i'm brian thomas could have you with us today kyrgyzstan's a central election commission has an old the results of last weekend's parliamentary election the president is insisting at this hour that he is still in control of the country even though protesters earlier broke into government buildings and jailed freed rather his jailed predecessor now at least one person has been killed in the violent clashes that erupted overnight in the capital bishkek anger has also been growing over the results of the alike. that handed victory to 2 establishment parties an opposition politician has now declared himself the acting interior minister now despite the chaos president. cough maintains he's still in charge he also said he was not ruling out another election . peace in the country instability in society is more important than any politician's mandate i suggest that the central election committee found really investigate any violations during the election process and to know the results if necessary i also political leaders to come that ventures and also the not to take part in gathering. a fol

proving true according to the central election commission so as we go forward although we're a long way off overseas seeing a new election date i think before that election the process of trying to call people to account for those violations in the campaign and on election day is going to get started immediately. for us in maine. and an asian workers are protesting across the country a day off to a controversial job creation bill was passed. the government revised over 70 laws to loosen regulations on workers' rights and the environment demonstrators say it could lead to exploitation and uncontrolled deforestation but the government argues it's needed to boost investment and help the economy which has been crippled by the coronavirus pandemic just go washington is following developments from jakarta. the government says the reason that it needed to follow this bill into legislation was because the economy is struggling as a result of. it but at this factory workers say that they will bear the brunt of the effect of this legislation as the government tries to roll out the red carpet to m

that opposition groups s say was rigd in favavor of prpro-government parties, while the central election commissionulled the results and did little to stop the protests in the capital. several prominent figures, including the new president, were thrown in jail during the demonstrations. he had been serving time for hostagetaking. parliament has lifted a state of emergency here in post -- imposed here, while they have called for new parliamentary and presidential elections. current conflict has been driven by rivalries and politics in the former soviet republic. chris: in thailand, police fired water cannons to disperse demonstrators. we have details. reporter: firing stinging water from a cannon, police in central bangkok cracked down on pro-democracy protesters in the biggest escalation of violence and's rallies begin. earlier on friday, thousands took to the streets to defy again on gatherings s of more tn four people for a second day, calling for a reduction in powers and for the prime minister to resign. >> the prime minister is not reliable anymore. we don't want to live in this society that p

proving true according to the central election commission so as we go forward although we're a long way off obviously seeing a new election date i think before that election the process of trying to call people to account for those violations in the campaign and on election day is going to get started immediately. workers unions in indonesia protesting against a controversial new jobs law they say will weaken their rights and reduce protections for the environment the government argues it's needed to b.c. commie u.s. president donald trump is back in the white house off to 3 nights in hospital for coronavirus treatment he took off his mask and supporters not to be afraid of the virus. the 1st confirmation hearing for president trump's nominee for the u.s. supreme court will go ahead on monday despite the corona virus outbreak at the white house 2 republican committee members are infected. armenia's defense ministry says fighting with azerbaijan calm down overnight that's often intense bombardment of nagorno karabakh a day earlier several major cities were attacked nato wants turkey to d

proving true according to the central election commission so as we go forward although we're a long way off obviously seeing a new election date i think before that election the process of trying to call people to account for those violations in the campaign and on election day is going to get started immediately turkey's foreign minister is in azerbaijan for talks pressure grows among the international community to end the conflict in the going to cut about armenia's defense ministry says fighting calm down overnight following intense bombardment in this disputed region there has been heavy shelling for the past 10 days and he wants to do more to deescalate the violence in syria at least 16 people have been killed in a car bomb in the province of aleppo it is the most serious single incident in months it hit a bus stop in. at least 40 people including children were injured under the control of turkish backed opposition forces u.s. president donald trump is back in the white house today after 3 nights in hospital for his covert 1000 treatment but before entering his official residence h

over the last couple of weeks over say those rigged elections that were canceled by the central election commission those elections held on october the 4th we didn't hear anything from the president for a long time he was blamed as being part and parcel of those elections being rigged we then had a statement we understand as a result of pressure put on him by the russians very concerned about instability in one of the former soviet states and a country that russia has a lot of influence over we had a statement then saying from him that he was prepared to resign that changed again once we had the endorsement of this new prime minister the man that was freed from jail by his supporters in the wake of those rigged elections during protests a man called mr mr. power off went to power if was finally endorsed by parliament only a couple of days ago the president said that he would resign after a new cabinet was formed a cabinet was formed by sheer power off and he then said that he was going to resign. new elections we understand that last night there were heated discussions between the new prime ministe

