this problem even if the white house is currently filled with a person who doesn't want to take the seriously pulling the us out of paris who thinks that for the chinese hoax even without road block that is the us president are there enough governments with the will power of political will to actually take this seriously and get action done even if they have to go around the united states well you know leaders come and gone climate change is not going to come and gone unless we do something about it i think that if you look for example at the african development bank what they have done is they've got a strategy and they've raised their ambition in terms of war targets or vote or of looking at clean energy sustainable clean energy and looking at greed you know many greens to reach the communities in africa so in terms of an alliance i think there are enough people there's enough momentum that we're having but can i just say that we need a bigger groundswell. of community of the private sector so james you've

been campaigning on this issue for a long time people now take it more seriously when you look at the current president of the united states how much damage is he doing to your cause to your argument to spreading the the scientific facts and figures what role is he playing in undermining all of this. well you know it's now he's made it easier for us to file our lawsuits we have lawsuits against trump and beginning to have them against the fossil fuel industry and he's just made it much clearer so i think the case in court is now ironclad so i expect to see some wins in the very near future and let me end with the last word you're twenty five years old i believe this is only getting get more serious over the course of your lifetime how does your generation in particular avoid paralysis on this avoid the prospect that it's all doom and gloom where we have we're finished there's nothing we can do

a lot of the just give up. well i would say the only antidote to grief and despair is action and bringing young people into the political process to make our voices heard and to ensure that this political class the establishment right now does not leave our generation to bear the brunt of the impending disaster throughout our history the greatest transformational societal change that has occurred has been because tons of young people stood up and said enough is enough. james among the we'll have to leave it there thank you all for joining me on outfront. the u.s. military says it's doing it from job to violent groups across africa but over ten years off the u.s. africa command first began operations is that really the case for a producer kiran already has this week's reality check we hear a lot about the u.s. in the middle east but you know where it has an imperial scale military presence

fighting on forever war front and anti terror operations most of us know nothing about. africa i didn't know there was a thousand troops in the u.s. africa command for africa on has received billions of dollars over the past decade to train foreign militaries and counter terrorism tactics and put in a joint operations it's popped up around fifteen mostly unofficial bases from morocco to mozambique and has been fighting in at least thirteen countries including what some call africa's afghanistan somalia headed out for calm insists special operators are doing a fantastic job across the coming but are they really as u.s. military presence has dramatically increased in africa so we have terror related attacks going from forty one to nearly twenty five hundred twenty seventeen with reports saying u.s. strategy has only strengthened the hands of radical groups and the violence extends even beyond terrorists in the fight against boko haram u.s. trained and backed nigerian forces have stormed suffocated tortured or at.

prejudicially executed eight thousand people in fact over a dozen u.s. trained militaries have been accused of human rights abuses from operating secret torture prisons to shooting at women and children and the us once i admitted they failed to train in values and ethics is it any wonder the majority of african countries resisted afrikaans creation partly why its headquarters were put in europe even recently thousands have gone eons protested the u.s. military saying it's become a curse everywhere they are mauritania ended a u.s. military program because they were never comfortable with what they signed up for in tribal leaders in the u.s. bases are not good for the terrorists even an afrikaans sponsored study said the u.s. has largely failed to achieve its goals in response the pentagon said they would scale back some operations just not ones like the largest air force construction project of all time as a former alfre com official put it well to start these things it's hard to turn up . for more than three decades

award winning photographer has been documenting government abuse and humanitarian crises around the world last year he was arrested while covering protests in his home country of bangladesh and now faces up to fourteen years in prison on charges of spreading propaganda and false information against the government his arrest provoked a worldwide demand for his release and earned him a place among time magazine's people of the year should be the law in this case is a test for democracy in a country many say is sliding towards authoritarianism he joins me now. thanks for joining me on the front of the last august you were covering the student protests in dhaka which started over a lack of road safety i believe and then you gave an interview to this channel al jazeera english what happened next. sitting up but uploading pictures the doorbell rang. when the door i was alone in the house.

people came around the back they'd obviously been lurking on the side and grabbed me. you know i know what happens in black with a sally's offices or they were in plain clothes so they didn't introduce themselves but i could work out what was going on and really about point my interest was in making sure that someone knew that this was happening to me so i resisted i screamed eventually i got taken in to found waiting downstairs handcuffed blindfolded. and taken away. i was in i didn't know where i was taken to but one month i got there i was interrogated tortured and the thing altogether they tortured you yes they beat you they i was hit i was bleeding i was blindfolded so i couldn't see what was actually being done and blood was dripping down from my face from my nose and mouth on to my clothes.

