i. think it's how you think that's what it is. this is al jazeera. this is the news. coming up in the next 60 minutes mexico says it's granted asylum to. a day after he resigned as bolivia's president following mass protests. this is one of the most violent days in 5 months of government demonstrations the city's leader says protestors are the people's enemy. a court rules and.

the children of women who joined in syria but it's unclear what will happen to the mothers. and scientists and. a rare cosmic event as the planet mercury passes between the earth and the sun. mexico says it's granting asylum to bolivia as former president who stepped down on sunday after a disputed reelection mexico was asked bolivia's foreign minister to ensure that morale is gets out of the country safely at least 20 members of believe use executive and legislative branches are also seeking protection in mexico. i inform you that a few moments ago i received a call from president. whereby he responded to my invitation and formally requested political asylum in our country in terms of the current legislation the mexican

foreign minister with the prime opinion of the secretary of government minister sanchez caetera has decided to grant political asylum even to relatives for humanitarian reasons and by virtue of the emergency situation he faces in bolivia. well u.s. president donald trump is hailing the resignation of bolivia's long time leader and he's praising the country's military some latin american leaders of a loads of mirali as was forced out in a coup but the u.s. state department says this was not the case now is departure leaves a power vacuum in bolivia the country's deputy senate speaker in aeneas is in line to become interim president has pledged to call fresh elections the organization of american states will hold an urgent meeting on the situation in bolivia on tuesday we're going to join holeman in mexico city shortly 1st so we're going to go to mariana sanchez who is in la paz and mary out of there's been this power vacuum you

name and years she's going to fill that in the interim take us through the political process from. will stan that's correct that there is a power vacuum that has caused a lot of instability because the streets of la paz are basically. there's basically a shut down in this capital where there are protests violent protests in different parts of the city and. many people are not going out and there's a lot of destruction because of this power vacuum the police is out however there are many people who are very afraid of what's happening here now that could change the power vacuum could change if jenene the onion is sworn in as the interim president of bolivia she is the 3rd senate vice president

is she's the one in line after the vice president of the country and the 2 1st vice presidents of the senate resigned with moralists yesterday now miss a new 52 year old lawyer a former t.v. presenter and a long time politician has accepted to take the task of become the interim president but that will only happen if there is a majority of legislators in the chambers to approve this 2 thirds of legislators are actually members of the mosque party it will more or less a party and it is. remains to be seen if they will attend this is soaring in ceremony on tuesday in the meantime she has talked to the press briefly and has said that they are they already have a timetable the most important thing will be to call elections immediately and to have a new president in bolivia by january 22. thank you for that we're to go to

john heilemann now who's in mexico city and john as we've been reporting mexico is offering asylum but there are still a lot of questions to be answered here particularly where the whether there will actually be safe passage that is the big question isn't it president marcello abroad mexico's foreign minister as you said was talking to the foreign ministry in bolivia he said to try and make sure that a plane can get out with ever more rallies on it we don't have a timeline for when that's going to happen yet we only know that mexico is willing muscular brad the foreign minister said more or less have phoned him up to our scheme about the possibility of asylum and he said yes so both parties there are willing it just depends. on believe or at the moment knows mariana was describing the country in a moment the political establishment seems to be in a bit of a chaos so it depends how quickly that can come together so that he can be able to

come here met scurries really been saying showing support for now i suppose ex president ever more or less since this who kicked off and there's money or lopez obrador the president of this country said at the start that he respected the fact that he resigned that it showed that he did want bloodshed with the bolivian people the foreign minister sent then said that this was a coup that's a line that's been repeated by most of the leftist over the last few years countries in latin america like venezuela naked are were cuba the ones to the right seem to not be calling this a coup i suppose predictably and instead calling for a peaceful transition to power after what brazil said was fraud in the election serve real sort of regional division here but miscarry sort of is going to left this government showing solidarity with their vote morally as. thank you for that

jon well of course the united states keeping a close eye on this it's urging believe us legislative assembly to meet quickly to begin forming a transitional government roselyn jordan has more from washington d.c. the 1st message from u.s. officials a day after. as bolivia's president the political violence between all classes of the bolivian population needs to stop and needs to stop right now officials also told reporters during a background briefing on monday that they do not consider what happened politically inside libya to be a coup against able model says government they say that they believe that a report put out by the organization of american states or oas confirms what they had been suspecting that morales and members of his government conspired to throw the october 20th presidential election his way they do not believe that anyone who

