♪ >> no more flights hong kong today as antigovernment consnservativeves saved ananothr rarally. earlier, hong kong leader carrie lam says protesters are pushing in a dangerous direction. pull back from holiday. a no-confidence motion on the country's top coalition. m majors raised that the

ebola epidemic in the democratic republic of the congo could end soon. two new treatments have provenen highly e effective. hello and welcome back to the "france 24" newsroom. aire pryde.fo monday's cancellation of all flights was unprecedented and came after violent clashes between protester and police. i it will "pushsh hongg kong to the e point of no retur. the e u.s. human rights chief is concerned. 's" charles is in hong kong. get inside theou

therefore, there are a lot of protesters at the front of the handing out leaflets about what the demand czar, there are five major demands, but when you get to the departure gates, where it gets very interesting, about 100 or more, definitely more than 100, hundreds of protesters are stepped down in front of those gates where you show your passport, behind the advocate of luggage carts. they have been, for the past five minutes, 15 minutes, sitting in silence. have been chanting slogans, this one that they are currently chanting as "free hong kong," i believe. and they are definitely making a stand here, hoping this new strategy of basically blocking travelers from reaching their planes will get the hong kong government to response to some of their demands.

claire: charles, beijing rhetoric has been getting harsher, and apparently come across the board, police have been carrying out large-scale exercises. it does not appear that beijing is about to cave in. both sides are staunchly holding onto their positions and not moving. every day, it seems like beijing is losing more patients, and so nce, and so are the protesters. protesters are going to keep trying different strategies to try to get the message heard, try to get their demands met, and beijing does not seem to be in a position right now to cave into any of these demands. they have made it very clear that they are labeling these professors to a certain extent as "terrorists," as they have said in a press conference on as aay, or at least,

minority of violent radicals. claire: in other news, the kremlin says the way russian police have handled protests lately is justified. this after the video of the woman being punched in the stomach by a royal police officer went viral. the blow happened during a protest of free elections. hasinterior minister launch an investigation. >> this clip has been viviewed more than 3 million times in russia, showing a woman being punched by y a policeman in riot gear. the woman isis seen strurugglino break f free when one of the officers is seen punching her in the stomach before reaching down to the government on. to pick ups -- down a baton. the clip has gone viral. a russian singer has shared the video with his 11 million

followers on a string. >> what kind of a scumbag do you need to be to hit a member of the fairer sex? i do not care what she did. >> sergey lavrov decries the police officer's behavior as a disgrace. >> a man should not beat of a woman. shame on you. i am against violence in any form. >> russian police say they have opened up an investigation to shed light on saturday's incident. the outrage comes after weeks of antigovernment protests in the russian capital, prompted by decisions by authorities to block opposition candidates from running for election in moscow city parliament. authorities have been accused of using excessive force to disperse protesterers, a claim sesecurity forces denies. claire: to italyly, where the senate is to vote later on when the prime minister will have to face a no-confidence motion. last month, the deputy prime

calledr matteo salvini for election, saying differences with the five-star movement cannot be mended. if the coalition is brought down, it will be up to the president to decide whether to form another coalition or call a general election. bryan quinn reports. summer vacation cut short, the full italian senate set to reconvene after party leaders failed to reach a disagreement on -- reaching agreement on a no-confidence vote. that motion filed by matteo right league party as a young support from the coalition is shared with the antiestablishment five-star movement. five-star legislators condemned what they call a power-play that there jeopardizes both parliamentary reforms and efforts to head offf a scheduled sales tax hike. >> salvin is bringing down the

government, costing 1200 euros per family. they are of tripping the just -- they are obstructing the country in their thirst for power. salvini to take over as prime minister from just they -- giun' just that seppi. capitalizehoping to on rising poll numbers while five-star currently holds more seats than parliament, the league now has twice as many voters supports in opinion polls, but the interior minister remains a divisive figure. the campaign push upon the beaches of southern italy, but the league's's stock anti-migrant stance has been credited for some of its rising

support, it has also been announced by some humanitarian groups and the u.n. the current crisis is that it crcritical momoment. italy'y's 2020 budget draft is e by the end of october. claire: portugal has declared a civil order to make sure that truck drivers deliver enough fuel to stop airports and petrol stations from running dry. a strike against low wageses occurred on monday. today, they said they would comply to get back to work but would not do extra time at the height of the summer holidays. it is the second such strike in portugal this year. now a turning point in the decade-long fight against ebola. a trial of two drugs havave shon significantly improved survival rates. now the drugs will be useded to treat ebola patients in the democratic republic of congo, where they disease has claimed more than 1800 livives in the lt year. valerie bouquet of reports. valerie: it t is a major

