tv NEWSHOUR Al Jazeera March 28, 2019 4:00pm-5:01pm +03
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defying but after months of bricks of paralysis could things be starting to move in a closed meeting with conservative m.p.'s theresa may said she's prepared to make the ultimate move and step down as prime minister after she's delivered breck's it i know there is a desire for a new approach a new leadership in the second phase of the brics negotiations he said and i won't stand in the way if that but we need to get the deal through and deliver breaks it i'm prepared to leave this job earlier than i intended in order to do what is right for our country and our party she concluded by asking everyone in the room to back a deal to allow for a smooth and orderly breaks it. but so far the u.k.'s departure has been anything but a deal's been resoundingly rejected twice but on wednesday she once again championed her plan we have a deal which cancels our you membership fee which stops e.u. making our laws which gives us our own immigration policy and is
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a common agricultural policy for goods and is a common fisheries policy for good other options don't do that other options would lead to delay to uncertainty and not for delivering threats and. the opposition labor leaders call the government's handling of bragg's it chaotic and incompetent why is she prepared to carry on risking jobson industry in another attempt to yet again run down the clock and try to blackmail the m.p.'s behind into supporting a deal that's already been twice rejected but to reasoning's deal isn't dead yet fears of parliament pushing for a much softer breaks it although breaks a tall could spook hard line breaks a tea is into now backing her plan although northern ireland's democratic unionist party that props up may's government has said it will not support the deal in another vote may well have to do some careful calculations before giving her a deal a third go. meanwhile m.p. . taken unprecedented steps of the road gaining control of parliamentary
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proceedings to vote an alternative to tuesday's bricks and plan there were eight options none secured a majority but two of the proposals for a customs union with the e.u. and a public vote on a deal gained more support than to resume a's breaks a plan m.p.'s will vote again on monday the government and parliament and locked in a bitter struggle for control of the brics a process there are multiple visions for the future of the country some of them conflicting some of them contradictory but a question that unites both remain as i'm leavers is whether making the ultimate political sacrifice or benefit to reserve manes cause. back out of zero westminster . well small still ahead here on al-jazeera trading how several u.s. companies have been cleared to sell nuclear technology to saudi arabia. and celebrating a nation's post and person opens the doors to its new national museum. hello
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there there's also a fine dry weather to be found across europe at the moment the crisis whether it's towards the west where the temperatures are rising forces well london they should get up to around sixteen degrees as we head through the day on thursday further east there is more in the way of cloud here and it's not fading quite so warm and that cold weather is now taking a bit further south to the west us whether there is down in the southeast corner for some of us in the southern parts of italy and through puzzy greece it really doesn't very wet and warm under that system either as that moves out the way we'll see even colder weather make its way in say for athens the maximum temperature there on friday will just be eleven degrees and that area of rain will be working its way across parts of turkey where it will be turning creasing a wintery for the other side of the mediterranean we're also seeing
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a little bit just the tail end of that same system say for some of us in libya will be rather gray but dusty at times as well for the west it's not that warm for us like algy is a maximum temperature just a fifteen degrees the temperatures will increase though as we head into friday back up to seventy about quite nice there at around twenty three for the central belt of africa plenty of showers here at the moment some particularly heavy ones in parts of uganda that are just rumbling their way towards the west and further west now for west africa there's also a handful of showers to be expected time. isn't the problem for your candidate that he may not have a health question mark over him but he does have a corruption question really doesn't look good for the news business to not going to do any we're. going to get one there's a lot of disillusionment with the u.n. across the globe. it's cold fall and break doesn't build confidence it breaks will
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join me from my guests from around the world and we debate the week's top stories and take issues. and i've got to watch the reminder of the top stories this. ruling f.l.n. policy is back in the army's call for president. to be declared unfit for office on monday the army chief suggested that an article from the constitution could be triggered which could force you to flick it to step down for health reasons. forces have taken control of a merchant ship hijacked by migrants the ship is now being schooled to to malta the
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one hundred eight people thought to have taken control of the vessel off they realized the ship was taking them back to libya. the british parliament has failed to agree an alternative to prime minister to resign mays. and peace have rejected eight different options. promise she would step down if they approve the deal she agreed with the european union. the u.s. secretary of state says the trumpet ministration is still working to identify who's responsible for the murder of the saudi janis jamal khashoggi my pump a i've made the comments at a congressional hearing while being questioned over foreign policy was when jordan has more now from washington d.c. . u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o is on capitol hill on wednesday to argue for the upcoming years budget for the state department but it's not just a matter of deciding how many diplomats should be hired or how many facilities should be remodeled in the coming fiscal year the secretary of state also took
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questions on a number of foreign policy concerns including the investigation into the murder of jamal khashoggi a saudi journalist who had been living and working in the united states this is what my pompei o told the committee on wednesday we are continuing all across the government certainly an overt means and all the tools that we have in our capacity to learn more facts about this president. has made very clear that we will continue to work to identify those who are responsible for murder and hold them accountable we will i stand by that today because representatives are interested in a number of foreign policy concerns including israel palestine venezuela and north korea there hasn't been much follow up when having my calm pale before them on precisely how the u.s. is holding saudi officials responsible for the murder of jamal khashoggi but that aside members of congress are still very much interested in trying to hold all
