well daryn it was a promise that was set out by the acting socialist governments head of which is better sanchez he said in his. when he took office that he would begin plans for the exhumation to take place and then a set of legal battles which were put forward by the family of franco then went all the way up to the supremes court the supreme court and just last month the ruled unanimously in favor for the exhumation to take place and so on this thursday morning already the exhumation has just about big gun the coffin the grave where francisco franco is buried is now starting to be opened up there is also a forensic scientist at hand as well together with the family to check to see what kind of condition the remains are if they are if it is in poor condition then they

will be checked before being transferred to another coffin and then brought to the cemetery here the family cemetery just behind me here which way in which the remains will be laid to rest next to his wife common polo and so what's the significance then of all of this. what is incredibly significant moment in spain's democratic history as it were i mean the government itself says that this symbolically closes this call the path. spain has undertaken towards democracy as well they are of course the critics to beasts certainly to be said from the far right as well as conservative parties that have said well this just brings up old wounds from the past as well but it's because spain has never really had a formal transition process of form

a reconciliation process rather it's very difficult to sort of see how this can not be something which was necessary to been done certainly given all the events that spain has taken to make a peaceful transition towards democracy daryn over to some of you to go there in madrid song i thank you. karen how does when we come back. is the bottom scintillate spot test is ignore a country as anti-government grievance spreads. mozambique's oppositional cries foul and calls for a new vote after being defeated in every province in the recent election more in the states. hello there as across much of a borneo also want to cross into sulawesi but you can see and things have been

a little bit kara but the rain is very much in the 4 calls over the next couple of days northern sections in particular dry they may stay on friday. and then we've got more of those rain showers across much of the monday peninsula and northern and central areas all the similar to working the way to the south was on saturday making for all the down day in singapore 31 degrees celsius and we are going to showers in the forecast into the southeast of australia but they're very light and very really intermittent you can see where the cloud is and that is generally where we will see the showers the ebb beginning to cool down friday saturday across the great bias there 19 in adelaide but still warm in melbourne anti-biotic and in both cases you could see some showers 35 celsius in sydney and then it also really warms up and south across into perth 30 celsius and this clears sunny skies temperatures continuing to come down melbourne. today again we could have under 2 showers and still very warm at the east coast at $31.00 celsius in sydney and 30 celsius in brisbane and in both cases it will be dry and of those sunny skies we've got

a few showers across into christ church as we go through the next couple of days into the start of the weekend not too bad in both feeling quite warm in christ church. i can't. experience the world like never before. going places together.

welcome back to the top stories here this hour lebanon's president michel aoun is due to address the nation in the coming hours just as they've been calling for political change during protests over the last day. yes president donald trump has lifted sanctions on turkey saying showed him the cease fire in northeast syria will be permanent turkey has now made a deal with russia to create a so-called safe. and the remains of the right wing leader francisco franco spain 36 years of being and zoom from the state mausoleum the government wants the site into the morial for half a 1000000 people killed in the civil war. chinese government is struggling to appease protesters who say proposed reforms don't go far enough it's facing growing cold from the united nations to respect human rights amateur video appears to show troops using excessive force against demonstrators as well as more now from

santiago. it's the worst crisis the country has seen in more than 3 decades. a violent crackdown by police and military against thousands of demonstrators has left several dead thousands of others have been. that. the repression has been horrible they beat a bully to date with claps and didn't. as always the return on top when we always get stepped on. demonstrators blame the government for a long list of social problems from economic inequality to growing lack of access to public health care. there's no medicine there's no supplies to treat wounds we don't have enough stuff there is a massive deficit. according to medical professionals dozens of protesters have suffered wounds from firearms and have sustained injuries to the face and torso from projectiles like tear gas canisters and rubber pellets the united nations

