i mean what's happening today is that the banks are to prove them are cared for which is a really correct i think it's the right thing to do because you are you live in a troubled country in a troubled region you cannot really open up in the us if we are in business as usual so what's being done is prudent it's not comparable and what mr baker what needs to happen next you know with the number of challenges economic challenges that the government is facing any one any government that send power and the people want to technocratic government i mean how how does it go about addressing the challenges one of the biggest priorities. well the most important parity is to get back confidence to get back on for those who need to have people as are the public trusts and their own is a small country people know each other quite well so whenever you set up in your government people don't know already if those people are good or not good so

hopefully we'll have we'll get a good one in that case we have a budget which has been centers of parliament that budget has to be approved by the parliament it could be also to $55.00 modified plus you need to implement many reforms you know in lebanon we have got upset and we are on one of the most corrupt that country in the earth if you go by that that in spite of the index you feel that absorbed bottom of corruption in lebanon is very difficult to solve however we haven't even tried to solve that so it has been increasing lately and when corruption is including people are not at ease and what is going whatever you do to them and you are going to be happy so you need to start fighting corruption or you i don't believe we can really eliminate corruption it's not possible but they believe that you can robert it by 20 percent 30 percent maybe 50 percent and this has not been that idea so on the one hand grow always about should implement the reforms which is the requested by is the see the conference and then implement laws

or courts to fight corruption to try corrupted officers and i haven't you know we have not that i've caught up to the pressure here this is all of course so much harder said the dharma mr baker thank you very much for your time on this we do appreciate it that is louise have bacon live in beijing thank you for that or. now we have plenty more ahead of the news hour including fears of aftershocks in the philippines are thousands were displaced by a powerful earthquake. how's us in the line of fire thousands of folks trying their homes in the u.s. state of california plus. i'm paul reese in yokohama way. england will take on south africa in the ripley world cup final in a match that could take the sport far beyond its traditional heartlands.

now bracks a party leader nigel farage has promised to help boss johnson when the u.k. election but only if johnson abandons has what the troll day in with the european union for aaj says the deal forces the u.k. to continue following some e.u. rules he's threatening to run candidates and every season against the conservative party if the agreement isn't dropped on the backs of party wants to leave the e.u. without a deal he inherited mrs may's appalling surrender treaty and he did it with the clock running down to the 31st of october and i don't doubt for a moment that he tried his best to improve this baps the one significant achievement was that great britain is not committed to being in the customs union but the price of that was appalling let's go now to our correspondent named bach and he's joining us live from london for coming out fighting launching the election campaign.

he certainly is he certainly laying down the gauntlet for boris johnson to really understand what's going on here you need a bit of context to break that party was formed only earlier this year in january by nigel farrar the former head of the u.k. independence party for just being at the center of the brakes at debate from the start he's been a thorn in the side of multiple prime ministers but earlier this year the party did very very well in european parliamentary elections the party won more seats than all of the established political parties but for ours knows the european parliamentary election is very different to a general election which is why he's come up with this plan as you said there he's promised that candidates will not stand in all of the countries various constituencies providing that johnson scrap says deal that for are described as being like a used car shining hour but likely to break down later the logic of that is that it will avoid dividing the brics it votes it will allow boys johnson to hold on to

perhaps his hopes of getting a majority without it being a road by the brics that party approaches also suggesting a non-aggression pact he's he wants the conservative party not to stand in 150 seats where the conservatives have never won for others believes that his party will do better particularly in seats that are now in opposition labor party control where the majority of people there voted to leave the e.u. well johnson has until november the 14th to consider all of this the conservative party have repeatedly said that they wouldn't enter into any kind of pact with the brics that party johnson is confident he can afford to be complacent. yet would be interesting to see wanted neither if the conservatives do consider what foreign saying as as you say yourself you know johnson seems pretty pretty confident that's why he called the palm. yes absolutely of course we're into campaigning

