the city in turn it into a ghost town to show our frustration with our leadership the 81 year old president wants a referendum to change the constitution so that he can run a 3rd term in office but his political opponents are against a referendum they don't trust the president to organize an impartial vote like you know if there's a. need on one as leader one to treat all of its citizens equally ear expect of ethnic origin fluff and i stayed with. the with. the ethnic forlornly make of the majority in guinea and yet never has a full only been in power many of them are out protesting accusing the government of arresting them in discriminating against them this is one protester that has just been arrested in this is what's happening throughout the capital and the country paramilitary police deployed to try to arrest and stop any form of violence. security forces shot dead several protesters and scores are injured

human rights watch accused the government of banning street protests for over a year now and cracking down on dissent presidential elections are a full year away but the political deadlock has already set in there is a sense of fear and apprehension of what is to come nicholas hawke al jazeera cannot create time for a short break here in al-jazeera when we come back. mass protests to spain's sentences council and separatist leaders to long jail terms more not stainless. how i once again welcome to mathematical at the international forecast we've got a fair bit of cloud just making its way away from northern parts of iran bright

skies coming back a bit high little cloud there just around the eastern side of the mediterranean little drifts into syria lebanon jordan we were down towards israel as well just notice want to see showers into southern parts of turkey i will continue to be the case as we go on through wettest day for central areas for iraq stays hot dry $37.00 celsius in baghdad $36.00 q a city and in that pakistan karateka it's up to $36.00 as well and hanging on to temperatures around that mark across a good part of the arabian peninsula and a bit of cloud there along the coastal fringes of oman over the next couple of days as tuesday's page show wednesday slides down towards a lot of you could see want to 2 spots of right as a result of that across into the southwest of yemen you must see wanted to showers here over the just mountains just around the gulf of aden but by and large it does look essentially dry and sunny dry and sunny weather to into much of southern africa but to the northeast of south africa just around the drachma peaks we could

see some showers as we go through tuesday it brightens up nicely for wednesday we pick your dry weather. the weather sponsored by countdown. and you know we're going out more. very macho culture has been very harmful to the economy and the minds of many people challenging traditional attitudes how narrowing the gender gap is helping women in who really come out what is the poverty and for example i mean trying to break these barriers and make she smiles by giving women access to resources meet the women leading the way. women make change on al-jazeera.

welcome back of your mind about top stories here on al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump has approved a series of sanctions on turkey is also calling for an immediate cease fire in northern syria where turkish forces are carrying out a military offensive in kurdish held areas. on the ground in syria a group of government soldiers enter the strategic city of nonbeing day after being invited in by kurdish forces. by potential clash with turkish forces who are stationed on the outskirts. and at least 4 people have been killed in anti-government demonstrations in guinea as widespread anger at a proposed change in the constitution that would allow the president out of condé to run for a 3rd term. now the former president of south africa jacob zuma is appearing in court to face corruption charges relating to an arms deal with a french company al-jazeera as the media miller has more now from paid the marks on a scandal that goes back more than

a decade. it's been almost 15 years since former president jacob zuma 1st faced corruption charges relate to $180000000.00 contract with french arms company town is to provide enable equipment to the south african government tallies allegedly agreed to pay a bribe to zuma who was then the leader of the cause soon a tall province for his influence the deal was reportedly brokered by his former financial advisor should be a shake only shake was jailed for corruption although zuma later faced charges they were dropped in 2009 but last year charges of corruption racketeering and money laundering were reinstated zuma has always said he wants his day in court but he's also done everything he can to avoid it he says there is a political conspiracy against him last week he lost a court heard to have the charges thrown out here now appear 6 at this court for the start of a trial that could last months. seumas legal fees have cost sub african taxpayers

more than a $1000000.00 because the charges stem from his time in office he's now fighting a core group inc that demanded he pay back that money saying he can't afford to cover his costs while many south africans of calling for corrupt leaders to be held to account the mustin enjoy support among others if found guilty he could face at least 25 years in prison zuma says he's done nothing wrong when i'm interested in a case i'm not as a muslim broads just a neutral person i just want to know what's going to happen at the right. to my lord hasn't done all the things that are 7 years god everyone deserves a chance to explain themselves. ever since. the trial started it's all now beginning to see that it's not only him is at fault but the majority of the

