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i was just only fear god by the police on purpose tension on the streets of bolivia after a change of leadership and al jazeera journalist is course up in the unrest. iranians have protested in a number of cities after the government increased the cost of fuel by taste 50 percent internet access has now been limited in some regions the price hike prompted fears of rising inflation despite terror on promising the revenue will go towards families in need and a moment we'll go live to the capital but fast shot at us has this report on mobile phone video out of wisden iran shows people chanting fuel prices go higher the poor get poorer. the image repeats in the northern city of mashad. except the words

dictator let go of our country. and near the border with the rock they repeat turn your car off while blocking traffic. a sunset fell across iran protests grew against a rising petrol prices and fuel rationing. the government introduced the hikes on friday saying it was to help pay for subsidies for 18000000 families in the. back side is that the 1st payments will be handled within the next week or 10 days and transferred to the families in model year a strong president believes that if there is going to be petrol price reform all of the new revenues will be paid back in full to the people but for many it was a shock motorists must now pay about $13.00 seems police or it's a 30 percent jump they're allowed 60 liters of fuel per month anything over that they pay double for as a national i hadn't heard the news i came here and filled $3.00 places and then i noticed the price was $90000.00 then i asked and they said the price is now

$30000.00 reales per liter mosher a sphere the consequences will be far reaching. in tehran and the rest of iran everything is dependent on fuel prices if the price of fuel goes up in the night by day the price of rent will go up as well as other living expenses including fruit and vegetables it affects everything which is very bad i really believe that it will paralyze a classless society especially the laboring class the fuel price hike in rationing stems from multiple issues around his huge energy reserves but a limited refining capacity to get it to the pump the government is fighting fuel smuggling to its neighbors iran has some of the cheapest prices in the world today heavy subsidies and the full of its currency the economy has been in freefall since us president donald trump pulled out of the iran nuclear deal last year. why did they make this decision because they don't have money left we are under sanctions

they want to take the money out of the people's pockets they have a budget deficit they have to take it from my in your pockets to be able to run the country. president implemented fuel rationing in 2007 in an effort to curb consumption iranians resisted it and this time it's no different shall not balance. well for more on this let's go to dosage of bari who's in terror on for us also are we seeing more protests continue today well there are sporadic gatherings i would say across the country in various different cities there are protests as we've seen overnight but people are still very much angry and they are voicing their anger they are saying that this is absolutely unacceptable given the current economic status of the country the iranians have woke up to this news and there were shocked and stunned without any warning the prices went up drastically and many here say that this is not something

they can really deal with because it will have ramifications in other aspects of their daily life meaning that the price of bread eggs and other goods will also rise as a result of this. so you say the anger is continuing over there how is the government responding. well this is something interesting because this decision didn't directly just come from the government this decision came from an executive branch that was put together by the supreme leader's office about 2 years ago to deal with the sanctions that have been imposed on iran and this body consists of the president hassan rouhani and the head of the judiciary abraham bracy as well as the head of the parliament they were johnny they made this decision to increase fuel prices now the government spokesperson has been defending decision saying look this money is going to go back into the pockets of ordinary iranians but many here say that that's not enough because the average salary in

this country for labor is about $200.00 a month the price of fuel has now gone from if they were filling up their tank about $4.00 to just over $10.00 and they're saying that this subsidy that the government's going to provide them which will be about $5.00 per person is not going to make up for this huge difference in prices that they're going to experience so the decision by the government is certainly not being welcomed and the government insists that it's doing its best to try and fix the economic situation in the country inflation is at over 40 percent and unemployment is also over 10 percent and it's all something that this rouhani government has been trying to combat over the past few years but since the united states withdrew from that nuclear deal and imposed a series of sanctions on the country the economy has been in freefall it's a situation we're watching very closely dosanjh bar that for us in tehran thanks tosser.

