so there is a lot of discontent and if you see how many people have to work to pay their bills how many people have to work to get a small pension and still work sometimes and build their 80 years old 'd people who study one university study and they still have to pay the debts over 50 years so you can say well they have a higher income per capita in chile that doesn't matter because they are still so much inequality and also the response of the authorities in these protests which we have been very violent of course deploying the army. has just provoked more violence and more aggressions by these protestors were staying in latin america bolivia's longest serving president could know in the next few hours if you keep his job or not votes are being counted in what's expected to be a tight race as a former seeks a 4th term in office the former president carlos messer could face could force a 2nd runoff poll in december or others of course believe his 1st indigenous leader

during his 13 years in power they has been strong economic growth but he is still dogged by corruption charge scandals and his refusal to accept a referendum on limiting presidential term john heilemann with the latest now from the parts hi john mentioned there the fact that he is the 1st indigenous president is that still significant is it still important for him in this election. i think it is in some ways in which more than half the country is indigenous or from indigenous to descent and when you think that he's been the 1st indigenous president in the country with that sort of numbers that speaks to the discrimination that that part of the population has faced in the past in bolivia and particularly early on in his mind it was a real sense of pride and vindication and someone from one of the country's indigenous groups had risen to that position a sense that my children i can achieve to now that has sort of diluted with time

there's been things like roads and indigenous lands reservoirs built in other areas indigenous people from several groups of protested against that sort of thing and just recently there's been the fires in the chicken town the a forest 5000000 hectares destroyed and among all of that the homes of some groups of indigenous people so this sort of a fractured sense here that one hand he is from indigenous descent and that does keep him some sort of advantage and other indigenous groups thinking that he's betrayed that somehow he isn't on their side so this is another sort of complex picture coming into this election and is there important john in the regions of bolivia the euro has seen the tappable there in urban region urban versus versus rural areas the different people the different places around the country. definitely his support seems to be high in rural areas but also he does have

support in urban areas as well we were in a city called aloud to which is another important city in bolivia just earlier today where he also has in the past enjoyed quite a lot of support a lot of people have migrated from rural areas to the city and there's a lot of traders there in the city people in the informal economy and his government hasn't really clamp down on that he hasn't really tried to make them pay taxes 62 percent of people in the informal economy so he's got support there but let's take it out a little bit bigger as well and talk about the region of latin america the countries around now in the early 2000 or audience who remember that it was a pink tide a group of socialist leaders in latin america america and the region really started to sort of turn left well president ever moralise is really one of the last left of those leaders at the start the rest of it died like president hu charges or they're out of power now so if he wins and he is the favorite to do so he still in these

elections he's really going to have to look at what sort of alliances he wants to make in the region the good news for him is that he's always been pragmatic an example is that he went to the swearing in of joe uble sonando the president of brazil and when you look at those 2 on the political spectrum they really couldn't be more opposite so this is a president who in the past has made alliances with where every camera he russia and china as well if carlos missa who is more centrist sort of old school intellectual and someone that was interim president gets into power he's had some problems even making alliance with the opposition parties within the country to try and solidify his support so he's going to have a big job making alliances in the region around believe you're latin america thank you for that update john homan in the pilot's. and hundreds of people in venezuela's capital caracas have been mourning the death of an opposition activist

and former community leader. rather the bullet ridden body was found after he'd been missing for 24 hours his body also been set on fire opposition leader one says the government of president nicolas maduro is behind the killing here's what's coming up for you this hour running out of patience hong kong's protest movement resurgence with a warning to china and divided over independence we asked catalans outside of barcelona what they think about the protest movement. plus your sports news in the fairy tale ends for japan at the rugby world cup with the action from their match against south africa. now in syria kurdish fighters and civilians are being evacuated from a strategic town near the border with turkey opening the way for turkish bank rebels to take over the kurds departure from is a major condition of

a cease fire deal brokered between the u.s. and turkey ankara wants to establish its so-called safe zone in the area and says it will start attacking kurdish forces again if the evacuation isn't completed by tuesday evening charles strafford with more now from the turkey syria border. well certainly according to a statement released now by the f.d.a. those kurdish forces today saying that there are no estie if the fight is left in russell lane they say that they left along with what we understand could well be at least a couple of 100 civilians wounded civilians wounded fighters in the 2nd to calm voice the 1st one having gone in yesterday. so yes the s.d.f. saying that their fighters have now with rule from that town. just to talk a little bit about russell i and it's been the focus of some of the heaviest fighting in the build up to this cease fire. we saw predominately what was

