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a record number of women and children of dining in the fighting. they call the students those who are trying to learn knowledge they killed in ah, welcome to the program. we begin with trinity is biggest political crisis since the 2011 revolution that introduced democracy. president chi said has suck the government, including the prime minister hisham as she, she unfrozen parliament for 30 days. the military, you have been deployed to the government palace and stopped all workers from entering the building. the biggest political cou group, pardon me, the, and how to a party is calling it a coo. now this is the scene shortly a few moments ago from tunis demonstrates as the from both sides of the political divide are outside the parliament building. security forces have stormed the

offices of al jazeera and kick the staff out of the building. the military is blocking the speaker of parliament rashid avenue. she from entering the building. now he remains in his car, surrounded by his supporters. thorough hierarchy begins all coverage with this report. the celebrations on the streets of trinity is capital soonest than the hours after the president dismisses the prime minister and freezes parliament has 30 days. oh, what is the 1st time in my life? i've heard the head of the staid, make a right decision. we've taken our country back. the last time we are out on the streets to celebrate the president quite side supporters made their way through the street welcoming news of political change. earlier thousands had protested in several cities about government failures,

encrypting corona virus rate, the shouted slogans against the ruling and not the policy. and prime minister m a she, she calling for the dissolution of parliament and chomping down with the regime the partner with them. we have come down today to resist this regime. they take our money and curse us. they have not done anything to the people, always fighting. it is enough. how can 9 ministers rule an entire country? we have starved and the people are loss. show the police looked through the streets leading to the city's main thoroughfare using t gas to break up the crowd. it was a key site for attorneys in resolution a decade ago. that top was long time president then and i've been been alley, and on the the are spring up climbing the soon after the president called an emergency meeting saying the measures when needed to save the country. i don't, i wouldn't you have to have a sudden the 1st decision is to freeze all the powers of the parliament. if the

constitution does not allow the parliament to be dissolved, but it does not stand in the way of freezing all the word. said. the 2nd decision is to lift the immunity of all members of parliament, and for those of whom a cases related says, i will take care over the public prosecution. the bond critics, including the speaker of parliament, have called the president's actions, a qu, put on the senate decisions have no basis in the constitution, nor in the law, and we are against them. because in short, it is against the constitution, a coup against the revolution. and a qu, against public and private liberties in the country. the president meet misinterpretations that actually clashes with the reality about call you that has been a rivalry between the president prime minister and speaker that's prevented action to tackle surging unemployment and crumbling state services. the news is also been

overwhelmed by the corona. virus pandemic facing one of africa, worst outbreaks, hospitals are overcrowded and under resort and on saturday to do the reported a record 317 deaths from the virus to many the countries deepening, economic and social problems have undermined support for democracy. some critics say that's very democracy is now in danger. so to have al jazeera, so security forces dressed in civilian clothes, storm the offices of al jazeera in tunis, fast all of the journalists to turn off their phones and then removed all the stuff from the building. we spoke to algebra tunis, bureau chief, look to see how g, about the situation. had that happen is how much the security forces assumed 0 opposite when the soonest.

why might not us the stuff and to leave the office, they prevent the from even taking that personal belongings. and they said that they represent the security that defense in which he is. yeah. i asked him if he had this repair met and he said, no, we don't have this. but these instructions of the, the home ministry despite the fact that we have nose incentives. yeah. and they cannot do that. our conception, this is not, this is a game, is this because it doesn't depend on judiciary ruining. now we don't know the faith of us, they're not, they have the opposite. they have the keys, and we will go to the judiciary and we will see what will happen later. so here's

the puzzle surrounding the office, the vicinity of the office, and the upstairs as well. they prevent any one to enter the office of a 0 as they prevent us from even having our personal belongings, all the computers. they prevent anyone to take anything from the office. there is a new decision which is not fair and this might develop into other action because into news during the last 10 years, we get you to the freedom of press freedom of work, respect of lo, reporters with our borders has condemned the closure saying that in the aftermath of president chi psi heeds announcement, opening a political crisis into nicea r. s. f denounces the closure of alger. there is office in tunis by security forces

