claiming that there was gigantic fraud president was saying will prove that and at the moment carlos messerhasn't been able to prove hasn't been able to present any evidence of the fraud obviously this would be the tribe you know. the electoral tribunal and the actual vote counting itself but what did happen was that on sunday night there was a rapid count the votes is mit's coming quickly the results to give certainty about the election they were coming in quickly we got to 83 percent and then there was some.

an outright win without needing that 2nd round so that really did sort of ignite the protests carlos messer of his family said that he thought that the government was manipulating things behind the scenes and the protests look set to go on let's just look at what government supporters and what protestors have been saying in a report. there as the bolivian election dispute continues both the opposition and government supporters took to the streets. the latter to show their support for leftist president ever more rallies and some francisco plaza for them he's the only one who took the people into account. i had done to fight with this person who's changed the destiny of the country the government before just looted the natural resources and this person's distributed the wealth and stipends for older children and the pregnant women. they say morale is who was the front runner in campaign polls when the election fair and square you live e.t.l. hit by sight of the opposition who have a loses in the voting booth has to respect the democratic perseus democracy is not coming out with sticks and bur

erupted between supporters of the bolivian president evo morales and the presidential candidate carlos messer this comes after morales claimed victory in sunday's presidential election accusing the opposition of trying to orchestrate a clear demonstrators say the vote was rigged and should be an old says he has the 10 point lead needed for outright victory with no runoff we saw we're 98.5 percent of the official tally from the supreme electoral tribunal community that you would have done a party with 36.7 percent and the m.e.'s party with 46.83 percent we won the 1st round we would defend democracy we would defend the results there are still one $120000.00 votes pending if we go down and not win with 10 percent margin we will respect the results. this is the most becoming the president has systematically violated the constitution the one who violates the rule of law and who violates democracy through his qualification as an illegal candidate and promoter of fraud is president morales. well john heilemann brings us more now from the capital of pan's. they are going to respond in much the same

people that we're talking to on the ground is thinking they're not happy about what's happened carlos messer who's the leader of the opposition supports the idea of a 2nd oval office they would probably go with that let me show you a little bit about this south of love has this is a bolivian capital right now when you would usually be full of cars we've heard today on friday is a blocking off to the south of the city mostly by groups of neighbors of knesset just pans the other way now we can see along the other side of us the neighbors themselves who are actually getting ready to march now there's going to be a march here in the night so what all started this really was on the election night there was going to be a rock pick out of the vote that's to get the very quickly that count and to introduce some level of certainty about what's happened that rapid vote count was interrupted by 24 hours and when it came back online again it showed the president ever moralities was on the brink of winning outright without a 2nd round that later on was confirmed the rest of the vote came in but that's wh

him there until 2025 but he's facing possibly the tightest races of his career former president carlos messer could force him into a 2nd runoff in december or alice has presided over a strong economic growth but corruption scandals and. his refusal to accept a referendum on limiting presidential terms have proved controversial john holdren is lifeless now in the past does it look as though evan rolley as well avoid that 2nd round runoff. and asked the $1000000.00 question here really and there's lots of different opinions of whether this will go to a 2nd round or every word but we will probably know that in just a couple of hours time results he come out quite quickly but you're quite what right in saying that he's been pushed as he never has before as he never has been before everyone that we've been talking to about the main challenger carlos messer doesn't really seem to know a lot about what his policies are what he stands for and it seems like he's a figurehead more as an anti morale is for all of the people who don't like whatever moralists is done recently especially with regards to th

have erupted between supporters of the bolivian president evo morales and presidential candidate carlos messer comes after morales claimed victory in sunday's presidential election accusing the opposition of trying to orchestrate a coup demonstrator say the vote was rigged and nulled morales is saying he has the 10 point lead he needs for outright victory was no runoff. where you have 98.5 percent of the official tally from the supreme electoral tribunal community that should have done a party with 36.7 percent and the m.e.'s party with 46.83 percent we won the 1st round we would defend democracy we would defend the results there are still $120000.00 votes pending if we go down and not win with 10 percent margin we will respect the results. this is the most becoming the president has systematically violated the constitution the one who violates the rule of law and who violates democracy through his qualification as an illegal candidate and promoter of fraud is president morales john holland brings us more now on the story from the capital . they are going to respond in much the same way that t

