with former intelligence analyst chelsea manning to unlawfully obtain classified information and then publish it on wiki leaks it says that these documents were hundreds of thousands of pages of war logs and diplomatic papers that revealed the names of classified sources inside iraq and afghanistan these were people who were helping u.s. military in their efforts there and their lives were put at risk because of this disclosure the indictment also says that this endangered the national security of the united states now songe is currently in a jail cell in london where he's serving a 50 week sentence for having skipped bail he was arrested in april after being injected from the ecuadorian embassy if you recall that's where he had been for almost 7 years hiding from authorities who had wanted to prosecute him for rape in sweden now that he's no longer under diplomatic protection under ecuador those

allegations of rape have been reopened in sweden coupled with this u.s. counts of violating the espionage act now it's a question of which country gets to go after him 1st once he's released from jail in london the u.s. has already moved toward extradition. yemen's who 3 rebels say they've carried out a drone attack on an airport and military base in the saudi city have not run who think media say they've been targeting hang as they say contain warplanes since wednesday the saudi led coalition so that they intercepted an explosive laden drone but accused iran of supporting the who thiessen carrying out the attacks and the who 3 run television channel has released video which it claims shows an attack on abu dhabi's international airport last year the united arab emirates has always denied that the attack happened at the time they tweeted that had been an incident with a supply vehicle cannot independently verify the authenticity of the video women's

rights activists from saudi arabia say that they are being targeted by the government speaking at a congressional panel in washington campaigners say that those fighting for women's rights are being tortured and abused often without any clear cause we'll get a weather update next but then dire warnings about this year's hurricane season in the u.s. the scientists say the storms are getting more powerful. because government pardons a monk convicted of inciting violence against muslims. hello we've got the spring showers lighting up across southern parts of china at the moment a fair amount of cloud just showing up here some thunder heads over towards hong

kong that's all going to just notice where a little further north with some creasing the humid weather spilling him from the south china sea as we go from friday into saturday night will drive its way further north with some really heavy rain coming in for sas stay shanghai season platen right 29 celsius a few showers still in place there the hong kong perhaps not quite as widespread or as like thing at this stage quite a rash of showers meanwhile across southeast asia as usual some showers them to the philippines into borneo easing over towards us whether they're in sioux the mill a peninsula and it looks like the stay here looks rather wet into thailand across a good part of indo china 36 the top temperatures there for bangkok that line of showers extends across the adamancy they make a bargain seeing some wet weather but right now started to push east way up towards southern parts of me and now the monsoon course is starting to to set in a little bit of sherry rights was on the cards into the far south of india sri

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well again this is al jazeera lessons for much of the main news this hour india's prime minister narendra modi is all set for another 5 year term is running b j p party is on course to increase its majority in parliament modi told supporters in new delhi that he's got a mandate to build a new india. u.s. president donald trump says he's meeting pentagon officials to discuss plans that could see more american troops deployed to the middle east against the backdrop of tension with iran washington says that it's facing unspecified threats from tehran and the trumpet ministration is being accused of trying to bypass congressional ban on weapons sales to saudi arabia is concerned that the u.s. secretary of state might pump a 0 and other senior aides may use a loophole allowing the presidents to approve the sale without the approval of congress. the dutch foreign minister is calling for an international tribunal to be established to investigate i saw it would investigate claims that the armed group

committed genocide during its so-called caliphate across syria and iraq on diplomatic editor james bays reports from the un. the un called the crimes committed by both syria and iraq a genocide now there are calls for a new international tribunal to prosecute the individuals who ordered and committed those crimes it comes from the foreign minister of the netherlands well i'm here because i'm confidence that there should be an international tribunal because the scale of c. atrocities committed by i sill is such that it may be me amounts to genocide and this just suffice in international tribunal he's reflected called by human rights activists including the easy campaign or not. she spoke to our jazeera shortly after she received the nobel peace prize and here for years. now and then

we see that the rights of easy to people have not been given to them but we have not stopped our efforts we are doing it tireless work that we hope that very soon we will be able to see justice taking its place the country calling for the new tribunals of the netherlands is the home of the international criminal court in the hague but neither of the countries where i sall set up its caliphate it's syria or iraq are signatories to the treaty that governs the court the security council does have the power to create completely new tribunals human rights watch is among those who want them to do so but their un director says there mustn't be selective justice or this is needed desperately but let's make it broader and let's make sure that all kinds of perpetrators are looked at because there are there there is more to this conflict then i saw we all know that various parts of the u.n.

