by 2030 pounds of the cost of al-jazeera. protesters demanding the overthrow of lebanon's political elite pool back into the streets in beirut hours after a counter rally in support of the president. taylor says al-jazeera live from london also coming up. iraqi protesters blocked roads in baghdad to increase the pressure on that government to resign. but it seems in hong kong after a man attacked several people with a knife and bites of politicians if during protests in

a shopping mall. and fixed toxic small develops india's capital with pollution levels the worst so far this year. i know thousands of protesters from both sides of the political divide have been out in the streets across lebanon rallying for and against the government demonstrations calling for an overthrow of the ruling elite who are out in large numbers into the evening in the capital beirut where this hours after supporters of the president staged a mass counter-rally near the presidential palace just outside the city and a honda has more from beirut. it's high political establishment protesters are back to close roads they believe that this is the only way to maintain the pressure on the ruling elite to resign a few days ago they agreed to leave the streets after the prime minister's. as

submitted his resignation but now people here believe those in power are progressed in that they should have by now created a technocrat government which will prepare for early elections but those that man's have not been met those in power they've been in power for 30 years are unlikely to meet these demands because it means giving up the power that they have enjoyed over these years so back to closing roads but the lebanese army and the security forces are also in the streets but i can tell you people here are uncompromising and demanding demanding a new change in leadership but at the same time there is another street in the country the other street is defending those in power. they turned out in large numbers to send the message to those trying to topple the ruling elite supporters of president michel came from across the country and converged outside the presidential palace in beirut suburbs a show of force but also

a call for cooperation. there are too many protest squares the situation must not turn against each other or protest against each other we do a road map with 3 points corruption the economy and a civic nation there your rights so that's why we need to communicate with you and agree and put efforts together people here say they too are asking for reforms and an end to corruption but unlike the anti-establishment protest movement they are defending their leaders the president's son in law foreign ministers. gave no indication he is leaving office he is a divisive figure who has been accused of corruption overstepping his powers and exploiting lebanon tarion structure for political ends. let us not block the road in front of us with demands that are impossible to achieve today because you'll speed up the financial collapse. priorities to delay

that collapse and maybe prevent it. mainly sectarian parties still come out to support the $4000000.00 people but the street is divided and public squares and cities across the country anti-government protesters are uncompromising lebanese from all sects have been coming together and the crowds chant the same slogan all of them means all of them they are rejecting the entire political class. so-called october revolution is now in its 3rd week the revolt against politicians who have been in power for 30 years has not lost momentum public pressure has reshuffled power the prime minister sato had d.d. resigned last week but he could return to office as part of a deal politicians seem to be putting together and what they seem to be discussing are shares and divisions in the old practice and perhaps maybe just maybe thinking about do we give this so-called civil society 2 or 3 state seeds to come down the

street but the problem is what you hear here when you talk to people is we want a coherent independent competent government the major resource these people want is proving difficult to achieve and no one knows how long the political standoff will last it's a dangerous stalemate lebanon's economy on the brink of collapse much needed economic forum's reforms need to be enacted but you can't do that without a government and it's not just that if the ruling coalition those in power decide to clamp down on this movement it will be very difficult because using excessive force would definitely be condemned by the international community who's really their eyes have been on lebanon on western countries providing support to the lebanese army so the lebanese army the ruling coalition they're in a bind they know what they're up against a street which is uncompromising but at the same time it's not clear if they are going to take escalatory measures themselves and. order to end this movement.

protesters have blocked streets and lit fires throughout their rocky capitol in an effort to raise the pressure on the country's leaders to resign iraq's prime minister to them to reopen the roads saying it's time for life to return to normal he's promised to step down but only if her replacement can be found and the president says a promised new election all will go to parliament this week and to her name reports from baghdad. protesters set fires erected barricades and even lay down in the road at intersections in central and eastern baghdad as the work week began the roadblocks created traffic jams across the capital preventing people from getting to work some government offices and businesses were forced to close the normal club by we have one demand which is employees join so it is just our costs they can participate by staying at home but we want all the government ministries to stop operating we can all unite we all want people here in

