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guide from studio fourteen here at al-jazeera headquarters in doha to go welcome to the news great preliminary results are in from egypt's presidential election and while the president. is expected is on course for a landslide win is the number of spoiled ballots that's drawing attention they are three times more votes than you see she's already opponents received so what does this mean for the president's legitimacy. also on the grid demanding answers relatives of sixty eight inmates who died in a fire in a police station in venezuela out want to know what happened and who is responsible it's not the first prison tragedy to hit the country as it struggles to accommodate inmates are made an ongoing economic crisis and the first prison term imposed in south africa racial abuse a white woman is jailed for yelling derogatory insults at

a black police officer the hate crime shocked the country and expose attitudes that enjoyed more than two decades after the end of apartheid so will this sentence serve as a deterrent. and the use of sign has returned to the song for the times that she was so white it's not about six years ago the world's youngest nobel laureate cried with joy on arrival at the latest on my reaction i'm not spirit. you are with the news grade live on air and streaming online three you tube facebook live and at al-jazeera dot com thank you for joining us it was never a case of whether president. would win but how many people would turn up to vote in egypt's presidential election while the preliminary results are and they show the incumbent winning twenty three million out of the twenty five million votes cast is only rivaled. three percent of the vote while more than one point five million

ballots were invalidated the voter turnout was approximately thirty nine percent and no a turnout than the last two elections in two thousand and fourteen and twenty twelve election kicked off on monday and has been not to be viewed as a referendum on c.c.s. performance the election commission has declared the vote was free and fair and well let's check the conversation online with. social media producer who's been on our egypt election desk all week what are we seeing online and you as far as a result second set of all these people are certainly talking about the initial results and picking them apart we've got these certain results from egyptian state media and if you look on twitter in egypt the arab cast tagged initial results as one of the top trending conversations especially in cairo at the moment now voter turnout was approximately thirty nine percent so more voters skipped the election then took part millions of people could now face fines from the national elections for thor so we're looking at a lower turnout than the last two elections in twenty fourteen and twenty twelve

presidency see has won around ninety percent of the votes cast according to local media while his only rival mustafa muso won three percent of the votes but look at this figure at the bottom you see that there is one point five million that's for the ballots that were rejected so the invalidated ballots are effectively in second place in egypt's presidential election and that's made the words invalid votes trend across the country the most popular tweets says. that the results should actually be first place for the people who boycotted second to c.c. third to the invalid votes and fourth to mussa now in some areas there were twice as many spoiled ballots as those for c.c. this isn't a huge surprise this happened in the twenty fourteen election cycle as well but egyptians were told that they legally had to vote or face certain fine so some voters opted to show up to the polls and then handed in a blank piece of paper or as you can see in this photo that ended up going viral on

egyptian social media they wrote in other names such as the footballer most solid now millions of people could face fines as i said but those people those votes are just simply invalidated on the topic of turnout state run newspaper says that foreign media coverage has been full of lies they've accused the reuters news agency of deliberately hiding pictures of long queues opting instead to show empty ones instead that's prompted the news agency to defend itself with links to its coverage across even egypt from reporters in different parts of the country who reported on what they saw as mostly low turnout so tell us your thoughts on egypt selection you can get in touch with us on twitter using the has tag a.j. news grid or message me directly at andrews chapelle back to philly and and i'm going to pick this up now with omar shows professor of security studies at the doha graduate institute here in the studio with me what do you make of these results that we've seen so far omar can egypt and the world trust these results. simply

they can't because there were no indicators that this is going to be a free and fair elections the main contenders some of them or the most prominent of them was arrested general some young man who was the former chief of staff of the other can the mubarak's last prime minister and the runner up in the last presidential elections of twenty twelve much if you wasn't to me that he did not run so most of the over all of the serious contenders really were pushed aside one will the other and we remain with someone who was a supporter of general sisi and his party endorsed general sisi and that is no way really to be very transparent about even the turnout as we saw the contention between reuters and the news agency we have a comment here from one of our viewers on facebook says this is the best for egypt the election commission has said the election was free and fair is there a way for us to know that when the independent election observers during this vote

