let's start with some of the on the ground realities affecting the news coverage what's the lay of the land challenging assumptions and the official not. just on l.t.c. are. lining up to vote for change or referendum in chile to decide whether to reform a constitution the protesters say promotes inequality. and not about this and this is all it is in a live from doha also coming up. marking a year since the start of major anti-government protests in iraq demonstrators say the government has done little to end corruption. shops closed curfews imposed and

a state of emergency new measures are in place across europe to stop the spread of covert 19. a call for a nationwide strike in belarus self to the president ignores the opposition's demand to step down. polls have just closed in a historic referendum in chile people are deciding whether to overhaul the constitution which critics say as led to widespread inequalities for decades the vote a result of fierce anti-government protests which of overwhelmed the country since last year if the referendum passes guiding principles imposed 4 decades ago under a military dictatorship could be replaced president sebastian pinera believes the measure will be approved latin america editor of the sea and human is joining us now from a polling station in santiago to see if this is an. about the part of the constitution

itself it's also about who's going to rewrite it imho it's going to be written isn't it. oh there's so much at that that we don't know but right now at this very moment the polls have just closed and you can see right behind me at one of the polling stations at the national stadium this is chile's largest polling center which was once the place that became infamous during the dictatorship as a torture and interrogation center well now it is a place where chileans have come to exercise their democratic right to choose a new constitution these ballots will be counted one by one and there to balance the yellow ones you may or may not see in the back and the white ones one is to see or to ask whether to approve or not to rewrite a new constitution the other one asks how what would be the system used and the choices of the following chileans can either have a constitutional assembly made up of half of the lawmakers which already exist

congressmen and senators and the other half. would be elected by popular vote or they can have a constitutional assembly entirely made up of delegates chosen by popular vote in which case there would be total gender parity 50 percent women 50 percent men this is the real question now how will it be done some people believe that the people who write the new constitution should be lawmakers already that that would somehow or other allow the political parties that are already in the system as it were and in the congress to put the brakes on any kind of radical choices that some people may want to make but many other chileans believe that it really should be written by delegates chosen through popular vote because the popular political parties have been very discredited rob and so they don't want to pollute the politicians that are already in power to have much say in it they say that this they have been the ones along. the constitution itself who have kept

a brake on social change in chile over all these years the constitution remember it was written under the pinochet dictatorship and it does make it very difficult for reforms to be to be made in a way that would not be unconstitutional so it's been a kind of a long and tough and very very difficult process over the last 30 years since chile return to democracy and chileans are saying it's time to say enough and start from scratch but as you were saying there's still so much yet to be decided and people still won't even with this process as we were talking about earlier we're seeing protests in the streets of sons jago at the moment. well actually they weren't supposed to be protests they were caesar people who we believe in fact according to all the polls that the the approved the approved option will be voted on will win this ballot by a long by a wide margin so they were sort of starting to celebrate ahead of time riot police

have been trying to disperse them from italy plus a dignity as it's been renamed it's the main epicenter of protests in santiago but i think that over the next few hours when we start getting the initial results in more and more people will probably go to this part of town tablet to try to celebrate whether or not police will allow them to do that is another question. the sea thank you very much indeed that's the scene human are like america editor in santiago. protesters in iraq are marking one year since their movement against corruption government corruption began on sunday they came out to renew their call for action several people were injured after security forces fired tear gas and water cannon and those trying to force their way into baghdad's green zone and a similar fault in reports many demonstrators say the government has done little to improve their lives. after months of quiet baghdad status square came alive on sunday to commemorate the one year anniversary of iraq's anti-government protests.

students and teachers what previously marched to hear every sunday but had stayed away because of the coronavirus pandemic once again joined in. the atmosphere was part festive part somber they rejoice to debate of the same revolutionary songs of last year but also remember those who died for the cause. here. we are commemorating the youth who have died of old this time they still haven't done anything for us we don't have the homeland we are to get it seems impossible but what we want now is our rights and the rights of the protesters who died. protesters climbed atop the barricades leading to the heavily fortified green zone which houses government offices taunting a ruling class they see as corrupt last year they forced the then prime minister i've been at the to resign but the parties in the system that brought him to power

remain in place and ordered to still remember you know. this constitution doesn't represent us it's a constitution that suits them because they wrote it to serve their interests these rich people who have hotels commissions and millions while we are here starving. but the movement has been plagued by disunity and the lack of organization most protesters advocated for peaceful demonstrations there was. the revolutionaries agreed to make this a peaceful protest without is kill a sion and they are voicing their demands in a peaceful way. but others decided to cross the barricades to the green zone in an attempt to lay siege to parliament riot police used tear gas to repel them resulting in several light injuries a government spokesman said dozens of security forces were also injured when demonstrators flew stones petrol bombs and homemade hand grenades.

