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The u. S. Embassy calling on the u. S. To push through a bill that would give them greater powers to safeguard hong kongs autonomy and as i mentioned the protesters are now sending out an International Appeal for help and their efforts and jim brown has more on that part of the story obviously these protesters want global attention their target on sunday the United States. To chinas leaders this will fuel their suspicions that foreign powers a behind the 3 and a half months of unrest in hong kong the protest his message is for the u. S. Congress and the act they want passed that would lead to close a scrutiny of human rights in hong kong and u. S. Sanctions against hong kong leaders he wants to u. S. Congress to pas that hong kong human rights and you know see as as chance was about this you were so important for us because you can selectively punish those off issues who trample on our freedom riot police blocked the road in front of the consulate and were braced for trouble. As in previous demonstrations these marchers represented a broad Cross Section of Hong Kong Society on tuesday hong kong will be under the international spotlight once more when the United Nations Human Rights Council meets in geneva with chinas representative expected to defend the hong kong polices handling of the current turmoil. Sundays protest comes 5 days after the chief executive kerry lamb announced she would officially withdraw the controversial extradition bill that set off the unrest there was further trouble on sunday night when police and protesters clashed in a main subway station parts of which were vandalized adrian brown al jazeera hong kong. It is one persons being killed in anti immigrant droids in South Africa Police fired stun grenades and rubber bullets to break up crowds in johannesburg attacks on migrants and foreign owned businesses in recent days a sponsor telling ation on South African shops in nigeria some of the miller has latest. Tensions have escalated here in the johannesburg Central Business district somebody has been injured people here say theyve been shot theres a high Police Presence people here are concerned about continuing attacks and this has only further angered people here theres great concern and thats. Theres great concern that the spine and says were going to end this escalate and much of the violence has also been fueled by rumors people are scared there for a straighted many say they want an end to this violence but there are those who say theyre willing to retaliate. And they are the people we. Hear in the who wanted to attack the come to the street now. From a day then they probably come they say we broke to them oh now its for these people it is good. Yeah they want to. Miss the police have fired rubber bullets and they say theyre trying to quell the tensions prevent an escape of violence and this has been going on for a number of days in the past week with have been clashes between foreign nationals and South Africans shops have been looted many of these stores here remain closed today concerned the Business Owners are concerned about continued looting and wiped my tap and. Found more ahead on the news hour including the battle is on to protect untouched parts of the amazon and an area thats being ravaged. And in sports canada celebrates its 1st tennis grand slam champion as Serena Williams falls short yet again and have a record equalling quest. In the last hour polling booths have closed across russia after the country cost its votes for its Regional Parliaments elections are seen by many as a test of Vladimir Putins popularity after the lead up was marred by a controller say lets cross to london to sue turton and the team in our european broadcast center. Thats right robert all opposition politicians were barred from standing in this election the move sparked weeks of protests in which hundreds of arrests were made some of those people have since been jailed and then again a change by the kremlin it was announced that all of the candidates from president putins in knighted russia party or a standing as independents around 7300000 people were eligible to elect 45 lawmakers in the Moscow Parliament elsewhere in the country elected 16 governors alongside local assemblies sebastian has been following all the developments and sent this report from moscow. Its just the way you go sobel has become the face of a new protest movement in moscow the 31 year old lawyer was banned from running in the election for the citys Regional Parliament and has been arrested several times for organizing protests even though her name is not on the ballot she still had to the polling station the opposition led by election of only decided that a socalled smart fold thats a vote against the Ruling United Russia Party of president Vladimir Putin would be more effective than boycotting the elections altogether the prettiest legals are all its a protest vote its not a vote for your candidate we go to the street was a protest is now we were out in protest and it is a form of protest to show that we disagree with politics as a current story. Sundays election follows weeks of some of the largest protests seen in russia for years tens of thousands of demonstrators urging the government to let her and other independent opposition candidates run riot police reacted by arresting 106 protesters have been tempted up to 5 years in prison president putin justified the arrest by saying protesters broke the law because they didnt have a permit he also doesnt see a problem in vanni elite and the opposition candidates. In some countries there are 30 to your 100 candidates because of their war does not change from this its not quantity but quality that is