Shelling kills dozens in. Asian and european stock markets plunge as wall street losses spread around the world. For how britain is marking a hundred years of women getting the vote. A lot of three hong kong prodemocracy activists are walking free this tuesday after their convictions were overturned on appeal joshua one nathan law and alex chow had been sentenced to six months jail for Unlawful Assembly outside the court says the fight for the right to protest is far from over. Even the judge just allow us to live to cause we still face the same range of prison sentences in the future which means that the court of appeal have fully a sat and thought the principle of the judgment from the court of appeal in the future if at a well organized action related to civil disobedience just like regains its core action will still face the sentence to be a lot of in prison for feel was even more than a year thats why i will say that is a long time battle for us well as teenagers the trio brought hong kong to a standstill in two thousand and fourteen as leaders of the socalled broiler protests thousands were out on the streets calling for greater democracy on kong is of course part of china but operates on a different political system to the mainland activists are warning of growing interference by beijing in the territory sarah clarke has more from hong kong. Whats certainly good news for the three student leaders are night in law alex child and joshua wall who had their gel term squashed into days final court of appeal hearing the other three have walked free the five judges unanimously agreed to drop those jail sentences in stark reversal of an earlier ruling that the three were found guilty for Unlawful Assembly after that were involved their involvement or their role in what was described as a storming of a government full course in the Legislative Assembly back in two thousand and fourteen there initially Given Community sentences will serve a sentences as well as a suspended sentence but the government intervened calling for harsher penalty and the court of appeal then delivered on that saying all three to judge they were granted to appeal and today that final court of appeal delivered on their request now the judge did however not that future offender is involved in an Unlawful Assembly and were believed to be involved in inciting violence would end here too strict guidelines as of now so that certainly has raised some concerns from prodemocracy groups that the future ability to protest will now be more strictly scrutinized but overall one would have to say good news for those three student leaders after todays final court of appeal decision now european markets of open to heavy losses with london paris and frankfurt all dropping by more than three percent in early trading and before that asian markets crumbled as investors took their lead from a huge selloff on wall street the dow jones tumbled more than a thousand points on monday or more than four and a half percent that was the biggest fall in percentage terms since august twentieth eleven and japans benchmark nikkei closed down four point seven three percent earlier on tuesday while hong kongs benchmark hange saying index closed down more than five percent china correspondent adrian brown has more from beijing. Well the markets here in asia really took the lead from wall street the markets in cheyenne zen and shanghai were both down around about two percent in morning Trading Hong Kong did a lot worse though down by more than five percent the reason for that is that in hong kong a lot of International Companies trade on that index and a lot of those companies are exposed to the United States whereas companies here the traders on the markets in shanghai and then tend to be Domestic Companies that dont trade internationally we havent seen the falls that we saw of course in two thousand and fifteen when the markets here in china plunged by between five and seven percent on that occasion we did see panic we did see anger and we did see Government Intervention now Chinese People have very few places to invest their money its either property or shares and neither have been doing particularly well in recent months but overall Chinese People seem to feel their economy is doing ok thats what a columnist tell you in state controlled media and there is a sense that perhaps g. D. P. Is in fact a little bit higher than the government been hoping for and well get confirmation of what chinas g. D. P. Forecast will be in the year ahead when Chinas Parliament the National Peoples congress convenes in just a few weeks time and chinese leaders will be hoping that the market volatility were seeing right now will be over by then i suggest you take a shooter is a professor of management at the university of shes a walker he says the forces in asia are bad but far from catastrophic. Well actually in japan what were seeing is obviously reaction to other markets in the us and of course in europe and with the acceleration of the yen obviously theres been a sell off the japanese exporters could been leading the market so there is negativity but at the same time people were expecting this correction to take place so i dont think at this moment there is a crisis feeling that is amongst the japanese investors at this moment i dont think its going to prolong or its going to be a serious previous crash is the reason for it being is that this is back to very good earnings in the States Europe and in japan so off from that point of view we can see that its not as bubbly as it was in the past but that said the problem here is if this prolongs and if we see a downturn in the United States and europe obviously what will happen is that there will be a