a further step in the climb down by hong kong's chief executive until june carol lam had vowed to press ahead with the legislation then she delayed indefinitely now this. but there are still lingering doubts about the government's sincerity or wariness whether the government will restart the process in a legislative council. so i reiterate here. there is no such plan that based it. that bill to allow the extradition of suspects in criminal cases to face prosecution in mainland china triggered a series of massive protests that began in march with hundreds of thousands taking to the streets and some serious clashes with police this rally was on sunday. for the protesters carry lands latest announcement is simply not enough they don't believe her statement that the bill is dead as a prominent activist told d.w. that's ridiculous lie especially in the extradition is x is in the legislative program and asked a fact and b. it will still continue to exist in a poll gram until next year july so the threats will continue in the next trial months before the protest as more is at stake than the fa

carol lam they want her to go would you go. that's a hard one to say i think she has a mandate to continue being the chief executive of homecoming until 2022 i think the next days and weeks will determine the future of her career and as far as we can see she's come out she's apologized she said she has you know the dropped the ball she will listen more to the people of hong kong and try to set things right again those on the on the global public policy institute think tank in berlin thank you very much for coming in during the next for popular bollywood actress i know was seem has quit acting a shocked decision that has kicked off a heated debate across the country 18 year old was seem shot to stardom invented 16 for up vomits in the film bungle a patriotic blockbuster about female rest as at the time was him a muslim from kashmir also faced intense criticism online for being an islamic and just 5 years off the launch of her career she's decided to retire here as part of the statement she's released on facebook a quote i want t

." >> joining me now, carol lam, former u.s. attorney for the southern district of california and mindy marquez-gonzalez, publishing editor of the "miami herald." mindy, let me start with you up. this got a fair amount of ink and then it settled and jeffrey epstein returned to society and was hobnobbing with all the people he was hobnobbing with. your paper has undertaken an incredible investigation over the past year that seems to be related to this point. what did your reporters discover and how does it relate to the last 48 hours? >> thank you. you know, first of all, i think it has everything -- it has a lot to do with the work that julie brown has done over the past year. it started, quite frankly, as she got interested in human trafficking after doing a story about the florida prison system, particularly women's -- the women's prison system. as she started to do some background checking on human trafficking, jeffrey epstein's name kept coming up. then alexander acosta was nominated to be in trump's cabinet, and, quite fran

in hong kong to be extradited to china to face trial public demonstrations forced chief executive carol lam to suspend the bill she said it was dead but that's not enough for activists who are calling for her resignation many of these protestors were babies or not even born in 1907 when the united kingdom ended its administration of hong kong and passed ensured of its former colony to china but they say they are the ones most disillusioned about hong kong's future their way of life they say is being threatened by creeping oath or tarion ism. dogon al-jazeera hong kong. the u.k. says it's willing to facilitate the release of the iranian oil tanker that was seized off last week if iran can guarantee it won't go to syria british foreign secretary jeremy hunt made the offer after his iranian counterpart told him he's not looking to escalate the situation the ship was detained by british forces off on suspicion of taking oil to syria in breach of e.u. sanctions 4 crew members were arrested then later released on bail without charge for a chance joining us from london so after days of heightened

hong kong's chief executive carol lam is trying to calm the recent unrest she's promising to work with the people going on need to seek in the wake ups and. after this incident i will learn lessons and ensure that the government in future will work closer and be more responsive to the aspirations sentiments and opinions of the community so the 1st and most basic step to take is to change our style of governance to make it more open and accommodating we will also need to reform the way we listen to public fears such work should be carried out without delay and will start with me the security forces are involved in a gun battle with taliban fighters in the afghan capital follows an explosion that killed at least 10 people smoke was seen billowing from an area near the u.s. embassy in the city of question while he joins us now live from kabul so i understood you were hearing explosions a short while ago tell us what's going on. indeed if it was a huge explosion here in kabul this morning in one of the busiest spot of kabul city during the rush hour group of taliban attackers attacked one

in hong kong to be extradited to china to face trial public demonstrations forced chief executive carol lamto suspend the bill she said it was dead but that's not enough for activists who are calling for her resignation. many of these protestors were babies or not even born in 1907 when the united kingdom ended its said ministration of hong kong and passed the joel of its former colony to china but they say they are the ones most disillusioned about hong kong's future their way of life they say is being threatened by creeping authoritarianism jamila in dog and al-jazeera hong kong. still had an al-jazeera an attack on a hotel in somalia that began with a car bomb and turned into an all night scene the. monsoon rains in nepal trigger landslides and flooding killing at least 43 people.