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those responsible including the saudi crown prince mohammed bin sol mun they've already passed a number of resolutions and legislation that would cite him and hold him personally responsible but the full force of congressional anger has yet to be brought on to this matter and certainly their efforts to try to get more information from the trumpet ministration continue it. the u.s. amy g. secretary has authorized several companies to sell nuclear power technology to saudi arabia that's according to the reuters news agency which says the companies have request of the deals be kept secret the kingdom is planning to build two nuclear plants and russia south korea and the u.s. all competing to strike a deal but there are concerns it could fuel a nuclear arms race in the middle east will if not threaten is a nuclear security specialist and he says that saudi arabia cannot be trusted with any type of nuclear technology. there's a pretty big difference between the iran nuclear deal and the trumpet ministrations
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attempts to sell nuclear technology to the saudi arabians the nuclear technology that we want to sell to saudi arabia is civilian it's for their civilian energy program which is a big difference than what we suspected that iran was trying to do so the concern now is that saudi arabia might go down the same path that they might use this technology that they would be acquiring for their civilian nuclear energy program for development of a weapons program down the line but a year ago mohamed bin solomon the crown prince of saudi arabia went on national television he told reporters that if iran were to develop a nuclear weapon that saudi arabia would also develop a nuclear weapon full stop no ambiguity there whatsoever the problem is now that the united states has decided that it wants to withdraw from the j c p a way of the nuclear deal that we had with iran preventing them from developing
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a nuclear weapon that has become a more likely scenario going back to that discussion that was happening in the united states congress a month ago brad sherman made the point he's a congressman brad sherman made the point that if we can't trust mohammad bin solomon with a bone saw how can we trust him with nuclear technology now that's a completely fair point and it's a valid concern. if even if we can get to this type of one two three agreement that guarantees that saudi arabia won't develop a nuclear weapon can we really rely on them to keep their word. and egyptian delegation is in gaza for discussions with hamas and other palestinian groups and the recent violence between hamas and israel is ready jets destroyed a number of buildings on monday and tuesday night amasses political leader ismail haniya has made his first public appearance in gaza since his office was bombed dozens of rockets were fired into israel and the egyptian delegation is expected to go to israel for further discussions on a possible cease fire the u.s.
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federal aviation administration says it is absolutely confident the boeing seven three seven max eight aircraft is safe following two recent crashes which killed three hundred forty six people the f.a.a. zakk the administrator spoke at a congressional hearing looking into how the aircraft was approved operation but says it doesn't see a need to have a hole the way it develops plates scientists and health care professionals have written a letter to the united nations calling for an international ban on so-called killer robots living don't yet exist campaigners say that only a year or two away twenty eight countries have signed up so far but the u.s. and russia are among those resisting science and technology and it's a round hole and a small. i mentioned killer robots and many of us saying. of this i'm ashamed able to think feel and kill we have no way of knowing whether the kind
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of artificial general intelligence needed to create a scene tiant robot like this will ever be possible but here's what we already have sameeh autonomous machines dryers tanks aircraft robots big and small machines that can be weaponized even programmed to find targets but the final decision of whether to take a life lies with us so-called killer robots fully autonomous weapons that can select and kill without human intervention well they don't exist. here we don't want to see killing outsourced to machines on the battlefield or in policing or in border control an obvious circumstances this is why we call for a preemptive ban on the development production and use of killer robots as soon as possible we already have facial recognition technology to unlock hellfire and they could be used by a fully autonomous weapon and trying say to identify and then attack
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a target without a human heading the final say but what if it kills the wrong person or the machine malfunctions and continues to hunt and kill long after a conflict has been resolved whose responsibility is it when a fully autonomous weapon gets it wrong so everybody's got their experience with computers not working with barns and i pads failing. and that's an inconvenience at best imagine that when you have the weapon system which is failing which is failing to turn off killer robots could be hacked and then used by your enemy forces against you and against your population and that they could be programmed to target a popular part of the population to go out there and to seek all military age males . you know and determined them to be legitimate targets and fire upon them sixty one percent of people polled in twenty six countries last year oppose fully autonomous weapons twenty eight countries have signed up to
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a ban take companies scientists researches and engineers and their thousands have over the years pledged not to knowingly create killer robots but plenty a lot of those are embracing artificial intelligence and will fia and states like israel russia south korea and the united states are among those resisting the ban countries may agree we're all better off without killer robots but no one wants to be left behind on the battlefield. new zealand's prime minister has welcomed that facebook's decision to ban any support praise or representation of white nationalism white nationalism on its services the social media john has come under increased scrutiny since a gunman used it to live stream an attack on a new zealand marks two weeks ago following the change people who search for terms associated with white supremacy was to see a link to a nonprofit organization that helps people leave such groups.
