al-jazeera selects express yourself. as. al-jazeera where ever you. a lot hasn't sica in doha with the top stories on al-jazeera commemorations have been held in the city of memphis and across the u.s. to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the assassination of civil rights leader martin luther king jr thousands gathered for a day of speeches and marches to remember his legacy i just see it as rosen and is

that. much of one stays commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the down the mark jr was celebrated for a time but for just one minute at six o'clock local time wednesday the crowd still silent while a large church bell was told thirty nine times one time for each of the years that king lived on the earth the idea was to mark the music of someone who would achieve so much during his lifetime ending legal segregation against african-americans in the south as well as achieving the one nine hundred sixty five voting rights act which guaranteed all americans the right to cast ballots in local and national elections this was also a day where activists called on young people in particular but on older people to do more to fight racism to fight economic inequality and to fight what mr king

had called militarism the idea that war was the way to solve country's disputes with each other this was also an opportunity for new political leaders to essentially a test of the crowd and to see if their message of civic engagement active civic engagement would go over well with this generation in two thousand and eighteen it seemed that they were getting a positive reaction but the challenge is going to be maintaining the momentum especially going into the midterm elections here in the united states as well as trying to improve the quality of life for ten. of millions of americans not just those of one particular ethnic or racial group. but donald trump has agreed to keep u.s. troops in syria for now after a day after saying he would pull them out the u.s. president portably changed his mind after meeting top national security advisers

pentagon says about two thousand troops are based in syria to prevent a resurgence of i saw and help stabilize parts of the country taken back from the armed group sierra leone's opposition leader mother bio has been elected president with nearly fifty two percent of the vote jubilant scenes in the capital freetown as news emerged of the result. supreme court judges in brazil are deciding whether former president luis in the silver should really should be allowed to remain free while he continues to appeal a corruption conviction he's looking more likely to face prison after a key judge voted against delaying his sentence for latin america editor lucy newman has more from brasilia the voting is not over yet it is still expected to be close but things are not looking good at this hour for former president lisa now still lula da silva who has asked the supreme court took care to keep him from going to prison until he's exhausted every last appeal to his twelve year

corruption conviction and this is following the vote that was expected to be crucial that of chief justice ross up there she was apparently undecided and from what we know of the remaining judges it will probably boil down to six against lula and five for. facebook says the personal data of eighty seven million users was improperly shared that's thirty seven million more than initially reported last month it was revealed views information was obtained by a political consultancy in the u.k. which worked for donald trump's presidential campaign the news prompted an international outcry and is forced facebook's chief executive mark zuckerberg to testify before a u.s. congressional committee next week britain has rejected russia's call for a joint investigation into a suspected nerve agent attack on a former spy the calling it a perverse and diversionary tactic moscow made the request of an emergency meeting

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not spinning as it would have been at the cost of the am glad i am . at those dramatic scenes in the final of the nevins basketball championship in twenty fourteen between until the end at acme are to some extent typical of the roots of the sport has taken since the early ninety's and. they also reflect sectarian and political developments in this turbulent country and the post civil war era. the rivalries between what where the top two teams in the country reached its peak in the late ninety's and early two thousand when lettings basketball was

enjoying its most successful period in terms of popularity and funding and playing success. competition between the players and sectarian tension between fans often resulted in many riots like this in scenes reminiscent of football in europe and south america at their worst. is supported by mussina fans and their rivals at hackney by christians. and some of the problems within the sport may simply be an expression of the sectarian divisions. that afp league let in for decades and which are no closer to being resolved today. the captain of our reality at the height of their success was when he done nothing as a star player in the late nineties and to fancy the end

of the lead. it was my. watching. the bottoms up of. his big rival was it the al hackney captain elaine shannon duff the two former captains now reflect on what made basketball such a force in their playing days on their an amazing on court success on their intense rivalry and on the national and sporting politics which have seen their sport decline and their roles within it changed considerably. over the. other kilauea the can did he fit in a laugh at the from russia sneeze. into the mob as she sets out but not by the mob . hiatt their daily she could look on her father knievel to do it all now but back

in a godly moment game what does about that can leave. it there the fact . that. these two men were dominant figures in lebanese basketball for a decade they commanded fanatical support and thousands of fans had their posters on their walls they were there or not oh and messi off their sport. legends along with other big names like fag who still playing today.