has been in power since 2006 but is facing stiff challenge from the former president carlos messer mr morality says facing accusations of ignoring term limits in order to stand again if he wins to be president until 2025 let's get more on our top story the ongoing unrest in lebanon we're going to talk again to my colleague my want to shout out he is a senior political analyst marwan clearly the politics of lebanon utterly unique with an utterly unique backstory does that make any potential solution more or less difficult. you know it's utterly unique but it's also more of the same i mean we need to distinguish 2 things one the causes for the up people in lebanon that are very similar to other causes of upheavals in different countries but also not to project one country solutions on another country so each and every one of the arab spring nations that have spring one point or 2 point or are different but they're also the same so i think lebannon and the lebanese in the streets of lebanon probably need to learn the lessons of upheavals of fiascos in other countries and one of the most

quarter dated from in defense of democracy that was announced today by the presidential candidate carlos messer who is the nearest the president were released on who would be in the runoff if the stick come to a runoff and that's quite a broad daylight sort of a lot of opposition figures from different parties they don't usually come together so it's something new as well all protests as well unfolding in chile they've broken out once again in the latest series of anti-government demonstrations the president sebastian pinera announced an electricity price freeze and plans to raise pensions as the government tries to end the week of violent protests across the country at least 18 people have been killed since the demonstrations began and the un's human rights chief former chilean president michelle bash away has also announced a special mission to investigate alleged human rights abuses. but these comical but today i want to see good news with my countryman today we signed inseam to congress a bill that stabilizes the possibility for city electricity rose on average of 9.2 percent a few days ago

from the former president carlos messer if the election goes to a runoff vote mehsud was forced to leave power in 2005 after protests then were led by maracas who was a union leader at the time but he has now staged a political comeback message says he wants to save bolivia's democracy from morale is calling him a power hungry or to crap john homan is life or is. has enjoyed a great deal of popularity in the past but how how strong is the position towards him now. well actually just where we are right now is plaza francisco and that's where just a week ago there were between 30 and 50000 people that came out for a big civil society meeting they call it here a cab ill though and came out basically to say that they didn't want him in power anymore so there is no more opposition to morale is now certainly than there was in the past and to talk a little bit about that and other things i have with me now and this tour is a political analyst and this thanks for joining us so let's take that 1st of all why has opposition grown to moral is why has his popularity which was so high before slumped

runoff in december preliminary results put longstanding leader even iran is ahead of his rival carlos messer but not enough to win outright. u.s. troops have crossed into iraq as part of their withdrawal from northern syria to prevent a resurgence of ice so it's believed at least 19 vehicles have gone through this and a border crossing heading into that semi autonomous kurdish region. now a state of emergency in chile's capital is now being extended to other parts of the country the military struggling to keep control as protests and civil unrest spread at least 8 people have been killed in the rioting with buildings and train stations set ablaze stories about reports now from santiago. started as a fight against a rise in the subway fare. but it has escalated into this. a major crisis that has this south american country in chaos. social injustices everywhere the minority concentrates all the wealth this is about how they rob us in supermarkets in health care how they profit without pensions protests like this one happened in many areas around the capital. the government declared a state of

heading for an outright 1st round win on thursday a usually fragmented opposition united around carlos messerhe leading challenger to moralise there as well but he made the coordination in defense of democracy resolves to 1st call for a 2nd election round administered in a peaceful and impartial way 2nd to call on citizens social organizations and institutions to continue to hold peaceful rallies until the vote is respected. many still support president morales he was the favorite going into the election partly thanks to well distribution programs that have almost hall of poverty he called this a coup and chided the organization of american states for questioning the process look at your levees your i don't want to. think the oas mission is already taking part in a coup d'etat that is i don't know if they understood me yesterday but oh yes as a whole should evaluate themselves and the mission it sent as well president morales has really addressed the main criticism here that almost 24 hour gap between results instead he's hit back accusing kind of a cold last message of being a criminal and s

pinera haven't stopped the unrest supporters of bolivian president evo morales and his main rival carlos messer have clashed in the city of santa cruz were as has accused his opponent of trying to stage a coup mess saves bolivia's presidential election last weekend was undermined by a gigantic fraud. tunisia's new president has been sworn in i had promised to fight corruption and protect freedoms and women's rights in his inaugural speech a conservative law professor had a landslide victory in the country's 2nd free presidential elections since the arab spring. to the u.k. now and what appears to be one of the worst human trafficking crimes in its recent history $39.00 people have been found dead in a truck container on the outskirts of london the vehicle was discovered at an industrial park and the driver has been arrested on suspicion of murder police say the container where the victims were found traveled to the u.k. from belgium. at 1st glance there is nothing unusual about this cargo truck parked an industrial estate in the town of gray's east of london. but when police forced open its doo

