same to the area within that proposed safety zone. as the air forces have moved out from that area when you have threats from president obama saying that effectively in 48 hours this temporary cease fire. aims and if those extra forces haven't been haven't left that area then food military operations will receive draws great great attention to the concerns of united nations aid agencies do the work in this area the pressure to potentially hundreds of thousands more civilians will be trapped in another conflict zone. i talked to a short break here and i'll just say right when we come back canadians head to a general election which is being seen as a battle between progressive and conservative values and how to look down in indian administered kashmir is affecting families that are in a state. hello

there we have the east west splits across europe not just in terms of clear skies and then cloudy skies but also the time which a 1st well let's talk about this crowd and the rain because it has been coming in with a bit of a vengeance and certainly dumbing down the skies into southern france this is nice is one brave soul doing their best to enjoy the weather despite the fact the rain is coming down more of a monday quite heavy at times as well through the southeast of france bushing on into switzerland and also northern italy meanwhile across northern europe what a bank of chad against the more showers quite cool 15 celsius in madrid meanwhile 24 in bucharest so this is about 6 degrees above the average for the time here i mean it is about 5 degrees below quite a bit of cloud across the central but areas on she's day and that's when the rain is really very heavy through eastern as a spain we could actually have some localized flooding from that system so 1st of all monday we're going to take out a true. the final west morocco algeria the shah is

a further to the east really working their way along these coastal areas of egypt then as we head off into choose day that is when the system impacting spain and portugal the west a med that is when we could see some very heavy and widespread amounts of rain down into morocco and on towards algeria so certainly cooling off in a bad high there just 18 celsius. all i want to stay with my sound stay with my wife the rest internment and mass indoctrination all we got children are now in a process of reeducation or chinese assimilation forced labor and the use of high tech surveillance we're being complicit in the human rights abuses that are occurring in australian investigation into china systematic repression of the weakest tell the world on al-jazeera.

welcome back a quick reminder of the top stories here on the al-jazeera protest in lebanon continuing into a 5th day by minister saad hariri is hosting a cabinet meeting on monday the aim of approving a package of economic reforms businesses and schools across the country a shot and a general strike. livia's incumbent president is ahead in the election but it looks like he'll have to face a runoff in december preliminary results put longstanding leader even iran is ahead of his rival carlos messer but not enough to win outright. u.s. troops have crossed into iraq as part of their withdrawal from northern syria to prevent a resurgence of ice so it's believed at least 19 vehicles have gone through this

and a border crossing heading into that semi autonomous kurdish region. now a state of emergency in chile's capital is now being extended to other parts of the country the military struggling to keep control as protests and civil unrest spread at least 8 people have been killed in the rioting with buildings and train stations set ablaze stories about reports now from santiago. started as a fight against a rise in the subway fare. but it has escalated into this. a major crisis that has this south american country in chaos. social injustices everywhere the minority concentrates all the wealth this is about how they rob us in supermarkets in health care how they profit without pensions protests like this one happened in many areas around the capital. the government declared a state of emergency on friday and pulled the military on the streets for the 1st

time since the end of have been a charity in 1900 but that did not deter people. so this is how the clashes have been ongoing mostly young people coming here to protest against the government and clashing with the police that is responding mostly with that tear gas and rubber bullets people are using the not i think to protect themselves most of those we have spoken to say but angry because they are fighting against this them that is perpetrating inequality. says has been protesting peacefully and was shot by the police with a rubber bullet. in the air and this is how they responded we were a man on the streets and we won't respect a curfew we are in a democracy they call and prevent us from being on the streets. on the other side of town families banging pots and pans supported the protests governor we're here.

we're tired of prices going up politicians making money we don't want to live in a bubble we have to protest peacefully so they listen to us people cannot make it until the end of the month and that needs to change looting has been ongoing in several cities some supermarkets and shops were set on fire on sunday there was transport deadlock in santiago and kills had the international airport the government was forced to impose a new 11 hour curfew precedence. has been made. with his cabinet to try to address the discontent and all source says it's chill is economic model that needs to be revised opening the any who you will by the part of the over the ruling class to say. changing the model of the problem is the model and the model. is based on the the it is the model and it's a. completely unfair. to the probe it took the was. has gone from being one of the poorest countries in latin america to one with

