cases involving accusations of bribery money laundering and corruption. president disaster all of his government ministers to resign after the clamoring he's heard the message from mass protests sebastian pinera olds i says he wants to end the state of emergency a nationwide curfew was ignored by a 1000000 people on friday on the streets protesting against inequality 19 people have been killed in 2 weeks of unrest. i want to announce to all my compatriots that if circumstances allow i intend to live to all the states of emergency starting at midnight on sunday i asked to resign in order to form a new government and to be able to respond to these new demands and to take charge of these new time this money on apple has more now from santiago. on saturday chile's president. announced sweeping reforms both to his cabinet and to economic policy within the country announcing that he had called on his cabinet ministers to

submit voluntary resignations this is something that was seen as a sort of concession in all of branch to the demands of demonstrators that have been protesting in chile as capital and in other parts of the country for more than a room for more than a week the atmosphere among the demonstrations that were taking place on saturday was festive but there were protests nonetheless a lot of the anger here in the country's capital and in other parts of the city has to do with the response from military despite a military force curfew being lifted there were still pockets of tension in places in the city were even on saturday peaceful protests were being met with water cannons from police that are dispersing peaceful protesters and the anger stems from the fact that at this point there have been at least 20 people that have been killed within the context of these demonstrations there been hundreds of people who have been injured even by firearms and there have been thousands of arrests more than $5000.00 people arrested within the context of these demonstrations so at this point the anger despite the festivities there's still an underlying anger that

that's common among all of these demonstrators and one of the reasons why the united nations has announced that a delegation will be sent to chile on monday to investigate these alleged cases of human rights violations. bolivia's president has vowed to hold a 2nd runoff election if an order to the 1st vote count finds evidence of fraud there was a set of american states says it will order the vote but it's not yet clear whether those results will be binding john heilemann has more now from the past. the press is being kept all believed is authorities to look again at the disputed results of sunday's presidential election they gave the 1st from victory to president ever more allies seeking an unprecedented 4th term in power but there are doubts about the process. in the traditional latin american sign of protest pots and pans clanged through the night the powers during the day roadblocks street protests in the central city of cochabamba and an ongoing strike in the commercial capital some

to cruise in the midst of all international attempts to resolve things the u.s. waited saying it supports an audit of the vote conducted by the organization of american states the bolivian electoral tribunal has agreed to that to give a binding result we fully support that audit and we are at the schools of the organization of american states if they will need any kind of expertise that we can provide i appeal at the same time to both government and opposition to keep the maximum restraint and i hope that these initiatives will help will help hopefully lead to a positive conclusion the opposition have mostly united around the closest challenger to president were is. they say that they also agree with the oas order to the bone but that it must be binding and it must be soon look at the risk of if you need us we have to define when that order to believe it has to be in the next

few days we must make sure that it's binding and that the 2 technical experts from the government and our side are creditors to do the job that. un says at least 80 people have been. did the protests and 19 police injured the use of tear gas by police has been constant but so far no deaths reported the opposition said that there's been a monstrous fraud here what the european union i mean organization of american states have signaled is that there's at least significant doubts about the electoral process and that's what they're trying to resolve before the crisis worsens here john homan how does it pass. time for a short break here now just when we come back under government protesters in lebanon refuse to back down we bring you the latest on the 10th day of the civil disobedience comfortably alys. county families scramble out of the path of wildfires in the u.s.

state of california or not stay with us. and there happened to rain showers across northern sections of the middle east over the last few days and there are a few more in the 4 calls quite a bit of cloud give you an idea where you might see those showers and sure enough it could be a wet day sunday into tehran even the chance of a scottish into baghdad city as well and look at the temperature in baghdad 28 degrees celsius and if not the same on monday so a lot lower than it has been cooler as well in tehran and those cloudy skies all monday want to the east end of the bed still warm though in beirut with a high of $25.00 now to the south we have got that warm moist as still very much in play and we're watching this just on the edge screen hey this is a tropical cyclone it is heading towards the coast of oman heading across the

arabian sea it's moving fairly slowly at the moment to sunday monday and by cheese day the outer bands of the strong storm by them could have winds sustained of 120 kilometers an hour by then we could begin to certainly have some rough choppy seas and also may well feel it along the coast but the rain is still probably a day or 2 away from that but we have some rain chiles into southern africa certainly into cape town 18 celsius on sunday a little bit cooler as we head off into monday meanwhile in botswana look at this cover on 39 celsius on monday 8 degrees above the average. sponsored time. going to be. the poverty unless you deal with the gap you just said oh i disagree with that toy this sounds like blaming the public tree for the are in the middle of the naming anybody these people well trained as much a part of the state machinery and. very end of popular culture teacher

