he understood that after what they have committed the transition in military council in no way will they ever have a hope in leading the sudanese people so you know when he he was hinting to them that should you comply with some of the conditions we are going to provide you an exit it's. good to get your analysis on this will lead madiba thank you frank still ahead on al-jazeera india's prime minister arriving in sri lanka will look at what's on the agenda at a sensitive time there. anglo war outrage after saudi arabia sentences a teenager to death for attending anti-government protests. the web sponsored by cateye always. hello again and welcome back to international weather forecast well it is the same scenario that we've been talking about for the

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and again you're watching edge their reminder of our top stories this hour tens of thousands of people in hong kong have hit the streets to protest a proposed extradition bill that changes would allow people to be sent for trial to the chinese mainland. protesters began marching early because the assembly point act of victoria park was so packed they have begun heading through the city to the legislative council building in central this is the shot of the causeway bay that you are seeing right now the main shopping area in hong kong many people there been trying to join the rally further along the route while the m.t.r. train but many stations we understand have been jammed with crowds. sudan's protest leaders have called for

a campaign of civil disobedience they're accusing the military jointer of intimidation after the arrest of 5 opposition members. protesters and police have fought on election day and kazakstan demonstrators say it is far from fair voters are heading to the polls to choose a successor to those of biafra who led for nearly 30 years our correspondent robin forest walker is on the phone for us now from the capital. robin what is the latest that you're seeing and hearing there on those clashes. well i can tell you just a few minutes ago protesters. and a run of interference erections away from the location where we saw some quite violently. between hundreds of riot police and protesters the protesters complaining that they don't believe this election is free or said they have decided

to bully quirky votes but a number of them taken on to buses we see them taking on the buses and we had this standoff with the protesters would not allow the police bosses to move off with those people that had been detained. just a little while earlier they were throwing some sticks and a projectile to the police i think really a lot of tension on both sides if you will it's the kind of picture that because i wanted to see on election day really quite unprecedented scenes for an election day in kazakhstan because the old story to you. correctly very hard on everyone exercising what they say that people like you can protest the authorities clearly down hard on old individual people involved so we seem to prefer running off the streets off to those demonstrators it's where i am the situation is looking just

a little bit coma but there are still dozens of lot of police around police cars the roads closed traffic still halted in many different directions really extraordinary seem to be on the day it was supposed to be for a candidate who parties who are hoping that they can have a smooth transition of power between luton of the by a few 100 and it's resignation and kathy jo manteca. the interim president and is how pretty to be crowned the president after the vote today and robin what do you what is your sense of how the authorities have responded to these protests in contrast to the election itself which opponents say has been has been very carefully handled and some would say stage managed has these protests taken them by surprise. i think something was in the offing i mean we had been told that there had been a time demonstration today somewhere in the city everybody stay very tight lipped 5

. it was a run for the. people of the house it's a home to be raided individual to be detained. it's being very very restrictive amnesty things that resignation but as a by the laws we'll see a different kinds of people who would take it hard so there are still serious reminded activists who just want more democracy reconsidered on stay the way to the whole system is a set up as they believe as they see it for this polish transition keeping everything stable but everything staying the same and those basic democratic freedoms will bring this baby leave also called organized political movement. by need to be to will actually be a fellow from as a. politician blanka his and he went out early as over and he has a policy who came across the project but not policy prescribe and he's controlling

the terrorist organization so there's a lot of fear amongst ordinary people about being associated with this political party and the military subjected to to you know laws and being being detained on suspicion of being involved in this policy but they are actually just wanting to exercise their right to protest against what they see is a ridiculous. robin for the moment thanks very much robin forced to walk there on those clashes that have been taking place between protesters and police on election day in the catholic capital. india's prime minister narendra modi is in sri lanka for talks on a 2 day trip to some of his allies in the region his 1st since getting reelected is also the 1st foreign leader to visit colombo since the easter sunday bombings there that killed more than 250 people has been increasing tension in sri lanka just months ahead of its presidential election. the media in yemen say the rebels have