believed to be part of the story syrian fighters these are the free syrian army fighters that have created a full frontal just fight fighting alongside the turks they effectively surrounded that city that was besieged. for well over a week so there were huge concerns for the civilians trapped inside a great relief that they are out now but what remains to be seen and what needs to be attention. needs to be focused upon is the fact that the president or the one wants this has proposed a safety zone to be 440 kilometers along the border and around 30 kilometers deep inside syria what we understand is that according to the s.d.s. they had agreed to withdraw all their fighters from russell line to tell lobby which effectively is around 120 kilometers in distance between the 2 so we're having some analysts estimating that only around the very most 25 percent of the

area within that proposed safety zone. forces have moved out from that area when you have threats from the president of iran saying that effectively in 48 hours. this temporary ceasefire. ends and if those forces haven't haven't left that have been full military operations will resume draws great great attention to the concerns of united nations and aid agencies for the work in this area the tension potentially hundreds of thousands more civilians that will be trapped in another conflict. what are his offensive in syria has now displaced more than a 1000000 people and their main is the syria spokesman for save the children and says the humanitarian need on the ground is immense and we are seeing at least 1300000 people in need systems and now in the last 10 to 12 days we have seen

another 161 we're going to 70000 feet off actually these days these numbers while they may look as if they happened elsewhere as well they are particularly. crisis now because of the falling so to be able to deal with 160000 people over 10 days to find shelter for them and find them places to sleep to eat to attend to the medical needs in some cases nutrition for the children and to be able to do all of that within these kind of weather conditions is very very difficult. now at least 10 people have been killed by artillery fire along the line of control that divides the disputed region of kashmir officials from india and pakistan accused each other's armies of starting the latest exchange of fire funerals have now been held for some of the victims several homes were damaged as well as tension

high ever since india revoked the semi autonomous status of the kashmir territory under its control. u.s. defense secretary mark at spurs made an unannounced visit to afghanistan he held talks with the defense minister and president musharraf then the u.s. president donald trump abruptly broke off talks with the taliban last month as the espers says the u.s. wants to get a political agreement also says washington could reduce its troops in afghanistan from 14000 to just over 8000 without affecting counterterrorism operations more from rosalind jordan now in washington. the visit to kabul is the 1st for the new u.s. defense secretary mark esper he's been on the job for a couple of months but he has already been dealing with the issues of the continued u.s. military presence in that country some 14000 u.s. troops are stationed in afghanistan one to train the local military to help it build its capacity and the other to take part in the nato led operation to carry

out counter terrorism activities so that groups such as the taliban or al qaeda cannot reconstitute and carry out attacks against their countries of course this is a situation where the u.s. has been trying to come to some sort of peace accord with the taliban before the taliban reaches its own peace accord with the afghan government but those talks have been rocky ground as it were because the taliban carried out an attack in early september which killed one u.s. soldier at that time the u.s. president donald trump said that he could not countenance the u.s. has continued negotiations with a partner that was in fact attacking u.s. interests and u.s. persons but there is a larger recognition in the u.s. government that trying to get an eventual peace deal with the taliban is necessary if the u.s. wants to remove its troops eventually from the country one thing the pentagon has

been saying in the meantime that tentative plans to cut the number of u.s. forces from 14000 to about 8000 are conditions based and there's no plan as of right now to actually remove 6000 forces from afghanistan it really is going to depend on the diplomatic circumstance michael o'hanlon senior fellow and director of research in foreign policy the brookings institution he told us the u.s. will have to compromise its position to get the taliban back to the negotiating table. well you know people have been paying lip service to a peace deal for at least 10 years and people have been saying the only way out is a political solution and almost everyone uses those words i wouldn't be surprised if other brookings scholars and of al-jazeera anchors use those words but when you get right down to it if those words mean anything they have to mean precisely what you said even if it's distasteful that you're giving taliban leaders some kind of

political standing that they did not observe a painting or deserve at the ballot box and that frankly at a moral level they don't deserve at all because they've been causing so much damage to their country for so long but when you compromise in a battle that hasn't been won decisively by either side that is inherently what you're doing so the question now is can there be some kind of power sharing that preserves major elements of the gandhi government and the afghan constitution and democratic system but does what you say and also gives a certain amount of power to the taleban where we've seen has a lot of the sort of partly a player within the state but also partly without outside the state and we've also seen a guaranteed representation for different groups you know christians sunni and shia over the years and maybe you create that kind of a guarantee of at least partial power for the taleban even though they did not earn it and one of the natural wonders of the womb is you might not know this the hills

