yesterday in vancouver in january the u.s. justice department filed charges against twal way and making relation to fraud obstruction of justice and attempted theft of trade secrets but president don't trump says he'd consider intervening if it serves national security interests or if it helps to close a trade deal with china while trump has been fighting a trade offensive against china and others since coming to office promising better deals but the u.s. trade deficit has now grown out to its highest level in ten years here's our white house correspondent can really help that. the report by the u.s. commerce department stands in stark contrast to what president donald trump said just days ago that you saw a trade deficits were down last month the rule is going to for underwater well we'll take you in a lot of tariff money and it's going right to the bottom line and it has reduced the trade deficit so in reality new data shows the trade gap between the united states and china in particular has widened last year by forty three billion to four

hundred and nineteen billion it's a result of an increase in exports from china to the united states well exports of u.s. goods dropped. and the u.s. trade gap overall well it's swelled to a ten year six hundred twenty one billion dollar high their numbers not seen since the global financial crisis of two thousand and eight that means quite simply that the united states imports far more goods and services worldwide that it sells this despite promises made by the u.s. president on the campaign trail in two thousand and sixteen that his policies would put america first in the global marketplace the u.s. is currently embroiled in a tit for tat trade war with china posing tariffs on more than two hundred fifty billion of chinese goods china hit back with tariffs on a hundred ten billion of us products as the two sides continue to negotiate trump

has delayed his threat to impose tariffs on two hundred billion more of chinese imports in the u.s. and in september the white house released this video arguing the tariffs have already had a positive impact we're changing things and we're changing them fast but the commerce department numbers suggest a very different trade reality one the u.s. president seems unwilling to acknowledge kimberly helped at al jazeera washington still ahead on al-jazeera a verdict has just been handed down for a high level catholic cardinal in front's who was tried for failing to report the crimes of a pedophile priest where live to leon shortly and the u.k. government looks at how to tackle life crime and make communities safe again.

hello for some reason the heaviest showers in indonesia will not leave java particularly western java on the bloom there with the latest big share on their figures of the order of two hundred millimeters in twenty four hours there is flooding in java and you see the cloud trips into southern born here and into sumatra as well as not much else where there should be a general northern trend of the showers because the sun's coming north we do see more and coaching there in the far southern philippines and running up to some offshore even singapore but that's not the real grouping of these shows they happen around java still around java to some degree the cloud may be the obvious feature wrong in the showers but i would want to rule them out any time in java or in particular but they don't make a much impact in northern australia it's not been a very good wet season just about over now anyway and the seasons change is you know got daily showers in queensland and troughs coming through the season by the

tens to taint change the temperatures were down to the middle twenty's anyway for the most part and the onshore breeze it means it's not present in the queen's incursion the gold coast northwards are suggest tempura is still up and down a little bit twenty nine adelaide twenty one in hobart and this time it's new south wales i think the wet weather. jewing sierra leone civil war nigerian forces were deployed to protect civilians instead some turned on the population in plain sight of a journalist camera is going to. disagree with peacekeeping force beautiful. his own using his harrowing images international lawyers seek justice for the school to buy their guardian's piece kilis on just zero.

hello again i missed. our lines of the news this hour explosions have gone off as a large gathering in western kabul has plenty of attackers target as an event commemorating ten years since the death of a shia muslim leader. and opposition party in thailand is to be dissolved for nominating the king sr as its candidate in this month's general election constitutional court judges ruled that the child party broke election laws by involving royalty in politics qual way is taking the us government to court the chinese tech giant is challenging a federal law banning u.s.

government agencies from using its products because of security concerns. well a court in france has found a catholic cardinal guilty of failing to act on allegations of child sex abuse in his diocese phillipe barberin a prominent church figure and five others stood trial accused of failing to protect children from alleged crimes by the reverend bernard praying that the priest has confessed to abusing boy scouts in the one nine hundred seventy s. and eighty's and will be tried separately while the trial is being held in leon and our correspondent natasha but there is there natasha what sentence have we heard from the course. that's right the court has delivered its verdict in this case and it has found the card awfully hard guilty of failing to report child sexual abuse after twenty fourteen he was cleared of all the charges that pertain to other dates before twenty fourteen he's been given

