the industrialized world. the complex part one. on al jazeera. iraq a protest has refused to back down despite the prime minister officially submitting his resignation to the parliament. hello i'm maryanne demasi in london you're with al-jazeera also coming up on the program prime minister val's to toughen up sentences for serious crimes as it emerges friday's london bridge attack i had been in jail for a tear apart. the congolese army is saying it's killed a senior rebel leader while i'm all been reported to lynch 2 people suspected of

being from the same militia. and a south american president is convicted of mass murder but will he have a serve jail time. iraq's prime minister has officially handed in his resignation to the country's parliament. he held an emergency meeting of his cabinet and also the lower house to debate his resignation he said he had no choice but to leave his post. behind my resignation was essential to this the crisis and calm the situation in the country i hope the parliament choose a quick alternative for the country because this is jewish and the country can't handle a caretaker government for a long while but matty submitting his resignation has done little to calm protest as around the country off to weeks of on raw. demonstrators clashed with security

forces after trying to block a road in the capital baghdad medical officials have reported that 3 protesters were shot and at least 58 wounded in these latest protests which took place in the capital but also in the southern part of the country. he says the government has done everything it can to meet the demands of protesters but they are saying they have no intention of backing down and they vowed to continue protesting until there's a complete overhaul of the political system so one of faltering has more now from baghdad on what might happen in the parliament on sunday. he has officially now sent his resignation letter resignation letter to the parliament we are still unclear whether that is in fact how he should be resigning the constitution does not really mandated the step in fact the bylaws of the parliament say that he should be submitting his resignation letter to the president who would then merely accept it and that there is in fact no need for the parliament to be voting on that

now that the matter he has previously said that he would step down but he was basically pressured by the political establishment to stay on and it seems that following the call of grand ayatollah ali al sistani on friday to resign he was basically no longer able able to to sustain his government and to keep going and he also said that his government would be staying on as a caretaker government for 30 days or until another government was chosen but he also warned that he hoped that a new government would be chosen quickly because the current situation in the country could not really bear care to get a caretaker government for a very long time that basically the parliament and the president would need to act fast to reach a solution now what might happen tomorrow on sunday there is a parliament session and it's still unclear whether the parliament will actually vote on the part of the prime minister's resignation it appears that what might

happen is a vote of no confidence of course that is very strange because the prime minister's already submitted his resignation so there is actually no need for parliament to be launching a vote of no confidence but that is the only constitutional mechanism by which they could be voting on his resignation and that requires an absolute majority. spin revealed a man who killed 2 people in a knife attack in central london on friday had been released from prison hof way through a sentence for a bomb plot khan was shot dead by police on a london bridge the scene of another attack which took place 2 years ago this latest attack began at a conference he was attending on prisoner rehabilitation let's go live now to catherine stansell who's just by london bridge and catherine understandably some very serious questions being asked and controversy around why khan was released in

and how he was eligible for release. right well in 2010 he was one of 9 men who were arrested and then eventually convicted of terrorism related offenses he was given what's called an indeterminate prison sentence as opposed to a fixed prison sentence meaning that that particular offender can be behind bars indefinitely until it can be proved that they can be released without being a danger to society as a condition to that is that the person has to serve a minimum of 8 years behind bars now khan had that sentence quassia a few years ago and then on december 28th teen he serves that minimum 8 years and he was released the parole board was not consulted in this decision but there were conditions attached to his release he was supposed to wear an electronic tag he was supposed to report to a probation officer he was also not allowed to leave the country now police have

said earlier today that they believe he was following all of these conditions he didn't violate any of them. and when he came to this particular event in the area on friday. it's where he began and launched his top. british prime minister porus johnson visiting the scene of the attack on pay tribute to those who died in the bravery of those who overpowered the man suspected of stopping several people in central london to pay tribute to that incredible response that they were on the scene in 4 minutes the that the terrorists the assailant was was tackled. within 5 minutes quite incredible response by the police also want to pay tribute again i think the whole country is to the sheer bravery of those members of the public who went to deal with him spontaneously putting their own lives at risk dramatic new video shows bystanders as they take

