pave the ground for new parliamentary and presidential elections no local media is talking about key business men are created with the president who are barred from leaving the country could be assigned by the army is serving reassurances to the people that while it is committed to trigger article one or two about the same time it is telling the people but anyone who has been found guilty of wrongdoing or of public phones will definitely face justice even if you choose but as we speak the political crisis continues to deepen as there is an agreement between the army on one hand the opposition and the protests on the other hand about a new road. and if you are not i would like you to help us tell us the story get in touch with us on whatsapp or on telegram especially if you are attending a protest or if you just want to share a video comments and the number for us nine seven four five zero one triple one

four nine a merchant ship that was hijacked by migrants it had rescued has docked in malta earlier on thursday morty's forces boarded the boat into control they're now investigating what's happened one hundred eighty people on board are believed to have hijacked the ship after they realized they were being taken back to libya mom with abdullah head has more details from tripoli. the maltese government is expected to conduct an investigation with the migrants who are accused of hijacking get the vessel but it depends on where the crime was committed and some of those migrants could be proved innocent because the captain of the vessel according to the maltese navy stated that he and the other crew members were threatened by the migrants and force it to change the vessels course back to the

north we understand that the migrants are afraid they could be returning to libya because the fear that they could face the same violations the usually face at the hands of people smugglers in libya but. prime minister joseph muscat we did that. is going to follow the international rules in this respect but as for the libyan coast guard libya's coast guard officials say that it's their right to capture the migrants as long as they have entered libya illegally and have sailed of libyan sure illegally we understand that some of those migrants could be proved innocent and they can apply for asylum in malta but some others will probably be guilty because they are accused of hijacking. the vessel. and still

ahead on. facebook says no to hate the mashie tings new zealand brings change to the social media site bus it up over the sea and we need to teach people that they need to learn how to produce their own food it needs to be public policy. taking matters into their own hands venezuelan citizens prepare for u.s. sanctions that could cripple their food supply. we've got plenty of spring sunshine into northern parts of china and i must do is to carry a cloud into those central areas and that will tend to just slide a little further south was shanghai seeing a little bit of cloud shabby rain pulling away here nineteen celsius as we go

through friday extend further south and you can see there is a fair bit of wet weather in store hong kong should be largely dry on friday and then this weekend system will clear through brought the skies come back a beehive or the way of sunshine twenty six houses for hong kong twenty one for shanghai so really a good three or four degree degrees above the average and not too bad at all hale also warm sunshine into south asia india looking a little bit of cloud those spilling out of pakistan pushing across the follow with west of india have a hates the primo soon heat already in the process of building temps is picking up in mumbai and the going to be the case in the coming days of course so we will see temperatures getting up to around forty celsius from that point around thirty three also dry weather lots of sunshine maybe the a row shower just pushing across seem to sri lanka think now just making its way across northern parts of india there is fine and dry new delhi with a high of thirty eight.

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again you're watching our desire and here's a reminder for our main stories this hour. at least sixteen people have died in an office tower fire in bangladesh as capital firefighting crews with the help of the navy and the air force have been working to put it out. the u.k. parliament is hinting that there might be another vote. but it's all very exactly what m.p.'s will vote on on wednesday british prime minister to raise him a promise she would step down if her twice rejected deal it's possible parliament m.p.'s have rejected eight different options for the country's withdrawal from the use. of the c.e.o. of a t.v. channel critical of presidents has been arrested. supports of the army's call to have. declared unfit for office. british inspectors say they found significant security problems with software supplied by the chinese telecoms giant far away their reports identifies defects defects which they say could be exploited by hackers the u.s.

