if the round plan attacks on al jazeera. you know that your support of iraq's parliament accepts the prime minister's resignation as protest as more and more than 400 people killed in the last 2 months . i know i'm maryam namazie in london you're with al-jazeera also coming up on the program the aussies military says a couple stoned to death on saturday where the army sergeant and not a.d.f. rebels. and the mole to up the pressure on the prime

minister to resign over his government's alleged links to the killing of journalist ethnic are one of. mexico's president marks the end of his 1st year in office with a big party in the capital while others march against violence in the country. the iraqi parliament has approved prime minister i do not dilma resignation this comes after weeks of protests across the country demanding that he step aside he submitted his resignation on saturday he will stay on though to lead the caretaker government attention now turns to who replaces him it is up to the largest parliamentary bloc to choose his replacement and submit its choice to president barham salih well the protest as we've been calling for political change in iraq were out on the streets as the news emerged many iraqis accuse these governments of

corruption as resignation isn't expected to end the demonstrations which are demanding a. holy overhaul of the country's political system. hundreds of university students dressed in black and also took part in a march in the capital baghdad to mourn the protesters in the last few days more than $400.00 people have died in the last 2 months from anti-government protests. i know what i know that i want a homeland i want fair rule my heart is heavy you politicians are all thieves and you need to be rooted out of the bus because the prime minister resigned the parliament should resign the party should get out we don't want any of the you know i am of out of and i would be simple changes and reforms at 1st but now we've discovered fake faces and we don't want any of them we want to change the entire constitution. or bring you more on the situation in iraq

a bit later want to turn to one of our other headlines stories this hour what's happening in the democratic republic of congo because there is now news that a couple lynched by a crowd in the eastern part of the democratic republic of congo where victims of mistaken identity the man and woman were killed in the town of beni in north kivu province where they have been violent protests in the last week they were accused of being rebels but the military says the man was a sergeant in the army who was on his way to work the crowd attacked them finding guns and bullets in their bags despite my having a child with them they suspect of the couple of being members of the allied democratic forces which has been blamed for killing more than 100 civilians in the past month or un peacekeeping chief has been in beni where there have been protests against un troops he admitted that there is room for improvement. so. we think. we are on the side of the people of this region the congolese people are there any

things we can do better of course they are and we will work on it are our partners with whom we work with every day also thinking about how to work even more closely with us the f a r d c armed forces the national police the authorities catherine soy is in the city of the east and they all say force says people are now taking masses of security into their own hands. it was found out that this man was a sergeant in the army and he was going to work in it to which is a neighboring province he was accompanied by his wife was also stoned to death and their child who is safe and what happened is that they were boarding a taxi to take them to this area but the taxi moment was very uncomfortable because we're asking to go to places where killings have happened places where people are fleeing in fear and when they were father interrogated people are saying they did not have answers that were clear that they did not have ideas as well when their

bags was searched there was military fatigues bullets medical kits as well and so on and so they were stoned to death now what people have done people of beni have done since that time is saying that they were going to take charge of their own security so they've set up this checkpoints in some parts and people who are coming into the city and via calls particularly those who are coming from areas where these killings have been happening they're saying that they do not trust security forces enough to do this and to take care of their safety is also an ongoing offensive with the military and the u.n. against a.d.f. in the forest we spoke to the spokesman about that as well he said that they're making advances they have been able to take several bases from the a.d.f. rebels they've also been able to kill one of the top provoke commanders but people are still frustrated they're saying why is it that even with the ongoing operation

a rebel fighters are able to come back to the villages and kill them. what bring you more now on developments in iraq where the prime minister has submitted his resignation to the country's parliament this after weeks of unrest where protesters have been calling not just for a change in the to ship but really for the entire political system to be rooted they want wholesale change in the country monitoring everything that from baghdad is simona fulton 1st of all just tell us about the process for finding a replacement for. well 1st of all the largest political bloc in parliament which is led by a shiite cleric mark that our solder must come up with a new prime minister with a new nomination but of course this is a process that requires the consultation and consensus of the major players in parliament all of the political parties whether it be shia sunni or or kurds this

