political messages to me and calls for the protestors took torn down there and to military. dot com while. it's compulsory honest respect the security forces including the rapid support forces there our partners in our struggle for change they protected us from the old regime when we needed their help they are from our family. that loud chants begin as soon as they have done with the prince. our martyrs i'm not dead but right here with us they chant 5 people were killed and more than 200 injured when sudanese forces fought the protesters on the air this week. the last of the litter really don't know when the protesters were killed the military council came out and said they were upset that some of their commanders weren't allowed to pass or checkpoints people have died yet they are more upset about access for their man they don't really care so it's not that it is the media we have achieved 60 percent

of our goals our revolution is ongoing we will continue until we achieve key objective a civilian government and accountability for those who have committed crimes against humanity. the mood of these quaint hard to list far more conciliatory than before that. the cultist as i've accepted some of the demands of the military consul and lifted most of the but it gets on the streets of the capital. the head of the transitional ministry council going to rob them for $101.00 stay suspended talks till all but it kids would have moved the protesters say the only body kids left so far around the square and put there for their own protection and not any attempts to remove them would be met with with stiff resistance they say there is no one who can take them away from this square because abundantly that it will ition will be the death of sedan how does it or don't. morgan

is live for us in hard to him and what's likely to come now with the barricades removed can the negotiations resume. while at the moment the protesters are saying that they want to hear from the military council to see what the next step would be the 20 of the 72 hour deadline will expire on saturday evening so they're waiting to see if the military council will extend another invitation to the opposition coalition and set a new date to resume negotiations but whether they can actually come to an agreement largely depends on when they sit down and talk things out the last thing that they have to sort out is the issue of the sovereign council now they're already agreed on forming a legislative assembly and how it would look like and as well as an executive council with the sovereign council is the main thing it's effectively going to be the presidential body and they're yet to decide who gets how much a presentation the military wants to have either equal or majority representation and it wants to be the one chairing that sovereign council while the opposition

wants it to be a civilian majority headed by a civilian so a lot of things to talk out and if they can agree on that then we can see that there is a transitional government but if they don't protesters say they will be remaining in front of the army headquarters with their states and putting pressure on the military council to hand over power and whether that would work would remove would largely remain or would largely be on the military council and how they respond to the pressure if they use force or if they will let the protesters continue. thank you very much morgan there with the latest from hard to him. as much more still to come for you on the program including this story the government of president nicolas maduro is accused of mud mediation talks and in norway. hello we've got quite a mixed bag of weather across here for the moment lots of showers into central

there isn't even over towards the east but eastern parts will turn a little quaters you go on through the next because we got lost because every of high pressure settling things down or flabby area of high pressure down towards the balkans over towards the black sea but wet weather in between around the baltic states some heavy showers longer spells of writing that wet weather will gradually drive its way a little further west was already got some lively showers into southern parts of france northern areas of spy cool 19 celsius there for madrid that cloud in the rain will linger into the northeast corner of spain temperatures starting to pick up for london paris back up to around 20 degrees celsius but the showers along with the french never really too far away from those central pass eastern is on the other hand running up nicely 18 celsius in the sunshine for moscow and also sunshine too across northern parts of africa where sunshine in the $36.00 there in karachi generally getting up into the the mid part of north africa some bits and pieces of fan weather cloud are rolling through meanwhile the cloud across central

africa producing some rather lively shall is that what. right into the kinds of. people how to look away your own record on this trial in fact a few years ago there was place only for one state on the land of israel i do not believe in a 2 state solution the official story is unfair and unfair we all see already i don't care about the official story if you were to go visit today you would say what has the media been telling you now the world isn't black and white there's lots of race in here join me mad the hot sun on our front of my guests from around the world take the hot seat and we debate the week's top stories on the big issues here on al-jazeera.

back just a quick look at the headlines now a senior iranian politician has called for talks between tehran and washington after weeks of escalating tensions the chair of iran's national security and foreign policy commission tweeted that senior iranian and american diplomats have rejected the option of the. united nations is warning of a western humanitarian crisis in syria is a province off to hospital hospitals and refugee camps in the deescalation zone bombed by russian backed government forces and protesters in sudan have removed many of the roadblocks they've set up in the capital as demanded by the military in order for transition talks to resume but they're refusing to end their mass sit in outside the army headquarters in khartoum. one of the stories we're following at least 15 people have died in flash floods and mollie's capital most were killed

