we don't break sick we want to people but the current is appalling so no deal is bad yes this deal is back yes the only thing you like is i'm a right i want to go back to the people and if the people in now say it's we still want to leave you be happy with that would you much happier but of course most hope a 2nd referendum would overturn this particularly if the levi could be split between boris johnson's deal and no deal why you hear well i'm french so we has without me you know 50 a 50 yes i'm where does raise my children have paid my taxes and you are on trade with me and i'm treated like a 2nd class citizen for a deal that's been a wreck the economy and the future of my children we have screwed up big. butts m.p.'s didn't reject boris johnson's deal and they haven't given the country asunder and referendum. all they have done is passed an amendment which requires

boris johnson to request to bret's it deadline extension of 3 months i still write $320.00 to the news to the left $306.00 so the coase have it the eyes have it on the lot. and he breaks it demonstrates his it's taking this as a battle victory even if they fear losing the war. well the many thousands of people who have marched in london on saturday know that what paul newman has just on does not stop rex's but what it does crucially is get them more time and more time means a better chance still a slim on the so they can achieve their aim a 2nd referendum. al-jazeera london. time for a short break here now to say right when we come back will he win the protest vote the man who couldn't even more around this is 14 year grip on power in bolivia why refugee women in jordan to be more that stable it's.

hello there was east west place across much of europe the eastern half is where we've got the sunny skies on the still nice weather out towards the west it is a very different story lots of clouds and some rain and the same time some very strong winds but the winners are a benefit to some is taken down a new key. has really enjoying these strong winds over sea creating some pretty good ways as you can see even though he manages to of a come off his surfboard there but there's certainly more wind in the forecast as through sunday we've got most of his guys across much of the u.k. and the rain is actually by then sweeping across much of mainland europe into northern france and down across into northern spain and portugal and again we'll see more rain here just working its way towards the northwest of italy but look at these guys further to the east on feeling very nice 24 in bucharest 25 celsius in

athens warming up in athens as we go through monday and there's good sunny skies still staying relatively care across the. eastern turkey and then this is a situation monday across much of the west of the mediterranean some strong rain and also the potential for some but not just that because that rain as you might expect it will work its way 1st sunday across areas of libya and then pushing across into the northwest as we head through monday.

welcome back a quick amount of our top stories here on al-jazeera the head of lebanon's christian forces party. has asked his ministers to resign from government crowds of demonstrators celebrated his decision but they're demanding deeper and it could change. pro-democracy activists in hong kong are once again rallying against a ban on face masks during protests some of them are defying it by wearing masks anti government demonstrations started 5 months ago sparked by an extradition bill which was later scrapped. after yet another defeat in parliament british prime minister boris johnson has been forced to ask for an extension from the e.u.

john snow sent a letter to brussels but refused to sign it. at least 3 people have been killed during violent protests in chile the mayor of santiago said the victims died in a fire at a supermarket that had been ransacked the capital cities now under a curfew amid demonstrations against planned price hikes for public transport president sebastian pinera backed down on the increased fares but crowds were still out on the streets the violence prompted an era to declare a state of emergency well it is a chilly and research of the university of cambridge in the plains the government for not listening to protest or concerns this should be a political dialogue this should be certain some sort of. agreements table 2 to talk about these 2 maybe step back with a decision of pricing the 1st of the of the metro that cost all of this but actually that is just tip of the iceberg many things will be defined in the events

of this next 3 days he said because we have tanks in the streets we didn't see that in the last 30 years we have the military in the streets so that might happen something really really damaging for the future of this conversations but there must be some compensation and there must be a process of learning from the political class to understand that people cannot take it anymore because they're not i mean they can't live with this sit with these conditions. now voters in bolivia would choose their next president later on sunday after 14 years in power and even moralities has a fight on his hands to get reelected his rival as a former interim president is attracting support by condemning what he calls his dictatorial leadership john heilemann has more now from. my past year's elections were a walk in the park for ever more rallies bolivia's 1st indigenous president but this time around his 4th things are on comfortably close to his campaign slogan is

a secure future and his socialist policies have always managed to keep the economy growing one of the highest rates in latin america while still so cutting poverty through social programs to me. he says if reelected plans to keep on doing that you know maybe it will. be what we would like to give 5 more years of experience to bolivia so that it continues to grow economically to finish our great project plans like construction of roads and airports. but for the 1st time in a while there's a credible challenger carlos messer a former journalist and prominent intellectual and he's attacking his achilles' heel he's questionable commitment to democracy. i was 13 years almost 14 and there's too much it's too much injustice too much corruption and too much authoritarianism that's leading his towards a dictatorship. it all started with moralist his latest reelection bid after 3

