Easter sunday bombings. By democrats is reelected governor in the conservative Southern States obviously ana by multiple rallies spine president stone from. Bolivias former president sable morales has told al jazeera that he should be allowed to return completes this final term in office he spoke in mexico where he fled after resigning last week following weeks of unrest the United Nations is warning that the ongoing violence in bolivia could spin out of control and prevents new elections on friday 8 supporters of morale a special day its cheering fighting with Security Forces there were further clashes between severe Security Forces and supporters of a former us today people have been marching from the region of japan to the central. City of cochabamba they carried bolivian flags and flags for presenting countries to join this peoples well on saturday. On head home and and outlined his next moves. Up until sunday if more rallies was latin americas longest standing current leader now pressured to resign by the military after accusations of electoral fraud he suddenly believe he is former president and in exile in mexico but after less than a week he told our dizzier hes already planning to go home. I cant be outside of the country im used to being with the people as a union leader president doing work i miss it a lot im looking for a legal way to go back and be with the people as they resist the dictatorship the coup he says if allowed back he wouldnt seek to run in fresh elections thats a bone of contention between him and the opposition but he still wants to complete the last 2 months of his term. I dont know why theyre so scared of evo they dont want me to participate thats ok everything for life and for democracy i retire my candidacy but they should let me finish my term is that understood not understood by now interim president to me an years she said he could face charges if you goes but its the culmination of discontent that started back in 2016 when moralists to change the constitution to run for a full time there was a referendum the majority voted against you having a 4th term and afterwards you did it you did run again and that seemed to go against the spirit of democracy in the country where you could interpret it like that but so you know on the 21st of february 2016 the lie won enough lies to beat us with 70000 votes moral less the right united and beat us based on the lie you and c. N. N. Were. In on it the u. S. Embassy prepared that lie hes unrepentant than and he also insists that there wasnt fraud in the elections a month ago this by investigators from the organization of american states saying that they too was diverted to a secret service that there were clear manipulations he says that organizations politically motivated which of yells i had a lot of trust or some trust but now i dont have any in the oas i should be called the organization of the states of north america not america he did call fresh elections off to be oas preliminary report but by then it was too late many c. F. L. Morale is as a good leader who simply stayed too long he managed to work hard poverty the economy grew under you and you brought stability now. Given whats happened if you could go back in time would you have run again for this. Would you have gone against that referendum or if you could have your time again would you have bowed out gracefully god of war was a war you dont look for the post of presidency at 6 you out thats my experience in the unions and my experience in the presidency and i want to tell you that after the 1st mandate i was happy content to go back to cochabamba is that when you win Peoples Trust and go again and. That in may have been his undoing and in his way libya is in crisis with Police Killing protesters and violence from both sides. You can only look or from afar john home out is it or mexico city. Venezuelas Opposition Leader is using the situation in bolivia to make a fresh push for president Nicolas Maduro to step down thousands of people took to the streets of caracas and supports of materials main rival one guy i dont know quite all made a speech outside the Bolivian Embassy telling his supporters to keep protesting and so free elections are held in venezuela. Hundreds of cuban doctors are living in bolivia are flying back home after have anna said they were being they were slandered and mistreated by bolivia censor and governments cuba says 10 doctors including the coordinator of its medical mission in bolivia were detained this week the communist country was a key ally of former leftist president s have a marvelous cuba has also backed morales is claim that he was toppled in a coup. Now theres been more file and surrounds a home commune of her city campus with protesters hurling petrol bombs at Police Police and far volleys of tear gas for the 2nd day in the rue large far as the burning arrivals Hong Kong Polytechnic University and some of the most dramatic scenes to find months of demonstrations. Well lets cross live now to hong kong where dear compiler is standing by dramatic pictures coming out of hong kong today but whats the situation like where you are oh i met in front of the hunk on Polytechnic University were talking about behind me on one side you can see riot police have taken over every intersection except for one to my left where all the protesters are behind them that where where do you see is the university and theyre saying theyre trying to safeguard the university but its not only their university they want to keep a hold of and theyre made into a fortress where theyre trying to do is keep control of a highway that runs right next to the university it bursts into a tunnel that connects one calling for the rest of the city for them that has been the symbol of the moment the fact that they could disrupt the city rather than to that plan are for days now and people brought thought of it as a major route for rebel weve been seeing a students clarinets several points when heard from the riot Police Arrived trying working to clear the area so far as far as weve seen its been quite restrained the other volleys of tear gas have been fired in other areas petrol bombs have been thrown. But mostly tear gas being fired and students run and extinguish them with either work her fire extinguishers best at the moment is the main flashpoint on. It it