people that are in power zuma is also expected to return to a commission of inquiry investigating state corruption during his presidency this case is you have to understand that it's just a smokescreen is to pacify us to say something is happening around corruption but the fact of the matter is nothing is happening because as i've said jacob zuma is the people to consumer is the godfather and no one can shake that pilaf within the a.n.c. well zuma has been out of office for 20 months at the time of his departure there were several allegations of corruption and many south africans hope this trial may be a chance to finally get some answers from al-jazeera pietermaritzburg south africa . the government of bangladesh has recently put severe restrictions on rango refugees from me and many of had their mobile phones taken away and recently the children were forced to drop out of bangladeshi schools down the challenger has

more natural causes bizarre. 2 years after the exodus running those trapped in the world's largest refugee camp are finding it hard to cope with the recent restrictions. lives with their 6 children in a shanty hot she felt isolated and lonely she's unable to communicate with friends and families due to recent restriction on the usage of mobile phones. we came from myanmar after suffering a lot of atrocities if we are not subject to strict easy where we go the mobile phone and internet ban is evidence of government increased frustration a young man told us about his recent experience we have not identified him at his request. a few days ago police stopped me and asked me where and when i got my sim card mobile phone after a brief interrogation and a lot of abusive language towards me they snatch my mobile phone and kept it rights groups say that communication restrictions put nearly 1000000 refugees at serious

risk unable to communicate with emergency services and points that the international covenant on civil and political rights is explicit on the right of freedom of expression for every person including for displaced populations we don't really want that we are living in the cage because you know we have been living in myanmar in the cage for more than 27 years because of some a few bad people. and should not be so far for those people activity. there is also an increase in security presence in the camp and it's making many refugees nervous then you know we have no problem government decides to erect barbed wire fence in the camps by this in itself is not an assurance for peace or rather it might have a negative effect in the community. the recent killings and pushback of running or trying to scrape from myanmar plus expulsions of refugee children from local

education institutions and the threat of relocating thousands of refugees to an isolated island reflects a tougher stand taken by the bangladesh government communication blackout restaurants and i plan for a bar where friends around the camp has led to an increased sense of frustration and anxiety among growing our refugees and the prospect of returning home to me looks even more distant thunder drug. protests erupted in barcelona over the sentencing of 9 separatist leaders have been sent to prison for their role in the region's failed bid for independence thousands of council and separatists with police protesters blocked access to barcelona 100 flights were canceled so some of the reports from barcelona. they turned out in their thousands at barcelona as airport determined to cause as much

disruption as possible and fronted by right police to protest his intentions to signal the start of a campaign of civil disobedience and cause an amnesty for the 9 catalan politicians and activists convicted on monday for their roles in a failed attempt to secede from spain 2 years ago they were found guilty of sedition but were acquitted on the more serious charge of rebellion the defendants were sentenced between 9 and 13 years in prison the reaction from the catalan regional government was unequivocal. and i personally reject these very. because we consider them unjust and antidemocratic and because they are part of a political trial and were drained of legal action against got along its right to self-determination and against the independence movement with a general election in his. seitz next month the spanish prime minister urged dialogue took

a firm line on the supreme court's verdict or you. can blow today exemplary judicial process has concluded but at the same time confirms the sinking of a political project that's failed in its attempt to obtain internal support and international recognition leaving behind pain and confrontation on the fracturing of coexistence in catalonia about the within hours of the sentencing protesters came out onto the streets and gathered here at the main square in the city center they say they are part of what is being called the democratic tsunami but even but if they really want the bus i think what is happening is shameful but i think the conviction is really unfair and i don't understand how this can happen in the 21st century and you were here once again ok for you i'm here because i think the trial has been a complete fraud has been a trial that human rights international organizations have been that was having

a lot of regularities i think we have to denounce it and this make a pattern. but not everyone sees it like this the catalan nationalist movement has itself become more divided between groups that support more direct forms of action and those who oppose it politics here is more fractured and there is no majority backing for secession solving the cattle and crisis is as allusive as ever and in spite of the sentencing a long way from being a result. al-jazeera of barcelona. ecuador's president has signed a decree scrapping austerity measures that led to almost 2 weeks of violent protests while the situation remains tense the breakthrough has been a relief for many ecuadorians who live on a low income. in the capital peter. in a. neighborhood near the outskirts of the ecuadorian capital freddy and carmen are walking back from their home their house is modest and they share the space with

other members of their family. the couple make a combined income of about $500.00 per month which is just enough to get by. for the past few days however the 2 haven't been working. instead they were participating in an indigenous movement that was calling on the ecuadorian government to abandon austerity measures that threatened to increase their cost of living a movement that was ultimately successful. saying. finally the voice of indigenous people is being valued finally the government has listened if they hadn't we would have continued to go after the corrupt government that only puts money in their pocket. there are thousands of people from indigenous communities from across ecuador who like freddie and carmen flooded the streets of people for more than a week the protests were against a proposed cut to a fuel subsidies program that's been in place for decades weak analysts like other