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has a new national museum spanning the size of nearly nine football pitches inside it charts the history of the country and its people and some of the details. dug from the sands of cutter this fossil is more than two million years old an essential part of the country's cultural heritage and a natural exhibit for the new national museum this extraordinary building is designed inside and out to mimic the intersecting discs of a desert rose. each space showcases a different theme designed by a renowned french architect to create too long the sun rose. to large scale some seem very difficult to do when you know that he says she said to have english restaurant technology be aren't so user centanni cities and he said imagine the russians she was an eternity of you desert and the modern e.t.a. of today it's taken eight years to complete the building and its contents are
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intended to educate and inspire visitors at their ease to foreign workers and tourists the nomads of arabia will tell you that the desert rose symbolizes hope that there is water underneath and that is the message that organizers at this museum would like people to take away with them. building was still underway even for arab countries imposed by land air and sea blockade but are now the museum's creators want to use it to illustrate the region's shared history. we believe that. culture should really stay away from any political tension between countries and it is a really open in fact we have a team from from the blockading countries are working with us and us and this is very great when you work with the people who believe in the culture and they believe that culture attache should have no boundaries. innovation in design can be
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seen everywhere here the idea is to give equal prominence to each and every exhibit to help with the to understand the global significance of potter's history qatar has some of the most significant pearls and they were used to design european tayo as you'll see in the galleries and also a fair ode to cars but they came from the. road that was supposed to be gifted as a cover for the tomb of the prophet muhammad so the brotherhood is always in dialogue with the rest of the world and therefore i don't believe in importing any culture i think cultures are always in dialogue and exchanging knowledge between east west you can even say norse i was. before oil and gas pool diving drove but there's economy the country's relationship with water is another key theme it's my first divorce of film it's the first time i've used this kind of
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pretty futuristic technology stitched cameras it's shot entirely in cut cut thirty's curators also want to highlight the role of women in a free society this is not the first time we've had the national museum and we were the first museum in the gulf and this is something that is very interesting for a series reopen and actually show the public our heritage all the research we've been doing for years to really find this very interesting to be able to bring all these stories together and actually not not say everything which is why the exhibit is to actually immerse ourselves into expounding on different topics and sam the architect of the national museum of but there wants to do stand for centuries a shared ambition between those who planned and built the vision of a grand desert drawls osama bin. all right let's have every couple headlines here on al-jazeera and algerian army
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chief has got the backing of the ruling party for his plan to declare the president unfit to rule the constitutional council is asking abdulaziz beauty flicka to resign their protest as an opposition parties say they want the entire regime removed multis armed forces have taken control of a merchant ship hijacked by migrants who were on board the vessel has not been to school to malta the one hundred eight people had been rescued by the ship's crew and believed to have taken control off that realizing they're being taken back to libya british parliament has failed to agree on an alternative to prime minister to resign may's bricks it plan and peace rejected eight options for the country's withdrawal from the european. syria's state news agency is reporting a number of s. strikes that have hits the northern city of aleppo syrian arab news agency says it was an israeli attack and syria's defense has intercepted several missiles videos have been shed on social media showing explosions in. the u.n.
