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The Chamber executive here has been saying this is a housing crisis this is what is fueling this unrest talk to people on the streets they say no it's their pursuit of democratic freedoms the stopping of China eroding their freedoms as they see it which will keep them coming out onto the streets Canadians will vote today in a parliamentary election with the prime minister Justin Trudeau facing a threat to his premiership observers say the election will be one of the closest ever Chris buckler sent this report Justin Trudeau those personal past and political record have been under severe scrutiny during his election campaign an old photos of the Liberal Party leader wearing blackface have tarnished his reputation as a champion of multiculturalism and there have been many questions over his alleged interference in a prosecution connected to a corporate corruption scandal recent polls have shown the liberals neck and neck with conservatives who have promised to reduce taxes alone Mr Trudeau says that will mean cuts to services there is a good chance that neither will secure a majority and that could leave the new Democrats in a position to play kingmakers world news from the b.b.c. . Police in India have shut down to call centers in Kolkata and arrested 7 people suspected of trying to scam thousands of victims in Britain and elsewhere Rory Catherine Jones reports city of London Police say 2000 people a month report being defrauded by scammers who called up claiming to offer computer security among them was retired businessman Doug Very who handed over 4000 pounds to a company in India after being deceived into thinking his computer had been taken over by Russian banks that now Indian police have raided to call centers in Kolkata they arrested 7 people and seized a number of computers at offices which they said had been used to target thousands of victims in the u.k. And the United States Lebanon's president Michel Aoun is chairing a meeting of government ministers in the capital Beirut where a package of economic reforms is expected to be approved to Carm 4 days of nationwide protests Mr told the meeting that the protests reflected people's pain the proposals involve scrapping new taxes having the salaries of top officials and privatizing some companies tens of thousands of homes without power in Dallas Texas after a tornado swept through the north of the city power lines and trees are down and roads are littered with debris dramatic video footage on social media shows the sky lit up by a thunderstorm as the tornado strikes these people who were sheltering inside their homes at the time to scribed their experience it started shaking if a chemical nerve quick start moving the house around and a lot of other wind and then like you could hear like branches hitting the windows and stuff I thought the roof was going to fall it was awful we were inside. It was just like out of a movie you know we heard. This strong with. Our friends in the back it was completely destroyed and those are the latest stories from b.b.c. News. Hello you're listening to World update from the b.b.c. In London this is Dan Damon coming up protests in Chile have constant least 8 lives 5 of them when a clothing factory was being looted the government is extending the state of emergency will hear what's behind the protests that's later here on World update 1st hundreds of thousands of Lebanese citizens have been out on the streets for their past 4 days protesting against what they say is a decades long failure of their government to deal with corruption and to improve people's livelihoods and we want to know where our money goes their employer think that is not however there are no services that are provided by those taxes that are imposed anywhere you go in Europe you go to the u.s. You have that you have taxes but you have transportation you have people that can go to hospitals without them we don't have anything in here since the end of the Civil War It's been the same thing it's been politics corruption stealing the people's money so this is a bit too late actually well as we were on the air a cabinet meeting is taking place expected to agree wide ranging economic reforms the suggestions those might include privatizing some utility companies scrapping new taxes and reducing politicians salaries we can speak to carry him. Who is an independent journalist in Beirut thanks for being with us on World update tell us a bit more about the reasons that so many people are on the streets. Good morning and thanks for having me so frankly what these protesters told you guys earlier sums it up really it is based on economic corruption crippling austerity measures that the government has been working on getting in place in order to lock some $11000000000.00 in loans and grants from the international community that reply just 11 on. About a year ago. Frankly people have had enough with the lack of public services and the lack of job opportunities as well as the fact that there is very little transparency and we're all their tax money is going and this the scale of these protests have been rising on precedence and one of the taxes that was being proposed in order to meet the new regulations the international demands for rebalancing the budget was to tax Social media is that right. There was a and and a cabinet discussion which was agreed on and eventually scrap this was the 1st one of the protests where this took place last week where they did want to provide talks that would amount to about $60.00 a month on whatsapp calls and other stuff are of the same kind that's a signal or or whatever and this kind of spark things of it however there have been protests against these kinds of additional regressive taxation measures over the year so I would not reduce that. The reforms in the being proposed including privatization which kinds of companies might be privatized. Well according to the the economic blueprint that how data is private or how do you know has been spreading to different political parties which has been shared across local Lebanese media the main a sector that they look at privatizing the telecommunications sector which is something that the governor has been speaking for quite some time but this is the main privatization component however looking into other methods of sorting the economy