Itself for a powerful cyclone. Authorities in hong kong are shutting government offices in the financial district for the rest of the week, after days of protests against an extradition bill that would allow people to be sent to Mainland China for trial. The bill has triggered the biggest street rallies since hong kong was handed back to china by the british in 1997. Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets in running battles with the demonstrators. Rupert Wingfield Hayes is in central hong kong. This was the centre of hong kong this afternoon. Scenes of mass violence, the likes of which have not been seen here since the 1960s. The day had been tense from the start. Huge crowds surrounded hong kongs legislature, determined to stop any discussion of the hated extradition bill. The object of their anger, this woman hong kongs chief executive, carrie lam. Last weekend, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets here, demanding she scrap a bill that would allow people in hong kong to be extradited to Mainland China, but she is refusing to budge. Why is she quite so adamant, quite so determined . You would call it arrogance on her part or stubbornness. No, she isjust doing all this at beijings order. She is just some little puppet of the beijing regime. Todays protesters were almost exclusively young, aggressive, and boiling with rage at a government they believe is giving away their freedoms. It seemed only a matter of time before things turned violent and so they did. Few here have ever experienced the searing pain of being tear gassed. You could see the shock and confusion. I think theres lines that we can have the freedom from fear, that we are every day facing right now, so i guess we feel angry and we do not get respected by our own government. By early evening, police had begun to gain the upper hand launching barrage after barrage, driving protesters away from the government quarter. What were witnessing here in hong kong tonight, with this operation to clear the streets, is a Hong Kong Government determined not to allow another protest movement to establish itself and occupy the centre of the city, like it did back in 2014, and a government that is determined, it seems, to push ahead with an incredibly controversial extradition law regardless of the consequences. The government has now declared todays protest a riot, turning those who took part into potential criminals, but tonight thousands remain on the streets their anger only further inflamed. Rupert Wingfield Hayes, bbc news, in hong kong. Lets get some of the days other news. Lets ta ke lets take you to a live shot, it is just after ten a. M. There is heavy rain. The announcement from the chief executive carrie lam, her description of the protest as a blatant, organised riot, that may have an impact as rioting is punishable by ten years in jail, potentially. Lets get some of the days other news. President trump has said hes considering sending 1,000 additional us troops to poland, amid continuing concerns about the potential military threat from russia. At a meeting in the white house with the polish president andzrej duda, he said any soldiers would be transferred from the more than 50,000 strong us contingent stationed in germany. Two more conservative candidates have launched their bids to replace theresa may as party leader to become the british Prime Minister. Brexit is, of course, the key issue and former foreign secretary Boris Johnson says hes committed to bringing the uk out of the eu by the end of the year. But his rival, home secretary sajid javid, said mrjohnson was yesterdays news. The World Health Organisation has called an emergency meeting in response to the news that ebola has spread to uganda from eastern congo. The head of a Major Medical charity has called the latest outbreak truly frightening. Nearly 1,400 people have died in the democratic republic of congo. Theres been high emotion in court in madrid on the final day of the trial of 12 catalan separatists. Some face up to 25 years in jail if theyre convicted of rebellion and sedition for their part in a failed drive for independence in 2017. Several of them said the prosecution was politically motivated. Police in russia say theyve detained more than 200 people in moscow for holding a protest in support of the journalist, ivan golunov. The prominent opposition politician Alexei Navalny was among those held. Mr golunov was detained on drugs charges before unexpectedly being freed on tuesday. Gareth barlow reports. One by one they were arrested. Members of the public, the press, and key opposition figures. Bundled into vans and taken away. A twisted irony, perhaps, that those arrested were themselves protesting against a previous arrest. On thursday last week, Police Detained the high profile investigative journalist, ivan golunov, on what many claimed were falsified drugs charges. On tuesday, the man who has exposed corruption throughout moscows elite was released, the charges dropped, following an admission by the interior minister that his guilt had not been proven. Translation thank you very much for all the support. I still hardly understand what is happening. I am happy thatjustice has been served and the criminal case was dropped. Despite the authorities rare u turn, the people in moscow wanted more. For the police who detained ivan golunov to be punished themselves. Translation they violate our rights. Freedom of expression, the freedom to demonstrate, the freedom to express our opinions. Translation there is no real change, they have been forced to liberate ivan golunov. They did it because people came out in the streets. Without that it would not have happened. While an investigation into Ivan Golunovs arrest is under way and the Police Officers involved suspended, amid the screams and scuffles a sense that despite the outcry on the streets, little will change among the police. India is bracing itself for another massive storm, and this time its the north west coast thats under threat. Hundreds of thousands of people are being evacuated. Cyclone vayu is gathering intensity as it heads across the arabian sea, and is expected to make landfall on thursday. Sam ryder has more. Along the coast, indias westerns state of