parties one of which is in power there you hear it here in britain for instance but no one's done it quite like viktor orban as you said in hungary who was used as an election platform he's won another election last year of the back of it he's railed against the use policies and most recently put up a great big big picture picture of young claude younger the commission president alongside all bands better watch george soros representing a deliberate as he would see it move to flood europe with millions of refugees they said it was a step too far for the e.u. the e.u. here i think fighting back against one of its own china thank you very much for that for now that's john hall of the natives live in london thank you. still ahead on the bulletin a south african court sentenced to life on this to jail for the killing of a black teenager and it's getting medicare the steps being taken in south korea to curb an increase in pollution.

get a welcome back to international weather forecast but we do have one powerful front that's making its way right now across the southeastern part of australia now with that front we are seeing some cooler temperatures behind the front but with that front here in sydney we do expect to see some windy conditions as well as some blowing dust so that's going to drop the visibility across much of that area so what we're going to see through the rest of day is that front going to be pushing up to the north and for brisbane you're also going to be seeing some showers here on thursday but better conditions down towards city with can cool temperatures a few there we are going to see one for about either making its way towards tasmania and that is also going to bring some rain for hobart over the next few days we do expect to see temperatures across that region probably to the high teens as we go towards friday well across the new zealand area we are going to see that same front about it coming across the tasman sea bring some rain across parts of christ church for the front. it's is going to be about twenty six degrees then as

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our top stories north korea has reportedly restoring facilities at a long range rocket that it dismantled last year the report. on the last week between donald trump and. germany has refused to pressure from its powerful european allies to. band to saudi arabia. made the decision and. a new satellite images appear to refute. india had

said that it's. intended targets and killed a large number of. india's supreme court has reserved its decision on whether to hear a case involving the site claimed by boys and those and muslims the case states back to the destruction of the mosque in the town of during the riots and nine hundred ninety two friends jimmy and has more from new delhi. it's been more than twenty six years since the barbary mosque was destroyed by a group of about two hundred thousand altar nationalists hindus who claim the site is the birthplace of a hindu day the lord rom in the sixteenth century mosque was built on top of it now since the mosque destruction the whole case has been kept in limbo there have been talks between hindu and muslim groups even a government commission but not much has changed then in twenty ten a local high court ruled that the site should be divided among three parties one hindu one sunni muslim and another hindu group who represents the day of the lord

rom but the party has rejected that an appeal here to the supreme court now the supreme court has been pushing earlier for mediation between the parties but some of them have been rejecting it saying they want the court to decide the case but on wednesday the court reserved decision again putting the case in limbo. mediation is not what we wanted we tried that in the past at the higher court but with no result whatsoever we want the wisdom of the court to decide justice delayed is justice denied so we can say that we are not really short of mediation we're going to join mediation because the court has considered it to appropriate to send it for mediation we have still always been open for dialogue between these parties at any point in time as well as religious this case has political implications ultra nationalists hindus want the government to issue an ordinance that's a temporary cabinet order which would allow construction of a temple on the site but the government is resisting that pressure they want the court here to make the final call issues such as the barbary mosque are politically

polarizing here in india many analysts say the governing b j p got a big political push in the ninety's paul when the mosque demolition with elections here in india set to begin in about a month the politics of this case will be front and center once again. at least sixteen people have been killed in a suicide attack on construction workers and eastern afghanistan that happened near the airport in jalalabad the four attackers were also killed no one has claimed responsibility now nigeria is preparing to bring home an estimated twenty thousand girls trapped in mali the victims of the sex trade are kept an appalling conditions officials say collusion between your enforcement agents and traffickers is hampering rescue efforts and the rest reports from corporeal and western mali. here in cocoa the visual entity is law. despite the presence of mali and soldiers the armed men arrived in huge numbers. they made it clear the nigerians trying to

rescue their citizens trapped in the sex trade on to welcome here eventually the delegation had to leave activists have been walking with the girls say they face such threats every time they get their guesses are working in a situation where there is a lot of beneficiaries in the crime is very very difficult to eradicate it. i have to rescue these guys they are benefiting every week from them on the outskirts of town the team is able to meet some of the cause all the one of them agreed to go back all the rest are too afraid of the traffickers and too ashamed to face their peers and relations we can't force them to go back but those who are ready willing. to major remembers the we're working with them closely we're working with i am going to come together and. while some of the girls are paid of the

