airing the sale of billions of dollars worth of weapons to saudi arabia and the u.a.e. citing tensions with iran democratic senator robert menendez had used his powers to block sales of thousands of precision guided bombs fearing that they would lead to more civilian deaths in yemen but he says the trauma ministration has told lawmakers it will bypass a legally required congress review and go ahead with the sale. joins us live now from the white house kimberly 1st of all what do we know about the deployment of these troops. it's not the 120000 that we were hearing at one point or even the 5 or 10000 that we were hearing in the last couple of days but don't try confirmed on the south lawn of the white house that he was planning and is sending 1500 troops and here's what it will look like in terms of what the administration has been continued to say is escalating threats from iran we know there will be a patriot battalion to defend against missile threats additional intelligence

surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft as well as a fighter aircraft squadron for deterrence this is according to the acting defense secretary who has made the argument long with the president who is the commander in chief of u.s. forces that this is to respond to the ongoing threat posed by iran we want to have protection of the middle east we're going to be sending a road over the small number of troops mostly protective. some very talented people are going to the middle east right now and we'll see how i will see what happens. and traumas also announce that he's going to be making a big sale to saudi arabia and the u.a.e. and that would effectively bypass congress what's behind that move. yeah well these 2 stories are linked in terms of the argument that is being made by this white house in informing the congressional committees that this arms deal effectively is

going to go through worth about 8000000000 dollars to saudi arabia and u.a.e. the argument again being made by this administration is iran's malign behavior now again this is going to have some pushback from members of congress because not only does congress feel it is being bypassed and all of this through a loophole in the arms control act but it's controversial given the fact that congress has a constitutional right to conduct oversight to approve these sorts of deals but the administration has it appears found this way to bypass congress and doing so now this is going to be enormously unpopular with both democrats as well as republicans as you reported already there's already effort underway to push back legislatively given that the united states is not comfortable with u.s. weapons being sold to saudi arabia particular because of the use in yemen that essentially on the heels of the united nations declaring the situation in yemen a humanitarian disaster there are many that do not want bomb stamped made in

america to be dropped on those civilians so there's concern in that respect there's also concern about the what many have considered to be an abysmal human rights record when it comes to the u.a.e. and saudi arabia particularly in light of the murder of this administration said that it would take action punitive action at the highest levels of the saudi government for the murder of the u.s. based journalist however it failed to do so and that is also frustrated congress so this is certainly going to be a contentious issue and it comes as the united states is announcing this addition of $1500.00 troops to the middle east another contentious issue given that many in congress believe the threat from iran has been overstated by the trumpet ministration banks with the latest from the white house committee. still ahead for you on the program and the streets we look at why nicaragua's towns and cities have turned into ghost towns. and kenya's high court up hold

a lowish criminalizes gay sex and makes it punishable by 14 years in prison. hello again and welcome back to international weather forecast well here across europe we have seen plenty of rain over the last couple days and unfortunately over the next you are going to be pretty much like the same we see the clouds down here particular down towards the southeast not so much the southern coast of turkey or greece we'll get to that just one moment but tickles your forecast map here on saturday plenty of rain all the way across parts of moscow as well putting that into motion from saturday to sunday the rain continues to move towards the east we've got some more rain coming out of the mediterranean bring some rain to parts of italy as well here across the peninsula well by the time we end the weekend things look good there with the temperature of 27 and the temperatures across the

southern part of turkey we are talking to the high thirty's from many locations well here across the northern part of africa we are looking at a lot of rain for the next several days notice anywhere from parts of algiers over here towards tunisia the rain will pretty much be along the coastal areas in algiers you are going to be seeing the rain over the next few days tunas as well as we take a look at sunday though things get a little bit better towards the west but still lingering clouds and rain are going to be a big problem trouble you'll be in the rain as well with some clouds there but over towards cairo temperatures are coming down to normal for this time of year about 35 degrees there for you. a policy imposed decades ago. which you could select to be goods and be boards changing demographics across asia with far reaching consequences for creating a pool of socially disadvantaged young men so you have the system where people are

everyone will be get being given money money to agree to star as a ship or money to get other people to believe the story. out there examines the politics of population control. looking backward look at headlines now the british prime minister to resign may as announced her resignation as the leader of the ruling conservative party may will stand down on june 7th but will stay on as caretaker prime minister until have replacement is chosen the leadership race is expected to be dominated by bracks it supports is admitting the leader of the official proxy campaign or johnson may

