that was journalist ali latif he's speaking to us earlier from kabul. in hong kong pro-democracy demonstrators are marching through the city center for a major rally it's the 11th consecutive weekend of protests you're seeing live pictures now as tens of thousands brave heavy rain to join that demonstration organizers have planned a peaceful march to prove they still have popular support despite mounting violence and growing warnings from mainland chinese government protesters are demanding democratic elections and an independent investigation in what they say is police brutality against the protester. phil is at the pro-democracy rally in hong kong and sent us this assessment just before the downpour. this is the climax of another big we can do protest thousands upon thousands of people gathered in the victoria. now this is being organized by the civil rights front they were the people behind 2 massive protests back in june which they said attracted a 1000000 even 2000000 people onto the streets but of course so much has changed since june we've seen w

we are joined now by feel answer no less ali and latif in kabul afghanistan ali who could be responsible for this attack. at this point it's hard to tell who's responsible for this attack. i received dire still operates and i'm. told on how flat out rejected any responsibility calling it an anus attacks saying that they will be condemned such an attack. but you know i think it's really important that this kind of attack into context because as the video shows you know the fact that the bombers named it so close to the stage means that they made it through the entire crowd of people these wedding halls are giant structures where hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people gather in the tables all around said i'm sharing mainly around the dance floor. and the stage where the performers are so essentially you know the bombers have open access to hundreds of people who have nowhere else to go the other thing that you see in these structures is as big as they are as shocked as they are there's generally only one entrance and one exit. and socially we have to remember that the average on pers

i'm joined now by journalist allie latif in kabul ali thanks for joining me this so-called islamic state say they're responsible for this attack is there any proof of that. i mean the only proof we have is basically their claim they're not in the least calling card and there's really no way to know that but they did actually name the bomber a genocide and the. last name of. which you know to a lot of ups which will lead to a lot of suspicions in this country because you know don has always been accused of aiding and abetting different armed groups here novel honest fan so literally in these kinds of cases the only proves the only evidence we have is what they claim themselves. and when we talk about afghanistan anyway when you're talking about the taliban so when an i.a.s. fit into all of this and what do they want. so this is exactly the problem is that they're sort of there's this rogue group where people in the areas where they gained a lot of traction for instance in the east i've been talking to people in these areas since 201-314-2015 they always say these people come out of nowher