12 to all but government traffic the trade route has been seized and controlled by there was groups over the past 7 years including syrian rebels and i saw the crossing with the trade and travel. time for a short break here al jazeera when we come back chained abused and tortured nigerian police for $300.00 imprisoned boys. another government protests my hong kong this time the focus is on activists detained by the chinese border more that stay with us. and there we have some rain in the forecast across the middle east is generally further to the north and if this system here is streaming through the black sea on tools accounts been seized by the caucuses we'll see some rain over the next 24 hours saturday really is quite damp as you can see and look at this how much

because once that system clears out of the forecast is fading nice but a lot cooler than of late 21 degrees celsius 41 celsius in baghdad now the temperatures are still high for the south across much of the arabian peninsula is in fat in the forecast pushing into southern sections of saudi arabia and again through saturday and sunday we'll see more rain into the south and the southwest of yemen a look at the time which is further to the north doha warming up again on sunday up to 48 degrees celsius and still really feeling quite humid and also a bit warmer in musk out there with a high of 34 degrees celsius damages are on the high side as well into south africa in particular 1st of all across into madagascar elsewhere it is dry but look at these temperatures 26 and been 28 in johannesburg on saturday that it should be a dry day south of a into cape town but by sunday we could see some rain in a little bit cooler at 19 degrees celsius look at this johannesburg 29 degrees 6

degrees above the average. whether sponsored. by several women or being with you being with us from st confinements all the while you have refrained from speaking to the media why have you trolls and to talk about islamic studies professor tonic wrong. about the ongoing brain bank you sanctions against. life.

welcome back a quick reminder the top stories here on the al-jazeera polls have opened in afghanistan for the 4th presidential election since the fall of the town about in 2001 the front runner is incumbent president ashraf ghani who's now cast his ballot an extra 100000 security personnel are on standby following threats of attacks by the taliban on polling stations. special envoy to ukraine has resigned as the controversy continues over the u.s. president's phone call with the country's leader during the conversation trump is reported to have asked him for help in investigating his rival joe biden and his son who has business interests in ukraine and hundreds of protesters have defied a security clampdown for a 2nd successive friday in egypt and joined demonstrations calling for the president to step down accused. of corruption and destroy the economy. the british flag tanker seized by iran 2 months ago is now anchored off the coast of the by being released by iran the seizure of the stone impairing july in the

strait of hormuz escalated tensions in the gulf some say its release is a peace offering jonjo regan reports. more than 2 months after being captured by iran's revolutionary guard the british flag tankers stand in piro has now anchored off the coast of the united arab emirates it left the iranian port of bandar a bass on friday is courted by a revolutionary guard gunboat iran accused the tank is crew of violating international maritime regulations it's seizure was seen as a retaliation for british marines detaining an iranian super tanker off the coast of gibraltar 2 weeks earlier iran was accused of attempting to deliver oil to syria in violation of e.u. sanctions against the regime the renamed tank it was released last month and despite iran's reassurances to a british court delivered its cargo to syria the release of the stand in pirro is

being seen as an attempt to ease tensions in the gulf and some say may be intended to make european leaders more receptive to iran's proposals for a new peace deal. that's after iran denied involvement in attacks on saudi oil processing plants earlier this month who theory rebels claimed responsibility but germany britain and france have all joined the u.s. and saudi arabia in accusing the iranians something u.s. president donald trump was keen to point out to the u.n. general assembly in response to iran's recent attack on saudi arabian oil facilities we just impose the highest level of sanctions on iran central bank and sovereign wealth fund. all nations have a duty to act. no responsible government should subsidize iran's

bloodlust. iranian leaders has said they want to counter a new u.s. led naval coalition in the gulf that the pentagon says will help protect shipping from further attacks the iranians also want to find a way to avoid u.s. sanctions on iran's economic lifeline oil exports france has been working to save the 2015 nuclear deal that trump withdrew from 16 months ago the joint comprehensive plan of action allowed iran to trade oil in exchange for combing its nuclear activities iran has been reducing its commitments to the deal saying european countries need to find a way around u.s. sanctions but european leaders appear to be growing increasingly frustrated with iran's failure to comply with parts of the deal u.s. sanctions against iran's oil and banking sectors are taking their toll president rouhani may be calculating that the release of the standing piro will lead to some

relief for iran's struggling economy and show european leaders that engaging with iran can have positive outcomes john kerry can out his era sudan is going to prime minister abdullah one doc has addressed the un general assembly and spoke of his country's push to restore peace freedom and justice is also has the u.s. to stop punishing the sudanese people. kind of early in the moment. it was the former regime that supported terrorism and the sudanese people revolted against it the sanctions have caused tremendous suffering to our people their full we call on the united states to remove sudan from the list of state sponsors of terrorism and to stop punishing the people of sudan for crimes committed by the former regime rose and jordan is not the united nations with. omar al bashir the sudanese dictator was still in power he tried to bring in a doll home dock to be a senior official in his government the former u.n.

