The fact that you know they had all these years under Saddam Hussein they were promised life would get better didn't then they had the defeat that was declared against the Islamic state group 2 years ago on the promise that things would get better and now they are still facing a wide ranging economic issues with the unemployment rate which is astronomical the issues are health care the provision of services like electricity and basic complaints about us politics here being corrupt the undercover Russian lobbyist money a boot in a has been released from prison in the United States and is expected to be deported she pleaded guilty in December to a charge of conspiracy to act as an unregistered foreign agent after working to infiltrate conservative political groups world news from the b.b.c. The leader of the Iranian backed Hezbollah militant movement in Lebanon has announced as back to the government as widespread protests continue for a 9th day Mr Nasrallah claimed that the demonstrations which began a spontaneous and popular will now being manipulated by outside powers intent on plunging Lebanon into a civil war Mr Nasrallah rejected protesters demands for regime change. The Zimbabwean president Emerson has described sanctions on his country as a cancer affecting every part of the economy he was speaking at a stadium in Harare where thousands of people attended a government organized rally calling for sanctions to be lifted they were imposed almost 20 years ago in response to human rights abuses and the seizure of white owned farms. A new study suggests that rivers that flow from melting glasses could be playing a significant role in the fight against climate change scientists investigating such rivers in the Canadian High Arctic found that the waters were soaking up 40 times as much carbon as a similar sized stretch of the Amazon rain forest McGrath explains the chilly melt waters are full of fine sediments of sand and rock scraped and washed from the glaciers the rapid tumbling of the silt triggers a process known as Chemical weathering where c o 2 from the air chemically binds to the minerals and is retained in the water glacial river soaking up large amounts of c o 2 is undoubtedly good news say scientists but the benefits may be short lived thanks to rising temperatures are glaciers are melting around the globe far faster than expected Russian scientists tracking migrating Eagles have been forced to start a crowdfunding campaign after some of the birds wandered into Iran ornithologist say the birds spent the summer in Cannes extern with no mobile coverage but once they reached super expensive Iran and Pakistan all the accumulated text with tracking data would dump him one go b.b.c. News. The Yet damage we allude 5th floor and David I'm on your guard. Or to top it in your language service is a little upset about to let my get whatever it is your World Service dot com the 5th floor of this grave. And thank you Christine Yan is for the introduction Christine is a journalist with b.b.c. America one of our language services for the Horn of Africa. And coming up in today's program how this Everest got best stripes we're looking at prison reform in Kenya and a maximum security rugby team called The Mighty Severus plus Ghana's of return after more Africans taken up the offer to resettle and come there just to water rationing and the more children lation shipped with Ty I'm David manifest the protests in Chile and Lebanon both triggered by well seemingly small events in Chile it was a small increase in public transport fares in Lebanon it was attacks on internet voice calls the street demonstrations escalated this week bringing Santiago and Beirut to a standstill there's been violence too with several deaths in Chile some blamed on security forces so does the comparison between Chile and Lebanon and there where we've brought together a friend on the power a Chilean journalist with b.b.c. Mundo and from Beirut care Karim Torbay of b.b.c. Arabic 1st to Kerry and that proposed tax equivalent to 20 u.s. Cents a day was it too much to bear it was this park that made everyone thing that basically enough is enough people took to the streets started this they evening lost says they. And since then people have not left the streets and although the government pulled that tax and retracted immediately just hours after its at announcement people weren't convinced that this is enough and they have been stating their demands asking for a change of government asking for accountability accusing all the political elite of being a bunch of corrupt politicians and they want whole shift of this way of doing politics and economy in the country let me just bring in for a member here how similar is this to the story in Chile I think it's actually very similar because these starts because of a decision of the president of to lay off increase in 30 bests us on the ticket price of the metro. That is like 4 Send us cents not that much and people start to do. And then the president decided to stop with the greasing the price but it was too late and the people started to do demonstration because of a lot of parallel increase in the price of a lot of things in Thailand not only the transport but also the law and they would turn the energy the heel of everything you know on so the people are very upset now it is not stopping you know and we are talking really big numbers only about one and a half 1000000 people taking to the streets in Santiago exactly and in Beirut and also Tripoli Lebanon Karim those have been very big numbers too so who are those protesters. Well the numbers are also considered to be in the millions and this is huge especially if you know that the overall number of the population that I've been in is no more than 4000000 and the one very interesting aspect of these demonstrations is that they have been so decentralized they were not focused on the truth as I used to be in previous years so you mentioned Tripoli which is the capital of the north but also we've seen people taking to the streets in so many different areas in the country who are the protesters is a big question and this is very much on everyone's mind at the moment because it's been 8 days they have been protesting massively under streets in different parts of the country without really having one leadership without speaking with one specific identity some people consider that this is partly why this is a very strong movement and what makes it so successful because it hasn't been kind of hijacked by one group that is claiming to speak honestly have but what has been probably a constant in the