peace of cultures across the world. so no matter what you call home i'll just bring you the news and current affairs that matter to you. al-jazeera. brazil's former president you notice over is released from prison on a judge's orders following a supremes court ruling. below i maryam namazie in london you know with al jazeera also coming up. new clashes in basra and baghdad despite a call for calm by iraq's top cleric. the death of a student who fell from a car park during a rally fuels and go on the streets of hong kong. and australian firefighters are

saying they are in uncharted territory as they struggle to contain bush fires raging across 2 states. we begin this hour in brazil where a former president always had to silva has been released from prison a judge ordered his release earlier on the friday after the supreme court overturned a rule which required criminals to go to jail after losing their 1st appeal is among several 1000 convicted criminals who now have the right to remain free until they've exhausted their appeal options was sentenced to almost 13 years in jail early this year on corruption charges but he denies those allegations he says they are politically motivated let's bring in our last america at a time you see a new man whose life from the chilean capital santiago and upon his release we saw

his supporters gathered outside the building where he was being held and he was certainly met with a rapturous welcome as he left prison. absolutely there are hundreds and hundreds if not thousands of his supporters were out there embrace him at 1st to the very serious then a broad smile his fist in the air a very characteristic gesture by this defiant politician who said to the crowd that it had been 580 days that had it not been for some of the supporters who had been outside of that prison for the 580 days day and night every morning said some of them saying. at night saying good morning good night he would not have quote resisted the pressure of that he's been under all this time but now beyond the emotional part he is clearly ready to get back into the seat of being the main opposition leader of brazil and very likely the biggest thorn in the side of

president. popularity is already dropping mariyam right there is that of course we know new that divides opinion in the country there are many who will be celebrating his release from prison but of course all of those will be infuriated by it not least of those supporters of. how might this impact his position. absolutely there's no question that is a man who lives in a politician who leaves no one indifferent to in brazil he is an old order adored there's very little middle ground there but the opposition until now the president . who as we all know is a conservative who has is very very controversial had really not had a strong leader until now and while lula is not going to be able to run for any office at least or at least not until his conviction is overturned and that may

never happen he will be constantly hammering at president who's who's as i said whose popularity is dropping and who's trying to pass a lot of very controversial legislation without to my. success so far mary. of course lucy your reporting to us from santiago chile where there have been major antigovernment protests unfolding i think it is now into its 3rd week and some remarkable scenes we've been seeing from the country today and. yes merriam today's day $22.00 it hasn't stopped and it's going to continue. to forecast at this hour there are huge numbers i would say tens of thousands of people gathering in. italy plaza which is the main convergence point for the demonstrations here in the capital people who are coming out with their families holding flags calling for social reform unfortunately as has been the case in many of these demonstrations on this on the margins of these protests we are seeing mass

people looters vandals some people described as an artist clashing and breaking in and destroying property and so they and the riot police are clashing to at this hour been putting up barricades even after president. announced a 10 point plan to really try to crack down and control what he called social disorders but clearly it is not working. thank you very much from santiago chile amounts of america it's have you seen human. that you. have been more violent clashes in the iraqi capital and in the south of the country despite the top shiite cleric the military and the police to avoid using excessive force against protesters security forces fired tear gas and threw stun grenades into crowds of government demonstrators in baghdad and then in basra security

forces there fired live rounds at demonstrators staging a sit in the rocky commission for human rights says at least 23 protests have been killed in the rest since sunday. well grand ayatollah ali al sistani only speaks on politics in times of crisis and wields enormous influence over public opinion in iraq a representative for the cleric has urged the government to respond as quickly as possible to the demands of demonstrators no more hard for a lot i love to let you judge out the peacefulness of the protests in their various forms should be paid great attention the biggest responsibility is on the security forces they must avoid using excessive force on peaceful protesters. now to sarah's mom been speaking to some protesters in the capital baghdad he sent us this report . for 18 year old i'm mot on this day at this hour the music must be mournful sitting among fellow protesters he

