Donald trumps call with his ukrainian counterpart is the focus of public hearings in the u. S. This week what do people in ukraine saying we take you to kiev to find out. Sri lanka elects a new president told saturday many hope a change of guard will help to ease tensions resulting from the Easter Sunday turnover syntax that killed more than 250000 folks we have a special report. Hello im terry martin good to have you with us a man has died in hong kong after being caught in clashes between prodemocracy demonstrators and police the 70 year old street cleaner was hit in the head with a brick on wednesday so clear who threw it earlier that this month this. Student fell from a car park and later died from his injuries the unrest in hong kong has worsened in recent days after more than 5 months of government unrest. Well lets cross over to hong kong where our correspondent mathias bullinger is standing by for us but he is this is the 2nd death related to the protests within a week what mor
Says theres no proof but it still has to work out how to handle them. Plus we lug elects a new president on saturday many hope a changing of the guard will help ease tensions 7 months after the Easter Sunday terrorist attacks that killed more than 250 people. Im sumi so much going to thank you for joining us flooding continues to threaten venice the government has declared a state of emergency and approved 20000000 euros for immediate aid italian Prime Minister giuseppe contests described the catastrophic flooding as quote a blow to the heart of the nation now the mayor of venice says the very future of the city is at stake. And lets get the very latest on the story we have our correspondent James Jackson standing by for us in venice hi james good to see you we understand that it is again today a pretty dramatic situation tell us what youve been seeing and hearing around you there. Well its very dramatic right now actually the mayor of venice i was standing just to my right off camera
That proposed safety zone. As to forces have moved out from that area when you have threats from president heard of one saying that effectively in 48 hours this temporary cease fire. Aims and if those s. T. s forces havent been havent left that area in full military operations will resume draws great great attention to the concerns of United Nations and aid agencies for the work in this area the pension potentially hundreds of thousands more civilians that will be trapped in another conflict zone. A weather update bank stay on that will tell you why most of the front pages of a strain has newspapers look like this on monday morning. And into the sea a stroke away is sworn in for a 2nd and presents an ambitious plan to address antigovernment protests. Hello there we have some rain showers across sections of the middle east you can see the cloud in the last few hours weve seen since got of thunderstorms as well that continue to work their way eastwards over the next couple of days now mo
Reunify with the night. To face the consequences one of 150 gates taiwans determination to remain independent on aljazeera. Syrian border were Turkish Military action that could account for a. Couple of things that might. Surprise these troops are serious kurds. Replied. Hello im Richard Burton youre at the listening post here are some of the stories that were covering this week turkey launches a military offensive against kurds in syria. And a media offensive designed to justify it 2 years after the birth of the me too movement the stories keep coming in the us the suits at n. B. C. News have a lot of explaining to the media and the troubling depiction of skin color black face is a racist entertainment device still used across the middle east and in india dark faces are few and far between on the air or on the silver screen. Cease fire or no cease fire turkeys decision to change the military equation in syria to send fresh troops in to take on Kurdish Forces there just as the kurds Am
We dont weve seen the governments that have come before ever more of these where Economic Growth didnt happen as much where poverty wasnt reduced where there was repression actually here in the seat out of altos and so im going to keep on voting for him because at least hes done things in the time that hes been in power. John heilemann baer thanks for that. Hong kong police have been firing tear gas and water cannon that protests is throwing petrol bombs thousands of prodemocracy activists saga rallying against the ban on face mosques the demonstrations began 5 months ago sponsored by an extradition bill which was later shelved for protests of why didnt call for more democratic rights pedram brown is in hong kong with the latest. Once more another tense standoff here in nathan road which is the busiest sort of fate in hong kong the police have just charged down the street after reclaiming it earlier in the afternoon but the local people 7 are unhappy because the police would be firing