it is inappropriate for royals to get involved in politics thailand is set to hold elections on march twenty fourth when haye has more from bangkok the nine constitutional court judges took less than forty minutes to deliver their verdict that the thai charge party should be dissolved it was a unanimous decision all nine judges voted in favor of that it wasn't unanimous though when it came to the other decision of whether to ban the leaders of this party from politics they voted six to three those in favor of banning the executive committee members all fourteen of them from politics in thailand for the next ten years it's also of course the end of the road for almost three hundred candidates that would just stand for this party in the election on march twenty fourth in both constituency seats and the party list they cannot now take part in this election this is the third time that the constitutional court has moved to dissolve a party backed by the former thai prime minister taksin chynna what he was removed

in a coup in two thousand and six and lives in exile this will be seen by the thai rexx a charge party and its supporters as yet another move against the should of what clan and its influence of a thai politics of course in france has found a catholic cardinal guilty of failing to act on allegations of child sex abuse and his diocese a. prominent church figure and five others stood trial accused of failing to protect children from alleged crimes committed by a priest in the one nine hundred seventy s. and eighty's. syrian refugees in jordan are taking a case against the syrian government to the international criminal course they accuse president assad's forces of crimes against humanity saying they were forced to flee because of life threatening attacks they also want the court to look at a wider passon of rights abuses including torture rape chemical attacks and disappearances syria has not signed up to the i.c.c. but jordan is

a member which may give the court jurisdiction to take the case still ahead on al-jazeera the. artists in thailand find creative ways to get around strict censorship laws. how the rain has gone it's affecting china rather more than japan the last it going out of the way as you can see on this satellite picture you're less than was clear skies behind usually means not much of a breeze the air quality can reduce thirty is a max in beijing which is rather warm and in tokyo the hint here of the northerly breeze of even snow showers on the hills in northern honshu so could be warm and will be warm come saturday when the cloud starts to spread northwards again and

rain reaches shanghai at the moment the heaviest rains for the south and shanghai is generally speaking anywhere in southern china including in hong kong certainly heading in that general direction taiwan has had a fair amount so far taiwan could get an awful lot more to be honest but you'll notice hong kong is always just on the edge and it's quite a big area it looks very much like early spring rains. beyond that is rather quiet but a southeast asia is with very much in the way of showers as increasing cloud of course you should see more showers came to malaysia but still concentrating in indonesia and java seems to be the focus possibly was sulawesi as well but if you're in a pole or thinking of going there you're not out of the woods it is becoming increasingly likely to be showery. i'm sure you. are. off to remarks timers

remark. movements will be looked upon. my memory is marked with this documentary. hello again i'm just a reminder of the news this hour all twenty eight european union members have signed a statement criticizing saudi arabia's human rights record the document was signed of the un human rights council on thursday it calls on the kingdom to cooperate

with the un led investigation into the matter of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi. at least three people have died and two dozen injured following explosions as a large gathering in western kabul believe shia muslims attending a commemoration ceremony with the targets in the afghan capital. thailand's constitutional court has dissolved one of the country's main opposition parties the thai rocks a charge she was found guilty of violating election laws for nominating princess or born ross as their candidate for prime minister. while in the lead up to this month's general election in thailand a wave of young artists are finding new ways to push the boundaries after five years of army will to ambrose reports from bangkok. need a headache stencil a street artist to use a spray cans to satirize thailand's ruling army since the twenty fourth

a military coup has led a movement of political artists who are finding ways to avoid the country's streak censorship rules. approach army passy a former generals is heavily to win this month's general election but headache hopes his message will shake up the establishment but i would i want a current government has stayed longer than normal i've seen many military supporters are now unwilling to support them and i think this is a turning point. of the public is starting to listen thanks to bands like rap against dictatorship there anthem condemning corruption politically impunity and the growing social divide went viral with close to sixty million views by. the rap troupe believe their songs popularity is the only reason they. will and by a little discussion is good and it should be free no one should fear being arrested or getting thrown into jail for talking about politics on. laws which protect the

ruling military and mana key from criticism have been used on an unprecedented scale since the army took over shortly after the crew actress pointed man kong was imprisoned for two and a half years for performing in a university play that was interpreted as criticizing the world family i'll play is very dangerous for them because we. something that they don't want people to know about in this climate of crackdowns and censorship or not of toyland actually hosted got exposed in the past year including the bank of korean olive. curation say they operate in a climate of fear with soldiers have righted galleries and removed artworks critical of the military government officials argue censorship is needed to maintain peace in a polarized political landscape cole. type people have