successor will become prime minister in late july and our other headline the us is that send an additional $1500.00 troops in the middle east amid heightened tensions with iran president donald trump described the deployment as a mostly protective measure. meanwhile sudan's transitional military council has vowed to back saudi arabia against all threats and attacks from iran this after the deputy head of the council met the saudi crown prince mohammed bin soundman in jeddah sudan as part of the saudi led coalition fighting who think rebels and yemen meanwhile in sudan protests demanding an immediate transition to civilian rule of continue. in the capital protest leaders have called for a general strike across the country on tuesday and wednesday imran khan has been speaking to demonstrators in hard to him and sent this update. ever since the sit ins began in early april look at how the 7 has become a focal quick to boast a rallying cry look at set up that servant often dictates to gender for your

position for this for the next few days now the mob is back on a general strike so it's not just in the capital itself but across the city's professionals association the brotherhood devices the bridge to the represents most of the students professionals is also that this strike if it happens and you know the statement that this sunday this story could will ripple look just a couple but the good times over the country now what we're hearing is that the opposition to sit on and off hoping that this strike will put them in the driver's seat when it comes to negotiations we know the one with the opposition because this is a they would know growth in public political life from the army obvious insisting that they didn't want to go. all over in algeria police have arrested dozens of protesters rallying in the capital algeria's. hundreds gathered in the

city for the 14th friday calling for interim president until cutter ben solid to leave office immediately became president after the ailing longtime leader abdul-aziz beautifully cashed it down last month and public anger and running for a 5th term elections are jews to be held in algeria in july. forces loyal to libyan warlord who 5 to have been accused of bombing the office of the un recognized government no one was injured in the attack on the building in the capital tripoli after us forces have been trying to take control of the city since april hundreds of people have been killed in the fighting and tens of thousands displaced. at least 15 people have died in a major fire at a shopping center in the indian city of sirat in the west of the country when he says say several people jumped from the building to try to escape the blaze believe most of the dead and injured a students who were attending classes and a coaching center inside the complex.

well india's prime minister narendra modi has pledged to take his country to new heights after leading his party to a landslide reelection victory the official vote count shows modi is nationalist be j.p. swept to victory taking 303 seats out of a possible 542 the opposition indian national congress party led by raul gandhi trailed behind it won only 52 seats but that's still up but that's still up from the party's historic low of 44 seats 5 years ago the remaining 187 seats are divided among dozens of other parties a record number of women is set to enter india's new parliament 78 seats are set to go to female candidates though that's still well below the global average of nearly one in 4 female representatives. raman reports from the capital new delhi. india work on friday to news that the bharatiya janata party led by linda modi secured an absolute majority in the 6 week long general election. b j p

celebrations began on thursday when early indications suggested another wind was imminent. the election commission has been counting more than 600000000 votes cast since early on thursday and everyone is waiting for the initial announcement modi still has to be formally elected by his own party parliamentarians he's expected to meet them in a special session on saturday we need to listen to the b.g.p. is celebrating the mood is very different from an opposition groups whose influence in parliament is no severely reduced given our experience the last 5 years. that we mean business we will let them have their own way we will stand up as far as people's concerns will be i mean picture of operation. has analysts suggest job creation in rural and urban areas is a topic the government needs to focus on modi has won this victory by. significantly to the young and 1st time much like he did in 202014 but in the last

couple of years unemployment has been very high and big and it will be something that modi will have to address. as well as for the future of the country. but one senior leader says moody's policies are working what next in terms of how. the. right sector all the sec this move because if the impetus which is already there is the fastest growing economy has to do you mean the must produce results which will better performance at least until. the public to those concerns. he should try and remove unemployment for the young of the country the problems of the villages lack of electricity water should be tackled the farmer should get more facilities and the marginal and trouble farmers get their problem solved these are the issues. and as the prime minister gets ready to begin his 2nd term many will be

looking to see if he'll address these issues modi has received an overwhelming mandate to deliver on his pledges but it's not just domestically issues that'll be a factor in a 2nd. global financial uncertainty is something that may affect india's growth and economy and regional stability with pakistan is something that modi has to balance while appeasing his nationalist vote base so al-jazeera new delhi. well in indonesia presidential candidate probably has filed a legal challenge to last month's election result. experienced days of violent protests with at least 7 people killed and 200 others injured in riots protests as angry that president djoko we don't know was declared the winner they say that was widespread cheating but the election commission says the poll is free and fair. when other stories are following at least 8 people have been injured in a suspected possible bomb explosion in the french city of leone the device exploded

