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And one year on since the start of the yellow vests protests and france well look at what impact the movement has had im joined again with the sports as controversial quarterback calling captain expresses showcase his skills in front of n. F. L. Teams 3 years since the last game. At least one person has been killed during protests and ivanova a 50 percent increase in fuel prices several people were injured as they try to enter an oil refinery in the Southern City of said job well iran has some of the worlds cheapest prices because of its heavy subsidies but the government has introduced rationing as it struggles to combat fuel being smuggled abroad there are reports of internet internet outages in some areas as the protests continue for more on this lets go to door such a bar shes joining us live from the capital whats the latest on the protests and the reports that one person has been killed. Well elizabeth the person thats been killed that news came from a official within that province the official said that this person was killed its not clear how this protester was killed but overnight they tried to storm a refinery in a surge on the city where they were met with police who fired warning shots and then a struggle ensued and one person was killed police havent specified whether or not that protester was killed by one of their bullets or not its not very clear at the moment but the other protests that weve been seeing in the capital here is a very silent kind of protest where motorists across highways in the capital are turning off their vehicles and just standing still many of the highways are not blocked as a result of that people are very angry but theyre also very adamant that they dont want this to escalate into a violent protest we have heard from average people who say that this hike was very unexpected and very very severe a 200 percent increase overnight without any warning in fuel prices and what many worry about here now is the effect that this will have on the rest of the economy and other prices of goods will also in evidence inevitably be going up and many here say that is absolutely unacceptable because theyre currently living in very very serious economic hardships the average salary of a person in the capital tehran is about 200. 00 a month and with this increase they were previously paying for about 4. 00 for a tank of gas and now its up to about 10 dollars so this increase is very very hard for many people and theyre saying that this is not something that they want and the reason that the government has given that they are going to be subsidized as a result of this increase the subsidy will work out to be about 5. 00 per person per month and thats something the iranians many iranians say is not enough. Doso thank you for that for now that is georgia barry with the latest live in were going to stay with this were joined now by most of a political analyst and editor in chief of fox news agency and hes also joining us live from the iranian capital good to have you with us on aljazeera so iran has long looked into cutting subsidies as part of an economic reform plan other president s have done it so does this come as a surprise. Well and thanks for having me well no of course not because it was a long time that the government of president rouhani was expected to take the move by the each time they were faced with some problems and they elate the plan for now you know. Petrol is very cheap in iran its it was even cheaper than Drinking Water there now they are equal each leader of drinking what there is 100. 00 ohm and equal to the price the present the new priced. Petrol so because of this the population has been using in consuming gas lavishly theres been you know there have been rip a cautions including heavy traffic jams as well as air pollution and in addition to that because of the low price there is been why a launch fuel smuggling to the neighboring countries where even at present prices not the ration price that stands at around 1500. 00 tonnes. The open market price thats about 3000. 00 on and its a one floor of the real price of each leader a federal in the neighboring countries so it is widely believed that fuel spill will be smuggled to the neighboring states but the plan mainly has been targeted for increasing kelp and so subsidies to the lower strata of the society and we have covered of course have cheap fuel as in iran but as our correspondent was saying when wages are also very low and thats why weve seen protests and many parts of the country because people simply feel that they cant afford this hike even if it keeps petrol prices cheap compared to elsewhere in the world do you think that this policy will work mystical chesham the former president talked with a job also cut subsidies created a cash handouts system to families but you know many say that that just lead to inflation and lead to market instability. Yes you know cities need to be cops and you know there needs to be some kind of justice when you have a you u. And l. These subsidies there are 5 stages and there are planned out was that through by the polly a minute on their president ahmadinejad or the case that and prison i am of the justice started the 1st step once we go ahead along this path then will see that the conditions Economic Conditions that of the people would be better the subsidies would be distributed among the lower strata of the society and gradually they would this if the year in order to channel all the money to the Production Industries thats very important part of this plan it takes time of course it takes several years unfortunately president rouhani of the sincere rose to power he stopped and went all together except for the handout and now after 6 years he is reviving the same strategy you know now to move towards a just plan regarding paying the subsidy. Mr im afraid thats all the time we have that we thank you for your time on the story today that is one for question now ivan put on thank you. Thank you. Were going to move on to other news now and israel