that they still reserve the right to defend their positions with which they have been fortifying in the past days they've also been talking about. the other side carving out attacks on their differences and positions in the different frontlines in the city the residents of the city say some fighting has been going on outskirts of the city jim monti is the us defense secretary saying that there's been a ceasefire by the other side and has called on all parties to seize the hostilities under tom talks more than half a million civil servants a taking part in a nationwide strike in tunisia after the government and labor union failed to reach an agreement on pay tunisians want the government to honor last month's agreement to raise public wages at a time when inflation is at a record high the country's under immense pressure from international lenders to

freeze wages as part of reforms and reducing the budget deficit. the wife of a u.k. citizen handed a life sentence by a court in the u.a.e. for spying says the british government has put its relationship with his ally ahead of his welfare the family of matthew hedges says there are contradictions between the official statement from the u.a.e. prosecutor general and what actually happened it also accuses the gulf state of presenting fabricated evidence the british foreign secretary has warned of serious diplomatic consequences for the united arab emirates the news about matthew hedges is absolutely devastating and our thoughts are with matthew and his wife daniela and his family today. and we are incredibly disappointed that the u.a.e. should do this we see no foundation in the charges that have been laid against him we've raised the issue repeatedly i raised it last week with crown prince mohammed himself and yet despite that we have today's news there will be

serious diplomatic consequences for a country that says that it is a friend and ally of the united kingdom but right now our thoughts with matthew and his family and we want to do everything we can to get him home as soon as possible arming go to paul brennan our correspondent in london and pull it sounds from what the wife is saying that there are real questions about due process having been gone through in the united arab emirates. yeah i mean this is got the makings of a really serious diplomatic crisis between the u.k. and the united arab emirates and let's just compare the two statements one from the u.a.e. attorney general from weapons day and a statement from the family and just picking out a couple of the inconsistency is first of all the u.a.e. said that matthew had just pleaded guilty to all the charges but the family say he was made to sign a document in arabic in which it is now been disclosed was

a confession statement he wasn't aware that that was what it was again the u.a.e. says he was accorded his full rights and assurances but the family say he was held for over five and a half months in solitary confinement without any indication of what he was being held for the two just don't seem to tally and just one final contradiction to the u.a.e. he exhausted all methods of defense by his lawyer joining the trial but the families say that october the tenth was his third quarter hearing and that was the first one he had with a lawyer there were only a total by my arithmetic of five court hearings before his life sentence was pronounced the final one was just five minutes long it doesn't sound to me to be sort of a jew process and a fair trial it appears to be something close as a summary justice and the united kingdom and the united arab emirates have enjoyed a fairly close tight relationship haven't they for many years now the foreign secretary suggesting that that could be at stake now. indeed serious

diplomatic consequences is what he's talking about not putting any specifics on that is going to be meeting this afternoon thursday with daniela to how that that's matthew had his wife who flew back from the u.a.e. early this morning arrived back in the u.k. presumably resting up at the moment after that flight which is you to meet the foreign secretary jeremy hunt at some point during the afternoon she has been critical of the way that the foreign office has treated matthew's case she believes that there wasn't enough urgency on the has been of course a change of personnel boris johnson was the foreign secretary for the first two months of matthew had his captivity but now that jeremy hunt is involved and you can hear you know you heard already from the clip that we played of jeremy hunt he doesn't seem to be very much involved with pushing for matthew hedges to be released saying very strongly that there is no evidence at all for him to be held

on these spying charges that he has been sentenced to life in prison and for but yeah that the wife of matthew has has been quite critical of the foreign office and i think that meeting this afternoon will be a chance for the two of them to get together and push in the same direction and that is to continue to campaign for matthew had his freedom released who brennen live in london thank you. still to come there are protests not ask is why there is little need to celebrate the seventy fifth anniversary of lebanon's independence plus. the refugees call it the game but it's a game that will always losing the european union has turned their back on their suffering i'm david chaytor in bosnia herzegovina. hello a good part of mainland china has gone quiet to get in the rain has ceased this

scudding clouds cortana don't think it'll be rain bearing and we're left with a day for cross with temperatures in the high teens to low twenty's low humidity yeah there's some fog around it takes a while to go but the sun is in the sky for most of the day if anything temps to slowly rising from shanghai down to hong kong over the next two days or west of this of course a settled period now a rather poor air quality from new delhi south as for the valley still big showers for a hundred ish possibly west with the next day or two and the potential for rain or snow and the hindu kush that's really only a potential friday doesn't show very much in the forecast no the rains concerts for as for the science to fields from which is no surprise is correct this time of the year as the arabian peninsula ask getting wet again what's coming to the moment by friday will produce significant rain in the northeast of saudi arabia with a lot of takes it back to mecca potential for the storms and therefore flash

