for the united states from within the nato alliance from france in particular reportedly joining the closed door session on iran france already in opposition to the u.s. unilateral move to withdraw from the iran nuclear deal france cautioning the united states here not to involve nato militarily in any mission involving iran the u.s. supreme court has put on hold the trumpet ministrations plan to add a citizenship question to next year's census has to culhane has more from washington. this decision is a huge setback for the trumpet ministration now this all has to do with the us census under the constitution the federal government has to basically count its people every 10 years and those numbers have a huge impact they determine how many members of congress each state gets and more importantly how much federal money the states get so the covers department under

wilbur ross said that they wanted to add this question are you a u.s. citizen because they were afraid of voter fraud they said they need to do in force the voting rights act well the supreme court said no you made that up basically you fished around to try and find an explanation and the government's own data said that this would probably under count about 6000000 mostly hispanic people robbing the those districts of money and representation so the supreme court said the commerce secretary can add the question he just has to have a legitimate reason to do it and this isn't ed so practically speaking this probably means it will not be on the 2020 census because the government says they have to start printing the forms they need to do that by the end of this month so it seems like that they want to add that question there out of time. here it is there if they want to kill you. kid you also want to cut she fought for every trade is independent now she's afraid to go. find out why

resentment is growing in lebanon against the millions of syrian refugees. hello again welcome back we're here cross turkey we have seen plenty of rain showers in the afternoon hours over the last few days and that's really going to continue and some of those rain showers are making their way over here towards baku as well those very charts could turn thunderstorms if we see nuff heating of the day but we do think that by the time we get towards saturday we're going to be seeing those those rain showers really expanding making their way towards the west as well on court could be seeing a shower or 2 with a touch or about $25.00 degrees on saturday aleppo's going to be a warm day at 34 and plenty of sun in beirut with a temperature of $29.00 degrees there well here across the gulf it is going to remain dry but their sandwiches are going to be coming up as well we're going to see here in doha about $44.00 degrees not much in terms of wind but by the time we

get towards saturday $45.00 degrees there over here towards of the dobie it is going to be warming up as well to 40 but down here to on the coast of oman some clouds in the forecast for us a lot with a temperature of 30 degrees there and then as we make our way down here across parts of southern africa not much in terms of rain but we are going to see one system provide plenty of clouds across the southern coast anywhere from cape town over towards port elizabeth we could be seeing some winds as well tempter there of 15 degrees durban at 25 and then as we go towards saturday a little bit cooler for durban at 22 with your hands at 19. the producers of mexico's most watched soap opera continue to tackle real women's issues and the audience is now reacting. emboldened by the show a woman freezing a cell from the horrors of sexual abuse. in

a deeply emotional demonstration of the back and forth between reality and fiction that he's real stories played out on saturday episode 2 of soapbox mexico on al-jazeera. targets are taken out of the top stories here and out easier to attack as a plane themselves up in the tunisian capital killing a police officer and injuring several others one bomber targeted a police vehicle near the french embassy in center in the center of tunis and the other hit the counterterrorism headquarters. here as president donald trump is in a soccer japan for a 2 day g 20 summit where he's likely to have just tents discussions on trade the

president's already and rolled in a tit for tat terrorist war with china is due to meet president xi on saturday. iran's foreign minister mohammad just adds a reef has responded via twitter to the latest u.s. sanctions saying the measures aren't an alternative to war they are war america's special envoy on iran says washington is committed to its policy of maximum economic pressure because he says it's working. the syrian rescue group the white helmets is accused russia of war crimes after an airstrike hit an ambulance killing 2 of its members the group says 7 other civilians were among those killed in the northwestern province of italy this happened on wednesday he says russian planes returned to target the rescue workers as they were trying to get people out from the rubble russia is one of the main allies of the syrian president bashar al

assad whose forces launched a military offensive to take back in april. hundreds of thousands of refugees from the war in syria who sought safety in lebanon and now facing increasing pressure to leave some lebanese accuse him of stealing their jobs and of working illegally that syrians say they're being discriminated against and face persecution if they're forced to go. to has more from northeastern lebanon. ramadan's life as a refugee is coming to an end it has been 4 difficult years in lebanon is taking his family back to syria even though he's not sure what awaits them. pressure is increasing that's why i want to go back they keep taking measures against us like tearing down our homes. lebanese authorities ordered the demolition of anything in refugee camps that could be a permanent home it was the latest measure against refugees criticized by human

