my students and it does not look good rewind on al-jazeera. i am doing the pollen and these are the top stories about his era millions of algerians of say the country's biggest antigovernment protests in nearly three decades the mass uprising driven mostly by young people it's a direct challenge to the eighty two year old president. put a fake us leadership the police have arrested nearly two hundred protesters job reports. friday protests for the third successive week nationwide in algeria and this time they appear to be bigger than ever.

demonstrators demanding president up to as he's with the police abandon his bid for a fifth term in office in next month's election. just a day earlier eighty two year old beautifully who suffered a stroke five years ago and is in switzerland for what are described as routine medical tests urged algerians not to demonstrate and warned about the risk of chaos if they did. protesters didn't listen. to me you know i am here today with my daughters with the country's children to take back our last algeria we want to take it back so that our children find work so that they don't flee and drown in the mediterranean sea. yeah neelam the system please leave us look at the people the action is here the people are here from all social classes from the youngest to deal just everyone is saying no to a fifth or please leave you won't even be judged. and local media reports say that

nine politicians from beautifully his ruling f.l. in party resigned to join the revolt. train and metro operators halted services to try and stem the tide of protesters a strategy that clearly didn't work across algeria demonstrations have been staged daily for the past two weeks since beautifully could confirm he would stand for another term in office on april the eighteenth since the protests began opposition groups have been attempting to come up with a viable plan on how to remove with a flicker from office in an open letter on monday the president said if he's reelected he will call for a referendum on a new constitution and another election at some point. algeria's armed forces are under mounting pressure to find a solution but so far the response has been cryptic while alluding to the demonstrations algeria's army chief of the civil war of the one nine hundred ninety s. urging protesters to be aware of history but the rallies continue with no signs of abating any time soon mohammed into and. on the rallies for change in algeria has

spread beyond its borders there been shows a solidarity in the french capital crowds are gathered in paris say they're not just opposed to president bush but. political system and the geneva gathered in front of the hospital where the country's ailing leader is reportedly being treated. the government says arrived in switzerland for medical checks late last month but will be discharged soon. and power is back in parts of the venezuelan capital after the worst blackout in decades but the nationwide outage continues cells fare but some areas left without electricity for more than twenty four hours but it was a what do you have to give us some would you worry first for your own security because when the lights go out the criminals take advantage of the public streets to function that there are people in the streets your thirty's aren't present so you go around with caution in trying to protect yourself and get home and. we don't

know any news about anything. when they told us we had to leave the country has practically become a disaster. you know as fact fighters in syria say they'll resume their assaults on pockets of territory if no more civilians come out by saturday afternoon of the syrian democratic forces have slowed their offensive to allow thousands of people to. britain's prime minister is warning that briggs it might not happen at all if or a deal is rejected by parliament next week so he's amazed negotiations with the european union are stalled because of the impasse over the irish border in leaders had given her until friday to come up with new proposals to end the deadlock maze that were going m.p.'s to back her bags a deal when they vote on tuesday well those are the headlines up next rumania people power.

oh. they're. going to let you know. once the most corrupt country in the european union romanian society is engaged in an unprecedented fight against corruption. on the thirty first of january twenty seventh in the biggest protests since the fall of romania's communist dictatorship broke out in the streets of new caressed. the newly sworn in government had secretly passed to the creek that would grant its members immunity from prosecution on some corruption charges. hundreds of officials including businessmen mayors government ministers and members of parliament have been charged and convicted at the center of it all is an independent judicial body the national anti-corruption directorate for d.n.a.

in early twenty sixteen the d.n.a. studies prosecutor announced a sharp spike in corruption charges for three missions will that gotta focus on me and those that users think will but the court loni berlin not she made. oh was that emissions or that got them they changed my words mean the parliament thought they could. be mini. sites but of that. not all. independent collectives like the funky citizens have also joined the fight against corruption they are adopting the quirky offbeat approach. is this the go to call the. when it's forty two months out of the show on this course of a month for the most trouble it's an awful fuss is that one of them says the lot of them from the phantom of the wind will go. she for most of.

us the longest. thirty years of dictatorship has given rise to a healthy sense of humor in romania. in this spirit the two are focused on high level corruption has been created in bucharest. because you're not going to school next. tuesday. this. meter and direct. i mean of course. character much shorter but so.

