be a message to russia to not get involved in what's going on in the western hemisphere a vicious thank you very much. your challenge there live from london still ahead egypt should use a referendum on sweeping constitutional changes that could keep president sisi in power until twenty thirty. chica we do surges ahead in early results for indonesia's presidential election possibly winning a second term beating one of the world's largest democracy. hello there so looking rather wait for some of us in spain and portugal over the next few days for the satellite picture we can see the cloud as it streaming its way across us and then it'll stay very gray there as we head through the next few days at least so lots of clouds loss of what weather around it really does it pretty miserable and under all that cloud and rain it's not going to be feeling

warm with madrid only getting to fourteen degrees at best to the east of that though that's where the temperatures are rising paris should be up at around twenty three and for berlin which should be up at nineteen the southeast of europe though here we're still plagued by the showers some of them really have been very have lots of thunder and lightning knots of hail recently those gradually of pulling away eastwards but still the risk of seeing one to more as we head through the day on friday for the other side of the mediterranean where we can see some of that cloud from spain and portugal does not get its way into the northwestern parts of africa say from morocco and algeria it will be a bit gray at times and you'll see the temperatures dropping as well as have for algae is a good deal of clatter around on friday and a maximum temperature just of eighteen degrees towards the east is fine here it looks like cairo will be up around twenty five for the central belt of africa though quite a few showers at the moment particularly over positive gabon and then further west over west africa there we quite a few showers to. to

me it was clear to the intelligence gathering exercise my hands were shackled behind my back i had a hood over the head off into this interrogation to one by one and he said if you speak here are cut your throat muslim bag tells his life story and his life changing experience at guantanamo bay. it was. those are pretty. the confession a witness documentary on al-jazeera. amount

of top stories. in sudan former president omar bashir has reportedly been taken to the country's most notorious jail the maximum security khobar prison military leaders have also rested dozens of former officials who were part of bush's government including some of his brothers. cruz former president alon garcia has died hours after shooting himself in the head to avoid arrest at his home in lima garcia was being investigated for bribery in what's become latin america's largest corruption scandal. the u.s. has imposed sanctions on cuba nicaragua and venezuela neighboring the three countries the troika of tyranny and u.s. national security adviser john bolton in outspent the pressure on venezuelan leader nicolas maduro and the countries that support him. at least nine people are dead after a tourist bus overturned in portugal that's according to portuguese media an accident took place on the island of madeira several ambulances are at the scene and we'll

bring you more on that story soon as we have it. in libya they've been airstrikes in and around the capital tripoli forces loyal to the un recognized government have targeted or have turns positions south of tripoli and lost three of their own soldiers as airstrikes pounded their troops funerals have been held for the victims of shelling and rocket fire that hit a densely populated district the capital on tuesday night both sides have blamed each other for the attack which killed at least seven people whatever their head is in tripoli he says a lot of civilians have been trapped by the fighting. according to the red crescent and the health ministry here which is based in tripoli they've tried to reach out to civilians and families stuck near the fighting areas but in all cases many civilians have been killed or wandered so far since the beginning go there clashes on april fourth also other another governmental organizations say that they

are trying to distribute food and blankets to those displaced from the fighting that thousands of civilians have been forced out of their homes because of the fighting and recently many civilians were killed by random shelling people here are very angry and they are calling on the international institutions including the united nations and the european union to do their part to stop the military escalation by have to his forces on the southern part of libya. a group of people carrying weapons and french diplomatic passports have been stopped by china's you know volatility to cross from libya incident at the country's western border is raising more questions about the involvement of foreign countries in the conflict some of them generate as more. a rally in the libyan capital tripoli calling on france to end its intervention in the conflict there have been sporadic

protests before but this one came after french nationals carrying weapons and diplomatic passports were stopped at the border between tunisia and libya tunisia says it's the second time foreign nationals have been stopped recently the first coming in by the sea where they have that they entered through two rubber boats and they were spotted we followed them till they reached them the two boats carry eleven european foreigners from different nationalities and we handed them over to the authorities concerned the second group entered on sunday consisting of thirteen individuals all of them frenchmen under diplomatic cover with arms and ammunitions and initially they tried not to hand them over to the french embassy internees he says its nationals were members of a team that provide security protection to the french ambassador to libya an explanation many are questioning. meaning for infiltration from. a military operation or support of command. systems or something like