flooding almost certainly flooding in kuwait and the western side of iran in the whole of his drifting size to the gulf potentially affecting bahrain even counter on saturday or maybe sunday again a flash flood risk. well the online when you're looking at wildlife and how the solutions come together to benefit all parties involved that's where we're going to have long term success or if you join us on sat if you could take me around the content where would you take me you don't have to set up your experiment for your experiment in the universe this is a dialogue everyone has a voice you actually research all interesting point there that several of our community members are going to join the global conversation on al-jazeera.

let's have a look at the top stories here about zero about ankara has called for the suspects in jamal khashoggi is murdered to be tried in turkey basic and turkey of calling for those responsible for his death to be held accountable need growing calls for an independent international into investigation. until his media is reporting that the cia has evidence which links saudi crown prince mohammed bin. to the killing of jamal khashoggi a columnist for the newspaper has written that mohammed bin salman instructed his brother his the ambassador to washington to silence jamal khashoggi as soon as possible this conversation was reportedly captured in a ouattara friend. and yemen fighting is continuing in the port city of the data

despite u.s. defense secretary james mattis saying the saudi u.a.e. coalition has stopped its offensive. that britain's prime minister says a future relationship with the e.u. after breck's it has now been agreed upon she is calling it the right deal for the u.k. in order to lead the european union the e.u. is shuttle to vote on the agreement on sunday. the british people want this to be settled they want to good deal that sets us on a course for a brighter future that deal is within our grasp and i am determined to deliver it or i need parker as a correspondent at westminster in central london and need the agreement that we're referring to rip with regard to the future relationship between britain after its withdrawing from the european union and the rest of the union is something that was agreed with the president of the european commission if i understand rightly health

far along does this take mrs may. on the road on the path to achieving the objective. well it really completes the circle when it comes to ending at least the first stage which is to come up with two drop proposals the first on the withdrawal agreement and now on the future political relationship with the e.u. both of these draft proposals will now go to the e.u. twenty seven who will decide their fate essentially at that all important summit in brussels on sunday we know some of the details in this future relationship document some of it talks about mobility between the e.u. and the u.k. some about access to things like fisheries and also whether or not visas might be needed post breaks it to also crucially on the kind of trading relationship that we will exist between the u.k. and the e.u. going forward as well there appear to be quite a few red lines that may have been crossed firstly the suggestion that if e.u.

or u.k. people want to stay on each other's territories for any length of time they may well need visas that have been a big issues some major concerns have been raised about that also no mention whatsoever about frictionless trade seen as being absolutely vital for the health of the british economy going forward the e.u. and the u.k. will now we know be seen as mutually exclusive trading areas raising the prospect for barriers with of course worrying implications for what that might mean for the border between north and on the republic of ireland or gibraltar and spain so. there's been some sort of agreement them with those young but this then has to go to the twenty seven doesn't it on sunday do expect the rest of the to give the thumbs up to this. well yes what has been agreed is an agreement between the u.k. and e.u. negotiators from the european commission of which. is of course the head it now

needs to go to the e.u. twenty seven. all of them will have to focus on what's been presented to them both of the elements of the agreement that we draw agreement and the future relationships agreement and any one of them could scupper the brics it because she . proposals chances of of going forward we've already started to hear of some reservations coming from spain over concerns about there being a lack of clarity about the future border between gibraltar part of the u.k. and spain. the british prime minister theresa may said that she had been speaking on leaks needed to speak to petra sanchez the spanish prime minister to try and overcome some of the sticking points but as we know time is running out. in westminster thank you very much. now lebanon is marking the seventy fifth anniversary of its independence from france but critics say there's little to celebrate there's been no government for six months is politicians all about power

sharing and people have taken to the streets to show their frustration with the sectarian political system that they say breeds corruption and incompetence then a hundred reports from the capital beirut. it's been seventy five years since lebanon achieved independence but instead of celebrating these people are protesting the crowd is small a few hundred turn up even though the majority of lebanese suffer from a lack of electricity rising unemployment and dire economic conditions this doesn't surprise civil society activists who aren't able to exploit the state's resources in the same way as the traditional political class there are some people who are afraid to talk about what they think and what they need because maybe they got their jobs due to political parties they have their children in hospital so do you support that with the help of political parties. exchanging goods or services for