government came out very early this morning with a press conference one of the very few press conferences carol lam has given since this started pro democracy lawmakers and organisations have come out blaming the anger of the young people on the government it's in the next few days probably that we will see what the impact of yesterday's night will be on the society of hong kong and how this will be how this will continue this. conflict this problem is not over yet. but she is pulling her reporting from hong kong now to some of the other stories making news around the world police in australia have arrested 3 men over a plotted spot about islamic state militant group to attack targets in the city of sydney authorities say this is the 16th major terror attack to be thwarted in australia since the country was put on heightened alert in 2040. at least 30 people have been killed in mumbai and nearby towns after trenching monsoon downpours and coast walls to collapse the rains also cause travel chaos by flooding roads and water blocking train tracks where the agencies say the area was hit by at least 35

in hong kong to be extradited to china to face trial public demonstrations forced chief executive carol lam to suspend the bill she said it was dead but that's not enough for activists who are calling for her resignation. many of these protestors were babies or not even born in 1907 when the united kingdom ended its administration of hong kong and passed control of its former colony to china but they say they are the ones most disillusioned about hong kong future their way of life they say is being threatened by creeping forth or tarion isn't. dogon al-jazeera hong kong. the united nations has condemned an attack on a hotel in southern somalia at least 26 people have been killed in the southern port city of cause liar and the autonomous region has more. hotel assassin is heavily fortified but it wasn't enough to stop a suicide bomber from ramming a car full of explosives into the building 4 gunmen stormed the hotel killing and injuring dozens during a siege that lasted hours before mario do see a little the death toll is now $26.00 those killed in the attack included somalis of different na

they tell us this will be the last and meet and less real political forms are in place and this carol lam and other executives resign and unless the police and essentially beijing keep their distance and promises not to erode you know the rule of law and the way of life that people here say are slowly basically being eroded because of terry and his him coming from beijing 9 people have been killed after a skydiving plane crashed in northern sweden they are cross came down shortly after takeoff there were no survivors and the cause of the accident is still unknown the area around the cross site has been closed off by police as they investigate. sudan's military has appealed against the court decision to restore mobile internet services they were blocked for more than a month after a violent crackdown on protests demanding civilian rule a transition deal between the military and a pro-democracy coalition has been agreed in principle but has yet to be signed in the meantime guitar stores are refusing to be silenced as have a morgan reports. there the same chance we heard at the sit in at arm

this is deja news live from hong kong's nida carol lam say's the territory's controversial extradition bill is dead the island's chief executive had hoped the announcement would be enough to end mass protests by activists all getting ready to return to the streets also coming out of the italian island off lampedusa has become the frontline in europe's standard of migration at the role of rescue ships in the mediterranean d.w. has been to have both sides of the argument and. cut. the nigerian pop star trek a straw man to do the same on the global stage soon to be the entertainer reveals what she believes is the secret of her success. hello i'm christine with the welcome to the program. protesters in hong kong say they'll take to the streets again even after the territory's leader declared the controversial extradition bill dead hundreds of thousands of people have taken part in demonstrations over the last month there are concerns that the bill which would allow its traditions to mainland china would erode hong kong's judicial independence they're calling for the legislation to be immed

in hong kong to be extradited to china to face trial public demonstrations forced chief executive carol lam to suspend the bill she said it was dead but that's not enough for activists who are calling for her resignation many of these protestors were babies or not even born in 1907 when the united kingdom ended its administration of hong kong and passed good shows of its former colony to china but they say they are the ones most disillusioned about hong kong's future their way of life they say is being threatened by creeping thore tarion ism jamila dog and al-jazeera hong kong when they land as a professor at the chinese university of hong kong he says the confrontation between the protesters and hong kong's government shows no sign of ending. the demonstrations have the wall into the job growth theme of boosting democratic it what about you call people want one person one vote your actions to shoot except if you start off being chimps that peeping up 100 b.g. . and also back to the cost for freedom of the media and about all our daily drop off mainland's influence your income coffee shop o

