next to find replacement chemicals for export restricted japanese chemicals and he's been getting very good public opinion over that but if now he goes to prison there's a question of whether this comes from to maintain that kind of pace representing 20 percent of south korea's exports some so maybe too big to fail but it's boss might not be too big to be sent back to jail public brought out just 0 so. still ahead on al-jazeera safety 1st thousands of people are told to leave their homes as wildfires cause mass destruction in a u.s. state but also meet the 6 year old from surrey in england hoping to become the next tiger woods.

and they're still very warm and pretty dry as well across eastern areas of europe however that rain across the west is on its way eastwards it'll be sitting across the central med but the good news really is at least now things are carrying up and drawing up across areas the spain and also on into france this is catalonia look at this the devastation that was caused by those flash floods sent a story further on the coast into in france as well you can see that it really has in both cases impacting not just the roads but also the rails now as we go through friday there really is a much better picture in this particular region but this is to will still just sit in the central med and some or all the heavy amounts of rain against thunderstorms that could really impact southern areas of italy meanwhile to the north in the northwest look at all that rain and some snow to the mountains but still as we go through south a day it is fine and dry across much of the central and eastern europe those temperatures still above the average but really just a blanket of rain and cloud across much of northern europe but at least it's clear across much of southern areas. across into portland spain but this system which is

an impact in the central med that will continue to bring the rain showers into an old and sections of africa we could see some flash floods here as well. eventually by saturday it clears away from egypt but again because if you will attend to tunis . sponsor. what are you protesting about how does this impact their online life. directly out of translated slavery or if you join us on set this is an attack on academic freedom and on our ability to do research and teach freely this is a dialogue myanmar is not making it very welcoming for people to come back everyone has a voice. through the discourse in this world and i'm here to talk about the solutions on al-jazeera.

hello again the top stories on al-jazeera this hour protests against the government in iraq are growing louder people are demonstrating in the capital baghdad and right across the country despite the prime minister valen to reshuffle his cabinet and introduce sweeping reforms the pentagon is sending u.s. troops into syria 2 weeks after dawn called for all american forces to be withdrawn pentagon says additional troops will help protect syrian oil fields from falling back into the hands. in the air of the south korean business empire some song has been back in court for the start of his bribery retrial the supreme court ruled jay wiley's case should be heard again after receiving a suspended sentence for seeking favors from the former president park geun hye.

and to transport safety authority has said boeing was partly to blame for contributing to the deadly lion air crash in october last year officials say several factors including design flaws. the boeing 737 max aircraft led to the accident which killed all a 189 people on board they've recommended a redesign of the plane's alert system and better training for pilots all 737 max aircraft remain grounded world right let's speak to matthew driscoll he is the editor of asian aviation he's joining us via skype from singapore thanks for being with us on al-jazeera what was the most significant finding for you from this latest report well i think it was actually sort of foreshadowed a few days ago when they gave the briefing to the families the victims of the crash in indonesia on i think it was wednesday and so a lot of the same information came out then and. it's it's significant because it

sort of reaffirms that boeing does share responsibility for this for the way they designed the in caste system which is the maneuvering characteristic saying that basically took control of away from the pilots and the pilots were having to fight the airplane which is a huge mistake in in aviation design but also it apportion blame to the maintenance because the the airplane that was involved in the crash. exhibited the same problems the day before and they say that the airplane should have been grounded for further tests and it also a portion some blame to the pilots however i think the pilots were. disserved by boeing because the information about the system was not included in the training manuals and boeing specifically made an effort to downplay the

necessity of additional training for pilots that were transitioning from the 7 previous 737 version a 737 in g 2 the 737 max so it doesn't look good for everybody frankly but i think boeing is going to take a lot of heat for this and yes right you know they're all out on boeing i mean we know that the kind of a and the company has continued to suffer and it's been a major p.r. disaster and it's also reported a close to a $1000000000.00 in losses in revenue this year alone because of the ground a lot more than a $1000000000.00 it's going to it's going to cost boeing a lot more than that and it should it should because in my mind and this is just my opinion but it my mind boeing actually put profits over people they rushed keep in mind you need to go back to around 2010 when airbus introduced the