already investigating possible war crimes in syria and iraq setting up a tribunals to prosecute those crimes will require the security council to give agreement a number of permanent members are likely to have misgivings the u.s. for example will be concerned that its own military could be prosecuted for what it bombed raca and other eisel areas and russia in the past has objected to any accountability mechanism for syria james throws out his era at the united nations the dutch social democratic party is the big winner of the european elections in the netherlands according to exit polls europeans are voting over the next 3 days to elect $751.00 e.u. parliamentarians the outcome in the netherlands will reassure established. these who fear a surge in the far right labor easily beat an upstart populist group and prime minister mark rooters party came in 2nd exit polls show the anti islam party for

freedom losing 3 seats the french president of chronos hosted the 1st meeting of his newly formed environmentalists fence council across has been criticised by activists who don't think he's done enough to deal with global warming but others including many from the yellow vest movement say that his environmental policies go too far at the meeting mccrone asked his government to come up with new ideas about how to tackle the climate crisis by july in sudan doctors engineers and artists of march towards the city india military headquarters in khartoum where they also demanded a transition to a civilian reka civilian government. the ruling military council says it will hand power to a democratically elected government as soon as possible but the opposition alliance says the military is insisting on directing the transition but having a majority on the council. a buddhist monk accused of inciting violence against

muslims in 2014 has been released from prison in sri lanka the head of the buddhist power force was given a presidential pardon all serving a 6 year sentence it comes just a week after a muslim owned buildings were attacked in an apparent reprisal for the easter sunday bombings last month when el philander's reports from colombo. supporters of gullah gadhafi in yemen started theater waited eagerly outside the valley could a prison in colombo. the pardons signed by prison mighty palace city scene on wednesday night wiped clean his 6 year sentence for contempt of court but on thursday security concerns forced him to leave through would be a gate only to reappear at this temple in a short while later. his 1st stop was to pray. pedro has attracted controversy since he founded

a nationalist buddhist organization in 2012 called the. meaning buddhist power force responding to a rise in nationalism after the end of sri lanka civil war he began his campaign to protect what he called a single a buddhist identity but the organization has been accused of hate campaigns against the muslim community the theater himself was accused of instigating anti muslim bryants in 2014 a charge. now unsanitary was jailed on contempt of court charges for insulting the judiciary in 2016 during a case into the disappearance of a journalist where military personnel were being investigated you know people they are targeting you know there's nothing they didn't but destroyed my character they killed me without actually doing so finally child to me but there's

a thing truth will prevail we have and always will be committed and. there have been attacks against muslims on hormones and businesses in recent weeks after the easter sunday bombings that targeted churches and how does that killed more than 250 people so some are questioning the timing of his release genotypic devised i began by the president is belittling the judicial system by his action and proving that the claims made by the buddhist priest against judicial offices and the attorney general's department true on thursday the monk urged his supporters to stay calm during these tense times the controversial buddhist priest says after years of being vilified he's now been vindicated but some say prison might. well have to justify his decision to grant this presidential pardon. scientists in the usa the coming of plan to cover a consistent could bring as many as 8. they say the stores have been getting more