there were observations but it's very contentious whether they are independent or not many of them work even for organizations the governmental organizations or n.g.o.s that are more or less controlled by the state still there were observers but in terms of independents no but the most it is very very we knew how free and fair elections could happen in egypt and i saw that in twenty twelve it was thirteen can do candidates voter turnout was not estimated it was very much clear it was twenty six million people it was not a high turnout despite the free and fair environment so half of the voters back then it was fifty one million voters half of them turned showed up almost half of them and we had a second second round of elections where there's also a very very close thirteen percent for mohamed morsi twelve percent for much of there is also very close it showed that the vote the egyptian society is very diverse right very dynamic with its vote has a very different attitude in terms of supporting a conservative candidate or

a liberal candid. international scandal was very very diverse so we have an idea how a free and fair elections should look like in egypt because we had a model before so this turnout figure of thirty nine percent that we're getting right now it looks like despite the threats and incentives over these past three days egyptians boycotted this election right what does it say about the mood of the people today because this is a form of confiscation is it not on one end the strategy of pressuring the media of the media strategy of pressuring the social pressures exerted on egyptian citizens did not work on one and but also on the other and there was a joke saying that the accused to pay the fine would be much longer than any queues for for this elections so many of the egyptians actually opted to pay the five hundred pounds fine rather than participate but they are actually people who support the president are they not i mean even even the egyptian military does it is it does it not back sisi the people who are there are always people who are support lexan but this is who talk about fifty nine million people for the

electorate or the murder of their majority of their significant percentage of their model a percentage we simply don't know because there is no free and fair elections and there is no even free and fair professional surveys or polls that can tell you what is the support like for sisi just really know yet briefly what does the future look like then for presidency in these next four years how big of a challenge is it going to be for him to stablish legitimacy it's a huge challenge like two or twenty four teams will be a huge challenge the problem is there is no accountability saw in twenty fourteen he made while promises most of them or all of them really were not delivered upon and now in twenty thousand there is no way to tell him stop and. the national power of some sort would happen so i think something very similar to may happen in. four years later in the twenty twenty two but you know maybe these four years some surprises will happen marcia thank you very much for sharing your views with us

some are sure it's from the doha. ensuite for graduate studies here on the news great with us and for more on the egyptian presidential election visit us my page on al jazeera dot com some very interesting opinion pieces on there including this one from ahmed al masri from the don't mind as usual graduate studies he asked whether this sham election as he calls it would have gone ahead without the green light from washington cc's human rights record is problematic he says supporting sisi is good for america because it ensures egyptian civility which is essential for u.s. interests in the region read his piece on our website at al-jazeera dot com. moving on to other world news now and the u.n. human rights office has called on venezuela to carry out a speedy investigation into a prison fire that killed sixty eight people rioting and a blaze broke out in the south of a police station in the central city of the lengthy on when face but he fired tear gas fed this start family members as they protested outside the jail demanding

information about their loved ones the u.n. is also calling on authorities to provide reparations to the victims' families there's been many incidents which are thrown the spotlight on venezuela's often overcrowded violent and gang dominated prisons last august thirty seven people were killed during a shootout and riots in a police holding cell in amazonas state the governor called it a massacre just five months before that fifteen bodies were found in a mass graves in a jail in gori cause state none of the victims were identified in twenty fifty eight women and nine men were killed in a fire in tokyo to a prison and in twenty thirteen more than sixty inmates died in a prison riot in pakistan may told the prisons minister said the violence was triggered by reports in the opposition media about plans to search a prison to remove weapons that speak to our correspondent alexander m.p. who is monitoring the situation from neighboring colombia for his alexander what's the latest on the circumstances surrounding the fire in valencia been officially

confirmed are relatives getting any more answers about what happened. well probably not really this is a holiday weekend both here in colombia and venezuela and the reality is that besides the twit twitter that was sent out late wednesday night by the attorney general's office confirming the sixty eight deaths in this fire in this jail in the city of violence the family members and relatives of the victims have not received any information from the venezuelan government the minister for isn't services who is ultimately responsible for what happens in venezuelans prisons and jails hasn't said anything and neither have any any anybody else from the venezuelan government you were talking about the u.n. human rights office asking here for

a from the investigation but the truth is that there hasn't been in previous so cajuns and few people in venezuela believe this case will be different to some of positions lawmakers are also calling on the government to to to speak out but so far we haven't heard anything this is not the only prison tragedy we've seen in venezuela in recent years and it's on joy as we said what is making the situation worse inside the spacing. well this has been happening since the list of me in the ninety's actually the biggest tragedy happened in a prison in the western states of zulia back in one nine hundred ninety four there was a fire in that case again another overcrowded prison in that case one hundred people died the most of them prisoners there's the study by nonprofit