is a member of a political party who was involved in what they're calling an electoral fraud should be allowed to stand to replace him as the new president when elections are held perhaps in the next 90 days finally these u.s. officials also said that they are very concerned about the rule of law being respected but they said it is noteworthy that the military they'd a law that it been recently passed basically preventing them from getting involved in the security situation because of longstanding historical fears of another military junta taking power but more to discuss here often briscoe is program director of latin america and caribbean at the international crisis group and he joins us on skype from bogota it's nice to have you with us i want to get your sense 1st of all on the political landscape what does it look like going forward from here do we have a situation where janine and you is becomes interim president or camera body still

block that. thank you very much about it too many uncertainties at the moment and know where the legislative assembly will make it happen here this temporary acting president tomorrow we don't know whether the deputies who follow the party of ever more about is the mask with a tan they have said we need security guarantees to be able to take part in a session and it's uncertain at the moment whether they can be provided after that we need to know when will the election be held bearing in mind that all the election is about what would dissolve. us on sunday as a result of the records detecting fraud in the electoral process and they're there to electoral officials have been arrested so there's a question of setting up the electoral system is a question that is clearly the acting president and is that the role of the deeper question of how are the relations going to be between the opposition which a strong campaign against ever more or less and leave and the devil around this is

supports he still has a very significance of old particularly in the indigenous communities of this country and it's very likely that this place is full the most unhappy with what we've seen in the last few days that are from what you're outlining there is potential for even further division and we've seen rival protests we've seen unrest in the streets as well and the possibility of morale is seeking asylum and leaving the country has already been granted asylum by mexico what impact would that have as well on these tensions. well to a certain degree i think it at home or allison leads the country in texas side of it what do open the possibility through 3 months in his supporters that his party and the opposition party interests in the transition and this is designed to stay in power or is this to a degree in the heart of what's happened he has his desire to run for a full term in office has caused great discontent even if it isn't rants and it is

clearly responsible for all the the for all just intent in the electoral process for a little which according to reports is mostly under not so if he were to be out of the equation. and international community would get behind a mediation process that truly his supporters and those other parties which is long and then i think there could be the possibility of a stable transition but will the misallocation is there a candidate for an owner of this party standing in the election which should be held in 90 days time because if we start to move to a process in which all of the mass candidates amassed catalysts and they handed officials which will be governing the country in the last nearly 40 years ago gradually limits for a lot of us that in that sense there are many more and science on this call all people come live within the function of a brisk i thank you again for using it's

a tough thing will turn out to chile where protests once again have broken out there with riot police firing tear gas and water cannon at demonstrators in santiago that would tell us after president sebastian pinera offered to rewrite the current constitution which dates back to the punitive era once rewritten the document will be put to a public referendum but opposition figures have criticised the moves saying the vote should be held 1st so that people's views could be considered. hong kong's chief executive has described protesters as quote the enemy of the people in a show of defiance carrie lamb says the government will not bow to their demands she condemned one of the most violent days since the protests began 5 months ago which saw appropriate probably by supporters said a lot of activist shot by police sarah clarke has more from hong kong. protesters started blocking roads and ran lines during the morning rush hour at

a crossroads inside one home district on the east of hong kong island a traffic officer was filmed as he grappled with a demonstrator and then pointed his gun at a 2nd protester and shot him in the torso the footage was good enough to live on facebook and then underwent surgery and was put in intensive care of a whole talk on. that point without any warning and it is very very very dangerous i was. calling is all run by 5 meter to fix me and they are in the in the neat though the. police have confirmed 3 bullets were fired during the incident right place moved in to create the barricades the shouted at by hundreds of people to gas his 5 to clear the roads some witnesses were caught by surprise despotic gas being fired by police these protesters have returned and they tried to once again block the intersection where that protester was shot early this morning on monday morning but that live round of ammunition and they came with

a focus is to try and keep create once again for further communique all slow down police say apply beijing support was also sent a lot but protesters the was in a chaotic scenes across hong kong as the anti-government movement called a general strike targeting the road and around it for major highways were blocked more than 20 train stations closed and flash mobs paralyzed parts of the city to gas rubber bullets and pepper spray the 5 by police in at least 10 districts. press conference on const chief executive kerry land condemned the violence if there is still any. wishful thinking that by escalating violence the hong kong as a government will yield to pressure. to satisfy the so-called politico demands. i'm making this statement clear and loud here that will not happen.