traffickers many are still trapped teenage girls are less likely to be left off even after paying an agreed two thousand dollars. thousands of the victims here in mali are kept in makeshift structures like this they say be forced to sleep with as many as ten men in a day some of them as young as fourteen were practically yanked off the streets of nigeria in their school uniforms those who got away i don't be ready you know for those lucky enough to escape at this safe house in the capital bamako a group of thirty women and goes wait for their reply to ration who used filters through that some of them will be leaving in a matter of hours there was jubilation. but eighteen year old faith isn't among the ones leaving she's eight months pregnant and she has a lot of regrets she's left home without telling anyone she's now drawn between her

newly found freedom and how she will be received on arrival in nigeria. i believe there will quadrillion i remember that from my. uncle. this sixteen year old and thousands of others like her came to bali through but new republic traffic a promise to a new life with a well paid job the place where. i first said he felt more at home but he said i'll give him a. lesson it's a minute and. i shall watch nothing that's. also gosh let's only board so armchair of. the goals of the mining areas another brothels of mali say they were registered by law enforcement on arrival they also appear weekly do store forty's was only problem with prostitution is when it involves bias at least under-age badly and. as an argument delegation for repro treating an estimated

twenty thousand trafficked minors and young adults is complex and the girls and young women trapped in the sex trade here may have a long wait before they are reunited with their families are mature trees al-jazeera. western mali. but if flights are being canceled from kenya's main airport following a strike by aviation workers right place have been deployed to disperse protesters outside nairobi's kenyatta airport the strive for is a labor dispute between a workers' union and kenya airways. now two white men in south africa have been sentenced to twenty three and eighteen years in prison for killing a black teenager the case has led to increased racial tension as far as the men are reports from the northwest province. peter daughter of art and philip scotto were last year found guilty of killing a fifteen year old black boy whom they'd caught stealing sunflowers on

a farm where they worked they've now been sentenced to have are to eighteen years and souter to twenty three years in prison. the sentence comes two years after markham almost who was killed on the outskirts of the small town of collini welcome all as parents saki and agnes say their son's death was senseless and racially motivated. if my son was a weight they would have killed him for being on the farm in taking flowers they would have disciplined him but they killed my son because he's like following my kamala's death people here rioted some looted shops and burned down houses including property owned by the farmers the community was torn apart along racial lines. this is where michael moore lho was found after he was caught on the farm he had suffered a broken neck but there are two versions to the story one is that michael miller was killed by the two white men who would courting stealing sunflowers but they

claim the boy died when he jumped off the back of a van as they drove into the police station the families of these men say the trial wasn't fair and important evidence was ignored they save my kamala's death was an accident and from from our side we we are sort of at something like this happen but it's if if there were dissent discipline on the on that side of the children. but the people in the township must teach the children do not take something that does not belong to you but of art and scooter plan to appeal the conviction and sentence in recent weeks the only witness said he lied to the court when he testified that he saw the two men throw the boy from the back of the van but he later said he'd been intimidated bribed and made to read a statement to clear the farmers in twenty seventeen to whiteman impaired malanga were found guilty of attempted murder after they filmed themselves forcing

a black man into a coffin they said had trespassed and stolen copper cables they threaten to burn him alive that court's judgment highlighted the extent of racial divisions in post apartheid south africa here in collini the life sentence given to two out of art and scooter has brought some consolation to a community who promised protests if the sentence was lenient but closure appears to be a long way off for the sleepy conservative town what is certain is that the death of a fifteen year old black boy has further entrenched racial divisions here from al-jazeera callignee northwest province of africa. evidence is emerging from iraq that juveniles are being tortured into confessing to crimes including being involved with i still going to i'm spoke exclusively with the family of one teenager in northern iraq. passing through the checkpoint was supposed to bring the seventeen year old we're calling them closer to

a future with hope instead his family says kurdish security forces in northern iraq snatched any chance of that he was arrested eight months ago as the family was trying to cross into erbil to escape a tribal feud back home in mosul. security forces blindfolded handcuffed and hit him when they slapped him he had to say he joined eisel for three days the interrogator said it's not enough if you don't confess to more we'll hand you over to other security forces my son who was very young at the time and afraid as them is now serving a sentence for joining i saw here at the reformatory for females and juveniles his family says they managed to keep him out of reach of the armed group during its control of mosul and he's an innocent boy tortured into making a false confession since twenty sixteen human rights watch says forty one juveniles