gujarat is on high alert. Fishing boats are being anchored and residents are on the move, taking with them the few possessions they have. But those still here, they are being told find shelter. Translation we have identified 10 districts and have taken the decision to evacuate those villages living by the coastal areas. Indias military and Disaster Response teams have been deployed to help with rescue and relief efforts. On twitter, Prime MinisterNarendra Modi urged those in affected areas to move to safety. Its the second time in as many months india has faced severe weather. In may, a cyclone, the equivalent of a category 4 hurricane, killed 3a people in 0disha state on the countrys eastern coast. The death toll was kept relatively low thanks to the evacuation of more than a million people. Authorities here are hoping early preparations are enough to prevent a similar disaster. Sam ryder, bbc news. Donald trump has declared that he would accept damaging information about political opponents during next years election campaign, even if it came from a Foreign Government. In an interview with abc news the president denied it would count as interference, describing it as opposition research. Russian interference in the 2016 campaign and allegations of collusion with the Trump Campaign were significant lines of inquiry in the mueller report. The bbcs Chris Buckler in washington says we didnt have to wait long for a reaction. You can imagine that the democrats are lining up to condemn President Trump for these comments, particularly after the report, which may have dismissed the idea that there was collusion involving a Trump Campaign in russia, but it has certainly said that the russian government had tried to interfere in the 2016 election. And of course, intelligence agencies in the us have been warning time and time again that they are concerned Foreign Governments try to interfere in upcoming elections, including the president ial election in 2020. That was the basis for the question asked of the president by abc news, in which they clearly said to him, if you were being told that there was damaging information about an opponent and Foreign Government was willing to give it to you, would you accept it . In simple terms, the president said yes, i would want to hear it. He used the example of if the norwegian government had information, yes, he would want to hear it. But he did not say he would not accept it from other governments and clearly there will be a push from other governments saying well, whatever russia tried to get involved again . I give you the example from elizabeth warren, one of the democratic president ial candidate who is running to run against donald trump, she said a Foreign Government attacked our 2016 elections to support trump, trump welcome to that help and obstructed the investigation. Now he says he would do it all over again, it is time to impeach President Trump. Another said it is surprising on the one hand, and not at all on the other. Stay with us on bbc news, still to come the politics of art a major new exhibiton from one of britains greatest living artist dame paula rego. The day the british liberated the falklands. And by tonight, british troops had begun the task of disarming the enemy. In the heart of the west german capital, this was gorby mania at its height. The crowd packed to see the man who for them, has raised great hopes for an end to the division of europe. Michaeljackson was not guilty on all charges. The screams of the crowd, a testament to his popularity and their faith in his innocence. As long as theyll pay to go see me, ill get out there and kick em down the hill. What does it feel like to be the first man to go across the channel by your own power . It feels pretty neat. Feels marvellous, really. This is bbc news. The latest headlines hong kong shuts down some government offices in the financial district for the rest of the week after a day of clashes over a controversial extradition bill. Russia has detained leading anti corru ption activists despite the release of an investigative journalist held on spurious drugs charges. In the coming weeks several us states will introduce new gun control laws. But local officials dont want to enforce them, saying they violate gun owners rights. This debate is playing out in colorado. From there, aleem maqbool. On this side of the wall is where we have deputy zack parrishs the medals that he was awarded a posthumously. At the office in colorado where he once worked, there is now a memorial to a sheriffs deputy shot dead on duty. Ijust want to make sure youre 0k. Body camera footage shows zack parrish trying to calm down a man with a history of Mental Health crises. But moments later, when deputies kicked down the door of his home, the man unleashed a volley of bullets. banging . Killing zack. Shots fired, shots fired zacks boss became one of the driving forces behind a new law that has just been passed in colorado, which says police can now take away the guns of people deemed to be an extreme risk. Zacks life will not lost in vain, all those people who were mentally ill and lost their lives because of the Mental Illness will not be in vain now. Sadly, the state has a history of shootings, where lives have been lost that have hit the headlines nationally. The aurora cinema shooting happened just a few miles in that direction, the columbine massacre not very far over there. So its not like people here havent known massive tragedy when it comes to guns. But, even then, talk of the notion of taking away peoples firearms for whatever reason, that is something that some gun owners in colorado simply cant stomach. With the new so called red flag law, they particularly seem to have a problem with police being able to take away guns before the owner can argue their case. Hold theyd have to appear before a judge to get back their firearms. I think that its another way that the government can take guns when maybe they dont need to. I think there should be some scrutiny involved whenever it comes it sounds like a knee jerk reaction, to something that, yeah, sure, maybe it might save a life . But at what cost . What is the cost . Well, your rights, youre taking away my property. The talk of rights and the cost of such a law was something we kept hearing, even from some in Law Enforcement. 