Protesters try to stop vehicles and rail traffic across the city. Iraqi medical workers trading at a government protesters say theyre now being targeted by Security Forces. But in americas longest serving lead it believe me im president of a morale is has resigned in the face of widespread protests over his disputed reelection morales who spent nearly 14 years in office made the announcement in a televised address to the nation hours after the countrys military chief called for him to step down morale this is calling it a coup against his Government International monitors have called for octobers Election Results to be a null because of alleged irregularities a little let me just as the im resigning from my position as president in order that people from culture obama and the poor people are not on anymore im resigning for them we dont want day to be confrontation early this morning we met ministers and we decided to resign in order for there to be new. Elections awful bolivia for life all for the country so lets look at reaction around the region mexicos foreign minister says his country would offer morale as asylum if the formally to sort it a number of leaders from the region have been responding to this news on twitter brazils president jaya balsa nara said denunciations of Election Fraud resulted in the resignation of president morales the lesson for us is the need in the name of democracy and transparency to count votes that can be order to the vote is a sign of clarity for brazil venezuelas president Nicolas Maduro has tweeted saying we categorically condemn the consummate crude h. R. Against the brother president of our morale as the social and political movements of the world to clear our souls in mobilization to demand the preservation of the life of the bolivian native peoples victims of racism well lets go live now to our latin america editor lucien human who joins us by skype from santiago were just listening to some of that reaction from the region its being tossed as a coup and it raises questions doesnt it about the Political Landscape there now and also about morale is immediate future. Yes youre absolutely right just a few moments ago president what is treated the following im going to read it exactly as it is he says i didnt ask to the world and the libyan people that a Police Officer publicly announced that he is instructed to execute it in a legal a rest largesse to me at the same time violent assault at my all the cool destroys the rule of law very early this morning he had to denounce and his sisters house had been burned down and now also that some governors that supported his government supporting him or forced to resign in exchange for their families not being attacked by alleged opposition members so its a very unstable very. Uncertain situation in libya at this hour the secretary general of the United Nations is calling to restraint to the dialogue even though the president argentina who is no friend of it will not and this is calling for calm and for dialogue and and another on another front to do not the government of chile has to learn expressed an opinion but the former foreign minister who certainly is no friend of the ever more at least has described with or with sense fired as a top and his lines that the reinstatement of the rule of law and the Democratic Institutions in that antique so there are a lot of opinions about the region and the world as to what really transpired after it was known that the head of the armed forces was ill and will force him on what has apparently to resign or invited him to resign to be more diplomatic. After he had already offered to hold new elections so theres its a very incendiary situation because have a divided country you have a political vacuum now and you also have the question about the ongoing role of the military what now what what makes via. Exactly when nobody can answer that exactly certainly not yet the military has a long history in bolivia as and much of latin america im just hearing. In democratically elected democratically elected governments and at the same time he theres a power vacuum now because it would have it would have been replaced by the Vice President who also resigned or then next by the president of the senate or in the lower house all 3 have resigned now apparently and is there is a precedence that this the president of the Supreme Court let at least in siri take up the role of the of the head of government while the elections are called and everyone is saying these elections have to be held immediately but who would then represent the opposition of the whole what alice is not allowed to run how will his supporters react will they keep calm as he has asked for them to do that is something that nobody can answer yet a lot of questions sort of be answered as you saw this a thank you for that we have discussed this more now if there it finds with who is Vice President of the council of the americas he joins us on scott from washington d. C. Are you might be listening to what the scene human had to say there but she did rise several questions and i want to get 1st of all another view from you about how this situation is right now the political vacuum that were seeing inside the country these accusations of a coup and the potential for more on wrist. Yeah i think that the situation right now is very unstable and it does seem to be deteriorating somewhat you know its not helped by a back room in leadership we also have to remember that libya is traditionally a very divided society its divided on geographic terms on Socio Economic terms on racial terms so theres a lot of kindling here for fire to really take off if calmer heads dont prevail and i think thats the main thing right now that people need to take a deep breath and say wait a minute