it's what inspires us. to witness documentaries on al-jazeera. the. war. 0. 00000 i marianna marzio watching the news hour live from london coming up in the next 60 minutes. skirmishes on the streets of santiago is chileans mark a year since a 30 peso rise in the metro fair led to massive protests over 30 years of unfulfilled promises. voting wraps up in bolivia as high stakes rerun of last year's disputed presidential election which saw able to run its course to leave the

country. after months of unrest voting process of peacefully in guinea where president condé is seeking to extend his decade in power. and calls for calm in a corner car back where there's little hope the latest ceasefire will hold off to all media and azerbaijan accuse each other of breaking it within hours. welcome to the program we begin this hour in chile where they've been clashes in the capital as tens of thousands of people mock a year since the beginning of a protest movement against inequality in the country and. the demonstration started last october after the government pushed up metro fares and stopped in march to change the coronavirus but they have resumed over the past week just ahead of a constitutional referendum was a key demand of the demonstrators have been sporadic clashes between riot police

and protesters in the center of santiago at least 5 people have been injured according to some of the latest figures so let's go straight to our last america it is to be seen in the news following developments in santiago 'd and speaking a few hours ago just when a water cannon was being deployed the numbers of protests as was building in a situation appear to be escalating what's happening there now. right now there continue to be skirmishes between some protesters and riot police but it's fairly calm pretty decent because there are still tens of thousands of people out here on the streets and more are still coming it's started 7 hours ago at least it's now 6 pm in sand santiago and at 11 o'clock there were in the morning there were already thousands and thousands out here and in fact about 2 kilometers in front of me it's absolutely jam packed and had to move back a little bit so that our signal would not be completely. warped it's extraordinary

the amount of people out here and they have been married fairly peaceful although we did see with our own eyes riot police in caravans just about 3400 meters to my left all ready to move in if and when they decide it's time to clear the streets but there are whole families here elderly people young people babies no credible amount of enthusiasm and in a way to show that people have come back out onto the streets to mark the day that in which chile's social pressure cooker if you like finally exploded. a small 30 increase in the mid to was the detonator of a social explosion last year that has rocked latin america's most stable democracy ever since. the 24 year old will soon begin a media's was one of the students that rushed this entitlement train station last

october 18th. as the saying goes it was in the 30 places with the 30 years of on field promises clearly there was a before and after 18 chile has never been the same the rules of the game have been totally modified in what way we think google in the sense as citizens of empowered and took over public spaces to demand their rights. that had never happened that's why it's been a citizens revolution. the initial revolt was followed by riots and looting small but violent radical groups destroyed millions of dollars' worth of property mainly peaceful demonstrations lasted until march when the pandemic began despite widespread human rights abuses on the part of security forces. but most of all the social explosion as it's called here unmasked a deep rooted discontent and anger over social inequality privilege and exclusion

and it was supposed to be a latin american oasis this we are all as one of many that illustrates what was a major disruption until in society that is still unfolding and it has the potential to significantly alter this country's social economic and political model . as a result of the uprising the political establishment agreed to a key demand a new constitution that will presumably guarantee basic social rights like education health and decent pensions my feeling is that the process opened. as a result of political elites trying to empathize and connect with the more. what we still don't know if if that connection. will be able to channel their move back into the institution of real. sunday chilly will hold a referendum that is widely expected to approve the rewriting of the constitution.

with the country's democratic institutions so discredited for so many people there's no guarantee could you can be put back in the bottle. just picking up one point here about the constitutional referendum something that people have been calling for in protesters have been demanding is it likely to to bring change to the country. that's the big that's something that nobody can answer that's certainly the hope of millions of chileans that the referendum is going to be about whether chileans agree or not to even change the constitution to scrap the one that was written under the pinochet dictatorship all the polls show that it will be approved with a very very lot by a very large margin but it's not clear exactly who will make up the constituents of that constituent assembly how much real profound systemic change it can finally help bring about and even if it does even if it's written in the new constitution

how long it would take for these to really make a difference for those people most in need so it is a beginning at best of a process that will take time and in the meanwhile people out here a lot of them are saying that they're going to stay out on the streets because they need to keep the pressure on the politicians on the state and on all of the institutions of this country thanks very much will the latest from santiago chile you see any human thank you. well we go to bolivia now where voting is just wrapped up in a high stakes presidential run which was much delayed by the coronavirus pandemic the leading contenders are left wing for make anomic minister luis are safe from the party of ousted president evo morales and the centrist former president carlos messer many hope the election will restore some measure of stability to the country after a national recession bolivia erupted in violence late last year. when then president evo morales saw a 4th term in a disputed election which was then and now. well extra security was deployed across