organizations windows for freedom that works inside prisons in venezuela they say that almost seventy thousand prisoners have died since the mid ninety's until two thousand and fifteen in venezuela everybody no knows what the causes are overcrowding of course corruption the fact that the economic crisis in venice well as men's no maintenance of the infrastructure of the prisons in jails the fact that there are less guards and they're not being a stranger which means that. organized crime gangs are taking over these prisons that there's nothing really new here the question is what to do about it is this the government has an interest to actually do something about it or if we will continue to see riots happenings just a few months ago another thirty seven prisoners died in a prison in the state of our my son is when security forces went in to try and take

control of the resume thank you so much for that palace on the run our correspondent in bogota colombia there and i want to show you some of the live pictures we're getting out of valencia in venezuela right now this is a religious news agency feed on our multi view a wall here and as you can see families waiting outside the prison police station there in valencia waiting for answers after sixty eight people were killed in that five this is the associated press in fact not wages feeding us these live pictures from outside that police station in valencia families still waiting to understand and know what was behind the fire that killed their loved ones in that prison cell in valencia our time now to check in with barbara starr right now in london you center for the day's other news barbara. folly thank you well let's start right here in the u.k. because britain's prime minister is touring the country to mark exactly one year before the u.k. officially leaves the european union the reason may is stopping in all four corners

of the country scotland northern ireland wales and england her message is that bracks it will unite the u.k. but there are still those that hope that breaks it can be reversed and that britain will actually remain in the well let's go live to barnaby phillips he joins us live now from westminster and barnaby what is the reason they hoping to achieve with her tour i think she's trying to create that meant to them around the fact that breaks it she would argue is now inevitable and that the country has to unite behind the government in order to get the best possible deal deed i think she would argue that the extent to which it does unite in hans's the prospects of getting a good deal in its negotiations with the you with the e.u. . and barnaby there's a lot of people obviously that forty eight forty eight percent that are unhappy with the result to the brakes at referendum any traction and calls for

a second referendum and campaigning. not an enormous amount barbara i mean i think to the prime minister's disappointment there's no doubt that the country is still chronically divided perhaps fifty fifty and it's true that some opinion polls do show a slight tendency who are now a slight majority i'm sorry very slight who are in favor of britain remaining in the e.u. and that gives some hope to people who would like a second referendum but you when you break down the darter it's quite interesting journalists and politicians in britain over the past year and a half of been very interested in looking for so-called bright directors those who voted for brics it and regret it they are very elusive what you do have is people who abstained or who just didn't vote for whatever reason in the referendum of

twenty sixteen and they tend to be more in favor of remaining then leaving in other words what they do regret is not taking part in the first referendum but i think really for the die hard remain as there are many who are confident this point in time that they would win a second referendum i don't think we're there yet i think the first victory that they need to focus on is a possible victory in parliament perhaps in october when there will be a vote where the different political parties here in the u.k. will decide whether the deal that to reason may has bought back from brussels is good or not recall remember of course that the prime minister doesn't have a working majority of herself so there is a chance that she could lose that vote only a chance because it would have to be you know a significant rebellion from within the party but i think that that is what is

probably keeping her awake at night rather than the prospect of a second referendum right now barnaby phillips of the latest there from westminster along. thank you. uli a script the daughter of a former russian spy who was poisoned with a nerve agent in the u.k. almost a month ago is said to be recovering well doctors in the southern english city of souls breeze say she is improving rapidly and is now in a stable condition and her father said gaye were found slumped on a bench in the city on the fourth of march mr scraper remains in a critical condition. former french president nicolas sarkozy will face trial over claims that he misused is influence lawyers from his sister cozy have said they will appeal against the decision the case centers on wiretaps phone calls in which mr sarkozy allegedly tried to influence judges who were looking into claims of illegal financing during his two thousand and seven presidential campaign the

leaders of north and south korea have agreed to meet face to face for only the surge time in the sixty five years since the end of the korean war they'll meet in a border village on april twenty seventh kathy novak has more now from the border between north and south korea. well it is just a month now until south korea's president will meet north korean leader kim jong un forming up the date for the first into korean summit since two thousand and seven is another sign of improving relations between the two koreas which remains technically at war the agreement was made at a high level talks between south korea's unification minister and his north korean counterpart it's the second time these two men have met this year and they remarked on how much has changed since they last met in january when it was decided that after two years of the two countries not communicating they would come together at the winter olympics in south korea. i'm certain that this is quite

