in cullen tone it warned demonstrators they were breaking the law and could be prosecuted saddam's new prime minister. and the leader of its sovereign council are in saudi arabia general abdul fatah met officials in riyadh and after the meeting the saudi foreign ministry said it was working on removing sudan from the u.s. list of state sponsors of terrorism in the news ahead. i just too long to baby. why some women the desire to become mothers is causing an uproar in france. and walking a fine line or an increasing number of russians are now living in poverty.

hell are in eastern iraq and afghanistan there is still cloud has produced significant maybe active seas and rain that is the big of course most of iran is dry but there are clouds showing of the levant of parts of egypt for example sana and oversee over turkey the season afterward is slowly changing but the changes are great yet except in turkey the temperatures slowly dropping down in for example i wouldn't they resent the 28th of baghdad still at 41 terence going up to 30 so the warm sun prevails there is no particularly strong breeze anyway humidity still fairly high around the gulf states this green here is telling we've had some good sun storms recently in the usa a particularly among the high ground and just across the side of the strait in southern iraq they are easily repeatable during sunday and monday but probably disappear after that otherwise little changes the potential of showers in yemen disappears they have the feast going away if it hasn't already left. active weather

in the change of season in south africa of course showers in angola possibly b.b. that kind amounts to very little i think of a good part about swapna or south africa it is quite windy around the cape tickly eastern cape was more rain to come. right.

top stories for you on al-jazeera this hour and a 2nd whistleblower in the impeachment inquiry against president don't trump has not come forward and they could still be more persons lawyer says his client has spoken to the inspector general of the intelligence community iraq's government denied any of its security forces fired directly at protesters during the 6 day long rest however it also confirmed at least on the 4 people have been killed and more than 6000 injured. when the polls have closed in tunisia in the 2nd parliamentary election there since the revolution 8 years ago sunday's vote is seen as a test of the established parties been accused of failing to solve the economic crisis . sure lanka's president decided not to run in an upcoming election policy to send

a spark to a constitutional crisis last year when he sacked and replaced the prime minister the decision was then overturned by the supreme court he also faced criticism over the government's handling of an intelligence report warning of the attacks that happened of easter the next presidential election is due november 16th his nobel for nando's with more from columbia. a record 41 candidates posting cash bones for the election head of handing in nominations on monday but the president might be policy received not being among that group now when he believes he's pretty sesar that's former president mahinda rajapaksa it was a complete we've where he sort of swept that election saying that he was only in for one term to bring change however his tenure has been fraught with disappointment for sri lankan voters and despite in recent months trying

desperately to mount a real action bid to try and garner support for that relax in bed president citizen there has been forced to admit that he's not going to make it the sort of reasons for public discontent with the city say the rule has continued just here in april we did see those tragic sort of easter bombings the fact that it was sort of a tragedy of huge number of errors that led to that spate of bomb attacks claiming so many lives was not something that people are willing to forget so this is present in the sinner's way obviously of realizing and meeting that he's not me going to make it so he's just going to stop with that 1st presidential bid. there have been protests in the french capital against a change in the law which will allow single and gay women to get fertility treatment final parliamentary approval is needed to end the restriction on in-vitro

fertilisation treatment i.v.'s which is currently only for women in a heterosexual relationship and reports from paris the demonstration in paris began outside the french senate protesters want senators to change a proposed law the would allow access to i.d.f. a single and gay women not just those in a heterosexual couple they say the french government's new bioethics bill would deprive children of a father and destroy the moral fabric of french society and some worry could be expanded to legalise sarkozy and one of the law doesn't take into account all the right of the child or it future it only accounts for a woman's desire to have a child. it's important to defend the family unit a murderer and a father for the balance of french society and for children's welfare the march was peaceful but police officers broke up a small council protest the controversial bill has divided opinion and september

french m.p.'s approved it but only after a fiery debate or is it reported how dare you decide to inscribe into law that a child be deprived of the father this shocks me yes i'm emotional you are playing with fire these protesters opening up access to the women this was a very serious crisis recent world to call like many of these people in the streets 6 years ago to protest against gay marriage but for supporters of the proposed no they say it would be a victory for women's rights when she reached her mid thirty's benedict wanted to become a mother as a single woman she was unable to access i.v.'s in france so she traveled to denmark and portugal with a treatment is legally available to all women i fell out low in my own country. because i just wanted a baby. that right was ok all the european countries but nothing france