the country of ballots at polling stations being kept under police and army god some residents have stocked up on food and fuel are the concerns this election will revive last year's deadly clashes catherine led to barry's director of andean info of the andean information network a bolivian social justice and political think tank she joins us now from cochabamba via skype which is speaking there about people making preparations for the possibility of unrest with security forces on the streets and stockpiling of food what is the atmosphere like in the country. why i think there's a great deal of tension there's a great deal of tension because of be uncertainty that surrounds little electoral process you know although we might well have preliminary results tonight the final result probably will be in for 3 days and and legally but it can take up to one week so you don't whip the conflict with the problems with the interim government

there would be a level of uncertainty you tie in with the presence of your ethnic groups for example and what seems to be remarkable is the possibility that 12 months after the will nearly 12 months after the op he valev the last election it looks as though the party of overall morales could be poised for a comeback what do you what are you hearing about that. well the party certainly leading in the polls and you know there were there was a portion of the bolivian middle class that had opted or big can't come disenchanted with morality for the 4th term but we've had a year of human rights violations a year of corruption a missed managed code. which has really kind of soured a lot of people on the alternative candidates to the right and so it remains to be seen how the. are we likely to see an outright victory with

what 40 percent of the vote is it likely to go to a runoff which would which would come then later on and of ember it's quite hard to say you know if they were if r.c. were to win with 40 percent he'd have to have a 10 percent margin over the 2nd place candidate a chance of li carlos mesa you know the mess that the boats are on the right are divided between mesa and largely well he's fair camacho so i think ideas withdrew the incumbent from the race he was never supposed to be a candidate to to create a stronger 1st round vote for the right we don't know if that's going to happen and we don't know what the impact of the militarization of the streets at this point in time or are going to be people are quite concerned that's right and you were talking about corruption problems with the interim government over the past year.

how much concern is there about the way in which the election has been conducted with. allegations of vote rigging and potential electoral fraud well it's interesting because you know the elections have been postponed 3 times for the pandemic and the pandemic continues finally we've we've reached you know last time the allegations of fraud were largely based on the suspension of the rapid count the night of elections since then the new electoral court developed a whole new system of rapid count but last night. around 7 or 8 pm they decided they weren't going to use that because they had concerns about the system so you know there's been little transparency very limited press coverage a lot of coverage of rural area in the polls in part because of coat it but also in part because of the dinette dynamic and the controls placed by the interim

government and we've seen a role with the military on the streets and a show of force that we haven't seen in previous elections we haven't seen in a period of democracy and so that creates concern and we don't know all how the military will respond they've made statements that they won't support a new morales government you know they're not supposed to according to the constitute do should have a political opinion but they have acted politically the original past year thanks very much appreciate your thoughts from cochabamba catherine not a bad director of the andean information network thank you. well now to get me off to months of unrest in a campaign marred by violence the presidential election appears to have been largely peaceful but dozens of opposition supporters say they were refused the chance to cost their ballots because of problems with their voter cards the u.n. has urged all parties to refrain from engaging in ethnic violence concern also

shared by the international criminal court the west african region is in a precarious situation after a recent coup in mali and unrest ahead of ivory coast's election well the 82 year old incumbent alpha condé has been in power since 2010 and leads the rally for the canadian people party is backed by his linky ethnic group but there have been mass protests of the constitutional amendment which allowed him to run for a 3rd term dozens were killed in a security crackdown his main rival is sell you dialin giallo who's running against him for the 3rd time he leads the union of democratic forces of guinea and his support base is drawn from the largest ethnic group before lani gello was a former prime minister in the early 2000 well nicholas haq is monitoring events for us from dakar in neighboring senegal. well it's been an exceptional day of voting despite this divisive campaign where we saw candidates really trying to pit guineans against each other along ethnic lines there was

a big turnout during the vote was there are some that weren't able to vote either in neighboring countries like here in senegal where there's more than 3000000 guineans migrants living here who are prevented from voting or either because some didn't have the voter cards despite all of that many people came out to vote most of them are 1st time voters so big turnout and a peaceful so far election now it's during the counting that's happening now that perhaps trouble lies ahead we know already that the opposition says that if a is. seen as the front runner the winner then they won't even accept results there's also the the f.n. d.c. the front for the for the for the national defense of the constitution i've been protesting over the course of the years these are members of civil society as well as the opposition they wanted to protest on friday well they've announced today that if they is seen as the front runner then they will not accept the election

