more than a half measure decisions that were taken by the. concert of minister today aim it at a living gating those concerns of the citizens and demonstrators hell i don't think these reform is undertaken today will sort of the whole problem but at least in my opinion. but the country on a right path the only 6070 percent of the crisis may be dealt with in a proper way. and the number one objective is to stop stop overspending and to stop the what option. there was a clear decision in that direction and really the whole government over the past 5 days during that it was station to take some measure of action and if it didn't take some major action more escalation on the streets particularly after yesterday's a number of demonstrators all across lebanon which should more than 1500000 people

in the street so the whole ruling class they felt that they were cornered and if they don't didn't do something substantial about this whole situation that country will be at risk. i will leave it there thanks so much for your analysis. funny more still ahead on the news hour including what next in the breaks in drama we'll have a live update from london. risking it all what's in a u.n. report about the african migrants trying to fling it in europe and escape violence and poverty. one of the biggest stars in world cricket gets a rest now a 1000 sports in just a moment. turkish president talking about of the one says the military offensive in syria is not a land grab he's criticizing ankara's allies for not supporting what he calls

a fight against terrorists and u.s. brokered cease fire is due to end on tuesday. we have passed our offensive in northern parts of syria for 120 hours that's why this is a crucial time those 120 hours are nearly over tomorrow i will travel to associate to meet russian president vladimir putin for talks and after that we will take the necessary steps. 7 course all has more from istanbul. according to turkish officials the clock is ticking because the s.d.f. the syrian kurds fire to wipe region north of syria has to complete its full withdrawal by the end of to morrow around 8 pm turkey local time which is which is going to be 120 hours as turkey and us brokered the deal last weekend prisons are drawn today raised rates of that his country doesn't

a minute territorial gain by this proposal as it made it safe so it is just to stand make those syrians to those places today lands and in order to protect its borders from a threats that turkey turkey has those ignited as a terrorist threat from the y.p. g. for a long time of course it's important what russians and iranians and turks are going to be talking in sochi right now to morrow's meeting in sochi is an important step especially for a political solution which is going to be discussed in geneva at the end of this month u.s. troops have crossed into iraq as part of their withdrawal from northern syria a convoy has gone to the side of the border crossing in the northern province of the who it's heading into territory controlled by the peshmerga in northern iraq semi autonomous kurdish region but u.s. defense secretary marcus but says a number of american troops are remaining near lucrative oil fields to control them

this withdrawal will take weeks not days until that time our forces will remain in the towns that are located near the oil fields the purpose of those forces a purpose of those forces working with the s.d.f. is to deny access to those oil fields by isis and others who may benefit from their revenues it could be earned john strafford has more on the troop movements from certainly all for close to the turkish syrian border. we understand according to our sources the free syrian army fighters these are these syrian fighters that the turks have brought over very much at the forefront of this operation inside syria we understand through our sources that convoys of those fighters have been seen moving from further east on the turkish side of the border to a place called model dean which is opposite the town of commish lee suggesting that the turkish forces are preparing for renewed operations meanwhile we've seen videos

all of some of those u.s. troops being insulted having fruit and vegetables hurled at them by kurdish what we believe a kurdish civilians in the town of commish lee as those u.s. forces have been heading to the iraqi border. a full troop withdrawal by the kurds at this stage certainly seems doubtful and of course that is of huge concern to humanitarian organizations and the u.n. some estimates saying that as many as 200000 people have been forced to flee their homes already we're getting statistics gradually out of iraq as well we understand that around $5000.00 syrians have fled to iraq many of them smuggled out of iraq having to pay smugglers to get them out because if we were to see renewed military operations by the turks then we can expect potentially a flood of kurds moving across the border into iraq so you know what are we

