this is news coming to you live from berlin bolivia gets a new leader for the time being anyway the opposition senator yes declares herself the interim president saying she will do everything necessary to pacify the country but for president the former ramos accuses her and others of staging a coupe also coming up hong kong on the verge of total breakdown that's the assessment of a police chief who said pro-democracy protesters were carrying out insane acts

they've been back on the streets after days of heavy clashes. israeli tanks move into position along the border with gaza israel's targeted killing of a palestinian militant leader in gaza has been met with a barrage of rockets fired on israel from across the border. plus we get a profile of an indian boy who has become the very definition of inspiration abdul qadeer swims faster than an fortner a boy even though he has no arms he's lost them in an accident yet he's won 613 national swimming trophies with his family support he's set his sights on the 2024 paralympics. hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us in bolivia opposition senate.

yanina onions has declared herself interim president following the resignation of former leader abel morale as the called station a court has endorsed even though there were not enough lawmakers present in congress to appoint her or others has got into exile and mexico has condemned years accusing her of instigating a coup. the route to stability in bolivia is paved with difficulties the streets of the capital remain blocked a metaphor for the constitutional barricades that the legislative assembly must overcome in order to reassure the state after wave of resignations that followed evo morales his departure. to head the 2 no opposition faces twin difficulties to form a government but to do so with a minority. the president has to institutionalize the state functionality to the state that's the offer to the country and others it without

the deputies and senators working together have to offer the country stability within the framework of the constitution at the noise that we want to see any mixing of political personal interests. right now it's important that people who live here have stability and peace. they will barely sit at the restore certainty to all bolivians born fought in defense of freedom of expression. stability we want to return to democracy we want to restore the rule of law the independence of the state's institutions and we want to live in a society where constitutional rights and guarantees are respected. we want to return to like ality and roll back all of the deinstitutionalization that's been generated. got a selection of guarantee clean elections and handover the mandate to the. next

democratically elected president. but achieving such goals will require much more than just good wishes follow ethos follow a moral a constitutional lawyer the biggest challenge is pacifying the country an issue that requires literally hundreds of argent decisions. citylink to believe institutions such as the armed forces and the police and the new commanders must be constituted when the basically some 100 or 150 officials must be appointed as soon as possible in order to get the bolivian state back on its feet even if only a little. there are many times 6 and 2000000 challenges really versus rutan's that is some of the most ills of views. it is a view shared by former bolivian president jorge to tokyo olga the situation he says present a historic precedent for bolivia and latin america. the

lesson bolivia will learn is that a government that takes a step outside the rule of the law must be condemned by the bolivian people and the international community because when you allow the 1st violation the 2nd and 3rd come to and they grow they become a snowball and. while the legislative assembly is debating how to stabilize the country vs there persists in bolivia the empty street and the closed shops sure storing peace and confidence to the citizens goes beyond letters of resignation and entering presidencies. let's get some analysis now from the tussle linge that of essex university in the u.k. she's a professor of government and an expert on authoritarian regimes thanks for being with us this morning professor up 1st of all we've got an opposition politician

union that is declaring herself interim president of bolivia while the former president if a morale this is calling it a coup how do you see this playing out well hopefully they're going to be able to hold elections and yes had announced yesterday that they were hoping to hold elections by mid to late january and that's what's going to be really critical to restoring confidence and trust in the system and i can see that what alice from mexico will be trying to rile up his supporters he will be stating that he's going to be making a comeback but that's going to create instability because for the moment there's a large portion of the population that is fed up with him and fed up with the fact that he violated 2001 constitution and then engineer in a 4th term in office so they become a complete b.s. is that they could somehow against a 1000000000 this interim period by now saying that elections are going to take place and then not will gain public trust this in a chance that we're almost will stage a comeback i mean he still has quite

