President and the hope is only that these protests remain peaceful mariyam have very importantly saying the largest demonstrations in the country certainly in recent years thank you from santiago money. Well to Political Developments in bolivia now the United Nations is saying it supports an audit of the disputed election result after allegations of fraud protests broke out after the incumbent president evo morales was to cap the outright winner in sundays vote extending his rule to nearly 2 decades but critics say the ballot was regs and their International Calls for an election runoff john homan reports from the palace. There was no way through the cars in the southern zone of la paz but the living capital on friday. Groups of neighbors stood on street corners stopping traffic to protest against president ever more oil is on the vote count the claim to the outright winner of last sundays election. People are coming out that the government can see to and they have a whats happened its the only raided they can show you back thats why from young to old we all have to get our one to streets. Its now the 5th day of protests not just here but in points across the country the European Union and the organization of american states have both expressed concern over a freezing of the supposedly rapid baucau for almost 24 hours when it was pools it was heading towards a runoff between moral is the nearest challenger carlos messa when it came back online the president was on the brink of outright victory the opposition has called for a 2nd round what they say is fraud the president rejects that asking where their proof is what his popularity is for them in this election but many still stand behind him as a leader whose almost whole poverty and presided over a flourishing economy and hes 13 years in charge for them the street blocks are an unjustified nuisance. That in some ways notice they have to accept that they lost without president evo morales weve got nothing to complain about his work with whoever wants it and with the government before there wasnt anything ive personally been able to buy my car with a credit line. But especially in recent years analysts say that the electorate authorities have become uncomfortably close to the government many feel democracy is slipping an eye for those who are taken to the streets this is where they draw the line. The lights turned green but theres no cars heading down an avenue that would usually be full of the its not all of the capital city la paz but especially in the south groups of neighbors have blocked off most of the roads. Elsewhere in the country protests also continued a general strike and today its 3rd day in the Industrial Hub of santa cruz the Election Results are in but the discontent he continues John Homan Al Jazeera the pas. It out as they are live from london and much more still ahead holy train pilots and air craft floors based that damning report by indonesian investigators into last years line a crash. And a victory for us democrats as they are granted full access to all but news reports into alleged russian interference in the 2016 election. A few more in the forecast into the southeast of australian the think particularly heavy but plenty of cloud has been streaming in over the last few hours and the small rains are with us as we go through the weekend so 17 in melbourne 16 at home but with their shadows even a few showers likely in adelaide with a high of 19 very warm though in sydneys south and a 3rd you celsius that heat thats been in place across the southeast as the squeeze for the east was now look at this because 29 in perth on saturday but by sunday that is up to 35 celsius the winds coming from the halls and a dry interior under those very clear sunny skies but it does become a little bit cooler in sydney 23 celsius is your High Temperature connoisseur but a good weekend ahead across much of new zealand the some cloud on the way the some rain on the way but it doesnt really quite make it into christchurch and certainly knows into or can say fitting quite nice day 22 celsius in christchurch and if anything a degree warmer on sunday mostly sunny skies little bit of cloud just a intermission with that sunshine than we had up towards japan now the rain will continue to work its way to the north so hokkaido are all the wet south a quite cool as well a 15 celsius at the typhoons the east well out of the picture by sunday but we are left with a cloudy picture but it should be dry in tokyo a 20. Culture the cost of africa opens up its borders to the hope of regulating the success of the European Union nigeria its borders. Airport expansion armed the creation of a regional review. On aljazeera. Welcome back to headlines now at least 30 people have been killed in cities across iraq and another day of mile an antigovernment protest the u. N. Says theres clear evidence of human rights abuses since the demonstrations 1st began at the start of the month. Antigovernment protesters in lebanons capital have been clashing with supporters of hezbollah the leader of the group says the fall of the government could lead to civil war. And hundreds of thousands of protesters have gathered in chiles capital santiago for a 7th day of demonstrations against the government at least 19 people have been killed in the arm rest. Which began over a hike in metro fares but has since evolved into a call for broader change and for the government to step down people continuing to protest there in the capital today. Algerians are still protesting as well a gathered for 36 consecutive friday calling for a complete change in their political system they want all traces of the former president im jealous hes beautiful because government removed from power which a fico resigned in april after months of mass protests but many of his former allies retained senior positions demonstrators also rejecting december scheduled president ial election saying it will not be free or fair in the current climate. Now indonesian investigators have found that a series of faults by boeing lyon and the pilots led to last years plane crash which killed 189. 