The shooting of an 18 year old protestor in the chest. Its the first time in months of demonstrations that a protestor has been injured by live ammunition. Police say the officer opened fire because he felt his life was under threat. Rupert Wingfield Hayes is in hong kong and sent this report. This was hong kongs birthday present to china. They had been told to stay home, that any protest today would be illegal. Any hope the protests would pass peacefully were quickly dashed. This was Central Hong Kong this afternoon, and this the town of tsuen wan, police and protesters fighting running street battles. In the middle of one such battle, this happened. As a young protester tries to strike a policeman with a metal bar, the officer shoots at almost point blank range. The 18 year old protester is expected to survive. But news of his shooting only increased the fury on the streets. We are not afraid. Because they shoot, we will get angrier and angrier. We are not afraid of them. Especially us, we have to stay in the front line to protect our people, to save hong kong and the future of hong kong. As night fell, the streets of hong kong began to burn. The protesters began targeting Chinese State owned banks with molotov cocktails. But, as Police Reinforcements arrived, the protesters decided it was time to retreat. So this is the middle of causeway bay on hong kong island. And you can see, here come the riot police, here come the water cannon. Theyre about to start clearing this street. This is only one of at least six different protests thats taking place here. With the water cannon speeding after them, and the riot police close behind, the protesters fled into the back streets. And so began a game of cat and mouse. On a street corner, we found this group of angry local residents cursing the police. Up above, they had a suspected protester cornered. As the police marched him away, the crowd screamed at them, gangsters, we curse your whole family. This is how deep the divisions have now become here. This is now the new normal. Rupert Wingfield Hayes, bbc news in hong kong. North korea may have fired a Ballistic Missile from a submarine, according to officials in south korea. Its thought the missile was launched in the sea north east of the port of wonsan and flew around a50 kilometres before landing in the sea ofjapan. South koreas military says it reached an altitude of 910 kilometres. Japans Prime Minister shinzo abe said it was a violation of un resolutions. He suggested there were two missiles, one landing in the country s exclusive economic zone. It comes just a few hours after pyongyangs vice foreign minister choe sun hui announced that talks with the us would resume later this week. Jonathan pollack is from the Brookings Institution independent think tank. He gave me his assessment of the missile launch. This is part of a continuing process of missile testing, short range missile testing that north korea has been undertaking in recent months. Some of these missiles may be intended to evade detection in terms of the Missile Systems arrayed against them. But the signals here go beyond the question of technology development. The North Koreans are well aware that President Trump has said he has no objections to short range missile test, he only objects to Nuclear Missiles and long range missiles. So they feel they have room to manoeuvre even as renewed discussions with the us begin. They may also feel in pyongyang that President Trump is under increasing political pressure to produce something meaningful here. He is enormously invested psychologically in this relationship with north korea and he has very little to show for it, frankly. So add to this picture north koreas intent to try and find ways to weaken wherever it can the ongoing relationship between the United States and south korea, but also reminding japan that these short range missiles pose a direct threat to japan and that is why i am not surprised that the japanese Prime Minister has taken note of them. So north korea is always looking for where there are openings it remains to see whether there is anything meaningful that can be realised through these renewed discussions. We dont even know where they will be held or who the participants will be but it is another thing that north korea is dangling to the United States without, in essence, north korea having to make any real concessions or moves back from its missile and nuclear programmes. Briefly, i saw an analyst saying that we should understand that not everything north korea does is always tactical or strategic. Sometimes it isjust them doing whatever the hell they want to do. There is something to that. We can overanalyse their behaviour but, again, on issues of missile testing they have something of a past. Ill make it explicit. On this basis they can sustain some of what they do when they feel it is convenient or necessary or technologically feasible to test different aspects of these short range systems, they do so and there is no political cost that they seem to pay for it. So from the north korean perspective, this is an acceptable degree of risk in terms of relations with the outside world. It also of course is just a reminder to the south korean president that he himself is under a lot of political pressure with low Approval Ratings and they are reminding him that the goal here is for north korea to try to achieve some kind of a breakthrough with the United States and really not give a great deal of attention to their relations with south korea or throuthapan who north korea continues to shun on a regular basis. Lets get some of the days other news. The government of mali says at least 25 soldiers have been killed and about 60 are missing in attacks by suspected