Out there along with unemployed youth and of course the youth Unemployment Rate in iraq is approaching 20 percent when you when you put all these things together and you look at what the money government has accomplished in one year which is very little the frustration level is high these people are really putting their lives at risk i think the the the death count as as gone above 30 now but i think its a measure of just how deeply frustrated how angry people are at the promises of this of this government and really the failed to deal with these issues that they promised they would at least get a start dealing with. In the news hour and clearing ecuadors president declares a state of emergency well tell you whats fuelling protests and the south American Country safer more but under threat of deportation the new fear for Syrian Refugees thats another goal tonight for britain at the world athletics championships far has been sport. Carolan is expected to an act an emergency law that wil
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
Connections the upper middle classes those whove got good educations are more isolated from that but i think it does permeate all of society and people know youre just one connection away or youre already losing power from you or at least your kids being able to get jobs. That said no ones happy with what the mahdi the Prime Minister is putting out there i think his speech was a tone deaf and and didnt give very much but its not clear that the people would have reacted any better had he proposed the real reforms the cutting of the club like sector or the real business warms the opening of the oil sector that would be needed to really generate the private sector jobs that iraq so desperately need so do you think that there is the energy there among these protesters to keep Going Forward with this. That there is certainly the appearance of that and my reading of the Prime Ministers speech is that he did more harm than good probably added fuel to the fire and im seeing on on social media
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