An ancient role in modern times. As japans Emperor Naruhito is enthroned this week, we look at the role of the empress masako. Good morning. Its 8am in singapore, 1 in the morning in london and 8am in hong kong, where the working week is getting under way. It follows another weekend of mass protests. Organisers say as many as 350,000 people took part in the demonstrations, which were held without official permission. Police fired teargas and water cannon, to try to clear the streets. Nick beake reports from the protests in hong kong. They were told they werent allowed to march today. They were threatened with prison if they wore a mask. And they were warned by chinas leader there would be broken bones for those who try to break up his country. But this is a Pro Democracy Movement that believes the world is on its side and its not backing down. We are here to fight for freedom and we are not scared about the Chinese Communist party. We want our freedom and human rights. But once again, peaceful protest gave way to petrol bombs, with police stations under attack. This is what eventually cleared the hardcore activists, who then rampaged through the streets, targeting chinese businesses. They fought the police late into the night. For a 20th consecutive weekend of unrest here in hong kong, the police are really struggling to control the streets here. They brought out the water cannon. The protesters are not going home. The question is the one weve been asking forfive months now. When does this end . How does this end . Hong kongs government claims a housing crisis has unleashed this cycle of violence, but these protesters say its their deep fear of the type of place theyll be living in under greater chinese control, which means they wont be giving up. Lets take a look at some of the days other news. Here in the uk the government has said it plans to hold another meaningful vote on the brexit Withdrawal Agreement on monday. Its not clear whether the Speakerjohn Bercow will allow that to go ahead. A letter requesting an extension has been sent to the eu following mps backing a move to delay the approval of the deal on saturday. Heres 0ur europe editor katya adler on the reaction of eu leaders. There is such a stark contrast here in the eu to the times of theresa may when she wanted an extension because then, you still had leaders like president tusk and Angela Merkel of germany and they thought maybe they would extend they could change their minds and choose to stay the eu. If the uk that, now the main concern for eu leaders is basically to move on. They want to put the uncertainty behind them and they sailed far too close to the possibility of a note to brexit as of late, so they would like in peace to vote in favour of the deal so that the uk in the eu can go forward now. Also making news today, donald trump has abandoned a plan to host the g7 summit at one of his resorts in florida after he came under criticism for potential conflict of interest. President trump had originally offered his doral resort for the summit, apparently at cost price. Distancing the white house from the offer, the White House Acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney told us media that the offer resulted from Donald Trumps business background in hospitality the president isnt one for holding back his feelings and his emotions about something. He was honestly surprised at the level of pushback. At the end of the day, he still considered himself to be in the Hospitality Business and he saw an opportunity to take the biggest leaders from around the world and he wanted to put on the absolute best show, the best visit that he possibly could and he was very comfortable in doing that and i think we were all surprised at the level of pushback. Ijust have to pick up, he considers himself in the Hospitality Business, hes the president of the United States . Yeah, but thats his background. I used to be in the real estate business, i dont know what you use to do before you were in media. Nothing, thats all ive ever done. He wanted to put on a show, he wanted to take care of folks. Hes in the hotel business, or at least he was. Does he understand, forget the media, does he understand that it looked lousy . I think he knows that people thinks it looks lousy. Anti government protests have continued for a fourth day in lebanon. Protesters are calling for a revolution and demanding their government stands down. The protests were triggered by a new tax on calls over the internet but the governments handling of an economic crisis is the underlying issue. The government is hoping to approve a reform package on monday. Demolition crews in new orleans used a series of controlled explosions to take downtwo construction cranes damaged at the site of the partially collapsed hard rock hotel. The construction project partially collapsed last week, killing three workers. The building is at the edge of the citys French Quarter and authorities said they hoped to demolish the cranes without damaging surrounding historic buildings. Kurdish forces in syria say theyve pulled out of a key strategic town in the north of the country, after a temporary truce put an end to fierce fighting. Turkey says it is attempting to create a 20 mile safe zone in areas of kurdish control, after President Trump pulled us troops out of the area. Kurdish fighters are now reported to have left ras al ain, on the syrian side of the border. 