powerful over the years and they blame climate change and they calico reports from miami. the 2017 atlantic hurricane season was one of the deadliest on record hurricanes harvie maria and caused billions of dollars worth of damage wrecking entire communities in their wake. according to the center for climate and energy solutions storms have increased in intensity over the past 3 decades fueled by warmer oceans and make well aspire rising sea levels it's something research at the school of marine and atmospheric science in miami have spent years studying this is the sustain facility professor brian house has no doubt that climate change is playing a role it's not a matter of belief this is not some political philosophy it's not or of it's not of religion it's this is this is the facts it's happening it's going to get worse unless we do something now. some models predict storms may become less frequent but

stronger slower and wetter experts use the accumulated cycle index to measure storms and the atlantic ocean is in the midst of its wars stretch on record despite all the evidence that climate change is a factor in making hurricanes stronger there are still those that don't believe it president trump and many powerful republicans fall into that camp but researches say it's now time to reinforce vulnerable communities and prepare for the worst assistant professor lundahl fraud barbaric law says officials should invest in sea walls restore barrier islands and build stronger structures so we know that we have some reserves into our structures or that we need to in hate so differently something that we have to start building up on a screen ago because where we know that the probability of softening happening something different stated is high the atlantic hurricane season begins on june the 1st but the national hurricane center's already named the 1st storm it's since

weakened but if the predictions are accurate it could be a sign of things to come to gallacher al-jazeera miami florida automatic facial recognition technology. uses our unique facial dimensions to let us access bank accounts go cashless in holiday resorts and use automated border controls but it can also track us adin vade our privacy paul brennan reports now on the u.k.'s 1st legal challenge against the technology. security or surveillance cameras have become a silent ubiquitous feature of cities across the world residents seem almost oblivious to the routine monitoring of their daily lives. at bridges was irritated the 1st time he realized the police automatic facial recognition vehicle that scanned his features in a shopping center but the 2nd time it happened was at a peaceful and arms trade protest and on that occasion the van was parked opposite the crowd i felt it was better to intimidate people and dissuade them from using their right to peaceful protest so ed has taken south wales police to court in the

1st u.k. challenge to the use of a f r i mean essentially what you have this is a situation where technology is running miles at it where the lorries and the law needs to catch up here for biometrics is increasingly used for things like keyless buildings and cashless leisure resorts but civil liberties groups are most concerned by its use in public spaces to scam more abiding citizens as they walk past the camera it takes a really sensitive biometric data from them without their knowledge or their consent says radio kin to them walking down the high street and the police forcibly taking their fingerprint or their d.n.a. automatic facial recognition has dramatically improved thanks to rapid advances in a computer technology known as d. planet the accuracy is still variable but the 2017 champions league final the system produced 92 percent of false positives and even if accuracy can be improved there's still the other questions of governance and of purpose and the wider

question of exactly when protection of the public tips over into intrusion and oppression. china's mass surveillance of its citizens including the use of facial recognition is well known in 2017 australia authorized police and some private companies to use and access a controversial new fast system but this month the u.s. city of san francisco banned city authorities from deploying the technology academic dr ana hence has examined digital citizenship and surveillance our data trails makers transparency says the balance of power is shifting we have become very transparent on the other hand the process by which we are assessed also through our data and not very transparent and in that sense then we can see there is a reversal in empowerment and power shifts from the citizen to the state al-jazeera approached the company and e.c. and other a.f.r. providers but none responded to interview requests in

a statement london's metropolitan police said it's a half hour pilot scheme it now and it and the results are being assessed judgement in at bridges legal challenge is expected to be handed down in the autumn paul brennan al-jazeera. a country that's home to nearly a 3rd of africa's elephants has decided to lift a ban on hunting but swan as government says that it's increased the number of the elephants have increased the number in recent years and of threatening the livelihoods of small scale farmers conservationists estimates that there are around 130000 elephants in the country. it is good to have you with us hello adrian finnegan here in the headlines on al-jazeera india's prime minister narendra modi is all set for another 5 year term his ruling b j p party is on course to increase its majority in parliament modi told supporters in new delhi that he's got a mandate to build a new india. u.s.