violence is not going to give us any solution to the problems that hongkong is facing some members of the public accuse the police of using unnecessary and excessive force against them during this event. that we are hungry citizen we are homegrown dozens of people were taken to hospital and others arrested as police crackdown on the demonstrations violence like this has become the new norm in the city but the shooting of one protester and sitting on fire as another escalating an already fragile situation syrup al-jazeera hong kong well hong kong police say they've suspended an officer who drove a motorbike into a crowd of protesters during monday's violence video she showed online shows the officer weaving through a group of demonstrators at high speed and just international says the footage shows an out of control officer with

a mindset of retaliation agnes child represents the pro-democracy group dema system she says hong kong police are abusing their power and not protecting citizens. i mean there's some behavior of the protesters i am not proportional but i hope that people won't be only you know focusing on what the police have so not a what the promises have done but the problem behind that the reasons behind that oh why are they such a notch actor and discontents to what state governments is because of you know the police eastlink power and its use file a suit was purchased as they should go and again today that may and that make people think that you know why police are being so on call from the boat and even people say c.n.n. i am not being protected by the police but you know in the end not the way our

lives are being threatened. but there's plenty more ahead on the news hour including cambodian opposition leader kim soccer mates supporters after his release from house arrest. lebanon's banks try to reassure the public because their workers prepared to go on strike. and how a shoulder charge on a coach caused chaos that's coming up in sports with rival. dutch court has ordered the netherlands to repatriate more than 50 children of women who joined i saw in syria 23 women had asked the court to allow their families to return home from the alcohol camp in northern syria but as lawrence lee reports from the hague the judge ruled the mothers need not be sent back figuring out what to do with women and children associated with the enemy isn't

a new problem for a country but when you bring i sill into the equation it becomes hugely controversial. at issue in the netherlands what to do about $23.00 dutch women and their $56.00 children under the age of 12 many born in the vast desperate el whole camp in northern syria their families have demanded they be brought home the government had said no thanks excel than i was even a kindler and for ordering in his ruling the judge demanded that the dutch state had a juicy to show it was trying to repatriate the children and their mothers to if the kurdish come command has said so and all within 14 days so if the kurdish resort authorities say were only willing to give back the children if the dutch authorities also take back the women then that's the way it has to be and that has been the kurdish position until now they won't give any children unless the mothers are also brought back among the women there is child who was a little girl was as innocent looking as anyone but

a family say she suffered mental health issues growing up was targeted by eisel supporters in the netherlands and persuaded to go to syria to be a bride so a fighter and this is chatty and now she lost a foot in the explosion but she doesn't have children and so she stuck her family devastated we had her passport when we saw that she was running for 2nd travel to syria for possible to way for us of course every family did that dutch government don't get the responsibility again they said yes there are dare it's not our problems and it's very hard to to hear that so what might the dutch government do now putting the onus on the dutch authorities to go into northern syria to get these women and children out is one thing whether the dutch are actually prepared to do it themselves is something else again because they've always said it's too dangerous but the americans have in some a say to that they're prepared to go into al hole to before the task for them very likely then that the dutch will be trying to outsource their own problem. the big

problem in any number of european countries is public opinion which overwhelmingly insists anyone who went to syria within the last 5 years knew exactly what they were doing and should lose their rights assuming they are brought home the next question will be what to do with them lawrence lee al jazeera the hague meanwhile turkey's interior ministry says the country has begun a program to repatriate captured fighters an american and a german were deported on monday with a danish national expected to follow fighters from ireland france and the netherlands a judge ruled to be deported in the coming days officials say just over $1200.00 of us were fighters are currently being held in turkish prisons. the un's atomic watchdog has confirmed iran is enriching uranium breaking its commitment to the 2015 nuclear agreement the international atomic energy agency confirmed enrichment is taking place at iran's underground firdos plant one of the most significant

breaches of the agreement today the e.u. says it is extremely concerned about the violation. or commitments to the nuclear deal have to tear righted since u.s. president donald trump pulled out of the deal in 2018 and then started re-imposing sanctions against iran in my iranian president hassan rouhani told his country's atomic energy organization to start rolling back its commitments under the deal in july to iran said it planned to break in richmond limits and confirmed it was stockpiling more low enrich uranium than was allowed under the agreement last week iran declared that it was enriching uranium to 5 percent a level that means it 10 be used in nuclear power plants and is in excess of the limit outlined in the 2015 deal or who remand livre it is a former u.s. state department official and told her of going to tehran why america must accept the islamic republic of iran and she joins us from washington d.c.

