said the last goodbyes. the children's father sat quietly seemingly loss in despair but soon turned to justice again the aggression on yemen isn't just may god have been to them they killed my 4 children for no reason. this time is a reminder that no one who see controlled areas in yemen is immune to the sounds he made strikes was dozens of others were injured in the attack including 2 russian health workers. yemen's capital sanaa has been held by the full fee since its ousted the internationally recognized government of op the rebel months to head in 2014 the airstrikes and renewed fighting in yemen's for data port city have further complicated u.n. sponsored peace efforts to end the 4 year war that has killed tens of thousands of people and pushed the country towards the brink of famine sort of. an international maritime court has ruled russia must release 3 ukrainian naval

ships and $24.00 sailors captured in november russia says the vessels on crew during a standoff in the waters off the crimean peninsula moscow says the german base tribe you know is in the wrong place to address the dispute dominic came as more from hamburg. in a hearing that lasted 45 minutes the korean president of the court read out the findings of the ruling that the panel had made regarding this situation the documents that emerged 32 pages but the most important elements are right at the back where this panel this court has said that the russian federation must release the ships and perhaps more importantly for the ukrainians the crew who have been detained by the russian federation basically for almost 6 months the point to make here is that this is for the ukrainian side certainly the deputy foreign minister who was here in court welcomed this ruling but the russian federation has not sent

representatives to this court at any point the question must be what sort of heed will president putin and his officials paid to this court ruling this is an interim ruling this is not a final verdict but it is binding russia is a signatory to the charters that set up this court it recognizes jurisdiction but the court has no power to force the russians to comply so now this does ratchet up the international pressure on president putin but it's for him to decide what happens next still ahead on al-jazeera cyril ramaphosa south africa's president we'll look at the challenges he faces in his 1st full term. the city that shot down this week his father protesters to go to the streets it's mostly but it's a normal now but i'll be looking at the economic impact of the travel and whether the should be hades.

hello there we've got a lot of wet weather over the southeastern parts of china at the moment the showers here have given a some violent thunderstorms and lots of very heavy downpours many places there for cleaning up at the moment so there's a lot of water looking around and the showers it to continue as we head through the next couple of days you see the dark abilities here as you head up towards shanghai so this is the region we're likely to see some particularly heavy downpours on monday and then the whole system tries to push a little bit further towards the south as we head into monday we're also seems a very lively showers i suppose of india and bangladesh you can see them on the satellite picture here and in the northeastern part of india in through bangladesh there these 2 areas again unlikely to see some pretty lively downpours as we head through the next couple of days as well elsewhere though is mostly dry and it's mostly very very hot snack poor they getting to around 44 or 45 degrees as we head

through the next couple of days out towards the west and here in doha the winds coming in from the east now so they are pulling in a fair amount of humidity it's feeling very hot and very humid at the moment for the southeast not quite so hot here $34.00 will be the maximum temperature they are there still a fair amount of cloud though in the southwest in parts of saudi in the western parts of yemen and that could still bring us one or 2 showers. people having to leave your own record on this travel in 5 years ago there is place only for one state on the land of israel i do not believe in a 2 state solution the official story isn't there and i'm sure you will see already i don't care about the official story that you were going to visit today you would say what has the media been telling the world isn't black and white there's lots of grains in here join me near the hot sun on the front of my guests from around the

world take the hot seat and we debate the week's top stories are the big issues here when i was just there. hello again be top stories on al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump is sending $1500.00 soldiers to the middle east as the dispute with iran escalates there were any and for a minister calls the deployment a threat to international peace and security. there's been renewed fighting in the on the outskirts of tripoli between forces battling for the capital back government forces say they pushed back against fighters loyal to warlords. near the old international airport. an

international maritime court has ruled russia must release 3 ukrainian naval ships and $24.00 sailors captured in november russia sees the vessels and crew during a standoff and waters off the crimean peninsula. donald trump says he's hoping for progress on a trade deal with japan. the u.s. president is in japan for a 4 day visit both are expected to discuss car tariffs and how to improve their working for a nation ship is the 1st state guest of the new emperor. who took the throne earlier this month wayne hay has this update from tokyo. despite the fact that the white house and the japanese government had been saying that trade was not going to be a big factor in this visit by donald trump to japan i think no surprise that the u.s. president made it all about trade pretty much soon after he got off the plane in tokyo speaking to business leaders he referenced the big trade deficit as he has