season now already so he has to look confident even jeremy corbyn is coming out kicking and fighting and is adamant that there definitely will be a labor win even though the polls suggest that the labor party aren't doing particularly well at the moment but saying all of that it's a gamble for boris johnson he knows he needs a big comfortable majority in parliament to get his breakfast deal done the arithmetic is all off at the moment johnson is currently the head of a minority government he's a comfortable when to make sure his deal could be passed in parliament before the new e.u. deadline of january 31st but what he's essentially done here is given the country an election before honoring his promise to leave the you on october 31st yesterday guess what we're still in the e.u. today on november the 1st and that may annoy and for straight some hardline euro skeptics people that want to have left the by now who may now decide to punish

boris johnson at the polls they thank you for that need by him with the natives live in london now donald trump is being accused of interfering in the u.k. the next in campaign the main opposition leader jeremy corbin says the us president is trying to get his friend bars johnson elected as a trump spoke on british radio. call it would be so bad for your country he'd be so buried take you in such a bad way he'd take you in just such bad places. now turkish and russian troops have started joint patrols in northeast and syria follows a day in between the 2 countries to remove kurdish y p g fighters from the area where the cycle safe saw an encore of wants to create ones along the turkish syrian border that extends about 30 kilometers into the syrian side the russian and texas joint patrols went on about 10 kilometers day all along the border from droplets to mali kenya well let's go now to our correspondent he's joining us live from shannon

from near the turkish syrian border and what have you been hearing about how the 1st day of the joint patrols have gone. is almost over now with no major problems of the row the joint patrols have been through different areas. of us ally and we're talking about an area that's freshest from us l.a. and all the way to old mallock heal the border with iraq and the able of this joint patrols is to ensure that the white goods u.s. is the be armed group within the us the it has withdrawn from the safe zone is going to be a delicate task for all the parties this other same time as we speak a russian military delegation in qatar to negotiate the terms of the joint patrols of the woods because this is a very critical. over the last few days there's been there have been clashes around

a line and also tell taba there are concerns that any of friction between the turkish military and the syrian that could pave the way to a full blown ministry confrontation and when we heard from syrian president bashar al assad he is not happy about takings and evolvement in syria and he had a warning for ticky. he didn't mince his words when he was talking about turkish president but as of the other don't throw in all sorts of accusations at him saying that he's an invader that his b. is embezzling there was sources or syria particularly in north northern part of the country to the point where both president assad. retaliation to the point where his servants were even ready for war if the turkish mrs decides to stay longer in the area listeners sent to what they had to say. the syrian land is wide and the

theater of operations is wanted from the far south to the far north the turk is the american agent in this war we were fighting this turkey everywhere and whenever it struggled to do what it wanted with it left no option but war this is obvious but i say we will need to keep open the opportunity for the political process in all its forms and if it didn't produce results then we consider them an enemy and who will get to war there is no other option for that frustration in the statement of president bashar al assad is because the safe zone that has been implemented was the turkish government wants to be implemented along the border with syria is going to create a huge problems in the near future for the syrian government it means that the syrian army won't be able to take advantage of this situation and further expand its influence some of the territory he lost since 2011 and this is why. it has been reiterating that if that status quo holds his government would be left

with only one option which is to take action to try to recapture the northeastern part of the country including it live which is the rebels last stronghold in syria finishing banking for that but over the latest live and i thank you. now we are in algeria where protesters a back on the streets for the 37th friday in a row and the rallies appear larger they started much earlier the country's marking its anniversary of the start of the uprisings against french colonialism. now thousands of people who say they're fed up of pakistan's government have been demonstrating on the streets of the capital a convoy dominated by supporters of a conservative opposition party entered islam above on thursday demanding prime

minister iran can resign the group left karachi on sunday picking up more supporters as they stopped in several cities along the way they say khan has been fulfilled his promise of strengthening the economy. a son of a job that has moved from islamabad tens of thousands of people from across pakistan have gathered in the friendly capital which is being called the largest show force in recent years these are people who belong to old political parties who are in the opposition and most of them belong to a lot of other amongst followers who've been coming here from all corners of the country they say that they will stay here for the next 3 days until the prime minister resigns 60 strict security arrangements have been made in the federal capital the red zone is being sealed containers all over the federal capital and are blocking roads and access ways and people have been telling us but despite all of these all of these blockades they will march to words the credit happened to