near a bakery in the center of the city those hurt in the blast appeared to have suffered only superficial injuries incident is being investigated by the french counterterrorism office the interior minister has called for increased security at public sites across france. well thousands of guard strike in nicaragua demanding the release of political prisoners human rights activists say about 800 people have been arrested since anti-government protests began last year . in mexico city. the streets are empty across much of the nicaraguan capital many businesses have closed their doors for the day in an act of civil disobedience this is now the 5th national strike to take place since a political crisis group the country more than a year ago. the strike was organized in part as a response of the killing of any moment this u.s. citizen held by the nicaraguan government as a political prisoner his shooting by

a prison guard was the subject of a recent meeting at the organization of american states that the u.s. . has in paris of the violations of human rights people to an end nicaraguan citizens regain all of their political rights and privileges also that all political prisoners be released is a maximum priority that's a clear and forthcoming investigation be launched into the death of the month has. in the nicaraguan capital small protests have taken place in recent days calling on the government to release political prisoners. but it remains illegal to demonstrate publicly against the government of daniel ortega instead those in the political opposition are calling for alternative forms of dissent. or so for us this national strike is a legitimate form of peaceful and civic protests and is a way for us to show our support and solidarity towards those who suffer a heavy presence of anti-riot police and pro-government paramilitaries have been

dispatched to prevent protests in managua the country's finance minister also issued a warning that any banks participating in the general strike would face sanctions by the national government monitor up a new. mexico city. kenya's high court has upheld a colonial era law that criminalizes gay sex a court ruled that a ban on same sex relationships does not violate the constitution a rights activists have campaigned for 3 years to get the legislation overturned under kenyan law anyone in a same sex relationship currently risks 14 years in prison. we urge the government to take immediate ended liberal steps to protect and uphold the rights of the old to take you possibly by repealing the children 62 in c. and 165 of the penal code of kenya and introducing legislation that prohibits discrimination on all grounds including sexual orientation and gender identity on

the expression. or brazil supreme court meanwhile has votes to make on the phobia and transphobia crimes on a par with racism activists of welcome this move which was backed by 6 of the court's 11 judges as fears grow the president pulse a narrow self declared homophobes could roll back l g b t rights one watchdog group says 420 l.g. . bt people were killed in brazil last year alone and in taiwan more than $360.00 same sex couples have tied the knot after the island came the 1st place in asia to legalize gay marriage taiwan's parliament approved same sex marriage last week it follows years of debate over marriage equality with religious and conservative groups among the most vocal opponents of the deal has yesterday i suggested that we slap each other since it feels like a dream i think it's unbelievable that taiwan is the 1st to legalize gay marriage in asia i'm very moved i think it's

a very difficult thing ethnic chinese culture especially for med we've been very lucky to have support from our families after this new law has passed even more traditional families will be willing to try and considered normal for 2 meant to be together and get married or young activists have rallied in cities around the globe demanding move swiftly to fight climate change organizers say up to a 1000000 students took part in at least 110 countries they are calling on politicians and businesses take urgent action now to slow global warming strikes were inspired by 60 year old writer thing by a. brief look at headlines stories this hour the british prime minister to resign may has announced her resignation she'll stand down as leader of the conservative party next month triggering a leadership race that she'll stay on as the country's caretaker prime minister and till a successor is chosen in late july may have been under increasing pressure to resign

over the strategizes we need i will shortly leave the job that it has been the honor of my life to hold. the 2nd female prime minister but certainly not the last. i do so with no ill will but with enormous during gratitude to have had the opportunity to serve the country i love the u.s. president says america will send an additional $1500.00 troops to the middle east amid heightened tensions with iran donald trump says the deployment is mostly protective and will strengthen american defenses in the region on thursday the acting u.s. defense secretary patrick shanahan said u.s. policy towards iran was about to terence not war. all this is u.s. senators say trump is clearing the sale of billions of dollars worth of weapons to saudi arabia and the u.a.e. citing tensions with iran the democrat rob and then robert menendez had to use his powers to block the arms sales fearing they would lead to more civilian deaths in

yemen but he says the trouble ministration will bypass a legally required congress review and go ahead with the sale. will sudan's transitional military council has vowed to back saudi arabia against all threats and attacks from iran. made the comments at a meeting with the saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman in jeddah meanwhile in sudan protests demanding an immediate transition to civilian rule have continued in the capital protest leaders of call for a general strike across the country on chuse day and wednesday. protests in algeria as well police have arrested dozens of demonstrators rallying in algiers hundreds gathered in the city for the 14th friday in a row calling for interim president and salah to leave office immediately elections it used to be held in algeria in july that brings you up to date with our top stories there will be more news a bit later on in about 25 minutes time i was c for that coming up next it's up