a six month suspended sentence now because of the above are wilson actually here he was expected to be in the court but he didn't turn up his lawyers said that was expected and they said that they will appeal this decision and they have ten days to do so while the lawyers for some of the victims in this case the alleged victim say that this is an historic occasion in fact we were just speaking to one of the alleged victims of the priest belknap the mound that called all. is said to fail to report to police and the authorities victim told us that he was extremely pleased that this was better than he had hoped and that it sends a very powerful message to other possible victims out there to come forward not just in the church as an institution but in other institutions and the tasha what does this mean for the church there more broadly going forward. well this has been a huge scandal for the french catholic church because it really in compass is the

whole catholic community from parishioners and parent. right up to the highest clerics in the land. who is the archbishop. they are accused of really failing to protect children and the rights of children over many years and it comes of a toy when the catholic church is itself in crisis the number of followers in france has been falling the number of new priests being doing does really plunged over the past decade and what many of the alleged victims say is that for them it's not just what happened to them but the way that these sort of crises of been handled not just in here in france but also around the world is the way in which they say that some of the highest top tier clerics across the world seem to feel that there is no real motivation for change that they really haven't done enough not just to apologize to some of the victims but to really try and put their own house in order out of there is no touch about their lives for us there in leon thank you natasha.

well veterans of algeria's war of independence have backed student led protests calling for president abdul aziz bruiser fieger to resign they say demonstrators concerns are understandable weeks of protests and posing a challenge to the eighty two year old leader who is standing for reelection next month after twenty years in power who's a figure has offered to call early elections if he's returned to office and won't run again in cameroon leaders of an armed separatist group who appear in court accused of treason the amazonia freedom fighters of attack to villages schools and businesses over the past year their aim is to pressure the government into establishing an english speaking state and what's mostly a french speaking nation victoria gazin be reports on the impact this has had. this been on a plantation in south west cameroon used to be a thriving business not anymore last august it was attacked by armed men from

a group known as the amazonian freedom fighters workers on the farm say they were terrified they worried about more attacks so we've hidden their identities they beat me on the head with a machete a young man was asked to kill me but he didn't have the courage to do it one of the guys kicked me and i fell to the ground he cut my neck and back i begged him not to kill me after that i lost consciousness the plantation was so badly damaged that it's been difficult to restart production the packages aren't to the ground worth and spread and people were afraid to come to work the pak aus was abandoned the fields were abandoned that's why you see weeds everywhere the separatists who attacked the plantation want the government to recognise southwest in cameroon as its own country to be called amazonia they say the english speaking minority faces discrimination in the largely french speaking nation the surge in violence has damaged cameron's economy this plantation is

a by the country's biggest private employer it says its profits fell by fifty percent last year putting thousands of jobs at risk in the palm sector all out of seven estates only to. freshen up. in the operation family and the banana settle this. close fighting has caused thousands of people to cross the border into southern nigeria they're waiting to return but must be wondering whether they'll have jobs to come back to victoria gate and be al-jazeera. israel's central elections committee has disqualified an alliance of palestinian israeli parties from running in next month's elections and follows a petition filed by the prime minister's likud party and. they accuse the ramble large coalition of supporting violent palestinian resistance and backing hezbollah polls suggested it would win four seats in israel's parliament and now the supreme

court will have the final say the u.s. president says he's disappointed about reports that north korea has begun work to restore a rocket launch sites a website called thirty eight north which monitors north korea says satellite imagery shows buildings are going back up at the sites that kim jong un agreed to dismantle last year it follows last week's failed summit between kim and donald trump in vietnam i would be very disappointed if that were happening it's very early report were the ones that put it out but i would be very very disappointed in germany and i don't think i will be but we'll see what happens we'll take a look. and donald trump's controversial mexico border policies have been in the firing line of democrats in the house of representatives here's how these are castor. and yet we are all to the american people your oath to the president of the united states there was little love lost between donald trump's homeland security

secretary kiersten nielson and the house democrats now controlling the committee that oversees her agency let me tell you ma'am secretary either you're lying to this committee or you don't know what's happening at the border nielson defended trumps national emergency declaration to build a border wall citing a surge in unauthorized crossings more than seventy six thousand people mostly families from central america were apprehended at the southern border in february that's the highest monthly figure in more than a decade but these increases will overwhelm the system entirely this is not a manufactured crisis this is truly an emergency republican members backed the secretary's testimony blaming the increase crossings on a broken immigration system they say democrats have refused to fix its congress has failed. to solve this problem but the hearing was dominated by critical questioning