benedick son is now 14 months old he doesn't have a father 1st say or that mother though and though the fact that he was wanted if the bio ethics bill becomes law it will fulfill one of french president emanuel marc ross campaign promises and create hope for single and gay women who dream of becoming a parent but these protesters say they won't give up their battle to protect traditional family values and stop the legislation for being passed to tasha butler al-jazeera paris. to russia now where it really is a struggle to make ends meet for many people average incomes of fall of the past 5 years and half the population which means around 70000000 people earn less than 500 $50.00 a month so to get by many families are taking out risky high cost loans but those that only makes things worse moscow has stepped past them with more. 4 weeks anastasio your diet has been receiving threatening phone calls that collectors are

telling her they will hurt her child or family if she doesn't pay back her loans she lives in a town 2 hours drive from moscow and the salaries there are so low that she can't afford the rent she was offered loans despite being a single mother without a steady job but with high interest rates she's been able to pay them back what was jarring i'm disappointed in myself but it's true that these loans are available to everyone and it's very bad there are a lot of sad stories i think i managed to do with this emotionally because i have a child and need to fight for his sake but i heard very tragic stories of people who commit suicide heard a lot of these stories thousands of credit companies have opened up in recent years with many offering so-called fast cash on line a recent survey shows that 39 percent of russians believe they only paid about half what they deserve for the work they perform to help people to get better jobs

moscow has started a pilot project that offers advice training and psychological support to 250000 people who have fallen below the government standard of living. the 1st thing we do is to clarify their situation what has happened to them and that their income is lower than the living standard what is their psychological condition their qualification level and if it corresponds with the job market do they have a motivation and what their needs are but since it opened 3 months ago 22000 people have visited the center most are women staff here say men are less inclined to look for help because they feel poverty as a taboo that it may put in as promised to have the number of people living below the poverty line by the end of 1st term 5 years from now but some economists say this is unrealistic since the economy has to grow at least 3 times as fast as we able to achieve this and they say low oil prices and sanctions imposed on russia

are only part of the problem and structural changes are needed. put in has criticised his government for working too slowly on a national project aimed to increase state spending but even if they are implemented efficiently some economists don't believe they will fix russia's economy problems. what's happening isn't reasonable distribution of the revenue mistakes in the budget planning i think until the paradigm changes the political paradigm and the political paradigm on the top of the poverty will remain at the current level we know that despite all the new national projects the state statistics agency had to report at the level of poverty hasn't decreased but even increase this year when i must see i couldn't see a way of clearing thousands of dollars of debt she decided to look for help on the internet her emotional letter is typical of many that now can be found on russian websites the advice she got is to file for bankruptcy but even if she did that she

still needed shop that space for a whole one bedroom flat step fastened al-jazeera stooping low russia. the polls are closed in kosovo parliamentary elect. political leaders were among the nearly 2000000 people eligible to vote campaigning dominated by issues of corruption and resolving tensions with the country's former foes serbia the election was called after prime minister hard to nudge resigned in july the war crimes allegations it's subsided with us now from pristina so the polls closed probably about half an hour ago i think how did the day of voting go well according to the central. commission everything was ok it was some minor incidents. election places 20 people was arrested mainly for taking photographs of the voting ballots or for making propaganda for voting on the

election places but according to officials everything is ok and the turnout of the waters is bigger then 2 years ago on the parliamentary elections especially in some regions of the nor devour the main population is service and here in the capital of . the like 4 or 5 percent bigger than 2 years ago so according to our analysts the biggest turnout would go in the favor of the opposition parties we have some exit polls. published just a few minutes ago but here in kosovo they're not so. we can say they're not sort of president that is so we will must wait for the 1st official results it will be around 11 local time ok what is it. that makes this election so important for conservation.

well kosovo is practically blocked almost one year ago because the government of the name posed the 100 percent taxes on all products coming from serbia to kosovo and after that serbia stopped all the talks and all the negotiations about future relations between serbia and kosovo united states european union they were asking mr to stop the politics of 100 percent taxes but he was not willing to do so and actually now the biggest question in this election is was that still a. slogan on this elections 100 percent taxes and recognize course away as the independent state opposition parties are saying ok let's move that 100 percent taxes but let's go over the full reciprocity with the sort of whatever city are due to kosovo we will do it to serbia because it is now 11 years the scene

kosovo was declared the independence but they are still not a member of the united nations their road towards a european union or nato is practically blocked and the opposition parties are saying it's time to make some steps we must go for. your subside a church from 100 series balkan china thank you so much for joining us appreciate it several 1000 african migrants stuck in limbo in southern mexico they want to get to the united states but mexican border guard stops them following u.s. pressure to stem the flow of arrivals home and with the support from chap us. oh they're protesting because they're stuck african migrants who've made the dangerous journey over thousands of kilometers up through latin america in the hope of reaching the u.s. but instead they've ended up here in tapachula south mexico. mexican government