this could get a lot worse before it gets better so lets take a step back here is that its hard to take a step back or deep breath because the recalls now for immediate elections to be held when no doubt going to see a lot of unrest on the streets of already saying people out on the streets already so given what is required here how do you get to elections quickly and who contests those unless its a really important question elections are a be. Escape out here but they do have to be organized and they have to be organized in a free and fair and open manner and its not just like you can call them you also have to organize them and that probably requires a new person only a lot of toral authorities and that sort of thing the good news to the extent that there is good news is that were already in electoral process in bolivia what really set off the recent the current wave of unrest and discontent was the 1st round of elections which occurred in october allegations that. One of them barely up by fraud and thats what has really set things off but there was a 2nd round that the oas and other International Countries observers have called for that process is in place but you do have to organize those elections and you have to have now candidates obviously able or else who just resigned is not going to be a candidate yet look im also wondering about the role of the military because this is beyond cost as a true do you think weve weve crossed a line here with the militarys pressure in the Police Pressure on morale is to step down and do you agree with this categorized that this is a coup or is it a a more complex complicated situation than that given the concerns about the election in a regular irregularities in the election. Well i would certainly agree that it is a complex situation you know throwing around the word coup in the latin american context and it is incredibly divisive and complicated on think we have to see how things work out and that yeah i dont think thats the case i think that the search circumstances here developed because of the allegations of fraud in the elections but i fully agree in the context of the military work you know its never a good sign in latin america for the military to be the one to the country has to appeal to for calm or for Political Leadership thats an error that we all thought we left behind many years ago across latin america we dont want to see it return having said that if there is no other Political Leadership if it is a vacuum somebody has to take to maintain security and control the country so were in a very delicate situation it doesnt look like there are a lot of good immediate term answers yet and its only just happened of course so all this is playing out as we speak very far as were thank you again thank you john thank you thanks for having me lets turn to hong kong now where police have shot at protesters with live ammunition during attempts to stop traffic going into the city center the footage was broadcast live on facebook and shows the office a drawer in his side while the tenting to detain a mosque man tensions are already high in the city after a student died from clashes with Security Forces on friday sort of talk is on the ground and joins us now live from hong kong just give us ally the sira bout what you know of this shooting. Michaela general strike was called by protesters on monday morning at that general strike was pretty much protesters targeting the transport system with the road and riled trying to stop people getting to work and thats why theyre calling it a strike it was here inside one home on the eastern end of hong kong where that incident occurred those protesters were trying to block the street behind me which is a straight up towards this area over here. And it was when they were trying to block that that the police moved in i should start these are black traffic plates are not the right place weve got behind us here and its been as you mentioned 3 live rounds were fired and that particular protester was shot in the stomach we dont have an updated condition reports on that particular protester he was taken to hospital obviously as a result but since then the crowds have gathered here theyve got the riots have been sealed off and as i mentioned this is a general strike targeting the road transport system some thoroughfares major roads highways have been blocked theres been huge traffic jams across hong kong this morning as a result of this particular general strike but tensions affright weve had a lot of yelling near where we are and as you mentioned the crowds here are building the romneys have moved in and its trying to push the crowds back because the gathering here because the escalation of anger after the student was shot with a live round of ammunition this morning on monday morning about law in this era all the ingredients were potentially more on the wrist and more violence give us a sense of the tension thats in the air and from what youve seen as someone whos covered these protests what does it take to tip that over to where you get that for one confrontation between the police the security and the protesters. Well it doesnt take much at the moment as you mentioned earlier students died on friday from a cardiac arrest office suffering from a brain injury which could during a protest on the weekend before he died which had 3 days left 3 days he had to be jewels and more protests scattered across hong kong and again the police and the protests as a head to head with each other and it doesnt take much for things to spill life will certainly be escalation of anger to spill over and as i mentioned that yelling is going on here we also saw a video shared on twitter this morning where you got high up placement on i m o 5 it looks like hes actually trying to time to get some of those protesters who are running along the street so i think is on both sides and a student and would. This is. 6 or 7. Appearing in court. And. More are. Speaking of course we can hear people chanting behind you and indication those numbers of the crowds are increasing sara thank you for that sort of like joining us live there from hong kong now to spain where the ruling socialist Workers Party has won the largest share of the vote in the 2nd general election this year with 120. 