the votes counted in president evo morales appears to have a 10 percent lead over his main rival carlos messer which would be enough to avoid a runoff mess as accused of manipulating the results over china's government and forcing a curfew for a 3rd consecutive nights after another day of violence in santiago police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse thousands of protesters in the capital at least 11 people have been killed in the demonstrations which started 2 weeks ago over an increase in trying to get prices that has since been scrapped. number has more from santiago. it's still past curfew in the chilean capital and what you hear around me that banging noise this is what's known as he said these are people that have come out of their of their windows out of their balconies from their apartments and they're banging on pots and plant and pans this is a way for them to show their protest to continue to demonstrate without having to go outside and risk arrest there was another day of unrest as this curfew now persists into the 3rd night in a row as the state of emergency remains in ef

bolivia's opposition leader is calling for mass protests to continue unless a runoff is held carlos messer says he has evidence of electoral fraud in sunday's presidential vote president evo morales has denounced the opposition demonstrations as a crew and anti-government protests in chile have become some of the biggest and most violent in nearly 30 years at least 18 people have been killed in the past 2 weeks . a police investigation is underway in the united kingdom after the bodies of that $109.00 people were found in a container truck in a town east of london the driver has been arrested on suspicion of murder well those are the headlines and next up on al-jazeera it's circle of poison stay with us. the environment doesn't know any boundaries you know dust and pollution from china settles in the us you know nuclear radiation from chernobyl went over iceland. what goes up into the environment goes around the world and ultimately this then layer of topsoil. maybe 6 inches of soil around this hard planet spinning in space represents the dust of our ancestors all human history and all the

accusations that he manipulated the results as appears to have a 9 percent lead over his main rival carlos messer and polls are now open in botswana's presidential elections wednesday's voters' has the potential to be one of the tightest races in the country's history president. says he's confident his boats won a democratic polity will win another term in office but the united opposition is posing the 1st a viable challenge to the ruling party since botswana's independence 53 years ago well those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after the listening post stay with us. china is clearly going to i want to reunify with the night. to face the consequences one of 150 gates taiwan's determination to remain independent on al-jazeera. syrian border were turkish military action that could account for a. couple of things that might. surprise these troops are serious kurds. replied. hello i'm richard burton you're at the listening post here are some of the stories that we're covering this week turkey launches a military offensive against kurds in syria. and a media offensive designed

bolivia between supporters of president evo morales and rivals who back as electoral opponent carlos messer a final vote tally gives president evo morales just a big enough lead to avoid a runoff election critics say the vote was rigged and should be an old that's some members of the organization of american states and the european union have backed calls for a 2nd round those were the headlines here on al jazeera back with the al-jazeera news hour and 30 minutes to stay with us we continue with witness. was when the jury. then doesn't. think it was a good we don't see money like human. then the journey. then doesn't. you know. it was a prophecy and they are there what was it that just of a sink full of hot. they're playing maybe what they did. badly is set. for me. i feel like i need to. maybe. to shoot sold out the office and not someone to listen did you not book would you so d.c. get up but here you are free. to reduce your means of them meaning l m l e m e l e me i think i'm going to have it in my face but will am i go to the i eat it you're free no sound made it sound of the front of

president everyone alice is in the lead in round one his main challenger is the former president carlos messer if around after this happened it's said to be held in december. in syria kurdish fighters and civilians are being evacuated from a strategic town near the border with turkey opening the way for turkish backed rebels to take over the kurds departure from ion is a major condition of a cease fire deal between the u.s. and turkey ankara wants to establish a so-called safe zone in the area. britain's government is expected to try to put its new briggs it deal before parliament for a vote this week it could happen as early as monday on sunday the european union said it did receive u.k. prime minister boris johnson's letter asking for a 3 month delay to the brig's that deadline of october 31st pro independent supporters in catalonia have protested for a 7th straight night they're angry about the jailing of separatist leaders the mayor of barcelona the regional capital has appealed for calm hundreds of counter protesters were also out in force. and those are the headlines the news continues h

what's expected to be a tight race as a former seeks a 4th term in office the former president carlos messer could face could force a 2nd runoff poll in december or alice of course bolivia's 1st indigenous leader during his 13 years in power they has been strong economic growth but he is still dogged by corruption child scandals and his refusal to accept a referendum on limiting presidential term.

