the parliament next week again no timeframe has been given as to how long that would take meanwhile mehdi is saying that he is asking political parties are in the parliament to help find a successor to him it's important to note that mehdi came to power a year ago he's only been in office for a year and a week as prime minister he was considered a consensus candidate or consensus prime minister because there was a lot of wrangling in the parliament as to who should become the next prime minister. meanwhile in lebanon president michel aoun says the country must change from a sectarian state to a civil one says anti-government protests continue in the capital calling for political leaders to resign prime minister saad hariri already quit on tuesday but he's been asked by the president to stay on as temporary can take until the new government is fully formed. and to not be 2 more hearted men need was the day we are shrink into a government and we hope the upcoming government will live up to the spear ations of the people that should gain the confidence of the people and members of the parlia

arrive their demands because it's still it is a good step that the government or the other of the mehdi decide to resign but in the end of the day we are talking about the whole political system in iraq which is facing a lot of corruption and also mismanagement. i think in the next weeks will be very important tool to find a solution for whole this problem since it seems it is 16 years and is there any notion that you have or a name that is being circulated for a new prime minister or are we there yet well there is some names have been put on the table but i think it is not realistic not to talk about the person it's model important to talk about the process who is going to be the next i think the protesters or in iraq there is a person should be closed the rainy and close to united states and will likely from kurds and from shia and sunnis we are looking for a mercy it is for the with it you want to tie us with the backlights from reno and so on it's a kind of mixing it's really very dangerous and very expensive explosive mix of political and social influence from inside and outside an

political parties or in the parliament to help find a successor to him it's important to note that mehdi came to power a year ago he's only been in office for a year and a week as prime minister and at that time sami he was considered a consensus candidate or consensus prime minister because there was a lot of wrangling in the parliament as to who should become the next prime minister plans to reopen schools and universities in lebanon have been canceled design think government protesters continue this sit ins in parts of the capital protestors are doing the blocking roads in and around beirut they're calling for political leaders to go prime minister assad with heavy liquids home tuesday but he's been asked by the president to stay on as a temporary caretaker till you government is for so to hold or has more from beirut . what happened yesterday was that daily life really was returning to normal schools universities were supposed to open today protesters left the streets after the prime minister. announced his resignation but the protest movement was hoping that his resignation will be

mehdi kaci is a mehdi kaci is a algerian-american activist who organized a protest last weekend in san francisco in support of algerians. and daikha dridi is a journalist based in algiers. we welcome you both to democracy now! let's go to algiers. daikha dridi, explain what is happening in the streets, whether protest began, the forcing out of the president, and what p people are calling fr right now. february 2222. surpriseompletely as a to everybody. people rushed out on the streets friday after the prayer. it was a week or so after president bouteflika announced through a letter because he is actually sick, paralyzed, had a stroke in 2013 and has been unable to talk or move or actually govern since 2013. but he kept on being president. after the announcement of bouteflika running for a fifth term after 20 years ruling the week or 10 days after that, people poured out on the streets of algeria everywhere, in the capital, in all the big cities, demanding that he step down, saying "no more of you. we don't want you anymore. this is the end of it." that itm was so big took everybody by

mehdi has been in office a year he was a consensus prime minister after wrangling in the parliament the u.n. special representative in iraq is urging patience he says no government could comprehensive way tackle past and present challenges in just one year whether protesters heed that advice remains to be. at least 70 people have been killed in pakistan exploded on a train starting a huge fire is the country's worst disaster in laws an attack 8 the accident happened in. the train's departure the. water he says someone give me water because this man is among the dozens of people wounded when a passenger train caught fire in pakistan witnesses say in addition to those who were burned alive many people died in the trying to jump from the high speed burning train most of them were programs heading to a religious gathering that routinely carry all essential items including gas cylinders and beddings with their religious meeting which lasts for days initial reports suggest that someone tried to make breakfast on an open gas flame one investigator told al-jazeera that the speed of the train fa

