often attacks targets connected to iran and the lebanese group hezbollah. well 2 people have been killed and 4 others kidnapped in an attack near libya's the oil fields about southwest of the capital tripoli eisel has claimed responsibility for that assault libya's oil chief has warned that if instability in the country continues 95 percent of oil production could be lost. off tell ahead on al-jazeera under tad why tens of thousands of algerians keep attending to the streets to push the political change. down tonight revolutionaries that we meet and men and women joining a fitness to protect every nation.

hello again and welcome back to your international weather forecast we're here across china plenty of rain to talk about over the next few days and it's really going to be expanding as we begin the week as well most of the rain will be up here towards a central areas we're talking about chengdu on will see some very heavy rain as well for joe the rain for you but as we go towards monday the rain starts to make its way towards the south that's going to corporate hong kong as well and that rank be quite heavy along the coast expect some travel delays if you are coming into hong kong up toward shanghai though the rain will stay just to the south of you but we do expect to see plenty of clouds in the forecast there will cross india we are seeing some rain down here towards the south across carola those rain showers could be quite heavy we are going to be seeing a little bit of a break as we go towards sunday up towards the central region so for now per still quite warm at $42.00 degrees and new delhi at 39 getting to about 40 degrees by the time we get towards monday up towards nepal though we do expect to see some rain in katmandu with a temperature of 29 degrees and then here across the gulf we are looking at

a break in the temperature for doha we were into the low forty's coming down to about $37.00 but we do expect to see plenty of wind in the forecast here over towards amman though it is going to be rainy we could be seeing some flooding as well with miska see attempt to $34.00. people have to weigh your record on this troubling but few years ago there was place only for one state on the land of israel all you do not believe in a 2 state solution the official story is that there are no i'm sure we're all sure you don't care about the official story if you were to go visit today you would say what has the media been telling the world isn't black and white there's lots to graze in if you join me near 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 are the big issues here now does it.

have again i missed a reminder of the news this hour a strategy is ruining conservative coalition has clinched a surprise victory in the country's election and prime minister scott morrison will be back for another term his challenger opposition labor leader bill shorten has conceded defeat with a speech and meldon he's also resigned from the party's leadership. austria's far right deputy leader has resigned over a secret recording vice chancellor heinz christian straka was apparently seen offering government contracts in exchange for political support. and at least 20 fighters of the us backed syrian democratic forces were killed and 2 bomb attacks on rocca a local police station and

a military base were targeted. as marking 10 years since the end of the 25 year long civil war tamil tiger rebels who fought to create their own independent homeland made their last stand against government forces on the jaffna peninsula in the north both sides were accused of widespread war crimes but it smith reports from in more than sri lanka when many are still grappling with the negativity of war. in the closing months of sri lanka's civil war it's estimated by the un some 40000 civilians were killed as the government launched its final campaign against tamil tiger fighters those civilians caught many of them on this warm little patch of the area that was the scene today of a very moving commemoration survivors and relatives of those missing in the conflict candles and it's a giant flame to commemorate those who were lost now the survivors many of

those still have missing relatives they don't know what's happened to them some thousands and thousands of missing and a u.n. panel some years ago found that both sides were possibly culpable of a potential war crimes they said the sri lankan forces may have summarily executed tamil tiger fighters and they say the time of target fired his shot civilians trying to escape to the emotions still very particular in this part of sri lanka many people complaining but still nothing has been done to give them answers to what happened during the conflict u.s. oil and gas company exxon mobil is evacuating at stuff and in southern iraq and in another sign of heightened tensions bahrain is ordering its citizens from iraq and neighboring iran iraq is caught in the middle of a spat between iran and the united states the pentagon has deployed more warships and b. $52.00 bombers to the gulf accusing iran of threatening its troops and interests but terror has dismissed the possibility of conflict saying it doesn't want war.

tear gas was fired in algeria on the 13th successive friday protests demanding a clean sweep of the leadership 6 weeks after forcing out their longtime president bush aphasia protesters say they'll stop only when everyone from has in a saddle is replaced. reports. to months protesters have gathered outside the iconic grampus building in the capital algiers demanding political change. but on friday morning they arrived to find the area barricaded by police officers. tens of thousands of protesters tried to push their way through at 1st security forces responded with tear gas but outnumbered and under attack. i they eventually pulled out of the area it's the 13th consecutive week protesters have gathered in the main square to demand the removal of politicians and officials associated with

