catherine a number of arizona not be able to vote in the upcoming elections how's it going down with the opposition who are not exactly united all that. you know they are not daryn we have had reports that at least one. opposition presidential candidate has said he's going to withdrawal from the election we haven't verified that was hard for goss forces by he is not very well known when we talk about the rest of the candidates martin for using for example he is. the coalition be hiding and they held a press conference. remember for you lose these three areas these three cities are talking about these. are you stronghold and we're talking about one point two million voters so he's correlation spokesperson had a press conference and called a general strike on friday told people here in quote to india or congo to stay home

don't come to work to open your businesses stay home in practice but we've also had other presidential candidates who have been quiet and one particular one clicks to see katie who's another very serious contender has said that they're going to go one regardless of this decision of the electoral commission so we're seeing a divided opposition but whatever happens daryn even the next and goes ahead with everything that we see happening just for the way from the company whatever happens really really this election process a lot of people are saying he's already tainted or it's a conference or they can shuffle catherine thank you when the congolese. macartney's opposition to go keeps us from burma described in the light of a cynical disregard for democracy. what is happening is a complete or unacceptable and a government how to lend a value of inclusive it when it come into the country the value of the election in

our country killing all the there is citizen when they are calling them to recognize them to be elected to elect a leader of the choice is completely unacceptable where they come in to try to use another form of the delay tactic just to west people time let me a cyst on the valley of people of congo mystical bella and the regime have a been in a power sense to two thousand and one we have a view and we've been a witness to a different form of abuse and it decides included a different core of the breach of the law and the use of force in an old interested to asking them to respect develop a constitution time for not so breaking out as iraq when we come back a health care meltdown our shortage of staff and equipment is crippling greece's health system thus the u.s. city of baltimore is offering cash for arms but would it solve the problem of gun violence more that stay with us.

hello there the weather is all quite quiet over many parts of china at the moment it's also quite cool so maximum temperature in shanghai just a five degrees this area of cloud here there in the center of amapa could squeeze out a few outbreaks of rain and snow but it's really going to intensify as we head through the day on saturday this time is part of the six one province and across in degrees in where we're likely to see some particularly heavy outbreaks of snow really does look quite wintery for some of us here as we head out towards the west so the weather here is quite quiet just a little bit of sherry whether in the far south but most of that is staying away from land so even in the southern parts of india and through share lanka is largely fine and dry at the moment and that's the way it will stay as we head through friday and into sunday in the north it's also dry fast with the problem with quality as you'd expect at this time of year and not feeling that well with the top

temperature in new delhi just around seventeen or eighteen as you head out towards the west that's quite an active system to the north of us might just get its way into the northern parts of his say i think for q eight we'll see a few showers perhaps and then we'll see it over iran but not here in doha it will just see the winds pick up as we head into saturday friday will be a little bit calmer there will be a fair amount of the over parts of the u.a.e. . i majored in every weekly news cycle brings a series of breaking stories joined the listening post as we turn the cameras on the media and focus on how they report on the stories that matter the most on al-jazeera. the democratic republic of congo is finally heading to the polls off the road to yet the lady who will be announced the winner of this already controversial presidential election join us for special coverage of the aussies

election on al-jazeera. welcome back a quick reminder the top stories here on al-jazeera king solomon of saudi arabia as all the major government reshuffle including the demotion of the long time foreign minister. shakeup also includes creating a new political and security council. police in the democratic republic of congo have fired tear gas at protesters in opposition areas excluded from sunday's presidential election. voting in eastern areas is being postponed until march electoral commission is blaming rebel attacks on the boat of violence the latest

delay. united nations ceasefire hosted the first face to face talks in yemen between who three rebels and pro-government forces both sides accuse each other of breaking the nine day old cease fire at the main port of the data from us and reports. patiently hoping for peace the people of the yemeni city of hard data a putting their faith in a fragile truce as nearby a meeting is held between forces loyal to president abdurrahman so hardy and who feel. the conflict is now in its fourth year more than sixty thousand people have been killed in the fighting. in two thousand and one thousand we want to see peace love and brotherhood among all yemenis we also hope for perspiring we are counting on god and on our politicians we don't want more war. the united nations is coordinating the talks it's armored vehicles carrying members