official turned down that offer because he didn't think it was appropriate given aware of the shares a record both within the country and on the world stage now mr bashir is behind bars facing a lot of criminal and corruption charges in his government and still facing international criminal and human rights charges before the international criminal court about a home doc is the interim prime minister of sudan in his address on friday evening before delegates at the u.n. general assembly dock said that his country is trying to move beyond 30 years of dictatorship of deprivation and of real terror he also said that he is asking the united states to remove sudan from its list of state sponsors of terrorism because he said the current government is committed to the rule of law to the respect of human rights and to promoting good governance however because mr han

doc is a transitional figure it's unlikely that the united states is going to recommend any changes in the status of sudan until elections have been held until a new constitution has been formed and until a permanent civilian government has been established it is worth pointing out that mr han doc is indicating head of his country is going to continue cooperating with . the united nations not just because of the assistance that u.n. agencies could provide but also to show that sudan is going to try to mature beyond what has happened in the past 3 decades and to try to take its role not just as a member of the united nations but to be an upstanding member of the african union as well nigerian police said they have freed more than $300.00 male students held captive in a building in the northern city of could do someone found with metal chains around their ankles it's alleged some students as young as 9 been sexually abused and tortured the building was disguised as a school and operating as

a rehabilitation center 7 people have been arrested. because. neighboring countries but you know miley. they were here some of them why even change you know why use human eyes but it has more now from a bhutto. police say some of the rescue children had marks on their body that showed evidence of torture at some point or another meanwhile many of them were found chain tool structures or some some form of metals inside the building which was registered as an islamic school but also some rehabilitation work is going on there the police are saying that neither do the operators of the institution had licenses to operate as health workers or rehabilitation workers nor the institution

is some was registered as a rehabilitation center and it's believed that many of the inmates of that institution or school were taken there by their parents either for islamic education all for some form of these talks if occasion because it's thought that many of those found there had abused some illicit substances at one point or another investigation is currently going on but reports from the city itself says that many of such institutions exist in the city of kabul and in other parts of nigeria the un special rapporteur says he's concerned by the rising number of anti-government protesters arrested or abducted in zimbabwe. has wrapped up a visit there and his findings have raised questions about zimbabwe's human rights record how much us reports now from iraq. it's the 1st official visit by an independent human rights expect claremont fellate the un special rapporteur spent 10 days in zimbabwe human rights with the state dozens of that's a disturbing abducted thing since january there is this kind of. of if you

don't belong to this party you out we've passed and this polarization and the lack of trust the lap of political dialogue. it's something that also impacts on their enjoyment of their rights for freedom of sound in many of my discussion with victims of. the use of force by police there was a victim related that they were targeted because they belong to or position party the most recent alleged abduction was of union leader dr peter magowan day for days health workers marched demanding to know where they colleague was he was later found alive government officials deny abducting citizens the police is keen up here lived up doctors so as to bring them to justice and protect the public.

also raise concerns about the role of the army and police in dealing with demonstrations against the government during violence after elections last year at least 6 people protesting over the disputed results were shot dead by soldiers no one was arrested in january several were killed when security forces broke up a demonstration of a rising prices then in august police violently broke up an anti-government protest organized by the main opposition party movement for democratic change several people were injured the hope many suburbans had of a more open society and better economy when president what took over from robert mugabe has turned into disillusion zimbabwe's economy is in trouble millions of people here are struggling with soaring inflation and high unemployment but often those who have led protests have disappeared or been arrested that's why some here say keeping quiet keeps using. a final report by the u.n. to be released next year will give recommendations to the government how to better

protect citizen's rights but some people here say they have heard these words before and nothing's changed. algis or. another round of talks on drugs that has taken place in brussels but there appears to have been little progress toward securing a deal used chief negotiator met his british counterpart and ireland's foreign minister and there's accuse the u.k. of not coming up with any new proposals or brennan as the latest. it's been an extraordinarily toxic week in british politics particularly after those weapons they confrontations in the house of commons between the prime minister boris johnson and in particular opposition m.p.'s boris johnson calling a piece of legislation which is designed to stop britain leaving the e.u. without a deal as a surrender act and that really incited an inflamed tempest on both sides of the house but away from the arguments and the rhetoric there has been some actual

