Going straight to. The Iraqi Parliament has approved Prime Minister abdul mahdi his resignation comes after weeks of protests from more than 400 people were killed across the country hell stay on to lead a caretaker government but attention now turns to who will replace him so manifold and reports now from baghdad. After only 13 months in office iraqs of bethels Prime Minister added up that he has officially stepped down yet his succession is mired in uncertainty according to the constitution the president is supposed to take up the office of the Prime Minister until a replacement is chosen but instead of the mahdi is staying on as part of a caretaker government. The largest bloc in Parliament Led by shiite cleric mulcted out of sudden must now nominate every placement within 15 days. Its a murky and often lengthy process that requires consent from shia sunni and kurdish parties as well as regional and global power brokers 7. More than ever the choice would have to be accepted on the streets its a daunting task for Political Parties put himself space the wrath of the protesters. Who are. With the biggest block based on the last parliamentary election we have to nominate a candidate form a government with guidance from Tata Al Sabah we will cancel tarion and political appointments system we give the right to the protesters because the people of the largest block and the demonstrations are where the sacrifice has been made the candidate of the people will be at choices well. But to know the peoples choice would require fresh elections a key demand of the protesters who want to do so all of this government. Believed in you tears got dictators government are just going to say that to. Make. Sure for their cause also. For the politics parties Parliament Member say that passing these reforms could take up to 6 months we fully accept and fully support the idea of dissolving the parliament and having a fresh election but that you have to know that this there is a cost to stop or seizures 1st we have to go with it we need a government even an interim government a government before holding the elections at this week we are discussing even way past that new electoral law that i have which is overseeing their elections in iraq the new election law currently tabled in parliament suggests an increase in independent candidates at least considerable power in the hands of Political Parties including the ability to choose the Prime Minister. Protests just say that this resignation is meaningless if they cannot choose the next leader themselves they demand a president ial rather than a parliamentary system whereby the head of state is elected by popular vote a demand that has thus far been ignored by the political establishment see one of 14 aljazeera baghdad motors Prime MinisterJoseph Muscat says he will stand down and begin the process to replace him in january earlier thousands of people marched in the maltese capital by letter urging him to go is come under increasing pressure over the investigation into the murder of the journalist daphne carolina going to see it 2 years ago a prominent businessman was charged on saturday as an accomplice to the murder and the Prime Ministers chief of staff resigned last week of the 3 car want to kill its year died on october 27th teen when the bomb went off under her car 3 men were soon charged with carrying out the bombing they pleaded not guilty investigation went quiet until prominent businessman youre going fenech was 1st arrested on the van with a 20 year this year on monday a taxi driver accused of being a go between for the people who ordered the killing and those who carried out was pardoned by the president in exchange for testifying in court 2 cabinet ministers and the Prime Ministers chief of staff Keith Graham Berry resigned he was arrested on tuesday but released 2 days later on saturday your one phonecall charge of being complicit in the murder hes pleaded not guilty would have been great as editor in chief of the times of malta he says critics will the Prime Minister to go now. The last say its not good enough joseph who has got the Prime Minister has to go but he has to go today not next week or next month but today and this pressure this on president its quite unprecedented in maltese politics especially for a number of reasons joseph was scott is a very very popular Prime Minister he won 2 elections by a landslide he is hugely charming he really found the Ruling Labor Party and only last april may he won the european elections with another landslide so all this is happening just a few months after that and it has been brought about because of the public protests out there and of course because there is a case a very serious case were talking of a case of a murder journalist here which has gone straight to the very thought of a deadline set for u. S. President donald trump to say whether he would send a lawyer to represent him in an impeachment inquiry has passed with no word from the white house but been given until 2300 g. M. T. On sunday to inform the house of representatives to Different Committee thats about an hour ago roslyn jordan joins us live now from washington d. C. So the deadlines now passed was what happens next. Well it is a technical law deadline the a hearing that is being held by the House Judiciary Committee on wednesday does a while the president to have legal representatives available to question constitutional law experts about how the impeachment inquiry should be conducted this is a situation where the president has been very critical of the process calling it a witch hunt among other terms but his surrogates have also been suggesting that the process itself is not giving the president and his aides a fair hearing the deadline that was set for 23 g. M. T. On sunday