wary of incurring the wrath of american president donald trump won't let them cross the country to get to the u.s. buddha is only prepared to let them leave by the sound mandala. looks of the last full months around a 1000 people have come through on the gates of the top or to live migrant the tension center in limbo made out of going to church them not even knocked out look at the conditions here it rains every day camped amidst the water the authorities haven't told us anything we're being dehumanised. this both to next being caused by a change of policy in mexico before they give asian and african migrants permission to cross the country and leave by which have a border they could including the u.s. one. with the pressure from the states that's ended and with the hopes of those like 17 year old russo but not his real name he was almost there like many he came in through brazil with visa requirements and looser amid the lawless jungle between

colombia and panama he lost his father told that in a month and that's how we're coming down the steps and the steps that they had to the wall. and when for the evil that's the way it's looking all of the old school still is on the current and he's frightened to show his identity he says that as a leader he's under watch. i know the authorities have tolerate the presence of the camp that have been occasional brushes. kerry was trying. to somebody was behind it of course she was right having to work to save it. if the was. offering them the chance of asylum but the process is long and on certain topics the queue for applicants goes around the block most here anyway say that's not what

they want. they feel if they can just hold out they'll eventually get through given the current position of both mexico and the u.s. but seems very unlikely. john heilemann how does the top 2 know. funny tens of thousands of spectators have headed to the u.s. state of new mexico for one of the largest festivals dedicated to the sport of ballooning the skies above albuquerque filled with hundreds of multicolored hot air balloons 2nd day of what is called the international balloon fiesta. time to take you through the headlines on al-jazeera and a 2nd whistleblower has come forward in the impeachment inquiry against u.s. president donald trump a lawyer who's now representing both people says his client has spoken to the head of the intelligence communities internal watchdog according to the lawyer the new

whistleblower has firsthand knowledge of some of the allegations made in the original complaint. iraq's government denied any of its security forces fired directly at protesters during 6 days of unrest. however it's also confirmed at least $104.00 people have been killed and more than $6000.00 injured protesters are demanding jobs better public services and an end to corruption the government interior minister also seemed to imply a 3rd party was responsible for killing both protesters and security forces but clearly limited everyone knows there were no armed battles clashes or confrontations between the security forces and the protesters but there were wicked and he knows hands that targeted the victims on both sides when we went and checked the bodies of the martyrs the injuries were in the head or the heart it is clear that the shooting did not take place from a close distance or from the area where the security forces were present a serious investigation is ongoing to find out who is behind such

a wicked and he mis operation the polls have closed in tunis here in the 2nd parliamentary election there since the revolution 8 years ago sunday's vote is seen as a test of the established parties accused by many of failing to solve the economic crisis police in hong kong are fired tear gas and arrested protesters defying a ban on wearing masks opposition activists lost their legal bid to overturn the ban in court the city's leader invoked a 50 year old colonial era law to impose the face covering ban on saturday kerry says it's needed to help stop 4 months of unrest. new prime minister. the leader of the sovereign council are in saudi arabia general abdul fatah. officials in riyadh and shortly after the saudi foreign ministry said it was working on removing sudan from the u.s. list of state sponsors of terror news hour and 25 minutes that'll be right after

inside story. protesters in iraq are demanding the prime minister step down they also want a complete overhaul of the political system the government's responded by announcing a list of reforms but will it be enough this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program today with me peace adult iraqi protesters have lost their patients with what they say is decades of corruption and

a lack of services they're demanding that the prime minister. resign and the whole political system should be over hold maki says there is quote no magic solution and any progress will take time the government's an unstable list of reforms to address some of the grievances who have been more protests and attacked the headquarters of political parties and t.v. stations in baghdad on saturday the police responded by using live rounds and tear gas at least 100 people have been killed in 5 days of protests parliament had planned to hold an emergency session on saturday but it never happened however the speaker of the parliament did make some promises. loans will be given in the form of credits bank credits for the purposes of establishing factories and providing of course this will enable us to steer away from any corruption so there will be no cash loans and instead credit will be given for the establishment of factories. well the top u.n.

