on strike so negate. after a two week stay at a swiss hospital abilities buttafuoco was apparently back in algeria according to a statement from his office pictures an algerian t.v. showing what is reportedly the president's motorcade driving from the airport this is perhaps the most challenging episode in beautifully because twenty year rule a seismic moment in the country's recent history with little sign of diminishing if algeria is authorities still closed in the universities early would stop the protests would appear to have been a miscalculation we are protesting a crazy fifth president a president who to enough is enough in a country desperate for jobs anger at the unemployment rates and corruption has been rode it especially since protests began three weeks ago students are debating . throughout universities to talk about the solution and to talk about they are the

. students are aware and fortunately aware of the situation and they are taking the rights the rights and measures to avoid the weakening of the movement but it's not just the students while voicing their anger a partial strike across the country is also under way at expected to last for five days at the center of it all this man president abdelaziz bouteflika who has rarely been seen in public since suffering a stroke in two thousand and thirteen but this decision to stand for a fifth time an upcoming elections has galvanized opposition in the country and while he's offered to limit his to have an office after the election promised change how algeria is run it's not company on rest so so pumped questions of whether bouteflika is being used as a puppet candidate by a faction of civilian and military because in a country that largely managed to sites. the arab spring protests the rallies are

a reminder that it's not immune to the discontent that sparked that sort of a year ago al-jazeera. is a freelance journalist based in iran algeria second city where they've also been protests against president beautifully and joins us now thanks for taking the time to speak to us we have seen a massive outpouring of protest in opposition in algeria what might their response be now that president which if he is back in the country. well definitely billy popular response just now after an official statement said that he's officially back in the country and his books were deadly in good health after that end quote unquote regular medical check up in geneva the official response is one of anger and confusion. confusion because there's a lot of movement circulating since early this morning about his fate and then

about whether he will come back to the country and if so whether he will come back as. i think that's a quarter or a little credit and so we don't know even after those reported image images of him in the presidential convoy heading towards the presidential residence in the in the while the west algiers. get in this is if this is a myth still prevailing because we basically the picture does not please show him and so we don't really trust what comes out of this regime mouth at this point and so there is some some sort of uncertainty whether he's here and whether he's in good health and therefore whether he could run part of this mandate and what we know is that this regime is unpredictable we don't know what the next step is going to be we did not expect that the charm or that his candidacy but that it's been too to the go ahead or to keep going after the popular uprising that started in

february twenty second but he did officially one for the moment so we don't know what's going to happen and the sentiment here in algeria is one of anger frustration and most definitely confusion. if if as the situation stands at the moment as you say official reports say that he's back in the country and he's in good health clearly people don't have a great deal of confidence in in these official announcements but if things continue and this reelection bid is not abandoned what happens then. well i think if the government and the regime in states think in going forward with their clan political plans i think that question is going to get bigger and stronger and more popular across the nation i think the anger is going to keep mountain and i would think that people are not backing down at this point the

political revolution has already started and it is then it's only going to get bigger and wider with time the government was on to the people who issued which is which are the withdrawal of activities within the candidates and even the cancellation of the elections because they think that any election were going on by the current regime the corrupt cannot be illegitimate and so the transparency of these elections are not guaranteed and so there's been calls from there's been a consensus within most majority of the most political parties that all candidates months with to all of this upcoming election to to sort of with the regime in a minute tricky situation and force them to cancel the elections and form a transitional government. of women and national conference of of national unity where all political parties will contribute well in civil society and influential

political figures so we don't know what the what the upcoming faith is and it's going to bring but definitely the uprising and the protests will keep going until the people demand thank you very much joining us from iran and algeria lamia ashish still ahead for you on the program north korean's alike by members of parliament but there is just well one party to vote for and. russian's protest against government efforts to take control of the internet which some of branded an online offline. have a bit of a culture shock on its way through europe we have been used to the weather coming from the west pushed him by quite strong winds this next weather cloud you look at the direction is coming from it's from the northwest so very cool down to some