is pushing european allies to ban while away from the next generation mobile networks which will be introduced in the coming years and the u.s. says progress has been made in the latest round of trade talks with china although there still are some sticking points the trade war between beijing and washington began eight months ago and both sides imposed hard tariffs on billions of dollars of kids age and brown has the latest from beijing well it is exactly two hundred sixty five days since the terrorist dispute between china and the united states began and these are the eighth round of negotiations now taking place here in beijing now according to the reuters news agency quoting four u.s. officials who requested anonymity the chinese side are showing greater flexibility particularly on the issue of forced technology transfer this is a situation whereby u.s. companies working in china are often forced to hand over their intellectual

property the know how as a condition for doing business here but there doesn't appear to have been much flexibility it seems over the issue of subsidies the money that china's government gives its state owned corporations particularly those involved in technologies of the future now this is very much a year when chinese leaders have to appear strong we have a number of emotional each charge anniversaries coming up the thirtieth anniversary of the june the fourth massacre and the seventieth anniversary of the founding of the people's republic of china so this is a year when chinese leaders cannot afford to appear weak especially in the area of trading. u.s. president donald trump is demanding russia withdraw its forces from venezuela he made the call during a meeting with the wife of the opposition leader one weibo at the white house also has confirmed it sent two military planes loaded with troops and supplies to

venezuela last weekend it says there's a problem it is part of an existing technical agreement well getting enough food to survive continues to be a big problem in venezuela the oil rich nation produces only twenty percent of its own food and with the latest u.s. oil sanctions starting to hit the economy some of the community farms will get them through these tough times ahead there is a bull reports from caracas. difficulties are everywhere in venezuela these days the economy crises as millions struggling but people in a little the united say they're ready to fight back by producing their own food they have turned this small farming back us into an agricole logical project where they can grow fruit vegetables and even fish. on a limb and gary says the situation will likely deteriorate in the country when the new us sanctions take effect it ever said that there is an economic war against us

and we try to supply our families in the hospital in the area with displays we can feed seventy people every day. there are three families living here and with what they produce they're helping a local hospital people here say that they need to be ready for what's coming. on the people say that in this place they can produce almost everything to survive . on a linux says there are over twenty thousand projects like this one in venezuela but that they need more government support. we need to teach people that they need to learn how to produce their own food this needs to be public policy and we need to tell the government the budget that is invested in food production must be the same as the one invested in the armed forces. venezuela imports most of the food it consumes the us has impose new sanctions that will make it tougher for the

government to sell oil and get much needed cash. and we rescind the on says there are real sanctions begin now. the sentence we saw by the united states in the past were affecting individuals but they were not against the state against p.d.s.a. it was against people related to the government the sanctions were light we're going to see now is an embargo and this is going to be tough demolishing. the n.b.s. has been breeding rabbits in the farm he says people see them as pets but they could be a crucial source of protein. there also needs to be self-criticism the government doesn't know how to plan how to get organized the enormous corruption because the state continues to operate like all agog what we want to eradicate is still and it's up to our social movements to make change in this production as a way to protest. the government says people need to start focusing on producing

food but many believe it will not be enough to help the vast majority of the population very struggling to meet every day. comes to this poor in the state of france what they get every day she says it's difficult for her to find food even though she gets a six dollars pension every month. we're nowhere man in america this government is the worst i have ever seen i see many things but this is the worst ever i don't even get medicine now i have this fish and i hope things change. most families see the situation will deteriorate in the next few months becoming self-sufficient is the only way many venezuelans will have to deal with their everyday life. i just got a new zealand's prime minister as a welcome to facebook's decision to ban any support praise or representation of white nationalism on their site on the social media giant came under increased

scrutiny after a gunman used facebook to live stream an attack on a new zealand mosque under the change people search for terms associated with white supremacy was said see a link to a nonprofit organization that helps people leave such groups. york is the director for international freedom of expression at the electronic frontier foundation and she says facebook must be transparent about the content removing. in this case what we're seeing is really just an expansion of an existing policy which is the ban on hate speech so facebook has decided to include other things in that definition and in terms of keeping track of it and i think that that's really the concern that i have it's not so much that facebook can't ban this content of course they have the right to ban whatever they want but we will we want to make sure that they're always being transparent to their users and doing so and also giving their users a path of recourse when they inevitably take down content that does not violate policy and we have to remember that legally we don't have freedom of speech on

