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air. and from studio thirteen here al-jazeera headquarters in doha for the back to board welcome to the news great the scandal that keeps on giving cambridge. before british m.p.'s and says that facebook uses was not just used to influence a twenty succeed us election but also helps the campaign for britain to leave the european union will look at the implications of his testimony also on the bridge brief and. shopping center killed at least sixty four people including an entire classroom of schoolchildren president putin face red public protests as he paid his respects to the victims is blamed criminal negligence for the deaths but the justice and it's a big a setback for the syrian opposition since losing its stronghold of aleppo in twenty

sixteen thirteen thousand fighters and their families of. the northern provinces have to agree to surrender deal only one rebel group remains in the damascus suburb and there's outrage over a video on social media showing a politician handing out aged. syrian troops just arrived in the province but it comes at a price without all those details and the reaction i'm here to mohamad connected us throughout the show using the hash tag spreads to the am going to be with the news great night on and streaming online for you tube facebook live and at al-jazeera dot com thank you for joining us it's a scandal that's going global the whistleblower at the center of facebook's dots of privacy breach has told a u.k. parliament commission that cheating by april group may have swayed the results of the brics it referendum christopher wiley works for the u.k.

consulting firm cambridge analytics he claims that the fifty million facebook users was used to influence a twenty six thousand presidential election in the united states and in the latest development while he reveals that a canadian company use software to identify republican voters in the u.s. and help the pro breck's it campaign in the u.k. lauren c. is following this story for us in london joins us now live on the news great nauruans quite incredible how this scandal over invasion of privacy by facebook and cambridge analytical has become mixed up with bricks it. yes incredible folly and extraordinary and frankly if you take what chris for what he said at face value really quite terrifying as well because essentially what he was saying and he didn't say it is an opinion he said it as fact you know because he worked there he said that these big data companies invisible companies had the means and the capability to basically manipulate the way the people think an immense entire

electorate really even though they were trying to isolate he said very small groups of people to take to tip the balance if you like in very close elections like the brics it won a like the american election when donald trump was elected and he made a direct link between the way in which cambridge analytical have been able to manipulate the votes in trump's favor in twenty six in the states and he also mentioned elections as an offshoot of came to listen called a i.q. and manipulated he said in nigeria and in the caribbean in trinidad as well and he said a i q. had done effectively exactly the same on behalf of the leave campaign which allegedly gave a i.q. six hundred twenty five thousand pounds and only a million dollars there they deny that that allegation and he said that at exactly the same thing and listening to him speak to these astonished members of parliament many of whom are said that they thought his testimony was extraordinary it was clear that he had a level of almost self righteous fury about him because in his mind as you can hear

him say now he felt that the british public could been duped into voting for something that they didn't know really what was about it all. this is the company that has worked with hatch material right this is the company that i will send videos of people being murdered to intimidate voters this is the company that goes out and tries to illicitly acquire you know live internet browsing data of everyone in an entire country so i think a lot of questions should be asked about the role of patriotic here in this election and whether they were indeed actually complying with the law here quite incredible testimony there lawrence what happens then now i mean what's the likelihood of the breck's it vote being declared illegal as a result of what we've heard from mr whitely yeah well about i mean there's that there is an emergency debate that's being held right now and then the people who are sort of in the front of that saw and piece who don't want to leave the european

union and were deeply unhappy about the way the whole thing was front of the first place but they now believe clearly they've got the wind in their sails because they say that they that crystal ball is testimony on the something is true in the place was to gates and it means that the entire brics referendum results should be declared null and void because it's completely untrustworthy with a very interesting things by the way inside this debate is going on now is on the government benches there is nobody there there is nobody from the government whatsoever to speak to this emergency debate and you do wonder quite how seriously proly leave government ministers are actually taking this since why these revelations have been given to a number of the best and most highly respected journalistic publications in the world who have all checked his facts and found them to stand up right the question is really what the electoral commission in the u.k. can do and whether they can actually present to parliament evidence or says this was illegal you've got to do something about it and the british m.p.'s also want to hear from me. nor is the founder of facebook but i understand that is the kind

