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Ahead. Of the samsung empire returns to court with his future and the balance. And a legal battle in the occupied west bank of a series of banned websites. However there is more clout in iran but this is focus on the east and the levant the certainly a change in season here has been flooding rain in northern egypt and there is more to come not circulation a cloud will develop into something more is not on farther than on saturday bringing heavy rains to alexandria sinai and probably a little bit further east and maybe affecting for example jerusalem whose temperature will drop to Something Like 19 is the rain. On saturday certain things to the east cloud will develop into showers over iran but iraq seems to escape the temperature down to 30 called just a little cooler and we might from the same sort of system get some showers crna over the red sea over this part of saudi arabia restoration ministers looking quiet for now but with the approach of potential tropical cyclones a long way where they will be the increase in the cloud and sometime next week this might just hit the coast of amman we will watch that one with interest. So the left is looking rather more active now as it should be of course is increasing cloud records a western cape on friday still 30 in durban 28. 00 in joburg was probably welcome charles in the full cost around your house book which is still there on saturday though cape town is. Sponsored by. The germanys capital theres a barber like no other to put into. Those from across what you have. But as he said he changes hes moving with. Im going on the road. The stories me to hear. By the people who live. The master barber of berlin this is on aljazeera. Hello again im the. Mind of our top stories this hour the pentagon says its sending additional military assets to syria 2 weeks after President Trump called for all troops to be withdrawn the Defense Department says theyll help protect Syrian Oil Fields from falling into the hands of isis fighters. Lebanons president has offered to meet protestors to help save the country from collapse after more than a week of antigovernment protests michel aoun also suggested reshuffle was possible but added that the government should not be toppled from the streets. And believe his electoral board has given president evo morales an outright victory paining few going to have to face a 2nd round but runner up carlos mess that is refusing to accept the. And International Pressure is growing phenomena. Protests continue in chile despite conciliation efforts by the president well this is how it looked on the streets of the capital santiago at least 18 people have been killed since the antigovernment demonstrations began a week ago. But. Today i went to see a good news with my countryman today we saw him didnt seem to congress a bill that stabilizes the price of electricity now tricity rose an average of 9. 2 percent a few days ago we want to cancel this price rise which affected almost 7000000. 00 chilean households and the protests meanwhile have now spread to beyond the capital. And the coastal city. Police fired on crowds who were throwing stones several stores have been looted erikssons worth is the Vice President of the council of the americas which works to promote democracy he says doesnt have a lot of options. The president s already tried to placate them hes even apologized and asked for their forgiveness saying that he and his government fundamentally misunderstood some of their feelings and where theyre coming from he did announce a raft of reform Social Security reforms tax reforms rescinded in the planned hike in the transit he and redistribution of income etc but those reforms are going to take a while to work through the economy they havent even been implemented yet there is simply a statement of intent and i think you know once the genie is out of the bottle the protesters are saying well theres a lot more here than just the price of a ticket for a bus so i think theyre making their voices heard when theyll go back is anybodys guess but no the president and his government are actively trying to find a solution to the protests and get that get the folks off the streets. When tens of thousands of people in guinea have once again protested against the president s bid to change the law and stay in power campaigners say alpha conde should give way to a new leader but conde wants to change the west african countrys constitution to allow him to run for a 3rd term 9 people have now been killed during 10 days of protests. A candlelit vigil has been held in london for the 39 people found dead in the back of a truck on wednesday people gathered outside the u. K. Home office thats the Government Department responsible for Immigration Police have now confirmed the dead were chinese citizens officers have been given more time to question the driver of the truck the bodies were found east of london after the trailer arrived from belgium. British Prime Minister baraks johnson has offered to give parliament more time to look over his breakfast agreement if they agree to an election on december 12th and stantons that attempt to force a snap fight and break the impasse as impressions delay departure from the release of this week he pours the passage of his present deal after parliament decided they went in given enough time to debase it has more from london. Boris johnson is looking for a general election very much because the government feels boxed in it was forced by m. P. s to seek an extension to the whole process after m. P. s back to the moment last month were expecting the e. U. To come back with exactly how long that extension should be in their eyes you know the germans of the irish are saying that it should be as long as the 31st of january and theres some fear from the government that if it is that long thered be so many amendments forced upon the government for instance the idea of possibly including a 2nd referendum or changes to customs arrangements the boisterousness do you would see used to be the deal that he agreed with the e. U. Ceased to be the deal that appears given a vote recently earlier this week appears to be getting more traction amongst opposition m. P. s as world also also knows that the arithmetic in parliament is all off that hes 45 m. P. s short of a majority and that by putting it to the people in the form of a general election an election that he