these platforms because these are companies based in the u.s. the law says that companies also have the right to speech which enables them to take down really whatever they want as we know you know facebook has very restrictive policies around anonymity or nudity even though those things are not illegal so in this case you know i think that we have to think about really just ensuring again that the companies are being transparent and being clear with their users about what's banned and i think we also you know need to start thinking about what constitutes real harm versus you know what kind of content really doesn't need to be taken down qatar has a new national museum it spans the size of nearly nine football fields and then side it charts the fifty thousand year history of the country and its people on a binge of eight gives us a sneak peek. 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 latch on to scale something very difficult to do when you know they're using he says she said driving the phrase strong technology be aren't so user centanni cities and he said imagine the russian ship was an eternity of the desert and the modern e.-t. of today it's taken eight years to complete the building and its contents are intended to educate and inspire visitors arteries to foreign workers and tourists the nomads of arabia will tell you that the desert rose symbolizes the hope that there is water underneath and that is the message that organizers at this museum would like people to take away with them. ham building was still

underway even for arab countries imposed a 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 of 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 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 carter'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 very good

a carpet 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 drool 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 pretty futuristic technology stitched cameras it's shot entirely in cut cut thirty's curators also want to highlight the role of women in company society so 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 art 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. we're getting some reports that saudi arabia has released some of the female activists who have been arrested and detained reuters news agency is quoting sources who says some of those freed were facing charges related to human rights work and contacts with foreign journalists and diplomats according to two sources three of the women were released and the rest will be freed on sunday their conditions of their release still remains unclear.

they're watching al-jazeera and these are main stories at least sixteen people have died in a large fire in an one thousand storey building in bangladesh's capital one hundred firefighting teams are trying to put it out with the help of the navy and air force it is believed that some people may still be trapped inside a car bomb has exploded in somalia's capital killing at least eighteen people it's happened outside a crowded restaurant in all of these issues what barry district so far there's been no claim of responsibility good luck on the explosion happened in between restaurants some people were having lunch at the restaurant all the victims were civilians there was no government official or soldiers with the explosion happened i saw eighteen bodies and twelve injured people being carried from the scene. and we're getting reports that saudi arabia has released some female activists that

were arrested and detained what is news agency is quoting sources who says some of those freed were facing charges related to human rights work and contacts with foreign journalists and diplomats and according to two sources three of the women were released and the rest will be freed on sunday. the c.e.o. for t.v. channel critical of the jury and president of the elysees beautifully guy has been arrested. supports of the army's call to have the president declared unfit for office local media roles reports of dozens of business men have tried to leave the country unsuccessfully. the u.k. parliament is hinting that there might be another vote on breaks it but it's not clear exactly what the m.p.'s will be deciding on. the rejected all eight options for the country's withdrawal from the e.u. and earlier stories of may promise she would step down and for twice reject a deal is passed by parliament. those are the headlines coming up next the stream

stay with us for. its p.c.'s the protest push the east russians in crimea and major economic challenges now ukraine is getting ready to elect a new detour from thirty nine candidates what course will the country t. join us for special coverage of the ukrainian presidential election on al-jazeera. hi i'm femi oke a and you are in the stream as exxon is adjusting to life under a new president of the as a by you have unexpectedly stood down what lies in store for millions of young people who have never known any of the lead to send your thoughts via twitter and the today show.

for twenty nine years no small town as a by f. has been front and center of public life in kazakstan but that changed a week ago when he announced he was handing the presidency to cassim joe lattakia a trusted loyalist his decision shop has expanded and central asia here's how nuts if i left his resignation sure. today i appeal to you as i always did in the important moments in the history of our states which we have built and are building together but my appeal today is special i have made it difficult decision to retire from responsibility of the president of the kazakhstan republic that is public figures of storm here no they don't startle so i was granted the status of the first president leader of the nation i remain chairman of the security council to which the law grants serious power in determining interior and foreign policy i remain chairman of the no zero time party and