votes is part of political life in lebanon so is foreign intervention i do not believe that we have anything to them but this is something of a government that decision the idea of a vision. a few kilometers away lebanon's leaders mark the ok jand but there has been no functioning government for more than six months the country is no stranger to political stalemate because of the links officials have with regional players who use lebanon as a battleground this protest movement is relatively small when compared to rallies organized by political parties it is hard to attract large crowds independently of sectarian parties that dominate politics this is what these people hope to change. calls for change are not new a few years ago. protests about a rubbish crisis turned into a campaign against the political elite there were demands for regime change not long after there was a crackdown by security forces not the first time since i've been to the squares

we've been under. small. bombs and stuff and you know nothing strange thing they would even of turn to me to get rid of the governing body right now which has been exploiting the country and it's been working against us interests. they converge on lebanon's martyrs square to voice their grievances this has become a symbolic space throughout the country's turbulent history we want a revolution some chant the challenging the sectarian state. most lebanese are members of their sect first with very few identifying with the nation. beirut. the number of migrants and refugees arriving in europe is at its lowest for the past five years a tough european stance has prevented many from getting in but those who were stuck in limbo in bowls there have revealed stories of brutality by croatian border

police david chase has been to the border town of the hard to find up all. the bosnian border city of be harsh is on the frontline of europe's latest refugee crisis the residents are no strangers to warfare and his affects the fighting in the civil war here in the one nine hundred ninety s. displaced two million people they were demanding their government take action to provide the refugees with humane living conditions that same night we found a group of afghan teenagers huddled around an electric fire at the main station. they told me in graphic detail how cross border guards had kicked them and beaten them with truncheons. for their mobile phones were smashed and they were forced back into the river that runs along the border line one of them had his head held under the water. the line between bosnia and croatia is the european union's

longest and most fun rable external border fear is being used to defend it the refugees call it the game but it's a brutal game trying to find the weakest point in a border that stretches for more than nine hundred kilometers with croatia we've found with local help this crossing point you can simply walk through but you don't know how far you're going to get or what's going to happen to you the injuries being suffered by the refugees act as a clear warning to others when they return to their makeshift camps aid workers estimate there are now five thousand of them stuck in the limbo of bosnia there are shelters for only a few hundred they've come from syria somalia pakistan and iraq most of them said they were trying to reach germany medics working here are angry at the sheer number of victims they have had to treat they showed me photographs of their wounds many they said were deliberately inflicted charities are providing what help they can

a warm shower once a week blankets a new clothing to survive the subzero temperatures but they say the european union has turned its back on their suffering. paying for it to be done they just want it be done silence they just don't want to play city human traffickers are opening up smuggling routes for those who can afford to pay. refugee storm border posts last month they have no money left they too were beaten back. in the camps another group of refugees prepare to go out on the game again others are bringing back firewood to survive the winter david chaytor al-jazeera of the bosnian border with croatia. you know without jazeera these are the top stories ankara has called for the

suspects. to be tried in turkey both the e.u. and turkey are calling for those responsible for his death to be held accountable and lead growing calls for an independent international investigation. for some reason some countries have displayed a tendency to cover it up because of individual interests this is a matter which still carries many questions that have not been answered yet it's important their answers are provided the shocking murder premeditated murder one that cannot be condoned cannot be accepted by anyone has to be investigated fully and facts must be revealed and the matter of the order whoever the murderer was ordered by is something that needs to come to light in yemen fighting is continuing the pull city of her data despite u.s. defense secretary james mattis saying the saudi u.a.e. coalition has stopped its offensive and the u.n. special envoy to yemen has met his the rebels in the capital sanaa martin griffith

griffiths isn't expected to go on to her date or the port is crucial for food and aid supplies the wife of a u.k. citizen handed a life sentence for spying by a court in the u.a.e. says the british government has put its relationship with its ally ahead of his welfare the family of matthew hedges says there were contradictions between the official statement from the us prosecutor general and what actually happened they also accuse the gulf state of presenting fabricated evidence. more than half a million civil servants are taking part in the nationwide strike in tunisia after the government under labor union failed to reach agreement on pay. the government to honor an early agreement to raise public wages at a time when inflation is at a record high the board of the japanese call for listeners ventured to sack carlos as chairman following his arrest this week and has been charged with from that show

