well let's speak to thomas pickering he sailed several top u.s. state department jobs including undersecretary of state for political affairs as well as ambassador to the united nations to israel and to russia he joins us now live from washington d.c. thanks very much for being with us on al-jazeera what do you make of the events today would you say this is the end of isis. you know how long i think that this is the end of buck duddy but isis is a very differentiated and broken set of franchises with lots of initiative clearly being taken by local leaders local scenes in local regions and so this splitting up is part of isis's defense mechanism i think the disappearance of bud duddy means in fact that one leader is gone there are already reports that a man by the name of carr gosch a former senior military officer for saddam hussein may be the successor

that's not yet clear but somebody will struggle for that particular position i also think that with the disappearance of bug dudie we had the coterminous with that unfortunately the turkish move into northern syria which seems to have opened the doors to some significant extent of some of the prisons in which isis fighters and their families had been held mainly by kurdish syrians and that would be in many ways perhaps an even more significant change in the situation than bug duddies disappearance although it would be a mistake totally to minimize the disappearance of bug dudie it is in that sense a clear indication that allied and u.s. intelligence spent a good bit of time finding him and that we spent i think and put in place a very good operation taking him out killing but daddy of course was part of the

extent of the operation he killed himself at the end although only as a result of the operation against him and quite let's take a look at the implications of the of the they operate i would just say this impacts. security going forward especially given president tom's. rhetoric during that press conference his language did seem quite incendiary the way he was talking about it but that is covered as he died like a dog. do you think there will be any implications from knots and what consequences might the actions today have. with the use of that phrase is an insult to anybody in the muslim world we all know and i think it was purposefully meant to be an insult or if it wasn't purposely meant to be an insult

that's what the result was the 2nd thing is that the important piece that i've tried to emphasize is that if there was a significant release of syria's fighters that would be in its own a serious negative development the president as you know has been deeply criticized including by members of his own party for his actions over the last week and a half in northern syria inviting the turks in leaving the kurdish allies of the united states in the lurch and seemingly putting the kurds in a position where they could no longer control the prison system for isis and perhaps sitting free large numbers of fighters and he needed to have something useful in the context of the coming u.s. elections in this region to offset it and so you saw this morning obviously his. move to have but a strange but i think still unusual hour long press conference in which he

exulted the success that he claimed in and getting rid of bashar duddy and its terms all of you you mentioned and certainly adam smith mentioned that certainly thousands potentially of eisel prisoners may have escaped he think there is a risk of reprisals and revenge attacks the french in particular seem other concerns are on the states of alerts. yes i do and i think other experts perhaps more. plug-in than i am share that view but i do i think that it is part of the modus vivendi of the organization not to let attacks and successes against them go on responded to how that will happen and from where it is very uncertain and i think it would be very prudent for people all around the world who might be exposed to these attacks to be cautious and careful in the coming days and weeks because

this will in certainly incentive 8 isis fighters where they're there in the sahara or whether they're in the arabian peninsula or whether they're in iraq or whether there are other places to seek to find ways to wreak a revenge for the loss of their leader however put it this way in effect if he had become as the leader he was still symbolically a person that was important although i saw one interesting close quote just a few minutes ago that an isis fighters said that our role is not to fight for a leader our role is to fight for the islamic state and for a law as part of the goal that we've undertaken and that's an interesting comment but i suspect one that has some currency among isis fighters as well ok thomas pick a my favorite have to leave it that way thanks very much indeed for vegas year.

analysis. there's plenty more still to come on the news are including a live in president abel morales accuses his rivals of planning a coup as process again says re-election intensifying. and a pressure is increasing on iraq's francione government as thousands to fire crackdown has killed dozens of people. and the sports liverpool keep their unbeaten run and the english premier league. by claiming a major scalp details coming up later in the show. and the bolivian president evo morales has warned again that warned his political rivals are planning a coup as process against the election results continue with a country's electoral board names morales as the right winner of the recent

presidential votes but the opposition accuses the president of fraud after the new vote counts altered he also complained about irregularities in the kinds we're secretary of state mike curb pale has backed calls for a view on a 2nd round election let's cross live now to john holeman who is among the protesters in love pas joy of we have heard that us voicing concerns about its what it calls these irregularities in the bolivian election do you think a recurrence or a rerun is likely. what seems like it's more likely at the moment which they clearly. chose and that's what you can i say should of american states restrict post now the government has said they're willing to live with that and your position which also told us they wouldn't trade with that you're just saying the supporters now those

