can you hear me i think we may be having some trouble getting the line open to what we're going to keep on trying in the meantime let me go to our guests in the studio hardest either oatman is a chilean social researcher and joins us now here in the studio thank you for being with us i guess that question to you not so much the reaction in chile itself but what has been your reaction when you found out that the president canceled these 2 massive global meetings do you think he did he have a choice. i think the main answer to that question is still of course unknown and the recent is because there is an internal very serious each of us you have been reporting. things are really bad we have to remember that more than 20 people have been killed more than a 100 people have lost the side of. their sexual aggressions of people detained by the police in police stations so it's quite serious there's a there's

a wide turmoil so the options he had was of course to counsel is to try to resole this but actually we don't know what's the real meaning if that doesn't mean that he will try to obliterate the international scrutiny that he would have had in the a pic or in the call of the un is sending a delegation team to investigate the allegations of human rights abuses by security forces presumably that is still going ahead are you saying that you think that part of the reasons why these 2 summits were cancelled was because he didn't want the extra scrutiny i think it could be because the image of the president in chile politics is quite damaged internationally so this would be if it was if there are more insights today because protests would have happened in india to call the cop. so that's one answer the other one is yes he's trying to resolve internal issues

because this is a very dramatic situation and he needs to focus on that but the right answer than real answer we still don't know and maybe mention is trying to resolve the issues at the heart of all this yaz sacked the some of his ministers some key positions as well what else do you think he has to do to try to quell that the protests against him let me remember a very interesting thought given by one of the leaders of 2011 movement he said one of the issues in chile is that the problems are problems for the people. not for the political class so before resoldering any kind of problem they have to realize that this is an actual sprog actual problems because of the new liberal system things like inequality road issues with the rise in electricity fees or the access to water are not problems for the political elites and the economic elites so you have to realize to realize about the deep deep ways in which these issues are real problems but considering how long the process have been going on now and the fact

that it's obviously having enough of a of an impact for him to cancel these 2 summits and i guess to tarnish chillies refutation which it always enjoyed of sort of a stable country within south america i mean do you think you would have realized by now that there is serious cause for instability because of the inequality at the base of chilean society that the question is if they realize that it's a problem whatever exclusions they're giving and the solution was a cosmetic change changing part of his cabinet making this was shuffle but real deep answers we haven't heard about any of those answers in the path that he's trying to walk to get out of this problem how to get out that it will turn chile in social research i thank you so much for sharing your views with us we can actually go back now to santiago in chile and speak to my new iraq follow our correspondent there who has been following all developments and i know i guess let me just start with the question what reaction in chile to the fact that the country has canceled

these 2 major summits you to take place over the next few weeks and just more generally what is the situation like there now. yes barbara well that certainly was a shock when that announcement came up i think people had in expectation that there would be disruptions potentially given the ongoing unrest if that apec summit were to continue now in the coming days in november as well as the u.n. triple c. climate change summit that was expected to take place later in december the. general expectation the general sentiment here the prediction is that the unrest will continue we're going into almost 2 weeks since protests began the we know that the evolution of the demands of the demonstrators continues to keep continues to change so much so that now when you when you go out into the street what you're hearing from people are calls for the resignation of president beata even today there was a massive march that took place near the presidential palace where people once again. calling out a long list of grievances

a long list of demands that they're angry about here in the country they're not only angry about pensions being lower wages being low they're angry about generalized inequality that seems to be this is the cohesive message behind all of these demonstrations people saying that there is growing inequality in the country that the last 30 years despite it being a sort of model model economy serving as a blueprint for other latin american countries or of how a country that can go through 17 years of a brutal dictatorship can go on to become the most developed nation in latin america that's the perception that many have outside of chile seeing the crisis unfolding here seeming almost incomprehensible why people can be so so angry but it's about inequality it's about growing inequality and it's about people's perceptions of the future being bleak they think they see the current situation in the country as being bad but they perceive the future as being far worse so what we're hearing from people now is that protests are going to continue today into the evening and that more protests are going to continue in the coming days barbara