0ne sheriff may have campaigned for the law, but others in the state say theyd rather go to jail than take away guns from people. Is that really what you want to give your rights up to . A subjective ruling from Law Enforcement applying to a court to say that someones rights should be terminated . Im telling you. But if it means it could potentially save lives . So, at what cost . At what cost . At the cost of taking someones firearms away for potentially a short time. Well, so what im telling you is as a government official, as a Law Enforcement person, i dont think Law Enforcement should have this power. And many sheriffs across several states feel the same way. Touch firearms rules in america, even if it is today guns from those in mental crisis, and to stop people getting killed, and youre sure to arouse strong feelings and angry resistance. Aleem maqbool, bbc news in colorado. The New York Times has this week decided to ban political cartoons from its International Edition pages after a furor involving a caricature of Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu deemed anti semitic. The cartoon, published in april, depicted netanyahu as a guide dog wearing a star of david collar and leading a blind us president donald trump, who was wearing a kippah. The decision has sparked angerfrom cartoonists, journalists and many readers who say its an overreaction. For more on that story, we can go live to los angeles and speak to david brown, political cartoonist for the los angeles sentinel and the San Francisco view newspapers. Thank you for your time. I think its fair to say the imagery in this cartoon, which we are not going to show, but was published in a portuguese paper, is crudely anti semitic. What is your problem with the decision by the times . Well, my decision, i mean, my feelings about it is this isnt to stop it, its just feelings about it is this isnt to stop it, itsjust i think someone should be allowed to express their opinion. And i think that political cartoons have a unique way of conveying a specific message. And cartoons can be powerful, cant they . But of course there are ways of attacking people you disagree with without paying attention to whether they are jewish or not . agree. In terms of that specific cartoon, i think it could have handled it a little differently. Cartoon, i think it could have handled it a little differentlylj was handled it a little differently. was reading a piece by the guardian cartoonist in the uk, martin rosen, pointing how much in the front line cartoonists are. A turkish cartoonists are. A turkish cartoonist injail, a malaysian cartoonist injail, a malaysian cartoonist facing 43 years in jail until there was a change of government. The attack of the charlie had no offices, and in the second world war, dozens of cartoonists were on the gestapo list hebdo stop what is it about cartoonist that particularly concern you . They have a unique way of conveying a message and its very powerful. You can use exaggeration, you can use irony, analogy, and these are unique to this particular medium. So its a lot different to reading an article or a photograph, i think you have a unique way of conveying an opinion and a message and my concern is with the demise of newspapers and the censorship of cartoons, is about the loss of this particular craft. David, talk us through that. You send us a sample of three of your cartoons, we are going to put them on the screen now. Can you talk us through the points you were trying to make . I cant see those. We are seeing a mix of several, in one we are seeing william barr, were going to see a few more injust william barr, were going to see a few more in just second, william barr, were going to see a few more injust second, i think. Certainly, with the william barr one, what kind of point were you trying to make . I think that he is on behalf of donald trump, really censoring whats being seen by the public and by congress. And i dont think that he has the right to do that. Hes really representing the people in congress, not necessarily donald trump. Forgive me, is there something that cartoonist and cartoons can do here that writing cannot . I think so. Cartoons can do here that writing cannot . Ithink so. Using exaggeration, irony, you can convey a message in a powerful way that i think is a little different to reading an article or a photograph. David brown, people can look at your work online as well. You very much indeed for talking to us. Thank you. Prime minister shinzo abe became the first japanese leader to visit iran in overfour decades on wednesday. He told reporters that he and the iranian president Hassan Rouhani spoke bluntly about relations between iran and japans close ally, the us. Mr abe called for the us and iran to have more patience with each other, an warned of the real possibility of military conflict and that continued threats could lead to an accidental conflict. Translation it is essential that iran plays a role in constructing peace in the middle east, so the region will not destabilise any further and no accidental clash will occur in the midst of recent rising tensions. The mexican president , Andres Manuel lopez 0brador, says he will use the proceedings from the sale of the president ial plane to cover the additional costs of a new migration deal with the us. Mexico agreed last week to deploy thousands of National Guard members in the south of the country to prevent Central American migrants from reaching the us border. The deal was negotiated after President Trump threatened to impose sanctions on all mexican imports unless there an immediate curb on illegal migration. The former us president , bill clinton, has said its been his biggest honour to have stood with the people of kosovo against ethnic cleansing and forfreedom. Mr clinton was addressing a gathering in central pristina to mark 20 years since the arrival of nato peacekeepers at the end of a Genocidal Campaign by serbia. Mr clinton sanctioned the nato air raids that forced the late serbian president , slobodan milosevic, to halt attacks on kosovos ethnic albanian majority. She is one of europes most mordant living painters. Dame