rights groups they say refugees are living with fear and intimidation and life is becoming intolerable and this international analyzed all of the returns and we found that syrians are being pushed back into syria and that's because of a combination or through a combination of restrictive government policy is mass fictions to mass arrests to setting down businesses or preventing syrian refugees from working in certain fields and now there is a campaign by lebanon and patriotic movement headed by foreign minister. encouraging businesses to fire syrian workers not everyone supports the initiative but those behind it argue syria is safe for return. you are doing is not racism our priority is that many refugees are working here illegally they should go back. a crackdown on illegal businesses has begun authorities are closing

shops that are hiring non lebanese without work permits official say it is about protecting the a condom. but syrians who are facing difficulties in op taining and renewing residence visas feel they are being singled out anti refugee sentiment in lebanon is not new some blame the refugees from the war in syria for worsening the economic crisis and competing for a job with lebanese workers but now pressure is mounting on the refugees to return the campaign is backed by some politicians who support syria's president bashar assad syrians are concerned. they don't want to see here we don't want to live under a regime that killed us stop pushing us to go back we can't bear this the u.n. and human rights groups say syrians still face a risks of persecution if they return after years of war and searching for a safe home these people are faced with hard choices. northeastern lebanon.

now the new mayor of istanbul has fully taken office after winning monday's election rerun at croom was addressing his supporters outside city hall his victory was a setback to the ruling ak party as well as the president tired bedouin has dominated politics into his biggest city for decades the opposition narrowly won that 1st election that was held in march but the act party challenge the results said they've been voter fraud in them for everybody. if you and police have arrested at least 39 members of an amateur of political party after a failed rebellion in the northern province on saturday dozens of people were killed in the attack and the fighting that followed thousands of mourners gathered for state funerals of 5 senior officials including the army chief of staff and the provincial governor the central government has accused am hours former security chief of organizing the rebellion. amnesty international has accused the government

of eritrea of intimidating and harris saying critics living in exile they include eritrean activists who live in the u.k. in sweden and in kenya welcome webb has more now from the kenyan capital nairobi. years or together a bieber waldheim a not says she's never enjoyed the freedom she fought for she was 17 when she joined eritrea's rebellion and fought for independence from ethiopia she's seen here in one of the rebels' mountain hideouts in the 1980 s. independence came in 1901 which she says freedom did not if they want to kill you they can kill you automatically. she owned a factory but she didn't join the governing party or contribute to its funding she says she's been harassed ever since including here in kenya's capital nairobi where she lives in exile she says eritrea is ambassador to kenya of terrorism and had her

arrested by local police is involved in. business tonight he took his saw was like 56 they. had caught the same nonsense things he tried to deport us. rights activists say that the kind of harassment that the bieber says she's experienced here in nairobi is just the tip of the iceberg and that eritrean critics of eritrea's government you are living in exile all around the world everything really harassed intimidated and even beaten by government supporters so the reporters who rights group amnesty international says it's documented cases of harassment and intimidation eritrean human rights activists over the last 8 years has published a report and its research is say those in kenya the u.k. sweden and some other european countries

a most risk yet their government he's gamed of exporting their repression from from its territory to i know the country and it doesn't look good. and it doesn't look good to the recovery of a country where it is repression is happening the report document seemingly coordinated threatening tweets from staff at eritrea's embassies. its ambassador in kenya didn't agree to give us an interview. says the harassment has made her more critical most of her activist colleagues here in nairobi were too scared to speak to us. she's campaigned for 4 of her friends from her days as a rebel he was since arrested in eritrea she doesn't know if they're still imprisoned or dead the same fate she says awaits her if she ever goes home malcolm webb al-jazeera nairobi kenya judges in indonesia have rejected

allegations of widespread voter fraud and confirmed the reelection of president jacques a widow day his challenger began to took legal action to have the results of a close election. and we just qualified but the constitutional court ruled the evidence wasn't strong enough lawrence louis has more from jakarta. it doesn't come as a huge surprise that the constitutional court of indonesia has rejected beyond application of the presidential challenger had been seeking the court to a now the results of the presidential election to disqualify president joker with among other things but the judges ultimately ruled that the evidence presented to them was not strong enough to prove that there had been massive fraud or widespread cheating that would have invalidates at the results of the election had alleged that had the polls been fair he would have won 52 percent of the vote now thursday's decision is the end of the legal challenge or probable will the court's

