rob mcbride thanks very much from abroad and so for us this was. no doubt a subject of discussion in bangkok where as u.n. leaders have been meeting in the thai capital scott hide in their forests gone one of they've been saying now on this. yes it's been talked about on the sidelines here at these us young foreign ministers meetings over the last several days but you can bet it's going to be a big topic of discussion later on this afternoon that's when there's a tripartite meeting with the united states japan and south korea now as rob was just talking about focusing on the defense aspect ramifications from this latest development coming out of japan that will obviously be very important to the united states when they these 3 allies meet in the afternoon because what is going to be the knock on effect is there going to be an impact in this intelligence sharing and as rob pointed out when you see what's happening on the korean peninsula right now particularly with these most recent missile launches from north korea obviously sharing intelligence be

straight day these are the life pictures we're getting from hong kong airport itself let's bring in rob mcbride he's joining us on the telephone from hong kong rob what updates are you getting on the situation there you know it seems to be a very very very situation that they're very very. extremely cherry jewellers we see that now kind. rob are you still with us all right apologies that was rob mcbride that was about to give us an update from the situation in hong kong so what you're looking at right now is are the live pictures coming to us from the airports and just a few moments ago in fact in the past hour there were clashes between demonstrators there as well as the police and all of this has of course forced the cancellation of almost all out going flights for a 2nd straight day. well antibiotics have saved hundreds of millions of lives around the world but they're increasing availability has led to over use and that has made many of us resistant to these formally vital medicines now in kenya researchers say some antibiotics are simply not working reports from nairobi. this is a laborato

of forced labor during japan's occupation of korea well let's get more on this i correspondent rob mcbride is joining us live from the south korean capital it was a bilateral dispute robert sowle ending this intelligence sharing pact is going to have an impact on other countries including north korea and the us too. absolutely elizabeth it is taken many people here by surprise it was thought that south korea begrudgingly would renew this pact or at the very least simply freeze the pact it was not predicted by very many people here that they would go ahead and terminate it they said they had little choice but to do that they have been calling for a dialogue with japan and it does show you just the depths to which this route has gone now with south korea saying that security cooperation has undergone a very grave change as you mentioned there there's been a swift response from the japanese saying that this is completely unacceptable and also attacking the fact of linking security with trade but here in south korea people will say well hang on it's you japan that 1st linked trade with this co

let's go to our correspondent rob mcbride now he's joining us live from hong kong and as hard as said rob protests have become a near daily occurrence and we're expecting more any minute now. that's right absolutely it is a daily occurrence is almost like a schedule that gets sent around a timetable if you like of what's happening when we're at a place called revenue tower this is where hong kong's taxes are collected by the good folk of hong kong revenue service and there is expected to be a demonstration here about a quarter of an hour the anticipation is if they get a big enough crowd them about 45 minutes from now they'll basically take over the lot b. and bring the work of hong kong revenue department to a standstill i have to say though elizabeth we are just about the only people here at the moment they called one of these protests last weekend nobody turned up those about 50 journalists few undercover police officers trying not pretending not to be police officers and no protesters but then you will recall there were lots of calls on social media sunday going into monday for pe

action and that's describing japan's decision as to reckless over more in the so we can go again to rob mcbride who joins us live from seoul with an update on the leader's address to the nation rob take us through what he's been saying. that's right he's just to finish speaking divya it was a very parties and performance really laying all the blame japan's door talking about the various efforts that he says south korea has gone through in the days leading up to this to try to head off this decision but japan still going ahead as you mentioned there he called this a reckless decision that was sure to make things worse between the 2 neighbors he also talked about the efforts by the united states to try to broker some sort of deal between these 2 most important of regional allies really trying to call a time out and just saying calling on both countries to cool it to have a freeze and to try to disk talk this through he said that south korea was very willing to do that it was japan that rejected it and in fact blaming japan for rejecting all international efforts mediation and saying that will be

let's get more now what's happening and hong kong cause rob mcbride is joining us live he's at tong kong airport and before we get to the airport itself really strong words from carry on tuesday morning if she in that administration really believe that protests sprouts of terrorism as they said the territories headed down a path of no return what does that mean for how they'll handle the demonstrations. yeah elizabeth it was very much toeing the party line they same kind of uncompromising stance we've come to expect from kerry lamb. statement obviously comes after another weekend of violence and on sunday we saw really tough tactics from the police really taking no nonsense 2 using more of a more force busy more of its weaponry available to it to break up demonstrators and that really has as it has done in the past has really riled up the whole protest movement again which we saw then spilled over into monday's occupation of the airport here but kerry came out and she has done before simply supported the police say the police are doing credible pressure they had to use this level of forc

