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Im phil gallo welcome to the program. Lebanons beleaguered Prime Minister saad hariri has announced that he is to resign his televised address follows almost 2 weeks of protests demanding political change many lebanese are unhappy with what they see as a corrupt and incompetent political elite the Prime Minister failed to satisfy demonstrators with his announcement of a series of Anti Corruption measures and political reforms lets hear what he had to say. Honestly i have reached a dead end and we have to take a shocking step to face the crisis. And i thought im going to the president ial palace to submit the resignation of the government to president i mean shallow mission on all the shock and to the lebanese people in all regions as in response to the will of many of the lebanese who took to the squares to demand change. Straight to the capital where were going to. Be in beirut to a welcome but whats behind this decision. So theyre going whats behind this decision. Its like its well its also obvious after 15 days of the devastation that this all of the major cities would prosecute that here the government has no other option they tried their best 1st of all they set up back its awfully strong the protesters agree with it they said its not. Need a lot of time to be achieved 2nd before theyd like to open the lock. Main door in beirut and need by some other cities nearby they would they didnt actually have the i. D. F. They know yes they do people they should to protect the protesters. Then we had the team dates all luck so the only way was nation and this was basically at 8 oclock the Prime Minister said i needed a statement. And so what does his resignation mean for the country. The torso action. Not the process. Old disgustedly they would have beat. The movement and they are its the 1st step then one of the main demands was the governments ignition 2nd you have to. Know you want. The whole i want to take down the old. School the 1st step that is the government achieved. The new formation of a new government. Technocratic with difficult ticket members so they can achieve the other the money. Is not likely to happen. Nothing you need because you know lebanon is. You know old region and. Lets say. Violence or any event that took place in the middle east region will have its impact on lebanon so we need this moment we are waiting for a press release from the president ial palace which is going to be released in the next few minutes. I received some few minutes ago so waiting for the loonies what is known to according to i was sources as the devil you in bed with a closer look to all sources that we talked today. Should the parliament were going to lead a side how do you do for a moment. So even sounds like this crisis is far from over because if protesters well how about the political elite and they dont get a technocratic government then the same people with different faces it sounds like will take will take over. What. First of all maybe the 1st reaction from to protest is that they will move out from the streets down the open the main roads but theyre going to remain in the. Main we. Were talking about the markets which. Meaning for the protesters. The. City council so the protests i dont to remain in the squares but what we think whats. Demanded you know the politicians and some of the Political Parties you know i asked the protesters to go out of the streets since they didnt want main demands which is taking down the government. The specter of civil war is never far from peoples minds. Is this going to stay at this level do you think well as the country headed for more violent confrontations. Even today and in the past couple of days. Before this squares. All Political Parties all Decision Makers and evident even to the demonstrators the memories the bad 3 memories of stephen was still alive and conscious and subconscious so no one going to repeat this mistake again according to all these parties and demonstrators so all the. Parties in the been trying their best to avoid this thing that saying that at best they said that theyre going to cheat the old ignorance. This is their right decision they are very. They didnt use lights they didnt achieve it since 30 years since. Years ago. All the bodies people asking for the thing demands medical insurance and so on good talking to you thank you for joining us about in beirut thank you the United Nations is in iraq to show restraint in the face of ongoing protests saying it has multiple reports of Security Forces using Excessive Force demonstrations calling for an end to corruption and inequality erupted this month and at least 250. 00 people have died in the ensuing violence at least 14 was shot dead during protests in the holy city of karbala overnight the circumstances around the shootings are unclear in the capital baghdad demonstrations refused to leave the streets despite a nighttime curfew imposed by the military. Protesters in baghdad blocked the bridge leading to the seat of power the heavily fortified International Zone is where government buildings are highest and many iraqis want to change of leaders there for the family we want a Transitional Government and a president that will change the constitution weve had enough enough humiliation im a teacher ive got a salary in the house but young people around employees where are they supposed to go. To have all this the shot the constant pose a curfew on the people you know the people are energized ready when youre going to have