Rally began tear gas was fired sending people scrambling protesters shut down main roads and took over Hong Kong Central district you can hear the sirens in the distance and the air is thick with tear gas and smoke but that isnt putting up any of these. Hundreds of them are gathered here in one khans main a Financial Center a place that is usually teeming at shoppers during the we can send tourists instead the protesters have taken over the street the building barricades set up public objects on fire and are waiting for the police to come here and they came in large numbers firing tear gas and pepper spray this person in the protesters in all directions they kept with their philosophy the water to recruit and disrupt other parts of the city protesters vandalized the offices of the state run shin one using agency why d. C. As the mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist government. In an unusual move earlier this week chinese political leaders indicated that beijing is likely to intervene mo
Opposition says it wont support a congressional impeachment bid. To get us says hes listening to chileans demands and while he may be the obvious target of these protesters wrath most concede that changing the president is far less important than winning deep structural changes. Santiago. Will get a check on the weather next a man the day after a street battles in hong kong protesters plan pop up demonstrations around the city. Will also go up into the remote mountains of central asia to see how wildlife including these Snow Leopards are making a comeback. It is still stormy in western europe the story has been stormy now for 24 hours just look at the swirls of clancy the rapidity with which they move the worst weather of the moment is in the southern bay of biscay around the base of this low but it has been stormy all where west side you are its not over yet and just look at this this is the forecast for about a middle of today and the direction frequency of the era suggests has stron
Natasha going to. Baghdad. Still ahead on aljazeera go up into the remote mountains of central asia to see how wildlife is making a comeback such as these Snow Leopards. Hello its still remarkably wet in the South China Sea even a potential development of a tropical disturbance here on the coast of vietnam now this on the you would expect the main rain belt to me moving south and we certainly have seen some showers in java and there in the forecast but thats not where most of the race is still further north borneo thailand yet now indeed the philippines are all looking relatively wet and should have caused by the time to dry up showing no immediate signs of that this is choose dates even more concentrated around the coast of vietnam and through central and Southern Thailand and miramar is just a mass of green which is our way of forecasting that rain south of all this active weather at australia still and this is this cultural pair there always produced sandstorms of course on the way
Allow North Macedonia to join nato. Also on the agenda, debate on an executive nomination. Now to live Senate Coverage here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will open the senate with prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Come, mighty king, your throne stands firm, even in the midst of chaos. You speak and it is done. Lord, your our strength and shield. Our protection comes from you. Today, guide our senators as a shepherd would lead the lambs. May our lawmakers find in you Green Pastures and still waters. Lord, support us with your powerful hands until the shadows flee away. Forgive all our sins and rebellion, empowering us to glorify your name in our thoughts, words, and deeds. We pray in your great name, amen. The president pro tempore amen. Please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of americ, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with l
Lectures in history series continues now with a look at marijuana regulation in u. S. History. We also heard about views and laws on marijuana, alcohol, opioids and other narcotics. This is 50 minutes. All right. Welcome to class, everyone, today. Wed like to welcome our cspan viewers that are joining our class today. We are going to be covering a lot today. This class for those of you that are watching at home is a course focused on business and society here at colorado college. And this class in particular we are looking at the making of the u. S. Drug war and particularly how it relates to the prohibition and now the legalization of cannabis and how that impacts consumer access to this particular substance. Ive been doing research ethnic graphically and historically on the drug war and cannabis legalization the last two decades. So you get to join us today on our tour of the last 100 years of drug policy. So as you remember yesterday we were talking a little bit about the impact of