president donald trump says he's meeting pentagon officials to discuss tensions with iran the u.s. has already sent extra warships and fighter jets to the region over the past few weeks saying that it's facing unspecified threats from tehran the acting defense secretary downplayed the possibility of war with iran but strongly defended the military buildup in the gulf. to which discovery just so. i think those are fair fair commerce and you know our job is to trance this is not about we have a mission it was just freedom of navigation. counterterrorism serious or. security of israel jordan the trumpet ministration is being accused of trying to bypass a congressional panel weapons sales to saudi arabia there's concern that u.s.

secretary of state mike compay oh and other senior aides might use a loophole allowing the president to go ahead with the sale without the approval of congress we can leaks founder julian assange is facing new charges in the u.s. bringing the total now to 18 the u.s. justice department is accusing him of unlawfully publishing the names of classified sources of conspiring with former army intelligence analyst chelsea manning to obtain classified information in 2010 wiki leaks published thousands of secret diplomatic cables from the state department yemen's huth the rebels say they've carried out a 3rd drone attack on an airport a military base in the saudi city if not ron who theme media says that they've been targeting hang as they say contain warplanes since wednesday the saudi led coalition so they intercepted an explosive laden drone and have accused iran of supporting the who thiis in carrying out the attacks those the headlines the news

continues here on al-jazeera after inside story thanks. for years now reported to being close to exit q should is saudi arabia ramping up the campaign against religious scholars why are they being targeted and what message would it send about human rights in the kingdom this is inside story. hello and welcome to the show i'm sam is

a than saudi arabia has jailed many activists and dissidents since mohamed bin sound man became the crown prince 2 years ago now media reports suggest 3 religious scholars may be sentenced to death after the muslim month of ramadan so a man allowed the hour the out of me and the alley alarm or you were arrested in september 2017 and what saudi arabia described as terrorism charges they're seen as reformist though who've spoken out about human rights our son says his father has been in solitary confinement the united nations and rights groups have been calling for their release last month saudi arabia executive 37 people on terror related charges most of them were shia activists so who are the scholars on saddam and allow the internationally renowned for his ideas on reforming islam ecl or he has more than 13000000 twitter followers his supporters say he was detained for

tweeting a prayer calling for reconciliation between saudi arabia and qatar during the gulf crisis. along marie is a cleric and broadcaster who mainly campaigned against violence and called for more rights for women his t.v. and you tube channels attract thousands of viewers our the harmony is a preacher and author has previously been accused of having links to the muslim brotherhood which is banned in saudi arabia and harmony was barred from tweeting just before his arrest. we've asked human rights groups for comment amnesty international says it can't confirm the reports that the men maybe executive but says the saudi public prosecutions are occurring calls for the death penalty in cases of a number of individuals detained for peacefully exercising their rights to freedom of expression association and the same belief including show examined the older raises the alarm about the fate of detained activists and religious clerics.

let's bring in our guest then joining us we have from seed it was either in tunisia or via skype sami ham the editor in chief of the international interest current affairs magazine in waterloo canada best more money professor of political science at the university of waterloo and also on skype from washington d.c. i'll yell at my director of the gulf affairs institute and a former saudi political prisoner him self welcome to all if i could start with bessemer so how serious how wiring are these reports that saudi authorities are planning to exit q these scholars. i think it's very worrying of course this follows a number of very prominent and i would say mass execution of a number of people we saw in april 37 there is reportedly up to 100 this year alone and the rise and number of executions has been steadily going up in terms of the 3 preachers i think it is putting

a chill in everybody i mean obviously the fact that this will happen after ramadan which is going to be i think a very interesting time regionally with a number of political shifting issues with particular with the deal of the century and a lot of focus on a whole host of regional challenges including iran it really is quite problematic but it really demonstrates i think the saudi government's attempt to put a chill in preventing all political opinions and views that counter frankly the the government's you know very monolithic kind of narrative sami. now they're accused of terrorism but they are very well known figures in the arab world have had t.v. shows they've got considerable followings on social media how credible all these charges against them actually seem in the arab world. i think it's a political that this is a bit of a steady gradual crackdown on the religious scholars let's remember that mohammed is the lead as promised the u.s. promised europe that he will take saudi arabia towards liberalism towards opening

