The Hong Kong Police is still the University Campus being held by protesters following a standoff that lasted all night this happened after some protesters held petrol bombs they even shot hours at Police Officers who fired back with tear gas and water cannon so reports from hong kong. With parts of the Polytechnic University ablaze police moved in to clear the protesters they barricaded themselves on campus students fled as riot police fired tear gas and made arrests. At all of my balls. With the help of wealth and. This came after a marathon standoff with protesters blocking all access to the University Like the petrol bombs and devices to keep police and. Right squad surrounded the university after a day of violent confrontations with officers shot by an arrow some students fled on roads and an overpass others refused to leave i wanted democracy and freedom will come home call that is sincere this is still lets just fight at the last moments to see this. And just get the. Hong kong Central Coast harbor tunnel with mines blocked causing major Traffic Congestion on monday schools are also shut for a 2nd week as well as classes at major universities this area remains in lockdown major roads are blocked in one of the busiest parts of hong kong as ripe place move in to make arrests and crackdown on those protesters whove made this area the new battleground the antigovernment movement. Demonstrations now in their 5th month the government has warned it will escalate its efforts to still come in a city thats been rocked by its worst political crisis in decades. Are being go live now to sara to get the very latest and sara does it seem very much in hong kong as if this latest incident represents a significant shift both in the the way the protests are being carried out and indeed the way theyre being policed. It does montane and certainly the why things are operating here at the moment with my package weve got the Polytechnic University behind me we still have explosions going off on the campus and we got a fire on the overpass in the place of just come back to this certainly indicates what we think is that there are still a number of students still on that campus earlier we saw in the last hour weve seen at least more than 100 arrests on the road in front of the police clearing out those protesters the last of what we thought were the protesters on this campus but clearly the why the right place have moved back in now that indicates that there are still some protesters here at Polytechnic University we can also confirm that. On nice and road which is not far from where we are in kelowna protesters have gone and blockading that particular right now thats a very very busy part of calderon and its also a very busy shopping district so well have a number of tourists will have people who have onlookers as well as those protesters that are blocking and wrote in calderon now and of course looming over all of these places for the last 5 months has been the possibility of involvement of chinese soldiers from the mainland and we know that there is a there is a contingent of the pier at actually in hong kong theyve been seen clearing out the debris and mess after the protests what sort of message is that sending. All that was on saturday here in hong kong where those the Peoples Liberation army chinese army moved to try and clear the road there or what the people i say it was they were hoping the onlookers in the public trying to clear that particular passage now with regard to the Peoples Liberation army the chinese army they havent been requested to intervene or to help assist in these protests yet the protocol is the Hong Kong Government must ask the chinese army to assist at this stage it hasnt happened but as you mentioned we have a number of garrisons here in hong kong where those Peoples Liberation army that the forces based at this stage they still havent been requested to assist in these 5 months of antigovernment protests in hong kong all right sara thanks for that sarah clarke then with the very latest from hong kong now bolivians are facing food and fuel shortages as supporters of the former president ever moralists continue to blockade roads the new interim government says its created an air bridge to the main says hell apparels with military planes delivering supplies theyre working on similar plans in other cities. Resigned he went to mexico after winning an election that many thought was rigged but he still has a lot of support in the poor rural areas today is about reports from one such area. The city of the province of bison mourning. The penis was shot during a protest carried out by a will more or less supporters here his relatives say she was shot in the head. We are said and her to because he is not the only one that was killed they took the others a few hours away we want a solution because when we took him to the clinic we had to pay a lot we want justice. Even what alice resigned last week after being accused by the oas of committing fraud in the president ial elections but for these people he was the man who dignified them. Most of the people are from indigenous communities and are coca leaves growers and they were trying to go through the main road towards the capital past but they were prevented by the police they had to escape and theyre telling us that they were ambushed right in this. Facebook live video