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Opioid epidemic. Just as in lebanon standing their ground despite the government approving sweeping Economic Reforms Prime Minister saad hariri announced the measures to diffuse the biggest demonstrations in years against the nations leaders last activists say they wont go home until the entire cabinet steps down the hall reports from beirut all. The people have spoken calls go beyond fighting corruption they want accountability and early elections and they say they arent leaving the streets until that happens protests are growing by the day the lebanese government however is refusing to step aside instead it is offering a plan that is supposed to fix the economic crisis without hitting the public with more taxes my thats awful with fear. The cabinet approved the 2020 budget with a deficit of 0. 6 percent with no new taxes the salaries of top officials including legislators and members of parliament will be cut in half as part of the economic reform package the central bank and the Banking Sector will help in reducing the deficit by about 3400000000 are the decisions that we have taken might not to fill your demands but they fulfill what i have been calling for i will not allow anyone to scare you and its the governments duty to protect your peaceful demands. Too little too late the proposed reforms are not enough to calm the anger people have no faith. They are right they have no faith and no one. Prime minister the president and the fundamental people have no faith in the leaders of the moment even if they think that they were going to do it for positive for so i would begin to believe that. The way forward according to the protesters involves the government resigning a Transitional Council made up of judges who dont have political affiliations taking over until elections and those elections will be held under a new law whereby lebanon will become one single constituency and sects will no longer just elect their own sectarian leaders. Demands the governing alliance has already rejected the protesters are up against those in power who wont hesitate to use it but there is hope. For. The. Position of the sun. This is the be the rebirth. Were all going to be able to do a girl who was a supporter. For many here its a new beginning. Those who are taking part in this protest movement say it is a rejection of the political elite have been in power. Protecting exploiting the sectarian system of government at the expense of building a strong state. The state resources to support in their community now some of their supporters have risen up against the 1st and the serious. The path for political change in lebanon has now been drawn but the road ahead wont be easy i think the most important thing is the sense of liberation. Liberty difference and revisit the destructive feel and believe to be protected and be mobilized with a narrative that would be nice to live together i think thats. Beyond the. Crowds this size protesting for this long young old rich poor Muslim Christian and without backing from Political Parties has not happened in lebanon some recent history a revolution seems to have already happened but the crisis is far from over. Beirut. Is a professor at George Washington universitys Elliott School of International Affairs he says the situation in lebanon is unprecedented and wont be solved by tried and tested techniques. What we have today is a crisis of governance in lebanon the people who are in the streets in their hundreds of thousands just are unwilling to listen for whatever the the the officials on the platform are going to offer. Their sense is that theres been plenty of time for the officials that time and again deliver on past promises and they fail one of the more interesting things thats happening with the unprecedented really in lebanon is that each of the communities are taking on the established political powers in that very Community People are very aware that they dont want this to be a sunni versus shia or a muslim versus christian so we have revolts within revolts in various communities of people trying to overthrow the political order that they feel has done them wrong. Deadline for Kurdish Forces in Northern Syria leave areas along the border with turkey expires later on tuesday turkey wants to establish a safe and says it will resume its offensive against kurdish faces if they dont leave u. S. President donald trump has defended his decision to withdraw some troops from Northern Syria he says he never agreed to protect syrian kurds forever White House Correspondent Kelly Holcomb reports. They fought and died for years alongside United States forces in the effort to defeat eisel but u. S. President donald trump is defending his decision to withdraw u. S. Troops from northeastern syria allowing turkey to attack the kurdish fighters but we help the kurds and we never gave the kurds a commitment that wed stay for their 400 years of protest that theyve been fighting with the turks for 300 years of people. And nobody ever committed to this were going to do that were going to stay with you forever nobody ever said this trungpa spaced bipartisan criticism in the u. S. Congress about the troop pullout and his decision to drop turkey sanctions as part of the ceasefire agreement that expires on tuesday. And despite anger at home and abroad trump maintains the ceasefire is holding even as turkeys president wretch of tired heir to one is vowing to continue his military campaign the white house