Im sara kelly welcome to the program lebanons Prime Minister has told the country reforms are on the way to ease the countrys economic crisis saad hariri has orders his government to come up with a rescue plan after 5 Straight Days of anti austerity protests outrage over new taxes and corruption has sparked the largest wave of dissent the country has seen in years. Monday in central beirut protesters gather in Martyrs Square for a 5th day of protests on monday morning lebanons government hurriedly passed a sweeping reform bill promising to end secrecy for politicians and cut ministers salaries and house. They want to appease both the protesters as well as middle eastern predators and western donors. Dr held with these historic demonstrations to voice their concerns about corruption lebanon is one of the most indebted countries in the world and this religiously diverse country is standing united in its condemnation of high unemployment Poor Public Services and corruption. What it is these ministers and legislators should be thrown in jail they thieves they were begging for money from other countries on behalf of the lebanese but they then put the money in their own pockets under the thumb of this government has done nothing but divide us as well as making us poor citizens must retain their dignity this is why we wont leave the streets without taking down the regime and forming a Transitional Government with exceptional powers to rebuild the country. Right now. That these protests show little sign of abating. Over the weekend there were widespread calls for a job to strike. Once for him correspondent basil already who is standing by with the latest from they root and basil weve heard the Prime Minister has just addressed the public tell us more yes. First of all as you can read in the background just those they refuse all these 3 phone u. T. The Prime Ministers speech shouts in loud voices they need revaluation and they dont hold e. G. This is the 1st reaction of the protest thats why the Prime Minister was that he is a speech we caught some of the speech. Directed to the protesters mainly to the deputies in general so i would go to some of his speech now. The Prime Minister said that. So that they decided no no today to achieve all to meet all the demands of the protesters. Since these demands these demands from 2 years ago should be done and said moreover. They took a decision to shut down the ministry of information this is what also was one of the demands because they said there is no need in such country if you come to there is no need for mystery of information braman to decide how to continue saying that the decision to stop the demonstrations is back to the demonstrators themselves. Its their duty to security old needs and all the demands of their people. Basil and i just want to articulate here we can see that people actually going toward the protest so i mean these reforms as i now just. Clearly many people there in the lebanese capital beirut are not you know satisfied with what has been announced just walk us through what exactly the government plans to do. This is the major question though as you said the squares in beirut and in all other major cities and lebanon. Filled with droughts more and over and over again today saying its not same like yesterday but the clouds are already took the streets in these squares so now the major question whats next this is the major question of the speech. Demonstrators here and we noticed that the running. Through of the you know you have. The i. R. S. And they surrounded the old you dont make this the most readers we are the protesters we didnt notice that existence yesterday and the day before but today we cannot just leave the old the sponge. Officers and personnel out surrounding streets and they do strangers so whats coming next its up to the decision that would be taken by. The the politicians whether it has to go to the street yeah. I really im joining us there from beirut where we know its a developing situation im going to let you hop off and do some more reporting and then well check back with you again in the next hour to see how the situation is shaping up thank you so much muscle thanks and lets get a quick check now of some other stories making news around the world and the United States several Drug Companies have reached a last minute settlement over their role in the countrys Opioid Crisis thats according to a report in the wall street journal the settlement was reached just as landmark federal trial was about to start in Cleveland Ohio australias major newspapers have published redacted front pages in a coordinated campaign to protest against the laws that restrict press freedom it follows federal police raids earlier this year on the National Broadcaster a. B. C. And a newspaper journalists home over 2 stories that have proved embarrassing for the government. A court in london has refused to give the wiki leaks founder Julian Assange more time to fight his extradition to the United States the u. S. Wants to extradite a songe to facing espionage charges made headlines back in 2010 when wiki leaks published hundreds of thousands of secret u. S. Diplomatic documents. In the swiss election the rightwing Peoples Party has again emerged as the Strongest Force in Parliament Despite a slip in support green opposition parties have made unexpected games and because of the countrys unique electoral system it remains unclear whether the greens will become part of the government which parliament will elect and its not. Chile is reeling from 3 days of protests to deadly violence and looting unrest in the capital santiago over the weekend has led to at least 7 deaths with over 1500 people being arrested a planned hike in public transport fares sparked that on rust and its now been canceled but