the search for a new leader in iraq begins now prime minister must be formally steps down up to just over a year in office. and this is live from doha also coming up motors leader will finally resign next month over a scandal surrounding the death of a journalist. a fatal case of mistaken identity after a couple of stunning today in the democratic republic of congo. and making themselves heard chester's across latin america and similar tell us

going straight to. the iraqi parliament has approved prime minister abdul mahdi his resignation comes after weeks of protests from more than 400 people were killed across the country he'll stay on to lead a caretaker government but attention now turns to who will replace him so manifold and reports now from baghdad. after only 13 months in office iraq's of bethel's prime minister added up that he has officially stepped down yet his succession is mired in uncertainty according to the constitution the president is supposed to take up the office of the prime minister until a replacement is chosen but instead of the mahdi is staying on as part of a caretaker government. the largest bloc in parliament led by shiite cleric mulcted out of sudden must now nominate every placement within 15 days. it's

a murky and often lengthy process that requires consent from shia sunni and kurdish parties as well as regional and global power brokers 7. more than ever the choice would have to be accepted on the streets it's a daunting task for political parties put himself space the wrath of the protesters . who are. with the biggest block based on the last parliamentary election we have to nominate a candidate form a government with guidance from tata al sabah we will cancel tarion and political appointments system we give the right to the protesters because the people of the largest block and the demonstrations are where the sacrifice has been made the candidate of the people will be at choices well. but to know the people's choice would require fresh elections a key demand of the protesters who want to do so all of this government. believed in you tears got dictators government are just going to say that to.

make. sure for their cause also. for the politics parties parliament member say that passing these reforms could take up to 6 months we fully accept and fully support the idea of dissolving the parliament and having a fresh election but that you have to know that this there is a cost to stop or seizures 1st we have to go with it we need a government even an interim government a government before holding the elections at this week we are discussing even way past that new electoral law that i have which is overseeing their elections in iraq the new election law currently tabled in parliament suggests an increase in independent candidates at least considerable power in the hands of political parties including the ability to choose the prime minister. protests just say that

this resignation is meaningless if they cannot choose the next leader themselves they demand a presidential rather than a parliamentary system whereby the head of state is elected by popular vote a demand that has thus far been ignored by the political establishment see one of 14 al-jazeera baghdad motors prime minister joseph muscat says he will stand down and begin the process to replace him in january earlier thousands of people marched in the maltese capital by letter urging him to go is come under increasing pressure over the investigation into the murder of the journalist daphne carolina going to see it 2 years ago a prominent businessman was charged on saturday as an accomplice to the murder and the prime minister's chief of staff resigned last week of the 3 car want to kill its year died on october 27th teen when the bomb went off under her car 3 men were soon charged with carrying out the bombing they pleaded not guilty investigation went quiet until prominent businessman you're going fenech was 1st arrested on the

van with a 20 year this year on monday a taxi driver accused of being a go between for the people who ordered the killing and those who carried out was pardoned by the president in exchange for testifying in court 2 cabinet ministers and the prime ministers chief of staff keith graham berry resigned he was arrested on tuesday but released 2 days later on saturday your one phonecall charge of being complicit in the murder he's pleaded not guilty would have been great as editor in chief of the times of malta he says critics will the prime minister to go now. the last say it's not good enough joseph who has got the prime minister has to go but he has to go today not next week or next month but today and this pressure this on president it's quite unprecedented in maltese politics especially for a number of reasons joseph was scott is a very very popular prime minister he won 2 elections by a landslide he is hugely charming he really found the ruling labor party and only

last april may he won the european elections with another landslide so all this is happening just a few months after that and it has been brought about because of the public protests out there and of course because there is a case a very serious case we're talking of a case of a murder journalist here which has gone straight to the very thought of a deadline set for u.s. president donald trump to say whether he would send a lawyer to represent him in an impeachment inquiry has passed with no word from the white house but been given until 2300 g.m.t. on sunday to inform the house of representatives to different committee that's about an hour ago roslyn jordan joins us live now from washington d.c. so the deadlines now passed was what happens next. well it is a technical law deadline the a hearing that is being held by the house judiciary committee on wednesday does

a while the president to have legal representatives available to question constitutional law experts about how the impeachment inquiry should be conducted this is a situation where the president has been very critical of the process calling it a witch hunt among other terms but his surrogates have also been suggesting that the process itself is not giving the president and his aides a fair hearing the deadline that was set for 23 g.m.t. on sunday is the judiciary committee's 1st effort to basically reject the president's criticism so we expect that on wednesday no one representing the president or his administration will be president in that hearing on wednesday there is a 2nd deadline which the house judiciary committee has asked the president to meet and this is at 21 g. excuse me 22 g.m.t.