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security council has been discussing u.s. president donald trump's recognition of the occupied golan heights as israeli territory and it has been meeting was requested by the syrian government on monday trump signed a proclamation stating the united states recognized israel's annexation of the area un resolutions close to god and heights as occupied territory israel sees it from syria during the nine hundred sixty seven arab israeli war. a delegation from egypt is in gaza for discussions with hamas and other palestinian groups on the recent violence between hamas and israel israeli jets destroyed a number of buildings on monday and tuesday night dozens of rockets were fired into israel the delegates are expected to go to israel for further discussions on a possible cease fire. the u.s. federal aviation administration says it's absolutely confident the boeing seven three seven eight craft is safe following two recent crashes which killed three
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hundred forty six people those are lines got more news coming right up off the inside story. three years after the u.k. voted to leave the european union. is yet to take for. britain seemed through its divorce from its european neighbors. the whole process still be revived to stay with al-jazeera for the latest. is the army in algeria about to remove abdelaziz bouteflika the chief of staff says the president so ill he should be declared unfit to rule the kalak transition be achieved smoothly and would it satisfy protesters on the streets this is inside story.
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hello welcome to the program has i'm see the rule of algerian president abdelaziz bouteflika is in trouble the head of the army after made the gates says he wants declared unfit for office there been more than a month of protests across the country people are angry the president has held on to power for twenty years and many don't just want to flick a gone but a change in the ruling establishment they say is corrupt and they're demanding free and fair elections laura birdman late sets up our discussion with this report. it's was a dramatic development after weeks of protests in algeria the head of the army has called for the triggering of a constitutional process or article one or two paving the way for president abdelaziz bouteflika to be declared unfit to rule but that. we need to find a solution to sort out this crisis and to respond to the demands of algerians
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within the constitution and within the sovereignty of the country in order to achieve that consensus and to achieve something that is accepted by all parties the triggering of article one hundred two means the constitutional council can declare the position vacant if the president is too sick to exercise his functions if two thirds of parliament agree the chairman of the upper house will become acting president if we follow the constitutions than more or less the same people who are running the country at the moment we've been in it for the foreseeable future and forty five days to ninety days depending on the situation. beautifully has been in power for twenty years but he's rarely been seen in public since suffering from a stroke in two thousand and thirteen he's been credited with ending a decade long civil war in two thousand and two which killed tens of thousands.
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but in recent weeks hundreds of thousands of people have poured out into the streets calling for the to flicka to step down. many are angry with beautifully his decision to run for a fifth time they also accused the ruling elite of corruption but many are skeptical the process to remove the president will make any difference was in the dumont we have reached an unfortunate situations the one of today we have no professional demands we want a system to permanently deal we want a new government i many protesters fear the military and business leaders in power now will remain in place if the eighty two year old leader goes i thought where there is fierce opposition in the streets the same people have offered few turn attempts to put a clique a school for inside story door a thousand manly. let's
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bring in our guest now in london we have algerian journalist and writer general idea in talib and oxford's michael well as a professor at the university of oxford and author of the forthcoming book algeria politics and society during the beautifully cup presidency and in robot morocco we have a new file aboud he is the executive director of the north center for conflict transformation where he researches democracy and peace building in the matlab region welcome all of you gentlemen. demanded in politics i could start with you what do you make of this latest development and then this announcement from the military chief of staff algerians if you a few enlarges mainly in the social media what they say it's they say clearly it's too little too late it's too little that's not what they want they want real regime change because they say they think the or the chief of the army what he's calling
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to trigger the constitutional process to oust but it's like a coup a musket coup in a way him who was a lawyer for many years to put a car he did not even respond to for many years and were calling to trigger the constitution this article a hundred and two before that article eighty eight before all for a bit challenged the constitution and too late because algerians they don't want all of which vehicle to go they want a real change regime change who'll be get'em to change not only beautifully. michael as how significant is this development for u.n. will it be enough to satisfy the protesters on the streets. i don't think it is quite a significant as some people are saying i agree very much with your last speaker i
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think there are probably two things going on here firstly it's an attempt by the regime the political leadership to make some sort of be seen to be making some sort of concession to the protesters in the street in the hope that they will go back home on the protests will be ended or reduced i think also it's an attempt to buy time for the regime if this provision in the constitution to remove leak of a sitting president because he's not physically able to take. take take continue his duties that will be lead to a process of several months of transition which will be managed and run and overseen by people who are part of the existing in a circle of regime which means very little is likely to change so i think basically the move is really one of continuation i think the only possible significance there might be is that it may indicate some splits within the ruling group control
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algeria but there may be some difference between the president and his family who are involved in the regime but of these brothers and possibly the army and the others on some side but we really don't. i know for our boot who actually runs algeria because of it's not beautifully himself as many suspect. and it does this ailing eighty two year old. leader who is in poor health and is a front for others who are these others exactly so our jury have been run in by what they call the deep state which is a number of people who functions within the hidden networks of power around the president and so forth and what is interesting in this. movement and demonstration of crisis in and in algeria it actually brings out the deep states and the counter stations the people of algeria have been expressed in along this movement but it's interesting now it's and how fascinating for example how this movement by people in
