the united nations responded by deploying a peacekeeping force into south lebanon. known as unifil part of this force was made up of norwegian troops i had visited for the first time and as part as as a norwegian sewn into. visiting the uni field forces in lebanon. i came with friends through israel then ask about the lucy i've been to dog a synonym with that's not stuck in east. it in most developed a dome and all the hard to get a foot if i'm sitting in that office just didn't get it but i. did offer shifting even long enough to get instilling in it he didn't help nor their contribution did approximately one thousand soldiers and the course and security of those soldiers

was a very important cause for to us the very vulnerable the first. list well. as the working cause contacts the p.l.o. in that context missing in the. minister of foreign affairs but it was the deputy minister states he followed the situation very close at the time know of this of oh that's the death thinking. what makes as we in the this. is. when it comes to. the candidate who has been a uni been two years be the leader in all. of our viewers have also seen. some of them in in all the little colonel bridge over here supposedly.

and that was. the. list of well philistine. as you near. let me share. a more club in norway was more supportive. than many of the others and i think. any of the other european states under there are several reasons one of the most important. and the mention the labor party and the rich and trade union there is for his state for all our socialist experiment. almost social democratic. like the one we have in no way.

in the late one nine hundred seventy s. there was a common bond of socialist ideology between noise labor party and its namesake in israel. one of the key players in this special relationship was a prominent labor party member of norway's parliament johan you're going holst mr holst. person at the political level to me out of. the minister. or the minister of defense. he came to be a roots. in july i think it was in seventy nine he made it. and they offer a lot of hot then why did the whole group. very pleasant did that mr holst's had very close contact. and that it's that aspect of

mr hall spread even more interesting that out of. interest in ordinary was that he already called things he said. that in the us a little prick. up in me i don't mean i mean it doesn't conflict that almost just before and in. the sultry halls on the. it was our own losses of trauma gillet you can do and i was with one. you know mozart upward to him and moved to the future no look now. in one thousand nine hundred seventy nine the shah of iran fled into exile. israel lost an hour and a major oil supplier. the united states asked no way to guarantee to sell its north sea oil to israel concerned about repercussions for its un troops in lebanon norway scented stapler mats hands long to seek assurances from arafat mr arafat's.

defecting on the phone if you split seconds he said i've been. gyptian to such an obvious and good t. to me he said on one condition when i need this secret back channel three said you provided. yasser arafat wanted the norwegians to act as intermediary between himself and israel and the regions and the norwegian government were just shocked to hear the message coming back from our of so probably lived in seventy nine. every year from there not you know mentioned try to step up a secret actual between the funeral and israel but israel absolutely not willing at all to listen to anything other than the region could come up with from

arafat's on appeal. in one nine hundred eighty two the p.l.o. lost its base in lebanon. palestinian fighters were forced to depart following the israeli invasion of lebanon three months earlier. a us brokered deal that led to arafat and his entourage moving to tunisia it was. an imitation from to my previous foreign minister and friedman. and myself defense minister. and they went in. to.

new year's eve without effort in tunis. out of all stars. help him getting. the mean p.l.o. and part. time. a member of the assembly of this of the list in. turn to be. a strong interest in the socialist in nothing for trying to contribute to normalization of. the relationship between then and. to help with his charm offensive arafat turned to senior p.l.o. member the time to act as his main go between all our fault i point the doctor

. he came to visit me because i said this from. your very good impression of him i believe that the p.l.o. has been to give it just achievement of our suffering people i believe that the p.l.o. is the most needed. and then we should meet in the old blue pharaoh there was the socialist in national assembly meeting in portugal and then some shooting suddenly. in the lobby. and. killed. some sort where he'd been killed by a lone gunman who pumped five shots into his chest it has never been clearly verified the assassination loves the tawi but the motive appears to be because he

