and then the bloody. underfed just ruled there was an excess of democracy and the. drugs were prohibited but went on the ground. and there they asked the dealers to stop but the dealers were addicted to the money so they were all shot dead at their doorsteps. than had. and they were big merchants and people were coming in and out it was like a supermarket. market. despite its crackdown. now they've been tipped off and on their way to work. they say this young man is dealing drugs with his brother he's taking them to his house where they plan to

search for narcotics. and this is all they find this time around roughly a gram of hash which will result in a charge of possession rather than distribution. but it's clear that such tactics can pay dividends the police showed us some of the drugs they have seized on previous raids. pills of ecstasy. and. tramadol. unfortunately there is a big difference between the number of arrests in 2009 compared to 2008 drug

cases have gone up in the last year in 2009 we had close to 1200 then 4 cases of which 500 the new. 91 what tramadol relate my ocado been ill from within we ceased close to 2 and a half 1000000 trauma pills compared 255-0000 in 2000 and. 10 says gaza stunnel are the key conduit for illegal substances into district. the drugs are mostly supplied by israel and directly via egypt and the tunnels some drugs also come directly from egypt the profits to young people who want to get rich quick. we have called those between the ages range from $20.00 to $23.00 with huge quantities of drugs and they are considered among the biggest dealers in gaza. this radius are the main source of drugs to gaza and their aim as our

evidence from official cases shows is to flood gaza with drugs. we had some of the growing problem has prompted the police to push for stiffer sentences but there's only so much that a government can do. some things will slip through the net in the shadowy underworld where thousands of gazans risk their lives every day to earn a living. these young men told us they regularly work overnight sometimes sustained by the illegal pills they helped transport. him up the tab key for the left. from that then. there are sheraton zenith must shipman.

the one thing that harbor had and. if you showed 100. 20 and then shipped off the front on the 1st time the whole harbor from the north for a 1000000 corn for the british the nervous before the. suits. but for those who do get caught this is the lot that awaits them. this is gaza central jail and this is the section where they're holding prisoners on drug charges going both users and dealers here is 120 of them in 3 different cells. some of the men have been charged and convicted others are still waiting court proceedings.

were given him in the. shoulder i was put in prison 2 months ago. i was playing the role of the middleman between a trader and a buyer. and i also take drugs. but after i have been taking drugs for a long time since 99 to. started taking drugs when i went to tel aviv and israel. so i know that is going to share this experience is humiliating as you can see 35 people sleeping in the same room is not healthy more learned of. the police say their prisons are part of an imperfect yet effective strategy to clamp down on trafficking going to me for me to free them any more than. we stop 80 percent of the drugs before they entered the gaza strip then we start an investigation depending on the information we get the confessions we get from people or dealers lead us to the major dealers who try to get the drugs from an

awful. lot you know. but some question the methods used to extract information. as a habitual drug user claims he's experienced these methods firsthand on more than one occasion. that. they just beat you up they tie you up like this they raise you up on a chair. and hang you from a chain for a day or 2. with the blindfold you so you won't recognize the person beating you and then go after them in the streets. when they let me down of the chair i couldn't feel my arms i swear i could not feel them. the ministry of interior denies physical violence is being used against drug offenders but hallett's allegations tapped into

a longstanding taboo in palestinian society. and. there are links between drug addiction and spying if you are an addict you're on the side of the occupation and as long as you're with the occupation then you are against palestinian society you're a suspect fact i used to link addiction with collaboration addicts get no sympathy . when the new government came to power they followed the same path and. that's why when an addict falls in the hands of the police you find that the most junior to the most senior in the police hierarchy will beat him as a form of revenge. the doctor says this suspicion is fueling a police behavior that's aggravating and already serious problem. and to say psychologically torture will only increase the person's addiction so you're making matters more complicated by beating him. if the addict does not feel that society

sees him as a human being and he will she will become more depressed than of us so we then of out of the. way then of out of my fear is difficult trauma siege and on top of that torture from your own people from the people you expect to be on your side that only increases the trauma and if the addict takes 2 pills of trauma how he was she will start to take for him off what about it that has gotten him off. the oahu with a siege that continues to tighten its grip on people some have resigned themselves to accepting the reality that it's gaza today. and they did the planning had it i would like to be able to stop taking drugs because i'm tired i'm depleted from the inside. i'm talking to you and all my internal organs are in god's mercy sometimes

i feel that my wife will try to wake me up but i won't wake up that they can and that i will be gone and meet god almighty with their newborn the whole. ready ready ready ready ready ready ready amount continues to see his doctor on a weekly basis ready he has not given up on his hope for a better future ready ready. the 1st thing i wish for is a job i'm all the 2nd dream i have is to settle on a house of my own. well how do you. that i could have a nice home to live in 'd and to live the trauma pills behind. 'd and comfortably numb from 2010 now that was the situation a decade or so ago and conditions in gaza have if anything got worse since the palestinians began their find a protests at the border fence

