that election that member of the royal family princess the oldest sister of king what year long called this is intriguing because it's never happened in thailand before the royal family always seen as being above politics even though that everyone in this country knows that they are the most powerful body in the land it's intriguing too for which party this is this is a party that is backed by the former prime minister taksin chin of what he was ousted in the coup in two thousand and six the government of his sister a young lection a what was ousted in the most recent coup in two thousand and fourteen and of always being seen as anti establishment and the battles between the supporters of the shinawatra the supporters of the elites in the establishment mainly in the capital bangkok is why we have seen so much violence on the streets of thailand over the past decade or so to now have a member of the royal family being nominated as a candidate to become prime minister by this party backed by the shinawatra certainly an intriguing development also the current prime minister. except being

an invitation this is the man that led the coup in two thousand and fourteen he is now accepted an invitation to become the candidates to be prime minister again by the. party another new party very much a pro regime party so he has finally signaled his intentions that he wants to stay on in politics the u.n. human rights on voice investigating the murder of journalist. says it was a brutal premeditated killing planned and perpetrated by saudi arabian officials the findings by special reports or i guess kind of maher follow a weeklong trip to turkey with a team of experts to examine evidence our diplomatic editor james phase has more. to agnes and her team of legal and forensic experts visited this from the saudi consulate where jamal khashoggi was murdered the un special rapporteur has released her initial. findings and they are damning in

a written statement she says evidence collected during my mission to turkey shows prime a facie case that mr cruise shoji was the victim of a brutal and premeditated killing planned and perpetrated by officials of the state of saudi arabia during the visit to turkey ms kalam odds team met with key turkish officials and was played an audiotape which is believed to be a recording of mr kershaw g.'s last minutes alive and of his murder she says it was gruesome and chilling agnus kalamata undertook this inquiry on her own initiative under her existing mandate to examine cases of extrajudicial executions her work continues and she report her findings to the un human rights council in about four months time the un secretary general has refused to set up his own inquiry into the murder of mr cruz shoji unless he gets a referral from the human rights council the security council or the un general

assembly the initial findings of this investigation likely to increase pressure here at the un for tougher action against saudi arabia but the authorities in riyadh allow it to be more worried about what happens next in washington outside the white house the campaign group the committee to protect journalists held an event to mark the fact that february eighth is the deadline for president trump to take action against saudi arabia on the khashoggi case under what's known as the magnitsky act even if mr trump decides not to act there are many in congress who made it quite clear they will not let this case drop james bays al-jazeera at the united nations well the u.s. state department is saying that it will continue to consult with congress to hold those responsible for hostages murder to account. these are the part when a state shares the deep concern and outrage. over the killings of jamal khashoggi

expressed by members of congress and we have consulted and corresponded with the congress regularly since jamal khashoggi october second killing including briefings. by the secretary of state still ahead on al-jazeera the u.s. president's advisor and son in law passed the table part of his middle east peace on and in step with everything in iran now we look at the powerful role played by its revolutionary guards. hello again it's good to have you back well we have seen one weather system coming out of the mediterranean take a look at the satellite image all of the clouds right there that did bring some

rain to parts of cairo and all as well as we did see some dust coming ahead of the storm as those thunderstorms kicked off i want to show you what we can expect to see as we go towards the end of the week and into the weekend the rain is going to continue across parts of central iraq down across parts of saudi arabia as well to the north though it is going to be possibly some snow in the higher elevations of turkey now as we go towards sunday not too much movement especially for the northern part of that system but out here towards the east couple it is going to be a chilly day for you with the temps are there and clouds in your forecast at about eight degrees well here cross arabian peninsula we're still going to watch that same system making its way across parts of saudi arabia as i said it is going to be rainy with those clouds so for medina as well as into north saudi arabia that is where we are going to be expecting to see the rain riyadh you'll be on the edge of that for doha here we do expect to see clouds come into play by the time we go toward saturday night maybe even seeing those showers by the time we get towards sunday and then here across parts of madagascar well the cycling that we're

watching is beginning to move away we do expect to see over the next few days the rain increasing particularly on saturday where we could see some localized flooding in your forecast. the weather sponsored it's own. weather on line. with the. joining us all of us have been. diana. you have seen. everyone has a. story

