being this fictional president in his runaway success television series. way he played the president of ukraine and ukrainians i think had an awful lot of hope that somehow that might transfer into real actions as president of ukraine he has now spoken to his supporters and to his campaign members back here at headquarters and he said he thanked everyone for their involvement and of course to the ukrainian people for choosing him and he said that what happened in ukraine would set a good example to other post soviet countries that could become more democratic. in the way they govern now with me to talk about how mr z. that he may in fact govern is michael moore said ski from the globe who's a global affairs analyst michael thank you very much for talking to al-jazeera this

evening. what is now going to happen we have a president potentially it seems who has no political experience how is he going to govern this country well hopefully he will not become a laughing stock hoping hopefully ukraine will not become a laughing stock i think what's going to happen there is going to be a very short honeymoon and then he's going to have to start delivering very quickly on the bread and butter issues that ukrainians voted him in for i think the main reason he did get in is because polish uncle campaign was tone deaf to a lot of the issues that ukrainians care about rooting out corruption better standard of living better pensions that was very little talked about now having said all that what he will have to do the moment he wakes up tomorrow morning is to probably trot up to the hill to parliament here and start working on finding a way to work with the coalition's it's very fractious right there right now there's not a feasible working coalition because they are need they are all needed to get legislation through and also. a lot of his appointments. does that mean that he's

going to have to do deals to kind of deals that make it very very difficult to carry out the kind of reforms and to be the big change that he's been representing to the ukrainian people they will get disappointed very quickly when they hear he's going to have to do a lot of horse trading and one of the things that worries about me if you listen to going to a speech today he said i may be leaving the president's office but i'm not leaving politics and i think there is a little bit of vindictiveness in his voice so that's going to be something to look out for but yeah. you know the other problem he has he doesn't have a party in parliament it's only exists on paper so he is going to have to make deals and there are a lot of people it has to be said that do not like this man whatsoever that policy though as he said on paper it's a servant of the people's party and it's already being shown to be the most popular party in ukraine even though it doesn't exist yet so there's

a lot of good will for him and that would translate at the ballot box parliamentary elections which would be way well the pro me tree elections are supposed to up in october however there is a fast one if we want to put it that way that is alaska could use and that is going to court in proving that there is no functioning coalition in the parliament and that could be grounds for early dissolution of the parliament and for an election top in earlier so that will be another thing we'll be looking out for but there is goodwill among stuff people but in the parliament you have people tied to oligarchs you have people tied to not very nice people and playing mr nice guy or mr comedian or mr new face may not cut it in terms of that deal making i'm hopeful that some things will happen because things have to change here in ukraine it's the poorest country in europe right now a lot of people are leaving so it has to happen quickly ok michael thank you very much for talking to us here on al-jazeera is it when they would. didn't mention

that was the ongoing conflicts between russia and ukraine and in which thirteen thousand or more people have died in the east of the country this is a big big issue that mr zelinsky will have to deal with back to you in london it is indeed thank you very much robyn for stay walker n.k.f. with al-jazeera life from london there is more still ahead for you protesters in the bangladeshi capital demand justice for a young woman who was burnt to death after reporting sexual abuse. and prayers for a peaceful future in mali after the political crisis which has seen the prime minister and the entire government resign. hello it's still the case that most of us are nice warm weekend and the cloud is still full so absent from most places but

a bit more building this cloud his start to form itself into a bit of rain and the big well wind up has been over spain is now spreading itself north over france in fact the heart of that is bringing in a lot of low dust from the sahara eventually coming through tunisia and now in the western med that stormy looking weather which eventually i think moved north was least a dust move northwards through france the british isles next couple days but that's just compensation for the extreme warmth of now twenty five in paris and twenty three in london as a forecast for monday and there's the cloud that's bringing some rain to parts of eastern austria slovakia and was remain year as well now that's just one the round little bit otherwise things only change or remove this stormy stuff up through italy probably slovenia again western austria parts of switzerland as well wish leaves you'd think some improved patton in the weather over spain but are afraid not as the still rain in eastern spain's only fourteen in madrid and as yet it's

still warm in paris at twenty four and much lower in london despite the breeze. in syria citizens are collecting evidence to get off of it bill has shot of crimes committed against civilians who've moved out of syria and about six hundred thousand pages of material so that one day they can bring the assad regime to justice it puts a human face on the charges it's a dead human face but it's a human face syria witnesses for the prosecution on al-jazeera. ban.

