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a decisive victory for billionaires ashton have a signal sent to the right. or shall carry this is al jazeera life also coming up a boost for india's prime minister is this ruling party looks set to hold on to his home state of despite a strong challenge from the opposition. the worldwide protests over the white house recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel most of the united nations plus. two point five billion people across the world don't have a bank accounts many of them live right here in africa by now that's how a small city police company is using not banks but in old traditional saving methods to try to bridge this gap. in the latest latin american country to shift to the political right. electing

conservative billionaire sebastian pinera as president and yet easily overcame his center left opponent in the runoff vote it's the second time he's been elected to the country's highest office or latin america. chile's billionaire president elect to got what he wanted another crack at the presidency for the second time in twenty seven years chile has swung from the center left to the center right both times the civil stamping it after the markets favorite the former president a successful businessman promises better times ahead as he extends an olive branch to the uk if he does i want to renew our commitment to old chileans a commitment to unity and dialogue and so i invite all of our previous presidents to share their experience and advise with me so that we can reach national agreements to tackle our biggest problems. at the headquarters of center left candidate. there were long faces i had run on the promise of accelerating the

social reforms started by the current government of president michelle bachelet but the former journalists inexperience and chilly sluggish economic growth ultimately gave the conservatives the upper hand been it has been linked to several shady business deals and political scandals but clearly it did not matter i think the general issues that politicians are now saying discredited that people just assume that they are liars will be so whatever and then choose between the lesser of two evils chileans have made their decision joining the recent latin american swing towards the political right now but it is going to get out would not have an easy time of it not only because the electorate has proven itself to be more demanding but also because you will not enjoy a majority in the legislature. which means i will have a hard time rolling back on still popular social reforms as is happening in brazil and neighboring argentina. verman is going to be more of an administrative go is

going to be going to be very similar to what we saw in his first term in power it's going to be more short term or year that is going to be related to jobs but this time round of us stamping it out will have to be less accommodating to the business elite the election has shown that chileans have become far more demanding and are expecting results no matter how hard they may be to deliver. the sea and human i just see done something. that is ruling to retain a prime minister narendra modi's home state of gujarat overcoming a challenge from the main opposition party early hiccups that he surged ahead in the election which was seen as a staged battle for prime minister narendra modi he's been the chief minister of iraq for three terms and the party has ruled state for twenty two years paul in this live in largest city. so what are the expectations ahead of the results.

well the expectation seems to be that the ruling party will retain its seat in government. not the atmosphere has changed quite a bit over the past couple of hours just last couple of hours ago the two parties seem neck and neck now this it stage is clearly divided along political lines there t.j. people are your team congress and the long ago it's. how to chance to overtake the b j p and form a new government now that is falling by the wayside and as you can see behind me a lot of b j p supporters have gathered outside of this vote counting station to receive the ministers they say have one in their constituency so it's very much a possibility of the direction so the rest of the country is playing paying rather very close attention to this election why.

oh one of the main reasons is what you mentioned before was that the french prime minister narendra modi had personally invested in south in this campaign to come here for campaigning he flew down to cast his vote and very much made it about himself so the country was closely watching to see whether his state his former state which he was chief minister for thirteen years till has confidence in him and they're also watching to see whether wrong now the new congress leader could lead his party to a major election win but now what everyone's looking for is to see how much congress could have made strides in these elections one more seat good role going to have led a campaign that could be seen as successful the whole country has been watching this mainly because this is said to set it's said to set the stage for the twenty nine thousand national elections which bits is between the two parties against each other to be to haul in live for us and to be a thank you as

a breaking news to bring you out of afghanistan right now an attack is under way at a military training center and kabul parent what's happened as a gunman stormed a partially constructed building near an intelligence training center in the west of the city a government spokesman says the attackers are battling afghan security forces and reinforcements have been dispatched we will follow that for you and security council will vote later on monday on a draft resolution regarding the status of jerusalem a policy u.s. decision to recognize true islam as israel's capital the move to spark almost two weeks of protests around the world there is more anger across the palestinian territory overnight with protesters burning effigies of u.s. president donald trump and israel's benjamin netanyahu the move has been widely condemned because of this palestinian territory that's being illegally occupied by israel. more countries around the world have joined the rallies to show their support for the palestinian people and again