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algeria mostly led by young women and men has shifted and changed the tone of the deep states. like if we read from the statement of the chief of staff of the military now the military suggests it does not order they suggested that article one o two it's also fascinating how this movement has shifted also the discourse not only around national security but some kind of democratic process which is very interesting you know what is happening today is clearly states the division between the deep states who are the hidden network of power in algeria and the new generation of algerian people who are actually in the street. generally what about the divisions within the government except itself i mean where does the military leadership stand in relation to some of these others other leaders behind
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a civilian leaders business leaders and so on his brother is there is there a kind of jockeying for power going on there behind the scenes. well actually according to a french magazine jennifer flick says that the move of the chief of the army was only in consultation with the beautifully cuz family milly his brother say butler conason beautiful people they claim actually. who is running around in his truck surely the acting president of algeria for many years since two thousand and thirteen. the stroke of a car and then also with the. rush of food for your car it's like who's running a sexually the deep state is it to correct maybe or call it from robert is maybe it's more like or it's referred to the nearest to the city center this is barely
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two. to feel queer on who or who was in charge of the secret services for a quarter of century. the who's running algeria is the cabal of generals. and with that would put his family himself and then the images of also of corrupt businessmen while playing who are part of the question now in algeria. the chief of the army he's moved is actually interpreting. the army is trying to to have the upper hand there is a saying in algeria the firm's historian and militant one hundred have been saying that all states they have armies algeria is the exception the army the have a state the army is since the independence of it held the real
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power we are as they call it in a jury and now gates allah he was loyal to put there is a personal. dimension also in this development. for many years he was the. number two in the army and then the head of the army at the time in two thousand and four general mohammed omar mahdi wanted to allstream actually put safety because at the end but few can according to the constitution is the chief supreme of the army of. the move of gates are is like he is trying to oust his boss in a way and bootlicker also has the position of the defense minister his deputy is gates gates was invented as the pity of. the. defense minister in two thousand and thirteen during that time were put in
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a cause aiding in poor health and in was in a french hospital algeria for many yes it has been. the property in the way of the army in a particularly stick where they sometimes they play on this. nationalist evolution . in a way but really the army is at the center of all what's happening you know geria they are held responsible actually for this situation for many years syrians they were calling even now in the wall street issues for many weeks they were calling they were saying army and people are our brothers they were calling the chief of army maly and the generals of the army to look to fire what they think it's merely then fault they era's area to this position we don't have to forget that
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but fielkow was brought to do to argyria as a president by the serbs much the will is there is there is there is a sense from the protesters from from the time that these protests began that this is a lot more than than than than beautifully care himself i mean he was the trigger when when he announced that he was going to run for another term but things are moved beyond that hand there are many protests they they simply want to change to the whole system so is this what we seen over the last twenty four hours going to make any difference to their. i don't think it will make much difference i think really it is about the whole system you're absolutely right it starts of beautifully but one of the reasons why people are so unhappy was the fact that the beautiful ego was so manifestly not running and in control of things and the question was who was actually running things behind the scene and after he was elected in twenty
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fourteen when he was similarly incapacitated he's even more incapacitated now and people felt humiliated and the demand is for the whole system to go that means not just for president not just a few ministers but the whole entourage surrounding the president and there's demands for a constituent assembly to draw up a new constitution have fresh elections and change and reform the whole system what the regime and the current leadership is trying to do is trying to rearrange a few people a shift people in keep that keep the tension of the same faces there and return to business as usual once a protests have died down but i don't think the protests are going to die down in the near future until there is really substantial change oil there's a feeling there's going to be substantial change at the top the regime where a lot of the old faces have left. it's picking up on that then new fall if this if this if this move by the military is all about just kind of rearranging rearranging
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the seats of power so to speak and it's not going to be enough for the protesters on the streets what are they going to do then what's their next move. well first we have to understand one something that is very important is the relationship between the people and the military in algeria. average algerians has some kind of pride in the military there is a military draft and a compulsory military service the the role of the military in move in in the in the war in algiers and the people has build some kind of emotional connection not only based on religion between the people and the military this is we have to understand this very importantly as a matter of fact the army in algeria is called the national popular army and you can see the linkages even in the discourse between the people and the military what happened is that it's the same kind of relationship that the people has with their head not only based on religion but it was also emotional on his role as being the
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savior for the civil war in algeria what happened is that the military have seen the decrees of the emotional connection between the president and the people and they wanted to save what they could save actually but also suggesting some kind of emotional discourse some commotion all conversation with the people by proposing several things including the article one or two and that they have learned from the fact that. the president was not in the scene it was not addressing the nation directly and that is why we see the chief of party more often in the media talking to the people to rebuild that kind of emotional romanticism kind of thing between the army and and the people i think it's a little bit too late why because first of all even in the constitution in article if all of this kind of constitutional argue it says that the president addresses the nation directly which hasn't been the case for the last sixty years and more.
