With all the controversial quarterback Colin Kaepernick holds a try out session in front of team scouts but only after a last minute change of venue that and more coming up this news hour. Police in hong kong are on the brink of trying to break up a standoff with protesters that is getting more dangerous by the hour demonstrators have barricaded themselves inside a University Campus from their arrows and hold petrol bombs police have fired back with tear gas and water cannon now they warning theyre ready to make the next move and urging people to get out of the area for their own safety and were going to go live to rob mcbride in hong kong in just a moment 1st he has his report. Another sunday afternoon another home cold streak 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. About them 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 vehicles. And probably 2 more of the cannon are now working as night on the barricades and i do not protest the thing to be hauling back but are still wrong there where more and more. 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 as it can 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. Lets go to rob mcbride now in hong kong and rob throughout the day this is been a very tense situation and we know that the protesters have dug in but the police also potentially moving on the protesters give us a sense of that scene right now. Absolutely and when it is a very tense standoff at the moment and it does it goes in waves and throughout their sunday evening here in hong kong from now rosario had something of a little bit of a response which i think has been welcomed by protesters and police alike and a few minutes ago from nowhere it seems that i was. Being fined in a movement of mosques and everybody is running around now once more this is the junction behind me where we can still see the lights of the. The want to cannon which would bounce occasionally and thats who wants the barricades thats where most of the home has been taking place today but in the last few hours as weve gone through this something even more and more police have been turning up at all of the different entrances and exits of the sec campus and area in particular theres a phone i overpay jaimie with a large barricade at the top of that where there have been some very fierce clashes between police and protesters there many protesters throwing voluminous amounts of patent bombs on the police werent responding with huge amounts of tear gas and also things like care of a bomb and some and in the last half hour or so we had to what had been a very prime ira carried here on this side of the Campus Police suddenly appeared and looked like they were starting to clear away some of the obstacles as though maybe there was going to be a further attack and so a lot of the protesters have now come forward donna now. Taking possession of this barricade again all around us here you see huge numbers of petrol bombs and ready to go as this standoff continues. Rob just a couple of things water the high home call thora hes actually saying about this and its been 24 hours or so and hes been saying the the troops the China Mainland troops on the streets theyre volunteering to clean up but how is that being received as well. Thats right they are for a tease here as they usually do and condemned their stay saying that this is the work of the mob they said that these people are right that the police are warning that anybody who is found in here is potentially going to face a charge of writing that carries a very stiff prison sentence here in hong kong i dont know whether that has. Played on the minds of many of the protesters here but it doesnt seem to have deterred many people the police upset that any home being open. To this campus so people can leave urging people to leave but the fear is from protesters here and they are reporting that protesters have left they have been arrested so its difficult to see that the numbers are going to do when throughout the night during that doesnt seem to be too much of a plan here as we know this whole movement seems to be. Quite lead to less and that doesnt seem that there is a plan and they dont seem to be announcing it apart from the general feeling that if the barricades on the surrounding roads breached get knocked away and people will move back into the campus building which they have occupied which then brings the very real prospect of this battle continuing. And that would be a very dangerous prospect indeed as far as the Peoples Liberation army is concerned that you mentioned there is just about 100 meters from here a base that there are a number of military bases around hong kong used to be occupied by british troops during the colonial era now occupied by the Peoples LiberationArmy Soldiers that you normally dont you from day to day weve been looking curiously through the fence whats been going on but have been very much standing in their camp. Saturday evening we did see at some p. L. O. Soldiers coming out to clear breaks away which are some people would see as part of a symbolic act as potentially a further erosion as far as some of the pond democrats are concerned. And except ability of having chinese soldiers on the street when other people would argue that its fairly innocuous they were simply helping the community they werent in uniform and wants to clear away some bricks went back. Rob thank you in israel describing their very tense scene of course we go back to rob if that situation does escalate over the coming hour well a familiar name in sri lankan politics is back in charge former defense minister got to rajapaksa has been declared the winner of saturdays vote his rival. Conceded as early results put rajapaksa at more than 50 percent mark needed to avoid a 2nd count Bernard Smith reports from colombia to his supporters mainly from the senhor produce majority got a buyer rajapaksa is the president sri lankan mean they believe he can strengthen security after the Easter Sunday suicide bomb attacks 263. 00 people were killed the government ignored intelligence warnings that the bombings were imminent its paid the price for that and other perceived failings at this Election National security was that knowing this theres a car coming the. Trading people were crying in fact every other day or there was some agitation and obviously they were waiting for opportunity to get in the government rajapaksa is a divisive figure many tamils in sri lankas north believe the former defense secretary should be tried over allegations of killings and disappearances during the final stages of the war against the tamil tigers the countrys Muslim Council says hes victory realizes all our worst fears their fear food because. This. In his Election Campaign stressed National Security and National Security that ethnic minorities something a little bit fearful because it means that they are the ones being viewed as security threats and for the muslims in particular they have bad memories of the period before 2015 because there were riots against them in one go there was a very good military under god. The military and the intelligence didnt protect the muslims and i hope that that will change in the future as all the brother and former president of mahindra may now become Prime Minister as the rajapaksa family returns to frontline politics. Excited and super excited and happy for the country and the result