the french capital you watching live from paris- from sony forum somebody's wilson these and headlines. this evening the brbritish parliamament votes against holding a general election in december. well earlier on today the prime minister boris johnson grudgingly accepted a three month brexit delay. argentina's president elect of metal fan days a ride to the presidential palace for talks often he comfortably clinched more than 45% of the fact. two anti government protests have been killed more than a hundred others injured during today's clashes in the iraqi capital of baghdad . welcomee b back in a bd

to break britain's brexit deadlock the prime minister boris johnson has been pushing for an early election in the uk. and other on this evening a vote was held in parliament on whether or not to back a motion for national vote. which promised thehe johnson was held in december. butt to mps did not give the necessary support for that to happen. the motion required support from two thirds of mps. and seventy voted againstst it meanining tht we'ree back to o square one with his the british prime minister reacting to that news. how can. any longer keep this country hostage millions of families and businenesses. . for the fute wewe have a great new deal. it's taught in full. choose to have

a child to pronounce on that deal. and to replace these dysfunctional parliament with a neww parliament ththe can get dn to the country. the bridge from mrs speaking just a short while ago when i spoke to fossil fuels benedict pavia in london. i also what happens next. so another. important votes another defeat for the prime minister bryce johnson this is the third time he has tried to. guess mps to vote in favor of an early general election i say an early general election. becaususe we are under the fixed term parliaments act which means that. a government serve for five years and they can no longer trigga- when they feel like it a general election so- this motion tonight that was defeated by the government was trying to push. for an early general election on the twelfth

of december and guess what. a motion was getting to be table tonight by the government. for another vote. on tuesday i'm not vote. would didn't. so saying not withstanding the fixed term parliaments act. that the government wants a general election on the twelfth of december. but the difference is that this is a way of if you want to side stepping. that acts on actually rolls and getting which he failed to do today. two thirds of that piece of it for four hundred and thirty four in peace which he- did fell very far short of. for the third time. he only needs a single a majority could be majority of one i'm watch the prime minister's helping is he's hoping that. the new pacts between the liberal democrats underscore. national party s. and p. who. we're going to put

forward a motion for an early election not on the twelfth of december but on monday the ninth of december he's hoping that those double democrats- that that scottish national party having broken in. a day unity in the rebel alliance that was a level democrat scottish national party. earned the main opposition party the labor party a he's hoping that that will get him through. whether it's by just a few foods because he says that he does not want the country to be held hostage anymore. by this parliament which he has just said. i is dysfunctioional and cannot deleliv brerexit. from singles benedict pavia reporting that from london well either in the day the british prime minister boris johnson to grudgingly accepted a three month delay to the u. k. departure from the european union. johnson previously said and i quote i'd rather be dead in a ditch than agree to extending brexit beyond this coming thursday that is the thirty first of october. well in a letter to brussels the prime minister called the delay and i quote unwanted saying it went against his w will and the

urge the e. you not to go on. any further delays. the u. k. authorities are trying to identify the thirty nine people found dead last week in a shipping container just outside london. iss still the numberr te victims were from vietnam. as the investigation continues the twenty five year old drive all the lorry which brought that contain into the u. k. morris robinson. appeared in court via video link today. he faces forty three charges including thirty nine counts of manslaughter. possibles a catherine celtic clifford has this report. laying flowers and signing a book of condolences british prime minister boris johnson wrorote thatt his govevernment would do everything in its power to bring the perpetrators to justice. meanwhile on monday the dririver of the refrigerated truck in which the thirty nine victims were found appeared at chelmsford magistrates courts. twenty five year old maurice robinson of northern ireland's confirmed his details via video link he was charged with thirty

