joy i live by just have tang political analyst and professor at hong kong city university now do you think this act can actually protect the city's autonomy not quite but really isn't a very important moral boost for the protestants the ets and especially the mood in his united states behind a pop of free will hope to deter the chinese authorities from the ploy of the people's liberation army in the territory but in view of the fact there is the sound of american trade negotiations are still going on in fact entering a very critical stage and also you are the fact that no you need a concrete sentients are going to be imposed on all of. our at the moment the time lisa forty's. selves to burgle progress certainly the seeders are very concerned with what big considered to be. interference as you domesticity affairs and they typically traditionally will strongly protest against such interference this hong kong could lose its special trade status with the us as a result what would that mean for china. pop agreed not i think the hong kong government will continue to quietly lobby the u.s. c

the situation with antiwar activist sara flounders and professor of political science at hong kong city university joseph chang. is probably has a strong moment in the chinese authorities are concerned. donald trump ministrations views of human rights issues was to exert pressure on china starting. now in hong kong and so on the chinese leadership is also concerned with the strong kenyan support for human rights issues in china including the crisis in hong kong. believe in the coming presidential you know action can be done a lot from him in decision will come up come on pleasing. new united states and this luis is trying to stir them and. what is c aim of this sanctions it really is an effort to totally sabotage hong kong demonstrators they're not demanding democracy imagine they're demanding sanctions on their own city sanctions everywhere in the world is economic warfare and it's strangulation why on earth would anyone in hong kong make a demand that sanctions be passed on hong kong there is an inch and they may not be aware these are young people without a future. and that's because of what ha

hong kong would face a number of restrictions that the u.s. has imposed on china. but we discussed this further with joseph showing he's a professor of political science at the hong kong city university he told us there are several issues currently warring the chinese government this probably has a strong. impact the chinese authorities are concerned. with donald trump and ministrations views of human rights issues to exert pressure on china sucking world if chanson jan now in hong kong and so on the chinese leadership is also concerned with the strong public opinion support for human rights issues in china including the crisis in hong kong 8 believe get in the coming presidential you know action can be the donald from administration will come out come under increasing operate. in the united states and luis is trying to stir them up. well to america's michelle greenstein as it has this report on the 6 months of unrest in hong kong. unsatisfied protesters created a list of 5 demands the full official withdrawal of the extradition bill for the government to stop designating the protesters as rioters unconditional amnesty for everyone arrested and jailed so far for the government to sta

to the city we discussed this with joseph chang who's a professor of political science at hong kong city university he told us that there are several issues currently warring the chinese government. this probably has the strong long term in the chinese authorities are concerned. with donald trump and ministrations views of human rights issues to exert pressure on china starting. now in hong kong and so on the chinese leadership is also concerned with the strong kenyan support for human rights issues in china including the crisis in hong kong. believe in the coming presidential you know action can be done a lot from him in decision will come oh come on pleasing great. new united states and this luis is trying to stir them in. a chemical plant in the southeast texas region has been hit by a 2nd explosion the moment of the blast was caught on camera. well that explosion took place around 12 hours after a much larger explosion hit the facility near houston a fire still raging at least 3 workers are injured around $60000.00 people have been evacuated from the surrounding area the relay's has caused exte

city's key traffic arteries the polytechnic is the last university held by protesters by barricading themselves in they have succeeded in closing down the city's cross harbor tunnel connecting the mainland and the hong kong island. we want the city to go on strike at the hong kong police technic university we can occupy the cross harbor tunnel so it can help to achieve this goal and we could also block highways and other major roads in the area where the roads are ion the hong kong polytechnic university or major roads and they could be blocked to help us achieve the strike. the protesters are trying to quote squeeze the economy and it's working the city is in recession for the 1st time in a decade. but their actions are dividing public opinion with many residents irritated by the disruption. on saturday chinese soldiers emerged from their barracks in sports gear to help clear barricades on the streets it was the army's 1st deployment in hong kong since protests began 5 months ago and it's both a warning and a p.r. move aimed at those fed up with the chaos but protesters still have sympathy from some locals angry with the government. and more and. i think no one in hong kong is happy when they see this.