because it wasn't up to. one of the other significant figures was the former president of the committee says yes as the club is sometimes known antoine schrader. was originally a sports club affiliated to suggest of the narron church they started playing basketball in one thousand nine hundred ninety two when she known as the godfather of lebanese basketball began funding it. these aim was to transform the sport by developing a drone team that all lebanese might support and with players like ancient duff he certainly produced on court success. oh

s. tshwane made and massive impact on at hackney and on livings basketball as a whole. coming from advertising he attracted sponsors did t.v. deals and while he was involved there was a buzz around the behooved basketball scene. and reality versus and hackney was the beirut derby and it meant everything especially to the former captain when we do not see the level of the you know that it would appear. to have been a lot of. what there's a. bizarre vision. well i missed. by it killing way. the base missile for us will fail our fear visibility ill job and i wish the

those are as well because the senate was up with our mayor. and hackneys former president ran in major advertising and media company which was influential not just in lebanon but across the middle east. he invested in several basketball clubs and some estimates say that he put nineteen million dollars into me to create his dream team. to understand the whole phenomenon of letting his basketball you have to go back to nineteen ninety two king and.

make it. something they're not the same and warmish really. cage's it and how does but you see if you look at the n.b.a. and what it in i'm seeing a second who we are actually there lenny in naming but being young he was that would hang for. one hundred. million believe me. as that the elect and all the other feet up there he made the shady you know mini me with the bar on the bush deed but the other big daley felina not alone montages the one i love the bull. mocking me in an effort of couldn't feel them given what i can do

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and heck miss sucks as it was built around lebanon's most successful coach has sent said kids he's a controversial figure having coached at hackney from the one nine hundred ninety two to one thousand nine hundred ninety four but then moving to under the law he in one thousand nine hundred ninety five. he was lured back to hackney for their golden period from one nine hundred ninety seven to two thousand and three before returning again to other reality that would be like coaching riyal madrid then moving to barcelona and back again twice and then there's the politics. be what mellow out going to cause they were going to has built up a muscle that was. meant for the real about their. by mark would mean named bill bennett our limit make it any stuff at that minute and. what's going to be a has been missionary. then is about the cup not about that anomaly you would much

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a mushroom inches it alone and i'm going to miss the farm drawn back and the should be able to move it at the fair you know the cream of the ladies room and mother signals go these around a bit i'm your own training but i worry about you that way about the trap of trying to please rip it out of the bus. was morally atrocious and they learn our little moments the limb got sullivan a bit. and america has the name and the example popping ok that is not the animal bernadette we'll do with that the lot of hack me. yani know what they're trying. to look like but an image one account i couldn't one hundred numbers refutable of one trait in a million shifty and global is not a. further copy and a hug monologue. it's a good machine if i'm on a homicide i'm old one i'm from really not number the number real.

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is of a doctor like a hollywood mogul who cannot allow the losers are a few flaws accorded a lot of. mental to same of really what they can the a.b.a. that actually i know for. a kid who's come on is under the expedia is a sign of how much is about that moment the loss of the colony the loss of the people. both me and i'll enjoy success in lebanon but it was the christian and acme or suggest that became the first letter to me own to make prizes at the peak of their play in progress. on a and. a story fourteen hundred years in the making. a

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keep u.s. troops in syria for now a day after threatening to pull them out the u.s. president reportedly changed his mind after meeting top national security advisers the pentagon says about two thousand troops are based in syria to prevent a resurgence of isis sierra leone's opposition leader modder bio has been elected president with nearly fifty two percent of the vote in jubilant scenes in the capital freetown as news emerge of the results supreme court judges in brazil are deciding whether former president luis in naseer lula da silva should be allowed to remain free while he appeals occur a corruption conviction is looking more likely to face prison after a key judge voted against delaying his sentence to sue newman has more from brasilia the voting is not over yet it is still expected to be close but things are not looking good at this hour for former president lisa now still lula da silva who

has asked the supreme court to can't keep him from going to prison until he's exhausted every last appeal to his twelve year corruption conviction and this is following the vote that was expected to be crucial that of chief justice ross up there she was apparently undecided and from what we know of the remaining judges it will probably boil down to six against lula and five for. facebook says the personal data of eighty seven million users was improperly shared that's thirty seven million more than first reported last month it was revealed he uses information was obtained by political consultancy in the u.k. which worked for donald trump's presidential campaign that prompted an international are crying and has forced facebook chief executive mark zuckerberg to testify before u.s. congressional committee next week britain has rejected russia's call for a joint investigation into a suspected nerve agent attack on a former spy ex calling it

