negotiation of the withdrawal the greenman but there is no doubt that sense of frustration that has been there within the e.u. circles for many months now and years over the break that process is only getting worse french counterterrorism police are investigating an explosion in the city of leo at least 8 people were injured in the blast near a bakery in the center of the city the interior minister's called for increased security across the country police have released an image of the suspect in the calling for witnesses to come forward. the indian the xeon opposition candidate. is challenging the result of last month's presidential election in court propose lawyers for the appeal saying he lost because of widespread cheating official results show president joko widodo won the vote which the election commission called free and fair of the results been met with violent protests that least 7 people having been killed and 200 others injured andrew thomas has more from

jakarta. the middle back crowd arriving at the constitutional court in the heart of jakarta a lawyers for both will be at the fitted for us then sure candidate who found out earlier this week officially on the electoral commission that he had lost and lost badly to the presidential power without a will he just that he says that the election was systematically raped and that is what his lawyers are here at the constitutional court to claim to have been some fair lawyers when they arrived here might arrive with protesters and those protesters could turn violent earlier in the week in jakarta there were big protests riots really and a number of people were killed well those scenes thankfully haven't been repeated on friday there's been a big place in soldier presence right across jakarta all day on friday there was certainly ready for a mass rally it hasn't happened for lawyers arrived on their own and this is the

beginning of the legal process to dispute the election results. come here and. the celebrate his party's landslide win in india's general election. neal become salacious us state to try to end religious exemptions the parents don't want to vaccinate children. sponsored by. you know welcome back to international weather forecasts where across china we have seen plenty of rain and the rain is going to be on the increase by the time we get to the end of the weekend we do have a flow that is coming in from the south bringing a lot of moisture here from the south china sea up towards the north so what you can see here to the north very heavy rain and it's on the increase as we go towards

sunday shanghai your rain is going to increase it temporarily down to about $24.00 degrees there for hong kong though it is going to be a rainy as well as you a day with a temperature of 30 but feeling much warmer than that well here across parts of the philippines heavy rain is expected for manila over the next few days we do expect to see a temperature there of 34 rain continue for much of the region and by the time we get towards sunday the rain continues pushes across towards the west as well holtzmann we expect to see often on rain few at $33.00 degrees and speaking of rain it is the month it is that time of the year for months soon a rain to begin down here across much of southern india for sri lanka though it has begun for colombo the rain is going to continue and we do expect to see a time to $31.00 degrees up here towards kolkata a passing shower at $38.00 and for katmandu heavy rain in your forecast at $31.00 but to the north it remains dry from new delhi all the way over here towards a perp with a temperature of $44.00 degrees. the weather sponsored by qatar

airways and investigation into the real powers that control the world health organization their obligation to their shareholders completely overwhelms any consideration of public health can they be trusted with building a healthier future if their loyalty becomes questionable. to the h one n one is it getting more difficult for you now. trust. that you trust on al-jazeera. to take a look at the top stories here at. the white house's move to bypass congress to

sell billions of dollars in arms to allies in the middle east the secretary of state says it's to deter aggression. several prominent conservative m.p.'s have put their names forward to become the next u.k. prime minister that's after tourism a about should step down on june the 7th ending 3 tumultuous years in office. for the defeated indonesian opposition candidate. have filed a lawsuit challenging the results of last month's presidential election official results showed president joko widodo won the food. says he lost because of widespread cheating. prejudice leaders in sudan have called for a general strike on tuesday and wednesday imran khan has more from. the long awaited announcement of a general strike is valid in may it was made late. friday night with announcements from the sudanese professionals association that's number. represents eye number of

professionals here within sudan the strike will take place the 28 on the 29th of may and the s.b.a. and the opposition coalition are hoping federal affectively bring the entire country to a standstill and not just here in the capital khartoum now the s.b.a. have said that they've been forced into this action because they haven't been able to come to a deal with the transitional military council they say every time they've come close to a deal the transitional military council ups the sakes and says no we want all of a role in public political life also there's a lot of anger here from the protesters who say that they are very angry about a recent visit by the vice president of the transitional military council to mattie who went and met with the saudi crown prince mohammed bin soma and they say why is he meeting with them in this manner is he now the defunct leader of the