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it's a little bit to late for what the army is suggesting. and what he suggest in. article one or two is most likely if it's applied and implemented if the president of the upper or house of the parliament would take would be the interim president aren't they who is a bizarre little with the upper house and interim who could be the interim president is somebody within a lot of the person and all men who is also not well and does not have that emotional connection with the people and i don't think the people would accept that either so here. there is two images here there is an image of a deep state mostly men in their seventies and eighties and you have the people in the streets what are mostly young woman and men industries who did not necessarily live the civil war or the the war of algiers so how things are
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going to be in the future from for me personally is dad. everything will be based on who will be in the table of negotiations the proposition of the army of the chief of staff of the army of bly in the article one or two for me is that ice breaker is the beginning of some kind of negotiation between the deep state and the people who will be. in the table of negotiation from the people that would be important i would like to hope and hope and i would like to see that the same image that we see in the streets with this young woman and men in the street with this women are also who come in the media and share with us analysis of what's going on and what are the hopes of the people and what are the demands would be also represented in the table of negotiations jamel jemele dina talent these protests when you look at them. seem to be it seems to be largely
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a leaderless. movement there is no central leader that they seem to be rallying behind unlike other protests that we've seen elsewhere in the world like in venezuela for example what do you make of that is there is that a weakness or is that perhaps a strength. actually maybe it's a strength because all if there is leaders for this movement because the regime regime is well known for infiltration and try to make they are there actually they were trying they brought the liberal amy to the u.n. envoy to try to help them in a way to save the regime. industry by creating leadership for this real arc as they call it for this uprising for this fantastic movement the algerians they rose because they felt he will eat it they were joe all this great nation who made history they were there was simply five in this important ailing
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president on a wheelchair that's why the algerian rose and now there are even cause in the they are refusing what the chief of the army proposing and then they want again they are already demonstrated demonstration in the streets and they are calling for a lot of friday if i don't know the mill junia as they call it for a lot of millions of g. and to go to the streets to take the streets again and then to. insist on their demand because they think this is like a trick of the chief of the army of the regime to fool the algerians they want to sacrifice. and keep the same regime funny enough like one of those will hated in the algerian or in algeria with from the algerian people. the suck prime minister one of the head of one of the parties of the presidential.
