Affect the small. Town one of the worlds most famous villages Takes Center Stage out the Venice Film Festival the joke out probably as on the big screen with Joaquin Phoenix playing the lead role to go live to our correspondent in the street tomorrow. Am. To. Im at home free glad you could join me we begin in hong kong where thousands of protesters have gathered for the 13th straight weekend defying a ban byo forces action on the streets intensified on saturday with demonstrators starting fires and Police Responding with a new tactic a water cannon designed to mock those who took part in the protest today scotus took place on a symbolic day 5 years ago today. Mainland china said no to open elections in hong kong. After 13 weeks of mass demonstrations the crackdown takes on a darker shade for the 1st time police fired Water Cannons loaded with blue dye staining frontline protesters and promising to prosecute the authorities and want hong kong residents not to participate in the band demonstrations thousands defied them. For much of the purpose of hitting the streets today is to tell the government you cant scare us this way we also have to restate our main demands because ive never responded to them call them or you will go as you dont like back on the street prominent activist joshua wong just a day after being arrested then released compared to activists being threatened by police being beaten by those what is called the fuck up my psyche is really small so i had no reason to get off the roof and it began with a hymn demonstrators calling their gathering a religious meeting in an attempt to circumvent the ban on protests. The chorus grew louder as thousands joined in a peaceful march. But the chuen changed as the scene turned chaotic with tear gas from police fire bombs from protesters and by night burning barricades blocking the streets. This weekend marks the 5th anniversary of chinas decision not to allow full democratic elections in hong kong yet the flames of resistance burn on the well idea we spoke with d. W. Correspondent shot shells and hill in hong kong and asked about reports of police storming train stations as todays protests were wrapping up the files and said at least. 3 train station so far theyre all distressing images on social media please using boston some reports as well that they used pepper spray on people inside the train carriages we have seen that there have been numerous arrests inside the train station the number of people as well gathered outside Police Stations now if todays images which really are going viral hit in hong kong on social media a lot of anger among process to supporters of the protest movement what they say is example of Excessive Police violence that is signs of how far apart these 2 sides are in Hong Kong Police have issued during statement there are versions of that they said they said to the Police Station in response to protests to sandra lines at the station they also said that protesters had been assaulting citizens at that point prompted them to and said now on to those events 5 train lines have been suspended this essentially. That area down there was really causing a lot of upset here is the fact that while some protesters it appears would have been on their way to its not a process that was getting traction by some when its just been going higher that was the end of a very long very bonded you think tonight and of course some people is trying what youve been involved in the protest tool that look just been. On the train. This is proof that police was serious in that warnings that ive been making over the last 24 hours that this protest Movement Today was illegal it was banned and anyone taking part was breaking the law. For this for you have to say now with some of the other stories making news around the world this hour. At least 15 people have been killed in a Major Taliban attack on the key afghan city of can do is the fighting started early on saturday morning and gun battles continued off tonight for the time comes as the taliban in the United States continue talks on ending 18 hes a conflict in afghanistan israels military says its ordered extra forces to deploy on the border area with lebanon raising fears of another war between israel and the Shiite Movement hezbollah tensions are high in the region involved tweak his red allegedly carried out a drone attack on hezbollah targets in lebanon. A suspect is in custody in france also one person was fatally stabbed an 8 others wounded its nice to see to have me on police now say the suspect acted alone off to early reports they were looking for a 2nd attack sorties are investigating a motive for this stuff. Now choicer was left scrambling on friday off to hackers briefly took control of twitter to see our jack dorsey account they tweeted racial slurs profanity and a bomb threat before twitter regained control and reporter william know if you crossed is here with me in the studio for more with him is that not a certain already of course in seeing the c. E. O. Of twitter have his account hacked i mean how did this happen sure and its not as difficult as some people might think or want it to be twitter says this happened all very quickly they identified it quickly they contain the threat and secured it very quickly tweeting just a few hours later that the phone number associated with jack dorsey is account was compromised due to a security oversight by the mobile phone provider this allowed an unauthorized person to compose and send tweets via text message from the phone number that issue is now resolved the issue at leave. For this one account from jack dorsey s twitter account. Yeah the hackers are still unknown but it seems that hes likely the victim of a swim a sim swap or result for one account but of course many of us have to say if its happened to the c. E. O. Surely it could happen to any of us right and not only would twitter anyone who has an Online Presence or even a bank account and uses their phone number as a means of security and what we know as a 2 step verification this is deemed by experts and recommended to us all as the safest way to secure on line presences whether its social media our Bank Accounts doing for National Transactions to have that cell phone number that mobile phone number as an added layer to secure your identity the problem is phone numbers were never really seen as being more of needing to be a secure way of identifying you in phone companies were never really thinking of protocols are safeguards to make phone number secure if you think in the old days our phone numbers used to be publicly available in the phone book and now theyre expected to be secure means of identifying you so much so that instagram accounts have been hacked more than there is a 220000000. 