sudanese people he is a t.m.c. now the effective representation that's made them very angry so they're hoping that what's going to happen in the next few days when this strike takes place that will give them the upper hand it will give them some leeway in the negotiations between the opposition coalition and the transitional military council. india's prime minister narendra modi has pledged to take his country to new heights south to leading his party to a landslide reelection victory if issue a vote count sharon's mage's right-wing. what to victory taking 303 seats out of a possible 542 the main opposition congress party led by raul gandhi trailed far behind it was only 52 seeds but that's. from a no time low of 44 seats 5 years ago the remaining 187 seats are divided among

dozens of other parties a record number of women will enter india's new parliament 78 seats of gondor female candidates though that still well below the global average of nearly one in 4 female representatives. well the victory gives mady a powerful mandates to implement his nationalist vision so how raman reports from new delhi. india woke up on friday to news that the bharatiya janata party led by the renderer modi had secured an absolute majority in the 6 week long general election. b j p celebrations began on thursday when early indications suggested another win 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 well he is celebrating the mood is very different from any opposition groups whose influence in parliament is now severely reduced given our experience the last 5 years we kept his government on and we showed them that we mean business we would let them have their own way we will stand up as far as people's issues are concerned will be i mean picture of opposition 1st time has analysts suggest job creation in rural and urban areas is a topic the government needs to focus on that modi has one this victory. significantly to the young and 1st time voter 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 for the young 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 sector self-employed sector all the sectors must all

move because if the impetus which is already there is the fastest growing economy has to remain the must produce results which will better performance at least until . the public too has 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 probably farmers get their problem solved these are the issues for money. 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 whole raman al jazeera new delhi. the saying in india at least 19 people have died in a fire in the western city of. witnesses say several people jumped from the building to try to escape the blaze it's believed most of it and danger to attain a students are attending classes in the 4 story building. amazes outbreak in the united states has officials now looking for ways to get more children vaccinated the shots are already required in order to attend school but many states allow exemptions for religious or philosophical reasons this is silly me has more from new york where there's a movement to change that. the latest measles outbreak in the united states is concentrated in orthodox jewish neighborhoods of new york like here in borough park brooklyn there's nothing about the vaccine which has been proven safe and effective

in eliminating the disease that is contrary to the jewish faith in fact religious leaders have been at the forefront of urging members to vaccinate still this local elected official thinks people should have the option of opting out on religious grounds it is just a dangerous precedent we will be opening a pandora's box 1st amendment issues with a state senator brad hoyle man is sponsoring legislation to eliminate the religious exemption in new york just like california did after a 2015 outbreak. of course you have a 1st amendment right to practice your religious beliefs in this country and that it sank or sank but you do not as the supreme court has said time and time again have the right to endanger your children or worse someone else's child all but 3 states allow parents to opt out of vaccinating their children on religious grounds even though none of the major religions in this country are against vaccinations

here in new york it's as easy as filling out a form and bringing it to your local school for approval. but now several like new york are reconsidering the why when we vaccinate our children alexander rappaport took part in new york's pro-vaccine ad campaign and runs a local social services agency but he thinks a limiting the religious exemption will simply fuel the conspiracy theories that lead to the distrust of vaccines it gives the end of action ations a platform they say you see what they're doing to their closing down their schools they're getting rid of the religious exemption there so then. instead of. being seen as a friend someone to take advice from being alienated i am concerned that the measles outbreak will continue to grow eliminating the religious exemption has raised vaccination rates in california though the number of children seeking

medical exemption is there has tripled the bill sponsors are hoping to bring it to a vote before the legislative session ends in june kristen salumi al-jazeera brooklyn new york. a u.s. federal judge has blocked an abortion or in mississippi the forbids terminations after the detection of a heartbeat it comes as the se develop batteries sued over its recent abortion the american civil liberties union and planned parenthood launched legal action the ban which offers no exceptions for rape or incest resigned last week but has not taken effect the alabama legislation sparked nationwide protests. more than 20 prisoners have been killed and 14 police wounded during riots in a jail in venezuela the prison is in the central state of portuguese that's around 350 kilometers from the capital caracas and then go the defense prison the right says the fighting began when special forces were sent in to rescue visitors who've

