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to talk about dissolution and to talk about they are there more than some students are aware and fortunately aware of the situation and they are taking the rights the rights and measures to to avoid the weakening of the moment but it's not just the students who are 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 his 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 promise to change how algeria is run it's not the 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
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a country that largely managed to sidestep the arab spring protests their rallies are remind that it's not immune to the discontent that spark that sort of i echo al-jazeera. said ahead here on al-jazeera investigates from international criminal court give hope to wrangle refugees in bangladesh. and schools out and shops are closed after a weekend of power outages in venice while a. had 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 other cloud you look at the direction is coming from it's from the northwest so really cool down to some degree and this this area of cold produce rain and then rapidly snow it runs
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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 a south that's 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's spain and portugal sitting pretty there difference here however you watch this and for monday night on words 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 to nine degrees having been eighteen degrees on monday not much difference in the tension vienna but you'll notice the middle of europe now is quiet and sunny sort of feel rather different wet and windy weather returns once again to the british isles eleven degrees in london and a nice letter the skies and rain 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 by the time to get to tuesday can't say the same of libya or indeed northern egypt.
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after the racial issue actually there's going stands now. charging a diverse line at the children of south africa. in detention and sit. through a complex history of dramatic social and political change seven up south africa on our disease. and then again you're watching out of their heads
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a reminder of our top stories this hour and china have grounded their entire boeing seven three seven max fleets a day after an ethiopian airlines plane crashed killing all a hundred seven people on board the jet went down just minutes after taking off from out on its way to nairobi in kenya. a malaysian court has freed one of the women charged with the murder of kim jong un's hoff brother a surprise move the charge against indonesian city aisha was dropped a vietnamese codefendant is still on trial. and algerian state television says present uphill as he's been to figure has arrived back home after getting medical treatment in switzerland is facing mass demonstrations and strikes across the country after a decision to run for a fifth. to arrange refugees have traveled to geneva from bangladesh to address the un human rights council. is also due to deliver a report on her visit to cox's bazaar refugee camp last month it's home to almost
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one million ranger who've been forced to escape from violence and neighboring man mom every jacka joins us now live from conses bazaar in bangladesh stephan just describe for us what it's like what you've been seeing in what is now the world's largest refugee camp. well it is extraordinary i've never seen anything so big and i don't even think that our images can do it justice you have these who are in everything goal direction you can hear the call to prayer now and what they're doing is a lot of engineers in here and they are employing some of these rango what they're trying to prepare for the monsoon season which is you just start in about a month or two a month or so from now extremely concerned about landslides about the bamboo huts not being able to stay in those when there have been deaths before so this is sort of the crap that's happening here what is life like well there is handouts twice a month ration and there is light education but one twenty year old man we spoke to
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said that he felt his wife was on hold of course there's no opportunity there nobody wants to live in a camp like this laura me and mine are just two or three kilometers behind us the mountains are mean more they cannot go back home they want to go back home but they don't want to do so i want to say spoke to several people here throughout the day and this is our report. the large tree is a reminder of the sick extensive forests that stood here just eighteen months ago now uprooted to make way for hundreds of thousands of ringer the two forced from their land this is now the biggest refugee camp in the world jamila katun fled me and maher in august two thousand and seventeen during the military crackdown on the regime in right kind state she says of course she wants to go home but only if there is peace what they skate from she remembers was terrifying but it doesn't look like our next door neighbors husband and wife they were killed which is why we
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lift how can we go back at least if we die here as a muslim will be allowed to have a proper funeral but if we die there will just be thrown away. she was part of a mass exodus into neighboring bangladesh the regime. as well as the united nations accusing the me and my military of burning homes abductions rapes and murder almost one million rangle apparent are each with an individual story of horrific violations of the law and of death now the bandon hearts stretch as far as the eye can see in every direction this is a makeshift city built out of human tragedy and there is now an international push to find out what happened and who is responsible. the international criminal court has sent a team to the camp as part of what it calls a preliminary examination they did not want to be filmed preferring to keep their first visit here low profile the un special rapporteur yankee levy was in cox's
