continuing after. that happened here all over the country against the government or the government a polarized country queen those who support them. and those who say that who leave. the contras amazing you were there outside a petrol station with one kilometer queues you were with people just trying to get a bit of fresh water and yet you have all this anger and people energized as well at the same time not protesting on the streets. most definitely people are struggling to cope with their daily struggle. that they have to line up to get bread they have to line up to get it right because they're difficult to get it under the. enormous hyper inflation in the country around a million percent this year they make right from one minute to the other they're also lining up for

a guy. who are poor out water on the other things life is difficult for venezuela they say that mostly the government has failed to provide. for them and that's why in a way why though has become so popular it's been he came up and became the president of the opposition controlled national assembly he was a man that nobody knew who he was and suddenly he's become a leader and not wholly in the country but around the region recognized by the united states by countries in europe and it's mostly because of the cry feel that venezuela even today people have a big you say that they have faith that the government will be able to bring in any type of solution that will make their lives the reporting from. still ahead for you on al-jazeera looking at how u.s. exports could perhaps expertise or could perhaps help with the ethiopian airlines crash investigation remembering the tibetan uprising against chinese and sixty

years on taking a look at what's changed. and i there was in quite a bit of what weather across the middle east at the moment most of it is from this weather system here it's been with us over parts of iran now it's spiraling its way through parts of pakistan and through afghanistan as well bringing us some heavy rain and a fair amount of wintry weather too but it is now clearing away so monday it'll still be clinging on to the kabul area but then as we head into tuesday it should be dry air here with maximum temperature up to around eight further west we've got another weather system piling in here so for the western parts of turkey soaking wet and windy on choose stay even further towards the south and here in doha the winds are easing fortunately so it won't feel quite as chilly as we head through monday and tuesday the temperatures will be rising as well so i think by tuesday

we're getting to around twenty seven degrees i think we're looking at a fair amount of cloud to ever parts of oh mom but it won't bring us too much in the way of significant rain that will stay rather humid there insular with a maximum temperature of twenty nine degrees further towards the south and we've got our tropical cycling with us this is the die you think it's worth a around here this is the one that was on shore it started off over land and then worked its way over the sea and that's where it became a tropical cycle eight it's now drifting towards the west so this whole wheat it is going to stay very very wet with some of the heaviest of the rains over parts of magic.

top stories the president of algeria is thought to be headed home after receiving medical treatment in switzerland this is the plane believed to be carrying out to the. his possible return of course amid the protests against his seeking a fifth term in office return to many parts of venezuela the days of blackouts but some areas are still without electricity. which began on thursday have affected

schools businesses and hospitals and. killed all one hundred fifty seven passengers and crew on board from thirty two different nationalities ethiopian airlines jet was flying from nairobi in kenya to how the u.s. is sending investigators to help authorities find out what happens and deal is a former national transportation safety board investigator in the u.s. is all angles of what might have led to the crash need to be investigated. this point we'll have to look at everything although we do know there was a radio call apparently from the pilot describing a what chemical oh i'm so certainly the n.t.s.b. will bring with it or a pain experts in the area of the airframe systems engines and so on and of course they'll be looking for the two so-called black boxes the flight recorder one of the things that you always do as an air safety investigator is look at all the all of

the attention of the but clearly also why an aircraft five months ago is suspicious given the circumstances that a one of the things that the safety board in the ethiopian government will be looking into the training records of the pilot obviously they'll be looking at the maintenance records on the aircraft we know there was a maintenance issue as well as ninety two in the why an air crash clearly there is a competitive world between boeing and airbus. crash it obvious obviously i'm if you're concerned to any manufacturers i'm sure they'll be boeing representatives on scene speeding in the investigation. early on us backed kurdish forces have begun a full scale attack on non-self ises in the syrian town of who knows it started up after the deadline passed for eisel to surrender fighters from the armed groups

stayed in the town as thousands of people have left the area in recent weeks as the s.t.'s forces the syrian democratic forces advanced hoda abdel-hamid to monitoring events from gaziantep now took its border with syria just bring us up to date with what you're hearing hoda. well yes we did hear from the is that actually. the attack the fighting has started again in the area around who's we also heard that there have been several coalition air strikes in that area now whether this is the final battle or not i think it's a bit too early to say and actually a spokesperson for the u.s. led coalition did say that he has learned not to predict when this last battle would be and that simply because there has been a pattern over the past few months there has been fighting and then you had so these very dramatic pictures of ice so. women and children