decision is final it cannot be appealed and within 3 days the election commission will announce the final results of the election last month pro bowl supporters had staged demonstrations and protests in jakarta which turned violent 2 days of rioting left 9 people dead and several 100 injured this time hundreds of probable supporters had gathered as close as they could to the constitutional court to show solidarity with him however there's no indication that these protests will go on for days as it did last month because the protesters left even before the verdict was announced they were told to move along by the police and they did now ultimately thursday's decision is not going to change probable supporters minds that they had been robbed of electoral victory or that the electoral process was unfair but what it does do is bring a finality to the dispute. hong kong was pro-democracy campaigners have turned

their attention to police and justice officials they gathered outside the main offices of the justice department and were held back by the police hours earlier police had broken up a rally outside their headquarters in another part of the city but jess's are trying to keep up pressure on the government to withdraw a bill that could allow for suspects to be extradited to the mainland. now the hunger is where troops have been sent to confront protesting teachers and doctors he say public schools and hospitals a collapsing president won orlando and is announce the nationwide deployment of the military last week as 2 months of protests gathered pace and ripples from san pedro sula demonstrators in the city are demanding an immediate improvement in public services. this illam entry school was once considered among the best in

the city of some pedro sula today the classrooms are literally falling apart teachers are on strike and say the 100 government has abandoned its commitment to public education where as you can see the wood is rotten it's been eaten by semites that's why the roof caved in some 90 percent of public schools in the country are facing a similar infrastructure crisis. last april the hunter and government announced plans for funding cuts to public schools and hospitals. since then educators and medical professionals have been organizing nationwide demonstrations and the unrest has been growing. the 100 president has called for peace but is also deployed military police which are now present at all major public demonstrations protests like these are taking place almost every day across much of honduras where we are right now in some protesters are burning tires to block access to motor vehicles for most of these protests. never made cry peaceful

there have been crashes and there have been made so poor reports and instances of authorities there is a excessive force against peaceful demonstrators. many in the medical community say hundreds has public health sector like public education is on the brink of collapse set up an m.r.i. to sync up with the employer but only 5 percent of the national budget goes toward public health the rest is most corruption this is the crisis in the country no money for medicine or medical supplies no money to hire stuff that's on that made little if any money in this we visited a public hospital in the city outside the emergency room we met 71 year old jose santos who was referred here for prostate surgery but says he was turned away by doctors i mean they told me there aren't enough beds they even said if i was dying they couldn't operate on me because there's no more hospital beds once the sun set the scene appeared even more dire visitors were left sleeping outside on the floor

some next to bags of medical waste. we're told there simply aren't enough resources to treat everyone even the patients here say if public services don't improve the unrest in the country will only worsen. some for the. a new flaws been discovered in the computer system of the troubled boeing 737 max the u.s. aviation regulator found a problem with the anti store all software and says the company must address it before the jet can fly again the 737 max was grounded in march after 2 deadly crashes. thanks. time rissa take a look at the top stories here it out zira 2 attackers a blown themselves up in the 2 museum capital killing one police officer and injuring several other people one bomber targeted a police vehicle near the french embassy in central tunis the other hit the

counter-terrorism headquarters u.s. president donald trump is in osaka japan for a 2 day g. 20 summit where there is likely to be tense discussions on trade the president's already and growth in a trade war with china is due to meet president xi on saturday iran's foreign minister mohammed jeffords a reef has responded on twitter to the latest u.s. sanctions saying the measures aren't an alternative to war they are war america's fresh oil envoy to iran says washington is committed to its policy of maximum economic pressure because he says it's working. nato defense ministers in brussels have discussed tensions in the gulf the u.s. acting defense secretary marcus visit war with iran is unwanted but americans would tolerate any further incidents like the tanker attacks nato secretary general says the alliance is worried about iran's actions. all allies share concerns

when it comes to iran. these stabilizing activities in the region their support for different targets groups their missile program of a program over wrong and also the announcement that they will start to enrich uranium again so i expect that we will and we will continue to consult on this issues. on the nato roles of exchange intelligence information on the situation in the gulf. forces allied to the u.n. recognize government in libya are now in full control of kerri-anne just south of the capital tripoli they captured the city from rival troops allied to holly for half the on wednesday have to us forces have been using gary and as a staging post in their campaign to seize tripoli they've now retreated to nearby

towns are i'd have to say those are the very latest headlines from us here at al-jazeera coming up next it's inside story. wire eritreans in exile being silenced activists and critics to escape the oppression ads helm find they're not safe abroad either who is threatening them for speaking out this inside story.