a lot of freedom there's barely any problem but whenever you're leaning towards one side or slanderous someone and present false information as fact when we take it seriously. but look you are to say repression only lead to move rebellion and rheims. al-jazeera bangkok and you can watch the full documentary of thailand's rebel artists on the one i want to east at twenty two thirty g.m.t. on thursday right here on al-jazeera at least one person has been killed and twenty nine injured in a grenade attack on a bus station in indian administered kashmir the device rolled under a bus and exploded at the main terminus and generous city the killing of forty engine troops in a suicide attack last month has inflame tensions between india and pakistan which contest kashmir while pakistan says it's intensifying a crackdown on religious schools and individuals suspected of from our seeing

violence al-jazeera has come out joins us now live from the whole kemal just who has been targeted in this crackdown. where the group operation is underway dad include your mom. dollar and. chatted. to. watch dog gone. doing days in order to meet that requirement of the financial action dog for the rich bloggers gone out committed and as a member of the group of the bloggers on the it is that requirement also because the f.a.p. have gone on to great. does not comply with implementing the plan richard to cracking down on these groups. going into black.

and so the government vacate. their move or the north could make a good attention to rid india and the new government of god did not want to implement a. national action plan to which all the politicians and the political parties are degreed that they would move against all those barren groups listed by the united nations and ban groups that are driving the bans on them and also an arms embargo on fulfilling the obligation. that's al-jazeera is kemal hide of that lie from the whole thank you for that update. well germany's ambassador to venezuela has been ordered to leave within. daniel krajina is accused of meddling in states' affairs president nicolas maduro says it was unacceptable for the ambassador to welcome

home joe on monday the opposition leader traveled abroad to rally support for his leadership. and venezuela's most vulnerable people are dying because of budget cuts mental health facilities throughout the country are collapsing leaving patients without doctors food or medicine you see in human reports from the town of petty back into cheer estate a warning that some viewers may find some of these images disturbing. half hidden at the end of this road is what was one of the news whalers most respected psychiatrically have been the taishan centers. now the only person left there is but not of the are seeing it as the watchman for the last fifteen years evil get us to have a why did they close the institute i ask. because there was no medicine or food there used to be three hundred patients but in may the last fifty were transferred dr phillips the last call worked at the institute until the last day and he tells

a disturbing story documented with shocking images. it began five or six years ago the state national government started cutting the budget half of the three hundred patients were released to their families the rest had nowhere to go they began dying from starvation eventually we had one hundred and insufficient funds for food or medicine between forty five and fifty five more patients died of starvation especially in the last two men are. these patients who once weighed one hundred ten kilos and ended up weighing forty left with just skin and bones. the doctor of alaska says there was nothing they could do but transfer the remaining fifty patients to another institution in northern minnesota he's been told only nine survived. the psychiatric wing of sangli still has general hospital the only place now left in patchy the state for mental patients is another testimony to the crisis in venezuela as health services. were going to make not

only doctors and nurses but also means that i've learned that because our salaries aren't enough to survive. the wind was designed for sixty patients but with the acute shortage of personnel it could only accept eight and only those whose families can supply their food and medication the facilities are in a dilapidated state in. looting the isolation cells the patients who become violent many no longer have locks for. a lot of patients havok scape giudice with. all over venezuela mental health institutions are struggling to provide sufficient nourishment and essential medication to ease patients suffering. the government blames u.s. economic sanctions but dr glasgow argues the decline began long before they were imposed. i never thought i'd see this in my life in a rich country like ours personally wrote forty five death certificates for

patients who never should have died. and his venezuela's political and economic crisis worsens it's almost certain they will not be the last you see in human. than israela. we are taking you now to the united nations human rights council in geneva where iceland's ambassador is reading out a statement criticizing saudi arabia's human rights record let's take a listen. quietly by this bunch of. executions finally recalled. journalists can only exercise their rights to. including online. presence i thank you mr press. i thank you. and thank you that was harold

asplund the islands' ambassador to the united nations human rights council they're leading that statement criticizing saudi arabia will be bringing you more on that throughout the day. well on thursday the us president's former campaign manager will find out how much more time he's going to spend in prison paul manifolds was found guilty of financial crimes as possible special counsel's investigation and a possible creation between the twenty six campaign and russia but that's just one of a growing number of investigations into donald trump culhane expands living it's a term he seems to use daily which on which i tweet and it is great but he might need to start using the plural witch hunts because u.s. president donald trump has a lot more to worry about than special counsel robert muller's investigation into potential obstruction of justice and collusion with the russian government trump is surrounded by investigations in new york federal prosecutors are already sending

troops former lawyer to prison and they are looking into who gave and how one hundred seventy million dollars was spent on the inauguration a former trump advisor went on the president's favorite fox news program to warn him he's in danger this is why i've said all along with the southern district this is much more worrisome than mother because they have no restriction on what they can look at mother has to look at russia and that's it right these guys in the southern district can look at anything the washington d.c. attorney general is also investigating the inauguration specifically he is looking into whether trump personally benefited financially by renting out his d.c. hotel for events perhaps unknowingly the president recently praised that attorney general and a special thanks to attorney general. carl race car car. great job thank you very much you were very helpful everybody said girl i feel like you're like i know you that's pretty good. he's about to