a 320 and boeing said a well we got you know we have to compete with that airplane and they sort of day the 737 has actually been in service for 50 years and what they did they put some new engines on it they beefed up the nose gear but when they put the new engines on it they had to put them forward it changed the physics of the airplane and they're trying to fix the physics with software which is not always a good idea and so instead of boeing coming up with what they call a clean sheet design a brand new airplane face said ok we'll put some new engines on it will change this will change that and then we can compete with their bus and so it really it all comes down to money to matthew driscoll we thank you very much for speaking to us on al-jazeera. now the final count by bolivia electoral board has been given has given rather president ever morale as an outright victory meaning he won't have to

face a 2nd round but the runner up carlos messages refusing to accept the results and international pressure is growing for another vote john holeman reports from the pas there was a huge march snaked through the center of the puzzle thursday almost certainly the biggest since discontent began over bolivia's elections after that and i'm not going there and we're protesting because they don't respect our vote or democracy and. the anger numbers on the streets appear to increase off the president ever morale is said that he was the outright winner of the bolivian elections. we won the 1st round electoral authorities later confirmed his win but there's doubt over the vote and not just from these protesters the european union and the organization of american states also voiced concerns especially about an almost 24 hour freezing of the rapid vote count just when it indicated that this was going to

a 2nd round. when the count came back online rallies was suddenly heading for an outright 1st round win on thursday a usually fragmented opposition united around carlos messa the leading challenger to moralise. but he made the coordination in defense of democracy resolves to 1st call for a 2nd election round administered in a peaceful and impartial way 2nd to call on citizens social organizations and institutions to continue to hold peaceful rallies until the vote is respected. many still support president morales he was the favorite going into the election partly thanks to well distribution programs that have almost hall of poverty he called this a coup and chided the organization of american states for questioning the process looking into their killer. it's young i don't want to think that mission is already taking part in a coup that i don't know if they understood me yesterday that as

a whole should evaluate themselves and the mission you sent as well president morale is has really addressed the main criticism here that the most 24 hour gap between results instead he's hit back accusing handedly colas message of being a criminal and saying that the young people protesting against him that they've paid with money or with better grades. we put to students on the march. it's disrespectful to say that to the universities and the students he's trying to minimize or vote they haven't paid us or given us grades this is actually affecting us because this week we had exams. protests strikes and purging of public buildings and many of the levy is departments the crisis is if anything the planning john hoeven al jazeera us. huge swathes of land have been consumed by wildfires burning across the u.s.

state of california in the southeast 40000 people have had to leave their homes and businesses around 500 firefighters are battling the flames but have so far only contained a small area further north strong winds have her whipped up fires in the region's wine country destroying buildings. a famous australian landmark is now permanently closed to climbers after a decades long campaign by indigenous people hundreds of tourists flock to the roof formerly known as ayers rock for their last chance to climb the monument it's been a sacred site for the and i knew for thousands of years but the band's controversial for some. this is rather emotional. you know having elders to pick up this i guess long journey before was born to close the form and now they're no longer here but we're counting on their legacy to close the course so there's a bit of sadness there but also you know

a lot of happiness knowing that the form will be closed and you know respect is going to be given to animals we should. all respect that but 9. you know i it's very sacred down the bottom up the top and i think it's a sacred as down the phone i'm. sorry everyone has their own opinion but i don't say the harming climbing so long as you don't time each anything you just respects you 9. culture and this walk let's bring in andrew thomas is joining us from national park and as that comes into effect andrew what have you been seeing on friday. well this is perhaps australia's most famous natural landmark in generally speaking you can see it's full of steep cliffs but there is one particular position on the base of the rock where people are able or shallow enough for people to climb and for many many decades people have been climbing to the top via that route now there's

a gate at the bottom of that routes that the national parks manage and for the last few decades there's been a sign at the bottom there telling people that the local indigenous people would rather they didn't climb their cultural symbol as they see it but not actually explicitly saying that they can't and they've been a safety rail helping people to get up so mixed messages for tourists who come despite the discouragement while the indigenous people around here said that has not been enough and they wanted to get climbing banned entirely they say that this rock is the equivalent to their culture of a cathedral or a mosque and they don't want people clambering to the top of it and they've managed to this campaign as you heard there for many many decades will the board that manages this national park said when certain criteria were met they would permanently close the client for example when fewer than 20 percent of tourists who came to view this rock actually chose to climb it they would take that as one trigger when there were enough activities that didn't involve climbing that would

