Even both chile and colombia. And the fight to keep poachers away from guatemala as diverse array of animals and they are most. Welcome to the program the Iraqi Parliament has approved Prime Minister abdul mufti his resignation it comes after weeks of protests where more than 400. 00 people were killed across the country well hell stay on to lead a caretaker government but attention now turns as to who will replace him so manifold and reports now in the capital baghdad. After only 13 months in office iraqs embattled Prime Minister added up that he has officially stepped down yet his succession is mired in uncertainty according to the constitution the president is supposed to take up the office of the Prime Minister until a replacement is chosen but instead. Of the mahdi is staying on as part of a caretaker government. The largest bloc in Parliament Led by shiite cleric mokhtar the outsider must now nominate a replacement within 15 days 6 its a murky and often lengthy process that requires consent from shia sunni and kurdish parties as well as regional and global power brokers 7. More than ever the choice would have to be accepted on the streets its a daunting task for Political Parties put themselves space the wrath of the protesters. Who are. With the biggest block based on the last parliamentary election we have to nominate a candidate form a government with guidance from tata out saga we will cancel tarion and political appointments system to give the right to the protesters because the people are the largest bloc and the demonstrations are where the sacrifice has been made the candidate the people will be at choices well. But to not a peoples choice would require fresh elections a key demand of the protesters who want to do so all of this governor. Elect a new tears. Government or just say that to. Make. Sure for their cause also. Releasing a new low for. Politics parties Parliament Members say that passing these reforms could take up to 6 months we fully accept and fully support the idea of dissolving the parliament and having a fresh election but that you have to know that this there is a cost to stop or seizures 1st we have to go with it we need a government even an interim government a government before holding the elections at this week we are discussing even way past that new electoral law that i have which is overseeing the. Elections in iraq the new election law currently tabled in parliament suggests an increase in independent candidates at least considerable power in the hands of Political Parties including the ability to choose the Prime Minister. Protos just say that his resignation is meaningless if they cannot choose the next leader themselves they demand a president ial rather than a parliamentary system whereby the head of state is elected by popular vote a demand that has thus far been ignored by the political establishment seen one of 14 aljazeera baghdad. Well iraqs political system relies on broad cross sectarian and ethnic coalitions its 2 largest parties a shia both of whom are allied with smaller kurdish and sunni factions the reformist bloc led by the populists. Has the most seats in parliament and how the other mary has been our party which includes the Popular Mobilization of forces men tangs close ties to iran that abdul mahdi was appointed Prime Minister in october last year after a summer of on to government protests a lot it took months to form ministries and depended on the support of the 2 main parties. Takes a look back at this time as iraqs Prime Minister for. A victory for antigovernment protesters after months of violent clashes develop to mark the said he had no other choice but to resign as a rexx Prime Minister. In my resignation was essential to defuse the crisis and calm the situation in the country i hope the parliament chooses a quick alternative because the situation in iraq cant handle a kid like a government for long as. His resignation has done little to calm anger protest over high Unemployment Rate and a lack of basic Services Continue even after he announced he would go. Critics say the former Prime Minister is just one of several high ranking officials who must step down. At 1st mark he refused to resign saying it would only add to the countrys instability amid the crisis hundreds of demonstrators have been killed in clashes with Security Forces thousands more have been injured demands for martys resignation only group out or. He became Prime Minister in october 28th seen at a time of unrest in the country his government promised to make things better but said it needed more time time however was a luxury iraqi politics now moves into unchartered territory. The resignation of the Prime Minister it automatically means the resignation of the entire cabinet. This is the 1st time that this happens in iraq so the legal ways forward not necessarily clear but one way or another that has to be a new the president has to give mandate to a new person or a new bloc in parliament to form a new government it took up then up to mark the more than 8 months to appoint his cabinet in 20 team with some accusing him of not cracking down on corruption fast enough in a country fractured by decades of war his supporters say changing the system was a process that could not be rushed. Now iraq will begin a new era with a new leader. This is aljazeera. Motors Prime MinisterJoseph Muscat says he will stand down and begin the process to replace him in january earlier thousands of people marched in the maltese capital the letter urging him to go is come under increasing pressure of the investigation into the murder of the journalist daphne Karen Maginnis in 2 years ago a prominent businessman was charged on saturday as an accomplice to the murder of the Prime