plays his clarinet in tribute to the hundreds of alkies killed since anti-government demonstrations began in early october and says this is the best way to convey his feelings just. as i was allowed in and of mecca who i don't know what my heart is on fire when i pay this sudden music because i remember that the old have a mother waiting for them a home they gave this souls for us they sacrificed the souls for this country. here in and around but that is to have a square a cross-section of society in every direction a span of generations the elderly taking great enjoyment in teaching the young the importance of this moment when you're sincere more than anything else is a result of the protesters committed to coming out day after day demonstrators with herman to effect 3 doing for sure a better future for her daughter and her daughter. the scale of these demonstrations is unprecedented the mood in some areas positively joyful yet

activists tell us this movement couldn't be more serious and they believe things are far different this time and you know that at the sound of that if it out of the family was the best in previous protests it's been limited to the use but with these protests off to our youth were killed we felt the need for all of us to come out women men elderly paypal the young and even children have come out this time now everyone wants change many here also lend a helping hand some brew and give away a. while others like dahlia distribute fliers advising protesters how to stay safe we all have rights in this country and should be done to act like no one is going to get whether or not government officials ultimately under. stan the magnitude of these protests makes no difference today who says protesters will not be deterred we didn't even get to be able to buy you and they say that you are going to new

york why everything will be all of our next life going to be over many of our friends are my enemies getting to die here this is not going to be over until we have our rights here and now that all keys are raising their voices like never before some scenes like the one put on by this street theater group are showcasing iraq's plight in ever more creative ways as a country bullied by regional and international allies fighting hard to stand on its own 2 feet a happy ending for the assembled crowd and hope one day this outcome will be more than just fantasy. but down. a protest has been run over and killed by a turkish army vehicle chairing a joint patrol with russia in northeastern syria man who was killed was reported to be part of a group of protesters in the village of sarma sog videos have also been circulating of residents hurling stones a turkish russian convoy in the town of. a month ago turkey launched an offensive

in northern syria against kurdish y p g fight says joint patrols a part of a cease fire deal brokered by russia to push the y p g 30 kilometers away from turkey's border meanwhile turkey saying it will start sending back captured members of i still from northern syria to their countries of origin starting monday its interior minister said around $287.00 i still members including women and children were recaptured since the offensive began almost a month ago. the fans the partisans whatever you object clings with them take their citizenships or not we would be port burnt clothes eisel fighters who are your own people and you're a good citizen strong no matter what you do then you'll know what to tell us as we've said before we are most good hotels. well now to hong kong where hundreds of pro-democracy protesters are mourning the death of a student a let street fires and clashed with police demonstrators blame police for the death

of 22 year old child she logged who fell from a building during a protest on monday earlier protesters held a vigil for a child who died from his injuries on friday but police are insisting they are not to blame for his death sarah clarke has the latest from hong kong. the hospital confirms the student's death on friday morning chachi luck suffered a brain injury after falling from a car park during a protest on monday but after 2 operations he died of a cardiac arrest was of course. the family wants to tell the media and the people of hong kong thank you very much for showing your support and encouragement to queen elizabeth hospital in the past few days they are very thankful. child was a computer science undergraduate at the hong kong university of science and technology fried i was the graduation ceremony for many of the students that event became a memorial as his colleagues paid tribute to the 22 year old i think is

a very grave day and we all have we all have i think a lot of home grown people not just for us the members have a man talk operation for this but still when it comes to fact it hurts a lot this could be the 1st death as a direct result of the confrontations between police and protesters in hong kong the anti-government movement blames the police for a chance injury which occurred when tear gas was fired on students during a dispersal operation she was trying to avoid eye contact from the police fired tear gas was caught for them from a cop and so today we want to call our house and also obviously my for the government and the police to launch a full test against the government has expressed its regret and sorrow of the death of the 22 year old student standing in sympathies to the family but this incident is lucky to further anger the anti-government movement more protests is expected to

join demonstrations this weekend. high profile pro-democracy activists joshua wall and agnes chow have called on protesters to join the rallies which are now in their 5th month they were charged with organizing a legal issue. simply in june before friday's court appearance they demanded an independent police inquiry into what they describe as excessive force being used on protesters it's now is the time for the government to step up the independent investigation on the clash we didn't know and see for truth and justice. the police have denied any wrongdoing and will conduct a comprehensive investigation into the circumstances of the students death sarah clarke al-jazeera hong kong. self exiled cambodian opposition figures sam rainsy says he's been able to board a flight from paris and will be in cambodia by saturday comes a day after he was barred from boarding a flight from paris to thailand ransey posted on social media that he's been

allowed on another flight but didn't specify where he's going he's vowed to leave demonstrations against the cambodian prime minister hun sen but he risks of arrests and a crackdown on members of his band posse and the country with al jazeera live from london also ahead there is nobody i'd rather rather get that little by. as the impeachment inquiry moves into a new phase president is attention to a potential new election rival. the spanish prime minister holds his final campaign rally in the castle on capital and head of an election dominated by calls for the region's dependants.