police and protesters have clashed in hong kong as protest in the city entered their 6th month the protesters have occupied and barricaded hong kong's polytechnic university on saturday chinese troops were deployed in the city for the 1st time since the protests began emerging from their barracks to clear roadblocks. authorities in iran say they'll respond forcefully to quell protests across the country at least one person has been killed and many injured in clashes between police and protesters were angered by a 50 percent increase in fuel prices introduced by the government authorities have responded by shutting down internet access. in the czech republic around a quarter of a 1000000 people rallied in the capital prague and prime minister andre bondage the protesters are giving bobbish an ultimatum to sell his business interests or step down opposition groups say the billionaire prime minister profit from his political office. germany's green party is in the opposition at least for now the polls show that nipping at the heels of uncle america's conservatives and there's a good chance they could find themselves in government after germany's next electio

and now, rather thanjust one university you have mentioned, the city university of hong kong, there's who are — with protesters, and possibly students from there as well, who are holding up barricades against the police, and there is some sort of stand—off, at least in the chinese university of hong kong, as well as the university of hong kong itself. so there is a stand—off everywhere. and in the past few hours, i myself took at least an extra 30 minutes to get into the city on my usual bus, and massive disruption for those who are taking the train, as you have mentioned already. theyjust have to keep queueing up for buses, orjust figure out their way to work. terrible things have been happening, and it seems that the violence is only getting worse as it goes on. we have seen disruption but also serious and horrible violence. you must wonder what is next and where is this likely to end? there is no definite answer but it seems the police and the protesters have their indication that escalating actions outside the campus where they notice police action. they may have an intention to d

hong kong, as well as the university of hong kong itself. so there is a stand—off everywhere. and in the past few hours, i myself took at least an extra 30 minutes to get into the citye disruption for those who are taking the train, as you have mentioned already. they just have the train, as you have mentioned already. theyjust have to keep queueing up for buses orjust figure out their way to work. terrible things have been happening, and it seems that the violence is only getting worse as it goes on. carrie lam has been speaking. she has already referred recently to the protesters as enemies of the people. is there going to be any sense from what she said she gets the problem here, has any idea how to deal with it? it's hard to tell if she is actually getting the sense of how to solve the problem, and there are so many guesses on what is actually in her mind. butjudging from what carrie lam has said this morning, she might be playing into two things. because besides calling those protesters selfish, she also thanked those people who tried to get to work in these difficult circumstances, as well as saying that, if the government would ever call for class suspension,

police and protesters have clashed in hong kong as protests in the city enter their 6th month the demonstrators barricaded themselves in hong kong's polytechnic university dozens of pro-government supporters tried to clear the area. sri lanka's former defense minister got up by rajapaksa has won the country's presidential election that comes after his main opponent conceded defeat results have yet to be formally announced. don't forget you can always get news on the go just download our app from google play or from the app store give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for any breaking news you can also use the d w app to send us your photos and videos. you're up to date now on d w news coming up next is the world of stories the week in reports american evan stand in for me and the entire news team here in berlin thanks for watching. and now going affectionately but as affectionately as you can. put him in the middle of his election campaign in the year 2000 the documentary was filmed for russian television. to turn the camera back on of course the film see.

hong kong. results came those out in hong kong, hundreds of people marched on the city's university where between 10 and 50 pro-democracy protestors are thought to be trapped inside. the marchers included many winning candidates in the local elections. center for the a protests, has been surrounded by police more than a week and students inside say conditions are deteriorating. frightened extremely wouldn't want to leave where they are hiding themselves for food so their life on drylly been depending food like biscuit or snacks. they are not confident to come for food.arch maryam: thousands have marched georgia's capital, blocking tuesday morning's from goingsession ahead as the government failed introduce an election reform bill. the opposition is saying the current system favors the ruling party. thecorrespondent says operation is united by a sense .f grievance reporter: georgians are blocking the main entrance of the capitol. this is the second week of the thatical crisis in georgia resurfaced ever since the reneged on aty promise to deliver electoral that would have introduced a system giving

in hong kong police fired tear gas to force back hundreds of protesters targeting the city's major universities more protests continue in the central business district demonstrations started in june against the plan to around allow extradition of suspects to mainland china that bill was withdrawn but activists are demanding greater democracy now and police accountability in hong kong let's get the latest now from gopalan who joins us on the phone now from hong kong so david what is happening there on the streets. that's right has in many parts of hong kong are involved in chaos protesters setting up blockades running battles with police it's happening in 'd this particular thing the what we've seen the custom a cat and mouse game to sleep in protesters then taking away protests there some areas with tear gas. turning up somewhere else the december seeing an escalating in its collation of the violence the confrontation between the police and protesters and one of the focal points of today's protests is the chinese university of hong kong students had barricaded themselves inside the university t