lot of money flowing in safe haven money into the yen which basically its a yen obviously that would result in a very bad earnings forecast for japanese exporters that would be a very big negative scenario for the japanese authorities thirty people have been killed in Syrian Government and russian as strikes in eastern hooten near the capital damascus syrias government has also deployed new anti aircraft missiles to the front lines in aleppo and where its battling rebel fighters the areas been seen more fighting and bombing in recent weeks with hundreds of civilians killed the new weapons follow the downing of a russian fighter jet five rebels on saturday turkeys president wretch have type two and says military operations and serious african and italy province will continue with no set deadline. He says at least a thousand members of kurdish groups including the p. K. K. Have been killed last month in turkey launched the offensive that aimed to drive out kurdish fighters from turkeys border at least sixteen turkish soldiers have also been killed. An Opposition Leader and two Supreme Court judges in the mold these have been arrested the president has declared a fifteen day state of emergency and the military is in charge of the parliament soundman javid has that. Just hours after a state of emergency was declared in the island nation of maldives this board carries a prominent Opposition Leader to the countrys main jail on a Remote Island the. Moment of the un was arrested on charges of bribery which the opposition says this politically motivated. His family released a video earlier in which he urged his supporters not to lose hope. In this police came to arrest me im going with them i dont even know why they are arresting me ive done nothing wrong or unlawful i urge the people of multipath to be strong and stand with us we will win. With a rested but two judges for the deepening the political crisis. It all began on thursday when the Supreme Court called for the retrial of nine opposition politicians including exiled former president mohammed defeat just also reinstated twelve m. P. s who had lost their seats for supporting the opposition but president of the yemeni refused to comply with the ruling and celebrations turned into protests the. Yemeni also declared a fifteen day state of emergency and ordered the military to secure the Parliament Building for an indefinite period. Actually and this is. In addition to the two judges police raided the house of the administrative head of the Supreme Court the court says police didnt have enough evidence to arrest the judicial executive president gamin who happens to be the half brother of arrested leader came to power in two thousand and thirteen that was a year after Moldavian Police and army overthrew president Mohamed Nasheed but in a shaky democracy president i mean has also faced similar allegations of becoming authoritarian and being corrupt that the Supreme Court was expected to do favorably on a petition to impeach i mean Opposition Leaders allege the president s loyalists made it clear that they would not comply with such a verdict and launched a crackdown. For now the country best known for its tranquil beaches is struggling to deal with yet another round of political turmoil some of the job there. Kenyan politician has been charged for his role in the unofficial swearing in ceremony of main Opposition Leader raul. Mcgoohan a mcgoohan is accused of taking part in an Unlawful Assembly and organized criminal activity going to stood beside the danger during the mock inauguration in protest at last years election in what was taken from his home in a dorm raid on friday. Lets get more on this now from Catherine Sawyer who joins us from the kenyan capital nairobi success from what would you know about this. Has them right outside the million million man you low called where supporters of the opposition have began gathering all year Police Used Tear Gas to disperse them and were going to be hearing within the hour the lawyer will be giving hes ruling on whether or not to me going on because when i should be presented before him and whether to hold the Inspector General of police and the director of our criminal investigations in contempt this is after they failed to produce me going to me going to this morning even after the judge instructed for this to happen so the day has been has been quite baffling because we were waiting for the when i mean when i hear in court in nairobi and then we are told that he has been taken to a court in ca jaggers this is in the south about eighty kilometers from here and charged with being present and consenting to the administration of an old which resulted in trees on as well as taking part in an Unlawful Assembly and engaging in organized criminal activity that the administration of old being poked about is there more swearing in of rial odinga last tuesday the government has already said that was an attempt to overthrow the government that organized criminal activity been talked about is the fact that he is a self declared leader of this National Resistance movement that was started by the opposition last year to push for electoral reforms through what they called peaceful resistance that movement has now been declared by their government organized criminal group so me going to go and i is one of three politicians who have so far been arrested to have been released on bail all in connection to this swearing in of today and as youve been reporting catherine things have been very polarized in kenya since that disputed election last year so how out of kenyas been really reacting to todays events. Mixed feelings has them a lot of people who are here very young going there saying that the