results while that would mean that there would be perhaps more violence on the streets and the un office for the prevention of genocide is concerned about about all of this over the course of the year we've seen 90 people killed most of the security forces targeting ethnic full lonnie's most of them support opposition leader. is president if he can a month down party which is positive coalition he's also a senior advisor to challenge a former presidential candidate himself he joins us now from conakry by skype so the results of the election not you for a few days but just based on your observations and your concerns about the vote as the opposition made up its mind about not accepting the results. thank you very much the opposition in fact is there a practical matter king for if there are elections and what they're going to fair elections will bring about will be accept you know what 1st i want to live my idea

of you're a little bit thought because you do share prices early days here and when it is trying to guarantee of 7 and points and cause additional to return so it is has been in disagreement with the good in population and thus has been every entity national mission why to protest against presidents and of course our grafters still decided to participate in the selection right yes you have decided to participate if you selections because this is a way also looked to be done more straight and all to ensure it change in leadership in guinea and this is why i don't was in has participated in a busy election however head of that is election it is significant and. what is has been that all the rigging up there looks and preventing beginning from casting their ballot because the president going to has a subtle influence if you look at the ethnic division and has you will usually step

in security are going to carry out these and difficult because it has been accused of doing that as well in terms of inflaming ethnic divisions i mean. whereas you have a z. interview debro times the president of the new york it was a sham party has come out of all these instabilities they have. and a fair election process because it is on our interests to ensure that this process is fair and democratic which will ensure it transitions up our lead as you can remember in 2000 then in 2015 we endured a really unfair and b. elections but in the end as of peace stability is and will begin their 1st look at it it still doesn't yellow back then accept it as it can i ask then what you might do this time around how you would challenge the results would you result to the constitutional court legal challenges or what that be further steps taken. we will that we hope that the process will be fair and just and the winner of the ballot

will be the carrier and the president one day will be ready to accept the result of that of the world. however unfair the result will not be possible this time around if there will grab the wheel of that even people is going to frustrate that with the yes and begins today with a change in leadership or is it better social economic development is a severe issue. to peace and stability in that it cannot say that because in the un and other situations a voiced concern about the prospect of there being no ethnic violence in the country and both the government and the opposition have been accused of exploiting those divisions for political gain how will you prevent ethnic clashes and violence if if and when you decide to dispute the results of the election.

you know the population of giving really not see a new city as it was an issue this is all it political given the political leaders particularly the party in power would it use it is it legal if i were to be able to mix ignorance between them as i was and as their counting continues we in the opposition who call for peace and stability of zoners are continue to monitor and account and we hope that it democratic will occupy people opinions will be respect that however we have received several issues and those there are problems as i can anticipate that there are process today if you board. or is nation that did not open on time that ability hours later or 'd 'd what or what those has been rejected from what decisions or a lot of their my ideas and if you have seen earlier all borders has been closed between doing it with the center just remember anything can i just get

a very quick on how would you be prepared to negotiate with a government headed by alpha condé if it would prevent violence and instability in the country. as we can see the day with the end to the us and i think you know you have a quarter not for a change in the government you wouldn't want it respect of the polling stations results right. thank you very much. for joining us yellow emerges as the winner we will really be looking for our vote for what it does for a smooth transition of power you know the leadership in getting there are right and we've got all no community to really assist in the immediate actions the ensures that there is on the elections i respect your decision of given their lesion and what's going to happen next all right well thank you very much again a appreciate your time tana jalla president of the game a down party which is have a choose the opposition alliance in this election and any thank you. well now at

least 2 people have been killed during ethnic clashes in the east of ivory coast violence broke out in and around the city of new which is a stronghold of the leading opposition presidential candidate. says his house was burned down an office belonging to the ruling ivorian popular front party was also attacked in abidjan violence comes just 2 weeks before the presidential election ponens of president allison what tara say his bid for a 3rd term is illegal. still ahead on this news hour from london tens of thousands of people watching minsk against the president of batteries despite fishel threatening to use firearms against them. and across france thousands rally in tribute to the teacher should be headed for showing his students cartoons of the prophet mohammed.