invitation to speak to them. well he has yes he wants to send some his lieutenants since they left tenants instead and the employees of so they're not very happy about that i think the problem specifically for zuckerberg because he's mr facebook is is that the m.p.'s are going to want to say to him look explain to us how you through your adverts on facebook and how came journalistically through their targeting of people on facebook and transom manipulate their political views explain how how you understand that psychological testing works you know and the thing is if not about how to answer that question it flies directly in the face of his and facebook's own assertion that facebook is a place that you can show pictures of cats on and things like that and so it's not exactly the happy image of facebook that he's going to want to speak to if he did actually come and speak to the n.p.c. all right lawrence thank you very much for that lawrence lee life or is in london facebook's been doing a knot of damage control lately with all the negative press it's facing but one of

its moves may have backfired social media producer joins us now on the great to tell us more writing yes funny facebook is trying to be more transparent and this is why living uses download the facebook data allowing them to see what information the company has collected over the past couple of years but has led to posts like this one of people shocked to see how much facebook knows about them with things like who they've been calling and texting outside of the facebook app for years adela mckay from new zealand tweeted this picture showing a call logs of his conversations with his partner's mother all found in his facebook data and many people are concerned about the implications now remember that facebook own is whatsapp and instagram and can share information it collects between these different apps but the company says this information was given freely

now it released this statement pointing out that this only affects android users. who opted into giving facebook to the states though most people didn't actually realize this and why well facebook says that this helps you find and stay connected with the people you care about and provides you with experience and the statement does go on to explain how you can opt out of sharing your data through your mobile phone settings now this doesn't address concerns though around facebook collecting data on people who didn't actually opt in and i used to plug a simple explains ball let's say you meet someone and you're not really friends of them or anything but you exchange numbers for a business reason and this person is an audio engineer so you say audio engineer from this place and a phone number someone else who is friends with this person will call john or jane smith says john or jane smith's phone number is this number facebook and then correlate that number to the name given in that phone and say john or jane smith

might be an audio engineer more information is being given and then just what people realize when facebook has all of this metadata they can connect the dots and come to learn a lot more about all of us and what we agreed to give them. now if you want to see more information facebook has about you or your friends you can go to the settings in the page and you'll see the download data option at the bottom of the page let us know what you think about this use the hash tag agent is great thank you very much and we've been getting quite a few comments on this story already on facebook live actually from margaret here who says i knew something went wrong with brett sit darlene on facebook live also says seems facebook should have been wiser maybe facebook needs an outside monitor security and finally one last comment from adam also on facebook live cambridge analytic i basically made brainwashing software adam says the strength of which is

demonstrated by the victims do thank you for your comments would love to hear from you on this and other stories we're covering on the newsgroup today we're on facebook live facebook dot com al-jazeera on twitter our handle is that a.j. english don't forget to use the hash tag new grid we're also on whatsapp and telegram at plus one seven four five a one triple one four nine now the listening post op program that looks at global media coverage has some very good insight into the scandal that's rocked facebook this report sheds light on facebook's business model of moss surveillance in order to make a profit off users information and how cambridge analytics is only the tip of the privacy breach iceberg watch it on al-jazeera dot com now onto other world news in russian president vladimir putin has visited the siberian city. after a fire killed sixty four people including forty one children at a shopping center there putting calls it criminal negligence to have been protests on the streets demanding justice for the victims were

a challenge to have our reports. game over will now be known as the site of one of russia's worst fires since the breakup of the soviet union president vladimir putin who often stays away from domestic tragedies visited the siberian city on tuesday spending that's going to get the whole country is mourning would you be the citizens i want to give my sincere and deep condolences to the families of those killed. at least sixty four people enjoying a sunday afternoon at the movies and this a children's play area in the fire at this mall. it was the first day of a school vacation people from other cities came here to have a rest in the shopping mall and then what happened is very very sad as the fire swept the upper floors of the four story mall people found themselves traps investigators say the fire alarm system had been out of order for almost a week the security guard failed to turn on

a public address system to warn people to evacuate and cinema doors have been blocked several people jumped from windows to escape including this eleven year old boy his parents and little sister died. angry people gathered in central america on tuesday demanding truth and justice the region's deputy governor went down on his knees to ask for forgiveness he didn't get it. why do you lie this man do you understand that all these souls are on your conscience this is all your fault. a wave of grief and anger is sweeping russia at the moments many people feel they're not being told the full truth about this disaster that they're being lied to by the or thora ts and the kremlin has announced a day of mourning for wednesday you know you and i. ignore the growing outrage issue why because of some. negligence how could you