edmodo we know that the u.n. has said it will send a team to investigate allegations that there have been human rights abuses by security forces how does that play 1st of all do we have any more details of when that might actually happen and what impact does that have on the people that you speak to what do they think of that. we still don't know exactly when the u.n. team is going to arrive we'd heard that the united nations was sending a human rights. investigative team on monday that would be here for 4 weeks can just conducting investigations there are other international observers that are in santiago the dynamics of the demonstrations have changed since a national curfew military force curfew was lifted over the weekend a state of emergency was lifted on sunday that's managed to calm things down in terms of the violence the type of rafah pression that we had seen in the week prior but demonstrations are to still take replace the one that i spoke about only

a moment ago that took place in front of the presidential palace was dispersed earlier today using tear gas and using water cannons so we're still seeing incidents of repressive tactics by security forces and against mostly peaceful protesters but again the dynamics are continuing to evolve the general sentiment that we're seeing from people is that they want these protests to be peaceful the protests are not going to end and one of the biggest things that they're angry about has been the heavy handed crackdown by security forces against against peaceful protesters that human rights organizations including the you the u.n. say amount to widespread human rights violations barbara but what happened with the latest from santiago madeleine as always thank you. plenty more still ahead on the news hour including anti-government protestors returned to the streets in lebanon this by the prime minister's offer to resign a new wildfire breaks out on the fringes of los angeles california battles to contain major blazes and sport the world champion u.s.

women's football team have a new coach we'll hear from shortly. a u.s. media are reporting that the former white house national security adviser john bolton has been asked to testify in peach went to inquiries into president donald trump alter has reportedly been asked to appear next week so too has national security council lawyer jon eisenberg and eyes. briggs deputy michael ellis that recruits are investigating accusations that trump withheld the military aid to ukraine unless the country investigated his democratic rival joe biden our white house correspondent kimberly halkett has more now from washington and who's been testifying on wednesday. the testimony on wednesday on capitol hill by 2 state department officials are expected to be particularly damaging to the white house once again this is an effort by the democrats to offer further timelines and

a deep dive into ukraine policy under the administration of donald trump we expect that at least one of the witnesses will testify that there was a request to withhold military aid to ukraine and that this came at the direction of president trump but all eyes are also on what 1 will take place in the u.s. house of representatives on thursday that's when a vote is expected under the direction of the speaker of the house nancy pelosi to formalize the process impeachment inquiry that's already underway but until now the white house has alleged this has not been transparent it's been conducted in the shadows this is to counter that narrative so while this is not a vote to impeach president trump what it is is a vote to formalize the process the testimony will still be under way a request for documents still under way but it now becomes much harder with that vote 2 for the white house to essentially obstruct the democrats allege no longer

will they be able to instruct witnesses that they cannot testify or not provide documents now all of that will become much harder will someone rosenberg is a democratic strategist and former advisor to president bill clinton he joins us live now from washington d.c. sort of thank you for joining us here on al-jazeera let me just ask for your reaction to one of the latest developments we've had in the past hour or so and that's the former national security adviser john bolton has now been asked to testify in the impeachment pro-ball what do you make of that and what do you think might come out of it. well it's not surprising i think that we've heard over the last several weeks a lot of lower level people and now the house is going to start moving up the food chain and i assume that they're also going to call secretary say pompei of vice president pence rudy giuliani himself mick mulvaney the chief of staff in the white house all these people we know were materially involved in this conspiracy to shake

down the ukrainian government so i think this is the beginning of this process becoming far more serious and grave and what we've also learned is that dozens of people were involved in this i mean this was a major undertaking by our government involving senior cabinet officials ambassadors people who edited transcript some mean this was a major thing and it's going to it's going to take a while i think it's an end up taking a while for the house to get through it all there are because of so many people being involved and so far the hearings of being behind closed doors what do you make of you know when do you think they should and do you think they will be open that to the public and how do you think that would change the whole dynamic and perception of course of the impeach shuras. it's an important question because i think i think for those of us who have been through this before and i've been through because i worked for bill clinton back in 1908 in the late ninety's is that remember at the end of this process there's