word the seat of power if their leader us them to so far for the room on the credit who's leading this protest called the march of freedom arch wants the government to resign he says he will not budge unless he gets the resignation that we've heard from the government saying that this is out of the question the interior minister saying that he will facilitate all protests as long as they remain peaceful and do not disrupt the peace of the city security officials here in this march have been telling us for about 18 kilometers this is hundreds and thousands of people who according to organizers are gathered here and then continue to stay there for the next 3 days and wait for the orders from their leader whether he wants them to march towards the seat of capital the president column of which have been blocked not just by containers but a large contingent of security officials as well. a public health emergency has been declared and the indian capital new delhi because of high pollution levels all

schools in the capital have been ordered to close on to next week and construction activity has been temporarily banned addition particles in the air have reached 9 times the recommended level a small from 5 accept off during the festival of the valley along with the un in cross from neighboring states have pushed the air quality and tax and to the severe category. now a day after the southern philippines was struck by by a powerful earthquake well people are worried about aftershocks the magnitude 6.5 quake struck on thursday killing at least 5 people about 12000 to staying in shelters in the island of mindanao and there was another earthquake on friday off the southern coast but not reports of injuries or damage has more from north korea . we are outside this chick hospital of town in north of the province where the situation is clearly difficult the devastation of the building brought about by the series of earthquake this month has forced doctors to attend to

patients right outside the hospital and they're very difficult conditions extreme heat and basically according to doctors there's a shortage of medicine and water here there's stockpiles of medicine have been stuck inside that pharmacy and they have no way of getting it for now they say they need help because the situation is getting even more difficult with hourly aftershocks and more patients coming in and. most of the patients here are old people and some of them even tell us they were not able to run fast enough when the earthquake struck many of them are being treated for minor injuries here and those with serious injuries have been brought to the city the biggest city closest to north about the province and beyond the immediate need of medical food and water patients you tell us they're also worried about the long term impact of this earthquake many of them have lost their homes and their livelihood and they're

hoping for a promise from the government of assistance beyond just now this week also but in the coming years to come for them. now strong dry winds have eased in the u.s. state of california given crews a chance to get on top of wildfires that have destroyed homes and forced thousands of people to flee and elec tricity has largely been restored after cuts were imposed to prevent more flare ups priyanka got the reports. this is what walk up the terrified residents of san bernardino in southern california. so out there. it's one of the 2 due wildfires in the area that have in cost homes and forced hundreds of people out to escape the roaring flames our neighbor over here they came back door. here today. but anyway here here's the.

thing and then the fire department came up and he was right. my neighbor. said you got to go get out of here. for ours far far to struggles against strong wind gusts to stop the fire from spreading in fact andrew by valley by thursday morning the blaze has spread across 140 hector's of tended dry land local authorities are asking people here to stay alert i want to remind people stay. you know through the window and roll hard right now at least where we're but you go up on the thought of a hill or up in the areas the winds are very erratic so please stay vigilant. in northern california there was some good news hundreds of firefighters there were able to control 60 percent of a major blaze that's been raging since last wednesday. that came good fire is the

biggest so far this season it's destroyed nearly $300.00 homes and properties and burned thousands of hectares of land in the sonoma county wine region the dry santa ana winds from the desert happen blamed for spreading the wildfires across the state winds so dry that the national weather service had to issue an extreme red flag warning in los angeles and ventura counties. al-jazeera. and it's time for the weather with kevin kevin stashing with more on the big snow storm in the u.s. that's right we've been dealing with the fires but on the other end of the spectrum we are dealing with a major storm that has been moving across the central plains the midwest and now we're talking about the current canadian maritimes ontario as well as into parts of québec this is a snow storm right now making its way towards north in this area all the way back to parts of iowa we saw anywhere between $20.23 sentiment of the snow because of

that storm and we're still going to get quite a bit here behind the system we are dealing with a lot of cold air where you see this area of high pressure that is where we're seeing temperatures well below average for this time of year of course we're still dealing with in this area of california critical fire risk today but as we go towards tomorrow things are going to be improving and of course up towards the north things have already been improving in that area but i want to show you some video that has come out of the area of parts of mexico because we haven't talked about the mexico while far as very often as well they're still dealing with while far as near to one a homes have been destroyed a lot of areas of agriculture have been destroyed as well they're getting a hold of it but they don't have the resources that we do in the united states to deal with these but they will also be getting a reprieve in their weather as well in terms of those temperatures take a look at this we are dealing with temperatures well into the teens as we go towards friday and as we go towards friday morning we're looking at temperatures into the below freezing temperatures here across much of the northern plains back