after a bridge collapse in the center obama go to rancho rain hit the city overnight washing away cars and damaging homes and shops residents and blaming the government for not clearing up rubbish which they say a lot of the evacuation canals. ethiopia has started rationing electricity after a drop in water levels at a hydroelectric dam calls power to decline by more than a 3rd homes and businesses will now face daily hour long blackouts until july ethiopia has also suspended electricity exports to neighboring djibouti and sudan which the country $180000000.00 a year all u.s. and afghan officials say at least 17 policemen have been killed by mistake in an ass strike in southern afghanistan it happened during a battle against the taliban just outside lashkar gah or the capital of helmand province a u.s. military spokesman has described it as a tragic accident afghan officials say they're investigating. the former director

of venezuela's intelligence police who defected at the end of april has accused the government of killing his right hand man he says alberto garcia was found dead in a hotel near caracas on thursday meanwhile mediation talks have wrapped up in norway between venezuelan government and the opposition they were aimed at ending the country's 5 month power struggle representatives for opposition you to one have now left norway and as well as foreign minister thank to norway for helping to build a dialogue with the opposition a latin america editor lucien human has will from caracas. there is a tremendous amount of secrecy surrounding attempts to bring about some kind of a negotiated settlement to this ongoing conflict we do know that conversations that took place with representatives of both the government of president hugo last mughal and of opposition to the white dog in all slow norway have ended their representatives have returned here to the capital we don't know whether those talks were stalled were ended or they were going to be resumed no nothing has been said

about that all we know is that the foreign minister has thanked norway for its efforts to mediate or rather to do was about a dialogue while one wide also said there is no dialogue only mediation these very very careful not to make it sound as though he is negotiating with the government and this is because he is under tremendous pressure from some sectors more hardline sectors of the opposition who say the time for talking is over that the only way to dislodge president at this stage would be to have some kind of international foreign military intervention. a judge in california is hearing 2 cases on friday which seek to stop president trama spending treasury and defense department money on his border wall this is a day off to trump announced plans for a merit based immigration system it could stop tens of thousands of migrants finding refuge in the u.s. but across the country groups of volunteers are refusing to turn their backs on them rob reynolds reports from san diego. in fall for

texas eddie canalis fills a barrel full of jugs of water to save migrants who might otherwise die of thirst in the dry thorny brush in el paso texas volunteers at the church of god handout donated clothing to destitute migrant families in san diego professor joy-ann a brooks and a handful of student volunteers collect letters from people fleeing violence and poverty who are being held in detention. across the u.s. a small army of volunteers spends time money and energy to help migrants and asylum seekers in any way they can canalis has been putting out water into the wilderness for years he's seen what happens to people who don't make it to safety since 2004 we've had 750 recovered bodies and remains and until we fix a system that is broken we're going to continue to have a humanitarian crisis of people dying pastor méribel velasquez has turned her el

paso church into a shelter for people who are released from detention with no place else to go it's horrible and in the beginning i never thought it was going to be to this stream they're tired he hydrated they're hungry authorities say a record number of migrants were detained in april exceeding 100000 for the 2nd month in a row most are families from central america professor brooks center student volunteers are archiving over 1000 letters from migrants in detention one pair detainees with pen pals on the outside and there are their letters we archive. with privacy protection so that future researchers will understand the magnitude of this humanitarian crisis and the real lives of refugees the letters tell of escape from violence poverty and of fear and loneliness in incarceration sometimes migrants

send little gifts baby shoes woven from bits of plastic a dreamcatcher crafted from dental sloss grassroots volunteer efforts like this one stand in sharp contrast to the vast sums expended by the us government for border police barriers and incarceration even while our government is locking up refugees we will be humans we will extend ourselves no matter how modest the effort because this the world depends upon small acts of kindness sparks of humanity amid a humanitarian crisis robert oulds al-jazeera san diego. well now to developments here across party talks aimed at striking a compromise on the prime minister's deal for leaving the european union of failed the opposition needed jeremy corbyn says discussions between his labor party into

reason may's ruling conservatives have gone as far as they can parliament has tried for weeks now to try to agree on terms for the country's exit from the e.u. britain was due to leave on march 29th but that's been delayed until october 31st we want to be well amid the ongoing disarray of a break to the u.k.'s main parties have had to turn their attention to campaigning for next week's european elections in britain the vote is being seen as a barometer of how much support there is the leaving the european union and both of the traditional big 2 parties the conservatives on the right and labor on the left are collapsing in the polls well al-jazeera is lawrence lee looks now at the u.k.'s fast changing and splintering political landscape. these people believe they are the defenders of democracy in britain under siege by elites which would storm the barricades and overturn the bricks and referendum the new brics it party likes to encourage this fortress mentality and clearly many english people due to their way