way these processes have been identifying themselves is that they want to be considered as nonpartisan they want to be people who are beyond any political affiliation or sectarian affiliation and this is very important in Lebanon because Lebanon is a country of so many communities 18 communities so many religions and usually we always had some differences around religious identity so it has been a very important message for the protestors that they are not sectarian they don't want to be presented as being of a religious group or of a partisan group of a political party group but so far this is the big question and also the big challenge can they continue without any leadership without any clear identity littlest demonstrations seem to be the thing of the day but let's just talk a moment about the sort of official reaction from and how did President Pinera. Initially react to the protests so there was a lot of pre-season because people thought that being into reacted too late he waited 3 days of the most rationing to say something he was in complete silence what did he say initially he decided to stop increase in the price but then on Monday he say we are in war Ok and all the people started to put the size came because saying that war was a big thing you know you also put soldiers on the streets of Santiago So how did Chileans react to that for to laze very difficult to see Saw they are seeing their streets because of that they think their ship of being a tip we had a very long week they get their tip and we saw So they're seeing the streets on that time and now that being near that is from right wing and decided to put this all this in the street the West Lake a signal of what we are returning to the the think there are or what we're going to hear some sound bites from your streets at 1st he was carrying his chanting from your streets this week the what are they saying very they're saying revolution revolution this is basically one of the main chance on the streets but that way it sounds our as our Does it suggest and up evil or does it suggest a peaceful revolution Tellus Well the revolution as it is at the moment if we were to call it evolution as the protesters are calling it has been very peaceful but has also been extremely radical and has not shown any signs are for compromise it is a worse mentioning that the prime minister has come up with a plan he called it a rescue plan and he offered it to the protesters just days after this whole unrest started and this plan in a lot of measures to lift the economy. And also to scrap all kind of taxes in the coming budget 2020 but it hasn't been met with any kind of acceptance from the protesters and people did not seem convinced that this is the way forward or that the president of the Republic also stated the disk and be the 1st step toward solving distillation but no one seems to be accountants and also he hasn't taken on the deejay's as it is I've seen some footage with d.j. Spinning and scratching discs of their music on a balcony the folks kind of giving a party atmosphere Thank you were so it has been in aircraft list of this wave of protests around the country there have been a lot of fun stuff that the media has pointed out to there being one protester who brought is own no swimming pool inflatable swimming pool to the main square of the protest other people were smoking shisha in the rally mean yes there have been a lot of display of love kisses cuddles I mean we had weddings in the middle of the protests and ones Very him very cute episode there was a mother driving her car was her son on the backseat and just a group of protesters came through and the son started crying because he saw that as was a little bit scary so the mother spoke to the protesters and immediately the chant moved from you know some revolutionary and political trend into a right guy baby yeah it was it wasn't this it was baby shock. Everyone was singing and dancing their very famous baby son who was there are so many vile images of actors getting from and here's a sound bite from your home city this week and this is. What the story behind us so I said our last us is leaving early last year old protesting by banging pots. Fans people from lower class to high class and everyone else doing these gusset are less us and also one of the conic phrases in this demonstration is not something that basis something then yes that means it's not about 30 basis it's about 30 years because despite the good economic growth people's this content has been only going up in the last few years and this is because of up private system this is because of poor salaries of income inequality of the public health there's a lot of things that the people are suffering and it's not a problem of the poor people you know we support them of the middle class people that are trying to have more dignity and careen so Chileans are saying it's not about 30 by skills it's about 30 years do you think it's kind of in Lebanon it's also about 30 years in a way of course it is basically 30 years it is more or less the time since the. Head what we call the peace time in Lebanon after 25 years of civil war the war ended in 1990 and we had hopes that after the war the country will be rebuilt again and we'll come to a time of prosperity ever since a very name liberal approach to the economy has been adopted and so many projects have been done in the country but all and sing in kind of increasing poverty to the general public at the cost of very high deficit and very high debt and today if you listen to people under stres they're not just calling for an end of taxes or the probably the grievances they're bringing to the fore are very very old grievances griffins and that they have been protesting there against for years and years and years and today they seem to come all together for all of the people to say enough is enough. On so many different levels there's a thing of course nowadays which we call solutions based journalism which is where journalists look for solutions in the story rather than the doom and gloom So what do you think arena I mean Prime Minister Hariri is not standing down so it is a big question hang out what is the solution for all of this everyone seems to think that this sounds like a never ending crisis was no schools no banks nothing working in the country so it's also a battle of wills who is going to stand the ground to the last minute who's going to show some sort of you know shaking before the the other and that's why any talk of what the solution can be at the moment is very kind of relative and very subjective and also there is