official in iraq has called for an end to the violence janine and he's tweeted saying deeply saddened by the senseless loss of life 5 days of reported deaths and injuries this must stop i call on all parties to pause and reflect those responsible for violence should be held to account but the spirit of unity prevail across iraq will get to our guests in just a moment of firsts al jazeera imran khan has the latest for us from baghdad prime minister mahdi is facing the biggest crisis his year old government has faced yet a lot of the opposition political parties a lot of the religious parties including influential figures like assam. the most influential one of the most influential shia clerics. souther and from the former prime minister high the other body saying that elections need to be held and they also boycotted a emergency session of parliament that was supposed to take place on sunday

actually didn't happen so a lot of these politicians are looking at this protest movement they're seeing it get larger and larger and more popular and they decided they're going to try and put themselves with the protesters show support for the protesters in a bid to win support for any elections that may will come nowhere nowhere near elections right now the parliament hasn't been dissolved the government hasn't been dissolved but that's certainly the talk on the streets and in the corridors of power in baghdad is what happens next. now although this is a political crisis the only streets the protests are still getting larger and larger in syria and this is interesting enough serie a in the south protesters not only attacked government buildings but they attacked political party headquarters after they did that they started chanting now syria is free from political parties that goes to show you how much anger there is not just at the government but at the politicians of all stripes what the protesters seem to

be saying is that it's not just about this government it's not just about previous government there's a structural problem here there's a problem of corruption which goes back a decade that led to this lack of development that hasn't meant that they've been able to get jobs so it doesn't matter really if there are new elections if the same people in the same rules are put back in place say the protesters what the protesters are looking for is a real change in the structure of governance in iraq they want something anything that will allow corruption to stop without money to be spent in iraq now that's a big big challenge for the government and for the opposition parties now the opposition parties as i say and religious parties are throwing their support behind the protest movement what difference that makes to the protest movement remains to be seen and actually i have to say would be anger from the protesters in the south and central parts of iraq i'm not entirely sure lots of political observers and

analysts i've spoken to say you know entirely sure what the protesters will accept that support from those politicians and from those religious parties this is a wrong inside story. ok there we are here we go let's introduce our panel here today on inside story joining us from the northern iraqi city of erbil is the lawyer al dean president of the middle east research institute in london we have a man saw director of the iraq initiative at chatham house and joining us here in doha is a dune konami middle east analyst and a contributor at open democracy welcome to you all. in erbil who can stop the violence in iraq. well the the violence will eventually have to stop but may not be immediately people are waiting for the government to really deliver on certain things and there are different political parties and forces that have got there are

involved in entangled in this and they would wait to see what happens next this violence was not a product of. one day spontaneous spark that may cascade this has been happening growing because of the weakness in the government institutions because of the political dynamics and secure dynamics that have been changing inside the house of shia in the south as well as in baghdad itself there's a power rivalry in baghdad there are regional powers that are involved so basically this as it's getting worse and getting more complicated is it becoming more difficult to calm down and stop and this is visible in the panic situation that is reflected in the speaker of the parliament statements in the reaction of the prime minister as well as the rest of the governments to shows that are now reacting to events by promising more than they can deliver promising the

same thing as before but this time committing more money and more budget that they can afford so the quagmire is getting deeper the dialogue between the government and or the parliament and the demonstrators is actually not necessarily dialogue with all the components of the demonstrators so essentially the violence or the demonstrations to begin with may not necessarily disappear overnight without really this dragging on until something happens because the demonstrators are not only asking for more promises which they do not believe it will be delivered they have lost faith in the system they want this political elite to change they want maybe new elections they want a lot more than this government or parliament can deliver man saw in london has this whole situation been exacerbated because the authorities haven't it would appear to me been able to work out a response. yeah i mean very clearly this is not the 1st time that you've had

protests in both or elsewhere in the country protests have been a reality of the daily lives of iraqis throughout the country for many years but what we've been increasingly beginning to see is a more violent response to protests beginning in buswell last september 28th and then now in but the other areas what these protests are still our mentions they're fundamentally iraqis giving up on that political system the political system that since 2003 has failed to represent most iraqis and it's been a political system of elite bargains where the elite benefit so what's important to know of these protests is the weakness of the state the weakness of this government in particular one year after its formation has shown that there is basically an inability to either meet the demands of the protesters or be able to handle protests and so violence becomes the only option that many of these elites perhaps

are seeing as a way to quell these protests and to be honest it worked last year and bus after 2 days of killing certainly some protesters that squash the protests that equation has been used again this year and but that than elsewhere the question is to what extent and how much violence the government could use to try and bring down these protests because you know to see cosmetic changes because when it reforms aren't enough 16 years on so you do in here in doha is that the issue for the prime minister and is that creating a space in which other people might move in as much as people protesters on the streets to pick up on the points coming out of london protesters and streets in effect saying we are done with politicians we're done with the traditional system of course no help salute the teeth or the people in iraq are protesting against the downfall of for regime unemployment providing jobs and you jumps to the iraq use is not going to sell to secure an issue in iraq is not going to see. the security issues in iraq is not going to solve the infrastructure issue in iraq protesters