. have arrived at the border but it's not clear yet how. without the support of the military. the. prime minister and. the. politics. minister. on the un human rights on the murder of journalist. it was a brutal premeditated killing. perpetrated by. the white house. will travel to the middle east later this month president will

visit. from washington. administration officials say jared cushion will be accompanied by this special middle east envoy jason green blatt now he is going to be visiting a number of arab nations but interesting enough will not be visiting israel according to administration officials the reason for this it would appear because of the elections taking place in israel in early april now the official say as well that kush no will be discussing the economic portion of the middle east peace plan as it is put now the official adds that they are well aware that arab leaders will want to know the political component of this band before making any economic commitment so certainly there will be some discussion of the political component to it but the greatest stumbling block still ahead in the face of any emergency peace

plan is the fact that the palestinian leadership continue to boycott any trump administration officials because of president trump's illegal recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel iran's revolutionary guard was the star bush after the islamic revolution forty years ago to protect its ideals since then it's expanded into a powerful institution which the u.s. designated a terrorist organization and they say now where the reports from to iran its influence extends beyond the country's borders. they call them the guardians of iran what began as a voluntary force is now an organized military institution with influence in the corridors of power the revolutionary guard was founded to protect the islamic revolution. forty years later it is not just a more than one hundred thousand strong land sea and air force this commander

acknowledges a role in politics and the economy but says it is not driven by interests. those who joined the revolutionary guards did so to provide security they should be political but that doesn't mean they should join any party they are also involved in the economy not to make profit in times of peace they should help the poor who are facing tough conditions. others see their role differently they say the guards empowered by the supreme leader have interfered in iranian politics the voluntary unit was used to crush protests in two thousand and nine former guards have entered political life fielding candidates in elections as well as occupying top positions like the presidency guard commanders have also spoken out against president hassan rouhani for negotiating the two thousand and fifty nuclear deal with world powers including the united states the guards is also an economic player it was heavily

involved in reconstruction at the end of the war with iraq decades ago now it runs construction companies and other businesses the revolutionary guards is not just a powerful institution in iran it exported the revolution and expanded iran's influence beyond its borders and non states mainly armed actors in lebanon syria iraq and gaza received arms and training it was one of the reasons why the us doesn't need the guards a terrorist organization. l could force is the branch that operates abroad it's commander us and so many is portrayed as a national hero here his forces helped ensure syrian president bashar assad survival and hezbollah's dominance in lebanon's parliament has given iran's influence through legitimate channels. it's no longer a secret that has will last creation and look one on was on that of the auspices

and support of the revolutionary guard training camp in syria and then lebanon hezbollah was one of their greatest accomplishment back home the guards. often display their military might it overseas the controversial ballistic missile weapons program which the west wants curbed iran's position has been one of defiance a position echoed by guard commanders who have made their political stance clear there will be no negotiations they say in a message that could be directed not just to their enemies abroad. britain and the e.u. have agreed to hold more talks to try and avoid the u.k. and leaving the block with no deal but european commission chief says the withdrawal agreement u.k. prime minister to resign may strike in november cannot be renegotiated the leaders talks in brussels on thursday reports. it wasn't a great start for the british prime minister and breaks it demonstrated police

jumped in front of a car with fifty days left before britain officially leaves the e.u. a feeling desperate. british m.p.'s have demanded she find alternative arrangements over the border between northern ireland and the republic of ireland something she's promised to do we must secure we couldn't find any changes to the withdrawal would be to deal with the concerns the power went over the back storm and taking down changes to the back story together with the other work that we're doing on workers' rights and other issues will deliver a stable to dorothy in the moment and that's what i will continue to push for now it's not going to be easy i'm clear the fight against little bracks it gets delivering on time that's what i'm going to do for british public i'll be negotiating a lot in the coming days to do just that but there's a problem for to reason may be used refused to reopen the withdrawal agreement and renegotiate any new irish border arrangements the open borders protected by a twenty year old peace deal the good friday agreement to put an end to decades of

