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That former president mind the rajapaksa it was a complete weve where he sort of swept that election saying that he was only in for one term to bring change however his tenure has been fraught with disappointment for sri lankan voters and despite in recent months trying desperately to mount a real action bid to try and garner support for that relax in bed president seriously and there has been forced to admit that hes not going to make it and todays sort of final list that we see posting bonds and getting ready to contest that president ial race not including president seriously in a hes not had a very sort of an uneventful term lets say the latest being last october when he tried to stage what many people felt was a constitutional call by sacking his Prime Minister appointing his former rival as the replacement and being struck down by the Supreme Court of this country as saying what he had done was unconstitutional the sort of reasons for public discontent with the series saying the rule has continued just hearing it prove we did see those tragic sort of easter bombings the fact that it was sort of a tragedy of huge number of errors that led to deaths of bomb attacks clearly and so many lives was not something that people are willing to forget so this is presence of us in as we obviously of realizing and then meeting that hes not me going to make it so hes just going to stop with that 1st president ial bid. Well weather is next but still ahead on out of there and supporters of trinity as anahata Party Celebrate as exit polls showed as a slight change in the parliamentary elections. And decades of statelessness come to an end for thousands of nomads and qantas down. Hello proper or tom was about to turn up in the military in that Stormy Weather and its because of this really just like cloud and indeed it is but behind it behind us a cold front therefore there is theoretically and actually a little bit colder now overnight that rain is going to head south because snow over the alps and end up with cooler air over the adriatic and the Central Mediterranean and you know what that means thunderstorms aplenty from sudden italy stretching back into north africa and across into greece and probably beyond and sundry weather and suggest the potential still for flash floods is colder dryer sunnier in much of Central Eastern europe 8 to 11 degrees for the typically and still in the teens in the west near in the atlantic as opposed to not quite that cold yet and still fairly breezy honors the next band of rain is on its way into tuesday so the British Isles the low countries denmark stretching down through germany well which time still the weather will spread across to the g. N. Up towards the black sea greece looks a bit better and its really looks a bit better because that rain does have the tail end into rogerian and maybe more specially to do to temperatures come down the potential for flooding comes back and that rain slow moving crossing into libya. Planet is feeling the heat of the climate an ecological emergency the worlds leading scientists are warning of an existential crisis in the face of it reversible changes to be a climate all be with you throughout. Correspondent nic well have reports from the front lines of the crisis the church abuse new solutions to help hold back through aljazeera brings you a new weekly show s. O. S. With the top the facts of the Science Behind the issues affecting all planets. And again im just in doha a reminder of our top stories this hour the white house says turkey will soon launch a Major Military offensive in Northern Syria the u. S. Released a statement saying it will not be involved and will remove all of its forces from the area Kurdish Forces say they will not hesitate to defend themselves against any takesh operation. Iraqs government has denied any of its Security Forces a 5 directly on protesters during 6 days of violent demonstrations another 5 people have now been confirmed dead in baghdad taking the total number killed twit least 109. And candidates in sri lankas president ial election filed their nominations in colombo on monday one who won to be on the list is an incumbent in my view about a serious santa who has decided not to run off to 4 years in office. Now to hong kong protest as the become the 1st people to appear in court to face charges under a controversial and. In all they were arrested saturday shortly after the ban came into effect the Hong Kong Government used colonial era imagine c. Regulations to impose the banned by decree and sparked another round of unrest over the weekend as must perish protesters faced off with Police Across the city when our correspondent sara clark trains us live now from Hong Kong Sara talk us through what happened in court this morning and i believe were also expecting to hear from police shortly. We had a 19 year old man we had a 38 year old woman and as you mentioned these the 1st 2 to be charged under the emergency laws which include the anti mosque they appeared before the east and the sporting and the be released on bio now if they are found guilty they face up to one year in jail they also face about 3000. 00 u. S. Dollars fine if found guilty now suits on friday saturday not arrested 13 other people who face similar charges that is under the anti moscow and Unlawful Assembly and im sure that state that the Education Bureau has also now just requested all schools must report tomorrow being choose day its the 1st day back at school after the laws were enacted. The Education Bureaus request all students and schools must report who was wearing those masks weve already had one secretary principal say that hes rubbished the idea and wont be reporting which children of which students are wearing those masks and we do have a Police Press Conference coming up soon we do expect them to give us an update on how many people have been arrested over the weekend and the same thing on monday which is a Public Holiday in hong kong we have another protest planned over in manchaca its at the prince train station now already the police have told people not to go out there warda potential ballance throughout this 3 day long weekend and the m. T. A. More than 50 empty remain closed and all empty gas stations which is the rail system in hong kong which mobilizes the population be shut at 6 pm in an attempt to stop people from getting to that protest like haitian to see sarah connor will be staying across all of those surveillance for us thank you sara and hong kong. He is conservative and not a party has won sundays fractured election but with only 17 percent of the voters and by a narrow margin as hashim are barren ports the results may need to tension. A moment of celebration for another supporters the conservative party has secured 46 seats in preliminary results but its a bitter victory for a party that won 69 seats 5 years ago. Then i remember what you did we are at the beginning of a new period that people have given us their trust and we will live up to it. We will use all of tunisias Political Capital in order to achieve their main objectives of the revolution such as the protection of personal and public freedom. Their 2nd objective is dignity which requires Jobs Education and health services. The secular heart of has come in 2nd with 35. 