A u. S. Opioid epidemic. Protesters in lebanon standing their ground despite the government approving sweeping Economic Reforms Prime Minister saad hariri announced the measures to diffuse the biggest demonstrations in years against the nations leaders but activists say they wont go home until the entire cabinet steps down aljazeera saying to hold it reports now from beirut all. The people have spoken calls go beyond fighting corruption they want accountability and early elections and they say they arent leaving the streets until that happens protests are growing by the day the lebanese government however is refusing to step aside instead it is offering a plan that is supposed to fix the economic crisis without hitting the public with more taxes my thats awful. The cabinet approved the 2020 budget with a deficit of 0. 6 percent with no new taxes the salaries of top officials including legislators and members of parliament will be cut in half as part of the economic reform package the c
A government is accused of manipulating the outcome. And for Drug Companies reach a multimillion Dollar Settlement for their role in fueling a u. S. Opioid epidemic. Protesters in lebanon are standing their ground despite the government approving sweeping Economic Reforms Prime Minister saad hariri announced the measures to diffuse the biggest demonstrations in the years against the nations leaders but activists say that they wont go home until the entire cabinet steps down ill just send a ha to reports from beirut all. The people have spoken calls go beyond fighting corruption they want accountability and early elections and they say they arent leaving the streets until that happens protests are growing by the day the lebanese government however is refusing to step aside instead it is. Offering a plan that is supposed to fix the economic crisis without hitting the public with more taxes my thats awful written by democrats here the cabinet approved the 2020 budget with a deficit of 0.
Summit in a few days on thursday and it is a believe that of course this issue syria turkey will be one of the top talking points on the agenda so we might see something come out of that ok well leave it there for now natasha thank you for that update from paris well very highly for a senior syria syria analysts of the International Crisis group and she believes the violence could lead to a resurgence of ice or cells in the region. We have been conducting a lot of field where field trips in Eastern Syria where the situation has been deteriorating read it quickly because of the u. S. Flip flopping policies that has it back to the y. P. G. s ability and willingness to conduct counter isis campaigns in Eastern Syria of course the a lot of the field work was done during a time where it was unclear how long the us would be there but the us was present now given that free for all the race to take control over the area it is expected that well see a number of things including potential prison
Proposed reforms failed to stop the demonstrations protestors saying even her real reason parcher is not enough to satisfy their demands plus russia and turkeys ceasefire comes to an end in northeastern syria moscow says kurdish militias have met a deadline to withdraw from the Turkish Border region. Im called aspen welcome to the program u. K. Voters will be going to the polls in december after british lawmakers agreed to back Prime Minister Boris Johnsons call for a snap general election m. P. s voted 438 to 20 in favor of an election on december 12th heres how that will play out parliament will be dissolved next week and then comes a short. The Election Campaign in just over 5 weeks that campaign will of course all about departure from the European Union with johnson hoping to secure a majority to finally get his brechts a deal done it all comes after the e. U. Agreed to delay the bratz the deadline until january 31st. Lets get more now from our correspondent she is in london for us
Kilometers so they tried to break them up at the very beginning that was an unsuccessful by the police and then so hundreds of thousands of people marched all the way through there were confrontations along the route but the biggest was what their final destination and that was the government complex as you mentioned thats what we saw the blue dye chemically laden water cannon being used we saw petrol bombs being thrown by the protesters bricks being thrown by the protesters and then obviously volleys of tear gas coming back at them what does this mean moving forward obviously this is a big clash today something we havent seen for several days what are we going to be seeing over the next few days as you alluded there you know the 75th anniversary the founding the peoples republic of china is on tuesday october 1st obviously the protesters have said that they want to counter that in some way we dont know exactly whats going to happen one thing you can be certain of the Security Forces h