Despite a furious response. Begin in sri lanka where the Opposition Party led by rajapaksa has declared victory in the president ial elections his rival subject conceded early results put rajapaksa over the 50 percent mark needed to avoid a 2nd recount rajapaksa is the brother of former president s my hindu rajapaksa and was also defense chief when the tamil tigers were defeated 10 years ago the election was dominated by rising religious tensions and a slowing economy the president says says he will stand down as the deputy leader of the United National party in a statement he said weve just witnessed the most peaceful president ial election in the history of our independent republic this was a result of the democratic gains and Institutional Reforms that have taken place over the last fire. The years that empowered an independent Elections Commission and restore the rule of law my appeal to the incoming president is that he take this process forward and strengthen and protect the Democratic Institutions and values that enabled his peaceful election as the 7th president of sri lanka Bennett Smith has more now from sri lankas capital colombo the rajapaksa family is back in power in sri lanka in 2015 min the rajapaksa lost the president ial election seemingly kicked out of power by an electorate that had had enough of allegations of corruption and concerns of human rights Rights Violations towards the end of his countrys civil war and thats when the winner of todays election got a pirate attacks was defense minister but this time the rajapaksa is have successfully corralled it seems the majority of the sinhalese buddhist vote 75 percent of his population is sinhalese poorest and most of them have cast votes for the rajapaksa is the main opposition candidates premadasa he needed to get enough minority votes from turmels muslims to try and stop rajapaksa crossing the 50 percent threshold he didnt quite manage it he has handed over conceded that he has lost this election and offered his congratulations to go to buyer rajapaksa. Now police stuff and hong kong have been hit by metal balls and an arrow they have used tear gas and water cannon against protesters in return large fires have been led to around the Hong Kong Polytechnic University some of the most dramatic scenes of the 5 months of unrest all schools have been told to stay shut on monday because of the violence our correspondent David Holland has the latest from hong kong. You can see that police are not moving at their Armored Vehicle watch or a can and spray blue dye at the protesters trying to get them to Disperse Protesters have blockaded themselves into that road using whatever they can including umbrella boards to try and fend off any Police Action this has been going on for hours the prove least trying to move forward protesters will move back a little bit and then they will move forward back to their position. If you can see behind my shoulder that brick building there that is the Polytechnic University students have been there over the weekend since tuesday pretty much barricading themselves then building somewhat of a fortress the been trying to prepare molotov cocktails with a truck back at the police rock and other projectiles whatever they can pretty much get their hands on which often proves ineffective when you see the water cannon put out the fires and the Police Continue to push forward with tear gas and rubber bullets which they have been firing earlier in the day not the main thing that theyre trying to protect is not their university. Press holding themselves up in the university yes an effective what they are trying to do is protect a major highway that they have all key applied that is just further down there that highway links into a tunnel 7 and that tunnel connects Hong Kong Island to the rest of the city that is part of the action that they have been trying to push through across the city this week blockading key parts of the city to try and disrupt hong kong and that is what theyre trying to stop from happening if. They want to keep that highway because as long as they have it there blockade. So they are keeping up with this strong role that you can see there are firing petrol bombs at the water cannon proving to be quite effective meanwhile the police are pushing back with their water cannon and occasionally with tear gas and this has been going on for hours. Bolivias former president evo morales has told al jazeera he should be allowed to return and complete his final term in office the United Nations is warning that violence in bolivia can spin out of control and prevent new elections there on friday the supporters were shot dead during fighting with Security Forces and there were more clashes between Security Forces and supporters on saturday people have been launching from the region of. The central city of cochabamba i even spoke to al jazeera as john holland outlined his next. Up into sunday if more rallies was latin americas longest standing current leader now pressured to resign by the military after accusations of electoral fraud he suddenly believe he is former president and the next in mexico but off the less than a week he told out 0 hes already planning to go home. I cant be outside of the country im used to being with the people as a union leader president doing work i miss it a lot im looking for a legal way to go back and be with the people as they resist the dictatorship the coup he says if allowed back he wouldnt seek to run in fresh elections thats a bone of contention between him and the opposition but he still wants to complete the last 2 months of his term. I dont know why theyre so scared of evo they