front with. on up from today we'll debate why turkey is rerunning a major election but 1st i'll challenge nobel peace laureate and former liberian president ellen johnson sirleaf on corruption nepotism and the prosecution of war crimes. ellen johnson sirleaf thank you for joining me up front it's been more than

a year since you left office as president of liberia you came into power off the back of a peace deal that followed decades of war and violence and. you ended your mandate with liberia's 1st successful democratic transition in 73 years you're the 1st woman to lead an african nation a nobel peace prize winner and yet some might say you've been more popular abroad than you have been at home what do you say to them. well you know i think your point really went around the country where i spent a lot of time going into rural areas being able to work with farmers and road women . and trade is you know i found that i was very well connected with them but also it's in the cities some of the proceeds in sight maybe not popular then that's fine but i also know that i had to be out there in the global community being able to mobilize that support for liberia being able

to reach to my peers credit where due in this. room able to make sure that the partnership that we needed you know was put in place to enable us to achieve our development goals i'm very happy with what i was able to do when you became president in 2005 you pledged a war on corruption you called it quote a national cancer and called public enemy number one but then you yourself were hit with a variety of scandals your government and you later said you quote underestimated the cultural roots of corruption but surely liberian culture isn't to blame for corruption liberian politicians such as yourself and others are to blame for corruption well let me tell you politicians are part of the culture politicians are part of their the system but it's also how blaming the public the collateral for the actual knowledge laming anybody nonono i think you you're just talking what are listening that's not what i'm saying i'm saying dependency dishonesty

team part of the liberian culture over the many years of deputies the institutions to fight to corruption when you mention the institutions and yet you did have an independent corruption watchdog the general auditing commission which found 20 government ministers accused 20 government of corruption and you failed to prosecute any of them why. well let me tell you something all of those records were sent to our liberia anti-corruption agency they were also sent our legislature we all got a particular unit in the presidency to be able to look at all of those cases and to be able to send them power to the ministry of justice where ever people prosecution was necessary why would they pressure let me let me well because our system is like that if you tap if you want to really understand liberia you

need to dig a little deeper you need to understand culture our values our systems and the way to tackle it is not always to just make a whole lot of noise. but to quietly build those institutions that are going to go on last what is it about your country institutions and values and culture lead you to appoint 3 of your sons and your sister to top government positions something that led to your fellow liberian nobel peace laureate leymah bowie to resign from her post as head of liberia's peace and reconciliation commission to she you know understand liberia. less lead no less let's put it this way 1st of all when i took office talking about one of my sons was always in place in place couple of ministrations before i took place and i did. yes i didn't think it was

necessary to do so if you talking about where i needed a specialized skill to be a way she objected of trying to mobilize resources to tackle major development programs that's what i did and frankly will you please look around today as some other countries that have found themselves perhaps in similar position and happening able to put in place those particular which measures. when you come to the us leave that to you do your research i've done my research at the british prime minister has been appointed then i can aid in prime minister hasn't put it in family members the french president has appointed any family members the german chancellor has an appointed any family members i can tell you going going to have an early good there is that oh you would say look i'm saying it's not a common practice for president or prime minister certainly not in democratic nations to appoint a bunch of family members to run this very very low level let me put it this way we

really got this you know let's just let's deal with the real life you. can help this well and i'm going to see you say let's deal with the areas riyad are let's another you say you said you say i'm going to i mean is that a special skill set your son robert sirleaf was appointed chairman of liberia's national oil company that company went bankrupt in $30.00 to $40000000.00 us dollars disappeared what special skill set did he bring to the national will be no no no no no no let me just say what you just said. i. lie you look at the red cross that is nothing about. that company. there were no problems at all the national company masto or company ran into because. 2 companies that were trying to x. . x. so more well. could not climb a well. that this company could not continue it's

a simple as that and a record how about the liberia central bank you pointed your son charles deputy governor that. you suspect has officially declared assets and 2 months ago he was ordered to be held in jail while awaiting trial for having unlawfully printed local currency worth tens of millions of us dollars did you know he was doing that. well i didn't know you wanted to have an interview just a comma with a just statement i mean. it was you know. that i thought you know that you know you know you know 2 i mean is that wrong is. that is not true that is not true he was. all. just. literally. and so he was charged i mean. that ultimately you're not going to charge a i'm just ask you to comment on him being held for trial you're saying that didn't