including overhauling the energy sector 11 and does not get 24 hours electricity every day we do have routine power cuts on this we pay for extra for a forest for 2nd generator. So these are many of these things that were proposed around the city and you would have been widely discussed for quite some time under this government. And you snipped the words that I think is in the mouths of many of those who are protesting how do you see the problem is that the same people are in politics for so long in Lebanon on Saturday the he's the son of Rafik Hariri who was assassinated there are other names that come up when the protesters say these people have been here too long. Absolutely so what's interesting about these protests which you know I've been I've been trying to cover as much as possible daily is is that many of these people have a protest for you know for example when you have the garbage crisis protests of 2000 seen many of the people already had enough with the government but now you have people speak to media saying I've supported so and so for a few decades but now it's time for a change you know we gave them a chance and there are throwing us a bone so maybe we should we should you know look for new people some people are sympathetic to some elements of the government but feel that they need to act in their interest so it's a very diverse set up of people that frankly you don't often see on the streets and with very different sympathies and affiliations that's for sure are the new people are the new politicians coming through from younger generations. We have seen attempts of that happening in recent years whether it was Mr populaces a 1016 or even the parliamentary elections of 2018 they've only been able to get a sliver of the votes you know at the moment and part of it only have one m.p. Which rep is an independent or absence of society and this is former former journalist. But it seems that we could see him a shift in the future what's interesting is a lot of these movements are graded centric the capital but this time around it seems the protests have expand across the country we're seeing places as far as tripling the north and as the South is not the sort places where people would never expect some sort of popular uprising like a stick placed Karim Thank you Karim who's an independent journalist speaking to us from Beirut You're listening to World update Well Ken and Canadians are going to the post today and what's predicted to be one of the closest general elections the country's ever seen from Minister Justin Trudeau is fighting for his political life most polls put his ruling Liberal Party in a dead heat with conservative rivals headed by Andrew share it is a stark contrast with 2015 when the charismatic Mr Trudeau swept to power and became a celebrity on the world stage his victory then was partly due to an unprecedented turnout of young voters but for years on his image has been tainted by broken promises and political scandals chief international correspondent leased to set spend some time on the campaign trail and joined a Trudeau rally in Montreal. To. Simplify to discredit. This into Missouri law students this is a campaign where every vote counts. And yet for years ago this was the digital start we spent into power and. To 70 probably was a promise he said oh change was. Why is it so much harder for you Prime Minister to do this time than it was 4 years ago what went wrong for you I would tend to disagree 4 years ago 79 day campaign was extremely difficult and campaigns should be difficult this is an opportunity to get out and speak with his many Canadians as possible about an important choice vote we're we're going as a country. That the crowds are thinning out and here are 3 young women carrying their Trudeau posters their Trudeau peons with your name money with Mira and how do you mean I am 21 years old I'm so proud to say that I am a liberal and I hope that Justin Trudeau does be elected again because I would be proudly saying that I voted for him and his them my 1st time voting as well so I'm super excited did it matter to you when the photographs of her ship him wearing brown painted black paint affect change your mind about him in any way Cornish a lot of people and of course I myself were we were taken by but every since Justin Trudeau with every since Justin Trudeau was elected. He brought gender equality and also equality towards culture and color is like the parliament and that plays a huge role of course a lot of people do make mistakes and I'm really to give him a 2nd chance my name is awesome Ah I'm 21 years old and I'm rooting for Israel because I believe in multiculturalism I don't think any leaders are in fact neither is true at all I'm not saying he's part fact but I do think he's like an amazing person to be the prime minister of Canada What's your name I mean steady there and 21 years old and I got a concrete in every city and you know we're going to do so I mean it's really up in the air right now with like the 3 like n.d.p. Conservative and liberal there is a chance they feel like as long as you stay strong with our lake I support towards them I feel like whatever happens happens and. Just can't get it done. Come get some coffee get out to vote campaign it's raining hard here in Vancouver but just listen to the enthusiasm of this group better known power to sign groups like this are organizing right across counted on university and college campuses urging young people to exercise their power to vote the under 30 five's now make up the biggest electro bloc 2015 and 18 percent increase in the youth vote helping Justin Trudeau to power having pledged to vote in the election Yes My name's Theo Abbott I'm here for the vote I want to ask you feel that if you read the columnists in Canada they say many young people are not as engaged this time what do you what are you seeing the point there is people conflating apathy with indecision there's a lot to choose from in this election there's a lot of different leaders and there's a lot of good choices and there's also a lot about choices I think the millennial vote and even the you know the the young generation vote is going to speak for itself so you think the under 30 five's will really make they'll be the decisive vote in this in this election absolutely I'm just like with 2015 those the voting bloc that demographic