jihadists on two military posts in the region of mopti. In response malian troops have begun a joint operation with forces from neighbouring burkina faso. Legislators from zimbabwes Main Opposition Party have again refused to take part in the president s annual state of the nation speech. Political tensions have been growing since last years contested elections. The movement for Democratic Change has rejected an invitation for dialogue to help resolve the worst economic crisis in a decade it didnt feature in president Emmerson Mnangagwas address. Vatican police have seized documents and Electronic Devices from departments within the vatican as they investigate suspected financial irregularities. One department, the secretariat of state, is the most powerful within the holy see and the Administrative Centre of the worldwide catholic church. The Belfast Shipyard probably best known for building the titanic has been saved from closure. Harland and wolff has been bought by a company specialising in Energy Infrastructure projects. All workers who didnt take voluntary redundancy when the yard went into administration will now keep theirjobs. The duchess of sussex has begun legal action against the mail the impeachment inquiry started by President Trumps opponents in congress, over his phone call with the ukrainian president , is gathering pace. Leaders of three house of representatives committees have accused his secretary of state of intimidating witnesses they want to question. Mike pompeo has thrown back much the same accusation. In a tweet hes written im concerned with aspects of the committees request that can be understood only as an attempt to intimidate, bully, treat improperly the distinguished professionals of the department of state. Live to our north american correspondent peter bowes. What is the strength of all of this . How significant western mark this could just be a hiccup in the road. There is a difference of opinion between mike pompeo, the state Department Officials and those Congressional Democrats who want those five officials to give evidence. And we have heard that mike pompeo sees this as intimidation and bullying but for their part, the democrats also see it as their part, the democrats also see itasa their part, the democrats also see it as a sense of intimidation. They believe it is, in a sense, breaking the law by refusing to appear. Mike pompeo will say it was a voluntary request to appear. They did not receive a subpoena to appear. So behind the scenes they will be discussions and perhaps some appearances will be delayed and perhaps this is just a delaying tactic to give officials more time to prepare for appearances and give evidence. Mike pompeo has been less than helpful with all of this already. Having said that he cannot say anything about the phone call, he hadnt read the transcript, it turns out he was sitting in on the call. And that raises a big question about why that was not revealed nor acknowledged a few days ago, perhaps at the time the telephone transcript of the call was made public. It does raise a few questions. He has not been entirely open. He is currently in italy and he has not had much more to say other than that statement about his fellow officials. I think hes been cautious in terms of what he has to say and i think it shows us that this will be quite a bumpy road, this will be quite a bumpy road, this road to impeachment. There will be many stumbling blocks along the way like this before we get to any conclusions of the matter at least as far as the house of representatives is concerned. The duchess of sussex has begun legal action against the mail on sunday over a claim it unlawfully published one of her private letters. In a statement prince harry referred to what he called relentless propaganda against his wife. And said he wasnt prepared to see her victimised by the press as his mother was. The duke and duchess are on the last leg of their tour of southern africa. Our royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell is in johannesburg. It is remarkably outspoken. It is nothing less than a stinging attack on the british tabloid media. Now, at the centre of this legal case is a letter written by the duchess to her estranged father, thomas, at his home in mexico, portions of which were quoted in the mail on sunday earlier this year. In his statement, the duke says that his wife has become one of the latest victims of the british tabloid media. He refers to a Ruthless Campaign thats escalated over the past year. He talks about the double standards of this specific press pack, which has vilified her almost daily for the past nine months. He says that this amounts to bullying, and then he says this. My greatest fear is of history repeating itself. Now, i understand that both the queen and the prince of wales have been informed of this legal action. Both the duke and duchess clearly feel very strongly about this. They feel that they have no option now but to take one of the countrys most powerful Newspaper Groups to court. In a statement a short time ago, the mail on sunday has said that it stands by its story, and that it will be defending this case vigorously. Armed police in peru are preventing mps from entering congress, a day after the president dissolved the chamber. A group of about twenty parliamentarians are still refusing to leave, while streets around parliament in lima are in lockdown. President Martin Vizcarra accuses parliament of blocking his Anti Corruption reforms. Mr vizcarra has ordered new elections injanuary prompting members of congress to suspended the president and appoint a rival head of state. They replaced him with the Vice President , mercedes araoz. Ecuador has announced it will leave the International