17 g.m.t. this cease fire temporary cease fire in store that's around 8 pm local all evidence to suggest along these front lines that the kurdish forces have not withdrawn out of the area that president early one wants them to. british politicians are preparing for a frantic week in parliament as bias johnson's government tries to pass legislation that would deliver brags that the prime minister is adamant the u.k. will leave the e.u. in 10 days despite being forced to ask for another delay it's possible the speaker of the house of commons could allow a meaningful vote on the breaks that deal as it stands on monday which would show how much support the agreement has its go live to london where lawrence lee is standing by for us i'm not sure how much clearer that crystal balls getting

how's it looking in the houses of parliament. well it's really on a knife edge and you know sammy i will just just say this before we start if you think that parliament can make its mind up there's a poll today suggesting that 42 percent of people support boris johnson's baxendale in the u.k. and the number of people who want to stay in the european union ace 42 percent exactly the same and if you take out the don't knows it's almost exactly 5050 as well and so it was in the parliament can make its mind up it it really reflects the fact that the u.k. public comic is modify that's what's wrong with colleville is that from from the policies that the studies the sentence right think tank boris johnson says you know he's ideas to get bricks it done and the people are sick of it and want to get out of the way that poll just mentioned as slight as just otherwise doesn't that people are still unconvinced that in numbers he's got it right if you talk to the pollsters actually i mean there is a general consensus will. for god's sake let's get it over with. a new deal or some

kind is seen as a as about you not necessarily he's the i think over all of the spectrum of his potential deals his deal is that is actually is actually one of the best on offer it certainly improves in q respects and it's a reason may do it's striking that it's united party c e o r g and the former 21 you know there is here today wings of it in $70.00 it's a party if you look at the polling i think 90 percent of conservative voters we see who have actually studied here are actually aware of the details like this to you 75 percent of the voters like this deal 67 percent of brecht's it's about to go to breakfast party voters like this deal so i think there is actually a sort of a consensus behind it when this comes to them sounds a vote on these other bits of alternatives in the house of commons tomorrow should the u.k. stay entirely in the customs union should there be another referendum it looks like there's every possibility neither of those 2 options will pass either i mean you know the lesson of us and we're all speculating but i believe the lesson of the

last 6 months 3. it is that no one knows anything if i had to place a very deep it anyway at the moment it would be that the referendums fail i think you can sort of see some of the key kooky groups like the d.v.d.'s and be who you'd need to line up behind them aren't quite don't seem to be quite the day for another referendum for a number of them or indeed for the customs union not least on the customs union point because actually you knew that argument can be had wannstedt wants is passed to what boris johnson's deal is not doing is saying this is what they're it relationship with europe is absolutely set in stone what it's saying is he respects russians which we will now proceed to debate you know what i mean if if boris johnson so the deal did it to go through in terms and this is a disease year long transition period all the stuff that goes with how how in that period do you think a conservative government would be able to unite these these these 2 utterly divided parts of the country can you see it playing out in behind us here every day every single day those out of each other here i mean i mean i think one thing you do you definitely as an election i mean i think you can't get anything done with

parliament in this state you know it's almost a sort of literally bottom into this or this deadlock you're talking about and you know even if. you know even if you election night might well return the same you know same deadlock but at least you've given a chance to to go back to to to the voters on and in more than their level of 4 if i was a chance with election after this you think of this week high but for say maybe not i mean maybe maybe not sort of in the next few weeks maybe but definitely actually months yes it could even be in the new year natural factors as well that saying because of the calendar if they have to get extension then you're looking at election just before christmas and frankly who put the not the politicians or the voters one election to christmas who probably be in the new year actually. right thanks so much lawrence need their. spain's acting prime minister is accuse the president of the catalonia region of failing to ensure peace between pro and anti

secession protesters there are scientists made the comment as the visited barcelona to meet with police officers who were injured after a week of violent demonstrations rallies have been held in the city instance 9 catalan process produced leaders were jailed last monday of their role in a failed independence bid in 2017. let's bring in charley and she joins us live from barcelona so we can see people behind you in the streets i guess sentiment must remain high charlie. yes i mean this crowd has really dwindled about an hour ago it was numbering in the thousands but now down to the hundreds of these a pro independence demonstrators and they've come down to here this is the national government headquarters because they thought that spain's acting prime minister pedro sanchez would be appearing here he made a surprise visit to the city today but the details of his movements were kept under wraps no doubt to avoid any images of confrontation with the demonstrators like