well now the u.n. is in azerbaijan to respect a new cease fire which appears to have been broken within hours of it coming into force it's been 3 weeks since the fighting flared up of the disputed region of nagorno-karabakh which is internationally recognized as part of azerbaijan but controlled by ethnic kamini and both sides are accusing each other of violating a 2nd ceasefire in the space of a week it was established a day after these areas said 13 people were killed in a missile attack on the city of ganja more than $700.00 people are summated to have died so far in the fighting the abdulhamid is in ganja in azerbaijan with the reaction there. isn't that was fair bit of popular anger here all fingers pointing out. there's also very little faith in this renewed ceasefire that was announced on sunday people here obviously saying that they could not trust the armenian side to hold their part of the deal even though i feel there's

a bit of confusion over what exactly that humanitarian ceasefire is about people here think that it's about an indefinite still ities when in fact it's really about bringing some. calm period enough to swap bodies and did. is now de moment we don't know where that is heading we just heard from. and he said that they are ready to return some bodies to armenia through this prearranged door. as a budget and said that it has informed the international red cross about it but this statement did not say anything about do soldiers definitely. on the battlefield specially in the areas in the occupied regions around. the azerbaijani army is pushing forward it has popular support there is

a feel that as a biogen at the moment because of the do every tory again has the upper hand and you have a lot of people here who do support that many would tell you actually that maybe a ceasefire is not what should happen now and that the army should keep on pressing well beyond its methods and yerevan the capital of armenia which he says for the ceasefire to work. the armenians say they've been pushing for several days now to get this humanitarian ceasefire agreed on and it's taken 2 weeks to get this far it was russia that got the 2 sides to agree to a humanitarian cease fire to the handover the bodies of killed soldiers i don't change prisoners of war wounded soldiers it was never quiet enough along the goal line of contact never peaceful enough for them to be able to for both sides to be able to agree to do this there was an attempt last week on one local attempt to do it on one part of the line of contact but even that failed after

a few hours because firing started again so this decision by the air is to hand over the dead bodies of the armenians had already earlier on agreed to some sort of handover of bodies and prisoners of war is a step forward armenia needs the cease fire to carry on its suffered now 675 armenian ethnic armenian fighters have been killed in the fighting and armenia has lost control of the territory it has held since the end of the war in 1900 for this territory between nagorno-karabakh karabakh in azerbaijan is considered the security or buffer zone but the armenians say that's what it is to protect nagorno-karabakh for the last 26 plus years they're supposed to be discussing the status of this territory plus nagorno-karabakh with. nothing's happened in that time has wires about john says it is now moving militarily with the support of turkey to take some of this territory back. well tens of thousands of people have

marched through the streets of the capital of belarus despite a threat by police that firearms would be used against protesters at least 100 people have been arrested and stun grenades could be heard protesters are calling for an end to president alexander lukashenko is 26 years the opposition it is about on a chicken a trend or a nationwide strike unless lukashenko quits within the next week mass demonstrations started 2 months ago off to look for shanker was reelected in a poll widely seen as raped. yet i cannot stand aside for standing aside to me feels like sitting in a drink and telling when the house is on fire one cannot be a society one cannot drink tea when the house is on fire as marching up without speaking figuratively our country is on fire on fire from violence and lawlessness that. will thousands of people have rallied across france in tribute to a teacher who was beheaded after he showed his students cartoons of the prophet mohammed samuel was killed on friday near the school where he taught the suspect

was shot dead and several people are now in custody new reports. this is where paris comes to defend what some see as french values thousands gathered at the past of the republican solidarity with samuel party a history teacher brutally killed in a quiet paris suburb the level before we're here to defend the republic the values of the republic liberty equality fraternity and secularism we can feel that the fatherland is threatened that those values are under threat. the murder suspect named as a was shot dead by police on friday close to samuel party school. he was an 18 year old born in moscow of chechen origin and had no apparent connection with the teacher or the school investigators say he stalked the area before following the teacher whom he stabbed and then decapitated with

a knife and 11 persons been arrested as part of the investigation. earlier this month putty had shown his students cartoons of the prophet mohammed in a lesson on freedom of expression the caricaturist were 1st published by the satirical magazine charlie abdo which led to a wave of attacks in paris and 2015 is believed the lesson angered a number of muslim parents activists say the authorities had been warned about the killer but it failed to act the person who committed this horrendous unspeakable unfathomable crime was hard being reported worktable times on social media because he was already displaying sign that he was about to commit something and many of the people who reported him were muslims and 2 groups so warning the french media already muslims can report someone who produced to be one of their is a. car a moment of unity in the face of a brutal crime the french government's promised

a 0 tolerance approach with tighter financial controls on religious cultural and sporting associations but the killings a reminder of fault lines in french society weeks after president emmanuel micro-loan controversially described islam as a religion in crisis while defending the country secular values gnostic islam islam . the murder has shocked the nation focusing the spotlight once again on tension successive french governments have struggled to resolve the falcon al jazeera. on the program. a protectee hard line and wins the presidency of the south at republic of northern cyprus. thousands of type protest his take over a major intersections in bangkok on the 5th day of protests despite warnings from police.

