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the whole rahman, you're watching out there in the headquarters here in doha will. so coming up donald rumsfeld to give us all the us invasion of afghanistan and iraq has defense, that country has died at the age of 18. also, the chinese communist party is celebrating its and teen re we look at how president cheating ping is tightening control by building a personality called open a kingdom in crisis protested democratic freedom. minutes for teenie africa, last absolute monarchy. ah, welcome to the program. he was the 1st celebrity to be tried and convicted for sexual assault in the me to era. but now us, comedian bill cosby has been released from prison. after pennsylvania's supreme court overturned his conviction, he returned to his philadelphia home on wednesday,

just hours after his release. the 83 year old served more than 2 years for 10 years sentence on charges of drinking and assaulting a woman in 2004. during the trial, the judge allowed both her testimony as well as that of 5 other accuses to show a pattern of abuse. the state's highest court says the testimony of the 5 others tainted the trial. oh, bill cosby tweeted that we quote, he's never changed. his stands or his story, i think that he's always maintained his innocence, and he's thanked his fans, the porters and friends, as well as the pennsylvania supreme court. she upper tansy has more from washington, dc. there wasn't a judgement about whether cause to be drugged in sexually assaulted or women. this is a judgment about whether due process was followed and cause we received a fair trial. we have to go back to 2005 when he was initially charged with sexually assaulting women. the prosecutor at the time declined to press criminal

charges instead. he apparently vocally reached a deal with cars to be lawyers that in return for cause bees testimony. depositions from cosby which waved his 5th amendment right against self incrimination. he would then not be charged criminally, but he could be charged civilly in court. so that's what happened. in fact, that middle b accuse actually won the civil case. then 10 years later, up those depositions that cosby gave, which did incriminate him with an unsealed and the prosecutor at the time, the subsequent prosecutor said we should prosecute him criminally. now we have a black and white. supreme court says no, that should not have happened that initial deal, even though it was simply verbal, should stand because of france. cosby was concerned when he gave those depositions incrementing him so he thought he would never be criminally charged to behind, choicest live. now the guy from baltimore, maryland, she's a trial attorney and a former baltimore city prosecutor. we could help you with this on the program

again before we sort of talk about so the legality of what's just happened to the last 24 hours. me. what's your reaction to the decision from the perspective of a woman and with so much contact and conversation within the me to move into and with those that her be that the full front of that movement? well, i was shocked. i mean, i was really shocked with, i think most people were that this case was overturned and vacated, which means that he can not be tried again. and even the court itself, given his opinion, that extremely rare for that to happen. you know, there is a many legal reasons why it happened, but i like everyone else. i'm just an utter just another shot. i don't need to think you'll be saw. this is going to happen to be quite honest, but he's not in his case is just overturned on a legal technicality, which precludes him from being tried again. ok, so how do you see then this decision today affecting other cases of

a similar sort of variety? i mean, is this a blueprint really full defense attorneys to litigate other cases in a similar fashion? now, this case is extremely rare. even the, the appellate court says that the likelihood of what happened to bill this case is extremely, extremely rare. it's not likely to happen in any other case because the procedure that occurred, which was an essence that the district attorney in 2005, put out a press release, a written press release that he would not pursue on behalf of the commonwealth of pennsylvania charges against bill cosby and then bill casa, goes one in the civil case to give depositions. and one of the tenants of the united states constitution is the right for defendants and not be compelled to testify against themselves. you always hear people say, i'm going to take the fit. i'm pleading the bit. anything you say can and will be used against you. and kathy gave up that rise because he legitimately spell that by

the press. release them with the letterhead of the district attorney's office. that was signed by the district attorney's office in 2005 saying that the office would not proceed tried to. he felt that he could just go went to talking spree in 4 different deposition. but 10 years later, a new prosecutor came into the office and said, no, that's not any written agreement that the press release. and so yes, we can go ahead and prosecute him. so the case is just so very narrowly unique. in that instance, the trial court had woo bad. the depositions were allowed to be offered into evidence in this constant case, because they said that it's not any written agreement. mr. coffee, the trying didn't find it. it's a press release. it was not any written agree and it's not bind. and so really this, this po, boats. the question, doesn't that debbie that how will this affects that of women coming forward, making them perhaps think twice about sort of the legal speak that can entangle the