along with international human rights groups are calling for security forces who have been documented using excessive violence against peaceful protesters to be held accountable. there have been specific cases not only violating the right to peaceful assembly but also the right to life and bodily integrity there have also been cases of sexual assault things that cannot be tolerated. on wednesday some secretary of the interior said he expects that any alleged human rights violations will be thoroughly investigated. we are live in state of emergency and i'm really tired. but this doesn't not just to fight human rights abuses. well the majority of protests in the country have remained peaceful there's also been widespread vandalism and hundreds of businesses have been looted a military in force curfew has been announced for a 5th night in a row and has been extended to other cities of cheating the concern now as more

people continue to join in the demonstrations and violate that curfew is that the violence that we've seen over the past few days will only worsen. between protests that continue to intensify and a government who seems unable to regain the trust of the public a peaceful solution to the unrest appears to remain. breach. santiago. early results from bolivia's presidential election show the incumbent david are all as has a 10 point lead over his main rival if you maintain that level it would give him an outright victory avoiding a 2nd round run else but opposition leader claims he has evidence of electoral fraud and wants protests to continue unless a runoff vote is held john heilemann has more now from the past. there as the bolivian election dispute continues both the opposition and government supporters took to the streets. the latter to show their support for leftist president ever more rallies in san francisco plaza for them is the only one who took the people

into account. i had been to fail with this person who's changed the destiny of the country the governments before just looted the natural resources of this persons distributed the wealth and stipends for older children now the pregnant women. they say moralities who was the frontrunner in campaign polls when the election fair and square you live i say to the opposition whoever loses in the voting booth has to respect the democratic process democracy is not coming out with sticks and burning public buildings or not recognizing results democracy is respecting the people have decided. that there are significant doubts about the election the supposed rapid count on sunday showed president more on this in challenger carlos messer heading into a 2nd round runoff with 83 percent of the votes counted. then that counts for 24 hours when it resumed president morales was suddenly on the brink of winning outright in the 1st round the vice president of the electoral tribunal said the

delay discredited the electoral process and resigned the organization of american states for a runoff. carlos mencia says peaceful protests will be needed to force the people see you all see if we don't mobilize if we don't show our democratic power in the street this government will do what it wants with the election results. opposition supporters scarcely needed telling wednesday was the 3rd day they marched. as there are are we are fighting to defend our fight because every morale is not respecting the will of the people he is not respecting the laws he is not respecting anything his time in government is over and it isn't just in the prize but across the country there are many people here that feel that it's especially in recent years democratic standards have been slipping. especially the country's industrial center santa cruz street battles. by president were only says called it an

attempted coup citing the burning of government buildings your position say instead it's a cry for transparency and change john homan. the pas. saudi arabia's foreign minister has been replaced after less than a year in the job to bring him back number as easily as soft was only appointed to the job in december last year the kingdom dumb bastard to germany if i sell been fought on would take over the role the saudi minister for transport has also replaced flooding in egypt is set to get worse especially around alexandria at least 10 people including 4 children have died out the 2 days of heavy rain in the capital cairo has been badly affected with roads submerged in large numbers of people staying away from work the interior ministry says 3 people died after being electrocuted while 2 others fell from the ruins of the haves. 7 people have died another is a missing after floods in southern europe in italy at least 2 people were killed

and 5 including a mother and her son a missing in northeast spain whedon's one other person has died in france rivers burst their banks blocking roads for. a court in bangladesh has sentenced 16 people to death over the murder of a young woman in march john ruffin's killing provoked outrage across the country in april the student was tied up doused in kerosene and set alight after refusing to withdraw a sexual harassment complaint against the head teacher. mozambique's opposition is calling for the results of recent elections to be an old and says the vote was rigged for the governing from lima party one in every province including areas where the opposition usually dominates malcolm webb as mourner from the bhutto supporters of mozambique's governing for leaving a party to celebrate results of last week's election that the opposition says was blatantly rigged. here is 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 lemo 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 the news. but of course you know i saw 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 lemo denies vote rigging it is not correct because you know what for the 1st time we have in this election a lot of service. before it was a political party or nominee was a rebel group fought for a limo 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. aiming at being free and fair because the lead from the beginning to form a belligerent they do not accept of the democracy game and. knowledge the