hello the rain in eastern europe has been so heavy recently his marching further east leaving behind his legacy admittedly such as for example this bit of flooding in poland now there's a flood risk out in slovakia and slightly the same sort of thing in southern germany was no more rain to come his river flooding there the next focus is not so much here's what's happening further west and east in atlantic big areas of low pressure slowly barreling which means significant rain for portugal then spain and ahead of an induced southerly breeze which is quite warm even for this time of the year forecast for paris takes you up to $21.00 degrees in a windy suddenly on wednesday the average here is 13 so we're well above the average stock just paris affected most of western europe will be so affected but it really is quiet apart from the butt of cloud spinning off here as you can see

suddenly getting down towards northern libya than most in north africa is much the same we still got showers spreading from ethiopia through south sudan towards west africa and that has recently thrown into the atlantic another potential hurrican but the showers are coming to light and because the rain is going south it is focusing so much more now on places like uganda or d.r. congo. in countries like a mine people have been killed too because when united states have privatized the old macumba the function of war this was a deal with saudi arabia things were done differently saudis other arabs when they came to britain to be told to help to the past bombs due to low fuel rumsfeld was meeting saddam isn't that interesting there are a shadow on al-jazeera. the latest news international crisis group

but use of the government of in danger and social feeders by allowing the exploitation of natural resources details coverage supporters of the new prime minister claim in there with us is. they've now taken control of the stocks from around the world yes of droughts economic crisis drives and employment florrie complacent and not grown up fires in that odd. a cracker with the news out live from london the headlines now have been sporadic

clashes between riot police and testers in the center of santiago's tens of thousands of chileans maki years since the start of protests demanding social change several people have been injured. bolivians a vote in a high stakes rerun of last year's an old presidential election leading contenders are left to inform economic minister release are safe from the posse of the ousted president of them are obvious and the centrist democrats in congress messed up and off to months of on rest and a campaign mob by violence guinea's presidential election appears to open largely peaceful would suggest the turnout was quite high but the opposition's of course is saying they could cost that ballots because of problems with that voter collets. now the turkish backed prime minister of northern cyprus has won the country's closely contested presidential runoff results will likely have implications of the heightened tensions in the eastern mediterranean 6 year old or centauri security

51.7 percent of the vote he opposes reconciliation with the south and has close ties with tuckey's president the incumbent 72 year old mystify can she got 48.2 percent of the vote he supports the reunification of the island and had strained relations with ankara so negate as our poll. it was a tight race offering 2 different views over the south declared republic's future and the results could have hardly been closer in one corner the outgoing president most of for. a political moderate who supported a framework for a peace deal with greek cypriots to reunify the ethnically divided island he also wanted less control from turkey there was little or a lot of one in the future when you look back at the date of the 18th of october 2020 i hope you will remember it as an all or all day with turkish cypriot democracy and will. challenging him as in tata

a nationalist closely aligned with turkish president richard tired he favors a closer union with ankara and maintaining separate ministrations on the island of vision backed by turkey. from us and a message will be given to the world by reflecting the will of turkish cypriots at the ballot box that message is that once a unifying peace making personal everybody president visits in the presidential chair tensions will be left behind. but for months now the eastern mediterranean has seen tensions escalate contested maritime claims has pitted turkey against greece cyprus and the european union of offshore rights as it was used gas exploration in the surrounding waters a move contained as a provocation by brussels earlier in october turkish troops opened public access to the closed off seaside town. is the 1st time it's done so since turkish forces invaded the northern part of the island in 1974 turkish cypriots want the reopening

of the resort town to be a potential incentive for the island's future but greek cypriots want for russia to be returned to their control before any talk of reconciliation begins. after the election we need a period. zation we take stock of things on the ground. and real stop me. participation and inclusiveness. may pull in cyprus further into turkey albeit but just on behalf of those who voted want a different future for the territory one with more control over its own affairs and that will play into any forthcoming peace talks if resolving the cyprus problem is to become a reality so neither you go out there. now is lee's prime minister just happy conti has just announced new coronavirus restrictions hours after the country posted and

