we understand the differences, similarities of cultures across the world. so no matter what, i'll just bring you the news and current affairs that matter to you. or ah, this is al jazeera ah, just 19 pm here in 1800 gmc, come on santa maria. welcome to the news. our hong kong police have been out in force to stop demonstrators from mocking the 32nd anniversary of the channel square massacre. also in the news, hundreds rally in support of molly's military coup. despite the mounting international pressure activists didn't occupied,

julian's going to take a run between 2 neighborhoods without sending residence or under threat or for to fiction. in facebook, suspend donald trump's account for 2 years, so violation of its rules in the wake of the january capitol hill. right. hands on the call for america, it's thrown into fresh down that's off the brazilian phase for us to, to not stay at home and raise man wounds at some games. could we cancel? ah, we stop the news hour in hong kong, wherever you on this day june 4th, a vigil is held to mark the 1989 t on them and square massacre. but with the pressure and the control from paging constantly increasing in the territory. this is vigil has been stopped before even

begun with its high profile organize the arrested as well. sarah clark has this report from hong kong on the anniversary. china would like the world to forget, sealed off and surrounded by police. victoria park was once the assembly point in hong kong for the annual candidate ritual to mark the piano and square massacre. but for the 2nd year in a row, that gathering was banned. one of the organizes of the rally was arrested, shall hang, tongue has been charged with suspicion of organizing and illegal assembly. because they were found to have used the social media account to advertise publicized a public meeting that had been hit by the police. the arrest didn't it? her students at hong kong university, it cleaned a pillar of shame, statue as part of the anniversary event. we want to educate students of the history of our, of a university. we want to commemorate the people with terrifies thought,

easy. then we want to events, event defense at hoko too often use it and we believe that the university could judge that today's event is totally legal and committed for the last 31 years. the annual vigil has attracted thousands of supporters gathering to remember those who died fighting for democracy in panama square. the rally was the only one held on chinese soil to remember chapter in history. the chinese government would prefer to forget. critics say, authorities are using the pandemic as an excuse to bandy event and silence pro democracy voices in hong kong. who's there? many people who want to commemorate the debt. and of course some people are saying the span could be an eternal bang. it will never come back this week. the museum in hong kong dedicated to the $989.00 cracked down on pro democracy protests was forced to shut down just 3 days after it reopened. government inspected, you're investigating whether it holds

a license to host public exhibition or possibly baby supplies and totally free to come by the police. of course we know whoa. then they have some political motives. china's introduction of a national security law here in hong kong has no finally put an end to street demonstrations. it's also proven to turn many who would normally come to victoria park on june for tomorrow. the piano math is convicted if i heavy penalties locked in. combinations of the military crackdown are strictly bend on the mainland, hong kong, semi autonomous status on the 1997 hand over agreement between china and the u. k. permitted freedom of speech and civil liberties under one country to systems deal. but some academic se, restrictions on those rights now apply in hong kong. ever since the protest in 2019 with the hong kong government failed to manage properly,

the communist party is taken over here. we have the national security law. and under the national security law, there's a very new draconian regime. with more than $100.00 pro democracy figures arrested under the national security law. the cities voice of opposition is on the decline. sarah clark, odder 0, hong kong to other news and france has suspended joint military operations with molly after the countries. second qu, in 9 months, french troops are expected to continue their operations, but on their own part of efforts to pressure them in the trees, you want to work towards a democratic transition. assume you go to was declared president last friday after ordering the arrest of civilian leaders. ah, hundreds of support has gathered in bombing showing that they do back the military to the rally was encouraged by the influential cleric in mom decode. this is the

1st rally since couldn't go to the last month. so let's go to nicholas hawkins. been out amongst those protests or well, really protest. nicholas, they're in support of this military code. that's why there was a protest. the moment they go and we heard from the leader of the protest, move in the m 5 move. and remember a year ago, they were the one that were on, on this square the independence, where protesting, calling for the end of the former president, kate has really not happened in the military that to go over today. we are from leaders, sho, get my, i think, to the states. and although this is a civil society man, his speech was quite political. that's because he's to become the prime minister of molly. after i see me going that the military didn't, the leader asked the m 5 to nominate and you 5 minutes now he took over power

last week and it has detained ever since the president and the prime minister of transition. and that hasn't gone down well for the international community. they thought they had gone away with just a suspension from the west african body echo off the african union. but yesterday was heard from their friends that are temporarily defending military cooperation. now we're hearing from the world bank that they're spending all payment them all out. molly, a double blow both to the economy into the security of the country devolved. tell me more about the french decision. nicholas, even though they are spending military weapons, moderation, they're still stay in the country. that's why, let's remember, there's 5000 troops across the hell through 150. true french troops are concerned with the assault of this, this whole thing of the cooperation. but france as a key partner to molly, i mean when, when the forces that are on the front line,