coming out of back in the thousands of the old to so over the past two weeks hundreds of five just coming out so certainly there is that sense that isis is surrounded is weaker is on the verge of defeat but there is also a lot of caution because nobody really knows how many fighters are left inside it is believed that the fighters who are and by whose at the moment do want to are there till the bitter end the ones who are willing to die for do cause and also because some of the people who came out specially the women said that there were many more civilians killed there they said that maybe maybe they were not anymore in that big encampment where many of the ice and families were staying but they did some of them did hint that there was a sort of network of tunnels underground and that many people were beneath that so

one has to wait and see how far this as old will go and whether they will be another truce maybe in the coming days because more people will come out but certainly as we speak now there is ongoing fighting ok very good point we have heard final battle a number of times before haven't we heard meet with that update from gaza. thank you. the daughter of an opposition leader in sudan has been sentenced to one week in prison relating to protests against president omar bashir earlier nine female protesters who was sentenced to lashes were instead jailed for one month. in khartoum are defying security forces by protesting against the government at universities and boycotting lectures and exams with more protests from opposition groups planned on sunday protesters in moscow are condemning a proposed internet control law which is being likened to an online i incursion russia's lower house of parliament passed the sovereign internet bill last month

which proposes all internet traffic is routed through servers in russia step faster with step vance and with more from moscow. around fifteen thousand people have turned up here in moscow to protest against restrictions on the russian internet they're protesting basically against the sole so-called sovereign internet bill which is currently being discussed by the state but the bill basically wants it wants to cut off the russian internet from the worldwide web if that is necessary a lot of protesters me especially young people turned up saying hands off from more internet we don't want any isolation there were a lot of slogans against president putin and also the lawmakers who came up with this bill basically lawmakers say this bill is needed to protect the russian internet from foreign attacks for when cyber attacks for example what could have happened in st petersburg during the u.s. midterm elections where the true so-called troll factory was reportedly cut off

from the internet to make sure that it could not cause any damage to these elections or cause any influence on these elections so that's one of the concerns these lawmakers have but protesters and a lot of people here in russia are worried that this is just another step towards more censorship the internet is basically one of the last weeks sources and sources for independent information here in russia often t.v. radio and newspapers have basically come on the state of. north korea is holding parliamentary elections for the supreme people's assembly however candidates are pre-selected and they're resigned me one two voted for in every constituency the supreme people's assembly has six hundred eighty six members called deputies and meets once or twice a year after the last election and twenty fourteen state media reported a ninety nine point nine seven percent voter turnout. meanwhile india's election commission has announced the dates for parliamentary elections there will take place in seven phases between april and may nine hundred million people eligible to

vote in the batek ballot counting will take place on may twenty third. that's a better now activists and human rights supporters are marking the sixtieth anniversary of a tibetan uprising against chinese rule rallies are being held outside to beds in countries including taiwan and india china has put restrictions on tourists and journalists who want to visit the himalayan country critics say it's just another sign that china is repressing the rights of tibetans a story for many on a helmet. on march tenth one thousand nine hundred fifty nine chinese soldiers pooled into to beat china says it was liberating the himalayan country it had ruled the since nine hundred fifty one but it was also suppressing protests against chinese authority which had grown and were becoming file and tens of thousands of to basins were reported to have been killed ministries were destroyed to bits spiritual leader the dalai lama was forced into exile in india where he remains

every much taint since the end demonstrations have been held around the world in support of to base an independence it's an old case and for many the any of us three sympathies represent the anger and the sentiment up fifty bet against six decades of political suppression. they have been denying piano but it is cultural and right china has placed restrictions on foreigners including journalists visiting to beat when you go back to those you know six years ago the cia was actually involved in training people radio operatives who were dropped back into tibet to kind of stir up trouble so from a chinese perspective they don't look on for they don't see that foreigners are necessarily bringing gifts. regarded as something that is only means trouble