is the judiciary committees 1st effort to basically reject the president s criticism so we expect that on wednesday no one representing the president or his administration will be president in that hearing on wednesday there is a 2nd deadline which the House Judiciary Committee has asked the president to meet and this is at 21 g. Excuse me 22 g. M. T. On this coming friday that is the deadline to. Tell the committee whether theyre going to actually want to call witnesses whether theyre going to have people actively engaged in the proceedings that follow on the 2nd week of december so the president and his Legal Advisers have another 5 days to explain whether and how theyre going to be involved in an impeachment inquiry and its worth pointing out that when the house of representatives 1st passed legislation a couple of months ago to set up this entire process they explicitly said that the president would have the ability to defend himself and his actions throughout the process so as far as House Democrats are concerned its really up to the president to actually engage and to participate he there are no legal barriers in their view for his doing due for his doing so rose thank you. Now Security Forces in mexico have shot dead 7 more suspected Cartel Members and followed the attack in via a union in the Northern State of ca houla on saturday a gunman shot at the Mayors Office before being chased by police in total 21. 00 people have died including 4 police officers. Mexicos president has admitted the Economic Growth in his 1st year in office has fallen short of expectations and there is money Lopez Obrador has spoken that a rally in the capital mexico city to mark the anniversary despite problems with the economy and continued high murder rates he remains highly popular. Economic growth has not been what we had hoped for but that wealth is now better distributed their public budget doesnt stay just a few hands like before now it reaches the majority of the people. A soldier and his wife in the democratic republic of congo have been killed by an angry crowd they were mistakenly accused of being rebels it happened in the eastern town of benny in north kibo province the crowd attacked them after finding guns and ammunition in their bags they suspected them of being members of the allied Democratic Forces which is blamed for killing more than 100. 00 civilians in the past month. The u. N. Peacekeeping chief visited ben in where theyve been protesting against u. N. Troops people say theyre not protecting them from the violence if you will but they believe. The message is that you should make the wrong end of us we are on the side of the people of this region the congolese people are there any things we can do better of course they are and we will work on it are our partners with who we work with every day also thinking about how to work even more closely with us the f a r d c armed forces the National Police the authorities. What catherine saw is in the city of goma in eastern the r. C. A. She says people are now taking security if their own homes. It was found out that this man was a sergeant in the army and he was going to work in it to which is a neighboring province he was accompanied by his wife who is also stoned to death and their child who is safe and what happened is that they were boarding a taxi to take them to this area but the taxi moment was very uncomfortable because were asking to go to places where killings have happened places where people are fleeing in fear and when they were father interrogated people are saying they did not have answers that were clear that they did not have ideas as well when their bags were such there was military fatigue bullets medical kits as well and so on and so they were stoned to death now what people have done people of benny have done since that time is saying that they were going to take charge of their own security so theyve set up this checkpoints in some parts and there are people who are coming into the city and via calls particularly those who are coming from areas where these killings have been happening theyre saying that they do not trust Security Forces enough to do this and to take care of their safety is also an ongoing offensive with the military and the u. N. Against a. D. F. In the forest we spoke to the spokesman about that as well he said that theyre making advances they have been able to take several bases from the a. D. F. Rebels theyve also been able to kill one of the top provoke commanders but people are still frustrated theyre saying why is it that even with the ongoing operation a rebel fighters are able to come back to the villages and kill them. I think 14 people have been shot dead in an attack on a church in eastern bikini several gunmen opened fire during mass in a village near the border with tunisia the area has come under attack over the past year from groups the links to al qaeda and i still. Time for a short break here not a 0 only comeback hope sink of venice getting autonomy from the mainland up to only a few of the nations turn out to vote. On the fight to keep poachers away from guatemala as diverse array of animals and the imus morning stings. Hello the weather at the moment in most of china is quite as cold in the north its study cooling down elsewhere theres a bit of cloud in the air as you can see its not developing into very much part of it is snow the western united so 10 degrees in the sunshine in shanghai 21 in hong kong just on the very edge of your screen you might pick up the developments a typhoon its way through the philippines thats where all the active weather is as you can see coming north still little going on as you might expect really this time of the year so that gathering typhoon coming across the philippines if you follow