tv NEWS LIVE - 30 Al Jazeera October 30, 2019 7:00pm-7:34pm +03
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to make sure as many children as possible vaccinated katherine sawyer al-jazeera. thousands of protesters have been back on the streets of chile's capital despite a government reshuffle that was aimed at ending the unrest demonstrators threw rocks at police vehicles the process began several weeks ago with a hike in metro but have since turned into a wider unrest of inequality in the country the c e o of boeing is admitted that mistakes were made with the company's 737 max jet crashes involving 2 of the aircraft killed 346 people in the last year dennis miller burke appeared before a u.s. congressional committee and admitted that there been errors in the jet software he also said the company failed to give pilots enough information on a system that was meant to prevent a stall. general motors is reporting better than expected quarterly earnings despite a strike that shut down production the u.s. auto maker had strong sales over the last 3 months but and expects to take
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a $3000000000.00 hit for its earnings for the whole of 2019 years of the 40 day strike which ended last week after union members of greed to a new 4 year pay and benefits deal. sugarcane farmers in parts of asia are struggling because of an oversupply that sent prices to their lowest levels in 6 years some of the world's largest producers have huge stockpiles including in thailand where the new harvest is about to begin to hay reports. this factory in northeast thailand isn't supposed to be operating at the moment it's usually a time to prepare for the new harvest it should be cane to arrive from farms around the province of tiny instead it's still processing and bagging last season's product which for now isn't going any further than the storage sheds which are becoming increasingly full right now is that. because that everything is throw just wait and see last season thailand produced more sugar than ever
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contributing to a global surplus and helping the price to plummet it has a stockpile of around $7000000.00 tonnes over a 1000000 more than it had at the same time last year another reason there is so much excess at the moment is because historically a lot of time and indian sugar has been smuggled into china but this year chinese authorities have cracked down on that illegal process to try to protect their own sugar industry. exports from thailand are also being affected by the strength of the thai baht which has been asia's best performing currency this year its farmers who are hurting the most costs are going up while their income falls through the line. yes i'm worried about the small farmers if the price keeps dropping i'm afraid that people will give up if we don't see any signs of improvement in a few years it will be bad the oversupply and low prices are expected to remain for
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a few years which may affect thailand's long term plans to increase sugar production by 70 percent somewhat concerned that if the expansion happens it will only benefit big businesses that can operate with smaller margins and further squeeze small farms. growing sugarcane costs a lot of money and the deals between the farmers and sugar mills are not that fear for example the sugar mill won't take any responsibility if the farmer can't deliver the product but they don't care whether there's a drought or flood or the farmers take all the risk the government also wants to build $29.00 new sugar mills in the northeast each with a biomass power plant attached they use the material left over after the should be cane is crushed as fuel but with thailand sugar industry expected to lose more than $329000000.00 this season those plans may have to be reconsidered wayne hay al-jazeera who don't tunney thailand's. just ahead here on the.
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again time to support his santa very much and general baseball as well series has come down to when it takes all deciding game the washington nationals and that the houston astros 3 game winning streak to square the series at 3 all david stokes supports. after 3 straight wins the astros needed only one more to take the series
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when alex bregman hit this home and they seem to be well on their way i tell but amazingly no team has won a home yet this series and the nationals have back 1st out of a 10 and then one so chose to out the puck to edge the visit is in front 32 and that's a picture of stephen strasburg was in great form as well frustrating houston to prevent them adding any more runs strikeout in 09 and that's number 6 on a night for strike spurs but it was washington's anthony rendon who struck the killer blows with the bats to go out and write their own shoes you want to know what i was tied for and don't is actually from houston and he followed up but to run home out with a 2 run double to take the game away from the astros nationals a little it finished 72 and yet again the home crowd left disappointed this is the 1st world series ever where the visiting team has won the 1st 6 games nationals or
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1st game 7. maybe they enjoy our park and maybe we enjoy their cards so we're going to ask questions we're just going to try to go out there and as we one negative for the nets was manager dave martinez being ejected from the game the 1st in a world series since 1000. 6 i don't really want to make this about me and take away what the boys did tonight i mean they play really well as for the astros they need to pick themselves up and fast and i don't think there's a person in the building that would have assumed that all road games or road teams were going to win but you got to make sure that last one is not the same so the momentum is back with the nationals i mean for washington's 1st title since the senate is in 120 school after 8 months and nearly 5000 games this season it all comes down to one when it takes all match on wednesday david stakes al-jazeera. and be a both thought on the brawn james has sent a tackle a truck to feed 1st responders home are tackling the wildfires in california james
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himself was one of thousands of people forced to flee their homes in los angeles the 1st along went off around 1 30 in the morning and then the 2nd one for the emergency evacuation was like 145 we finally got a house after 2 o'clock and you know finally got some word to safety around 4 am in the morning. and get to sleep we find really got to sit around like 6 am 615. you know this it was it was it was it was crazy it was crazy disable it. it was an ideal preparation for james but he still played for the l.a. lakers against the memphis grizzlies and he scored $23.00 points but the saw of the show with anthony davis who got 40 points the lakers running out easy winners $120.00 points to $91.00. pro a basketball players and millions of dollars in the n.b.a. but now college athletes and the u.s. can now profit from a brand sponsorships and endorsements the new rules was approved on tuesday the
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change is likely to benefit athletes in the highest profile sports such as basketball and american football these sports generate billions of dollars and revenues even at a college level california already approved legislation last month that allows student athletes earn indorsement money. major league soccer where the seattle sounders have advanced to the m.l.s. cup final for the 3rd time in 4 years based on the number one seed in the western conference finals the los angeles f.c. 31 at home. scored a once in a tough fight with nicolas dario's quiet the winning goal the founders will now face the winners of wednesday's game where defending champions atlanta united take on toronto f.c. . and italy into milan have moved to the top of syria table at least for 24 hours after a hard fought to on victory over but asia and took the lead through martinez.
