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prime minister sharon you know his stepping down after almost two weeks of last anti-government protests turn how reports of tension turned to celebration after eleven days of street protests that brought down armenia's prime minister. it was a humiliating in socks and the man who has clung to power in the former soviet republic for a decade on monday he resigned to preserve the peace he said just hours after jews were seen joining the crowds in the capital europe and we know that the country has been suffering specifically under the rule of the two. mandates of the president with absolute lack of institutional freedom so be it the judicial be it the the police spear be at the. the health or culture or even the religious or the fact that they really took the initiative on in the do individual basis to come to the

street shows that ultimately institutions are formed by human beings and human minds and intentions i am stepped down a day after his security forces arrested and then released the leader of the opposition further angering the crowd it could have been a tipping point towards violence. very claim circassian had rigged the system to stay in power president since two thousand and eight he'd been forced to step down because of term limits earlier this month but apply and parliament formed after constitutional changes he presided over three years ago swiftly appointed him prime minister with enhanced powers stripped from the presidency critics said it was a job for life the mostly peaceful protests had focused on high level corruption and persistent poverty in the country but in a volatile region they were closely watched by russia with whom sarkozy am had

formed close ties but the kremlin said it would not intervene describing events in your event as a domestic matter to the crowd's evident delight jonah how al-jazeera one of the top political leaders of the hoof is in yemen has been killed in a saudi led air strike sunday as some of his had to be who feared ministration since august twenty sixth he is considered to be an effective second in command of the rebel group if he say he was killed by saudi strikes last thursday in a data the foreign ministers of russia and china say they'll block any attempts by the united states to sabotage the iran nuclear deal president on has until may the twelfth to decide whether to keep the twenty fifteen agreement between iran and six world powers the president has often called the deal one of the worst ever in u.s. history one of the other signatories to the agreement is france and there president

emanuel blackhole is in the u.s. for a three day state visit is already said he'll try to persuade trump to have a more favorable view of the iran deal and one of the suspects from the twenty fifteen paris attacks has been sentenced to twenty years in prison for his role in a gunfight which led to his arrest in brussels so loved islam was convicted of attempted murder of firing on belgian police as they tried to detain him. there's a top stories the caliph is next a lot more years feel to life now. the caliphate. a form of rule in islam. that lasted for almost thirteen centuries. from the death of the prophet muhammad.

to the overthrow of the last ottoman caliph in one thousand nine hundred twenty four. the arabic term for caylee is. which actually in essence simply means a successor or a adept. the ruler of the islamic world would call himself resort in law the success of god's message. through the centuries. the title of khalid is a term that has been used. in the time of use. in june two thousand and fourteen. a militant group calling itself the islamic state in iraq and the levant or ice or. declared the establishment of a caliphate. i call rejected by most muslims around the world.

i so reached into the pause to appropriate the title of color. the group claimed its leader can but that. as a descendant of the prophet muhammad's own tried. to move. on a kind of a push. and out of a flash. mob you feed have a look. this is the story of how the title of caliph began in the prophet's tribe. and how nine centuries later the title was used by people of a different race. our different dentist these rosenfeld. ending with the decline of the ottoman caliphate.

this is the story. of the caliph. saudi arabia. the holiest city islam. it was here in the spring of the year five seventy one but muhammad the prophet of islam was born into a family belonging to

a tribe called push. will race down and be more covered less as i am of the just a lot of me you know how to just get out of here. what i can that. modifies the as well be that then i'll be what i use gonna die if not i'm going to gamble up up. sixty one years later. my homage died in medina the capital of the new islamic states. with his death in the problem of who should be successor. one thing seemed clear. new kind of how to come from the prophets trying. they had the in front of a milk the i that i love being in a lefty had the. lack in how the us and the other to have a shot of your own womb is

a man the least no any other then if even wanted one why and can i don't but i. know buffy and all of that if you listen to him. for three hundred years after the prophets death the kind of it remains strong. but by the mid tenth century. the most of the road had from. divided now between three colors all three descendants of koresh. and centuries to come one by one. each of those three kind of fits would crumble and fall. short.