degree and this this area of cold produce rain and then rapidly snow it runs overnight that snow even be in though a ground as you can see in austria and germany it's for that cold all the way east to ukraine or south that has been quite warm recently and it will be on monday still eighteen degrees in bucharest and iran but you already see the hint of what's to come that spain and portugal sitting pretty no difference here however you watch this and for monday night on what's the snow moves sas was throughout the balkans even down towards northern greece so it's a bit of a cold shock you wake up in bucharest a nine degrees having been eighteen degrees on monday not much difference in the temperature in vienna but you'll notice the middle of europe now is quiet and sunny settle feel rather different when windy weather returns once again to the british isles eleven degrees in london and a nice let in skies right now all this means that the northwest of africa she's turned quite nice and warmer bass if anything warming up in the next two days twenty four but time to get to tuesday can't say the same of libya or indeed

northern egypt. all jazeera explores prominent figures of the twentieth century and how libel runs influenced the course of history was the cuban revolution communist the way feudal castro was a feudal east another coming east just really into this country changing to international revolution became a point when the relationship came to an end the icons of revolution changed the course of latin american politics. and for del castro face to face on al-jazeera.

just a quick look at stories making headlines now and if european airlines jet has crashed minutes after takeoff from address ababa killing all a hundred fifty seven people on board this is the second boeing seven three seven max jet to crash in just five months syrian democratic forces have launched a full on assault against i.c.l. in the village of battlers yes d.f.s. been poised to advance into the enclave for weeks but has repeatedly helped back to allow civilians to leave. and algeria is ailing the president has returned to the capital algiers as anti-government demonstrations continue for a third week abdelaziz bouteflika had been in switzerland receiving medical treatment. now the daughter of an opposition leader in sudan has been sentenced to one week in prison over protests against president tomorrow bashir an emergency court has also waved the twenty lashes nine female protesters were sentenced to on saturday but they will still be jailed for

a month despite the state of emergency and ban on public gatherings students have been back out protesting against a share at universities on sunday they're also boycotting lectures and exams well the palestinian president mahmoud abbas has chosen a longtime adviser and critic of hamas to be his new prime minister mohammad shuteye is a top official in mahmoud abbas's fatah movement and a former peace negotiator his appointment is likely to deepen a rift with rivals hamas ill repaste rami hamdullah who'd overseen a unity government but resigned in january after years of failing to reconcile with hamas well over in venezuela tensions have been rising large parts of the country are now into their fourth day without power electricity has been restored in some areas but the blackouts which began on thursday are still affecting schools businesses and hospitals at least sixteen patients have died from complications relating to the power outage public transport has been under immense pressure with

the metro still not running and there have been reports of some stores being looted during the blackout this government has already fallen for me it's fall and if they can't supply services no type of government exists i've been without power for seventy six hours well i see that in other places they have power i don't understand why some places haven't mothers don't. have a mortgage we don't have water or we don't have power to make purchases you need to have dollars you are boulevards because the machines don't work that's what we have done what so serious. it's the uncertainty we don't know if we're going to eat or not i have an electric stove i can't use i don't have gas so i can't cook after i ask one of my neighbors who has a gas stove to let me use it. to raise a boat has more now from caracas for almost three days that most benefit i've been without power i made your outfit all affecting all the country there was until

a few minutes ago on market right here. people started losing in a freefall hard taking whatever they can the fraction of all right and as soon as i need to make five and five first lots of tension here in the middle of the city because if you come in here just a few minutes ago there were some students who are setting up a roadblock right on the street but you can see right here prob government gangs came on base forced them to remove there was lots of tension then the police came they were backing god but they can know what are known as protect people's which are basically pro-government gangs that have already come here to in some i take them there's a lot of tension in venice where that is day people are struggling for food from medicines among other things and they're due to ration of the current situation with lack of exercise he makes the situation even worse. india's election commission has announced that parliamentary elections will take place in seven

phases of a six weeks in april and may it's the world's biggest ever democratic exercise nine hundred million people are eligible to vote in the a million polling stations prime minister narendra modi will be running for a second term against a group of opposition parties that by mainly calling mainly by congress president raul gandhi. will move koreans been voting tonight the country's parliament it is the second such election since conjunction took power eight years ago can cast his vote at a polling center at pyongyang university of technology he is a member of the supreme people's assembly the his power rests in his complete control over the ruling party government and the military. well voting is compulsory in north korea with everyone over the age of seventeen required to cost the ballots as only one party so the race is uncontested in two thousand and fourteen that was reported to be a ninety nine point nine seven percent turnout with one hundred percent voting yes