discover happens what are the reasons what are the consequences for our people of being detained including the operators the investigators now want them arrested and to relieve the concerns of russians the prosecutor general's office says that fire safety measures in every mall in the country with an entertainment area will be checked to help prevent another tragedy which islands which is zero mosque and right has been looking at the online reaction to this tragedy i imagine a lot of anger as well and yes yes folly well one camera first started trending on twitter right after the fire we mainly saw condolences for the families of those who were killed at the shopping center but since then this conversation has shifted as folly says a lot more anger adam gary the director of the think tank eurasia calls the builders and the operators of them all mass murderers he wrote this particular

article which he's which he says he's demanding the courts now to consider giving them a death penalty a union says that she's never been more outrage about corruption in russia for them she says sixty five human lives are cheaper than safety checks and renovations as important to note that union says sixty five whereas the government has noted that it's sixty four people involved now many russians believe that the number of people killed is also much higher so gay tweeted that witnesses believe up to three hundred and fifty people may have died in what happened and many of the protesters at tuesday's rally in kemah rather were heard charenton some of the accusations saying the government is lying about the number of victims the people aren't just angry about the fire they're also upset about how the government has responded thousands said this clip showing police arriving at the rally claiming that moscow

as i quote trying to intimidate and psychologically. crash people have the media is also being criticized over the coverage this uses says that the main event in russia today is a rally in camera it lasted more than four hours not a single federal channel transmitted it or even mentioned it and then there's the government response about what happened next russia's children's rights commissioner says that it's not corruption it's negligence all norms are written but the way we treat these security norms is the catastrophic cause of this tragedy we have witnessed today so the big question is now will the government do more to improve fi safety across russia's public facilities let us know what you think about the story connect us using the hash tag age and his grades are right he left thank you very much and taking a look at the different images the news agencies are feeding us here on our video wall and this is moscow where people have been paying tribute to the victims of the chemical of a fire in siberia people laying flowers there as you can see

a national day of mourning has been declared for tomorrow wednesday after those people were killed in chemical that many of them children president putin earlier paid a visit to the scene of the fire and tomorrow again a national day of mourning has been declared in russia as not check in with my colleague norman taylor in london you center for a look at the day's other news norn farley thanks very much nato has joined the mass expulsion of russian diplomats in the wake of the soul's brain nerve agent attack in the u.k. saying there are costs and consequences for its behavior six general hints starting burke says seven diplomats will leave the organization and russia's nato mission will be reduced from thirty to twenty island australia and moldova have also join the list of one twenty five countries expelling russian officials of course what triggered this was a small spring attack but. it is part of

a broader response by nato allies to the pantheon of unacceptable unacceptable and dangerous behavior by russia. we have seen the illegal annexation of crimea we have seen this the position of eastern ukraine we have seen cyber attacks we have seen the hybrid tactics we have seen russia are investing heavily in modern military equipment and their willingness to use military force against neighbors russia has continued to strongly deny any involvement in the souls be attack for mr sergei lavrov promised a strong response to the mass expulsion of diplomats and criticized both the u.k. and the u.s. but it's a use of the words of the story we will respond on down to only because nobody wants to tolerate such boys behavior and we won't either we know this is the result of colossal pleasure causal blackmail which is now unfortunately the main tool of washington on the international arena iran's revolutionary guard has denied

accusations by saudi arabia that it's arming the rebels in yemen it comes after the who fired seven missiles across the border on sunday targeting the saudi capital riyadh iran supports the who theories but denies any military ties the country's news agency has named quote the revolutionary guard as saying yemenis are capable of producing their own weapons. it's a visit shrouded in mystery and still with a cause of much speculation who exactly was on a special train travel between north korea and the chinese capital beijing it was kim jong un as many believe it will be the north korean leader's first foreign trip since taking power internet eleven brown has more. a train like the one used by kim jong un's father eases out of beijing railway station heading towards north korea no clue as to who might be on board earlier a motorcade brings the center of beijing to a standstill. they are. excited office workers captured the moment

convinced that it's him kim jong un. but china's foreign ministry spokeswoman was not so sure unable to explain who the mystery visitor might be well. at least i'm not aware of any information at present three further questions about whether kim was in beijing with a battered away there would be no big announcement here is it possible that you wouldn't know that the same gentleman is here. everything is possible for me at. the freely in chile it's true it's true and i tell you this he seems to me you have more information than i think that you and in the house is possible wasn't possible for you. i think we have to leave there for you i suggest you go home and have dinner and carry on with your life she said throughout the day other parts of beijing were also no go areas for journalists including the road close to the state