important i think that we have decent conditions. But some russians say that despite a decades long rule of the United Russia Party something could change because of the protests and some president bush will go so its im holding for the 1st time my life why i dont know i think i did not feel my importance i did not think you can change anything now it appears that we cannot prove. From what was. In most cases a protest vote against united russia will be a vote for the communist the 2nd Largest Party in russia this may look like a democratic election but a few things are missing most importantly the names of independent opposition candidates and not on the ballot papers while the outcome of the rain to no actions are not expected to make much of a difference if the opposition strategy for this socalled smart forward is successful it will give a signal to the government and opposition is growing just before the polls close the oppositions call to participate in the vote didnt seem to have been heeded similar to previous elections turnout was only around 20 percent steps aljazeera moscow lets get more on this joining us live from washington d. C. Is an abortion scalia a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy think tank Washington Institute ana thank you so much for joining us 1st of all just wanted to ask you about the momentum it seems with such huge sum of protests and indeed us that was explaining many of the united russia candidates hiding their allegiance that the momentum seems to be with the opposition but how much is this moscow centric and how much is that spread right across the country. Thank you so its this is not just moscow centric it does seem to be spreading beyond moscow certainly we see the sentiment in St Petersburg where putin backed. Putin backed leader is very unpopular and frankly when it comes to local elections in russia in even in the past other candidates had been able to go through so this isnt just moscow so we were looking i am guessing that this must be a 3rd decade the putin would have on control of the country are we really seeing him in trouble or. Well were certainly seeing that his rule is not as solid as it may have appeared the ongoing protest activity activity in recent months really has been the largest since 20112012 protests thats very significant were seeing that the that that the people are interested in and they genuinely feel that they want to have a stake in what happens in their country so even if this is not it its too early to talk about the end but the fact that people are protesting the fact that. So many of united russia candidates and that is putin is party are actually trying to camouflage themselves running as independent candidates and shows how how a little popularity United Russia Party has a has how little popularity united russia has these are sign the simply that there are cracks in the regime at least. The leader if you like of the opposition is saying this really shows the authorities have no sense of currying on with a democratic they elected councillors in that region assemblies this is true that he is kind of dying in these elections. It that that seems to be the case and you know the other issue is that it is the then president a crackdown on protesters that weve seen in recent months or in the crackdown has been so much more violent. Than what weve seen in the past and that shows just how worried the kremlin is at losing powers that some of the the people who were arrested they were arrested for such minuscule things and received several your sentences for example one person had barely touched a tip of of the helmet of somebody from the for from the police and for that he he had gone to jail i mean that shows you how worried they are losing power very grateful for your thoughts on this and of course just going to thank you so much for joining us from the Washington Institute. Another minister house quit the cabinets of britains Prime Minister Boris Johnson over his brechts that strategy or rod who was working pensions secretary will also no longer be a conservative m. P. She says she no longer believes that johnson wants to reach a deal before the u. K. Is due to the year at the end of october she had voted to stay in the European Union jury in the wrecks that referendum 3 years ago or of told the b. B. C. She resigned because too much of the governments planning is going into a no deal brecks it. I have not seen enough work going into actually trying to get a deal when earlier in the week i asked number 10 for a summary of what the planning was for actually getting a deal i was sent a one page summary so its the combination of the fact that theres not enough work going into actually getting a deal which is i think is not what the Prime Minister signed up to try to do and secondly the expulsion of 21 of my colleagues who are good more direct conservatives i misread made reference there to the sacking of 21 conservative m. P. s earlier this week for not voting with the government and her Resignation Letter she described it as an assault on decency and democracy one of those fired was the grandson of former Prime Minister so Winston Churchill the sackings have led to questions about johnsons leadership has loaned slowly reports. Londons Parliament Square is graced with a statue of britains most famous politician and the ghost of Winston Churchill his legacy and beliefs are very much being on peoples minds in this extraordinary contradictory week. When Parliament Resumes Prime Minister Boris Johnson himself a biographer of churchill invoked the language and even the intonation of the wartime leader to suggest that the u. K. Was somehow in a conflict with the European Union he used the very same words about the e. U. That churchill had done about nazi germany in 1945 you know surrender that sort of language comes from the playbook of johnsons new chief of staff Dominic Cummings a brick sit idealogue behind the slogan take back control and cummings many believe was also behind the brutal treatment of those conservatives who could not accept johnsons agenda contrary to the Prime Ministers assertion one of those was cynical a soames a conservative grandy summarily sacks with 20 others for refusing to support johnsons do or die approach to leaving the European Union but his speech after being told he was no longer welcomed as Johnsons Conservative Party was extraordinary not least because johnson had sacked the grandson of Winston Churchill where they were together and 950. 