have reported being tied in stress positions given electric shocks and being beaten by kurdish security forces with electric cables plastic pipes and rods in order to extract confession and the alleged torture continued here at this facility designed to rehabilitate juveniles. we have tolerance of those fighters who have confessed already their eyes so members on pietist i don't believe there's any need any sort of touch to take with couple of children and make sure they have to become first on the torture so this is very much you will reject. according to human rights watch several juvenile inmates say some of the guards beat them for misbehaving subjected them to death threats and verbal abuse and kept them in their cells for long periods of time these are victims and as victims they should be given every opportunity to reintegrate rehabilitate and rejoin society although we were given

access to interview inmates there was no way to protect their identities from the staff. we work in a transparent way and don't intend to keep a lid on bad things if these things took place in our facility we would be preventing media and local and international organizations from visiting. as that is supposed to be released soon but his family worries if he returns to mosul which is under the jurisdiction of the federal government in baghdad he'll get arrested again this time by iraqi forces well known huffy that a general hostage and yes of the this isn't justice my son is stigmatized for the rest of his life and he'll carry the fear of being arrested at any time as with many victims alleging torture the teenager may also face a life long struggle with the psychological trauma natasha going to aim al-jazeera erbil. to south korea now

a president and has ordered his government to take extraordinary measures to combat air pollution seven major cities including seoul have accorded high concentrations of fine dust particles that can cause many illnesses measures include shutting down public parking lots and limiting the number of cars allowed on the roads from a crime has more from seoul. the people of seoul and other cities throughout south korea have been breathing this now for the best part of a week and in the past few days the government has been holding emergency meetings trying to figure out ways of dealing with it they've put in place a number of special measures such as controlling traffic on the roads putting controls on construction sites power stations and giving instructions to things like elementary schools not to have outdoor activities but there's very little the government can do here about the prevailing winds and it's called a lot of this pollution has come from neighboring china in fact president moon j.n.

of south korea this wednesday morning giving an instruction that south korea should be working more with china on what is seen here as a shared problem it's thought a lot of this pollution comes from deserts in china with the fine dust being sucked up into the atmosphere mixing with pollution from factories. power stations and then being pushed by the prevailing winds just far enough to cover the korean peninsula but not strong enough to take it any further so sophisticated cities like seoul having to wait for a change in the wind direction before it can get a breath of fresh air. again of the problem in doha with the headlines on al-jazeera north korea is reportedly restoring facilities that a long range rocket launch site that it dismantled last year the reports in south

korean media follow the failed summit last week between donald trump and kim jong on germany has refused to bow to pressure from its powerful european allies to lift its arms sales and to saudi arabia and in america as an element made the decision and tobar following the murder of saudi journalist jamal kushal. now the un human rights chief michelle bachelet has called on saudi arabia to release female activists allegedly tortured in detention rights groups have named ten saudi woman held for their campaigning and fear they could face harsh sentences to they are or allow me to voice my concern at the apparently arbitrary arrests and the tension and the alleged ill treatment and torture of several women human rights offender is so the arabia the persecution of peaceful activists will clearly contradict this piece of the country's proclaim new reforms so we urge that these women be released new satellite pictures appear to refute india's claim that it destroyed

a religious school into the armed group jaish e mohammad in pakistan india had said that its airstrikes had all intended targets and killed a large number of fighters. the european commission has declared the migration crisis is over twenty fifteen at the height of europe's refugee crisis where every month tens of thousands of people undertook the desperate journey and arrived on europe's shores the number of new arrivals are down nearly ninety percent at least sixteen people have been killed in a suicide attack on construction workers in eastern afghanistan it happens near the airport in jalalabad four attackers were also killed by one's claimed responsibility. flights have been canceled from kenya's main airport following the strike by aviation workers' rights police have been deployed to disperse protesters outside nairobi's jomo kenyatta airport the strike follows a labor dispute between

a workers union and kenya airways. but those are the headlines on al-jazeera inside story is coming up next thank you very much for watching. where of history algeria's army chief evokes the civil war of the mine nine hundred ninety one protest they've been demanding the president's resignation so how will they respond and who's really in charge in algeria this is inside story.