ahead in the polls and this is a warning to parliament not just the conservative party the labor party as well if they do not deliver for exit in a meaningful form that actually is a box that we won't come test the next general election and that m.p.'s of both parties are in dire trouble assuming the polls are right the brics that party will win at least a 3rd of the votes in the european election plus a further people in this country who actively want to leave the european union with no plan and no deal they are determined and they are organized and their opponents are in some disarray with the conservatives and labor at war with themselves and each other it has fallen so far they've other parties to try to fight off brick says he has a new one called change u.k. currently polling in single digits. and here's another resurgent centrist liberal democrats on around 15 percent nowhere near as high as the bricks at policy so why

don't we all stand together and if they don't which will get people vote for me it's going to fevers and i would be much happier if there were 9 parties working together on a common platform it didn't happen i'm not blaming anybody it's just the way it is and now we're dealing with the reality and i think it's very clear from the polls people are gathering around the liberal democrats and i would encourage them to be right then there's the greens registering their highest ever polling in the u.k. they accepted there have been infighting between the remain supporting poses not a good look when the aim is to defend the u.k. from the disaster the brics is if we're taking it as a proxy referendum then we need to add up the votes of the brits at party not at the base to remain parties and then i think that both come out about a 3rd but honestly say it's the people in the middle who can make a difference and what we need to do is have a people's vote so we can actually see where the country is now and i'm trip i'm pretty sure that that will come out full remain to the u.k. as voters are offered a choice between a new policy that offers no policies whatsoever other than bricks it's and yet

which is utterly focused or several others who have coherent policies on almost everything yet which seem at odds with each other along with all drugs all the more confusing it becomes gloriously al-jazeera in the southwest of england. and this is the full list of parties competing in the european elections in the south west of england. on now to another election india's 6 weeks travel ganza is drawing to a close official campaigning ended on friday and if the 7th and final phase of voting on sunday the governing b j p's campaign has been highly focused on prime minister narendra modi he's seeking a 2nd term in office the opposition has accused him of stirring up hindu nationalism. well now to taiwan the parliament has become the 1st in asia to legalize gay marriage.

thousands of people celebrated the vote on the streets of the capital taipei the bill recognizes same sex couples and gives them protection such as tax insurance and child custody benefits it follows years of debate in taiwan over marriage equality she's awards a president's award actually when i started to learn about myself meaning the time when i came out i never thought that i could get married in taiwan and i thought this would not happen in my time i knew that they would come in taiwan but never thought it would be when i am still young but maybe when i would be 50 or 60 years old and you know joy you are those who be good in what is wrong with being the 1st in asia who knows maybe this will be a source of pride when looking back on history in the future and not at all a shameful thing you are. on now for online cat lovers all over the world is a story many people are mourning the viral internet sensation and grumpy cat who has died at the age of 7

a cat whose real name was toddlers source was famed for her permanently grumpy appearance i've been accused of the same a result of a rare form of feline to wolf ism grumpy cat had more than 12000000 followers on social media and made more than a $1000000.00 for her own know who quit her job as a waitress to become the cat's full time manager she appeared on magazine covers and even starred in her own film grumpy cats worst christmas avar. it's a brief look at headlines this hour a senior iranian politician has called for talks between to iran and washington after weeks of escalating tensions chairman of iran's national security and foreign policy commission ashleigh tell a follow tweeted that iranian american senior diplomats had rejected the option of war zain bus driver is in town run at the moment things in iran

are very turned so everyone is hanging on good really everything any leader is saying so in that sense these comments are significant coming from mr fuller picture as far as negotiations really every member of the civilian and military leadership in this country in the senior ranks right from the supreme leader ayatollah khomeini himself all the way down have continued to say the same thing we've repeated it like a mantra they will not renegotiate the nuclear deal they will not carry out talks with the united states and especially they will not carry out talks with this current administration the white house of u.s. president donald trump. the united nations is warning of a worsening humanitarian crisis in syria's edler province that's after hospitals and refugee camps in the deescalation zone will bombed by russian backed government forces at least 180000 people have been forced from their homes. protest as in sudan every move many of the roadblocks they set up in the capital as

demanded by the military in order for the transition talks to continue but they're refusing to end their ongoing mass sitting outside the army headquarters and how to . at least 15 people have died in flash floods in mali's capital most were killed after a bridge collapse in the center of tarantula rain hit the city overnight washing away cars and damaging homes and shops residents are blaming the government for not tearing up the rubbish which they say blocks the evacuation canals. and u.s. and afghan officials say at least 17 policemen have been killed by mistake in an airstrike in southern afghanistan it happened during the battle against the taliban just outside lashkar the capital of helmand province the u.s. military spokesman has described it as a tragic accident afghan officials say they are investigating that brings up to speed with out top stories this hour there will be more news in about 25 minutes time i'll see you then time now for outfront.