haiti's resignation or when elections might be held since october 1st protesters have been demanding mehdi step down and elections held in 60 days monitored by the u.n. to ensure their free and fair publicized us until this hour the parliament didn't give anything to satisfy the rage of the demonstrators they didn't give them any hope at the very least the government can calm the protesters by removing the mahdi or having his cabinet resign as a festive there were high hopes when it was announced that president saleh would address the country on thursday evening instead there was greater anger and resolve among protesters one called the speech a joke this week the protests in baghdad have been fueled by students many skipped school members of the teachers attorneys unions boycotted work. i asked my teachers why do we study and when we have an unknown future how long can we keep silent we study had you graduate and then want we stay at harton med he has been in office a year he was a consensus prime minister after wrangling in the parliament the un special representative in iraq is urging p

however they will be arresting anyone who blocks roads on sunday prime minister abdullah abdullah mehdi said in response to protesters that an amendment will be put forth that will take a look at reforming government ministries younger people will be hired that will be more transparency and a quota system will be eliminated it looks like from what we're hearing that most of the political parties have reached a deal that will keep this government in power apparently no one believes that there is a replacement for the prime minister and that abdul mahdi is the one who will implement reforms mehdi says that political parties are in. intrinsic part of the democratic process but he admits that they have made mistakes so right now it looks like the largest bloc in parliament is the lone dissenter the ones who are supporting the protesters that would be followers of the influence or influential shiite cleric solder they continue to see and with the protestors and are calling for this government to reside. india supreme court has ruled the disputed religious sites in the north of the country be

he's my son, mehdi, is the first comment. the epicenter of demonstrations in baghdad is lined with shrines for those who died, nearly 400 countrywide. visitors pray for the souls of people they never met. for sadib, it's her way of thanking them for the future she can now dream of for her two children, who she brought here for the first time. "yes, they are too young to really understand" she says, "but i want them to come and experience this." there is a sense and a determination that this will be the chapter in iraq's bloody history that finally alters the status quo that has governed the population's lives since the u.s.-led invasion, one that traded saddam hussein's dictatorship for another form of captivity, defined by chaos and violence, rampant corruption, rising unemployment, divisive sectarian politics, and iran's looming shadow. "iran wants to make us a part of khamenei's islamic republic" this man says, "just like isis wanted to make us a part of their state." such harsh words expressed publicly against iraq's neig

resignation of prime minister dilma heady and holding elections it was a yes but speech to protesters yes mehdi will resign but only once a successor is determined yes elections will be held but only after a new election law is implemented and a new election committee formulated rice said it was the prime minister is willing to submit his resignation that he's also asking the political parties on a replacement within the constitutional fine legal measures that would prevent a constitutional vaculik a few. no time frame was given from a hideous resignation or when elections might be held since october 1st protesters have been demanding maddie's step down and elections held in 60 days monitored by the un to ensure they're free and fair they have publicized this until this hour the parliament didn't give anything to satisfy the rage of the demonstrators and they didn't give them any hope that at the very least the government can calm the protesters by removing the or having his cabinet resign as a. there were high hopes when it was announced that president saleh would address the country on thursd

oblivious to the needs of the average iraq on thursday the president announced prime minister idol lobdell mehdi would resign and elections would be held but did not offer a timetable i don't mind if i believe it's meaningless and useless we want to change the whole constitution the iraqi human rights commission says more than 250 people have been killed and 5500 injured in protests from baghdad to karbala many have been injured by tear gas and returned to protest with gauze bandages on their heads arms and legs and the may they throw it on any person they see whether it's a woman a child or a men it makes no difference to them their goal is to hurt people in baghdad bridges leading from tahrir square to the fortified green zone have become deadly standoff between protesters and security forces and amnesty international report says security forces in the capital are using military grade tear gas grenades 10 times more potent than typical tear gas canisters and they're intended to kill not disperse protesters the group says it has documented 5 cases of the canisters imbedded in protesters skulls

he continues to press for mehdi to step down saying if he does not iraq will look like yemen and syria he is now joining forces with another political leader here who controls the 2nd largest bloc in parliament together the 2 will have 101 votes but they need 166 to oust. well still ahead on al-jazeera shares of off to shocks in the philippines after thousands were displaced by a powerful at quake. bret's about indonesia's its campaign on calls on the prime minister to build and leave alliance. on paul reese and yokohama way england will take on south africa and the rip the world cup final in a match that could take the sport far beyond its traditional hala. hello again a welcome back well here across the northeastern part of turkey we are going to see quite a few clouds pushing into the higher elevations and that means it's going to be rain in the lower elevations as well as snow up into the higher elevations as we go into sunday so overnight lows are going to be dropping down below freezing but during the day should be coming back up for about cooler though that means some rainy cond

