Police and protesters face off with hong kong again as china confirms it all that it cleared up by its army. A car bombing near a busy bus station in northeastern syria turkey blinds what p. G. But as for the attack that killed 19 people im happy to simply go to sports controversial quarterback Colin Kaepernick prepares to showcase the skills in front of n. F. L. Teams 3 years since his last game better and more later this news hour. We begin the news hour with violence scenes in the french capital where police and demonstrators have clashed on the 1st anniversary of the yellow vests protest movement for the some paris fire tear gas and water cannon that hundreds of them astray has after they built barricades across the city and set fire to cars and rubbish bins more than 100 people have been a rough. They yell a Vest Movement began last november over rising fuel prices and the high cost of living the weekly demonstrations soon grew into a broader revolt against president obama and across Economic Reforms means barker has more now from paris. This is the plaster its really in the center of paris its very much become the epicenter of clashes between demonstrators from the yellow press movement and lines of police many i take a couple of 1000 demonstrators amassed here earlier on they have permission to do that but the scenes quickly became violent you can see probably a tremendous amount of damage around whats left of some wooden buildings over here smoldering the fire brigade have been over here trying to put fires out and the police over here have been doing what they possibly can to remove the square of the remaining protesters theyve been firing tear gas at them and that over there is a water cannon thats been used very very liberally in deede to push people out of this area we just found ourselves unfortunately on the wrong end of that water cannon just a few minutes ago let me explain that what were looking at here is really a hard core element within the yellow best movement this isnt anything like the huge process that we saw earlier on in the year where many tens of thousands of people took to the streets of paris and other cities like bordeaux and to lose these people are very much the fringe as it were and we did also come across some people who had come by bus from power some the outskirts of the city very disappointed by what theyre seeing here they feel that it doesnt send the right kind of message it doesnt strike a chord with what the yellow Dress Movement is all about but the reason perhaps why the movement has dwindled over the last few months primarily thats a stun grenade just going off there a few of them reason why its the window in support over the last few months just because this is one of its main aid. Sort of overturning a new tax on diesel fuel but also present the emanuel by chronos being forced to cough up 11000000000. 00 in aid to help the poorest sectors of french society. Landry cheli is a former french diplomat and the founder of the political and Security Risk consultancy terrorist she joins us live now via skype from paris madame thank you for joining us here on aljazeera i dont know if you could hear a correspondent there from paris saying that what we saw today in the french capital with french groups really that the fair that the elevates have dwindled by and large because theyve been victims of their own success in the sense that a lot of the measures that they wanted have actually be agreed to and implemented by a man while the crowd what do you make of that have we seen do you think the end of the yellow vests now and i mean and the true. 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Creating together lets in context for claiming and said maybe hes opened the gate for the movement that were going to get on the future of this summer and be interesting to see how that they pans out the face of the center for the moment than judicially former french diplomat thank you for having joined us and you going to have more from london a little later in the news hour now though lets go back to stand in those. Well the price of fuel xin creased by up to 200 percent in iran and thats triggering protests one persons been killed and several others injured as they tried to enter an oil refinery in the Southern City of so john the government says the rise is needed to combat fuel smuggling those reports. Anger frustration and growing concern in tehran as people protested against a 200 percent increase in fuel prices. Many simply turned off their engines on major highways across the city to show their disappointment at the sudden decision to raise petrol prices overnight. As heavy snow blanketed the capital people still lined up at the gas stations to fill up. The quota for remarked i this is not a wise decision considering our horrible economy and sanctions we are under its a cruel decision because it wont affect the wealthy people only the poor people will pay the price. This will 100 percent impact Everything Else its not just about the press of gas or commodities will be impacted by those issues this will only hurt low income families they were supposed to increase subsidies 1st then raise the price of fuel they will find another excuse to cut their subsidies later. The protests have not been limited to the capital this was the scene in the Southern City of abidjan enclose a sun province overnight here state t. V. Announced a number of individuals it described as unknown elements fired into crowds of people injuring some. The shock of this news has yet to sink in here with a new prices motorist now pay about 0. 13 a liter thats a 3 fold increase the government expects to earn nearly 2500000000. 00 from the price increase and says that it will help millions of families in need had that said is that the 1st payments will be handled within the next week or 10. 00 days and transferred to the families in model year a strong president believes that if there is going to be petrol price reform all of the new revenues will be paid back to the people. That many people here fear that this decision could have far reaching consequences it stems from a number of issues while iran has huge Energy Reserves its refining capability is limited and that makes it difficult to get fuel to the pumps. The government is also fighting fuel smuggling to neighboring countries thats because iran has some of the cheapest prices in the world due to its heavy subsidies and a weak currency the economy here has been struggling for years but since the United States withdrew from the 2015 nuclear deal last year and reimpose a series of new sanctions on iran things have been getting much worse inflation is just over 40 percent with unemployment rates at over 14 percent officials here say that this fuel price increase will help people but its proving very difficult to convince ordinary iranians door so to aljazeera town. While loans has flared up again in Hong Kong Police fired tear gas at protesters withhold by petrol bombs as the largest demonstrations were happening china confirmed it sent its army in on friday. To help clean up debris near one of the universities Hong Kong Government says it didnt ask for any assistance steve saying is the director of the China Institute of the university of London School of oriental and African Studies he joins us on skype from nottingham its nice to have you with us i want to go 1st of all to what china is saying about deploying the peer lies saying this was a voluntary clean up but does it send a resume intended to send another message to the protesters and the people of Hong Kong Well the Peoples LiberationArmy Garrison in hong kong d is not allowed to barracks unless to be questioned by the government a whole call no request was made by the