down the attacker they use a whale tusk and a fire. wisher to stun him and then tackle him before armed police move in 28 year old esmond khan was attending a conference on prisoner rehabilitation when he threatens to blow up the venue he then went on a stabbing rampage before running out to nearby london bridge. in 2012 he was convicted in connection to a plot to blow up the london stock exchange he was released from prison in december last year serving less than half his sentence that would clearly be to be a review of those who need to be questioned so also that we do know what is in the public debate are working so breach of confidence is at this moment was convicted of a very serious offense of terrorism one of the serious offense you could be convicted of and it's roger probably expressions are also going to make sure that we did all that we could to keep the house city safe the perl board said it had no involvement in his release in

a statement it said given the seriousness of this attack it is understandable that there was speculation about the attackers released from prison the parole board can confirm it had no involvement with the release of the individual identified as the attacker who appears to have been released automatically on license without ever being referred to the board police are searching khan's home and stuff which are 3 hours north of london they believe he was acting alone and there's no further threat to the public and catherine it's important that this attack took place just weeks before a general election in this country there is now question about how it's going to be politicized and how prominent it's going to feature in the election. that's right the election is just 12 days away and campaigning was actually briefly suspended earlier in the day as a mark of respect for what happened here on friday but it's back in full swing the prime minister boris johnson was in the area earlier today and he emphasized that

he has always been against the early release of dangerous offenders and that they should remain behind bars and heat for sized part of the tory manifesto that he's pledging 20000 more police officers on the streets by 2022 really pushing he says the fact that tories are always trying to be very tough on crime now the opposition labor leader jeremy corbin spoke out today calling for an investigation as to why a con was released so early he also said that if he was elected that he would put in tougher measures to keep an eye on dangerous criminals who are eventually released back into society and he also questioned whether the overcrowding of the prison system in the budget cuts to prisons in recent years played is playing a role in the early release of some prisoners so this has definitely been playing

into the campaign so far even the home secretary weighed in on twitter blaming labor for changing the laws saying that once criminal has served half their sentence there should be an automatic release so this is definitely part of the election campaign and will be playing high for all the major parties leading up to the election thank you very much with the latest from london bridge thanks catherine stance so. well in our the headline story today a mall has reported to have lynched 2 suspected rebels in the town of beni in the northern. region of the democratic republic of congo the a.f.p. news agency is reporting that a crowd attacked a man and a woman dressed in civilian clothing often munitions were found in their bags the democratic forces militia has been blamed for killing more than 100 civilians in

the past month the most recent attack early on saturday 14 lives and could tama in the city of. meanwhile the army says it killed an a.d.f. senior commander mohammad islam late on friday catherine sawyer brings us more now on this latest attack in could tom. residents are now feeling that it's safe to go and assess the situation we're also hearing that some of the bodies are mutilated others have their heads cut off and this is a situation that people have been talking about for the past week or so people very upset with what is going on. able to calm and carry out attacks yet we have thousands of soldiers in that area carrying out an offensive against a.d.f. we have u.n. peacekeepers in that area as well yesterday evening the 28 people who were killed this with. the families still very much in shock still afraid that these rebels

might come back and we've been talking to the governor where the territory. talking to the governor about just what is going on. he said that this seems to be a strategy being employed by the a.t.f. they want to cause maximum panic and fear they want to show that bennie is ungovernable the security situation is out of control and they know that people are angry security forces so they're playing on that and they want to anger people even more so that we can see more protests going on. yemen to see rebels have released footage they say shows the shooting down of a saudi apache helicopter the group says it's behind the downing of the aircraft on friday and that 2 saudi pilots were killed it's been no confirmation from riyadh about this helicopter was hit by a surface to air missiles and crashed on the saudi side of the border. meanwhile people in yemen have launched through the streets in the southern city of ties to

protest against a western economic crisis demonstrators blame the government and the saudi led coalition for mismanaging the economy 4 years of war has destroyed roads and much needed facilities as a shortage of basic goods and many yemenis are on the verge of famine the conflict started in 2014 after the rebels overthrew the internationally recognized government. a court in suriname a has convicted the president of the murder of 15 political opponents in 1982 the court ruled that does he say who's on an official visit to china over his soul of the abduction and killing off the 15 government critics. reports. as china rolled out the red carpet for suriname president desi this week he defended beijing over the protests in hong kong this strictly. and strongly reject any form of interference. on

