Transcripts For ALJAZ NEWSHOUR 20240713

For cartels to smuggle guns from the u. S. And im Nicholas Hoult at Victoria Falls despite the rainbow the Worlds Largest waterfall is in some parts a slow trickle find out next the worst drought in a centuries affecting 45000000 people across 14 nations in Southern Africa. And in sport a big win for liverpool and doha as theyve been brazilian 5 the mango one mailed to quench the people of world for the very 1st. Time of their very warm welcome to this hour of the new indias Prime Minister is refusing to back down on the controversial citizenship law that opponents say discriminates against muslims there enter modi has been addressing supporters at a b. J. Rally in new delhi he accuses his political opponents of the. Armrests over the law also defending indias 1st law has been passed some Political Parties have been spreading rumors these people are misleading the public and citing the public. Well hes also defending indias Security Forces Rights Groups are saying theyre using disproportionate force on protesters at least 25 people have been killed and more than 5000 people have been detained in otoh pradesh which has seen the worst violence at least 1500 have been arrested in other parts of india. Well sabinus arrestor joins us live now from new delhi hi there sabina so obviously we know that modi has spoken today asking people not to accept what he called false claims about the citizenship bill do you think these words will make any difference to protesters. Im afraid its not going to make any difference to the people who were here because you wouldnt move extremely angry about the Police Brutality that happened to them when they were protesting. Me and now its so many other people said oh testers i think that by the violence off the police they are not to have it they are saying still that it is about the constitution the legality of this whole thing is not about whether or not it was the power of the 2 houses or not but people where you are seeing the integrity of this bill is the noise question we go because it is a constitutional and it goes against secularism and we feel the deep that its enshrined in the indian prostitution. Sabina in terms of the protesters who are around you today what kinds of stories are you hearing from people want bringing them out onto the scene. So that people years are saying that mostly about the constitution there they want. They want the government to retract that no they want the constitution to be. Active so theyre not there to speak theyre saying that what or whatever it is the government says whether theyre saying that you know the petitions from your opposition are excited that they actually think that they dont actually care what the government is saying what they do care if. Its all being and as long as the government expects that baby. They will stop but i mean let the government. Respect the constitution and take back their. Citizenship till they can continue their protest and the protests are growing it is still going on it is very strong and the judge. To be mistress for their joining us with the latest from new delhi thank you well lets speak magistri ram charlie a new delhi be a skype is a professor and dean at the Jindal School of International Affairs professor warm welcome to the program do you think the Prime Ministers call to respect parliament will make any difference to those against the bill. I dont think so you see because you are up to the steps unlike most sure and assured in real muslims especially and mention a number of these policies we can actually benefit to them and we also heard more gospel unity in diversity or accepting the pluralism of india and of particular result perrier the whole idea of equality of all religious states and he continued a lot of issuance and so i think that matters those are some of the you know spheres that have been are planted in the minor stuff you know since the last couple of weeks ashleigh as you know the ideologically hard line opponents of the story you know those on the left or communists or mr moore the target demos are. You know not really the word for malise or communists you know india and as far as a congress can be and their sympathizers go i dont think theyre going to change because for them its a matter of political survival theyve been marginalized theyve been losing elections and theyre now trying to use the citizenship act as admissions are nice to cry and galvanize Public Opinion are consistent in their favor for electoral gigs so those around you know i understand and i understand your i understand what youre saying but obviously as a channel aljazeera has been reporting on this story for as long as these protests have been happening and whats been interesting i think for all of our correspondents and some of the guests that weve had on is that weve seen numerous religions people from Civil Societies election rallies and they dont believe your argument that this is about the Opposition Party still king people and pushing them onto the streets they really believe that this goes against the constitution. Well you know our position around the world are often bramber crisis and exaggerate whatever government somehow is it i dont understand how its dramatizing the situation youve got thousands of people who didnt go to the streets if the government believed that the peoples view was worthwhile why would they be sending the police out into the streets i mean we have numerous reports from people saying that theyve used Police Brutality i mean if this was just about the opposition stoking up this feeling why send the police on to the streets why cut off the internet if this was just about reasoned arguments on both sides lets let let me let me answer that 1st of all i dont think we should over is to make the numbers of people out there youre already so ill take generally a slug of you just because of the fact that thats just our reporting today to be fair within only for that country. You know its 1300000 people are talking