has promised to lift sanctions placed on turkey as part of its cease fire deal but trump isnt ruling out more in the future we have a power that nobody thought we had to the extent to call sanctions its called tariffs altera of the whole of the their product coming here they said tremendous amounts of steel to the. Trunk also maintains his goal is to keep a 2016 Campaign Promise to bring troops back to the United States as defense secretary who is in the region traveling to. Saudi arabia late monday says some troops may remain in syria to secure oil fields well others continue fighting against eisel in iraq the purpose of those forces a purpose of those forces working with the s. D. F. Is to deny access to those oil fields by isis and others may benefit from their revenues it could be earned given the tenuous nature of the cease fire agreement with turkey Democratic Leaders in the us congress are promising to introduce their own bipartisan sanctions against turkey to reverse what they say is a humanitarian disaster unleashed in syria by President Trump kimberley hellcat al jazeera the white house meanwhile the u. S. Secretary of state has indicated that washington is prepared to take military action in the region if required where we see American Interest at stake or fundamental norms around the world that need to be enforced will use all the powers that we have you suggested the economic powers that weve used will certainly use them will use our diplomatic powers as well those are our preference weeper for peace to war but in the event that kinetic action or military action is needed you should know the present trump is fully prepared to undertake that action. There have been angry protests in bolivia where some are accusing the president even what allison trying to manipulate sundays Election Results when as appears to have a 10 percent lead over his main rival but carlos messages refusing to accept the result john holeman was at one of the protests in la paz. There is a lot going around the states been suits of running street protests and police was wards the christians who. They show now that they would have pulled morally south they put these fights in the streets are trying to disperse to take us its being shot towards and by the police and you can see down here that they will sue put some of the crews just been sick trying to stop the police from getting them off the streets now. Remember which is saying as well kristie put the proposal up or if you are a story put on without it looking like this person this man is telling us that he was here earlier to take us tony stark so there are some injured here in the city of la paz he believes now let me just quickly tell you why it is that these people have been taking to the streets theyre taking to the streets because the the there was an election on sunday and in the preliminary count it showed that it was going to a 2nd round of the challenger Carlos Mencia was going through a 2nd round with the incumbent president ever moralities then that vote was cruising that focus frozen for almost 24 hours and when it come back came back online it showed the president ever marleys was almost going to win outright there was going to be no 2nd round from the protest outraged by this breakthrough things were going to a 2nd round and now they feel that has been taken away from them they say by fraud chinas government has enforcing a curfew for a 3rd consecutive nights after another day of violence and Santiago Police used tear gas and Water Cannons to disperse thousands of protesters in the capital but they said. 11 people have been killed in the demonstrations which began 2 weeks ago of over an increase in train ticket prices stats since been scrapped i was there as part of the polo has more from santiago. Its now past curfew in the chilean capital and what you hear around me that banging noise this is whats known as a. These are people that have come out of their of their windows out of their balconies from their apartments and theyre 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 a state of emergency remains in effect in chile earlier on monday there were thousands of people were protesting in an area known as part of this is plus a value this is an area thats historically been the center of a Political Movement here in protesters once again met by tear gas Water Cannons as well as smoke bombs from from police want to read a few statistics from the National Human Rights Institute since the unrest began here and there have been 1333 people that have been arrested 88 injured by firearms and at least 11 people who have died within the context of this unrest which is one of the biggest angers that people say that they have here not only are they upset about generalized bill inequality in the country pension reform below minimum wage theyre upset because of this heavy handed response that is that continues to play out on the streets of the chilean capital well get a weather update backstay ill say about that israels Prime Minister fails again to form a government find out what that means for the country i will look at why tens of thousands of people in sudan back out on the streets. Hello i think we can say the season has just about change in the van now it will be an internet thing but the circulation of cloud that has brought rain to lebanon to jordan to syria and to iraq is to right now temperatures dont drop a lot to still talk about high twentys or would like thirtys but the green is the give away significant