al-jazeera. the arab. fully back to go this is the news hour live from i had orders in doha coming up in the next 60 minutes let me come back and finish my term but live yes former president makes that plea from exile in an interview with al jazeera. iran's leaders stand by their decisions to increase fuel prices and rationing despite a few furious responds also this hour a car bomb kills at least 19 people in a northern syrian town controlled by turkey back fighters and the study questioning

whether surgery is really necessary for many people with heart disease. i am. thank you for joining us believe he is deposed president ever moralez has told al jazeera he should be allowed to return and complete his final term in office he spoke in mexico where he fled after resigning last week following weeks of unrest the united nations meanwhile is warning that the ongoing violence in bolivia could spin out of control and prevent new elections on friday 8 supporters of morales were shot dead during fighting with security forces let's bring in our correspondent john holeman who spoke to evel morales in mexico city so john what did he have to say. well he did have a bit about what you just mentioned actually the 8 people that died. the hands of

security forces it seems here for him he said that this was a continuation of what he defines as a military coup when the army suggested publicly that he left office i did ask him about that resignation and he said that really there was no choice for me felt that unless he left the country he was going to he was going to lose his life of course there's another side to this that had elections now a month ago in which there was serious regularities according to the organization organization of american states and obviously protests took off as a result of that and those protests continued until president even after he called for fresh elections seem to have no choice but to leave the country now have a look at our report here and him talking a little bit about what's happened since then. up until sunday if more rallies was latin america's longest standing current leader now pressured to resign by the

military after accusations of electoral fraud he suddenly believe he is former president and the next of in mexico but after less than a week he told how to 0 he's already planning to go home. there's a place i can't be outside of the country i'm used to being with the people as a union leader president doing work that i miss a lot i'm looking for a legal way to go back and be with the people as they resist the dictatorship of the coup he says if allowed back he wouldn't seek to run impression lections that's a bone of contention between him and the opposition but he still wants to complete the last 2 months of his term. i don't know why they're so scared of evoke they don't want me to participate that's ok everything for life for democracy or i retire my candidacy but they should let me finish my term is that understood. not understood by now interim president jimmy

n years she said he could face charges if he goes but it's the culmination of discontent that started back in 2016 when moralists to change the constitution program for a full time there was a referendum the majority voted against you having a 4th term and afterwards you did it you did run again and that seemed to go against the spirit of democracy in the country you could interpret it like that but so you know on the 21st of february 2016 the lie won enough lies to beat us with 70000 votes moral less the right united and beat us based on a lie you and c.n.n. were in on it the u.s. embassy prepared that lie he's on repentant the moment and he also insists that there wasn't fraud in the elections a month ago this by investigators from the organization of american states saying that they too was diverted to a secret service that there were clear manipulations he says that organizations

politically motivated. i had a lot of trust or some trust but now i don't have any in the you know i guess i should be called the organization of the states of north america not america. he did call fresh elections after b.o.'s preliminary report but by then it was too late many see able morale is as a good leader who simply stayed too long he managed almost half of poverty the economy grew under you and you brought stability. now. given what's happened if you could go back in time would you have run again for this 4th term would you have gone against that referendum or if you could have your time again would you if bowed out gracefully got a war you don't look for the post of presidency it seeks you out that's my experience in the unions in my experience in the presidency and i want to tell you

that after the 1st mandate i was happy content to go back to cochabamba is that when you win people's trust you go again and. that in the end may have been his undoing and in his wake bolivia is in crisis with police killing protesters and violence from both sides meanwhile you can only look on from afar. and john the interim government has accused of stalking unrest of being behind the protests in bolivia what do they have to say about that. where he's been definitely been talking about that and saying that that violence is is is is a result of what he terms a coup b. has also asked and what he said to us that he wanted to call for national dialogue he said that since he's been in mexico he said that that should be with the participation of all of the big civic actors in bolivia and also with the united

nations to try and come to some sort of resolution here what do you hope to actually achieve there with that national dialogue and here again returns to the theme of hoping that he could finish at least his term which finishes in a couple of months that just doesn't seem realistic given what the interim president has been saying about him and about her comments you saw in our report that if he was to come back to bolivia he might be charged so this is still an ex-president now really wants to get involved in put politics still in bolivia he hasn't given up on that in any capacity that he can do but it seems that the people there are now in power desperate to stop but it remains to be seen what they can do now to stop the violence stop perhaps the actions of the security forces the united nations as you mentioned has said that this spiral of violence doesn't really look good if bolivia wants to go to elections wants to hold elections in the next couple of months or that might not be able to happen so really they've been put there to