hello again i'm james pays the biggest protests in years against algeria is president again ing strength thousands of people have been rallying for nearly two weeks urging abdelaziz bouteflika to pull out of next month's election the eighty two year old has been in power for two decades but is rarely seen in public after suffering a stroke and twenty thirteen beautifully issued a letter saying he won't complete a full term if he's reelected now the army chief is trying to quell the protests by evoking memories of the civil war of the one nine hundred ninety s. two hundred thousand people were killed in the off the mothman one nine hundred ninety two military coup that came join the election will bring in our guest to discuss all this in a moment but first bring us up to speed this report from emma haywood. they've known no other leader in the one country for twenty years.

but there appears to be a groundswell against algeria as abdelaziz bouteflika in the capital algeria's the message from thousands of demonstrating students was clear they want him to leave office now. we are against beautifully karna gets a regime we are fed up twenty years are enough we want change. they've been in power for twenty years we've overlooked the situation for too long too process it's time now for people to wake up and not just citizens. some students were forced to cover their faces suffering from the effects of take ass this outpouring of anger began when algeria's ailing leader announced he would run for with term as president the cry for politically cut to step aside has been growing louder every day spreading beyond the boundaries about ca's. the military which helped

lead and shape the country during and after the bloody civil war in the one nine hundred ninety s. wields power here and its military chief says it wants to guarantee algeria security limb that. some parties which feel annoyed to secure and stable do not like it do you want to take back to say years of pain during which people suffered all kinds of suffering and paid a heavy price the great people who lived through such difficult times were never given the bounty of security president beautifully suffered a stroke six years ago and has rarely been seen in public since then he's offered to shorten any new term in power but many here believe that doesn't go far enough. several days. as a protest against his room have led to more than two hundred people being injured i am it can say constitute the rights to free expression is part of the algerian

constitution we expect that those rights be respected where there is peaceful demonstrations under the rule of law. the military has warned that some people want to take algeria backwards protests to say that they are looking ahead to trying to secure a better future and after twenty years it is time to change and he would al-jazeera . well let's bring in our guest to discuss this further in algiers joining us on skype we have. she's a research fellow at the paris based school of advanced studies in the social sciences in oxford in the u.k. we have michael willis he's the author of politics and power in the grab. from independents to the arab spring and here with me in doha use of blondel he's professor of international affairs. university welcome to you all can i start with

you you're there in algiers i know you're not a reporter you're an analyst but i wouldn't like you perhaps to give us an idea what does it feel like what's the mood there right now well we're doing here has changed a lot i mean three weeks ago people remain kind of this bad there was there was the discourse that actually the country is not going to evolve anymore that there is no live that far of the people here and certainly the discourse that's challenged and there's a lot of hope and people are really optimistic but i don't say that it has not cherished without a new reason an important question is asked is why about why do we have a lot of the most traditions now and makes you promised now well first i did seem to done a chair of the of the regime itself you know for the past two mondays. this vacuum

that has been left by cars well told as. not threatening by the ruling elites and people who are behind that so what happened actually that i'll try and get used to leave without any president to go too soon to leave without any representative institutions parliament parties even though the elections process so they finally found that a new leader without the presidency and that. they me we gave their country's future you know for a do since the the end the end of this you were there he hasn't insisted to make the audience believe that if they should not trust each other that if they go along with this kiss in which other industries and you see the army in maine may happen they get that five dollar a day just to dad they cooled i mean to go back to dad to

regain trust with each other but they finally did so and that's why you heard during the protests in the us in yeah peaceful demonstrations peaceful demonstrations every time so this is where i am they have yet again trust in each other and trust that they can ask for change peacefully ok you synfuel with me here in doha you also are an expert you're an academic but you're also analogy arion how does this mood feel right now where we are right now are you excited or are you nervous what both actually you have to be excited to see you with your night the demonstrations all over the country for them on the in the east to the sun to the seats well most of the government. we saw people in our genes to mostly didn't have the ugly lope but it's the most recent form of geez i think the last

one goes back to two thousand and one obviously people vividly united. allowed one particular idea no to the fifth of president but for the cause that's how we started and the second thing is now that the people who want to blink when the regime so it's very exciting for julia but i decided. to be the cautious be the that these demonstrations may go out of. it becomes violence. so what happened in the ninety's i don't think but it will go into violence because it seems to me that the julians have learned the lessons of the my duties they also learned the lessons from the arab spring countries and like. jesus so the world or the buzzword for these demonstrations has always been. peaceful peaceful and when we see the youth after the demonstrations cleaning the streets they're

