ations that. conflict of whatever degree between a shia group and a sunni majority could have echoes far beyond the borders of nigeria far beyond the borders of west africa and even have resonance in the middle east suggestions that iran backing the shias and saudi arabia backing the sunni population could be actually actively stoking this up is that is that a theory that you would subscribe to. not so much no fear either time or i've i've a myself but it's one that at the moment i'd like to arm into deep are before deciding whether or not i i fully i fully subscribe to to not but so far with the evidence we have in ground season. there's nothing to show that there's an and i'm really i'm back in. the i am in movement.

what we have seen so far is a nigerian government that's sure. higher level of intolerance and hostility towards the shia muslims in northern nigeria particularly in the islamic movement of nigeria and exaggerates any any form of protest by particular group or any form of any form of out of of of dissent or vocal vocal against the government has been a sign of. unity of trying to overthrow the of trying to. you know overthrew the government or some sign of you know and reign inclusion or something of that sort and i think the concern of the conspiracy theories only hop to give more more on fuel to the to the government's. rationalization of its heavy handedness and its.

tactics against against the i am right ok and matthew what do you think about that because of course mrs that that apparently was inspired by the 1990 around revolution and indeed spent time in iran where he where he converted to the sheer branch of islam i mean what do you think about the involvement. yeah i agree with any broadly i think that you know this is a somewhat of a superficial. connection that exists i mean certainly over the years iran had from from my understanding talking to who to people on the ground and could do and people who study the group in-depth is that that the ties are fairly weak and involved small amounts of money that iran sent as he that he centrally used to build what i would call all sort of a you know an oversized soup kitchen in a very poor neighborhood of of zaria in which he was able to build sort of a grassroots movement almost of

a presence revolt if you will against sort of the upper echelons of northern society and what we've seen is that real frustration boil over into into into you know open and tip of the towards the nigerian secular state and well of course i think you know when we talk about book around the i am in terms of groups and their beliefs and their and their activities i think it's really apples and oranges where the similarity exists is the degree to which the approach of the nigerian state towards these groups has pushed them farther and farther towards the in the radical and violent direction and. the men have said to us that they're going to challenge this is going to be going to use all of their resources to try to take this through the coals through the judicial system system of nigeria do you think that they're likely to receive

a fair hearing do you think that they're likely to be able to take get themselves taken off this this terrorist list well i do hope that the authorities are flood damage so i think their case and get a fair hearing they they have a right to a fair hearing and they deserve to be aired i mean the quite other that was granted was based on an application called a motion acrobatics. it was brought by the authorities that application by design you know does not allow for the. respondent to. repeat repairs entered in quantities. usually this is done in emergency situations to ensure that the back to school for a particular market is not changed or ensure that there is no further validation of the damage but in order to have been granted i'm hoping that you give them a chance to come on notice and write their case as they deserve and peel this quote

or there if that's what they didn't feel right now we are running out of time so in the i'd like to come to you just for a very brief comment if possible and that is that the courts have deferred this bail hearing for mr zacky apparently it's going to be all this the 5th how important is that day likely to be then for the immediate future of the group and for peace and order in nigeria i think it's more it's anything it's more important food for nigerian government than it is for. a man in terms of a german government needing to prove that the still. assemblance of of a more of moral fortitude somewhere that they can still do do do the right thing by some of the nigerian citizenry essential e. been imprisoned for about 4 years not 0 and

followers of not of not. transporter fired into into radical a radical and insurgent movement like broken her and so i'd like to imagine that an extra an extra we can imprison or even. not change change change the men also the former deputy leader of the of the amendment was killed about a total of 4 years ago was rolled by. the bye bye bye bye bye men from under an army and still the amended not transmogrified an armed insurgent movement so i'd like to imagine that it's more on that engine governments do the right thing right . there i imagine thank you all very much indeed in a deli a dead edgy talking to us from new york and from a boot and matthew page in cambridge thank you very much and as ever thank you for watching the program you can see it again anytime you live again to the web site al

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a 2nd weapons test in less than a way north korea fires turn short range missiles. hello and welcome to al-jazeera live from a headquarters and a man as a lot of also ahead around to the democratic presidential candidates go head to head and detroit. one you have on some cinnabon want to break in the d.l.c. we'll look at what's being done to combat the deadly epidemic and. how afghans saw thinking to preserve their cultural legacy that was decimated on the pot of gold.

the south korean government has held an emergency meeting after the north launched 2 been listed missiles the 2nd weapons test and less than a week was launched from the town of wants on military commanders in the south so the missiles flew around 250 kilometers before crashing into the sea observers say the short range tests could be aimed at increasing pressure on the united states for new denuclearization talks south korean leaders say firing more missiles won't ease cross border tension rob of bride has more from the capital seoul. this latest missile firing is being viewed with deep concern here in south korea it's the 2nd double launching of short range ballistic missiles in less than a week and the 3rd missile launch to take place since may in direct contravention of the landmark military agreement signed between north and south korea last

