to avoid that 2nd vote but counts have been frozen and bolivians are still waiting for the final result morales has denounced the demonstrations against him as a coup and says he's confident til soon be declared the winner john holeman was at one of those protests in la paz this is the 3rd night of protests in the streets of our elections this sunday on the country. you can see the people around us a pretty defiant and they're also pretty angry what happened in those elections is there was a rock the count of the results it was meant to give a quick insert an indication of what had happened and who it won back because that count seemed to indicate that this was going to a 2nd round between long term president president ever marley's and his nearest challenger carlos mesa but the 1st count that rocked it vote count was poor suddenly and close to 24 hours when it came back online there was

a much bigger gap and it looked like president ever moralise was going to win outright without a runoff that's really cool indignation for the people here for a lot of people across the country there have been protests in other cities it doesn't look like it's running out any time soon the challenger carlos messer said in a news conference to react just a couple of hours ago that if they want to keep pressure on the government and they have to keep out in the streets and people seem to basically be taking the advice the organization of american states is all so weighed in saying that there should be a 2nd round to give some certainty about what's happened here so far president raul is is resisting that he said that it's only a matter of time before the electoral tribe you know because it's an outright win thing here without any need of a 2nd round. meanwhile anti protest and to government protests in chile have become more of the some of the largest and most violent in any 30 as at least 800. people

are being killed during the past 2 weeks and the curfew and the state of emergency in place began over high rail prices then spiraled into a movement against government oppression and poverty president sebastian pinera has promised to better address the country's problems. still ahead here on al-jazeera i. will tell you why angry crowd surrounded the home of an ethiopian activist after a standoff with police. and also with his rival benyamin netanyahu unable to do it former general benny gantz is asked to form israel's next government. and its 4th a busy night in the u.a.e. champions league leaders will have all of the sports action. to europe now where a murder investigation is underway in the united kingdom after the bodies of $39.00 people were found in a container truck prime minister johnson has pointed the finger at people

traffickers describing what's happened as an unimaginable human tragedy the grim discovery was made in the town of gray's from where paul brennan reports. the circumstances of the grim discovery are still uncertain ambulance paramedics were the 1st to be called to the scene the police won't reveal who it was who raised the alarm but it was immediately obvious that the people inside this container lorry were beyond medical help shortly before 1 40 am today we received reports that a number of people had been found inside the lorries container at the wall to great industrial park on easton avenue in grace emergency services attended but sadly all 39 people inside the container had died police now believe that the container travelled from zebra to purfleet and docked in the thora carrier shortly after 12 30 am on wednesday morning but they also say that the tractor part of the truck is

believed to have originated in northern ireland and the british parliament the prime minister and the leader of the opposition were united in shock and sorrow this is an unimaginable tragedy and truly heartbreaking i know that the thoughts and prayers of all members are with those who lost their lives and their loved ones i do pay an enormous tribute to the emergency services who've gone to the scene to deal with it all of us who just think for a moment what it's like to be a police officer or a firefighter to open that container. and have to remove $39.00 bodies from it and deal with them in a probe in an appropriate and humane way what unimaginable horror did the $39.00 victims and refrigerated lorries are designed to be at tight did those 39 people suffocate in a claustrophobic and terrifyingly inevitable death or did they freeze to death in temperatures below minus 20 degrees celsius. there are echoes of the 2015

tragedy in austria when 71 people suffocated to death in the back of an airtight lorry which the people smugglers had simply abandoned in the august heat. the 25 year old driver of this lorry has been arrested and is being questioned as a potential murder suspect truck itself has now been moved to a secure location a top redox to the bodies can be removed forensically but this investigation is only just beginning and somehow somewhere the families of $39.00 people are going to have to be traced and told of their loved ones fate paul brennan i'll just 06. lebanese protesters are still out on the streets across the country despite the rain and heavy military presence major streets in the couple beirut and other cities that are mounting the removal of a political system they say is corrupt and beyond repair prime minister saad hariri has presented reforms and attempt to appease protesters but the rallies have continued for a 7th day well in

a moment stephanie decker will report on how people have turned on the prime minister in the northern city of tripoli traditionally a strong support base but 1st reports from the capital beirut. they tried to reclaim the streets but the people stood their ground lebanon's army has been ordered by politicians to open roads across the country the same politicians these lebanese want gone there were skirmishes a few injuries but at the end the military took a step back to try to intimidate the city i was. thinking that that by a show of force we're going to back up people are going to be afraid to come and actually publish the opposite all of us rushed early on instead of coming at like 5 or 6 pm for a party this is the main highway connecting the capital beirut to north lebanon protesters have been blocking roads in the hope of pressuring the government to resign prime minister saddam had who said protests will be tolerated in squares