to. say this policy would have had a devastating impact on the poor. and then i would be sentencing people to poverty or sending entire swaths of the ecuadorian population into poverty there are many people who live off a subsistence economy where $1.00 means the difference between a decent meal or not eating. this is for low income families like freddie and carmen's avoiding the increase in fuel prices is being viewed as a win the carman says the fight is far from over. we say that this is all the tip beginning until all of the corrupt leaders leave doesn't end here to fight continues until the corruption is gone. on monday indigenous leaders cheered the victory over the government but reiterated their demand that fuel prices be reduced to earlier levels this is the scene in downtown with hundreds of demonstrators. no longer protesting in the streets arriving at this auditorium for one last address

from indigenous leaders one last celebration before they go oh now that a call has returned to the streets of the ecuadorian capital and the agreement between the ecuadorian government and indigenous demonstrators means the unrest in the country has ended the government is now faced with a new pressure to establish economic reforms that are more inclusive or otherwise face a backlash from a sector of society that has lost confidence in the country's leadership lit up a little dizzy to keep to it with. brazil's northeast and by a state has become the 1st to declare an emergency after a mysterious oil spill contaminated dozens of beaches the army as well as city and state officials are involved in the cleanup crude oil washed up along more than 2000 kilometers of brazil's coast gabriel has more now from much ale. the situation is still very critical in the beaches here in the northeastern brazil there is still crude oil that is washing up on the beaches here in more than $150.00

different locations in an area that's nearly 2000 kilometers long no matter where this oil is coming from it's already having a devastating effect on some marine life now this is video that's very hard to look at it is a video of a marine sea turtle that was rescued near the state of by. this turtle had swallowed some of the crude oil and was about to die but it was rescued and these veterinarians there are trying to save the turtle by cleaning out the oil from its mouth this just gives you an idea of the kind of work that's being done to try to save as many animals as possible and the question is where is this oil coming from the brazilian government continues to say that this oil they believe is coming from venezuela however in recent days there's been images like this barrels

of what appears to be oil that have washed up on some of the beaches in the northeastern brazil and on the barrels of oil it says shell in reference to the american oil company however in response to this show has said these particular barrels are actually lubricants that probably fell off of some ship show claims that these barrels do not have anything to do with the current oil spill however on sunday brazil's minister of environment demanded that show provide more answers to this it's probably going to take weeks perhaps even months to clean all of this up as one person told us this is absolutely an environmental disaster. time for a quick check of the top stories here on al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump has approved a series of sanctions on turkey is also calling for an immediate cease fire in

northern syria where turkish forces are carrying out a military campaign in kurdish held areas u.s. vice president mike pence says he'll be heading to the region to discuss turkey's campaign let me say the president could not have been more firm with president one today. the united states of america is simply not going to tolerate. turkey's invasion of syria any further and we're calling on syria to stand down and end the violence and come to the negotiating table and that's the reason the president sending me to the region to make his intentions very clear and we're going to be looking we're going to be looking for turkey to take strong action in that regard meanwhile in syria a group of government soldiers enter the strategic city of manby a day after being invited in by kurdish forces well this sets up a potential clash with turkish forces who are stationed on the the outskirts at

least 4 people have been killed in anti-government demonstrations in guinea as widespread anger at a proposed change in the constitution that would allow president alpha condé to run for a 3rd term. protests erupted in barcelona over the sentencing of separatist leaders who've been sent to prison for their role in the region's failed bid for independence thousands of catalan separatists fort worth police but just as blocked access to barcelona airport where more than a 100 flights were canceled on monday spain's supreme court delivered sentences of between 9 and 13 years in prison. and ecuador's president has signed a decree scrapping austerity measures that so almost 2 weeks of violent protests and vision as leaders who led the demonstrations call for fuel prices to return to previous levels by tuesday in the capital quito workers clean the streets of daybreak caused by the protests which left at least 7 people dead president right now says he'll work on the new economic policy approved by the indigenous groups

but those are the headlines the news continues on al-jazeera after the stream stage and that's about it. we. believe in the 2 state solution you still believe in the 2 state solution we listen what i said was that pakistan would never start a war. we meet with global news makers the stories that matter 0. tens of thousands of iraqis took to the streets to demand jobs. and to them to corruption security forces. 100 of them. and you're in the stream join us with your thoughts on twitter or in our live chat.