misconduct he was detained after an internal investigation revealed he was using company money and under reporting his salary is also running as chairman and chief executive all right those are the latest headlines from us here at al-jazeera coming up next is the street. here is a very important force of information for many people around the world when all the cameras are gone i'm still here go into areas that nobody else is going to talk to people that nobody else is talking to and bringing that story to the forefront. and i'm really the you know the activist behind south africa's roads must ball movement well today we'll meet some of them and we'll also introduce you to a theater company from the university of cape town exploring ways to fight

inequality we want to hear your thoughts on the movement the play and our conversation today so to read us or leave a comment in our live chat and you too could be in the stream. in march of two thousand and fifteen students at the university of cape town launched rhodes must fall a movement that not only brought down a statue but sparked a broader discussion on how universities can better reflect a diverse student body and provide wider access to education. three years on a group of students who participated in the maze meant sharing that experiences it was states what it says around the world the chance to activism while tackling issues of race class gender and power. we.

are now joined by three co-creators and members of the cast america conrad thank you sam a bono and sees race and welcome everyone to the stream it is so good to have you guys here especially because i have seen this production and many of our audience members have as well but even for those who didn't many of them remember the roads must fall movements i want to start here on my laptop with someone from south africa this is ivan ash who says these must fall roads must fall open the rot that lies deep within our society and resulted in a clamping down of activism so that his take away from this movement that we saw in two thousand and fifteen for you thank you so tell me about where you were when this movement started do you remember i do remember because i was on the drama campus of u.c. t.v. so we were very separate from the main body of the campus and i remember there was

talk of someone who had the statue and we were very interested in knowing what was happening and i looked at my phone and i saw on twitter and on facebook videos of the sky and all these people standing around the statue and for some reason i was with a few of my friends who were in the play as well and we felt drawn to the situation we face there was a rush of adrenaline we felt this is the moment that we have been waiting for and we abandoned classes. and we went to the brim the building with there was a meeting held and that's where every. it started with people said ok well you know got to tell us when the statue is going down then we're going to occupy this building and this is the sessile road statue which is on the on the campus of the university of cape town and it was a bucket of poo that was thrown at sessile road statue a mirror thank you this was an education process to work out what this guy down and some university of cape town students so furious about his presence there. for

a lot of students i think we weren't really aware of what the legacy of sessile john rhodes actually was because it's not really something that you get taught about at high school level so if you actually pursue history into university maybe second or even third do you really start learning about the actual rotter of colonialism as the tweeter had said. so for me it was you know ok people are really reacting to this statue to this moment why don't i know about this what can i do to seek out this knowledge and really the only place that you could get the information was the movement and it was amazing to be part of that moment where it wasn't only as a lot of people thought it was just this like an angry bunch of students occupying buildings knocking down things you know being annoying to the staff members there were also film screenings that were held there were lectures with black academics that were held there was information that was passed around to people and it was it

was really like a separate university to the university which was amazing what was it about this moment why why twenty fifteen why not the year two thousand why not. last year what was it about that particular town i. i think i think you know the stars aligned and three fifty two was. unfortunate to be part of the group of cheney fifteen because of a such a big symbol the removal moving of the statue was such a big symbol that you know we had to move the statue so you have to turn fifteen is that yeah you know i don't know why it was three fifteen but it's twenty fifteen and that's when you know. i want to bring this this is from who says on twitter that the impact abroad to much fault drop greater attention to the existing legacy appraising colonialism in our institutions of how euro centrism

sexism and capitalism still reign of how narratives toward embracing african epistemologies are still just regarded a lot there in two hundred eighty characters and she is just packed in there but break it down for us because in the play for those who do have the chance to go see it you do explain some of the what some people might call microaggression that happened to students whether they actually happen to you or your characters or other people you know help us explain for our audience who's watching at home right now what some of those micro aggressions are what some of that colonialism looks like for a day to day average student i mean it's it's an understanding that we live in a country that has a majority of black people and we go to university with firstly we can't afford to say to cation so majority of poor people in south africa black people and already there is. there's a. divide something stopping you from pursuing that education so from