joined me as i put the questions to my special guests and challenge them to some straight talking political debate. al-jazeera. welcome back a quick amount of our top stories here at this hour we're getting reports that the u.s. has conducted a raid in northwest syria targeting the isolated al baghdadi there were no substantive details of the operation which is said to taken place in northwest syria. that reports about whether or not the operation was successful. iraq's human rights commission says 63 people have been killed in just 2 days of protests across the country m.p.'s linked to pop. staging

a sit in parliament. parts of central boss alone have turned into a battleground between police and protesters following a largely peaceful march is the latest mass demonstration of support of council on separatist leaders who've been jailed. people in lebanon have stayed out late into the night after the 10th day of anti-government protests security forces were called to dismantle roadblocks in beirut just as a civil disobedience campaign until a government resigns leaders are accused of looting the country into bankruptcy when earlier fights broke out in the town of but that's near tripoli in the north the lebanese army says it fired shots into the air after it intervened to open a road being blocked by protesters several demonstrators were injured along with 5 soldiers. the latest now from beirut. there isn't really a real leader to this movement you can see they belong to both sides of this highway and what they're saying is that this kinds of civil disobedience campaign

that they're pulling at is the only way to keep the pressure on the government and what they want is for the government to resign but that hasn't happened yet so of course we are at a stalemate it is 10 days on the government isn't going anywhere. the streets the schools are closed banks are closed it's a real challenge so it's a bit of a stalemate and everyone you speak to will tell you they don't know how this is going to play out they don't know how it's going to but certainly something at some point is going to get how is the government going to allow people to stay on the streets but the people say unless there's change unless those people who've been running this country for decades and that have caused it to become what it is we're not leaving so unpredictable times that. no traffic jams in kenya's capital nairobi cost the economy an estimated $1000000000.00 every year the city struggling to cope with traffic pollution and commuters are growing increasingly impatient with government inaction reports in the capital. it's

a city of contradictions where office workers and endangered rhinos live side by side africa's largest slum next to towering skyscrapers and down below is the roaring sound of traffic in a city of 4000000 where most people don't own a car the car is king and the king is slow moving there's a lot of pollution i lose my own hours driving. is really frustrating is really frustrating and then. it's. for so long we've been on very short distances the government believes traffic congestion costs a $1000000000.00 a year in lost productivity in nairobi come to. keeping more. subdued. infrastructure not enough roads too many cars most are highly polluting secondhand vehicles ported from asia to make them more fuel efficient most mechanics remove a device called the catalytic converter designed to reduce exhaust emissions dumped

in landfills environmentalist say the metal is toxic without it car fumes are heavy with lead and so these cars exhaust burned leaving pedestrians gasping for air we're hours away from evening rush hour traffic and already it. is developing over the city skyline not only is the air pollution double the amount recommended by the world health organization half of the carbon emission that this country emits comes from traffic and car pollution. pollution levels fell for a brief moment in september when protesters calling for climate justice halted traffic the wind equal to be easily man's body and that it was lifting the money to keep from up here below do not know much you know about n.z. and electric motor bikes could help too such as these built by a small company owned and run by dutch in kenya. businessmen electric is the future

we're going to go emissions free that is very clear and that is something that we want to be front runners in with electric vehicles comes the need for power something kenya's government is addressing by wanting to build a coal power plant kenya's environment agency says will make the air in nairobi more breathable yet another of the many contradictions to kenya's capital and so until a solution is found commuters will just have to sit and await nicholas hawke al-jazeera nairobi and the united states there's extreme there's concern that extreme winds may intensify wildfires in california they're expected to push one of those fires closer to a major highway and put 2 cities at risk about 50000 people have been ordered to abandon their homes in one producing areas outside san francisco more than 2000 firefighters are battling the blazes in both the north and south of the state it's an interesting moment to be in because we're in it to support tory space that is obviously rather anxiety inducing and i just want to acknowledge that. the fear

that people have about this moment. the tour occasionally has more. fire is ripping through kind of phony a at opposite ends of the state. in the sonoma valley wine region 130 kilometers north of san francisco a series of wildfires out of control some started a wednesday night the flash point is still not confirmed but the state's largest power supply a pacific gas and electric say a high voltage cable malfunctioned minutes before the fire started intense wind gusts rapidly spread the flames 3 dry brush to homes and businesses let up most strong winds are forecast this weekend potentially going to see a historical wind event and it has it's highly concerned that the vulnerable areas of california could see some explosive fire so that's why we are reiterating this

kind of vigilance that were preaching to everybody on the way. but not everyone is willing to leave will be appreciative walked around the corner here yesterday and told me it was mandatory that i evacuated. he was wrong i don't have to do anything but sit right here i want to and it promises to be a tough weekend for hundreds of firefighters the rough terrain high winds and low humidity all hampering their efforts to stop the flames spreading victoria gates and be al-jazeera. now a u.s. federal judge has ruled that the trump impeachment inquiry is legal the court rejected assertions from the president and his allies the process is invalid because the full house of representatives haven't voted to authorize it inquiry resumed on saturday with closed door testimony from senior state department