00 people on board all the people on board but in 737 max plunged into the sea soon after takeoff from jakarta. Ports. Its taken these investigators a year to determine exactly what happened in the final moments of lion air flight 610. 00 the final crash report blames a combination of factors including design flaws in boeing 737 max jet as well as maintenance problems and inadequate pilot training. The line a plane crashed into the java sea 12 minutes after takeoff from indonesias capital jakarta all 189 people on board died including anton so hardys cousins he says hes disappointed with the reports conclusions. And we actually had big hopes that the government would answer all questions but the information was being given as almost nothing to what we already known. The report highlights problems with boeings anti stall software known as m cas its also implicated in a similar crash in ethiopia in monch which led to the grounding of the max fleet worldwide its significant because it sort of reaffirms that boeing does share responsibility for this for the way they designed the in care system which is the maneuvering characteristic saying that basically took control of way from the pilots in the pilots were having to fight the airplane pilots flying the line jets had reported problems the day before it crashed and they say it should have been grounded for further tests. I feel that safety is not yet the core concern in indonesia except for the Flag Carrier Airlines im worried about the private Aviation Companies because even though on paper theyre checked by safety inspectors accidents keep happening boeing has already paid a high price for 2737 max crashes within 5 months its chief executive was fired and the companys income has hogged engineers have been foods to redesign software and boeing needs to convince aviation regulators the grounded jets all safe to take off again Victoria Gate and be there a. U. S. Justice department has been ordered to hand over the full on redacted one a report to House Democrats airport looked into russian interference in the 2016 election democrats or access as part of efforts to remove donald trump from Office Kristen certainly has more from washington. Democrats are particularly interested in any information in that report that could pertain to a possible obstruction of justice charge against the president and you may recall that the moller report found that there was russian interference in the 2016 election but insufficient evidence to show that president trampers team were involved in any way he also left open the question of possible obstruction of justice for how President Trump handled that investigation his efforts to stifle it remember he fired f. B. I. Director james comey that raised a lot of questions in the possibility of charges there but the special counsel said that he could not charge the president because it was Justice Department policy not to charge a sitting president thats the responsibility of Congress Congress wanted to go there now the judge is saying they can indeed go there and have access to all this information that was withheld by attorney general william barr this is a major victory for democrats in addition to getting access to all of that information the judge validated the impeachment inquiry in the 1st place now the president and republicans have painted this inquiry as a sham accused democrats of not following procedures because they havent held a formal vote to have an impeachment inquiry but the judge said that was incorrect that there was ample case history to allow the agree to go forward u. S. Firefighters are battling several wildfires burning across the state of california 50000. 00 people have been evacuated from the city of Santa Clarita north of los angeles as the blaze was driven by winds of more than 100 Kilometers Per Hour at least 4 other fires have broken out in Southern California fueled by a heat wave. In all the developments u. S. Democratic congressman Elijah Cummings has been remembered as a fierce champion of justice and kindness at a funeral in his home city of baltimore civil rights activist died last week at the age of 68. Points mr president mr president mr Vice President with that the speaker of the u. S. House of representatives sent the message this was no ordinary sendoff this was no ordinary congressman Elijah Cummings the longtime democratic leader he was known as the partys moral voice to former president s celebrated what they called his very american story his parents were sharecroppers. From the south they picked tobacco. And strawberries. And then sought something better. In this city south baltimore its not even a teenager when he hauled down to the Swimming Pool and joins a group to integrate it in for his trouble gets banged on the head with a glass model living a life time scar. Which he bore with honor. He was a civil rights activist that often promoted his hometown baltimore a majority black city in 2017 as riots consumed those streets with protest against Police Brutality cummings took to the streets with a megaphone to send a message of call for some of their cars. Back from washington one of the be with me. But his final months would find him in the center of a president ial storm coming flood the Committee Investigating president Donald Trumps conduct and trump lashed out as he often does on twitter the president calling baltimore discussed in rodent