says its carried out in strikes targeting headmaster in response to rockets fired from gaza but 2 rockets struck the israeli city of beijing and the south overnight has kept some distance from the recent exchanges the fog between israel and the Palestinian Islamic jihad 34 palestinians were killed in that violence the worst cross border fighting in moments i force that has more from gaza where so far no claim of responsibility here in gaza for this latest round of rocket fire 2 rockets fired in the early hours of saturday morning towards the israeli town of a shaver they were intercepted by the israeli anti missile iron dome system no question no who israel appears to blame for those rockets it is targeted in air strikes that followed a few hours later exclusively hamas targets here inside gaza bounce after they had in recent days been targeting Islamic Jihad explicitly so since beginning this round of escalation the assassination of a senior Islamic Jihad commander how mass while supporting is damaging our rhetorical hadnt itself been firing rockets up until this point that something that attracted some criticism here in gaza some protests there were protests in the jabalya refugee camp just on friday night requesting and requiring that hamas take military action as well and part of that has been fueled by the number of civilian casualties that weve seen here inside gaza the most of them in one deadly air strike on thursday morning. Not a rock with a High Commission for human rights as at least 7 people have been killed and more than 170 injured over the past 2 days Security Forces fired live rounds during antigovernment demonstrations on friday iraqs top sheer leader grand ayatollah Ali Al Sistani called for carmen his weekly sermon protesters are angry about widespread corruption unemployment and poor basic services. We have plenty more ahead on the news hour including theres already. Been absolutely are i was just only tear gas by the police on purpose. Tension on the streets and bolivia after a change of leadership plus. I have the right to speak i have freedom of speech just as other people do. Donald trump projects accusations that he tried to intimidate a witness while she testified it has impeachment inquiry and support will explain why rock and a dollar celebrating despite being knocked down by the a. T. P. Finals in london. Now to sri lanka where gunmen have attacked buses carrying muslim voices but no casualties have been reported its being seen as an attempt to intimidate voters as polling for the president ial election gets underway former defense minister. And minister sargent fame of the other 2 main candidates were ethnic tensions have been high since the east of bombings earlier this year which killed hundreds of people lets take a closer look at the 2 main candidates both of those from the opposition nationalists the jhana paid a moon a party and sodje as from the center right governing United National party rajapaksa was defense secretary in the last years of the civil war he is popular among ethnic majority sinhalese for his role in ending the sri lankan civil war in 2009 but he has been accused of war crimes and is facing trial for corruption allegations he denies. As the minister of Housing Construction and Cultural Affairs and the son of former president on a single plane with us or who was assassinated by tamil fighters and 1993 well lets get more on this now our correspondent Michelle Fernandez is joining us live from the capital colombo to talk us through the turnout middel and also those warring reports of gunmen attacking a convoy of buses carrying muslims who were going to vote and there have been other incidents. Thats right elizabeth as the days started 7 oclock the pause opened here in sri lanka there was a brisk amount of activity in most polling stations that we were hearing from around the country we saw this our service when we were out on the streets this morning basically the latest were hearing from the peoples actions the free and Fair Elections an organization that has had a presence on the ground that as of around 3 oclock about half an hour ago that they had a voter presence of around 65 percent now basically. We generally in elections in recent times weve had relatively high voter turnout as much as 80 percent now there is still over an hour left before the polls close and it is likely that that last ditch rush of voters will go to the polling stations so its been a fairly busy day overall at polling stations this despite reports that we were hearing all of some cases of intimidation some cases of violence you mentioned the case where sort of a bus convoy which was carrying muslims this is a community of muslims refugees for many many years that were being bused down in the Northwestern Province to their respective Polling Centers they had their buses posted with stones it was also some gunfire that was directed at these buses thankfully no casualties as were hearing but this goes to show the stakes in this election there had been concerns that voters particularly from the minorities would be kind of frightened into staying away so this is where this comes from but in general all over all if you look at the country as a whole its been of relatively peaceful election elizabeth show mel and we were also seeing some reports of roadblocks set up in some tamil minority areas given it is expected to be such a tight race how crucial is the minority whether its the muslim or the tamil vote and winning this election. The minority vote has been a very important factor in any election here in sri Lanka Elizabeth because particularly where this election is concerned we go top of the rajapakse on the one hand and subject frame of us on the other being such a close neck to neck fight as was expected in recent weeks the vote of the minorities that each the time a minority in the Muslim Minority each Holding Around 10 percent of the overall board is considered to be key to be vital in terms of weighing the balance in favor of one of those candidates you talked about drugs those reports coming