Around concern over his efforts to get ukraine to investigate his political rival in sport jos a marine who has been named the new manager of the English Premier League side tottenham the former majesty an arcade boss appointed 12 hours after the club sacked moret to report to tina. China has summoned a u. S. Diplomat after the Senate Passed a bill to support human rights in hong kong it comes after months of protests if the legislation becomes law top officials from the territory could be sanctioned by the u. S. In future in hong kong a standoff between police and protesters on the campus shows no sign of ending of his era sara clock reports. In a city rocked by violence and months of protests everyday life is carrying on. Primary and secondary schools have resumed classes after being closed for more than a week. Some major roads have also reopened but traffic is still congested and some raw lines remain blocked at Polytechnic University in Central California up to 100 protesters are refusing to leave riot police have surrounded the campus ready to mike arrests if any demonstrators try to skype. Fossil flaw. In the process. For all of us. All along. On tuesday around 800. 00 surrounded 300. 00 around the idea of 18 and cant be charged with writing others managed to escape the campus and avoid a wrist some protesters have attempted to flee over the last few hours through the universitys drainage system but they were arrested other attempts were made to a skype of a not but those students were met by police and retreated back inside the campus of the United States senate has backed the prodemocracy protests movement in hong kong and a unanimous vote senate has passed the hong kong human rights and democracy act which threatens to invoke tried sections on the city if the u. S. Considers human rights have been violated we in the United States stand in solidarity with the democratic protesters who have every right to assemble and petition their government for the rights of citizens of hong kong the bill will now go to the house of representatives the Hong Kong Government has rejected the bill demanding the u. S. Stop interfering in the citys internal affairs these rights are being protected by the basic law of hong kong article 4 basic law protect human rights and we have seen that with all these rights including rights given to anybody working in hong kong reporting in hong kong so these are all self interest to do so i dont see that and the. Reason for changing that and does that explain. Why you know stayman we strongly sort of object to any attempt by any country try to sort of introns hong kongs own interest district elections will be held in hong kong this weekend the government has not ruled out postponing that if theres more violence sarah clock aljazeera hong kong. Lets go live now to hong kong out zeros way to hades there when whats happening. During its pretty calm scene here outside the Polytechnic University certainly in stark contrast to what we saw unfold over the weekend with hundreds of protesters barricading themselves inside the grounds of the University Behind me and engaging in those long running battles with the police who completely surrounded this sprawling campus the police certainly still here in large numbers it is still cordoned off many roads in the area are still closed and inside there are still some protest as yes as we just heard most of them have gone running away from the scene managing to escape many being arrested some coming out and surrendering peacefully to the police a short time ago within the last couple of hours we had the president of this university go back inside to visit with the remaining protest is trying to negotiate with them to urge them to come out and surrender to the police he was unsuccessful he said there are around a 100 still in there one of the concerns they have he said is that they simply dont trust the police they are worried about what might happen to them when theyre in Police Custody in terms of being beaten or being tortured so he said that he offered to provide some guidance to escort those protest is all the way to the Police Station to try to ensure that that doesnt happen and he was successful and around 100 remain inside the campus behind me a week tomorrow way in the Hong Kong OpenGolf Tournament was due to get under way thats now not going to happen. Yes its was due to start on the 28th of november a very prestigious event on the hong kong sporting Events Calendar an event that is organized in part by the european to one of the law just sporting organizations 2 is in the world that has now been postponed that statement coming out a short time ago from the organizers of the hong kong gulf open as a direct result they said all of the on the race that is being taking place for months in hong kong and it is just adrian the latest in a long line of sporting events cultural events that have been canceled or postponed since this on wrist stops it back in june and it will be having a big impact on the economy which is already taking a battering in terms of visitor numbers being down by around 50 percent Hong Kongs International Airport says that at this time of year flight arrivals and down by around 14 percent so it is having a huge impact on the economy of the city the Tourism Sector directly employs almost 300000 people indirectly a lot