all right so i'll have to i'll have to leave it there with rob mcbride rob if you can hear me we'll have to leave it there and we apologize for the poor signal the poor connection with mcbride but as he was reporting it's difficult to get a signal in and around the airport because of the thousands of people that have now the sended on hong kong airport and just to remind you of our breaking news this hour that all flights leaving hong kong airport have been canceled that's according to authorities that's after thousands activists in demonstrators flooded into its arrivals hall you're looking at live pictures right now out of hong kong airport. other news and security remains tight in indian administered kashmir which has been under a security and communication lockdown for a week so the action there is expected to continue meanwhile pakistan's foreign minister has strongly criticized india's government for revoking the region's autonomy accusing it of having what he called a fascist mentality in an exclusive interview shah mahmood qureshi told al-jazeera china fully supports pakistan's p

let's go to our correspondent rob mcbride he's joining us live from hong kong where more protests have been called for today rob. that's right elizabeth there is almost like a daily timetable. what is happening where as these protests roll on and we are ready revenue tower this is in the one china district of hong kong island this is the the home of the people who collect hong kong's taxes now we were expecting a protest to be taking place here about 10 minutes ago the idea was to be so many people here it would close down the operations of the hong kong's revenue department i can tell you there's about 30 or 40 news people here and a fully functioning revenue department it hasn't happened basically no protesters have turned up it is the nature of the unpredictable they called a similar a similar gathering here last week no one showed up to that but several weeks before that when they called the gathering there had so many people here they basically swung the lobby of this building and pretty much brought the department to a standstill you know who would have anticipated when the call

project are from the country's east coast if confirmed it will be the 3rd launch in just over a week rob mcbride has more from seoul. we know that north korea has been working on all of its weapons systems it has been building up its nuclear stockpile has been potentially adding new nuclear material and warheads there hasn't been only nuclear testing as we know but it has been working on all these systems and will continue to do so according to the critics and some of the opposition lawmakers here in south korea until there is a tangible agreement or a piece of paper signed between the u.s. and north korea actually limiting their nuclear stockpile and actually trying to reduce it and sign it away which they have pledged to do and we are seeing those missiles being tested at the moment hooty fighters in yemen have killed dozens of people at a military parade in ad in the rebels targeted forces loyal to yemen's government which is backed by saudi arabia and the u.a.e. earlier a suicide bomber killed 11 people at a police station but the attack was not claimed by the committees doctors in sudan say

separates north and south korea and the 2 leaders agreed to revive talks on pyongyang's nuclear program rob mcbride has more details from seoul . the weapons system north korea says it tested is very different to the 2 short range ballistic missiles 1st described by south korean officials on wednesday in an official statement from its state run news agency north korea says that it was in fact a multiple guided rocket launcher system a test that was overseen by north korean leader kim jong un he was said to be pleased with the test a system which it said would cause inescapable distress to whoever was on the receiving end the fact that it doesn't seem to be a ballistic missile makes it less of a provocation but it also seems to indicate that if a rocket could be mistaken for a missile then it does show a significant advance in north korea's rocket technology and still this is a system that would put much of south korea within range the timing of this test is still significant it comes just ahead of planned exercises between south korean and u.s. forces in its statements north korea made no specific

the live pictures right now from hong kong airport where the police have arrived let's bring in rob mcbride he's joining us on the telephone what's the situation at the airport rob what are you seeing. yes that's it seems to be a developing situation here near the airport as you mentioned around $100.00 officers. arrived the. departure of the protesters uncovered what they believe to be another cup a police officer now they say grabbed him. sounds i guess because on him they have done the job on the internet they say that this has been proven to show that he does indeed seem to be a police officer and they have psychically been. taping and now apple security has the. b right to be trusted because some of these b b. we understand the police have now also like to win the release. he says. he has now now there is going to handle it. but he and the crew of the county don't think 6 to take him away so we do have a developing situation with the least productive. in riot gear as they have apparently suppressed the demonstrators inside it is a very. situation that you probably appreciate any sign o

have pledged to do and we are seeing those missiles being tested at the moment rob thanks for that rob mcbride in seoul for us. live in washington for us now so allan despite all of this launch activity the u.s. president making clear he's not fazed by this. call you have to remember the don't trump says that he and kim jong un fell in love i'm not exaggerating those are the exact words he used as the exchange the number of letters and he talked about his relationship had made of the image of north korea a great deal safer in fact it's just over a week ago that he was toting the fact that there had been enormous launches in 18 months and in his view that was a very big deal donald trump has spent a lot of capital on concentrating on north korea you remember the 1st year of his presidency he dubbed kim jong un little rocket man and then he is going into too far there summits and also the meeting at the d.m.z. the demilitarized zone between north and south korea where the 2 leaders shook hands and donald trump became the 1st 7 u.s. president to actually set foot in north korea we talk about shor

