major issues of her own ahead of next next year's presidential election a latin america editor lucien newman has more. as he struggles to lift argentina from a to cute economic crisis president. limited chances of reelection next year would appear to have received an unintentional helping hand from his main rival former president cristina fernandez the q. shinar is facing a barrage of grew up in charges and is only being kept out of jail because of her parliamentary immunity as a senator. or be. as a competitor having christine affected by so many corruption indictments is certainly not an undesirable scenario for mockery. in fact a newly published poll suggests that the only candidate that motley could defeat evil elections were held today is christina care and yet the fiery populist politician is still very much in the race and. the charges of corruption against christina kirshner on all the front pages don't impact her electoral base which she runs impermeable to attacks against her for the simple reason political support comes from argentina's poverty for the pol the issue is not corrupt

had died would vying for the presidency as the workers' party candidate a latin america editor lucien newman has this update from brazil outside the workers' party headquarters behind me is the federal police facility where a former president. is being held where he is serving his twelve year prison sentence he's been here since april and he's been meeting since early this morning with his vice presidential candidate said nanda had that it was speculated that they would use this opportunity to announce that lula was going to hand over his candidacy to his vice presidential candidate sometime today but that is not so clear anymore it seems that the top brass of the workers' party will be meeting on tuesday to make that formal announcement this according to party insiders still the meeting continues we understand that they are discussing the terms under which this change changing of the guard would take place what exactly would be said to the brazilian people a less her possibly from lula to the workers' party to his supporters and to the rest of brazilians now that he has apparently lost all

her dad who could be announced as the workers party candidates on tuesday latin america editor lucien newman is in to be. tiba. is in jail. it's a race against time for former president lula da silva and his workers party this is the federal police facility where the former president is serving out a twelve year prison sentence and it's here that the would be presidential candidate spent the day meeting with his running mate fernando had that it was widely expected that lula would give him a letter naming him as his successor to allow him to register instead as the party's candidate before a tuesday evening deadline for doing so runs out. outside supporters who've been camped out in front of the prison facility remained on vigil. the man made them. we vote for liz ideals we have a program for our country.

represent the party on the ballot has been barred from contesting because of a corruption conviction lucien newman reports now from. the emotional announcement was made in front of the detention center where it is serving out his twelve year prison sentence for corruption it came in the form of a letter that i had given to a member of his political party the workers' party addressed to the people of brazil in it he repeated that he was innocent that he was a victim of a travesty of justice and that he would continue to fight for his freedom but there right now there was no other option than to name his until now running mate for. as the presidential candidate of the workers' party he called on the brazilian people to support him in his name he said that from now on all brazilians are had died that. clearly had died it is the kind standing now for the former president who still has immense popular support but who now cannot run he has been barred from doing so because he is in prison another interesting point is that had said that the people of brazil will of course be very very sad there were many

election a new opinion poll shows the attack has boosted has approval ratings a latin america editor lucien newman has more from quote achieve. the aftermath of last week's attack against also not only during the campaign rally has become the latest source of controversy surrounding the brazilian presidential candidates to new polls show his approval ratings rose from twenty two to between twenty four and twenty six percent not as much as some had predicted. political violence is always there but. it was a crazy man with. go what jimbo or an organization and i think their vote in brazil it's very good but the barrage of photos and videos of both in intensive care released by his campaign and family members has sparked an outcry even some allies say using them for electoral gain is in poor taste and manipulative but. while he awaits a second abdominal operation one piece of good news for the ailing candidate was tuesday's announcement that imprisoned former president lula da silva was withdrawing his candidacy would brazil's most popular politician now officially out of the race. is well in the lea

half of its value against the us dollar this year stabilised on friday a latin america editor lucien newman reports from one of solace. it's a movie arjun times have seen before their currency losing its value at a record low and at a dizzying speed. all eyes were on the city when the cytisus financial center. after losing another fifteen percent of its value thursday the government managed a modest recovery after infusing almost seven hundred million dollars into the currency market to stop the hemorrhaging but that didn't diminish the long queues of people seeking refuge in the u.s. dollar. these abrupt and deep explosions in the currency such strong valuations concern me because they symbolize an unstable country and unstable economy. arjen times think and save in dollars and with good reason given their economies history of boom and bust and when the dollar goes up so do prices while the value of people's wages starts tunneling down and that is exactly what is happening today a waiter's for example told me that back in april she was making the equivalent of six hundred dollars a month t

little or not had to be their next president thank you very much for that as a latin america editor lucien newman live in could achieve thank you. palestinian activists are holding a certain to try and prevent the bulldozing of a bedouin village in the occupied west bank israel's top court approved the destruction of. last week it's expected the land will be used for israeli settlements the proposal to destroy where two hundred people live has drawn international criticism five states have made a final plea to israel to change its plans well let's get more on this now we're joined by our correspondent burned out smith who's there in. what's happening there bernard do we have any idea when the demolition will take place. i think blaze is now it's half past twenty past two local time in the morning here most of the people. gone to sleep there are some activists still around in one of the little meeting rooms here there's no sign of any activity this evening and i think given the scale of the operation of the israeli military have here the largest. better when side they've ever tried to clear it's n