i'm back a quick look at the top stories this hour of an overnight curfew is in place in sri lanka and social media shut down after attacks on three churches and four hotels at least two hundred seven people were killed more than four hundred injured in eight blasts the prime minister says eight suspects linked to the blast have been arrested but no one has claimed responsibility for the attacks and our other headline a television comedian is set to become ukraine's next president exit polls show a lot to me as a lens he secured seventy three percent in the runoff vote against the incumbent petro poroshenko. we go to sudan now where protest leaders there are saying their discussions with the military have not been taken seriously it follows talks between the army and demonstrators who are calling for an immediate transition to a civilian government meanwhile sudan's military rulers say former president omar

al bashir and his close associates are now in prison the head of the transitional military council also says they are considering protesters demands for a joint military civilian council but protest leaders say they no longer recognize a military group and how. we reaffirm that we can. be in three. weeks allowed the former regime to regain power dream. to reproduce itself we stood good. let's go live now to mohammed vall who is in the capital hard to manage if the protest leaders are now saying that they don't recognize the military council does that mean a complete breakdown in these talks. apparently

it is a breakdown in the talks but also the understanding is that it is raising the ante they are trying to speak in strong language in a strong language that can be understood and appreciated by the military they know that the military are powerful they have the weapons they can change the jeems but also they are capitalizing on the power of the streets the military have been saying that they have changed that is only in the name of people in the response to that the months of the people of sudan now the protest leaders of the protests they are capitalizing on this that they are talking to their masters from that strength telling them that it's because of you and it is for you without this change has being done but would not has been done but we're not happy with it we don't consider that this is what we have been demanding so there is this arm twisting between the two sides the military they believe that time is on their side because they think that hours weeks go by days go by the protesters will lose the momentum

and probably they will just get tired and go home the protest leaders on the other side they they also know that and that's because because of the knowledge they know that they have really to speak very powerful in are and to do whatever they can to force the hand of the military to cede power to the civilians they said that this military council is just a production of the former regime there are very skeptical about all the measures that have been taken they accuse the military council of lack of transparency or being very obscure about the real measures being taken so we are seeing this confrontation getting stronger and stronger between the two sides but also reports suggest they will continue to talk to each other somehow because this that if you look at the details of the statement it says that they have stopped and they will stop the consultations in the communications with the. political committee they did

not say with the military council yes they have going to size the military council but i think it forms sort of a complete withdrawal of recognition of the council they are still going to deal with the council but they want the council to be more genuine in its dealings they want the council to be more transparent and they want to the council to speed up the transfer of power to a civilian government thank you very much for the latest from khartoum one hundred val we go to mali now where an army camp has been attacked in the town of care northeast of the capital account was reportedly ambushed and burnt to the ground there reports the attackers killed at least twelve soldiers as well if it comes in the middle of a political crisis after the prime minister and the government resigned on thursday following protests that rocked the capital bamako in early april threats of more protests the president is now in talks with the opposition to create a new government nicholas haq reports from the nightly in capital bamako.

a prayer for a peaceful future from those celebrating easter in bamako as cathedral mali is without a government after its prime minister and cabinet were forced to step down on thursday following unprecedented demonstration on the streets of the capital in march a militia group that had received backing from prime minister micah talk to the religious killing one hundred sixty seven people the un peacekeeping operation in mali has more than seventeen thousand soldiers including french british and canadian troops despite that security forces were not deployed until seven hours after the attack and did this shocked the nation. among the demonstrators who chanted out with foreign forces and down with the government is law student. and her daughter i said to me you know one cheek one. of course we are angry we are frustrated life is getting worse for us and what happened to the people there but you'd like goats it has to stop it hurts us if there's no change we will keep

demonstrating. change and security is what president promised when he was reelected for a second term in disputed elections last august so far his critics say he's failing to deliver his prime minister a former intelligence chief relied on militia men instead of the mali an army to bring back stability but what started out in two thousand and twelve as an armed rebellion in northern mali is now turning into ethnic violence edging closer to the capital. is facing mounting political pressure he's holding emergency talks at the presidential palace but the challenge for president he brought you back arcade is not only to find a new prime minister that will resurrect mali's government but one that told me that. the opposition the ruling party and the people who are increasingly taking to the streets to get their voices heard. the opposition rejects any possibility for