facts. and see, but a potential criminal go free there perhaps got to think twice those victims as innocent victims of even thinking of going to the police or looking for help. well, that's the, that's the fairness of the whole thing. is that even though the sat for limited to what happened in this case, even though the banks are very rare, extremely rare and unique is going to have a chilling effect when the women common core. it took me con, that over a year to come for it to the police, and that's not on rare. and the other victims in this cause this case did not come for the after the statute limitations, that pad and the one reason why women don't want to come forward is because of what happened in mister ca escape either. you will have put everything out. they are only to get loose again and only to have your abuse or be the victor. so it's going to have there's no other way to spin it. it's definitely going to have

a chilling effect on how the women coming forward in particular when they're coming forward again, powerful men in positions like bill cars. so it's a fact. there is no other way to say it. well indeed, we shall see. what does happen shall the conversation the debate will continue across the us. debbie hines, joining us, baltimore, thanks so much for your time. thank you. in other news, double rumsfeld, the us defense secretary, who i was all the invasions of, of god is on the rock, has died at the age of 88th of the state department correspond rustling. jordan takes a look back at his life. donald rumsfeld was brash and abrasive, infamously, so it's critic say the combination was the former us defense secretaries undoing during the worst days of the us war in iraq rumsfeld take, he was right, his critics were wrong and they couldn't stand it. rumsfeld was a survivor of washington politics. he made history as both the youngest and the

oldest secretary of defense. and he did the bidding of for republican presidents in 1983 president ronald reagan sent rumsfeld to baghdad to try to broker closer ties with saddam hussein. but 2 decades later, it was defense secretary rumsfeld, who argued saddam had to go in rejecting the president's ultimatum. the iraqi regime has chosen war over peaceful design. and a us led war was the way to make that happen. he and other bush administration officials accused a rock of helping to plan the september 11th attacks, which it did not. rumsfeld also accused a rock as possessing weapons of mass destruction, which he did not. he was wrong, but rumsfeld refused to say so. we believe the intelligence was correct, it turns out that it was not completely correct. at 1st rumsfeld embraced the neo

conservative idiology of exporting us style democracy and nation building. but it is 2013 memoir rumsfeld changed his tune. i did not think resolving other countries, internal political disputes, paving roads erecting power lines, policing streets, building stock, market and organizing democratic governmental bodies were emissions were our men and women in uniform. more important rumsfeld refused to plan for the possibility that a rocket could tumble into chaos and civil war. again, he wouldn't apologize. there are known known. so there are things we know. we know . we also know there are known unknowns. that is to say, we know there are some things we do not know. critic said, rumsfeld desire to spend as little money as possible to fight the war. meant us troops didn't have the protection they needed from roadside bombs. and they said this exchange between a soldier and rumsfeld proved he didn't care. now why do we soldiers who have to

dig through local landfills for pieces of scrap metal and compromise, ballistic glass stuff on our vehicles. and why do we have those resources readily available to us? you go to work with the army, you have not the harmony you might want or wish to have around the world. rumsfeld was a symbol of us, our guns, the military prison at guantanamo opened on his watch. we're going to the right. and the other hub abuse scandal exploded while rumsfeld was in charge with the us war in iraq going badly. rums not resigned at the end of 2006, leaving a legacy that is decidedly controversial. rosalyn jordan al jazeera, the chinese communist party is celebrating scent, scenery, and present teaching thing is using the occasion to tighten his grip on the nation . in 2018, she remove the to term limit on his presidency effectively allowing him to remain