and probably more headaches for beijing. china says it's held sovereignty over to be at fisichella it describes the deli lama as a separatist supporters of the deli lama say he doesn't want independence just more autonomy for tibet what we're seeing now is this different kind of repression. making footprints can't communicate with a car protests. this sort of suffocating atmosphere on sunday the streets of debate may stay quiet while demands for to base an independence around the world media know how on al-jazeera the bodies of two european climbers have been found on pakistan's so-called killer mountain nearly two weeks after they went missing tom and danielle that's not the were attempting to scale about in the himalayas the world's ninth highest mountain in more than a thousand meters they were using a route no one has successfully climbed before

a buddhist government is being blamed for killing nine policemen in may in ma their outpost was attacked in the western state of rakhine the armed group called the out of town army is accused of aiding me in mars' military to persecute the range of muslims now fighting between government forces and hurt the rebels has been reported in the yemeni city of her data and eyewitnesses said artillery and machine gunfire could be heard throughout saturday night and sunday the site a u.s. coalition in yemen is accused hooty s. of reaching a cease fire brokered by the u.n. in december the palestinian president has chosen a long time adviser and critic of hamas as his new prime minister mohamad chatah is a top official in mahmoud abbas is fatah movement and a former peace negotiator his appointment is likely to deepen the rift with rivals hamas. dealers in the u.k. are making last minute contingency plans for brags that the british art market is the third largest in the world and relies on seamless shipping in the european

union and so galleries want to make sure that continues for their customers need barker reports now from london. this is one of the biggest. warehouses in europe with high end prepared for shipping around the world. the company service is top dealers private collections and museums so what's the most expensive item that's passed through definitely looking at in excess of one hundred million pounds so these are no more objects by any means or some might be small but very valuable the international art world depends on frictionless shipping with little bureaucracy and few tariffs but as breaks it looms the industry is weighing up the challenges i feel there is just this lack of clarity where we don't know what's going to happen if we if we get a deal next week then everything stays the same for twenty months maybe three years and then during that period they'll negotiate further but it does lead to further uncertainty and that makes long term planning quite difficult.

for the moment are to ship seamlessly between the u.k. and the e.u. we're very little red tape and with no jus t. in place for all of that could change when the u.k. leaves the e.u. if there are no new arrangements in place they could well be new juvies imposed the more expensive the art the higher the g.t. . this high and dealerships in the heart of london's financial district but the gallery director has had to make a difficult decision to close the current show of twentieth century abstract art several weeks early the works of valued at seventy nine million dollars which means a possible tax bill of eight million dollars for shipping them back to italy after the u.k. leaves the e.u. because italy and other e.u. countries levy tax on our works imported from outside the bloc we are speaking about money so i can i have to speak so far we don't have

a for michel fresh effects we don't have them for michele flournoy or subcouncil so nobody knows so. we can all see the situation and the view of breaks it from italy . which means they've shot themselves in the foot. some experts believe leaving the e.u. will be a golden opportunity for the u.k. allowing the country to reduce or remove all current e.u. levies bypassing europe altogether and attracting global markets. while the industry considers the advantages and disadvantages of leaving the world's largest trading block some had to wait shipping their collections to a brick safe distance the al-jazeera. headlines now and al-jazeera a plane crash in ethiopia has killed all one hundred fifty seven passengers and

crew on board from thirty two different nationalities the ethiopian airlines jet was fined from nairobi in kenya united states is now sending investigators to help with our kids find out what happened the president excuse me the president of l.g. areas thought to have landed at a military airport in his home country after receiving medical treatment in switzerland and that is according to local media reports this is the plane believed to have been carrying abilities beautifully faces mounting pressure at home to not seek a fifth term in office powers returned to many parts of venezuela after days of block outs. some areas are still without electricity power outages which began on thursday have affected schools businesses and hospitals u.s. backed kurdish forces have begun a full scale attack on eisel fighters in the syrian town of. i saw a member state in the town as thousands of people have been evacuated in recent