from the entrance already there's an issue then there comes the issue of the material that we're learning the material did not reflect us we constantly have to change ourselves to fit into euro centric ideas of what the actress looked like you know issues with the way we spoke we have eleven different languages in south africa that come with eleven different and even more different accents but our intelligence and our ability to to apply ourselves in class was closely linked to the way we expressed ourselves our history was also not considered when we were doing tasks in class so students who were privileged who had the schools with the libraries we had the parents with the money who could take them around the world and show them you know historical places were ahead immediately and students like us who came from a less advantaged background. were constantly playing catch up and basic racism. was it was a lot to handle that we didn't quite understand. country in

a black majority country and majority rival sort of the fury and the passion was there we rooted around see if we could find some news clips from twenty fifteen or a couple of years ago we found two students and they had two very different opinions so we want to play those two clips for our audience and have a listen have a look and as you can comment on them. i don't feel that you can look at these people only as colonialists all racists a lot of these people. on the statues at least have contributed to which a post of south africa and irregular if it is positive or negative this is south africa this is always history we history should be remembered as it is the statue symbolizes so much of a destructive violent history and we're here to tell management and the greatest south africa that would tie it is students we are tired of this with tired of being told transformational have been so we wanted to happen now not in five years not

another talk now is the time. so you had two contrasting opinions you had a white south african who didn't see what the issue was with the statue then you have black south africans is ok now it's time at the same university can you explain how those two co-exist. with great difficulty i think is probably the easiest answer the issue with the south african education system really is that it is comp. segregated in the sense that the predominantly rich white kids will go to high schools and primary schools where you can afford to be nonchalant about things where it's not as much of a struggle you've got easy access to books reading materials the the windows of the school are broken whereas you have majority black and off color students who go to these kinds of high schools and primary schools which are dilapidated so when you get past that matric level you then go into the same institution which causes these

like rifts and differences of opinions which really are university level should be a good thing but for me at least a difference of opinion your opinion shouldn't be my livelihood is less important than yours or black rooted and bigotry which is what the civil john road statue is . movement started i remember i was. i was on the fence about the removal of the statue and i'm from a black school so you know what what thank you sir and i mean are talking about and i'm talking about my school what when they talk about the fact that you always have to work two times harder i felt that you know. i wasn't taught. math in english i wasn't taught physics in english i was taught in my mother my mother tongue so coming to the city i had to catch up so when when the movement started what got me was that this statue is is just

a symbol of what needs to fall in the university and it shows you that. that way people. will be celebrated for it and that's that's what that's there to represent it and i have to walk past this but it's just the statue and that's a symbol that will remove everything and that's what. i'm going to put that in a. context that sounds incredibly revolutionary about how you describe. it in the context of the colonialism that happened to south africa white people will accept. that you see it in america today as well i mean the fact that christopher columbus has an entire holiday that celebrates him where is actually his legacy is of the murder. of native american people and that's i

mean that happens with glorious white men of history in every single country in the world south africa was just happened to be a very important moment in time for us and i think that we can also discount the black lives matter movement because i think that if b.l.m. hadn't happened in the u.s. that roads must form might not have happened in south africa that's that that's a big connection oh we are talking about up production called for i want to see a little excerpt from it and i'm going to pick up in the production where the students have just occupied the brand administration building on the university of cape town's campus and now they discuss in a way forward with regards to the roads must for movement in the penry of all of the students who were at the first protests so here to perform a scene from the for a clear. this movement belongs to all of us it belongs to

a whole lot of groups involved with transformation at the university like the trans collective are non-binary i mean that in the black monday the black academics caucus the workers' union the s.r.c. i mean that to when our comrades money through human excrement understand show of rhodes he was at a loss for words about how crap it is for university students at this university in fact throwing some poor in the statue was a one hundred percent articulate it's amazing really how so many people got lit about some statue but some very hard work was going on around transformation long before he did that. we need to talk about the statue hand guys i'm a little confused doesn't management want the statue to be taken down i mean i'm

just following due process process. in my sister we all know the history of his statue on our campus climatized us that men never wanted us here. sissel john rhodes i learned about him in my second year african history course it was then that i realize that the history we were learning was not the history of africa but brother the history of how britain and the western powers stole africa and covered it up into little countries with people like livingston little pulled and rolled featuring as heroes you see rose didn't only wrap up the kimberley diamond mines for himself or a couple of his buddies thank you very much he was an arc imperialist who believed one hundred percent in the supreme of the english surveys you know all i learned about africans was how weak we were weak in weaponry trouble including how we had