a mccourt's from protests in the turkish capital ankara. the turks have always been passionate about the palestinian cause despite the chill protesters spent three hours listening to music and speeches they waved turkish and palestinian flags and a fair amount of anti-american signs reading all of this is i'm going to take is a majority muslim country that acts unified and to get should lead in the muslim world if muslims are united i'm hopeful that your ricin and problem will be solved it. since u.s. president donald trump broke with decades of american policy and recognized jerusalem as the capital of israel the turkish street has been vocal and president read. and has emerged as a potent advocate for palestinians he's pushing for leaders to take their condemnation and transform it into action. murder one is taking his case to the heart and security council where he says he hopes to quote an old transit

decision and it's unlikely he'll get much traction given that the united states holds a veto power but he says barring success there he'll move on to the u.n. general assembly it's clear turkey plans on going to new and to persist and highlighting this issue to the whole of the deodorant old age. i am actually very glad of the trumpets a ruthless decision as it serves to unite the muslim world and get them into action . in the most populous muslim country an estimated eighty thousand indonesians marched to the american embassy in jakarta muslim clerics are calling for a boycott of american and israeli products until truck reverses his decision saying that he's not going to happen i want all muslims to unite and to the president of america to reconsider his decision for the good of all of humanity. that's unlikely considering the trump says this is

a recognition of reality and it's in the best interests of the u.s. in the israeli palestinian peace process but protesters don't see it that way in karachi thousands showed up for what was called the holy city million march almost two weeks after trump's announcement people continue to show their solidarity for palestinians and in doing so i've also revived global attention to their plight natasha going to. egypt to circulating a draft resolution calling for the u.s. recognition of islam to be withdrawn it states that any decisions and actions which purport to have altered the character status or demographic composition of the holy city of jerusalem have no legal effect or no and void and must be rescinded and compliance with relevant resolutions of the security council i can a has the details from new york. the draft resolution being circulated in the united nations

has been drawn up by egypt with input from other parties it would appear now the resolution may change in form or shape before it's actually voted upon probably in the scumming day however the resolution as it stands at the moment does not mention the us by name i understand that various parties such as the united kingdom and indeed egypt wanted to try and keep the language as neutral as possible in an attempt possibly vain to keep the u.s. from exercising its veto within the security council the resolution as it stands at the moment is actually a restatement of the un's position on jerusalem as outlined through decades of security council and general assemblies a resolution the most recent being in november this year in which the general assembly voted overwhelmingly to declare any unilateral acts in jerusalem as null and void that phrase null and void is contained in the current draft resolution the

draft resolution calls on all states to refrain from establishing diplomatic missions within jerusalem i understand the palestinians somewhat angered they didn't want to single out the u.s. by name however it appears from this draft resolution that egypt and the u.k. have had their way too in attempt to avoid the u.s. veto however it would appear that that vetoes likely to happen with israel's enthusiastic backing which describes the resolution as a palestinian attempt to reinvent history despite the fact that it is rooted on u.n. resolutions as they stand at present but palestinians making very clear that should the u.s. veto this resolution in the security council they will attend to have it reintroduced in the general assembly where there's nobody to at play. still ahead on al jazeera and al shaab players to lay out his vision for america's national security. and

life and limb there we meet the refugees trying to scrape together a living in libya. welcome back as we look at the weather across europe it remains pretty cold in many areas you can see this circulation of low pressure giving some heavy snowfall across ukraine and into western parts of russia further south because of the leaf flows attempt it's not too bad for athens but we've got more snow over the alpine region and as we move on through into to say still snow sign of it warming up across germany or poland those are my some time which of course and they've also got snow pushing down in towards the balkans but the weather really i suppose across the iberian peninsula we've got high pressure sitting over the top of the