rocky's government has launched an investigation into why peaceful protests turned deadly the last week officials have also begun offering compensation to victims' families some of them are refusing the money the streets are quiet for now but anger at the government continues to simmer. he was been covering this story it's with us from baghdad welcome him ron you have been in iraq for the duration of these deadly protests and now an investigation is being called for into the i want to reference this article on al jazeera dot com iraq's the orders in curry in to protest the prime minister online though people are still skeptical this is how those who says how do you create an investigative committee headed by a party who is the 1st accused in prosecution of the demonstrators and still monitoring their digital activity till this moment many activists outside provinces

of demonstration are threatened with arrest and disappearance so in iran what do people believe will come of this investigation. well there's not a huge amount of hope that the investigation will actually tell get any of the people responsible what we're hearing is that the iraqi army was responsible for most of the life on to the crowds they were actually taken away from for example so the city here in baghdad and replaced with federal police forces but charging the army is going to be very politically difficult for the prime minister. and so bringing these people to justice may well be a very difficult thing because under a tremendous amount of pressure by this the most senior religious cleric a shia muslim religious cleric in the country grand ayatollah ali sistani actually gave him a 2 week deadline and said this investigation must take place within 2 weeks and so the protesters been speaking to say well that's a great deadline for us we'll give him the 2 weeks but if he doesn't come up with

a credible investigation with a result so plain and clear for everybody to see will be back out on the streets again so there's a lot of pressure here and the government and it's building very very slowly you know i need to we have the senior muslim cleric ayatollah ali sistani but we also have 3 major political blocs in iraq calling for new elections we have the speaker of the parliament. also talking about elections but certainly putting pressure on the government before we start i just question is something that i want to check in with you about that as we have covered we have seen protests in iraq before what. well for the 1st time. many of the journalists i speak to many of the political analysts of soon to say that these protests a different because they were leaderless they seemingly came out of nowhere and

they were spontaneous reaction from a lot of young people people who don't remember saddam hussein don't remember who barely remember the invasion and occupation by the us of iraq who actually were and when you speak to the military bluntly what they do remember is you know government corruption not having any opportunities lack of jobs education and even those people lucky enough to go to and get their education they say well what's the point we have all these degrees but there's no jobs for us to get so this is a generation who is who are seeing iraq not develop since the u.s. led invasion occupation now it is a very difficult toss to rebuild a country off to something like that happens to it but some 450000000000 dollars according to transparency international has been stolen from the country and these young people are asking questions like well with that money gone these are probably questions to ask i think you have young a young person on the show who we are asking exactly that question but for now iran

col. baghdad bureau we really appreciate you joining us now to discuss the protests we have here osman he's a journalist an analyst speaking to us from our hike we also have russia and i went to the protests she joins us from baghdad by phone russia has asked that we not disclose her last name out of concern for her safety and finally in the studio today we have getting him aoi he is a political analyst and expert on iraqi politics co-chair welcome it is good to have you here so this idea about the protest that the. one you saw that happening this latest report in protest many many many times. behind these protests is what well thanks for having me here. it's a very unique this protest did that unless it doesn't have a leader and when they went on the street to a week ago they won there with very simple demand for basic services for

a job and some other issues but right now it's escalated to 2 to changing the governmental system and even the laws which covers the election laws and it's getting bigger is getting ready denge us actually to to the government to environment and baghdad right now i mean all the heads of the state which is the 3 of them mr i'll go see the speaker of the house and the prime minister mr the doctor her home side they're sitting there and they're just like redux i mean they're all in their eyes when they see these people like what do we do exactly want from me those kids i call them kids because they're too young you know god bless them they're on the streets they want to change everything right now this is not just about a job because we know that iraqi government cannot employ everyone on the street but the iraqi government can bring big companies for investment when you have

a big company in iraq when you have a hotel or a huge company and you can bring these this young man a woman to a decent job you don't have to rely on the government 100 percent for a job but there are many issues right now those those young man and woman on the street bringing to the governor man we don't want you there we don't want the system in general not not the you know the democratic system but we're talking about the election as a. if i if i just add one more to this i think being on the street and talking to the various protesters again i agree to a very young but i think the operative word here is good governance the people who were on the streets all the previous demands that they were having can all be summarized in 2 words good governance the lack of good governance since 2000 this is really what created this protest today the demands that we've been hearing

they have the we have been hearing them since 2003. and they were in various stages of protest in iraq over the past 2 years over the past 16 years. they were sidelines they were dealt with with various political groups but at the same time they were they were really not map the various protest so that the demands of the various protest in the past so this time around i think it is its own all the demands exploded on one day october 1st this is this is a key thing unfortunate see what i see that the government is completely oblivious to this day all these events and there are scientists from many of problems and this is what. this is i think with will keep these protests going the various young. people who are on the streets seriously on the streets to