to be civilized by the great christian nations i mean what kind of history is that and they say he donated this land to the university but whose land was it to begin with. guys thank you so much. oh some what is it like when you are taking elements of your life and putting it on stage for everybody to look into to critique thinking that this character is you what's that like so one thing the art does is that it gives you an opportunity to reflect society on itself and the other tools that we were taught in vasa to you know how to create drama how to create how to facilitate a conversation and conversations that are necessarily easy to be had outside of the black box space so when we created the show we were looking to represent as many people as we cared that we saw within the movement you know so my character who

represents the sport of letting guy who comes into university thinking that ok i'm working so hard and i can easily be filtered into the cricket system but there's a quarter in the cricket sports where there's a limited amount of black people that can play for the national team or the first team right so that also creating and reflecting the movement on and solve reflecting society on itself and how it treated the movement gave people a key into understanding why the students were so angry what was happening so like i mean what we're seeing on the desk is not the. hooligans that are there is thought that goes into a plan of the store that goes into what management sees that the conflict that that management gave the students it's not like the students just went looking we're going to proto we're going to throw poor is that there was conversations that will facilitate really climb out we release our own and

a lot of that yes you know and we wonder about you another monologue and everybody staring daggers at me. thank you thank you very much we shared it admin i love that there and i think it resonate here in this tweet this is rank and file. south african that's their handle they write i think such productions are important in absence of literature because they document the complexity that characterize the movement they operate as a dynamic historical archive one other person writes in really strong words here our producers and i love this tweet and post he says the cast of the fall is absolutely spectacular i was there when road spell and the way they articulate what happened is remarkably accurate all the characters represented what we saw i'm so proud of them i saw it in d.c. far away from home and i literally felt the chains of colonialism fall off of me all over again it was the spiritual performance and experience so as i'm reading this audience for those of you at home i wish you could have seen through a space for you where you got to look at this in wonderment which is how i think

that this person saw your production the chains of colonialism fell off of this person what do you make of some of the reactions you've gotten from audience members who. you know it's different performing at home and performing because when you perform at home you perform for people who are the people who are seeing themselves people who are remembering things that they probably you know. forgot so. it's very refreshing performing for innocent audiences and seeing how issues resonate and how how similar we really and that at the end of the day. we all just want to be treated like humans who are just going to be treated equally you know that resonates across the world. i'm going to show our audience some pictures that you shared with us so so that they can see that not

only are you performing this that you list this as well i march because africa is all i have in europe is not an option for me look at that face there's no acting going on there but do you remember how you felt i do i was excited i knew that change was going to happen and it was time. i get goosebumps i'm going. to hear. this one i mean this this these are protests photographs i mean they really are that happened kind of by accident so i accidentally ended up leading the march from fees for fees must fall from hitting campus to parliament because i was on the student council for the performers on hitting campus and we realized. the police were stopping the jamming shuttles to allow students to get from upper campus to hitting so they were trying to stop the protest before it even happened and we got three drama students who had cars on

campus to form a barricade of cars so that the students who were on hitting with us could march up the highway stop traffic get the students off the jammies and go to parliament and so that kind of accidentally got on top of a jeep. to move people around my mom was very unimpressive. so all of you i want to share this comment from joshua graves a student at the university of maryland baltimore county and this is what he told the stream. i just want to share three main points really quickly the first is that i want to congratulate the cast and creators of this amazing play because they were able to them by nice only concepts and ideas and conventions so well that they were able to really tell at the hearts of all the audience members in this now moves on to my second point that they were able to make me cry through their emotions through their through their use of pathans to their their embodiment of their character and i think that character development is something that was very much in

for science in this plan i think that was well executed now moving on to my third point which is that this play was amusing for conversation starters it sparked up a conversation and a very important i think that i'm gage in so many conversations that were very impactful and powerful in meaningful and i think that i heard so many around me that were like what. give me a little taste of what joshua experience when he went to see the four i want to show you another x. that perform life on the strain so well in the production the statue of rose is being removed from the university grounds and that's a people arrive to see the monument being taken down to perform one more time it's a cost of the four. or. to thomas. at last the crane lifts the statue and

there's a cost from the crowd everything slows down roads is suspended in the air and then he swings a few inches above the plane like his not sure if he should get off or not it's like his ghost is fighting back trying to make him topple over and caress our black bodies one more time but then his core. he is finally gone i feel our land has just arrived in a science of relief a space to breathe at last. as that statue lands on the flip it struck i see the look of our phase and saw a jump on the truck and i give him six unless it's with my belt.

