Had a mostly fine across much of the middle east we have there been seeing some areas of trad working their way towards the caspian sea in the last few hours and again we may will just have some more showers working their way through the east and then the black sea as we had on 3 monday they could linger on into tuesday elsewhere it is false and it is dry but notice assholes in baghdad 43 degrees celsius on choose a 46. 00 however in a queue a city further to the south the temperatures are highs you might expect so we will flow pushing into areas of amman also pushing on the cloud as well but despite that a very nice that you on in muscat on cheese day 40 celsius in doha the humidity of it lower than we have seen just lately meanwhile further to the south into Southern Africa and across into madagascar theres a bit of cloud just working its way off the eastern side of south africa clear skies across much of madagascar and look at this is more and this is the. The trees which as you can
Behind me im a tame our park just in front of the main government complex here in hong kong and these are workers who move different sectors of hong kong who are taking part in the 1st day of a 2 day strike and thats to say they these are people from who work in banks there headhunters right across you know hong kong industry and there are several 1000 and they are continuing to gather here in the park to demonstrate their support for the protesters so in spite of that fighting talk from beijing it is as i say only serving to harden the resolve of the protesters here earlier on of the day we had a silent protest by students outside of their schools and this is the 1st day of the new Academic Year some of the students were wearing those familiar yellow hard hats and and face marks which you become very much the the trademark of the protestors and again it was another show of support for the demonstrators after that several 100 gathered in the. Poor ring rain in the center of hong kong a
Petrol bombs and set fires near the Chinese Government headquarters in recent weeks chinese troops have been seen gathering in a city bordering hong kong. Lets bring in wayne hay hes joining us on the phone from the Chinese University of hong kong where the demonstration is growing which well talk about in just a moment but 1st tell us how that warning in the official news agency that the end is coming for hong kong is being interpreted in hong kong. Well i think itll be used as motivation quite honestly i mean weve seen warnings happen fairly regularly over the past few months to be coming becoming more serious in tone i think absolutely no sign. Students very much at the core that heard this movement of any fear it was those signs of backing down if anything they are becoming involved in some of their actions becoming more tense on the streets violence is worsening i think is a sign here that students at the core of this protest movement again becoming more intolerance to anything th
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