Hong kong to take part in another prodemocracy rally turnout is being closely watched as a gauge of public sentiment up to more than 2 months of violent clashes and increasingly stern warnings from beijing. Plus the Islamic State group says it carried out a deadly suicide bombing in the Afghan Capital kabul that killed dozens many of the victims are being laid to rest. Im rebecca races welcome to the program the n. P. O. That operates the migrant rescue ship more off the italian coast has refused an offer from spain to take in the more than 100 migrants on board a spokesman for the open arms group said diaa conditions on board would make the 6 day journey impossible several a u countries including germany have offered to take the migrants but italy has been taking a hard line and has only accepted the unaccompanied minors on board. Dispersion drives some on the horizon safety on the italian island of lampedusa behind them chaos aboard a charity beso the migrant struggle through the warsaw. Unli to be brought back to the visibly overcrowded open arms and this is what they were turning to. The state of new mutiny aboard the ship the charitys directors sounding an s. O. S. About what might happen if they arent allowed to dock in need by italy of the future were all here weve spent days waiting for the people in the water fights violence crises older time what more do you want deaths from others you double. Your money theres a devils work those. Days open arms has been mowed several 100 meters off lampedusa. These people are at the center of a judicial and political battle in italy the countrys interior minister wants him to go elsewhere. You know to tough guy wins in the end so im pleased to report that the migrants aboard the open arms have had the good news that the Spanish Government will open its ports to them most fun euro low for. Dozens of young and frail people aboard i pronounce of already been a while but sure need to leave this weekend. But salvage the augustin take the others would send the wrong signal to close up. Its a maritime standoff thats lasted for weeks now. At risk the safety of over 100 people aboard the spanish vessel. And in another corner of the mediterranean a 2nd rescue ship is seeking to enter the port of a port in multan so if they have refused to let it land saying they were obliged to do so only for those picked up in the countries of rescues on around 350. 00 migrants are aboard the ocean viking move and it was built to carry among them 29. 00 children the ships operated by french charities s. O. S. Mediterranean and medicine. Good weather is coming in coming weeks could encourage more migrants to try to sail to europe from libyan shoals. Elliston kong now where prodemocracy demonstrators have marched through the city center for another major rally is the 11th consecutive weekend of protests organizers say more than 1700000 people joined sundays pace full demonstration the march was aimed at proving the Movement Still had Popular Support despite mounting violence and growing warnings from the Chinese Government protesters are demanding free elections and an independent investigation into what they say is Police Brutality against the protesters. Earlier i spoke with charlotte telson pill in hong kong and i asked her what was different about todays mass rally. Today has been organized by the people behind 2 massive rallies that took place in june where organizers say one of them up to 2000000 people attended now whats been crucial about today is the organizers wanted to prove that they could still bring out that many people back onto the streets of hong kong and that this could importantly remain peaceful as well they really are trying to counter this narrative that sprung up over the last few weeks that some of these protesters are extremely violence that something that wasnt held by scenes that we saw at the airport earlier this week which was brought on by Chinese State media as proof these protesters were violent not peaceful Peaceful Demonstrations like the ones weve seen today in fact beijing like in some of these more violent protests is to terrorists so all the nicest today are going to be very keen that the scenes of the the wealthys 2 that go around the world peaceful scenes like the one behind me and what weve seen so far today. In afghanistan the socalled Islamic State is claiming responsibility for a deadly Suicide Attack on a Wedding Party in the capital kabul funerals are being held for the victims the attack left more the. 16 people dead and dozens more injured many of the victims were women and children the explosion took place as more than a 1000 guests were celebrating a marriage in a shiite neighborhood of the city. Islamic state considers muslim shiites to be heretics and has targeted them in many attacks in the past. Couples huge wedding halls are centers of Community Life but the grand design and decor of this one belie the carnage of the attack the death toll detailed in part by what many of the victims left behind. Throughout the night ambulances ferried the injured for treatment outside of a nearby hospital relatives checked for names of the dead and injured an attacker had set off explosives in the midst of the wedding celebrations. Yeah damon presented the explosion happened near the stage where the musicians were all of the young people and all the people who were there were killed some are wounded and now theyre in the hospital and others are dead. This nearby hospital needed every bit of space to accommodate the victims they had arrived in a massive wave of distress. More bottom of it we came to the site of the blast and i saw that many women and children were screaming and crying many martyrs and injured people were transferred by the ambulances and it was really a terrible situation. Beyond the weddings themselves wedding halls are also used as simple meeting places for small and large gatherings thats made them the target of a local affiliate of the socalled Islamic State. Last november at least 55. 