but first, hong kong's police chief is urging protesters still barricaded inside the city's polytechnic university to surrender peacefully. it's the latest confrontation in hong kong -- in five months of hong kong's antigovernment protests. although beijing has not directly intervened in the territory, authorities have been targeting individual protesters. our correspondent met with one of them. he says he was arrested and beaten by police at the hong kong-china border. to protect his identity, dw has changedd the voice of thehe activist in this next report. >> it started like a routine business trip and ended in china 's secret detention center. stanley wong was crossing the border to mainland china when he was stopped. border police searched his phone and question him for several hours. >> then in the evening, two police officers came. they handcuffed me and put a black hood on my head. then they took me away. >> for fear of retribution, we cannot show his face. stanley wong is not his real name. his accounts cannot be verified independently, b but his story s in line with accounts from other ta

city's university campuses with protesters continuing to occupy the polytechnic university earlier chinese soldiers were seen in gym clothes helping residents the spandrel protester barricades pride has more now from hong kong. they weren't out for very long probably less than an hour late didn't have to travel far this is the base here and the soldiers basically came out to the road outside and started clearing away bricks and debris from this road around the perimeter of this base but it will be seen potentially as symbolic especially given the extraordinary times that this city is living through and many people will be reading it through the prism of their own politics on the one hand it could be seen as a very innocuous gesture community spirit by the local garrison here coming out of clearing bricks the way they weren't dressed in uniform they were in their sports fatigues and they have been out before last year they came out to help with the clean up after a big typhoon in hong kong but of course this wasn't debris from a typhoon this was debris that had been left bricks that have been put in the road by protesters from the nearby university campus and there have been angry confrontations between prot

now hong kong's police chief is urging a handful of protesters still barricaded inside the city's polytechnic university to surrender peacefully they've been holed up there since occupying the campus over the weekend it's the latest confrontation in hong kong's 5 months of anti-government protests mainland china has issued a series of increasingly tough warnings against the demonstrators and although beijing has not directly intervened in the territory authorities have been targeting individual protesters correspondent is building a met with one of them now to protect his identity d.w. has changed the voice of this activist in this next report it started like a routine business trip and indeed in china a secret detention system stanley was crossing the border to mainland china when he was stopped would a police searched his phone and questioned him for several hours. then in the evening 2 police officers came they handcuffed me and put a black hood on my head then they took me away. for fear of retribution we cannot show his face stanley wong is not his real name his accounts cannot be very fight indepe

city in turmoil. this is hong kong polytechnic university. we have seen the standoff there. and said they have not rated polytech they are onlyat conducting dispersal operations, but chaos continues in the city causing disruption for transportation. the east and west rail lines disrupted. a station closed. ofin service halted because --t one train operator says calls facility damage. we see live pictures out of hong kong. we will have more coming up. this is bloomberg. ♪ paul: let's get a quick check of the latest business flash headlines. hp has rejected an offer from -- a takeover bid from xerox saying it significantly devalues the company. hp says it is willing to discuss saysential merger and declining revenue at xerox last year raises questions about its trajectory and future prospects. airbus is in talks with ge for a second engine to rival rolls-royce. we are told the new engine would currentlyn the design powering the boeing triple seven -- boeing 777. paul: boeing is working hard to return the 737 max to the skies. boeing is dedicated to integrity and safety and hop

hong kong. well after those results came out in hong kong hundreds of people marched on the city's polytechnic university web between $10.50 pro-democracy protesters all still thought to be trapped inside the marches included many of the winning candidates in the local elections university which has been a center for the protests has been surrounded by a police cordon for more than a week and students inside say conditions are deteriorating. the are extremely frightening and the so the do with want to. leave libya here they are hiding themselves to search for food so the life has really been depending . on. dr who live biscuit or snacks. not come for them to come out to research for food. thousands have marched through georgia's capital them on the government resign and cold snap elections also blocked entrances to parliament to stop tuesday morning session from got a new head follows more than a week of angry demonstrations on the government's failure to introduce a promised election reform bill and that would have made the country's electoral system proportional but was blocked by members of the holdin