this because remember spain is just 3 weeks away from a general election so the optics of any visit would be very important but we do know that he visited the policeman who'd been injured in last week's riots 3 of them still in hospital but he was shouted out by hospital workers to sit down and talk and you could probably see on some of the placards here that is the message that these pro independence demonstrators have been repeating for over a week now since their cattle and separatist leaders sentence but so far. any any opportunity for that has not happened the catholic president came to or was hoping for a talk with senators today but that's he's been snubbed for a day in a row instead he received that rather strongly worded letter which you mentioned in which sanchez said store or any public official is to ensure the safety of all citizens in recent days your behavior has been moving in precisely the opposite

direction so it's a disappointing outcome for not only these demonstrators were also people on the other side who believe that dialogue is going to be the only way forward on this issue. well it's quite clear thought is he's not interested in dialogue how do they plan to this then. while at the moment it's not clear. i mentioned we're heading up to a general election so i think sanchez will be avoiding the issue as much as possible i know that from the far right far right parties are really putting pressure on him to come down with a firm hand but the same time the police have been heavily criticized for their behavior during last week's protests earlier we were outside the national police headquarters there was a very different feeling that it was pro unionist spaniards spaniards who believe passionately in the unity of spain were throwing flowers at the police thanking them for the work that they've done over the last week and suggesting that

protesters who did riot last week should be tried as terrorists now that's quite an extreme view but believing in the unity of spain is a view held by 48 percent of catalonians versus the 44 percent who believe in independence so at the moment this country is really at an impasse this is an issue dividing communities and with another election approaching it doesn't look like it's something that the leaders of this country are going to make a priority right now. all right thanks so much charlie and jim now that. haitian president is under increasing pressure to step down violent protests destabilize the country people have called for his resignation since august citing shortages and widespread corruption show about his reports. president juvenal and they were unleashing the frustrations on the streets in just . a few corruption and the lack of basic

they wanted to resign. it's very simple these are the demands of everyone the police and everyone this is a country that has a sickness the country has turned to mathematics where you have problems to solve everywhere since coming to power. 87 tane morse's struggles. the opposition movement refused to recognize his victory and spurred the rebellion against him he hasn't had a government since march because the opposition wouldn't approve morse's nominations. there are accusations that he is to blame for all of haiti's problems it's growing louder by the day. i'm tired of this i voted for of an end but i'm disappointed my vote has gone unnoticed i os 7 now to wake up to decide to ation in the country. it's been this way for the

6 weeks protesters sit up barricades and 2 rocks at police who responded with tear gas and shotgun pellets they scatter regroup and start again. 20 people have been killed and more than 200 injured maurice's watch from afar really seen outside his residence. on thursday protesters stopped him from holding an annual celebration of haiti's founding fathers and state he held a private ceremony under heavy security now we may. have but i am calling on haitians and we need to unite to fight this system. protest has responded with their own message but to get. the word if you have a little bit of morality a little bit of nationalism if you have a little bit of love for the country then please hand over the keys because the people can't stand it any longer raskin you to step down step down. as they try to

smoke mores out of his seat is committed to talk but not resign leaving the future increasingly unclear shallot ballasts al jazeera. all right let's catch up on the weather now and jenny will tell us all about those storms in the solve united's really nasty. so it is indeed summer let me just say 1st on satellite because this is the line is responsible for more of these storms they're going to continue to go through monday and on into choose day and look at this no denying it there it is the tornado this is been officially confirmed it touched down at 9 30 pm just look at that 9 30 pm sunday night in dallas and the damage was pretty widespread now amazingly 3 people there were injured but not seriously but look at the damage i mean some buildings were demolished if a school struck monday some all shots in the district because the damage that was actually done so this is obviously the sort of thing that we're looking to see as

we go through i say looking to see we could well see as we go through the rest of monday this is it this is a line of storms that we've got now ahead of this line of rain we have got some very moist warm air and then behind it some very cool dry and where these 2 masses actually come together they clash and this is where we get these big thunderstorms developing so there are plenty of warnings and watches still in place mississippi up into tennessee as well it will continue curious what you choose day but in fact by then some very unsettled conditions into the northeast keeping those temperatures fairly low as well and then we've got this very cold air coming down from canada is on the backside of this system we have got some snow so there's all of that weather this summer but certainly another sort of 12 hours really with the threat of these severe thunderstorms and tornadoes. all right thanks jenny well still ahead an al-jazeera bolivia's president faces a tough road ahead to secure a 4th consecutive term in power. canadians head to a general election which is being seen as a battle between progressive and conservative values and it's more tiger woods