terms in power he needed to change the constitution to run again. he called a referendum to let the people decide now really they said no then he did it anyway . then outraged many and although there are 8 opposition candidates mrs become the figurehead for the discontent but analysts say the former interim president bolivia's lost leader before morale is this if you policies of his own. it was that they feel that they were doing for him even though he hasn't done enough it's a protest vote not a convinced vote he doesn't have a political party he hasn't done a campaign if you show more kind of turn he wouldn't be 8 points down he'd be neck and neck and maybe even beating it will morales a moralist does seem more vulnerable than ever before environmentalist say that recent fires which burnt down 5000000 hectares of forest were helped along by his government's allowance of slash and burn. allegations of corruption have also

tainted his movement to socialism party but so far there's only one favor ever morales is still the from from the here and that's because of his handling of the economy which has consistently grown and poverty which has been significantly cut that's why a lot of people still support him but there are question marks about his approach to democracy itself and votes where his rivals are gaining ground. sunday's vote may not be enough to see moralise home at the latest polls are right this could be close enough to go to a 2nd round. john homan. police of freedom around $150.00 students in northern nigeria where they were reportedly subjected to abuse the school in kaduna claimed to be teaching the koran it's the 4th rescue operation in the past month bringing the total number of students freed from religious schools to more than a 1000 this latest raids expected increase pressure on the government to crack down on new state regulated islamic schools. united nations security council is due to

visit south sudan for the 2nd time since it gained independence in 2011 the visit comes 3 weeks ahead of the formation of a transitional government and as the country tries to recover from 5 years of war. reports in the capital juba. this is the only lifeline for margaret's guy with 4 children to feed and care for she says the high prices in the market make it hard to provide for them. life is hard to support our own children says the wall started my own kids haven't gone to school in 4 years because i couldn't provide school fees for them here were displaced come provide meals and if i get enough then they can go to school. margaret's children dropped out of school a year after the outbreak of civil war in south sudan they are among at least $2000000.00 children missing out on education according to unicef the war began in 2013 when the country's president accused his deputy of attempting

a coup to peace deals have since been signed rights groups estimate over 400000 people were killed in the nearly 6 years of fighting and damage to the economy has left inflation running at over 50 percent it's not just the economy that has suffered as a result of conflict in south sudan in various parts of the country fighting has forced people to leave their homes creating a refugee crisis that has 4000000 people displaced many of them in dire need of aid . in total more than half of the country's 12000000 population now rely on help the u.n. says since the last peace deal was signed there has been improvement but stability is needed to be able to properly cater for them the bureaucratic hassles and that's particularly in the opposition areas and there are stoppages on the road by our government forces particularly in the south of the country and in the northwest.

and improvement and we hope that that would just continue on. last year's peace deal find between president salva kiir and opposition leader rick much are stipulated that a new government be formed by may that deadline was extended to november so all sides could settle on security arrangements and the number of states in the country it was very clear when we made that century when we made the extension it was in there and we had agreed that no more extension so that comes to us in november we are setting up a government. that's sitting out of the government and any other security issues or whatever that aspect saw pops up the agreement wish i might be implemented will be implemented in due course margaret says she feels any discussion about stability has gone on long enough she wants to see peace become a reality not just for her family but also outside unease morgan al-jazeera. spain's acting prime minister has dismissed

a call for dialogue by catalan leaders pro independence supporters protesting for the 6th day in a row on saturday they're angry after separatist leaders were sentenced for their role in a banned independence referendum in 2017. jordan as one of the highest levels of water scarcity in the world a warming planet and growing population are only making the problem worse but is under chapelle reports now from amman there are plenty of people taking matters into their own hands. after fleeing from syria not long after the war began i found herself learning a new trade by accident she's always been good with her hands and decided to sign up for a jewelry making class in the arab it her new home but then something funny happened because one of the arabic phrases for jewelry making is the same as the word for plumbing that i said i was about to leave the workshop with other ladies but then we remembered we had plumbing issues in our homes and through this training we'd get the chance to help ourselves especially when we can't fit men into our way

homes while we were living alone without our husbands and women banded together and found purpose training other syrian and jordanian women to be plumbers more than 600 so far most of her customers households schools and other public facilities are wasting a lot of water not good in a country that sits 2nd in a global list of nations with the highest water scarcity not only hunted the sea we're going to think most people think their leaks are in pipes in the woods because they think it's the only reason why tanks go empty but we always find that the man really isn't as lucky. a broken float valve in a tank like this one can lead to a loss of more than 10 liters per minutes that's all it with running water can waste up to 15 leaders per minute so when countries that are dealing with water scarcity households have a big responsibility to stop the leaks it's estimated that a quarter of the water provided by jordan's business will networks leaks away before it can even be used with more than 10000000 people tapping into

