you know how exactly fatima bhutto meets marc lamont hill i very much thought i was going to get shot and look at a bad movie studio unscripted on al-jazeera. putting itself out for the presidency of bolivia an opposition senator declares herself the interim leader. hello i'm down jordan the saudis they are lawyers from doha also coming up. calls to ban the use of rubber bullets and pellets on protesters as dozens of blinded by being shot in the face. building more barricades protesters refused to back off as police warned hong kong is on the brink of a breakdown. a cash crisis that's getting more frustrating by the day as banks

remain closed in lebanon. the opposition leader in bolivia's senate has declared herself interim president after weeks of political turmoil janeen down as was sworn in despite lacking a majority in the country's congress she's taken out of a mouse to the former leader of a morale is who's now in mexico after being granted asylum iran has resigned after weeks of protests over his disputed reelection just off the taking over and has explained how she was the rightful successor to morales i think they felt they had enough we are facing a presidential succession brought on by the vacancy of the presidency and the absence of the president according to the constitution as president of the senate i immediately assume the presidency of the state and i promise to take all of the measures necessary to pacify the country. marianna sanchez has more now from bolivia's capitol. hill tensions are growing here in the center of the capital

where the presidential palace and the national assembly is here at the plaza somebody your an area that is completely surrounded and sealed by police riot police and another ring of protection by the army this house. i'm is has been named interim president of bolivia after a long debate about whether they would be legislators would be able to square her in with or without the members of the mouse party the party that you don't do it well more or less and his political allies now if he's angry is has said that she will immediately call for elections there needs to be that they need to name a new electoral tribunal and hold elections around of around december the 20th to

be able to have a new president. by january 22nd but in the meantime a lot of frustration and a lot of people followers of him what i list who are not happy with this decision who are not happy with this naming of the interim president and there's people protesting in the area with police repressing this with water cannons water trucks and 6 and the riot police all around this area well forced out of his country by the military morale is hoping to make a political comeback from mexico after his arrival there he calls a piece back home to home and has more not. never morales woke up on sunday he was still the president of bolivia. by midday tuesday he was out of power and then next touching down in mexico he said things could have been worse. i want to tell

you we're extremely grateful because the mix can president has saved my life. it wasn't easy getting him here the mets can foreign minister described the tense standoff before he could work out a route for him to leave the country we're going to see he wanted to see but there were even the supporters surrounding the airport and the armed forces within it and there was a period of real tension in the morale as was already on board the plane it was the worst moment as. president morales said that a coup pushed him out on sunday the army had asked him to resign he was blameless he indicated. to the. 'd world my only crime is that evil is indigenous the only sin we've committed as social programs for the poor and always suited for equality and justice. he would deny that you must have the extreme poverty and brought economic prosperity and stability to the country during his time in power. but his opponents point to

a growing authoritarianism and then serious irregularities in the last election he went against the constitution to run in the 1st place so it's a complex situation here for a president who over nearly 14 years did do a lot especially for the poor and vulnerable in bolivia before he disappeared from view he made a coup for peace in his homeland you know i mean. finally i'd like to say for the not to be any more bloodshed more confrontations we've decided to resign for the people and let me get to the scene as it meant to him and while i have life we will stay in politics while i have life the fight will continue and we sure that the people of the world have all the right to free themselves. that wish is going on and sit in bolivia where despite his absence his supporters and the opposition continue to clash join homan now does it or make scarcity.

chile's president says his country is facing a grave crisis as a national strike brought many regions to a standstill sebastien been heroes call them police reservists to help security forces try and manage and to government protests thousands of people have been marching in the capital santiago as the country's currency the peso hit an historic no protests began weeks ago of an increase in metro fares but have grown into anger over social inequality. now accusations of police brutality against demonstrators are being investigated dozens of protesters have complained of being shot in the face by troops using rubber bullets and pellets a latin america editor to send human reports for. heating a pause for a national strike thousands marched all over chile among them was verifying who says he's striking for his 10 year old daughter. i don't know if the president is blind but we've been protesting all of a chile in the sli still doesn't get it he has to fix the country.

