A show of strength 6 months on in hong kong hundreds of thousands of antigovernment activists continue their demand for political reforms must. Been 1st it was in georgia where power is moving River Systems here in danger of go in. There are reports of injuries and missing tourists after a volcano erupted off the east coast of new zealand a plume of white smoke was seen coming from white island prompting fears for a group of tourists in walking in the crater moments before police say less than 50 people were on or near the island at the time of the eruption then transported to shore with at least one in Critical Condition and many are still unaccounted for will trafford is a journalist at the new Zealand Herald he joins us from auckland so will the number seems to be fluctuating a bit as understandable in situations like this but it is the number now 50 that are that were somewhere in the area of this volcano. Well you know i mean thats exactly right initially the number that we heard from the Prime Minister martin after nervously the carriage was 100 and the reason it was 100 is obviously there are a number of tourists coming on and off the island throughout the day and we understand one of those vessels that was docked to the all in had left just moments before the volcano itself or ruptured so we now d assess at roughly 50 people who were on the island and as we it from police roughly 10 minutes ago are many of those still remaining unaccounted for and how popular of a destination is this as a tourist situation and and one of the precautions that are taken before deciding to take somebody near a volcano. Well this is a thing that is actually been incredibly popular vote on the do a number of things that are sky diving around this whole 10 are obviously theres a number of scientific experiments that go on the volcano as well and those are the questions that are being raised now of course because we actually heard towards the end of october the from some of the scientists who monitor the volcano itself saying that the 2 indicate is. That something essentially could happen on the volcano the sulfur levels and earthquakes some of them kind of had risen and this morning in fact they had upgraded the ranking the warning label on wide ohlendorf a county as its called here to label 4 which means there is an enormous amount of dangers in chile at the volcanic current and on the island itself so i guess those questions im going to be on to it as as we go ahead as to why exactly the operation continued remembering you know you mentioned at the top that there is a cruise line ovation of the seas that is docked just north of white all of that which had a number of tourists on it that a believed to have gone to wide open so it was not just signs of fear and we understand some of our lives are among those missing when we talk about the missing and the and the an account of forth or some place on the island that people could have gone to get away from this on some faith play. Yeah well interestingly enough im 26 dana bunker was actually constructed on the island for and have been such as this now obviously because were early days at this point we dont totally understand if people did manage to make it so i think theyre what is very disturbing is that we have the imagery as you mentioned from within the crater of the live web cam that was running as the volcano just moments before the volcano erupted with some of the people in that imagery moments later we see the camera essentially drop off and as you said would we talked about those numbers of people missing its with nothing as well the people but 4 being ferried back by helicopters or by bases and an incredibly distressing state many of them covered in ash many of them suffering what it would appear to be horrendous prisons what a horrible horrible situation i will trafford im with the new Zealand Herald and thank you for getting us yet date on that that the f. B. I. Investigation into a shooting at a u. S. Naval base in florida says theyre working on the presumption the attack was an act of terrorism Saudi Air Force officer Mohammad Saeed al sharone shot dead 3 students on friday Saudi Crown Prince will have given solomon this call the u. S. President to express his condolences and for schapelle has more more information from the f. B. I. About Mohammed Saeed al 70 a junior officer in the royal Saudi Air Force who shot 11 people on friday killing 3 sailors our main goal right now is to confirm whether he acted alone or was hell part of a Larger Network we quietly assess there was one gunman who perpetrated this attack and no arrests. Have been made in this case. On the open fire in a classroom using a gun that hed legally purchased around 2 hours beforehand he allegedly tweeted his disdain for u. S. Troops returning to saudi arabia calling america a nation of evil our hearts break for the families who lost their precious loved ones in this atrocity another atrocity well President Trump has helped the saudis with damage control conveying the kingdoms condolences others want the military Training Program to be paused for us to be bringing in these foreign nationals you have to take precautions to protect the country. He was one of more than 850 Saudi Nationals in the u. S. Benefiting from this program which its defenders say is vital to u. S. National security thousands of students from more than 150 countries take part in it sadly i think this is one of those instances where someone slipped