the center and the, nor the country rely on the french air power to secure the area before the engage with arms. and we know that our group such a lot to talk with me as the loving, the greater to heart are both gaining ground justice when they've launched attack now in the north, in the center, but in the south of the country. so this is a blow to the morale of frontline truth will be wondering, who is protecting that? because with this suspension of the, the cooperation also means that volunteers that are wounded will no longer get the help of french helicopters to take him back to the hospital. there will no longer be the sharing of intelligence and information information between the french agencies and them. are you in the army? so really, increasingly what we're seeing is that the military jones is to be isolated and that's why this protest was so difficult to them. they're trying to show that they

have a popular support of the population, but i'll tell you what some of the numbers of people that we saw today were in the 100 last year there was tens of thousands of people on this. so a lot smaller amount of people came out in support of the end, 5 and end of the military that visit feeling amalia and just want to see their leadership. just get on with business, ensure security, the return of the state in places where the state has retreated and ensure that the house, the 1000000 volumes that have been displaced because of the ongoing security situation . can return of hope in the last year, come out, since the military didn't have taken overpowered, the security situation has gone from bad to worse. and that's the key situation. that's a key issue for ordinary malia but the problem and all of this situation is you've got so many actors in that. in this crisis, you've got the u. n. the biggest un peacekeeping force hold 1000 met. you have the

french forces, have the g 5 african forces on the ground. you have the ball, the important, the political party. and in this big conversation being drowned out is the voices of the maryan people. i see me going to has promised election by february 2022. the question is on the street by my go will he actually stick to that? come all. thank you, nicholas. for those updates on molly 10 minutes past the news. he's coming out the russian president, but tourist to come to his country for a holiday and grab a vaccine while the rest of the weather is held. hampering efforts to prevent a thinking container ship from causing more damage off sri lanka codes. and a russian tennis player is arrested at the french open on allegations match, fixing ah,

to occupy these tourism and hundreds of people of held a run in solidarity with palestinian families facing false expulsions. i began and checked us and ended in fil one. people gathered for the event. there were scuffles between protest, israeli soldiers, dozens of palestinians living in the 2 neighborhoods, or under a threat of losing their homes to israeli settlers. mo, from hot dill hum, eat. she's in phil one and occupied east jerusalem where they started very cheerfully. i would say you had these marathon runners who gathered in jefferson raw. they chose the route all the way to ceylon and to, and in button, and how aware that is a sort of a fit in 10 that's been there for a while. and so the families who live on that street who are also facing for

eviction. now we followed them during their route and nothing was happening. they were young people, teenagers, all were white. teachers with the number is 7850 under back. because according to them, that's the number of palestinians in occupied jerusalem who are facing defect of eviction. now they arrived in this small alley way down there. there was a group of israeli forces waiting for them. what we saw, that they were still standing, singing being cheer full. and all of a sudden israeli forces and move didn't started firing stun good days to disperse them. and it's been ongoing since then. they come back and then there's really forces, again throw some going to the question. i still don't have an answer for is why? because really, there was nothing happening and these young people who were just standing there being cheerful and thinking and happy that they did a marathon. one of those people was marion. i see

a palestinian activist who participated in friday's run. she's been occupied east jerusalem on scott for us, mary, i'm thank you for your time. tell us about your experience today as, as how to said there was no explanation as to why the israelis would push back against a run. so basically we managed to organize this mark brady as protesters, and she won because we have been asking for too much interest in order to support the time you can somebody from the houses in order to keep the attention to what's going on and how. * do you feel for the past few months we've been creating activities. what we've activated works was the matter was the case today,

basically from the 1st at the beginning of the launch, we were actually because we, you know, that they wouldn't allow us to approach as peaceful as to and this because that's because they keep basically us, we are not allowed to peer, i would like to to be senior, allowed to be in touch organizations injures. i love to do an activity that is under the name pattern. so i'm very sorry to interrupt. you want to tell me what happened on the run today, were you physically or, or any of your friends or activists physically stopped from running? did people get in your way? what would i firing things, tell us about the experience. so basic, clear,

we started but i'm from what we're talking about when we and i ran exactly one to button and it's the neighborhood that ethnic cleansing in displacement. they started throwing and when we started talking close by. but we, we kept trying to teach the end point. i would, i would mean a more reach the end problems, which is the very hands inside busing and how or so we were trying to teach the end point as much as we can. they kept us,

but we kept so we kept trying until we reached the end point. when reach the end point, we parted cheering, we thinking we started like we were happy, we were happy that this was happening, but they focused on on and not even like going words. they were, she had got home, we were all the people. they were taking the guess that people could keep an inside the house inside. so we got inside the house is big shooting. of course people left and even the spark, attacking the homes and houses people's most katy is that they were children inside these houses in the house that once was hardy,