official philip rica investigation centers on allegations that trump used military aid to ukraine as a bargaining chip to get kiev to investigate his potential white house rival joe biden. a russian woman jailed in the us for being a foreign agent has arrived home after being deported. was released early for good behavior after serving most of the 18 month sentence she was convicted of conspiring to influence u.s. conservative activists and infiltrating the national rifle association. colombians will vote in local elections on sunday which i think seen as a referendum on the government of even duke a one year into his presidency they're also testing colombia's political environment after the signing of a peace deal with rebels 3 years ago. reports for colombia's pacific coast. we're having today a civil society candidate for mayor victor cheerfully greet supporters despite the need for soldiers to escort him at this makeshift dark like many in his movement

life has been threatened by criminals concerned by us and take corruption drug traffickers platform. the risk is clear to us because i haven't heard that center of many interests or we defend the interests of the community and our territory we oppose big capital illegal actors and interests of international and national developers at times even agents of the state. we have into this colombia's biggest sport in the pacific but it's also largely afro colombian city ravaged by crime poverty and corruption fueled by the cocaine trade. movement response to that in 2007 organized an unprecedented civic strike getting the national government to promise better health care education sanitation something says the peace deal the government signed a year earlier with 5 gravel made possible. previously when you tried to start

a civic movement the government would say the people out on the streets behind them are the rebels obviously that would end the movement and put their leaders at risk . the last 2 elections were the most peaceful in decades but now violence has returned as armed groups in powerful political interests pushed back against change one of the dolls partners was killed another seriously injured. was assigned an armored car and bodyguards but other police haven't been so lucky 7 candidates have been killed across colombia and 69 have suffered attacks independent candidates. have been the worst affected by the return. of the campaign in earnest back. nationwide. candidates from across the political spectrum. it shows

that there's a risk for independent candidates regardless of feeling left or right but worse if you openly confront and vested interest. but it didn't rid columbia from the political violence. despite the risks pain is running high in the polls against better funded traditional candidates for many fledgling peace agreement is an opportunity for change that can be missed even when it means putting their life on the line. time for a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera 1st some breaking news just coming in we're getting reports the u.s. has conducted a raid in northwest syria targeting the ice the leader abu bakar al baghdadi there are conflicting reports about whether the operation was successful the u.s. magazine newsweek is citing a u.s. army official who says that baghdad he was killed the 48 year old iraqi has been

reported dead several times before iraq's human rights commission says $63.00 people have been killed in just 2 days of protests across the country is linked to the populist shia cleric macabre saga staging a sit in a parliament parts of central barcelona turned into a battleground between police and protesters following a largely peaceful march riot police used battens and charge that people have been throwing bottles and rocks it's the latest mass demonstration in support of catalan separatist leaders who've been jailed for their part in an illegal independence referendum chile's president has asked all of his government ministers to resign after declaring he's heard the message from mass protests nationwide curfew was ignored by a 1000000 people on friday were out in the streets protesting against inequality. i want to announce to all my compatriots their circumstances allow i intend to live

to all the states of emergency starting at midnight on sunday i asked all ministers to resign in order to form a new government and to be able to respond to these new demands and to take charge of the new time yes. argentina's conservative president is almost certain to be thrown from office on sunday with polls pointing to a major defeat his leftist rival alberto fernandez has campaigned on mockeries failure to deal with the growing poverty the worsening economy and soaring inflation. and then as his running mate is the ex president cristina kirchner who is on the brink of a remarkable comeback despite court cases involving accusations of bribery money laundering and corruption in the u.k. drive a truck in which $39.00 bodies were found has been charged with manslaughter and people trafficking a 5th suspects also have been arrested as more families in vietnam expressed fear that their loved ones are among the victims but those were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after up from station thanks for watching.

we'll stand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world so no matter how you take it al-jazeera will bring you the news and current affairs that matter to you al-jazeera. with another brick deadline about to pass and the deal still not done is democracy in britain being undermined that's this week's debate with former u.k. minister david lammy and economist liam halligan and could bring a return to violence in northern ireland i'll ask a former member of the ira turned member of the european parliament welcome back to a new season of up front.