00. I am truly very sad that it should end in this way only does my most fervent hope that this house will rediscover the spirit of compromise humility and understand that will enable us finally took push ahead with the vital work in the interests of the whole country sitting in front of soames was another conservative rebel Richard Benyon who was also sacked the next day he told me of his concerns about the direction the party he loved was being taken in the attitude of some of the people. Who were around the Prime Minister not the not only coming to speak about that yes and you know i think they have a big responsibility for the size of the rebellion last night and some of the things that were said to colleagues of mine more extraordinary. The generally held view is that the Johnson Administration is now so terrified of nigel farage as brecks it party that despises the European Union that it will no longer brook any dissent that was faraj to status in british politics force the bracks a referendum in the 1st place and now it seems he is driving the conservative party to talk to us. Consequently today is conservative party finds itself at war with the European Union and with itself its legacy and relationship with its most famous son the irony isnt lost on anyone that after the 2nd world war churchill gave all of his most famous speeches in which he called for the creation of a United States of europe and working together economically and socially for the greater good that phrase United States of europe is used by brick sitters including those inside the johnson ministration as the biggest insults of all. Newfound love of the European Union from those terrified of bricks it is now forced johnson into a corner and could easily lead to his resignation in the coming weeks the conservative party has a lot of thinking to do Lawrence Lee Al Jazeera london. Frances Health Minister says 1500 people died in this summers heat wave in france but many more lie as was saved by a Public Awareness campaign there were 18 days of recorded heat wave in france during june and july which prompted authorities to take preventative measures warnings were issued and water was handed out and cool rooms were set up this years heat wave killed a 10th of the 15000 people who died in the summer of 2003. Thousands of people have taken part in both news 1st ever gay pride march the parade and the base for life despite fears that online hate speech would fuel violence more than a Fountain Place offices were deployed to protect the march after conservative groups organized counter rallies governor is the last balkan country to hold a pride parade. As if im am but same in london this hour back to rob after so many doha for more of the days. Now and still ahead on aljazeera design in the modern world we take a look at the impact of the bar house school 100 years on and carried the continues to go on beaten to his latest bout were going to hear from him in sports with leo. However once again great has been reported in southern pakistan but cloud confirms it is a little bit late in the season that the monsoon should be withdrawing but its techies talking about it how we have to change the season in europe and beyond europe to the stands this weakness in the sky this line of showers runs from armenia all the way to tajikistan through turkmenistan and thats where youll see rain 40 but south of that you will not see it but you will see that northerly breeze which is slowly bringing the temperatures down not everywhere but terence times 28 back that to 40 armed with the same hint of a normal. Be nice to ned there is down to about 29 not a huge change mostly but the wind is strengthening and that northerly is blowing down the gulf is not particularly dusty the moment no has it dropped humidity very much is still on the cusp of being unpleasant in bahrain and qatar as examples but he made his really high and thats where it should be in salalah with the hollies still blowing probably in hearts to gain votes i get to choose day which means cloud drizzle greenness ranson alla our record breaking High Temperature in cave time yesterday 35 degrees back down to at or below normal now in the sunshine but there is rain further east just touching southern mozambique. To strengthen the good you have to show do good all the more we become still fight against corruption. Destroy new cheering heroes like new who are about to be refused a 50000000. 