what was the electorate's of needs and wants we've been finding out environ r.c. i they've been queuing up since daybreak it's the 7th and final phase of india's general election on sunday people from 59 constituencies across 7 states and one union territory head to the polls more than 900000000 people were eligible to cast their ballots in the world's largest democracy over the past 7 weeks voters waiting here are excited that their day has finally come this should be getting unruly development more infrastructure here physically the situation is that it should be given to. the very 1st i felt really nice voting for the 1st time i want prime minister made to come back to power and move the country forward and develop it so that the unemployed can ready get employment. environ arcee is one of 13 seats in the state of pradesh that's being fought over on sunday it's the parliamentary seat of the incumbent prime minister narendra modi there are many

issues the electorate has had to consider communal politics unemployment the economy education and national security. for some small scale manufacturers the issue is clear this factory produces fans and it's been severely affected by the monetize ation and the introduction of the new goods and services tax g.s.t. which is added to the manufacturing cost and impacted on the workforce there that gupta wants the new government to revisit the amount of tax small cottage industries like kids have to pay. 50 to 60000 people depend on cottage industries like us here my sales are down and property margins by about 60 to 70 percent when it comes to workforce i used to have about 30 employees now i can only afford in analysts suggest there is a disconnect between what the public needs and what politicians say they can deliver i think one of the reasons is that. india has been. quote and emitted from

the masses they do not have things to offer. as the economy i think we are going deep into crisis and the promises that they are making the bodies i mean it's very difficult to fulfill the promises so they don't want to talk about the concrete delivery while these voters wait patiently in line for their turn to vote the country will have to wait until thursday before the national vote count begins. so all that's left to do is the vote count but will happen on thursday and then they'll be a better indication of what india's new parliament will look like and who might lead a new indian government for the moment the exit polls are suggesting that the b j p might just sneak in with another victory along with our allies but india and pollsters have been notoriously wrong historically they were in 2014 so we wait and see how the indian public voted and what the reaction will be from politicians north south east and west. so her aman there well an issue that hasn't featured

heavily in india's election campaign is climate change that's the spite rising sea levels impacting many voters like here on the tiny island which is just 4 kilometers in size they fear it's the last time they'll be able to vote before the island sinks into the bay of bengal all the island is part of west bengal a major battleground state between india. and the opposition. still ahead in this half hour warnings $2000000.00 somalis are at risk of starvation as the country suffers another drought plus i'm sorry arms at the cannes film festival where new wave of north african female filmmakers are taking center stage.

hello again and welcome back to your international weather forecast well plenty of messy weather here across parts of central europe we do have an area of low pressure that is really beginning to organize here across the central area now 2 sides of the storm the eastern side that's bringing up that warm air from the south temperatures are into the mid twenty's in some locations but the precept is showery so going to be seeing often on conditions there here towards the west though we're talking about winds coming out of the north it's going to be more of a continuous rain across parts of germany as well as into switzerland and that's going to continue as we go towards tuesday as well better conditions over here towards london we are going to be seeing some sun and your forecast at 20 degrees paris though some clouds few at $21.00 in zurich at about 18 degrees there well plenty of clouds here across much of northern africa coming in from parts of algeria over here towards tunisia as well in those clouds we could be seeing a rain shower or 2 but we don't think it's going to be too heavy at times tempers across the sahara we are talking about low forty's for many locations but up here across the coast it is tripoli about $22.00 degrees there here on monday and into

tuesday over here towards benghazi though we are talking about $31.00 degrees there down towards parts of cairo we are looking at $39.00 degrees and us one it is going to be a warm day if you would sun in the forecast of 42. 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 in all snow to a secure location after attempt at the saudis were targeting him. rights activist. talks town jazeera new yorkers are very receptive to al to see because it is such an international city they're very interested in that global perspective that al jazeera provides.