a public trial and so there is always going to be a public trial in the senate everyone knows that and really the way to think about this right now is we're in the investigatory phases of this i mean that the last 2 impeachments had a special counsel investigation that was conducted in all those materials were then turned over to the house to use in their own investigation that didn't happen in this case because william barr the attorney general decided that this didn't merit a special counsel investigation so the house is how to conduct their own investigation avesta geishas are always done in private in this case it's done because some of the things that are being discussed are classified and they needed to keep them from the public what's going to happen next is there will be public hearings in the house and then there will be a public trial if impeachment takes place which i think it will there will be a public trial in the senate that could last for several weeks so this was always going to have a public phase it just was inappropriate at this early stage for it to be public at

this point. how much support do you think that the impeachment would have and i suppose just making that question a bit more why do you think that it's changing anyone's minds we know how divisive donald trump has always been from him from even before he became president and the people who support him almost seem to support him no matter what so there is the impeachment itself and i guess is the perception of it do you think that anyone who supports donald trump is changing his or her mind over the support because of the details that we're seeing coming out. well it's a really important question and in many ways it's the most important question and i think that i'll be honest as a political observer and somebody i've been working in politics for almost 30 years i've been surprised with how how high the number for impeachment and removal has gotten already i mean in many polling polls now it's at 515253 percent for

removal not just for impeachment or the indictment of the president i didn't expect that to happen until we got well into the trial where well in later and what it means the president is starting in a very weak in places standing with the public is this week today as it's been in the last several years he's lost a lot of ground he's down in the low forty's and high thirty's which means that you know he's lost somewhere around 10 to 15 percent of the voters that voted for him in 2016 are no longer approving of his performance or are open to be persuaded on impeachment whether it's enough to sway you know 2 thirds 'd of the senate which is what you need to for removal is really going to be the open question i think it's going to be relatively easy for. the democrats to get let's say 525354 votes in the senate getting beyond that every vote beyond that is going to be you know a real struggle because many of these republicans serve in states that are that are

red states that have you know are overwhelmingly republican states and they can wait a long time so we'll see i mean look we've got a long way to go in this we're still in the very early stages and what i'll say is the president is in a far weaker place than either bill clinton or richard nixon was at a parallel point in their processes and both of those didn't end very well for either them simon rosenberg democratic strategist and former lead visor to president bill clinton sir thank you for sharing your views with us. a thousands of anti-government protesters have been demonstrating in the lebanese city tripoli despite prime minister saad handing in his resignation to the president bush alone but he resigned on tuesday saying he'd come to a dead end in dealing with an unprecedented them stray sions that of paralyzed the country but owen has asked to stay on until a new government is formed design to hold there has more from beirut. the roads are

now open so will schools universities and banks lebanon may no longer be paralyzed but the political crisis is far from over protesters who blocked roads across the country for almost 2 weeks toppled the coalition government prime minister saddle had resigned after failing to form a government free from the influence of political parties the president michel aoun has still to set a date to start consultations with members of parliament to agree on a new prime minister a post held by a son a muslim replacing heidi won't be easy he is considered the representative of that community. but hariri will insist on a semi technocratic government but the ruling coalition is insisting political parties remain represented hariri want to accept that so the other scenario is hezbollah forming a government that is more dominated by the group something it wants to avoid. hezbollah and its allies are the majority in government and parliament but it is

under u.s. sanctions like its iranian backer that is why it needs a partner like who is supported by the west house speaker to be a birdie is warning against international intervention it seems lebanon is yet again caught in the arena of the us iranian struggle both countries have weighed in the crisis which began as a protest for better living conditions iran is accusing the u.s. saudi arabia and israel of supporting the protesters while the u.s. is calling for a government that will be responsive to the needs of the people protesters who are now confining their street action to public squares are promising to push for radical change they say they are ready for a long struggle to bring down a stick tarion system that has been governing them for decades that was 2nd demand is the formation of a new cabinet from experts people who have expertise none corrupted nonpartisan so they can govern and conduct the trends. phase and next demand would be the only