the line thats where the brightest cloud is well this line of latitude takes you into northern borneo the far south a talent thats your malaysia and best to sumatra and thats where the focus is for heavy rain kuala lumpur singapore for example theres the spin of the typhoon coming in probably have a tough image because later on tuesday but south of all this culture included showers are a bit of a rarity. With the ne monsoon developing na you should see be seeing heavy rain in sri lanka and intel a lot too and indeed that is the case but the showers are creeping slowly up the coast of this part of india has more rain you might expect the for the most part it is cooler and dry. The weather sponsored by qatar and was. Are al jazeera wild meats to arabs are all left the middle east but for successful career ask and all the while. The lebanese gynecologist tanana and brazil. Iraq i am yeah the Norwegian Oil industry. The news on chinese leading to unexpected ice. Topped out i thought well my on aljazeera. Welcome back if you come out of the top stories here on the aljazeera Iraqs Parliament has accepted the resignation of the Prime Minister abdul mufti follows weeks of falling down to government protests which have left more than 400 people dead. Maltas Prime MinisterJoseph Muscat says he will stand down in january follows calls for him to resign over the governments handling of the murder of the journalist daphne cowan the going to see it years ago. And a deadline set for u. S. President donald trump to say whether he would send a lawyer to represent him in an impeachment inquiry has passed so far theres been no word from the white house. Air strikes in the libyan capital of killed at least 3 civilians including a child jet targeted the neighborhood in the south of tripoli military sources say the attack was carried out by forces into the east and a warlord honey for have to at least 10 others were injured but up to one had is in tripoli he says the un recognized government is accusing have to of committing war crimes. A state of anger and panic among civilians living and swanny area in southern tripoli after the attack by an airstrike launch should by according to the tripoli because the government a war plane or probably a drone according to a military source is with the government so its probably a draw or a fighter jet loyal to the warlords who for have to that targeted a civilian area populated area and killed 3 innocent civilians including 2 children and one did 10 others this is the area it is not close to the front line but it is not far from the front line but anyways this is not the 1st time have his fighter jets. Areas and the tripoli because the government is accusing good have to his forces of committing war crimes by targeting it it is essential areas. Millions of children living in the slums of bangladesh are dropping out of school most of them work full time to provide for their families attend their challenger reports about one in 6 between the ages of 6 and 14 are not receiving any form of education. In the real islam of care to go in the bangladeshi capital dhaka 12 year old Mohammad Hussein knows what he wants to be when he grows up a doctor but he is not getting an education any more than i used to go to school but because my father which is why i have to work i want to go to school but we have no money so i have no choice but to work in the slums of dhaka about one in 6 children between the ages of 6 and 14 dont go to school instead they work full time. We had 85 students in this Primary School but 20 percent dropped out the reason for drop out is that many of these kids go to work to help their families they are too poor and need to work to survive. Nearly half of the dhaka city a slum population are children most dont exist in any official records or have any proper address life is difficult and often dangerous for them with a High School Dropout rates child labor and man larry smith. According to the world bank 400000 people move to the capital every year boosting the population today in the greater dock area to around 20000000 making it one of the largest and most densely populated cities in the world the opportunities there. To the people who migrated from. Almost. Factors in addition to that there are climate factors or. Even the manmade factors that also push. Migration to the city many have been forced to move to the city because of natural disasters wiping out their rural way of life. We came here because its hard to make a living doing farming most of the time the crops are washed away by floodwater my husband is sick so i must work the government says it plans to build shelters for slum dwellers and to take steps to ensure childrens dont have to drop out of school to start working but for 12 year old mohammad that will probably come too late for him to realize his dream of being a doctor. Dhaka bangladesh australias foreign minister says china is subjecting one of its citizens to daily interrogations including one he shackled prodemocracy right young june has been detained in china since january hes been accused of spying the response as young is being held in unacceptable conditions and his agent beijing to release him lebanons trade minister says hes asked the central bank to cut Interest Rates by about half the caretaker government has been trying to tackle the countrys escalating financial problems months long and the government protests about into the crisis about 4000000000. 00 in hard currency has been withdrawn from lebanese banks since september a bus crash in siberia has killed 19 people another 21. 00 were injured and the bus skidded off a bridge and fell onto a frozen lake a criminal inquiry is now underway. The issue of people convicted of terrorism related offenses has become a key i