the venezuelan opposition says it's now in direct communication with the u.s. military. president won quite failed to topple president nicolas maduro in an uprising last month so is the u.s. about to go to war in venezuela. representative to the u.k. vanessa newman. vanessa newman thank you for joining me on up front it's been nearly 4 months since

your boss opposition politician one declared himself the interim president of venezuela citing article 233 of the venezuelan constitution as his justification but that all tickle vanessa lays out 6 criteria which make a president unavailable death resignation removal by the judiciary a permanent disability abandonment of the office or recall by popular vote none of the 6 criteria apply in the case of nicolas maduro which means for all his many sins unfolds is still the president of venezuela and one isn't. close i could buy into a president and so do many of. a the visionaries could be. because there was no president because there was no election that was credible and that is foreseen actually. or seen in the confusion if you don't actually get in

there to take all your pick your brain and they're for. automatically goes well you know going after like you say there's no president because there were no elections obviously because madeira says he won an election last year overwhelmingly you say it was a flawed election and yet it was your position that not only boycotted last year's presidential elections you insisted the you were not send any observers to monitor them so when you say they were fraud elections were a sham it's hard to know isn't it because you didn't allow the un to come in and monitor them and say they were a sham. 1st of all none of the conditions were met for free and fair elections major leaders of all the major political parties were imprisoned or inability to we had no our media was blocked internet was blocked nobody searches. every aspect of doing support or anybody other than economic model was ball so there was no there was not just no conditions that had been going to gain better

if you're going to be greeted with maturity and allow the un in to support your case you shot yourself in the foot no. no we did not shoot ourselves in the butt because you wine you know they would pick which countries to which delegation and everybody had agreed and it has in fact that tradition also the name of group for instance that without the freedom of the political prisoners and the leaders of the parties there is no proper action period it was really not only that not only that the president of the smartmatic who runs the machines that run the elections fled the country and then gave a statement in london that the elections were hijacked and they were completely paid all the time by the prime minister mr zapatero said he didn't have any doubt about the voting process he was there as an election of the former president acquittals said they were developing normally we can all get about the legitimacy

of elections we can all give all to go to $33.00 but we can all go about is a fox on the ground one quite a may have declared himself interim president but dura still have the keys to the presidential palace he still controls the armed forces he still has the loyalty of the top generals he still controls the country's key financial institutions regime change is harder than it looks isn't a vanessa. i think you mean a transition to democracy and the return of prosperity to the country is harder than yes it certainly is because the military is earning $8800000000.00 a year in the trade in the trafficking of narcotics trafficking of gold diesel even food even the very crude that people are eating because they have valentia the production economy is also being 2 used to fund the regime and to exert social control so it is no surprise that they have not because they told the same

price you can say it's no surprise when on april 30th $1.00 going to win a supportive march towards the presidential palace military leaders was supposed to join and that was the plan but it was a complete failure i mean if you knew that was going to support them if it's no surprise that the military on board because they're all corrupt why do this uprising why march to the collison expect generals to join you i don't get it oh well they had said that they were they had said that they weren't there had been negotiations and that they had said that you know that that they were doing along and that that was actually going to be certified by they don't lose that head of the supreme court was going to support the national assembly the legitimate national assembly and say that they should be followed and then finding a lopez would follow suit so that unfortunately did not did not happen because i didn't and it didn't happen they don't want more because their mistakes that you guys made one quarter says we recognize the mistakes what we didn't do and what we did 2 months of what exactly is he referring to the which specific mistakes is the

