A war with Ukrainian Forces in Eastern Ukraine moment 10000 people have been killed since the fighting began 5 years ago. Ukraines new president vladimir the linsky says he wants to revive peace negotiations with russia hes been courting european leaders recently rooted in zelinsky have already spoken by phone the Prisoner Exchange could be an important and if step towards further dialogue and to simmons algis it. Is a professor of comparative politics at kiev cademy and hes joining us now from the ukrainian capital thank you very much for being with us on aljazeera. What do we make of the fact that the sailors particularly are being returned in this prisoner swap. Well this is important victory for you creatine but actually when were talking about exchange we should be very cautious how to call it because from a formal point of view from ukrainian point of you can snort any sheet or because of sailors because sailors hat to be released by putin any way you are you rightly mentioned th
Threatening their future. I. Think. And the beer starts flowing at munichs october effect prices are up 30 percent at this years event still millions of thirsty revelers will raise a glass score to the worlds biggest beer festival. Im like look who thanks for joining us for testers in hong kong or back out in force today as the territory braces for more possible violence crowds have taken over 100 cong ball where they trampled on the chinese flag in a clear provocation aimed at beijing i the protesters are calling for greater democracy i introduced us. What they say is police heavy handedness theyre also valid to disrupt travel to hong kongs busy International Airport the 2 sides have been facing off every weekend for 4 months now i lets cross over to the responded to you as bullinger i want to warn viewers at home that there is a delay in the t. S. A. Is at a mall and i want to ask you mathias to start off give us a sense of whats been going on where you are. Right now the tensions ar
A 1000 flights will on saturday they were largely faulted in that exercise because the police were out in very heavy numbers and here in tone show me a very busy Shopping Mall on a saturday afternoon weve had standoff between protesters and the police all afternoon weve had 2 brief dispersal operations by the police a number of people have been detained in a how many but its remind as i say that even normally the free for the most like this has become very volatile on the more protests are planned on sunday including one outside the u. S. Consulate thats a 1st look at the moment the focus for the protesters remains the area around hong kongs international airport. Still ahead on al jazeera hundreds missing in the bahamas sand warning that number the number of dead from Hurricane Dorian could be staggering when warnings the u. S. China trade war could take years to resolve well look at the challenges and opportunities its creating. A lot in a welcome back to International Weather foreca
Make a forecast because iran is holdings as. How does hostages. Xavi would like to bug him ok theyre not freeing people because its necessary because its the rule of law or because its a decision or an International Court this is a bloody thing from russia a typical position of. Of the dictators and if youre talking about z. Future or negotiations or worse a solution inza dont but. Its very difficult to focus because as i have mentioned as a precondition for set number one is a stable ceasefire and there was no ceasefire unfortunately again russia is using either as a bargaining position in the goshi sions wiese ukraine but also who is a vest soroush actually is trying to do black male books ukraine. And the us would like to expect concessions from your ukrainian president who is frankly speaking quite inexperienced in international relations. And plenty more ahead on the news hour including facing International Scrutiny cameroon is accused of political tyranny as the trial of Oppositi
Example the airport was sitting under 2 meters of water up until 2 days ago so its only now that were starting to see supply aircraft arriving were only now seeing aircraft that are that are evacuating people and there are still places like in marsh harbor theres a Haitian Community where it where 2 days ago there werent even any there werent even any rescue teams able to get any yet so what we were hearing from people is that there were bodies still on the ground when we were driving through marsh harbor. It gives me chills to say this but you could smell the death in the air we didnt see any of these bodies for ourselves when we were driving through but there was just the sense of the devastation that the scene there with homes flattened with ships with with boats in peoples driveways people Walking Around in a daze not knowing where to go in knowing that theres only one Health Facility open and thats where everybody is headed but we wouldnt be surprised were not surprised by by that