deal with it it didn't seem to happen after president moralism after the elections things just started to get seem to get worse with the protests that were happening but now the shoe is on the other foot the people that were in the opposition have to try and deal with this violence with the security forces and their reaction to it thank you so much for that john heilemann life for say mexico city. meanwhile venezuela's opposition leader is using the situation in bolivia to make a fresh push for president nicolas maduro to step down thousands of people took to the streets of caracas in support of my main rival one cried oh made a speech outside the bolivian embassy telling his supporters to keep protesting until free elections are held in venezuela and other world news iran's leaders say they won't back down from their decision to increase fuel prices despite protests across the country one person has been killed and several others injured

as they tried to enter an oil refinery in the southern city of syria john doerr such a barrier reports from tehran the. anger frustration and growing concern in tehran as people protested against a 200 percent increase in fuel prices the many simply turned off their engines on major highways across the city to show their disappointment at the sudden decision to raise petrol prices overnight. as heavy snow blanketed the capital people still lined up at the gas stations to fill up. the quota for america this is not a wise decision considering our horrible economy and sanctions we are under it's a cruel decision because it won't affect the wealthy people only the poor people will pay the price. this will 100 percent impact everything else it's not just about the press of gas all commodities will be impacted for. this was only her low income families they were supposed to increase subsidies 1st then raise the price

of fuel they will find another excuse to cut their subsidies later. the protests have not been limited to the capital this was the scene in the southern city of abidjan enclose a sun province overnight here state t.v. announced a number of individuals it described as unknown elements fired into crowds of people injuring some. the shock of this news has yet to sink in here with the new prices motorists now pay about $0.13 a liter that's a 3 fold increase the government expects to earn nearly $2500000000.00 from the price increase and says that it will help millions of families in need have that sort of out of the 1st payments will be handled within the next week or $10.00 days and transferred to the families in model year a strong president believes that if there is going to be paid to process reform all of the new revenues will be paid back in full to the people. that many people here fear that this decision could have far reaching consequences it stems from

a number of issues while iran has huge energy reserves its refining capability is limited and that makes it difficult to get fuel to the pumps. the government is also fighting fuel smuggling to neighboring countries that's because iran has some of the cheapest prices in the world due to its heavy subsidies and a weak currency the economy here has been struggling for years but since the united states withdrew from the 2015 nuclear deal last year and reimpose a series of new sanctions on iran things have been getting much worse inflation is just over 40 percent with unemployment rates at over 14 percent officials here say that this fuel price increase will help people but it's proving very difficult to convince ordinary iranians door so to pary al-jazeera tower on. u.s. impeachment investigators have questioned a white house official about president donald trump's decision to block military

aid to ukraine mock sunday is the 1st person from the office of management and budget to speak. the inquiry fresh on ukraine is at the heart of the democrat led probe the president is accused of using the aid as a bargaining chip to encourage ukraine's government to investigate his political rival joe biden let's bring in she habitat in our washington bureau is she have what did mark sandy apparently say that well he's become a figure i mean normally he just be a faceless career bureaucrat in the in the o.m.b. but it's his signature that was on the initial paperwork that stopped the aid from going to ukraine for military use and now look it's perfectly legal for a president to stop aid that's been appropriated by congress from going to its intended intended destination as long as the president gives a reason president obama in fact we haven't forgotten he refused to send lethal aid to ukraine because it didn't want the u.s. to get into a proxy shooting war with russia i did want to end intensify the conflict that the problem is donald trump is for all the bureaucrats of the a and b.

or lots of bureaucrats of the m.b. were concerned wasn't giving a reason which made them wonder why do we have the legal authority to stop this money from being dispersed and these discussions were going all in the n.b.a. and around that time a political appointee started taking interest michael duffy a longtime republican at the air and be appointed by dog from just happened to say to sandy hey you know i want to get interested in in the mechanics of how the money is appropriated which sandy thought was a bit with the next thing you know is instead of sandy signature on all these documents it's duffy's signature it's on these documents preventing that aid from going to ukraine which sound he said was bizarre he'd never seen anything like that before but you know here if you're looking for a quid for a shoot a smoking gun or like that you know going to get it because the whole point about this testimony is they don't know why the age the hate will stop so they don't because that key question was there a quid pro quo that trumpet audit so this is more about process the mechanics of stuffing it so then another key testimony is coming up on wednesday what can we