under the air bags. and i was like begging him like heavy the get out of the bed because it's got, you were supplicating food like yourself cooking yourself more so quickly. murray, i'm how many would you have any sort of estimate of how many people actually went out on the run today? because as you said in your 1st answer, it's important for you to keep this story of forced evictions in people's in people's minds. but we were around 800 people and you're talking about like we've, we've organized this less than 2 weeks ago. so basically 800 people came and not only a 100 people, like they are not only from many people who are not to do so. i'm going to do some they, they came from visiting along the people at the back of google. right. so in some cities like high for us and they came to jerusalem. so,

so basically it matches up front, which is that we have that as well. if you know in a month a month, now we have on teach it have been with ox and close foot palestinian. it's open. what is there? any settlers and you can go inside the neighborhood or outside the neighborhood. they catch up and sight, tennessee mills are not allowed to enter the rough neighborhood. so it has a very important message because they are denying us. there are 2 of our movements . they are denying i right. yeah. already being asked, i'm going to just interrupt you the mattie am a 50, i'm sorry, because i've got some other news to get to, but thank you for bringing us that account of what happened today. we appreciate your time. thank you. let's talk twitter. nigeria government has

indefinitely suspended the operations of the social media giant, and interestingly, it used twitter to announce the suspension. it accuses the company of undermining nigeria corporate existence. the suspension comes 2 days after the removal of a post from president mohammed who bahati threatened to punish regional secessionist twitter flights. hurry for violating abusive behavior policy more without made interest. he's in northern nigeria today in min. this is interesting and the language being used as well undermining nigeria as corporate existence. it's a very big claim. exactly. this has been going on for days now, betweens, and government and twitter. although the ministry of information have issues with social media platforms for allowing this session is movement. the independent,

the indigenous peoples of the for i pub, which is called, quote cut recurring out to compete in the south east of the country trying to see from nigeria. and its members, are supporters have been accused by the government of blowing a police station, killing army officers, police officers. and of course, people who don't come from that particular region. the beef would be the concern of that. i didn't government when they were, i don't think this suspension was that they come to understand why twitter can allow the leader of the independent, the indigenous peoples of the effort to use twitter to insight insurrection against nigerian state argent. supporters as well as loyalists to attack i didn't, government officials could use for government property in the southeast of the country. and of course continue the attacks on institutions and like the independent electoral commission, which is trying to organize some elections. and then also in the south of the country. so these are some of the issues raised by the government. and there were

wondering why twitter was not blocked such post. and then because the night didn't president issued a statement saying that all those directing the corporate existence of nigeria was a rude shock waiting them very soon. and that's what i get. it said the language is in approp appropriate, but of course come on just before i came on and a few minutes ago and i checked on my twitter account, it's working fine. we don't know exactly when this will happen in our class, not yet, but already generating a lot of reactions among not just one civil human rights group is of course saying that unless the government reverses itself, they are taking that i didn't go to court for banding or suspended retail purchasing. i direct them up. very interesting and not the last will hear of this. i'm sure, thank you. i so that is the government banning twitter. meanwhile, facebook has banned former us president donald trump for 2 years. facebook said

trump was banned for violating community standards in the aftermath of the january 6th riots on capitol hill earlier. he'd also been banned by twitter trump and began his own blog page. that was, however, removed from his website early this week. it only lasted $29.00 days. alan fisher in washington dc tell us more about this one fully to move the blog page because it wasn't getting sufficient traffic. clearly he wanted to be on one of the big platforms, like facebook and twitter. he's still banned from twitter, facebook of know, decided that he's been there from 2 years. he was banned on january. the 7th. you remember that as protestors were storming the capital at the other end of pennsylvania avenue, he treated things like we love you described them as great as well. facebook initially banned him saying that he's violated their rules and regulations. it went to the facebook oversight board, essentially pointed it back to the company, nick klegg, who's the head of global affairs,

has in the last couple of hours put out a statement saying that given the gravity of the circumstances that led to total from suspension, his actions constituted a severe violation to the rules and made it the highest penalty available. well, actually the highest penalty available is to kick them off the platform. what they've done is they will review this in january 2023. that could be an important day, and we'll get back to that in a 2nd. donald trump down in monterey, he's put out a statement in the last hour. he said this decision is an insult. shouldn't be allowed to get away with it. with centering and silencing that one of the things you'll be saying is hold on a 2nd. united states 1st amendment, freedom of speech. what's the deal there? can facebook do this? well, the 1st amendment says the government can't take any measures to ban freedom of speech. it doesn't stop individual companies, the likes of facebook, even though is traded on the stock market from taking this of action. so why is january 2023 so important? well, that is going to be the start of the election campaign for the presidential race