sectarian fighting in northern ireland nobody wants to turn back the clock but the border question has made leaving the e.u. extremely complicated. brussels is determined to hold on to an insurance policy within the withdrawal agreement the so-called backstop designed to keep the irish border open if no arrangement is in place by the end of next year the u.k. automatically continues to be under e.u. trade policy there's also no way of unilaterally leaving the backstop nor any time limit on it and that's too much for some brick city is to stomach the u. is however prepared to offer more binding political commitments to avoid ever having to use the backstop we are open as parliament from day one to upgrade this political decoration to make this political decoration more binding more precise also on the issue of the backstop explaining and say very clearly that this is

insurance and more than. persuading british politicians to back to reason that plans may require more than a promise is this is the first last ditch attempts to finalize the deal british and negotiators will meet on monday and to resume a return to process at the end of the month but finding a plan to please her party the british parliament and e.u. remains painfully out of reach. brussels. thousands of people have been demonstrating in the haitian capital calling on the president to step down a tester saying has failed to investigate allegations of corruption in the previous government in connection with petro that's a venezuelan subsidized energy program wise who is personally involved in that scandal has repeatedly said he will not resign. certainly as protesters are calling for the release of activists detained during weeks of demonstrations against

president obama. over. the right call to express solidarity with the hundreds of people who've been arrested since protests started in december human rights activists say at least forty five have been killed . the berlin international film festival is underway dozens of films will be screened during the berlin ali several of them vying for the top prize at the bear this year many are directed by women but in baba reports. a burly name braces the film festival says outfeed is a into the man who's stepping down after eighteen years in charge the stars were out for the opening lead to the kindness of strangers which danish director lotus is one of seven women who have a film in competition with the famous golden bag the actress heading the jury says that can only be a good thing. in the show's run the. cinema is changing and women are breaking

through i hope there'll be more women from the whole world coming through from south america and africa and countries like china because we need the point of view of women from around the world. something else the berlin ali is synonymous with is political films like the brazilian fact based nine hundred sixty s. drama getting its world premiere here. well as he says goodbye to the man in the black. and event a unique place in the film. it's just a lot of fun and at the same time you can think about really serious sayings and it's a little bit like the opening night because it's in a way a comedy of people below but to see you see operated and that's again it's like have you because it's a kindness of strangers and says what you. really

. is. another contender for the gold and the golden glove by a kid who won billions top prize back in two thousand and four this german drama plunges you into another time and place it's based around a real life nine hundred seventy serial killer in the red light district of our kids and. also in the running this drama set in mongolia. revolver around a herd's woman who gets pregnant after spending one night with a young police officer. you know i mean clearly there's no shortage of variety here or of stardust. the al-jazeera at the berlin film festival.

hello again the headlines and. trucks carrying food supplies have arrived at the colombia venezuela border but it's not clear yet how the aid will get into the country without the support of the military which still backs president. the elder sister of thailand's king has been declared as a leading candidate for prime minister in next month's elections the move breaks a long standing tradition of tire royalty staying out of politics as more from bangkok. it's intriguing it's unprecedented as you mentioned this never happened before in thai politics the royal family's always been seen as being above politics even though everyone knows that it's the most powerful body in thailand it is intriguing also for which party this is this is a party that is that is backed by the former prime minister taksin shinawatra who was ousted in a coup in two thousand and six the government of this is just a young like she was removed in the most recent coup and they've always been seen

as being anti establishment the u.n. human rights on voy investigating the murder of journalists. there was a brutal premeditated killing planned then perpetrated by saudi officials the findings by special repertory follow a week long mission to turkey to examine evidence the white house aides will travel to the middle east later this month he'll be visiting to present part of his peace plan for the region sudanese for testers are calling for the release of activists detained during weeks of demonstrations against president obama invest here the rally was called to express solidarity with the hundreds of people who have been arrested since protests started in december human rights activists say at least forty five have been killed. thousands of people have been demonstrating in the haitian capital calling on the president to step down and protesters say joe has failed to investigate allegations of corruption in the previous government.