was filmed by one of the protesters. Was 18 years old and was shot in the stomach while filming the clashes live. He was killed that day. So is the public they are militarizing this whole area because they want to believe we are criminals they shot at us from everywhere and they can do it because we are poor. The actions of Security Forces are currently being investigated theyre accused of using live ammunition and Excessive Force on from what i list demonstrators they enter American Court of human rights says at least 9 people were killed here and over 130 were injured. Man says the response by the military was disproportionate. What happened was a massacre in this country they want to say it was a confrontation on friday the government issued a decree that exonerates the armed forces of any killing and one hour after that decree the police and the military started using live ammunition against protesters. The government says the protesters were infiltrated by foreigners and were using improvised weapons it will be the real i have asked the attorney general to investigate what her unit he told me the delay was we couldnt rule out of did not want to be the bodies we have asked the attorney general to investigate this as soon as possible because tropic was the launching pad for it will more or less political career as a leader of the Growers Federation many people here remain loyal to him and do not trust in the new interim Administration Many say at call for elections and political negotiations a crucial to prevent further loss of life. And chiles president has condemned Police Violence during the 4 weeks of protests over social and economic inequality this is the 1st time sebastien been yet or has criticised the police and using them of using Excessive Force prosecutors are investigating more than a 1000 cases of alleged abuse 22 people have been killed thousands have been injured in the past month of rallies last week the government agreed to hold a referendum to replace the current constitution which protesters say discriminates against the poor and ecuadors congress has rejected president lenin more than those package of Economic Reforms is the latest setback in the countrys attempts to reduce its heavy fiscal deficit. The measures would have improved tax collection and given more autonomy to the central bank the reforms have been part of a Loan Agreement with the i. M. F. The government had to backtrack on plans to remove fuel subsidies after 2 weeks of violent protests in october. The sri lankan wartime defense chief has won the president ial election after a campaign marked by nationalist rhetoric and promises of better security got a buyer rajapakse and now has the task of lifting the country out of an economic slump made worse by devastating bombings earlier this year than a smith reports from the capital colombo. To his supporters mainly from the senhor put this majority got a buyer rajapaksa is the president sri lankan. They believe he can strengthen security after the Easter Sunday suicide bomb attacks 263. 00 people were killed the government ignored intelligence warnings that the bombings were imminent its paid the price for that and other perceived failings at this Election National security was. A car coming the. Training people were crying in fact every other day there was some agitation and obviously they were waiting for an opportunity to change the government rajapaksa is a divisive figure many tamils in sri lankas north believe the former defense secretary should be tried over allegations of killings and disappearances during the final stages of the war against the tamil tigers the countrys Muslim Council says his victory realizes all our worst fears their fear food because this. Election campaign stressed National Security and National Security minorities something a little bit fearful because it means that they are the ones being viewed as security threats and for the muslims in particular they have bad memories of the period before 2015 because there were riots against them even though there was a very good military under god. The military and the intelligence didnt protect the muslims and i hope that that will change in the future as all the brother and former president mahinda may now become Prime Minister. As the rajapaksa family returns to frontline politics. Excited and super excited and happy for the country and the result that majority of the sri lankans have been expecting for a long time be argue about or say up we want to someone like this to save the country so that our children the future generations will have a country one of gotta buy rajapaksa priorities is to rebuild state intelligence and Surveillance Networks he says they were dismantled by the Outgoing Administration and International Pressure i asked about those allegations of human rights abuses when he was defense secretary but now president elect says people should stop talking about past. Burnitz with aljazeera. Russia says it will return 3 captured naval ships to ukraine on monday ahead of a planned peace summit the vessels have been moved to a handover location which is understood to be in the black sea russia sees the ships off the coast of crimea a year ago more than 13000 people have been killed in Eastern Ukraine in the past 5 years of fighting between pro russian separatists and ukrainian forces. Though irans president