of the spain. competent of the under the sea into my youth kind of. this is the end of the youth in history the druid from the mask. in the seventh and eighth century. the death of the second caliph and how come i should inhofe a century of chaos among members of his family. and ten thirty one the ninth and last minute caliph the shan. was forced to step down. some of the most of the most. a look i'm in mood because the what i think of this larry what you know the committee

don't listen but you know if you know yes you know you've got it under us and said i'm going conscious a. limb is ducky you know full well. that out of. the eye of. the. across the mediterranean the phantom it's in cairo also fell victim to better informed. intent to his death almost certainly at the hands of his own family. would be the start of the fact that it's long claws. from the late eleventh century onward the fighting in calif is increasingly losing control of affairs and that the political and military elite are starting to take

over the state difficult. in baghdad. besiktas are suffering a similar thing. by the middle of the eleventh century. a sense jukes a rising turk in a city that sees control of the caliphate. and the government is out of the hot sutton i love the moon walk away and in but out the what do you know we lack in the eleven via let me have a dollar why in the am i gonna shout son but. me was sherry. the said you were the first to take the title song tong. and arabic word meaning authority. in the trials to come the defenders of islam. would be

sold tons of non arab birth. blackmore fronts. the statue of pope urban the second pointing east. in november ten ninety five from the city. he launched a christian campaign to recapture jerusalem in the holy land from the muslims. the crusades. lemoore was planned by the pope to be an s.m.b. where he resorts his authority to declare war. in attend

ninety six. the crusaders set out on arduous overland eastward journey. after three years of demanding travel and fierce battles. they finally reached their goal. and delight ten ninety nine kristie and it's captured jerusalem. there's a major massacre muslims died jews dead even some eastern christians who the pins in recognize as christians died and the chroniclers from the crusaders perspective present this is. vengeance for the blasphemy that these saracens had done to the

jesus's holy city of jerusalem. for not half century sturdier jerusalem had surrendered to the second caliph of aslan. but in ten mike tonight. as muslims sought to confront the marauding crusaders islam faced a burning question where was the caliph. the abassi at that point had no military force which they could have sent the father caliphate they had lost their syrian lands to. local warlords so when they saw the crusaders coming in they probably were quite happy to see the peace was up us we're now facing a major problem with these clearly quite strong military contingents moving in from

europe. large areas of the levant were occupied. divided by the christians into four distinct fiefdoms. but after half a century of crusaders success muslim slowly began to fight back. but it was not the caliphs were let the front. damascus syria. in the middle of the twelfth century this city was the capital of the zinc it's a turkish thinnest founded by a man. the governor of northern living. in

eleven forty four he had secured the first muslim victory against the crusaders. well with him out of the heart of it hear him out of the war subtle eleusinian be heaven to stop and the be infinitely islamia and to. be an enemy in kenya and know how to have all the bun. in eleven forty six. succeeded his father in the struggle against the crusaders and deliverance. two decades later he would be fighting over another progs. to help us in the so. as had him fall to meet him in his inky and you second dolphy war jihad salumi and the other seller who ascended be sure to call what and

kill him a chair call from the al assad. after five years of data. should call noted dean's kurdish generals succeeded both in defeating the crusaders and seizing control of the fatah the colorful. he was succeeded by his nephew salaheddine. man known to the west side of the. so that he saw that his political career as the was leader of the falcons so he had to acknowledge the supremacy of the father he kept the foot two years. but in eleven seventy one. so long switched his allegiance. bringing an end to a hop centuries of the faults of its kind of friends and declaring egypt's loyalty

to the opposite caliph and but that. why. is that most certainly is that i've been had one problem that he had no legitimacy. so the main selling point for so he didn't throughout his career was about. the costs of jordan. one of the largest crusader forts in the live on. from this powerful position the crusaders began to harass muslim trade caravans threatening even make it so. so i've been unified to syria and egyptian political landscape and the only remaining. you would

polities with it was say the states so it was natural for them to move against them . in july eleventh eighty seven here in northern palestine but the place known as the horns of putting. these forces crushed the crusaders. for months later jerusalem surrender. this time not to an arab calif but to a kurdish soltani. assault on the shabbat can you make me feel a little silly for. bessy. life. let it be when i'm asleep and i'm like

a lot of different. thank you to. the defeat of the team was a turning point for the crusaders. driven back to a strip of my rainy and coastline. they consolidated their position with massive costs a strategic points like side and left. but just as this threat to the islamic world was subsiding. a danger of even greater proportions was gathering strength. this time. in the east. an ancient school in back. built by the ambassador.

