Im rebecca ridges welcome to the program prodemocracy demonstrators in hong kong have staged their biggest Anti Government rally in months the march was the 1st large scale gathering to be approved by city authorities since august after half a year of protests activists say they want to show beijing and the world they are not giving up. I conjured to thousands of voices with the same rallying cry 5 demands not one less those demands of the hong kong chief executive kerry lamb to resign the Police Actions during the protests to be investigated for an amnesty for those arrested they also want the government to stop. Calling protesters riots has and they want the now shelved extradition bill that started the protests to be totally withdrawn the marches hope the size of this rally will drive home to the government that it is lost broad public support for the guy is enough to get me going but him is the corner the mangle premier understeer are going to the government and our government did
Citys probation government it had a last chance to meet their demands. Place in istanbul use force to break up a demonstration of women denouncing violence against women the Security Forces want to stop the women chanting a south american and. That has gone viral. On patrol with the Nigerian Navy as they work to combat piracy. 40 not to come off the coastal plain and this is the next u. S. Troop presence that was caught he says that. Piracy is on the rise all west africa are correspondent time so whats being done to protect lives and shipping. Hello im terry martin good to have you with us for the 1st time the leaders of ukraine and russia are due to meet in paris to hold talks on the conflict in Eastern Ukraine the meeting will be mediated by french president manuel that cult and german chancellor Angela Merkel the conflict began in 2014 and has killed more than 13000 people worst fighting has been in the dawn bust region from where our correspondent nick conley sent us this report. C
Rounding up some of the biggest stories from the past 7 days this is the weekly here on r. T. International im was on a low quite welcome to the program. Now bolivia has seen a week of deadly unrest since the resignation of president ever morales the ousted leader is now in mexico where hes claimed asylum and his supporters are calling for his return and refusing to recognize the new interim leadership brutal clashes have been raging in several cities and the death toll has now reached 23. 00 since the october election. And critical to the voters here we must recover democracy with a lot of patience and peaceful fights ago we must pacify build it go and then if im useful in anything but can bring peace to believe that we will do it with quote one front bullets well off to morale as was forced from power at senator janina in years declared herself interim president of bolivia critics say the move was illegal and goes against the constitution as she was not in line to be the next leader
Several gatherings and memorials have been held to mark this somber anniversary. For some people today marks the first time they are returning to the area since the devastation. Alex savidge spent time in paradise over the past two weeks to get a sense of how th community is doing. I kn there was one tribute stood out. Reporter this was certainly a difficult day to say the least for everyone in this community. A somber feel here in the town of paradise as people pause to reflect and remember the lives that were lost one year ago and the devastation that was caused. Diary and she told me to keep her secret. So much further than art. Reporter the sculpture sits at the Building Resiliency Center here in central paradise. I want to bring you back out to the live picture. One of the many groups that is here on hand is providing this comfort dog his name is micah. You can see we have a young lady here who is petting micah right now. This is a community that has been through so much in the pa
This is from sky 7 yesterday, actually sky 7, just a few minutes ago we had a live picture from there. We had to ground our helicopter because the winds are simply too strong in Sonoma County for it to keep flying. You can imagine what the fire crews are dealing with to try to get a containment line around the kincade fire which is burning more than 30,000 acres as we speak. Right now lets go ahead and show you this picture, taken from one of those wildfire alert cameras. In fact the website is called alert wifire. This is st. Helena. You can see, yep, in the wine country region, st. Helena right up the road, and you can see the smoke risingas a result of the fires burning, the dry brush, part of the kincade fire. It eats up the dry vegetation in the hills right now at this time of year. You can sort of see where the fire doesnt just burn in a straight line. You can see there was clear flames on one hill, then sort of a patch of clearance, then some more flames, as embers get thrown an