the iraqi prime minister abdullah mahdi says he will resign to allow lawmakers to form a new government iraqis have been celebrating the news and these are the latest pictures from the capital the prime minister's announcement follows weeks of violent protests across the country with people demanding a change of government and they've been angered over poor services unemployment and chronic corruption more than 300 people have been killed and thousands more have been injured since the rallies began last month alledged to gulf state analytics alexander bruno believes the p.m.'s resignation won't solve iraq's problems. i don't think that the situation will change considerably in fact they think this is a year what they call a pyrrhic victory yes they've got the agreement for the prime minister to resign but what will actually change for iraqis particularly under streets i don't think anything will change. given the structural problems infrastructure is failing there is not enough money to pay public so 2 there is the economy has changed at all in the 1st since the american invasion until.

security forces are moving in to protest sites in the city just hours ago the iraqi prime minister abdullah mahdi said the country must be allowed to return to normal tens of thousands of people have been protesting for weeks now angry about a lack of basic services wising unemployment and corruption. to announce electoral reforms in the coming days let's speak to natasha going to him in baghdad for us natasha what more can you tell us about these latest us in baghdad. foly with the work week slated to begin tomorrow morning this is a strategy by security forces in baghdad to confine the protests to to harir square that has been the epicenter of the protests since october 1st however last week things became very chaotic in the capital as the protests spread out throughout the capital dozens of roads were closed schools were out of session many government offices were closed the courts were closed so this is clearly part of an attempt to avoid a repeat of that we're hearing of a clash between security forces and protesters on a square that leads to tahrir square we're hearing that people have been

recap the headlines right now on al jazeera iraqi prime minister abdullah abdullah mahdi has announced he intends to resign it follows a call for a leadership change by a top cleric after anti-government protests left more than 400 people dead. in my genius in no way are the parliament from which this current government is drawn is asked to reconsider its choice in this regard and to act according to iraq's interest and preserve the blood evidence children to prevent the country from slipping into violence chaos and destruction we confirm again that attacks against peaceful protesters are forbidden as well as them being prevented from having the right to demand reforms we also confirm that attacking private and public property is forbidden and that property should not be left to be attacked by infiltrators and there are lawyers. a man has killed 2 people in a knife attack in central london according to london police the suspect 28 year old spahn khan was also shot dead during this incident khan was known to authorities and had been convicted of terrorism related offenses in 2012 the ci

this half hour iraq's prime minister abdullah abdullah marked he says he'll resign in the face of the growing protests against his government's mr abdul mahdi who took charge last year says he will submit his resignation to parliament his decision comes after iraq's top shia cleric the grand ayatollah ali al sistani called for a change of leadership protesters who've been calling for political change in iraq have begun celebrating well in 400 people have died in 2 months of antigovernment protests in a statement he said i'll submit my resignation to the house of representatives in order for the council to. it's options may gold protect iraq and its people live to baghdad and correspondent mohamed jump to mohammed are we any clearer on when he might actually do this then. peter no clarity yet on that point and it's something that a lot of the demonstrators that we've been speaking with here since the announcement made are really starting to wonder i mean they say it's not enough for them that the prime minister says he's going to step down they want to know exactly when that's going to happen and beyond that they want to know if anybody else