region for the north temperatures nothing special for london and paris at eight and seven degrees respectively on the other side of the mediterranean sea it's quite a bit of cloud around and it's not particularly warm algiers cina struck in that temperature thirteen further towards the east we've got quite a bit of cloud but it should it jerry stay dry here but temperatures struggling for tripoli and benghazi but it should turn to be quite a decent day in caro with a maximum of twenty five degrees celsius as we head down into central parts of africa we have showers for the bond once again the congo and towards angola but generally cross much the region is looking dry and fine we should see plenty of sunshine in both lagos nigeria and ghana where we're expecting a high of thirty. you're

watching al jazeera and these are the top stories this hour chile has elected conservative billionaire sebastian pinera as its president kenyatta defeated his center left opponent and a runoff vote shifting the country towards the right it's the second time he's been elected to the country's highest office and security council will vote later on

monday on a draft resolution regarding the status of jerusalem and follows the u.s. decision to recognize for islam is israel's capital it was anger across the palestinian territory overnight with protesters burning effigies the u.s. president donald trump and israel's benjamin netanyahu. and his ruling p j p has overcome a challenge from the main opposition party to retain prime minister the interim ots home state of gujarat but the main opposition party has made some gains in a state under b.j. he control of twenty two years. because sometime monday afternoon who south africa's ruling party has chosen as its new leader the new head of the african national congress will lead the group into the two thousand and nineteen general elections currently deputy president silver i'm opposed to and president jacob zuma ex-wife encloses on insulin for many zuma were formally nominated as candidates on sunday the battle for the top job has exposed deep divisions within the ruling party president jacob zuma who was head of the party for ten years as stepping down

the a.n.c. says four thousand seven hundred seventy six delegates voted in the secret ballot starting at midnight sunday night in the past a vote buying and intimidation reportedly swayed leadership contest many say that after years of zoom is rules soaring unemployment and corruption have left millions of poor black south africans frustrated but the a.n.c. deputy president cyril ramaphosa who's a wealthy businessman is backed by the business community which believes he offers the best hope for the economy and see veteran and coaches on a lot. many zuma who is exwife the president as expected to deliver a continuation of his policy should she when she is also seen as more likely to protect zuma from the seven hundred eighty three corruption and fraud charges against a. new page as more from johannesburg. all of the nominations for the top six positions in the african national congress have now been confirmed and as expected it is down to

a two horse race between courses and i'd like meaning zuma who is the outgoing president jacob zuma as preferred candidate and would be the first woman president of the a.n.c. if she succeeds pitted against jacob zuma as defeating president so will. they had been expected to be one vote to elect the top six and the other members of the national executive committee but they have decided to split the vote into there have been long delays firstly because of legal action and see members who weren't happy with the processes at the grassroots level taking meds challenges into the country's courts and secondly here at the a.n.c. elected conference they need to check all the credentials of all the delegates to decide who is and isn't allowed to vote and that's led to the expulsion the disqualification of four hundred delegates delegates who are believed to have been in favor of let me assume the so that may cost or if the race becomes really close

in those final numbers are really tight the whole contest for the presidency is being framed as pitting a faction of reform is. against affection of patronage led by lebanese zuma is perceived to be a continuation of outgoing president jacob zuma style of leadership governance and politics who wins this hotly contested race for the presidency will have an enormous challenge to try and unite a deeply divided and see. thousands of. migrants and refugees across north africa on the way to europe are hoping to improve their lives but many of the abused exploited and even enslaved in libya as they wait to make the dangerous mediterranean crossing. but some of them to they're trying to make to make a living in the capital tripoli. other man and his feeling uneasy dns work hard to earn their living in this war shop in the libyan capital. he's left

his family in the southern city of sirte. because he does not need enough money to bring them to live in tripoli i know one of my just thought. i got this job through a friend before that i used to work in a farm in the south of libya it didn't help me so i came to tripoli to work in this car wash shop here i make around three hundred sixty five dollars a week it depends on the number of cars he washed week they say working here is better than being in and the long journey north cross the border into southern libya as the value of the libyan dinar has fallen these migrants face three choices to stay in libya and deal with financial insecurity or go back home and face uncertainty and the third the choice is to risk their lives and try to reach europe

by being smuggled in boats across the mediterranean sea. thousands of migrant workers out of victims of exploitation extortion and discrimination some of them having to go through as it in c. documents so they accept any kind of work including farming and construction. is a deep minister he's doing his best to protect workers' rights. those casual workers are under just china so they don't have proper paperwork and therefore they work outside of honestly asians they represent a small percentage and that's attrition is not in their favor but in all cases the offices are open for them if they really need help with instability and power vacuum in libya illegal immigration has become a grueling trade both man in his film europeans are resigned to working in the black economy and they have no intention of going home.