00 lawsuit now against 18 t. The major American Telecommunications company because people lost millions of dollars in crypto currencies using their phone numbers to secure those accounts so its far beyond twitters anyone has an Online Presence and uses their phone number so with that floor in mind then what can we do to protect ourselves well 1st of all to be aware that our phone numbers should be seen as just as important as our bank details our credit card numbers our email addresses things we already think about as as information personal information that needs to be very secure there are of course things we can do experts say basically go hack yourself you should call your phone company and see just how much information about yourself and about your phone number you can get out of the phone company before they ask you for any kind of password or identifying information because thats how these sim swaps work someone else posing. If you calls up says they need the phone number changed to a new sim card if they can do that game over they have your phone number on a sim card thats not yours anymore but of course ultimately it comes down to banks social media platforms and that Telephone Companies themselves sitting down and working out solutions for everyone not just us as individuals as happened in mozambique very effectively bank Bank Customers are getting their their information hacked repeatedly and they found a very good solution at the industry level and these same swaps went to almost 0 overnight all right so go hack yourself the takeaway message that from william no thank you so much william. Well the Venice Film Festival is in full swing and today it marks a 1st in its long history a superhero comic book character on the venice big screen today the festival premiered one of the worlds most recognizable villains the joker with Joaquin Phoenix in the title role in the film traces aspiring comedian author flecks descent into becoming the classic folk a need bats man unify us. To 3. Was a tragedy. Its a comedy. And the how of that one will end up well to tell us more im joined by film buff scott roxboro hes out the Film Festival in venice for scott is it even correct to call this a superhero movie i mean isnt this more of a super villain film. Yeah i think youre right there i mean this is almost a new genre seen joker appear in numerous films always as the batmans a nemesis but in this the 1st time hes hes got his own story of his own backstory he is the sort of antihero of the of the movie and in all the previous appearances by the joker hes always sort of remained a mystery here he is given central stage but interestingly the walking phoenix who with the extreme measures to play this role he lost 52 pounds he told us in the press conference that he went deep and dark to get into the mind of this legendary psychopath but even he said in the end he never got to the to the real at the core the real mystery that is the joker probably pick a listen. She was so many things to me at different times and the who he was the 1st few weeks of shooting a completely different than who he was at the end it was something that was constantly evolving just only ever ever had an experience quite like this one. Whacking phoenix their own playing the joker skull the joke has been played by some iconic act is Jack Nicholson heath ledger what does Joaquin Phoenix bring to the role. Yeah its interesting because they say its an iconic character and it says several iconic performances that come with it but when Jack Nicholson did the joker he did in sort of as a carnival over the top heath ledger played the joker almost as a force of nature sort of a lord of chaos with no backstory whatsoever walking phoenix does with this role is something ive never seen done with a job before which is you made him up a man he plays him as a recognizable human be psychologically disturbed a human who feels ostracized and eventually snaps and with very little and violent consequences but hes recognizably human i think thats quite unique to this role and really to this movie in the whole comic book. It has a very realistic gritty feel which which makes the sort of horrors that happen with throughout this film even that more horrifying because theyre set in you know in a very recognizable world thats very similar to our you know we have to say as well i mean a comic book movie at the Venice Film Festival i mean it was once unthinkable what do you think made the organizers change their minds. Yeah youre absolutely right even a couple of years ago would have been think well have a comic book movie here in the Venice Film Festival but i think theres 2 things one the Film Festival has had to recognize that the commercial and also Cultural Impact of comic book movies is undeniable and they had to sort of pay tribute about in some way and i think with this film they found interesting balance because while this film is a comic book movie it pays tribute to the great art house movies of 970 s. In particular marcus course has these films and taxi driver the king of comedy are directly quoted in this film and its much closer to those movies a story of a disturbed a dark side. That disturbed individual and and much farther away from a movie like avengers of this other comic of movies and i think theyre necessarily the way to bring in the comic book fans and super who are fans of which there are a legion while still staying true to its our house roots all right scott rocks for a 1st in venice thank you very much. It watching the news coming up next a documentary focused on pain killers the Opioid Crisis in the usa who said that you can was get the latest news on our website that is d w dot com more news out of the top of the hour im heading home freight thanks for joining. Us. Welcome to the book is the game here for d. W. I. The trying to talk about something. Less coverage. 3 more. Asshole we have. Lets have a look at some of the other legal so you dont want to. Get to w