in el al told bolivia 1st let's go to john homan at the international airport in mexico city so john we are expecting a vote. arrival. imminently. what are we expecting to happen once he gets there and why is he chosen why why mexico why it why is he gone there . yeah let me just show you where we are so we're in the airport now this is the sort of the federal part of the airport you can see the mets can air force planes there he's expected like they're telling us within minutes here that his plane to go down says a complete media scrum here waiting for him why he chose a mexico i think makes coming from the get go here from sunday morning when things really started to come to a head been supportive president andres manuel lopez obrador came out and said that he respects the fact the president ever more rallies has resigned because he wants to avoid further bloodshed in the country the foreign minister of mexico has called this a coup of course it depends which side of the left right oh you're on in latin america are you calling this a coup or simply wanting a transition of power and

for political reasons but i will stay in touch i will return with more strength and energy i'm john homan in mexico city the former bolivian president landed here on the 12th of november he was greeted by. the mexican foreign minister but what's his plan moving forward will he remain in mexico or will he return to south america the former bolivian president evo morales throughout the series. ever more on its former president live year thank you for talking to out of syria let's talk about the elections but parts we should go a little bit further back in 2016 you wanted to change the constitution to run again for a 4th term there was a referendum. the majority voted against that they said that they didn't want that to happen and you ignored that result and you ran for a 4th term anyway. isn't that where they started don't people have a right to be to be angry about what happened as they wouldn't go into don't get up on what they're going to going to those young people call me only almost like a little want to know. you know where was winter so that i could you know. as i said medical corps

days to see what his next move may be fine a franchise in the past thank you let's speak now to john homan in mexico city john what's been the regional reaction. well it's been divided i suppose predictably along the lines of the left and the right in the region so countries in the that are from the left president will take a nick and i were president maduro of venezuela cuba have all said that this is a coup and denounce this and of course as well here in mexico on the left its leader president and there is manual lopez obrador his government has also said that it's a coup they've called for an emergency meeting of the organization of american states and the foreign minister said that the country's already given protection to 20 officials from president more on his government and if president were is x. president i suppose now morally is himself once asylum the mexico would give that to him as well now on the other side you have brazil hard right saying that this wasn't a coup you've got colombia at the moment and right as leader saying that this country really needs to go on now and have

john homan now does it a lot has. uganda's pop star turned opposition m.p.obby wine is challenging president yoweri with 70 elections expected to be held in 2021 with 70 has been in power since 1986 it was rise as not being without its challenges diplomatic editor james bias sat down with him for an exclusive interview. it's relatively recent that even emerged on the political scene you were before that a musician why did you decide to go into politics i'm a musician social activist and get a youth who recently i call it recent but it's 2 years ago decided to run and become a member of parliament and you've been an m.p. for 2 years now you have been in the government's targeting of you has continued since you've been an m.p. not only is your music banned your concerts banned but you have faced attack tell me about the incident when your driver was killed well i say the day i went to parliament that since the parliament refused to come to the ghetto they get a will come to the parliament of course when i got into parliament it brought a lot of attention of th

after the military demanded he step down they've been weeks of protests over his disputed election john homan has more from mexico city. is calls for an orderly transition and those worries as well about law and order in that country in a sort of vacuum of power that's being created by the resignation of president ever morale is that he says he was really pushed by the military in that country there's been violence reported on the streets not just x president now more on this is that his house people attempted to attack the opposition leader carlos messes the say and the rector of the national university 'd he's been a very strident voice and this is also said that his house was burned down he said pictures of that on twitter so a very precarious situation in bolivia or at least tries to get to hear that story city which is his intended and the nation. new bushfires a broken out across eastern australia sydney is now shrouded in smoke as soaring temperatures and high winds fanned flames towards his outer suburbs the region has been designated a catastrophic fire danger for tuesday up to 600 s