ordered the security forces to clear the streets he has ordered stop process he has all the stuff. he's he's seeing that the people there are not using any violence they are so peaceful it's not clear if the presence of cameras stop the soldiers from using excessive force but not long after the army command issued a statement making it clear daily life must not be disrupted people should and revolution revolution we want the fall of the regime protesters are still very much defiant they are refusing to. in the streets it's a reflection on the witness a prolonged period of unrest if the lebanese government refuses to reside. the governing coalition has not been able to write off the protest movement which has spread across lebanon it is now entering its 2nd week. my son graduates next year and all he thinks about is leaving lebanon he can't find

a job here i don't want my children to leave i want those in power to return the money they stole. for decades protests like these were ineffective because the majority of the lebanese people allied themselves with one political group or another that may change hard it's different now the people on the street and when we're talking specifically about people who are affiliated politically and maybe still affiliated but it's clear but they want to hold their parties accountable maybe they didn't do it during the elections they are doing it now on the street no one can pretend to represent the street today the protesters are trying to seize their country from politicians who have been in power for decades now they have overcome sectarian and political divides and are controlling the streets this is the 1st time lebanon's political leaders face such a serious challenge but that may change if the army chooses to protect those in power 7 for their beirut. 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 were on beirut a few nights ago this video posted online went viral don'ts music played with 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 all 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. your children rethink everything and 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 was like a domino effect among the youth center for sally says the protests have given her

renewed hope i'll screw whether she thinks 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 are 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 withdraw or this gives your perseverance to continue especially. when you got strong out of many if appointment tripoli's traditionally your support base for the prime minister saad how d.d. but the sunni majority city has been neglected has some of the poorest areas in the country. than would be said that we are defending the rights of all children in the rights of 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 and that is what everyone is telling us is so important in a city that's been stigmatized due to a possible over 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 a 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 tripoli. the 1st black leader of south africa's largest opposition party has resigned see a my man e said that there had been internal conflicts in the democratic alliance as he made the announcement yeah the struggle to attract black voters to the historically

white liberal party he's the 2nd senior black politician to quit in a week per minute macheda left on monday after the way the t. hey handles race relations. mozambique's opposition was the result of the recent election to be an old he says that the vote was rigged after the governing for lima party won every province including areas where the opposition usually dominates malcolm webb has more from my puter. supporters of mozambique's governing for a party celebrate results of last week's election that the opposition says was blatantly rigged here its results from a puto province for limo's been announced the winner in all of them even opposition strongholds. a few hours drive away in neighboring province a candidate for the opposition m.d.m. party showed us results forms from polling stations filled in pencil and with vote

counts for left blank he says so that numbers could then be changed or made up counting centers. and he said please stop for m.d.m. agents from observing you. but of course you know. that the police arrested them and took them to jail i think the police neutralized them because they were afraid they would witness fraud. just down the road at the provincial office of renamo the largest opposition party one of its agents told us she saw polling officials trying to stuff ballots according to the results announced so far president philippe new see will stay in power for a 2nd 5 years and his party for lemo will take all of the provincial governorships and most of the seats in parliament it was widely expected to be a close run race but observers and many mozambicans find the results on believable . the electoral commission says it won't comment until the final results are

announced for denies vote rigging it's not correct because you know what for the 1st time we have in this election i love of service. before it was a political party were namo was a rebel group fought for in a 15 year civil war more than a 1000000 people were killed. after the truce in 1902 mozambique has remained on stable every election since has been disputed i wouldn't look at mozambique selection as aiming at being a free and fair because the lead from the beginning to form a belligerence they do not accept of the democracy game and they do not acknowledge the people's right to choose and to mine the future or destiny of the country for lemo want wanted a single party communist state their nominee for a multi-party democracy 44 years after independence from portugal the ideologies

have faded and for limo's still in power malcolm webb al-jazeera mozambique. well still ahead hale news more turbulence a boeing as the aviation giants profits cotton haul and accusations of heavy handed tactics and obstruction home kong journalist played an official complaint against police and its balrog federal incentives in his bid for a 10th title of the swiss indoors in basel leah stories if you stay with us. we've got some other wet weather grassy making its way into western parts of china over the next couple days further east it's looking fine it dries them

