this is g w news live from berlin police in hong kong sealed off a university campus occupied by pro-democracy protesters dozens of activists making a dramatic escape by climbing down from a bridge and speeding away on motorbikes another large group of demonstrators is later seen leaving the site beijing is warning that it could intervene to end the crisis in the city also coming up iran imposes a media blackout after deadly protests against fuel price increases the supreme

leader accusing the united states of being behind the unrest and the business is floodwaters receded leaving the city with hundreds of millions of euros in cleanup bills and there is heavy flooding in other parts of italy following yet more. downpours and why surfing in cuba means more than just catching a wait we need a female surfer fighting for equality as she battles a macho culture and a hard line communist regime. to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world it welcome we begin with dramatic scenes in hong kong pro-democracy protesters today try to escape from police who have sealed off the university coup. ampere's that the demonstrators have occupied

the stakes tonight remain dangerously high china's ambassador to britain warning that beijing has the power and the right to end the unrest which has gripped hong kong now for months universities have become the latest battleground for protesters and the police. a daring plan students climbing down from a bridge using ropes onto a highway. then they're in the clear but they're only trickling out after police sealed off this university campus the epicenter of the most violent clashes so far in hong kong's political crisis if caught the protestors could be charged with the rioting punishable by up to 10 years in prison. chaos reigns here and police have failed to gain control of the campus. the

struggling in the streets to the fight for democracy has disrupted life in hong kong for 5 months tourists a locked in this hotel. back at the university some students leave through the front door not everyone can continue the resistance they head towards waiting medics and the police. the siege might be facing an end but it's just one of many battles in hong kong's continuing standoff. and more of these activists they've now managed to escape from the university we've got more now from w correspondent charlotte charles until. important hearing no. right. now. there are thousands. you know well responding with.

there i'll. bring a person just over 3 months of them to sort out the point that hunger there oh crap why i you know about you know. what i want to tell you money or. hold on to me for more i'm going to go our. own some of those holed up in the. well or out. around. harm. them all the while. you're out by. not i mean i. know you're not welcome. and that was charlotte until they're reporting from hong kong

iran's leaders are defending the hike in fuel prices which have sparked days of rioting at least 3 people have been killed more than a 1000 a rested the government insisting that the price raises are necessary to fund social welfare programs the internet has been cut off and the supreme leader today accused the united states of being behind the rest of. the central bank and day behind in flames police cars and a billboard of the ayatollah and they are also engulfed in blazes scenes of unrest and destruction in southwestern iran. in the capital tehran demonstrators wish death on their supreme leader. the unrest has left many dead or wounded this footage was recorded on saturday before the government blocked the internet on monday came this statement from the commander of the bus each

a militia loyal to the government and. i will mean that yesterday the situation was stable throughout the country today things are also under control most of the people behind the riots have been identified and arrested this time the americans did not have any success and they added another defeat to their tally the better part of the mission of. the united states has criticized the rainy and security forces for using violence against the protesters secretary of state might pump a 0 posted in a tweet as i said to the people of iran almost a year and a half ago the united states is with you. because of u.s. sanctions iran's oil trade has collapsed the government to short of funds and is trying to offset its losses by raising gasoline prices aid payments are planned for 20000000 people a need a quarter of the population. the government has made this decision because it doesn't have any money now it's taking money out of our pockets to plug the gaps

here in iran hommage everything in iran is connected to petrol prices when they go up so to feed prices rent everything. since the weekend iran has been cut off from the outside world that makes it difficult for the protesters to coordinate their rallies for the regime it's an opportunity to suppress the protests without interference around 1000 people are said to have been arrested so far. it's over more now i'm joined by my team from the university of sussex it focuses on international relations and iran it's good to have you on the program i want to ask you about this threat that came today from the revolutionary guard that if the unrest does not seems then there will be decisive action by the guard how close are we to a military crackdown in iran. well in fact the military crackdown has already

started from day one of the protest these issued this statement from the ritchie guard simply formalizes what in practice was carried out from the early days in the early hours of the protest there are multiple videos of security forces simply shooting to kill you know directly into the out which is quite remarkable because compared to if you look compare it to 2009 so-called green movement protest there was an attempt at least at an early stages not to use direct shooting and use other you know conventional methods to disperse the crowds but in this case actually the shooting started early on there are actually pictures of security forces shooting from rooftops of the different stations and police stations and other institutions as a crowd so i'm afraid the crackdown has been quite militarized from the start and surrounds the ayatollah has called these violent protesters so do