this national strike has been a good thing to demand social reforms in chile as if people have been doing for the last 25 games are people who are here because they can no longer see. a tentacles and solve a lot of hospital friends and supporters of the latest protest or to lose one or more eyes from political waited for the incentive to recover from surgery was in $200.00 demonstrators have suffered total or partial blindness in less than one month which according to chile's medical association is comparable only to protests in gaza over a 6 year period. this is say the 18 year old university student was demonstrating monday night with a group of friends when a riot policemen shot him with a pellet gun at point blank range. after what they've done to him he is obviously very angry his life has been permanently old. it that his position is to keep

protesting for social change says that the loss of his left eye will not have been in pain. at least 3 more people have been shot in the face and eyes in less than 48 hours prompting some lawmakers to demand that rubber bullets and pellets be banned as a form of crowd control. dominga on sunday night the director of police promise to restrict the use of weapons of this kind to a minimum after another protester lost both eyes instead this into a shot at 2 meters distance chile called a law this. human rights watch and the interim american commission of human rights are investigating the charges of police brutality which appear to be only increasing the level of anger and violence on the streets you see in human al-jazeera sent out. protesters in hong kong are targeting commuters for a 3rd day demonstrators are blocking major roads in the city and trying to shut

down train stations and also set up barricades at the chinese university scene of violent protests a day earlier into the morning hours and police shot one demonstrator at close range on monday were difficult holland joins us live now from hong kong give us a understand many of the transportation services have been shut down tell us what's been happening there. that's right down as the protesters had promised this is the 3rd day of week day shutdowns week day civil disobedience and what they have been doing is from early morning taking over roads setting up barricades and as police tried to tear them down to get the traffic flowing again they've just set up in other places i want to point out that we're not seeing a large number of protesters in any one place but lots of groups of protesters trying to set up this civil disobedience actions train stations have been shut down bus routes of canceled so it's been a commuter nightmare here this this morning meanwhile though at the chinese university as you mentioned which was the focal point of the. at the center of

yesterday's protests seems like protesters there and students there are gearing up again for confrontations there once again setting up barricades within the university saying that this is to stop riot police from entering the university this is after clashes that went well into the early hours the university has also sought an injunction a court injunction against police entering the campus that will be heard today at 9 g.m.t. they say that the police should not enter the campus without the permission of the authorities and this is officer dozens of students were injured and the clashes that we saw overnight and in the early hours daryn and driven we've seen a marked increase in the violence over the possibly of days is there a worry that this is going to get worse. absolutely. protesters say they have the anti along with because police have also increased their aggression towards them now the government has responded to the

protests the violence we have seen over the past few days said this morning that press conference was held with several government officials saying that they support the police actions they are confident that the government can contain the violence and police should be allowed to go on university campuses this is likely to inflame the protesters even more they're angry about the police actions they say he said gresham has increased in recent days we have seen police shooting a. an unarmed young man at close range we have also seen on the other side a very unusual and disturbing attack on a probating supporter who was set on fire while hong kong is worried about what's happening and they are condemning the violent actions particularly wants targeting individuals we're seeing also a growing support for the protesters taylor angry at the government for not responding they say appropriately to the protesters demands and their actions so

what's interesting now is instead of this putting off the general public it seems that more for across generational public in hong kong of all ages are throwing their support behind the protesters are to difficult policy in hong kong develop thank you time for a short break here not just iraq when we come back a military buildup on israel's border fence with gaza the caring about islamic jihad come on that is one. of the worst conditions on record a strain in the motor city revealed how long it will take to put out devastating bushfires more in that state. hello ghana welcome back we're here across parts of night states we're looking at a arctic plunge here across much of the central and the southeastern part of the united states notice here on the satellite image here is

a funnel boundary that is really bringing that air in behind it where you see this area of gray that is not clouds that is actually the satellite image picking of that very cold air along the surface as we go towards the next couple days take a look at the temperatures not getting very warm and many places chicago minus 3 down towards kids city at 6 degrees and even dallas on wednesday only seeing a high of about 11 agrees there as a system pushes through new york you're going to be going down as well we do expect to see attempt to drop their 8 degrees as well as washington seeing about 8 degrees there as well so for chicago through minus 3 is going to be the high here on wednesday by the time we get towards friday really not coming back up too much to about one degree there normally this time of year you'd see a high of about 10 degrees for you as you go down towards parts of the caribbean it is going to be quite wet across much of the area very heavy rain for the yucatan of mexico with cozumel at $28.00 degrees panama city at $29.00 degrees there and then as we go towards thursday a beautiful day in havana we're going to be seeing sunny skies few at $28.00 but

nessa rain for you at 28 pieces well. mass protests forcing the governments put on we seeing. this time to understand we follow journalists on the front line. be. pretty committed to reporting the fact police officers pointing guns at journalists face off in hong kong frankton friction in this truth is in any way on al-jazeera.