from democrats many demanding an accounting of the president's zero tolerance policy that resulted in the separation of thousands of children from their parents last year when you saw those pictures of babies in cages what did you do what did you do to just scream bloody murder up the chain to the president says they differ from the cages you put your dogs in when you let them stay outside is that it is a different. if yes in what sense it's large and it has facilities it provides room to said to stand to lay down the road my dogs cage the family separation policy ended after public outcry the advocates say it's still happening in a smaller number of cases but thousands of children who travel to the u.s. alone we violence and poverty in their home countries remain detained three have

died in government custody since the beginning of the year a number of republicans have sided against the president now tional emergency declaration as well citing concerns that it exceeds the power of his office congress is expected to pass a measure to council that declaration but trump says he will veto high veto castro al-jazeera washington british soldiers might be deployed on the streets to help deal with the rising knife crime the government's had emergency talks with police who have blamed years of budget cuts for reducing office and numbers they've bought a report from london. jody chesney and yusef marquis are the latest ninth and tenth teams to be fatally stabbed this year this is the london parkway jody chesney was murdered stabbed in the back if she played music with friends the victims were both seventeen ten teenagers have been killed in stabbings this year twenty seven in the past twelve months the killings of course outrage and

a fierce national debate nine of my friends were shot dead in the last one was shot fifty seven times this is sheldon thomas a former gang member who now advises young people and politicians on violent crime he believes the current debate been heightened because recent victims have been white and middle class why does it take a middle class person to be killed before they use the word crisis when poor whites and blacks are being killed for many years over fifteen twenty years we've had countless of young people stabbed in exactly the same way shot there and yet that it wasn't considered a crisis when. if you just showed and thomas once the author to pay more attention to the impact of social media and a culture that glorifies guns the knife crime this is drill music the police believe it fuels rival gang violence this group ten eleven was recently banned from mentioning death or injury in their music money girls and respect that the gang is what throws in very world social media is their broadcast our social media is the

mom social media is the bag and in their world what you call a surge in knife crime justice it's very verge of justice finding a solution to knife crime is now in the hands of the government and police a growing number of young people have lost their lives in a cycle of mindless violence such a shock to us all the responsibility for these crimes lies with the perpetrators of them but we must do more to ensure that justice is served but the government faces tough questions over funding comes. we have led to the lowest police decades public service is the word there to support young people have been systematically stripped away you cannot keep communities. by cops and privatization you have to invest in all of our communities police chiefs want to implement

against my crime review powers to stop and search people they've been given to the end of the week to set out exactly how much investment they need there are fewer offices there for this less policing going on and there's more crime so there's some sort of like it's not the only thing that explains what's going on but it is part of the equation poverty drugs gangs abusive homes psychological problems deep cuts in policing not to mention an online culture that seems to glamorize and glorify violence there's no single reason why young people are carrying knives while teams are murdering teams on britain's streets and that suggests there's no single solution barca al-jazeera london. hello i missed the attain doha with the headlines on al-jazeera explosions have gone off as a large gathering in western kabul authorities believe attackers targeted an event

commemorating ten years since the death of a shia muslim leader thailand's constitutional court has dissolved one of the country's main opposition parties and banned its leaders from politics for ten years the thai rocks a chant party was found guilty of breaking election laws by nominating princess. as their candidate for prime minister the move was criticized by her brother the king and she was ultimately blocked from running the rulings been made just weeks before thailand as jews to hold its first election since twenty fourteen when there was a military coup. qual way is taking the u.s. government to court the chinese tech giant is challenging a federal law banning u.s. government agencies from using its products the company has also accused washington of hacking its services and stealing e-mails the u.s. government had said. it's rare that it has heritage that our servers

and this story are you merril's and the source code these tragedies the u.s. government has never provided any evidence supposed to accusation that i we posies securities direct steer the u.s. government is very low effort to smear our company and it's probably about. the latest u.s. commerce department figures show donald trump's trade offensive against china and others could be failing the u.s. trade deficit has blown out to its highest level in ten years a quarter and france has found a catholic cardinal guilty of failing to act on allegations of child sex abuse in his diocese. and five others stood trial accused of not protecting children from alleged crimes by the reverend bernard the priest has confessed to abusing boy

