thousands of people even more than we've seen in the previous days still demonstrating still protesting and in cases still clashing with police and other law enforcement authorities in the chilean capital this has been one of the biggest points of anger for the demonstrators at this point is that despite the majority these protests being entirely peaceful the response from authorities has been heavy handed it's been a violent crackdown that's left at least 18 people dead at more than 5000 people detained and over 100 people that have suffered injuries from from from firearms so what we're hearing is condemnation and calls for accountability from the united nations and other human rights groups that are saying that what this amounts to is a violation of human rights violation of people's right to protest and a lot of the videos that we're seeing circulating from the previous nights during the curfew once the sun sets and people are still out on the streets are very troublesome we can't confirm independently yet the validity of a lot of these videos but what we're seeing is violence taking place even after the

sun sets people being dragged from their homes from buildings by police officers and by military personnel so this is something that's being watched very carefully and with more people protesting today even more than we've seen in previous days the expectation is that there will be more violence so there will be more arrests mariyam always the money your pointing to us from santiago but what are you hearing about how widespread the protests might be and they mainly concentrated in the capital or are we seeing protests elsewhere and countries well. the majority of the protests are concentrated here in the chilean capital where even there are even pockets of tension in different parts of the city with the national kerf that the curfew has been extended to other parts of the country there are protests taking place in concepcion and another in other cities in chile and again the dynamics of these demonstrations have been chained. the that the

demonstrations himself have evolved this is this began over protests against a hike in fare for the metro system for public transportation and since evolved into a whole slew of demands against the government saying people are angry over worsening inequality they're angry over the growing. the lack of access for health care the the state of the education system there is many things that people are angry about but the biggest anger right now in the streets again has been the response from police all throughout the course of the day we've seen police using tear gas using water cannon smoke bombs and there's accusations of police using live ammunition to disperse the protesters so again the big concern not only in santiago but in other cities across chile is that there will be more violence in there will be more arrests made tonight adding to to the chaos that we've seen over the course of the last few days and there's still no end in sight for the crisis versus the say the police response of his to be inflaming the unrest there for now thank you

very much from santiago monita. meanwhile bolivia's opposition in a says that he has evidence that electoral fraud has been committed to part of sunday's presidential vote carlos messer is calling for mass protests to continue unless a 2nd round of voting is held president ever morales needs to secure a 10 point lead to avoid a runoff in december but to vote counts have been frozen and bolivians is still waiting for a final result or alice has denounced the opposition demonstrations as a coup and says he's confident he will soon be declared the winner. now to israel president the president there is given former military chief benny gantz $28.00 days to form a new government it follows an inconclusive election last month which still counts as below my party neck and neck with prime minister benjamin netanyahu look could alessio who is given the 1st opportunity to form a coalition but he failed to achieve that earlier this week harry force that has more from west jerusalem. for the 1st time in more than 10 years israelis watched

the president give someone other than benjamin netanyahu the chance to form a government riven rivlin urged very garance and israel's entire political class to get it done and avoid sending the country to the polls for the 3rd time in less than a year i hope the war gives you 28 days to form a government starting from tomorrow this is a short time and these frightful days. gantz a former army chief has tried to present himself as a pragmatic centrist throughout his short political career now but its most significant moment so far there was no change of course if dr cuellar keep my promise to form a liberal unity government and that's what i intend to do in this government i will serve all israeli citizens and will act in their interests i will work to form the functioning government that israel is in desperate need of a government that will strengthen israel a unity government means one composed of dances blue and white party and the likud

of benjamin netanyahu the new who blamed gantz for frustrating his efforts to do the same thing ever since he was given the mandate last month now the roles are reversed but the same obstructions bar the way blue white says it won't sit in unity government led by a man and you know he's facing indictment in 3 separate corruption cases netanyahu is refusing to step down or to go 2nd in a potential rotational prime minister deal he's seen as having a better chance of fighting off those charges from the prime minister's office and there's no reason yet for the stalemate to break. another option for gantz a minority government with external support from members of the mainly palestinian israeli joint list that would be fraught with political risk even if there was the will to give it a try so far gantz isn't willing to do so. benny gantz has another path failure and the upside down of israeli politics it could just lead to success the longer he spends not forming a government the closer netanyahu gets to