done many times before that the united states has with japan saying also that he wants a better deal the official reason for this visit is that donald trump will become the 1st foreign leader to meet japan's new emperor another hito at the imperial palace in tokyo but there is no doubt that trade will be discussed as well when he meets formally with the japanese prime minister shinzo abbay on monday trade negotiations on a deal are underway they started in april and we've seen the trade delegations continuing those talks over the last few days in tokyo having said that i don't think there is an expectation that they will be any significant announcement on trade while donald trump easy in japan and north korea will be discussed between the 2 leaders as well particularly after the 2 missile tests from north korea earlier this month we heard from the national security adviser for the united states john bolton he's also in japan he said that those 2 missile tests were

clearly a violation of united nations security council resolution so the issue of north korea regional security will be discussed when donald trump meets shinzo up in south africa as recently elected president cyril ramaphosa is being formally sworn in at a ceremony in pretoria. is due to serve a full term as president he took office last year after jacob zuma resigned amid corruption allegations the african national congress won the general election earlier this month but it was the party's worst performance in 25 years from the governor has the latest from press henri. once presidents will roam of course or to case of oath of office he then address the thousands of south africans gathered at the loftus best pals day germany as well as the millions of others watching and he began that address by thanking them for stowing this trust on him saying that this

would be a different era an era where he would want to tackle the challenges of poverty inequality and the huge problem of unemployment especially unemployment that a fix almost a home for the young people in the country he also made the knee veiled reference to the last few a years when jacob zuma was president piece previously preferred a referred rather to those years as 9 wasted years and one with state institutions were affected potentially looted and corrupted and this is way thousands if not millions of south africans lost out on the benefits and opportunity that the african national congress government has promised them of for decades now. also touched on the 25 years of democracy looking back at when announcement dello was sworn in saying that the country has made a number on the chief months in that time but how those achievements with threatened by some of the decisions as well as the the poor governance by the

african national congress and how that would change now the next step. is to nominate to name the members of his cabinet he's promised to scale down on the size of the cabinet and look at people who would to run the country more effectively this is what drum up warsaw is calling a new dawn and he's making a promise to some to some africans that many of them have heard time and time again but the certainly is hope that this time around there will be a difference in the drama and the government will love up to those promises into. newly elected m.p.'s from the governing bharatiya janata party have reelected prime minister narendra modi as their leader it follows the party's landslide election victory which gave the b j p an absolute majority in parliament it also gives modi a powerful mandate to implement his nationalist vision so held raman has more from

. as part of the process of the protocols of choosing the next government the prime minister narendra modi and his cabinet had to resign their positions on friday and submit those resignations to the president covalent he accepted the resignations but asked the prime minister to stay on as a caretaker until a new government of the new prime minister was elected by the winning party of course the b j p r the winning party of the general election and so on saturday winning parliamentarians have gathered in an empty chamber of the parliament and have elected. modi to be the man that they wish them to lead the next government now that process has happened he will take that request by his own members and his allies back to the president and say that he has a mandate as a majority leader to form the next indian government that said and done there has

yet to be a swearing in date in the future that will be coordinated between astrologers b.g.p. prefers to consult astrologers and also allies before they go ahead and decide what day that will be most probably the end of may or early to come has returned to indonesia's capital after protests over a presidential election results defeated candidate pro bono a subi until has asked the constitutional court to review the vote counting process meanwhile people in jakarta are counting the cost of this week's destruction as and to thomas reports. people shuttling bundles of clothes from southeast asia's largest textile market earn about $30.00 a day so when violent street protests in jakarta many managers close the taliban markets janai idea dilla took a financial hit. in that outburst on busy days i can make 40 or

$50.00 so missing 2 days means i've lost nearly. $100.00 i couldn't give anything to my wife there was nothing violent street protests in jakarta or choose stand wednesday night stopped for much of the internet easy capital protesters were angry that official election results showed a big victory for the incumbent president joe widodo over his more religious opponents for votes to be anto supporters shared their opinions on how the voting was raked and the vote counting operation was run by biased officials. the violence led to road closures shops and offices was shut people discouraged from leaving home it's all ringback had an economic impact which economists put in the 10s of millions of dollars. short term it will have a negative impact but long term if the government shows it can control the situation it could actually create confidence among investors. on friday opposition politicians appealed for calm as their lawyers launched

a formal legal challenge of the election result the city has mostly returned to normal but it's not hard to find proposal supporters sympathizing with the protesters. something strange went on with the lists of voters and with the vote counting the witnesses on the site were able to do their job. but the mother mostly he wants life to return to normal he says his personal finance trumps his political concerns if this week's violence turns out to be the extent of the post-election troubles and the long term economic impact here will be pretty small the concern is that the could be more disruption hate when the constitutional court releases its verdict at the end of june or beyond. algeria jakarta governments around the world are increasingly interested in using biometric technology so what exactly does it involve it's often used for identifying a person through their physical and behavioral characteristics that includes facial