happen clearly you know what you're trying to do what you're trying to do is to show now that's what you're trying to do we do that we need to have civil exchange i'm very civil very simple question you accuse me of making a living i've been accused of anything i simply asked your son who has been ordered to be held in jail while awaiting trial for having unlawfully printed local currency worth tens of millions of dollars what's your reaction to that there's nothing uncivil about that question. look i was system requires that when we have a when we have a limited jurisdiction the court we're not supposed to talk about it tell that matter settled by the courts so you're trying to make me do things that i'm not right not legal please don't do that ok how about what happened on your watch you suspended him for defaming to declare his assets am i lying about that as well. i

had to do you have to realize how i read what i read and i read. maybe i will try to work out what you want to know how did you run the government you appointed family members suspended some of them just wondering how that works. well i don't think you want to. i do i don't think i don't think you want to go there because i'm asking questions that are very legitimate questions i would ask any former president on this show about corruption allegations on their watch the fact that i happen to be your children is neither here nor there. so you don't want to comment on anything about corruption ok one of the other things critics lined up against you for your criticized for your former support of charles taylor your predecessor who's of course a convicted war criminal in 2000 and you formally apologized for having stood behind him that same year the liberian truth and reconciliation commission made a set of recommendations saying that a compensation scheme should be created a dedicated war crimes court should be set up you never took action on those things

why not. have it. we have. all the. character country. like. best in. all of those things that have kept us down that have to. ask. us well it will not be ruthless reconciliation effort to get past eventually. reconciliation has gone to the courts. it's left the courts it has transformed into a law. that process has started a process of contrition and forgiveness all of that has started.

but you ignore the mission on truth and reconciliation which also accused you of financing and forming quote the warring factions in liberia's civil war the report said that people including yourself should be banned from occupying public office for 30 years. but there may be up to date on west country maybe you forget that after that came out i won 2 elections because you know the recommendation is that i shouldn't be allowed to run around or no no no no that went to court you see you don't have enough information for the things you say ok that's really unfortunate ok this matter went to the courts i didn't put it there it went our supreme court and the decision was taken you cannot busy body did not have the legal powers to be able to judge people given the right of self-defense

was in my case it was somebody else's case if you just take a little bit of time to understand the truth and the facts then you won't have to say some of the things you say. it's not true than that the recommendation was for people not to run for office for 30 years i just made that up. you totally missed the point. we'll have to agree to disagree with the reports of people to look it up one last question you're one of the few african leaders to have led a peaceful democratic transition when you look at the state of democracy and some other african nations and see how show many others libya zimbabwe others have failed to do the same of have repeatedly contested elections what's your advice to those other african countries or other african leaders i think africa is on the right track when it comes to democracy i think what we need is to make strong institutions to show that democracy is implemented. show

that participation of all citizens in societies by and pens to active active lab aeration to be able to achieve development goals. be a lot of those that. take away from the successes we've had for progress we have but i think the record is clear evidence is right to see ellen johnson sirleaf thank you so much for joining me on outfront i'm not sure if i thank you. i must say i'm glad it's over. back in march president earlier ones ruling justice and development party or at party suffered surprising losses in local elections across turkey including in istanbul and ankara for the 1st time in almost 20 years but the turkish president refused to concede and earlier this month the country's high election council announced a rerun of the istanbul mayoral election to be held on june 23rd so is this just

the latest step on the road to turkish or talk or see or is 2 as his supporters say just protecting the integrity of the election process joining me to debate this from istanbul. a senior member of the ak party and its former vice chairman for human rights and most of our senior fellow at the cato institute and contributing opinion writer at the new york times thank you both for joining me in the arena harun your party suffered significant losses in the local elections in march including in istanbul where your president used to be the mayor in a democracy many would say you're supposed to respect the election result not demand multiple recounts and then have a rerun of the whole election just because your candidate didn't win. matee you're just repeating the opposition. which are not true the election is going to rerun because there is an independent body elect of commission made a decision to go to rerun for 2 reasons because number one is that there are

hundreds of people that point at the ballot box offices number 2 there are irregularities in was counting cheats which in the law clearly says that in these sort of cases if it's impacting the final result of the election it goes to iran and it's not the 1st in last minute simple elections there are 14 minutes abilities that to rerun for similar reasons when you say irregularities voters in istanbul didn't just vote for mayor on march 31st they cost 4 different vote. in 4 different pieces of paper they were all put into saying all of a look before going into the ballot box but you're not calling for a rerun of all 4 vote how come the 3 are ok but one of the votes is irregular that makes no sense to me the reason is very simple math if you know the law because the difference the difference between the 2 candidates in istanbul metropolitan minutes ability is very small if you look at the local municipalities yes the irregularities are there valid for them as well but they are not impacting the