a unity government and is asking catered to step down. he stole the election for almost given the circumstances we should be running the country we are not going to take part in any government run by somebody who robbed us it is an uphill battle for kate and for the million people. with the violence spreading it seems there is no miracle solution in this search for peace some millions pay the ultimate sacrifice while others pray for their country to rise again. because hawk al-jazeera bamako. protesters in the bangladeshi capital addis justice for a young woman who was bunt to death after reporting sexual abuse rights groups and dukkha organized a human chain for nineteen year old john rafi she was set on fire earlier this month for refusing to drop a sexual harassment case against her islamic school teacher

a death sparked outrage across the country. we demand that the devoted. so that all those who are responsible who were associated with it died according to at least. refer to the law enforcement agencies and local at mr stone and politically and other with the influence of people who have been found to be protecting and promoting this injustice to be brought to book to justice to for them to be punished if they have their phone responsible for wrong doing. bowls of closed macedonia weapon people have been voting in the first presidential election since the country changed its name the governing social democratic party candidate stephen has campaigned on nato and e.u. membership while his main rival god donna said. call for a university professor is supported by the nationalist party analysts say time out is expected to be low due to voter apathy with the government's failure to tackle high unemployment. now china is the fastest growing film market in the world this

week's beijing film festival was meant to showcase the industry's rapid rise but with several recent scandals and local censorship stifling creativity events struggle to make its mark katrina you has more from the chinese capital. the journey of a chinese musician in one nine hundred forty s. kazakhstan opened this year's beijing film festival the movie the composer wasn't chosen because of its acting or special effects but because it aligns with china's political and economic priorities the film was produced as a part of its belt and road initiative. titles from other participant countries iran and hungry also featured. as chinese celebrities took to the red carpet. names were notably absent the capital is seen as more of a homage to communist party leadership rather than the art of filmmaking. beijing has intensified its crackdown on films which don't align with socialist values. or

ship is that obviously a hurdle for the film industries development but. it is like dangling in handcuffs. with your hands tarred movie celebrating seventy years since the founding of modern china was spotlighted while canadian film in god i trust was suddenly disinvited due to political reasons many have blamed chinese tensions with canada over the detention of. one. oscar winning film the favorite was pulled over its betrayal of lesbian relationships but that i will not do china's movie industry has exploded in recent years over nine thousand. twenty a lower. production. power lies all thanks to a tax evasion scandal involving one country biggest. last july actress

fun building disappeared from public view following revelations of false contracts and tax evasion a crippling sweep of the tire industry followed. so. many in the industry have complained some went bankrupt and had to retreat from the industry is a double edged sword it's punished those who should be and those who shouldn't be you know there were very negative impact on the industry. but it's not all bad news for chinese cinema goers the slowdown in domestic production has led to a quiet loosening of restrictions on foreign films and at the closing of the festival it was foreign films which dominated the temple of heaven awards danish movie a fortunate man took home best picture the wandering earth china's second highest grossing film of all time received the award for best visual effects katrina you al-jazeera painting. where you can catch the latest on our top stories al-jazeera

dot com is the address for everything you need to know. just a quick look at the top stories an overnight curfew is in place in sri lanka and social media shut down after a series of attacks that shook the island eight suspects have been arrested after the blast which killed at least two hundred seven people and injured hundreds more the attacks targeted three churches in colombo. batticaloa during easter sunday services there were also blasts of four luxury hotels and a guest house in colombo as well as a house where three police officers were killed while trying to capture suspects in our other top stories a comedian is set to be ukraine's next president not emir zelinsky was the wildcard in the election with no political experience other than playing the president on t.v. but he's now secured a resoundingly tree in the runoff vote with exit polls giving him seventy three

percent of the vote with the incumbent petro poroshenko on just twenty five percent . of us all. together thanks to everyone i know there will be no pathetic speeches i just want to say thank you. do you. agree or do you use this month i will leave the post of the head of state this is what most of you have decided and i accept this decision i will leave office but i want to announce firmly i would not leave politics. now to sudan protest leaders say that their discussions with the military have not been taken seriously it follows talks between the army and demonstrators who are calling for an immediate transition to a civilian government meanwhile sudan's new military rulers say the former president a model bashir and his close associates are now in prison ahead of the transitional military council also says they're considering protesters demands for

a joint military civilian council. and protesters in the bangladeshi capital are demanding justice for a young woman who was burnt to death after reporting sexual abuse rights groups in dakar organized a human chain for a nineteen year old no stretch john rafi she was set on fire earlier this month for refusing to drop a sexual harassment case against her islamic school teacher her death sparked outrage across the country what brings you up to date with all of our top stories this hour coming up next talk to al-jazeera and then i'll be more news here after that in about half an hour's time i'll see you then.