this to. have their forces front supports the un recognized government in tripoli but it also maintain ties with the other government led by warlord khalifa haftar analysts say its interest in libya centered around oil and regional influence with powers such as saudi arabia the united arab emirates and egypt the french government is involved in this this is the police city in their position on one hand as can the nation of what's happening but this is not to translate it to have. it was not the flick the door action they've been pickin by with some governments in order to push for a diplomatic solution france isn't the only foreign power involved in libya have started a u.s. citizen allegedly trained by the cia during the rule of moammar gadhafi he now has the support of saudi arabia and egypt and is also reported to have more than french

weaponry despite the u.n. arms embargo. but the fighting intensifying many libyan see a political solution is needed but that can only come if foreign powers stop their covert military support some of it out of their. egypt will hold a referendum this weekend on sweeping constitutional changes which if approved would allow president of the fattah sisi to stay in power until twenty thirty changes were overwhelmingly approved by the egyptian parliament on tuesday i think you'd extending presidential term limits from four to six years given the president more power of the judiciary and enshrining the role of the military in politics of the vote will take place over three days more or less i'm joined by skype from cairo by timothy killed us he's a nonresident fellow at the tahir institute for middle east policy thanks for being with us so how likely is this referendum to be free and fair well i mean it's already not the groups have made any effort to oppose the constitutional amendments

found themselves having members arrested or websites walk but. there's been a lot of suppression of any effort to actually oppose the amendments the media is entirely supportive of the proposed amendments there isn't really any space for a public discussion on the negative aspects of the memmott supply one might oppose them and. those who talk us through the impact of these these changes if they do go through. what you think the impact will be of these changes if they do go through well it will be an extension and transshipment of the authoritarianism they are already seeing in egypt so cc's term obviously he will be able to remain president closely as twenty thirty at the same time as you mentioned he's going to have more power over the due to sherry will dilute the power of the elected members of

parliament by adding it up or body of which he appoints one third of its members and finally the military's role in politics will be formally a part of the constitution of the country ironically to in part to protect its civilian status. so the reality is that this is not only about extending cc's power but it also these amendments assuming this document continues to govern the country beyond presidency will make the next president also have disproportionate power visa b. the other institutions of government and almost as happening with those events going on in neighboring see donna at how worried is the egyptian government by what's been happening in sudan. i don't live there very worried to be honest with you i mean we'll probably get flippant remarks from authorities about how this could never happen again in the techs ability and all the work that we've done etc . on some level there was a lot of there was some tension between president c.c.

and president bashir they were always on the best of terms no worse some issues with sudan flirting with military support from turkey and whatnot so if anything people in cairo might see this as an opportunity to improve relations and strengthen cooperation on issues regarding the nile river basin which has been a sticking point for the two countries to the count us thank you very much indeed for talking to just hear them talk. early results from indonesia's presidential election suggesting combin djoko we don't know is on course for a second term with a comfortable lead over his challenger. official results won't be until may when ballots from nearly two hundred million eligible voters will have been tallied under thomas reports from jakarta. i just told they shout the president's victory may not be official yet but it's no less real for that in the

center of jakarta his supporters are celebrating quick counts were carried out of voting stations and soon as the voting process finished each ballot paper held up to show where holes have been punched once tallied they pointed to a clear victory for the incumbent. we have all seen the. result but let's be patient we need to wait for the old. let's all unite as a nation. almost two hundred million people were eligible to vote and with the turnout of eighty one percent wednesday's vote was one of the biggest ever one day exercise in democracy anyway. i am very happy to be here i urge everyone to come because this day represents in the cressi in indonesia. i'm very proud of this because it proves i have fought for a good leader but it wasn't

a smooth process everywhere the biggest problems were in west papua where ballot papers and boxes failed to arrive and voting has been delayed until thursday so. it's not conceding yet and claims the problem showed the election may have been stolen. but take down before folk buy support for safeguards the ballot boxes so we can fight. but the irregularities don't see. great enough to put the overall result in doubt if when it reports in may the electoral commission confirms the informal results. this year by greats when they last competed in twenty. this election result the big. one of india's largest airlines is suspending all operations after its creditors rejected a plea for emergency funds jet airways is facing one point two billion dollars of