negotiations taking place in brussels on friday the problem is that doesn't appear to have been any tangible progress from then we're going to hear from a couple of those people involved in meetings in brussels 1st of all the british breck's it secretary stephen barclay i think there's still a long way to go i think we are coming to the moment of truth in these negotiations we will see if that's a political will both sides will commit it to securing a deal we're committed to leaving on the 31st of october but that deal just to be with the backstop now those sound bites moments of truth long way to go if he repeated those in several answers it appear that that was clearly the pre-prepared answer he was going to give no matter what the question but the problem is that the irish foreign minister simon covais was also in brussels and he had a very different take on the stage that the negotiations are at until there is a serious proposal in writing that can be the basis for a negotiation. then the gaps that are wide at the moment will remain. and time is

running out so you can see it's not just differences in the tone of the rhetoric it's also big differences in the contents of what's being said and what's being agreed or not agreed and remember all of this just 3 weeks until an e.u. summit takes place in brussels at which the hopes are a deal can finally be struck. protesters have looted shops and set fire to police cars in haiti's capital of the food and fuel shortages at least 4 protesters have been killed important points in recent days as haitians demand the resignation of the president which of anomalies the demonstrators accuse moyes of failing to do deep rooted corruption is appealing for calm manner up and it has more now from the capital. public services are closed shops are closed businesses public transportation is at a standstill demonstrators here have blocked roadways using practically anything at their disposal from debris to boulders burning tires since early on friday now this

frustration really began several weeks ago beginning with fuel shortages and people here in port au prince blaming the president's trip down the east saying that that it's his fault blaming corruption saying that the president is incapable of effectively ruling the country now to give you a sense of how tense things are here in the city since early on friday thousands of people have been out on the streets or being comforted actions with police officers who have used here to tear gas and other tactics to disperse crowds there have been reports of injuries or been gunshots heard there's also been reports of looting several stores have been broken into this includes a police station in cité soleil which is a which is known as one of the poorest slums here in the city of port au prince now in this case people actually did break into the police station and looted it there are reports that police officers actually fled opposition supporters opposition to the president are saying that this is a last march the final fight against the president calling for his resignation and

there was one senator for the opposition that was quoted his name is yuri latortue who was quoted as saying that if as you head down referring once more to the haitian president if she does not resign today whatever happens to him is not our responsibility so again tensions remain high thousands of people still out on the streets of being dispersed by by police and there's there's a sense that these protests as they've continued for. for 3 weeks now we'll continue in the days to come. all the news of course on our website there it is on your screen the address al jazeera dot com that's down to 0 the. top a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera several explosions have occurred in afghanistan shortly after voting in the presidential election began one was in the city of kandahar in the south as also been an explosion in the capital kabul so far there are no reports of casualties but this is the 4th presidential election

since the fall of the taliban the front runner is incumbent president ashraf ghani who cast his ballot a short time ago an extra 100000 security personnel are on standby across the country about 9000000 people are registered to vote 20 berty has more now from kabul is a trickle of people coming to vote not spy there because it's very early or because people are heeding the warnings of the taliban who threaten them and said that they should stay off the roads they're threatening to hit polling stations and they told people not to vote so it could be partly that but also it could be partly because there is a fatigue here about elections people remember what happened in 2014 and how much corruption was involved and how the americans had to step to step in and broker a power sharing dearie deal between ashraf ghani and abdullah abdullah so people are a little bit scarred by that donald trump special envoy to ukraine has resigned as controversy continues over the u.s. president's phone call with ukraine's leader during the conversation trump is

reported to have asked him for help investigating his rival joe biden and his son who has business interests in ukraine. hundreds of protesters have defied a security clampdown for a 2nd successive friday in egypt and joined demonstrations calling for the president to step down they accused. of corruption and destroying the economy. well the former government contractor whose videos helped spark those protests has issued a new message on social media calling on sisi to resign or but it is not how the talk and talk some c.c.s. way that you will leave power if the people don't want you so please be a man of your word don't let your offices upset the people let them walk in the streets freely you promise the people freedom so please stop being a lion in a major border crossing between iraq and syria is due to be reopened on monday they are calm crossing has been closed since 2012 to all but government or military traffic of those with the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after

talk to us tariq ramadan statute that's a water. leak stories generate thousands of headlines. separate the spin from the facts the misinformation from the journalism with the listening post on al-jazeera. to. see. he's considered by many is the most prominent islamic studies scholar in the western world but at the height of the mutual movement in 2017 professor father was forced to leave his post of oxford university over allegations of sexual assault. ramadan categorically denied the accusations but as the cases against him increased he voluntarily flew to france to meet with the investigators the best selling author was eventually detained in february of 2018

