difficult but appear that they were very limited as you can see when things like this happen we're stuck at home like prisoners has appeared to. amelia romagna in central italy was hard hit firefighters rescued stranded residents in boats and helicopters forecasters warned that more flooding could be on the way. as take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world russia on the rocks 3 naval ships captured last year. it's the latest move to try to ease tensions between the 2 countries ahead of a summit next month 100 took place off the coast of crimea. u.s. president donald trump says he is strongly consider. during testifying in his own impeachment investigation he tweeted the announcement today after house speaker nancy pelosi a challenge him to appear before the committee to speak all the truth as he wants

with. hundreds of riot police in georgia's capital tbilisi have used water cannon against anti-government protesters outside the country's parliament building the day after demonstrators blocked the entrance people turned to the streets after the ruling a georgian dream party backtracked and promised and had trouble before. iran is next where authorities have defended the hike in fuel prices that sparked days of rioting at least 3 people have been killed and more than a 1000 arrested the government insists the price rises are necessary to fund social welfare programs the internet has been cut off and the senior commander accuses the united states of being behind the unrest. researchers have been warning for years about the rise of superbugs that's antibiotic resistant bacteria despite this the danger is higher than ever as the world health organizations world antibiotic awareness week begins is

a look at the threat superbugs posed to global health and development. before the mid 20th century contracting a bacterial infection could easily kill you the age of antibiotics was ushered in by alexander fleming who discovered penicillin back in the late 1920 s. and was later awarded the nobel prize for his work antibiotics at the scene for a paradigm shift in medicine they've saved countless lives but bacteria evolve and a few of them always survive the encounter with the medicine pathogens eventually acquire resistance 1st to one then to more and more antibiotics then they multiply and pass it on they can even share their resistance with other microbes some multi resistant super bugs are no impervious to practically entire arsenal of antibiotics at our disposal and research and antibiotics hasn't advance nearly as much as an

other fields of medical research big pharma is interest in them evaporated around 20 new major classes of anti-microbial were discovered between the 1940 s. and sixty's but over the last 60 years just 2 new classes of the drugs have been approved. meanwhile the problem of multi resistance has grown increasingly acute experts estimate multi resistant pathogens killed around $700000.00 people worldwide last year but there's still no comprehensive global plan for dealing with them. or cuba isn't generally the 1st place it springs to mind when it comes to surfing the caribbean island does have a vibrant if modest surfing scene female surfers however often find themselves doubly disadvantaged fighting about show male dominated culture that has led to a by communist authorities so here's what woman determined to challenge both when

the sun comes up and have ana and there's a good wind that's the best time to hit the serve among. the male surfers one woman . at arrow is a surf pioneer on cuba she's had to fight for her place here. but as you may i hear that. the men used to tell me to surf further away so that i didn't steal their waves i got that i think i'm a brave woman. once i've decided to do something i don't stop it i'm going to like achieve this there still aren't many surfers in cuba says she still sometimes gets stopped and questioned by the police. sometimes they wouldn't let me go into the water because they thought i was going to try and escape to the u.s. on my surfboard. how wants to see a more modern cuba less dominated by much is mo with more room for strong women she teaches kids to serve especially girls but to earn money with her serve school the

36 year old needs special permission from the communist state she's been waiting for 7 years and still hasn't got it. that ben pointing and that if but i may be the government's just not interested maybe surfing is just lost as we say here cuba no no the smallest changes to the system require determination and stamina even though it was fidel castro himself who called for change how the late revolutionary leader personally and in mired him. when he took my hand i felt that he was very gentle he smiled a loss but he also looked into my eyes as if he could read my thoughts. the van is celebrating its 500th birthday as the latest u.s. sanctions begin to bite tourist numbers are down and shortages of petrol and food stuffs more common the latest crisis is making change more difficult but that zoom

in on the sanctions won't change our government but most the make the divisions worse we need change but it has to come from us. the cuban people. in the area will know. believes the pace of change will slow down she belongs to a new generation ready to push boundaries and breakthrough them on the way to a better cuba. this is my generation has a desire to do something big but it's not made easy for us they should let us get on with us because ultimately we only want the best for the country. or they story. they are a group of performance artists and may have received additional jail sentences for insulting the military historical poets call themselves the peacock generation and there was a judicial system they could face the same charges in every township they performed

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a boost when he seized the 2nd set 62. city past took the next gen title for young players this time last year and has made big progress this season's the athens native beat roger federer in the semifinals and we fellow aging jewel rafa nadal and novak djokovic also falling by the wayside the chance for glory was there for the taking. team a 26 year old who was flattered to deceive in recent seasons put a fight in the decisive set but sick sick ass would not be denied. he eventually prevailed on another close tie break. i. always feel you know almost feels like i want to go slow i don't know very close to that emotions run tremendous i feel very proud and very happy with my therefore it up with out there the entire week. the revamped davis cup team event begins on monday

to test the men's singles face new sheriff hopes to shoot for the stars. this is did only news coming up next to get hot out 1st house business south africa to have the world news at the top of the hour in the meantime of course it's the pipes they don't we don't come up with. bursts. of speeches. worth saving. those are big changes and most start with small steps but global ideas tell stories of creative people and innovative jackson around the world. news that. used great shots and resources. they could.