guesthouse where the visiting delegation was stuart to be staying if kim jong un really has been in beijing it would mark his first visit outside of north korea since becoming the country's leader more than six years ago during that time his relations with chinese leaders have gone from good to testy oh. the defies appeals to hold his missile and nuclear programs but now it's possible normal service has resumed a north korean and chinese leaders are talking again adrian brown al-jazeera beijing . a senior u.n. official is urging australia's government to change its policies on asylum seekers after visiting one of its offshore detention centers in twenty has described conditions on the island of nowruz as shocking activists have been staging nationwide protests demanding that refugees stuck there and on mana silent be brought to australia under the country's immigration policy anyone trying to reach

its shores illegally by boat is automatically sent to offshore sites to be processed i have witnessed for example a child of fourteen who was with her father in the in the tension center her mother and sibling had been transferred to australia for medical treatment this child was pretty much catatonic had not gotten out of bed in a month and was basically not leaving her room this is just symptomatic of some of the dire conditions that children face in terms of the long term of stay there forty children have basically being born there and i've never seen anything outside this place and fifty children have actually spent most of the time there so i must say the situation there particularly for children was extremely dire we encourage that the australian government and the u.s. government has come to. an agreement by which refugees are being resettled in the

united states but still over a thousand people will need solutions and pending an outcome. myanmar has shown off its military strength with a parade in the capital naypyidaw armed forces day now on its seventy third year on a resistance to japanese occupation during world war two this is her precious comment a controversial time for the army accused of ethnic cleansing against the country's muslim religion minority aside from if news great to follow in their lore and thank you very much for that to the war in syria and russia's defense ministry says thirteen thousand fighters and their families have left eastern ghouta near damascus over the past three days they're heading to the only other remaining rebel held area in syria and russia is warning it will use force if another group of rebels in duma old sore don't leave then a harder has more from beirut. ahmed says he never carried arms against the syrian

government but some of his family members belong to the five rebel factions that's one of the reasons why he left his home in eastern as part of the surrender deal reached with the pro-government alliance the other reason is his opposition to reconciling with a government that has killed so many people. every family in lost a family member i lost a lot of friends i lost a colleague who was among the twenty six who died in the famous airstrike i lost two children that i was teaching at school we decided to move away from this brutal regime. now lives in a mosque he is among some eight hundred thousand people who have been displaced from what was once the rebel controlled enclave in the suburbs of damascus many of those deported to adlib opposition controlled province in the northwest are fighters. is one of them the rebels controlled eastern huta since late two thousand and twelve but months later it was besieged by government forces. and it's

sad that we lost this battle after seven years of remaining steadfast after so many sacrifices we had to surrender because of the civilians they killed many children the hospitals were out of service anyone injured would die slowly. camps are being set up for syria's newly displaced the refugee camps are overstretched this is a province with a population of one million displaced people and local communities are struggling to cope when rebels are defeated they go to adlib those who don't want to live under the rule of president bashar assad also but there is nowhere safe in that province airstrikes continue to hit nonmilitary targets such as schools and health facilities. the rebels arrived with their light weapons it's not clear if they will join the ranks of the armed factions of adlib where there has been rebel fighting. regime for seven years but no food no water no medicine told the regime the

russians launched a barbaric campaign we promised the regime that we will return. there are those who refused to admit defeat but the loss of easter is the worst setback for the opposition since it was forced to surrender the eastern part of aleppo city in two thousand and sixteen after a similar military campaign. beirut or as we see more syrians trying to make a desperate journey from eastern go to the last opposition stronghold there is concern about their fate and what the future holds for them come across an interesting video that's making a lot of ways right now online tell us about this video here. now this video has been getting a lot of attention which is one that's also being shed widely on syrian news websites and also on social media mohammad kunda is a member of the syrian parliament is also a t.v. producer and a businessman a hairy is handing out aid from the back of

a van. small bottles of water as he gathers a large crowd of people but what's interesting is that he urges the crowd to chant in favor of the syrian government before he hands out these bottles he can be heard asking who is your president and then hands out the water to those who say bashar assad. the online people are quick to criticize the clip calling it humiliating for the syrians this uses says in arabic i think it's a disgrace it's a shame for the syrian government to keep this puppets in the syrian people's assembly and then you have this picture which is really getting the rounds at the moment one of the sign that says the price of a sandwich is pledging allegiance to bashar assad well let us know what you think of the story message us using any of the forms behind me is the hash tag agent is good and of course we've got all the latest on the situation in syria and specifically on the situation in eastern go to our web site al jazeera dot com

