5 is for the attack that killed 19 people plus. We will leave the e. U. On the 29th launch to. Another brics it battleground how rival parties are using the online world to get their election messages across and eyepieces them to the sport controversial quarterback Colin Kaepernick prepares to showcase in skills in front of n. F. L. Teams 3 years since hes last game that and more later this news. It started as a protest against rising fuel prices in france year on people who are part of whats known as the yellow 1st movement are still showing their anger this is whats happening now in the capital paris theyve been demonstrations to mark the anniversary for more than 8 hours now police of 5 tear gas to try to break them up the movement turned into protests against the cost of living with and. Government violence across the country at its peak 300000 people took part in the saturday protest but that number has dwindled in recent months baka joins us live from paris and we can see behind you there are police on the street protesters but i guess is already being used what are you saying. Yes this is the plaster its really in the center of paris its very much become the epicenter of clashes between demonstrators from the yellow press movement and lines of police many i take a couple of 1000 demonstrators amassed here earlier on they have permission to do that but the scenes quickly became violent you can see probably a tremendous amount of damage around whats left of some wooden buildings over here smoldering the fire brigade have been over here trying to put the fires out and the police over here have been doing what they possibly can to remove the square of the remaining protesters theyve been firing tear gas that live and that over there is a water cannon thats been used very very liberally in deede to push people out of this area we just found ourselves unfortunately on the wrong end of that water cannon just a few minutes ago let me explain that what were looking at here is really a hard core element within the Yellow Vest Movement this isnt anything like the huge process that we saw earlier on in the year where many tens of thousands of people took to the streets of paris and other cities like bordeaux and to lose these people oh very much the fringe as it were and we did also come across some people who had come by bus from power some the outskirts of the city very disappointed by what theyre seeing here they feel that it doesnt send the right kind of message it doesnt strike a chord with what the other Breast Movement is all about but the reason perhaps why the movement has dwindled over the last few months primarily thats a stun grenade just going off that a few. The reason why its the window in support over the last few months just because this is even one of its main aims sort of overturning a new tax on diesel fuel but also present a emanuel back row and its being forced to cough up 11000000000 dollars in aid to help the poorest sectors a French Society many of the key issues and problems though still havent gone away even though the yellow Dress Movement has dwindled in support people are angry and frustrated about reforms the president might call and wants to introduce and they could well be a resurgence of the shallow best movement before the end of the year were just about to be pushed out of the way by french fry place. The French Riot Police just to not let you know being accused by activists of heavy handed tech tactics and throughout. The last 12 months activists say that as many as 24 people have lost 5 people have lost homes one person even lost a testicle as a result of stun grenades or rubber bullets and a liberal use of tear gas being fired at the demonstrators and thats whats really playing out here again now on the plaster its only a year on the formation of the l a Vest Movement many of these demonstrators want to use this state to show that the movement is still alive and kicking but the rest movement themselves have criticized your thirtys for what they say as heavy handed tactics that are already fueling scenes like this which. Some of the remarkable pictures there while you were speaking we saw what looked like gaston as you say that was stun guns being used there as well and you can see the police and the protesters just interesting there where you say this is a poor element a fringe group from what youve been able to see and your Vantage Point what sort of numbers though would we be talking about would you call that significant numbers. I would say here the plaster italy were talking about the low thousands probably no more than a couple of thousands and when i say hard core element let me explain exactly what that means within the context of the Yellow Vests Movement it attracted a range of people from across the political spectrum from the hard right the hard left and people in the middle as well so people that claim to have no politics at all it started as a protest movement against a hike in the price of diesel a tax that was being applied to the 2. 00 diesel cost in order to reduce Carbon Emissions that was seen very much as a tax on poor people outside big cities like paris used to cause war and quickly grew into a movement against president microloan himself because of that confused political identity the Movement Really hasnt continued to gain traction it remains of protest movement rather than a political one we know that certain members of the Yellow Vest Movement have trying to get elected as members of the European Parliament but failed so right now despite the scenes that youre seeing here the wind really isnt in the sails of the 11 been. They thank you for that. From paris will fuel is also the source of anger in iran at least one person is being killed in protests there against an increase in prices several other people were injured as they tried to enter an oil refinery in the Southern City of jon the government says the rise is needed to combat fuel