clearly feels that he can win that he will be able to rebalance the arithmetic in favor of his conservative party to get any deal passed comfortably in the british parliament. The heir of the South Korean Electronics giant samsung has been back in court for a retrial on bribery charges genuinely could face jail time after the Supreme Court ruled the case should be had again hes been given a 2 and a half year suspended sentence for seeking favors from former president pathan hey the scandal led to nationwide protests and parts pietschmann from the private has the latest from solve. This case goes all the way back to the Corruption Scandal that brought down the former president parky and hey now jay wiley was found guilty of bribery charges and was given initially a 5 year sentence he served one year of that but then on appeal that sentence was cut in half and he was released from prison now subsequently the prosecution has appealed that decision and got a ruling from the countrys Supremes Court which has now sent the case back here to the high court this court could decide to reimpose a harsher sentence which could mean for j. Wiley being returned to prison that obviously is bad news for samsung and potentially bad news for south korea given samsungs size it accounts for 20 percent of the countrys exports and right now given the problems that samsung is facing it doesnt want to have its boss behind bars j. Y. Lee has said little about this case but certainly arriving here in court he was contrite mood and will be a feel deeply sorry for causing the news to so many people. This case also poses a serious challenge to the current liberal ability of president moon j. N. Who has promised to reform the socalled j. Ball system of family run conglomerates that dominate the economy and samsung is the classic example of that but the this comes at a very tough time for the south korean economy as it suffers from the trade war between the United States and china and also its own trade standoff with neighboring japan. Knows just how important the fortunes of Companies Like samsung are right now to the whole of south korea. Palestinian court says part of the law used to ban some websites in recent weeks may be unconstitutional its referred the case to a higher Court Prosecutors propose to block 50 websites saying they threaten National Security but opponents say its an attack on freedom of expression and abraham reports from ramallah. The future of nearly 50 banned palestinian websites remains unclear the Public Prosecution is standing by its original request to keep them blocked accusing them of violating a cyber crimes law it also says some of the content on the site threatens National Security but journalists here say their ban threatens the freedom of the press we asked the Prosecutors Office for a response but they dont want to comment as the case is still in court. Based on this current version of the cyber crimes law we might face more violations against media freedoms we fear future decisions that could affect journalists themselves and see them being prosecuted because of their writing some of the websites are news outlets that are critical of the Palestinian Authority and others are barely known facebook pages palestinian Prime Minister mohammed has called on the judicial system to reconsider the ban these protesters including many journalists are demanding the same they say they need stronger Legal Protections that will allow more access to information less. Of the perception that banning such websites would guarantee more security is a very old way of thinking the world is open now and its impossible to ban people from accessing information they want to look for. The Palestinian Center for media freedoms documented 27 violations in the occupied west bank in the 1st half of 2019 with arrests and detentions topping the list now that this is on whether to lift the ban on these websites is in the hands of the Constitutional Court but some accuse the court itself of not being independent from the Palestinian Authority in. The occupied west bank. President ial candidates in argentina have held their final rallies ahead of sundays election overall support for president has fallen amid economic turmoil hes now facing strong strong competition from Opposition Leader our better philanders has been trying to convince voters that he has the right plan to reverse the countrys entering economy stories about reports from when a series. Last year i read it of a man this never thought he could become argentinas next president he was a rival of former president Cristina Fernandez the commissioner and even though he was her husband mr kitchen of chief of staff he was also a fierce critic of her time in office now a lot of the one christina as people call them have pulled their differences aside together they have a better chance of defeating center right precedent in sundays vote though i told christina lets do it together and lets do it right lets do it together and show the best team in argentina is this one the one that thinks for a hint ons 4 years have passed 4 years of pain of seeing 43. 00 Small Companies shut down a day thousands of people without work regional economies are pensioners suffering seller is dropping all that happened with a government that filled the pockets of the banks. On thursday a lot of the hernandez closed his campaign in the city of miami where hes Peronist Party stood together for the 1st time in years. President. Close his campaign in the province of course of the law knowing polls show hes running behind by at least 15 point mackley has been struggling with an economic crisis that has put argentina on the verge of default once again he blames the Previous Administration of Cristina Fernandez the curation or whatever never say we are going to have to continue facing the challenge. Is to solve but bring the same ones from the past and not help us at all lets not fall into the promises of those who let us down so many times for so many years they renewed for so many years and left the country in tatters. For months people here have been withdrawing their money afraid that argentinas Banking System may collapse once again just like it did in the past political and Economic Uncertainty are making people turn to the u. S. Dollar and thats why the central bank isnt using Foreign Research to prevent the further devaluation of the peso currency that immediately translates into