well u.s. president donald trump has been accused of intimidation after he attacked a witness on twitter while she testified as impeachment hearing mary about of it the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine was removed from her post earlier this year out of there is how does your caster has moved from capitol hill of president trump has said he too busy to watch the impeachment inquiry hearings threatening to end his presidency but he found time friday to catch some of the hearing unfolding on live t.v. and he tweeted about the witness on the stand his former ambassador to ukraine a woman he ousted from the post as we sit here testifying the president is attacking you or twitter. and i'd like to give you a chance to respond read part of one of his tweets everywhere marie of on average when turned bad but would you like to respond to the president's attack that

everywhere you went turned bad i mean i can't speak to what the president is trying to do but i think the effect is to be intimidating you've on of it is a career diplomat who served more than 30 years under presidents of both parties in a july phone call the basis for the current impeachment inquiry trump told the president of ukraine she was quote bad news and would go through some things it was it was a terrible moment the person who saw me actually reading the transcript said that the color drained from my face i think i even had a physical reaction it didn't sound good sounded like. a threat democrats say trump's attacks on you vonna vege amounts to witness intimidation and possibly an additional impeachment charge against the president trump defended his mid hearing tweet saying he had no intention to intimidate i have the right to speak i have freedom of speech just as other people do but they've taken away the republican's rights testified she was recalled from ukraine without cause in may

she'd been drunk fully accused of undermining trump she said and was the target of a smear campaign conspired between trump's private attorney rudy giuliani and corrupt ukrainian officials or continues to amaze me is that they found americans willing to partner with them and working together they apparently succeeded in orchestrating the removal of a us ambassador you gonna bitch says she still doesn't know why she was ordered home on the next plane she was gone by the time the white house pros security aid to ukraine and trump pressed the ukrainian president to announce investigations into his political rivals republicans say democrats have been unable to directly tie trump to an impeachable offense the problem of trying to overthrow a president based on this type of evidence is obvious but that's what their whole case relies on. beginning with 2nd and 3rd hand information but now complicating

the president's defense is this new evidence of possible witness intimidation in the form of trump's tweet that materialize before the public's very odd ways democrats have tried to build up marie your vonage as a sympathetic witness and now trump himself may have helped them make that case while putting his own presidency in greater jeopardy joe castro al-jazeera washington and now a u.s. embassy official in new crane has confirmed to impeachment investigators that he overheard donald trump ask if ukraine's president had agreed to conduct investigations into his political rivals david holmes was speaking to a closed door hearing on friday about a phone call that he was present for between trump and the u.s. ambassador to the e.u. gordon sunderland that call took place a day after truck personally pressed president selenski to investigate his rival

joe biden and his son now israel says it's carried out air strikes targeting hamas and response to rockets fired from gaza 2 rockets struck the israeli city of beersheba in the south overnight hamas has kept some distance from the recent exchanges of fire between israel and the palestinian group islamic jihad 34 palestinians have been killed in that file and the worst cross border fighting in months how the forces has moved from gaza. well so far no claim of responsibility for this latest round of rocket fire coming out of gaza 2 rockets fired in the early hours of this morning towards the israeli town of besharam and they were intercepted by the israeli anti missile iron dome system but seems little doubt that israel blames those rockets on hamas because in the israeli airstrikes that followed a few hours later israel says it was targeting hamas sites here inside gaza now that is a shift from what's been taking place up until now in this latest escalation israel

has been characterizing this as a fight against islamic jihad since of course it began this round with the assassination of a senior islamic jihad commander in the early hours of tuesday morning someone that israel blamed for being behind a round of rocket a series of rocket attacks in recent months as seemed to be a strategy at play to try to separate out islamic jihad from hamas hamas while saying that it was very much with islamic jihad in the battle and refrained from firing rockets itself so this seemed to be a real distinction being drawn both by israel and in terms of the actions here inside gaza between hamas and islamic jihad bed been some anger at that especially given the number of civilian casualties that we've seen here inside gaza there was a protest on friday night in the jabalya refugee camp with people on the streets demanding that hamas act in a military manner as well as a rhetorical manner in support of islamic jihad and in response to the israeli