a positive development since we are living in a divided nation i feel more relieved when we settle things peacefully rather than being in a dangerous situation i think this is good i hope this happens more frequently. than young. single going on in the i usually don't pay attention to news but i now pay more attention as we hear more good news rather than bad news like nuclear war so the mood amongst much of the south korean public and certainly the south korean government is one of cautious optimism but there are still some skeptics the agenda still hasn't been agreed to for the into korean summit and many will want to be sure that denuclearization is up for discussion and of course this all comes after that surprise visit that kim jong un made to china for a meeting with xi jinping china's top diplomat young cho is in south korea to brief south korean officials on the topics that were discussed at that meeting valuable information as they go ahead and plan the intercooler and summit next month. let is

it for long for now let's go back to folly in doha barbara thank you very much for that south african now and a white south african woman has been jailed for racially abusing a black police officer two years ago in what is believed to be the first case of its kind vicki was sentenced to three years in prison the officer had tried to help her after thieves broke into her car she responded by using racial slurs forty eight times during a tirade. and this is an enormous. i can say to. you in front of witnesses this is what you see to me it doesn't leave the house of it standing you for no good will get me to get. up off because i'm not going to i'm not going to or oh you think i'm not going to tell you that when. you saw that my quality gold is also going. to deal with it.

let me bring in our social media producer now sarah hierarchs are they've been many hate crimes in south africa in recent years but this particular one has shocked a lot of people for the never underestimate the power of social media because it's what poor national attention and national as well to racial run off to the media of how it went viral a couple of years ago and now hashtags a key member has been trending in south africa with people welcoming the sentence and while some felt it wasn't long enough they were still pleased it sets an example one concert skate south african law and garrison yet see just behind me now he's in johannesburg and he senses a video explaining the use of the k. words and why it's considered offensive in south africa. say the use of it in south africa. has been used by reese's to chris black people saw her for ten minutes it's

reminiscent of a part of it it is goes back. days we you know you could see white people for me to mean. and it's the same as the n. word in the united states. in south africa it's not a word that you take lightly and nobody. resists to use. and get away with it. now this case has become a national talking point with many wondering if the judgment will pave the way for a legal crackdown on hate speech in south africa on sweat says if a man says says there's a difference between free speech and hate speech she use the k word forty eight times and another person says racism is evil and there really should be a short tolerance for people who harbor hatred for others based on skin color whether you're shouting the k. words at a black vacated or threatening to cut the throat of whiteness you should be called out but this isn't the first hate crime to shake south africa in just over

a year in cites you might remember this shocking video victor blow through our being forced into a coffin by two white farmer farm workers that video from august last year also went viral and caused public outrage now the two men were found guilty of a string of charges including attempted murder and assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm but that was just seven months after a hate attack on the iconic cape town most neural islam when it was to face with the bloods and snouts of a pig if you're in south africa let us know what you think on the story can always tweet me directly at certified outs and the hash tag is a.j. news grid sara thank you very much i want to now bring in me as swore to the news great who is a south african law professor and a visiting fellow at the doha brooking center thank you so much for being with us on the news great first your thoughts on the sentencing does the punishment fit the

crime. well of course you know the way she spoke was really you know she was really hysterically racist and she was in this state of histeria there is no justification there's no context allies zation that can justify that so i would say that she deserves the harshest crime an important question however is the more chain rule question of whether one should criminalize speech which is you know a pick question you all democracies you know in and it really seems like this is this sentencing is almost being used as an example they are hoping perhaps that it will serve as a deterrent for a future little incident such as this will it work absolutely and something needs to be done because we've just heard about all the instances a serious concern however is that the law needs to be consistent now how is one ever going to police people's private behavior in private speech so she was caught out because you know this went on social media but there is going to be certainly