the regime of asked to president abdul aziz beautifully cutting the similar mix somebody from the they want to destroy us but they want we demand late only we reject their stories of being we are the ones who choose who represents us not even though you know that many protesters day believe that interim president up till kadok been salah is the right person to run the country at this critical moment presidential elections on july the protesters not just in the capital but across algeria unrelenting in the demands but complete regime change in such projects elections under this president can only lead to a fraudulent government but we is the one who fix $6000000.00 forms for bootlicker good reason actions are rigged and dollars and we will not take part in that and we say no to the elections. someone on the chief of staff may guide santa to step in and remove the political elite but he's wounded against what he says are attempts to create

a power vacuum so i see despite such warnings and. the protesters seem determined to continue their rallies until the political establishment is gone victoria gate and be al-jazeera. sudan's transitional military council says it plans to resume talks with the opposition alliance on sunday thousands of people have been demonstrating near the army headquarters demanding civilian rule and holding ground overnight have a morgan has the capital. call themselves. sudanese cool calm after sunset to join the thousands outside the military headquarters they searched for weapons at checkpoints set up by other protesters before they joined the sit in which is now in its 2nd month to make a nice little song it's important to have people here at night because the attempts to disperse to sit in mostly happens during the evening that's why we have people common even sleep here to guard the revolution. but those who come here do more

than guard their revolution which began in december before reaching its peak in early april when they began camping in front of the military headquarters and demanded the country's president obama to end this 30 year rule. when the military ousted him on april 11th the protesters stayed on to demand power be handed to civilians. brings books every evening for protesters to all read for free if they can't afford the price he can now offer books that were banned by the old regime to get up that you could have a benefit that books used to have limited purposes during the former regime but now people can access books they couldn't find because of the oppression and the ban they were living under but this isn't just a revolution of the people it's a revolution of the mind as well. some other ways to learn listening to political debates from various parties and groups including those that were targeted by the former government with the opportunity to talk to other protesters people here say

my purpose that it was tajik feeling this knowledge of. many here have heard of but haven't lived while getting a taste of how different the country can be. on this corner different cultures are displayed the dances performed are common in the west and south of sudan parts of the country that have been marred by violence. now people are traveling here to join in the revolution in their own. political future will be beautiful people will be united like never before this is what sudan's future looks like and i'm happy to be part of it. sudan's transition may not speak. but those here at the city. have seen a glimpse of the future they want and are living it here they want to back down until this sort of life becomes the norm across their country. venezuela's president has welcomed talks with his representatives on the opposition both sides are meeting and also in norway nicolas maduro says it's the beginning of

dialogue with those who want him to step down the mediation bit comes after a month of power struggle between maduro and opposition leader one quite oh the crisis has resulted in demonstrations and standoffs between supporters and murderers military venezuela's foreign minister spoke to al-jazeera about the talks and norway he's told our latin america editor lucien human that proposals from the opposition will only be considered if they respect venezuela's constitution those were meals a lot of things here and they're asking for all those things because the united states is demanding it we will sit at a table for talks and also or anywhere else all initiatives are possible with our constitution on the table not with a pistol not with an imperial order but with our constitution the options that they are proposing are not in the constitution and then the work done and i want to do so do you believe that there is a real credible threat of u.s. military intervention in this weather or is it

a bluff they're also going to have no grasp of law. no with those hawks in the white house there is no bluff you always have to be careful and be prepared for all scenarios it was president trump who in august 27th teen said that he would consider a military option in venezuela it wasn't bolton or pompeo it was trump bolton has said it thousands of times pompei o has said it from pence has said it that all options are on the table including the military one we are prepared for all scenarios of a former president of argentina is making a comeback cristina fernandez de kirchner has made a surprise announcement to run as a vice presidential candidate and election that's despite a corruption trial due to begin next week and her involvement in other scandals the 66 year old is being seen as the most likely challenge as a president merits your mockery who supports his foreign in the opinion polls the united states has reached a deal with canada and mexico to remove its tariffs from steel and aluminum imports

the move could put the 3 countries a step closer to russia finding a deal that would replace the north american free trade agreement the agreement will eliminate u.s. metal tariffs and canada's retaliatory tariffs on u.s. products including pork beef and. well homes come in all sorts of shapes and sizes including some on stilts precariously over a lake and been in an african fishing community in the village of ghana v.a. has managed to preserve its lifestyle and traditions for more than 2 centuries as reports the pressures of modern life threatening to swamp. what they say about gun view is that life is peaceful. for more than 250 years people have been living on the water and what's thought to be africa's largest lake community it's grown to around 35000 people. to go our guide is 23 year old herman. who grew up here but is now studying on the mainland he shows us around the fish