dont want me to participate. In everything for life for democracy or a time my candidacy but they should let me finish my term is that understood not understood by now interim president cheney and years she said he could face charges if he goes but its the culmination of discontent that started back in 2016 when moralists to change the constitution to rome for a time there was a referendum the majority voted against you having a 4th. And afterwards. If you did it you did run again and that seemed to go against the spirit of democracy in the country where you could interpret it like that but so you know on the 21st of february 2016 the lie won enough lies to beat us with 70000 votes moral lesson the right united and beat us based on the lie you and c. N. N. Were in on it the u. S. Embassy prepared that lie hes unrepentant the moment and he also insists that there wasnt fraud in the elections a month ago this by investigators from the organization of american states saying that they too was diverted to a secret service that there were clear manipulations he says that organizations politically motivated which of yells i had a lot of trust or some trust but now i dont have any in the oas i should be called the organization of the states of north america not america he did call fresh elections after the oas preliminary report but by then it was too late many c. F. L. Morale is as a good leader who simply stayed too long he managed almost half of poverty the economy grew under you and you brought stability now. Given whats happened if you could go back in time would you run again for this. Would you have gone to refresh or if you could have your time again would you have bowed out gracefully garden walk was a you dont look for the post of presidency 6 you out thats my experience in the unions and my experience in the presidency and i want to tell you that after the 1st mandate i was happy content to go back to cochabamba when you win Peoples Trust and go again and. That may have been his own doing and in his way libya is in crisis with Police Killing protesters violence from both sides. You can only look for before your home. Or now venezuelas Opposition Leader is using the situation in bolivia to make a fresh push for president Nicolas Maduro to step down thousands of people rallied in caracas on saturday in support of murderers main rival one quieter address the crowd outside the Bolivian Embassy telling his supporters to keep protesting until free elections are held in venezuela irans Supreme LeaderAyatollah Ali Khamenei has back to feel price increase that sparked a nationwide protests he denounced what he calls hooligans for taking part and sabotage bads as police and Security Forces fought with demonstrators across dozens of cities on saturday protesters are angry that petrol is being rationed and the prices are rising by as much as 200 percent oxygen barry has more from the capital. A number of incidents have been reported overnight and Early Morning by the official state News Agencies here they include the setting a gas station on fire as well as attacking a Police Station in the city of shiraz and a number of religious leaders have been arrested in the city of mashhad as well as about 60 people have also been arrested in their own province now all these incidents are being carried out by what the Supreme Leader has called hooligans the highest authority in iran has been speaking to religious students in tehran early sunday morning where he voiced his opinion on the latest news about the fuel price increase lets hear what he had to say. Im not an expert on this issue but i said if heads of government make a decision i would support it and i will the heads of 3 branches have made a decision based on expert study so it should be implemented meanwhile the special committee has been meeting behind closed doors in parliament to discuss the developments of these fuel thats happened the speaker of Parliament Ali larijani has said that the parliament will support this decision as it stands and there will be a series of committees looking into how this price increase will affect the rest of the country and they will try to minimize the impact that this increase will have on other prices in the country to make sure that the peoples concerns are addressed about rising cost of goods in the cities across the country yemens transport minister has criticized a power sharing deal signed last week with separatists in the south side of algebra and he says the saudi broken dale threatens the legitimacy of his own government and called it destructive collusion the riyadh agreement aims to end months of violence between Government Forces and u. A. E. Backed fighters. Often ahead on aljazeera the preliminary evaluation of a saudi arabia state and oil company falls short of some expectations plus. We will be the e. U. On the 29 march 2000. And 9 that breck said battleground rival party is in using the online wild to try to get their election messages across. The logan to welcome back well here across parts of south asia we are watching the storm system right now making its way towards the philippines it has been moving quite slowly over the last few days it has been bringing the actual arrival date just behind schedule but right now we do expect to see on monday a landfall and system coming into luzon possibly as a typhoon its going to be very weak we do think in this area but still very heavy rain across much of luzon over the next few days as the system intensifies and moves across the area we could be seeing well over 250. 