the south china sea is now we site. from around the world calendars into eight. families to return to form many are now back in the villages they fled when the worst part of. this is. hello i'm housing seeker this is the news hour live from dodd coming up in the next sixty minutes french president emanuel micron calls for talks with protest leaders after violent demonstrations in paris. private messages revealed to journalists fear about the saudi crown prince. so we cannot leave that to without him and

a very bold and strong and clear roadmap leaders from nearly two hundred countries are arrived in poland to tackle climate change. former f.b.i. director james komi agreeing to testify behind closed doors on the russia probe and hillary clinton's e-mails. follow it is the biggest crisis in manual mccraw has faced in his eighteen month presidency a rebellion that began three weeks ago has exploded into the worst unrest for decades in france thousands of yellow vests demonstrators have been taking to the streets to protest the proposed rise in the fuel tax the government is now reviewing all security options to try and prevent similar protests from happening again president emanuel mccraw held an emergency meeting with government leaders just hours. after coming back from the g.

twenty summit in going to saris he also wants to meet with the protest leaders and opposition parties he went to the center of paris to assess the damage for himself from saturday's protests and to thank firefighters and security forces some protesters torched cars vandalized shops and payton the arc de triomphe with graffiti police arrested more than four hundred people and at least one hundred thirty injuries were reported they would take to has more now from paris. as soon as his plane touched down twenty summit in argentina present emmanuel mackerel went directly to inspect the damage at the arc de triomphe. afterwards he walked over to greet police and firefighters who were on the front lines of the writing for so many hours on the because shouted macro resigned. well the problem is michael loves the poor fool the buses the bankers he loves the

rich people. come and talk to the people stopped talking about the violence and said with tears then it was the lease a palace for an emergency cabinet session on the crisis a spokesman said reintroducing the state of emergency from earlier this year was not discussed the president called on his prime minister edward felipe to invite party members in parliament and representatives of the demonstrators for talks. the real damage was caused by what's being described by police as a handful of extremists determined to confront them and cause as much trouble as they could the yellow vests rebellion is of course not just confined to the streets of paris one hundred thirty six thousand demonstrators turned out across the whole of france and there was a third fatality early on sunday morning outside the southern city of ours when a white van drove into the back of a heavy goods vehicle that was blocked at

a yellow vests roadblock it was then hit by another car coming up behind it the revolt against president policies and proposed fuel tax rises is not going away poll show protests have the support of more than seventy percent of the french people support for the president is languishing below thirty percent david chaytor al-jazeera paris. why anger over the rising fuel taxes spilled into french overseas territories the indian ocean island of re-union is thousands of kilometers from paris but the issues are the same for me the miller has more from reign your capital send any of the french minister for the overseas territory and head and has been speaking with members of the yellow vests here union via video conference in lee's government both the hundreds of supporters of the yellow vests have gathered outside waiting for some sort of monster from the minister as to how the government

is going to deal with their demands they have raised a number of issues from the state of education saying that the syllabus year reunion should be adapted from the french syllabus to issues around the economy the cost of living as well as the prices of fuel and the taxes they also want to working conditions improved as well as the minimum wage people here are saying that the minister has one hour to get back to them they're going to stay here until she responds to these mines and has something concrete to say they say otherwise the protests they've been staging for the past two weeks will continue even if they have to shut down the economy of the union. or thomas pre-song is a professor of political science at the university of paris he explains why the protesters are so angry. it's mainly like french cities and that comes from the let's say lower middle classes and who come from the suburbs on more

precise yessing like the smaller size or middle size cities in france and it's people who are a couple of decades ago were told like to go and settled in the suburbs or outside like major cities are done towns because they could not afford to pay the ransom or there and recently like they saw subsidies that period of the schools hospital closing and they have to use their cars basically that to access these disabilities and so now i think that's when the government intends to raise the taxes on fuel it was not only something that was an economy car cost it was also something that was like a very harsh symbolically sort of saying. i think where the problem lies in the five that it's a very unorganized grassroots some of our political movements you don't have any spokesperson for the movement on the few people who tended to present himself as such spokesperson where somehow or like incapable of actually talking to the

