change looking for a way out of the crippling economic crisis the country turned back to populism alberta fernandez and his running mate x. president cristina fernandez that could go one by a narrow margin than expected but still managed to avoid a runoff election and is very passionate 1st speech as president elect ferdinand has called for unity and admitted that economic recovery would be an uphill battle he asked for all argentineans to stand together and build a future based on equality and solidarity tomorrow morning he will meet up with the incumbent with mari seal mockery and set up a plan for a smooth and calm transition while everybody in the world is wondering what this will mean for the country's economy how markets really respond to this result the people around me here they couldn't care less for them today marks the day they took back power and they took their destiny into their own hands. now let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world tain is the uruguay has also been going to the polls and the results suggest the left is ruling coalitions presidentia

after riding a wave of popular support toward a comfortable win in the presidential elections alberta fernandez now has to get to work starting with what might be the most complicated task at hand restructuring the country's massive debt with the i.m.f. he has one person in particular to thank for his rise to power and that is controversial former president cristina fernandez de kitchener well now he has to step out of her shadow proving to citizens and investors alike that it won't be her pulling the strings and their government finally he will have to unite his own party around his more moderate approach to traditional parent ism the friend to todos is made up of dozens of splinter groups that all want to push through their own agenda and want to see their ideas reflected in the new government he will have to prove true leadership skills in order to avoid internal bickering that could destabilize his government. i was nickel for a lick in one i say aries while the democratic republic of congo is grappling with the world's 2nd largest boulder epidemic on record with more than 2000 lives lost a

the man projected to defeat him by a landslide is opposition candidate alberta fernandez he's benefited from the disappointment felt by many arjan tines over much chris unsuccessful handling of the economy mccree came to power in 2015 promising market reforms open door trade policies and strong investment but 4 years on the argentine economy is shrinking and annual inflation stands at more than 53 percent in a primary vote in august seen as a dress rehearsal for the election mockery suffered a shock a landslide defeat fernandez won by a massive 16 percent polls now predict that fernandez will win the presidency out right without the need for a 2nd round runoff a win for fernandez would also spell the return of argentina's controversial former president cristina kirchner who is running for vice president she's a polarizing figure a populist who retains a huge following and is viewed as a champion of the poor yet she also faces investigations into fraud and money laundering. economists are predicting that a win for fernandez could exacerbate economic volatility. after the primary vote fin

believe news live from perlin argentinians president elect valves to turn the page on austerity alberta fernandez makes incumbent playdom virtue of nothing to begin transition talks and promises to take the country in a new direction 1st he must pull the economy back from the brink of collapse also coming up. the wildfire ravaging gold in california's wine country doubles in size turning homes and fine wineries into ashes meanwhile a separate fight in los angeles area forces mass evacuations. american held welcome to the program the left has returned to power in argentina on a promise to fix a broken economy but the victory could prove to be a poison chalice for president elect alberto fanatics in our faces the daunting task of dodging yet another damaging day faults. celebrations in the streets of plano sideways happiness and hope sweep over crowds supporting the victory envision a political outsider to fernandez but that was sunday night post-election monday the country's central bank has been the brakes on optimism by limiting the amount of dollars arjan times can. ainge. effective today we ha

as we know about them and since we haven't heard much in the way of specific proposals from alberta fernandez about what he would do differently what what does he need to do in your view to to get argentina out of this economic crisis. yes he has made some sort of very broad proposals during the campaign for example to help retired people who's retired pensions have really dropped very substantially during the marketeers. both juhu to very high inflation an increase in costs and also due to 'd. pension refreshen if you will through state policies so i think there would be policies aimed at boosting both pensions and also access to medicine has been another retired people there's been another another factor also to go to the poorest of the poor who receive sort of basic income type subsidy i believe those would be increasing as well on the on one of the main restrictions probably to the magnet ministration is is the huge public debt that machiavelli is he basically doubled it in 4 years part of that debt is with the i.m.f. that of course always imposes these restrictions that we all know about

in argentina have elected a new leader president but it's your mccree has conceded defeat to alberta fernandez his deputy is the former president cristina kirchner who is facing a corruption trial both now face the challenge of solving argentina's latest financial crisis and potential bankruptcy to resemble reports now from when his ira's. party went to sightings to celebrate the victory of 5 at the foot of man base and the defeat of precedent. for us simply on says she's proud of the results. here but after this yes yes yes oh yes all my life i've been fighting for social justice in the past 4 years have been torture for me seeing how the economic situation deteriorated because of mccray now i can be proud of being argentinian again. people here are celebrating that canada. that there are new study today said that he was fighting who they hope will help argentina with what coming next to that difficult economic situation with a 55 percent inflation rate and the possibility of a default in the 4 and that a lot of the fundamentalists was chief of staff to former president. his running mate to t