00 people were killed when a suicide bomber attacked hundreds of muslim scholars and clerics gathered in another kabul wedding hall to mark the birthday of the prophet muhammad. Im joined now by journalist ali latine feet in kabul ali thanks for joining me this socalled Islamic State say theyre responsible for this attack is there any proof of that. I mean the only proof we have is basically their claim theyre not in the least calling card theres really no way to know that but they did actually name the bomber a genocide in the. Last name of. Which you know beats to a lot of us which will lead to a lot of suspicions in this country because you know stan has always been accused of aiding and abetting different armed groups here novel honest on so literally in these kinds of cases the only proof the only evidence we have is what they claim themselves. And when we talk about afghanistan anyway when youre talking about the taliban so when an i. A. S. Fit into all of this and what do they want. So this is exactly the problem is that theyre sort of this this rogue group where people in the areas where they gained a lot of traction for instance in the east ive been talking to people in these areas since 2013142015 they always say these people come out of nowhere we dont really know what they where they come from we dont understand who they are real reason or stand the way they speak what they do say like the taliban or think muslims and they kick the taliban out and then they take over and theyre really known for their brutality they often claim that they will take women from the area as brides for themselves. Widow or young unmarried women like telling people to hang flags on their houses and things like that its never been fully proven because as soon as people hear that they leave the area as soon as they can as soon as they hear the name they flee the area and the problem is is that with the taliban you generally have a sense that you know they have a leadership they have a spokesman you know their leadership is able to say and negotiate with the with the United States with these diets forces we dont know who they are we dont know what they want and theres really no way even if thats if there were to be talks with them or you want to speak to and what is it that youre going to try and negotiate around. T. V. In kabul afghanistan thank you very much. Your lets take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world wildfires on the Spanish Island of gran canaria have forced the evacuation of some 4000 people Officials Say several communities are threatened in a region already hit by fires some days ago they say strong winds and high temperatures could spark fire from embers from the previous blazes. As spectacular controlled demolition has been carried out in southern england 3 cooling towers at a decommissioned coal fired power station were brought down with explosives in did cut the huge structures have dominated the skyline of the oxfordshire town since the 19th sixtys they once boasted one of britains ugliest sides. Now what you see behind may no longer exists its icelands 1st place the a loss to Global Warming today the countrys marking its disappearance opening a move morial the uk close to cap the capital reykjavik the satellite images taken in 1806 show large amounts of snow around the ark volcano today theres almost nothing left of it. To glacier is of iceland as seen from the air for years regnier axelson has been photographing them among them this one ark the 1st in the country officially to vanish. Most schoolchildren here know the glaciers name for all to vanish or fix people in iceland both psychologically and emotionally a glacier many of known since childhood has ceased to exist. This is europes largest glacier but. Its also shrinking iceland is losing more than 10000000. 00 tons of glacier ice per year researchers agree the reason for this is climate change. Never nice and history of glaciers melt it is quickly is now everything points to the fact that this will continue in the future. We have to suppose that in 200 years almost all glaces will have vanished. Recto axelson flew over the glaciers again a few days ago capturing images of a scene that may soon be gone for ever. My engine eva representatives from 180 nations are making to agree on protections for vulnerable spaces like elephants the trade in ivory has been banned worldwide for years but some african countries say the ban is unnecessary they want restrictions on elephant and ivory exports to be listened. In tracks go straight across daniel jeremiahs field the small farmer lives in cousin a on the edge of tobie National Park the packet derms often enter his farm and eat or trample his crops you know i live in the come every day you can see. We have this. New thing here. Botswana is home to africas largest elephant population with around 150000 the number is growing in some areas there have been deadly encounters between humans and elephants in may but sworn to lifted a 5 year hunting ban now the countrys going a step further by pushing for limited ivory trade at the World Wildlife conference in geneva scientists fear that could also lead to more illegal trade in our every. We know that within africa we really struggle to control trade of products like wildlife and we struggle to sort of monitor it and regulate the legal side of things and we cannot pretend were not stopping the illegal side of things i mean its theoretically possible that perching could get worse and of course than that thats why thats a worse outcome for elephants effective controls are needed to ensure that only tusks from legal haunting are traded but countries with rampant corruption often lack such oversight and that could worsen the plight of our offense. Doesnt football now in the 1st match day of the bundesliga season is done and dusted but heres a quick overview of all the results so far frankfurt squeaked past hoffenheim on sunday dortmund set the time with a massive win on saturday the other 2 promoted sides part of bone and cologne made unhappy put us in this league of returns and the surprise of the weekend champions by and dropping points against her to berlin in the curtain raiser on friday youre watching news from berlin up next world stories the weekend reports well have more News Headlines at the top of the hour with calm assman im rebecca racism thanks for joining me. Today dont miss our highlights. Program. W dot com highlights. Closely. Please. Dont see the nice to do again