people's right. and. the future or destiny of the country for the mo want wanted a single party communist state their nominee for multi-party democracy 44 years after independence from portugal the ideologies have faded and for still in power malcolm webb al-jazeera mozambique now an artistic revolution is happening on the streets of sudan artists have discovered new freedoms after they helped to define the uprising which ousted the longtime president and the new transitional government. morgan reports now from the capital khartoum mix think. for a young man but after painting for years it was only when to dance revolution began in december that his started feeling like a real artist and that every stroke of the brush now gives him the chance to show his family and as well it feel like

a part of the revolution by spreading its messages. and. people have become close to art since the revolution and have started paying more attention to it so this is to show the sudanese art to bring it out sudan's visual art has been oppressed people from the field would not know and there was a clampdown on art for 30 years now we want to bring that out. since anti-government protests started last december over the rising costs of bread and fuel artwork has appeared on walls in sudan's capital many told president bashir his time with. his 50 year rule brought to an end by the military after. everyone was coupled with. the demands of the protesters and their hopes for future art has become a symbol of defiance for many here and these pro-democracy protests. but whitewashed by the military following the killing of dozens of protests 2 months

later within a few weeks. and that's not the only form of that thriving. music was strictly regulated during the sheers rule with anyone deemed to write anything even remotely critical to the government. now poets and musicians say they feel no fear. played a big role in the revolution most of the slogans chanted during protests came from poets who wrote to fuel the revolution and motivate the protesters empowered. the songs that i used to sing at parties were turned down by radio stations and there were other artists who faced the same thing i'm happy that such a day has come where we can express our ideas through our music not like the past where it had to be careful about what i write in the song. the revolution was

spearheaded by the sudanese professional association which includes. some of their work was destroyed during the political turmoil but they say they knew work should be preserved for future generations. people will carry the messages of those drawings and other arts. and are preserved for future generations so that they know about the history and the role these arts have played in the revolution and along. i've sacrificed for it. provided space for. every. president. to address the nation in the coming hours. for political protests over the past 8 days. from beirut. there are.

between. the government. protests. government they are. closed but the government was hoping for. across the country u.s. president donald trump has lifted sanctions saying. the northeast syria will be permanent turkey has now made a deal with russia to create a so-called safe zone. it would. be the headquarters of turkish syrian rebels. the

remains of the right wing leader francisco franco who ruled spain for 36 years from the state. the government wants to turn the site into a morial for half a 1000000 people killed in the civil war. rights groups have condemned the police and the army in chile using what's being described as excessive force against protesters of these 18 people have been killed in 6 days of demonstrations. early results some believe year's presidential election show the incumbent ever marla's has a 10 point lead over his main rival protests between rival groups have intensified after karla's message claimed he has evidence what it told fraud in sunday's vote. on the fighting in egypt is set to get worse especially around alexandria at least 10 people including 4 children have died out the 2 days of heavy rain capital cairo has been badly affected with roads submerged in large numbers of people staying away from work the interior ministry says 3 people died after being electrocuted

while 2 others fell from the roofs of their homes. so those were the headlines the news continues here in algeria after the fault lines in bad faith statement that's watching. u.s. treasury purchased agreements go site at no charge to look we bring you the stories and developments the dramatically changing the world the living what's behind the rise of piracy. counting the cost on outages in. i find these things that i hadn't looked at since i wrote them and i'm noticing like wow i was really in a messed up kind of place like things that were very dark suicidal you know almost as if i was like writing down prayers for a long time jews have carminow kept this box closed shoved into