hello the skies over some places in new south wales looked rather unpleasant this was the picture on friday orange skies this is smoke blowing from the interior where the fires really are raging at a fast 1000 season started early in australia and given that we still got dry winds coming from the south and they are simply being found is a dangerous situation and unfortunately winds allow it to continue during saturday was no rain to calm the thing the rain has held south tasmania once again the temperatures reflect these coldish directions of flurries that injuries it's warming up in sydney and the wind does die down so sunday is a better day to keep fighting these fires the wants is only just becoming apparent for the south 17 in melbourne but purpose that it really hot it's only just going on 20 i stood in front of the highs thirty's day for fear of worrying you now in new zealand this of course is the destination of many of these systems that comes through and just hit tasmania and so the rains there streaming down onto the north

western slopes the western side of the high ground and the south and that could be a lot of rain but it's warmer if you know some nice across 20 degrees in oakland probably a bright rather than a sunny day but the rain hits you on sunday. i'm counting the cost it's the birthplace of meo liberalism but will it also be the death of it we're taking a look at the doctrine and the protests in chile against that kind of money makes the world go round but maybe the shipping is the wrong kind of investment. on al-jazeera. this is the opportunity to understand the legal very different way where there are deeply markets and we don't leave iraq to.

come back a look at the top stories now from a brazilian president we do to silva has been released from prison he was freed after the supreme court overturned a rule which required criminals to go to jail often losing their 1st appeal. iraqi security forces of clash with anti-government protesters in baghdad and in the southern city of basra iraq a commission for human rights is saying at least $23.00 protesters have been killed in the on the rest since sunday and hundreds of pro-democracy protesters in hong kong of held a vigil for a student who died after falling from a composite during monday's demonstrations they blamed the police for his death. firefighters in the australian state of new south wales are saying they are you know uncharted territory with several major bushfires threatening lives and homes

one person has died 2 missing and more than 100 homes have been destroyed despite more than a 1000 firefighters being deployed it to a gate and b. has more. every summer parts of australia go up in flames in hot windy conditions wild bushfires a common but this season an extended drought has caused the fires to spread more rapidly than usual it was a sort of came over our house house yesterday afternoon and then died down i have no idea and with their wings at lunchtimes picked up again so i think it's all sort of complete out of hand at the mine if it out of control here. the bushfires in new south wales and queensland cover a 1000 kilometer stretch of countryside police have voted 4 and a half 1000 people to leave their homes along queensland's sunshine coast local radio stations have stopped normal programming instead they're broadcasting advice

about how to survive a house fire and local officials say they're struggling to get the bushfires under control because of the drama so the fuel on the flammability of the fuel even the smallest of embers landing and taking hold and developing as you far's very quickly so you wind up getting this exponential rapid spread of the mine far from moving across the landscape and unfortunately we can expect more of that to die for those whose homes are in danger difficult decisions will have to be made. when you go. beyond a mere 10 minutes and be out of your. strong winds and high temperatures are expected to ease this weekend but low humidity levels continue to make it challenging for firefighters and worrying for residents whose homes and lives are at risk. gates and be algis their developments in washington now the acting white house chief of staff has defied

a subpoena ordering him to testify at the impeachment inquiry into u.s. president donald trump the closed door phase of the investigation is now wrapping up with public hearings to start next week our white house correspondent kimberly hellcat reports. all thing is a scare as u.s. president donald trump continues to attack the impeachment investigation another witness has refused to show up acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney is the latest in a string of white house officials to defy requests by democrats to testify in the congressional impeachment inquiry get over it democrats want to talk to about statements he made last month he told reporters trump deliberately held up military aid to ukraine to pressure it to investigate trump's political rival former vice president joe biden we do we do that all the time with foreign policy mulvaney later walked back those statements and democrats want to know why was one of 13