was talking to the israelis on arafat's behalf got the ball so that we. position. he did so we take against the stream in face of great objection and danger. our offense continued a double game on the one hand seeking discreet diplomatic channels to israel via the norwegians while on the other hand publicly maintaining a revolutionary rhetoric. was out of the young tree i was. at walmart and they had a fit. with the b. who do this to the store to but that did. in the ne. that can be death cool if it does show them

a nice. new store. and do more good for them it is has been no man has been there when this. any. not been there i was in the condo but why didn't the one about to work that. out of it . can you be mad what this to me that. is here bad must in obstructing it twenty years on stoltenberg will not betray the secrecy of conversations between the p.l.o. and israel we tried. to prepare for and they were. both in the clear that this. labor party started their. very much try before home where the people from the israeli labor party that you were contacting mr shimon peres or the other. problem is never did.

i have not told. you know i only. part. is not coming from what i say from all the things i didn't say. in the mid eighty's the labor party in israel formed a coalition government with the. party should mean i gave a nod and a wink for likud member moshi amaranth to hold secret talks with palestinian politician is allowed husseini in jerusalem. discussion centered on p.l.o. recognition of israel autonomy on the west bank and a federal relationship with jordan. the so-called arab husseini plan became a model for the subsequent oslo accords years later. course all that was soon to offer by the outbreak of the first intifada. the

palestinian uprising which took both israel and the p.l.o. by surprise. and. just the sight of them to be a ruler. might have been all but they asked was there a lot of promise. to you well when demand. a no neck men yet. yes the thought of palestinian boys throwing stones against israel tanks. this david and goliath contest put the israelis under great pressure time was now out of the essence. in an exclusive for al jazeera the norwegian foreign ministry has released highly confidential documents that include

a nine hundred eighty eight and delivered letter from foreign minister stoltenberg to israeli foreign minister peres stoltenberg wrote that only by relieving itself of the burden of the occupied territories can israel succeed and prosper. without the broke with. the rebels all the critics up through for through and through through and through. come with then you're going to play whatever you want. the minute the many and you have been for this they need you i mean that zeph the most fun. that can feel welcome again and yes it off duty and you know cool national guard out of a thing or you know at a very let's give to do the live in of a state i'm not doubting. sophie the i'm not dumb or not that's just

being. you know the wife of the other one of them look at the how do you i let me begin with you know how to be in the livia's to hire able. to hear fi november the film while shut up. for of the year fearlessly me except i want united nations editions thank you ditto for it and i thank the international gillick. against intermission it gets fed to robin in which the mad only let the cannibal cop down well more than the not so much to have here come of the might have had the by the value of the hammer yesterday in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight sweden mediated between the p.l.o. and the united states a public meeting was held in stockholm. but only meant if you know parliament

if you. had accepted it at its highest bit and you would stay between is that. in his speech to the u.n. general assembly in geneva in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight arafat formally condemned terrorism. geneive. the muslim american. nor. was it. a happy don't you be. ok. obama. i mean you. would feel. this move good luck to you or in the. bill english you.

should have people do. for. unknownst. for. as ford did it is. i announce him. yesterday in no uncertain database. and yet. i repeat for the record. before that it could. lead to a technique and absolutely you know in. order for them is over thirty days. or four of these days. including and arafat had accepted the israeli time in state to start.

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and he's heading to new york and says the u.s. will quotes regret its aggressiveness. the victims fell as innocent martyrs went down to lead the islamic republic of iran does not overlook this crime it is clear to us to which group the attackers belong and to where they are linked those who repeat claims about respecting human rights must be held accountable the small puppet countries that we see in the region are backed by america and the united states is provoking them and giving them the necessary capabilities to commit these crimes the polls will remain open for an extra three hours in the mall deaves as people continue to vote in a presidential election soon as a test of democracy the president mean is running for a second term but since taking office here means being accused of silencing dissent and consolidating his power on saturday the opposition's campaign headquarters was raided by the police who said they were investigating electoral fraud the u.n.

