A bill that stabilizes the possibility for city electricity rose on average of 9. 2 percent a few days ago we want to cancel this price rise which affected almost 7000000. 00 chilean households and aljazeera is money raffle has more on the story now from santiago. Its a much calmer day on the streets of the chilean capital not the same sort of scene that weve seen over the course of the past few days with violence on the street clashes with police however it is still early there are pockets of tension that remain in the city there are Peaceful Protesters there once again gathering at last so you value and iconic part of the city where the main staging area really for these demonstrations even though there has been unrest in other cities as well still it still remains to be seen whether or not the apology and the promises made by the chilean president will be enough to calm the hearts and minds of people whove been out on the streets protesting the biggest concern at the moment has been
Social reforms but. Today i want to see a good news with my countryman today we signed into congress a bill that stabilizes the price of electricity now tricity rose an average of 9. 2 percent a few days ago we want to cancel this price rise which affected almost 7000000. 00 children households. Backfires with his Vice President of the council of the americas which works to promote free trade and democracy joins me now from mcclane in the u. S. State of virginia good to have you with us i mean a raft of Economic Reforms were actually suggested by president pinera but we continue to see these riots we continue to see civil disturbances. When do you think this will ease what will it take for the president to try and kate the public at large. You know its really tough to say the president s already tried to placate them hes even apologized and asked for their forgiveness saying that he and his government fundamentally misunderstood some of their feelings and where theyre coming from he di
Removed from office addressed the nation for the 1st time since the crisis began he presented his solution by promising to fight corruption and invited the protesters to engage in dialogue. With the regime cannot be toppled from the streets the regime must be changed through conditional tools now we have economic models to bring jobs we also have concerns about the economy i am willing to listen to your demands i am waiting for you his invitation was swiftly rejected Civil Society activists say that people have heard promises like these before the president s speech did not address promises that he will address corruption and try to return some of the stolen money but thats just promises that there is no confidence. With the people that they will actually that the government will follow through and recover the stolen money they say they want radical change they want new faces in power who are not affiliated with the governing parties and theyre promising to keep lebanon on lockdown unt
Departments the crisis is if anything the police John Hoeven Al Jazeera pass. Weather is next but still ahead on aljazeera casualties of the trade war we need the workers whose jobs are on the line as the u. S. And china resume high level talks and the heir to the samsung empire returns to court with his future in the balance. Hello another blast of winter is coming down through colorado you just about see it on the cloud picture here its enhanced the sunder storms which are pretty vicious running up from texas through kansas and its also picked up on the santa islands created more santa ana winds for the clear skies and dry weather and fire risk of Southern California however that cold as for snow down almost the texas panhandle in the forecast and then it tends to bring cooler weather to pick up the showers the strength of the showers the intensity of them along the Southern States leaving the rest draw i am not especially cold i have to say denvers back up to 17 degrees having seen
Ahead. Of the samsung empire returns to court with his future and the balance. And a legal battle in the occupied west bank of a series of banned websites. However there is more clout in iran but this is focus on the east and the levant the certainly a change in season here has been flooding rain in northern egypt and there is more to come not circulation a cloud will develop into something more is not on farther than on saturday bringing heavy rains to alexandria sinai and probably a little bit further east and maybe affecting for example jerusalem whose temperature will drop to Something Like 19 is the rain. On saturday certain things to the east cloud will develop into showers over iran but iraq seems to escape the temperature down to 30 called just a little cooler and we might from the same sort of system get some showers crna over the red sea over this part of saudi arabia restoration ministers looking quiet for now but with the approach of potential tropical cyclones a long way w