david lammy and liam halligan thank you both for joining me on outfront to debate what seems to be the only issue in british politics right now burke said i want to start with you you're a supporter of brics it in terms of where we are this week another break that deadline has come and gone another promise has been broken prime minister boris johnson said last month that he would rather quote be dead in a ditch than ask for another break that delay but he's had to ask for one so does he have a ditch picked out do you think. yeah used to some quite colorful language i think 2 important things have changed mehdi and it's nice to be here what we've seen this week is we've seen the house of commons finally finally actually pass in principle a piece of legislation allowing through withdrawal agreement that's something that he's got in his back pocket the 2nd thing is the orus johnson has been keen to show

the electorate leave us and remain is that he's been trying desperately to buy that . deadline of the 31st of october hello in deadline. and it's only in his narrative the house of commons that stopping him in particular the opposition parties led by the labor party so in some senses the high jinx the game playing is still ongoing and how and i think we're in a see a lot more of that but something really important happened this week when we saw the house of commons as a whole backing a major piece of bracks at legislation that hasn't happened that's true is the referendum in june 26th to give it all the votes he has lost given the mess over his illegal suspension of parliament given now this latest mr brooks it deadline what do you say to people who say boris johnson should now resign as his true conservative predecessor through the man david cameron did since broke that well i think that's what

a lot of his political opponents would want but he is riding pretty high in the opinion polls he's got a 1015 even 20 percentage point lead over his nearest rivals if there is a general election that's not to say this is isn't a divided country it's absolutely more divided i think david nial agree than in any time during our our lifetimes we're all ins in similar years. but it has to be said as the opinion polls show. as he's pushed more and more as he's driven this narrative deliberately its name 1st is a remaining political and media establishment trying to get. his popularity has gone up ok david lammy you've actually called on boris johnson to resign what do you say to liam when he says well hold on he's actually doing very well in the polls despite all this chaos look i've been in politics 20 years and i know that polls go up they come down and different polls tell you different things and

frankly i'm not interested in a politics that's decided by the polls this is a very very worrying prime minister he's taking quite a lot out of the trouble rulebook he's tearing up our constitutional arrangements trying to suspend and shut down debate in parliament and frankly on any analysis the decision that lies ahead of britain is a hugely significant one boris johnson wants to get this all done in a couple of days basically he's not taking it seriously and the reason he's not taking it seriously is because he as he doesn't want the withdrawal bill on the basis on which he wants to leave the european union properly scrutinised and i wouldn't if i were him either but we don't have it is amanda jones frankly david isn't it it's we've got with your opinion it is a problem though that you're obviously staunchly and you don't want to break any kind when you talk about scrutiny and parliamentary procedure and parliamentary

sovereignty and the suspension of part of that's all well and good but most people know deep down what you really want if you don't want bracks it why don't just oh now why hide behind all these others want to say look we're trying to stop breaks it by any means possible why not just say that. look that's a fair point and i'm very clear i think the best arrangement for this country is to remain within the european union but i respect that across my party there's a range of opinion and a range of opinion in the country what i would say is the best way to bring this country back together is yes to allow the deal that boris johnson has now struck and this withdraw withdrawal agreement that he's put before parliament allow the british people to say do they like it or do they want to remain within the european union he won't do that because he's afraid that the british people will say thank you very much now we've seen that you want to dismantle our workers' rights you want to

a bad an environmental protections you want to have the minimal free trade agreement with the european union and that would mean tariffs now on our manufacturing on so many goods and services now we've seen this in detail and the problems we've got in the island of ireland on that basis we want to remain that's why doesn't want to do it and yeah i'm clear we should remain within the european union but i want the british people to ultimately make that decision many let me just say that if they do decide to stay or go with it do you agree with david there that there is a very real risk even you was a bracks that must accept given you look at the polls that suggest the british probably going to change their mind they want to stay in the e.u. and that's what would happen if you had another referendum people would change their minds now i do you that's right i agree with david we can take the polls with a pinch of salt suffice to say that. polls now show majority of people wanting to leave the european union and they show leader of the referendum when of course they voted to leave the european union the real issue i have with this and i do respect

where david is coming from he has been a lot more honest than a lot of other people in his party he said almost from the outset a couple of days after the referendum i seem to think that we need a 2nd referendum that he was completely. opposed at least he's being straight a lot of other people have been hiding behind procedure i have a major problem i'm afraid to call me old fashioned with the idea of not implementing a referendum when parliament has sanctioned the referendum and given the decisions of the british people back in early 2016 parliament voted by a 6 to one to give this decision to the british people or services vested in the people via parliament not in parliament itself and i think it's a major concern if we don't implement that decision and it awful lot of people outside the south east london the westminster in the media bubble would be absolutely shocked indeed around the world if britain the mother of democracies if

you like on some definitions didn't actually implement a referendum decision david deal with the big picture issue here which is if you are successful in stopping bracks if you will have undermined the result of a democratic referendum that you and your party signed up to in 2016 whatever you think about the rights and wrongs of practice balam massive impact on british democracy and faith in british democracy will it not many no one can tell me a country that has ever undermine democracy with more democracy that is why you can have a general election and you have another general election in 4 years time and let's be clear if we did have a 2nd referendum it would have been in about 4 years time that's the interval of a general election cycle let's also be clear this was a referendum that was meant to be in an advisory referendum that was the basis on which parliament set it up i give it some advice what you think but it was really