and rat infested cummings widow responded the congressman chairman cummings did was not easy and it got infinitely more difficult in the last months of his life when he sustained personal attacks and attacks on his beloved city. And while he carried himself with grace and dignity in all Public Forums it hurt now. The underlying message of the entire hours long Service Coming to spend his life trying to perfect the promise of this democracy which he saw in his final years as being under threat when were dancing with the angels watching will be as 2019 what do we do to make sure we kept our democracy and. Yet we stand on the sidelines and say nothing the message today he did will you patty calling aljazeera washington. Has officially closed to climb as after a decades long fight by Indigenous People last visitors to scale a sacred rock were allowed to stay until sunset with public celebrations to take place over the weekend to commemorate the pan under thomas reports now. You dont see them from a distance but zoom in and you can like ants for these people the climate made their trip to special something everyone should experience its wonderful but youll stumble through it well yes thats a shame that is a shame like in taiwan even the last lap of the last people to climb already before i shot here what change when did you notice people for whom it is a special cultural sites one which they have long said it is disrespectful to climb and equivalent to people clambering over a cathedral or a mosque they were pleased that climbing on the rock was being banned because it shows that. We have a bit of a party ever a sacred sites and we can play as if everyone. Climbing has been officially discouraged for decades but its not being banned in fact theres been a safety chain to help those who choose to climb anyway and arrangers who each day check to straggle as closing the climb is controversial many australians see this as a National Landmark which belongs to everyone not just Indigenous People whose ancestors lived nearby the longest. Climbing some say has long been part of a visit in a time to the summit of the rock which is 2 miles long and 1500 feet high a small can forms the worlds most unusual visitors book bearing the signatures of those who sought out this natural temple of the aboriginal in a few years this footage might look just as dated the Management Board of a ring that set targets which when met would trigger the closure of the climb percentage of people climbing i suppose it is a 5 year old as it is needed to drop to 20 percent or below the prime reason for visitors coming through a roof was about the cultural natural values and not the climb and that survey that needed to be adequate other activities for people to do other than doing the car. Those are things like organized walks for sunset feelings and even segue towards around the roof space it was Late Afternoon on friday when the new permanent closure sign went up 2 hours later the last of those who to send it when the clive was legal came down over the next few days that chain will be removed anyone who chooses to scramble up anyway risks a fine for indigenous australians alone is much more significant a new era of respect not just for them Andrew Thomas aljazeera at central australia. Look at headlines now at least 30 people have been killed in cities across iraq in another day of violent antigovernment protests by minister Abdullah Abdullah nattie has promised to introduce sweeping Economic Reforms and a broad Cabinet Reshuffle but protesters say theyre fed up with empty promises and want an entire government gone meanwhile the u. N. Secretary general is saying is clear evidence of human rights abuses since the protests 1st began at the start of the month. Of the report just city days ago with some preliminary findings. We deeply regret the number of. Large number of people that have been killed in these circumstances and the cording to operate mary findings there were indeed. Substantial violations of human rights that took place and need to be clearly denounced and condemned. Meanwhile protests continuing in lebanon as well antigovernment demonstrators there and clashing with supporters of hezbollah riot police were brought in to try to calm the situation a Political Movement is part of Prime Minister saad hariri Coalition Government has been a leader Hassan Nasrallah says the fall of the government could lead to civil war hundreds of thousands of people across the country have been rallying against the government for the past 9 days and around a 1000000 protesters have gathered in chelseas capital santiago for a 7th day of demonstrations against the government this is the largest protest the city has seen in decades the rallies began last week over a hike in metro fares but have since developed into wider frustration over income inequality the un is sending a team to chile to investigate allegations of Excessive Force by the police after 19 people were killed. Indonesian investigators have found a series of faults by boeing lion air on the pilots lead to last years plane crash which killed all a 189 people on board a boeing 737 max plunged into the sea soon after takeoff from jakarta airport pinpoints multiple floors in the design and the approval of the Plane Software its also noted the captain was sick and the copilot was unfamiliar with emergency call procedures thats it for myself and the team here in london there will be more news from doha in about half an hours time but coming up next on aljazeera is counting the cost. Thing during the foreign minister. We should do to give a break to on the 31st of october and making this country the greatest place all the time the departure of immediately following he would drama with bricks it on