it's nice to have you with us we're really in a position here aren't we are rapidly escalating brinkmanship on the one hand you have the maximum pressure from the united states and now you have iran increasing its enrichment of uranium what what is a circuit breaker potentially here that maybe gets people back to the table. well i think what iran has done in their view is that they for about a year after the united states announced that it was going to violate the iran nuclear geo and then pull out of the deal iran exercised what it called strategic patience but when the united states started to reimpose absolutely the sanctions on iran that prevent iran from export most of its oil iran started to escalate its own violations of the iranian nuclear in the hopes of bringing the united states back to the table and that's never been that's not only has i if i could just come in that situation clearly shore is not working so now you have the europeans who were

close signatories to that deal in a position where they say how do we react do we know also add for the sanctions to iran to try to force iran into backing down well i think from the perspective of some many iran and some here in washington iran strategy is working somewhat the iranian reduce commitments to the iran nuclear deal and allegations that iran has taken military actions in the gulf against tankers against saudi oil facilities all of these steps by iran have in fact forced the trunk administration to deal at least with the french over some discussions to get back into negotiations so there is some there is some idea that what iran is doing is working both in terms of pushing the trump administration back to the table and even changing the policies of some of the states in the gulf region like the united arab emirates but if it means more sanctions against their economies more sanctions from europe then what

does that what position does that then place iran and just to food the point to that as well now that iran is is enriching uranium preheat to plant a formally concealed plant does that raise the stakes as well. i think it's intended by iran teresa states intended to force the united states to force the european union to force even china and russia to take iran situation much more seriously keep in mind that no other country not even iraq under saddam hussein in the 1990 s. after it had made it quaid not even iraq was under such crippling sanctions that iran is under even iraq then was able to sell its oil for food iran can't even do that so what iran is doing is an attempt to force the international community not just the european union but the united states and even china and russia to take iran situation more seriously and in some ways it has we have seen the french move

to increase its negotiating position we've seen the japanese we've seen even the united states and the united arab emirates move more toward a negotiated settlement with iran it's still very far off and it's a high cost high risk game but i think it's one iran thinks it must do to break the same shine's who remain livered appreciate your analysis thank you so much for giving us your time thank you very much well the u.s. is calling for the iraqi government to in violence against protesters more than 325 people have been killed since demonstrations erupted last month on sunday security forces again opened fire on protesters killing at least 9 people iraq's justice minister says he deeply regrets the deaths but blamed them on individual violations by those in law enforcement. has more from baghdad. tensions are currently rising in some of the areas that are close to tahrir square just in the past hour

we've seen several ambulances that have come by here they're coming from the direction about 300 meters north of us that's the konami square that's an area that has seen repeated clashes between anti-government demonstrators and security forces in the past few days now we've seen many of these took took so they have dropped off injured anti-government demonstrators into one of this volunteer one of these volunteer medic tents close to us we've seen at least 9 in the past hour hour and a half and people are concerned that things might get worse as the day goes on now all of this coming amid the backdrop of a lot of diplomatic talk today you had the united states calling on their i don't think government to hold early elections you've also had statements from the united . there and off there was another amman this just passes by obviously again really signaling that there is more going on in the area north of us the united nations assistance mission for it off they put out a statement just yesterday in which they proposed

a several proposals to try to in the crisis here and off one of them is to try to pass electoral reform another them is to release protesters that have been detained since the protests began and also prosecute those responsible for violence in these protests areas and now one of the more interesting things with regard to today is the fact that i don't experiment is currently meeting and although and many people here in baghdad had expected that the parliament might be taking up the issue of electoral reform or what we've heard since the parliament sort of meeting is in fact that the president's office has submitted or finalize a draft for electoral reform that they are then going to submit that to the cabinet and then the cabinet must approve that and then submit it on to parliament so there's really no indication what kind of timetable we're looking at when it comes to getting any kind of concrete steps for electoral reform or an electoral reform law and that's. something that's clearly frustrating demonstrators who say that they believe they keep hearing the same rhetoric again and again from fishelson