a water supply that's only big enough for $3000000.00 the government rations water to households them with love and people notify us there is a leak in that neighborhood then we go fix it well roads are dug up and pipes replaced the ministry of water and irrigation says households need to help by maintaining their own tanks and fixtures they would say if they would save money in this here and there with us we should try to save i mean for. leaky pipes aren't the only reason of course even more water is lost due to theft jordan's growing population has been over exploiting its supply for decades but these female plumbers are doing their bit to help preserve an increasingly scarce resource and chapelle al-jazeera amman. now a direct flight from new york to australia has touched down in sydney as part of quantas airlines attempts to push the limits of commercial flight the journey took

19 hours and 15 minutes and those onboard will brain monitoring equipment to see how their bodies cope with extended time in the air one hour from andrew thomas. a 70 i 70 some i want 6 right place the last. 7879 landed after more than 19 hours and yeah if as the airline plans new york city becomes a regular route it will be the world's longest. this test flight to taking off with more than 100 tons of fuel on board was 6 pilots but just 50 passengers thing for just to get up an exercise in the back of the plane so we all did like a little spots together and a little nap thing. and then they just had the lights on really really bright and then they shut the lights and we have that 10 hours display every child's qantas airlines described this as a research flight one where passages and crew were monitored for almost

a full day and a full night's sleep yeah there was your i collection on boards which was completed all throughout the flight where wearing a number of senses with passengers to were tested but for them it was hardly a typical experience everyone on this flight a seat in basements with a flight so although they were encouraged to the ground and spent parts of the flight sitting in the economy section no one had to endure being squeezed into the middle of an economy road for almost 20 hours was this really primarily a scientific experiment all about publicity a marketing exercise. it was a. research flight i mean the whole idea and the concept came from these guys who said we need to do this we want to see that this does work and then we thought we could do something with passengers at the same time as looking at. the pilots and the cabin crew and there we thought was since we are doing it we notice a lot going to be a lot of worldwide interest but it would be overwhelmed with the worldwide interest

the aircraft that ran this flight a boeing 787 wouldn't if bush had been able to make the 16000 kilometer journey regular service is a white a new plane either the triple 7 x. promised by boeing or a modified a 350 made by airbus commercial services also need regulate tree approval and a new deal over working conditions between qantas and its pilots union but if ultra long haul flights start new york to sydney won't be the longest along london sydney it's also planned will be a test flight of that fruit next month after thomas al-jazeera sydney. time for a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera pro-democracy activists in hong kong are once again rallying against a ban on face mosque during protests some of the modifying it by wearing mosques

have been skirmishes with police who have used tear gas and government demonstrations started 5 months ago plan extradition bill that was made to shell. agent brown has more now from hong kong. many of the people here are taking an enormous risk and of course this is an unauthorized protest which means it's. illegal which means that any one of these people run risk of being average listed and yet as you can see people are continuing to define the authorities they are not doing a fight large numbers here. on sunday afternoon tens of thousands of people i would estimate and i think it's important for the organizers of this demonstration to show good in effect this to the steam to this protest movement the head of lebanon's christian forces party summit his ministers to resign from government crowds of demonstrators celebrated the announcement but then demanding what happened it could change. it's only growing very large protests not just here in

the lebanese capital but across the country people taking to the streets staying in the streets until the early hours of the morning and as you can see behind me they're returning to the streets so the message they are giving is that this is not going to end we will continue to demand the resignation of the government and not just the resignation of the government but a new political elite turkey says one of its soldiers has been killed in northern syria it says it happened during a reconnaissance mission and comes despite a truce turkey's president has vowed to press on with his offensive in syria and crush kurdish forces if they don't withdraw my proposed safe zone under a deal brokered with the us kurdish fighters have to leave an area 32 kilometers deep into syria. after yet another defeat in parliament british prime minister barak's johnson has been forced to ask the e.u. to delay bragg's it johnson a simple letter to brussels but refused to sign it. freud so those are the

headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after inside story statement that's the watching like a. on counting the cost the $7.00 would tweet the proof he wants to break how trying to silence his critics denies access to its 14 trillion dollar economy the cost of hiring an oil tanker is soaring for the lazy and fishermen facing some actual losses. counting the cost is iraq. is there a solution to lebanon's crisis protesters are demanding an overhaul of the political system the prime minister blames rival groups in his government for blocking reforms and has given them 72 hours to find a way out all their hopes for meaningful and economic change this is inside story.