people feel that it was for their worst. in that folk oun to process it just come out for a big rally haikou to come out the window in which civil society sort of decides what they're going to do thousands of people here it's just sort of finished but that all of the of the vote by the organization of american states would be binding that's what they're proposing so whatever they come up with that's the final result and as i say the opposition in government seem to be a bull but that the people that we've talked to here actually looked so much on board with that they fear. that the oas won't be able to get to the bottom of this now we're a week away from the actual election that happened last sunday so i fear that there be some sort of manipulation that happens so that that doesn't get but that seems like the way forward at the moment obviously at the moment as a number stamped president or at least is one outright what these people are saying is that if there's no less than a tempest lead then it goes to a 2nd round in this so if the review of the vote count finds it will be in

a 2nd round with the nearest challenger who is carlos message he actually just came out to speak to the people here and what they're planning now is a strike a general strike in the pies starting from 5 o'clock tomorrow morning so trying to keep the pressure on the government here so that this keeps being looked up and john we were there when marlice has been claiming that the opposition is. just the high art of the protest is a reaction to that it seems the rhetoric is being ramped up that quite significant . yeah definitely the owner of the speakers that came to speak here in this rally so it's going to size that the protests here need to be peaceful and they're probably responding to that room service pointing probably to the fact that in some of the regions in bolivia there have been public buildings. there has been a lot of tear gas used by the police theat bolivian police and something that

united nations human rights office states. and spoke about the happy people at the time but on the other hand the housing so been police offices should the united nations counted about 19 of them so i think the leaders here is really trying to sort of firm calm things down and make make sure things are peaceful president paralysis also said a press conference says that the protesters the young protest is being paid in terms of money or in terms of good grades isn't something that we found during the nights that we've been reporting on these protestors but there is a sense of frustration and it definitely seems to be young people especially students leading this protest movement. and their life as an apostle very much indeed for bringing us the latest. now pull some cool say in argentina or voters have been choosing their next president center left contender 2 for non this is facing incumbent. and the growing frustration over the economic crisis fernandez

campaigns on the president's failure to stem poverty and inflation has led the country since 2015 to resemble is live for us in buenos aires series of the 1st results when can we start to see them coming in. well we're here not far away from a lot of the fed and i'm their headquarters and i'm not sure if you can see right behind me but there's already a big party underway people celebrating the comeback of the peronist party but official results are not just yet we're hearing reports from the government headquarters the let's change party of. they're saying that they need people to remain calm that the official results are not just are not yet and that there is still no chance of the possibility of a runoff and this is what the government has been betting on in the past few months and the 1st few months has been touring the country asking people to vote for him

once again to trust him once again in spite of the enormous economic crisis that we have been seeing in argentina in this past few months mockery saying that if there were to be a runoff and if he were to be elected the economic situation would likely prove let's not forget what has been going on here in argentina with austerity measures and agreement with the i.m.f. among so many other things right now where we are right now people are celebrating they're saying that it's time for their parents' party who they believe has always defended people's rights has always. oh dear very happy died in spite of all this we're still waiting for the official results that could be coming out in the next hour. and to raise the economy clearly is an important issue for the electorates why are they switching their support from my creator is he not campaign on the economy himself when he was voters and so office.

well that's correct my recent market he came to office and he was elected because he was promising to reform argentina at will coming from a government of a from former president cristina fernandez de kirchner there were lots of accusations of corruption of economic instability of an ax to a double exchange rate similar to the one that exists in venezuela among other things thank you promised to reform that well he couldn't do it what the government basically said happened is that there was very high deficits and that the government compensated that deficit with borrowing lots of money borrowing flooring debt and that's why the government is currently in trouble because it's not clear yet whether they'll be able to pay it off argentina has a long history of default many analysts are saying that there is a 70 percent chance that argentina's got a default once again and what's been going on on the streets when you talk to people are double digit inflation rates over to rates on the rice companies and

businesses shutting down and that's one of the key reasons are valid. concerns in that market and also the economy is going to be the main reason why that happened ok so there is a broader life isn't going to sarah's for no thank you very much indeed some will be checking back in with theresa when we find out more about those election results . so other news now and tens of sizes of people in lebanon have formed a human chain that's crossed the length of the country it's the 11th day events the government protests demonstrates to say they want to present a united unified front in their call for the government to resign stephanie decker has more from beirut. they came out in their tens of thousands connecting 170 kilometers of lebanon's coastline and breaking sectarian divides by holding hands so we're making this a human chain to show the full support of all the lebanese people from the north