nine counts of manslaughterr charges of conspiracy to traffic people. and money laundering. the prosecution told the court other suspects were still wanted referring to a global rang. human rights watch's calling for the international community to crack down on people smuggling at its source there has to be- you know some you know real pressure on vietnam. also to end these kind of people smuggling arrangements and to crack down on the government officials whether they be police or ministstry of labor people others. who were involved- in protecting these racquets- you know of smugglers. you can't thirties initially said they believed all of the victims to be trying to piece. that would later emerged that many would likely to come from vietnam. the chininese foreigngn ministryy hs called on the u. k. to prprovide more information than what do you wash away the chinese embassy in the u. k. has been in close contact with the

british side. and also the british side to provide more effective information to help verify the identity of the victims in addition. meanwhile u. k. police say they hope to identify the dead throughgh fingerprints dentatal records da and photographs.. t the vietname government said britain had sent files on four of the victims asking for help to identify them. now to a story here in france the continuing to keep an eye onn in thehe southwestetern city of bio on word eigighty four yeaear old is reported t to have shot and seriouslsly injured two menen. o tried to stopp him from settitig fire to a mosqsque. well the man is u understood to b be a former candidate for mararine le penens party who ran in the regional electionss back two thousand fifteen whenen the party was stilill knonown a as the nationl frfront. it since changed his name well the victims arere b bg treated at a nearbyy hospital. the assailant has been arrested. more details are emerging about sounds sundays at u. s. rate in

syria which led to the death of abu bakar al baghdadadi the- hed of the islamic state g group. washington said today that the remains of the jihadist leader have been disposed of and i quote. in the appropriate manner. and there arere no plans for photosos o or videos of his death to be released. it also is being reported that us soldiers took two men captive during that o operation. that beingg heleld in a secure locatn while his the us defense secretary mark aspect. when i make. for the stf does have access to the resources. in order to. guard the presence in order to form their own t troops in order to. assist us with it with the defeat isis missionon so. that that's our m mission is to secure the o oilfields at the end the day where we wilill be presidenent made a commitment to do that- but- in the meantime we're going to reinforce and make some other moves. to ensure that we e can accomplish that mission of securingng the oil fields in order to deny them access to isiss. us defense secretary marcus the speaking that. well despite receiving a boost in the form of that news

of the death of the head of the islamic state group. president donald trump was greeted by loud boos and jeers when he attended a world series match on sunday night. as the game got underway a massive screen projects images of the president which led to heckling. and jones of. lock him up in some sections of the stadium. police to anti government protesters were killed more than a hundred others injured today during clashes in the iraqi capital baghdad. well thousands of students join the m mass protess not jusust in the capital. but also across the southth of the country that venting their anger at corruption. economic stagnation. well they says the poor state o of public services. we are rococky authoritities hae imposed a curfew from midnight to six am in baghdad. opposable simona fulton is on the ground in the iraqi capital with the latest. entire classrooms of scschool and uniniversity studes have joined the protest since sunday across southern iraq

boosting both participation but also adding diversity to the protests. the majority of demonstrators so far have been young men aged between fifteen and twenty five years- and the students were turning out not many of them are very young girls who were at. the hairs on sunday and we met a group of young- school girls who were very passionate about their because they were chanting- we will sacrifice our blood for iraq and they were very much. a determined to stay despite the harsh response by the government a spokesperson for the prime minister's office said that any kind of destruction- to school or work schedules would be met with harsh punishment and we've also seen. video circlet on social media with security forces- using both batons and tear gas to disperse t these young students on the political front the iraqi parliament finally met. for the first time since the onset of the second one. vote on a number of measures including the dissolution of. the provincial councils in what appears to be. an effort to place the blame on the provinces for not delivering

services- and jobs to the people and it also formed a committee to amend the constitution nominee iraqis would say look. the problem is not what is written on paper the constitution's just fine wiwith this t to be done is to actually implement it so- these measures- appear to be just. a and a and efforts to really- by time and stay in power because what the protesters really want. is for the government to step down and that has not happened until now. positive was similar to fulton reporting from baghdad. in other news the defying pleas from their leaders protest as in lebanon are still out in full force for a twelfth consecutive day today and set up barricades coming off major highways the protesting gets corruption and according to a radical overhaul of the fat country sectarian political system. meanwhile the head of the lebanese central bank says of the country is teetering on the brink of economic collapse from city fools jewel a meal jenny has this report. a different shoes