a possible triple corruption indictment testing the loyalty of his party. to the afghans his mandate expires a final $21.00 day scramble would ensue all kinds of deals could then be on the table if no deal gets done that it would be election number 3 early next year ari force it out west jerusalem. saudi arabia's foreign minister has been fired after less than a year in the role the royal decree was announced on saudi state t.v. ever him bin abdulaziz was only appointed to the job in december last year he will be replaced by the kingdom's ambassador to germany in 4 han a saudi minister for transport has also been replaced one of the pentagon's top policy officials for ukraine is appearing before the impeachment inquiry into u.s. president donald trump nor cooper is likely to be questioned about the decision to freeze $391000000.00 in security assistance to ukraine on tuesday the acting u.s.

ambassador to ukraine william taylor testified before 3 house committees he said made it a condition that you can investigate his democratic rival joe biden before he would release the money meanwhile a lawyer for the u.s. president is saying donald trump does not have to hand over his tax returns to state prosecutors because he is immune from criminal investigation william cons avoid told a federal appeals court trump has immunity and till he leaves office he said that would apply even if trump shot someone on 5th avenue in new york city trump is fighting an earlier court ruling which rejected his attempt to block the release of 8 years of his tax returns that being sought by the manhattan district attorney as part of a criminal probe into trump's family business. now putin's told african leaders he wants to more than double the amount that russia trades with them as he welcomed them to a meeting at the black sea resort of sochi but he cannot make ties are not the only thing on his agenda as he tries to exert more influence on

a continent many western nations have turned their back on russia is playing catch up china japan the e.u. have been meeting africa for years last year russian exports to africa hit $20000000000.00 where is chinese exports to the continent with $205000000000.00 so how does moscow plan to boost its influence well the 1st thing is debt commission announced that he'll write off more than $160000000.00 worth of ethiopia as part of russia's deaf a development program mozambique madagascar and tanzania have already benefited from that move russia is also increasing its defense relationships on the continent since 2014 military cooperation agreements have been signed with 19 african countries also is also offering nuclear power technology construction of the continent's 1st nuclear plant will begin in egypt next year funded by a russian loan step pass and has more now from the summit in sochi. this statue of independence leader patrice lumumba at this moscow university is

a reminder of the close relationship the soviet union built with african nations as they freed themselves from colonialism in the decades after world war 2 modern day russia is now trying to revive these times by inviting african students to its universities in the past 8 years to numbers have doubled to 17000 with the help of scholarships. first of all it influences the language many people in our country can speak russian it gives an opportunity to spread russian language and african countries for example in our country. education is very important to improve society. while education and healthcare are still russia's main focus and parts of africa president vladimir putin wants to expand its influence far beyond this and i see if we had to. use mutual trains between russia and various african countries more than doubled to exceed $20000000000.00 whether that is

a lot of. great numbers but i cannot agree i do not think it's enough day ladies and gentlemen $7700000000.00 of that comes from trade with egypt which is about 40 percent of the total. compared to china which has invested $200000000000.00 in africa russia's role is small but it's working hard to change this and is now getting militarily economically and politically involved in dozens of african countries representatives from all over africa have traveled to sochi to revive an old friendship after becoming a major power broker in the middle east president clinton has now settled eyes on africa and is offering a different kind of relation than western countries have had with the continent. at the russia africa forum buton spoke about a mutually beneficial really. ation ship in contrast to former colonial rulers but in africa some are wondering who will benefit most russian military experts have

been training government troops in country like central african republic and sudan in exchange for access to minerals analysts have pointed out that russia wants to counter western influence on the continent the dark side maybe of russian politics is that the russian is really investing in the you would say so so some of my authoritarian leaders because russia sees them as stable central governments and i think this is russia's experience in the post i read you in space in the middle east and obviously in africa too on the 1st day of this forum 2 russian aircraft capable of carrying nuclear bombs landed in south africa in a show of cooperation between the 2 countries step fasten al-jazeera sochi will seem i don't know if it came is a policy and political analyst at the university of south africa he joins me live now from pretoria do you think that russia's efforts to re-establish a presence on the african continent are