only trouble. with you in the world is all those. who say. it's the one riddle that seems almost impossible to solve look at any major city regardless of political or economic system and the chances are it's not solve the basic issue for its citizens how to strike a balance between supply and demand for housing and in that dilemma lies a real human rights problem at least according to the un special rapporteur to adequate housing leylandii for how she was appointed in twenty fourteen and the picture she's painting of this difficult situation isn't pretty given how persistent and pervasive it is around the world a natural question to ask is is there any solution and any particular or easily identifiable calls. we discussed this real and complex question with lani for her

on talk to al-jazeera and. me for her special rockets on the right to adequate housing thank you for talking to al-jazeera we'll have a discussion about the global housing and homelessness problem but first let me ask you about that title special report. explain to us what that means what you do and who you report to sure i was appointed by the u.n. human rights council which has pretty much the highest human rights body within the u.n. system and i am appointed as a kind of global watchdog at least that. how the media presents me and my job is to monitor and assess how people are doing with respect to their right to housing in countries around the world so it's a global mandate and i look at things like homelessness the adequacy of housing the affordability of housing forced evictions those sorts of things my job is also to

kind of develop the right to housing to some degree to write thematic reports to help states understand what does the right to housing actually mean and how can it be implemented in a practical way. i also try to hold states accountable to their human rights obligations not an easy task but certainly a really important one and in this day and age let's start with the basics you talk about the right to housing where is it written down that everyone has a right to housing yet so it's in the universal declaration of human rights for example article twenty six everyone has the right to an adequate standard of living including adequate housing it's in a document celebrates his seventieth birthday right now that's right exactly so you know if that is the main articulation and i like that articulation because it sits there amidst all of the human rights you know and that's the way i view housing it

has tentacles into every other human right practically think about the right to life and security of the person but it's in a whole host of treaties the most recent recent treaty took to come into being the one on persons with disabilities it includes the right to adequate housing it's in an articulation of economic social and cultural rights a treaty about those rights it's articulated there it's actually one of the most articulated economic and social rights out there so there has been a lot of writing in activism on the right to housing the right to adequate housing difficult words new water adequate who decides what is adequate you know so. it's funny because it's so obvious what might be adequate housing what we say is that under international human rights law and there is a u.n. committee that has talked about this through what they call a general comment that housing is not just about four walls and

a roof it is about four walls and a roof but it's not just about that it's about living in a place where you have peace security and most importantly dignity and once you start playing with the idea of dignity well you can imagine what that means it means living in a place with proper sanitation and basic services toilets running water it means living in a place that's close to employment so that you can actually generate an income for your for your family or house or it means living close to health care services child care services it means having security of tenure and that's a cornerstone cornerstone of the right to housing in other words you should not be fearful that you're going to lose your home like that. those are that you know the basic tenets it means living in a place without experiencing discrimination having access to housing without discrimination so adequacy is actually fairly well defined and in this you know right now affordability is

a key component of adequate housing and the way affordability is defined is based on what a household income is so house housing has to be affordable to people based on their actual income not based on what the market can bear you to find it very clearly let's now talk about how many people in the world do not have that now i preparing to talk to you been trying to read all the statistics you are an expert on this i've been trying to get up to speed it seems to me the last time a really big global survey was done was a long time ago two thousand and five when they came up with one hundred million homeless worldwide and one point six billion people laughing adequate housing. that's some time ago over a decade ago yes the situation got worse or better yes i mean i suspect the situation has only got worse if i look at my daily reality in my e-mail inbox i can only say that there are so many troubling issues on in the area of housing

