Bushfires burned across eastern australia prompting a Record Number of emergency warnings. In support calls from a multiple olympic and World Champion for athletes the union or its is an effort to unify the best athletes from around the world sit out the boys we hear from triple jump legend Christian Tell you about this new initiative. Protests in hong kong are mourning the death of a student who fell from a building during a demonstration on monday 22 year old child she died of his injuries on friday where people have gathered for a vigil at the cop park where he fell students have been at the forefront of months of protests in hong kong there are fears childs death could spark more unbiassed sarah clarke has the latest from hong kong. The hospital confirms the students death on friday morning chachi luck suffered a brain injury after falling from a car park during a protest on monday but after 2 operations he died of a cardiac arrest was of course. The family wants to tell the media and the people of hong kong thank you very much for showing your support and encouragement to Queen Elizabeth hospital in the past few days they are very thankful. Child was a Computer Science undergraduate at the Hong Kong University of science and Technology Friday i was the Graduation Ceremony for many of the students that event became a memorial as his colleagues paid tribute to the 22 year old i think as a very grave day and we all have we all have i think a lot of people not just oh yes the members have a man talk operation for this but still when it comes to fact it hurts a lot this could be the 1st death as a direct result of the confrontations between police and protesters in hong kong the Antigovernment Movement blames the police for chinas injury which occurred when tear gas was fired on students during a dispersal operation he was trying to employ. From the police fired tear gas was caught for them from a cop and so today we want. Our house and also locked in my car the government and the police to launch a free pass because the government has expressed its regret and sorrow of the death of the 22 year old student standing in sympathies to the family but this incident is lucky to further anger the Antigovernment Movement with more protests is expected to join demonstrations this weekend. High profile prodemocracy activists joshua wall and agnes chow have called on protesters to join the rallies which are now in their 5th month they were charged with organizing a Legal Assembly in june. Before Fridays Court appearance they demanded an independent Police Inquiry into what they describe as Excessive Force being used on protesters its now is the time for the government to step up in the band as investigation on the clash we didnt know for truth and justice. The police have denied any wrongdoing and will conduct a comprehensive investigation into the circumstances of the students death sarah clarke aljazeera hong kong. Well lets stay with the story were now joined by joseph chang a retired professor and senior figure in the prodemocracy movement in hong kong and hes joining us live from there mr chang always good to have you with us on aljazeera weve heard from police they said theyre going to investigate mr childs death for democracy activists want an independent inquiry but how likely is that. I dont think it is likely of both this the man has been supported by over 80 percent of young people as the threat to bar 8 reason for people being in polls the same polls have indicated sorry more than 50 percent of our own count people now have ciro confidence in the police force and 6869 percent of the people would like to see a reorganization of the police force but the timing supporters have indicated its not going in the resent being numb of the Party Central committee how did they doing less than a week ago and disheartened i probably will be pursued the only very very big carry their own administration which means no further concessions including not setting up an independent commission of inquiry mr chang if. If we can expect an independent investigation into mr childs death and the measures that you mention are being planned what does that mean for 5 months of demonstrations as other arent going to get worth. It is already in a very bad age of the breed the proper status will tend to ever repeat to be different correct dates in the sense that the protests are there but these have become smaller in scale small is but unfortunately the catch if you get the Police Become bargain it will probably develop into a long term peaceful noncooperation campaign against your government you trying to demonstrate is. It to tennessee and its inability to govern effectively support there by sight the mosque already crashes the police. From the by the. Radical court or status and thats what we can expect from protesters how do you think the Chinese Government will respond to one of those who already heard from the chinese vice premier who said that you know at this level of extreme violence wouldnt be tolerated or accepted by any nation in the world theyre talking of them pows and National Security laws in hong kong which include a further militarization of police. We are afraid that the chinese authorities to will increase to pressure on hong kong exerting pressure on the kerry lemon ministration to into the deal as the article 23 legislation the land and mr asian now enjoys very very extensive powers through of is activation of the emergency regulations all in and are as symbolized by the introduction of this anti law it is expected there need to control that the internet will just rely on. The larger point