been taken hostage by inmates in taiwan more than 360 same sex couples have tied the knot after the island became the 1st place a laser to legalize gay marriage taiwan's argument approved same sex marriage last week that follows years of debate over marriage equality with religious and conservative groups among the most vocal opponents. yesterday i suggested that we slap each other since it feels like a dream i think it's unbelievable that taiwan is the stones to legalize gay marriage in asia i'm very moved. and lawyers in kenya say they're all appeal against a decision by the high court to uphold a colonial era law which criminalizes gay sex the court said the ban on same sex relationships doesn't violate the constitution and to this of campaigned for years

to expand gay rights in kenya where anyone in the same sex relationship faces 14 years in prison. when the indian film a comedian screened salaam bombay at the cannes film festival in 1988 she walked away with the camera door of the best 1st feature of. into the life of children living on the streets of the busy city over the past 30 years many such socially conscious films of followed charlie and jenna sat down with her on the french riviera to talk about her latest project. welcome to cannes we're here with director mira nair talking about how the festival shaped her career and some of her future projects mira thank you for joining us just take us back to that day when your film one can prize the best 1st film the movie was you know extraordinarily received we had a 30 minute ovation and so on and then i went back home to buy a pencil on them and i had sort of the whole world you know in the morning and it

was that kind of fairy tale and of course topped by the door and great prizes and certainly it launched me you know in the industry and made life much easier as a sort of sort of negotiate what to do next you stories i mean they not only take it to india but they take us to pakistan to uganda. countries that are often seen through quite a narrow lens is that very important here that i think every film is a political act you know and you can choose to have a point of view that becomes the bane stream or you can choose to make your point of view the means to. as i have tried to do i just believe that you know where we come from matters our language our poetry our everyday struggles our humor you know is not just particular to us but actually if you get to the truth of it it's

universal and just tell us about your current project is an adaptation of that come seth pick novel suitable boy i jokingly call it the crown in brown it has that kind of big deficits and sweep but it is about us it is about our country it's about the india taking you know after independence from the british going to a democratic elections for the 1st time a country finding its voice and a young woman finding her voice through her harried mother who's keen to make find a suitable boy because i really believe that if we don't tell our stories no one else will tell them or if they will tell them they will tell them their way and not are we. trying to look at the top stories here at al-jazeera the white house's move to bypass congress to sell billions of dollars in arms to allies in the middle east the secretary of state says is to deter raney an aggression. we want our projection

in the middle east we're going to be sending a road of the small number of troops mostly protective and some very talented people are going to the middle east right now and we'll see how it works see what happens at least 9 people have been killed in an airstrike by the saudi a morality coalition on yemen's district entire province the raid reportedly targeted a petrol station some of the victims were children. several prominent conservative m.p.'s have put their names forward to become the next british prime minister that's after to reason may announce should step down on june the 7th ending 3 tumultuous years in office in an emotional statement she said she deeply regretted failing to lead the u.k. out of the european union. french counterterrorism police are investigating an

explosion in the city of louisville at least 8 people were injured in the blast near a bakery in the center of the city the interior minister has called for increased security across the country police have released an image of the suspect in the calling for witnesses to come forward lawyers for the defeated indian easy enough position candidate for began to have filed a lawsuit challenging the results of last month's presidential election official results show president djoko were due to run the vote but her bowen says he lost because of widespread cheating. a u.s. federal judge has blocked on abortion law in mississippi that forbids terminations after the detection of a heartbeat it comes as a state of alabama is sued over its recent ban on abortion the american civil liberties union and planned parenthood launched legal action a ban michelle has no exceptions for rape or incest was signed last week that has