scouts in the nineteen seventy's and eighty's and will be tried separately those are the headlines the news continues here after people in power at the peace killers. thailand's military government is accused of using repressive laws to silence and child critics. but a new brigade of assists is fighting back why when a snake's thailand's rebel losses. zero. almost two decades ago when sierra leone was in the grip of several wall troops from nigeria were deployed to protect civilians but instead some of the peacekeepers turned on those they were meant to save. atrocities captured on camera by journalists or some more now that harrowing footage is central to an

extraordinary legal campaign to get justice for the victims. sierra leone west africa. in one thousand nine hundred eight in one thousand nine hundred nine nigerian peacekeepers murdered raped and tortured sierra leonean civilians. and got away with it. all. this footage of the nigerian peacekeepers i got up but it was

filmed by a local cameraman sorious samura and broke cost around the world seventeen years ago in a documentary called cry freetown. there was a silent majority sophie. the nigerians have been invited to protect civilians by the sierra leonean government which was embroiled in a brutal civil war against rebel positions but instead of being protected as many became butchers. after the end of the conflict in two thousand and two a united nations funded tribunals was established to prosecute serious crimes committed during the civil war. but the nigerian crimes were ignored brushed under the carpet of history. after eighteen years of silence a team of international lawyers is reopening the case.

file a story of saddam i believe this case representing victims that have suffered so much the case is being conducted by myself dr sharp a lot of getting draw out of malaysia about my brother abraham. from sierra leone where do you take a separate photo to do something for the victims. that came in to protect. thank you. one has seen in the united nations allegations of peacekeeping abuses. underline those little monday's. cases today five of those cases. video evidence.

we have. been. given nineteen years no international mechanism has even attempted to. today this morning a case it's a request for us to put in place. we know there's a different government. a different nigeria is there a way. i have every confidence that. may be possible. lummy mansour a he was five years old when the nigerian peacekeepers otherwise known as echo came to his area being able to see their everybody. and for all the kids from the

community in moore. or my studio. you don't leave me one and me to you my sister. will be dealing with my mind. soon one more you will be known to call me to. be a. city boy even. when i. am him or me you will see this morning it's only in. the morning there anything we will see on my sisters and. i'm not time of emotions more me mommy daddy and it was your. sister as. soon as she said no they said no to. me mommy you know you see that.

you skip and see going up on mom so we. all need to be a commodity and she she gets you in with you on my system. oxidants know. and it's about single dads i live. among anymore anybody alive what was your mom got. on my sister. only she saw what us again. in december one thousand nine hundred eight as the civil war raged in the provinces there were rumors of an imminent rebel attack on the nation's capital freetown. sorious samura was a local cameraman living in the city for us we were living in the city we were just leaving in punkin in fear of the peacekeepers. the ones who were different in

that time. it was on the morning of the six don't general area nine hundred ninety nine a friend of mine called on the phone and said the rebels are here i took the camera and from the window i started fimian the rebels. i just thought what was happening in my country needed to be seen it needed to be framed so i made a decision to step out. those nine ten is what i feel what i saw what i witnessed and. nobody. sees it in their own people. the peacekeepers fills the block complete ok i think about it it is these is meant to be. the supreme

peacekeeping force. here i was now with the camera. team. that martinez i was too confused i was just. lost. it would be all sixteen year. me. if i'm in a. sudden turn and do so bindi. make me. something to making will buy. so. full of. cinema. for the nuts and. it's more so

when we. see. what's in a being it's only been. in ten in the now we see booting. almost in. a tele i soon see a nursing home. i just saw the soldiers are the force to form between one guard. the other are ours our soul they are the gown does begin i mean that you cannot i'm going to i don't got out. he was desperate to be crying i am motorable please don't kill me.

you know it was not but martin i would out of course not. i know you people would think in water you just turn and theme but i had no choice no not not not not a mother. and. i just kept that shot. with people in c. i'm. consumed with the me if. i know what's up and what a fun. one to do with people nothing. an employee does a fee and even put these links on. a sell. out as this is. not new to me and i'm not in ca.

