court cases of the so-called will tell the holy land far at this time on al-jazeera . thank. you to stand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world thanks. al jazeera. we should all be in doha with the top stories on al-jazeera iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali how many is accusing the country's enemies of fueling antigovernment protests state media say nine people were killed on monday night taking the death toll from five days of unrest to twenty two matheson as the story. of gunshots

in the city of persia on monday night. demonstrators defy a government social media blackout posting these pictures from cities across iran of damaged cars frightened crowds and burning buildings. just hours earlier in the capital tehran there was little sign of the turmoil which is engulfed parts of the country but the issues which have sparked the protests such as iran stuttering economy after years of sanctions and the fear of unemployment are serious concerns for people here i mean john the car i'm working but in this society i'm always stressed about the possibility of getting fired the next day always being worried about my job my family the security of my family the main problems people are grappling with are their security the economy and their livelihood. and there are some who are poor and cannot make ends meet what should they do life is really difficult i have a daughter in. the high prices that really put me under pressure at home iran's

leaders say some protesters may have been provoked by foreign countries but they say they believe most are demanding more freedoms been as i demand in my opinion we can't say whoever is taking to the streets has orders from other countries but there might be a handful so it's not like people have come to the streets to say that we want money bread and water you know they have other demands as well one is allowing a freer environment u.s. president donald trump has tweeted that iranians are hungry for food and freedom and that's led to protests outside the white house demanding the removal of president or. on monday night protesters also continued to demonstrate against iran's support for syrian president bashar al assad as well as in lebanon and hamas in the occupied palestinian territories iran's republican guard is threatening to stop the demonstrations but there are still calls for more protests rob matheson

algis in south korea has accepted the north's rare offer of talks proposing the two sides meet next tuesday the unification ministries of the talks will mainly focus on north korea's taking part in the forthcoming winter olympics in the south it follows kim jong un's new year's address which struck a more friendly tone towards seoul south korea's president when jean said resolving the standoff with the only ends nuclear program was a priority. and the improvement of relations between north and south korea cannot go separately with the resolving north korea's nuclear program so the foreign ministry should coordinate closely with allies and the international community regarding this nigeria's military says more than seven hundred people held hostage by the group because now managed to escape they were found close to the northeastern border with chad the military says many of the captives were farmers and fishermen who are being kept in forced labor camps. palestinians are condemning a new israeli law which makes it harder to hand over parts of jerusalem under

a future peace deal israeli m.p.'s passed the bill which means two thirds of the knesset must now approve giving up territory. pakistan has seized control of charities and financial assets linked to one of the main suspects in the two thousand and eight by bomb attacks in india. has been designated a terrorist by the un and the us he has repeatedly denied any involvement in the attacks and a pakistani court found insufficient evidence to convict him. supporters of saeed are protesting against that move against his charities as well as against the u.s. president on from their angry mr crump's accusations that pakistan isn't doing enough against armed groups iran has reopened the border with iraq's kurdish region the crossings to build and sell them and media were closed in october iraq requested the closure in protest of the kurdish referendum for independence an iranian m.p. recently said the closure cost iran more than two and

a half billion dollars those are the headlines up next is romania people power all season but by. you know if you were. going to let me you know. once the most corrupt country in the european union romanian society is engaged in an unprecedented fight against corruption. on the thirty first of january twenty seventh the biggest protests since the fall of romanians communist dictatorship broke out in the streets of. the newly sworn in government had secretly passed to the creek that could rant its members immunity from prosecution on some corruption charges.

hundreds of officials including businessmen mayors government ministers and members of parliament have been charged and convicted at the center of it all is an independent judicial body the national anti-corruption directorate for d.n.a. in early twenty sixteen the viennese chief prosecutor announced a sharp spike in corruption charges of course the mission is one that got the base on me i thought that using but the court will hear me berlin not she may. o. course the missions are they got them they change my words mean each tissue parliament thought they could talk one day on. the nice little change mishti sites but of the book that she changed so not all friends own independent collectives like the funky citizens have also joined the fight against corruption they are adopting the quirky offbeat approach. well obviously got to see it because that's just when it's forty two months out of the show on this course of

a while for the most quotable it's impossible for us is that one of them says a lot of them from the phantom of the wind will go. she for most of. us the longest. thirty years of dictatorship has given rise to a healthy sense of humor in romania. in this spirit the two are focused on high level corruption has been created in bucharest. she thinks you're not going to school next. tuesday.

