by protesters demonstrators have remained defiant against a new ban on facemasks chief executive carol lam and go take colonial era law to enforce the ban and gain greater powers to clamp down on protests got higher reports now from hong kong. placemats have become one of the main symbols of the protester movement here in hong kong they're also a way to hide identities from surveillance camera now it's illegal for protesters to cover their faces. their protests have become increasingly violent and initial peaceful rallies the largest ever seen here calling for the withdrawal of a proposed extradition law had escalated into running battles in vandalism. their demands became more of a broad push back against what protestors see as growing control from beijing. chief executive kerry lam has turned to a british colonial era emergency law not you since riots in 1967 anyone who wears a mask could face up to a year in jail and a 3 $1000.00 fine hong kong is not in a state of emergency and we are not proclaiming that hong kong is entering a state of emergency. but we are indeed in an ok sion of se

protesters demonstrators have remained defiant against a new ban on sites mosques sheaffer executive carol lam and ben take colonial era law to enforce the ban and gain greater powers to clamp down on protests scott hi there reports now from hong kong. face mass have become one of the main symbols of the protester movement here in hong kong they're also a way to hide identities from surveillance camera now it's illegal for protesters to cover their faces. their protests have become increasingly violent and initial peaceful rallies the largest ever seen here calling for the withdrawal of a proposed extradition law had escalated into running battles in vandalism. their demands became more of a broad push back against what protestors see as growing control from beijing chief executive kerry lamb has turned to a british colonial era emergency law not used since riots in 1967. anyone who wears a mask could face up to a year in jail and a $3000.00 fine. hong kong is not in a state of emergency and we are not proclaiming that hong kong is entering a state of emergency. but we are indeed in an ok sion

lawmakers in the legislature have heckled the territories leader for a 2nd consecutive day carol lam is being urged to address the demands of the territories months long protest movement the disruption comes after a prominent pro-democracy activist was violently attacked. i j after being forced to abandon her annual policy address hong kong's embattled leader kerry lamb returned to the chamber where opposition politicians accused her of having blood on her hands several were ejected from the session as it descended into chaos and was repeatedly suspended. over the old. by the. amid all the anger and the shouting moments of silence where held for protesters injured in hong kong's months long demonstrations not least activist jimmy sham one of the public faces of the movement he was left bloodied in the street after in 1000 tamera attacked sham has urged others not to retaliate while his colleagues remain undetected. no matter who the target is it won't stop us insisting on our 5 the months. the protesters and activists want to secure greater democracy while many or position lawmakers

years but then it's also hasn't been refuted it hasn't changed it was always there but then and now carol lam is using it to a mixed. bag and basically this law will give her the power to bypass the legislative process to pass through and if it does she thinks it's necessary that she's saying the city's in a state of emergency that she wants to pass this ban on wearing cease mess why has that created so much anger right so since the protests started more than 3 months ago protestors have been using face mass to protect themselves to stop themselves from being identified because they fear the retaliation from hong kong from the chinese government especially because they know that their facial recognition technology is so powerful. they don't know what they the government could do with the information off their faces and also actually many of them also fear retaliation from their own companies because many companies in hong kong that have this interesting china and employers actually give them a lot of pressure to stop them to speak out or to show support for the protest of this rather think th

tens of thousands of pro-democracy protesters continue to defy a ban on face masks on sunday carol lam hong kong's governor had introduced the ban on the colonial era state of emergency powers in hopes of curbing months of unrest pro-democracy lawmakers again went to the high court on sunday morning seeking an injunction against the ban they argued the emergency powers bypass legislature and contravene the city's constitution today is about 40. 1st system rule of law i would say this is one of the most important constitutional cases in the history of all but a senior judge dismissed the case that only increased the defiance of hong kong residents large crowds marched through to wrench will rein in unsanctioned rallies . from the my. carry lamb is trying to use the band to keep us from coming out. she suppressing our right to express ourselves this will only push us further. sunday's peaceful marches turned ugly when their taxi driver ran into a group of protesters he was dragged from the car and beaten as another group trashed his taxi cab while well as night fell some demonstrators tu