a lot of speculation out there that us journalists I think we should steer away from and for you personally you know these protests this mass demonstrations is something that you talk about at home as well in and among friends it infusing every part of your life well it's inevitable it's inevitable all the screens all the local t.v. Channels are just broadcasting 247 from the different protest squares as they are called in Lebanon so you have people on t.v. Talking about their grievances 247 all the messages you get social media everything you get on your phone is related to this and the protests all the people you means they have the same question What do you think will happen how all of this is going to end and as I said was nothing working in the country there is absolutely no destruction you can't go even to a restaurant you can't do anything else so you've just really waiting for something some kind of breakthrough although many don't really seem to have any idea how this can come on in which form what if in financial because President Pinera is not standing down either so what was the solution so it's super similar to the case of lead. And I don't because if you ask people on the streets they would say that the solution is President peña and all the politicians to quit you know on Change the laws change how they cannot make system has been until in the last 30 years you know but if you ask the politicians for example they would say Ok we have to be a law to agree public policies that increase their happiness of the people increase the dignity you know but does it look this week as though the protesters are ready to dialogue I'm not sure because for example on Tuesday night and now a lot of public policies related we spend shows with salaries we've seen Their it and the people on Wednesday they wearing the streets again you know and and I have been talking with my friends we've been family and the people doesn't seem to want to stop you know they really want to make big change they are super tired of about all all the system you know another phrase in the manifestations in the brought this he's like a pit bull that he still it woke up so it's like I'm a big movement I have never cared something like that in the past 13 years since democracy took power in the country you know so I look for now that the cooking pots and pans are going to stay out on the street exactly Yeah thank you friend and the power of b.b.c. Mundo and cutting top day of b.b.c. Arabic This is the 5th floor from the b.b.c. Michel Khatami has been watching the mighty Severus play that's a Kenyan rugby team and that's cool for Michelle because she's a journalist a b.b.c. Sports Africa and she loves rugby too but the mighty are locked up locked up inside their obese committee prison and the players are inmates It's part of the ongoing reforms in Kenya's prison system aimed at rehabilitating off and let's find out more Committee marks mom security prison is king as number one maximum security prison so. It means the inmates there are convicted for serious criminal offenses and so it's a very highly guarded prison and there were roughly $1800.00 inmates at that time so it's quite crowded to it it is it is crowded but it's on a very huge chunk of land outside and they will be just a few kilometers outside Nairobi and how did it feel for you going inside there for the 1st time was it did you feel a toll anxious you know that to be honest I was a bit scared because I grew up next to a prison in Bungoma and the images I have as a young girl in primary school are not good because we all are so prisoners on the road being you know been shoved around been pushed by why dense and we could not even get closer to the gate or they become a priest aunts and that is the image I still had in my head and I'm going to committee was much more scary because the committee doesn't have a good name in this society in the King and society. So it was really scary I panicked when we got to in the 1st in the inmates to me were you scared when you got here I told them yes I was very scared but surprisingly they made the head when I got into the toilet chain because inmates are very friendly the word ins were very fluent we were really quick and everyone around was very supportive so I thought once I was inside I felt like I was just some way in their obese instance area where I'm just watching a game of rugby an estate might you know between 2 estate teams so what were your 1st impressions when you got inside my 1st impression when I got inside Els like Wow 1st of all the inmates were very neat and imagine you get to a maximum security prison in the 1st thing you're seeing here is a wheelbarrow full of fruits you know. But manners and of a cutters of them I asked this for the last all these mates so that immediately changed my perception and when we walked because they had one too those are the main get and then these Another one you work at this and then there's another get there before you get to the inmates area most of them are expecting as they expect and as in most of them are same high in Swahili about how barrier nobody in McCall point or hi hi how are you are you guys Ok they really made does very relaxed and I must say this is because there has been a rehabilitation process going on in Kenya for quite some time now quite some years now that has changed the inmates how they're treated in prison that they feel more humane compared to the previous years and if you get a sense then that everybody was an easy ease with the guards as well you know the guards were very easy one God told us I am here for you guys if you need anything from me just let us know this too far away from us as the games went on as we continue to film so there wasn't so much you know he very dark green guys with sticks walking around as in heavy boots no those in that much state security. Tell us about their team the mighty zebras why they call the mighty zebras so the mate is a Brazil is the inmates and for me is striped black and white and it looks like a zebra the animal and in Daniel's wads they kept him he said they picked the word because as a brazen very beautiful and Ma and strong and people come to Africa to zebras so why not them call themselves the mighty zebras What about the team play then where they also beautiful and strong when their team players are trained you know they started playing in a pro so like they say it's a learning process they look stronger Ok Danielle is the strong. The captain I and I see why he's the captain was the strongest but he had a 65 year old inmate who was running very fast and