process their partnership has recently taken a whole new meaning the united states has declared economic war against them cooperation between these main players could stave off a battle that could affect the lives of millions in it live a limited military operation tell it there are expected around the edges of the problems the government wants to secure main highways and prevent it little be used to attack it strongholds jennifer their beirut jordan's interior minister says all men who attacked the police in the town of salt last week where i saw supporters thousands of people attended the funeral for one of the four jordanian officers killed during a raid on the attackers investigators say the suspects had plans for further attacks on saturday a homemade explosive device was set off near a police van was left one person dead and six others injured. in indonesia at least four hundred thirty six people have been confirmed dead in last sunday's powerful earthquake on long island aid is slowly arriving in some of the remote villages

worst hit by that magnitude six point nine tremor but many more are still waiting for help here but morgan reports. rescued alive from the rubble this boy is one of the lucky ones he's at least being treated for his injuries but his mother says even that was a struggle because the earthquake destroyed thousands of buildings including hospitals and medical centers. that i didn't know if my son had fractures or not and there was no facility and i was told to stay away from home remedies that's why i came to the military hospital where there are volunteers. that have been up. more than a week after the six point nine quake struck the search for survivors is drawing to a close more than four hundred thirty bodies have been recovered but many more remain missing treating the injured has also been a major challenge as many parts of the island are almost impossible to access now. volunteers. have been doing their best to find out and it's

a route through the destruction. of the patients but fractures come to us because we have five operation rooms and how doctors are volunteers who join the military we have five operations day here but that's not enough for the thousands of people affected there still discovering people who haven't been reached with assistance and at the same time they're delivering very basic emergency assistance food water medical care shelter the damage hasn't been assist so there's a lot of uncertainty about the future thousands of people remain displaced and afraid to go home because of the fear of more earthquakes and aftershocks they've already lost family friends in many cases their homes and most of their belongings they don't know how much more they can lose people morgan al-jazeera. still ahead on al-jazeera a call for unity as a legal challenge hangs over the reelection of zimbabwe's president allegations of fraud on

a kenyan infrastructure project that was welcomed with fanfare just one year ago details coming up. hello and welcome back we have an area of low pressure just off the coast by hong kong at the moment it's not anything major in terms of wind but these little low pressure system sometimes can provide a lot of rain over a quite long period of time and that's what we're seeing at the moment from the system and it's likely to move further towards the west during the course of wednesday so hong kong looks like being wet the northern parts of vietnam will be wet and this general circulation is over inhance in the flow towards the philippines so heavy rain is certainly likely across lose on further towards the west again that's the same flow is helping to bring more showers in off the bay of bengal so i think for much of me amman it's pretty wet at times cross into south

asia massive cloud no particular across north eastern areas as the monsoon pulses away so we're looking at some pretty heavy rain affecting kolkata hunch about will see some downpours the western ghats could see another pulse of fairly heavy rain during the course of the day on choose day and the like to see some significant storms those continues ahead on through into when state much of pakistan should be dry and find just one or two showers likely across northern areas here in the arabian peninsula we've got a bit of a picking up so the humidity is relatively low temperatures here in doha expected to reach forty two. getting to the heart of the matter unless we have new generations growing up to understand better our relationship with the net for a while then soon there will be nothing left facing reality all of our friends and allies played a positive role in preventing and his condition form taking place here their story

on talk to al-jazeera. all over again the top stories on al-jazeera turkey's president on insists think economy is not in crisis he spoke to investors the currency fell to record lows against the u.s. dollar the central bank says it's ready to take all necessary measures to ensure financial stability funerals are being held for some of the fifty three people killed in a saudi u.a.e. airstrike on thursday forty of the victims were children the saudi m.r.c.

coalition said the strikes conform to international law and they were aimed at who the rebels firing missiles at least four hundred thirty six people are confirmed dead from last sunday's powerful earthquake on indonesia and the damage caused by the magnitude six point nine tremor now exceeds three hundred forty two million dollars aid is slowly arriving in remote areas. zimbabweans have been urged to unite as the country marks thirty eight years of independence president elect emerson non-god was addressing the crowd in his first appearance since his inauguration was delayed the opposition meanwhile has filed a legal challenge over the results of july's election on the president elect says it's time for the country to put the elections behind them and to brace the future . first. facing us today is a good one yet as you know. we've raised