not taken effect there's the headlines inside story. i read tria has been an independent state says 9091 but it's only just emerging from decades of sanctions and diplomatic isolation as a country mass is 20th birthday we ask why hundreds of thousands. of become refugees this is inside story. hello welcome to the program on. a rest area is marking its independence day after

a year of profound changes a peace deal last year and a decades old border dispute with this law is a neighbor if the opiah the united nations lifted sanctions and an arms embargo us president is highest of working has been in power for nearly 30 years is accused of ruling with an iron fist political opponents are jailed there's been that's rheumatiz service and a rest area is now one of the biggest sources of african refugees in europe the government has blocked social media had of independence celebrations this week we'll bring in our guests in a moment but 1st under simmons has this report. it's the biggest day in eritrea's calendar of celebrations with even more significance now there's a peace deal with its neighbor and want time enemy ethiopia. now u.n. sanctions are lifted but human rights organizations say repression is still part of

daily life president is i as off work keeps a firm grip in this one party state. and reports of a ban on social media may be surprising to some when you consider how few people are actually online eritrea has a population of 5000000 but it's estimated fewer than 2 percent use the internet mobile phones don't have internet access and there's no private media dissent isn't tolerated the country is now in a position to open up to the rest of the world. the. surprising are very little seems to have changed actually. despite. the system of government. autocratic. eritrea's peace deal with ethiopia last year part of it signed in jeddah appears to have had

some involvement from saudi arabia and the united arab emirates partly brokered the deal with a clear objective to have more influence in the horn of africa the u.a.e. had already built a military base in the eritrean port of back in 2015 and as these satellite images show its a large complex the runways are used by warplanes from the saudi u.a.e. coalition in its fight against the truth is in yemen. with a base in asked opposition to the mouth of the red sea it couldn't be more strategic the suez canal to the north but even more important to the u.a.e. its enemies in yemen. are a short distance away. eritrea's war for independence from ethiopia lasted 30 years coming to an end back in 1990 warm the conflict may be over but unemployment is high compulsory national service in the military is indefinite tens

of thousands of people have fled the country one of the hazardous routes out through libya where many have ended up in detention centers. peace may have been established but any hope of it bringing better fortune for the people of eritrea is still thin on the ground. andrew simmons. let's bring in our guests joining us on skype from athens in ohio their executive director pen a rest area in exile a freedom of expression organization in london martin plots senior research fellow of the institute of commonwealth studies and the author of understanding a rest area inside africa's most repressive state also on sky from salt lake city john mark on the buckle and nonresidents senior research fellow of the brookings institute situations africa growth initiative program thank you all for joining us

. dr start by asking you this question about with see many countries in the african continent turn that chapter of a talk rossi and repressive rule and reinvent themselves except for a rest area why is that stiff account to all just sit in fewer strikes this commission of different patterns that's been. that has been like everything that's been suspended for the last 20 years and like right now you're just realizing that this has been met excuse by the you are. because that sanctions have been lifted the conflict as it has been solved but things are getting worse from day to day and this probably because of the regime are martin is it exclusively because of the regional dana mix in the horn of africa or soley because someone like.

assayas of working is seen as lars of the life and definitely staying in power for as long as it takes well you're right about him appearing larger than life that certainly true. when i've met him i mean he that's the way came our cross i mean pretty haughty share we say but you know the problem is really that he runs the country with a tiny group of people there is no parliament there are no elections there's never been an election in eritrea's history and the situation is controlled by them and really they just rule everything there are no free press there's nothing whatsoever so it's an extremely repressive situation. and burkle if you don't have a functioning parliament you don't have an opposition recognized by the government if you don't have freedom of expression how is it possible for the people of iraq fear in the near future to call for political reforms or at least start

a new political establishment. i think that this is a very difficult question to answer because. what is happening me in the region know is something that i snuck in a lot of countries especially countries that come from the revolution in about ground in which some group of people fight for independence and then they do not live to sing and i love civilians to rule the country this simply believed that they have they're the only people capable of ruling the country i think this is the problem that you have in eritrea but i believe that peace agreement signed between a journey theo pia opens up a very important door for if your p.r. especially and all the countries in the region to convenes the existing government in your trip to to open up and hold. credible and fair