through the cracks but we have to be 100 percent sure but we never will be 100 percent sure get their Flight School maybe go fly jets would be pretty cool but for families of 23 year old Joshua Caleb Watson in alabama as we get 21 year old Cameron Scott walters in georgia and 19 year old Mohammed Sama hate them in florida its a tragedy too hard to bear. The navy says they ran towards danger and saved lives without them the incident could have been far worse and aljazeera. And all kong a strike has been called to mark 6 months since the start of antigovernment protests on sunday 800000 people turned out for a mass rally to demand protection of their democratic freedoms to be gopalan reports. Fight for freedom one of the many slogans chanted by the hundreds of thousands who gave up their sunday for yet another protest was they came from all walks of life young and old and in all shapes and sizes the march was meant to coincide with the United Nations human rights day and color is no longer free so. The fall is crumbled to the ground you like to stand out expression hoping it. Is folly that c c many marched with 5 fingers in the air to symbolize the movements 5 demands including political reform investigation into allegations of Police Brutality against protesters and amnesty for activists arrested and accused to frighten the organizers say this is the last chance for the government to give in to their demands now over the past couple of weeks since local elections showed over gonna support for the protest movement had somewhat subsided or become more peaceful but the government hasnt shown any willingness to make any concessions. Since june there have been hundreds of demonstrations possessions and Public Meetings but response from the government has been muted to oh yeah i dont think we should decide whether to come out by sun how effective these protests as long as i believe what i am doing is right and our demands have not been met it will continue to come out and not be deterred by the governments inaction this protest was organized by the civil human rights front the Group Responsible for some of the biggest demonstration turnouts this is the 1st time since august they have been given permission by the police for a march. And its the 1st time in months this many people have taken part in hong kong is the only city in china where people can express dissent freely and the fight to preserve its autonomy and freedoms has attracted much international attention. To the problem ok because they see its not just the people its a problem of democracy in the world many of the demonstrators left after finishing the 4 kilometer march to the citys Financial Center leaving behind the more hardline masked and black testers who have become a familiar symbol of the movement. As they have done over the months they set up barricades blocking main roads of police looked on was that after hours of tense exchanges the protesters decided it was time to retreat and so with no violent confrontations remained a peaceful rally to mark 6 months since the protests and political turmoil began devika pollen 0 hong kong. The political crisis in lebanon shows no sign of ending after a main contender for Prime Minister withdrew from the race secretary says lebanons top sunni religious authority backs the reappointment of the former Prime Minister saad hariri he resigned in october after weeks of antigovernment protests politicians were scheduled to meet on monday to pick a new Prime Minister but the president postponed that meeting to next week. Still ahead on aljazeera. Well tell you why proposed law in india has some muslims fearing theyll be made stateless. Hes never coming. Who i dont understand. Saying farewell to the sesame street puppeteer who brought you over and favorites big bird and oscar the grouch to let you. Know that work in the east was through much of iran says no to the high levels as well what a banker can see that on at the satellites as we go through monday the washouts coming in behind that system working their way through the eastern end of the mediterranean pushing across into syria becoming more widespread on that choose day and sunny plenty of cloud on tuesday all of this a pushing south was keeping those temperatures lower just 17 in baghdad 21 here a city and look at the rain now this rain is working its way south was through the gulf bringing rain across into bahrain and eventually on into counter a bit sunny a dull day on monday the rain though really is expected to be quite heavy at times as we go through choose a and very extensive as well as you can see working its way still across into the southern areas of iraq and then from there we had further to the south were watching. Bella it is monday that it is expected to actually make landfall but sunday produce very heavy amounts of rain pushing into these Northern Areas of madagascar elsewhere again plenty of rain working its way across into southern mozambique and the eastern and southern sections of south africa also saying the rain is the rain here really for the last week or so becoming very extensive on tuesday but not cold 21 in. From the aljazeera in london broke us into 2 special guests in conversation to do so. We use hunger as a way. Uninterrupted much more difficult to be. The right wing when people. Really read. To be subversive if you dont have a level of anger about you. On aljazeera. Watching aljazeera lets recap the top stories right now at least 20 people have been