and calls on the authorities to respect press freedom and pluralism. paulina, this marvell is spokes person for reporters without border she says her te mustang, vigilant of any attacks or media outlets into nicea. the most important thing is to say that the stage reports without border is a bit didn't and looking at the situation and the potential attacks on press freedom in the country. as we said yesterday evening after the announcement by the president. yes, the security for the internet and we're looking carefully at the situation. we denounced the move and we consider that the, the currently isn't of press and the freedom of the press has to be respected by

the authorities during the time when they are political or crises ongoing since yesterday night in the country. at the stage, looking at the situation and confirming the fact that the office of era has been closed by the police forces on the ground. it seems that the other network, international networks are still put casting and tv working in normal condition at the stage. but we are looking carefully at the situation and not making any worrying comments at the stage. let's close, i would say mohammed viola corresponded who's covered tennessee extensively. 4 stories be now here in doha mohammed with lines of communication,

really close to what may be going on into nicea on the streets. what your contacts telling you at the moment about situation. well, so it's a situation of wait and see. dust out of the case that you're describing for off the outside tunisia, even many people in fi, tisha don't know what's going on. there is a lot supposed to be going on behind the scenes, but the people are waiting for the president to announce anything he the last time he spoke was last night. and he promised to form a new government in the next few hours. that hasn't happened. so far and we have classes in the streets without a report. i have talked about the armies also out the out of looking into 2 government buildings. no news from the president. no news also from the prime minister since yesterday. the late prime minister, the sunday, the deposed prime minister. these are concerning concerning science to people concerning as well is the closing down of the i'll just the law office.

usually when that happens in all countries, it means something is being hidden by the security forces, or by the powers that be at all of these defines are causing concern to people. what's going to happen next in teja. you know, those countries in, on the flu, composite powder keg because of those squabbles between the different branches of the government and also between the different components of the political political system. and it's been going on for years. it's been exacerbated by the health crisis because of the colon, a virus, and also by the economists. tuition of the country class is between opponents and supports. as i said, the army standing by lots of you know, lots of black sale to be filled. the political, the top leaders of the political class haven't and most, anything since the morning when we saw it actually was

a notion for the parliament talking, addressing the audi and addressing the people of all the ingredients of a huge crisis. indeed. and this has been going full some time either we could go back to the arab spring, back in 2011. but more recent times, the last 18 months have been very difficult for tennessee and politicians to try and find a way forward. they just are not seeing i to why, on the economy on unemployment and certainly not on the covert, pandemic rollout. exactly, that's the case for years. so the, the form of the former dictates have been ali tenisha was seen as the different country of the, of the exceptional country in the world, a beacon of hope. because they were able to avoid a civil war basically. but other than but they couldn't, they couldn't unit unify their acts. they couldn't really continue to work together . i'm talking about the blue cloth, the components of the, of the rolling,

of the ruling cloth. we have fragmented governments. we have seen those squat bows . we have seen elections didn't improve the situation. we have seen economists, situation and social situation of the solution only deteriorating further. so as years went by, it became clear that this is not felicia, that we hope for this is not the beacon of hope for democracy that we've talked about. you know, we still have hope people still have hope. but until now, what's happening on the ground doesn't support that hope. it turns out that the modem, how may do stay with us. obviously we'll get more reaction from you as that news filtered into us. so let's cross over to adela. he. he joins me now on the line from tunis with the very latest. and what do you know is happening near you and on the streets of tunis? while the situation is not stable, especially i mean in toner,

near to the in front of the parliament where i mean the groups are gathering and people are expecting the worst. i spoke to some people in my area. they are expecting the worst. i mean, yesterday at night it started at night the most there is going out to celebrate thing. and now in the morning to inquire it and now there have been clashes and we saw that the most traitors where i'm fighting using stones and both of those, both of the waters. and they don't really fears of what can happen next. so far there are no news from the former prime minister machine or the president promised to give more directions. yes. today there is a kind of general kind of confusion. the parliament also announced that the m. p 's will be meeting permanently and they will follow up with the situation

development. she no longer in his car in front of the parliament, he left the place where he was sitting because the car was attacked by processors. b, i mean no to the booby the, the adult, the major labor union in the country is supposed, i mean, look at media reporting that is supposed to meet with the president. i mean today, sooner and there are few years, not with that things will get more and more deteriorated. speaking about the liberty of the press as mean as you know, where the and i mean no more shocking us than the shut down here with that. i mean, that was very shocking today. and the national center case, often use and journalist an official statement condemning what's happening to

