Operators say its due to the malicious vandalism by protesters demonstrators have remained defiant against a new ban on facemasks chief executive carol lam and go take colonial era law to enforce the ban and gain greater powers to clamp down on protests got higher reports now from hong kong. Placemats have become one of the main symbols of the protester movement here in hong kong theyre also a way to hide identities from surveillance camera now its illegal for protesters to cover their faces. Their protests have become increasingly violent and initial peaceful rallies the largest ever seen here calling for the withdrawal of a proposed extradition law had escalated into running battles in vandalism. Their demands became more of a broad push back against what protestors see as growing control from beijing. Chief executive kerry lam has turned to a British Colonial era emergency law not you since riots in 1967 anyone who wears a mask could face up to a year in jail and a 3 1000. 00 fine hong kong is not in a state of emergency and we are not proclaiming that hong kong is entering a state of emergency. But we are indeed in an ok sion of serious danger which is a state a condition in an emergency regulations ordinance was many of the protesters said that they were not deterred by the emergency law and will carry on as before. Others felt it might stop some demonstrators but the banner wont help end the crisis possibly having the opposite effect goes i think some people with the afraid of bearing the legal consequences and are not going to protest in the future i also think that such a hot line approach is not going to work in the long run might come the dia this group of protesters has been moving about here in the central financial district going started with a march of thousands now its pared down to the hundreds so what theyre doing is theyre bouncing between main intersections and blocking them off after work hours the number of protesters swelled into the thousands again. Barricades were built fires lit. They then moved on from the financial district the marching mass of people growing the majority the protesters ended up in causeway bay clogging the streets in vandalizing m. T. R. Subway stations and businesses the protesters you unsympathetic to their movement. As routine now riot police came in to push the protesters out most left but small numbers faded into the smaller streets and with the announcement of more protests planned for this weekend its a routine that will probably be repeated its got hardly aljazeera hong kong. First of a break here and ill just say when we come back strength in numbers in syria as rebel factions join together as part of the National Mall in that state. How i welcome saw the lift at the International Full costs for the prices the saying and ends to the heat wave across a good part of the United States you can see this area of cloud just pushing across the deep south this weather from thatll make its way further south with denise was just in the process of pushing through atlanta gone of the temperatures into the other the mid thirtys or higher atlanta at around 26 degrees then on saturday afternoon some showers to break that heat as well said some lively showers too just around the the great plains pushing up across into central parts of canada but downpours coming through here we could see some thunder a showers possibly have some large hail as well as western side of the country we got some snow there over the rockies but the hate well thats back on around the west coast l. A. Getting up to around 28 degrees on saturday similar type issues to go on into sunday by sunday cloud and rain moving through the canadian prairies pushing across into ontario easing over towards go back quite a bit of wet weather down across the central and Southern Plains into the deep south still hugging them holding on to that 26 in the. She drive by this state having said that well she tried since a good possible quite a rash of shall i say cos you khatam peninsula and looking very wet for the great friend to me. Children are risking it all the fame and fortune in the country split up in the school with the death of a 13 year old boy the spawn calls to ban them from the ring one a one a feat sometimes charged on. Aljazeera where every. Welcome back im out of the top stories here on aljazeera acuff you do to be lifted in the iraqi capital after hundreds of demonstrators defied the lockdown means 50 people have been killed since on to government protests began 5 days ago. U. S. House democrats have issued a subpoena to the white house for documents relating to Donald Trumps impeachment investigation however the us president says he wont cooperate until the house of representatives approves the investigation. And all Real Services in hong kong have been suspended right to safety to malicious vandalism by protesters demonstrators are challenging a new ban on face mosques and of plumping down on protests. Now thousands of algeria in protest as a demanding the army end its role in politics demonstration. In the capitol algy is full of a ruling by a prominent conservative cleric urging people to vote in the december election jerry has been rocked by months of demonstrations since a former president of the disease but a fico still down in april. A number of syrian rebel factions fighting in a bomb merging thats according to the Turkish Backed opposition groups are joining the National Army the main rebel group supported by turkey its a move that may help widen the oppositions influence in it but its an impossible it has more now from the turkish city a sudden you have close to the syrian border. Syrian opposition factions have gathered and