about a very healthy 100 people here are being who are mostly mobilization a Political Party is behind the scenes you cannot call that a representative of Indian Society if youre going to the referendum today i can guarantee just citizenship at will who suffered by holding 90 percent of really a few people so lets not get carried away by street grab that regular committee of i do or Police Brutality almost of the my littles happen in one script or publish as a report writer ship and then there are angered writers and mobsters moving getting into destroying public property burning busses burning automobiles burning sheriffs forcing shutdowns voting stans its a bit of not actually use or a source so the police are resorting to force only as a last meal to defend themselves the rich are public property and this is more the our Prime Minister of mentioning that look if you are a piece leaves a democratic country hit me on my effigy serry more dramatically said when my if you get to one let all the hard born in the us public property just because our taxpayers money so i think there is you know in here the moccasin will reply with some degree of a call to force you their friendship toward a lawlessness and mobs so i think actually what is happening lets look at the basic its not you to make sure are a very very sophisticated furbished its actually being instigated by criminal elements a lot i dont know that i dont at all as youve just pointed out to me sri ram i dont think you can make a general statement about that i mean weve talked to intellectuals members of Civil Society from people all over the world who have an opinion on this but what i want to know from you is what many people say from all over the world that this is den saying indias reputation to use religion as the basis for any sort of citizenship test isnt that the core problem here and the random or the saying today you know read the act in detail but who can read it in detail yet until the rules are set. Not only the athletes are we not publish their survival and people can we have but the rule is jail have to be set at 7 am every day the public facilities are still to be set so if the rules are still to be set you can stand up there and say of course read the words but then its the rules that matter isnt set. Of course in implementation and i dont dont believe you know completely unbiased implementation or far Central Government are like this in fact there are opposition parties in some states that are seeing the bill up close if that makes will be unconstitutional we need is a separate system of the Central Government the parliament process and not all the states are obligated to implement it thats what im saying its become a politics involved and you know lets look at the district mr moore the made a clear distinction between refugees who are facing persecution a neighboring country and that i would lose focus or at the same date he was clear that you know immigrants are coming in so you cannot make opportunities cannot be allowed in such massive numbers you have to really lift i think it was like an educational speech in many ways in the study to get the masses you know who are as ever did a lot of hearing about this argument here in the ship to understand the mean once a city is trying to reach obvious trying to engage a lot of these you know our people were upset and i think that its sort of color and i think. Because. Of the people of syria state the medication is the humanitarian the meat the air cost estimate of this whole sorry charlie a joining me there from new delhi straight. Preliminary results from afghanistans president ial election show incumbent that africa has secured a slim majority well that result had been expected in october but was only released by the independent Election Commission on sunday gumming secure just over 50 percent of the vote officials for his main rival Abdullah Abdullah say that they dont accept the results the Electoral Commission says the final count could change while most. Is a professor at the American University of gun astonished joins us from copenhagen on skype a very warm welcome to the paul graham do you think this interim result is if i can call it a step forward in terms of this much needed clarity. Thank you so much yes i do believe that this is that. The lingering uncertainty and just the long way has. Has quelled a lot of initiative i think in terms of the day to day workings of the government and. The question now is if this slightly greater degree of certainty will change anything. From the past few months of conses station. So yeah i mean investment in the private sector has stalled its not ideal given the high levels of poverty and unemployment and the Peace Process thats unfolding simultaneously but its important to note that these are preliminary results and that they will be subject to further scrutiny. Abdullah has as you mentioned in a statement rejected the results. Due to concerns over about 300000 questionable votes but hell be able he has i presume submit his complaints to the e. C. C. To the so there is a procedural mechanism in place for adjudicating complaints i think for afghanistan right now its very important that. That that result is communicated that that you controls and verification mechanisms are undertaken and that if the incumbent on you really does end up. Clearing his path to victory that he forums that he forms as inclusive a government as possible ive been talking to family and friends in kabul and there are concerns that. Would be. That they would list teams that they wouldnt be taking the results sitting down so there are complaints that there would be protesting and the question then is what forum is that that protest going. Take. There could very well be strong backlash among abdullah supporters many of whom house from Holding Kabul and if we look at the past couple of months the lexicon that have been used as very much feature works like fraud fraudulent and its been a very aggressive discourse. Musk i wanted to ask you that