we report from northern iraq on the plight of thousands of syrians who fled the turkish offensive and install the new york yankees breathed a sigh of relief in the major league bios and later in the show. now a 3rd day of protests are growing in size in lebanon's capital to demand what demonstrators are calling a revolution prime minister saad hariri is accused rival groups in the government of blocking his reforms he's given them 72 hours to find a solution at least 2 people have been killed in demonstrations pushing for political change in reforms to reduce the cost of living the leader of hezbollah says he doesn't want the government to resign or not play out well now we have more options there are choices that we can take and proposals ideas that we discussed before in the cabinet and we need to make it clear it's wrong to see that the government has no other choice than imposing taxes if we cooperate give priority to

the economic state will be able to save our country we don't want the government to resign if it does it will take one or 2 years to form a new government and the economic crisis will worsen any will be made up of the same political forces. let's get the latest now from cena holed up in beirut and so zain how things how is that message from masala the frustration how's that all playing out on the streets now. well it didn't go down well has been the poorest part of the ruling alliance i long with its allies they control the government they control the party event and they have a military right so people here interpreted as well the secretary general's comments as some sort of a threat a challenge he told those who are on the street that you cannot help the ruling alike he also told us that it has followed the court could decide to protest then

they will change the balance of power on the ground in many ways dismissing the trends of thousands of people who have taken to the streets to demand for better living conditions to demand for their government's resignation people here are fed up they believe that the mismanagement and the corruption they've they've just had enough so people are angry because the ruling alliance response to their demands has been one of the fire and they're clinging on to power but people here are also clinging to their demands but the biggest question is what can tens of thousands of people do to change the system of government when the majority of the lebanese are still have still allegiance to the various political parties who have exploited the state's resources in order to provide services in order to gain

support so it's a very tricky situation yes people here have hope they say that these are i'm president to protest said it's a stain it's nationwide but is this whole well placed because we've seen this in the past we've seen people take to the streets we've seen the government react a few days later. heavy handed tactics they've already done that late on friday they used tear gas to disperse demonstrators here outside the gulf. and the army forcibly opened roads that were being blocked by burning tires so a lot of hope but the question is what can be protesters really achieve. and i will leave it there for now thanks so much then to hold the let's take a closer look at the economic situation in lebanon then the economy is still in tatters following 15 years of war which ended in 1990 lebanon now has one of the world's highest public debt burdens it stands at around 150 percent of g.d.p.

well that's led to a crumbling infrastructure and a real lack of jobs unemployment for people under 35 years of age is that 37 percent economic growth has been stifled by regional conflicts level and struggle to support an influx of one and a half 1000000 syrian refugees several foreign governments and donors last year pledged $11000000000.00 in financing from evan's infrastructure but that hasn't been handed over because it was on the condition there needed to be economic reforms. joining me now is rami hoti a senior public policy fellow and professor at the american university of beirut good to have you with us so these protests started over taxes is it still about taxes at this point as it spiraled into something bigger well this started really over accumulated the anger by citizens all over the country but about the

fact that their government has not only mismanaged the economy and seen a decline in public services for the last 15 or 20 years and increase in perceived corruption but also has the government just doesn't listen to the citizens when they complain either peacefully or through elections or through street demonstrations so it's really it was pent up cumulative anger over decades that finally burst and it was the what made it burst was the the idea that the government that was responsible for all these problems simply came back with the same policy of say well let's raise taxes on middle class and lower income people them and other people in the country and let's get their citizens to pay for our mistakes and they won't do that anymore it's identical to almost all the demonstrations you're seeing in jordan and iraq in morocco and algeria and sudan all over the middle east it's quite extraordinary that about

a dozen arab countries have seen regular demonstrations weekly daily monthly across the entire region for the last 7 or 8 years nonstop and that's that's really the heart of the problem citizens who refuse to continue to be ignored and mistreated and exploited by their own government. it is a cross confessional movement being born here this process doesn't seem to be following the usual sort of sectarian lines this is one of the significant things about this protest over the present in many protests in lebanon over the years and recently you know every few weeks people protest for good reason the difference this time is 1st of all it's all over the country it's not limited to beirut in a couple of cities 2nd of all you're getting a disproportionately large number of protests in the south in the shia majority areas and people have been publicly criticizing their leadership especially the emmel movement that's unusual and the 3rd thing is the is the intensity of the