this. meat turned director. of course. eric a much shorter book so. i just got. a lot of. my philosophy. about a young minister of agriculture in two thousand and seven sentenced to three years in prison for accepting bribes in cash and sausages they let him in jail the. same time he fell but. no. one. really forced but in. cash.

who was the. mayor of poorest from two thousand and eight to twenty fifteen charged with taking bribes . but. for the public about the mother. and the out of. the. mayor of two crist sector three those fifty one million euros in back taxes. money and mayor of bucharest. sector five from two thousand to twenty sixteen

charged with taking ninety million euro bright. meat but sheesh. it's all describe the same pervasive reality in romania gripes. the times are changing local government schools police stations and hospitals have a long history of taking bribes in exchange for service. i i i. i. i wasn't there she was a little good for. you because what you aspire bush i try to go somewhere what do you look at my list of what are.

in romania corruption extends well beyond the envelopes that civil servants receive to supplement their incomes at the highest levels bribes are replaced by briefcases and the misuse of taxpayers' money becomes more creative and the leverage touch of a demo money artist pull the dent. she can what does that. sound got us thinking because. kurdish follow says. party the living caught up. they exempt. and i got a. list of about this program. but. what b.m.i. each. parliament in my age does but on talk to. our court about their preference now and. then they are forced quite. to. you know with. that part of.

him or what i said. in two thousand and two the national anti-corruption directorate or d n a was created as an independent judicial body to enact reforms required for romanians entry into the european union in a few short years the growing number of corruption revelations in romania have implicated politicians from every party. thousands of scandals and shameless dealings have been brought to light. the d.n.a.'s chief prosecutor. her unrelenting determination has made her the central figure in the fight to eradicate corruption.

and. also investing is. she got a credit for the more than church of. not just a fourth almost. daughter shall call law exists with a lot of. dark in there are bottom line you don't need change the gist of the. shop there. are a few floors up at the d.n.a. a special investigations team is helping to solve some of the d.n.a. is biggest cases. and that's to me is almost. there. it was

a few more this year mark you might feel upset about that. but that. prosecutor. and police investigator nicole asia earned their stripes in the fight against organized crime both highly skilled investigators they've unearthed evidence leading to the prosecution of romanian political elites . wife that's another. woman intelligent we just shot we too far to tell me what to. do what i wish to go to it. was an. infection a diversion if you scar. speak out what little comment or fights you cut. off was the most read. dark and what live action that.

i put up with i she she had the right to tell him the very. question. up with the chamois. of a wolf human history. or getting cheaper so. the issue demurely of i walk around to look but question why should put the step behind me bind me so full seat. c.l.r. the lesson put us in that area let the rest. of it show that looked at it that you're almost such a. couldn't buy you it down the side lost got the cattle war party leadership just the sort of scot to give almost all but that's a protest you start to be able to load it up which at least are a lot of fun and a. couple if it. was plus to use up the show you have already delayed because of the other stuff about the larger bear market the

progress of pen to paper. it out that divide sprouted one. or their core of it or there. something. we can measure in the scheme of the post only allow the bottoms of our samina point in jane just to show a small warm. down across from an under some of us i must have missed your speaks up a good kind and it's new to different here. and you multi-boot. d v r to remove the. united the opposition noise in the bogs issue nor can the fuck to. be in the party doing so would be. had the poor would see it. but also coined the word. by me start your. year she was a fuckup. as an independent journalist autobytel has investigated corrupt officials

and closely followed some of romania's most notorious corruption cases. but you would believe that those that wish to meet. you. don't look at. anybody she thought was part of the ruling but you are feeding. people who are going to be community because you know but if you want to see you simply got. to stop. your money. my good day to. you. always on. dumbly pulis for a check of the old guard and president of the now defunct conservative party was convicted in twenty fourteen for buying property at sixty times less than its