tahrir square which has become the epicenter of the protests there were signs that people are settling in for the long haul this burned out skyscraper has been occupied since the 2nd wave of anti-government protests began more than a week ago from the upper floors protesters can see the square in the bridge below leading to the green zone where security forces are positioned this was built during the saddam hussein here up there was one thing this restaurant on top and one of its neat thing it has been abandoned since 2003 when it was gone during the u.s. led invasion now it's become an iconic landmark of the un president and protests volunteers are trying to prevent this building from becoming a garbage dump we are here to clean this place and say here's where we know many people were killed here and the same people that know me so this is

a place to be it leaves it's kind of all the place. well stuff i'm sally is a university student and volunteer he says he knows being here is dangerous but this is a revolution what i'm going to do after graduation there's no jobs so this is this golden age of skill you like like this dust and there. we are we are just like people's albinus no one no one mill no one know that there is people here have dreams want to do things in their lives to sally and other protesters say they feel proud for their role in what they regard as a historic moment they're not following or answering to anyone in their eyes they're all leaders natasha going to name al-jazeera baghdad.

a man wielding a knife has attacked several people in hong kong including a pro-democracy politician who had part of his ear bitten off and a district councillor was attacked by the man as he tried to stop him leaving a shopping mall inquiry bay saillant slashed several people before a group restrained him and beat him up no one media say 5 people were injured 2 of whom are in critical condition earlier right but a storm several shopping malls in a crackdown on pro-democracy protesters calls were put out online urging demonstrators to gather in different locations around the city but he say they moved into the malls to disperse crowds after protests as fantasize shops and threw paint is the latest tactic used by demonstrators who've been calling for political change for 5 months. in pakistan the opposition's midnight deadline for the prime minister to resign has passed with no response tens of thousands of demonstrators led by a conservative cleric are in the capital islamabad to put pressure on iran can they

say the government is illegitimate and propped up by the military push us to be led by maulana fazlullah raman is a longtime rival of qom from ohio to has more from islamabad so the pressure is still on the government but the government on the other hand rejecting that there martin all of the protests and of course. bring the resignation of the prime minister a 3rd will be important to see what happens within the next 24 the leader of the well i don't follow them on i'd already say that he may. go or nearer to parliament square or he may move the road there farther down the road which of course were complicate matters because it will bring them ready closer to the red zone and that of course is the red line. air pollution in and around india's capital has reached its worst level so far this year most areas in new delhi are engulfed in smoke with air quality index passing the 999 mark 500 is classed as severe plus experts say

it's the equivalent of smoking between $40.50 cigarettes a day and i pods are complaining of sore eyes and throat but some wearing masks to protect themselves low visibility is also disrupted flights officials have already declared a public health emergency and ordered schools to close the i'm going to move it suffocated and we feel like coffin we forded a lot showers will make the weather better and the pollution level will improve but it doesn't feel like it yet when they got the. power from breathing issues pollution is also putting us on the mental pressure it's not winter so stiffly not far walking around with masts on a menu in a couple bianco is the director of health and care at the international federation of the red cross it says the health implications of inhaling the toxic air can be severe or lucian also has long term consequences are equally

poor people who are already exposed to marry so the reason increased risk or. risk for cancer lung cancer and also increased risk or car parks in stroke so air pollution is indeed. risk or. people are equally were children and adults. another 2 soldiers have been killed in mali the latest in a string of attacks against the army they died when their vehicle hit an x. improvised explosive device near the central town of bendigo or 6 others were injured in the blast and follows an eyesore tack on friday in the eastern minako region that killed at least $53.00 soldiers and a civilian a french soldier also died in the same region on saturday after his armored vehicle hit a roadside bomb. so to come this half hour my phone call was perfect and there were challenges says the whistleblower response pain patient inquiry should

be revealed because they gave false information. and an indigenous warrior who helped protect the amazon rain forest in brazil is shot dead by illegal now those. hello again it's good to have you back but we have seen some much needed rain to out here across parts of southeastern australia you can see the weather system that is pushing through right now bringing that rain and we are going to still see some more rain here on monday anywhere from sydney all the way down here towards melbourne even hobart and that will help a little bit in terms of the drought situation there as we go from monday to tuesday that sort of system pushes into the tasman sea we're going to get a little break from the rain and the winds are still going to be a little bit gusty along the south and we're going to see those temperatures coming down as well so for melbourne $1000.00 degrees few for city at 20 but for some