Ministers chief of staff resigned last week. On the glitzier died on october 27th when a bomb went off under her car 3 men were soon charged with carrying out the bombing they pleaded not guilty the investigation went quiet until prominent businessman yogen fenech was 1st released on the them of the 20th of this year on monday a taxi driver accused of being a go between for the people who ordered the killing and those who carried out was pardoned by the president in exchange for testifying in court 2 cabinet ministers and the Prime Ministers chief of staff Keith Schembri resigned he was arrested on tuesday but released 2 days later and on saturday youre going to find it was charge of being complicit in the murder hes pleaded not guilty lets bring to rebecca chile a in st julians malta and shes a journalist at the malta independent rebecca whats your response then to the news that muscat is now resigning and how much pressure was he under to step down do you think. I get evening. When the Prime Minister hours that hes the resigning a few days out as well as of january. Hes been under a lot of pressure of the. Investigation to cedars itself. And the idea. As the nation today was. Except. To be if you only way forward for the country. For some people its not enough they want him to resign immediately a protest was. Again exactly what i lament. Because they once to him to resign immediately and that i also spoke to that i want to get serious. Businessmen you defend it was her night and she wanted for his immediate transformation and also to be investigated yeah on the family of death me corona going to say that muscat been deeply compromised and that hes failed to clean up politics in multan is there any suggestion rebecca that hes personally involved in this or is it that he allowed corruption and cronyism to go unchecked during his premiership. Well there have been some insinuations that he has been involved but the general sentiment is that hes just too most of the people who are. Well he chamber his former jesus advise you as a priest the you know was actually in syria and subsequently released hes a very you know somethings the sparks and and thats their main goals are in conflicts of interest and so ministers have also resigned while one of them was reinstates the day. Once this general sentiment is just that hes too close to the city and as you were saying this weekend the businessman youre going fenech was charged with complicity in daphnes made up plus there and there are 3 men we know are in jail charged with planting the bomb so what happens now rebecca with the Police Investigation how does it go forward from here. And that as you know yes emma youre going find it was arraigned yes that he was charged there is a meeting there must be mind behind the s. S. Nation its a war of the native the crime. And the number of either related charges there will probably now be a formal in the effort in the case it will be taken up for of on the criminal siege as well a lot like i guess thats what will happen. At this point were taking it hour by hour as things are changing so quickly over here rebecca just a final one to you i mean is there a sense now that the met is closing in on daphnes killers and does this case send a clear message that a free press can deny corrupt officials the power to act with impunity. Well depends who you ask i guess because. A lot of people are some people and that we sadly are saying that no just because youre going sendek there was no one person who was based on the mastermind once arraigned yesterday does not and now and more people who are being discussed as being having been and one needs to be taken into. It. As a range so far for some people the businessmens arrangement is that it is not enough and freedom of press needs to go farther rebecca thank you so much indeed for talking to aljazeera. Or not also to come here on the news hour including a fatal case of mistaken identity after a couple of stoned to death in the democratic republic of congo. I party in protest mexicos president marks the end of his 1st year in office with celebrations all those march against violence. And support signing off in style World ChampionLewis Hamilton wins the final race of the formula one season and we have all the action and reaction in. Several countries across Latin America Holding similar tiniest protests and while the different crowds are coming together for a variety of reasons they share something in common this in human has more from Chinese Company santiago. This is the unmistakable sound of the protests. A very special kind of protest. And a very noisy one at that. Because itll last will require support. For a pen and something to strike if we. All keep doing this until the politicians understand that inequality in chile is unacceptable. And it doesnt matter how long it takes i still have plenty of pans left. Banging pots and pans became famous in chile in 1981 when opponents of the left wing government of president. Came out to protest Food Shortages and rationing it was associated with the center and right wing opposition sociologist manuel until you got it done remembers it well. The costs are lost so were part of the best organized protests that would lead to the military overthrow if i ended the idea was to attribute it to Civil Society and women in the name of protecting their families and children the irony is that 12 years later the 1st major protest against. The dictatorship brought the pots and pans back in the middle of an acute economic crisis characterized by hunger especially poor. Many assume that chile was the birthplace of the classical. First. Appeared. In the socalled night. There they had read over in america back to. Europe and. One of the