the highest per capita income the problem is that the economic boom has not benefited everyone. and that's what these people would like to see change. probably dependence supporters in catalonia had protested for a 7th straight night they're angry about the genuine separatist leaders who organized the band independence referendum 2 years ago the mayor of barcelona of the regional capital has appeal for calm after some of the protests turned violent hundreds of counter-protest as well saddam force they want catalonia to remain part of spain when i was there were some of the eggo traveled outside the regional capital to jonah and many remain divided over the issue of council on 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 that turned violent let me tell you the processions supporters blame the national governments justice system. i protest was sparked by the recent sentencing of 9 catalan politicians and activists after that failed this is session and 2017 frustrations from 2 years ago have been reignited and the resentment has grown as has the mistrust of the national law enforcement systems fuelled by harsh police intervention. 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 is 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 our gloomy seahorse and i was born here and you're outta 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 we see things in a few states that. if you're a president then you attempt to be neutral you can't. 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 for the most anger reserved for the procession as president. you know you know the me by if i want to

government of my country defends all the citizens from these powerful to reduce from the people who are blocking roads from those who applaud violence from those the cold mobilizations 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 draw more supporters catalan society is polarized and with a general election coming up next month no promise yet of any resolution soon. go out jazeera your own now. the e.u. special envoy for afghanistan has called for a cease fire in the country he says the breakdown in u.s. taliban talks last month is actually an opportunity to push for a truce but on sunday u.s. defense secretary markus both made an unannounced visit to kabul in an attempt to revive those negotiations last month u.s. president donald trump broke off talks with the taliban after the group carried out

a bomb attack in kabul attack killed 12 people including an american soldier. now canadians are heading to the polls later on monday as prime minister just introduced struggles to keep his liberal party in office it's expected to lose seats following a series of events that have dented the popularity of trudeau and his party john hendren imports now. for many canadians justin trudeau charismatic to lure his d.m. stat are now almost unheard of numbers i mean there are 4 years after he won a broad majority promising change he is now scrambling to rise above a dead heat with a conservative leader who promises change from him mr trudeau you are a phoney and you are a fraud and you do not deserve to govern this country it's been a precipitous fall since he cut a dash in figure out his 2015 inauguration leaving him to remind voters of what he's done we were able to stand up. stand up to donald trump and his punitive tariffs on steel and aluminum were able to stand up when he wanted to tear up

a trade deal that winds or indeed all canadians rely on the vaunted trudeau's sheen has been tarnished by his nationalizing an unpopular pipeline a finding that he had pressured his attorney general to go easy on a corporate prosecution and the revelation that he had repeatedly warned blackface is a young man still many voters consider him the lesser of political evils mr trudeau hasn't done as well as i hoped he might but is vastly better than his opposition that a lot of people are wasting their votes like a lot of people are. going to vote for liberals because they don't want. the conservatives and liberals could each failed to reach a majority that could leave the smaller parties becoming king makers joining one of the larger parties to form a majority you do not need to choose between mr delay and mr deny there is another option but with the rise of incidents of anti immigrant sentiment illegal border

crossings the birth of the populace people's party in a controversial new bill in quebec banning religious symbols such as he jobs some canadians fear into immigrant populism is growing some say canada is not immune to the forces of populism we've seen elsewhere around the world but in country after country the u.s. the u.k. people said he can't happen here and then it did i see. especially in western canada because of the kind of he's not going very well and people wonder well what the federal government is doing for me the government is doing nothing for me so maybe i should look at other options the election will determine whether liberalism will continue to be canada's governing philosophy or whether this nation of 38000000 makes a decisive tilt to the right john hendren al-jazeera. apple farmers in indian administered kashmir say restrictions on communication and movement are

having a devastating impact on their businesses the indian government revoked the region's autonomy and sent in so does 9 weeks ago it also shut down internet and telephone lines the 2 are going to be reports. it's harvest time in indian administered kashmir where apple production contributes 10 percent to the state's $20000000000.00 incomes this year apples are being left to rot because thomas confines people to pick them after prime minister and render made the abolish the state futon of the status and imposed a security lockdown as. the situation is bad we couldn't harvest the apples on time and most of them fell down from the trees now we're collecting the rotten apples and throwing them away. internet i'm able phone services remain cutoff for this moment that means his business is in jeopardy then the basic communication is dollars we have no neighbors will build up people. who are sitting