a good thing for its people. well i do think it will be a good thing only if african countries themselves do have their act together and they're very clear about what the broad not should manage shave but if. like all other superpowers and find of the good and countries this organized and having a lot of those individual countries with a very small. ones surely did. more of it. seems as though russia is very focused on boosting trade ties on debt relief on on sales and they have said that more cooperation with africa i mean it is very general obviously we're talking about many different countries but they've said that more cooperation within the continent will come without political all of the interference what's your reading

a vent but i do think that they're trying to come up with their own version which is different from the western countries which normally have certain conditions the quota make for human rights conditions before they do trade or they key foreign aid and these who have seen with china as well to say we will not get involved in the internal affairs and for some of them james this suits them very well especially where russia will be on issues of munition or nuclear technology when it benefits all african countries if they can strengthen a relationship with moscow perhaps at the expense of this what some say is an increasing dependence on china. it will benefit some of them countries to diversify their sources of trade relations their sources of financial support

and technological transfer precisely because one's country is being dependent on one they have very little room for bargaining money over there. do you see parallels here atoll with russia's ambitions in the middle east where we have seen the country fail a vacuum left by the united states or do you say is africa less of a priority. truly is a growing priority because of its position supply of strategic minerals which are not generally available 'd elsewhere but also growing middle class and growing population which will double in the next 2 decades or so 'd that in itself many countries looking at africa but also if you look at other regions like the middle east well as they have geo strategic importance they are growing instability

in those areas therefore that volatility means that russia has other areas and if you look at western europe where it's that and many other developments and you move that mother mary issue or. all those 'd forces in countries than the. alternative over the meeting in order to lessen the burden of isolation thank you very much it was really interesting to get your thoughts a madonna for kenny policy and political analyst invest in south africa joining us there from pretoria. or the leaders of ethiopia and egypt will meet on the sidelines of the russia africa summit as well to try to break the deadlock of ethiopia's building of a dam on the river nile if european prime minister ahmed had suggested that the controversy over the grand renee's on this dam project could lead to a war egypt's foreign ministry called his comments on acceptable or nearly

a quarter of a 1000000000 people rely on the nile's waters but egypt and sudan claim to have exclusive rights to its use in object to anything that might affect the river. began building the dam 8 years ago and egypt is worried it could affect its vital water source it's using 20th century treaties by person to argue its case ethiopia rejects egypt's claims of the nile accusing cairo of maintaining a colonial era grip over the nile. well in other developments in ethiopia that been violent protests off to a high profile activists claimed authorities were planning to assassinate him controversial media entrepreneur mohammed who is from the a roma ethnic group says his security detail was removed in the middle of the night open creo has the story now from addis ababa. in the city of adama that's about 100 kilometers south east of. security forces fought with protesters resulting according to local officials and at least 2 deaths and this is the over harrar in

the east another death was reports it's in the ad is at least $400.00 mostly ethnic more young men gathered outside the house of controversial orrible activist and media personality ahmed they told us they were here to protect him and also to protest against the prime minister. to war mohamad has become a prominent media figure in the o.p.'s the pos few years but some of the q. stood up to using his influential media platform to create division amongst at the oak is ethnic for the federal police commission and a short test for you denied reports that there were any attempts to remove muhammad security saying quote his message that the police were taking measures against him are false neither the government nor the police took any measure against him to war mohamad disputes this he told al dizzier that the government gave him police protection because of concerns for his safety after he returned from exile last

year these are box come just a day off the prime minister announced in palmach that those who hold dual nationalities and media networks should stop them and arrest now dorma hama to hold both if european and american citizenship so that also told al-jazeera that he is seriously considering running in the next election. the 1st. black leader of south africa's largest opposition party has resigned a new seat my money announced he was stepping down as head of the democratic alliance after 4 years in the role he says he faced difficulties making the historically white liberal party appeal to majority black voters it's the party 2nd resignation of a senior black politician in 3 days johannesburg mayor herman quit on monday. 10 people including 4 children are now reported to have died off to heavy rains and flooding in egypt the capital cairo has been badly affected with roads submerged in

large numbers of people staying away from the interior ministry says 3 of the deaths what you to electric electrocution while 2 people died while falling from the grooves of the homes more rain is forecast for the coming days. with the news hour live from london to bring you still unconvinced by offers an economic reform of lebanon's protesters continue that fight the complete political change. pakistan's opposition vows to paralyze the capital with protest this weekend in a bid to oust the government that i met in sport the oldest golf club in the world finally gets around to installing a women's changing room. how