a perverse and diversionary tactic moscow made the request of an emergency meeting of the organization for the previous prohibition of chemical weapons in the hague those are the headlines now but it is in a world. i think that i would look up in the burgeoning sport of basketball in lebanon in the late one nine hundred ninety two teams were serious rivals me and. a nine hundred ninety eight hundred ninety made it through to the final stages of the champions cup the premier tournaments in asia by golf from hong kong by the tightest margin at eighty two points to. the captain was. the first thought of the faults of the folks getting a lot of trouble ok a couple nobody had fun but the most moved let me go to the group because it was

good. at it but it was good enough to of. either kids elected of hula nor you know one wish i had a kid lived many years can hear the yes you know clown a few daily. looking at a live in norway and in she bust the nylon out of me and when i moved to the michel it was i mean a few. in the queue had to for the have been let me in and it is it is it we assumed we would i mean. any nine hundred ninety eight and hackney made their own breakthrough by getting to the finals of the parent club championship against the jury club dad. and mo out within

it if you know that if you don't three what the most unethical to what he did the field then with this album had to do you know more than any of you thought that i you could have many other things on. what is it. that. this was the first international trophy for the christian supported and had me its captain. and their founder on twenty twentieth's. polluting. thing.

you like. my laugh again. photos. of me is how long i think my neck. of info needs on their own medicine. then the next year nineteen one thousand nine. or suggests as they're sometimes known because of their maronite christian connection went to one. big one the biggest continental prize the feedback champions cup by beating the chinese club.

in the final eighty four to seventeen. who what. how to play if you want a year out of the uk you were sure you know that i wasn't there. but i think there's. one that is weird. oh well hell of any medium limited. only what the heck you know i can. never guess has a lot of alchemy when i bill through suddenly i didn't. get it. really.

i wouldn't. really. like that about the city figure who was kind of with us going it all about the wind isn't going under. and heck we also want to feel better champions cup the next year in two thousand and ten again in two thousand and four. the measure you. dig. through the room with her. won't. move out of the me. but that kind of thing to me bill a thing you're not there then. you're back to back and thing it's name on it is. only one

of a lot of people have a bill which will be somewhere i will be true have you heard of the matter is the net about to be a little game carol because the bell division. been shut down because. for all but their last big fear little bit just so yeah sure so young talent should be. so mad sayed hassan nasrallah i mean i'm has a little bit a little. margaret with. me one vanished the market with local professional going to. then think the image of him as a lay up a couple for the lock up for cutler on the monitor. the third one in the bin if when i. asked him to and i left it.

as well. as my awake of a savvy year to play in. the bad luck in the match then a lot of. but after the two biggest clubs had reached such heights a shift began to occur in lebanese basketball. it seems to have been a combination of different factors. one funding on two and trading gradually became disenchanted with events off the court increasing sectarianism and party political intervention by two thousand and four he had completely pulled out of me with effect rippling across the sport. to sectarianism and politics i sound certainly says outspoken remarks after acme's asia cup win show that figures within the sport had strong political affiliations. some argue that

basketball gradually became a tool in the hands of political parties causing players and financier's and even fans to withdraw and. their money i should feel. that all of that was so what. exposure to lives. must have thought to unlucky but then it didn't feel that gays that somehow love. it. and it wasn't until i was at. nor. are you ok. with someone who are. who are all. of.

it must have been. on twelve months. some of them. assess it must be really how we'll need the e m a c. one model with the only model or just on another team you don't talk to work due diligence of the name of the city maybe make the see man who is in need if you meet on the medium at the seams you need to come see i'm going to be for the moment the lobby and even before them that i'm. going to listen to and. you must not have the leonard easy on has said no no come in on a visit. how. upon that all she thought so as.