an outcry now in terms of consistency in terms of you know also whether there is an equivalence between the way she's behaved and julius malema if leader bill they are having only a guidelines in south africa on how to identify and handle hate crimes while there is a constitution which is the point of departure our constitution is is very liberal and progressive about free speech but there are two exceptions the one is incitement to violence and the other is hate speech right right so hate speech according to the constitution you know is really in the special category and of course he committed hate speech what is interesting is we have other ways of dealing with it other than you know resorting to court so we have the equality courts and we have the human rights commission so so far a lot of these cases have gone through the human rights commission which is basically just giving people a slap on the wrist so the argument is also that that isn't a serious enough you know punishment in a way right you talked about the double standards and they are

a lot of people. reacting today in talking about the double standards in south africa who are these victims of hate crimes because some would say this ruling points to the double standards that black people including politicians from the economic freedom fighters as you mentioned the f.-f. are not painted penalized for similar actions when they commit them what would i say to that well my fundamental view is that it's not really equivalent rights we have this whole long history of our party and we have really been tremendously racist towards black people white people in south africa right she couldn't put it on equal footing right but they needs to also be an understanding that you know it's not a sort of a you know a free for all when it comes to our people but i think that this kind of speech really deserves very harsh punishment human whether it's our jail punishment rightest and interesting you mentioned the pardon i think for a lot of people outside of south africa it's very difficult to understand how more than twenty years after the end of apartheid we're still seeing these incidents in south africa what is behind this is it about economic inequality at the end of the

day that perhaps huling these hate crimes really this is a disturbing thing what you've just mentioned right why do we still have it so i think it is really a combination of economic inequality and this incident interestingly happened in johannesburg right we where there is you know more crime than almost anywhere else in the world which by no means justifies it but one has to of course look at the roots of crime of criminal behavior and we sitting with you know it's so many millions of people in dire poverty right so they are very deep social questions here to be looked at as well but i agree with you that the needs to be at some point an example senator and and from that point of view it is perhaps not ever going to still sentence me as to why spank you so much for sharing your insight with us me as one is with the brookings doha center here on the news great with us and you know there's an excellent series about violence in south africa on al-jazeera dot com and this specifically looks at violence against for

a. is and the rise of xena phobia some very interesting facts figures and analysis you can find it on our website at al jazeera dot com the series is called no place like home and if you're watching us on facebook live coming up next we'll tell you about a campaign to reduce man's suicide in the u.k. and later on is great and not a departure from the trump administration the president is veterans of past secretary explains why he thinks he was spied will be live in washington do stated that. fellow is saying some rather lively weather across the eastern side of the mediterranean that's all piling us way across turkey through the love and lots of clouds shining up has some lively storms are still going to continue making its way further east woods tearing through behind suspect some wet weather just around our mania georgia into as by john pushing over towards the caspian sea right in the

snow over the high ground notice this area clappers links its way down across iraq iran then sick you wait and that's going to make its way across the regulators to go on through the next couple of days as well and actually it's pushing further eastward lots of pushing all the way up into a minister that was back to stand on the side of that couple follow dry temperatures of twenty seven celsius and turning fine in try for the event as we go on into the weekend so pleasant sunshine coming back in behind now that area clabber talking about that will continue to sink its way for the south was could produce a few spots of rain as we go through the next day or two that's always a possibility increasing winds will lift plenty of dust and sand there will be some major visibility problems here as we go on through the next few days that's certainly one to keep an eye on meanwhile we've been keeping an eye on some a rather lively showers pushing in across the western cape welcome rainfall at last for cape town.

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a scandal involving travel expenses but he says he was fired because he was seen as an obstacle to the privatization of veteran services is being replaced by the white house doctor who has no experience running government departments just hours after he was dismissed chokin wrote an opinion piece in the new york times saying the advocates within the administration for privatizing veterans affairs health services saw me as an obstacle to privatization who had to be removed that is because i am convinced he says that privatization is a political issue aimed at rewarding selects people and companies with profits even if it undermines care for veterans let's begin she has returned see in washington d.c. bureau she have it repeated this is not just another travel scandal in the trumpet ministration. not according to show that he does have very good circumstantial evidence on his side at the very least look at the department of veterans affairs is the second largest federal department in the u.s.