not just. a lot of. my for most of us. are young minister of agriculture in two thousand and seven sentenced to three years in prison for accepting bribes in cash and sausages bin laden and jelly beans he might but. the same time they fell flat. on. no. one. really forced. the cash. who. supports the. mayor

of bucharest from two thousand and eight to twenty fifteen charged with taking bribes. but in general the. first college. wasn't. go out of. the inside out. mayor of christe sector three those fifty one million euros in back taxes. it is amazing to me. mayor of the cruelest. sector five from two thousand to twenty sixteen charged with taking ninety million euro bright. meat but.

all describe the same pervasive reality in romania gripes. the times are changing local government schools police stations and hospitals have a long history of taking bribes in exchange for service. i i i. has additional little. i know of course what you exposure tried and some of what you look at my list of what are. in romania corruption extends well beyond the envelopes that civil servants receive to supplement their incomes at the highest levels bribes are replaced by briefcases and the misuse of taxpayers' money becomes more creative and the leverage touch of

a demo money artist pull the dent. she can what does that. sound got us thinking because one t.t.n. kurdish follow says. until back to the living cut up. they example. when i got a long as article yesterday by this bloke on. but. what a b.m.i. each and. that parliament in my age despair contacted me to ask what about the preference. then they are forced quite. to. with. that part of. him or what i said. in two thousand and two the national anti-corruption

directorate or d n a was created as an independent judicial body to enact reforms required for romanians entry into the european union in a few short years the growing number of corruption revelations in romania have implicated politicians from every party. thousands of scandals and shameless dealings have been brought to light. the d.n.a.'s chief prosecutor is low with. her unrelenting determination has made her the central figure in the fight to eradicate corruption. awful start. up and then. not too long. and. investigators will.

only if. she got a good father more than church of. not just a fourth almost. daughter shall call all exist to the lot of our system which are vo and vulcan there are bottom line you don't need change doctors in the. shop they are. a few floors up but the d.n.a. a special investigations team is helping to solve some of the d.n.a. is biggest cases. and that's to me is almost. here. it was a few more this feeling lucky you might feel lucky to not have that out by the. prosecutor. and police investigator nicole asia earned their stripes in the fight

against organized crime both highly skilled investigators they've unearthed evidence leading to the prosecution of romanian political elites. wife etc. there were intelligent we just shot we too far to go. over them. but we want to go to it. was an. infection a diversion if you scarred. me cut the little comment of ice if you cut. off was the most read. dark and what live action there who've. put up with i she she and the other tell in the very. question.

up with the charm of course. of the wolf human history in about the story of the cheapest. the issue demurely i walk around to look but question fresh put the step by step by me so full seats. c.l.r. said elizabeth that's good that's really not just. the call it that shot of it looked at it that it almost such a. good in by you it's downside last stop the good old war party negotiators to sort of think you've all made it all put that simple test of stuckey up all you like dr just lost a lot bundy a. couplet it. was the last use of that show it have already delayed because of the other five out there go up the loser bear market the progress of can do. without that divine spirit that one of the victims or their corvette or their. something. we can measure

the scheme of the post on how the bottoms of our samina coinage ain't just small or . well. done across and under some of us i must invest in just be example to get caught and it's new to different yeah. and you want to be chilly you are going . right to remove the. united opposition noise in the pool nor can the fuck to. be in the party doing so would the party that had the power would see it. also on the wall as. a means thought your. year she also flocka. as an independent journalist bugel has investigated corrupt officials and closely followed some of romania's most notorious corruption cases. but you would believe that. you pleaded with him you don't

look at. anybody she thought was part of the ruling but you paid him. and we're going to beat you to. get in but if you want to see you simply got. to start to put a good deal of money. my good day to. you. always on a lot of. family pull a school for a check of the old guard and president of the now defunct conservative party was convicted in twenty fourteen for buying property at sixty times less than its actual value. but the one thing the. money comment to. me but i. think.

you know many. of these. stops. i'll force. fault but my. chief changing then. the model. shift for me. as with other eastern bloc regimes the fall of the dictatorship provided an opportunity for party stalwarts to proffer. government funds where misappropriate. did and many from the old guard to fill their pockets the dictatorship had given way to new levels of corruption. but of all nazi on my thought that you had extended would probably at the top only class top level science that on line. she. done for the other new normals h.