hello and welcome to the program i'm mr. outraged defiant and united behind a demand for political change lebanese people from all religious and political backgrounds according for the prime minister the president and of the leaders to resign they say they want to revolution many criticizing their own political leaders something unprecedented in a country divided by thick tarion as in 2 days and nights of the longest protests in years with bought by tax reforms including charging to use phone calls on the social media said this whatsapp that plan was quickly scrapped but there are other longstanding grievances they include high unemployment constant electricity shortages poor infrastructure and corruption the protests are a challenge to the unity government and prime minister saad hariri he's blaming parties in his coalition obstructing reforms required to unlock in they've been $1000000000.00 in aid pledged by international to end their job or merely i'm

giving our partners in the government a very short deadline 72 hours to give us a solution that can convince us and the people in the streets and our international partners. correspondent anahata has more from beirut. day 3 of the protests people are still defiant despite a government crackdown security forces and the army on late friday used heavy handed tactics to disperse the crowd and forcibly open highways which were blocked by burning tires people here continued to demand the resignation of the government they chant told us our revolution revolution but it's easier said than done because the response from the ruling alliance has been we are clinging on to power the hezbollah led and the hezbollah movement which really leads the ruling alliance the message from the secretary general was very clear you cannot topple the ruling

alliance people here were very angry they consider this as a challenge as a veiled threat saying that if we decide to protest the balance of power will change so basically dismissing the 10s of thousands of people who have been out on the streets demanding for better economic conditions hezbollah's the solution is that the government officials will find another way apart from taxing the poor to raise much needed government revenues but people here want a change in the system but in the words of hassan nasrallah even if there is a new government it will be the same political forces that will make up this government that to a certain extent there is a reality to that because the political elites they've been ruling this country for decades there's really no alternative to the civil society has tried to make some sort of a comeback but they haven't been able to do that so it seems officials are working behind the scenes to find some sort of a compromise people here will not be appeased by that definitely but then we could probably expect the security forces to even use even more heavy handed tactics in

order to calm the street so really difficult times and it's on it's unclear what is going to follow but what is clear the balance of power is in the hands of the they really authority. center for their friends. story. well let's take a look at some of the problems that been on has the world's 3rd highest debt level and more than a 3rd of under 30 five's are unemployed the government is accused of failing to provide basic services with domestic waste piling up in the streets and generators needed to overcome electricity blackouts lebanese were further infuriated when the government needed foreign help to battle the west wildfires in decades because fire fighting helicopters were grounded long running political instability has shaken investor confidence and made it harder to revive the economy that's led to shortages of dollars and threatened pensions another drain on the economy is looking off to one and a half 1000000 syrian war refugees. well let's have a listen to what some of the protesters in the streets have been saying. there is

no future for jobs and this is not acceptable anymore we have stood up for a long time and now it's time to talk and this is the goal of this was the these people did not take to the streets to cause riots and chaos but to express their pain and suffering caused by this political situation but none of. the regime must be toppled from the top of the pyramid it's not useful if just one goes away we're hungry and tired we have no social security we don't have anything i don't believe that this city did that because i'm 60 years old every day i go to beirut just so i can feed my family these politicians pass in front of me and no one looks at me we want to overthrow the government the regime and the parliament. well let's introduce our panel of guests who are all in lebanon's capital beirut so by skype we have my yahia who is the director of the carnegie middle east santa ana corey a political activist and also by skype sami nada an economist and author director

of the 11th institute for strategic affairs welcome to you all well run out starting with you these problems have been going on for some time now what's been the tipping point what sports you all out onto the streets i think 1st hello and thank you for having me i think there is. a lot of bad performance a lot of belittling of the people's minds throughout the years and i think the people who are ready to say we had enough they were ready because they clearly had enough more poverty less freedoms more oppression it was too much now a lot of people are linking it to the decision of or the discussion within the government of the what's up tax i think this is just another tax that the people said we've had enough of we're not going to be the price we're not responsible of the bad management of this economy it's been going on for years we gave this

mandate 3 years as a chance it's just collapse even more and that's it so it was i don't think that was the main reason i think the whole performance of the government and then there was a lot of. bad decisions one after the other a lot of bad. behavior with the people a lot of activists were put it throughout the year 2001960 activists and journalists were asked to come to secure to the security forces interim just because of a facebook status more taxes no employment very bad behavior towards the people i think all of this have or had to come out 20 well you mentioned bad economic management there and i was taking a look at the numbers and they're pretty extraordinary lebanon's public debt is now equal to more than 153 percent of g.d.p. the 3rd highest level in the world so dollar reserves depleted the country is now staring down the barrel of a possible devaluation of the lira sammy how did we get here we did it to you