government has a budget of about one hundred eighty six billion dollars also nine million veterans with health care social services financial services but the sort of health care it gives those veterans is what they call socialized medicine here government run medicine it's not for profit medicine that we're more used to in the us the corporations have long seen an opportunity here to get some of that one hundred eighty six billion dollars shook him there's not agree actually ninety percent of veterans don't agree that the health service is off the v.a. should be privatized given the example of the the general health care system in the u.s. even now with obamacare some thirty million people don't have health insurance veterans are very loathe to send everything to the market for profit they say they have specific needs shook and was against it and these business interests notably the koch brothers one of the most influential sets of business people in the u.s. with enormous influence in the white house looked with dismay it shook and as you

seem to be doing quite well at the v.a. and had rather a close relationship with donald trump so when this scandal broke in february this inspector general report on shocking on his wife's trip to europe they pounced and said look here's another travel scandal in the troubled ministration and they applied the pressure here in washington shock and says he did nothing wrong and wasn't given the opportunity to give his side of the story in fact it's been reported that when he tried to put a statement up on the v.a. website it was taken down order of the white house and there are many. rather affiliated people in the white house so he says this is a conspiracy against me to get the v.a. privatized this the health services privatized and so now he's gone but he's not going down without a fight what about shocking potential successors shihab what do we know about him. yeah but to ronnie only jackson and he came to our notice i mean he was actually appointed by obama's the white house position but he we all saw him when he gave

donald trump and a few sort of clean bill of health after many questions about donald trump's health jackson memorably said the donald trump could have lived for two hundred years because of his god given genes if only eating a little better in the previous twenty years so that clearly has made him rather well made old trump rather and i would often say but there are major questions about him he has no real managerial experience of a of a bureaucracy like huge and sprawling as the department of veterans affairs so he will probably go through a bit of a congressional grilling where the questions about his experience will be honest questions about his views on privatization questions about whether there was a pretty quick with why he gave trump such a clean bill of health because he had his eye on this job just know that yet but these are the whispers of the questions being asked around but having said that given them the nature of the republican party in congress right now there is an

expectation he might get through anyway despite some of these questions and it will be a very very difficult job for him i would imagine thank you for that she has returned the line for us in washington nobel laureate manana use of design has returned to pakistan for the first time since she was shot by the taliban six years ago she'd been the target of an assassination attempt for her support for girls' education has a story. an emotional return for pakistan's most recognizable figures malawi use of say is back on home soil six years after being targeted by pakistan taliban for her determination to go to school. while i still cannot believe that this is true that this is actually happening for the last five years i've dreamed that i could set foot in my country today i'm very happy. security was tight for her arrival in islamabad a government source described the lack of as necessary for what is

a sensitive visit use of say rose to international prominence when she was attacked by masked gunmen on her way home from school in two thousand and twelve that then fifteen year old was shot in the head punishment for her defying the pakistan taliban ban on girls' education in her home district of the swat she was airlifted to britain for lifesaving treatment and has been living there since she continued her schooling united kingdom getting top grades and enrolling in oxford university she also continued campaigning for education and shovelled the world supporting local advocacy groups in two thousand and fourteen she won the nobel peace prize the youngest ever to do so age seventeen let us take up now just to get our books and. be our last car for weapons one child and one teacher one look. and one thing can change the world. despite her worldwide acclaim many

don't regard her as well me back in pakistan some say she portrays her country and negative light and is seeking her own fame but there was a lot of you know kind of the mixed opinion about malawi and in various quarters people even criticized. an agent of the west that was a lot of people would read a. news of her return was welcomed on the streets the capital but also highlighted the need for further development. before she has brought pride to pakistan and she's got a noble award the attack on her was very unjust but my law is not the only girl from pakistan there are also other girls of the same like nala we should take care of our women like we were taken care of her the timing of her visit is important skeptics point out this is alexion year in pakistan i'm a lawless homecoming could be seen as good publicity hound a hoax. or that makes reaction reception of moderates return has been seen

online as well sour what are people saying there has been a mixed reaction social media has mostly been flooded with messages of warm welcome but a small section of the community has also trolled time as online rate is big in fact she regularly tweets so a two and a half million followers through her twitter handle as well as them a lot of fun tweets are on education and women's rights globally and here's one of her most recent post speaking to american t.v. host david letterman once you empower young guys they can bring change i was a young girl it is my voice and i and i can i can change the world and i believe that there are the young guys out there if we give them support they can hear their voice and they can change the world. but in spite of all of that it's the west fascination with homework that has left some pakistanis call for other victims to be recognized as well and in fact some have questioned the loads up that question why they have a seacoast shot in the same shooting as malala haven't received the same amount of