elections to have a new government because i think that on that is to go many you have a retreat and now you're not going to be able to have any sort of economic development we're in a sort of a human development in the area primarily because this particular government is either incapable or is and willing to move the country head in terms of economic development. is every leaders of the o.p.'s took the world by surprise last year by signing the peace agreement are you hopeful that this could be conducive to genuine political reforms in your country. not amateur full and almost little past 10 months of form that there's no real english major trying to him into an editing damson and signs of improvement like in terms of military terms of the economy in terms of i don't find them delicious are stunning and things that did getting from bad to war so i don't i'm not talking about i want to be

a coal plant for many years of work he has been saying that his biggest concern is to undermine the basic tenets of a country facing an existential threat from neighboring is g.o.p. and this explains why he's been clamping down on dissent now with the overtures to worse the if your peers your relations with the somalis with the job would you bertie do you think that the geo political dynamics could be now in favor of political reform in the country well i wish that was the case and for a while it looked as if things were really going to open up on the border between ethiopia and eritrea was open there were about 3 different crossing places where people could come and go and people particularly from ethiopia flowed into eritrea there was the airline began to make daily trips and that was very very positive but the problem is that since then without any explanation the border has been closed again now the eritreans are reaching out to the sudanese they've sent

a mission there although the border with sudan was closed about a year ago and troops were put on the border so it's everything's done by the whim of president he syas now why he does these things well your guess is as good as mine what it could be is that in relation to sudan is that he's acting on behalf of his allies in the war in yemen which is saudi arabia and the u.a.e. and that he's actually carrying a message from them but with this is pure speculation because there is no accountability there's no way of knowing what is actually going on a summer course because of an accountability why has the international community and the african union failed to enforce. radical reforms in a place like eritrea because they do have some sort of leverage i think part of the problem has to do to found that when you look at the horn or did east africa region you see that international community is involved in

a lot of issues that make it very difficult for them to concentrate on what is happening to retract some of the groups that in their position to do something significant every trip more interested in finding. a bed to problem in somalia and actually looking whiz to help. get out of debt quite mad that the country could only is in one thing that i need to mission here is that. since the peace agreement between if you reach i was sent there was a feeling among some scholars that. maybe actually trying to open up just a little bit in order to get to sanctions lifted so that he can access is international resource a day needs to continue his or repressive rules rule and that he's not really

interested in moving forward in such a way that the country would have new political parties there will be new political competition there will be new konami competition in order to provide an opportunity for your returns in the diaspora to come back home and develop the country so i think that there must be international community and especially i got and countries in the hone have to look for a different way to force change in the new tribe because i don't believe that. to prison regime in their trash is really interested in gently change. i'm listening to you since we play must be semitic about any positive outcome that would put an end to the reclusive authoritarian rule in their rhetoric but if you go back just to your neighbor in if the o.p.'s mass protest movement suddenly asked a minority of the. is there any chance as we might see a must protest movement similar to that in eretz we are. this difficult to have

that kind of policy national because every move has been controlled by the regime let alone big protests like every move like people come and goes in 15 or 7 was our time examples and out of it is. it is very tight in investment up to live like that being impacted everywhere so it's difficult to organize that kind of protest in extra so i'm talking about. martin when the united nations secretary council security council lifted the arms embargo and when the united nations general assembly elected eritrea to the whites council what message were they standing. well they were sending 2 messages i think one was that they were hoping that there would be some kind of reform inside eritrea if they lifted the the sanctions that had been imposed on eritrea i think

the 2nd one was basically saying this is a very sad thing to say that really they didn't care what eritrea did about its own political prisoners i mean hundreds of of political prisoners languish in jail they've never been put before courts they are held there at the whim of the president but you know that the opening up has actually paid some dividends i mean for example the international monetary fund for the 1st time in 10 years paid a visit to eritrea recently and 2 days ago it put out a statement saying yes eritrea is in economic difficulty did does need help you know but there they think that it's possible to engage with it well i wish them luck you know i mean do you know that there isn't even a budget published in eritrea now how do you analyze what the economy of a countries when you don't have a budget published john i think one of the biggest expectations of the people of rhetoric after the peace agreements was to see is size of quirky announced