handover to china protesters ransacked the legislative council on tuesday hong kong chief executive carol lam announced publicly that the extradition bill is dead but the protests have now widened into anger over the way the city is run willy lam is a professor at the chinese university of hong kong he explained why this is likely to drag on for some time yet. with that and they're having a huge impasse because what's happened is that beijing has basically lost confidence in the ability of the separate k.-rob so. laid back and in the tradition and she is just waiting for instructions from beijing which doesn't seem to be coming so at this stage we see a confrontation between both sides the current administration seems to be. saying nothing doing nothing just waiting for the protesters to make a mistake by means are hoping that some of the article the young cast just might meet. and be branded as righteous and the prettiest of the law but the fact that there's been no genuine dialogue between the lamb initiation and the protest this means that. this state of confrontation might be exacerbated

in hong kong to be extradited to china to face trial public demonstrations forced chief executive carol lam to suspend the bill she said it was dead but that's not enough for activists who are calling for her resignation. many of these protestors were babies or not even born in 1907 when the united kingdom ended its administration of hong kong and past did show all of its former colony to china but they say they are the ones most disillusioned about hong kong future their way of life they say is being threatened by creeping forth or tarion ism jamila dog and al-jazeera hong kong. power has now been partially restored in new york city after a blackout had more than $40000.00 residents traffic lights were knocked out the subway system was halted and even broadway shows had to be called off performance officials said an apparent transformer explosion was the cause coincidentally it comes on the anniversary of the 1977 outage that left most of the city without power. most all the lights are back on that's clear it's also clear that not all the lights all but gone there are a lot of proper signa

here today and they tell us this will be the last and last real political forms are in place unless carol lam and other executives resign and unless the police and essentially beijing keep their distance and promises not to rude you know the rule of law in the way of life that people here say are slowly basically being eroded because of creeping authoritarianism coming from beijing. it's going to sudan now where the country's opposition says government forces have opened fire on protesters in the town of and suki this video put out by the sudanese congress party a member of the forces of the declaration of freedom and change shows a gunfire attack by security forces the town in the town in southwestern so that it comes after tens of thousands of people have demonstrated across the country marking 40 days since a violent crackdown by security forces morgan has more now from. there the same chance which were heard at the system at army headquarters in her home last month 40 days after the military attack on the city him the chance are being repeated nationwide the protesters demanding justice n

in hong kong to be extradited to china to face trial public demonstrations forced chief executive carol lam to suspend the bill she said it was dead but that's not enough for activists who are calling for her resignation many of these protestors were babies or not even born in 1907 when the united kingdom ended its administration of hong kong and passed good shows of its former colony to china but they say they are the ones most disillusioned about hong kong's future. their way of life they see is being threatened by creeping thore tarion is a. dog and al jazeera hong kong. protesters have been rallying in sudan's capital to mark 40 days since a crackdown by security forces they want an independent investigation into the killing of more than 100 protesters on the 3rd of june they're also demanding a civilian led government a political transition agreement between sudan's military journal and a pro-democracy coalition has been agreed in principle but hasn't yet been signed the deal sets up a joint sovereign council that will govern for about 3 years until elections are held to morgan has mor

chief executive carol lam condemns the violence and defections the police response. the un's nuclear watchdog confirms that iran isn't reaching molder reign in the agreed to u.s. president donald trump says displaying a 5.

are largely peaceful demonstrations the use of rubber bullets the use of tear gas etc and again carol lam has stopped short of that she has promised that there will be an investigation by the independent police complaints council but. unlike because the name suggests of the lot of people argue here that this is not independent that it is largely made up of very conservative forces conservative figures here in hong kong that they won't be an independent investigation that is a further issue there so with the more protests are planned it remains to be seen whether they will be smaller or larger as a result of statement today or ok rob thank you. so let's take a look back at the turmoil of the last few months it all began in february when hong kong security bureau submitted papers proposing amendments to extradition laws . in april another amendment was added the proposed law called for criminal suspects to be sent to mainland china for a trial protesters are on the streets were the days on the 30th of may facing mounting pressure lam's government limited the scope of offenses that could lea