journalists and local people all locked in a seemingly endless summer of turmoil rob mcbride al jazeera hong kong dozens of people been killed in severe flooding and storms across asia and china left at least 36 people dead while the monsoon rains in pakistan and india have killed 160 and displaced another 165000. chalons. china has already seen 9 thai food so far in $29.00 teams but according to news agencies typhoon lekima is the strongest in years in hangzhou city jang province rivers became raging destructive torrents rescuers engine young county made high risk efforts to save people from being swept away one was nearly swept away to. a 1000000 people have been moved from their homes. the storm is weakening after making landfall but it's now headed to shanghai china's biggest city devastating weather has lashed other parts of asia to this is karate in pakistan some people directing their anger at the government. had only one way traffic to because of the rainwater that collected outside it's even entered our homes the authorities aren't bothered at election time they come to our doo

filling the streets to demand greater autonomy from china it is the 10th straight weekend let's go to rob mcbride who's been covering all of this from hong kong so rob what's happening now. that's right we have just running street battle basically right through the tallest heart of the cow loon district here in hong kong is called choice it is normally full at this time of the with their visitors tourists shoppers but instead of that we've seen police arrive in force and drive out a whole bunch of protesters who are laying siege to repeal e station here now the police of the protesters way down the street as they did so they moved in made a number of arrests the protesters have backed off it remains to be seen whether the police will move on to clear them further but they do seem to have taken a very robust response to the demonstrations that we have seen here today let me just give you a quick look around here this is as i said the shopping district one of them a shopping district of hong kong all of the shops shuttered and just a few minutes ago this was a awash with protesters fleeing from the

demonstrating at the international airport to make the rioting tourists aware of their campaign rob mcbride joins us live now from hong kong rob why have they taken the decision to try and push the people off the streets might make it worse before it makes it better. it's interesting peter the police have been accused of using tactics which are inappropriate of being heavy handed the protesters say it's outright brutality and that seems to have made the situation worse and brings more people out onto the streets but then you get people on the conservative pro beijing side that says look these are thugs these are people who are ruling hong kong's future come on get tough with them you've got the tools to go out there and show them who's boss and i think maybe we have seen a bit of the latter on this particular day we've had a another day of the typical hong kong protests they start quite peacefully almost an accountable type atmosphere as you mentioned that the protests that were taking place today are not allowed to have taken place they didn't have permission from the police nonetheless th

partners that's a response to japan's earlier decision to drop south korea's fos track export status rob mcbride has more from seoul. at an emergency cabinet meeting call to discuss the deepening rift with japan president moon j.n. of south korea laid the blame squarely with his neighbor. japan's decision is a reckless decision that rejects diplomatic efforts to solve the problem and rather worsens the situation i express my deep regret he was responding to the latest escalation in the trade dispute with japan removing south korea from the so-called white list of countries allowed to receive exports of sensitive strategic components that it needs for its high tech manufacturing. it comes on top of restrictions last month on the export of raw materials for the production of semiconductors in south korea with fears of a knock on effect to manufacturing in neighboring countries. japan denies it's linked to a decade's old dispute over its water time record. deal this move was approved to revise japan's export controls appropriately and was not intended to hurt japan south korea relations or to craft

rob mcbride al-jazeera hong kong. with al-jazeera still ahead. dozens of people were injured in clashes between israeli security forces and palestinians at the al aqsa mosque compound. and we look at the devastating storms across china india and pakistan leaving destruction in the way. hello there more wes and all the windy weather across the southeast of australia this is still coming across so the great bison am producing more of the same really day after day we got high pressure keeping things fine and dry and actual fact is not as bad as it has been sent out late in melbourne we should see some dry brighter weather throughout the start of the week on monday so that's also across into hobart but about day in sydney 18 degrees celsius and very warm on monday in perth the high that of 23 a little bit closer to the average on tuesday 21 just the chance of a shower along the coast but it should stay dry across into path and about today as well she is to melbourne a 14 degrees celsius now it's a slightly improving picture into orbit and which is a

separates north and south korea the 2 leaders agreed to revive talks on iran's nuclear program rob mcbride has more from seoul. the weapons system north korea says it tested is very different to the 2 short range ballistic missiles 1st described by south korean officials on wednesday in an official statement from its state run news agency north korea says that it was in fact a multiple guided rocket launcher system a test that was overseen by north korean leader kim jong un he was said to be pleased with the test a system which it said would cause inescapable distress to whoever was on the receiving end the fact that it doesn't seem to be a ballistic missile makes it less of a provocation but it also seems to indicate that if a rocket could be mistaken for a missile then it does show a significant advance in north korea's rocket technology and still this is a system that would put much of south korea within range the timing of this test is still significant it comes just ahead of planned exercises between south korean and u.s. forces in its statements north korea made no specific reference

effects tourist numbers are down and the stock market fell to its lowest level in 7 months on tuesday rob mcbride has more from hong kong. many passengers are still turning up tuesday evening at hong kong's international airport to learn that their flights have indeed been cancelled there maybe still here on the departure board but gradually this is all now turning red as it did indeed 24 hours ago when thousands of protesters came to this terminal and brought the departing flights to a standstill once again there was a call went out for protesters to come here but they didn't come in the same numbers but they were enough of them pushing trolleys many which got overturned here blocking the checkin aisles to once again force the airport authority to cancel all of tuesday's remaining flights it has to be said that many of the protesters have now cleared out those trolleys are in neat stacks many of those protesters it seems are now leaving the terminal having achieved their objective of bringing one of the world's busiest a.b.a. shin hubs to a standstill for a 2nd day running but it does remain to