in delhi where it's been a bank a little bit sitting in general and other big markets and they're not able to go many good with them it's very difficult. this wholesale fruit market in srinagar would normally be packed with trade is business is down by 95 percent this year compared to last year's as big as the left on each year export about $200000.00 boxes of apples in the domestic markets across india this year because of the situation farmers aren't able to send their projects to market they don't know where to send it because communication lines aren't working. in response to the crisis the indian government has set up a national co-operative through which families can fell that protease bought it imposes strict quality control measures which many farmers find hard to meet a lot of tell we can only select the produce if the color of the apple is good so far we have rejected. 80 percent of the farmers have come here to sell their produce the apple industry in kashmir involves 3500000 people around half the

population of the state the look down has devastated the economy and farm is the cooling on the indian government to immediately lift the security restriction must secure a gate in the algiers there. are people across australia work up to a striking site on monday morning the front pages of every daily newspaper blacked out and asking the question when the government keeps the truth from you what are they covering as part of a campaign to protest legislation media group say restricts press freedoms under thomas has more now from sydney. this is a joined up campaign by all the big media companies in australia this is the australian the nation my paper a stylus front page a secret stamp their unalterable made to look as though the whole thing's been redacted the rival sydney morning herald looks very similar again are adapted out school that secret stamp they're the tabloid daily telegraph and it's the same with these papers all over the country and indeed with the t.v. news as well all the media companies are trying to mount

a unified concerted effort to show what they say government interference in the media is doing they point to 75 pieces of legislation passed since 2001 a sensibly to do with national security but laws that they say in fact straits the access of the people to information journalists rights to report this all came to a head in june with raids on 2 media organizations and individual journalists who work for the australia and the offices of the main a.b.c. the national broadcaster both the public stories about australia's involvement in afghanistan stories the government didn't like and the australian federal police braided the offices and the home of a journalist to try and find out where those stories of compliments and a real chill through australia's media scene of journalists saying that they couldn't expect whistleblowers to come forward with information in the public interest if those whistleblowers feared that they could be prosecuted indeed the journalists themselves prosecuted for upholding what they were told what the news

organizations in australia calling for is reform of the laws so that they are able to report things when they're in the public interest free of the threat of prosecution by australia's place the government has consistently said that no one in australia is above the law that seems to be them mantra and that's what worries journalists as well they say that the should be some exceptions national security laws when the public interest is at stake. powerful tornado has damaged homes and cut power to tens of thousands of people in texas the twister touched down in dallas on sunday night which was already on a severe thunderstorm warning there were no immediate reports of any injuries. from . parts africa check of the headlines here on al-jazeera protests in lebanon are continuing into a 5th day the minister saad hariri is holding a cabinet meeting soon with the aim of approving

a package of economic reforms businesses and schools across the country a shot in a general strike has more now from beirut. protesters have called for a general strike shops it's called universities the banks they're all closed in fact in many ways protesters have taken over the streets there blocking roads it's very difficult to move around the capital and it's also very difficult to reach one city to another highways are being blocked so the protesters piling yet more pressure on the government bolivia's incumbent president is ahead in the election but it looks like he'll have to face a runoff in december when i'm in a results but longstanding leader of a model is the head of his rival carlos messer but not enough to win outright u.s. troops have crossed into iraq as part of their withdrawal from northern syria to prevent a resurgence of eisel it's believed at least 19 vehicles have gone through the border crossing there heading into this semi autonomous kurdish region. in syria

kurdish fighters say they finished pulling out of a border town clearing the way for turkish but rebels to take control the evacuation of russell lane was agreed under a u.s. brokered cease fire wounded civilians have also been evacuated. the u.s. special envoy for afghanistan has called for a cease fire in the country he says the breakdown in u.s. taliban talks last month is actually an opportunity to push for a truce on some day u.s. defense secretary marcus made an unannounced visit to kabul in an attempt to revive those diggin see asians last month u.s. president donald trump broke off talks with the taliban after the group carried out a bomb attack in kabul killing 12 people including an american soldier. and people across australia work up to a striking sight on monday morning the front pages of every daily newspaper was blacked out and i asked the question when the government keeps the truth from you what are they covering up it's all part of a campaign to protest legislation that media groups say restricts press freedoms so