debt prompting a frantic search for a rescue loan from private and state lenders at its peak the airline operated a hundred twenty planes and six hundred daily flights it employs roughly sixteen thousand people fetchmail has more from new delhi. jet airways had about a twenty two and a half percent market share in india now that's down to roughly twelve percent it's had financial difficulty for years twenty thirteen the airline came close to collapsing but thanks to a government rule change allowing some foreign investment into indian airlines it was saved when the hot air waves bought a twenty four percent stake in the airline but new domestic players especially low cost carriers kept eating into jet airways market share and profits since late last year they have problems paying back loans and paying employees now what this will mean for consumers and aviation experts told al-jazeera than the short term for

domestic indian passengers prices will go up but indian flyers are very price conscious so they can only go up to a certain amount before people start flying and india with the having such a growth in the aviation industry it's believed that other competitors will fill the market share now internationally a bit different jet airways had many agreements and co-chairs with other international players particularly k. alam air france and getting competitors to take over those routes will take time as they have to negotiate with the airlines and airports and countries to fly those routes now it's not over for jet airways just yet particularly hundreds of employees are still striking to get the airline back into the skies and the investors the ones who own the debts the banks particularly are trying to get a new buyer interested in resurrecting the airline they're going gas shortages and strike by fuel tanker drivers hit that day and the demanding better pay and working conditions the government declared

a national emergency on tuesday ordering drivers to get back on the road to supply hospitals and afterwards but they own industry body says around two thousand stations to have been refueled causing panic among mattresses ahead of the busy to season. climate change activists in london have targeted the city's rail network on a fair day of protests aimed at causing disruption to the city two demonstrators climbed on top of the carriage and another super glued himself to its window while the train was stopped in london's financial district at least three hundred forty people have been arrested since the extinction rebellion protests began on monday the group is calling for the government to declare an ecological emergency and take radical measures to protect the environment. this is really difficult none of us wants to there's someone with her as a mother has children. with and living on violence we don't want to disrupt anyone's lies we don't want to cause any damage with daisy any other option i love

the things that we're doing in town that people are on board with and it's thought of as big thing but in the middle of all this is so great will that change at the will of the government so we've got to keep going go to keep pushing we don't want to do this but it is a sure fire way of getting the debate on the table i mean for me personally other money for the least popular person in the world off the south she is known as the issues on the table people talking about exists. teenage environmentalist gratitude burgos thanked pope francis first standing up for the climate a sixteen year old swedish activist briefly met the head of the roman catholic church in vatican city the pontiff gave his blessing and encouraged her to continue her work turn back to spearhead of global movement of students skipping school to strike against global warming. but in our experience life on mars as long as you go to the middle of the gobi desert that's where china has created

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party will be brought under army and police control. former president has died hours after shooting himself in the head to avoid arrest at his home in lima. was being investigated for bribery it was become latin america's largest corruption scandal latin america. has. he has consistently denied that he had taken any money from all of the british the brazilian company the engineering company that has been accused in actually has confessed to bribing nearly of almost every country in latin america hundreds of millions of dollars in order to obtain contract always deny this but finally prosecutors are did not believe him and the government at all why refused to give him a refuge at the embassy when he requested it just a few months ago so clearly he decided he was not going to face the court and ended his life dramatically and he's twenty eight people are dead after

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journalists in tanzania routinely face the threat of office rates of arrest and even violence particularly when reporting of those in power i femi ok today will look at why freedom of expression is on life support in tanzania and ask how reporters and activists are battling to keep it alive so your thoughts through twitter and the you tube live chat.

since becoming tanzania's president in late twenty fifteen join a mug of food has a nickname the buddha while supporters say his government has moved swiftly against corruption and high spending critics say he has also pelz through constitutional rights and freedom of expression journalists must observe several recently passed laws and there are swift penalties on those who don't fall in line and one of the most recent cases authorities suspended the citizen newspaper from publishing material for seven days saying it had deliberately published false information on the value of the tanzanian shilling other newspapers and radio stations have been suspended for even longer periods accused of sedition and undermining national security there was chickens have we notice across the wider region two weeks ago the east african court of justice was that one particular media law breaches the treaty of the east african community of which tanzania is a member the government says it is open to reviewing the law but as the government