because for the 8 year in a row it started in 2011 there's. a very delicate situation and banjo situation that went deficit i mean on one side you have the budget deficit which shared each. very. worrying levels the budget of the balance of payments you have more. dollars all sora gonna see getting out of the accounts they've been getting. invest that to the situation with where we are today and last straw. a good horse which is barry did not increase one percent so we are that big the until the 8 year in a row and then a deep recession and this is to no stated by how another. unemployment this what takes the people to the street today but the absence

of the 4 was the one major reason why this is what should budget deficit up to growing and widening deficit of balance of payment now what's very important and this is one major slogan and this 3. day want that change all steady zeman when they say they want to change and don't get easy they need to change i'll step out and upgrade an operating system which is 60 very young based what we called and that a big news on one hoss are whereby the political forces in in the 6 get him to who they are because and think on emptying their treasure what resources of country and. district and university and is the other thing of production well i do want to ask a little more about the economic crisis and then we're going to move on to some of

the other political issues because i i understand that harry has been doing the rounds and paris abu dhabi trying to often money to solve some of these problems and both western governments and gulf countries seem to be not terribly wanting to bail out again so is this a case of government saying to beirut enough is enough. very much so i think it's saying to the current ruling elite these are you get your act together particularly i think the position of european governments there was a you know. mecan ism that's what established a couple of years ago too and around 11000000000 were pledged to lebanon through sad some of them were grand some of them were soft loans long term soft loans with favorable interest rates none of this funding has been released because it's contingent on reform until now that the floor has not been forthcoming so

what the message that they wrote is getting is enough is enough you need to get your act together you need to undertake painful but necessary reforms. in order to for the something to be released and in order for us to continue supporting the country now for the international community to their core they're sort of all support the tween a rock and a hard place because they're obviously much other not have another failed state on their hands in this region but at the same time there's been so much support coming to lebanon all of the past few decades. and much of this continues to be mismanaged both economically and politically well there's no yes right and i think unless unless these reforms are undertaken we're not going to see any funding coming this way there has been an irony is conventional rather than these issues for some time now though but now we're hearing the word unprecedented in relation

to these protests so stay with you talk me through what's different this time around because i know we've seen kids coming out with with families in the streets we've had people calling out their own sectarian leaders by name so talk us through what's different that we're seeing now. i think what's very different are a couple of things one is the spread and the location of these protests they're happening across national territory and not just in the main cities there where they were very spontaneous so it's not a political party that's been calling for people to take this to the streets and perhaps most importantly is we're seeing criticism of the political leadership coming from the community that they're supposed to. be in control offs so we're seeing protests against the will of those hezbollah and from within the shia community the same within the christian community within the

sunni community. what people going to the streets have been saying this is not about religion it's not about sex actually you want to bring down this sectarian regime that this of the sectarian political regime we're fed up and the way sectarianism has been used by the political elite to siphon off funds from the state in a sense what sammy described as his arm of the house or saw i mean you get to peace and i get a decent return so i think these are the things that are very much i'm president of and that sense they're also let's not forget they're an accumulation i mean this is coming at a certain ticking point for the country we've been there's been a lot of the session of a potential economic collapse and the country people are scared and they're worried that if the euro collapses then this means their savings will be wiped out the future of they won't be able to provide for their children their for the church of

their own children will be in jeopardy not to mention that their own. already precarious standards of living will plummet down once more figure that was nice to few weeks ago that the public school system has seen an 18th. cent increase in woman by lebanese kids this is an indication because historically lebanese families that provide have preferred a private school system this is one small indication that they can no longer afford to send their children to private schools and it tells you it's also an indication of how their spreadsheets and power and their spending power is deteriorating basically well there are clearly a lot of issues and ron i'm going to come to you now because these protests that are dealing with some of these issues well all of these issues are leaderless it's a social movement by my understanding so far so how unified are the protesters and

how concrete are the demands of all these protesters and i understand that this is about calling for an end to the entire political system but but is there a suggestion about what an alternative would be. so i think what what unites the protestors and this is very important is the general of the suffering of all of lebanon and this is very important what we are seeing is there was a gravitation of the different sectarian political leaders the people have been very clement to try this new deal that brought the president on to the presidency between hezbollah between heavy between our own and other parties as well it's not working the gap is getting bigger and bigger they're only getting richer they're only getting more oppressive towards the people and the people are getting poorer they are getting more oppressed and this is not working there is a solution of course there is an economic solution i'm sure that it has a lot to see in this but 1st thing we are saying we are not being as people for the taxes that the rich can't be people with profits can't be banks can't be an economy

