After 2 nights of protests over a possible weekend lockdown serbias government backtracks and says it will not happen. Spiritual worshippers who normally climb japans mount fuji this time of year have to make plans because of the coronavirus pandemic. And sporting a silent gesture that Major League Soccer hopes will act go throughout the world players unite against Racial Injustice ahead of the competition 3 start in florida. The u. N. Special repertory on extra judicial killings has presented her annual report to the Human Rights Council and is raising concerns about the growing use of armed drones photogs and killings i guess kalamata had earlier declared the u. S. Drone strike in january that killed top iranian general cost them so you money illegal she said the International Community faces the prospect of some countries eliminating military targets outside of what she calls no wooden walls. Drawn so becoming stealthier speedier smaller more lethal and can be operated by teams look it is thousands of kilometers away and in my opinion and the opinion of all the experts i have consulted over the last 6 months these is bringing the world to a critical point in regulating the use of armed drones and the use of force to armed drones lets get a reaction in iran with a base ravi in the capital tehran zain so i miss kalama there are calling the killing of customs really money illegal violating International Law and arbitrary killing have we had any reaction from iran. Well this is exactly the kind of thing that irans leaders will have been hoping to hear theyll no doubt be very glad at the findings of this report however were still waiting for on any official reaction from iranian leaders normally when there are such cases at the United Nations it is the Iranian Mission at the u. N. That takes the lead in terms of any sort of public reaction but we have seen in recent weeks and months since the killing of qassam so the money is that iranian leaders have set up a special task force to investigate his death and to try to pursue justice it is comprised of the Foreign Ministry the judiciary the Supreme NationalSecurity Council as well as members of custom solomon his family but so far all theyve really managed to do is publicly voice condemnation against the United States now publicly in terms of iranian people there was a great outpouring of anger of grief over the killing of a general sort of money arguably 1. 00 of the most prominent and popular public figures in the country one of the iranians i spoke to in recent weeks said that since the beginning of the year its been a year of of Iran Security seemingly being eroded now no matter what no matter sanctions no matter the Economic Conditions this gentleman said that iran was always able to rely on the fact that its borders its public and physical security was always safe and thats been slowly eroding over the last few weeks and months and it really began with the assassination of course and so the money and that has come out also spoke about this potentially setting a dangerous precedent and im interested in whether iran might now be able to take any sort of legal action of sending money is killing. Absolutely whatever she said will be music to the ears of the legal team that is pursuing justice in this case for the assassinated general qassam so the money now in the immediate aftermath of his killing iran retaliated by striking an american air base outside of baghdad and then after that they shifted focus many iranians said that they hadnt done enough in retaliation but irans government clearly shifting focus in pursuing a legal course to try and get justice for his killing they you have identified the iranian government has that theyve identified at least 40 people americans and non americans that the Foreign Ministry says was behind a coordinated International Effort to assassinate mr solomon and they say they will be pursuing legal cases in the International Court of justice for his killing but theyve also of course in recent weeks just last month put out red notice requests to interpol even calling for the arrest of u. S. President donald trump accusing him of being involved in terrorism charges but of course the interpol has rejected that request but iran is definitely going to be pursuing a long legal battle and this will certainly help their case if we look at previous legal battles at the International Court between the United States and iran whether it was for the taking over of the u. S. Embassy here in teheran or whether it was for conflicts between the 2 countries in the 1980 s. In lebanon for example those cases went on for years so no doubt this will be the beginning of a long legal battle as iran tries to pursue justice again for one of the most popular public figures in its history being assassinated by the United States thanks so much for that update there across one and same to survive a lie from tehran. The saudi Led Military Coalition fighting yemens who the rebels have destroyed 2 explosive laden boats in the red sea saudi state t. V. Reported the destruction of the vessels which it said happened south of the yemeni port of cell if the 2 remotely controlled boats were threatening never geishas the coalitions it livy is un recognized government says its found a prison used by warlord holy father to torture opponents government leaders in tripoli are calling on the un to investigate mass graves discovered near the prison in town who are forces of the government of National Accord captured the city from hospitals feiss back in june its believed the warlords forces buried their torture victims are modes of though ahead went inside that prison