government so because there is nobody that he can actually talk to is trying like to put the parties the trade unions that is to say like morpheus of actors back in the play in the game it's kind of difficult again because like this movement is very unorganized. and you need release private messages of journalist. revealing a candid account of his take on the saudi crown prince c.n.n. gained access to exchanges between saudi journalists. and a montreuil based activist they had planned an online movement that would hold the saudi state to account for shoji called mohammed bin sandman a beast who would devour all in his past it was one of four hundred whatsapp messages a you. a year before his murder shoji and ahmed abdul aziz talked of plans to form

an l.a. tronic army to engage young saudis back home and debunk state propaganda digital offensive was dubbed the cyber bees they discuss creating a portal to document human rights abuses in saudi arabia and gallagher has been following the story for us he joins us now from washington d.c. so andy what more do these messages reveal well they show that jamal khashoggi was so concerned with what was happening in saudi arabia particularly with the crown prince mohammed bin selman that he wanted to do more than just write and be a critic from a distance he wanted to help fund this so called electric army and that involves sending sim cards to young saudi arabian so that they could post on social media without being traced the fellow dissident in canada this these messages were going backwards and forwards for months and months but when he finally revealed that they had been hacked using israeli military grade spy where everything changed at that

point because the dissident in canada was then contacted by saudi arabian officials he was secretly can record about ten hours of conversations and at one point he said jamal khashoggi told him in no uncertain terms should you meet these people anywhere but in a public place and the canadian dissident thinks that advice may well have saved his life but on the flip side of that he also now feels guilty for jamal khashoggi is death because he believes a saudi arabian government got hold of these four hundred messages and this goes far beyond writing in a newspaper this potentially crosses a red line for the saudi arabian government this providing people with sim cards he now believes that he may be guilty for jamal khashoggi his death and when the dissidents in canada actually told jamal khashoggi i think my messages have been hacked jamal khashoggi reply was very telling he simply said god help us. all right andy gallagher live for us there in washington thanks andy how rami corey

is professor at american university of beirut and senior fellow at the harvard kennedy school he says it was her show g.'s plans for activism against the saudi government that led to his death. this is really critical and this has come up before in the last couple of months as the herschel g murder issue has been widely discussed what the saudis clearly were concerned about was that the shoji had gone beyond just writing in the newspapers or giving and media interviews but that he was actually starting to organize something that would either their promote free press freedom of expression or maybe as we now learn to hold the saudi government accountable and that's the red line really that our political regimes and elites don't accept they don't mind of people talking and say things and tweet them stuff most of them don't some of them put you in jail for tweeting of the many of the gulf countries do but they don't want you to actually start organizing and

mobilizing people so this clearly lead to. we know a lot about how arab governments autocratic governments were all across the arab world and they all work in the same way they try to intimidate independent thinkers they try to buy them off they try to entice them to come and work with them they did that with the hustle and they were trying to do it on what a lousy is they try to buy off bring you and give you a seat next to the great leader and you get to fly with them on their first class planes to paris and washington stuff like that and if that and the if that doesn't work then they start trying to intimidate you they arrest your family members if you're overseas they arrest because you have cases of this and behind in another are countries and activists say this all the time they say i'm lying low because i don't want my family back home to be hurt and this is a common procedure among governments all across the arab world and much of the

third world as well and if that doesn't work then they try to stop you from doing your activity whether you're talking or writing or acting organizing in either by arresting you and putting you on trial on fake accusations as happens across tens of thousands of cases across the arab world where people are in jail just because of the views they hold or in the worst case they torture you and kill you. a turkey's president has repeated his demands the saudi arabia reveal the whereabouts of demand body or to tie her to one says he will look for international involvement to pursue justice if necessary he says he would have confronted the saudi crown prince with all the evidence he had if he had a chance. or mohamed bin man has landed in algeria in an effort to boost time between the two but many are angry about his visit to north africa they say he is

trying to whitewash his image after the death of a number of prominent algerian signed a statement against his visit. man had just come from the mauritanian capital north shore where his presence there sparked protests of the saudi crown prince is nearing the end of a long international tour his first major trip since the murder of the journalist in october last week he traveled to various arab states then made his way to the g. twenty summit in argentina and now he has one last op in jordan before he returns home his role mattson. jordanians say they know about the controversies surrounding the saudi crown prince thanks to jordan's media they know that mohammed bin some months tour of out of allies prompted adulation in the united arab emirates protesters fury in tunisia and awkwardness among some world leaders in argentina at