that the majority of the sri lankans have been expecting for a long time up the argument and also up we want to someone like this to save the country so the top children the future generation will have a country one of got a buyer rajapakse as priorities is to rebuild state intelligence and Surveillance Networks he says they were dismantled by the Outgoing Administration under International Pressure and when asked about those allegations of human rights abuses when he was defense secretary the now president elect says people should stop talking about. Bernard to me ill just era. Well lets tell you more about sri lankas incoming president rajapaksa served as defense minister while his brother mahinda was president from 2005 to 2015 i oversaw the defeat of the tamil tigers at the end of a civil war that would last a decade its a controversial figure hes accused of human rights abuses to many of the majority sinhalese hes a hero but he was effectively in charge of the army during the forced disappearance of thousands of tamils his ascent to power could also signal a shift in Foreign Relations the rajapaksa has was shunned by the west and india for alleged abuses at the same to favor relations with china were charulata hawg is an associate fellow in the asia program at Chatham House and he joins us from london i want to start 1st of all with what people were looking for clearly this is the strong man youve got the the hangover from the attacks of course that very much influenced this election is this were people looking for a strong man in charge whos proved to be a strong man in the past. Absolutely i think there are multiple factors at work here firstly its the fight against terrorism we go to bear seem to be Strong Enough to lead and protection lanka the 2nd is the issue of political stability and strength as well you know as last year the where there was a constitutional crisis in november that there were doubts about within about the ability of the government to leave the country and to deliver the prospects that everybody wanted there is also the state of the economy so i think multiple factors came together but most importantly i think it was a call for somebody who could play a strong rule and and give the country stability and in that case what does this do to tensions ethnic tensions within the country itself are you concerned now about where this might be heading. I think the spells are particularly low point for minorities not just the tamil minority but also for muslim minorities it is true that there have been attacks attacks which have been condoned by the state in 20032014 against the Muslim Community led by hardline single over this which have not been acted upon subsequently there were they have been attacks in 2018 and following the 2019 Easter Sunday attacks they had the Muslim Community is feeling very very vulnerable and there as it should so in terms of the future of reconciliation in sri lanka and of the the issue of minorities feeling at home and secure i think the spoils of particularly low point in sri lankan history lets look a little bit more broadly now at how this is going to be perceived by countries in the region budged. To be india of course has been tensions in the past with other countries during a formal rajapaksa royal regime there how do you see that playing out particularly the relationship with china with my offset the tensions with india well since 2015 the relationship with india a stand simply perked up and there was an attempt in establishing better trade improving bilateral political relationships and that would certainly seem to be a back seat and would not figure in the calculations of court by a rajapaksa if the past is anything to go by so the 10 years under his brothers presidency between 20052015 certainly saw a strengthening of relationship with china and with pakistan both in terms of military supplies but also in terms of investments within sri lanka the fact is the sri lankan economy is not a good place its for the 15th time its hard to bail out by the i. M. F. And certainly Foreign Direct Investment is at an all time low all this is accentuated by the fact that weve had this Easter Sunday attacks and therefore trust in the sri lankan state is low at this point in time one way to bolster and that would be perhaps going to bear on the boxes calculation is to go back within the chinese embrace and this would have pretty strong impact within the region region relationships with india i dont regard another issue that one must be yes of sorry we just just finish that thought yes go ahead. One more issue we must be mindful about is that there was an internationally led process at the Human Rights Council on transition just justice and accountability intra lunker and that certainly seems to have ground to hold not to have you on the program sorry lot of thank you so much suzanne. 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Influential iraqi cleric has called for a National Strike on sunday a story in baghdad has caught fire witnesses say it was as a result of violence between Security Forces and protesters demonstrations started last month against the lack of jobs and Public Services but have grown into calls for a change in government more than 250 people have been killed in the demonstrations and protesters in the iraqi city of basra have erected barricades and blocked the highway but set the roads on fire to prevent people from going to work and school the citys poor has been closed because of growing violence in nasiriyah and my son says hes also or hes declared a holiday to allow people to attend protests potentially going to him has more now from baghdad. Other roads were quite klug coming into Tahrir Square were seeing a lot of students and 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 daughter called for a nation wide strike in iraq its prominent because his followers comprise 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 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 and they blocked 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 draft 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 the New York Times has a Chinese Government documents it says reveal new details about beijings crackdown on muslim wages in the scene john region around a 1000000 we use a believed to be interred in what the chinese call Training Centers intended to reeducate people leaning towards extremism now the documents include instructions to local authorities on how to handle students returning home and finding family members to tie and or missing how to control wages and plans to extend restrictions on islam to other parts of china and the documents reveal how the crackdown was a hardline local party chief to control the scene john in 26 think now the leak also suggests there is resistance within the communist party to this crackdown. Such richardson is taught to direct a Human Rights Watch she says the International Community can do more to ensure chinese authorities stop these abuses as a legal matter its now incredibly clear whos responsible for these highly abusive policies at the same time one reads the story and thinks about all of the people in the we get the asper a world wide who are reading the same information and really having their worst fears about whats happened to their family members confirmed and that must just be an excruciating reality for the