protests and the outspoken way in which people are making their demands met so there's a qualitative difference this time from previous demonstrations the problem is that the strength of the only gorky system the the 18 confessional groups that have power and try and in the constitution and then time for agreements and all the recent agreements that system has been so strong and it has held together despite all the protests all the movements that have tried to bring about real reform the political power elite has been able to stay in power and we'll see if that continues this time or 'd or if they're given the troubling thing is that the political leaders who have spoken out including the prime minister and hezbollah and the socialist movement and others they've all basically said i'm for reform i'm with the people but it's the other politicians who won't compromise everybody's

trying to pass the buck or pass the leader and the lira by the way is losing value every day so it's really a pretty gruesome performance by the political class and the citizens simply won't sit around and take it anymore because their daily life needs are increasingly difficult and more expensive to meet or i think feel analysis on that rami hoarder . a state of emergency has been enforced in chile's capital santiago after protests against the rising cost of taking a commuter train the rapid transit metro system has been closed off to rioters attacked stations shell about us explains. curtis that started over a rise in metro fears have provoked a state of emergency in santiago. student started the action 11 days ago angry about a 4 percent increase in ticket prices found an audience and chileans frustrated

with the rising cost of living when you well it's good that young people are coming out to protest because they raise the fares but rather than raising salaries the government is raising fares i the government blames the fare rise on rising oil prices in a week a peso was pro-choice is don't buy that and say the protest is a ticket to ride a concerns about the economy in the end but when the students come in and once they're protesting in a way that many of us who work cannot so in some ways they can represent us. but it's becoming increasingly violent on friday protestors forced the metro to shut entirely the city estimates protesters have cost $700000.00 worth of damage more than $200.00 incidents which mobs have been caught on street cameras descending on metro stations commuters have dodged tear gas and water cannon as police and protesters confront each other the company citigroup of people said its high rise building on fire the blaze could be seen across the city but the protests have gone

on a long time at 1st it was tolerable but unfortunately now it's grown to. at least 130 arrests have been made a state of emergency gives the government extra powers to restrict public gatherings for 2 weeks soldiers are being deployed to support my police. the government is also trying to downplay the situation. there are 3000000 daily metro uses our estimates of the biggest to beat today is that it never reach more than 150 protesters at any time you know was i knew it south america's largest metro system is now shut down from a ticket increase protesters have tapped into deep discontent about chile's economy . independence leaders called for talks with the spanish government following a day of violent protests on friday demonstrators are angry at the jailing of 9

separatist leaders for their role following years failed independence bid at least 60 people were injured in the riots. so you've got to go has more from barcelona. or just in front of the exterior of the spanish national police headquarters this was the site really where the troubles started last night between the rioters and the law enforcement officials here as well it was a trigger point the police had managed to push the crowds all the way up to the top of the street water cannon had been deployed for the ferry 1st time here in the region now what we have been seeing here this morning. and to session this coming out in front of the police station these are people who were against any idea of that so they could see things from space they've been turning up loading the police. force they've also been counted most of that and i'll give us

a break between the united procession and then all of this building that has become a flashpoint the violence that we've seen all week. the truce in northern syria is largely holding despite accusations from both kurdish forces and turkey of violations turkish president tried to do one has warned the offensive in the northeast of syria will resume within minutes if kurdish rebels don't abide by the terms of the 5 day cease fire u.s. secretary of state mike compare says he's optimistic it will hold despite signs of shelling on friday. has more from a chuckle on the turkey syria border. while the ceasefire largely seems to be holding there are reports of mind of clashes around the flashpoint town of russell in the east and potentially reports of a very worrying situation developing there for what we hear are civilians and

wounded trapped inside the town we understand that pro turkish forces those syrian arab fighters that have been part of this operation have surrounded the city there saying that they are allowing civilians out but they're also saying that there are ongoing talks or attempts to try and persuade kurdish fighters still trapped in that city to leave their weapons and withdraw. the syrian democratic forces have released a statement saying that this humanitarian corridor is vital to save lives we've seen video footage reportedly showing. aid agencies and volunteers trying to move north into the town and they saying that they are unable to move any further to go and try and pull people out because of those syrian arab fighters meanwhile we get reports that the withdrawal of the s.v.s. from areas between to lobby out the town close to here and russell line is going