cup archie thought that out task not only got a society on there's a that are partially at our class he makes you stand for them spawn other fuckin ways is that the winter politico dela when i type this exist acquired of what i thought was the simple technique of well just to take us out here couple of the lesser turns what is that look at us all scheme up the momentum cut out all money and to negotiate a new novel panna then try that out or shut down to not abandon pinkel me so open up austin muscular support i could have gone d.t. and on one year my less untouchable investors on additional satish. when you come up of a was appointed to minister of justice from two thousand and four to two thousand and seven with the support of the european commission she prepared the way for romanians anti-corruption prosecutors many portland calendar

that have to do it in short time i mean have an accounting and book two thousand four. so you had very few time to do it and the government was important for me it was a support to me for me to change. into short years minister michael this doggedness in the face of intense opposition allowed her to launch a process of judicial reform. then a relatively unknown entity that d.n.a. came to prominence as michael they pushed for its right to prosecute white collar crime. but d.n.a. is first cases went relatively unnoticed by the press. but i think if we wait for your daughter will have. their father on one of the one main. yes the one could rise up and open about a new study out on when you get those in parliament that governmental pre-modern he

stood out on when he. informed here at this question is that was he should that senate. or even a prime minister indicted in two thousand and five i began as a descendant from the communist dictatorship have become one of the most powerful men in romania just used to be restricted. charged with embezzling one and a half million euros for his electoral campaign and taking a six hundred thirty thousand year old right wing company telling the press about a woman who does that analysis and all of outside analysis of it sort of follow but she seems almost half step towel. i think all normal. so to me when i last i recall norm. that. sixty to the chair offical don't look. it.

if you're just going to say good it. was just to talk to. you. but it is a few years after these comments in twenty twelve the prime minister was sentenced to four years in prison for passive corruption and blackmail but again the stuff his conviction that was a lightning bolt for society since then the corruption investigations have accelerated and the d.n.a. has achieved celebrity status in romania. it didn't take long for the media to catch on and to begin reporting on an unrelenting stream of revelations each day this is the scene outside the offices of the d.n.a. certain not to leave empty handed the media gathered to catch the drama in real time it's the most closely watched media event in the country. very. much a. photograph or is creating the unique series of documentary portraits that capture

the expressions of in battle delete what about. the signature. i want you to look like. i'm usually actually about working why don't i check check check you. know i don't know i'm. in april twenty sixth seen a journalist exposed to hicks a former scandal the case cause public outrage forcing the minister of health to resign i think you. could see far more into what kind of cycles out the baby was. different than the neutral moment. which if that's. the case and i think that showed. votes more every day and the moment of the

quarter so this could be that the water boils down to the wind if you. stay on the right it was as if you're in for a life but then after that. if. she can interrupt you i don't know what's up for the world but actually looking into this if you want to kind of get busy with the government i'm on it and real quick so that i will show you still a bit fucked judge just a couple options that the club as usual must suffer for just enough honesty if you want to dress up being the one with it but just the one doctor says the she needs the person the worst that will be you know what you begin to count. on. in my life it isn't he might not have been asked about the part of the game about that he's got to be nice to get in the door she don't know you you mind you know coupled with my will to get out of the park the logic of the law sort of a last bit is. a

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people's music on al-jazeera. hello i'm david pollan and these are the top stories and al-jazeera hundreds of thousands of gerry and said stay the largest anti-government demonstrations in nearly thirteen years has been a wave of protests against president bush to flicker for the past few weeks since he announced that he would seek a fifth term in office and the rallies for change in algeria have spread beyond its borders there been shows of solidarity in the french capital crowds to gathered in paris say they're not just opposed to president bush to flee but a jarius and tar political system and engine

a valid syrians gathered in front of the hospital where the country's ailing leader is reportedly being treated there and government says beautiful a car arrived in switzerland for medical checks late last month but will be discharged to paris back in parts of the venezuelan capital after the worst blackout in decades but the nationwide outage continues elsewhere with some areas left without electricity for more than twenty four hours we were able to see what happened to give us some would you worry first through your insecurity because when the lights go out the criminals take advantage of the public streets to function that there are people in the streets your thirty's aren't present so you go around with caution in trying to protect yourself and get home and i. mean you know look we don't know any news about anything supermarket when they told us we had to leave the country has practically become a disaster. u.s. backed fight is in seriously build resume their assault on i saw its last pockets of territory if no more civilians come out by saturday afternoon the syrian

democratic forces have slowed their offensive on drug use to allow thousands of people to the turkey and russia have begun joint patrols of syria's northwestern it lived province to safeguard deescalation zone it live as a last major rebel stronghold there been syrian government airstrikes and fighting between rival rebel groups there in the past few weeks and britain's prime minister's warning that brags it might not happen at all if her deal is rejected by parliament next week series of may's negotiations with the european union are stalled because of the impasse over the irish border e.u. leaders have given her until friday to come up with new proposals to end the deadlock mase now urging m.p.'s to back her bags a deal when they vote on tuesday and those are the headlines let's get back to romania if you will power the next.

