consulate some holding signs calling on president trying to liberate the chinese controlled area adrian brown reports on the protesters calls for international help . these protesters want global attention on their target on sunday the united states. to china's leaders this will fuel their suspicions that foreign powers are behind the 3 and a half months of unrest in hong kong to protest his message is for the u.s. congress and the act they want passed it would lead to closer scrutiny of human rights. hong kong and u.s. sanctions against hong kong leaders he wants the u.s. congress to pass hong kong human rights and democracy at. these people be so important for us because you can selectively punish those off issues who trample on our freedom riot police blocked the road in front of the consulate and were braced for trouble. as in previous demonstrations these marchers represented a broad cross section of hong kong society on tuesday hong kong will be under the international spotlight once more when the united nations human rights council meets in geneva with china's representative expected t

government confirmed the number of people visiting enormous was down 40 percent from a year ago adrian brown reports of an economic downturn looks to worsen. burned performs in an almost deserted theme park this is disneyland normally one of hong kong's most popular tourist attractions but there are no queues for the rides and other attractions today. on average $18000.00 people visit each day many of them from mainland china. but the unrest that began on june the 9th has made it harder for hong kong to sell itself as a fun destination in. the neighborhood of manchaca has seen some of the worst violence the bravo clothes boutique in prince edward road regularly has to close early but always opens the following morning only the graffiti hinting at what happened a few hours earlier. the shop faces monk police station a frequent target for demonstrators since mid june businesses for them by 80 percent yet the solitary sales assistant says she supports the protests because she says they want what she wants. of course freedom. freedom since i'm not the boss and just an employee i think freedom is

speak to adrian brown who's in hong kong for a say as we saw there some pretty dramatic scenes in hong kong on saturday what some would like today and what are we expecting for nato. well it's just after 10 o'clock in the morning here in hong kong and it's very calm outside but there is a lot of clearing up going on this time they're clearing up the charred remains of some of those burning barricades that featured in wayne hayes report there and this of course is a new development it wasn't just you know barricades that the protesters were setting fire to they're also trying to set fire to buildings now as to what is going to happen today both the protesters it seems are going to once more trying to target hong kong international airport you remember several weeks ago when they occupied the airport that led to you know hundreds of flights being canceled and massive disruption for travelers leaving and going to hong kong i think what the protesters are going to try to do because of course there is an injunction at the moment preventing any demonstrations at the airport what they're goin

protest is on now sending out an international appeal for help with that battle against china adrian brown has moved oh these protesters want global attention. their target on sunday the united states. to china's leaders this will fuel their suspicions that foreign powers are behind the 3 and a half months of unrest in hong kong the protestors message is for the u.s. congress and the act they want passed that would lead to closer scrutiny of human rights in hong kong and u.s. sanctions against hong kong leaders he wants the u.s. congress to pass that cost him a raise and democracy as a chance was about this is so important for us because you can selectively punish those off issues or trample on our freedom riot police blocked the road in front of the consulate and were braced for trouble. as in previous demonstrations these marchers represented a broad cross section of hong kong society on tuesday hong kong will be under the international spotlight once more when the united nations human rights council meets in geneva with china's representatives expected to defend the hong kong police's h

developed between protesters and police at the to transit station that speak to al-jazeera is adrian brown who's there for a stage and tell us about what's happening leon. well fully a short time ago there were several 100 protesters here facing off with the police they were taunting the police it's a scene that we've seen played out so many times during the past 14 weeks which of course is when these protests began but that has now broken up think the crowd has largely dispersed the police are still on the ground some of the protesters have gone into the main shopping mall here in term show now it is a suburb it's the 1st suburb you see when you arrive here at hong kong international airport and the reason why these protesters have been here today is in a sense a been thwarted in their effort to try to disrupt operations at hong kong international airport the reason why they've been thwarted is that the police simply wouldn't let them get any nearer to the airport than the n.p.r. station here also the police have set up roadblocks along the main expressway from hong kong island to the air

the protesters are now sending out an international appeal for help in their fight for democracy adrian brown has more on that part of the store and. these protesters want global attention their target on sunday the united states. to china's leaders this will fuel their suspicions that foreign powers up behind the 3 and a half months of unrest in hong kong the protest his message is for the u.s. congress and the act they want passed that would lead to close a scrutiny of human rights in hong kong and u.s. sanctions against hong kong leaders he wants to u.s. congress to pas that hong kong human rights and democracy as as chance was about to his people be so important for us because you can selectively punish those off issues who tremble on our freedom. riot police blocked the road in front of the consulate and were braced for trouble. as in previous demonstrations these marchers represented a broad cross section of hong kong society on tuesday hong kong will be under the international spotlight once more when the united nations human rights council meets in geneva with china's representative e