and if you mean the. people to me so i thought the thing it took this is. an upbeat and begun to miss if. we are foreseeing. straight away there were guys started by the will barrel and with the boy still kicking took him into the wee peril. the boy begging for his back home and within minutes to be thrown here in a big must grieve a lot of family members will never ever. find out that some of their loved ones and the dog yeah he's in the same source he paid a death price at the hands of peace keepers.

the special called for sierra leone was established in two thousand and two to prosecute those most responsible for serious crimes committed during the war. sharma hendra was one of the prosecutors of the court and he is now the driving force behind the renewed effort to seek justice a special court didn't have to stick change. over the nigerian troops we had video evidence. the whole world has seen what has happened. and in probably the easiest cases to prosecute and we did it there was just talking peace silence. and victims of economic crimes. eighteen years of combined eighteen years of inaction against these nigerian troops despite the most compelling evidence any prosecutor could possibly have that

comment or rated. over sixteen seventeen years i have this tapes here they just lie there you know got three doors armed kept you know thinking we seen somebody should just. do something about this. when the call came from kareem and shamila i was excited farnum this tapes are going to be useful these tapes are going to be used in a court of law to actually bring. some of these people to account i use. that we're collecting the evidence evaluating their lives and. what we can do to assist these youths and nobody has tried that unical who is who he did to these. those guys we are very inhuman. you treated me like a beast. reds now i don't know how.

to turn. them on on me on the go. and the. one. who is walking is what we're about and they felt. they would spectators of justice. and instead of just skipping through little cracks of justice i think those cracks became a gaping hole. even if twenty years later we are reopening this issue. minako you knock into i mean our own words are going be rid of walking come and go

and when the hour ask each you know question if i am one else will when i'm your last one sworn in a scene i keep thinking in your mind it's akin. to say we want to wait in line. for the only let me give bt. as i am. up to now and if it's me that be telling me it's me. if you've been on one word up to now. with an odd season it was my getting on the shelf he said it all meal in the woodward book i'm gonna see most things. like everyone asked me to. while i would if we could see ron noble. i think because of luck i will use or they will commute my. next this. guy you can can tell him i was moved by god god sent into my last goodbye.

about within one. hour she still had lived that long but i just. it went on for hours. and only talk a little maybe talk to me see to cough just. suck. it you can't assist. c.s.p. it's. suck. seeing that level of cornish meant being destroyed to your mother and can't you can do anything that's any less more lucky. in my view what a sad. this was going to my mom let me off. listen i want to buy the content this is. so i see that we're looking to my last words on more than just wish they said

earlier five you see that i said and i have a lot of life. so and also got one mark for me. i don't know. as a witness in the case sorry a s'more a trouble to the hague in october twenty seventh team to provide his testimony. in my preparation to come and talk to there. you know i took that journey again town and really and i miss some of the thinks. he owns. it's traumatic but. for me it's a few days what these people who saw their loved ones really been brutalized mordred of the own eyes they're going to leave it for ever.

even if we can register in the consciences of the powers that be that. something like these should name for a whole bunch to. so if you don't mind going to start the movie. because she knew me i was aware read i said i'm set you know these guys. work said he should be taken out to. kill him was what i heard. you say you know you were most good this he didn't finish instead he walked away from the camera. that's.

all over and you. you can hear. it well or because. i should have seen it somewhat disguise. i struggled i struggled with the piece i would beg them to for he for me perhaps. i hope you understand. because.

he had one hundred t. shirt but no breath no trousers us so they brought him rights to where the bullets where he chain and you put him there you go good. as the way you move the screen. before even touching me you know you can see that. there are something weird i have faced mets mornings in one thousand nine hundred sixty. i thought he had given up going into a fight i made some he said he found me in the guts that. he was outside with i meant that the ability. here was just like some desperate being i don't know what's going on around him we had no idea that it's because he can't talk. what was to come. when the poor boy. he went out for all the rules for these. at the family would not go out. of

the echo mall we have very intensely find in our area. these same decided to get moses back on the back of the truck and these guys were paunchy in the sides you know we do those boots kicking his side when we'll fall slugging you know everyone rushes. to see how he was choked child this is a boy who. should be shot that type of punishment. on that smaller boy. its own forgivable. belief that the nigerian perpetrators will be directly targeted by the case has sustained sorious through his dealings with the legal team. but now he his the case is taking a different path. over the last twelve months we've gone through the

