and so you have thousands of protests every year in algeria at the micro level and then direct response from the state and so this is just that on a much larger scale and it's being driven by social media it's very youth driven but one of the interesting thing about these protests is that we have from the sixty's from the eighty's from the two thousands two thousand tens it's a real smorgasbord of the greatest hits of algerian protest over the last sixty years which are bringing together the quasi totality of the algerian population against the fifth mandate for the president and for systemic change the problem is that the crowd is not articulating what its vision is for systemic change well jiri and living abroad are watching events back home closely more than four million people of algerian origin live in france activists in paris are supporting the compact routes i've been speaking to our correspondent. he was born in algeria but he's lived in france for fifty years he's music draws on

the sounds of the sorry region where he grew up. despite decades in france abdellatif passionate about how geria he's closely following in supporting the protests there that call for abdelaziz bouteflika to give up his bid for a fifth presidential so amazing because algeria is have seen what happened in the arab world the general best seen france what's happening in venezuela personally i've been emotional transported a moment ago here we were all asking why don't we go in the streets and now finally we are in the streets all together. france is home to the biggest algerian origin population abroad estimated at more than four million people thousands of algerians in france have demonstrated in cities like paris in mass a in a show of solidarity with a compadre it's many of the protestors are you know there's no phones on the algerians living in france have very strong links with their country many left long

ago disappointed and wanted to reinvent themselves others came to work and study one day we hope to go home to a new democratic algeria that gives people a future paris now geas have a close but difficult relationship one way down by history algeria was colonized by the french for more than one hundred thirty years it gained independence in one thousand nine hundred sixty two after an eighty year war today france is one of algeria's main trading partners the french government has taken a very cautious approach to the situation in algeria the french foreign minister says that paris is of course watching events very closely but the future of algeria can say is it's not hands of its people. argyria is a sovereign country and it's up to the algerian people and them alone to choose their leaders and their future is one every some say the french government is quietly concerned over further instability in north africa algeria borders libya

a major route for people and arms smuggling to europe abdellatif says such fears are unfounded he says that algeria's turbulent past means many people like him a wary of chaos what they hope for he says is a peaceful transition to a fairer and more harmonious future. al-jazeera paris. nine police officers have died in an attack on a security outpost in myanmar they were killed on saturday night in a village in the western state of rakhine release of blame the attack on the army a buddhist group accused of aiding myanmar soldiers in their crackdown on. we're going to weather update next here on al-jazeera then we'll tell you why efforts to contain the a both of us and democratic republic of democratic republic of congo are once again on the threats.

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