not enough for them but i'm just wondering though obviously they're emboldened by the fact that mr mehdi is now is stepping down but i want to did he just buy himself more time because it's going to take a long time to reinstall a government and i'm also wondering how we list it is it that these changes that the protesters want to see. be implemented in iraq how we list is that that that will actually see the light of day. 1st of all the reason he resigned is because today on friday the shit out of his authority aka the much i need to study his speech he said he condemned the violence that took place yesterday and not another south of iraq around 40 people died in both cities because of the violence that took place there and he condemned the violence and he said and they quote he said that the parliament who voted for this government should do something i consider that option which means that if i want to withdrawal the confidence from the prime minister because of this speech writer or submits his resignation it means that the next session of parliament which is going to be on sunday th

history also iraq's president has vowed to hold early elections and says prime minister mehdi will resign but only once a replacement is agreed soon after the elves with large crowds again gathered in tahrir square in central baghdad. but hundreds of firefighters are struggling to contain fast moving fire sweeping across a dry land in the u.s. state of california the flames driven by strong winds have forced tens of thousands of people from their homes. the battle falls control of the so-called safe zone in northeastern syria has intensified kurdish fighters and troops from the syrian army have exchanged fire with opposition forces it comes as turkey and russia plan to start joint patrols on the area friday. reports from the turkey syria border. there's panic here in syria's north east as fighting flares up near tel tama and us a line caught up in the fighting are civilians who are fleeing the area and moving to the province of has under the control of the largely kurdish as the but syrian government troops have military bases in the region. took over western parts of the town people are

islamic state machinery as he had been very and the inspiration of populism those are teachers join me mehdihasan as i put it up for questions to my special guests and challenge them to some straight talking political debate al-jazeera. i. thank. peter told me in doha the top stories on al-jazeera a former rebel leader has been sentenced to 30 years and prison by the international criminal court. was convicted of 18 war crimes and crimes against humanity committed between 20022003 catherine sawyer has more now from goober in east and democratic republic of congo who was indicted back in the mother didn't think of it only i read into it that he then that because he was very quite well protected up to both of you eat 3 every game but in q one just.

i'm mehdi hasan bolivia's president evo morales was forced to resign from office and fled to mexico after a disputed election and pressure from the military was it a coup that's our debate but 1st the b j p government in india is no stranger to controversy this week it welcomed the supreme court decision authorizing the construction of a hindu temple on the site of a demolished ask what prime minister narendra modi's brutal lockdown of kashmir is now more than 100 days old so what happened to human rights and the rule of law in the world's biggest democracy this week's headline from new delhi the g.o.p. national spokesperson of the e.u. . governor of bhartiya welcome to up front you are the national spokes person for the ruling b j p party in india the party you speak for has been in power now for more than 5 years it governs what many call the largest democracy on earth would you say that india today is still a liberal secular democracy one that respects the rule of law and guarantees rights dignity equality to all of its citizens. that even you wouldn't. want to be. that is a constituti

as we know whether rebranded jonjo we have essentially from darfor and these were deployed by him mehdi who is now the deputy head of the sovereign council in sudan so in your mind here what i have met is motivation is this about money well there was a u.n. report of the panel of experts actually not of libya but of sudan back in january highlight that there was an agent of the food rebels on both sides of the libyan conflict predominantly for financial reasons however there have been more. somewhat constructive or more utilized by how far in his advance and belatedly after what had happened in sudan a canadian lobbying for. allegedly based on the leaks of the u.n. u.n. panel of experts report on libya have helped finance a strike a financial deal whereby i made that met to you would actually supply with weapons so then mercenaries this is actually there's quite a lot of specifics in this report the report also specifies the type of plane that carried out this air strike on that joran migrant camp that killed these 53 refugees and they say it's a mirage 2000 dash 9 plane and mr farhad i