several journalist joiners where i back by the most great. they were one did. they were stopped by policeman and policemen where asked them to provide me permit. i mean, which is not necessary for a photo for covering what is going on. i mean, i had to look onto the tv channels and the older me island, the ottoman really company and anything of over what is going on? yeah, this is the general situation. okay. well, that's great to get the update to emma della he, thanks so much joining us. some changes on the very latest of the m. it's saying that it's all quiet at the moment, but that is changed with concern by local residents wondering what next? well, so what has led to this political turmoil in 2011, 10 as the 1st free and the federal election soul? the as i'm and, and had the party when

a majority in parliament were the ones that were lukea as president protest started again the following year and of happened periodically ever since people have been unhappy about the high levels of unemployment. a 2014 parliamentary election didn't help fix economic woes to nicea the sill trying to secure a new loan from the international monetary fund attack from foreign tourists in 2015. the tourism relies to call them even more by 2020 after months of failed attempts to form a government to new prime minister allies sofa was brought in. he was forced out later in the year over corruption scandal, anti government protested. we're back on the streets again. on sunday, mass handling of the pandemic as exacerbated the difficult living conditions for millions have been calling for support from those in power aliyah. this is the editor in chief of miss scala, tennessee, a news and analysis web site. join me now via skype from tina. could you get this

on the program? so can i just begin by asking you all you as a news website able to operate freely and all your colleagues in the media industry apart from al jazeera, who we know being close down, able to operate freely and disseminate what is going on in your country. right now yes, we are able to, we've had our journalists around the city yesterday and last night we have not and even today and we have not been stopped. of course, there are unfortunately, some, some incidences, again, journalist. so yesterday one of our journal i. d. a colleague, voter journalist, who was injured by police the police repression of the anti government protest yesterday were quite strong. however, many of the people who were demonstrating probably were quite happy when by the end of the day,

the president had to know his decision to dismiss the prime minister and the government. so well, there are certainly worrying instances of unfortunately repression. again, outlets. this is something that we've, we've seen in the last several years, particularly against bloggers and whistleblowers. we've actually seen prosecution against people who are using facebook as bloggers, oftentimes to detail some of the allegations of corruption happening within different ministries, within different a certain administration. and in all of that does play into some of the reasons why people may be celebrating, some people may be celebrating the decision of the president last night. there is quite a lot of people who do feel that the, the government or the parliament see it as a corrupt institution or the seller being. but of course, there are others who are equally worried about where things to be heading from here

. yeah, indeed let's, let's just try and pick it out or disseminated slightly in the sense that at the moment the people were very angry against the government and full, rising unemployment, lack of health care due to the pancreatic and the general economic woes of the country. that has been bubbling for several months now on the basis of what's happened today. what will they be more angry about? will it still be unemployment health care, the economy, or will it be democracy and what the president has done in the name of democracy? well, we should remember was keep in mind that the president received over 70 percent of the vote in the runoff election, the prime minister that he dismissed with the noble because he's not elected the prime minister, not elected position. the president did receive more votes, almost more votes than the entire parliament during the parliament just got in the president. he did actually put the prime minister in position because he wanted the

prime minister to do the job which was to form a government and get to, to nicea running. yet when the prime minister tried to confirm several new ministers into the cabinets of b x and the established 9, the president didn't want to have any think about it. the president has also been hindering the prime minister, hasn't i? yes, absolutely. he disagree with the people that the prime minister put forward for a government reshuffle at the time. his argument at the time was that these were people who had digital cases against them. he made his own legal argument. the court is a law professor constitutional law professor, that's what he was doing before he joined politics. so he certainly had to own legal arguments. other people have criticized legal argument at the same time. we don't have a constitutional court that's an independent arbitrary moment to be able to adjudicate between a dispute over the law at this moment, disputes between the president himself and his credit. how important is it?