witnesses scheduled to testify in closed door hearings this past week just 2 showed up as congress moves toward the public phase of its investigation to begin next wednesday pro says he's opposed to those hearings well they shouldn't be having public areas that contradicts republican members of congress so what's the story with a closed door session recently protesting the private hearings and have asked for more openness democrats allege trump abuse presidential power when he spoke in july with ukraine's leader the call prompted a whistleblower complaint the foundation of the democrats' impeachment inquiry trump released a transcript of the call he says shows no wrongdoing he's considering releasing a 2nd transcript of another call creating a president back in april i had a call. your it was 500 you know i have a lot of balls but i have no problem relates to get a bird friends baron democrats allege just the opposite is a heck of

a lot of evidence for the president of the page but we have to give a fair hearing if they try to be open minded and say next week the world will hear publicly from key. witnesses in this investigation one of them bill taylor has confirmed privately what donald trump has vehemently denied that trump tied ukraine aid into an investigation into former vice president joe biden kimberly helped at al jazeera the white house meanwhile u.s. president all trump has mocks the former new york city mayor michael bloomberg after reports he's considering entering the race for the 2020 democratic presidential nomination according to his advisor is concerned that the current field of candidates isn't good enough to trump 77 year old is expected to file paperwork this week to run in the democratic presidential primary in alabama has been a leading advocate and finance are placed on the issues of climate change and gun violence record he doesn't have the badges that they're well. little michael

will still spend a lot of money he's got a really big issues 1st no problems and he's got a lot of other problems but i know michael bloomberg fairly well but too well fairly well well enough he will not do very well and if he did i'd be happy there is nobody i'd rather run against then little by. the political developments in spain the prime minister has called for democracy not violence in catalonia on the final day of campaigning ahead of sunday's general election the country's 2nd this year better sanchez made the comments at a rally in barcelona which has seen violent protests in recent weeks over the jailing of separatist leaders john holl reports. a student protest camp blocking a busy barcelona street it says much about the deadlock at the heart of spanish politics and we are trying to make it like conscious and to their young people that

we are growing up in a system that in so many years we just feel this is a generation that doesn't believe its future is served by the political infighting that saw socialist leader petro sanchez fail to form a governing coalition after elections in april. sanchez is hoping his gamble on a 2nd election in 7 months spain's 4th in 4 years will pay off for locating his final campaign rally in barcelona the capital and capital is meant to send a message that he is best placed to solve spain's most intractable problem the drive cattle and independence. yes that i got that oh yes this is the catalonia we stand for the catalonia that wants to live in peace not confrontation that wants democracy and not violence solutions and not conflicts over. the problems pedro sanchez is that while the socialists are predicted to win they will likely once

again fall short of a majority and forming a coalition maybe even harder this time than it was back in april. he wants to show that he has the support to kind of like this. is funny but i do think you'll succeed here he'll get the votes i don't know if you get. the violence in barcelona last month that followed the jailing of catalan separatist leaders reignited the independence debate and drove spanish public opinion to the right. the far right box party but promises to ban separatism altogether could emerge as spain's largest party and the once mighty conservative people's property is also on the rise leaving the socialists struggling for suitable partners. one option sanchez hasn't ruled out is a tie up with catalonia separatist parties but what they want most he cannot give

is play with both sides they would have less side effects to be in the lead but in the end the old was about making. a mistake always and not the other making deals with the right parties so the political deadlock could well continue and in the struggle for an independent catalonia stalemate jono al-jazeera barcelona. the ratings agency moody's has downgraded the outlook on britain's debt for its negative from stable over the ongoing paralysis meanwhile the fate of the country's national health service has become a prominent election campaign issue with rival parties promising to protect it persons' universal health care system is a reading on the unprecedented strain from rising life expectancy and increasing costs and some positive warning that its future could be at risk of person leaves the european union paul brennan reports from central london. absolutely in

