President Venezuelas Nicolas Maduro freeze political opponents critics say its too late geminis the election and pledged to resolve divisive policies from the mugabi iraq Zimbabwe Office to get back land seized from former white house. About peace david with the school woman boil over djokovic breezing through his 1st round match in front of him 2 stands at the u. S. Open. Thank you for joining us french president Emmanuel Kohl is aging the quake formation of a new lebanese government to steer the country out of its deep political and economic crisis hes calling it the last chance for lebanon system michael has visited the beirut or for a 2nd time since the explosion on august 4th which killed almost 200. 00 people. And left hundreds of thousands homeless mustafa was named Prime Minister just hours before Michael Moore landed in beirut on monday live to our jazeera zina harder whos in beirut motss square in the center of the nepalese capital zina people are protesting today to coincide with michaels visit what is their message. For you as theyve started to gather at the epicenter of a protest movement that began in october to demand the ruling class is toppled people here feel that the Prime Minister who was appointed yesterday is a product of the Political Class he was appointed by them so he will remain hostage to them and he will not be able to carry out the much needed reforms to our luck Financial Aid the other message they have is to the president across and they believe the International Community should do more they believe them to National Community was part of this deal that brought about a new Prime Minister and they believe that mccrone should have pushed harder to install him and the man then to the government but not crown and so its back to the accusations really and said that im not an elected official im not the average here to replace the Political Leadership i can do is put pressure monitor leadership that was elected by the people and in fact micron that hint that sanctions against the ruling class is not on the table if they do not carry out the reforms needed to reach a deal with the i. M. F. To kick start the lebanese economy tell us more about frances role in this crisis zina mccoy has said france cant interfere in lebanon spin in a cool affairs and yet have the same time the french are playing the role of a almost power broker here. Or war. Or all the france projecting mccrum projecting power and to the west ever saw. Since his 1st visit to lebanon 2 days after the explosion not to beirut or to really present thing himself as a savior to the lebanese people at 1st it was welcome and now people are kind of skeptical saying that is the point to give the politicians a lifeline to continue but france really the fact that he came back today it was his choice he chose the date when he was to return to lebanon hes not invited today is symbolic its the 100th anniversary since the creation of greater lebanon as states which was proclaimed by the french mandate the store it is still a lot of symbolism here so there are a lot of critics who say that the you know this is france trying to revive its traditional role in lebanon no doubt french french influence has waned over the years and today the main power brokers are the United States and iran what france is trying to say and this is according to many of services that i can mediate and this crisis between the u. S. And iran which is playing out in lebanon. We were seeing some live pictures now of some of the protests in beirut today as youve said crowds gathering what is the most urgent priority right now for the never nice people there of course have a knot of grievances what is the most important thing for them to achieve right now. But as you can imagine fully the economy 50 more than 50 percent of the population live below the poverty line the Unemployment Rate is now at 30 percent many businesses are shutting down the currency has lost value over recent months 80 percent the majority of the lebanese people earn in the local currency so their value the value of their salaries their savings just plummeted the price of food is soaring so the priority for the people here is to improve the dire Economic Situation levanon needs. Hard currency needs billions of dollars the country is not going to get that the International Community has made that clear time and time again are not giving blank checks they believe that the Political Class have been exploiting the states resources for so many years they accuse them of corruption and mismanagement so theyre not going to unleash billions of dollars of aid unless the Political Class agrees that too much much needed reforms so as you could imagine and the court last that happened on august 4th just then poverty and even more people so many other people lost their jobs their livelihoods so the situation is quite dire there is an emergency in terms of improving the Economic Situation thank you for those in a harder reporting there live from the center of beirut where protesters are gathering again today coinciding with the visit of the french president emanuel who is in beirut for the 2nd time in less than a month now he came early after that port explosion the deadly explosion on august 4th lets discuss this further with paul salem whos the president of the middle east institute hes via skype from washington d. C. Thank you very much misinformation with us on the news hour and money in my core is almost threatening lebanese leaders he says he will not release the funds to lebanon at the 2800 paris conference unless reforms are implemented another ultimatum from france do you think this increased and sustained external pressure now will force the lebanese leadership