more inflation theres not some speculation on to whether the government would be forced to implement further measures to contain the hemorrhage of the forward start. I want to for a man this is mackies agreement with the i. M. F. To introduce austerity here is to blame people and modi so maggie is no promising to end spending cuts and push for growth his challenge is to convince going to trust him one more time. In the United States at least 40000 people have been told to leave their homes in Southern California where 2 fires have broken out in the Santa Teresa Valley firefighters say the blaze moved so fast it was hard to warn residents to get out several properties have been damaged on further north hundreds of people are fleeing a wildfire in a Historic Town near the u. S. City of San Francisco its now grown to more than 39 square kilometers bringing back memories of devastating fires that killed 44 people in the same area 2 years ago and gallacher reports. The wildfire began on wednesday evening by thursday the blaze found by strong offshore winds and dry conditions guta 40 square kilometers the National Weather service say conditions are ripe for large and dangerous fire growth thousands of residents of being told to leave their homes as the flames spread theres a lot of work thats been done to not only coordinate outreach to our bonobo population care homes but also make sure that our fire stations our water stations our sewer lift stations are all going to be functioning for the duration of this outage rolling blackouts designed to help stop the blaze spreading or in place from the sierra foothills to portions of the San Francisco bay area the power cuts are affecting half a 1000000 people across 15 counties with more expected this weekend electricians like heavier gutierrez working long hours to help communities facing dangerous conditions 2 weeks ago was really a nightmare for me since i have been getting phone calls since 4 oclock in the morning trying to get a generator so so far the kinkaid fire is 0 percent contained and things could get worse to say the socalled santa ana winds will be Even Stronger in the coming days how bring efforts to fight fires in a state thats been plagued by them in recent years 20 years ago that tops fire raged through the same area killing at least 22 people and destroying over 5000 homes. Editions now its said to be almost identical to gallacher. And again this is al jazeera and these are the headlines the pentagon says its sending additional military assets to syria 2 weeks after President Trump called for all troops to be withdrawn the Defense Department says theyll help protect Syrian Oil Fields from falling into the hands of isis fighters lebanons president has offered to meet protestors to help save the country from collapse after more than a week of antigovernment protests michel aoun also suggested a reshuffle was possible but added that the government should not be toppled from the streets while there have been more antigovernment protests in baghdad protesters there say the government failed to deliver on its promises of more jobs and training demonstrations started earlier this month and more than 150 people have been killed since then and allegations of Excessive Force by authorities the iraqi Prime Minister says hell wish to awful his cabinet and introduce weeping reforms as he tries to appease public anger. The police a lot to be must live had to do that we plan to reduce the salaries of officials in the president ial offices and ministries as well as members of parliament and executive managers of National Public entities the funds derived from the reduction of salaries along with contributions from the state will be used to establish a social welfare fund that ensures that no iraqi lives below the poverty line and that any iraq without income will receive a monthly grants of no less than 110. 00 us dollars the council of ministers will submit the draft law to the house of representatives for approval. Bolivias electoral board has given president even more as an outright victory meaning he wont have to face a 2nd round but runner up Carlos Messer is refusing to accept the result and has called for more peaceful protests. More protests continue in chile despite conciliation efforts there by the president this is how it looked on the streets of santiago at least 18 people have been killed since the antigovernment demonstrations began a week ago. And a candlelight vigils been held in london for the 39 people found dead in the back of a truck on wednesday police have confirmed the dead were chinese citizens the bodies were found east of london after the trailer arrived from belgium offices are thought to be focusing their investigation on Human Trafficking well those are the headlines next stop its the stream stay with us. China is going on i want to reunify with the my. Face the consequences one i want to use this to get its time once determination to remain independent on aljazeera. Welcome to the stream im femi oke a hundreds of thousands of people have rallied across lebanon in the largest protests seen in years demonstrators are calling for the government to resign but can they succeed in getting concrete change central thoughts through twitter and you tube and you could be pos of todays conversation. Thousands of demonstrators across lebanon allow rallying into a 2nd week in the biggest outpouring of popular dissent since 2015 the protest was sparked by the governments plan to impose a tax on the use of whatsapp and all the Internet Services for many lebanese already struggling to get by what was the final straw while the government has since paid for reforms and removed new taxes from next years budget protests to say that the measures for short lebanons president today sought dialogue with the protest as at his 1st public speech since the demonstrations began with. Good water being i call on you to observe to act as monitors until all these reforms are implemented without crippling the movement and i will act as a guarantor and i will expose and reveal whatever is taking place and i will do all that i can to have these reforms implemented i have listened to calls to topple the regime but the regime cannot be toppled from the streets. Were joined now from beirut by aljazeera correspondent Stephanie Decker hi there stephanie dont mind i want to show our audience how you are getting around in these protests which are huge