aljazeera. Hello im Adrian Finnegan this is counting the cost on aljazeera a weekly look at the world of business and economics this week as africa opens its borders in the hope of emulating the success of the European Union nigeria shuts its borders blaming smuggling and tax evasion. Despite a slowing economy continues with its Infrastructure Spending ahead of the fifa world cup talk to Qatar Airways c. E. O. About airport expansion as rival dubai puts its project on hold. Plus cant count our build on the success of homegrown giants aljazeera and b. In sport by attracting more Media Companies to set up shop here. In a world where nations are grouping together to form trading blocks replicate the best of the best the European Union its somewhat strange that one nation is leaving but this weeks show isnt about briggs it this is about africas decision to create an economic bloc that could become the next European Union in may of this year a new economic bloc was born 24. 00 nations came together to form the africa Continental Free Trade Area now the aim of the block is to increase trade between nations by tearing down trade barriers if all 54. 00 nations join the combined spending and investment power are estimated to be 4 trillion dollars its a huge market for businesses to tap into with a population of 1200000000 just to highlight the potential trade between nations on the continent is roughly about 20 percent that compares to 69 percent in the European Union but absent from the original group was the regions biggest economy nigeria alone it did finally put pen to paper but for the past 2 months nigerias borders have been closed imports the government says its needed to stop illegal goods being smuggled in and criminals moving freely and it argues that products are being diverted to. Countries to avoid paying nigerias for ports but its led to people in nigeria paying more for food especially rice aljazeera as ahmed addressed reports now from that i gerri have been mean borda have been stuck here at the nigeria binny border for 2 months. Court by a sudden change in government policy theyre not allowed to go forward and cant go back. Has been importing and exporting goods for 23 years he says hes never seen anything like this here come wipe out government should hand over to us goods that weve already paid import duty for we have more than 500. 00 trucks on the bin the republic side of the border many of the goods are damaged some businessmen say they have lost hundreds of millions of dollars since the middle of august when the government ordered the borders to be closed imports. This is one of the reasons the government says its shut because its illegally imported rice. Officials say the flow of contraband into nigeria is killing its economy and production and opening the door to criminals and weapons. We feel lost in this that. There are. Plenty of big broader. Have been exploited by some members and therefore we have a duty and responsibility to engage in legitimate actions that would be. Better secure our people and more importantly stimulate and only of our people. The port of cotton or in ben in is 120 kilometers from Lagos NigeriaOfficials Say many goods from coated or smuggled past customs inspectors. Summer is the busiest of nigerias border towns connecting the port city of cotton or in been a problem with the countrys commercial capital lagos this used to be a very important trading point for imported goods especially right now in this market i mean there is little traffic since now you know closed its borders the government hopes that shutting down the borders will stop because from smuggling lugo got into the country. The security clampdown as forced up the prices of goods in markets and there are shortages in some places the government says the measures will grow nigerias economy in the long term Officials Say in the 1st 3 weeks of the border closures revenues from import duty went to by more than 5 percent but that left many nigerians concerned about rising cost of food stuff. We dont get regular supplies of food stuff here in same no food is getting in across the border and no food reaches us here from legal us we are in a fix the government says it wants to stop smugglers and criminals who pose a bigger threat to the country and its economy and will keep the borders closed for now it is always good to invite back to counting the cost peter. Peter is head of Capital Markets research at south africa based intel is x. Joins us now via skype from london peter so nigeria join the africa Continental Free Trade Area late and then it closed its borders not a great start or are these just teething problems do you think. Well great to be back i think the key message from this base this is a very long road until the huge potential for can continental Free Trade Agreement can really be realized that theres been so much written and spoken about the upside from the agreements the connecting together of various from value chains and supply hubs around the constant very mapping of power from where we are head to the operation of this thing is going to be incredibly hard i was in washington last week at the owner daniel meeting to try to suss out a little bit of that timeline and basically its impossible to really sketch out any meaningful view of when and where we are going to be when i think its going to be very incremental and really we have to watch the uncreation i think the regional hubs 1st of the bench you get the blame opened up for to clean things like common in fact thing where you can have quite distributed supply chains around the region but the full whack continental agreements going to taken quite a long time to see in any meaningful sense because it will this year the very least give africa more klaus on