welcome back here's a reminder of the top stories on algis iraq a rocket has been fired into baghdad's heavily fortified green zone which houses government buildings and foreign embassies there were no casualties according to the iraq thing at least 17 people have been injured after a tourist bus hit a roadside bomb in egypt near the giza pyramids and process leaders in sudan have resumed their transition talks with the military they are insisting a civilian heads the new governing body the army has ruled since president tomorrow bashir was the post last month. russia says syrian government forces of implemented a unilateral cease fire in northwest province though opposition activists say

shelling and their strikes have continued the syrian government stepped up its attacks on the last remaining rebel territory last month the spread a cease fire brokered by russia and turkey since then air and there tillery strikes and in fish infantry assaults have driven the rebels out of several villages. the u.s. navy says it's conducted exercises in the gulf to highlight how effectively it can respond to potential threats this says regional rivals iran and saudi arabia say that they don't want to war the leader of iran's revolutionary guards a said his country is not pursuing a conflict and the saudi foreign ministry says the kingdom doesn't want to escalate tensions but will respond if iran chooses to engage in war king solomon the staunch ally of the us has called for 2 emergency summits involving gulf and arab leaders later this month to discuss the situation in the region. opec members and

russia have agreed to keep oil output at the current level at a meeting in saudi arabia but say that they will continue to monitor the market the meeting in jeddah follows a. us president donald trump same the oil producing nations had agreed to boost production to combat an increase in fuel prices the increase has been calls then part by renewed sanctions on iran the opec nations and russia say they will meet again in june the u.n. is warning of a major humanitarian crisis in somalia which is again in the grips of drought 2000000 somalis are at risk of starvation unless they get emergency aid victoria gave to be of reports. hungry somalis arrive daily at this makeshift camp on the outskirts of the capital mogadishu the farms have failed and the animals have died sheltering here is now their best chance of surviving the drought the house the house subatomic. left our home and farms because of drug related conditions and

conflict off farms were hit badly by the drought thankfully now we live here somalis are leaving rural areas in the 10s of thousands to get food aid in the capital the failure of so-called long rains which usually sweep east africa between march and may has caused crop failures across the region aid agencies have scaled up efforts but say more support is needed the situation in somalia is very worrying we are just 2 years on from the 27000 drought which had a famine warning to it we were able to avoid famine through working with partners governments civil society the diaspora private sector it really was a collective effort. the new arrivals joined to the half 1000000 others already displaced by conflict and passed droughts in somalia with their livelihoods destroyed many of the displaced will continue to stay in camps long after the drought is a victorian gates and b.

al-jazeera. it's going to. where there are concerns about rising violence against christians still not knowing who carried out a deadly attack on the church in the north. the government believes an ice a linked group may be behind it nicholas hogg has an exclusive report from the remote region of where the group is expanding its reach. we travel deep into northern burkina faso on the front line of an expanding war against the group islamic state in the greater sahara. this is diablo a christian town in the muslim region. now living in fear. my goal was running late for last sunday's mass when 20 mouse gunmen stepped in front of him they shot the priest in the head then they randomly selected 5 worshippers killing them one by one while perishers watched. among those killed

was by my goes father a devout christian now buried in the church grounds. they were in military fatigue we thought they were the police but then they told women and children to leave and the carnage started and. while no one has claimed responsibility for the attack the government believes it has the hallmarks of the stomach state in the greater sahara. in april self-styled the ice a leader of. the welcome new affiliates from bric enough aso in mali. since then attacks on the mali burkina faso border have multiplied 4 western hostages were abducted and then freed after a military operation in this area a spanish priest was damp to death and gunmen shot at a christian procession killing worshippers. so has to stand up against these terrorists and we will fight them into violent extremism and intolerance

leave so country. is a muslim majority country but all of its presidents so far have been christians whilst these 2 face have co-existed in live together peacefully so far the latest attacks seek to stoke religious divisions especially in the north of the country. northern birchenough faso is rich in gold and minerals yet the muslims of the north who are mostly full on the herders live in poverty newly formed rebel groups are exploiting old grievances any quality and absence state and religious differences luring young men into what has become a new battleground nicholas hawk al-jazeera northern brick enough. tens of thousands of people have rallied in berlin frankfurt munich and other german cities in defense of the e.u.