the south. was. on the mend people are linking hans all the way to the northern city of tripoli and stretching down south. there was other i'm very human chains that you have. to gather structure almost was this country. despite promises of economic reforms by prime minister saad the people have not left the streets after 11 days of protests their message the same as on day one we want to fight the corruption that's happening in our country that's been happening for the past 30 years so now this is the this is the people speaking this is our time we're all here basically for one thing just look at our basic rights and hopefully we'll get there what do you mean by basic right. if we can start by garbage on the street so if we can like iraq to the city why are everything the

core message from the protesters is that the government must resign people tell us they want a neat new faces i left lebanon in the in the ninety's and when i come back after 30 years still we have the same names the same government people nothing is changing look at the state of the infrastructure and you can understand the people who are running or. this was a show of solidarity of this fractious population standing together under the lebanese flag it's a 2nd sunday of these protests and their cool for the entire government to resign has gone unheeded the question is will these protests maintain their momentum and if they do how long will the government let them go on for stephanie decker al-jazeera beirut. still to come on al-jazeera german parties are the opposite ends of the political spectrum surge in elections seen as

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this is al-jazeera put them into all of the headlines this hour the u.s. president sounds announced that the world's most wanted man has died in a raise in syria donald trump says i saw a leader. blew himself up during a u.s. military operation in a village in italy a province vote counting in argentina's presidential election is underway center left candidates alberto fernandez is facing incumbents mauricio my tree in a contest. dominated by the country's economic crisis tens of thousands of people in lebanon have formed a human chain has crossed the length of the country demonstrators say they want to present a unified front in their call for the government to resign. well let's get more on

our top story the death of isis leader the group may not control much of iraq and syria anymore but it still maintains a covert network of supporters counter-terrorism officials briefed the u.n. security council in august and revealed that the group has affiliates stretching from afghanistan to south asia into nigeria and west africa which is considered to be its strongest affiliates with more than 4000 fighters or the 40000 foreign fighters who join deisel along with their families up to $30000.00 of them survived the u.s. led campaign to topple the group and i still remains very rich with around $300000000.00 at its disposal according to some estimates were simon a business a senior lecturer in international relations at lancaster university he says eisel supporters may use bank daddy's death to strengthen their cause. so i think it's

a tricky one because while the tentacles of these spread out across the world and into disenfranchised marginalized communities this is not a an organization that exist top down control over everything it's not as if but that he was was a figure sitting in a. cave or an area or somewhere controlling every single thing that happened in the name of all groups and for there to so it's a little bit more complicated not it means the that all these groups that are operating across the world are inspired by and influenced by and as a consequence i think that what's happened is that there will be a outrage there will be for stray sharon an anger at the american actions and it will serve to reinforce what what many had been and u.n. and the case and that the struggle is against this western imperial power now of

course it's a symbolic acts the killing of all but that is hugely symbolic and significant but that will be countered by the key ideologues who will be trying to trying to make the case that this is moral justification that they are on the right truck and that that cause is just. polls of close in colombia's 1st local elections since 26 in peace deal with the font rebels voters are choosing their local representatives but the poll is being seen as a referendum on president ivan the government despite a peace deal struck between the governments and for 3 years ago violence has continued 7 candidates have been killed and several threatens in the run up to sunday's. joins us now live from dallas under these are vocal elections why are they being viewed as a blow to the national leadership one of the main takeaways from this foods.

well i was quite a surprising. hearing say that their main takeaway is that these elections have been huge blow to the ruling party president. and to the political movement that men mentor former president. candy they only came in last here in the capital. the 1st woman to run the capital this is considered the 2nd most important post in the country after president but also the candidates. lost in his stronghold city. and. this is quite surprising and it looks like a rejection of part of the majority. to their peace agreement.

with. the general elections just a year ago now even. very low numbers of support in the polls and also being investigated for witness to. by the country's supreme court and he remains one of the most powerful and influential police station in the country but this is definitely the biggest loss in it in recent years so that's an important takeaway the other one is the fact that you know number elections across the country independent candidates running in and corruption platform have won elections against their traditional political machinery so definitely there is a switch in the country and it could be seen as also a benefit to brought by a peace agreement that traditionally you would win elections on the issue of

security here in colombia that this family looks like many kilometers were more interested in issues corruption and were looking for a change at least at the local level ok i will have to leave it there but thanks very much indeed for bringing us the latest from bogota. germany's far right party has surged in elections in the eastern states all steering gear and accounts are seen as an indicator of the party's good strength in the region but the support for the alternative for dortch than party wasn't enough to stop the incumbent far left linka from maintaining the top sports reports from the thinking capital efforts. first place for the far left and a personal triumph for this man for 2 family law has governed this state for the past 5 years now he thinks he's won another fight i wish to go to also talk for