humanitarian chief says yemen is approaching a tipping point with famine a major threat three quarters of the population about twenty two million yemenis need some kind of humanitarian assistance because of the three year long war. the annual conference of britain's main opposition labor party is starting with bracks it causing lots of arguments the labor party leader jeremy corbin says a general election is needed if the prime minister to resign may fails to win support for her brics it plans critics say she was humiliated by european union leaders in salzburg austria three days ago when they rejected her plans to leave there are just six months to go before brics it is to happen. israel has given people living in a palestinian village seven days to move out earlier this month the supreme court approved its demolition to make way for illegal settlements about two hundred people living in a bedouin villages called qana it's in the occupied west bank israel says the

villagers should tear down their homes or they'll be demolished after october the first those are your headlines i'm back with the news hour in thirty minutes that sixty minutes of news and comments between now and then out of your world. it's the cheapest rail service in the deal congo the largest country in sub-saharan africa the swallow crosses half the country from lubumbashi to a labor. it's the only link between remote villages and the outside world. the swallow has been around for more than fifty years like a local bus it stops a virtually every station passengers clamber the remaining seats people cram into whatever space they can find. nearly two thousand people all together three times the officially permitted capacity for those who weren't able to find a place or who can't afford a ticket there's always the route. travelers have to remain alert

a lapse in attention could be fatal. the danger comes not just from above. even if the moderate speed of thirty kilometers an hour on a tree branch can cut like a machete. for the record in december nine hundred eighty eight p.l.o. leader yasser arafat known to his colleagues as abu ammar publicly renounced violence. boredom is all. over the years norway had discreetly been talking to the p.l.o. . with arafat's renouncing violence norway was now ready to pay him an official visit at the p.l.o. headquarters in tunis so this will move along two groups. or they are both just in to go to very little. to school on the journey. to school.

for the first time and the reason for them is the visit the p.l.o. it was definitely a successful visit because it was a breakthrough who faces. the same person in this sort of old style. the father of the prime minister of norway today. on mission to arafat's in tunis in one thousand eight hundred nine. i thought a thing that a hard. part. no one knew about the norwegians worked with arafat on creating a channel of communication between the p.l.o. and the israel. from public scrutiny. it's the first time in a big splendid of he saw. facts. being established and the idea of using out of each little search institution was the idea of mystery

of our offer which. during that. they had plowed or decided which research institute in no way up they they i agree it would be a good cover and they also agreed that. no it should minister of foreign affairs should pay for it all that was also i read in the document. fofo was a think tank in all slue founded by the trade unions and connected to noise labor party it was chosen by the norwegian foreign minister as the perfect host for secret talks between israelis and palestinians it's direct. he would go on to become a key figure in the negotiations that led to the oslo accords. with funding from the norwegian foreign ministry in one thousand nine hundred ninety five who started

to undertake research in the middle east its first study to examine the living conditions in the occupied west bank and gaza strip. and so forth. the living conditions of young people growing up under the intifada what kind of effect on them. maybe more on the sort of mental psychological effect of growing up in such. a violent. and why meant but then it was more a social context it turned out to because because that was sort of this special ality. far for. it it turned up to be a little more on the sort of yeah more socio economic. i mean unemployed all these kinds of indicators of social economic life so who were the researchers that worked

on this project from norway yeah they're very aware there were many. one of them that sort of us heading. that service down the hay bag who was the wife of. if he wasn't at the time that he later became the foreign minister you on the horse. i was i was working in this out of what they call their the foreign ministers cabinet or the or the secretariat my husband was with fassel. legen lost a state secretary more now you know and i had studied political science in the university we had been skiing together we had been to. university camps together and her husband tell you that lawson i also knew from his work as an academic and his work in creation of farfel the trade union think tank

so these were my friends when i became already when i became. the deputy of thomas donnelly book in the ministry of foreign affairs is often difficult for foreigners to understand the law is very very small time for the labor party house rule of law work for the most of the post war period so you have collections and you are almost probably is married together within the labor party almost male sometimes call it the royal labor party because they are like a dynasty. this was very tight knit foreign minister stoltenberg appointed yun egeland as his deputy. and mona util as a girl and secretary she was married to terry araud lawson the director of faffing . stoltenberg sister in law was marianne hi berg who worked in far from she was

