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welcome back you watching live from paris france twenty four the headlines this hour. iran's revolutionary guards dimond and ends to nationwide unrest three days off to protests erupted over a hike in fuel prices tehran has blamed foreign enemies for the demonstrations. we'll be going live to the iranian capital in just a few moments to talk correspondent raised a sam. next door in iraq the country's main pool remains blocked by protesters determined to overthrow the government they see as corrupt and beholden to foreign interests will have a special report. from baghdad. and hong kong's polytechnic university is the s scene o of someme of tt city's worst v violence in monts
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hundreds of protesters remain trapped inside at least on to take out some more to canon surround the building . we begin this hour in iran the whether it's beeeen three days of nationwide protests prompted by a hike in petrol prices major roads have been blocked banks have been torched and shops looted. the powerful revolutionary guards have warnrned that thehere will be decisive action if on rest doesn't cease immediately authorities that have imposed severe restrictions on communications. in order to try to curb the unrest and maxwewell house the next. these are some of the few pictures up purchases have managed to post online. since the iranian government implemented a new
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title e internet shot down on saturday. the exact locatioion n iran isn't specified. in the video of protest office flowers to security forces. eventually retreat from what seems like a peaceful demonstration. also the weekends unrest in which at least two people were killed the situation now is very unclear. iranian authorities say it's comma and that they've arrested more than two hunundred so called rights as- every time saturday the situation is good i will mean that most of the key elements behind the righghts have b been identified and arrested. markets again the americans of failed now does they have added another. defeat to the record so much when i flew showed. s. broke out friday after the government's shop decision to hike petrol prices. with the wrong blames the time while on a wrong turn and- take the united states. it hit back at american secretary of state might compare. two
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days after he tweeted to support for protesters. long before we get off he has showed his trumped up. and hypocritical behavior towards the nation of iran. the fact that the us is goal is to mess with it rogue security and set the nation's interests on fire him and not sneeze. iran's government says the petrol price rises are intended to raise e about two poioint five e billion dollars a year the extra subsidies to families struggling on lower incomes. indians have b been findingg it ever harder to make ends meett since donald trump withdreww the united states from iran's nuclear deal and reimposed sanctions. well for the very latest we can go to tehran now a correspondent resist saying is that raise it is very difficult from the outside to get a picture of what is going on that can you tell us a bit about. what is happening with the protests today. could be quieting down. hard to
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conclusively. without internet here that i've covered you want for more than a decade get you a break after the anti government protest vote rigging small but i've never seen the information blackout i thank you for the past couple days internet service can be restricted for more than forty eight hours now making it possible. to collecting confirm information maybe the near impossible to report the protestors still going and so on one knee on the green at this hour it's a little after eleven thirty pm local. time i . lookeded at ron. quiet a couple of hours ago let you. drive around the majors where do you buy optional heavy security privacy. we can get a case for the past fortrty eight hours security forcess employers. and
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why you're mounting almost every street corner activitities will be charged only one computer a and protocols. the only information were able to rereport. mostly from lauaunchea mediaa report. okay one hundndrd in the past few days. or the one thirty people. lan those numbers is middle out from again the restrictive internet service at one forty five to restore internet service and we don't know when that's going to happen that could be a sign. of a confident to get out. now i did this occur around a purchase was sparked by a hike in fuel prices- there were. similar protests a year and a half ago- also about- economic hardship and- from what you sing covering those prices and these current protests at is
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there anything different this time around do you think. i similarity in back the whole cast a don't she could be march the number in the hundreds they're in numerous- as- a band. recording that- it'll be pollution in half an hour and a hundred yeah. the 200-072-2000 we can protest they were spotted by economic hardship in working class people coming out. in protest and again this one a protest- increase in portugal hi. again there is a big discussion of why quality decided. on today's the common people already under so much pressure the fact thahat the decision now it's time to o move on. that if you get caught on
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the economy on working class you ron perhaps shows how bad the economy struggling to a point where it's always had no choice. but to take drastic measures like use that on popular with people and obviously one because you loved it backslash and has the regime tried to explain. why y felt it necessary to hike fuel prices at this time. . what woud you tellll you that one of the fictional arnold mom that. was enough to show that you want to have on. your life you were very long time if you'd like to high consumption of fuel the smuggling. of fuel i mean again the fact they decided to do it now perhaps even indication of how bad the economy is struggling. wow and how much of an impact- thank you. depart