a decent amount of sunshine to come through here that will if temperatures in hong kong to around $29.00 celsius but there's that thick clouds and damp weather heading towards chiang bay for example some snow over the higher ground that what's the weather pushing further east which is we go one through friday the northeast we push on those winds across the moisture off the south china sea it will still see some on still showers just making their way into that east coast of vietnam russia showers as per usual across southeast asia a lot of showers there from the southern philippines northern parts of borneo heading over towards thailand towards them late peninsula more than pass of somalia to the north of that slushy truck doesn't it too bad at solar law as he tried to to the south of that's across a good part of indonesia java but can try to casa ice around $34.00 degrees celsius may well drive either across pakistan northern areas of india bit further south we have got some very heavy rain continuing his circulation out into the arabian sea

and harnessing the showers wrought up the western gas still seeing that whether for the eastern gas and that is pushing its way right up into west bengal. whether sponsored by cattle railways. the environment doesn't know any boundaries what goes out into the environment goes around the world. except on the grounds that it's a very modern way to do pop believe me the measure of progress. the domestic population has organised enough an active enough to believe. in their future will kill or more vulnerable circle of poison on al-jazeera. overthrown and exiled they appoint again the same rule all the swiss i mean he knew an intimate film about the struggle of the elected leader of madagascar to return to his country and reinstate his presidency he knows that the

truth was forged by and we will not negotiate for each issue is that all the long winter change this return of a president on al-jazeera. welcome back you're watching the al-jazeera news hour with the reminder of our top stories the u.s. president says that he's lifting sanctions on turkey following a truce in syria donald trump says the turkish military offensive has ended thanks to washington's intervention a murder investigation is underway in the united kingdom after the bodies of $39.00 people were found in a container truck in

a town east of london police say the vehicle came to england from belgium. believe years opposition leader says that he's has evidence of electoral fraud in sunday's presidential vote. is calling for mass protests to continue and lots of runoff is held president evo morales has to nouns the opposition demonstrations as a coup. at least 5 people have died in violent protests across ethiopia after a high profile activist accused authorities of planning to assassinate him controversial media entrepreneur joe ahmed says his security detail was removed in the middle of the night many of the protesters are calling for prime minister to resign and how many are from the same after it group and last year the media mogul used his influence to help him get into office soon after the prime minister began introducing political in the economic reforms he also ended decades of conflict with neighboring eritrea which won him the nobel peace prize this year but now

protesters are accusing him of letting down the rumor people rob and kill has more than added up. a message to the. as prime minister led from hundreds of mostly young ethnic or my men outside the home of the man they are calling their hero. throughout the day young men have been coming to this neighborhood in addis ababa they say they are gathering in support to show solidarity to do warm hammad a popular but polarizing figure muhammad owns the influential or mia media network and has emerged as a prominent activist since his return from exile in the united states last year some even credit him with galvanizing support for the protests that brought prime minister abi to power but their relationship seems to have soured nothing on tuesday i'll be told parliament that people withdraw nationality who also own media

organizations should not stir up and rest an apparent reference to muhammad who has dual u.s. and its european citizenship mohamed calls that a threat the problem is that in the parliaments public police are hardly threatened a media. expected mohamed has had official police protection since last year because of threats on his life late tuesday night he says security officials arrived at his home and told his guards to leave they refused mohammad says it was an assassination plot and he blames the prime minister's comments over the. some security officials to independently. or that he give them green light. most of the body beate. however i don't believe these were isolated incident at the o.p.'s police

commissioner and a short test you denied mohammed's account saying his message that the police were taking measures against him are false neither the government nor the police took any measure against him wednesday's protests began as news of the incident spread through the state of or mia and at the end of our interview a further twist i'm not sure whether i don't fall over there i don't know but i'm seriously considering. direct and active participation in the coming election and even before done to help to ensure that the transition that thousands so quest was for would not hold back elections are scheduled to be held next may robyn kriel al jazeera. well the polls are closed in what's expected to be botswana's titers presidential runoff in history president sikkim assisi says that he's confident his democratic party will win the term but