weeks the s.d.f. says no civilians have been seen since saturday it accuses i still of using civilians as human shields to slow the operation more from hoda abdel-hamid in turkey syria border. we did hear from the that actually. the attack has the fighting has started again in their round. we also heard that there have been several coalition air strikes in that area and now whether this is the final battle or not i think it's a bit too early to say and actually a spokesperson for the daughter of an opposition leader in sudan has been sentenced to one we can presume in relation to protest against president omar al bashir and students defying security forces by protesting against the government and universities and protesters in moscow are condemning a proposed internet control law which is being likened to an online iron curtain

russia's lower house of parliament passed the sovereign internet bill last month which proposes that all internet traffic is routed through services in russia that's a look at your headlines saw on al-jazeera inside story is next. cutting off russia from the global internet new laws are going through parliament to control and even stop information online opponents say even more censorship so he's put in building his own version of china's great firewall this is inside story.

hello and welcome to the program. televisions long been russia's main source for news under the watchful eye of president putin but the internet is fast eroding state television's influence and russia's main opposition figure alexei and avani is among those running you tube channels to provide an alternative voice the kremlin's not toppy and through a combination of legislation and surveillance infrastructure it wants to ensure it has control of all media new bills going through parliament aimed at creating a single command post from which the government can decide what information is allowed online putin says it's a defensive response to trump administration's new cyber strategy but critics say it's meant to stave off any domestic political unrest step vast and sets up

a discussion from moscow. this is just the latest effort by the government to control the internet in previous years many restrictions have been imposed already hundred fifty four thousand sites have already been blocked and this bill is more far reaching than previous ones but to really control the internet experts say the government needs a lot of money and a lot of manpower so to create something like in china great firewall many see that as an realistic plan here in russia because. i don't want to leave like in china with her chain the use of fire wall i want the internet to be free and. i want to think and to. to use my mind everywhere and i don't want. some. somewhere and i think it would be. my worst.

because. in our country our politicians don't. don't have any limits like in china and serve it's why i think it's would be your worst. there's been a growing crackdown on internet freedom in russia in recent years on thursday the lower house approved bills banning what's described as disrespect of the state and the spreading of what the government calls fake news they still have to pass the upper house before putting can sign them into law why screwups say dozens of people have been arrested for sharing or even liking means on the internet which are considered extremist by the kremlin last year the government tried to outlaw communications telegram a move that's caused other services to crash because it interfered with the amazon and google servers that telegram relied on and in the north caucasus mobile

internet service is what caught for almost two weeks in an attempt to stop antigovernment protests let's bring in our panel in moscow. we have victor all of it he's the lead analyst at the center for actual politics in london sam greene director of the russia institute at king's college london and author of the book moscow in movement and opposition input in russia also in moscow alexander sort of year member of the advocacy group open russia german thank you very much for joining inside story victor i would like to ask you is this a bill meant to look implement censorship what is it disguise in the form of protecting national sovereignty in russia. no it is the bill. is intended to protect russia and russian citizens in the internet

space in an age when the internet has become a medium for adversarial information wolf where you know for you remember the one nine hundred ninety s. when the internet was starting around the world. it was not yet especially in the beginning of the ninety's it was not yet. widely used enough for information warfare but starting from two thousand and later on we have seen the internet being used by different actors on the international stage to. advance their national interests quickly at the expense of other international actors and other countries as we have. cyber attacks being launched by different actors against each other we have see in cyber threats being openly. openly stated by international officials if you remember in just two thousand and

sixteen after the american election that didn't go the way of the obama white house hoped it would then the vice president joe biden openly threatened cyber attacks against russia so it is quite logical that russia would. take steps to protect itself from possible cyber those from other possible steps that its adversaries made. in the in the internet and social media and we will talk more in details above those steps. is this an attempt to preserve digital sovereignty for a little bit some perspective or is this clearly a flagrant move to clamp down on dissent. as your report introduction suggested raise a lot of things going on at the same time and there's a history and a background to this there's been really legislation ramping up restrictions on the

internet really since two thousand and twelve two thousand and thirteen and and a lot of it seems to point in one direction so unfortunately from maybe from the from this perspective right legislation that has to do with sovereignty and security is going to be interpreted certainly by the people that we're seeing on the streets in moscow and other russian cities today in in that context as part of a restrictive drive are there legitimate sovereignty and security concerns i'm sure there are for russia as for any other country on earth the bought what the opposition will wonder is where the line will be drawn between what the kremlin will perceive as foreign interference and what is the. legitimate domestic opposition and of course the opposition believes and history has shown so far right that the kremlin sees almost all opposition as part of some nefarious generally western plot to overthrow putin alexander the government.