against what many see as beijing's attempts to tighten control early this month chief executive carol lam was forced to withdraw an extradition bill that would have sent suspects to mainland china but many of us say they'll continue the protests the reports being. to say yet how was he on solid data years among the smoke of the future knock on the golden. gong they hoit the light disappears and it starts to get dark you say look it's a silent policeman or barking in the deepest places of hong kong with. the words sandwich on convey anger grief and resolve can mean so you they only care about policing beginning not the people this is why i am inspired by these young people who take to the streets risking their lives to fight for the future of hong kong jason doesn't use his real name and wants to stay anonymous 22 years ago they're already dark to. hong kong. used to have freedom since june a proposed law change that could lead to hong kong extradited to china sparked huge protests and the level of violence and seen in years sealing chang is one of the thousands of mothers who staged a pro

or story tyrion ism from beijing it remains to be seen what sort of concessions chief executive carol lam can offer that will be enough to pacify young people here for now protesters vow they will continue to push back until they achieve meaningful. political reforms. well earlier my colleague barbara sarah spoke with joshua wong a leading hong kong pro-democracy activist who was jailed for his role in the movement one was also one of the people involved in the clashes at that shopping mall that you just saw in jamil its report. more than $100.00 and people get on the street again government fully withdraw and terminated their extradition bill and in the long term it's a must to apply free election in hong kong especially when one country 2 system eroded to be one country one in a half system the government has not read through all of that bill we get in fact abuse exists in the legislative program of course the leader of hong kong provides a misleading narrative claimed that the bill is that but when we check on the legislative program of parliament of hong kong that bill is due exis and

or story tyrion ism from beijing it remains to be seen what sort of concessions chief executive carol lam can offer that will be enough to pacify young people here for now protestors vow they will continue to push back until they achieve meaningful political reforms. dogon al-jazeera hong kong. well earlier my colleague barbara sara spoke to a woman leader in hong kong pro-democracy activist he was jailed for his role in the movement he says the protests will continue until their demands are met. more than $100.00 and people get on the street again government through withdrawal and terminated their extradition bill and in the long term it's a must to apply free election in hong kong especially when one country 2 system eroded to be one country one in a hostage to the government has not rift jodhaa bill yet in fact abused exists in the legislative program of cost the leader of hall call provide a misleading narrative claimed that the bill is that but when we check on the largest of the programme of the parliament of hong kong a bill is due exis and can be easily reactivated again in the ne

in hong kong to be extradited to china to face trial public demonstrations forced chief executive carol lam to suspend the bill she said it was dead but that's not enough for activists who are calling for her resignation. many of these protestors were babies or not even born in 1907 when the united kingdom ended its administration of hong kong and passed the joel of its former colony to china but they say they are the ones most disillusioned about hong kong's future their way of life they say is being threatened by creeping forth or tarion ism. dogon al-jazeera hong kong were in arms a professor the chinese university of hong kong he says a confrontation between the protesters and the hong kong government is likely to continue. the demonstrations have you walked into the tango theme of boasting democratic it well i'm an on kong people want one person one vote your actions to achieve exactly if instead of being shipped back to being appointed by beijing and also that be cause for freedom of the media and about all our. drop off maintenance influence we impound cough or sample through allowin

protesters hong kong's chief executive has announced a controversial extradition bill is now dead carol lam admitted her government's work on the proposed law had been a total failure it would have allowed criminal suspects to be extradited to mainland china anger over that bill lets for weeks of widespread protests but there are still a. lot of the governments sincerity all wary of whether the government will restart the process in the legislative council. so i retreat here. there is no such plan the bill is spent. robin wright has the latest from hong kong. it does seem as though this concession by chief executive kerry has not gone nearly far enough for the organizers of these unprecedented protests who are promising that there will be yet more rallies they are demanding still the complete withdrawal of this extradition bill and they have other demands among them a full independent investigation into what they say has been the excessive use of force in breaking up a largely peaceful protest by the police has given no indication of that there will be that independent investigation she doe