the president's security plan isn't to cross scrutiny as mexico sees record levels of violence john homan reports. no one imagines there have to do what the liberal family did on tuesday go to the same with 3 of their women and 6 children among the baby twins we shot. the surviving and injured children hid for hours in the hills there in the u.s. getting treatment there. must be some ethics i don't know there just has to be justice here there does seem some possibility of justice for them in contrast to so many scenes across mexico because the liberal ins the u.s. citizens that's why. can foreign minister was on the scene with other officials they said this seemed to be a case of mistaken identity a gang thought the family's cause belong to a rival group make find the perpetrators they say relate to the local the government reiterate its conviction and resolution so there won't be impunity because the problem is that in mexico the blanket impunity exists and has done for years almost 90 percent of murders go unsolved according to an independent think tank in the country suffering record l

fire on the car as security officials believe the gunman may have mistaken them for wife or gang john homan has more from mexico city. this burnt up car a mute witness to a tragedy this is for the record i need and for my grandchildren are burr. shot up. right on the road out of the motor. 3 women and 6 children from the liberal family mormons originally from the us who settled in mexico decades ago was shot dead on the motorway in nor the mits co this was one of the relatives said trevor aged 11. also dead twins 6 months old the survivors a baby found by the side of his dead mother and children who fled into the mountains alex labor on a relative told us. what . was the labor owns a well known emits code for the anti violence activism of some of their members because they u.s. citizens that meant president donald trump got involved he tweeted that it was time to wage war on the cartels president lopez obrador as well he welcomes us corporation rejected that all. the worst that could happen is war those who have read about it all suffered it know that. past experience says the president ope

before if this is now in mexico after he was granted asylum there he talked challenges day morning john homan reporting from there. whenever morales woke up on sunday he was still the president of bolivia. he was out of power and the next touching down in mexico he said things could have been worse. i want to tell you we're extremely grateful because the mix can president has saved my life. it wasn't easy getting him here the mets can for a minister describe the tense standoff before he could work out a route for him to leave the country we're going to see he wanted to see but there were even the supporters surrounding the airport and the armed forces within it and there was a period of real tension for evo morales was already on board the plane it was the worst moment as. president morales said that a coup pushed him out on sunday the army had asked him to resign he was blameless he indicated. 'd to the world my only crime is that evil is indigenous the only sin we've committed as social programs for the poor and always searching for equality and justice. he would deny that humans hard to ex

in a moment we'll be speaking to mariana sanchez who joins us from la paz 1st though let's go to john homan in mexico city who was there as more or less landed so tell us a little bit more about whatever morales said when he did finally arrive in mexico . he said he was very grateful as you heard to the mexican government for taking him in he also said my one crime is trying to help the poor and the indigenous population and he brought up the fact that he'd almost have to extreme poverty during his nearly 14 years in charge this is a president who has done a lot for the poor that's done a lot also for indigenous communities he is the 1st or he was the 1st indigenous president in bolivia's history which is incredible when you see that more than 40 percent or maybe even 60 percent of people have some indigenous background in that country so he was balancing doubt on the one hand and saying that's my only crime that i tried to help these people again said that it was a military coup that ousted him from power i think on the other hand the opposition are going to say well that wasn't your only

operation and now we've seen this so it's only going to the pressure on his government to do something john homan in mexico city thank you the netherlands has admitted carrying out an attack on a suspected eisel bomb factory in northern iraq in 2015 which killed 70 people the attack destroyed a neighborhood in the town of how ija the dutch initially denied civilians were harmed dutch f. 16 s were used in iraq and syria between 201416 then in 2018 as part of an international coalition against eyesore. iraq's human rights commission says 2 people have been killed and dozens injured in bouncer it's off to security forces opened fire on protesters camped at the entrance to a port earlier 2 protesters were killed in nasiriyah as thousands of people took part in the largest antigovernment protests. and as those protests are few signs of letting up in the talks are going to name the went to meet some office to see how they are putting their anger and hopes on display. these students are skipping school to give the government a master class in protest art we want to live in peace ok so. we're trying to c

sanchez is in the bolivian capital and we'll be speaking to them in just a moment but 1st let's go to john homan who is in mexico city for us so john you were there as the now former believed president landed as he was seeking asylum there in mexico just bring us up to speed there on how it all unfolded and what mr morality plans to do now. you can still see actually the plane behind us that brought him here were pretty much the only people left on the scene the drama is over for the moment but it was a very long night for ex-president ever moralise and for the mexican government they were trying to bring him here there was problems with bringing him through the heiress space of several countries there were negotiations in the night in the end he had to take a sort of tourist route that involved a stopover in paraguay to get here it's a mexico but once he got here he did give an impromptu speech just as he went through the ranks of reporters and as you mentioned he said that he's not going to retire from politics he said before that he hopes that this is just a chance to get fresh going to get e