in from the northern peninsula essentially what we were hearing was that the military had set up certain roadblocks this was limited to 2 particular areas but were also hearing that the police had basically taken this on the head and forced a centrally basically the election law as they had asked for these roadblocks looks to be removed but since we were also hearing some kind of clarification from the military denying that they were trying to set up roadblocks so it depends on who you speak to you get a different version of events elizabeth one thing is clear going back to your question that the vote of the minority is the time a minority in the Muslim Minority particularly in deciding who wins the election particularly when the majority single Us Population which makes up almost 75 percent of this countrys population is literally if not split down the middle putting both men candidates so close that the fact that the voting sort of strength of these minorities kind of pushes the balance in favor of one of them is key so we do have you know both candidates trying to make sure that the secure as much of the vote or even try and see that some of the minorities dont vote elizabeth now now thank you for that for now that has been our finance as with all the latest live in colombo thank you. Now saddams former president Omar Al Bashir has been in court facing charges of possessing illicit foreign currency and corruption the shield has received admitted receiving millions of dollars from saudi arabia but says he didnt use it for private purposes the Police Discover foreign and domestic currencies stock politicians home off to his arrest but it was forced from power and april after months of antigovernment protests. U. S. President all trump has been accused of intimidation after he attacked a witness on twitter while she testified at his impeachment hearing. The former u. S. Ambassador to ukraine was removed from her post earlier this year how does your castro has moved from capitol hill President Trump has said he too busy to watch the impeachment inquiry hearings threatening to end his presidency but he found time friday to catch some of the hearing unfolding on live t. V. And he tweeted about the witness on the stand his former ambassador to ukraine a woman he ousted from the post as we sit here testifying the president is attacking you or twitter. And id like to give you a chance to respond read part of one of his tweets everywhere marie of on a bitch went turn bad. But would you like to respond to the president s attack that everywhere you went turned bad i mean i cant speak to what the president is trying to do but i think the effect is to be intimidating youve on of it is a career diplomat who served more than 30 years under president s of both parties in a july phone call the basis for the current impeachment inquiry trump told the president of ukraine she was quote bad news and would go through some things it was it was a terrible moment a person who saw me actually reading the transcript said that the color drained from my face i think i even had a physical reaction it didnt sound good sounded like. A threat democrats say trumps attacks on you of on a bitch amounts to witness intimidation and possibly an additional impeachment charge against the President Trump defended his mid hearing tweet saying he had no intention to intimidate i have the right to speak i have freedom of speech just as other people do but theyve taken away the republicans rights you testified she was recalled from ukraine without cause in may shed been drunk fully accused of undermining trump she said and was the target of a Smear Campaign conspired between trumps private attorney Rudy Giuliani and corrupt ukrainian officials or continues to amaze me is that they found americans willing to partner with them and working together they apparently succeeded in orchestrating the removal of a Us Ambassador you gonna bitch says she still doesnt know why she was ordered home on the next plane which she was gone by the time the white house pros security aid to ukraine and trump pressed the ukrainian president to announce investigations into his political rivals republicans say democrats have been unable to directly tie trub to an Impeachable Offense the problem of trying to overthrow a president based on this type of evidence is obvious. But thats what their whole case relies on. Any with 2nd and 3rd hand information but now complicating the president s defense is this new evidence of possible witness intimidation in the form of trumps tweet that materialize before the publics very odd ways democrats have tried to build up a real your vantage as a sympathetic witness in now trump himself may have helped them make that case while putting his own presidency in greater jeopardy heidi joe castro aljazeera washington. A u. S. Embassy official and ukraine has confirmed to impeachment investigators that he overheard donald trump ask a few cranes president had agreed to conduct investigations and to his political rivals they would holmes was speaking to a closed door hearing on friday about a phone call he was present for between trump and the u. S. Ambassador to the e. U. Gordon solemn and the call to place a day after president asked president selenski to investigate his rival joe biden and his son. And a former advisor to trial has been found guilty all 7 charges including lying to congress and what nist tampering raja started was charged earlier this year during the investigation into russian interference in the 2016 election hes been found guilty of lying to congress about his contacts with wiki leaks during the campaign and his efforts to push one of his associates to corroborate his lies hell be sentenced in february and faces up to 50 he is in jail now the Yellow Vest Movement and france is marking its 1st anniversary with protests the Movement Began on november 17th last year on a rising fuel prices and cost of living and later turned into violent antigovernment riots that spread across the country during its peak 300000 people took part in saturday protests