is how it has traditionally worked has to be a candidate who is not just nominated by the largest bloc but who is accepted by all and including by regional and global power brokers including especially iran which has a lot of influence in the political sphere here in iraq so the largest bloc has 15 days to submit a new name to the president who will then usually just nominally accept the choice especially feels that it is a consensus candidate who has been accepted by the major political powers but the process is very much one that is not quite transparent to the protesters and the outside world it's very much based on murky backroom dealings on the goshi actions between political parties and that is that exactly to fear of the protesters that whoever is chosen by the political elites will simply carry on with the same political system will simply not be able to deliver the far reaching reforms that the protesters are asking for and given that their demands are unlikely to be

satisfied by the resignation of the prime minister because it's really the confessional political system in iraq that they want to change it seems as though probably demonstrations will continue for the time being. that is absolutely right we don't really see unabating in the demonstrations on the street whether it's in baghdad or in some of the other southern cities or what people want they want parliament to be dissolved they want the political parties who put the in place to leave and they want fresh elections to be held under a new election law now there is an election law that has been tabled in parliament but it only really includes nominal changes it increases the number of independent candidates in parliament but it's still retains a lot of power in the hands of the political parties and that's not what protesters want they were actually want a presidential system whereby the head of state is elected through a popular vote and that demand has been ignored by the political establishment thus far there is no mention of such

a change in the electoral law that has been people through doesn't really look that we will see the complete overhaul of the political system that the most traders have been asking for all right thank you for now simona fulton in baghdad. now at least 3 civilians including a child have been killed in as strikes in the libyan capital this happened in the swanee neighborhood in the south of tripoli military sources say the attack was carried out by forces linked to the east a mall or 25 to at least 10 others. thousands of people have marched towards courts of justice in the capital to demand the resignation of the prime minister pressure has been mounting on joseph muscat over his handling of the investigation into the murder of journalist daphne koller want to see a 2 years ago is chief of staff the resigned and was arrested over the case last week and a prominent businessman you're give fenech was charged with complicity in the murder as well though he denies the charge politicians are muskrat's party met

early on sunday to discuss his future and decided to back him with unanimous support. definitely want to glitzy a was one of multis best known investigative journalist she had a popular blog famous for its punchy political opinions and allegations of corruption which she investigated to some against members of the government it made her many enemies but she was also very popular and well known in the country even after her death the bloke's still attracts more views in the combined circulation of all of maltese newspapers and that is according to the foundation has sons and a husband set up. the 2 people killed in friday's attack near london bridge have been formally identified by the police 23 year old saskia jones was a graduate of cambridge university she was attending a prison a rehabilitation event along with another graduate 25 year old jack merritt they and 3 others were stabbed by khan meriton jones were involved in the learning

together program which connects graduate students with prisoners to study criminology well the issue of people convicted of terrorism related offenses being left out of prison on license is now grabbing headlines in britain on sunday police arrested a man in the city of so-called trent off to a review of those conditions police say that arrest is not connected to the attack in london though but just 2 weeks before the country votes in a general election it is now becoming a big political issue as rory chalons explains. only on sunday have police started moving vehicles from london bridge the cars buses and trucks have been stranded just as they were when the attacker was shot dead by police after murdering 2 people with his night on friday it's been a still an eerie sight snapped countless times already by curious tourists quicker to move has been the prime minister sensing an electoral threat or perhaps an

opportunity boris johnson is trying to absolve his conservative party of blame the spy being in power for a decade i think this whole system of automatic early release which was brought in by labor it was under and it was under that system as a 10 year. i've only been in office rather projects so i think you know you just want to see what i mean this wearing body has been one of the reason i think it's ridiculous i think it's repulsive that individuals as dangerous as this man should be allowed out after serving only 8 years and that's he why we are going to change the law actually the reasons why this man can was out of prison early despite being convicted of terrorism offenses are complex there are the particularities of his case including his successful 2013 appeal against his original indeterminate sentence adding to that years of legislation on sentencing and release from various governments including conservative ones there are less than 2 weeks till the