of northwestern iran and they found that it is the land just water filled cave anywhere and once could have been a candidate for becoming a unesco world heritage site not anymore and scientists often reports villages say commercialisation is to blame. dinosaurs still walked the earth when spring water began cutting through rock to create what is today the largest water filled cave in the world in the heart of houma don province elise other cave is an estimated 150000000 years old local historian say shepherds from a nearby village began using it for water and shelter around 900 years ago it's been open to visitors since the 1970 s. . roughly the length of 280 olympic sized pool most of it is only accessible by boats in some places the water is so deep it could fit a 3 story building big out of the visitor numbers are controlled to protect the cave ecosystem bring food in is not allowed algae that gradually grows inside the

cave due to body heat and light is controlled as well the 1st priority is preserving the cane then providing services to visitors provincial government has spent the last decade cashing in on the caves pulling power with hopes of attracting even more visitors this is the largest part of a lease other cave that is open to the public people that are mapping these caverns know that the network of tunnels keep going but much of this cave remains unexplored and inaccessible to preserve the delicate ecosystem some sections are off limits 3 restaurants that were once inside the cave were shut down to control pollution but using the cave as an economic engine to drive the local economy has led to the in evitable clash of humans and nature despite the best efforts of its caretakers there is evidence of commercial interests leading to environmental consequences. of the it was last year almost 1000000 people visited the caves one of the items we look at the tourist sites is visit to numbers and it ranks high as

all of us and naturally the government took some measures welcomed by tourists and open air mall souvenir shops cafes theme park rides a hotel even a celestial observatory all the 1st things visitors see when they step out of the car the entrance once you get to it looks less like the mouth of an ancient cave and more like an airport complete with ads for other attractions there's a nearby zoo visitors can go see next. people living in the village of say commercialization is what cost the community a chance at unesco world heritage status. last year a group came here from unesco but unfortunately they raised 2 shortcomings the entrance of the cave is ugly and needs to be. and the steps built inside the cave should have been made from the original materials to preserve its original form at the edge of the villages the original entrance to the cave abandoned buildings once a market now falling down while the village has experienced economic progress unesco status is something that would have been

a game changer for this small community the rush to replace the old with the new for those living here is a door that is now closed and an opportunity missed is in basra the older 0 aliso their village in hama down province iran. it's still ahead for you on this news hour indonesia's jokowi returns to power with an ambitious plan to address anti-government protests and this brags it putting pressure on peace in northern ireland we've got reaction to the u.k. government's latest moves sport with sun it's an emotional day for andy murray but the details of his 1st title in 2 and a half years. ahead of their total still nesta was a fairly short lived event which is good news it means the rain the wind is

continuing to carry away off the east coast of the united states now as you go through monday readers pick up a pace that all this rain hues they had just sitting well off the far northeast that is still tied to that system but elsewhere we've got more rain all the way is coming from a system which is really sitting on the upper midwest and you got this line of dog green that's where the rain will be heavy at times even some severe thunderstorms possible we've got cooler air behind and moist warm air head and it's that clash of air masses that produced the severe thunderstorms it will continue to work its way east was as we go through tuesday and you can see plenty of rain through eastern canada and the winds coming down from the knoll so as they wrap around the backside of this system we will be seeing some snow most i was well across into the northern rockies the sunshine that is in and i look about 33 degrees celsius and sunny skies that conditions across the caribbean and even central america a little bit better as we start this new week we have got some heavy spells of a weighty from nicaragua on tools but as you can see elsewhere some clearer skies

in the picture quite cloudy generally throughout the caribbean. but again as we go through choose a fairly calm if you have ana and showers in mexico city. in 1982 egypt and israel built a war that drivel waged between the neighboring community as a sinai and gaza. al-jazeera world his boss and stories from those were among the light of the division. gaza sinai and the war. on al jazeera. on the legacy of south africa's a.n.c. made any quality of these what is the plough how does hold. and how perceptions have changed of this former liberation movement turned government you think is

appropriate for a man who went to prison for defrauding volman eruption to run your party's work on corruption the hosam goes head to head with my leg embedded. not exactly the we. are on the news here at al-jazeera the top stories protests in lebanon are growing despite reports the main political parties are close to agreeing on a package of economic reforms sunday still the largest rally since they began 4 days ago. soldiers are enforcing a curfew for a 2nd night in chile after protests in the capital over