Oil cartel opec, at the start of next year. President lenin moreno says opec has thwarted ecuadors plans to increase production to boost its revenues. Its currently one of the smaller members of the iii nation bloc but have been asking for increased production rights since february but the government have never confirmed whether that request was approved or not. Ecuador previously left the organisation in 1992. Stay with us on bbc news, still to come a relic returns the 2,000 year old stolen sarcophagus that turned up in a prestigious american museum, is back in egypt. In all russias turmoil, it has never quite come to this. President yeltsin said the day would decide the nations destiny. The nightmare that so many people had feared for so long is playing out its final act here. Russians are killing russians in front of a grandstand audience. It was his humility which produced affection from catholics throughout the world. But his departure is a tragedy for the catholic church. This man, israels right winger, ariel sharon, visited the religious compound and that started the trouble. He wants israel alone to have sovereignty over the holy sites, an idea thats unthinkable to palestinians. After 45 years of division, germany is one. In berlin, a million germans celebrate the rebirth of europes biggest and richest nation. Welcome back. Very glad to have you with us. This is bbc news. The latest headlines violence in hong kong escalates as police shoot a protester with live ammunition for the first time. More on this now. In the past hour, students have staged a sit in at the protesters school. He is receiving treatment in hospital, but his condition is not thought to be life threatening. Mariko oi is in hong kong. As you can imagine, a lot of debate about the incident from yesterday where an 18 year old protester was shot by a Police Officer. Police say the officer felt that his life was under threat, but as you can imagine, a lot of debate whether that was really the case, whether live ammunition was really necessary. And as you can imagine, thats been dominating the newspapers here in hong kong. This is apple daily, which has the picture of that exact moment when a Police Officer is pointing a gun at the protester. The fact that hes a teenager is in the headline, and the paper also talks about 180 arrests made yesterday, which is the largest number of arrests made in one day. Meanwhile, the South China Morning Post has a bit of a different take. The picture of the celebration in beijing with a picture of xijinping there. Of course, the South China Morning Post is owned by chinese tech giant alibaba, founded byjack ma, whos a communist party member. But i also want to show you this one and, interesting, a paid advert wraparound with the National Anthem of china. Yesterday as well, the paper had a paid advert, congratulating china for the 70th anniversary since the foundation of the peoples republic of china. And today we are expecting some 100 people who were arrested on sunday to appear in court, and protesters have been calling on each other on social media to show up to express their support. They are charged with rioting offences and thats one of the demands of the protesters dont call them rioters. Other demands of course include universal suffrage, as well as the unconditional release of those protesters who have been arrested. But after witnessing one of the worst violence since the protests began, since that controversial extradition bill was introduced, we have no end in sight of how this violence could calm down. Britains Prime Minister will offer the European Union his plan for brexit on wednesday. Borisjohnson insists it is his final offer and that the uk will leave the eu at the end of this month, even though parliament has passed a law to prevent him doing so without a deal. A major Sticking Point has been the border between Northern Ireland, part of the uk, and the irish republic, part of the eu, once the uk leaves the Eu Customs Union and single market. He says for a while after brexit some customs checks will be needed. Heres laura kuenssberg. There is some flashing images. When is a crisis an opportunity . Right now, borisjohnson seems to believe. Prime minister, in the last few weeks, you have lost major votes in the commons. Yes, yes. Youve chucked some mps out of your own party. The highest court in the land has found you broke the law and gave the wrong advice to the queen. How do you think this is going . Well, i think that its going about as well as can be expected, if not slightly better. Really . Yeah, because, look, this was always going to be a very difficult time. What weve got, basically, is a situation in which the people voted for leaving the eu. And, yes, there are many people in all sorts of positions who dont think that was the right way to go. And i am tasked with getting it over the line, getting brexit done by october the 31st. And i think we always knew that, as we came up to that deadline, things would get choppy. And if only we could all come together, get brexit over the line, i think that fevers would cool, temperatures would come down and it would be a great thing. So that is what im trying to do. But you are suggesting that people ought to come together, when, transparently, you have been trying to create this idea of them and us. The truth is, theres no way of getting brexit done without, as it were, displeasing people who dont want brexit to get done. Under the proposals that youre about to take to brussels, there would be extra checks on the island of ireland. How and where . Yeah. Well, i mean, if the eu is going to insist on customs checks as we come out, as it is, then we will have to accept that reality. And there will have to be a system fo