00 millimeters of flooding rain across that region as well well here across austria we are going to be seeing a big change over the next few days now we do have a frontal boundary down here across much of the southeast with it it is cooler down here towards the south but out here towards the west of here towards the north though we are talking about temperatures that are quite hot for Alice Springs here on monday 36. 00 degrees there we are looking at melbourne actually coming up as well so as we take a look at whats going to be happy in the next few days well it is going to be very very hot here in adelaide temperatures few are going to be coming up as well take a look at the 3 day forecast we expect to see 31 degrees here on monday coming down to about 29 so not much of a drop but as we go towards wednesday 42. 00 well above average for this time of year. From a goss to jerusalem to buy em on the go moses claimed soon manal inform my lost to history and background. 3 short films that show how people take a stand against evictions in a struggling communities the 1st time they arrested i was 11 years old a. J. Selects on aljazeera. I know there i missed all the attention and reminder of top stories this hour rajapaksa policy has declared victory in sri lanka as president ial election his rival subject president conceded as early results put rajapaksa over the 50 percent mark needed to avoid a 2nd recount. Police in hong kong have used tear gas the rules of counting on protesters as a University Campus whove been throwing petrol bombs in schools have been told to stay shops on monday because of the violence. And around supremely the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has backed a fuel price increase of up to 200 percent that sparked a nationwide protest he denounced what he calls hooligans for taking part in sabotage at least 60 people were arrested on saturday evening. Now saudi arabia has put a preliminary valuation on its state owned oil giant around the curve of between 6. 01 trillion dollars thats still short of crown Prince Mohammed bin sounds target of 2 trillion the kingdom says its looking to raise more than 25000000000. 00 by selling a 1. 5 percent stake in its oil company its now taking bids from investors and the final price will be set off to that phase which ends on december 5th out of there is economics that is abu dhabi says crown Prince Mohammed bin will be disappointed with this valuation. 1st of all remember in 2016 he wanted 2 trillion dollars for the computer wants to raise 100000000000. 00 for other projects that they want to invest in now we have come to a point where basically International Investors have baulked at the idea that they would be willing to invest in this company at anywhere above 1. 00 trillion dollars but he is pretty lucky that the saudi public will be buying into this no point 5 percent of the shares will be sold to the south is saudi public and looks like that theyll take a huge allotment of those shares plus hes encouraged many of the countrys billionaires who were holed up in the in the in the in the in the in the hotel in in riyadh to. To basically invest in the in this particular company as well so on that level it will be a success because on the day of the shares will be sold to the saudi Pension FundsInvestment Funds will basically go into the market and pick up any of the stock thats left over. And eventually iraqi cleric who walks out of has called a nationwide strike beginning on sunday protests started in october against a lack of jobs and Public Services but theyve since grown into calls for regime change 320 people have been killed in those demonstrations the toxic uname has the latest from baghdad. The roads were quite card coming into Tahrir Square were seeing a lot of students in the numbers do seem to be bigger than we would typically see this time of day on a sunday if you look behind me you can see pretty significant plume of black smoke theres likely the remnants of a tire fire im guessing that has been set by protesters you mentioned that the prominent shiite cleric solder called for an issue not wide strike in iraq its probably because his followers comprise the largest bloc in parliament they are the primary opposition and they are united with the protesters in calling for the resignation of Prime Minister maliki and calling for elections in baghdad as i said were expecting more people in Tahrir Square than we would typically see on a sunday in basra things appear to be quite tense the ports the operations there are once again halted as protesters block the entrance were told that theyve blocked the roads to several oil fields in the lock the primary road leading from basra to baghdad theres no school today in basra in may soon and thats 3 of the local councils have actually given people the day off from work and school so we expect to see significant numbers of people attending protests there so really what were seeing is that protesters are continuing to maintain their momentum and try to keep the pressure on a government that they believe has not gone far enough in its reforms right now we have drafts of an election law and a new Electoral Commission that are waiting to be reviewed by the parliament but of course the one thing that protesters want which is for the Prime Minister to step down has not happened. Lebanons former finance minister has withdrawn his name from contention to be the next Prime Minister mohammad suffered he said it would be difficult to form a harmonious cabinet and a statement he added that he hoped outgoing Prime Minister saad hariri would be renominated but our correspondent joins us now live from beirut to somebody is not the most popular with protest as we know that will this be enough to placate