and to the. rickles christian that didn't happen at all. no he didn't and i believe that part of the reason has to do with the fact that the. president does not in my opinion does not plan to live office. and he needs that. situation in order to continue to hold onto. power and i really believe that. the the president is either incapable of understanding or understand but doesn't kid that decision that has happened in the future. since independence is that the war would it be acute a lot of young people and he's repressive rule has literally sent force a lot of young people to leave the country so know that in terms of transformation

you don't really have that many people left in the in the retreat or who are capable or for forcing the transformation that is necessary as it happened in ethiopia primarily because most of the young people who are able to have lived a country and then there was that realized that the only way to survive is to submit to the repressive regime in the country and i think this is a sad situation and it is sad that primarily because the african union is either incapable or unwilling to do anything to remedy this situation ever home for many is the size of what he was saying basically that the need to have this mandatory military service in place because every tria is some sort of david faced with a neighboring goliath it's a tiny nation facing a nation of more than 80000000 and therefore they need to be more people in the

military. is this something the people of eritrea understand or they just see it as a justification by the government to continue its grip on power most most people see that kind of distribution because the us in the government also is trying to create conflict so that to sustain this kind of in the national service so it's become too is now that the government is getting conflict to continue national service and now it's a justified letter saying you know we have discovered that mr dunne we have 20 are a lot of it or are standing army but people understand that the cause their region or the government itself so it's just you know it's just progress excuse martin the inaction of the international community is baffling in a way or another because when you look at the migration crisis towards europe 16 percent of those migrating come from tiny place like eritrea which begs the

question why the a use not doing enough to send some messages that the would like to see we will change in in the country for the people to go back home. well one of the real problems for the european union or the united nations is that eritrea really doesn't respond to any kind of shall we say carrots i mean the european union has for years been trying to give aid to eritrea eritrea just said we're not interested we really don't care whether you give aid or not in fact it's always the europeans that are trying to say to please please take our aid now in those circumstance you can then hardly say well if you don't take the aid we'll take it away you know we'll if you don't reform we'll take this away i mean the european union has rather been doing a different series of things they have been putting up buffers in the mediterranean to pit stop people crossing they've been making it much more difficult for people to get into libya and once they in libya the they are then imprisoned they are sent

back to this all sorts of restrictions are in place put in by the european union and then by other countries along the way who are encouraged to do this the whole heart to process which is supposed to oversee this is actually not chaired by eritrea so you know the european union and the air tran's are actually uniting on this issue but it's not succeeding john this seems to be some divide between the scholars about the nature of the migration from industry or towards europe some say it's purely economic others say it's because of political repression what do you what do you think. well. it's both. you cannot have an effect if economy if you have a political repression primarily because as. we now know from china as do. the things that as the economy expands and people become more. financially independent did to start demanding more political freedom so one of the things that

you see in the rich area is that many young people have come to the conclusion that it did continue to stay in eritrea they'll never be able to have in your community for service station there's no opportunity for religious cation and training so that they can participate productively in the economy and even if they get to training as we see from it returns will go up brought there's no reason to return to the country because if you do you not be able to participate in the game fully in the economy so deliberation destroys the economy and they destroy the economy forces people to leave the country so if you want to stop make recession from richard to europe you must have to change the dynamics in the retreat respect to education respect to the economy respect to the political repression though you have a country which brings me to this question. i guess the backdrop of the current situation

do you think that groups like the. rhetoric liberation democratic movement has any chance in the near future with all the impressive spinners network put into place by the government to rally popular support among those disenfranchised with a seance. you know that the getting up especially pos the pistol is to power now coming together too and not out much over that the only problem is the set up organiser region so people are coming together to oppose the religion in different ways and more than in a time before it just becomes much easier to galvanize people around same i don't want those now so i'm hopeful that it will be difficult to organize from inside the country at least from knowing countries or most much of the population of them at times as i know in countries like egypt they are so than uganda and other countries so it just becomes easier to return it back to the country and then kind of