protesters say their discontent runs deeper and calls are out for a general strike i capital sent tiago. Protest started by students who exploded into a much wider range of violence. Including writing. And some looting. Several people have already been killed by fires and more than a 1000 people have been arrested. But it surely is under an official state of emergency. Now. We are at war against a powerful implacable enemy who does not respect anything or anyone. And who is willing to use violence in crime without any limits the. Soldiers are on the streets for the 1st time in nearly 30 years the 1st time since general pinochets military units. Originally about a hike in public transport costs these protests and now about much more inequality and the cost of living. Yes disappointed because rhetoric president pinera met with lawmakers and has pledged to reduce excessive inequality the writing has however divided people. Especially the mass torching and destruction of santiago subway systems which ordinary people are now cleaning up. So yes they do i was born and raised here so i saw them build all the metro stations and this metro should be for my grandchildren. What 10 should be for everyone at the world but at the level of some of that the local Authorities Say it will take months to fix meanwhile people are now stockpiling fuel for the week ahead as chile braces for more of the same. Lets get more background on what is going on in chile we are joined by 2 musketeers as who is from d. W. Spanish and youre actually from chile therefore im wondering are you surprised by this anger that were seeing spilling out onto the streets to be honest im not surprised maybe about the reasons that them astray sions are actually showing right now but like what really impressed me is the level that say of violence we have i know a country at the moment. That sales of the amount of people that is in the streets right now actually asking and demanding the state of chile some change in the political system some change in the economy system and i think that is like the most impressive thing at the moment right now these kind of demonstrations have never been seen before since the dictatorship which are going about like 51 years ago so there is totally lets say like shocked by. What is happening right now so lets talk a little bit more about the economics of what is going on internally within the country because we have to mention chile is the is the richest country in latin america but you know that prosperity is not shared by all is it exactly actually also brother a couple of facts there also for. Im from they sions the case also from the Economy Commission for let america and the caribbean for example to state 1000000000 did more what is inequality about we have an in one hand for example that a 50 percent of the people they earn surround 500. 00 not a lot not a lot in compared to the only 1. 01 percent that earns more than 800000. 00 so you can see the level of inequality we have right now in the country which is also one of the main reasons that people are now protesting in the street but the other hand we have also a last report for example in general from the Economic Commission for the american the caribbean which is states actually that 26. 5 per cent of the will of the country is only halted by one percent of the country so basically as you can see this is like one of the most lets say the heaviest reason that hes moving to people what do you make of the governments response to this because we are seeing the president kenyatta describing the situation as the country being at war at war with its own citizens essential a how do you think the citizens are going to respond exactly i think its also important to maybe to add to that quote instead he said also about an unknown enemy that we are at war with and on an enemy which also kind of like i said the situation kind of like in a. Dangerous situation right now. The people didnt take this well to be honest right now most of them are shocked by even the military military already being in the street which is also as i told you like only seen before in the dictatorship so only space saying this also some people and media also are saying its only to put some oil on the fire you know so its not of course its not nice but to say in this moment which is a kind of funny because at the same time the general which is in charge of the state of emergency for example today in the morning hell he said already that hes a happy man and hes not in war with anyone which is kind of like a contradiction with what the government said the cracks in the society cell apparent with this explosive response we have to say over the past couple of days to muscatine us from the spanish joining us with more on chile thank you for. Curtis led forces are withdrawing from towns in Northern Syria apparently in line with the terms of a deal between the u. S. And turkey wants to establish socalled safe cell phones in the region and is demanding that Kurdish Forces withdraw completely the u. S. And the kurds once fought together in syria now the currents feel betrayed. Kurdish resident abuse and potatoes at their one time allies they say theyre being left for dead. Traffic in the border of commission was brought to a standstill as u. S. Troops passed through heading to iraq leaving anger on betrayal and their wait. To go but. It was a different reception over the border Armored Vehicles bearing the stars and stripes have begun arriving there they will be deployed to counter a result of the socalled Islamic State but claims that the u. S. Have abandoned the cards to a sense of still persist you have to go back to what our mission was our mission was to work with by with and through the to defeat isis. We believe we defeated the physical caliphate of