strawberry scene two former presidents adversaries in the events of early two thousand and eleven now appearing on opposite sides of the law the long time ruler hosni mubarak many called him a military dictator was deposed by the revolutionaries he gave evidence against egypt's first democratically elected leader mohammed morsi morsi who faced a death sentence until it was revoked is being retried on other charges along with fellow muslim brotherhood defendants they're accused of conspiring with foreign groups including hamas and hezbollah to orchestrate a violent jailbreak in the early days of the revolution but it was some say a third president the current leader abdel fattah el-sisi attempting a show of strength here to wield more power you see that he's telling the former president mubarak you must come to court and so we're seeing this power play that sisi signaling to both mubarak and his people that i'm consolidating power and

myself i am the eternal power in this state and the level of repression today's unprecedented and the economic situation is even worse the attacks on journalism and freedom of speech and fast and civil society egypt is quickly becoming governor and sisi is afraid of a counter revolution in two thousand and sixteen egypt's highest appeal court overturned a life sentence handed down to president mohamed morsi ordering a retrial last year mubarak's own conviction on charges of negligence in office was overturned and he was released but it is president el-sisi who now faces the possible outpouring of public anger a stagnating economy and a repressive rule after almost eighty years egypt appears to have come full circle i don't know how al-jazeera. whether it's next but still ahead on al-jazeera yet another delay for the presidential election in the democratic republic of congo.

dating to angry calls for protests and human microchip and promise we look at the benefits and the risks of technology that could replace chains and access cards. from a fresh coastal breeze. to watching the sunset on the australian outback. hello again and welcome back we're here cross the western part we're going to see you conditions really begin to deteriorate over the next day that's all due to the system right here coming in out of turkey thursday a lot of snow here across turkey continuing and rain heavy rain across parts of the eastern med aleppo beirut jerusalem all seeing some rain in your forecast things are going to change on friday that system makes its way more towards the east so clearing up out here towards the west but over here towards tehran rain as well down towards quite city you may see a sprinkle a two there but baghdad you will finally start to see

a break in your rain as well but it will be a little bit cool a few with the temperature there of sixty degrees we are going to see some clouds here across much of the arabian peninsula particular up here towards the north now those clouds will start to shift down here towards the south as we go towards friday we may see a sprinkler too but nothing in terms of accumulation is going to be cloudy with a temperature few of about twenty five degrees and then over here towards parts of southeastern africa we're going to be seeing durban with a temperature of twenty nine degrees and as we go towards friday more rain across that area temps are coming down for you would twenty three degrees in your forecast johannesburg will be a rainy day on friday a twenty five degrees but cape town plenty of sun in your forecast with a temperature of twenty four degrees few. the one of the sponsored black cats on. there's nowhere to hide is the easiest way to solve this to allow u.n. observers who you voted into the come true early this year to finish the job i

haven't said it's a wrong conspiracy or anybody's conspiracy. do you think we're going to see some kind of sea change in the u.s. relationship with saudi arabia we have an obligation there is a journalistic integrity and then to end this case it was betrayed told only. welcome back. a reminder of our top stories this hour president donald trump has used an unannounced visit to u.s. troops in iraq to defend his decision to withdraw forces from neighboring syria troubles faced criticism for not visiting american soldiers abroad he insists he has no plans to pull troops from iraq. russia is accusing israel of endangering two

passenger planes as it hit targets in syria moscow says syrian air defenses destroyed fourteen of the sixteen israeli missiles and israeli security official has confirmed to the air strikes to the associated press saying they hit a rainy and targets. indonesia has reviewed all flights around an erupting volcano which triggered a tsunami on saturday. continues to spew columns of ash into the air days after it sent waves up to five meters high on the coast at least four hundred thirty people were killed. the long awaited presidential election in the democratic republic of congo has been postponed in three areas they let. commission says the delay is because of conflict and in a bold outbreak us it covers three known opposition strongholds and that sparked calls for anti-government protests as malcolm webb reports from can chasa. the democratic republic of congo's the election is already yaz

a video. and the electoral commission as announced the second postponement in a week in three areas. the elections the beni be initially planned for december thirtieth or no program from march twenty ninth and will be subject to a specific calendar. the electoral commission said the three areas would have delayed parliamentary polls and provincial elections in march that means that we can think excluded from the presidential poll that's meant to happen on sunday the electoral commission said the reason was conflicts and then a polar outbreak all three areas a key opposition strongholds. and this is one of the reasons why hundreds of civilians have been killed in a series of massacres around the town of benny in the last four years it's not clear who is behind them the government blames a rebel group called the a.t.f. . or outbreak started in august and spread to the area around benny more than