tripoli yes president says he has no plans to fire special counsel robert miller despite his administration's recent attacks on the credibility of the investigation and to suspected russian meddling in last year's election a lawyer in trump's white house transition team earlier accuse him of unlawfully attaining thousands of e-mails related to the investigation a spokesman for miller said the e-mails were obtained with the account under skin sent or through the appropriate criminal process. now being good now be good. white said to see that people were very upset about it. i can't imagine is anything going to frankly because as we know. no good whatsoever but. a lot of lawyers thought that was. pretty fair. bill schneider is a professor of public policy at george mason university he explain why the truck team

is targeting meller. they're afraid of what he might come up with that he actually might make charges conceivably criminal charges against the president for obstruction of justice no one knows no one knows where this investigation is going but they're trying to discredit him in order to preempt whatever he comes up with you got to remember the robert mueller is a special counsel he's not an independent counsel as a special counsel he can be fired by the president the president requested that the justice department appoint a special counsel and he really does serve at the pleasure of the president but if trump or to do that if he were to dismiss robert mueller which he can do legally there would be a political firestorm unbelievable in the united states. on tuesday the u.s. president of state when valle his national security strategy is expected to take aim at america's geo political violence and identifying horton global challenges tom ackerman has more from washington d.c. thank you very much for the you know from the outset donald trump is focused on

undoing or redirecting his predecessor's priorities on the world stage but his rhetoric hasn't yet been matched by measurable change generally he's followed the same policy and he may have wanted to radically change our policy toward russia but he's been unable to do that. in his national security message mandated by congress is expected to brand both russia and china as quote revisionist powers who america must recognize as adversaries despite drums and willingness to say a bad word about vladimir putin i feel that having russia in a friendly posture as opposed to always fighting with them is an asset to the world he's grudgingly approved added sanctions against russia which obama launched to retaliate for the reported cyber intrusions into the american electoral process since taking office trump has softened his campaign language about china which he

did cues to economically abusing the u.s. we can't continue to allow china to rape our country. the president has escalated his verbal bluster and shows of military muscle in response to north korea's mounting nuclear threats. but a clear course of action has been muddied by friction between the white house and secretary of state rex tillerson a few days after he suggested talking to the pyongyang government quote without preconditions tillerson fell back in line with the administration's tougher tone our communication channels remain open north korea knows they're open. they know where the door is they know where to walk through that door when they want to talk . after claiming much of the credit for ousting eisel from its strongholds white house national security advisor ajor mcmaster promised the us would prevent a fractured iraq from turning into an iranian client state we are committed to work

to work together with courage leadership iraqi leadership mediate as best we can and to also limit the destabilizing influence of of others in the region but the administration has deferred action on its threat to abandon the iran nuclear deal at the risk of isolation from america's western partners to the agreement. yet trump has reversed course on one of obama's prime machinable security concerns climate change this despite the pentagon's judgment that over time global warming will destabilize more governments and societies with unforeseen consequences tom ackerman al-jazeera washington power at the world's busiest airport has been restored after a ten hour blackout ports the cancellation of more than a thousand flights the outage hit atlanta's hartsfield jackson airport early on sunday afternoon stranding thousands of passengers it's believed it was caused by fire which jam mentioned underground electrical facility that airport handles about

twenty five hundred flights and two hundred seventy five thousand passengers a day. strong winds are feeling a wildfire in the u.s. state of california at the so-called thomas fire is now the third largest in the state's history it's burned through an area roughly the size of new york city and destroyed thousands of buildings by fighters say forty percent of it has been contained. earlier this week i referred to this fire is a beast and it's a monster. we all recognize that but we will kill it the team behind me the men and women on the field i have no doubt they will take care of business and we will put this fire out. more than to point five billion people worldwide don't have a bank account i mean they have no access to services like loans and insurance a small start up and senegal is hoping to change that by combining angel saving practices with the new technology. force in dakar. they get together every

