Are using. Britain heading for its 1st december in action in almost a century a very forest johnson hopes will break the brics it deadlock. Was in doha with all the days sport bangladesh stalled around the shock about a hot sun has been banned for 2 years on 3 trips with corruption charges that some more later in the program. Break in lebanon where Prime Minister saad hariri has submitted his resignation to the president after 13 days of antigovernment protests harry reid says hes reached a dead end in dealing with the unprecedented demonstrations and violence but have paralyzed the country so that honda has been following the days developments from beirut. Protesters welcoming the decision by the Prime Minister to resign there are celebrating in the streets there calling this a victory welcoming a welcome 1st step this is what they have been demanding for the past 13 days demanding a new government is formed a government made up of technocrats which are not or ministers who are not allied to any Political Party in order to. Much needed reforms to fix the economy so people are you know satisfied with this move but the biggest question is what will the Prime Minister has given his resignation to the president the president has responded he is expected to respond tomorrow accept the resignation of more is or no will. Be found but clearly the message from the Ruling Alliance has so far been youre not going to be able to topple us from the streets if you want to topple us you can only do that using constitutional tools but now the protesters are planning to open roads theyve been blocking roads not just in the lebanese capital but across the country the past 13 days now they say they will lift those roadblocks and they will confine street action to. Outside government institutions and to some squares because they realize how dangerous it is a staying on the streets. Unrest in the streets of beirut running battles in the heart of the lebanese capital. Police moved in after hundreds of men allied with Political Parties in power attacked government demonstrators who have been in the streets for almost 2 weeks demanding the ruling elite leaves office the Prime Minister saddle how d. D. Has now handed his Resignation Letter to the president. For 13 days the lebanese people have waited for a decision for a political solution that would stop the deterioration of i have tried during this period to find a way to listen to the peoples voice and to protect the country from Economic Security and social changes today i will not hide from you i reached a dead end it is time for us to have a big shock to face the crisis. The crisis is threatening civil peace the protest movement doesnt enjoy the support of the entire country. Is among a number of groups backing the government. The neighbors there are. The iranian backed movement believes there is a campaign to topple the governing coalition to change the balance of power in favor of the pro western alliance protesters deny those accusations that definitely some people try to take advantage of this entire Revolution Movement whereby they will try to ride this wave and its normal but the majority of the people on the streets are not that that is a very good its because. There are celebrations in the streets how did his resignation is seen as a welcome 1st step but what protestors are asking for is radical change early elections and an end to political sectarianism easier said that the question is will this trigger now a process by which hezbollah which is the critical player in the background as well as the president michel aoun and has already had ms. Brown but will those people agree to a technocratic government that would mean giving up power so far the governing Alliance Says it will be toppled only through constitutional means maybe hoping his decision to resign will pressure his Coalition Partners to make concessions a hezbollah led government needs political cover from someone like heidi who enjoys the support of the International Community what began as a spontaneous protest movement is now a political crisis that spilled onto the streets lebanons fault lines are deep and its unclear what happens next a political vacuum a precarious situation a divided street an economy grinding to a halt lebanon has been here before and like in the past it is the security of the country which is facing the biggest risk. Beirut. Many of the protests is also want to tear down lebanons sectarian political system saying it helps corrupt politicians cling to power by keeping the country divided under the. System if said hurry his resignation is accepted only another sunni muslim can take his place similarly the president has to be a christian and the parliamentary speaker a Shia Parliament itself is evenly divided between christians and muslims with each side getting 64 seats theres a further divided so that all 18 of lebanons religious sects are represented the system is designed to prevent lebanon from sliding back into civil war it was brokered by saudi arabia just over 30 years ago well joining me now from beirut is the unease filmmaker and activist lucian bush really thank you very much for being with us i want to come back to the system in lebanon in a moment but 1st what is the reaction amongst most to the protests and your reaction indeed to the resignation of hariri. I think its a victory for us as people who have been in the seats for 13 days and we have demanded this from the 1st day of course its because of the corruption of the of course its because of so many other things but at the same time what is the most crucial thing is that the people in the most of them the majority of the people feel they are not represented in power