will either make this election or they will break this one of the biggest issues is climate change especially here in British Columbia Trudeau approved a pipeline to move Canada's will wealth to this western shore offsetting if we can and this climate plan including a carbon tax but activists insist climate champions don't build pipelines My name is Hailey's x. I am a 22 year old environmental activist I think a lot of us were persuaded by Justin Trudeau in the last election he was young he was making all of these great promises about a new future where real change was going to happen but now when we've seen him for years in government he hasn't come through on the promises that we voted for him for for climate action he said he was a feminist We haven't seen not an option but your choice is between Justin Trudeau in. The other the other candidate running neck and neck with him which is and the conservatives who judging by what he's saying for people like you will be even worse Absolutely but what the conversation needs to be is that we can't be in the middle of between worse and worse essentially right because we're being told by the liberals right now that if we don't vote for them we're going to get conservative and it's a lot of fear mongering and I think as youth are realizing we don't want to have to make a choice between 2 people that don't represent our priorities so a lot of youth are shifting their vote and really trying to ensure that at the very least that we don't have a majority for either of those parties and that the n.d.p. Can assert their power in the Green Party can assert their power in government in this next election. You know. In many ways this election is our friend demonic Justin Trudeau on the world state's star still shines in issues like gender equality and refugees but here in Canada after 4 years his brand has taken a beating the September t.v. Once promised a different way of doing politics is now battling just to stay in power. These 2 said reporting from Canada well in Texas tens of thousands of homes are without power in done a softer tornado swept through the north of the city power lines and trees down roads a little bit debris there's extensive damage to houses Here's some people who was sheltering inside their homes at the time describing their experience it started shaking before the current commercial quick start moving the house around and a lot of whistling all the wind and then like you could hear like branches hitting the windows since the I thought the roof was going to fall it was awful we were inside. It was just like out of a movie you know we heard this we are this strong when our friends in the back it was completely destroyed voices from Dallas and the bad news is the National Weather Service is warning another tornado could form this is the b.b.c. In London. Coming up later in our program Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle speaking out about the pressure that they're facing in a t.v. Interview you add this on top of just trying to be a new mom or trying to be a newlywed it's. Yaml I guess and also thank you for asking because not many people that's to my mouth Ok but it's. A very real thing to be going through behind the scenes more from that interview coming later our top story a state of emergency is being extended in Chile where violent protests are continuing President Sebastian Pinera has said the country is of war and Britain's prime minister Boris Johnson will make a 2nd attempt to get M.P.'s to approve his brakes a deal today about a major showdown is expected we will explain as best we can it's going on with Gregg's it a little later here on World update this is the b.b.c. . This is Dan Damon in London well later in world update we'll hear from an Australian newspaper editor who like many around the country has today blacked out her papers from page to protest against what they say are increasing restrictions on press freedom and 30 years after the fall of communism some Eastern European countries are still struggling to find their way as modern democracies both Garia is a case in point it ranks bottom in the e.u. For free expression that's according to the global media watchdog Reporters Without Borders the latest challenge to its pluralistic credentials came when the main public radio station was pulled off the year that scandal put the country park areas press freedom under the spotlight across a tweet from b.b.c. Monitoring reports from Sofia. Travelling through Sofia in a taxi my driver who is a well known journalist explains to me why she quit the profession. If. Journalists should be critics of power not cheerleaders and this is going out of fashion and driving a taxi means I meet the public face to face this is my You Tube. You Tube middle of a been out of days just one of many journalists in Bulgaria who say they've experienced the pressure to toe the line. I'm walking to work one of the architectural gems of socialist Sofia a 6 story inverted pyramid covered in glass it has that the feeling of the brutalist architecture that often goes face to tell me Terry and regimes best enjoyed on a great rainy day like this one the reason I'm here is because this building is the home of a proud national institution which is currently reeling from what is seen as an attack on its independence Garin national radio. This debate there was a nice it was on Friday the 13th of September when with perhaps at the church of grim irony the broadcasters main news and discussion output was taken off air deficient explanation was technical maintenance which an investigation ruled out later you can need to with the movement if you're hearing this you're listening on line. Radio silence lasted 5 hours an unprecedented disruption in the station's 85 year history and it happened a day after Sylvia a veteran host and legal affairs reporter was taken off with know what I mean. The director general told me that he was under pressure to take me off air for people who he wouldn't name thought that I was covering the election of the new chief prosecutor to critically if you didn't comply he told me there were threats that he would be out of a job and his children will go hungry the events prompted an angry public backlash that forced the climb down village over was returned to her on a duties the director general switches love cost of denied that