and i was also you know they threatened me with waterboarding they told me but he had a lot worse they talked about pins they threatened that they would. put together a lot worse and that my partner would all together earlier this year and head to head i interviewed gala rizvi a close advisor to the prime minister of bangladesh shekhar sina he not only claimed to be completely unaware of any harm that you suffered in detention he also said you were jailed for quote spreading disinformation which was inciting violence he accused of spreading false stories of rape which led to writes what do you say to him i was documenting things as they were happening and now i don't own a time machine so. incitement is something that happens after an event i was recording the event and for there's clear documentation of the thing having gone on

for quite some time before i was recording it. there is nothing absolutely that i said or did which had anything to do with making statements myself i reported what was going on that is what a journalist does any journal of these or fabricated charge implications against you and governor is to be the prime minister the visors defended your arrest in detention he says he's your friend izzy well i do know the guy and we have met in situations. i sort of have a different definition of friends but. also they say a neighboring country india is a friend and i can see what that relationship is between our countries so i'd be wary of those friends and what's your relationship like with the prime minister of bangladesh you have seen him who has called you quote mentally sick what is that about you that bothers us so much why are you such a threat or do you think i don't know i mean i i speak out i

protest i'm very upfront about what i say that shouldn't be a threat to any government but obviously this is a government that feels threatened by it. i think also. i'm not the only one. professor yunus has been vilified before. chief justice was moved away i think i am i was another thorn on the path and there was an election coming up i was saying things which were the truth and therefore on politics the timing was bad for you i guess today you're free on bail but facing up to fourteen years in prison over violations of what human rights groups of called a repressive digital security law which gives the bangladeshi police the power to monitor people's online activities and arrest critics without warrants i believe it's been used more than twelve hundred times in recent years you're currently challenging the legality of that law or i believe in in the high court explain to our viewers what you think is at stake not only for yourself but also for other

bangladeshi citizen journalists if you lose your case. it's about freedom of expression and certainly about is the mainstay if and any democracy where the democracy exists in bangladesh or not itself is a question but i think if we lose this case then it will be a very very poor signal for journalists and people at large do you believe bangladesh is still a democracy functioning democracy not in the way it operates officially you describe it it's an autocracy by any means it has been for some time i mean while it is true that things are particularly bad now but all the way through i mean i left by militia when i was in one hundred seventy two a free country i came back to find a military dictator there was an election we tried to bring down the general but elections didn't read to lead to a democratic process and none of the political parties we've had have practiced democracy since that. would say she won

a landslide victory in december's elections in bangladesh now she's been accused of vote rigging she's been accused of violations of electoral law but at the same time it's undeniable that she's hugely popular and mother this you surely would concede that point and she probably would have still well even if she didn't allegedly cheat it's not a problem for people like yourself that you're a critic of hers but you're in a minority in your own country i don't believe i'm a minority at all. in fact it is true that she has a following but since this is a restaurant i get stopped in the streets people hug me they have tears in their eyes tell me you've said what needed to be said but no one was speaking out. i this it's a turbulent place out there and i think there's a lid on it which keeps it the way it is is that lead related to the economy because a lot of us supporters constantly point out during her ten consecutive years as prime minister per capita income in bangladesh is triple the economy's grown life expectancy in bangladesh is now higher than in india and pakistan would you at

least concede that on the economic front if not on the political front she has delivered for people. i think bangladesh is somewhere that's on that undeniably true i think it's done well despite the government of the not because of interesting but more importantly i think the real people who make bangladesh prosper are migrant workers or government workers or farmers in the field on the other hand you have bangladesh having the largest growth of rich people in the world today and over the last eleven years over eighty three billion dollars of been sent out of the country this wealth benefits a few people it's generated by some people it's used and abused by others your perhaps bangladesh's most acclaimed photo journalist your work has been published all over the world you've trained hundreds of young photographers as well in the long run what role do you think your work pie is in safeguarding democracy promoting civil society in a country like bangladesh which you say the autocracy others say is very best

flighting towards autocracy what role do you think your own work place i think there are two aspects one is and shoring accountability and transparency which is required in any system one of my concerns is that the institutions that should hold any state in in place have been gradually eroded and destroyed therefore we work on three areas media education and culture to exert pressure upon the polish political space of politicians get out get away with what they've done so far to be fair it's not just this treaty i think pretty much all the regions we've had in the past to play the same role it's just it's at a level today which we've never had before. and you're traveling abroad right now you're on bail but you don't have to leave the country is in the u.s. visiting mexico what is your message when you're out of bangladesh not just to supporters but to foreign governments international groups who look at other issues

