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Tens of thousands of protesters have gathered in lebanons capital city to mark one year since mass antigovernment protests they have been rejecting corruption in the ruling class lebanon has been experiencing its worst economic crisis since the civil war which is only deepened during the pandemic so a quick look at how we got to this point in october last year a newly announced tax on calls made through the whatsapp application triggered protests across lebanon then it turned into a broader call to end government corruption unemployment and poor Public Service led to the resignation of the Prime Minister saad hariri and a political deadlock to replace him and in early august a powerful explosion ripped through central beirut killing more than 200 people and became another symbol of government incompetence and weeks later a 2nd wave of coronavirus posed a threat for the 10s of thousands of people who lost their homes in the blast thats enough to send a holiday who has the latest from beirut. It has been a very difficult year those nationwide protests were triggered by the economy people were not making and. They were losing their jobs today the economy is near collapse the currency has devalued by 80 percent on the black market more than 50 percent of a population of 5000000 people are poor the situation is definitely much worse people took to the streets today to mark the one Year Anniversary of what they call the revolution but these people were not able to rally the whole nation behind a significant number of lebanese still continue to protect and defend the status quo the sectarian leaders who have been governing this country for decades simply because they either benefit from them or for ideological reasons they continue to support them so the situation is quite dire the august for explosion at ports killed nearly 200. 00 people there is still a lot of anger but those in power are entrenched in this confessional based system power sharing system in this country its easier said than done to remove them from power theyve been clinging onto power there is there were there was a counter revolution Security Forces they used force to clamp down on gatherings they made arrests they intimidated the people and thats why a lot of people are scared to return to the streets so those who are marking this anniversary say we will continue to fight there is the determination for political change but nobody is under the illusion that this will be an easy way forward to the fighting is in the conflict over the disputed region of nagornokarabakh and we call for a cease fire between us by john and i mean its a fact families have buried the dead in azerbaijan which is accused. Of killing 13 civilians in a missile attack in the city of gunja Defense Ministry says it did not far. From this report. Assessing the damage from the air and missile strike destroyed at least 20 buildings in ganja azerbaijan 2nd largest city of 300000 people or so. Weve been living in fear for days we couldnt sleep at night we hid but that was no use our suffering a lot i wish we were dead but our children would have to live without us we believe in our state and president may god give us back our back. People hate all fall from the disputed region of nagornokarabakh azerbaijan and armenia are fighting over but they were not spanned armenias Defense Ministry denies firing tools as abrasion adding the type of missile its accused of using doesnt have the range to reach gunja however it later released a list of what it called legitimate targets and ganja as a right john says it has proof that the missiles came from armenia to say how. Immoral our. Political. And army and on the forces. Force the other way just because it is unequivocal the job is not as a 1st they attacked in a deliberate and discriminate manner as it were to the syrians and say you have isnt what was burst scott me. Saying. Both sides of blaming each other for violating a russian brokered truce agreed a week ago which includes a small part detainees and bodies of those killed. Since friday nights attack in gunja anina says azerbaijans armed forces violated the humanitarian cease fire by hitting step pan card to nagornokarabakh on saturday as i by johns president confirmed his forces have now taken control of mold villages in foods in the south east of nagornokarabakh armenia considers fusilli a buffer zone between nagornokarabakh and as i abrasion insist territory that both sides of the conflict have been negotiating over for the last 26 years. And as those negotiations failed as a bridge on with turkish support pushed to take some of this territory back its you know most pressure on the armenians have lost more than 600 fighters recently. The violence is the worst in the region since azerbaijan Ethnic Armenian forces went to war in the early 1990 s. The control of nagornokarabakh allies with an eye by john has been under the control of the ethnic amini and forces. Fact since the war ended in 199400001 friday armenians Prime Minister met soldiers being sent to the front line the main party i love you all im proud of you all i believe that youll defend the future of your children with dignity long live the republic of armenia long live the Armenian Diaspora was a clear message but theres no signs of a rest spot for now civilians and they saw its own face in uncertain days ahead was that not a fighter and just. What i mean is says it sent a delegation to russia to discuss a ceasefire but a smith is in the median capital of your of on and has more. Well yes. Minister representatives to moscow to discuss with representatives a cease fire monitoring mechanism is at the back of the initiative started by moscow to get this cease fire going but armenia says theres areas havent turned up and they say they suspect that its turkey stopped as of any representatives now no word yet from. On whether they will whether or if they will send a representative to moscow but certainly there is pressure on media to do something because its suffering military casualties at least more than 600. 