. >> carol lam, former u.s. attorney for the southern district of california. carol, what will you be watching for and listening for as they go forward? it seems like every day we've had a major witness and, again, we have one tomorrow. key parts of that testimony get out. what are you going to be watching for that will help you to determine how you think this case is going to come together? >> yeah. i think one of the reasons why they want to move quickly is because they don't want so much to leak out that the -- the public and the senators become sort of immune to the -- to the shocking nature of what's transpired. i think that with respect to the obstruction of justice charges, which they are apparently considering whether to include in the articles of impeachment, they are probably thinking that if they actually include them, then there's no question that a lot of evidence should be presented on them. if they don't include them, then people might say, well, why are you bringing that up again? because you know, we've already heard about that. you know, we dec

joining me now, carol lam. michael conway. counsel of house judiciary committee during the nixon impeachment inquiry. carole, as we look at this issue of doral and what was announced late in the week and what this might mean and we brought it up before of emoluments clause and the violations that might include. with this naming, is this not a clear violation of the emoluments clause or not? >> it seems certainly like a clear violation of the emoluments clause. but remember, again, that the supreme court has never actually ruled on the scope and the depth of the emoluments clause. but to say that because, as i think the president's team has said, because everything will be charged at cost, it's not a violation of the emoluments clause is silly because if otherwise vacant rooms are being sold to foreign governments, clearly the doral resort is benefitting from it. i think what's really striking about this whole situation is that in the past, you know, presidents have taken extraordinary care, even beyond the point they needed to,

hong kong's leader carol lam is expected to enact an emergency law that would allow authorities to ban face masks at rallies pro-democracy protesters wear them to conceal their identities to shield themselves from tear gas will hold a special executive council meeting on friday to discuss the ban and all the tough measures meanwhile an 18 year old student shot and injured by police during a protest has been charged with rioting and assaulting 2 officers nigeria's president will do bihari is on a 3 day visit to south africa for a new tax on nigerians and although a foreigner in business is that last month bihari has been meeting his south african counterpart cyril rather poza to discuss the issue which put a major strain on relations between africa's 2 largest economies. you stay with us one i want east is coming up next more news for you after that by phone after. the us trades a sticky notes site which. we bring you the stories and developments that dramatically change. what's more i realize piracy. counting. on our. it's a crucial violent and wildly popular across thailand. target is

is too early to say that the anti mask law is not effective says hong kong's chief executive carol lam adding that it usually takes time for new legislation to get the desired result it comes after a long weekend of violence in the city yet again that stretched into monday night. meantime a tweet from a basketball executive in the us in support of the anti-government protests in hong kong a spot uproar in china and china's state broadcaster c.c.t.v. now as just announced it will not there the national basketball association is games this week over it all the message has since been deleted birth not forgotten as donal quarter explains. activism is in nowadays and american big business is always trying to stay on top of the latest trend is that something might change. in sexual harassment but she says because it isn't. the. so when the manager of the houston rockets basketball team posted stand with hong kong on twitter it was nothing out of the ordinary right or wrong his bosses clearly didn't support his political viewpoint because the n.b.a. threw him right under the bus we recognize

months of activism that's been taking place on the island against the government in beijing and carol lam has not ruled out taking half of measures against the us and protests it's our next story when we come back. with manufacture consent instant of public wealth. when the ruling class is project themselves. in the final merry go round lives only the one percent. we can all middle of the room sick. who will never situation. grandchildren are living children ask their free grandparents. is it true that. these cars used to have people driving in the break room. that's what we used to. allow again this is artsy international next to hong kong this is the say there right now more burning barricades is just up to 50 minutes after midnight on saturday in hong kong and more protests continuing to turn violent it's 4 months of protests in the island there and the big standoff now comes after the leader of hong kong announced a crackdown on the protests which showed no sign of abating the latest being that a ban on wearing face masks among protesters likely to come into force also caroline has no

emergency law in place they will be looking to crack down on any illegal activity hong kong's leader carol lam has found to crack down on the increasing violence both polak it didn't how. ling held the rights as extreme acts made hong kong enjoy a dark day last night it is made hong kong semi paralyzed everyone is worried even scant the hong kong government has the greatest a temptation to suppress violence i appeal to everyone to support the government to stop violence in a legal way and the un's high commissioner for human rights has condemned the rising violence in hong kong. we are troubled by the high levels of bias associated with some people stray showers that have been taking place in in in the past days and also alarmed by the injuries to the police and protesters and great journalists and protesters. shot by a lot of foresman officers and i strongly condemn all acts of violence and from all sides and i call on all those responding to them astray ssion and those in gates in there were protests to do so in a peaceful and nonviolent way. u.s. house democrats have subpoenaed the white ho