an affair. but while he's been in china the news back home wasn't good for about to say a military court found him guilty of murder and sentenced him to 20 years in prison in a case that goes back decades a panel of judges ruled by oversaw an operation in which well known journalists lawyers and university teachers were rounded up and killed for the crime of criticizing his leadership the victims' families have long doubted whether bowed to so would face justice in the trial which began in 2007 he accepted political responsibility for the killings but said he wasn't there i think it's safe to say that the country is split on this case he supported you know it's a very well organized party. he is the president he is elected democratically. does he has dominated politics in the former dutch colony since he seized power during a coup in 1980 after being elected president in 2010 he pushed through

a law granting himself immunity which was later overturned. in 2009 he told al jazeera he was looking forward to the end of this case and other decided let's wait and see the wording of the judge's it is not nice that we carry out the trial at this moment let's wait for the outcome the verdict and sentencing are being seen as a triumph for the rule of law but authorities in suriname have yet to issue a warrant for the president's arrest and her schapelle al-jazeera. so that for you on the program 8 months after a devastating cycle and thousands of zimbabweans and still living in tents and life could be about to get even while us and india's onion stand as a force to protect themselves from angry customers as a vegetable shortage hits critical levels.

hello again welcome back to your international weather forecast well here across europe we are talking about 2 particular areas that we are going to see some stormy wintry mix of weather over the next 24 to 48 hours 1st of all down here across the southeast we do have a front that's pushing across the black sea and into turkey that's going to bring a lot of heavy rain across some areas as well as some snow and then out here towards the west where we do have a system across parts of france the iberian peninsula we are going to be seeing some winds and the temperatures really in france only getting into the mid single digits so for paris here on sunday expect to see attempt a few about 4 degrees a lot of that weather will be transitioning over here towards the south and east so for italy that means you're going to be seeing some more rain in the forecast a lot of the areas are saturated so the likelihood of flooding is increased as the system does come into play here on monday down towards our growth you will be clearing out but it is going to be a little bit cooler with the time to there of 5 degrees well for the northwestern

part of africa expect to see your conditions starting to go downhill as we begin the week not really looking too bad here on sunday for much of morocco but by the time we get towards monday very heavy rain expected to come into play we'll be seeing robot with rain at 15 in algiers it's going to be cloudy and rainy day at 17 . al-jazeera as investigative unit goes undercover in the caribbean. we were brought in with the youth people for peace and exposing trade and diplomatic passports today just to look. at the partial good will over move involving some of the region's highest officials. all al-jazeera investigations diplomats for sale.

just a quick look at the headlines now iraq's prime minister. officially handed his resignation to the parliament but it's done little to comp a test as across the country with another 3 people shot dead in the capital baghdad it's emerged that the man who killed 2 people in a knife attack in central london on friday been released from prison haul flight through a sentence for a bomb plot a smug khan was shot dead by police on london bridge the scene of another attack 2 years ago. and the congolese army says that it's killed a senior rebel leader in the democratic republic of congo a mob is also reported to have lynched 2 suspected rebels in the town of benny. now

thousands of protesters have surrounded a police station in the indian city of hydrabad where 4 men accused of raping and murdering a 27 year old woman are being held a demanding the police hand the suspects over to them the woman was taken to a secluded area and gang raped before her body was doused in fuel and burned it was found on thursday morning under a bridge she told her family to say how a motorbike had a flat tire. well indian police are saying that priyanka readies body was found by a possible i in an underpass on the outskirts of the city i got out of that together to meet the girl who had returned from her work place and was only way to see a doctor she parked to scrutiny of the told plaza and when she was returning a stranger approached her to tell her it's a tie was punctured she'd been called a system in the in her mobile phone was switched off we are investigating all these angles and now we have some evidence. well the indian government has toughened some of its laws to reduce crimes against women following the right of woman on

a bus in 2012 in 2013 the maximum prison term for a rapist was double to 20 years actions including voyeurism stalking and trafficking of women will also classified as offenses parliament low at the age suspects could be tried for rape and other sexual offenses from $18.00 to $16.00 the latest figures show nearly 39000 women were raped in india in 2016 including more than 2000 girls below the age of 12 well covey's a question is secretary of the all india progressive women's association says that politicians are still not properly addressing the problem of violence against women in the country. in the climate in india knol the specific thing that is going to you know peculiar to india right now is that you have a government which is fanning up tensions between hindus and muslims and it's doing politics in that name and so what happens is that such an incident happens and a large part of the response that is made by the ruling party and