the capital dollars as promised to return to believe year 2 in his words with strength and energy john homan is in mexico city where morales is due to land. the mets can foreign minister described a night of negotiations really to get ex president morales out of bolivia and through other countries in latin america's airspace to try and get him to mexico he said that they had to negotiate with paraguayan we perused with ecuador with brazil to try and get him through their airspace and yet she described quite a tense situation when president riley's was actually picked up he said that they finally got permission to go into bolivia to land and to get him they got ex-president moralise in the plane and then the plane wasn't allowed to take off so they had armed forces within the airport within the airfield x. president morales his supporters outside of the airfield and the plane just stuck on the runway with ever more ali's inside and he said that that was a very tense moment so it's been a long night really for mexico's foreign ministry and probably also for several more rallies he was actually

mexico safe is not just coming from within the country but from the powerful neighbor to the north john homan out zita mexico city. iraq's capital face an internet blackout for a 2nd straight day on weapon state a spokesman for the military says social media sites a poll isn't in the minds of youth iraq's been in the grip of anti-government demonstrations for weeks night as anger over corruption proved public services and unemployment and sasha getting reports from back that. each day since the protests began hider raw it has been working this stretch near tahrir square selling iraqi flags for less than a dollar each the teenager dropped out of school when he was 8 to help support his family he says typically he would stand on a main street in the capital all day selling water but with iraqis he tree out at fervor flags have become big business that's right and we want a new country better than this one ruled by i doubt. he killed young men every time young people come to buy flags and go back they start shooting live ammunition suffa el serai is one of the nearly $280.00 protesters killed in

those responsible are brought to justice just a warning that you may find some of the content in john homans report disturbing. this burnt up car a mute witness to a tragedy this is for the record. needin for my grandchildren or burr. shot up. right on the road out of the mortar. 3 women and 6 children from the liberal family mormons originally from the us who settled in mexico decades ago was shot dead on the motorway in nor the mits co this was one of the relatives said trevor i used to live and also dead twins 6 months old the survivors a baby found by the side of his dead mother and children who fled into the mountains alex labor on a relative told us. what . was the lead but owns a well known emits code for the anti violence activism of some of their members because they us citizens that meant president donald trump got involved he tweeted that it was time to wage war on the cartels president lopez obrador as well he welcomes u.s. corporation rejected. the worst they could happen is war those who have read about it all suffered it know that. caustic spirit says the president killed in t

more on that side of the story now from mexico city with john homan. president rallies used his press conference in mexico city he's been granted asylum in mexico call for a national dialogue in bolivia to try and sort out the mess that's happened after the bolivian elections he repeated that the him this is a military coup in the country again said that he was asked to leave by the military and he said the proof of that coup was senator and now interim president should name and years declaring itself interim president of bolivia he also spoke about the election process and in the vote count that led to the organization of american states saying that it was serious or regularities he said that there wasn't fraud he said that he felt that the organization of american states was acting in the interest basically of the united states so that's president morales is take on what's happening back home in his country bolivia the organization american states did find serious regularities in the voting process there were serious doubts and that spurred the oppos

of rigging october's elections to stay in power whatever murali says spoken to our correspondent john homan in mexico city who joins us now live on the news hour so what did he have to say what's his message. yes few hours ago we sat down with now ex president ever more as i think one of his key messages fully was he was saying that he wants to go back that he's planning to go back perhaps surprising considering the fact that he feels that only by fleeing to mexico did he save his life he claims that the armed forces in particular and security forces were were after him but he said that he's already searching for the legal framework to go back to bolivia basically said that right now at the moment he feels almost like he's in a prison being in asylum because he's used to leading his use to. things and at the moment there's not a lot that he can do now he's also said and he told us that if there are fresh elections that if that's not wanted then he won't seek to run in them and that's a real bone of contention between himself and the opposition he was obviously running for a 4th term in the

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