demonstrations as only one way that you can to effectively let me show our audiences go ahead and play the video. China. So if youre there in the thick of things as a correspondent trying to get a perspective. What are you seeing what is the story from your perspective. When its removed i mean that video you just played that was friday night and i just arrived from the airport and they blocked the roads throughout the in app so that. And. The police in the army used heavy handed tactics so the way we operated and then the next day as we all know now Nothing Happened and tens of thousands came out to the streets and it just started to grow so what we do weve been going live right in the middle of the crowds we have our sat weve been pretty much standing on the satellite truck during their lives and grabbing people throughout the night and interviewing them live in the messages is the same and of course this this crowd is made up by so many different people so we were in beirut to pour days ive just come back from tripoli we were there for 2 days as well which is lebanon 2nd city its a neglected city the protests there have been massive and i think a lot of people were surprised by that there was that viral d. J. Video that everyone 1st kind of thought it was in beirut but it was in tripoli which is a city that is traditionally seen as more conservative i think so we just were trying to get as many voices talking to many people we do different kind of reports political reports focusing on different kind of people what they are yeah thats a video playing of the d. J. Of what they want and the message is the same the fact that the people are fed up the fact that its corruption its its their Living Conditions they say theyve been promised so many things they pay taxes get nothing in return they want to count ability and also quite a beautiful thing that you see is that people say theyve been so disappointed in the policy they know its difficult but theres a renewed kind of hope so i think these are extraordinary times or as the germans to cover it nobody knows how things are going to play out of office to everyone from ordinary people to politicians to analysts. Know but everyone will tell you we have no idea and certainly are under no illusion that its going to be difficult but it just watching the people and the mix of people of course which is so. Important youre coming together against these leaders that they say have been. Buried in charge for so long i was someone who just jumped in our car and kissed me live on air but that shows you just the positivity of these protests and how important the people are trying to keep the peace for think that soucie weve seen of course you know theres been randoms in the crowd that will try and throw things at the army or the police to provoke them and you have these crowds of girls particular at the front line will put their hands up you had religious leaders you know young men and they all keep shouting peaceful peaceful because this is a peaceful protest they dont want to lose their legitimacy and theres massive momentum but i think again the government is standing down right people are taking up the streets we dont know how its going to play out staff thank you so much i know youre filing your next report for aljazeera we will watch out for that on aljazeera out of the dot com and of course on aljazeera english as well steph deca shes one of our correspondents she is right there in lebanon covering the protests thanks for joining us we are going to continue our conversation and were joined now by rima refining shes in tripoli shes an activist who has joined the protests and is a husain is a political organizer and cohost of the lebanese politics podcast hes in beirut and also in the lebanese capital we have to more as a hobby hes a journalist at the daily star hello everybody its good to have you remain i have to show this picture you shared this with us looking very closely at the sign that you holding up while you were protesting the world needs a woman led revolution now this assistance obliquely this protest started because there were going to be taxes on whatsapp and internet. Services and then your out there holding up the revolution sign joining the dots for me how did it get this far. Well i think the last chopper that operates of were are the well known but it has been a lot of. That preceded this and this is why i believe that the revolution because what is happening on trees and never happens in lebanon or when the people that i think under one and you know there are different Political Parties going down under the tree then we want to. Im just i just want to go to a pollyanna all of the comments that we have a comment as theyre all protesting right now polly on the street why she is out on the streets right now in lebanon have a listen im protesting this week in lebanon because i recognize that our current source or konami conditions i didnt direct result to complete and consistent fear of the really good school class and therefore lost all credibility to implement any of the changes you want to see i put this thing because i demand better Political Representation outside the confinement of the sectarian identity and im protesting because as a woman living and working in beat would i want to hold my government accountable for robbing me and many others like me have a chance to imagine a future in lebanon. Is im just looking at that you study social movements youve got one happening right there on your doorstep can you can you explain to my International Audience why you think it is happening right now. Yeah. Nothing that some moment makes sense what was surprising to be happening in its game after years of the economic crisis and the feeling is right now the world is david our country is on the brink of an economic collapse and its been overwhelming fighting for everyone it came after a week of right size or a few days of white fire that wrecked become cheap or it when that led to faith that you can manage because of incompetence incompetence whereby it could even maintain the firefighting helicopters that had. It it comes over years and years of frost is also a thing corruption think and im glad you could live with the vision and the forming the economy by the ruling elite and failing miserably to do any of those jobs. Out there you know to keep the year off of the government and getting anything done a government that has all