all ends many people on both sides agree on one thing hong kong is unlikely to be the same again adrian brown hong kong. in a few moments we're going to have the weather with meteorologist kevin corriveau but also i still ahead on al-jazeera thousands of parents worldwide refusing to provide lifesaving vaccinations to their children now at least one country considers making it a law to get vaccinations plus 1st and foremost they want to try next year when the democratic candidates for u.s. president to meet in thursday night's debate it's going to be the 1st time those leading in the polls have been on the same stage together. and american dream is turning into a bit of a nightmare details coming up in the sport. as we end the weekend as a win that we can go into the weekend scuse me we're looking at a widespread flooding situation here in the western part of the med now notice the clouds are at their circulating this is a very. the pesky area of low pressure that really has been moving over the last 24 to 48 hours as a matter of fact has been dropping a lot of rain not only for parts of euro

movement has now grown into a bigger call for more democracy let's talk live now to our correspondent adrian brown joining us here on the news in hong kong adrian what did she say. well as advertised has confirmed that she is withdrawing this contentious piece of legislation it was a very short address peter to the people of hong kong about 3 minutes just before 6 pm local time here in hong kong now some think it's clearly happened i think in the past 24 hours because you know up until almost a day ago it seemed that kerry had no intention of officially withdrawing this piece of legislation and she's been under so much pressure to do that so what has happened what has happened i think that she's. had a call from beijing to say look we need peace and quiet in hong kong in the next few weeks because we have the all important october 1st national celebrations taking place and we want nothing to ruin that so i think she was told do what you can to ensure there is temporary peace in hong kong we need a reprieve so she has withdrawn this piece of legislation now remember back in june peter carey lamb an

night when police and protesters clashed in a main subway station parts of which were vandalized adrian brown al jazeera hong kong. presenter john has been released after being held for breaching his bail conditions he faces charges for allegedly being involved in violence and august and he says police had picked him up again accusing him of being involved in more unrest on sunday. friend's support of the legal team so unfortunately with the political prosecution no one will love it would happen but the chaos happened yesterday i've been behaving for 24 hours and i urge the international committee realize the political prosecution just resell in white terror and become a common law. waiting to hear the results of a regional election that was overshadowed by weeks of protests the city council poll is normally a low profile the crowd wider attention after many opposition and independent candidates were prevented from running 7000 reports earlier lubow sobel has become the face of a new protest movement in moscow the 31 year old lawyer was banned from running in the election for the city's regio

protesters who threw petrol bombs and set fires near the chinese government headquarters let's speak to adrian brown he's joining us from hong kong on official news agency china's official news agency that is warning that the end is coming for hong kong adrian how is that being interpreted where you are. so. well i think here in hong kong people are getting used to that sort of mouth frothing from the state controlled media i think the essential message coming out of beijing has been this just because we haven't intervened so far doesn't mean that we won't one day in the future but as i say that sort of language sort of feeds into the determination and defiance of the people here in hong kong and you're seeing some of that defiance right behind me these are some of the i estimate 15220000 people who have gathered here because they are marking a boy called by many workers here in hong kong they have taken the day off work is sort of going to work they they've taken leave and we're talking about a real cross-section of hong kong people here people who work in banks so i spoke to someone who's a headhu

anniversary of the founding of the people's republic of china live now to our correspondent there adrian brown and adrian it will take many people by surprise who've been witnessing these scenes of chaos and often violence in the territory of hong kong over the last 17 weeks that the financial side i mean the the whole heartbeat if you like of hong kong continues to thrive it would appear. yes you're absolutely right we are in a parallel universe here in hong kong the fact that the world's biggest brewer has decided to go ahead with its listing on the hong kong stock market is a reminder of course that hong kong remains a key financial center in spite of the tear gas and in spite of the riots and in fact there's a growing feeling martin among those in corporate hong kong that in spite of the trouble hong kong is still the best option in asia in spite of all those problems now this listing has gone ahead in spite of the fact that budweiser in fact to postpone their listing back in july but it's now gone ahead here in hong kong on september the 30th 2019 a day of course just before we celebrate