they say they're answering calls from the german chancellor angela merkel to push back against the far right which is predicted to make gains at next week's european election merkel has warned that nationalism is the enemy of the european project on saturday italy's the prime minister met their son vini staged a rally in the land attended by nationalist politicians from across the block and vowed to reshape the european parliament. meanwhile austrian chances of us in courts nap elections will be held in september following a corruption scandal hidden valving his vice chancellor christian staff the leader of the far right freedom party was forced to resign after footage was released of a video sting in it he was caught on camera offering to fix government contracts in exchange for support of his party structure has denied doing anything illegal. north african women are in the spotlight at this year's cannes film festival female

directors formal geria morocco into new zia are presenting films which push the boundaries of issues that are to boo in the region charlie angela reports from cannes. but picture a new film from algeria about a free spirited student during the civil war of the 1998 and it was a let's let's you. know is a party go a feminist and a fashion designer face me loyal to algeria resisting the rising conservatism the help of her friends. she quits his official coming home it's a moving drama loosely based on the life of 1st time feature director. who explained why algeria is now seeing a greater artistic output. i think that me and my algerian friends artist and filmmakers are part of a generation who needed some time we lived in the ninety's that we couldn't express ourselves because the situation was very complicated there are no fumes schools in

algeria we don't have cinemas we are a generation that needed to build itself and that generation is now ready to convey their stories. another film selected by canned adam by moroccan filmmaker. the story of a friendship between a single mother from casablanca and a pregnant girl. both projects is supported by the film institute 4 whose mission is to empower filmmakers in the arab world after all the revolutions and the political issues that happened in that region. a window where they can speak about oppression. impacts on the economy. political. situations that they had to go through and this is a fantastic because the female perspective usually has a different point of view. and maybe novelties for the cannes film festival

but one to museum producers says the output was there in the past it's just been overlooked. our region with the west we've always had many directors. even. if it's not something new for us maybe the west doesn't know much about it began film festival has the power to thrust these stories into the spotlight stories of oppression patriarchy and resistance told in the only way both films a strong contenders for the camera door prize for 1st feature film more importantly pave the way for future female filmmakers charlie and the al-jazeera. these really broadcaster of the euro vision song called has to says the icelandic delegation could be punished for waving palestinian scarves during the show members of the island's punk band held up the scarves when the camera cut to them this points for being awarded it prompted boos from some in the crowd in tel aviv

madonna has also been criticized for her performance 2 of her backup dancers had israeli and palestinian flags pinned on their backs and embraced and the push of a chair and i think there should be no mixing of politics in a culture or music event such as this i think it was a mistake and that it suddenly inappropriate and such things shouldn't happen with all due respect madonna iceland has closed off an ancient river canyon where a justin bieber music video was filmed saying that an increase in tourists has damaged its vegetation more than a 1000000 people a visited the site since it appeared in the musicians video back in 2015 yes sources say that many of tried to jump the fence to get to the canyon and walk in bieber's footsteps the site is expected to reopen this summer if weather conditions are dry less than people to live out of commitment to say are just the babies defense when he visited the canyon it did not have right francis and designated

paws to show what was and wasn't allowed but on the other hand. vegetation and walk to the edge of a cliff that is not role model behavior because if masses of people follow like we have seen this leads to a dramatic effect on the entire area. much more on that and everything else that we have been covering on our website the address al-jazeera dot com. take a look at our headlines of rocket has been fired into baghdad's heavily fortified green zone which houses government buildings and foreign embassies there were no casualties according to the iraqi military the u.s. embassy in the iraqi capital evacuated non-essential staff earlier this week citing a heightened threat from iran china stratford has more. of course there has been

increasing freeze of any kind of escalation as this crisis between the u.s. and iran develops as you mentioned all non-essential u.s. embassy staff were ordered to leave the last week we also saw an evacuation of exxon mobil exxon mobil employees for employees with exxon mobile the river q e 2 from. an oil field in the south of the country and it's incidents like these that only obviously increase the tension in iraq. a roadside bomb is huta tourist bus in egypt near the giza pyramids injuring at least 17 people the bus was carrying 25 south african tourists from the airport to the pyramids area egyptians in a nearby car were also injured no group has yet claimed responsibility. so dance military has resumed the talks with protest leaders who say that they will insist

that a civilian heads the new governing body the general suspended the last round of negotiations a few days ago demanding that them strangers remove roadblocks in the capital khartoum the army has ruled so than since president omar al bashir was the pows last month and wants the new ruling body to be military led. the white house has announced an international peace to prosperity conference to encourage investment in palestine as part of its peace plan for israelis and palestinians it will take place in bahrain next month palestinian officials have opposed the plan saying it will be heavily biased in favor of israel. the world's biggest democratic election has finally come to an end in india more than 600000000 people have voted for a new parliament in a mouse an election spread across 6 weeks and 543 constituencies exit poll suggested the prime minister in their on their move these hindu nationalist b j p will win another term those are the headlines that talk to al-jazeera is next.