bolivia between supporters of president evo morales some rivals who backed his electoral opponent carlos messer were arliss has claimed victory in the disputed poll and insists that he has a big enough lead to avoid a runoff election and critics say the vote was rigged and should be an old that's that's are some members of the organization of american states and the e.u. of back calls for a 2nd round vote john paul is our reporter forests in la and joins me now by me mirrorless says that he'd be happy to compete in a 2nd runoff if that victory that margin of victory was less than 10 percent he's quite certain he's won but how is that news really being received where you are it's quite a noisy background. yes the noise has gone down a bit actually because there were tens of i think it's quite comfortably the biggest march we've seen so far since the elections of living there were tens of thousands of people most them are gone home now but we've still got the police on this side who are guarding this square not letting anyone in the square and you can see that they've got all 4 corners of it seal

through a 2nd round the train long term president president ever marley's and his nearest challenger carlos messerbut the 1st count that rocked it vote count was poor some link and course the 24 hours when it came back online.

obviously other voters here want change and the nearest candidate to president ever morales is carlos messer and he says he represents a more democratic future for the country there's also other worries here we talked to voters who say things now are going ok but some things could go better in the moment then i moved you're going to sit down let's put in place a look many things need to get better here for instance in the health system they don't give it the importance it deserves really are many things that need to get better there's a lot of young voters this election almost 40 percent of the electorate are under 30 what's going to be interesting is if they stick with president morales or if they want something new now to jordan the country has one of the highest levels of water scarcity in the world a warming planet and growing population are only making the problem once but it's under chapelle now reports from amman many people are taking matters into their own hands. after fleeing from syria not long after the war began i found herself learning a new trade by accident she's always been

hours when it was paused it was heading towards a runoff between moral is the nearest challenger carlos messer when it came back online the president was on the brink of outright victory the opposition has called for a 2nd round what they say is fraud the president rejects that asking where their proof is what his popularity is for them in this election but many still stand behind him as a leader who's almost hard poverty and presided over a flourishing economy and he's 13 years in charge for them the street blocks are unjustified nuisance. that in some ways notice they have to accept that they lost without president evo morales we've got nothing to complain about his work with whoever wants it and with the government before there wasn't anything i've personally been able to buy my car with a credit line. but especially in recent years analysts say that the electorate authorities have become uncomfortably close to the government many feel democracy is slipping. for those who've taken to the streets this is where they draw the line . the lights turned green but there's no cars heading down an a

evo morales had a0 5% of the vote and carlos messer, his closest rival, had 38%. —— a5%. —— carlos mesa had said that they had asked the electoral body to explain why the count had stopped. audio breaks up. carlos mesa has also said that what is happening is very serious. some question marks about why it has stopped and what that might mean for an eventual run—off. stopped and what that might mean for an eventual run-off. your line did jump an eventual run-off. your line did jumpa an eventual run-off. your line did jump a little bit but we did catch you saying the vote had stopped. is it potentially a stand—off at the moment? well, certainly it is a? as to what this means for a run—off. at the moment, the vote count had stopped at just the moment, the vote count had stopped atjust over 83% though obviously the remaining vote could change. evo morales is very confident but carlos mesa has come out and said they are going to a second round. his counter thinks there is going to be a second round in december and he has come out on social media saying they need to look into this, what is hap

was a rapid count 83 percent completed that showed a 2nd round of presidential child challenger carlos messer and devil morale is going to towards a head to head that vote count was them frozen for almost 24 hours when it resumed on monday afternoon to evening president ever moralise was on the brink of an outright victory and that same raised opposition protesters who said that they feel that the government has been manipulating the figures behind the scenes lots of people have taken to the streets many of them young many of them that we've spoken to in the past university students there has been burning of public buildings around the country and electoral tribunals and this is set not to stop there are protests being planned for later on the day. the european union has awarded its top human rights prize to the jailed chinese we are recording most toti for his work defending his community toti is an outspoken critic of beijing's policies incentives young province a un human rights panel has said it has credible reports that more than $1000000.00 wages are detained in camps the total was jail

not there was going to be a runoff between president morales and the 2nd place candidate who's carlos messer and then suddenly after 24 hours of being frozen it started moving again and it went from a 2 horse race into being a situation in president were ollie's and he needed just. less than half of the percentage to be the outright winner in this round so a lot of questions are being asked about why that 24 hour frozen and then wide when it opened up again to president right is suddenly have enough of a lead to win in this round or that's what i want to ask you what is the formula is it you need to be x. number of votes ahead or you need to hit a certain number. yeah exactly that you have to be more than 40 points get more than 40 percent of the vote and be twitter 10 percent ahead of your rival and at the moment president morales is 9 point something ahead of carlos messer with more than 95 percent of the vote counted so it's definitely swinging very much in his direction after that 24 hour gap we have been talking to analysts day in and they said this is very strange it's something that h