showers in eastern iraq western side of iran and the cloud drop size down through northern side as well so its a sort of circulation you would expect to see this time the year not significant yet but i think the feel is felt always around through the reagan pledge the defeat of the change in the weather type humidity is low temperatures are typically lower we still got there are potential hiccup here circulating in the arabian sea a potential for Tropical Development dont think much will come of it but it will through cloud and rain towards the amandi coast once again it certainly influences the wind serai very very and into there that isnt necessarily significant its probably still dusty rather than anything else weve seen occasional showers develop over the water to clear around the gulf so thats respond the world if you drop south again we have seen a bit of activity recently but theres great lack of rain particularly the east and south africa but there are thunderstorms to come. On counting the cost the 7. 00 would tweet that proved too much for beijing how china silence his critics and devise access to its 14 trillion dollar economy the cost of hiring at oil tank is soaring for the lazy and fisherman facing financial losses counting the cost on aljazeera. I also feel this is the opportunity to understand the very different way were there because its we dont leave us. Alone again this is al jazeera a reminder of the main news this hour protesters in lebanon say that Economic Reforms approved by the government are not enough many want the entire cabinet to step down Prime Minister saad how d. D. Announced the measures on monday in an attempt to defuse the countrys biggest demonstrations in years. President donald trump as defended his decision to withdraw u. S. Troops from Northern Syria he says he never agreed to protect syrian kurds forever a cease fire between turkey and the kurdish that Syrian Democratic forces expires place on tuesday fall a process to taking place in bolivia where the president is being accused of trying to manipulate sundays Election Results so that he can avoid a runoff in december if it went out as appears to have a 10 percent lead over his main rival with carlos mess up is refusing to accept the result. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his country has voted for a Progressive Agenda his liberal party has projected. Hold on to government for a 2nd time its expected to win the most seats to mondays general election though it is unlikely to hold on to its majority Justin Trudeau is speaking live now in this to canadian city of montreal hes addressing his supporters after the election on monday lets listen in. To school i believe. To this he says school the School Student who called it questions and the only. Way you know that was. Always the way is that the Prime Minister was speaking in english just a few moments ago and has now switched to french so while we wait we may dip back in once he changes languages once again lets speak to i was there was down to a lack. Of forests so the Prime Minister painting this very much as a victory for his party its not quite that though is it. No its not its a bit of a narrow escape actually his party actually won a little bit less of the popular vote that his conservative opponent led by his conservative opponents led by Andrew Scheer the Opposition Leader just a tiny bit less but thanks to the westminster system 1st past the post constituency based voting that goes on here the party that wins the most seats in parliament is the one that governs or at least gets the chance to govern to win the confidence of Parliament Mr trudeau is right though to say that canadians did choose a more progressive alternative to the conservatives one that favored Climate Change policy one that wanted more immigration into the country and one that was going to keep carbon taxes in place to fight Climate Change mr shear had promised changes in all of those files other parties that are left of center to the left of mr trudeau they also did fairly well in this election so it is fair enough to say that canadians voted more progressive lee than conservatively not all of them though voted for him so if hes got the most seats in parliament but not enough to form a majority how will he. Well hes got a couple of choices most likely he will have informal deals with one or 2 of the opposition parties give them a little of what they want in exchange for votes that he needs on the votes of confidence money bills and big legislation like that its unlikely that hell form a Coalition Government he has numerically a fairly Strong Majority he just needs maybe 20 more seats to help him over the threshold of 170 seats that will give him a majority of votes every time he needs one and you know to be honest a lot of parties probably dont have an appetite for a fresh election any time soon its expensive its debilitating and the last campaign was fairly negative mr trudeau and mr sheer when ted each other pretty enthusiastically and it wasnt always a happy sight for voters in the end though most of them and we did hear this from voters today as we were going around the polling stations many of them held their noses and voted for mr trudeau and his liberals as the alternative that you know gave them a little more satisfaction a little bit more progressive policies than perhaps mr scherer and his conservatives i was there a stunning lack reporting live there from toronto many thanks indeed. 