final result because the difference is more ok it's an independent body calling for a rerun and they were voting irregularities was the problem. well becky i think it's not that simple and i should 1st say this i'm really sad about what turkey has become it's my country we had a great accomplishment in the early 21st century we were the shining star of the muslim world unfortunately it devolved into a grim authoritarian scene in the past 6 years and lot of things have gone down speech independent press lot of things have gone down already when it least the elections were there at least elections were trusted and now with the cancellation of these stumble elections unfortunately now there are question marks about even the curiously of elections and the legitimacy of elections in turkey will be there even former president former former prime minister ahmed who are the people who built his party said that this is a this is really

a bad thing for our democracy there are independent scholars who don't see any reason an illegitimate reason for the cancellation of the elections the elections are canceled on a technicality that there were not. people there more than 30000 ballots in a stumble in 200 of them the people who are the head of the team counting the ballots were not government officials they didn't used to be government official for decades this is a new law they keep people out the fact that they were not government officials doesn't prove any misty their own miscount it's just a technicality and that technicality is not used to cancel other elections across turkey in which the opposition lost the only place where opposition won which is istanbul the big most important place is not being canceled in the ruling party will have its arguments but other than themselves nobody in turkey believes this is fair however let me ask you this question you said earlier that i was just repeating opposition talking points but it's not just the opposition who have been

criticizing the rerun of this election as most of them went gold a former president of turkey a member of your party that polity. said that it costs a shadow over our democracy. former prime minister a member of your party has said it's cause our fundamental values to be undermined and they also opposition members now look. first of all these 2 gentleman are founders of our very respected senior politicians of our party and in the old days when they do criticism. of of course they are open to give their opinions we hear the opinions they are able to make their criticism indeed this is what makes that party a very democratic party and they are making this decision based on law not someone else's comments i mean maybe they made an unpopular choice to go to repeated elections but at the same time this was the right decision according to the law to

be fair to their u.k.p. doesn't the fact that they're not demanding reruns in places like adarna or messire and where they also lost to the opposition does not maybe suggest that there is a genuine objection they have in istanbul because they are not asking for reruns across the board across the whole country other no they they're not asking for a rerun on korea as well which they asked i think you know isn't is stumble is the most important thing in the scene secondly there is a really close call i mean they lost with a very small margin but the mere fact that elections are rerun in turkey when the ruling party thinks that they are not helpful that's a stain on our tomorrow and the fact remains that the act party did lose to the opposition in other cities throughout turkey how do you interpret those losses are they a referendum on president rule on the evidence of dissatisfaction from the turkish public with the ones rule number of people have made their decision for the general election last year for president this significant event. so into

a pretty thing because it's a polo that results as a general election would mislead us it's wrong that's not correct and even if you do that and i think if you look at the general popular vote a party still won't 53 percent juggle both in this election and i saw something on that. there is no doubt the president out on any keep he's still popular in turkey there's no doubt about that the problem is the rest of the country is being demonized by the propaganda machine of the government in turkey the problem we have is a very divisive rhetoric which considers one political line legitimate and the other one is really so i'm not saying that the president ought to get only started just going to this list of a turkish i'm not but to be fair you are not based in the u.s. where you work in the u.s. think you write for the new york times many would say the u.s. is a country where the president diligent mises the opposition doesn't treat all sections of society equally and that many in token you for many in turkey would say we're being demonized by the west there's always

a reference to it or to it ultimate empire and there's a western media bias against us i want to say to that there is polarization in the us to a very venomous polarization and i actually see some of the populist narrative i know from turkey in the u.s. politics as well today in the hands of the present and some of you know borders but in the u.s. there are institutions there are certain checks and balances when president trump passes a muslim ban a judge can stop that in turkey that judge would be in trouble himself in in the u.s. there is independent media president president trump calls it the enemy of the people that term doesn't become an indictment to put a newspaper journalist in jail in turkey the problem is that populist wave which is now all across the world is so strong and it crushed institutions so let's also left very little room about so we have a very end version of populism in the us i see other problems as well in the western democracies. i see other problems as well i mean i think it is it is not

unfair to say i got him a job where we get our news media has become nothing but a propaganda machine for the government the 90 percent of the turkish media has become like that i mean we are all in. absolutely i disagree with this point and it makes no sense whatsoever where did you get this 90 percent. number it doesn't it doesn't reflect the reality and you very well know that if you if you work if you are complaining about the media ownership by a few businessmen this is a common from for many countries for example rupert murdoch in dk has more than 50 percent of british media but you never claim that that's a big that becomes a problem for british democracy. and most of us father himself is the opposition opposition journalists in turkey criticize the government several times and i read them these very respected senior journalists are you telling me that most are you telling me that most of your father is just keeping his bush's in because he never