hello and welcome to the program. that eritrea is often described as one of the most repressive countries and africa people's rights are severely restricted and opponents of the president say as if where key are locked up in jail even eritreans in exile apparently not safe and the city international is accusing the government of harassing and threatening activists living in europe and elsewhere in africa eritrea is a member of the un's human rights council which is meeting in geneva this week one eritrean in exile in kenya described her experience to al-jazeera a small car where. we used to are together the people of all the high minot says she's never enjoyed the freedom she fought for she was 17 when she joined eritrea's rebellion and fought for independence from ethiopia she's seen here in one of the rebels' mountain hideout in the 1980 s. independence came in 1901 who she says freedom did not if they want to kill you

they can kill you automatically. she owned a factory but she didn't join the governing party or contribute to its funding she says she's been harassed ever since including here in kenya's capital nairobi where she lives in exile she says eritrea is ambassador to kenya of terrorism and had her arrested by local police is in. business tonight he took his saw was like 56 names. he had caught the same nonsense things he tried to deport us. rights activists say that the kind of harassment that a bieber says she's experienced here in nairobi is just the tip of the iceberg and that eritrean critics of eritrea's government you are living in exile all around the world i routinely harassed intimidated and even beaten by government supporters

so the reporters rights group amnesty international says it's documented cases of harassment and intimidation of eritrean human rights activists over the last 8 years has published a report and its research is say those in kenya the u.k. sweden and some other european countries a most risk yet their government he's gained of exporting their repression from from its territory to another country and it doesn't look good. on your moderate record and it doesn't look good to the recovery of the countries where it is repression is happening the report document seemingly coordinated threatening tweets from staff at eritrea's embassies. its ambassador in kenya didn't agree to give us an interview. bieber says the harassment has made her more critical most of her activist colleagues here in nairobi were too scared to speak to us. she's campaigned for 4 of her friends from her days as

a rebel who were students arrested in eritrea she doesn't know if they're still imprisoned or dead the same fate she says awaits her if she ever goes home malcolm webb al-jazeera nairobi kenya. all the situation in eritrea is old sue bleak rights groups say the one party state doesn't tolerate dissent and researchers believe there are more than 360 prisons in the country compulsory national service in the military is indefinite and activists say conscripts are being used as forced labor there is no private media and only 2 percent of the $5000000.00 population can access the internet reporters without borders says press freedom in eritrea is only slightly better than north korea and with an estimated $4000.00 people leaving the country every month eritrea is one of the largest sources of african refugees in europe. right.

we could not bring in our guests and london we have salon kids on that she's the director of release eritrea that's a human rights organization an ad is i believe on skype africa analyst and senior lecturer at kiel university and also in london martin plaut clout a senior research fellow at university of london and he's also the author of understanding eritrea inside africa most repressive state welcome to all of you thank you very much for being here on the program. the one thing that many people know about harry tre is that very little is known about that country and what goes on inside that country so that's something i do want to explore as this program unfolds but before that i'd like to talk about this whole idea of dissenters not only in the eritrea but also those outside the country coming under the reach of the regime which is very alarming and so i'm don i want to start with you and you've worked closely with refugees many of them who who've left the country and

have been able to tell you about what's happening in there but i'd also like to know what you're hearing about their experiences when they speak out against the government and how they're affected by it. oh yeah actually it's only people that have left the country that are actually able to speak about what's been happening to them so it's not surprising that the regime is actually trying to come down on their own people who have already left and are trying to to speak about the realities of what they have left and what the kinds of things that people tell are really extreme religious persecution where people are actually banned from praying together if they're not members of government sanctioned churches people who are incarcerated for not returning to their national service posts even for a couple of days. people who are accused of thinking about leaving the

country people who are accused of sympathizing with the opposition forces outside the country so people are being attacked for or sorts of things was there in the country outside the country when they come up people are threatened by actions being to you know don't you fear for your family back home is a common a common thread another one is that you know the hunt of their devotion which is hundreds the government is alone going it will catch up with you anywhere you are so the entire eritrean s'pore a cunt be kind at times be grouped by by fear of what the government might be able to do martens law does not just eritreans abroad who are facing harassment from the hands of the government salaamed put it you 2 have come under attack for you for speaking out can you tell us about your experience. well it's happened a couple of times i mean when we've had arranged talks in london they have been