be another trigger to climb all those criteria met 18 months ago that started the clock ticking and the 26th in fact a formal closure is saturday the 26th although the rock was closed for climbers 2 hours ago the natural close of day on friday and the great cheers at the bottom when that moment happened but all day on friday that been many hundreds of people climbing to the top many australians say this is their symbol as much it is an indigenous symbol and i would turn it to climb even at that on the last day it was open so so what kind of reactions have you been getting from people there and your . well depends who you talk to of course indigenous people are celebrating they say this is long overdue they've wanted this closure of the climb for many many decades but those we talked to who were climbing on friday who were coming down elated that they'd managed to get just at the edge of the deadline well they most of them say that they didn't feel they were insulting anybody they didn't think that really if they just people around here should have rights over something natural they disputed this whole idea that there was

a cultural attraction or attachment to it so really mixed messages you still got those 2 opposed camps ok andrew thomas thank you what's one leader has held onto the presidency in a general election seem a sissy in his ruling botswana democratic party had secured just over 50 percent of the vote on friday although counting is still under way. more than doubled their main opposition and sisi has promised to tackle growing corruption as well as improve the value of exports. britain's finance minister says the european union will probably delayed by at least 3 months prime minister boris johnson has offered to give parliament more time to look over his cracks at agreement if m.p.'s agree to elections on december 12th if johnson's 3rd attempt to force a snaffle odum break the impasse over britain's delayed departure. tiger woods was

already making public appearances for his golf skills by the age of 2 well he's a one off there are many young players inspired by his achievements including a 6 year old champion from surrey in england al-jazeera as lee wellings reports on the emerging leo boniface. to be a champion gopher you have to start young leo boniface is just 6 years old but he doesn't miss a chance to practice with his father lester and coach cuban cuttings and golf club in sorry he started playing that 3 and has made such extraordinary progress he's already won g.d. a tournament the way he spends the. soul of finesse to it he's got it he works his body and a very good. that the way his body works and news in this way and it is very powerful as well nature is in a moment he's able to hit the ball quite. time to stop the sandwich for a sandwich and 6 who you. know i don't have. to be

it's not go for he has to drink can't sleep the sport sometimes. but you know your child powering is almost. on a golf course he's very level headed he's very calm he's very professional when he's on a golf course he definitely doesn't act he's i. seem to figure out because of course he's back to being a 6 year old yeah he does get the best of my cause. lester is an electrician devoting as much time as possible to leo's blossoming gulf korea including building followers and sponsorship by instagram. so one of the iceberg dots is to hit the ball up cause. i'm going to have a god be careful of the beautiful flies. who do you lot watch or her your favorite types. were a macro lawyer you know your friend for golf or tiger woods started when reading

young did a horse would you want to be like tiger woods would you not to be like a professional workers who are. sighted this wants away in. the output and. earlier this year qualified for the well championships in his age group which meant a trip to san diego. he's about to try to qualify for next year's event and look out for an even younger golfer in the pond if i spy really helping the 17 month old by the book start supply the guy that he loves the wellings al-jazeera sorry. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera there is mounting anger in iraq against the government there protests in the capital baghdad and throughout the country despite the prime minister vowing to reshuffle his cabinet and introduce sweeping reforms

but also the name has more from baghdad. security forces have been in rapid fire dispensing tear gas because i really want to follow me behind this building protesters have a road and a bridge that will take them to the green zone that is where the prime minister's office the speaker 2 of parliament and the defense ministry are located and of course that is where the united embassy is located beginning over night. others were able to topple the barricades and make their way to the green zone. no one was killed tear gas. and water cannons protests in lebanon are continuing despite president's mission pledge to crack down on corruption many have rejected his call for dialogue demanding the entire government's resignation before any talks take place hundreds of thousands of people have been demonstrating for 9 straight days.