government or phone call and they could only have the barracks by all the offices it is clearly a signal sent to protesters in hong kong to expect to be ploy to get things continues to worsen is that what your anticipating now that we are going to say given that as you say and does that the government of hong kong has said they did not invite the pale way onto the streets so what would you expect now is this what were likely to see again. Well the policy was made and b. For. The Chinese Communist party about 2 weeks ago and thats to give hong called a bit of towns to redouble its efforts to implement Chinese Governments policy on hong kong so i think they will still give hong call it be talk tom perhaps measured in months before they will call i did the garrisons in hong kong or sending the Peoples Armed police function more combination of so would you say this as being a significant change when you look at the the army being on the streets also see jumping saying that the protests are real threats or real challenge to the one country 2 Systems Program policy under which hong kong was brought back under Mainland China rule. Yes i think it is clearly a major escalation and the Chinese Government is sending now a clear signal to hong kong basically that ita yet somehow found a way out of it or d they will be facing the chinese Security Forces in and out of money thats a very worrying scenario is not. What it is very very scenario because if and when chinese Security Forces are being deployed across the border to hong kong then we will be seeing the end goal one country 2 systems more though in hong kong. Whatever the transcript say is not their intention that the fact that result almost certainly will happen. Where does this leave kerry lerman if she did not invite the troops onto the streets that theyve come onto the streets in any event and if what youre saying comes to pass and we say a much harder line from my mind china we see more chinese troops on the street where does this leave kerry why in the government a phone call well kerry lamb is for all intents and purposes already a lame duck she has proved herself to be completely ineffective not only in the eyes of the citizens of hong kong but in the eyes of the Chinese Government is really only a matter of timing when the Chinese Government will leave anyway and she must know that. So saying its been a pleasure to have you on the program thank you again for your analysis. Youre welcome. Theres plenty more ahead on the news hour including vote counting on the. President ial election to the front runner. I am scared i could lose if she gets really sick where in zimbabwe where both doctors and patients are suffering 2 months into a strike to demand better. Federal match in the semifinals of the 1825. 00 in london it will be actions. Turkey is blaming kurdish wife p. J. Fighters for a bombing in Northern Syria at least 19 people were killed and Dozens Injured in the explosion that happened near a busy bus station in the city of albab in a lipos eastern countryside. Is an assistant professor in International Relations at the university of nottingham he says it might not have been the white pages. If this is. The result of ice all then that gives us an indication of their capacity but i dont think anybody will find this unexpected even if this isnt caused by ice on it is caused by y p g as the turks say we will and we should expect isis members in parts of syria not just the in this particular region but elsewhere but also in very much so in iraq who will be conducting these form of attacks they will go back to what they did before they declared the Islamic State in 2014 and that is to revert to being a terrorist movement and the other thing we mustnt forget is that many of those members have returned to their homelands whether its in north africa whether its in europe whether its in central asia or the far east they have gone back and we already know that some of them have committed acts of terror in their homeland so this issue of isis or i saw is a big one and this may this particular incident may or may not be a symptom of it but the issue is far bigger than this particular incident the Iraqi High Commission for human rights says the least 7 people have been killed and more than 170 injured in protest of the past 2 days Security Forces fired live rounds during outage government demonstrations on friday iraqs top shia leader grand ayatollah Ali Al Sistani called for car movies with the sermon protesters angry about widespread corruption unemployment and poor basic services. Vote counting has begun in sri lankas president ial election that is rising religious tension and the slowing Economy Takes Center Stage former defense secretary rajapaksa and also the 2 main Candidates National security has been a talking point on the Campaign Trial after the easter bombings that killed hundreds of people but no fernandos has more from. The crucial 3 years of the 2001000 president ial election is underway the count as you can see the ballot boxes coming in buses like this to the Main Counting Center here in colombo one of the main centers Royal College the Election Commission chairman. Has spoken about the conduct of the election today. The 1st. We. See years. And counting all of the votes is going on right throughout the night this process being duplicated in counting centers in every single district obviously security as you can see around me is very tight to ensure the security of the ballot now what weve heard in terms of voter turnout weve heard that there has been around 80 percent the main question is going to be which of the frontrunners go to the rajapaksa the former defense secretary or sergeant prim of the us of the minister of housing which of them secures more than 50 percent of the vote if they are not able to do that the count goes into a 2nd round where preferential votes with the counted that becomes a little bit more complicated throughout the country are waiting to find out the results of those processes. And Bernard Smith is also in colombo with more of the front runners to become the next president. Got a pirate ship packs and knows as he bows to the buddhist priest that he can rely on support from voters within sri lankas majority thing but he also needs support from minority muslims and tamils too if he is to win this president ial election many of them are nervous of the prospect of a return to power of the rajapaksa. Got a pie was defense chief and his brother mahinda was president at the end of the civil war which the u. N. Estimates killed 40000 people that party also courts nationalists this is a big clue lanka get in with. The. Staff at shoreline because center for monitoring election violence say the poll has been free but not necessarily fair with reports of people being pressured on how to vote we have never seen that much influential factors like leaders leaders that are coming forward from or one particular political party. Such as prima das is the only other realistic contender in this election he gets support from rural buddhists and minority groups who could swing the result in his favor. The Ruling Coalition is choice but this is a government that ignored warnings about the Easter Sunday suicide attacks that killed 263 people prompting rajapaksa to announce his candidacy we are hoping for a new future 3 lanka and. Elect the right candidate and the same there are many candidates so its going to be a very competitive place so i just hope there. You know whoever gets elected can deliver on their promises and ensure a safe nation and a prosperous nation and everyone can sort of believe in peace 60000000 people were eligible to vote they had 35 candidates to choose from. The run up to sri lankas last president