china and now potentially we are seeing the same sort of thing here in hong kong as well or to adrian brown there in hong kong adrian thank you. now the u.s. says it fully supports israel's right to self-defense after the israeli military and hezbollah fighters exchanged fire along the lebanese border has fired on to tank missiles towards an israeli military post on sunday afternoon israel responded by sending about 100 artillery shells at what it said was hezbollah targets across the border are in force at reports from northern israel. on sunday afternoon the tense week long waiting game was over the strike that hezbollah had been promising was underway anti-tank missiles fired an israeli army base near the community of avivim just south of the lebanese border hezbollah t.v. claimed an israeli tank it being destroyed and soldiers killed but the israeli military said while its base had sustained hits no soldiers had died israeli artillery and air strikes targeted lebanese border areas but reports from there said the shells hit mainly empty areas no casualties were reported on either side le

defied a police band to march in what is now the 17th week of protests well our correspondent adrian brown joins us now live from hong kong so adrian regardless of the protests business as usual today in hong kong this is a meant to be a vote of confidence this listing. yes it is a reminder isn't it that hong kong at the moment is very much a tale of 2 cities behind me one of the most famous harbors in the world and beyond that the skyscrapers the business blocks where business is going on as usual what happens here is that you know at the weekend parts of hong kong and it's important to remember just parts of hong kong descend into mob rule but come monday morning it is as you say business as usual and that's been underlined by the fact that budweiser or rather the asia pacific arm of budweiser is listing on the hong kong stock exchange today after raising more than 5000000000 dollars last week that is a huge vote of confidence for hong kong but it's also a reminder that in many ways the hong kong stock market is the only bourse in asia that could handle a listing of this size shanghai ce

all ends many people on both sides agree on one thing hong kong is unlikely to be the same again adrian brown al jazeera hong kong. and you can find out much more on that story and everything else that we have been covering on our website al-jazeera dot com. now a quick reminder of our headlines the u.n. says more than 2000000 people face starvation in somalia it's calling on the world to act before it's too late the country is experiencing its driest rainy season in more than 3 decades sudan's new prime minister and several armed groups are meeting in juba to formulate a roadmap for peace talks show jewel for next month it's a ballot box 1st official state visit since taking office where he also hopes to improve relations with neighboring south sudan british prime minister boris johnson has been forced to deny lying to the queen about his reasons for the current 5 week suspension of parliament was spent westminster isn't due to sit again until just over 2 weeks before the u.k. to leave the e.u. thousands of people are feared dead in the democratic republic of congo after a train derailed in

intensifying their campaign and in doing so the city's crisis is worsening wane hey al jazeera hong kong adrian brown is live now in hong kong so adrian what have you been able to gather is the strategy that the executive kerry land has for dealing with these protests that don't seem like they're going to end anytime soon. i think kerry lamb strategy rachelle is to really follow the strategy of the chinese government and the chinese government remember has no interest in talking to these protesters beijing wants these protests crushed and i think it's essentially said to the hong kong government allow the police to do what they want to ensure that that happens and happens soon now kerry has hinted that she might be prepared to invoke emergency powers which would essentially result in almost a form of martial law that would give kerry lamb you know power to censor the media control the transport and also give her the right to water arbitrary arrests we haven't reached that point yet but i think for beijing that is preferable to sending in you know paramilitary troops from across the border or evening

adrian brown joins us live now from hong kong so adrian what do we expect over the course of this 2 day strike what type of response from authorities and what's changing now that there are students skipping class. yeah i think the fact that students are skipping class will be a real concern actually to the leadership in beijing it was worried that the sort of next generation of students as it were and now becoming more radicalized i think from president xi jinping point of view it will reinforce the need to push for greater patry or to get you cation in schools once all of this has blown over now i'm in the center of hong kong in a place called edinburgh place and supposedly about 5000 of those students who've taken the day off school to boycott classes are due to attend here but as you can see not many have so far turned up now these students are demanding that kerry meet the demands of the protesters in particular their withdrawal of that contentious controversial extradition bill but it's really the symbolism of the day reshow that we should remember because some of the students have

so the tentacles of this protest movement for show starting to spread actually indeed they are adrian brown with the latest from hong kong and tran thank you and to daniel as well mobile phone footage taken by russian jet flying a killing spree and man mark could be used as evidence in future investigations that's according to aid agencies it's been 2 years since nearly 700000 right hand geoff fled a violent campaign by him are security forces many of them came to the town of cox's bazaar just over the border in bangladesh from where stephanie tucker reports out of money on. september 14th 2017 a day that will hold and mohammed yunus forever. he says he watched as me and mara security forces burnt his village to the ground managing to capture this moment on his mobile phone looking back as he ran. they came in the early morning and surrounded the whole village they opened fire randomly so we ran away then they burnt our homes front of our eyes. we wanted to find some of the people nurses here focusing on this man with a water bucket to find out what happened to him after asking around we we