there was a rapid count 83 percent completed that showed a 2nd round presidential child challenger carlos messer and devil morale is going to towards a head to head that low count was then frozen for almost 24 hours when it resumed on monday afternoon to evening president ever moralise was on the brink of an outright victory and that same raised opposition protesters who said that they feel that the government has been manipulating the figures behind the scenes lots of people have taken to the streets many of them young many of them that we've spoken to in the past university students there has been burning of public buildings around the country and electoral tribunals and this is set not to stop there are protests being planned for later on the day. a caution bond they sentenced 16 people to death over the murder of a young woman in march and he was tied up doused in kerosene and satellite refusing to point to a sexual harassment complaint against a school principal. ordered her from prison he's denied involvement but was one of the 16. 100 child really has the latest from. one of the most sens

wrapped up his campaign ahead of sunday's general election even moralez is being challenged by carlos messer who led the country before him from 2003 to 2005 john heilemann has more from the. this is several more or less last push his final campaign event for sunday's election in bolivia is already the longest running risen in the country skittering is running for a. jackie believe it is camille's today bolivia has to pass return to the past we'll continue with our change surely we must continue with our change next sunday don't abandon me you have never abandoned me we want to continue working together to show that bolivia is full of hope. people here who support him working him because he's consistently been able to grow the economy and significantly over the . muslims awful has lifted them and he's the source of your future we have he's also particularly used the country's wealth in natural gas for social programs . has built schools he's made things better it wasn't like up before i met. this guy but this time it is me who push harder than ever and that's because many people in bolivia b

going to go into a 2nd round but as it stands we're still not entirely sure this is the situation carlos messer the nearest challenger to the president has 38 percent of the vote president ever moralists has 45 percent of the vote as it stands that's enough to take this into a 2nd round but president morales hasn't accepted that he said that he wants to wait for votes to come in from rural areas at the moment 83 percent of the vote has been counted and he thinks you can swing it for him so that he can get enough votes to win outright so this election has really been much closer than those in the past the last one president marley's won and he got 64 percent of the vote so this is seen as an election in which the president's popularity has gone down his opponents say that he hasn't had the commitment to democracy that they should have had in particular there was he wanted to change the constitution so he could run in this election and he put that to a referendum the people never really said no we don't want that and he did it anyway so this is an election that has been closer than in the past no

labor bolivia's opposition leader is calling for mass protests to continue unless a runoff is held carlos messer says he has evidence of electoral fraud in sunday's presidential vote president evo morales has denounced the opposition demonstrations as a coup anti government protests in chile have become some of the biggest and most violent in nearly 30 years they began over higher rail prices and of now spiraled into a movement against inequality at least 18 people have been killed in the past 2 weeks. and a police investigation is underway in the united kingdom after the bodies of $39.00 people were found in a container truck in a town east of london the 25 year old truck driver has been arrested on suspicion of murder well those are the headlines the news continues here after witness. the environment doesn't know any boundaries what goes up into the environment goes around the world. and trounce that it's a very modern way to defy believe me the measure of progress. the domestic population has organized enough and active enough to believe that you're assuming there is a good will kill people a

a 4th term in power preliminary results but longstanding medieval morale is ahead of his rival carlos messer and not enough to win out right. the e.u. is calling for a cease fire in afghanistan officials say the breakdown in u.s. taliban talks last month is an opportunity to push for a truce on sunday u.s. defense secretary mark esper made an unannounced visit to kabul he was trying to revive those negotiations president donald trump broke off talks with the taliban after the armed group carried out an attack in kabul that killed 12 people including an american soldier those are the headlines the news continues after the boy who started the syrian war stay with us here on al-jazeera. another day another hit and run mission for the free syrian army in the southern city of. the taliban. it's classic urban guerrilla warfare and no one knows the streets better than those who played here as children. nothing these men all grew up in but this is no game and if the government troops pinpoint them they're dead. we just. should have a little. bit sad let. me just jump in just because. it is here in t

president evo morales an outright victory meaning he won't have to face a 2nd round but runner up carlos messer is refusing to accept the result and has called for more peaceful protests while protests continue in chile despite conciliation efforts by the president this is how it looked on the streets of the capital santiago at least 18 people have been killed since the anti-government demonstrations began there a week ago. but comical but today i want to see good news with my countryman today we saw him didn't seem to congress a bill that stabilizes the price of electricity tricity rose on average of 9.2 percent a few days ago we want to cancel this price rise which affected almost 7000000 children households a candlelit vigil has been held in london for the 39 people found dead in the back of a truck on wednesday people gathered outside the u.k. home office that's the government department responsible for immigration police have now confirmed the dead were chinese citizens officers have been given more time to question the driver of the truck the bodies were found east of london after the tra