general election not a good time for the government to have to admit 74 other people convicted of terrorism offenses have been released early on another political show the leader of the opposition was asked if he opposes the early release of such prisoners i think it depends on the circumstances it depends on the sentence but crucially depends on what they've done in the not this is really not not necessarily you know i think there has to be an examination of how our prison services work and crucially what happens someone released from prison. the conservatives still have a polling lead over the labor party in recent days it's narrowed election campaigns can turn order of events like this and how government will reach out and how to 0 london. just a quick update on. for you because the prime minister has been speaking of course he has been widely expected to resign but what has been uncertain is the precise

timing of his resignation and whether or not that is imminent or he's given some indication here he said that he is planning to hand over power so that is his plan of course this after he's faced a great deal of pressure and criticism of his handling of the murder of journalist . he said that he will osc his policy to start the process to select a new leader on january 12th 2020 so he says that the process for stablish in new leadership in the country will start early in the new year still ahead for you on the program. more take gas on the streets of hong kong on a day of mostly peaceful rallies against the city's government. and one of the world's most ecologically diverse countries battles to save its native species from poachers and other threats.

has the pope valley in northern italy got wet on sunday but the next system is one to get notice the tail of it is that she wrapped around itself in western france it's contains a lot of atlantic air but it's going to draw in something much code is a position overnight tween sunday and monday spreading east with the northern flank produces snow even on low ground such that the daytime x. from during monday in vienna is 3 in belize for wall sorts one with really cool things down his courses south to 6 in ankara 14 in athens and is a bit of a breeze to go with in london despite the sunshine nafa take you to says stay the breeze is less the temperatures haven't changed a lot zurich 72 but the sun is rather more prevalent as

a snow than runs down further south through the balkans towards northern greece to some of that's going to spill across as it always does into morocco so rebuts got a wet day 16 on monday and that extends a long way through morocco towards our gerri just crossing the border i think during tuesday really is for bad they get to rather poor days now as dry as the south bronx or tropical africa more or less we start to see the hamas and the north easterly breeze come straight hasn't done much yet because you can see from the skies 40 view is either cloudy or blue. talk to older is there a weakness more targeted without with through all the ocean has this been addressed by you took a listen what these the proposal of spain fork up on yes we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on the road to 0.

a quick reminder of the headlines this hour bolters prime minister joseph muscat has just been speaking in the past few minutes confirming that he plans to stand down in january after he came under a great deal of pressure of the growing scandal surrounding the journalist the death of journalist daphne koller one who was murdered 2 years ago. iraq's parliament has accepted prime minister i do love these resignation he is standing

down after weeks of violent anti-government protests which have left more than 400 people dead and in the d.l.c. the military saying 2 people who were lynched by a crowd in the eastern part of the d.l.c. were victims of mistaken identity crowd attacked a soldier and his wife thinking they were from the i.d.f. militia. security forces in mexico have shot at 7 more suspected cartel members following an attack in the northern town of the union and it brings the total number of people killed in the area near the u.s. border this weekend to 21 including 4 police officers on saturday government sprayed the mayor's office in the small town with bullets before being chased by police the incident comes days after u.s. president donald trump raised bilateral tensions by saying that he would designate mexican criminal gangs as terrorists well mexico's president under. obrador is holding a big rally today to mark his 1st year in office the veteran left wing politician addressed a crowd of thousands in the capital mexico city but president has faced

a stagnant economy a great deal of violence and high murder rates during the past year but polls show that he continues to get approval from about 2 thirds of the population lopez obrador claimed to have reduced economic inequality in the country. it cannot make growth has not been what we had hoped for but that wealth is now better distributed the public budget doesn't stay in just a few hands like before now it reaches the majority of the people. but thousands of also been marching against him let's get more on this from alan fischer who is among some of those protests in mexico city he seems to enjoy some healthy approval ratings and he does have support in the country alan there are also many people who are angry that the government hasn't done enough to tackle gun violence.