those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after inside story statement thanks so much in life and. all counting the cost the $7.00 word tweet the proof you watch from beijing how to try to silence his critics but denies access to its 14 trillion dollar economy the cost of hiring at oil tanker is soaring for the lazy and fishermen are facing financial losses counting the cost. what's next for the catalan people in spain pro independence supporters are outraged at the jailing of separatist leaders following the latest mass march and violent protests and government leaders in madrid are dismissing catalan calls for talks what are the chances for a political solution this is inside story. hello

and welcome to the program i'm dead it's 2 years since catalonia tried and failed to break away from spain but the campaign for independence hasn't died down the jailing of separatist leaders this week reignited the debate sparking a general strike and a mass march from all over catalonia to barcelona violent protests in the regional capital have raised questions about the reaction from spain's government in madrid specially before next month's national election the region's pro independence leader kim told us has called for unconditional talks with the spanish government but the acting prime minister petro sanchez has dismissed the calls saying must 1st unequivocally condemn the on rests. yeah i'm with the joe thing go d.s. in as i said earlier it's been 5 days and we still haven't heard kudlow and regional president 2 are firmly condemning the violence the same for members of his

cabinet and other regional institutions nobody understands that they talk and talk for many minutes at a time without rejecting the by those who are expressing their solidarity towards the members of the security forces they must choose the way of the democratic institutions because there is no other way when the catalan president's call for talks came 2 days officers suggesting a new independence referendum should be held within 2 years can torah has called for calm but also said protesters won't shy away from their separatist cause not offensive as that it's not that said experts defense of rights and freedoms must always be expressed peacefully we ask of everyone violence has never been and never will be our flag across catalonia like i was at that is that it's not the cause of rights and freedoms is unstoppable we will go as far as the catalans want to go use them. for months we have asked the spanish prime minister to set a day and an hour to sit around the negotiating table unconditionally to speak and

to talk well despite much of the focus being on the pro independence marchers there are not the only ones campaigning opposition rallies have also been held in catalonia i would many calling for a unified spain charlie angela has more from barcelona. when i would approach unionist rally in barcelona and these people have come from throughout the region consider themselves proudly casting in or out of the spanish and their heads to condemn the protests that we've seen in the last few days people here believe passionately in the unity of spain and that is a view that is held by 48 percent of capacity unions according to the latest poll that was held in july and that's most of the 44 percent of capacity and who believe that independence is the way forward both sides are looking to that politicians for a way out of this crisis you know that the castle and president came to or has also said to government to sit down and gauge and dialogue find

a way out of this crisis but so far the acting prime minister has just sent us has rejected those pulls the talks he says to or must 1st come out and condemn the violence that we mostly saw on friday and protestors were cutting police with rocks and stones and setting fire to bins throughout the city so it seems that spain finds itself at an impasse just as another general election approaches charlie and the inside story but what's led to the latest protest so the independence question has divided catalonia for decades many believe the region strong identity culture and economy are good reasons for political separation from spain other catalogs don't want change an independence referendum 2 years ago was held in defiance of government leaders in madrid who said the vote violated spain's constitution voter turnout was low but the majority did folks yes for separation the cattle on parliament in barcelona quickly declared independence spain's government retaliated

taking direct control of the region until the election of a new government the leaders of the independence movement were charged with sedition and arrested then given jail sentences of up to 13 years on monday. let's bring in our panel to discuss all of this joining us from marcello via skype is one day he's a pro unionist and member of the cattle and business association in madrid via skype cutlass what is a representative of the cattle on national assembly and finally also via skype from barcelona one of the biggest said well he's an associate professor of political science at the university of the land so welcome to all of you to this edition of inside story thanks very much for joining us on one of a day our spain's government and the i think prime minister sanchez as your you've been hearing has dismissed the calls from catalonia as president for talks saying that he must 1st unequivocally condemn the unrest but surely there needs to be

a way to address the grievances so if there is no political dialogue what happens then well enough to be hell. for them is where you it spread you. yet if you get out qualifying what you would be well out of those ideas forward you don't get that qualified you need to keep negotiating you need to keep trying to convince the other to vote your your your objective and this is you know just use the space site. many issues but the real dialogue the real that is going to have. facts in the parliament so you think of the acting prime minister is correct when he dismisses calls for a dialogue at this point. at this point well no i mean

