In south korea is an opportunity for these grandmothers to go back to school. Chinas president has called on hong kong to restore order and bring violence to an end following the latest protests. Xijinping also warned that the unrest could threaten the principle of one country, two systems, under which hong kong has had significant autonomy from beijing. Earlier, protesters barricaded themselves in University Campuses in anticipation of possible police raids. Im joined by verna yu, who is a freelance journalist based in hong kong. Of course, you have been following this story for six months now. We know these protests have continued. What do you think hong kongers are going to make of these latest state m e nts going to make of these latest statements by xijinping, one of going to make of these latest statements by xi jinping, one of the few times he has spoken out, a p pa re ntly few times he has spoken out, apparently speaking in brazil . Yes, i actually believe this is the first time that president xi jinping has spoken out on the issue. Previously, the communique of a key Party Meeting over a week ago, they made a pretty strong statement about the. Signalling the need for tighter control in hong kong, and also warning the Hong Kong Government has to be protected. So this is the latest comment by xi jinping on to be protected. So this is the latest comment by xijinping on hong kong is a pretty strong indication that china wants 2 what a stop to the current violence and protest. And i think this will probably cause, you know, a lot of people to worry, but also the protesters are likely that. I think they will become more angry. Of course, this anger continues to spill into this week. We have already seen quite a lot of violence this week, a protest a shot at point blank range, yet another pro beijing activist actually set alight. So this has been incredibly divisive for hong kongers. Give us a sense of how and when do you think this may end, if ever . There is no end in sight, im afraid. It has caused a lot of division in hong kong society. A lot of people are. I mean, given the protests are of people are. I mean, given the protests a re now of people are. I mean, given the protests are now in their sixth month, a lot of people understandably are getting very fed up understandably are getting very fed up with the situation, and there is a palpable anger on campus following the death of a student last friday. And on University Campuses, there is graffiti everywhere, and a lot of the graffiti actually says they want revenge, blood debts have got to be paid. And im afraid the students feel that there is no other way to express their anger except by, you know, blocking roads, throwing bricks down onto roads. Kind of they wa nt to bricks down onto roads. Kind of they want to pa ralyse bricks down onto roads. Kind of they want to paralyse hong kong, bring it toa want to paralyse hong kong, bring it to a complete standstill, to pressure the government into doing something. And meanwhile, i mean, ordinary peoples everyday life has been seriously disrupted, and schools are being suspended, universities have announced the termination of the terms. Ordinary people, a lot of them just cant get to work and cant go about their daily lives. Thank you so much for that again, thanks forjoining us on the programme. Lets take a look at some of the days other news there has been another shooting incident at a school in california. Two students have been killed and several seriously injured. Los Angeles Police said a student opened fire on the campus in santa clarita, north of los angeles, before using his last bullet on himself. They said the suspect, an asian male who had turned 16 today, had been captured and was in a serious condition. He and three other victims were receiving treatment in hospital. In a moment, more form our north america correspondent david willis. But first, here is what the Police Spokesman had to say a short time ago. Now we are going through the very lengthy process of conducting a thorough investigation to figure out what happened and why. At the same time, we are busy now doing the reunification of students with their pa rents, reunification of students with their parents, and all the affected stu d e nts parents, and all the affected students have been notified. Their families have been notified and they are with them currently. He has been identified, this government. Date of birth 14 november 2003, making this his 16th birthday. Now, it is alleged that before classes got under way in sa nta before classes got under way in santa clarita, just north of los angeles, today, he pulled a gun from his backpack and opened fire, shooting five of his classmates, two of whom have since died. Detectives say that he saved the last shot for himself, and shot himself in the head. He is said to be gravely ill in hospital. A boy and a girl are in a critical condition. Also making news today investigators looking into the shooting down of a passenger plane over ukraine have released phone transcripts suggesting senior kremlin figures were helping direct the ukrainian rebels accused of the crime. Malaysia Airlines Flight mh17 came down over rebel held Eastern Ukraine in 2014. It was travelling from amsterdam, and all 298 people on board died. It was brought down by a russian made buk missile which investigators say came from the russian military. A ceasefire between israel and islamichhad militants in gaza appears to be holding, despite sporadic rocket fire. The truce ended two days of intense fighting that killed at least 34 palestinians and paralysed parts of israel. Just before it was announced, a pre dawn israeli airstrike killed eight members of the same family in gaza. The eu on thursday launched a legal case against britain for failing to nominate a commissioner, in the midst of a British ElectionCampaign Already dominated by brexit. Britains departure from the bloc has been postponed from 31 october until 31 january, so under eu rules, it is supposed to put forward a candidate for the new Commission Led by ursula von der leyen. Art thieves tried to steal two paintings by rembrandt worth around 130 million each from englands