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and mccarthy secured the majority to become prime minister, offering hope to a country struggling and joint economic crisis. also the human cost of the conflict, the un says a record number of women and children are dying in the fighting. i'm trying to get the latest news from the tokyo limping cy that home daily find me when sold at his ball game on a great day for great britain, the best of the action in the next hour. ah, welcome to the news. we begin in tennis, where the biggest political crisis since the revolution of 2011 has been unfolding throughout the day. on sunday night president chi saeed froze parliament and ousted the prime minister with the help of the army. over the latest developments. on

monday, the president announced that he would sac the defense and justice ministers and name replacements that are being clashes between rival camps outside of government buildings blockaded by security forces. they also stormed to the offices of algae there in tunis and expelled staff. the european union has called all parties incentives, yet to respect the constitution and the rule of law and avoid violence. while we have mohammed val, who's cover tune as he acts extensively for, he'll be joining us shortly. and entered alley. he's standing by on the line from tunis, but 1st, a higher up begins all coverage with this report. the gathered outside to parliament is now out of service for a month. demonstrators from different sides of the political, divine refuse to leave. once again to nivia isn't home on the support is the largest main book and not all angry at president christ side decision to sac the government, including prime minister. he showed that she, she,

as well as the justice and defense ministers, were paid by the president's choice to over through the constitution which took place on the day. the technicians people celebrated republic day, the republic through which the monarchy was overthrown. the largest main block and not all angry at president clay site decision to sack the government including prime minister machine parliament speaker, russia the notion head of the party, a staging assistant in his car, refusing to move until politicians are allowed back in earlier. he called it a qu, senate con, decisions have no basis in the constitution, nor in the law, and we are against them. because in short, it is against the constitution against the revolution and accrue against public and private liberties in the country. the president meet misinterpretations that actually clash with reality. the announcement from president clay side came off the

mass anti government protest in several cities. 2 at the store last, the constitution does not allow the parliament to be dissolved, but it does not stand in the way of freezing all its work. got otto set. the 2nd decision is to lift the immunity of all members of parliament. and for those of who a case is related to, i will take care over the public prosecution, put up with a political style, mates and economy in christ, high unemployment rates on the miss handling of the pandemic. denise is, are again calling the major change. i'm a partner, one of them for where we have come down today to resist this regime. they take our money and curse us. they have not done anything to the people, always fighting. it is enough. how can 9 ministers rule an entire country? we have starved and the people are lost in tennessee, both the president and parliament are elected by popular vote on the constitution.

the president only overseas military and foreign affairs side says he will now govern alongside a new prime minister. i say the heavy presence of military and security forces in the capital tunis with adjustment revolution promised to change the lives of millions of a decade later and to new remains divided what the future holds for the country. so that only joins me now on the telephone line from tennis. i'm at the very fast moving day. what's the latest? well, 1st of all, speaking about what happens to you. there is a kind of an official island so far on who is responsible for the break into and they shut down. and for what reason? why a lot of the reaction from, from organization protect thing,

the people of the press, the government headquartered right now, totally below could by army checkpoints. and then no news yet about the prime minister. you show me, she, she was in the day why the pretty than the very fish moving to the international reaction, the car, 30 point affairs to be called or all the appointing parties to reach an agreement with diana. and it called for avoiding elation. and to maintain ability in the country and also the ministry of germany expressed concern over the political need and the same ability. and they said, you know, they, they don't computer but have been before that i just thanks so much i'm it

alley. thank you very much. i let me go to mohammed val, he's up in covington as far as extensively. and as we followed the day through the habit, it does seem now that the president has an agenda and he's moving on that very quickly. the right, so people in teenager were waiting for any statements or any kind of action from which they could understand the orientation of what's going on. particularly with regards to the president. since he announced the decision to suck the parliamentary fact, the government and threes, the parliament, he did not give a speech to the, to the general public. but he met, he took from decisions that show that he's in control. he met with the labor union today, the head of the labor unions. and after that meeting was an announcement by the labor unions of tunisia that you know, could be read other kinds of supportive statements. they said that every fight

should stick to the legality to the constitutional legality in every action. and every decision that the measures taken by the president to address the problems of tunisia now should not be permanent. and there should be an end to them, but they're not asking for and today, but they're asking for that for they want. they don't want it to be a continuous measure by the president. they also asked on the parties to refrain from any violent action. i mean, the person has some support, he has that of the support of the general public or a part of the general public in the streets since yesterday night. he seems to have the support of the labor unions, a very strong powerful player in tunisia. he also has apparently the support of the military so far, at least the military is keeping quiet that move he, he made the removal of the defense minister is a bit of a concern. probably it shows that he is concerned about the loyalty of the military