expect from that. golden son of the current ambassador to the e.u. for the us is now becoming the key key figure he was already under scrutiny because he 1st gave his deposition to congress and he said that i didn't think about a quid pro quo. search me i know nothing about it and then a few weeks later and written testimony said oh you know i said i didn't know anything about it in fact it was me who told the ukrainians there was a quid pro quo he was on biden and then we will be with the aid might be released i just came to that conclusion myself he said. just hit me and that's why i told you that but yes i was actually part of it then on friday we had the depositions come out well from a from a star at the u.s. embassy. in ukraine and he said he was at this rather interesting meal at lunch meal over why and when suddenly golden someone decides to call donald trump on his

cell phone to update him on ukrainian negotiations this is july 26th the day after the famous july 25th call between trump and selenski and this embassy staff can hear it all in front on the other end of the line going so they're going to start investigations and the fact that ukrainians love you will do anything you want but this is another thing that he didn't tell congress so these 2 key things summoned didn't tell congress initially in his initial deposition to to the inquiry which is pretty strange which will be asked about but now we have today's deposition that's been it's come out from the key expert on russia in the u.s. of national security council and by and large this was a really good day for dollars from this deposition actually backs up a lot of the trump and republican line that there was no quid pro quo as far as most people thought that there was nothing wrong with the july 25th cool and so on but it's pretty clear there from this deposition that he was warned almost immediately as he took his job at the n.s.c. by his predecessor stay away from song lynn and rudy giuliani that part of the

shadow campaign where they're trying to open this investigation into but recently. the ukrainian energy company and the bidens and why hunter biden had a job a very plum job at this energy company even though he had no energy experience and his dad was the vice president of the time so that's keystone once again comes up as being key to this whole campaign and then in today's deposition we understood as far as as far as morrison is concerned someone said that he had loads of contacts of these 5 as far as morrison can tell. calls with with donald trump about ukraine and morrison and someone was saying he was he was doing the bidding of donald trump because if so then who told the ukrainians in early september that there was a quid pro quo now morrison is suggesting he doesn't necessarily trust someone he thinks on is very self-important he just wants to impress people with his contact with all trump i can find about i can for lunch and he might be trying to impress don't trump by getting what we all know in the public knowledge was something that

trump did want an investigation into corruption in ukraine and the bidens in particular it's not clear whether it was trump who are stoned and to tell you about that quid pro quo or whether it was stolen himself who was acting on his own initiative but that's going to be a key question on wednesday so england is now key thank you for that she had better for us in washington d.c. . there's much more still ahead on the al-jazeera news out of the. violence mars otherwise peaceful protests marking 8 years since the birth of funds as yellow vest movement plus. some present. in an unprecedented interview britain's prince sandra tries to explain his friendship with late sex offender jeffrey epstein and roger federer meets his match in the semifinals of the a.t.p. finals in london peter happy actions.

military sources in the democratic republic of congo say rebels on the allied democratic forces on group are attacking the eastern region of benny at least 15 people were killed in attacks in the same area on friday night the a.d.f. rebels are retaliating after the army and u.n. peacekeepers launched a major new offensive against a group last month it's mainly based in dense forest near the border with uganda in syria at least 1000 people have been killed in a car bomb attack in the north east the turkish defense ministry says the attack was carried out by syrian kurdish fighters but there's been no claim of responsibility they toria gate and b. as a details was the car bomb exploded in a busy residential area in the turkish controlled syrian town of al-bab this was the chaotic scene moments afterwards residents who've enjoyed more than 8 years of war have had enough was enough that i met him and we were walking and suddenly we

heard an explosion haven't you had enough of this for a decade isn't it in mount their chief made us homeless you protect our dignity isn't it not that you slaughtered us you've made us go hungry where do you want us to go where do you want us to migrate to the lead up to the attack. captured on this office security camera people going about their everyday lives until they. thought we were over there when the car exploded i came to check on my father and i shot we saw people burning on the floor and others were blown away members of. the turkish defense ministry blames kurdish y p g fighters who it regards as terrorists but there has been no claim of responsibility from any group turkey and syrian rebel allies have mounted 3 separate offensives in northern syria against kurdish militia what we will see is more of these incidents. as the confusion over

who controls walt who is responsible for what and who is saying was becomes ever more increased over time. the injured are being treated in hospital civil defense workers say they're trying to identify the bodies of those killed. victoria gate to be out there. yemen's transport minister has criticized a power sharing deal signed last week with separatists in the south. said the saudi brokered deal threatens illegitimacy of his own government job when he was targeted in a car bomb attack hours after an initial deal was announced the riyadh agreement aims to end months of violence between government forces and u.a.e. backed fight is. there's been violence in paris on the 1st anniversary of the yellow vests protest movements police fired tear gas and water cannon and hundreds of demonstrators after they built barricades and set fire to cars and rubbish bins