patterns the eye. fingerprints or even the bits of ones voice supporters say biometric registration is more secure than id cards or and codes which can be stolen lost or forged but there are concerns about just how secure biometric data can be where it's stored and the amount of oversight involved in the 1st in our series on biometrics reports from nairobi on how a new id card is dividing opinion in. this kenyans are registering for a new digital identification card called who do that all citizens and residents will be expected to hold can government calls it a single source of truth it will contain details about people's physical characteristics combined with other data it's costing taxpayers about how full $1000000000.00 and everyone above the age of 6 will be expected to have one official say it will make it easier for people to access public services and will

protect national security we don't want to force you to register but just not enough but if you're going to seek sadnesses you need to get the services that is much more physically active and faster kenyon's hold of variety of identification documents all with different numbers from a national id passport to defeat to a driving license and so one government official say the who do money number will consolidate all those in one digital platform some kenyans see this as a good and progressive step but human rights campaigners are concerned that proper privacy protection laws it could prove dangerous critics also say people are being crossed into registering and they're not being told how the information will be stored or shared on the national integrated identity management system or names names major deaths at these all that everybody in kenya that will be put in the cloud we're not sure whether that cloud. or not. that

particular order to see who can access that information. who will be able to who apply and be given this information if somebody applies for my information will i be notified. the government announced it was bringing in the system weeks after this attack by somalia's armed group al-shabaab in january that left 21 people dead at a hotel complex in the capital nairobi some security experts say having daytime one platform will make it easier and quicker for security forces to identify people who pose a threat. to gether is going to help the management of human resource in our country some rights groups tried to block the scheme in court although judges rejected that they do drew the system should be voluntary and not limited to access to public services the state was also bad from gathering people and from sharing information

it collects with other organizations but activists say that's not enough and. can protect people living in kenya from their past the information being misused catherine sorry al-jazeera nairobi. and on sunday we'll be looking at concerns raised in india where the world's largest biometric system has captured the personal details of more than a 1000000000 people you can see that report right here on al-jazeera that's coming up on sunday. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera this hour the u.s. president donald trump is sending $1500.00 soldiers to the middle east as the dispute with iran escalates the iranian foreign minister calls the deployment a threat to international peace and security. has more from to iran. certainly

1500 troops even the u.s. admits itself is a relatively small number of the arc defensive in nature not big enough to really create any sort of offensive action and the united states already has tens of thousands of troops in the middle east already in and around the region but iran takes every incremental step very seriously right now the job odds are if the foreign minister saying that this is a dangerous escalation characterizing it as a threat to peace and international security there's been renewed fighting in libya on the outskirts of tripoli between forces battling for the capital u.n. back government forces say they pushed back against fighters loyal to warlords to have to know the old international airports at least 12 people including 7 children have been killed in an air strike by the saudi emirates a coalition in the yemen the raids and ties province reportedly targeted a petrol station it comes a week after the whole thing is attacked an oil pipeline near the saudi capital riyadh an international maritime court has ruled russia must release 3 ukrainian

naval ships and 24 sailors captured in november russia sees the vessels and crew during a standoff and waters off the crimean peninsula. cyril ramaphosa has been officially sworn in as south africa's president at a ceremony in pretoria promised to tackle the economy and unemployment and to unify the country. took office last year after jacob zuma resigned amid corruption allegations the african national congress won the general election earlier this month but it was the party's worst performance in 25 years. and newly elected m.p.'s from the governing party have reelected prime minister narendra modi is their leader it follows the party's landslide election victory which gave the j.p. an absolute majority in parliament it also gives modi a powerful mandate to implement his nationalist vision. those are the headlines up front coming up next then it's the news hour thanks for watching.

on counting the cost where did it all go wrong champion of the free market can stay in power as a populist makes a comeback a potential multi-billion dollar fine and break up facebook bailout number. counting the cost. on up front 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 able to work with farmers and road women and 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 positions i took maybe not popular then that's fine but i also know that i had to be out in the global community being

able to mobilize the support for liberia being able to reach to my peers credit where it is. being able to make sure that the partnership that we needed ok 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 reach of corruption but surely liberian culture isn't to blame for corruption librarian 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 lamie anybody and none and i think you you're just talking what are listening that's not what i'm saying i'm saying dependency dishonesty.