three hundred people have died. campaign rallies were allowed to take place there. and it's opposition candidates martin freely through the biggest crowds i think this is the people that need change in this country most because they've been wars wars of war atrocities the musky ling seized the kids also want the abort consulate in this country there was want to change. there are about one point two million voters in the regions that will be excluded many of them support fire. congress catholic church which has played a key role in campaigning for democracy also question the decision to do this is that. within this is a dangerous decision and also we don't see a clear motivation for it why did they not decide this during the campaign when people were more exposed why only now i think there was

a hidden agenda behind it. the elections being repeatedly postponed opposition then millions of followers now question its credibility to even if it happens it's result may not be accepted. malcolm webb al-jazeera kinshasa in the democratic republic of congo one of saddam's ruling parties is calling for an investigation into the killing of protesters during a week of anti-government demonstrations members of the popular congress party say seventeen people were killed after security forces used live ammunition at the protests but rights group amnesty international says at least thirty seven protesters died some sudanese doctors have now started striking while medical students have joined protests calling for regime change here but morgan has the latest from khartoum. what we've seen so far is that people are not satisfied with just marching up to the streets demanding that the president resign and that his he and his twenty nine year rule we're seeing people doing basically they were seeing

people protesting in different ways. of today for example doctors issued a statement saying that they are on strike they're not going to go to work they don't want to work for a government that basically they see is oppressing them and is not giving them any benefits especially konami benefits now they were able to mobilize medical students also to go out and strike against the against the government they've also called on people of other professions not just in the state but around the country to join them on a nationwide strike it's not clear yet if people would actually follow through on that one but people are saying that they're not going to be satisfied with just walking out to the streets demanding that the government resign and that president bashir step down and his rule they're going to try to find every single way they can to try to pass on their message to the government that they're not happy and that they want to see a new regime in place of the current regime president bashir is that he is not going to step down he's he basically said that the those people protesting are traitors and are being infiltrated by foreign agents so he has appeared to have dismissed those people who are protesting in the streets despite their huge number

yesterday we've seen thousands of people protesting there saying that they were done with the government but obviously president bashir by saying that he is he thinks that there are foreign agents and that they are traitors he has completely dismissed their protest and now so there is a standstill between the protesters on one side saying that they want the government to go away and that they want to see a new government new faces new cabinets new reforms and new policies and president bashir saying he's not going to back down is going to try to to get to provides new economic reforms and new policies but then people said that we've been there before we've heard that before we don't want that anymore we want to new government that would give us new ideas so right now sudan is at a standstill between the protesters and the government it's not clear how this will play out over the coming days with both sides seeming to be very determined to get what they want. the husband of a british woman jailed in iran says she's been denied medical treatment despite the discovery of lumps in her breast and as a means of gary radcliffe was detained by iranian police and twenty sixteen she was

sentenced to five years in prison for plotting to overthrow the government have family says she's innocent and was only running a journalism course u.s. border protection has ordered medical checks for every child in custody after a second guatemalan child died while in its care eight year old felipe gomez along died on christmas day hours after being discharged from hospital he was diagnosed with a cold and fever than his father had been in u.s. border control custody since entering the country a week earlier a seven year old guatemalan girl died earlier this month after being detained u.s. markets are still volatile after a major run of losses in the weeks before christmas on wednesday the dow jones posted its biggest single day again rising eleven hundred points that's almost five percent the partial rebound followed a pre-christian as losing streak fueled by slow global growth and political uncertainty in washington strong retail sales and surging tech and energy stocks

helped to boost markets. well since coming to office almost two years ago donald trump has turned presidential convention on its head that extends to his shadow which has been less hectic than many would expect white house correspondent kimberly health at looks at what the us president does with his day. given his background as a businessman with no prior time in elected office donald trump's presidency has been dramatically different from his predecessors. that includes his public schedule it often appears a little light it's an accusation trump denies in less than two years my administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country still trumps daily schedule has been under the microscope for months on most days his first meeting usually a daily intelligence briefing doesn't begin until eleven am it follows three hours

of what the white house refers to as executive time it's what many others like presidential historian martha kumar call tweeting he tweets and he tells people what's what's on his mind and then he does that early in the morning and then he can see some of those themes resonate on television the white house has defended this unscheduled work time saying the president uses this time to make phone calls and his former doctor reports he sleeps very little that's probably one of the reasons why he's been successful are now because you know me personally i need a lot more sleep than that but he's just one of those people i think that just does not require a lot of sleep indeed a study of trump's tweets shows he seems active at all hours of the day with no sign of a slackening pace who are says trump is among the most engaged when it comes to taking questions from reporters enough put down the mike this by the end of november trumpeted gaged in question and answer sessions with reporters three