it was part of a desperate effort to recapture the golden age of the early our best caliphate. in twelve forty two and most awesome succeeded his father as the thirty seventh calif. but he would soon face a new danger. approaching the moment since. the phase of the mongols over all was seen as the major turning point in the recent history and when the mongols came there was a clear sense of. the way of things. they will continue. in january twelfth fifty eight. the mongols reached back then.

within two weeks the us the capital had been brought to its knees. the caliph and the stasi was executed. the great city reduced to ashes. a five hundred year caliphate had come to an end. it was a moment that was but a watershed but also a confirmation of a situation which had actually existed for quite a long time. some scholars of all get that it was of not any great significance because the real power of the apostates had faded away hundreds of years ago when they were just sitting around in that baghdad's palace and that their existence had very little meaning for the majority of the.

islam was now in peril. the only remaining hope was the new soto's of egypt the man looks. great the slaves from central asia to form an army for the e.u. bits. they had supplanted some odd indeed this dentist. in september twelve sixteen here at the in general in palestine. the member army but the mongols and that's. it was a decisive victory for the most. the man who looks at save the muslim world. and their tenuous legitimacy. was about to be struck.

there was a member of the boston family who managed to escape from the slaughter in baghdad and make his way to cairo where the man lukes of egypt subsequently recognised his descendents as k.f.c. in cairo and derive benefit in the sea from this kind of shadow puppet caliphate. bolstered by the caliphs indorsement in twelve months he won. the man looks put an end to two centuries of christian crusades. aker. the last crusade the fortress on the mediterranean was captured. meanwhile in anatolia a new muslim power was on the rise. a power which would carry the banner of islam

to the gates of constantinople. in six twenty nine during the life of the prophet muhammad. the first ever battle between muslims and by sun times took place here in. southern jordan. the fight ended with the muslims defeated and their withdrawal to medina. but the setback would be temporary. the progress great. eyes of constantinople still back and. stumbled into the pavement i found they missed their own measure of pity how these civilians that if the hundred costantini evelyn m.l.a.

miriam middle and any measure. it is down you can only see the stumble of hickey that. you read arab geographers of the tenth and eleventh century constantinople is described as the apple the ultimate prize that someday muslims will win and often the taking of constant noble is presented almost apocalyptic terms of something that will bring on the final victory of islam. that final victory would fall to the ultimate it's a turkic most i'm trying to emigrated from central asia to settle in i'm told. they get these a month after me to shut lot of my demon of it that protestant on them at the

beginning it died in it is that in a quarter to that yet it's been a holiday yeah then you stumble a little. in april fourteenth fifty three minutes army siege to the great city. seven weeks later the ultimate is battle their way to constantinople. and as the victorious. entered the city through this gate. an eight hundred year old prophecy had come to pos. this involved importance was known to muslims and also for european christians suddenly one of the major capitals of kristen to become

a muslim. just as they tasted the fruits of victory. at the far end of the mediterranean. eight hundred years of muslim civilization. was about. to come crashing down. australia's multibillion dollar international student of history is booming but it has a dark star one of many used examines widespread revelations of sexual assault on foreign university students on al-jazeera. and. the top stories on jazeera a number of people are feared dead after