what an agreement with a north korean signature on the bottom of it is worth as i'm rob thank you rob mcbride in seoul for us alan fish airs morning from washington d.c. . we talk about short range missiles but these missiles have a range of about a 1000 kilometers an hour would certainly bring in most of south korea and japan were not only are the u.s. allies but there are many thousands of u.s. troops based no donald trump just a week or so ago was hailing the fact that there's been enormous l. launches there for 18 months as a great foreign policy achievement when it comes to the most recent launches he says no big deal here at range missiles we never made an agreement that i have no problem we'll see what happens. range missiles a very standard. there are talks ongoing between the united states and north korea to come up with some sort of deal that the 2 leaders can sign that will lead to north korea reducing its nuclear arsenal but there's no sign of any breakthrough at the moment and certainly these missile launches don't help the atmosphere what is clear though is that donald trump nee

warned the city is facing its biggest crisis since its handover back to chinese rule 22 years ago rob mcbride reports from hong kong. sweltering through its summer of unrest hong kong prepares for another weekend of protests a short way across the border in the mainland city of shenzhen a meeting of pro beijing business and political leaders is told to support the beleaguered hong kong government its intended all 4 year spirit conveyed by the central government is to stop the violence and end the chaos violence is not good for hong kong at all. hundreds of protesters have been arrested in increasingly violent clashes with some now facing prosecution for the serious offense of rioting that many lawyers believe is politically motivated we are no political prosecution of thousands of lawyers staged a protest how they asked the department of justice immediately charged the protesters while the suspected triad gang members filmed beating up protesters last month still haven't been charged with the obstacles. and it's. not the us this. was the department of justice says it's above any political int

been arrested since protests began more than 2 months ago a controversial extradition bill will rob mcbride joins us live now from hong kong rob so another weekend of protests any sign of them losing momentum as we now enter into the 3rd month. that's right down and i think people will be looking good just as we go through this weekend what kind of support there is still is how much momentum this movement has but the weekend starts now this is early friday afternoon in hong kong where at the airport it's the 1st of these demonstrations demonstrators you'll recall held a protest here a few a few weeks ago from their point of view it's very effective they gathered a crowd of some several 1000 some of the people joining them were in fact airport workers airline staff as they finished their shifts now we are up at the departure level and the security authorities here are not taking any chances they are screening people as they approach the airline desk to make sure that they are genuine travelers they have a ticket travel document the protest itself is they're gathering down here in the arrival

with the view from tokyo thank you we can now go to rob mcbride who's and sold south korea's capital for us sells so rob what's the reaction there. there has been a swift response as you might expect to do their normally very divided political parties here coming back and speaking almost with one voice all talking about their profound disappointment at this decision the presidential office spokes person has just given a briefing in the past hour or so again talking about the south korean government's deep regret we are expecting mungy in the south korean president to give a press conference to talk to us in a couple of hours from now so south korea had been expecting this but nevertheless still makes it very difficult to swallow this is being seen here in many quarters as a real slight this is japan saying basically we don't trust you with our high tech stuff and despite japan's denials there is a feeling here that this is very much linked to the court case that has been going on here about japan's wartime record and a decision specifically by the supreme court here that sided with v

retaliate and remove japan from its list of preferential trade partners further worsening the dispute rob mcbride al-jazeera sold. north korea has launched a short range missile from its eastern coast that's according to the south korean military it's the 3rd launch in just over a week north korea's state media released these images on thursday of leader kim jong un overseeing the test firing of a new rocket launcher system on weapons day south korea says pyongyang fired 2 short range ballistic missiles carl expressed deep regret that north korea's missile launches including ballistic missiles could negatively affect efforts to establish peace in the korean peninsula so we will keep a close eye on the relevant movements and prepare well the u.s. president donald trump again playing down that latest test short range missiles we never made an agreement and that i have no problem we'll see what happens but these are short range missiles a very standard another weekend of protests has begun in hong kong civil servants from across the territory have resisted orders from the hong kong government that t

companies to compensate victims of forced labor during japan's occupation of korea let's bring in rob mcbride he's joining us from seoul to kind of break all of this down for us robyn it was a bilateral dispute at seoul and in this intelligence sharing part is going to have an impact on other countries including the u.s. and north korea what kind of impact do we expect. that's right the reason it has taken everyone by surprise here people were expecting right up until the last minute despite this deepening round south korea regret jingly would renew this pact or at the very least simply freeze it but very few people were predicting this kind of terminations we have heard south korea saying that all the blame falls on japan for what it calls a very grave change in security cooperation the japanese predictably perhaps have said this is very regrettable shinzo our base has just said from tokyo that this is very bad for busy the trust between the 2 countries and japan has also attacked south korea saying it's unacceptable for south korea in this way to be linking security with trade but people he