airstrikes so there have been several starters to this cease fire so far since it came into place on thursday morning we'll see how the situation plays out from here . still ahead on out of their. mind my. bringing hype and cautioning us on what is a real trial for a black man on death row for killing a white 120 years ago. and a warning to doctors on strike and zimbabwe back to lack of risk being fired. hello again welcome back to international weather forecast well this past week has been very messy across europe we've been talking about this area of low pressure all week long bring very heavy rain flooding as well as very gusty winds also

though we've been seeing a lot of snow with the storm i want to take you over here towards france particular over towards leon take a look at the snow they have received over the last 24 hours about 30 centimeters of snow fell across the region and in the higher elevations and because of the snow we're now looking at about $300000.00 people without power across this area as well it's a beautiful scene but of course without power in those chilly temperatures across much of the area so here's that area of low pressure that we are talking about still moving very slowly south still causing real problems down here towards the south we are talking about rain across much of this area today's forecast does look like this we have a lot of scattered showers across much of the region more rain across parts of italy as well of course we are watching what is happening across venice as we go from saturday as well as into sunday more heavy rain across much of the adriatic also very heavy snow up here towards the north we could be see well over one $140.00 millimeters to snow as we go towards the next couple of days here across the northern part of africa it is going to be a stormy situation as well algiers expect to see some very heavy rain over the next

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or mind of our top stories this hour there have been protests in iran after the government hiked fuel prices by police to 50 percent internet access has now been limited in some regions iran has some of the world's cheapest petrol prices because of heavy subsidies. israel has carried out strikes targeting hamas and response to a rocket attack from gaza 2 rockets were fired towards the southern israeli city of beer. and president donald trump has been accused of intimidation after he attacked a witness while she testified at his impeachment hearing maria bout of it was removed from her post as u.s. ambassador to ukraine back in may. well a former advisor to trump has been found guilty of 7 charges including lying to congress and witness tampering and was charged. in the investigation and to russian and to fair in the 2016 election he's been found guilty of lying to congress about

his contacts with wiki leaks cheering the campaign and his efforts to push one of his associates to then back up his lies he'll be sentenced in february and faces up to 50 is in jail and has more from washington d.c. it didn't take the jury long just about 7 hours to find roger stone guilty of all 7 counts obstructing official investigation lying to congress intimidating a witness basically this goes back to the election during the election don't put out messages on social media that something was going to come with what you call the wiki leaks started with e-mails that were half from the democratic party. believes that that was done by russian hackers so congress as part of their investigation into potential interference called stone and he said it wasn't me it was this other guy there's no evidence that i was coordinating between wiki leaks and the trump campaign for the prosecution brought out texts e-mails and witnesses they said in fact he was trying to get information from wiki leaks and he was

conveying that to the campaign including up to then candidate donald trump. serious charge here is the potential of intimidating a witness there this witness had messages from stone where he quoted the godfather movie about the mafia and threatened to get rid of the man's dog so now what happens well in february stoll will be sentenced he faces up to 50 years in prison but the way federal guidelines work it likely face much less time than that of course no stones going to be looking for his longtime friend and associate donald trump to give him a pardon right now he's probably his best bet to stay out of prison. now gunmen in sri lanka have attacked buses carrying muslim voters but no casualties have been reported it happened shortly after polls opened in the country's presidential election ethnic tensions have been high since the easter bombings earlier this year that killed hundreds former defense minister got a. permit us i was the current minister of the 2 main candidates in alpha and as

has more from colombo. there are almost 13000 polling stations like the one you see behind me where sri lankans are casting their vote to choose their next president here a blown up version of the ballot paper as you can see a record 35 names that basically they've got to sort through and choose their particular candidate now we're hearing that there was a brisk amount of activity as polls opened at 7 o'clock this morning but the lection authorities have extended by an hour the period that voters have to cast their ballot because obviously with such a long list of names that the logical issues where voters have to sort out pick the right candidate and the entire process of casting that ballot is expected to take longer than usual and even though we have $35.00 contenders in the fray it's actually down to 2 key players gautami rajapaksa the former defense secretary and