to you thank you very much kevin now still ahead on the news hour protests quite a facade of reforms in chile have left the government with a belly and don a fellow. and decades old trees falling in sierra leone as its cash strapped government tries to replace the lost mining backing you. and nation's fortune be able to tell you by train as a nervous for the hostile safety ahead of the greatest car. the only thing the prime minister. mission is to do the british on the 31st of all turned out and making this country the greatest place all of britain's departure is delayed but for how long followed the drama of bricks it on al-jazeera is a popular filming location in france when it comes to stories about drugs crime and

radicalization tired of negative stereotypes youth worker it's managerial it's reclaiming its image by putting its young brazilian behind the camera. the stories be don't often hear told by the people who the put them in the news what this is your read on al-jazeera.

it's good to have you with us on the al-jazeera news alan these are our top stories the pressure is growing on the u.s. president as another white house aide is expected to testify and the impeachment problem on friday on thursday the democratic majority house of representatives voted to formalize the rules of the investigation after weeks of protests and roadblocks across lebanon schools and banks have reopened their doors and the customers are angry about the limits imposed on how much money they can withdraw every day meanwhile protesters are continuing their calls for the entire government to resign. and sounds of people protesting against pakistan's government in the capital a convoy dominated by supporters of a conservative opposition party entered his lama bob on thursday demanding a minister in iran can resign to iraq now where the president has promised to hold early elections and says prime minister left and resign but only once a replacement is agreed protest as a still protests rather ongoing and baghdad study your square large crowds of

people gathered on thursday night more than 200 people have been killed in weeks of violent anti-government protests let's go to our correspondent natasha going to him who has been covering the protests for she's live in poverty square which has been occupied by protesters around the clock for a week now natasha what are they telling you how do they feel about the president's address. all right thank you very much stephen thank you both very sincere thank you fred roll music and dancing i don't think. there is. a lot of groceries. there. 2 for you. yet right minister he will step down but only once there is no

time frame was given as to what that would in no information was given that's just who would select its successor he also said yes like she's built but only wants a new election instructed and election committee stored to get no time frame was given but did say that a draft of a new election would be presented to parliament next week protesters have used the following our objectives to describe their reaction to the speech you saw. i joke and disappointing. and no doubt natasha they're not happy about the number of people killed 250 people killed 5500 injured since the protests began a month ago yet the government to saying that they haven't used excessive force at least you know the last week of protests. exactly the government has been saying that excessive force has not been used in fact the head of the people

eastern man here in baghdad has said not a single bullet has been fired since this 2nd wave of protests began a week ago but just yesterday 4 2 people died in baghdad more than 300 were injured according to the iraqi human rights commission and a lot of these injuries we're hearing and are links to tear gas now in the city international has released a report saying quote iraqi security forces were ruling that military grade tear gas grenades that are designed to again quote kill not disperse crowds the report says that these tear gas canisters arts and science more potent than the typical ones and that they are being aimed directly at the heads and bodies of protesters and elizabeth i can tell you from talking to people that is exactly what protesters have been alleging for the last week they've been showing us who's on their hands their legs and their heads re spoke to

a representative or spoke rather of the right minister he says that they are aware of the. route and sent 2 weapons experts and they will make a statement when they're ready for it natasha thank you for that amount that's not a good name live and baghdad thank you. now almost $1500.00 people have been killed since the libyan war a half the launched an attack on the capital tripoli in april or fighters have come from across the country to stop half those forces entering the city they say they got rid of one dictator in 2011 and they can't let a military ruler take control of the country without the reports from tripoli. these government fighters are on high alert in southern tripoli. we went with them as they drove to the frontline they recaptured this area after battling the fighters loyal to the warlord really for have to cause loyalists have now fled the