although the result is pre-determined it can sometimes reveal a shift in the ruling party with about half the delegates replaced each time a young chick gong is research fellow at the young science to choose north korean studies he says a parliamentary reshuffle could give some insight into a change in kim jong un's thinking north korea is a most isolated country in the world but that doesn't mean that north korea is are not privy to what has been going on in the world there are at least five million uses of a cell phone see inside north korea so north koreans are very aware of what happened in the noir which means no agreement there would help relieve the pain created by the economy if their initials. well now in russia thousands have been demonstrating to vent their anger at plans to introduce tighter restrictions on the internet the government says the bill will improve cyber security but campaigners

say it's an attempt to increase censorship and stifle dissent that will isolate the country step lawson reports from moscow. another attempt to isolate russia from the outside world this is how these protesters see the latest bill to control the internet with most of russia's media under tight government control the internet and social media are considered the last remaining sources for independent information i don't want to live like in china now we were cheering the use of fire war i want internet to be free and. i want to think free years ago it was a joke about that day we owe our behavior to internet and are today we. see that actually it's not a job to suffer an internet bill proposes to reroute all russian internet traffic through a central point controlled by the state internet providers will have to install

specialized equipment the government says it's needed because the country has become more vulnerable to cyber attacks from other countries. u.s. media recently reported that the american cyber command apparently managed to cut off the so-called st petersburg troll factory from the internet during last year's u.s. midterm elections stop at the building in russia second largest city had allegedly tried to influence the two thousand and sixteen campaign which was run by donald trump a charge rejected by moscow. i won't comment on that particular episode as it was a report by western mass media but to free assume that such an event took place this is in fact why we are trying to protect our internet from the possibility of switching off internet. i'm an outside american source but internet access but say it will take years and billions of dollars to gain full control of the internet china's and. something north of twenty billion dollars and at all at

the peak around one million people worked on projects. yes china internet is way bigger it's ten times bigger than russia. but even there's bigger we don't have couple because in the rules for these or solving court or the thousand engineers the bill which is on its way through the russian parliament is the latest effort by the government to control the internet since two thousand and twelve the government has imposed many restrictions including blocking more than one hundred fifty thousand websites arresting people for political center to online polls and officially banning the popular messaging service telegram while many agree death threats of cyber attacks are real experts say that this bill could actually in danger internet traffic in russia even more recent bills to control the internet have been called clumsy and rushed but this latest bill is seen as

a series attempt to control what is considered one of the last sources for independent information in russia dozens of people were detained during sunday's protest which was officially sanctioned by the government the reasons for the arrest have yet to be given the controversial bill will most likely be approved and become law later this year step fasten al-jazeera moscow or just one more story to bring you u.s. president donald trump will ask congress for an additional eight point six billion dollars to help pay for the war he promised to build along the border with mexico will make requests when he delivers his first budget road map on monday the demand is three billion more than he previously asked for and more than six times what congress allocated for border projects in each of the past two fiscal years it comes on the heels of a battle with congress over war funding which resulted in a five week partial government shutdown and there is more on everything right here the address al-jazeera dot com.

but look at stories making headlines the u.s. backed syrian democratic forces of launched a full on assault against eisel in the last syrian enclave the village of but who's the s.d.f. hads and poised to advance into the area for weeks now but has repeatedly held off to allow for civilians to leave hold a abdel-hamid isn't that. there is a hope that it could be the laws about though. to retake who's bought everyone is also cautioning because that allows back then was predicted or ready in the past and then you do see these columns of earth of indians leaving that area you also saw hundreds and hundreds of fighters surrendering sort of as though the fighting had to stop. some military experts would tell you that actually icily is