the economy and. our great nation the land of. the land of immense was ability. we should never be. a temporal city back or give people events we don't you know cause to build an open free. and prosperous zimbabwe. one hundreds of people are still missing a year after a devastating mudslide on the outskirts of sara lee jones capital the worst natural disaster in the nation's history killed more than eleven hundred people admitted it is reports from freetown. a seventeen year old mucha cutter is returning to i have family who used to be for the first time since last year's disaster. that means of

our father mother four sisters two brothers and a brother in law are still trapped under this myself rock. like hundreds of other victims rescue workers one able to retrieve their bodies. i cry anytime i remember them live last fall when they were around right now i must work for someone who pays me now with money but with food to eat and. when i would use it as poke to my to last august in hospital she was looking for an aunt she hoped was still alive she didn't finally. after three days of torrential rains part of sugarloaf mountain broke away and crashed onto a once vibrant community burying homes and people. most could not be saved due to lack of equipment manpower and bad weather so my boss of the two thousand and seventeen tragedy still come here to get close to relatives they

didn't get the chance to say proper goodbye to hundreds believed to be buried under the rubble the government plans to build a monument of salt here for the missing and the dead more than five hundred victims of the disaster were buried here their graves tones bare no names some contain just body parts i think kilometers from the cemetery i fifty two unit housing estate was built by three local construction companies. the houses what they needed to the government for the survivors but it can only accommodate one hundred fifty of them . alveda style to eleven thousand people and this eleven thousand people not everybody in here last eight outs staying then four we stay here we find things difficult the survivors have now been asked to pay monthly

rents on the houses sugarloaf mountain remains very unstable a few weeks ago huge boulders of rock came tumbling down causing panic among villagers the government has demolished more homes that are considered unsafe. on the first anniversary of the disaster survivors including mcarthur still without a home are looking to the government for help and hope that they can get a new start in life how many degrees. freetown. heads of state and its public land agency have been charged with fraud over a new three billion dollar project they pleaded not guilty when they appeared in court in nairobi charged alongside sixteen others they're accused of siphoning off money through false compensation claims for land used to build the new line catherine soy has more from nairobi. where the seventeen suspects including very senior government officials have been charged with seventeen. crimes

corruption abuse of office etc they have just pleaded not guilty and this specifically involves the. way they are accused of. authorizing. states to pay out money as compensation to individuals that did not exist and that does not exist and even that already belongs to the state so this is a very significant development in the last few months we've seen the government really ratcheting up its fight against corruption federal government officials have been arrested some of them are in court involving millions of dollars and you know scandals in public offices the president come out very strongly saying that government is going to deal with corruption in this country there's been a lot of concern by people the president saying that it doesn't matter who you are

how powerful you are how much money you have. corrupt activities you're going to go to a lot of people really supporting him and think that it's about time that the government really takes up this fight against corruption saying that beyond people being arrested and taken to court kenyans want to see speedy trial. and they also want. a taliban assault on the afghan city of. the death toll climbing above three hundred presidents called an emergency meeting with police and military chiefs on the sending reinforcements thousand is just one hundred fifty kilometers south of kabul on the highway connecting the capital and southern afghanistan charlotte ballasts reports. the taliban has turned the ancient city of gosney into an urban battle field the assault is now in its fourth day with two hundred seventy thousand

residents locked inside the homes. casualties of the offensive lissa the streets those that reach the hospital find it overwhelms space and medicine rationed between soldiers and civilians they have so many trauma cases and too little capacity. with into order international humanitarian barges and the u.n. we'll try to bring in trial markets and sample drugs and medical supplies as soon as possible. doesn't he became the front line of the war between the taliban and the afghan military on friday morning the taliban launch rockets at the police headquarters into chick points publishing tweets and videos declaring victory afghan special forces responded with u.s. support but the taliban bunkered down and residents' homes of p.r. war his followers the government is defiant gosney is under their control. child was a jungle the storm of one hundred ninety four taliban fighters are you kidding pakistani

and foreign fighters were killed in another one hundred fifty of them were injured bush i hold the taliban responsible for what has happened in the city all the destruction and torching of buildings. with phone lines cut only residents who have escaped can reveal the reality is face is undecided. they were burning buildings and there were dead bodies everywhere in gaza new city the fight was ongoing the situation was very bad and all the shops were closed. the taliban badly one. they briefly held parts of the western city of far in may two years ago but neither are a significant is this gaza is a large provincial capital just one hundred fifty kilometers from kabul it lies on the motorway that connects kabul with southern afghanistan if gosney falls is cut off the government is trying to keep the road open despite frequent taliban ambushes. we have launched checkpoints for the safety of our people using the