he was an external pressure to take her off but just a few days ago he was sacked by the country's broadcast regulator which described the outreach of the radio as a gross violation of the law the scandal injected a sense of urgency in a problem that's been plaguing the country for a long time over the last 10 years international media watch stocks have tracked a sharp decline of freedom of speech and media independence they paint a picture of an industry controlled by powerful business interests in league with political players but there are also allegations of all subtle and legal approach the taming of the media through the selective allocation of e.u. Grounds. Join the European Union in $2758000000.00 lever all $32000000.00 of e.u. Money has been given to broadcasters through a so-called direct. Goshi ation where the government hands out forms without an open selection process this is a vocal a journalist from new Side Club zat which got hold of that's the to stick through a Freedom of Information requests he thinks this opaque selection methods secures favorable media coverage for the government this approach mistily maybe it's time to rethink the approach of the indiscriminate distribution of European money to the media because there's serious abuse and I think this happens not just in Bulgaria but in Hungary Poland Romania the European Commission has been turning a blind eye deputy prime minister to me insists e.u. Money is not used to secure favorable treatment for the government desire to destroy. The state can distribute grants to the media for European projects but this is not money that can be used to advertise a certain political course of political figures that might go away on my recommendation for the past 2 or 3 years every amount of goes to media outlets gets published so you can see which media gets what. When communism crumbled many hoped there would be a swift transition to pluralistic society 30 years on there's anger that the doc shadow of coalition appears to be hanging once again of the country's media and public institutions that's crossing a twig reporting from Bulgaria. Well I cannot easily explain to you the detail of why after Saturday and what was supposed to be one of the most dramatic days in parliament in Westminster since the focal ns War Actually it was just another delay to any decision on breaks it perhaps you wouldn't find the detail very interesting anyway but what does matter is more legal wrangling today over the actions of Prime Minister Barak's Johnson and what could happen in the days up to Mr Johnson's Mr Johnson's deadline of the 31st October for Britain leaving the European Union Rob Watson joins us to try to unravel where up to tell us about the legal part there's a court hearing a complaint against the way Boris Johnson wrote a letter yes I think that's the least interesting of all the various developments it's a sort of sense that since he didn't sign the latter the parliament it forced them to write asking for a delay and then sent a 2nd letter say I don't want to delay and did sign that one I think it was a sense among his opponents that he wasn't exactly agreeing to the letter of the law passed by Parliament last month. Ok Well those who say that that's just petulance and detail and all of those things that popular his are critics his critics accuse him of but what about the vote today because he wants to reintroduce the vote that didn't happen on Saturday what's called the meaningful vote on his deal except that it did happen I mean I think there's been a lot of misunderstanding and misreporting of it which is which is why I don't exactly get it didn't happen and it did happen was amended it did and then and then the government abstained it basically just told its M.P.'s not to vote on the on the final motion so I think the speaker is going to say no because one of the conventions of the u.k. Parliament is you can't ask M.P.'s to vote twice in the hope that they'll change their minds but it's very important sat Saturday wasn't a total bust in this sense it seems to me the M.P.'s didn't say no they just said not yet and one of the things that was interesting just listening to the politicians on Saturday is that you could see that there is a possibility of a majority for a deal so so in fact you know to cut through a lot of the dross down it's probably easier if I sort of set out very briefly you know what what what what are the sort of possible options so the 1st is that in fact you know this deal is passed into law by the 31st of October the 2nd is that the deal is passed into law but but there has to be an extension it's too complex legally for that to happen so it takes a few extra weeks the 3rd is that as people this thing will now be familiar the deal is amended as it goes through parliament possibly in a way that is impossible for the government so the entire process collapses and there's a general election it's possible I guess that the deal would be amended to add a at a referendum although they don't seem to have the numbers there and then the 4th possibility is that given the complexity of the law given the narrowness we think of the majority for a deal that again the whole process collapses and there has to be a general election so it's one of those 4. So the impossible question Will Britain leave on the 3rd it goes double time I mean it's possible but think it's probably somewhat unlikely I mean I think the 2 more likely options is that Britain does live with a deal but it takes a bit longer than the 31st of October or the process just collapses into more Rob thank you very much indeed Ron Watson our political correspondent making sense of what really probably anybody else can do this is what update. Distribution a b.b.c. World Service in the us is supported by t. Rowe Price offering a strategic investing approach that examines opportunities 1st hand since 1937 t. Rowe Price invest with confidence and Progressive Insurance small business protection for more than vehicles with insurance expertise to keep your company moving forward more progressive commercial dot com. This is what update the done Damon protests in Chile have cost of the state lives will find out more about the anger that's driving crowds onto the streets most Australian newspapers a blacked out from pages in a protest against oppression of press freedom is off to the