party members who break the rules can be expelled and christians and other religious minorities say they persecuted on the mainland unlike here in hong kong which enjoys a high degree of religious freedom china many. christian church. affected. not even religious criminal hong kong is home to more than 850000 christians and more than 1500 churches christian missionaries were based here during british rule but religious leaders fear that diversity and all religions are at risk if this extradition law gets the go ahead buddhist and muslim groups haven't publicly voiced their position very lamb has apologized twice for the way the government handled the bill they say religious leaders also want her to repair the government's relations with the city's young people the whole issue of soul no respect to the human dignity so this is the really just express sort of the person entity say no to this and all the extradition law has been suspended for now protesters are hoping kerry lamb will hear their prayers and dump it for good sarah clarke al-jazeera hong kong. large parts of india are so. the worst drought in decades and that's forcing many far

the end of the day well still ahead on al-jazeera and we have an obligation to protect the hong kong christian churches and the people at large. religious leaders in hong kong break their silence on a controversial extradition bill brawled pots of the city to a standstill plus. again this time not only misses out some of the biggest when they think it's. the weather sets by the time plays. hello again or welcome back we're here cross much of the we are seeing dry conditions not a lot of rain we did have some up there towards turkey but those thunderstorms are beginning to die down as we begin the way here across much of the area though temperatures are expected to come up as we go towards monday so for baghdad $44.00 degrees for you quite city at $43.00 but as we go towards monday those temperatures and quite city could come up to about 44 to 45 degrees and even higher as we go towards tuesday well across the gulf though we have been seeing some windy conditions those die down on saturday and that will continue as we go towards sunday high humanity though has been a problem make you feel very

christian churches. object to. the. religious criminal hong kong is home to more than 850000 christians and more than 1500 churches christian missionaries were based here during british rule but religious leaders fear that diversity and all religions are at risk if this extradition law gets the go ahead buddhist and muslim groups haven't publicly voiced their position perry lamb has apologized twice for the way the government handled the bill they say religious leaders also want her to repair the government's relations with the city's young people the whole issue of soul no respect to the human dignity so this is the really just express sort of the personality saying no to this and all the extradition law has been suspended for now protesters are hoping kerry lamb will hear their prayers and dump it for good sarah clarke al-jazeera hong kong. security and invest. top of the agenda as cut to shape to mean been home at all time he spends a 2nd day meeting leaders in pakistan prime minister imran khan invited the emir the head to discuss the tensions

back and sit in to the table of the news hour including we have an obligation to protect the hong kong christian churches and the people who are religious leaders in hong kong right their silence on a controversial extradition deal that brought parts of the city to a standstill and. it really makes me sick because we are in a position to know. i'll tell you why dozens of police officers in the u.s. city of philadelphia or taken off the streets and sport a 5 star performance from the host nation lights at the top of. the trade war between the u.s. and china is dominating the latest summit of southeast asian countries known as in thailand. nations that make up the block or attending the meeting territorial disputes in the south china sea the presenter crisis and ocean waves they're all being discussed scott heiler joins us live now from bangkok so that's quite an agenda scott do we expect any concrete movement really when all this is said and done. michel yes actually sweeping wide sweep of this topic and issues that are being discussed here the summit with the leaders of those 10 nations will beg

try to prevent the crisis from escalating we feel that we have an obligation to protect the hong kong christian churches and the people. members of the chinese communist party upper hit it from having any religious faith and party members who break the rules can be expelled and christians and other religious minorities say they're persecuted on the mainland unlike here in hong kong which enjoys a high degree of religious freedom. many. christian churches. affected. not even religious criminal on call is home to more than 850000 christians and more than 1500 churches christian missionaries were based here during british rule but religious leaders fear that diversity and all religions are at risk if this extradition law gets the go ahead buddhist and muslim groups haven't publicly voiced their position barrie lamb has apologized twice for the why the government handled the bill they say religious leaders also want her to repair the government's relations with the city's young people the whole issue of soul no respect to the human dignity so this is the religious group express sort of the person e