exactly we're here in the iconic revolution square in the heart of mexico city and if we lift the camera only will you see the famous monument the sense in the middle of the square but you'll see an idea of the size of the crowd started with about 200 people standing in the main independence square probably about to kilometers away from here just 20 minutes before this party is due to start but thousands upon thousands came out to join many of them winning why as the organizers asked and in the end i guess somewhere in the region of 30 to 40000 people here protesting about president obama door saying that he is not doing a good job there have deep concerns they're worried about the ongoing violence in mexico it's estimated that on average 97 people are killed every single day in this country is a problem too with the economy mexico took recently interest session and then there is the bilateral relationship with the united states with donald trump as you said

tracking the clear terrorist groups. the clear cartels as terrorist groups so that is why people are here on the streets protesting birds you see at the present i'm selfish held his own rally to mark one year in office 1st of december 2800 years when he became the president of mexico after many many years of campaigning the police tell is that there is $100000.00 people in this square there and that then is perhaps reflective of the difference in support that he received there are people who criticize him but still his approval ratings are still incredibly high there where in the seventy's it stopped over the last month or so but still 62 percent of mexican voters believe the president opened a door is doing a very good job. what more do the people want want to see from abroad or allen because. gang violence and violence against women and high murder rates have been chronic in mexico for a long time what how big

a. challenge is it for him tend to try and resolve lessel to at least improve the situation for people that. while he wants to take a different approach he says what has happened over the past several administrations has quite simply failed and it needs to be addressed and the way to address it is to make social programs more accessible to change the economic situation on the ground many of the people here that we spoke to say that what he's close to preaching is communism and that's not something that they want in mexico i've also seen a number of signs that says mexico is not venezuela so there are people here who are worried about his economic program but he believes that if you change the economic argument then that loosens the power of the cartels it takes away their power to finance so much of their operation treat carry out corruption and that that changes the whole of mexico and those who support the president say that he

has a lot of political capital he won with more than 50 percent of the vote he has an approval rating in the sixty's but he's not doing enough that he should take that political capital and push forward with those changes and do it much quicker we've also been speaking to a number of experts over the last couple of days to try and assess what they think of the 1st year of the opera door presidency and they say look he's got some great ideas some really clever ideas that bring in the people that have been disadvantaged in the past the problem is he doesn't have a strategy to put those in place he talks a good game but he's not delivering on the field well he's got 4 more years to deliver on the field he was a very popular. mayor of mexico he campaigned for the presidency for so long he wanted the top job the people here and many of those in the square with them want him to deliver what he promised otherwise we could see that figure of 62 percent approval start to get going quite considerably and that's something that tens of

thousands of people here revolution square would be happy to see because it would improve their chances of getting someone that they like elected in the next election thank you very much from mexico city allan fresh air. now the president of suriname has returned to the country 2 days after he was convicted of murder dessie bosis a supporter has welcomed him home despite a court convicting him of killing 15 political opponents in 1982 when he was the country's military leader and sentenced to 20 years in prison but the court didn't issue an order for his arrest to say who'd been on an official trip to china call that a political verdict. now in hong kong large numbers of people have been marching a week after the china group swept the territories district elections tear gas and pepper spray were used on some protesters but the rallies were largely peaceful as they've been sanctioned by policed reports from hong kong. they can be

drawn as organizers say 380000 joined sunday's anti government rally gather in the harbor front and march through kalou repeating the calls for greater democracy in hong kong i think it's very important for us to like. like come out and hold together and make sure we're on the same page there so you support what we are doing we always wanting you to have this kind of situation and to the government agree our requests our demand why demand not one that's. the pro-democracy groups won a landslide victory in last weekend's district elections securing a majority in 18 of the city's councils. that bolster the momentum for protest groups but they want the government to meet their 5 demands including the right to choose their leader and an independent inquiry into police brutality that means all call good will is not given up you can get off the election doesn't mean and it is

just not a new chapter in the fact that this government has not responded to the 5 demands encouraged to stay and again this rally was approved by probably the ads are in attracted larger numbers than the other 3 rallies held in hong kong on sunday but there is still a heavy police presence in taba along this route in color within hours of this march beginning police fired tear gas on protesters they killed some of her bricks and illegally blocking major highways some retreated others continued towards the polytechnic university campus which became a protest battleground last week with students holed up inside for 12 days police sealed off the area and organizers announced an early finish to the rally earlier around 1000 people marched to the u.s. consulate to say thank you to president donald trump the u.s. has passed legislation that imposes sanctions on chinese and hong kong officials responsible for rights abuses. on the other side of hong kong probation groups held