the isis in march and but nowhere in there was that we would fight a long Standing Nato ally and in defense of the kurds to enable the establishment of an autonomous kurdish state no Kurdish Forces are on a race to get out of Northern Syria ahead of a ceasefire date line ambulances and vans were seen leaving. A tug and suckled by turkish troops speaking in istanbul their president hinted at a continuation of the offensive once the truce ends on tuesday night. Resume believe we have a trip to sochi russia to. In this meeting we will take up this process with mr putin and after that god willing we will take the necessary steps. And further sames that moscow is looking to fill the void left by the us russian trucks they owned in another 2 syrian times on sunday. He has asked the turkish government for comment on the cease fire and the kurdish pullout ibrahim cullinan advisor and spokesperson for president better type everyone spoke with hans brandt at the turks embassy here in berlin. Ceasefire in fact or the cessation of hostilities whatever you want to call it is about to end tomorrow night there have been quite a few reports that there have been hard lessons of the cease fire is that correct that is true when we reached this agreement with the americans 3 days ago the 1st phase was to be a pause in the operation and the 2nd one will be halting of the operation when they wipe e. G. Terrorist completely withdraw from the area and unfortunately as of this morning there have been about 20 violations by why p. G. They use snipers rockets attacking our soldiers as well as other groups they are and the last one soldier shot unfortunately in this incident we are committed and sticking to the agreement or letting them go in fact yesterday we identified 2 main routes for them to use and about 86 vehicles and ambulances went in to this y p g people and left without any incidents were hoping that things will remain calm until tomorrow when the deadline is over and they will be completely left the area by tomorrow evening and then we can halt the operation as a greet in the joint declaration and agreement that we have had with americans is there a chance that this is going to be extended no he said you know 5 days 120 hours if the mission this part of the mission is completed by tomorrow and we make sure that all these are terrorists have left the area then we will halt operation. So then there will be no further hostages is that what youre saying yes of course there wont be any ground any necessity and a need for further military action but our military will make sure that this areas are safe for the civilians because they will have some humanitarian work you remember we had 2 main goals with this operation one was to clear this area from the terrorists the 2nd one is to enable the refugees to go back to their homes so we want to create conditions suitable for them to go back to do cities and towns that theyve come from the German Foreign minister said this week and that he regards this operation as an invasion of contravention of International Law what is your response to the contrary in fact the presence of our soldiers there is a guarantee a safety for 1st moving the political process forward in syria secondly for the protection of the Syrian Refugees and the internally displaced people our european friends should be thankful to our soldiers for doing this very dangerous but important work with the current thank you very much. Well now were heading to canada where voting has begun in the National Election and it could be a nail biter for privates are destined to go trudeau brought his family with him as he went to vote as were lection campaign has been hobbled by allegations of racism and ethics violations recent polls show trudeau liberals in a virtual dead heat with conservatives and that could be good news for smaller parties so lets take a look now at some of the problems that the incumbent Prime Minister has been facing. In the lead up to kind of those elections its been all but a smooth ride for Prime MinisterJustin Trudeau his Approval Ratings drop to almost record lows and his liberal party is engaged in the neck and neck race but the conservatives both are polling around 30 percent. Despite a Strong Economy and low unemployment trudeaus popularity dipped after a series of scandals like this old photo of trudeau wearing blackface for his violation of conflict of interest rules. During the last weeks of campaigning to do is been trying to make up for his missteps often attacking his main opponent the conservative party heres the question you have to ask yourself do you want 53000000000 dollars worth of conservative cuts or do you want a progressive government that will continue investing in families and investing in communities thats the choice its that simple. And its that important. But true those attacks arent the only wary of conservative Leader Andrew Scheer but he is also quite unpopular according to the polls in one of the closest races in recent years most of the conservatives and the liberals may not win a big enough majority to govern alone. This is where jack meet seeing leader of the left leaning new Democratic Party could come into play with Approval Ratings soaring for is party saying could become the kingmaker of canadas election as a prospective partner in a liberal minority government. Another exciting weekend in the bundesliga back smell from d w sports is here with the breakdown so theres so many teams jostling for the top spot. What happened to shock at that one sunday yet they played yesterday and went into the game with a chance of going top if they won and they had previously won 4 games then drawn one so they were in good form but they faced hosts often im who the previous much they had beaten the reigning champions by in mun