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So protesters in lebanon are standing their ground despite the government approving sweeping Economic ReformsPrime Minister saddle hariri announced the measures to diffuse the biggest demonstrations in years against the nations leaders the activists are not going anywhere until the entire cabinet steps down this report is from zanuck order in beirut the all of the people have spoken calls go beyond fighting corruption they want accountability and early elections and they say they arent leaving the streets until that happens protests are growing by the day the lebanese government however is refusing to step aside instead it is offering a plan that is supposed to fix the economic crisis without hitting the public with more taxes modest. Mccarthy the cabinet approved the 2020 budget with a deficit of 0. 6 percent with no new taxes the salaries of top officials including legislators and members of parliament will be cut in half as part of the economic reform package the central bank and the Banking Sector will help in reducing the deficit by about 3400000000 are the decisions that we have taken might not fulfill your demands but they fulfill what i have been calling for i will not allow anyone to scare you and its the governments duty to protect your peaceful demands. Too little too late the proposed reforms are not enough to calm the anger people have no faith. They are right they have no faith and no one the government of. Prime minister the president the fundamental people have no faith in the world. Even if they think that they were going to do the floors positive for so i would begin to believe that. The way forward according to the protesters involves the government resigning a Transitional Council made up of judges who dont have political affiliations taking over until elections and those elections will be held under a new law whereby lebanon will become one single constituency and sects will no longer just elect their own sectarian leaders. Come to demands the governing alliance has already rejected the protesters are up against those in power who wont hesitate to use it but there is hope they dont know whats going to become whole with the transition is going to happen or are we going to fall with. Luggage it doesnt need to go to a position of the sun does not this is the be the people. Who are. We all going to be able to do it or who she was a supporter for many here its a new beginning. Those who are taking part in this protest movement say it is a rejection of the political. They have been in power for decades exploiting the sectarian system of government at the expense of building a strong state that state resources to maintain support in their community now some of their supporters have risen up against that the 1st and the serious challenge. The path for political change in lebanon has now been drawn but the road ahead wont be easy i think the most important thing is the sense of liberation would be achieved so funny live in a different city this is. The this room to feel and believe to be protected and the be mobilized to the not and if the lebanese the want to live together i think thats. Beyond the. Crowds this size protesting for this long young old rich poor Muslim Christian and without backing from Political Parties has not happened in lebanon so recent history a revolution seems to have already happened but the crisis is far from over. Beirut. The thoughts now all of us who we spoke to an adjunct professor at George Washington universitys Elliott School of International Affairs he told us the situation in lebanon is unprecedented and so wont be solved by tried and tested techniques what we have today is a crisis of governance in lebanon the people who are in the streets in their hundreds of thousands just are unwilling to listen for whatever the officials on the platform are going to offer. Their sense is that theres been plenty of time for the officials to time and again deliver on past promises and they fail one of the more interesting things thats happening with unprecedented really in lebanon is that each of the communities are taking on the established political powers in that very Community People are very aware that they dont want this to be a sunni versus shia or a muslim versus christian so we have revolts within revolts in various communities of people trying to overthrow the political order that they feel has done them wrong. To other news on a deadline for kurdish led forces in Northern Syria to leave the areas along the border with turkey expires later on tuesday turkey wants to establish a safe zone there and says it will resume its offensive against kodesh fighters if they dont leave any more u. S. President or trump is defended his decision to withdraw some troops from Northern Syria he says he never agreed to protect syrian kurds forever well that he has not what can be how. They fought and died for years alongside United States forces in the effort to defeat eisel but u. S. President donald trump is defending his decision to withdraw u. S. Troops from northeastern syria allowing turkey to attack the kurdish fighters but we help the kurds and we never gave the courage and commitment that wed stay for their good 400 years of protest that theyve been fighting with the turks for 300 years of people no. And nobody ever committed gee if you do this were going to do that were going to stay with you forever nobody ever said that trump has faced bipartisan criticism in the u. S. Congress about the troop pullout and his decision to drop turkey sanctions as part of the cease fire agreement that expires on tuesday. And despite anger at home and abroad trump maintains the ceasefire is holding