of the yemeni government have only been able to get through after rebel fighters cleared mines from the road leading to where the meeting was to be held. the whole fees in the yemeni government which is backed by a coalition led by saudi arabia and the u.a.e. blame each other for repeatedly breaking a cease fire which has been in place in her data since december the eighteenth the city is a key port and the route for yemen's much needed supplies of medicines food and fuel millions are said to be close to starvation it's estimated as many as eighty five thousand children have died from malnutrition of the last. next year we hope the city will enjoy peace and security we also hope that services such as transportation an oil will be available. delegates of wednesday's meeting are said to have agreed on a process for withdrawing pro-government troops from her data and handing control

to a local committee they're also reported to have agreed to stop fighting in and around the city the u.n. representative for monitoring the cease fire retired dutch general patrick come out says the meeting on wednesday has made progress but until the gun battles and the bombings and peace in her data still hangs in the balance rob matheson. iraqi politicians and opposition leaders have condemned donald trump's unannounced visit to their country accusing him of violating its sovereignty the us president stayed for three hours in iraq thanking soldiers and defending his decision to withdraw troops in syria from didn't meet anyone from the iraqi leadership but he did speak to prime minister. by phone to invite him to the white house imran khan has more from baghdad. the u.s. president's visit to iraq was just three hours long but it has had an impact here in baghdad now there was supposed to be a meeting or a phone call between the iraqi prime minister. and president donald trump that

didn't happen because they couldn't agree on the parameters of that meeting what was supposed to be discussed within that meeting president of the u.s. president donald trump made a commitment to his troops. basically and he said that they would remain in the country however he hasn't actually discussed that with his iraqi counterpart so far the iraqis are actually right now debating on what the future role should be within iraq itself there is a commanding control base here there is a forward operating bases here and they've been using them as part of their campaign in syria however they're now withdrawing from syria and this concerns iraq ease because they feel that there are still pockets of his both in the west of iraq and in syria itself and if there's no u.s. presence there then that may mean that may well mean that those pockets of ice will fight as can regroup and that might become a problem for iraq however the real concern here is one of politics there doesn't

seem to be any play strategy coming from the u.s. president other than withdraw withdraw but not withdraw out of iraq itself and like i say the iraqis debating what kind of future role the u.s. may well have here in this country now is really fruits vegetables and poultry will no longer be available in palestinian shops the palestinian authority is stopping all israeli imports that's after israel's agriculture minister ordered a similar ban on imports in the occupied west bank despite israeli warnings alison they called me wouldn't be able to withstand the. displaced syrians in several refugee camps are dealing with heavy flooding in the north of the country happened in the wake of rain storms that triggered flooding of the afrin river high water levels last week cut off roads between several camps with water reaching around one point five meters refugees olds are dealing with freezing winter temperatures the

no go zone near an erupting volcano in the major has been widened and the alert level raised experts fear another massive eruption will cause a second son army at least four hundred thirty people were killed when a five metre high wave flooded coastal communities on saturday rob a bride reports. a new exclusion zone around the volcano means no one is allowed to approach within five kilometers but the greater concern is for the people living along the coasts on either side of the sunda strait. they've again been warned to stay back between five hundred meters and one kilometer from the shoreline while commercial planes have been ordered to avoid the area all kind of cash is a mix euro and gas and it's classic rock fragments and minerals and volcanic glass and it's very very scratchy or can et so the dangers of that going up into the atmosphere so planes if there is a large rips in the ash goes hina the planes flying back now must be