on this coming friday that is the deadline to. tell the committee whether they're going to actually want to call witnesses whether they're going to have people actively engaged in the proceedings that follow on the 2nd week of december so the president and his legal advisers have another 5 days to explain whether and how they're going to be involved in an impeachment inquiry and it's worth pointing out that when the house of representatives 1st passed legislation a couple of months ago to set up this entire process they explicitly said that the president would have the ability to defend himself and his actions throughout the process so as far as house democrats are concerned it's really up to the president to actually engage and to participate he there are no legal barriers in their view for his doing due for his doing so rose thank you. now security forces in

mexico have shot dead 7 more suspected cartel members and followed the attack in via a union in the northern state of ca houla on saturday a gunman shot at the mayor's office before being chased by police in total $21.00 people have died including 4 police officers. mexico's president has admitted the economic growth in his 1st year in office has fallen short of expectations and there is money lopez obrador has spoken that a rally in the capital mexico city to mark the anniversary despite problems with the economy and continued high murder rates he remains highly popular. economic growth has not been what we had hoped for but that wealth is now better distributed their public budget doesn't stay just a few hands like before now it reaches the majority of the people. a soldier and his wife in the democratic republic of congo have been killed by an angry crowd they were mistakenly accused of being rebels it happened in the eastern town of

benny in north kibo province the crowd attacked them after finding guns and ammunition in their bags they suspected them of being members of the allied democratic forces which is blamed for killing more than $100.00 civilians in the past month. the u.n. peacekeeping chief visited ben in where they've been protesting against u.n. troops people say they're not protecting them from the violence if you will but they believe. the message is that you should make the wrong end of us 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 who 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. what catherine saw is in the city of goma in eastern the r.c.a. she says people are now taking security if their own homes. 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 who is 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 were such there was military fatigue bullets medical kits as well and so on and so they were stoned to death now what people have done people of benny 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 there are 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. i think 14 people have been shot dead in an attack on a church in eastern bikini several gunmen opened fire during mass in a village near the border with tunisia the area has come under attack over the past year from groups the links to al qaeda and i still. time for a short break here not a 0 only comeback hope sink of venice getting autonomy from the mainland up to only a few of the nations turn out to vote. on the fight to keep poachers away from

guatemala as diverse array of animals and the imus morning stings. hello the weather at the moment in most of china is quite as cold in the north it's study cooling down elsewhere there's a bit of cloud in the air as you can see it's not developing into very much part of it is snow the western united so 10 degrees in the sunshine in shanghai 21 in hong kong just on the very edge of your screen you might pick up the developments a typhoon its way through the philippines that's where all the active weather is as you can see coming north still little going on as you might expect really this time of the year so that gathering typhoon coming across the philippines if you follow the line that's where the brightest cloud is well this line of latitude takes you into northern borneo the far south

a talent that's your malaysia and best to sumatra and that's where the focus is for heavy rain kuala lumpur singapore for example there's the spin of the typhoon coming in probably have a tough image because later on tuesday but south of all this culture included showers are a bit of a rarity. with the ne monsoon developing na you should see be seeing heavy rain in sri lanka and intel a lot too and indeed that is the case but the showers are creeping slowly up the coast of this part of india has more rain you might expect the for the most part it is cooler and dry. the weather sponsored by qatar and was. are al jazeera wild meats to arabs are all left the middle east but for successful career ask and all the while. the lebanese gynecologist tanana and brazil. iraq i am yeah the norwegian oil industry. the news on chinese

leading to unexpected ice. topped out i thought well my on al-jazeera. welcome back if you come out of the top stories here on the al-jazeera iraq's parliament has accepted the resignation of the prime minister abdul mufti follows weeks of falling down to government protests which have left more than 400 people dead. malta's prime minister joseph muscat says he will stand down in january follows calls for him to resign over the government's handling of the murder of the journalist daphne cowan the going to see it years ago. and a deadline set for u.s.