since joining the european union and romania has been engaged in an unprecedented judicial overhaul special prosecutors have joined with journalists activists and romanians growing civil society to uncover and prosecute corruption at the highest levels. independent media groups like the rise project are playing an important role in exposing corrupt practices. rise is an information site that provides a platform for journalists activists and investigative hackers and. here activist journalists can sometimes uncover in a day what prosecutors would require years to obtain. is co-founder of the rights project and. he's taken part in many international investigations and was a key player in helping analyze the panama papers leak. or tipping listing artists

from actually investing i tell to the particular scene i think that's what i used to look i know where to go to tell us a part of this was not. their money value. with them but he. shot one in the lobby and. cheaper than paying for it all for me when i woke. up as confidant of a gun seller said. you know what i mean i think that it was funny it's been. seen for months. so it. is budget us this bubble but isn't the whole buzz of the doubt that we're going to put up a lot in the lives of us when looking for the mighty this will combine the early start the noble soul of the thought that only that was for this was a day for months you know what i mean that is not going to go the route that it's become by nikko difficult budget all money that english. conquer.

follow the money for that technology for seem like us investing. last. time for the fin recent years romanian society has begun to feel the impact of a growing wave of corruption convictions. emboldened by judicial reform people are increasingly demanding that the law apply equally to all i was the ongoing judicial battle has energized protesters in the twenty fifteen tens of thousands flooded the streets of bucharest to protest the deadly fire at the collective nightclub despite the unsafe conditions the club obtained its operating license in exchange for a bride. sixty four people mostly teenagers died in the blaze. just purses the prime minister victim

was forced to resign. mass protests are a growing trend in romania where forty years of state rule all but destroyed citizen action thirty years earlier and big gatherings in romania looked like this shows of mass solidarity orchestrated by the state called for justice gave way to resignation poverty and despair in recent years the pioneers of progressive change have claimed that their place in society. is a historian and specialist in communist crimes he's also a famous activist in bucharest fellow. because it was pretty much one million a year. we should just give you what we got because. it's one of our books you should know what is who puts this article didn't get in there that are movies as affordable. although there were no moment in which an officer cracks me up it was one call comical vicious for sure school. no matter which joke i'm sure to for the

exam is a cool thing that it's going to say you can watch them here all the nuclear weapons capability of the muslim take what they want to one hundred ten times a day speaking to defeat down to the top of the field to look at it but i mean i'm not secure so most of i've been locked up. as with spain's in the ordeal queue by wall street movement in the us romania's protest movement is led by activists like me hyped all it takes is a few activists like him to ignite social action in darfur but will they put the state. will conduct a more gentle darker black on more of a problem a call to get out of the sea was just in place such as might is good for the. extra muscle externals down dizziness the condition of resources and. so this is. needed i would yell at me that you might. want to get me to know if it was ok.

to make. social activism on this level would have been unimaginable a few years ago. today targeted actions can take only a few hours to germinate and spread. across our choices about whole thinking sometimes it's a story about a more money back into the earth's year but then what we did there was a daughter to pull me and also to shine on to the set almost so much the year before students like that all thought it was meant to just hold it because she's a few issues sure to show that they. it was. building the activist capacity of

an entire generation is a bold project. the funky citizens aim to defy boundaries and to forge a path for civil society in romania. if this really goes it's not meant to come for the sake of sticking this. post it shouldn't be cheap and sticking to what just the most. to you that's what i did. in two thousand and twelve created the funky citizens to confront government corruption she hired hyperactive young graduates out of law political science and communications courses. a correlation of creative activists the funky citizens are advocating for the growth of civil society in romania. who want something that that you know he's not going to get that you're going to want to me was a part of the indoor me days to talk more. with to push off the topic this

morning the day i wasn't born or you know to some blog i think i might have to go through a lot of rage. in the simplest legal that this sounds an awful lot more income we. all saw when he bought the. ngos and civil society activists have steadily been gaining momentum the funky citizens have been working in a vibrant offbeat style one of the of their names. on the citizens who is finishing . them gelatin are going to import them that up to the issue but i'm certain they become something that's all stopped will be gone she funkier for last month at a fortune my surely my old film because the more you. see. that is to awaken citizen awareness the funky citizens are addressing corruption with a sense of irony. is the creator of an unusual sight the bribe market which allows

users to know the average bribe in a specific hospital town hall or police station exist them with the cold. softly yes they should chip this site yes they can stop the cost. the cost the chains it. because someone because. their. perspective of what they. what they get. meant they. are. many features at the. last facet of vici a lot of. many young graduates with specialized skills have chosen to work in these novel structures. here they can discuss the performance of the courts fact check political statements or analyze the latest reforms.