defense chief complained about in the best occasion and why despite being rejected by Northern and those lawmakers same sex marriage and abortion will be legal there from today those stories to the news. B.b.c. News with David Alston the Lebanese government is set to reprove a package of reforms aimed at trying to calm a wave of mass demonstrations across the country President Michel Aoun said the protests reflected people's pain but the to accuse everyone in government of corruption was unfair the reform package includes scrapping new taxes having the salaries of top officials and privatizing some companies the British prime minister Boris Johnson will try to put his brakes a deal with the e.u. To a vote in parliament again today after being forced by his opponents to send a letter to Brussels seeking another break said today Britain is currently due to leave the European Union in 10 days time of the 31st of October unless the e.u. Grants another extension. The chief executive of Hong Kong Carrie Lam has visited the city's largest mosque to apologize after police accidentally hit it with water cannons spraying blue dye the incident happened during Sunday's demonstrations where the radical faction of pro-democracy protesters clashed with police Canadians will vote today in a parliamentary election with the prime minister Justin Trudeau facing a threat to his premiership observers say the election will be one of the closest ever with polls suggesting the Di that Mr Trudeau's Liberal Party nor the rival conservatives will win a clear majority British and American intelligence agencies have found that Russian computer hackers used a group of undergoing Iranian hackers to spy on multiple countries a British investigation found that the Iranian group code named oil rig was itself hacked by the Russians to target victims including governments in more than $35.00 nations Spain's socialist government has confirmed it will Exuma the remains of the former military dictator General Francisco Franco this Thursday it follows a lengthy legal battle b.b.c. News. You're listening to the b.b.c. World Service this is Dan Damon with world update coming up the Duke and Duchess of Sussex Prince Harry and Meghan Markle on the pressures they face from Britain's tabloid newspapers that's coming soon 1st after 5 deaths when a garment factory satellite by looters the authorities in Chile are extending a state of emergency what began as demonstrations against a rise in transport prices has spread across the country fueled by anger at inequality they have been riots looting violent protests many people have defied a government curfew Chile's interior and security minister under said the emergency measures would extend north and south and to other cities as well. At this moment the crease for a state of emergency are in process for all the municipalities of the veld pricey region the city of Talca the city of Chillon and she land vehicle the city of Temuka and project costs us and finally the city of point or an ass. Well opposition politicians have described the president's description of being at war as irresponsible 5 people killed in the close ranks that brings the Clare death toll to 8 this protest goes down to Gonzales described the situation in the city. We are at war against the powerful enemy who does not respect anything or anyone who is reeling to use violence and crime without any limits with the. We can speak to Simone Escoffier a Chilean national a post doctoral fellow at the Latin American Center at the University of Oxford in England thanks for being with us Simone there are plenty of protests in Chile year after year but these are exceptionally violent why Thanks for having me Dan. Well they are exceptionally violent because because of several factors I would say 1st of all. The unrest has been growing because people really have certain conditions regarding their rights that are not being addressed by politicians and by political institutions in the country and we had seen since 2006 we have an increased amount of protests increase when I think Chris I mean the amount of events in the amount of protesters has increased year by year so we have more than a decade of increasing protests and really the political class the Parliament etc have not really addressed properly these protests Besides this we have a lack of accountability by the the wealthy clients and also by like the largest companies and a very authoritarian approach to these things by politicians Yeah basically is this a genuine mass movement do people generally support this level of protest on violence. So whether this is a proper mass movement that's difficult question because how do we define that but . It's probably yes this is a movement that or at least the sort of mobilization that we've seen. Is multilayered because you have people that are protesting by let's say destroying things or in a much more violent way then you have people people looting certain private shops for example for example supermarkets and in these things and then you have people banging pans in the corners after the curfew time these are people like these are families these are just not in that sea normal or like peaceful people they just go to the street and protest because of the reaction by the government. Yes and I would say that most of the people in Chile I was actually discussing this late and night last night with some colleagues mostly people sue poort the demands behind even this violence a lot of people don't support the violence other people don't agree with some of the problems that this will cost them but but people support the let's say the the ideas behind us Simone Thank you Simone a scruffy who is from Chile and a person doctoral fairly fellow excuse me. An American Center at the University of Oxford This is world update. Newspapers across Australia have blacked out their front pages today many broadcasters are carrying special messages protesting against police raids on newsrooms and journalists last June the Australian Federal Police raided the broadcaster a.b.c. In the home of the News Corp journalist and it has spent the following up complaints that they'd used classified material in their reporting news media say their freedoms are being a road it Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison said press freedom was important to his cause. It is