A final campaigning for whats seen as a pivotal general election. The u. S. Defense secretary says washington will take precautions to ensure the safety of its military bases after the gun attack at a naval base in florida. And in sport bahrain are crowd arabian gulf cup champions for the very 1st time maybe 3 time champion in saudi arabia in the final in. Our very own protest leaders in hong kong say 800000 people have marched through the city in a show of anger and frustration they are demanding from their leaders greater democratic freedoms and human rights this march the culmination of 6 months with widespread protests now police did approve sundays event they warned though they would not tolerate a rip. Piece of recent violence demonstrations in fact just before the march began they displayed this of the handgun and unishe and which they say were recovered during a raid saying the weapons would have been used to create chaos during the march when i joined brown is covering the protests for us from hong kong and he said there was a noticeable change in the atmosphere during sundays match what we got today was a flavor a reminder of what this protest movement was like when it began 6 months ago powerful peaceful and thats the way it largely was on sunday there was a little bit of vandalism a few mainland own banks and shops were attacked by a radical fringe of this protest movement but that shouldnt be shouldnt we shouldnt sort of get the impression that this was you know like previous protests which of often ended in Serious Violence this was largely peaceful as you can see behind me the center of hong kong is basically back to normal its just after 11 pm at night here the police are now cleared away the last of the barricades the protesters have have disappeared into the night now the organizers of this march say that this was the last chance for the chief executive of Hong Kong Kerry land to see to their demands remember there are not just figure versal suffrage but also an independent commission of inquiry into what they say are Police Actions during the past 6 months what weve got of course on sunday was a further reminder that the voice of protest in hong kong is far from diminished. Thats edge in brown in hong kong and now some analysis from steve sang who is the director of the China Institute so as a university in london he actually expects the protests in hong kong to continue for the coming months he told hashed had changed in terms of nature and focused from this summer. When it all started in june it was about the n. T. Is about the extradition biro now deportation is really not about the extradition bill it is about governance in hong kong how the priest behaved d and whether hong kong can have democratic accountability unless those are being met. Isnt it any longer beijing is not going to make concessions to protest hers will continue to protest we already seen them going back to the streets trying to send a clear message to the governments in hong kong and in beijing should get them to go and work or a political solution and wanted any repressive forced and then you also have the government in hong kong led by the chief executive who is frankly politically illiterate and doesnt understand what needs to be done and and does not have the courage to do what it takes to plan a political solution so this will continue for a few more months i think. Lets move on to other news and a fire in indias capital has killed more than 40 people it tore through one of the oldest markets and burned down a factory and is the worst fire in the city in more than 2 decades the support from new delhi with. The toughest call anyone has to make there really has lost 3 brothers in a fire that broke out in old delhi he says the youngest. Was the most devoted. My mother. She loved my youngest brother. And the relatives of many others are waiting at the mortuary to take the remains of their loved ones dozens of people suffocated as this slept in their factory and nearly 20 others were taken to hospital for treatment. So he lives in the area and saw what happened he says one of the workers from the Northern State of bihar who has been injured is his friend. The bullies and hold peoples cries they were screaming for help the poor people who died most of the workers were. There as the factory where a fire broke out in old delhi there are many workshops and small factories in this area that make it difficult to access people in the city as well as across india come here to work and live in these factories. And dont do enough to prevent fires like these. In this case people also blame the Electricity Department some say they filed a complaint with the authorities several times to get the electrical wires sorted but nothing was done they say the fire may have begun in a factory that made plastic toys and bags. The rescue operation was a challenge because it was congested and there was a lot of small due to burn plastic inside the building which made the operation difficult to carry out. Earlier this year a fire swept through a hotel in the city killing 17 people the next day another fire broke out at a factory. Heder is not sure how to inform his mother about their loss he says his brother came to new delhi looking for better opportunities and thought he would be safe here in the capital. Being by the government has ordered an inquiry to find out how the fire started and detained of the 4 story building. You delhi the u. S. Defense secretary says washington will take more precautions to ensure the safety of its military bases as comments come after the gun attack at the naval base in florida on friday in the last hour the f. B. I. Held a News Conference and said they are working under the presumption that this was an act of terrorism it was a Saudi NationalMohammed Saeed who shot dead 3 students at the