certainly looks like it we can see bricks through it all over the roads saeeds you just heard violence are the protesters and police expecting it to get. The protesters have made their own socalled weapons crudely made petrol bombs there but here if theyre made out of promise anything they can whip up from the university but got sticks that got sent but a spare pair weapons a circle of weapons its all incredibly crude and very basic the police on the other hand are crepes of their equipment is of course of the highest standard and very effective they have also heard rubber bullets are said the students weapons soon anyway thats what theyre saying or their shields are their birth with absolutely no match for the number of police were seeing here the police have several just been firing tear gas and in fact asking the students trying to curb some kind of an exchange asking them to surrender and the every time they do that you hear a large blue from the sudanese side indicating that theyre not backing down her. Indeed it doesnt appear so meanwhile the education piro in hong kong has announced that schools and kids are good cartons will remain closed as the new week begins on monday what does that say about the situation there. Perezs about the situation is that the government still doesnt see a resolution by mumbling to begin with or for they also expect professors to print premier or the disruption of the scene up their salaries disruption of the city this is one of the new tactics completed have the city during the week days commuter chaos trying to both bring the city to a standstill and serve it up succeeded people have not been going to work school of have been shut universities close the semester betterment offices and some protesters also have been present poetically shops retailers and protesters have also been shot so that some of both the city completely disrupted the city well it did speak some volumes there as the government seems to have its hands tied this to go before pilate soldiers further 1st time. Or not its very very transparent or clear to everyone that there are people in soldiers in hong kong who have barracks here in fact just on the hurdler is the gun club barracks thats one of the players soldiers barracks but what was interesting about that tactic is they came out in the sports gear and t. Shirts and shorts trying to clear her. Sense trying to let the protestors know we are here but lets are trying to not sound any alarm or bring in any for any of 6 that were there on the 1st of hong kong ok dave youre in the large percent home come from i thank you very much indeed. Now at least 19 people have been killed in a car bomb attack in northeastern syria the Turkish Defense Ministry Says the attack was carried arts by Syrian Kurdish fighters but theres been no claim of responsibility victoria reports. Was a car bomb exploded in a busy residential area in the turkish controlled syrian town of albab this was the chaotic scene moments afterwards residents whove enjoyed more than 8 years of war have had enough was enough that i met him and we were walking and suddenly we heard an explosion havent you had enough of this for a decade isnt it enough that youve made us homeless youve attacked our dignity isnt good enough that you slaughtered us youve made us go hungry why do you want us to go back do you want us to migrate to. The lead up to the attack was captured on this Office Security camera people going about their everyday lives until this. We were over there when the car exploded i came to check on my father and i shot we saw people burning on the floor and others were blown away by. The Turkish Defense ministry blames kurdish y p g fighters who it regards as terrorists but there has been no claim of responsibility from any group turkey and syrian rebel allies have mounted 3 separate offensives in Northern Syria against Kurdish Militia what we will see is more of these incidents. As the confusion over who controls walt who is responsible for what and who is saying was becomes ever more increased over time. The injured are being treated in hospital Civil Defense workers say theyre trying to identify the bodies of those killed. Victoria gate and be aljazeera. Sri lankas former defense chief got a buyout rajapaksa is sitting close to the 50 percent threshold he needs to win the president ial election so just premadasa rajapakse as main rival is up 44 percent with a vote saw rising religious tensions and a slowing economy identified as the key issue is muslims who make up 10 percent of the population say they face her still a t since attacks on churches and hotels in april that killed more than 250 people Bernard Smith has more now from colombia. Theres been a typically high turnout in the sri lankan president ial election about 80 percent of the registered voters cast a ballot that makes about 2800000 people who voted and early indications as the count continues suggest that got a pilot rajapaksa is just ahead of the main rival premadasa although as the day goes on that could change now one of those kind of is needs to win 50 percent plus warm share of the vote to be declared president if they dont cross that threshold then it goes to counting 2nd and 3rd preference votes that people cast on saturday it is a very tight race there were 35 candidates in all but most of the votes have gone either to go to pile rajapaksa who seems to have got a large share of the vote in mainly Sinhala Buddhist areas and a lot of the other votes are going to such a prima donna who got a large share of the vote in tamil areas in the north of the country. Yemens transport minister has criticized the paris sharing deal signed last week with separatists in the scythe. Said the said he brokered a deal threatens the legitimacy of his own governments job and he was targeted in a car bomb attack hours after an initial deal was announced the riyadh agreement sames to end months of violence between Government Forces and the u. N. He backed fighters. Still to come on aljazeera irans leaders stand by their decision to increase fuel prices and rationing despite a furious response plus. Some present. Witness friends and your 1st his explanation for staying close to a convicted paedophile. Alan theres been some useful and heavy rain in lebanon has been snow in iraq not much should sing from the satellite picture but what is there is traveling south and changing the seas and therefore crosswise it looks like will be fine 11th moores to hold around however thats not true of iraq where rain is about to fall to its been snowing on the high ground in iran and tear on my get some more is probably 7 degrees it wont last long if anything this area of iraq is getting slowly colder this is all high ground of course come down to the sea level and youve got a lot of rain and probably sundry ill be hanging around kuwait drifting south possibilities and storms in society of course they might reach bahrain even chatter on sunday or monday now north of it is not particularly cobbers will be the winter change i think south of all this still quite warm 30 in the middle of oman but we are talking about squeezing 39. 