Years since the mylan a crushing of the student uprising against the military dictatorship. Rajapaksa the man accused of Human Rights Violations during the fight against rebels is declared sri lankas next president. And on peace women with all the day support controversial quarterback Colin Kaepernick holds a tryout session in front of team scouts but only after a last minute change of venue that and more coming up later in the program. Police in hong kong have warned they poisoned to break up a standoff with protesters for hours theyve been battling demonstrators who barricaded themselves in at a University Campus mcbride has more from. A long day of fighting at this College Campus has continued well into the night and most of the battling has been taking place at this. Junction behind me but in recent hours more police have been arriving and they have been confronting protesters that the number of different other entrances and to this campus most notably a fly over behind me where protesters have set up a barricade and there have been fierce exchanges between them and police the Police Firing volleys of tear gas and also i think like rubber bullets the protesters responding with more fire bombs and i dont number of different barricades around here many protesters have been getting ready expecting that at some point the police will try to retake this campus. Another sunday another hong kong street turned into a battle. At the end of a week that seen a marked escalation in the level of violence. Between protesters and Police Students took over several College Campuses Polytechnic University is the last under their control and they seem determined to hold on to it i think. Because. We have a plan for the freedom. They say were not behaving like students but we are fighting for a better future. Violence began early sunday when people turned up to clear surrounding streets of bricks and barricades and students resisted. Police quickly arrived with water cannon the right vehicles. And both or more of the cannon are now working as they dance around the barricades and the protesters seem to be falling back but are still pondering where more and more. The College Campus is located next to an important cross harbor tunnel which is being closed for days it will likely relaying closed until police can retake the campus also close by is a camp occupied by Chinas Peoples Liberation Army p l a soldiers looking on closely. Police say theyve been targeted with long range projectiles 5 from the campus buildings with one officer hit in the leg with an arrow. They say the students now inside the campus face riot charges which carry a lengthy prison sentence in spite of the warning the students show no sign of giving up just what the plan is for these protestors if one when the police do storm in is not clear except for some vague idea that they will fall back into the campus buildings that they have occupied which then poses the prospect and the very dangerous prospect of doing battle in the corridors and rooms of this building. Lets discuss this further now roderick why is an associate fellow in the Pacific Program at Chatham House and former 1st secretary at the beijing embassy or British Embassy in beijing he joins us on skype from london nice to have you with us this is really going on now for 6 months its been escalating weve seen increasing violence its at a critical juncture how do you see this playing out now. Well weve always been surprised by the length and duration of these protests but clearly they had been escalating much more quickly into a much more serious situation in the last few days especially since the police decided about a week ago to go into University Campuses and we now have. A virtual pitched battle on me on the campus at the Polytechnic University where it all ends goodness only knows i mean i think the police really have the resolution and the ability to eventually clear the campus and what. That will entailed in terms of. Tactics and injuries and arrests still very much remains to be seen and then the next day dr that what happens after that because of course what began as a protest against an extradition lord change to an extradition law is about something much more now its about hong kong its about democracy its about china and chinese influence so what are the protesters looking for now. Well thats one of the problems if you are talking about finding a political solution to this they say and feel that they are defending and fighting for hong kongs free and democratic future and that is freedom not necessarily independence but it is 3 didnt within the peoples republic of china to enjoy the freedoms that were given to them under the basic law and these they continually under threat and im being. More so since the extradition were was was introduced we heard from sieging ping in recent days has made his 1st real comments about this and these raised questions about the protesters and the challenge to the one party 2 systems policy that the hong kong was returned to milan china under is that really 10 no ball now given this crisis and if you get into siege and said what does he do. Well i mean 1st of all we whatever happens after all this were not going to go back to the hong kong that was before. The extradition bill was introduced and all is rotting or all these demonstrations kicked off. And certainly since the escalation of violence i think that changes things to the Hong Kong Government has all along. Decided to treat this as a law and order matter and has had no willingness to negotiate or talk or listen in any serious way to the demands or requests of the protesters and really there has to be at the end of the day some kind of political solution to the authorities no doubt have the power to impose some kind of. Order over wrong but even if they do that it seems to me that they still have the problem to address of the discontent the serious discontent and fears of the young people of hong kong and indeed other people. For the future of their system as