the right assembly calling for the former british territory to brace the motherland after 6 months of demonstrations this political divide is showing no sign of ending sarah clarke al-jazeera. while somalia's a 10 region is home to the largest tropical forests north of the amazon but as more people settle in the area poaching and other threats to biodiversity are rising a group of scientists on now working though to save species that might be at risk from patton in the north of the country david massa has mall. 30 meters above the forest floor in northern one amala biologist ronnie garcia's team works hard to try to save an iconic animal scarlet mccosker endangered here there's only a few 100 left in forests habitat loss and wildlife trafficking have decimated their population. there were 2 mccord chicks in the midst here but when we came

back to check on them they would gone but we did find with the mugs made by the equipment thieves used to climb the tree and steal the chicks at the knees to being robbed. garcia checks on the young macaw that was removed from a nest at risk from poachers his assistants hand reared it in their jungle laboratory and then placed it in an adoptive nest with a chick the same age with 2 young because now in the nest the chances of one of them surviving long enough to reproduce has doubled. and my hope is this in 10 years we won't be doing any work in the field because the skeletal mccool won't need help i hope we can shut down the illegal markets and stop the 5th of chicks with their you water mall is one of the most ecologically diverse countries in the world but this also makes it a hotspot for animal trafficking experts estimate that thousands of probable birds and other wildlife are trafficked in guatemala every year many of those are brought

here to the only animal clinic and wildlife rehabilitation center of its kind in guatemala and i'm going today wildlife police bring a rescued owl to the arcus clinic veterinarians. and fernando martinez 1st check for bullet wounds then give the owl antibiotics after quarantine in rehabilitation they hope to release the owl back into the wild it's a strategy central to our casus success and one that gives hope to the staff and volunteers caring for more than 600 animals from nearly 60 different species we're trying very hard to put our message that say no to. don't hurt animals keep them alive in the wild and it's taking a bit of time i think the challenge for us is to be able to educate enough people so that our job is not needed the illegal trade in wildlife is thought to be worth at least $19000000000.00

a year stopping local species from going extinct would likely keep water animal rescuers busy for many years to come david mercer al-jazeera and then what amala. gorgeous only so there's much more in everything we're covering al jazeera dot com and there's life streaming there as well. as quick recap of the headlines malta's prime minister joyce of muscat has said that he will stand down with the process to replace him to start on january the 12th he's been under increasing pressure over his government's alleged links to the murder of journalist and karana glitzy a 2 years ago he says he'll resign once his successor has been chosen earlier thousands of people marched in the maltese capital valetta him to go in iraq the parliament there is accepted prime minister i do love these resignation

after he submitted his this on saturday he will continue to lead a caretaker administration for the country's president elect a replacement standing down after weeks of increasingly violent anti-government protests which have left more than $400.00 people dead but his resignation isn't expected to end the unrest as people are demanding a complete overhaul of the system. i know what i know that i want a homeland i want fair rule my heart is heavy you politicians are all feeds and you need to be rooted out the best because the prime minister resigned the parliament should resign and the party should get out we don't want any of that i am of out of a now with our demands was simple changes and reforms at 1st but now we've discovered fake faces and we don't want any of them we want to change the entire constitution. in the d r c to people who were lynched by a crowd in the eastern part of democratic republic of congo were victims of

mistaken identity the couple were attacked in the town of benny by a crowd who thought that they were from the i.d.f. militia the country's army says that they were actually a sergeant and his wife follows protests against un peacekeepers who local people say have not done enough to protect them from months of rebel attacks. and mexico's president has admitted the economic growth in his 1st year in office has fallen short of expectations under his money lopez obrador was speaking at a huge rally in the capital mexico city to mark the 1st anniversary of his time but despite the economy continued high violence murder rates he does remain popular talk to al-jazeera is coming up next with uganda's pop star turned politician abi wine.

see. robert check your lawn the pop star turned politician who's known by the stage name paul de wine is recognized as the new face of uganda's off position. but his rise to prominence has not been without its challenges of the wines popularity is considered a threat to president you wary most 70 who's been in office for more than 30 years his government has arrested and prosecuted bobby wind several times and the opposition figure has accused security forces of torturing him but the 37 year old is not holding back his ambition in fact he's now directly challenging president was 70 and elections expect to be held in 2021 but will his popularity be enough to

get him elected and what are his plans for the way forward.