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welcome to the stream. today we look at the top eight chosen by you out online community iran fourteen since the revolution now as of. what the future holds for the country send us your comments and your questions via twitter and our you tube live chat. thanks to all who took part in this week's online poll to choose a topic for today's show iran forty years after the revolution was the top choice there will be other opportunities to choose a show in a future poll but remember we are always happy to get your ideas reports coming shows just send them to stream on twitter joining us for today's discussion. and assistant professor of middle east studies at johns hopkins. so you just said

he is a journalist said monitor who has reported extensively on iran he joins us from seattle at early so it's not as if he is a ph d. candidate at the university of to her on she joins us from the iranian capital i feel i'm saddam we have jeffrey he is an historian focusing on iran hello everybody it's good to have you here let's start with some history it's forty years since the islamic revolution swept a wrong the events of nine hundred seventy nine make the revolution of thoughts the ruling shah into exile and ended more than two millennia of monarchy for the first part of our discussion let's take a look back at how the revolution reshaped iran. looking

at that speech that we knew what minus six. and there's still a good parents. but he shared a picture with us which is about ten years to the iranian revolution when to show everybody here your little brother your. what with the stories that they would tell you escape it's about that time. many of us started were stories of hope of the first few years first few months after the triumph of the revolution there were

people were very excited there was a them and vibrancy and society that they hadn't experienced before and more than anything i hope for things being different but then another story that they would tell me and sort of immediately after those stories of hope were when my mother was pregnant with me and this was about two years after the revolution. and my father was a part of the leftist groups and then they were at my grandmother's funeral and during the funeral someone had tipped off the security and intelligence apparatus in their city and they stormed my grandmother's funeral looking for my dad and my uncle and they had to run away and go underground for a few months so it's really those two stories for me kind of sum up in many ways different parts of the the revolutionary moments in which there was hope and then later this fierce repression i want to share on the back of another story from a member of our community on her family's experiences like she was not born at the time of the revolution but she talks about what she learned about that time from

her family this is this is what she told the stream. there's a lot of cultural trauma that exists around the one nine hundred seventy nine revolution many families were forced into exile and their security was at risk my family along with countless others had a different experience and they came to the us to pursue their education they actually wanted to return back to iran after graduating and unfortunately they were not able to as a child i always knew that my parents had immigrated miron and it was something that i was curious about i remember in school we had school projects about where your family's from and what your background is and that i had a different experience than some of my classmates at that time in high school i became involved with an iranian organization in the diaspora and this ultimately led me to becoming more interested in learning about my history and led me to pursue studying middle eastern studies in university. says that they could hear what it's like crime someone a member of the diaspora learning about her parents homeland what was it like for

you as someone who grew up in iran. well the stories that i hear from my parents obviously because i was not born during the revolution. are just full of hope and aspirations for a better iran and iran would enjoy equality and social justice in also the rule of religion because the majority of the people at that time were really just so they're what they were all i hear from my parents and my family members is about those aspirations. and also about a unity among people coming from. different in you know social backgrounds or even religious ideas they were all united in their aspiration for. and the to radical regime that was really able to rerun time on how the country

remembers its milestones and so important to sort of national identity this moment is a moment that was set a many countries have a view of what the iranian revolution meant but for iranians not thinking of them but from a historian's perspective what did this moment mean. well it was really a rupture it was a continuation of a development that started in the early twentieth century of iranians aspiring for democracy and fighting for it wanting to gain national independence because the u.s. had always tried to interfere in iran there had been the one nine hundred fifty three could it so this was really a rupture and as the others were telling this was a moment of aspiration and high hopes so for everyone and it also inspired lots of people around the world everybody was looking to iran. the iranian revolution to

achieve a better iran. from that historians point of view i want to share with you two perspectives that we're seeing online and these are from people who are not in iran anymore this is daniel who says as you may know after khomeini hijacked the iranian people's revolution for freedom its forces began to crack down heavily on society my family had no option but to leave iran in the one nine hundred eighty s. and become refugees due to christian persecution they haven't returned back so there is antagonism there for the islamic revolution but here on the other side is a view that several people in the us share but perhaps not so in iran this problem please mention in your program that everything the revolutionaries and global media said about the shah was pure propaganda against him iranian people have a strong sense of respect for the policies and the salad for ron under them and i was going to give this you pay money but as i was reading i could see the thought