paula rego studied at the slade school of fine art in london and in the 19605 exhibited alongside david hockney. She created a series of paintings discussing abortion in portugal. We report on an artist who, through her work, has also championed political and social causes. The artist dame paula rego, now in her 80s and weakened by a stroke, still goes to her studio almost every day. Her son gave me a tour of her work, which was overtly political. She used her pictures as a way of undermining and criticising the portuguese fascist resume. My mother was very outrageous and took huge risks with her pictures and went crazy in her studio, but at home she was quite a straightforward woman. I think that if you do pictures, they are about whats inside you as much as whats outside you, but that youve got secrets and stories that you want to put out there in the pictures. In 1998, paula rego produced a set of large pastel pictures in response to a recent referendum held in portugal to bring an end to illegal abortions an extremely dangerous practice of which she had personal experience. And my mother, who had suffered so much in her life from backstreet abortions, was so incensed that the portuguese public and particularly women in public hadnt bothered to go out and said, oh, were too embarrassed to vote, so she decided to lay it all out there and make a series of pictures of young girls, some of them schoolgirls, who had had backstreet abortions. And that, in a way, gets to the heart of your mothers art, which is storytelling. This is sit, in a way that you tell a dog to sit. But this is paula being told to sit, so it is both obedience and defiance reflected in this picture. Because she is sitting, but you can see the more powerfulfigure, which in this case would have been my father, is offscreen, as it were, and she is showing in her body language how she feels about that suppression. Herfeet language how she feels about that suppression. Her feet are twisted in a way thatjesus feed are twisted on the crucifix. Feet. A paula rego picture is never straightforward theres plenty of anger and suffering, but also tenderness and beauty. They are ambiguous, dark images and describe the human condition in a way few have done before. Will gompertz, bbc news. There is much more on all the news for you out our bbc website on oui for you out our bbc website on our website. And you can get in touch with me and most of the team on twitter im bbcmikeembley. Hello. Our very unsettled spell of weather is set to continue as low pressure is still dominating our weather out there at the moment. Now this picture was taken on wednesday by one of our weather watchers in herstmonceux, east sussex. Grey skies there, weve had some heavy showers around. Much of the country has already seen heavy rain and we have still got flood warnings in force with more persistent rain to come over the next 24 48 hours. Now the area we are most concerned about during the day on thursday is this region, the south east of scotland where there could be 80 100 millimetres of rain falling falling over the highest ground. So that means disruption to travel, and flooding is likely. If you have a look through the course of thursday, that rain really will be quite relentless, only slowly easing away as we head through the latter part of the day. But lets take a look at the whole of the uk on thursday, lots of blue on the map. Lots of wet weather. Across central and northern parts of england, southern and eastern scotland, some heavy downpours. Northern ireland having a bit of a drier day, as does the far west of scotland too. South east of england should stay mostly dry, but therell be a few heavy showers and temperatures not doing great still, only around 11 16 degrees. Lots of cloud around, really, across the board. Now as we move through the course of thursday evening and into friday, we keep the cloud, we keep the patchy outbreaks of rain, probably not quite as heavy or as persistent as the rainfall during the day on thursday. But more downpours across england and wales, heavy showers rattling into northern ireland, too. And temperatures below what they have been in recent nights as those winds are set to fall light, too. Now low pressure still with us as we move through the day on friday, itsjust drifting towards the north west a little bit. Not as many isobars on the map as there has been recently, so not quite as breezy. But through the day on friday, its another unsettled story. Again, a lot of cloud to start the day. Some showery rain here and there across england and wales and some further rain showers piling in across parts of western scotland and northern ireland, too. A little bit more sunshine by the time we get to friday afternoon, lifting temperatures about 13 19 degrees, not quite as cool as they have been. As we head through into the weekend, then, still a fairly unsettled story. On saturday, weve got some showers in the west but eastern parts of the uk, sunny spells and just one or two isolated, scattered showers. Temperatures starting to creep up by a degree or so, theres still a noticeable breeze around on saturday. And then as we look further ahead into the course of next week, eventually we should lose the showers, at least from the south. Still fairly unsettled across the north, but temperatures on the rise. Bye bye. This is bbc news, the headlines after days of protests in hong kong over a hugely unpopular extradition bill, there were violent clashes yesterday. Authorities have shut some government offices in the financial district for the rest of the week. The proposed bill would allow people to be sent to Mainland China for trial. Russian police have detained more than 200 people. They were protesting in moscow in support of the journalist, ivan golunov. The prominent opposition politician Alexei Navalny was among those held. Ivan golunov was detained on drugs charges before being freed on tuesday. India is bracing itself for another massive storm with the north west coast under threat. Hundreds of thousands of people are being evacuated. As it heads across the arabian sea the cycling gains intensity and is expected to make la ndfall intensity and is expected to make landfall on thursday. Cyclone gains intensity