a member of the constitutional council. one of the first major decisions by nasa by your successor was to rename kazik stones capital on saturday a new small town became the new name for ass donna a city that was rebuilt into one of central asia is because trade and tourism hobbes was and is a bias rule but what does the surprise handover of the presidency after three decades me for young people in kazakstan to talk about this we have that. of editor in chief of step that's an independent digital media outlet he joins us from almaty . also now with he is i got into line you know hanover a freelance journalist who has written widely on kazakh politics colleague ash is a researcher and advocate on gender rights and sexual education she joins us from new kazakh capital recently named from aston and from prague we have total cooled off he is has our service director radio free europe radio liberty good to have you

here everybody hi much to nineteen are you not going to forget that date in a hurry hello everybody is so good to have you that date see it in your memory i'm looking at a tweet here from europe but didn't have internet connection for the last day the minute i got connected my phone started buzzing i had six hundred twenty eight all read messages on my whatsapp on the resignation of the president a catholic stand i was in a stage to shop for a second after all he's been there all my life has tagged as a by yes to recall what is your story of when you found out how you found out your reaction. it was we were. a shock the first impression and reaction was for us for many people in cars are people who are. going to polling to news and events and that's them that has that has that been a shock because as you were. very rightly pointed out at the beginning of the show

of the. country and the young people under thirty they have never seen another leader and this is a three day kates when one person on the main position suddenly he announced as the is starting to on it was that a big shock but the shock was changed on the next day with probably main the disappointment after their newly appointed. interim president doesn't have much of a now asked initiated the renaming the. name of the capital after nasm by of yao because many people far seen in that as a be all scion of cult of personality that is some good bike left kind of gas where were you when did you find out that your current president your past

president was was about to hand over power. yes i was actually a location traveling in kurdistan you know as out following the news and then my friend texted me and everybody learned this news was being kept asking me my greatest friends like how do you feel how is it your prose that step down. a i. kind of don't feel anything right now i. had better wait out and see only time can tell in the next day we had another news which was not that wasn't pleasant as the first news if i can hear you try to sum up that shocking to an actual article that you wrote for the independent and catholic stomp the last soviet era president has suddenly resigned and this is what it means for my people . tell us. so are i to you right now and i want to

know mighty when i read them years it was maybe one hour before actual announcement that the president has urgent at or germs address to the nation so i was a bit intrigued what he has to say because there were several addresses to the mission previously and sometimes people were weighted with the shocking resignation but it didn't happen so. i wasn't prepared for that when i was least in the first started talking. it was seven zero one pm when he said that he was going to step out and yeah i couldn't believe my ears to be honest and beth and i had some. mixture of emotions at that time and there. and then after a few days i have thought it over and rode the magic over. danio it feels like

thought the whole the whole nation was in some kind of trauma and getting over it together and then no sooner did they find out that the president the capital name was changing so on march the twenty second march twenty third people what happened they were talking about this let me give you some idea of the comments that people were sharing. their stories i view rename the city very negatively because the name aston a is a brand i think nursultan is not right at all we have never sold ten st ten university and now the capital city nursultan i think that is over you approach. i am against renaming to nor sultan because us tonight is a world brand everyone knows us enough from expo twenty seventeen zero a c international summit and such things. we are happy that they named the capital after the first president this is day in

history for the next generation to my grandchildren. my. that i wonder if this might be assigning the also tied it is still going to be around the former president is still going to be around there still may be some way that he's influencing current politics in kazakstan what do you think. well exactly i totally agree with you in the sense that. in expert community basically everyone was discussing what would be dissin areas and. i think the last year a new law on the security council has been approved so the president moves now as the chairman of the security council was many important kind of tools at a level just he has or in foreign policy on security and domestic politics as well so now he controls basically all of the key critical areas and will look as the sort of immediate mediator as