followed and forced the government off hong kong to shelve the bill chics exact chief executive carol lam declared it dead but refused to drop it altogether protesters are also angry over police brutality they accuse officers of using excessive force and colluding with suspected gang members who attacks demonstrators at a metro station in hong kong last week and for 2 weekends in a row they have targeted the office of a jeans represents. in hong kong demonstrators are not calling for greater democracy and political reform let's not speak to tom grundy who is the editor in chief and founder of hong kong free press an independent publication his eyes cut from hong kong thank you so much for joining us on al-jazeera what do you make of the response that we heard earlier from the the chinese government to this crisis in all kong is it as strong as you expected it to be. not at all actually i think there was some paranoia that we might see some statements about military involvement or something like that but it was very bland in the end it's very rare that this officer would speak out or have

leading off our discussion are carol lam from the southern district of california and san diego superior court judge. a former attorney from the eastern district of michigan and legal contributor and ron is with us, a former senior aide to joe biden and president obama and a former chief counsel to the senate judiciary committee. barbara mcquaid, i want to start with you with your experience as a federal prosecutor. were you listening to the attorney explaining his decision not to prosecute someone in a major sex crimes case. what was your reaction to the totality of what you heard? >> i'm ordinarily reluctant to criticize decisions by a fellow prosecutor because cases can be complicate and there might be reasons you would make a decision. things he said did not ring true. one is the idea that he was somehow bound by what the state court prosecutor was doing. because the state court prosecutor was going to charge a very low offense that somehow it was on him to rescue that case. as the prosecutor has stated, they were in no way bound together. he could have filed his own 53-count indictm

and rubber bullets to disperse crowds outside the office of beijing's representatives to the city carol lam criticized people who threw eggs at the building and vandalized the national emblem. later in the night dozens of masked men are trapped people who were returning home from the demonstration videos on social media appear to show a group of men dressed in white and armed with plaster and storming into a metro station in a district on the outskirts of hong kong opposition politicians have blamed the attack on suspected gang members and say they will investigate. we absolutely do not condone that sort of violent acts and i let me made this clear again violence is not a solution to any problem or violence will only breed more violence and then the end of the day the whole of hong kong and the people will suffer as a result of the laws of law and order in hong kong sarah clarke has more from hong kong. hong kong's chief executive kerri lamb and the police commissioner have both spoken about sunday night's violent confrontations we saw in the area called uni long which is in the new territo

in hong kong to be extradited to china to face trial public demonstrations forced chief executive carol lam to suspend the bill she said it was dead but that's not enough for activists who are calling for her resignation. many of these protestors were babies or not even born in 1907 when the united kingdom ended its administration of hong kong and passed control of its former colony to china but they say they are the ones most disillusioned about hong kong's future their way of life they say is being threatened by creeping forth or tarion isn't jamila dogon al-jazeera hong kong. power has been partially restored a new york city blackout hit more than $40000.00 residents traffic lights for knocked out the subway system and even broadway shows had to be called off performance officials said an apparent transformer explosion was the cause coincidentally it comes on the anniversary of the 1977 outage and left most of the city without power. most of the lights are gone that's clear it's also clear that not all the lights gone there are a lot of proper signals that are out. still the roads are ch

today is deepening and is spreading in terms of dissatisfaction with the beijing author of choosing carol lam in the hong kong authorities of one thing but it's beijing that really runs hong kong. well yes definitely and it's quite different now if you look at how different this current movement is from the 2014 movement here this is largely leaderless the whole movement is this centralized when you look at it from the screens if you see it based on what we see in terms of videos you would look like chaotic but there is a level of order here they've taken this entire movement beyond just the districts the centralized it and moved it basically to suburban areas like this in order to get to the heart of the message to the people we're seeing families coming here in droves. reinforcing messages of support to the millions who have been taking to the streets many many issues in place beyond just the extradition bill labor issues press freedom freedom of students basically to rally better protection from police wider reforms in segro police reforms they're calling on basically the government for ac

the central government in beijing viewing these events is there a sense that the administration of carol lam is losing control of the situation. well that's their family feeling. that the whole government is motherless rather unable to control the situation but behind it all is aging is fear that there is a coordinated attempt that the able to do is they belong to the whole government and also to. compromise the basic tenet of one country towards a system which of course is a contradiction in terms to have the one country which is controlled by a. cover this. government and then the 2 system a place which has been under. a western kind of society 150 years but then in the whole course basic law there are all lot of safeguards for the 2 systems for example almost so who brought the dependents will call it the ability to sri and so on but also there are a few safeguards for the one country particularly the provisions against submission subversion of the support of a completely which i thought you know that elected so the beijing government a sees that this kind of protests may seem to be an at