split several times so far but they say this time it is different because for the 1st time Free Syrian Army f. S. A. Factions and the National Liberation front have gathered under one umbrella National Army of syria which is only going to answer to the Defense Ministry of the Syrian Opposition run interim government the interim government is a part of the Syrian National council which is International Recognized here they say that their primary principle is to protect their territorial integrity and liberate their soil should be outlawed should this shouldnt talk today terror groups ongoing airstrikes by the regime and russia threaten syrias territorial integrity thats why we wanted to boost our resistance against them we merge 2 of our armed forces this is a message to anyone who threatens us the men of this is to defend liberated areas in. The north west of the country. And we are preparing for the future. Of some military operations to the east of structures and we look to the region to the east of the river. As a part of syria and we have civilians was kicked out of the region and. It is now important that they go back to their homes the United States sees the syrian the Political Forces as the primary force in order to fight against iceland 30 claims that its comments it is a mostly by the y. P. G. Forces now these factions believe that they are a union under under one umbrella as the military as an as a conventional army of the interim government will also challenge the legitimacy of the wife e. G. In the fight against isis also mosco has been pushing turkey for the last 2 years in order to organize a for say factions together under one umbrella now. Its a question how are the h. T. S. And hey a tough response to the situation in ad lib as. A funeral has been held for a palestinian protester who was shot and killed by the Israeli Military near the gaza Israel Border fence the 28 year old had gathered along with 6000 others for weekly demonstrations demanding palestinians right to return to the lands they fled in the 1948 war that created the jewish state Gazas Health Ministry says 40 others are wounded 18 of them by life 5 the Palestinian Authority has agreed to accept hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenues collected by israel the money comes from duties on goods destined for palestinian markets transiting through israel the p. A. Began refusing fans in israel after they started adopting money claiming it was being sent to terrorists palestinian prisoners in israeli jails are among those receiving the payments well a jailed saudi womans rights activist who campaigned for the right to drive has been nominated for this years Nobel Peace Prize theres jane has been put forward by a group of norwegian and canadian politicians through was arrested over a year ago just before saudi arabia ended a ban on women driving cars a new dam in ethiopia could threaten the water supply to other east african countries downstream which depend on the river nile so dan ethiopia and Egypt Holding a meeting in khartoum to discuss sharing water nicholas hot reports now from. This factory is making baby clothes destined for the u. S. But it has a problem its out of electricity running on a diesel generator much to the frustration of human the sites manager who wants to go green and it was up. In the neutral spoke about the war in the balkans or you know the you know the direction of the field ethiopia has done what most countries thought impossible ethiopians half of whom live on less than 2. 00 a day raised 4000000000. 00 to build africas the largest hydroelectric dam on the worlds biggest waterway the river nile without any assistance from International Donors the grander innocence dam is now near completion and this is making countries downstream nervous among them egypt because it gets 90 percent of its fresh water from the river nile. Either recognizing them you hear his friends going in his hands. For his money or to watch of the night and who has arms and. And an egypt wants more water than ethiopia is ready to supply the dams reservoir is the size of Greater London if filled too quickly egypt will fall short of water is 100 percent income condoms are scientists and see what is going going this is how different part of done doesnt consume or can interpret his own small tool right to use its own response but talks between the knowledge sharing countries are stalling intention is arising. Last year ethiopia accused egypt of sending rebels to neighboring a rich to sabotage the dam prompting another knowledge sharing country sudan to send its troops to its border i. While this is the rainy season here in ethiopia and waterways are overflowing bringing power to peoples homes and farmland for most of the year this river is a slow trickle because egypt controls most of the flow of the river nile. Into its country at least for now ethiopias dam will start producing electricity next year with the potential of providing power to the entire horn of africa where most live off Grid Clean Energy to a promising and rising economy its neighbors might be worried about the effects but it seems there is no stopping ethiopias ambitions Nicholas Hawk aljazeera. President has ordered the release of his main political rival the Opposition Leader maurice come to was detained in january for organizing demonstrations in the Central African nation the move comes as a National Dialogue aimed at ending a separatist conflict wrapped up the summit recommended greater decentralization of the countrys 2 and your phone provinces demonstrators have again taken to the streets in haitis capital demanding the resignation of president john l. Moreys protesters set tires on