have been protesting against reforms for the past few years nothing has been happened and the promises happen throughout every single electoral campaign it happened throughout each governmental cabinet within each parliament nothing has happened even people who contributed and fought against isis within the war never got their salaries or compensations back after the war people are done and fed up by the empty promises they want to see change in iraq and they realize that change will only happen with the downfall of an of a regime that was installed by a foreign invader for foreign occupier and is currently controlled by a regional power players such as iran which is why the un to round segment is very loud and clear and those protests today do know is there another fight coming potentially down the political pipeline and it's the way that. is making demands offset against the way the speaker of the parliament is clearly positioning himself for something but we don't quite know what he's positioning himself for

but essentially the positioning of every political leader who have made statements so far has been to distance themselves from the government from corruption from the power politics and try to be seen to be siding with the demonstrators and their demands but actually every one of them has failed to do so because the people not only are more aware and they are being exposed to this for so too long they've been rejecting the entire system now the parliament itself. which consists of all the forces that we mention is now seen as the ugly face of the of politics because of a it's lack of focus lack of vision lack of ability to institutionalize to actually state build and it's also the reflecting the entangling in gauging in power politics in the in the negative dynamics that are spiraling with time now. very

early on decided to withdraw his members from the parliament only to be seen to be siding with people and ask for the resignation of the but the rest of the shia groups as well as some of the sunnies have actually sided with as well as kurds sided with i've been mighty and iran seems at least apparently at this stage doesn't want ideal of dramatic government to fall that doesn't mean this government will survive it doesn't mean that i've been mighty himself may not want to go or in a month or 2 maybe iran also wants change in the place as well as the house of shia but as things stand they see it as a high risk strategy to change government in response to these violence now there are other groups that try to make the most of the demonstrations like they'd they too did not get far and actually if anything they lost out in this game and the

others because they are not talking they are not united and they are not necessarily on the same page everyone is trying to disown the government and if anything behind the scene and to mine it but of course this government it's difficult to change of the prime minister doesn't resign the government itself is a composition of all these parties that supported it the what is also visible is that the government fell more and more into the security. void that was there ok they were not. you know in london if i may thank you for that were not meant so in london when it comes to the prime minister will this only be resolved if he decides to quit. again i think it's important sort of to note that it's this is not about one prime minister sure iraq is kind of you know this new government that was formed last year the 1st government after the victory over you know there's not an

extended territorial victory iraqis were like ok the time for reform is now what they've seen and what most iraqis perceive what they see in but that is a prime minister that has really no backbone is unable to stand up against the political parties that put him in power and the political parties that are profiting from governance and just to make a note these political parties are the same rulers since 2003 yes they include shii but they also include kurdish and sunni parties the system in iraq since 2003 has been one where the elite split the national pride and the street gets very little the people of iraq get very little from it this prime minister came in reform minded technocrat someone who was meant to kind of say ok i am from a you know i am not from a political party but one year on what we've seen with this prime minister is just a complete inability to stand up to those same political parties that want to profit from the system that's the thing isn't it but i mean iraq is always

a much more complex mosaic than you were talking about the invasion in 2003 than the invaders would like to admit it is so how does the government get control of the narrative if only because you've got so many different provincial demands it's not just we want the government gone there are provincial demands based on the south of the country the what they would call kurdistan if they haven't got close to independence and then there's that middle 3rd of the country the needs a completely different of course but the needs of the needs could be collective in a basic way the basis of the needs is health care education better opportunities to the youth less wars less sectarianism not as the collective demands of all of those regions would want to have the. the central the centralized government of the central government and by the dod that in give the basics to those regions if we were to look at the complex of the structure of the governmental structure in iraq then that regime as we're not mentioned as an ethnic sectarian driven regime that

serves the political interest in the personal interests of the political leaders of the 3 main communities in iraq and kurds and driven supported by the regional power players such as iran turkey and saudi arabia to push for their agendas and interests in iraq so i think we should focus on the basics of the issues in iraq which is water scarcity security and on employability sectarianism and then we could focus on the secondary issues such as how to improve it and develop better relationships or political institutional relationships between the region renard and saw in london is there a big chance here that these demonstrations will carry on and it will carry on being this terribly combustible situation if only because i mean despite closing down the internet pulling the plug of the internet or not doesn't really matter the protests have no clear leaders there's nobody running the demonstrations who in a year or 2 we might reconvene and talk about as being a potential politician. yes clearly these protests again aren't new they're part of