the movement began over rising fuel prices and the high cost of living and quickly grew into a wider revolt against president. for some. it was meant to have been a moment for the yellow vests movement to shine again after a dramatic drop in support at weekly rallies for the movement's 1st anniversary brought a violent fringe on to the streets of paris with protesters building barricades against police. after firing tear gas at as they started to target the crowd directly at a car is to hit me in the head we are strong and determined even though this isn't really representative of the whole movement across the country this is the side of the yellow vest protesters alienated much of from throughout this movement it's trying to achieve these people hard core group of individuals who are themselves members of yellow dress prevent were clearly bent on vandalism. but it didn't start

like this it began as a leaderless revolt against the rising cost of living and the planned tax on diesel an attempt by president to manual mccrum to reduce carbon emissions it morphed into a movement against mccrone himself drawing many tens of thousands of people from the far right far left and everything in between microbes forced to scrap the green tax and do more to help the poor but the yellow vests confused identity has led to its slow decline it has failed to transform into a political movement it has. been unorganized it has destroyed every spokesperson that has emerged and it has failed to go into election so on one side it's it has a huge impact on the political and. micron has dampened tensions by holding town hall debate up and down the country half

a 1000000 people have taken allowing him to win back some support in opinion polls but activists accuse the government of excessive force against demonstrators 24 people have been blinded 5 times the victims blaming a liberal use of stun grenades and rubber bullets. the french economy is among the fastest growing in europe but poverty is growing to its powerful trade unions are calling for strikes and protests in december pension reforms the yellow vests say they would join them may face a turbulent winter had. paris. large fires have been burning around a hong kong university after protesters held petrol bombs towards police security forces fired back with tear gas in some of the most dramatic scenes or 5 months of demonstrations soldiers from the people's liberation army have also been seen on the streets helping to clean up debris near one of the universities are thongs

government says he did not ask for any assistance describing the soldiers efforts as voluntary community work. britain's prince andrew has denied allegations that he had sex with an immense trafficking victim of disgraced late billionaire geoffrey epstein but his conceded that his association with epstein had let the royal family down catherine stansell has a story but at the time an unprecedented interview with a senior member of the british royal family and his connections with the convicted sex offender prince andrew spoke to u.k. media about american billionaire geoffrey epstein you were staying at the house and convicted sex offender at the end of the day. with the benefit of hindsight that one could have. it was definitely the wrong thing to do. but at the time i felt it was the paper stick on the right thing to do and i kick myself for on a daily basis because it was not something that was becoming

a member of family american billionaire jeffrey epstein hung himself in his jail cell in august while awaiting trial he was accused of sexually exploiting and abusing dozens of underage girls in 2008 epstein was convicted of soliciting sex from underage girls despite this prince andrew remained friends with epstein he went before the cameras to try to rescue his reputation but royal watchers believe his interview may make matters worse that's i saying that this interview will be a train wreck i think that it will have the effect of putting all. more pressure than his already experienced prince andrew why to visit a convicted sex offender why did he find it convenient to stay with him and why on earth should the queen's 2nd some think that this was all the way to behave which

it wouldn't be for any human being virginia roberts giuffre says she was one of jeffrey epstein's under-age victims and she says she was forced to have sex with prince andrew 3 times she says she met you in 2001 she says she dined with danced with you at night club in london she went on to have sex with you in a house in belgravia a longing to go and marks on your friend your response i have no recollection of ever slowed. so i don't remember meeting her this is prince andrew with the woman he says he can't remember meeting his lack of recollection is a departure from the denials issued in the past from the investigations that we've done you can't prove whether or not that photograph is faked or not because it is a photograph of a photograph of a photograph so it's very difficult to be able to to to to prove it but.

i don't remember a photo of ever being taken buckingham palace has always denied the allegations against prince andrew calling them false and without foundation this was a very carefully orchestrated interview that took place here and it was sanctioned by the queen herself. this is the 1st time prince andrew has spoken so directly about his relationship with epstein but the way he handled the interview may well lead to more questions than answers catherine stansell al-jazeera london. now among the stories we have ahead for you decades of patchy power supplies in lebanon we'll look at one of the biggest grievances among protesters also a trailblazing journey is that afghanistan's 1st all female t.v. station thousands so story and it's a 2nd we're in for max 1st happened in brazil the deal showing you how you did mr stillman.