moving. forward. just months after journalist jamal khashoggi it was killed in the saudi consulate in istanbul another arab dissident says his life he's also in danger. baghdad he is a pro-democracy activist and strong critic of saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin sound man the u.k.'s guardian newspaper reported that norwegian officials took him from his home in 00 to a secure location there he was told the cia had warned norway's government that the saudis had him in their crosshairs el baghdadi gained popularity during the arab

spring when he posted pro human rights messages on social media the palestinian activist was granted asylum in norway 4 years ago after being expelled from the united arab emirates put his criticism of middle eastern regimes 5 jonah out in oslo in an exclusive interview baghdadi discusses an unlikely friendship with the murdered washington post journalist john mouth ashaji and have continuing his work has brought him into the crosshairs of the saudi government human rights campaigner el baghdadi talks to al-jazeera. by danny thank you for talking to al-jazeera thank you so much for having me i'd like to go back a couple of weeks now to the 25th of april when you 1st got the knock on your door here in all slow telling you that there was a threat against you how did you react how did it happen. well to be honest i

wasn't that surprised that they showed up. and i believe the 1st thing i said to them once they introduced themselves told me their badges was something like what took you so long. i remember on that day you know from the corner of my eye i could see some activity outside i could see that i think they were standing there for a while. it seemed to me that they secured the area before asking me to go with them norwegians the norwegian security the norway we call them the p.s.t. they're kind of a combination of norway's you know kind of see if the i and security you know. special service you can see so they also provide security for politicians you know dignitaries. and they're known to be you know highly professional highly competent . so. at the time of course they were in plain clothes and what did they tell you. they didn't tell me any details on the spot they simply asked me to go with them they didn't give you any sense of why there was

a threat against you or where information had come from they only did that once i was safe and secure in that specialised secure location would do this and they simply sat me down and then they told me that they received a tip from a partner intelligence agency indicating that i've been the target of a threat and you now believe that to be the cia and the threat to be coming from the time i had a good i had a good. idea that it was the cia but i wasn't 100 percent sure i believe i only this only was completely confirmed when the guardian did you know the work to confirm it and in the absence of real evidence to support this notion of a threat what gives you pause to think that it is credible that there is a real threat out there to start i think the you know whether whatever you think about this from a moral point of view i believe everyone would agree that there are competent. so i

don't believe that this would have passed. if there wasn't something behind it. but i should also mention that i started to become concerned about my security as far back as october you know shortly after the murder which was murder on october 15th i received a friendly to from a saudi source indicating that you know i'm being discussed and that i should be concerned about my security. you mentioned other names as well and you know i also inform them. but i didn't take any drastic action back then. in february while i was working with business as the investigation team i became i mean. i started to understand how sensitive that matter is and i started to feel i mean revisiting a lot of my old sources etc. i started to feel that i mean i don't want

to be too dramatic but i felt like you know i have i probably have cross hairs on my back. and i did indicate my concern to a number of norwegian friends you know and in an e-mail that went around asking them for advice you know what you know someone who is in this kind of situation what do you do where do you go. in march i filed a police report with the police with the local police which is the normal procedure when you want to you know when to and want to indicate something like that but i believe it was over a month over a month had passed before. the p.s.t. came to my door so it was october last year the same month that i showed you it was killed that you began to feel somewhat under threat yourself and you were friends with him where you know. and you work together well yeah i mean initially of course i mean i tell people that someone like them all and i are not supposed to be friends we're not supposed to be friends the reason is for the longest time was one

of the elites he was a figure who was deeply loyal he continued to be deeply loyal to the saudi state to the idea of saudi arabia. and for the longest time i mean within my team we had a lot of frustration we had rants about about how should we you know like the guy who almost gets it the guy who would say 10 things 10 positive 10 things about democracy and human rights and free expression 9 of them would be things that you would absolutely you know agree with and the 10th would walk it all back you know. and so i was always skeptical about that until that moment when he chose exile. and something really amazing happened after that which was that one was unshackled from having to be concerned about his security and about you know his