hundred and seven times that's in. asked to seventy times by president obama at the same point in his presidency and two hundred thirty four times for president bush kumar says even though trump's public schedule is blank it doesn't mean it's a blank schedule trump also spend some of his work day in the white house residence instead of the west wing oval office so he can consult with his personal lawyers as the justice department probes into possible collusion between trump's presidential campaign and russia there is an office up there yeah and so it's not as if he's not working he is simply doing what he wants to do it without a lot of prying eyes seclusion as a private businessman is understandable but as a politician a public servant who promised to reinvent u.s. politics and shine a light on washington so-called swap donald trump's then public schedule is far from transparent kimberly healthy at al-jazeera the white house once regarded as

a science fiction human microchip them slowly but steadily becoming part of the modern workplace some volunteers have already been fitted with the technology and several businesses in the united kingdom and now actively looking to provide them to willing employees bonds as native barker reports there are concerns the risks may outweigh the benefits the future is a wave of a how the way in case you missed it he which is again. this is a whole new level of security the keys will access cause difficult to steal and copy but the technology because a certain level of commitment there is not for the faint hearted. so this is where the micro chip implant story begins for those who want them at least a clinical setting a sterile environment with some rather daunting bits of medical kit so talk us

through what happens next so far as part of a seizure is why when acetic the points interest you and. them will use a scalpel just to make a small incision. and then finally rob a large need to out and that we first just i'll stop you there for me in my case at least i think i've already was no is because it really had completely pain free the u.k. firm biotech office implants to businesses and individuals is fitted one hundred fifty implants in the u.k. so far and the number is rising assistive technology from sable people implant. banking security general use of contact as payments passport date will be stored on these microchips and embedded in your hand comes down to convenience i suppose lot of people it's very hard to lose your hand it's easy to lose if he she was not of sound demographics will not convenience this is one of several implant firms

reportedly in discussions with british financial and legal companies the names of the companies are being closely guarded this isn't new technology microchips have been implanted in tents for many years but the prospect of implanting them in employees to spark concerns from trade unions. gives even more control and power to be an employer and that comes with inherent risks and dangers overdressed inventors a shouldn't just be ignored by an employer everyone needs to other into consideration and their definition be pressuring any workers into every market biotech companies say the technology should be voluntary and that people must have a right to privacy but with one swedish bio hacks claiming to have already implanted four thousand people there. michael chipping could eventually become the new. society's embrace the mobile phone make use easy to track on a daily basis but by implementing microchips there may be few places left to truly

escape technology leave barca london. an american and you're in south leeds has become the first person to divert to traverse antarctica alone braving raging winds part of temperatures and heavy snow for colony brady made a final thirty two hour push covering one hundred twenty nine kilometers to complete the track on wednesday the thirty three year old from portland ore one hundred seventy kilograms of gear a distance of a thousand five hundred kilometers for nearly two months achieving the feat previously deemed impossible. i'm the star detained doha and these are the top stories president donald trump has used an unannounced visit to u.s. troops in iraq to defend his decision to withdraw forces from neighboring syria

trons faced criticism for not visiting american soldiers abroad he insists he has no plans to pull troops from iraq. one year ago i gave our generals six more months in syria. and it turns out it was really a year and a half ago i said go get em we need six months. and they said give us another six months they said go get them. then they said go can we have one more like period of six months i said no. no. i said i gave you a lot of six months and now we're doing it a different way russia is accusing israel of endangering two passenger planes that hit targets in syria says syrian air defenses destroyed fourteen of the sixteen israeli missiles and israeli security official has confirmed the strikes to the associated press saying they hit iranian targets the u.n. says representatives of yemen's warring factions have achieved a breakthrough at

a meeting in the key port city of her data retired dutch general patrick has been hosting the first talks in the city between the saudi and government and truthy rebels indonesia has said all flights around an erupting volcano which triggered a tsunami on saturday. continues to spew columns of ash into the air days after it's crazy collapsed sending waves up to five metres high among the coast at least four hundred thirty people were killed. voting in sunday's presidential election in the democratic republic of congo has been postponed in three opposition strongholds until march the election commission says it delayed to the voters in beni. of fears of violence and. one of sudan's ruling parties is calling for an investigation into the killing of protesters during a week of anti-government demonstrations members of the popular congress party say seventeen people were killed after security after security forces used live

ammunition at the protests but rights group amnesty international says at least thirty seven people died those are the headlines they'll be more news here after the stream. getting to the heart of the matter how can you be a refugee after a while it borders between five safe countries facing reality. starts from the very beginning. and providing context housing is not just about four walls and a roof hear their story talk to how. you're in the stream today a wave of african-americans are choosing to move to the african continent but why and what happens when they get there join the conversation using the hash tag. or if you're watching live on you tube you'll eventually see us in that box you can leave your comments in the chat box and you too could be in the string.