a hazard for airlines the increased warning level comes as a blow to the thousands of people displaced by the tsunami or wanting to return home many seeking shelter on higher ground where even a few metres above sea level officer a greater sense of security. schools and community centers in the town of level one have been turned into makeshift homes giving a feeling of semipermanent. most of these people rely upon the sea for their livelihoods by got. there mostly fishermen they can go to sea because their boats are gone so they can make a living. and many don't know if the houses they fled from are still standing we haven't been back to see the condition of our homes because we are still a freight. cracka towers latest eruptions will do nothing to ease those fears macbride al jazeera north west java indonesia an earthquake has shaken the island

of sicily in southern italy several injuries are reported after the four point eight magnitude quake it's one of more than a thousand tremors linked to the eruption of mt etna the ash cloud from europe's most active volcano forced hundreds into emergency shelters on monday the tiny airport has since. surgical supply is running out operations postponed and severe shortages doctors and greece i wish to die a warning about the chaos in some public hospitals john psaropoulos reports the town of ft. it takes several pieces of equipment to install an intravenous line in a patient needles taps catheters and rubber gloves must be sterile and discarded after use these are the cheapest of materials for one of the simplest of procedures there are no apparent shortages here at the outpatient clinics of st and brass hospital in particular but staff say appearances are misleading i mean.

we had a budget a sixty to sixty five million euro crisis today out which is fifteen to eighteen million of this creates enormous problems that. the hospital is also short staffed this doctor says there are just two nurses for the outpatient clinics serving the city of two hundred thousand seat a c. medicine and most days this room is full of stretchers with a queue of more outside shouting and pushing to get in and they come from towns all over the region it can be a stick we can barely walk in where shortages have shut down clinics in smaller regional hospitals so same town there is also takes in patients from the broader region of more than a million people with hospital one hundred twelve hundred before the financial crisis of two thousand and eight it is now down to thirteen hundred and fifty and at least fifty doctors are urgently needed these trends and personnel and materials reflect the broader cuts in government health spending in just the past three years it has fallen from seven billion dollars to four point two billion that means

greece is spending less than ten percent of its budget on health care the european union averages over fifteen percent it's driven many who can afford it into private health care. where only here for financial reasons of course national health doctors are more experienced than private sector to. and the moment you arrive here our patients get wary there are lots of people in line the dedication of the doctors and nurses who remain in the public sector has been rewarded with a forty percent pay cuts during the crisis and no government has tightened health spending more than that controlled by the city's a party which has made a point of producing even higher surpluses than creditors demand with which to repay the country's debt next year's budget contains a further reduction in salaries for hospital staff a move which will anger many jobs are open us al-jazeera. police in the u.s. city of baltimore launched a guns for cash campaign aimed at getting weapons off the streets it's hoped the

move will help curb gun violence in the city and more than three hundred people have been killed in each of the past four years but with gun ownership so widespread in america it's all good but such campaigns are nothing more than p.r. stunts is john hendren. if you know about it if they stop for you that's ok in one of america's deadliest cities police are trying to even beyond. to reduce the number of weapons they face on the streets of baltimore they're buying them one hundred dollars for revolver and five hundred for a fully automated firearm no questions asked. couple pieces i think i need to get rid of i think just great idea gets some guns off the street the problem out. there is little appetite on capitol hill to change gun laws the national rifle association has opposed any effort to curb gun rights and remains the most powerful lobbying group in america so police here are taking weapons off the street one of

the few ways they can. one donor dropped off this rocket launcher with more than three hundred murders this year baltimore is one of the most violent cities in the united states and police say they hope with each weapon they take in just a little bit safer so the gun buyback program is about getting guns off the streets of baltimore today is day number three of the program on the first day we took in five hundred seventy eight guns the second day five hundred eleven and we're only about an hour into the van to day and there's already a pretty long line inside with people turning in god's brazil managed to take more than a million guns off the street with gun buybacks from two thousand and three to two thousand and nine but with four hundred million guns in the u.s. more than one for every person the effect here is at best limited typically a very small number of gaza turned in fifty one hundred two hundred guys. and you might have cities like los angeles when you get a lot like two thousand but they're still small relative to the number of guns in