a van run into pedestrians in the canadian city of toronto they say the driver of the vehicle has been taken into custody but so far they haven't given any other details a police spokesperson says the van apparently jumped the curb and images from the scene shows several people being attended to by medics one eyewitness has described what he saw. then i seen him go and then i thought he had a heart attack or something so i was trying to chase it down in a way almost trying to catch up see what happened although i seen this guy is crumble i mean he's going seventy eighty clicks he's just hitting people one by one going down. and it was a nightmare scene that i was young enough for us and i seen a lady with her leg in a distance she just really thought ok. the newly appointed armenian prime minister yon has resigned after days of anti-government protests people poured onto the streets of the capital yerevan to celebrate his website. said he was stepping down

to maintain civic peace if you know me as president for a decade until his term expired last month critics say his appointment as prime minister was an attempt to stay in power. one of the top political leaders of the who thiis in yemen has been killed in a saudi led air strike so they are summit has headed hooty administration since august twenty sixth he's considered to be ineffective second in command of the rebel group goofy's say he was killed in a her data before mrs of russia and china say they'll block any attempts by the u.s. to sabotage the iran nuclear deal because president donald trump has until may the twelfth to decide whether to keep the twenty fifteen agreement between iran and six world powers trump is often called the deal one of the worst ever in u.s. history agreement lifts sanctions on iran exchange for limitations on its nuclear program. one of the other signatories of the to the agreement is france and there

president emanuel michael was in the u.s. for a three day state visit he said he'll try to persuade trump to have a more favorable view of the deal and one of the suspects from the twenty fifteen paris attacks has been sentenced to twenty years in prison for his role in the gunfight which led to his arrest in brussels. the kind of continues next eleven years after that he still has. the alhambra. a muslim citadel and palace. one of spain's most famous spawn humans.

for more than two and a half centuries this palace in granada was the scene of the monsters. the last muslim dentist in the iberian peninsula. dr sacks a jack one of those killed on picking your brain no not cite eco who are sort of slightest bit of any further up than the output lady or they they and to the court of the law but in a medical circles he will not get to a pickle might there be a list over his the notice with other tonight i'm busy. in the early eighth century. muslims conquered most of the i bury and peninsula the province they called on them see

a. robot the compering on it was on able to drive home their success. the remnants of the former rumors the physical fights took shelter in the mountains in the north. of the cult of them it's cool to look at if you want to show that it is when you allow. the d.-day academy to be to the e.c. a lot of the. mountains of northern spain would become the cradle of new christian kingdoms. kingdoms that would start our holy war not a complete stop three conquered by darian peninsula and and what they saw as muslim capacious.

was. that it was all going to look at that and did anyone see the illusion michel that it can it's a party to feel it is buddy up look at their ticket then and there is an e.m.t. . no i mean in all sorts no i mean it's held at holkham no i mean so i did it. and ten thirty one. after the folder made caliph of portable. under the sea a broke up into several minor city states. easy prey for the christian kingdoms. help was needed from across the mediterranean.

america she. founded the eleventh century capital of the middle of. the sperber dynasty and the success of. the young ones crossed the sea to under the sea and to confront the threats from the spanish christian kingdoms. done in wonderful it what it enough is that if don't know that the hut that the mothers assemble to muddy will go to what is your business the one you missed in the few minutes of those. the leather the humbleness only as a whole jihad if you defend one if you don't and then knows. the whole while the

other one. for more than a century that it. was held at bay. until the year twelve hundred and twelve when the christine kingdoms of custody. are gone and portugal united against them one. here east of call them a battle took place which immortalized the name of this man for. us thomas to come up. and walk the forces to heaven he defeated by the united christine. and has a month of what has he must have missed but he didn't seem to fit and that was that he got to have this wasn't done in libya why not have that the old go back you know

if it's not if a suburban he ought to build in one of the up. he has even and i was in with the in a few mock of the above i don't. pristine forces continue to press south once and by the late thirteenth century the muslim presence in spain was reduced to the tiny mosque with kingdom of granada. give it. really mean and there was many who did what was team ready and made enough money above the more i didn't buy this was what i mean it's fuck yes and it's going to. how do you need a new idea to win with. this animal it's a world with. no you're doing it hope millen missed it is used as the wow team.