injured after a volcano erupted off the east coast of new zealand one person at least has been critically injured and there are others not accounted for up to 50 people were on or near the island at the time of the eruption. Ahead of the f. B. I. Investigation into a shooting at a u. S. Naval base in florida says theyre working on the presumption the attack was an act of terrorism a Saudi National who was there to receive training and shot dead 3 students on friday. And thousands of ukrainians have rallied against president one of our silence hes planned meeting with Vladimir Putin reinforces had been fighting separatists backed by moscow for 5 years now in eastern ukraine. Gulf leaders will meet in riyadh this week for the 40th session of the Gulf Cooperation Council the 6 nation regional bloc has struggled sense 2017 when saudi arabia the u. A. E. Bahrain and egypt sever ties with katara and posed a blockade. Whats on whether the summit my offer a new beginning. For the 1st time in years there are signs that a diplomatic dispute that has paralyzed the gulf region may be easing thats according to statements made by a Qatari Foreign minister. During a conference in rome on friday we have moved from a stalemate to some progress where there are some talks. That took place between us and. Specifically and saudi and we hope these talks would need. To are progress where we can see an end. To 4 of the core of the crisis. This is the last time gulf leaders put on a show of unity that was in riyadh in may 2017 a few weeks later saudi arabia u. A. E. Behala and egypt cut diplomatic ties with qatar accusing it of funding extremism and building closer ties with iran qatar has repeatedly denied the charges and rejected a list of 13 demands by the blockade in countries which include closing a Turkish Military base downgrading ties with iran and shutting down the aisle to 0 media network. The u. S. Has called on its gulf allies to and their feud fearing the rift might undermine its 1st to contain what it sees as irans growing influence in the region the signs are they are but at the same time despite these 2 are momentous steps that have been taken over the past weeks we know that to know why diplomatic initiatives have so far over the past 2 and a half years taken place with our robust u. S. Diplomatic pressure in the background there have been signs of possible deescalation in recent weeks saudi arabia the u. A. E. And bahrain to. In a gold football tournament held in doha reversing an earlier decision to boycott the event many are not waiting to see if the same effort and group ration will be in place to end the crisis thats begun in june 2017 as much but ill just 0. The number of sudanese troops fighting in yemen has dropped by more than 10000 stands Prime Minister says 15000 soldiers were initially part of the Saudi Coalition battling whos the rebels but that number is now down to about 5000. As a political solution is the only way to end the 4 year conflict. Some of colombias biggest artists have taken part in a concert in support of the recent antigovernment protests demonstrators are angry at present plans for Economic Reforms and want him to do more to tackle corruption and police violence. Reports. Another massive demonstration in colombia scapin 18 days into an unprecedented run of protests known as the national strike. I this time as a musical road show with 3 fixed stages 44 bands performing and a traveling concert. But despite the fish steve atmosphere objective remains the same demanding changes from the in popular government. That. Weve been on strike peacefully for 18 days because were not afraid anymore and will continue until the government gives us more solutions. University students and Union Members keep leading the strike but as the days go by larger sectors of society have been championing the protest in its demands from the middle class to artists and musicians. I have never seen in my life a movement that lasted this long and with such a huge participation of the youth i think we were apathetic because we lacked hope and i think this new generation is hopeful and this keeps motivating them and. As you know other latin american countries in the rest feminists here to perform an anti rape protest song a rapist in your path that has become an international anthem. At downpour in the early afternoon didnt stop the showing chants 74 percent of colombians are supporting the strike and its demands from implementing the countrys peace deal with fark rebels to halting the killing of human rights activists in the country and Police Repression of protest but the focus now is im blocking legislation which would cut duties own businesses. The spike the pressure president s ducasse government thank congress are pushing forward with a number of reforms starting with tax reform the protesters want to see scrapped all together many of the people present here today when the government to make a 180 degree turn well thats not going to happen anytime soon this government is not going to be come into a Center Left Government overnight it needs things that it can compromise on and these these protesters need to present the government with Viable Options were to do it. In the meantime the pressure on duke it will continue unabated with more demonstrations planned for next week alison the big deal with that place in india say they dont expect to recover any more bodies from a building that was destroyed in a fire in the capital on sunday