question that the very fact that a bill of rejects this result does that rejection kind of further dent the confidence in the process itself because it has taken a while even to get to this point hasnt it to get this interim result. The fact that he rejects that i think has been written expect that it is. It is anticipated. She has been staunchly against the very suggestion that her family could have could have a leaf from the beginning with accusations of fraud. And. An incorrect use of the barometric readers and so on and so. I think in order for calm and and confidence to rule after whatever result is is announced following verification. Its really important that the e. C. C. Adjudicates all complain. And hopefully well have a dr abdullah who by the end of this process ken cant concede that that he didnt lose or you know a doctor dr ashraf ghani can conceive that he did lose its really important that. That. That that either one of them can do that. Just as a show of maturity as a show of political maturity but also to quell whatever whatever stronger reactions that could be from the ground and that is very much a concern. Around the country right now miska desta gear joining me there thank you very much for joining us on the program youre welcome there is plenty more ahead on the news hour including getting a taste for democracy it was bax head to the polls for parliamentary elections. I want to see anyone in santiago chile and ill be telling you why record numbers of elderly people are committing suicide here. In support the team hoping to be the 1st east german football champion since the fall of the bar growing 13 years ago far well have that story and more. Cooler weather across australia is expected to help firefighters battling more than 100 blazes those fires have been burning out of control in conditions described as catastrophic at least 8 people have died and hundreds of homes have been destroyed firefighters are trying to contain the blazes before hot so whether its due to return at the end of the week Prime Minister Scott Morrison has apologized for taking a family holiday during the disaster well hes been criticized in the past for not connecting the bushfires to Climate Change but now he concedes there is a link. But there is no argument about the links between in my view in the governments view and any government in this country about the links between broader issues of global Climate Change and and weather events around the world but im sure people equally would signal edge that the direct connection to any single father event its not a credible suggestion to make that link. So we must take action on Climate Change we are taking action on Climate Change well brendan eden is the assistant chief officer at the site of the stanley a 5 service and he spoke to us earlier from he says the flies of stocks of across the country much or anywhere in the season is a direct link between these farmers drought drop vegetation high fuel lloyds and high temperatures but if you look across the sort of 100 year history of fall i was in a straw yeah we have had these events before each state has had these events before i think what is very challenging for australia is these are events are appearing much earlier in essays and well before christmas theyre occurring right across the landscape from Western Australia to new south whiles and theyre also appearing at a time when the Northern Hemisphere is still experiencing for us and that makes it difficult for by him his fees to manage whats known as the aerial for affording flaked we rely heavily on large attract is an ericsson here crimes to come from the Northern Hemisphere traditionally by finished their fire season and theyre available for us now is saying i think its fees overlapping very. You know it can be conflicting and demanding times for fire services. Its not just a stray youre suffering from a lack of rain the worst drought for decades in Southern Africa is affecting 45000000 people across 40 countries and wildlife is suffering too as some of us may be distressed by some of the pictures in this report from us about a land that has the story from one of the worst droughts affected. Deep in zimbabwes matabeleland people are dying of hunger margaret began then her 5 grandchildren are picking what will be their 1st and last meal of the day boiled a pumpkin leaves weakened by months of this diet but then they worries the worst is yet to come with decorum in line would be what do you and your wife they smell food in your into we asked songkran that tend to go on sometimes i think long to underneath called keepin up in asshole the United Nations says certain africa is experiencing the worst drought in a century 45000000 people across 14 countries are in need of urgent assistance while Food Distribution is taking place in some areas my gunday has not received any help. A 3 hour drive away there is food at the market but at a price my gunday in most cannot afford the 10. 00 a kilo for me or the 5. 00 pack of rice cashing in from the desperation or traders looking to make a profit will this is true guy present going up for everyone and so i want to get the best but i was possible we are all suffering here we are all trying to make ends meet. Zimbabwe needs more rainfall for food to grow in november traditional healers invoked the spirits of the mighty is an easy river to release the rains but they have yet to come and so the Worlds Largest waterfall that separates involve way from zambia doesnt quite look the same with tourists asking where has the water gone this isnt just a tourist attraction its a lifeline for millions of people beyond zimbabwes border because the water is used both for food and power but look at it now. Gone is the thunderous sound of Falling Water left below are hungry animals dying of thirst after travelling for hundreds of kilometers in search of water a rhinoceros experiences the slow painful death from hunger 200. 