out 0 as rob mcbride reporting live from seoul rob many thanks indeed. measures to detect a bowler in the democratic republic of congo may only be identifying hoff of those with the disease a congolese response coordinator is also warning that the outbreak could last for up to 3 years health workers are trying to contain it spread in the eastern city of goma 4 cases have been confirmed. all democratic republic of congo has seen the bookcases double over the last 3 months the relief agency doctors without borders since the number of new cases is averaging between 75 to 100 each week at least 2700 people have been infected in the 2nd worst about outbreak in history the virus has killed at least 1800 people in the past year let's go live now to what rwanda is capital garley al jazeera stephanie decker is their staff how concerned is real wonder that the a bowler outbreak could spread their. but it keeps reiterating that all is well and rhonda has never had a case of it here but of course they're concerned because exactly that it's reached go by which is a c

hong kong in the past week has made me very worried that we have reached this dangerous situation rob mcbride has more from hong kong international airport now where the announcement was made about 15 minutes ago here and we still have passengers arriving there been going past us at about to get some very bad news when they arrive at the check in desk because basically the check in desks are now empty we watched staff about half an hour ago started to basically close up shop with withdrawn from the check in. and yes 80 aircraft that have already checked in and the be across still taking off. passengers all the gas side will be going to sea but any craft that had been checked in yet well you won't be able to check in your flight has been canceled the 2nd day running one of the busiest aviation hubs in the world brought to a standstill by the sheer weight of numbers of protesters who turned out there it has to be said the numbers are far less than yesterday monday when we saw tens of thousands of people take over this terminal there have been less stupid people the protesters turning up. scott

week has made me very worried that we have reached this dangerous situation that al-jazeera is rob mcbride is at the airport in hong kong. many passengers are still arriving here this tuesday evening at hong kong's international airport to learn that their flights have been canceled they may still be shown here on this departure board but soon all of this will be turning red as it was this same time yesterday monday when the unprecedented crush of thousands of protesters brought this terminal to a standstill in particular the departure area here again the call went out for protesters to turn out they did so not in the numbers that they did monday but many thousands still came down to where it is like this one many of them bringing stacks of trolleys which they then turned over bringing the departure aisles to check in hours here to a standstill and the airport then announcing that all departing flights would have to be canceled for a 2nd day running one of the busiest airline hubs in the world brought to a halt it has to be said that many of the protesters are actually cleaned up those tro

her priority is to stop the unrest that she says has hurt the city's economy and just see it as rob mcbride has been covering the protests. another day of protests on the streets of hong kong and predictably perhaps one small ending of violent clashes with the police this march that we were following started in a district called sham choice that's a part of the calhoun area of hong kong where thousands of people took part even though it was technically an illegal demonstration that didn't put people off given the strength of feeling really exists here in hong kong at the moment once they reach the end of the march most people simply went home but a hard call pressed on and try to stall show one police station which is just a couple of 100 meters down this road here they formed a barricade they pushed to get try to get within throwing range of the walls with police very much barricaded inside a predictably a clash broke out police fired tear gas and also rubber bullets dispersing the people who then slipped away it's part of the protesters tactics of hit and run and then very quickly squads

if it does mean sadly having to use more force which is what the fear is this coming weekend ok rob mcbride with the latest from the airport in hong kong rob thank you. running president hassan rouhani has criticized the united states for building up its military presence in the gulf rani says gulf states can protect the region and foreign forces are not needed as the u.s. and u.k. launched an effort to increase security after iran seized a british flag bessel last month let's go now to us a big who is in tehran so what else is rouhani saying. well it's the 1st time is this dress reports that israel may be involved in this u.s. led naval coalition in the region which the united states says is to guarantee navy freedom of navigation in the gulf now president rouhani said that the idea that israel would be involved for its own security is absurd and that if israel was able to provide security should do so and its own region he also said that wherever israel has a presence it causes insecurity terrorism and massacre but he also said that iran is willing to restart initially establish relations

we're getting into the evening and it's difficult to see where the protest is a show all right rob mcbride live for us with the very latest in hong kong where things at least temporarily have calmed down rob thank you for mr lincoln defense minister accused of war crimes is hoping to become the country's next president or allies being held in colombo where it's anticipated goto by russia pastas candidates and will be announced by his brother and former sharia law president horace mahinda rajapaksa quoted by a raja pasko has been accused of our saying extrajudicial killings and war crimes during sri lanka's decades long civil war and now fernandez ather rally in the capital colombo so just 5 years after their raja pasko a return now. that's right have any in 2015 when the rajapaksa. was voted out not many people thought it would be this. such a short period of time before the prospect of a rajapaksa was talked of again but that's not the case here these are give us in the stadium the convention of the s. and p. p. the new sort of political front set up by the former president that's putting