00 bribe the achievement of heroes like him to showcase by the International Ace award it shines a light on these heroes because the best way to fight a dark used to shine a light lets make the road to a better place nominate your Anti Corruption mirror now. Talk to aljazeera we ask what guarantees will you give to the people who will be attending the minimal workshop we listen im supposed to explain apologize for someone who is also terrorizing we meet with global newsmakers and talk about the stories that matter on the soldiers era. We want to go to 0 a reminder of our top stories this hour the u. S. Secretary of state says talks with the taliban are dead for the time being and the special envoy to afghanistan is being recalled taliban representatives say the cancellation of talks will harm the u. S. More than anyone. But testers have blocked a major road in Hong Kong Central district and vandalized a metro station earlier thousands marched peacefully to the u. S. Consulate there calling on congress to pass legislation. Julys sanctions to be imposed on leaders. In south africa have fired stun grenades and rubber bullets to break up crowds on the streets of central johannesburg theyre trying to stop the anti immigrant riots that have left at least 5 people dead. Thousands of islanders in the bahamas and abandoning their homes destroyed by how to condone even the strongest storm ever recorded there is known to have killed 43 people that total is likely to climb significantly when you are part of reports from freeport the main city on grand bahama island. Floodwaters have finally receded on the island of grand bahama. For residents of this part of the country this means coming to terms with the devastation left over from Hurricane Dorian. On the eastern end of the island more than 80 percent of homes were destroyed. This high school near free ports tourist district has been transformed into a shelter for the displaced many here have lost everything to the hurricane even their loved ones for me and i lost my home as well and. Decided to stay back home. From what i have say and heard everything is like completely gone so. You know this is the guys you know. On and i you know know any player they have but. About 80 people are staying at this shelter freeport remains without electricity and the heat is almost unbearable but there is food and water and doctors on site to provide medical attention to anyone who needs it by i really thank god for life right now and i thank god for the u. S. Coast god sent you participated you guys and i you know bringing us food and clothes and water and stuff yeah. Search operations continue for hundreds of people still missing but the destruction from the storm is so widespread that even with the assistance of the United States coast guard and Border Patrol there are still places in the country that rescue teams have yet to reach one of the Biggest Challenges in delivering Disaster Relief to survivors of Hurricane Dorian has been limited access to the areas worst hit by the storm only up until a few days ago this airplane for example along with freeport airport were sitting under at least 2 meters of flood waters. Its been several days since the storm passed many of the people weve met seem to still be in shock but nonetheless grateful to be alive and that man was not below. Freeport bahamas. Well earlier i spoke to walter caught a what ing and hes the americas regional director of the International Federation of red cross and red crescent societies i began by asking how his organization is coordinating such a large recovery effort we have different kinds of supplies is based only darwin. We have some. Water. Systems and we are also beginning blankets on other kind of relief i think is the support in that aids but of course even when we are doing response and really we also are in the process to prepare well the recovery phase very point who eat the jet more. It with really their unlikely. We are looking now open this debate you know the bridge that of the recovery site we are well in but also responding to the but also repair you know what it is what it together with the other oh go to the u. N. And see the might of the region were in favor of the 4 to go with it as well as all i would understand that the situation on the ground is extremely complex and very confused how do you avoid duplicating aid that is being supplied by other organizations for example. We have a way were going to need to do we have any better money we need not that this is nice not an emergency. And also we see the mother didnt know what in the region we also have a baby with the. U. N. Uses for instance yesterday we sent. You he said you know what really helped me then we had done it in everything we were it together did not of course any any emergency is essentially a problem and disorder and mess but we are really working on creating systems of the nation but their communication that i dont recall with a legal by need only going to be untied to be blunt though we did force this in the ground to the military forces that are also pretty healthfully this kind of situation of the boat it is the only district that they out we are we have put it in all of these together we have people who did all of you have support in the National Guard support in the National Psyche obamas record of those so you know what else he did a role in the government with the government obama us on that we would have that we clearly its important to get the items that you were talking about such as tarpaulins and so on to people but youre also talking about dealing with people who have and many of them lost their livelihoods and in many cases have lost friends and family thats a big psychological big mental impact on people that youre helping as well how do you cope with that is very important question do we are we are doing safe i also you know where he face of response we are saying theyd be with other ministers on Psychosocial Support i mean if you saw it like. First soup or 1st 8 on psychosocial of others to the people that you suspect that had to get there with the relief efforts and then trying to see over there it kind of needs that. T. V. Golly. You know relate send or some cases to more complex or in the ground or outside of the country