even as turkeys president wretch of type of heir to one is vowing to continue his military campaign the white house has promised to lift sanctions placed on turkey as part of its cease fire deal but trump isnt ruling out more in the future we have a power that nobody thought we had to the extent to call sanctions its called tariffs altera of the hell of it their product coming here they said tremendous amounts of steel to the United States and other things trump also maintains his goal is to keep a 2016 Campaign Promise to bring troops back to the United States as defense secretary who is in the region traveling to saudi arabia late monday says some troops may remain in syria to secure oil fields well others continue fighting against eisel in iraq the purpose of those forces a purpose of those forces working with the s. D. F. Is to deny access to those oil fields by isis and others who may benefit from their revenues it could be earned given the tenuous nature of the cease fire agreement with turkey Democratic Leaders in the u. S. Congress are promising to introduce their own bipartisan sanctions against turkey to reverse what they say is a humanitarian disaster unleashed in syria by President Trump kimberly help at aljazeera the white house meanwhile the u. S. Secretary of state has given an interview indicating washington is prepared to take military action in the region if required. Where we see American Interest at stake or fundamental norms around the world that need to be enforced will use all the powers that we have you suggest that the economic powers that weve used will certainly use them or use our diplomatic powers as well those are our preference we prefer peace to war but in the event that kinetic action or military action is needed you should know the present trump is fully prepared to undertake that action and the turkish president says the military offensive in syria is not a land grab type criticized his allies for not supporting what he calls a fight against terrorists. We have passed our offensive in northern parts of syria for 120 hours thats why this is in a crucial time those 120 hours or nearly over tomorrow i will travel to sochi to meet russian president Vladimir Putin for talks and after that we will take the necessary steps now as you mentioned before there are american troops who are staying in northeast syria they are there to protect oil fields those facilities are mostly east of the Euphrates River in deir ezzor near the Syrian Border with iraq areas controlled by u. S. And Kurdish Forces before the war in 2000 live in syria was actually producing 400000 barrels of oil a day 32nd in the world that and Gas Production made up about a 3rd of its export earnings and a 5th of the whole state revenue but as i still took control of Eastern Oil Fields the u. S. Treasury estimate of the group made up to 500000000. 00 from. You assert your defense is a continued presence will stop myself from regaining those or oil revenues has learn. But now who is a professor of Energy Policy at the Doha Institute for graduate studies he explains the significance of the u. S. Keeping its troops in syria. In the middle east the main revenue of moscow of nantes is oil or gas and very often the countries which have oil have also gas and in syria like in other country as oil plays. Even if syria is a small exporter of oil it can play a role in what weve seen but it plays an even greater role when President Trump is withdrawing a few 100 troops from syria but sending a few thousands to saudi arabia so that says that to me and to many analysts the troops are following the oil money quick look at whats coming up for you on this news hour israels Prime Minister fails to form a government again we will see what that means for the country also chiles president orders another overnight curfew is violent protests show no sign of letting up. And in sports football is in colombia threaten to go on strike despite facing the threat of contracts being born or. The latest on canadas elections now with the polling stations are now closed so far the Ruling Liberal Party is in the lead trudeaus liberals facing strong competition though from the main opposition conservatives that by and for sheer triggers campaign has been rocked by several scandals including old photos emerging of him in black face an update from daniel lak now in toronto getting late in the evening and now daniel bring us up to date. Welcome ali were hearing from the t. V. Networks here that were probably going to have a liberal government once this vote counting is over its quite a good bold prediction at this point and theyre not saying whether would be a majority or a minority probably the latter the liberals started the evening fairly strongly in the east of the country winning fewer seats than they did in the past election in 2015 but enough to call it a convincing victory in Eastern Canada theyre busy now counting votes across most of the rest of the country and the liberals seem to be holding on to their own at least in the 2 largest provinces ontario and quebec there has been a surge for a Quebec Separatist Movement in quebec seen mostly as a protest vote here against the 2 mainstream parties i think its safe to say the conservative party led by the rookie leader andrew shear is somewhat disappointed at least so far tonight it still could tighten up though as we head across the west of canada where people tend to be more conservative party supporting and on the west coast theres a big knot of votes around the city of vancouver that tend to swing back and forth between 12. 