0ur correspondent Aleem Maqbool is in Northern Syria. Souad mohammed is numb. Shes been that way since seeing in the morgue the mutilated body of her daughter. The brutal killing of havrin khalaf, a kurdish politician, by Turkish Backed militants, is now being investigated as a war crime. I feel i want to burn down this home, she tells me, because the memories of my daughter are everywhere, and its too hard to bear. Her whole life is playing like a movie in my mind. She told me she blamed turkey and america for her loss. It was the announcement of the withdrawal of these american troops from Northern Syria that precipitated this crisis and, in effect, gave turkey the green light to invade. That us withdrawal is now very much in motion, a sorry end to what had been an Effective Partnership that won back all the territory controlled by the Islamic State group. Kurdish forces lost thousands of fighters in that campaign. Now, some of the same combatants who survived the long battle against is are dying at the hands of turkey. I think we managed to defeat isis all over north and east syria. And it was not something easy. And i think what is happening now is a betrayal for the sacrifices that they have gave and they provided for the security and stability of the area. For all the talk of ceasefires on the front line and diplomacy, people here are still very much in shock atjust how quickly their lives were turned upside down. And those we speak to tell us they have very little faith that the world will come to help relieve their suffering. So, instead, they continue to flee for their lives in huge numbers. Camps for the displaced near the iraq syria border, that were all but emptied, are full again. Some families here told us they didnt leave their homes in the days of is, but felt compelled to now. Theyre afraid of meeting the same fate as havrin khalaf. When over recent years, so many thousands of kurdish mothers have already had to bury their children. Its six months since sri lanka was rocked by a series of suicide bombings targeting churches and Luxury Hotels one of the worlds worst terrorist attacks this century. The Authorities Say local muslim extremists carried out the attacks, which killed more than 260 people and injured many more. The deadliest of the bombs was in the fishing town of negombo, the centre of sri lankas small catholic community. From there, Caroline Hawley reports. People were screaming, they were scared, they were panicking. Six months ago, he was released to sunday mass when the church he was in was bombed, killing 115 people. I was there in shock and i did not know what to do. I was scared. Ifelt like i was bleeding. These are fragments of the bomb that were removed from his body. 0ne bit in his lung is still inside of him. He spent his 17th birthday in intensive care. That is where he learned that his mother was dead. My mother was the best person i ever met. She was very loving. She knows how to keep the family together, she knows how to forgive, she really made me happy. This is where she was killed and this is the killer calmly walking into church with his bomb. Over the past six months the people of negombo have come together to rebuild their lives and also repair the church. A parishioner was giving a speech and the guy had come along this road and he walked and he has entered from this way and here from this door and here the blast took place. This is the exact spot where he detonated himself . Yes. And the whole church was like that. How it is damaged. He is the new priest, taking over when others were too traumatised to stay. God always has told us to forgive. Everything that happened here, and people when the bodies were here and there and people were weeping and shouting. Have you gone to the statue . Not yet. It is full of blood. The statue here. It was splattered by blood. The blood of the people. They are striving hard to come from this trauma. Over the past few months, the people are trying to move on. But despite the best efforts of their religious leaders, the attacks have put a strain on communal relations. Remarkably, they say he is not angry any more about what happened. He is now teaching the younger children in sunday school and when he is not in church, he is learning to cook for his dad. He told us he wants to make a success of his life and do his mum proud. Youre watching newsday on the bbc. Still to come on the programme. As a new emperor ascends to japans chrysanthemum throne this week, we look at role of the new empress, masako. Also on the programme. Airborne for nearly twenty hours the worlds longest non stop commercial flight from new york to sydney comes to a very welcome end. This is newsday on the bbc. Im Sharanjit Leyl in singapore. Im Samantha Simmonds in london. Our top stories. Theres been another weekend the 20th of protests in hong kong, as demonstrators defy the ban on marches. As ambulances evacuate the wounded, kurdish fighters say theyre withdrawing from ras al ayn in Northern Syria under a ceasefire deal with turkey. Lets take a look at some front pages from around the world. The japan times is focusing on the government response efforts to typhoon hagibis. It reports that the government is committing an initial 710 million yen, thats six and a half million dollars, as part of the relief effort, after the storms death toll reached 79 people on sunday. The Straits Times leads with the swearing in of indonesian president joko widdodo for his second term in office the ceremony took place under heavy security in the wake of a series of student protests. And most of the australian papers have redacted their front pages to highlight the constraints on Media Organisations under Strict National security legislation. National mastheads, including the australian and the financial review, ran special covers on monday morning arguing the media is subject to a regime of intense government secrecy and the threat of criminal charges forjournalists doing theirjob. So lets get more on that now greg jennett is from abc news hejoins me from canberra. The unprecedented front page protest is meant to put pressure on the Australian Government to exempt reporters from laws restricting access to sensitive information. Tell us, what has triggered this . Tell us, what has triggered this7m sta rts tell us, what has triggered this7m starts back in june tell us, what has triggered this7m starts back injune when the series of police raids were committed on australian journalist. 