4 major u. S. Drug companies approach the settlement to avoid a federal trial for their role in the Opioid Crisis theyve agreed to pay 260000000000. 00 to 2. 00 counties in the state of ohio it sets a precedent for more than 2007 to cases across the country john hendren reports. The leaders of 2 ohio counties walked out of a courthouse into a landmark settlement in the United States Opioid Epidemic we are. County has seen thousands of people die and the last several months and the last several years shes me and its a tragedy in Summit County was no different this settlement with 4 companies is worth 260000000 dollars critics call that pennies on the dollar but ohios summit in Cuyahoga County has called it money they need to cope with the crisis now people are dying now we have to deal with these issues now so the fact that we were able to get the money in a short time frame is very helpful and thats one of the motivations for settling this deal settles claims against distributors Amerisource Bergen Cardinal Health and mckesson and the israeli opioid manufacturer. In a statement the distributor said while the companies strongly dispute the allegations made by the 2 counties they believe settling the bellwether trial is an important stepping stone to achieving a global resolution and delivering meaningful relief to have a declined to comment the Pharmacy Company Walgreens Boots Alliance did not reach a settlement saying in a statement that the Company Never manufactured the drugs nor sold them to socalled pill mills the partial settlement by 2 ohio counties came at 1 am cleveland time hours before the start of the 1st federal trial of drug makers and distributors that trial combined thousands of cases brought by local communities across the u. S. Against companies blamed for the Opioid Crisis that has led 2400000 Overdose Deaths over 2 decades the settlement with the ohio counties. Would serve as a benchmark for a larger 48000000000. 00 settlement with the Drug Companies that would end the federal prosecution entirely the question local communities are asking is is that enough money is there enough money to fix this problem. This is going to take a society effort the company did not admit wrongdoing but communities in the suit say they overprescribed in deceptively advertise the drugs and failed to flag unusually high numbers of prescriptions settlement money will be used for treatment and alternatives to prosecution for those addicted to opioids at the cleveland courthouse the federal case moves forward as drug makers and distributors negotiate to come to a settlement that is expected to be the biggest Opioid Settlement ever john hendren aljazeera. Israels Prime Minister has failed to form a government for the 2nd time this president riven rivlin is now expected to last netanyahu centrist rival benny gantz to put together a coalition. Force of reports now from west. Well after the end of the last of a series of jewish holy days and on his 70th birthday Benjamin Netanyahu admitted defeat in his efforts to try to form a Coalition Government he laid the blame for that squarely at the feet of the head of the opposition blue and White Party Benny Gantz saying that he and his colleagues had rejected all of his efforts to try to form a unity government indeed they have rejected those efforts they say because they are unwilling to sit even in a rotational arrangement as Prime Minister with a man who as netanyahu is is facing indictments in 3 separate Corruption Cases than young is accusing benny gantz of wanting to form a minority government with support from the outside from the 10 members of the joint list the mainly palestinian israeli parties who have committed their support to benny gantz as a prop attentional Prime Minister the head of that joint list grouping has accused netanyahu of inciting against arabs again and he says that he hopes that will be the last time he does so as Prime Minister now the israeli president riven rivlin has indicated that he will give the mandate to benny gantz potentially on tuesday he would then have a 28 day period in which to try to form a government but his prospects either of forming a minority government or indeed of a unity government with could with it could potentially jetted status inning yes and you know as prime as Prime Minister in their leader theyve both look extremely unlikely prospect so he may well fail as well if that happens then the mandate would go to the knesset as a whole potentially with anyone from the knesset any member of the knesset who was able to muster enough support potentially trying to form a government him or herself but that too is exceptionally unlikely and that period could well coincide with the attorney generals final decision on whether to indict nessun yahoo or not in these 3 Corruption Cases if there is no government formed after all of this the netanyahu could stay in office until a 3rd election in less than a year that would be potentially in march now. Year but there may well be legal challenges to whether a Prime Minister could continue to sit in office while being indicted and so it does seem that there is a very turbulent bumpy few weeks and months ahead in israeli politics the british Prime Ministers push for a straight yes or no vote on his brakes a deal in parliament has been blocked the speaker of the house of commons said the vote was too similar to the one held on saturday and wouldnt go ahead the next chance to vote will be later on tuesday the decision is a blow to Boris Johnson whos adamant that