in recent years thousands of african americans have made the decision to quote return home to the african continent many say they want to escape the racial pressure pot of the united states while some want to connect to the land of their ancestors for others countries like ghana with an easy immigration process and the promise of a better life there are many african countries are welcoming the americans in their midst not everyone is thrilled by their new neighbors so joining us to talk about all of this in accra ghana. she's a marketing and media consultant she also made a documentary film blacks it about the migration of african americans in cape town south africa. he's an anthropologist and social literacy consultant and kaylin read she panda she's a journalist and editor of the website african american in africa and here in our

studio there a writer and journalist focusing on race culture and politics in the united states welcome to the stream to everyone so this is a. conversation that is very hot for their audience they love this topic and so everyone wanted to chime in with why people might want to move to the continent of africa this is just one of the tweets we got this is from adman who says it's about identity events like the slave trade in the colonial rule almost wiped away that african identity and thank goodness people are once again asking these questions about that identity so kalan i want to go to you with that idea talking about the draw of what made you want to leave the u.s. and move to namibia have a picture here on my laptop that i pulled up of you not too long ago you teach english to talk to us about that experience and what made it so enticing for you.

you know basically by the time i was about twenty three twenty four years old i personally just became kind of tired and bored of america and i just really fell in love with the energy and vibrancy that came with black nations especially after visiting barbados which is where i have met lineage and so i basically decided that you know i wanted to experience life on the african continent and so i started doing research on the internet about ways to move to africa and i found out that one of the easiest ways was through volunteer teaching and so i applied to an american organization and that's how i ended up in the libya and you know the rest is history i ended up getting married twenty maybe and i'm now a mother here but really just for me it was you know i personally was was kind of unsatisfied with american life and i've always felt a connection just to the continent and to my african ancestry and just sort of the energy of blackness so it was really attractive and it's been in and intoxicating

experience you mentioned that i had to chuckle that tired and bored of living in america the american context really so i mean i want to go to you with that idea pull up on my screen here. a an article about you headlined why some african-americans are moving to africa this is from our colleagues on the al-jazeera english site and you decided to move to gone on for a one year fellowship in twenty fourteen and then stayed what was behind that decision. well actually i did graduate school and drama in two thousand and three but i didn't feel like it was time for me to move yet you know they're things lots of things aren't in place and i came back ten years later and twenty thirteen i had an amazing experience there with so much development that happened in that time that i was like now is the time i applied for a fellowship of the one year fellowship i figured that we gave me enough time to

you know get the lay of the land see how much i liked it and at that into one year i was like i'm here i'm not going anywhere and i've been here since been. buried you heard those two experiences will go through your mind when you hear that . it makes a lot of sense and you know because frankly people not being enjoying living in the united states or having issues as an african-american in the united states that makes a lot of sense and you know there's plenty of african-americans who have gone you know countries in europe and felt more comfortable in europe than they have in america so going to africa and feeling you know the connection to war in african people which doesn't necessarily mean that it's your home per se where you go back and like your rican doing something that you you have like a very real connection that you you know you're not saying the connection is completely gone but the comfort level and the ability to adapt and thrive in that environment it makes it makes a lot of sense and so i can see why people would be you know interested in doing so

ok so then i want to throw a little dynamite into this conversation here some people who are not so interested this is the mcneil who tweets definitely not african-american blood runs in the veins and sinews of the united states we should make this country more fair and equitable to people of color not cut and run so to speak we also got a video comment from someone who thinks similarly along those lines and she's also a former stream gas serine writes in this is video on this point have a listen as a descendant of american chattel slavery i don't necessarily feel the need to go back to africa a place that i've never been in order to reconnect with my roots because i feel like my right here in the united states where my ancestors literally their lives building this country as sleep people they start their legs sweat and tears into this country and i don't feel it's necessary to fight. so there you you wrote

a piece and twenty fifteen for the daily beast i pulled it up here african-americans can't go home and the title there is ruthless and this is under the opinion page but talk to us about that idea that syrian mentioned in her video comment this is home this is where her roots are you know without a doubt as an african-american this this is our home like my my family has been here for generations upon generations and and i'm as american as you can get but the complexity of being an african-american is that we've never been allowed to have the complete agency to treat this fully as our home and like the true american sense and that will incline people to go in search of other places where they can feel they can fully exercise their agency and be themselves to the fullest and so that brings about a complexity where you kind of have as a culture to environments where you can't be fully home in either one but you do have an obligation domestically in the united states to to fight for equity for

african-americans but at the same time the colonization across the globe has made it so that at black stories african stories don't get the representation that they need and collectively we have to work to enhance that too so it's it's a fight domestically and internationally to elevate black voices and strive for equality across the board so you can go home per se but you do have a connection to both places that you have to you know work for the betterment of all black people let's i want to bring you into the conversation here on that point richard barrett raised about you can't go home. you work with students who go to the continent specifically south africa and you have different experiences can you talk to us about that. yes and we work with students like american exchange students that come here for study abroad programs but you also work with a lot of american international schools. and they are based here in south africa and what you often find is there is this desire for. the white students to you know