faces why spray criticism is it possible for journalists in tanzania to report freely for more we have more talking the sub-saharan african representative of the committee to protect journalists she joins us from nairobi kenya maria high is director of change tanzania a social media movement she is in dar es salaam and from the tasmanian town of machine we have i can do. we haven't quite she's a development research political scientists however players get to see you so we have an issue here when we're talking about freedom of press and journalism and what it's will join is feel comfortable about coming on the show that we share with you one example of what we've been dealing with in the last few days i would have loved to be interviewed as you've suggested but this is not practically possible now owing to the job issues and underline press freedom circumstances in the country at the moment let me just translate that we've had number of people who

have been just to scat to come in the stream to talk about this break and we actually heard from someone who's not a journalist but is has been looking at this issue for a while now who talks about why that might be to give us a tiny little history lesson here and she explains in a video common tournaments and a hang us who's the executive director at the legal and human rights center on the fact that this is been a long time coming how listen started we came to fifteen. after the the the previous village. we took. a little bit suspicious of it a little was enough to sober going to. control people communicating. to the region. and then the was it not to me this is not how long was in that there is the distance and close the distance and i don't know is it not to elation. when to use it so they love to have laws in tanzania each.

nothing to treat this even. so maria she lists the acts that have led to what we're seeing today what a fact have those had on journalists in tanzania. i think primarily we can be looking at something of more of a chilling effect so apart from some of the more prominent cases where we've seen pointed up like for the publications been shut down but then there is another angle to that right now most of the editors are very worried of getting letters from the so-called spokesperson of the government this is the person who by law is in charge of looking at the content of what has been published by newspapers and also can write a warning letter we've seen you know the citizen been suspended because of writing about the economic back so this has become really something whereby the censor

themselves and i think that is the most worrying part the example you given of a journalist or a person working in the media being wary about it comes from that that they're really worried what if i you know what if i speak out and tomorrow my publication get shut down will get a warning letter i can see you in tanzania right now for the last couple of years how do you see changing the way that people conduct themselves the way that they told the way that they write the way that they blog for instance. that is loss of change and. luck fulfill censorship even if social media that you know that i'm studying i've seen many people being very sensitive and careful on housing actually treating all posting on facebook and or used to graham and this is because they have a why are we of the legislation's out there and less. scared to be challenged

so people are very sensitive and question as and this has also led to an on off we want to express but that one may be did they walk in the simplicity so maybe worried about their job in even private sector and this is this is really the impact of this is comes down to organizing for change it becomes very difficult because of the. censorship and self-censorship that people find that fills. in the situation so we got this tweet just a few minutes ago and i just wanted to bring this in because people kind of can't believe what they're hearing but then others are saying we know this is to be true so this is a man sore and he's in that latter group he says journalists reporting issues critical to the government base constant threat beatings jail time and journalists have just disappeared so i want to share the story of one of those journalists who

reportedly has just disappeared and i know the committee to protect journalists is actually trying to make some noise about it for the hashtags where it is absorbed and this is the journalist who was looking into. some criminal activity when he went missing and it's now been over five hundred days was ok. yes so thank you for bringing up the case of a story go on to this because we actually think it's one of the cases there really is symptomatic of what's going on in tanzania but also at the same time has an impostor on the press freedom and vironment in the country so what do i mean by this as you said i'm very glad i had been missing for over five hundred days yet we have not seen credible investigations into exactly what happened to him good of course since the message to journalists that there is a disregard for your safety that if something happens you will not necessarily. at

the same time because of the controversial and sensitive nature of what she was to quote seems it sends a chilling message it has an impact on the larger media environment because journalists are left asking themselves if i write this critical story tomorrow if i ask you a question is the same thing going to happen to me is something similar going to happen to me so i was only going to pay for us to be p.j. is very much and clematis pic of the whole press freedom crisis that we've seen in tanzania we're talking have you had your own running for sale so i think in tanzania would you my talking about the hot. i would not mind. i did have my own running a colleague of mine and i under the quintiles was our africa program called to make this had a run in with also ricci's last year in november. we'd go on a trip to meet members of the civil society and journalists talk about the press freedom situation in the country and before we left we've taken the opportunity to

speak with the high commission in pretoria i called the embassy in nairobi the high commission in their o.b. to just ask us about the visa situations and we had an invite each a letter to do the same thing to go to tanzania we've been in tanzania for about for seven days when these individuals who didn't present themselves but claims they were from immigration came to our hotel room and took us away to an unmarked location and started interrogating us about why we were in tanzania and one of the things they specifically asked us about was our interest in the case of as lori wonder and we were released after being held overnight and who were able to leave sounds and yes safely but for us that experience was sort of a wakeup call to how bad things are truly become and also for us we see what's happened to us as we were able to leave but we have to ask ourselves what about the