of the major Political Parties and if they cant agree on something constructive and helpful for the people that make them and comes after the years as well as other protests and other movement and we had one. That was also big in scale not as large as the one but also large scale where people came together and figured by the garbage the Waste Management cracking like them came together and played bass similar actually with arctic. And demands that they are reading this although this time they are much more united team lost in letting go ahead. Yeah i mean to be going to sort of blocked off the you know the whats important is that these protests are actually different than 20152015 was very centralized the capital beirut it was that and also about you know something tied to apology basically the government Waste Management but this time around you know we have seen protests springing up and you know hands and the folks on free on the 1st night last thursday we had reports of 60 areas and what that means is people from all across the peninsula communities. Which you know is a nice way of saying you know sects religious sects and people of different classes all in the streets together and really unify around you know really unified around the i mean its there on the economy its around the policy its the build up of all of these things over all of these years all the mismanagement and the taxes in the end really was just the straw it was like you know what the country is still smoldering from some of the worst wildfires weve had in decades the government the next day comes and says oh by the way were also going to be paying taxes on you on top of this not it. This would be a good point to mention something that came up you know as we were coming on the show as we were prepping him up you know on the show there when we were asking him on there if you were out there sex what you know what religion you are and this was a bit of us there online theres a tweet up there with some colorful language for those who are interested and i think it is an interesting point because for a long time the middle east in general and lebanon specifically as well has been used to this you through sectarian lines are trying to manage receipts or other pleaded bisect its you know every story youll see is about the shiites hezbollah or d you risk getting until id if i could just add in my campaign sponsor its just the. Reason that we would ask ad guess what sect thing from this because lebanese politics is so divided that we wanted to make sure that we will inclusive and then reflected everybody so they may have been insensitively would end but it was particularly important that we felt that we had a representative show the had its i think its interesting because its its sort of a lot of people of like a remnant of a system or a way of thinking that might no longer be rather than i mean what this movement is about is that where the streets. And we are in the streets together not because you know were sent me a shout were to speak together because weve all been oppressed and and thats sort of the unifying factor so maybe we should start thinking you know when we think of people on t. V. Or when we think of people in general we should stop thinking now about a diversity of sects and maybe think its the thoughts you know not think of it cannot exist and so you know different religions but according to sense of i. P. O. s and then we can foster real politics you know and thats what were seeing on the street were seeing people who are more nationalistic or more aggressive and thats brilliant thats exactly the thats good thats good advice team of we do it appreciate it and then as for the off the back of that comment that happened yesterday we are following up on that reading for say that that feedback and advice for us as a show talking about unity in lebanon is really important its something that another protester abraham put up to us i want to add his comment to this conversation. So what i want out of this protest and what i want out of this revolution goes far beyond just talking down the system for me what i want is a complete reformulation a rebuilding of the lebanese identity i want us as a people to get past our sectarian biases to be our costs to be our issues our collective traumas and get out of this protest get out of this resolution a stronger more United People regardless of race sect religion or gender unity is our power we know this is huge this means that these protests are asking for a say much more than just get rid of the taxes would i want to pay more taxes thats so much more its almost like the rebuilding of Lebanese Society whats your take my thinking is that this is more than that the fairy because honestly i feel like this is how we heal the wounds of war you know that people are criticizing that the fact that were 2 people for evolution but i think this is the 1st time that they see me as a true christian i have a hand in hand and going down to the streets with only the music that many people across the country are asking for its a very big change they want a Civil Society they want the society that people on the basis of your that but on the basis of what your ideology is and this is a key point what we have and i think the only. I remember civil war ended in 1990 so its been a quite a long Recovery Process if the politicians are still using that as a reason for why there should be austerity this idea about rebuilding Lebanese Society and this being a revolution is a revolution or is it just a series of protests have gone on for over a week. All right so let me divide the question just picking up on what you were saying a lot of. The civil war aspects of the that we mean say more to talk about this on he was on life aka the law latest at the look we were talking about how this that this is kind of the end of this is what in terms of thats what people from different factors coming together on this in terms of changing what constitutes politically conflict and loving on from the vertical divisions between religion your Eventual Division between the bases be dictating parties that are ruining the country because of bases of blood paying the price of the battle of the corruption etc and elites and so this is whats most significant to me about it is that it is bringing together people to gather people but also against a common enemy that all of them used to at some point or another maybe before