oldest public art gallery on tuesday. But police managed to stop them after alarms went off at the dulwich picture gallery in south london. An intruder was chased, but they managed to get away. Italys cabinet has declared a state of emergency in venice following serious tidal flooding in the city. The countrys prime minister, giuseppe conte, said 22 million had been allocated as the first emergency funds to help the city, its citizens and businesses. Jenny hill is in venice. Even as they clear up, the flood alarms are going off. In a few hours, it is feared venice will be deluged again. Its a disaster, for ourfamily and for all the venetian people. Are really, really, really big storm. They havent seen anything this bad since the 1960s. One couple filmed as they tried and failed to keep the water out. Water coming from everywhere, and we we found ourselves surrounded by water. The beauty of this ancient city fragile now. Inside st marks basilica, they are still assessing the damage. The crypt was filled with water. Venice lies low, prone to floods, vulnerable to the effects of climate change, a planned flood defence scheme delayed for years by corruption, scandal and overspend. Little comfort for those watching as the tides rise, fall, and rise again. Jenny hill, bbc news, venice. Today the speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, said that President Trump has already admitted to bribery when it comes to the ukraine phone call which is at the heart of the impeachment inquiry. Her comments come the day before a Second Public hearing, which will feature the former Ukraine Ambassador marie yovanovitch, and when it comes to continued republican pressure on the whistleblower, this is what she had to say. Nobody nobody president , the president is not above the law. The president will be held accountable. And nobody should have the right to endanger whistleblowers. And that is the system that i will defend. And the system that i will defend. And the American People the American People understand that. Earlier i spoke to ksenija pavlovic, an independent White House Correspondent covering the trump administration. I asked her if there had been a shift in tone from the democrats. As the public hearings go under way, the democrats are clearly trying to make a stronger case, stronger legal case, for voting on the articles of impeachment. In the statement nancy pelosi made this evening is speaking to that fact. However, the first day of impeachment yesterday didnt really move the needle in anyones favour in particular. The people who supported trump remained to support him. The ones who oppose him remained to oppose him. And that is pretty much the situation here, in a very divisive american society. The republicans are now going to continue to say how this is nothing but a witch hunt, and the democrats are going to try to present the president as someone who made an attempt of bribery, and by doing so he betrayed the office of the american presidency. And really created big damage on the very institution of the american presidency and its ideals. Its interesting you say yesterdays first public hearings didnt shift the dial. A huge number of people watch them, 13. 8 the people according to reuters watch the first day of the impeachment hearings. Do you think that that will continue to be the case, that the people who are anti trump will remain so and the people who are pro trump will remain so . What about any floating voters . Remain so . What about any floating voters . Will they be impacted by this . How important will it be for next yea rs this . How important will it be for next years president ial elections . It is going to be very important for the election, and the way im seeing these impeachment proceedings is that they are the extension of the president ial campaign battlefield. And we are going to see more and more of that as the impeachment unfolds. Whats important here is that there is a big percentage, a High Percentage of people, who are still undecided, have not formed views on impeachment as of today. Many of us enjoy a seafood spread, but do you ever stop to think where the catch on your plate actually came from . Last year, a un backed report found exploitable fisheries in the Asia Pacific Region are on course to decline to zero by 2048. Overfishing isjust one of the issues being discussed at National Geographics explorers festival, being held here in singapore for the first time. Earlier i wasjoined by one of the speakers, the oceanographer sylvia earle. She is known in some circles as your deepness, and she was instrumental in having google earth display ocean data. I asked what can be done to mitigate further damage to the oceans. We have two take seriously what we now know, that we really could not know until fairly recently. We thought, 50 years ago, that the ocean was infinite in its capacity to a cce pt ocean was infinite in its capacity to accept whatever we wanted to put into it. It would just go away. We could take out of the ocean whatever we wa nt could take out of the ocean whatever we want to do, it would always come back. It was 50 years ago that the first view of earth from space took place, and we could see this is all there is. Its one little blue miracle, ina there is. Its one little blue miracle, in a universe of unfriendly places. That my role as an explorer with thousands of hours under the sea, i feel like an astronaut, with thousands of hours under the sea, ifeel like an astronaut, in with thousands of hours under the sea, i feel like an astronaut, in a way, because i have seen things others have not, and thats why im motivated. And tell us a bit about what you have seen. Because i mean, it has been horrifying, hasnt it, that earlier this year we found plastic in the deepest debt of the ocean. But you have said that actually banning single use plastic will not save planet, but making the right choices will. Your approach is much more pragmatic when it comes to ecological choices that we can make. So what are some choices that consumers should make . So what are some choices that consumers should make . |j so what are some choices that consumers should make . I think banning