his safety once he was safe reasonably in the united states. he could have gone in any direction he could have gone to words you know he could have one of his dreams was to start his own t.v. station or could have done that he could have you know gotten a pretty decent position at a think tank for example in d.c. . eventually he chose 2 things 1st journalism his 1st you know his 1st identity and he gravitated towards activists was used to some kind of normal politics he was used to the old saudi arabia which had some kind of norms and some kind of traditions of how things happened. completely destroyed that and the end of normal politics eventually meant that you have to seek other ways of seeking influence. and i think that's how he that's when he started to gravitate towards activism m.b.'s. of course the crown prince in saudi arabia. eventually you found

common cause with jamal khashoggi do you think that it was your association with him. the 1st put you on the radar of the saudi authorities to attempt to answer your question. we did a risk assessment and we identified 6 or 7 reasons of 6 or 7 things that i've been working on you and he's not with jamal i mean generally i mean 3 of these are 2 of these were but the rest were basically other initiatives that were highly sensitive and i believe from my own informed opinion would have been highly you know of concern let's see if to the saudis well you knew you knew that what you were doing had the potential to get you in trouble you tweeted if they don't want to kill me then i'm not doing my job is the risk the danger is something that you accept as simply being an inherent in what you do it is something that i accept i

mean this is i mean it's not the easiest life but it is the life that i built and it's the life that i chose so let's talk about the period then after jamal khashoggi death in the saudi consulate in istanbul last october you took on along with these who's also been warned at the same time as you he lives in canada there's another individual who lives in the united states also warned by security services of the threat the 3 of you took on your miles work and tried to carry it on and that's what brought you into contact with the i was in founder jeff bezos give me a sense of of how events unfolded after june miles death and how they involved your work so the man was very concerned about the state of free expression the main medium of free expression. in the arab world post 2011 was social media particularly twitter i think the nature of twitter. the fact that twitter is this

unfiltered you know there's no algorithm or the algorithm is very light. and the fact that twitter became very very popular in saudi arabia i think saudi arabia and certain and certain. certain surveys tops the world when it comes to an attrition rate went up supporter. jamal himself was a twitter influencer as you know i mean he had i think 1600000 for something like that as we saw a 1000000 followers i mean i'm nowhere near his influence on twitter i mean under that keep in mind also that he's influential in the arabic language which is the language that for safety i avoided even though i enjoy speaking i mean and communicating in arabic it just happens that there were far more aggressive with arabic speakers because they wanted to control the arabic public sphere ok so you identify twitter as the sort of main battleground it was the main battleground the main i mean i remember as far back as 2011 someone called twitter the parliament of the arabs it is where arabs go to express their opinion it is where arabs go to to

get informed. likely exactly so take me on. in how you went about picking up where jamal left of trying to finish what it was he started. you might be aware of the project that omar abdel aziz was working on and of course is a project that was started in association was about actually. and the idea behind it is you know these guys the saudi regime they weaponize twitter they manipulate the media and they manipulate the platform in order to do really dark things and to just to fight really dark things why don't we do the same but in the in the opposite direction in other words why don't we also many police twitter to push our own narratives which are basically you know pro freedom pro profit off expression pro-human rights etc. so that was one line of attack and i would i would mention here that i have a certain philosophical difference let's say with this approach of course i was not

involved in that project at all but i have this philosophical difference because i think maybe fighting fire with fire is not the best strategy because they simply have so much more fire. the 2nd approach i mean there's 3 approaches i prefer not to mention the 3rd approach at least for the meanwhile because it's very much a work in progress and it's highly sensitive and it's starting to bear fruit. but i would mention the 2nd one with the 2nd one basically was. jamal's desire to create. what we eventually came to describe as an arab state media watchdog so he actually gave me a call i believe it was if i'm not mistaken it was august 7th. and this was after after we had communicated about the 3rd project after i had made