and maybe even before the election concerning whether this is that evolution. Of a long lived very big question with a very long after probably that i mean i think that evolution is a process that started now had started before that it actually did nile usually with this uprising and it will go on this is an uprising in terms of actual popular fragging people taking any action without any action by anyone taking having the initiative to go down to the street every day to risk a lot of things in the big cities and their communities by challenging Political Parties like dominance or by not going to work and all of the others that they are taking. To because they believe that this is going to achieve something the amount of reach of this uprising is fascinating the number of people in different areas and how it would be centralized in one with same thing is really amazing at this is why its been called the largest protest movement and well known possibly and the like politically significant. Yes but once its not centralized in beirut and its not within some items well the general population action team not. So orthodox told to show us something thats from the us protests that really stuck out at them he wanted to show this is from the tussle is absolutely incredible i want to just pull some of those false hope people can. What a hospital talking about. Tells me they wanted a single state. To. Support and those that i feel like i would d be like. This is the way to go out of the public space but in a very sort of it was kind of i think you basically what is is that people who are specifically there in the area maybe you can get kicked out of that area following his or because the manner in which would be constructed it was reconstructed in a way that sort of been the bane of dubai or like a big ball in saudi arabia or the gods and that basically kicked a lot of people out and what you saw that night was people coming out and spontaneously as people came out across the country they came and they set a fire in the main crossroad in downtown beirut it is wrong to the mob going to let in boston which is this iconic the mosque behind that mosque sits my right here its theres also an Orthodox Church you know sort of representing governance secretary for existence and why its like out to me is because the Political Class in this country have really entrenched themselves on the basis that they are the ones who represent and protect the various religions in this country and that it is better that image in downtown that was in the church but i did it is sort of the picture perfect postcard. Image of liberty is going to distance which politicians love to share and forget about so theres a loss their share of it took a feat that could very great about but in the background its really just a bunch of corrupt grown used dividing the spoils of a country where the people suffer but you saw there is those suffering people coming out lighting a fire there and i think the symbolism is just you know extremely powerful. If i could go on to speak a little bit more about public space though because i when i feel like its important to say that those were the 1st days and since then and things had sort of mellowed out a bit people are continuing to block roads that we dont see as many fires but public space has become a huge issue and its something that weve seen across the country people reclaiming public space that has that has been taken away from them but theyve been this image that youre seeing on the screen now ours its an image i took on the top of an abandoned theater and downtown beirut is the it is 100 years old during the civil war it became an x. Rated cinema bed militia leaders or militia men would you know frequent from across the divided capital between christian and muslim and after the civil war it was kind of you know shuttered to the people and this was the picture you see there is on friday the 2nd day of the uprising of the revolution every one of us and its just you know people are just Walking Around inside sort of in this shadow of a building that is from the civil war that most people have been experienced but they had lived with the leaders of the orcs and the coneys that the civil war ever since and it was just beautiful almost i mean. The people were just you know happy that everyone can see people hugging as that of a c. P. M. Motion of being able to pay in the spaces is he overwhelming to me if i may just just add something thats i found this an absolute telkom they were looking at some of the picture yes from the most recent days of the protests and here on popy. Are people are placing what. Revolution these demonstrations what theyre. For weve just got this in on twitter from abdullah dammy abdullah says the lebanese are also just human beings wanting a fulfilling life freedom of choice being happy without rising debts rising taxes shortage of jobs people feel limited in their potential and thats painful especially for your people and then we have to go really think about what happened today or when your president spoke to spoke to you for the 1st time in a many many days these oh i see you smiling im not sure thats a happy smile articulate that smile for us. Today with a disappointing waning day to say the least i mean the president seems extremely weak not only because he is like all and not a nothing but that hes being weak in the military and has actually excited or would get the nomination to do anything about the situation and also came out to silence for a whole week uprising dont anyone like dont call attention to lebanon and all political leaders have to respond and then the president of the public has not had not appeared since the day and when you appeared he said really nothing he said that i have been doing this and that ive been trying to buy throughout the and i will keep doing that i promise we listen to you and we do a little a couple of landmines and miles in 4 years but thats the people of the 5 step on most importantly the one that says send me a present that is at people who to present to and i would suffer them listen to them and this is a job because basically telling them let me know who your leaders are so that foundation and can start attacking them and so that these people can start making compromises on your behalf so that we can kill this uprising because its very destructive country and we should note that a lot more there are disturbing to the