a following. he does and i think it's definitely likely he is going to seem to come back in just a matter of when and it's more likely to be successful if i'm just waiting by the time a little bit and then allows this next election to play out and then tries to come back it's going to be a huge mess and try to match. well ok let's look at the bigger picture here bolivia is having a crisis obviously there's an uprising though also in they bring chile ecuador and who honduras are experiencing on rest how concerned should we be about this instability in latin america. it's very concerning that this has been a problem that latin america has faced for decades because they have incredibly huge gaps between rich and poor as we see in chile you have very personal istic style of rule you have a very weak party and you have very low levels of trust political trust and trust

in one another and this is a recipe for a lot of instability and we've seen this over and over again where they've been cycles of dictatorship followed by a little bit of democracy and then followed by instability it's actually have been a really democratic period for latin america and so the hopes are with this particular instance in bolivia if they can restore stability quickly move towards democracy that could be a model for other countries professor thank you very much for talking with us that was natasha lynch the professor of government at essex university. hong kong where police chief pro-democracy protesters are pushing the city to quote the brink of a total breakdown 2 days have been among the most violent since the demonstrations began 5 months ago the main flashpoint has become the university district now where there have been fresh clashes between demonstrators and police. they say they're

protecting their university just say use anything they can get their hands on secrete barricades feel campuses have emerged as the latest front in battles with the police. the students are determined to fight for their freedom. this is a fight for the whole generation we are not letting go slowly change our place our hope. it doesn't take long for things to escalate. the familiar click of tear gas being fired. seems like this play out across hong kong like here in the financial center. there now seemingly normal parts of 5 months of unresolved protests the police say the city is on the brink of a breakdown. journeys daily life destructed after protesters threw de brézé on the tracks. this man asked what he'll do says the protest leader no choice

but to go home and not work. hong kong's leader is see this. for years see why the protesters plan to paralyze hong kong and stop people from going to work and to school was extremely selfish. lighty see. police and protesters accuse each other of brutality on monday the protesters set a man on fire after an argument. police are investigating the incident as attempted murder. they've also defended shooting a protester saying they were concerned for their own safety. in a situation like this we believe we're acting according to the guidelines to protect ourselves as well as the people around us. here with more protests expected the fear on both sides is that they already volatile situation is only

likely to get worse. for a spot of mathias bullinger has been covering the protests from the beginning and joins us from hong kong but here's sir the police there warning that the city is on the brink of a total breakdown what's your impression. well i am now not very far from the central business district one not the center of today's clashes where chinese banks have been vandalized and police and protesters have been charging at each each other as you can see shops here are working so people somehow do get along but what is true is that we have seen an escalation in violence in these last 2 days that is unprecedented. there have been clashes all over this city into the until late at night before the clashes used to end some much time around midnight latest 2 o'clock this morning it was until very early protestors have occupy campuses have fought back police for the 1st time since

these. demonstrations of these protests started so there is the there is an escalation both sides are hardening there's no doubt about that but he has these protests seem to have taken on a life of their own now do the demonstrators still ahead clear demands that have any chance of being met. they have very clear demands their 5 demands and one of them has been met that's the withdraw of this anti extradition bill but there is a very important demand for an independent investigation into the police something that would probably ease tensions here but the protesters are saying all their 5 demands must be met and colluding universal suffrage to democratic elections that is very unlikely that this would be met considering that beijing has to make

a decision on that and we have a hard line government in beijing highly ideological that will not meet this demand for them or the chief executive has said she is not willing to meet any of the demands. saying. this will just give them a satans off that they achieve something with violence so she thinks the best way to deal with this is not meeting their demands she's been doing this for 4 months it's her assessment obviously why she's things that this is working. but here's what he expect to happen there today. we see we are seeing further clashes in different parts of this city and the university that has been occupied yesterday where the police has been pushed out of campus is of course at the center today i we are not sure now how the police is going to react most