restarted again if things simple. just employ somebody. john you have the military which bites into a huge chunk of the state's budget compounded with the severe drought that the country faces for quite some time isn't this a situation that could be conducive to a retreat or to implode from within rather than face an existential threat from outside. i think this. is a very good question because it ties in to some of this the clinician's that people are regarding while all of a sudden. the president is reaching out to if you're poor. the it when you have such a huge military budget. and the government a glitch or order in the years of busy economic activity in order to fund and what

is going to happen is that somebody down the line the government is going to run out of living because there is nothing being produced locally that can be taxed and there's a resort this year there see and improve all you government reaching out for example due to united arab emirates in search algorithm use in order to continue to prop up the government and so without to support of this external sources i think that the government is getting to the point where the it is it is likely to. is likely to implode martin i have less than a minute if you don't mind for many years the u.s. in particular has been looking of the horn of africa through the prism of the fight against groups affiliated with al qaeda and i said but we have this new momentum which is building up in neighboring countries about the need to build vibrant democracy is in the region don't just see it as the opportune moment for the west in particular to say to

a size of well it's about time to change well i wish they would take that stand unfortunately quite frankly eritrea is pretty low down on the list of priorities if they have any priorities in the horn of africa and the united think someone like donald trump really cares very much about it but if they do then it's always with ethiopia and the air tran's have rightly complained that they are their concerns are not really taken seriously enough so i thought i list they can work with the saudis to raise their game i think it's unlikely that the west will take a great deal of dhea of interest in it which means it's up to air tran's in in eritrea to really deal with the situation themselves. thanks to all our guests very bottom plot and john will come back oh and and thank you too for watching you can see the program again anytime by visiting our website c.n.n. dot com for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter our handle is

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troops to the region ellen fisher has more from washington. initial reports suggested the u.s. was preparing to send additional 120000 troops to the middle east to combat the perceived threat from iraq but president donald trump is no confirmed he's sending $1500.00 we want our projection the middle east we're going to be sending a relatively small number of troops the u.s. defense department says the troops are going to include an anti missile battery additional intelligence and surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft it's also sending fighter aircraft for deterrence. the pentagon says the move is defensive and not meant to provoke war but adds to another rush deployment of this month the u.s.s. abraham lincoln carrier strike group started to move to the gulf we would continue . to call for caution and restraint both in terms of actions and in terms of rate and. the threat from iran is also being used to push through $8000000000.00 in weapon sales to saudi arabia the united arab emirates and jordan normally congress

would be given 30 days to approve foreign arm sales but it's already put a hold on earlier sales so secretary of state might pump decided to bypass congress and to clear the seal necessary to bolster regional allies against iran in the statement he said delaying the shipment could cause problems for key partners during a time of increasing regional volatility he says he sees this as a one off event the state department's decision to do this implies that they are very intent on increasing the weapons flow to saudi arabia but they did it within what i think they would argue is politically acceptable frame by adding jordan to the mix question now of course although it may have been there originally these 3 countries together it's looks like a more robust package of defense against iran the sale has provoked criticism from both republicans and democrats in congress but it appears there's little they can

do to stop it the president insists robust u.s. action sent a clear message to iran right now no i don't think iran wants the bite and i certainly don't think they want to fight with us trump maintains he wants to strike a new nuclear deal with iran having pool the u.s. out of the existing deal he's cranked up tough financial sanctions to force them to reopen discussions but there's nothing coming from iran which suggests they are ready to sit down and talk again alan fischer al-jazeera washington and these 9 people are being killed in an airstrike by the saudi m.r.o. on yemen's district entire province the raid reportedly talented a petrol station some of the victims the children. several prominent conservative m.p.'s have put their names forward to become the next british prime minister that's after 2 reason may amount she'd be stepping down on june the 7th and in 3 tumultuous years in office french counterterrorism police are investigating an

explosion in the city of louisville at least 8 people were injured in the blast near a bakery in the city center police have released an image of the suspect in the calling for witnesses to come forward lawyers for the defeated in the legal of addition candidate proposal began to have filed a lawsuit challenging the result of last month's presidential election official results showed president djoko widodo won the vote but for both says he lost because of widespread cheating protest leaders in sudan have called for a general strike on tuesday and wednesday is the latest move to pressure the military to hand over to civilian rule more than 20 prisoners have been killed and 14 police wounded in riots at a jail in venezuela the prisons imported gays and. central states of the country and n.g.o.s is the fighting began when special forces were sent in to rescue visit is it been taken hostage by inmates. trust.