all of this was basically saying seized of the internet as being used by other governments advance the agenda to further destabilize other countries by using cyber attack and therefore the government think this is the why time to change things on the ground. and well actually. of course i do not agree with the statement that this is the attempt of the government to defend our country or something because this has nothing in connection with the defense of our or country. it is just another classico tool of a crackdown in order to try to control the information resources in. nor country because every independent agenda has come into the internet just because you have no power to needed to spread your ideas in television or

something like that or radio or newspapers everything is being controlled by the state except internet and of course they are trying to do this saying that this is very important for the russian security though they have in their reality two main goals the first goal have already mentioned is an attempt is an attempt to control the information but the second go as the classical corrupt deeply corrupted state they just see this is another opportunity to well to steal more money from the budget because first of all it was said that this law would not demand any rubble from the state budget then they said ok we'll need two billion rebels and then they multiplied this figure into ten and they they've been told telling that we need twenty billion rubles now they are talking about one hundred fifty billion rubles we do not know if this figure will ever stop and this is the classical scenario for

any any attempt to block internet because we've already seen that with telegram it didn't work. victor i mean in practical terms how is it possible to stall of this whole new approach basically by seeing this flow of information through centralized controlled by the government from a technical perspective is it possible how much time is it going to take and at what cost. well first of all i want to just view it as a claim by alexander that all russian media is state controlled or under the control of the government there are a number of newspapers magazines and russian beast internet sites and resources that are not only not controlled by the state or by the government but are quiet openly opposed to government initiatives or or the government positions in the course political force itself and we can openly talk about. those those

publications of where you're well known. going back to your question of course russia is very much interested in protecting itself in case for example the united states or others decided to switch off the internet especially since two thousand and fourteen there have been calls in some western quarters especially in washington and in the capitals of its closest allies in the west to possibly. sort of say quote unquote russia for behavior that the united states does not believe is in its national interest and to switch it off the internet we have here and similar demands to switch russia out of the swift banking system and russia especially that since two thousand and fourteen to set up its own credit card system in peace the system is blocking russia is blocked out of the system

like you're on was before and so russia is preparing exactly for that for the worst types in the area where the united states and possibly some of its other western partners will try to block a door switch russia off the international internet grid also russia has a tempting to protect itself from such threats as we have seen recently even in the cynthy's ok i am referring to the cyber attack against venezuela which has and some other means. there is a reason why. they have been. difficult on their black out because of a cyberattack if you don't mind i'll definitely go come back to you but you know what's interesting here this is going to be my question to. victor you seem to be talking about a tax. but the same time you did good morning the fact that the international community united said the brushes particularly the year which is the bottom is you're into is just has been responsible i'm quoting the british government's

reckless indiscriminate cyber attacks in different boss over the world some well i mean i suppose that the experience that russia has had on the other side of the coin right does make it maybe more aware of the power that these sorts of cyber attacks can in fact have were they ever to be directed towards russia itself to date you know there haven't been significant attacks it's not ones of which were aware. aimed at russia. but you know russia certainly is aware of of how this game can be played and how the damage can be done whether in places like the u.k. and the united states or closer to home in ukraine in the baltics where there have been. various things whether done by people in the russian state or people you know acting privately we don't exactly know we have our suspicions i suppose and time will tell. i think that's a little bit of

a rabbit hole though to get into these sorts of accusations that involve secret services and this we're not going to be able to sort them out the reality is of course that states do have a right to protect themselves the question is the state in this case acting more to protect itself from foreign actors i see all war from domestic actors and the and the habit from the kremlin really since two thousand and four after the orange revolution the orange revolution in ukraine right has been to. accuse any opposition movement in russia of acting at the behest and with the backing of of foreign governments and so that there is a lot of nervousness that locates among those in russia who would like to see it for political course xander would you be concerned if the web traffic is suddenly rerouted through points controlled by the government in russia. i cannot even imagine how can they actually shut down the internet in russia because as i've