we know exactly who the protesters or. well the protest says actually that demography m. decomposition is not very different from what we see in places like lebanon or chile or even iraq next or there are very young they are unemployed are disillusioned with the government they have no hope sadar and really the hungry and the poor of the iranian society and for them at the government is not seeking to improve their social status and the comically situation because this has been the case seems last 1015 years that you know consistently the government has. introduced economic and social rules on those which has not improve their lot and but at the moment the corruption and incompetence of the governments from their perspective is combined with obviously the sanctions by the united states which has

reduced iran's export of oil drastically which means the government has a massive budget deficit for which it tries to you know use the petrol price rise as a as a remedy and that will simply adds to the inflation and therefore to the inability of the vast majority majority of the people to actually. you know provide for their basic needs on a daily basis you know what you see there it sounds like you're saying that this general discontent in the society has been there for quite a while and to that maximum pressure from the united states are you saying that this policy by the u.s. has been what we've needed to push the country to a tipping point is that what we're seeing now well well i mean the economic situation in iran i mean if you look at the longer term perspective has deteriorated i mean for them for the you know the majority of the iranian people

seems actually late ninety's early 2000 is because since then we had a series of privatization of state assets not very dissimilar to the shock to. which russia and other eastern bloc countries experienced where you know the state assets were simply sold to people who had the closest connections to the government and they didn't lead really to a kind of prospering and a productive economy but on top of that we have had growing corruption at multiple levels you know all the it's very famous saying in iran today is that the children of the government officials studying abroad they are having a lavish life and consumption consequence because consumption so far so there is corruption there raise political distribution of economic revenues of the government and on top of that we have also the sanctions so all of this have come together to really. detail rewrite economic situations of the vast majority of the ringin people and that's has expressed itself in this particularly severe reaction

to the raising of the of the petrol prices the rossi days come on my team from the university of sussex joining us tonight with the latest on the unrest in iran mr martin we appreciate your time tonight thank you thank you thanks for having me. well here are some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world u.s. secretary of state mike bump a it has announced that washington no longer considers israeli settlements in palestinian territories a violation of international law. says that he hopes the u.s. will soon be able to release a peace plan for the region but the move today risks inflaming tensions further in the ranch u.s. president says he is strongly considering testifying in his own impeachment investigation trump tweeted the announcement a day after house speaker nancy pelosi challenged him to appear before the

committee to speak all the truth or that he wants to communicate with so. venice is returning to normal slowly after days of flooding caused damage running into the hundreds of millions of euros but as the waters in the city recede other parts of northern italy have been swamped by to original rain leaving entire 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 the field even a julia region rivers burst their banks flooding a key road and making access to cut off the ledge is difficult we feel as if we just came to the lake and now this if it goes on this way we won't have any

prospects for the future is to get equal the situation was even more dire in a coastal town. city in the sewer fills up and overflows into drains. floodwaters making even the most basic tasks much more difficult but a pivotal day with very limited as you can see when things like this happen we're stuck at home like prison as has appeared to need it i mean the real manya in central italy was hard hit firefighters rescued stranded residents in boats and helicopters forecasters warned that more flooding could be on the way. you're watching t.w. news still to come the cuban surfer paddling against a male dominated macho culture and against the island's hardline communist authorities. will have her story in just a moment. where thousands of protesters in chile are stepping up their demands for

a new constitution and for the resignation of president sebastian pinera many have suffered serious injuries in recent anti-government demonstrations they accuse the police brutality and they say the police have aimed rubber bullets at their heads president piñera says that any 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

being targeted. videos like these published on the internet aren't difficult to watch medical professionals are alarmed. that. some bullets just scratch the surface of the eye but some hit them directly 99 percent of the patients if not all end up going blind 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 the efforts of the police are deliberately targeting certain body parts they're using their guns in a way that can lead to lethal interests they would because so little is chile's

president sebastian pinera has sent all cases of disproportionate police violence must be investigated while it exists aka said the committee any excessive use of force and breach of police protocol work needs to be investigated by public prosecutors and brought to justice or. these. 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 and we'll. i have children then with it i need to be able to work and earn money whether i wanted or not i need to fit get my fears but i'm still full of fear and panic. now since life is now dominated by the injuries he received at the hands of the police.

