Petrol prices and says poor families will start seeing the benefits from the revenue. We began with a tense standoff in hong kong between riot police and prodemocracy protesters at a university where demonstrators have barricaded themselves inside the polytechnic campus for several days now before dawn on monday police entered the grounds and they were met with a bag of petrol bombs and arrows they responded with tear gas and water cannon most alarming they did weapons were used in the 43rd if you do this 3 reach has become a vet in fact treat his family as a refugee for extreme any violence via just 50 bettman so rallies this reached a critical level right just so intention murder he said it cost. A number of demonstrators fled the universitys building several people were arrested its not unknown how many remain in size and there are large groups of people on the streets of the city reportedly making their way towards the University Campus lets go now to our correspondent rob mcbride
And i dont think it holds water to say that everyones on board with this and that simply fighting extremism is a very serious air strikes many many many people were killed and they were from the Government Forces i think this highlights a problem of the whole rhetoric on the war on terror that was coined obviously initially by the United States because it provides cover for what is ultimately a political agenda now its true that there has been an uptick in terrorist violence in yemen in august weve had for example more than double the Monthly Average of attacks by alqaeda and in fact if you look at whom theyve been targeting then the targeting has been very strongly against the Southern Forces but nonetheless i think one does need to remain skeptical for example and shabwah that been no terrorist attacks at all by either isis or outsider so far this year so to claim that ones fighting terrorism and sharp war and not just political opposition i think doesnt hold water or lets bring her
Streets gathering friday morning around the governments main offices the word spreads on social media to get moving. Again one of the citys main roads is brought to a standstill by the crowds. There destination the Police Headquarters and an angry standoff. Was. The demonstrators accuse them of using Excessive Force in breaking up their largely peaceful protests a claim the police to no. I dont think i know you fashion know and they are armed and they have here and wed have nothing we just didnt really learn gone by the walking to the police is still refusing to hold an independent investigation into the way they dealt with the demonstrations. At the back of the building some protesters try to block the security cameras filming the was and to venice trapped by the protest the offices inside not able to make the last few metres to the cable the whole world emotion was against the place was they. Exercise or tomatillo on june pro the people of the area was angry about the other officers
President trump called off military strikes against iran with just minutes to spare last night. He said the planes were in the air cocked and loaded and had three targets in their sights. But the president said he decided to halt the air strikes because too many people would have been killed. The attack was to be in retaliation for the shooting down of an american unmanned surveillance drone on thursday. In the volatile region which supplies a third of the worlds oil. Tehran says the drone entered iranian airspace. The us maintains it was shot down in International Airspace over the strait of hormuz. The last time the us launched a significant military effort heres our north america editorjon sopel. In iran, they are celebrating taking out of the sky a 130 million us drone, the latest escalation in tensions between washington and tehran. Today on iranian tv, the results of their handiwork were being shown off. America has no shortage of military assets in the region but the anticipated
The berkut fighters, who escaped from the fiery hell of euromaidan, do not yet know that after for several days they will again have to stand in the way of a crowd of brutal radicals. At that moment , preparations were already underway in sevastopol for the rally of the peoples will, which was scheduled for sunday, february 23. It was clear that there was a coup in the state, the state ceased to exist from the point of view of its characteristics of the state, including the organization of power, there was no power in the country, power was seized by incomprehensible, illegitimate people, and such a good situation was created in which it was possible to make a decision in accordance with will expression. The people of sevastopol understood that following kiev, maidan will come to the peninsula. Attack. And if in kiev militants fought with the police, then in crimea a bloody massacre awaited everyone. Action had to be taken immediately. Now i have in my hands a unique document, a histor