is is claiming that there was gigantic fraud president was saying will prove and at the moment carlos messer hasn't been able to provide hasn't been able to present any evidence of the fraud obviously this would be the tribe you know the electoral tribunal and the actual vote counting itself but what did happen was that on sunday night there was a rush to count the votes as mates coming quickly the results to give certainty about the election they were coming in quickly we got to 83 percent and then there was suddenly a pause and the vote no more came in for 24 hours so we don't have evidence of fraud here but we do have that big 24 i would go out and that's really what sparked off this controversy people asking what happened and not trusting the process thank you very much with the latest from the left has john heilemann. well chile now a president has announced an electricity price phrase on plans to raise pensions as the government tries to end a week of violent protests across the country at least $18.00 people have been killed since the anti-government demonstrations began the un human

going to go into a 2nd round but as it stands we're still not entirely sure this is the situation carlos messer the nearest challenger to the president has 38 percent of the vote president ever moralists has 45 percent of the vote as it stands that's enough to take this into a 2nd round but president morales hasn't accepted that he said that he wants to wait for votes to come in from rural areas at the moment 83 percent of the vote has been counted and he thinks he can swing it for him so that he can get enough votes to win outright so this election has already been much closer than those in the past the last one president morales won and he got 64 percent of the vote so this is seen as an election in which the president's popularity has gone down his opponents say that he hasn't had the commitment to democracy that they should have had in particular there was he wanted to change the constitution so he could run in this election and he put that to a referendum the people never really said no we don't want that and he did it anyway so this is an election that has been closer than in the past now

doubts about the election the supposed rapid count on sunday show president moralism challenger carlos messer heading into a 2nd round runoff with 83 percent of the votes counted. then that counts for 24 hours when it resumed president morales was suddenly on the brink of winning out right in the 1st round the vice president of the electoral tribunal said the delay discredited the electoral process and resigned the organization of american states for a runoff. carlos mencia says peaceful protests will be needed to force the people see your see if we don't mobilize if we don't show our democratic power in the street this government will do what it wants with the election results. opposition supporters scarcely needed telling wednesday was the 3rd day they marched. is the time that we are fighting to defend our fight because ever morale is not respecting the will of the people he is not respecting the laws he is not respecting anything his time in government is over and it isn't just in the post but across the country there are many people here that feel that especially in recent years democrat

in the 1st round rather than having to go to a 2nd round of runoff with the nearest candidate carlos messer he said that the protests in bolivia are an attempt to write is true with international help he didn't provide any evidence for that international help in that press conference and he said that the did lay in the folk out was the fault of the opposition who were threatening members of the electoral tribunal who burnt. regional buildings including electoral tribunals now just to give our viewers a little bit of context on this on sunday night the rapid count from the election which is meant to give a sense of certainty because it's a projection of results that comes out quickly more than 80 percent was predicting a 2nd round was going towards a 2nd round that folk out was them frozen now nearly 24 hours later it was resumed and suddenly we're on the brink of an outright win for president ever more rallies that caused a lot of protests in the capital of pies and elsewhere in the country the opposition fearing that the government was manipulating the figures behind the scenes those prote

heading for an outright 1st round win on thursday a usually fragmented opposition united around carlos messer the leading challenger to moralise. but he made the coordination in defense of democracies. solves to 1st call for a 2nd election round administered in a peaceful and impartial way 2nd to call on citizens of social organizations and institutions to continue to hold peaceful rallies until the voters respected the view. many still support president morales he was the favorite going into the election partly thanks to world distribution programs that have almost hall of poverty he called this a coup and chided the organization of american states for questioning the process looking into nearly killed obvious you know i don't want to think that oh yes mission is already taking part in a coup d'etat i don't know if they understood me yesterday that oh yes as a whole should evaluate themselves and the mission it sent as well president morales has really addressed the main criticism here that almost 24 hour gap between results instead he's hit back accusing handedly colas message of being a cr

leading opposition candidate carlos messer went further alleging fraud elaine do you not target 20th we express the most important right that we have the right to vote it's the maximum expression of individual and collective will and once again even murali is mistaking him self like so many other times wanted to rob us of the election. those here decided to strike in the capital for monday to keep the pressure on the government protesters have already blocked roads for 3 days in the south of lapides a strike in the industrial hub santa cruz is now in its 5th day. there are daily protests. but president moralists has strong support too few dispute that he won the election the question is if he had the temper simply necessary to avoid a 2nd round he spent his 60th birthday in his stronghold the district of cochabamba making a show of examining the. military has repeatedly called the protests a clue about the influence obama and the law try if you love your lot in the district of cochabamba to also believe your people as different social groups are preparing just in the next week but he