as based that are kind of smile ironically what are you thinking as i read this well the first thing that i have to tell you is. this twitter account how it's used is the name of. would you say like relaying t.v. series. in iran right now. that's word really really. really coming from a person. i mean it was funny how the words were put together. well i definitely do not agree with the. person and. character in the t.v. series. if you. cannot do that. i think you know one thing to remember is that. they running revolution was

a mass revolution so it was and relatively during the time of the revolution itself not extremely bloody and so this was a massive revolution against the shah and i you know i understand people have different views but that's one thing we can't forget that no matter what ended up happening after the revolutionary period itself and how people feel about the outcome of the revolution the revolution itself was a massive movement against the shah before we just move on to it so what's happening right now i just i want to show one. from nine hundred seventy nine your family now some of the earliest memories that kids have a when the about three years old you were about some old what do you remember. well i do remember the first years where i was participating with my mother into the most gracious. on a very early stage but i particularly remember devoir period of course that the war

started in september one nine hundred eighty between iraq and iran and it had a massive impact actually on the course of the revolution because like other revolutions russian revolution of war broke out and it's the consequence of actually. making the state stronger in consolidating its power and repressing the oppositional forces so i think the war really dramatically changed the course of their revolution. their payment and i want to take that point to push on a little further let's move on to life in iran now while the a sonic republic has stood firm in the face of continuous opposition from countries including the united states many iranians have expressed discontent at how the country is run people who remember the days of the revolution are split on how things have gone sense how to look at this. of us sure we didn't achieve what we want it things have changed and revolutionary values have now worn out today unfortunately we still suffer from discrimination favoritism corruption

and lying even more than it's any time under the shah movie has more which i know. i am not dissatisfied with my current situation or my job and income it is true that some people are complaining about high prices but they should put things in perspective and be more tone saying i want to bring you in here as we talk about what life is like now with this tweet from iraq she says i thirty one am very proud of our great one nine hundred seventy nine revolution that brought down a dictatorship and fought for freedom and equality the corrupt dictatorship ruling iran today has no right to claim the legacy of the great event since it has betrayed its ideals brazenly in your view saeed to the ideals and ideas of the revolution still hold. well i think we still have we still have some kind of some crimes of faith that people are still follow for example people forty years ago went to the streets were for asking to freedom for asking their independence

they were there they were against the big ship they were asking for democracy the situation now i think in some extent this change. but these concepts are not that of they are not absolute we still have to work we have to continue to trying to achieve to our goals if we can stay in some kind in some cases we can. be very successful but in some extent no we have to continue to overcoming obstacles in already. yes and i'm going to add something to that yes is doing well as a historian again i'm always very interested in both change and continued to be as i was telling the iranian revolution really brought massive change to iran if you think of the expansion of political participation now i guess was already saying that it was a massive revolution so millions of people participated in that river lucian and

also demanded the political say so we in content free run we see people actually engaging in political debates participating in many simple councils. neighborhood organizations etc and the other hands on fortunately there is also continue with the with the previous regime they came to ship up the shot was toppled but power has been now consent treated equally among the elite or on the supreme leader so a participatory population is actually now clashing with those political limitations so this these are really the contradictory outcomes of that revolution so it's not black and white we have to see both the changes and the continuities so that i have that. this time unlike time you are actually moving in have on do you concur wow i think it's the first part i

would agree with both. analyst on the show that. iran. iranian revolution the islamic revolution of iran was a massive movement and. types of people took part in that movement and. although mom khomeini. won. kurz matic leader that. managed to unite all the people everyone how to share on it and one of the greatest aspirations of the iranian people was to have a share in the decision making of the country and i think to agree to stand out has been achieved nothing is perfect like many other countries have dynamic democratic system which has its own faults and needs to be like updated and reformed every every few years so i'm not one hundred percent happy with

everything that happens around our political decision making but i am very happy in the progress that i see making is being made and i'm very hopeful about a future of the country because as i see people of my generation my age who did not witness the years of the revolution but who. you know and here are two those ideals are coming into the scene they are taking to the. political iran and having a greater share so. one thing that i feel needs more improvement on is having even a greater share for the young people in who who live in iran i'm glad you mentioned the young people there not because i want to go to you with these this anecdote here from i meet who says when i visited iran in one thousand nine. thousand them