and filed this report. This is one of the prisons that was used by forces loyal to the world really for have to are in the city of lahore now in these very tiny sills they used to keep their opponents including Government Forces captives and also all civilians from to horner hope posed the military rule and the City Government officials here and to who are now tell us that some of those who were kept here or killed and voted in the mass graves that were found recently in the city of horn or others were transferred to other notorious prisons under have those forces in the east of the country now the crimes committed by have those forces in and around the city of the horn including the mass graves and also the torture of in such prisons is being looked into by International Justice organizations and the International Criminal court is due to send a team to libya to investigate their war crimes including the mass graves and other crimes also that were committed by his forces over the past year now government officials here tell us that they also found blood in in and around this prison and also they suspect that there are some victims who are killed and buried in the vicinity of this prison i did morehead on the news are including. Was trying to die has taken steps to suspend their extradition agreement at least for this really becomes the nations country to take action of a hong kongs new security nor imposed by china. Rising tensions in the democratic republic of congo over a controversial appointment to the Electoral Commission. And its course a new date for gulf highest profile team events are still advanced or. Serbia has walked back plans to impose a weekend coronavirus lockdown after 2 days of protests thousands of people trying to storm palm and on wednesday night i stuffed it after the lockdown plans were initially announced and also an end to wide anger of the governments handling of the pandemic the president has blamed wednesdays violence on hooligans. All the choices i am urging all our people in belgrade and novi sad and all other cities not to confront the hooligans themselves we will do that as a state we will work and we will win we will preserve peace for our country surrender was never an option. Is to son hug nikolaevitch joins me now from belgrade so is this this move this backtracking likely to placate protests. Thanks jim yeah they the government decided not to go on with the reimposing of the curfew here in serbia this weekend to something that sparked the protests on wednesday night when president hu to china as a curfew will go on about the protesters obviously theres a sort of a pressure on him the 1st protest and when theyre not the sort of a pressure on him because yesterday can i was a probably there wont be a curfew and then he left of the Prime Minister through decided to go with a Health Care Minister and to write to the to go read the other doctors who are dealing with this corona crisis here in serbia so there will be no curfew there will be some other restrictions which are smaller than the curfew but there will be no curfew. Protests continued even yesterday when it was and i was a there will be probably no curfew and we will see today what will happen everybody expects everybody at least people who were last night on the streets they speculate they will continue with protesting tonight because one of the one of the ideas of the protest was the change of government here in serbia and to change the way the dealing the government is dealing with this coded crisis so we will see what will happen today because the Opposition Leaders held a press conference earlier today and they said that while they underline that they are not to the organizers of those protests here in belgrade but at the same time they support everybody who protests and they are going to prove to continue to to to go to those protests and to to be with the protesters and to drive to bring some change in serbia and they hope that the protests will continue in the in the following days for today there are no protests that there are officially announced but everybody expects that something will happen this afternoon there is still a lot of police in valparaiso we will see what will happen this evening and how will everything move on we will be much. Trying that to show. His son hudson in the college thank you to delve a little deeper now we can go to voter web who is and a senior associate at the democratized action policy council he joins us now live from the limb. So these protests all they say theyre not just about the now canceled decision to reimpose lock down these what just and to lock down protests what else is going on here hello kim yeah i mean these protests by they were instigated by the announcement and already revoked of a renewed lockdown and serbia had maybe the strictest looked on and the whole your up. Behind these angers you know there are deeper lying simmering frustrations and anger by a part of the city. A riveting again and did this emerge and build. A regime of president bush church which has moved from being pro european to being or to return to a to having autocratic trade and in the meanwhile so yeah and then fortunately the theres part of the citizens who protested a revolt against the. Absence of democracy with the recent parliamentary elections basically ending up with the ruling party not only gaining a tutor majority in parliament but they see. Anding up without any true up position in parliament what on the other side there is unfortunately serious opposition which could channel the mons of a more prudent peon prose prose civic citizen and to that end in terms of a elections