and 2024. and many of donald trump supporters think that he will throw it in the ring. in fact, many people believe that if he declares he is going to be a republican in that race, the republican candidate in the race, he will get the nomination very quickly. indeed, this decision, though, by facebook, will also add fuel to the fire. for many conservatives who think that this is censorship, that the tech giant are too big, too powerful and should be broken up. jen stuckey who is the white house press secretary, she just been having everything in the white house. i just got a note of what she was asked about this. she was asked about this, and all she said simply was, let's see if this be brought can change it strikes day. thank you. alan fisher at the white house. bare you to so jim saki on screen is giving her new conference ongoing. let's go to new york and jim anderson, joining us for more and the see social flow and international content and software developer just to continue on from what i was saying there. or what alan was saying

about a potential run by donald trump in the next election. what is interesting, i think, is that even with being banned from twitter, even with being banned now from facebook and losing the microphone, his popularity is still very high. most republican them, you could argue he still actually the leading candidate for the republican primary for that election. you come on without a doubt. he's incredibly popular among his constituents. but as you, you aptly afraid, he's lost his microphone and i think he was very much hoping that he would get it back with facebook and then twitter would follow. and that may very well happen in time for the next presidential election. and in fact, chooses to run your 2 years. sounds like a long time. but in presidential politics it's really not. so you know, i think facebook split down the middle, if you will, they needed to take severe action. you heard nick legs, words about how they viewed things, but they didn't say that it was a permanent suspension. and you know, 2 years is right at the beginning of the of the next presidential campaign cycle.

part of this whole story is also about how facebook deals with things and they have the oversight board, which they call it, i think and, and how it will tell us, tell us more about that and how you think they've actually dealt with this. yes, interesting, i think this is actually a success for the oversight board, notably, it's not the facebook oversight board. it is just the oversight board and i wouldn't be surprised is as time unfolds, if you see other platforms choosing to use either the oversight board model or maybe even adopt the oversight board itself. it is independent obviously. now let me clear that up. so you're saying it's you said it's not the facebook oversight board, it's. can you explain that? it's just the oversight board. i'm sorry, it's a subtle distinction, but it's an important one. it is the oversight board, there is facebook is not in the name of the board, so it can be an oversight board of facebook and potentially other platforms. and i think facebook with very smart to set this up this way and to try to create some separation and independence. they get lots of criticism. and i think there's lots

of skepticism as to whether the oversight board truly is independent. but facebook, i think, has realized that in itself, interest to try to create as much separation from these very contentious decisions and be able to send it over to what is effectively the analogy that's used in the us as the supreme court. and imperfect analogy. but it's the one that's commonly used was about donald trump's future social media plans. so the blog didn't work. i mean, it was sort of released little fanfare and we'll look to them thought it's a blog and it's 29 days and it's gone. and i think a anecdotally was heard referring to it as a loser blog because it didn't get enough. how might he be sort of recover in the social media? well, because it is important to the way he gets his, his voice out whether he was the president or a candidate. yeah, i think there's 22 answers to that. one is obviously he tries to get his mag phone back on facebook and twitter and maybe in 2 years or 3 years that that ends up

happening separately. and before that, you know, he's clearly thinking about platforms and including taking effectively his audience to another social media platform and the reports that have come out. he said he wants a large cash upfront payment to do that. and i understand that from sort of a celebrity endorsement standpoint, if you go back to the days is the host of the apprentice, that would be very much in character, but he may have to choose, does he want money or does he want an audience? because every dollar that he's paid to, to move his audience to that platform as a dollar, that that platform is not spending and product development and marketing to try to attract other people other than just his followers. and we've been interesting, you know, strategic question. did he want money or does he want attention? he may not be able to get both in equal quantity just on another topic. you will have heard me talking to our managers, correspondents in nigeria, about the, the government. but it doesn't seem to actually come into practice yet, but they are trying to shut down the whole. it would mean that the influence of social media and the fear which governments half of them to these days. i think

that's the spot on with the fear. i mean, it's, you know, in many ways if you're an international company and you want to operate legally in a jurisdiction, you're obligated to follow the laws of that country. and so in the case of nigeria, nigeria make an executive ruling or illegal ruling. you're obligated to follow that there is though a very pragmatic challenge, which is how does one enforce a ban? and i suspect what nigeria is trying to do is block the ip address is associated with twitter and try to to do sort of an infrastructure level block. that's a hard thing to do as just as china. china is block twitter, but you can see tens of millions of people inside china accessing twitter through other means. the great firewall is not always a very effective firewall, certainly not for china. and i suspect not for nigeria either. jim, i could sit and chat to all day about this, but they tell me i've gotta get some other news. thank you so much for your time. really do appreciate it. thank you. yeah. and then use the head of things. the

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