welcome back a quick amount of our top stories here on al-jazeera the opposition leader of the senate has declared herself the interim president after a swearing in ceremony jannie and as take 7 from alstom former leader in morale is has been given political asylum in mexico. chile's president says his country is facing a great crisis a national strike brought many regions to a standstill sebastian pinera has called on police reservists to help security forces manage anti government protests and protesters in hong kong are targeting commuters for a 3rd day demonstrators are blocking major roads in the city and trying to shut down trying stations. let's get more now on our top story those developments in bolivia supporters of ousted president. are expressing outrage on condemning what they're calling a coup al-jazeera trees a boat has more for. the past few days have not been easy for people who don't

believe u.s. 1st indigenous leader able what alice was forced to resign when the organization of american states or o.e.s. and now fraud had been committed in the presidential election. the military requested that he step down he supporters denounce it is a cool. down in wonka what alice was the man that gave them dignity after years of discrimination. in these years we have seen change we have seen our lives get basic i'm young but i've seen how indigenous people have suffered in this country now these racists the ones that burn off leg want to. shut us down people around gree because it will more or less opponents burned the woodpile a flag which represents indigenous communities here there are roadblocks everywhere these days as morally supporters vow to continue the push for his return from mexico there's been calle since he stepped down forcing the police to request the

help of the army to restore order in the city the site of fighter jets flying overhead is making people even more furious. people are. having. that much was. rightly i was. an interim president as anyone yes was sworn in by bolivia's opposition on tuesday in an attempt to fill the power vacuum her supporters celebrated her designation this government there winner who we are facing a presidential succession brought on by the vacancy of the presidency and the absence of the president according to the constitution as president of the senate i immediately assumed the presidency of the state and i promised to take all of the measures necessary to pacify the country but the assembly meeting happened without

the presence of ever more or less movement or socialism party congresswoman assume that. they will not cooperate with those who carried out a call does anyone on my little missa we are not of that assembly because we are not giving carle and we want to recognize her as a president the forest our own senators to escape and step down. even though more or less is accused of fraud and violating the constitution people see him as the man who changed bolivia for good many are dreading their return of the racism they faced in the past and that's why many say he's resignation hurts them even more. and. bolivia. emergency services say it'll be weeks before they can extinguish all of the bushfires sweeping through eastern australia at least 50 homes have been damaged or destroyed in new south wales and one of been labelled catastrophic conditions

strong winds and hot air have fanned the flames it will still be warm and windy as we head into the end of the week and we can expect elevated far dangers particularly in the balance of the weight gain as we had saturday and sunday particularly and then there's another frontal pattern moving across the state early in the way to the middle of next week where we're going to see another burst of really hot conditions dominating much of the weather in new south wales and we can likely expect some increased fire dangers early in the middle of next week as well we will not have all these fars can timed before then we will not have all these fires can tined and locked up for many many weeks given the enormity of the firefighting effort when i get more now from andrew thomas who joins us live from sydney under the weather conditions were expected to improve on wednesday so tell us what's been happening. well here in sydney they definitely have derren it's 25 degrees right now this time yesterday it was in the high 30 degrees celsius and the

wind well you can see there's no wind at school today but there were fierce winds all day on tuesday and it was those 2 factors combined with a very very dry landscape out the months of drought that made the fire authorities so worried about the conditions on tuesday that a little bit labeled them catastrophic will in the end catastrophic conditions didn't lead to catastrophe which of course was the great fear loss of life through on controlled by the well lots and lots of fires across the southeastern states of new south wales some of them in the suburbs of sydney most of them were put out pretty swiftly the fire authorities were ready for the conditions on tuesday and they got on top of the parts fast but as you heard the commissioner there say many of the fires burning mostly in very rural areas away from houses away from people and here in new south wales right now there are no emergency warnings no one is being told right now to hunker down trying to survive a fire that some talk of them all to flee that's not the case for the north though in the state of queensland right now there is an emergency level 5 just north of