oblivious to the needs of the average iraq on thursday the president announced prime minister idol lobdell mehdi would resign and elections would be held but did not offer a timetable but if i believe it's meaningless and useless we want to change the whole constitution the iraqi human rights commission says more than 250 people have been killed and 5500 injured in protests from baghdad to karbala many have been injured by tear gas and returned to protest with gauze bandages on their heads arms and legs and the army they throw it on any person they see whether it's a woman a child or a men it makes no difference to them their goal is to people in baghdad bridges leading from tahrir square to the fortified green zone have become deadly standoffs between protesters and security forces and amnesty international report says security forces in the capital are using military grade tear gas grenades 10 times more potent than typical tear gas canisters and they're intended to kill not disperse protesters the group says it has documented 5 cases of the canisters imbedded in protesters skulls in the last

resignation to the parliament but it's done little to compress his across the country either lobdell mehdi held an emergency meeting with his cabinet and asked the lower house to debate his resignation said he said he had no choice but to leave his post. i spoke with my resignation was essential to this the crisis and calm the situation in the country i hope the parliament choose a quick alternative for the country because this is jewish and the country can't handle a caretaker government for a long while now in malta a pressure is growing on the country's prime minister after a prominent businessman was charged over the murder of a journalist you're going fenech has been charged with complicity to murder in the 2017 car bomb killing of journalists. fenech pleaded not guilty it has been reported the prime minister the choice of muscat will stand down in january following criticism of his response to the crime he's expected to make a statement on this tomorrow. police here in london say there is no evidence a knife attack or who killed 2 people on friday was helped by anyone else on stabbed

islamic state machine as we have been very end when some version of popular culture teacher joined me mehdi hasan as i put it up from questions to my special guests and challenge them to some straight talking political debate here on al-jazeera. hello i'm has i'm speaking of this is the news hour live from doha we're bringing you extended live coverage of the impeachment investigation against president donald trump as it moves into a new public phase these are live pictures from the u.s. from kept. hill washington d.c. where the hearing is set to begin shortly after more than a month of closed door testimony the hearing is just minutes from bring broadcast live around the world it centers around a phone call between president trump and ukraine's leader lensky in july for the 1st witnesses up our 2 veteran diplomats acting u.s. ambassador to ukraine william taylor and deputy assistant secretary of state george kent a tailor has said in closed door testimony he had what he calls a clear understanding the trump wanted to pressure ukraine into investigating his political rival joe biden in exch

the bandaging mehdi you know he moved this capital here in the face of a growing threat coming from close to the prophet himself. calling for the punishment of off months killers. one of the prophet's wives and 2 of his closest companions. and his superiors gathered an army to do battle with the new caliph. it came to be known as the battle of the camp. they set the scene for violent conflicts between moments for my companions ali was victorious and top of the bab defeated are you sure withdrew from public life after this defeat. the islamic state had fallen into its 1st civil war. the 1st but not the last. damascus the syrian capital. and $634.00 and after almost 7 centuries on the roman rule. the city was conquered by most. an army commander was appointed governor of the mosques and later the entire province. i mean i mean look at the shammy wiley and there's an incentive. and that's where you are i mean a home with the idea that the n.c.i.c. who let you lay a pile am. some high level below. or the valley a shammy your own shadow behind them while we are well as law in a. while yet came

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oblivious to the needs of the average iraq on thursday the president announced prime minister idle lobdell mehdi would resign and elections would be held but did not offer a timetable on monday it's not unusual it's meaningless and useless we want to change the whole constitution the iraqi human rights commission says more than 250 people have been killed and 5500 injured in protests from baghdad to karbala many have been injured by tear gas and returned to protest with gauze bandages on their heads arms and legs and the army they throw it on any person they see whether it's a woman a child or a men it makes no difference to them their goal is to people in baghdad bridges leading from tahrir square to the fortified green zone have become deadly standoffs between protesters and security forces and amnesty international report says security forces in the capital are using military grade tear gas grenades 10 times more potent than typical tear gas canisters and they're intended to kill not disperse protesters agr. says it has documented 5 cases of the canisters imbedded in protesters skulls in the

spoke to a former member of parliament who resigned as a show of unity with the protesters he says mehdi is a symbol yes but a very important one and if he were to step down it would send a very clear message to the protesters that they're being heard he says he thinks this government is making a gross miscalculation if it hopes to ride this out thinking that the protesters moments of a wane and they'll simply go home and put a protest has been telling you about you know the defense ministry statement in the meantime very confusing and you know conflicting from mock's about the violence that we've seen june protests. yeah so we've now seen more than 300 people killed more than 15000 injured since these protests began on october 1st and many of them are a result of tear gas i have seen images gruesome images of tear gas canisters lodged in people's heads and stomachs there are so many protestors walking around tahrir with began to just as a ripple result from tear gas burns amnesty international said that it had documented at least 5 cases in baghdad of security forces using what it calls

