A dangerous escalation iraqs fragile security relies on managing deep sectarian fault lines as well as a threat from the remnants of isolate ourselves and bug judge at the start of the people are being rolled out the people are begging on the street there is no work you come to protest and they fire at you they are all a rainy and speaking in fasi you want to speak to them they answer in farsi the iraqis would not fire at you. Iran has close to border crossings delaying plans by millions of iranian programs to visit iraq for a religious ritual iraqs u. S. Allies and the United Nations are appealing to iraqs government to exercise restraint promised. And his year old government is facing its biggest challenge yet but its unclear how he can stop the outpour of anger against his rule with no apparent leaders of the protesters to negotiate with. Iran or does it baghdad. The spokesman for the u. N. Secretary general has not commented on the protests condemning the recent deaths in iraq. We
A program of home demolitions in september targeting the makeshift shelters of the poor ahead of the u. N. Mission to iraq has called for the violence to stop in a tweet one of the few International Voices to speak up as iraq still struggles to deal with the aftermath of the invasion by the u. S. And its coalition of the willing in 2003 she had aljazeera. Iraqis who are worried about the safety of their family and friends back home and stage a protest in front of the white house. Members of the solidarity rally say they cant get a hold of the valid ones too true internet suspension they say the government crackdown is an attack on democracy you know your move on how the. Top of the shop in the uk and your we are here demonstrating in support of the people of iraq and this is a letter addressed to the white house asking them to help the iraqi people and stand against iranian interference and we call on the protests in iraq to continue to be a little much to do just a mcdonalds drive to
That former president mind the rajapaksa it was a complete weve where he sort of swept that election saying that he was only in for one term to bring change however his tenure has been fraught with disappointment for sri lankan voters and despite in recent months trying desperately to mount a real action bid to try and garner support for that relax in bed president seriously and there has been forced to admit that hes not going to make it and todays sort of final list that we see posting bonds and getting ready to contest that president ial race not including president seriously in a hes not had a very sort of an uneventful term lets say the latest being last october when he tried to stage what many people felt was a constitutional call by sacking his Prime Minister appointing his former rival as the replacement and being struck down by the Supreme Court of this country as saying what he had done was unconstitutional the sort of reasons for public discontent with the series saying the
Early on decided to withdraw his members from the parliament only to be seen to be siding with people and ask for the resignation of the but the rest of the shia groups as well as some of the sudanese have actually sided with as well as kurds sided with abdul mahdi and iran seems at least apparently at this stage doesnt want ideal of dramatic government to fall that doesnt mean this government will survive it doesnt mean that ive been mighty himself may not want to go or in a month or 2 maybe iran also wants change in the place as well as the house of shia but as things stand they see it as a high Risk Strategy to change government in response to these violence now there are other groups that try to make the most of the demonstrations like out they they too did not get far and actually if anything they lost out in this game and the others because they are not talking they are not united and they are not necessarily on the same page everyone is trying to disown the government and if any
Bullets were fired at the. Government demonstrations in the capital baghdad for the past 3 days have also spread to other cities such as buster the city and amar as the violence escalated Security Forces blocked major roads i mean today it is also blocked in most parts to 7 social media. Protesters are demanding a change of government as well as more jobs less corruption and an end to religious discrimination you know i dont want evidence that has put the curfew we are going out to call for our rights we want to change the regime theyve arrested our people theyve done things to our people that they did not even do to die and they beat them up and humiliated them while firing live gunfire what did we do are we suicide bombers were here to call for our rights. Number of dead has risen steadily and over a 1000 have been injured since the defeat of eisel protesters say. Nothing has changed them despite the promises of politicians. What yellow even with the curfew i swear to god we will not