but that number has gone down in recent months a special correspondent is joining us live from the french capital so talk us through how the anniversary is being much thing. Where i am in central paris its very very quiet indeed although you can probably see by the Police Presence behind me that the authorities are certainly taking no chances as you mentioned there began as a leaderless revolt against the french president s decision to introduce this tax on the price of diesel he hoped to be able to sort of bring Carbon Emissions under control with that plan backfired it was seen instead as a tax on lower income families all those people dependent upon cars outside the big cities and over time it grew and spiraled into an empty macro movement attracting people from all walks of life from different parts of the political spectrum from the far right to the far left and everybody in between what many people off guard was how ferocious some of these demonstrations were here on the show on the leaves a few months ago we saw shop windows smashed we saw the trio here to face it is of course. Sacrosanct symbol of french unity in french sacrifice in the 2nd world war but the movement did force president to u. Turn on his tax and release billions of dollars in Financial Support to lower earning families here in france but the question of course now is whether or not it has actually succeeded and what happens next im joined by ron as he rob he was the chief International Correspondent at the figure thank you very much for joining us so as i said that is it possible to say what he has achieved and what hes going to do next this movement as achieve that so you know this rise of the gas has been abolished it doesnt shes also that. 10000000000 euros have been given to these. Lower middle class i would say. But it has not achieved more i mean because there was as you said a lot of aid through it. Has we had it could be but it was it was a real aid should the opposition to its aid to it to its president but you have to acknowledge that in the european elections you had like 2 or 3 lists of you know best and this cold very very very little so and the movement you can see today there is really nobody. So. The movement is finished it doesnt mean that my call is very popular theys nobody more popular than him no politician more popular than michael in front not in the pen is a list popular but does not enjoy a popularity of lets see trump is below ok lets say about levels of inequality here in france that the yellow vests big mint existed at all. Yes actually there is of course inequality of fronts but there is a less inequality in france than in other western countries develop western countries actually france is a socialist country but its a socialism that used to work well 40 or 50 years ago but the works hospitals not as good as they used to be schools are not as good as they used to be. Public transports im not as good as they used to be but the system which is very badly poorly managed cost a lot and so in this influence if you like you have 3 categories of people you have the very poor the very very poor to make room and that help by the state d. Nobody will be refused hospital school. Or even the whole it is for children in front to get favor reports again if you are a lower middle class you have been pushed away from the big cities because. The real estate is too expensive because it is precisely these people that were out protesting that had the need of the cars you know and they are like hot slow middle totally out of the system and then you have the upper middle and the very rich very happy im saying that paris is wonderful and everything is fine and we have benefited from the globalization but. The low middle class middle class on low because ive been actually hurt very much by globalization a lot of factories have closed and so on and that these people what these content these people will vote against back home who they accused to be only helping the rich and the very poor the millions and and the very poor ok were going to go thank you very much as you heard many of the issues that brought people out some to the streets of paris and other cities across the country may not have gone away like cohen has done an awful lot to try and bring the situation on the control Holding Discussions and debates in town halls up and down the country that has gone some way to restoring confidence in his leadership but still there is still a tremendous amount of discontent amongst certain sects is a French Society so demonstrations here in the capital we know of demos on a small scale taking place in various locations a little thirtys though as you can see not taking any chances a water cannon that stumble i will be here all day to monitor this one Year Anniversary from the start of the yellow vests forming. Thank you for that has made live in paris in a few moments well have the weather with kevin but still ahead on news hour a warning to doctors who are on strike in zimbabwe because of poor pay and bad working conditions clock. Im sorry screw them based on Village Church and province china where thousands of them just like this one here have benefited from the boom in Online Shopping. And of course its quest involving the furnace when the one trying to scare the sunday free details coming up with. A persistent weather pattern here across europe has caused a lot of problems of course weve been talking about venice in the flooding situation there but here across parts of europe we have a excuse me england were talking about flooding thats been going on for quite a while notice a pattern right here this area of circulation big low pressure right there bring a lot of rain across parts of england i want to show you some flooding that has taken place here and ever show where we have all but 100 warnings for flooding in place right now waters are rising across the area really the land is saturated a lot of the rivers a lot of the streams have been flooding their banks as well and as you can see water levels are rising across much of this region this is the big picture right now we are talking about that air of low pressure also frontal boundary that is extending all the way down here towards parts of africa and other what we could be watching is still more rain across parts of england and also wales over the next few days but really down here across parts of italy that is one area not just for venice but also for parts of pisa down here towards rome as well florence seen some very heavy rain across much of the region were going to be seeing also some very heavy snow across the north across parts of the alps where we could be seeing well over 130. 