by each. part they. exempt. for us the feeling of course i thought they were. not the solid day or yet are here. i but corruption lives on even when the high and mid-level officials are jailed public service budgets are also first though for corruption to address this elenor also has a countrywide program to train advocates how to decipher public financing. i thought i thought it was odd but i was. it was john was it if it was just

a few was that. it was ok so that's just as cool but up but just to to support a count second to spot one digit that's it to call the tea party up is the fucking force. at this cell said this is one of the most aquatic at the time and most christendom of this past off and much you had much less intelligent than shooting the chief numbers coming up to be so i call that actually cut into the last budget i said i was going to move to. despite this flurry of activism the fight against corruption is far from won. the government visits pains to recover stolen funds. the accused to decry stalinist trials and anger against the judicial system has reached a boiling point. the political climate has become so tense that's the chief

prosecutor broached the issue on primetime radio. volatility known throughout the team to not included the last of the now there's one of the got a knowledge of the dome this but arctic fox dark wood in fear god is the. that there is one of the guard and i legit at the dog to see if he thought that injun jim i did take out the set of all mine also and feed him a shot and then to go to cedar entering to need another marked of it as he denies that indoor meat raised british of it it's you know it's you're not. going to need one moment love possibility that they're pretty muddy don't i was the easy chair long and. yoda. but what are the limits of the rich and powerful when cornered by justice.

politicians have been looking to pass laws that would diminish the d.n.a.'s powers . we don't anybody did it but if. there is religion or even to this there might be a new. parliament and. all the audience just came by little dog on his auto someone if you took all that and celebrated so not so long and i mean it is a couple of thoughts in a day of us to god a shuttle such a thought that you feel that's any old out journalists will for the first vision extend the important things to spread those of you know them with a cause and seem to question any part of. law just the thought of a fortune. on the thirty first of january twenty seventeen romania's newly sworn in government issued a late tonight executive order that would pardon politicians of some corruption

offenses. the media quickly informed to the public by midnight twenty five thousand protesters flooded the streets of the capital that number swelled to three hundred thousand in the next days with hundreds of thousands more gathered in cities across romania. the government was forced to rescind its decree a few days later. as a check to the powers of governance the funky citizens count on an important ally the european commission. on your offer to meet them on the budget for the use of. all the for all your case. since joining the e.u. romania has been closely monitored by the european commission twice a year the commission issues reports that. measure its progress in the fight against corruption. no one know what it. will

be cheney who looked a lot. called on the mythical cheap if he did and got. out of the law books that we are all smith and all our lawnmower not. talk at the bottle shop the new out they could just send. me she was broken free and got a lot. of government trying to push the limits n.g.o.s and citizens mobilizing in the vigilant european commission this framework stands as the most efficient safeguard in attempts to weaken the fight against corruption. monitoring by the commission should end by twenty twenty but that's romania have the institutional and political maturity to progress on its own. so c.n.n.

quote the idea of what artist michael is that all that other shit he carries it with him what about the future this will seem that on it but it was just a shrug she could read. and comment. but out of part there could have goshen i took that same haven't other folk with. that us want us and them plan not just on quality let you know. it's early summer twenty sixteen and romania is about to elect new mayors romanian seem happy about the push for transparency but will they vote for change. many hope the election will reveal the impact that prosecutors and civil society groups are having on the romanian public. an equal shot adama has created the save bucharest union or the us to be. it's a campaign born of. civil society founded on hope in the democratic rejuvenation of romania. for this former mathematician the fight against corruption is

a clear path towards the renewal of romania's political class. you almost tripled. one in france. where the. us if you simply said that. you said our meeting. there were those two. things up i thought she had. enough open up. the years that you. should have done to present his party as the only recourse to a decadent political class a class that continues running candidates embattled by corruption scandals. on election day locked up has decided to follow a candidate he knows well one of the headliners of book arrests corruption to work

. the mayor of bucharest sector five charged with taking a bribe of ninety million euros. a part and parcel with a little bit isn't going to put you at home and so if you don't shut up when you put out this month they go yes i mean it's going to get his cup of coffee shop with us. and a book that he made what if he could have been yes i'll probably make that. but i'm going with the thought of having to go to get one that i've been out with and i have to make a putting could see. that the for the market that. i think you know but a lot of us are going to begin to. look look look look look look look.