here in iraq. still ahead on al-jazeera nodule faraj reveals the brakes of party strategy for the u.k. general election. at a football club in argentina returns to its former home with an opening ceremony to remember. we have an arctic blast rolling out of canada down across the good parts of the united states beneath this massive cloud sinking further south as we are going to see some significant snowfall many a temperature records look set to be broken look at the temperatures they are very disappointing minus 6 the top temperature in chicago on tuesday off named kansas city struggles to get around minus one agree we have got some snow we've got freezing rain we have got some rain around the eastern seaboard where it's a little on the modest side much milder 13 or 14 celsius there for what they say

take a look at so wednesday we're struggling to get above freezing in new york for where to stay just 3 celsius there for washington d.c. and that cold air staying in place just around the midwest northern plains as well as it's also west l.a. still getting up to 26 celsius a nice on any rain wildfires are concerned because some right in the forecast for a parts of the caribbean this is the same in trinidad and tobago says trinidad where we are seeing a little bit of cloud just rolling towards the women islands as we go on through the next dial to change de la jeter i see that what's the weather just pushing into trinidad easing over towards pages and going into wednesday don't want to too shall is for the greater antilles. i was taken to military are at our same in the military not blame in

force they were say don't they intend june was to make sure that group injures when no longer entitled to either basic rights or citizenship rights once their villages were burned down were funneled into what is now become complex where the marines are basically you're presuming exiles coming soon on al-jazeera. russia has jeopardized the united states security interests we know what you are doing and you will not succeed perceptions from the outside looking in the box the picture from the inside. i think russia's foreign policy is too soft to keep the most russian goals to be achieved not peace a more diffuse full russia on al-jazeera.

and you're watching al-jazeera nice to have you with us is a reminder of our top stories this hour mexico has granted asylum to believe us pro-forma president asking the country to ensure. the leader of resigned sunday after the military demanded he step down. hong kong's chief executive has described protesters as the enemy of the people that's often the most violent days since demonstrations began 5 months ago which saw a pro beijing supporter said a lot of activists shot by police. the un's atomic watchdog has confirmed iran is enriching uranium breaking its commitments to the 2015 need to be agreement the

e.u. says it's extremely concerned about the violation of a prominent cambodian opposition politician has made his 1st public appearance since he's released from house arrest but still faces treason charges and he is banned from politics and leaving the country the cambodian government's been facing increasing international pressure over its crackdown on the opposition has more from the home page. the president of the opposition cambodian national rescue party spent his 1st full day of relative freedom still in his home in the capital phnom penh he met diplomats the 1st was the ambassador of france which is one of the countries applying most pressure on the cambodian government. didn't talk to the media but his spokesman said the meetings were an opportunity to say thank you it's just too busy to express greetings.

and in person alone. is still banned from political activities and the charge of treason against him stands the decision to end his house arrest came the day after the acting president of his party sam rainsy flew into malaysia from exile in france saying he'll return to cambodia. heavy security has been deployed on the streets of phnom penh as a warning to anyone thinking of helping him a chief his stated goal of overthrowing the government on tuesday the european union will deliver a report to prime minister hun sen's government outlining its concerns over a decline in democracy and human rights it's threatening to withdraw cambodia's preferential trade agreement if significant improvements aren't made but the ruling party says the court's decision on kemp was not made in response to that threats. this is the opinion of outlawed rebels who have always taken up the issue of the cambodian government came so close cases under the control of the courts so it's

not relevant. the developments come in the middle of an important holiday in cambodia the annual water festival. politics is absent as crews in boats from around the country converge on the capital to mark the end of the whip season when the tunnel a separate changes direction even if the government is able to appease the european union there are big question marks over whether there will be any significant space in the short term for the cambodian national rescue party prime minister hun sen has tried very hard to destroy the threat posed by the opposition that undoing the damage completely now seems unlikely. still the members of the band party see the international pressure and attention as an opportunity to try to restart their political careers and resume their campaign to change this country's direction wayne hay al jazeera phnom penh. at least 7 people have died and 70 more injured

after 3 blasts either kurdish town in northeastern syria the 2 explosions in the town of commission which borders turkey because by car bombs in the shopping street state used media says the 3rd exploded near a hotel commission has been the scene of multiple explosions since the start of turkey's offensive into northern syria one of the figures credited with setting up the white helmets rescue group in syria has been found dead james the measurers the founder of made a group a group which helped to train the volunteers in what was officially called the syrian civil defense and investigation is being launched after his body was found the he's home in central istanbul the white home bits of being credited with saving thousands of people in rebel held areas during years of bombing there has been remembered by karen pierce u.k. ambassador to the united nations. we've lost a real humanitarian the causes of death at the moment. we will be looking very