can't pay so we will not pay for this bad management and now we are seeing there is in need for the government of all this this mehndi the government because this government represents the whole political class from the president to hezbollah to haiti and the rest we want them to resign we want a government that cares about the people to come and find a solution to this horrendous crisis we are in and then we take it further from there we're not saying this is very easy but we are saying this is possible and it's possible there are a lot of good people in this country that care about this country that can take it a step because where we are now is the rock bottom right mark coming to you but i believe we have just lost sami nada so we are going to continue this discussion with just you and rana picking up there on what ron a was saying is this about changing the people in government or changing the whole political system itself because there aren't that many alternatives on the table by

my understanding i think changing the people in government will do a lot. it's the same political elite that's been running the government the country for the last since the end of the su. war in 199-989-1900 it's pretty much the same political elite so removing them and bringing some other people who are affiliated with will not do much in all honesty. the call to have a took technocratic government i.e. government made of experts also will not do much because unless we have a very solid political backing for them in a way that will allow them to undertake the kind of reforms to the painful reforms that are needed structural reforms to the way the country is governed both politically and economically then that'll work pretty much either so the alternatives really is to change the system but i don't think i mean to my mind i

think it's very difficult to change the system under the current circumstances so what i would see is some sort of incremental steps towards that goal and this is something i think that needs to be discussed thoughts flew a lot more clearly in terms of what the steps would look like how one how would one go about all the warning system that is at heart. a climb to listed with a clear identity in other words the sectarian power sharing is deeply ingrained in the within within the climb to the networks of the country and that have been does are responsible for siphoning the country's financial resources so i think that there is a fundamental challenge there and the impasse we find ourselves and today is not

one that is easily so mountable the question to my mind is what will the next steps be on the part of the government hasn't israel has made his 1st comment since these protests began. let's take a lesson when actually they are well not it's wrong to see that the government has no other choice than imposing taxes if we call paree give priority to the economic state we'll be able to see our country we don't want the government to resign if it does it will take one or 2 years to form a new one and the economic crisis will worsen so he's clearly saying no resignations there but he's also been calling for a plan and which the rich poor leaders and banks would sacrifice to end the crisis what does he mean by that and is that likely 1st what does it mean it will take 2 years to form a new government whose it if they have good faith and they are saying we can't grab a date all of them said it there are veto powers inside the government we are not

being able to serve the people the way we should so who is this it who will make what will take one or 2 years to form a government that cares about the people what we are saying is you have to resign now the mend it needs to end right now it's an era that didn't work we want a new government new people in power that will make us get out of this crisis and yes there is an economic way of getting back money of taking money that is not from the people we talked about progressive taxes we spoke about taxes on profits of the banks we spoke about the rent he's economy and how there are a lot of apartments that are empty in this in this city alone in beirut i'm sure in the rest of lebanon as well there are properties under sea shore that are illegal that could be taxed as well all of this could happen we can stop putting people in jail for their opinions we can stop now yesterday people were put in jail and now there were people who were arrested right now because they were protesting we can

stop doing that in new government if there is a good faith from the people because the people in power and this is also something we have to understand yes they were elected in the. meant to be elections but this doesn't mean that people are not angry and this doesn't mean that people voted for many reasons and this doesn't mean that today we have the right to say we've had enough and this cloud of these sectarian leaders is not working it didn't work it created a war it's not working it's created poverty it's it's a bunch of corrupted mafia leading the country so what hezbollah is saying is a bit weird taking into account that they are part of the same class of political leaders of political elite they are ministers they are in the parliament they are in other power in situations in this government so we can't the when when they talk about not taking responsibility they should be the 1st one as well taking this

responsibility and say it's not working we have to get out tomorrow one of the other things that nasrallah said was that if hezbollah then takes to the streets the supporters of hezbollah that would change the balance of power on the streets and they have already been reports of militia men from other political factions trying to confront or intimidate protesters so how real is the threat of a confrontation on the streets as you see it i think we see confrontations on the streets with or we're only seeing it and some parts of the south of lebanon for example here we've been getting a lot of reports this morning and swore that. some of the gunmen have been taking to the streets intimate and intimidating protesters however this is not going i mean that there is a small genie that's been at out of the bag people are not intimidated anymore they're not scared to say we know you've been. you know stealing from us for decades now we may see the same phenomena in other parts of the country where the