can finally say winter is coming a long ways through china you can't see any change to the class are coming out from the plots are moving eastwards and there's nothing really much in the scar and here is a full cost for sunday 23 in one hand keep your eye on that and 27 in hong kong almost universal sunshine i want to shout down the south was no big surprise there and then coming in from the north was some reputed to be a big drop in temperature down to 11 who are this line is the winter front if you like it rain or snow at hearts and it will make things change i think probably permanently for the winter months. now the rainy season is showing rather lack of interest in indonesia very few shows you notice here but of circulation and is

a tropical starter on his way to northern philippines new song but it will be i think a rain thing not a wincing and maybe not lots of it to be on his show why would his fall to pick them up wanted to sumatra like to see them i'm sure you would down in java jakarta the next couple days they're not really doing very much a tool the dry spell for the rainy season i think obviously the monsoon rain has now gone from india apart from bit of good stuff in sri lanka as for temperatures well this slowly coming down as well. the weather sponsored by catherine was. that. it is really good to be ideological battle over abortion we've been far ahead of the. kids challenging a woman's right to choose the groups that's been ignored now for decades has been. against those lined up to defend that choice so we're talking about being able to make decisions from from our body. investigates the abortion bans on al-jazeera

until now the coverage of latin america and most of the world was about covering khuda taz tragedies quakes and that was it but not how people feel how they look how they think and that's what we do we go away 5 and a half months of demanding a good education system that was introduced. in latin america as year has come to fill a void that needed to be sealed. you're

watching c.n.n. live from doha to remind of us top stories on this news hour the united nations is warning violence in bolivia could spin out of control and prevent new elections on friday at least 8 supporters of former president ever moranis were shot dead cheering fighting with security forces iran's government is standing by its decision to increase fuel prices despite protests across the country on person was killed and several others injured as a trying to enter an oil refinery interior minister is warning security forces will acts to restore calm if needed and turkey is raining kurdish why b.g. fighters for a car bombing in northern syria at least 1000 people were killed and dozens injured in the explosion it happened in the city of bob in aleppo countryside. now vote counting is underway after elections in sri lanka that were dominated by rising religious tension and a slowing economy former defense secretary good to buy rajapaksa and. other 2 main

candidates muslims who make up 10 percent of the population see their face hostility since the attacks on churches and hotels in april that killed more than 250 people me now fernandez has more from. the crucial areas of the 200-1000 presidential election is underway the count as you can see the ballot boxes coming in buses like this to the main counting center here in colombo one of the main centers royal college the election commission chairman. has spoken about the conduct of the election today the 1st. the 1st. real. day we've seen it. c.b.s. incident. and counting all of the votes is going on right throughout the night this process being duplicated in counting centers in every single district obviously

security as you can see around me is very tight to ensure the security of the ballot now what we've heard in terms of voter turnout we've heard that there has been around 80 percent the main question is going to be which of the frontrunners go tabi rajapaksa the former defense secretary or sergeant prim of us of the minister of housing which of them secures more than 50 percent of the vote if they are not able to do that the count goes into a 2nd round where preferential votes will be counted that becomes a little bit more complicated but sri lankans throughout the country are waiting to find out the results of those processes another of our correspondents bernard smith serves us more about the frontrunner. rajapaksa knows to the british priest but he could rely on support from voters within sri lanka's majority think.

but he also needs support from minority muslims and tamils too if he's to win this presidential election many of them are nervous of the prospect of a return to power of the rajapakse it's got a pie was defense chief and his brother mahinda was president at the end of the civil war which the u.n. estimates killed 40000 people that party also courts nationalists is a big blue lanka get in with. the. staff in sri lanka center for monitoring election violence say the poll has been free but not necessarily fair with reports of people being pressured on how to vote we have never seen that much influential factors like leaders leaders that are coming forward from or one particular political party. such as prima das is the only other realistic contender in this election he gets support from rural buddhists and minority groups who could swing the result in his favor. the ruling coalition is choice but this is

a government that ignored warnings about the easter sunday suicide attacks that killed 263 people prompting rajapaksa to announce his candidacy we are hoping for a new future 3 lanka and. there are a candidate and the same there are many candidates so it's going to be a very competitive place so i just hope there. you know whoever gets elected can deliver on their promises and ensure a safe nation and a prosperous nation and everyone can sort of believe in peace 60000000 people were eligible to vote they had 35 candidates to choose from. the run up to sri lanka's last presidential election was marred by violence and widespread intimidation this time it's been more peaceful it is though a tight race where passions are running high earner to make out is there a colomba. now many patients with severe but stable heart disease could benefit