you take the record of $11705.00 new cases mayors can close public squares after 9 pm and restaurants and bars are restricted to table service only off to 6 pm but can stay open until midnight jams and public swimming pools can remain open but conti said they would be closed in a week if italians don't follow the rules. we should wait a few days before we can see the results of these new measures we must commit and continue to make the sacrifices while waiting for the checks to be completed before monoclonal antibodies and for vaccine the sooner we can make them available for all of us. the. less you the sooner we have to commit the situation is critical to government as president but everyone must play its part or together will be able to overcome this difficult moment. well now israel has started to ease a 2nd coronavirus lockdown after a month of restrictions and a steady decline in daily coronavirus infections are now very people are now

allowed to go more than a kilometer from their homes and restaurants can open only to take out food nursery in kindergartens for kids up to 6 years old of also been allowed and health ministry is drafting guidelines to reopen popular holy sites in jerusalem's old city to small groups israel has so far ported more than 300000 cases and over 2000 deaths. and the who team obama. this time we are leaving the lockdown carefully and responsibly. but ima small cut through in the red cities we will keep the shut down until day to reduce their mortality data and the cities turn green i call on the ultra orthodox public to follow the guidelines many follow them but there is also a large group that does not follow them i ask you all to follow the guidelines they are life saving and together we can remove the lockdown and make you or green city residents to. and chief palestinian negotiator saeb erekat has been taken to an

israeli hospital more than a week off the contract uncovered 19 he was transferred from his home in the occupied west bank to west jerusalem in an ambulance palestinian liberation organization is saying america requires special k. jews to chronic health problems involving his risperidone system he received a lung transplant in the united states 3 years ago and. an israeli delegation accompanied by u.s. treasury secretary steve knew chen as fun to bahrain to formalize relations between the 2 countries bahrain followed the united arab emirates last month in agreeing to normalize ties with israel the decision outraged palestinians who'd demanded statehood before any such we journal reports from takes place the joint us is ready delegation is signing several collateral agreements during that trip to montana.

well more than $27000000.00 americans have already cost their ballots in next month's presidential election democratic nominee joe biden is visiting swing states in the u.s. rust belt hoping to gain their support posting a drive in a rally in north carolina he called on the state to get out and vote. for john lewis used to say vote it matters michigan matters you're elected remember rock obama 2000 trout and you better us when we bet on you ever been around america workers we bred out to you are w. i'm asking for your trust the support of going to join me for count on me always said you're back i promise you so please vote help us get out the vote. well michigan's democratic governor gretchen witness says she was to stop by president trump's latest criticism of at

a rally on saturday when it was the target of an alleged kidnapping plot recently uncovered by the f.b.i. which she says was incited by president trump's rhetoric you got to get your governor to open up you stay. ignorant and get is schools off and get your schools off the east coast i have to be all right goes. to the house was the beginning it's incredibly disturbing that the president of the united states 10 days after a plot to kidnap put me on trial and execute me 10 days after that was uncovered the president is at it again and inspiring and in incentivizing and inciting

this kind of domestic terrorism it is wrong it's got to and it is dangerous not just for me and my family but for public servants everywhere who are doing their jobs and trying to protect their fellow americans. now saudi arabia's king solomon has issued a series of orders restructuring the kingdoms advisory shura council the supreme court and the highest religious body the orders appointed a new speaker and 2 deputies for the share council an influential advisory body which is due to start a new term this week one of the deputies is a woman the king also ordered a reformation of the council of c.d.s. scholars to be headed by the grand with to shake up the lessees a shake and appointed a new supremes court chief a shura council is a body of 150 appointed members whose main task is to study and propose laws or some me humvee is the editor in chief of the national interest to current

affairs analysis magazine with a particular focus on the middle east any significant appointments here. i think it's not necessarily the appointments that we should be looking at but more the effect that we have a lot of the same faces with the same token suggestions of reform as we saw with 0.0. committee appointed as an assistant or deputy in the shorter council decided that mohammed bin cement is trying to promote women to senior positions we saw this follows on from over the last year we've seen some changes such as the ambassador to washington been banned for example i think what's interesting is that because the shura council itself it is a toothless or going to organization while it has some significant characters it doesn't have much influence over decision making or policy making in the kingdom what's interesting is there is the continuities that we're seeing in the council of scholars this suggestion that the government or any of them have been so many is