launched several drones targeting saudi arabia in a tweet they said they were trying to hit military facilities in the design airport near the yemeni border there's been no confirmation of this from the saudi government. amnesty international is urging saudi arabia to rule out the death penalty for a teenage boy or taj faces execution for a series of offenses some of which date back to when he was just 10 years old shelob ellis reports. this was qatif in eastern saudi arabia in 2011 the arab spring was under way and the shia community was protesting against discrimination and incitement against them what happened in qatif has led to several boys being seen to it's to do it including a teenager who taj a coed assess the charges against him date back to this night in november 20th leven was the crowd was chanting death to oust so

a reference to the saudi royal family among the protesters was brother ali hours later he was shot and killed by security forces 10 year old multinational marched in the funeral procession this is one of the charges against him he was arrested 3 years later as a 13 year old un and rights groups say he was tortured for a month spent over a year in solitary confinement and forced to sign a confession that led to his death sentence he is now 18 it's quite shocking when you hear that these steps are being taken against a child especially when. there has been a fair trial process and the boy has been to tarry for a long period of time and not been able to present a defense despite the death penalty for minors being illegal under international law is not the 1st in 2013 trilling can teenager resign and

a fake was executed after a baby died in her care she said she was tortured and forced to confess to the infant's murder. and in october last year the un pleaded with saudi arabia not to execute 6. boys who were jailed for their involvement in anti-government protests in 20112012 when they were teenagers but 6 weeks ago tarbell sway caught some in kharif and nerves of karim were beheaded alongside 34 others mostly shia main. many cases. mostly young. men who were executed as sere 2013 many of their work were not going anywhere and they were when they were they were minors. qatif where it all began has also paid a high price violence is escalating in recent years the government says it is

redeveloping the 400 year old town but it's the fighting and weapons that have caused most of the demolition shallop ballasts al-jazeera. albania's president has cancelled local elections due later this month putting him on a collision course with the prime minister who says they'll go ahead it is the latest development in a political crisis that is spelled out into the streets johnson reports from the capital tirana. protesters calling for the resignation of prime minister eddie roemer were met with a cannonade of tear gas outside parliament the opposition democratic party that held this protest didn't get to the general election it is askin for but a chief another goal albania's president has called for local government elections scheduled for june 30th to be cancelled saying current conditions don't allow for real democratic representative and inclusive elections opposition leader little seem basher was jubilant before his supporters. here. this is the result of your

unyielding strength your stand your unshakable faith in european values of freedom democracy and human dignity. but prime minister eddie roemer insists the local elections will go ahead and has called an emergency cabinet meeting on sunday there's no constitutional court to decide the issue because it's judges are under ethical review for possible bribery and corruption this puts albania in a constitutional crisis not only did the president and prime minister disagree the opposition democratic party refuses to field mayoral candidates in the country's $61.00 municipalities it is doubtful what legitimacy the socialist party is man's would enjoy if elected unopposed this was the 8th anti-government protest since the opposition democratic party walked out of parliament over 3 months ago and took its campaign to the streets to unseat the socialist government these protests are

fueled by a widespread perception of corruption the government was hit by a series of scandals suggesting roma was reelected 2 years ago thanks to help from organized. crime is. that he was not elected by the people it is. legally. proclaimed that he was elected by the. many albanians a disappointed at what they see as a partisan the colony he built on this beach when rama was elected in 2013 he said that every house in albania will be given a title deed because a lot of homes have been built illegally but when he became prime minister he gave papers to this about as an others got nothing that's why i am here i work for 25 years in my house. the legitimacy of eddie rama's government is already undermined by the opposition's absence from parliament if from a insists on holding a local election with only socialist party candidates he is sure to face stiff