parts of person it is still going to be quite warm with a temper there of 31 degrees while it's been quite nice here for the north in the south island of new zealand that is going to continue here on monday but that same weather system causing all the problems in australia while that is coming over here towards the east and as we go from monday and into tuesday we're going to see more rain pushing into parts of the south island in for christ church that means more rain clouds as well as winds 21 as your expected high but for auckland still quite nice with a temperature of 22 degrees there and over here across parts of japan it is going to be clearer but it is going to be cooler over the next few days for tokyo expect to see 1000 degrees here on monday but by the time get to say it is going to be 17 with the soka at 20. when say to really know someone you must walk a mile in their shoes. follow in their footsteps as they forge their way

in the was. al jazeera shares these personal journey. inspiring stories of people perseverance on their chosen path. witness documentaries on al-jazeera. from one of the top stories here knowledge 0 thousands of protesters returned to the main square in beirut calling for politicians from all sides to stand down this hours after thousands more rallied in support of the president. in iraq protesters have been starting fires and directing barricades in central baghdad demanding the

government resign but the prime minister has told them to leave. and in hong kong a man wielding a knife is injured 5 people and bitten off part of the ear of a pro-democracy politician during a protest in a shopping center. the whistleblower who prompted an impeachment inquiry into u.s. president donald trump has offered to answer questions from the house intelligence committee those leading the investigation trump has repeatedly called for the on named official to be revealed the house of representatives is due to begin public hearings this month after several weeks of closed door testimony trump is accused of threatening to withhold military aid to ukraine unless it's investigated his democratic rival joe biden or trump says members of the media know who the whistleblower is and the individuals are dead needs to be revealed. the whistleblower gave a very inaccurate report about my phone call my phone call was perfect it was

totally appropriate but he gave the report he or she but according to the newspapers is that he they think they know they know who it is you know you just don't want to report it the whistleblower. should be revealed because the whistleblower gave false stories so people would go oh the fraud i won't go that far but. when i read it closely i probably would. and joins us live from washington d.c. the president sticking to fairly familiar lines that. that's right the president is running his own war room he doesn't have what traditionally would happen in the white house that would be a group of people who have gotten together for the purpose of running the war room his press secretary says he is the war room and he's following certain rules one of them is that he always uses the same language to talk about his conversation with

the ukrainian president he says was perfect in this case he changed it to spanish and said perfecto but that does a couple of things that it prevents him from saying anything more that might contradict himself also it seems to adhere to this principle he has that if you keep saying something that people will believe it so we offered a few criticisms there he said that the whistleblower he thinks he knows who it is that if so it is a partisan person and never trump or we don't know that and this call and republicans have joined in on it to get out the whistleblower and to identify who it is violates not just a fundamental principle that you protect whistleblowers it also violates the u.s. law on whistleblowers which says that they must be protected so the president is using very similar language here in congress meanwhile is trying to parse out exactly what happened in that transaction it appears on the record on the partial transcript that says the president asked the ukrainian president for

a favor but congress has to connect the dots between the $400000000.00 that was withheld and this alleged favor that the president was asking for in vats where they're trying to get they're trying to look at people who can connect those dots so who should we expect to hear from. inquiry in the week ahead. well what's really interesting is who we're not expected to hear from there are a series of people in the office of management and budget who are apparently not going to testify and that's interesting because those are the people who actually had to physically withhold the money to ukraine there was one official who actually signed the document withholding the money crane his name is robert blair he is now deputy to mick mulvaney the acting chief of staff who of course ran the office of management and budget before he took his current job there's another guy bristle vaught who now runs that department he was supposed to testify on wednesdays we

have a series of people who have been asked to testify and who are apparently bonding together now that changes the trend that we've seen here national security council officials state department officials have gone before the house impeachment inquiry and told their story but now we also have john bolton the national security council adviser to the president former adviser has said that he will not appear without a subpoena so we're starting to see a little bit of cooperation apparently the president has been going around the white house complaining that people he calls his employees have been testifying against him before this inquiry and the rationale of the white house is that this is not yet a legitimate inquiry and therefore these people simply don't have to testify john 100 thank you very much a legal notice have ambushed and shot dead an indigenous brazil's amazon rain forest it's raised more concerns about the protection of the rain forests and its people on to president. victoria get reports. paolo paulino