we have an obligation to protest the hong kong christian churches and the people at large. religious leaders in hong kong break their silence on a controversial extradition bill that's brought parts of the city to a standstill. and in sports a 1st for team japan of the world's fastest racing boat competition. every reclaiming cycle brings a series of breaking stories this maximum jail term has jumped from 5 years to 175 years during the listening post as we tend the cameras on the media donald trump shouldn't be the one deciding who is a journalist and who isn't to focus on how they was caught on the stories that matter the most they move closer and closer to the tire shut down both international and domestic news coverage on al-jazeera it's my privilege to name al-jazeera english the broadcaster of the year the cartels are fighting each other and we've been told that we can feel that yes this is the largest demonstration that's been held by with their refugees since over $700.00 making right here some of the americans who sits on the planet earth here or they think that th

not i'm serious so that i'm actually although just 10 percent of the whole population in hong kong are christians to him has become the protests and it can be heard everywhere well we'll have a listen 1st and i'll explain it to you later. now you probably know the name of the song already saying hello maria to the large purchased also saying that because religious gathering like a normal purchase don't have to be registered they can just gather together it's an exemption really so because the protests are very spontaneous nowadays as i've just explained that's why they want to they are singing to him to protect themselves to prevent themselves from being charged by the police and also a lot of protest as the saying that police have become sort of evil. because they use excessive force to crack down on the protests and that's and so that's why they are singing a hymn to purify this soul that's not a serious method is that to purify their police souls well of course they're not serious but in many cases like this that it's just like it hong kong style of humor really. of course this is a very serio

hong kong. from where you sit and with your barclays team, how discrete is the hong kong economy from the rest of china? christianpast decade or so has become more closely aligned with china and has benefited from the trade, capital flows that have found their way into hong kong. none of this has been clamped down. the bigger picture is whatever happened to hong kong, china overall may be getting to a critical juncture whereby according to our forecast, china growth will slow below 6% next year. that is something we have not had since 1990 and how does china deal with this, the party being a party that delivered rapid income growth, and the promise was to escape the middle income trap. now we are seeing the situation where chinese growth is likely to slow. will they accept it or become more draconian? this with a population, not only in hong kong, which are, but in the chinese cities where there is a middle-class limited access to social media. this may be a crucial point for china in the coming year, and to hong kong to some extent it may be an indication of that. nejra: we often hear from the authorities they h

hong kong under any pretense. the new york times reports christians are among the worried and fear shipping copies of the bibles tocould attract punihsment. that's one side. hong kong's commissioner to the us dismissed those accusations in this letter to the new york times and says the amendments won't affect the legal rights and freedoms of individuals. for more on that angle, here's a former senior hong kong official, andrew leung. beijing is backing the hong kong government 100% and there the hong kong government has already made a stand. but this law is necessary. do not forget that there are fugitives, criminal fugitives hiding in hong kong. and if the loophole is that it is allowed to be continued, then it could attract more fugitives, not only from mainland but if you look at the recent case involving spain. spain, about a week ago, handed over 95 fugitives back to china under the extradition treaty with beijing. but not everyone agrees with that assessment. britain and canada have all expressed concerns over the potential affect the change in the law could have on their citizens living in hong kong. the eu

from hong kong so what was this uproar saying about china's justice system and what the relationship between the noncitizen china? here to discuss is former state department senior advisor christiant with you. powerful images up to one people and they have a woken. apparently these protests have died out in hong kong but now they're trying to take a stand. no one wants to leave hong kong to face any kind of justice. >> i would say it's a strong last stand by hong kong because going back to 97 when they had british rule they were promised 50 years of one country to systems and open recent years and recent incidences that was the abduction of the brook and billionaires in the four seasons hotel in hong kong back to mainland china i think the hong kong feel that we have to take a stand on this let's try to preserve our freedom and rights when it comes to that one country, two systems and preserve the law that is upheld over the island for close to 80 years. this is a strong rebuke over chinese role. charles: christian, one of the images in my mind that is not coming off doing these negotiations in china and the united states of the human rights violations the million muslims who are