. but in general, we can say that he is the president is in control. and that until now he's not affected by the opposition of the most of the political parties. and he's not likely to really give in or to give them major major compromises. he's not, he's not giving into the pressure to reverse his decisions. we've had many voices coming out of to nicea, trying to give us an idea of what's going on on the ground. do you get the app, sir? notion that, you know, dady daily 24 hours into this scenario. the president will have to go on television to explain his actions and to supply and to also explain the reactions that he's had to fulfill to move to as a forward, as far as he can see it during this 30 days where he's frozen parliament actions while there is no doubt about it, there is no doubt that you know,

the people of tenicia need to listen to, to hear from the president the sooner the soon as possible. he needs to explain himself. he needs to get a count of what he did because that's a major, major set of decisions that he, he took some of the opposition, most of the opposition components for leaders. considered it a cool. he has to reverse that. he has to say something about it and, and eventually, so he has to speak to the, to the another party. otherwise, this situation could only ex l. it because at accelerate because another party, we know it's a huge, huge political player in the country and they can, they can send thousands to the streets if they want. and if, if nobody listens to them and if there is no hope for negotiation, that's but he does, that's going to be very concerning. intonation. always see what happens said the and follow this with you through the day for the moment amount. well, thank you. now security forces dressed in civilian clothes, stormy offices of al jazeera in tunis,

and asked old journalists to leave the building. while we spoke to al jazeera as tunis bureau chief looked for her g about the situation. not had that. what's happened is a security forces stormed out, there is officers and tune is and asked the staff to lease. they prevented staff from even taking personal belongings. and they said that they represent the security services in tennessee. yeah, i asked them if the average destry permit and they said no, we don't have one. these are the instructions of the interior ministry. that's despite the fact that we have laws in tennessee and they can't do this. we see this is unfair. it's against fairness because it doesn't depend on as district ruling. so don't know, our faith have the office, they have the keys. but we will go to the history and we'll see what happens. security forces are surrounding the office and the facility upstairs. they prevent anyone from entering our office and preventing us from using our computers. this is a new decision which is unfair and it might development other action because in terms of the last 10 years we've gotten used to freedom of press work and the

specter of law shot and regarding the staff voucher 0, we are prevented from talking to anyone today, i think they're trying to even go through our mobile phone with are concerned because within this illegal decision we cannot work. i cannot convey our message that has been global condemnation by press freedom, advocates of the fullest, close resolved. there is offices, reporters without borders say it denounces the closure of alger. there is office in tunis by security forces and calls on the authorities to respect, press freedom and pluralism. the international press institute says the raid on out there is office is a gross violation of press freedom and an act of intimidation to silence independent media. pauline adair smith. l is spokes person for reporters without borders. she says her team mustaine, vigilant of any attacks on media outlets into nicea. the most important thing is to say that at the stage, reports without border is

a bit didn't. and looking at the situation and the potential attacks from press freedom in the country, as we said yesterday evening after the 1st and last name my the, the president. yes, the security for form the says era internees. and we are looking carefully at the situation. we denounced the move and we consider that the currently isn't a press and the freedom of the press has to be respected by the treaties during the time when there is a political or kweisi ongoing since yesterday night in the country. at this stage, looking at the situation and confirming the fact that the fees of have been closed by the police forces on the ground. it seems that other

network international networks are still put, casting unrra tv working in normal condition at the stage. but we are looking carefully at the situation and not making any worrying comments at the stage. present closely, says lady of tennessee is constitution essentially gives him the power to push out the prime minister. according to the article, the president may take any measures necessary near the end of imminent danger that threatens the nation's institutions security for independence. however, the clause also states that before extraordinary action, the president must 1st consult with the head of government and the speaker of the assembly. states that after 30 days a speaker may reach out to the constitutional court, which can then determine if the president's actions were warranted and

constitutional. william lawrence is a professor of political science and international affairs at the american university. politics has also failed to produce a constitutional course court, so there is no recourse constitutionally to review the president's actions, which if you look at that article closely, do not allow him to do what he's doing. and certainly not the ways doing it. there's no mention of removing immunity for parliamentary and there's no mention of it take over a fully executive authority and fire administers all that improvisation by the president who is a constitutional expert, but doesn't even have a ph. d with sort of a low. ready level lecturer at the university and is often portrayed as, as a constitutional scholar of some, some notes but, and all of his meetings today, people are coming and explaining the constitution to sure. so it all remains to be seen how this can be turned around if it will be turned around. but right now,