some connections that he needed. but in that conversation he he summarized the idea he said you know these guys push a lot of propaganda a lot of it is outrageous and a lot of it they get away with it because they say it in the arabic language and there isn't enough awareness in the world that you know this is actually happening so he's like why don't we create this project that actually exposes the so what they do is that they segment the audience so they send a message in english there's another message in arabic why don't we cross translate so that people can see that this is what's happening and we can actually keep an eye a spotlight on their propaganda efforts what they're doing what they're saying etc and he said like some some of it would be funny. in a dark kind of way like like look how you know ridiculous the serbs and some of it would be incredibly important incredibly important for you know for understanding you know these regimes and of course he talked about this not only to me but also

to the 3rd unnamed. person in the united states in the united states and of course i understood from my comment like from my subsequent you know work on this i understood that twitter is an integral part of such a project so it wasn't it doesn't have to be simply t.v. and press twitter is an enormous it's actually the primary propaganda tool for you know when it comes to saudi arabia. to spend a lot of time a lot of money and they actually spilled a lot of blood to maintain to create that kind of control which actually they're very proud of and we have a lot of evidence that they're very proud of their the degree of control that they have over arabic twitter what do you mean they spilled a lot of blood i mean that there are people and i mean i can't mention names here but i think soon enough this this will be this this will come out 1st of all a lot of the people who were arrested as early as september 27th teen. of course they had a crossfire as intellectuals some of the more scholars and so troubled i think it's

also important to note that they're also. twitter influencers in fact we tabulated i mean. if we can you are talking about the saudi authorities started 30 killing people who had become influential on twitter i mean some i was one of them but there were there were there are cases that were aware of people who were tortured to death and not going to be but tortured to death and we cannot find anything that they were doing other than twitter and this is evidence backed. unfortunately yes and we don't have as i mentioned we don't we don't want to reveal the names yet you know until we have something official we're expecting that maybe there will be an official. college went off of this at some point but there has been reporting on it ok so twitter is your battle ground in which you and people like you operate to counter the problem gander of regimes among them saudi arabia jamal

khashoggi is killed you and 2 others take on projects that you were working with together. bring me then up to the point where you working with jeff bezos and you begin to feel vulnerable. yes so the general idea or the general methodology. off the 2nd project is something that we had an idea about what would we never had a tar like we never tried it out in a real life investigation. this of course kind of changed when the business blackmail scandal became public the founder of amazon so the founder of amazon and also interestingly importantly the owner of the washington post owner of the employer of her sort of his phone was tapped allegedly. embarrassing tweets emails it's off its main mainly you know pictures and messages that were

lifted off his phone. and i i mean i don't want to get into details that probably i should not mention i mean there's a lot i know about the case that that i should not be. i should not be speaking publicly about them. but the short story here is that jeff bezos after the murder of washington post journalist. was in a bit of a bind because this is a man who has has extensive business interests in saudi arabia he had by then a personal relationship with m.p.'s had met him several times yes. but he was also the owner of the washington post and m.b.'s just killed one of his journalists. and he was in this kind of situation where it was clear it was it became clear to us even even more you know with the investigation that m.p.'s expected basis to side with him over the washington post and to say you know you know my business comes

1st. and you know i have this personal relationship with with this man and he expected him to curb the washington post coverage. that of course not happen and jeff bezos basically when he bought the washington post and 2013 he had a good faith agreement that i'm not going to interfere in editorial policy i'm not going to enter that room and he ordered that and this was something certainly this was something exactly this was something that m.b.'s so as betrayal and so you were called in to help identify the source of the leaks my role was basically aiding the investigation team in. first of all exposing the degree and the the the saudi campaigns against jeff bezos. but also the timing of a lot of these things that happened. and of course it fell upon jeff this is investigation team to actually go in and find out exactly what happened and it was

conclusion. that was there i mean according i mean to quote them to paraphrase they concluded with a high degree of certainty that's what that's that's according to them that the saudis had access to a source for so there's a lot of work going on here. on your behalf. and the other individuals in the united states following on from jamal's who are aiming to point the figure finger not just at the saudi authorities but m.b.'s himself the crown prince himself one thing that seems to be lacking in indeed also lacking in pointing the finger at n.b.s. in the death of jamal khashoggi he's. categorical undeniable evidence direct evidence he's. all of us yet you take it as read you speak as though it is a fact based. thing. if there is no direct evidence mustn't you and others accept that there is the possibility that n.b.s.

