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damascus a vehicle involved in a crash single vehicle. tow truck on the scene and traffic is alternating.n radolph drive remains closed because of an accident. back in to you. >> jack, thank you. >>> breaking news off the coast of south florida. >> seven americans, including west virginia billionaire, were killed in a helicopter crash in the bahamas. est virginia governor and one on the state supreme court s cole's executives and others were killed in the crash and they crashed off grand kay eyelid early yesterday morning and was traveling to ft. lauderdale. >> we are told this fire is under ntrol. hurt. was >>> montgomery county police are investigating a twitter video of an officer kneeing a handcuff man. you're looking at the second before that incident. we will show you the moment in the video as well. we have bluffed some of it and bleeped out some bad gule. some vier may find this clip tough to watch. this incident took place at the mcdonald. news4 is learning what led to this incident. the county executive mark eldridge said, quote

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explain the reason why israel last night bombed various geographical places in syria in homs in damascus and so on so forth so they're probably trying to test the system to test the frequencies distaste the chain of command and so on and so forth and it's very easy to blame it on the iranians or hizbullah whatever just the tail of the public opinion throughout the entire planet this is just a fight but the but the real issue is that they want to test these air defenses how well the syrian troops have. trained on them can they really affect if you use them and the chances are from what we've seen. in cyprus yesterday or northern cyprus a which was an incident where an old regime or an old system s. 200. misao fell down that the syrians maybe still reluctant or decided not to use the new ones unless it is a real combat situation. a more well cost political analyst thank you for your time and your comments. to germany now where 3 men have been charged in connection with the sexual abuse of more than 40 children age of 23 and 14 years old 2 of the suspects have pleaded guilty they'd be surpr

take a lookt i this is chopper 4 over the damascus area.t's a tree right now over the road in diascus. not sure exactly where this is. notice the croak right there running through the area. that cre on the higher side, too, and definitely closed roads up around tam dcus area. numerous frorts northern loudoun county and northern montgomery county and frederick and carroll county of damage as a result ofs those fi storms. now, the next couple of days, guys, things really calming rrdown. tomoow a chance of rain early and some really nice weather wednesday, thursday and friday before the heat starts to move back in next weekend and really in tords next week. we don't have a single 90 though after today this week. >> all right. we like the sound that have. >> nice. >> we could use that break. >> doug, thank you. >> for many coffee lovers, summer signals the switch to cold brew. >> that's the coffee known for being smoother less acidic and it's the standard at coffee shops and even grocery stores, but is it healthier for you? >> some of us are ho

help in the process of holding to account eisel fighters but that is something the government in damascus would never concede. yeah that's true but there are other alternatives like for instance having this international court in the northeast of syria so there's no need ready for a mission of the last us but france is they could find legal ways to put these fighters on trial on hold for instance here or what another option is if they cannot do an international tribunal what they also can do is that to give much more assistance to the authorities here because they have not enough financial resources because they're on the blockade from the musketeers and it's very difficult for the u.s. and other western countries to bring a tear so what they can do is to give the syrian kurds with a look at the situation here and more financial support to put these isis fighters here on trial and then to hold them in prisons there for that they need much more support of the promise says of this far and rather narrow because it's not just that the presence of ice in the country will sound good like. well

israeli fighter jets and syrian media say the attacks targeted military positions in the city of damascus killing 4 people holmes was also hit the missiles were launched from lebanese airspace where israeli aircraft were said to have been spotted making low altitude flights and flights have resumed the libyan capital it's only functioning airports it has briefly taken out of action after being hit by an air strike forces loyal to the warlord have tara say their attack destroyed a turkish drone that was parked on one of the airport's runways well turkish police have used rubber bullets to disperse hundreds of activists at a banned gay pride march in istanbul. it is the 5th year in a row that. activists have tried to hold a gay parade despite that was imposed in 2015. i'll just there were world continuous. so that you will see me on the bus on i'm a southern boy but i mean other. a lot more. it will take you on it but it's not a. sort of. individual. from want to show up as you like. to. play. almost. yes downey's. does the. own movie in a do it isn't as you would suspect it is if you go to