00 seats the party was founded 3 months ago by media tycoon a bill how do we who is in jail on corruption charges the coalition of dignity and alliance of independent candidate came in 3rd with 20 seats and the surprising performance by the newcomer the Constitutional Liberal Party securing 16 seats the party was established in 2013 by i b m o c a lawyer and loyalist of a former president. But the biggest loser. Or the call of the party of former president. Which was the Largest Party into 1014. 00 with 86. 00 seats in parliament it was an election marred by a growing discontent with the political establishment a few voters showed up at this polling station in the capital tunis. Most of them early but determined to be part of tin is the 2nd democratic election since the revolution 80 years ago many to news ears are angry with their leaders for houses and i very much wanted to see young candidates unfortunately to the same old elite security and economy should be the top priority for the government during the campaign another and the heart of today brushed aside joining a Coalition Government if another fails to form an Alliance Within 60 days the president can call for new elections there is a feeling of anxiety about what may happen next if another heart of to set aside their differences that we guarantee stability in a country beset by economic problems but the 2 have been trading accusations over the past few weeks raising fears of a prolonged political impasse. To this now a 2nd whistleblower has come forward in the impeachment inquiry against us President Donald Trump their lawyer says they have 1st hand knowledge of some of the allegations made in the 1st whistleblowers complaint trump is accused of using his position to pressure ukraine into investigating his political rival joe biden and his son before next years president ial elections but one of the few republican senators to appear on any of the u. S. Weekend talk shows has come out in support of the president ron johnson also criticized the f. B. I. And cia. Im not here defending the president im not here to denounce him either what im here is telling you why my piece of this puzzle here given you my honest assessment of what i heard how the president told me repeatedly in the may 23rd oval office visit on the phone of the 31st the reason here very legitimate concerns and reservation about ukraine is 1st corruption generalizes in demick we all know that chuck i just want the truth the American People want i do not try to only america do you not trust me or the right you know trust the cia none of this there are just there are about 4000000 state his people spread across the wilds but the u. N. Says that number could actually be significantly higher now one man from Congress John is being recognized for his efforts to tackle the problem how to who need to travel to southern ca guest on to find out what his organization for gun annoyance without borders has achieved. Up until last year there was no proof she ever existed with no birth certificate or any other legal document to prove her identity didnt those or should we say grew up in the shadows 1100 without documents you want nothing its very difficult i couldnt take my children to hospital because we didnt have i. D. s now i have a birth certificate i feel equal and they know there is a Roma Community living in central asia she inherited her stateless status from her parents and was to make sure her children grow up as fully recognize citizens this piece of paper is the only proof of birth they hold for now people like then those are stateless without any basic rights i describe as National Ghost not recognized by any nation a problem do you any agency for refugees says affects millions around the world kyrgyzstan is the 1st country to have eradicated statelessness this starting point is the good talent. So i applaud them for taking the courage to do it. Might be an exercise all over the country not be some bits and pieces not partially but the whole country so thats thats quite amazing there was a political will to do it and the person decided to press down at least 13500 people have now become kyrgyz citizens statelessness became a real problem after the fall of the soviet union in 1901 new borders were drawn in many found themselves on the wrong side of the border or without the proper documents it took people i can read the book anymore from to fill ghana valley Lawyers Without Borders to sky would a country sometimes remote areas reachable only on horseback to find the thousands of stateless people in need the founder of the organisation as is because true of is now being awarded by the un. Their problem and their own defect of stateless people who had invalid soviet passports or no way to prove where they were born there are also those big wives who automatically lost their citizenship after 991 its complicated set up bad good is one of them she came to kyrgyzstan as a young bride there were no borders there. Put on that i only had a piece of paper from the collective farm where i worked which allowed me to go back and forth i was very happy when i got my passport now i get a pension and i have a chance to visit my brothers. And she get past all her care is nationality too or grown up son is the fickle to know how many exactly but millions of people around the world still remain in legal limbo many going from birth to death without any official trace of their existence but at the summit in southern. The head of wild athletic Sebastian Coe has claimed that in