these institutions to. corrupt. 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 ministers of corruption and you failed to prosecute any of them why. well let me tell you something all of those reports 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 if you 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're 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 where you place 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 varies. 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 a canadian prime minister i want to put it in family members the french president has appointed any family members the german chancellor as an appointed any family members i could have going going to have an early good there was that oh you would say look i don't reason 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 labor is really at our letters i know you said you said you say you are 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 and $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 big. companies that were trying to x. . x. so more well. could not climb.

that this company could not continue it's as simple as that and the record is clear how about the liberia central bank you appointed 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 to come out with just statements i mean. it was you know. that i thought you know that you know you know i you know 2 i mean it's not wrong if you are you know that is not true that is not true he was. just. literally. but it 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're not know what you're trying to do what you're trying to do. 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

do what i have 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. all of those things that have kept us down that have to. do. well it will not be ruthless reconciliation effort to get past division. reconciliation has gone to the courts. it's left the courts it has transformed into law. that process has started a process of contrition and forgiveness all of that has started

and i don't put you in all 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 people including yourself should be banned from occupying public office for 30 years. but then made that up to date on the west country maybe you forget that after that came out i won 2 elections because you ignored the recommendation that said i shouldn't be allowed to run around or no no 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 went to print court and the decision was taken you cannot busy body did not have the legal powers to be able to judge people were 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. and you totally missed the point. we'll have to agree and 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 so 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 stronger institutions that will ensure that democracy is implemented will ensure

that participation of all citizens in society is by intense today active active collaboration to be able to achieve development goals there may be a be a model for 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 akp 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 deputy 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. 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 of the number 2 there are irregularities in it was counting sheets 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 to fill it is that then to rerun for similar reasons when you say irregularities voters in istanbul didn't just vote for mayor on march 31st they cost $4.00 different vote. in 4 different pieces of paper they were all put into the same all overlook 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 metropolia in minutes ability is very small if you look at the local municipalities yes the is regularities 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 but if 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 curious you have 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 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 mystique they're only 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 to goal the former president of turkey a member of your party that polity. said that it costs a shadow over our democracy i'm a 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 party and 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 their 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 repeat the elections but it is 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 know they are not asking for a rerun on korea as well which they have asked i think it 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 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 this many in turkey would say we're being demonized by the west is always

a reference to 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 where 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's crushed institutions so let's also left very little room about so we have a very version of populism in the us i see other problems as well in the western

democracy. i see other problems as well i mean i think it is it is not unfair to say i got him a job or we get our news or community 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 there are other people respected people journalists yes who say that's my group things 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 we all know this let's be honest in turkey media owners several several media holders you very well know how their newspaper is the average joe 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 the radio not a lot of the artists let's be honest that who reacts. you know your board members are really really important having transformed our room will you concede any of that or are you saying there's been no change in how all of this was all about all human rights groups who have pointed out the lack of media freedoms the media consolidation the record number of arrest of journalists and jails more journalists than any other country the world and you deny all of that is all just we just imagining all of. these accusations have no basis 1st of all changing changing ownership in the media is that is the zisha 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 wasn't really matching with the guardian newspaper david around it was 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 golan 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 about and not all of them are not 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. make stories generate the foundations of headlines with different angles from different perspectives to separate the spin from the facts with the listening post on 00 millions of dollars of being stolen in a scam that starts in the philippines and stretches across the globe one o one ace gains exclusive access to this cutthroat on the world through a criminal turned whistleblower on al-jazeera. examining the headlines a collapsed economy beats the many people are struggling to survive setting the

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fail as it sees near crimea also this hour. of old water bottles cereal. south africa's president promising to solve the problem setting doll to its predecessors plus. we are in a remote corner of the us way ambulance services on a critical condition. about 7 to go to a sport it's a bad day for ferrari in qualifying at the monaco grand prix lewis hamilton takes pole from a savings ahead of teammates valtteri bottas. thank you very much for joining us iran says the u.s. decision to send more soldiers to the middle east is quote extremely dangerous for peace present donald trump insisted

a prominent is needed to better defend his country and its allies from iran will get more reaction from tehran shortly 1st alan fisher has this report 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 iran the president donald trump is no confirmed he's sending $1500.00 we want to have protection of the middle east we're going to be sending a relatively small number of troops but 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 earlier 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 are very intent on increasing the weapons flow to saudi arabia but they did it within what i think they would argue is a 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 alan fischer washington let's get reaction now from tehran. correspondent there is a how's the escalating rhetoric from the u.s. administration being viewed by the iranian leadership. well it still very much is a war of words and in the grand scheme of things with tens of thousands of american military servicemen already on active duty in and around the middle east 1500 is a relatively small figure even. several $1000000000.00 worth of weapons sales to