today the chaos in iraq has spread into syria entire provinces are beyond the control of baghdad and damascus. and the west has a new enemy the islamic state of iraq and the levant isis also known as dice the united states bears considerable responsibility for the fact that the islamic state exists. but not because the united states intended to create the islamic state rather that the islamic state came into existence as an unintended consequence of this immensely foolish war the americans and the british had they not occupy the country have had they cut of corruption when it started we would not have that the violence has claimed hundreds of thousands of victims day to may and is up rooted 1000000 innocent iraqis in the seventy's you have hundreds of thousands of refugees leaving the area and nobody asks nobody asked what caused this what caused this terrible human catastrophe it was an earthquake it was a typhoon it was an invasion of a country that was reasonably intact when we invaded it. the iraqi deception has cost americans almost $2.00 trillion dollars according to some estimates. muc

we'll hear one more call here from damascus, sue is in damascus, maryland. good afternoon, sue, go ahead. >> caller: hi, good afternoon. i justwanted to -- i watched everything. love c-span. i wanted to make a couple quick comments. number one, i felt very sorry for robert mueller because it became very clear to me that he did not write that report. he did not do the hiring. he was not in charge of anything. that was an andrew weisman thing that was going on with that. when they asked a question to him and he was not familiar with fusion gps, that became very clear to me that he does not know what's in that report because he did not write it. now, this is a person who's a veteran, and he's an elderly man, and i felt like the democrats were humiliating him by bringing him in there. they knew he did not know anything about that report because it was obvious he did not write it. and how do you do an investigation and spend that kind of money and then not understand the dossier, not understand -- say you're not familiar with fusion gps? say that you didn't bring

eing some light rain around there as well as around the damascus area more moderate rainfall so some showers here and there, by think most of us stay dry out there tonight, and here's future weather to show you wh i'm talking about. 5:00 p.m., notice that shower up around baltimore and still that thunderstorm activity mainly back over the mountains. 7:00 p.m., not much has changed. maybe some showers into parts of montgomery, northern prince george's, anne arundel, howard and baltimore and back around the shenandoah vale, but notice most of the area in the d.c. metro area, northern virginia and down through southern maryland is staying mainly dry. 9:0 p.m., the chance for some rain into parts of northern virginia. elsewhere across the area. noticing plenty of clouds, butbo that's it. maybe some showers out there at midnight and after that they will sizzle out. as we look to torrow we see showers and thunderstorms start to pop around 2:00 p.m. heavy rain strong winds are possible and we'll get tomorrow afternoon at 4:00 p.m. if you have a backyard barbecue, yeah, might not be all that

this is near damascus andnd frieip. multiple trees uprooted and down. roofioningals stripped off at least one home. we're going to benterested to see tomorrow, there was a tornado warning at this time. does the national weather service go out tomorrow afternooand survey this. they're going to be looking at pictures and video you've sent in, some of our video that you're going to find on our website, nbcwashington.com later tonight and of course into the day tomorrow. they're going to look at this throughout the day and send out a survey team to see if this was from a tornado. there was a tornado warning tomorrow from that storm and another storm around tonight in frederick county and carol county. i have not seen damage reports from that one yet. ouu get into the s and area from fredericksburg and charlotteslle as i mentioned, all the way up i-95 all the way up. you see this wind gust here. this was 45-miles-per-hour at the bay bridge. some of these were quite amazing. this is the first one. this is a wind gust near howard university. 58-miles-an-hour w

defense systems have intercepted missiles fired by israeli jets military positions in the city of damascus have been targeted killing 4 people homs was also hit state television says the missiles were launched from lebanese airspace where israeli aircraft was said to have been spotted making low altitude flights israel has carried out air strikes in syria against hezbollah and the raney and targets in the past at least 31 people have died in a mini bus crash in india and minister of kashmir the overcrowded very cold plunged off the road 72 were taken to hospital in critical condition police are investigating what caused the accident india has the world's deadliest roads with about 150000 people killed every year. bring in more now on our top story the mass protests in hong kong andrew thomas is among the crowd of demonstrators who go live to a man draw understand things are picking up what does it look like. just in the last 20 minutes or so yes what we've got is about 4 or 5000 protesters who were outside the side entrance to this alleged code building behind me which is the main parliame

a lot of treesnd down arou damascus and mt.iry and urbana with a 58-mile-an-hour wind gust and off towards the east as well. this storm did really mean -- did produce a lot of damage, but now nothing around our rion. i think we're dry in most areas. wehad a couple of showers but dry in most areas. i'm tracking though a system to the west here. can you see some strong storms th the south. e are actually come up close to fredericksburg andnothe rthern neck and southern maryland over the next couple of hours. look at this swin right here. uw it might produce more severe weather. a little farther to the west and that tells me we won't see theb chance for severe weather in our area tonight with the exception of our southern zones but we are going to see the chance for someery heavy rainfall overnight tonight and into early tomorrow and that's why the flash flood watch and flash flood threat still continues into early morning tomorrow. watch outtonight r the morning commute. could be a big problem. amelia, with a little bit more on w