but today we could see even more people here gathered in time our park than on monday we show ok adrian brown with the latest from hong kong adrian thank you. the british prime minister is raising the stakes over praxair or stance and is threatening to call a snap election october 14th of rebel m.p.'s from within his own party vote with the opposition to stop a no deal bracks it says the u.k. will lay of the european union by october 31st with or without a deal or insley reports. parliament has been on holiday for 6 weeks but boris johnson and his aides have been working flat out to make good on they have found that brics it will happen find of with or without any agreed plan with the european union to show our friends in brussels that we are united in our purpose m.p.'s should vote with the government against. pointless delay. i would everybody to know there are circumstances in which i would ask russians to do that. but since he has a majority of just war in parliament it doesn't take many rebels from his own conservative party to cause him huge problems and they are so concerned about a no

normally and there seems to be no impact of an action so far on you know people's day to day lives ok adrian brown with the wrap up there from hong kong adrian thank you. still ahead on al-jazeera argentina takes drastic action to control its deepening financial crisis. and turning back the page why the era of the virtual book is virtually over. she's had some very welcome late season right in the cloud hasn't gone away yet in pakistan to be much more if any more to be honest and apart from the usual showers we see spark up in the caucasus around the caspian every now and again it remains still fairly dry which isn't a surprise to ron studies i'm sure $34.00 is about right and baghdad's come down to $43.00 there is still heat in iraq i mean you know it is down in kuwait $45.00 and i've seen reports in the last year so 50 or $51.00 in that sort of area so the heat is still around for most places not exist as extreme as it was but it's still where it should be for late august or early september which is around the 40 mark with humidity around the coast that's what it feels like every morning in doha

standoff developed between protesters and police at the tongue chung transit station in hong kong adrian brown was stabbed. well this is normally a very busy shopping mall it's very close to hong kong international airport which of course has been in the crosshairs of protesters once again on saturday the protesters are angry because they've been trying to get to the airport to try to disrupt operations which of course they managed to do a week ago and also last month leading to the cancellation of almost a 1000 flights well on saturday they were largely for today in that exercise because the police were out.

all ends many people on both sides agree on one thing hong kong is unlikely to be the same again adrian brown al-jazeera hong kong. the fight to save the northern white rhino just got a boost scientists and it's only created 2 embryos in the critically endangered species they were made using eggs from the last 2 female. ales in the frozen sperm from dead males they'll soon be transferred to a sari get mother a southern white rhino decades of poaching has brought the northern white rhino to the edge of extinction the last male was euthanized last year after developing age related complications with susie ellis is the executive director of the international rhino foundation she says artificial embryos are an exciting prospect but would be an instant fix to the crisis we don't know because this is so new it's a tremendous accomplishment taking assisted reproductive technology further in development but as you said it's a long road ahead next step is to get those embryos into a surgeon develop that into a viable pregnancy and hopefully get a calf on the ground no species has ever been brought bac

night when police and protesters clashed in a main subway station parts of which were vandalized adrian brown al jazeera hong kong and. at least one person has been killed in the latest anti immigrant riots in south africa case 5 stun grenades and rubber bullets to break up crowds in johannesburg attacks on migrants and foreign owned businesses in recent days has sparked retaliation against south african shops in nigeria for me to has the latest . tensions have escalated here in the johannesburg central business district somebody has been injured people here say they've been shocked there's a high police presence people here are concerned about continuing attacks and this has only further angered people here is a great concern and that's. there's great concern that the spine and says again to ellison escalate and much of the violence has also been fueled by rumors people are scared there for straighted many say they want an end to this violence but there are those who say they willing to retaliate. and people with. much in the who wanted to attack the who come to the street know they're from.

night when police and protesters clashed in a main subway station parts of which were vandalized adrian brown al jazeera hong kong. still ahead in al-jazeera we're in the so-called wild west of nigeria where government leaders are trying a new approach to end killing and kidnapping. and 6 years on from a devastating earthquake how filipinos a struggling to rebuild their houses of prayer. how although the philippine sea and they saw china sea been active recently and probably also active from the point of view of forming tropical showers that are as active as they were which allows once again western china to start to build this sherry regimes and like rain to like seasonal rain and that line stretches down towards vietnam in ma northern thailand running up to the high ground of western china is fairly typical the potential of a shower to further east in hong kong. and it's also active frontally or monsoon really in india now should be retreating but the same line you take your eyes across to western china is a very active one from over especially in maharashtra but across to the east and the