owning up to. i have to say i can't really speak for my president my boss specifically on what he told you his credit to quote new ambassador to the u.k. i know the venezuelan government doesn't consider you to be that he was on the bus to the u.k. in his that you know. that's ok they don't have to consider going back there i don't the government. but when the when i've interviewed their representative they defend their president i'm just wondering why you won't tell me why he said that. i do defined by presidents what i mean. what mistakes they make i think the. i think the mistake was trusting that these men would keep their word that they had agreed that they would that they were joining us and all of their chunk of will come and support the constitution and defend the people turned out to be untrue one going to set in a washington post op ed recently venezuela is not your typical dictatorship but

vanessa madeira supporters would say how is it a dictatorship if going to is able to walk around caracas freely do interviews with foreign media hold big public rallies even call for the venezuelan military to turn on the duro i can imagine the chinese or the saudis will be iranian all the north koreans allowing an opposition politician to do that in the capital city. well going though it. has no case and there's never really no i mean he moves out comes out in public but basically moves underground. when he was on the ground when he was moving the presidential palace there was he again but they had said they had since and then been a day or indicted or so if you read 20 percent of the national assembly they are going after the national assembly piece by piece we have no proof of life from those no proof of my ok they just arrested and forget about you know

a phone call to your lawyer and almost everybody there has not to leave the country and can't go back because of the dictator's repression the only thing that is protected in the future and that if you do any human rights abuses i'm not disputing the human rights abuses i'm offering if i'm mature and i'm a dictator why am i learning this man to run around asking my defense minister and generals to tell me why don't i just look him up. well because i can come up with to make him a martyr and you'd also incur the ire of the nearly 60 countries that have that are supporting that. that you can legitimately president there's a huge international coalition to ignore it and that would of course result and who knows what action who knows what further sanctions or what actions by the international community would make him a martyr to all those millions of people you see coming out in march in support of the speech people come out and weak with joy at that site. and those people would want their president is thrown in prison so that the risk calculus has taken

a step when you mention millions of people come out in the streets but you don't deny do you that missouri still have the support of millions of venezuelans i would dispute the millions. a little slower 2000000 people in venezuela and you're telling me the cycle of less than a 1000000 people and i know i don't tell you how much the gas. bob we have to make that the support varies between 10 and 15 percent it does not go beyond 50 percent of the population you have to calculate that a lot of that is because the only money and the only clue they receive is from the regime so actual if you had a free and fair and democratic system would probably be a lot more however it has let me be clear you know the. democracy that is being contemplated would include people who are from the p.s.u. the quality which is the ruling party of ludo already she too is not with people

who may have had some reason to support child or are still getting a who benefits from my little offer dispute is that that is a dictatorship and if they want to vote in free and fair elections. for example already acted you know that canard that is what we're seeing that is what is being discussed so the missouri governor said for a while now that this whole crisis all of your opposition is part of a foreign plot it's a u.s. led to yankee imperialist attempt at regime change and you guys seem to want to prove him wrong one quarter said last week that a red line on u.s. intervention has been crossed and he's opened quote direct communications with the u.s. military southern commom so maduro's correct is when he says that the opposition wants a u.s. military intervention. well you had said it is public information i mean you put it on twitter that he has done the thing is ambassador to washington d.c. to go down to south com and the meeting has been requested i think that's. under

that article you can see cooperation in defense of your people and your territory it specially when your military is defending when it was a number of issues it is completely invaded we had russians brought in with military aircraft they don't belong there and then we also not only do you have the cuban intelligence officers we also have a foreign terrorist organization. which stage close border terrorist attacks on our ally colombia. is intimidating venezuelan people from exercising their rights so given all those things you've listed to me you would like to see u.s. military intervention in response it is not my decision that is the president's decision what would he like to see you as the representative. p.m.'s call that we think that that's necessary then that would be what that would be what his decision to make how can you believe that a u.s. military intervention will bring democracy or freedom or human rights to venezuela especially with people and abrams and john bolton leading the charge especially

given the abysmal history of u.s. interventions in your part of the world guatemala chile argentina nicaragua honduras el salvador one of those would you trust the u.s. military let alone donald trump. 1st of all times have changed and i think even and even to anybody who has been involved in latin america. i think any that the continent has changed really the attitude of the united states to the region changed the the understanding of counterinsurgency or counterterrorism operations or things to secure you know a global population all of those parameters and all of this understanding that methodology has changed yes it claims of change if you need to be trained and yet the person leading the u.s. pollution in venezuela is an abrams