00 centimeters of snow over the next few days so the rain is going to continue in the Flooding Risk is going to be on the increase. Too much sponsored by town. From lagos to jerusalem to miami the government is playing. To his mind boggling. 3 short films that show how people take a stand against in fiction and saying that struggling communities the 1st time they arrested i was 11 years old jason that its announces in. I was taken to military are those that i was submitted me turn up not blame in force they were sick dont think the intention was to make sure that ruhi injures women no longer entitle to either basic rights or Citizenship Rights once their villages were burned were funneled into what is now become complex were moving into our basic your prince exiles coming soon on aljazeera. Im a little proud of and these are the top stories this hour at least one person has been killed during protests in iran against a 50 percent increase in fuel prices several people injured as they tried to enter and all are finding in the Southern City of. Government in sri lanka have attacked buses carrying muslim voices but no casualties reported for the defense minister go to parks and ministers sergeant premadasa are the main candidates in the president ial election and for the sudanese president Omar Al Bashir has been in court facing charges of possessing a list of foreign currency and corruption the shield has admitted receiving millions of dollars from saudi arabia but says he didnt use it for private purposes now chinese soldiers have been sent on to the streets of hong kong for the 1st time since antigovernment protests began in may the troops the same helping beijing supporters to smash the fence and clear roadblocks near. Garrison the soldiers rarely leave their barracks they were last seen a year ago cleaning up after typhoon man could well lets get more on this our correspondent rob mcbride is joining us live from hong kong to talk us through what they were doing well because this is an unusual occurrence. Thats right elizabeth all of this happened just a couple of hours ago now late saturday afternoon. It was a very quick operation that lasted less than an hour in the soldiers didnt have to travel far this is that base here the sentries are standing just off to my right here and basically they came out that they didnt travel very far they came up. This this road here moving bricks they went and turned the corner at the top along the perimeter up there and then were back inside inside the camp where they wont wear a uniform they were in their sports kit so they could be looked at is quite symbolic depending on your politics and as we know there is a lot of politics here on the one hand it could be seen as a fairly innocuous gesture this is just a public spirited action by the local garrison coming out that you mentioned there its not the 1st time that troops have been deployed they came out a year ago to help clean up in country parks after thai food so it has happened before but then this is not the country parks we are in the new urban area the middle of cow loon and over on this side is one of the University Campuses where weve seen protests and there have been an angry standoff between students from this campus and soldiers inside here who they were show pointing their lasers at having said that we have not seen any angry responses from protesters at the removal of their bricks in fact if anything theyve been really played it cool theyve kept a very low profile theres been some chatter on social media saying well it doesnt really matter well just replace the bricks when we are good and ready but there will be others in the pan democratic camp who will see this you know as a further gesture as a further symbol of more erosion of hong kongs autonomy and the autonomy its meant to have within china thats right rod precisely what protesters have been rallying against for the last 6 months. Thats right thats right i mean that this is people here believe that fundamentally with all of these things that have been happening the withdrawal of the extradition bill it setto underlying all this is peoples fear here that gradually the high degree of autonomy that was promised to hong kong is is gradually being worn away little by little and that this is this is maybe old even though its just one gesture or a small step or part of that process having said that this is what we people were looking for this weekend we know that we can so when we have the most violent clashes today saturday has been eerily quiet especially after the buildup of this past week when there was an awful lot of disruption and clashes between protesters and police we are in an eerily quiet weekend but anything as we know with this movement in these protests can happen as we move into sunday was but rob thank you for that for now there is one side with the latest live in hong kong thank you. To bolivian our Security Forces have shot and killed 5 protesters and the town off stock about. It is the most violent incident since president evo morales resigned earlier this week and interim government has taken charge but rallies calling for a democratic transition of power have continued chinese about has more from the party. Once again clashes in the center of mass. Supporters of bolivias former president evo morales try to make it to the president ial palace notice so good to see some member of the a man named age in his community he says he wants democracy back in the most