countries in the region to u.s. allies in the region could be seen as par for the course but in the current climate a climate of conflict one of tension with the united states iranian leaders here into iran are seeing every incremental step as a potential escalation and it is adding to the mix so to speak iran's foreign minister zarif characterizing this latest decision by the united states as something that is dangerous for peace and international security he also said that the several accusations against iran in recent weeks for a decent accusations that the united states said was proof that iran is trying to destabilize the region characterize that as nothing more than americans hurling accusations to try to justify their hostile policies towards iran and escalate tensions in the region we also heard from a member of iran's islamic revolutionary guard corps brigadier general motors or body an advisor to the current head of the i.r.g.c.

and he said while it is unlikely that the u.s. will stage an attack against iran he said if the enemy does the smallest stupid thing in the waters of the persian gulf they'll understand what we will do to them and that warships could be sunk by iranian missiles or some sort of secret weapon he said the enemy shouldn't believe so iranian leaders civilian and military taking everything the united states is doing all their moves in the middle east very very seriously the americans zain have said that this maximum pressure the additional sanctions on iran is a way for them to get the iranians to renegotiate their nuclear deal is there a chance that all of the iranians reaching out. well the iranian leadership has said over and over again that they will not hold any talks with the united states and they will not especially with the us president donald trump and his current administration they saw the departure of the united states from an international agreement effectively

a violation of an international agreement as all the evidence they needed to illustrate that the united states under donald trump is not willing to negotiate. negotiate any agreements and cannot be trusted for the agreements that it is already a part of but there is a sign that iran is trying to maintain some line of communication with american political players what's been making the rounds there's been a lot of reporting of this in the iranian media as well as the u.s. media that zarif during his recent trip to the united nations in new york in april met with california democrat senator dianne feinstein who is on the senate intelligence committee now they have met for a meal they did have conversations but iran's leadership that has painted itself into a corner of not talking to the united states wanted to make clear to its own people that it is not holding any sort of negotiations and that these talks were routine and a consultation of and in a statement from the foreign ministry and the foreign ministry spokesman abbas mousavi said the goal of these kinds of meetings is to stop the influence of

pressure groups like the b. team on the political society and public opinion of america and of course the b. team. a reference there are uses to talk about the leaders of saudi arabia the united arab emirates and israel as well as u.s. secretary. u.s. national security advisor john bolton these are people that leaders and ron blame for pushing the u.s. towards more conflict with iran thank you for that zain bazarov a lot for us in tehran and as they mentioned the u.s. media reporting on a meeting between iran's foreign minister and a member of the senate intelligence committee. said to have dined with senator dianne feinstein several weeks ago and washington d.c. let's bring in. more on this she out how significant is this meeting and what do we know came out of it. we do very little and certainly might compare the u.s. secretary of state to bolster that iranian position that no secret negotiations are under way the dianne feinstein wasn't acting as some kind of back channel between

the iranian government and the trump administration very critical of that meeting the state department not confirming or denying refusing to tell us whether that's the whether dianne feinstein had cleared her with the state department as she has claims so it's all a bit a little bit arms. and we don't really care what's in the dark but i find his office just as she was going to get updates on iran u.s. developments if she is some sort of back channel she's doing a pretty bad job as a sort of secret back job because there were reports just a few days ago i wonder on congress what job of the reefs contact details pulled up on an i phone display is not very good as a secret back channel if she is one of course you would expect that the both the u.s. and iran would deny that she was one if there was a secret back to what we just we simply don't know whatever the case though it is for the moment simply hoping donald trump of the trouble to stray sions argument that the democrats are undermining his foreign policy dog problem has long been

critical of john kerry the former secretary of state who has been involved with the goetia actions with the iranians the europeans the israelis in trying to influence a drop of a strain on iran the whole trouble recently going as far as saying it is john kerry who is telling the iranians not to give trump a cool whenever trump says they're out and should give them a phone call it only in the meantime. we do know though that. all the way they will be dog fight as she's known but there's been so many reports now of the europeans of arab nations now the japanese say they want to get involved . trying to trying to see where each each party stands the wall street journal just on friday reported vats through these and to be drees iran or set the conditions for negotiations would be the loosening of oil sanctions on iran and the u.s. has been saying a goodwill gesture like the release of one of the 4 u.s. prisoners in iranian custody would go a long way to maybe making things giving the.