of whether hong kong is sufficiently autonomous from beijing to justify its special trading status with the u.s. arewhile, hong kong police sending teams into the city's polytechnic universityng a 10 day seizure against protesters barricaded inside. the aim is to restore the safety of the campus and gather evidence of damage. a university team searched campus and found only one protesters still there. meanwhile, police say they have arrested almost 6000 people in protest in june. half of them have been students. the listing that could be china's biggest since 2015 is facing headwinds as investors lose interest in mainland stocks. state owned vendor postal savings bank of china is looking andaise about $4 billion, the turnover on mainland exchanges is down 71% on a march i. that coincided with a series of lackluster ipo's including on shanghai's new star market. apple is under fire from ukraine after changing some versions of its app to depict crimea as being part of russia. ukraine's foreign ministry and the embassy in washington tweet out that the area is actually under russian occupation and its sovereignty has not legally changed. dotted line as a the boundary between uk

hong kong carrie lam speaking. let's take a listen. some of the cleanup efforts across the city. let's take a listen. >> including the ongoing standoff it hong kong polytechnic universityhich has turned into a war zone. , as you havell referred to in response to about the voluntary participation in clearing the roadblocks and the debris on the streets, we have made it very that it is to perform defense function. but it is not uncommon from time totime for the garrison undertake some voluntary and charitable activities in hong kong. ande are very clear rules circumstances governing those situations. i can give you a list of examples in the garrison's participation in charitable activities, like when we had the supertype last year. they came out to clear the collapsed trees, which of course was much welcomed by the people of hong kong. from time to time, they also visited some elderly homes and arranged training activities for some of our youngsters and so on. i would suggest we do not over interpret this particular act of voluntary involvement, particularly if you look at the actual circumstances. ,he ordinary hong kong citizens they were taking part in ofaring roads ri

join the movement even if they weren't part of it before i'm at city university it's one it's a prestigious university here in hong kong the protesters have set up blockades and barricades as you can see they're blocked one of the intersections here this is not one of the main roads used and so transports can still circumvent this area but the shopping mall nearby has also been shut down with fears that protesters will start taking their action there right police have tried to clear this area with little luck they have come far tear gas even rubber bullets and bean bag rounds protesters left the area and came right back and set up the blockades it seems like this is the kind of day we. all right so that was a difficult problem that just giving us an update on events in hong kong but it's time for a short break on al-jazeera when we come back a court rules netherlands masri palgrave the children of dutch woman were joined by some in syria but it's unclear what will happen to the mothers plus a renewed push to head to the polls the main political factions in the palestinian territories for elections more than a status. c

fueling the unrest and the city is braced for more chaos to go pollan joins us now from hong kong to divvy let's start with this this move by police to want to enter universities where does this situation stand. that's right at the moment the high court are deliberating whether to grant the university the right to stop police from entering the university they're looking for what they're calling an injunction against the police now this is all after a fierce clashes overnight and into the early morning where dozens of students were injured in those confrontations between the students and police as students at a barricade through firebombs police also were firing tear gas and water cannon of the students and that went on for many hours today the situation here at the university is once again tense but very different i'm here at the chinese university and i see can see behind me there is a queue of young people from all backgrounds trying to get into the university their bags are being searched by designated students in there who are looking to see whether they are actually undercover police they're trying to get there was a call out for support for supplies also

hong kong university are still trying to escape after being stuck there for days earlier this week the polytechnic university witnessed some of the worst violence in. in months of demonstrations in the city meanwhile hong kong's new police commissioner held a press conference just over an hour ago well our correspondent sara clark is there and joins us live now from hong kong sara said the new police commissioner has been talking to the media will more than he have to say that. all this weekend is the district council elections and this is going to be the 1st test of government support as well as the 1st political test for both sides the other pro-democracy groups as well as they probably stop spent parties now 4130000 people have registered to vote in this district election we've had the new place commissioner chris tang he's just had a press conference and he's responded to reports unconfirmed reports that riot police will be guarding obesity be manning those polling booths on sunday's election and he simply stated that this is to guarantee public safety after we've seen 6 months of violent confrontations and this is what he had to say a short time ago at that particular press conferen