journalists what about the press freedom advocates that have to operate and walk in this environment on a day to day basis and really we should be speaking out about them and we're trying to speak out about them as loudly as we can show the stories individuals such as a story go under and all the sons onion journalist the problem is in this kind of environment on a day to day basis i want to share i guess without an audience a little clip from a report that catherine soy from al-jazeera did back in december twenty eighth change from tanzania have a listen to how she should posting about the positive impact that the president tanzania appears to be having on the economy have a listen. he has been described as a populist he often says what ordinary people in tanzania want to hear and mostly take this fish market for example evening walk. talk to the

traders about their problems and give them money to build an office cooking area and trading sheds market trader a miriama chooses where the office is being built. i have been here for about two years but i have a president. to be poorer than before. i want to share some positive headlines from tanzania this one looks about. the at the positive aspects the president has had on the economy here he is laughing with the former head of the world bank looking very chummy that tanzania goes workers face purge in store payroll cleanup looking at the no clean up corruption in tanzania so there are some positive headlines coming out of the near future how does this there's a contrast between the economy and how the economy is doing and then how freedom of

speech is allowed to play out intensity can you explain that dichotomy. i think that first of all what has become clear because this was a a but. that that was not enough information but what is coming out is that both positive headlines and of the of this is anymore but one of the things that we've been engaged recently has been standing with the control an auditor general the government has been giving out since last year about misappropriated the missing funds from the government we've seen quite a large scale that there are millions of dollars worth of local currency that have been misappropriated that have not been properly accounted for and these are these are issues that we can very boldly say have raised for many of us the business questions whether the economy is doing that well or whether we are really fighting corruption or whether it is more about not getting the news a speedy used to investigative reporting which was very much incorporated in

previous years were the ones that usually unveiled a lot of the corruption but this did not come from necessarily from the problem and but the problem and act on information that was reported in the media right now what we see for example with the citizens band is that they reported about the economy and very specifically about the currency and saying that the currency was suffering what is left was a band of seven days and on the same day that the citizen was banned we also so that the foreign exchange bureaus or shop were actually be closed down by the government suddenly so what we're seeing is that economy that good news those headlines are not necessarily right now the reality in fact for a lot of people looking at the auditor general's report and looking at the economy and the way it stands they may not necessarily agree but they're scared to state out and in fact one of the things i wanted to quickly jump in that i kind of talked about was a does an additional law that was bought and it was not raised on the hang that to

scald online content regulation and this very specifically has targeted online media houses and brawl so they have to get permission even to have a you tube account. so i mean i'm actually glad you brought up having permission to have a youtube down because we got a few comments i'm going to read them out their lives and they are not agreeing with what our panelists are saying so have a look at one of these has caroline who writes on you tube maria is one of the opposition if she was not free would should be able to talk now from tanzania the normal citizens aren't even talking about it as this does not affect their lives only the opposition another person writes and this is a three about who says please ladies give respect to your country ten zinnias the only country any safa that always see as an example of development and great leadership stop being sellouts for westerners you can seize a few of those comments on our feed right there marie i'll give that to you since they mentioned you or what do you say to people who is not a problem you yes yes it's very simple it is it is it has become traditions and by

the way you didn't start today to say that anybody was criticising the government is the position in fact i think that if we would be also free you would see a lot more even from within the ruling party c.c.m. open they criticize the government but then there is a lot of fear the second thing is the fact that i speak out doesn't mean that a lot of other people are feeling just the street as i talk about these the chilling effect if the journalists don't feel free because what they call league law and they've decided to self serve or this being some of the newspapers been shut down then that is the problem and i don't see anything wrong but let me bring up something else that has been a lot of rhetorical coming out that is sometimes a crisis threatening anybody who says anything that critics critical of the government and that is where i think you find some of the people being very reluctant to come to the show or to speak of the opinion and this is the kind of techniques that they use they do have control paid for or using fake names that