up society and the like she has been clamping down on religious scholars in particular it began with that that is the 3 of you it began with really many do wish diplomatically wish they say has been killed under torture and then after the gulf crisis it became cemented or this turn and our that got me and the like more over mama is a man who's been placing heavy pressure on other top high profile figures they want to ship them on c.n.n. or did she finance it to come out on t.v. szymanski for those who don't know is a very prominent human problem which is a very popular ask her to come out and publicly back me so mad i haven't gotten you who is arguably not the same has the same level of fame as these 3 scholars had to come out on t.v. and apologize for everything that he said in the car and everybody read this as a clear sign that he had been threatened by mohammed bin said men if you're 100 percent men and you saw how you got away with the case you saw that the international community didn't move in the case because as one analyst put it in india when bloomberg they put the idea of liberalization the idea of open saudi

arabia is a great cause and why i'm against that man can push forward with that the idea that if you don't have advanced and met and you see the reaction to liberal activists that i have when you see a big campaign to a half a quote on your own you see a big campaign when it comes to religious scholars the campaign is half hearted you see that religious scholars are now in the territories you see hunting ground marcus a man is going after them because you know there will not be a great push against. pap's a lot of familiarity with them outside of the arab world you've tanked in a lot of points which we need to unpack that sound about before we do that perhaps allie in washington d.c. just to clarify for those who are very perhaps familiar with these 3 figures these are scholars who are considered within saudi arabia pretty mainstream they've got considerable following. they they don't have a history of like revolutionary speech or activism or calling for violence or the overthrow of the ruling family right. yes definitely in fact that they were very

close to the ruling family in the past before some money or. man's behavior really comes from from his own personal. you know. from a person either is not like anyone who did not agree with him and these did not clap for him he's. not a club for him so you decide to get him out of the way because you only accept complete and utter loyalty and that's why you so i i had the you know there was basically and even the mom. calling my mom as. if i knew guy did individual so this is a guy and what moment is a man is oh doing everyone to bow down to him and clap for every moment he says without that you are in now did not consult the government. but

you did not clap for him and that's why he is is that i think with death and this is a very serious situation people might think oh this is just talk we thought that before they could cheer him up and then we were wrong and they executed 7 people couple weeks ago so this is the danger here is very high and we might be surprised and shocked but we must be prepared and try to stop this and we are aware of that issue trying to. cap it launch best my if this happens the execution of populist suddenly scullers would there be a turning point for saudi arabia. i think the turning point long past frankly you know we've seen this compass so many different people from activists of course we expect but you know journalists poets intellectuals yes religious scholars but even the collective punishment of family members who are associated or or may literally

just be related to activists i mean that kind of collective chill is very problematic it is not frankly a sign of modernization it is a sign of a weakness inside the government and it's a shame because frankly some of the economic reforms and even some of the social reforms do you think that is being lost on inside was already running pals in the west in particular. look i think the social and economic reforms are very popular and well done i mean i think this is great news for saudis and saudi arabia but frankly when you go after mild critics when you go after a poet and intellectuals and professors it's a signal of weakness and it's a shame it's a shame because frankly not only do the saudi people deserve better but frankly it's unnecessary and all it does is i think create fear it creates a creates a mass you know chill in the air that ultimately i think really bites the entire

country back in terms of the prosperity that they were on the right path to achieve in terms of the economic reforms and social reforms they were after sammy on a point which you raised it's important to keep in mind these are not the only 3 scholars who've been arrested right when you start going through the list you find some pretty what would appear to be normal well recognized respected people in recognized saudi institutions for example the former dean of the koran school at medina university who died after being arrested he died in january. human rights activist and also a professor at the islamic university in riyadh. should we be surprised that that type of person being targeted 100 percent man has been launching this campaign are fighting extremism i am fighting this is my fighting this extremist idea that is inspired al qaeda inspired isis and the like this is america has been propagating