Aviation School 10 saudi citizens are being questioned in connection with the attack so some were detained friends of his that were also on that basis i understand it and i also was told that some one or 2 were filming it whats unclear is where they filming it before it began or was it something where they picked up their phones and film that once they saw it unfolding that may be a distinction with or without a difference but again i its why i think we need to let the investigation play out more with mike hanna now in washington in addition to what we hear from the defense secretary mike who else has been discussing this issue this sunday. Well come on lets just start with that if the our News Conference that was held near the naval base in florida the special agent in charge of the investigation spoke to reporters not giving very much away in terms of what has been discovered at this particular point however there were a number of important points that she did confirm such as the friends and fellow Saudi Nationals off the gunman being held at the base they are being restricted to the base they are not in detention at this particular stage and the special agent in charge says they are cooperating with ongoing interviews from the investigators so certainly this is an important point as you mention the f. B. I. Is operating on the presumption that this was an act of terrorism but this is more a Protocol Rather than a discovered fact they are still finding out exactly what the motive of the gunman was about the florida representative in the house of congress very very clear that he believes this was a premeditated act of terrorism thats what he put out on his twitter feed he also says that programs that bring in Foreign Nationals to train at u. S. Bases must be frozen until this investigation is concluded we need to have a review of this program and its my belief that as secretary asper is looking at the Record Keeping the accounting for the Saudi Nationals that are in our country the continuous observance and monitoring of their activities to ensure that there is not radicalization while thats going on we should pause this program we should not be taking new incoming saudi students until we are absolutely confident in our vetting process so is it fair to say then might that the fact that this was a Saudi National not just any Foreign National but specifically a Saudi National who carried out the attack that is changing the narrative in the story and the reaction in the u. S. Well certainly a scholar of the public reaction to the shooting remembering of course that to the 911. 00 attackers the majority of them were Saudi Nationals so here youve got a situation once again where theres an attack on u. S. Soil by a Saudi National and many of the public are making that connection back to 911 certainly there is a great deal of concern and its interesting that at that f. B. I. News conference it was emphasized time and time again that there is no ongoing threat to the community the f. B. I. A special agent going out of the way to comfort people and to make very sure very clear that there is no wider plot in existence that is still ongoing so certainly this is an attempt to placate a deep degree of public concern a concern centering around the possibility that this may not have been an act by and one isolated individual but may be part of a broader conspiracy that could still be ongoing the f. B. I. Making very clear that this is not the case according to their investigations to date thank you mike hanna in washington. The top security official in baghdad has been removed from his post after weeks of antigovernment protests since the demonstrations began in october more than 400 mostly unarmed protesters have been killed right across the country were looking today at the Southern City of nasiriyah which is seeing some of the worst violence similar folks in met survivors and protesters whove said they were tortured by Security Forces. Hospital wards in the remain full after Security Forces opened fire on protesters last week in the intensive care unit this demonstrator who was shot in the head clings on to life prayers are all his family has left after doctors declared him politically dead the lucky ones if they can be called that recover from non fatal gunshot wounds the flags they carried defiantly penned to their hospital beds 17 year old safe says all he wanted was a homeland instead he got a bullet in his leg or what though when they started shooting we were treated as we ran one guy next to me fell down i couldnt just leave him but when i attempted to carry him i was also shot and fell and the 3rd one who came to help us also fell on me. Video shows the moment of the attack the government has issued an arrest warrant against a Senior Security force commander and promised an investigation. That there is an Investigative Committee formed for this purpose at the highest levels and for sure the people in charge of the investigation will bring those responsible to account and they will be punished by the law but the victims relatives want more i want the government to change i dont want this government i demand my sons rights what is his guilt her son safe was shot in the stomach neither the violence nor the bullets that remains lodged in his hip are enough to silence him the 22 year old has no stable job and no hope for a Better Future than they killed me a long time ago im dead whether or not i go out to demand my rights i dont have anything im dead because of the situation wherein i dont feel alive. The 3 has been rocked by violence many times since u. S. Troops invaded 16 years ago but iraqis say they are suffering unprecedented suppression now hundreds have been temporarily detained since protests began october 1st this activist says he was lurched to a meeting by Intelligence Officers who