from medication and lifestyle changes rather than surgery that's the finding of a major study balance by the u.s. government which observed more than 5000 people over 7 years it's a biggest yet to compare invasive options like stents with more conservative treatments including cholesterol lowering drugs well to tell us more about this let's speak to khan who's dean of the university of nebraska medical center college of public health he is via skype thank you so much for being with us so what do you make of the findings in this report that say there's no real benefit to sending prestigious and that more conservative treatment is more effective would you as a doctor recommend this. i absolutely would hurt robert recommend a more conservative therapy and so this is now the 2nd time in over a dozen years that i think we've really for once and for all answered the fundamental question that if you have stable heart disease should you use medical

therapy and lifestyle modifications or should you go on and include invasive treatment such as dancer or a cardiac bypass and the data is pretty clear 5000 people 37 countries $100000000.00 to do this study stick with the drugs and the conservative therapy but the findings do not apply to heart patients correct. the findings apply to people with stable cardiac disease so if you're if you're having a heart attack then yes you should go on and get some other invasive therapy but if you have stable disease then you will do just fine with conservatives there are however people who have severe stable heart disease so you know if they're walking and they have severe chest pain then the studies suggest that they'll have a better improvement in their quality of life however they're not more likely to

live longer or not have a heart attack or not require hospitalization yeah this could save i mean these findings could save hundreds of millions of dollars a year in health care costs could that have been the main goal of this trial since it was sponsored by the u.s. government n d c you know doctors cardiologists changing the their practice and no longer resorting to high tech solutions to treat cardiac disease i think the main goal of this study was to answer that central question is what is best for the patient and there was little to no data suggesting that subjecting patients to these invasive therapies actually helped them so i think we've answered the fact that yes this will help patients as far as the cause there's no doubt about it these these therapies which are poorly researched and costing a lot of money and in the u.s.

the expectation is maybe you know about 5th of all of the stands so these are the little measures that go into your arteries to open them up maybe a 5th of them are necessary but do you see briefly doctors changing their their practices their practice as a result of this. hopefully doctors will change their practices i know i'm less likely refer patient now for revascularization than i would have been previously i mean these data are really excellent will see them unfold over the next 5 years or so but after anywhere between one and i have to 7 years of follow up it's pretty clear that i'm not saving more lives by subject by sending these stable patients off to go get these invasive procedures dr ali khan thank you very much for talking to us thank you very much. now protests in the west african nation of guinea have led to at least 20 deaths since last month as ca proposed constitutional amendments

will allow president condé to run for a 3rd term mammadov reports. the family of abdullah is devastated they say he was shot dead during an government protest in the guinean capital conakry on thursday his wife was left to bring up the 3 month old baby on her own she says she tried to prevent him from going out to join the protest. i can look over the one my husband did not come home and after his friend called my sister and said they had killed him i said it's a joke we had just parted before he left i told him don't go out and i tried to call him and ask him to return but he was not picking up my calls and he never came back. police killed 2 other people opposition supporters wearing a hooded jacket stoop to the streets to voice their anger at president up for condi and to reject his plan to change the constitution so he could run for the new lives in a. really good in

a new thread protesting in order to prevent the foundations of the republic from being destroyed in order to keep a man in power we are not against him in person but we are against him remaining in power beyond his term in office. the latest demonstrations were called by the national front for the defense of the constitution the alliance leading the protests young protest has been tireless in the streets of the capital torched abbas police said they used force off to protest as so stones at them was 7 public anger against constitutional reforms began several weeks ago and there have been many violent confrontations with security forces since then a 3 state 20 people have been killed on the scene to national house condemned what to describes as a human rights abuses in guinea including the deaths of protesters at a huge number of opportunity at us how to divide our desire. lebanon's former finance minister has withdrawn his name from contention to be the country's next

prime minister mahmassani says it would have been difficult to form a harmonious cabinet in a statement he added that he hoped outgoing prime minister saad hariri would be renominated to take back the position i see in 44 years since lebanon had electricity 24 hours a day this is among many problems that have provoked almost months a month of protests stephanie decker report on what's been behind the power struggle. there making a point of being here around the clock the 24 hour protest calling for 24 hours of electricity the problem is we don't have 24 hours a week to just keep provided by the government this is you took. it so you to this fact we have each person has to have it house we have to add a generator to fill the gap where we don't have electricity. so we will end up paying 2 bills provide for electricity so the electricity is like 6 hours of