married to defense minister johan you're going to hold. this made holes and the foreign minister stoltenberg brothers in law holds himself later became foreign minister this extended political family became the norwegian team in the secret israeli p.l.o. talks they could use that research as it used the institution as a as a front for a diplomatic effort to to facilitate peace talks between the two parties and then do that in all secrecy you are very critical about this why. i think research is in the should not usually be in the. will take two hots being double roles in tel aviv another research institute was also acting as a cover for communication between the israelis and palestinians. this was the

economic cooperation foundation set up by israeli labor party m p u c balan the n.g.o.s that we were leading huge that in myself and enjoy which was created earlier by bailey and his friend we were able to go between the two sites in jerusalem and pass messages and come with ideas and even bring the two sides i'm officially together and the hour of an ngo i was involved with talking to the side for many years in a very informal way mainly we. will sandy if from is jerusalem. with whom it was easy to talk. by nine hundred eighty nine with the palestinian intifada in its second year there were few signs of hope for peace. hundreds of palestinians had been killed and

thousands detained. by the united states under president george bush started to increase the pressure on israeli prime minister yitzhak shamir the first or so this will become for stuff to stay just the first stage full interview. conditions. this released. lord they're full autonomy etc just such an states will be vexed and that was she a source. good condition that the palestinian not ups and some other countries if they've joined they've never ceased. plea on peace talks.

have ended told election. minister territories that democrats believe true that represent their believe. everything changed in the region when iraq invaded kuwait in one nine hundred ninety. the united states led a coalition of nations that retaliated against iraqi forces just two hours ago allied air forces began an attack on military targets in iraq in kuwait. these attacks continued as. arafat's rejected a military solution to iraq's invasion of kuwait this proved a costly decision before the. p.l.o. to. big for that support from that it got states. off to the

void because of. the. support to saddam hussein that financial support disappeared they came all it's of that. void. very viki and i think frank was also vulnerabilities. these c.d.'s then are more interested in discussing with them off they go for that beef. we of course have copes with elections for the united states of america. they lie there defend and made no secret war we protect the piano or basically. all that it's meant bastes all know we're going to be a little bit over the medical evidence yes. in the aftermath of the nine hundred

ninety one gulf war the united states and the soviet union co-hosted a peace conference in the spanish capital of madrid we have an opportunity. i think a real opportunity to see. arabs arab states. sitting down face to face in direct negotiations with israel but they will let the will do. the a because you had to show me a you. and norm one of them at the moment and. where you. men are all going for this the need that the bottom of the. international. oh yeah look at. the years in your little boy in a blue with him or him in neutral borrow of them philammon e.c.s.

in norfolk island. the. tomorrow. men feel we're fit for this thing oh don't you must. come out as i have the whole world. a little yesterday about. the israelis lay down a fixed negotiating position the only people were relieved in the land of israel without interruption phone nearly four thousand years. shafi led the palestinians within the joint jordanian palestinian delegation at the talks but it's the union your islam the capital of our homeland and you're just fine but it's been in existence was present and future the settlements must stop now. for peace is it obvious to you and territory for illegal settlement of the shell is

there any policy and practice. the three day conference ended with plans for further bilateral and multilateral negotiations between israel and the arabs. documents released after the conference reveal that shamir thought madrid a success. and that james baker said that the us did not support an independent palestinian state. in. the future looky him was he him and now so for not to have that. israelis who celebrated the end of hanukkah in washington arrived five days late an attempt to make it clear to the united states that back here on their own terms for spawn to pressure off the madrid negotiations moved to washington d.c.