it was a game we still got some lovely weather across much of eastern europe but all the sort of the minutes regular season rather a lot of the storms latest crop of storms just pushing up into that eastern side of the med heading up towards christians to rob a bank countries had coastal flooding in cairo other side of the med we still have this slow moving area of low pressure now making its way away from that northeastern corner of spain southern parts of france russia makes its way across the of course brings a very heavy right the possibly some flooding coming into possibly italy as we go on through the mix couple days along the islands here as well of course well a wet and windy to up towards the northwest east past looking fine and dry but as a separate got some very stormy weather into that eastern side of the med is trying to and that will continue to be the case as we go warm into friday for the north the sunshine continues saying settle in sunny warm. piling into the northwestern corner of europe fitting very autumnal northwest a positive africa has also seen some bits of cloud and rain as

a result of that storm in the western medicine making is why for the race was more than parts of libya could see some wet weather notes that cloud right still in place into the fog north east of egypt over the next couple days for the flooding to come. overthrown and exiled they appoint and can say if you are all wrong dismiss me she knew an intimate film about the struggle of the elected leader of madagascar to return to his country and reinstate his presidency you know is that the truest fortunes but and we say that nothing against the french position is that all of you know with interesting things return of the president on al-jazeera. when the news breaks. when people need to be high and the story needs to be told

the police find out from the palm optics up with exclusive interviews using that was a mistake no and in-depth reports taking on the environmental and climate crises is a battle on many fronts not least that of the others al-jazeera has teams on the ground to bring you more road running documentaries and in life means. welcome back the headlines now u.s. president donald trump says washington will lift sanctions imposed on turkey over its offensive in northeast syria this comes after russia now patrols parts of the region in a deal with turkey to impose a new cease fire along the border

a murder investigation is underway in the u.k. after the bodies of $39.00 people were found in a container truck which had just arrived in the country police say they believe the truck originated from bulgaria and came into person through the port of poti head. police in chile are being accused of a heavy handed response to anti-government protest which of the country over the past 2 weeks at least 18 people have been killed in the violence a curfew in a state of emergency has been imposed. so we go to political developments in lebanon now the president michel aoun is due to address the nation at noon on thursday since anti-government protests began last week the northern city of tripoli has seen a huge turnout every night traditionally a support base for the prime minister and now the people of the city and across the country are united against their leaders stephanie deca is there hope for a week now thousands of come out into the square in tripoli to join the chorus of voices across the country calling for their government to go. as all eyes will be

reach a few nights ago this video close you don't mind went viral don't musically jubilant crowds many 1st thought this was the route when it was actually here in tripoli the city many see is far more conservative. i didn't plan for this i didn't plan for this i was like all the people i was going to. hold the people. we met up with the man behind the music he says he played it spontaneously didn't expect this kind of reaction all the people all of the old love each other in need. everything everything everyone everyone is here because there is no one on top of them the protests have mobilized the youth here a leaderless grassroots movement that has inspired many. it's was like a domino effect among the youth center for sally says the protests have given her renewed hope i'll screw was she things there are challenges ahead it's going to be

difficult we are scared. and we are aware that. we are going to a bit of a chaotic period after this but when you're aware means you're ready and when you're ready if this is the 1st half of succeeding. when you're scared you either do things you're either with draw or this gives your perseverance to continue especially. when you got strong out of many different points from tripoli's traditionally your support base for the prime minister is sad how d.d. but the sunni majority city has been neglected and has some of the poorest areas in the country and the no mo she didn't exist then would be said to her we are defending the rights of children in the rights of all citizens to live in a clean environment we are asking all those in power to resign and be held accountable financially all of them we will stay here until our demands meet the

protesters come from a cross-section of society that is what everyone is telling us is so important in a city that's been stigmatized due to a policy spillover of the syrian war when gun battles were fought out in the streets the people have come together against the ruling elite. they also want to change sectarian system which they accuse politicians of exploiting in order to keep people divided but there seems to be a stalemate now the government isn't standing down the people aren't leaving there are unpredictable times ahead stephanie decker of 0 tripoli. security forces in pakistan a blocking roads to the capital to try to stop anti-government protests they say could turn violent the so-called independence protest is calling on prime minister iran kong to resign and the new elections to be held led by a conservative political policy but as one support from other opposition groups as well as explains from islamic. if you are traveling from.