were talking were seeing live pictures here from hong kong as you can see there is smoke in the air and theres been water cannon use theres been sporadic fires there of course as those protests continue and of course the police are threatening to move in and move the protesters on out roderick i want to get your thoughts on the army and the role of the pay a lie in this there were of course on the streets the other day albeit in a voluntary cleanup capacity but some interpreted that in a much bigger way that there was a particular message being sent to hong kong in general and the protesters in particular were you concerned about that. I mean there is clearly a great deal of symbolism involved in that decision for the pm they do in quote volunteer to help clear up the streets of hong kong i mean they would not have done that without clear permission from and that was a deliberate gesture of by the Chinese Government to show that the p l a are there and that they are ready to do the governments the beijing government bidding. China the chinese beijing government has been very careful so far to leave the enforcement of law and order in hong kong to the hong kong or ferrety and would very much clearly prefer that that were so but if hong kong continues to go down this. Lie towards real. Civil commotion. Then beijing may decide that they have no alternative but to intervene so far they dont want to they realise that they dont have any clear exit strategy from such an independent but such an intervention would have a Huge International implications and it is much better in a way to let the Hong Kong Government try and sort it out and take the blame for failing to sort it out and leave blame away from the beijing government roger why its been a pleasure to have you on the Program Thanks for your analysis thank you irans president has announced that poor people will start receiving subsidies on monday to help pay for fuel price rises its also rouhani his response to protests against the increases irans president of course announcing that those pits subsidies will start on monday. Now. Were going to go to joseph. Jabari now who has more on this. President has some rouhani has been making a few comments following his weekly Cabinet Meeting on sunday evening in the capital he said that it is the right of every iranian to protest but it is not their right to cause riots hes referring to over a 1000 people that have been arrested over the past 48 hours as a result of a number of incidents that have taken place over all over the country in number of cities over 87000. 00 people have turned up to demonstrate and show their frustration at the news that the price of fuel has tripled overnight at the government made this announcement in the president was defending the governments decision on sunday evening saying that they were trying to help the poor families in the country by increasing subsidies to them and thats why they had a decision to make and that the situation was made it wasnt an easy one he said they had 3 choices one was increase taxes across the board inside iran the 2nd one was to increase the sale of oil that was not going to happen because of the u. S. Sanctions of the moment on the iranians and the 3rd was to increase the price of fuel for iranians and thats what they decided to go with this decision has had some very serious consequences number of people have turned out across the country to protest and show their anger there have been 2 deaths reported so far one of a policeman in kemah city and another a protester inside. Well is the dean of the faculty of world studies at the university of tehran and he joins us now nice of you to give us your thoughts now this of course is going to happen anyway but the decision to head on the subsidies is being brought forward is that going to have an impact do you think on the protest will it be enough to placate that anger. Well that remains to be seen i think that the problem was that the government. Was slow to explain what it was about to do i mean the increasing the prices threefold was a huge shock to everyone and it was quite sudden that the government didnt declare it before hand and that scared a lot of people in theory and i think in practice its something that had to be done because iranian gasoline is is sold at 0. 08 a liter which is very low and a lot of iranian oil gets smuggled across the border into neighboring countries where 15 neighboring countries even countries in the persian gulf they smuggle iranian gasoline so its a big problem in the country and also consumption has been going up very rapidly in the iranians are also concerned that if they it goes too high theyll become net importers and americans could use that as leverage against the country so they did have to increase the price of gasoline also because the rich use to subsidize gasoline disproportionately much more than those who are disenfranchised many people dont have cars many people travel every weekend to the north of the country to their below so its not very fair and this the government is planning to. Take the money from the extra money from the sales and give it to the 70 percent of the iranians who are of lower income so theoretically is the right thing to do where an income many people are very critical of the way in which the government did it and many people are afraid that it will it will harm them and not everyone trusts that ministration partially because of the fact that theyve been pursuing liberal liberal economic policies and poor people are very become cynical when these policies are pursued now this is happened at a time when of course theres increasing inflation theres been a konami decline in any event city against the sanctions that have been reimposed over the nuclear deal and of course there are going to be parliamentary elections in february is there a concern here amongst the administration that protests that begin about one thing in this case fuel hikes could also turn into something greater and may also have an