president order was very keen to say that any reports of violations being made by his forces and those syrian arab fighters what he disk. rives is fabrications but yet all eyes are on the town of russell at the moment a town which saw some of the heaviest fighting and repeated claims by both sides a victory before this ceasefire was declared. now the cease fire in syria hasn't stopped people from paying smugglers to get them over the border to safety more than 700 crossed into iraq overnight they've joined 3000 who arrived earlier this week as natasha her name reports from the kurdish region of northern iraq cellophane sent to a hastily reopened refugee camp. after more than 8 years of on and off cease fires and being forced from their homes many times these refugees

seemed unfazed by turkey's announcement of a 5 day pause in fighting the war in syria has shown them time after time peace is never assured and. peace live is not cause life it's called destruction if anyone says i my life what he should really say is i am that in the last 5 days the un's international organization of migration has screened more than 2300 syrian refugees smuggled into iraq refugees say they have no other option because kurdish fighters in syria are preventing them from crossing the border but in a city it can let them witness duty we are syrian but we hate our country we don't want to go back. nedra and her sister each paid a smuggler $600.00 she says she and her 2 young children walked for 5 days.

of his job a lot of them i was alone in the desert. a little how do i look to love the hope everybody left it was just me and my children i was suffering. this latest wave joins the more than 1000000 refugees and internally displaced people already here in the kurdish region of northern iraq the government says the international funding it relies on has been cut in half its affecting its ability to provide basic services such as food water education and health care the influx is only adding to the financial pressure. the french foreign minister met the president of the kurdistan regional government on thursday and pledged about $11000000.00 to alleviate the humanitarian emergency it's very soft i said if this is too much we hope the warring parties will get together and talk about peace again and except.

the restaurant again none of the refugees we spoke to are thinking about returning they've lost all hope that syria will ever be the home they remembered before the war they tossed a good name al-jazeera the whole province in the kurdish region of northern iraq. well it's the short rainy season in west africa that usually means flooding. rob now they have this year is no exception short because it's between october november typically sept and oct nov and in abidjan there's a typical example 125 minutes of rain that's in 2 days that's 91 percent to the october average so you can see it happens in big temples and you get lucky as a result. the pictures here coming from just outside just to the east of abidjan and local residents are saying this is climate change sounds a last 2 years imagine this is what the locals are saying in this part of the world

it's not always recognized as it however this is neatest sorry deep rain we're talking about at the moment and that rain comes through in pulses you see principles up during the day as the sun comes sun comes out but the general thrust of the itc's or the band of rain around the world is going science there with the sun so the heaviest rain should be a bit further south we've had flooding in chad in nigeria recently the heaviest rain is in southern got bombed in the last 24 hours and the forecast was sort of reflector the onshore breeze suggests anywhere near the coast is like cheese big showers and it's still from southern chad to nigeria and through out west africa but with the emphasis going slowly surface with the sub summit. all right let's take you now to the british parliament in westminster they can see the speaker of the parliament he's just called deputies i believe now what's

happening is we've just had the end of the last speech by michael gove and deputies are now being called to vote they're going to go out to vote what is happening now the question you might be asking is will they vote what are they voting on let's try and bring andrew simmons into this discussion perhaps you can make it a little bit and so andrew. effectively are they voting now 1st on the elect when amendment is this what is happening. that is what is expected that was on the sched jewel to happen right now it's happening on sched jewel and if that let when amendment is passed then of course that negates the whole purpose of the vote for the deal so basically there will as a technicality there will be a vote on the deal but then that is really not on for it the government is expected to push forward with

a resumption on the issue next tuesday pushing forward with its plan still to go ahead with the deal and come to the house for a vote once it's put into legislation the question is how long that will take going to be pushed through in time to be. to meet the 31st of october deadline possibly not it could go to the point where by the prime minister asked to go to brussels to send a note to brussels to extend the situation and extend the deadline to a time that fits not necessarily right the way to january next year but to a time that fits let me just bring into this conversation. from the daily telegraph bennett's your commissioning editor for brics it you're clearly on the government's side here now what do you see the if this letter when amendment is passed