warned the city is facing its biggest crisis since its handover back to chinese rule 22 years ago rob mcbride reports from hong kong. sweltering through its summer of unrest hong kong prepares for another weekend of protests a short way across the border in the mainland city of shenzhen a meeting of pro beijing business and political leaders is told to support the beleaguered hong kong government its intended all 4 year spirit conveyed by the central government is to stop the violence and end the chaos violence is not good for hong kong at all. hundreds of protesters have been arrested in increasingly violent clashes with some now facing prosecution for the serious offense of rioting that many lawyers believe it's politically motivated we are going to be no political prosecution thousands of lawyers staged a protest how they ask can the department of justice immediately charge the protesters while the suspected triad gang members filmed beating up protestors last month still haven't been charged the one. that's the that's. not the us this. was the department of justice says it's above any pol

retaliate and remove japan from its list of preferential trade partners further worsening the dispute rob mcbride al-jazeera soul. will stay with her story robert kelly is a professor of international relations at the national university in south korea a little earlier he spoke to us he says there are no indications the tensions between the 2 countries will end anytime soon. i'm actually pretty worried about this one myself and we've had these sort of sharp things in the past there was a really nasty one about 4 or 5 years ago but this one is this one is really different i think for 2 reasons the 1st is like i said the japanese are sort of punching back on these things a little bit much harder than before it's really clear that the abbaye government spent a lot of time thinking about what kind of vulnerabilities and pressure points south koreans had where they could sort of hit hard and forced south koreans to really think about this right i mean that the south koreans are really not used to this right which is one reason i think south korean government flailed in last couple weeks trying to figu

inflammatory move of getting china's army involved there's a bit rob thank you very much for that rob mcbride the very latest live in hong kong thank you. let's move on to other news now and donald trump says he will delay new tariffs on chinese made products the us president says he doesn't want americans to have to pay more for things like laptops smartphones and video game consoles doing the shopping season before christmas and white house correspondent kimberly hellcat has more on. financial markets are reacting positively to that news coming out of the u.s. trade representative's office that there would be a delay in some of the tariffs put on chinese goods into the united states specifically when it comes to things like clothing toys even electronics now these are all things that americans buy and like to give as gifts during the busy december holiday shopping season now the president has been talking about this ongoing trade war with china and he says there is still optimism that this can be resolved that trade officials on both the u.s. side and the chinese side have been talking and

retaliate and remove japan from its list of preferential trade partners further worsening the dispute rob mcbride al-jazeera sole. as mexico edges closer to recession the government has embark on an ambitious program of spending cuts president under as money lopez obrador says his administration has already saved some $6000000000.00 but while many mexicans support the measures others a worried that vital services are under threat john heilemann reports now from mexico city. there's a new buzzword imix kampala ticks all stare at him and his money will open doors more than hard his salary so the presidential plane flies economy his supporters love him for it his approval polls are in the sixty's. it was always the people who had to tighten their belts and now it's the government that's the change no waste no luxuries austerity is. the country's congress has followed his lead both houses of cut back on benefits and thousands of the most reluctant to look at either see if we can look people in the eye and say we haven't got bodyguards we haven't got cars we haven't got private medical insurance or sa

police but marchers forged ahead anyway police have formed a blockade in front of the protesters rob mcbride is live for us in hong kong so robert are the protests as intense today as they have been in previous days. it's been a strange old day of protest this is an ever changing movement as the protesters want which i'll explain a little more in in a minute we are in a place called typo it's a medium sized town up in the new territories as it's known close to the border with mainland china until about a half an hour or so ago this whole section of highway was completely full of protesters. all the way down to barriers that they had constructed for the down there opposite them was a put the police line of riot police where everybody was expecting there was going to be some sort of clash and then just as quickly as they arrived the word went around the wall knows exactly where these words originate from they say is as we know meant to be a leaderless movement everybody said no we're going somewhere out there to a place called highway it's a couple of stops down on the train so they have vanis

all locked in a seemingly endless summer of turmoil rob mcbride al-jazeera hong kong a former sri lankan defense chief launched his presidency bid got the buy rajapakse advance or restore security and to stamp out extremism making that pledge alongside his brother the former president mahinda rajapaksa well fernandez has the story now from colombo. a new chapter for the rajapaksa. rajapaksa brother of the former president and the next defense secretary now the candidate for the sri lanka paper when the party expected later this. moment i did not. know i love my country i'm proud of my country and i have a vision for the future of this country. i value to support unity to give leadership to all kinds and bring peace happiness and prosperity to the motherland . good rajapaksa led the military to victory over the tamil tigers ending 26 years of civil war he was given a free hand by his brother then president mahinda rajapaksa to do so. but accusations of human rights abuses and walk rains league his tenure. many tamils in the north and east are still looking for answers about their missing