controlling various of the kurdish forces by allowing these groups of the vigilance to leave but who's in that tie while there is a lull in the fighting as the does have the time to regroup organize an ethiopian airlines jet has crashed minutes after takeoff killing all a hundred fifty seven people on board a boeing seven three seven max jet was traveling from out as ababa to nairobi in kenya it crashed near the shelf to southeast of the ethiopian capital. algerian president the algerian president's office is saying that abdulaziz beautifully has returned to the capital algiers he'd been in switzerland receiving medical treatment his arrival coincides with more anti-government demonstrations now in their third week and a shut down in the capital. the daughter of an opposition leader in sudan has been sentenced to one week in prison of a protest against president a share an emergency court has also waive the twenty lashes nine female protesters

were sentenced to on saturday but they will still be jailed for a month despite the state of emergency and ban on public gatherings students have been out protesting against bashir at universities on sunday. parts of venezuela are now on their fourth day without electricity blackouts affected schools businesses and hospitals at least sixteen patients have died from complications relating to the power outage. those are the headlines this hour coming up next it's top two ounces there. and. you can. see.

throughout history women have faced many challenges in their fight for equality and though some countries make enormous advancements others have failed and the inequality remains deep rooted there have certainly been some powerful women in modern history from barclays to endure a gandhi. and all glimmer of hope what legacy have they or are they leaving behind. as women in all parts of the world still suffer violence discrimination and under representation what is the status of global gender equality and help can progress to make. the thing march eighth marks international women's day but is it an occasion to celebrate or to protest we find out more as we sit down with the woman in charge of promoting gender equality at the united nations executive

director of human women. talks to al jazeera. he won women executive director. thank you so much for talking to al-jazeera thank you for having me we're meeting in the middle of women small and we're coming up on international women's day is this a day to celebrate a day to protest a day to be an activist what is it. why because even though we've made progress and it's important that we celebrate. their achievements but we also haven't come far enough we have a lot of work that we still need to do so we still need to be activist but also some of the gains that we've had are being eroded so we have to protest and defend

in this massage me and many other humph and helpful challenges that women still face and because of that protest is also in order the u.s. . is unveiling a new initiative as we come on international women's day to try to quantify what the status of women and girls worldwide is why is this data initiative important. it's important to have the data to disaggregate when ever we collects data so that we can see what's happening to boys and girls what's happening to men and women because in that way when we take correctional action we can be more more measured more purposeful and we can take a correctional action that is highly informed not guessing

but also does that theme of international women's day is about equality equality hit equality has to be measured it's about building smart we have to be clear what is it that we have to be building for women what are the what kind of infrastructure works for women so we data were able to be a bit more precise in this theme it theme for this year is also about being innovative is sought in all of these areas data is always important because it helps us to. to be accurate does this mean revisiting how our policy is drafted for example physical accommodations for girls who are entering and building the kind of schools so that they can take care of their physical needs and also take care of their intellectual these is it as simple as a recognition of that fact this in some cases it is about revisiting the way we

make policy says they may the way we locate money is treasuries in and government it is about also being able to see how many girls drop out of school at what age do they drop out why do they dropouts if we don't collect the data we will never know if girls actually do stay out of school when they're menstruating and how many of them stay away and the impact that has on their academic performance if we're unable to provide evidence about this phenomena is sometimes when we raise the importance of sanitation in schools as a critical human rights people don't believe that this is this serious but when you have data being able to show the patent it means that when you build

a new builds then you build smart when you innovate you make sure that you provide this services at school and at home so that this is this right which is about dignity as well because sanitation is about dignity is respected to n. n. is taken serious is that part of the fundamental definition of feminism recognising the whole person absolutely feminism is about respecting the rights of people of all sexualities but more than anything else being active in trying to correct. into discrimination it exist this is not that responsibility of women alone this is the this is that is one spirit of everyone who believes in equality is saw feminism is not just about and for women feminism is about both men women and all

other genders working together to make the situation better for everybody we hear so much about intersectionality the recognition that feminism doesn't come out of one particular cultural economic racial ethnic framework that there are many feminism's is that what you have seen in your work as you were director you were women. sometimes but i also have to say more and more policymakers intersection intersectionality it's not always been. like that so it's helpful that more and more activists articulate this very clearly and more police to make as embracing that because to be a feminist you must care about the whole woman for the full cycle of her life but also the different aspects of the woman's life so you can't be