right now so i think those figures are probably outdated and things have probably got worse we do know for example that approximately nine hundred million people that's a quarter of the world's population are living in informal settlements informal settlements slums that is without all of those elements of adequacy that i was talking about with often without basic services certainly without security of tenure so i mean it's a huge it's a huge percentage of the world's population right this is a very very urgent and serious matter if you have whatever figures of homelessness and how you define homelessness even if you just look at street homelessness tell me a city you've been to where you haven't seen street homelessness and you talk about these informal settlement. towns that some called him because some of the people the see the community and they don't actually want to move from those places to that that's exactly right and one of the things that i find fascinating about

informal settlements is the dual nature on the one hand. people are experiencing extreme violations of human rights in those informal settlements or slums right no no toilets and no sanitation i mean the horror of that we can all imagine no showers crumbling structures of fear of the vixen all the time so that's on the one hand the reality on the other hand i've visited many informal settlements the vibrancy in those places the sense of community the way they will even though they don't have a paved road they will name their streets they will give each house a number they will in. sure there is a community center where people can meet and talk and discuss there is a vibrancy there and people do want to remain in their homes of course some people have lived in informal settlements for decades and generations so of course they don't want to leave and in fact under international human rights law that's the standard upgrading should happen in an ensuite to or as we say on site way in other

words don't remove people from their homes unless there is absolutely no other option i've been looking at some of the figures or trying to find some of the figures for some of the key countries and obviously the problem is going to be worst in the places where there are more people particularly more people living in urban areas and it's difficult to get the real figures nigeria i've seen estimates of twenty four point four homeless people estimates in india an official figure of one point seven seven million but then the mess to most of seventy eight million the figures vary widely even here where we are right now where in new york in the u.s. official figures much smaller than the rest much of up to three point five million homeless do you believe this problem is seriously under reported and if so. you can decide that homeless population is people living rough on the streets and then

you're going to get one figure you're going to go around and do a count on a single night how many people do you count on your street that's going to be a small figure you could then say no my definition is on the streets and in shelters so then you're going to get a slightly bigger figure but what about all of those people who are couch surfing living with family friends relatives etc because they have no other place to go that's a population that is almost impossible to measure we know that that in every country that there is that population out there we know that and so the estimates are going to vary widely based on definition i don't think that. homelessness has been viewed as a human rights issue that it is the i don't think it's been given the sort of urgency of the political will of social policy that it deserves and so i think that's also part of the problem let's talk about the life of someone who's homeless

and why the definition whether it's in an informal settlements or actually living on the streets how does it affect someone's life not just not having somewhere to live one of the ways to save the fact that for example the hells. this is a population that is deeply traumatized you can imagine. a day on the street it would be completely traumatizing for us in light of you know where we are how we're positioned it might imagine a week on the streets imagine a year imagine five years it is a completely traumatizing experience and what we find is that the that experience can actually trigger psychosocial disability people are always like oh the people who are homeless or they're all crazy they're all going to have some psychological problems many many people who hit the streets are completely of sound mind it's the trauma of being on the street that can trigger psycho social

disability the trauma of living on the street is what often leads people to do things like drugs right it's to numb the experience i've talked to many people in the united states in particular i was out in california and just saw some harrowing situations people with gainful employment working in hospitals working in animation studios living on the streets and telling me that the trauma of that has led them to undertake activities they never thought that they would be doing you mentioned life and expectancy one figure so can from the u.k. from the national health service in the u.k. the average homeless person has a life expectancy of forty seven years now if you go back to the wider population of the u.k. you have to go back about one hundred use for that to be the average life expectancy this is shameful isn't it i think it's shameful and you know you gave figures of homeless rates in different countries and you said you know what of course in the bigger countries there's going to be more people who are homeless but

the way in which we deal with that sort of an analysis of homelessness is not so much based on population size and ratio but we look at the wealth and resources of a country and then we look at housing and home inadequate housing and. homelessness because of course there's there should be a correlation wealthy nation largest g.d.p. in the world you might expect to see less homelessness per capita cetera or no homelessness but that's not what we're seeing if you look at north america if you look at europe what are we seeing rising rates of homelessness in the richest countries in the world that to me is where we get into extremely shameful territory extremely shameful why is that how is it acceptable that you know g.d.p. is are increasing all the time hopefully and homelessness is rising all the time so