area. but the sounds of his warplanes can still be heard in the sky this detachment came from the western the coastal city of sober odds are to defend to tripoli mohammed ali says have there is a replica of a mammal gadaffi. and no cause is the cause of all 3 libyans who rejected tighter ship and a totalitarian regime that we just want a civilian state this is what we have been fighting for since 20. have those forces moved on tripoli back in april according to them to rid the capital of armored groups. forces loyal to the you and recognize the government have resisted the attempt to take over this checkpoint in the vicinity of the old airport was hit immediately before we arrived here 3 of mohammad's fighters were killed in the attack those who survived say it's

a foreign war plane the airstrike was so powerful it tore apart the bodies of the fighters civilians and cars are not allowed to move further beyond this checkpoint for their safety. could also be targeted from the air has their faces opposition from fighters both in tripoli and in other libyan cities all want to stop the war imposing a military rule across the whole country for many though the battle is more personal and immediate they're fighting to save their land and their families here in their rest a location the fighters take a break but for getting a longer bloody day is not easy with a fork or form of iraq and we want the government to provide us with an air defense system an advanced weapons and demand the un s e to impose a no fly zone if that happens we can defeat have terrorist forces in a matter of days their ground forces are not very strong but they have foreign

fighter jets. since the beginning of the fighting have to as warplanes have been targeting many locations in and around tripoli including residential areas and many civilians have been killed or wounded the forces from sobrante say they will continue no matter what it takes but with no restrictions to prevent to have to as warplanes launching attacks from the sky it's likely that a battle will go on for some time and would have to hit tripoli. the u.s. is imposing new sanctions on iran this time targeting its construction sector the state department is accusing a revolutionary guards what it considers a terrorist organization of being involved in the industry that's also identified for materials it says have been used in advance of a stick missile program and has issued an embargo on their trade for now china's government says the damage caused by 2 weeks of unrest has surpassed

a $1000000000.00 and $2.00 major international summits due to be held in santiago have been cancelled despite a 2 day public holiday the demonstrations for social reforms are continuing a latin america editor lucien newman reports from santiago. but 3 said the lalla nectars fernandes are locking up their hardware store in downtown santiago after taking out everything with saving. the. little we had in the store but there hasn't been a single day without looting we've lost 60 percent of our income. we have commitments bills taxes and salaries to pay i don't know how we'll manage. until 2 weeks ago chile was the envy of the region home to the so-called chilean economic miracle. but an explosion of social unrest has changed all that. while most demonstrations are peaceful who did an extremely violent groups all over the country have been burning and pillaging private and public property. that includes this emblematic

public library that was just ransacked. until now the vandals have respected our center but yesterday they went too far they took the books and everything. the damage so far has well surpassed a $1000000000.00 according to the government tourism is also being devastated and not just because of the cancellation of the crop $25.00 and the apec summit which would upon millions of dollars into the economy. in this area for example downtown shops have been burned down even no hotel seriously damaging to its reputation as that america's safest and homeless country. many shopping centers and hundreds of damaged supermarkets remain shut along with small businesses all of which will impact jobs. for a very large percentage over because the police.

employ the would reflect people so the government will have to take very serious measures. congress has in fact passed a bill at lightning speed freezing electricity prices until the end of next year and obliging the power companies to reverse a 10 percent tariff hike that when to do effect this month. it won't be enough to appease the widespread demands for profound social and economic reforms but to many it's proved that their politicians will only listen when they are under extreme pressure. you see in human scent. now hundreds of people have gathered at the international monetary fund building and one aside as demanded the organization live. protest as the government to spend money addressing poverty instead of paying the country's debts argentina is facing a deepening economic crisis at a record $57000000000.00 to the i.m.f.

. more and more people are taking to the streets they are mobilizing because there is no work and there is more and more hunger here in argentina we say that money does not have to be paid to the i.m.f. banks and capitalists should pay the debt and not the working people. bolivia's president even what arias has called for a truce with his political opponents as election results undergo an international order that the organization of american states is checking the result which saw my goddess win a controversial 4th term sparking riots throughout the country the street violence left 2 people dead and several others injured. now hong kong protesters have taken advantage of how to win to defy a ban on wearing mosques demonstrations were held in a busy party district but police using shields and tear gas to disperse crowds anti-government demonstrators have been protesting against a ban on face coverings at rallies which came into effect in.