electricity the militarist the government electricity and we have provided for the electricity who are eating our money literally eating all money reform of the electricity sector is part of caretaker prime minister saad how do these reform plan but with the ongoing political stalemate those reforms are as abstract as the idea of an interrupted electricity let alone has had functioning 24 hour electricity since before the civil war that's before $975.00 that's why everyone has to rely on alternative sources and that translates to a mass of crisscrossed electricity cables running streets and it's like this across most parts of the country this couple tells us the situation is unbearable. your government doesn't provide enough electricity to your house why we have to use generators. but if you go to the areas where the politicians live electricity is a valuable 24 seventh's so they don't feel our problems as they don't live in

a blackout the demand of those on the streets government supplied an interrupted 24 hour electricity for all it's a demand that isn't new my parents have been asking the same you know it's it's insane that my parents 3040 years ago have the. things that they need the same things that we're asking right now you know we pay taxes what we get nothing in return our own functioning government ministries functioning well and yet the people are surviving and yet the people are still here still working imagine how much more productive they can be when the government gives them just their basic living standards electricity is just one of a long list of grievances including water infrastructure and waste management we're told that decades of widespread corruption and mismanagement means that hardly anything works here the way it should stephanie decker al jazeera beirut.

now the latest polling shows u.k. prime minister boris johnson's governing conservative party remains well out in front of the main opposition labor party and as election day approaches all sides are turning to online platforms to attract undecided voters as forced or even creating amateurish designed to go viral. we will leave the e.u. on the 29th of march 2000. it's made to raise a lot but it also makes a serious point about the conservatives failing to deliver bricks it when they said they would this online video is the work of my mentor the grassroots movement that supports labor leader jeremy corbett one example of how political parties are using eye catching digital content in the battle for undecided voters and boris johnson is conservative. firing back with a series of memes all with a similar message but with different treatments depending on whom they're aimed at

sean top him and ben gearin the young new zealanders behind many of them were hired after helping australia's center right liberal party score an unexpected election victory this year we're posting 30 posts a day and more than 20250 a week that means you have to generate and publish a new piece of content read 20 minutes that's how you get what we call the boomer means because you have to crank stuff out quickly i love this one here this sort of horrible mix neal paying a very bold canary yellow this advertising professional who runs his own blog on the latest political means says this deliberately garish content is often counter-intuitively popular with older voters we have seen some of the advertising that the conservative party have done under 30 five's and actually it's got more of a sort of retro cool eighty's vibe to it where it's actually quite polished and well crafted in the way that your city uses. that the visual language of the

internet in quite a quite nice way for the digital team momentum the emphasis is on spreading content with real people talking about their lived experience of issues like health care but they say they'll continue to put out satirical videos to you can talk very seriously about the things this government has done you can talk seriously about things like grand fell into it seriously about things you know like excess deaths as a result of austerity but then you can also talk reverently because i think you know people are just always communicating one time in their communicating and so many in this campaign we're seeing online content that's generating lots of laughs and then we're seeing content that's getting laughed at now some experts say what really matters is simply that people are engaging with the outputs but are those sounding alarm bells. i think the important thing is that in trying to get those simple catchy messages across they don't lose sight of the importance of being honest with the electorate because sometimes the simple message isn't necessary the most

accurate message well i can't hide it from you i've been thinking a bit about this general election campaign what's clear is more than ever before the search for hearts and minds is happening online as much as it is on the doorsteps the al-jazeera. this year's pay prize has been awarded to nudge wiley me a journalist a design t.v. it's the 1st all female t.v. station in afghanistan one of the deadliest countries in the world for journalists the pair prize honors work that promotes democracy speaking to this year's winner describe the dangers she and others face. now you all mean my name is not your let me i've been a journalist with design t.v. for the past 3 years in a house to get my government home have been about what i remember the day i realized i wanted to be a journalist i decided i would study to become one but my family was against it they said i could never become a journalist you just buy a car and then i paid

a capital i would like to believe i'm a feminist and want to be able to work for women so i decided to join zhan t.v. afghanistan's 1st all female t.v. station. i would like to dedicate this prize to all the women of afghanistan. those big king bread and. those getting beaten by their husbands those raising their children and facing abuse and to those nameless women who are yet to discover their own identity and the purpose of their life let me get this it takes a lot of courage to be a woman in the afghan society in a place where the most common answer you get is no and you're told that your rightful place is your home and you do not have the right to raise your voice to ask for your rights it's as if we're lesser humans are not about sonia but i will continue being a journalist until the last breath of my life which means that i have chosen my red line if the terrorist groups including the taliban return we fear that the few

rights we have achieved would be taken back rights like me bravely introducing myself in front of the camera or other rights that afghan women have today they would aim to take those back from us and throw us back to all those dark days but i will stand against them this is my responsibility to defend myself and all the women around me we will defend all our rights and achievements. he does here next with the sport and he'll tell us about the competition that spot football fever to the streets of miami. and investigation into the real powers that control the world health organization their obligation to their shareholders completely overwhelms any consideration of public health can they be trusted with building a healthier future if their loyalty becomes questionable views of the people that