attempts to break up the talks at universities some of the times physical mostly just yelling and shouting and trying to make it impossible to talk but a more serious one happened late last year where somebody tried to suggest to me that they should would like to meet me in the you know i'm a journalist and author so i'm always keen to meet people and they asked me can i go and meet somewhere and so i said yes we'll meet at a public space at the british library in fact and when i got there they then said well look would you mind coming outside because i'm with somebody he's frightened of being on camera and this kind of thing with there might be cameras in the british library so i said sure and i met him in a little open space a cafe are just outside. and got me a coffee i set down and then he went behind a low bush picks up a box full of liquid i didn't know what it was throws it over me while he's

filming me at the same time on his camera and the 2 other eritreans doing exactly the same and yells at me that i'm a traitor to the government that i'm a functionary of the cia that i'm abusing his country and that i'm all this that i deserve to be dispatched in appropriate manner all this kind of thing anyway i just backed away and left it and the man was arrested and finally prosecuted and went we went to court and he was found guilty and fined for what he had done now of course i was really worried about what had been thrown at me because of course it came a few months after the attack in salzburg in britain where people were liquid was put on people and they were they died as a result that was russian operation but this one was done by eritreans air tran sympathetic to the regime and so it was a worrying event but i mean of course it's not. thing compared to the repression that is faced by people inside eritrea which is much much much more severe i will

alow martin platt continued is continuing to speak out about what's happening in eritrea but what has this kind of intimidation done or what kind of an impact has it had on others activists eritrean activists are just general people who managed to leave eritrea from speaking out to the government has it had an impact on them i think it is important to kind of put this into into context because eritrea is an authoritarian states the government there clearly rejects the idea of democracy as a defining form of governing population and most thought or italian government tried on silencing voices that are opposed to them and indeed one of the most defining feature of rhetoric and system is basically harassing intimidating and bullying all opposition forces particularly human rights defenders so several countries in

africa. libya sudan egypt ethiopia in the past to use this system and in fact some of them went as far as using highly sophisticated technologies produced by european companies by israeli companies to conduct source get the surveillance against frontline but i defend this so this is a general pattern across africa i'm sure several others out there and governments use it but there is there has there is particular kind of problem in terms of cyber bullying and people who express their views being attacked by activists. so that's something i want to talk about is the international community big the u.n. human rights council has enlisted eritrea as a member of its council what is the justification for this and how does that make you feel salaam cabana once you hear the stories from the refugees you've been

dealing with. it's actually quite disparaging it shouldn't be surprising but it is it shouldn't be surprising. given the the the other countries on that list of members as well but as an eritrean and knowing intimately what goes on in eritrea it is indeed it's very shocking it's sudden ng it also makes a mockery of the system that is meant to monitor human rights respect for human rights at the highest level globally to be you know for one of the member states overlooking this work to be one of the the the most abject violators so yeah it's surprising it's shocking and it's such our lalo i want to bring it down to the basics here very few people know exactly what is going on inside eritrea and if you could sum up for us what what is happening in eritrea what is happening to the average person there i think as you said in the introduction it is really very

difficult to know what is actually going good in everything it is a pretty cold the system there is very little access to the media media is controlled by the government there is no independent media we know that people leave everything in huge numbers national service is a huge problem. you know government does not tolerate opposing voices goes for polls a significant risk to their senses so the masses i think widespread human rights violations are very well known they are very well documented but it. very difficult actually to get a sense of what is actually happening in the region we see the reports from time to time documenting why is by alicia so him right but beyond that we haven't really seen very clear evidence of the nature of abuse as well isha it's

that happens there i just want to say one quick make what we have to point on the human rights council and its membership but i counsel i think it's important to realize that the united nations generally and its values human rights are more really is there primarily to protect individuals and particularly individuals in these authoritarian nations they are part of the broader set of compromise among various states where these nations if you look up to them pl countries that have been on a membership of the council they are some of the worst abusers of human rights so it is a given to take between the various states that takes place in terms of the process of electing countries i don't think we should put too much emphasis on who is on the human rights council and who is not martin platt on that note firstly can you shed any more light on what is happening in eritrea particularly to the common