the pentagon says it's committed to sending more forces to syria 2 weeks after the us president called for all troops to be withdrawn it says the hope protects syrian oil fields from falling into the hands of feisal fighters the air of the south korean business empires some song has been back in court for the start of his bribery tree trial the supreme court ruled jay wiley's case should be heard again after receiving a suspended sentence for seeking favors from former president park. huge swathes of land have been consumed by wildfires burning across the u.s. state of california in the southeast 40000 people have had to leave their homes and businesses around 500 firefighters are battling the flames. a famous australian landmark is now permanently closed to climbers after a decades long campaign by indigenous people hundreds of tourists flock to formally known as ayers rock for there is last chance to climb the monument those are the

headlines the stream is coming up next on al-jazeera. the entry the prime minister . mission is to give the critics on the 31st of october and making this country the greatest place only time a departure will move to follow me would drama with bricks it on al-jazeera. welcome to the stream i'm femi oke a hundreds of thousands of people have rallied across lebanon in the largest protests seen in years demonstrators are calling for the government to resign but can they succeed in getting concrete change central thoughts through twitter and you tube and you could be part of today's conversation. thousands of demonstrators across lebanon allow rallying into

a 2nd week in the biggest outpouring of popular dissent since 2015 the protest was sparked by the government's plan to impose a tax on the use of whatsapp and other internet services for many lebanese already struggling to get by what was the final straw while the government has since paid for reforms and removed new taxes from next year's budget protesters say that the measures for short lebanon's president today sought dialogue with the protest as and his 1st public speech since the demonstrations began with. good morning being i call on you to observe to act as monitors until all these reforms are implemented without crippling the movement and i will act as a guarantor and i will expose and reveal whatever is taking place and i will do all that i can to have these reforms implemented i have listened to calls to topple the regime the regime cannot be toppled from the streets. we're joined now from beirut

by al-jazeera correspondent stephanie decker hi there stephanie don't mind i want to show our audience how you are getting around in these protests which are huge demonstrations as only one way that you can to effectively let me show our audiences go ahead and play the video. china. in the thick of things as a correspondent trying to get a perspective. what are you seeing what is the story from your perspective. when it's removed i mean that video you just played that was friday night and i just drive from the airport and they block the roads throughout the in up so that. and.

the police in the army used heavy handed tactics so the way we operated and in the next day as we all know now nothing happened and tens of thousands came out to the streets and it just started to grow so what we do we've been going live right in the middle of the crowds we have our sat we've been pretty much standing on the satellite truck during the lives and grabbing people throughout the night and interviewing them live in the messages is the same and of course this this crowd is made up by so many different people so we were in beirut to for days i've just come back from tripoli we were there for 2 days as well which is lebanon 2nd city it's a neglected city the protests there have been massive and i think a lot of people were surprised by that there was that viral d.j. video that everyone 1st kind of thought it was in beirut but it was in tripoli which is a city that is traditionally seen as more conservative i think so we just were trying to get as many voices talking to many people we do different kind of reports political reports focusing on different kind of people what they are i'm yeah

that's a video playing of the d.j. of what they want and the message is the same the fact that the people are fed up the fact that it's corruption it's it's their living conditions they say they've been promised so many things they pay taxes get nothing in return they want to count ability and also quite a beautiful thing that you see is that people say they've been so disappointed in the policy they know it's difficult but there's a renewed kind of hope so i think these are extraordinary times or as a journalist to cover it nobody knows how things are going to play out of office to everyone from ordinary people to politicians to analysts. know but everyone will tell you we have no idea and certainly are under no illusion that it's going to be difficult but just watching the people and the mix of people of course which is so. important you're coming together against these leaders that they say have been. buried in charge for so long i was someone who just jumped in our car and

kissed me live on air but that sure is just the positivity of these protests and how important the people are trying to keep the peace for thing that so key we've seen of course you know there's been randoms in the crowd that will try and throw things at the army or the police to provoke them and you've had these crowds of girls particular at the front line will put their hands up you had religious leaders you know young men and they all keep shouting peaceful peaceful because this is a peaceful protest they don't want to lose their legitimacy and there's massive momentum but i think again the government is standing down right people are taking up the streets we don't know how it's going to play out staff thank you so much i know you're filing your next report for al-jazeera we will watch out for that on out as they're out of the dot com and of course on al-jazeera english as well steph deca she's one of our correspondents she is right there in lebanon covering the protests thanks for joining us we are going to continue our conversation and we're joined now by rima she's in tripoli she's an activist who is joining the protests.