already mentioned. well they have already tried to do this with telegram and it affected everyone but telegram so all of those attempts actually look a bit ridiculous because. they did not work on one simple reason the internet did not enter russian federation as it did in china it entered russian federation sporadically we had thousands of the different providers we do still have them and this is not quite possible even if it even if it is they will just spend a lot of money enormous sums of money and still it would not. let them control all the information and of course that would create a lot of problems for us for a for people who want to share independent information with no control but the main problem it creates for us right now is that is the fact that taxpayers are going to

pay for that stupid law. victor when you look at the of the bill itself some of the provisions of the bill the really very giving officials in moscow you powers to shut down whatever they think deem or decide is a threat to the nation. well it will decrease years to implement this bill and there's you have correctly pointed out the care is not yet passed the upper house of the russian parliament the council of the federation and there. are very likely to be more amendments to it and it is very likely that in the course of being implemented as frequently happens there will be sure there are amendments to the to the law to make sure that the industry there are eighty industry they internet service providers and other other parties to that are

affected by the by the bill are comfortable implementing it in the most effective we and again i want to dispute what sam said about russia launching the tax against the west and the west never launching cyber attacks against russia in fact there have been there have been publications citing and then you must sources in the western special services in american publications stating that cyber attacks have been had been ordered against russian against the russian banking system in the past few years so. russia just like other countries around the world has a lot to fear as far as possible actions by its adversaries. against cyber infrastructure against its economic infrastructure using the internet

and against its user the users of it social media platform some do think that the russian government is no paving the way to replicate the chinese great fire wall. no i don't think it is mostly because as alex on there was saying earlier i don't think it's quite possible right that the internet has been a very different experience for for russians we have seen as i mentioned earlier since two thousand twelve to thirteen the introduction of a blacklist that have blocked a number of websites some of which are a good reason other were because they politically didn't fit in with the government's agenda and russians have proved very adept at using v p n's and other technology to to get around that sort of of blockage of russians of all political stripes or the across the spectrum pridgen menace amount of in for of the value on their ability to get information the internet is important to all of them and so

the likelihood is that the russian government will always be playing catch up when it comes to trying to shape behavior and the flow of information online alexander do you agree with the general sentiment in russia that the reason why they are trying to implement this law is that for many is putting has been using mainstream television to advance his own agenda but suddenly he's discovering and his advisors are discovering that he's a poet is a turning to the digital platforms and suddenly they're becoming larger than life particularly not volley therefore he's trying to take his vengeance by targeting the internets. well i would totally agree with this statement because the the spreading the fact of the independent and. just the fact of itself of spreading information annoys putin and all the system this kleptocratic system

because this system is being ruled by people from the cold war era they hate the. independent spreading information and they just want to control everything and of course the they are being pissed off by the fact that people are seeing truth in the internet people are seeing. discussed. people are discussing some actions of. which are absolutely unacceptable for people all that kind of stuff television no law no longer controls everything because television spreads mostly hatred in russia but people cannot take hatred all the time they are fed up with the hatred and they sooner or later they will go to some other sources for instance to internet not if not exactly to find political information at least not to watch t.v. and this is the problem for the absolutely victor forward you know the discussion

let's assume that the government is finally able to control the physical infrastructure of the platform however it will have to control the content of those platforms and give you an idea if they have to deal with you tube with facebook and other international global social media networks how are they going to deal with them are they going to ask them to deliver the use of identity to clamp down on the freedom of expression how do you think the those giants will. make concessions to the russian government. well. google and other. giant social media giants have. been negotiating for years with a change of government for example and a number of other a number of other garments taken steps for the so-called sovereign ization of their internet talking about thailand for example and vietnam and in fact singapore is in

a similar process right now of. its internet policy and so the american. internet and social media giants will have to also look at their own policy in the future you mentioned facebook facebook has been facing criticism both in the united states in green britain and around the world for its own censorship efforts for banning users for making statements that are not to the liking of facebook management in fact there has been censorship in facebook that due to ideological differences with what the facebook the body there should be leaves it to be correct to the correct line ok and a number of other there have been privacy concerns with facebook so at this point russia is not i want to eat or eat russia is not interested in cutting off the