content with the way that the religious authorities are operating and we've seen some promotion of the members who have reiterated that and to cut their message we've seen the sermons change in mecca and medina the 2 holy sites to try to promote some of the saudi policies this idea that we would have seen a conservative backlash we're seeing that there is this continue with you which suggests that the government is at ease with the religious authorities toeing the line after a string of imprisonment of religious figures outside of the official state apparatus and official state institutions so i think that continuities speaks volumes as to how mohammed bin cement feels about the situation feels about his control of the kingdom or does that suggest about the future direction of the country. i think it's important to understand. that the way the country's going domestically it's going more towards social reforms more towards liberal reforms they have been on saudi twitter today people talking about mohamed bin so men and

these this restructuring of the institutions as geared towards representing moderate and it's important to understand that a lot of the support that bin cement gets internationally is rooted in this idea that he is engaged in the social engineering and his message of combating radicalism and extremism resonates in paris and washington even if it is very much a token message and even if perhaps it's being implemented in very harsh very crude measures of imprisoning people without trial and without due process so i think this is an integral part in $100.00 cement securing that international support is not whether he believes it or not it's the fact that the international community seems to accept that there is a need to remove the conservative elements from society and this is why this is the direction that we see saudi arabia going in that been so man has a license to act ultra vires if it means that this social engineering project survives and continues to live past mohammed bin so many particularly given it's

a subject that's been very sensitive in the past and a subject no saudi press before has ever tried to venture towards thank you very much sami hamdi joining us here in london now at least 13 people have been killed in a car bombing in western afghanistan with the death toll there expected to rise under 20 people injured in a suicide attack in city of score and or province government buildings including a police chief's office were also damaged no one has claimed to be behind the blast separately 8 afghan security officials were killed in a taliban attack in condensed province afghan government called the attack despicable and a continuation of the war against the afghan people. well now tens of thousands of young thai protests have been now in bangkok for a 5th straight day despite warnings from police that they're violating a ban on demonstrations protesters took over 2 of bangkok's most important transport hubs a day off to security forces shut them down in an effort to stop the gatherings

demonstrators are demanding a more democratic constitution to the morning on the resignation of the prime minister of china dozens have also been arrested well tony chang was among the protesters in the capital bangkok and says demonstrations are starting to spread across the country despite threats from the police. once again for the 5th day in a row protesters have come out onto the streets of bangkok to show their displeasure the government and again the oath orators have tried to stop them and earlier in the day the police had warned that anyone attending would be charged and arrested they even said that those people who turned up and posted selfies on social media could be liable for 2 years in jail or $2000.00 fines but clearly that hasn't deterred anyone people are still here and they're still determined that their demands be met quite a lot of york in column a cuckoo i think we need to change we need to demand an end to the unfairness that

has happened the 1st thing that i want to see is that they stop ignoring all voices we should be able to gather and protest peacefully and i want to see more freedom not arrests at this stage we don't know how long these protests are going to continue to a certain extent some of the phase has gone out of this because the protest leaders have been detained that said these protests have now spread they're taking place in different sites across bangkok and tonight even in different places across the country the protesters are shown that after the crackdown on friday night they are still prepared to come out with still to come up prepared to come out and numbers and they're not scared and now the ball is very much in the government's court. well at least 14 military personnel have been killed in a landslide that hit that barracks in central vietnam another 8 people are still missing dozens of people have died in severe flooding in country province more than

40000 houses have been submerged with rivers riving rising to their highest levels in 20 years on thursday 13 rescue workers mostly soldiers were killed in the neighboring province of hugh they were searching for construction workers missing after another landslide. meanwhile in neighboring cambodia at least 20 people there have been killed by heavy floods 6 children are among the dead tens of thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes since the beginning of this month almost 60000 houses have been flooded and more than 240000 hectares of rice and other crops destroyed. more and more. my home has been flooded since wednesday night i think the flooding will continue bit long because only 30 said the floodwaters have receded. still ahead for you on the program when i tell you why some fans are upset after a manchester city star touched on lines woman. and an egyptian grandad

becomes the oldest professional footballer while that's coming up and. that in america is a region of wonder of joy of tragedy and violence but it doesn't matter where you are you have to be able to relate to the human condition. trying to break away. i've been covering all of latin america for most of my career but no country is alike and it's my job to spread light on how and why the 1st reaction was. hush hush across the u.s. meat packing some 19 sports these are people being treated as hogs in a machine rather than actually being cared for for clients investigates with the

corporate america has put profit before the lives of its workers they care more about pieces of meat going in the tray then they care about their team members virus on the poultry line on al-jazeera. the all. time after the storm rita. thank you very much madge the city striker sergio aguero will face no punishment for touching a female assistant referee in saturday's win over arsenal the argentine confronted shaun messi ellis after she signalled the throwing touching around the neck and