fireball slightest round of violence this week has forced the city to shut down schools and universities will rob mcbride is on the phone from hong kong it's deep into the night where you are but we're still seeing these protests and these clashes with police bro. stannis the last hour of these classes ever since this is the polytechnic university is due to one of the large campuses on the cow loon side of hong kong it is one of the areas where. barricaded themselves into the campus is the building goal purpose defenses that's why police been facing off against them the campuses the students have been forced back they've been forced to give up to the safe territory but polytechnic university this is one of the places where they have been resisting they have been building schools using. bricks in cement or don't so still ring a number of bullets of actual bomb. regulus for an attack by the police now it does seem that in the last hour or so the police have been testing the defensive of this of this particular campus they've been moving full with police riot squad to be moving forward they have been met by high heel of brian petro bombs

police in hong kong of warn that they will fire live rounds of protest as don't stop using lethal weapons eckart engaged in a standoff with demonstrators outside a university campus in the city this off to another day of clashes during which protesters held petrol bombs at the police reports from hong kong. a long day of fighting at this college campus has continued well into the night to most of the battling has been taking place at this junction behind me but in recent hours more police have been arriving and they have been confronting protesters that the number of different other entrances and to this campus most notably a fly over behind me where protesters have set up a barricade and there have been fierce exchanges between them and police the police firing volleys of tear gas and also i think like rubber bullets the protesters responding with more fire bombs and at a number of different barricades around here many protesters have been getting ready expecting that at some point the police will try to retake this campus another sunday another hong kong street turned into a battle. at the end of a week that seen a marked escalation in the level of violence. between protes

violence in hong kong as 100 anti-government protesters remain trapped inside a sieged hong kong university. protesters have been clashing since sunday in some of the most intense protests the cityn in the five months since those protests began. some protesters managed to escape the university use ropes and motor vieblgs. but over 1,000 protesters reportedly arrested the last 24 hours. many fear the situation could spiral into another tienanmen square should police storm the university. the senate has unanimously approved a resolution backing the protesters. senator rick scott was among the first to go to hong kong. it's difficult to see bipartisan support for anything these days. at least we had it for the long congress democracy act. >> we came together for something that's worthwhile. to help the protesters in hong kong. when hong kong was turned over to communist china. the citizens were supposed to get basic rights. president xi has taken those away. if hong kong is going to be mainland china, then they won't get any special rights. so we are here to protect and support the protesters. we said american companies cannot sell crowd control device. you see tear gas cannister c

a court in hong kong is deciding whether police can enter university campuses after fierce battles with student protesters overnight demonstrators are blocking streets in the city center for a 3rd day the government says all schools will be closed on thursday due to safety concerns authorities have warned hong kong is on the verge of a total breakdown of the rule of law but anger at the use of force by police is fueling the unrest and the city is braced for more chaos to go pollen is there. this is hong kong's financial center to my left is the hong kong stock exchange i'm surrounded by luxury shopping malls multinational headquarters and big banks but as you can see this major intersection has been brought to a standstill by the protesters what they've done is they've ripped up bricks from the sidewalks and placed them along the roads on this relating to a major highway bringing the center of hong kong to a standstill now this is one of just many disruption actions across the city and other parts protesters have set a barricades blockades trying to stop commuters from going about their daily lives police have come in trying to disperse them a tear gas but they

also coming up fresh clashes in hong kong between pro-democracy protesters and police this time and the university district police say the demonstrations are pushing the city toward total breakdown and to get out while you can also trail user urge to fleet catastrophic bushfires one fire chief says conditions are so bad that crews are unable to stop the flames. and we are thank you so much for your company everyone we begin in israel that country has begun carrying out more air strikes against militants in the gaza strip after its targeted killing of a top palestinian commander overnight israel says. of the palestinian militant group islamic jihad was behind a series of rocket attacks on its territory a sunni militants responded by firing rockets at israeli cities including tel of efe citizens across southern and central israel have been instructed to stay inside as one of the worst escalations of violence on the israel gaza border in years let's get you more on the situation on the ground i'm now joined by has i'm about to show he is in gaza city he is a reporter there what's happening at the moment where you are in gaza. well the continuous off exchange

station atsaid the the university, hong kong university has been closed. universities across the city ground zero when it comes to some of the unrest from protesters. many of whom are university students. we heard the announcement from some of the city bus operators, including city bus kmb suspending or diversity various lines. the hong kong police hoping to clear debris in the area. shery: right. let's head to singapore where it is day two of this year's fintech festival. we will join our correspondent haslinda amin. has? singapore launched its fintech initiative five years ago. let's get perspective from sopnendu mohanty. the man behind this huge fintech festival. good morning. sopnendu: good morning. haslinda: five years on, you have created jobs, buzz in the fintech space. how much has been achieved? sopnendu: thankfully, the fintech response has been remarkable. we did not anticipate the growth we have seen the last four years. you think about when it started, fintech was just a buzzword. we really didn't know the impact it would make for years back. a way to improve financial se