september during the period of improving relations that was meant to have put an end to testings like this one south korea's defense minister has said that if the north continues with threats and provocations like this then it would have to be considered an enemy so there has been some very strong words used by south korea contrasting with all of the period of reconciliation that we've had over the past year and a half or so north korea said when it launched missiles last week that that should be considered to be a solemn warning to south korea being very careful not to direct any of its anger all wrath at the americans and that u.s. president donald trump in particular but this does seem to be a reminder from them about the size of their nuclear and missile arsenal that yes this is only a short range missile but it is

a reminder that they are serious about getting the u.s. back to the negotiating table and eventually getting some relief from the crippling sanctions that han park is the founding director of the center for the study of global issues at the university of georgia and the u.s. and he says they want to deal with north korea unless the u.s. makes concessions. i think north korea is who willing to give up their nuclear program but we have to presume paroquet did. with the sanction reduction with non-aggression of graham agreement maybe peace treaty diplomatic normalization we have a lot of things that we can offer but nothing has been offered to north korea and their missile tests it's designed to demonstrate that they're willing to strike back at the if there are a cat or preemptive strike if they're educated they think they're constantly

being threatened because american troops stationed in south korea are in japan in in guam so that part of the world days a very heavy on the by the united states and north korea is very unhappy about that and threaten the in terms of their security so we have to really sit down talk about mutual concessions. we have to give something to them by way of reducing. sanctions and canceling the joint military. cumber emerging their arms sales to south korea so these things would have to be coming together with north koreans sessions who would be. safe from. moving on to other news now more than 40 protesters have appeared in court in hong kong on charges of rioting supporters gathered outside of the accused were granted

bail it is the 1st time authorities have formally charged any demonstrators with the rioting which carries a jail term of up to 10 years the territory has seen more than 7 weeks of mass protests triggered by a controversial extradition. a roadside bomb explosion and western afghanistan has killed at least $32.00 passengers on a bus it happened and found a province between kandahar and head out the most of those killed were women and children a government spokesman says the bomb was planted by taliban fighters targeting afghan and foreign security forces now japanise to shut down all nuclear reactors in the northeastern region hit by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami tokyo electric power company has decided to start decommissioning before reactors that the folks shima to plant not far from the site of the country's worst nuclear disaster react is that for

a while and were badly damaged by the quake and tsunami and leaking contaminated water the wind down and disposal of waste could take up to 40 years. an ideological divide among democrats in the u.s. has been exposed and public during the 2nd round of presidential debates with a potties nominee up and funded health care was a key issue but some heated exchanges between the parties progressive and centrist candidates john hendren reports from detroit. in what purports to be the party of civility the contenders came out swinging if you don't know. what i wrote the day a bell. on issue number one publicly funded health care top polling elizabeth warren sought to put rival john delaney's struggling campaign on life support. why do we got to be the party of taking something away where the democrats we're not about trying to take away health care from anyone and that's what the republicans are. saying the republican talking points

the revolutionaries of the democratic party warren and bernie sanders dominated the debate clock again and again warren went on the offensive you know i don't understand why anybody does to all the trouble of running for president of the united states just to talk about what we really can't do and should fight for. this round of debates could dramatically narrow the field of candidates for some the race is over 5 candidates failed to qualify for this round of debates and of the 20 who remain less than half are expected to qualify for round 3 and for some who failed to breakthrough in detroit. airport are likely already drying up the debates locale in the motor city was a reminder of the democrats' failure in 2016 their supposedly solidly democratic blue wall crumbled in their former strongholds of pennsylvania wisconsin and

detroit's parent state michigan what are the candidates have to do they have to spend money here they have to wake up the populace and get them out to vote with another debate to go on wednesday where front runner joe biden will stand directly between his 2 biggest critics harrison cory booker 92 was expected to be at least as combative john hendren al-jazeera detroit. a 2nd case of a bowler has been confirmed in one of the democratic republic of congo's biggest cities goma it comes just over 2 weeks after its 1st case but officials say there are related to a 1000000 people live in the city on the border with rwanda the d r c is facing the 2nd worst of all african history which is claimed the lives of 1700 people well it's nearly a year since the latest outbreak began started in the eastern province of north kivu and within weeks it spread to at least one neighboring province by november the outbreak had been declared the worst in the country's history and the 2nd

biggest worldwide efforts to contain that spread have been handed by widespread violence against health workers in the region dozens have been killed since january the world health organization confirmed the 1st cross border cases of a bowler and uganda last month and shortly afterwards the agency declared the outbreak a global emergency less than 2 weeks ago the congolese health minister resigned over his government's response to the crisis he's criticized what he calls outside pressure to roll out a new experimental a ball of vaccine catherine so what has more now from nairobi. the information we have is that this man is a resident of goma but was working in a tour of province this is one of the regions that has been affected by a bullet he came back to go about 10 days ago on a bass but he symptoms are not detected throughout the journey and through the various checkpoints and medical checkpoints that have been set up he started filling street a few days ago went to a local clinic on the edge of the city this is where he lives he thought he had

malaria and after a few days the missions decided to call in the experts who came and did some tests on him and then confirmed yesterday afternoon that indeed he was positive with all of so they isolated him put him at a treatment center in goma the ball so isolated actually mission was handling him and her family and are also looking for other people who he could have come in contact with this is something that is causing a lot of concern in goma people are very worried the representatives of the world health organization have asked people to keep calm but also to keep vigil and keep clean but a lot of concern because this is one of them.