00 elephants have died since the summer there could be more with endangered species especially vulnerable those alive both animals and humans are left to graze on whatever they can and so dulled by hunger migrate into one day and her grandchildren share their meal today treat a portion of maize tomorrow though is uncertain Nicholas Hawk aljazeera matabeleland zimbabwe. At least 25000 civilians have reportedly fled syrias the province for the Turkish Border as the syrian and Russian Forces intensify their bombardment at least 3 people have been killed in the latest air strikes so interests are advancing on the countrys last rebel held area. Cuba has appointed a Prime Minister for the 1st time in more than 40 years long serving tourism minister manuel mudd it all took office on saturday the position of Prime Minister was last held by fidel castro in 1976 the position was reinstated as part of cubas new constitution mexico is dealing with its highest murder rate on record and the majority of firearms being smuggled in from the u. S. Its become an increasingly hot topic after a number of u. S. Citizens were murdered recently in the country in the 1st of a 2 part investigation into arms trafficking between the u. S. And mexico john holan talks to those gun running and the hit men using them. It shocked me because the 17th of october 2019 the day this in a local telco turned out like an army with a devastating great firepower they subjugated to miss camilla create self and took over the streets of coolie a kind but it would be good this man says he was there fighting with the cartel were talking about their weapons would most of the people there in on the side of the cartel with american guns that replied yes of course because all the arms that we use here are from the other side of the border. What they got to go hes a hit man a soldier through organized crime one of the many across mexico responsible for record murder right how difficult would it be to do your job. If there wasnt this free flow coming from the United States. It would be hard because the u. S. Is the chief supplier thats where we get the new explosive guns we need going to support all of the guns that have been seized in mexico and traced 70 percent come from the United States theres a reason its hard to get a gun legally in mexico but the regulations are extremely strict not so in the u. S. And cartels you straw buyers and gun shop scene shows to get glocks a k 47 off if things and even machine guns its this mans job to smuggle them across the border about the truth is that its very easy to get them across we do hide them in the upholstery or where we can but the customs agents here dont really focus on that on searching and they never search the car. We saw that for us selves when we made the journey from the u. S. Into mexico on a busy thursday night there were no possible controls we saw no border offices and just to Customs Officials checked to see of cars that were already were into mexico. A lack of vigilance which is hard to reconcile with mexicos concerns i let myself up over the last year the most worrying issue in mexico are the guns the guns that we saw on coolly akon were impressive i want to propose again but using the latest technology from both countries we can stop the arms trafficking at the border. We asked for an interview with mexicos Foreign Ministry and its Customs Agency too to discuss those Border Security plans we didnt hear back. Meanwhile quantities of weapons continued to be brought across this stashed in a multitude of safe houses on arrival the gun run is in charge of this one in a suburb of the border town makali. More and more when we come back with guns they can stay here a day or 2 and then our people come to get them when everything is ready to take them away theyre distributed throughout the country being caught with one should mean jail time but if the government is get stopped by local police theres a simple solution. As they say here with money the dog dances sort it all out with cash and we each coraline way i dont know you and you dont know me. The guns make their way to the Cartel Soldiers the same ones that battle to be commits can authorities on the 17th of october this confrontation between the cartel and the government. That wouldnt have happened if the scene of. This easy access to weapons. Through a process so yes it would have happened but obviously as you say it would have been hard for us without that number of weapons i mean we probably wouldnt have beaten them if it wasnt so easy to get hold of the guns. The Mexican Forces humiliation then and in direct consequence of leaving us gun regulations and this countrys insufficient Border Security but there were other consequences to more intimate ones for the thousands of victims of mexicos shootings in part 2 will tell their stories john homan al jazeera mccully. Well in a few moments well have the weather with evidence and still ahead here on aljazeera how west african the dishpans of fight the cross border attacks plaguing their countries im rob reynolds on the Us Mexico Border where President Trumps border wall is under construction in one of the most biologically diverse areas in north america. And in sport its only hope this week the boys at the Winter Sports World Cup Final will have a little lets. Say we have a developing a thai food making its way towards the philippines you can see that a large massive cloud and it is getting larger is pushing towards central parts of the philippines by the time we come to Christmas Eve going on into Christmas Day it will become a typhoon by that stage punches way 3 and out into the open waters of the South China Sea sustained winds at the moment of around 80 Kilometers Per Hour but it will strengthen as we go on through the next 24 to 36 hours already starting to see some showers pushing in for monday but its changed the weather right really will set in and by wednesday it will be tumbling down here and it will continue to make its way further west with some parts could see as much as 152 millimeters of rain as we go one through the coming days and elsewhere across northern parts of india is the lack of wind thats causing problems yet again in the north here this is new delhi where the fault has returned to small as well of course and the poor at quality has caused some level of transport disruption not surprisingly and i think that will be a continuing problem as we go through the next few days they go change in conditions here a little bit of cloud just making its way through strong winds down towards the south will be. 