valuable pylos we only have these chin straps and sticks we dont have weapons but we will defend ourselves but we have our hearts in the right place and we want to defend democracy. Even though some protests are violence people want to gather peacefully to demand elections but the situation is so tense that even journalists have become a target i was just at only tear gas by the police on purpose this is whats happening in the middle of a plateau where people have been protesting peacefully a Police Officer just threw tear gas on my eyes many of those who protest im not happy with the interim president is anyone yes who they say does not represent them a series of tweets posted by her and very fired by news organizations in the past have offended the indigenous majority here. She took Office Without consent if its not even the me what the military to come and call for elections the armed forces are also trying to quell the protests theyre carrying the indigenous woodpile a flag which for many is more important than the national one bolivias interim administration has made a Foreign Policy shift to nastiness will end in cuban officials to leave the country they say they have been organizing unrest in the wake of the resignation of former president evo morales. These people were arrested for possessing firearms without a license they are foreigners theyre venezuelans libyans are clearly concerned because there are these types of groups looking to destabilize a government that has been legally established which is headed by president jeanine. Protesters from the city of cochabamba have been trying to reach the capital. Videos and social media show that several people have been killed in clashes with the military and the police the videos could not be independently verified by al jazeera and then from mexico it will more or less said new elections are the only way to calm the situation down. Here for the sake of democracy if the interim government of bolivia doesnt want me to take i have no problem not taking person new elections i just wonder why there is so much fear of evil but im willing to see it priorities and willing to bring peace to. But there are questions over whether his party will be allowed to run because its been accused of committing fraud bolivia desperately needs men in full negotiations that will allow elections to take place soon as many believe only an elected president will be able to take the country forward that he said will. Pass. Now to libya where foreign nationals living in the capital have been left with a stark choice they can stay in tripoli where they risk their lives because of the fighting or they can head home to poverty or that the reports on why some have chosen to stay. Feel has haunted this moroccan family since the shrapnel injured their son and brother know below for him and his sisters their lives were turned into a nightmare a rocket landed on their house in the saliva d. Neighborhood in southern tripoli big supply blast a troponin into every corner of their whole. It brought him says he came to libya along with his family to earn a living as an electrician 5 years ago he is grateful his family survived but his wife says their children can no longer sleep properly at night. Were explosions every hour into syria my children have been so frightened that even the sound of thunder in the sky scares them in my son wakes up at night crying. Forces loyal to the world flee for hefted have been targeting residential areas with airstrikes and heavy weapons rights organizations say some attacks could constitute war crimes. And you end panel of experts has recently blamed have to as a military often civil in tripoli for creating case throughout the country but also revealed that the u. A. E. Jordan sudan and turkey have violated the arms embargo imposed on libya by supporting the warring factions many civilians have been killed or wandered by a random rocket or strikes since fighting began in april the tripoli based government says the United Nations mission in libya is no more doing enough to protect them and those displaced by the fighting say they are called for help have gone unheard lucinda a british nationals has the house of her libyan father in law next to hers in gaza have been a shared area was targeted by an airstrike her husband they brought him as they escaped after have to his forces came for him because he campaigned against their war to seize tripoli the family moved to this house in their neighborhood but it is not far from the front line as we were speaking to them a rocket exploded nearby embedded themselves. Despite such a threat lucinda has decided to stay on well ive tried to reach the International Community because i see theres very little voices in the media. In english for them to and some whats going on and of course the same much propaganda you now have to came to save tripoli from terrorism and isis and everything which of course is true. And theres no voices out there saying what is true and what isnt whats really happening here on the ground. Every friday in the main square in tripoli lucinda has been joining the protests shes worried the United Nations might not take action against have to this force is says theyre supported by some Member States like france and russia. Ibrahim in roll call yesterday as a family they face a bleak choice either to leave and face poverty. And face the threat to their safety. And. Tripoli. Now a u. S. Court has blocked the execution of a black man just days before it was to be carried out 51 year old wagner reid has been convicted of murdering a wise woman in 1906 for the Texas Appeals Court says new evidence of his innocence must now be considered john hendren has more from austin texas when rodney reed awoke on friday morning his days were numbered numbered to 5 he was scheduled to die by lethal injection at the hands of the state of texas on wednesday nov 20th that is for the rape and murder of stacy stites in 1996 but late on friday the texas court of criminal appeals issued a stay demanding that new evidence be considered among