the united states but at the end of the day i think most research suggests that it's actually simply p.r. for some bad p.r. like. we can't. well we can't we keep saying we don't trust them. with about one hundred thousand shootings each year nearly a third of them fatal and more than three hundred mass shootings across the u.s. in two thousand and eighteen in little chance of new gun restrictions police here say they are doing what they can john hendren zero baltimore. talk a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera saudi arabia's king solomon as all that a government reshuffle that includes replacing the foreign minister. has been demoted and is now minister of state for foreign affairs the former finance minister abraham has replaced him the shake up also includes creating

a new political and security council police in the democratic republic of congo have fired tear gas at protesters in opposition areas excluded from sunday's presidential election voting in eastern areas such as benny on but ten bows being postponed until march to a commission is banning rebel attacks on the boat of ours for the latest delay in the election already two years overdue catherine sawyer has more from concetta. well the electoral commission was very clear in their statement yesterday and in the press conference they held. that statement issued and they could say that there is no way they can have an election in these places because of the ebola outbreak as well as in the cutie in the room the last week there were some ethnic clashes where all the people were killed for this kind of back a while but what many people in the opposition and what mean a vote is when those areas are where you left the company continues we let the

complaint go along in these. areas so what has changed now yes president donald trump has returned home from a surprise visit to a u.s. base in iraq he defended his decision to withdraw its forces from syria while emphasizing he had no such plans for iraq but he left iraq e.m.p. condemned his visit and said that they would push for a vote in parliament to expel the remaining five thousand u.s. soldiers in iraq it's a no go zone an erupting volcano in indonesia has been widened on the alert level raised experts say another massive eruption will cause a second synonymy at least four hundred thirty people were killed when a five metre high wave flooded coastal communities on saturday and earthquake has shaken not and of sicily in southern italy seven injuries are reported out of the four point eight quake it's one of more than a thousand from as i think the eruption of mt etna displaced syrians in several refugee camps are dealing with heavy flooding in the north of the country it

happened in the wake of rain storms that triggered flooding of the a free and river high water levels last week out of rosewood in several attempts with water reaching around one point five meters. all right so those are the headlines the news continues on al jazeera after the street station that so much of . the marshall islands holds a toxic legacy from years of u.s. military nuclear testing. as the sea levels rise one on one east investigates the threat this followed posers on al-jazeera. and 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 stream. 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 though many african countries are welcoming of 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 the documentary film blacks it about the migration of african americans in capetown south africa. he's an anthropologist and social literacy consultant and kaylin reach into 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 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 edmond who says it's about identity events like the slave trade in the colonial rule almost wiped away that african id. entity and thank goodness people are once again asking deep 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 us 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 media 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 kind of unsatisfied with american life and i've always felt a connection just to the continent and and so my african ancestry and just sort of the energy of blackness so it was really attractive and it's been 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. 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 off for a one year fellowship in twenty fourteen and then stayed what was behind that decision. well actually i did graduate school and bomb 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 are in place and i came back ten years later in 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 would give 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. there if you heard this 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 to 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 baird 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 this is under the opinion page but talk to us about that idea that serene 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 you know 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 this i want to bring you into the conversation here on that point rick barry greatest about you can't go home. you work with students who go to the continent specifically south africa and have different experiences can you talk to us about that. if we work with students like american exchange students they come here for study and for 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 here 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 one 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 locals and 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 kalen 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 ever way from from d.c. deeply engaged and aware of african politics of course being on the ground in 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 it

a lot of african-americans don't know you know 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 what 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 box of what the motherland looks like i mean. actually many many african-american scholars of his years showed us to have an acute awareness of the african continent. that's what james and how his