that theoretically as they said it's a good thing if it's done in the right frame in the right frame of rule of law and the right scenario and the right maybe not it's the parliament to have to cut outside the parliament i think it's too tired because especially when there is instability and violence on the streets so 1st of all what gore has to do it mr gore has to do is it's called then inevitably the violence on the streets stop the riots stop the the calcium in barcelona and one everything's to stop the lies to reopen the parliament efficiently and try to score to discover that 80 years in the parliament trying to convince all ringback in my maturity often peace qualify maturity to move his ideas forward to do this outside the rule of law and the only brief instability and violence. to well do you agree with that assessment that dialogue can only be done in parliament and not the direction it should go in

. yes i completely agree with my colleague adam a question with the when if this is clear why it is not possible to reach to the scenario and in this sense i think it's very important to understand to what to what extent political leadership imagery and particularly barcelona are very weakened in recent times. because not only because we are in a lecture or can be so political leaders are very attentive to their electorate and they are taking care of all their decisions trying not to. lose some of the voters taking risk of the situations but with a more broad perspective. the program in catalonia in particular the evolution in the last 2 years. shows. the problem of having a baby weak leadership on the cuts and insight because the more important the more

prominent leaders are in jail and it seems they are going to be for a few more time and this is not only for early purity and long to sicily site by as they are all the dissent this is also. and making dis movement more difficult to control because the more is there to believe there's are not there in order to bake relate to personalise pragmatic issues in the same in the same time in missouri we have had for more than 6 months a caretaker government that was issued from a knock on to this vote one year and a half ago and we have have we have been. ruling the country with minority governments for 4 years we don't have to forget that in november we will have the 4th election in 4 years so we've made an already government with

a body divided party. both sides and with some of the leaders of this issue aside e.j. just very hard to see how both sides can take can engage in matthew brady in order to find an exit to to this problem ok here is an important point that many important points in fact one of which is on this upcoming spanish election which we'll get to in a moment but 1st let me bring in now carla suarez because. torah he did say that the violence does not reflect the peaceful nature of the independence movement but why do you think that he has not unequivocally condemn the unrest and the violence well to be honest he has condemned the violence many times against. self-defense from the protests protestors athlon side but let's not forget that the sentences for the couple of political prisoners which have already spent 2

years in jail are shameful spain has shown to the world to tell him to go if he comes 1st for democracy and since they were published on monday the situation of police control in catalonia $579.00 when the police including the 8 journalists would in fact 4 people have lost an eye on police attacks 2 protesters are on life threatening condition right now there's been a 179 arrested including 21 activists who are preemptive jail most of them 18 or 19 so young teenagers a new generation look at a little bit and she was in right now it's a complete chaos ok so many options that caroline government is facing. well the atom government should try to. and channel the process and basically try to

find 1st peace and show that there's an end to police violence 2nd freedom release of all political prisoners and free self-determination a binding referendum in catalonia monitored by the european union one half a day are what's your take on what carla suarez just had to say. in the mystery. summary we'd like building into the realities. so we. know that they are going well. now i think everyone saw me so that was not good but. by all means that this is very. last. minute. they have played they are. past it. and we have but surely you understand but surely you understand one surely understand that people are very angry particularly after the sentencing of the

leaders. well. it's very clear that they're not political they are all sinners not well we have broken the law they thought that they were above the law whatever they wanted me to look what about midnight but you know you knew. that they did not mean you should the middle of what they're seeing segments about bombs and. does what they. need to. do the right channels the right brain is like well you also you will not it's certainly what most people go on site and look what just goes at once and that was it wasn't what did that and this incident is well it isn't touched. you so this wasn't ok i wonder why i don't think i was there well it would be

a coming spanish election which you were mentioning just a moment ago so how will the recent developments meaning these protests what impacts are they going to have on the election and will a new government be able to i don't want to say solve this problem but make some headway and this issue yeah. i am not sure if this situation right now is going to have a strong impact as long as you wish and that's. will not evolve to our worst scenario because so far what we have seen is mostly but if you people are trying to express their anger it was a sentence the same time we know that most of the actual leaders of the government maybe not the prime minister but most of peaceful community members are trying to tamp down the situation waited for the result of the of november i think that the general election week give us a more liz a similar scenario but probably with