a man who was deeply involved in war crimes and human rights abuses in central america during the eighty's you have john bolton who said recently the monroe doctrine is alive and well it's our hemisphere he said in reference to latin america and of course you have donald trump saying venezuela has all the oil and they're right on our back door doesn't seem to change at all they seem to be interested in oil and sending people with a very bad record on human rights to help you. hey i was too young to live in the. internet. well i'm younger than you but we've all read history elliot abrams responsible for massive war crimes in el salvador and elsewhere in the 1900 he's now the man you trust to bring democracy to venezuela seriously. we just need to have thank you man a tarion aid and we need power we need to get foreign terrorist organizations out from terrorizing our own people and we the help of whatever would like to help us

get into back into democracy hopefully i hope has always been in our position has always been and continues to be that a peaceful solution is probably let me ask you this we're almost out of time one last question one guy that was said he'll step down once elections take place in venezuela if missouri leaves office of course and you said that you personally might consider running for president of venezuela yourself you said quote i may well throw my hat into the ring why not be qualified to be president of a divided party says right now i'm. not running i. do you said you were you thinking about it you change your mind. that was that was. i think i was on a program of the right and perhaps in some future i will but at the moment my concern is saving the lives of my compatriots and getting my country back

to democracy so i think that's plenty of work for me now when a phenomenal have to leave it there thank you for joining me on the front. despite the arrest and prosecution of legendary drug kingpin el chapo the drug trafficking business remains as profitable and deadly as ever so who is winning the so-called war on drugs. upfront producer ryan coles has this week's reality check billionaire drug lord joaquin el chapo guzman brought more drugs into the u.s. than any other person in history today he's facing life behind bars in the united states and authorities are thrilled. there's a victory for the american people so with the kingpin out of the game drug trafficking and violence must be weighed down right know despite his arrest 3 years ago chapo sin aloa cartel continues to profit from massive drug shipments to the u.s. on the day of his conviction official seize the largest load offense will ever found

in the u.s. at a simple low a controlled border crossing and chappals arrest could actually end more lives than it saves his absence has triggered a game of thrones style bloodbath between members of his own cartel and former competitors the fact is power struggles between cartels means there's going to be more bloodshed in similar former stronghold homicides in 2007 teams soared 39 percent and what keeps this infernal cycle going demand worldwide the number of drug users increased by 31 percent between 2009 and 2016 in the u.s. opioid consumption is on the rise so it's no surprise that heroin production in mexico america's largest supplier has reached record levels right now and the only victors in the so-called war on drugs are those profiting from addiction so is it time to set the bullets and take up the thought i'd take a look at the portuguese model change in attitudes towards drug use in clinics and

society at large to help push the country to decriminalize drug use and possession in 2001 since then they've seen impressive declines in harmful drug use overdoses and drug related crime when the policy began 100000 portuguese use heroin today the estimated number of high risk opioid users is 33000 the drug use still poses a significant challenge it no longer threatens a. in order in portugal so is filling our prisons the capital is really the best solution with mounting evidence to the contrary maybe it's time to bring drugs out of the gunsmoke and into the light. known for tweeting sarcastic and stinging critiques of other elected arab rulers palestinian pro-democracy activist baghdadi rose to prominence in 2011 during the arab spring in april officials in norway where he's currently living under asylum placed him in protective custody why they received a shocking warning from the cia of

a possible threat to his life from the saudi government al baghdadi is a vocal critic of saudi crown prince mohammed bin so mom had been working with the late journalist jamal khashoggi who of course was murdered inside the saudi consulate in istanbul last october so does the saudi government now have a policy of just assassinating its critics abroad and if so what could be done to stop them yeah but dad he joins me now from oslo yeah thanks for joining me up front why you there are a lot of people around the world arab or non arab muslim and non muslim who criticize attack oppose the saudi crown prince why this alleged targeting of you specifically by him do you think it's not just mere criticism the cause of something like this of course i am a critic of. you know also known as and. i think this is more this is this is about more than criticism this is about actual projects that i was involved and that i think were highly sensitive and seem to have

a nerve with them be able to speak about any of those projects yet. i mean we did a risk assessment with you know with a number of security experts and we came up with 6 or 7 items and as you can imagine i cannot speak about all of them but i could mention that 2 of the were initiatives that started in the life of the late jamal khashoggi which i mean after his death it fell upon me kind of like the projects basically escalated after his death and it was my team or followed up and took them to another level these are projects to do with democracy in the middle east transparency in the middle east media freedom. well specifically models very concerned about the health of our public sphere and realized that the public sphere in a certain way shifted from being conventional media to being social media so you understood the role of twitter twitter was very important in the post 911 years it