subject the minister of housing the son of former president promising. people there are certain things that have come to the fore that they say is important in choosing their next leader again. building up this country's what's important for me stop the corruption stop the drugs and take the country forward it's been a relatively peaceful election but we are hearing reports that there have been some incidents the police has confirmed that a number of buses carrying muslim voters to polling stations in man which is in the northwestern part of the country was polluted with stones there was also reports that gunfire was directed at some of these buses there are a few reports of sort of coersion pressure on certain voters to vote either way so these are things that we're hearing but obviously the day has

a few was to go ahead of polling time and sri lankans are waiting with bated breath to find out who their next leader will be. while they wait our correspondent bernard smith spoke to an election monitor in sri lanka about religious intimidation there out of $75.00 incidents received during elections d.v.d. last $4.00 and $5.00 other that actually that was most of the incidents came through down south and also responsible. crowd issues of our local government members of. abuses rajapakse as it is the main opposition parties because we have received many incidents like. and there are. also most of the local government members are transporting borders and all sorts of . threatening borders in some areas. 2 people have been killed and more than

a dozen wounded in a bomb attack in baghdad an explosive device placed in neat the car detonated on friday evening security forces say it happened near tahrir square a focal point for the protests that have grips the iraqi capital for more than a month and at least 2 people were killed and dozens injured as security forces fired live rounds during anti-government demonstrations on friday iraq's top share leader grand ayatollah sistani called for calm in his weekly 7 protesters are angry about widespread corruption unemployment and poor basic services. well security forces and bolivia have shot and killed 5 protesters there in the town of secada it's the single most violent incident since president evo morales resigned earlier this week and interim government has taken charge but rallies calling for a democratic transition of power have continued to reason but has more from the palace. once again clashes in the center of all of us. are

supporters of libya's former president who will more or less try to make it to the presidential palace notice so good at this he's a member of the a my to indigenous community he says he wants democracy back in the most part required by law we only have these chin straps and sticks we don't have weapons but we will defend ourselves but we have our hearts in the right place and we want to defend democracy. even though some protests are violence people want to gather peacefully to demand elections but the situation is so tense that even journalists have become a target i was just only tear gas by the police on purpose this is what's happening in the middle of a plateau where people have been protesting peacefully a police officer just threw tear gas on my eyes many of those who protest i'm not happy with the interim president is anyone yes who they say does not represent them a series of tweets posted by her and very fired by news organizations in the past

have offended the indigenous majority here. she took office without consent if it's not even the me what the military to come and call for elections the armed forces are also trying to quell the protests they're carrying the indigenous woodpile a flag which for many is more important than the national one believe yes interim administration has made a foreign policy shift and ask venezuelan and cuban officials to leave the country they say they have been organizing unrest in the wake of the resignation of former president evo morales. these people were arrested for possessing firearms without a license they are foreigners they're venezuelans libyans are clearly concerned because there are these types of groups looking to destabilize a government that has been legally established which is headed by president jeanine . protesters from the city of cochabamba have been trying to reach the capital. videos and social media show that several people have been killed in clashes with the military and the police the videos could not be independently verified by al

jazeera and then from mexico it will more or less said new elections are the only way to calm the situation down. here for the sake of democracy if the interim government of bolivia doesn't want me to take i have no problem not taking person new elections i just wonder why there is so much fear of evil but i'm willing to see it priorities and willing to bring peace to. but there are questions over whether his party will be allowed to run because it's been accused of committing fraud bolivia desperately needs meaningful negotiations that would allow elections to take place soon as many believe only an elected president will be able to take the country forward that he said well i'll just syria. while politicians in chile have agreed on a plan that will pave the way for a referendum on a new constitution the step towards replacing the pinochet era constitution was announced on friday after hours of negotiations the vote is aimed at pacifying

anti-government protesters have now been out on the streets for weeks the referendum is due to be held in april next year now a u.s. court has blocked the execution of a black man just days before it was due to be carried out 51 year old rodney reid had been convicted of the murder of a white woman back in 1906 but the texas appeals court says new evidence of his innocence must now be considered john hendren has more from austin texas. when rodney reed awoke on friday morning his days were numbered numbered to 5 he was scheduled to die by lethal injection at the hands of the state of texas on wednesday nov 20th that is for the rape and murder of stacy stites in 1996 but late on friday the texas court of criminal appeals issued a stay demanding that new evidence be considered among other things his lawyers got an affidavit from a friend of the victim that seemed to corroborate his story that he was having