says families will start to receive Financial Assistance on monday and the money will come from a steep rise in petrol prices which have triggered protests around the Country House and the hani also condemned the protests in which at least 2 people have been killed in clashes with police the author it is of shut down the internet in an effort to stop the protests being organized. Or more than 87000 people have demonstrated across iran since friday thats according to Security Officials quoted by the Fars News Agency around a 1000 of those have been arrested in one particularly hard hit province more than 100 banks and 57 stores were damaged or set on fire. No. More doubt it we have witnessed how some people have gone to the streets after the implementation of the decision to increase the price of petrol people have the right to protest but we will not allow the targeting of security or the spread of chaos and riots in the country the decision to increase the price of petrol belongs to the regime and not only to the government the people should not worry about the implementation because its revenue will be distributed back to the people. Weve got a lot more to come here at aljazeera including find out how the Trump Campaign is turning political troubles into a fund raising gold plus im from either malone im in the kalahari desert in south africa where the worlds fastest cars being tested to break the land speed record. How there is still rain rolling up the coast from the carolinas northwards and the still cold air in the plains as cold as it was but of course we are an event that has a temperatures have come down the picture then from monday is single figures here maybe subzero in ottawa and the rain comes up against it so there is that meeting age where i think in parts of new england there will be a bit of wet snow falling but not much comes out of it otherwise well apart from coastal flooding its an improving situation as this thing rolls north to the western side of the states apart from washington is looking far and drier not particularly windy as you can see if i move your team monday and tuesday everything has got his general trend to move in this direction takes the rain away with it slowly warming up new yorks 9 but the stow is coming back across the border you can see towards the rockies. Going south probably not that often youre going to see temperatures dip down to us was 25. 00 in havana since 13 kingston but that is so holds the winter front that allowed the coated to come down off is now obvious the sun is still strong so temps are going to be dropping that much but i think some big thunderstorms a likely in kingston jamaica possibly in parts of cuba and the main rain there is still further south in panama and costa rica. From a costs to jerusalem i am on the gomezs claim. Only milestone in history muslim background. 3 short films that show how people take a stand against eviction sameness struggling communities the 1st time they arrested i was 11 years old a. J. Selects on aljazeera. Time for us to take a look at the top stories here it is in a swarming the brain explosions in hong kong where a University Campus has been the scene of a standoff between police and protesters and police stormed the area early on monday morning after hundreds of demonstrators had told petrol bombs and shelter behind barricades through the night. Irans president is insisting the revenue from a controversial rise in better prices will go back to the people protests continue throughout the country. Today with occasional violent confrontations with Security Forces at least 2 people have been killed since friday junkers from a wartime defense chief got a buy rajapaksa will become the countrys next president is rival conceded early results put rajapaksa at more than 50 percent needed to avoid a 2nd count. That washington is preparing for another week of high profile hearings at the impeachment inquiry into donald trump the u. S. President s allies and photos have also been dominating the airwaves arguing over whether the improperly sought help from ukraine to boost his chances of reelection rob reynolds reports with week to televised impeachment hearings approaching Democratic HouseSpeaker Nancy Pelosi pushed back against president Donald Trumps complaints that the process is unfair he has every opportunity to present his case but its really a sad thing i mean what the president did was so much worse than even what Richard Nixon did that at some point Richard Nixon cared about the country and to recognize that this cannot continue palosi said trump made a serious mistake when he tweeted criticism of former u. S. Ambassador to ukraine marie your van of it even while she was testifying on capitol hill that the words of the president weigh a ton they are very significant and he should not frivolously throw out insults but thats what he does i think part of it is his own. Insecurity as an impostor i think he knows full well that. Hes a gnat office. Way over his head and so he has to do nation everywhere now one of trumps most ardent congressional defenders insists theres no 1st hand evidence trump sought a quid pro quo with ukraine to hand over military aid in return for a ukrainian investigation into his political rival joe biden and bidens son hunter who served on the board of Ukrainian Energy company no ones testify that theres