a parliamentary elections so we are staying on the streets until these demands are met overthrowing post-war leaders won't be easy so far they are refusing demands to hand over power. to lies ahead. beirut. a new wildfire has broken out just outside of los angeles in ventura county simmie valley firefighters say dry winds forecast for the next few days are likely to fan the flames the fire is burning just a few kilometers from another fire near the getty center museum in los angeles that fire has been burning for 2 days and as this place thousands of people live now to n.b.c. correspondent jennifer björk linnen healdsburg california jennifer what is the situation like where you are. barbara we're in california's wine country about 400 miles to the north of those other 2 fires but this by far is the largest and most destructive fire that's burning in

the state of california at this moment some $200.00 structures have been destroyed about half of those are homes and there are still $90000.00 homes that are in the path of this fire which is only at 30 percent containment the good news is overnight the fire lines held during some wind and that's the good news also we are hearing that some of the vacuum who've been out of their homes for the better part of a week are being allowed to go back home but to the south overnight it was a very very difficult night as new fires are burning that fire before dawn in simi valley right near the ronald reagan presidential library and also the burial place of ronald and nancy reagan atop the hill there that library was evacuated we can report there initially was no damage to the library and fire crews have a lot of space to work around the library which counts on herds of goats to do

brush clearance to chew away all the heavy brush on the hillside there thousands of people in the neighborhoods down hill from the library also are evacuated as that fire continues to burn with no containment in sight and this is all happening just east about 40 minutes of the los angeles hills where fire took out about a dozen homes during heavy winds on monday that home over that fire caused by sparks flying when a dry branch from a tree blew into a power line it is still a threat as humidity is down to about 5 percent there is still wind in the forecast all across southern california and northern california overnight we do expect winds to pick up again fire crews are spread across the state watching barbara jennifer bure clue and live for us in healdsburg california jennifer thank you. you're watching al-jazeera live from london still to come boeing's chief executive is

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welcome back as a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera the iraqi military says one person has been killed after a rocket was fired into baghdad's heavily fortified green zone at the nearby scenic bridge at least one person has been killed as thousands of demonstrators that fire curfew to continue anti-government protests there's been fighting between government troops and turkish forces in northeast syria comes less than 24 hours after of that line that ankara set for kurdish troops to leave border town. u.s. media are reporting that the former white house national security advisor john bolton has been asked to testify in inquiry into president donald trump bolton has reportedly been asked to appear next week. and the pentagon has released new

video and images of the u.s. military operation that killed of the leader of i so i like that the in northwest syria to get the details from alan fischer in washington d.c. as so allan what have we learned from what the pentagon has released. well of course donald trump said he would like to release some of the video what we saw was taken from above you see american troops on the ground you see them confronting a number of people in the compound the operation was given the go ahead at 9 am eastern time on saturday morning by central command that's 13 g.m.t. we know found out that the staging area for this was actually in syria itself the troops took an hour and a helicopter to get to the compound and then they started their operation they called in a number of people to give up and hand themselves over 3 at least 6 people did not do that for women and 2 men including baghdad himself and of course they were

killed they have also adjusted the number of children in the tunnel where baghdad they went they say there was only 2 children there both of them under the age of 12 when baghdadi detonated his suicide vest killing himself and those 2 children they also are told is that there was a white van that appeared with full of armed fighters though they're not sure whether these were i saw supporters they think that it's highly unlikely but people who saw the military operation underway decided to move towards the helicopters that were on the ground and they were taken by american soldiers how many we don't exactly know as the americans say they're not going to go back and check but they think somewhere in the region of 10 to 15 and then we saw the before and after pictures of the compound where the u.s. military essentially raise the area to the ground they said they didn't want it to become a shrine what was interesting when general kenneth mckenzie was giving his briefing he was asked if donald trump's characterization of the final moments of baghdad

were correct where he died crying and whimpering he said he had no knowledge of that that might be simply that hasn't spoken to the teams on the ground but certainly no one seems to be corroborating what donald trump said but certainly the americans believe that this was an important operation significant and the death of baghdad it will disrupt i sold for a short time although as general mackenzie said it is an ideology they can't wipe it out. ellen fisher with the latest on that from washington d.c. alan thank you boeing's chief executive has admitted that the company made mistakes in the development of a key safety system that a small emberg faced the 2nd day of questions from u.s. politicians he's testifying to the house transportation and infrastructure committee 2 of the companies 737 max 8 jets crashed in a 6 month period killing more than 300 people were limburg acknowledged some issues