a paris court of appeals released on the ban on bail 10 months later he still rejects the allegations but the investigations into the cases continue is justice in france being served or has this case been politicized professor thought of talks to al-jazeera. present part of chroma dan thank you very much for talking to does iraq thank you for inviting me until late 2017 you arguably the most prominent islamic scholar in europe maybe even the what's the walt since then however you've been accused by several women of rape you've been detained you've been put in solitary confinement . all the while you for framed from speaking to the media why have you chosen to talk now look the situation was better than for 2 years i was on drugs or media coverage which was very bad and it was almost

a media lynching in the special in france and then now after 2 years why all the facts and what we have investigations are quite clear that the my case it's empty and my lawyer is quite clear about this i decided to write a book about the whole story for the people to know what happened exactly and then also because we had a loss complain that was filed recently and i think that it's time for me to speak what's the difference i mean we'll go through chronologically what's happened but what's different about this last complaint from the other it's a woman who is also accusing you over it and it's about that's exactly the point they have been repeating your lawyer and to people who didn't listen to me that there is nothing that i haven't done anything and then with this last case we have exactly what should be known by 2 people because we had the woman who claimed that i raped her in may 23rd 2014 in leo you

know what why you look at facts and you know the media coverage was so bad in france more than $120.00 odd. press new journalists doing his or her job just looking at the facts what are the facts as far as your thoughts on that that's the point the point you come in you read that on the basis of one narrative a woman went to the police said i was raped not only by terry crumb of them. but also by another man who was from his staff and this was on the 23rd of may 2000 and 1423rd of may 2014 i was in bad timor giving a lecture in front of 10000 people and this is on you tube more than that i never. went to these hot oh i don't know the sofitel enrile i never when they're so she claims that you raped her in the south of france was you say you have evidence that you are in fact in the united states exactly exactly and then more than that which

is very important is it came at a moment where if you look at the last investigations coming from the criminal squad everything is collapsing in that so that they used this as a small screen not to speak about the evidence is now showing that they are innocent of all the crimes. ok this is let's take them apart one by one was late 2017 october i believe off the back of the internationally kind of acclaimed hashtag me to a campaign where women were encouraged to come out and tell stories of how they were either sexually abused or attacked by people you had this self-proclaimed former salafist turned reformist hindu iare who came out and claimed that you had raped her several years ago in fact in 2012 in fact and described it as a violent rape. to the point that she says she became traumatized so much so that

you couldn't even hear your name for several months if not more so we have to come to the facts here and this was not even heard by the media not even heard after what you know i kept silent the beginning saying i'm not going to talk to journalists i'm going to talk to judges the problem that i had is that the judges what not even listening to me and not even looking at all the evidence is that are just proving that i was insane so as to this woman she lied she didn't know the place she didn't know the time she came with rather what you mention in other places when she she changed for time her story 4 times and then she said she gave a 1st date that this was a 2nd date it was not this one she gave. it was not this one he'd she changed again and i had charges in front of me why don't you say you don't know what you are raped you don't know the date you don't know the place and more than that her son her own called conning to testify saying she's lying she was not there she was at

the marriage in this time more than this what we know now the last investigator injuries at our wedding a wedding yes so what we had in the recent investigations coming in last august is that she said i was a sad left the very naive as to sexual sexuality as for a 6 year old it is concern you come to this in 2002 until recently she had on skype more than 50 relationships exchanges with men during all this period but that doesn't necessarily mean that's point well yes but what i am saying is that she started by lying about this add to this the fact that she didn't know the place she didn't know the date as i said and more in this into the. rosen 93 years before she was in touch with me she

was trying to contact carolyn for rest of the notorious you know enemy i have in france she's known as being against eric raymond so why caroline and what is caroline marcus she's she's a join the list but she wrote the book against me so 2 years before that she was in touch with her 3 years before and then she was harassing me if you don't respond to my messages i'm going to work with you enemies so once again she's talking about enemy is this evidence have you submitted this to the muslim brotherhood or said no no that's the opposite what i'm telling you now is that what is coming out of the brigade the criminal squad reports so the prosecution themselves have been investigating these women exactly and this is what they've been able to exactly but the problem that they have is that the police and the criminal squad are saying this and the judges don't take this into account they don't even listen so so she

is lying she's changing her story and then more than that she's in touch with my enemies 3 years before she came with this story the there was another case that was brought on a month later by the time the courts and the media could only refer to her as crystal but later has been revealed her identity as poor a lean and she ses or she had accused you of raping her was thing at a hotel in 2009 she said that you left the room that you went to give a lecture and another place and you came back and continue to rape her and that she was only able to escape once you went to the bathroom at 5 am she claims that she spoke to the reception to a bus driver and other people as well so let me come to this because once again i'm not going to speak about my opinion i'm going to tell you. what we find in the investigations coming from the criminal squad this fact is not mean