a recent report by the un human rights council logged 189 killed and more than 6000 engine 2018 alone it wouldn't be a surprise then if the opioid problem had to tear rated along with the political and humanitarian situation rewind returned recently to gaza to find out. gaza's drug problem hasn't gone away in the last 10 years if anything the recent upsurge in violence at the border has made the painkiller problem once. and who. 10 years on dr samir says there's still a reluctance to come forward to be treated i goes this community mental health program for fear of reprisals. i

had a live in a minute man i had that. well i can allow that they'll have to remember. that remember when they got the bin of c. ya know your journey been because 4000000 mccollum and one woman. was mental are. as the authority come down on tramadol other painkillers with brand names such as lark and furious that are becoming more popular and now better to call arbor. will be there early overwritten to par. apart from the wall paper pressure too is another key reason why young people are taking these drugs a 3rd. power can tell me. some of the. folk among the battle to remain drug free is ongoing can one sided.

tell us the. battle in cern eric if more have. the most. cherished and cherished. memory in general carson are in favor. of building. the medical community. because this economic deprivation and lack of employment opportunities has led to a new more worrying problem women too are now becoming addicted. many. comes or a serene center where i come. from so it's a reason. barber. said one like a trial should not have married men well added but. in the past few years the

palestinian authority targeted to drug traffickers. however i've excess are seen as criminals rather than patients. non-voter. well is a bad. imprisoning the growing number of addicts it's clearly not the answer it's a cause is just problem. doctors are believes that therapy is the only way to address the issue now. yeah how many in. every market will insight into the side effects of israel's continuing blockade of gaza well that's it from us do join us again next time and you can check out the

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forces were responsible for the shooting protests. supporters of june this is a policy celebrate his exit polls show that has a slight lead in parliament re-elections. crisis mode the world health organization meets in manila after gives it up to $11000000.00 filipino children are at risk of death or disability. a 2nd whistle blowers come forward in the impeachment inquiry against us president donald trump the lawyer who is now representing both before says his client actually witnessed the phone call between president trump and his ukrainian counterpart other official reports. an unusually low profile we can for president trump despite a new development in the high profile pietschmann quality lawyers for the whistleblower who expressed concern over the controversial phone call with the

ukrainian president have now confirmed on twitter there is another witness it said this government official has 1st hand knowledge and supports the claims of the farce was so blown the new witness is cooperating with the intelligence community's inspector general and there we can tweet president trump dismiss the news writing they are going to the bench and another whistleblower is coming in from the deep state keep them coming but this weakens one leg of donald trump's defense that the original complaint was based on here see he asked his ukrainian counterpart to investigate one of his political rivals to abide in during a call in july he insists he has every right to ask another country to examine wrongdoing involving americans but american law prohibits foreign interference in presidential elections the whistleblower claimed this was part of a pattern of behavior where the president used his political power to push his personal agenda the white house didn't provide anyone for the sunday political talk

shows to defend the president in fact republicans were thin on the ground one who did make an appearance insisted the president did nothing wrong i'm not here defending the president and i'm not here to denounce him either what i'm here is telling you my my piece of this puzzle here giving you my honest assessment of what i heard how the president told me repeatedly in the may 23rd oval office visit on the phone of the 31st the reason here very legitimate concerns and reservations are ukraine is 1st corruption generalizes in demick we all know that. democrats are pushing ahead with gathering more evidence this coming week insisting it's important to get to the bottom of the allegations i'm deeply scared by the positioning that republicans have chosen to take that interview was just a giant green light to the president of the united states to continue to solicit foreign interference in u.s. elections he telegraph that he's going to ask china to do the same thing that he asked the ukrainians to do this week because republicans are allowing to are

allowing him to do it and this entire country should be scared that in a moment when we need patriots what we're getting is blind partisan loyalty public support for the impeachment of president trump is still under 50 percent he is the one thing for him though as more information comes out that number is going up alan fischer al-jazeera washington. exit poll showing tunis is conservative n.r. has won parliamentary elections by a narrow margin the secular heart of tunis your party came in 2nd place but is hasham a hobart reports the election outcome may lead to more political tension it's a moment of celebration for another supporter the conservative party has secured 46 seats in preliminary results but it's a bitter victory for a party that won 69 seats 5 years ago. then

a memory that you did we are at the beginning of a new period that people have given us their trust and we will live up to it. we will use all of tunisia's political capital in order to achieve their main objectives of the revolution such as the protection of personal and public freedom . their 2nd objective is dignity which requires jobs education and health services. the secular heart of tunisia has come in 2nd with $35.00 seats the party was founded 3 months ago by media tycoon a bill how do we who is in jail on corruption charges the coalition of dignity and alliance of independent candidates came in 3rd with 20 seats and the surprising performance by the newcomer the constitutional liberal party securing 16 seats the party was established in 2013 by i b m o c a lawyer and loyalist of