the International Stage when the go sating with the likes of huge trade books like the e. U. Or countries like china the u. S. Some lot but i think we have to remember the ultimately country trade by the afternoon between africa and these large super powers not as a as a bloc so clearly linking in certain value chains and into a larger market is important in those negotiations but this isnt the African Union negotiating bilateral or multilateral Free Trade Agreement so i think it will only add somewhat of an upside to really africa continental reach any agreement is about opening up internal trade shifting the trade focus of africa which so dominated by out would trade the rest the worlds more in would trade between countries naturally the Untapped Potential that is going to lift the regions potential growth there in the media room now russias president putin has recently hosted 50 african states in sochi isnt russia a bit late to the posse he couldnt really compete on investment grounds. Well you have an interesting almost the range of these different conferences you had tyke out a few months ago to the Japanese Version there never spoke acted out of the chinese that didnt last year and basically Everyone Wants a piece of this pie think the cleverest states will be able to keep open investment environments and be able to settle these countries in different ways really i think the interesting intensity what comes with these deal having is very easy see a lot of money on the table but its the not the economic condition known to political conditionality to come to the lawless which i think i have to be watched and where that argument chinese from an increasingly alarm bells being rung about the conditionality of the chinese required to operate in a country the confidence they have on loans as well about ownership in the future is now we see in some places neisha and i think we should keep similar questions in mind regarding russian investment into into africa so we shouldnt be proved money on the table but be very careful about what the motives are actually and states seem to be steering clear of it but like europe would a single currency be good for africa. Very hard to see how that would really happen i think in any meaningful timeframe and given the lack of free trade area at the moment that is obviously a long run goal that the African Union has laid out as part of the Free Trade Agreement but i think. Trying to forecast is really impossible arent trying to forecast in the past countries like sebi or another joining the euro over the long run thats a sort of im not a game i think that in africa were talking probably a 58 timeline before we see a single currency coming on paper its always great to talk here on counting the cost but i thanks again for being with us thank you. Its been a fair while since we last reported on the nation that we broadcast from so were going to focus on cata in this next half of the show despite a blockade and the economy contracting by 1. 4 percent in the 2nd quarter the country continues to embark on projects that will sustain the economy after the 2022 world cup were going to take a look at 2 of them now the 1st is an expansion of how mad International Airport to handle more than 50000000 passengers from the current 35000000 now thats in sharp contrast to dubai which is the regional aviation powerhouse work on its 150000000 passenger airport has been put on hold but theres also stiff competition from other nations creating transport hubs turkeys airports will ultimately handle 200000000 people a year. Al jazeera is hashem how about i met with the c. E. O. Of Qatar Airways and secretary general of the Cattle National tourism council. He asked him 1st if Qatar Airways was going to deliver the expansion of how about International Airport in time for the 2022 fee for world cup at that anyways we always deliver everything on time it is my mend it. My country requires that solidity be ready before the 2022 fee for world cup and we will deliver by the grace of god the terminal expansion on time youre aiming for more than 60000000. 00 passengers in the near future is some bishops but at the same time its challenging because it talking about what expenditure what investments infrastructure to put together this very delicate moment what do you mean by a delicate delicate moment has passed we are now 2 and a half years into the illegal blockade you can see that there is the economy is growing. At hamad the traffic is back to the degree it is back to pre block at times we are investing we are already as a matter of fact. Above the capacity of the airport we will be closing. Over 40000000. 00 passengers by the end of this year and the capacity of the airport is only 35000000. 00 so we are expanding the airport. To a capacity of 53000000 passengers initially when after 202254 world cup is over. We will then expand the capacity to just under 70000000 passengers by completing the concourse on the west apron next to the west and to the runway so what this will do is to will give us enough room to keep on growing and delivering the the plans we have and the strategy cut that it was has for up to 2030 because of a blockade can you give us an idea about how youre coping with with it protected from a financial perspective well as far as the Financial Impact is the impact is huge but we have mitigated the impact by deducing our losses. Dont forget that. An airline that flies on an average 20 to 25 minutes extra due to the blockade is a huge impact on the bottom line of the company especially since we are not a Small Airline we have over 6 150. 00 departures and arrivals a day so this is putting a huge financial pressure on the airline but we are sustaining it over revenues in the last Financial Year was