actual value. but the one thing that. in monaco meant to. me and i. think. you know many. of these. stops. for. miles. change chains in. any model. shift. so. as with other eastern bloc regimes the fall of the dictatorship provided an opportunity for party stalwarts to prosper. government funds where mr propre. did and many from the old guard to fill their pockets the dictatorship had given way to new levels of corruption. but of all nazi

or model that you had extended would probably get up only class taught level science that unlink levite that she. done for the other new normals it thought that out task not only got a society on as that are partially at augustine existent with them spun out a fuckin way to start the winter politico dela when i type does exist acquired of what i thought was the simple technique i also stated that i said here couple below such as what is that nuclear cell scheme of the momentum carried out on one yard to put. on your noddle bana been tried out or shut down to know what a bene pinkel me so often a false one must close upon or could have i see it on when you majlis untouchable investors on additional state issued. when you come up of a was appointed to minister of justice from two thousand and

four to two thousand and seven with the support of the european commission she prepared the way for romanians anti-corruption prosecutors many portland calendar that have to do it in a short time i mean haven't they got a closing and got two thousand and four so i have very few time to date. and you have and that was important for me it wasn't for to me for me to change. into short years minister michael vick doggedness in the face of intense opposition allowed her to launch a process of judicial reform. then a relatively unknown entity that d.n.a. came to prominence as michael the push for its right to prosecute white collar crime. but d.n.a. is first cases went relatively unnoticed by the press. but the ninety. four year she thought i have. on one of the one main.

yes don't quit as up until about a new study out on when you get those in parliament that governmental pm other than he stood out on many. fronts here at this question is that was he should. or even a prime minister indicted in two thousand and five i began as a descendant from the communist dictatorship have become one of the most powerful men in romania just because you did it. just charged with embezzling one and a half million euros for his electoral campaign and taking the six hundred thirty thousand year old right company telling the press about a woman that analysis and all that side and i only said so. but she seemed almost her step. i think all normal. so to my one hour less i be called norm.

sixty to the chair offical don't look. it. i used to get. sick of it. just to talk to. you. but it is a few years after these comments in twenty twelve the prime minister was sentenced to four years in prison for passive corruption and blackmail again the stuff his conviction that was a lightning bolt for society since then the corruption investigations have accelerated and the d.n.a. has achieved celebrity status in romania. it didn't take long for the media to catch on and to begin reporting on an unrelenting stream of revelations each day this is the scene outside the offices of the d.n.a. certain not to leave empty handed the media gathered to catch the drama in real

time it's the most closely watched media event in the country. russia. for cobra for now is creating the unique series of documentary portraits that captured the expressions of in battle delete what about. privacy but actually they are more that i. look like. i'm just making it up ok why don't. you. know i don't know i'm. in april twenty sixth seen a journalist exposed to hicks a pharma scandal the case cause public outrage forcing the minister of health to resign i think you. see far more into what kind of seconds out the baby was. different than the neutral memory of

a victim. showing . but the more evident the moment the record is that it's pretty clear that he walked at least once in the wind if you. say wonderful but it was as if it was you're in for a life but imagine. if. she interrupted you i don't know what's up for the world but actually look at me today said you're going to kind of get busy with the government i'm one of in three with it so that i will show you the stipulated fact judge just about the proposition is that the club as usual must suffer for just enough honesty that you ought to undress offering the man with it but she said when the doctor says the she needs the present the worst that will be you know what you think you think now. in my life it is and they might not have been there without the benefit of the larger bodies but we need to get on with the adults you don't know you imagine are coupled with my will to get out of the part of the logic of

the law sort of a loss that is. going. to make. our little. chuckle but then tional me to feel many chilled out the broken already most into beats all from the corporal cory thing mr young pulled and pulled through but. that's only to taught us that happening to the wrong. couldn't go on the ball. on credit and. ensure the proper girl sets us a lizard she college law will only been through a little sorry for the important delicious as a change of guard sort of thought of the sort all a little cheap thurston and thought of it will let you know we're all on shipboard to. be no. on vapor

important of in a lot. of different part of a cast to say more. than tripled the best allowed years for fond. of him but i got his lot as a father and. yes yes. it will be important and interesting that will be the. denial all of jay just. see this week at a lot of the times most of that. but. the.