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but again criticics. protests contininue across the border in iraq despite a fierce crackdown that is kind of us three hundred lives since the beginning of lasast month that the country's main ports on thee gulflf i is blocked i in schoold government offices across the south remain closed. practice begann in e early octctober iras say they want to overthrow the government they believe is corrupt and beholden to foreign interests most t notably iran te trigger reports. outside the port of umm qasr in southern iraq laurie stand idle of the protesters blocked the country's main gold polls yet to gain. bogner costs of the approaches. cassette along or in solidarity with our brothers in talked is square. and other provinces. this sports has come
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to a halt twice. and this is the third time which it has been closed i'm gonna put me on. the first block a customer okay the six billion dollars just in its first week something protesters want to use to force the government's her and- in a fury initially boiled over at the beginning of october. as thousands fed up with rampant corruption unemployment and poverty hit the streets demanding deep political change. however brutal crackdown resulted throughout two waves of demonstrations has left over three hundred dead and thouousands momore woundnded o o the use off livive ammunition during concern from the international community. the government has offered certain reforms but for a generation that has come of age knowing nothing but us occupation extremist terror and foreign interference it was too little too late. we wait retreats will continue protesting until our demands a max we want the government over holding changed completely subservient to around they sell the rock and
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they sold out patriotism. for now it seems both sides are digging in for the long full with it strikes by trade unions and school closures in cities across the south of the country. when iran's influence in iraq has also helped fuel these protests in early this month crowds attacked the iranian embassssy in the city of kalale. now thousands of iranian intelligence documents havee been leaked to the media and ththey show the extent to which tehran has sought to sway events in its neighbor already many iraqis are calliling for a boycott of iranian goods. maria so force has this report. the owner of this electrical and hardware store in baghdad is seeing a reluctance amongst iraqi consumers to buy goods mamanufactured in iran. this decline in demand that followed a call by iraqi activists to boycott to raining goods inn response to tehran's intervention in iraq particularly its disapproval of
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the on going protest movements. a certain level i never knew how about 40% of the goods in a shop or made any done. lots of people who come to find materials refused to buy them if they know that they are uranian made. involved in the us. some traders had anticipated the boycotts and refrain from buying goods imported from iran to avoid a significant loss in sales. yeah another issue with orca thought it said be expected especially after so many recent accusations of iranian interference in iraq. unlock it that must be a boycott of iranian because most of the iraqi market to handle telephone iranian product see a am a dumb dog nobody on the- annual bilateral trade between iraq and irann and m mounts t to twelve billion d dollars. tehehn wants to increase this to twenty billion d dollars. in responsese to this iraqi protesters trying to put economic pressure upon around in the hope of c curbing its interventionon in iraq if as.
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living to hong kong now and some of the most intense violencece that since prices began several months ago the city's polytythnic uniniversity has been turned into a battle ground students barriricaded themselves in lost we can now hundreds of protesters attract insight. some did try to escape yeah but we m met with volleys f tear gas and water cannon by the security forces. a violent game of cat and mouse outside home comes polytechnic university on monday. with the trademark umbrellas as makeshift chills demonstrators gathered once more as police deployed armored vehicles and fight to get us in retaliation. anti government protesters barricaded themselves inside the campuss last week. police momoved in on monday of the issuing a stock ultimatum for them to leave the area i was born. the right to. tom tesol bottom line. and you have to respond. i believe the only
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optionon. is to use. the give ad take is played up repeatedly during the city's months of anti government unrest protesters want to avoidd arrest the police want to pick up as many as they can it's not a case of who blinks first. i don't know if we could. we keep staying on to call is coming to the campus and to cancel. yes because- until now we cannot find a way i'll and on the campus beijing meanwhile has warned that it will not tolerate further violence. this situation because i've had trouble- centered over so that he would not. sit on our. hands
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and watch we have enough. resolution hama ends yes over one hundred and fifty arrests have been reported from the weekend so far as well as several injuries to both protesters and the police. well to talk more about that i'm joined by johnny call not from the ages center thank you for being with thiss set a and thats what you need- events of realaly escalated in hong kong- over the last few days. what is the strategic importance of this university. well this university is a strategic location it's looking over the course hubble turner so simple testers- stays wanted to stay there and you know you know we in order to disrupt. the economic activity of on condenser links between calhoun which is on the continent or side. and central which isn't a hong kong guy on. so on this one. protesters and the