yeah. rolls for all. the world. his is suspended in the air and continues to wash over us like a salty healing way. prove mild has finally arrived the earth shakes and crumble i hear oh mom died all of shoreline all tore scenic scratch at their coffins from underground i hear the clinking crack and push of the metal gates i hear the slaves who didn't arrive and the singing on the mendi i hear i am gone now from across the atlantic but told

the people around me reprimanded be excited crowd through foaming at the mouth i hear the ruth pull between prong that. thing is. being with us and solomon's garden is growing. i hear the cameras as i hear eric garner across the atlantic that's just a reminder that eric garner was an african-american man killed by police in new york in twenty fourteen his last words were i can't breathe which became a rallying cry seeking justice for his death the roads must for movement was fueled

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news grid as the e.u. foreign policy achievement turkey denmark becomes the latest country to suspend arms sales to saudi arabia in the wake of. murder but is there substance behind the symbolism there is a fragile palls in the fighting around the yemeni port city of the data and the u.n. special envoy is scheduled to visit soon with peace talks now apparently set for december is there a ray of hope in the world's worst humanitarian crisis and in an era marked by angry political rhetoric we'll introduce you to a box of that's the design to make it easier to talk with people who disagree with you. and the american citizen has been killed in india and then the most isolated trying in the world and it sparked a debate online. and we have more on that story and throughout the show he's in the hash tag.

you're the news groups are live on air we're streaming online through you tube facebook live and at al-jazeera dot com the european union's top diplomat is calling for a transparent and credible investigation into the murder of saudi journalist. federico greeny has been holding talks in ankara her hosts once an independent international investigation if saudi arabia fails to cooperates the turkish foreign minister also criticized the trump administration's position. we expect that accountability is in short which means that those responsible those really responsible for this terrible murder have to be taken accountable we expect in line with our principles and our values and our practices on additional systems . a full investigation transparent. and fair to take place i guess this will

be one of the issues we will be discussing working lunch not on the the. situation itself but also the. role that. they're all that. i stop here thanks. so we really are going to cop out for some reason some countries of displayed a tendency to cover it up because of individual interests this is a matter which still carries many questions that have not been answered get it's important there are answers are provided the shocking murder premeditated murder one that cannot be condoned cannot be accepted by anyone has to be investigated fully and facts must be revealed and the matter of the order whoever the murderer was ordered by is something that needs to come to light let's move to tony brooklier who is live outside the saudi consulate in istanbul for the turks so tony

what sort of guarantees are they looking for from europe and are they getting them . well i think they realize that without the united states on board that the european union can actually step into the shoes of the u.s. and and get them what they want and that is this accountability they want this openness to allow them to investigate this hard horrible crime openly and properly and then get saudi cooperation but at the moment. basically the united states is backing up saudi arabia so saudi arabia can do what it wants its dragging its heels on this the turkish government has complained that in fact the saudis are hampering the investigation and not compliant in any way so they're asking lots of questions as you heard in the sound bite from the foreign minister they want to know that it wasn't the saudi crown prince then who was it that gave the order who are the people being held and one of their being charged with and they also want to know where mr saudis body is these are all questions they've asked repeatedly and they still haven't had an answer the european union can't make the saudis give that

answer perhaps the united states was the only player that could have made them give those are and president trump has made it quite clear where he stands so at the moment we're at a bit of an impasse the turkish government has to decide now what the next step will be that could be calling for an international u.n. backed investigation that will cause some kind of difficulties because they would want them to go into saudi arabia and investigate and interview all the main parties concerned that could be a very problematic thing so we don't know where this is going from here and tony what can you tell us about turkish media reporting that the cia itself has a phone call a recording of mohamed bin sandman in which the crown prince is heard apparently giving an instruction to silence. the as soon as possible. you know we've heard you know almost daily leaks coming through the turkish media most of them coming from the turkish government there's no corroboration of this

but it does fit in with what the cia said that it was blindingly obvious who called for the murder of mr kosofsky. it seems that you know it reverts of all comprehensive unquestionable evidence circumstantial it may be but pointing directly at the saudi crown prince but as far as the president trying it doesn't really matter if he comes out with a tape so yes i ordered the killing president will be standing by what he calls the saudi go but because it's good for business so he's made his position quite clear i think that's embolden the saudis and the question is what can happen now and it really is dependent on the saudis and it's dependent on the us tony burke lead giving us the update from istanbul thank you well more green his visit to turkey comes as another country denmark has announced its suspending arm sales to the kingdom of course president trump has cited weapon sales as a big reason why he wants to maintain close ties to saudi arabia but riyadh also buys a lot of weapons from e.u.