learn even more about the president along with the top lawyer in maryland he's also suing trump for possibly violating the clause of the constitution that says a president can't take foreign money in new york the state attorney general is ramping up investigations into trump's businesses and the possibility he's been cheating on his taxes for years and in new jersey that attorney general is investigating if the term country club broke the law by hiring undocumented migrants and then there is congress newly in power in the house of representatives the opposition democratic party says it is investigating all of these things and much more you just have to take a look at the president's twitter feed you know he's pretty much fixated on the investigations but with so many looking at all aspects of his administration his campaign his businesses he can tweet but he can't stop them particle al-jazeera

washington. while the u.s. president says he's disappointed over reports that north korea has begun work to restore a rocket launch sites a website called thirty eight north which monitors as north korea says satellite imagery shows buildings are going back up at the site that kim jong un agreed to dismantle last year and follow its last week's failed summit between him and donald trump in vietnam i would be very disappointed if that were happening it's a very early report we're the ones that put it out but i would be very very disappointed in chairman kim and i don't think i will be but we'll see what happens we'll take a look. facebook has announced new plans to improve user privacy chief executive mark soccer bag says the focus will switch from public to private sharing and facebook won't be storing user data and countries with a weak human rights record facebook's under pressure to reform after it was revealed that data from millions of uses was harvested by

a political consultancy. hello i'm the star and to hell with the headlines on al-jazeera thirty six countries including all twenty eight european union members have signed a statement criticizing saudi arabia's human rights record the document was signed at the un human rights council on thursday and calls on the kingdom to cooperate with the un led investigation into the saudi journalist jamal khashoggi at least three people have died and two dozen injured following explosions as a large gathering in western kabul authorities believe shia muslims attending a commemoration ceremony with a target 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 because of security concerns thailand's constitutional court has dissolved one of the country's main opposition parties the

thai rocks a child was found guilty of violation election rules phenomena princess as their candidate for prime minister. a court in france has found a catholic cardinal guilty of failing to act on child sex abuse in his diocese. a prominent church figure and five others stood trial accused of failing to protect children from crimes committed by a priest in the one nine hundred seventy s. and eighty's. syrian refugees in jordan are taking a case against the syrian government to the international criminal court they accuse president assad's forces of crimes against humanity saying they were forced to flee because of life threatening attacks they also want the court to look at a wider pattern of rights abuses and tooting torture rape chemical attacks and disappearances at least one person has been killed and twenty nine injured in a grenade attack on a bus station in didn't minister to kashmir the device rolled under a bus and exploded at the main terminus ingenue city the killing of forty indian

troops in a suicide attack last month have inflame tensions between india and pakistan those are the headlines they'll be more news here after inside story. where of history algeria's army chief evokes the civil war of the mine nine hundred ninety s. to one protest as 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 algiers 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 to 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 beautifully cut to step aside has been growing louder every day spreading beyond the boundaries about is. 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 learn real baggage. 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 no 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 views 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 do what we're doing here has changed or not i mean three weeks ago before i'm kind of this there was there was discourse that actually the country is not going to evolve anymore that there is no life that for 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 demonstrations now and makes you promised now well first i did something to denature of the of the regime itself you know for the past two mondays . these vacuum that has been left by. 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 parliaments parties even the elections process so they finally found that nearly without the presidency and that. they me we gave their country's future you know for a do since the the at 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 cause in which other industries and you see the army in name it may happen again but finally days just to get dad they cooled i mean to act

today 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 the 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 president but for the cause that's how we started and the second thing is now that the people who want to do big delusion so it's very exciting times for julia but i decided. to be the cautious be thought 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 be that the julians have learned the lessons of the manties they also learned the lessons from the arab spring countries and like the form of jesus so the world or the buzzword for these demonstrations has always been. peaceful peaceful and when we see the youth after the most ration is clean in the streets

they're trying to the little ship in algeria as well as the outside world the whole 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 of beautifully michael 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 a candidate they agree wave 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 found that very humiliating and very frustrating perhaps you can

give us some more details on this. 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'll mention it previously how was. the gym has been called when he's on track by trying to maintain old golf the figure of the president of the sea the then president to have put in a kind of an in his physical accent but i'll say that even the army who is also another important part of this decision making the group that is leading i'll check out how the 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 the. instantly that they were enough going to be involved in politics anymore

and finally farcical any chance houseboat to do this course and with that the vice president of defense into yet this and who the he's the one who resents that the military command was in discourse tracon inc. has not to take the streets because the army wants all the ways to get back to the city where they well actually all to them absolutely disconnected from this discourse why that because has i think they bought the idea that the army have enough to intervene in politics the army is always there the prospects of the country under risen from serious and up to. another such an all time table that issues all of politics and was going on so we should know now of course we have old ninety's on the on the world clans and so on but if you.