terms of performance this has been the what the best ever while championships fans in doha have witnessed more than 20 continental records twice the number seen in london 2 years ago and the richardson reports the National Pride hasnt just been visible on the track in doha round this for more than 80 countries have made the khalifa stadium their home to the middle easts 1st world athletics championships but we cant know it exists all were here to support them and our we know were so proud of their every big goal that hi i love it watching it live for sure its live and you feel it yet you better watch it loud you know you can until you can see much of the crowd and the fun he does to be in a stadium sports really gather every single nation like you know i felt like were just all humans that we dont even know about nations anymore global events bring with them a global scrutiny the president of world athletics Sebastian Carr said he would have preferred to see more people in the stadium for certain sessions but he believes taking his sports biggest standalone event to new countries beyond its traditional borders is vital to track and field future we live in a global society. There is no organization no structure no institution no that isnt trying to figure out how we embrace more. Of that pull up the drawbridge and decide this really isnt for us the feedback from athletes about but in stadium experience has been generally positive cooling technology ensuring temperatures in the minor rina were a pleasant 25 degrees celsius the venue is world class it was amazing the best conditions weve had all year off the runway awesome i think we should go into places where it may not be as pertinent and introduce this board to people that may not watch it because if you do go to charge me you watch youre going to love your. Console will make step into the global sporting spotlight in december when it hosts footballs Club World Cup and the richardson aljazeera doha. Qatar im here today and our whole with the headlines a u. S. Official says American Forces have now evacuated 2 observation posts in northeast syria the move comes only hours after a u. S. Statement that seemed to support turkeys plan to launch a Major Military offensive in the region the u. S. Says it wont be involved and it criticized European Countries for being unwilling to repatriate former i saw members held there as prisoners Kurdish Forces control much of syrias north and they say they will not hesitate to defend themselves against any attack us operation. Iraqs government has denied that any of its Security Forces have fired directly on protesters during 6 days of violent demonstrations another 5 people have been confirmed dead and baghdad taking the total number killed to at least 109. A 2nd whistleblower has come forward in the impeachment inquiry against us President Donald Trump their lawyer says they have 1st hand knowledge of some of the allegations made in the 1st whistle blows complained trump is accused of using his position to pressure ukraine into investigating his political rival joe biden and his son before next years president ial elections one of the few republican senators to appear on any of the u. S. Weekend talk shows has come out in support of the president ron johnson also criticized the f. B. I. And cia im not here defending the president but im not here to denounce him either what im here is telling you by my piece of this puzzle here giving you my honest assessment of what i heard how the president told me repeatedly in the may 23rd oval office visit on the phone of 31st the reason here very legitimate concerns and reservations about ukraine is 1st corruption generalizes and down that we all know that truck i just want the truth the American People want i do not try to lead america they do not trust me or they are right you dont trust the cia none of them this year are just. To hong kong protesters have become a fast people to a parent court to face charges under a controversial skill they were arrested on saturday shortly after the ban came into effect the Hong Kong Government used colonial era emergency regulations to impose the ban by decree that sparked another round of unrest over the weekend as last protest has faced off with Police Across the city. Well those are the headlines to join me for more news here on aljazeera the inside story stay with us with a Record Number of nominations the world waits to see you 2019 or about peace prize the Nobel Committee when announced the winner right down to 0 has been awarded exclusive International Rights to him to you that we know you would say to stem the nobel prize on down to 0. Protesters in iraq are demanding the Prime Minister step down they also want a complete overhaul of the political system the governments responded by announcing a list of reforms but will it be enough this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program today with me peter dubey iraqi protesters have lost their patients with what they say is decades of corruption and a lack of services theyre demanding that the Prime Minister. Resign and the whole political system should be overhauled maki says there is quote no magic solution and any progress will take time the governments announced a list of reforms to address some of the grievances have been more protests than some attacked the headquarters of Political Parties and t. V. Stations in baghdad on saturday the Police Responded by using live rounds and tear gas at least 100 people have been killed in 5 days of protests parliament had planned to hold an emergency session on saturday but it never happened however the speaker of the parliament did make some promises. Loans will be given in the form of credits bank credits for the purposes of a stablish in factories and providing of course this will enable us to steer away from any corruption so there will be no cash loans and instead credit will be given for the establishment of factories well the top u. N. Official in iraq has called for an end to the violence in any and hes tweeted saying deeply saddened by the senseless loss of life 5 days of reported deaths and injuries this must stop i call on all parties to pause and reflect those responsible for violence should be held to account but the spirit of unity prevail across iraq will get to our guests in just a moment of firsts Al Jazeera Imran khan has the latest for us from baghdad. Prime minister mahdi is