would come they would attack you sometimes the try to hack you so these are techniques that are happening and i think it's just up to the person how to how they deal with it some people just do not want that harassment. i can they have you seen this recovery how would i want to go ahead i can tell you yeah yeah i wanted to add of the economy issue hustle fall i think the coverage that you posted where actually you beat all have said can't i'll just give one example that will show i will give money because in all of the hard problem for example recently i am with which is a very pretty way to national economic institution. forecasted that our economy would grow would grow at four percent is actually growing a four percent but there are fish out as tony can the official statement is that the car alarm is going up. between the range of seven and i mean six point something to seven but can you imagine there's not any newspaper that is actually

reported all analyzed or actually said anything about i was reporting we actually got to lloyd's through social media i think it was zero where always an opposition a member of parliament who posted the report and people started talking about it all or lying on only all treat that but there's not any you know step other discovered and this is from a very credible very credible institution it just takes a lot about how media is very scared to actually report anything about or about there so the situation there really situation of the economy that dish and we have in my area has mentioned there's a lot about the age europe or the control of or because in a report that has shown there's a huge problem of both misappropriation of public funds and city there and we see we've seen how the parliaments and led by the speaker and the who being pasty the

way they're actually trying to dismiss actually they said yes and just. the just don't want their conservative or hammers and this is exactly as i said i thought so too. that there is a problem because why would you want economic issues not to be discussed in the media and in the newspaper if i think one of them of the main. things that newspaper are really scared to talk about is the economy they might talk about many other things but when comes to conall me they're very really scared. contractor there was an exchange just today between their position leader and the spokesperson on the government whereby they took up with the some of the newspapers that covered his analysis of the report of the auditor general report we're going to receive the letter and the folks that it's true so what i'm trying to point out is these are

facts i mean these are not made up things these are facts are the admitted to it i have i think the fact that you know this is happening is a way of keeping control of what has been discussed but especially interesting the economy issues so so maybe just just just saying it's just just to add to what you're saying before i move on and maybe reporters can't report on negative aspects of the economy because back in february here the citizen was talking about the tanzanian economy growing at six point six percent this year so positive stories may be getting fruit the ones that are more critical perhaps not talking about critical stories let me give you a little comment from a member of the opposition how he sees the landscape right now in tanzania have a listen i was shocked sixteen times for denouncing president the feeling he is coming to office as the country literally into a police state where you spent as

a platform criticizing the president and it just touches a shutdown. used pepper man and other journalists. beaten up where even to post. a single message on what's up criticizing the government and over its plans has become really not offense so there is a member of one of the opposition parties in tanzania his name is too and. i'm just thinking we're talking if you are looking at an environment where there's a chilling of journalism a chilling of free speech from your perspective how do you tackle that. one of the things that i've been a big proponent of and one of the things that we've been really calling for is solidarity now if you look at what's happening in tanzania as you rightly pointed out at the beginning of this the beginning of this program it's nothing exactly news for the people in the region but it might be news for people beyond thought so

what we've been asking ourselves as and that is face outside tanzania but covers tanzania is what are we able to do that comes on young journalists themselves and sometimes on the press we don't press we don't advocate cannot do what can we do what can we say and this i think should extend even to the media communities the east african media community the african media community we all ought to be speaking out because our brothers and sisters are not able to speak in the environment within which that is so i think that is very important secondly it's also very important that focalize be shown such as our own and for everyone to simply listen to each other you had that message at the beginning of this program about how the journalists could not come onto the show but you were able to listen in to represent the voice of this journalist so how can we listen to the journalist

how can we were present these journalists and and even as private citizens there are very many ways in which we can interact with the sense that in your media and with the cons onions government to push for press freedom we can for instance talk to the representatives of the government in our own country we can continue to tell their stories through our networks through our social media and through any pluck from that we might have and this has been really the aim of the complaint that we saw said where we've been asking where is our story. i hear what you're saying but i underline it's interesting because i'm still seeing this kind of polarized debate and so on the one hand are people who agree with our panelist this is a tweet from mama in the embassy who says what the terms and government wants is for journalists to not criticize report anything that might paint the president in a bad light and the consequences including newspapers shutting down fines imprisonment disappearance and death threats we have no freedom of speech and our