highway we're here to serve them day or night afghans are watching nervously they won't guarantees of safety demonstrators gathered outside the ministry of defense headquarters in kabul questioning what security their tax dollars provide with upcoming elections president danny is looking to come concerns on sunday he had an emergency meeting with military and police chiefs and tweeted he would seem green force mints the red cross is sending reinforcements to dropping forty body bags bandages and medicine at the main hospital shallot ballasts. iran has unveiled a new generation of sort range ballistic missiles in the sols also known as been or the divine conquest were unveiled by the to the fence minister i made hot to me he said the new stealth missile was capable of hitting both ground and sea targets iran is said to have conducted over twenty missile tests and twenty fifty and malaysia's prime minister is planning to cancel several multi-billion dollar

infrastructure projects with china ahead of his visit to beijing barter mohamed says he only welcomes foreign investments that benefit malaysia the ninety three year old wants to scrap twenty billion dollars including a rail link and two gas pipelines they were signed under the previous prime minister najib razak who's been charged with corruption. a new era of pakistani politics is beginning with the swearing in of imran khan's government the parliament is meeting for the first time since elections last month ministers took their oaths as part of the handover of powers to the new government the it's a headache insaaf party emerged as the largest one with one hundred sixteen seats and its leader imran khan will be sworn in as prime minister later this week. argentinean's former president cristina kirchner is appearing in court for questioning in a corruption scandal the investigation centers around a driver who kept records of cash deliveries to the presidential palace and curt

starr's private residence a judge wants to remove her immunity from prosecution terrorism has more from donna sirees. well christina kirshner entered this courthouse about half an hour ago she still hasn't come out but it was a speck to the shoe of percent a written statement to not answer questions from the judge and what's different this time is that as you said before this case is a based on age old books that where written by the driver of the planning ministry that during a period of ten years that detailed how backs of cash were moved around and other parts of the country and in many cases ended up in the presidential palace or in kirshner's private residence this is for many one of the largest investigation vestey geishas in argentina many compared to the carwash investigation that has been ongoing in brazil and that ended with former precedent to let you back into prison it also involves former members of kirshner's administrations but also some

of this country's most important. always impressive piece cousin is also being investigated five business men have already requested the bargain so of course this is a major case in argentina and it's all based in this age old books that have shocked the argentinean society. thousands of people have been protesting against corruption in the dominican republic scappoose all santa domingo demonstrators demanded an end to impunity for politicians who they say are ignoring people's needs dozens of officials are accused of taking millions of dollars in bribes from the brazilian company algebra. tell them again the headlines on al-jazeera this hour turkey's president. insists the economy is not in crisis he spoke to investors as the currency fell to record

lows against the u.s. dollar the central bank says it's ready to take all necessary measures to ensure financial stability. should get used to the recent events have shown us that our economy is under siege it is clear that these attacks will continue for a while longer that taxon turkey's on our character and dignity demand that we must be prepared to fight back and defend against those attacks iran's supreme leader ali khamenei has refused donald trump's offer for direct talks he says he's banned iranian leaders from meeting with the president saying the u.s. never follows through on promises it makes during talks common a also ruled out the possibility of war with the u.s. funerals are being held in yemen for some of the fifty three people killed in a saudi air strike on thursday forty of the victims were children twenty nine of them were on a school bus the saudi a madrassa coalition said the strikes conform to international laws and they were

aimed at houthi rebels firing missiles at least four hundred thirty six people have died in last sunday's powerful earthquake on indonesia and officials say damage caused by the magnitude six point nine tremor now exceeds three hundred forty two million dollars aid is slowly arriving and emergency crews have started drilling for fresh water sources tens of thousands of people are expected to stay in makeshift tents for weeks if not months. jordan's interior minister says armed men who attacked the police in the town of celts last week were i saw supporters thousands of people attended the funeral for one of the four jordanian officers killed during a raid on the attackers investigators say the suspects had plans for further attacks more than three hundred people have died during four days of fighting between afghan security forces and the taliban in the city of gaza it's a provincial capital that connects kabul with kandahar afghanistan's defense