its supporters and so on on media social media is to try and see all of the 4 men at a 5th of the one of them is muslim and some muslims out the problem rather than think back to the uk is the problem this suspect the consent of the problem the fact that our government and not doing enough to make our streets well lit and safer and more then gleeful women to be out in large numbers that is the problem the fact that your police encourages victim blaming is that is the problem you know that there's an attempt to divert of the from all of that well in other news in the country some onion centers in india have started wearing helmets to protect themselves from angry customers during stones at them the price of the staple vegetable has skyrocketed leaving out of reach for many ordinary people excessive monsoon rains damaged onion crops leading to the price right india is the world's largest exporter of onions and has banned exports in september to curb costs as even been

cases of looting with the stealing onions and selling lawn. we have to protect ourselves if we through our news on our own people start the 1st stones at some of us which is why we have to wear helmets. a north korean official has called japan's prime minister an imbecile and warned that tokyo could soon witness what he called a real missile launch north korea's state news agency published the comments the attack on shinzo ave comes after north korea fired 2 short range projectiles into the sea off its eastern coast on thursday japan is criticized pyongyang over its launches saying that it's likely ballistic missiles that would be in violation of u.n. sanctions and measles epidemic sweeping through samoa has killed 42 people more than 3000 cases have been registered since the outbreak began last month health officials say most of the victims are children under the age of 4 needles

immunization rates dropped in some of the deaths of 2 babies in 2018 because the vaccination was not administered properly. unfortunately in samoa part of what is happening there has to do with some social social messaging around an anti vaccine group and this is now being measured in the lives of children who who have died in in the course of this outbreak for the 1st time facebook has added a correction notice to use this post saying the original message contained false information it complies with an order from singapore's government about fake news facebook embedded a correction notice at the bottom of the original post but it did not alter the text itself singapore's protection from online falls had a manipulation act was passed in may it allows the government to publish corrections alongside claims about public institutions false statements could carry prison terms of up to 10 years and hefty fines. thousands of

people who survived a devastating cycle in zimbabwe 8 months ago are still living in tents hundreds were killed and thousands displaced inside parts of southern africa and the upcoming rainy season could make the situation even worse for survivors from chair money money in eastern zimbabwe reports. home for mabel check out our used to be a house with a small garden now she lives in the taint with her husband and children. they survive tropical cycle that struck parts of eastern zimbabwe in march but she says adjusting to this new way of living is hard her family never has enough food and whenever it rains it's terrifying. it's a sort of a do much you know with the government it brings back bad memories i keep thinking what if that terrible storm happens again last time goodspeed my life what if this time is different in a day and always kid living in. many people in this camp say they want to

place to call their own again but they don't know when or if they'll be moved some used to live in this rural community before you die struck it was a worst storm to hit zimbabwe since cycling ilene nearly 20 years ago people say they heard this rumbling noise at 1st they were unsure what it was and then they saw these rocks and boulders tumbling down from the mountains over there being pushed by the water and raging winds all the homes in its path were destroyed and this is all that's left. others were lucky the violent flood and debris narrowly missed a few buildings and schools in other places entire communities were devastated. here 300 households are working together to repair damage to a dam it's part of an initiative to help people rebuild you want to make sure you understand why your house failed or why that specific breach why that school. roof

. and if needs be if you are need to put your specific. systems in place so it doesn't happen again then that's that's where you want to put the effort and money in. roads and bridges are also being prioritized but it's a race against time the rainy season has just started people could again be at risk if the proper infrastructure isn't in place. hundreds of people in eastern zimbabwe died during psycho need by many more are still missing presumed dead and those who survived are hoping this rainy season will be safe how do with al-jazeera zimbabwe . sunday marks a year since mexican president under his manual lopez obrador took office his approval ratings remain high but critics say he's done little to solve major problems like soko registered a record number of homicides in the 1st 6 months of this year and the violence is showing no sign of slowing down as alan fischer reports from mexico city.