diehard supporters of the current political elites will stand for their sectarian representatives however what's wrong i was saying. which is there is a need for new blood new faces ame government there is there there is a desperate need for a new approach to the political and economic governance of the country we are at an impasse but it doesn't mean that there is no way out if you like in addition to the things that's why i mentioned there are lots of fundamental reforms that can be done within the current budget that would reduce the budget deficit in a substantial way these things are not being done because the current political leadership is still using state funds the projects that are run by state institutions as well as the institutions as a way to siphon off funding for its own purposes this is coming at

a time also when the you know there's a global financial or the the decline and on the economic front region leave the region. in considerable charm or in the traditional sources of funding memorandums here i am going to interrupt you there because i know i have one last very quick question and we are running out of time and i would i do want to ask ron of this if in the next 72 hours or as this deadline passes and if they manage to find some kind of agreement and they unlock this $11000000000.00 of magic money that could solve some problems will the protests stop them run a very briefly yes or no if this happens that they have been fooling us for the past 3 years of this mandate and they have getting people poorer and poorer and oppressing people whereby they can find solutions in 72 hours and if this happens then this is a big lie and then this is what they have been doing for 3 years is actually the most hypocritical government that ever existed we've tried them for 3 years for 30

years as mass said after the civil war our generation is not paying the price for what's being done before we want a change and we were. wanted now we have nothing more to lose nothing and that's where we'll leave our discussion today will continue watching all of this very closely thanks to all of our guests my yahia runa corey and sammy nada who was with us earlier and thank you too for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our website al-jazeera dot com and for further discussion do go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com ford slash a.j. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter and our handle is at a.j. inside story for meanest and the whole team here i. rewind

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i. am going there on the streets cabinet ministers asked to quit the coalition the pressure grows on lebanon's leaders to fix the economy. boris johnson is forced to send a letter to the e.u. to delay bragg's it says he didn't sign it. could this man and his 14 year grip on power in bolivia. now been more violent scenes on the streets of hong kong as pro-democracy activists running against a ban on face mask during protests but these are live pictures from the county an area of the city and some use tear gas to try to control the protesters and to

government demonstrations began 5 months ago by an extradition bill which is like a scrapped the protests have widened calling for more democratic rights but i john brown joins us live now from hong kong adrian this is clearly a very big turnout on the streets of hong kong today but how much of a risk is it for people to be taking part in this protest right now. well it's risky to be on the streets right now for all sorts of reasons in the past few minutes the pieces. fired several volleys of tear gas that tear gas coming from chin south joy police station the main police station in this area and of course it's risky for the protesters to be on the streets because many of them have their faces covered they're wearing face masks and the purpose of this demonstration today was to protest against the ban and people who wear face mask in hong kong on a protest like this run the risk of being fined or worse it's also a risk because this is an unauthorized demonstration it didn't have approval it was

effectively banned but the leaders of the group that all going to use this march decided to go ahead with it anyway i'm right now daryn nathan road normally the tourist hub of this city asia's financial hub but at the moment as you can see it's occupied by a large groups of people many of them dressed in black they've been building barricades what we're seeing here now is really following a familiar pattern that we've seen during the past 20 weekends of protests it starts peacefully but then as the afternoon wears on inevitably there is violence now we've seen a number of entrances to train stations vandalized the softer noon that also happened last weekend and indeed in previous weekends but also there's been very much an international theme to this protest many of the protesters have been thanking the world for the support that hong kong has been shown by the international community also we've seen lots of people holding the the flag of

catalonia they say that catalonia has been supporting the people of hong kong and hong kong supports of people of catalonia and of course plenty of people waving the stars and stripes flag of the united states a reminder that they still believe that the united states in many ways could be key to trying to resolve this crisis and i didn't does the size of the demonstration suggest that the movement is certainly not running out of steam. yes i think you're right i think it was important for the organizers of this protest the the civic human rights group for there to be a large turnout today because they wanted to show that in fact this protest movement still does have a lot of steam well i think in many ways said their prayers have been answered it has been a massive turnout but it's brought with it i have to say a lot of disruption a number of train stations have been closed and really the main thoroughfares in

calhoun remain closed at the moment that's to say the the the main roads like nathan road here you know so i think it's going to be probably a very long night for it to age and ground there in hong kong agent thank you. now turkey says one of its soldiers has been killed in northern syria it says it happened during a reconnaissance mission and comes despite a truce in the area turkey's president has vowed to press on with the offensive in northern syria and crush kurdish forces if they don't withdraw from a proposed safe so a lot to deal brokered with the u.s. kurdish fighters have to leave an area 32 kilometers deep into syria. joins us live now from sunny leone that's near turkey's border with syria charles's day for the end of this ceasefire just bring us up to date with what's happening on the ground itself. well the word a cease fire certainly seems to be holding we're getting reports of was described

