great a strain. in that i would like to think the whole team of doctors who made this operation possible special thanks go to the nurses or dillies and physiotherapists who didn't extraordinary job for me to help me get through this very difficult week i am very touched by the efforts of all the resuscitation staff who have far exceeded my expectations they have shown great humanity and professionalism and i am very grateful to them in. just there with me still rob a reminder of our top stories donald trump seconded pietschmann trial will get underway the week of february the 8th the 2 week delay allows the senate to work through cabinet called the nation's broaden help for the unemployed the former president is accused of inciting the siege of the capitol building 200 has moved washington d.c. what happens now is the house will send over the articles of impeachment on monday

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want to see you again please streamline the 92 channels. plus thousands of other programs the world with documentaries didn't. subscribe to you tube would slash al-jazeera english. a truth commission to scrutinize france's colonial past in algeria although the initiative is backed by president emanuel macron he's refusing to apologize for abuses committed during the country's occupation that angering many are jury and so is reconciliation possible without repentance this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm homage i'm joined now derrius war of independence lasted from 1904 to 1962 and was one of the world's bloodiest

conflicts as former powers decolonized the algerian government says more than 1000000 of its people were killed french historians estimate up to 400000 died france's bitter exit from algeria expose divisions that live on in both countries to this day in areas from immigration and muslims rights to religious expression to the rise of the political far right we'll discuss all this with our panel of guests in just a moment but 1st here's barbara and gulp as report. calling for every conciliation of memories president emanuel mccrone is setting up a truth commission to investigate frances colonial past analogy area but has rejected calls for an apology the decision from as a report by a french historian commissioned by mccrone that described the never ending memory will between the 2 countries because feel secure show up well yet there are 3 things i hope from this report the 1st thing is the general message of the report

namely that the secure lation of memories really exists that people can understand each other that the french understand what the algerian experience was and that the old jerry and also into and to what was the french history of the algerian war of course he. the report suggests the commission should hear testimony from those who suffered during a curious 7 year war of independence that ended in 1962 and says the portrayal of french colonial rule in schools should be overhauled but the proposals avoided comment on systematic torture of military detainees and suspects carried out by french forces it was policy president machen acknowledged for the 1st time in 2018 many algerian sequitur sassing france's refusal to issue an official apology the algerian government's reaction has been muted and that source have been condemned now but also we do not like france and this brutal colonialism has not recognised

its crimes and it has committed important crimes one and a half 1000000 martyrs have been killed among our people the algerian state must strike hard because the algerians are not satisfied. but i am still not paula divers we're not and the reason why it will not apologize or that it's afraid of having a large financial compensation. the establishment of the commission creates a political tightrope walk for emmanuel mccrone given that about 5000000 people with ties to al geria live in france they include immigrants and their families to war veterans and french citizens who settled in colonial algeria and their views and questions over identity and integration going back to the algerian war will continue to be a strong and contentious force in french politics and society barbara and for inside story. all right let's bring in our guests for now here art is the chief foreign

correspondent at le figaro joining me from paris use of bo and l. is professor of political science and international relations at qatar university and also in paris. a sociologist and researcher at school of advanced studies in the social sciences there welcome to the program use of let me start with you today this report says its purpose is to achieve a reconciliation but it also ruled out france issuing an apology for the past from your vantage point can there be reconciliation without an apology. when it's been a bit difficult to achieve a conciliation who have bowed to the bullets but it could be achieved if for those as it's. close it is committed in the julia over the a bit of a hold of the 2 to 2 years i would say that this meat ball to buddy above us have been jimmy stewart up who was of both. is

a specialist in the lot of the basically is a very good study indeed president but go on a flight should be about related for being the 1st president to walk into this minefield because shivah the presidents before him never wanted to book to show what they thought but that mccrone since 2017 house felt that to make overtures towards and to look into the history between the 2 comes right now you heard use of there he was talking about the fact that president mike chronos the 1st french president to wade into this minefield as he called it obviously previous presidents did not mr micron he commissioned this report he is now going to create a commission based on the recommendations of the report how politically risky is this for him. thought of all i want to see the french or girl

presence. and he 1st you have 1st of war to congo and do the hard work of loose colonies of turkey or you stumble or consent to go. where a person where where committed and then it was just a near death there became a great fear of clowns and was given tension in the region there and so 'd far and there we are jews on the visit not only were you don't you have a lot of. people are you know what seem to be happening with with the 1st rule leader of the taliban and then of course if you call it war started a war with ticket items which started. against french schoolteachers

that are nothing to do with the army or live. and and then in the repression of recent direction the defense army did. some actually do it and altered order when. only in a 58 when. our. but of course also a lot of adversities we're committed. to repair our. gaze furnished millions they're also working a lot of abuse a lot of innocent lives you know after the war after the peace was. signing if you are in 62 where i'm jewish and french in the south who are i believe that. you not.