the g twenty summit but many jordanians don't seem to know he'll be visiting their capital city amman most of jordan's newspapers t.v. networks and its radio stations support the government jordanians would find it pretty hard to find any mention of the crown prince's visit to jordan in the last few days not surprising because saudi arabia for decades has been making big investments in jordan's economy but so have other countries jordan feels that it has to tread a very fine diplomatic life they think that saudi arabia probably the only country in the arab world that gives money and aids to go down and they don't want to jeopardize that and put this an interest so this is probably the only reason for them to receive him in this way but at the same time they don't see the publicized this visit as when the conference of the united arab emirates came to do it and it was a kind of festival but here it's like almost unnoticed some believe the crown prince

wants to take over custodianship of muslim holy sites in jerusalem a role with a lot of global influence that's currently carried out by jordan's world family and earlier this year saudi arabia reduce the funding it's been giving to jordan but jordan struggling economy needs saudi investment despite saudis economic influence there are jordanians who object to the crown prince's visit many don't want to speak openly in case their government identifies them. i think the goal of his visitors to improve his image by gathering alliances i think saudi arabia is blackmailing jordan because jordan needs saudi money but i think this is making jordanians on the government very angry. the grand princes tour is being regarded as an effort to bolster support for the saudi version of events in istanbul of the murder of journalist. and the saudi and amorality led coalition's

war in yemen jordan has firmly declared itself a saudi ally but the official response to bin solomon's arrival appears subdued rob matheson al-jazeera amman jordan are plenty more ahead on the news hour found opposition supporters filled the streets of the georgian capital. more legal troubles for the israeli prime minister and his wife. and later in support get a late win against their city rivals everton but their manager's reaction could land him in trouble here will be here with more later. so all that still ahead but first the world bank says it is doubling the funding for poor countries preparing for climate change to two hundred billion dollars the leaders are gathering in poland for un talks aimed at tackling global warming

delegates from nearly two hundred nations have two weeks to agree on details of the twenty fifteen that paris climate accord presidents of previous summits issued a joint statement calling for immediate decisive action when we started with the climate convention in ninety five it's as if we were planning for the future and we we were preventing a you know a dark future on time but now we are leaving so we have to act and act quickly we cannot leave out of the two without having in hand a very bold and strong and clear roadmap for the implementation of the bars agreement but perhaps with greater ambition and commitment because it's needed. our wendell trio is the director of the climate action network europe he says the summit needs to give each country more direct action to follow in order to get clarity on what countries exactly can do they need to have of clarity on what they

can expect others to do one of those examples is the issue of climate finance and financial support that is being given by rich countries to poor countries and poor countries are asking that they get clarity about how much of that money will be flowing their way in the next five to ten years and that will be helping them to make specific glance similar the countries have not really agreed on how they will monitor what they are doing in terms of greenhouse gas emission reductions and as long as that is not clear there is some reluctance to really start with strong implementation i think the world is looking at both the european union and the chinese republic to really take the leads all these issues and do that we did in the un body that is theirs and yet that for these international climate negotiations which is the framework convention on climate change. and it depends on these two countries to really come together to make substantial progress or

thousands of people have marched in brussels calling for governments around the world to do more to tackle climate change their rally past the european commission headquarters there belgium's prime minister sharon michel called it a formidable success and promised to defend the end vicious climate targets. israeli police say they have enough evidence to indict prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his wife on bribery charges they're accused of fraud and breach of trust in dealings with israel's largest telecoms operator netanyahu denies any wrongdoing police have already recommended charging netanyahu over allegations he accepted gifts from billionaire friends and offered to pass new laws for them in exchange for positive media coverage. so rash on the top of the police recommendations on the last day of the police commissioner's tenure proves what i've been saying from day one this is a fixed game song israel is

a country with the rule of law and police recommendations have no legal significance countless police recommendations are rejected. the pressure going in has more now from west jerusalem. it appears the legal woes are mounting for prime minister benjamin netanyahu in this wide ranging corruption investigation that has plagued him and his wife since last year on sunday for the third time police recommended he be indicted in this case it involves an israeli company called telecom and police are alleging that prime minister netanyahu doled out regulatory favors in exchange for favorable coverage of him and his wife on a website that the company owns now this is the third corruption related case that israeli police believe netanyahu should be charged in in february police recommended he face indictment over allegedly accepting almost three hundred