democracy but he added the rule of law must be upheld will always believe in the freedom of the presents an important part of our freedoms as a liberal democracy also I believe in the rule of law and that now is above us including me or anyone else any journalist or anyone else when I spoke to Lisa Davis who is editor of The Sydney Morning Herald she told me how the newspapers came together to war going on as this event a number of media outlets but already are affiliated with an organization called the strategies right tonight that in talking to some time about how we could best combine our resources to stage a campaign of awareness to identify a series of issues that way feel have led to a great deal of restriction on Al ability to report on what is going on in this country. That there was a report making allegations about the Special Forces and it was a reference from the I think Chief of the defense staff to said there must be classified information that's been leaked that was what started the Federal Police on their route towards the a.b.c. And the Herald Is that right there are 2 separate things the 1st one was in fact a 6 hour ride on the Hi I'm of a journalist Anika Smethurst here I heard they went through her underwear drawer is that definitely went through everything and the story she had written revealed a proposal for electronic intelligence agency out estrogen Signals Directorate to take on an expanded role and that said that was a pretty high level lake if indeed that's what it was and clearly someone was concerned that that had been put into the public arena but so that was on June 4 and then on Jane the abbé say was righted Yeah accusations of war crimes committed by strategy special forces in Afghanistan multiple reporters were 19 the warrant and that kind just awake after a former military lawyer was committed to stand trial by the leaking of documents to the Ib say because the mood the environment in which journalists operate in Australia has that chain. Then we would say that over many years there's been just a general encroachment of our right inability to do our jobs this in a number of areas Freedom of Information Lords protection for whistleblowers we're calling it as part of this campaign which of course had everything the national and metropolitan newspaper in the country with a redacted sort of blacked out front page we're calling for a number of things to occur and one of them is the basic right to contest the search warrant and that's one of your demands you have 5 others perhaps you could tell us about that sort of the 1st one the 2nd one is the protections for whistleblowers So expanding the safeguards for whistle blowing as it reflects government by yet another one of these restrictions on secrecy so looking at new rules governing what it might governments can Dame secret with obligations to audit the material that is kept from the public Fourthly they is the Freedom of Information reforms are accurate f.o.i. Laws are an absolute disaster frankly and in fact one of my senior us a guy says journalist got told last week that it would take I 10 months for someone to process her request to access the file system is unworkable there's also examination of the exemptions to Protect Journalists for prosecution on the some of the national security laws and also defamation law reform I mean this is a quite a contentious issue and there are a number of inquiries already underway it's totally out of step with the modern digital era in this country and they're in the consistencies across asked at borders that we really would like to say streamlined and adaptable to the current environment and Mr Davis who's the editor of The Sydney Morning Herald You're listening to World update with more than 80 percent of votes counted Bolivia's president ever modellers has failed to win enough votes in the presidential election to avoid a 2nd round he won 45 percent of the vote his rival Carlos Messer won 38 percent if those results hold it will be a head to heads in a runoff on December the 15th South America correspondent Kate he wants an. Reports from La Paz who when the results came in everyone on the school the Giants by the sound of his speech you know the gas he just been moved into a runoff. Because it was meanwhile and those closest rival Carlos Missa celebrated with his supporters telling them very interesting round. The There was but after a few hours of counting the transmission of results was halted observers from the Organization of American States said they were closely monitoring the situation and called on Bolivia's electoral body to explain what had happened. Quick to say how serious this was and the 2nd round should not be in doubt Needless to say there now question marks one about what the next development will be. These elections are always going to be uncertain and the atmosphere on Sunday during the vote was at times I'm great. At one point votes and sometimes in Bolivia vice president Alberto Garcia and Nader arrive to cast his vote angry shouts of illegal and out competed with chains of support for him and every. Other. Indigenous Bolivian wearing the traditional name is the. Long black hair and. She supports it. Thanks to today we all free to express ourselves and there's not much discrimination as there was I see quite a difference has lifted the indigenous women more than anyone before we couldn't go into an office because of the way we dressed euro Charla they would say we were discriminated against in the most ugly way now thanks to him we sit in Parliament we work in offices we are seen everywhere one of even more on his biggest achievements has been not of social inclusion the country's 1st indigenous president he's made sure Bolivia's Indigenous community has a voice. That in a prudent management of economy seen a country grow and poverty full and his insistence on running for fools turned even rejecting a referendum he lost on the matter has angered many his critics say he's anti democratic and his administration corrupt More recently he's handling a forest fires that wiped out millions of hectares of land and also identity his popularity even the secret of my goshi secrecy but vote for this crooked government you know we're not going to turn into Venezuela the party trampled all over our constitution on our toes and on the will of the people didn't even think it was