smuggling dosage of. Anger frustration and growing concern in tehran as people protested against a 200 percent increase in fuel prices. Many simply turned off their engines on major highways across the city to show their disappointment at the sudden decision to raise petrol prices overnight. As heavy snow blanketed the capital people still lined up at the gas stations to fill up. The quota for america this is not a wise decision considering our horrible economy and sanctions we are under its a cruel decision because it wont affect the wealthy people only the poor people will pay the price. And this will 100 percent impact Everything Else its not just about the press of gas or commodities will be impacted for those shoes this will only hurt low income families they were supposed to increase subsidies 1st then raise the price of fuel they will find another excuse to cut their subsidies later. The protests have not been limited to the capital this was the scene in the Southern City of abidjan inclose us on province overnight here state t. V. Announced a number of individuals it described as unknown elements fired into crowds of people injuring some. The shock of this news has yet to sink in here with the new prices motorists now pay about 0. 13 a liter thats a 3 fold increase the government expects to earn nearly 2500000000. 00 from the price increase and says that it will help millions of families in need had that sort of out of the 1st payments will be handled within the next week or 10. 00 days and transferred to the families in model year a strong president believes that if there is going to be pivotal process reform all of the new revenues will be paid back in full to the people. That many people here fear that this decision could have far reaching consequences it stems from a number of issues while iran has huge Energy Reserves its refining capability is limited and that makes it difficult to get fuel to the pumps. The government is also fighting fuel smuggling to neighboring countries thats because iran has some of the cheapest prices in the world due to its heavy subsidies and a weak currency the economy here has been struggling for years but since the United States withdrew from the 2015 nuclear deal last year and reimpose a series of new sanctions on iran things have been getting much worse inflation is just over 40 percent with unemployment rates at over 14 percent officials here say that this fuel price increase will help people but its proving very difficult to convince ordinary iranians door so to aljazeera tower on. Lets discuss this further now most of the is a professor of Political Science at University Joins us live from the iranian capital professor nice of you to be with us i wonder if you could 1st just give us a sense of how this is going to impact on ordinary people in iran who have already seen their economy declaw on by of a non percent and already battling increased inflation as well. Well i mean its a very complicated situation on the one hand the Ukrainian Government up to now has been a huge subsidies on fuel and we have to understand that the uranium government no longer has the money used to have i mean the government of wrongly is having severe budget issues a very serious budget deficit because of. Oil exports due to u. S. Sanctions so from the government perspective they actually had no choice now from the other side the other perspective the people of iran especially the middle and poor classes they have been under economic pressure for over a year i mean some goods have increased by over 100 percent in the past year and a lot of people fear that the rise in fuel prices will impact other prices were up so in a very complicated situation what were hearing though is that this increase in fuel prices and the rationing will then go towards subsidies for lower income people the sense theyre taking is one hand in giving with the other what impact would those with those payments have to lower income people in iran would that be significant enough to to offset the increase in fuel. So so so the head spin the idea of the government to help the poorer classes in that way but the problem is that if they increase in the fuel prices if its going to impact other prices because i mean fuel is used in the production of many goods then it might actually the inflation that will come about as a result of this might make people worse off especially the poorer classes so we still dont know what kind of an impact it will actually have in the rainy economy and we have to also understand that it also has psychologic or repercussions for example the iranian currency has lost some of its value today because of this very mess to prison most of all i want to get a thought from you on the political implications of this of course there are a parliamentary elections in february whats this going to mean for president rouhani given that hes not just battling anger on the streets here but of course that the weakening economy because of the sanctions over the new it is. Frankly i think it will have a very devastating impact for the political fortunes of the socalled moderates and the reformists who are currently running the government because its a very unpopular decision also the conservatives have used the opportunity to criticize the government even though again its very difficult to imagine what kind of alternative the reigning government has a nevertheless i think we still have to wait a few days if the protests get worse there is a chance that the government might back away because that has happened in the past few years in iran prison most of the thank you so much for giving us a time. Well turkey is blaming kurdish y p g fighters for a car bombing in northeast syria at least 19 people were killed and Dozens Injured in the explosion it happened near a busy bus station in the city of albab in the lipos eastern countryside. Is an assistant professor of International Relations at the university of