other things his lawyers got an affidavit from a friend of the victim that seemed to corroborate his story that he was having a long term affair with stacy stites and that that would explain why his semen was found on the victim when she was found dead in another explosive piece of evidence an inmate in jail along with the fiance as Stacey Stites says that that fiance confessed to her murder he has since through his lawyers denied that he has done so but that is another piece of explosive new evidence this happened just hours before the texas parole board recommended a 120 day stay of the execution so that they could consider new evidence or the courts consider consider new evidence that is a very rare thing 566 people have been executed in the state of texas since it reinstituted the Death Penalty in 1982 the parole board has only asked for a stay 5 times its only been granted 3 times and now rodney reed hopes to be the. Design bob when our government is threatening more disciplinary hearings if doctors start return to work the been on strike for nearly 3 months of the poor pay and working conditions how to toss a has more from her already. Principal was fired earlier this month along with hundreds of other Junior Doctors in zimbabwe the government dismissed him for going on strike to demand better pay and work conditions in Public Hospitals he says he wasnt paid in october and because hes now unemployed he wont get paid in november soon he will have to move out of this apartment. 2 weeks. And opinions. From. Thats our best. In terms of the bar was once busy Public Health facilities on usually quiet the waiting areas in awards are deserted the strike has dragged on for more than 2 months most doctors were fired after they failed to attend disciplinary hearings the reason was that they couldnt afford to pay for transport zimbabweans are struggling to deal with the worst economic crisis in a decade they are storage is a foreign currency fuel power and medicines theres doctors strike is a nother hardship that many people here say they have no choice but to enjoy. For marriage want to watching her daughter braxton suffer is painful the 3 year olds temperature is very high but neither nurses nor doctors are working at a local clinic. Nice and cheery and a lot of people are going to die if my child starts having fits in the middle of the night she could die if the hospitals were working doctors would tell me what medication and injections she needs i am scared i could lose her if she gets really sick but mary says she understands doctors want to better pay like millions of others in zimbabwe story inflation has eroded salaries and life is hard but the worried mother just wants her daughters pain to end. She thinks its a tonsils but says right now there is no one willing to help her. Algae. We have a sports news to lead on the news hour and the finishing touch. To. The full team would have to be. The latest news as it breaks democrats did. They said we will vote and lay out the procedures to go in forward for the public testimony we detailed coverage here in town plans mean a Financial Center a place that is usually team 1st during the weekends and words from around the world it will take tended to a 1000 years for this to disintegrate and thats whats choking this city. The british iraqi journalist whos visualizing complex statistics and a simple. I think. Its an opportunity to break apart from those systems of power and to collect in a way that made so represents a Different Community challenging mainstream misconceptions and quite the quite crates and country and industry sions it doesnt and you need people just like people who are like im not smart enough to sign this truth is that anyway. Thanks. Thanks thanks. Now people in china do more Online Shopping than anyone else in the world and in many remote areas people have embrace technology becoming online entrepreneurs turning one sleepy villages and to ecommerce hubs frons who he has more from jang province. In less than a decade legion home has transformed his life the former street snack vendor is now c. E. O. Of his own company it makes camping equipment and has an annual turnover of there are 9000000. 00 puts it down to hard work good luck and the rise in Online Shopping. As the internet develops our Shopping Habits change there are also more opportunities to make money we can do business from home whether you are one person 100 people were on the same platform everyone can find something assumes. His success attracted the attention of others in village who asked him to teach them how to start an ecommerce business at least 16 family thats about 10 percent of the population here are involved in ecommerce in one way or another mostly as middlemen selling products made by others. But some like lucian friend are more on to printer he sells wood salvaged from old houses in the village. Doing ecommerce gave me more flexibility i had to work anyway either at the factory or at home i make about the same money but i have more freedom doing this i can take care of my children or go fishing if i like. Across china there are thousands of villages like. Rural communities whose fortunes have changed because of the internet. Is owned by chinese multinational. And is chinas largest digital platform its where many ecommerce businesses got their 1st start. Villages where at least 10 percent of households are involved in the u. S. And that have a combined turnover of at least one and a half 1000000. 