Calls from a multiple olympic and world champions for athletes to unionize is an effort to unify professional track and field athletes from around the world see just how the boys we hear from triple jump legend Christian Taylor about his new initiative. Hello iraqs top shiite cleric is urging the military and police to avoid using Excessive Force against protesters grand ayatollah sistani says the government must respond as quickly as possible to demonstrators demands overnight Security Forces shot dead at least 5 protest hours in the southern city. After reports crowds were trying to break into government buildings troops also broke up a sit in at the entrance of a middle class at a port thats iraqs main port for oil and food. And at least 6 protesters were also shot dead in the capital baghdad on thursday skirmishes. Where Security Forces used live ammunition demonstrators are angry at the lack of Public Services political overhaul to get an update from the june whos joining us from baghdad so that death toll seems to continuously rise over in iraq mohammad and i know that youve been out speaking to the protestors what have they been telling you about their demands. Well that it was quite interesting today because we were expecting it to be a much more cautious atmosphere the fact that we arrived today and there was this news that had been reported overnight about the 7 protesters being killed the bus and 5 protesters being killed in but that so we assumed that perhaps people were going to be more on guard what we saw was quite the opposite the atmosphere in and around to her square was quite festive it was jubilant what we really since most was resolve protesters that were committed to keep coming out demonstrators who are determined to effect some kind of change who say they want to continue to raise their voices until the government really heeds what they are saying and really starts trying to build a better safer more prosperous future for it off and for it avis but what we saw today wasnt just expressions of political discontent we saw a lot of expression of creativity we spoke to actors and directors who were putting on plays in the street and acting what they thought was going on when it comes to and often their regional and International Allies we saw musicians playing the National Anthem trying to really boost the morale of the protesters that continue to come out im in and women and children of all ages across the social spectrum here in iraq not just people from but that people who have traveled from other parts of iraq to comfortable that to be part of what they are calling this uprising now we asked them continuously what they thought about the fact that it doesnt seem like the government is doing much to respond to their demands many of them told me that they thought when they heard these officials speaking on the airwaves here that it was like they were almost in a different world and yet despite all of that despite the specter of danger despite the violence thats been mounting across the country being directed at the protesters they say they are resolved to continue coming out into the streets day after day week after week until something is done to meet their demands and what is it that the government is doing or could be doing. Well look the government has promised various things in the last week you heard the president here say that potentially the Prime Minister might resign if there was a committee that would amend the constitution if the conditions were right to make sure that there was a government in place there was going to be a committee that was going to meet to try to ensure that all of this was Going Forward but really nothing solid has come out of any governmental body since then weve heard many government officials the past few days speak of trying to implement Economic Reforms trying to do more to ensure that wealth is going into the hands of the iraqi people and to diversify the economy but nothing really concrete answering what the protesters are asking for so because of that the demonstrators say they dont believe the officials but they are going to continue to protest and have their voices heard that. Thank you for that update from baghdad well iran says its forces have shot down what its calling a foreign drone it reportedly happened over the city of mush are in the south the provincial governor says parts of the wreckage have been recovered in june to iran shut down a u. S. Drone saying that it had violated its airspace and an earthquake in northwestern iran has killed at least 6 people hundreds more were injured the magnitude 5. 9 quake struck in the east as are based on province and there were dozens of aftershocks reported turkish and Russian Troops have been conducting a 3rd round of joint military patrols in syria its part of an agreement between anchor on moscow to remove kurdish fighters from an area turkey wants to establish a safe zone turkey says it plans to resettle as many as 2000000 Syrian Refugees in the area has some had but it has more from gaziantep near the turkey syria border. So this is what is happening now the joint patrols will be traveling through the area of us which is the 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 agree of it and because the Syrian Government troops maintains a minute to presence inside the city off. And then maliki the 2nd phase would be to. Conduct those patrols in combine the around could barely tell if id been busy and this is where you have some problems because russia says that all the white bits you find to have pulled out from those areas something which is contested by to you turkey Still Believes of those fighters are still operating of 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. Set up observation post along the safe zone of the area thats russias from and by leaky all the way to words. To ensure that we as their fighters not stage any come back to the areas over the border with turkey well turkey says it will send captured eisel members back to their countries beginning monday even if their citizenship has been revoked the interior minister is still a man so who accused western countries over a lack of cooperation on the matter he says europe is creating a new type of International Law where prisoners of war are tried where they are caught turkey says its captured around 1200. 00 eisel fighters 287. 00 of which were obtained during recent operations in northeast syria. Now the International Court of justice said it will hear a case filed by ukraine against russia it concerns moscows a legit support of pro russian separatists in Eastern Ukraine this decision comes as ukraines army and russia backed separatists are set to withdraw more troops from the front line in ukraine on saturday the planned exit is part of a series of measures aimed at ending a conflict thats killed more than 13000 people just in the last 5 years lets bring in step process and shes joining us from moscow to tall it to talk to us that about the i. C. J. Ruling and what it means for both ukraine and russia. Well this was a very convincing win for for ukraine and against russia a majority of the judges in the International Court have decided that that russias case can be heard and has rejected the objections to russia has because russia said that the court doesnt have jurisdiction and basically ukraine and russia could still sort it out but the judges decided that at the time of the filing of this this lawsuit by ukraine early 2017 all options were exhausted it was a deadlock between the 2 countries and thats why the court now wants to look into this case its basically 2 cases one is financing of terrorist organizations by russia basically talking about the separatist groups in the east of ukraine and the other one is a Racial Discrimination in crimea which is another part of ukraine which was annexed by russia in 2014 and this is a talking about the tartarus and the ukrainian minority in that country basically the court will now take a couple of years probably it will take quite a while to hear this case but if theres