a stronger position for the 2 main stand. parties the social democratic party and the conservative party and the situation and provably. the results of the original election incredulous cruelly will be hailed if every next year we he if he were scenario a new fortunate in order to generalize. a pragmatic story which will not be in any case the start of school and probably not in any way our referendum machine still which is completely rejected by political elites and by an important part of the country population carla suarez go ahead i think shake your hand go ahead i mean all the polls of the last 10 years have shown that around 8 percent of population want to self-determination referendum so we've just nonsense to say that but let me hang on let me interrupt here right there which polls are you referring

to because the latest poll that we have that we have found here at al-jazeera is that it shows that the backing for the secession is in fact at its lowest level in 2 years with 48.3 percent of people against and now 44 percent in favor so there seems to be a drop why is that that's correct there's a 5050 between the procession time and that union is calm but there is a consensus across the aisle that the referendum is the solution isn't normally democracy is in to solve complex questions but you have to ask yourself is spain really a democracy another issue that has caused a lot of anger is not only the sentence itself but that they can which it was published let's not forget that what happened on the monday 14th of october we did exactly the same day that 19 for the 79 years old the spanish regime sentenced to death the catalan president which is the only democratically elected president to

be marred by. that change was plain respect democracy into eternal integrity comes 1st and i'm for the people to speak ok let's put that to one a river day i mean what we're seeing happen unfold in the streets of barcelona catalonia is a calling into question the sort of quality and integrity of the spanish democracy with world remains. in. place that recognize our 5 but. you know if they you if one of the may 1 of the full thing marcus is in the war this is the strains of the spanish democracy and understand of this wanted to look as it is to make sure that we fight against the people above those responsible politicians to want who wants to read that the rule of law who wants to who they think they're above the law and they think they can move forward with their ideas and safe this this free of the rule of law this is the strength of

the status of the spanish democracy and again the politicians in jail is that they are in jail not because of their ideas but because of protection there are many people who just happen yet there you depend and they are not in jail because they defend their ideas and they have not the meet the actions that. i believe and have supported that of course. we don't get so this is just sort of the spanish so that it can defend itself from people who wants to break the rule of law and the stability of the spend society how much do you think won that the election campaign the upcoming election campaign and spain will be about or catalonia will feature in that election campaign. so all of this is going to have a huge impact because i mean also instability of the violence is affecting the whole state not only to close the site but also the sponsors say who is so is

watching like # a lot of hits territory it's in risk. of of all of this integration and the result of that i think responsible politicians trying to install this is regina outside the law and obviously this is the every one little thing that the union but in spades everyone is worried about the situation and obviously people outside got the luck is also going to do have their blind see think that the you know when they cast a vote 100 guests the criticism by some is that the pro independence catalan government appeared to look like they're speaking for all catalans but as we were mentioning just a moment ago some poll so that the region is even the split between those that want independence and those that don't want independence would that be a correct assessment completely one of the chief minister of the suspicion is movement doing the sticky is that most of the traditionally proc mattick nationalists the literary has now become actually suspicion east at or

half a bunch of 2 suspicious positions and different but indeed b.n. we we steal follow their traditional part of the time politics divided between half part of the population for supporting nationalist or more so for government even suspicion and the other half side of the population should be different kinds of self-government agreements but always remain e.u. space and i think this is something that has not changed doing disappears and many people. not only that this is why probably a simple referral number suspicion sometimes you just are. it's not exactly a solution so what we know is that we need people like you know the country since you are conflicts we need political leaders to get some stability and some.

capacity to rule over this a little race in order to implicate them in pragmatic and constitutional agreements and this is why we still need this kind of political stability after the general and the original election in order to try to sway a car less has the pro independence movement been weakened somewhat considering that there are still a large number of people who don't want independence in catalonia and we saw that in one of the demonstrations where our reporter went to. yeah well not reportable have witnessed the difference in numbers in the most question that you need demonstration today versus the march in the general strike on friday in which millions of gallons went and there are a lot but still you're completely right there's a split and but 2 democracies when there is a split they york and referendums so that's all we're asking nothing else not to my