and governments who are in the. So and for that reason. The people in but we need to go back to the people in an early election so as the people have the right to reform the power d and they have new people. To take the country forward because the people that are. Unfortunately so corrupt that the we have. So many lies before and that we dont have any trust in them in just on that day i mean do you do you see visit another election under the existing system because a lot of the protests a seem to want the whole system to be torn up when we were describing it just now the kind of very carefully balanced political system that gives power to various different factions or what if you dont do it under that system what do you envisage. What we want is the application of the constitution our constitution actually says that we are in a temporary state today which is the state where we are going towards. Going into us going outside of the confessional system this is part of the constitution this is supposedly only temporary that was 1902 it was supposed to be different in 1906 but it never happened there was no. What it is that supposed to be the authority that when certain a committee that will change the perception of the Events People concerning sectarianism and its relationship to politics and this to happen because the people of color dont have this advantage of making it happen because they give a blank check that in system they are the ready. System and they will never accept that the system to fall into something much more inclusive much more. But to support the for the many people and theres already been some violent protests will have wind could you degenerate further. Well of course the violence has been done from the people in power and from thugs. Sent by the people in power to intimidate them state those who are only demanding for basic rights for everybody after all what your demand for and make the solution will ultimately have everybody in the to have better access to services but that access to basic rights its ready something that everybody would benefit from even the people that today but actually attacking protesters they will be also benefiting from evolving the Current System that because you couldnt sustain not working it has collapsed in many ways and it has collapsed on us the people it has collapsed economically lets even even in terms of of. Ecology political issues d less when we had the fires in lebanon we have a very big scandal where even the basic material used i needed to do. To fight the fires were not there because of court action this is something that in any other country would have stopped and the government. Took us through certain days and i think the government should have stepped down the 2nd day when they got stuck and him any thank you very much to fail thought thank you thank you. Well send her his resignation has given new hope to protest as in iraq who are trying to oust their own government tens of thousands have again been out demonstrating spurred on by reports of Security Forces shooting dead protests as in karbala more than 200 people have been killed since the demonstrations began earlier this month the protesters were joined by a powerful shia cleric. Whos pushing for a confidence vote against the Prime Minister and special reports from baghdad. Candles flickered across 3 or square as the sun set on another day of protests in baghdad with a respite from the tear gas and the stun grenades it was almost peaceful as people remembered those whod been killed soon the chanting singing and dancing resumed as did the tear gas telling sign this you are going to tear them apart from did to see what your i. Q. People are capable of what the government is now seeing is that despite the mounting death toll and the curfews people in baghdad and a handful of cities in the south have a new government in their sights use that after almost 2 weeks protesters in love it on pushed out Prime Minister saad hariri and his government is only in bolding these iraqis ok how do you have a few but i do resignation of a really open the door and give the people a strong motivation the government has to resign here as well an Influential Shiite cleric the solder joint protesters in. His followers control the largest block of votes in parliament yet solder is a late comer these protests began in early october and only on saturday did he echo the protesters demand that iraqi Prime Minister idle abdul mahdi resign the right to get out there not only there is no leader for these protests but we want the United Nations to supervise a new election to ensure it has integrity do not allow any parties to interfere and ensure. Its only just a not for shouldnt. He has promised numerous reforms including combat in corruption and saying he and other top officials would take a 50 percent pay cut and divert the money to a fine to assist the poor but he says if he resigns chaos will return to iraq and as egypts arab spring revealed its one thing to have a revolution and another to create a real democracy i tell you what we dont have any new leaders in our minds right now but well keep protesting a lot of you have joined the protest several 17 year old to get on here both the teachers and the attorneys unions have told their members to stay off from school for the rest of the week i did stats show their solidarity by protesting the name aljazeera baghdad. And just one footnote to that just within the last few minutes so weve heard from state media in iraq that iraqs shia political leader mary says he will work with the populist cleric. On achieving the interests of the people and saving the country is remember there from that report has been calling out