anniversary of the founding of the people's republic of china let's speak to our correspondent adrian brown who's in the hong kong and adrian many people might think it's really weird they're seeing these scenes of complete and utter chaos and an often violence in the territory and yet budweiser one of the great big brands international brands has chosen to list itself there. indeed martin it is a reminder i think that hong kong today is very much a tale of 2 cities yes here we have budweiser the world's biggest brewer listing on the hong kong stock exchange this is the biggest listing this year in fact and as i say a reminder that on some levels it is business as usual it really is a case of being in a parallel universe because come that weekend you start to get this sort of mob violence in some not all parts of the city it has to be said and then come monday morning it is very much business as usual and that is certainly the case on this monday and the fact that this brewer the world's largest brewer has decided to list on the hong kong stock exchange is a reminder that here in asia the h

riots perhaps here in hong kong and at something really watching very closely thank you very much adrian brown and hong kong. austria's conservative leader sebastian katz looks set to return to power preliminary results from sunday's election show his people's party in the lead with 37 percent of the vote but he's now looking for new partners after a corruption scandal undermined his old ally the far right freedom party john mccain reports from vienna. a moment of triumph for sebastian courts for start by parliament in me now in september he returns with more votes more seats and he believes a bigger mandate to govern figure later you heard me. i would like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank all our voters as a federal government we were voted out of office in may it was a difficult 4 months and today the voters voted us back in thank you very very much for your support and thank you very very much for your trust. contrast that with his former coalition partners in the far right freedom party whose vote has plummeted seemingly punished by the people for the corruption scandal their fo

us adrian brown joins us live from hong kong so a train has now given her weekly briefing what does she have to say about this link . well reshelve here in hong kong they've just put up the typhoon signal number one which means we're in for strong winds and rain the softer noon but certainly on shoes day morning we had a political typhoon which really heats more embarrassment on top of humiliation for beijing because here was kerry lamb having to say emphatically it was never my intention to resign even though there was now a leaked recording of her saying just that i think that leaked reporting recording the show was very much a sort of unofficial apology to the people of hong kong but once again it demonstrates that the hands of the chief executive are tied that the people really calling the shots of the leadership in beijing and kerry is there to do their bidding now caroline has said that the leaking of this audio recording was inappropriate and she says that these were comments made at a private meeting with her officials as well as local business executives what we don't know of c

all ends many people on both sides agree on one thing hong kong is unlikely to be the same again adrian brown al-jazeera hong kong. finally scientists doctors and political leaders have met in brussels of a global vaccinations it is taking place as countries around the world face outbreaks of preventable diseases due to a lack of adequate vaccination or manley has more. measles mumps rubella and many other real misses can all be prevented by quick japanese. health officials say it saves the lives of up to $3000000.00 people pay a year but they also say the work is being threatened by a growing anti vaccination campaign now scientists and doctors have met in brussels to fight back he did you know except it is unacceptable in the 21st century our children are dying from diseases that should not exist and we have to put an end to this intolerable situation it's incumbent on each and every one of us since it. is no more thanks to vaccines. polio has been pushed to the brain goes. down. 2 vaccines. one is feared like. measles and meningitis are now easily prevented from tanks to vaccines the world

these demonstrators who are pushing for less ties to china well let's now go to our correspondent adrian brown who has this update from hong kong. budweiser or rather the asia pacific arm of budweiser is listing on the hong kong stock exchange today after raising more than $5000000000.00 last week that is a huge vote of confidence for hong kong but it's also a reminder that in many ways the hong kong stock market is the only force in asia that could handle a listing of this size shanghai certainly couldn't do it shanghai won't be in a position to do any of that for many years to come so that is why of course china still needs hong kong but of course it remains alarmed by the worsening violence here well the scale of the protest of stars here have really got much smaller the intensity of the violence has got worse we saw on sunday there were protests in 3 areas of ongoing fact running battles will most from one end of hong kong island to the other more than 100 people were arrested $25.00 injured and once more the target of the protesters were train stations the entrances of several were set al

have not and of course they worry they could ultimately lose their jobs all right for the moment adrian brown live for us there in hong kong thanks. the iranian oil tanker that was seized after brawl to before being released has reportedly now turned off its tracking beacon the edgy and barrier one formerly known as the grace one switched off the tracker on monday shipped tracking websites have previously shown the vessel off the coast of lebanon and heading northward u.s. secretary of state might pompei or has said the u.s. has intelligence that the ship is heading to the syrian port of tartus also jabari is live for us now in iran's capital tehran for door so what do we know about this what more do we know about this tanker and where it's allegedly heading. well as i'm according to iranian officials they have not disclosed where exactly this ship is heading since it was released by the authorities in gibraltar on august 15th this ship has made its way towards various different countries 1st greece then turkey and finally the last known location in lebanon now since then we don't know where