serve this environment and help africa in a very romantic sense but on the flip side you've got african-americans who come here and i'm looking for an idyllic sense of home magic sense of a reconnection with their roots which there is a little bit shallow because the i don't know but africa and the homeland that you're looking at is messy complex and asked people who were born and raised just trying to figure out themselves and so i think i'm that when the desire is very romantic and when that is lacking context don't just on the ground what is happening within the country if it becomes problematic and at times a little bit difficult for us as local south africans to engage with you realistically as a foreigner coming into the space to try and find something in this like spiritual mecca it's very complicated kalan why i think that's kind of like. first i think there's a misconception that i've seen thrown around that african-americans you know across

the board like we don't have any insight you know to what is going on on the ground in africa and in african nations you know like i am professors at howard university that that you know which is my alma mater that i know for a fact are you know all the way from from d.c. deeply engaged and aware of african politics of course being on the ground an african country and there's nothing that can replace it and also being an african or being a south african there's nothing that can replace you know that direct insight but i think it's a little bit you know a little bit of a reach to sort of just kind of say that you know we kind of have this shallow understanding. you know shuttle approach i would say you know i don't really think that's the case and i think sometimes people just kind of underestimate the insight that african-americans that many of us actually do have i mean i get a lot of african-americans don't know you know i don't have any interest in what's

going on in africa but at the same time there are others that do like myself you know and i think that can be done is to give us a chance you know what we are starting it we're starting from you know from four hundred years four hundred plus years you know like you can't expect i don't think you should expect us to come you know and just know everything and just have a lay of the land that's where you know you can meet us halfway and we can all work together and get a better understanding and it won't be perfect and it will be kind of you know i don't know when i do it or what i do wish to add there's a quick caveat is i'm. we welcome people that wish to learn but what i'm saying is what the students are particularly young become in with a sense of this place will fit in this kind of walks of life to the motherland looks like i mean. actually many many african-american scholars of his years showed us to have an acute illness of the african continent. and how his perception of. africa was milan's and in many ways fully aware of how that four hundred year

history creates a gap of knowledge so one hundred percent what i'm saying is. self interrogation which is happening from us locals i don't want to raise means to be extended and a desire to the needs to also occur with people that are coming inside if it makes sense. or people will struggle i don't talk i hear you saying i hear you're saying when you mention south interrogation and i think one of the things that came up in our community is a feeling for people on the continent that some americans are not doing that self interrogation as accurately and thoroughly as they need to be take a look at these two tweets from monterey he mentions first of all this isn't new and that goes to the idea that the back to africa movements have been happening since one thousand nine hundred two contemporary times he says this is an experiment hundreds of years in the making i have friends here in nigeria who surnames are fernandez de silva. their great grandparents are return east slaves

from brazil and they all have your about first names though and they're completely re assimilated he goes on to say i haven't come across any of them in lagos and frankly i wouldn't advise them to come here nigeria is where dreams come to die quickly disillusioned and gone they might find more to their taste because of its economic climate and low population so there is one naysayer there but i want to give that one to you mohammed out because i'd like you to give us an idea of what happens when you land it can all be rosy what does that look like what do people expect. i think you know it's important for african-americans to manage expectations you know we have like. i you know this placement and we wanted to go away you know and land is going to magically go away they're going to be drummers and fingers that the air current . exists and not like that you know most people on the ground don't see any

connection with african-americans like you go through harlem or brooklyn or somewhere a you know most people are like i'm not african you know they don't see a connection so it's really up to the individual to manage their expectations have a more realistic idea of what's happening in modern day african cities and then understand like what you need as a person so even for me i know people may not be as a long lost sister or cousin but it doesn't matter i know that i'm connected to their plan i know that i'm connected to people and that's what's important to me you know it doesn't really matter what they think just like in america you know i want to point they consider to reset the monuments so i know that i'm a whole new then i guess like here i know i'm of african descent and i'm here more so for this feeling and the connection that i have to the place so it's not so much

of what other people think about me. so for me i have to manage those expectations so i have. a better time and a better experience i haven't had that class that most people have and then they have to build back up so i think that's something that's very important for people who are thinking about coming here and i could see you nodding there i see all of our guests nodding their berets what do you want to say so i guess the key thing from an american perspective as a country we have our amanda size idea for homeland and when we talk about as a nation of immigrants in this it. tends to all americans you know white americans asian americans the idea of you know if you're irish or korean or whatever there's a romanticized connection to where you're from and as african-americans even though our immigration story is vastly different there is a yearning to have the romanticize connection to to africa and that is i think when you get to africa and you now have the reality just i give the reality if you go to