mustafa: mehdi did communities of color, indigenous populations, are lititerally dyg for a breath ofresh air. we have 100,000 people dying premataturely from air pollution in our country. communities like the manchester community in hououston, texasaso cancer alley running between baton rouge and louisiana and even here in charleston, south carolinana stop what would you o to address the epidemic that is happening in our commumunity frm air pollution? sen. warren: so, part of this is we need to strengthen the epa. here is a radical notion. how about if we don't have a coal lobbyist head up the epa? you think that is a good starting point? [applause] sen. warren: but it is, as they have tried to roll back -- the trump administration and the epa under his administration have tried to roll back air quality standards. no, we need to go on the other direction. we need to roll forward. we need to be much stronger on this. can i add a second part to that? bring inis i want to the cdc. i want to treat this as the public health emergency that it is. [a[applause]e] sen. warren: y yeah. if peop

be the one to implement these reforms it appears that the lone holdout the lone opposition against mehdi are followers of influential shiite cleric matata el solder they also happen to have the largest bloc of votes in parliament india's top cortez ruled a disputed religious site be given to hindus for construction of a temple the piece of land in the se difficult to pradesh is claimed by both hindus and muslims and has been a point of contention the supreme court says outearning to have land will be set aside to build a mosque and child laura has a story from you daddy. it's a case that has polarized hindus and muslims in india for decades now the supreme court has made its decision on diode land dispute in return for the. hindu say this piece of land is the birthplace of their data in december 1992 hindu hardline groups destroyed a mosque that had stood here for more than 400 years the muslim community here insists this is the site of where that mosque should be rebuilt but the court has ordered the creation of a government trust to oversee the construction of a hindu temple instead wh

in governance system in iraq people in iraq were not just protesting against added i did mehdi or the politicians that were with him in that cabinet they were protesting against an entire political class an entire political class that have reflected shortcomings towards the public services whether it be education health care social services and have even failed to keep a sovereign country against military. attacks whether it be from other countries through funded proxy militias such as iran or whether it be from terrorist organizations such as isis so giving giving giving his resignation to the very same parliament that is probably the largest institution in the ethnic sectarian kotor in iraq is not the solution in fact it just escalates things however we have to consider this being a symbolic achievement to the protestors this is the very 1st time in iraq's modern history where the people of iraq played a role or pressured the head of the government whether it be a prime minister or a president to resign even if that resign nation has different plans that wouldn't be in favor of the

mehdi the prime minister released another statement today saying that in response to protesters demands for an overhaul of government ministries either a whole overall or a partial overhaul he's saying that he's introducing an amendment that would make some changes at the government ministry level that it would get away from this quota system that younger people would be employed and that there would be more transparency we're hearing fully that most of the political parties have reached some sort of deal to preserve the government and these protests we know that one hold out for certain it happens to be the largest bloc in parliament there are followers of the influential shiite cleric. solder they remain to remain unified with protesters might he said today that political parties remain an intrinsic part of the political process though he admitted that they have made big mistakes he did not elaborate on what those mistakes were thank you for that update natasha good name live for us in baghdad. now a group of chileans has openly defied president sebastian pinera strain of a crackdown

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forward and why it has not subsided even with the announcement the current prime minister abu abdel mehdio step down. the problem, there's no progress to step down. he said he would step down but only an another successor is in place. and lebanon. when the prime minister there announced he would resign there was already more of a structure how that would look. interesting there though is that assad hariri is coming out as likely favorite to take the same position again. here in iraq and baghdad in republican? uft left are and watch theed protests for days. much focused on one bridge that moves into the green zone. we saw video of iraqi security forces, army, and elite counter-terrorist forces, cts, saw them with barricade after barricade across the bridge stopping people from trying to move into the green zone. early on a small group of 50 to 75, a little over a week ago, actually able to get, tried to get across the bridge. they were met with water cannons, tear gas canisters and were pushed back. since then no whaun actually made their way towards the green zone but it's not for lack of