we sincerely feel there are ideas. fully in conformity with the framework of this process as it was made ahead and we speak with a joint journey and palestinian delegation. believing everybody. we met likely my pin the morning. they had as of delegations. we discussed the matter of procedures. and we could not three yet. and i give him an. israeli government shifted and. to the grounds returned and openly declared pollution all claiming all palestinian territory not conceding anything but this union. refusing to

recognize. unit you. don't let the can you. share feeling hard on what few rushed about and i'm not question i was the last mijo journey been a newbie can you say you can get all this theater and this rarest ever mare more and more angry about these were all distinguished talking about. he said how come you have back problems but if it's all or so he had much more under the there are much more. straightforward approach to peace. for the palestinians negotiator hider. kept the focus of his agenda on one burning issue the illegal israeli settlement

construction in the occupied palestinian territories. by nine hundred ninety one the number of israeli settlers in the west bank and gaza strip exceeded one hundred thousand the result. of the sea or more than magic. but in the. most. part. of the. felon that we decide. where should a year. random afresh i love this really feel different for the student from of the us move forward a little more for the tutor but they were put on top of. i would say one of the most important messages that they got in our almost daily contacts with the shah and hussein in to say binds eoghan all of the palestinian leaders if p.l.o. will not be involved the won't be any progress and more so showing husseini told

us very clear. honey showing for us that was and they told us something very very kill if you would like to have an agreement with a palestinian partner who can make concessions there's only one endless and this is the p.l.o. . as i would like to all of us here for the policy so they must oversee it with other presented over the palace for president of the police force is the fear of if they disqualify the p.l.o. then they're not going to have any palestinian to talk to and from without washington but that could do for we saw it ill is to matthew ocean to morgan urged to mad to teenie the quality welford washroom to a larger well for diversion to him i met with any lower shrimp will we do benefits while one. beam of our boats hillary in new more will but. i'm relieved was that the man. when nearly the

most on that issue if she would suggest i didn't and then i'd remove all doubt. the p.l.o. again approached norway to open a new and secret channel with the israelis in february of one nine hundred ninety two senior p.l.o. official ahmed khurana known as abu allah travelled to all slowed up while a canvas witness with the home. managed to makeover. for the man a man who was in her last thought about what they can to kill the p.l.o. starts to send signals to us here. comes that we norway could become their link to israel if israel was interested then came back some i will show riff and he was even more explicit and

said i am talking on directly i have a message straight from the top. norway should try to do this. and it has to be direct lee linked with p.l.o. tunis leadership on the minutes of their secret meeting in all slow reveal that bassam abu sharif told the norwegians that if there were peace the p.l.o. would influence the arab world to stop the boycott of israel. it takes two to tango we did not have the israeli side i had met. bin before he was elected on one of my missions two to his friend april one thousand nine hundred two in april one thousand two we met be in. the he came for breakfast and then wage an embassy and we asked him what is your

approach to the palace here he said i am keen to see some kind of a negotiated settlement in one thousand nine hundred ninety two the israeli labor party led by yet sacra beam won the general election rabin continued israel's policy of settlement building in public he spoke optimistically of progress in the peace negotiations did will be possible to reach an agreement was the palestinian delegation to stop the sh'ma and of me be the first and most important task for our government. shimon peres was appointed foreign minister. you see balan here on the left was appointed his deputy and duri severe on the right the general manager.

beilin was given the green light to start the secret direct negotiations with the p.l.o. in no way the point about millie was because no way was out of the e.u. it head independent foreign policy we had meetings with us and we teach people and be out of many many many meetings. but very little came out of it but then started to understand much better the mindset of both parties they lean actually told the norwegians that it's good that they will make contact with his friend later i joined in order to facilitate you know that to let you know that you have liked to n.g.o.s to non-governmental dialogue this was the we met he met. with also before i met him april and later we found a brother in

a way and many things were similar to our way of thinking his wife was the head of the office of the minister his deputy and second is the minister and the deputy were close friends of laos and all of them from the labor party or old friends missed those told them was the foreign minister i knew him very well and the he was very very enthusiastic about. this who was. minister for defense research in new york talking of the general assembly in september. and in the. on the basis of those contacts and follow up contacts. the. minute that. time was that i try to follow the suggestion to me so i felt the p.r.