a transcendental figure that will basically you know control the important process in the country i think think it's really interesting that this is the year of youth in kazakstan exactly everything we just got here president of the republic of castle standing twenty nine thousand the year he for more than two thousand casm the students and faculty members gathered at the palace to students for the opening of the east year how's it going so far yes. well the u.s. is generally is not interested in politics and i think it's a global threat. there is kind of a kazakhstan logic in this in the sense that the us had lived totally under the while president and they get to use that have so what they really think is that well many important issues are solved where there are enough in the capital and not on the local level so my opinion is generally disregarded or even more so this

is the attitude we have bad you know with this event happening with the resignation of the president i think the they have we have a mind shift now and so people now know that actually this president could leave and they are the president put south so there is definitely a new interesting ideas could pop up in their heads how to live and how to talk about politics talk ok. yes i think the person you mentioned not many things will be changed and we because he mentioned about the security council powerful now a party which has given constitutional power. after the war was into effect last year also plans to cuba sieved to the nuts and most receive the title of first president almost nineteen years ago and the leader of the nation

one years ago. two years ago he was announced as the best student which means a habit of nation or people in cars out language and it was because of his historic mission he was giving the. lifelong right to give initiatives on state building you mentioned domestic and foreign policy and national security what's more. because our state bodies are obliged. no to conceal their innocent bios proposals what is very very important now is about himself and his family and their property and back accounts have also being given full immunity from prosecution in their decision and he's also chairman of the ruling party now and. what is interesting that even now interim rather than custom job he's just

a member of the organ colleague actually bring you back into the conversation a piece that you wrote quite recently the crisis afflicting kazakstan city youth. and that was that was a little while ago excuse me and you're talking about this crisis for the u.s. but now we're in the year of the year what do you think the biggest issue is for young people. there despite the fact that this is a year if you think now that the government is ready for a politically active youth at least you know the youth knows how to be active when they're of course there are a lot of. young voices now can be heard and i hope they'll be positive changes in this but it's just we still have this to go see that really just decide for young people instead of listening to them and letting them. see what they think and how they would like to be treated and what they would like to do. i saw there

something to that well i agree with what carla got to say and the sense that. well the us is not that active as we may want in the sense that unfortunately only i looked at as the major big city is that could actually bet that is the place where the young generation could practice some of the activists in our activist movements and so on abdullah the head we should not ignore the social media as i have written in some of the papers there says the actually one of the rabble places without so much censorship or was out so much control so many of the people are feeling much more comfortable themselves and in expressing that they ideas and social media guests satisfy demand something of value or of artistic

battle but when you though when we talk about queue of this is actually the main. hot more than even the half of the population of castalia. unemployment is one of the main problems is that us we may discover an official statistics say for example the rate of unemployment is less than five percent but in the reality it might be much higher the recent events and i was sent this is in a west western culture stunt show that especially in the google places the situation might be completely different. in the recent weeks dozens of young people have been protesting there for several weeks in front of the local administrations they were demanding jobs. not many media actually no media has been covering the event for quite a long time and we are from radio free were deliberately cause our service sent our

reporters there. to cover their purses and to show their. voices yeah. actually it was short of the rest of our journalists there by police. and we well they were released later and the journalists don't back to heal those people and we showed the family and their people who were mainly young people and they were demanding jobs and was it was things that we wanted to be even happy to have a salary you know the job was a salary of about four hundred u.s.d. talk or let me share this with you this is from t.j. and today is picking up where you were discussing just a moment ago i personally think that unemployment high level of poverty and also infrastructure is the major headache of the young in kazakstan what does

infrastructure actually mean what are the issues that. all of them can then just jump think so i can he take that yes sure. well going back to the question about the role of years. being a young person myself i think it's very important for young people to understand what role they can play in the development of their future of their country and right now it's it's been very unclear as we can see there are limited options to participate in a regular a socially and economically and people i've seen many young people who are their country and they want to contribute but there are so many barriers that they can't give up actually and they can't. go forward and. use their potential to help develop the country and some of them leave the country unfortunately so i

came in when t.j. says that unemployment poverty and infrastructure we told you out infrastructure never strained but how does that impact young people in cars and stuff infrastructure i think this person meant that because the extent is really a big country it's a nine's biggest country in the world and we really have some interest doctor problems in terms of their very expensive domestic supplies and along. like you have a very long time you have to spend a lot tyrants traveling inside of ca's x. them for example to take the train from east to the west might take even today sorcery days so that's i think what this person meant by infrastructure we need some more. grieco ways to get to places and more affordable ways to get there.