a dresser drawer. this year he returned to these journal entries from high school finding traces of his encounters with a catholic priest psychological killer sexual predator who poses ashes on the forehead of his helpless victim ashes contain fingerprints ashes are a fetish symbol turn him on. to super members the smell of this priest cologne and what kind of candies he kept on his desk this is a jew new year year book he also remembers something more painful which for a long time he tried to forget there is a muslim father paddick. i do remember there is something with a belt buckle something with a belt buckle just the action of the bell opening in the sound of the the plane king of it him touching my leg rubbing up and down

my leg and and that was the thing that was like well that's not supposed to be happening. joseph is not alone. several other men have come forward in a series of exclusive interviews with fault lines. they allege years of abuse at the hands of father john patrick in catholic schools across new york city he just said the violence. of last sunday everybody curdle goal and sparking the latest revelations in a decades old scandal that's shaken the catholic church to its foundation going to spare us 2 months have been tough mark on the family right timothy dolan the archbishop of new york told the 2 and a half 1000000 catholics under his watch to rest assured i heard that what you want is accountability transparency and action to counter the same he claimed that there were no active priest space incredible abuse allegations in his archdiocese clergy

abuse he said was largely a problem of the past. our investigation into father patrick revealed a different story while they were allowing these things predator priests to frolic around aimlessly on the streets of new york with open access you know. under the shell of a collar it's a story that raises questions about new york's catholic hierarchy and whether it's need or has put the prestigious of the church above the survival of its victims i wonder if there was someone that went right up to knock on the door of same paget's cathedral and said father so and so did this to me. how long would it take for a father so and so be removed or suspended from that ministry. how long would it take for the investigation to begin i think it should not take more than you know an hour instead of. a week a month. a year but there's

a moral obligation are you willing to tell you we're going to tell your priest because i'm sure you know it was 2 years in multiple allegations or are you going to ask you how proud are you willing to preach your in harms way everyone tries to tell you no they stop what do you think the church should do stop hiding. this man who we'll call gabriel never forgot the abuse he faced as a 12 year old catholic school student so that's the church you see there where the black roof is a hat sarette 3 today this view from his home serves as a constant reminder that when you look at the window now you can see the church what do you think about. just how that destroyed might you. really get back

to kill the slip. here in the center of manhattan's washington heights neighborhood sits incarnation parish and school. it was supposed to be a refuge for gabriel who grew up without his parents paint a picture for me about what your life looked like at that time. pretty last. spring to last me. to think about. it. everything was school school and my grandma grandma was very sick. and it was just me and her. it was 1904 and father john patrick had just been ordained. his 1st post would be gabriel's church there's

a photo here where little altar boy is jumping into father paddocks arms and then father patrick says these are my children pressing the boy's head closer now i look at all children that i deal with as my children. gabriel was one of those altar boys he told us that father patrick molested him during confession for 2 years. how do you get always i'm confessing you don't have a crowd do you. some one on one thing. confession was i'm sitting on a chair. he's sitting directly in front of me is knees are one is here the other one's here ok he's got his left hand behind your head and his right hand is here and his right hand would be from your knee and sometimes end up over here most of the part and then he would you know and i would actually point and touch and say do

you use that to you masturbate say the truth. oh do tell him mary's. do you think you were mentioning before that you felt like he would prey on certain people i think the most the more vulnerable people yeah. you know why it's what makes you think that he was going after runnable kids. because i was definitely one of them. think about it. what parent is going to complain to you that his son is being touched inappropriately and i want. gabriel almost canceled our interview he said it made him sick to think about these memories. with the father of 2 knew that father patrick was still out there. as he facing the consequences for their actions you know how he's still hurting right.