in fourteen ninety one united on these of the two christine moments when isabel lost custody and came from nanda ovata gone they'd siege to bring out the. muhammad the twelfth but not long sentence desperate your quest for help. but this time there was no answer. was. he. come. in. with no sign of help appearing. in the city surrendered to the spaniards. are

on her son. son on the. run the mother. in january forty nine thousand two. responded and three grown up. on a computer stuff. was complete. then

we're sure. a minute. to do well and. a father for the i think there's. fourteen ninety two. marked the end of muslim rule in spain. that same year christopher columbus arrived back in grenada. he broke news of his discoveries to sponsor. isabel. a new word was about to open for the christian. while the muslims were about to start fighting each other over an old title. the

caliphate. fourteen fifty three. the stumble. no longer called constantinople. was made captain of the autumn and. an empire that already made inroads into christie in europe. but the silt on was the remains lay here in this mosque of the difference from. selim the first came to power in fifteen twelve. or.

five years later he had toppled the mom looked in history in egypt and tripled the size of the ottoman empire. when the ottomans conquer egypt they take over from the mamelukes they can claim to be protective of their holy muslim sites mecca and medina and they feel like in harry the mantle of being kay less from shadowline of apostate canucks in cairo. so ponce you are one of those who do quite a few good to to have been uncovered the stone. wasn't right that it got it. hard if it did it didn't quite a good to be can get away if you stumble but in done right. you could turn it the way. you do it and hung it's a trick or smoking a lot of data. but it is the. the

top card game. palace. legendary residents of the mike to. say. that fifteen seventeen. tons awarded themselves another honor title. of. course knowing centuries after the foundation of the kind of six that. the title had slipped from the hands of arabs and approach. the prophet strike. the ottomans don't seem to have made a huge amount of being k.f.c. and whilst they did claim the title it was more of an honorific all something that indicated that they were first among muslim. so the ottomans were not initially

in the sixteenth seventeenth eighteenth century really claiming to be universal muslim really. yet after a slow decline of three centuries. the successors of these great ottomans all tons . were turned once again to the caliphate. in a desperate attempt to rescue their falling empire. palace istanbul. the residence of savannah the honey the second who came to the throne in eighteen seventy six.

he was a skilled carpenter. crafted most of his home furnishings. but as he chiseled than playing the carpenter so. was contemplating the gradual loss of territories. by the late nineteenth century. much of the ultimate and boy. was disappearing from the mouth. how innocent but i've yet if enough well accomplish to laugh at that if i'm but if but if it got to jemaah islamiya it's something that's monumental no joke oh how. you had that why you thought of cricket at. the moment that the bonus money of twine and the.

bomb just i mean cut them down or else funny it would be if a. couple had to be. young and medina and. you. got them. but the school tones attempts to exploit the spiritual power of the title kind of could not save. a nineteen zero nine oppenheim meet was deposed. with little show cause it's told us the thirty fifth so called autumn and states. and go his coronation was marked by lavish traditional festivals in truth it was

powerless. little fishies bookings that ate about it that they let the they stick. i know a small a day that did it up the pa the shouted out at me i may fade out it you acknowledge that that i keep good name is good if you can get it that is if you get good value from it and got it here. in nov nineteenth fourteen. the ottomans entered world war one on the side of the central powers. whole evil in the name of the conduct a war that refused disastrous for the coming. on the other side of the treacherous western powers saw an opposition. put it on a campaign in the caribbean monopoly and can back it up and have now some a monopoly strategy and he went up. when he got it from want to know how to fix it

up my. friend said that the body of a man down with a lot of beautiful will be thought of the men who survived. and to encourage the arabs to rise up in revolt. the british to return to the ancient power of the caliphate. and the person of sheriff hossein the custodian of my. mad as shit for seven hundred to six o'clock in the dust off even i would know something of what i could get to the house and i'd have a pile of optimism most of all of your money. well a day he had been and can be of some of. my own. in june one thousand sixteen. what was called the great arab revolt erupted in hedges . a desert region in the west of what is now saudi arabia.