if you're speaking about carlos messer the challenger we're going to have to see there might be. an event in which this goes to a 2nd round now if you're president ever more rallies that's quite a slump in popularity because the last 2 elections he won by more than 60 percent so that would be a reduction for him now you talked a little bit there something about some of the central issues here now what a lot of people that let's show them here that have quoting here in these voting stations all across the country. trying to decide on a couple of big issues the economy it's growing well and the president ever moralism his time in charge a lot better than other countries many of them in latin america poverty that's been reduced slashed really in his time in charge but as you mentioned there are questions about his commitment to democracy he changed the constitution to be able to run this time and he did that despite a referendum in which the majority never really of bolivia and so they didn't actually want that there's another interesting thing to bring up here and that's the differ

preliminary results show the incumbent picking up 45 percent of the vote was his nearest challenger carlos messer not far behind with 38 enough for a runoff. and celebrated as if it was a win it so. says that at the moment tacl said this is a crucial point after almost 14 long years the bolivian people have taken a decision in defense of a democracy that needs to be consolidated and renovated. the president were and is didn't accept these results is definitive 83 percent of the votes have been counted so far he believes those still to ride from rural areas give him an outright way to say to the general as always we trust the vote in the countryside that's why we're going to wait until the last vote is being counted to continue.

heading for an outright 1st round win on thursday a usually fragmented opposition united around carlos messer the leading challenger to moralise as well but he made the coordination in defense of democracy resolves to 1st call for a 2nd election round administered in a peaceful and impartial way 2nd to call on citizens social organizations and institutions to continue to hold peaceful rallies until the voters respect and. many still support president morales he was the favorite going into the election partly thanks to well distribution programs that have almost hall of poverty he called this a coup and chided the organization of american states for questioning the process look at these you know i don't want to think that the u.s. mission is already taking part in a coup d'etat i don't know if they understood me yesterday. oh yes as a whole should evaluate themselves and the mission it sent as well president morales has really addressed the main criticism here that almost 24 hour gap between results in state he's hit back accusing kind of a co-host message of being a criminal and saying that t

he has evidence that electoral fraud had been committed as part of sunday's presidential vote carlos messer is calling for mass protests to continue unless a 2nd round of voting is held president evo morales needs to secure a 10 point lead to avoid a runoff vote in december but today counts of both been frozen ample ivins are still waiting for final results but alice is denounce the opposition demonstrations as a coup and says he's confident he will soon be declared the winner well to political developments in israel now where the president has given the former military chief benny gantz $28.00 days to form a new government it follows an inconclusive election last month which saw gans's bill white party neck and neck with prime minister benjamin netanyahu is it could as knew i was given the 1st opportunity to form a coalition but he failed to earlier this week are a force that has more from west jerusalem. for the 1st time in more than 10 years israelis watched a president give someone other than benjamin netanyahu the chance to form their government riven rivlin urged benny gantz and israe

leading opposition candidate carlos messer went further alleging fraud.toba 20th we express the most important right that we have the right to vote it's the maximum expression of individual and collective will and once again even morale is mistaking him self like so many other times wanted to rob us of the election. those here decided on a strike in the capital for monday to keep the pressure on the government protesters have already blocked roads for 3 days in the south of lapides a strike in the industrial hub santa cruz is now.

of the votes have been counted 45 percent for evermore rallies the incumbent and 38 percent for carlos messer who's his closest challenger and now what that means is that this goes to a 2nd round basically because morale is needed or whether needed to win by 40.540 get 40 percent of the vote and get 10 percent more than these nearest challenger so that hasn't happened it goes to a 2nd round to believe that will be hold on december the 15th now what this is going to come down to as well in the 2nd round is what happens to the votes for the smaller opposition parties one of them got 4 percent of the vote and another party got 8 percent of the vote where are those votes going to go when this goes to a 2nd round those those parties as well were very much against president morales they said that in ignoring a referendum in which people said that they didn't want him to change the constitution and run again he did that then that was in a sense breaking the deal with the people so where are those votes going to go there's also another race that's going on at the moment we haven't got the results in