in power for life. and as katrina you reports from beijing. he's been cultivating a cult around his leadership. president party secretary, the people leader and to some just papa she she didn't ping is called many things. and as the communist party celebrates, it's 100 year anniversary. the 68 year old is consolidated disposition as the country's most powerful leader in decades. don't go hand, the party has unite it and they let the people in opening a great path, making great achievements. fortune, a great spirit. she has led china for 9 years, and after a bullying presidential term limits in 2018 is unlikely to step down anytime soon. he began his term with an empty corruption campaign, which the one and a half 1000000 officials punished. it also purged the party of any opposition to his rule. she then promised to an extreme polity. nationwide a promise,

he said he fulfilled last year. many say these feats have given rise to a status on par with a party found a mounted. don't chinese pay. people have advanced very well, and they don't want to give that up. and they won't. and the whole bill attached themselves to any leader who is able to you know, not only promised but deliver the son of revolutionary elite. she was sent to rural ne, in china during the cultural revolution where he joined the party and rose through the ranks. china has since transformed into the 2nd largest economy, the world with technological pro west 2nd only to the u. s. and growing global influence, his admirers say she is the ideal person to bring china into the modern era. critic say he is a dictator. so african national curse for anything to ship. however, it may be a mighty effective, medicare's magic of beginning over time, depending on what the case simply because, you know, it does not have the kind of

a diversity kind of sense about the page or policies under his watch. authorities have cracked down on home and she's young and according to human rights groups in prison, up to 1000000 weakest and re education caps to she, the battle to maintain power isn't just political. it's ideological during henry celebration, the thing official narrative being repeated again. again, that is division weekend between us and 1400000 people must unite behind one polity and one leader only then can the country truly be great? and will say, this message is crucial to the parties survival, but may eventually lead to its doubtful thing as a wiser might prove a top either without a tremendous cost. an adventure said. now in china, only one path leads to the greatest rewards the path of loyalty to the leader.

katrina, you all da, 0, the dating? well celebrations in china, pulling from the parties past in order to renew patriotism. but as much that beijing would like to forget from the decade, long term, all of the cultural revolution to the current down on hong kong. there been several threats to the parties. survival, as adrian brown explains. when china is coming, his party was born, rival warlords, controlled most of the country. but worse, lay ahead. japan's military occupation and the civil war that happened around it back and it was the villain population is on the move. the communist eventually took power in 1949. under its leader chairman model. he quickly rallied the masses behind a plan to rapidly industrialize china's peasant economy. the famine that followed may have led to as many as 45000000 deaths. the episode remains to bu,

subject and china, just like the cultural revolution, the decade of violence up evil when students were encouraged to defy authority. yet during that chaos, there was a remarkable diplomatic breakthrough. then you as president richard nixon visited beijing paving the way for the establishment of diplomatic ties between 2 previously sworn enemies. optum out of death, a new leader, age 74, took the party on a radical new journey. done shall ping champion, economic liberalization reforms that would help make china the world's biggest economy after united states. he also instigated political reforms, term limits on the leadership, so that no one could rule unchecked. the way mount under china is currently the shooting thing that policy has been reversed. the one thing that the party fears is

a split at the top. we saw that in 989. if you have a split at the top that empowers all sorts of act is right through the system in the provinces in the cities to take sites. and that is potentially very. busy damaging but the party have plenty to celebrate. poverty alleviation a rapidly expanding middle class, and to rise up the value chain in high tech industries, all done at a rate and scale. no other country has yet to match about as much the party wants to forget. the 1989 student lead uprising in beijing. the student lead protests in home 20 years later at hard one of the problems with 100 anniversary. and we've, you know, this message of speaking the course is that it gets harder and harder to reconcile over twists and turns with this sort of beautifully smooth narrative of progress that involves a lot of forgetting. and it this triumphal moment for the party,

there is one on the stake of a message we survived. after all, the predictions that we wouldn't, adrian brown, al jazeera hong kong. well, you all watching out there with me. so um, the reminder of our top stories, the us comedian bill caulsey, has been released from prison. pennsylvania supreme court overturned his conviction, the age of 3 or more than 2 years of a 10 year sentence on charges of trucking and assaulting a woman in 2004 total rumsfeld, the us defense secretary, who i was all the invasion of palestine and was the main architect of the wall in the wrong, beside the age of 88, his career in the republican party, spent decades. he said to the multiple president such i should just for china is marking the chinese communist party some scenery with celebrations across the country. present choosing ping is set to deliver a speech using the occasion to consolidate his position as china's most powerful leader in decades. for me, you as president,