a guy. I voted for Carlos Massa simply because I wanted to get rid of even more Alice I don't know much about his proposals but all I want to do is get even more Alice out of the presidency. That ever was convinced of his own deputy I'm told is approved isn't Sunday night he's confident that when the votes for moral areas were counted there would be no need for a runoff and Levin's of watching and waiting to see what happens next. Katie Watson reporting from La Paz since the beginning of their relationship the 2 conductors of Sussex have rarely been out of the spotlight and now they've given a rare interview opening up about the pressures they face as a family it's a documentary it's called Harry and Meghan an African journey it was on the commercial broadcaster in the u.k. I.t.v. Last night and Prince Harry admitted that he and his brother the juke of Cambridge are moving in very different directions and his wife Meghan described the past year as a member of the royal family as hard and she said a British friends want her not to marry Prince Harry she went on to say she'd put on a stiff upper lip but she wasn't prepared for the intensity of the tabloid press it's . Hard you know I don't think anybody can understand that but I in all fairness I. I have no idea which it probably sounds. Difficult to understand he. Here But when I 1st met my now husband my friends were really happy because I'm so happy that my British friend said to me. I'm sure he's going. To die because the British tabloids will destroy your life and she admitted the intense media scrutiny made becoming a new mother a struggle you add to this on top of just trying to be a new mom or trying to be a newlywed it's. Yaml I guess and also thank you for asking because not many people that's to my mouth Ok but it's. A very real thing to be going through behind the scenes where the baby is a Johnny Diamond who covers row affairs for us joins us here in the world update studio I suppose in Prince Harry's mind as what happened to his mother Diana Princess of Wales is this great looming sad over this still evolving psychodrama in the British royal family I mean she is everywhere in Harry's head when he sees a camera when he hears the click of one when a flashlight goes of he thinks of the worst times of his mother's life and death and then this is this is what it is this is about but also to obviously on happy individuals individuals who are struggling with their role and with the criticism I'm with age old demons and with a fair amount of xenophobia you know there's it's it's stiff stuff that's going on in their lives and it's obvious and she says that we don't have this in America she says referring to the British tabloids to try to explain to a global audience Johnny what does she mean I mean we have a very aggressive bestselling press in this country we call them the tabloids some people used to go to the red tops it's the best selling newspapers and they get into a lot of homes and offices and they get they engaged people and they have. Been running highly critical stories now in America you have very aggressive photographers. But you get less of that stuff in the really popular print press it's a bit more controlled so I think it will it would have taken anyone aback and it really would have vitriolic commentry in particular over the summer it's been very difficult and as you say these do look like 2 on happy people yes and that you know want to simply human level that's it's very difficult to watch the interviews because if you remember when I want to have years ago it was a sun drenched maze Saturday in the town of Windsor in southern England where they got married the most beautiful marriage let me say use the word fairytale because it looked like that and instead here we are again going down Diana land really back in the same path of an happiness hatred of the media and a sense of being hunted Johnny thank you for showing diamond 2 covers royal news for us you're listening to World update from the b.b.c. . Top stories at the moment in our newsroom the Lebanese cabinet is meeting to approve a package of economic reforms aimed at ending the biggest anti-government protests in decades and Britain's Prime Minister Barak's Johnson will make a 2nd attempt to get M.P.'s to approve his brakes a deal today a showdown though is expected those of the top stories well adding to the uncertainty over BRICs it has been the collapse of the Northern Ireland power sharing government and assembly in Stormont it hasn't sat in session for most 3 years now enjoying that time the parliament in Westminster legislated to bring Northern Ireland in line with the rest of the u.k. To legalize same sex marriage and abortion if the Legislative Assembly in Northern Ireland doesn't meet by today that abortion will automatically be decriminalized midnight tonight the Northern Ireland Assembly has actually been summoned to meet following a petition signed by 31 of the politicians who would sit due to happen at 12 noon u.k. Time so in about an hour or so I spoke to Ben Barrie his deputy editor of the Belfast newsletter that it is a unionist Protestant leaning publication well the island of Maryland Northern Ireland in the Republic of Ireland is markedly more religious markedly more likely to go to church than England Scotland and Wales it's more like America there is still a very strong religious Christian tradition and both of those traditions have taken a traditional stance on matters like homosexuality and abortion which is against but a complicated thing has happened which is that we still have the tribal divide between people who want to be part of the United Kingdom and people who want Irish unity and it still tends to reflect the religious divide however within both of those communities there are people who still feel strongly about the constitutional question who don't feel strongly about religious matters and others who do you have a risk you could look at it as a 4 way split. Between Catholics who cared very much about these social moral questions and Catholics don't and Protestants carry much about the social and moral questions and Protestants who don't and what that has resulted in over the decades is that Northern Ireland has conservative traditional laws in these matters and now in the British Isles Britain and Ireland taken as a who has the most conservative