there were. many you only thought dippolito year would seem to border outdoor that you know chill my book got only a little money of all those who got. my number for you. but not because of. the fact almost half hearted out to. supporting friends sadly geology diminished or economy shares if you know rome does she transgress kalyani could i already. have a son. my. view. is about that actually extend a moment then into many more into a. black.

when i. lived on the prison doctor. one of the richest men in romania sentenced to two and a half years in prison for being a one million year old released halfway through his sentence. the good thing if it were in the. lab. and was cool. she. with him would be of army doubt think. that this is thermal. stuff either they can organise up fish and on the at the moment they kill those who are full. unbelievable it sounds like an agreement between a criminal busts trading in stolen goods that have been taken by the place if

anyone ever comes to ask them question minister throw their hands up in the air and say i don't know i was just nominee director we're doing an investigation into. ukraine could you say bribes you've been corrupt and i've been corrupt i did just the president say challenges here investigations the only go this time the nature news as it breaks the last time senegal qualified for the world cup was in two thousand to fifteen years on and hope to do even better in russia next year with detailed coverage try to imagine it only seven years ago people were living right here. now this seat has taken over their land from around the world donald trump is promising a major policy announcement on trade a potential challenge to khorat a missed opportunity a braai. zero explores prominent figures of the twentieth century and how why the reason influenced the course of history beginning

with the giants of the struggle for civil rights the amount of resistance to the evils over the world. to oppress people look at me and continue to think that negroes should be defensive about what you mean by that. malcolm x. and martin luther king preached to face at this time on al-jazeera. along with the top stories for you so far today iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei is accusing the country's enemies of fueling antigovernment protests say the media says nine people were killed on monday night taking the death toll from five days of unrest up to twenty two the president hassan rouhani is calling for calm. the enemy is poised for an opportunity

a breach to penetrate through to look at the incidents in the past few days all those who are against the islamic republic of iran those with cash politics weapons and intelligence agencies join hands so they may be able to create troubles for iran i have concerns that i will talk to people regarding these issues soon south korea has accepted the north's rare offer of talks proposing the two sides meet next tuesday the unification ministries of the talks will mainly focus on north korea's taking part in the forthcoming winter games in the south it follows kim jong un's new year's address which struck a more friendly tone towards seoul. the nigerian military says more than seven hundred people were held hostage by the armed group boko haram have now managed to escape they were found close to the northeastern border with chad the military says many of the captives were farmers and fishermen who are being kept in forced labor camps palestinians are condemning

a new israeli law which makes it harder to hand over parts of jerusalem under a future peace deal israeli m.p.'s passed the bill which means two thirds of the knesset must now approve giving up territory. pakistan has seized control of charities and financial assets linked to one of the main suspects in the two thousand and eight mumbai bombings in india have he's saeed has been designated a terrorist by the un and the united states so you've has repeatedly denied any involvement in the attacks and of course in pakistan found insufficient evidence to convict him supporters of protesting against the move on the charities as well as against the us president donald trump they're angry at trump's accusations that pakistan isn't doing enough against armed groups. iran has reopened the border with iraq's kurdish region the crossings to build and sell them in the year will close in october iraq requested the closure in protest of the kurdish referendum for independence. i'm back with the news hour at the top of the hour see you then

between now and then it's rumania people power by. since joining the european union and romania has been engaged in an unprecedented judicial overhaul special prosecutors have joined with journalists activist and romanians growing civil society to uncover and prosecute corruption at the highest levels. independent media groups like the rise project are playing an important role in exposing corrupt practices. rise is an information site that provides a platform for journalists activists and investigative hackers and. here activist journalists can sometimes uncover in a day what prosecutors would require years to obtain.