facing the biggest crisis his year old government has faced yet a lot of the opposition Political Parties a lot of the religious parties including influential figures like assam. The most influential one of the most influential shia clerics. Souther and from the former Prime Minister hi the body saying that elections need to be held and they also boycotted a emergency session of parliament that was supposed to take place on sunday actually didnt happen so a lot of these politicians are looking at this protest movement theyre seeing it get larger and larger and more popular and they decided theyre going to try and put themselves with the protesters show support for the protesters in a bid to win support for any elections that may will come nowhere nowhere near elections right now the parliament hasnt been dissolved the government hasnt been dissolved but thats certainly the talk on the streets and in the corridors of power in baghdad is what happens next now although this is a political crisis only streets the protests are still getting larger and larger in syria and this is interesting in that story in the south protesters not only attacked government buildings but they attacked Political Party headquarters after they did that they started chanting now syria is free from Political Parties that goes to show you how much anger there is not just at the government but at the politicians of all stripes what the protesters seem to be saying is that its not just about this government its not just about previous government theres a structural problem here theres a problem of corruption which goes back a decade thats led to this lack of development that hasnt meant that theyve been able to get jobs so it doesnt matter really if there are new elections if the same people in the same rules are put back in place say the protesters what the protesters are looking for is a real. Change in the structure of governance in iraq they want something anything that will allow corruption to stop without money to be spent in iraq now thats a big big challenge for the government and for the opposition parties now the opposition parties as i say and religious parties are throwing their support behind the protest movement what difference that makes to the protest movement remains to be seen and actually i have to say with the anger from the protesters in the south and central parts of iraq im not entirely sure lots of political observers and analysts ive spoken to say you know entirely sure what the protesters will accept that support from those politicians and from those religious parties this is a wrong inside story. Ok there we are here we go lets introduce our panel here today on inside story joining us from the northern iraqi city of erbil is deloitte ill dean president of the middle east Research Institute in london we have a man saw director of the Iraq Initiative at Chatham House and joining us here in doha is a doing. Middle east analyst and a contributor at open democracy welcome to you all in erbil who can stop the violence in iraq. Well the violence will eventually have to stop but may not be immediately people are waiting for the government to really deliver on certain things and there are different Political Parties and forces that have got there are involved in the untangled in this and they would wait to see what happens next this violence was not a product of. One day spontaneous spark that may cascade this has been happening growing because of the weakness in the government institutions because of the political dynamics and secure dynamics that have been changing inside the house of shia in the south as well as in baghdad itself theres a power rivalry in baghdad there are Regional Powers that are involved so basically this as its getting worse and getting more complicated is it becoming more difficult to calm down and stop and this is visible in the panic situation that is reflected in the speaker of the parliament statements in the reaction of the Prime Minister as well as the rest of the governments to shows that are now reacting to events by promising more than they can deliver promising the same thing as before but this time committing more money and more budget that they can afford so the quagmire is getting deeper the dialogue between the government and or the parliament and the demonstrators is actually not necessarily dialogue with all the components of the demonstrators so essentially the violence or the demonstrations to begin with may not necessarily disappear overnight without really this dragging on until something happens because the demonstrators are not only asking for more promises which they do not believe it will be delivered they have lost faith in the system they want this political elite to change they want maybe new elections they want a lot more than this government or parliament can deliver man saw in london has this whole situation been exacerbated because the authorities havent it would appear to me been able to work out a response. Yeah i mean very clearly this is not the 1st time that youve had protests. Or elsewhere in the country protests have been a reality of the daily lives of iraqis throughout the country for many years but what weve been increasingly beginning to see is a more violent response to protests beginning in buswell last september 28th and then now in but the other areas what these protests are still our mentions theyre fundamentally a iraqis giving up on that political system the political system that since 2003 has failed to represent most iraqis and its been a political system of elite bargains with the elite benefits so whats important to know of these protests is the weakness of the state the weakness of this government in particular one year after its formation has shown that there is basically an inability to either meet the demands of the protesters or be able to handle protests and so violence becomes the only option that many of these elites perhaps are seeing as a way to quell these protests and to be honest it worked last year and bus after 2 days of killing certainly some protesters that squash the protests that equation has been used again this year and both of that and elsewhere the question is to what extent and how much violence the government could use to try and bring down these protests because you know to see cosmetic changes because when it reforms arent enough 16 years on so you do in here in doha is that the issue