to how will it look here that. there was no more buffy coming as the movie you can drop out of the normal book a few in him shall die for a fellow out of our. garden and. find a lot of i love enough to. be a baby enough to know. what i did surely but i said i must have been in. such power and influence on twenty eight in the early two thousand in the sport and across the media that his withdrawal from acne affected not only the club but the sport as a whole. a look at the offices of the lebanese basketball federation today which still bears issue eighty's name suggests the bus and dynamism of the early two thousand is no longer their. way to ease frustration with the christian construction of the acme club seems

clear. but he would not be the first sports finance here to come up against entrenched attitudes. like me still play in the lebanese league and command loyal support but they're struggling with debt and their form is inconsistent. you. with us and. and. former captain tough became the manager in twenty seven and then president and his to revere by today's players like he was stuck. in. the a. would have

been my area. but doggedly and saw the market at the bar. could she offer whatever would bug the books mamma the public men cannot muster but i did if somebody or. you are it. from a never be the end of anonymously a. good chunk of. either not only are there was good mistrust that i did. it with the. man this makes you to be a. minimum one hundred one god is wrong. and another to yourself some of it had to be sure to help a little there are no women. she is special in. limitless about the

revolution a little bit of good misery will you do it wrong all work through your reform kumar not like you can off our grass sort of the having our new. vision. elaborate as technically we love really can she. softly facilities our daughters how to feed i fear. god both because. it's an emission.

from a small foot up on the truss i didn't want to force hallucinate while something. and some of. the little stand for a thorn but at the. bottom and actually that was your c.s.e. or your bubble. like in the upper one the c.s. that they showed the wall then none. of the other summer well at all if that. include for the bother what. so if you have a clue. of the duel you. i could soon be away but the truth is i love all the lost cause along in verse one

of his boots off and you feel. it in my mouth but i never. could leave i did you know that they have not dropped the point of what i have done a feminine to follow the law but which in effect i should have just paid my lesson on shut up like for someone about my own you are clueless i'm nothing but a puppet with a then i let me on the on the john had to pull off a lawsuit. has succeeded in securing viable funding but the constant trying to carry with me as. they continue to win trophies after xmas declined but when they want to leave in

two thousand and six their captain was no longer living. up to this highly public name comes up several sun salutation all set to cast in madison i woll on you from like it they come the material thing happened this night i. had. to find a something better comes out little it's a. home with the name that it could out sunday oh ballad leave. second to last sell and it's over. there i live. there with them and they set out at the. end of the. taliban but at the given.

he mentioned taffeta now runs a national resort and is not active you can evolve in an acme at the moment. he's critical of the increasing involvement of political parties in the club these days . a lot of them useful to know we need to take me america's of the ease for could be a teeny sound this year the billion i'm a bit on my lawyer door to be a new visit overnight but i've been lightly and just near there carlos and in town . we found on the budget i mean i'm in the final four weekend had the c's abolished it out most of the labor. and i can have a fee. but a damn a c.s.

ability and you know not a lot but. you didn't like me make one ended up as book but you know as a fifth of c.s. hemo we. know why the. cool . with that many other members to see is the other. one a much. finer national yawn was almost. on the other hand while. on. nor. would even get the flick of a bad on and on it because she. is an ex like me wanting. to see is whether or not at the moment the fantasy is excited.

and ok it can be. a way to know how it could have been a word ok but. until. our new sort of congress leaves. us and of have been. if with. all the versions i think. when we do not he is also critical of the room of party politics in his old club i think. he's coached clubs and lower divisions and aspires to be a commentator. on the us in the you know. in the. look at she beat me and. leave. us

is a. mess isn't a mother is legally old it is and when your mother is needed me and my. goodness i'm cool national team. on t.v. even if one eats on the job you know you are. here you want to. know they are they understand it then you see a sympathy because she. believes. that only about. her she can and must the two and a mafia would have done. in or. burthen or. appealed and i can. shut up the a full minute baby secondly if i could really then it would have been either your. us.

a man who ellison thin ok near-side most of a belief that only needed to be in illegal with. the month to month month r.c.i. you. have who would you. say most of old equal in. the. energy thin year. but they're the best when they are mean that they usually know if it's been that is eating you. off while an honest. one. c.s.e. this way phaedo boggle is

a bailout for the net that we all have the faith that many in various the military she a it. shows will. always see it know what i love what i like that the name of. a son is a mommy thought that is in order. and there when we do not he something wrong if i didn't he says sunni against shia they would clash that's the problem. basketball in lebanon is still very much alive but when the civil war ended ninety nine to one it did not resolve credibly complex politics and sectarianism that have continued to develop since. so the fortunes of the country's most successful sport really reflect events cross the country as a whole. fans and commentators often plead for sport in politics not to

mix but in a country like lebanon on that can really feel. more fanciful today than ever.

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