for a vote of no confidence in the promises so its possible that things are moving on a pace in iraq well keep you updated on that story just assumes a bit more information. Still to come on the news hour live from london Donald Trumps ukraine advisor testifies to congress about his alarm over the u. S. President s efforts to pressure his ukrainian counterpart. An official report into one of londons worst fire disasters says many more people could have been saved. And in sports south africas coach says england have the upper hand heading into saturdays World Cup Final. Russia says tens of thousands of kurdish led forces have withdrawn from a border zone in northeast syria the pullout was completed ahead of a deadline that had been set for 15 g. M. T. On tuesday russian and Turkish Forces say theyll now start joint patrols in the region are reports from gaza into. Kurdish fighters were treating from the socalled safe zone but turkey says its patrols will determine if the withdrawal is in line with the deal is signed with russia last week the safe zone is a 440 kilometer long and 32 kilometer deep area thats what she is from the northwest to maliki on the border with iraq east turkey has insisted on establishing a buffer zone on the border with syria saying its crucial to prevent the Peoples Protection unit the white b. G. From expanding its influence turkish authorities consider the white b. G. A terrorist group. For the us the white pity the main kurdish faction in the Syrian Democratic forces. Was a push into beating myself. The retreat of the kurdish fighters would be a crucial moment for president as a player. Who has been warning against a full blown mystery confrontation if Syrian Kurdish fighters remain in the same zone. Although must be the killer part in the brochure as all know has given the information to all relevant authorities the terrorists organizations have completely withdrawn. It was a tense day a mortar landed near a Russian Military personnel. On the border with Turkey Russia and turkey carry out joint patrols in those areas. Clashes erupted between the turkish back Syrian National army the Opposition Group and the s. D. F. On the outskirts of i know he said and then bitch. In the meantime as the s. D. F. Fighters pull out Syrian Government troops are redeploying taken over more territory. You know we just saw. With that about our redeployment will continue until we reach the iraqi border god willing we will rescue people from the turkish invasion and terrorist groups. But all the ground its russia and turkey the top the upper hand the support rival groups in syria but bad as over the last few years to set aside their differences and broker a deal to end the syrian conflict. Turkey wants to establish observation post in the safe zone warning that any push by the Syrian Government of the yesteryear to move to the area will be met by force possible by the us is iraq going to alter his border with syria. The kurdish led Syrian Democratic forces say they played a key role in tracking down isolator baghdadi who was killed on saturday the s. D. F. Say they placed a spy in baghdad hes in a circle they stole a pair of his underpants which were then d. N. A. Tested to prove his identity u. S. President donald trump downplayed the role of Kurdish Forces in the raid but s. T. s Officials Say they helped to guide us troops to baghdad is syrian hideout they isolated detonated a suicide vest as u. S. Forces approached killing himself and 3 of his children i mean all trump has tweeted saying the man who was meant to replace baghdadi has also been killed by u. S. Troops it doesnt specify who it is but says the man would have most likely taken the top spot in i saw with the u. S. And a top kurdish official and earlier confirmed that baghdad his spokesman and right hand man i will house and 100 year was killed on sunday in a separate rage in the Northern Syrian village of beda. A top u. S. Government official says he raised concerns twice over the president s efforts to pressure ukraine to investigate a political rival alexander been men has been testifying as part of the impeachment inquiry into donald trump why did your castro report from washington. Alexander venom an is a u. S. Army colonel hornet iraq veteran and the 1st impeachment witness with 1st hand knowledge of the july phone call between President Trump and the ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelinsky then man was among the white house staff listening when trump said to the ukrainian leader i would like you to do west a favor publicly investigate trumps political rival joe biden and a Company Called charisma that employed by tin son i was concerned by the call binman said in his written testimony i did not think it was proper to demand that a Foreign Government investigate a us citizen i was worried about the implications for the Us Government support of ukraine i realized that if ukraine pursued an investigation into the bidens and it would likely be interpreted as a partisan play which would undoubtedly result in ukraine losing the bipartisan support it has thus far maintained this would all undermine u. S. National security the newly elected selenski was hoping to schedule a visit to the white house and ukraine was waiting for u. S. Military aid needed to fend off russia but trump temporarily withheld the aid as his advisors continued to push ukraine to investigate the democrats and biden. This is about the United States constitution this is about the rule of law this is about National Security this is about abuse of power this is about the fact that the president betrayed his oath of office and the American People trump has denied wrongdoing and attack the credibility o