then arrested him. I got a call from someone it was an unknown number he said im so and so we have supplies for your tent and we want you to take it to your tent specifically for your tent he was tortured and interrogated for 16 hours his body still bears marks of electrocution and then x. Ray shows a fractured rib. They call it an investigation but its not an investigation its torture they beat being gave me electrical shocks in every part of my body. He told me to confess i asked him what can i confess he asked who do you belong to what is your organization who supports you do you have foreign sides behind you i said i dont have anything like the bulk of those arrested he will soon released on bail but many believe the use of violence is likely to continue the problem that we have use it as a government by other side of they call them party the problem there is theoretical type of investigation. But without. The crackdown has stoked fear among demonstrators that the same time fueling more anger the people of macedonia have seen too much and lost too many to simply return to normal life seem Wonderful Team aljazeera. Lets have a look at whats coming up for you on this news hour the 1st case of polio in malaysia in more than 25 years well look at what it means for the efforts to eradicate the disease worldwide. And also more on the search for migrants and refugees off the coast of mauritania. And in sport well hear from the boxer. Who says the world heavyweight title belts a banquet i belong. So lets look at that polio story a 3 month old baby boy in malaysia diagnosed with the disease it is incurable and it can cause paralysis whats significant is that this is the 1st case reported since 1902 malaysia a country that was actually declared polio free back in 2000 but vaccination rates in some areas dropped below 95 percent and thats allowed the disease to reemerge comes months after the neighboring philippines reported its 1st polio case in 26 years despite the setbacks that the global efforts to eradicate polio vaccination has been highly effective infections have dropped 99. 9 percent since the Program Began in 1988 with us on skype from houston is peter hotez who is the dean of the National School of tropical medicine also a professor in the departments of pediatrics molecular virology and microbiology at Baylor College of medicine i hope i got all that right there peter thank you for your time. Lets just get a better. But lets deal with absolute basics here is it as simple as the fact that some people didnt get vaccinated and thats what means it comes back because for it to come back after 25 years thats the really significant thing here. I think the the what happened was after the case of flacid paralysis the case of polio was found in this particular area in borneo near sabo in sabah which is close to the philippines the malaysian authorities conducted an investigation and they identified up pocket where large numbers of kids were not being vaccinated so all of the more than 100. 00 kids they looked at only around 1020 percent actually had been vaccinated so i think thats where the where the problem was overall malaysia is doing quite well and another interesting thing about malaysia is they now use the inactivated polio vaccine the killed polio vaccine which cannot cannot replicate outside the body so the fact that there was a live hole it was a mutated viral strain means it probably came from somewhere else and they believe it actually came from philippines based on the sequencing of the rise and how easily or otherwise can it spread. Well the problem is you know once you have a an actual case of paralytic polio theres probably a lot of other individuals infected thats what makes polio so difficult to eradicate up reach as opposed to smallpox where if youre infected with smallpox you show the clinical signs and symptoms of smallpox right away so that by the time you see a case of polio you have to assume that others may be infected with the virus as well so your so you play catch up so it it is a tougher problem to eradicate than some of the other viral infections but as you rightly point out the Global Polio Eradication Initiative is that extraordinary at 99. 99 percent reduction since 1988 to the point where holyoke transmission is only going out in 2 countries right now in afghanistan and pakistan so im hopeful that this is an aberration and and we will see now that now that the authorities have gone in and vaccinated this gap the gap area i think will be ok the bigger the larger problem is the fact that were starting to see lapses in all vaccination programs in pockets globally so the philippines has had a big issue with what we call Vaccine Hesitancy with parents fearful of the effects of vaccines and not vaccinating their kids and now of course this is playing out in samoa in a terrible way were 60 children died from measles so this is kind of a new world order were facing this era of Vaccine Hesitancy for the 1st time this year the World Health Organization has listed this problem as one of the top 10 Global Health threats and im fearful that 2020 is going to look even even worse so whats happening what happened this year in the philippines with parents refusing to vaccinate whats happened in somalia is were going to see more and more of this because the Anti Vaccine Movement has become so pervasive now on the internet and so politically active paid a great to talk to thank you for joining us peter hotez in houston. 22 bodies have been recovered after flooding in western uganda according to the red cross toronto rain battered parts of the country on the border with democratic republic of congo it started saturday night went into sunday morning at least 20 others were killed by floods and mudslides earlier in the weight. 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