but for now we're going to turn to growing instability in central asia because the election commission encourages stan has an old the results of last weekend's parliamentary poll the country's president is insisting that he is still in control even though protesters earlier broke into government buildings and freed his jailed predecessor now at least one person was killed in violent clashes that erupted overnight in the capital bishkek anger has been growing over the results of the election that handed victory to 2 establishment parties an opposition politician has now declared himself acting interior minister all of this chaos despite all of it the president and beak off maintained that he was still in charge he also says that he was not ruling out another election. peace in the country instability in society is more important than any politician's mandate i suggest that the central election committee thoroughly investigate any violations during the election process and to know the results if necessary political leaders to come the voters and also the not to take part in gathering. a

proving true according to the central election commission so as we go forward although we're a long way off obviously seeing a new election date i think before the election the process of trying to call people to account for those violations of the campaign and on election day is going to get started immediately. turkey's foreign minister is in azerbaijan for talks as pressure mounts among the international community to end the conflict in the golan like how the back i mean is defense ministry says fighting with azerbaijan calm down overnight following intense bombardment in the disputed region there's been heavy shelling for the past 10 days nato wants to key to do more to deescalate the violence. u.s. president donald trump is back in the white house after 3 nights in hospital for coronavirus treatments before entering his official residence he took off as mosque even though he still carries the virus. walked out of the walter reed medical center on aided and boarded a helicopter for the white house his supporters had gathered to cheer him on. the nobel prize for physics has gone to 3

the scope trying to figure out how the country will get out of the political crisis the central election commission today declared the elections in the country invalid and in the morning their leaders a political parties that did not answer parliament began to buy the offices of the ministries the current problem and was going to meet in the one of the hotels today but only a few deputies came to this meeting at the same time the coordinating council has been created in the country which is represented by a well known political who demand the resignation of the president and they're going to zation of the new government in kurdistan in the meantime a current member of government. clear that they continue to fulfill their judas the national bank called on commercial banks to stop their activities until the situation is right there leaders of political movements continue negotiations about themselves it is not known what the president of the countries are in budging because he's going to do in this situation the demonstrations likely to continue but perhaps the cold evening will make its own adjustme

allegations of widespread vote buying and voter intimidation by powerful criminal groups the central election commissioncouncil the results. there were days of protests as politicians and opposition figures claim control of the various government ministries president sort of back off and his prime minister resigned amidst the chaos supporters of a man who was serving and 11 year prison term for kidnapping a crime he says he never committed freedom from jail he is now the country's leader the prime minister and acting president of kyrgyzstan so there was a part of. talks to al jazeera. how important is this moment in kurdistan history and how do you respond to your critics who say that it represents a serious step back along the democratic path that this country was taking. them on the loop and going to be. done they were going to believe communications is a little bit. well on. the lawn a mess in the whole world one door it can mean only one will. or will it's all on the other. illumina we're still on 6 in the middle going. to. do. it can and. should be talked out of the hard and bitter. build up but on

and stability of society are more valuable than any dippy mandate i suggested that the central election commission carefully investigate the violations and if necessary to know the election results urged leaders of the political parties to calm their supporters and move them away from their places of concentration or call on all my compatriots to keep the peace and not give into the calls of the provocative forces . let's go straight to our correspondent charles stratford who is in the capital bishkek charles this is a fluid situation with many developments just in the course of the last few hours in the capital and around the country bring us up to date. yes that's right great sense of uncertainty here in the capital bishkek we're actually standing outside what was the party headquarters is full the former president. who as we know was released from jail by government or position protesters last night he's expected to appear in the next few minutes to give a speech it's very difficult to really gauge how much support he has but certainly as you can probably see the crowd behind me in by no stretc

any kind is he was a disservice in the lives of the coaches that we've seen pursued the central election commission of knowledge we call him a kook because of elect free election violations. questions over the seats of a c. although this is the. minister the house speaker is a man called me. an m.p. for 10 years he's widely considered to be leading tools pro-government. pro-government in his political views the 2nd his being. versity his prime minister it's very interesting quite a bit fact that he was freed from jail bicycle which is it is only last night the city that. was. nothing until he was freed by his supporters. he is widely considered to be what is described as having. tendencies of political leanings he was serving a jail term as a staple kick back and. we understand from people who were privy to these meetings parliamentary session today the sleeping. late now we call obviously independently verify that but with a report that actually threatened. please send him by so that if we hadn't been meeting the if they didn't make him the prime minister then he threatened them with crowds of his