a criminal just for reviewers who want maybe a compass or a gator this is the investigators exactly exactly so they are asked by the judges to do the work on the field and that's to come with the facts so what they are saying is 1st. what she said about the time for example she said at 4 o'clock i went to a bus they didn't find anyone all the drivers did not recognize her she said i went to the police she did she doesn't remember the address of the police of her own town 3rd she said i have a medical certificate showing that and a medical certificate is not talking at all about this talking about him arre it's so this is the starting point then she changed her story 3 times i had to do is that she said i was. held prisoner in the room and while they were giving a lecture yes but the point is is that we have

a picture of her in the audience we ask. for her exit row the audience of what's the address of the lecture she said she was sick is treated in the room and at the same time she's in the audience of the. images but there is one and we checked the judge's ask a company is he is he in the room they said probable. highly probable 3 other companies from the u.k. are saying one is saying 85 percent is her and the other like face 1st recognition companies exactly. facial recognition so this is what they were saying so you know what the judges did with 4 companies saying it's she was in the company this is what i said from the very beginning by the way she was attending my electorate so she was not in the audience by the way. just ask yourself is it possible to secrete sic a straight somebody in a room in the heart of who is

a possible to get out so that that the starting point of this just very strange story that we have but morley claims you took her crawls you took her phone that she chances are your way she changed the stories for time here the story for them but the point is that when we had all this evidence that she was attending the lecture she asked the chargers ask my mother asked my father as my ex boyfriend asked carolyn for hest the same woman asked another woman who was and the churches are relying on the friends against the evidence is coming from the companies the expert kompany is that doesn't work now add to this this is due more to important thing that came in august. the investigators found in her computer messages between her and another woman seeks

the us before our meeting saying what were setting a trap for tariq ramadan her defense could say that she was trying to set a trap to get you any compromising situation but that doesn't necessarily contradict that compromising situation being turned into a criminal i say every x. except that there are s.m.s. is that that were found by the investigators this as investors are saying i didn't know if you liked me i missed you as soon as i crossed the door she claimed that this messages were sent before the meeting and then they investigate yours went to the mobile phone they were sent after how could you be raped when just after the meeting you say i missed you and i want to see you again and then if i didn't i haven't liked it i wouldn't have stayed she

claimed it was before the meeting after the skype meeting so look these are it's just unbelievable it doesn't work it doesn't stand other time when these claims or these accusations. are pretty complaints were being filed you were in qatar at the time. or you were visiting lecturer there as far as i understand there's no extradition treaty between paris but so why did you truce voluntarily to fly to to france and see the police it's very simple because i'm innocent so i wonder full of confidence i have nothing to hide the only thing that they had to hide to tell you the truth which is true because i made one mistake which was to say i'm not going to talk about my private life so when they said what happened with this woman i denied that anything happened and this was a mistake because i wanted to protect myself to protect my family and just you know there is one thing that you are talking about 3 another think your private life so

i had witnesses. i had contradiction with my own life and when i went there i decided on the disc you know you just lot of all this bad and dirty coverage that i'm going to talk about this so this was a mistake but it's understandable we can't put at the same level this you know trying to protect myself we speak with lying about being raped and all what happened that you feel that you were naive and not speaking to the press because in the end of the day the role of the media especially in this day and age is not divorced from the role of political decisions even to some extent st vishal decisions are made with public opinion being. a significant part of the presumption of innocence on the judicial side was not protected and the secrecy of the whole process was not protected so it was quite clear that the lawyers or the

plaintiffs even the judges were giving thing you know i was in a police station having the police man in front of me happy that the media were talking about the whole issue why i said look that's not the way justice should work in a democracy society so of course at that point i would say that. my my take on the whole issue is why i knew he was targeted i knew that for the last 30 years i was demonized because of who i represent in the french political and public scene and the way i was treated here it was quite clear we are going to get him and he is he will and in jail this was my feeling from day one when they entered the police station whilst you were in jail a few months later in march of 2018 a 3rd complaint was raised against you this time by money or

a bush. what was. the story behind not going to look at rosario i'm not even charged for that by the way because the story is completely you know not plausible at all she said i was raped 9 times and i was in touch with him and then when they came with the evidence that things were not like this the judge of had no option but to come so you're not charged for that so more than that you know what she's saying now and what again it's within the case. record now coming from the last investigation she was saying i was pushed by somebody who is known in france as a parody israeli french activist jocko that fantasy who was pushing her to change 1st toys she said i she asked me to change a sword and she sent a message to her brother saying they are giving me money i am doing it for money so