by israeli fighter jets syrian media says the attacks targeted military positions in the city of damascus killing 4 people homs was also hit the missiles were launched from the lebanese airspace where israeli aircraft were said to have been spotted making low alternate flights israel has carried out air strikes in syria against hezbollah and iranian targets in the past well there's plenty more still ahead analogise there are. he is the 1st sitting u.s. president to set foot in north korea donald trump is back on u.s. soil after the historic trip. and wire audience are putting a positive spin on the downing of a u.s. drone that almost brought washington and tehran to the brink of war. sponsored by the time. hello again welcome back to international weather forecast where the rain has been quite heavy across parts of china we're getting a break here across the southeast but we don't expect that to last too long because we do have a tropical depression here in the pacific that is making its way towards the northwest we do think it's going to bring some very heavy rain across parts of luzon p

suspecting it of carrying oil to syria to her and had rejected the accusations the government in damascus is under international sanctions south africa's president cyril ramaphosa is rejecting accusations that he deliberately misled parliament the allegations centered around a donation by the company to run the post those 27000 presidential campaign the anti-corruption watchdog says failed to report the $35000.00 donation and denied any knowledge of the funds when asked about it in parliament last year he says he will study the report and decide on further action. i have come to the conclusion that day of these in marriage to the allegations relating to this suspicion of money laundering as alluded to in the complaint last and again his explanation that he didn't know of the at the door ness in the donations he acted the dinette see actress that ernest and it is if it means also that he was very actively involved in speaking to some of that donna's while the former president jacob zuma has agreed to continue giving evidence at a corruption inquiry he had earlier refused to do so saying he

seizing the vessel suspecting it of carrying oil to syria iran rejects the accusations the regime in damascus is under international sanctions. south africa's corruption watchdog has found president still ramaphosa deliberately misled parliament over campaign donations meanwhile former south african president jacob zuma had withdrawn from an inquiry commission but has now decided to take. the high council of states in libya is warning france the united arab emirates and egypt of their involvement in the attacks on the capital and the support of war hold those forces after and his fighters have been trying to capture tripoli since april. turkey says its warplanes and drones of hit multiple targets in the kurdish region of northern iraq the airstrikes are in response to the murder of one of its diplomats and wednesday a gunman shot and killed turkey's deputy consul general and 2 other people and turkish and iraqi authorities are looking for 27 year old muslim dad who is the main suspect he's believed to have joined the kurdistan workers party or the p.k. came 2014 the group is deemed a terroris

frontlines defending their territory and what has become a costly campaign for the leadership in damascus and their allies in moscow the government has lost nearly 1000 men and hasn't taken any significant territory. syrian government forces were aiming to push the rebels north and recapture international road links to revive trade between government controlled cities that didn't happen and this 3 month bombardment forced more than 300000 syrians to abandon their homes and move closer to the border with turkey. just sort of through this has become a disaster city more than 90 percent of this population had to flee to camps further north those who don't have cars or money had to stay here god help us. an end to the assault on italy province and northern hammer will depend on turkey and russia they have in the past mediated a cease fire and for now they are bargaining on the ground through their local allies and the fate of the rebel controlled province along turkey's borders is unlikely to be the only issue on the table for their answers either pavement. but in north eastern syria turkey i

intercepted missiles fired by israeli fighter jets the attacks targeted military positions in the city of damascus killing 4 people holmes was also hit the missiles were launched on lebanese airspace where israeli aircraft are said to have been spotted making low altitude flights israel's carried out has strikes in syria against hezbollah and iranian targets in the past flights have resumed at the libyan capital is only functioning airport it was briefly taken out of action after being hit by an airstrike forces loyal to the warlord and even have to say their attacks destroyed a turkish drone that was parked on one of the airport's runways and turkey says one says 6 of its citizens are being held by after all its forces it's now warn that have towns fighters will become legitimate targets if they aren't released immediately after hours east of ministration into brooke cut all ties with turkey on friday accusing it of supporting the rival u.n. recognized government in tripoli has threatened to target turkish interests in libya including airline flights and shipping. and yemen duffy's 4 civilians in