everyone came out last night to liberation square and we didnt care about any curfew or the government just shut up shop we want our demands to be met one by one those are cover here that even that. Protest is dealing with the usual effects of tear gas fired by Security Forces but Human Rights Watch says that iraqi Security Forces fired tear gas canisters into crowds to maim or kill demonstrators who would be your. Videos like this are being shared on social media allegedly showing the casualties. The death toll continues to rise officials confirms that must gunmen shot and killed protesters on monday night after they defied a curfew in the holy city of karbala. I believe less protest cuts across all society drawing in men and women secular and religious groups. The protesters are angry about what they see as government corruption a lack of basic services and widespread unemployment they want the government to step down and have already rejected a package of reforms over the weekend Prime Minister Abdullah Abdullah mahdi said anyone disrupting businesses all schools would be punished but it seems unlikely that this will deter the protesters. Now to syria where the ceasefire brokered by turkey and russia has officially ended. It went that russias foreign minister declaring that Kurdish Forces have withdrawn from the border area earlier than planned but there are reports of clashes between Syrian Government troops and Turkish Forces the syrian observatory for human rights says it is seen artillery and machine gun fire south of the border town of ras alain Kurdish Forces agreed to retreat from the area under the deal struck up by russia and turkey last week. Straight to turkey that we join doubly correspondent to yulia han in istanbul welcome yulia. What happens now. Well the ceasefire that you have been talking about has been a very shaky one there have been occasional skirmishes they have continued in the past days and both sides have blamed each other for violations now turkey and russia struck that deal to allow Kurdish Militia in ne as syria which ankara consider as terrorists to withdraw some 30 kilometers from the Turkish Border in a next step than turkish and Russian Forces which start to joint patrols in parts of that area now while the kurdish led as d. F. Say they have been redeploying their forces away from the border and the Russian Defense Ministry Just announced the withdrawal has been completed earlier today said that not all of the fighting has have withdrawn and we heard president edwin there in the past days he has repeatedly threatened to restart the military operation if the kurdish fighters that do not leave so its not unlikely we will see a renewed fighting even on a larger scale in the next hours in the next 2 days despite International Calls for a permanent ceasefire so we have 4 parties to this agreement the kurds the syrian. And russia so whats one of the wider implications of where we all know. Well not even just for parties but it just just shows you how complicated the situation there on the ground is and thats also something that has been overlooked quite a lot with all the focus on what turkey is doing all might be doing next now with the Kurdish Forces they are withdrawing from the within syria actually Syrian Regime forces backed by russia all moving in lets remember the Kurdish Forces have officially hasta the assad regime for help trying to fend off the Turkish Military offensive they have kind of invited assad back into north and syria to an area where he didnt have a foothold for many years so on a wider scale or the wider implications are that this is a victory for the assad regime and its most powerful ally russia who are apparently making territorial gains in the area and the big question is of course what will all of this mean for the civilians there in north in syria but also Syrian Refugees here on the turkish side we know the president adam wants to establish a socalled safe zone in that area and send refugees back there but many people ive talked to here tell me that this is an absolute nightmare for them knowing that asset is so were very close were were getting reports of clashes near the syrian town of. What do we know who is fighting. Well these are basically reports so far by the london based britain based syrian observatory for human rights theyre saying that Syrian Government troops will fight in now alongside the cottage for says have been clashing with attack he backed rebels today for the fest time by the way since turkeys military operation started 3 weeks ago the observer terry also says the clashes have been heavy and 6 Syrian Security pass and though were injured by turkish shelling and it all happened south of the Syrian Border town although i know there has not been any confirmation yet by ankara damascus almost scows so we need to be careful here there are also quite a number of social media videos circulating there now on twitter as legibly showing how the turkey back to rebels have captured and are now mistreating these Syrian Security power so now but this has to be taken with a huge portion of caution here because there is a lot of fake news out there on social media when it comes to this conflict so we have to see a wait for further confirmation of that. Now take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world at least one person was killed and dozens more injured when a powerful earthquake struck the southern philippines several government residential buildings were badly damaged the philippines lies on the