a rise in train fares turned violent demonstrators set fire to a metro station and at least 3 people were killed in 2 supermarket fives i believe its longest serving president will soon know if you will keep his job for a 4th to have been counted more is expected to be a tight race for the former president. pro independence supporters in catalonia have protested for a 7th straight night they are angry over the jailing of separatist leaders who organized the band independence referendum 2 years ago a matter of buffalo and other regional capital has appealed for calm after some of the protests turned violent hundreds of counter protesters were also false they actually want catalonia to remain a part of spain. more often bustling. these probing the penguins demonstrators have spent the last 6 hours marching through the city of basra not occupying various points south saying along the way that catalonia against fascism free the political

prisoners and singing the cattle and that's still on them now the police have hung back their presence has been drastically reduced compared to other nights and the protests have come to a standstill here outside the not so police headquarters in barcelona and that's because they want to express that anger against the national police who they blame for the violence the barcelona has seen over the last few days with those injuries sustained by protesters already being blinded in one eye by rubber bullets you can hear the crowd is still buoyant and this is the 7th day of demonstrations in support of independence but that is another side to the story and we were to peaceful rally for the pro-union this side spaniards who believe passionately in the unity of spain which is if you held by 48 percent of catalonians and both sides tell me they feel like this issue of independence is really driving a wedge between them what they want to see is that basically to coming together

sitting down and finding an end to this crisis. and so you get the view from barcelona there but some new guy i go has traveled outside of the regional capital she went to genoa where many remain divided over the issue of cattlemen independence the flags of spain in catalonia flying side by side on top of jubran as courthouse below the crowd is protesting against the arrests made during friday's demonstrations here at turned violent mike let me tell you the procession supporters blamed the national government justice system. approaches for sparked by the recent sentencing of 9 catalan politicians and activists after that failed a bit facetious session and 2017 frustrations from 2 years ago have been reignited and the resentment has frozen as has the mistrust of the national law enforcement system's few by hoff's police to pensions. there's no doubt that the question of

independence in catalonia is an intensely emotional one it goes right to the heart of people's identities here however a recent catalan opinion poll stated that 44 percent of people wanted to secede from spain whilst 48 percent want to remain. in another neighborhood just outside of g donna there was a very different tone to that of the protesters many here do not have catalan roots but they share a pride in their homes even if they do not share the same opinions they don't make us have gloomy seals and i was born here and married had my children here but i don't want to renounce my spanish roots i am catalog and spanish but they are worried about being left behind she thinks it is just that. if you're a president then you attempt to be neutral you can tony support your side because what about the rest of us we live in catalonia as well if you support independence

i think that's fine each of us have the right to express ourselves how we want but the rest of us we're left without a president there has been wide condemnation over the violence the past few days that prominent castle and figures who are against independence are leading calls for tougher measures against the regional government the most anger reserved for the procession as president. you know you know the me by if i want to government of my country to defend all the citizens from these powerful to reduce from the people who are blocking roads from those who applaud violence from those the cold mobilization is against the judges of their sentences this is not tolerable and this is why we need to stop talking to. the procession as groups have captured the attention of those who perhaps thought that this crisis was under control but it has not necessarily drawn more supporters catalan society is polarized and with the general election coming up next month no promise yet of any resolution soon. as

era jeroen of. the european union says it has received u.k. prime minister johnson's letter asking for a 3 month delay to the break that deadline but hasn't indicated how it's actually going to respond johnson was forced to send that letter off the losing a crucial vote in parliament but remember he didn't sign it and also included another letter saying an extension would be a mistake and he simmons has the full story now from westminster. the u.k. is deep into bricks it uncertainty once more with the prime minister again being accused of breaking the law and boris johnson's government readying itself for another push to get parliamentary approval for a new withdrawal deal conservative government ministers believe they have enough support to win no meaningful vote on the new deal as early as monday we're going to leave the 31st we have the means and the ability to do so i think actually the mood