month harder and money on hand for two runs a fruit stall sells chickens clothes they're all working women and yet none of them have a bank account and banks one gatton ts people trade they make it difficult for women we don't have millions just a five hundred thousand there are ten thousand central african francs max financial institutions see the poor as unreliable prone to debt and unlikely to pay back loans for traditional banks taking on low income earning customers is costly and not worth the risk two point five billion people across the world have no bank account in africa more than a half of the continent's population are financially excluded this is especially the case in the francophone region where eighty five percent of the population have no access to banks. the economy is booming people continue to trade and save but

without bank accounts they put their monthly savings into a communal pot. each month one of them gets to take home the sum total made this cycle continues until everybody has had to turn to get the one thousand dollars saved together. they call this eighteen it's a widespread saving practice used across the continent for centuries. tontines gives me time to think and plan ahead if i kept the money in my pocket i would have spent it without thinking and never saved this much this nigerian entrepreneur believes providing services to poor women saving as a group is not a risk but a safe bet you do tontines with your friends your family your mom sister brother or uncle so there's a really really low we're to ration for you not for you to default or not right and that's why twenty one because every developing country does that a form of accounting have default rates of one to propose and so bernie and his

sister created an online platform it brings don't teens and financial institutions together providing services traditional banks refuse to offer to poor women depending on their repayment rate each gets a score like a credit rating the higher the score the more services they are offered i didn't say i'm human if there's an emergency someone dies we don't feel the costs and the more we have insurance we have health care things we never thought we could get. after your model team has just five hundred customers it's still not profitable getting banks to invest in african startups is difficult too but with so many without a bank account and getting told teens bernie believes there's an untapped potential in the region. for these women don't teens are time to come together save share their body and celebrate things you just can't do easily in a bed. because hawk the car.

your headlines now on al-jazeera has elected conservative billionaire sebastian pinera as its president but never defeated his center left opponent in a runoff vote and that shifts the country towards the right it's the second time he's been elected to the country's highest office. in the me so you know second by doing i want to renew my commitment to old chileans a commitment to unity and and so i invite all of our previous presidents to share their experience and advise with me so that we can reach national agreements to tackle the biggest problems that affect chileans. that's underway in a military training center in afghanistan's capital kabul gunmen stormed a partially construction building near an intelligence training center in the west of the city government spokesman says the attackers were battling security forces and reinforcements have been dispatched and security council will vote later on monday on a draft resolution regarding the status of troops on the u.s.

decision to recognize true islam as israel's capital or are cross the palestinian territory overnight with protesters burning effigies of president donald trump and israel's leader and netanyahu. it is really a party has overcome a challenge from the main opposition to retain prime minister narendra modi's home state of iraq but the opposition did make some gains in the state and their b.g. control for twenty two years. the secretary general of the organization of american states is calling for a new presidential election in honduras to ensure stability defeated opposition candidate salvadoran a swallow claims the vote was fraudulent president want to land a hernandez was declared the winner three weeks after the election. for new calls for street protests. power at the world's busiest airport has been restored after a ten hour blackout forced the cancellation of more than one thousand flights this happened at atlanta's hartsfield jackson airport early on sunday afternoon

thousands of passengers were stranded it's believed that this was caused by a fire which damaged an underground electrical facility that airport handles about twenty five hundred flights and two hundred seventy five thousand passengers a day those are the headlines news continues here on al-jazeera her inside story keep it or. facing reality is a piece of machinery goes rule is there a chance over these two creation true which we can bring the legal system to bear getting to the heart of the matter i don't see that we needed the war but some of mogadishu says did hear their story on talk to how does iraq at this time. spain's prime minister calls for a return to normality in trouble as the region prepares to yet again to vote but after the council on the dream of an independent was ordered by government leaders in the dreaded what is.