in london in washington and in paris and brussels and the like the real problem here is that they have been receptive to this about islam there let me jump in here sami some people like saddam on another on the record as criticizing the ideas of some of bin laden and quieter. that's very true but you know that i know that the people in the arab world they know that the people outside see a man in a beard who's wearing the clothes that are typical of religious scholars and the like and how it been so many saying these people are the problem this is one of the real issues that we really have to discuss when it comes to saudi arabia what its bombing is a man trying to do and he let me make a valid point when he said that 100 percent match it's not enough that you stay silent you must be kept from him this is what he forced either gunny one of the biggest scholars in sorry this what he forced him to do what t.v. you have to publicly platforming with us you said monroe that was put in prison because he came out with a statement where he said that i hope that qatar and saudi arabia reconcile and i hope they come to some sort of reconciliation even that was considered too much from a pencil matter because money seminar is one thing in saudi arabia if anybody has been decided before and met there for the ruling family they will say that the

ruling family always says we are ruling because we lifted the flag of god the flag land. in other words it is an emphasis of just how powerful these religious scholars are on the saudi society how much influence they actually have these unions religious scholars are celebrities in saudi society if they come out and they say like advertise it but if you wrote on twitter he was imprisoned for this tweet he said that if we give our our code to the americans the americans will use our recording stars they will never accept us for who we are they are just trying to do to milk us and to embezzle us when you look at for example she demanded they wish only wrote on twitter was ok don't give your son too much power suffer and how when he was in a hospital bed when he was arrested shiksa for howard who was one of the mentors of similar or the one of the group that was called the awakening sufferer who were essentially wrote all saudi government if you follow that humanities if you follow the u.a.e. we want to be ruined and if we follow chuck chuck will keep taking money from us and using that money against us he was imprisoned for that so these are really not let me let me jump in these are these are seen as scholars who are slightly

independent shall we say of toeing the usual government line that seems to be the common denominator that they all have let me come back the best way for i come to the arrest of such figures the. i mean this we're not it's one thing to talk about unfortunately we got used to talking about crackdown on women drivers the shia minority youth bloggers but this is now the backbone of the kingdom it's religious circles is this going to create more alienation amongst the backbone of the kingdom . absolutely because every even insider frankly let's be frank even a political an economic insider outsider might start to think wait a minute if i'm not clapping loud enough in my next that's the really the chill in the air that frankly stifles everything from economic investment ultimately to you know continue to face anyone's government it is a collapse of trust in government and authority and government if they continue to

do this and this is where i think it's so short sighted on the part of the saudi government frankly let me try to be devil's advocate here for a moment with allie and the saudi government the line is that you know they've arrested people under the terror law who've committed offenses and they going through the legal process you've had a particular personal experience with the legal process in saudi arabia how much of a fair and legal process does one get. in there have been a long time ago and it was no political judicial process there is no generational process today as well because you have a court. just to deal with the political opposition everybody is a terrorist and we know so well that this court ready or court is basically just a commission that they stuck to the already and you know. sentence there is no process. i don't call it

a judicial process equality court because it lacks basic requirements for judicial system and we know that's. racist. not meet the minimum international standards for it comes to the judicial process the prosecution is the same thing people were tortured or even executed like we have a case of one of the people who were executed he was not even sentenced to death but he was executed. executions. aimed at getting the population today it is very hard to do that because just today for example 2 or people come out on twitter saying we are against their own kind so what mohammad design man is trying to do is try to use relation and if he goes ahead and execute very. clear except that my cloud

it particular he's not to have much more people coming out against him so he's going to be destroying his own palace sway. media here with dealing with is an instability right the increasing instability of well they know it's definitely an issue on a pick up on that before we do that on january the 2nd 2018 the united nations human rights experts which is part of the human rights council condemned saudi arabia for ignoring u.n. calls for the release of detainees some of which are included in these 3 that we're talking about today and they said they were arrested for things like arrested for breaking allegiance to the ruler arrested without a warrant in some cases and subjected to secret trials with that sort of background besmirched what are the chances that they could actually fight their way out of this one. you know i don't think as pointed out you know there isn't