province on the grand trunk road you'll be coming down day 3 crossing and then crossing into. the opposition parties are going to be marching from all the provinces and converging on some of the provincial governments and up on job and. are also led by the project. that is the party and. of course elaborate arrangements are being made to. the chief ministers of the province that have been. dropped the protesters are all caught. heading for another round of political instability. of the. last in the last election. and now he has mustered the support of

major political opposition parties like the pakistan people's party led by. now why should. leaders of course are in jail right now their party will be trying. to bring it to a word georgia state of lockdown the government on the other. preparations. blocking access roads writ large. the trains are on they will just. be on the opposition parties read the. kind of support expect. their demands of course that the prime minister imran khan should resign they've already accused the government of being involved in rigging of the elections were brought them and. it is going to be

a major test for the op. if they're fair to the border of the people it really means their political future is going to be on 3rd down but there's a dog are going to be a huge challenge for emraan khan's government revered your company to do a year then follow their teachers are protesting their doctor their own dry and paper like complaining that they're not a bridge to corporate writing inflation the budget gone very traumatic to bring people out of power d. but the people here think that the situation has become worse of course the government. record of previous governments who have been voting heavily but what the people who want their relief and nothing short of die. here opinion ambassadors have been meeting in brussels to discuss whether to grant the u.k. another brics extension a considering a 3 month delay with the u.k.

permitted to leave sooner if it can pass the necessary legislation but prime minister boris johnson says he'll call a general election before christmas. if the u.k. is granted such a long extension france is pushing for a shorter timeframe though with just days a week officials on again on friday. alice c.e.o. of social media giant facebook has appeared before a u.s. congressional committee to defend the upcoming launch of a digital currency law as a comeback says the new libra cryptocurrency will be a force for good but there are fears it could disrupt the global financial system threaten users privacy and facilitate money laundering shihab rattansi reports mark zuckerberg current account for 2 who with fundamental message i knew were the subject of multiple investigations on lawsuits but trust me i get that i'm not the ideal messenger for this right now. we faced a lot of issues over the past few years and i'm sure there are a lot of people who wish it were anyone but facebook who are helping to put this

that idea is the creation of a global privately run currency libra zuckerberg says it will help a 1000000000 people around the world without a bank account the poor with libor they'll be able to send money to others as easy as sending a text message and i feel blessed to be in a position where we can make a difference in people's lives but he also issued a warning if we don't do it china will members of congress were skeptical there for the richest man in the world to come here and hide behind the poorest people in the world and say that's who you're really trying to help members of congress point to facebook's long history of abusing its access to the data it already possesses from its social media platforms if the company also potentially controlled the financial transactions of its $2700000000.00 customers that too would be exploited they argue talk about insisted the data from its cryptocurrency project wouldn't be merged with the data it already uses for profit concerns have been raised about the

implications of an international currency and a global financial system that's already unstable even with national currencies and regulation libor i would be decentralized and truly open to potentially devastating currency speculation and it's used by criminals and terrorists some argue talk about was also asked about facebook in general all the allegations of misconduct that are being investigated by multiple authorities around the u.s. from an advertising platform that's allowed companies to discriminate against minorities to turning a blind eye to election interference it was clear that this was a hard sell in fact the committee chairwoman said that just by suggesting facebook move into finance it was yet another argument that the company was too big each not 2700000000 people use your products that's over a 3rd of the world's population that's huge. that's so big that it's clear to me and to anyone who hears this list that perhaps you believe that you're above the law you have opened up

a serious discussion about whether facebook should be broken up zuckerberg insisted that libra would not be luminous from them from the regulators were satisfied it would not be a source of instability but his message that his early concern is very level and financial prone field was met with skepticism here forever terms of washington. so let's take a closer look at libor that it's a digital currency being developed by facebook which would allow users to buy products and transfer money and nearly no fees unlike bitcoin libras value will be tied to national currencies and subject to supply and demand facebook says it would not fully control the currency but have just one vote in the libor association originally the libor association had 28 founding members but now as you've been reporting 7 major players have left the project including pay pal visa master card stripe and e-bay joining me now is glen goodman author of the crypto trade up so

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