hopes to find relief after this weekend's election pinning all his hopes on opposition candidate alberta fernandez. so i hope pray and wish that this government doesn't stay on let someone else come in or someone to ease our pain to bring back faith and trust someone to unite us who listen to us to all of us. his wish may well come true but argentina's crisis certainly won't end on election day. it's to pakistan now where there are reports the country plans on controlling and restricting internet activities through a nation wide web surveillance system that is platform code of stories as it has gained exclusive access to documents that show pakistan has contracted the canadian company to help build the system these rails infrastructure would allow monitoring of all of the country's incoming and outgoing internet traffic the project is worth an estimated $800000000.00. or although he was one of the reporters who carried out that investigation for cota story joins us now good morning welcome to the show owner it looks like pakistan is taking the online surveillance of its citizens to an entirely new

hopes to find relief after this weekend's election pinning all his hopes on opposition candidate alberta fernandez. so i hope pray and wish that this government doesn't stay on let someone else come in someone to ease our pain to bring back faith and trust someone to unite us who listen to us to all of us. his wish may well come true but argentina's crisis certainly won't end on election day. it was indeed obviously is coming up ahead. for who truly relies on his caddy drain courage and was born blind his lifelong friend who died soon along the thread being . the 1st good marriage men be allowed to become catholic priests that is one of the controversial topics being discussed at the 3 week amazon summit at the vatican the meeting of bishops is focused on the amazon region home to several isolated catholic communities the proposal proposed change to the celibacy room for priests would allow all denied men in such communities to be ordained the idea has outraged conservatives but it's part of the world where the church faces a chronic shortage of priests many say this may be the only solution. mils

president amid a worsening economic crisis president conceded defeat to the center left candidate alberta fernandez who won more than 47 percent of the vote and under his deputy will be cristina kirchner a former president who is facing allegations of corruption her husband was also president and for now i'm disturbed as his chief of staff. world leaders are warning the fight against eisel isn't over despite the death of its leader baghdadi france and britain say they'll continue to work with allies in the middle east to defeat the group entirely. a state of emergency has been lifted in chile following days of mass protests the president sebastian pinera made the announcement as thousands took part in peaceful demonstrations in the capital santiago at least 19 people were killed and hundreds were injured in protest that began just over a week ago an issue only over a hike in the cost of public transport which was later reversed panetta has since fired his entire cabinet and promised to introduce social reform. and emergency has been declared in the u.s. state of california as multiple wildfires bur

as we know about them and since we haven't heard much in the way of specific proposals from alberta fernandez about what he would do differently what what does he need to do in your view to to get argentina out of this economic crisis. yes he has made some sort of very broad proposals during the campaign for example to help retired people who's retired pensions have really dropped very substantially during the marketeers. both juhu to very high inflation an increase in costs and also due to 'd. pension refreshen if you will through state policies so i think there would be policies aimed at boosting both pensions and all show access to medicine as being another retired people as being another another factor also to go to the poorest of the poor who receive sort of basic income type subsidy i believe those would be increasing as well on the one of the main restrictions probably to the magnet ministration is is the huge public debt that machiavelli is he basically doubled it in 4 years part of that debt is with the i.m.f. that of course always imposes these restrictions that we all know about we

that mockery has taken since the primaries in august so the question then becomes what does alberta fernandezto afterwards. argentina is struggling with inflation and has lost $22000000000.00 of free service since august. stability is the one thing that all political parties seem to be longing for until december 10th that's when the new president will be sworn in. when a scientist. the u.n. special envoy for syria will hold talks with foreign ministers from turkey iran and russia ahead of syria's historic constitutional committee meeting care pederson says the 1st meeting between syria's government and opposition leaders could lead to a broader political process in the country the 150 member constitutional committee will be officially launched on western state it was finalized after almost 2 years of negotiations. south africa is experiencing what many farmers say is the driest season they can remember the hot weather and lack of water have prompted the government to impose emergency measures and it's warming the climate change could lead to these so-called days 0 that's when reservoirs are t

that mockery has taken since the primaries in august so the question then becomes what does alberta fernandez to afterwards. argentina is struggling with inflation and has lost $22000000000.00 of free service since august. stability is the one thing that all political parties seem to be longing for until december 10th that's when the new president will be sworn in. the biggest protests in a generation show no sign of letting up in chile that's even after president sebastian pinera replaced a 3rd of his cap on us in response to days of demonstrations security forces clashed again with protesters tens of thousands of people marched through the capitol on monday in america at a solution newman reports from santiago. there the biggest demonstrations in chile since the end of its military dictatorship 3 decades ago and like then the country is under the watch of human rights organizations. they're arriving in chile to investigate charges of police brutality. in front of chile supreme court many protesters were black as a sign of mourning for those allegedly killed or seriously injured by soldiers

that markley has taken since the primaries in august so the question then becomes what does alberta fernandez to afterward. i didn't tina is struggling with inflation and has lost $22000000000.00 of free service since august. stability is the one thing that all political parties seem to be longing for until december 10th that's when the new president will be sworn in. when i say to. join us on this year's 100 here on arjun time political economist from kings college here in london thanks for coming in so just to go back to it tourism mentioned it though the economic situation pretty serious what went so wrong for from actually to end up at this point but really i would say 3 things are there to be taken into account to be factored in so 1st of all by long term structural conditions of the ocean economy such as high inflation. flows and then we investment that's like that's been there forever and has been there in the government as well but my commitment things was he didn't the soothing special situation. finally went to try to try it like a pretty dogmatic illegal. set of reforms in a shifti