videos of cyrus mora we've conducted investigations on the ground in nigeria up in sierra leone. witnesses being spoken to statements of being taken and we're now in a position to put for the nine claims i tried last year to file a case in nigeria and they wrote back and said well they only had jurisdiction on the territory of nigeria so we were confronted with a problem how to obtain redress we decided the first course of action that was compelling was the one that sought the sierra leone government to do what a state should do which is to protect the fundamental constitutional rights of its citizens and as one of the relief sought in that claim is for the state to start a proper accountability process because the state in charge of one force meant that they have international standing to make requests to to other states and so they

are in a privileged position. this is going to be difficult for all of us i didn't sign off going to be only a student. government initially what i agreed to work on the suit being got this case against in nigeria i mean i don't think. it is a syrian government shouldn't feel if you have to go for women and soldiers. it is our hope that ignited this process that there be criminal investigations and criminal cases further down the line in relation to the perpetrators that appear on the videos that have been named in the statements. but the important thing really is after all these years to start with a claim before a court. in a case that we say well founded. maybe technically the boy is. see that this is the best we tend to speak but for me. i don't think it's right to

susannah them at all i personally don't believe that i would give evidence or concerning government nigerian government nigerians or just yes any time. as moyers a fundamental of my fundamental responsibility is to provide objective legal advice to the clients. and it is to try to obtain redress for those clients according to the law and will use every legal option in australia to put forward the best case for those victims to try to represent these days he says they come to this is very key sequences a position that. i wasn't thinking i was going to be in. tomorrow we are going to be filing. their cases for you before the supreme court and we are asking the supreme court troops give you the address in the last nineteen

yes you have been forgotten you are an example of what happened to many many many people unfortunately we can't promise you will in this case but we're trying our best we've spoken to you would investigate we have done a lot of work we pray that the law will protect and address what happened but it's a really worthwhile case so i'm really honored to be representing each and every one of you is. the legal case is now with the supreme court of sierra leone and the lawyers await its response the government of sierra leone must decide if it's going. to fight the case all respond to the month that they take on responsibility for establishing a process of accountability for crimes committed by nigerian peacekeepers almost two decades ago. we also from nigeria and

on to respond to the issues raised by this film we have not yet had a reply. business . places.

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minutes. explosions at a ceremony in afghanistan's capital. an opposition party is dissolved in thailand just weeks before elections choosing the king sr as its candidate for prime minister. chinese tech giant huawei sues the us government for banning its products plus. i'm adrian brown reporting from the nerve center of china's largest technology company demonized by governments around the world and now beginning a major legal a media offensive. a catholic cardinal gets a suspended jail sentence for failing to report accusations of child abuse in france. and i'm leah harding here with all of your sport continue to try to expand the qatar world cup they're now reported to be considering oman and kuwait as.

several explosions have taken place in the afghan capital kabul. believe the target was a large gathering of shia muslims attending a commemoration ceremony on the tenth anniversary of the leader's death let's go live to our correspondent charlotte bellus in kabul charlotte what more do we know at this point. there's still a lot of ambulances and military vehicles coming in going from where this gathering took place the ministry of interior has told us that they're currently surrounding a building near where this gathering took place where they believe rockets were sent from from attackers this surrounding that they're trying to move into it but they said that they are moving very slowly trying to clear this building they have arrested one person that they believe was associated with this attack it started about two hours ago gathering for the commemoration of the size of our leader who was killed it was at least a thousand people in attendance and senior afghan politicians were talking. former

president hamid karzai presidential candidate. the acting foreign minister so a lot of senior politicians to be a we've just found out that how this played out was that. speaking at that time they started to hear rockets from the distance they carried on and then another politician came up to speak as he was speaking a senior leader who represents this community jumped in stopped him from speaking his name to muhammad and said i think we may be coming under attack we need to get out of here at that time you take. and that's when we've heard reports that there were multiple explosions grenades heavy gunfire that carried on for at least an hour all of the politicians got out safely although the presidential candidate of his bodyguards were injured. in the civilian casualty front we just don't know we've been calling the hospitals they say we are taking in wounded many of the