president evo morales an outright victory meaning he won't have to face a 2nd round but runner up carlos messer is refusing to accept the results and has called for more peaceful protests there are protests continue until a despite conciliation efforts by the president this is how it looked on the streets of 70 other at least 18 people have been killed since the anti-government demonstrations began there a week ago and a candlelit vigil has been held in london for the 39 people found dead in the back of a truck on wednesday police have confirmed the dead were chinese citizens the bodies were found east of london after the trailer arrived from belgian officers are thought to be focusing their investigation on human trafficking. well those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after when and make change stay with us. talk to notice there are no they don't believe in the 2 state solution do you still believe in the 2 state solution we listen what i said was that pakistan would never start a war i'm anti-war we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on

a bolivian opposition leader carlos messer has ruled down negotiations with president morales after disputed election results protesters blocked roads and shops remain closed 1 in bolivia's capital after messer called a strike. he accuses the government of rigging the results to prevent a runoff morales who won last week's presidential election as acute his rival of mounting. a hong kong activist joshua one has been barred from running in the upcoming local council elections warning as condemned the decision accusing the government of conducting and conducting political screening and censorship and government spokesman said one was disqualified from next month's poll because he supports self-determination for the territory on cross chief executive kerry lam says the government will stand firm against violent protests after 5 months of public unrest continues demonstrators set fire to shops and threw petrol bombs or riot police during rallies on sunday the officers responded with tear gas water cannons and rubber bullets demonstrations forced hard kong into recession. sanctions imposed by the

but for the 1st time in a while there's a credible challenger carlos messer film a journalist. prominent intellectual and he's attacking moralists his achilles' heel he's questionable commitment to democracy. in the last 13 years almost 14 there's too much it's too much injustice too much corruption and too much authoritarianism that's leading his towards a dictatorship. it all started with moralist his latest reelection bid after 3 terms in power he needed to change the constitution to run again. he called a referendum to let the people decide now really they said no then he did it anyway . and then outraged many and although there are 8 opposition candidates mrs become the figurehead for the discontent but analysts say the former interim president bolivia's loss leader before morale is this if you policies of his own. it was that they feel that they were doing for him even though he hasn't done enough it's a protest vote not a convinced vote he doesn't have a political party he hasn't done a campaign if he showed more kind of time he wouldn't be 8 points down he'd be neck and

bolivian opposition leader carlos messer has ruled out negotiations with president evo morales after disputed election results. protesters blocked roads and shops remained closed in bolivia's capital on monday after massive call the strike accuses the government of rigging the results were very into runoff what are as was declared be a row with of last week's presidential election is accused his rival of mountain coup. and rain eons are struggling to access health care juta sanctions imposed by the us human rights watch report says economic penalties the stopping companies from financing medicine washington denies its policies are impacting medical supplies as it beggars more from to her on. having to battle cancer is tough enough but here in iran patients have to deal with medicine shortages and increased prices is not the answer to so one of the risk of course high cost of treatment impacts us under these sanctions and come to economic problems it really hurts families some patients have to spend $200.00 to $300.00 a month. iran produces most of its own medicines but drugs needed f

preliminary results show the incumbent picking up 35 percent of the vote was his nearest challenger carlos messer not far behind with 38 enough for a runoff. and celebrated as if it was a win it so. says that at the moment tacl said this is a crucial point after almost 14 long years the bolivian people have taken a decision. defense of a democracy that needs to be consolidated and renovated. the president run his dimmick said these results is definitive 83 percent of the votes have been counted so far he believes those still to rifle through areas give him an out right when he goes hit the general as always we trust the vote in the countryside that's why we're going to wait until the last vote is being counted to continue with our process of change. whatever happens this election is being seen as a setback for a man he's used to winning by a landslide if the right is his supporters celebrating the fact that it did come 1st in this round of voting but again the last election because 60 percent of the phone so its popularity already has come down. to bolivians a divided many like schoolteacher mean

maintains that made it want to give him an outright victory avoiding a 2nd round by opposition leader carlos messer says he has evidence of electoral fraud and wants protests to continue unless a runoff want is held john heilemann has more. live in an election dispute continues both the opposition and government supporters took to the streets. the latter to show their support for leftist president ever more rallies in some francisco plaza for them is the only one who took into account your story even if you. didn't affair with this person who's changed the destiny of the country and the government before just looted the. natural resources and this person's distributed the wealth and stipends for older children and the pregnant women. they say morale is who was the front runner in campaign polls when the election fair and square you lydia let him by sight of the opposition who have a loses in the voting booth has to respect the democratic perseus democracy is not coming out with sticks and burning public buildings or not recognizing results democracy is respecting the people have decided. that there