minister says at least thirty civilians and one hundred police officers have been killed since the taliban launched their attack on friday those are the headlines on al-jazeera talked to al-jazeera is coming up next day with us. on counting the cost what the first wave of u.s. sanctions on iran means by iranians and companies doing business there well biggest oil producers and climate change plus stamping out colombia's cocaine addiction counting the cost on al-jazeera. you can. see. they have hussein has been the united nations high commissioner for human rights since twenty four teams in those four years the attacks on people's safety and dignity seem to have reached into all corners of the world need mars campaign to

drive hundreds of thousands of ethnic or hinge out of the country the abuse and denial of asylum heaped on migrants fleeing war and economic deprivation the carnage left behind in the civil wars in yemen and in syria as well as in those parts of syria and iraq once controlled by. one would think the calls on countries to do better would have been welcomed but the high commissioner has been criticized for pointing out where countries have failed to preserve human rights we discuss why human rights are under more pressure than ever and what should be done to protect them when say the prada hussein talks to al-jazeera. thank you for talking to al-jazeera from consumers we're coming up on the end of your tenure and i wanted to ask you first just to get this out of the way he didn't ask for a second term you didn't think you would get the backing of the permanent five

members of the u.n. security council and the thinking is. al hussein is just too vocal zaid speaks his mind too much he's not diplomatic enough why not get the p five on the record and say we needed someone who wasn't going to be so forward leaning on trying to get the world to respect human rights it's a good question i never really assume when i took this job that i would need to supplicate or need to prostrate myself before governments. because the office itself yes it's a part of the u.n. but it's also part of a broader human rights movement and the job of high commissioner is to be effectively the ambassador of human rights and what does that mean it means that you have human rights law and you have obligations upon states to abide by the law

and where they don't do so you have to then defend the victims who either are deprived of their rights or the discriminated against when it comes to their rights or they live in fear and so my job was not to defend governments that can do that themselves my job boys to defend together with my office very proud to defend to defend the rights of everyone else individuals and in that sense i knew early on that i'm not going to have the backing for of the. permanent members of the security council in actual fact i would be concerned if i was on the outside and i saw that high commissioner had one support of the p. five because i would suspect that they haven't done their job properly it almost goes without saying that the permanent five enjoy

a privileged status here in new york by dint of the use of veto in the security council in geneva they don't just one forty seven members on the human rights council if the serving on the human rights council and and so we in the human rights community look at their records in the same way we look at anyone else's records and assumption it's not just an assumption they don't like that so i knew it was going to be possible you raised eyebrows when you spoke at the refugees conference here a couple of years ago when you said we're here to. because we as a global community have failed us people are so desperate that they're getting into a kiddie ships and paying thousands of psalms you know to people who don't have their welfare at heart yes and we're here because we haven't found the will to stop that from happening that's the reason that is that your biggest regret now it's an

acknowledgment of failure and that's why we have these compact so if we were doing everything correctly there's no need for everyone to gather and meet and discuss i mean it has to be placed into perspective this the number of peoples on the move globally. sort of is in the range of about four maybe four point five percent so ninety five and a and i ninety five percent and above of people on this planet aren't static i mean they stay within their countries right so all of this hysteria that we see in this planet can be the trending toward the more extreme demagoguery is as a result of the small percentage of people who are actually moving across the planet what does that xenophobia come from we see it here in the west we see it in central europe we see it in parts of southern europe we see it in some parts of india where

does that come from well it comes from a recognition by politicians that tactic works whatever the ills in society whatever the miscues by previous governments the inability of previous governments or indeed present governments to cope with current circumstances well then you pin point the blame on a particular community that seems different it seems alien that is vying for jobs that and you. turn the hatred on them this is an overt device the sad part of it is that it works and people tend to out of fear adhere to it. and the politicians know it but there is a cautionary note is that the cautionary tale to this and that is that the logical extension of it is a sour outcome if you get chauvinist mash an ism

a bigotry a sort of racist undercurrent moving and it reaches a certain pitch traditionally when we look at the historical record it's not easy to suddenly dismantle it and what you tend to find is that conflict arises out of it because suddenly you're telling a people that are no longer special that they're no longer somehow are superior to others that we're all in the same rights that we all have those rights and need to be treated equally whether on the basis of gender ethnicity you know whatever the circumstances may be good thoughts on the show about slot coming in as your successor. well i'm fortunate enough to know her personally and i encounter as a friend we worked together when she was head of un women and i couldn't be more delighted i think she has proven her credentials both as a leader within the u.n. and as head of state of her own country and someone who really part of her life