global attention others have also posted this picture just here behind me you see and it says this is what he thought he was shot eight times on his face and other parts on push was hacked he still goes to the skate same school but it also goes on to compare that some allowances she's been living in the u.k. since the shooting but this is actually what milan his response was when she touched down on pakistani soil many signs of the injustices i still cannot believe that this is true that this is actually happening for the last five years i've dreamed that i could set foot in my country i travel to she did she says london new york and imagine traveling to pakistan islamabad to work at archie but it was never true but today i'm very happy. now it's other beliefs that everyone can choose where they live as if i'm a lawyer and says this of a country that it would make her more credible to her critics and shahira she says

a good number of non muslims and foreigners have told her how much they've learned about islam and respect they also listening to speeches of malaysia herself meanwhile reports amir he has tweeted that she's a living mandela malala is a best ambassador to let the world know her as anybody else we are as human as anybody else and we have religious fanatics yes but we also have milada well if you in pakistan lets us know what you think aging is going to hash tag. share a story off the grid now this time in kenya where a politician was detained at the airport this week and it's been playing out on social media throughout the week involves curry it's quite a bizarre story actually in austria since she's in fact mcgurn up was detained in the toilet in kenya's main international airport on arrival from canada that's him just that but things have taken a drastic turn since and he posted on facebook this picture which i'll just scroll

up to there you just see there and then if i show you his facebook post he says he was beaten up inject saved and deported unconscious to dubai he is now appealing for help through social media accounts and says he needs medical treatment but how does all of this come about well good or refused to be to be deported from kenya for a second time because he'd already been deported to canada in february for taking part in more inauguration of opposition leader raila odinga he was done to protest the re-election that's why it was done of kenyan president who kenya now his lawyer has also been tweeting updates on this throughout the last few days and he tweeted the president of law society kenya is in the i.a.e.a. and he hopes that this person is going to be able to facilitate mcguinness immediate return to kenya now he did allow people to mcginest attention on his arrival in kenya at the airport on tuesday by posting this video on twitter which

has been few viewed a thousand or thousands of times in fact and it shows police chasing mccain at any airport despite last month's court order to restore his kenyan possible on his wrist safe return to kenya. this is what happened on his raaf we can just see the pictures that show knew him being drugged and detained in the airport on tuesday in kenya now i'm going to see international has criticized the kenyan authorities and so did the committee to protect journalists that called on the forty's to meet the investigate this sort of journalist by police the airport saying authorities in kenya cannot resolve that this could just by beating on this kenyan authorities must urgently investigate this attack and puts and then to any assaults on the press by security personnel including police forces now the bizarre incident comes two weeks after a surprise meeting between. kenyatta and artists and also

a funny face monkee posted on facebook saying it's very dangerous when a government defies court orders no one is safe from such a government today it's gonna tomorrow you'll be the victim you know it might look like i'm going i'm agreeing to his rights must be respected and protected if you're wrong if you've been crawling this story even from kenya on social media we were going to hear from you get in touch with me i'm so high up thank you very much farah now tourism is booming in cyprus despite the island suffering a damaging financial crisis five years ago but not only areas are reaping the rewards of those seeking sunny shores now the cypriot government is launching an initiative to revive tourist towns in the mountains from easy dan has our report. it's hard to fit into a postcard just how nice it is to be away from the subzero temperatures back home we can't just say breeze because i know you're in the ukraine is snow and cold and we wanted to go to spring to see flowers and maybe to seem.

it's a familiar story the abundance of beaches and sunshine has attracted steadily increasing numbers of tourists to cyprus. that has seen the economies of coastal towns boosted as the number of visitors reached three point six million last year officials expect the number of tourists to reach a record level in two thousand and eighteen many head for seaside towns of course leaving places in the mountains like i three are here not as frequent as they could be a fact the government says it now wants to change. is ready for change has souvenir shop in got about three a gets its first visitors of the afternoon. the town is one of several in the trudeau's mountains facing declining numbers of tourists. government talk of reviving tourist towns like hers is raising her hopes i think it's a very good idea because high living in the mountains and we'll be very happy to

have more tourists because we're living you know all of us when it's time jobs here . the government is unveiling a plan to increase visits to tourist spots left out of the boom sixteen million euros are being set aside to upgrade infrastructure and another million to improve hotels. as to giving you brunt of tribes in a lot of areas the mountains for example to find out a way of life for bush but it's not only on the beaches but on the mountains as work. that way of life is struggling in those mountains as visit is doing will so does business and people end up migrating to cities a newspaper can pass the time when you hardly have a customer in your restaurant but it won't reveal a new chapter for your town for that many are hoping the government's initiative will rescue them from a sticky situation sami's a than al-jazeera cup at three cyprus you're watching us