and forth were exactly weak enough so this was exactly the time that israelis should choose to start negotiating with p.l.o. outside p.l.o. the force there was almost dead as fuck was the strong power and decided who to talk to. talk the talk of the negotiations they talked no way no way could like it or dislike it they could. stay or go oh. a new and self-confident israeli government and the p.l.o. still cast as outsiders by the world community. they were now on the secret road to the oslo accords but much would need to happen before the diplomatic phenolic on the white house lawn. twenty

five years after the signing of zero world tells the behind the scenes story of norway's war and the oslo accords they wanted to have what they froze deniability and reveals how secret negotiations were skewed. told his friend mr everett at our compound and why they're still here to deliver on so much that was promised the price of oslo on al-jazeera. by the sky nine information harbor or off the coast of the italian riviera.

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let's get going the iranian president mr rouhani is clear who he blames the revolutionary guard is vowing revenge for the attack on a military parade the fallout is rippling around the world diplomats have been summoned by iranian officials after twenty five people were. killed and gunman opened fire in the southern city of ours iran's foreign minister summoned the amorality shot following a tweet by a prominent political scientist which that the attack was quote not an act of terrorism envoys from the u.k. the netherlands and denmark of also being called into the foreign ministry in tehran their governments accused of harboring opposition groups to gulf countries are being blamed for backing the group which carried out the attack senior iranian military officers are pointing fingers at saudi arabia while the president says the u.s. is intent on creating instability before leaving for the united nations general assembly in new york hassen rouhani accused u.s.

backed gulf arab states of providing financial and military support for anti government ethnic groups the united nations kuwait and cats are have condemned the attack was in basra he joins us live from tehran zain in amongst all the conspiracy theories as far as we know up to this hour what are the facts of what happened. well from what we understand from the iranian perspective is that they blame an ethnically arab separatist group operating out of province called. and as far as they're concerned this group was behind the attack there were some initial reports of the islamic state claiming responsibility those were denied swiftly by the government here in iran and people we've been speaking to have said that there is evidence to point to the fact that this group was definitely behind the attack and that they were backed by foreign sponsors and iran has wasted no time in turning the blame to the people that it feels is responsible for supporting

separatist groups that operate within iranian territory and often carry out low level attacks of course an attack of the scale is rare in iran now the latest on the ground is the families of those who were killed yesterday are preparing for funerals and local officials. have declared tomorrow as an official day of mourning there is a great deal of anger here from civilian and military leaders alike over the attack and the relatively high death toll that it resulted in the result so several injuries of both military and civilians now what we've been hearing in the last few hours is a statement from the chief of iran's armed forces and its tone was more familiar with what we hear from the united states than from iran he said in his statement that iran was determined now more than ever to hunt down as he called them terrorists wherever they are in the world and wipe them out and meanwhile the

iranian president hassan rouhani on his way to new york for this year's u.n. general assembly had this message before he left iran. be one of. the victims fell as innocent martyrs on down to lead a islamic republic of iran does not overlook this crime it is clear to us to which group the attackers belong and to where they are linked those who repeat claims about respecting human rights must be held accountable the small puppet countries that we see in the region are backed by america and the united states is provoking them and giving them the necessary capabilities to commit these crimes. is there an expectation when you are saying that if they are to defuse tensions that might happen at the u.n. in new york but having said that donald trump is going to be at the u.n. in new york and as we know relations between this white house administration and the administration in tehran you couldn't very well describe him as being positive