well it's not going to be quite the i.p.o. that it was billed to be saudi arabia has decided to restrict aramco. to the riyadh stock exchange with the vast majorities of shares to be sold locally of the decision is a huge step back from the original plans to go public in other places such as new york now only foreign institutional investors already licensed a deal in saudi arabia will be allowed to buy the shares those shares come on the market at some time in december the company around co has been valued at $1.00 trillion dollars that makes aramco the biggest i.p.o. ever. subscription starts soon for weeks these billboards have lined riyad streets now the subscription period has begun for real investors can sign up to buy shares in saudi aramco. it's their patriotic duty says the government

some banks are even offering loans of $10000000.00 euros so rich saudis can buy a piece of the oil colossus into saudi capital there is no public criticism of the planned i.p.o. . dram co company is the crown jewel of investment in saudi arabia and a safe company to invest in and the biggest company in the world thank god it is a good opportunity that crown prince mohammed bin gave us the chance to subscribe to be partners in this success. but the investment is not without risk there are concerns that the saudi powers that be wields too much influence. that iran co is not commercially independent enough of the saudi state and that is that and just how significant are around because all the reserves are they really enough for more than another 50 years independent analysts beg to differ then there are concerns over its location at the heart of blazing conflicts in the gulf

a september attack paralyzed oil production and reminded the world of its oil dependency saudi aramco pumps 12 percent of the world's crude. and here's some of the other stories that are making news around the world a 15 year old girl and a truck driver have been killed after a suspension bridge near the french city of toulouse collapsed into the tarn river it happened in southern france 3 vehicles including a heavily loaded truck are thought to have been crossing the bridge when it fell a criminal investigation has been opened in myanmar a group of performance art is has been given a 2nd jail sentence for insulting the military these satirical poets call themselves the peacock generation now under me and more as judicial system the group can face the same charges in every township where they perform. well when it comes to dog sledding most people think of snow covered scenes in the

frozen arctic but last week in the world of competitive sled dog racing came to the united kingdom the hounds in their owners had to brave rough conditions as they battled it out but it was all worth it for the treat of winning a world title. a few still don't sledding only took place on snow and ice even bucking up the wrong tree the annual dry land world championships at the weekend so it seems from around the globe descend on the cross and mud of sussex in england the sleds a fitted with wheels to help the hounds race around the bumpy track that combined with the power of between 2 and a canine cohorts allows them to reach for russia's speeds i really just want to run so i put them in the hands let them do what they were bred to be. responsible by. you can enjoy as well as the like a bit of not. indeed mud is an unavoidable parts of the proceedings and while that's perfect for the pitches that otherness have to take extra precautions. i'm

pretty matty anyway to come back absolutely had to tear in my. pants. changes in place but yeah everything was really this is. the event so highly competitive organizes keep their eyes on the clock the most important thing is that it's a fun day out for man's best friends. from the mud to the tennis courts to find those city boss has been crowned finals champion after a tight win over a dominant team in london a 21 year old greek was making his debut at the prestigious tournament he looks well placed now in the challenge the old guard in next year's grand slams. men's tennis has a new sheriff in town 21 year old greek stephan a city pass was looking to end up. breakthrough year as the youngest winner of the a.t.p. finals since 2001 dominant team took the 1st set but since he passed quickly bounced

back i. a tale to tease because title to date considered the 5th major of men's tennis received a boost when he seized the 2nd set 6 to. 6 a pass 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 family fellow aging jewel rafa nadal and novak djokovic also falling by the wayside the chance but glory was day for the taking. team a 26 year old who was flattered to deceive in recent seasons put up a fight in the decisive set but since the past would not be denied. he eventually prevailed on another close tie break i know it was because you know almost it was like i want to wrestler i don't know very close to that emotions run tremendous i feel very proud and very happy with the effort i put out

there the entire week. the revamped davis cup team event begins on monday but test the men's singles base new sheriff hopes to shoot for the stars. marvin the new sheriff to the unexpected surfboard cuba is not generally the 1st place that springs to mind when it comes to surfing but believe it or not the caribbean island it does have a vibrant if modest surfing scene female surfers however often find themselves doubly disadvantaged here they have to fight a macho male dominated culture that that run by a communist regime we're going to introduce you now to one woman he was determined to challenge both and leave them both in her ways. when the sun comes up and have an a and there's a good wind that's the best time to hit the serve among the male surfers one woman . show 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 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 and 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. wants to see a more modern cuba less dominated by much as 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 it at it but i

may be the government's just not interested maybe surfing is just nonsense as we say here cuba no no the smallest changes to the system require determination and stamina even though it was for del castro himself who called for change methylated revolutionary leader personally and in mired him. the he also. 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 the sanctions won't change our government at most the make the divisions worse we need change but it has to come from us. the cuban people. it.

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. 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. archer watching the news after a short break i'll be back to take you through the day stick around for the.

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