pacific rim rim of ring of fire where most of the worlds earthquakes takes place. Authorities in hong kong have barred prominent prodemocracy activist joshua wong from standing in next months local elections mr wont claim to be the only candidate to be disqualified electrical the Electoral Commission says his nomination is invalid for contravening election laws that ban promoting selfdetermination for the semi autonomous chinese region. And the government protesters have returned to the streets of the chilean capital santiago there were clashes with Police Despite a cabinet shakeup i have president Sebastian Pinera cabinet ministers were replaced as the president sought to calm unrest as left at least 17 dead this is day w. s lie from above and still to come a deep w. Exclusive after hes a recent record breaking away in the iron man World Championship german triathlete young for data tells the dumbly about the challenges of facing the toughest insurance events on the planet. First to britain the u. K. Could hold an election in december after Opposition Leader Jeremy Colvin said his party would not back on the election Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been pushing for us not polls since he came to power in july he believes he can win a majority in parliament enabling him to pass a brets a deal. One day in the bronx it can be a long time and parliament on monday Jeremy Corbyn showed no interest whatsoever in Holding New Elections but on tuesday the labor chief announced that he does want to back and pray christmas poll were going out to fight an Election Campaign and i call white to get out there on the streets in every town and village in this country labor will be there giving a message of real hope where this government offers nothing and were going out there to win ok. A demonstration of unity but not everyone in the Opposition Party this convinced that this is the right strategy some feel that theyre playing into the hands of Boris Johnson labor support makes the new collections the government had sought in vain until now more likely. In the country to make a decision about whether it wants to reelect a conservative government give the ability to deliver on the deal hes negotiated with the European Union because this policy for a demonstration if it can kick the can down the road it kicks the can down the road but the december election is not yet a certainty parliament is currently debating the election bill which is subject to amendments and could still be scuppered only late on tuesday will it be clear if and when british voters will get to have their say. So you would study has shown live undocumented migrants from africa wanting to risk their lives to travel to europe for many its not because theyre fleeing persecution instead the biggest motivation seems to be the hope of Better Things cousin mehitable i wonder if thats not please migrants from africa were part of the cultural elite in their home countries now in europe theyre much lower on the social scale. One way to measure this is to look at migrants average income in their homelands the migrants average is 260. 00 u. S. Dollars per person compared to an overall country average of 100. 00. 60. 00. African migrants to europe also have more education and training at least 3 years more schooling or apprenticeship than the average for their country it seems that more education and a higher standard of living is correlated to the decision to make the journey to another country though many migrants worked in their homeland and still often wasnt enough to live on. When asked why they came to europe 60 percent of respondents said the most important reason was work and the ability to send money home 18 percent said they wanted to join relatives or friends and 8 percent wanted more Educational Opportunities in europe. But those hopes havent always worked out one out of 4 migrants in europe doesnt have their own apartment only one in 3 actually earns money in europe and thats often on the black market since many are officially for a bit and to work in addition most perform jobs that are far beneath their qualifications picking produce doing janitorial work and domestic help. One surprising twist the wage gap between men and women is reversed when migrants come to europe and africa women earn 26 percent less on average than men but in europe the earn 11 percent more the study also found that those who succeeded in earning money and spending cash mostly do not want to stay in europe they want to return to africa. So lets delve a little closer into the figures the study was commissioned by the United Nations Development Program at the ministry is that style welcome to the lets start with the education so we heard in the report that the average african migrants is better educated than the average compassionate so why is that. Well i think already in history we have often seen that those who are truly the most poor in a society often dont have the opportunity they dont have the savings to even be able to make a migration journey and here we see from the survey that was undertaken that very often it is the young generation that has both had education and employment there for savings but also the interest to drive the lack of choice in their own country driving them to look at another place to take their life and why europe but europe is only one of the destination i think this is sometimes what is lost in the debate because in fact most african migrants migrate to other african countries and europe has become a focus