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Youre watching aljazeera remind of our top stories this hour indias Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed supporters at a bleaching rally in new delhi this process continue against a controversial citizenship bloc hes accused his opponents of feeling on west over the loss of some say discriminates against muslims. Criminal results from afghanistans president ial election so incumbent are struck ghana has secured a slim majority sicker just over 50 percent of the results had been expected in october. Cooler weather conditions across the street here are expected to help firefighters contain more than 100 blazes bushfires have been burning out of control and conditions described as catastrophic at the state people died and hundreds of homes have been destroyed. Forcing is under way in the specs towns parliamentary election and this time there have been a lot of changes and you electoral code has been put in place which requires 30 percent of Party Candidates to be women and people with a criminal record can vote Hoda Abdelhamid reports from the capital. Its a show that at 1st done and then go even as the country allows political debate unscripted edited a 1st news because. There have been 29 others over the past 3 months where a wide range of topics were discussed often putting the candidates on the spot to the point that this party leader admitted it was big politicians lacked courage to watch them and some not that we didnt anticipate this level of success it was difficult at 1st because politicians went ready for this but then they prepared and were able to answer questions they didnt expect people to become more interested in the parties and their program. Then well come better. Is a proud cook of the National Dish cloth and despite steering hundreds of kilos of rice a day he followed the debates. There was a lot of truth and real issues with these debates we can understand what needs to be done in the correct way and what is wrong there is a lot of change and these elections are very different from previous ones who specs will have to choose between 5 parties ranging from left to right on the political spectrum but all government funded with similar platforms. There are no opposition or independent candidates running in this election. Is only 28 years old it was formed after the fall of the soviet union and 99. 00 to 1. 00 so regardless of this tour people are excited to go to the ballot boxes. Still for the 1st time the parties are somehow competing against each other to win over voters since president shafqat me to say you know you have took power in 2016 he is gradually taking the country out of isolation reforms. In almost all spheres of life social life political life a canonical. In some spheres we see Great Success in some spheres we see some controversial changes and sams fears we see real problems of reforming he has permitted greater freedom of expression which allows come only dean he said cool of to speak to us without fear of repercussion at 31 hes a 1st time voter he supports the liberal Democratic Party because it promised to back Small Businesses like his own thing is. Serious elections were just nominal now we say freely what we think before we are very scared we can see the reality even if its still not completely transparent i hope this will continue and it will become more liberal. President museo you have promised that parliament will become a true school of democracy billions of hope that day comes sooner rather than later. Or harder joins us live now from the capital tashkent hi there hold us so any suggestions on what voter turnout might be like with say early voting underway. Well actually we just got an update from the Electoral Commission and so far the turnout is about 58 percent nationwide that is out of the 18000000. 00 registered voters now interesting enough according to the Electoral Commission voting here in the capital around 44 percent to turnout and its much higher in the south of the country along the borders with afghanistan and took many stand about 68 percent there now that could be for example along the border with afghanistan simply because things have changed the new border has opened between the 2 countries and theres some sort of trade so people are quite sort of benefiting from this opening of the border in that when it comes to the economy but we still have about 4 and a half more hours until the polling stations close so well settle have to see if those numbers will increase indeed usually on average in elections in this country turnout is at around 70 percent by days and how did this trend towards more openness and transparency is that likely to continue and when youre talking to people is that what they want. I couldnt hear exactly your question but i think what really the give away of this election is that there is a lot of optimism among. People anyone i spoke to said this one is very different than the ones we had before actually i was speaking german elderly man who has voted many times in this lives in parliamentary election and he said it has nothing to do he said in the past actually you would bring the pile of passports of his entire family and boot himself food entire family now we dont have that anymore it is a transparent system everything has been digitalized people have to come here themselves and then you have the fact that there has been an openness in the bait you had for the past 3 months candidates sort of competing against each other live on Television People for the 