thousand dollars in bribes from wealthy businessmen and for attempting to solidify positive coverage of him in israel's biggest newspaper by promising to curtail coverage at one of its rivals in response to these allegations netanyahu has released the same statement he has from the onset he says there is no legal basis for these police recommendations and nothing will materialize from this investigation it's important to note that these are simply recommendations by the israeli police only the attorney general has the ability to indict and it could take months to do so as i mentioned this investigation has been in the works since last year now despite what appears to be mounting legal woes for netanyahu his popularity here in israel remains high according to public opinion polls. in the us

former f.b.i. director james comey has agreed to testify in private about the agency's decisions ahead of the twenty sixteen presidential election he's now dropping his legal challenge after a congressional committee committee compelled him to testify. has more from washington the issue was that james komi wanted any testimony in front of the house judiciary committee to be public but the jimmy committee did not want that they wanted all of his testimony to be behind closed doors and this was a key central issue they both sides were fighting about let's remember that what the republicans on the judiciary committee wanted to do is question call me about what they say was deeply rooted bias in the f.b.i. when called me lead the lead that organization bias that they say allowed clinton hillary clinton to escape prosecution for use of a private server private e-mail server they also want to question me about f.b.i.

investigation into the trump campaign's alleged ties to russia as well now komi said i'm willing to testify but i want to be public because he says that if it would have been behind closed doors republicans would have just selectively selectively leaked his testimony to make him look bad congressman jerry nadler a democrat from new york agreed with call me on that this is what he said on n.b.c.'s sunday morning. the republicans in this particular investigation have a history of having these these in camera interviews and then selectively leaking portion is the of the interview to give distorted view to the public of what happened let komi testify in public there's nothing there's no military secrets here he wants to testify he ought to be able to we ought to have accountability and openness to the american public and there's no reason for the secrecy that that mr

goodloe so called me is testimony to the house judiciary committee will happen on friday and the agreement that has been worked out is that the transcript of that testimony will be able to really be released to the public that's exactly what komi wanted from the very get go now let's remember there are still a lot of bad blood between donald trump who fire james coleman is the head of the f.b.i. and republicans it's a very partisan deal that's going on right now republicans on the house judiciary committee want to question komi he feels in just their ongoing attempt to try to discredit him this is a campaign by the republicans and donald trump to discredit call me a man that they say did not lead the f.b.i. and good faith of course he's come out hitting back at donald trump there's a lot of bad blood between these two men. bill schneider is a public policy professor at george mason university he says everything in

washington is now intensely partisan including the questioning komi will face. i can tell you that in the twenty sixteen election the campaign about a week before election day he indicated that he had found a new source of e-mails private e-mails that hillary clinton had sent out and then he had to inspect them to see if there was anything damaging or incriminating this really was met with a lot of consternation on the part of the clinton campaign and the democrats what was he trying to do to her and then shortly before the election he announced that they had looked at these e-mails and there was nothing there nothing to take action on and that produced an angry at reaction from republicans who said he's covering up for hillary clinton this is all intensely partisan the f.b.i. investigation of the russian the possible russian collusion in twenty sixteen and the hillary clinton e-mails those are the two issues that are most likely to trigger an intense partisan reaction so you can bet that this will be part of it

but in the end what's likely to matter here isn't this particular testimony from mr comey but the mere investigation and what he's going to report once he delivers his report that's what washington is waiting for still ahead on we talked to former u.n. secretary general ban ki moon as well. poland to hash out a plan to tackle climate change plus. i'm daniel crawford lake near toronto beneath the still waters at this late scientists are trying to find out when humans begin to have more impact on the planet than any other force in nature. and in sport a multi ball moments causes chaos on the pitch in the dust. will be him. from cool brisk knows in few weeks. to the warm tranquil waters of southeast asia.