but. one of the security forces present on the 3 barricades and atop the buildings didn't carry firearms the instructions were very clear and frank and until this moment there was high commitment from the side of the security forces to protect the protesters because the prime minister has called for early elections in june next year but many protesters feel the government hasn't done enough to meet their demands for sweeping reforms. sunday's the most ration is where to some extent a test for the protest movement to see if it could once again mobilize crowds while it was the biggest gathering in months the numbers were not what they used to be last year what remains to be seen the role of the protest movement can once again galvanize support in the days to come see want to fall to an al-jazeera. france is reporting its highest single day coronavirus in factions with 52000 in the past 24 hours cases have been on the rise in recent weeks the country has more than 1000000

active covert 19 cases several european countries are now imposing stricter measures as infection rates surge some of the worst hit countries like italy and spain or public cooperation will mean there's no need for another complete and damaging lockdown that even barbara has more. one of a string of protests in italy against pandemic related restrictions demonstrators converged on the government building in rome to denounce a nighttime curfew they say it's shuttering the economy. sunday the prime minister announced tough new measures saying covered 1000 cases were rising dangerously across the country and placing pressure on the health system. just. managing the pandemic means to permit our medical system to give a prompt response guaranteeing treatment and proper hospitalizations to all citizens it means to prevent a 2nd complete lockdown like the one we had in the spring the country cannot afford

it. bars and restaurants have to close at 6 pm although they can offer a takeaway service jim swimming pools cinemas and theaters are being ordered to shots people are being strongly advised not to leave home except for work health or education purposes but so far there's no ban on travelling spain is going further with a new state of emergency coming into effect on sunday night the country's desperately trying to avoid going through the trauma it suffered in the spring the new law includes night time curfews everywhere except the canary islands prime minister pedro sanchez says the legislation will last for 15 days but he lost parliament to extend it for 6 months and then awkward to the whole legal constitutional he gives legal constitutional coverage for the temporary restriction for 6 months of fundamental rights such as freedom of movement from 11 pm to 6 am it also gives regions the ability to stop people coming in or out of certain neighborhoods

a city or a whole region. the world health organization says europe reported 222000 new covered 19 cases on saturday accounting for nearly half the global total but addressing the world health summit happening in berlin but also online the head of the united nations urged countries to think beyond their own borders and we need global solidarity every step of the way developed countries must support all systems in countries that are short of resources and we must join together as governments the private sector of civil society and all partners to make sure vaccines tests and treatments are available to everyone everywhere and vaccine must be global public goods. on the edge of europe and russia's caseload remains the 4th largest in the world they've recorded more than 15000 new coronavirus infections every day for a week but the government's repeatedly dismissed the idea of a new lock down or shutting down businesses an outlier in the response to the pandemic at least for now nadine barber al-jazeera causeway acquiring is the

director general of the international federation of pharmaceutical manufacturers outlined the challenges of producing a vaccine. we really avant to have a vaccine as fast as possible but we also need to make sure that we proceed as slow as needed because we want to make sure that the vaccines months they reach to people are tested for safety and efficacy basically although you read about more than $200.00 backs and projects in the word they're probably in the industrialized countries not more than a handful of big pharma companies able to manufacture at large scale hundreds of millions in doses to give you a perspective the largest vaccine volume ever produced is $450000000.00 doses per year for polio here in coronavirus cove at 19 we are talking about a need of potentially $12.00 to $15000000000.00 as of

a vaccine this causes staunton challenges for example you need specialized classifieds scarcity of that therefore instead of having a single there is vaccines you will need to have multi those involved by you need a sufficient number of syrian chase and you also need specialized transportation and star and the companies are deeply conscious for wondrous and not just because of garbage 19 when you look at the number of anti vaccines in the world you do not want to create a disaster by going too fast you really need to move as fast as possible and as slow as needed. still ahead an al-jazeera trouble on the high seas why british special forces had to board an oil tanker on route from nigeria to britain. not that you know we're. having a good laugh about the pandemic comedians in new york find

a way to keep people entertained and safe from corporate 90. we got some really cold air diving down across parts of north america ads of the canadian prairies through the northern plains of the year s. and sinking of the south was well i'm eating out with the warmer air we've got some very very heavy add foundries showers rattling away here they are going to continue making the way for the southeast but you can see single figures for many subzero for many as well denver minus 8 celsius the top temperature that's in the heat of the day on monday afternoon warms up significantly as we go on through choose i say quite a change at that stage still fair amount says shall is there it's a central parts of the u.s.