an outcome and when there is an outcome then this will be binding but it doesnt have any sanctions or means to enforce this ruling but of course its for international means it is a strong measure instrument that ukraine now has in its hands towards russia all right stuff awesome thank you for that update from moscow hundreds of palestinians have gathered along the gaza Israel Border fence for the weekly friday of protests the socalled great march a return rallies began last march where matheson has more from the border. Gazas ministry of health says at least 10 people have been injured in protests at 5 different points up and down the separation friends which splits gaza from israel in the protests that are being held today the latest protests as part of the great march of return but the crowds here much smaller than weve seen in the past and perhaps not surprising because just a week ago gaza and israel were firing rockets at each other to the south of where im standing now a 27 year old palestinian man was killed in that exchange of fire but its interesting to note that very shortly after the rocket attack the Israeli Government put out a statement saying that it held the leader of a single Islamic Jihad group in gaza responsible for that attack it didnt blame anybody else it just specified this particular leader spool on a few days and on why didnt stay a delegation from hamas went to cairo egypt is a key negotiator in this fragile cease fire that exists between gaza and israel and the belief here in gaza is that hamas was keen to show the gyptian that they were still committed to the Peace Process to the cease fire that has been continuing on between gaza and israel you know if you take both of those events together you get a sense that both sides are trying very hard to keep control of the situation and run keep the risk of violence very low the reason for this could be political israel is in the process of trying to pull together a government and the palestinians for the 1st time since 2006 are going to be voting in elections as well no date for those elections has been organized and has been negotiation about the format of what is going to happen but there is a belief here in gaza that hamas is trying to impress on people that its being the Controlling Party in gaza has control of security here as well and thats very important of course in the run up to these elections. Hong kong protesters are mourning the death of a student who fell from a building during a demonstration on monday 22 year old child she locked died of his injuries on friday people have gathered for a vigil at the carpark where he fell students have been at the forefront of months of protests in hong kong and there are fears chows death could spark more unrest sarah car cause more from hong kong. The hospital confirms the students death on friday morning child she looks 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 because 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 fried 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 its a very grave day and we all have we all have i think a lot of humble people not just for us 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 chalis injury which occurred when tear gas was fired on students during a dispersal operation he was trying to avoid i am from the police but you can. Call him from cop. Show today if we want. And also locked in our government the police to launch a free pass because the government has expressed its regret and sorrow over the death of the 22 year old student. And standing in sympathies to the family but this incident is lucky to further anger the Antigovernment Movement more protests is expected to join demonstrations this weekend. High profile prodemocracy activists joshua warm 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 the in the band as investigation on the clash with aging know and seek 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 joseph chang is a retired professor and senior figure in the prodemocracy movement in hong kong he says they are worried about spacings reaction we are afraid that the chinese authorities will increase step pressure on hong kong exerting pressure on kerry lamb and ministration to have to deal with the article 23 legislation the land and mr now enjoys very very extensive powers through of is activation of the emergency regulations all the loans as symbolized by the introduction of this and the mass law it is expected. To control over the internet we just rely on. Which is the larger point better protestants for communications purposes and there is a danger there the district comes the elections the local you know actually its scheduled at the end of the month maybe postponed. More ahead on the aljazeera news hour including. Chiles president announces new measures to crack down on violent protests. Dozens of bush fires burn across eastern australia prompting a Record Number of emergency warnings. And in sport the phoenix suns struggle to cope with the miami heat action from the n. B. A. Coming up a little later in the program. But 1st brazils top court has overturned a law requiring convicted criminals to go to jail after losing their 1st appeal the court decided that a person can only be jailed after all of their appeals have been exhausted the ruling means that the former president luisa noster Lula Da Silva and thousands of prisoners could be released lugo a sense of prison in april last year as part of a corruption investigation but so bring in terrorism joining us from one a series what are the chances that lula will be free today. Well that the big question that goes for waiting for him outside the prison in the city of. It nobody really knows how long it could take right now that we know that there are people waiting for him to be released immediately but its not clear this is going to be a very fast process 1st is that to a judge to include it and of course theres always the possibility. Of legal procedures that complicate the whole process while hes there just a while ago hes lawyers entered the prison in order to talk to him and what he wants and what theyre saying is that they will request he immediately we know that he is also requesting the whole case against him. To be cant tell them that one has been a very very strong request because hes been one painting of the hes being politically persecuted. And that the whole case against him has been false and created by the opposition and all of this is happening after the Supreme Court over overturned a ruling that that criminal convicted criminal can need to remain in prison one of his 1st appeal while the situation from now on is that that person could remain free and till he has exhausted all the options in order to defend his case in any type of investigation and this of course affect not only a former president but also thousands of other people in the country among them politician businessmen im one others that have been part of what is known at the carwash operation because the large just corruption investigation in brazil history anything led by judges that are your mortal that your model is currently the minister of justice. What can i do and you can method and get impartiality and have been severely question especially after some audio recordings where revie it was revealed that he was working along prosecutors in order to in jail it would and this is something that is banned by law so this cold case has polarized Brazilian Society like it did in the past and while many in brazil can get it and think about it in a fent they see him as a people man as a man that lifted millions out of poverty there are many in the country that see him and they blame him for the corruption that happened while he was in office ok its a razor thank you for that update from one of sirees lets not speak to john watson is a spokesperson for the legal team working for brazils former president Lula Da Silva hes joining us from london thanks very much for your time with us on the aljazeera news hour so this Court Decision could possibly affect Lula Da Silva