opposition jumps at all close al-jazeera to an. iraqi archaeologist say they need urgent help to preserve all to facts from what was the ancient kingdom of babylon many sides have crumbled during the years of conflict from babylon charles traffic reports. on the capital city of an empire that reached its peak on the king neb you could never around 2600 years ago this road lead to the tower of babel archaeologists say the walls were once adorned with blue ceramic designs the babylonian god murdoch rides along the famous ishtar gate king nebby couldn't is his name is carved in qunu form a writing around 5000 years old and some of the bricks the southern polish was rebuilt on the original foundations and completed around 20 years ago but a lot of the restoration work is complicated to preservation efforts. concrete has

forced moisture insult up into the ancient foundations. the water table is high because a tributary of the euphrates river is close by bricks late in the 1980 s. to reinforce some walls have made archaeological investigations difficult. problems include the shifting heavy populated areas close by we need a vast plan of excavation the remaining archaeology needs sustainable preservation because the archaeological material is being heavily eroded rising above the site perched on top of a manmade hill is a palace built for a man who often identified himself with the babylonian kings saddam hussein's sama probably as an eerie reminder of iraq's more recent past the former dictator's faces carved into the palace walls. the great holes inside the empty

marble walls are covered in graffiti a mural on the ceiling seems the only thing not defiled. saddam hussein was so obsessed with babylon that he built one of his policies here and it's from the palace walls that you get this incredible view of the ancient ruins it's believed that in the foreground here that's where the fabled hanging gardens of babylon were located and it's hoped that after years of petitioning by the iraqi government this site is soon going to get world heritage status. iraqi archaeologists say the government needs to demonstrate its commitment to the sustainable preservation of babylon conflicts and political instability has kept most international archaeological teams away for almost 30 years the importance of babylon goes beyond whether or not it's a world heritage property and that goes for many sites in this country the origin of civilization civilization itself of complex civilization the evidence of it is

here in this country the origin of writing you know important governance itself the kingship and the temple complex evolving over hundreds and thousands of years according to the bible god punished the babylonians for trying to build a structure to heaven and this overgrown trench is where it's believed the tower of babel once stood experts say a star archaeological investigation of babylon and the surrounding area could take centuries. a site over described as the birthplace of civilization in a country struggling to recover from its violent recent past chance trotted out 0 but along. this is going to round up of our top stories protesters and police have fought on election day in cannes extent demonstrators in the capital tom are calling for

a boycott saying it is far from fair vote as a carny heading to the polls to choose a successor to the man who led the country for almost 30 years will sit on the bios hand-picked replacing katherine jo market is expected to win. tens of thousands of people have been marching in hong kong against a proposed extradition bill the changes would allow people to be sent to trial in mainland china potentially over vague national security charges opponents say it is another sign of hong kong losing more of the rights it was guaranteed to keep in the 1997 hand-over from british rule sudan's protest leaders have called for a campaign of civil disobedience they're accusing the military genter of intimidation after the arrest of 5 opposition members and people have been protesting elsewhere in the world in solidarity with sudan's opposition demonstrators in london calling on their government to put more pressure on the military jointer foreign secretary jeremy hunt earlier condemned the crackdown

promising the international community would hold them to account india's prime minister narendra modi is in sri lanka for talks is on a 2 day trip to some of his allies in the region his 1st since getting reelected but he is the 1st foreign leader to visit colombo since the easter sunday bombings there that killed more than 250 people has been increasing political tension there just months before the presidential election. at least 5 people were killed in syria's last rebel held province of idlib on saturday activists say syrian government forces are using missiles and barrel bombs indiscriminately shot alas as forces launched an offensive to recapture the north western region in april the head of the international monetary fund is warning of problems for global finance as the popularity of mobile payments grows christine legarde says it is giving companies who are developing the technology too much power access to cheap payment systems it's been growing especially in emerging economies those are the headlines

you're up to date the news continues now after talk. crime that shocked the world 51 people must. investigate people for could have done more to prevent this massacre on al-jazeera . what is the state of freedom of speech around the world the u.n. has an expert who examines that and he doesn't have much good news special rapporteur david kay also looks at the internet and social media is democracy under threat from all the disinfo mation and manipulation and how do you police the internet without censorship and restraint of freedom of expression twitter facebook you tube platforms enabling free expression of information and ideas or are we