and herve broader was saying you are lying to her to his sister you are lying so once again you have a woman connected to my enemies pushing her to do so and the judges with all the evidence what with that we gave them had no option but why do you believe there is a conspiracy against you so so look it's not that i think that there is something i'm just looking at the facts and looking at the people and the names that you have in the file after 2 years my lawyer is asking the churches i want you to talk to a learned so far right activist khalil in for us kathleen for highest for the last before the case was put in october 2017 until august 2018 had bored then 661

messages and phone calls we did. who 1st planted this karen forth not heard by the judge there could have been friends no she's saying that no she's saying that i cheated they came to me to tell me so from the very beginning she came as are drawn that is covering the story not as friends he she she denied but now why the judges don't want to listen to her callin for us so these people are in the fuss not heard by the judge but what you represent that so dangerous to them are if this were the case why does go of course that yes that's an important point because this will explain the whole story. innocence and at the same time i'm a public figure in progress for the last 30 years they were describing me portraying me as the grandson of hasn't been a fundamentalist even supporting extremists when they came to extremism being the

founder of the muslim exactly so so. being an extremist didn't work when they were talking about me being involved in you know illegal activities it didn't work and then i came in and what i'm saying in france is look there is no future in this country if you don't treat muslims on an equal footing as citizens i'm not even a minority i'm a european citizen you have to dissent us now all this business that you are talking about the headscarf and let me be clear. you cannot impose the headscarf to a woman from an islamic perspective you can't impose her to take it off from a human rights perspective you see disenfranchise you on extremists so i but i'm sure you're not the only person on that i'm not but i'm vocal and i speak french as the french and i know the culture from within and more than this all known you know even in his last book nicolas sarkozy saying he is followed by so many people it's

huge so i want to destroy him they are targeting the public figure someone who is perceived as a leader because in fact the more important problem is not about me. i want the activist and all the people who are vocal about their rights being as you know a european muslim and a muslim european a western muslims to understand it could happen to them as well because at the end of the day did don't want us to be equal citizens they don't want us to be french and say you know what this is our country if you are threatened because a city says my country the problem is not me it's you it's you the problem is the far right but it is this normalization of islamophobia and structural racism targeting the muslims so this is where i stand and this is what i understood from the very beginning that they were targeting you know one year before all the story

started in 26 in 2016 i met with a representative of the domestic intelligence and he told me we know that you are now settling down in france you have an institute you have now asked who do nationality because you know that hugh years ago i asked for the french tourists wrist national yes because my wife is. french and my kids are french and swiss and this was this they didn't want this so the prime minister a daytime manual does say there is no way turk ramadan is going to become french so they were scared about this the 1st question i got from a journalist is are you going to run for presidency what's that at that level sometimes i feel french because i speak french like you when my for my culture which is my you know egyptian culture is also

a french culture so i know that this is what they want to destroy but it's not a question of individual it's not a question of a public figure it's a question of an ideological challenge for the future which is are we going to be to live together. to work together or want against the other away from the criminal aspect now and the wider press ramifications of things as you mentioned as has been admitted by even your adverse rees you have had a following of tens of thousands of young muslims even maybe hundreds of thousands across the world there's been reports that you've admitted to having extramarital relations what's your message to those people who maybe have felt a bit disenfranchised or confused when they've been seeing these different reports about you what what what is it i acknowledge that they made a mistake and this is disprovable journey that they went through which at the end you know it's strange but they have to see it as it is i'm thanking god for this

test and this ordeal because he brings me back to myself so i went in the ward and went through the examination of conscience just to try to understand what happened i apologize to my wife to my kids to the people and i still doing so and i have to do so and at the same time after 9 comes the morning. finding my way in the sense i wonder people to understand the teachings when they were following me are not only in my books they're also in my life because it would happen to anybody no one is an enjoyable we are all making mistakes that's our life what is more important is not to pretend not to make mistakes is what you do out a few mistakes to be a better human being i'm just promising the people i would try to be better to more than i was yesterday what does the whole future hold for thought a crime other than you say they tried to destroy you or are you now going to

retreats or what does the future hold for you as to the social and political they mention i will not give up. for my rights and my innocence but more importantly for the rights of the muslim for the dignity of our religion i won't keep silent i'm going to speak up i'm going to carry on my work and being a better person than yesterday but being as vocal as i was in the past. thank you very much for talking to officer. on counting the cost modi's economic failure job losses rising consumers tighten their belts plus stripped of its autonomy kashmir's true $1000000000.00 harvest is left to watch and olens brags that housing crisis is double most of driven out of the counting the cost on al-jazeera. has put prepares to exit the