a united opposition is posing the 1st viable challenge to the ruling party since independence 53 years ago those results are expected by the end of the week. former military chief benny gantz has been asked to try and form a coalition government after prime minister binyamin netanyahu failed to do so if gowns can't do it either israel may end up going through its 3rd election in the space of a year kerry force it has more from west jerusalem. for the 1st time in more than 10 years israelis watched a president give someone other than benjamin netanyahu the chance to form their government riven rivlin urged benny gantz 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. the law gives you 28 days to form a government starting from tomorrow this is a short time and these are fateful 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 that's the cue to 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 it's in their interests i will work to form a 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. well facebook c.e.o. has taken hours of prickly questioning from u.s. politicians about the company's efforts to create a global digital currency mark zuckerberg insists that libor as it's called will be

a force for good but critics believe it will be used for drug traffickers and other criminals share britain c. explains mark zuckerberg came to capitol hill with one fundamental message i know with the subject of multiple investigations and 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 propose 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 libra 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 but 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 argued 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 surely open to potentially devastating currency speculation and it's used by criminals and terrorists some argue it 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 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 are above the law you have opened up a serious discussion about whether the base book should be broken up is not about insisted that libra would not be luminous financial regulators were satisfied it would not be a source of instability but his message that his only concern is a level financial playing field was met with skepticism here she over time see how does iran washington. i'm joined now by law a maggot is the c.e.o. of connect safely dot org which gives security advice to companies including facebook he's on scott. in the u.s. state of nebraska good to have you back on the program laurie i mean why don't

governments like the thought of yet another crypto currency arriving you might say on global screens well the defense they're competing with governments i mean governments have always been the institution that issue currency they regulate them they have the 4th of a law behind them they can arrest somebody who abuses their currency all the power of the state and if that me if up to a consortium of private companies if threatening the government you know that's the beginning of it then you get into the issue of what the properly regulated will appear prevent or shared the it will be used for criminal activity think that nature and of course that you would all cryptocurrency it but if it did crypto currency backed by facebook and several other large companies and i think it's gotten a lot more to me for that reason in terms of the tightening up all the legislation and the rules around the money laundering and elicit money transfer in your

opinion how is technology improved front and therefore how does a crypto currency fit into it. well it could be argued that crypto currency actually solve some of the problems with traditional currencies because of the way in which it is exchanged in the databases that are standing behind it but on the other hand there is a lot of anonymity and a lot of opportunity for criminal activity we've already seen that with bitcoin and other crypto currencies now facebook and its partners in the labor alliance make a lot of claims that they will be different that their currency will be backed up by real currencies or real securities and that they will abate by rules they rules and convert today said that he wants to be approved by all the regulators and originally libra had the backing of have probably big financial organizations including the that master card pay pal and e-bay but they've all pulled out and i think that's probably a bigger threat to libor right now than the government has affected their big financial partners are no longer part of the coalition if you're going to flip the

coin on the other side would it be true to say that sort of many developed countries surprisingly would prefer a touch of the society in sort of gives the authorities more opportunity to track what we do with our money in the light of if i have a $10.00 bill right now and 100 over to you bill thought he would know about it. that's certainly true with traditional credit cards and debit cards but the word crypto in the word crypto currency actually says it may or may not be that that paper trail that we currently have with checks and other instruments like credit cards it just depends on again on what the regulations are now the companies behind libra unlike the bitcoin community are primarily reputable public companies that you know whether we like them or not they're certainly companies that are operating very much out in the open but i think that part of the problem also is dr burke said it himself he's the wrong messenger for facebook with all of its problems

around privacy and security and all the political allegations of meddling in elections that cetera for it to be the primary sponsor of libra is probably a mistake given facebook's current reputation and indeed that was brought up by the politicians quizzing so. why hey why is he being so magnanimous to think that he should be able to deliver access to the banking world old the financial world for those that don't have it his is a company about profits. certainly has of a company that has a charity. well to be kind of dr breggin it is conceivable that both could happen that it could bank the bank and that is a very big problem i've traveled in countries where the currency was so unstable that you almost couldn't pay your hotel bill because of because of the instability of it and also the fact that facebook does tend to make money because by creating a propos currency that will allow somebody in the developing world to do online

transactions that benefit facebook so they are in it for the money no question about it but they do make an argument that banking the unbanked is somehow a good thing and you know that i think there's some credibility in that argument although coming from facebook i can understand why people are very skeptical it will be interesting to see what steps i get thanks so much for joining us from the u.s. thank you so much. all staying in the u.s. boeing's closely profits have plunged by more than 50 percent the grounding of the 7379 craft to 2 crushes killed more than 340 people the aviation jones says it expects regulators to allow the plane to return to the skies by the end of the company as.