any country that remand the size notion needs to kind of fall away and you have to do the legwork you have to know a lot about the continent the place you're going and all that all that and then it so that you can fully immerse yourself in and i think he made a good point though for a younger generation when they go over there that's very very prone to have the romanticize ideas of what africa is and they're the culture shock and then you know the africans actually have to now you know get the americans to come to realize this is what the country is like this is what's happening and i think the sooner we can have a more realistic view of our struggle domestically and internationally with regards to africa and the perspectives me to have the the more capacity will have to thrive in whatever way we decide to to go into africa whether we know which which countries they are in the dynamics i don't think they're. jumping i mean if we're talking about students you know i don't think that the expectations should be super high on students coming to africa study abroad to study abroad or whatever it is that they're doing you know like i just think that's

a bit unrealistic i mean i came here and i moved to namibia twenty six years old and to be honest you know like it has to i've been here for four you know her almost eight eight to nine years and it has taken me a long time and it's still not perfect just for me to you know understand my feelings and you know continually manage my own expectations so you know i really don't think that you know you're going to find you know this perfect african american like adaptation or entrance into the african continent particularly with students i hope that you don't hold their. hold them. with them you know because it really seriously is a process for me i came as an adult you know and i'm still learning every day little things big things you know it's just it's really a process and it does take patience and it's not pretty all the time. and i told him i tell you greta you know you could have certain expectations for students or you know adult professionals or what not but the idea of building the connection

to africa if we're building the strong connection we have to get past the remained the size idea and you know really. and the earlier that the african-american community can do that regardless of you know whether you're a student or you're an adult i think the better if your goal is to to visit africa and have a really vibrant connection with the continent so like there is like an american in impediment as to how we perceive countries outside the united states and see it with you know a realistic perspective and not a man to size one and i think america needs us to have that romanticized view and i'm glad you really. want to do that i want i will go to you but i want to bring this up because this is race is a good point we're talking about this for a man to size view and we got some africans from people on the continent because of course africa is not a country and we did get pushback from people online who said remember don't just call us africans we're very diverse and who we are there is this quote this is from

the article featuring. and you write you might not have electricity but you won't get killed by the police either talking about moving to ghana we got pushed back because this is one person out of nigeria who says the chances of people killing you in one thousand is eight out of ten please don't deceive yourself check the hash tag in sars and reform police to verify real stories or produce police brutality and cheerios actually something we did a stream show about so it is a real issue but keeping that in mind others are saying there is a pretty. being african-american on the continent this is from sahara reporters and news site prosper privilege and black guilt tales of an african american x. pat and this is something our community definitely relates to algal says i've been telling my african-american brothers and sisters that they are more privileged and protected as americans in africa i'm going back to my home because i could be in a better position as a u.s.

educated if the o.p.'s been trying to find acceptance here so that's a little pushback on that idea i want to bring you in here what are your thoughts. so is this me now so i was it is yeah so what i want to just add to that point is you need to understand something when african americans come to south africa and into action other black south africans they're kind of exceptional eyes because of the social capital and like the soft power you know you have and i'm an african-american again in the black south african whose favorite t.v. shows scandal and sing jay z. lyrics off by heart and like who has so much affinity to so much american black american pop culture that we enjoy this privilege of cool that you know obviously not afforded to other foreign national africans and so what i've noticed is how with that privilege there's almost. a responsibility to use your if you want to come in like stay here and be part of the situation and part of the country you

have to use that sort of privilege you have as an american with the resources to try and better the place because to be honest so africa unlike many other african countries we have trust issues when it comes to burn is coming into this space and so that's a point that we want to make that the privilege does exist but the privilege needs to be used to combat certain inequities within the local space that you exist in a way that you can regarding skills or resources so why would i want to i mean really when i want to bring the hammer down on that point a privilege because we got this via you tube someone watching live they said donna made a law in two thousand and one allowing descendants that i asked for to get citizenship and work and here is what that looks like it's the right of abode granted to people of african descent in that they asked for a so there are other saying it's not just that easy you have to have several documents and a little time frame for making sure you can be a citizen there but it is a welcoming announcement. that when you see that do you recognize that there is

a privilege to being welcome to this country that's not necessarily your own. i think there is a privilege you know being african-american i mean i do understand that i'm just coming in with you know dollars or you know an american education and you know i'm not going to you know act like that doesn't exist but one of the great things about it is finally i can use my an american net you know and get the benefit because i'm not getting that at home so finally you know i can you know they benefit me. and you know to my advantage i don't like to you know i i like to pretty much go. as anonymous as i can and you know i don't talk no one even knows that i'm american and even if i do talk they just assume that i'm probably got me and was educated abroad and i love living. within that i'm not anonymous anonymously where you know