this continuous sort of sense of voice and grievance and disillusionment that iraqis have they don't believe the political process works for them they don't want to go out to vote they don't believe in ballot boxes because it's the same elite so they view protest as really the only way that they could have a voice however there are those who want to defend the system and those that would go through great lengths including violence and intimidation and as you say cutting internet to stop the protest which they view as an existential threat so while you know it's never good to predict what could happen in iraq i think very clearly you know the repression and the way that those who are protecting the system are keen to keep the protest down will move to a point where the protests made to some extent be sort of a quote or perhaps some sort of reform comes that quiets the protest but without systemic reform even

a change in leadership even new laws will not 1 stop and we have what we have been brought up yet which is corruption corruption and the power of the political parties and a new government can't reform scanned these plans that the leaders are bringing up with really tackle corruption because the irony of this whole thing is they're the ones who are corrupt and so what you're explaining is a group of people who are corrupt saying we will fight corruption and so as long as that is the case iraqis will continue to protest but it seems and again i don't want to make a prediction that the muddle through thesis will continue for at least the short term on that issue of corruption is it corruption i mean is that the explanation as to why the current crop of iraqi politicians choose not to or the cannot hold the won't listen to the people i mean could it be as simple as iraq hasn't had an arab spring type movement with the government and the military authorities have to react in a different way. well i think corruption is

a byproduct of this state that is so fragile increasing a fragile it's gone beyond the point of really arising of all repair it's hasn't failed but it is so fragile that it cannot come on its own sovereignty or be in charge of its own decision making process the iraqis no longer a sovereign country now this government and i want you to take you back to the argument. god love my this government is probably the best government we've had so far yet it is a compromise government he was a compromise candidate and he is the one that that is weakened by the fact that he doesn't command that faction or that strength or doesn't hold power or military power in the industry is now this government while being government supported by most is least able to cross barriers of progress he made a lot of pledges in his manifesto last year but then of course the barriers for the

delivery was so huge that he was unable despite all the will in the world all the support global support he was unable to deliver and what he delivered has been very slow otherwise he means well he wants to deliver and he has a support of money so that tells you the state institutions are so weakened iraq's state is so fragile and able to actually progress and build its institutions and enforce rule of law and control corruption ok you know all those problems one point . one here is how on that idea of and i want weakness or strength if you stage a crackdown on the people you kind of hemorrhage legitimacy surely that's true the world over and if you if you have if you legitimacy is haemorrhaging you are making yourself weaker so the clock's ticking absolutely the state institutions who are fragile since the beginning of the invasion in the state institutions are

controlled as mentioned by regional power players by interest groups that are funded and supported by external factors the state instead we should i stop you there is a certain bloggers that i was reading today in the run up to the program they were talking about other complete other countries exerting influence do you believe that to be true so i adhere to the outside players are manipulating the protestors oh no absolutely not that's their that's the common iranian accusation that they're giving to the protestors in iraq it's a very. some of the accusations saddam hussein's regime used to give anyone who stood up against his regime that they are manipulated by iran the biggest counter-argument to that and the response to that would be that most of the provinces that are protesting ascf looting but done that oppose this thing against the iranian dominance and the sectarian regime in iraq are shia majority cities ok . in london when they come to write the history books of iraq could what we're seeing at the moment just be a convulsion on the route to becoming a country that operates to say normally you've got an inconclusive election

a weak prime minister and you've got people demanding more of the political system . yeah not to be sensationalist but very clearly iraq is going through that this is a transformative moment and this moment will will really could lead to different ways in the history of iraq clearly you know this sort of past 1516 years of this government of sort of compromise with this elite that share with each other wealth hasn't worked iraqis want predictability they want stability and so you know it's reached a boiling point and to push back on this prime minister i think time will show that one of the biggest criticisms of this prime minister is his willingness to compromise to different political elites and that kind of equation where if you just bring a sunni ashi and a kurdish leader together have them sort of share and shake hands you solve iraq that's not the solution to iraq iraq needs to include the streets iraq needs to

include the people many of the leaders for since 2003 are no longer representative and so really what iraqis want is a government that can rebuild the state so this moment what it represents it could go either way very clearly that you will have different leaders try and become the defenders of the system and you'll have leaders emerge that perhaps will try and defend that system and that could move towards perhaps a more a folk authoritarian style of government to. me we're heading towards a gentleman so just one of the compositional dillo in about 30 seconds please what do you think happens next. well what happens next is that the government will have difficulty in convincing everybody things may come down but even also may escalate the security forces that are now defending the government there will be and they are mostly the paramilitary forces that are not state actors they are the more more