00 a year are known as top our villages. The government has been supportive of Building Infrastructure like la just sticks and transport this villages mostly operate on a free market basis with some gliders or help from the government. Not everyone strikes it big in eco most but some are showing that the internet and Business Savvy can be a potent combination florence li aljazeera beige village jan province china. It is time for sports now heres joe as the thank you was that it was 3 years since calling cap and played american football well now the former quarterback or get to showcase his talents again to a prospective teams in atlanta on saturday 11 n. F. L. Teams will attend an official workout for capitol hill as a San Francisco 49 a made global headlines for nailing during the Pregame National Anthem in protest against Racial Injustice it previously claimed that the n. F. L. And its teams colluded to keep him from playing cap and will have around 2 hours to demonstrate his skills in the hopes of being signed but theres plenty question whats motivating the n. F. L. To do this now. Given the n. F. L. s history in this case and the way its been sort of cobbled together i think the aspersions about the workout are very justified the n. F. L. Effectively blackballed capron it for over 2 years they entered into a settlement over it with kaplan exclusion grievance in february and since then no team has expressed serious interest in him. I think this is the n. F. L. Zx attempt to try and bring the matter to a merciful and by either cap or nick not showing up to the workout which was hastily arranged or caprona showing up and not doing well in the workout an n. F. L. Team can say oh well he doesnt have it anymore the 3rd possible outcome and complication for that really isnt happening does this work out and is amazing and if a team still dont sign him i mean cab rank has made it clear hes been working out every day for 3 years he wants to come back to the n. F. L. So i think kaplan it based on his career based on his experience he has the right to say i belong in the n. F. L. And i think he does. Meanwhile Myles Garrett has been suspended indefinitely without pay after attacking an opponent with a helmet during the came on thursday the Cleveland Browns star was involved in a fight with Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback mason riddle he ripped off rudolph helmets and then smashed him over the head with it kara suspension is the biggest band ever handed out by the n. F. L. For a single game incident. Its semifinal day the season ending a. T. P. Finals in london one player though he wont be involved is well number one rafael nadal he was knocked out on friday despite winning his final match but he still had reason to celebrate reports. Rafael nadal back is the year ending world number one for the 5th time in his career at 33. 00 the spaniard is the oldest player ever to end the season in top spot fitting reward for an incredible 12 months that seen the doll win 2 grand slams and lose just 7 matches all year but. The 44. 00 no doubt one of those 7 defeats kerry in 4 days ago against alexanders arrive and eventually prove terminal to his hopes of winning the a. T. P. Finals tardo for the 1st time were going into his match against the already qualified stephanus its a pass the down knew he had to win the hard Daniel Medvedev could be derived in the day 2nd clash if he were to reach the last 4 however he was up against a player insists a pass he was beaten in this tournament and playing some of the best tennis of his career the world number 6 from grace taking a tighter opening set on a tie break but that serve to galvanize the doubt even more than left time to from my all coproducing 11 winners and just 6 unforced errors as he took the 2nd set 64 to send the match into a decider. In that decider once again both players match each other shot for shots but after nearly 3 hours on cold it was the 19 time grand slam champion nadal declined the scents and the match 7 c. 647 far. More of an address when it was made academic alexanders arrive sort of Daniel Medvedev in straight sets dr who is the defending champion here broke the russians in the opening game and never looked back as he recorded a 6476 victory with the semifinal date with his good friend dominic team were playing the semifinals of the world tour finals so i mean playing here against your friend means that both of you have done incredibly well throughout the whole year and obviously also this week so its a great on obviously to play against him hes been unbelievable this year and its going to be fun much hopefully the other semi sees Roger Federer take on stephanus its a past match is take place on saturday the whole path back aljazeera the l. A. Lakers and Sacramento Kings produced a friday night thriller in the n. B. A. As ever it was Le Bron James who played a starring role he racked up a game high 29 points along with 11 assist the whole much came down to the final play its a seconds to go the lakers were leading 199097 house and bonds had a chance to its high things up for the kings but Anthony Davis was on hand to provide the block and give the lake his their 10 victory this season. Another tight game in orlando as the magic welcomed the San Antonio Spurs to amway center the magics friends saw evan for me it was the difference in this one his 26 points helping his team 211110953 condemning the spurs to a 4th straight nutz. Finland celebrating reaching a major tournament for the 1st time ever theyve put the spotlight youre a 2020 things for free no win over linked in sign when seals progression from group jaylen side group win as its lee marks a huge turnaround in form in 2016 they didnt manage to win a single competitive because i was i was it. Was cold i think i was thinking oh i think 6 weeks i think sleep i was going to do i drop ok. Syrian regime has arrived in canadas take up his job as the new head coach at montreal impact the frenchman the signed a 2 Year Contract with the side that won the canadian temperature time in September Henri was a star player barcelona and also will that his 1st full time managerial job ended after just 2 league wins at monaco in just over 3 months Sebastian Vettel will be looking to convert pace into pole later in sao paolo the german lead a ferrari 12. 00 in practice ahead of sundays brazilian free but it was an incident filled friday off today in red bulls eye alex album crashed out bringing the 1st practice to a premier short. And then out there you can only strive for public beach also failed to set a time in the 2nd session when he spun off tracked. 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