was subject to coercive practices and torture. you know you have a political leader of great substance and and and really strong willed so i couldn't be delighted and i've been looking forward to your transition from meter to her when we discuss north korea or d p r k it's all about killing young nuclear ambitions there seems to be absolutely no public discussion or urgency about its appalling human rights record. what pressure can you bring in your final weeks on the job to remind people this isn't about just north korea's military but the millions of people who have suffered under three leaders i would dispute that it's been forgotten i mean perhaps in the context of

the the immediate discussions that. seem to be taking place it's not being mentioned but i don't think it's it's easy for anyone to think that given the severity of the human rights violations detailed in the kirby commission's report but also by our office and that work is continuing and ongoing there is a fear that if the negotiations were to mature that somehow these issues would be downgraded and that's that's a fear we have for the respect to many. conflicts that begin to wind down and during the conflict there's a strong record for accountability that the perpetrators would be punished and as we work our way through the peace agreements and then when people say not now not now and we leave it to you know a few years when it's cool down a bit what we find though is that later in the comes even more difficult and you

can all the victims need to feel that they're at the center of these negotiations that their pain is being attenuated and if you don't do that then it becomes problematic so we'll watch the d.p. r. k. file closely and i'm sure my successor successor will and if we see that it's been it's basically been pushed off the table certainly we're going to be speaking about it and we speak about it quite regularly do you fear that even though he has the legal right to do so that kim jong il could be addressing the general assembly in september but i don't know i mean that i don't know him and you asked me a question and i haven't really given much thought about. i mean the position the does it create the wrong impression that he's been well very bad well i think i think i mean clearly there were two would raise a lot of eyebrows and i mean the position of the u.n. as i understand it is that if you're indicted by an international court for. the

atrocity crimes crimes against humanity war crimes crimes and. crime of genocide then it would be really be impermissible for you to turn up in new york. but if there hasn't been a charge like that it's it's it's the evidence is still being collected although there's very strong indications of them or severe human rights conditions exist. and certainly they would be a lot of criticism of the un and high commissioner or an ex high commissioner wouldn't you're comfortable with that when you talk about technicalities that's certainly been the case in recent developments in the democratic republic of the congo. out of prison is filed his papers to run for president he was convicted of war crimes in the central african republic what happened here

how did we get to this point. well i haven't read the judgment of. the appellate judgment of the i.c.c. certain one way i don't want to go into it because i need to read the judgment right and then on the stand and certainly there were those within the international criminal law community who had their own feelings about the decision. but i would need to read myself and then form an opinion surge would be premature for me just to say anything about it but you can understand of course there are communities in the city there are but maybe limited there and even within that there are seeing who would see it as an odd. decision by the appellate body. on the other hand you know it's right legal systems in the world across the world we have decisions by courts that often arises reaction strong reactions it's not to

say the system has failed but the system gives an interpretation which seems could seem to be at odds with the jurisprudence that was generated history i need to look at the actual details before commenting on that but isn't this a case that we're not talking about a sovereign governments justice system we're talking about something that was set up and agreed to by you know it's natural community and that. all of the talk when he was convicted a decade ago and one of its validity of it acquiring a real sense of dealing with these sorts of atrocities may now have been undermined where do you it is that if this is an aberration if this is an arbor in the city and the you know it will reset itself or we've seen this before in terms of other other decisions taken by international courts or tribunals then the the question is is it an aberration or not and i have to read the decision and clearly the

you know the judges felt that they had had come up with a decision which they you know warranted the acquittal of jump. and and i i do need to see the decision before commenting and you'd be really improper for me to say something and then you lost me another question on the stand i had to turn or what i actually said in terms of on the resume put forward so i didn't see that syria yes. there seems to be a growing consensus that bashar assad is winning the war has he gotten away with war crimes. but i you know in the at the moment we have an accountability mechanism it's collating evidence that's going to continuing to collect evidence. the evidence has also been directed toward it from the commission of inquiry that's the operation and. one would believe that there would be

a strong push for accountability for truth telling that too many victims too many people have suffered in this cruel war to just let it pass to have it somehow forgotten and i would believe that there will be a time of reckoning for the president for its senior leadership and for others who are thought to have committed the murders crimes in syria where does that reckoning happen well it's the security council well no it's a reckoning before the victims before a court i mean we saw at the end of last year a number of things happened. where those who had perpetrated crimes many years ago must have thought they got away with it and for a while they did but then in the end right come not a choice convicted by the international criminal tribunal for the former yugoslavia