a feminist and be homophobic be a feminist and not care about disability be be a feminist and be indifferent to issues of violence against women you have to care about the whole human being and everything that affects the women you can be a feminist and be a racist you have to be the full package is there a need to tailor. feminism based on the local culture based on where a patriarchal way of running society has been predominant how do you tailor policy when the patriarchy has been. has really been the fundamental power source patriarchy is bad for everybody saw we need to reach about. the impact and the effects of patriarchy in every

society the way in which we fight it in different contexts obviously can take different forms and shape but the starting point is that we have to be clear violence against a ghetto and a woman anyway in the world what ever political system they live in is bad we have to say everywhere discriminating against women and girls in any society denying them the right to education denying them their rights to work is buried in any society so we must not accept any explanation that suggests that there are some people who have a higher threshold for pain women in particular cultures can tolerate a bit of oppression more than women in other senses when a woman is raped whether she is raped in helsinki or in johannesburg or in bujumbura the pet and the pain is the same and we need to acquire them the same

descent see and we need to be consent for all the women wherever they are and wherever they are and it's worth pointing out that just this week the interparty parliamentary union that the percentage of women in national legislatures around the world has gone up by one percent to just about twenty four percent a slow increase but an increase nonetheless doesn't make a difference when women hold political power. and yes it does make a difference but it makes a big difference if their numbers are significant we need a critical mass we have. not reach the critical mass across the world that would ensure that you actually string the pendulum decisively we're going the right's way in in some situations we're going that way in particular because of

activism of ordinary people trying to hold their leaders accountable but we need people to vote for women when elections come because the fact that we do not have enough women in positions of authority it is because we do not elect women and sometimes when women make them saves make themselves available to be elected there's a lot of pressure and violence which sometimes discourage women but nevertheless you still see women in every election in many countries making themselves available to be elected so we also need to encourage society to recognize that if we don't change the look in fear of politics the look and feel of the security institution we will not be able to have in the course of security force an inclusive inclusive parliaments that can look after the interests of everybody.

who will be able to address issues from different perspectives if we continue to allow these institutions to be predominately led by men we had to do we are denying ourselves that richness of the contribution that can come from women and i'm not saying that women or women are perfect that they will make the right decision but in the interests of women means that we give us a chance to have more women that will stand for other women but also we need to engage the majority of the men who are there so that amongst them we can have those that are concerned about broader society is encouraged to stand up into also lead from the front you talk about women putting themselves out there. during push or in some cases violence. i'm thinking of the saudi women drivers pushing for more equality and

a very mundane skill that you and i take and read in. women campaigning for stronger domestic violence laws in russia and finding themselves imprisoned. when it be easier to say oh my gosh i don't want to go to prison. just put up with the status quo. can we accept that no the truth of the matter is that said to is only change because some people. believe in a purpose that is bigger than them and they put themselves out there to to make the changes we continue to need people like that in our societies we also need young people is also to be initiated into activism so that they too are able to take a stand and to fight for the rights of their communities and to save their their own future when you yourself have done it you have been

a word disloyal or you were just really president of south africa you know what the pressure is and what the responsibility people placed on you when you serve and what was cool was gratifying about you know i think the important thing about making yourself a public representative is to know that you are not there for yourself you are not . in order is to serve so you have to gauge your success by the number of people whose lives are changing because of the work that you do you also need to understand that for that kind of a job is a no one has to thank you it is a thankless job you have to keep on trying even if they are and people who are the cheering you. you also need to know that it is not about self and richmond very important it is a lonely it is a life of sexual highs but it is very gratifying any many of these official posts

that we we undertake the institutions actually provide you with enough platform and supports. to to live a descent life saw for so much. for people that so much. is is being given much more is expected so that you can save people we have much less than what you have in knowing their chair not there for yourself that being a public service is not being a public master actually there to serve always has to be has to be paramount and i think as leaders we really have to lead. by example it is not as difficult as this sometimes to be it can be done how important is it to have women such as cory aquino indira gandhi merkel theresa may. running

a country what message does that serve to all of society well it tells especially girls that this job can be done by someone who looks like me this job can be done by. there is a story i don't know if it's true but it's interesting never the same boys were asked in germany if they would want to be a head of state and one voice says well now in germany you can be a head of state only guilds can be heads of state because for the time that seven year old had lived they only knew one person who was a head of state and it was it was a woman saw that begin to shape how he says this role can you imagine how many roles in society where girls never see women or girls in those position and what and how that must shape the way kells