trying to the little ship in algeria as well as the outside world the old demands legitimate the with a little bit to take our country formally you say that the main demand right now is no to a fifth term of beautifully michel in oxford he basically has been unwell throughout his fourth. very very unwell it seems he's not really seen in public very often who really is running out syria and has been running it recently is. well this is a very good question and i think this is behind a lot of the protests and the unhappiness that since he had his stroke in twenty thirteen and he hasn't as you said been in public he's not able to stand or walk and he has a great deal of difficulty speaking any appears in public two or three times a year he didn't even campaign in his last election twenty fourteen and i think part of the problem is with sort of it's

a repeat of what happened five years ago i think the last of the last time he was elected for his fourth term in twenty fourteen i think he was given a degree of benefit of a doubt thinking well this may be a lost the political leadership need time to find a successor but they've now had five years and it's clear that they haven't been able to come up on a cap candidate they agree with to replace leka and a lot of people find this extremely frustrating and humiliating but they're now represented by a man who wasn't even able to file his. his papers to be took to be a candidate people particularly unhappy over recent years where. the national celebrations and national days the president was was represented by an enormous framed picture of himself making out jerry looked like some sort of bizarre cult or north korea and a lot of ordinary algerians found that very humiliating and very frustrating

perhaps you can give us some more details on this mean people in lots of countries rage about the deep state but it seems out cheerier really is run by the deep state give us some idea who is in this shadow we are all. i was motioning to previously how was. the gym has been called when he's on track by trying to maintain the old cost this year all the presidents of the city then president to have who can kind of been in his physical access but i'll say that even the army who is also another important part of this decision making group that is leading i'll check out how they also been cowed by its own discourse how that you know for years especially since the end of this you work the army has you speak to this. instantly that they were enough going to be involved in politics

anymore and finally farcical any chance houseboat to do this course and with. the vice president of defense into yet this and who don't he's the one who resents that the military command within discoursed tracon inc. has not to take the streets because the army wants all the ways to get back to the city where they say well actually i am absolutely disconnected from this discourse why that because how i think they bought the idea that the op may have enough to reintegrate in politics but the army is only the heir to prospects of the country bunga risen from serious and up to. an artist in all today believe she's all of politics and what's going on so we shall now of course we have old ninety's on the on the world clans and so on but if you look very close to what is important that's what

makes sense to the altar and it's none of this that is what next to the gym now you know who is letting go of just to get rid of those as he has these things and they have made them clear well not only about after. calmly but you want to get rid of their energy and so that's when you hear chair of facts they should i mean there should that is that is emerging within this is a society within the ranks of these students lawyers. high school. pupils that's the long and the moment i mean also all members of our young cancer society and we should be as white should look closely at these new church opposition i mean that she doesn't emerge and you're talking there quite a bit about the military it's interesting twenty four hours ago is in this chair discussing venezuela are seeing one of the military going to do next it's very much one of the most important questions here as we focus on the army of cheerier let's

take a closer look it's played a major role in politics since independence from france in one thousand nine hundred sixty two it's one of the most powerful armies in africa with nearly eight hundred thousand personnel in one thousand nine hundred two the military launched a coup just as many believe the islamic salvation front was about to win a second round of the election the first democratic election since independence this marked the start of algeria's so-called black a decade of civil war that killed at least two hundred thousand people and injured many more use if we have the statement from the head of that army. general ahmed good he said out here is army will guarantee security and not on their return to an era of bloodshed but then he sort of was at a veiled threat he talked about the years of pain what would or wouldn't do they did not. because of all of the last few years they have be dull could move

to do a lot of the media to the to basically to protect different views of the country or more to get involved in politics so obviously we did do these demonstrations he reminded basically people but when we do the. countries of the arab spring in mind he reminded the julians that these peaceful demonstrations may turn violent i think that the it's not war and then i would read it much as an advice to those obviously the the other me the c c's it's the particular of the country like you said earlier on it has a big say in how the country is run it all the algerian presidents including with the physical well brought in by the military. as the custodian of the nation obviously it would not allow things to go out of hands but as long as the