brisbane in the holiday town of noosa and in that place right now people are being so it's too late to leave they've got to hunker down and try and get through a fire that is really impacting on a big forest just to the north of brisbane right now you had the commission of there though say that even here in new south wales one of the sites pleasant on tuesday the temperatures are going to increase as the week goes on the winds are going to pick up again in the next week as well and there are lots of pause currently burning which could again where the head get out of control now in this fire emergency which has been going on now for more than a week been about 200 houses are the completely destroyed or very badly damaged and 3 people did die in fawaz last week as well because the concern here though is that whether it's climate change or not this country is getting hotter and drier all the time not the months and months of drought is in the dry and it only takes high temperatures high winds and then a spark for disaster to strike right under thomas there in sydney under thank you. israel has moved tanks to the gaza border fence after the worst day of cross border

violence in months started after an israeli airstrike killed a senior leader of the palestinian group islamic jihad in gaza fighters in gaza responded sending almost $200.00 rockets towards israel but that led to more israeli air strikes which have since killed another 8 palestinians egyptian mediators are working to restore calm between israel and gaza sorry for that report now from southern israel. and his wife were killed as they slept in this building in gaza israeli air strike was long in the planning its repercussions just starting to play out. lead palestinian islamic jihad's northern military operation a very senior figure and one israel blamed for a series of rocket attacks in recent months and. these actions have started this morning after the crime was committed by israel markets were fired towards televisions and islamic jihad with all of the resistance groups will continue

targeting all safe places of the occupation. islamic jihad said israel had crossed all red lines and promised a bigger response than usual one rocket exploded on a busy highway in your gaza and the a miss for those in passing cars and for those in a bus waiting at the intersection. in the southern town of stare at a factory suffered a direct hit and rockets also targeted central israel restricting businesses and leading to blanket school closures from the gaza border areas to television israel's prime minister who is leading a 2nd straight caretaker government after a 2nd inconclusive election said his country was not seeking an escalation and he was careful to indicate politics hadn't entered into the decision to strike when he said it was recommended by the military commanded by the military and the internal security agency the measure. the final decision was unanimously agreed on in the cabinet 10 days ago and the cabinet gave me authority to implemented at

a time that would be suggested by the i.d.f. and should back the i.d.f. in the shabak indeed recognize a time to recognize the window of opportunity to carry out the operation under the best conditions with a maximum chance of success and minimum impact on bystanders. there was no israeli comment though on another major strike overnight this one in damascus targeting islamic jihad's 2nd ranking leader. yuri. syria's state news agency said his son and granddaughter were killed islamic jihad says a jury survived moller she lived in fear more modern the size of the explosion is unacceptable the idea that i think that many of its execution was so huge and it is unacceptable to hit the civilian area in such way as you know throughout the day the rocket fire and air strikes continued israel's military said it was targeting islamic jihad perhaps a message that it wasn't seeking a direct confrontation with hamas which controls the gaza strip and whose military

wing represents garza's biggest fighting force in a statement on tuesday benjamin netanyahu said that israel did not seek a wider escalation yet he must have known that with the targeted assassinations arches this and the inevitable rocket fire that would come in response the risks were very high much now depends on how hamas decides to respond it has spoken out very strongly in solidarity with islamic jihad if it matches those words with a big escalation in rocket fire as well and the risks of a wider conflict only rise are a force that al-jazeera southern israel russian air strikes are reported to have killed at least 3 civilians in syria's last rebel held province dozens of air raids have been launched in southwest it live this week activists say hospitals and schools have been hit the government declared a cease fire in late august but there strikes have continued. amounts been shot dead in lebanon not an older cation as he was blocking a road during anti-government protests demonstrators have stopped traffic in beirut