with kids. out. for this investigation we spoke to 5 men who say that father patrick abused them. their attorneys told us the allegations form a pattern of abuse in catholic schools from the early 1980 s. until the early to thousands. these are the people that know one another and then in the aggregate as are coming forward telling thing the same and similar stories a pattern of behavior is there and we've got a set of other survivors have come forward from 3 different girls. survivors of different ages from different boroughs at different facilities and told the same story. monsignor product using his position of authority isolates those boys either at the school or in some cases in his bedroom in some cases out the church

wherever the opportunity may present itself. by 2001 patrick was an academic dean in staten island or jews of karma know was a student. high school was difficult for joseph j.s.t. of joy care of his was happening her she'd been suicidal and was hospitalized missing weeks of class as in making children of all ages when jews have returned to school father patrick told his parents that he'd keep their son's medication in his office theater i think of my students today who are 1617 years old and they have their issues they have their troubles and they go to people for help and imagine taking advantage of that person in that unique situation that's the worst of the worst to take advantage of someone in their time of most need. their most vulnerable. in march 21000 joseph reported father patrick

to the archdiocese. but months later patrick remained inactive priest here at neutered on parish in upper manhattan. we went there on a sunday in june just as he finished saying mass. i have a question for you do you know joseph car might know joseph joseph hermano. on the suspect who sexually abused i 68 weeks back i lent. you don't know him he's not the only one we know of several other man say to. you it. was during confession stage. so you think i. could actually spoken to many of them and they say the reason that there is because they don't want children to be unsafe and to go after what they were actually reeks of father paddocks denial echoed what he told the media in march it's really hard to speculate because that's when

a man named raphael mendoza student front of the church and told his story. that the school was circular for being robert's us slowly or down to my genitals but patrick said he still had the support of the archdiocese direct quote was right now i know i do he said i even spoke to the cardinal. cardinal dolan how long do you think that cardinal dolan will continue to protect you as more men come out with their stories and. father patrick said he didn't remember joseph but joseph told us he can't forget father patrick. are very very serious and. i had this stupid d.v.d. of like these clips maybe i interviewed him or something for the t.v. news i don't know. with each discovery from his archive jews have seen counters when the priest came into sharper focus and there it is the junior ring ceremony

mask i had forgotten that i was lector at the mass that he was the celebrant of the mass. even name. the only church to separate from the bible and father patrick sat right behind him and there's no possible way that he could forget who i was based on the number of interactions i had with him the only thing that would make sense to me is if you know if i was just another kid that he touched and it was like you know one in the same. faceless nameless. you know that was his way of justifying it blocking it out that's the only thing i can think of just another kid that he touched yeah seems to be quite a number of us you know. patrick's accusers had reported their

abuse to family friends and therapist years ago. but for a long time these men didn't file lawsuits or seek prosecutions against the priest . that's because new york's restrictive statute of limitations law made it nearly impossible for them to do so the legal system should be geared to the needs of the victim not the needs of the perpetrator or the institutions that caused it and essentially we're opening the door of the courthouse so when the victims ready they come forward for 17 years legal scholar marcy hamilton has fought for laws that give victims of child sex abuse more time to file claims. and in state capitals across the country the catholic church has been her adversary there's a sense of entitlement that they deserve respect and they deserve deference but nobody is going to get respect or deference is so long as they endanger children

and that's what they're doing so long as they lobby against the victims in the state legislatures they're on the side of the pedophiles. this year 1000 states and the district of columbia brought in the statute of limitations for child sex crimes where new york's law went into effect in august to save and hundreds of survivors filed lawsuits against the archdiocese of new york. i didn't think i would be able to do this i didn't think i would be able to tell anyone but when i found out that after now 8 of us have come forward and he's still in ministry in manhattan. it's something further had to be done jews have became the 2nd man this year to go public against father patrick. but his attorneys pointed to an even earlier claim back in 2012 another survivor just like mr kara mon-el came forward he came forward he reported to the archdiocese the

actions of monsignor product he reported to the district attorney the actions of monsignor paddock i was with him during that report those years ago this is your proof of claim. what does this say here 62712 it's a thousands from 2012 this man who we'll call hector filed that initial report here we go who committed the acts of sexual abuse or other wrongful conduct father john and patrick hector was a 17 year old student at cardinal his high school in the bronx. that's when he went to father patrick for help dealing with the sexual abuse he'd faced as a child some close to the family. child to try to molest me i was 5 years old. and i'm blogging me so in the school to. talk about it