i can only look on the. visible for the stats that you wish but. what do you. think. you really kind of think if you're going to be taken this is nothing tested. i mean i need. people. in the media to do. pretty much you want to see. what you. could. do with was pretty good. because you don't think. that anybody. would think it was. really. the funky citizens have banded with other n.g.o.s to spots plus.

able fraud they've set up a call center and sent observers to polling stations i don't know if your. own boss would have thought of something like this or self i thought. of him but when i think of it the less frequently than before electoral fraud can be just as flagrant i think that's what. it. was the first vehicle was. very very over the top of the transition to the rest of it should i be as much of the shit he did the six years he wanted to be out of the way our friends say you take one cup he didn't get what the one you got what that little nasties discarded i was single but now what. did you. go faster than that to feel that i thought it was fun to be not going to give us another one here to talk about why

not just the six year got a new manufacturing jobs you know how much i wonder how little i think. the day is coming to an end and me push out of guns us meeting maids are awaiting the results . in a surprise me done cus the party has won thirty percent of the vote. it is the first time that the new political party has done so well in local elections. to go off. topic. but. do you know why. bush. did it why. the funky citizens are taking stock of a day of mixed results even if mayor mike young van give you a photograph the only year hasn't been reelected candidates with corruption cases

have done well. i. was i was leaving. i was going on do you. think did you think that you. know off. limits analysis is fair the candidate's judicial troubles haven't stopped many from voting for them the romanians have real acted nearly fifty mayors convicted of or charged with corruption in. wasilla mayor of cry over charged with taking a bribe and money laundering reelected with fifty eight percent of the votes. the

court rejected the d.n.a. charges and then generally twenty seventeen. became minister of labor and social justice. judges get. charged with taking a bribe reelected with fifty two percent of the vote. but the link mayor of miami charged with taking a bribe reelected with seventy percent of the vote while behind bars. as romania confronts the ghosts of its past the descendants of a bygone era are clinging to money and power. in the legislative elections of late twenty sixteen the majority of seats went to the social democratic party who are fiercely this by them earlier conviction of its president for electoral fraud. but people are beginning to support the new parties on the promise of change. following

electoral success a few more. it's earlier than see us be party changed its name to save rome a new union for us are winning nine percent of seats in parliament. romania continues its push to become an example amongst its eastern european neighbors at least for now. is the country's transformation to democracy a revolution or a long distance race a remade in which the baton is handed over to the next generation the teenagers born well after the fall of communism. the funky citizens are supporting the civic education of this youth platform. in romania today civil society engages all age groups but in a culture of corruption the country's greatest hope may well lie. be cool me blah blah blah blah inflated south. of the.

hello again and welcome back we're crossing eight states over the next few days it is going to be stormy for many locations we're talking about severe weather down

here across the south as well as winter weather and advisories for winter storm watches and warnings up here towards north affecting parts of the northern plains parts of ontario as well as come back so here you go on saturday very winter conditions up here towards the north winds are going to be a problem as well visibility could come down to near white out conditions there but here across the cell this is where we could potentially see some large hail damaging winds and the possibility of a tornado or two as we go through sunday as well the snow continues to make its way towards the east but down towards a cell it is going to be quite warm look at this washington you warming up to about twenty one degrees there across much of the caribbean things going quite nice we're not looking at much in terms of rain some rain down here across parts of costa rica that is going to continue on that eastern coast but up toward savannah it is going to be a fairly nice day for you with the temps are there of about thirty degrees and then very quickly across argentina things are getting better down towards the south we are going to be seeing that rain pushing up here towards montevideo but for rio de

janeiro it is going to be a partly cloudy day with a tempter thirty three and it's until about twenty eight degrees for you. thailand's military government is accused of using repressive laws to silence critics. but a new brigade of oz's is fighting back what i want a snake's thailand's rebel losses. zero. in slave abuse i'm longing for you to. the flies to many of these good after a lifetime of service a remarkable young woman breaks free. to lead an abolitionist movement of electrifying force was. driven by her favorite

recollections of subjugation. my memory is my power a witness documentary on a. this is al jazeera. hello and welcome polly now watching the news hour live from doha and it's good to have you here with us coming up in the next sixty minutes overflowing the streets of the capital in the cities across algeria protest against the ailing president and now the biggest in decades. the pain of no power we talk to cancer patients caught in venezuela's day long.