a clear judicial process here these are kangaroo courts in the sense they're pretty much you know fed accompli before they've even started we know what the sentence is going to be by virtue of the process being so unfair we haven't seen in many cases media being allowed to come in or some sort of you know transparency is just really not part of this process and so again it destroys faith in these kinds of institutions it again creates this entire feeling throughout society that one could be next and of course as we know there's no real red line it seems with this particular government in terms of you know who is going to be on the chopping board next in terms of sacrificed for being a critical of the regime certainly we saw with the $200.00 some persons that were arrested a few years back in the ritz carlton that could include family matter members that could include of the royal family that could include political insiders and that's really quite problematic it's not

a healthy way to grow your country both financially and frankly from a nationalistic perspective it's very very problematic. sami has the lack of i guess you could say he wants to get in go ahead ali yes yes well look. the single person found innocent in these courts not one person tells you when you were guilty in. court system so it works now i guess saudi authorities i'm trying to play devil's advocate here i guess saudi authorities say that's how good our criminal conviction system is although as i mentioned a lot of human rights groups and the un have some serious doubts about the process let me take it to sami humvee and say the lack of i guess some would say very serious consequences for the killing of jamal khashoggi for the exit queue ssion of 37 saudis mostly shia activists in april has that kind of background do you think

it's it's given the authorities the feeling or the impression that they can get away with more exit q sions. like this. i think if you really want to play devil's advocate i think i don't agree with both my body language when they say that this causes really severe distrust in the institution and it has to have that cement image and it has his regime of the country mamma bits of metal he came to power he came on the on the on the pretext of the fact that saudi arabia is a hub for terrorism is a hub for extremism muhammad is the message on every occasion to washington to paris to know that i am here to stop this extremism and i will take all next necessary procedures there was a new york times article i think it's by friedman who said that these were jarring but necessary measures to be taken when he imprisoned the people in the risk because the man is going to the witnesses and say look you may not like the way i'm doing it but this is all to get rid of the extremism and terrorism the problem is not that he got to the show gee the problem is that there is a genuine resonance and mohamed bin sent men message they believe that this is

saudi arabia the rules are a bit different but with the fact is that this cause whether it's similar to that with i was a guy the weather is either going to weather some about the fact that the religious authorities have put fire on to fight the is the problem it must be a secular liberal society and been cement is promising that is promising to remove the difference of religion it doesn't matter if the mother or that is considered the reform with this is where it all go here we are talking we have to end this is wrong executions are wrong the americans are saying these and this is necessary for europe to think this is necessary i'm going to proof of that in the way that they know kushal just because the big picture i mean that my husband is required he's required to implement the deal of the century he's required to fight against iraq he's required to push back again to really improve it he's required because he's pushed over this narrow idea that we've been calling for wages. it's just a matter of how and on the well it wasn't hard i can see allie was shaking his head in disagreement so let me give him a chance to come in if. it was really going to be.

the people who are. the super committee has not been put on trial single member of isis has been. put on trial executed and east people. wait before. what the saudi government has been doing over the years is a lot we. x. 3 missed 2 sastre and. want to share ok let's. just there just to clarify a few things a of course says it has arrested. members and there have been trials and then an execution the main when it comes to the situation of course that might be a bit different but before we get. perhaps off the rails let's hang on hang on sally let's let let's go i think i think the point which sammy was trying to make there is the message that comes out of 100. that

i'm taking measures to crack down on extremism whether or not it's really extremism that he's cracking down on and certainly in the case of some of these scholars have spoken out against extremism that would put a question mark on that but whether or not that message that i'm taking necessary measures to reform saudi arabia and make it a more liberal country or make it a country in which religion doesn't have all religious powers don't have so much influence bessemer does that at all resonate in the west is that in your understanding cause some to overlook the abuses that can occur to or miscarriages of justice according to human rights groups to people like these 3. yeah look without a doubt many people in the west see these long beards and they are men with long beards and do a frankly unfortunately associate them with an extreme and radical view of islam