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bazaar in january but it's the visit of the i.c.c. that could eventually lead to charges against the me i'm our government justice is something everyone here wants including twenty year old muhammad who says he worries he is losing his life here but going back for him has conditions. we need cards we need them to recognize us as running is also our mothers and sisters were raped we want justice from the i.c.c. they have to give us back our land and properties which were confiscated mohammed like so many of the other refugees was born in me and maher with no papers no official status not officially recognized the medium our government says they are bengali muslims despite their families having been in myanmar for generations all want to return home that many say they know it will be a difficult and long journey. for were expecting
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the un special rapporteur or to address issues like being able to go home safely compensation and property lost and also looking at repatch relation that bangladesh is looking into turn on. i live here in bangladesh making it very clear that it cannot force these people to go there that anyone who will in future want to move to an island will need to have you know all he mentioned because it is not and you cannot get all and also the un need to vent that there's a lot of complications when it comes to the situation here it is such an enormous space though i mean this is bigger than the population of washington d.c. and that just gives you no idea of how that is everything person you speak to as you heard in our report there have a terrible terrible story and they just want to go home but really there is a realization here that is going to be very difficult and they want international help to do so and i think this is also why the i think the visit is important
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they've been talking to people here getting their stories whether that's going to go into a full blown investigation will have to wait and see but certainly that is what people here want they want justice for the atrocities committed to that. was in there from cults as bizarre thanks very much to me. us back in syria have launched an offensive on last remaining territory the syrian democratic forces resumed. after pausing to allow civilians to leave yes d.f. says four thousand civilians remain in the town of being used as human shields by. goal is a former cia officer he says threats from groups will remain unless global instability is address. the real problem is less the coherent terrorist organization like isis or al qaida and these are they are real problems but they are really the product of in the exploiters of the social and political unrest
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incompetence and the suffering of societies that have collapsed largely isis came to exist because syria has imploded and exploded simultaneously and there was the problem with the insurgency in iraq because the united states invaded and bad as saddam was destroyed whatever stability there was since the u.s. policy is largely incoherent now you have someone at the head of the government who is fundamentally into here and in almost everything that he says or thinks that he believes john bolton is quite coherent himself although his policies are far different than those are other counterterrorism officials and experts would recommend but at least he is coherent the problem is that you can't have go in two directions simultaneously and if you don't know what direction you're going to go in you will go around in circles and that's fundamentally u.s. policy we're staying we're leaving we are supporting your deferring to russia we
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oppose russia we want to go after iran but everything we're doing is empowering or strengthening iran's hold in influence in syria etc etc so i don't have the answer because no one does american policy is at present incoherent. iran's president hassan rouhani has arrived in iraq for his first official visit to the country to convince leaders that to defy the u.s. president the trouble ministration is giving iraq a few more months to continue buying oil and electricity from neighboring iran before the u.s. influences sanctions against tehran on sunday iran's foreign minister zarif was in baghdad lay the groundwork for rowhani visit there if expressed hope relations between the two neighbors will improve. as well as government has suspended schools and businesses on monday as the worst blackout in decades continue its electricity has been on and off in the capital but many others have been without power since
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the. day traceable reports. for three days venezuela has been affected by power cuts. now that people have taken their frustration to the streets and started to block roads in the capital caracas. the people of venezuela are only asking for alex tricity and water we don't have food the food is russian in the refrigerator there's no food or water. the situation has polarized the population between those who want to protest and those who don't. but then supporters of arrived some with their face covered and armed thank you in try to find out how rolled up here and their fans are all for the better than the government supporters mostly known as the cortex people which are making sure that the fourth nikolai model came here and removed everything they were using to block the role. one of their leaders. said he won't allow anyone to
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generate chaos. they want to shut down the road and open them without distinction those people want to destroy everything and we will be harder on them just watch. the are like a paramilitary force they have more power than the police and have become a significant force on the street defending the revolution and the tearing protesters. there was a market nearby that merchants were forced to leave because of a tension in the area and people rushed to grab anything they could. he is only eight and was one of them we asked her if this was the only food she had to eat she said yes. water has also become a major issue people in the neighborhood have left the media has been without running water for a month they have to wait for hours to feel in their containers. the government is
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not providing basic public services like water and electricity and so many other things. the government says the latest power cut was an act of sabotage and struggling to restore electricity. but the power continues to go down. i already struggling with an enormous economic crisis the power outage is only making the situation worse. express the friendship between india and pakistan has resumed services it had stopped. between the two countries is the only railway linking the two countries making it one of the few cheap travel options for both sides to visit each other the reports from the whole railway station. their train.