closely to see how the investigation goes i hope the turkish authorities will be able to investigate family and i'm sure will will want to give them any assistance they might require i do just want to take the opportunity to say. that the russian against him that came out of the foreign ministry that he was categoric. executive says he was wrong to describe the murder of jamal as a mistake darr across russia he made the comments during a recent interview in which he compared the journalists murdered by saudi arabia last year to a fatality caused by one of his driving cars the c.e.o. says his remarks were made in the moment and was something he does not believe gambia has brought a case to the un's top court accusing me and bar of committing genocide against muslims me and bars military launched

a brutal campaign against the ins 27 team more than 700000 people fled to neighboring bangladesh to escape what human rights officials have called ethnic cleansing last year rejected the un report calling for top generals to be prosecuted for genocide labeling the allegations false read brody from the international commission of jurists says that gambia has made a bold move in defending revenge are muslims. well i think it's very positive that a smaller poor country like gambia takes up this case you know it shouldn't be just the powerful countries and the rich countries who determine who has the live up to international law and not i think it's really to gambia has created and even this it's going through its own very painful truth commission process of examining past trustees by the previous dictator that

gambia has that kind of solidarity to take a bold move like this to defend the rohingya muslims 7000 miles away it's the kind of international solidarity that we don't see you see often enough these days spain's a socialist party says it will act fast to form a government after winning the most seats in sunday's parliamentary election leader pedro sanchez had hoped the vote which was the 2nd this year would break the country's political deadlock with the far right votes party more than doubling its support the country appears more fragmented than ever before john holl has more from madrid. this is the final resting place of francisco franco the spanish generals memory well tended despite his often brutal one party rule that ended with his death more than 4 decades ago. he's been here in

a private family tomb for less than a month franco's final journey began in october when the socialist government altered the former fascist leaders remains removed from a grand more the live in madrid famous family of the forward it's easy of course to see parallels here the memory of franco dishonored in the view of many and then less than a month later the country's 1st far right party in parliament since his death more than doubles its count becoming spain's 3rd largest political force. but the reality owes more to post economic crises disaffection with mainstream politics and the threat posed to spanish unity by catalonia his drive for independence it's still early to say which sort of far right we have here because. initially it was a splinter group from the people aspire to the end its leaders came from the people's party it was more of a heart of rights than a far right party but now we are beginning to see some elements within vox that

perhaps have some. some nostalgie form of franco symes sunday's election result will only deepen the concerns of the far right with socialist leader pedro sanchez forced now to consider a friend join alliance of the left that might even include capital and probably independence parties. that's an ugly prospect across large swathes of sprain particularly as they watch separatist protesters blocking roads and even the border with france in the north west on monday and as disaffection with politics increases amid signs of economic slowdown in spain so the list of grievances will likely grow there mate and i hope this will help us by stopping benefits for people who don't deserve it i don't think it's normal that people come from abroad to live on state benefits i myself have worked abroad but i didn't go there to commit crimes and

live on benefits it's not the box party was created in the image of franco and what he stood for but in a country with a living memory of fascist rule the party's popularity could yet unleash sinister forces killed a whole al-jazeera madrid u.k. breaks the party leader. he's party will not contest the ruling conservative party in december's general election prime minister boris johnson has welcomed the party's decision saying that the other hung parliament would be a threat to brics it in a boost for johnson said that he did not want anti breaks at parties to win the election for britain has more from central london. this is an extraordinary u. turn by nigel farage who on november the 1st when he launched the bricks of party campaign said that boris johnson's bracks it deal was not a tall and he vowed to stand party candidates in all $650.00

seats across the u.k. now he's saying that boris johnson's deal is close enough to bracks it that he will do a deal whereby he won't compete against the conservatives it's an extraordinary setback and you turn for the bracks of party the reaction has been across the spectrum boris johnson the prime minister said he was glad that there was a recognition there was only one way to get it done and that was a vote for conservatives but the labor leader jeremy corbyn said that it was a pact between nigel farage and boris johnson and it was a pact with donald trump's backing and that the trump alliance was thatcherism on steroids meanwhile the lib dems leader joe swinson said the conservative party is effectively the bracks it party now the out the arithmetic is going to be intriguing if the party contests against labor seats it may be that they split the vote in those seats and give labor a better chance of holding on to some of those marginals that would otherwise have