what is your view of it well if 11 amendment goes through then might as well not be a folk today so the meaningful vote becomes a meaningless vote that's what the government is saying it might as well as well send tory m.p.'s home and they may well pull some called mentary chicanery to make sure there can be no real legitimate vote however if it does this one thing we cannot ignore is that under the law the so-called bad act what the government likes to call the surrender legislation the prime minister will be legally obliged tonight to make sure let's get makes this. way into the hands of donald tusk you council president saying i'd like to delay to access to january by the government prepared to do that as it was made it clear he would really rather not of course it has promised to the courts to obey the law so these 2 things seem very contradictory yes but tell us to take on board the argument that is being made by left win another and these that they need more time this has been pretty much rushed this doing the bricks of issues going on as we don't see in all of this been this new deal that there were no you couldn't show existed over generations on the

economic impact of these different deals. backstops gauntlets were very different but it's new ground surely you can buy into the mix and will buy into the government's line that when you have a deadline there's a rule to say yes decisions get made so much faster in a sense of fine people deciding things get missed as well well actually if you look at the economic assessment we're saying of course missing who really want their minds changed by that because those who think prices terrible and might want to back a deal will still say it's terrible otherwise those who have access to this will still say it's project fear a motorist have been correct analysis anyway so that's a distraction the whole thing really is about this that all of that when the other m.p.'s don't trust the government they think there's going to be some structure where they secure approval for the deal and then that sabotage all the legislation over the next few days leaving them with not enough time to stop and no deal because that power noise that that will happen no sympathy for us this is the level of distrust tolerance biden and then a day that does nothing today that doesn't really surprise you that there is this

level of mistrust when you consider the facts of what's been going on that the that the lies that have actually taken place at high levels of this government actually i think what really with his father's distrust is the government's continued faffing around and not delivering bright says and the now you find it's very possible finally getting behind something you know there seems opponents wanting to make string it out more short not case. very well ready to that they will find the election seeking vengeance backstairs and punishing the remains for holding him back well that's a clear view point you have there a certain thank you very much indeed for venting it but for now we're waiting on the results from this vote hounding you back temporarily to the studio and sammy. yeah andrew i think it's going to be about 10 minutes forget those results and will probably come back to andrew in a moment. meanwhile let's talk a little bit about what's going on elsewhere in the world bolivia's longest serving president is facing a fight for reelection on sunday even more as became bolivia's 1st indigenous

leader 14 years ago his socialist policies are credited with reducing poverty and boosting the economy but his popularity has suffered from allegations of corruption and having too much power as john harshman reports now from. in rural mountain communities in bolivia there remains only one man for the top job going into sunday's elections ever more oil is already the country's longest standing president and still its most popular politician thanks to a consistently growing economy of programs like this one giving low income families the chance to build their own homes. i'm very happy i've worked so long in other people's houses working for the wealthy people and this time it'll be for me. banking on the support that comes from almost having poverty rallies began his bid for a full term in office 3 years ago. but that in itself became

a turning point the moment when his formally overwhelming popularity began to fall serious rally's had to change the constitution to be able to run again 3 put that to the people in a referendum that was close but they said no then he went ahead and did it anyway now he's dealing with the backlash. billions have turned out for huge civil society meetings called bill dolls for more. general was one of the organizers. under the government of a very morale is there's been an excessive concentration of power of all the organs of state and the judiciary under him this means that democracy is completely restricted the electoral body for example responded directly to. the regime so the democratic system suffered permanent damage. is not just what critics say is a slide away from democracy recently bolivia had forest fires that wiped out 5000000 hectares environmentalists say the government's commitment to pacha mama

mother earth is all talk. some of the laws are fine the problem is that i see they're not applied the fires in chicken tinier were due to policies where they wanted to de forest to plant soya beans and produce meat to export to china at the expense of wildlife and the indigenous people there are also been accusations of governmental corruption and conflicts of interest and when the administration of president moralist built this $29.00 storey $34000000.00 skyscraper you can see which towers above the former presidential palace this pink building in front of it many people saw that as a sign of the government's increasing opulent in what is one of the poorest countries in south america. despite the missteps many believe ians like you know since you still see morale is the safe way forward. i think if the president stays in power and these programs will continue before we didn't have them and we