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and amido lukaku added the stunning strike which was enough to send antonio qantas men 2 points clear of eventis events have a game in hand they host a new one on wednesday. the world champion u.s. women's football team has a new coach 43 year old to tackle and the nasty from macedonia has taken over from who stepped down after leading us to 2 women's world cup high tolls. is with every member of the squad engaged in agenda discrimination lawsuit against the u.s. soccer federation mediation that talks of broke down a court date is set for may 2020 on the respectful of. the drive of the push that the players the players have in fact that's not dispositive for me because they will translate will translate to the field and i have no doubt
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in my mind wants to step on the field today we're going to be focused on. what is important the time was to put the jersey on the put everything else on the side and their focus on winning games to do that in the 1st and. no doubt in my mind that they're going to do that in the future. on of the world's best cook it's a sick evil hasn't completely except his 2 year ban for corruption the 32 year old bangladesh captain admitted that he failed to report approaches by bookmakers to fix a match as a back in 2018 the matches were in a try as series between bangladesh stray lankan zimbabwe and indian premier league 21 year of his senses is suspended but he'll still be out until 2 of a 2020. vision all over i'm obviously extremely sad to have been banned from the game i love but i completely accept my sanction for not reporting the approaches the i.c.c. anticorruption unit is reliant on players to play
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a part in the fight against corruption and oh i didn't do my duty in this instance to tennis and force it down the medvedev suffered a shock 2nd round exit by france germany saturday at the paris masses the russian who has climbed to wall the number 4 after his brilliant form took the 1st set but slipped a 466264 loss and in his bid to reach his 7th straight final in france. you are 6 see the alexanders very ever had no problem in his 3rd round match against them and over the last goal he breeze through in straight sets 6163 in just under an hour. and that's it for me adrian salivary thanks dude and that is where we end this news hour sammy is back with us just a few moments talk to each of the day's top stories. thanks for watching but for now.
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why injections of the world's beaches in the sport of squash. from some of the top players themselves. that's fun to watch us play because we focus on skilful and hard challenging shocks. al-jazeera world examines why egyptians dominate the sport egypt squash champions on al-jazeera. too often on the streets of india. are victims but a new force is that plain. female police officers are combative
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sexual assault and domestic abuse. but changing society is a challenge and so is life behind the badge for india's. under siege. for the last 2 years the students have been collecting rubbish every day it's helped clean up the campus and helped build some of its facilities for every 2 kilo's of plastic waste they collect this school receives a brick made of plastic and cement. for some activists this may not be the most ecological way to eliminate the problems of plastic but this is seen as an immediate solution to the growing problems of landfills across the country waste can now be used to manufacture building materials.
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lebanon's army oh just protesters to open blogs roads and the political uncertainty of the prime minister's resignation. and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. syrian constitutional committee is meeting for the 1st time to work out the political settlement. and official report says the london fire brigade could have saved many more lives that grunfeld tell if it had been better prepared. one. zaps susan israeli surveillance firm accusing it of helping government spies break into the phones of hundreds of
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users. lebanon's army is began clearing roads across the country that had been blocked by protesters for days protests continue for the 14th day but many civil society movements of heeded the call for the reopening of roads the demonstrations are also now confined to town and city squares and government institutions president michel aoun is yet to issue a statement on the prime minister's resignation side and how do we handed in his notice on tuesday after 2 weeks of nationwide protests protestors on tuesday were attacked by followers of to share parties hezbollah and amman who are opposing their demand for a government of independent experts instead of the current system based on sectarian claims demonstrators say only a radical op hey volcan guide the country through a worsening economic and financial crisis. stephanie decker has more from beirut
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the protesters and now dismantling what has been a key roadblock one of the vital arteries of highway through beirut 2 weeks this has remained close causing a lot of tension even among the population so you can see there been tense 3 people were sleeping here overnight that is now being removed throughout the morning you've had negotiations by the security forces here with the protesters to try and get them to do this because the army doesn't want to use force when it comes to these parents as they have been peaceful you did see confrontations on tuesday between supporters of hezbollah on the other side of this bridge so this is expected to ease the situation on the ground but a lot of people here are telling us that they're not actually happy with what is happening here one of the protesters saying that she believes that this was basically caving in to the government saying that their demands haven't been met because they want everyone to stand down they want an interim technocratic
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government until a new elections or these are major challenges ahead politically. it seems to be there all the roads around the capital and also other areas of the country the highways leading north and south are being opened. let's take a closer look at lebanon's current political system the country is governed by a power sharing agreement known as the top for courts that was designed after the end of the civil war to redistribute power the number of seats in parliament is equally split between christians and muslims includes representation for all of the country's 18 sects the president must be a christian and the parliament speaker a share muslim the prime minister he must be sunni the current system is being challenged in recent weeks by protesters who say it's riddled with corruption sami now there is director of the levant institute for strategic affairs he says how do you do this resignation is a big victory still a lot to be done. that's
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a big big 30 however a lot has to be done yet in order to achieve that educated change protesters want to get rid of. in politico to type more. which has demonstrated to be very conducive to production and inefficient in times of governance. knowledge. that the boy now is in the camp of any president. how would you.
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