and showers they're starting to gather just around the deep south now we've got some very active weather moving across the in most western corner of the caribbean this double clutch just storms here that says a tropical storm zita that is making its way up towards the yucatan peninsula some very heavy rain coming back in here then as we go through monday and it is likely to become a hurricane by the time we come to choose to say some wet weather around the yucatan peninsula western parts of cuba system into the gulf of mexico gradually making its way up towards louisiana mississippi for the middle part of the week elsewhere for the caribbean the sunshine and showers. are. stranded 8 long years on the sue is can now. creating their own community and the economy there was you know president bush used you go when you hit al-jazeera world tells the tale of 14 cargo vessels

accidentally caught up in the arab israeli conflict it was quite a surprise to find myself in russia in the middle of a war through the sailors whose ships of the desert sand the yellow fleet on al-jazeera. the a. georgiadis here a reminder of our top stories this hour a vote counting has begun in chile where people are deciding whether to write a new constitution demonstrators say the current one from inequality police have to use water cannons to break up protests in the capital santiago. security forces in iraq have fired tear gas of protesters trying to get into baghdad's fortified green

zone demonstrations against corruption and unemployment 1st began a year ago hundreds have been killed since then. france has registered a record of new daily infections with more than $52000.00 confirmed covered 19 cases on sunday several other european countries including italy and spain are now imposing stricter measures as infection rates rise surge. cameroon's blaming a massacre at a school and separatist groups witnesses say the attackers used guns and machetes and victims it happened in the city of koma an english speaking region at least 8 children were killed and several others were wounded to anger phone provinces in cameroon have become a center of conflict as groups fight for independence they accuse the predominantly french government of marginalizing them briscoe out of b. is a refugee who escaped cameroon because of the violence he says the should be limited

international intervention to solve the crisis. a best lead think it's no no government but to question the tough issues i've been just to you and because it lets the body not just of the situations because if the government it's not government or big let's say if you have some problems we accuse our government of cretins from the us at the day you were in that house is the hardest right and the hunt is this the deserve this of the disk this power to do this will be able to do it under what we are expecting what or the coming of course of to embody and be put in as i do the president will all expects for this president does believe that the 7 years of power to create the power giving us 100 to do so you can equal and willing to push the country from the isn't do the 1st thing or the come on us need not. well russian opposition leaders for a lot of the color sky is calling for a nationwide strike on monday after the president again refused to step down more

than 100000 people rallied for the 11th week in a row on sunday demanding. resign as alexei o'brien reports they faced fierce opposition from security forces. but this was the police response on the streets of the belorussian capital minsk. in what the opposition is calling state sponsored violence. security forces deployed stun grenades and tear gas on protesters who'd been marching against the president alexander lukashenko. the rally had started peacefully with wide columns of dam and stretches fanning out across ments they were heading for the president's home determined to send him a message that it's time to god. was. the march was called by opposition leader straight line a ticking off skier who'd given look into lee end of sunday to resign or face

a nationwide general strike. organizers say more than a 100000 people were out banging drums chanting strike and long live ballo roofs the scenery of them are still only unfortunately i think that lukashenko will not accept the ultimatum he lives in his own world he thinks that many people support him and that we're all wrong that we're drug addicts prostitutes and vandals but we're just peaceful he cannot understand it yet we are afraid of what will happen next week we will go on strike. but this is the 11th straight weekend of process since the disputed election in august 1. that the opposition says was rigged taking a skier as his main rival she ran against him after her husband was jailed but was forced into exile in lithuania. following the vote. lucas shank has been in power for more than 25 years and doesn't want to quit his main ally russia has offered

both political and military support your assistance remains extremely strong we also see that all you know all united states and other western countries have given very clear warnings. and i think sooner or later he will have to step down and we have to be able. an advisor to take enough scios is little only knows the name guage of power and fear and that it will lead him nowhere brian al jazeera. talons parliament will hold a special session on monday to try to find a way around the current political crisis there mass protests demanding prime minister prior and also as resignation has been taking place in bangkok activists claim his hold on power is illegitimate after last year's disputed elections they've been demonstrating for weeks demanding a reform of the government and the monarchy. for the 1st time in 4 decades an

opposition candidate has won presidential elections in the seychelles while the wrong color won and anger can priest gained more than 55 percent of the vote and his 6th attempt at the top job welcome web reports. it's the 1st change of government in seychelles since the 1970 s. . when john it's wrong. to be elected candidate for the presidential election it was the 6th time around color one had run for the presidency in all his previous attempts the last of the governing party candidate with a steadily growing share of the vote in these elections there were no losers there were no winners our country. was given the opportunity to come out as the ultimate winner with more than 70000 voters scattered across dozens of islands in the indian ocean the polls posed

a logistical challenge light aircraft and delivered ballot papers to remote polling stations it took 3 days for everyone to vote for president danielle for voted in the capital victoria his party has governed the archipelago since independence from british colonial rule more than 40 years ago 1st as a soviet aligned one party state and then winning every previous election on the remote tea party system the economy depends mostly on tourism wealthy foreigners flock to the islands pristine beaches but few have come since the global pandemic seychelles is one of the most on equal countries in the world hotels and businesses are owned by a wealthy minority mostly of european origin. many others a descendant of in slave the africans who were brought here by the colonialists past inequalities persist.