farms the main source of income for most families. we meet gerard in year he explains the business is tough because they have to invest so much in it for so little return. to go around the world when we castanets and don't catch any fish it breaks our hearts we have no choice but to come back to fishing because we have nothing else to do if we can get some help to move away from this work it would be good what we really need is help. the water reaches up to 2 metres and so a boat is the only way to move. them and tells us that each family has at least 3. the community is divided into what they call villages the chief of this one is north. he tells us they need help with basic facilities. we have no electricity or clean water because of the way the population is growing the clean water we have is not sufficient if the government could help us with this we would

be happy. for 25 and sells food for a living she has plans to open up a store she is the exception among her age group and i want all of my friends are gone they've gone to the mainland to look for money i'm the only one left congo is a fully functioning community with schools churches a hospital and even a cemetery one of the challenges for people here is how to preserve their way of life without being left behind by the rest of society. a man tells a story of how his ancestors found sanctuary when they were escaping a war between burnings ancient kingdoms now there's no escaping the fact that many like him though proud of their heritage are looking for a different future i'm appointing al-jazeera. now it's a big year for brazilian cinema at the $2900.00 can a film festival with 7 movies on the show the 1st screening and can coincided with

mass demonstrations back in brazil against education cuts by president is government cuts that are hurting the arts sector charlie angela reports on the political message that brazil's films are sending. so the cost of brazilian film back around this is their moment to enjoy they say it's also the moment to protest. extreme times call for extreme cinema. just and conceived 10 years ago back arouse angry tale of oppression feels like a bang up to date critique of brazil's current political climate. here an isolated impoverished but it is forced to defend itself when threatened with being wiped off the map it's a film that shows the power of the community under fire and under fire is how the directors now feel as brazil's president. cracks down on what he calls cultural

marxism with the rise of the extreme right for some reason they have. they despise just one culture and it's all very sinister and the way it seems to function. so. they have slashed federal funding for cultural barriers and of course. another distinctly brazilian film is sick sick sick a feverish story about 1st love that becomes dangerously infected. it's a poetic 1st film from director alice petard who shows brazil's youth liberal and. in some way reflects the kind of nightmarish 6 states of residence of science. and i think that the ending of the film is like. trying to. get the intensity back

trying to get the. i don't know the love back maybe because we were in a society of haters. it's unclear what help films like this will get from the government. food president both sonora has recently merged the ministry of culture with a ministry of citizenship brazil has brought several films to catalyse it's a record for the country and something to be celebrated but for the filmmakers here there is concern that back in brazil the crowds gathering and the artistic freedom could be under threat charlie under al jazeera. says al jazeera and these are the top stories a strain is ruling conservative coalition has can just surprise victory in the country's election that means scott morrison will stay on as prime minister his

challenger opposition labor leader bill shorten has conceded defeat and also resigned from the party's leadership thanks for i have always believed in miracles thought. i'm standing with the 3 biggest miracles in my life here tonight. and tonight we've been delivered another one. in the. how good these are striving. he says bay and i tough. talks a good times but now that the contest is over all of us have a responsibility to respect the result to be able to have served as leader of the

life of a party for 5 and a hafiz is a brighter all know than anyone who had my family before me or even i could have dreamed of when i joined the local branch 35 years ago. austria's far right deputy leader has resigned over a controversial video putting the ruling coalition there at risk 2 german newspapers published footage showing the vice chancellor christians apparently offering government contracts and exchange for political support at least 25 of the us syrian democratic forces have been killed in 2 bomb attacks on rocca a local police station and a military base which targeted. tunnels in sri lanka marking 10 years since the end of the 25 year long civil war tunnel tiger rebels were fighting against government forces to create their own independent homeland both sides were accused of war crimes well those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after up

front stay with us just a few months after journalist jamal a special she was killed another arab dissident was under threat norwegian security officials had to take him from his home and also to a secure location after a tip that the saudis were targeting him. human rights activist. town jazeera. the venezuelan opposition says it's now in direct communication with the u.s. military after a self declared president won quite a fail 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 article 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 those 6 criteria apply in the case of nicolas maduro which means for all his many sins and flaws 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 constitution if you don't actually get in