luis enrique hopes one day soon his daughter will stop being a statistic one of the thousands missing in mexico he stopped strangers on the street asking for help follows up every possible lead but more than a month on i'm running is still missing from my home in a cat to pick about an hour's drive from mexico city. i couldn't get in touch with her by foreigner what set me surges i didn't know she came to my house or went to my mother's but i wasn't worried because she did that sometimes i thought maybe her cell phone ran out of vetri the next day there was still no contact he had no choice but to go to the authorities to report her missing missing there is but he will i felt defenseless and i felt impotent because i had to do all the investigation i had to bring all the information to the authorities i even had to force them to search for her. i'm irani is one of thousands of mexicans who disappeared each year some have been trafficked others have been murdered the

greaves litter in mexico or mexico elected a new president last year they did so largely on the promises made by andres manuel lopez obrador that he would end the plague of violence in the country but in the 1st 6 months of this year the 1st 6 months of his presidency the moderate has hit and historic high sentence gone beyond the lies we're changing the strategy to combat insecurity and violence because it was a failed strategy that only consisted in the use of force and it didn't deliver any results it only made things worse. despite his election promising a new security policy there have been clear challenges to the rule of law in mexico the most blatant when the authorities were forced to release the captured son of drug lord what human el chapo guzman when the similar war cartel took control of the area he was being held and so what we have is a government that makes promises and now says publicly that he will make a change but then does not include men the promises in may. in the meantime we have

thousands of people. both searching individually for their loved ones without in this is sorry. for poor luis enrique thinks his daughter may still be alive. we've been searching for her in malls and hospitals even in prisons i suspect that this is probably a case of trafficking. he says they're still hoping for her return but hope we not be enough to see for alan fischer mexico city so he's from chile a football federation has canceled all matches for the rest of the season because of security concerns after weeks of antigovernment protests matches were suspended when the violence started last month the 6 remaining fixtures have all been cancelled and no teams will be relegated or promoted the protests began against plans to increase public transport fares but they have grown into why did demonstrations against social inequality. hundreds of people are in bethlehem to mark the start of the christmas season lights were turned on outside the church of

nativity where christians believe jesus was born a relic said to be from jesus's manger was returned to bethlehem it had been stored in the vatican for more than a 1000 years palestinian president mahmoud abbas negotiated its return last year. just a quick recap of the headlines this hour for you iraq's prime minister has officially handed his resignation to parliament idyll abdul mahdi held an emergency meeting with his cabinet saying he had no choice but to leave his post but it's done little to calm protest as across the country another 3 people were shot dead in baghdad. the man who killed 2 people in a knife attack in central london on friday has been released from had been released from prison off way through a sentence for a bomb plot last month khan was shot dead by police on

a london bridge which was the scene of another attack 2 years ago neil basu from the metropolitan police praised the actions of his offices and the public. the attacker of them left the building he ended up on love the bridge he was pursued with detained by members of the public as well as a british transport police officer who was employing quotas before armed officers for both the city and the metropolitan police arrived confronted the attacker shot through. the actions of the place in the public were all the more remarkable as we now know the attack was wearing what looked like a very convincing explosive device thankfully we now know that was a hoax device. the congolese army says it's killed a senior rebel leader in the eastern part of the democratic republic of congo a mob is also reported to have lynched 2 suspected rebels in the town of benny. yemen's who the rebels have released video they say shows the shooting down of

a saudi apache helicopter the group says it's behind the downing of the aircraft on friday and that 2 saudi pilots were killed there's been no confirmation from riyadh about what happened the helicopter was hit by a surface to air missile and crashed on the saudi side of the border thousands of protestors have surrounded a police station in the indian city of hydrabad where 4 men accused of raping and murdering a 27 year old woman being held they demanded police have the suspects over to them the woman was taken to a secluded area and gang raped before her body was doused in fuel and then burned she was found on thursday morning under a bridge well as the headlines this hour do stay with us for the listening post with the story of the unprecedented leak of chinese documents about the week a camps.

you know very secretive i still don't see china struck down at least we aren't right. choices trying to decide to write history. hello i'm richard gilbert and you're at the listening post here are some of the media stories that we're covering this week big news that beijing didn't want out there somebody inside the communist party wants the outside world to know what is happening in sin jack the conflict of interest the corporate conduct reporters at bloomberg news cannot investigate their boss who happens to be running for the white house they're tracking journalists from inside their.