is co-founder of the rights project and. he's taken part in many international investigations and was a key player in helping analyze the panama papers leaked. or tipping listing artists can actually investing i shall put it thirty oshima i think that's what i need to look i know where to go to tell us apart on this or think a lot of their money value. with them. money more lively and. cheap. thinking often when i walk out of it at a lesser person for then i'll go and sell it said. you know what i mean i think that it wasn't going to get me. in for much of. it. because we lost city a little to protect us this bubble but as an old bugger that they were going to put up a lot of itself was when looking for the marquee this will combine the early start that i was alluding to that the only that was for this was that the four months you

know the dangers are going to go down that that is because money going to fuck up like a little money thing with. concrete. before all the money for that technology policy like us investing in. last. week i'm. in recent years romanian society has begun to feel the impact of a growing wave of corruption convictions. emboldened by judicial reform people are increasingly demanding that the law apply equally to all i think was the ongoing judicial battle has energized protesters in nov twenty fifteen tens of thousands flooded the streets of bucharest to protest the deadly fire at the collective nightclub despite unsafe conditions the club obtained its operating license in exchange for a bride. sixty four people

mostly teenagers died in the blaze. protest persis prime minister viktor was forced to resign. mass protests are a growing trend in romania where forty years of state rule all but destroyed citizen action thirty years earlier and big gatherings in romania looked like this shows of mass solidarity orchestrated by the state called for justice gave way to resignation poverty and despair in recent years the pioneers of progressive change have claimed their place in society. is a historian and specialist in communist crimes he's also a famous activist in bucharest fellow. difficulty if you have one moment here. we should ask you what we've got because.

it's one of our products you should know what is you but what's. in there that are movies as affordable. although there were no momentum of general custer next year i was on call gynecological fishes for sure school. no matter which joke i'm sure to for the exam is a cool thing that it's going to cynical more than you or the nuclear weapons capability that must take one thing i say one hundred ten times if you speak to defeat down to the top of the field to look it up i mean it might just almost like a soft job. as with spain's indignados or the will keep by wall street movement in the us romania's protest movement is led by activists like me hyped all it takes is a few activists like him to ignite social action in darfur but will they put the state. will conduct a more gentle darker black on more of a problem for the grab at birth she was just the name for this section is my list

for the. extra muscle externals down dizziness the condition of resources and. so bruce's. need to know yet not really that she was going to get me and i was ok. to. make a. social activism on this level would have been unimaginable a few years ago. today targeted actions can take only a few hours to germinate and spread. across our choices of a whole slew of sentiment my goodness a story about a more money back into the earth's year but then what we did there was a daughter for me and most of the shine on to the set almost so much the unit for

students like that of all but it was meant to just hold it because she's a few issues sure to see that the. that's. building the activist capacity of an entire generation is a bold project. the funky citizens aim to defy boundaries and to forge a path for civil society in romania. give this to the girls it's quite amazing to complete because they can this is for the job. close to the ship and if you cheat the system and it was just give them us we get them back to what i was. in twenty twelve created the funky citizens to confront government corruption she hired hyperactive young graduates out of law political science and communications courses a coalition of creative activists the funky citizens are advocating for the growth of civil society in romania who want to visit with that that you know he's not come

up with also that that you're going to put on it mean as a part of the indoor me days to come off my phone. for her to push off the fact that this could force some more of the day i wasn't cool or you know to some to block the ok i think i might be doing i just might have and i think this is in the simplest legal that that this sounds an awful lot of water in a week. off when you boss tell you that's hot. n.g.o.s and civil society activists have steadily been gaining momentum the funky citizens have been working in a vibrant offbeat style one of the of their name. on the citizens with permission. from the military commission for the minute that up to the issue but i'm certainly going to show you that's all stop will be gone she funkier for last month at a fortune my surely my old film because.