call for sort of they are for these. serious changes to this to the political system but at the same time they were met with violence they were met with i think these are that they were met with care fuel and that contributed to increasing and spreading the protests at least all around the capital and the 1st couple of days and then it's also the rest of the country. i'm glad you give us that context because i want to bring up to each week that i'll give to you. on twitter says demonstrations are not new to iraq's streets nor politicians are new to publishing promises since 2011 where iraq's former prime minister nouri al maliki promised land and houses for some rockies and some monthly grants for unemployed people iraq still lacks jobs houses and security but like you were saying that the people are demonstrating not just for money they've had enough of corruption not only for

having good electricity they want to see their homeland in a good state of development so. i know that you were out there on the streets it looks like we just lost a precious connection so i'll give this back to you he will because i know you were there on the 2nd day of the protests when live fire broke out tell us about that and did that surprise you. it was actually very surprising i was i went from there but i was in the area of baghdad to see the end of the protests because they were pushed back from the east where to to another area called the soccer player on the parents where close to where the people the young guys were that were hit with the here gas with the loss of. life around them and i started to ask him people in the middle of the interview. i posted that video on my facebook page and i think and him being in the middle of the interview already so

the people responding they were not even shouting slogans or only thing they were getting ready actually to disperse and we so huge gas being thrown at us and then at the same time there were we saw a live rounds coming from the from the forces and i'm not sure what it's about it's more like if i show some of it because a fight for you on facebook a free fall is needed on twitter and you have been documenting this and you've been documenting this for a reason so let me just show people what you think this is all to help with a 6 and you can talk for what we're actually seeing. this is. the this is exactly what we were just. to see they're not there we got to think if you look at these but you also see. them in the 2nd video on face on i was on my facebook page shall we. so let me just say that so you're saying that that's not

really doing i think they're just stabbed in the street so let me go to this video which is so disturbing i am just going to show you here the separate justice video army shooting. i'm just going to press play down hand then play it back up and you'll see or hear this let's pull the audience right up guys the this is. the shooting horizontal. and you notice that the shots are all his own program not firing this gun. this was really amazing we don't know why they were doing been doing this and the reason you mention the reason you mention history to horizontal is because there were people who were industry yeah and there were suggestions and if the shooters were leipus which would be coming from higher up not from down on the streets there were there were 2 types of bullets coming solely from the result

that i will to the hospitals i met some of the. some of the injured. 2 they were they were injured from both sides those are the some of them were army and others were from the protesters some of the people in the are being accused. some of the people in the army accused the riot police that they were this was really amazing the riot police are supposed to be the most patient the most the most cool headed but they were the most trigger happy. one of them said. i had to look probably this with us because of the identity of the well if they want it they were going to be most of them. gun shots coming in from one side and coming out of the other side in a horizontal way in their body part of their body so it shows that it explains where the gun would be bullets or that military personnel that soldier ended up he

was firing. in a horizontal thank you thank you for that and i'm going to bring you back in the conversation that i want to play a video comment with are from a political activist in istanbul on this is and here's what he told a stream protest spokesman was it without political leadership and that was an advantage for the protesters at this point i'm not sure that i think government administration can stop this because it's created became in a different province say out all for 18 total all the iraqi people are asking the international community and every human iceland ization to condemn what are going on but bad because that's not what we're willing to be and that's the future we are asking for personally i am not sure about the ability of the iraqi government to solve the problem and. making a better choice for the protesters rush i want to bring you back into the conversation but it is video comment says he's not sure of the government's ability

to solve this problem you went to the protests as a witness you talk to protesters what were they telling you. well there's a there's a number of things that have said they're not exactly the same but the most common one was the fact that they believe the government should have seen these protests coming since they happen in 20072013201520162772 and now in 2019 about seeing those crazy well sure that the government can do anything whatsoever and this can be seen from the fact that when the post was actually 1st began it was them on things like the production increased employment opportunities . going on there lots of the basic services were once the i guess the whole. live ammunition in the system i think again protested most of them on what was justice for those that have died had been wounded have been taken some people have no idea what is happening some of the friends all that family members and then in

the end complete lack of faith in the government also of so i guess the demands of the post it's a transition based on the escalation of between by both sides not just from the government schools or by protesters themselves for example. purchases attacking fire trucks or ambulances because fire trucks with an actually used against protesters became a lack of faith between even among themselves because you're trying to get people dressed in civilian clothing when you're talking them and take them away so i guess what one started off as just normal demonstrations for what i've always been demonstrating for over the last few years transition to a complete lack of faith in the current government policies and also the system so to them i want to play you a sound bite from the spokesperson of grand ayatollah al sistani his reaction to a very powerful cleric in iraq and let's listen to his reaction thank you when you