1st time heard what these candidates have to offer is what their partys after up and what also are the shortcomings of these candidates so it certainly is something that galvanize the country there is a lot of hope but these are the very very early stages does a long way still before you know full democracy is reached but there is hope and you do really feel that when you speak to people hold up till he made their lives from tashkent codifying q well voices in croatia heading to the polls for a president ial election 11 candidates are running to the incumbent leader kalinda grab our kids are true of each opinion show polls show that it could be a tight race between her and her main rivals the vote comes as creation is set to take over the rotating presidency next month. In northwest libya drones have attacked the town of muscle after killing 3 people to be as internationally recognized government blames the strikes on warlord after us forces and the United Arab Emirates which backs his offensive to seize the capital our libya correspondent mark with of the wahid has more now from tripoli. The Government Forces tried to enter the homeowner city about 65 kilometers to the south east from the capital tripoli to horner is the main stronghold for have to his forces and it has the Central Command from where from which i have to along with the Russian Military experts are running their battles in southern tripoli thats according to the government of National Accord so Government Forces tried to open new front lines near tarhouni city but they withdraw they say that they faced a dislikes by have to draw and fighter jets meanwhile a new city has witnessed clashes in its vicinity near the city of the horn the city of them silat which is about 88 kilometers to the sub southeast from the capital tripoli the city of there is among the civil cities that have recently declared Mass Mobilization to prevent have to his forces from entering the capital tripoli now so that there is facing have to us forces and its southern vicinities after the Government Forces withdraw from the area and local sources in there say that hundreds of civilians have left their homes because of the fighting and random rockets have been landing inside the city 3 people were killed and a dozen others were wounded according to medical sources sources in the city of. Domo tom selection promised to build the border with mexico is taking shape construction crews are busy in arizona but environmentalists fear irreversible damage is being done to one of those biological diverse regions of the entire United States the story. President Donald Trumps border barrier is under construction in southern arizona. Crews with heavy weapons are carving a path through the desert the wall will go along the southern edge of the Organ Pipe Cactus National monument an area of exceptional beauty the u. S. National park service says the 1340 square kilometer monument preserves one of the earths major ecosystems in nearly unspoiled condition. The United Nations designated organ pipe National Monument as an International Biosphere reserve environmentalists say a wall construction threat these this pristine environment weve got endangered. Fish also known as this annoyed up fish right here in this stream you can see and swim around over there are they an endangered species they are a lot of 4 endangered species here workers will pump water from underground to mix concrete for the barriers base possibly drying out this desert always this which is just a few 100 meters from the border. The barrier will block the normal migration routes of rare animal species like pooh line the antelope the Human Experience will also change a 50 kilometer and 9 meter tall wall equipped with floodlights that are on all night long thats whats being proposed here and its its insane are nice guys are going to be destroyed were not going to see the stars anymore from the campground and its going to be an eyesore this is a place thats designated wilderness its supposed to look pristine and now its going to look like 50 kilometer prison wall in order to build the wall President Trump declared a state of National Emergency here on the border now that together with other legal loopholes has allowed the government to completely disregard numerous laws designed to protect environmentally sensitive areas like this environmentalists have taken the administration to court in an effort to slow or halt construction but for now the wall marches relentlessly forward. Robert oulds aljazeera near solenoid mexico. In chile a policemans been charged with causing grievous bodily harm after t. V. Pictures appear to show Police Trucks running over and to government protest as a 20 year old is in hospital with a suspected broken pelvis following fridays battle in santiago. At least 26. 00 to the ends have been killed and thousands injured and arrested during 2 months of protests against poverty inequality and social injustice congress has approved raising pension subsidies for the poor many want a complete overhaul of one of the worlds most controversial private Pension Systems are latin america editor to see in human reports from santiago. Its the Holiday Season and become one to see nurses making the christmas cake but not for her family selling these cakes is just one of the many ways the 62 year old pensioner tries to make ends meet. She also fixes clothes like other pensioners who are low Income Neighborhood but at the has to keep working because after 35 years of factory work her monthly retirement check is 133. 00 well below chiles poverty line of us talking about him on the same street there are 4 grandparents in their 83 and 3 still work the other is too ill and she lay retirements nothing to look forward to. Who lives in an upper middle class area agrees she retired at the beginning of last year after working 37 years 1st as a nurse and then as a University Professor with a masters degree she used to make nearly 2000. 