been threatened so the impact on the election could be profound but the contradiction in nigel farage his position was probably best summed up by one commentator who said well look if boris johnson's deal really is bracks it then frankly the bracks of party shouldn't shouldn't be standing in any seats at all. paul byrne reporting there greece and china have signed more than 2 dozen bilateral agreements during a visit to athens by president seizing being greece's prime minister hailed the visit as a new era of economic relations with china the chinese leader was greeted by kiriakou or smits attackers and given an official welcome in the capital athens presidency to a pariah sport which is largely controlled by china's state owned shipping company costco it comes off to beijing approved a $680000000.00 plan to expand the port. has more from athens. the greece china relationship has been developing very well for over

a decade but the chinese president's visit is a watershed moment see jinping is signaling to the rest of the world that china is a dependable ally that it comes through on its investments especially those that come under the banner of the belton road initiative which aims to connect china to the rest of the world and lower the cost of chinese exports particularly to the very. wealthy markets of europe and north america and from the greek point of view it signals that greece is after its long 10 year crisis and recession a good investment destination also dependable ally a country that stands within the you know the european union and the western alliances but also is outward looking and extrovert the key chinese investment around which this entire visit is taking place is of course the china ocean shipping companies $2000000000.00 investment in the port of paris that investment

has created 2000 new jobs it's going to create 2000 more jobs in the next 5 years and it has raised enormously the container through put the amount of chinese manufactured goods arriving in container ships to europe that come through the port of paris. several banks in lebanon are planning to close on tuesday as workers strike. ongoing protests of regularly forced financial institutions to shut the workers union says stoffel worried about demonstrations demanding to withdraw their deposits the central bank. deposits and laws the lebanese pound. so the banks remain closed this is something that people had been fearing it was going to. the governor of the central bank saying that they were doing everything to ensure the stabilisation of the lebanese pound in terms of its peg to the dollar

that there weren't any capital controls in place but there are defector capital controls in place when it comes to each individual putting limits. with jools there's pretty much it's pretty much impossible to transfer your money out of the country at the moment even talking to businessmen say that they can't access their funds to pay for goods and services that they want to import so we have a political stalemate we have an economical crisis just been talking to an economist who said that it's not a question of if there's going to be a collapse here it's a question of if they can stop it from happening they're green on any names any formation of an interim governing body that means there is no. economic reform being implemented so you have a you have a really of a country of the people who are growing more and more frustrated and just to recap some of the demands electricity for example this country. pulled 24 kristi's

a day since 1975 so these are some of the basic things that people say they want to be implemented by this government and they want a technocratic government to do that certainly the political elite seem to be very much entrenched and as long as they remain bickering as to how this new government is going to look these economic reforms not going to be implemented there is no trust in the politicians people will tell you these are incredibly uncertain times . stargazers around the world have witnessed a rare as book to repass directly between earth and the sun the smallest planet in the solar system could be seen as a tiny black disk as it traveled across the glowing old john hendren reports from chicago. around the globe in fair weather and foul astronomers turned their telescopes to the sun was this little dot right here on monday the sun shone a little as brightly as mercury transited across it leaving a freckle of darkness on the message star for a small planet that's

a pretty big deal it turns into mercury is cool because it just doesn't happen all that often. a transit occurs when a planet like mercury or venus crosses face of the sun as seen from earth. every century and only curse the mercury 13 times there are only 2 planets between the earth and sun the last time mercury was visible crossing the solar face was in 2016 the next in 2032 transits a venus or even rarer if you missed it in 2012 and want to see it live healthily it won't happen again till 2117 for centuries when mercury transited the sun nobody noticed because it's so small by comparison to give you an idea how small if this is the size of mercury that is the size of the sun. by watching the way planets cross the sun in our solar system scientists are able to identify new planets or exile planets in others more than 4000 exoplanets have been discovered since 1992

universes billions of years own this like human life is only so short and there's only so many things we can see in our share amount of time so for me it's like being able to see as much as bad our universe as possible and learning more about the universe by watching a pinprick of darkness crawl across the sun helps those of us here on earth understand a little better how we fit into it john hendren al-jazeera chicago. well sports. can follow will take you to a. grammy . thanks. thanks thanks. thanks.