a former president. but the biggest loser. or the call of the party of former president. c which was the largest party in 2014 with 86 seats in parliament it was an election marred by a growing discontent with the political establishment a few voters showed. at this polling station in the capital tunis most of them early but determined to be part of tunisia 2nd democratic election since the revolution 80 years ago men it uneasy as angry with their leaders around houses and i very much wanted to see young candidates and fortunately it's the same old elite security and economy should be the top priority for the government during the campaign another and the heart of tunisia brushed aside joining a coalition government if another fails to form an alliance within 60 days the president can call for new elections there is

a feeling of anxiety about what may happen next if another heart of tunisia set aside their differences that make guarantee stability in a country beset by economic problems of the 2 have been trading accusations over the past few weeks raising fears of a prolonged political impasse house of about al-jazeera to this william lawrence is professor at george washington university's elliott school of international affairs and he says despite an artist's success they've lost significant support in recent years. i was surprised that now that it's so badly they've gone from 37 to 27 to 17 percent of the vote in the 3 successive parliamentary or constitution assembly elections and that's a significant drop off tunis was founded 3 months ago but it was founded by mr karzai the one in jail who was a founding member of needed tunis so to in some sense since need to tunis got

nearly 40 percent the last elections and the party derived from them got only 15 percent i don't see that as a huge success i see that as a bit of a failure to and the next parties are unknown so what we have is a fractured and potentially fractious parliament coming together to try to solve huge problems that the government's facing and i'm not so sure it's going to be that easy with such a variety of opinions that will be in the coalition. iraq's government has denied that its security forces fired directly at protesters during 6 days of violent demonstrations at least 109 people have been killed since the arrest began on tuesday more than 6000 people have been injured she had britons he has more. after days of demonstrations across iraq the number of dead continues to rise in the aftermath of the killings iraq's interior ministry pushed back when i was with us accounts that security forces fired live at protesters but could be out of

a limb could take everyone knows there were no armed battles clashes or confrontations between the security forces and the protesters but there were wicked and he knows hands that targeted the victims on both sides when we went and checked the bodies of the martyrs the injuries were in the head or the heart it is clear that the shooting did not take place from a close distance or from the area where the security forces were present a serious investigation is ongoing to find out who is behind such a wicked and he miss operation have been scores of casualties as demonstrators vent their anger at a government that's been in power for just over a year that the protesters are mainly young men and youth unemployment has now reached 25 percent according to the world bank. we the youth are protesting peacefully what do they want from the youth why are they killing us. the protesters say they have adopted a system that they say is corrupt and serving the interests of a few they say they don't support any political parties but that doesn't stop the

political opposition from backing the protesters and calling for new elections i think this is a case of political point scoring this is a systemic issue so when you have parties refusing to take part in parliamentary debates making sure that there isn't a core and so they can go ahead this is also that they can pressure on prime minister i did have that maybe on sunday the iraqi government pledged 17 reform. covering land redistribution increased welfare payments to those in need and the construction of 100000 new housing units the government launched a program of home demolitions in september targeting the makeshift shelters of the poor the head of the u.n. mission to iraq has called for the violence to stop in a tweet or of a few international voices to speak up as iraq still struggles to deal with the aftermath of the invasion by the u.s. and its coalition of the willing in 2003 she have returned. meanwhile

iraqis who are worried about the safety of their family and friends at home have been staging a protest outside of the white house. members of this solidarity rally say they can't get hold of their family because of the closing down of the internet they say the government crackdown is an attack on democracy. we are here demonstrating in support of the people of iraq and this is a letter addressed to the white house asking them to help the iraqi people and stand against iranian interference and we call on the protests in iraq to continue . to use them. we're here to support the people of iraq who getting killed in the peaceful demonstrations for simply asking for their rights the cut of their internet the cut of their electricity so they don't believe their message to the world and we're here to show our support and to tell them we stand with you and to see iran out out iraq will mean 3. the palestinian president mahmoud abbas has

pledged to hold new parliamentary elections he says all factions will be part of the vote including his party's long time rivals hamas it will be the 1st time polls have been held there since 2006 no date has yet been announced. israeli foreign minister israel katz has confirmed that he for mating non-aggression paths with gulf states as relations with some have warmed against a common foe namely iran katz posted on twitter revealing his efforts that would normalize economic ties and institutionalize cooperation despite a lack of movement on the palestinian israeli conflict katz said that this this effort backed by the u.s. is quote historic and will put an end to the conflict to make possible civilian corporation until.