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response so please is so keen to. to change the situation. and debt. to is this a mistake on the on the health of the practices because they all making it. at the more difficult for ordinary people to know about that. this is in my view i think it's a mistake because it opens so. as a way for the gene to be more responsive to the demonstrations and- it's also bad to the extent that the- international support. to income demonstrators will fade away somehow and- obviously also in the domestic- the mystic area of a home going because when people cannot go. to work on week days so a major issue for them. because for several months the parts as well. research is a way yes ththere was a there was a big change and that's why so there is- an escalation of violence- during the last few months. of protesters were always on saturdays. and sundays and now
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is he decided. to go on the weekdays and as they said to blossom everywhere meaning to disrupt completely is the activity of uncle e so i sings the set. is a can of very dangerous- approach for them because it's going to make beijing mall. more reason food and to some extent to the hell that to the five dimond's that they've had- said five demands one is being new except it's whose role y yes option of the- initial growth through. and potatoes in a way too late. and see other demand now can that be accepted that door by beating because it saw a can of- committee to investigate- a part of a vitamins the parties the general elections a residual of carrie lam or is that t too soon out of the agena of beijing right now safe in this i chose the beijing will. i sing for the time being a sandwiches at the 80% chance that so it's going to be more violent from- from zone
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companies and possibly from beijing and 20% that somebody finds a way to initiate the data that iraq because for me it's very difficult because there isn't there's no dialogue at the moment and it'd be mines are is observing the dying days i've a welding. a student. there is an escalation of violence. and there is an escalation of wording by bgg. sir and given thahat it is a student leads movement- you know these are young people say this is all future that is being stolen by china we don't want to lose these western style freedoms that we have. an increasingly neither side seems willing to back down the toll yeah i i said i sings t that so- it's very very dangerous for them and verer dangerousus f for the- the whole generation of these- these students. because as the chinese ambassador to u. k. center. beijing as the power and solution reservation to. to stop the violence from the from the demonstrators and do you think that the protesters will be let down by the
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international community who have not done a great but it's a private for example president michael on that. it was so what you. want what is international community. if you sink of all people or. making emails with tweets okay say say may have seen some support what's- what's the worse. o of that and on the country's you and even the us basketball team and- the only persoson may help them. is mr trump on the contrary mr trump is in no way. stepping back everyday with three out to the congress b because what is more was put on for him is a chain- u. s. three deal is institution all called yet all right massive there's any because i think you're right. thank you very much inde. the united nations says that more than one hundred thousand children are currently being held in migration related to tension in the unitedd states that includes those who are being held along w with that parents. and those who are being held alone. the united nations global study on
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children deprived of liberty says the figure is a conservative assessment based on the latest available data. globally at least three hundred and thirty thousand children across eighty countrieies are being held for my greatest. related reasons that means that the us accounts for nearly a third. of all such detentions. separating. children as was done by the trump administration. from their parents and even smaller children at the mexican us border- is absolutely prohibited by the commission the lights of the child i would call it in human treatment for bowls the parents. and the children. let's get some maps is usually not on a disease is back with us i'm gonna start with abby in beijing and nine you should do with the olympics indeed we odd- department booking platform says the agreement is designed to cut
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costs with hosting the event according to the financial times the sponsorship deal is worth five hundred million. dollars the international and the committee's president. said ththe deal will take the games into the digital age. . e of the goals- offer these agenda is so to make the olylympic gams the more feasible and more sustainable for the first time in history. we will act with the world's largest host community with hundreds of thousands of posts. all over ththe globe thisis year their cultlture with visititors dung the gamemes. just last month airbnb hosts in japan earned more than seventy million dollars during the rugby world cup. and we have even bigger expectations for the olympic games. now the mayor of paris and intel go has warned the international olympic committee chief of the risks of a partnership with airbrbnb in a letter to thomas doc she's about to tighten rules on toururist renentals even threatening to outlaw short