but the same message at the start of the working week in lebanon. these protesters one change starting with the government new road blocks was set up across the country on monday as demonstrates is look to maintain the pressure builds up over the last fortnight. the moans becoming more focused dozens gathered outside the country central bank. to call for the resignation of the bank's governor they had someone. the location where the corruption and. the symbolism of this location. goals against government corruption and economic instability have remained largely peaceful since the descent began twelve days ago this was evidenced by sunday's human chain stretching the length of the country without incident. but while protesters have been free to block many arterial routes leading into beirut other parts of the country has seen tensions beginning to rise. the situation in the southern city of say the soul scuffles breaking up. the army now being blamed for poor communication

and heavy tactics. while blocking the bride's today we agreed with the army to open one rate and s suddenly army intelligence and state security pushed through the people. even ththough more than one read was open. they're not accepting negotiation we told the one great and they'y're still tryryg toeatt and thrhreaten us since earlrly morning. demands remain for the resignation of prime minister aside how do these government however this would require an unlikely upheaval of lebanon's political system. and despite a series of proposed economic reform packages. many protestors believe this is all too little too late. no news argentina's president elect of benefit mandates arrived at the presidential palace in bata site is- there on monday. for talks with the outgoing president now he still mikey. fernandez avoided a run off by comfortably clinching 1405% of the vote. paving the way for the country since left to return to power up his vice presidential running mate. is none other than the former president cristina fernandez.

offer more analysis we can speak now tomorrow greco who's a post doctoral research fellow in the department of politics and internanational relatationst the university of edinburgh thank you very much indeed for speaking to us- it doesn't feel like all that long ago- t that- melody so mackey was being. ushered in as a new president's offering- lots of promise and people were saying goodbye and good riddance. to christina catching fernandez what why why you do. what you attribute this massive reversal of fortunes. hi there thank you for the mediation- what i think it was. some kind of a sort of very clear response off. the arson dying society or the south part of the feet let's say how awful feet. regarding the mainly the economic policies. were implemented by the marquis or my case and- in the last four years- those policies those. policies werere man the man i talked over the industry on over our small traders- andnd

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ththe. part of the past a note n the future of the continent. to which o one has to say each time the other one stokes allow my ceiling that. you'll yeah its former president that. used to be in these political society we- our preresident and the kitchen there on many other related nobody can countries. is being- it's been it's bebeen in j jail in on you just t t way okay we have to do that thank you so much amount- greco at the university of edinburgh. thank you very much for speaking to us. now it's time for a check of the top business news stories brian quinn joins me in the studio- brian let's begin at the european central bank the end of an era. mario draghi is on his way out to christina god.. on the way it indeed druggies tenure at the ecb celebrated monday with a ceremony at the bank's frankford headquarters his eight year term was a marked in

large part by fallout from the two thousand. eight global financial collapse sovereign debt crises in eurozone countries like greece led many to preredict the break up of the single currency union. dragging insisted that the ecb do quote what ever it takes to preserve it. he did that by expanding the bank's crisis fighting tools including a vast purchases of government bonds in a policy known as quantitative easing. that program and drags announcement of its return amid weakening eurozone economic growth have drawn plenty of criticism. french president emmanuel. macron though hill to try his actions here he is. lose it on a key that it's too ended as a no overgrown into the eurozone sovereign debt crisis as soon as you took office. you let an action supported by the ecb team they keep many of whom are here today to show that regards. the match was decisive. to save your of the cz from sinking also fill up in a flash. would drag himself a

monday ceremonies at leaving the ecb is made easier by knowing that his shoes are to be filled by christine lagarde. herself until recently the chief of the international monetary fund. the current era is somewhat less turbulent than when draghi took over at the ecb lugard faces no shortage of challenges as clarice reports. the golden bills symbolically changes hands as the incoming president of the european central bank prepares to take the reins. stealing guard is not only the first woman to head the institution she's also its first cheap to have no formal training as an economist or experience as a central banker. her first task to unify the ecb while maintaining the legacy of outgoing president mario draghi. yes to a cheap is not coming to an end and you leave with the euro more popular than ever and trusting the issue at its highest level since the crisis. let me thank