people expect that and at some point they will try to come back there the protesters i have seen it yesterday have prepared hundreds of molotov cocktails to meet them so this is of course a very very. volatile very very worrying situation continues thank you very much for bringing us up to date there correspondent mathias bellinger in hong kong. now to some of the other stories making news around the world today also strongly and firefighters are scrambling to contain dozens of dangerous bush fires burning along the country's east coast authorities have warned of extreme danger in the northern state of queensland the east coast blazes have been blamed for at least 3 deaths since friday. at least 7 people have been killed in a car bomb explosion near the interior ministry in the afghan capital kabul no group has yet claimed responsibility the blast comes a day after a prisoner exchange between the government and taliban insurgents which was aimed at fusing bonnets in afghanistan. and a protester has been killed during

a new wave of demonstrations in lebanon a man was shot dead near beirut by soldiers who'd opened fire to disperse protesters blocking roads lebanon has seen weeks of nationwide protests against the country's ruling elite. there are fears of a further escalation of violence between israelis and palestinians after some of the worst attacks in years along the gaza border people in southern and central israel were advised to stay inside after palestinian militants fired a series of rockets into israeli territory they came in response to an israeli airstrike early tuesday morning that killed a militant leader in gaza cheese day morning seen at the home of islamic jihad senior commander abu. i was late to islamic jihad fights is respond with the power of rockets attacks.

over the border in israel the warning sirens sound once again. israel's iron dome defense system into seps many of them but some do get through. damaging peoples' homes and injuring some israelis. many to use to evacuate from the israel gaza border israel's response in gaza more airstrikes killing several palestinians. israel is not interested in escalation but we will do anything to defend ourselves . islamic jihad founds revenge for the death of. bombing siobhan we assure our people and our holy fighters that we have no choice

but confrontation. israel's strike on a popular anti israel militant came during a period of relative peace but now the deadly to and fro of rockets is back. israel is in political turmoil right now perhaps headed for a 3rd general election in less than a year netanyahu is under intense pressure and has recently been criticized for his failure to stop rocket attacks from militants in gaza now he's responsible for a targeted assassination but consequently more rockets. let's cross over to jerusalem now to get the latest from our correspondent tanya kramer tanya what is the situation there this morning had there been more attacks over night. yeah it had been quiet overnight for several hours and then that $630.00 local time the 1st warning sirens went off in the southern communities but also. to swim and that

has been going on now for the past hours or so so they were incoming rockets from gaza and we also understand that israel is carrying out as strikes and now in gaza at the same time we understand i mean there are reports coming in from cairo that egypt is trying to deescalate the situation there mediation efforts under way had always play its role in the past when we had these times of escalation over here but at the moment because this time it's mainly a focusing on the actions of the islamic edgy hard it is not yet clear whether they succeed in these mediation efforts this flare up of hostilities hanya comes amidst a serious political crisis in israel what do you make of the timing of this confrontation. well i would say that

a political commentator see an israeli journalist to have actually quickly questioned the timing of this operation as you say israel is in a political crisis it has currently a cat acre government with prime minister netanyahu who failed in the 1st round of coalition talks to put a coalition together now it's up to benny gantz also former army chief of staff who's has again one week left to put a coalition together so there's some questions about that but prime minister netanyahu addressed these speculations himself on tuesday together with the army chief of staff and the head of the internal security so this cement this said this . operation was decided together on the recall mendacious and off the army and the internal security service to carry it out and purely operational. merits but of course it comes at a time of political deadlock here in israel. how are people there israelis and

palestinians coping with all of this tanya. well i think as the very end especially i think about people and to south of israel but also inside the gaza strip civilians that you know this will throw the escalate it's already very bad i mean life is disrupted schools are closed on both sides. and people don't know how long this will go on no where that it will you know become another war whether mediation efforts will work at this time having said that even if there would be a calm at some point you know people always in the back of their mind can break out any time it's so unpredictable because there is no real solution no political solution it's usually this formal calm for calm that has been working for some months but then you know there's another escalation so it is a very difficult time for civilians on both sides tony thank you very much for