00 means killed on the battlefield and its losing territory its losing territory that it has controlled since the cease fire in 1994 this is territory between the goal of karabakh and azerbaijan that armenia says is a necessary buffer zone a safe zone between john and kyra back territory both sides of sposed have been talking about over the last 26 years under the auspices of this minsk group moscow paris and washington d. C. Says nothings happened theyve not got any progress and that is why with turkeys assistance now they are prosecuting this conflict to try and take back that land near attack militarily meaning it says it wants to implement a cease fire and hes willing to talk about implementation thats a year and side of things lets go has more from the as a by johnny in the capital of black. At the moment the International Community has been issuing statements calling for calm weve seen the efforts of the. Group weve seen the efforts from Vladimir Putin weve seen also depreciation of russia turkish president richard do and. It seems that no one is listening really underground here certainly azerbaijan is backed by turkey in this conflict it does have aerial superiority so it feels strong in that respect armenia says that it will retaliate and munir also having the backing of several European Countries it seems but. Underground at the moment on the way when it comes to azerbaijan they are getting territory theyre making territorial gains. According to the president actually they have. Retaken at least 2 of those 7 regions maybe not fully but certainly made enormous gains in there there is movement and when you speak as they are by john they will continue this fight now obviously you have things that happen like yet back in ganja last night you have a big human a human cost to this war yes people at the moment here are backing their leaders and they probably also back the same is happening in armenia but you know do more you every day that passes and the higher the human cost you have probably the positions will become also very difficult for both leaders. Turkey has discovered a natural gas supply roughly equivalent to almost 10 years worth of its annual energy needs president rest of typo the ones with the find off the east coast of the black sea is the countrys largest ever gas discovery turkey currently imports nearly all the gas it consumes its exploration elsewhere industry its waters in the Eastern Mediterranean resigning to greece and cyprus out of all the linen book called under the European Union is doing the most damage to itself by becoming captive to greece and Greek Cypriots the reliability of the European Union has already diminished because of the double standard the block imposes on our country at the cost of defying all the values it has been defending to this day if the e. U. Does not hold an unbiased stance in existing disputes in the Eastern Mediterranean this situation would be the official declaration of the end of the European Union. When i was ready to use a file about whos a retard turkish colonel who works in the military base and he now works as a security analyst at the Turkish Defense university and he says the countrys ambition to become a Regional Energy power will put political and trade relations at risk. This findings in the black sea region is a very important number 6 from the search for suspected because turkey is staying on the 4 nature. Almost 13000000000. 00 to russia by john and iran will be a huge leverage for turkey not only afford the price of the nature of gas but will say the same time so he has a go for creating egg s. Trading whop insight turkey for just isnt turkey not on the use only it is nature of the gas for the trade hopital saw the know that there are a lot softer pipelines he says bringing nature gas on petrol him from russia from afar by john from iraq from iran for misuse and so evil addle so what he is produce equal saw to his for being a gas trading in this area for balkan sound for europe. Shirky is trying to use her you know look to clerked for this International Relations honest report make one a mute point just isnt always a part of perestroika agreement 38 really try to use this leach will gas and also really a keep down electric Power Generator speech drug used to call for the citizen in any case it will be beneficial for the for the shoe. Their heritage is there are thousands of protesters in the thai capital to fight government warnings and a transit shutdown. How their weathers staying fine and dry across much of the middle east at the moment and not exclusively that we have got a circulation moving across iraq mysie that only very close to was at least inside of a man as we go on through the next couple of days might just splash a few showers into a snowman nothing much to speak of but there never less certainly want to keep an eye on some lesser weather further north just making its way across western and central parts of turkey rolling towards armenia azerbaijan georgia easing a little further east woods as we go on through monday some of your burst of bright sunny a possibility at that stage but elsewhere its dry highs here in doha of around 33. 00 celsius some very pleasant sunshine to come that is hot sunshine across Southern Africa present to central areas we have got the usual seasonal showers that are in quite nice to be got some west of weather that just now making its way to northern parts of tans and theyre just pushing towards where when the brew and the heavy showers all the way across into a good part of angola more showers as we go on through the course of monday but look towards the south and you can see its hot sunshine we have heat warnings in force for the northeast. South africa temperatures around 10 degrees above the seasonal average joe back with a high of 33 celsius. The oppression of an ethnic minority and me and mine goes back many decades the intention was to make sure that rangers were no longer entitled to either basic rights or citizenship rights. Aljazeera explores the history and motives behind the systematic persecution of the ranger and me and my. Exile on not just iraq. Again youre watching aljazeera remind of our top stories this hour and a candlelight vigil has been held to mark the explosion at a port in lebanons capital that killed more than 200 people 2 months ago tens of thousands of people are also marking one year since a mass antigovernment protests erupted against corruption and worsening Economic Conditions. As a by john says at least 13 people have been killed by an armenian missile attack in the city of gunja dozens were injured