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me x. . x. . thank you are a footballer has been sent off during a match in ukraine despite him being the victim of racist abuse brazilian tyson who plays for shakhtar donetsk kicked a ball towards here founds who are you using racist language towards him or the referee gave me a red card for vast the official had already followed the 1st 2 steps of you or if there's a protocol asking for a stadium announcement to be made before taking place into the dressing room for 5 minutes but he didn't act the 3rd rule which would have been to abandon the match entirely. today my players showed their strong character once again i would like to support all those suffering from racism those guys who faced it today because racism is unacceptable it was and it will be

a shame for all and we all have to fight against it every day every minute every 2nd or 3rd time is also given his reaction instagram in which he said i will never stay quiet after seeing such an inhuman and despicable act in a racist society it isn't enough not to be racist we must be anti racist they are messy and time grabs men and ed in hazard are all set to play in saudi arabia next january 8th follows an announcement by the spanish football federation that the next 4 editions of the newly revamped spanish super cup will be hosted by the kingdom the new 14 formats will feature barcelona athletico madrid and valencia bar mean it continued to search for a new head coach a week after they sacked. but they shouldn't bother calling the former arsenal manager arsene wenger why because he's ruled himself out of the running. well you

were approached but you never felt that you were a candidate for the job i'm not a candidate for the job right so does that mean you're done it's clear that there's no difference and it might. as. well reformat that i mean you're done with management no no not necessarily but. in fact there's an offer coming in there. well as for barr and they say interim boss the flick will stay in charge for the forseeable future following this very impressive for a win i regret that don't win on saturday find chief executive col hines room a nigga said the club would in his words calmly continue with the 54 year old needs to guy is in charge flick has are the seen some very impressive victories are into man in the champions league in this one. of those while danger for

our big one to win our truck frankfurter in frankfurt captain david average some of the charge opposition card christians through sending him flying it's not funny until spock's a massive brawl with a referee handing out red cards to out of freiburg retaliated on his courage his behalf. didn't they can he ran towards me and i couldn't have gone are doing he was coming up. he's a strong little these are young boys i'm 54 years old but i couldn't move the way i had no chance but it's all done. to italy now where there's trouble in cheering your ventas christiana right now they're not happy after being substituted for the 2nd time in awake it happened in the 2nd half of you guys going with ac milan right now though a loss and then had words with coach about it to a sorry before stomping off to the changing rooms well according to local reports for now then left the stadium before the end of the game and wasn't there to

celebrate his team's victory is replacement paolo di bala scoring the winner in this match means that you very go into milan at the top of the sary. and i had doubts christiane i could play the full 90 minutes he's been having this problem recently which is having an impact on him he can't train like usually does so i decided both he and paolo should not try the full match we should thank cristiana for offering him self because so many other players would have stepped back and not played but you could tell he was struggling so that's why i replaced him and i'm happy with his work ethic he clearly still wants to help the team are going to tennis now where the world number one rafa nadal has been beaten at the a.t.p. finals in london he was taking on the world number 7 alexander's arrive who is the defending champion in this one and it was already who won this 6264. number 6 stefano since the past finally beat his longtime rival danny medvedev at the 6th time of asking

a 21 year old is the youngest player in the event and had lost his previous 5 previous encounters with the russian well number 4 but this time it was the week that i needed in straight sets 766. it's not easy coming in knowing that you've lost 5 times before. but you know i made a deal with mice of keep trying until i get it doesn't really matter if it's then 20. means a lot to me the crowd means a lot to me that. you know support me so much so much love so much support everywhere it almost feels like i'm doing enough and so honestly. british people great peoples backing me up best best feeling right now about a ton of solace all the former courage of 4 time olympic champion modifier has lodged an appeal with the court of arbitration for sports against his ban from athletics back in september the 61 year old long distance coach was suspended for 4 years for doping violations after an investigation by the u.s. anti-doping agency usada probe said salazar had been involved with trafficking

testosterone as well as tampering with the doping control process during his time as head of the nike oregon project hearings expected before next. now argentina football club a study and said he went all out swell they inaugurated the new stadium our giants hologram of i've never thought say this before a flaming lion was their way of launching their new ground ahead of the game against club athletic autologous studio answers have a played at this venue since 2005 when it was closed over safety concerns it's unclear at this stage whether those safety concerns were as a result of a giant flying low and prowling on the stadium or. unbeliever so when i was asked and remember if you want boy you can always go to our web site w w w dot al-jazeera dot com that's it for me for this news hour be back in

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