witnesses say that they did see bodies and wounded as they were trying to escape but the north is at this time. lots of witnesses talked a lot of reports about with the what kind of a tech this was all we know is that it was incredibly complex and we're hoping that in about half an hour we're going to find out more information because if we have. between a builder and move the two politicians who escaped to clarify what went on there's a lot of criticism right now about how this happened because it is a major security lapse and there was intelligence last night that this this gathering shia minority has been attacks a lot particularly in this area in the past it was intelligence to say it could come under attack it carried on and then there has been a complex attack. has anyone claimed responsibility for this. so nobody has claimed responsibility at this point but isolate has targeted this

community as ours shia minority heavily but she where this took place there has been dozens of his r.'s killed by eisel in this area over about the last year just yesterday in jalalabad there was an attack on a construction company they were killed in that and i still took responsibility but that was that's about two hours from here. or i shall a better life in kabul thanks very much. now thailand's constitutional court has dissolved a prominent opposition party and banned its leaders from politics for ten years time rocks charge was found guilty of violating election laws for nominating princess who won rod as their candidate for prime minister the king said it was inappropriate for royals to get involved in politics thailand will hold elections on march twenty fourth and this is the latest chapter in

a long running power struggle between the time military and the powerful shinawatra family the thai roxette chart party is considered loyal to former prime minister attacks in shinawatra attacks in and his supporters have won every election since two thousand and one even after he was ousted in a military coup in two thousand and six he says the young law became prime minister in two thousand and eleven but she too was removed from power in another military takeover in two thousand and fourteen both now live abroad in self-imposed exile after they were convicted on rayna range of charges they say a politically motivated time rocks a charge is one of several political parties linked to the chena wants but its demise could make a difference in key districts in the upcoming election when hey joins us live now with more on this so wayne what do we know at this point. well it took the nine constitutional court judges has a less than forty minutes to deliver their verdict we were expecting it to take

much longer than that given similar cases in the past but they came to a unanimous decision all nine of them voting that the tie rocks the chart party should be dissolved the decision on whether or not to ban the executive committee members from politics for ten years there were fourteen people on that committee that wasn't unanimous the judges voted six to three nonetheless it's passed clearly and those fourteen committee members can no longer take part in politics in thailand for the next ten years of course has them it's also the end of the line for almost three hundred candidates that we're going to stand for this party in the election on march twenty fourth both in constituency seats and in the party list system they are not banned from politics going forward but they are prevented from taking part in this election so it is being seen as a setback for tax in chin award for his ability to try to win enough seats between

his main party and smaller parties like tie rocks a chart to form the government where you have a brief statement as the leaders of that party came out of the court where they heard the verdict they spoke to the very large media contingent here the leader preacher pom pom pundit said that they feel very sad of course they said the decision will affect basic rights and political freedoms of candidates and of thai people and what's the general is their concern then about what's going to happen with these elections coming up on march twenty fourth and just how how genuine the political debate is going to be there. well i think there's been concerns about that from day one really in terms of it being a fair playing field or not we heard the leaders of this party when they launched it that they were concerned that this. it was not going to be a free and fair process during the campaign and in fact during the election and

afterwards when deals will be done between the major parties and smaller ones to be able to form a coalition government certainly as i say there will be concerns now about tax and chynna what the chena want to plan and their ability to be able to form a government the reason this tie rocks a chart party or one of the main reasons that it was set up by the shinawatra was to ensure that under this new proportional representation system that we're seeing in this election that they will win enough seats in both constituencies and in the party list system tie rocks a chart was highly unlikely to win any constituency seats but probably would have done quite well in the party list system and therefore help the poor thai party of the main party of the shinawatra be able to lead the charge towards forming a government well the chart is gone now so it will have an effect in that way but it could also. really lead to a galvanizing of support for the chena what's a verification if you like of the us versus them attitude that's been in place in

this political system for quite some time taksin chin what after all is a man who has spent years fighting against the establishment against the military and as you say the last move by the military came in two thousand and fourteen when it removed the government of the system. all right when a lie first said they're in bangkok. now a chinese telecom giant oil way is taking the u.s. to court for restricting government agencies there from using weiwei technology us considers its products a security threat and says china can use its equipment for spying a jim brown has more from change in from the year while ways success is clear just part of it sprawling complex in the special economic zone of june. while ways name literally means the achievements of china but the trumpet ministration says those achievements more to cheating and stealing than the sort of innovation on display here allegations its top executives deny on thursday they held

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