activistjoshua wong has been released from prison in hong kong — as protests against the government continue. the main governing party in germany, the christiannti—immigrant party, afd, in a mayoral election in the east of the country. the victory of 0ctavian ursu in gorlitz gives some respite to chancellor angela merkel, whose national coalition with the centre—left social democrats was hit by heavy losses in last month's european parliament elections. ramzan karmali reports. the city of gorlitz has a new mayor, former classical musician 0ctavian ursu. he overcame the afd‘s sebastian wippel, whose victory translation: i am happy the majority has chosen to vote for me. in the end it is not about two candidates but the orientation of this town to the outside world, and that we remain an open society and an open european town, and not isolate ourselves. germany's most eastern city is sometimes called gurliwood. it has played host to a number of blockbuster films, including inglourious basterds, to the oscar—winning grand budapest hotel. it attracts 300,000 tourists annually, but many of its young residents have left due to a lack of opportuniti

hong kong's concerns. what we're seeing there is the face of president xi. the person who doesn't blink at putting prisoners in prison in their own territories and tearing down christian churches. why should he be considerate of people in hong kong. china is going to win in the sense of getting this amendment. but the question is at what price? these people aren't going quietly. >> julie: i want to talk about trade. president trump said he's holding a trade deal. he has no interest in moving forward unless china comes forward with four to five major points that they reneged on. what are those points? and in the end, what of this deal that the president is looking to get out of china? >> he gives different signals. sometimes he says i just want e call treatment for our product and services that we give to theirs. other times he seems to suggest he wants to rearrange disincentives. the danger is china takes the number position two. >> julie: china has more to lose here though. does it not? >> that's a terrible battle. >> julie: it is. >> who has more to lose, the government in hong kong has been discredited, but the people are losing, too. those are not the kind of figh

christian democrats. i'm married to evanston it's good to have you with us. nearly $2000000.00 people have been rallying in hong kong they're demanding the resignation of the city's probation leader carrie lam she bowed to pressure and apologized to the public for her handling of the proposed bill that would allow extraditions to mainland china but pro-democracy demonstrators wants the bill scraps completely they worry that the bill is just one of many steps to chip away at hong kong's freedoms and legal autonomy oh say. after more than a week of mess of protests the human tide showed no sign of abating it was kerry lem's 2nd back step in as many days on sunday a day after she promised to suspend the extradition bill hundreds of thousands of people clogged the streets of central hong kong to demand that she remove the bill permanently and that she steps down they began together early on sunday morning umbrellas a symbol of their pro-democracy desires as much as protection from the blazing sun by evening the streets of downtown hong kong were packed that kerry lamb had taken one step back wasn't enough the people dem

christian democrats. i'm married to evanston it's good to have you with us. nearly $2000000.00 people have been rallying in hong kong they're demanding the resignation of the city's probation leader carrie lam she bowed to pressure and apologized to the public for her handling of the proposed bill that would allow extraditions to mainland china but pro-democracy demonstrators want the bill scrapped completely they worry that the bill is just one of many steps to chip away at hong kong's freedoms and its legal autonomy. the day. after more than a week of massive protests the human tide showed no sign of abating it was kerry lem's 2nd back step in as many days she admitted that the law had led to conflict and distress but still hong kong's people don't feel lam went far enough. time up i'm here to condemn the police violence against us it's unacceptable that the police define our demonstration last wednesday as a riot. lamb even justifies the police violence as righteous measures that's why i'm here to urge her to step down getting our order came out today to urge the government to release people arrested in mass clas

christianity in africa. that's in the travel show, in half an hour on bbc news. hong kong'suspended plans to introduce a controversial new law allowing extraditions to mainland china. the proposals had prompted the biggest protests in the territory for years. the government had previously argued that the extradition bill would "plug the loopholes" so that the city would not be a safe haven for criminals, following a murder case in taiwan. but critics argued it would expose people in hong kong to china's unfair justice system. hong kong's chief executive carrie lam said the priority now was to restore peace and order. after repeated internal deliberations over the last two days, i now announced that the government has decided to suspend the legislative amendment exercise. we start argumentation with all sectors of society. do more explanation work and listen to different views of society. i want to stress that the government is adopting an open mind to heat comprehensively different views in society towards the bill. the secretary for security will send a letter to the legisl