doing an important day for throwing a great day for 3 in the 38th anniversary of the border opening such an intense elections and an option in which the people of the country decide for themselves how the future of the country will be shaped. his main challenges have been from the far right a.f.d. whose leader here is beyond her care a man who believes the national holocaust memorial shames his country and who strongly opposed to immigration and multi-culturalism those messages helped him more than double his party's vote share the sun is rising above the east and soon we will let the sun shine above all of germany we have made the east blue and in just a few years we will be a people's party for the whole of germany. collectively the vote for the 2 political extremes is more than 50 percent at a time when many in the old communist east germany feel disillusioned with what 30 years in reunited germany has brought them for the christian democrats this is a blow whose effect was clearly acknowledged by its lead candidate here. for

flooring in the democratic center this is a bitter result we fought for this democratic senator and this democratic senator did not get a majority all of which means finding a stable majority to govern this state for the next 5 years could be difficult one analyst believes the far left may try to govern alone but maybe there's a lucian should be a minority government and then more minority governments could follow as an exit from this impasse created by the all against the a of the split in germany but so far at least all of the other parties maintained they are against the air. although sunday's vote was for this state parliament its message will resonate at the national level many east germans are unhappy with the political process and their turn into the parties of the extremes to show it

dominic al-jazeera and the 3 ring in parliament. the final votes in mozambique are and then they show that president philippe nusi has won a 2nd term with a landslide victory in the country's national election news see picked up 73 percent of the votes but earlier this week the opposition called for the results to be and no they say the vote was rigged after news is governing for the party had won in every province including areas where the opposition usually dominates. in the united states california's governor has declared a state wide emergency as multiple wall fars burn uncontrollably almost 200000 people have been ordered to leave their homes made fears horak and force winds could help spread the fars salumi as the latest. wind gusts of around 140 kilometers an hour are fueling the flames in the heart of california's wine

country the fire began wednesday and is only 10 percent contained putting people and property at risk dozens of structures have burned to the ground we've got rates of spread that are extremely dangerous at this point with erratic fire behavior and nearly 200000 people have been advised to leave home the largest evacuation the county has ever seen but the california highway patrol closed parts of a main evacuation route sunday morning due to 0 visibility and there's growing concern the fire will cross the highway to an area that hasn't seen fires in decades and as a result is covered in dense drive vegetation that area hasn't seen any fire history since the 1940 s. so that the fuels in that area are extremely dense they're extremely old and decadent in are extremely dry the so-called kinkaid fire along with the tick fire in suburban los angeles are the biggest of several blazes plaguing california during its traditional wildfire season when high winds and low humidity make for

hazardous conditions the impact stretches far beyond evacuation zones california's pacific gas and electric the utility company is cutting power to nearly a 1000000 homes and businesses to minimize the risk of power lines sparking additional fires. as many as 3000000 people could be affected the company has already filed for bankruptcy in the face of lawsuits from last year's wildfire season while this year's may just be getting started kristen salumi al-jazeera. at least 70 percent says have been injured in the iraqi city of karbala as they tried to storm a government compound security forces fired live ammunition and tear gas in an attempt to stop the demonstrators setting fire to the provincial council building it comes as the iraqi high commission for human rights say a $74.00 protest killed more than $3000.00 injured during 3 days of anti-government

demonstrations protests have been taking place in the capital as well as several southern cities. chillis president's plans to lift the country's state over marriage and say at midnight local time this comes after thousands 2 parts and at least 2 peaceful protests in santiago on sunday the country's attention to recover from ongoing nationwide protests at least 17 people have been killed and many injured as protest 1st broke right over a week ago president sebastian pinera has since fired his and tama cabinet. government's promise to introduce social reforms. tens of thousands of protesters in pakistan are marching from karachi to islamabad calling on the prime minister to resign the demonstration was organized by conservative and religious groups marches are expected to reach the capital on thursday they accuse

a man can of rigging last year's general election and say his government is illegitimate the process is also a show of solidarity with residents and indeed administered kashmir which was strips of it such an army in august has the latest from karachi. don't of thousands of people from the opposition party are gathering to welcome the. man who goes they're going to be doing the anti government campaign this march started in karate and we're hearing now to islamabad everyone is joining us and creating all opposition parties and this will make history everyone is worried about inflation and justice unemployment now is the time that everyone can resign and have free and fair elections without military intervention although the day of dollar daddy would the people of the british servant of allah.