in fact did not have any direct role or knowledge that's that's really these things i mean that's that's a really interesting question i mean some people misunderstand circumstantial evidence so that the actual idea of circumstantial evidence i mean if i walk out if i'm out in outside and you're sitting inside and i walk in and i have you can see that i'm wet you can assume that it was raining outside and i have an umbrella for example you can assume that it was raining but that was not direct evidence is circumstantial it doesn't mean that it's weak evidence it simply means that it's not direct in a case of as they said before a highly pick regime which has control over information it is very rare that you will actually find direct evidence maybe it could be years before you find direct evidence and this is something they know and this is something that the they use to as i said you know loops around us really i mean they can't they can basically be months or running years ahead of us. which unfortunately in many cases they have they have been i would point out however that in

a country like saudi arabia with which is ruled by an absolute monarch and he's and he's absolutely probably i don't think there's another country in the world in which. one person. has such direct control over everything in the state it is simply impossible to think that. such such a thing as a miles murder could have been done without his knowledge and this was in fact the conclusion of the cia to a medium to high level of probability absolutely with i mean what are the argument the use that it is it is almost impossible for something like this to happen without his knowledge and yet all of this said and with all the cumulative work that you and others continue to do. it remains an unassailable fact that m.b.'s at this point mom had been summoned the crown prince retains the.

support of president trump. the banks and the investors who pulled away from saudi arabia very publicly in the months following jamal's murder have trickled back there are simply too much money there for them not to the spotlight shifts inexorably to saudi arabia's iran in the arab world. and so it is unlikely or seems unlikely that m.b.'s is ever going to go the way of the. mubarak's or the good office or the mark of the shoes of this world is that true do you think i mean i think that the chances of a popular uprising in saudi arabia is not as as you mentioned is not. doesn't have a history of popular uprisings but then again i mean libya for example didn't have on. syria until recent recently i mean didn't have one. so i would caution against you know being complacent about about you know

what is that point at which the people simply say enough however i completely agree with you and everything else the fact that. the administration in the in this world that is most capable of reining in m.b.'s is currently his biggest enabler i'm talking about trump but also importantly jarrett question. i mean my own sources indicate that u.s. institutions including intel including you know congress obviously are very much aware that n.b.s. is bad news but then there's the other angle which is that saudi arabia is verifiable absolutely an important country it will continue to be an important country so this presents a very interesting policy conundrum really to the world which is that we need saudi arabia. it's an interesting market it's also an important country for strategic reasons dynamic young population you know traumatized probably after after the recent events but still important but then we also have this guy who is bad news

what do we do about it i mean this is this is absolutely a conundrum your current situation at the moment under threat you're aware of a threat how do you proceed now and deter or cautiously. well on the one hand it's clear i mean the fact that there's been this threat and you mentioned you quoted me earlier saying you know if they don't want to. tell me that i'm not doing my job. in a way when they come after you that's when you know that you're being effective to know that you hit a nerve in other words. you know that the of course again i mean they went after a lot of people that were a lot more accessible to them such as people who are living in saudi arabia and these people of course. you know i have the highest respect for their courage but also the biggest the most concern for the safety and. but knowing that you have a certain effectiveness that would prompt them to try to deter you to stop you

really is validation it's validation and it's basically a message saying that you know i need to double down my offers. but don't think that's all the time we have thank you so much for his talking to others of thank you. i was born in the same year as his one voice i feel as though the state is my mother should be a cause of celebration for some a catastrophe for others then walk back is still going on they put my sons in jail so every day i feel this catastrophe twice over al-jazeera well tells the stories

of palestinian and israeli women born in the same year but on opposite sides of this divide born in 48 on al-jazeera world. al-jazeera as their what a story breaks but it's also there to see what happens next. on the wire we're going to model the barricades. all 7 that we need to hear the movies now is all about change people have gone to hear beriah the mission of the national army is to 16 point complex and i'm just your stories about telling it from the people's perspective what they think is happening in their culture. one of australia's most love making and i'm the one box is under threat from an agonizing to the one wild one term prenup is dedicated to a lot to say what i want to east makes the woman who spoke with 0.