as a successful economy look at she has seen as an ally in various walks of life what's your message to them i think i need to point out to foreign governments that the role they're playing in being poly with blind dictators it's hugely problematic they talk about freedom and democracy i don't believe they go anywhere beyond working for self interest and it's very problematic that they will put up with applying dictator when their needs are. delivering on their own they're delivering on the war on terror which is problematic itself. but the fact that you don't place much faith in international efforts to try and check what's happening at home in your country i don't believe there's such a thing as morality in international politics last time you came on this channel and did an interview you were arrested and then beat some kind of surprise to see you back on this channel you're a brave man are you worried what's going to happen to you when you return to

bangladesh after this interview i'm wary as one needs to be but i'm the citizen of an independent state and my constitution gives me rights i'm going to exercise those rights and it's someone else's problem that they have problems but it sure has a lot of thank you for joining me on up front but to be here that's our show up front will be back next week. in syria citizens are collecting evidence you know about it till the start of crimes committed against civilians we've moved out of syria and 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 tricks syria witnesses for the prosecution on al-jazeera.

anti fascist anti establishment and pro violence. despite the recent official disbanding of its militarized wing a basque separatist movement just found alive and well on the terraces of a build stadia. a place where political revolutionaries share a platform an ideology with football hooligans. read all death on al-jazeera. with two hundred ninety people are confirmed dead in sri lanka the prime minister and his cabinet so they were left on the dock level warnings off an imminent attack .

hello and welcome to al-jazeera life for my headquarters and me and as a product also ahead about the ultra ultra opposition leaders in saddam cut off talks with the military council saying that they doubt they would hand over power to the people. the final day of voting in egypt on a constitutional amendment that could extend the role of president at the thought the l.c.c. until twenty thirty and. regional security talks on the agenda as the pakistani prime minister meets iran's president. a nighttime curfew begins and sri lanka on monday night cabinet ministers have been holding a news conference the health minister said that there was prior knowledge of potential

attacks but the intelligence wasn't shared with the prime minister he said aletta identified a suspected group of planning a series of assaults the us state department meanwhile is warning of groups continuing to plot attacks in sri lanka at least two hundred ninety people were killed on easter sunday and around five hundred injured the attacks happened in churches and hotels in and around the capital colombo. and the city of thirty two foreigners are among those killed around twenty four people have been arrested but no group has claimed responsibility for the bombings the streets of colombo on easter monday are largely deserted with most shops closed and a big security presence that's going out to our correspondent charles stratford he's joining us live from the capital colombo it was a scathing child from the health minister of the presidency and the information that they had that attacks could take place on sunday and that it wasn't pasta

on. yeah shocking news from the health minister building on what was said yesterday by the prime minister who said that there seemed to be some sort of information given according to the health minister letters that were written by members of the security and intelligence establishment warning all of these attacks around this time looking at areas that could well be targets such as churches places of worship and tourist sites certainly it is a huge embarrassment to this government so let's have a listen to a little bit more what health minister said about an hour ago at a press briefing here generally if the chief of intelligence wrote a letter to the police officials where he mentioned many names of the members of the terrorist organization but those letters have not been copied to the prime

minister and the president the prime minister has not been informed about the letters and these revelations this letter indicates that the leader of two he has planned to series of attacks in this country and the letter also mentions the importance of tightening security of the v.i.p.'s. and so what's going to happen now that the health minister is accusing the president's office of having this information and how will this i mean is this going to be all of the investigation into the attack so a separate investigation. but we understand that the government is interesting he's interested in launching an investigation as to how they could be such a huge intelligence will certainly communication failure and all indications are that if they had known certainly the prime minister's office saying that if they had known then they they could well have prevented these attacks and of course the

investigation it's. self of the attacks themselves is is something said brittany's on going as you say two hundred ninety people killed we understand that at least thirty foreigners were amongst them a number of those foreigners we understand i have yet to be identified because literally their bodies will blow to pieces by the suicide bombers worryingly we also understand that at least nine foreigners have not been accounted for are still missing the investigation also focusing on these twenty four people that have been arrested we understand a number of women in that group also. and i think i think also it's very interesting to note that the health minister mentioned in this press briefing that there is great attention being paid to the fact that it is looking increasingly likely that these groups though he describes them as being a locally based group may well have had help from terror groups globally it