was specifically important in saudi arabia because neither of you had a very big online read online pop relation. so he was focused really on this you know this conquest of twitter. starting with 2015 or 2016 with the rise of i'm a. right hand man so i look like connie and you know the whole the whole. you know little shady characters around but you know going all the way to really crossing over into the michael states without question so he was very concerned about the health of that and you know he himself was was very important to him for once in the arabic language. so both of these initiatives actually had to do with restoring let's let me say restoring twitter's neutrality and are you going to change your behavior on twitter now given that you know no suspect but it's your work on twitter that has attracted the saudi government attention the saudi trolls who spend a lot of time on twitter i mean i 1st came across you several years ago on twitter

you have a big presence that you know are going to change your behavior on twitter in reaction to these threats well you might have noticed that i mean i mostly stick to the english language on twitter i mean i do once in a while a tweet in arabic but it's rather rare and the reason was really it was a form of self-censorship until it was me basically knowing that they are far more aggressive because they were they wanted to control the arabic language spear and that was you know so they needed to control arabic twitter arabic language twitter so how do i spoken primarily in arabic they would have been so much more aggressive against me. and you know so it was a form of protection right now with these events what's happening is that i'm crossing over into arabic and i might actually have to start speaking in arabic more because i have a bigger audience and i think i feel a responsibility towards them but at the same and i guess yourself censure didn't really help in a sense because you're still you still got talkative by the well i mean it's not

surprising at the least that b.s. would go after dissidents i mean there are people who got far worse far far far worse than i did i mean do you find it odd that one arm of the u.s. government the cia is warning you via the norwegians and others warning others that the saudis are trying to murder you while another on the u.s. government state department or the white house or the pentagon continues to cozy up to those same saudis isn't that kind of when it. the conundrum over here is that saudi arabia whether m.b. as we have m.b.'s or not so there continues to be an important country an important strategic ally to the united states and b s knows that very well and he knows that you know this is something that he can use so i mean it is weird that the cia is basically you know living up to its legal duty its duty to warn. but then again i mean the only the only reason why m.p.'s is unaccountable and unhinged is because

that the one administration in the world that are more that are most capable of reining him in our current leaders because the neighbors and it's not just the saudis of course you have the shadowy israeli security firm the n.s.o. group which we've just discovered recently was behind the spyware used to hack into what's up and which also sold spyware to the saudis which was allegedly used to spy on the late jamal khashoggi absolutely and in this relationship i think it's really good that more light is being shed on it. i should also add that you know one of the most sensitive investigations that i was involved and in fact that was i think the most immediate reason why i think the threats as. well as my involvement with the jeff bezos hack and it's so also happened to be the prime suspects but you know when it comes to you you did a lot of reporting around the alleged blackmailing of amazon boss jeff bezos let me ask you this does it depress you that m.b.a.'s is not only gotten away with

allegedly killing jamal khashoggi the cia believe with high confidence he was behind it but more than 7 months later he's still able to threaten people like yourself. the saudi dissident omar of deliveries in canada another person in the u.s. who is also to remain anonymous the 3 of you who have been identified as being threatened by the saudis as far afield as norway canada the u.s. he still has that power yet it makes sense if you think about that i mean. the mirrors the logic of target things that they've lost by the way i mean if i mean i mentioned last week that you know one of the most painful messages that i received after these events came from a human rights activist who lived within the arab world and you know he he sent me a message saying you know what does this mean for us if you live in norway which is supposed to be one of the safest countries in the world and you are threatened what chance do i have if i live live in lebanon or i live in tunisia or live i live in egypt or i live in jordan or wherever i mean there is

a logic i mean if you can target someone in norway if you can try to blackmail the richest man on the planet then who's safe one final question is this isn't the 1st time your life has been threatened in 2016 i believe eisel added you to a kill list and urged lone wolves to take action against you in 2017 you received a 2nd warning from the group telling you quote we're watching you despite all these taking just your life for multiple actors you continue to do what you do you are here on the show speaking out why i wouldn't be myself if i don't i mean. i mean this is an intergenerational struggle the idea of stopping by idea of giving up it's simply unimaginable. thank you for joining me on outfront be safe thank you so much that's our show up front will be back next week.