there are still showers in a temperature regime which is roll reminiscent of late summer and early winter for a good part of central china pulsing shadows one last just gone through shanghai another lots going to build i think anywhere along the yangtze valley is probably with the general drift his science would enjoy your twenty degrees because you'll notice it struck down to eighty in shanghai in a few days time we're talking about single figures winter is on his way just hasn't got here quite yet south of that bit of a gap when it should be largely draws right south east asia far south of thailand as you malaysia have been wet recently they'll be more rain there we should see more of a concentration in an easier the biggest showers and that is true to some degree but equally you'll see the breezes directly into k.l. singapore and still catches southern parts of thailand frequently but equally jakarta should probably see daily big showers and sunday ones that are nothing like

that in india now with the northeast monsoon we can find the showers to the southeast coast and sri lanka sri lanka first and then probably telling now to even pradesh the day after that that does course mean the rest is dry not particularly twenty five by the way to get chilly by night the course the air is very still and polluted around delhi. the weather sponsored by cattle and always. i thought this conviction that everyone has a deep reservoir of talent and billeted and if you can give them the opportunity wonderful things start to happen sometimes the simplest situations optimised impact from. the main things that sets out zero apart from other news organizations is that a lot of our reporting is about real people not about ideas or politicians or what they may want to do but how policy and how events affect the real p. . it's ok it's ok it's ok but

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leaders demonstrators called for his resignation more than one hundred thirty people were injured in the violent protests on saturday and four hundred in a rest. and exchange of messages appear to show the extent of g.'s fear about saudi crown prince mohammed bin men c.n.n. gained access to more than four hundred watts messages when the saudi journalist and activist almost planned an online movement that would hold the saudi state to account. the world bank says it will double climate funding to poorer nations as the latest u.n. summit on global warming kicked off in poland delegates from nearly two hundred nations have two weeks to agree on details of the twenty fifteen powers climate accord. as the crucial climate talks proceed in poland's most scientists now agree that

we've entered a new segment of geological time the anthropocene where human impact is the most significant force in nature in the way greenhouse gases sproule consumerism and technology are altering the planet just as big glass is all strikes have done but when did this manmade change begin well is done a lot now reports the answer may lie beneath a small body of water just outside toronto protected by strict conservation laws crawford lake is relatively pristine it's deep low in oxygen waters produce sediments that can be accurately dated year by year like the rings of a tree these scientists are gathering and freezing centuries old layers of mud and material to try to find out when the anthropocene began this is an annual natural archive of all of the impact on the lake so it preserves chemical biological

physical things on an annual basis on a reliable annual basis this is the mouth part of a fly back at the lab professor mccarthy examines mud layers looking for fossilized plants and animals other researchers find radioactivity from nuclear bomb tests six decades ago plastic particles and other changes that can only have been introduced by humans the work that's going on here at crawford lake is more than just science it's also about focusing the minds of governments policy makers and the public on how to curb some of the things we're doing to this planet. earth scientists who specialize in dating geological time are watching closely and finding compelling proof that we are in the early years of the anthropocene what's important here all the critical feedback mechanisms that kick in the earth really operating as a system and saying that's it i can't cope with this anymore and then it

then starts to respond. at this toronto art gallery the evidence of human impact on display is in startling imagery of mining farming industry and urbanization it's art aimed at forcing us to think about how much impact we've already had through pollution climate change and population growth i think the artists ultimately want us to think about how we've built what we've built and how we can build something different how we can build perhaps perhaps solve the problem or change mitigate some of the impacts we've had it'll be at least two years before a final decision on the start of the anthropocene and this small body of water near canada's largest city will a played a crucial part in determining the march of geological time and what might be done about human impact on the planet daniel lak al-jazeera crawford lake near toronto well as we mentioned the world bank has promised two hundred billion dollars to tackle climate change the investment for twenty twenty one through twenty twenty

five doubles its current five year funding a bank ki-moon is the former secretary general of the united nations and is now the co-chair of the global commission on adaptation and he joins us now from tokyo thanks very much for being with us sir i want to ask you first of all about adaptation and just explain to us what that is exactly and how it relates to tackling climate change. are we have to invest a poor thin b. to gain an adaptation but we have spent a considerable amount of investment in we to get ch'ien for obvious reason we have to mitigate to all of this so what is happening and course the by the climate change but at the same time we have to or seen vestey equally important

amount of money for adaptation that is why the war the leaders have established under the leadership of the prime minister michael good terms of neverland on october sixth ten this year i'm a commission on adaptation we are i'm honored to chair together with the bill gates and or so see all of the world bank a crystal in the go give on this global commission is committed to a drawn out action oriented programs to galvanize all of the late and slow moving implementation process of paris climate change of women and we will make. very actual rented reports and summit tour united nations secretary-general convening a summit meeting in two thousand and nineteen and there from there oh