they were to form a argentine offices who were convicted for their role in the dirty wars the so-called dirty war many years ago there was a salvadorian colonel who was extradited from the u.s. to spain to face potential charges on account of alleged in involved mentor the killing of a jesuit priest in el salvador in one thousand nine hundred nine in other words there activists lawyers journalists the world over who are collecting evidence preparing evidence and and people may who have been complicit in the commission of war crimes and certainly if they were the sort of intellectual officer may. at some stage here comfortable that they may have got away with it and that they had been doing in any case something they believed was heroic and patriotic and perhaps it began to dawn on them later that maybe not so that maybe these are crimes against

humanity and war crimes and and then time caught up with them so you know it's yes there's a third to demand the need by certainly victims' groups to see someone who they believe has created so much suffering you know are held to account in a court of law but it sometimes takes longer and sometimes painfully long time to get but eventually i would hope in a context like syria that there will be justice for the victims of israel palestine the passage of the nation state law in jerusalem. is it understandable is it problematic and i said before and publicly it's clear it's that it's discriminatory and i don't see how else you could package an argument which makes sense to me. that states any objective observation of all of this and that's how we see it as an

office that seems to be discriminatory and all so what happens if you're an israeli and you're not also jewish or not you know you know it's a class right and you know obviously you fear that the law would be discriminating against you and it's clear i mean there is and there's been a reaction by various leaders of the druze community and the arab israeli community of course that's made its views known as well now and it's. you you know. in human rights terms again. to achieve any sort of stability tranquility three conditions need to one is that you don't discriminate about against people in your own country on the basis of race ethnicity color gender and so forth to that you don't deprive parts of your. community subject to those discriminations

from the large us of the state and keep them sort of without protection social protections three but you don't have people who live in fear in your country. and you have to remove that sense of fear and instill within them a respect for institutions of trust in institutions where basically they feel they will be treated fairly and if they feel they should be treated fairly then the little basis for them maintaining a sort of fearful state and so when you don't do those things then of course you you create tensions within society in fear that it's played on not everyone is sad to see you go oh i'm sure a lot of happy but no the israeli ambassador danny dano and sent out a statement saying this and i quote during his tenure at the h.r. see became a theater of the absurd human rights council with hypocrisy and double standards

rampant among its proceedings and reports. well look the ambassador i don't know the ambassador to be honest i mean he's never come to geneva i find it sort of quite strange that he talks of human rights and i assume that he knows very little about it. i am not the president of the human rights council and so for one it's a sort of conflate the two is it's nonsense but he said some of the things about me i mean i don't take him seriously because again he's not a human rights person i've known many israeli ambassadors worked with them and they seem to be in a serious about these issues. he's never come to geneva we've never discussed these issues. i don't take much or touch much importance to and says the well being of women activists in saudi arabia. have they been forgotten but i don't know if they've been forgotten are certainly our offices talked about we're talking about

them yes and we are concerned i mean any time when you have a number of activists arrested we worry about whether it be an arbitrary arrest on direction or policy at the direction of policy and so i'm sure my office opened up the channels and we want to understand what led to this exactly why has it set up and we would all naturally want to see earliest possible releases and certainly if their charges they should be released immediately and even if there were charges we need to understand what exactly they've been charged with are there other places around the world that you don't think get enough attention because of how their citizens are fairing or are not fairing. i've had some people in to talk about the situation nicaragua as one example yeah i

mean again if it's whether we in our office are missing things i tend to think generally when we do a good job i mean the maybe certain things that we don't see mediately and then we were alerted to by a specific n.g.o.s specific group that will say you know you need to look at this because it's really becoming dangerous and we weren't we were certainly do that nicaragua as a country i'm very worried about because as conducted sweeps and they're arresting detaining. young activists who are associated with the protests we need to be assured that these people are not being harmed and very concerned about the possibility of disappearances and forced disappearances and potentially. of course torture that and all of this we need to understand what is going on so i'm i'm talking to others i have been in touch with people in this country and we talk to

the europeans need to talk to the oas and i.c.c. but we need to all keep a very close eye on nicaragua because i very much fear for the stability of the state if the current government's policies are. continued and there is no accountability for what we saw was and it was horrific violence mainly by state actors and by the current military. forces involved you're stepping away at a rather contentious moment you know for the world you know. what do you know l. yeah i need. i need to spend time with my my family i have been away from them for four years. so i have to reintroduce myself to them. a little bit of a rest and then i'll pick up a gun and i'll sign something not too distant from the work that i've been doing just fine so people have not heard the last of you i don't think so either things