e.u. people in power investigates disturbing allegations about the tactics used by the winning leave campaign we know that the was broke and we know that campaigns i've spent we know that russia tried to build a relationship with one of the key campaigns who paid could break sit people in power on al-jazeera. centuries it was the remote this of brazil's indigenous communities that protected them from the rapacious outside walls now it's what shields those who are encroaching on protected indigenous territory starting fires and threatening the residents of the county when i had the 1st contact with the outside walls in 1978 and. talking and they tonight which translated for us into portuguese remembers it well she says they

brought diseases that decimated the community that. we had a lot of land and we lived peacefully we lived with fear that are very few firsts. the invaders are coming closer it's difficult of us to gauge why a place so remote so tranquil should not so so munch to the rest of the walls indigenous people who live here who would realize this but now is the smoke those the skies and the ash is pollute the river the rest of the world is beginning to realize it too. 2 planes came from saudi arabia and 15 men checked you know what tell me stuff your mug shot. it is possible to fully clean the premises all forensic evidence but what you then leave is evidence that you have fully cleaned the mystery wanted to give an excess of the stuff that speaking about the role in the books before even the saudi government give up with just a democracy murder in a saudi consulate on al-jazeera.

al-jazeera where and for your. explosions in kabul and kandahar as polls open across afghanistan for presidential elections. hello i'm daryn jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the u.s. president's envoy to ukraine resigns after being named in the whistleblower complaint that has rocked the administration.

protests across egypt for a 2nd successive friday demanding presidency see steps down plus. the world community must give the people of the screed the right of symptom the nation an emotional appeal by the pakistani prime minister as he warns of a bloodbath an indian administered kashmir. several explosions have occurred in afghanistan as polls open for the presidential election one was in the capital kabul and another in the southern city of kandahar the taliban has been threatening to attack polling stations security forces have been deployed around the country the front runner is the incumbent president ashraf ghani who's cast his ballot as rival as the country's chief executive officer.

donald trump's ukraine envoy has resigned after being named in a whistleblower complaint which sparked an impeachment inquiry into the us president volcker's offer no public explanation but he's been asked to give evidence to politicians about a phone call made in july between the us and ukrainian presidents democrats in the house of representatives have also issued a subpoena to the secretary of state might want to go hang reports. a few subpoenas landed at the u.s. state department late friday evening congress demanding documents and testimony from 5 of their officials in the coming days including the u.s. special envoy to ukraine ambassador kurt volker soon after volcker quit his state department job this comes just after he and other top administration officials were named by a whistleblower in the complaint he alleges the president cut off foreign aid to ukraine and days later in a phone call asked the ukrainian president for a favor a promise to investigate trump's potential rival former vice president joe biden

and his son hunter who once had a seat on the ukrainian company board now the u.s. president is trying to turn the tables releasing this ad accusing biden of being in the wrong brush clearing out fire. trump is accusing biden of getting a ukrainian prosecutor fired for investigating his son when in fact the prosecutor was fired for not going after corruption cases look in the weeks and the months to come is to congress's job to pursue the facts and. donald trump accountable in the meantime my job. our job to make sure bob all else we be donald trump what does seem clear is that after so many months of trying to investigate not getting very far in this investigation is moving their e. fast so far the administration is simply tried to ignore congress but now that impeachment has been invoked if they take this case to the courts president says

they'll likely force the president to comply to let aides testify to turn over all the documents meaning it's possible a lot more of what the president said privately to many other world leaders could become public and then the congress will have to decide if his words rise to the level of impeachment. al-jazeera washington well let's get more now on our top story those elections in afghanistan al jazeera as tony burke joins us live now from the afghan capital kabul tony so several explosions being reported across the country what more can you tell us. details are a bit sketchy but the we were told that there's been a big attack in inside a polling station in kandahar we don't know if it was a suicide bomber or a mortar attack but we're told the agencies are reporting 16 people have been injured there also been 2 attacks near polling stations in the north of kabul and also one in helmand province where

a mortar was fired again no details about casualties or exactly how these attacks took place but it does show that the taliban is following through with its threats to attack polling stations and disrupt voting and tony the voters have been experiencing some problems and some frustrations at polling stations what's been happening there. well we're getting reports that some people turned up to vote and their names are not on the register getting reports that some polling stations haven't opened because the workers haven't turned up now that could be because of this a curate situation it could be because they're just very apathetic and it's very difficult we were told that out of the $7500.00 polling stations planned for this election only $5000.00 were going to go ahead anyway and out of the 9000000 voters there are only anticipating around 4000000 to go and vote but if this polling station the center of kabul is anything to go by that figure could be way down on that 5 years ago when the last presidential election was held there were queues of people here and i think it i'm hard pressed to have counted more than 200 people