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it drew are. many. families there why did between india and pakistan on their. side of the border maybe thirty. six hours. if we had come to the station early and is not taking any chances as year already seen three cancellations because of escalating tensions between the two nuclear armed neighbors. really did thirty years ago and there's hate to mourn the dead braga of the resoluteness and i haven't seen any she's visiting pakistan and have felt the same love which i have back home in india yes i got worried when train services will hold you to reach intentions but now everything is fine and i am going back happily getting surjeet on the other hand is travelling with her family
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to mourn the death of a grandmother. it is very difficult to get an indian visa people are waiting for a visa here and since long due to the crisis between india and pakistan but now we are very happy that one who make it this time although dangers are running high bid when india and pakistan are prepared to be remain strong we're divided on either side of the border. at board countries will be able to reconcile their differences and create an hour north of albany and. it's time for a good bye still fear no warm cup of tea a quick break for stronger move and shaking travel documents. many are relieved to be able to travel again. i request countries to be friends and live in peace as people on both sides of the book how we little progress and prosperity. some says
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i'm in a book. i felt honored to be in pakistan when the people knew about me that i am indian they met me with love which is unthinkable they even offered me tea i think war is not a solution to any conflicts. as more passengers arrive to crowd their space and some even find time to take a call from their. to take. their baggage by is in front of us counting room they enter one by one for security. officer clearance and under tight security the passengers board their trade for india for many it comes as a relief to be finally moving again perhaps wondering if this british link will remain open to. some got their experience maybe back on track but no one told all along come on i did a. long war. with
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top stories here in china have grounded their entire seventy seven x. faints a day off to an ethiopian airlines plane crashed killing all one hundred fifty seven people on board the jet went down just minutes after taking off from out of on its way to nairobi in kenya catherine soy has wool from nairobi. they have grounded their remaining five buoying five three seven max eight jets they arrived at the same time more or less with this hated one and their thing the statement also read that even if investigations are not concluded yet the cause of the crash is not yet out this is a safety precaution an extra safety precaution until investigation of the done and concluded one of the women on trial accused of killing the hearth brother of north korea's leader kim jong un has been freed malaysian prosecutors withdrew the murder
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charge against indian intonation suspect city she'd been charged along with vietnamese national donte hong of smearing a toxic nerve agent kim jong nam as face of kuala lumpur airport and twenty seven team. appearance a television says present beautifully has arrived back home after getting medical treatment in switzerland and facing mass demonstrations in strikes across the country after his decision to run for a fifth. to arrange refugees have traveled to geneva from bangladesh to address the un human rights council is special efforts or is also juices a live report on her visit to coax this bizarre refugee camp last month it's home to almost a million you've been forced from violence in neighboring man mom us back in syria have launched an offensive on the isis last remaining territory the kurdish led syrian democratic forces resumes the attack on after
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a pause to allow civilians to leave. the state now with all the headlines we're back with more news here on al-jazeera after inside story. a very important source of information for many people around the world. have gone i'm still here to go into areas. talk to people. and bring that story to the forefront. russia from the global internet new laws are going through parliament to control and even stop information online opponents say it's even more censorship so he's put in building his own version of china's great firewall this is inside story.
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hello and welcome to the program. television's 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 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 up our discussion
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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 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. some and i think it would be. my worst.
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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 it's groups 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
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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 that. is intended to protect russia and russian citizens in the internet
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space in an age when that 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 activists and other countries we have. cyber attacks being launched by different actors against each other and we have seen in cyber threats being openly. openly stated by international officials if you remember in just two thousand and
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sixteen after the american election that didn't go the way of the obama white house hoped it would then vice president joe biden openly threatened cyber 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 adversary has 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 perspective or is this clearly a flagrant move to clamp down on dissent. as your reporter introduction suggested where there's 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
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internet really since two thousand and twelve two thousand and thirteen and and all 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. alexander the government.