more than 40 people were killed when the fire tore through one of the oldest markets and burned down a factory in new delhi it is the worst fire in the city and more than 2 decades the cause is not yet known but the buildings owner and manager have been arrested. Families in a near a war and no law can make them stateless even though they have deep roots in the country for generations a citizenship Amendment Bill is targeting Illegal Immigrants its due to be tabled in parliament on monday and aims to exclude muslims but encourages religious minorities from neighboring muslim countries to become citizens in india. Reports. Monic john is relieved to be back home but remains haunted by the full reaction 4 months she spent in edge Attention Center for foreigners tribunals which has the job of identifying Illegal Migrants sent her there. But monica insists she is an indian citizen and produces several documents to prove it she says she was born in india and her father and grandfather too. I distinctly remember those they see the detention camps how can i ever forget it was like i was inside a grave thats a space i had just that much. Her neighbor are sure that b. B. Says her husband died when she was in the Detention Center who breaks down as she recalls not being allowed to attend his funeral. Involves other people convicted of serious crimes are eligible for parole people sent to these Detention Centers are not im going to live a longer me they are. Spent 3 years in a Detention Center because he says his name had been respected in a government document i dont want to do is hardly going to bring paul hill just a tiny gap between the beds so when we carried a bucket of water to go to the toilet and spilled even a drop of the convicts would be to us. The horrors this tribunals have declared over 100000 people as illegal foreigners and sent to nearly a 1000 to languish in Detention Centers until they are deported but activists say no country can be expected to accept them because a large majority if not all are indian citizens of. Nearly 2000000 people in assam are missing from a recently released list of indian citizens their fate will be decided by the tribunals judgements which are often criticised nearly everyone in these villages now has a well kept bottle of documents to prove that they in fact are indian citizens but many here accuse of foreigners tribunals the 1st authority to determine their status of ordering wrongful detentions indias government is preparing to pass a citizenship Amendment Bill which would grant citizenship to hindu migrants but not muslims activists say the government intends to target the Minority Community they want to go toward india no mans land everywhere we go. We are innocent and we are trying to become. Transformed from these folk or for this to be a hard lesson well they havent yet. John and terrified as are many other muslims they think that while the bengalis who are hindu be saved by the hindu majority Indian Government muslims systematically. Aljazeera india man hours later on. The Uns Highest Court in the netherlands to defend her country against genocide charges the case was filed by gambia on behalf of the organization of islamic cooperation and accuses man maher of violating the uns Genocide Convention with its crackdown on henschel muslims 2 years ago or than 700000 fled to neighboring bangladesh to escape what has been called an ethnic cleansing campaign. Of new hydroelectric power stations to boost the countrys Energy Capacity but effective communities are fighting back the projects will damage the environment. Villages in the east in stage a sit in against plans to build a new hydroelectric power station on the river and it will come up but we have water and they want to take it away this woman says the Company Building the project says the village will get its share with me its a. Good local tells me Climate Change is already affecting supply. The night sure we have now want to exist anymore over the past some of the water level was low and without enough moisture trees on the left bank started to dry out this is not my opinion there are studies on the. Other affected communities are taking. In april residents from nearby pankisi. With police. More than 50 people were injured. And on the other side of the country instability campaigners oppose several large projects one of which would force more than 2000 people to move. Higher power has less of a Carbon Footprint than fossil fueled power stations but studies show that even small Hydro Power Plants disrupt the flow of rivers and damage ecosystems reservoir hydro power can have an even greater impact several new ones under construction this is the reservoir and hydroelectric power station its one of the biggest in the country it was built in the 19 eighties and its one of a number of soviet era plants that explain why today more than 80 percent of this countrys electricity is generated by hydro power now the government wants many more new plants both big and small to meet growing energy demands. The government has been criticised for lacking a Robust Energy strategy to justify all that construction i asked the economy minister if 119 projects which who made the figures that you are talking about mainly consist of the small full unmentioned Hydro Power Plant where there are almost 0 Environmental Impact showing you say that almost 0 environmentally any plant which is bigger than its acquired is to be studied very carefully and environmental and social Impact Assessment should be green campaigners say that didnt happen for this 187. 