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parties he was calling for the to decide. what all the algerians were angry they were saying you are part of the problem you want to put the country have to go and. they give a chance to the chief of the army they are calling they are saying brothers the army and people are brothers now they're turning against gates they want him as well to go because they gave him a chance to open a historic window for himself because he is. associated with. protecting your car all this regime all this corruption we don't the help and the support of the army. all this regime of this couple of corrupt businessmen they would not have lost that all this michael for twenty years. but recall is that true in dollars michael what is this this protest movement when you
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look at it does seem to be very grassroots in its nature is that going to make it that much harder for the regime to deal with. i think it is i mean it's a remarkable cross-section of a population as well as a remarkable number of a population with the hundreds of thousands possibly millions of people on the streets every week in all the major cities and from a whole cross-section of the population is not just one particular part of a population it's young people it's old people it will breed a speaker said a lot of women involved a lot of even. veterans from the liberation struggle and they're all coming together to say the current system isn't working and the current leadership needs to go and this is a continuing demand they do not want to see a reordering of the system they don't want to shuffling of people they don't want to bring in some other individual that's going to be controlled by the old system they want the system to go but i think it is going to be
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a little bit difficult because there isn't a direct representative of the protests i think the existing opposition parties don't have much credibility the people there they're making statements they're supportive of it but it's a way of finding some sort of representation from the protest to talk and engage with the regime maybe through a constituent assembly maybe through some sort of transition but there is a lot of wariness amongst ordinary algerians but any transition process will be used by the existing regime to buy time and make sure it's controlled and then nothing too big happens and things stay more or less the same but i think the people will continue coming out on the streets week after week in huge numbers until something really changes so i think it really of a ball is in the court of the regime but it needs substantial reform to convince people that actually something has changed and that they can go back home and they can feel that something has been achieved or i am going to give what's probably going to be the last word then to a new far labu day and about the minute that we've got left how do you see this
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playing out then these do you see these protests continuing as they are do you see the government responding more meaningfully what what he thinks might happen now. i think there are very people who are very smart because their advent each time that advanced one kind of condition that they will be calling for for in the beginning it was a centralized discourse about butterfly ago and now we have seen that they're asking for the system to go and we don't know what's going to be the next. build in the democratic process require at least for things a solid judiciary a solid executive and a solid parliament but also and mainly and this is the dominant narrative now in the streets in nigeria a transparent military we have to know that the jury and military is the fourth among the fifth largest countries in in the world who actually importance of large arms and weapons. i'm sure is among the eleven countries that spends more than four
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percent of g.d.p. on the military and the people know that what's going to happen to me is that people will be in the street and there will negotiate every point at the time all right and on that note we're going to have to leave it. michael willis and new file aboard thanks very much for being with us and thanks very much for watching inside story as always you can see the program again any time by visiting our website and dot com and for more discussion there is our facebook page facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter our handle adds a.j. inside story for me hasn't taken a whole team here by finale. the
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but forces. britons breaks it deadlock continues despite prime minister trees of maize offer to resign. and how a tourism being driven by social media apps is threatening some of the world's beautiful place. so that algeria is a ruling f.l. and party is backing the army's cools the president. to be declared unfit for office on monday the army chief suggested that an article from the constitution could be triggered which could force beautifully could to step down for health reasons two weeks of protests the president has agreed not to stand for a fifth time meanwhile there are reports at least eleven private jets carrying business leaders and their families have been prevented from taking off from algae is port let's go live now to one of our who's in neighboring tunisia and has been
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trying to read all this for us what's the latest. well basically the cascade of reactions to the army's move continues to ripple through the political establishment in ulterior with the f.l.n. which is the biggest political party in. for almost six decades and the party of president are those of us saying it's about time to turn the chapter of that i was able to hold on to your for almost twenty years the big trade union is saying the same thing many politicians now are siding with the army saying that there needs to be this article one zero to trigger as soon as possible now the problem is that there's a great deal of confusion and zajac here in algeria about how to move forward because the army seems to be in favor of that direction because the judicial council needs than triggers article one to the parliament convenes with a two thirds majority. approves the push and then the president of the opportunity
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of the parliament becomes interim president of the opposition does not seem to be in favor of that they say the reason why millions of on syria's took to the streets is because of this recent itself the entire political establishment in an area is disconnected from reality and inefficient a has to go when they say the establishment they mean the president the inner circle the parliament and the government in another way they say we want a new assembly to take over in algeria volatile additional period i guess a backdrop of this two visions the army's vision and the protesters vision it remains to be seen how they would be able to narrow their differences and move forward by i have to say the political crisis continues to deepen in our gilio absolutely how should we and what about this these reports of eleven private jets carrying businessmen and their families have been prevented from taking off from