we'll take another one more year for as a year of the action by twenty twenty we're going to hold the another one are some in meeting in neverland to make sure that the adaptation activities and implementation will take place and i am also very much a encouraged and is some most encouraging and welcome news for that award the bank has announced a tour invest a two hundred billion dollars a coming five years and. i don't pitch a list of fifty billion dollars to be committed for adaptation. and it is absolutely necessary that we should accelerate i want to add to our actions to litigate and that i want to ask you though with this. climate change summit taking place in poland right now how confident are you that any real progress is going to

be made given that the world's biggest economy wants no part of this as you know the united states pulled out of the paris climate deal last year and is led right now by an administration that is frankly questioning whether whether climate change is manmade whether it's even happening you've also got to australia doctoring a similar viewpoint brazil is is leaning in that direction with the election in october of jail. promise to prioritize jobs over the environment i mean the direction seems to be moving the other way right now is that some the really concerns you while we have been working very hard joining us are three arsis in start ups and of perry's climate change we went in ten to fifteen months. i urge that we need to do much much more much more and faster in implementing this this is already

a three years we do not have time the climate change is happening much much of faster than one may expect the most recent report by i.p.c.c. intergovernmental panel on climate change has made it clear that we must make sure that the crew of a temperature rise should be contained below one point five degrees celsius this is a very important announcement which we have to do i sincerely hope that a couple twenty four in ca to. portland i will make much much more detailed action oriented programs is we have already wasted three years and with all of this are some countries like the united states be drawing from paris climate agreement it has given lot of damages to our critical really but at the same time i am very much encouraged that the good ideas of what some other countries are skeptical

about this we are moving on particularly in the united states even there is a ground of smelling support from. the mayor sent governors and opinion societies and also civil societies. there is no way this is unstoppable we have to move on for our succeeding generation this is anthropocentric as have been. a co-founder by the war in one of the climate control of just what the scientists that we have to do we cannot do or should with the nature we have to follow what is wanting us this is what we have to gather in i hope that they will also discuss about how to realize the necessary of funding the country sabo well to do or they have or a committed to mobilize hundred billion dollars per year we're going to twenty

twenty one and there are just every hour we're going to find we're going to have to live there either fortunately or unfortunately we're out of time appreciate you talking to us bank ki-moon former u.n. secretary general and co-chair of the global commission on adaptation thanks very much for being with us. thank you very much thank you now fifty injured hooty fighters will be evacuated from yemen for treatment in amman the saudi emma rotty led coalition says it will allow the wounded who teach to fly out on a united nations plane u.n. envoy martin griffiths made the request as a goodwill gesture before peace talks in sweden this month. and the syrian military has accused the u.s. led coalition fighting eisel of firing missiles at syrian government positions in the east in happened near the town of are no injuries were reported the u.s.

led coalition has yet to comment last week syrian state media reporting thirty people were killed in operations targeting i saw near deer is or still pockets controlled by i saw in eastern syria. the declaration of martial law by ukraine's president has unsettled many people there and raise political tensions far right militias are trying to capitalize on it to gain more support but they have also been accused of vigilante violence and extremism anger simmons has more now from kharkov in ukraine. it's a rule for soldiers killed in the war between pro russian separatists and ukrainian forces in the east and those present here a message addressed to anyone thinking of fighting it comes from a woman whose son was killed in the war. in the don't come back to your loved ones with victory so that you mothers don't suffer glory to ukraine.

the gun salute and the sentiment may be in order of the dead however there's an underlying theme alongside the purchases of and still faces its political and it's seen by the mainstream parties as far right extremism the organization that arranged what's happening here is one of several that have slick promotional videos that are trying to attract followers. that calls itself the national corpus of vigilante movement of the cranium uprising more than four years ago fighters from the voluntary as of battalion were a mainstay in the battle against russian separatists but now there's a regular army and while the state takes on conscripts and volunteers the militias look for people to join their groups this man is a former as of soldier who's now organizing the national corpus in hockey for he