knowledge not imposed limits or we think let the people side let's organize a referendum the union excitedly say that. we should obey the law but how can your be a law in the country which does not one of the issues but you clematis and democratic means that's why there was a unilateral referendum on 27 genes and today in 29 years later the government hasn't done anything about it and that's where the protesters are on the streets tell you something there are decades where nothing happens and there are will they happen that's where we are right now apollonia a referendum very soon one day i see you shaking your head what are your thoughts on on this ambition for another referendum how do you think that the spanish government whichever spanish government is in power will who respond. well i mean it's pretty easy for david bendis to or to move ahead with the

referendum they just need to follow again the rule of law that i lost in spain you can have a referendum of course the other thing is that you need to follow the the rules in order to reach that referendum you need 1st qualify now you already in the current parliament of concerts from there you go to the spanish parliament you need to get my duty as well then you can then you need to change that the constitution and then you can have the referendum there is a path that has already legislated a clear path to get to that referendum what you can do is to say look this is this path is difficult because obviously the mother says nerds who go to stability if they eat have a consensus of 4 or 4 or one final year it just says it is i understand that it's difficult to reach through to through that referendum there but the elite but says the thing that is difficult is ok it is the difficult things we need to have a qualified maybe but at this moment i don't recall whether or not we're going to

have we're going to jump outside the this friend is the friend that all the cabinet has decided to live in a middle of the side our own way ok possible i want a lot more direct yes go ahead complete your thought again what i'm saying there are many countries where you will never have different free in germany those those independent no political parties are forbidden by posted to spank you can defend any a.d.f. you can have any objective any political objective. but you have to do it through the right channels following the right path and the right. all the laws outside the law it's impossible going to do anything but don't take the law you can do especially within the spanish constitution all right i'll have to leave it there we've run out of time but thank you very much for joining us and speaking to us why on the river they are carlos juarez and 100 guys tara well thanks very much for joining us thank you for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our website al-jazeera dot com for. further discussion you can go to our

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hello i'm daryn jordan this is al-jazeera lawyer from doha also coming up libya's president looks like to face a runoff election as an attempt to secure a 4th consecutive term in office. was full of. a state of emergency is extended to more regions of chile after a cotton transport it's fails to comp attest as. and how the security lockdown in indian administered kashmir is affecting farmers the. protests are spreading across lebanon and a general strike is planned even as politicians try to agree a package of reforms aimed at resulting the economic crisis thousands of people stayed out all night chanting and waving the lebanese flag honest assad already is due to hold a cabinet meeting shortly to try on

a pool of measures reportedly agreed by partners in the coalition government. well harry reid's plan reportedly includes a 50 percent cut in the salaries of current and former presidents ministers and m.p.'s more than $3000000000.00 in contributions from banks to achieve a near 0 deficit in the 2020 budget and also involves a reason but the telecoms and the tricity septa's which is a crucial demand from potential foreign donors that invest is $11000000000.00 in funds well senator joins us live now from the lebanese capital say now so we understand the prime minister saad hariri is convening this emergency cabinet meeting this morning what are we expecting to come out of that cena. ministers have started to arrive at the presidential palace over the weekend and the prime minister was holding really this happens with his ministers to come up with an economic plan that would be acceptable to the people that economic the budget for 2023 and. that. the cabinet is going

to meet and approve that plan and the prime minister is going to address the nation there are more fragmented loans like the mad privatizing the telecommunications sector the salaries of her and the former publisher now the reaction here is that why didn't they have the start why were they trying to cut even more taxes if nothing more taxes on the people what triggered the protests in the 1st place now there's defiance in the streets they're saying that this is not enough it wasn't the government resigning but there are other people say well maybe if the government shows us serious that these castro forms will be implemented but we want tangible proof. that this is going to happen because we have people we do not trust but the demand that the protesters. down one government resign to the traditional transitional council such

a are not affiliated with any political party. take over and then the elections will be held but there will be a new alec torah law whereby lebanon will be one single constituency which means that the different sects no longer elect their own sectarian leaders so what this protest movement is about is not only against the political elite they're trying to end lemon on both the kerry and system which has been in place for decades now some may say this is not realistic but at the end of the day to a certain extent. 6 this protest movement has changed a lot in lebanon thing. it's a big demonstrations last night in the protestors have called for this general strike today tell us what's been happening there. most of demonstrations last night every single day the crowd goes bigger not just here in the lebanese capital but across the country in different cities this morning it's very hard to move around