breakthrough in the e fight againstt ebola. that new drugs with the hope treatment is possible. significantly improving survival rates among patients. accordrding to preliminary results, about 30% of patients taking one of the two drugs die. if administered early come of the survival rate is at times 91%. among people who receive no caret all, 75% die, following a successful trial, the drugs without be used by all patients in the drc. they were developed by u.s. scientists by attacking the virus with antibodies that were harvested from ebola survivors. the world health organization has hailed the trial's success, stressing, however, ththat the drugs will not be enough to bring an end to the academic. vaccines remain the most it radically to do

the virus. more than 1800 people have died in the democratic republic of congo since the outbreak began in august of last year. authorities have been on high alert in the last few weeks as new cases emerge in the motor city -- border city of boma. local resistance to treat statement and -- seek treatment as soon as symptoms appear. westminster,'s s go to discussising with someone who hs been part of the world health organization. thank you for your time. why have the two new treatments proven highly effective? because t t strategy the has been threatened by thestry that are beyond treatment, seems to be more effective than the other options. specificwe have e two

products, one is an antibody, which means it is an antibody dedicated to target specific cells that have been affected by ththe virus, andd the other optn is a mixture of three different antibodies t that do carard it d recognize -- - target and recognize fefected cells, a vaccine which with edited the virus to prevent the cells and treatment cells, the antibody is injected into thehe body, which identify the infected cells and help your own body to destroy them before spreading even more virus inside your body. that is the difference. mentioned the

vaccine. in the democratic republic of congo, it has been an issue getting it to people whose aim is suspicious. could it be the same for these treatments, and are the accessible to all? t there arewell, um, very complex components. antibodies are very y difficulto engineer and to produce, so a delay between the batches that are available for researarch, which has been e case so far, and the time where you get that batch of that product available to the entire population for the elementnts of patien,, so it may imply some bad, proof of variableles, and then commercial use and medical use at a wide scale, because you have the prediction. you need to have the p predictin minutes that are ready to produce. claire: we heard in the report

-- jan-cedric: not just the mutation, which is also the case. claire: i am sorry, carry on. all ririt, so we will move on.n. oftendricic: that wass also the case in disaster medicine or a situation like that. claire: sorry about the delay. jan-cedric: go ahead. claire: i was saying in the report, there are four experimental ebola drugs being tested in the drc. what can you tell us about the other two, and is itfour different labs? jan-cedric: yes, it is four different labs, one being the with just public, but the others are private companies, and the two others were already tested in 2014, eight ebola strain in west africa. and they were so far the best of obvususly, theyey

werere used asas controls durire present clinical stutudy, and bebeing outnumbered by the two newcomers, so the new options, it is human antibodies, that are produceded from antibodies that of theied from survivals produced outbreak, and the two other options, they had no antibodies to copypy, so they we in a certain way, we call them antibodies, and those ones seem to be less effective on the cells. that is what we have to admit from the study. claire: all right, well, thank you u very much indeed for shedding some light on these ebola treatmentsts, jan-cedric hansen. and thank you for watching. we will leave it there for now. stay tuned. ♪

longey did not spend too thinking about it when they the word simply means "capitalal" in kazakh. who made it the man it nation's capital has left , it is time for an update. the city has been named after him, nur-sultan.

the architects who designed the city are doing their best. astana, the capital, the whole world was used to it, and us, too, and that we have to call it nur-sultan. we have to get used to change is feared after all, the decision to build the city was taken in a day. whoe was part of the group decided to move the cacapital he in 1998. it was his brorother who buiuile tower, the city's most iconic building, derived from an original sketch done by the man himself. >> it has become a ritual. putsone who comes here their hands in the palm of t the first prpresident, looooks up, d makes a wish your and they say the wishes come true.

nur-sultan has developed a classic personality culture, but unlike his d dictator neighbors, you also had a p policy of openenness toward the west and asia. he cofounded the eurasian vladimirunion with putin. the city has also hosted peace talks for syria. a quietst has geopolitical relevance. had he really resigned at the height of his powers? igor is said to o be the head of the foundation for today and is luxury hotel, he is meeting

representatives in south korea to talk about denuclearization. but he is a little bit distracted. today is a great day, because our first president, the leader of the nation, mr. nazarbayev, isis coming to visit the foundation. it is a first. >> he was the head of the when nazarbayev was appointed leader of the nation. this title is established by the constitution and the constitutional law. the first president held the seat. nazarbayev v is not completely leaving politics. he continues to exercise political and moral establishment over the population.