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tried to push back the mostly christian groups that were running the curriculum they've also crippled in a way the legislative council which is the parliament of hong kong but. perhaps the unintended consequence of this process of decolonization is that the political institutions really don't work anymore and they don't produce leadership and so for example she used to be a civil servant she was selected by the probating establishment so she was never stress tested in an election she never had to argue her case and that leads to these kind of big errors in judgment that have these rather drastic consequences. 2 other news in sudan's former president omar bashir could be brought before a court as early as next week but chief prosecutor says bashir will be referred to trial unless he files an appeal in the next few days the former leader is facing corruption charges he was of course deposed by the military in april after weeks of protests against his government the deputy head of saddam's military council though denies reports that it's not willing to resume talks with the protest leaders who are pushing for a civilian government and again i don't. doubt

tried to push back the mostly christian groups that were running the curriculum they've also crippled in a way the legislative council which is the parliament of hong kong but. perhaps the unintended consequence of this process of the colonization is that the political institutions really don't work anymore and they don't produce leadership and so for example very lamb she used to be a civil servant she was elected by the probating establishment so she was never stress tested in an election she never had to argue her case and that leads to these kind of big errors in judgment that have these rather drastic consequences sudan's former president omar al bashir could be brought before a court as early as next week the chief prosecutor says bashir will be referred for trial unless you files an appeal the next few days the former leader is facing charges of corruption he was deposed by the military in april of 2 weeks of protests against his government. the deputy head of sudan's military council denies reports that the transitional council is not willing to sit down and talk to the opposition leaders pushing for a civilian run government. anak an engram but

christian keller, dir. economics research, barclays bank. let's get to your first word news with debra mao in hong kong. goldman sachs has joined jpmorgan in slashing its forecast for u.s. yield. byy see the 10 year at 1.75% year end, down from 2.8% as recently as sunday. the new figure prices in expectations of a long trade war and a dovish shift by key central banks. there's a million to one chance of a no brexit, according to boris johnson. a took a softer brexit chance day after saying he would take the u.k. out of the eu on october 31 do or die and come what may. iran is set to breach the 2015 nuclear deal for the first time today. it will exceed a cap on stockpiles of low-grade uranium. this puts pressure on the european powers trying to salvage the agreement. tensions have spiked as the u.s. has upped sanctions on iran. saudi arabia has removed an ownership cap a publicly traded companies performance a tedious investors. this paves the way for international backers to take a controlling stake in listed companies and ends the previous maximum of 49% ownership. global news, 24 hours a day on air an

living in hong kong where china continues to make a mockery and in the hearts of the tibetand people who faced a beautyal campaign to erase their religion, culture and language and christians and democracy activists unjustly imprisoned. they always say speaking of those in prison, one of the great forms of torture that the chinese officials is to tell the prisoners that no one remembers them, nobody knows why they are there. they are forgotten. we are here in the house of representatives today to tell those prisoners they are not forgotten. we know many of their names. we convey them to chinese officials every chance we get. and that we carry them in our hearts. it was written, i have no enemies, it is written, freedom of expression is the foundation of human rights, the source of humanity and the mother of truth. we support those fighting against oppression, we do so in humidity and truth. if we do not speak out for human rights because of economic concerns, then we lose all moral authority to talk about human rights in any other place in the world. in their march letter, the tiananmen mothers quoted holocaust survivor ellie wiesel who once said, if we forget the dead, th

tried to push back the mostly christian groups that were running the curriculum they've also crippled in a way the legislative council which is the parliament of hong kong but. perhaps the unintended consequence of this process of decolonization is that the public institutions really don't work anymore and they don't produce leadership and so for example very lamb she used to be a civil servant she was selected by the pro beijing establishment so she was never stress tested in an election she never had to argue her case and that leads to these kind of big errors in judgment that have these rather drastic consequences yeah i'm glad you mentioned china or beijing as it were because of thinking there's so much focus on kerry land so much focus on the leadership in hong kong how closely do we need to watch actually beijing in here and how it might react going forward. ok we're clearly dealing with the black box phenomena phenomenon but you know we have to actually look at one other player in this saga which is taiwan and it's quite ironic in a way that kerry has actually helped for example the. president saying when to win a primary against challenger. and