00 a month. With a look at them but when i went to do my retirement papers i discovered that i had a poppers pension i said is this a joke and i was told no madam its like this for everyone the 300. 00 i am getting isnt even enough to pay for my health insurance. Nothing infuriates chileans of all walks of life more than their compulsory private retirement system or a. F. P. It was created under chiles military dictatorship and was supposed to guarantee pensions equivalent to 70 percent of ones last paycheck. Instead 10 to 20 percent is the average with good reason the a. F. P. s are the number one target of millions of protesters from. Chilis Pension Funds make massive profits which are not redistributed to the contributors even as pensions drop work at them or one of the floors and you know this model was designed with the objective to transfer the workers savings to Capital Markets like banks the big retailers etc thats hope create large economic groups that have concentrated wealth in a few hands as never before and worst of all its forced millions of chileans to live in misery. So in chile the suicide rate for elderly people has soared and one of the prime reasons is because they no longer have enough money with which to survive amid all the protests the government has actually raised the state pension subsidy but even after doubling that subsidy for people over the age of 80 it is still nowhere near a minimum wage at a time in life when people have greater expenses for medicine and for doctors. The governments offer to partially compensate for the a. F. P. Shortcomings with tax payers money has only added more fuel to the fire and its unlikely to be put out without a Major Overhaul of the Pension System that only seems to be benefiting those who dont pay for it to see a newman sunday i will. Now Border Security remains a big concern for west African Leaders summit send it in nigerias capital where they discuss fund raising to support the fight against increased attacks in the sahara region the vast and remote area of the southern so hard as it spans many borders and a good serious donated by groups affiliated to eisele and alqaeda. Voice from above. The 56th ordinary summit of course was anything but ordinary these are particularly difficult times for the region as attacks by armed groups of escalated in recent months. The rising violence in the hell in other parts of west africa dominated the speeches. Nigerias president whose country has had to deal with the threat from boko haram for the past 10 years he says closer cooperation is needed along with more International Support terrorism remains the major threat to the keys and progress in egypt regarding attacks by terrorists groups remind us of the i just see 2 lead and do added Security Partnership to come grown to include the evil of gross border tenet is an. Echo as chairman and the just president was country recently lost 71 soldiers in an attack by an isolated group is in no doubt about the effects of the violence on member nations. Not usually due to the proving bill is affected autistic and sometimes a few such as our region has been hit hard by terrorist attacks which have intensified with every passing day threatening the Many National and regional achievements we have made the terrorist attacks continually test our resolve to fighting this scourge the leaders in the last meeting in september agreed to set up a 1000000000. 00 fund to pay for armies to fight the armed groups one 100000000. 00 of that is distributed but with many countries in the region having to fight that individual but as a low it is here that more than a 1000000000. 00 will be needed to achieve peace. Is a night ignatius special representative in west africa theres no question that the moral cost response is required because what we are seeing is that the terrorist groups are still a lot of resistance and one is the resilience and capacities which we had and theres the meeting ive this knowledge there has to be a response to address the root causes of violent extremism the meeting also reviewed guineabissau president ial elections and importantly the plan for single currency next year a course says 7 countries now meet the criteria for a single currency but its not clear if french speaking countries are using the west African Financial Community from the c. F. A. Well ditch it and when they come is like nigeria and ghana want to adopt the plant common currency the coal which is chattel to roll out in 2020 greece. And send this file that story the ivorian president and im still the knight the renaming of the you are a common currency that says it will remain pegged to the. Demo so im happy to announce that in agreement with the other heads of state of the west African Economic and Monetary Union we. Added to reform the c. F. A. Front with the 3 following major changes 1st renaming the currency from the c. F. A. To the echo 2nd the end of centralization of half of all reserves with the french treasury and the closing of its operating account and 3rd the withdrawal of france from all management of the currency union. Still ahead here on aljazeera in sport and on friendly welcome to you is this n. B. A. Star far will be here with that story coming up as. Children new born into a city of trash discovered the beauty of music and under list of places. When a chance to play for the blonde 10 then reality into a dream. 