emergency laws including a ban on face mosques rallies after months of violent protests chief executive carol lam says it's needed to restore order and it will start on sunday. iraqi security forces have fired on anti-government demonstrators defying a curfew in baghdad 31 people have been killed in 4 days of protests in baghdad and other cities. democrats in the u.s. are accusing president donald trump of breaching his oath of office after asking ukraine to investigate his political rival joe biden has now called on china to do the site. cameroon's president has ordered the release of hundreds of prisoners linked to a separatist crisis in the angle of foreign regions and national dialogue was launched on monday in the hope of ending the conflict nearly 3000 people have died since fighting broke out in 2017 between the army and separatists they want independence for cameron's 2 english speaking provinces. he did this in order to show the people who are low to moderate. purple stuff and it's out of the air if you want to arrest people not. really believe in the rule of law. we don't really need pu

trust sold that little utilities carry much of that to you the chief executive you blame the carrot carol lam the chief exec she's beijing's appointing russian history she is the appointee even so-called elected by some hong kong representation is still there why is why hasn't she was more ask how can people ask some people is there democracy in syria system we need we in hong kong need to gain the trust and confidence of beijing so that they can allow us the freedom of political reform what about the other way round what about beijing's duty to earn the trust of people in hong kong once both ways where they have managed you know the suspect has runs both ways only 2 years they have managed it's only about one family then been doing of the most of try to in euros all show that people do not of the majority of people still do not identify something i don't advise although beijing a matter of national guard would have to work on them. everybody would come to work harder you think the people of hong kong should play nice to their masters in beijing i might throw them a crumbs i do use only to us

giving her on your speech to the legislative council by protesting lawmakers inside the legislature carol lam addressing that early on in her speech saying that being a politician she needs to be aware now understand the feelings of our people but that whatever our political stand is she says i hope we can put down our differences to build. hong kong the embattled leader of hong kong again giving a news conference let's bring in scott high here who's been listening in it's been quite an interesting day for kerry now scott now she's getting this news conference but early on quite complicated for inside that legislative council. there was no it's been a very tough wednesday for kerry when the chief executive here in hong kong you know what's it going to touching what you're talking about how you know they are kind of reaching out and saying that i need to be better or as a politician need to be better about incorporating all people's feelings of hong kong's feelings into the way she choose drugs policy and into the way she governs and it's interesting and she even calls it that the spirit of ho

considered to be among the most educated in the region enter chapelle al-jazeera amman honestly that carol lam was expected to enact an emergency law that would allow authorities to band face mosques and rallies protestors where the mosque to conceal their identities and shield themselves from tear gas line will hold a special executive council meeting on friday to discuss the ban and other tough measures on the colonial era emergency law meanwhile an 18 year old student shot and injured by police during a protest has been charged the rioting and assaulting 2 officers. president paul bia has ordered the release of hundreds of prisoners linked to the separatist crisis in this country's angry phone regions m national dialogue was launched in cameroon on monday in the hope of ending the conflict nearly 3000 people have died since fighting broke out in 2017 between the army and separatists who want independence for cameroon's 2 english speaking provinces. in mali the families of 38 soldiers killed by fighters linked to al qaeda are demanding information from the government protesters in the capita

many covering their faces in defiance of a ban on mosques imposed by hong kong's chief executive carol lam the demonstrations were called off after the city's rail network was closed because of what authorities called malicious vandalism larger crowds are expected on sunday a 2nd intelligence official is now considering filing a whistleblower complaint against u.s. president donald trump according to a report in the new york times this person reportedly has more direct knowledge regarding trump stephens with ukraine the president's been accused of using his position to get the country to investigate his political rivals of course an impeachment investigation is already underway. at least 10 people have been injured in a grenade attack in indian administered kashmir it happened near a government office in the city of. a police officer and a journalist are among those hurt and separatist fighters are being blamed i'm excused bulletin comes to you from london in the half an hour on al-jazeera that will be right after counting the cost. recently reelected for a 2nd 5. we asked the president of