food for. we understand the differences and the similarities of cultures across the world. so no matter where you call her. al-jazeera international bringing the news and current affairs that matter to. al-jazeera. hello i'm barbara starr in london these are the top stories on al-jazeera a rocket has been fired into the heavily fortified green zone in iraq's capital which houses government buildings and foreign embassies there were no casualties according to the iraqi military the u.s. embassy in baghdad which is based in the green zone evacuated non-essential staff earlier this week scientists a heightened threat from iran charles stratford has more. of course there has been

increasing increase of any kind of escalation as this crisis between the u.s. and iran develops as you mentioned all non-essential u.s. embassy staff were ordered to leave or last week we also saw an evacuation of exxon mobil exxon mobil employees for employees with exxon mobile the river q e 2 from. an oil field in the south of the country and it's incidents like these that only obviously increased tension in iraq a roadside bomb as a tourist bus in egypt near the giza pyramids injuring at least 17 people the bus was carrying 25 south african tourists from the airport to the parents area egyptians in a nearby car were also injured in the center a bomb struck a bus carrying vietnamese tourists to the pyramids killing 3 of them no group has

yet claimed responsibility for the latest attack. but the attack comes as egypt's tourism industry is showing signs of revival timothy kaldis from that they're here institute for middle east policy says that recovery is now in jeopardy. if i think i had john number of governments who have been lobbied by b. if you don't mean to let's not saddle advisory for their citizens work it's a very big debate egypt and i certainly didn't ask you know increased security and i think given the free market nature of these attacks particularly if you. for the last 6 months and parties stewart lost i'm going to speak for it but it's not it's . happened already and the expansiveness a security presence in the area and trying to sweep through any possible light before they are native they have caught some in the past so that income has gone before without protest leaders in sudan have resumed their transition talks with

the military they are insisting a civilian heads the new governing body military generals a suspend that the last round of negotiations a few days ago demanding that demonstrators remove road blocks in the capital khartoum the military has ruled so than since president omar al bashir was the pose that last month. the u.s. navy says its conducted exercises in the gulf to highlight how effectively it can respond to potential threats this is regional rivals iran and saudi arabia say they don't want a war the leader of iran's revolutionary guard says said his country is not pursuing a conflict and the saudi foreign ministry says the kingdom doesn't want to escalate tensions but will respond if iran chooses to engage in conflict king soundman has called for 2 emergency summits with go from the arab leaders they to this month to discuss the situation. of saudi arabia does not want war in the

region and is not seeking it and will do its best to have beat it but at the same time if the other party chooses war then we will respond with all strength and determination and will defend itself and its interests the kingdom hopes others to be wise and the iranian regime and its agents to stay away from recklessness and stupid acts and spare the region instability in saudi arabia the international community to take responsibility to stop that regime from destabilizing the world. the world's biggest democratic election has come to an end more than 600000000 indians are believed to have cast their ballots for a new parliament in a mattress an election spread across 6 weeks and 500 and $43.00 constituencies the results will not be counted until sir as they but exit polls suggest prime minister that on them all these hindu national speed j.p. party will easily win another term in power those are the top stories more news in half an hour rewind is coming up next

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some of the best of them today were rewinding to 2012 china in fact we're going even further back because today's episode for those k.k. . from have 1900. back in 1900. it was a weld of bicycles are made in china. goods to the fastest growing economy and the an economic powerhouse the. design and construction. cost in 2012. for the 1st 20 years of her life meeting up with her at regular intervals since her. personal narrative to the transformation of china across 2 decades has. how nice. and this is i've been

filming her ever since she was a baby 20 years ago in china's southern city of. do you handle me. i've returned to meet k.k. at regular intervals. my followers are growing up at a time of unprecedented change for her and her family's. already in 1902 china is the world's fastest growing economy. in the coming years life story will mirror that of millions of children like her this country has transformed.

china operates a one child policy. is the only child her parents will have. you know come on time and this time i'm tired and i don't see it's a whole rausing easier day a lot you know like i didn't do my own thing and i sometimes i don't i'm on it i'll take on the ones i'm long to i did so much fun in the whole you know hunky i'm a you don't hear about folk i say i get value was i meant i didn't do us all and he had a home into unbelief when he offers you easy morning i'm a not hala. to change lives with her parents or grandparents and great grandparents for generations under one roof but. i think well thought out hostility

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