because different parts of the united kingdom had different views and we're ignoring currently the views of scotland and the views of northern ireland particularly and it was also. a referendum in which actually relatively it was pretty close lots of people who voted to leave are now no longer with this and many young people were disenfranchised and many brits who live in the european union and abroad who are deeply concerned with our relationship with you were not permitted to vote and i'm afraid we know now that the vote these campaign broke the law in several places and there was a lot of misinformation so all many many mature democracies like ireland or portugal they made that point. referendum campaigns where people got it wrong how could it be undemocratic to ask the people to vote again you're not overruling the people you're asking them have you change your mind it's 3 years later there's been

a lot of chaos since why not get another opinion. firstly it was the idea that it was advisories is frankly risible david the government of the day wrote to every single british council $27000000.00 households and said that if we were to station some which were the heart of the father david talent all that out in my through my not my problem if i could if i can speak if i can speak so let me finish and as we have a general election and then yes you don't have another general election for a 5 years later that's because it's a general election it's not a one off referendum that's been sanctioned by parliament they imagine if you had a general election and then you spent 4 years not changing the government you just didn't implement say that's the danger of not implementing something and then asking people to vote again on the same decision with remain on the ballot paper which of course is what david wants he can say it's nonsense but it's showed if you put remain on the ballot paper again when that decision has already been made and not implemented because frankly

a bunch of the media and political ache but leave your ticket out of the political economist to live your economist you know very well john maynard keynes once said when the facts train i change my mind what do you do lots of facts of trains and 2060 why can't people trains their mind i don't quite get it the main fact that it's changed is that the british economy is carried on pretty well despite project fear by whitehall and a lot of westminster saying that the colony will collapse just on the strength of votes in for the referendum what we've really seen i think and this is this is sad for me i must say for what what we've really seen is the extent to which are lots of our establishment distain ordinary voters you all too thick you will misled you've made the wrong decision we're going to make you vote again until you make a right save it it's your responses up lot of people in david's well i mean see what are your thoughts many can i fit into. a little a day become

a david you know disappear from distain for the electorate we've. got this terrible elite that has gripped the conservative party but it's taken them to the hard right that inflames immigration rhetoric and rhetoric around muslims black people a leader that's been very very racist and rude we've also got these public schoolboys they've been eaten and heroin very posh schools who now claim to speak on behalf of working class people i represent the working class area i don't recognize what i'm hearing and on the government's own figures this particular deal that boris is putting before firemen would see a drop in g.d.p. of 6.7 percent that is not contested and it is bigger than we thought in the 2008 crash and they will be doing that to working class areas they're not going to suffer the super rich will get wealthier and the middle class will just about

survive but the poorest in our society hold trucks in the north of england deprived areas like my own in london will suffer hugely chato we're running out of time before we do live you've mentioned how divided the country now is david just mentioned racism and the rise of islamophobia racism other things is that something you thought would happen and is that something you accept is linked to bracks it let i come from a similar londoners david lammy we're from very similar socio economic backgrounds i'm the son of immigrants to you and we suffer plenty of discrimination in our lifetimes and he knows that because we've known each other for a long time and we do actually quite other illegal not fewer should look at the pew international poll poll ratings of surveys of tolerance across across europe and indeed the world this country has the highest tolerance of immigration and this is a poll just in march 29th saying this country is the most welcoming to immigrants than any other member of the e.u.

and it has the highest tolerance towards immigrants are you saying there hasn't been a rise in. racism since 2016 there are awful people everywhere in this country it's everywhere else and of course there are some racists in this country far far fewer there which is what i asked i'm not denying that i'm just saying has there been an increase so is 2016 the stat seems to suggest there have been my own my own experience and talking to lots of people is that there hasn't been i do think there are an awful lot of politicians who are dangerously trying to align the idea of people voting to want to live in a set sovereign independent country with a more direct democracy with division and the outbreak of hostility towards ethnic and social groups this is a very telling and showing there's a lot of let's try in the big cities of course there is racism i think it would be better to just go along with this and implemented that decision just a nifty clearly you can be a tolerant country and still see an increase in racism within

a tolerant country the racially motivated hate crimes compiled by the home of a show that has been an increase david we're out of time last point do you want to respond in terms of what britain's become since 2016 or where you place the blame for that britain is horribly horribly divided there looks like no prospect of this coming together at the moment hate crime has gone up by 41 percent he's wrong to suggest that the economy is great it's not great we've got massive under employment particularly in the economy knots of community left behind austerity was hurting and things are set to get worse under this deal so i'm afraid this is a very very low moment i've never seen it like this and i've almost i'm almost now 50 all of us are extremely worried in our country politicians threatened with their lives i face death threats nearly now on a weekly basis we lost cox during the referendum campaign and we have a prime minister who takes his cue. and this deeply deeply worrying how