donald trump is in texas too tall. the southern border with mexico trump has been meeting with officials and will visit an area where the construction of the border wall was stopped under president joe biden. his visit comes just stays after vice president comma la harris met border patrol agents and migrant children in texas. the governor of texas has promised to use state fund to resume construction of the wall. now the death toll in the building collapse, the miami, florida has risen to 18. 6 more bodies have been pulled from the rubble. the search and rescue operation is in its 7th day, almost 140 people are still accounted for after the 12 story apartment building came down last thursday. and stay in the region a record breaking heat wave in western canada and the u. s. is causing a spike in heat related deaths. hospitals are reporting a flood of heat stroke. victims and officials are warning drivers likely to remain scorching. there's also the threat of large wildfires across the west and north

america. white house correspondent give the health care reports notify with wildfires burning in the western united states and a heat wave intensifying droughts. us president joe biden convened a meeting with governors on what to do about it. we know this is, this is becoming a regular cycle and we know it's getting worse. in fact, the threat of western wildfires this year is as severe as it's ever been. temperatures are storing on the west coast of the united states and canada. cities like seattle and portland known for their moderate temperatures, are breaking heat records and struggling with water shortages in vancouver, canada. the heat wave is being blamed for more than 60 deaths with the tall expected to rise with wildfires. now a year round. not seasonal problem fighting, told governors, he's giving firefighters

a pay raise to $15.00 an hour to help keep western states staffed and prepared to fight fires whenever they hit. truth is we're playing catch up, but his administration also announced it's doubled the funding to help cities prepare for extreme weather disasters, among other initiatives to combat climate change. in his $1.00 trillion dollar infrastructure deal worked out with republicans in congress. the st. weather events, americans are experiencing year round underscore the need to make bold investments needed to tackle the climate crisis. the bipartisan infrastructure framework would make the largest investment in american history, but some members of biden's own democratic party protested outside the white house this week, accusing biden of cutting many of his climate change policies to please his conservative critics. with democrats control and congress and the white house,

and they are pushing for biden to do more. they want the bite in administration to aggressively reduce fossil fuels and protect federal lands. they argue the $1.00 trillion dollar infrastructure bill needs to have much tougher standards on power plants and encourage more electric vehicle technology. i don't think it's achievable. i think the president is doing this right. he's appealing to moderates within the republican party, which is right. climate change needs to stop being a democratic thing and being an american thing. last years wildfire season in the united states saw more than 4000000 hectares of land burned and dozens of people killed. and this years predicted to be even worse as community struggle with a new normal record. warm seasons that start sooner and last longer. kimberly hell get out to washington. oh, does. there has to know for that calls the violence,

abduction of one of its journalists in sudan. ali bershana was detained by sidney forces while covering an anti government protest in cartoon. he was to release baton. sarah says those responsible for the humiliating treatment in jord must be held accountable under the presses gathered in the capital to demand the dissolution of sedans, transitional government, opposition groups. they fail to achieve the goals of the sudanese revolution. brazil supreme court has postponed a decision or the case that could determine the future claims by indigenous peoples to their ancestral lands. leaders from 40 indigenous groups have been camped out for days near the court house and the capital brazilian. the shock lying people were trying to retain territory in the southern state of santa katerina, monica gonna kill his law from the capital brazilian. this court ruling would decide if there is a time limit or not for indigenous people to claim lands until now. they have been

making claims based on on, they have to produce evidence that their ancestors lived in certain lands. but what landowners and miners, and loggers, and many and people, especially farmers want, is to be there to be a limit that only who a people that were in a land in 1988, which was when the constitution was approved after the military rule was over only those people would have a right to claim land. it would you couldn't just show up like in 1990 and say that you had been expelled from a land in 1970 for example. so that would lead to the review of many demo cations that have already been made. and also it would really limit to future claims. russia's present field of questions from across the country during his annual colon