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algiers airport. well local media. talking about the inner circle of president. mainly businessman who made huge fortune over the last few years by their affiliation with the president or with his brother particularly. is widely seen as the man who calls the final shots in being the top adviser to the ailing president of villa's these words they said the army has given orders to ban a list of some personalities and mainly politicians mainly businessmen from traveling or from leaving the country until the dust settles down because one of the main prerequisites for the opposition and for the protesters is for many many people accused of embezzling public funds to be prosecuted by the by the judiciary and i think this could be an indication of the army's sending it trying to send
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strong indications that what he's trying to do is basically protect algeria and ensure that all the steps to be taken forward will be within the context of the because tuition because as i said no many people are saying they are concerned that the army could be just using this to further deepen its consolidate its grip of bar and the country are going to be very interesting to see how old this unfolds and ashen for the time being thanks very much i smiled by reporting that now a merchant ship that was briefly hijacked by the migrants it had rescued has just docked in malta earlier on thursday maltese forces boarded the boat and took back control one hundred eight people on board are thought to have hijacked the ship after they realized they were being taken back to libya. the one hundred joins us now on the phone from the libyan capital is extraordinary story margaret tell us more. indeed it is nic but the question now is having this
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ship finally dock and bill is the question now. will the biggest fear the biggest fear of the migrants happen because as you know the question now is whether or not the migrants will be sent back to libya or kicked in or. nobody knows the answer this question but as you know nick and then my grunts biggest fear is to be sent back to libya because as you know their prey got the violation usually the hand of people smugglers and usually things doing got a dangerous trip and they did this in the libyan desert didn't break that that was violations might happen again to them in libya as you know done. in cheated of managed to make getting to be admitted as. a piracy of khorasan and the captain of the shared. navy that he was dressed in and for somebody to make
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ground and force it to change the course of the ship to the moment and according to the time and into the administering the ship changes its course when it was being sent back to libya and moved to the ground and about the big news you can find a way to become present to please the should change its course back to the most as you know make libya. officials don't want to say that opinion and this risky operation but the speech generally and say it is their right to risk you and. capture the migrants as long as we all captured in the international welcomes which is pushed through by you could be as close to go because they. believe that it's the right to capture my grant and
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that. they have as they please i believe. by entering libya illegally and maybe ensuring again nick. very much indeed for that update mahmoud reporting now a delegation from egypt is in gaza for discussions with hamas and with other palestinian groups on the recent violence with israel is ready jets destroyed a number of hamas buildings on monday and tuesday night dozens of rockets were fired into israel delegates are expected to go to israel for further discussions on a possible cease fire the u.n. security council has been discussing u.s. president donald trump's recognition of the occupied golan heights as israeli territory at urgent meeting was requested by the syrian government on monday trump signed a proclamation states in the us recognized israel's annexation of the area un resolutions
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class to go in and heights as occupied territory israel seized it from syria during the one nine hundred sixty seven was ready war. so the british parliament has failed to agree an alternative to primeness its reason maze breaks it and peace have rejected eight different options for the country's withdrawal from the european union. but she would step down if the deal she agreed with the e.u. last november is passed by parliament but it's already failed twice reports from london. the world's cameras are trained on the british parliament waiting for a break sit breakthrough protestors an hour permanently on patrol on the pavements outside for many the workings of this house appearing creasing li mystifying but after months of bricks of paralysis could things be starting to move in a closed meeting with conservative m.p.'s theresa may said she's prepared to make
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the ultimate move and step down as prime minister after she's delivered breck's it i know there is a desire for a new approach a new leadership in the second phase of the brics negotiations he said and i won't stand in the way of that but we need to get the deal through and deliver bracks it i'm prepared to leave this job earlier than i intended in order to do what is right for our country and our party she concluded by asking everyone in the room to back a deal to allow for a smooth and orderly breck's it. but so far the u.k.'s departure has been anything but a deal's been resoundingly rejected twice but on wednesday she once again championed her plan we have a deal which cancels our your membership fee which stops e.u. making our laws which gives us our own immigration policy and is a common agricultural policy for goods and is a common fisheries policy for good other options don't do that other options would lead to delay to uncertainty and not for delivering threats.
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the opposition labor leaders call the government's handling of bragg's it chaotic and incompetent why is she prepared to carry on risking jobson industry in another attempt to yet again run down the clock and try to blackmail the m.p.'s behind into supporting a deal there's already been twice rejected but to reasoning's deal isn't dead yet fears of parliament pushing for a much softer breaks it all at a tall could spook city isn't to now backing her plan although northern. democratic unionist party that props up may's government has said it will not support the deal in another vote may well have to do some careful calculations before giving her a deal a third go. meanwhile m.p.'s have taken unprecedented steps of the road gaining control of parliamentary for seedings to vote an alternative to teresa mayes bricks that plan they were eight options non-security majority but two of the proposals
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for a customs union with the e.u. and a public vote on a deal gained more support than to resume a plan m.p.'s will vote again on monday the government and parliament and locked in a bitter struggle for control of the brics a process there are multiple visions for the future of the country some of them conflicting some of them contradictory but a question that unites both remain as i'm leaders is whether making the ultimate political sacrifice or benefit to reserve manes course. westminster. or is it what does all this mean is anything carolyn speak to her or how many has the latest from london and hadera what we glean from these most recent events is anything clear well that was the hope yesterday morning that after. they were some sort of indication.
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