by burning tires after president michel aoun told them to go home earlier he said the next government must be made up of technocrats and politicians the country's been rocked by demonstrations filled by anger at alleged corruption. and lebanon's banks will stay shut for yet another day as the impact of the ongoing protests is felt on the economy banks were supposed to reopen on tuesday but were kept closed by striking employees stephanie that has more for. the closed doors a sign of a deep unresolved economic crisis. and now they don't but. they have been using the money storm somebody. before me fulfillment of the go for . it is often roughly 170 how we can't transfer money abroad businessmen come pay their supplies so they can provide for their customers and all their families at home things are getting worse by the day lebanon's banks have shut down again after

briefly opening their doors last week informal capital controls remain in place cash points are giving out money but limited amounts pre-date and only lebanese pounds not u.s. dollars which is essentially a 2nd currency here foreign transfers are practically impossible affecting imports the bank remains close in order to avoid bank wrong i mean many depositors' coming all of a sudden and asking to withdraw their deposits because of the panic caused by the appeal of people taking place in the street and the absence of a solution the governor of the central bank is try to calm people by saying that the stability of the lebanese pound is guaranteed a small groups of protesters a state of the streets this argument is so what i mean hard economic crisis has been here long before the revolution this is not know what we are doing we are

doing for the future generations parents failed to achieve we will give to our children we don't want our children to live with the way we had too many people say lebanon is on the verge of collapse because of ingrained corruption and decades of mis man. economic policies the protesters want a new government made up of independent nonpolitical and nonsectarian technocrats but they say they're stuck with the same old elite bickering over its next step there is still no agreement among the political elite a new government will look like a political stalemate needs no action what is fast becoming a paralyzed economy in the meantime the banks remain closed and people's access to their cash severely restricted it's almost a month since the protest movement began and lebanon's economy was in decline way before that people here say they've had enough and they're waiting to see what the new government will look like the question is will it satisfy the street and can it save lebanon from

a full economic collapse stephanie decker al-jazeera beirut. explains acting prime minister has agreed in principle to form a government yet another election deadlock for the. most votes in sunday's poll the 2nd one in 7 months but not enough to get a majority he's now signing a deal with the far left party but he'll still need the support of other parties to get a majority. saudi arabia bahrain the united arab emirates have confirmed they're now take part in football's arabian gulf cup in qatar they'll join the likes of defending champions kuwait who won the tournament in 2017 for other gulf nations initially b. 3 countries said they'd boycott this month's tone and the trio along with egypt opposed the blockade on $27.00. we had some discussion about the ongoing gulf dispute which is lasted for more than 2 years there are american efforts which qatar appreciates to preserve the unity of the

g.c.c. and to return it back to what it used to be qatar is always open to dialogue and has expressed its readiness to engage in an unconditional dialogue based on mutual respect nonintervention in the international affairs of other states and respecting for the sovereignty of other states. tough a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera bolivian opposition. has declared herself the interim president after his was forced from power the deputy speaker was appointed in a session of congress which was boycotted by members of his party and if yours constitutional court has backed the move. facing a presidential succession brought on by the vacancy of the presidency and the absence of the president according to the constitution as president of the senate i

immediately assumed the presidency of the state and i promised to take all of the measures necessary to pacify the country. protesters in hong kong are targeting commuters for a 3rd day demonstrators are blocking major roads in the city and trying to shut down train stations set up barricades at the chinese university the scene of violent protests a day earlier tensions been running high since police shot one demonstrator close range on monday. chile's president says his country is facing a grave crisis as a national strike brought many regions to a standstill sebastian pinera is called on police reservist to help security forces from manage anti-government protests thousands of people have been marching in the capital santiago as the country's currency the peso hit and historic low protests began weeks ago over an increase in metro fares but a grown into anger over social inequality. israel has moved tanks to the gaza border fence out of the worst day of cross border violence in months it started

after an israeli airstrike killed a senior leader of the palestinian group islamic jihad in gaza the fighters in gaza responded sending almost 200 rockets towards israel and that led to more israeli air strikes which have since killed another 8 palestinians egyptian mediators are working to restore calm between israel and gaza and emergency services say it will be weeks before they can extinguish all the bushfire sweeping through eastern australia at least 50 homes have been damaged or destroyed in new south wales in what has been labeled catastrophic conditions strong winds and hot air have fanned the flames and the fires are breached the outer suburbs i was trailing as largest city sydney. so those are the headlines and news continues here on al-jazeera after whose truth is it anyway sentient and so watching that.

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