we've got a special page up explaining what's happening in eastern guta wash behind the fighting and how many civilians have been able to flee the area outside of damascus all of that is on our website at al-jazeera dot com and if you're watching us on facebook live coming up next a story about a palestinian woman who fought the occupation through her music at that same occupation has topped her friends from attending her funeral and later on the grid should they stay or should they go or the dilemma facing in museum in the netherlands with artifacts were taken from former colonies hundreds of years ago do serious. welcome back as we look at weather conditions across the levant and western parts of asia we've got an area of low pressure developing and pushing towards the

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right now not the u.s. and a lawyer representing president donald trump's son in law garrett says a white house investigation has cleared his client of any wrongdoing this was in response to a report in the new york times that said cushion or had a meeting with citi group chief executive at the white house last year it says his business then received a loan of three hundred twenty five million dollars shortly afterwards the newspaper also alleges his business received a loan of one hundred eighty four million dollars from a private equity firm after. a similar meeting not in the last hour cushion as noir has released this statement saying i have confirmed that after news articles misstated the second sounds of iran some cushion of company transactions the white house counsel concluded there was no issues involving jarryd he goes on to say he was not involved with his former company after he entered government service the transactions in question came after that he had nothing to do with those transactions the transactions had nothing to do with any of these meetings in the

white house and the people from the companies involved have confirmed that as well so a statement there from the in let's bring in a non to break this hold on for us she's in washington patty what does this all mean well in the long run probably not much does just simply go on to add on to the really pile of controversies that have surrounded jared coaster let's not forget for more than a year he was operating interim security clearance and just recently the f.b.i. came out and said no we can't give him one now the president can waive that no indication that he has yet but that shows that there is something that was a flag to the f.b.i. that they said he shouldn't be seen the most classified information that the u.s. government has now asked for this it does appear to have southern propriety meeting at the white house and then these loans being made but as you just mentioned his and attorney insists that the two were not related they said in the past things like the meetings were about infrastructure and one of the c.e.o.'s potentially to

getting a job in the white house and that these loans didn't come up saying that they are long term clients of these banks still it goes to show that there are questions around jared questioner and his business ties remember it's pretty unheard of this administration didn't they divest in some of their assets and some of their investments but not all of them and this is repeatedly come up questions about whether or not your business is impacting american foreign policy and patty i wondered to people in america does the public at large carol battle this. the people are against care a great deal if you look at polls they're energized and that is again the vast majority of the country is against the president donald trump but his base that thirty percent thirty five percent fluctuates between polls they don't seem to be moved by any of these controversies and i think it's important to point out that the conservative media channel fox news doesn't really report it a great deal or at all in depth about any of these controversies so it's not clear that the news is really getting through to his base core supporters and the news

that does get through if you talk to them a lot of them will say that's fake news people are just trying to take down the president it's the deep state it's the elites the left wing media so they don't necessarily buy that these scandals are a real thing so he hasn't lost with his base but if you look at the polls and you ask his base are you excited to vote november when the congress comes up for re-election no they're not and that could spell trouble for the president thank you for that patty patty contain live for us in washington d.c. i want to take you now to london where the british prime minister to resubmit is addressing a special committee of ottoman tarion and this comes of course after the decision by the u.k. and several of its allies including the u.s. and several european union countries to expel russian diplomats over the poisoning of a former russian spy in the u.k. a few weeks ago as listen in to what the prime minister has to say specific case and we will look into that i suspect the answer may partly nine the way you put the

question in relation to a particular company's magisters and then. it will certainly look at that issue because it goes to the east and the e.u. sanctions which will come out of sentence and swiss in the course of this if you don't of course you're i promise to the point i'm trying to build up to is that we are all dealing here with a red regime to use it in a very clearly it's threats not just to us but international rules based system and indeed to most well is important and surely addressing this regime through the financial interests. it's kleptocratic presidency and those who are effectively sucking off the teeth of the of the putin regime is exactly what we should be doing to make sure that we close down this threat and of course we have taken action in recent years to enhance our ability to actually here on illicit finances on criminal finances on money laundering from whatever source that is that is coming i mean when i was home secretary i set up the it's called the gym late which is the joint money laundering task force bringing together the central bank financial