as sporadic gunfire in certain places most most notably that town of russell i ain we can't confirm whether in fact these are crashes or indeed celebrate tree fall or in fact munitions being destroyed which is very much part of this u.s. brokered agreement that says that kurdish forces must move back out of that security zone that proof proposed turkish security zone 444 kilometers wide along the border around 30 kilometers deep i think what's notable though is it's fair to say that this pullback by kurdish forces is exceedingly slow and they do not seem to be pulling back from areas all the areas that the turkish military forces want them to we know that the s.d.f. said that they agreed with this deal that was put together by the u.s. but at the same time said that they would only pull back their forces from what

they describe as the conflict zone between russell i and talab yard which is a stretch of only around 100 kilometers long so there are concerns there that certainly the kurdish forces are very reluctant to move. back we've heard in the last few minutes a statement from the turkish defense minister again doubling down on those statements we heard from president or the one yesterday saying that. the turkish defense ministry doesn't want a single kurdish fighters to be in that area of that proposed safety zone by the end of this 5 day cease fire which is choose day night and we heard president order one last night say that if that not be the case that if they don't move then military the military operation will resume as the u.s. defense secretary been talking about relocating american soldiers what more is he been saying. let's not forget that the

initial announcement to withdraw all u.s. forces for mold in syria was made by president trump in december 2018 there was a delay and then we saw on october the 7th this announcement by president trump that some forces some u.s. soldiers should withdraw from that area close to the border it was literally a couple of days later that we saw this turkish military offensive start on the kurds accused the u.s. of stabbing them in the bank but it's also not forget that those forces the kurds were in the words of the u.s. led coalition highly successful in the battle against eisel in recent years but certainly it seems now that the u.s. are going ahead with pulling out what is believed to be just under a 1000 u.s. troops and they have a listen to what the u.s. defense secretary has to say about that. i had

a discussion last week with my french counterpart and i had a conversation with the nato secretary general we both agreed on the importance of continuing the 15 isis campaign and we agreed to have a meeting on it this week in brussels and so i think that's important we plan to continue that certainly will be discussed the military level is what does the next phase of the counter isis campaign look like and and i know that's at the top concern of mine 2nd only to protection of our forces coming out of syria but we've got to work for those details and that's again a principal reason why i'll be meeting with our allies and partners this week. let's just look at the facts here marcus but they're saying he's unsure as to what the next stage of the battle against isis will look like the fact of the matter is is that there are almost daily attacks by isis sleeper cells in iraq if indeed

these forces these u.s. forces go to iraq specifically in areas like province and salaam who didn't province also don't forget that there's been a lot of pressure on the iraqi government to get those u.s. forces that are already in iraq between 5 and 6000 out of the country and those pressures on the iraqi government have increased since we've seen this increase in tension between the u.s. and iran i think it's fair to say that the main beneficiary of this statement by the u.s. that they are indeed pulling these troops out will be russia russia has not wanted u.s. forces in syria since their arrival so yeah it's fair to say that certainly the russians the assad government and all the way the turks will benefit from this announcement or i touch on stratfor there on the turkey syria border charles thank you. now protesters demanding political reform in lebanon have been given an unexpected

boost the head of the christian forces spot to summit as all his ministers to resign from the government because of demonstrate to celebrate to the announcement but they're demanding deep political change tens of thousands of taken to the streets across lebanon since thursday to protest against tax increases alleged political corruption let's get the latest now from santa she's in the lebanese capital beirut santa so last night was the biggest protests we've seen so what's this telling us about the men some of the demonstrations and. well as you can see behind me it's day 4 and the protesters are back on the streets you mentioned the south tonight is how did a nice protest a very large turnout not just in the lebanese capital but across the country and in many cities across the country the message these people are giving the government is we will continue to demand that the resignation of the government or standing outside government palace people here are defiant it is

a message to the prime minister how do you need who didn't resign on friday but gave this political partners out to monday to come up with a new budget plan that will not involve taxing the poor or imposing new taxes on gasoline but people say this is not enough we don't trust the political leadership anymore we want to early elections but this is easier said than done this is a spontaneous protest leader less protests those in power have been in power for decades they exploit the state's resources that is how they maintain support through the strike by fighting so even if there isn't a lot trail those people will have access to the money. you know trying to make sure that they're there hard core supporters continue to back them and while there are tens of thousands in fact some people even say hundreds of thousands in the street there is hundreds of thousands of others who are still backing the polls the different political party.