tried to push back the mostly christian groups that were running the curriculum they've also crippled in a way the legislative council which is the parliament of hong kong but. perhaps the unintended consequence of this process of decolonization is that the political institutions really don't work anymore and they don't produce leadership and so for example she used to be a civil servant she was selected by the probating establishment so she was never stress tested in an election she never had to argue her case and that leads to these kind of big errors in judgment that have these rather drastic consequences. to other news and sudan's former president bashir could be brought before a court as early as next week the chief prosecutor says bashir will be referred to trial unless he files an appeal the next few days the former leader is facing corruption charges he was deposed by the military in april after weeks of protests against the government. well the deputy head of sudan's military council meanwhile is denying reports that the transitional council isn't willing to sit down and talk with opposition leaders who are pushing for a civilian run government

christian group here singing songs in front of barricades where the police are on guard. we have seen demonstrators calling the police dogs saying go back to china, this is hong kong.ou are unpatriotic. there are tensions. around a hundred people have been hospitalized. demonstrators and police and scenes of teargas and clashes on wednesday here. there were tropical rainshowers. maybe that calmed things down or maybe people are just exhausted from the tension and clashes yesterday. for now, the discussion of the controversial extradition legislation that's supposed to take place in this legislative council has been postponed for the time being. the government doesn't show sign s and neither do the demonstrators. telegram, which many of the protesters used to organize, they say they were being hacked from ip addresses in mainland china yesterday. for the time being the test of wills continues though fortunately we are not seeing the violence repeated anywhere near the scale we saw on wednesday. john and alisyn? >> thank you for watching that for us. we appreciate it. turn away if you are afraid of heights. look at this. >> should i turn away or look at it? >> both.

christian flag over the capitol? but others hailing it as a show of inclusivity. lana zak, abc news, washington. >> our thanks to lana. >>> hong kong'sr seems to be brushing aside a massive protest that drew hundreds of thousands of people. >> they were demonstrating against a measure that would allow hong kong to extradite people to mainland china to face charges. but this morning hong kong chief executive carrie lam said the legislation would move forward and safeguards would be added to make sure human rights are protected. abc's julia macfarlane reports. >> reporter: tense moments on the streets of hong kong. protesters tried to break into a legislative complex, clashing with police. this after 1 million people came out in force, according to activists, to tell china to stay out of hong kong. they were out to demonstrate against a controversial new bill being pushed through parliament that would allow extradition to china. but the people here, with signs reading "china, hands off our home," say it is an erosion of hong kong's civil liberties and china will use it to target political opponents. >> mainland china use all sorts of w

hong kong authorities have called the protestors rioters, that's certainly not true of the vast majority of them. so who are they? this article from english language news site shanghai ist argued many are christianse hymn ‘hallelujah praise the lord' has become an unofficial anthem of these protests. this video was shared by the activist and singer denise ho. # sing hallelujah. .. studio: she describes protesters resolving a dispute and then one of them breaks into song sing hallelujah to the lord. here's helier cheung in hong kong. some of them are 16, 17, in their early 20s and so they were too young to ta ke early 20s and so they were too young to take part in the occupy protests in 2014 because their parents were not —— would not let them out of the house but i spoke to some of them and they felt they had grown up in and they felt they had grown up in an era where the rights were being taken away, they say, by the chinese government, and they felt like they had fewer freedoms, and they feel like 2047 which is when the 50 year agreement of the one country two systems agreement ends, they feel like it is quite close to them in the future and there is concern about that which is really driving t

living in hong kong where china continues to make a mockery and in the hearts of the tibetand people who faced a beautyal campaign to erase their religion, culture and language and christians and democracy activists unjustly imprisoned. they always say speaking of those in prison, one of the great forms of torture that the chinese officials is to tell the prisoners that no one remembers them, nobody knows why they are there. they are forgotten. we are here in the house of representatives today to tell those prisoners they are not forgotten. we know many of their names. we convey them to chinese officials every chance we get. and that we carry them in our hearts. it was written, i have no enemies, it is written, freedom of expression is the foundation of human rights, the source of humanity and the mother of truth. we support those fighting against oppression, we do so in humidity and truth. if we do not speak out for human rights because of economic concerns, then we lose all moral authority to talk about human rights in any other place in the world. in their march letter, the tiananmen mothers quoted holocaust survivor ellie wiesel who once said, if we forget the dead, th