A landslide election victories New Zealanders reward the covering for. 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
A state of emergency in new measures are in place across europe to stop the spread of covert 19. A call for a nationwide strike in belo rose after the president ignores the oppositions demand to step down. Celebrations are underway in chile where of looks like a referendum to change the constitution is set to pass with an overwhelming majority these are live pictures from the capital santiago many say the current guidelines imposed 4 decades ago under a military dictatorship have led to widespread inequalities the government agreed to the referendum following protests that began one year ago. In america added to the scene newman is joining us now from from santiago give us an idea of what the mood is like on the streets because it does seem as though. People are pretty confident that even though the final results are not yet in this is going to go ahead. Youre absolutely right there seems to be very little question about whether its i mean rather its not about whether but by how much t
In europe are reimpose curfews to try and stop a surge in corona virus infection its about. Liverpool and everton locked in a dog. Bowl late in the program. Hello thanks for joining us fighting has escalated in the conflict over the disputed region of nagornokarabakh a week after a cease fire between azerbaijan and armenia took effect as a vision has accused armenia of deliberately attacking civilians and in the city of god with a missile that killed at least 13 people armenians Defense Ministry says it did not fire towards as or based on several hierarchies begins our coverage. 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
A state of emergency new measures are in place across europe to stop the spread of covert 19. Call for a nationwide strike in belo to sell off to the president ignores the oppositions demand to step down. As a festive mood in chile where a referendum to change the constitution looks likely to pass with an overwhelming majority since polls closed 3 hours ago people have been gathering at a popular square in the capital to celebrate the government agreed to the referendum following protests against social and economic inequalities which began one year ago on latin america editor on the scene human is joining us now from santiago it seems from the very early hours of this referendum the people were absolutely convinced that this was going to go ahead. Absolutely and they were right in fact with nearly 90 percent of the votes already counted it has been and landslide in favor of those who wanted or rather in favor of the choice of rewriting to constitution what im seeing now is Something L
Europe. How to call for a nationwide strike came by the roots after the president ignores the opposition said line to step down. We begin in chile where with most of the votes counted a referendum to change the constitution is on course to pass with an overwhelming majority since polls closed several hours ago thousands of people have been gathering at a popular square in the capital to celebrate it was the focal point of last is often violent protests against social and economic inequalities the governments agreed to the referendum following those demonstrations. A current constitution was imposed 4 decades ago under the military dictatorship of pinochet early results suggest people want a body of specially elected citizens to draw off the new charter which will then go to a nationwide vote. Chiles president Sebastian Pinera has called on the nation to Work Together if. This referendum is not the end it is the beginning of a path that we must all walk to give the to agree on a new con