bringing us up to date w's tanya kramer in jerusalem. now to washington where the u.s. house of representatives is preparing to open up its impeachment hearings to the public starting on wednesday the hearings investigating alleged wrongdoing by president obama will be broadcast on television as he's all over solid explains democrats are aiming for maximum exposure from now on every hearing will be live on television and that's the big chance for the democrats to make their point president july phone call with ukraine's president selenski was impeachable after years of special counsel mahler's investigation and weeks of the impeachment inquiry this will probably be their last chance to gain public momentum and convince the american voter and that's crucial because in the end they will have to decide about president trump's fate we asked voters on the streets let's listen to what they had to say about the public hearings on portland is

a that is going to be broadcast live on t.v. it's good because you know they don't need the hand for everything to be public yet be careful what you wish for because it will be public. well i got to say looking forward to watching it based on what i've read our president is in a lot of trouble i don't think he really has come out with a good explanation for everything he's done but hearings will be very interesting and i'm glad they're public i don't really have an opinion on it frankly i think it's a waste of time frank with you. is it not going to change the the opinions of the of the voters to hear it probably 2 years what happened i guess i'm just tired of it frankly i think a lot of forces with these impeachments to think the election is still going on for 2 years ago now you know i'd that's my opinion you know and i don't think there's a whole lot to cover there i really don't we're trying to find out of the americans

of that will change the people's minds that the fact that it's now live on t.v. from tomorrow i think the country is so polarized that everyone's going to hear what they want to hear so it might but unless an increase the happens i don't think so. the voices of washingtonians they're talking to fall over so it's. in sports and in tennis austria's domenic team booked an early 70 final spot at the a.t.p. finals with a stunning group stage victory over world number one novak djokovic joked which took the 1st 76 but the 5 time champion could not hold the aim of longer the 26 year old won the next 2 sets and called this the best match these ever played he has now beaten roger federer and novak djokovic back to back to book his place in the semifinals the procedures tournaments in london features the top 8 men's players in the world. and indian boy has become the

very definition of inspiration after repeated successes in the sport of swimming but what makes your story remarkable is that he's been winning despite having no arms. the water is abdul qadeer in dorry's happy place. swimming has helped the young boy overcome big obstacles and made him an inspiration for many in his native india. at the age of 7 abdul qadeer lost both of his arms after an accident but he refused to let its life be ruled by at the. top of his skull when he was 7 years old my son accidentally touched a high voltage electric wire we took him to a hospital in mumbai and doctors treated him for almost a week but they said the infection was spreading fast and that they had to amputate both his arms were saving his life with the priority but he had to lose his arms.

since the accident abdul qadeer has adjusted and all sorts of ways he does his homework using its feet and he is a smart fine that way too. but it's clear that where he truly excels is in the water. and he set his eyes on a big goal. there but for most the odds are livid that they're mistaken because i lost my arms when i was in 2nd grade i had an infection that spread to both arms when i was in hospital. but i love to swim with it on the boards and i want to win a gold medal for india in the olympics william a big no boy. it's more than just a daydream abdul qadeer is already a 3 time national swimming champion and he's got the medals to prove it but it's a quiet hard work and determination from everyone involved it will be what is i

mean i got in the beginning we were really at a loss about how to teach him to swim. we didn't know how to support him unlike other kids we couldn't hold him by his shoulders. we could drop him into the water but taking him out was a challenge. but abdul qadeer was determined and nothing could stop him. he started to swim in just 10 to 12 days and learned how to climb up the ladder on his own. little bit with used to fall and get hurt. but in just a month he became independent in the pool. disease got positive negative will be part of the beat. up till cardio is hoping to soon join an elite swimming institute and trying to qualify for the 2020 full summer paralympics. just reminder the top story we're following for you today bolivia

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