that is to awaken citizen awareness the funky citizens are addressing corruption with a sense of irony. is the creator of an unusual sight the bribe market which allows users to know the average bribe in a specific hospital town hall or police station exist. she chip this site yes they can. start the course the chines age because. their. perspective of. what they. meant they. were many future the town when. vici a lot of. many young graduates with specialized skills have chosen

to work in these novel structures. here they can discuss the performance of the courts fact check political statements or analyze the latest reforms. by. the term. feeling part. they exempt. photos of course i thought they were. solid day or yet are here condo institutes you probably go i but corruption lives on even when high and mid-level officials are jailed public service budgets are also first though grown for corruption to address this elenor also has a countrywide program to train advocates how to decipher public finances. i think

i thought that was what it was. i jumped on a spin it was just a feel for everything that. was ok so that's just as cool but the fact that just getting the support you become second is what you wanted your doctor to call the t twenty hour is the fucking force. at this cell so this is one of the most aquatic at the time and most cats at the moment and this past off and much much you cut much ice into the be done shooting the chief i want to respond after we so i called my chair and i pointed out our trash and i was going to get. this bites this flurry of activism the fight against corruption is far from won. the government visits pains to recover

stolen funds. the accused to decry stalinist trials and anger against the judicial system has reached a boiling point. the political climate has become so tense that's the chief prosecutor broached the issue on primetime radio. volatility known throughout the team to not included the last of the now there's one of the got a knowledge of to this but arctic fox. if your god is. the best one of the garden i'd legend to the dog. in june jim i did take out the opposite of all mine also and feed him a shot and then to go to cedar bend to maintain a diary another marked of a dirty denies that indoor meat raised british of it it's you know it's you're not . going to eat of a moment love possibility that they're pretty muddy don't i was there a busy too long and. yoda.

but what are the limits of the rich and powerful when cornered by justice. politicians have been looking to pass laws that would diminish the d.n.a.'s powers . we don't anybody don't see anybody. deliberately i mean. there is religion or even three g. is there might be an election. just a really good sort it was has been a very big. problem and. all the audience just came by little dog on his auto someone if you took all that and celebrated to not so long and i mean it is a couple thoughts of adding this to god a subtle such a thought that you feel that saying your doubt journalists will for the first vision extend the important things to forty spread also better than it accords on seem to question your thoughts on your part in. law just the thought of the court of fortune. on the thirty first of january twenty seventh teen romania's

newly sworn in government issued a late night executive order that would pardon politicians of some corruption offenses. the media quickly informed to the public by midnight twenty five thousand protesters flooded the streets of the capital that number swelled to three hundred thousand in the next days with hundreds of thousands more gathered in cities across romania. the government was forced to rescind its decree a few days later. as a check to the powers of governance the funky citizens count on an important ally the european commission. on your offer to meet them the budget. for all the usual case. since joining the e.u. romania has been closely monitored by the european commission twice

a year the commission issues reports that. measure its progress in the fight against corruption. nor will we know what it. will be cheney who looked a lot. on the cheap if he did and got annoyed. or use out of the law books that we are smith and all our lawnmower not. talk at the bottle shop the new out they could just send. me she was broken free and bought. a government trying to push the limits n.g.o.s and citizens mobilizing in the vigilant european commission this framework stands as the most efficient safeguard in attempts to weaken the fight against corruption. monitoring by the commission

should end by twenty twenty but that's romania have the institutional and political maturity to progress on its own. so seeing them could go foot artist michael is the goal but other issue that he thought it would. have been if you chaired the scene out on it but it was just a shrug she could read and comment on his website on one of the but out up part there could have goshen i took that same haven't our difficulty crept that us not to send them an artist on quality let you know. it's early summer twenty sixteen and romania is about to elect new mayors romanian seem happy about the push for transparency but will they vote for change. many hope the election will reveal the impact that the prosecutors and civil society groups are having on the romanian public. that. an equal shot of don has created the save bucharest union or the u s b. it's

a campaign born of. civil society founded on hope in the democratic rejuvenation of romania. for this former mathematician the fight against corruption is a clear path towards the renewal of romania's political class. you almost. always for. one for a. while move on to other quite law. where the. few simple. yes. there were those. open up. the years that you. should have done to present his party as the only recourse to a decadent political class

a class that continues running candidates embattled by corruption scandals. on election day locked up has decided to follow a candidate he knows well one of the headliners of book arrests corruption to work . the mayor of bucharest sector five charged with taking a bribe of ninety million euros. apart and also with a little bit isn't good to put you know me so that if you don't shut up when you put out this month they go yes i mean it's god's going to step out of the shop. and about that he made what he could have been yes i'll probably make that. but i'm going with the thought of having to go to get one that i've been now when i have to make a putting could see. that the for the market that. i think. of the five of us are going to begin to.