and get it out and move on. but i said it's a wrong person. and just so there's an itch a fellow has. just gone towards my private parts. i fall comfortable we're not shot of back again he grabbed both of the handles like to stop when he was holding the handles on the chair what do you think he was trying to say with that stop moving the stop move. and i left out the room a little baffled as to madden my knowledge is. because i just thought something was wrong with me. the archdiocese investigated hector's claim and cleared patrick of wrongdoing the archdiocese has known about the allegations against monsignor rick for years more than 6 years.

those allegations have been kept quiet by the archdiocese they chose to believe the offender who had been accused and who had no doubt deny it and then silently and quietly continue that offender in ministry from that day to this that's what they chose to do when we met father patrick at church he agreed to an on camera interview the next day he changed his mind and we ended up on the phone with him. they all have sort of strikingly similar stories and that's where you know it starts to get a little hard on telling us. there's. something wrong with that no matter what. would you pull them close to you is that would that be sort of a traditional way that you would counsel them is like pulling them close to you just. try sports or i don't know so.

i'm ok would your knees ever be touching theirs. ok would your knee ever would you ever have your knee inside their leg or anything like that certainly not consciously in your consolation process would you ever see yourself like rubbing on their on their leg are on their thought oh. never ok did you ever remove any students close any student or alter always clothing or any reason. so did you ever examined them medically examined them no you never did you never examined them. with a stethoscope no. ok. ok all right yeah that's one of the claims and then a few of them made was that you could was. there was patrick for years it

appeared that paddocks parishioners were not aware of the claims against their priest and here's patrick in 2015 presiding over a confirmation mass through it all it seemed that father patrick could rely on the support of the archbishop and here is a picture of cardinal dolan and raising a glass with his buddy father pat it. looks like they're pretty close friends. as a cardinal dolan is among a select group of the vatican's most powerful men. for a time there was even talk of him becoming the next pope. he promised respect and obedience to me and my successors to god the speaker this could work you know bring it just so. we wanted to know how long cardinal dolan would take father panix word over that of his accusers. once again we found ourselves in church looking for

a chance to greet the man who catholics refer to as his eminence. as dolan greeted parishioners he appeared to be in good spirits. that began to change once we asked him about father patrick the archdiocese and now suspects these things against father having for 7 years now and i was wondering why is he still an active ministry or losing their security risk from doing this but there's a moral obligation are you willing you're willing to take the free speech those who rushed for sure there are genuine shooters in multiple allegations or are you going to ask you are you probably are you. are you willing to her arms away are you willing to her in harm's way and one last. place for calling everybody starts with one thing in welfare before us and.

what messed up their families or i'm going to bring himself up tell you don't face a. priest phone use the phone that you don't want for you or you can only have stuff. and thankfulness and later hear a voice about the welfare of children in need to carry the worries there are many sure that is thank you think about it you know about it for 7 years i say to her finances if they sensed a few child. it stones policy to suspend a priest while the church investigates allegations of abuse against him. but when we spoke to patrick on the phone he seemed confident the dolan would keep him in ministry what's the message to the public that a priest that's been accused of sexually abusing children gets to remain in their job as a priest still working with children. like. the

archdiocese has a 0 tolerance 7 policy. which are substantial. and i don't want to go on a week after our encounter with cardinal dolan we got an update on paddocks case. the priest had sent this letter to his congregation after consultation with our no golan and for the good of you the parish and the church i have decided to step away from my role as pastor here. to step in way. we still had questions where would patrick be during the investigation and where was he now and he could be anywhere. in the boats in the park or the beach. you know he still is listed on the parish website as pastor.