is a political organizer and co-host of the lebanese politics podcast he's in beirut and also in the lebanese capital we have to more as he's a journalist at the daily star hello everybody it's good to have you remain i have to show this picture you shared this with us looking very closely at the sign that you holding up while you were protesting the world needs a woman led revolution now this is a stance obliquely this protest started because there were going to be taxes on whatsapp and internet. services and then your out there holding up the revolution sign joining the dots for me how did it get this far. well i think the laptop or the operator were actually the one. but it has been about a problem. that preceded this and the last i believe the revolution because what is

happening on trees and never happened in the or when the people that i think under one and you know there are different political parties going down under the tree then we want to. i'm just i just want to go to a pollyanna all of the comments that we have a comment has there all protesting right now polly on the street why she is out on the streets right now in lebanon have a listen i'm protesting this week in lebanon because i recognize that our current source or konami conditions i didn't direct result to complete and consistent fear of the really good school class and therefore lost all credibility to implement any of the changes you want to see i put this thing because i demand better political representation outside the confinement of the sectarian identity and i'm protesting because as a woman living and working in beat would i want to hold my government accountable for robbing me and many others like me have a chance to imagine

a future in lebanon. is i'm just looking at that you study social movements you've got one happening right there on your doorstep can you can you explain trying to national audience why you think it is happening right now. yeah. nothing that some moment makes sense what was surprising to be happening and it's game after years of the economic crisis and we're feeling it tracked now the world is david our country is on the brink of an economic collapse and it's been overwhelming fighting for everyone it came after a week of right fires or a few days of white fire that wrecked the country or it when that where the faith that you can manage because of incompetence incompetence whereby it did it didn't even maintain the fire fighting helicopters that had received. it from delaware years and years of promises of fixing corruption thinking and livelihood issues like with the missions and the forming the economy by the ruling elite and failing

miserably to do any of the jobs. out there you know the case be it off the government and getting anything done a government that has all of the major political parties and if they can't agree on something constructive and helpful for the people that make them and comes after the years as well as other protests and other movement and we had one. that was also big in feel not as large as the form but also large scale where people came together and figured by the garbage crack the waste management cracking like them came together and played very similar actually are starting. and demands that they are leaving because although this time they are much more united team lost in letting go ahead. yeah i mean to go on to sort of blocked off the you know the what's important is that these protests are actually different than 20152015 was very centralized the capital beirut it was that and also about you know something tied to the apology basically the government waste management but but

this time around you know we have seen protests springing up and you know senators and the folks on free on the 1st night last thursday we had reports of 60 areas and what that means is people from all across the peninsula unities. which you know is a nice way of saying you know sects religious sects and people of different classes all in the streets together and really unify around you know really unified around the i mean it's there on the economy it's around the policy it's the build up of all of these things over all of these years all the mismanagement and the taxes in the end really was just the straw it was like you know why why the country is still smoldering from some of the worst wildfires we've had in decades the government the next day comes and says oh by the way we're also going to be a tax on you on top of this managing. this would be

a good point to mention something that came up you know as we were coming on the show as we were prepping him up you know on the show there when we were out on there if you were out there sect you know what religion you are and this poses a bit of a stir online there's a tweet up there with some colorful language for those who are interested and i think it is an interesting point because for a long time the middle east in general and lebanon specifically as well has been used to this through sectarian lines are parliamentary seats or other paid by sect it's you know every story you'll see is about the shiites hezbollah or 'd you risk getting until i'd if i could just add in my campaign sponsor it's just simple. isn't that we would ask ad guess what sect off from this because lebanese politics is so devices that we want to make sure that we are all inclusive and then reflected everybody so they may have been insensitively at what to but it was

particularly important that we felt they had a representative the had it's i think it's interesting because it's sort of seems a lot of people look like a remnant of a system or a way of thinking that might no longer be relevant i mean what this movement is about is that where the streets the other and we're in the streets together not because you know we're sent me a shout we're to speak together because we've all been oppressed and that's sort of the unifying factor and so maybe we should start thinking you know when we think of people on t.v. or when we think of people in general we should stop thinking now about a diversity of sects and maybe think a bit of a city of thoughts you know not think of it consistent so you know different religions but according to sense of i.p.o.'s and then we can foster a real politics you know and that's what we're seeing on the street.