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welcome back american football free agent call and captain a has held an addition workout hoping to return to the n.f.l. he previously accused the league of blacklisting him over his protests against racial injustice the venue of the tryout was moved at the last minute with captain exciting the n.f.l. wasn't allowing media to attend at the original location representatives of at least $25.00 teams were set to attend the event and his speech now with the rest of the day sports. thank you very much austria's germany team will play in the final of this year's a.t.p. finals in london after beating alexander very in straight sets inset in a 2nd semifinal it was the austrian it took advantage by winning the 1st set $75.00 and he completed victory by taking the 2nd set $63.00 to set up a final against stephanus at city pass earlier the greek knocked out roger federer in the days 1st semifinal the 21 year old was mostly comfortable in his victory

over the swiss the world on a 6 taking this match $63.64 it's the 1st time city bus will play in the final of the a.t.p. finals waiting for him in that final will of course be domini to. him it's the biggest one oregon have and. today is the days when victory i probably won't mind only one of my best matches of the season and. these are the ones that i always. wait for and these are the moments that i want to prove the best out of my game 4 time world champions germany eased past the roofs on saturday in dortmund to book their place at euro 2020 the german is laid at half time thanks to a goal in the 2nd half. and attorney cruised double her wrapped up the 4 no when germany top they group ahead of the netherlands well the dutch true no no in northern ireland on the night which also ensures they qualify for europe 2020 they

were also in for belgium croatia wales austria and poland across the various qualifiers. that's driver max for stop and will start in pole position for sunday's brazilian formula one grand prix for stop and was fastest in saturday's qualifying at the into largo circuit in sao paolo the dutchman beating ferrari sebastian vettel to pole position by just 0.123 seconds with world champion lewis hamilton in 3rd this is the 2nd time in his career that to stop and has secured pole position he will be seeking his 8th career grown prevent injury. no car is really good i think drug court trying to track temperature is changing a bit so we had to just. yesterday away from from q one the car was flying and it was actually really really enjoyable to drive so very happy with his position in many g.p. a rookie stole the show in spain frenchman fabio qatar all will start from pole position the season ending valencia murder g.p.

on sunday. champion mark mckay is by less than a 10th of a 2nd in qualifying on saturday this is the 6th in his maiden season from the beginning of the year let's say from jared he's our strong point honestly i don't know why but really happy because. you know in our route here makes exposed position on 6 podiums already looking looking back where we were in the past so yeah just super happy about today meanwhile the macau motorcycle grand prix had to be abandoned after a pair of crashes brought out the red flags 1st this collision between robert hudson and maddox of any forced a 20 minute delay then shortly after the restart a multi bike pile up ended the race altogether 3 riders were taken to hospital but all were conscious with no life threatening injuries. so africa zundel is one round away from taking victory at the met bank of challenge in its own country lombard short an even par $72.00 in saturday's 3rd round it means he is one shot clear of

the former open champion louis stays and is also from south africa thomas j. crew is tied for 2nd with worst days and at the tournament no one has africa's major world number one test team india have crushed bangladesh by an innings and $130.00 runs in their 1st of 2 test matches in indoor in india the indians had declared overnight on $493.00 for 6 it was to be mohammed shami sday shammy taking 4 wickets as bangladesh slumped to 213 all out because i am with 64 the best of the resistance for the bangladeshis the 2nd testing. starts on thursday. i think your pretty big tree gives you the confidence like become was mentioning a lot of questions not be important but people have posted on live like to say is that the walls that we play for are they sent maintaining the number one position is even more difficult then getting there. when but when we have some positive

things. that really will. do well and made us some pretty amazing. week on the players can play there as a team there we. meet her good night she was ill it was not over put limits i mean betting football for you was hotter than ever in miami on friday at the annual red bull street style competition melody don't share of france ignore doctor's orders to have her set out of the final and it paid off she came out on top winning her 3rd title resolves recall denio won the men's title with these stats let me see ok more sport coming up from us again later we'll see you then. thank you very much for that that's it for this news hour on al-jazeera from me for the whole team here and thank you very much for watching. with you next here for more news on al-jazeera and as always spend to mourn our web site

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