is the main reason that cities as they grow as a nation takes place have become unaffordable for most people one of the things is this very new phenomenon we've seen since about two thousand and eight that very special year where we mark the global financial crisis. housing has changed housing has become basically the hottest commodity around and at the same time housing is supposed to be a human right and so what we have is. investment in housing as a commodity as a place to park capital and grow wealth and that has changed the way in which housing operates it means you know if you think about it if you have investors private equity firms vulture funds buying up paos ing who are who is their principal concern it's their investor and if they're using housing to satisfy their

investor interests what do they have to do with that housing if it's rental housing . it's obvious they have to increase their rents so what do governments do about the problem of homelessness because some are only dealing with that part of the problem hungry for example has come up with a new law or it's made homelessness effectively a crime it's bound for you to live on the streets they say people should go to emergency shelters is that going to help a policy like that it's it's i think it's cruel and i think it's completely misguided and obviously it's out of step with international human rights and human rights obligations it's out of step with the sustainable development goals there are places that are doing some good works in the area of homelessness if you look at the housing first study to see it is it is which actually sits nicely within a human rights framework the idea of housing first finland is where the model was

first developed and it's where it is most successful finland and norway are the only places in europe where we haven't seen an increase in homelessness in the last year. and the housing first model is just that you say we will provide this population with housing first and then we will provide all of the services and supports that those households need in order to make a go of things and that's not time delimited and that's where the success lies in finland for example so in other words it's not a we'll throw services and supports at you for twelve months and then take pull up your socks and make your own way it is services and supports until that household really can be autonomy this and survive and thrive so that is a model that is working on the homelessness front but that doesn't address affordability issues and these bigger macro things that are happening that i that i've touched on you've mentioned your visits you've mentioned your very recent visit to egypt you were allowed to go in many other human rights defenders have not

been allowed to visit egypt the government there is. trying to make efforts to provide new housing are you concerned though that they are also trying to move populations away from the areas where they have the luxury. yeah my trip to egypt is very fresh i just got back. i think that the government is making a concerted effort to deal with some of their housing issues they have prioritized people living in what they call a life threatening situation so you know too close to a railway line underneath power lines that kind of thing underneath rocks that could fall and i think that that's really important obviously we want to save lives . i am a little bit concerned about the model in egypt because it's not people centered and a human rights approach to dealing with in formality or dealing with inadequate housing

and i should say forty percent of the population in egypt is living in informal housing or what people call slums. if the human rights approach should be human centered you should really ensure that the population is part of the process every step of the way. it's an understanding that communities actually have knowledge expertise about their own fate and their own futures and their own communities and you have to empower those communities provide them with the resources to come up with their own plans another one recently i think worth raising is kabera in nairobi. watching the destruction of these homes it really sums up doesn't it the inequality center of the. the kibera situation is also deeply alarming to me and again i spoke out about that situation thirty thousand people facing homelessness. that mean that's the reality completely

contrary to international human rights law and kenya's own constitution which. protects the right to housing and has provisions around for steve actions. you know as i said the standard. for these situations is that you know force eviction is one considered a gross violation of human rights no community should be victim unless there is absolutely no viable alternative i have seen situations in thailand where in bangkok where the government wanted to build off ramp from a highway right into a community an informal settlement and the community rallied and managed to figure out a way that that off ramp could in fact come down and the community can remain intact these things are possible i may not want to live underneath her our ramp but that community wanted to stay and that was possible in bangkok surely there was another way in key battle it's the largest informal settlement in nairobi it's it's mind

boggling to me i think the understanding of home has been lost i think people are viewed as dispensable i think as you say it's this inequality some people's lives matter and some don't seem to but how do you stop what has become all over the world i mean it's the result of urbanization globalisation and speculation how do you stop this trend because it's their rich investors look and they go where am i going to put my money today stocks baldwins i'm going to put it in gold oh no the safest bet is to buy property even if i don't want to live in it now so huge it is absolutely a huge problem and i love that you mentioned you know should i put my money in gold versus housing and i can tell you everyone is going to housing and not gold. housing residential real estate is now valued at one hundred sixty three trillion