for the Prime Minister and is that creating a space in which other people might move in as much as people protesters on the streets to pick up on the points coming out of london protesters in streets in effect saying we are done with politicians were done with the traditional system of course no help salute the peter the people in iraq are protesting against the downfall of the regime unemployment providing jobs and you jumps to the iraq use is not going to sell to secure an issue in iraq is not going to see. The Security Issues in iraq is not going to solve the infrastructure issue in iraq protesters have been protesting against reforms for the past few years nothing has been happened and the promises happen throughout every single Electoral Campaign that happened throughout each governmental cabinet within each Parliament Nothing has happened even people who contributed and fought against isis within the war never got their salaries or compensations back after the war people are done and fed up by the empty promises they want to see change in iraq and they realize that change will only happen with the downfall of an it off a regime that was installed by a foreign invader a foreign occupier and is currently controlled by a Regional Power players such as iran which is why the un to round segment is very loud and clear and those protests today do know is there another fight coming potentially down the political pipeline and its the way that. Is making demands offset against the way the speaker of the parliament is clearly positioning himself for something but we dont quite know what hes positioning himself for but essentially the positioning of every political leader who have made statements so far has been to distance themselves from the government from corruption from the power politics and try to be seen to be siding with the demonstrators and their demands but actually every one of them has failed to do so because the people not only are more aware and they are being exposed to this for so too long theyve been rejecting the entire system now the parliament itself. Which consists of all the forces that we mention is now seen as the ugly face of the of politics because of a its lack of focus lack of vision lack of ability to institutionalize to actually state build and its also the reflecting the entangling in gauging in power politics in the in the negative dynamics that are spiraling with time now. Very early on decided to withdraw his members from the parliament only to be seen to be siding with people and ask for the resignation of maddie but the rest of the shia groups as well as some of the sunnies have actually sided with as well as kurds sided with ive been mighty and iran seems at least apparently at this stage doesnt want our deal of dramatic government to fall that doesnt mean this government will survive it doesnt mean that ive been mighty himself may not want to go or in a month or 2 maybe iran also wants change in the place as well as the house of shia but as things stand they see it as a high Risk Strategy to change government in response to these violence now there are other groups that try to make the most of the demonstrations like they do they too did not get far and actually if anything they lost out in this game and the others because they are not talking they are not united and they are not necessarily on the same page everyone is trying to disown the government and if anything behind the scene and to mine it but of course this government its difficult to change of the Prime Minister doesnt resign the government itself is a composition of all these parties that supported it the what is also visible is that the government fell more and more into the security. Void that was there ok were not assuming that you know in london if i may thank you for that were not meant so in london when it comes to the Prime Minister will this only be resolved if he decides to quit. Again i think its important sort of to note that its this is not about one Prime Minister sure iraq is kind of you know this new government that was formed last year the 1st government after the victory over you know theres a mixtape a territorial victory iraqis were like ok the time for reform is now what theyve seen and what most iraqis perceive what they see in but that is a Prime Minister that has really no backbone is unable to stand up against the Political Parties that put him in power and the Political Parties that are profiting from governance and just to make a note these Political Parties are the same rulers since 2003 yes they include shii but they also include kurdish and sunni parties the system in iraq since 2003 has been one where the elite split the National Pies and the street gets very little the people of iraq get very little from it this Prime Minister came in reform minded technocrat someone who was meant to kind of say ok i am from a you know i am not from a Political Party but one year on what weve seen with this Prime Minister is just a complete inability to stand up to those same Political Parties that want to profit from the system thats the thing isnt it but i mean iraq is always a much more complex mosaic than you were talking about the invasion in 2003 than the invaders would like to admit it is so how does the government get control of the narrative if only because youve got so many different provincial demands its not just we want the government gone there are provincial demands based on the south of the country the what they would call kurdistan if they havent got close to independence and then theres that middle 3rd of the country the needs a completely different of course but the needs of the needs could be collective in a basic way the basis of the needs is Health Care Education better opportunities to the youth less wars less sectarianism not as the collective demands of all of those regions would want to have the. The central the centralized government of the Central Government and by the dod that in give the basics to those regions if we were to look at the complex of the structure of the governmental structure in iraq then that regime as were not mentioned as an ethnic sectarian driven regime that serves the political interest in the personal interests of the political leaders of the 3 main communities in iraq and kurds and driven supported by the Regional Power players such as iran turkey and saudi arabia to push for their agendas and interests in iraq so