they've captured captured the mood here through. from what we're seeing with the republican party and they're taking britain down this down this path and the only person that benefits frankly are the few super rich that will get wealthy because of their sovereign wealth funds and the movement of money around the world and very sadly our opponents in countries like russia who seem to be manipulated much that's going on in our own country david lee and we'll have to leave it there thank you both for joining me on up from. one of the biggest stumbling blocks to brics it has been the all important issue of northern ireland 20 years ago the good friday agreement put an end to decades of sectarian violence there which killed more than 3 and a half 1000 people today with bricks around the corner and fears of a hard u.k. irish border returning to the island of ireland that hard won peace is under threat could really bring about a return of the northern irish conflict and maybe even

a breakup of the u.k. martina anderson was a member of the ira who was freed from prison as a result of the good friday agreement and is now a member of the european parliament for the shin fein political party she joins me from strasburg martine anderson thanks for joining me up front you're welcome your political partition fame played a critical role in the resolution of the northern irish conflict you signed up to the good friday agreement you supported the laying down of arms on all sides how worried are you that brics it whether a no deal brics or even a brics it under the terms of this deal proposed by boris johnson making its way through parliament how worried are you that brics it could lead to a return of violence in your part of the world it's important to the state at the outset that the war is over. conflict is over and the people of ireland want to continue on the pathway that we haven't barked on 21 years ago marcia terrible things and it's how you get out of it how you build

conflict resolution but there is one thing for sure the pranks it is totally incompatible with the good friday agreement and the people of ireland will not to line the british establishment to have false as collateral damage but when you say it's totally incompatible with bricks it is up all forms of bricks it is a deal bricks it which brings back a hard border between the republic of ireland and northern ireland or is it this boris johnson breaks it which parliament this week voted on which puts the border in the see and avoid some of the hard border issues allegedly where there is no good pranks it but it ranks it is the worst practice that of all but we have the marking to ensure that they would never be returned to a harder border in maryland because the border is already too hard in ireland and do you think the border is coming but i'm wondering given this week's events what

do you now think is going to happen because on the one hand you have some hard bricks it is in the u.k. parliament saying actually we could still get a no deal brokered by the end of 2020 and you yourself said back in august to boris johnson when you say you don't want a hard border we don't believe you do believe in now. well it's not a very believe in boris johnson i can assure you of that of course there could be a crash and that would be the worst pranks of all but that's where we are at the moment there was a photo. in westminster and the majority of the m.p.'s in that house of chaos formally known as the house of commons actually forwarded for the british withdrawal from the e.u. you know what they didn't fold for what they didn't support was the timeframe as to how long we take for that to be concluded so we know for the for a 1st time in care's there has been the thought that has supported that deal so if that deal was to be implemented then this deal that has been agreed comes in

immediately after the translation period and it's just for us to understand and for your listeners to understand the backstop was only going to be applied on less on until it was needed whereas this deal ny comes entry into force immediately after the transition period so we have gone from something that the some temporary in the backstop to semi permanent arrangement the former chief british negotiator in northern ireland jonathan powell recently wrote mr jobs. may have done more for a united ireland than the ira ever did not that many people we're talking about are we should reunification before 2016 now post the british referendum the polls suggest a lot more people could brics it provide a back door route for getting what you and your part you've always wanted a united ireland well of course people in chin fein and within the republican family he represents the majority of the people in the north of ireland have been

talking about it i recently unification and someone like myself all of my adult life that. has actually acted as an accelerant to that conversation because people are looking at the good friday agreement and i understand that they're facing in the good friday agreement that we all. far i didn't i was in prison but people from my tradition folded forward because of the position in the agreement that stated that the british secretary of state had the discretion and an obligation to bring about a unity referendum in ireland when it appeared likely that the majority of the people in the north of ireland consented. deficit big. strategic swallow for us as a wish for publicans who believe in the sovereignty of the whole of the island but opinion poll after opinion poll the last one for instance lloyd lord ashcroft shows that there is a growing majority of people in don't want car you show your growing majority in

the us it shows 51 percent of people in northern ireland support independence 49 percent support reunification 49 percent don't that's within the margin of error that's basically a statistical tar. of course it's within the margin of error but as you would know 52 percent is dragging the people of britain the and i believe it was like 51 percent in america they got your president elected so based on statistics and that's all we can go with obama moment and it's a very important you're exactly what he said there's a george strait. in such attempts plays but tell history of violence with a history of violence attempts plays where you want to make big decisions you can't blame your unionist opponents like the do you believe the democratic party for being against this deal because they still have to represent whole for almost half the people in that part of the world who don't want to united ireland the d.p. do not represent 50 percent of the people in the north of ireland today you pay