Single Use Plastics is a positive thing, but its not enough. Its symbolic of we have to take ca re of its symbolic of we have to take care of what we do. Individual choices matter. And, whether its what you eat, what you wear, how you deal with whatever it is that you encounter in life, but plastics anew on the scene, in my lifetime. When i was a child, they did not exist, and today they are everywhere. They are in the airwe today they are everywhere. They are in the air we its notjust the large nets that are discarded in the ocean and killing, killing, killing animals in the sea that we dont even bring to market, but they break down into little pieces. Micro plastics and now nano plastics, that are in the water. They are in the air. They are everywhere, and its oui air. They are everywhere, and its ourdoing. Air. They are everywhere, and its our doing. And they are being in my fish, and of course we are consuming that fish. Overfishing is another issue. Its a major issue. I may tell us what is being done there. Well, its an issue that curiously we are beginning to put it all together, relates to payment. We understand when you cut forests you break the links in terms of those systems that capture carbon and generate oxygen, but its true in the ocean as well. This, like trees, are carbon based units. We have taken 90 are carbon based units. We have ta ken 90 of are carbon based units. We have taken 90 of many of the big fish out of the ocean, and a lot of the little ones too. So we have disrupted the planet through what weve done to the natural systems. We once thought it doesnt matter, theyll always come back. But now we know they dont. Also on the programme it is never too late to learn. The grandmothers filling classrooms left empty by south koreas ridiculously low birth rate. The bombastic establishment outsider, donald trump, has defied the pollsters to take the keys to the oval office. I feel great about the election result. I voted for him because i genuinely believe that he cares about the country. Its keeping the candidates name always in the public eye that counts. Success or failure depends not only on public display, but on the local Campaign Headquarters and the heavy routine work of their women volunteers. Berliners from both east and west linked hands and danced around their liberated territory. And with nobody to stop them, it wasnt long before the first attempts were made to destroy the structure itself. Yasser arafat, who dominated the palestinian cause for so long, has died. Palestinian authority has declared a state of mourning. After 17 years of discussion, the result was greeted with an outburst ofjoy. Women ministers whod long felt only grudgingly accepted in the ranks of clergy suddenly felt welcomed. This is newsday on the bbc. Im Sharanjit Leyl in singapore. Im Samantha Simmonds in london. Our top stories. Beijing has issued a direct warning to hong kong, saying it urgently needs to end violence and restore order. Two students have been killed and several injured when a fellow student opened fire at a high school in california. Lets take a look at some front pages from around the world. Commuters could soon be speeding from dubai and abu dhabi. Thats according to the gulf news. Visitors to the dubai motor show got a first look at the hyperloop passenger pods. They could cut the journey time tojust12 minuets. Minutes. The Straits Times says singapore has become a safer place for people who work at great heights. Apparently the number of workers whove died as a result of a fall has declined by more than half over the past decade. Good news, given all those skyscrapers. And the japan times reports that Emperor Naruhito has performed his last major succession ritual. The centuries old shinto thanksgiving ceremony, known as the daijosai, was performed in the gigantic daijokyu halls which were specially constructed for the rite. South korea is running out of children. It has one of the lowest birth rates in the world. The impact is being keenly felt in rural areas where schools are struggling to fill classrooms and stay open. Facing a year without any first graders, a school in the south west of the country decided to open its doors to illiterate grandmothers who asked to learn to read and write. Our correspondent, laura bicker, in seoul has the story. We will study hard, these grandmothers tell their teacher. For decades they dreamt of learning to read and write. Now they have their chance, every moment in this First Grade Class is special. Translation i never went to school because we we re i never went to school because we were poor. Now i am learning new things and realising it is really nice to go to school. Now i know how to read and write. I can think my teacher 100 times. That is how good i feel. Theyve lived most of their lives sacrificing for their families, usually male siblings. There was a culture of sending sons to school but not daughters. The root cause was poverty. This middle school once had 90 pupils in each grade. Now there are 22 in total. Last year there were no new first graders. So the grandmothers asked if they could come. Translation when i was young i couldnt go to school because i had to raise my siblings. Now that i am older i heard this was a good opportunity. That is why i am doing it. Babies are becoming an increasingly rare sight in rural areas. As south koreas birthrate plummets to one of the lowest in the world. On the first scottish person you have met. To try to help, officials have built a new baby unit to support new mothers and encourage them to stay in the area stop translation the trend for young people is to just deliver happily with themselves and their husbands. I think the economic factor is the biggest concern in raising a child. But Family Finances are not the only concern. A demanding work culture makes it difficult for many women to balance their career with family life. As a result, south korea is running out of children. In this class there is only to students and they are in different grades. But amidst this crisis has come a rare opportunity. To offer an older generation a chance to make up for lost time and lost education. Translation now i can