of our reporter states for communications purposes and there is a danger that the district comes the elections the local night you actually scheduled at the end of the month maybe postponed because as we saw a few days ago we had a probe aging legislator. Stabbed while he was campaigning so these elections already looking like they might be a point for more protests. Most people do not believe in the truth of what is legislated genius whole said certainly not by any member of the prodemocracy movement but confrontations and clashes between the 2 terms have been escalating demonstrated that the reason polarization and confrontations among the people and this is certainly sad and this we faxed the absence of reconciliation process is shows. That crackdown initiative on the part of the you will not be able to resolve the crisis mr chang just to be clear one last thing you dont believe legislative genius hose account then off the stabbing on wednesday we do not have evidence. Against what he said i do admit there but you feel talk to people in hong kong if you talk to the people supporting the Real Democracy Movement i dont think there is a lot of confidence in that story mr chang thank you as always for your time we do appreciate it that is joseph chang live in hong kong thank you. Were moving on to other news now an iran says its forces have shot down what its calling a foreign drawn it reportedly happened over the city of mashad in the south the provincial government has parts of the wreckage have been recovered and june ted on shot down a u. S. Drone saying that it had violated the air space now an earthquake in northwestern iran has killed at least 6 people and injured hundreds more the magnitude 5. 9 quake struck in the east other by john province they have been dozens of aftershocks since. Now firefighters in the strain state of New South Wales have an uncharted territory when more than a dozen bushfire us posing a severe risk there are reports of people being trapped in their homes but has the latest. Every summer parts of australia go up in flames in hot windy conditions wild bushfires a common but this season an extended drought has caused the fires to spread more rapidly than usual it was a sort of came over our house house yesterday afternoon and then died down i have no idea and then out with their winnings at lunchtimes picked up again so i think its all sort of compete out of hand at the mine if it out of control here. The bushfires in New South Wales and queensland cover a 1000 kilometer stretch of Countryside Police have ordered 4 and a half 1000 people to leave their homes along queenslands Sunshine Coast local radio stations have stopped normal programming instead theyre broadcasting advice about how to survive a house fire and local Officials Say theyre struggling to get the bushfires under control because of the drama so the fuel and the flammability of the fuel even the smallest of embers are landing and taking hold and developing as you fars very quickly so you wind up getting this exponential rapid spread of the mine far from moving across the landscape and unfortunately we can expect more of that to die for those whose homes are in danger difficult decisions will have to be made. Here in 10 minutes. Im sure. Strong winds and high temperatures are expected to ease this weekend but low humidity levels continue to make it challenging for firefighters and worrying for residents whose homes and lives are at risk the tory gayton be algis there. Right the acting white house chief of staff mcmahon. Veiny has been asked to testify as part of the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump the House Intelligence Committee has subpoenaed him to appear in about an hours time but the white house has instructed its officials not to comply with the investigation the inquiry is looking into whether trump tried to pressure ukraine into investigating his political rival joe biden. Now its state Department Official has accused transpersonal noir Rudy Giuliani of helping to conduct what he called a campaign of lies against the then u. S. Ambassador to ukraine george kent to made the comments during his testimony at the inquiry the transcripts were released on thursday ken said senior colleagues told him to keep his head down on ukraine even though it was part of his portfolio where lets get more on all of this our White House Correspondent kimberly health that is joining us live from washington d. C. So the outspoken the acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney has been asked to testify but how likely is that kimberly. Its pretty unlikely and weve got a window into why the white house thinks he should be there according to the Deputy Press Secretary who can get laid this is a ridiculous partisan an illegitimate process so bad is why the president has advised Mick Mulvaney not to appear before this hearing so we expect that he is going to be a no show but as you point out he is scheduled and why have the democrats and democratic investigators are so interested in Mick Mulvaney is because of a press conference that he gave on october 17th last month he was asked directly by reporters if there was a quid pro quo if in fact he was one of the people inside the white house withholding military aid to ukraine in exchange for the president getting a promise from the ukrainian president to investigate his political rival former Vice President joe biden and it was at that time that Mick Mulvaney answered we do it all the time get over it well he since walked back that statement but it was televised people remember him saying it so democratic investigators are