don't know the proposals on the other candidates we've lived with this president and we know that he gives help 6. that may be enough to see him over the finish line john homan how does it look. now funerals are being held for some of the victims of an attack on a mosque in eastern afghanistan explosions killed at least $62.00 people during friday prayers no one's claimed responsibility for the attack in the heart of the taliban says it wasn't involved and is condemning the violence. cities and towns in algeria have seen another outpouring of anger against the ruling elite friday protests were held for the 35th successive friday demonstrators continue to demand the government really itself of anyone linked to former president. who resigned in april and supporters shown for around 100 journalists and activists in detention mozambique's main opposition party is

rejecting the preliminary results of tuesday's general election as the ruling for a limo party sorry for a major victory european union observers are raising concerns about reports of ballot stuffing at some polling stations and an election observer was shot and killed and other tax. fraud in this 'd equation and therefore. not. this kind of. welcome has more from. said that there was widespread ballot stuffing that they found ballots we take for the ruling party that in some polling stations voters were given 4 ballot papers when they came in they described the election as barbaric and they say that they have rejected it they've called for a rerun this is going to test a peace deal that was signed by renard who was formerly

a rebel group and the ruling party just 2 months ago that was meant to finally bring to an end the conflict that was fought here in mozambique in the 19 eighties and the early 1990 s. more than a 1000000 people were killed in that war when army has said that already violated this peace agreement by using intimidation and violence in the elections waiting to find out how the electoral commission and the ruling for limo party will respond. south sudan's opposition leader reg machar has returned to the country to meet with president salva kiir both sides are expected to be discussing outstanding issues just less than a month before a deadline to form a transitional government and morgan has the latest from juba. opposition leader wrecked my chair is in south sudan for his 3rd visit since these deal was signed between him and south sudan's leader salva kiir mayardit last year in sudan's capital sort of tune that the 2 sides are expected to meet to discuss

a number of outstanding issues ahead of the formation of a transitional unity government on november 12th and those issues include the number of state as well as security arrangements which the opposition leader says is vital to be completed ahead of his return to make him feel safe to come and found that transitional unity government in november. dr rick bashar is here based on an invitation from the president to meet the un security council in members of the african union peace and security council in prison kiran break michelle will also said i've been today or tomorrow and discuss issues related to the peace agreement and we confirm that the 2 sides are ready to talk and resolve all the outstanding issues for the sake of stability in south sudan now this comes at a time when south sudan itself is mediating talks between sudan's transitional government and various groups the 2 sides have signed a roadmap to start negotiating after the official peace talks were launched here in the south sudanese capital juba on monday but they are yet to get to the core

issues of the negotiations which include humanitarian access political arrangements and security arrangements and this comes as the 2 sides say that they want to reach a peace deal before the end of the year for the prime minister who was appointed recently and who has pledged to make sure that peace is achieved within the 1st 6 months of the 39 month transitional period. the government is forging ahead with plans to redraw and shrink the boundaries of a protected national park the reserve is home to many endangered species in the sun which conservation groups say will be threatened by plans to open up access for oil exploration colin baker reports. the drive from the nearest city in asia to africa's largest nature reserve takes 2 days in 40 degree heat. is the term that massive and tin touma reserve covers 100000 square kilometers the size of south

korea and was once home to unique wildlife much of which has disappeared. does any most of us dellums even 2 years ago there were thousands of animals in the bush but now they're very few we've been here now for 24 hours we haven't seen anything and everything is destroyed in 2012 after years of pressure by scientists these years government granted the reserves protection development and hunting. but environmental groups say that hasn't stopped poachers. the only tracks al-jazeera saw during a recent visit were from 2 protected species a single newby and blue star bird and a camera shy damages. as well as the motorcycles of suspected poachers. there was no sign of the reserve's most critically endangered animal the addicks antelope 200 roamed this area a decade ago but 6 years later only 3 were found scientists believe 90 percent or

more have been killed by poachers another treasure lies below the sand oil exploration threatens the reserve itself. in june the government said it would redraw the park's borders to allow more oil development after striking a deal with one of the world's largest energy companies china's national petroleum corporation 3 months later president mohamed inaugurated the construction of an oil pipeline running through it is the function the objectives of the reserve hasn't changed the geographic position hasn't changed this is just a redefinition of the limits to optimize the usage of our natural resources because we want to use them for the benefit of the population. for animal conservation groups have called on the government to reverse its decision to remap the reserve in a bid to save the addicks technology is improving all the time and we have ways and means of breeding species well it's too late when there will.