i mean his Defense Ministry says it did not fire towards and. Take is discovered a natural gas supply roughly equivalent to almost 10 years worth of its annual energy needs president rest of top one says the find of the east coast of the black sea is anchors largest ever gas discovery. Now protesters in the u. S. Capital of washington d. C. In other cities across the country in a march for women. Yes there aim is to build momentum to vote President Donald Trump out of the white house are also protesting against the Supremes Court nomination of judge amy to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg the 87 year old was a liberal and feminist icon lets get more on this for president jordan in washington d. C. And rosa protests is pretty clear what they want to achieve at this protest. Actually nick they were very clear in what they wanted to achieve during this protest you saw some people talking about black lives matter you saw some people talking about the right for reproductive justice you saw some people talking about the need to vote donald trump and mike pence his Vice President out of office you saw some people talking about the need to protect the Supreme Court from people such as amy county barrett who has been nominated to fill the vacancy on the high court no unifying message no real social distancing at this event and its worth noting that top perhaps just a few 100 people have shown up on a chilly fall afternoon here in the Nations Capital there was also a general appeal to getting out the vote after these demonstrators head to the u. S. Capitol to make their of various political calls then theyre going to stand on the National Mall and call people who have not voted yet in the 2020 National Election to make certain that they get to the polls so its real mishmash of messages here certainly not the 10s of thousands of people that we saw at the most famous iteration of the womens march on january 21st 2017 so i guess difficult times during the pandemic may to the challenge of trying to reach recreate that kind of process so why else do you think that this hasnt quite worked in the same way. Well its also i think the fact that there is a pandemic is probably the biggest part of the problem the 1st thing that one of the speaker said when she took to the stage in the last hour was that people needed to spread out people who were much too close to each other certainly not respecting the 2 meter distance saying that people are supposed to exercise when theyre out in public you saw people lie hugging each other and posing for photos and selfies and certainly not taking enter under consideration the need to socially distance but also consider that this is the middle of autumn here in the Northern Hemisphere people are trying to get their children educated so its hard to get away its youve seen the Economic Impact of the pandemic thats made it much more difficult for people to afford the price of a plane ticket to come to the Nations Capital for a demonstration and theres also the simple fact that so many people have already decided to put their energy into actually campaigning for their preferred candidate or to as the many people are doing around the country on this saturday lining up to vote so those are some of the factors why the numbers are so small the timing is in particular suspect and i think theres also a real recognition that the original reason for calling this rally to what try to prevent the seating of judge barrett from joining the high court its basically a full airing because the confirmation vote is expected to happen this coming thursday october 22nd and it is widely expected that Senate Republicans are going to confirm her for the u. S. Supreme court so that sort of took a lot of the thunder away from the organizers original plan which was to try to prevent her from joining the Supreme Court or not working out perhaps the way they build nonces rose things what was told there in washington d. C. Thousands of thai protesters that return to the streets for a 4th day after the police shut down major roads and public transport of the capital protesters demanding new elections and reforms to the monarchy in the past week Police Arrested more than 50 people including several protest leaders is turning. Antigovernment protesters in bangkok defied an emergency decree from the Police Crackdown the night before to come out into the streets again on saturday undeterred by police moves to shut down the center of the thai capital split into 3 groups to the north east and west of the city they gathered and called for the government to step down and the money to reform earlier in the day the police announced the public transport to the center of bangkok would be stopped and roads closed anyone found to be participating in the protests they said would be arrested and charged with. We have been constantly telling them that gatherings are prohibited because legal it doesnt matter whether the protests a peaceful or not theyre considered illegal. But the police outmaneuvered again mobilizing on social media the protesters just reassembled elsewhere this group of engineering students had come prepared for trouble seeing the water cannon and other Police Tactics the night before. There are rumors that the police would arrest people right away without forming a lion or pushing us or dispersing us they will arrest us amaury so i prepared these. As night fell rumors swirled of an imminent Police Crackdown at times the crowds looked lost with many of their leaders already detained. But the message to the government remain clear that they wanted to step down the protesters a half an hour you know 4 nights in a row its not a very strong opposition. They expect to crack down have never came in the protesters didnt push their luck after all keeping the streets for 4 hours they packed up and drifted home but their point to be made that they can and they will continue to fight and it seems theres little the authorities can do to stop them tony chang aljazeera bangkok french prosecutors say an 18 year old man of chechen descent to the accused the beheading a teacher in paris on friday had approached School Pupils to help identify his victim parents and pupils have been blamed for tributes to the teacher on saturday prosecutors say the school had received multiple threats after the teacher showed