more so this latest postponement all the major events for hong kong will certainly contribute to those concerns about the economy i was there as when a reporting live from hong kong many thanks were breaking some of chinas ambassador of the allegations that an employee at its consulate in hong kong was tortured simon chang says the Chinese Secret Police beat him deprive him of sleep and chained him up he says they were trying to get information about activists leading the protests in hong kong he was detained for 15 days during a trip to the mainland in August Andrew thomas reports now from beijing. In the Daily Briefing at the Foreign Ministry here in beijing a Spokes Person denied asylum in chains accusations of torture it said that while he was detained in august all his legal rights were guaranteed and it referred to a statement put out by the shans in place back in august when he was detained which essentially said that he was detained for soliciting a prostitute nothing to do with any activity he was or wasnt involved with in hong kong and the Spokes Person at the Foreign Ministry also said that the Chinese Ambassador in london will not be going and seeing britains foreign minister theyll be refusing that invitation if thats the right word at the same time earlier in the day the Foreign Ministry putting out a very strong statement condemning the u. S. Senate for passing this act condemning whats going on in hong kong in beijing saying that this act by the u. S. Senates neglects facts and truth applies double standards and blatantly interferes in Hong Kong Affairs and chinas other internal affairs it goes on to say that the issue hong kong faces is not about human rights or democracy but about stopping violence and chaos and it says that the us senate has what it calls a hidden political agenda and passing this act paints criminal removes as the pursuit of human rights and democracy when the truth is a violent criminal rampantly smashing facilities again this statement aims with a not so veiled threats that china will have to take strong countermeasures to defend our National Sovereignty security and Development Issues if the us insists on making the wrong decision no indication of what those countermeasures might be but the clearest signal possible really both in this statement by the Foreign Ministry and in what theyve said in response to simon chains accusations that these are all internal affairs within hong kong and china more broadly but nothing to do with foreigners. More on those accusations by china of u. S. Interference davids week is managing director of Transnational China Consulting he joins us now live via skype from Hong Kong David good to have you with us is the u. S. Interfering. Whoa our good question to a certain extent sure they are this is internal to China Hong Kong is part of china. You know that china in made comments about the United States domestic politics. Americans would not be pleased on the other hand you know this isnt an International Event it has Global Impact the United States feels that it has the responsibility to speak out on issues of. Human rights and this is about you know this cuts 2 ways in some ways you know china looks at this and i know i emphasize that china looks at this and they really want to try and quell this rebelling its you know that living here its been very difficult the lives of for especially for the last say we could have and china really sees this that they want to try and calm this down and sees this as a kind of throwing oil on fire and just making a bigger flame ok what about the threat of of of counting those ships by chinas difficulty with the ongoing trade war what countermeasures china could could could bring to bear against the u. S. Well i came up with something if i were the chinese i would tell my Tourist Agency to stop Chinese Tourists from going to disneyland. Because thats marco rubios state so just keep them out of florida now i mean that would be one strategy to something which sure is im you know a lot of that would be the but the only thing i can think of theres really not much i think to see gypping does not want to get this involved. You know with the trade he wants to resolve the trade deal on the other hand i dont see President Trump you know President Trump is really much more concerned about the trade deal so i really even even though theres all kinds of screaming and yelling its not just that theres not much that the. Can do instead thing its even more that theres not much then either sides leadership really wants to do about this right now so you think itll have very little effect if any on the us china relations when it stops Hong Kong Police or chinese troops cracking down even harder not a chance you know we just got a new police chief. Not a new police chief if you know this is something as i said this is something that hong kong really feels the Hong Kong Government feels i mean i dont im not very supportive of the Hong Kong Government in terms of the way theyve handled this particularly for mrs lamb but but they really feel that this is something that they need to do they need to to to bring order to society theyve got some sense here that that wouldnt be a bad thing from the population of the protesters still have a significant level of support but i think theyre going to be damned if they law allow