to get its act together and enact these reforms. No i dont think so indeed to president mccraw is using a lot of that leverage hes also threatened sanctions french sanctions but then surely european sanctions against members of the ruling class if they dont respond the United States in the background is also threatening sanctions against leading individuals in lebanon i think that has moved the ruling class to move quickly and try to form a new government but theyve also said like to a Prime Minister and are about to form a government which resembles business as usual where all their interests can be represented i think they will try to do the absolute minimum to get by over the next few months without triggering sanctions but i think given their interests and given the influence of hezbollah on most of them actually fundamental reform is something they are not even theyre not able to do because of their own interests and the power structure that exists which is why the people are reading calling for a complete change right not piecemeal change right and this palace sect structure has really been at the heart of the discontent of many of the lebanese people that weve been hearing from many of them calling for a new system of government a non sectarian based system but this is also the system thats been keeping the peace will next sent isnt it i mean if not this system then whats. Well certainly the main demand of the protest has been that the current public guards and rulers it leave and are replaced by a Different Group of people thats been the main slogan in arabic could be and he could not meaning they all must go and that has been the main demand because people do recognize that the corruption of the ruling class the cronyism the way theyve govern the country over the past 30 years has led us to where we are. Within the broader very wide spectrum of the revolution are also calling for not just a change of the rulers but a change of the system that is very much more complex and that there is no there is ways to do that gradually with steps such as establishing a 2nd house of parliament a number of steps that can be can be made but there isnt an obvious alternative given that the country remains as somewhat dangerously divided right you do have hezbollah theres a lot of arms around so its not a very clear path to how you completely change this is the mobile that is a major demand as my call himself said it is making a very brisky bad here why why is fun so keen do you think to take on this major role of the main power broker in lebanon right now when until now you know regional powers like iran supporting hezbollah our even the u. S. Have been more active whats in it for funds and can it be the one to succeed do you think in bringing somebody to have an ott. Well i know that he said its a risky bet i would kind of disagree with his statement in the sense that what is risky for france and for lebanon and for many countries is not to try to do something and to see lebanon completely disintegrate and to see this state really collapse or fail and have a failed state or in the Eastern Mediterranean in addition to the many failed states on the mediterranean as well as France Europe in general and certain United States and other countries in the region including iran do not have an interest in the lebanese state fully collapsing so i think what president mccrone is doing is very much in the french interest. France and lebanon have her a very historic and long relationship france is also engaged in a struggle for sort of management dominance control in the mediterranean particularly the Eastern Mediterranean where turkey is a power thats challenging greece and some of the open european powers so its a very complex struggle in the Eastern Mediterranean and lebanon is part of that i think its excellent that the french president is investing so much of his time given that the lebanese meters have not been able to do much of anything and given that treaty the United States is still fairly absent. And not to a very president and trying to see this crisis to a save conclusion its a risky bet in the sense that lebanon is a very complicated plays and he could certainly fail but not doing anything i would say is riskier thank you so much for talking to us and sharing your views with us paul same president of the middle east institute joining us from washington thank you for your time. In other world news israel has reopened its only Border Crossing with gaza after reaching an agreement with hamas to end 2 weeks of hostilities along the border the ceasefire deal brokered by qatar will allow for critical supplies including fuel to cross into the besieged enclave as springing harry foster who is live for us from western jerusalem harry tell us more for us about the terms of this deal. Well yes indeed both sides i think had short term interests in getting this deal done for israel it brings an end to the in century balloons and rocket fire that have been coming out from the gaza strip at a time when they dont really want to be focusing on a military confrontation theyd rather be focusing on the normalization deal with the United Arab Emirates and of course for hamas they are dealing with a major covert outbreak the 1st Community Level covert outbreak inside the gaza strip since the start of the pandemic trying to do so under the Current Situation or the previous situation with these very restrictive punitive measures imposed by israel in terms of reducing the fishing area down to 0 not allowing any diesel in for the only power station in the strip was becoming pretty much untenable and so that was the Opportunity One which most recently was seized upon by the qatari envoy hamas is saying that that that was the the most recent bit of mediation that came through with this deal and under its terms weve seen the fishing zone reopened although fisherman cant go out because of the coded restrictions gaza is on the complete lockdown crucially there will be diesel coming in so the electricity situation is due to go up from 3 to 4 hours followed by 60 to 20 hours without electricity 2 and 8 hours on 8 hours off patent 27000000. 