president donald trump to say whether he would send a lawyer to represent him in an impeachment inquiry has passed so far there's been no word from the white house. air strikes in the libyan capital of killed at least 3 civilians including a child jet targeted the neighborhood in the south of tripoli military sources say the attack was carried out by forces into the east and a warlord honey for have to at least 10 others were injured but up to one had is in tripoli he says the un recognized government is accusing have to of committing war crimes. a state of anger and panic among civilians living and swanny area in southern tripoli after the attack by an airstrike launch should by according to the tripoli because the government a war plane or probably a drone according to a military source is with the government so it's probably a draw or a fighter jet loyal to the warlords who for have to that targeted a civilian area populated area and killed 3 innocent civilians

including 2 children and one did 10 others this is the area it is not close to the front line but it is not far from the front line but anyways this is not the 1st time have his fighter jets. areas and the tripoli because the government is accusing good have to his forces of committing war crimes by targeting it it is essential areas. millions of children living in the slums of bangladesh are dropping out of school most of them work full time to provide for their families attend their challenger reports about one in 6 between the ages of 6 and 14 are not receiving any form of education. in the real islam of care to go in the bangladeshi capital dhaka 12 year old mohammad hussein knows what he wants to be when he grows up a doctor but he is not getting an education any more than i used to go to school

but because my father which is why i have to work i want to go to school but we have no money so i have no choice but to work in the slums of dhaka about one in 6 children between the ages of 6 and 14 don't go to school instead they work full time. we had 85 students in this primary school but 20 percent dropped out the reason for drop out is that many of these kids go to work to help their families they are too poor and need to work to survive. nearly half of the dhaka city a slum population are children most don't exist in any official records or have any proper address life is difficult and often dangerous for them with a high school dropout rates child labor and man larry smith. according to the world bank 400000 people move to the capital every year boosting the population today in the greater dock area to around 20000000 making it one of the largest and most

densely populated cities in the world the opportunities there. to the people who migrated from. almost. factors in addition to that there are climate factors or. even the manmade factors that also push. migration to the city many have been forced to move to the city because of natural disasters wiping out their rural way of life. we came here because it's hard to make a living doing farming most of the time the crops are washed away by floodwater my husband is sick so i must work the government says it plans to build shelters for slum dwellers and to take steps to ensure children's don't have to drop out of school to start working but for 12 year old mohammad that will probably come too

late for him to realize his dream of being a doctor. dhaka bangladesh australia's foreign minister says china is subjecting one of its citizens to daily interrogations including one he shackled pro-democracy right young june has been detained in china since january he's been accused of spying the response as young is being held in unacceptable conditions and his agent beijing to release him lebanon's trade minister says he's asked the central bank to cut interest rates by about half the caretaker government has been trying to tackle the country's escalating financial problems months long and the government protests about into the crisis about $4000000000.00 in hard currency has been withdrawn from lebanese banks since september a bus crash in siberia has killed 19 people another $21.00 were injured and the bus skidded off a bridge and fell onto a frozen lake a criminal inquiry is now underway. the issue of people convicted of

terrorism related offenses has become a key issue in the u.k. election campaign britain's prime minister is promising tougher sentences after emerge the london bridge attack was let out of prison early we challenge as more from london. 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 knives 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 he was under and it was under that system the tenure of that i've only been in office from the project so i think you know you just want to tell you what

i mean that he has been. 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 other 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. depends on the sentence but crucially depends on

what they've done in the north is there really no not necessarily you know i think there has to be an examination of how our prison service is work and crucially what happens someone released from prison the conservatives still have a polling lead over labor party in recent days it's narrowed election campaigns can turn on events like this and how governments handle them will reach allan's how to 0 london thousands of protesters known as sardines have rallied in the land against the far right lead party sorry movement has become a symbol of resistance to the party's controversial leader. it started as a response to the growing strength in the north of the right wing coalition led by the lead. in venice a referendum to cede from the nearby mainland city of mystery has failed 50 percent turnout was needed for it to be valid and not enough people voted campaigners had said independents will help the city problems like masters and flooding and

a group of scuba divers are helping with the cleanup efforts after the recent floods there they've been picking rubbish out of the canals the city that has experienced weeks of flooding and record high tides activists say climate change and tourist numbers have made the problem worse. several countries across latin america holding a similar tenuous protest and while the different crowds are coming together for a variety of reasons they share something in common the sentiment has more from china's capital santiago. this is the unmistakable sound of the protests. a very special kind of protest. and a very noisy one at that. the crash of the last will require support. for a pan and something to strike if we. all keep doing this until the politicians understand that inequality in chile is unacceptable know him again and it doesn't