and stability of society are more valuable than any deputy mandate i suggested that the central election commission carefully investigate the violations and if necessary and now the election results urged leaders of the political parties to calm their supporters and move them away from their places of concentration a call on all my compatriots to keep the peace and not give in to the calls of the provocative forces. soon after the country's central election committee declared the results no void a rerun of the poll will be held but no date has been set unity among opposition parties seen in the square the night before began to fall apart as various parties announced new allegiances. in months i have mixed feelings i haven't slept all night i went into the parliament building today and in my opinion this is a real revolution not only the supporters of parties who lost the election but this time everyone came together but still i am worried about the future of the parliament which has lost all legitimacy among opposition supporters announced an emergency session to be held at a downtown hotel groups

central election commission carefully investigate the violations and if necessary and now the election results i urge the leaders of the political parties to calm their supporters and move them away from their places of concentration a call on all my compatriots to keep the peace and not give in to the calls of the provocative forces. i guess the question is will the comments from the president calm protest is there a lot of people still milling about behind you is there a suggestion they could be more protests tonight. and it's pretty easy to say at the moment that those kind of comments from the president are not having much sway much kind of impact on the protesters as you rightly say there are people milling around here there are a lot more people here this morning but now they've dispersed to various various places around the city as i mentioned this speech expected from the release of former president some by of who was serving an 11 year jail for corruption charges . we're also hearing that there have been protests. trying to be protests starting in the town of as well being put

proving true according to the central election commission so as we go forward although we're a long way off obviously seeing a new election date i think before that election the process of trying to call people to account for those violations in the campaign and on election day is going to get started immediately. west african leaders have lifted sanctions on mali after the military coup in or ghosts when a new civilian prime minister was appointed that's what they've done today last week the ecowas bloc imposed the sanctions after president abraham. was ousted by military leaders turkey's foreign minister is condemning international efforts to end the conflict between azerbaijan and armenia. offered his full support to azerbaijan during a visit to the capital armenia as prime minister was a. juror in the bombardment. iran has registered more than 4000 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours record number of infections takes the total number of cases to just under half a 1000000 more than 27000 people have been killed the health ministry says the entire country is now on a red alert

well as you said the very last use is that the central election commission in bishkek has an alt with the results of the vote so now the opposition wants to see if their candidate can do that as prime minister they demanded a 2nd vote president of caracas dungeon because of cold what is happening now at coup attempt today the demonstrators occupied to the building of the care of his government and refused to let employees into fury or shadow joining us with the very latest on kurdistan thank you. u.s. president donald trump is facing a backlash in the wake of his hospitalization for covert 19 in an elaborately staged to return to the white house he need a show of appearing without a mask and address the american public in a video with defiant comments that have sparked criticism from medical experts it was a determined donald trump wearing a mask who emerged onto the steps of the hospital. 4 days after he shocked the world by announcing he and 1st lady millennia had tested positive for covert 19 trump was back. after the short helicopter flight to washington from across the white hous

felt the night before in the square i think it's fair to say that this announcement by the central election commission will be welcomed by those opposition groups of these these. these opposition parties that we've seen competing in this election but we're already beginning as i say to see that sense of competition and rivalry between these groups starting. to appear again which is no bad thing of course is testament to the kind of level of democracy that this country is proud of it's not forget that those opposition groups were holding healthy lively debates between themselves in the run up to election that is now being seen as being deeply flawed. turkey's foreign minister is in azerbaijan for talks pressure mounts among the international community to end the conflict in the gonna cut back i mean his defense ministry says fighting with azerbaijan calm down overnight following intense bombardment in the disputed region has been heavy shelling for the past 10 days nato wants to do more to deescalate the violence to me. is a lecturer and security in development at the department of war studies at king'