city and so this 6 month to demonstrate is barricaded themselves in hong kong polytechnic university while dozens of pro-government supporters trying to clean the area. and got a buyout rajapaksa has been officially declared winner of sri lanka's presidential election rajapaksa took more than half the vote in the south asian island nation which is still recovering from a series of day of deadly bombings last a stuff. up next for a shift living in the digital age more news headlines coming up the top of the hour i'm rebecca that isn't done and thank you. susan and now we're going to look at me affectionately ancient but as affectionately as you can. be in your continent in the middle of his election campaign in the year 2000 the documentary was filmed for russian television to turn the camera back on of course the film secretly chronicled the power grab actually everything was precisely played instruction. featuring a top supporting role. to the freedom of russia. and featuring a lead role like you've never seen before. the other mirsada marriage to the ends justify the means. to tins

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about 100 protesters are still surrounded by hong kong police at the polytechnic university. we are live in the city next. remember, bloomberg radio is live on your mobile device or dab digital if you're in the london area. tune in. this is bloomberg. anna: welcome back to "bloomberg markets: european open." 16 minutes to go until the start of cash equities trading this tuesday morning. european equities point little bit higher in conjunction with u.s. futures that point higher. industry, about the the heavy industry in europe. tartar steel plans to cut as many as 3000 jobs across its european operations. the company, which has facilities in the u.k. and the netherlands, says about 2/3 of the reductions will be office space stuff. will kennedy joins us. very good morning to you. haveuropean steelmakers been having a tough time for a long time. we know this. what is the background for today's decision? >> they are being squeezed both on the supply-side and demand-side. on the supply side, there are a -- from lower cost areas and that is being exacerbated by tariffs in the u.s. that is not a market fo

this is news these are our top stories police in hong kong have clashed with protesters at a university in the citycenter authorities have warned there was sourced to life ammunition if the small group of holdouts don't put down lethal weapons some of them have used petrol bombs and bow and arrows. a wave of violent protests is spreading across iran after the regime abruptly raised fuel prices by 50 percent so far authorities have refused to rethink that decision at least.

hong kong. live pictures coming out of the city. of course, we are in the second day of a two day university siege which continues and has been transfixingong kong -- battles between police and protesters, raging fires, tear gas, flaming vehicles. tens of thousands of people marched towards the hong kong polytechnic university on monday evening to eight those still stuck on the campus. those are live pictures out of hong kong tonight. this is bloomberg. ♪ vonnie: seeing a little improvement here in markets, but really, we are flat on the s&p 500 and have crawled up to six points on the dow jones. the nasdaq still the worst performer, just about 1/10 of 1%. that is a reflection of what is going on today from the president tweeting about the fed, more earnings, to expectations for any kind of resolution on trade. then you have things like nvidia moving up 4%, the best performance in the s&p 500 right now. guy: the ftse 100 flatlining right now. let's take a look at what numbers look like. we are seeing some stocks counterbalancing some of the mining stocks. the dax being dragged lower, so volkswagen and daimler are the worst performing sec

this is news these are top stories at this hour police in hong kong have clashed with protesters at a university in the city center authorities warning they will resort to live ammunition if groups of armed students don't lay down their weapons some protesters have used her for bombs and bows and arrows against the police. a wave of violent protests is spreading across iran after the regime abroad raised fuel prices by 50 percent so far authorities have not revisited the issue at least 3 people have died in the unrest. longo's former defense minister got a buyout rajapaksa as one the country's presidential election supporters gathering at his home to congratulate him it is the south asian nation's 1st major poll since it was rocked by the easter sunday bombings that killed more than 250 people. floodwaters have passed the 1.5 meter mark in venice for the 3rd time in a week more than 70 percent of that city is now under water the crisis is expected to cost italy hundreds of millions of euros. this is the news from berlin for more you can always follow us on twitter or visit our website e.w. dot com. and don'