says his organizations trying to reassure people about martial. arts are brownwood what are we reach out to them on the streets in their houses. we're gathered people knock on doors and tell them that there is going to be no mobilization all of a sudden that nobody is taking away cars taking away houses no one should stockpile food from supermarkets no panic. but you might question how reassuring these bed was of his organization when they're out looking and in their own way stopping illegal gambling license alcohol in bars drug dealing with the stop act film set because it's a movie if you cranes soviet past. sometimes they're calling in the police other times they're fighting. but where are the security forces stand in all of

this they're certainly not stopping the militias from their actions we were invited to a training session in martial arts but members of the militias on the outskirts of the city but the police turned around. was in force and we couldn't film anywhere in the area. it hockey if you create a second city where a third of the population is ethnic russian the far right made not have a major following but nevertheless if the state lets the militias carry on without further restrictions it could cause even more insecurity here andrew symonds al-jazeera hockey if you create a several thousand supporters of georgia's main opposition party have been protesting the results of the presidential election the governing party's candidate . won by a large margin in a second round runoff but the opposition wants new elections robin foresty

a walker has more. the united national movement georgia's main opposition party believes georgia's presidential election was marred by serious violations including violence and mass vote buying its leaders want electoral reform and early parliamentary elections they say president elect salah made zurabishvili has no legitimacy. thanks elements of his feeling is not our president was should never be our president thanks for this rally is a message that was designed to show to governments that the united national movement still is a force to be reckoned with despite having performed disappointingly in the second round. from europe party chief and former president mikhail saakashvili addressed a loyal crowd but he's being tried in absentia for abuses of power in office and

many other georgians would like to see him in jail i asked opposition candidate group gulf a shot say if his promise to pardon is really cost him the election has a right to live in georgia but my deal and our legislation he doesn't have a right to participate in the elections all that help to hold any government of job because he was has not been living in georgia for three years so all those fears are exaggerated beyond any proportion by these because they are afraid of this gosh those are just. the shad's a says the sides must sit down and talk but with key allies the u.s. and e.u. having already congratulated georgia's new president on how when the government is unlikely to be interested in compromise from him for a steelworker al-jazeera tbilisi. twenty five years since the death of their

tourist colombian drug dealer pub or his home town is still struggling to bury his legend mandane has an uneasy relationship with escobar he terrorized the city to protect his cocaine empire but use the proceeds to build houses for the poor. the reports from a day. it was twenty five years ago today when. the world's most notorious drug trafficker was killed in a police shoot out on the rooftop is death and one of the worst terror campaign so ever perpetrated. events in colombian cities like me the year in the world's most dangerous a quarter century later turned the page on its violent image is celebrated for its innovative infrastructure projects trendy restaurants and prestigious buildings dot the skyline many built with cocaine money and yet despite the transformation this

is only recently started to reflect on its past an exhibition at the memory house museum honors the victims and confronts the legacy of the drug wars. it has been so intense and painful for the city and the country now that we see the change we are finally able to speak with out of fear and to deal with it but overcoming the easy in a neighborhood where he built houses for the poor still proudly showcases his name to. visit his grave on the outskirts of the city this family from mexico saved money for five years to travel to pay him. when i was on a winner he was a good person who also have to do bad things otherwise he would have been killed earlier he helped many the monaco building where d.s. cobras lived was bombed in one thousand nine hundred eighty left abandoned it's

another symbol of escobar stime one the tory does now want to get rid of the mayor announced it will demolish the building next february and turn it into a park to remember escobar its victims and bring to an end where he called a symbol of evil. the memory museum believes this is the right strategy. allowed to be the most of us but on a scale it's a tribute to the victims and all the people that defended legality because the violence and drug trafficking are still here they've changed and are less intense but we need to keep working on our culture so that it will always be less president twenty five years after escobar made a year in colombia have changed but the scars remain visible in the country is still figuring out how to close the door to the past allison that. of the u.s. and mexico are holding talks on migration in washington the u.s.

government hoping to sign a deal to have a group of central american asylum seekers stay in mexico that's why there are u.s. applications are being processed thousands of people are living in shelters in border towns hoping to be allowed to cross into the u.s. a prominent egyptian blogger and political activist is being released from prison and placed on probation where lambastes was arrested six months ago accused of releasing misinformation he rose to prominence during the arab spring criticizing president hosni mubarak before he was overthrown. thousands of people in south africa. the country's first black president nelson mandela at a music festival in johannesburg it's part of celebrations marking one hundred years since. he was imprisoned. against the apartheid regime.