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all of this was basically saying seized on the internet as being used by other governess 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
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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 done they said ok we'll need two billion rubles 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
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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 the 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 dispute there's 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
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publications of a 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 yes 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 so 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 heard 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
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russia is preparing exactly for that for the worst type scenario 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 them think to protect itself from such threats as we have seen recently even in the cynthy's ok i mean if you're into the cyber attack against venezuela which some other means . the reason why i. have been. there a blackout because of a cyber attack if you don't mind i'll definitely go back to 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 attacks. as by the same time you do good morning the fact that the international community united said the brushes particularly the year which is the bottom is are into this just has been responsible i'm quoting the
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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 and 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 through privately we don't exactly know we have our suspicions i suppose and time will tell i think that's a little bit of
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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 is the state in this case acting more to protect itself from foreign actors i see all war from domestic actors and 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
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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
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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 to 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 it has 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 if you're there 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
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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 adversary is. it against cyber infrastructure against its economic infrastructure using the internet
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and against its use or the users of it social media platform some do you think that the russian government is now 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 blacklists that have blocked a number of websites some of which are very 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 russians of all political stripes really across the spectrum pretty 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
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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 alexei 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
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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 longer 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
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let's assume that the government is finally able to control the physical infrastructure of the platform however it would have to control the content of those blogs forbes i'll give you an idea if they have to deal with you tube with facebook and other international global social media networks. are they going to do 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 hugo sheeting for years with a change of government for example and a number of other a number of other garments have taken steps for the so-called sovereign ization of their internet talking about thailand for example and vietnam and in fact singapore
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is in a similar process right now of assessing 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 phrase book 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
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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 a big say 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
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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 including those like russia or countries like iran potentially countries like china as you've already also say thank you very much indeed send green victor and the sort of yeah and thank you for watching you can see the program again and the time by visiting our website dot com 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 holes in his life and. i . a
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this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up a reprieve for one of the women on trial accused of killing the hoth brother of north korea's leader. us in syria resume an operations take last stronghold in the country. and back on track a friendship train almost seemed rails because the old recent tensions between india and pakistan is on the move again. in here and china have grounded their entire boeing seven three seven max fleets a day off to an ethiopian airlines crash which killed all one hundred fifty seven people on board the jet went down just minutes ought to take off from the well on its way to nairobi beijing's decision in just a moment but first this report from catherine soy in the kenyan capital. nothing
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much is left but fragments of eighty three zero two at the crash scene. easton town off the shelf to the plane went down just six minutes after takeoff from bali international airport in the capital addis ababa prime minister ahmed was at the scene alia his office was a fast to tweet about the crash expressing condolences to those who had lost their loved ones one hundred fifty seven people while on board non-survivors among the most affected as you may expects is kenya which had a boat that had to pose a dozen boat out of the one forty nine passengers. it's an emotional time for friends and family as they waited for any news at the main airports in nairobi and . we were comfortable doesn't really do we see people coming out there was a lot of us going to come out. of
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a few minutes we we saw some nice and flexible he told us from. the thought process the jet had been to leave a just four months ago and had undergone a major service in february he also had just arrived from johannesburg with no difficulties it appears a pilot on the nairobi route realized there was a problem just after takeoff and asked to turn back but then contact was lost a few minutes later cleared room on that up made near mohamed is an ethiopian airlines stalls member he has had more than two hundred flight hours after receiving the aircraft we did the first maintenance check on the fourth of february twenty nine thousand it was a new and clean aircraft it is a fourth version of the world's best selling ally now the boeing seven three seven has flown millions of passengers wild wide since the one nine hundred sixty s. has been redesigned to make it more fuel efficient thousands have been ordered by airlines world wide if you have flown or should go and i guarantee you probably
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loaded on a seven three seven it's a popular choice of the airlines it's a very safe well because there are now questions and this will send jitters across the industry. and identical lion air jet planted into the sea off the coast of indonesia last october shockey after taking off from jakarta killing all a hundred eighty nine people on board boeing is being sued by some of the passengers relatives who died and pilots have accused the american manufacturer of failing to warn them how to operate a new automated stalls prevention system. questions of being asked about how to aircrafts. on the same boeing seven three seven could crush just within months of each other monday has been declared a national day of mourning in ethiopia and investigations into the crash have started a lot of people are anxious to know what could have gone wrong e.-t.