nottingham he joins us live from london sir thank you for giving us your time as well theres been no claim of responsibility here but turkey and are supposed to be predictably as well is blaming the y p j the Kurdish Forces how do you see this. Well i think that i have no Greater Knowledge than you do and i think we will have to wait for any claim of responsibility the 2 main culprits could of course be the way p. G. Or the reminiscence of the socalled Islamic State darvish there are many of her supporters still now returning back to the communities from which they came i think what we are seeing here is turkey taking an active role this is the worst bomb attack of several within the recent few days and weeks and i think what turkey is trying to do is to expose to forward in a narrative that proves justifies the decision to. Have an incursion into syria which is that they believe the y. P. G. Is an offshoot of the terrorist organization the p. K. K. And so i think we will get this sort of narrative being pushed and we must accept that this in doing so turkey is not really doing anything very different from the other states that have been involved in the Syrian Crisis we got very few. Damning or critical reports of of of the. The y. P. Gee when or or the Syrian Democratic forces when they working under. American support so we are going to get some tainted news reports from down on what does it also tell us about this socalled site zone that turkey had to look to set up the demand that y. P. G. Forces pull back and of course russias ongoing role there in trying to keep the peace if you will. Well i think that what it tells us is that we have a very confusing and complex situation where there is no overall control in the state weve got as you pointed out several players the russians the Syrian Regime the turks and also some others who are involved in the state and whenever you get this lack of governance in control as we discovered in iraq and in the understand you create a situation where terrorism is rife where you will have these sort of events happening and so what we will see is more of these incidents. As the confusion over who controls what who is responsible for what and who is saying was becomes ever more increased over time so i think the solution to this really has to be to restore the territorial d and and and governance integrity of the state of syria if we are to ever hope for induction in these sort of terrorist incidents as you were speaking the you talking about an increase in just these types of incidents weve seen others of course in recent days as well something is that at the start there though that this could of course be why p. G. A. Could also be eisel and this was a concern wasnt it that this entire operation would lead to a resurgence of vice or at least create the opportunity where us will be able to carry out these types of attacks whats your assessment of eyesores capacity on the ground there and their ability to carry out attacks like this. Well i think that they will only know what their capacity is when theyve demonstrated and if this is as a result of ice all then that gives us an indication of their capacity but i dont think anybody will find this unexpected its even if this isnt caused by ice all and it is caused by y p g as the turks say we will and we should expect isis members in parts of syria not just the in this particular region but elsewhere but also in very much so in iraq who will be conducting these form of attack they will go back to what they did before they declared the Islamic State in 2014 and that is to revert to being a terrorist movement and the other thing we mustnt forget is that many of those members have returned to their homelands whether its in north africa or whether its in europe whether its in central asia or the far east they have gone back and we already know that some of them have committed acts of terror in their homeland so this issue of isis or ice all of that is a big one and this may this particular incident may or may not be a symptom of it but the issue is far bigger than this particular incident. Thank you again for your analysis. Polls have closed in sri lankas president ial election former defense minister got a bio rajapaksa and rival also probably does the 2 main Candidates National security has been a major issue in the campaign after an attack killed hundreds of this year Bernard Smith reports from colombia. Got a pirate to pax and knows as he prowls to the british priest that he could rely on support from voters with in sri lankas majority faith. But he also needs support from minority muslims and tumbles to if he is to win this president ial election many of them are nervous of the prospect of a return to power of the rajapaksa. Got a pie was defense chief and his brother mahinda was president at the end of the civil war which the u. N. Estimates killed 40000 people that party also courts nationalists this is a good clue lanka get in with. Some stuff in sri lanka a sense of a monitoring election violence say the poll has been free but not necessarily fair with reports of people being pressured on how to vote we have never seen that much influential factors like leaders leaders are coming forward from or one particular political party. Such as prima das is the only other realistic contender in this election he gets support from rural buddhists and minority groups who could swing the result in his favor. The Ruling Coalition is choice but this is a government that ignored warnings about the Easter Sunday suicide attacks that killed 263 people prompting rajapaksa to announce his candidacy we are hoping for a new future 3 lanka and. There are a candidate and the same there are many candidates so its going to be a very competitive place so i just hope there. You know whoever gets elected can deliver on their promises and ensure a safe nation and a prosperous nation and everyone can sort of believe in peace 60000000 people were elig