demonstrations are peaceful done i think that the military will step aside it's interesting isn't it michael that so far in these protests yes you've had the riot police out there in tear gas and some some arrests but the military have stayed in their barracks do you think the military will stay united michel. i think so i mean at the moment as you said it's the police stating that that and i think as professor blondell said i think there is a great reluctance to get involved the military are involved in the political leadership bag salar the head of the army is one of the key figures in in the lead in the political leadership. of the army. there were the last time that algeria had significant social unrest was in october one thousand nine hundred eight and then the army did come onto the streets and kill significant numbers of people but that was extraordinary controversial and damaged the image of the army and i think the

army would be very very reluctant to go down that path again and i agree that good solid statement ahead of the army statement is really to try and diffuse the situation but i think that there is confused and uncertain as the rest of political leadership the political action algeria tends to like to do things slowly and not it and behind closed doors so this situation is very very awkward for it it doesn't like moving at this pace it doesn't like this happened just discuss these things openly well if i can ask you there in cheers clearly there were protests at the time of the arab spring and yet they didn't go anywhere why was that back then and is it different this time. well you know when that first tradition says to teens sense what that have started in the julia writes us for a long before a job planned long before two thousand and eleven there has always been

a tradition of resistance within the ranks of judges even if the object is well where one else past facing in the old usual political life that the whole time to be in existence and those made made by the devil full them they always have been highly politicized to. co-create discussions making private jokes about whether the leadership of the army and even by. doing life threatening tentative of illegal illegal committing to migrate meaning question so i'll just have always been highly politicized but the problem is that these demonstrations i will i will i was mentioning where i'm always asking for the state to come back and he never found it don't we found directly the regime so i believe this is the problem and has i stayed in my own tradition the fact that now people are no more anxious to back their questions asked for our distaste of the excesses of the state and have

the willingness to build their own state this is what is actually different this time and that's also a finning to actually should renew our reconnect we have. struggles i mean there have been a lot of references to the war ended and independence in algeria and the fact that algerian where also inheritors of this story that they were also revolutionaries so this is a deep in the event you know in the among the youngest ones so this is there is no . reference to the op spring at such there is really a sense that this is the log in history that has been no not from a place not struggles within the outskirts of the society of think next of resistance and that's a lot to make change to the situation that you so if we've heard a mile that talk about the history and there has been a violent past in your country the war of independence against france and then the

very dark days of the one nine hundred ninety s. is it significant given that that so many of these people on the streets are so young perhaps that violent history doesn't worry them so much when i think. when we look at the opposition in the us something like forty five percent of the population today is but he's off duty so if somebody was born in that state in ninety eight and ninety four he would be twenty four years. dispersant has not lived the civil war of the ninety's they were still a child during the arab spring. but when you talk about two thousand and eleven at least we had the president who could speak to the people the the the price of oil was sky high a one hundred forty thousand one hundred forty dollars a barrel so do you the government was able to invest in peace and subsidize

increased salaries and so i wouldn't sell for to the national team just made it to . south africa to the world cup the year before so there was some kind of. optimism and so on and so forth but this time it's completely different the world the most races but there will in some pockets only but when we see pictures of the president himself in the wheelchair. with the seat belt it's very degrading to our the image of the person himself as well as the country now the people are looking for jobs houses stability and so on and so forth they want to contribute to the future of their country and when we see the demonstrations throughout the country and this is very very important from the birthplace of most of the members of the cabinet to our two countries in two cities in the south so this is for the first united. around one particular idea it begun with we don't want the fifth

of what for the cup and the time when we saw the people who want to bring down the regime and obviously with what nobody knows what is up in to the president and confirmed reports say he is still in switzerland on a life support machine nobody knows if it's true or false so the next few weeks the thing that the man. would be even higher than the president on a life support machine and some might say michael as we heard use of say there the economy is almost on life support was reminding people watching this should be a rich country it's rich in oil and gas well yes it is it's a major exporter of it clee of natural gas and basically the political fortunes of a country are often followed the economic cycles and particularly the the price of the oil and gas the progressive lendl said and one of the things that basically

allowed president bush to flicker in the early part of it presidencies succeed was as president blondel said quite high oil and gas prices but in they rose up until twenty fourteen and then began to see a tumble which began to put huge pressure on the algerian economy doesn't really produce or export much else set every dip thing depends on that and even though the countries is not yet run out of money it's running through its reserves is having to cut back on the budget and there isn't really an alternative plan b. for when when the money begins to run out unless the apart from hoping that the oil prices increase again and i think this did actually enforce this amongst the population they're beginning to feel some of the austerity measures they're beginning to worry about the future and there didn't seem to be an alternative policy been operated by the regime and i think that it's certainly fed into the