the United States to dictate to them how to resolve this so theres this crisis here in the city and if they decide you know if they can get in for example your audience knows that theyve now surrounded the poly universe of the of a little while ago it looked like that could have been a really big pitched battle and if the winds up being a pitch but you know if the if the police cant get in and then have to eventually call in the Peoples Armed police i just think theyre not going to care what the United States government says and and sanctions against individuals out you know i just miss it hes in in a crisis and its going to resolve this crisis and i think the math sense from the beginning when you ask me is this interference by by the United States it certainly doesnt add i dont think it helps the situation in any significant way to really get to talk to many thanks indeed. Thank you for asking my aunt mamie thanks. This is the news hour from up 0 still to come on the program. Guinea how the killing of children has been trading against the president s plans for reelection. Face to face in that 1st t. V. Debate school here the latest arguments as parkins Election Campaign holds up and in sport marrow donor waves could buy to get another managers job russell will be here a little later to explain. Israel says that its fighter jets launched attacks in Syria Warplanes hit Syrian Army Targets at irans quds force in the early hours of wednesday morning according to the Israeli Military syria says that many of the rockets were shot down russia has described israels actions as a wrong move on tuesday israel intercepted 4 rockets launched towards the occupied Golan Heights from syria where the moment will get more in russias reaction from our correspondent in moscow but 1st lets speak to observers and a whole is monitoring developments in beirut to tell us more about what happened overnight. Well adrian it was a wide scale and extensive attack multiple targets multiple locations in and around damascus you mentioned the syrian state media what theyre saying is that they thwarted the attack and that their air defenses shot down a number of missiles but according to the Israeli Military they targeted warehouses arms depots positions belonging to both the iranian could this force which is an arm of the revolutionary guard as well as the Syrian Military now israel has targeted iranian and iranian allied groups in syria for years now but it is quite aware when they target the Syrian Military positions so clearly this is a message to the Syrian Government we hold you responsible because israel is calling this an act of retaliation they are saying. That theyre retaliating to an attack on choose day where they blame the iranians for this force for firing 4 rockets towards the Golan Heights the occupied Golan Heights so israel saying this isnt retaliation but at the same time israeli officials reiterating that they will continue to target iran and syria because they believe their presence is a National Security threat all right said many thanks indeed lets go to moscow then alexander. Is there for us xander whats been the russian response to this israeli operation. Now russia called this israeli missile strikes are wrong a Deputy Foreign minister mr grant of says that it is contrary to International Law and that the elites to escalation of tensions in the region russia said theyre going to conduct all of the sides involved to clarify the circumstances what is not known at this moment is whether israel informed russia before the strikes about what is said to happen we know that since 2015 russia has its troops in syria and russia is involved theyre both in the political and military militarily in syria at the same time iran is good and there are good relations with iran and russia also wants to be keep good relations with israel so for russia this is not an easy situation to be in for example many thanks indeed. A u. S. Military helicopter has crashed in afghanistan killing 2 crew members on board u. S. Commanders in law god province and the Afghan Government are denying taliban claims that the aircraft was shot down. The pentagon is warning that i saw is getting stronger since the u. S. Withdrawal from syria and turkeys offensive in a report it says that those developments have allowed eisel to rebuild its capabilities and resources it also warns that the death of the isolator. Daddy wont slow the resurgence and it says the group is likely to focus on freeing fighters being held by kurdish led forces in syria not a hashimi is director of the center for middle east studies at the university of denver and he says that a stabilizing force is needed to fill the power vacuum in the region. The short term challenge is to try and stabilize this area it was previously stabilized by american troop presence in alliance with Kurdish Forces so now that that arrangement has been. Changed i think thats the immediate i think the pressing challenge is to find some alternative security arrangement that prevents this area from further destabilizing allowing isis to you know insert itself and to reorganize but of course the longer term challenges still remain in these have to do with you know that the social economic and political conditions that produced isis to begin with to have to do with you know authoritarian regimes unemployed youn