there to take all the opportunity and therefore automatically goes busy to the national you say there is no president because there were no elections obviously nicolas maduro 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 there are no resources at every aspect of doing support for 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 hacked 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 called you about is a fox on the ground one quite a may have declared himself interim president missouri still have the keys to the presidential palace he still controls the armed forces he still have the loyalty of the top generals he still controls the country's key financial institutions regime change is harder than it looks isn't evidence. 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 8.8. in dollars 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 volunteered 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 did is was supposed to join them 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 much to the collison expect generals to join you i don't get it oh well they had said that they were what 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 the more 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 i don't fortunately 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 the best of all he was on the bus to the u.k. in his that you know. that's ok they're not to consider going back to ride up 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 do you mean. what mistakes did he 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 sit 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 you go 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't imagine the chinese or the saudis will be iranians or the north koreans allowing an opposition politician to do that and 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 seen and then mineta or indicted or saw 28 percent of the national assembly going after the national assembly piece by piece we have no proof of life from those deputies 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 and disputing and that this is even a human rights abuses i'm not disputing the human rights abuses i'm also going if i'm a doer 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 knocking him up would make him a martyr and you'd also incur the ire of the nearly 60 countries that have that are supporting him. that he's going to get a method and that'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 on the streets but you don't deny do you that missouri still have the support of millions of venezuelans i would dispute the millions. of little 30000000 people in venezuela and you're telling me the cycle of less than a 1000000 people now and i know i don't tell you how much progress. 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 however it has let me be clear you know the. democracy that is being contemplated it 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 their food benefits from my little offered this is that that is a dictatorship and if they want to go 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 government 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 his v.p. 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 but it's well as a number of issues it is completely invaded we had russians behind 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 allies and friends 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 of 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 anything that confidence 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 our attitude to train 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. engineering. well i'm younger than you but we've all read history elliot abrams responsible for most of war crimes in el salvador and elsewhere in the 1980 s. he's now the man you trust to bring democracy to venezuela seriously. we need to have that humanitarian 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 and 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 madeira 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 since 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 vanessa normal 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 this conviction is 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 of fencing 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 2017 soared 39 percent and what keeps this infernal cycle going demand worldwide the number of drug users increased by 31 percent between 2009 and 2 $1016.00 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 as the only big tours in the so-called war on drugs are those profiting from addiction so is it time to set the bullets and take up the side take a look at the portuguese model changing attitudes towards drug use in clinics and

society at large helped 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 crimes 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 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 daddy joins me now from oslo 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 not us 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 it

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 so those are 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 the clock on me and you know the whole the whole. you know little shady characters around 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 we're starting twitter is going to try 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 into a chain 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 they what 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 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 centric didn't really help in a sense because you're still you still got targeted 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 you know 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 of 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 you know its duty to warn. but then again i mean the only the only reason why m.p.'s is unaccountable and unhinged is

because the one administration in the world that are more that are most culpable of reigning him in our current leak is because the neighbors and it's not just the saudis of course you have the shadowy israeli security from 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. absolutely and in this way 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 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 abilities 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 the 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.

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but we begin this news hour in australia where the ruling conservative coalition has clinched a surprise victory in the country's general election prime minister scott morrison will be back for another term in what he describes as a miracle when during a speech in sydney a short time ago it's not yet clear if his liberal national coalition will have a majority or if it will need to secure the backing of other independent m.p. s. the leader of the opposition labor party resigns after conceding defeat snipers have predicted it's a win for labor let's stay with us in the headlights night so andrew thomas is in melbourne and andrew just how big an upset is this. well opinion polls have consistently hurt the labor left of center opposition and heads of the governing rights of st coalition so it's

a very big surprise even 7 hours ago if you go back to when the polling booth on the east coast of australia closed at 6 pm local time here in australia even then there was huge optimism in this room where the labor party supporters were gathered right now we should be in the middle of their party but of course it's a party has been cancelled because they haven't just lost they've lost pretty badly expectations absolutely dashed and you can see the few people left in this room well they're just clearing up what remains of this room pulling down the stage where bill shorten gave his concession speech about an hour ago now this was an election that was supposed to be all about putting the environment front and center as the labor party had is about making sure that taxes were put on the rich more to pay for things like schools education investment in infrastructure well the government their campaign was all about how much more that would cost the average

australian and it appears that that is what swung the marginal seats in their favor against all expectations so no polity here just the sad clear up almost feels like a weight in many ways the party has been in sydney where the liberal party the right of center liberal party has been gathered and the prime minister scott morrison within the last hour gave his victory speech let's hear a little about now. i have always believed in miracles you know the i'm standing with the 3 biggest miracles in my life here tonight the and tonight we've been delivered another one of the. how good