all right adrian brown live for us there in hong kong thanks a.j. . still ahead when we come back thousands displaced in sudan and weeks after widespread floods we'll have the latest from the worst affected areas. turning back the page schweiger. the virtual book could be virtually over. hello again or welcome back to your international weather forecast it is going to be a stormy day here across parts of italy as well as down here towards malta the reason being is we have an area low pressure this has been here for a few days causing a lot of problems in terms of severe weather and it will be another day potentially in the afternoon as well as the overnight timeframe so heavy rain even the possibility of tornadoes could be seen across much of this area to the north though we do have a frontal boundary that will continue to make its way towards the east we could be seeing some heavy rain along with that as well over here towards eastern europe and for parts of russia as well there over here towards the northwest so it is going to be quite windy we have

song over the chinese national anthem iran had requested the game be moved to a neutral ground adrian brown has more from hong kong. where this is a very highly politically charged they would fit hong kong there was violence actually here then coming stadium on sunday night and the balance of course is one of the reasons why the iranians actually wanted to change the venue of this match to somewhere outside of homecoming now the head of this game between hong kong and iran the authorities in hong kong had appealed to fines not to insult china's national anthem when it's played before the start of the match which of course is something that traditionally happens here in hong kong the games like this but in recent months in so think that china. has become a tactic or strategy of these protesters because they're not just fans of football they're also fans of more democracy and as we found out before the game this is an issue which is also dividing them tell me will you will you will you sing the chinese national anthem tonight why live by what i want to say it is not my country's oh. so you wo

all ends many people on both sides agree on one thing on kong is unlikely to be the same again adrian brown al jazeera hong kong. the fight to save the northern white rhino just got a boost scientists and it's only created 2 embryos in the critically endangered species they were made using eggs from the last 2 female.

night when police and protesters clashed in a main subway station parts of which were vandalized adrian brown al jazeera hong kong. it is one persons being killed in anti immigrant droids in south africa police fired stun grenades and rubber bullets to break up crowds in johannesburg attacks on migrants and foreign owned businesses in recent days a sponsor telling ation on south african shops in nigeria some of the miller has latest. tensions have escalated here in the johannesburg central business district somebody has been injured people here say they've been shot there's a high police presence people here are concerned about continuing attacks and this has only further angered people here there's great concern and that's. there's great concern that the spine and says we're going to end this escalate and much of the violence has also been fueled by rumors people are scared there for a straighted many say they want an end to this violence but there are those who say they're willing to retaliate. and they are the people we. hear in the who wanted to attack the come to the street now. from a d

did suspend but the protest movement has grown into a bigger call for democracy let's bring in adrian brown he's joining us from hong kong so when do we expect. reported official announcement to be made. well daryn this keenly anticipated announcement from kerry is according to local media juice some time in the next 30 minutes or so about 6 pm local time here in hong kong it's been widely reported that kerry is going to announce that she's going to officially withdraw this contentious piece of legislation the extradition bill busy remember this is what she wanted to introduce back in early june as a result of that the people of hong kong took to the streets in unprecedented numbers she in a sense misunderstood just how deep the feeling was against this proposed legislation now a few weeks after she presented it she again dug the heels in but said rather than you know saying i'm going to formally withdraw the bill she said the bill is now dead but what she was in fact playing was really a game of semantics because as any legal expert will tell you something like this is only dead when it's

all ends many people on both sides agree on one thing hong kong is unlikely to be the same again adrian brown al-jazeera hong kong. and the u.s. supreme court has ruled in favor of president ronald chance latest effort to restrict immigration the court allowed a ban to go into effect on nearly all asylum applications at the mexico border so people all the while have to seek asylum in the 1st safe country they travel through and that effectively blocks most applications jordan has more now from washington d.c. . u.s. president donald trump is celebrating the supreme court decision to allow his new policy denying migrants from central america the right to apply for asylum to continue however the president may not want to celebrate 2 vigorously too soon that's because this is simply allowing the new policy requiring people to 1st apply for asylum in a 3rd country before trying to ask for refuge in the united states because there are legal challenges against this new policy inactive in mid july the groups that are challenging the law say that it is up ending nearly 40 years of u.s. asylum policy