under the command of sharif hossein son feisal. and with the advice and help of a british officer. lawrence. out of forces advanced northwards supported by the british one tacked on to from. within two years in one thousand nine hundred eighteen the joint forces had taken the whole of the levant and iraq. in october of that here and promised this was concluded. the ultimate suffered a humiliating defeat. in

july nine hundred eighty. four months before the end of world war one. a new so-called spring. he was to rule over what was left of the alterman empire. virtually nothing anatolia and istanbul. but even this would soon be lost. just two days after the end of the war french and british troops marched into lucky boy the ultimate companies are. on a totally zero was divided between the western powers. to make it what.

is it and they can't take this all respond they have it. with them it's. in the other. since you have bombs and so on that it's just that yoke. turkish nationalist resistance broke out. after three years of bloody fighting. the turks succeed and the brits and it's. only a stumble it was left occupied. and in it was assault on now if you would by nationalist turks as a traitor. if they can put political action in cuz it was me that they like them to follow it up i'll be fair cautious am not obliged to the same eastenders it up-i the schottische it is the shot i know is amanda. but i don't want to mustn't use

them yet sunk in quite a media headache it didn't cause she given to us that he let. in on cairo on the first of november nineteen twenty two. the turkish national assembly abolished the sultanate. two weeks later. midway did deep soul tone and khalaf. left the dome about your palace. the residence of ultimate rulers through this gate bound for exile. optima geed the second was chosen to hold the now largely symbolic try to come.

to the kitchen with the bomb since he got it down the aisle for that at the. next civic. they that they make you order you push them on the ball out of our love them to the what if in call the law see the scum diaz that of a little ali the bush walk. all molly that how to cover the. route that had to be made. on the third of march nineteenth twenty four. the last vestiges of the caliphate were dismantled by the new turkish republic. the title of the universal movie slam. title for thirteen centuries old. and been terminated by muslims themselves. on the image of the last ultimate color. was sent into permanent exile.

tend not to get. washed dualists not me i'm adorable i wouldn't punish. you move forward on a free one mess figured i should have a woman some of. them a could be in the fact that i had bought a bad one of the top of malkuth the way matter one of whom would jerk of the before you jump have something else and that that when you feel india. the name your luck over was if a ha is will all of it or was the favor to call the call that all of the. states saudia that the. other one bushel if you get a call that honey think that sure the doctors that. loves it will be good on the area. that caylee is meant to be a universal fake at his draws support from the misnamed community as

a whole that is obviously not the case with abu bakar and the fact that all. historical records also shows that when people can gain broad based consensus that caliphate automatically becomes invalidate. the. extraordinary. i wish that the islamic world. had something to represent the. traditions of political violence or civil war with the other side of islam which i'm afraid the west doesn't. eat eat. eat eat eat eat eat eat eat meat.

however we've got some cold air in wetter weather moving through the bite that's just rolling across the foss out of australia going to see temperatures falling away quite noticeably adelaide in melbourne over the next couple of days twenty five celsius in adelaide on tuesday the winds coming in from the west or south westerly direction melbourne around twenty four degrees and two with ethnicity as well it's twenty three degrees celsius twenty celsius in the sunshine for perth on

tuesday afternoon probably a touch warmer say go on into wednesday i just want to two spots into in that areas of australia by the start what she spots of rice and the possibility down to the southeast melbourne struggling to get to nineteen celsius a couple degrees warmer than that say in adelaide and want to see coastal showers a possibility very close to sydney and brisbane there's the cloud responsible for that some thickening cloud also making its way over towards new zealand so we are going to see it feeling a little more autumnal as we go on through the next day or seventeenth across church and all clear over the next couple of days people take a degree or two some pretty wet weather a little further north up to new caledonia seen some pretty wet weather recently and to japan it will ease over the next day or so still some very heavy rain across the southern half of the country for choose day making its way further east for the middle part of the week.

if you were in beijing looking out the pacific ocean you'd see american warships when mess was that somehow time as aiming to replace america and go around the world for the chinese are not that stupid things guys want to dominate a huge chunk of the planet this sounds like a preparation for our first president george washington said if you want peace prepare for war the coming war on china part one on a just zero. zero . where ever you.