you know, i've been talking the constitutional experts since yesterday, and no one really sees either that the constitution allows them to do this or that there's a way out except for a political negotiation. like we had during the crisis of 2013 k said one the presidential election in a landslide and u t. t is the most powerful institution in the country. and the commonality there is that they're both sort of from the arab nationalists side of politics. so there's this overlap there. but up until now the u. t. t has been the guardians of the of democracy in the guardians of the constitution, where they seems to want to ruled by decree and by plebiscites almost in napoleon, 3 sort of way. and every revolution hasn't napoleon moment. so we're, we're waiting to see, you know, is this going to egypt 2013 direction or 2 needed 2013 direction and the

behavior of the largest institutions, the labor union and the military, which we need to talk about as well after that picture of the generals and the threat by the president to use force. those are the big questions right now. well, many citizens and are looking to the country's powerful trade unions to weigh in on the political crisis. the largest is the u. g t t to have more than a 1000000 members of the scene as one of the most powerful political forces in the country. to unions won a nobel peace prize for their role in the years after the 2011 protest. they help negotiate a political settlement between islamist and secular political factions. now its hope the indians could help mediate between the supporters of the ousted government and those who bank presidents. each actions should on grieve, all is the professor of government at the college of william and mary. he joins us now from sicily by us. got good talk with us on the program. when we think of unions, you know, it means a different thing in a, in

a different country depending on, on society as a whole. but how big and how influential all the unions in to nicea in this particular case to need his labor union though the day is, is unique. it has played a political role since independence having helped achieve needed and dependent back in the fifty's. it also played a major role in the 2011 revolution. and as you mentioned, play to the major role in 2013 and saving the democratic transition and mediating between the parties and bringing them to the table and winning a nobel peace prize for its efforts. so the hope in today's crisis would have been that that would you today and the other civil society organizations that i've mediated in 2013 would have come out again with a neutral position trying to bring everyone to the table instead, what the labor union statement today what it indicated was instead

a bit of support for k said to create they said that it was within the bounds of the constitution, but they just want to make sure that he thinks that the 30 day timeline and they doesn't expand as howard during it, which suggests that he is not at this point, playing a neutral wait and see playing a neutral approach, but instead of somewhat supported perhaps waiting and seeing how things develop their aspect. possibly if i can just just jump in there because obviously the president knows that the union itself and civil society groups are incredibly influential at this moment in time. he has to bring them inside because various contributors to al jazeera through the day have said to us that what the president has done is not constitutional. and there is no a cause of arbitration as such in place for all of the sides to talk to. so i suppose with the union does see a possibility that they can fill in

a void between society, politicians and the president of the president knows it. yes, absolutely. there is no judicial solution here because there's no constitutional court. there could have been and still could be, i think, a negotiated dialogue mediated by the union, but they haven't taken that will yet. so where the crisis is going and that appears to be a further escalation, both sides are going to mobilize their supporters into the 3 which raises the sector of clashes between the borders and opponent of the president and, and his actions. and so it attempted to ation that keep getting worse the last year or the last 18 months or seem to nicea in turmoil. if it's not a government that hasn't been quite formed, various prime ministers have come and gone. certainly over the last 3 to 4 years. why haven't the union got involved sooner? why has it had to come to a head right now? and for this scenario to unfold for the union structures,

it's just even think that they are or could potentially be a solution to this problem. the union has, behind the scenes tried to pressure the political faction to come together and to put aside their differences. but as of yet, they hadn't exerted enough pressure to bring everyone to the table. and this is the outcome where the political factions are divided. what is important in this case is that, can you just political system is one in which the president is both to share power with the prime minister and the parliament. but that was not working for the past year and a half the, these 3 had the speaker of the, the parliament, the prime minister, the president were embed bickering with each other over their respective powers. and nothing was getting done that the context in which this power grad is occurring . people are frustrated with the political system, seeing it not accomplish anything. and hoping that if you empower the president

seek, i cited maybe that will produce something better. but the, frankly, the president and i say it doesn't have a social or economic plan to get to media out of that situation. the sluggish economy, the cobit 19 pandemic. the only real proposal he put out is that he wants to arrest politicians, want to shut down hell, just need a way to arrest or not which provide a bit of cover in the short term, a bit of popularity. but there is no be a long term solution that he is providing at the very briefly mr. graham. because we really have time on this $130.00 days for parliament to be frozen. 30 days passes. if, if the, if the president can't find a solution to the problem, what do you think the unions again to do? i think they will have to take the rule at that point because according to the article, 80, it supposed to be the constitutional court. that after 30 days,

determined that the problem than solved and therefore the exceptional power should go away. but once again, there is no constitutional court to do that. so it's going to fall onto the huge to enforce that it stays at 30 days and that the president doesn't disband power and really take over the state. moving forward. see what happens, a shot and grave a professor of government to the college of william and mary, thanks for joining us from sicily. thanks for having our let's bring you some of the nice from around the world lebanon's the prime minister designate and g ban mccarty has promised to form a new government and implement a french plan to save the country from its crippling financial crisis. but the 2 time premier warned that he doesn't have a magical wand and cannot perform miracles. this is the 3rd attempt within the former government. the country is experiencing its west economic crisis in milton