quite a jar with prepared for the dangers he faced while protecting the amazon rain forest from illegal locusts so. i'm scared sometimes but we have to lift up our heads and act we're here fighting he was shot dead on friday in northern brazil a leader of the quite a tribe tweeted the territory has once again lost a forest guardian for defending our territory paolo paulino quite a charro was killed today in an ambush by locusts now is the time to bring an end to this institutionalized genocide. since president jaya both sonora took office at the start of this year he has dismantled environmental protection regulations opening the amazones mineral riches the commercial exploitation. and according to activists invasions of indigenous lands have increased by 150 percent the invasions and its hacks of indigenous lair have sought since paulson

orosius president wilson all right so all of this at the beginning of the year it's a combination essentially of the president's insane 3 rhetoric saying that you know . indigenous people in brazil have to assimilate that they have too much land excess. it's a combination of that and the fact that the environments when indigenous protection agencies have been absolutely got seat paolo paoli know quite a charro was part of a group which aims to protect the rain forest. we're protecting our land and the life on earth there is so much destruction of nature happening good trees with wood as hard as steel being cut down and taken away the government has refused to hire more environmental protection agents to stop illegal loggers indigenous brazilian say without the backing of the government the lifestyles and their lives are increasingly under threat victoria gate and be al jazeera. and israel has

given diplomats from el salvador 48 hours to leave the country it's a tit for tat move after assad ordered venezuela's diplomats out declaring president nicolas maduro his government in addition that under a new president now a book a way el salvador is one of 50 countries which recognize opposition leader 1.0 as venezuela's interim president of salvador's government says it will welcome a new venezuelan diplomats named by quite all. in mexico relatives of murdered wordage all missing women and girls have lodged through the capital to demand justice for them the procession was the final event of the 3 day long day of the dead festival families walk through the city carrying purple crosses inscribed with the names of dozens of victims 9 women a kills daily in mexico according to the u.n. . saudi arabia has begun the process of selling shares in the state run oil giant

are unco a small part of the firm will initially be listed on the kingdom's domestic stock exchange saudi arabia hopes it will raise billions of dollars to help rand fund crown prince mohammed bin salmond's plans for the future of the gulf state reports the world's most anticipated stock offering is happening after years of hype and several delays saudi aramco the world's largest oil producing firm is being listed on the double exchange in cheers are expected to be priced in december it's no ordinary oil company rob was the engine driving saudi arabia's economy. this these truly historic we are happy to announce our attention to this the saudi aramco company at the south the stock exchange market the i.p.o. is the centerpiece of crown prince mohammed until month vision 2030 and the stock offering is meant to bring in enough revenue to diversify the kingdom's economy. plans to list of the world's leading exchanges had to be scrapped because of

transparency requirement but there's still talk of an international offering after the internal listing in saudi arabia the ambitious crown prince sent out a 2 trillion dollar price tag to put that into context the world's most valuable company such as microsoft and apple stand it hard for what the prince wanted to have been so man appears to have swallowed a lure valuation instead of for the delaying the i.p.o. analysts believe probable and proven oil reserves can vary tremendously and for a listing up side of the kingdom would have to prove its reserves for foreign investors the biggest concern is about the safety of their investment in attack by yemen's who the rebels in september produced the company's oil production by half investors a cautious of saudi arabia's neighborhood with ice in pockets in the iraqi desert in the north and iran allied hutu rebels in the south a self-inflicted crisis with qatar in the east and brewing tension with iran in the strait of hormuz no one expected that or any other non-state actors could be

so successful. in disrupting the oil production that also had its impact on the lower euro. investors also have to consider the your pick to your anti corruption drive which is widely seen as a shakedown of wealthy saudis and also a journalist jamal khashoggi is gruesome killing which was linked directly to the crown prince of saudi arabia has tried to lure investors from asia to europe and from russia to the united states saudi arabia is reportedly still holding government to government meetings to attract investment from softened funds. industry experts believe much of the investment from the riyadh listing will come from the saudi families not foreign investors it's curious timing for such an i.p.o. with the reek outlook for oil prices a sluggish global economy and increased environmental awareness against the use of fossil fuels osama bin job aid are there. protesters have marched against the presence of sounding led forces on