common person and to the whole idea of this un human rights council not necessarily protecting the wider population instead it's more about the government's. well i mean that's absolutely right and i mean the only thing i would say about it is that the u.n. has appointed a special report on human rights in eritrea and she and her predecessor have repeatedly attempted to negotiate to talk to the eritrean government and to visit the country and she's been consistently blocked from doing so so this absolutely no interest from the from the government in in participating in that regard log the other thing one mustn't forget is that the air tran's are now in charge of what's known as the khartoum process that is the relationship between the european union and africa all the major african nations particularly bordering on the mediterranean are part of that system and they supposed to control the flow of refugees and migrants from africa and eritrea is in control of that now that is

something sanctioned by the european union which is really disgusting when you come to you i ask about the impact on ordinary people one of the most shocking things about the eritrean government is their lack of concern about the hardship that people undergo there has been very little development in eritrea since independence which is tragic because air tran's are some of the most hardworking and ingenious people i've ever come across and they would certainly like to develop but the government basically says we don't need aid we don't need any assistance we can stand on our own 2 feet which in itself is quite laudable but the fact is at the end of the day they don't even encourage investment from other eritreans in the diaspora who would love to invest if there was a secure busy plan to do it in so the result is that people are very poor they are shortages of things like electricity of water all these kind of things is poor

services that people have to rely on and that is the cost that ordinary people are having as a result of this regime. i will add one of the few facts that has kept come out and i don't know how accurate it is is that less than 2 percent of the population pay tax so how is the government surviving who is propping them up i mean martin just told us a bit about the fact that they're rejecting not only european aid but they're also rejecting money from eritreans abroad so how does that country functioning i think returns abroad still pay a 2 percent tax on their income this is comparably for every 10 will go to if they want to go back to their country if they want to secure for example a passport for their children that have to evidence that they have been paying that tax i do not know how many are essentially we're told and how much remittance rigs are in this form from those taxes. bad you know the fact that

we have not made significant progress in terms of economic development means that there's not really much happening in terms of the government providing the basic infrastructure so basic necessities for for the population but you know i also want to note that i think regions are very hardworking people i think very intelligent people they have money to find a way of providing for some basic necessities actually if you compare some of the countries thank you old. in eritrea with some other countries where it is doing well where do they get the money to do that i don't know there are certain countries in the middle east for example that have a relationship with eritrea but i don't know if those countries that are supporting your experience in terms of financial and other budgetary support. so i'm going to i want one of the things that i think many would find baffling is this whole idea

of military conscription and the fact that it is indefinite as. many people i understand or many of the refugees who have left eritrea have used that as a reason or are saying you know it's bonded labor basically what are you hearing about and what do you face when you are in the military. i mean in fact it's it's insane in slave mental funny entire generation because if you think about it the last year of high school education is actually only given the military training center this our military training center which is the age of 16 own 17 or young people have to go there from the entire country and from that point onwards at the age of 16 or 17 they're all conscripts basically they're told it's 100 facility but they're regimented they have their butts hellions and they have good they're given military training alongside their studies and more importantly they

cannot do that year at home and from that point onwards they are basically soldiers so after that it's endless if they if they're told their past exams then they would go for 4 education education and then be given civilian jobs otherwise more will become. become soldiers going to the army and there is no. there's no end to that there's no. official end to that people leave the country or people just abscond and stay at home so it becomes effectively. indefinite there are people who have been serving since 1994 and there are people who have left after serving 20 years 10 years and now increasingly what we see is young people's children leaving before they they hit that age and because the regime has made it impossible for people to leave with their children because

anybody who has a child or basically if you're a toddler and above then you cannot leave the country without special permission so people are leaving with their children as soon as they're born or they're waiting for their children to be old enough to cross the borders illegally so the national soul. this has got a hold on the entire sits and sits and marry at the entire generation and yes it is an indefinite bondage of slavery martin it's really hard to fathom what kind of a society is being created and then it's very easy to understand why people want to leave that country sadly and you bet president say as do you have a clear understanding of what he is trying to build if anything at all. that's a very good question and i'm afraid it's hard to answer you know he is somebody who basically believes that he is eritrea that there is nothing that is not

him that he personifies the entire country and that anybody who steps out of line the top or questions in the thing that he does is basically incorrect and against the whole nation because he is the nation and he's always taken actually inflexible view of his role and that of the struggle i mean of the 30 years they fought against the ethiopians for the independence and it was one of the most heroic struggles africa's ever seen i mean he didn't tolerate any kind of opposition of any kind people were killed. as a as a result and when i met him you know there is something about him he's an intelligent man but he's somebody who you know literally has looks at you as if he has an utter contempt for you and for anything that you might think about or want to say and although he used a lot of people from abroad at various times in to help the struggle for