is the strike here the. odds of the party starts in the inset neighborhood to be no word yet if the liberals have won this crucial rights victory . we don't in fact none of the results are official is a very complicated preferential voting system in australia and that means the votes officially take a long time to count everything we're talking about now is based on projections of the early votes being counted but they're pretty reliable reliable enough of course for the leader of the labor party to not only can see that he has lost this election but actually resign the leadership of his party as well so as things stand right now the coalition the rights of same governing party is projected to have 174 seats at least in a parliament of 151 so they need 76 just 2 more to go into their column to get an outright majority but even if they don't get that there are enough independents

who've been elected to parliament it seems on the rights of politics who are likely to support that rights of same governing coalition under scott morrison so by the way he's almost certain to remain australia's prime minister and it looks fairly unlikely that he might get to do so in his own right with an overall majority but we won't know that for sure for a few days in the mean time bill shorten labor's opposition leader who's now last 2 elections in a row he lost 13 years ago although then he exceeded expectations and came very close to winning well he's lost this one by falling short of expectations he has resigned the leadership of his party so the left of center labor party is now looking for a new leader ok we'll have to leave it there for now but thank you so much for bringing us that live update there from melbourne. let's head to austria and where the far right leads are christian star has stepped down as the country's bice chancellor was apparently offering government contracts for an unknown russian

woman in exchange for political supports the secretly film video was published by 2 german newspapers chancellor sebastian cortes says conservative people's party star has anti immigration freeze and joined forces in 2017 to govern the country. we want to continue implementing the government program and we stand by this government program and our beloved responsibility for austria and its people i do not want to be the reason to make that impossible and also provide a pretext for this government to collapse that was the goal of this illegal act which took place. while sonia go is live in london for a song here he doesn't want this to affects the austrian government but is some sort of repetitions of the never never. well very difficult to see how there cannot be any repercussions given the severity of this bill as well

and really it has been an enormous embarrassment not just for staff as the head of the freedom party but also exactly for question marks over how the freedom party forms itself and throwing open those questions how politically it can function in the wake of all these allegations now is worth noting that there has been a statement from the freedom party saying that they haven't received any benefits of this kind and that they would go forward with the legal process in mind and that they've made much of the fact that they believe this is recorded illegally but still the shadow all of this corrupt practice as it were had it gone forward really sort of. makes puts this. very very

compromising position of course he's. taken a step down he stood down from that role and said that the transport minister who is also the freedom party member norbert would take the place but there are still really some question marks over how they can fully recover considering that the freedom party was one of the strongest far right parties in europe and indeed have been in existence or have been in existence since the 1950 s. and certainly as part of the political landscape. and so on your can you just tell us a little bit more about this caused drop and the reaction that. well to go back to the video itself it's really quite astonishing to see how it has incriminated himself in this particular video that it was recorded back in july

27th team just months before the austrian elections and he was seen with another senior member of the freedom party as well as the woman who was posing as a russian national she said she was a daughter rather a nice of a russian oligarch looking to invest some $280000000.00 into austria and so this really set forth a discussion which went over. sort of you know foremost how they could not only funnel the funds. directly incriminate the freedom party they talked about siphoning it off into some kind of of foundations so it wouldn't have any direct link to the freedom party is supple and they talked about also what they could do with the money as in what they could offer this woman posing as a russian national saying that they could offer. contracts not just with austria

businesses but also with the austrian government contracts that would include constructions of highways and inflating those contracts casino licenses also taking over a tabloid newspapers were very serious repercussions the fact that this would have had one point during the videos seemed to be a little bit wary that we may have been set up but clearly felt comfortable enough to go ahead and proceed with the conversation the nature of the conversation and there seemed to be an awareness that they had to tread very carefully around the legalities of this given the string the serious nature of this this doesn't seem to be anywhere near being result. just by him stepping down in fact in about an hour a half's time the chancellor is going to the chancellor of austria is going to issue a statement that's probably followed an hour later by the president himself and we'll see exactly what kind of impact that's going to have in very real terms

although certainly well. thank you very much indeed sonia go there reporting for more european you censor in london. to yemen they were survivors of a so it's a huge the coalition airstrikes say they have no idea why there are neighborhoods in the capital summer was attacked at least 6 people were killed and dozens wounded the coalition says it's investigating what it calls the possibility of an accidental air strike. fighters were targeted so what reports. the sound you eat led coalition in yemen says its precision strikes on the military positions in the capital sanaa but these pictures of damaged homes tell another story residents of iraq cross say there is no justification for the destruction of then.