00 worth of qatari money coming into the strip as well whats more controversial and potentially more important in terms of the longevity of this deal are the other things that hamas is demanding in terms of enter into structure projects such as Water Treatment plants and Industrial Zone things which will crucially if they go ahead create jobs in an area which is so beset by poverty and unemployment there has been some social media traffic in the last day or so people complaining saying why. Was this escalation for if were just going back to the situation previous collation certainly in the past when hamas israel comes to these sorts of arrangements hamas has said that israel hasnt followed through on some of these key long term ambitions that it has for creating jobs inside the gaza strip so whether this is a temporary reprieve toss duties or list does have some means of addressing the longer term root causes of these constant cycles of violence are they will be determined as to whether by whether these other demands from hamas are actually met thank you for that harry fosset life or say or in jerusalem spread to more head on this news hour including playing the blame game the 2 u. S. President ial candidates point fingers at each other over the violent protests across the country pass more on why the king of saudi arabia has silenced the Coalition Forces commander leading the war in damage. And a former walk it spray it leads his new team to victory over houston in the n. B. A. Playoffs peter will have that story coming up in terms. Of their press china has warned india over rising tensions at their disputed border both countries accuse each others troops of crossing the line of actual control india says it disrupted what it calls provocative military movements by chinese troops in the east and the doc reach an overnight on sunday china counters that Indian Forces violated its territorial sovereignty during an operation on monday centered on the southern shore off punk gong lake katrina you is following developments from beijing and has more on chinas reaction. We have had a more aggressive response from Chinese State media got here the global news the global times which is the english language newspaper of the global times and the headline is about india saying that indian troops have made in the legal crossing in the area and quite aggressive editorial in this paper today on tuesday saying that india should. Withdraw its troops to to make sure that these tensions are escalating saying that china will not hesitate to protect its sovereignty and will do everything to repel india and attacks if there is any agitation made by new delhi and also saying that india should be under no illusion that the Chinese Military is not willing and ready to take on india that china india simply nor much for the chinese side and according to the global timetables undertaken a survey of its readers saying the vast majority of chinese readers say that theyre tired of what its called hostile behavior from the indian side and that 90 percent would support military action should the Chinese Government stink about it is fair to do so but of course theres also been an acknowledgement from china that media is also a very important neighbor a lot of trade is done with india and they would like to maintain peace and analysts say india and china have been conducting talks for the last few months for every week almost but these talks seem to have been very limited in the amount of progress theyve been able to achieve so far. To venezuela now where they have been tears and cheers as dozens of opposition politicians were freed from prison in a surprise pardoned by the president their release is seen as an attempt to boost participation in decembers autumn entry election a lot america at its embassy in yemen reports. The after months and in many cases years of imprisonment opponents of president Nicolas Maduro were reunited with loved ones after receiving an unexpected pardon lawyer in greek in a deal would had a stroke in jail thanked the government for letting him be reunited with his family while and by argued shed been unjustly imprisoned in the balance as yak i told him until i was blue in the face that i had nothing to do with the accused me of that my only crime was being the neighbor of someone of interest pardons before elections arent new but the magnitude of these were the the they included scores of prominent government foes like robert to my little opposition little quango idols chief of staff. For any give out whos been in the Chilean Embassy for nearly 2 years which was the savile hed been battling all Political Prisoners or opposition deputies in hiding or in exile all of them accused of treason and more. As a warm up to the pardons venezuelas most emblematic political prisoner of one click a sense was released late friday and put under house arrest still accused of plotting to kill president Nicolas Maduro which he denies that the list of pardons is long but excludes Opposition Leader one by law and milk bottle opus both of whom a little has vowed to put behind bars for alleged crimes against the state the Government Strategy is obvious the school that he will middle. Number one objective is to gain legitimacy for decembers parliamentary el