all ends many people on both sides agree on one thing hong kong is unlikely to be the same again adrian brown al-jazeera hong kong. they're all saying has become hong kong activists new active resistance in their campaign for democratic freedom. protests is saying glory to hong kong with a shopping mall adopting it as their new album the singalongs are a new way to get their message heard by the authorities the lyrics reflect the demonstrators promised not to surrender with more protests expected this weekend defiance is also driving the lives of fishermen in yemen they've risked their lives to set their nets and bring home their catches despite the ongoing conflict many have not survived becoming victims of attacks by the saudi u.a.e. coalition fighting the rebels their story now from the hama dollar tub that the port of the data. is at the port of poti down yemen every day to watch the fisherman return from the sea he used to be one of them until a lost his hand in an attack by government forces my own are not i and as we were preparing to go to sea we were suddenly attacked i ran to help a

here in hong kong or adrian thanks to adrian brown live for a say in hong kong. and as you're seeing as you just saw from the live pictures there protesters are keeping up the pressure on hong kong government with many taking part in the 2nd day of strikes violence broke out between police and some demonstrators late on monday after a day of launch only peaceful rallies across the territory thousands of university and secondary school students have joined the strike skipping their 1st day of class. all right when we come back on al-jazeera a frantic moments as a fire and go diving boat off the coast of california killing at least 25 people. weeks off the widespread flooding in sudan hundreds of thousands of people are still stranded and suffering the latest from the worst affected areas. hello again welcome back we do want to update you one is happening with hurricane dorian right here over the grand bahama islands it is a category 3 but it is gone stationary this is been what has happened over the last 24 hours the storm is just to the north east of freeport rig

anniversary of the founding of the people's republic of china live now to our correspondent there adrian brown and adrian it will take many people by surprise who've been witnessing these scenes of chaos and often violence in the territory of hong kong over the last 17 weeks that the financial side i mean the the whole heartbeat if you like of hong kong continues to thrive it would appear. yes you're absolutely right we are in a parallel universe here in hong kong the fact that the world's biggest brewer has decided to go ahead with its listing on the hong kong stock market is a reminder of course that hong kong remains a key financial so.

seen gathering in the city bordering hong kong let's get an update from hong kong and bring in adrian brown he's joining us from there so what sort of response are we likely to see to this plan today strike as well as the class boycott by by students adrian. dantley. gerry no i think that statement you just read out is really sort of classic communist party textbook stuff the response in times like this is always the same and intimidation intimidation and intimidation i think that sort of language though really has very little impact on people here as you can see.

as usual in the financial district but devises made its debut in the hong kong stock exchange adrian brown has more. well a reminder on monday that hong kong in many ways is a tale of 2 cities the world's biggest brewer budweiser made its debut on the hong kong stock market after initially postponing that listing back in july because of the current conditions at the time it is of course of vote of confidence for the hong kong government for the hong kong economy coming at this very difficult time now while all that was happening on monday a post mortem was beginning into the violence on sunday which saw more than 100 arrests and more than 25 people injured a leading pro-democracy lawmaker claudia moe made another astonishing attack on the police a century accusing them of abusing their powers now claudio in the past has attacked the police for what she says was their brutality but she has yet to criticize the protesters for their acts of violence but now she says the police have gone too far we need to tell the world that police brutality in hong kong is becoming the manatee they're making

protests but also people they suspect might be about to take part in protests every now writes adrian brown thank you for that update still ahead right here on al-jazeera praise from the you had to be secretary general in the fight against ebola in the democratic republic of congo. hello again welcome back to your international weather forecast well still quite stormy here across the central part of the mediterranean as well as in storms pushing through central europe now 2 different systems the one down to the cell area low pressure that's really not moving too much we're going to continue see rain across this region as well as northern africa up to the north though we do have a front that's pushing through with some winds a search with that as well as the rain now up here towards the northwest we have a system out of the atlantic that's going to cause them windy conditions across much of the u.k. as well as rain up there towards the north as we go towards the rest of day on monday and into tuesday the rain continues across much of the central region and for southern italy it could get eve

day strike say they're expecting an even bigger crowd here a tame our park today all right to adrian brown there in hong kong agent thank you let's bring in victor teo he's affiliated with the china studies program at the university of hong kong and joins us via skype from there now victor let's talk 1st about this leak tape which purports to reveal that caroline would resign if she had a choice why do you think she's saying this now and is she likely to step down do you think. well i think that was made in a spirit of being an on off the shelf ology and read a message to the didn't eat the whole process all the central government and people of hong kong she says she's frightened that she's actually serving 2 master sent at one time and she's also right to say that she actually has for you to let it feel i don't index should be any doubt that the central government has always been charge of your fence of hong kong human gold on on principle it's one country 2 system i think most people forget that a $11.00 country actually system so right now what she's saying is that we she's trying to se