criticize the government. i didn't say under per cent of the media is controlled by the government i said almost 90 percent of the media is controlled by the government and my father is in that 10 percent right now that's wrong there are other people respected people journalists yes who say that's my golding's even though there are people ever criticizing the government in that 90 percent they lose their job one of them is chemistry who just was fired from you nischelle fact we all know this let's be honest in turkey media owners several several media holders you very well this is how their newspaper is every let me finish in turkey big people like murdoch you referred to they had to sell their newspapers which were bought by people who were friends with the government and they transformed those newspapers they fired the editors reporters and columnists who are critical of the government let's be honest about this we have not let's be honest if you

could have you know this is the whale you can say that if a lot of the artists let's be honest that who reacts. you know you're going. to have been transformed out of will you concede any of that or are you saying there's been no change at all of the it's all about all human rights groups who have pointed out that lack of media freedoms the media consolidation the record number of arrest of journalists and taking out jails more journalists than any other country the world and you deny all of that it's all just we're just imagining all of. these accusations have no basis 1st of all changing changing ownership in the media is that is this is zeeshan that those businessmen can make we have nothing to do with those decisions and also if you have to be more specific they have it they have it out of which for example he left and he went to the times because his line doesn't really match in with the guardian newspaper david a run of in terms of being arrested have detained in the united states you know that many many journalists have been arrested and detained in turkey so it's not

a very good analogy. that you know it's hundreds of thousands of people academics judges the last thing you do that you build up of the are all being detained you know that come on you know that tens of thousands of people have been detained in turkey you're not denying that and i'm very glad you brought it up mattie i'm very glad you brought that because i now have a chance to clear that up 1st of all in most of us own words into i think in 2018 when he was speaking brussels he said from his own words he's clearly said that the u.n. is called the religious cult they had a big power on broken see the military the police did to sherry the media and education and those guys later on try to overthrow an elected government these number of journalists that you give are nonsense one of them are in jail because he actually published a sex tape of leader one of them is in jail because he's he murdered this one what about another all of them. also have our bases of water problems as well turkey has time times more of that and unless we don't even acknowledge that those problems

exist turkey will not go anywhere better guys we run out of time our and most of all we'll have to leave it there we're out of time apologies that was very lively and that's our show from the movie back later this year. once and the magic try now settled in towns and villages. but many are unregistered and invisible. 6 boys and tour girls none of them have citizenship al-jazeera world needs to upgrade people. who are out on going into tomorrow the

person is going through the existing. stake list in lebanon. on al-jazeera. millions of dollars are being stolen in a scale that stocks in the philippines and stretches across the globe one i want to use gains exclusive access to this cutthroat on the world through a criminal turned whistleblower on al-jazeera. hello i'm maryam namazie in london just a quick look at the headlines stories after almost 3 years in office british prime minister to resign may has announced her resignation in a fortnight may will stand down as leader of the ruling conservative policy triggering a leadership contest for biden has mall. it is in the best interests of the country for a new prime minister to lead that effort to recent days resignation announcement speech

began a little hesitantly and ended reluctantly but with her close staff and her husband philip standing by for support the prime minister conceded defeat. it is and will always remain a matter of deep regret to me that i have not been able to deliver breck's it she will officially step down as party leader on june the 7th but remain as prime minister until her successor is chosen in the end though the emotional strain of recent months overcame her i will shortly leave the job that it has been the honor of my life to hold. the 2nd female prime minister but certainly not the last. i do so with no ill will but with enormous and enduring gratitude to have had the opportunity to serve the country i love the prime minister's resignation became inevitable after a hostile reaction to have final bricks at compromise offer even senior figures

within her own party were demanding that she quit now that she has many of those same critics have now praised her dignity and determination i found it moving actually i think that we know the promises to the heart and soul is trying to do the best for this country at a difficult time facing a challenging climate and palm and many of those currently paying tribute are keen to succeed her in the top job more than a dozen conservative m.p.'s could contest the leadership with the new prime minister emerging by the end of july but parliament then takes a 6 week recess and some observers see the whole process as self-indulgent with the october 31st deadline approaching we are wasting the time that's been allotted to us we are wasting good will and the next prime minister will have no different arithmetic from theresa may the same problems in parliament getting the deal 3 are the same promise in parliament if they try to get no deal the opposition labor party is demanding a general election has a new conservative leader isn't going to solve the problem. there has to be another