press is far from free but then we gotten several tweets that look like this this is from baracoa who says we need to stop cherrypicking tanzania for hidden agendas second freedom of expression is relative and it's not a bottle of coca-cola which is going to import freedom of expression should develop according to that particular country based on its history and culture and then they go on to call out the united states is really not being that free either so i see you smiling there maria how do you move this forward when the debate is that polarized among people who say it's not that bad. i don't think it's that coloradans i think that the people that we're seeing in fact many of these accounts are coming from or a certain group into before but if you look at a more wider aspect especially for example recently we we had a company whereby a petition was put forward by one of the change has been a movement members to ask the parliament to stop its resolution or to rethink its

resolution of luck working with the control the auditor general were able to get fifteen thousand signatures online and these are people ready to give the names and the signatures so what i'm trying to point out is most of the people do understand that what we're seeing right now is a closing civic space but then there are always people who benefit from a given system and those people who do benefit are going to be there to defend it but if you look at it from a completely objective and actual point of view what you can see all these examples that we have been giving is very clear right would for example musicians be detained for giving out a song or why would a blogger be arrested i mean there's so many cases that within a span of a couple of years we've never seen in the entire history of time the media such illegal detention and that is the scary part people get arrested and that legally between for more than twenty four hours which is even against the law maria we're talking i can they thank you for shining light on this issue in tanzania we really

appreciate the time a conversation continues always online but he quit i will see you on twitter at eight chase street thanks for watching t.v.'s. to. the to.

the growing up in the united states i learned that the first amendment is really going to be a freedom of the soldiers going to be. men and women to the resources that are available but it's an al-jazeera story is that we just don't tell you what the soldiers of the story want to know the government is not going to do the one thing the demonstrators want to apologize for that's what al-jazeera does we ask the questions so that we can get closer to the truth but i'm a citizen every week news cycle brings a series of breaking stories and then of course there's donald trump the town through the eyes of the welts jannah nace that's right out of a hamas script that calls for the annihilation of israel that is not what that phrase means at all he joined the listening post as we turned the cameras on the media and focused on how they were told on the stories that matter the most him better use a free palestine their listening post on al-jazeera. the current president and

a popular comedian a heading for the second round of the presidential election with no official plan yet promising a change the comedian won the biggest share of the vote in the first round who would lead the country after this historic connection ukraine votes twenty nineteen on al-jazeera. however on terror not in the top stories on our jazeera sudan's a former president bashir has reportedly been moved from house arrest to the maximum security cobar prison where she had been kept at the presidential residence since being forced from power by the army last week military leaders have also arrested dozens of former officials who were part of bush's government including two of his brothers sudan's military council says irregular forces loyal to

precious party will be brought under army and police control may have involved has more from khartoum. insider sources told our dizzy about that former president omar has an admission has been moved to the jail of cold war in the north of khartoum that's the district of battery former president omar bashir has been held in house arrest since the coup that took place last week and there have been demands by protesters and the by the various components of the sudanese opposition for and bashir to be tried soon as possible there is a lot of criticism among the opposition and the protesters with regards to the way in which the military council is handling the situation of amal bashir and the top leaders of the former regime particularly the fact that they're being very secure about what's going on and what is happening to them until now there is no official statement from the military council confirming or denying that bashir has been

moved to this jail and we know that over the last several days the i.c.c. has asked for him to be handed for trial for crimes against humanity in darfur the military council has said that that's not an option sudan will not hand of bashir but if he's going to be tried he will be tried inside sudan itself meanwhile the protesters are continuing their sit ins in front of the military headquarters and they are insisting that they will not move from that place until the complete list of the months which they have submitted to the military council is fulfilled also we have seen huge rallies taking place today by various professional organizations particularly the unions of doctors sites of. asking for the same demands and tomorrow more rallies are expected in the streets of khartoum and that's because protesters say that their only strength and their only power of negotiation with

the military council is for them to maintain this high visibility in the streets. peru's former president alan garcia has died hours after shooting himself in the head to avoid arrest gus he was being investigated for bribery in what's become latin america's largest corruption scandal he turned the gun on himself as police arrived at his home in lima to arrest him garcia was rushed to hospital and had emergency surgery but died from his wounds. the u.s. national security adviser has not new sanctions on cuba nicaragua and venezuela what he calls the troika of tyranny john bolton says five names linked to cuba's military and intelligence services will be blacklisted and that the u.s. will restrict nonfamily travel to cuba but the white house is also lifting a ban on american lawsuits against foreign firms doing business in cuba. the troika of tyranny cuba venezuela and nicaragua is beginning to crumble.