hello i'm in london just a quick look at the headlines now a senior iranian politician has called for talks between tehran and washington after weeks of escalating tensions the chairman of iran's national security and foreign policy commission. shakes tweeted that iranian and american senior diplomats have rejected the option of war zone bus ravi is intact wrong. at the moment things in iran are very tense so everyone is hanging on literally everything

any leader is saying so in that sense these comments are significant coming from mr father as far as negotiations really every member of the civilian and military leadership in this country in the senior ranks right from the supreme leader ayatollah khomeini himself all the way down have continued to say the same thing they've repeated it like a mantra they will not renegotiate the nuclear deal there will not carry out talks with the united states and especially they will not carry out talks with this current administration in the white house of u.s. president donald trump. the united nations is warning of a wise thing humanitarian crisis in syria is a live province that's off the hospitals and refugee camps in the deescalation zone will bombed by russian backed government forces at least 118000 people have been forced from their homes to see don now a protest as of remove many of the roadblocks they'd set up in the capital as demanded by the military for transition talks to resume but they're keeping up

their protest nonetheless nominate doe reports on this from khartoum. under the scorching sun they got up for friday prayers and to keep their protests alive i'm. a special prayers say too for the dead who just days before their movement the friday someone has political messages to and calls for the protestors took home down there on to military. and it's compulsory on us to suspect the security forces including the rapid support forces there our partners in our struggle for change they protected us from the old regime when we needed their help they are from our family. that loud chants begin as soon as they're done with the prince. but right here with us they chant 5 people were killed on more than 200 injured

when sudanese forces fought the protesters on the air this week. the ladder the ladder. when the protesters were killed the military council came out and said they were upset that their commanders weren't allowed to pass or checkpoints people have died yet they are more upset about access for their man they don't really care so. we have achieved 60 percent of our goals our revolution is ongoing we will continue until we achieve key objective a civilian government and accountability for those who have committed crimes against humanity. the mood of these quaint hard to lose far more conciliatory than before that. the protesters of accepted some of the demands of the military council and lifted most of the budget kids on the streets of the capital. the head of the transitional military council going to rob them for on wednesday suspended talks till all but it kits were moved the protesters say the only body kids left so far

around the square and put there for their own protection and any attempts to remove them would be met with with stiff resistance they say there is no one who can take them away from this square because abundantly that it. would be the death of saddam muhammad at all does it or. at least 15 people have died in flash floods in mali's capital most were killed after a bridge collapse in the center of bamako after heavy rain residents are blaming the government for not carrying out the rubbish which they say blocked the drainage canals. u.s. and afghan officials saying that at least 17 policemen have been killed by mistake in an ass strike in southern afghanistan as happened during a battle against the taliban just outside lashkar the capital of helmand province and u.s. military spokesman has described it as a tragic accident afghan officials say they are investigating. well that brings you up to date with all of our top stories coming up next peace and war looks at the

motivations behind russia's foreign policy. was more than shooting at the strings up of them used to be with. the muesli is composed mostly of she. would suppose we should leave go to. our sister districts i'm not a great speech which i'm going to the media voice i'm still to you know it's there because. the previous. is the muslim snitch that cookie you know sees in syria with this t.v. you got your. children should lose their only because the ugly.

little boy you meet it goes into the soul of islam again yet i see. a specialist you get out monday much. economic. poisonings cross 2 wars cyber and financial interference in the u.s. and european elections suborder. syrian president assad. this is the view from all sides russia which scandalized international opinion but from visiting russia these are mia details much more frightening domestic and international scenarios. kills in europe and i want to explore what insertions the russians feel about this international perception of russia and what the consequences of this could be.

russians especially in the capital moscow have adopted a european way of life they feel part of europe but for now russian government is in a deadlock with the west. as a journalist and writer specializing in our history and politics it has never felt more important to understand these tensions since russia's annexation of crimea we have headed towards a new cold war. russia has to board a separatist fighters in the eastern ukraine. is accused of tampering with the us or lecture. and of poisoning a former secret agent in a british country town. within russia there was a white range of opinion on these events but the official position is the opposite of the west and here. deputy foreign minister sergei volkov deals with the russian west and relationship 1st hand. to get it says she's up us leave me

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not only other new tensions but all the diplomatic victories between the 2 superpowers are coming undone. russia blames the usa for withdrawing from the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty while the usa accuses russia of doing the same with its intimidate range and you claim asylum the night am $7.00 to $8.00 russia has jeopardized the united states security interests and we can no longer be restricted by the treaty. all russia shamelessly violates we can't be put at the just advantage of going by a training limiting what we can do what somebody else doesn't know but at training ok let's start with you on this the go with. the. least possible because i've been there i see a motion that is going to go to the police

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