has been n preparing for retirement since 2010. that is when the catholic law,ament passed a -- - ng him free from state-fufued chancellor will handle his affairs from now on while he takes private ownership of his official residences. l links ththe presidentitial palace to h his w office. idea was architect's for this building to symbolize the destiny of independent kazakhstan, an eye looking to the heavens. do you like itit? let's move on. guide in thea center, a multimedia guide to the preresident.

a few days ago, a new attraction appeared for her to show schoolchildren. >> do you see the door up there with the decoration? narbayev'v'sltan office. who work herele are not allowed to go to the eighth and ninth floor. hernd so fariza continues tour of the lower floors. >> all of these books, yes, he read them all. charles de gaulle, the president of france, gandhi. >> quite the scholarar it is all part of the image o of nazarbayev as a visionary and spiritual guide to serve the catholic ----

kazakhs. areirst and foremost, we tataught how we mumust rethink r history.y. japan has an emperor. england has the queen. lots of countries have speakers who do not wield power directly but influence course of events. kazakhstan only gained independence in 1991, and the first president faced a major role in the foundation of this state, a and that is why he hass such an important place. typicalalw didid this doubt evangelizing himself as a gandhi-like figure? in 1999, and her parents moved here. fariza, 22, is a true nazarbayev devoting. >> here it is, my first

nazarbayev book, his biography. before i read it, i thought that if you came from an ordinary family and not have ancestors who were kings, you would be just ordinary, too. but when i read the president's biography, i learned how such a modestst man could be famous, ad i i realize i cocould make it, . he is an inspiration to people like me. a a has been pursuing her dream. one of them, modeling, has already come true. yet her father is not so much of a nazarbayev fan. he knows he must be careful and cacamera, though. -- you can'tczar really -- everyone should be grateful to him, because the roads have been built, the traffic lights work, the police provide our security.. that is all thanks to the president.

>> just in case anyone were to be not quite as grateful as they should, it is actually illegal in kazakhstan n to insult nanazarbayev. fined foralist was covering protest against the renaming of astana. these police officers are over with there when people demonstrating their anger at the authorities.s. hide anyrities want to discontent, because officially come in our country, everything is hunky-dory, everyone is rich and happy. are dealinge police with a group of mothers with large families c come to city hl to demand their benefits. >> the police a reckless, authorities ignored completely. >> we want to find out why they are protecting, and they take us to the cityy slumsms, just two kilometers away. house this morning that burned down.

you see the roof? today alone, there have been two house fires, because people use chart kyle for heating. forappens -- charcoal heating. it happens all the time in this area. recently come it happened over there, too. >> recently, this town has no and no, no sewage, running water. the houses here are in danger of collapsing. dinara's is no exception. >> there is the chimney. it is always smoking, because it is always falling down. repairingtinuously it, but t it is no usese. we have not got moy. since 2002, theyey have been saying they are going toto demolish thesese houses and they as compensation, but they had jujust notified us that they are year,oning until next because they run out of money. the money was spent on renaming

the city. >> the authorities prefer this image, a modern capital and a tribute to its found her. itsts founder, who does, to be fair, have a few things to be proud of, such as this university, named after him. it was based on a singaporean model. indeed, the dean is from singapore. >> this was established in 2010 by the first president of nursultan, nazarbayev, and the purpose of this university was to make it a modern u university, w where presidenent nazarbayev met with the founding prime minister of singapore. one of the advice given by mr. lee was to invest in the education of the brightest in the country. >> that meeting was in 1993, and nazarbayev took action very next day, launching the program, a

scheme that pays for young people to study abroad. of itsd camilla are twoo alumni's. he went to cambridge in england, shshe to the u university of arizona in the u.s. really grateful to him that i had an opportunity to study abroad, otherwise, i would study in a local university, without getting all of this knowledge that i obtained from a new university. >> the idedea of the prprogram itselflf, going abroad to learn from the b best and coming backo give back to the community, i think it resonates with a lot of people, and i think that is why a lot of people choose this prproblem. havean and kamila both importanant jobs in the civil service, but they chose to study in the school of public policy. the emphasis here is on good governance. >> what can the public sector to

to add to o the public? >> the most important value is to serveve for the good d of the majojority. ideal,cracycy would be beca

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