internet russia is not interested at this point in censoring were handing foreign internet. companies for these books or others because you want to change the situation in the other two fer if you choose that such action i'll have to move forward some do you think that giants like google you tube and other companies will ultimately have to compromise the international ideals or universal ideals of access to information and freedom of expression of the expense of the massive brevin is that the making countries like russia will other go i think. victor has pointed out something very important which is that facebook and google and others have made compromises in places like china in particular due to the size of that of that market right and they have come in fact if it's to the extent of they've been criticised by their governments in the west for censorship really it's been they've been criticised over privacy but they've been criticised over the compromises that

they have made in of course there are certain in their shareholders who criticize that for that as as well so there are indeed some very important elements right that these companies are having to come to grips with right or are they you know out there to make money or do they have to recognise the social function and to a certain extent the democratizing function that they play in congress like russia or countries like iran potentially countries like china as you were running out of time thank you very much indeed sam green victor and. thank you for watching you can see the program again and the time by visiting a website. for further discussion goes a facebook page that's facebook dot com for what slash a.j. insights ot you can also join the conversation on twitter al hunt it is at a.j. it's isolated for me has a lot on the whole team here live and. i .

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a plane crash in ethiopia has killed all one hundred fifty seven passengers and crew and raise major questions about its manufacturer the ethiopian airlines boeing seven three seven max jet came down near the town of just six minutes after takeoff the flight tracking website flight radar twenty four says it developed an unstable those circles speed after leaving bali airport it was going from about to nairobi in kenya where the transport minister has now said most of the passengers nationalities have been identified. we cannot confirm that the way at least thirty five at least thirty five nationalities and i'm saying at least because it's of no two unknown. so. among the most affected is you me expects is kenya.

we catch. the boat that had to pose a just an. out of the one forty nine passages well this is the second crash within five months involving this latest version of the seven three seven the first was of course in indonesia in october of last year when a lion air jet crashed and killed nearly one hundred ninety people all the details now with rob matheson. friends and families of those on board the crash ethiopian airlines flight three zero two among those waiting for news at the main airports in nairobi and i decided just six minutes after takeoff from bali international airport in the ethiopian capital contact was lost with the boeing seven three seven ethiopia state media says none of the one hundred fifty seven passengers and crew survived so we were comfortable just waiting we see people coming out we want to show our telegram was going to come up. after

a few little meaning to mean we saw some nice unfaceable to tell just flying to fill their land rushes ethiopia's prime minister ahmed tweeted today office of the pm on behalf of the government and people of ethiopia would like to express its deepest condolences to the families of those that have lost their loved ones on ethiopian airlines boeing seven three seven on regular shuttle flight to nairobi kenya this morning. the jet had been delivered just four months ago it's the fourth version of the world's best selling airliner the boeing seven three seven has flown billions of passengers worldwide since the one nine hundred sixty s. the latest seven three seven dash eight hundred max type has been redesigned to make it more fuel efficient thousands have been ordered by airlines worldwide and he. should and i guarantee you probably. it's

a popular choice of the airlines it's a very safe well because there are now questions and they schools and churches across the industry. it's the second disaster within five months involving the boeing seven three seven max an identical lion air jet plunged into the sea off the coast of indonesia last october shortly after takeoff from jakarta killing all one hundred eighty nine people on board. boeing is being sued by some of the relatives of passengers who died and pilots have accused the american manufacturer of failing to warn them how to operate a new automated stall prevention system. safety questions again are being asked about why two planes from the seven three seven family would have had a good safety record for decades should crash within just a few months of each other and why so many lives have been lost again rob matheson al-jazeera let's check in with catherine so i know has been following developments

all day from nairobi catherine the pilot apparently wanted to turn back ferry soon after takeoff this is what we're hearing what other information if you heard about these last moments of the flight. yes that information came from the if you can airlines press conference that was held it seems that the pilot noticed that there is a problem and asked to turn back that request was granted but then the plane went off radar almost immediately after we're receiving information come out from ethiopia that the government has just declared monday a day of mourning after that plane crash and some of the people who are in that plane you're receiving some other information that the u.n. pass a now about a dozen of them warning that flight u.s. boss u.n. personnel and fastenal of n.g.o.s affiliated to the u.n. while on that flight as well and as the minister pointed out oddly in that clip