ruling class about this uprising is that its very destructive as opposed to the one. You presented because people are not just demonstrating in the squares which doesnt read the stuff anything people are blocking roads across the country theyd be stopping Economic Activity that shopping at the governments and the Public Institutions and this is what bush is putting pressure on the politicians and this is probably what will lead them to take any make any serious come from mike and probably that the government a bit will resign in the next few days and let me just leave you with one more comment also from calming. On how weighing the protesting today she had what if i support and this is what she told us have a listen. This recurring demands emerging from the streets is a shabby the scotland song which directly translates into people on the fall of the regime the power of these demands is that theyre happening on a very nonhierarchical decentralized spontaneous manner across all different classes economic backgrounds and religious sects. And so when the president the Prime Minister and the leader of the hezbollah part to respond to these social economic and political demands by saying they want to make reforms from within the system we respond from the streets and see its too little to keep the kids on we want to all of them. There is so much more to talk to i guess about romney. But wolf right at the end of the show thank you gas for helping us understand this protest demonstrations revolution however you want to categorize it so much better in lebanon well be following you on all of your instagram and your social accounts or everybody look here of course out as a middle column you have the latest for the insights and the news and Stephanie Deckers work as well she was away this on the show but for now on twitter. Stream the conversation continues that i will see you next time take everybody. 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And hundreds of people feel wildfire roaring through California Wine country in the western United States. Paul theres been another significant shift in the United States military position in syria its now planning to beef up its presence in the countrys northeast to protect oil fields from falling into the hands of isis fighters who are still scattered through the region its the clearest sign yet that the u. S. Has not only ended plans to withdrawal from syria but that it may add some new capabilities to the strengthen those forces that remain u. S. President donald trump has been striving to fulfill his promise to leave syria completely saying its not americas fight Christensen Amy has the latest from washington d. C. President trump justified his decision to bring u. S. Troops home and allow Turkish Forces into northeastern syria to attack kurdish allies in the region by saying it was time to bring u. S. Troops home but he faced an immediate backlash in the United States not just from democrats but from some of his staunchest republican allies including people like senator Lindsey Graham who has stood by the president through thick and thin there was a lot of worry about a resurgence of i saw in the region and about the appearance of abandoning allies in the region but earlier on thursday senator graham and some other republicans got a high level briefing at the pentagon and after that senator graham came out and he said he was reassured by plans that the pentagon was making to secure syria particularly the oil details of this plan have not been formally announced but reportedly it involves sending tanks to the region to guard this Precious Resource and the goal is to stop groups like i saw any other destabilizing forces from getting access to that oil well russia is sending more military police and heavy equipment to patrol parts of the techie Syrian Border as part of its agreement with the takesh government under the deal kaddish forces also pulling back from the frontier but as they do so the bloodshed hasnt stopped completely of some of the of age reports from near the turkish Syrian Border. Its the 3rd explosion in less than pretty 4 hours including syria an Early Morning call it shows the area to be dangerous the district is now under the control of to construct fighters who took it from good forces its part of the 30 kilometer safe zone which turkey wants to establish on the border it shares with syria the Syrian National army a group of fighters backed by turkey so it would have been more casualties if the blast had happened during rush hour. The car exploded and we had a lot of. Them to the Hospital Area here is for civilians there are shops here and are working very. Dirty says its defused hundreds of homemade bombs and minds in the areas and its military denies allegations by kurdish fighters of advancing in 3 villages outside the ceasefire zone Kurdish Forces have asked rest and allies including the u. S. To stop what they call the ceasefire violations in the changes in the kurds military commander for the russian and u. S. President s and assured them of support despite the fact that the 2 governments are on opposing sides of the syrian conflict. And as u. S. Senators reiterated their support for the kurdish commander the turkish president has warned them against what he called sitting down but terrorists. Also criticize nato allies for not standing with him against a group the alliance itself recognizes as a terrorist organization sharing your story little miss currently in the Syrian National army a coming every inch of the control and clearing traps but if they come across any terrorists in the syria it is only natural right to crush them it is so in right. Under the deal reached between russia and turkey Russian Troops have been patrolling more areas in the northeast. Hundreds of more troops to police the New Territory its taken on behalf of the Assad Government Russias Defense Ministry says it will be establishing 15 security posts along the border which will be run by Syrian Government forces as the clock ticks down on the 60 hiatus between turkey and russia what countries have warned kurdish fighters to be drawn within 30 kilometers inside syrian territory moscow says the draw has already begun and as battle lines become drawn and redrawn millions of syrians hold their breath as arabs and kurds they are waiting for peace to come to these areas so they can return home some of the aljazeera a chocolate on the turkey syria