independence and there i certainly supported the independence of eritrea and you know their continued existence but you know he really he doesn't rate anybody who isn't an absolute supporter of him personally and the few people who are around him given that salaam to the people you speak to and many of them who freshly left the country have any hope that there will be some kind of regime change or that eritrea will eventually have a democracy. absolutely every eritrean leaves for that day even those that. say they support the regime leave for the day that change will come air tran's such a small country and everybody. is kind of has got this strong sense of identity as an eritrean and that it's the strength of that identity that keeps everybody going the situation is totally unsustainable that there isn't you knew if

people were talking honestly it would be very difficult to find people who supports what's going on beyond the fear factor beyond the sheer cheerleading type support for that for the government if you come to the nitty gritty of the continuation of the nation everybody agrees that there needs to be change and that the ducts that's what keeps people like me hopefully we will be able to salvage some kind of democracy some kind of justice for our nation and i'm not unique in thinking that so much more discussion needed and so much so much more to talk about unfortunately we've come to the and diversion to i'd like to thank our guests donna. and martin part of course all of you thank you so much for your time and thank you for speaking to us on this very important and interesting country and thank you too for

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a store with donald trump says up another trader out as g 20 leaders arrive in japan. if they want to kill you. they can kill you automatically. she fought for eritrea's independence now she's afraid to go to her and. i'm mariam the mozzie and london with all the latest from europe including wildfires raging across spain and southern france as western europe is gripped by an intense heat wave. be disturbed with your sports as india dominates again the cricket world cup the west indies are beaten by 125 runs and very hopes of the semifinals on well over. thank. you but we sat ingenuity a way to suicide bomb attacks in the capital within half an hour of each other have

killed a police officer and wounded several other people the interior minister is calling for calm and says the attackers have yet to be identified victoria gave him the reports. in the center of tunis close to the french embassy police responded to a suicide bomb attack that killed a police officer and wounded several other people shortly after another explosion this time at the counterterrorism police headquarters both areas were busy with local people and tourists but witnesses say the visit his don't appear to have been the target the guy who blew himself did it 50 betters away from the french embassy and the security around the area is very very high actually for the border a double leg people were doing their business having peace outside of the what was expected actually for struck and for what earlier in the day gunmen attacked a t.v. station in the state of gaffs south of the capital. a state of emergency has been

imposed in tunisia for the past 4 years since dozens of people were killed in a series of attacks which i saw claimed responsibility for 3 gunmen stormed a museum in the capital tunis killing 22 people in march 2053 months later 38 people were killed in an attack on a beach resort hotel at seuss and last october a woman blew herself up in central tunis killing herself from wounding 9 others many too medians he rely on tourism for their income say they're nervous about the future you know about these attacks actually not a big. problem. he said that. it made me. aware there. were not fighting in neighboring libya is another worry for the chinese government as it deals with threats from inside and outside its

borders victoria gate and be al-jazeera when the attacks happened at a time in tunis is president is not very well he's in a hospital. office says he's in a severe health crisis and 92 year old was taken to a military hospital in tunis earlier this year he'd announce that he wasn't going to contest november's next election that 20 of the world's most powerful leaders are in japan ahead of what are likely to be tense talks at the g. 20 summit u.s. president donald trump's already embroiled in a trade war with china that he left washington he said it was ripe for even more is a depo matic edited james bass president trump arriving in japan for the g. 20 summit among a packed agenda there's likely to be considerable discussion about 2 countries with nuclear programs that trump has treated very differently. tension is rising with

iran which had agreed to a deal with the international community in 2015 to give up its pursuit of nuclear weapons until the us pulled out of that deal after attacks on tankers in the gulf and the shooting down of a u.s. drone that washington blames on tear on president trump continues to talk tough. i'm not sure that their leaders care for their people if they do they'll make a deal if they don't they just think it about themselves and their selfish and this stupid if that's what they're doing meanwhile compare that with the case of another long time u.s. spyro with actually has nuclear weapons and hasn't agreed to give any of them up president trump continues to talk positively about north korea and kim jong un despite the failure of a summit in hanoi earlier this year the most recent visitor to pyongyang chinese president xi could he help the u.s.