7 weeks ok now rob how much pressure is this putting on the government that the chief executive carol lam. well the government is pretty much hunkered down very very have carried out pretty much cancelled all hurricane weeks now she pretty much stays we speak to their government offices and their official. president she will no doubt be in constant contact with their aging officials just about how 1 this is being handled on this hand over many things people political analysts believe and i think some governments to post this suggests that she has this mishandled that she is under a lot of pressure also the police. increasing pressure that the protesters. the police abuse excessive force in breaking up a largely peaceful demonstration say have activated the situation but they are you do feel a certain amount of sympathy for this police force which the city used 9 as a political tool almost they are caught in the middle of this political wrangle that seems to find no solution and the consequence is that they are on the receiving end simply by the violent clashes like this the protests earli

. >> all right, carol lam and harry litman, thank you both. >> thank you. >>> joining me now democratic congresswoman maxine waters of california. your view, congresswoman on this matter, which is to say evidence the president has committed crimes or at least sufficient evidence for an indictment were he not the president. but he is the president, so there is no indictment. and now we just sort of wait, i guess. >> well, as i have said for a long time, i think that this president is eligible for, you know, impeachment. now, after you've said everything, you understand that the constitution puts the ultimate power in the hand of the members of congress. >> right. >> it doesn't matter whether there is an opinion that talks about the president is not indictable. it doesn't matter that the president has committed crimes that we cannot tie down. if we feel that this president has committed certain crimes, if we feel that he is not a decent president, if he is a dangerous president, if he is not acting in the best interests of the congress of the united states, on and on and on, we can make t

and they tell us this will be the last and me and less real political forms are in place and this carol lam and other executives resign and unless the police and essentially beijing keep their distance and promises not to erode you know the rule of law in the way of life that people here say are slowly basically being eroded because of creeping toward tarion is coming from beijing police of fired tear gas to disperse protesters in paris just hours after the annual bestie day parade protesters hold objects of police and fire to rubbish bins as they made anti-government chants a number of people were arrested. sudan's military has appealed against a court decision to restore mobile internet services they were blocked for more than a month after a violent crackdown on protests amending civilian rule a transition deal between the military and the pro-democracy coalition has been agreed in principle but is yet to be signed in the meantime protesters are refusing to be silenced her mortgage reports. they're the same chance which were heard at the city at army headquarters in her time last month 4

they tell us this will be the last and meet and less real political forms are in place and this carol lam and other executives resigned and unless the police and essentially beijing keep their distance and promises not to erode you know the rule of law and the way of life that people here say are slowly basically being eroded because of creeping tarion isn't coming from beijing stephen vines is a draw to reported on the 1997 hong kong handover to china for the independent newspaper he says when it comes to fulfilling protesters demands the hong kong government's hands are tied. we've never seen that before so not only do you have protests in all these areas but you have believed in much and i can only describe it as an eruption of believe just individuals posting notices on the so-called lennon was named after john lennon it was something that was started in checked the actor in the 1970 s. and there's about 200 of these awards now around the territory people calling to the end of the actually asian bureau and for all other things central theme here really is about hong kong retraining be

talking about the extradition bell this is the spot top these were new protests i want you to hear carol lam and what she said about this extradition bail a few days ago have a listen. does not true to say the government has not responded. we have not responded to every demand asked because of. good reasons now 1st of all if the cause of the so-so tensions that we have seen is a bill to amend the fugitive offenders ordinance on the 15th of june i have announced the suspension of the bill. and subsequently we have explained and elaborated by suspending the bill at this point in time with no timetable and no plans to resume the debate of the bill in the legislative council i'm reading between the lines that joshua sounds like harry lima say this vote is going to be allowed to die out is just going to die but she doesn't want to say it and i want to share this with you because we have 2 questions in for you specifically so kagan pressing she had she tweeted in spanish what we translated to everyone in the world is watching hong kong and the radical youth are learning from you and that's huge jo