hong kong? i think the answer is no. the last 48 hours have been pretty strong error, even by hong kong's standards. we saw the police trying to storm one of the city's major universitiesotests in support of those under siege in the university. we've seen them pretty much paralysed the whole of kowloon and turn hong kong's major tourist centre into something resembling a battlefield. for a few minutes today, it looked like the siege of hong kong polytechnic university might end peacefully. the young protesters began streaming down the stairway, which on sunday was set aflame to block the police are storming the campus. but seconds later, riot police began firing tear gas grenades, sending the young protesters scattering in confusion. some did not escape. the clear message from the police today — if you surrender, you will be arrested. hundreds of protesters i still hold up hundreds of protesters i still hold up inside the university, and some of them, preparing for a fight. this young man because my brother is one of them. he is 22 years old, he graduated last year. he was, go to the school after work. and we talk by what's up. we know he is safe now but he cannot come

news life from berlin hong kong cleese storm a university occupied by anti-government protesters as police laced siege to the city's polytechnic university protesters fight back with fire bombs and bows and arrows authorities have framed to use live ammunition against the demonstrators we'll get an update from our correspondent on the ground. also coming up cuba's capital habitus celebrates its 500th birthday with music dancing and fireworks but that's against the backdrop of the ailing economy still under u.s. embargo. plus max for stop and takes it to the max in sao paulo the dutchman holds off a stiff challenge from champion lewis hamilton to claim victory in a thrilling brazilian grand prix. and william glue cruft welcome to the program a tense standoff has taken a violent turn in hong kong as police move in against anti-government protesters holed up inside hong kong polytechnic university authorities have warned vale using live ammunition if the small group of holdouts don't put down lethal weapons some have used bone arrows and hurled petrol bombs at police overnight police tried to storm the university and

and hasn't seek it this is live from doha also coming up police in hong kong warn the city is on the brink of a total breakdown universities become the new battleground between protesters and security forces. but libya's now former president abel morales.

university of hong kong. we have had a night of battles between protesters and police. communities that were patched -- commuters packed onto trades. -- trains. this is the scene at the moment. the cityy, just there in kowloon. over to david engel. he joins us in the studio. this latest flareup does not look like there is any letter get -- let up. -- it'st is now just not on days of weekends or days of called strike's. it during the daytime. we have disruptions of commutes. we have another barricade being put up at the entrance of the chinese university of hong kong. it has spread down here to central, where teargas was fired for a second consecutive day. the protesters are upset at what happened last week with the death of one of the protesters, which they say was at the hands of the police. there was a lot of gray area and i shouldation rumors, say, about the cause of his death. or what led to his death. yesterday, it's wishful thinking if they think the escalation of violence will resolve this. it's in escalation and standoff. both sides entrenched. we start torching and trashing last night. a festival shopping mall. it's a massive shopping mall. i was there on saturday with my da

hong kong is our home. a gabriel:campuses across the city, all classes are canceled. universities have become the epicenter of this revolt. the protesters are overwhelmingly young, but they are not all students here. they are officeorkers, music teachers canho even scolchildren. officials in beijing say they brink.the city to the here is the number of ice catapult -- here is improvised catapult. n lice used live ammunitiois week. the protesters' tactics are becoming more radical in response. is is a serious weapon th could kill someone. are you prepared to risk killing a police officer? >> if they come, we just want to stop them. we are not going to kill anyone, but if someone want to kill youe you need to gainst them. gabriel: at po u, they are expecting a confrontation with poli. they have seen it happen at her universities. no one knows how long the standoff might last, but in the canteen, they are preparing for the long haul, with everything you might need to hold out in the event ofpe siege. but ople are on edge. suddenly, there is a con. some of the protesters have sealed of

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schools in hong kong have been suspended through to the weekend amid the ongoing protests which have paralysed the city this weekmany universitieswork from home. andrew wood is in hong kong how widespread is this, andrew? certainly schools are going to be closed, there doesn't seem to be much education going on in hong kong this week. what we found is that the protests had mainly previously been going on at the weekend but this week people got particularly angry and therefore protesters have been coming out on the streets on weekdays which is unusual. it's had a bad effect on the economy, certainly not helping the economy at the moment, we are in recession now, the moment, we are in recession now, the economy started shrinking when the economy started shrinking when the protest started round about six months ago, the stock market is down by at least 1% today, that's five and a half percent down in a week. the economy especially tourism, restaurants and so on, is being affected very, very badly and it's notjust affected very, very badly and it's not just local problems, affected very, very badly and it's notjust local problems, d