00 or 3 of the major parties in the country still a little early to be confident if your liberal Prime MinisterJustin Trudeau but with the t. V. Network saying a liberal government of some sort i think theres a big sigh of relief over liberal circles at the moment yeah just quickly dan and this is more a bit of housekeeping but you talk about the spread right across the country it is a very large country so when would you get or expect to get more definitive results once everything is coming. I think in the next couple of hours well be able to say with more certainty what kind of government its going to be and confirm that yes indeed it is as predicted led by the incumbent Prime MinisterJustin Trudeau the reason being that weve got just so many votes to count from so many really large constituencies and some of them are still quite close specially across the 2 largest provinces ontario and quebec not a lot of votes are coming in just yet but enough to give a firm indication just to be safe just to be sure we really need to get more votes in before we can actually call with certainty that candidate has reelected a liberal government ok well get an update from you again later on down your lack in toronto and now and also on sky weve got political analyst Michael Brown secu he is joining us too well i mean you would have heard what daniel said there it all seems to be a little bit not quite anticlimactic but the liberals holding on and that is kind of indicative of the whole campaign isnt it wasnt a big Fiery Campaign with a big central issue or anything like that. You know well actually whats happening right now is a surprise to all of us because i think all of the problem right now the liberal society is sort of leading or like it at a 142 that does pretty much. Rather often than already government if they get 170 and theyre trending that way youre going to have a majority government about 5 really i think all of the friction now i think what happened here is your correspondent well is that i think a lot of voters went into the voting booth undecided. These fearing conservative cause probably fearing what the n. D. P. Will they went with a safer bet and went for a liberal despite even all of those scandals you mentioned in your introduction with i think people who are willing to forgive him for about a vote for the paper bags. For the polls were pointing to everything being actually quite close like the way it is turning out as you saying youre waiting to see whether itll be minority or majority but youll saying its more of a surprise. Because you know what was happening especially into back if you had the emergence of the floppy the cloth and a 3rd party finding out that you know that the horse suffers. The same thing that was was the boat if it starts more flooding across the country and then you then either minority liberal government or whatever the conservative government now would have to go in coalition with a Smaller Party now its 138. 00 and again 874. 00 or 8 liberals are within striking distance so would that mean that theyre going to be able to go ahead with their programs far more funding for middle class childcare that sort of thing theyve got a pipeline to complete from bridge for modest to get. That 5 water so with with a majority theyll be able to probably get off and what about trudeau himself i think throughout the rest of the world he has a slight when they have a bit of a halo around him a lot of people sort of a drawn to me as the sort of. Hes got the good looks hes got the personality and all these sorts of things but i i feel its not quite the same for canadians and clearly if if theres less of a majority in this election than that that says that out. Youre right i think its not the same are true i mean your graduate if we dont thats really the tarnish i think katie is what im not not a celebrity Prime Minister you want someone here whole to roll up its sleeves and solve a lot with a lot of economic problems and also i think even his star is fading overseas with all this publicity about the plot its about disasters some state visit to india about letting his attorney general or her debts its a lot a lot of there are all of those things but they get their knickers little excited but i think theyre going to start not now may you want to reshuffle because of your circle is the better advice or better optics for him but very very different from where we were and 150 cent claim all right michael both of you thank you for your time do appreciate it but for now but it is electoral board is finally updated its provisional vote count but there are growing concerns about the validity of the president ial results 95 percent been counted and president evo morales appears to have a 10 percent lead over his main rival connells messa a man who has accused morales of manipulating the results but spoke to john homan in the pas now john well 1st of all tell us about where you are and whats going on there. Yeah were implausible livia where just a short time ago you can probably see she theres quite a lot of riot police on this side there were opposition supporters a stump im still here and government supporters on the other side of the process trying to sort of head off against each other and these riot police just creating a barrier between them quite a lot of tear gas going around quite a lot of stones as well starting to move now to plaza morio which is where the president ial palace is where president ever more or less might be at some point were hearing ready to sort of announce hes trying now let me tell you a little bit why the people are unhappy here especially opposition supporters the rapid folk who is completely frozen for nearly 24 hours after going to 83 percent in which you see not there was going to be a runoff between president morales and the 2nd place candidate whos Car