Insurgent groups on the United States to aid to the war in afghanistan. Now one of the worlds most famous villains Takes Center Stage at the Venice Film Festival a jerk or preview as on the biggest screen with what you see next playing the lead role is the 1st superhero movie should be shot down the best of all. Im head of the humphrey glad you could join me. Well we begin the program with some breaking news just coming in police in the u. S. State of texas say that around 20 people have been shot in the area around the cities of midland odessa with already say that more than one shooter could be at large and details are still coming in well bring you more information once we have it to hong kong now where thousands of protesters have gathered for the 13th straight weekend defining a ban by all fortys now 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 todays clashes took place on a symbolic date 5 years ago today Mainland China said no open elections in hong kong. After hours of Clashes Police storm a subway station. Inside this. The. The its not clear whether all of those targeted had attended saturdays protest or the as videos and photos flooded social media many allege that the beatings were indiscriminate and that 1st aid responders were denied entry. Police said they were responding to protesters vandalizing ticket machines. They made numerous arrests. Under the current ban anybody who protest is breaking the law. Including the thousands who marched peacefully earlier in the day. Many had their faces covered but Police Deployed a new identification tactic loading water cannon with blue dye. The young people on the street said they would not be deterred. 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 your call them or you know if you dont. As dusk fell clashes flared. Tear gas and truncheons 1st his flaming projectiles and burning barricades this weekend marks the 5th anniversary of chinas decision not to ally fall democratic elections in hong kong sparking huge protests this wave of demonstrations has now lasted longer and this political crisis is deeper. Well earlier we spoke to correspondent Charlotte Charleston pill in hong kong and asked about police storming train stations as todays protests were wrapping up. Police have and to these 3 train stations so far there are some distressing images on social media please using bastien some reports as well that they used pepper spray on people inside the train carriages we have seen that that have been numerous arrests inside the train station the number of people as well gathered outside Police Stations now it wants to those images which really are going viral here in hong kong on social media a lot of anger among process to supporters of the protest movement what they say is an example of Excessive Police violence that is signs of how far apart these 2 sides are in Hong Kong Police of issues during same if there are events they said they add to the Police Station in response to protests to fund the 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 as essentially. That area down there was really causing a lot of upset here is the fact that. Some protesters it appears would have been on their way to its not a crisis that was gaining traction by some when its just been going higher that was the end of the very long bond an evening tonight and of course some people now is trying what youve been involved in the protest tool that live 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 fast and anyone taking part was breaking the law. Our correspondent there shot a charleston pill now at least 15 people have been killed in a Taliban Attack in the northern afghan city of can do is the fighting started on saturday morning and gun battles continued off the night for the attack could jeopardize talks between the taliban and washington in doha aimed at ending 18 years of conflict in afghanistan. But with the taliban launched their large scale attack in the middle of the night Many Police Officers as well as civilians were killed and dozens wounded authorities shut off power and telecommunications in the city of kunduz residents were advised not to leave their homes but not even there could they feel safe in office even the taliban have barricaded themselves in a hospital in the residential area using civilians as human shields. The attack comes amid ongoing peace talks between the u. S. And the taliban both sides were optimistic about reaching an agreement soon to end the conflict in afghanistan only 2 weeks ago u. S. President donald trump spoke of a possible breakthrough on the horizon. For having very good discussions with the taliban were having very good discussions with the Afghan Government but months of negotiations could now be rendered worthless after the attack on kunduz. The Taliban Attack is irreconcilable with the peace talks this proves the taliban are ready for peace and they will keep fighting. This attack raises many questions the most pressing one certainly being how can the peace talks possibly resume after this massive breach of trust. In india almost 2000000. 00 people face being left stateless off to the Northern State of us published a controversial citizenship register and now in order to be included on that list people had to prove that that come to us before march 24th 1971 thats the day before neighboring bangladesh went to war with pakistan the government says that the list is meant to crack down on Illegal Immigrants from bangladesh that many of those affected say they have been living in us on the whole lives. They have been waiting for years to see the results their future cost into uncertainty by government that questions their very original you know what her senses concluded many awesome residents are facing a dream truth their names dont appear on in just new National Registry of citizens the divide between who is officially indian and 2 is not much separate families. Its worrying the names of 2 of my brothers are not there it worries me i dont know why theyre not there. To go but the 2 boys and a girl are not on the list but theyre under the age of 10 and my wifes name is also not on the list. And very worried and i feel bad in my heart im feeling very sad. These are not isolated cases its total of 1900000 people were excluded from the list many of them have been living in this Northeastern State their whole lives the region is a hotspot for cultural and religious tensions ever since the start of neighboring bangladeshs independence war back in 1971 many and riches to jeff you just crossed into india the hindu nationalist government considers them and the generations that followed Illegal MigrantsAuthorities Say the National Registry of citizens is supposed to quote weed out for an infiltrator is and with that east tensions within us some small to cultural population but critics fear the new citizenship lists could not be used to target muslims and deport those who did not make it onto the list f. 120 days to peel the decision a last deferred for almost 2000000 people who just want to be allowed to live it what to them is home. Now 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 now today the festival crime yet one of the worlds most recognizable villains the joker with black in phoenix in the title role the film traces aspiring comedian afflecks descent into the coming the classics so in the batman you know that was. The thing for life was a tragedy. Its a comedy. In every respect to the film buff scott roxboro who is in venice and i asked him whether this movie busted the conventions of a traditional superhero film. Yeah i think youre right there i mean this is almost a new genre we see in joker appear in real morris. 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 anti hero 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 walking phoenix who went to extreme measures to play this role he lost 50000 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 the core the real mystery that is the joker pickle this. She was so many things to me at different times and. Who he was the 1st few weeks of shooting completely different than who he was at the end it was something that was constantly evolving right there just only have i ever had an experience quite like this one. Walking phoenix their own playing the joker scott the joke has been played by some iconic act is Jack Nicholson heath ledger what does Joaquin Phoenix bring to the role. Yet its interesting because they say that its an iconic character and it says several iconic performances that come with it but when Jack Nicholson did the job he did in sort of as a carnival play out 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 he made them up a man he plays them as a recognizable human. Psychologically disturbed a human who feels ostracized and eventually snaps and with a very brutal 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 appeal which which makes the sort of horrors that happen with throughout this film and even that more horrifying because theyre set in you know in a very recognizable world thats very similar to our own you know we have to say as well i mean a comic book movie at the Venice Film Festival i mean that 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 of 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 to that in some way and i think with this film with an 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 market scorseses films and taxi driver the king of comedy are directly quoted in in this film and its much closer to those movies a story of a disturbed a dark sort of a disturbed individual and and much farther away from a movie like avengers and this other comic book movies and i think dennis has found a 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 rules all right scott rock spread 1st aid in venice thank you very much. 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