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believe in the 2 state solution we listen what i said was that pakistan would never start a war i am anti war we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on the soldiers era. you're watching al-jazeera time to recap our headlines now. that bin and prime ministers are there how the the has announced a series of reforms to appease protesters that include cutting politicians salaries in half and reducing the country's huge deficit he says he would also support early

elections. u.s. troops have crossed into iraq as part of their withdrawal from northern syria a convoy is passed through the salah border crossing heading into iran's northern kurdish region. where the u.s. defense secretary mark asper has suggested a few 100 american troops may stay in northeast syria to protect the oil fields the facilities are mostly east of the euphrates river and resort and near the syrian border with iraq areas controlled by u.s. and kurdish forces before the war started in 2011 syria was producing 400000 barrels of war a day ranking it 32nd in the world that's and gas production made up about a 3rd of its export earnings and a 5th of state revenue as i saw took control of the eastern oil fields the u.s. treasury estimated the armed group made up to $500000000.00 from oil revenues

one cup alarm is the director of the arab center for research and the doha institute for graduate studies good to have you with us so 1st of all these oil fields that american troops are going to stay back to control currently are they operational. no they are not but they can be restored actually easily. i'm not really surprised that this issue has emerged because we were expecting that after. after the us leaves syria most of the parties that right now are competing for the north east of the country will be actually fighting for the continental of the oil and gas fields as you said syria used to produce something like $100000.00 but is a fall a day and something like 10000000 cubic meter of the hours daily as well so that is a lot of money at this point the whole point was the oil and gas field will be

actually generating a lot of money the syrian regime will definitely need that in order to. finance 30 construction of the country or part of that at least whereas the kurds would like actually to keep control of these oil and gas fields because it's really important for them if they want to establish any form of autonomous at all in the north east of of syria of course turkey wouldn't allow that and turkey would of course. get into this fray and try also to control the oil and gas fields so everybody is actually interested in this so i'm not surprised that the americans have decided to stay in control of this. oil and gas fields well if seriously if some american forces stay back to control these oil fields one assumes kurds may also decide to stay along side the allies with the u.s.

does that mean conflict especially with turkey. well as long as the kurds are not actually benefiting from the oil and gas fields that shouldn't actually annoyed the turks but of course i mean would resist that iran would resist that and the syrian regime would indeed that is that because. all these smart these actually are very much interested in getting the united states art of the syrian conflict because. all of them actually having intending interest in getting the us out they are army and would want to actually the us because they want to do it to establish this land called a door between syria and iraq until it went on. would want actually to fully control the syrian the syrian issue including the political solution and the oil and gas fields indeed because they need that. even you off their oil and gas fields in order to as i said earlier tori subtly construction and the syrian regime would want it for the same for exactly the same reason saw i think many parties wouldn't

be happy actually would write now announcing that they want to stay but of course you know in america you never know what happens. tomorrow because america we have 2 american medical of donald trump and the american of the foreign policy establishment we know that the president doesn't want to keep any u.s. forces in syria where has that been to go and has been actually trying to keep as many as many as possible so now we see that been dug one is actually having its way right now but we don't know for how long that's going to continue or because a dando duty as we have seen over the past development of the past few weeks actually it was but i didn't plan paul who is who is having the financier over that issue. one couple on there thanks so much for your analysis on that thank you thank you for having the e.u. has called for a cease fire and afghanistan's officials say the breakdown in u.s. taliban talks last month is an opportunity to push for a truce and sunday u.s.