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flight three zero two but many relatives say they just want to grieve catherine al-jazeera nairobi. some of the passengers on these european airlines plane were un staff going to attend a meeting in nairobi delegates at the world environmental conference observed a minute's silence in memory of the one hundred fifty passengers officials say passengers were from thirty five different countries as you mentioned earlier china has grounded its fleet of seventy seven planes let's go live now to adrian brown in beijing agent says bit more about china's decision in the wake of the second crash . well china moved very quickly with its announcement the civil aviation administration department confirmed on monday morning that it had notified all of china's airlines telling them that the seven three seven max boeing was now grounded and that it would be grounded indefinitely now china has now
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grounded ninety six of these aircraft china uses is really a very big user of the of the max eight aircraft it started flying them in two thousand and seventeen but now with these aircraft effectively grounded for this indefinite period china has announced it's going to be switching the boeing seven three seven eight hundred to routes that the max eight aircraft had previously used now in its statement the chinese civil aviation officials said that essentially they were concerned about similarities between the crashes in ethiopia and the one six months ago in indonesia involving the same model of aircraft both aircraft were affectively brand new both aircraft effectively crashed minutes after takeoff and for china that was one similarity to many and it basically says that operations will resume after quote confirming the relevant measures to effectively ensure air
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safety now china of course is a very important market for boeing perhaps its most important market but china doesn't just purchase aircraft from boeing it also purchases aircraft from air bus and remember china at the moment laura is developing its own domestic rival to the boeing seven three seven the comix c. nine one nine and it hopes to sell that aircraft not just to chinese airlines but also to international airlines ok agent many thanks for bringing us the update there from beijing let's go over to tom valentine's chief correspondent for orient aviation magazine joins us now via skype from sydney do you consider this a wise move on the part of the chinese to ground ninety six planes in this please. oh yes absolutely i mean i think a lot of our learning lines should be looking to do the same thing the fact is said the new there are plans such as this don't normally poll i love the sky something extremely serious indicated here and because of the similarities between the two
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accidents in indonesia and one of anything i think it's a very wise move better to be safe rather than sorry what. is it likely to have on boeing. for boeing it's a very serious matter indeed as your previous speaker said china has a huge market for the seventy seven some twenty percent of all the boys seventy seven max aircraft which are on the order are going to china. a large piece of their sales in that chinese airline started canceling this aircraft if something serious is found wrong it will be a big blow to boeing so boeing and of course the federal aviation administration in the united states will be looking very carefully at the investigation into this crash to discover exactly what did happen what do you expect other countries to follow. yes some already have me and mark for instance shows no stocks
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flying the aircraft others had an air of three g. or three g. airlines has actually aircraft in three more coming this year it hasn't shown that it's confident in its aircraft on its pilot training and will continue to fly them virgin australia has ferreting out the aircraft in order and at the moment are saying it's not making any decisions on not ordering to all humans more details of what happened so that's going to be a bit of got mixed reaction around the world but there are a lot of matches flying and a lot of airlines all ground them until they found out exactly what the situation is and we've already seen boeing postponing its launch of its seven seven seven x. craft are we expect to continue seeing knock on effects like that. well yes i invoke your supposed to be flying to seattle from sydney tomorrow i got to leave males have to turn it had been postponed. when it's postponed to we don't know i
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think that depends on you know how the investigation into the crash. develops because of course of connections there. is a next big offering to the airline or also you want to be clear of this accident holding one should absolutely ok tom down time we'll leave it there thanks very much for brains direct these there for. you. now one of the women on trial accused of killing the half brother of north korea's leader kim jong un has been framed they say brusque is with the murder charge against internees and suspects city aisa she and the enemies national donkey kong. a toxic nerve agent. face and squalor and in twenty seventeen. was in the courts in the city of charlotte. monday was supposed to have been the start of the defense hearing for the vietnamese suspect but instead proceedings are opened with the
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prosecutor telling the court that he wanted to drop the charge against city that is the indonesian suspect accused of murdering kim jong nam the judge agreed and granted city discharge not amounting to an acquittal the reporters watching the proceedings had a slight suspicion that something unusual happened because when city appeared in court in the dock today she was smiling a huge contrast to her past court appearances now say they are happy with the decision she's been granted a discharge not amounting to an acquittal but it still means she was able to leave the courthouse a free woman. on the other hand is still on trial for murder she read out a statement in court she's going to be taking to the witness stand but her lawyers have asked for the case to be adjourned it is going to be a gentil thursday in the meantime they want to petition the attorney general to ask for charge to get the murder charge against dawn to be dropped now prosecutors have
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not given a reason as to why they are withdrawing the charge against city but the two women have maintained all along that they are innocent that they had no idea that what they were doing would kill in fact they thought they were taking part in a reality t.v. show in south korea and its u.s. intelligence officials have said they suspect north korea's involvement in the murder of kim jong un. algerian state television has reported the president has returned home after a two week absence of figures been in switzerland receiving medical treatment he returns to a country rocked by protests and strikes over his decision to run for a fifth term so has more after a two week stay at a swiss hospital abilities beautifully coas 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.

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