if i continue it i think that person all some. accommodation for people because it was one of the major major problems for especially young specialists or so or middle class people because circuit is quite difficult now because i started especially in big cities to get your all our sort of apartment very high rate of interest rates. mortgages that is very even present those are both some time ago about two years ago i think he even told used his own position which later was also criticized for not working well but this is one of the meat problems for use i think it's also kind of sarcastic that we're having. and you're if you. was this paper airplane

was it oh no i think it was a paper bird but then people started making jokes that they actually paper airplane because young people they don't have much opportunity or some cover and then they're just leaving because they get different churned out or disappointed so our in our own country so i guess something that we haven't touched on quite yet is how able young people actually anybody in kazakstan is able to. talk about that descent talk about the issues talk about the challenges talk about the politics so i want to introduce into this conversation bata jutta mally she actually now is living in exile she was a lawyer who helped people who were being put in prison for protesting she helped them for human rights issues and she brings up something that we haven't talked about yet have a listen. well you sleep you protest. to understand that it's not see who knows the future does not

reduce speed possibly in kazakhstan's who by participating in to protest young people giving you time out to receive just is arrested in june so that's that who is seriously mitigations political impeachment of young people in kazakhstan yes are you comfortable with sharing those experiences and kazakstan are you able to speak freely for instance or maybe the media person working in one of the line media is. of course really consider what should we talk and how should we talk generally our will it authorial policy is not to talk about politics since many other outlets are talking about that so our main mission and focus for example is to make people feel believe that

they could you know invest in themselves and develop and do something even if there is there are many problems in the country so they could serve you know contribute to the society and the country that we are. happy i just want to let you just touch on social media before we move on if i may danny other some of the you've gone deep into hash tag activism use social media politics in kazakstan this is where the young people are able to have a voice what do they say. well that's true i mean they're quite aware of having a fly in activism risk so they quite aware they could be you know centers or so on and so they move gradually to such platforms as you to for example to voice their concerns and at least formulate darry the as their group and says and disappointments so there's also i think one of the important steps and developments

we have in the country i don't. want something to look to the borders of the medicine about the expression of foam. views not only among young people but for all the people who somehow might criticize actions of of forty's this is truly we would enter this becoming a dangerous kind of war because us that we don't go far just last week on friday several people in a lot of the in astana mainly they were of organizing small protest meetings against the renaming the capsule sitting at about twenty at least twenty people who were arrested. all are journalists from radios up took her out of carols they were covering and. earlier there were groups of young people. probably

used by authorities they were trying to. stop preventing i would join us from covering that event and blocking our way yeah i want to show that if i might you would you tweeted this out this video out i'm just going to shake just for a little moment here so you can see i have a janis china and this is now a journalist zachary i i see that as you see just how and this is a the latest example of this kind of or this meeting some taking place in class. everyone's i have to ask you this question as we're almost at the end of this show age as ever out of it is as watching this he's following on what he wanted to ask you all this question how can you change the name of your capital to a person's name was he loved so much he wants to take. your stuff. and i think people were not just i don't think

that if they were the we would do that because of the u.s. it's already a brand and we're already invested so much time in resources into building of those and some people say that the. woman said. do you want to put a president's first president's name into our history but security has a lot of me going through so we didn't have to do this with a couple only. thank you so much it's been so interesting having all of your thoughts here from young people from kazakstan we really appreciate that one comment here from mohammed to here who works for radio free europe radio liberty as well and he talks about the protests against the main change of the protests of the land reform or workers' a mother's protest reactions to get the government's inaction on the situation inching hang and wondering how the leadership change will affect this trend let me remind you what that leadership change is you can see just behind me this is the old guard handing over to actually the old guard what next for kazakstan thanks so

much for being part of this program thank you guess for being part of the show us the next time on the street. april on al-jazeera nato leaders will gather just celebrate the seventieth anniversary of the alliance in washington d.c. madam husain engages in rigorous debates cutting through the headlines on that front twenty five years on from the genocide that killed nearly a million people rwanda has rebuilt but how far of its people have been reconciled the emmy award winning show phone lines is back with more investigative journalism and in-depth stories israel is to hold an early election on the ninth of april but