the u. K. Will leave the e. U. In 10 days hes already been forced to ask for a further delay abortion has officially been decriminalised on same sex marriages to be legalized in Northern Ireland the legislation came into effect at midnight local time the laws were passed by m. P. s in london as the local parliament in belfast hasnt been sitting for nearly 18 months after a power sharing government collapsed. Were happy that its happened. But i think its a victory. For. The. Government. And peace for mr. So this is. The 55th of the countrys 1st. With. Reports. Chants similar to the one chanted on the streets during protests which started last december. The anniversary of the country. In 1984 and even though the revolution overthrew the countrys longtime president to. Protest his regime isnt. Completely gone theyre still in power still hold position. They can work like any other sudanese but they cant be in the Government Holding positions of power after. To bring change the country. And change the coalition. In talks with the military. But it has not done enough to dismantle. Their. We are here to tell the world that our revolution is not. We demand justice for who were killed in the protests for all those killed by the name we want justice for the girls who were right for those whose lives were destroyed 10 months after. People here are still demanding justice. Pointed a Fact Finding Committee to look into the killings of protesters. But many. Here. As Prime Minister in august he says the government is still new and that reforms need to be a joint effort between it and the government. For the. Show. Since a civilian government formed a month and a half ago some steps have been taken to cement civilian rule and achieve the goals of your revolution what we need to do together is change that into complete accomplishment and that can be done by working together to report on with tears and blood your government the revolutions government reasserts that change is an ongoing process and needs a huge effort to be completed. Protesters who came out and gave the support they can to the Transitional Government which will continue to remind them what they came out for when they started the latest revolution and until that is achieved morgan aljazeera. Theres been a big fire at one of new zealands largest Construction Projects the blaze broke out on the roof of a Convention Center being built in the city of oakland hundreds of people work at the sides which has now been evacuated along with the nearby sky city tower which is new zealands tallest Building Local media reports at least one person has been seriously injured. A centuries old ceremony has taken place in japan as the new emperor sends to the throne its part of a series of rituals that sees emperor another he took his new role officially announced he assumed duties as emperor on may 1st the day his father abdicated from the role heads of state for more than 180 countries with there to mark the occasion. It is good to have you with us hello Adrian Finnegan here in doha the headlines on aljazeera protesters in lebanon say that Economic Reforms approved by the government are not enough many want the entire cabinet to step down Prime Minister saad hariri announced the measures on monday in an attempt to diffuse the countrys biggest demonstrations in years President Donald Trump has defended his decision to withdraw u. S. Troops from Northern Syria he says he never agreed to protect syrian kurds forever a ceasefire between turkey and the kurdish led Syrian Democratic forces expires later on tuesday violent protests are taking place in bolivia where the president is being accused of trying to manipulate sundays Election Results so that he can avoid a runoff in december. Appears to have a 10 percent lead over his main rival but Carlos Messer is refusing to accept the result. Cheeriest government is enforcing a curfew for a 3rd exact consecutive night after another day of violence and Santiago Police used tear gas and water cannon to disperse thousands of protesters in the capital at least 11 people have been killed in the demonstrations which began 2 weeks ago over an increase in train ticket prices canadas Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his country has voted for a Progressive Agenda his liberal party is projected to hold on to government for a 2nd term though its unlikely to hold on to its majority preelection opinion polls showed the liberals and the Opposition Conservative Party neck and neck heres what trudeau told supporters a short time ago in montreal. Canadiens rejected. A negativity. They rejected cuts and austerity and they voted in favor. For major us Drug Companies have reached a settlement to avoid a federal trial for their role in the Opioid Crisis theyve agreed to pay 260000000. 00 to 2. 00 counties in the state of ohio it sets a precedent for more than 2000 similar cases across the country theres the headlines quick change of clothes for me on back in just a moment with counting the cost. Hello im adrian figure this is counting the cost on aljazeera a wiki look at the world of business and economics this week the 7 word tweet that proved too much for beijing the n. B. A. Counts the cost as china silences critics and access to its 14 trillion dollar economy. A few years back you could rent an oil tanker for less than the price of hiring a ferrari prices though an hour soaring will tell you why. The laziest fish farmers face hefty financial losses as pollution destroys the coastline