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i find that most people are talking about in sports today and it's all about cricket again today absolutely for you that is exactly right it's explosive day for australian cricket as the fallout from the country's bowl tempering scandal continues band captain steve smith how the press conference upon his return home to sydney. correspondent. was they. are. the world's best test match batsman fronted the astray the media the culmination of what has been the hottest wake of his career i made a serious error of judgment and i now understand the consequences

it was a failure of leadership. a violation to say the way. i have to remember and my mum it's. it hurts. for my captain steve smith and vice captain david warner a band from playing for the next twelve months and batsman cameron bancroft is banned for nine months or three conspired to use sandpaper to manipulate the ball during saturday's test match against south africa bancroft also face the media when he landed in perth not a second has gone boss since last saturday i think when i haven't wished to turn back home and do the right thing during the launch bright. it is something overgrowth for the first time was at just twenty eight years old smith has become one of the strangest sporting stars want to go to here and he became the country's third youngest captain in two thousand and fifteen and twice won

a strategy is most prestigious cricket prize. true story now a spectacular fall from grace this has been a wonderful notion of a press conference the greatest rally and the players involved may her marks the end of this saga but they have already ramifications conses starting to pull out smith is no longer brand ambassador for one of the strangest best known banks or breakfast cereals both want to and bancroft have lost contracts with a sports clothing company and their wealth management company has cancelled its estimated fifteen million dollars sponsorship deal with the games administrators cricket australia and smith and warner a banned from playing in the indian premier league costing them close to two million dollars each smith may still have a bright future in the years to come but the former captain may never be able to

repair the damage from the ball tampering scandal which has shocked the sporting world. al-jazeera sydney. the online reaction to this has been as vocal as you might expect i want to show you some tweets some selected tweets that is we've heard from the australian prime minister on this matter and the leader of the opposition in their country bush shorten has also commented no one is perfect a terrible lapse in judgment but good people make mistakes credit to see smith for fronting up now let's give him some time and space well christian o'connell was also sympathetic of smith and bancroft but not so much when it comes to david warner he had a go at warner who didn't hold a press conference when he landed back in australia instead warner tweeted an apology earlier in the day no o'connell included wanted to tweet but blasted it for being an i phone note this is an optimistic one from cricket writer

rothfield i have a feeling in twelve months time australia will stand and applaud as steve smith walks out for his comeback innings that press conference was a gutsy one as gutsy as any innings he has played remember that according to the baron smith could actually be back in time for the twenty nine hundred cricket world cup that one being played in england and wales and peter level who has represented the national team as a wicket keeper but have summed it up best with this one genuine rule and emotional a strikingly contrite response to the hysteria outrage and vitriol clogging up the feeds i could barely keep it together watching that a bad mistake won't define me for the character i have seen for a decade good human bad choice still a good human the emotional press conferences didn't stop at the players a tearful derren lehman announced he'd be stepping down as coach after the fourth test against south africa in johannesburg starting on friday. i really feel for

steve and crying in front of the media and all the players really. those are started before prodding all of the incident in turn one up in the world but good people from my ex. my family and i got a lot of abuse the last week and it's taken its toll and as many in this room will know a lot from the romans a lot of why from malevolence after speaking with my family went over the last few days it's brought on just that one ok to something more positive le bron james has made n.b.a. history again on wednesday he tied michael jordan for the longest double digit scoring streak in the league end he did it against a team that jordan owns the browns scored forty one points as he's cleveland cavaliers b. jordan's charlotte hornets one hundred eighteen of one hundred and five jordan's

mark of eight hundred sixty six consecutive game scoring ten points or more has stood for seventeen years the braun could break the record when the cavs play the new orleans pelicans on friday. as always we'd love to hear your thoughts on the cricket basketball or anything else for that matter you can get in touch using twitter the hash tag is a.j. newsweek you can also find me directly at peter underscore statement most more for me in the eight hundred g.m.t. hour for now it's back to farley thank you so much for peter that fit for today's news great remember to keep in touch with us on social media at all times the hash tag is great for me twenty back to bornholm team thank you for watching by for now .

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