for nando her dad who could replace him as the workers' party's candidate a latin america editor lucien newman is in could it. litter is serving his sentence . it's a race against time for former president lula da silva and his workers party this is the federal police facility where the former president is serving out a twelve year prison sentence and it's here that the would be presidential candidate spent the day meeting with his running mate for the had that it was widely expected that lula would give him a letter naming him as his successor to allow him to register in his stead as the party's candidate before a tuesday evening deadline for doing so runs out. outside supporters who've been camped out in front of the prison facility remained on vigil. the man made them. we vote for lula's ideals we have a program for our country. it's the same thing for us because we're voting for a program but instead of a new candidate but they got was the message the lula is still not giving up hoping against the odds that one of two superior court appeals that he still has open will overturn an electoral

conviction and the supreme court rejected his latest appeal that speech on latin america editor lucien newman who's live for is in court t.v. brazil so has finally abandoned the race. yes hello foley i am right outside of the federal police a foot facility where the former president is being held where he's serving out his twelve year corruption sentence and as you can see there are hundreds and hundreds of people here these are supporters members of the workers' party waiting for the leadership of the party glazier huffman the president of the former president jim rousseff and other members of the party to come here on the stage with his behind me to officially make the announcement and read out a letter from president lula its contents were read out briefly at a at a meeting about two hours ago basically knew that says that he is indignant i'm using his words and that what has been done against him is a quote grave injustice but that he is giving his support or rather ceding his candidacy to fred nanda hot dog who was his lies presidential candidate up until now so that he can continue on w

the ballot was barred from contesting because of a corruption conviction a latin america editor lucien newman has more from could achieve when lula's in prison. the emotional announcement was made in front of the detention center where lula da silva is serving out his twelve year prison sentence for corruption it came in the form of a letter that lula had given to a member of his political party the workers' party addressed to the people of brazil in it he repeated that he was in a sense that he was a victim of the travesty of justice and that he would continue to fight for his freedom but that right now there was no other option than to name his until now a running mate for the had that as the presidential candidate of the workers' party he called on the brazilian people to support him in his name he said that from now on all brazilians are had died that is had clearly had that it is this are the kind of standing now for the former president who still has immense popular support but who now cannot run he has been barred from doing so because he he is in prison another interesting point is th

to someone else and so many think it doesn't really matter how long it takes thank you for that lucien newman our latin america editor reporting there live from cruelty in brazil and if you have a moment to watch lucy is interview with done about two years ago it gives you insight into the man who is not you know the silver the impoverished son of illiterate farmers rose to become not just a president of the world's seventh largest economy but the man who could tap rooted but brazil on to the catch go to brazil rather on the global stage as no one ever has a great interview watch it on talk to al-jazeera at al-jazeera dot com. the head of u.s. media giant c.b.s. les moonves has stepped down on new allegations of sexual harassment and sexual assault and knowledges relations with three women but says everything was consensual six more women came forward last month andy gallagher has the details from washington. well let's leave moonves is a titan in the t.v. industry he's been chief executive of c.b.s. for around fifteen years and is largely credited with turning the network from one of the lea

move they consider occupied east jerusalem the capital of a future state of latin america editor lucien newman has more. so much for the everlasting friendship between israel by benjamin netanyahu the israeli prime minister and foreign minister back in may one paralyzed former president. decided to move his embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem only accompanying the united states in this controversial move at the time many people couldn't find a logical explanation there has been very very strong speculation that there might have been an economic incentive but that was four months ago now there's a new president. by the way has an arab last name or at least his family is of arab descent he says he's putting things back to where they were he says he wants to contribute to regional efforts to help bring about a diplomatic and lasting solution to the conflict in the middle east diplomats from more than thirty countries from the americas are meeting in washington to try and find a solution to venezuela's crisis members of the organization of american states trying to stem the flow of tens of thousand

preserved human fossils brazil's president has promised to rebuild the museum alas america editor lucien newman has. only spoken ruin or left of what was brazil's pride and joy the largest anthropological in history collection in the americas. museum of the story and regina done to us could not be consoled but us bills are still it seems like a night i went to sleep thinking it was a nightmare that i was going to wake up from it was the fire started on sunday evening after the building a nineteenth century former royal palace closed fortunately there were no casualties but brazilians are mourning the loss of a new replaceable wealth of their history we'll be you i just saw a piece of my history the house of the empire where emperador draw the second of brazil used to live on fire being destroyed you know i see the history of my country becoming ashes it has no price i'm devastated. this is what the museum looked like before the fire with war than twenty million items from egyptian and greco roman times to a twelve thousand year old skeleton the oldest ever found in the americas process. during