a controversial image of the Prophet Muhammad in a lesson about freedom of expression police say theyve questioned 9 people as they try to find out whether the attacker had accomplices has this really. These normally quiet streets in northwest paris or the latest of the deadly issue in French Society police say an 18 year old man killed a middle School History teacher with a knife after he showed a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad in class he was teaching about freedom of expression not what the pm if you according to my son who is muslim who sat in this class he has discussed it he was disappointed he told me this was a teacher he liked very nice very pleasant professor not islamophobia whatever. Parents say the teacher suggested Muslim Students could leave the classroom if they were offended and i dont believe for a while my son is disturbed in any case im not putting him back in school its over its the end even after the holidays because west scared were not safe here im afraid of retribution i dont know if theyll come to school or whatever. President emmanuel mccrone says the nation stands ready to defend teaches and frances secular values. One of our fellow citizens was murdered today because he was a teacher because he was teaching students freedom of expression freedom to believe and not to believe compatriot was attacked in a cowardly fashion he was the victim of a characteristic islamist terrorist attack less than a month ago or 2 people were attacked outside the former offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo gunmen attacked the magazines offices in 2015 after it published controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad 17 people were killed the suspects on trial 2 weeks ago mccrone said in a speech islam is a religion that is in crisis all over the world today were not just seeing this in our country our challenge is to fight against those who go off the rails in the name of religion or protecting those who believe in islam and a full citizens of the republic. Traveled across. This shit. Is something very near. The attacker was shot dead near the school as officers tried to arrest him bellus aljazeera. Supporters of a Paramilitary Group in iraq have attacked the headquarters of the Kurdish DemocraticParty Hundreds of members and supporters of the Popular Mobilization forces set fire to the building in baghdad itself the kurdish iraqi politician said the iran backed groups offices should be shut down the Popular Mobilisation forces have breached by dads fortified green zone twice. Austrias foreign minister has tested positive for corona virus after attending and e. U. Meeting in luxembourg earlier this week a spokeswoman for alexander says he may have caught the virus when he met members of the Foreign Affairs council that was on monday austria reported a record jump in new daily cases with more than 1700 cases confirmed on saturday. Hundreds of women have marched through Better Research capital in protest against the government they carried flowers and chanted slogans in opposition to president of its own to change it and government demonstrations have been held for the past 2 months following a disputed election. You zealands Prime Minister just the labor party who secured landslide victory in parliamentary elections so mounting 3 more years and party has won more than half of the seats an unprecedented result there will almost certainly see her govern without any Coalition Partners torgan big as a. Just in the other durn has much to celebrate not only has she won a 2nd term as Prime Minister shes led her party to a historic victory based on provisional results its the 1st time since new zealand adopted a proportional representation Voting System 24 years ago that a single party has won a majority in parliament now more than ever is the time to keep going to keep working to grab hold of the opportunities that lie in front of us a little steep forward to give power who our people know it. Was but it was a bad night for the Opposition Center right National PartyJudith Collins who when he took over the partys leadership 3 months ago said the scale of the defeat is sobering the National Party will take we will repeat will take time to reflect and we will review and we will change national will reemerge from this loss a stronger disciplined and more canete to passy. Some of the adjourns form a Coalition Partner new zealand 1st failed to pick up a single seat ending the career of 75 year old deputy Prime MinisterWinston Peters he was elected to parliament more than 40 years ago he blamed k. That 19 for drowning out every other issue. This election was widely seen as a test of our handling of the pandemic the government took early action to control the outbreak including announcing a nationwide locked down when there were only 102 confirmed cases she will say one international praised the handling of the mass shooting last year by a white supremacist targeting 2 mosques in Christ Church and her quick action to ban semiautomatic guns and assault rifles voters in the selection of also have been deciding on 2 referendums the 1st on euthanasia if approved it will give New Zealanders who meet the criteria the option of legally requesting help to end their lives the 2nd is about whether to legalize the use of Recreational Marijuana the results will be announced at the end of the month or done so cool go hard go early approach to cave in 1000. 00 has helped her win a landslide victory but she faces many challenges ahead new zealands buddhism still shot its Tourism Sector is suffering and some economists are predicting a long recession after the strict lockdowns in Uncertain Times the new zealand is. And is the leader best able to get them through Victoria Gate and be aljazeera. Service is out there these are the top stories in the conflict vigil has been held to mark the explosion at a port in lebanons capital that killed more than 200. 00 people 2 months ago tens of thousands of people are also marking one year since mass antigovernment protests erupted against corruption and worsening Economic Conditions is in beirut with more there is a lot of anger but those in power are entrenched in this confession all based system power sharing system in this country it is yourself and done to remove them from power theyve been clinging on to power they