something about. you know i i know but i have it in my back pocket if i need to use it i use a try not to because i want to you know live is normally a possible. government going to not that that exists and i think like the gentleman said in south africa it is you know it's our sponsibility i need to you and i try as much as i can you know to improve my environment to improve you know just and also just give people a realistic view of what african-americans are too because i think that's the flip side people romanticize african-americans they want getting paid rappers and things like that on t.v. and they think back to our life you know and i'm like no it's not like that you know and so it's always. education that happening on both right cayless. yeah and i mean on the flip side of that i really do think that you know maybe africans sometimes or south africans that i want to generalize are confident last

week the south african on the panel you know don't forget that you guys also have a privilege you know i mean there is serious power in knowing your tribe and having the growing up in the rich culture that you grew up in you know like like. a young woman before he was saying you know like it's not don't don't also don't overread romanticize black american privilege you know because it's not like one hundred percent rosy but i do hear what you're saying i'm in terms of when we're on the continent i mean for me personally i try to. you know keep my privilege in check when i can or stand up against my privilege when i can whether it's someone you know saying like i just recently a guy said to me all i want i want some american sisters i don't want any and i'm indian women and i was like you know like i checked you know like i'm not ok i mean may seem like a simple thing but just there are many different ways and you know in terms of african-americans coming here and becoming entrepreneurs or whatever and just keeping social responsibility in mind so there are definitely things that we should

do so knowing your privilege checking it and making sure that you are aware of it unfortunately we are out of time i want to give a big thank you to all of our guests for this fascinating conversation and our community for making it to great i'll end with this tweet from bon jovi who says i have land in kenya to share with anyone willing to come to africa our ancestors would be happy. a.j. strings the online. capturing a moment in time. snapshots of other lives. other stories . providing a glimpse into someone else's world. inspiring documentaries from impassioned filmmakers. with nice documentaries to open your eyes on al-jazeera.

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i massage and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up russia criticizes israel's military actions in syria has really say they have no plans to stop. the volcano that triggered indonesia's devastating tsunami now there's a new warning out. and the paint job on a lakeside town in guatemala how it's attracting more tourists. donald trump has arrived in germany to visit american troops on his way back from an unannounced trip to iraq the iraq johnny follows growing criticism of the u.s. president's failure to visit troops in combat zones he stayed for just three hours thanking troops and defending his decision to pull out of syria but what raised some eyebrows was trying not to missing anyone from the iraqi leadership rob reynolds reports from washington d.c. . resident donald trump got a warm welcome from u.s.

troops during his brief visit to iraq. we came to our live shot this year our eternal gratitude for everything you do to keep america safe strong and free. accompanied by first lady maloney a trump the president shook hands with service members at an air base one hundred sixty kilometers from baghdad he posed for selfies and signed autographs including one on a bake america great again campaign. he bragged about the defeat of eisel on his watch two years ago. i became president there were a very dominant group they were very dominant today they're not so dominant anymore ah. the visit came amid continuing fallout from trump's abrupt decision to pull out all u.s.

forces from syria our presence in syria was not open ended and was never intended to be permanent trump said the withdrawal from syria would be strong deliberate and orderly he also met with military commanders i think it's an opportunity for him to explain to his generals on the ground and the troops on the ground what the syria withdrawal means and most importantly hear from those generals how they plan to execute that withdrawal trump said the u.s. has no plans at all to pull out of iraq a day earlier during a phone call with the commander of the air base in qatar trump asked about the ongoing blockade of qatar by saudi arabia and the u.a.e. together with egypt and bahrain so how are they doing it cutter how are they doing getting together with saudi arabia and u.a.e. you know we don't track in a certainly the political followings of saudi arabian u.a.e.

with regards to cutter but i will tell you they're fantastic on this this is trumps first visit to u.s. troops in a conflict zone during his twenty three months in office the visit is likely to quell critics who say he should have followed the example of his predecessors presidents bush and obama who visited troops in harm's way earlier in their terms rob reynolds al jazeera washington well as we mentioned donald trump didn't meet anyone from the iraqi leadership but he did speak to prime minister abdul mahdi by firing twelve eyes into the white house and then con has more from baghdad. the iraqi prime minister and the u.s. president donald trump were supposed to meet that didn't happen the iraqis on behalf of the iraqi prime minister of the they have said that the parameters of the meeting could not be agreed now that is going to be of concern particularly to the iraqis because they see the u.s.