look look look look look look look. can i look on the. visible the steps that you wish to see. what. you might think. but really cause if you if you're going to be taken this is nothing but a test of. time and i need. people in the room here to do that for too much of. what you seem to be. working with we should do good. because you don't think. that. you.

think might work. for the funky citizens have banded with other n.g.o.s to spots plus. able fraud they've set up a call center and sent observers to polling stations i don't know if you are. all of us would have thought of something like this or somehow said i thought. of him but when i think of it the less frequently than before electoral fraud can be just as flagrant i think that's what. it. was the. vehicle was. very very overt so the temptation to have rest of it should i be as much of the shit he did the six years he wanted me out of the way our country got so you take one cup he didn't get what the one you got what that little nasties discarded i was

single but i know what's. going to. come off fast and that's a feeling that i thought it was fun to be that hard to get to come here to talk about why not just the six years i've been the man who fucked up in jersey no matter how much i wanted out of it i think. the day is coming to an end and to me to show that dunn's us meeting mates are awaiting the results. in a surprise show done cus the party has won thirty percent of the vote. it is the first time that the new political party has done so well in local elections but take the fight to profit. off. but if you. do you like. bush. did it.

the funky citizens are taking stock of the day of mixed results even if mayor mike young van give you a tough photographed earlier hasn't been reelected candidates with corruption cases have done well. was i was leaving. do you. think did you think that you. know. this. really nice analysis is fair the candidate's judicial troubles haven't stopped many from voting for them the romanians have real acted nearly fifty mayors convicted of

or charged with corruption and. mayor of cry over charged with taking a bribe and money laundering reelected with fifty eight percent of the votes. the court rejected the d.n.a. charges and then generally twenty seventeen. became minister of labor and social justice. judges get. charged with taking a bribe reelected with fifty two percent of the vote. but the link mayor of miami charged with taking a bribe reelected with seventy percent of the vote while behind bars. as romania confronts the ghosts of its past the descendants of a bygone era are clinging to money and power. in the legislative elections of late twenty sixteen the majority of seats went to the social democratic party who are

fiercely despite them earlier conviction of its president for electoral fraud. but people are beginning to support the new parties on the promise of change. following electoral success a few my. earlier than see us changed its name to a new union for us winning nine percent of seats in parliament. romania continues its push to become an example amongst its eastern european neighbors at least for now. is the country's transformation to democracy a revolution a long distance race a rebate in which the baton is handed over to the next generation teenagers after the fall of communism. citizens are supporting the civic education of this youth. in romania today civil society engages. in a culture of corruption the country's greatest hope may well lie. cool me.

off what influence. from a fresh coast to breeze. to watching the sunset on the australian outback. the loss of hot summer sun shining sea south america the moment that is said of the case around the even a plight further north or a rash of showers the usual stream of showers that pop cold cloud to ride into the

amazon basis as a big downpours have a lot of want to satirise thirty five degrees celsius plenty of warm sunshine to choose the warmest still as we go on into where to stand that's by that stage out west of weather just not a little further north for severe of why the southeast of brazil looking for i add to i warm and sunny home and so it's a treat when i would go to the showers they will continue in the shallows extend up into the caribbean not see bad across many parts of the caribbean as she can see that some while alive the showers recently with some flooding into trinidad and tobago the skies over the next few days away even up towards domenica we have had some very very heavy right to start the new year a rash of showers come through but it's not constant wall to wall showers we have got some bright sunshine coming in from time to time as is the case across the great toronto this are going further south in se where the h.d. winds pushing the showers in the west the weather that's making its way across northern parts of colombia three panama easing of which was that western side of the caribbean what with the coming through still looking

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