more adapt to the new normal than the older generation who were found lamenting in the constricted environment and cherish the past and they go on to write when the revolution came the pendulum swung. from one extreme to the other and is now settling in the middle iran needs no intervention and is capable of sorting its own issues the settling in the middle is the part of hoping you can pick up on what's your thought on the yeah i mean i think you know. one of the things is. that we're saying there is this incredible you know in any society that has a revolution and it's a massive revolution people are involved in the political process i mean it's very involvement that brings an old regime down and brings a new regime in and so that did not go anywhere even though there was repression people were finding different ways to make their political voices heard and mobilizing from the bottom and they would mobilize from the bottom of things that they didn't like and it would force the system to compromise so that is definitely

there and i think as you know the person on twitter mentioned it really is the generations that came after the revolution the ones who were born in the eighty's and the ones who were born you know in the ninety's and early two thousand that i think are beginning to make significant changes in iran on a cultural and social level and those are things that are constantly being given take with the government but one of the things i would say that the values of the revolution some of them i think are gone but i think one of the ones that has them that hasn't been a race is this clear. desire for independence and i think that is something that in the generations that have come after the revolution even if they no longer agree with the government or even if they are extremely frustrated by the government they do embrace this identity that iran needs to be an independent nation free from sort of the neo colonial and colonials environments in which the revolution came

out of. just one more time because i want to look at the that holds for iran the vast majority of the population the only no post with additionally rule but what will the country look like in a few years time and will its outlook on the world change some people want to stop by abandoning one phrase that's also ruddy's over many years is death to america. the slogan death to america is wrong we shouldn't want death for any country when we want death for someone they want the same for us. as our officials say death to america but some of their children now live and study there. for the slogan is not a good thing because it explicitly calls the other side hostility thank you it's not enough i never said it i never will not all people in iran say it same as you can see the western journalists really seem to cause anything that looks like the iranians are challenging that

a society and their relationship with iran have you seen that change over the us and do you think that will change in the future. well i think we still have some some cliche that didn't change during the during the years for example some slogans that you showed in your in your review of some people. comment about the best america this is maybe some of the some of the cliches that we have to maybe during the week in the years we have to change it but yeah i think in absolutely your question yeah i think you change the situation is changed. by ideology in our. government our political system is going to be creased their radical radical attitude. for example you cannot compare the situation now days me what happened in the first first monson first years of the revolution for example we didn't have any

good relationship with the world with the european countries maybe even that. our neighbors so all you can see you can see these. change land aren't yes and i get. about the slogan that part of the video was i mean covering that in iran i should mention that there are a lot of people who still chant that slogan and the farsi words that we use for it does not really mean. that's for a nation it's directly. i mean addressing the american government and we have a lot of reasons to chant that slogan against the american regime because. they they support the shah they were one of the ones who gave for

a future to shah after he plundered iranian nation's wealth and ran away from the country they are the one who are trained and armed a lot of terrorist groups against iran they are the one who are in the brutal regime against iran they are the ones who are still sanctioning iranian people and blocking. you know like draw exam medicine on iran so iranian people have a lot of reasons to hate the u.s. regime and you can ask american people who have traveled to iran how welcome they have felt were were i cannot even say hatred where reason to feel that the us is our enemy is based on reason based on statistics that can and based on history so it's very important to make a distinguish between the two that the people of the people who are chanting that

a slogan. actually do or not getting that from the from the only from the iranian government and yes that's true that there are you know governmental officials who may chant the same slogan because the people the majority of the people are. those slogans while their own children are living in those countries and that these are the grievances that exist among the iranian people and actually in the lake recent monsters as that have been their pro-government or anti-government they all have i hear you there and i think it's interesting because despite all of those facts in the u.s. particularly you still have viewpoints like that this is ali he says iran has been a pain in the neck for the u.s. so i hear those points in those historical facts and yet you still see this discourse but i want to push on just a little bit because i wanted to get the view from someone who's looking at this from a historic perspective this is shervin associate professor assistant professor here in the u.s. and this is what he told the stream we underestimate how deeply dislike republicans