history center called her husband from the capital bay route. lebanon has a new prime minister machine, but me as he received the majority of votes from parliamentarians. he is the 3rd prime minister to be nominated, appointed since august last year, when the government resigned in the wake of the baby with port explosion. it's still not clear whether or not he will be able to reach a deal with the president, michelle, on forming a new cabinets his predecessors. 2 of them stepped aside after failing to form a government at 11 on needs, a government in order to rescue the country because the economy has all but collapse. the currency has collapse, the state is close to bankruptcy. it is no longer able to import medicine, medical supplies, fuel diesel fuel state. the electricity provides power 2 hours a day. hospitals aren't able to cope because they need to run their generators and

generators need diesel fuel. and the, the, the new government will need to reach some sort of a bailout plan with the international monetary fund. because without that, the, they can, they're unable to start the economy. but so far, lebanon's politicians have been focused on their own personal interests and not the interest. in fact, the international community has been of very frustrated with the political class. continuously criticizing them for not working for the interests of the state. and instead, having their eyes focused on the upcoming parliamentary elections next year. so the country now has a new prime minister, but whether or not he can form a government, it is still unclear. 2020 was they said to be the bloodiest year on record and have got a son. they record number of women and children have been killed or injured. and the 1st 6 months of this year, the you and says that he's, $1700.00 civilians died during that period that have gone his on his own course to

see the most civilian deaths since it started keeping records in 2009. charlotte bellis has wolf and cobbled it's been less than 3 months since mohammed nobody's daughter. ray han dykes. she was 16 and an identical triplet with his sisters in yellow or bray. her wanted to be a doctor, but she was killed in an attack at his school and may, i didn't know if i put him on the issue that i was the 1st one to get to the bombing was really horrible. it's always on my mind. when i got there, it was chaos. there was screams, cries, and morning. there were father's picking up the daughters brothers picking up the sisters. the attack on say it all, she had a high school was cited as the worst incident in a new you in report telling civilian casualties and the 1st 6 months of this year, no group has claimed responsibility for it, but right hon. a sister has a message for her killers. don't told your brothers or sisters.

because sir, you're also from this country. the bombing heron may killed 85, mostly young school girls and injured about 150. they are among 783 civilians killed and ask an assault in just may and june. it is the highest number for those months. so you in started keeping records 12 years ago. the you and also says a record number of women and children were killed or injured in afghanistan in the 1st 6 months of this year in dusty bouchee, the victims names have been painted in murals on the schools perimeter where they dies. they call the suiting those who are trying to learn knowledge they killed in my message or in this part is dave that we as students, the just have one pending hand and no no. and other

things in our hand to fight with bins. i asked her in the us, do you think the pain will be stronger than the gun? course course. i believe in this the you in says if get this done is on course to witness its highest number of civilian casualties in a single year. we need the parties to step back and away from the battlefield because otherwise we do think based on the data that and the figures and the record levels that we've seen of the 1st 6 months of this year. that these will just keep increasing the number of the family empathize with the thousands of vaskins who's also buried a love one this year. but they cannot empathize with the perpetrators never. she's an amazon the mother russian. no,

i cannot forgive them. my wife cannot re, honda sisters cannot forgive, it's something unforgivable. he says after re han, his death and his security worsens. the families looking to leave f canister the you in is also worried saying is fighting loose rule areas into cities. the result could be catastrophic. charlotte bellis al jazeera cobble well still had hail beneath the flooding and eastern saddam is worse than ever this year. but not a natural disaster. we live on the grounds. little side of a bowl in towards between china in the us. get off to test the stars and make a fashion statement. jeremy, female jim, take a stand at the tokyo olympic ah .

such seasonal range as they're on middle east, particularly down to yemen, have been really quite extensive this year. this is the southwest of you. i'm to just north of aiden. quite extensive rain. yes, you could call it flooding. it's probably welcome and it's quite warm here, the moment quite hot. so it's being used to cool down now of the full cost period to the next day or so we'll see more rains creeping up along the southern coast of yemen. of course is that time the worst and i was overcast with time and drizzly on the edge of the monsoon. the shadows might extend the southwest to sadie. otherwise, of course, the pictures are largely dry when the final feast of turkey and western ga, this car is over the next day or so. time she is in the middle of iraq, sidney, down the east dental's bathroom in excess of $51.00. that continues in that hot dry with a wind which has been bringing sandstone purely down as far south as riyadh. it might do the same thing again come wednesday. it's very dry.