0ne of police raids were committed on australian journalist. One for publishing a story based on a leak, it concerned National Security and the other was at the abc headquarters in sydney. It was targeting reports about conduct of australian soldiers during the afghanistan war. We do not yet know whether any journalist is going afghanistan war. We do not yet know whether anyjournalist is going to be charged but it did spark outrage and particularly among the rivals who make up the media landscape in australia. So the nine corporation, news corporation, the Australian Broadcasting corporation. All public and private sector Media Organisations have thrown their weight behind this campaign because the realisation did notjust come from police raids, it has been a creeping series of laws and constraints that have been argued are being suppressed. But Scott Morrison has stressed that australian will always believe in the freedom of press, but no one, including journalists are above the law. So it is been the reaction from these organisations . They are out campaigning and making public state m e nts campaigning and making public statements in the news that is fit to print as you have shown looks more like this today than the length he reads about affairs of the nation. That is the campaign as it is presented visually. But no one, not of the media executives running this campaign is arguing that journalists are in fact above the law. Theyre just asking the police not go after them when they are merely the recipients and publishers of sensitive and sometimes classified information that comes oui classified information that comes our way. Of course, classified information that comes ourway. Of course, it classified information that comes our way. Of course, it is all subject to editorial scrutiny before you reach the publication phase, so Scott Morrisons argument that no one is above the laws bit of a straw man you considered that no one has argued that journalists man you considered that no one has argued thatjournalists should be immune from any law. And this is all about the right to know coalition thatis about the right to know coalition that is doing this, including the abc, but how much do you think this move is actually going to make a difference . There are six core demands here which run through all of them, trying to make it easier to obtain publicly accessible information. This is for information the government holds that you can apply for documents at presence and you can get Something Like the front page of the austrian newspaper, heavily redacted and much of it blacked out. That is when demand. The government is saying that some of the demands of the Media Organisations are being assessed by a parliamentary committee. This is a committee that deals with National Security and Intelligence Matters and theyve described some of the demands as sensible to quote them, so demands as sensible to quote them, so that is indicative of some room to negotiate here as the Committee Process works its way through. Thank you so much for explaining this on the programme. The national correspondent. How would you feel after a nineteen hour flight . Australian Airline Qantas has flown a plane 16 thousand kilometres nonstop from new york to sydney to research how the long journey could affect pilots, crew and passengers. One of the four pilots on board was sean golding. The flight was very successful with two components, the first one was research, we are researching the effects of the long flights, flying under cruise. We are getting a lot of data that is going to be analysed over the coming weeks and months and also the feet of distance. 16,200 km. We were airborne for 19 hours in 16 minutes and we landed here in syd ney 16 minutes and we landed here in sydney with a comfortable 70 minutes of fuel. So there is no doubt. A dowsing headwind than we forecast and there was a success. On tuesday emperor naru hito will formally ascend to the throne injapan. The ceremony will be attended by dignitaries from around the world, including prince charles, whos representing the uk. But the spotlight will be firmly on the japanese royal family, the new emperor and his wife, masako, a former diplomat who speaks several languages. Mariko 0i takes a closer look at the role of the new empress. This is the new empress of japan because she is married to him, the new emperor. Naruhito. Japans imperial family is very old and very traditional. And the empress as a very important role, so the pressure on her has been really high and it has taken a huge personal toll on her. Masako was only the second commoner to become an empress and people called her the career woman princess. Why . Because unusual for a Japanese Imperial woman, she had career goals and was on her way to be a successful diplomat. Straightaway, masako was under enormous pressure to produce a male heir because only men can inherit the japanese throne. This was a very hard and public challenge for the couple. Masako had a miscarriage in 1999 and 2001, the couple had their first and only child, but it was a girl. Japan nearly changed its laws to allow women to inherit the throne but then, the Emperor Naruhitos younger brother had a son. Her husband announced that she was having difficulties adjusting to the imperial life. It is a huge taboo to talk about Mental Health injapan, but she then disappeared from the public eye for over a decade. Recently, we have seen a lot more of her and in may, she became the new empress. This is her talking to foreign leaders like President Trump without an interpreter. She still has all of those rules and traditions to follow, but at least she is finally getting to use her language and her diplomacy skills in her new role. It is an ancient role in modern times, but it looks like masako can become a very different empress. So, the dream is overfor the Rugby World Cup hosts japan, after they lost their quarter final in tokyo to south africa, with a resounding 26 points to 3 defeat. South africas springboks will now play wales for a place in the final. Here are the players reacting to the result. 