compromise by its own etiology should be unsurprising that a state ostensibly committed to the mobilization of self-reliance and righteous men and women forever vigilant in the struggle against injustice around the world should find its own citizens demanding the same commitment to the injustices thank you placed in their own backyard that the system continues to come up short in this regard guarantees that we will continue to see protests and mass mobilization. not to overthrow the regime but to press it to do its job to live up to its promise payment and at about a couple of sentences your take on that video. but i totally agree agree with that and i want to add to the fact that you know independence is still very important for iranians but i think they do have a problem with perversion of independence into something of continuous animosity and creating you know fortress relationships with other countries in the world

because there is a long tradition in iranian history that goes really to the twentieth century that is fighting against domestic dictatorship and fighting against foreign imperialism as well ok and i think what iranians really want is coupling both having both of them not evidence and democracy at all i guess thank you so much for your thoughts on the iranian revolution the anniversary forty years after it occurred we really appreciate your time and then forget to send your comments or so i just have to tell you to add is a dot com forward slash the stream and also have a look at eight eyestrain twitter because they can pick different shows to vote for and then if the highest vote wins we will do the show like we did today and so what scene x. . billions

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they're watching al-jazeera life from a headquarters and. also ahead the thai king sister steps forward to go into the running for next month's prime ministerial elections a un special. diet in a brutal and premeditated killing carried out by saudi officials over half of sudan's university professors leave the country as the economic and political crisis deepens. hello the united states says the time for a dialogue with venezuela's president nicolas maduro is over it back self declared in. and is calling from a juror to hand power over and leave the country washington has also announced visa bans on members of the program constituent assembly. as to discussions with europe negotiating with him on his departure is fine if we ever get to the negotiation

obviously he may flee some day or he may seek to negotiate conditions but that's not what he's done in the past what he's done in the past is to use these negotiations to prolong his stay in power and to try to demonstrate his legitimacy and that we're against well nicolas maduro has launched a petition demanding the u.s. stay out of venezuela's affairs speaking at a rally in the capital he once again denied be existence of a humanitarian crisis. because of their meats oil resources minerals and other great wealth critics are pushing and to national coalition hated by the united states so that they can commit an act of insanity and militarily a take venezuela under the false excuse of a humanitarian crisis that does not exist. because suddenly we go to the

white house bringing in more than eighteen million signatures calling for being as well or to be respected demanding peace fourteen as while i'm on the colombian border city of kuta our trucks carrying food and aid from the u.s. have arrived but it's not clear yet how that aid will enter venezuela without the support of the military which backs president by durham. he has the latest. honking their horns to larger t.q. later lorries in six mile or trucks arrived in the border city. carrying the aids relief elements same by the united states relief agency usa this is part of a larger plan by the opposition together with its international supporters to try and start a humanitarian corridor. but it will not be easy given the fact that president nicolas maduro remains steadfast and its refusal to let aid in the

bridge called last year. should become a humanitarian corridor is blocked on the venezuelan side with barriers and large trucks the aid will be brought or is being brought in now in a a warehouse where it will be stored for the next few days we know that there is food and medical supplies much needed by the venezuelan population and we'll get more details the morning of friday when the u.s. is here together with the colombian government and four deputies from the venezuelan and national assembly will give a press conference and give us more details of the aid and their plans on how to bring it inside when it's wet when as well and are becoming increasingly desperate

in the coastal city of barcelona fourteen children have died this week alone from contaminated food or water hospital workers there say there's a dire need for medicine to reserve a house this exclusive reports. this is the pediatric emergency room at the i.c.p. hospital in the venezuelan city of. about three hundred kilo. matters east of us here dozens of children are in desperate need of proper treatment most of them have been diagnosed with a more b.s. is a form of dysentery transmitted by contaminated food or water lady check on starter is three months old she suffers while her mother says she has been abandoned the out of air my daughter has diarrhea she almost had a heart attack we have nothing you arrive here and there is nothing i was in a crisis because i thought i was losing her children here have diarrhea with blood in it and they have vomiting but nobody is helping us i want this government out