in hong kong to be extradited to china to face trial public demonstrations forced chief executive carol lam to suspend the bill she said it was dead but that's not enough for activists who are calling for her resignation many of these protestors were babies or not even born in 1907 when the united kingdom ended its administration of hong kong and past good sure of its former colony to china but they say they are the ones most disillusioned about hong kong's future the way of life they see is being threatened by creeping thore tarion ism. dogon al jazeera hong kong. protesters have been rallying in sudan's capital to mark 40 days since a crackdown by security forces i want an independent investigation into the killing of more than 100 protesters on june the 3rd are also demanding a civilian led government a transition agreement between saddam's military genter and a pro-democracy coalition has been agreed in principle but has not yet been signed . at least 26 people have been killed in an all night attack on a hotel in the somali city of kosmo a suicide bomber rammed a car containing explosi

hong kong's leader carol lam has strongly condemned violence following sunday's pro-democracy rally she says the people who vandalized the office of china's government and suspected gang members who were attacked the protests is all be held accountable. we absolutely do not condone that sort of violent acts and i let me made this clear again violence is not a solution to any problem or violence will only breed more violence and at the end of a day the whole of hong kong and the people will suffer as a result of the loss of law and order in hong kong thousands of protesters adjoining mass rallies across the philippines they're calling for president roderigo to tertius resignation the demonstrations coincide with the president's state of the nation address as he lays out his policy priorities and that includes the reinstatement of the death penalty and possible amendments to the constitution all right up to date there is the very latest headlines from us here at al-jazeera coming up next it's inside story. al-jazeera. problems of besides the instability is corruption we listen because i h

will be going after those who broke into this building and indeed violent protests more broadly carol lam the chief executive in a press conference in the early hours of choose day gave no ground a tool to the protesters he didn't say she was going to resign which is one of the demands in fact if anything she seems a bit stronger in her position now than she did a couple of days ago she still said that the extradition laws these controversial extradition laws which will allow people here in hong kong to be extradited to china while they remain suspended and will expire in her words but they won't be completely formally cancelled as the protesters want and nor would she give any ground on giving come from kind of amnesty to people. in previous protests. another camera crew perceived me but as you can imagine none of that is what protest is hope to achieve on monday everyone wants to be on al-jazeera at the moment andrew what thoughts of you got about the future of the democracy movement it was always peaceful and that's what they almost prided themselves on then yesterday it all got blown

they would not let anyone disrupt that ceremony which of course rolls by on from chief executive carol lam i had been a driver some of the fish i wanted to disrupt this or and i just figured he was very tight then but pretty much off that syria money and did early monday morning after all the security of a lot of the police presence simply disappeared by they did remain have some police that we could see inside the building the election the council building and they were facing all surround the day from protest is water bottles out the items being thrown across at them but they showed a lot of restraint certainly the police threaten them at times if you continue to pressure us continue to try to push into this building we will respond with force they kept saying over out loud hey liz a speak is that near the came and as the day wore on it seems that the police simply disappeared awful so i won't be too far away one would imagine they would be in the city have somewhere but as we were making our way in here there was absolutely no sign of an arab spring not just right places you mention no

all right andy thomas there from hong kong thanks so much to hong kong's chief executive carol lam is trying to calm the recent unrest she's promising to work with the people going on e.t.c. in a way he comes legal fund after this incident i will learn lessons and ensure that the government in future will work closer and be more responsive to the aspirations sentiments and opinions of the community the sas and mess basic step to take is to change our style of governance to make it more open and accommodating you also need to reform the way we listen to public views such work should be carried out without delay and will start with me. security forces are involved in a gun battle with taliban fighters in the afghan capital kabul it follows an explosion that killed at least 10 people smoke was seen billowing from an area near the u.s. embassy in the city. joins us now live from kabul so what's going on with that gun battle one of the which building exactly the taliban faces trying to storm. what powerful explosion took place this morning here in kabul in one of the busiest street here in