shoulder before the official swatted him away under rules introduced into the 16 players can be cautioned all same talk for touching match officials but when i went unpunished the referees governing body in england says it was not deemed aggressive or threatening. manchester city manager has defended a greater saying come on guys surgery is the nicest person i have ever met in my life look for problems in other situations not in this one but the incident has caused a storm on social media with many criticizing the player's actions tatyana hanny is the director of women's football of us we're safe a informally at fi firm she says it sends the wrong message to women looking to enter the game. to me it's a clearly at least 100 percent the yellow card a red card you can discuss or that's then going to be a bit i think a difficult because it was a grizzly if i had probably not it was more like a gesture of oh come on little girl you know what are you doing here wires and not

giving another decision and i think that is the problem this is a message she puts across that is attitude and i think the discussion right now shows it you know it's mostly men telling. mostly women who feel different about that situation it's exactly why women sometimes don't feel comfortable in football maybe that's why we don't have so many women in for all because a year be constantly told what to do and how does words and how disease and we have to adapt to that environment i think we need 2 things we need that definitely more women involved and again if it's just one then it becomes such a big issue here you know so we need more it has to be normal that women are involved in the game is it a referee at a center for you or a coach or more women in leadership positions in the sports organizations you know the fee for us the way for us to face also this with the f.a.a. we don't have enough women it's just not normal to see women involved in the elite level of the game we need to change that and in this case and seemed

a really strong message would be nice if it was such a nice guy as a mrs what you are said he just to say this no i'm sorry that was stupid i didn't mean it and i will try to make it better and i respect women in football as well and i hope there will be more women and again that would be really great message from him. tennis number 7 alexander very has put the pain of losing the u.s. open final behind him very of was beaten by a dominant team in the majors but returned to victory on sunday at the cologne indoors tournament the german ended he 17 month wait for a title with a 6363 win over felix yes. on to moto g.p. with quite a thought out all lost the championship lead after a disappointing 18th place finish at the aragon grand prix in spain it started from pole but was quickly overtaken with alex grabbing the lead and holding off a spirited challenge from rookie alex marquez to win teammate one minute finished

food to go top of the overall standings the tampa bay rays are on their way to the world series for the 1st time since 2008 after beating the houston astros in game 7 of their american league championship series the rays were 3 nothing up in the series but after 3 straight losses found a series tied home runs from randy a rosa raina and the mike zunino saw tampa bay return to form in game 7 though the rays winning for 2 to win the american league championship for just the 2nd time they now move on to the world series. pretty special feeling i've had many many better rather than get married in having 3 kids. this is right there right there below that can't get much better than that this is a special group to be a part of you cover more than anybody i think you recognize it. it's fun to see them win games in just to be a part of it. in the world series the rays will face the los angeles dodgers already lancer braves the national league championship series will go to

a deciding game also the dodgers won game 6. and justin turner hits home runs for l.a. as they beat atlanta 31 on saturday the braves were 31 up in the series but it all comes down to a deciding game atlanta last won the world series in 19051 of the dodgers have not won the overall title since 988. that's all it's about is helping your team when doing what you can to help your team win and i mean whether it's moving around or whether it's an homerun whether it's making a defensive play whether it's been the spark in the dugout you know anything can help this team go on you're more than welcome to do in rugby new zealand have beaten australia 2770 in the 2nd bledisloe cup test match in oakland it was a 46000 sellout at eden park the city had seen a covert 19 resurgence and return to a state of lockdown but those restrictions were lifted in time for the bledisloe cup test match an egyptian grand dad has been named the oldest professional

footballer in the world at the age of 74 is. played he 2nd a full match on saturday for egyptians to division team 6 october. missed a penalty kick any team lost 32 but it didn't spoil his day some of the 6 grandchildren cheered him on from the touchline before he was handed he's certificates by the guinness world record. oakum can. the messages do not limit your ambitions if this is something you couldn't achieve as a young man and you youth with a strong will you can achieve it any times regardless of age and the time that's passed that's all sports news for now we'll see you again later for more as if the news hour but i'll be back with the latest from the chile as protesters mark yes it's a start that mass protests country. frank

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i. go on the shows on the streets of santiago is chilblains mocking his sins of 30 peso rise in the metro that led to mass protests over 30 years of unfulfilled promises. live. and mariam was a mountain and watching al-jazeera also coming up on the program voting wraps up in bolivia's high stakes rerun of last year's an old presidential election which will stable gratis to leave the country. after months of on breast poaching.