airy, moving into damascus, but falljf apart as it movesxdxd clr and closer -eáu(árr'gton metropolitanf showers as they weaken overnight tonight into nday. plenty of sunshine for your sunday. temperatures will be warming up throughout the day. and a chanqe of an isolated raindrop or two.q with fáthat, here's the forecas everyone. degrees. i.v:(q warm tomorrow. just downright hot monday andokr tuesday. tuesday the hottest day of the week, mid 90s for highs. add in the humidity, heat iutfx, tuesdaynto wednesdayith the heat index close to about 100 wednesday, thursday, friday,lp heat wave will break. it won't be a heat wave but the hot wave will break. hopefully it won't be raining into next weekend. thursday and friday, still? -- still some raindrops across the area. >> thank you so much. themse-utj back into playoff contention? >> all right. >> the dodgers arexd doing more than just contending. they aredominating. could washington bounce back from last night's loss with a r from last night's loss with a r win ovehe best team in the not all water is created equal. only 1 billionth of 1%

front lines defending their territory and what has become a costly campaign for the leadership in damascus their allies in moscow. the government has lost 1000 men and has not taken any significant territory. syrian government forces were aiming to push the rebels north and re capture international roads to revive trade. that didn't happen. in the bombardment, forced 300,000 syrians to abandon their homes and their -- and move closer to the border with turkey. >> this has become a disaster>> city. more than 90% of the population had to flee to camps north. those he do not have cars or money had to stay here. god help us. reporter: and end to the assault province will depend on turkey and russia who have mediated a cease-fire in the past. for now they are bargaining on the ground to local allies and it's unlikely to be the only issue on the table. ♪ >> the u.s. government is saying it will allow immigration are persisted to report illegal migrants from anywhere in america without requiring them to up your before judge first. president trump has struggled to stem an increase of mostly centra

especially when it look we have seen their heart attacks against you know the syrians between the damascus regime and it created a risk of true true 3000000 rice was ready to turkey and others i didn't didn't let turkey yes we can't play mentioning obliquely at this point syria us then let me ask you how far is the purchasing of the s 400 a matter of appeasing russia if you like in order for turkey to keep a certain amount of influence over what happens in northern syria because that of course is is strategically exceedingly important to ankara. local russia is the only only partner for $32.00 major corporation in the region that is on number one thing and as as an order to just put it it is a part of a part of a general corporation between russia and turkey but it is not the end of the game with as for hundreds you know it is not you know all the problems russia has city and some his own you know its own interests in there in syria and probably will try to limit turkey in the region but city russia is unfortunately the only actor making a corporation with turkey and giving just providing

human rights lawyer mohsen darvish who was tortured before being able to flee the syrian capital damascus has a few months of school to settle for us the branches he become like this. many of his friends and political allies in the fight against the assad regime were abused like this no one knows how many people lost their lives. the lawyer shared all of his information with european investigators and has joined human rights organizations in pressing charges against former syrian tormentors. european police are currently investigating former assad torturers who fled to europe disguised as refugees in february 1 suspect was arrested in france and 2 others of german. among them anwar are who came to the german capital berlin as an asylum seeker. this is a 1st phone it will be plenty of. these cases this is the 1st time and this is the 1st time there's a respectable independent court of judge and we have victim and suspect and the size of the law and the state of florida we don't have it in syria. we have seen documents showing that germany's federal office of criminal investigation has inve

syria in violation of you sanctions american our allies will continue to prevent regimes in turan in damascus from profiting off this illicit trade the latest wrangling comes as europe scramble to save a faltering 2015 iran nuclear deal the u.s. or the lottery withdrew from the accord last year of course or imposing tough sanctions on iran iran now says it's no longer bound by the agreement and is set to breach impose limits on new radium stockpiles to run further that that's because of the signatories including france germany and the u.k. haven't done enough they say to protect it from america's financial penalties the tensions between the west and iran escalating when there's a look back at their troubled relationship in recent decades. iran's done with dialogue at least it seems when it comes to washington. the useless sanctions imposed by the desperate us government on iran's supreme leader and foreign minister has the effect of blocking the path to diplomacy for years iran has attempted to rebuild relations with the u.s. without any tangible results in 1988 u.s. military shot down a radi