border. Well living on an lebanons president has offered to meet protestors to help save the country from collapse after more than a week of massive antigovernment demonstrations michel and also suggested that a reshuffle was possible that added that the government should not be toppled from the streets santa ana reports on how people responded and buried. Date in the almost paralysis of daily life continues protesters are still on the streets of the lebanese capital beirut and other cities across the country the country is at the standstill as the protest movement enters its 2nd week schools universities and banks remain closed they are keeping up the pressure on the government to resign the president michel aoun who the protesters also want removed from office addressed the nation for the 1st time since the crisis began he presented his solution by promising to fight corruption and invited the protesters to engage in dialogue. With the regime cannot be toppled from the streets the regime must be changed through conditional tools now we have economic models to bring jobs we also have concerns about the economy i am willing to listen to your demands i am waiting for you his invitation was swiftly rejected Civil Society activists say that people have heard promises like these before the president s speech that not promises that he will address corruption and try to return some of the stolen money but thats just promises that there is no confidence. With the people that they will actually that the government will follow through and recover got stolen money they say they want radical change they want new faces in power who are not affiliated with the governing parties and theyre promising to keep lebanon on lockdown until that happens blocking the roads is very essential because we have to keep the country as paralyzed this possible of course everything related to food water transport and main the people who cant afford maybe to. We need to eat we need to drink the governing Coalition Says the protest is only worsening the economic crisis theyre also accusing opposition politicians of riding the wave of popular anger to push their own political agenda the governing coalition is refusing to resign and ignoring calls for early elections their messages change can only happen at the ballot box they are going to time both sides are not budging the stalemate is dangerous in a deeply divided society. So far the army has not taken a side it hasnt used Excessive Force to open roads it hasnt emptied squares it has kept the antigovernment demonstrators and loyalists apart there have been counter protest by supporters of Political Parties in power so far theyve been spontaneous and limited in numbers that can change that of their beirut well the iraqi Prime Minister is also trying to appease public anger he says he will his cabinet and introduce sweeping reforms there have been more antigovernment protests in baghdad they started earlier this month and more than 150. 00 people have been killed since then and allegations of Excessive Force. Protesters say the governments failed to deliver on its promises of more jobs and training. The police to be at the debt we plan to reduce the salaries of officials in the president ial offices and ministries as well as members of parliament and executive managers of National Public entities the funds to ride from the reduction of salaries along with contributions from the state will be used to establish a social welfare fund that ensures that no iraqi lives below the poverty line and that any iraqi without income will receive a monthly grants of no less than 110. 00 u. S. Dollars the council of ministers will submit the draft law to the house of representatives for approval. The final count 5 bolivias electoral board has given president evo morales an outright victory that means he wont have to face a 2nd round but runner up Carlos Messer is refusing to accept the results and International Pressure is growing for another vote John Heilemann reports from the past. There. Was a huge march snaked through the center of the powers on thursday almost certainly the biggest since discontent began over bolivias elections that im not going there and were protesting because they dont respect our vote or democracy. The anger numbers on the streets appear to increase after president ever morale is said that he was the outright winner of the bolivian elections. We won the 1st round electoral authorities later confirmed his win but there is doubt over that vote and not just from these protesters the European Union and the organization of american states also voiced concerns especially about an almost 24 hour freezing of the rapid vote count just when it indicated that this was going to a 2nd round. When the count came back online rallies was suddenly heading for an outright 1st round win on thursday a usually fragmented opposition united around Carlos Messer the leading challenger to moralise there as well but he made the coordination in defense of democracy resolves to 1st call for a 2nd election round administered in a peaceful and impartial way 2nd to call on citizens social organizations and institutions to continue to hold peaceful rallies until the vote is respected. Many still support president morales he was the favorite going into the election partly thanks to well distribution programs that have almost hall of poverty he called this a coup and chided the organization of american states for questioning the process look at your levees your i dont want to. Think the oas mission is already taking part in a coup detat that is i dont know if they understood me yesterday but oh yes as a whole should evaluate themselves and the mission it sent as well president morales has really addressed the main criticism here that almost 24 hour gap between results instead hes hit back accusing kind of a cold last message of being a criminal and saying that the young people protesting against him but then paid with money who with better grades was was we put that to students on the march was enough i got it because its disrespectful to say that to the universities and the students hes trying to minimize our vote they havent paid us or given us grades this is actually affecting us because this week we had exams. Protests strikes all burning of public buildings and many of the levy is departments the crisis is if anything the planning John Hoeven Al Jazeera pass on the weather is next