opportunity for the people of this country to decide who that want government how they want the government to run what the long term strategy is that government i think we did a general election in brussels reaction to the resignation was diplomatic presence younker followed prime minister maize and now instruments this morning without personal joy the president very much liked and appreciated working with prime minister may and as he has said before terrorism a is a woman of courage for whom she has great respect choosing to re some a successor is a 2 stage process with conservative m.p.'s 1st with lean down the candidates to a final 2 and then a postal ballots of the party's wider membership choosing the winner the early frontrunner is boris johnson who has massive support among the 125000 grassroots conservative members but he enjoys less support among parliamentary colleagues the party's internal divisions would once again generate international repercussions it

was breakfast which marked the beginning and end of teresa mayes premiership bracks it will certainly mark out her successor paul brennan al-jazeera. u.s. president donald trump says america will send an additional $1500.00 troops to the middle east amid heightened tensions with iran trump says the deployment is mostly protective and will strengthen american defenses in the region. meanwhile sudan's transitional military council has vowed to back saudi arabia against all threats and attacks from iran mohammad hand on the garland made the comments at a meeting with the saudi crown prince mohammed bin sell mine in jeddah. police in algeria have arrested dozens of protesters rallying in the capital algiers hundreds gathered in the city for the 14th consecutive friday calling for the interim president. to leave office immediately. all those are the top stories this hour there will be more news a bit later on in about 25 minutes time i'll see you then bye for now.

this is a film about women who had to abort their daughters. about men who can no longer find a wife. about girls who were kidnapped for that reason. and about desperate parents. on the tire i don't know i'm with you that.

i. only. was. one she is a province in southern china panshin don't envy my shan or parents who are searching for their daughter 3 year old pan shooting disappeared a month ago without a trace. at 1st nobody believed that something terrible could have occurred in this peaceful village where everyone knows each other with the search for her has remained fruitless. wow let me use it so you can see out your whole fine until you can do as i can tell it's the only all but. he does. all that

remains for the parents are their memories and. the photos from happier times. bigger were. to. search the area. to crank out about. do you knows a lot of despairing parents he works for a relief organization throughout china they are already 200000 volunteers searching for missing girls such as pan shooting. period under our. cars about how it was

a free other area. and if one is other than what it was ago. and there's michelle employer or the job to recall. there it's had you want to read all. so you know that evolved into 2. 1000 and child on magda had a better harder. there is a shortage of millions of women in the world's most populous country 135 boys are born for every 100 girls in some provinces of china. this is the result of an experiment that started decades ago on the other side of the world in the usa after world war 2. it was the era of the economic miracle people in the west were doing better than

ever before if not for the fear that their prosperity could soon come to an end a big concern was constantly growing populations due to medical advances especially in developing countries. affluent americans started a new movement together they wanted to curb the large numbers of children worldwide most of them were men from well known scientists to the super rich like john d. rockefeller the 3rd they were people with influence and connections to the highest levels of the american government. their foundations continue to exist today the ford foundation the rockefeller foundation the population council they triggered a rising tide of fear of a population explosion that soon also spread to other countries and they formed the

head of worldwide measures taken to decimate the population of the impoverished. this has been examined by matthew connelly as tory and a columbia university in new york he has researched in detail the development of this movement from its beginnings to its impact today population council saw its mandate not just to control the rate of population growth but also to address problems in the quality of population so they have an explicit mandate to try to do something about the growth of the fertility rates among people who they thought you know would eventually take over the world if something wasn't done to reduce fertility rates across the board but especially among people who they thought would be poor parents and would have even more poor children. this way of thinking also took hold in american politics in 1966 u.s. president lyndon b. johnson attached conditions for receiving development aid one of them being that

recipient countries must reduce their population. and. it was a time of drought and starvation in india. the president spoke on the phone with the secretary of agriculture. put out this morning. that the president has ordered her to drop what he wanted no part of an exhibit a don't want to be getting. ready to put their body weight over 30 feet were to go out on the road. i don't know but i tell them what i ought to get out of here it would be cured but. he stopped food deliveries until indira gandhi down to the demands. accusations were made that the west had imperialistic intentions with its population control for i checked. the department was founded at the united nations

in 1969 the un f.p.a. the united nations population. fund through this ostensibly neutral paff western governments channel millions into population control in developing countries the major donors besides the united states were sweden great britain and germany and switzerland. south korea was among the earliest testing grounds for population control the country was devastated after the korean war at the same time there was a baby boom with the highest birth rates in the world the united states participated in the reconstruction from the very beginning population control being high on the agenda. yet these 4 korean women gave up in a village 200 kilometers from seoul and.