all ends many people on both sides agree on one thing hong kong is unlikely to be the same again adrian brown al-jazeera hong kong. cuba's president says his country will soon be acutely short of fuel and less emergency measures are taken and canal says cuba is feeling the effects and the united states blocking of oil shipments to the country cubist impose austerity measures since 2015 when well supply from its ally venezuela started to decline and the 1990 s. cuba experienced blackouts and food shortages because oil supplies were disrupted ground if you go. the problem is short term and not the result of bad management talk of passage t. of the cuban government as the united states has tried to say we have many problems to solve but this in particular is not the result of our insufficiencies rather it has to do with the greece's measures that the united states government is extraterritorial imposing to economically suffocate people. protesters in argentina are demanding the government declare a food emergency as shortages hit the country it's facing an economic crisis and inflation is forced

government confirmed that the number of people visiting in august was down 40 percent from a year ago adrian brown reports on an economic downturn that looks set to worsen. the band performs in an almost deserted theme park this is disneyland normally one of hong kong's most popular tourist attractions but there are no queues for the rides and other attractions today. on average 800000 people visit each day many of them from mainland china. but the unrest that began on june the 9th has made it harder for hong kong to sell itself as a fun destination in. the neighborhood of monk uk has seen some of the worst violence the bravo clothes boutique on prince edward road regularly has to close early but always opens the following morning only the graffiti hinting at what happened a few hours earlier. the shop faces monk.

in chance and that's a city bordering hong kong let's get an update from hong kong and bring in adrian brown he's joining us from there so what sort of response are we likely to see to this plan today strike as well as the class boycott by by students adrian. dantley . gerry no i think that statement you just read out is really sort of classic communist party textbook stuff the response in times like this is always the same and that's too often intimidation intimidation and intimidation i think that sort of language though really has very little impact on people here as you can see behind me i'm a tame our park just in front of the main government complex here in hong kong and these are workers who move different sectors of hong kong who are taking part in the 1st day of a 2 day strike and that's to say they these are people from who work in banks there headhunters right across you know hong kong industry and there are several 1000 and they are continuing to gather here in the park to demonstrate their support for the protesters so in spite of that fighting talk from beijing it is as i say o

night when police and protesters clashed in a main subway station parts of which were vandalized adrian brown al jazeera hong kong and. pro-democracy activists was detained on sunday for breaching his bail conditions he says police detained him and during the weekends chaos and hopes it would draw media attention. thanks for the support of the legal team so unfortunately with the political prosecution no one would love it would happen but with the chaos happened yesterday i've been detained for 24 hours and i urge international committees could realize the political prosecution just race so in white terror and become a common law coming up in just a bit british airlines pilots began unprecedented strike action leaving travelers travel plans up in the air. return to normalcy for an hour and nigeria's whole wild west as a truce halt a decade of violence. hello again and welcome back we're here cross the we are seeing some showers we have been seeing those here across parts of the live on up towards the caspian as well as the black sea those are going to continue over the next few days but who y

all ends many people on both sides agree on one thing hong kong is unlikely to be the same again adrian brown al-jazeera hong kong. singing has become hong kong's new act of resistance and their campaign for democratic freedom. from. the. protests assange glory to hong kong and a hard shopping mall adopting it as their new and some the singalongs have designed as a new way to get demonstrate his message heard by the authorities. cuba's president says his country will soon be acutely short of fuel unless emergency measures are taken. says cuba is feeling the effects of the united states blocking of oil shipments to the country cuba has imposed a stabber to measure since 2015 when oil supply from its ally venezuela started declining scientists doctors and political leaders are meeting in brussels at a global vaccination summit the conference takes place at a time when countries around the world are facing outbreaks of preventable diseases due to a lack of adequate vaccination now many nations including malaysia are considering making immunization compulsory for children learn slowly reports fro

earlier signed off developed between protesters and police at the tongue chong transit station adrian brown was there. well this is normally a very busy shopping mall it's very close to hong kong international airport which of course has been in the crosshairs of protesters once again on saturday the protesters are angry because they've been trying to get to the airport to try to disrupt operations which of course they managed to do a week ago and also last month leading to the cancellation of almost a 1000 flights well on saturday they were largely faulted in that exercise because the police were out in very heavy numbers and here in tone show me a very busy shopping mall on a saturday afternoon we've had standoff between protesters and the police all afternoon we've had 2 brief dispersal operations by the police a number of people have been detained then how many but it's remind as i say that even normally before the most like this has become very volatile on the more protests are planned on sunday including one outside the u.s. consulate that's a 1st look at the moment the focus for the