looking at something more us forces that are making serious public policy discussions more difficult and thereby undermining democracies should we consider a social media as tools for keeping governments in check or is it the other way around the internet's been publicly available for around 25 years but what started as a free unregulated exchange of information has now morphed into a machine like utility run by companies guarding their trade secrets and processing information in ways hidden from the public all this comes with serious questions about control of information today on talk to al-jazeera a conversation with david kay the man tasked by the united nations with the an enviable job of investigating the state of freedom of expression around the world. david kay un special rapporteur on the freedom of expression thank you for talking

to al-jazeera let's start with that job title because it might not mean all that much. people who are watching what is a special rapporteur because i know you're not in charge of u.n. policy you don't decide what the u.n. does that's true so special wrapper tours are independent experts who are appointed by the human rights council which is the central human rights body of the united nations system and we are essentially appointed in order to monitor in to report on issues around particular areas of human rights around the world my area happens to be freedom of expression i do country visits i converse with governments all of the time and i do thematic reports on all sorts of issues so you investigate what's wrong and tell everyone about it completely and in terms of freedom of expression what are the rights of a global citizen and where do they come from so everybody enjoys rights to freedom

of expression this is a global norm it's rooted in the universal declaration of human rights but also a set of binding treaties right treaties international agreements that states are bound to observe and it provides everyone with the right to seek receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds regardless of frontiers and through any media everyone even in north korea everyone absolutely now that doesn't mean that governments are not interfering with those rights regularly and governments do have a kind of acceptable range of restrictions for certain necessary things such as national security or the privacy rights of others they can impose restrictions but the fundamental right is available or should be available to everybody on the planet you say they have exceptions that clearly is the problem is sometimes drawing the line on things like blasphemy or hate speech what amounts to blasphemy or hate speech for example yeah exactly so hate speech is something that is in particular required by human rights law to prohibit but it's not hate speech in

some generic way it's basically advocacy of hatred that constitutes incitement to. islands discrimination or hostility let me get your view of where we are on human rights and freedom of expression around the world last year i spoke to the high commissioner of human rights and she actually said that if you have that universal declaration of human rights as a new thing and you try to put it to the u.n. general assembly all the country members of the u.n. she's not sure it would even pass i think that's a wise observation actually the the norms that are in human rights law they were established basically in 1948 and they are very serious reactions to what we saw in world war 2 there are very serious allowances for all sorts of freedoms and the problem that we see around the world today is that governments are increasingly interfering with all sorts of human rights but in terms of my mandate

they're interfering increasingly with everyone's right to freedom of expression this is a unfortunately a global phenomenon well let's just give you all snapshot you've been doing the job since 24 yes are things going backwards in the period i think in many respects they are going backwards and it's deeply unfortunate and we see it in a variety of of substantive areas we see attacks on journalists we see limitations on criticism of government it criticism of religious institutions like you mentioned blasphemy we have seen increasingly efforts by political leaders by governments to restrict the kind of robust debate that we expect in democratic societies we see an increasing amount of concentration of the media particularly controlled by the state it's been deeply problematic over the last several years it's true if we look at your background and where you started you spent quite a bit of time as a lawyer for the u.s. state department and you are an american it's worth reminding everyone that over

the last 70 years right from the universal declaration of human rights the u.s. has played a pretty central role in promoting human rights and promoting the freedom of expression and the freedom of speech is the current us administration and the president trump living up to that legacy. i think there are a lot of concerning things coming out of the trumpet ministration a rabbit out of the white house and i want to emphasize that you know the u.s. government is not this one single entity there are a lot of people and there are a lot of entities at the state level state and local levels around the country that are really deeply committed to preserving freedom of expression but when you have a president who attacks the media on a regular basis where he calls the media the enemy of the people which i think he does for strategic purposes to sow doubt in the people's opinion about media and in