virtues of this form of protest is that you can do it day or night on the street or from your home where presumably theres less risk of being arrested especially when theres a curfew. Depending on how widespread and noisy the castle law so one can gauge the degree of support for a given protest. In venezuela for example the pots and pans come out every time theres a blackout or just a protest against president nicolas maduro. But the practice transcends all ideologies its simply the best way many people feel they have to make themselves heard. Joins us live now from santiago to see i said just bring us up to date with the protests that tell us whats been happening. Well its now 815 the last oh was supposed to begin 15 minutes ago but just as it was about to happen but by riot police came out here in the area and began dispersing people with tear gas Water Cannons and the whole works and where i am right now is another plaza just about 502 blocks away where another group has rigged converged they are surrounded by the riot police but so far this has been very peaceful so. I have been banging on a few pots and pans whistling one of the reasons why theres been so much commotion today is that it is also the birthday of president. Thats being used as an occasion by many of the protesters to call for his demise for his resignation in many cases people on bicycles try to get near duis house earlier in the day to protest and to see him happy birthday please leave and people here burnt an effigy of him just a short while ago as you can see theres still a lot of people behind me but most has ive been dispersed by the large number of riot police that are just right in front of me all right so listen human the last american and its alive for us in santiago this year thank you lets cross over now to colombias company bogota president even dupe a hes facing widespread discontent over rising unemployment and Economic Reforms and a song from petty joins us live from there now so just tell us a bit more on the song about why people are out on the streets protesting there as well. Well daryn this is the band they havent precedented National Strike here in colombia that started as just now there are protests by the countrys unions to protest against a number of reforms that was were either and now its the by the governor government or rumored as a possibility but somehow that turned in a protest movement that has continued now for more day now week and the use of pots and pans here is not traditional but it has become one of the symbols of the days wrote is that because the night of the 1st strike on november 21st thousands of people came out from their homes and started banging on thoughts in bands i gainst the response by president. Today to the protests and also the bias a lot of people here. See and the way they were covered by local media with both the president then the media focusing on this for addicts vandalism and violence that has occurred then not on the fact that im president the number of call im going to take him to their streets and besides those Economic Issues theres also the fact that the protesters believe that the government thats not done enough to implement that the story do you feel that was signed 3 years ago with fired gravels essentially formally bringing to an end the civil conflict in that in that country and that the government hasnt done enough to defend social leaders called new need to leave their scene dejan as leaders that have been killed i dont know a lot of ingrate in areas that were before under influence of the fark and where new armed groups and criminal groups are operating now who are trying to control those territories right alison around here today in the colombian capital bubbletop the thank you Security Forces in mexico who shot dead 7 more suspected Cartel Members and fallen in attack india union in the Northern State of course on saturday a gunman shot at the Mayors Office before being chased by the police in total 21. 00 people have died including 4 Police Officers mexicos president has admitted that Economic Growth in his 1st year in office a spokesman short of expectations on his money and Lopez Obrador has spoken that are running in the capital mexico city to mark the anniversary despite problems with the economy and continued high murder rates he remains highly popular vote idea Economic Growth has not been what we had hoped for but that wealth is now better to distribute it the public budget doesnt stay in just a few hands like before now it reaches the majority of the people. Alan fisher has more from outside the president ial palace in mexico city where open door supporters were gathered. We are told by the local police there was a crowd of somewhere around 100000. 00 in this square that is distinctly possible he is a very popular president but there were thousands tens of thousands on the streets to protest what they see is his failure over the last year they point to the murder rate its actually gone up since he took office its estimated that there are only 97. 00 people murdered every single day in mexico the talk also about the economy and how over the last few months it has dipped back into recession even though man well obrador says look more people get the benefit of this economy than they did before so there are supporters on side but the thing you have to remember is he was elected with more than 50 percent of the vote which is surprising in mexico and one year on although his initial Approval Rating has gone down it still stands at 62 percent 62 percent of voters in mexico who believe that he is doing a very good job a soldier and his wife in the democratic republic of congo have been killed by an angry crowd theyve been mistaken for re