protests and fed into the unhappiness we clearly have a protest where lots of people know what they're against and it's a very organic protest very young protesters isn't the problem or one of the potential problems if they were to succeed there is no organized political leadership among this protest movement. you know people have been to predict and i don't like to speak but i do rags to find each other it's a battle ranks who you are too good to take to streets and know not to worry me about these issues that's where we must leave our discussion thank you to our guests for the analysis of this fast moving story to. michael willis and use of blondel every day of the week we focus on one of the world's main issues you can see this program again and our previous programs at al-jazeera dot com the team here would love your thoughts what should we discuss next time we're on facebook facebook dot com slash a.j. inside story we're also on twitter too at a.j.

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summit ended with no agreement reports emerged that north korea's rebuilding a rocket launch site. and kenya a strike at the national airline causes flights in and out of my rugby to grind to a halt and germany extends its battle standing weapons to saudi arabia resisting pressure from european allies. i'm joining with the sports as one of us racing's most prestigious tracks shuts down indefinitely after twenty one horses diet santa anita in the last two months. north korea is said to be restoring facilities at a long range rocket launch site what it began to dismantle last year the reports in south korean media follow the failed summit last week between donald trump and kim jong un alexey o'brien reports. these satellite images appear to show

north korea's rocket launch site the web site thirty eight north which specializes in studying the reclusive state says they show efforts to rebuild between february sixteenth and march second thanks and those dates put it right around last week's summit in vietnam that's where u.s. president donald trump walked away saying he couldn't meet kim jong un's demands to lift sanctions analysts say this could be punching back the north koreans haven't actually used it for a long range test missiles they've used it in past for satellite launches which a lot of people say for double as missile tests but they haven't actually sort of formally used for missile tests and it's not necessarily clear that the rebuild is actually leading up to that my own sense is that this is sort of peek at the way donald trump treated them in north korea are in vietnam this into the strategic and

international studies says the images show rapid rebuilding at a site partly dismantled last year when p.r. nyang entered talks with the u.s. and south korea every year if you're ready to leave your eyes it's not immediately clear though how the satellite images could have fixed the fragile nuclear diplomacy. that japan has its eyes fixed on north korea's nuclear missile development i have been gathering and analyzing information i will refrain from commenting in detail due to the nature of the matter. how much you know you change under the current situation we hope that all related parties can take the right approach to resolving the korean peninsula issue through political dialogue and by meeting each other halfway trump's national security adviser john bolton has already warned north korea it must be willing to completely give up its nuclear weapons program or it could face even tougher sanctions elixir brian al-jazeera.

well let's get more on this we're joined by gordon chang columnist and the author of nuclear showdown north korea takes on the world and he's joining us from bed and stay in new jersey with chang always good to have you with us on al-jazeera and how significant do you think the work that the satellite images show is well it's probably not that significant but what of course is significant is that we're learning about this now and that many of us are learning it from a young hot news agency which is so crews so me it's crucial media outlet you know the south korean president has been very close to kim jong il and so i think it's no coincidence that the south koreans are cooperating with kim to put pressure on president charles well and put pressure on donald trump if this is in response to the failed summit and hanoi is that a provocative step by north korea and how is the u.s. likely to on the spot and. well it certainly is a provocative step i mean there is some pressure that is being put on the president

by this but i don't think it's really that much and how the administration responds is really anyone's guess at this particular time you know president trump is very willful he does believe of course in diplomacy with north korea but at some point he's got to walk away because the north koreans have not exhibited a real intention to disarm but if the north koreans don't know how the u.s. is likely to respond to this if no one knows then is this a gamble that north korea is taking here but it's a very big gamble because the united states can actually put a lot of pressure on north korea which the u.s. did prior to june of last year really cutting the money flows to the regime of president trump were to go back to vigorous enforcement of sanctions this could really affect kim jong un's tenure so yeah it's an enormous gamble on the part of the north korea and is it one that could you know of us the progress that has been made between the two countries. but what progress. risks.