. that's exactly right. from what we've heard in the last twenty four hours since this attack happened it seems that iran intends on putting up a really strong front with international leaders that the president and his and his team meet with at the united nations now from what we understand of those diplomats that are here in tehran that were summoned by the foreign ministry we had the representatives of the netherlands of holland of great britain and the u.a.e. summoned and they were all given the same message that the definition for terrorism has to be singular across the board for all countries of the world and that simply being by harboring good leaders and members of groups that operate in iran that is simply aiding terrorists as the foreign ministry put it that operate inside the country and so what we're expecting going forward in response to this attack as

well as the diplomacy that iran is carrying out is a strong front and unflinching and unwavering in their rhetoric when it comes to dealing with the fallout of this attack zain thanks very much. will be. an iranian affairs analyst he says it is not unreasonable to accuse the united states of attempting to cause instability inside iran. don't forget the us sir national security advisor john bolton actually sets last year that effort similar to the efforts of the un your group to group that claimed responsibility for this attack should be supported. and yesterday while this attack was happening rudy giuliani president trump's lawyer was actually speaking at an event of another excited group or terrorist group. and that kind of relationship both between

mr bolton and any case. and also message of yani and also some of the statements that have come out of the. state department in the past point in that direction that the u.s. is going far beyond diplomatic efforts to try to put pressure on iran and to weaken iran so i think there is enough substance to start a conversation to to say these type things of activities these types of activities are not. should not be tolerated anywhere in the will not the first time that we hear on such a language from mr trump and i'm his closest confidantes and i think there should be a strong message from all the other international players too or as the united states to say that these types of rhetorical attacks and also support for terrorist organizations are counterproductive on all levels i mean they may think that they

are actually trying to put pressure on iran but this type of tension as we are seeing right now creates additional regional tension in a region that desperately needs the escalation on all levels. voting has been extended into the evening in the maltese presidential election an extra three hours has been added on to long queues outside the polling venue many opponents of the current president are in exile and the european union decided not to send election observers for the news on his unexpressed populace. it was all smiles as president abdullah yeah and his main rival ibrahim mohammed sali crossed the balance and some things poll. here means critics accuse him of acting as a strongman imprisoning or exile in political rivals the election lucking transparency there's no credible election observers in maldives at the moment because all the. democratic countries as well as the european union

decided that the government had not been bludgeoned the government had not been doing requesting what they have requested to do the right of the elections that is to. free the party does. by supreme court of february first but none of these things happened so they decided that they would not observe this election and give any credibility to this election and those critics questioning because of the election would be free and fair so they were proved right on saturday the eve of the poll security police raided the headquarters of the main opposition the mole deaves democratic but this latest crackdown to start with the only viable alternative to president putin progressive party doesn't suddenly suppositions supporters they say the election was a referendum on whether the multis continues to slide towards authoritarianism and even the believing that mean for us to come here i did not mean that. as you know

you can't think that they would lose anything here because they want to me because they want to change their mind because they believe that maybe i mean not me and. let me look you voters in the. after molly cue to cast their ballot some cautiously optimistic that change is still possible and this is going to take just my aides and i'm going to board and i'm hoping that we have a free and fair election. there are only a quarter million registered voters in the world to use your position say the pick to read for president get me and his reelection for another five years is a foregone conclusion. alex the topless dizzier. well the maldives has been rife with political turmoil since democracy was introduced ten years ago mohamed nasheed became the country's first freely elected president in two thousand and eight but he was forced to resign in a coup four years later in twenty fifteen

a sheep were sentenced to thirteen years in prison on charges of terrorism he says were politically motivated the current president abdullah i mean came to power in twenty five team during his five year tenure two former presidents a prosecutor general and a number of opposition politicians have been jailed in alleged unfair trials with most potential rivals out of the picture you mean has only one opponent here's mohamed salah he has a coalition of four opposition parties whose leaders are either in jail or they're in exile on the eve of the vote sellers campaign office was raided by the police but no evidence of electoral fraud was uncovered the opposition leader says this election is the last chance to restore democracy in the moldy but stay with that we're going to talk now to mohamed nasheed formally president of the republic of the mall deaves he joins us from colombo mohammed nasheed thanks for joining us what happens if mr mean goes.