as an ally but they see them as an ally like within the context of the whole region however the u.s. president did come to iraq he did meet with the troops and our asset at base in the west of baghdad we didn't meet with any official iraqi. personality or even political official now the reason for that is because they couldn't agree on the parameters what does that mean well i've been speaking to people throughout the day before the u.s. president's visit was and out and there is some confusion over what is going on with the u.s. is policy they're very concerned in iraq about syria about the two thousand troops being pulled out of syria the eisel hey have been defeated have been defeated for yet baghdad is much more safe that that has been for a very long time the iraqis very confident they can deal with ice all within their own borders will any concerns them is syria and that's where they are less

confident that the syrians the iranians russians and indeed the americans can deal with the threat i saw russia says airstrikes by israel and syria in danger to passenger planes moscow says syrian air defenses destroyed fourteen of the sixteen israeli missiles syrian state media reports several missiles west shut down near damascus before they could hit their targets and israeli security official confirms the air strikes to the associated press saying they hit iranian storage and majestic targets being used to transfer weapons to hezbollah. behold emotionally we are not prepared to accept the iranian military entrenched but in syria which is directed against us we will act against it vigorously and continuously including during the current period i've said to not be deterred from doing what is necessary therefore we are called upon and we act president trump decision to withdraw the american soldiers from syria would not change our policy no standing steadfast in

our red vans in syria and everywhere else stephanie deca has been following developments from west jerusalem russia's accused israel of a gross violation of syria's sovereignty it also says that israeli aircraft in danger to civilian aircraft one of them that was coming into land and beirut airport and the other one in damascus this is according to a foreign ministry statement what we understand is that israeli aircraft fired from lebanese airspace is according to syrian state television targeting a weapons warehouse west of damascus now israel will act has acted extensively throughout the war when it believes either hezbollah is going to be receiving weapons shipments or any sort of in hans seeing weapons capabilities to go to hezbollah we haven't had any official reaction we've reached out to the foreign ministry and the prime minister's office but we've heard from the israeli prime minister talking at a graduating ceremony of air force cadets saying that the red lines on syria stand

of course that the there's a complexity between the two actors russia and israel following the downing of a russian reconnaissance aircraft in september by syrian anti-aircraft missiles that israel was accused of causing there is a de confliction line in place between israel and russia when it comes to syria it is not clear whether that was used but certainly it is clear that russia very unhappy about the latest airstrikes. the u.n. says representatives of yemen's warring factions have achieved a breakthrough as meeting in the key port city of her data retired dutch general patrick has been hosting talks for the first time in the city between the saudi and amorality backed government and the rebels a cease fire is in place there but the who theists are accusing coalition forces of violating that truce with ground attacks and at least twenty eight strikes in the past twenty four hours coalition commanders haven't responded. indonesian

authorities say no one is allowed within five kilometers of the volcano that triggered a tsunami on saturday killing at least four hundred people they've more than doubled to the exclusion zone around on the krakatoa and raised its alert status to the second highest level it continues to spew ash into the days after it's crazy collapsed sending waves up to five meters high among the coast all flights around it have been rebooted robert bride reports from one to state district inland from the damaged coastline of northwest java island. in any tsunami the natural instinct is to seek higher ground and also shelter and effectively that's what's happened here at this school in level one district it's gradually become home to around three hundred people gravitating in the days since the tsunami from communities on the shoreline many of them fishing communities but these are people who have now largely lost their fishing boats some of them of lost their homes and many of them

say they're just too afraid for the moment at least to go back to the coast by that . they are mostly fisherman they can go to sea because their boats are gone so they can make a living it's only a few metres above sea level but that's enough to provide peace of mind for the thousands of people who've moved into locations around here that are quickly gaining a sense of semipermanent. yeah i don't know how long we're going to stay here we haven't been back to see the condition of our homes because we are still afraid. no one's going to be taking any comfort from the latest news that the warning level for krakatau has just been raised the long awaited presidential election in the democratic republic of congo has been postponed in three areas the electoral commission says the delays because of conflict and an abode outbreak but it covers three known opposition strongholds and that sparked calls for anti-government protests as malcolm webb reports from kinshasa the democratic republic of congo's

the election is already as a bit g's. and the electoral commission has announced the second postponement in a week in three areas. the elections the beni be initially planned for december thirtieth or no program from march twenty ninth and will be subject to a specific calendar. the electoral commission said the three areas would have delayed parliamentary polls and provincial elections in march that means that we can see excluded from the presidential poll that's meant to happen on sunday the electoral commission said the reason was conflicts and then a polar outbreak all three areas a key opposition strongholds. and this is one of the reasons why hundreds of civilians have been killed in a series of massacres around the town of benny in the last four years it's not clear who is behind them the government blames a rebel group called the a.t.f.

. or outbreak started in august and spread to the area around benny more than three hundred people have died. campaign rallies were allowed to take place there. and its opposition candidate martin freely through the biggest crowds i think this is the people that need change in this country most because they've been was more the war atrocities the musky and ceased to kids and also want their votes consulate in this country there was want to change. there are about one point two million voters in the regions that will be excluded many of them support fire leave. congress catholic church which has played a key role in campaigning for democracy also question the decision says this is that. within this is a dangerous decision and also we don't see a clear motivation for it why did they not decide this during the come.