represents less than 30 percent of the people in the north of ireland so the d.a.p. do not speak for the majority of the people in the north of ireland what i'm trying to explain to you at this moment in time universities civic society lawyers and many many others on falls and cam and a reasonable conversation about planning and preparing for a constitutional change in the let me just explain to you that in the north of ireland and in ireland people realise that their rights of which they file you their citizenship of which they and some like myself a critic engage with you know with needs to be reformed but we know that there is a democratic pathway back into the and let us all recall that on the 29th of april 27th when michelle barr need the chief negotiator was given this mandate that the european kind soul statement of that day said that in the offend of irish

reunification the whole of ireland will remain in only a few weeks ago we had president with chromed standing beside boris johnson and he's saying that the solution to the cracks. the problem is i wish for unification but of course it is to the people of iran and if as you suggest the polls are moving in your direction the europeans are on board for a unity referendum and you end up getting a united ireland off the back of bracks it is an irony that you have boris johnson to thank for that you know the only people we will have to thank for that ourselves it will be the people of ireland you just said you all voted against great nation but braces my own into the land if it goes in a violent as a result of something you voted against you're going to get something you want that's an irony is it not i wish people in the north of ireland folded to remain in the and on to the good friday agreement we have a democratically endorsed pathway back into the and we would like the people of

america the people of the world he understand that we are the regional people in the room and we're having for a good informed conversations about constitutional change in. martin anderson we'll have to leave it there thank you so much for joining me on that front thank you say much. that's our show up from going back next week. strangers from across new york with a claim in common abuse of the hands of a prominent priest and a shot of those back and then to grab hopefully handles bloodstock to change its advantage fold lines gains exclusive access to the accusers and questions the accused how long do you think that cardinal dolan will contain protect you as more men come out in the latest chapter in a scandal that shaken the catholic church to its foundations in bad faith on

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believe in the 2 state solution the do you still believe in the 2 state solution we listen what i said was that pakistan would never start a war i'm anti war we meet with global news makers about the stories that matter is iraq. the us has reportedly targeted they isolated in a raid in northwest syria. alone down in jordan this is out of syria live from doha also coming up determined and defiant iraq is continue to protest against corruption and poverty despite the deaths of 63 people and to the. spanish police charge of demonstrators in barcelona

join a rally in support of jailed separatists me. chile's president demands a resignation of his entire cabinet in the wake of huge anti-government protests. welcome to the program the u.s. has reportedly conducted a raid in syria targeting the ice the leader abu bakar al baghdadi there are conflicting reports about whether the operation was successful the u.s. magazine newsweek is citing a u.s. army official who says baghdad he was killed the 48 year old iraqi has been reported dead several times before i will be talking to our reporter on the turkey syria border in a few moments time. more than 60 people have been killed in 2 days of demonstrations against iraq's government influential shia cleric is calling for the prime minister to resign and m.p.'s linked to him staging a sit in a palm and as natasha going to reports now from the iraqi capital demonstrators are

refusing to give up on their demands for change. a lot of the protesters in baghdad spent a 2nd day confronting security forces as they attempted to breach this barrier their aim was to march across a bridge to government offices in the fortified green zone protesters have been in tahrir square are brown macaques since thursday evening they say some have been attacked without provocation in the early morning hours while journalists aren't around we want to make sure that we will just demonstrate in a safe way as we want that we want that we want to get killed that i don't want to die today i want to have a good country about 200 iraq have been killed since the latest anti-government protests began at the beginning of this month people are angry about the lack of jobs corruption discrimination and the cost of living prime minister idle abdul

mahdi has promised various reforms but he's refusing to meet the protesters main demand that he resigns along with his government he says that would create chaos gotten out and if they see the scene on their couches in the shooting us what do they think chickens this spring take us on us do we need more tears all mata's either die or topple the government on the ministry of interior released a statement on saturday condemning the people it says attacked security forces and vandalized government and political party buildings a spokesman says they did not use excessive force and they're committed to protecting the human rights of peaceful protesters amid the stun grenades and. tear gas we met the noon and his 2 year old son if not by senate headman 18 years i work with the minister of interior and my reward was being fired i have been protesting here and trying to get another contract for 4 months every day they give us

promises to call mas and say tomorrow and nothing i best who dare says he's protesting for the chance his 4 children might have a future he wants hope for 2030 i have a good life a simple life and a happy life off the 2030 i lose my job my family destroyed my future destroyed members of parliament were due to meet on saturday but the session was cancelled because not enough of them turned up with the country in crisis protestors see that as yet another example of a government deaf to their demands tashi going to name al-jazeera baghdad well more now on our top story those reports suggesting that the guy some leader abu bakar al baghdadi has been killed in a u.s. raid al-jazeera has a somma been joins us live from some of the thing that's near turkey's border with syria asama so what more details are you hearing there about these reports that say