retaliate and remove japan from its list of preferential trade partners further worsening the dispute rob mcbride al-jazeera sole. the governor of the u.s. territory of puerto rico is stepping down but his potential successors facing a political and legal challenges recalled also you'll was forced to resign after widespread protests over offensive leave messages on government corruption he's put forward former congressman had to appeal to take over but some members of the house of representatives say that could only happen with senate approval gable and his number joins us live now from san juan gabe's the governor plans to leave office that day but it's still not clear who is going to replace him so what's the hold up . yeah we're just about 2 hours and 15 minutes until the governor rell c.e.o. is supposed to step down and nobody knows who will replace him we're in the middle of a constitutional crisis here and puerto rico the holdup is is that they need to confirm the congress which is meeting at the building you see behind me there the capitol that congress needs to confirm the secretary of st

separates north and south korea the 2 leaders agreed to revive talks on pyongyang's nuclear program rob mcbride has more from seoul. the weapon system north korea says it tested is very different to the 2 short range ballistic missiles 1st described by south korean officials on wednesday in an official statement from its state run news agency north korea says that it was in fact a multiple guided rocket. system a test that was overseen by north korean leader kim jong un he was said to be pleased with the test a system which it said would cause inescapable distress to whoever was on the receiving end the fact that it doesn't seem to be a ballistic missile makes it less of a provocation but it also seems to indicate that if a rocket could be mistaken for a missile then it does show a significant advance in north korea's rocket technology and still this is a system that would put much of south korea within range the timing of this test is still significant it comes just ahead of planned exercises between south korean and u.s. forces in its statements north korea made no specific reference to south

let's talk to rob mcbride in hong kong about this one just as i read out all those quotes there from the beijing hong kong office you can hear it's passion it's really strong language here. that's right come out this was the most important news conference of the day we had a number of news conferences here all almost giving a post-mortem on monday's events but this was probably the most anticipated in the most closely watched people looking for any kind of hint that central government might be willing maybe to offer some sort of concession or way forward for hong kong to get itself out of this deadlock we didn't get that feeling that people were also looking for the opposite end of the spectrum were we expecting that something far more serious might be in the offing people keep talking here about possibly declaration of a state of emergency bringing in the people's liberation army on to the streets having a curfew etc well we didn't get that either what we got was pretty much more of the same pretty much holding this this strong line of support for hong kong's beleaguered leader carr

they're occupying the airport for a 4th day to raise international awareness for their protest rob mcbride has more from inside hong kong's international airport. incredible scenes of hong kong's international airport we just had to walk the last kilometer to get here joining a steady stream of protesters literally thousands of people getting on buses getting out of a vehicles walking through jammed roads to make it here to the terminal bringing this terminal to a complete standstill people here are outraged at what they see as the police brutality in the way that they cleared protests on sunday evening that you. we hear to support the 5 demands and now because the police have used excessive violence and have caused a lot of exhaustion within honkin society we hope the government and police will address these issues directly and to solve these social problems and hope things will get back to normal as soon as possible. a female 1st aid blinded by police because of close range shooting that's why we're here today calling for an eye for an eye and also fresh shame on police circulating have

from office in 2017 rob mcbride has more from seoul. as one of the country's most powerful business leaders jay wiley's imprisonment in 2017 sent shock waves through south korea. the prospect of him returning to prison is equally traumatic lee was caught up in the corruption scandal that brought down former president park geun hye and her longtime associate choice until both now serving long prison terms lee was judged to have bribed choi by providing funds to a foundation run by her as well as 3 horses for her daughter's equestrian pursuits but on appeal in 2018 a court ruled that the horses should not be considered as bribes reducing his sentence so he could walk free from prison. again i feel very sorry to everyone for not showing my best side and it has been a really precious time for a year we flecking on myself the supreme court ruling overturned that decision sending the case back to the lower court which could really impose its original prison sentence which is among the convictions and acquittal of the charges in the original v

update arm our correspondent rob mcbride who is and hong kong. so the day began with a demonstration in a town called typo that's in the new territories up near the border with mainland china it was very good natured families were involved walking through the streets even though the police had said that the demonstration wasn't allowed there was no way they were going to stop the thousands of people who turned out at the end of that demonstration most people then drifted away but several 1000 people stayed they occupied the streets they set up barricades there was a standoff where i lined up with riot police and then soon as they heard arrive then the word went out spread very quickly amongst the group which we know this is a group that says it doesn't have any leaders. from one thing to another they decided to leave which they did and come to a number of other locations around new territories and cow loued and this is one of the this is shot in this is where there have been confrontations before they have quickly moved into this intersection in

that's in response to tell here is an early decision to drop south korea's fast track export status rob mcbride has more from seoul. at an emergency cabinet meeting called to discuss the deepening rift with japan president mungy end of south korea laid the blame squarely with his neighbor . japan's decision is a reckless decision that projects diplomatic efforts to solve the problem and rather worsen the situation i express my deep regret he was responding to the latest escalation in the trade dispute with japan removing south korea from the so-called white list of countries allowed to receive exports of sensitive strategic components that it needs for its high tech manufacturing. it comes on top of restrictions last month on the export of raw materials for the production of semiconductors in south korea with fears of a knock on effect to manufacturing in neighboring countries. japan denies it's linked to a decade's old dispute over its water time record. deal this move was approved to revise japan's export controls appropriately and was not intended to hurt japan south korea relations or to cr