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term rentals. in some parts of the city paris is set to host the olympic games in twenty twenty four and the socialist mayor is up for reelection. next year. bush johnson says he plans on placing further cuts to corporate taxes on hold. the british prime minister addressing the confederation of british industry this monday weeks before december is a general election. the labor party's jeremy corbyn also address the body he indicated a corporate tax hike as well as an income tax hike on the country's highest earners would be on the cards. if labor forms the next government. the head of the business lobby meanwhile has one british businesses are under threat. from both the political left and the right. on the right we have the stress of even a preference for. no deal. as the endpoint of our brexit negotiations and i want to be really clear here today that this is not what pushes phones large or small won't. they are intent on improving the quality of good jobs are
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not diminishing the audiology from the left is at least as damaging in the labor party is proposing. the biggest program of re nationalization this country has ever seen. to buy state carrier announce it would be picking up fifty airbus a. three fifties for sixteen billion dollars amorous revising up its order of the play enough it canceled all the ac thirty aircraft it. previously had booked. the announcement was made on day two of the dubai air show off for the event itself got off to a gloomy start charlie james reports. sales take up for air bus at the dubai air show. monday the middle east's biggest carrier emirates revealed its upping its orderer of wide body airbus a. three fifties. buying twenty more than originally planned. i'm pleased to announce the a act in that it. would sign a purchase agreement for a fifty eight t of us. x. wb's today. this item in
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the order they are worth of sixteen million dollars at the list price. in the s secondd b g announcement of the day and roddy budget carrier air arabia also in to deal worth fourteen billion dollars at list price we're very pleased to put. an order in today and just signed an agreement what was in front of you. for r a hundred and twenty. airbus a. three point oh you can see families are playing. airbus is thirty bibillion dollar fortune has coe at the expense of its competitor boeing at previous rounds of the biennial showcase boeing took in the lion's share of the deals but the american manufacturer saw sales of its flagship plane the seven thirty seven max holt after a second jet crashed in march. at the show boeing managed only a one point two billion dollars sale of its t troubled aircraft its deal with turkish kerrierer son express w was the first firm
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order for the seven thirty seven max. since planes were grounded worldwide. let's get a check of the markets snacks and here in europe age was any negative across the board of the clothehes that acts in frankford endnded the session down three tenths of one percent. well the e footsie clososed down in near the flatline over in the united ststates att this hourr l let'se how things are d doing all thehe meanining this is their trading in positive territory t the dow jones up around a tenth. of 1% at this hour. american auto giant forty is counting on its powerful mustang brought to market shift to allah and electric while the future. but the company is turning away from the two door sports car for the first time in mustangs history. on u. s. u. v. called the mustang mackey has been unveiled. analysts say the move could spark fresh interest but we still using the brand. which has had a loyal following for over fifty years. the maquis is expected to start at around forty four thousand dollars. and all for three hundred and
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seventy kilometers off a single battery charge. at a trump administration has delayed announcing restrictions on e. cigarettes according to reports the president is less inclined to go harsh on vaping following push back from the industry. andd users in key states donald trump is expected t to meet with industry r representatives. but the impact on j jobs will remain a factor to any changes in policy. tetensions have recently visiting countries around the worldd you shoululd the high cot of living over a bond that they should government is trying to get a head office simmering problem. it's urgently importing onions off to prices soared when neighboring india banned imports in september. down here at the small kidss in the bangladeshi capital dhaka. onions they're all left the being snapped up. this desespite the considerable increase in price. vegetable forms an essential part of the country's cuisine yet it's not in short supply in the region. the
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shortage can be traced back to india the world's largest producer of onions. and a villain monsoon season coast flooding which in turn delayed the harvest. india has seen thee price of the onion shoots up on average kilo costs twenty five rupees there. cururrently they'e theyey're being sold around thre times the price. the results since september twenty ninth india has not allowed a single onions to leave the country. this embargo comes at a high price for the region at large particularly bangladesh where in just one month the cost of an onion has increased almost tenfold. in south asia and onion shortage is not something to be down played. twenty years ago prime minister narendra modi's party the b. j. p. mismanaged such a crisis caususing it to lolose itsts may in parliament. ass bangladesh waits for n new delelhi to recee its s own unique sports. injury has sought to deal with the most urgent needs. emergency imports of comeme from burma tii china and egypt. onions and are
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