restart diplomacy. this is the 20th anniversary of the g. 20 these summits were started so that leaders could come together to talk about the state of the global economy the big issue there is president trump's trade wars particularly with china. a former head of war planning at the pentagon who now heads the think tank the east west institute says it's possible that the chinese may offer help with north korea as leverage in those difficult trade negotiations as we've been talking specifically about economics here for a while they trade wars back and forth between the 2 countries and now this is an opportunity for g.d. come in and say i've worked this other issue like you asked me to and now i would like you to help me a little bit with this can you back off just a little bit the g. 20 leaders control 80 percent of the world's economy all the meetings here will be important but the most attention will be on 2 meetings one president trumps stone

once again with russian president putin and his face to face encounter with president xi james gray's al-jazeera a soccer. right now in spain to alexandria sisi who's the co-chairwoman of the g. 20 research group at the university of toronto she's joining us via skype from there thank you very much for joining us now we often when we look at the g 20 often get rather carried away by the bilat surely the inter the interests of the state tensions and problems what are we supposed to be looking for when we talk about this group of of 20 plus world leaders getting together for 2 days. well the g. 20 is instrumental and for international you know are also offers a form for bilateral meetings and we see that oftentimes a number of readers do take advantage of and post a number. and their role is kind of watching that one between president xi and president trump and not be talking about

a number of issues specifically about trade and it's unlikely that meet your resolution your resolution won't be the result of these bilateral meetings but nevertheless add there will you that need discussion about really i mean down that so-called trade war you know i am an ok ok but also the economic sanctions economic sanctions seem to be the the weapon of choice for the trump presidency and he seems to be expounding them almost every month doesn't he in the latest countries to fall on the his gaze on india and vietnam. of course and that seems to be a trademark the trump i mean instruction and especially coming to us you twenty's i mean you have obviously the other members the g 20 but a number of other guys that are also invited and so it does have a lot of potential for this to be on the agenda. using sanctions and training trade

in general and what's likely to happen is that conversations really take place in those bilateral meetings and it offers a really great opportunity for allies in the g. trying to really stress those kind of issues that have been really shooting down hard as well the president maintains rather vociferously doesn't see that trade with these countries is basically i'm fair or unfair to u.s. interests is he right. well it's kind of a trademark of his america's 1st policy and he believes that these are actually our so united states and one of the greatest challenge in japan's presidency is host of the g. 20 will be restoring faith in the oval trading system that united states used to change and so really being able to frame the conversation should restore faith and multilateral in general will be one of the main challenges for japan and number either i'm members of the g. 20 meeting this weekend right now there are reports circulating of there being some

sort of rough processional between china and the u.s. as the leaders get ready to meet what do you think of those you think there's much credibility in those reports well i mean it's sometimes very unlikely to predict what will take place at the g 20 summit especially when they're in trouble is involved as as we all know he's very unpredictable and but i got i think reference you know. meeting is going to be the most important in that sense as we know that as in trying does not really try and inspire americans when he is one of 28 least in the group he really does let's take more advantage of our own meetings so we'll just have to wait and see if you what takes place after their meeting which is supposed to scheduled for saturday all right thanks very much for that alexandra c.c. . thank you very much forces allied to the u.n. recognized government in libya are now in full control of gary and that's a city just south of the capital tripoli they captured it from rival troops who are

allied to the war literally for hafter on wednesday have to as forces have been using gary and as a staging post in their campaign to seize tripoli has more. this video is said to show forces fighting for libya's un recognized government's recapturing the city of arianne on wednesday fighters loyal to the warlords highly for hostile they've been using that id and for the past 3 months as a main supply base for their push towards the capital tripoli. videos such as this are being circulated on social media claiming to show captured have to our fighters including mercenaries from sudan have to ask commanders deny losing control of i.b.m. which would be a setback for them early a recorded statement by prime minister fires as sudden rush was televised on libyan state t.v. where he praised his forces but made no mention of the latest assault on a money on. going we have not hesitated to fight back with force to protect our

families in our capital of the civil society that our people support the one that inspired the february 17th revolution we have confidence in the ability of our armed forces. various forces have fought for control of libya since the killing of longtime leader muammar gaddafi in 2011. the world health organization reports that the 3 month battle for tripoli has killed at least $600.00 people and forced thousands to seek safety. on wednesday the un backed government forces also made advances in the southern suburbs of tripling. have tossed fighters have been losing strategically important locations there too including an airport. his critics say could be a turning point in the war so high it at al jazeera. correspondent mark had centers this up.