dollars which i mean i can't even get my head around i'm not a number. i can't get my head around that one hundred sixty three trillion dollars is the value of residential real estate if you take the value of all gold that has been mined seven trillion right so so people are going for residential real estate for sure. how do you curb that that is the question of the day i think that some governments are doing some interesting things around this if you take singapore they have a nineteen i think eighteen percent tax on on foreign owned property so that's a trying to you know it's using a tax system to sort of keep that a little bit or at least keep it in check things like that can happen. you have a law in cata lumia where. they're trying to make it such that

no mortgage foreclosure should result in even action that that would be into homelessness that that would be legal so there are these small attempts at curbing this what devotional attempts to look at the way the world is rome even look at who's running the world right now the united states of america is being run by a property developer yes absolutely and i'm glad you mentioned that too because that's not often talked about and what does that mean and when president trap originally had that advisory group i mean who did he have in that advisory group the suit the c.e.o. of blackstone the largest private equity firm that is buying up properties real estate residential real estate around the world and really. creating an affordability everywhere they go it is almost like

a price fixing situation right you mentioned blackstone what about reaching out to companies like that to see if they can help solve the problem that perhaps the creating yeah well yes i have actually reached out to blackstone and have tried to meet with them because i actually see them and my present position as raptor as. somehow related they are becoming well they're one of the large third largest landlord in new york largest landlord in the united states they own i think something like three hundred thousand units worldwide right there a major player in the housing sector i'm a housing person on the global scale we should be talking it hasn't happened yet and i would really welcome that conversation because i'm not sure that they're aware of all of these human rights standards i don't think it's in their in their mindset it's not in their business model that's for sure but could it be i'm open i

mean i'm open to having that that conversation you mention that goal these are the goals the u.n. set to improve the world by twenty thirty let me just remind you what it says by twenty thirty ensure access for all to adequate safe and affordable housing and basic services and upgrade slums everything you've told me is that that goal of the ones may be going well everything is going backwards we're not going to reach that goal in twelve years are we look we have to strive to reach that goal in twelve years states have that obligation they've made that commitment i think if states and cities took it seriously and decided to adopt human rights based housing strategies and i've written a report about that and what that might look like i think that huge strides could be taken that's what i think that's my that's my. ambition is to see.

states take this very seriously and actually adopt strategies that you know focus on the most vulnerable that change the way decision making is made that ensure accountability of governments to the people that ensure equality those sorts of things big principles if that was guiding housing policy maybe we wouldn't inch toward that twenty thirty deadline and that that commitment. thank you for talking to a zero thank you. to

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i really want to get down to the nitty gritty of the reality where on line when you have that male chauvinism that is in france with in our global federation it is really hard to get a piece of that pilot or if you join us on send. the money to beef up their mind this is a dialogue everyone has a voice to talk to us in our live you tube chat and you too can be enlisting join the global conversation on al-jazeera. hello i'm maryanne demasi in london just a brief look at the headlines for you now an overnight curfew is in place in sri lanka and social media shut down after a series of attacks have shaken the island eight suspects have been arrested after

the blast which killed at least two hundred seven people and hundreds more are injured a tax targeted churches in colombo gone by and batticaloa during easter sunday services are a bad man reports. one blast so violent it ripped through the roof of this church in the heart of the capital. the floor covered remains of the roof wood and blood. was this video posted online shows the moment of the blast. i sometimes this church is popular with locals and foreign tourists after the explosion shock and disbelief. oh my god i heard the explosion and then the roof fell on us we took the children and ran out from the rear door but when they came to the hospital i saw my brother in law and son on the ground. three separate churches bombed on easter sunday one of the

major celebrations in the christian calendar but it wasn't just christians targeted so were many other people and tourists as part of the much wider operation they are the casualties we build them for that we transported them to their national hospital and then we have been advised to come to their shangrila bombs also rips through five star hotels in the heart of the capital and all close together are the shangri-la cinnamon grand prix hotels and the centonze this shrine church since about since church no gumbo and zion church to close were targeted. also the tropical in hotel in the suburb of deborah the eight the explosion was intimate to go killing a number of security personnel the police had to send his m apartment block they're looking for suspects several were taken away for questioning. matthew dreama rocky