building where paul and convenes they freed political prisoners from jail later on the central election commission declared the results of the poll nolen void and said the must be a rerun later a man who only days before would be serving a living year jail term for kidnapping was made the country's prime minister in a parliamentary session that many say was unconstitutional and makes a mockery of the rule of law the streets until the calm in the old some sunshine but there's a growing fear that kyrgyzstan's french will democracy which people have worked hard to build into revolutions since independence of the breakup of the soviet union is under threat. every aspect of our life depends on politicians and the decisions of politicians make i think it's the duty of every young adequate person to participate in political movements and express their civil rights it's very important for this post soviet generation to realise that politics defines our quality of life. not far from the cafe members of the recently established reform party are discussing strategy for the promised rerun of the platinum entr

felt the night before in the square i think it's fair to say that this announcement by the central election commission will be welcomed by those opposition groups these these. these opposition parties that we've seen competing in the selection but we're already beginning as i say to see that sense of competition and rivalry between these groups starting. to appear again which is no bad thing of course is testament to the kind of level of democracy that this country is proud of it's not forget that those opposition groups were holding healthy lively debates between themselves in the run up to election that is now being seen as being deeply flawed. a car bomb explosion at a bus stop in syria has killed at least 21 people children are among at least 40 others injured in. the cities and part of the province of aleppo controlled by turkish bank tom groups no claim of responsibility has been made. iran has registered over $4000.00 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours the record number of infections takes the total number of cases to just under half a 1000000 or the $27000.00 durani in sabine killed by

well as you said the very last used is that the central election commission in bishkek has an old result of the vault so now the opposition wants to see their country that can do that as prime minister they demanded a 2nd vote president of caracas dungeon beck of call to what is happening now and to attend today the demonstrators occupied to the building of the government and refused to let him police into. your ear shadow joining us with the very latest on kurdistan thank you. and let's turn to some other stories making news around the world calls for our mania and also by john to agree to a cease fire are growing as the conflict between the 2 former soviet states continues to escalate scores of people have been killed after the decades old conflict over the disputed territory of no go or no car erupted 9 days ago the region lies inside azerbaijan but is under the control of ethnic armenian forces. russian opposition leader alexina only has made his 1st video appearance since his poisoning with they've banned nerve agent the kremlin critic told a russian blogger that he believed that he

well as you said to the very last use is that the central election commission in bishkek has an alt with the results of the vault so now the opposition wants to see their country that candidate as prime minister they demanded a 2nd vote president of caracas dungeon because coulter what is happening now and coup attempt today the demonstrators occupied to the building of the carriages government and refused to let employees into. your ear shadow joining us with the very latest on kurdistan thank you. and in other news u.s. president donald trump is facing a black backlash in the wake of his hospitalization for covert 19 in an elaborately staged trip that should be returned to the white house he made a show of appearing without a mask and addressed the american public in a video with defiant comments that have sparked criticism from medical experts it was a determined donald trump wearing a mask who emerged onto the steps of the hospital. 4 days after he shocked the world by announcing he and 1st lady millennia had tested positive for coated 19 trump was back. after the short helicopter fl

later on the central election commission declared the results of the poll nolen void and said there mustbe a rerun later a man who only days before would be serving levon year jail term for kidnapping was made the country's prime minister in a parliamentary session that many say was unconstitutional and makes a mockery of the rule of law the streets and parks a calm in the old some sunshine but there's a growing fear the kyrgyzstan's french of democracy which people have worked hard to build into revolutions since independence of the breakup of the soviet union is under threat. every aspect of our life depends on politicians and the decisions of politicians make i think it's the duty of every young adequate person to participate in political movements and express their civil rights it's very important for this post soviet generation to realise that politics defines our quality of life not far from the cafe members of the recently established reform party or discussing strategy for the promised rerun of the parliamentary poll reform was set up with money raised in an internet crowdfunding

felt the night before in the square i think it's fair to say that this announcement by the central election commission will be welcomed by those opposition groups of these these. these opposition parties that we've seen competing in the selection but we're already beginning as i say to see that sense of competition and rivalry between these groups starting. to appear again which is no bad thing of course is testament to the kind of level of democracy that this country is proud of it's not forget that those opposition groups were holding healthy lively debates between themselves in the run up to election that is now being seen as being deeply flawed . so how did we get to where we are as of now kyrgyzstan declared independence from the old soviet union in 1991 before it was formally dissolved it's gone through 2 revolutions 252010 both saw the then president at the time being toppled the last parliamentary elections were 5 years ago the ruling social democratic party took the most seats international observers described the vote as transparent but needing improvement for sunday's vote was incredibly co