abide by their promises. and they massacred what we call. our teams where all this arabs fighting with the french. so so of course if frogs would apologize i mean. who. else did a good french people but also a lot is other. people so this is this is that bit will do and do it well. you know as well not a nation with some pirates. or it will all get somebody to begin to look at i think there are 3 and then the war 'd was wrong. from the start. it. and from europe

it. discovered or. left everything all. the way 50 years the we had generals rule all country you datable it. may be that the. arab leaders aren't you know that's not want to talk about how. we need the country to literally have it all right now let me follow up with you on the point that you're on the point you make your own x. i want to ask them a question related to some of what you were saying as well i meant in 2018 mr my chronic knowledge the widespread use of torture by french forces now geria that had not happened before in 2017 mr micron called france's colonization of algeria a crime against humanity that was startling at the time if he's gone that far already there is an argument to be made about why not just go ahead and apologize.

well i think we need to enter back to beat the debate and give more context of people who are listening to or to west 1st these are french reports that means that is not a come on for us between france and altering up deciding that we agree on their past everything that future is a friend and report later just specific compositions of matter poems date and also to the specific human debates that are going on facts that they are trying to. somehow worrying about yet impact of that isn't and then call your arguments in the police the base in fantasy and as a winning ness to really easy to really think about the algae and work in a relationship with the colonization then we. dispelled in france that radical islamists are people in disservice from algerians descents for example do

not know well the ology and fragile dispatch algerians to release and then need to somehow carry down the debates in order to challenge our declared additional old order the dependence of the genes inheritance in france so this is far in the framework of the debate now i think that this issue of new parents and pull g.'s that's something that is again very much related to france itself and the fact that fans remains if i can put it that place reports to model e. attached judiciary benson's and apologies the more you have it has happened and we have it isn't it is giving birth to 2 and 14 cinnamon 1st doing so because generation in between brackets has not asked for its on report

time has not come in should i. and then it got a group of historians. this terrorist there is just an old hat and a lot that i think the issue sometimes have is having 2 important consequences 1st it's a law we need you know your vision to come to a new age of p.r. how does so the founder all the option to marry me lucius mission in relation to the city and it is also encouraging to the french extrem a rack of moments to join just a day and that's not really fair to actually all right let's take a look at the role of truth commissions for a moment truth commissions have been set up in more than 40 countries to encourage resolution following conflict many are based on a model created in south africa in 1962 years after the end of apartheid that commission gathered testimony about abuses to start a process of national healing liberia set one up in 2006 to investigate crimes committed during one of the worst civil wars in africa's history but its recommendations have remained largely and implemented among on syria's neighbors

morocco has had one since 2004 it was created to end abuses by the security forces under king house and the 2nd about 18500 people have been compensated but none accused of torture have ever been pursued and in tunisia a commission was set up in 2014 to look into the dictatorship of sand i've been idly by 2018 it had passed nearly 200 cases to the judicial authorities yousif let me ask you this how would this commission compare to those established in other countries in the wake of conflict. well the i mean the benjamin story of a pause these particular of the commission i would say each work in progress obviously they want to find out what happened because the journey history is not written the property or at least as far as the wall is concerned who committed what and how so there are laws in this reporter so many issues that

we'd be. covered obviously the up posi has been excluded and it has never been short of it at all to extend it meant for the other julian authorities it is a puppet of the man from the average algerian they want an apology from france despotic italy paul clicquot closed 8 of them take for instance the assassination of the people mentioned which is a good step celt and after that these politic couldn't commissions the hearth uncovered what they need to look up what they spoke i mean that benjamin start up for instance spoke about the did nuclear tests in the south of judea for instance that these appealed from bought fighters on and so forth it's only when the good truth is know when the decision will be made. what are the images it could be in the form of

a policy it could be deportable of naming and shaming we know who did what for these days when we talk about the assassination of the great lobby been made the which has always been a secret but the only 2 years and it's only recently that the lobby been t.d.c. sort of went to flounce and met the basically the french general who executed him. i mean we've been we know about this with not about this for the book . that is also all of these so it's on i guess it's only when we know what pup and exactly we can all we can get better is that what the debate is should be should be made right now you were mentioning in your previous answer the issue of atrocities committed during the war so i want to ask you president macross office said he would follow the recommendation to create a memories and truth commission does that mean that you expect that there will be

testimonies that will be heard from people who suffered during the war. yeah. well i mean he story is always good to be written and your general are many in which it's a lie so you should have a. repeat of the french. you know and you know and also lead the rebels war. both started. to be did atrocities they go ahead of their be like that's right belayer father was called. big and you're in a high tech and you killed so many young. innocents that gives us paranoia so all this and to be written i think it's good to ask your witnesses are still