because. like. everybody in every everyone in. the oppositions free markets ideologies and anti corruption message have attracted growing support some felt the governing parties decades old welfare system had failed to help people. now for the 1st time since independence your position has a chance to deliver the changes it has promised for so long. al-jazeera. venezuelan opposition leader leopoldo lopez has fled to spain to do refuge in the spanish embassy in caracas in april 29th teen after a failed plot to overthrow president nicolas maduro the former political president has been a mentor to opposition leader door lopez reportedly escaped by sea. 7

suspects have been detained after the suspected hijacking of an oil tanker in the english channel u.k. special forces were involved in the incident on board the liberian registered naval andromeda its crew had reported stowaways who had made verbal threats the tanker was on route from lagos in nigeria to an oil refinery in southampton when it halted off the isle of wight for brown and has more from southampton in the south of england. we've had a statement fire social media from the ministry of defense tonight just about an hour and a half ago but confirming that the armed forces personnel were called in by police in order to bring this incident to to a resolution and that's exactly what they've done the minister of defense saying in response to a police request the home secretary of defense secretary authorized military personnel to board a ship to safeguard life and secure a ship that was subject to rock the minister of defense is described as a suspected hijacking taking control 7 individuals have been detained on the crew

are safe and well the backdrop to all of this of course is that this not andromeda due to arrive this morning in fact here in southampton discovered some 6 miles off the isle of wight as it was approaching southampton that it had stowed away on board and i've heard from lloyd's list the editor of lloyd's list the shipping magazine saying that his information was that these stowaways had become rowdy and violent when they were tried to when the crew tried to confine them to a cabin that said another security experts who spoke into the financial times described it as definitely not a hijacking he said it was essentially stowaways who got in his words a bit rowdy with the crew now the own forces went in they have brought this matter to a swift close we don't know where those detained a stowaway is on now and i know that the boat itself the ship itself is still

circling in the sea off the isle of wight so there are more details yet to be found about exactly how this has been resolved but for the moment it all seems to gone off peacefully. stern is government has raised quote serious concerns about reports female passengers were subjected to invasive searches a qatar's international airport that happened after stoffel found a premise your baby alive and abandoned in the terminal toilets 13 is truly a moment but among those reportedly examined a syrian government says an investigation is underway and it's been assured detail information will be provided soon. u.s. vice president mike pence is continuing with his campaign plans despite an outbreak of coronavirus cases within his inner circle one of those is his chief of stuff mark short who's in quarantine pens and his wife tested negative for the virus on saturday the white house has justified his continued travel saying he qualifies as

an essential worker. new york city has yet to fully reopen after its coronavirus closures earlier this year much of the city's entertainment venues are still closed but live comedy is back at least outside giving much needed loss to those who need them it will elizondo has more i want to get if you could what am i going to get in a city where there has been little to laugh about this year finally some live stand up comedy in pandemic times what you are not that you were on a recent early evening dozens of people came to central park in new york to get a laugh their reaction right away from comics. i mean is amazing we haven't performed in 3 months that atari were tired of doing the same shows because you don't get any audience reaction when the pandemic hit new york city in march everything shut down overnight any place where people gathered was shut and locked

including broadway theaters and comedy clubs they've yet to reopen while most actors and musicians still don't have a place to perform in front of large crowds many comedians have found a way to adapt comedies comedy outdoors indoors pandemic apocalypse it's a simple arts mike crowd go it means nothing so that's why i guess we're the 1st thing in showbiz to come back up is because there's no production value it's just such a simple art that people like to sell i'm not surprised that we're here before broadway here before all the movies that's get back up that make sense to me i should make too much new york has beaten back coronavirus at least for now city officials have been slow to reopen entertainment venues and your fear of a 2nd wave the outdoor shows certainly have a different feel but it appears to work for both the comedians and the audience now

it's. big it's open people are 6 feet apart from each other so like there's times when there's also audience behind me because they're just trying to keep their distance but in a wild way it works i think the audience wants it as much as the comics want it and like somehow we're coming together and we're able to make a show. and make people laugh at a time when everyone seems to need it keep rosendo. new york. this is a legit series of the top stories polls of now closed in chile after an extraordinary referendum on the constitution earlier police used water cannon to break out people who had gathered in the capital but still a large crowd in the main square in santiago these are live pictures from there if the referendum passes guiding principles imposed 4 decades ago under a military dictatorship could have a place to.