been a quid pro quo i was got 2nd 3rd hand for 10 information another republican lawmaker who worked closely on Ukrainian Affairs suggested the entire matter being investigated in the impeachment inquiry should simply have been harsh up having this all come out into public has weakened that relationship is has exposed things that dont need be exposed so this would have been far better off if we would just taken care of this behind the scenes this week the hearings will pick up steam with 8 heard or former u. S. Officials due to testify one of them is gordon sawmilling the u. S. Ambassador to the European Union and sutherland will be on the hot seat because it over missions he made in earlier testimony about he phoned calls he had with trump over ukraine rob reynolds aljazeera washington. Now our White House Correspondent kimberly haokip now reports that this impeachment process has so far actually helped President Trump raise money for his Reelection Campaign but he will come to water before the 1st day of public hearings to impeach President Donald Trump or even over here talking about the witch hunt is that what you mean Trucks Campaign was sending out emails portray him as a victim of democrats determined to overturn the 2016 u. S. Election to stop them the trump Reelection Campaign set out to raise 3000000. 00 in 20. Hours exceeded that goal. Trump as a fund raising phenomenon is nothing new for reality t. V. Star term president has a history of turning political gaffes into gold. Take this moment at a recent rally in minneapolis as the impeachment inquiry was heating up truck turned the attention away from himself and on to the son of his political rival former Vice President joe biden trump is accused bidens son hunter of using his fathers position to get onto the board of a Ukrainian Energy company. As well as i have an idea for a new. I love the cops but lets do another t. Shirt wheres hunter the t. Shirts were on trumps website within minutes of when we do we do that all the time more recently when trumps acting chief of staff confirmed trump withheld aid to push ukraine to investigate biden the basis for the impeachment investigation mulvaney said get over it another slogan for a campaign t. Shirt trumps fundraising is dwarfing his opponents in a recent 3 month span he raise 125000000. 00 thats compared to his top democratic opponents Elizabeth Warren who raised 24600000. 00 over the same period and joe biden who raised just over 15000000. 00 Trumps Communications director told me trump has a gift for generating voter enthusiasm from the most controversy moments its its kind of in his character to sort of stick his finger in the political. And when he says things and rallies and he can very quickly turn them into a t. Shirt you know its its more about branding and marketing than it is necessarily raising money particularly i his image as a political outsider and Disruptive Force in u. S. Politics is a carefully cultivated brand one tribes banking on propelling his reelection. Aljazeera the white house. The haitis president given our money says hes holding talks to form a unity government he says his country Needs International support after 2 months of antigovernment protests made a dire humanitarian situation even worse theres widespread anger over high inflation crime and allegations of corruption has been without a functioning government since march because of a stalemate in parliament. We are meeting with civil groups were also talking to important people of the moderate political opposition such as those of the radical opposition we are also talking to people from Civil Society from the private sector now i see that all people are agreeing with a solution to the crisis but many opposition politicians are rejecting president as you are now moises call for unity. We say that the solution to the crisis is through the resignation of president john l. Boys there is no possibility of sharing anything with your panel boys he has to resign to reach a transition that is different from what we have not before. Algerias president ial candidates have launched their campaigns as protests continue in the streets 5 candidates who are in the running for decembers election demonstrators they dont want any vote to happen until figures who are linked to the old political establishment step completely aside weekly protests have been ongoing since a long time president of the a flicker resigned in april. The people are against elections helpless way with people protesting to die months to saying no to the gangs no lections with the gangs. Were here to say you know what happened elections were 2 people decide they will the people are the ones to decide when and how to organize it only. The former malaysian Prime Minister maggi razzak is back in court for a new corruption trial is already involved in 2 other cases currently passing through the courts now faces allegations that he and his family looted a state Investment Fund in a multibillion dollar fraud scandal spanning 6 countries this latest case will examine accusations that he tampered with an investigation looking into the financial scandal that denies the allegations and says the charges are politically motivated. Now the damage bill from the floods in the italian city of venice is likely to top a 1000000000. 