00 megawatt plant heavy water from 3 rivers was diverted one study found its construction destroyed 93. 00 hectors of natural habitat and damaged local fish populations the plant has been suspended tunnels which were built to divert water collapsed after. It began operating in 2017 we are also experiencing the problems in the big or even small hard to power plant despite the legislation requirements to do the proper assessments before starting constructions on one Hand Companies while letting them on another hand governmental Decision Makers are closing and just granting these permissions to the project the company which operates the plant was not available for comment but government and investors say that is an exception and that the impacts of drug prices. Directly because there are communities like you still need convincing. First to work at aljazeera in the republican future and you can see more stories like that one on aljazeera as Environment Program planet s. O. S. On tuesday at 1630 g. M. T. The man behind some of the most iconic childrens characters has died american puppets here carol spenny spent almost 5 decades playing big bird and oscar the grouch on the famous t. V. Show sesame street or from. Sesame street oh big bird. The man behind the beloved character for generations of children. Papa to carol spinny played big butt and its fast season. And then for nearly 50 years more when i can see from the very 1st scene which is funny the 1st show. It was going to be a different kind of show. Spinnys it was a playmate to hundreds of millions of children teaching them how to count and to be kind to one another one of the great things when they decided to make this show was to have it be as funny as it is educational and so its a lighthearted approach to education but he had more fun playing another signature character who lives in a trash can. Free spirit. Oscar the grouch was modeled after a new york city cab driver who took him to work on the fast day of the show i know you. Have so please do the its puppetry that he had but you do get to act you know im not a virgin i act like a child bird or oscar is not quite a roach and im not particularly grouchy. He met his wife deborah sat the 2 married for more than 45 yes the Television Roles were more challenging to play in his late ts because of dystonia a condition which causes involuntary muscle contractions still he played the roles into his eightys and meant to did new generation of property is retiring in 2018 barbara and al jazeera. Take a look at the headlines right now on aljazeera at least 20 people have been injured after a volcano erupted out the east coast of new zealand one person has been critically injured others are unaccounted for police say up to 50 people were on or near the island at the time of the eruption had the f. B. I. Investigation into a shooting at a u. S. Naval base in florida says theyre working on the presumption the attack was an act of terrorism a Saudi National who was there receiving training 3 students on friday fence secretary mark esper says hes ordered a review of vetting procedures for Foreign Military personnel coming to the u. S. Floridas governor says the u. S. Needs to be on guard for people coming from saudi arabia. Major social media trail this guy was somebody who. You know just had a deep seated hatred for the United States and and that was that was pretty clear from from that and obviously the fact that he would do Something Like this and so you know my my view is is that. You know for us to be bringing in these foreign nationals you have to take precautions to protect the country thousands of ukrainians have rallied against president one of our selenski planned that meeting that is with lattimer putin craney and forces have been fighting separatists backed by moscow for 5 years now and eastern ukraine. A strike has been called in hong kong to mark 6 months since the start of antigovernment protests organizers say the movement shows no sign of slowing as hundreds of thousands joined one of the largest marches on sunday place in india say they dont expect to recover any more bodies from a building that was destroyed in a fire in the capital on sunday more than 40 people were killed when a fire tore through one of the oldest markets and burnt down a factory in new delhi its the worst fire in the city and more than 2 decades because of the fire is not known but the buildings owner and manager have been arrested the number of sudanese troops fighting and yemen has dropped by more than 10000 savannahs Prime Minister says 15000 soldiers were initially part of the saudi a morality Led Coalition and battling who the rebels. The headlines keep it here on aljazeera there is much more news to come including the latest on that volcano eruption in new zealand well tell you the latest and the meantime when i want east us up next. Hour jews iraq. Where ever you are. In the philippines president retreat go ditto site has declared a war on drugs thats left more than 12000 people dead. But theyre not the only victims its also left tens of thousands of people languishing in giles is caught struggle to process a Record Number of drug arrests but unloveable i thought where am i why am i here i shouldnt be here what is this place. Im one of one ace we investigate the shocking conditions inside the worlds most congested giles and the inmates trying to survive