in the development of an anti stall system that automatically pushed the plane's nose down leaving pilots fighting for control john hendren has more now from boeing international headquarters in chicago it was 2 days of intense grilling for the chief executive officer of boeing company and it happened 1st in the senate then in the house on what was the one year anniversary of the 1st of $2737.00 max flights that crashed killing a total of 346 people in the criticism was harsh one senator said he would rather walk than take the plane another like in the plane to flying coffins and dennis miller the c.e.o. of boeing had to answer for a text exchange in which a test pilot said that the plane's problems were a green juice and then said that he essentially lied to regulators apologized and said the company had made mistakes but that did not stop heated exchanges like this one so you're saying you're not giving up any compensation at all you're continue

to work and make $30000000.00 a year after this well if it's 2 accidents that caused all these people relatives to go home to disappear to die you're not taking your cock pay at all. you know our board will make those terminator not accountable you're saying the board's accountable boeing says it has already made software fixes to its flight automation system that would prevent crashes like those that happened but the question now is will the company face intense regulation from now on some senators and members of congress say it should this was after all a plane in which many parts were certified by boeing officials and on capitol hill many people are now asking why. facebook says it has suspended 3 networks of russian accounts to try to interfere in the domestic politics of a number of african countries the accounts were tied to a russian businessman who has been accused of meddling in past us elections

campaign started people in 8 nations including mozambique democratic republic of congo and libya almost 200 fake accounts were used to reach more than 1000000 followers. well the echo him is a solicitor specializing in internet law and social media a joins us now in the studio thank you so much for being with us what's your reaction to this story because of course isn't the 1st on the facebook is that it facebook often suspends accounts for whatever reason it chooses but what do you read what's your reaction to this one it is a very interesting story because facebook. thinking about 66 the different facebook accounts completely on the move to bases they. b.c. information and misinformation however when it comes to say. fake news in relation to 2. things the.

group. of people such as vaccination for example plays big very strong stands in relation to the only thing that facebook does is look we know going to be. do you judge of all of what is true for information and well it's interesting i mean clearly said that for example a few days ago it was not facebook's position to decide in fact check on political advertising so in in that sense they are pulling back saying you know we do not want to or cannot put ourselves in that position but then they obviously do sense a confusion at the heart of facebook as to what their role actually is and whether they can actually perform it the same to be a lack of coherent policy a lack of transparency people will be wondering why you banning those account instead of say for example demoting them all or not promoting ellis was granting some accounts is one thing stopping political advertising might be

a source of income and i say that because actually in the past hour or so we heard from twitter now twitter now saying they will no longer allow political ads on the platforms and jack dorsey the c.e.o. of twitter announced that obviously there's a financial aspect to all of this isn't it because facebook and twitter both get a lot of money from ads what do you make of twitter going one way and facebook seemingly another difficulty for facebook of course is that the one hand facebook is saying we're going to be fighting fake news and we're going to be fighting misinformation on the other hand facebook is saying when it comes to political advertising we just going to turn a blind eye we don't care about it because we have to be you know being paid for it what twitter resetting today is saying regular remained. true to our principles and we are just not going to accept anything that but so d.c. think it's a financial situation because of course they get paid for ads or do you think at the heart of it is also perhaps a recognition that this is

a huge task in deciding 2 you know what is fake what is not i mean it's politics you know sometimes it's hard to figure out exactly where that line is i mean is it a financial issue or do you think there's also recognition that these companies just aren't set up for him it's. refused from the very very beginning to be a judge of facts of what truth the policy was from the very beginning you can post whatever you want we know going to interfere with anything you do and twitter cannot then accept political odds knowing they some of the material that is being posted there is fake untrue or misinformation so what we've been saying in the law it is in our interests to remain true to our principles and show people that we are still going to be judges of of of of information and even if it means that it's going to the pockets in the short term so just a final point a bit of a more general question where do you think we go from here i mean how do you.