conduct of already the financial services sector more generally and of the law enforcement and the home office across all their sections and a lot of work is still ongoing in improving that regime particularly the reporting regime in relation to money laundering of course the criminal finance act has introduced further powers including and including unexplained well thought as the have been introduced so we have taken a number of steps already is as i've also committed to we will in the sanctions bill introduce further steps in relation to what's known as magnitsky legislation and i welcome that very greatly may i very quickly and of the very final point mention that in twenty sixteen after the rosneft incident it was announced the office of financial sanctions implementation would conduct an investigation into game called purchase that investigation has not been made public i'd be very grateful if you could urge them to make it public so that we can see how it sanctions are being bussed and how we can address i will certainly look into that

thank you thank you and we come out of that cooper home fast thank you and i am like i think to support the work that you've done and cornish done on diplomats with other countries but can i continue to press on the issues around finance and in particular the link with the tier one visa obviously we had that period between two thousand and eight and twenty fifteen where there were difficult checks taking place either by the home office or banks cheering which around three thousand to one basis for granted and all around seven hundred were for. russia and how are you now doing a retrospective examination of all of those seven hundred cases to ensure a big we know the source of the money well over that period of time to two thousand and eight and two thousand and fifteen there were some changes to the visa regimes that took place including into the investigators and the home secretary is undertaking a review of the two one investor visas at the moment and this isn't just

a question of the issue the specific issue that you've raised i think it's right that we look generally to see whether this is a part of operation regime which is being used properly or whether it is in some way the role of the poles in it for the people to be able to use it as an access to the u.k. who otherwise we wouldn't be granting access in addition to what happens for the future those seven all right you've been listening there to the british prime minister to resign man who is speaking to a special committee of ottoman terry and talking about the various sanctions that are in place against russia right now in the wake of the poisoning of a former russian spy in the u.k. which has created a diplomatic incident between russia and the u.k. and led to the math expulsion of russian diplomats in the u.k. and several other countries including the united states of france some nato countries as well to estimate talking about the different sanctions and where

relations with russia heading we're going to keep her across eye on what's happening then when the all the latest updates as and when they happen. a second day of voting is underway in egypt's presidential election which incumbent abdel fattah el-sisi is poised to weigh in opponents have called for a boycott after many of the candidates withdrew saying they face intimidation the president's only bible is mousavi who's known as a supporter up to. now as the voting continues across egypt let's take a closer look at some of the protest movements that are now largely absent from the political scene the april sixth group was at the heart of the twenty eleven revolution that ended in hosni mubarak's rev resignation but since then the youth movement members have been persecuted many of them arrested. another prominent young pro-democracy activists from that time has been in prison for most five years

the long time opposition group the muslim brotherhood came late to the revolution but one of its senior members mohammed morsi went on to become egypt's first democratically elected president in two thousand and twelve but within a year he had been removed from power then imprisoned and now the muslim brotherhood has been outlawed as a terrorist organization most of his leadership and prison or abroad then there is mohamed el baradei i of the distort party who once headed the un's nuclear watchdog and became egypt's interim vice president after president morsi was deposed but he laughed at only a month on the job standing down after police crackdown on protests like so many of egypt's opposition he now lives abroad al-jazeera is assam a big job it has been looking at the muslim brotherhood and what it has become. there was a small window of democracy in egypt's long history of strongman backed by the

military that was in two thousand and twelve when mohamed morsi was sworn in but the triumph of egypt's first democratically elected president and the party he represents the muslim brotherhood lasted just twelve months. the largest representative of political sunni islam in egypt is now labeled by the state as a terrorist organization which the brotherhood denies there's no room for any kind of political practice nobody is allowed to express his opinion nobody is allowed to field him self as a candidate in as a serious candidate in front of sisi the military controls everything. i'm an american muslim brotherhood has been on the hit list of egyptian rulers for nearly a century has an alumna the first guy general was believed to have been killed by egyptian secret police in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine. despite supporting the nurse said who became president the brotherhood was banned in one nine hundred fifty four dozens of members were arrested or escaped another brotherhood leaders say a part of was hanged on the orders of president and were sadat throughout the one