but i may need to rest before i pick it up. who do you see. coming behind you who is in the next generation of human rights advocates when i sit with young people who lead a protest movements who are courageous are willing to give everything all and who are very reason they understand the dangers to understand what could potentially happen to them and yet they would still do it that is real leadership for me and much more so than many politicians who masquerade as needed you know very concerned about you know protocol issues whether the first speaker in a particular conference there whether they're intitled with excellent season i don't know want. i find many of them not just frauds rid of the not the not serious

the serious people all the young human rights defenders. who are stake everything on account of principle and i think there is an incredible need to ship there are many on song and many of them not really known but they're out there and they're the hope of humanity to say it out of the same high commissioner for human rights thanks so much for talking to us on al-jazeera thank you so much you can. see. this was wrong to take children away from their parents and herd them into a school against their will there was no mother no father figures they put us in a big player and we sort of looked after so i don't remember the children's names but i'll never forget the kind of his dark secret on our. one of the

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the cards he dives to new lows. one says it's all because of attacks on turkey's on our return dignity but there's no. think there are economic problems and turkey's neighbors are feeling a bit nervous. also on the grid funerals and yemen for the victims of the solder attack and in amongst all the coffins well many of them belong to children the most grim of reminders about just who is bearing the brunt of the saudi emirate on them and didn't hear another plan to modernize this time the president's talking about equal inheritance rights for women which sounds like a big step forward but there are still conservative elements who are struggling with all the changes post revolution. from pres from apprentice to presidential advisor now enemy from a white house aide omarosa manigault newman is going off to donald trump with a new book and secret tape recordings and it's causing a serious online i'm making

a comment on the show using the hash tag eighteen spent. with the news grid live on air and streaming online through you tube facebook live and of al-jazeera dot com not a good start to the week for anyone holding turkish lira and that of course means basically the entire turkish economy banks are being offered support as the lira hit record lows but while there is clearly a problem here the cause is being disputed we'll start with the cold hard facts the current see a real up and down day currently the layer of trading only well actually it's below fifteen u.s. cents to the lira but look what happens as we go back in time this is what's happened over five days it's fallen from nineteen cents us cents over the last month it was up at twenty a year ago it was up close to thirty five years ago it was up close to fifty downward trend in fact i'm going to go back even further and if we use this is

a starting point that is the financial crisis in two thousand and eight we can see all the way up to here there has been an almost eighty one percent. drop in the value of the turkish lira extraordinarily however president reject tiber one insists the economy is not in crisis he instead is blaming the freefall on an outside plot to attack turkey's economy hippie music should go to. the recent events have shown us that our economy is under siege it is clear that these attacks will continue for a while longer the attacks on turkey's on our character and dignity demand that we must be prepared to fight back and defend against those attacks ok let's go to istanbul talk to cynical so you who's following events forests in him when the president talks about outside attacks what is he talking about specifically.

well come out the decline in the turkish lira was a has been expected for a while especially the following the failed coup in two thousand and sixteen but this much decline wasn't expected by any of the economic analyst either here present and on actually united states for the last couple of days let's say for the last one week united states and turkey has a dispute over the release of pastor bronson and dr branson an american pastor who has been who has lived in turkey for almost two decades following the failed coup in two thousand and sixteen turkish authorities arrested this pastor on terrorism chargers on a legit terrorism charges and the a and the break between united states and turkey is started with this event because united states which is trying to prepare itself for the midterm elections in in next november has been pushing for the release of this pastor who has been perceived as an important evangelist religious

character but turkish authorities say that this is a jewish judiciary process he's a please final verdict hasn't been heard so. that he was put under house arrest but president donald trump was not happy about this decision this was what was what was seen but of course for the last two years especially for the last one year united states has been pushing turkey to put at this the nz. for its relations between iran because when donald trump took the seat he has been saying that he will be punishing iran or he's going to make another deal what mr obama what president obama did wasn't on be health for the u.s. interests so that's what the trump has been pressuring turkey about this as world but when we talk to many political analysts they say that this is the bait. reason