and of course we know there's lots of shades of gray there and many of those with long beards are not violent and deed may have in principle some reformist or moderate views but yeah absolutely let's not forget here i think you know sammy is right in the one point and that frankly the west doesn't care the more you know islam make leaning. political advocates you can execute one less potential long term terrorist that's the unfortunate. misperception here in the west it is a reality and i think very much just does you know i'll be blunt just as much as a shot of assad used it to label every person that fought against them as terrorists similar the regime is doing the same in saudi arabia and it sells in certain quarters who don't understand the variation and frankly i would say that the problem here is yes absolutely there are way too many men with long beards throughout the entire arab and muslim world who are very much and tolerant very much liberal but this is a very wide net it is not selective and saudi arabia does have

a lot to pay to basically answer for in terms of causing so much of the radicalization and it stems frankly from a very obscure interpretation of islam that doesn't resonate with the vast majority of muslims so there's a lot for them to be accountable for but i think they are playing on western ignorance they're playing on indifference particularly in the white house which really frankly does not care about what's happening in political circles as far as the democracy promotion in the middle east and they are not sense frankly when all right so that was a sweeping critique of saudi arabia the whole arab world as well as the west very nicely summarized that and in the words of i guess that thank all of us. that's not. months. and thank you too for watching you can see the show again any time by visiting our website al-jazeera dot com and for further discussion head

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headquarters late on thursday evening jubilant by what his party had achieved. today we have witnessed citizens from every nook and corner of the country filling this beggar's hands i banged my head for india's 1300000000 citizens. but celebrations at b j p headquarters began early in the day and vote counting wasn't even over yet the votes of hundreds of millions of indians were tallied and candidates and their agents of focusing on the district each constituency. election commission says the turnout was the largest an indian election history more than 600000000 people voted out of the 900000000 who were eligible to take part in the 6 week election the issues a clear for some. people have voted for nationalism for the good of the country and for development work done by.

this is only. as a prime minister. this election has been one of the most divisive in recent years i think the security. that people's imagination was fixed on and then you start feeding them. so it seems that in the post independence. the 1st time for the 1st time security issue has become such a big issue in india the opposition have congratulated modi many campaign make clearly during the campaign i said the people will decide who will rule the country and they have made a decision so firstly let me congratulate prime minister modi i must also thank my party workers for putting up a tough fight our battle is of ideology and vision and the people seem to have chosen to be j.p. . for now it's a moment for the j.p. supporters to save the prime minister in the b j p one the last election with

a landslide victory and that led to the 1st majority led government since 19 eighty-four repeating that in 2019 doesn't appear to have been that difficult counting suggests that modi is on course for another huge election victory the people have handed him a 10 year mandate a mandate that he asked for back in 2014 so a whole raft of al-jazeera new delhi u.s. president donald trump says he's meeting pentagon officials to discuss plans that could see more american troops deployed to the middle east against the backdrop of tensions with iran washington says it's facing unspecified threats from tehran. we want to avoid risk of rain just really so. i think those are fair comments and you know our job is to try and this is not about we have a mission it's just freedom of navigation. counterterrorism syria iran feeds high. security israel jordan the trumpet

ministration is being accused of trying to bypass a congressional ban on weapons sales to saudi arabia there's concern that u.s. secretary of state might pump ale and other cd aides may use a loophole that allows the president to approve a sale without the approval of congress saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon has met the deputy head of sudan's transitional military council is visiting saudi arabia to discuss cooperation between the 2 countries meanwhile the city has being held there the military headquarters in khartoum. but leave. it to modern transition to a civilian government with the opposition alliance says the military is insisting on directing the transition and having a majority council. and i think. those are the headlines on al-jazeera that he's continues after it's this week's edition all of us next.

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