partly because. In the last few years europe has received a number of africans and i think many underestimate in europe that european dream you know this is a continent where you have a good Education System social welfare systems insurance and the opportunity to work Political Freedoms we underestimate the pull factor that this also represents to a young generation that is looking for opportunity that i think best in their education and so you know what we have is a well educated cohort who also more than average looking to make a very very dangerous journey when i was saying just before we started that at least a 1000 to have died so far this year so why take those risks but this is part of the other message the report brings we have irregular migration we need to move from an unregulated to a more regulated migration system because right now in many countries in europe the only way you can find your way in is to pretend to be a refugee or you are illegally migrate the minute you do that that legitimates very soulful there are ways of entering unit very few possibilities because youre not part of the elite in those countries and for those who are lets say Trained Medical doctors and so on migration becomes more. Affectional migration but for those of invested education who have skills who have the drive they are trying to find a way to come across their irregular illegal route is very often the only one and this is what was also surprising the survey most of the people having experienced trauma and great danger would actually do the journey again its that its that if they could pull i could talk to thank you for coming in and saying as a team started from the u. N. Development program thank you. Well take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world major wildfires in california have driven thousands of people from their homes they have threatened areas in the south of the state near los angeles and north of San Francisco forecasters are warning of it gusting winds could found the places across bone dry bushland in both regions. And at least Mountain Time has broken the speed record for cold in the worlds 14 highest peaks new nomo a poor job climbed the mountains over 6 months in 6 days all of 14 are at least 8000 meters high the previous record was about 8 years. Of germanys geographer dana is one of the best triathletes in the sports history this month won the argument World Championship in record time now in a d w exclusive he talks about how he rises to the challenge and about his connections to a controversial country. Most of us would succumb under pressure if we had to complete a 226 kilometer triathlon in under 8 hours not if youre young for dino he even managed to do it in record time earlier this month he won the iron man work championship in hawaii for their time and he did it in a record winning time of 7 hours 51 minutes and 13 seconds simply strikes when the going gets tough. Ive always been a big fan in the saying that pressure pressure creates diamonds. And its very much symbolic for me that i need pressure. To get to the very top to get to the very best of my ability he also won gold at the 2008 olympics but the 38 year old has recently come under criticism he trains with the bahrain elite Endurance Team that comes from a country known for its human rights violations. You know i believe that. We are going there despite the troubles and actually creating an escape for people or creating the possibility to make lives better and to me that personally it feels a lot better than pointing my finger and saying what youre doing is terrible. Not everyone may agree with that but what isnt disputable is that young filipino is a testament to pushing the boundaries of human in durance. The us National Womens Football Team have confirmed the blood and do not ski will be that new head coach the north macedonian born or former pro brings plenty of experience having coached and won 2 championships in the National Womens Soccer League in the United States in places jill ellis i will take charge in november the u. S. Won a record 4th world cup in july 1st on his agenda is qualifying for the upcoming summer olympics in tokyo. His reminder of our top stories lebanese Prime Minister saad hariri has said that he will submit his resignation to the countrys president again im states decision as mass attack has a link to the militant Group Hezbollah launched an assault on m t government protesters it bankrupts 13 days of protests of course the country to the brink of crisis. The kurdish led forces have revealed details of the role they played in the death of the socalled Islamic State leader i will back ill back down they say they tracked down that they tracked him down and provided d. N. A. Evidence before the u. S. Raid in which he was. Coming up next to news asia risky job thats according to a deadly and in the u. K. What is driving people from asia to put themselves of the mercy of human traffickers. The 5 while manage a pattern decided to reconnect with an identity that he once rejected. But flew tied to a mosque in hong kong has protesters in pricing the citys migrants commuters. Plus a child will have a whole lot more ended up in asia in just a moment ill be back at the top of the hour with more of the days of world news on in the meantime of course theres always the web site the top. Of the day. After the fall of the berlin wall nov 9th to w. Luxury behind the mirror humans are exploited and animals cruelly slaughtered. 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