in the country is clear and the prime ministers determination is absolute michael gove is the minister responsible for no deal breaks it preparations and he says he's triggering operational yellow the contingency plan he says the reason is there's no guarantee the european council will approve an extension and that heightens the risk of a no deal breaks it this appears to be a means of putting more pressure on employees to back the deal in parliament drawing one m.p. who's backing the deal is the man who calls the major setback for boris johnson by coming up with the amendment i thought in august that he wasn't being serious about getting a deal and that's one of the reasons why we put in place part of it was just to make sure that if we got to 31st or do we handle the deal we would be safe and not crash out a part of it was to give him an incentive to get a deal that i think worked i think he is now got his deal and now for those of us

for whom that was a motivation we need to back that deal boris johnson isn't budging over his refusal to accept bracks it deadline extension his letter requesting one was judy sent to e.u. council president donald tusk but unsigned and he effectively disowned it with a signed follow up letter setting out why there shouldn't be another extension the main opposition labor party says johnson is breaking the law you may well be in contempt of parliament or the courts themselves because he's clearly trying to undermine the. 1st letter and not signing the letter is behaving a bit like a spoiled brat made a decision he should abide by it mcdonald was one of the politicians attending the british people's vote march on saturday when police estimated around a 1000000 people crowded into the capital calling for a 2nd referendum on bret's it has confirmed that labor would back an amendment calling for a people's vote there are calls for a bricks

a decision to be brought back to the people but the government is intent on making every effort to prevent that from happening and so on monday burris johnson's minority government will try to press the reset button on getting parliament to say yes to the new deal like every twist of the brics it crisis it's an unpredictable situation and to simmons' out his era westminster. of course the future of northern ireland remains at the heart of the brakes of debate but do you pay the democratic unionist party is against the government's new plan they say johnson's deal leaves northern ireland closely aligned to the republic of ireland which they see as a threat to their identity and they've barca has our report now from belfast. police are investigating a bomb threat in a nationalist neighborhood homes are evacuated roads blocked northern ireland's enjoy 20 years of reconciliation between nationalists who identify as mainly

catholic irish and units who define themselves as mainly protestant british but breaks it has put pressure on keeping the peace researchers have found the breaks it uncertainty is affecting people's lives when asking about the prospect of a hard border has revealed that people are increasingly anxious in these terms and they use language such as heartbreaking appalling devastating disastrous not just because of their the direct impact on their personal daily experience but also because they stink it's going to be enormously consequential for the stability of the peace process here. the irish border remains the central sticking point of brics it it separates northern ireland a part of the u.k. with the republic of ireland and e.u. member it's been opened and without checkpoints for 20 years both sides have benefited politically and economically. but it breaks it means a return to the so-called hard border of the past with security barriers and

watchtowers the armed republican group the new ira says it will attack the prime minister here. prime minister boyce johnson says he's removed the need for a hard border by keeping northern ireland economically aligned with the e.u. and also the rest of the u.k. some customs checks however will now be needed between mainland britain and northern ireland the armed forces. that details and raise unionists any defense to the rest of the u.k. is seen as a threat to their british identity the democratic unionist party intend to vote against the deal in parliament while what are described as hardline unionists known as loyalists are threatening civil disobedience on a large scale if the deal goes through all she ends of unionism are opposed to this even though those who would be described as more moderate chance of unionism are opposed to us so i don't think any of us could ever accept us and what it means as

it means an economically united ireland that means we are have to offer sonesta the united kingdom. not only has breaks it put pressure on peace it's put pressure on politics northern ireland's power sharing government at stormont collapsed 2 and a half years ago over an alleged corruption scandal but uncertainty over breaks it has kept its politicians away despite its flaws the power sharing government remains hugely symbolic it was meant to be a chance for people from different walks of life from different political affiliations to work together to shape their futures together but it isn't working as it should be a reminder of how fragile peace can be. nieve parker out jazeera belfast. there appears to be a green wave taking over switzerland with fears about climate change putting environmentalist parties on track for big gains in national elections as a surgeon votes for the swiss green party which could loosen the center right script on power projected to win more than 12 percent of the vote along with

another environmentalist party that looks like it'll get around 7 surveys before the election showed climate change has replaced migration as the leading concern for swiss voters hong kong police have been firing tear gas and water cannon at protesters after a week of relative calm the demonstrations have been ongoing for 5 months now and sunday's turnout was a test of the movement's strength and support from adrian brown. the stampede from police water cannons. as tear gas once more filled the streets of hong kong the main battleground was nathan rood hong kong's busiest in the heart of countless popular with tourists who would have struggled to recognise the place now as petrol bombs were hurled by protesters the vandalism was targeted chinese owned businesses were singled out a mobile phone provider a branch would already boarded the metal for.