00 its the worst such disaster in well over a century schools shops museums and historic landmarks like marks square have been shut for a 3rd day elsewhere flood warnings are in place for florence and in pisa. Sure im tired as ive been here night and day but anyway were also preparing for the new high tide of pretty sure its a difficult time but were looking forward to a fresh start weve already opened our Restaurants Hotel is always working were doing the best we can for boss crew when they think i think were safe im not worried at all im more saddened for the buildings about venice and the venetians. A british team has begun testing whats expected to be the fastest car on earth the bloodhound l. S. R. Aims to break the world land speed record by 2020 for me to miller reports now from the kalahari desert in south africa where the supersonic car is being tested. Its Developers Say its the most Straight Line car ever built its aim to break the world land speed record at a speed of 800 kilometers an hour the bloodhound ellice are is one of the worlds top 10 fastest cars but it aims to double that speed next year its been dull to break the record see it more than 20 years ago at 1227. 9 kilometers an hour it is very difficult to describe because its a bit like flying a jet fighter and its a little bit like driving a High Performance racing car but since most people havent done either of those things that probably doesnt help. In very simple terms its very hot the cockpit its very noisy theres a lot of excel aeration theres a lot of g. Slowing down again and. The simplest thing i can say is the ground goes past very very quickly despite the sweltering heat the hugs and reagent deep in the kalahari desert provides the ideal testing ground the open flat surface has been carefully prepared by hundreds of local Community Members who have removed tons of rock for a smooth ride organizers say its the largest area of land ever cleared for a motor sports event and at full design speed the car covers 1. 6 kilometers in just 3. 6 seconds its powered by a rolls royce each a 208. 00 engine normally found in a euro fighter typhoon jet the thrust produced is equal to 360. 00 family cause the 90 kilogram Solid Aluminum wheels have been specially designed for the desert surface theyre built to spin at up to 10200 revolutions a minute more than 4 times faster than the wheels on a formula one car at top speed but our project has been a going for 10 years. And its done an amazing job of inspiring people to get involved engineering over the years it almost was too good at doing that and it means the outer party itself almost fell by the wayside because it was too good at doing education charge of it and the project bus went bust last year into ministration thats when i got involved once testing is complete the car will return to the United Kingdom for any modifications before it attempts to break the world record the bloodhound l. S. R. Is a combination of fast jet f one car and space ship the Engineering Team says its bolt the worlds fastest car to inspire people everywhere for me to miller aljazeera banned in the northern cape. By travis take a look at the top stories here it out. This morning theyve been explosions in hong kong where a University Campus has been the scene of a standoff between police and protesters the police stormed the area early on monday morning after hundreds of demonstrators hurled petrol bombs and shelter behind barricades during the night sarah clarke has the latest yes this is certainly what people are describing as the last battleground these are protests of the students had been blockading in barricaded themselves in this campus since last week around the place of scribed as a weapon factory widow making a number of various pits of bombs of all different types we saw bows and arrows being used are now all devices all being used as weapons against the place and so this is particularly the last battleground when it comes to University Campuses where we are now we have a number of right placed still here i seems to try to access a point and clear the way out irans president says families will begin to receive Financial Assistance from monday which will be paid for by an increase in fuel prices has some rouhani has condemned the protests against the rise that have at times turned violent at least 2 people have been killed often in confrontations with the Security Forces. But libyans are facing food and fuel shortages and supporters of the former president ever more or less continue to block roads the new interim government says is created an air bridge to the main city love with military planes delivering supplies modellers resigned and fled to mexico after winning an election many thought was rigged but he still has a lot of support in poor rural areas trying to form a wartime defense chief got a buyer rajapaksa will become the countrys next president his rival conceded as rajapaksa crossed the required 50 percent mark in early results. Haitis president Juvenal Moyes says hes holding talks to form a unity government as the country grapples with an escalating humanitarian crisis says his country Needs International support after 2 months of antigovernment protests led to Food Insecurity theres widespread anger over high inflation crime and allegations of corruption. All right those are the headlines a. J. Selects is next. 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