perception of. africa was milan's and in many ways fully aware of 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. if you 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 lon ray 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 returning the slaves from brazil 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 they'll be 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't 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 at the airport well you know exist i'm 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 human i guess like your i know of african descent and i'm here more 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 had and then they have to go back 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 barrett 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 so when we talk about the nation of immigrants in this. 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 in amman so that you can fully immerse yourself in and i think he made a good point there 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. you know 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 whatnot but the idea of building the connection to africa if we're building to a strong connection we have to get past the remain at the size idea and you know really kind of 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 impediment as to how we perceive countries outside the united states and see it with you know a realistic perspective and not of 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's 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 pushback because this is one person out of nigeria who says the chances of people killing you in the jury 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 syria that's actually something we did a 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 acts 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 engaging the black south african whose favorite t.v. shows scandal and sing james the 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 i would 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 don i 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 being welcome to this country that's not necessarily your own. i think there is a privilege you know being an african-american i mean i do understand that just coming in with you know dollars or you know an american education 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 cough no money and 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

. so 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 live as normally as possible. doesn't going to the 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 people are 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 that's what our life is 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 so 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 tried 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 to be in 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 comfortably and 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 bontrager 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. this encampment that we're in today it didn't exist three weeks ago now there's at least twenty thousand or hinder refugees who live here. all i'm hearing is good journalism. has resigned. their.

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a.j. is good. i know you with the news good live on air and streaming online through you tube facebook live and at al-jazeera dot com good to have you with us on this saturday now saudi arabia's king has ordered a surprise cabinet reshuffle demoting a prominent minister and announcing the creation of new agencies in a series of royal decrees declared on state t.v. king salmen announced the formation of a new political and security council the minister in charge of the national guard is replaced so is the minister of media and the head of the countries and to taman commission the most attention has focused on replacing foreign minister there he was most recently the face of the saudi response to the murder of. the for taking the role in two thousand and fifteen he was the saudi ambassador in washington he

first came to international attention after the nine eleven attacks back in two thousand and one at the time the kingdom was on the international scrutiny after it emerged fifteen of the nineteen attackers were saudi citizens he's been demoted now to minister of state of foreign affairs and replaced by former finance minister ibrahim the last half. unutterably he was one of hundreds of saudi royals detained in the riyadh ritz carlton back in november twenty seventh seen part of a crackdown that crown prince mohammed bin sandman had engineer and s.f. was released two months later reportedly without penalty he returned to his roles as an iran co board member and an advisor to king salim men were joining us now on set is a senior political analyst model one shot of so much war what do you think of these . changes where does it leave us that i think the king and the crown prince

are trying to consolidate on two fronts. of course the internal front to make sure that they have the stability required for the regime to continue as is and that requires taking charge of the specialist position that were emptied out last year including the national guard and holsworth i think what's in what's interesting on the question of braemar sof and being demoted to be. secretary of state for foreign affairs is that this was not he was not a job it was not replaced by a general he was a priest by a man who knows the business community too well a man who knows the economy a man who was for a long time in charge of the g twenty dossier and i think mohammed mr man tapped him himself on the shoulder a few times for his appearance at the g. twenty that looked kind of good for many people. a sufi is also been a sort of

a star if you will at the world forum he was always there i guess at the wall for him being the saudi face of the saudi butler dollars so i think having him means that the saudis the saudi arabia has priority at this point in time is not war and strategy persuade it is more economy and business it's more trying to regain the confidence of the international business community not international public opinion this is certainly the international business community in order to get those investment that saudi arabia needs so badly for its development it's also a lot of people will be asking these largely cosmetic changes because you know people some people seize on the fact that. assaf was was one of those who was who was rounded up in that in that purge last year and now he's he's back in the frame so to speak so they might take that as

a little kind of slap in the face to to m.b.'s but he's still largely in control of everything isn't he well there are two to a speaks to your question i think that's a very important question. on the one hand everything will change in order and be as not gets changed. that's why there's all these movements that's why it's all going to spend so much money changes so many people so many alliances invested so much in propaganda and sold so forth because they don't want to be asked why because m.b.a.'s is in control and b s is the favorite of his father king some so what do they do yes they do all sorts of changes in order to look like to keep up the appearances of yes we are listening to you now the castle by myself is interesting because it is telling the international business community that we are listening and not only we have got you someone who knows finance we've got you the one from the rich meaning we herald you about the rates we heard you about those