a aspire in choose the their careers the diversity and the presence of men and women in positions of authority sends a message to boys and girls that this is for you too we are actually even challenging private sector my kids in advertising industry to ensure that we have got a change studio types in marketing and in advertising we have companies that have come together and partnering with us and we have formed and stereotype alliance and our our focus is to change the way the marketing and advertising industry projects both men and women in the best interests of creating a society where everyone can be a fair amount but isn't that a problem isn't that easy for companies to do with three percent of the biggest

u.s. corporations are run by women the women get to middle level professional status but can't seem to get into that upper echelon. shouldn't the pressure be there as well. absolutely. not we have to take and do everything. we have to get them to project to society through their marketing and advertising we have to engage directly with shareholders with c o's to change their boards one of the campaigns that we are pushing forward is young women is fifty fifty representation of men and women in cooperate in corporate boards because next year we are going to be twenty five years after the adoption it's going to be twenty five years after that ocean of the beijing platform which is one of the most comprehensive agreement that exist amongst nations for

supporting gender equality and the fact that we're still talking about such dismal numbers in the presentation of women means that we actually have to be very direct about interesting that a presentation of women in boards i saw that even the churches now are calling for diversity in board these are really desperate times we only have ten countries in the world with cabinets that fifty fifty representation ten i mean choosing and putting together a cabinet is the prerogative of a prime minister any president you don't have to go to two elections about it which is a much more complex activity so surely when you become a president and you have this amount of power it should be possible to consider using their to one power in the voter id so that you have to change society by

bringing in the strong the extraordinary women of your country to be in leadership and through them begin to change the way society perceive women that too is wonderful. campaigns we need fifty fifty cabinets in many more countries than we have now and we need fifty fifty boards in many countries than we have now but i also have to highlights the fact that we want this change at the top but we also need to look at change it's the bottom so that we also change things for those women who it may never sit in imports who may never be in cabinet so that is where things like minimum wage is important because it's for those women who are it's the bottom of the pyramid that is way policies that supports the women in the informal sector social protection in order to make sure that women in the informal sector

have maternity leave have access to pensions have access to health care services. because for them these are just the basic things that make them leave from one day to the other so we need a bottom up as well as a top down approach what is the future. gender equality what is human women doing to make that happen is there something out of the box coming here each year and women needs everybody because we are a catalyst for change we have a mandate given to us by member states to push them to bring about change is one way in which we are using this mandate is to push for the end of all discriminatory laws in every country so rights now we're focusing a specific countries the laws are devastating to women and

engaging with the countries to bring about changes in in those countries i have to say i'm thankful that they're number of countries that are willing to bring about changes but also they are countries where it is actually quite difficult where sometimes we even see the vessel of the gains that made we are also pushing for countries who already have many good laws to implement the good laws because it takes a lot to pass a law it's a devastating disappointment when the laws are being passed we are also collaborating in partnering with a private sector for private sector to take on the responsibility of addressing the issue of equal pay because more money for women who sell their labor just as everybody else doing the same amount of work is men and then ending up with

less money in their pockets that's an injustice so we're engaging directly with the private sector we have a coalition which involves member states private sector civil society human rights activists labor unions to call for for this for this change to happen we are also. actively involved in addressing the issue of financial inclusion and the use of technology in order to make sure that we can bring about services such as. more money to women in every part of the world because rights now two thirds of people in the world have access to two mobile technology and connectivity that's a lot of people but the number of people who are getting better services is a result of connectivity does lots with more connectivity and we are pushing for

that we working with with partners in that regard because with global connectivity for instance you can improve the quality of health you can provide more money is going to get you can improve access to education you can't reduce the number of travelling that people in rural and isolated areas have to. take in order for them to access services we need to make sure that we influence the way infrastructure is used we need to influence the way innovation directs itself so that it is in innovation that wants to solve problems we have a lot of innovation but we can have more innovation which is about taking pictures of ourselves we need innovation to address poverty we need innovation to address access to energy access to water it is possible the technology exists now we need