. >> we're standing on the damascus-baghdad highway just inside syria, and we're supporting our partnersn the t ght against i.s.i.s. >> reporter: from this compound still choked with rubble from lhe battles, special forces travel to even more remote outposts to train local tribes to hunt down the remainder of i.s.i.s. >> our partners help get them. >> reporter: it's been four months since the last piece of i.s.i.s.-held territory was liberated and there are still nearly 1,000 u.s. troops in syria. the main american base is in northern syria, where a strip long enough to handle jet transports has been carved out of the syrian plain. it's industrial strength logistics like only the american ilitary can do and there's no end in sight. >> there are still ripe targets out there and we're going after them. >> reporter: nothing here is easy. fall rains turned this dust into ankle-deep mud. the b-22 ospreys that flew us out of syria had to refuel in s.e air in order to make it. i.s.i.s. may be on the run in syria, norah, but it is still alive and dangerous. k,u.s. official told us that, every we

syria in violation of you sanctions american our allies will continue to prevent regimes in turan in damascus from profiting off this illicit trade every few weeks we are seeing major provocations by the americans but they're sending drones or warship towards iran and now this incident where the british are actually acting on behalf of the marriage what gives the british the right to seize any iranian share based on european laws iran is not a member of the e.u. it's the trump government decided to lead the nuclear accord the americans have been pressuring iran putting significant pressure on iran and iran has actually been acting in a very relatively cautious manner in we have to understand that you want not sure we strained forever and we knew such as this where iranian ships are being seized illegally and they cannot it actually want you want to do nothing in return if you want does nothing in return then they will put more pressure and more pressure. russia has been remembering the 14 sailors who were killed in a fire on a research submarine in the bar and see on monday 7 of the victims w

that he smeared excrement on the walls but when you have a serious piece that actually tries to damascus this this public narrative and to actually show the facts below it then they're not interested. judith on just carter's 1000 a 15 month sentence in the u.k. for skipping bail and 2012 he is expected to face a u.s. extradition hearing in fabry next year. last month mr moussa highlighted some just prison conditions as a major concern on the witness found it was said to show an unarmed deterioration in his mental and physical state the u.k. responded by saying moussa was wrong to interfere and should give it to british courts to make that judgments has mills miles again on his encounter with the songs i knew that i was going to get into a very politicized environment when i visited julian assange i didn't know him before so i took with me 2 experienced medical experts of psychiatry and the forensic expert that have worked for decades in examining torture victims just to go to the objective scientific medical basis for my assessment and what they found is a person who shows all the sympto

vessel off the suspecting it's of carrying oil to syria to iran rejects the accusations the regime in damascus is under international sanctions also job joins us now live from tehran so give us the reaction if there's been so followed so the extension. well we haven't heard from any officials yet but this has been a very very sore subject between the iranian government and the british because the iranians have said this is an illegal seizure of their oil tanker the grace one tanker was heading to through the strait of gibraltar when it was seized by the british navy on july the 4th and it was carrying $2000000.00 barrels of a rainin crude oil worth about 200000000 dollars that the iranian foreign minister how a phone conversation with his british counterpart last week where they discussed the seizure and their british foreign secretary jeremy hunt reassured the iranian foreign minister zarif that if the british government received reassurances that this vessel would not be heading to syria that they could possibly facilitate the release of this tanker the iranians were hopeful that this would

syria in violation of the sanctions american our allies will continue to prevent regimes into ran in damascus from profiting off this illicit trade. well as tensions continue to simmer between iran and the west let's take a quick look at their troubled relations in recent decades. iran's done with dialogue at least it seems when it comes to washington. the useless sanctions imposed by the desperate u.s. government on iran's supreme leader and foreign minister has the effect of blocking the path to diplomacy for years and has attempted to rebuild relations with the u.s. without any tangible results in 1988 u.s. military shot down a radium passenger plane that killed 290 civilians including 66 children and the incident was considered an accident the pentagon never apologized. i believe that given the operating environment captain rogers acted reasonably and did what his nation expected of him. and if past presidents. shouldn't hold his breath i'll never apologize for the united states of america ever i don't care what the facts are ready to reconcile iran helped organize the release of u.s. hos

syria in violation of you sanctions american our allies will continue to prevent regimes into ran in damascus from profiting off this illicit trade so this latest round comes at a time of escalating tensions between the u.s. and iran and of course it follows the trumpet ministration previously pulling out of the 25th the nuclear program a plus has reinforced panish ing sanctions against iran iran now says it's no longer bound by the agreement and will breach impose limits on your aim stockpiles and that although it allies its european allies including the u.k. have not followed suit in terms of pulling out to her and argues that others think that treats including france and germany and even the u.k. haven't done enough to keep the deal alive meanwhile other countries including russia have weighed in on the diplomatic row with russia's foreign ministry saying that the seizure is an attempt to aggravate the situation around iran and syria and that the reaction from london and washington shows that the incident had been planned in advance. teenage environmental activist group a phonebook who sho