00 not easily getting to see how were heading towards wintry weather the present time year is also quite undone in Southern Africa particularly south afterwards so storming Kwazulu Natal the rains and head across to madagascar though it does look like sunday is dry and joburg must be warmer 28. This is a classic as you believe it is silly its a gonna be ideological battle over abortion weve. Had the old one the shot. Is challenging a womans right to choose some of the groups thats been ignored now for decades has been. Against those lined up to defend that choice were talking about being able to make decisions from our body. Investigates the abortion bans on. This is al jazeera trying to all the headlines for you know the United Nations is warning violence in bolivia could spin out of control and prevents new elections on friday at least 8 supporters of former president omar list were shot dead join fighting with Security Forces fresh violence has erupted around a Hong Kong University campus with possesses hurling petrol bombs at Police Police a far volleys of tear gas at demonstrators in the turn for the 2nd day in a row answer lankas former defense chief got a buyer rajapaksa is sitting close to the 50 percent threshold he needs to win the president ial election such permadeath are at about his main rival is that 44 percent saw wires in religious tensions and a slowing economy identified as the key issues. Irans leaders say they wont back down from their decision to increase fuel prices despite protests across the country one person has been killed and several others injured as they tried to enter an oil refinery in the Southern City of says john dosage of our reports from the capital was anger frustration and growing concern in tehran as people protested against a 200 percent increase in fuel prices was 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. Quite a few remarks are that 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. 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 her 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 enclose a sun 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 petrol price 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 or so to pary aljazeera tower on. Their eyes in states thats known for its firm support so of donald trump but one states has just voted to keep the democrats since governor John Breaux Edwards a stunning republicans again by a 9. Only winning a 2nd term as governor or louisiana he managed to cobble together enough cross Party Supports to defeats republican rival eddie respond President Trump made 3 recent trip see the state in an effort to return the seat to republican control in while u. S. Impeachment investigators have questioned a white house official about President Trumps decision to block military aids to ukraine mark zandi is the 1st person from the office of management and budget to speak at the inquiry trying to pressure on ukraine is at the heart of the democrat led probe the president is accused of using the aid as a bargaining chip to encourage ukraines government to investigate his political rival joe biden britains Prince Andrew has denied allegations that he had sex with an alleged Trafficking Victim or disclosed late billionaire Jeffrey Epstein but c. Has conceded that his association with that scene had let the royal family dont catherine stansell reports but time and unprecedented interview with a Senior Member of the British Royal family and his connections with the convicted sex offender Prince Andrew spoke to u. K. Media about american billionaire Jeffrey Epstein you were staying at the house and convicted sex offender at the end of the day. With the benefit of all the hindsight that one could have. It was definitely the wrong thing to do. But at the time i felt it was it was the right thing to do and i kick myself for on the deck is because it was not something that was becoming a member. American billionaire Jeffrey Epstein hung himself in his jail cell in august while awaiting trial he was accused of sexually exploiting and abusing dozens of underage girls in 2008 epstein was convicted of soliciting sex from underage girls despite this Prince Andrew remained friends with epstein he went before the cameras to try to rescue his reputation but royal watchers believe his interview may make matters worse thats thats i think that this interview will be a trainwreck i think that it will have the effect of putting far more pressure than his already experienced arm Prince Andrew while aided to visit a convicted sex offender why did he find it convenient to stay with him out while on earth should the queens 2nd some think that this was all on rable way to behave which it wouldnt be for any human being Virginia Roberts giuffre says she was one of Jeffrey Epsteins underage victims and she says she was forced to have sex with Prince Andrew 3 times she says she met you in 2001 she says she dined with danced with a tramp nightclub in london she went on to have sex with you in a house in belgravia a longing to go and knocks on your friend your response i have no recollection of ever slowed. So i dont remember meeting her this is Prince Andrew with the woman he says he cant remember meeting his lack of recollection is a departure from the denials issued in the past from the investigations that weve done you cant prove whether or not that photograph is faked or not because it is a photograph of a photograph of a photograph so its very difficult to be able to to to to prove it but. I dont remember that photograph