i mean there was criticism of an interest decided to ease the restrictions just ahead of the election and then to reinstatement to reinstate the what do you make of that is he putting politics above the populations health. Well i would say definitely its a mixture of trying to manage a crisis and managing it in an altered terran way because president bush in the regime doesnt know it differently and trying to you know spin the whole thing serbia had a really really strict lock down log on came with a lot of you know approach chinese propaganda. And they managed to get the numbers substantially down so there was good reason to you know even the lock down but they went from extreme strict looked on to see a restrictive measures soccer matches with 25000 audience taking place in bed rates all ahead of Parliament Kerry elections in those with no restrictions and all and now we are back into a rising number of cases and which which forces to regime to react and of course that is something people is angering the images that with fame of the past 2 days of protests really quite shocking those images theres also been reports of fighting sports helicity during these protests and that has sparked outrage some people saying its reminiscent to all the said the in the ninetys why are people making these comparisons why you know i mean we never had a thorough democratic transformation in serbia and we never had a different from a sion. And a reform of the police and the secret police in serbia unfortunately indeed you know when you compare to the ninetys the rhetoric of president which she had in this press conference you you cited a little earlier is very much for us reminiscent of the 990 s. Milosevic narrative on the one side on the other side there was really excessive use of force by police and there was definitely more us off more intensive use of tear gas than we had seen in many opposition protests in the 99 news. Thank you so much for that vote on whether theyre saying youre sorry yet at the democratized action policy council. Thank you. Diplomatic tensions between a strike here and china escalated after canberra suspended its extradition treaty with hong kong about was a response to a new security door introduced by beijing last week but the move by the Australian Government has angered its biggest trading partner as nicholas cage reports. Chinas imposition of the controversial National Security law in hong kong has prompted widespread protests across the former british colony and now a response from australia for skilled and graduate visa holders will be extending the iss by 5 years from today with a pathway to permanent residency at the end of those 5 years thats a pathway for the 10000. 00 or so students and skilled workers from hong kong in a strike and follow similar moves in the u. K. Announced by Prime MinisterBoris Johnson china resist biggest trade partner and is infuriated. The comments images from the australian side constitute grave violations of International Law and basic International Relations as well as gross interference in chinese Domestic Affairs not work on china we condemn the comments reserve the right to take further actions in response or consequences will be borne by the australian side cambra is also seeking to entice businesses in hong kong to move their operations to australia and we know that means of the jewels now might be looking elsewhere because they do want to be in a free country they want to be in a democratic country and we want to make it attractive for that super talent to consider a stronger and thats what these measures do similar to Canada Australia will also suspended extradition treaty with hong kong saying its concerned people could now be sent to Mainland China human Rights Groups had been hoping Asylum Seekers would be included if the government is taking steps to protect their ideas fearing persecution no matter where theyre from in the world that is a great thing that australia should be doing. And i really welcome to say that extended to other nationals that are in our country right now seeking that same protection from persecution the last time a similar move was made with the 1989 after the massacre of prodemocracy protesters in Tiananmen Square when a strange 42000 chinese students. Just hours before the announcement astray updated its troubled boss for hong kong warning a stray lions could be at increased risk of detention on vaguely defined National Security grounds it says they could also be a similar risk on the mainland. Tensions have been rising between the 2 nations since a strongly a call for an inquiry into the origins of the coronavirus by using has imposed heavy tariffs on bali from the strike and banned some of its bay fixed ports leaving many astray and Business People nervous about what it might do next gauge aljazeera sydney. Rising tensions within the Ruling Coalition of the democratic republic of congo threatening to bring down the government protesters from rival factions are rallying in the capital kinshasa hundreds of the president s supporters marched through the streets and there were some tussles with police the latest process or of a controversial appointment to the chairmanship of the Electoral Commission of an official accused of rigging past elections catherine so is following the story from nairobi and joins us now live catherine so we have this flash point to the appointment of the chairman of the Electoral Commission what are the sort of deeper reasons that people are protesting today. Well thats the main very specific reason for protesting today and just to just to take you back to whats going on right now ive just spoken