intercepted missiles fired by israeli fighter jets attacks targeted military positions in the city of damascus killing 4 people was also hit the missiles were launched on lebanese airspace where israeli aircraft are said to have been spotted making low altitude flights israel has carried out air strikes in syria against hezbollah and iranian targets in the past flights have resumed to the libyan capital is only functioning airport briefly taken out of action after being hit by an air strike forces loyal to the wall orderly for have to say their attack destroyed a turkish drone that was parked on one of the ports runways and turkey says 6 of its citizens are being held by afghan forces it's now warned that have to ask fighters would become legitimate targets if they aren't released immediately after hours east of ministration to brooke cut all ties with turkey on friday accusing it of supporting the rival u.n. recognized government in tripoli it's threatening to target turkish interests in libya including airline flights and shipping in yemen at least 4 civilians including a child have been kil

government air defense systems have intercepted missiles fired by israeli jets positions in the city of damascus have been targeted killing 4 people holmes was also hit state t.v. says the missiles were launched from lebanese airspace where israeli aircraft are said to have been spotted making low altitude flights israel has carried out their strikes in syria against hezbollah and iranian targets in the past. leaders have worked through the knives as they try to decide who will fill the blocks top jobs so far there's been no agreement it's the 3rd time they're meeting to fill the 5 positions the leaders are divided about who should head the european commission that socialist friends to muslims is reportedly the front runner to succeed young young. he said to lack the support of most governments are letting barbara has more from brussels. well as they arrived here in brussels some of the e.u. leaders sounded fairly optimistic people like the french president emanuel mark home who predicted that 3 of the 4 top jobs would get resolved here in the talks but those talks were delayed they started late

german n.g.o.s skate aid has built a skate park in his hometown of damascus so other children can learn the sport with the hope that one day one of them can turn pro one really important thing is and that's very good and this country's conflict stable i think shows most important thing in their lives is to have to stand up one more busy busy say and you'll fall down when these kids may not be carving up in tokyo next year but it's hoped this project will help them achieve their dreams and maybe even find the next skating superstar for that with al-jazeera. ok we'll leave it there for now i'll be back with more sporting updates again a little bit later from out specks you maria right thanks very much peter for the news hour but i will be back in a moment with more of the day stories 3 of course an update of all the headlines coming up very shortly i'll see in just a few minutes. talk to al jazeera. we ask problems of both sides of the instability is corruption we listen. who are pushing the united states and president trump into conflict we meet with global newsmakers and talk about the

we never experienced it before german n.g.o.s skate aid has built a skate park in his hometown of damascus so other children can learn the sport in the hope that one day one of them can turn pro when the real important thing is and that's true it's very good and this country's conflict steve i think shows most important thing in their lives is to have to stand up one more so and you will fall down when these kids may not be carving up in tokyo next year but it's hoped this project will help them achieve their dreams and maybe even find the next skating superstar for that worth al-jazeera. ok i'll have another sporting up it for you in the 2100 g.m.t. oh but for now that's all i have to say during thank you very much for that update and thanks for watching the news hour on al-jazeera that's it from myself from pater that's right here in doha but we hand you over to our teams in london they'll have more news coming up for you in just a moment on al-jazeera thanks for watching by. every weekly news cycle brings a series of breaking stories joined the listening post as we turn the cameras on t

one of the leading figures of the protest movement and secretary general of youth activist group damascus to welcome to d w mr wong so carolan say is the bill is dead you don't believe it really is. ridiculous supply especially nod to a tradition is still exists in the legislative program and passed a fact and of be it will still continue to exist in the program until next year july so the threats will continue in the next trials months ok stressing the bit about it not being formally withdrawn but mr wong do you really think that this bill can be reinstated in hong kong's current political climate. hong kong people have no trust on beijing and hong kong government especially if hong kong government is is the one who listen to the wants of people this bill should not be introduced never be introduced half a year ago and i hope to point out and hope international communities could realise that if it is a must to listen to what some people terminated and withdraw to is the way out even carom claim that the bail is tie already is just a fake narrative to target an international audience ok s