laws of 0 and because the power sharing arrangement has made working what for more than 2 and a half years that created a vacuum in which politicians in London and Westminster could then introduce those social changes really over the heads of the politicians and all the yes and you could say that politicians in in London and Westminster are fed up with the politicians in Northern Ireland for various reasons some particular politicians are fed up with one side some politicians are fed up with the other side here in Northern Ireland and some of the politicians in London are fed up with both sides so what they have done is they've sent out a signal overwhelmingly among stand he said that we're not going to a lawyer storm and not going to live new in Northern Ireland to block reform we are going to step in and implement reform which is how we're in the situation we're in today so the assembly is going to say it today but can they do anything about this reform if they say it they have the power to say sorry we're not going to accept this Westminster law the answer is that they do if they form an executive today but they're not going to form an an executive did a because of the division. So the Democratic Unionist Party the d.p.p. Which is currently propping up the British government and which is at the center of a number of challenges and controversies and and difficulties over breaks and a whole range of issues they are getting the most pressure of all because they are a party that was founded in evangelical Protestant funded. Mentalist even Protestant Christianity so a very big core of their support is saying we this this trumps every other issue this must be sorted therefore the d.p. Of all the parties is the one most wanted today to be to happen however it's not going to be able to form an executive that means a government in addition to the assembly it means that you actually have ministers and you stablish all of that it won't be able to do that today so the law will change tomorrow and the d.p. Is therefore being accused of today being a stunt it's certainly one 3rd to be seen to be doing something and to Talent supporters and to tell us Christian based events we have done what we can to stop abortion that's been Loughrea from the Belfast newsletter it is exactly 6 months since 3 Lanka was rocked by a series of suicide bombings targeting churches and luxury hotels the authorities say local Muslim extremists carried out the attacks which killed more than $260.00 people many more were injured the deadliest of the bombs was in the fishing town of net gumbo the center of say like a small Catholic community from the Carolina holy reports. Its Sunday school and since a best in stretch this into the words of the him. What happened oh nice today there was almost incomprehensible in its cruelty. 115 people were killed in the church 27 of them children the youngest just 8 months old. So you are just beautiful he said. Just as he's going to show us Cody survived the bone with his ready smile he's never helping some of the younger children in cloths but on April the 21st he was at Mass with his mom it was an almighty just like every other. Remastering normally just towards the end and the church had bombed. I was in a shock and I was scared I was bleeding and then I saw my mom I knew something bad had been. My mom's name is Bronte and he's the best person. I miss it has to spend his 17th birthday in intensive care that's when he learned his mother was dead he still has a fragment of the bomb in one long. I'm just outside since the best instruments now and there are 4 security offices at the gates a very tight security. Very peaceful now and hard to imagine what happened here on Easter day. He was here this is the exact exact spot where he detonated himself and 23 bombs in his body were not only one for the man jewel of the parish priest explains what happened when the calmly walked into a church and blew himself up so the blood of the people that blood of the pierced was. Of some people rooting what happened here the bodies. And people. What do you think of the bomb on. Everest. Is an extremist you know he was more guided he's misled. Cricket is a national impassion in Sri Lanka and I come to very simple training facility on the edge of them. As a car gate to die and race 5 batting cages and I'm here to meet a young cricketer who is caught up in the bombing. He's trying to forget what happened on Easter day. We can keep it in our mind for ever so we have to rebuild our so for now everyone forgetting but it's in our heart every day what has happened he found his grandmother injured a life only because she but texted by the bodies of other worshippers His mother survived the attack saved by a pillar. From Deshon comes a plea for humanity and feel Nitty end of the day we all are human we all got the same right to live here really doesn't matter we all do it. To some though religion does still need to have. It just going now into slaves shops at a beach for the most. Simply quiet so here you don't know the shopkeeper Mohammad fat hand says he's lost business because he's a Muslim his solitary customer says some of his catholic friends now no longer talk to him going to that identical job and everything changed when people go shopping now they want to know if the shop owner took him on the think police and damages for it if they had a Muslim near. The beach front to his quiet street Lanka's tourism industry was booming before the bombings a decade after the country's long civil war ended he was named Lonely Planet's top holiday destination for 2900. Thousands of Sri Lankans working the tourism industry lost jobs and hotels had to slash prices to Leo holiday makers back. The country today's calm and for that many credit the country's cardinal but the economic shock waves of the attack are still being felt so too of course the emotional ones and the recovery from them will be hardest of all. Caroline Hawley reporting from Sri Lanka and that's world update. Thank you for listening to Jefferson Public Radio You know we wouldn't be here without your support so we offer lots of ways you can help. You can become a member or donate your old car or truck you can include the j.p. Foundation in your will or trust support are in down or even become a business underwriter. 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