A few areas response. We begin in hong kong where police and demonstrators are engaged in a violent clashes protestors have shot bows and arrows and hurled petrol bombs from a barricaded University Campus police fired tear gas and water cannon as they try to disperse the protesters we will talk to rob the bride in hong kong short shortly but 1st his report. Another sunday afternoon another homecoming street turned into a battleground. At the end of a week that seen a marked escalation in the level of violence between protesters and Police Students took over several College Campuses. Polytechnic university is the last under their control and they seem determined to hold on to it i think. Because its cool but imo its not about we have a plan for the freedom. They say were not behaving like students but were fighting for our better future. Violence began early sunday when people turned up to clear surrounding streets of bricks and barricades and students resisted Police Quickly arrived with water cannon and right big holes. And probably 2 more of a cannon are now working as night on the barricades and i do not protest the thing to be throwing back but im still with punk rock and. The College Campus is located next to an important cross harbor tunnel which is being closed for days it will likely remain closed until police can retake the campus also close by is a camp occupied by Chinas Peoples Liberation Army p l a soldiers looking on closely. Police say theyve been targeted with long range projectiles 5 from the campus buildings with one officer hit in the leg with an arrow. They say the students now inside the campus face riot charges which carry a lengthy prison sentence in spite of the warning the students show no sign of giving up. And rob is joining us live now and im reading reports here rob that Hong Kong Police truck the trains from cross the tunnel bridge after being hit by petrol bombs what are you hearing. Thats right i mean its still very tense scenes here at the campus but we have its the in the last hour or so elizabeth had something of a lull its a bit of a rest fight here which are for protesters and i think also for the police is probably very welcomed the police do seem to be giving more warnings for people to finally leave here before they move in they say theyre holding open one exit its not clear whether the numbers have been doubt that much in fact if anything the protesters are calling for more people to come here and join them were close to that junction where most of the battling has been taking place throughout the day but in the past few hours more police have been turning up different entrances to this campus confronted by protesters who build the building barricades in particular theres a. Overpass just behind me here where there is a barricade where theres been some fierce clashes between protesters and Police Exchanging volleys of tear gas and rubber bullets from the police and then from the protesters huge amounts of petrol bombs molotov cocktails and other barricades around here are being but being positioned by students expecting at some point that there will be Police Moving in but standing at the ready with an abundance i look around here again of more petrol bombs elizabeth and rob you know the scale of the violence off todays protests trying to show just how unpredictable their nature is. I mean that is the nature of this dispute is the nature of the unprecedented we simply dont know what to expect from one day to the next every riot it seems is worse than the right before d which again is worse than the right before that and it does leave you to wonder just where it is all going to to end this weekend when it had been actually one of the more peaceful weekends that weve seen in recent times we do seem to have seen this change in tactics by the protesters really targeting the working week as weve seen in the past 5 days or so with increased levels of violence they occupying of the streets in the Central Business district really hitting hong kong where it hurts most to this very business oriented place and until today sunday this had been a relatively relatively peaceful but obviously this clash has been probably one of the more serious in this 5 months plus of protests and its difficult to see exactly where this is going to end there doesnt seem to be a plan by the students. Apart from simply trying to fend off the police there is a general idea that if there barricades do get swept away in the surrounding streets they will all head into the campus building which they are occupying and that obviously leads to all sorts of concerns about whether police stormed the building and about having confrontations between relatively well armed groups of protesters and police in the confines of the corridors and offices of this building elizabeth all right rob thank you for that for now that is rob with the latest live in hong kong thank you. Were going to move on to other news now in sri lanka the Election Commission has declared goethe of the winner of saturdays president ial vote as rival subject conceded as early results put rajapaksa over the 50 percent mark needed to avoid a 2nd recount he is the brother former president Mahinda Rajapaksa and he was the defense chief when the tamil tigers were defeated 10 years ago the election was dominated by. Rising religious tensions and a slowing economy benefits that has moved from the capital colombo. Weve got a pirate ship taxes victory in sri lankas president ial election the rajapaksa