00 seats it does for short of a majority as a did in the and now its facing a difficult path to form a stable government john holl reports from madrid. Celebrations for the socialists in spain who win once again the largest share of the vote but not a majority forming a government will be fraught with difficulty caretaker Prime MinisterPedro Sanchez called this election after earlier Coalition Talks failed and believing the socialists would improve their standing in aprils vote the gamble hasnt paid off he will now be under immense pressure to negotiate a Coalition Likely to include the extreme left. Party and even relying on catalonia separatist parties for support even if this party is the socialist for them. Most of the nationalists are left leaning parties theyre very different they have different interests the catalans of course wants independence. Goes very much against the size of the socialists separatists have been hugely influential in this election and the last one in april and it will be unthinkable to many in spain that they might provide the key even if just through some voting arrangement to unlocking a socialist government. In barcelona delighted some will see as a victory for the independents cause and to make matters worse for the socialists the ongoing cattle and drama. The threatens the breakup of the Spanish State has provoked a shift in Public Opinion to the right the conservative Peoples Party has been rehabilitated and the far right vox party has doubled its share of parliamentary seats to become spains political force. No one wants to see another election but whatever governing arrangement arises out of this fractious and fragmented Political Landscape it is likely to be neither stable nor longstanding journal how aljazeera madrid. And theres plenty more ahead on the news including israeli families living along jordans border pricing for a financial blow is a 25 year old land deal comes to any. Presidency jinping arrives in greece as china makes big plans to expand greek ports. The finals with a bank or with a home. Security forces have again opened fire on protesters across iraq killing at least 9 people. 6 demonstrations were killed in baghdad while another 3 was shot dead in the southern iraqi city of nasiriyah Security Forces say theyve been targeting socalled infiltrators at protests at least 325 people have been killed across the country since protests began at the start of october. Has more now from baghdad. Activists believe the death toll is much higher what we do know is that it keeps going up on sunday the head of the Iraqi ParliamentHuman Rights Committee said 319 people have been killed and more than 15000 injured since these protests began her 1st he is demanding. That the ministry of health cooperate and provide accurate figures the government hasnt been providing any weve been relying on the independent group the Iraqi Human Rights Commission. The doctors and nurses trying to save lives in Tahrir Square say were in a White Lab Coat has become a bulls eye on their backs many were afraid to speak with us on camera saying theyre worried the government rover tally 8 against them for volunteer ing after their day jobs to treat injured protesters started and stopped it is that whenever they are targeting us to prevent the treatment of their injured 2 days ago on a bridge there were chasing us we were hiding on side streets and they were shooting at us from home vs who they are on who they get their orders from we dont know these men and women have formed a volunteer army of Health Care Professionals for protestors doctors nurses pharmacists nurses assistants even medical students work in tents like this one spread across to where square which has become the epicenter of the protests the wounded arrive in a steady stream primarily via talk tox which could more easily navigate the crowds the medics also venture out onto nearby bridges which have become a battlefield as protesters confront Security Forces and. This is a 1st time experience from maine and im not scared i saw them like my brothers holding injured and no one cares about them they are also targeting us with live ammunition the Iraqi Human Rights Commission says at least 4 medics have been killed in baghdad since it is a government protests began on october 1st the medics we spoke to say the people shooting at and attacking them are wearing military uniforms. We talked to Iraqi Military spokesman Abdul Karim Hala if about allegations that Health Care Professionals are being at. Tagged. City. There are 60 to 70 people belonging to one particular group and they are reading antiriot Police Uniforms they go to the front of the protest as they are not anti right police they are not bought off our forces their civilians are militias we dont know we have started an investigation to track them. How that says these people he calls infiltrators are also attacking Security Forces. In Tahrir Square medics are now feeling especially vulnerable after 2 of their colleagues were recently stabbed in the back walking among the crush of protesters to get to the wounded they say their determination to help and heal all in need is stronger than any fear medical sources say as a result of heavy tear gas bombardment on saturday evening at one of the busiest makeshift clini