impact on the election in february. Yes i think president rouhani is taking a big risk if these if this plan doesnt turn out to work well for him its going hes going its going to be reflected in the elections i think it will be go very badly for him but if the lower classes in society or those who are disenfranchised in society do feel the benefits in the next 234 months and it could turn out to his advantage so that remains to be seen at the moment the government isnt exceptionally popular because. The government did pursue the nuclear deal and it bad it put all its eggs in the basket of the nuclear deal and that didnt work out thanks to trump so many people are critical of the government and again because of the liberal economic policies that the government was pursuing for the last few years which has nothing to do with the nuclear deal but another segment of such a society became somewhat skeptical so president rouhani at the moment according to polls is not doing well but again this could make things worse for him then again at the moment it looks like hell make things worse but if in the next 23 months things do look better as a result of this policy then it could change things for the better for him what about the immediate term with the protests and if the protests in fact continue because we heard from the Supreme Leader ayatollah ali harmonised saying that hooligans have been carrying out these attacks how do you think the response is going to be if the protests in do continue. Well i think there are 2 sets of people there are that have been on the streets many of those the majority were protesters who didnt carry out acts of violence but since late last night or last evening we saw a rapid increase in in violence where small groups in different towns and cities and in parts of tehran carried out attacks on banks and even police stations and unfortunately foreign meet persian language media which is funded by western governments and the saudis have been egging the rioters on and i would have to point out that even the b. B. C. Persian and the v. O. A. Persian they have played a part in this but which is which is i think in the long run it hurts their own image because people see how they are trying to you know create division and sedition so theyre hurting themselves in the long run but most of the protesters have not been violent by any means they were critical of this this policy theyre out on the streets the numbers have died down today but its still 947 runtime so well have to see what happens later tonight the violence is also decreased tonight but again we have to see what happens later this evening but the majority of the protesters were not violent the violence was carried out by small groups that seem to have been influence from abroad and also. That say the underworld today to have been involved in some of these attacks on on because some of the targets like banks there these attacks are carried out probably as reasons morrone thank you so much for room for giving us you don. Thank you was pretty more ahead on the news hour including falling short the initial valuation for saudi arabias state owned oil company is lower than some expected. Violence in northern generation ago may soon take center stage in the u. K. s general election. And christiana rinaldo age is closer to 100 International Goals for portugal peter has that story in sport. Lebanons former finance minister has withdrawn his name as a candidate to be the next Prime Minister mohammad suffered he said it would have been difficult to form a harmonious cabinet in a statement he added that he hoped outgoing Prime Minister saad hariri would be renominated. Joins us now from beirut what is the reaction been to this announcement that he wont be putting his name forward as a candidate. Well theyre considered its one of the successes as they say of this revolution or at least this uprising that has been going on for a month now today sunday marks the one month anniversary since this Movement Began but really it is not that significant in the Bigger Picture when you look at the demands of these people their demands is that they want to fully technocratic government run the courts the people the nation about sectarian divides if about Party Politics that demanding that all the money that has been siphoned off millions if not billions of dollars worth over the past couple of decades by political elites yes but as govern this country for so long they want that money back into the country so whilst they are happy that all this is somebody who im afraid he. Hasnt succeeded in being nominated as the next Prime Minister theres still demands are pretty great some other said is that theyre going to actually ask to meet over the coming days theyre calling for protests to be held outside 3 key points the president ial palace the heart of and and also the Prime Ministers office as well as there have been some calls for a general strike on tuesday but it must mean also very quickly without at least one were looking at the numbers here are comparative to how large they were in the 1st couple weeks of this movement they have definitely thing that hours now whether that is for t. V. Whether thats because of the economic downturn that has come as a consequence of banks not being open for several days because of this here is by workers they say for their safety or whether its because people just dont have the stamina to go through with all their demands when i sure but well sort of this is taking place in summation there is still negotiations taking place between the parties between the sexes because no matter how much these people would like there to be a different reality the truth is that lebanon is a sectarian government its a sectarian country it is built on a sectarian system and thats very difficult to see that being dismantled without an. More work i dont know are for being done not just in lebanon but across the region jamal thank you for that. Thousands of people have been marching greeces capital to mark