0verwhelmed with the winter night and so glad to go through to the semis. Yeah, my first world cup. We knew it was going to be a tough one tonight but to pull through against japan, injapan is an amazing feeling and i feel will get a lot of confidence going into that semifinal. Translation i am very disappointed right now so i cant think of anything else. But i want to say that i would like to show my appreciation to our fans because their support pushed us a lot. Although we lost the game tonight, many supporters kept cheering us. We raised a slogan, 0ne team in our team but i believe we were able to become one team, including all our supporters at the stadium tonight. You have been watching newsday. Im Samantha Simmonds in london. And im Sharanjit Leyl in singapore. Stay with us. Ever had a call claiming your Computer Security has been compromised . Police close down fraudsters at two call centres in kolkata after thousands are scammed. And before we go, wed like to leave you with these pictures. This is the centre of the spanish capital, madrid on sunday. And, yes that is two thousand sheep you can see being herded down the city streets. The spanish capital sits on ancient migration route where shepherds would move their livestock south for the winter. There is a mediaeval rule which allows shepherds the right to cut through the city with their animals. Thats all for now stay with bbc world news. Some quiet weather around and at least to start this week in sharp contrast will be a vet for much of october so far which is an active jet stream and low pressure and rain. In fact for england and wales, all of the average 0ctober rain has fallen already this month with 11 days to go in very wet in northeast england. Scotland and Northern Ireland have some ways to go before the october average rainfall and it is here that we will see the wettest weather as we go to the week but as i mentioned earlier, it is quiet to start the week because of an area of low pressure and there is still some low pressure close to east anglia and england and for monday, theyll bring a bit of rain for us and in terms of the weather field to begin the day. Chilly and Northern Ireland but especially in scotland where parts of royal aberdeenshire, three celsius to start one over. A modest offering that it was a lot of cloud around the north easterly breeze the few showers in the outbreak of rain towards the far southeast, especially intent, essex and norfolk, but we might see a few spots further in land as well. Some outbreaks of rain towards Northern Ireland with a fresh south westerly wind and temperature is around ten to 1a degrees, some spells developing more widely us to go to 1a degrees, some spells developing more widely as we go through the day. In england and wales going into Tuesday Morning with winds, the reason for the fog patches developing dents in a few that in mind. For Tuesday Morning, High Pressure still here indicating the light winds, breezy picture for us, the Northern Ireland and parts the light winds, breezy picture for scotland, the Northern Ireland and parts of Northern England is welcome a fair amount of cloud on tuesday. Most will be dry but he my brakes of rain in the far north of scotland, few sunny spells away, the rest of england and wales and temperatures are actually edging up a few degrees. And a few looks at the picture for wednesday, low pressure getting closer and a weak weather front heading towards the southeast and weather front is coming in with more substantial rain from these will be heading into Northern Ireland and heading into scotland, especially to the west we will see a few showers but that weather front towards the south east and between the two and in the zone here, present and your weather and temperatures right around the mid to low teens. So that is how the week is looking, quite a start with and for midweek, it is back to some rainy times in scotland and Northern Ireland france or england and wales, pressure remains high so the quieter weather holds on and not much of the way of fresh rainfall on the way and there will be a few fog patches. Im Samantha Simmonds with bbc world news. Our top story. Theres been another weekend, the 20th, of mass protests in hong kong. Organisers say as many as 350,000 people took part in the rallies, which were held without official permission. Police fired teargas and water canon, to try to clear the streets. Kurdish led forces in syria say they have withdrawn their fighters from the border town of ras al ayn under a ceasefire deal with turkey it comes as ambulances evacuated the wounded from the town. And this story is getting a lot of attention on bbc. Com. 30 ancient wooden coffins have been put on display in egypt, following their recent discovery near the city of luxor. The ornately decorated coffins for men, women and children date back to the 22nd dynasty around 3,000 years ago. Thats all. Stay with bbc world news