tourist numbers are down and the stock markets fell to its lowest level in southern months on tuesday rob mcbride has more from hong kong. many passengers are still turning up tuesday evening at hong kong's international airport to learn that their flights have indeed been cancelled there maybe still here on the departure board but gradually this is all now turning red as it did indeed 24 hours ago when thousands of protesters came to this terminal and brought the departing flights to a standstill once again there was a call went out for protesters to come here but they didn't come in the same numbers but they were enough of them pushing trolleys many which got overturned here blocking the checkin aisles to once again force the airport authority to cancel all of tuesday's remaining flights it has to be said that many of the protesters have now cleared out those trolleys are in neat stacks many of those protesters it seems are now leaving the terminal having achieved their objective of bringing one of the world's busiest a.b.a. shin hubs to a standstill for a 2nd day running but it does remain to

of the hong kong leader kerry lamb will stay with these pictures and talk to our correspondent rob mcbride rob how many people are there now. while we have the last couple of hours or so peter the numbers of the swelled 2 here. my arrival hall the how wrong international airport where thousands of protesters now i gather they are occupying this whole hall and the idea of this was last time which was deemed a big success if they want to greet people as they're arriving in hong kong they have leaflets in all sorts of different languages to explain about this whole extradition controversy and explain their position and their demands i can give you a quick look around here this is idea of you who knows international hong kong international airport this is the arrival hall b. now this is the latest. with protesters. here as you can see along the years here there are many young people riding on the wearing masks this is an unofficial demonstration nobody's given permission for this to handing out leaflets to many visitors tourists really of whom have to be said to quite amused specially the visi

has made me very worried that we have reached this dangerous situation all right let's go live to rob mcbride our correspondent who's there at the airport and so another day of cancellations another huge turnout of protests. that's right not seen i mean another unprecedented day we saw massive crowds here again today and for a 2nd time in 2 days bringing to a standstill wall of the world's biggest aviation hugs basically we are well into tuesday evening here there are still thousands of protesters here but on the bridge where we are at the entrance to the terminal still passengers walking past us expecting hoping to get on a flights and i don't need to find out from the. the flight board here that it's basically solid red with the word canceled all of the flights if they haven't been checked in by a couple of hours ago then basically they have been canceled for the rest of today tuesday now this is where the nav court that was trying to already deal with delays and cancellations from yesterday monday so already several 100 flights have been canceled by this evening so you've got to add to tho

the city will not be affected members of the public are being told to stay away from the airport rob mcbride is our correspondent with the latest from inside the airport. incredible scenes at hong kong international airport. hard to walk the last kilometer to get here joining a steady stream of protesters literally thousands of people getting off buses getting out of a vehicles walking through jammed roads to make it here to the terminal bringing this terminal to a complete standstill people here are outraged at what they see as the police brutality in the way that they cleared protest on sunday evening circulating have been various clips of video of police firing tear gas inside stations of wielding battens against protesters going down escalators and so on especially significant is the wounding of a good one of the protests who may well have lost an eye 7 as a result people here are carrying various banners and posters calling police brutality calling the police murderers and so on it is true that police did seem to adopt tougher tactics in clearing away sunday's demonstrations possibly it

retaliation than anything to do with reconciliation at this stage martin right thanks very much indeed rob mcbride our correspondent live from seoul well meanwhile north korea has launched a short range missile from its east coast that's according to the south korean military and it's the 3rd such launch in just over a week north korean state media earlier released these images of leader kim jong il in overseeing the test firing of a new rocket launches in stem on wednesday south korea says the north fired 2 short range ballistic missile khan expressed deep regret that north korea's missile launches including ballistic missiles could negatively affect efforts to establish peace in the korean peninsula so we will keep a close eye on the religious movements and prepare. for president didn't seem bothered by these tests. short range missiles we never made an agreement on that i have no problem we'll see what happens but these are short range missiles they're very standard. now let's go to hide the ask him some interim van cog where there was more u.s. reaction in just about the last week north korea

with the 2 correspondents on the story who got robbed mcbride he's in hong kong and we've got. his in shen's and on the chinese mainland says hey let's go to rob rob what has brought about the 2nd cancellation of all outgoing flights. that's right martin well the announcement was made about 15 minutes ago here and we still have passengers arriving there been going past us at about to get some very bad news when they arrive at the check in desk because basically the check in desks are now empty we watched staff about half an hour ago started to basically close up shop with withdrawn from the check in. and yes any craft that have already checked in at the cross still taking off the passengers on the yes side will be going to see them but any craft that had been checked in yet well you won't be able to check in your flight has been canceled as you mentioned there a 2nd day running one of the busiest aviation hubs in the world brought to a standstill by the sheer weight of numbers of protesters who turned up there it has to be said the numbers are far less than yesterday monday when