a long term affair with stacy stites and that that would explain why his semen was found on the victim when she was found dead in another explosive piece of evidence an inmate in jail along with the fiance of stacy sites says that that fiance confessed to her murder he has since through his lawyers denied that he has done so but that is another piece of explosive new evidence this happened just hours before the texas parole board recommended a 120 day stay of the execution so that they could consider new evidence or the court's consider consider new evidence that is a very rare thing 566 people have been executed in the state of texas since it reinstituted the death penalty in 1982 the parole board has only asked for a stay 5 times it's only been granted 3 times and now rodney reed hopes to be. in the boy's government says there could be more disciplinary hearings if doctors

don't return to whack they've been on strike of a poor pay and wet conditions for nearly 3 months now more than $200.00 a journey and middle level doctors have been fired so far on hiring which often has more from harare principles ha was fired earlier this month along with hundreds of other genia doctors aims zimbabwe. the government has missed him for going on strike to demand better pay and work conditions in public hospitals he says he wasn't paid in october and because he's now unemployed he won't get paid in november soon he will have to move out of this department. 2 weeks. and a pittance. that's our best. in terms of the barbers once busy public health facilities are new usually quiet the waiting areas and awards are deserted the strike has dragged on for more than 2 months most doctors were fired after they failed to attend

disciplinary hearings the reason was that they couldn't afford to pay for transport zimbabweans are struggling to deal with the worst economic crisis in a decade they are shortages of foreign currency fuel power and medicines this doctor strike is a nother hardship that many people here say they have no choice but to enjoy. watching her daughter braxton suffer is painful the 3 year old's temperature is very high but neither nurses nor doctors are working at a local clinic. hospital when she from a nice woman should be in a lot of people are going to die if my child starts having fits in the middle of the knowledge she could die if the hospitals were working doctors would tell me what medication and injections she needs i am scared i could lose her if she gets really sick but mary says she understands doctors want to pay to pay like millions of others in zimbabwe story inflation has you go to salaries and life is hard but

the worried by the just once a daughter's pain to end. from what she thinks it's a tonsils but says right now there is no one willing to help her how to al-jazeera how to. hello again this is al jazeera and these are the headlines they have been protests in iran after the government hiked fuel prices by at least 50 percent internet access has now been limited in some regions and iran has some of the world's lowest petrol prices because of heavy subsidies shortage of ari has the latest from tehran people are still very much angry and they are voicing their anger they are saying that this is absolutely unacceptable given the current economic status of the country walk up to this news and there were shocked and stunned without any warning

the prices went up drastically and many here say that this is not something they can really deal with because it will have ramifications in other aspects of their daily life meaning that the price of bread eggs and other goods will also rise as a result of this. u.s. president donald trump has been accused of intimidation after he attacked a witness on twitter while she testified at his impeachment hearing mary advantage was removed from her post as u.s. ambassador to ukraine in may israel has carried out as strikes targeting hamas and response to a rocket attack from gaza 2 rockets were fired towards the southern israeli city of beer sheva overnight house has kept some distance from the recent deadly exchanges of fire between israel and the palestinian group islamic jihad gunman in sri lanka have attacked buses carrying with women voters but no casualties have been reported it happened shortly after polls opened in the country's presidential election former defense minister got a buyer rajapaksa and subject permadeath so who's the current minister of the 2

main candidates 2 people have been killed and more than a dozen wounded in a bomb attack in baghdad an explosive device placed beneath a car detonated on friday evening security forces say it happens near tahrir square a focal point for the protests that have gripped the iraqi capital for more than a month now. security forces in bolivia have shot and killed 5 protesters in the town of secada it's the single most violent incidents since president evo morales resigned earlier this week and interim government has taken charge but rallies calling for a democratic transition of power have continued while those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after counting the cost to stay with us.

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