family is back in the front line of sri lankan politics as older brother mahendra was ejected from the presidency in 2015 by an electorate fed up it seemed of allegations over human rights abuses and corruption and nepotism but this time around the rajapakse is have managed to corral the Sinhala Buddhist support base they make up 75 percent of the sri lankan population and it seems most of them voted for the rajapaksa as it was really the fallout from the Easter Sunday suicide bombings and the governments failure to acknowledge and Pay Attention to and act on intelligence reports that set these bombings were coming that helped pave the way for rajapaksa is victory he announced his candidacy for the presidency in the wake of those bombings and he said he wants to restore sri lankas National Security institutions and restore the safety of this country and that argument seemed to have resonated with the majority of voters here. To iraq now where influential kerik. Has called for a National Strike on sunday meanwhile a stall and baghdad has caught fire what mrs say it was a result of violence between Security Forces and protesters demonstrations started in a toga against a knack of jobs and Public Services but im going to call for a complete political hold on 320 people have been killed in the protests and tashi going to him has the latest from baghdad. Other roads were quite car coming into Tahrir Square were seeing a lot of students in the numbers do seem to be bigger than we would typically see this time of day on a sunday if you look behind me you can see pretty significant plume of black smoke you mentioned that the prominent shiite cleric sartor called for a nation of wide strike in iraq its probably because his followers comprise the largest bloc in parliament they are the primary opposition and they are united with the protesters in calling for the resignation of Prime Minister. And calling for elections in baghdad as i said were expecting more people in Tahrir Square than we would typically see on a sunday in basra things appear to be quite tense the ports the operations there are once again halted as protesters block the entrance were told that theyve blocked the roads to several oil fields in the lock the primary road leading from basra to baghdad theres no school today in basra in may soon and the local councils have actually given people the day off from work and school so we expect to see significant numbers of people attending protests there so really what were seeing is that protesters are continuing to maintain their momentum and try to keep the pressure on a government that they believe has not gone far enough in its reforms right now we have drafts of an election law and a new Electoral Commission that are waiting to be reviewed by the parliament but of course the one thing that protesters want which is for the Prime Minister to step down has not happened. Now saudi arabia has put a preliminary valuation on a state owned Oil Giant Aramco of the 6. 01 trillion dollars that is short of crown Prince Mohammed bin tel mans target of 2 trillion the kingdom says its looking to raise more than 25000000000. 00 by selling a 1. 5 percent stake in its oil company taking beds from investors and the final price will be set after that phase which ends on december 5th allowed to see as economics editor added alys has crown Prince Mohammed bin sandman will be disappointed with the valuation 1st of all remember in 2016 he wanted 2 trillion dollars for the computer want to raise 100000000000. 00 for other projects that they want to invest in now what we have come to a point where basically International Investors have ball took the idea that they were willing to invest in this company at anywhere above 1. 00 trillion dollars but hes pretty lucky that the saudi public will be buying into this no point 5 percent of the shares will be sold to the south is saudi public and looks like that theyll take a huge allotment of those shares plus hes encouraged many of the countrys billionaires who were holed up in a hotel in riyadh or. To basically invest in the particular company as well on that level it will be a success because on the day of the shares will be sold to the saudi Pension FundsInvestment Funds will basically go into the market and pick up any of the stock thats left over. Lebanons former finance minister has withdrawn his name from contention to be the next Prime Minister mohammad saffi days that it would have been difficult to form a harmonious cabinet in a statement he added that he hoped outgoing Prime Minister would be renominated. Has more from beirut. There was drama the suffer the from contention of being the next Prime Minister will be received positively amongst the protesters who had rejected him the moment it was reported that he was being considered for the top job considering his past of allegedly corruption but there is a lot more i think here in the sense that the protesters now have been taking to the streets for a month of these movements started on october 17th and what so many people are waiting to see is whether a large numbers will be taking to the streets later on sunday if that happens that will give more momentum truth people like Prime Minister saad how do you know who many believe only nominated mama suffer the in order to essentially burn him in order to make the his opponents in the government goals supporters of hezbollah as well as president michel own forced to essentially come back and beg how do you do you to continue as Prime