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and other news at least sixteen people were killed in a fire in an office tower in the bangladeshi capital an oil tanker migrants and a rescue would say you have a pursuit of a better life turned into a hijacking in the mediterranean. and for the bad people on the red carpet in delhi our way some of the biggest names in fashion including the bakken and naomi campbell gathering coming up i'll tell you why this event could help take the next big designer from this week. so we're going to start with some breaking news just in the last mile saudi arabia has announced it will release three female activists who have been jailed for their human rights work a hearing was held on weapons day for female activists who spoke out about abuse while being detained the women said they had been sexually harassed given electric shocks and flogged by prison guards at least one of the detained women and even

tried to commit suicide the saudi government denies the women were tortured or we have lynn maloof with us who is the research director for the middle east at amnesty international joining us on skype from beirut thanks for coming back i know this is all happening quite soon but just your initial reaction to this it does seem like a positive step. we're absolutely infused to. the news right here we have been calling for this we've been hoping for and this is all our thoughts of course are with the three women who have been released they will be able to finally be in their homes in a safe space with their loved ones and this is all that we've been calling for in all that we've been wanting and we do hope that the rest of the women who are still being detained in an arbitrary fashion will be released now the conditions of their release are not clear to us we have not been able to get them to get any confirmations around them so we will be waiting for you know more about the

conditions of the release of these ok a little background if you wouldn't mind just for people coming to this story we saw that they were jailed for their human rights work what did that entailed what is it that the saudi authorities so much that they were arrested. so this is how it ends in may of last years almost ten months ago a group of women men and human rights activists who have been campaigning for greater women's rights by the end of the may have guardianship system which we as we know is a very discriminatory system in place against women but also for the right to drive we're all arrested. so a few months ago in this arbitrary vashon a few months later we found out that during the three first three months of their detention a number of women were subjected to torture and other treatment so as you mentioned flogging and trick shops sexual harassment and alice international and another

human rights organizations have been calling for the access to prisons to these women our independence monitors saladin prosecution he dismissed these claims and it seems that they did visit the prisoners the saudi and human rights commission as it's. taking these but they dismissed the claims of torture today was the second session of the trial of these women which open last. last week until then these women have been detained without any charges they have to have no access to defense lawyer what we know also is that it's been we're only here for did a couple of hours the day before this session so yesterday just sit down with the court appointed defense lawyers to prepare for their defense and today out of the trial session it seems that he was in and had who was one of the activists who did call for he she asked for. longer periods of time to prepare for the defense she is

one of the woman who reportedly has been released today saudi arabia we know or has not had a good global image well certainly since the murder of jamal khashoggi but arguably before that as well not to turn this into some sort of p.r. exercise but will it look good for the saudis i guess to be making concessions here and freeing people. it is certainly a positive step i mean this is one of the cases that has really tested the narrative of the problem prince's reforms visions of before and social liberalization and all of the steps to encourage government and investors and for and best minds in the country and this is been the one emblematic case along with the murder of someone has seen than it has completely. completely gone against if you want. that the narrative of reforms now if this is going to be

taken positively let's keep in mind letters bearing in mind that these are three women who were reportedly released we still are waiting to know what the conditions of their release were whether there will be under travel bans where they're whether this is on bail the rest of the women and men are still being detained there is a number of persons who were detained in an arbitrary fashion in saudi arabia honestly international it is one of the organizations that has been documenting for years such cases this case of these women has incredible international attention and the popular mobilization and the lobbying efforts and the diplomatic pressure haue been key in probably in what we saw today in the release of these were and i mean just. two weeks ago almost thirty six countries including all of the e.u. states called for the unconditional and immediate release of these women. from amnesty