so you don't say you have no hope then that you know donald trump boasts of this great personal relationship that he has with kim jong un and although the summit didn't end up in an agreement that they are going to meet again to continue talks on denuclearize ation they haven't been any tests by north korea since the summit in singapore last year. you know of course but then again the north koreans have already told us they've completed all their testing so they don't actually need to test of course i think they want to detonate a thermonuclear device in the atmosphere because that would show that they indeed have a credible weapon but nonetheless they're happy not just accept this is not a big concession of their report and besides they need time to go through all the telemetry from all of those previous to us i think essentially right now there's been a lot of progress or change on going because he's been stalling which means he gets to keep his weapons he's also given more time for removing to undermine democracy

in south korea so this is you know a win you know every day that this continues is a win for north korea and it's a loss for the international community mr chang thank you very much for your analysis on this we appreciate it as going in chang in new jersey thank you elizabeth. two other news now and many flights have been canceled from kenya's main airport following a strike by aviation workers riot police have been deployed to disperse protesters outside nairobi's jomo kenyatta airport the strikes on of the neva dispute between a workers' union and kenya airways catherine sawyer has more from nairobi. government officials have been here all morning and they've been trying very hard to try and steal confidence and to show that things might be normalizing but operations here are very much crippled we are being told that a few flights might be leaving at some point but we haven't seen any movement we

have seen some people checking in we have seen a few people boarding into kenya airways flights but that's about it many many other people are still stuck in you know areas like this one we've seen some flights as you mentioned have been cancelled passengers have been taken to but many are still stuck here they're being told to wait to get official communication this is the departures. situation is the same. people are still stuck there just waiting for any information now. this work workers were dispersed by police using tear gas the union chairperson the union leader was arrested as wald the minister in charge of transport has been here all morning as well he has said that this strike is illegal and those who are participating in it are criminals we have seen that kenya air force also has been deployed to help with the security side of things but things are very very dire

indeed and i think it's going to take a while before they normalize. a religious school run by the armed group jaish e mohammad in northeastern pakistan appears to be intact days after india said it destroyed the compound in an air raid that's according to satellite pictures from a private u.s. company reviewed by the news agency the indian government said it says trucks had all intended targets and killed a large number of fighters has maintained the bombs had a forested area and didn't cause any casualties. as a former indian army colonel and economist on strategic affairs and he says the strikes may have achieved their purpose even if they didn't hit their target. there is there are really two dimensions to what we are talking about here one was india's demonstration of intent to abandon strategic restraint and strike back whenever there's a terrorist attack on on its soil on and on the security forces where

a large number of people have been killed now that aspect which was the demonstration of intent that has been demonstrated whether or not the targets were hit or whether the bombs missed by on hundred meters two hundred or two hundred fifty the second thing other than intent to skip ability can you actually strike your targets and that's where a question mark has now come in as a result of these these particular satellite photographs so intent is their capability still a question mark in the final balance when you take a step back and look at it from the strategic point of view it really doesn't matter where you hit the targets are not because there is no clarity yet on whether the government was actually trying to hit that madrassa always merely demonstrating intent by placing the bombs one hundred or two hundred meters away from that these are questions that will keep getting discussed both in pakistan and in india and

that's how the government of india wants it when you're making a strategic statement it doesn't always have to be absolutely clear what you're doing you know as long as you can create the doubt in the minds of the adversary you're achieving your strategic intent nigeria is preparing to bring home an estimated twenty thousand girls trapped in maadi the victims of the sex trade a kept and appalling conditions official said condition between law enforcement agents and traffickers as handprint rescue efforts reports from cornell and west mali. here in cocoa the visual entity is law. despite the presence of molly in soldiers the armed men arrived in huge numbers. they made it clear the nigerians trying to rescue their citizens trapped in the sex trade aren't welcome here eventually the delegation had to leave activists have been walking with the girls say they face such threats every time they get there yes i work in

a situation where there is a lot of beneficiaries in the crime is very very difficult to eradicate it the people that you have to rescue these guys they are benefiting every week from them on the outskirts of town the team is able to meet some of the course although one of them agreed to go back all the rest are too afraid of the traffickers and too ashamed to face their peers and relations we can't force them to go back but those who are ready willing to go back the major members the we're working with them closely we're working with i am going to come together and. while some of the girls are paid off the traffickers many are still trapped teenage girls are less likely to be left off even after paying an agreed of two thousand dollars thousands of the victims here in mali are kept in makeshift structures like this.