on this relatively narrow issue the distinction between what the government here chief executive carol lam has announced she will do which is essentially shelved for now the extradition laws with no prospect of them coming back anytime soon and getting rid of them saying they're never going to come back and that might sound like a semantic difference but people marching it's a very important one they need to feel that they had achieved a proper victory they still don't feel that quite got that that was the narrow issue that was being focused on by those on the march people around this building they wanted that as an absolute minimum if they wanted far far more they wanted the resignation of the chief executive kerry lam they wanted a full investigation into the placing of the previous protests that have been it was another one of a couple 2 or 3 weeks back now it's out of this building by the police used tear gas and rubber bullets and they thought that was excessive the protesters and they want a full investigation into that they also wanted those arrest stayed during those protests a cou

protesters in hong kong are bound to return to the streets after carrie lam declared her controversial extradition bill dead. carolthat bill would allow extraditions to mainland china. the turmoil has raised questions about hong kong's long-term viability. >> is externally compelling, you streetsple in the demanding freedom from china, and there has been back and forth on this issue. ,he law that governs hong kong or had since the handover from the u.k. in 1997 says hong kong gets to maintain its own separate capitalist system of government and way of life for 50 years. that runs out in 2047. china gets a degree of approval over the leadership of hong kong. the leader is selected by committee made up of beijing loyalists. there is no popular vote to determine who that is. they have gone back and forth, you saw it in 2014 with the umbrella protests. this is the latest turn. jason: hong kong and its place in the world, this is a andtical story at large, that is why it is in this section. it is funny to think about, it could be in any section of the magazine in the sense that hong kong is an economic powerhouse. tois

kong are bound to return to the streets after the chief executive, carrie lam, declared her controversial extradition bill dead. carolthat bill would allow extraditions to mainland china. the turmoil has raised questions about hong kong's long-term viability. here is politics editor jillian goodman joining us from london. jillian: it is is externally compelling, you have people in the streets demanding a degree of freedom from china, and there has been a lot of back and forth on the issue of voting specifically to . the law that governs hong kong, or had since the handover from the u.k. in 1997 says hong kong gets to maintain its own separate capitalist system of government and way of life for 50 years. that runs out in 2047. china gets a degree of approval over the leadership of hong kong. the leader is selected by committee made up of beijing loyalists. there is no popular vote to determine who that is. they have gone back and forth, you saw this in 2014 with the umbrella protests. so this is the latest turn of the screw there. jason: it is interesting when he think about hong kong and its place in the world, this

kong are bound to return to the streets after the chief executive, carrie lam, declared her controversial extradition bill dead. carolat bill would allow extraditions to mainland china. the turmoil has raised questions about hong kong's long-term viability. here is politics editor julian goodman joining us from london. >> is externally compelling, you have people in the streets demanding a degree of freedom from china, and there has been a lot of back and forth on the issue of voting specifically to .iyadh the law that governs hong kong, or had since the handover from the u.k. in 1997 says hong kong gets to maintain its own separate capitalist system of government and way of life for 50 years. that runs out in 2047. china gets a degree of approval over the leadership of hong kong. the leader is selected by committee made up of beijing loyalists. there is no popular vote to determine who that is. they have gone back and forth, you saw this in 2014 with the umbrella protests. so this is the latest turn of re. screw thei jason: it is interesting when he think about hong kong and its place in the world, this is a politic

lam know what? ijust said to our cameraman, i am not sure about this address. carol, no! i did not mean that.re right off my christmas list. it is a lovely day here. the sun is beating down, we are standing in the shade at the moment and you can see the view straight ahead. if you look between those trees, that is caught 14 where the duchess of cambridge came to watch them play briefly yesterday before heading to the royal box. more or less empty apart from a few workers who are tidying it up ready for play later on. at 10:30am there will be throngs of people coming. all these beautiful flowers, and we have the infamous logo behind us for wimbledon, known throughout the whole world. the forecast for wimbledon today is once again set fair. it is going to be dry and sunny, and it is going to be warm. at times there will be a bit more cloud around, just like the last couple of days, but there will be ple nty of couple of days, but there will be plenty of sunshine. if you are coming down, make sure you slap on ple nty of coming down, make sure you slap on plenty of sunscreen. top temperature up p