in beirut because protesters are blocking roads they've all bridges roads strike universities told by their close they're doing their best to fall pressure on the government highways are blocked it's very difficult to reach from one city to another now what is the government going to do because to a certain extent they've taken over the street well the government said deploy they are basic 30 forces we still have behind the tactics used on friday night but since then the security forces have taken a step back but people here are quite worried about the possibility of political parties using their supporters many of them are are deploying them in the street in the face of these demonstrators to scare them away we've seen a number of incidents over the past few days for example in the southern city of tire when armed men who support the house speaker the b. but is about movement. actually make the streets with their guns and intimidate the protesters so there is this is clear that limited government if the government says

we've given it to yours i'm out now it's time for you to give us a chance to carry out the reforms which is in the heart of the in the lebanese capital beirut saying no thank you. u.s. troops have crossed into iraq as part of their withdrawal from northeastern syria a convoy has gone to the salah border crossing in the northern province of the book it's heading into territory controlled by the peshmerga in northern iraq semi autonomous kurdish region the pentagon says the troops will carry on the fight against eisel from their u.s. president donald trump pulled american forces out of syria making way for a turkish led operation against kurdish fighters. meanwhile in syria the kurdish led syrian democratic forces say their fighters are pulled out of a town near the turkish border civilians and hospital patients have also been moved from russell laine the forces departure from the town is a major condition of a u.s. brokered cease fire deal gave the s.d.a. forces 5 days to leave and then on tuesday evening turkey wants to establish

recalls a safe so between its border and territory controlled by the s.t.'s chance truck that has more now from the turkey syria border. but certainly according to a statement released now by the f.d.a. those rules you today saying that there are no s.p.f. or fights 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 we believe to be. sorry syrian fighters these are the free syrian army fighters that

appear to full frontal despite fighting alongside the turks they effectively surrounded that city it 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 we're made to be seeing 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 tel aviv 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. as to forces have moved out from that area

when you have threats from the president heard of one saying that effectively in 48 hours. this temporary ceasefire. ends and if those if the air forces haven't we haven't left that area then 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 pressure potentially hundreds of thousands more civilians that will be trapped in another conflict the. preliminary election results in bolivia put the president at a moron is ahead but it looks like he'll have to face a runoff in december more on his doesn't appear to have enough support to win a 4th term in office outright john holdren reports now from the 1st. lady for the ability of presidential elections look set for a 2nd round the 1st time since ever moralists to power nearly 14 years ago

preliminary results show the incumbent picking up 45 percent of the vote in both of them was his nearest challenger carlos messer not far behind with 38 enough for a runoff. and celebrated as if it was a win it so. says that at the moment tacl said this is a crucial point after almost 14 long years the bolivian people have taken a decision in defense of a democracy that needs to be consolidated and renovated. the president were released them except these results is definitive 83 percent of the votes have been counted so far he believes those still to ride from rural areas give him an out right when you go hit the yellow as always we trust the vote in the countryside that's why we're going to wait until the last vote is being counted to continue with our process of change. whatever happens this election is being seen as a setback for a man who's used to winning by

a landslide if the right listen supporters celebrating the fact that it did come 1st in this round of voting but again the last election because 60 percent of the folks saw his popularity pretty has come down. to bolivians a divided many like a school teacher meant to keep faith with the president he's always tough poverty and kept the economy growing again assented. in the government before morality that wasn't development they had the chance and they didn't do it ever arrived and made the economy grow it might not have got to all of it but he has tried it. and if you erick thinks differently about the longest standing president in the livy's history that i was going to put into him was we want to see a new candidate who's going to take the country to a better future we think that with evo will just stagnate. a minute it's not just a desire for change through also worried that we're alice is slowly eroding

democracy in the country. just to run in this election the change the constitution and defied a referendum in which the electorate narrowly rejected that i guess they could be a way up to 7 days the remaining 1st from votes to be counted and to see if the president or allison is full of was of a full term to celebrate or another electoral votes of all the hands john home and i was a 0. right here now to 0 when we come back find out why australia's newspapers blacked out their front pages. and we go underground to the world's biggest water cave and look at what's keeping it from receiving a prestigious u.n. recognition more on that stay with us.