international thank you for joining us on this breaking news do appreciate it thank you. just another note on saudi arabia while away here the u.s. energy secretary has authorized several companies to sell nuclear power technology to saudi arabia this is coming from the reuters news agency which says the companies have requested the deals be kept secret the kingdom is planning to build two nuclear plants and russia south korea and the u.s. are all competing to strike a deal there are concerns it could fuel some sort of nuclear arms race though in the middle east let's talk to can really help in washington d.c. about this one that can be just a little background if you wouldn't mind and why this is a would be confirmed so controversial. yeah this is apparently something that the trumpet ministration has been working on very quietly for some time the reason for this secrecy the department of energy says when we did reach out to them they responded and said centrally what this will do is allow companies to kind of work

ahead on these projects without actually shipping the equipment that would be necessary to construct a nuclear power plant to saudi arabia but at least gives them the ability to start working ahead now the department of energy is defending the secrecy surrounding all of this by saying that this is simply something that the companies themselves request because there's proprietary information involved and. because of the concerns of business competition the companies are asking that this be kept secret but there are many on capitol hill that are raising eyebrows simply because this involves saudi arabia the concern being that this secrecy was granted by the trumpet ministration for other reasons that there was a desire to not make this public given the fact that the trumpet ministration has really been trying to downplay the relationship between the united states and saudi arabia following the death of. the washington post journalist of course was

murdered. and said that they would hold saudi arabia accountable for but the u.s. congress says has not occurred particularly when it comes to the crown prince that they believe ordered the killing of she so this is yet another chapter another concern in the part of lawmakers who feel that the trumpet ministration really tried to sweep the details of this deal under the rug now coming to light and lawmakers asking some very tough questions about it demanding answers you can believe the white house thank you. so other news and the pressure on algeria as president to step down continues to mount some members of the opposition say they want more than his resignation they are demanding the removal of the entire old regime which includes the army chief remember he was the one who suggested the constitutional measure to remove the president on medical grounds his proposal was then backed up by the ruling party on weapon state following events from two newsier for us national bring us up to date with some of the developments today

involving those close to president bill to flicker basically come out of the anxiety continues in the country particularly waiting for reaction from the protesters who are definitely going to continue. across the country until their demands are met particularly they say that they don't trust all the institutions which are now in power and that what they need is definitely a new person who will take over form a national unity government and pave the way for a new constitution new parliamentary and presidential elections on the other hand the army students is the only way out is to trigger article one zero two for the president of the opposite end of the parliament to take over all the streets in the in the capital of xeres there were some protests asking for the political establishment to be sacked in the country at the same time there were reports that

many a business man affiliated with the president and his brothers they're able to be barred from leaving the country and some of those people really. are widely criticised by the people who say that they have benefited from their the patters network in the country to amass a huge fortune over the last few years has been that sort of transitional figure who you describe someone who would lead a national unity government who would take algeria to the next step is that sort of person exists in algeria are there obvious candidates. well on social media people are talking about choices they're really how some candidates in mind like the a means the one who was a president of syria and he's remains really very popular among many of your ears and they say that the man at least could be quoted credited for being a clean person and there's also i haven't been beat or who was a government senior government official during the ninety's mostafa for example

leading human rights activist and lawyer one of the leaders of the prophecy movement is widely seen as a person who could potentially which are to the people now people are talking about other alternatives like i said there goes the young vibrant businessman who were who was barred from taking part in the election by the constitutional council but the problem is that you need to have everyone on board including the army but the army as we speak seems to be in favor of triggering the article one which will automatically pave the way for the of the car that the whole is the chairman of the opportunity of the parliament to take over the only problem with this move is that people say if we trigger article one hundred two and we allow our the other to take over this man represents the old establishment of the government which is going to oversee the elections of the future will be a government that has been picked by. present.