and as i noted at the freedom tower away last fall the united states looks forward to watching each corner of this sordid triangle of terror fall in havana in caracas . and he's twenty eight people are dead after a tourist bus overturned in portugal as according to portuguese media the accident took place on the island of madeira most of the victims are reported to be german several ambulances are at the scene of funerals have been held for the victims of shelling in the libyan capital at least seven people were killed when a densely populated district of tripoli was targeted on tuesday night forces loyal to the eastern warlord highly for have to have been trying to take the city from the u.s. supported government for the past two weeks both sides have blamed each other for tuesday's attack there's

a headline stay stay with this witness is up next more news after that. the end. of the of. the dream that i had i think it was in one thousand three hundred ninety four is

probably the most profound dream that i've ever had because it came true but it begins with me walking. in a circle in what seems to be a prison with my arabic teacher and my every teacher was a is a great pacifist. and we are being surrounded by soldiers who pointing guns at us and as we're walking i'm saying to him dear brother how much of this humiliation are we going to stand and take and he says to me patients other patients. as he's saying this to me. everybody's fired upon all of us walking in the circle in this prison are fired upon and everybody stops and starts dropping like flies except me. five months ago sat in that same started this cruel war against kuwait the night the battle has been

joined. around one thousand nine hundred ninety one i was a regular teenager was someone who was struggling with concepts of identity really was i british was i muslim was asian was i pakistani as i started to think about my options for the future it was then that the gulf war broke out many muslims of watch the developments in the gulf with growing dismay some muslims see the present conflict as a war against islam. i had been beaten up by racists skinheads i've been told numerous times from school on words from secularist cool never in the jewish school that i went to go home how do i call myself british when there are

organizations like the british movement who tell me that i'm not british. everybody wants to be part of something and so part of my journey would be finding belonging in a ghetto finding belonging in my father's tales of old india trying to be black speaking with a accent and so there was a whole process of trying to find where i fit and eventually i came at the end of that journey actually islam. included all. one for war began in the balkans i remember being shocked that these people being killed because they were muslims. when i saw what was happening to them i thought that's happening to me because i'm a muslim i went on this long convoy and in a matter of days we were in bosnia i was slightly scared going into was

on when i got there and saw the destroyed houses the famous bridge and most other member of the graveyards filled with new graves and then spending time at refugee centers in these big trucks villages contrast it against the brutality. then i came to a place which was part of. the third core. good coffee army post on sky or they are in army was made up of foreign volunteers and local bosnians it reinforced for me the sense of. a muslim identity the transcends national boundaries there was a sense that these were the bravest and the most effective of the fighting forces. they called themselves of course mujahideen is the terminology they used to

describe themselves so when i saw the change in a come from around the world to do what these united nations forces would not do. i felt not only is this the right thing to lose the only thing to do i support them. and it is waking me up to a wider reality. in one thousand. joke was that connected with bosnia and with that personal development and ninety eight i think that's one we opened my friend and a colleague of mine a bookshop an islamic bookshop that was part of my development into. the from being somebody who's. partially islamic to somebody who's fully islamic it was of course during this period that i started getting under the radar of the security services.

the bodies of eleven americans killed in the nairobi bombing are on their way home to the united states a somber process that's brought grief to the nation and anger to government leaders vowing to track down those responsible today i ordered on forces to strike at terrorist related facilities now afghanistan and sudan because of the imminent threat they presented to our national security. this man was the target of the american missiles are some of been largely the saudi fundamentalist who's used his personal fortune estimated at two hundred million pounds to fight american interests worldwide pledging a holy war to ordinary people in sudan the american missile strike on khartoum was shockingly unexpected from their government all they have heard is that it was a totally unjustified act of united states terrorism. i've always understood that my view on the west was i've been extremely critical of it it's also my home it's

also where i live where the language i speak i think in this language is a place where my mother is buried my sister's buried and my kids grew up and where i grew up it's where i have my memories of childhood and happiness and joy. coming into conflict with the west would also mean coming into conflict with home and that's something i've never ever want to do i percolated. i remember distinctly there was a. knock on my daughter early morning around six o'clock and i opened the door three able to men and a woman and they said mr bank would like to talk to us and a really odd one of them identify themselves as a police officer the other guys didn't really say who they were. they sat down and we spoke and it was about an individual somebody i knew.