i would like to express my condolences to the families of victims and those injured in the attacks that took place we will take stern actions against all those who are responsible regardless of their stature a nationwide curfew is in place and social media sites shut down i know this is the more just coordinated string of attacks in sri lanka in recent years and so far no one has claimed responsibility i. hundreds of injured people are being treated in hospital friends and families of some victims came to this hospital in colombo to find out what has happened to them. with many people dead and widespread damage people here are asking who did this and why. you're about a manly al-jazeera. now to our other headlines a comedian i set to be ukraine's next president to me is a lansky was the wild card in the election with no political experience but he has

secured a resoundingly victory in the runoff vote exit polls gave him seventy three percent of the vote while the incumbent president petro poroshenko got just twenty five percent he has since conceded defeat. zero said. we did it together thanks to everyone now there will be no pathetic speeches i just want to say thank you. protest leaders in sudan say their discussions with the military have not been taken seriously it follows talks between the army and demonstrators who are calling for an immediate transition to a civilian government meanwhile sudan's new military rulers say that considering protesters demands for a joint military civilian council the head of the transitional military council also confirm that for president tomorrow bashir and associates are now in prison. and protesters in the violent actually capital are demanding justice for a young woman who was burned to death after reporting sexual abuse rights groups in

dakar organized a human chain for nineteen year old no structure han rafi she was set on fire earlier this month for refusing to drop sexual harassment charges syria witnesses for the prosecution is next. millions of syrians struggle to escape the constant bombing and fighting that has destroyed their homeland but there are others who choose to stay in. the

cut out. of. their weapons cameras mobile phones and their courage. for years now they have been collecting proof of war crimes committed against civilians without done every trace of the evidence would disappear. they film take pictures and collect physical evidence in the hope that the perpetrators will be punished. and this film tells the stories of these unknown heroes who risked everything to ensure that one day justice will be served because of a meeting in. vienna and in the phosphor from behind. home and from the couple from behind it to.

spend half an hour i left an awful lot of the government that cats and was the guy in t.x. you thought i'm an idiot and at the age of ten in the city. there's one thing to think that i'm an infant and in that ascetic now the swoop the to live . picture the loop. it's at the high i was a. late. click. on talk turkey not far from the syrian border. a refuge for evidence collectors only a few kilometers away from the constant bombing but relatively calm. and

a good thing. most of the city. shattered over the. past it got stuck them stuff came out of the same set up. on the twenty ninth of april twenty third teen ibrahim heard about the bombing of saki his father's native city the area was at the time under the control of armed rebels opposing president bashar assad's. hand two days after the bombings he went to the city and filmed everything he saw these images were filmed by ibrahim a legitimate concerns on that island so i feel a little bit chemo you said it's set up there. and if you be the excellent little merchant of a kid a little. bit tough to hold much influence i wouldn't advise him to study it should be day thoughtless mylo look at a new and a but the audition have covered enough and just how he's

a lady. getting people. to walk. the. walk if. you're going to get very kind of what i'm going. to say brahim was guided by residents to the location of the strikes surrounded by debris he started rick. the evidence. is just. that it's a three of us doing something with them and then to determine what the party are about. a sudden a fertile well suited to. him showing them old boy.

ebrahim recovered unexploded grenades which he believed to contain saddam gassed it was confirmed by these amateur videos filmed by a local camera man at the hospital inside just after the attack the symptoms left no doubts nausea vomiting and suffocation chemical weapons had been used. since the morning everybody for barack obama it was the red line that could not be crossed the united states had promised to intervene if there was proof that bashar assad was using chemical weapons the following day the u.s. president spoke to the press ibrahim was convinced that the course of the war would change what we now have is evidence that chemical weapons have been used inside of syria but we don't know. how they were used when they were used who used them we don't have a chain of. custody that establishes what exactly happened. and

i back in the one night or so i feel that a bit just bummed out if a metal mean keefe. but they'd been in job. and didn't. make you feel. in the short list. for so. brahim was determined to reconstruct the whole incident piece by piece he went to the house of merriam and the only victim killed during the attack. here is the. this is the roach story. this came from the sky and many of us here and here duff there. also was in the

journal just around here so there is the burden it's very well known about muffin and smoke the. other is to shift and look a little further with jay. carney or the a new. model and. about that i don't have the money and sort of thing. for ibrahim this video phone during the attack was proof enough. you can make out a falling bomb. but it was confirmed that only the syrian army on such helicopters. ibrahim was convinced that he had a strong enough case to trigger american intervention and end the war. a few weeks later he met with officials from the united nations.