now it has destroyed us we were allowed to film because staff here say they want the world to see that they are unequipped to save children's lives just this week four thousand children have died the figures could climb you can see how desperate the situation is here there's several children on each one of this very people are telling us that there's no medicine there are not enough there and just among other things many of the children that are arriving here are dying from one day to another madalena my teen years baby boy was one of them he was two months old on tuesday night he died he's forty remains in the hospital because she hasn't been able to get together the money needed to buy a coffin i didn't but i don't i don't live there is nothing here they have no medicines they don't have food and now my son as did the. people in barcelona believe the outbreak was cost when

a switch by broke and contaminated the local water supply there was no chlorine or other chemicals in supplied to treat the water. parents with their children continue to line up for treatment staff at the hospital say they don't have the resources to help. them here three years ago we stopped receiving goals and alcohol there are not enough syringes or serums to hydrate children. the government of president. denies there is a humanitarian crisis in venezuela however he recently announced he is reforming the country's health care system. this is a public company recovered by the river lotion because while it is going to produce all the medicines made for its public health care system and social security we can reach everyone like it should be in socialism the situation in the hospital is one of the reasons why the self declared entering president of venezuela. says

humanitarian aid is urgently needed but some aid officials advice if it does a rival it needs to be carefully managed. you want to put him on the market humanitarian aid is a mechanism that every country has it's a mistake to make politics out of this there are great needs in venezuela and it has to be controlled managed by the united nations and other agencies so it reaches those who need it. a crisis that has people at this hospital watching and hoping that their children will survive. but of venezuela meanwhile a new e.u. backed organization aimed at finding a solution to decrease this will send a technical mission to the country the contact group says its monitors will provide humanitarian aid and support for new elections it's been meeting in oregon is capital montevideo. as more. the meeting grouped together divergent views

from two continents hoping to succeed where others have failed to bridge the huge divide between president nicolas maduro and his challenger one way door i understand that there is a certain frustration of skepticism in many including many europeans including many european venezuelans about opening processes that could buy time this is not the intention of this exercise the intention of this exercise is to. the emergence of a credible electoral process to solve this fully and. said the e.u. would set up a humanitarian office in caracas we were not. here humanitarian aid should not be politicized that the violence must end and dialogue should prosper these meetings are the latest international efforts to find peace. while the two main protagonists in venezuela or itself remain so far apart they know that the chances of success in a slim. business leaders crisis has become

a problem for the whole of latin america. protest is the message for the meeting this is going to be done what do you want and hope for is the distaff would bring peace to venezuela the peace that venezuelans want the peace that latino make i want we all want peace not me to tell you intervention we know the u.s. hasn't made many countries we don't want an american invasion. of any of the unions have been a slave have fled rising crime and poverty has been in europe white the too here is the city home to morrow in the resigned. negotiations restringing throughout venezuela history will not change the government because all the power hadn't taken we understand what mexico and the other countries are doing it's actually until my daughter resigned as we can't have a dialogue on the. sides of really want peace and

prosperity in venezuela and it's still not clear despite the best efforts of the international community there are any closer to achieving it. the sister of thailand's king has been declared as a leading candidate for prime minister in next month's elections the first since the military since power and twenty fourteen when he has more from bangkok. the intriguing and often unpredictable world of tibe politics just went to another level this is the official launch of the election campaign that vote due to take place on march twenty fourth but the event was completely overshadowed really by the announcement from the thai party that it would be fielding a member of the royal family as its candidates to become prime minister in that election that member of the royal family princess the oldest sister all of what year long gone this is intriguing because it's never happened in thailand before

the royal family always seen as being above politics even though that everyone in this country knows that they are the most powerful body in the land it's intriguing too for which party this is this is a party that is backed by the former prime minister who was ousted in the coup in two thousand and six the government of his sister. was ousted in the most recent coup in two thousand and fourteen and of always being seen as anti establishment and the battles between the supporters of the shinawatra the supporters of the elites in the establishment mainly in the capital bangkok is why we have seen so much violence on the streets of thailand over the past decade or so to now have a member of the royal family being nominated as a candidate to become prime minister by this party backed by the shinawatra certainly an intriguing development also the current prime minister. accepting an invitation this is the man that led the coup in two thousand and fourteen.