Minister thus giving him more strength more street cred to then name a government of technocrats that he chooses but whats important to note about lebanon is beyond the protests beyond the different domestic movements and power plays that are taking place the decision as to what will happen in the future for lebanon lies probably more outside of a road than it does inside the group in the sense that the sponsors of the main parties the it has the last concerts in the run or ideas in riyadh and other major world powers like the United States good are the ones who can actually really move things forward so a lot of focus will be on how things work out in terms of International Diplomacy with regard to the on the sly you know its one thing that a lot of people are very concerned about is the Economic Situation obviously one month of protests is taking its toll the banks have been closed for a large amount of that time there is a lack of foreign currency here particularly u. S. Does and let some sort of shift or change happens with regard to that that has the potential of making things even worse in a country that is struggling to survive right now. Still ahead on the bulletin vine from Northern Ireland a generation ago my son Takes Center Stage in the u. K. Is general action and the study questioning whether surgery is really necessary for many people with Heart Disease. Hello again welcome back to International Weather forecast well across china not looking too bad along the coast temperatures are fairly nice for this time of year its really in the interior that we are seeing the rain in the cooler air as well so for many areas into the mid teens a lot of rain a lot of clouds across the region as we go towards tuesday the rain starts to subside but we are still going to be seeing that cool air in place temperatures could only reach into the high Single Digits for many before hong kong looking quite nice with a temperature of 25 degrees there well for india not looking too bad for the central areas fairly clear across much of the region we are still picking up some rain showers down here across much of the south and some of those could be heavy at times should i expect to see the rain char activity maybe increasing in intensity as we go towards tuesday for colombo it is going to be rainy as well 29. 00 degrees there up towards new delhi though we do expect to see attempt a few into the mid twentys and then here across the gulf the big problem of the next few days is going to be the rain that is sliding in from the north across many areas particularly here on tuesday in doha we could be scenes of very heavy rain across much of the area attempt of 26. 00 course beltane will be seeing the problem as well but for riyadh it is going to be a cloudy day for you with a temperature of 20. The stories generate thousands of these protests are saying down the system and down with all of the parts with different angles from different perspectives just because we came to prison theres a me right stopped at the gate separate the spin from the fact. Jumps on stories. Misinformation from its about telling the stories or those. With the listening post. And i get out of the plot of and with the top stories this hour police and demonstrators in hong kong were gauged in violent confrontations protestors have shot arrows at police and herald petrol bombs from a barricaded University CampusPolice Responded by firing tear gas and water cannon. Sri lankas Election Commission has declared rajapaksa the winner in the countrys president ial election his rivals conceded as early results porch rajapaksa over the 50 percent mark needed to avoid a 2nd recount and saudi arabia has a preliminary evaluation on that stage and oil giant iran cut off between 6. 01 trillion dollars the kingdom says its looking to raise more than 25000000000. 00 by selling a 1. 5 percent stake now an Iranian News Agency is reporting that over a 1000 people have been arrested in protests against fuel price rises Supreme Leader ayatollah ali how. Need announced what he calls her lagoons for taking part in sabotage riot police and Security Forces have fought with demonstrators across dozens of cities on saturday protestors unhappy with petrol being rationed and prices rising by as much as 200 percent this go to door shes joining us live from the protests continuing doors there with a large number of arrests. Yes elizabeth we heard from the ultimate authority in the Islamic Republic that is the Supreme Leader who spoke early this morning and he basically made his position very clear that this decision made by this Economic Commission stands and that the different bodies within the establishment will move forward with making sure that the fuel hikes are in force now this is been met with some very very harsh reaction from the average iranian theyve been protesting across the country and weve heard that over 87000 people took part in these demonstrations over the past 48 hours now we also heard from the Intelligence Ministry who have issued a statement following the Supreme Leaders orders saying that it is their duty to carry out his wishes and they will confront anyone who puts the National Security of the country at risk the feeling here is that the next 24 hours are very important because the security of the country is now in the hands of those ministries and theyve been given the go ahead to enforce the will of law in the country weve also been hearing from a number of m. P. s who are very unhappy with the speaker of