like the paramilitaries and they are now increasingly in charge they are the ones controlling the crowd they are the one that have been blamed for the bloodshed that this will not go away and this government will be having very tough time ahead to convince people to trust it so in a few weeks we may see big big changes whether that is this dissolution of the parliament or will it be a resignation of the prime minister or whether the there will be something else that may happen but this is not going to come down any time soon gentlemen thank you so much thank you to all our guests they were below dean read up on soar and they don't all konami here in doha and thank you to you too for your company you can see the program again anytime on the website al-jazeera dot com and for further discussion go to our facebook page that space but dot com forward slash a.j. inside story can also join the conversation on twitter our handle at a.j. inside story or tweet me i'll tweet about amount peter one for me peter dobby and everyone on the team here in qatar thanks for watching we'll see you soon.

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al-jazeera. swear every. this is al-jazeera. live from doha everyone i'm come all sons of maria this is the news hour for al-jazeera the 2nd whistleblower has come forward in this one that has 1st hand knowledge of donald trump's phone call with the ukrainian president. also in the news the iraqi government denies its forces. demonstrations during

protests that have left more than a 100 people dead. was the police in hong kong fired tear gas at demonstrators and arrested least 50 people who defied the ban on wearing masks. i'm barbara starr in london with the top stories from europe including thousands rally against the french government's plan to let single women and lesbians have babies. and i'm sorry it's mall at the world championship where there is 7 titles up for grabs on the final day and. it's another gold for can you tell if the chariot storms to victory and the 200 meter. so a 2nd whistle blowers come forward in the impeachment inquiry u.s. u.s.

president donald trump a lawyer who is now representing both people says his client has spoken to the head of the intelligence community's internal watchdog according to the lawyer the new whistleblower has 1st hand knowledge of some of the allegations made in the original complaint trump is accused of using his office to pressure ukraine into into investigating his political rival joe biden ahead of next year's presidential election returns in washington d.c. so this is a 2nd whistle blower with more information on the original complaint is that right . exactly this isn't a new whistleblower complaint this is about corroborating that initial whistleblower complaint which was as far as we understand leveled and lodged by a member of the cia who was connected to the national security council in time who was reflecting. that he or she had heard from those who had witnessed the law trumps interactions with the ukrainian government specifically as far as the

whistleblower was concerned the concern was that donald trump was abusing the office of the presidency in order to try and pressure a foreign government to find. a potential opponent in the 20 twentieth's action joe biden and his son home to home to biden and try to get to the bottom of what was going on but up so we should be very clear that that this isn't something this isn't a new complaint however it does head off one of the main defenses from donald trump which is that an original whistleblower didn't hear my original my original conversation anyway it's all hearsay now there is corroboration apparently this this person is being represented by a lawyer which may be which may be significant going forward depending on how the house investigations go and who they decide to subpoena donald trump's reaction not surprisingly on a sunday on twitter and he seems to be trying to push it all in the direction of joe biden and actually well i'll ignore all these claims against me and what's

mounting up against me and actually why the ego and investigate joe biden and his son. this hearsay defines wasn't the only defense though and trump has what don't trump keeps saying is look i have to follow up on allegations of corruption wherever they may happen it's perfectly in my right to ask of foreign help in an investigation into potential corruption and what is at stake here what's always being focused upon is to biden joe biden some who received a huge amount of money from a ukrainian energy company while his father the vice president in the obama administration was in charge of ukrainian affairs at the very least seem in the same way that for example when trump gets trademarks from the chinese government while her father is negotiating trade with china it looks unseemly so the whole trouble started to look all i'm going to do is just follow this up make sure i mean i will have a critical obviously we say look i've been trying to make sure that there's nothing nothing wrong going on here it's my rights to investigate that in fact we just got

another tweet from donald trump court to bite the family was paid off pure and simple the fake news must stop making excuses for something that is totally inexcusable sleepy joe said he never spoke to the ukrainian company on the picture came out and i guess i'm a bit there but it goes you know i just don't think that joe biden is going to be the kind that he says sleepy joe won't get to the starting gate blah blah blah and i have to say it is quite effective this is becoming an issue on the campaign trail for joe biden as he runs for the democratic nomination because even though that initial claim that he he tried to get a prosecutor who was looking into his some. business affairs new great man been debunked there are questions about impropriety and whether it was a conflict of interest here and whether joe biden should have allowed this to happen and what you know how can he run against all trump if he does have allegations of sleaze against him this is becoming an issue on the campaign trail quite ineffective defensibility interesting ok thank you she had pretends in washington there and then earlier we spoke to really who is