i think we should focus on the basics of the issues in iraq which is water scarcity security and on employability sectarianism and then we could focus on the secondary issues such as how to improve it and develop better relationships or political institutional relationships between the region renard and saw in london is there a big chance here that these demonstrations will carry on and it will carry on being this terribly combustible situation if only because i mean despite closing down the internet pulling the plug the internet or not doesnt really matter the protests have no clear leaders theres nobody running the demonstrations who in a year or 2 we might reconvene and talk about as being a potential politician. Yes clearly these protests again arent new theyre part of this continuous sort of sense of voice and grievance and disillusionment that iraqis have they dont believe the political process works for them they dont want to go out to vote they dont believe in ballot boxes because its the same elite so they view protest as really the only way that they could have a voice however there are those who want to defend the system and those that would go through Great Lengths including violence and intimidation and as you say cutting internet to stop the protest which they view as an existential threat so while you know its never good to predict what could happen in iraq i think very clearly you know the repression and the way that those who are protecting the system are keen to keep the protest down will move to a point where the protests made to some extent be sort of quote or perhaps some sort of reform comes that quiets the protest but without systemic reform even a change in leadership even new laws will not 1 stop and we have what we have been brought up yet which is corruption corruption and the power of the Political Parties and a new government cant reform is can these plans that the leaders are bringing up with really tackle corruption because the irony of this whole thing is theyre the ones who are corrupt and so what youre explaining is a group of people who are corrupt saying we will fight corruption and so as long as that is the case iraqis will continue to protest but it seems and again i dont want to make a prediction that the muddle through thesis will continue for at least the short term do it on that issue of corruption is it corruption i mean is that the explanation as to why the current crop of iraqi politicians choose not to or the cannot hold the wont listen to the people i mean could it be as simple as iraq hasnt had an arab spring Type Movement with the government and the military authorities have to react in a different way. Well i think corruption is a byproduct of this state that is so fragile increasing your fragile its gone beyond the point of really arising of all repair its hasnt failed but it is so fragile that it cannot come on its own sovereignty or be in charge of its own Decision Making process the iraqis no longer a sovereign country now this government and i want you to take you back to the argument. God love my this government is probably the best government weve had so far yet it is a compromise government he was a compromise candidate and he is the one that is weakened by the fact that he doesnt command that faction or that strength or doesnt hold power or military power in the industry is now this government while being government supported by most is least able to cross barriers of progress he made a lot of pledges in his manifesto last year but then of course the barriers for the delivery was so huge that he was unable despite all the will in the world all the support Global Support he was unable to deliver and what he delivered has been very slow otherwise he means well he wants to deliver and he has a support of money so that tells you the state institutions are so weak and iraqs state is so fragile and able to actually progress and build its institutions and enforce rule of law and control corruption ok you know all those problems one point. One here as well on that idea of one weakness or strength if you stage a crackdown on the people you kind of hemorrhage legitimacy surely thats true the world over and if you if you have if you legitimacy is haemorrhaging you are making yourself weaker so the clocks ticking absolutely the state institutions who are fragile since the beginning of the invasion in the state institutions are controlled as mentioned by Regional Power players by Interest Groups that are funded and supported by external factors the state instead we should i stop you there is a certain bloggers that i was reading today in the run up to the program they were talking about other complete other countries exerting influence do you believe that to be true so i can go to the outside players are manipulating the protestors oh no absolutely not thats the thats the common iranian accusation that theyre giving to the protestors in iraq its a very. Some of the accusations saddam husseins regime used to give anyone who stood up against his regime that they are manipulated by iran the biggest counterargument to that and the response to that would be that most of the provinces that are protesting against fluting better than that oppose this thing against the iranian dominance and the sectarian regime in iraq are shia majority cities ok. In london when they come to write the history books of iraq could what were seeing at the moment just be a convulsion on the route to becoming a country that operates to say normally youve got an inconclusive election a weak Prime Minister and youve got people demanding more of the political system. Yeah not to be sensationalist but very clearly iraq is going through that this is a transformative moment and this moment will will really could lead to different ways in the history of iraq clearly you know this sort of past 1516 years of this government of sort of compromise with this elite that share with each other wealth hasnt worked iraqis want predictability they want stability and so you know its reached a boiling point and to push back on this Prime Minister i think time will show that one of the biggest criticisms of this Prime Minister is his willingness to compromise to different political elites and that kind of equation where if you just bring a sunni and shia and a kurdish leader together have them sort of share and shake hands you solve iraq thats not the solution to iraq iraq needs