nine hundred eighty s. efforts by the muslim brotherhood to become a political force failed. it wasn't until the removal of hosni mubarak in two thousand and eleven that the brotherhood's freedom and justice party was elected for the first time along with president mohamed morsi who's known death row for ordering the killing of protesters. just a year after taking charge he was removed in a military coup led by the current president of the for time morsi supporters accused the so-called deep state especially within the military hierarchy of not allowing the muslim brotherhood government to function in that single year after the first democratic election the main mistake is actually handing over their responsibility of managing the transitional period after the revolution after ousting hosni mubarak handing over this power to to the military to the military and the military had all the time in order to abort the achievements of the

revolution. like other military rulers of egypt sisi has ordered the jailing of thousands of brotherhood supporters and successfully lobbied regional backers to declare the group as a terrorist organization. exiled members and brotherhood supporters say the ruling clique is suppressing moderate voices and warning that could result in an extreme reaction in egypt some of the job of their. and the egyptian presidential election in pictures on websites dot com as you can see many people are very enthusiastic about this election in egypt they are sixty million illegible voters the election is supposed to last five days it's now the second day of the election incumbent mohammed morsi is poised to win this election as he only has one opponent against him mr morsi who is a supporter of mohammed of the current president of egypt and

he will. serve another four years in office if he is reelected president abdel fattah as we watch those images of egyptians voting turnout of course all will be closely watched it is expected that the president will see this as a way to legitimize his rule if many gyptian do turn out to vote in the polls over the next few days in the polls. talk about more of egypt and what's been happening on the political scene there now hopefully with i guess who is going to be clear very soon from our london news center as we've been seeing the political scene in egypt has completely changed over the last four years since. he was removed from office and since the revolution let's speak to. a political activist and head of the egyptian revolutionary council she joins us from london thank you

so much for being with us how would you compare way things are in egypt today to the mubarak era in terms of political space and political freedom is the shrinking political space in egypt worse now than it was during the mubarak era. we're talking about two dictatorships the dictatorship of the mubarak and the continuing dictatorship of a military regime under are the for the has c.c. both the dictators both quelled all freedom and were repressive but today the level of repression is even more extreme and it is unprecedented according to human rights organizations the level of repression and systematic torture political disappearances verdicts of executions are unprecedented in terms of previous regimes and what we're seeing in terms of any notion that there

is a civil society or space in egypt is it's unheard of for any real opposition to emerge any but millions of egyptians will say they don't necessarily want to venture about any political unknown into any are politically unknown territory that they would rather stick with what they know and give president time to do what he can for egypt what would you say to them. well we don't know whether millions of egyptians believe what we have today are farcical elections in which no one can challenge a c.c. where the elected president of egypt in egypt's first free and fair elections and twenty twelve is in prison and well all voices of opposition are stifled so we don't know there are there is no free a viral meant for political for freedom of assembly freedom of speech no one can

speak out we have a propaganda machine that is the media that is the arm of the military that is told what it has to say through military security so we don't know what egyptians think the egyptians are living in fair hearing and they call to speak out over their opinion if you're living in fear as you say do you think they will come out to vote because while the outcome of the election is not in doubt the question is about the turnout the last time presidency see one half of the eligible voters a said to have turned up do you think he will get the number of voters that will legitimize his election and we actually know how many will have voted. says he wants a mandate to continue the policies that he has started which are repressive and contrary to the interests of egyptians but at the same time this is a carefully choreographed. election and the regime will put out what images it wants and tell the story and narrative it wants regarding the elections there is no

really supervision no oversight no accountability by either international observers or the judicial system in egypt that can cause hold to account ultimately elections that have proceeded without any due process or legality so we will they gyptian public will be sold a lie once again but i believe there is voter apathy the vast majority of egyptians will not vote but the egyptian regime will try to sell a different story gyptian and to the world thank you so much for sharing your views with us maha azzam political have to say when he has there from london thank you for your time now in a more lighter note on experts in the netherlands are trying to use their skills to help the country of knowledge some of its colonial legacy and leaving museum in amsterdam has been investigating a number of precious objects taken from former colonies for non-spouse has moved

from amsterdam. it's beauty could almost make you forget it's the past in the nineteenth century and hung around the neck of the. fart affinities yet when he died dutch troops fighting to control his land and brought to die infected in their lands it's one of the objects museum in amsterdam is now investigating it's trying to determine whether it should be in possession of a jewel that was taken to be such force asking the question what to do with a bloody diamond it's very complex because to whom do you return to stay or. some heritage of the family of the school tom. it's not a question like hey here you have your diamondback from the late sixteenth century onwards the dutch shell to africa the caribbean and the east indies trading and later forcing people into slavery the netherlands was