defense secretary mark asked for made an unannounced visit to kabul in an attempt to revive those negotiations president donald trump broke off talks with the taliban after the armed group carried out a bomb attack in kabul it killed 12 people including an american soldier u.s. defense secretary marcus 1st says while the results of afghanistan's elections have been delayed his country remains committed to the region. regardless of the outcome of the election our security partnership with afghanistan will remain strong our mission in afghanistan has not changed we continue to conduct counterterrorism operations while supporting the development of the n.d.s. of the united states remains fully committed to helping afghans create a peaceful stable and prosperous afghanistan and of supporting the afghans efforts led by the government towards peace. canadians are heading to the polls in an election that could see prime minister justin trudeau struggle to keep his liberal

party in office is facing a strong challenge from the opposition conservatives led by andrew scheer in a race that is both parties neck and neck let's go live now to daniel lak in toronto daniel i can see people queuing up behind you a positive sign for turnout. absolutely it's early in the morning the polls have just opened here in toronto and across much of eastern canada where most of the votes in the country are usually found and certainly if this line up is any indication we're going to get pretty good turnout canadians are enthusiastic voters long term averages around 70 percent of the electorate votes and some 5000000 close to 5000000 of already voted in advance polling in early voting but as you said it's a close fought election the campaign has been less than inspirational for many hasn't really succeeded in budging the 2 main parties to a significant lead over one another justin trudeau who many thought a year or so ago might have a bit of

a shoo in for another government canadians generally give a government at least 2 terms before turfing them out and choosing their opponents is fighting his conservative opponent closely couple of things have set him back one of course was the well known black face scandal where photos of him 30 odd years ago wearing racist makeup emerged and also some ethical problems that came up andrew scheer the conservative leader has had his own problems he was found to be a dual u.s. citizen which is by no means illegal but was a bit embarrassing for him and the other less than well known parties the greens and the social democrat new democrats they've actually had a rather good campaigner and are expected to do well at the end but we really don't know the result for some hours yet. take us through this ingestion that this is not just a contest between parties but something of a struggle between values going on. but that's that's a good way to look at it because justin trudeau when he came to power in 2015 was quick to proclaim he and his government almost progressive icons if you will around

the world especially after the election of donald trump in the u.s. and brags that in the united kingdom and all of the forces unleashed by all of that justin trudeau said he stood for human rights for feminism for human for people coming into canada immigrants being welcome to all of that so that is a battle that he has tried to cast in this campaign but it's been less than successful there's been a lot of talk here about climate change and the parties not doing enough about it the 2 main parties and also just the fact that these scandals i mentioned before just seem to keep cropping up what we're expecting at the end of the day if the polls are to be believed is probably a minority government of either liberals or conservatives this is a westminster parliamentary system and they'll have to be propped up by other parties but again public opinion polls don't have a good record in recent elections anywhere and on the planet and so we really have to wait and see for about 12 hours from now we'll know for sure. thanks so much daniel black there. preliminary election results in bolivia put president evo

morales ahead but it looks like he'll have to face a runoff in december or alice doesn't appear to have enough support to win a 4th term in office out writes john heilemann reports. that if the bolivian presidential elections look set for a 2nd round the 1st time since ever more oil is surged to power nearly 14 years ago preliminary results showed the incumbent picking up 45 percent of the vote 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 to 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 in his didn't accept 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 outright whip hit the general 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 is used to winning by a landslide ever moralising supporters celebrating the fact that it did come 1st in this round of voting but in the last election because 60 percent of the phone so its popularity rating has come down. to libyans a divided many like schoolteaching learn to keep faith with the president he's almost of poverty and kept the economy growing again a cent. in the government before murali 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 that he has tried. nephew eric thinks differently about the longest standing president of the libby's history given what's going on. 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. for many it's not just a desire for change through so worried that we're alice is slowly eroding democracy in the country. just to run in this election and change the constitution and defied a referendum in which the electorate narrowly rejected that. they could be a way up to 7 days the remaining burst from votes to be counted and to see if president were eligible followers of a full term to celebrate another told battle they heard john heilemann 0. chile is government has extended a nighttime curfew to cities across the country so in response to violent protests

against the cost of living the military has been deployed to control the unrest against a transport fare hike it's been reversed after demonstrations began at least 11 people have been killed in rioting. the united nations report says the majority of african migrants who try to reach europe would do it all again despite the risks nearly 2000 africans from $39.00 countries were interviewed the survey only sampled those who made the journey for economic reasons not for asylum or protection the results suggest a majority of the economic migrants travel because they wanted to earn more money to support their families not because they were poor and most of the migrants were in school or employed with competitive wages when they left how many are here is the nigeria country director for the united nations development program he says migrants leave home because they can't see their dreams being fulfilled what we found was that most of.