and passive brasses case is just. is just the latest to speak but when we look at the turkish lira when we look at the turkish lira the tumble began with this political dispute between the two cinema just quickly tell me about how people are reacting how they're dealing with it i know that president one is is popular but when people see their money being affected and their livelihoods being affected that's when things can turn against politicians. well as you said president don is very popular he gets fifty two percent in last june elections and people give support to him that this decline in the turkish lira is out of control and it has to has turned out to be politically motivated and people believe that people buy the discourse in a way and also it is this discourse is in a way and partially supported by the economist as well but everybody has to bring

food to their home especially when you think about the manufacturers who are who are producing on important but aerials their costs have been higher but when you go to the market we haven't seen the reflections of this decline in the turkish lira when you're buying groceries or other things but probably the reflections will be seen following september this is what the economist warned turkish citizens people show support but there's also kind of a sentiment that people are not happy about that because they have been losing they have lost almost half of their savings against the american dollar especially within the last couple of days ok. thank you well he was in a real i had a comment on facebook turner as it is it's the beginning of the end of two arms really not something we can answer but people have to be careful about what they are saying on social media that are in this this is all coming from turkey's

interior ministry kemal where says it is going to be taking legal action against social media tells which in its words creates negative perception of the economy has already singled out almost three hundred fifty accounts and on top of this the financial crime investigation board is investigating attempts by so-called fake news to manipulate the economy interesting lay various tweets related to the lira and the economy that we've been keeping an eye on have been deleted as you can see from this post that link is now not available we don't really know if these uses. have taken them down individually or if it's part of the wind government crackdown and speaking of the crackdown it hasn't taken long for cartoons to start making the rounds as well this one compares president to want to venezuela's president nicolas maduro and it depicts added one trying to catch beds or the twitter logo with a net and others are making comical references to the president telling people. to

hold on to the lira but there are many others who also support the president this year he says that techie is fighting an economic war our economy is strong and we will win this fight through the government's cooperation with the people. and there's also this video that's getting a lot of shares at the moment proposing to show cut sarees buying turkish lira as well al jazeera has not been able to independently verify this clip and we've also been speaking to some texas citizens one of them is she and she is currently living in germany this is what she had to say. i think that we need to let this play out just a little bit more so you're not seeing big protests on the streets that you might see in places like rumania or venezuela or even greece when you have big currency in free falls like this and the reason for that is that domestically the turkish economy still good people can still afford to put food on their tables and so unless the situation carries on for another two or three months that's where you

feel the pinch the main area where ordinary turks will feel the pinch is a if they decide to travel overseas because the value of their lira will be a lot less which means it will be much more expensive for tricks to go on holiday or to go study anything that requires them going out of the country and the second area where you see an immediate impact are in the value of imported goods so we already saw pictures coming in on friday and over the weekend of shoppers going to these non turkish brands to buy up as much as they can until the price difference is reflected in there or if you are currently in tech we do want to get your thoughts on this how has it affected you collect us use the hash tag. thanks for here turkey's currency has been problematic well as i showed on the graph for quite a while but you know back even further into the al-jazeera archives found this article turkey to introduce new currency it is actually from september of two thousand and four so it predates our channel but not how website the bit of

highlighted there the new currency will be the same as the old one minus six zeros that is how bad the inflation had become back then to the point where the smallest coin was a twenty five thousand lire piece which was worth one cent and the biggest bank was twenty million there about thirteen dollars it all got changed one new leader it was then with a million of the old ones and so began the slow economic recovery which turkey has . well you understand so is a chief market analyst at c.m.c. markets a brokerage chance who we spoke to a little bit earlier he told us there is a good chance that this market uncertainty in turkey will spread you see the reaction in the euro to the versus the u.s. dollar and you saw the reaction in the dax index on friday both went down the you were just continues to fall right now so people really fear and investors fear that there could be some sort of contagion or at least there is a large amount of uncertainty right now and that's what markets don't like they

don't like uncertainty and that's what we clearly have right now it would be very very important to safeguard repayments of the debt that turkey has to to foreign investors it's primarily a debt that needs to be paid to spanish bangs to italian banks to french banks as well as to some amount or at least a lesser amount of german banks and there are one hundred eighty billion dollars to you over the course of the next twelve months so investors need to be saved to to get their money back and that's what is causing the fear right now the leader of the subject of a recent edition of counting the cost as well i think everything pretty neatly summed up by the guest charles robinson from renaissance capital who said these tough economic times for turks now really they've only gotten even tougher haven't they get all the background of the lira slide and what is next for the currency counting the cost it is in the show's section at al jazeera dot com. and you can get in touch with us as well really mentioned it before here came our contact

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