alive and to have a. current history of. war. and also of and here you are in a spanish prisons in algeria that i said was very well as it is certainly i don't agree where the biggest medical center in general colonization is a crime against humanity i think it's eating well and you can see myself ever getting my and my gang existence as bitter that i am what wins. julius caesar i like as the ace of orbiting setting there are nice people but i am personally as again happy that coralie zation what one current edition jurist she's our one in france and then have my school learn latin and to enroll in lowell and roman ruins and brooklyn bridges and academics and all this i believe

personally i am happy to every. other woman. so i think things quickly begun will work well where the result back said a d.c. that. and it's true that we need. a history religion to get a. friendship or a lot of very good cheer in the current internationals and it will be very nice to have this history written. to get there you know like i said from very very popular. dogmatists during the origins all the french public law then so it's good and yes it started moving to rats to get this restoring though it was not decided when he said it to be peace in 60

doing that if you don't agree mend but now we're not. right to be storing that you will not have a couple of people and he said like you will not an. instant commission we have our people are being big is the under now we must step this rebels in nigeria in the ninety's a lot of it really in committed don't accept expect apologies from yoder an army of the under government for his atrocities so you will know you were. a man let me ask you it's been almost 60 years since the end of the war how much does it continue to strain french algerian ties. look. all fishel new marriages will be always used as a way to. ease our has a way to promote

a specific agenda on both sides we should getting beyond this of fishel instrumental use of the essential g.m. history to look at swan important factor and there's a new generations and both countries now and there's a need to meet this knowledge to the new generation there's a need to long stand somehow on how alj and historic history should beat out on what premises it is for young algy friends who have not been able to visit the country because large area has also began a very closed country for the past 30 years young french people who actually believe that call musician is something that's so that's a kind of argument and correspondence between the 2 generations that's something interesting that is not shouldn't maybe too quickly in the report it's nice to

think about who wait for all the new algae and your french generation to leave them their knowledge of each other it's the thing is we really don't know or at least some are not actual point of view mirror really don't know what didn't want the they will react to these propositions i do not believe that is huge that are important what is symbolic steps the report is mentioning are really at the heart of their interests for a bunch others so again it really have our having a new generation but i do insist that nothing will be done or will the intell to be done without the participation of geology and regime and the fact that our g.n.p. stari and. hence in the society should be a bit more free you're to trying to deny a. ever to grapple with that how french comes across if you do if you look at the last piece of that has no lat to him that for example i hold his mobile he's this

shit yet i doubt he knows i'm not obsessed with the idea of repentance actually they are not even martin looking up fast has fully adult on your power that has a witness accounts really has a yard there is so there is no mclarty to hear it didn't it is the edges of a new generation that's the only shows have to the full measure and kills the entrance ramp with the if it is a psyche is at not come come come come try actually meet that exchange and too little and too late they're there to leave their reports and they're there with all due to their specific political action that's use if we only have a couple of minutes left let me ask you president micron hopes that this report is going to help normalize relations between france and algeria do you think that that can actually happen when the like you're just going to form buttons

dissolute bolt is one side of it would have been sent for us as official if you will of the situation on what needs to be done. we have looked at it being off issue for all them did ugly in government they have a big machine chipping away is basically caught the bug off because i mean sport up oh has not said the it been so obviously we would like all of the evidence what you would like the story or does. love hate relationship between flaws and agenda in the world of what equipment you devote about julian pleasant that was said between us and flounced out of moment of scott and some peoples of blood obviously days. medically we need to know more about it i was pretty pleased to see him to be brought up that to me. could accuse them for school

children influenced would be that he advised and that would go to the wall it all julia associated with colonialism and so on as a vote shed the light on some so many of the dark secrets they called boat up did up at the. and but it might bite is a very very significant step for at least for the government because let's not forget that on the 20 top of february 2003 if my lovely wasn't the need but the national assembly. decreed the law dr goli fight colonialism which unfortunately as far as you know usually it is concerned they wanted to kill even allies colonialism and demotion was really shocked at 3 times it was in that new 17162020 i think this is a very very important stop at this point in the blog government work block us would

say wait and see all right we've run out of time so we're going to have to leave the conversation there thank you so much to all our guests are not here our use of bow and bell and care and thank you too for watching you can see the program again any time of visiting our website of 0 dot com and for further discussion go to our facebook page that facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter our handle is at a.j. inside story from a mom a gentleman the whole team here by phone now. for 4 weeks america in goal didn't protest every day all over the u.s. even as the country faces the continued threat of a deadly penn demick. and it morphed into

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