to include the streets iraq needs to include the people many of the leaders for since 2003 are no longer representative and so really what iraqis want is a government that can rebuild the state so this moment what it represents it could go either way very clearly that you will have different leaders try and become the defenders of the system and youll have leaders emerge that perhaps will try and defend that system and that could move towards perhaps a more a folk authoritarian style of government to a litany with. Gentleman so just one of the compositional dillo in about 30 seconds please what do you think happens next. Well what happens next is that the government will have difficulty in convincing everybody things may come down but even also may escalate the Security Forces that are now defending the government there will be and they are mostly the Paramilitary Forces that are not state actors they are. More more like theyre part of militaries and they are now increasingly in charge they are the ones controlling the crowd they are the one that have been blamed for the bloodshed and that this will not go away and this government will be having very tough time i had to convince people to trust it so in a few weeks we may see big big changes whether that is the dissolution of the parliament or will it be a resignation of the Prime Minister or whether the there will be Something Else that may happen but this is not going to come down any time soon gentlemen thank you so much thank you to all our guests they were the loyal dean read up on so and they dont all konami here in doha and thank you to you too for your company you can see the program again anytime on the website aljazeera dot com and for further discussion go to our Facebook Page that space book dot com forward slash a. J. Inside story can also join the conversation on twitter our handle at a. J. 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Tensions in hong kong and now the courts prepared to prosecute protest is under a new legislation banning face coverings plus. The venue is world class it was an amazing best conditions weve had all year. And its a wrap 10 days of the wild out classic tempting chips and on a high note and. Now the u. S. Has evacuated 2 observation posts in northeast syria and says american troops one to protect Kurdish Forces in the area should taki attack them the move comes only hours after a statement from washington that seemed to support techies plan to launch a Major Military offensive in Northern Syria the u. S. Also criticized European Countries for being unwilling to repatriate former eisel fight is now being held there as president s Kurdish Forces control much of syrias north and they say they will not hesitate to defend themselves the United States has told their commander that the u. S. Will not defend them. Well in a tweet the turkish president ial spokesman said turkey doesnt want anyones land and a safe zone within syria has 2 objectives protecting borders by keening up terrorist elements and allowing the return of refugees in a safe manner he says turkey is strong and resolved well lets speak to our correspondents in custody only hes live for us in istanbul soon and these terrorist elements that he is talking about who are they referring to and talk us through the background of all of this well honestly. You know we have the Syrian Democratic forces s. C. F. In syria the u. S. Claims that its mostly are of dominated but turkey says its mostly cordage dominated because the driving force the military forces are the Syrian Kurdish Fighters Group the why p. G. And turkey believe the white beauty is an offshoot of to outbuild Kurdistan Workers Party turkey has been fighting for 40 years and for 30 years and at these 40000 people lost their lives during this fight and turkey claims that the commend the common level membership of the Syrian Democracy forces or depict commanders and their aim is to build a big kurdistan which can divide iraq iran and it turkey along with an autonomic region on the eastern side of the Euphrates River so turkey ses we should protect the territorial integrity of syria which is also it cool to turkeys territorial integrity and saddam how soon could we see any turkish troop movements happening and could all of this given what were hearing from the s. D. F. Could this lead to further conflict there. Well turkey says theyre ready and they can move and its on they have been say this for weeks then just a couple of men circle prison trajectory fired on stated in a live interview a Live Press Conference that the u. S. Forces begin pulling out from those 2 observation post after trump and dawn had a phone conversation last night but of course theres a question mark because thats how far turkey get can go during this military operation is still unknown and the u. S. Says they wont support the is Syrian Kurdish groups and they say they are ready for all out war also it is not it is not clear whats going to happen with the eisel elements the s. C. F. Says they are not able to keep them and they cant look after them and when turkey interferes in the region its going to be a big blow and present there don also just stated that theyre trying to find a way out if for now it seems it can be just a limited operation on to add on and trump meets in mid november in washington sin and cos there live for us there in istanbul thank you sent him well lets take a look at exactly where all of this is happening in syria and involves the northern part of the country the territory to the west of men bridges held by turkish and rebel forces to the east is kurdish territory mostly held by the s. D. F. Kaddish forces but earlier i spoke to my one couple on whos the head of policy analysis at the arab center for research and policy studies at the Doha Institute for graduate studies and he says this break between turkey and the United States on the situation in the northeast syria has been a long time coming. There has been differences between turkey and the United States on the dept of security or serves on turks are actually trying to establish in the north east of syria the turks actually they have been trying to establish like 50 kilometers deep into syrian territory the series on whereas the United States actually was looking for Something Like between 5 and serving. 