countries and seven european countries are among the top ten arms exports to saudi arabia that's according to the stockholm international peace research institutes where the kingdom is a big client for british arms manufacturers over twenty seven percent of its weapons imports come from the u.k. and saudi orders also have a significant impact on other european countries weapons industries spain and france account for just over four percent each followed by switzerland with two point three percent let's say to address craig he's the assistant professor at the defense studies department at king's college london he's joining us from london itself thanks for speaking to us on the news grid so as we're just hearing denmark has suspended future approval of weapons and military equipment exports to saudi arabia this follows germany doing the same thing just put this into context for us and tell us what it actually means for saudi arabia. right i mean the europeans

like the americans have this choice between interest and values when it comes to arms sales to saudi arabia i think we have to be quite careful too so that two things is on one hand there is the political message that these countries say and states or germany scandinavian countries and spain the saying we're no longer will export to saudi arabia that's a political message with relatively little impact on the ground because saudi arabian arabia's operations in yemen in particular which we are so concerned about in europe and in the united states are basically not hindered by these kind of. sanctions on arms sales so the saudis will continue their operations because their most important partners in that war both in terms of the defense industries they have been to as well as the operational and strategic the support that they received these three very important partners for saudi arabia the united states the u.k. and france and it's really up to these three countries to send a message to saudi arabia and say we we're actually not content with the way this

war in yemen has been waged and we're also trying you know if we go the next step you know we want to do punitive actions or take punitive actions against will have been solomon for whatever happened in the consulate in istanbul you were have settings and he understood markets for you and we know that some spanish deputies rejected a proposal in fact to stop arms sales to saudi arabia so this really shows that europe is not anywhere close to a common european position as one german minister had called for. absolutely not i mean and this is it is it is that it has a lot to do with interest so that is the europeans are a lot less blunt in saying that it is a that it is about interest in the trial ministration was very blunt saying it is about one hundred billion dollars potentially being spent over the course of ten years the europeans are less blunt about this but also in europe the interests that are involved in spain in denmark or in germany are relatively insignificant in the wider context of what money is being spent the u.k. is the number two exporter to saudi arabia and their exports as are you arabia last

year were roughly in the in the region of two billion pounds worth worth of arms sales being approved and that is relatively so for the u.k. that's quite a lot but then you say you know if you look at the scandinavian countries germany their exports are very very small in comparison to that so nothing is even close to the hundred billion that they're talking about for the united states so it isn't there are literally having any is a friendly than the trump administration then. yes and no i think the germans are probably the they're taking the high is more the highest moral high ground if you will in this whole debate but also because the at the moment they have no significant arms deals outstanding and i think if the situation was a different one than the germans had a massive arms deal in the region of a couple of billion euros to discuss the probably germany would have taken a different approach as they have done in the past because these are important decisions for local industry and for jobs so the trouble there are not very much

different to drop in saying especially the u.k. isn't saying that actually there are a lot of jobs attached to these sales and we're not going to do we can't afford to basically lose that kind of business at the moment i mean britain's foreign secretary recently highlighted himself the difficulty in agreeing on a come common even stance when it comes to saudi arms exports do you see the u.k. taking a firmer position. no a lot at the moment first of all the u.k. is in a different situation they are they are completely preoccupied with they are not they might even take a stand and say we are different from the european union because by the time these sanctions come into place we might no longer be a member of the european union and secondly the great britain has to kind of find external markets outside of the european market and these markets are obviously in the east and they are in the gulf so it's not only saudi arabia but it's also the u.a.e. qatar these are important markets for british defense industries and i don't think

they can afford at this point to do without the couple of billions of pounds worth of arms deals that are being made in this part of the world just because they're losing quite a lot of market share in the european union by leaving the euros. leaving the european union so i think as a market post breaks it i think the goal is very significant for britain and i don't think britain at this point in time is thinking about any serious sanctions all right and as craig we thank you for speaking to us and others there are well saudi arabia's foreign minister has once again reiterated that the crown prince was not involved in these murder the leadership of surgery been presented in the king and from france is a red line for the saudi man or woman the country is totally supportive of them to condemn the saudi arabia is committed to the vision that i need to have put forth when i sometimes a vision twenty thirty and in terms of moving along the path of reform victoria again being takes a closer look at the.