the truthfulness of traditional reporting i think that's deeply problematic but of course in the u.s. freedom of speech freedom of expression is protected in the u.s. constitution it isn't in all countries around the world so what example does it say those comments from president trump to other leaders i think that's right i mean i think that it's a rhetorical stance that at the end of the day. u.s. courts are likely going to stand with freedom of expression i think that's true and i think that's absolutely something that we need to clarify but the rhetoric i think gives some comfort to authoritarians there is no freedom of expression in north korea exactly tell me what your view is of that country of but you haven't been able to go on a visit no i haven't gone on a visit i mean north korea is a closed society remember when i said that article 19 of the universal declaration of human rights protects everyone's right to secrecy even impart information and ideas you can't get any of that in north korea people cannot receive information

they can't even seek it right in part because it's close to the internet for example so what we think of as seeking information is maybe going online and browsing that's unavailable to north koreans their ability to criticize the government which should be fundamental to any democratic society is completely unavailable in north korea it's unavailable in other places too but north korea is is really the single worst example in the world of repression and really to tallaght tarion as and when it comes to all sorts of issues. that's the worst country in the world may give you what might be the worst case in recent history of seoul being targeted for their words and it's the saudi journalist. who was killed in the saudi consulate in istanbul brutally murdered you know are you happy with the way the world has responded to them that's not at all not at

all i mean if you look at the reaction since we've seen on the one hand turkey has provided some information but mainly through intelligence services and to journalists and kind of dribs and drabs so although i understand turkey's position but more concerning is one saudi arabia has not done anything to to acknowledge not just the killers responsibility but the responsibility of the government at the most senior levels for this killing so that's one deeply problematic issue but the other one the broader one that i think is in some respects more concerning because we expect democratic societies to stand up is not virtual silence but in action in the face of this there has been no effort for example in the u.n. system by states to seek to censure saudi arabia except in one instance led by iceland actually in the human rights council except for that in an informal way

there's been very little censure of saudi arabia for its role in killing jamal khashoggi and i think that is a frankly a travesty do you believe the u.n. secretary general because some experts do believe he had the power himself to set up an investigation you know i understand that there are some legal questions around his capacity to do that i think what we needed to see essentially is some request of him to do that once a state requested that i think it would have changed the nature of. of the issue and there was really no request for that and if there had been that request then i think that it would have been in the secretary general's power or in other institutions power whether it's the general assembly where the human rights council to set something up now one of my colleagues actually did conduct a visit an official visit to turkey in order to investigate the killing of jamal khashoggi but there was no backing behind her of that this is the special report

for. extrajudicial killing exact right in the skull of mots exact she didn't really have any power would achieve she had no could have power tools exactly all she could have essentially was the discretion of ford and her by the government of turkey inviting her in to conduct her own investigation but with the absence of the u.n. system of as a whole the absence of states actually providing the kind of momentum and pressure on turkey and on saudi arabia to cooperate i don't think we were going to see anything more and it was valiant effort of hers to do it and a very important effort but it wasn't connected to what states really need to do to hold people accountable for the killings of journalists she hasn't yet reported are you hearing that she has found any new information or will the main effect of her inquiry be to show off other people who haven't done one i think that her report will be really important for people to see in terms of both the lack of activity by

states but also i think that it will be important in showing the kinds of things that states should be doing moving forward when we have these kinds of just very very serious attacks on journalists and activists and others and this journalist of course was a legal resident of the u.s. so u.s. donna i don't think they've done anything so i mean the question of the united states actually engaging in this has been you know virtually nothing i mean what we have seen is you know these allegations of of a close relationship. tween jared cushion or the president's son in law and the leader the crown prince of saudi arabia and that that is providing a kind of protection for for the saudi leader that is deeply problematic it is showing in many ways a reluctance not to mention a refusal to engage in this incredibly important question i know as a legal expert you would want to see all the evidence and you're looking at this for.