110140 kilometers along the border between jobless and. So this is something that turkey was not really happy with we expect that if the turks actually are going into syria of course i suspect that the president now is or might be actually willing to allow them because we know that there has been also a Division Within the administration. President brumby he twice actually promised that he will be pulling u. S. Troops from the from northeast syria the 1st time was on 2018 2nd time was in the summer 2018 after a phone call with the turkish president. And when he said i mean syria is yours you can go in but then the been tired when i actually object to do that and we all know that jim matters for a secretary of defense resign because of that on to other news now iraqs government is denying accusations that its Security Forces have shot protesters during 6 days of violent demonstrations at least 109 people have been killed since tuesday with moist of the violence concentrated in the capital baghdad more than 6000 people have been injured well for more on this lets go live now to our correspondent whos in baghdad for us and on another violent evening in the capital and the death toll just keeps rising. Thats absolutely right there were protests that continued throughout the night into the early hours of the morning now whats happening in the capital baghdad is that this the protests are actually spreading out into the suburbs and into and away from the center of the area because iraqi Security Forces have managed to secure all the center of the city but that doesnt stop people coming out in the neighborhoods and also in the south we are seeing many more protests take place and this is concerning a lot of people position politicians though getting behind the protest movement what theyre saying is that the protest yvonnes are absolutely just what we want to support them thats actually not going down well with the protesters who say its the all of the public Political Parties fault that were in the situation at the moment but the more people who are sort of the more people that dying is fueling this protest movement as well because they say that we need to go out and we need to protest the fact that people are dying overnight weve had at least 15 People Killed and then i also had the head of the puppet of my positions post for says just by ken what did he have to say about all of us. Well theres been a number of Political Developments lets bring you up to date with this one 1st fall a fired is the head of the Popular Mobilisation forces thats one of the militia groups thats now a part of the iraqi Security Forces they have been blamed for putting snipers on the street theyve been blamed for the heavy handed tactics of the iraqi Security Forces are using by the protesters he actually denied all of that he said that the protests were legitimate that the hostile xabi the problem Mobilization Forces werent part of this and if they were they were part of the Iraqi Security apparatus he also said that the deaths of the protesters will be investigated and he also used a very interesting phrase where he said there will be revenge for those people who died know what that means is completely on shore at the moment everywhere trying to figure out what he means by that but thats not the only Political Development weve had saddam on whos a spokesman for the army echoing what fied had to say talking about the fact that only the only reason they fied a protest get fired upon is that they present a threat to the army segue a lever of the Russian Foreign minister is also has also arrived in baghdad this is a long scheduled visit and no doubt hell be taking speaking to the promise about the Current Situation and weve also had mike pompei the u. S. Secretary of state on a phone call with the promise of the mahdi talking about the protests and saying that iraq has a right to defend itself but there needs to be a peaceful negotiation to all of this so a number of Political Developments in the capital and very fast moving story that imran khan across all these developments for us from baghdad thank you. Now 2 protesters in hong kong have become the 1st people to appear in court to face charges under a controversial anti mosque law they were arrested on saturday shortly after the ban came into effect the government used colonial era emergency regulations to impose the banned by decree and that sparked another round of unrest over the last 2 days as last protesters faced off with police sarah clarke has moved from hong kong. The 1st 2 people charged on to the anti mosque rules have appeared in the east imagine schools in hong kong on monday morning its an 18 year old man and a 30 year old woman theyve also been charged with Unlawful Assembly now they were arrested on sunday in callan and if theyre found guilty they could face up to one year in jail as well as a 3000. 00 fine now the place of also arrested 13 other people on friday and saturday as rallies under the anti mosque rules that the Education Bureaus also alerted all schools in hong kong on tuesday which is the 1st day back after these anti mosque rules were acted all schools and principals must report the number of students who are wearing the mosques at school weve already had one principal rubbish this idea and say he will not report which students are Wearing Masks on campus this evening which is monday night its a Public Holiday in hong kong we do have another protest planned at the inn monk called which is the Prince Edward and the police have already warned of potential violent confrontations between the police and protesters but the place and the m. T. A. And the government have already forced the stations to be close all stations the Railway System in hong kong will be shot at 6 pm before the protest stunts. An important step in sri lankas upcoming president ial election begins on monday the candidates are filing their nominations with the Electoral Commission in colombo incumbent president might or potus or a senate has announced that he will not seek another for another time after 4 years in office. A constitutional crisis last year when he sat in a place the Prime Minister that decision was overturned by the Supreme Court and elfin and as reports from colombo. A record 41. 00 candidates posting cash bond for the election ahead of handing in nominations on monday but the president might be policy to say in the north being among that group now when he beat his predecessor that former president mind the rajapaksa it was a complete weve where he