come off the back of it go ahead that plane. and not a compliment what is that the head of amnesia that aka government and its security authorities are fully responsible for the blood which has been shed and the demonstrations of the past few days the bloodshed was either from then us interested and or from security elements which were entrusted with dealing with them. the government is no longer able to shy away from betting such a big responsibility upon us to do our. eric making at that question about the politics of what's going on in iraq quite how significant is that well the shiite clerics they always get involved into and into politics i mean some of them and in the parliament some of them actually they're active and the and the government so the mix between religion and politics these days it became a fashion but it's good that the marjayoun presented by agreeing that the last time any and show you care. about out here was that led the friday sermon of karbala

that they had there condemning those attack against the civilians which is really good that's given legitimacy to the protest and to the protest but it was still he's really the problem we need the solution the solution comes from the government but not end term solutions not just throwing money not just apologizing or oh thing now you have to really have have a habit and major surgery to change the iraq or political system and that's what this with with the protests are right now they're looking for some good solution not just every time this is since 20112010 every time they have they have a protest and the iraqi government promised them to have a job for them but this time there is a chaos also what then have the iraqi security forces who's who and who's doing what who's shooting this innocent protest that is that the army is that the police is the militias is that p.m.s.

so you know the key problem with this. is that we have a very we government we have a political process a process that is led by that there's very much respect to you wise in some of the fish is the news of their own to make them for the government was very good but on the other hand the thickly nobody's. seems to be in charge in iraq the most powerful man today there are going to miss the custom sulaimani di r.c.t. that you read in our city if you come out there who comes through there are old there's people around and it seems from what we've been hearing from some government sources that the iranians have taken charge of the over the process of the process of crushing the approach that what's happening now. same way as the green revolution it had all around you iran it was crushed there and your tactics are being used today against the iraqi protests that you and i thank you and i we

know iraqi government it's a consensual government and the middle east when you have a consensual government that means it's going to be weak which means going to be run you know you are going to be run by various political parties and he's the head of the state is not very great of the head of the state the prime minister he's actually compromised part of it he's not he's not even elected this that i mean dr mistah that i did yesterday he was a compromise figure out of a peak time pick him up from what i would has and then go ahead to take back you created the big power vacuum created the big political vacuum created this being built by iran and its agents who said well it's an essential government never worked and the middle east even and the muslim or arab world we have one enough and pakistan consensual government in iraq consensual government back in the days in yemen consensual government. consensual government that is what i think i do you know the rational rational trying to get an. you know i just want to say that 8 i

do you agree with i think he was that iraq his view that the iranians are quick and complete control of the government actually when i was on the ground focus is actually complaining that they feel like oh american intervention and the increase of the reigning intervention in the country was actually a big travel purchases but the fact that they youngor know it doesn't match that action saying that on grounds they actually believe they're really are the ones that really are. if the route we are seeing is. going to be more. hoping. look so they were not really going to try to. people every single day even people who are not people for example who want to be in or if they were hired by. one of the people of the speaker a lot of people who are. there are people who are not going to actually be american intervention. exactly that's what i'm thinking i think they're think. because what's being bystander all of this happening when it's you know it's one of those

don't know if you don't interfere get death to america they are not going to commit elected so it's them if you do them if you don't time to good that's i'm going to stay away from this is this chaotic issue thank you for that how tired from i am i just want to get back to the community if i am able to pushing forward on what is going to happen next there is conjecture from faddist here on twitter he says we're calling for the resignation of the government mr i that i didn't transfer it to a caretaker government change the electoral law in such a way in order to end the continuous domination of grand parties or the results. calling for the resignation of the prime minister do you think that that is something that's bigger than just this one person here or and do you think it's feasible it's not feasible it's a big thing i mean there's one person you get rid of him it's a name and one person to get rid of him you remove him those grand political parties and islamic parties and well they'll just as long as llamas and they go to

bring their own a stooge again they will bring their own mini me so you have dr evil right they are watching the minute he was doing the dirty business and so it's the position of the is not the solution the solution it's these political parties who are the heads of the political parties who run iraq since 2003. this is the us being for. persecution the reform and they're asking for or changing the forum that is being repeated we have been trying to see things over and over again says to those of the 3 and expecting that the truth is over this is really not working let me just go back to russia russia i'm going to show on my computer some of the key reasons why people were out on the streets this last time in october so we have a population of 14000000 in iraq 60 percent to 20 percent unemployment and in the