who voted here in the last 2 hours now that's either because of the security situation but also because people here become very disillusioned with the political situation they were promised 5 years ago there would be big changes the action our economy would improve security would improve poverty levels would be reduced and none of that has happened so people here think that if they vote again it's going to be more of the same so a lot of disillusion a lot of fear a lot of fatigue or attorney berkeley there in kabul tony thank you. hundreds of egyptians have defied a security clampdown for a 2nd successive friday and join demonstrations demanding the president steps down . sisi of corruption and destroying the economy rights groups are reporting the biggest round of large scale arrests in sisi took over in 2013 after the country's 1st democratically elected president mohamed morsi stephanie decker reports. they

took a risk to come out to the streets in protest for a 2nd friday that's despite warnings from egyptian security forces that they would face a harsh response al-jazeera cannot independently verify these videos but they are said to be in kenya the city in upper egypt and also in l.a. what achmea the capital cairo other reports suggest a large security presence in central cairo with the streets virtually deserted the roads that you square which has been the heart of previous protest over the years blocked off. another narrative in what is just as much a media campaign state television showing pro-government protests in the capital president abdel fatah sisi returned to cairo early on friday from the un general assembly in new york this welcome posted on his official facebook page with the president reassures this crowd that all is well with the market what are you doing here why you got up early on a friday morning life is good and easy you have to know that the egyptians are very

aware of how they try to fake the realities unrealistic things and deceive the people for the sake of allah and for the sake of you what happened before will never happen again don't worry and don't be worried good morning to you but despite the president's assurances something is happening here waiting out troops all over the streets of cairo now is and we are to do random checks all over the city is a very clear reflection of this government's insecurity. the fact that the thing that runs this government more than anything else is the voice of its own people a government that secure in its standing at security which little missy and it support among egyptians would be so frightened or terrified by hundreds of protesters in the streets of cairo it started with this man mohammed alley a contractor for the egyptian military for 15 years the largest and most powerful institution in the country recently breaking rank uploading videos statements from spain where he now lives in self-imposed exile accusing senior military leaders of

wasting millions of dollars to build villas palaces and hotels it hasn't gone down well with many who are finding it hard to live day by day. more recently there's a lot of economic discontent cc's economic policies have mostly failed the wealth gap has increased and egypt's poverty rate is rising pretty dramatically hundreds came out to protest last friday what has been the biggest show of discontent against he says rule human rights watch says nearly 2000 people have been arrested in the last week alone al-jazeera is banned from reporting inside the country the bigger picture of what is happening here may take time to become clear but it seems once again egyptians have lost their fear and are defying wooders to remain silent stephanie decker al-jazeera. the british flag the oil tanker seized by iran 2 months ago is now on get off the coast of the by after being released by iran the

seizure of the stolen payroll in july in the strait of hormuz escalated tensions in the gulf some say its release could be a peace offering under reagan reports. more than 2 months after being captured by iran's revolutionary guard the british flying tankers stand a hero has now anchored off the coast of the united arab emirates it left the iranian port of bandar abbas on friday is courted by a revolutionary guard gunboat iran accused the tank his crew of violating international maritime regulations its seizure was seen as a retaliation for british marines detaining an iranian super tanker off the coast of gibraltar 2 weeks earlier iran was accused of attempting to deliver oil to syria in violation of e.u. sanctions against the regime. the renamed tango was released last month and despite iran's reassurances to a british court delivered its cargo to syria the release of the stand in pirro is

being seen as an attempt to ease tensions in the gulf and some say may be intended to make european leaders more receptive to iran's proposals for a new peace deal. that softer iran denied involvement in attacks on saudi oil processing plants earlier this month who theory rebels claimed responsibility but germany britain and france have all joined the u.s. and saudi arabia in accusing the iranians something u.s. president donald trump was keen to point out to the u.n. general assembly in response to iran's recent attack on saudi arabian oil facilities we just impose the highest level of sanctions on iran central bank and sovereign wealth fund. all nations have a duty to act. no responsible government should subsidize iran's

bloodlust. iranian leaders has said they want to counter a new u.s. led naval coalition in the gulf that the pentagon says will help protect shipping from further attacks the iranians also want to find a way to avoid u.s. sanctions on iran's economic lifeline oil exports france has been working to save the 2015 nuclear deal that trump withdrew from 16 months ago the joint comprehensive plan of action allowed iran to trade oil in exchange for combing its nuclear activities iran has been reducing its commitments to the deal saying european countries need to find a way around u.s. sanctions but european leaders appear to be growing increasingly frustrated with iran's failure to comply with parts of the deal u.s. sanctions against iran's oil and banking sectors are taking their toll president rouhani.