the eisen leader has been killed. well there and most of these details are coming from unnamed u.s. military sources that a raid was carried out in a province in the not best part of syria about somewhere between 5 to 6 kilometers or and near the turkey border these sources claiming that the joint special operations command forces known as sock carried out this operation they had intelligence they bent in it went into a compound and a person detonated himself with a suicide vest now sources in the u.s. military believe that this was a bug that the this is something that they had been working on for days this wasn't that just happened yesterday that it took a long time coming and it has also been somewhat made more prominent by u.s. president donald trump saying that he has a major announcement to make we've been hearing from various u.s. sources that the defense secretary is going to be making

a special appearance he wasn't sure jill to be on any talk shows today he's going to be telling the media and the american public about the development and not just in syria but according to these unnamed u.s. sources. has been killed now this is waiting for confirmation from d.n.a. and biometrics tests and we know that they were called by god he had been had not been seen in public since 2014 when he made that famous speech and came up on the podium in mosul and declared that islamic state of iraq and the levant has been formed since the fall of iceland last years there have been reports of out of the many raids happening against them they've been multiple rumors about his health he was injured but it is very interesting that if this true he's been found in an area where another group was fighting for control from eiffel and had taken control from isis this is in the province where fighters close to al qaida. formally known as

your brother nostra are predominantly located so it is an unfolding situation there . we are getting reports from u.s. officials so far no official confirmation of waiting for the u.s. president hopefully to make that announcement at 9 am eastern a summit just very quickly i mean how significant is all of this given that president trump announced over a year ago that the i still a caliphate had been defeated. absolutely so as you as you've seen in previous operations against international groups are the killing of osama bin laden took 10 years in the making we saw years and years before they went in and actually captured saddam hussein who did who was wanted for crimes in iraq so i work that he is going to be a significant blow especially psychologically to this organization which has been defeated but again you have to see it in context this is an organization which fuels from the insurgency which exists spart of the world. taking its

roots from the disenfranchisement from the poverty from the lack of opportunities from the state heavy handedness which again exists in many parts including iraq and syria this is where i still found its recruits from but it has lost the capability of luring foreign recruits saying that it had a caliphate and a state that that was something which brought together a lot of radical fighters from all over the world so it is going to be a major blow to isolate but again the group has been disintegrating for the last few years now what is the left in the deserts of iraq and syria where pockets exists of i.c. been hearing reports of thousands and thousands of families belonging to isis are being held in the deserts of zorra as well as some in in iraq and many international governments have been reluctant to take back the fighters so

there are some elements on the ground i still has been defeated it does not control any territory but it is capable of carrying out small operations as pockets of armed fighters exist in scattered areas sparsely populated areas across to iraq and syria does it some of. sunless on the turkish syrian border some of the time being thank you. let's go to spain now where parts of central boss alone are turned into a battleground between police and protesters following a largely peaceful march police used buttons and charged with people who'd been throwing bottles and rocks is the latest mass demonstration in support of council on separatist leaders have been jailed for their part in an independence referendum that was deemed to be illegal some of the lego has more now from boston a. very this evening at least 350000 people had gathered in the center of barcelona to demand the release of the 9 capsule on politicians and activists have been sentenced will sedition maybe 2 weeks ago after that as we have seen all

week they broke off into a smaller group a still quite a huge number of them and made their way over here to the outside of the national spanish police headquarters now this is a site which has seen trouble breaking out the days now and always has been one of the points of where violent actions and activities and clashes between the police and the protesters have been taking place but of course also the tensions from that sentencing are still very much heightened that amman's also being made alongside more dialogue between the central government in madrid and the catalan government but in an election season where both sides of this argument are not backing down it's looking very unlikely that a dialogue in this kind of environment is going to take place chile's president has

asked all of his government ministers to resign not the declaring he's heard the message from mass protests sebastien ben he says he wants to end the state of emergency 9000 people have been killed in 2 weeks of unrest reports now from santiago. a protest of more than 1000000 people and she lives capital santiago has been called the most significant social mobilization in a generation. in response to the historic march she lives president. announced sweeping changes to both his cabinet and to national policy the 2 will be in the been set to guide our government has taken on the urgent tossed of tending to the profound message sent from the chilean people this is why we have proposed to the national congress a robust and demanding social agenda that takes into account the significant demands of all compared sheehan's. after more than a week of protests and despite the concessions and apologies issued by the president a solution to the crisis has remained elusive sociologist sophia don't also says

the anger from demonstrators stems from a disconnect that exists between chile's political class and a majority of the population this is not a movement that is that is being articulated by 11 actor today were seen during the last week it's more much more spontaneous we have with seen protests that 'd i mean demand for a new education says them but also for a new houses then we have massive complaints against the current pension system so it's so much a source of much broader was on saturday protests sparked once again in several cities across chile. many demonstrators celebrated the news that a military in force curfew and a state of emergency would be lifted the atmosphere within the demonstrations taking place in the chilean capital may seem festive but there's ago under a law in anger that shared by just about everyone here i.