transparency international league of corruption iraq comes in and what number 168 which is not a good showing if you could ask of course i knew really tapped into what those protested wanted what would it be out of these most recent protests what would it be what would they want what would they settle for. what. we've just lost her which will certainly add to the point of. the kinect he will arrive at the end of the show so i was just going to get a quick wrap up for that from russia russia so we that we lost that but it's also very difficult connectivity in iraq right now because the protests and it's spotty which is why we were having difficulty that russia and of course the government crackdown on the internet which is what we got a lot of tweets about but some people managed to tweet us so i want to end with this from who says the protests that shook iraq are winding down but younger iraqis

remain determined and a generation gap that's being will have an impact for years to come thank you to russia for joining us on ash and today. next time online at. work. on counting the cost president trump threatens to destroy turkey's economy again to find out how his conflicts of interest in istanbul. lebanon goes from one crisis to another and can gold hit a record high of $2000.00 counting the cost and i just. it was the remote this of brazil's indigenous communities the protected them from the rip a shoes outside world now it's what shields. protected indigenous territory starting

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dominate american media coverage part of this case you get through your thick head as hamas a terrorist organization the only thing that you're going to say is what we want and if you don't say it we're not going to speak it would be very hard for ordinary americans to know that they're being deceived the occupation of the american mind on al-jazeera. yes. and i do. some i mean i like. the united states of america simply not going to tolerate. turkey's invasion of syria the u.s. government imposes new sanctions on turkish officials over the country's offensive in syria and demands an immediate ceasefire.

hello i'm down in jordan this isn't just iraq live from doha also coming up. a group of syrian government soldiers enters the key city of man be his turkish forces prepare to advance. polls open in mozambique selection but opposition groups say they have it will be a free or fair result plus. we look at people's changing attitudes towards refugees on an italian island known as the gateway to europe. president donald trump has approved a series of sanctions against turkey he's also calling for an immediate cease fire in northern syria where turkish forces are carrying out a military offensive in kurdish held areas audio cast reports now from washington d.c. . president donald trump remained out of sight on monday he tasked vice president

mike pence to brief reporters on the u.s. response to the rapidly deteriorating situation in northern syria and the president has directed me. and robert o'bryant to lead a delegation to turkey in the immediate future but to begin discussions and negotiations to bring the bloodshed to an end the white house says trump had spoken with the turkish president and the kurdish commanding general in syria by phone pressing them to contain civilian casualties shortly after the calls trump announced via twitter a package of economic sanctions against ancora targeting senior turkish officials the u.s. is also raising steel tariffs and ending negotiations on a $100000000000.00 trade deal between turkey and the us as we've warned all along our desire is not to shut down the turkish economy our desire is to see a appropriate response the white house is facing mounting pressure to address the

turkish military invasion of the northern syria emboldened by trump's unilateral decision last week to withdraw u.s. troops from the region among the most outspoken critics was senate majority leader mitch mcconnell typically a trump ally who accused the u.s. of abandoning the kurds and allowing iran and russia to exploit the power vacuum left behind but the president himself appeared unconcerned tweeting anyone who wants to assist syria in protecting the kurds is good with me whether it is russia china or napoleon bonaparte the president's really made the worst of all possible choices because he says it was to get out but now he's getting pulled back in and our allies are getting slaughtered and there's no counterterrorism strategy president trans defenders say he is rightly focused on ending american military involvement in foreign wars in which the us no longer have. a stake but the renewed fighting in northern syria has already led it to the escape of detained i so

fighters and critics say a u.s. led diplomatic solution now is simply too late i.e. joe castro al-jazeera washington or syrian government forces have been quick to take advantage of the abrupt u.s. retreat from syria a small unit of soldiers and to these to 2 g. city of man beach on monday as well as other towns in northern syria a day after being invited by kurdish forces and that sets up a potential clash with turkey whose president has indicated he would intensify his offensive against the kurds which are struck for joins us live now from jacqueline charles the military situation is changing rapidly on the ground so just bring us up to date with what's been happening. well we understand certainly overnight and this is despite another claim by the turkish ministry of defense that they had full control of the town of russell lyon which is to the east of here we hear that there are ongoing clashes there the turkish

military still contesting full control of that town and as you mentioned. those syrian army forces now we understand in the outskirts of money that's that strategic town strategically important town west of here now according to the f.s.a. these are the syrian rebel forces that are participating in this operation with the turks their situation around 10 to 15 kilometers out side none bish we also understand that the the syrian army has advanced to various locations. in towns south of the m 4 highway that's that very important highway that turkish forces took control of in parts over the last 2 or 3 days interestingly a statement released by the russian defense ministry on twitter that actually