his letter to the parishioners basically said i'll be back when this all blows over . that is the story of the catholic church abuse scandal is that a perpetrator is identified and they then disappear into another parish or they disappear into another state or they just evaporates they are gone. archdiocese officials declined to answer our list of written questions. however they revealed that father patrick hadn't just stepped away he'd been suspended. the rectory where father attic lives it's right up here it's right next to the church and he stepped away from the church a few weeks ago by it and say where he was going or what he would be to be doing while this investigation takes place. when we returned to the parish weeks later patrick was still there inside the

church compound. father patrick. nice to see him to meet you again yes we were wondering if you might have a few seconds to chat. you can do that please but i know that there's been a lot that's happened in the last few weeks and we were just wondering where how you're feeling now and what's basically right here if you're not in active ministry anymore are you going to stay here and. where you're going to go during this time because you can't disclose where you're going to be are you going to be in ministry at all. because you can't tell us. well now we know where father patrick is he's still here in the rectory but he couldn't tell us where he's going to be. during this investigation or even if he's

going to be in ministry which is interesting. in september a review commissioned by cardinal dolan concluded that there were no active priests under his watch facing substantiated abuse claims. meanwhile the archdiocese faced 2 new lawsuits accusing priests of abusing minors at least one of them is an active ministry. this is left all of our people you bewildered frustrated and angry our good and faithful priest demoralized and us bishops somber and contrite. i have also heard this chilling comment more than once cardinal dolan we've been so let down that we're beginning to lose trust in you bishops. that stings without your trust i don't have a lot left. so i would ask him. she was my

trust. what do you expect to do about that. i know you don't want this out there i know you doll but have you asked for forgiveness so is your holy priest. and wide to be the one and that's what. i what i say is because i know and you know. it wasn't just. business updates. going places together.

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address the nation as protesters continue to demand the fall of the government. donald trump. praises the success of the serious rivals tell a different story. says he's on course for an outright. bug me as a 10. year old and i'm nicholas fall on. the outskirts of nairobi in a flower exporting form find out next whether deal or no deal so our exporters here in kenya see an opportunity in fact since. lebanon's president is expected to address the nation shortly protesters have been demonstrating demanding political change for 8 days saying aha that report from 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 they're trying to intimidate us to be honest i. think that our 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 who said protests will be tolerated in squares ordered the security forces to clear the streets he has ordered still process as all the stop isis but this is 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 chant revolution revolution we want the fall of the regime and protesters are still very much defiant they are refusing to leave the streets it seems levanon will witness a for a long period of time. ress if the lebanese government refuses to resign. 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 has to be. 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 are on the street and we were talking specifically about people who are affiliated politically and maybe still affiliated but it's clear what they want to hold their parties accountable maybe they didn't do it during the elections they are doing is now on the streets 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 for 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. and then is joining us live from the lebanese capital now we're expecting to hear from president along very soon after his much anticipated speech was delayed. yes that was the late the president was supposed to speak an hour ago now he's

going to address the nation in half an hour from now which will be his 1st comment since the protest movement began a week ago people here want him to announce the government's resignation but so far there is no indication that those in power are ready to cede power but we understand that there have been a lot of meetings behind closed doors so there could be a possible government reshuffle the dismissal of some ministers who have been tainted with corruption allegations but for protesters. here this will not be enough we are demanding a new government a government that will be made up of technocrats people who are not affiliated with any political party people who are going to work in the interests of lebanon so this is what people on the streets tell you and they believe that by broad blocking the roads you can see behind me they've blocked the roads in the capital beirut or across the country they believe this is the only way to maintain the pressure on the government to resign but the government was hoping is that even if these