it is the site were working on that together with assistance is this response this is in the ground and of course there are many together all these different where we are looking for having a frame more of action a plan of action that is going to fret over all follow when the guidance of the government following the guidelines of the National Psyche of the red cross by hamas and seen how to create what he was going to support and this is the logic of this situation to the ground sudans 1st cabinet since the ousting of former president almost all bashir has been sworn in 18 ministers from the list named by Prime Minister abdullah conduct and here this week a fall many in charge the other 2 were not sworn in amid a dispute the cabinet has 4 women including sudans 1st female foreign minister theyll stand office until elections are held in the next 3 years here but morgan has more from khartoum. 3 days after sudans Prime Minister abdullah who was appointed last week revealed his cabinet of ministers on thursday the capital sworn in in front of the silvering council now this is the 1st cabinet to be formed since the ousting of sudans former longtime president all men in april by the Transitional Military Council but the announcement was delayed by 2 weeks and the Prime Minister says its because he was trying to be sure that each and every region in the country was represented as well as making sure that women got a fair share in their representation in government he says thats because women were at the forefront of the revolution that started in december and not just to the ousting of the former president but also to the formation of the Transitional Government and asked such sudan now has its 1st female foreign minister along with 3 other female ministers in the Transitional Government now the Prime Minister says that this Transitional Government will be prioritizing peace in the various conflict zones in the country as well as focusing on stabilizing the economy which sparked the revolution in december but bringing about peace may not be so easy the sudans revolutionary front an armed Group Coalition which is also part of the forces of freedom and change coalition which is represented in the government says that the deal that brought about this Transitional Government that was signed between the Transitional Military Council and the forces of freedom and change is incomplete and does not address the core issues of the conflict then there is the economy the Prime Minister himself has said that to revive the economy and to stabilize it the country needs at least 2000000000. 00 initially and then another 8000000000. 00 to continue the recovery so it looks like this by the government being sworn in there are a lot of challenges in front of it before elections are held 3 years from now. Ok lets go to new york or thousands of School Backpacks are being laid outside the United Nations after the worst year on record for children caught up in Armed Conflict the u. N. Says 2018 saw 12000 children killed or maimed thats the highest number since they began monitoring the exhibition is a message to the World Leaders calling for greater protection of children living in war zones diplomatic editor james bays has more from outside the United Nations in new york. It is a haunting image here in the garden of u. N. Headquarters you can see that the u. N. Childrens Agency Unicef of laid out backpacks blue u. N. Colored backpacks they look like a graveyard theyre meant to look like a graveyard because each of these backpacks represents a child who died in a conflict zone in 2018 there are 3758 backpacks and these are only the confirmed deaths they believe the real number is many more more than 12000 children were killed and maimed in 2018 frankly. Its a haunting statistic 3758 children died as a result of the conflict last year thats the highest number since weve been recording numbers where most of those deaths. Theyre spread out but afghanistan somalia syria and yemen are the worst places to be chopped children caught up in the conflict situation this artist relation by unicef has been deliberately timed in just 2 weeks time leaders from all around the world will be here at u. N. Headquarters for the u. N. General assembly and theyre hoping the children in conflict zones will be a top issue when they meet. In the amazonian area of lovers and cattle farmers who are accused of destroying the rainforest with almost total impunity local prosecutors say there arent enough officials to stop them latin america editor this in newman has been visiting a community where residents sustainable lifestyle is under threat. Francisco. As hes called lives in the heart of brazils amazon rain forest. Hes 61. 00 but can still climb up a tree in the blink of an eye the fruit is too green he says so he slides down without. He also grows cola used to making chocolate many beans and resist chickens. Were living in an era in which we dont need to think about wealth but about survival if you have enough to buy shoes you can produce food which are the essentials along with health you can live well chico is one of the founders of a Sustainable Development settlement here and on a pool there are 160. 00 families who live off the forest without destroying it but this oasis is being increasingly ravaged this is what the untouched amazon rain forest looks like almost impenetrable and just across the road here is the perfect example of what brazils president calls opening up the amazon for Economic Development and progress protecting the forestry milligan lauders and cattle farmers is dangerous she could takes us to see the charred remains of what was the settlements community center. 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