seems unlikely certainly security experts have said that such a highly coordinated attack happening. on any one given day would have taken months of planning and would suggest certainly the involvement of foreign groups the government asking the international community to do all they can to help in that endeavor meanwhile people here in colombo sri lanka as a whole very much in shock over these attacks the largest terror attack that's happened here in in a number of years and let's bear in mind that this country suffered around thirty years of instability during the civil war it's been ten years since that war ended so sri lanka's were very proud in fact that the country was so stable was attracting so much to receive revenue so for something like this to have happened

is he's deeply. shocking and deeply worried for the people of sri lanka and it seems increasingly barassi for a government run an intelligence service. that didn't act properly to prevent the attacks happening charles thank you very much for that us charles trafford with the latest live in colombo thank you. moving on to other news now sudan's military council has ordered paid to stop blocking roads and let police do their jobs and warning columns this protest to say that they will suspend talks with the council that deposed president omar al bashir earlier this month had a morgan reports from khartoum i in this third week of the sit in at the army headquarters in sudan's capital thousands gathered around the podium there waiting for the coalition of the declaration of freedom and change to announce names first a billion transitional council the coalition made a different announcement. will continue with the sit in and have suspended talks with the military council will escalate the revolution on the streets through

protest schedules tell all demands are implemented we'll start forming a complete transitional authority that will announce in a few days. the military council took over when it ousted president bashir on the eleventh of april ending his thirty year rule it had hoped that forcing out bashir would end the sit in that started nearly a week before after months of protests. since taking over the military council has been in talks with political parties to form a transitional government but many at the sit in say the army isn't keen to hand over power to civilian government a key demand for them to end the protests and return home. as i would have missourian in my opinion where with the declaration of freedom and change because they got it this far i will be with them till the end since the council is part of the old regime and is behaving like the old regime will continue with protest till it's gone we said to those we need music because so many years.

the ruling was not good and now we want to change this is there were citizens from the government to the city of us because it is a ruling. everything. the military council has repeatedly said that it will hand over power if political parties in sudan are ready to form an inclusive government of consensus because here. we are hoping that we in the political parties and other stakeholders will get over our differences so we can speed up with what is needed at this time the military council reference that it isn't against any party and abides by the slogans of the revolution for freedom peace and democracy. but not all parties are in agreement on how to form the government and what it should look like. what this means professional association had its coalition and now saying that it has suspended talks with the military council it seems that the general front of bombing headquarters is not coming to an end anytime soon and more than

a week after i think president bashir of sudan is nowhere near forming a transitional government. what comes next will largely depend on how much pressure the protesters can put on the military council and how long it takes for the divided parties to come together to start a new face for the country. even more going on to zero. it is the third and final day of voting age its controversial referendum which could extend president of the federal c.c.s. term in office until twenty eight the official results are expected to be announced on tuesday that what's called the referendum will not be free or fair if approved the changes could allow the president to appoint top judges and expand the role of the powerful military there is heavy security across egypt. iran's president hassan rouhani has revealed the development of a joint border force with pakistan rouhani made the announcement after talking to a promise to iran. who is in iran for

a two day visit the men have been discussing trade and border security the relations between the countries have been strained in recent months it's going to cost them the same bus driver he is joining us live from a lot at stake between the babe is saying which is why i promised a car is on this rare public visit. absolutely you don't see the relationship on public display between iran and pakistan that much as far as bilateral relationships across the world go this one isn't necessarily as close as some of the other ones people might be familiar with but that may all be changing with what seems to be a real pivot by pakistan towards iran they've just wrapped up a press conference around president hassan rouhani and pakistani prime minister and ron cowen and at the press conference it was all warm handshakes and big smiles and let me give you a sense of the ambition behind what president rouhani characterized as a turning point to improving relations let's get let's look at sort of the ambition

behind this president rouhani talked about expanding links to pakistan to be able to send them natural gas he talked about sending electricity to pakistan something that pakistan desperately needs it's a country that goes through rolling power cuts on a on a routine basis there was talk of setting up a barge or system between the two countries to exchange goods as well as expanding the cooperation at their major ports they also talked about cooperating on trying to bring peace to afghanistan and they also talked about creating a railway line that would connect the capitals of turkey iran and pakistan so president rouhani laid out a lot of very ambitious projects for the future certainly there's a lot of positivity and when it was around khan's turn to speak he said all the right things invoking smiles from president hassan rouhani he said that farsi used to be the language of the course of the principle of these in the region and that in the past they wouldn't need translators for a meeting like this he also complimented the islamic revolution of nine hundred

seventy nine and said that it helped uplift people and he hopes to bring a similar revolution that uplifts the poorest in pakistan in a similar way and that got the biggest smile from president hassan rouhani he also .