you for all that you have done. in bringing about the continued success of the your area and more importantly the well being of its people. draghi however did come under fire in september for restarting government and corporate bond purchases to the tune of twenty billion euros per month to boost the eurozone economy. his critics say that is just leave little room for maneuver during a more protracted downturn. the guard also inherits interest rates already at historic lows maintained at minus half a percent at the last ecb monetary policy meeting. her policy to a box is looking a little depleted at a time when the block basis for the break the chaos us china trade tensions and faltering german exports. she is also tasked with creating a commomon eurozoe budget a project championed by the french. the general idea was agreed upon earlier this year but it falls to the new head of the ecb to hammer out the details and brokerage cremins with the nineteen years of nations. the guard officially takes up the post on november first and is said to

hold her first monetary policy meeting on december twelfth. time now for a check on the markets eururopean indexes gaind monday is that you grantnt of te uk a three month flex tension on breaks that. the british pound holding fairlrly steady throughout the day. the fifty one huhundred in london lacking is it closed up just under a tenth of a a percent hsbc shares falling nearly three and a half percent therere on lowered third quarter profits.. can't currently here in paris and gained just under two tenths of a percent of frankford dax upper on the third of a percent at close. over on wallstreet donald trump's announcement that he expects he's a what. and us china trade war to be signed soon sent markets climbing. strong corporate earnings also helping to boost shares the downs up around half a percent similar for the s. and p. five hundred which is a new record monday morning. nasdaq is up just over 1% currently. next here in france a strike at state owned rail operator sncf is forced thousands of travelers to change their plans. over half

of the eighty thousand customers booked on high speed traiains linking paris and western france were unable to travel on monday. is just 30% of trains on the atlantic line were running. action by maintenance workers based near paris comes on the heels of work stoppages by conductors and agents concern over safety following an accident on a regional train in mid october. it also comes as the macro government prepares to unveil retirement reforms that could see further cutbacks the sncf. the head of the atlantic tgv line says the company is trying to appease workers. do you live in the district we filled all the demonstrating workers have put to us since monday. today we in a situation where striking workers on the molding to be paid for days when they're on strike. and that's just not possible. he says the proposed. meanwhile an official order of french energy jane p. d. f. was released monday one that is extremely critical of the company. the construruction of a new nuclear plant in the

form of you in northern france is now s sen years behind schedule with costs havining tripled twelvlve point four billion euros. hinkley point plant edf is building in britain is facing massive cost overruns of f s ownwn. one is a porcelain edea for lackingng wht it called a culture of quality. and finance mininister bring on the merits given the company a month to come up with a plan of action to address its deficiencies. even eds chief executive couldn't argue with the report's findings hehere is. the cost of the check. good available dick i agree with the statements of failure that the report describes. a dot edf we must recognize that. second of course we have already taken action to remedy the situation but this has not been enough. and i do not want to leave any doubt we will double our admins i know what to believe if. and finally for me one small step for business one giant leap for virgin galactic space tourism

venture led by richard branson made its public debut on the new york stock exchange monday. valued at around one and a half billion dollars the firm hopes to be the first to send feet paying customers into space. it is a crowded field though with fellow billionaires ilan mosque and jeff basilil's launchihing ththeir own space tourism ventures. ubs estimates space tourism could be a three billion dollar market within a decade. v virgin galactitic f fs part hasasn ambitiouous schedule the compmpany hopes to make sixteen trips to space as early as next year. a two hundred fifty thousand dollars the ticket is not cheap but that's not stopping wealthy would be astronauts overr six hundred people have all ready put down a depositit. let's see if it actually happens on so far for thee days so theyey're nott exactly soaring into the stratosphere is mister. lolo wonderer who's got turned