looking to hear what more he might have to say what more instructions you may have been given in terms of whether or not there was any other potential president ial abuse of power and committee is today the last day of the closed door hearings before we move into the public face. Yeah there have been 13 witnesses that were scheduled this week only 2 showed up gives you a sense of where things stand thats why a lot of people are really focused on what happens next week as you point out as the opening up of the public phase of these hearings where the American Public now gets a chance to see for itself how this is going whether or not it is been a secret proceeding as republicans allege whether or not it has been transparent as democrats say it has been now the public has to decide for itself so a lot of focus on the start of that and theres a lot of focus on how the president might defend himself there has been talk there has been some reporting of potentially shuffling some of the republican members of the House Intelligence Committee to better defend the president another thing that is being discussed is whether or not the republicans will start raising these types of talking points if you will on local cable chat shows etc where they start raising doubts about some of these deputies who have already been talking about Mick Mulvaney a very prominent member of the white house whether or not the talking points coming from republicans will now start to shift into in order to protect the president suggesting that the deputies such as Mick Mulvaney even the president s lawyer Rudy Giuliani whether or not they were acting alone independent of the president to kind of gave him plausible deniability in the allegations facing committee thank you for that finance Committee Held with all the latest live in washington d. C. Thank you company. And pending more ahead on news our impending. But chiles president announces new measures to crack down on bond and protests plus. Im dominic kane at the berlin wall finding out the lengths people went to to escape the prison they felt this put them in. And in sports when hear from the player has just signed the biggest deal in the history of rugby or rugby league. Turkish and Russian Troops have been holding the 3rd round of joint military patrols in syria its part of an agreement between ankara and moscow to remove kurdish fighters from an area turkey wants to establish as a safe zone turkey says it plans to resettle as many as 2000000 Syrian Refugees in the area but it has more from gaza and have near the turkey syria border so this is what is happening now the joint patrols will be traveling through the area thats questions of obviously all the way to maliki on the border with iraq they wont be able to get into the city of commission because it is not part of the sochi agreement and because the Syrian Government troops maintains a military presence inside the city after. Maliki the 2nd phase would be to. Conduct those patrols in the around could barely tell if id been busy and this is where you have some problems because russia says that all the white that you find to have pulled out from those areas something which is contested by turkey turkey Still Believes of those fighters are still operating in those areas along with their weapons and this is why they would like to ensure through their joint patrols that everyone has left at a later stage turkey is intending to. Setup observation post a longer safe zone of the area thats russias from albuquerque all the way to words. To ensure. Quite a lot still to come back. Now iraqs top shia cleric is urging the military and police to avoid using Excessive Force against protesters grand ayatollah Ali Al Sistani says the government must respond as quickly as possible to demonstrators demands overnight Security Forces shot dead at least 5 protesters in the Southern City of basra after reports crowds were trying to break into government buildings troops also broke up a certain at the entrance of the port that is iraqs main port for oil and food and at least 6 more protesters were also shot down in the capital baghdad skirmishes broke out on shahar the bridge where Security Forces used live ammunition demonstrations there. Are. Demonstrations. Everywhere are angry at the lack of Public Services and want a political i have a hornets car knive talk cost fund and mohamed jump june he is joining us from baghdad know the crowds and really swelling up to find a pres moment whats happening there. Well elizabeth where we are which is very very close to here square of the main area where the demonstrators come and gather here and but yet mr throughout today has been relatively festive it has been. We have seen musicians playing songs for the protesters here weve spoken to actors and directors that were putting on plays they were in that thing what things are like for it up these right now for the protesters that were gathered weve seen families women in their sons and daughters and its really been quite remarkable these protesters tell us that their mood is one of resolve that despite the threat the specter of violence despite the violence has happened these past 2 weeks they are committed to continue coming out to raise their voice to deliver a message to the government that they are going to continue to keep coming out on the streets until the government links until they start fighting them with the basic services that they deserve until they end the rampant corruption that all is known for and i want to bring in one of the protesters of that we were speaking with just a short while ago her name is debbie. Has been com