that you played most of those who died what kenyans who are at the airport most of the day today and we so a relatives coming in to get anything information they can about their loved ones and inflammation and counseling center has been set up they were taken there it was a very emotional time they were distraught they're just trying to understand and to in tantalize what has happened some of the people who were on that flight were coming for a big u.n. conference that is starting tomorrow the united nations and viral mental environment assembly that is starting tomorrow are. we also know from ethiopia that prime minister. committed a went to the scene and i've seen some pictures from the site of the crash and all you can see these fragments of this aircraft is so body parts being put in body bags as well so it's a very emotional time here in kenya and ethiopia and very emotional for all

the relatives who are waiting for any information about their loved ones catherine leaving aside the issues of being a boeing plane in the questions about this actual plane what is the actual safety track record of the airline of ethiopian airlines. what the safety track record is good if european airline is a trusted airline on the continent a lot of people to use that airline the last major incident we know about is back in two thousand and ten that six years ago when a plane crashed and was a group from beirut to addis ababa ninety passengers on board all of them died but that said a lot of people trust the airline it's stable it has one of the largest service centers it also has one of the best and advanced training centers

of four for pilots as well we had earlier kemal from the c.e.o. who said this particular plane did not record any any technique or any major technical problems in fact it had gone through a major service in february and it had just landed this morning from johannesburg without any any problems so it's going to be interesting to see going forward with these investigations now to see what will be an article a lot of people are very anxious asking what happened what could have gone wrong. catherine sawyer with that update from nairobi thank you so we need to look at this jet that crashed the latest version of what is actually the world's best selling airline a brand new boeing seven three seven max joined the fastest growing airline fleet in africa just four months ago as we said before this is the second seven three seven max to crash however in the last five months that lion air jet which went

down off the coast of indonesia in october killing all one hundred eighty nine people some of their relatives are suing boeing and pilots of accuse the american manufacturer of failing to warn them how to actually operate a new automated stall prevention system we're going to talk to todd curtis about it founder of air safe dot com and a former airline safety engineer at boeing so perfectly placed to talk to us from austin today on skype thanks for your time what what do you i know there's a lot of speculation involved at this point until we get the black box recorder and the like but what is your initial feelings about the cause of this crash and the and the similarities with the lion air crash well the biggest similarity of course is that this is the same brand of seventy seven model the seven three seven relatively new aircraft only delivered a few months ago by two ally an aircraft that was also a relatively new they're both airlines both lion air and ethiopian are incorporating the seven thirty seven max into their fleet eighty open head up until

today and they will likely get many more so beyond that it's hard to speculate that there may be any connection between the liner event and this event or certainly when the black boxes when the maintenance records when the other records of this flight are looked at there may be some correlation between the lion air crash and this crash. but for now there is nothing that says that there's any direct relationship so far even so there's some questions for boeing to answer it would seem at the moment i mean. i think i recall correctly there's a phrase which pilots would say if it ain't boeing then i am an orphan i am boeing i ain't going i are you referring to their safety record that is not looking brilliant right now. well again this is something that will take the experts in the field to get to the bottom of it already the n.t.s.b. which is one of the premier organizations in the world when it comes to investigating acts it has a team of four experts heading out to look at and the normal course of affairs in

an international air crash like this is at the country where took place he feels it will be running the investigation that's when the civil aviation organization has run many matrix investigations in the past and filk competence or they'll do a very competent expert job at this also they will call into the investigation any organization they can give insight into what happened certainly in boeing will be one of those organizations ethiopian airlines will be another and perhaps other organizations depending on what they fought to really popular plane isn't it i think the numbers i saw earlier showed a backlog of four thousand seven hundred of these planes that's correct the backlog is so he says boeing had no sure their orders for the aircraft to take monthly eight years to work through the backlog so yes this airplane will be around for decades to come and this is the version of the aircraft that's the most advanced in many ways.