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Lets get the days sports news now with far julie thanks so much liverpool are celebrating after winning the fee for Club World Cup for the very 1st time champions beat the mango brazil in saturdays final in doha the game was settled in extra time with liverpools brazilian striker roberta for mainly 0 scoring only goals in the 16 times this tournament has been staged the trophy has gone to the european side on 12 occasions with south American Teams winning the other 4 we did so many good things to leave a bit so many good football moments. Everybody was for different reasons. On the air pretty much. But i saw so many sensational good performances our correspondent Andy Richardson was watching at the cliff International Stadium he said there was more to this game off the pitch than on it while liverpool manager youre going to club said it would be like the club taking a lunar leap forward if they could win this title and they have indeed taken that giant step and won the Club World Cup for the 1st time albeit in a very tight final against flamingo of brazil so what ironically decided by winner by brazilian striker playing for liverpool riverside for mean and scoring the winner just as he did in the semifinal against monster a little pull now straight back into premier League Action as they tend to win that title for the 1st time in 3 decades huge disappointment for flamengo and the thousands of fans in might the long trip from brazil a title that means so much to the consonance and the country they couldnt quite repeat their heroics of 981 when they beat liverpool in the intercontinental cup final that was the forerunner of the Club World Cup as for this tournament well it returns in this format to qatar next year as the country continues to build up to the main world cup in 2022 after votes for president john in france you know intends to expand its were 24 Team Tournament hosted by china in 2021 hes talked about his desire to have more powerful clubs aims around the world sort of a global so pally perhaps in the future as well what you can see on the horizon for an organization like fee for who have traditionally been involved in organizing international Team Tournament is a bit of a power struggle as they attempt to get more influence over and money out of the club game i. Play was heartbreak for filmmaker fans watching back home in rio this term and meaning so much more to south American Teams his best talent often gets bought up by european clubs like liverpool fans are also proud. Their team having gone so close against the european champions and English Premier League leader is. What is new or saudi arabia host the italian super cup on sunday kris jenner and all those you bet is take on lots you know in riyadh last 31 to the rowing team earlier this month allowing interland to catch up with the leaders in the italian title race. And enter have now taken full advantage of uvas absence to go top of syria on goal difference Romelu Lukaku scored twice in a 4 nil win over genoa the belgian could have had a heart trick when into one a huddle t. Generously gave ball to teenager Sebastiano Esposito instead the 17 year old scoring his 1st syria goal on his 1st start for the. German champions barne munich are staging a recovery after their difficult start to the season they left it late at home to waltz berg though teenager josh was 3rd seed finally getting the breakthrough in the. Search to napoli done wrap things up to make it 3 straight wins for byron. But theyre still 4 points behind rb like say at the top of the Business Leader they were ruthless in beating the sparks 31 like 6 hoping to be the 1st east german champion since the berlin wall came down in 1000. Former spurs star quire leonard got quite an unfriendly welcome on his return to san antonio on saturday that while he covers player led aside huge win over disposed leonard was booed every time he touched the ball on the ask why he was traded from san antonio to troy want to go back in 2818 or 26 points as the visitors to thrash the put 1st 131200. Over in brooklyn thats overcame an 18 point deficit to be visiting Atlanta Hawks spencer de windies scored 39. 00 points to lead the nets to 122212. 00. Meanwhile injured player Kevin Durants used his downtime to spread Holiday Cheer to some kids in new york city 31 year old handed out gifts to about 40 children whose families are facing homelessness. Or number one rafa nadal has and 821000 fine style by taking the trophy at the world tennis championship in abu dhabi on saturday he was up against christian stefano suppose he went eliminated 16 time grand slam champion Novak Djokovic in the semifinals and although how does nerves and the task 6775762 the space. And with the cancellation of major skiing events in europe do to excess snow the sport of snowboard cross has been stepping into the spotlight this is been an olympic sport since 2006 and its why. All caps season is well underway there was a photo finish here at the mens final in italy and it was the home of the run so someone reviled you wanted to have another italian so not to tax and yet its. Ok and that is all your sport for now julie back to. You so much well thats it something in the team here for this hour but well be back in just a moment with much more on the days news do stay with us but by. This is a boon for point people right now in technology there is so much going to help people its phenomenal thanks for calling i read this is there a what are you looking for today we get to assess the blind with their day to day tasks and give them more independence and freedom this feels like its a little gift that sure is a tomato exploration process was amazing in a way we have that Technology Available to us techno. A city defined by military occupation business of a been an arab state he would the capital of jerusalem everyone is welcome but the depot structure of the main things because only project does what we diffuse it was one of the sounders of the settlement with this and the story of jerusalem through the eyes of its own people segregation occupation discrimination injustice this is apartheid in the 21st century jerusalem a rock and a hard place on aljazeera. Indias Prime Minister accuses the opposition of inciting public anger over a controversial new citizenship law. Turn fully back to boyer watching aljazeera live from doha also ahead getting a taste for democracy specs head to the polls for parliamentary elections an exclusive report from mexico where al jazeera reveals just how easy it is for cartels to smuggle guns from the u. S. And australias Prime Minister returns home to controversy after a holiday in hawaii unprecedented bushfires