Broke out 3 weeks ago in all the headlines tens of thousands of protesters have marched in lebanons capital city beirut to mark a year since the start of mass antigovernment protests many gathered for a vigil at ground 0 of the massive explosion that ripped through the citys main port in august lebanon has been experiencing its worst economic crisis since the civil war which is only deepened during the covert 19 and amec is widespread anger at the countrys political classes with calls for complete change after years of corruption and mismanagement say the holder has more. The economy was bad a year ago and thats what triggered nationwide protests today the economy is near total collapse more than 50 percent of a population of 5000000. 00 people are now poor the middle class is sinking into poverty people are losing their jobs businesses are closing this country is in dire need of hard currency but there will be no International Assistance until the politicians stop bickering over seats
Police and byrd down a Police Church this is a church that is used mainly by police force and another chapel which is a national or National Heritage site in chile very nearby they also looted shops all through one of the main avenues about 700 meters from where i am right now close enough to the main protest area where we could see the smoke and smell it out here of course the ambulances and the fire trucks that were trying to get to this area so they had clearly been marring what was supposed to be and many had hoped would be a peaceful protest. Votes are being counted in guineas president ial election now for conde is vying for a controversial 3rd term in office the main opposition candidate accuses conde of rigging the vote so he can stay in power. Violence has broken out in ivory coast 2 weeks ahead of its president ial election there and that least 2 people were killed in the city of bam go on to in the stronghold of a leading opposition candidate possible off in gas and had call
President will really try to hit hard when it comes to joe biden and some of the issues involving the Supreme Court we also know that joe biden is expected to hit donald trump once again on his handling of. The rising number of infections in the United States so americans are watching very carefully more than 47000000 americans have already cast their ballots its a record surge of voting in early voting but there are still millions more that have yet to the president Supreme Court nominee has moved a step closer to being confirmed the votes are 12 days 10 know. The nomination will be reported favor belleek to the floor with a unanimous vote the Senate Judiciary Committee Approved the nomination even the democrats boycotted the ballot it will now go to a full senate vote and thatll be on monday. Governments across europe are grappling with how to deal with the rapidly spreading credit of our south break france has expanded curfews to more regions as cases. Nigerias president has address
Strong opposition to any easing of sanctions those advisories in fact wrong with more this lifting of the sanctions is seen as more of a political win for iran its something president Hassan Rouhani it said just in the past few days that its a very important step for the reigne nation for them to have something specific and tangible as a result of the Nuclear Agreement of 2015 now just to give you an idea of how much money iran spends on its defense of program it between 2016 in 2013 it was around 45 percent of its g. D. P. That was between 18. 00 and 22000000000. 00 thats not likely to change. Protesters are gathering once again in the thai capital thousands have been rallying in defiance of a government ban calling for the Prime Minister to stand down the reform of the monarchy and the new constitution going ends are heading to the polls of a tense election that follows months of unrest nearly 5000000 eligible voters are choosing between 12 candidates including incumbent president al
Hello and welcome again to rewind im come on santa maria. There on rewind where revisiting our extensive documentary archive to bring you some of the best and most influential programs of the past decade as well as news of how the story has moved on since from the early days of aljazeera english the Award Winning people in power series is carried out indepth investigations into some of the most difficult and Important International stories like in 2004 when 2 libyan opponents of the gadhafi regime were abducted on route to the United Kingdom then repatriated to libya where they were imprisoned and tortured but after the overthrow of the gadhafi regime following the 2011 are prizing the 2 men began to investigate the real story behind their abduction and the role played by the u. K. Government 2 years later people in power Giuliana Rufus gained exclusive access to the 2 men as they returned to libya in search of answers from 2013 this is libya renditions. This is a funeral in tripoli sm