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up at least once. to put it up again any of those questions and look around. the southeast. truncated because it's a venue the feeling n.p.p. in. the face lift which will give she feel just will still be just last longer to describe the bit if she is not going to . be how we are who can then if we are 16 if her took up more talk on her real. enough to contain the gift i'd mention it at all. because if we want to protect americans from a boy here at home we have to end it over there. sars mers universal health coverage is the single most powerful concept that public health has to offer and we will not let the people.

he made his own thoughts on his own throwing coats of y'all i don't know how this is in going. to be read by a group taken on and 3 minutes in the off season log on is out soon or find not zonen internet divide one seemed to meet up by don often bob got the mike season and amends you on and you might be done it's not time to shrink. but off to focus i think you can see that everyone knows that there's a kind of official and high level cover up on the w.h.o. is involved and. i'm a filmmaker i have a daughter. it is important to me that she finds the willing good condition that is when traveling to the w.h.o.

headquarters in geneva. the american journalist robert parsons lived for 20 years now he's been writing about the w.h.o. . until a few years ago every monday the opening day of the world told the summit it was a sumptuous reception at the w.h.o. given by the director general that was the great centerpiece body bed and talk to. it was it was a very good situation for holding everybody together in an informal setting. you know more than ever it has that sort of thing has been replaced by a private reception at they are organized by industry. and i'm particularly pleased to have the 2 ministers of health they have industry spends a lot of money for them is just part of the cost of doing business. it's a way of making correct contact with the people who back in their home countries

have taken the decision us too. that. the suffering of millions of human beings. will be. many many thousands of lives. but. who has positively changed everything smallpox was completely eradicated which was the 1st time ever that a disease was saved each $1000000.00 on vaccines and care of the sick and iron. according to robert parsons the w.h.o. is infiltrated by the industry from the very start. this was an english this was in the canal francisco examiner anyway i was not happy with my coverage because it made them look. less them good. ever

since the 1950 s. studies have shown that smoking damages the health but for decades the w.h.o. does little to oppose the débâcle industry. because. i think i can work up for it. you know as i work on a raffle that's right but i am surprised the majority of politicians take no action against tobacco advertising for decades. nothing is done to check the profits of the tobacco industry until charges are brought against it by its victims and by the usa. gradually the tobacco companies are obliged to publish their internal documents. their strategies to combat the w.h.o. are made public one example is the boca raton action plan from the year 988 senior

figures that philip morris met in florida and drew up a number of sophisticated strategies to limit the power of the w.h.o. the 1st and most important this organization has extraordinary influence on government and consumers and we must find a way to diffuse this. w.h.o. gets under pressure everyone is. better back a company's have operated for many years with the with the deliberate purpose of subverting the efforts. to control. insta thought that. the cost. was it's also from $3000.00. dollars or so. out of 3 things all the right organisms. and all hope the stars to date that are talking to.

one of these institutes is led by the american lawyer paul dietrich philip morris finances it with $240000.00 a year at the same time dietrich is a consultant for the w.h.o. regional office in america when his double role becomes known dietrich moves into the finance industry. he won't agree to talk to me in the w.h.o. report on the strategies of the tobacco industry 6 other consultants are mentioned the british toxicologist frank sullivan for instance claims that passive smoking doesn't harm your health his study on the subject is financed by philip morris. in the year 2000 and sullivan's collaboration with the tobacco industry becomes public but he still continues to advise w.h.o. i mean with 2 department leaders commenting tobacco under the auspices of the w.h.o. we have a 0 tolerance.