government to strictly enforce the law to end violence and a news conference which is still going on carol lam called for compromise and everyone to work together. in the past few months this very serious social unrest has challenged of us facing the incidents of recent months i realize that being a politician i need to be always aware and understand the feelings about people and while i also understand that the intentions are good we also need to be very tolerant and open minded. in other world news a u.s. delegation led by vice president mike pence is traveling to turkey it'll be seeking an immediate cease fire in ne in syria but turkey's president insists the military operation will continue until his country's objectives have been achieved russia says its troops are now in control in northern syria in a harder has a report the russians moved in after the americans moved out in a deliberate withdrawal the city of members is moscow's latest victory in syria its military police now patrols a front line that separates the turkish and syrian army's their presence stops a turkish military advanc

including a ban on face mosques protests rallies it will go into effect on saturday chief executive carol lam says the measures are needed to restore order the government has been unable to stop 4 months of increasingly violent demonstrations. security forces in iraq capital baghdad have opened fire on protesters they were defying a curfew that came into force on monday on thursday morning 35 people have died in demonstrations this week. democrats in the us are accusing president donald trump of breaching his oath of office after asking ukraine to investigate his political rival joe biden has now called on china to do the same. families of the victims of the deadliest mass shooting in u.s. history have reached a settlement with the hotel where the gunman carried out his attack and g.m. resorts international says the set. the $800000000.00 is not an admission of liability $58.00 people were killed when a gunman opened fire from the 32nd floor of the mandalay bay in las vegas reports. the most vigorous massacre was the worst mass shooting in modern u.s. history a gunman firing from the 32nd flo

and hong kong's leader carol lam is expected to enact an emergency law that would allow authorities to ban face mosques and runways this as an 18 year old student shot and injured by police during a protest has been charged with rioting and assaulting 2 officers. jarius president mohamed do biharis on a 3 day visit to south africa following attacks on nigerians and other foreign owned businesses there last month as one of our big models put a major strain on relations between africa's 2 largest economies i mean the miller has more from pretoria. it's the 1st visit to south africa by a nigerian head of state in 6 years. but the pomp and ceremony for their arrival of muhammadu buhari in pretoria maust underlying tensions following last month's attacks in johannesburg on foreign as of various nationalities including nigerians the south african government condemned the attacks and dispatched envoys to mend relations with countries whose citizens were attacked we have expressed deep regret at the events of the past few weeks that many festivals themselves through attacks directed at foreign

wearing face masks during illegal protests came into effect in hong kong an hour ago chief executive carol lam said the ban was designed to deter people from demonstrating but it's had little impact so far with people lighting fires and blockading roads ukraine's top prosecutor says he will re-examine criminal cases including the company at the center of donald trump's impeachment inquiry it comes as the u.s. state department is facing a deadline set by the house intelligence committee to hand over all documents in the case israeli soldiers have opened fire on protesters in gaza killing one of them and injuring at least 18 others the friday protest about it was the latest in 18 months of demonstrations on the gaza border against the israeli siege and a former colleague of the slain saudi journalist jamal khashoggi says his phone has been hacked by a saudi and amorality operatives baghdadi democracy advocate living in norway so security sources informed him that operatives have had access to his phone for months and the great prime minister is accusing turkey of failing to control the flow of m

sides the protesters are saying this is only going to make things worse like a couple weeks ago carol lam tried to tamp things down by holding a dialogue with 150 people that didn't do anything if anything it inflamed the protesters more protesters are saying that's what this massacre last week was he's making this attempt to try to calm things down they say it's going to have opposite effect. all right for the moment scott had a lot for stair in hong kong we will continue to monitor events sad there as and when they happen very fluid situation there right now but to other stories. leading democrats in the u.s. are accusing president donald trump of breaching his oath of office that's after asking ukraine to investigate his political rival trump has now called on china to do the same of the request to ukraine's president in july has already triggered an impeachment inquiry our white house correspondent kimberly how kit has the latest from washington. with his presidency caught up in an impeachment investigation over a phone call with the ukrainian leader u.s. president donald trump on thu