the will the political will to do it and we need foresight also in the private sector to recognise that it is important to me is in business because there's a future customers if you get it right for them to get it right for yourself probably the. live level thank you so much for talking to al-jazeera thing. when allies fall for heaven yes we look forward to coming back again and getting to. see . a face can tell a story without uttering

a single one. and now england. can guide us. a simple touch inform us. the un convention manatee of life witnessed through the lens of the human nine. is what inspires us. witness documentaries on al-jazeera. you leave this place children in this refugee camp the latest victims of the unending sectarian violence in central african republic among them are survivors of unspeakable violence ten year olds his mother is dead her father is gone killed because they were christian by their own muslim neighbors this is the least you home an overcrowded refugee camp of twenty three thousand people surrounded by armed militia groups celine wants answers she says she wants to be asking the questions and so we traded places inch took the microphone will we

find peace how can we make the violence stop when will i be able to return home and lead on line that the i'm a friend to the leadership for them not to do not the only if you join us on sat all of us have been calling it in some form or some fashion this is a dialogue we are talking about a little phantoms. you have seen what it can do to somebody people using multiple drugs including and some people. everyone has a voice from the curiosity of twitter and you could be on the street join the global conversation amount of zero. zero. where ever you are.

hello i'm maryam namazie and london just a look at the top stories for you now an ethiopian airlines jet has crashed minutes after taking off killing all a hundred fifty seven people on board a boeing seven three seven max jet was traveling from addis ababa to nairobi in kenya it crashed off to southeast of the ethiopian capital it's not immediately clear what caused the crash the pilot sent out a distress call shortly after takeoff and was given clearance to return it's the second time this kind of plane has crashed in five months while matheson reports. 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 added. just six minutes after takeoff from bali international airport in the ethiopian capital contact was lost with the boeing seven three seven if the o.p.'s state

media says none of the one hundred fifty seven passengers and crew survived we were confident but just reading we see people running out there was. a lot of it was going to come out. after a few minutes we we saw some nice unfaceable gto just flying filled 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 a version of the world's best selling airline 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. you . should know that i guarantee you probably a lot of us but 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 or being asked about why two planes from the seven three seven family which of how to 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 the u.s. backed syrian democratic forces have launched a full on assault against i cell and the last syrian enclave the village of but who is the s.d.f. has been poised to advance into the area for weeks but has repeatedly held off to allow for civilians to leave they say no civilians have been spotted in the village since saturday and have received orders to attack the algerian president abdul as he's beautifully to has returned to the capital algiers that's according to the president's office he has been in switzerland receiving medical treatment as arrival coincides with anti-government demonstrations now in their third week the unrest was sparked by a beautifully is announcement that he would seek a fifth term in power. the daughter of an opposition leader in sudan has been sentenced to one week in prison over protests against president omar al bashir an

emergency court has also waived the twenty lashes nine female protesters were sentenced to on saturday but they will still be jailed for a month despite the state of emergency and the ban on public gatherings students have been back out protesting against bashir at universities on sunday they are also boycotting lectures and exams. or those are the top stories there will be more news in about twenty five minutes time i'll see them coming up next on al-jazeera it's face to face by fam. castro wanted our she wanted a different future castro wanted his country che wanted international revolution

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hundred fifty three the young lawyer prepared an armed attack on the moncada barracks in santiago de cuba castro is determined to overthrow them dictator for consumer but instead unfortunately for construct is arrested and tried now must we must say that rome said how will they face then i will see only this is the balance. i mean. this is the moment of a feeling of a plant just. i don't believe. they look like how they don't want to assume that in fact. fidel castro is sentenced to fifteen years in prison and he's granted amnesty just two hears later. on the evening of the ninth of july one thousand nine hundred fifty five for del castro joins his cuban supporters in mexico he wants to set up

a new insurrection in cuba as quickly as possible but things really click with the young argentinean and they spend ten hours sharing their revolutionary ideals che wants to free latin america and castro suggests they start with cuba. has fallen under customs spell. i took all night we fell and in the morning i had become the doctor of his new experience. to tell the truth after my experiences across latin america that we didn't need much more to release for a revolution against a tyrant. but i was particularly impressed with. his optimism we needed to act to struggle to materialize our beliefs stop whining and fight.