government basically what the government is doing is rolling back the democratic gains that have already been made in the country through a lot of hard shoots people died for some of the rights that we are enjoying the country right now so people are angry and saying that the government itself is subdividing the low end by taking the food i mean guna to another lol of course this is open defiance to the judiciary and the same the government has already defied several other courts or does but when you speak to other people like he clearly government officials they will say that something has to be done what happened on tuesday was illegal investigations are going on and people really have to be housework council its going to be interesting to see Going Forward when this investigations are over whether or not riley lo didnt go himself is going to be arrested. All right for the moment Catherine Sawyer live for us there in nairobi. Still ahead on aljazeera as asian markets post big losses there warnings potential financial crisis in the region we report from the hour. A look at the Free Ambulance Service thats on the front line of saving lives in somalias capital. And i was about eight degrees in tokyo by day its too warm for snow but its the right direction or what went right weather pattern to give you snow in japan and it has been falling vastly on the western side of honshu thats your hole card and all that on that breeze comes off the sea of japan here just keep piling up but take care remains as is always the case in shadow now its not as cold as it walls in south korea still subzero but theres no more significant snow likely to fall and for example. For the Winter Olympics its colder for whats there to lie on the ground which is not adding to it is a hint of a slight warm by the time we get to thursday but stay there so there in pyongyang and his plus two in beijing and still. Blue skies above them now the cold has crept science in fact every day this year in hong kong has been colder than it should be compared with the average and fourteen is again lower than you expect over night it is slowly warming we had fifteen on monday but were only just hinting it suggesting slightly warmer weather largely felt that way because the increase he was to see increasing the cloudy the rest this part of china still cold shanghais five is probably where it should be do still surprisingly high. More than seven decades ago a country was split in two. And the time. To be my page all it took was a pen a map of the collapsing empire when the british had to draw a line they pulled its servants who had never been to india before aljazeera examines the violent birth of india and pakistan and asks what the future holds for these neighbors borders of blood at this time. And again youre watching. Our top stories this hour three hong kong prodemocracy activists are walking free off to their convictions were overturned on appeal joshua wallet nathan low and alex child were convicted of Unlawful Assembly and twenty sixteen two years earlier they led major protests calling for greater democracy activists are warning of growing interference by beijing. A kenyan politician has been charged for his role in the unofficial swearing in ceremony of the main Opposition Leader right. Took part in an Unlawful Assembly and organized criminal activity and stood beside. The mock inauguration. European markets of open to heavy losses with london paris and frankfurt all dropping more than three percent in early trading asian markets crumbled as investors took their lead from a huge selloff on wall street. The latest slump in ages markets come twenty years after a much bigger bigger disaster the Asian Financial cry. I says that began with the collapse of thailands currency the botton spread across east asia one of the main factors was high public debt in the affected countries including laois and now similar warnings about governments in the region borrowing too much money are back why in a reports from the laotian capital vienna. The coffee industry in laos is one of the Fastest Growing in asia its output is still small compared with regional leaders like vietnam and indonesia but fuelled by increasing demand from neighboring china production grew by more than eight percent last year ro is say laos has a real opportunity to take the industry to the next level through improved infrastructure like better processing facilities reverse her financing but despite it being one of the few lao export products theres no sign the government is willing to help. On regard projects on hydropower on mining on purgatory right no small are not enough supporters. Indeed the government has big plans to shake off the tag of one of asias poorest countries it wants to graduate from the United Nations least developed country status in the next twelve years and its turned to china to help fund big projects like this Economic Zone just outside the capital. Which is being built in anticipation of the city expanding quickly and a six billion dollars high speed train line that are run from southern china. But the amount of money the lao government is borrowing for the projects is causing concern. Public debt is estimated at around sixty eight percent of g. D. P. And almost half of the money is being borrowed from one source china. Financial sources. To be risky because. This is going to be exposed through this business i created. The lao government says big investment is vital if its to improve the livelihood of its people one priority is health care which like many aspects of laos society has fallen into disrepair through poor governance and neglect the main hospital in the capital was built by the french in one thousand nine hundr