show. latimer putin says he poses boundaries, vaccinations, but urge people to get the job. they've barker has more on the phone and now of us social media. this is where vladimir putin response to the average concerns will be at pre screened $1.00 price of vegetables to cope with 19 russia. with russia in the grips of another major wave of corona virus infections. tuesday was eager to dispel fears around russia's vaccine. the country was quick to develop the jap, but only 15 percent of russians have received a dose. until now the kremlin had refused to say which vaccine putin had received. worsening public confidence in the russian jab, though. yeah. so if i go there were some, you know, i thought that i needed to be protected as long as possible. so i chose to be vaccinated with the sputnik faxing. the military is getting vaccinated with it. and after all, i'm the commander in chief only go to the commander's putins,

left many pandemic decisions to regional officials. some areas including moscow have decided to make vaccinations mandatory for millions of workers. officials say people can decline, work is fear, they'll be fine if they do. bullet heating, meanwhile, reveals he doesn't support mandatory jabs. you put your rep for assist challenged his popularity, but on tensions with the west, a more characteristic leader was on show. he more the united states, pressing an imaginary button on his forehead, to show how american officials activate their brains. he went on to accuse the british navy along with us as support a provocation by sailing, knowing the close to crimea, part of ukraine, the seas by russia in 2014. the russian military responded by firing warning shots and dropping bombs and the british ships pass. that's really what we're going to

live, even if we think this ship, it would be difficult to imagine the world would be on the verge of the 3rd world war. because those who do interest and you know that they can't emerge victorious from this war. despite stagnating wages and falling living standards, putins approval at home is still high, but steps to quash opposition. political movements, including that of alexi, nevada, have pushed the lead a further into international isolation. meanwhile, the longest serving russian leaders in joseph style and shows no sign of retiring the time will come. he said, when i will name my possible successor. nice welcome. just arrived in william the antibiotic he protest isn't as 14, a falling in swaziland have defined a care fee to call for constitutional reforms that demanding democracy and, and elected prime minister. the lexia, bryan reports anger and frustration. and 8th,

what teeny crowds built barricades confirmed tires despite an overnight curfews, while the opposition colon a tipping point for the nation, the demonstrations like this a rare and the more landlocked country, formerly known fatherland. but the saint has been simmering for years. much of it focused on kingdom swati africa, his last absolute monarch, and one of the few remaining in the world that he was crowned and 986 aged just 18 and has unseated political power. he has 15 wives. oh, it has been criticized for his lavish spending. almost denise, what, teeny live in poverty. we are there any way out so much by the government? sounds good. i'm with. we have

a time. if our government is out you get out of them. it will not be so i may that though i missed mama, the protestors say they want democracy, political parties a band. and even though people are allowed to vote from in the parliament, the opposition says they not elections. more selection of people signed off by the king of young people that we don't want to keep to be part of the government in the want to be part of the government. us citizen like the rest of us in court with like everyone with us, from shops in it to biggest cities have been looted and others face on fire. the military's been out to enforce the curfew, which the government says is to ensure the safety and security of resident. oh, that's good. about the opposition?

say some protest has been killed and many others wounded. the acting prime minister says he's open to hearing the people complain that demonstration isn't the way to do it. nation that the new york government has opened an email address where must, what they can continue to direct their concerns and petition. for decades, king and philosophy is being portrayed as a deeply popular monarch. now the government's being forced to deny reports, he slid the country, his kingdom appears to be in crisis. and sir bryan al jazeera. ah, what y'all just bear with me? the whole robin and doe reminder of all told stories us, comedian bill cosby, has been released from prison to pennsylvania supreme court overturned his conviction. the $83.00 rules are more than 2 years of a 10 year sentence on charges of drinking and assaulting

a woman in 2004. she have returns, he has well from washington d. c. there's also a judgement about whether cause to be drugged in sexually assaulted or women. this is a judgment about whether the due process was followed.