sorts of questions that that apparently are very key for you in order to invest in our economy and for you to reestablish if you want to be normalized relations with saudi arabia in terms of business so i think it is it dozens of message and you know the promises about sending messages i mean what is it after all and that's why i emphasize once again while the war in yemen is not going don't doing greater well and of course there's pressure to end that war we don't see the saudis putting a general to be you know foreign minister they're putting a man who knows business all too well in order to regain the confidence of the international business community so in a sense in order to keep my been someone in place they have to do these cosmetics or not so what cosmetic changes and this comes as well on the same day that the united arab emirates announced that it is reopening its an embassy in damascus in syria for the first time in seven years so if we try to bring this all together regionally what how significant is what i mean. we are

we are in deep trouble in the streets and we are in deep deep trouble in decisions so much so that let me tell you my analysis of the u.a.e. reopening its embassy in syria one they really never cut the relations with syria to syria as money assad's money the corrupt the corruption money is at that as in the u.a.e. third then you either saudi arabia egypt all these governments are now so different from assad and if they were in the simplicial they were probably they were probably killed as many people so i think we live in the region nowadays especially after the revolutions of the arab spring failed we've came into an arab winter and we are living in the midst of a stormy arab winter whereby they u.a.e. world not normalized what assad sudan has already almost bashir paid his visit to assad i think next step would probably be c c of egypt normalizing or meeting

up with assad after the visit of the intelligence chief the syrian television steve to egypt and i think that will be the gateway into the arab league so i think not only so done you eat next egypt would be normalizing relations with assad i think they're going on snowden as him so much with the help of president putin president putin who now insists that m.b.'s has to remain the crown prince and should be the next president in order again to normalize relations between saudi arabia and syria all of these things are coming together in order to bring back to the arab league and i think between egypt and saudi arabia the two biggest arab countries most important arab countries if you will with probably the agreement of iraq algeria u.a.e. and others there were probably succeed in bringing a back to the arabic imagine. and what implications if any does this have for the

ongoing blockade against qatar by a number of gulf countries i mean you mentioned there and his business credentials that decision to blockade qatar was was a political one but it had economic ramifications really but look i mean it's interesting when you look at when you look at the reports the business report if you look at bloomberg reports yesterday in particular the score cards they call them it turned out that the cut economy has done better than its neighbors i think that's fascinating i mean for qatar to be blockaded by and boycotted by its neighbors and so on so for them as well as egypt and for it to succeed after a year and a half not only to normalize its economy to reproduce some of its basic needs but also to be able to outmatch its neighbors its rich neighbors i think that's a very interesting think so will that mean that now there will be some sort of improvement of relations there will be a normalization again i am not sure but i think what i am more or less certain of

we are not going back to the old days of. one neighbor trying to destabilize is neighbor in the gulf we might go through some cold peace we might go through some recent tensions not necessarily hugs and kisses in the near future but i think each would probably do their best in order to provide economies hoping that sometime in the not so distant future that there will normalize relations alright ma one shot a good to get your analysis on this as always let's cross now to rosalind jordan in washington d.c. for some reason and what some what sort of reception is all of this going to be getting in in the u.s. capital now. well there hasn't been any official reaction remember that the u.s. government is in the middle of a partial shutdown and that affects people who work for the u.s.

state department normally there would be some sort of commentary about political changes in a government with which the u.s. has close relations but there may not be one coming because of the government shutdown but there's already been some thought that top perhaps among members of congress who have been acting in recent weeks to condemn the saudi government role in the murder of jamal khashoggi the exiled journalist that this may not be impressive to them at all because basically at the end of the day none of this affects the status of mohammed bin solomon the crown prince when the u.s. senate passed two resolutions one condemning the saudi military conduct in the civil war in yemen and then another condemning. himself for the murder of mr kushner back on october second there is

a real bipartisan sense that he is more trouble than he is worth and that the u.s. ought to be very very.