fire as they marched to the un office in Port Au PrinceOpposition Leaders are urging the International Community to withdraw their support for marines friday as march is the latest most 4 weeks of protests in which 17 people have been reportedly killed Court Documents ever veiled that u. K. Prime minister baraks johnson will send a letter to the e. U. Asking for brigs that delay if a deal isnt agreed in 2 weeks time a Scottish Court is considering whether johnson could be jailed if he takes the u. K. Out of the block without a deal but johnson says he will comply with the new nor which forces him to prevent a no deal breakers it on october 31st olena says the latest with those all is not good enough. Scientists say an unprecedented wave of extinction is on the way because of poaching Global Warming and a loss of habitat at the same time that trying to save some critically endangered species including the northern white rhino has been hunted to extinction in the wild robins reports now from escondido city in california. Edward the littlest southern white rhino in the San Diego Zoo safari park born at the end of july hes already of big boy. He is fantastic we are so lucky to be able to have him adorable little eddie is the 1st southern white rhino born through Artificial Insemination in the north america thats an important step toward bringing back another rhino subspecies from the brink of extinction this is nola a female northern white rhino she died in 2015 the animals have been hunted to obliteration in the wild and today there are only 2 northern white rhinos left in the entire world both elderly females living in captivity so the subspecies seems due or maybe not part of biologist barbara durants job involves giving ultrasound exams to pregnant rhinos not an easy task when your patient weighs about 1600 kilos so. Durant is leading an effort to bring back the northern white rhino with a precious clutch of the animal stem cells and or dayshift land. A stem cell is a cell that has a potential to be any other cell in the body eventually they want we want to differentiate him all the way to sperm eggs but theres a big catch female rhino anatomy it turns out is complicated the cervix which you have to go through to deposit the semen is very convoluted it looks like a series of rings like this so we have to go in a series of switchback turns so were going to have to have something that is very flexible that can go around all those curves and thats where engineering Professor Mike comes in he wasnt thinking about impregnating rhinos when he developed this flexible robotic catheter for microsurgery but it turns out its perfect for the job weve developed the robotic tool that is very thin long flexible device that we can very accurately steer through these narrow channels so that we can get very deep into the rhino uterine body and the posit the specimens needed the ultimate goal of this project is to produce a selfsustaining herd of northern white rhinos 1st in captivity and then return to the wild in africa that goal is decades away and direct says she may not live to see it happen but thats ok if we dont lay the groundwork its not going to happen so i think that what were doing now is stream lee important for the long game for the long haul dedicated scientists and a bold plan to save one of the worlds rarest creatures rob reynolds aljazeera escondido california. Right time for a quick check of the headlines here on aljazeera a curfew is due to be lifted in the iraqi capital it was supposed to try and stem a wave of violence there at least 50 people have been killed since the protests began 5 days ago as anger of the corruption of the tea and the lack of basic services. U. S. House democrats have issued a subpoena to the white house for documents relating to Donald Trumps impeachment investigation trump says he wont cooperate with an inquiry until the house of representatives of whos investigation ill just say was alan fisher has the latest now from washington d. C. Donald trump has been famous throughout his administration for any time he gets requests for documents from democrats who took over the house of representatives and therefore oversight responsibilities at the beginning of this year that he said no he has built that store and wall hes decided that hes not going to give them any information whatsoever now the democrats said they wanted details of the phone call with ukrainian president they wanted all the information surrounding that at the white house is essentially seeing thats not going to happen or Rail Services in hong kong have been suspended operators a its due to malicious vandalism by protesters demonstrators have remained defiant against a new ban on face masks. Chief executive carol lam take lonia era law to enforce the ban and gain greater powers to clamp down on protests. Thousands of algerian protesters are demanding the army and its role in politics demonstrations in the capital r. G. S. Followed a ruling by a prominent conservative cleric urging people to vote in the december elections votes also backed by the army but opposed by the protest movement has been rocked by months of demonstrations since a former president abilities but a fico stood down in april. Camerons president paul bia has over the release of the main political rival Opposition Leader maurice come to was detained in january of organizing demonstrations in the Central African nation the move comes as a National Dialogue aimed at ending a separatist conflict wrapped up a summit recommended greater decentralization of the countries to the found provinces cameroons English Speaking regions have been fighting for 3 years to break away from the french majority an