a major colonial power for over four hundred years people really were hurt you know it was painful for them and they would be missed the objects thousands of cologne you object in the netherlands were obtained in the same way says researcher. as well as millions more in museums around europe who will try to capture indonesia. i mean what gave us the right to take all the help text from them you know without their permission against their will but tracing to journey of these items through history is no easy task they have passed through the hands of many owners crossing several borders over centuries this kind of has been investigated to it was looted in the eighteenth century. but what happens after it remains unclear historical documents lose track of it at one point is described as a gift from a tunisian king to a famous dutch explore and some argue that makes it's part of dutch history too but

it's part of a wider debate and. new a legacy in which statues of national heroes are being taken away and signs or traditions referring to slavery are being criticised and altered opponents say it's oversensitivity and there shouldn't be a reason to feel guilty for things that happened hundreds of years ago i think it's disastrous for doing history i think it's far better to accept that things in the past were different from today and our higher morality of today could be viewed differently and one hundred years time it's widely argued that historical art optics like the diamond have been your marcin help us understand our place in history but also reflect our understanding of ourselves today while museums struggle with how to display them governments will have to determine where these artifacts actually. fair announced book al-jazeera amsterdam are let's find out what people are talking about in sports is tatiana thank you very much for you may

not have heard of the school if you're a peon village of because chances are you probably know the names of some of the athletes who come from there as pretty as some of the walls best long distance runners a host of a limp dick and a while champions and wild record holders as well and the stephanie decker reports they've inspired any generation to follow in the thumbs down. my. it's barely seven o'clock in the morning but these two are already late. coach entire share to his busy warming up his students something he has done here in because for the past thirty years this rural village almost three thousand metres above sea level in the highlands is at first glance just like any other but world class athletes are born and bred here. it's given the work within the will to the securities and determination in their heart book and all sorts of weather for instance if you bring them out late from time worries it will be difficult for them

to breeze at least for the first few weeks once you get used to the would be fine and then once you get back to the ground level it will be much easier there's been a lot of debate and research as to why the small rural villages produce so many world class long distance runners now one thing is certain the dedication and determination of these young men and women to make it and it's very possible that you'll be seeing one or more of them at future world sporting of that. according to coach entire u. seventeen year old messer taffeta is one to watch we ask her about her dreams anything myself and i'm living my dream like other successful athletes from my village like her own as a good shepherd and others i want to run in the olympics and i want to break the records and i can see that in my dreams. for many

running offers the only way out of this village life can be difficult children tend to cattle and help take care of the family from an early age there is incredible pride in those who went from here to international sporting fame and that can be seen at the local government office proudly displayed on the wall posters of local heroes limbic medalist and world record holders. tell you shows us his training log book at home to me. entries for tour and from when she was thirteen years old she's now the five thousand meter world record holder and remains the youngest ever female world champion winning gold at just eighteen. this these role models are inspiring this new generation all the determined but not all will make it the coach says it's essentially down to hard work that something many of these teenagers are already used to further inspired by the fact that dreaming big in this small village blimpie golden world records really can come true stephanie

decker. in central ethiopia. it's not just on the court the players have been going head to head at the miami open tennis this week spain's fernando verdasco and australia's nick curious have been having a bit of a rout online as well it all started during the dusk match with another australian the nathi kokkinakis the dust they got into heated arguments with him and they are accusing kokkinakis father of talking during his south the disco went on to win the match in three sets and following a slightly tense hand fake the royals spilled over on to twitter with kerry also no stranger to a bit of controversy guessing in volved hey posted this tweet during the match saying the disco is the saltiest do you must be frustrated as posix s against all these well curious since deleted that tweet which led to the dust go to respond with this when you have the courage to tweet insulting another player you need to

have the same courage to not delete it well kerry else that's about was this he said the reason i deleted my previous three was because i didn't want unwanted attention he added thanks for blocking me i'm sure right tickle of courage while the parrot in the same heart of the miami jaws of the kurds have the chance to settle their war of words on the court in a few days time i'll be back with more sports in the eighteen hundred g.m.t. news hour but for now i'll have to fully. and i thank you very much for that that will do it for today's news grid remember to keep in touch with us on social media at all times the hash tag eight date news great for me for the back to one home to thank you very much for watching we'll see you here at city of fourteen tomorrow at fifteen hundred g.m.t. bye for now.

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