write my name. It is fun. It is just fun to walk to school. Australias bushfires this week have claimed at least 4 lives and destroyed hundreds of homes. And after few days of cooler weather in eastern australia temperatures are forecast to pick up again into the weekend, leading to fears of more strong blazes. Shaimaa khalil is in glenreagh in northern New South Wales one of the towns badly hit this week. Catastrophic fires have been lazing through this area for the last few days and this is what they left behind. The earth here is scorched and you can still feel the heat beneath. Some bits still smouldering. The smoke isjust beneath. Some bits still smouldering. The smoke is just so thick it is like a blanket of haze that has descended on the place and the smell is just so strong. We have met some locals and they said they are still shop and are still trying to get over the catastrophic and traumatising events they have been through. There has been a lull in the weather and the wind has settled down, temperatures have dropped the weather forecasters are saying they expect pete to pick up so hot conditions and with the continuing drought and strong wind there is a fear there could be a wave of more fires over the next few days. We also met some firefighters who say that until we have rain, which they do not expect, this will happen time and time again for the coming weeks and time again for the coming weeks and months. Now hows this for something quite sensational. A british inventor has broken his own record for the fastest flight in a jet suit. Richard browning also know asjetman raced through the air at almost 137 kilometres per hour at Brighton Beach in southern england, smashing his previous record by more than 80 kilometres per hour. It might not be the way you drop the kids off at school anytime soon, but it certainly stimulates the imagination. People around the world, kids, trying to get out there and do something that has not been done before. That is the core of innovation, that is what innovation is about. Dont be afraid to have a 90, is about. Dont be afraid to have a go, no you might fail. That is entirely our business. You have been watching newsday. Im Samantha Simmonds in london. And im Sharanjit Leyl in singapore. Stay with us. Coming up a bigger role for plus sized clothes. We will be seeing how social Media Influencers in india have helped to change attitudes in the fashion industry. And before we go, wed like to leave you with these pictures from the warmth of a finnish sauna, where101 people from Different Countries have broken the world record for most nationalities ina sauna. It was a succesful attempt to reclaim the title from china, where the record had been broken in 2013 for 99 nationalities ina sauna. The organisers asked foreign embassies in helskini to help in their efforts to recruit people from other countries. Thats all for now stay with bbc world news. Hello. Thursday was another rough day of weather across the uk. Snow fell for some, this is how it looks over high ground in staffordshire. For many more it was rain, rain falling on sodden ground so there area number of falling on sodden ground so there are a number of flood warnings in force and you can read about those on the bbc weather website. An area of low pressure spinning across Continental Europe and the strap of cloud here is what brought the persistent rain across parts of the midlands and north england. Snow for some as well. That rain band is now working westwards and weakening but our area of low pressure still spinning around and still in charge of the scene so it will throw more outbreaks of rain in from the east as we go through the day. Across england and wales, largely cloudy day with outbreaks of rain at time. Like patchy at times and heavy rain into the south east later on. Some rain expect in eastern and southern parts of scotland, also Northern Ireland. Morning showers will tend to fizzle and leave some sunshine through the afternoon. It will still be breezy but perhaps not quite as chilly as it was on thursday. Into the early hours of saturday you can see further outbreaks of patchy rain spreading from the east towards the west and the best of the clear spells we found across scotland and Northern Ireland although in scotla nd Northern Ireland although in scotland there could be dense fog patches into saturday morning. Into the weekend, an area of low pressure still with us but notice the white lines, those isobars. There are not many of them. The lowest flabby which means there is not to push the rain around and so it is a little tricky for us to forecast the exact details at this stage. It looks like many of us was a cloud in some outbreaks of rain during times on saturday. Best chance of brightness towards the south. It will not be as windy as it has been. On sunday, a greater chance of seeing heavier and more persistent rain from the east, moving into parts of Northern England and the midlands potentially so with staying in touch with the forecast. Best of the sunshine across the west, particularly Northern Ireland. Into monday, a little ridge of High Pressure will make its way through and for the start of the week that will settle things down. But there is a bigelow waiting in the winds in the atlantic and that will bring the return of rain at times as we had through next week. It will often be windy but will eventually turn a bit milder. You are watching bbc world news. Our top story chinas president has warned that protests in hong kong are threatening the one country, two systems governing principle. In rare comments on the unrest in hong kong, xijinping said the city needs to urgently end violence and restore order. A student has opened fire on a campus near los angeles, leaving two dead and injuring three others. The 16 year old suspect, who was also injured, was taken into custody. And this video is trending on bbc. Com. A british inventor has broken his own record for the fastest flight in a jet suit. Richard browning, also know as jetman, raced through the air at almost 137 km h at Brighton Beach in southern england, smashing his previous record by more than 80 km h. Thats all, stay with bbc world news