ever being told from Buckingham Palace has always denied the allegations against Prince Andrew calling them false and without foundation this was a very carefully orchestrated interview that took place here and it was sanctioned by the queen herself this is the 1st time Prince Andrew has spoken so directly about his relationship with epstein but the way he handled the interview may well lead to more questions than answers catherine stansell al jazeera london. Well lets head back to sri lanka now to bring you some breaking news of course vote counting in that president ial election has been underway at Bernard Smith is live for us in colombo bernard what more can you tell us about this foods. Weve just been told in the last couple of minutes that such a thorough premadasa has conceded victory hes offered his congratulations to got supplier roger roger packs or so got a pirate or packs a seems to be the winner of this president ial election not all of the votes have been counted yet im looking at about 3456 and a half 1000000 counties over half counted but it seems that most of the violence votes counted in areas where premadasa might hope to get support away from rajapaksa been and gone so theres little chance it seems of him catching up with rajapaksa thats why premadasa has offered his congratulations to rajapaksa we are waiting to hear from the rajapaksa camp no official announcement yet and just give us just to remind our viewers the stances of the 2 men both were going in as the the other one was the man to beat got supplier rajapakse hes coming in as a challenger essentially to the to the governing party is he not. Yes and rajapaksa is obviously a member of this. Family of politicians his brother Mahinda Rajapaksa rajapaksa unexpectedly lost the president ial election in 2015 so it seems that this time around the rajapaksa have not made the same mistake again they have worked very hard to get the vote out in the Sinhala Buddhist Majority Community that attempt to get the vote out seems to have paid paid off 75 percent of his population is similar buddhist premadasa are also buddhist and was getting support from that community mainly from rural more working class areas and he was hoping you could pull in enough support from the tamil minorities or muslim minorities to take the edge off rajapaksa it hasnt doesnt seem to have worked in the north premadasa got a huge share of the tamil vote about alone hasnt been enough it seems to take victory away from rajapaksa so weve premadasa conceding that hes lost and congratulating rajapakse after by rajapakse on his victory its a return of the rajapaksa brothers to front line government in sri lanka and burn this president ial votes of course coming after those devastating attacks on Easter Sunday when over 200 people were killed in those attacks just how big a factor have Security Issues been in this election. Well it was violence that Suicide Attack that killed 263 people when 8 bombers targeted churches and hotels intra lanka it was that that prompted got a pirate attacks are joined now in sea was going to run for the presidency and in the months sense that that bomb explosion a terrible failure in the terms of the current ruling government government has been exposed in the intelligence reports it was told in intelligence reports that a bombing was likely to happen but because of the dysfunction and the empathy between the current president and the Prime Minister nobody paid proper attention to those reports and the suicide bombings went ahead so rajapaksa was able to play on that and he promised sri lankans a risk turn to stability and security and that seems to have won the day with the majority of voters out. There live for us in colombo thank you very much indeed. This is al jazeera and these are the headlines such as promised us has conceded to his rival by a rajapaksa in sri lankas president ial election around half of the votes have been counted so far and there has not been an official result to cleared pants premadasa has offered his congratulations. The United Nations is warning that violence in bolivia could spin out of control and prevents new elections on friday at least 8 supporters of former president over morality were shot dead cheering for Security Forces speaking out to see her in mexico city have a morale assent hes now looking at how he can return home to bolivia. I cant be outside of the country im used to being with the people as a union leader president doing work i miss it a lot im looking for a legal way to go back and be with the people as they resist the dictatorship the coup. Fresh violence has erupted surrounds a hong kong. University campus with protesters here than petrol bombs at least have fired a voice of tear gas in response the 2nd day in a while. Irans government is standing by its decision to increase fuel prices despite protests across the country one person was killed and several others injured as they tried to enter an oil refinery Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has backed the perris hikes and called those setting fire to public property bandits and the United States deep south nor for its firm sports or donald trump has just voted to keep a democrats as its governor John Bell Edwards has stunned republicans again by narrowly winning a 2nd term as governor of louisiana President Trump made 3 recent visits to the states in an effort to return the seat to republican control. And u. S. Impeachment investigators have questioned a white house official about President Trumps decision to block military aid to ukraine mark zandi is the 1st person from the office of management and budget to speak at the inquiry trying to pressure on ukraine is that the hearts of the democratic led probe and that is you up to date stay stay with us here on out to syria the news continues after faultlines. A story 1400 years in the making. A story of succession and leadership. And jersey a both the story of a client of venice. And. The count of the pursuit 3. 0. In georgia the governor is poised to sign one of the most restrictive anti abortion laws in the country Missouri State Senate Passed an 8 week abortion ban containing no exceptions for victims of rape incest or going to crimes right on the heels of alabamas even stricter legislation in 20199 u. S. 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