contradicts what was said by the turkish president yesterday with respect to coordinating coordination between turkey and the russians. looking at that town in called kabbani which is north of money on the border. this statement by the defense ministry in russia saying that denying that there had been discussions between ankara and moscow over coordinating their denying that there had been discussions over expanding turkey's military presence towards the body so there's lots of conflicting language coming out from both sides here the situation as you saw. is very fluid it's going to be very interesting to see how things develop today off to such what can only be described as a very swift reaction by the syrian army since this deal was made between them and

the kurdish stiff charlie in terms of people caught up in the fighting are we now starting to see the makings of yet another humanitarian crisis. i think we very much are certainly listening to what aid agencies and the u.n. saying i mean the united nations saying at least 160000 people have been forced to flee their homes already we understand from other aid agencies that thousands of people sheltering in schools were looking for shelter with friends a number of aid agencies are saying that they are having to pull their star filed one the u.s. agency called the mercy call that has been working in north eastern syria since 2014 providing food and water and shelter thousands of syrians saying that it's having to pull all that stuff out because of security

issues it says that the artillery bombardment has been has been too strong roads cut off there are big concerns about infrastructure being hit as well vital infrastructure for example for water and electricity unicef saying at least 70000 children have been affected by this campaign now let's not forget that the turkish government keeps stressing that it is not targeting civilians it's saying that this is an operation that it describes as one which is a counterterrorism operation and it's trying to so it says it sets up this safety zone and so potentially a lot of the $3600000.00 refugees living in this country can be returned the turks also saying that they're doing their most not to hate vital civilian infrastructure certainly according to what aid agencies in the united nations are saying that may not be the case. for their. child's thank you well boone and ali

raises from the center for strategic and international studies he says it's unlikely they'll be an immediate cease fire in northern syria. it's difficult to conceive over a more complicated situation than the one we have where the syrian government. you know which the this administration as as well as the previous one has really fight they've called for an ounce there of president assad and because of his actions trump has cleared the way for the syrian government and the russian auspices to work out a deal with the syrian kurds and to return to northeast syria and now he's very late in the day he's. announcing some sanctions which are going to have absolutely no effect whatsoever on the turkish government and to compound the error he's sending writes president pence to ankara where he's sure to come in for a very difficult a series of negotiations it's mission impossible the turks will react with scorn

it's a total misunderstanding of the turkish psyche when you listen to the president out on statements you've carried a portion of it as well as the kind of coverage you know very jingoistic picture out of coverage wall to wall 24 hours a day on the turkish t.v. and there's very little room for i don't want to. accept any media cease fire which let's remember is the is the call by the trumpet ministration or to actually negotiate with with the syrian kurds which is absolutely nothing you know if there was a functioning interagency process in in washington trump would never have done what he did in that 1st phone call with no one and he would never of sent vice president pence on what appears to be mission impossible and now that he has way too from his vice president pence content she what is needed and northeast and sylvia all who can do you think i mean what's going to happen with the ticket forces to push back

forces advancing on men binge the syrian government back there and how much power do you think all of this how much power do you think this gives russia which might once again you know be kingmaker here. well if we go back. a couple of years there was a de confliction agreement between russia and the us whereby it was east of the euphrates that was the area of operations for the american air force and for american soldiers and west of your phrase was basically left to the russians by abdicating his responsibilities trump is essentially ceded that area to to the russians and the russians are now become the power brokers i doubt whether there will be a clash in because the forms must be buzzing or will continue to do so over the next 24 hours between moscow and ankara and russia will use influence on ankara to use its influence with the opposition forces not to get into a clash with the or with the syrian government forces but beyond that i think

russia will work out a deal whereby the turks will have a buffer zone not by agreement with the united states but by agreement with the with the russians somehow exceeded to by the government of damascus and what's missing in this equation is the u.s. which is frankly you know just taken itself out of the equation polls opened in mozambique's general election that could see the for name of the party extend its decades long rule the vote is taking place 2 months after the signing of a peace deal with longtime rival the nama party president felipe and you see seeking a 2nd but he faces a strong challenge from anonymous assume from the mahdi the 2 sides fought for 16 years in a conflict that killed over a 1000000 people malcolm webb joins us live now from outside a polling station in maputo malcolm we understand the president's expected to vote there shortly tell us what's been happening.

at a secondary school and president philippe nice he's expected to. just up there in a few minutes from now meanwhile people are waiting.