a role reversal the prime minister was taking the pulse of medical staff on friday that the future of britain's national health service came to the forefront of this general election campaign president trump when he visited the u.k. in june had commented that everything was on the table in post breck's a trade negotiations he later clarified saying the n.h.s. was not up for grabs but the seed of mistrust was sown and launching their election campaign in edinburgh on friday the scottish nationalist party or s.n.p. has promised to slam the door on predatory overseas health care companies we will fight tooth and nail any attempt to expose the national health service to a post bricks it treat deal with donald trump that is why after this election s.n.p. m.p.'s will bring forward a new law and any chance protection. the s.n.p. says their proposal would prevent scotland's devolved power over health care being

overruled by trade deals made by the london government the s.n.p. wants independence for scotland and is strongly opposed to it the n.h.s. is a crucially important issue in the u.k. financially and politically. last year the equivalent of $200000000000.00 was spent on health care in the u.k. that's 30 percent of the entire public services budget. but the maintenance backlog stands at $8000000000.00 waiting lists a growing in costs are rising year on year patient satisfaction has fallen to 53 percent yet politically the n.h.s. still enjoys enormous public affection among voters after forest johnson is keen to offer reassurance on the conservative election campaign on friday pledged a new n.h.s. visa to fast track overseas medical staff into the n.h.s. to tackle the current shortfall of 100000 staff we can do free trade deals with countries around the world but under us the n.h.s. is not for sale it is not for sale it is not going to be any kind of international

trade negotiation this is pure luck this bunch to detroit good stuff the struggle to just keep the n.h.s. going is very real 67 percent of acute care n.h.s. hospital cross are currently running a budget deficit collectively as of march this year they were 7 $130000000.00 in the red new council units like this one a guy's hospital cost millions on the challenge for the political parties in this election is to work out how to pay for them paul brennan al-jazeera london. now u.k. police of her veil that 10 teenagers were among those who died in the back of a refrigerator lorry in southeast england last month the identities of all 39 people found dead have been released to 15 year old boys were the youngest victims of what's believed to be one of the country's worst cases of people smuggling all

of those killed were vietnamese but he says are working to repatriate their party's . just a quick reminder of the headline stories this hour brazil's former president luisa to silver has been released from prison a judge ordered his release after the supremes court overturned a rule which required criminals to go to jail after losing their 1st appeal. among several 1000 convicted criminals who now have the right to remain free until they've exhausted their appeal options who was sentenced to almost 13 years in jail earlier this year on corruption charges but he denies the allegations and says they are politically motivated you see a new man has more. hundreds and hundreds if not thousands of his supporters were out there in the bracing image 1st live look very serious then a broad smile his fist in the air a very characteristic gesture by this defiant politician who said to the crowd that

it had been 580 days that had it not been for some of the supporters who had been outside of that prison for the 580 days day and night every morning said some of them saying. at night saying good morning good night he would not have quote resisted the pressure of that he has been under all this time iraqi security forces have clashed with anti-government protesters in baghdad and in the southern city of basra this despite the country's top shiite cleric urging the military and police to avoid using excessive force against protesters the iraqi commission for human rights says at least 2323 protests have been killed in the arm rest since sunday. a protester has been run over and killed by a turkish army vehicle during a joint military patrol with russia in northeastern syria the man who was killed was reported to be part of

a group of protesters videos have also been circulating of residents hurling stones at a turkish russian convoy. in hong kong hundreds of pro-democracy protesters there are mourning the death of a student and they have lit street fires and clashed with police during the day demonstrators blame police for the death of 22 year old challenge who fell from a building during a protest on monday protesters held a vigil for a child who died from his injuries on friday and the united states acting chief of staff mick mulvaney has defied a subpoena ordering him to testify at the impeachment inquiry into president trump investigators wanted mulvaney to explain why millions of dollars in aid to ukraine was blocked in august you're up to date with the headlines this hour coming up next on al-jazeera it's counting the cost stay with us.

hello i'm kemal santamaria this is counting the cost on al-jazeera the weekly look at the world of business and economics this week. the birthplace of neo liberalism but will it also be the death of that we're looking at how this doctrine is ended up undermining democracy over the past 4 decades and our case study is the south american countries hit by protests for nearly a month now also this week money makes the world go around but is there such a thing as the wrong kind of investment is a corporate tax dodge taking hold out there and it's depriving the developing world of much needed money and we'll take you to thailand one of the world's largest sugar producers and export has but much of this sweet stuff shouldn't be here right

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