a republican strategist and to what the president's game plan is likely to be in response to these allegations. an effort to undermine discredit and use it democrats here and say the democrats have been trying to impeach me from day one they will do anything to try to you are. this and by using a sort of state is what he's always said the president is always that that they're actors within the branches of government and us that are undermining the elected officials like himself people who've been democratically elected and there are people who work against him this is so indicative of the very language he used to use in his campaign and so i really think that's what he'll continue doing is use a strategy to say there's a deep state working against me how can i possibly existed you conditions i've been existing in them for 3 years and now there's going to be this grand conspiracy i think that's the part we have to be concerned about strategically that can make it

seem like there are there's a grand conspiracy against the president and he should be removed because of the accounts from people who really have just never wanted to see him there and i think it's exciting that there is a 2nd person for people like myself i was concerned that the 1st whistleblower didn't have a 1st hand account this 2nd whistleblower supposedly has the 1st hand account but he has represent he or she excuse me if that represented by the same lawyer as the 1st whistleblower so there's going to be a lot of he said she said in the next week but it's certainly a good think that this 2nd whistleblower has a 1st hand account of that creating call which is at the heart of this entire matter to all the news in iraq's government has denied any of its security forces fired directly at protesters but it's the death toll that continues to rise with another 5 people confirmed killed. well. that brings the death toll to 109 in the 6 days of unrest with more than 6000 people injured protesters are

demanding jobs better public services and an end to corruption and iraq's prime minister is even promised to meet anti-government demonstrators stop the protests the country's interior minister seemed to imply a 3rd party was responsible for killing both protesters and security forces but could be out of a no limit connecticut everyone knows there were no armed clashes or confrontations between the security forces and the protesters but there were wicked and he knows hands that targeted the victims on both sides when we went and checked the bodies of the marches the injuries were in the head or the heart it is clear that the shooting did not take place from a close distance or from the area where the security forces were present a serious investigation is ongoing to find out who is behind such a wicked and he mis operation. reporting on this story from us for us from baghdad as imran khan. prime minister mahdi is facing the biggest crisis his year old

government has faced yet a lot of the opposition political parties a lot of the religious parties including influential figures like a some. of the most influential one of the most influential shia clerics. souther and from the former prime minister high the body saying that elections need to be held and they also boycotted a emergency session of parliament that was supposed to take place on sunday actually didn't happen so a lot of these politicians are looking at this protest movement they're seeing it get larger and larger and more popular and they decided they're going to try and put themselves with the protesters show support for the protesters in a bid to win support for any elections that may will come nowhere nowhere near elections right now the parliament hasn't been dissolved the government hasn't been dissolved but that's certainly the talk on the streets and in the corridors of power in baghdad is what happens next now although this is

a political crisis only streets the protests are still getting larger and larger in syria and this is interesting enough syria and the south protestors not only attacked government buildings but they attacked political party headquarters after they did that they started chanting now syria is free from political parties that goes to show you how much anger there is not just at the government but at the politicians of all stripes. maria front up is with us from rome now and skype a senior iraq advisor at the international crisis group thanks for your time maria it strikes me the biggest problem that we've got in iraq is that the people are upset at the government and the politicians and there isn't really anything that those politicians can do right now to stop these demonstrations it's a long term thing there's got to be a systematic change in what's happening in iraq meanwhile 6 days of violence and hundreds of people killed. well that is

a good question and the problem is that the once the most traditional start is too late to think about a solution for the time being. during an emergency meeting the prime minister other matter has that you should the 17 point program of. trying to really come down brought this trying to look sort of are the most streeters by offering get job opportunities the employment compensation the distribution of lance but it is these these this type of stopgap measures will not to. do much. even if brought is that are going to wane down for sure these cycles of process that are going to resurge we have seen this happening a several times that there is since at least this 2015 there is the cycle of process we emerging and all the time the government in place that thesis this

challenging of the challenge of a dressing problem so very long term solutions and giving like immediate response to these problems but these problems needs time to yet addressed. and once they did the most christians breaks breaks off breaks out then it's too early to sleep by early and then issues and there is not much to do so also then in hope for that if sorry to interrupt you so then i guess. what we've come up here with is a lot of things which can't be done what could be done in the interim at least to stop the violence. yet that is a good question i mean for the 1st infant in the 1st place it's important to remind that this toll of violence in some precedents and compare it to other cycle of profit is that this pipe to the minister of interior of the collaboration it is indeed.