matter how long it takes i still have plenty of pans left. banging pots and pans became famous in chile in 1981 when opponents of the left wing government of president in day came out to protest food shortages and rationing it was associated with the center and right wing opposition sociologist manuel until you got it done remembers it well. the costs are lost so were part of the best organized protests that would lead to the military overthrow if i ended the idea was to attribute it to civil society and women in the name of protecting their families and children the irony is that 12 years later the 1st major protest against the dictatorship brought the pots and pans back in the middle of an acute economic crisis characterized by hunger especially in the poor. many assume that chile was the birthplace of the castle. the practice of the banks. and for.

the 1st. appeared in algeria the so-called. labor words. there they have read. in america back to. your. one of the virtues of this form of protest is that you can do it day or night on the street or from your home where presumably there's less risk of being arrested especially when there's a curfew. depending on how widespread and noisy the castle last all one can gauge the degree of support for a given protest. in venezuela for example the pots and pans come out every time there's a blackout or just a protest against president nicolas maduro. but the practice transcends all ideologies it's simply the best way many people feel they have to make themselves

heard to see in human al-jazeera sent the al. the president of tsunami has returned home after a court found him guilty of murder in absentia a military tribunal his sentence does about 10 to 20 years in prison for the murder of 15 and opponents in 1902 when he was the country's military leader is yet to issue an order for his arrest but as he says he's the victim of a political game now what a modest peten region is home to the largest tropical forest north of the amazon but as more people settle in the area poaching and other threats to its biodiversity a growing as david mercer ports now a group of scientists is working to save a number of species. 30 metres above the forest floor in northern what amala biologist ronnie garcia's team works hard to try to save an iconic animal scarlett macarthur endangered here there's only a few 100 left in guatemala struggle forests habitat loss and wildlife trafficking

have decimated their population. and you know they were term aquatics in the least here but when we came back to check on them they would gone but we did find with the marks 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. my hope is this in 10 years we won't be doing any work in the field because the skeletal mccool won't need our 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 tropical 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. today a 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 and 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 could 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 will likely keep water animal rescuers busy for many years to come david mercer al-jazeera in a 10 what amala. check of the headlines here on al-jazeera iraq's parliament has accepted the resignation of the prime minister abdul mahdi it follows weeks of violent anti-government protests which are left more than 400 people dead he will stay on the lead the caretaker government but attention now turns to who will replace him i know what i want a homeland i want fair rule my heart politicians are all thieves and you need to be rooted out. the prime minister resigned the parliament should resign and the party

should get out we don't want any of them. our demands was simple we will take 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. malta's prime minister joseph muscat says he will stand down in january earlier thousands of people marched in the maltese capital letter urging him to go he's come under increasing pressure of the investigation into the murder of the journalist daphne carolina going to 2 years ago. a deadline set for u.s. president donald trump to say whether he would send a lawyer to represent him in an impeachment inquiry has passed so far there's been no word from the white house. mexico's president of the method economic growth in his 1st year in office has fallen short of expectations despite problems with the economy and continued i murder rates and there is money lopez obrador remains highly popular. a soldier and his wife from the democratic republic of congo have

been killed by an angry crowd there mistakenly accused of being rebels it happened in the eastern town of benny in north kind of a province the crowd attacked them after finding guns and ammunition in their bags they suspected them of being members of the allied democratic forces which has blamed the killing more than $100.00 civilians in the past month. lebanon's trade minister says he's asked the central bank to cut interest rates by about half a caretaker government has been trying to tackle the country's escalating financial problems months long anti-government protests have added to the crisis about 4 $1000000000.00 in odd currency has been withdrawn from lebanese banks since september. so those were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after inside story stations that are watching right now.

they all hope pompous but germany social democrats and just elected new leaders who want to leave angela merkel's grand coalition so to the chancellor save her government and what does this uncertainty mean for germany and for europe this is inside story. hello welcome to the program i'm adrian figure in germany a social democrat so s.p.d. of chosen to leaders who want to leave angela merkel's grand coalition many of the party members say they want to focus on rebuilding support in the opposition the

coalition between angela merkel's christian democrats and the s.p.d. was formed last year at the s.p.d. as new leaders ran on a joint ticket.