a strategic yemeni island hundreds of people converged on the coalition headquarters on the island which lies in the gulf of aden off the somali coast there calling for the withdrawal of troops from the island. catalan separatists have been protesting outside the hotel where spanish king philippe will be staying when he visits barcelona on monday mccain and his family are traveling to the catalan regional capital after weeks of anti-government demonstrations his 14 year old daughter princess leno is expected to make a speech on monday in an effort to win back support for the world is in catalonia tensions are flared since cotton separatist leaders were given a lengthy jail sentences last month for their role in the region's failed independence. southeast asian leaders at a summit in thailand have delayed a deal that could create the world's largest free trade area it's hoped that a deal could reduce the impact of the u.s. china trade war but india has brought some new demands it's got highly reports from

bangkok. to kick off the aussie on some of the fifa president handed out these customized football shirts to the leaders of the 10 member association of southeast asian nations the bloc focuses on regional unity embracing each nation's individual culture but much of the focus recently has been on how nations outside are impacting r.c.m. . chinese premier league pitching spoke to the group's leaders several nations have territorial disputes with china and he welcomed progress in negotiations for a code of conduct in the south china sea beijing has been accused of delaying those talks for years while the built islands undisputed reefs in waterways critical to shipping and thought to have huge oil reserves underneath. indian prime minister narendra modi also met the leaders he did not mention the ongoing negotiations between 16 countries on a regional free trade deal known as our step there are reports that india has raised some concerns but some think

a deal is not far off but won't be agreed during this summit the fact is that the region needs this deal the symbolism of this deal would be enormous it would become the world's largest trading walk half of the world's population 40 percent of the global economy and this region is also going to become the center of gravity of course of global trade and that's something that would be good news for some nations that have been hurting under pressure from the ongoing us china trade war the u.s. downgraded its representation here at the summit compared to previous years sending the commerce secretary as the highest ranking member of the american delegation some see this is not only as an indication of the importance the trumpet ministration places on this region but also as an opportunity for china when all the leaders of the asia pacific you know related summits when they show up without the u.s. president counterpart is going to undermine u.s. interests and also the interests of the other countries in the region and that are

looking for a kind of a counterbalance to china. so the unity within r.c.n. might become more important than ever as nations outside the region jostle for influence scott heiler al-jazeera. top stories on. thousands of protesters on both sides of the political divide have taken to the streets across lebanon to rally for and against the government demonstrations calling for an overthrow of the ruling elite numbers in the capital that's came just hours after supporters of the president staged a mass counter-rally just outside the city center what has been. the end. established or that establishment movement is now in its 3rd week the so-called lebannon october revolution keeping up the momentum keeping up the pressure on the political elite to resign already the prime minister's not unhappy resigned last

week but what people here are demanding is for the president that house speaker of the parliament all to resign a technocrat government will take control for the transitional period and early elections to be held in iraq antigovernment protesters have started far as and block key roads in the latest demonstrations that the blazes cause traffic jams in baghdad on sunday morning it was most violent on saturday when security forces killed one protester and wounded more than 200 as they tried to clear them in the central to his square in pakistan the opposition's midnight deadline for the prime minister to resign as passed with no response tens of thousands of demonstrators led by a conservative cleric are in the capital islamabad to put pressure on iran can they say the government is illegitimate and propped up by the military at pollution in and around india's capital has reached its worst level so far this year most areas

in new delhi are engulfed in smoke where the air quality index passing the 999 mark 500 is classed as severe plus experts say it's the equivalent of smoking between 40 and 50 cigarettes a day locals have been complaining of sore eyes and fruits whistleblower who prompted an impeachment inquiry into us president donald trump has offered to answer questions from the house intelligence committee as leading the investigation trump has repeatedly called for the on name if i'm named official to reveal themselves trump was accused of threatening to withhold military aid to ukraine unless it investigated is democratic rival joe biden. there's a top stories do stay with us witness is coming up next life in a 5 story. tom notice there are we really don't believe the 2 state solution the do you still believe in the 2 state solution we listen to what i said was the park system would never start

a war i'm anti war we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter go to 0. as thoughtful. she do we want to take with them good job i'm told go to boy you go to stoke. but we've got. just a flood to choose just goes. just. you know a lot of good much just into not just just just when there's just. no no . one to know who's who you don't know it's all in the community of mother because they grow up because they love. and. not because of the location.