protests continue and if they're confined in certain squares then daily life can resume the pressure will be eased on the government but protesters know that this is what the government wants so they're promising to stay in the streets to continue disrupt public life schools universities banks they remain closed and say the government has been trying to use the country's armed forces to break up some of these protests or at least clear a road block so that. something of a will see can return to it and the role in all of this is crucial. definitely the army they've been given the order clear the streets open the roads yes in some areas they're doing that but after convincing people they're not using excessive force in many ways really on the sidelines this is an institution one of the state institutions of lebanon where all political parties are supporters of all political parties they they praise the army they praise the army's role in the past

and political crises in the past so the question is why is it doing that is that under pressure from the international community the army gets supply is an aid from the united states for example and we know that the international community will not want to see blood spilled on the streets and the international community is also promising lebanon $11000000000.00 in economic aid money the government really needs if it wants to fix the economy so the government the army could be under pressure but what is dangerous there is a dangerous stalemate because now more and more what we are seeing are counter protests protests by loyalists those who still support the traditional parties and there have been skirmishes in some areas this is a deeply divided country and that is why a solution needs to be found before there really could be unrest in the streets zain thank you for that and that is all the live in beirut we would of course be going back to her after we hear from president michel but we're going to stay with the story we're joined by jamal goldson journalist and former editor. and listen

he's also joining us live from the never nice capital sicko's in very good to have you with us on al-jazeera how much pressure is the president under and is there anything that michel aoun can say short of resigning that will appease protesters. don't think there is anything he could say really that words and this state of protest he might see some things that quell the anger or if he might actually provoke into a protest into. more action the thing is there is really we haven't seen any steps by the government that they are willing to take any major steps towards addressing the real issues for which the people came down to the streets for they did an ounce a series of economic reforms and they were being reported as unprecedented economic reforms do you not think that those were enough protesters obviously don't.

it was very forward promises that cannot even be acted upon it's very difficult to expect from this government. and this political ruling class that's been him in place for decades to all of a sudden switch their priorities and address have a different economic philosophy and that is what is needed in lebanon right now in minor cosmetic changes to. budget or economic policy are not really going to change anything we're facing a real economic crisis and this this will not solve it and as protesters have been saying you know after so many decades of this sectarian political system that's allowed for for patronage for clientele isn't that the new

system is needed but that's not i mean how difficult is that given that it's just this one system that's been in place for many decades. you know. what this has created as a peril state or not just did multiple states providing the services of a state that has been eroding over the years since the end of the war this makes it more difficult to become less dependent on these political parties and go back to the lebanese state. needs to be constructed and made stronger to be able to replace a lot of the safety nets that the political parties have provided instead of the state over the past 3 decades mr goss and we thank you very much for your time on this no doubt we'll be talking to you again later in the day after we hear from the president for now that said gholson live in beirut thank you thank you elizabeth. we're going to move on to other news now in the u.s.

president has ended sanctions on turkey saying uncle is offensive against kurdish forces in northern syria is over and as turkish and russian troops take over territory previously patrolled by the u.s. donald trump says it's time for someone else to fight over this bloodstain sand our white house correspondent can really help get reports. he promised a withdrawal but on wednesday u.s. president donald trump announced that some american troops will remain in syria trump says a u.s. brokered cease fire between turkey and kurdish fighters known as the s.d.f. was a success as a result u.s. sanctions of post in turkey earlier this month are no more so the sanctions will be lifted. orla something happens that we're not happy with trump left open the possibility there could still be new sanctions and tariffs on steel exports from turkey to the united states the invitation for president recha tie of error to one

to visit the white house next month is also still on for now trump says it may happen in the meantime he says america's work in syria is mostly done we have done them a great service and we've done a great job for all of them in there we're getting out let someone else fight over this long blood state and sand trying to fire back at critics abroad pushing them to pick up where america has left off he was washington's allies to help detain eisel fighters and repatriate them to their home countries. but trump syria policy faces domestic criticism in the u.s. congress even from within his own republican party senator mitch mcconnell is promising bipartisan legislation to push trump to celts alair to one's white house visit and

halt the u.s. troop drawdown should a nation speak up we cannot effectively support up.