the constitutional court is not. you might say is not established because this exacerbates a very large problem, doesn't it? on all political sides as to how to get out of the scenario. because at the moment that really is the parliament itself. parliamentarians versus the president. yes, i mean without an institutional recourse to sort of have an independent if you might like the adjudicator to this particular legal dispute over whether the president has the power to do what he has done. certainly that the challenge and as a result, what we're seeing is we're seeing the president and his supporters and opponents of the president and division. and this sort of opposition is a card not playing out so much in the street. there's a little bit in front of parliament, although luckily we have not been quite a lot of islands. and certainly there is attempts to deem to, to control the narrative from the president died even in the media. although

certainly they will continue to be different media disagreements over whether the president were the gentleman or not, or whether this is a crew or not either debate. the canadians are having constantly and through the media. and we've heard quite a lot of legal scholars speaking on the media who have criticize the president. but what it seems like is that the opponents of the president were caught off guard when you made this not been last night. and it seems like they're taking their time now to try and formulate some sort of response to this, whether this response will be a legalistic response or whether it will be otherwise. if you have to be right, we will see what does happen. and we'll check in with you as we get more development deal elliott is, i thanks very much for joining us. let's go over to tunis now the capital opportunity are based a journalist wrap up allow we are, we join me now a good time with a song i was, is there a robot? just explain to us if you can and if it's safe to do so where you are in the city and what you're seeing and hearing about this dispute between parliament and the

president. ok. no, i mean you can be boogie by you. but this morning i was on hold time in back to your department and i'm listening witnesses clashes between protesters and still allow the clusters continues at the same time. right now the president, i saw the meeting the union labor union. there will be so i think right now this meeting is so crucial for the history of chinese and for the next few days, because to curb side, he don't have a political party or, or political background, you know, when he presented himself in the election in 2019, he used to be just a law professor without political fact without political background buttons from

political parties used to support him in parliament. but i was surprised this morning to see the statement know by some positions, but you will use to support i cited like democratic current who expresses a disappointment with decisions correct. now i it is in the good the girl situation. he no political part for him at the time of his election in 2019, he had a very sizable mandate from the public to take office. and as you say, doesn't come from a political background such, but he is a professional lawyer in his own rights at the, and international domestic law. how important is it now for him to get the union's on the side for international view as they perhaps will not understand how important the uni in history is within to nicea?

that's why i told you that the rule of the labor union is the crucial and it will change everything without labor unions to court. president side can do anything because most of the parties, especially in the parliament, are against him. so i think we the meeting, we will know what will happen in that you need to in the next few days. so i think this is the biggest that democracy is leaving right now at the same time, i think is the the threat. and for us as a journalist is the police or the who, who read the office under gina and just tunnel in june it, i think we met my vision and i at the same time very good to have you join us here and i'll just say that right by law, we thanks much joining us from genus linux. gillian is a political scientist specializing in middle east and north africa at the institute

of development studies at the university of sussex. he says, fill up a unity for negotiated political solutions to this crisis. obviously, the 1st question is, what happened yesterday and whether that is the coo and i think certainly, you know, it was like a to to and it in talks like a coo and in many bray that has that parents. and certainly it does not seem to be backed entirely by articulate the constitution. that being said, i think it, it still, if the treatment is playing out today, and we'll have to watch how people are st, very acting, but also how he institutional actors, including parliament and including security forces and including the unions are going to react to this. so i think if it's a situation of the playing out and that's important to keep in mind the constitutional court, obviously it's kind of the overarching issue here and kind of the overarching political failure often of the political class. and in the past couple of years just in the inability to, to create a constitutional court. and obviously there is no way in the next couple of days in the middle of the crisis to do this. and it, it obviously plays

a key role in article 80 that this, that out in the constitution. i think the reaction of parliament pending on where they're going to meet, depending on how they're going to react to the situation if it's critical, especially given that site does not have a legislative basis in parliament. all of this is happening to some degree outside of the scope of article 80 as of yesterday already. i think the thing to look for here is not just the constitutional text, but i think the ability of to 1000000 political actors. and that's been, you know, something we've seen repeatedly in the last decade to still negotiate, still find common grounds. and i think the common ground that will need to be found in order for some of us to be walked back over the coming days, will be outside of the strict boundaries of the constitution. but hopefully within the boundaries of the politics. let's get back over to correspond with al who's waiting by and standing by on what's being said, that we just heard from our journalist in tunis that the president seems to be talking to the unions along with the unions. obviously the military have taken to

the streets and they have cotton golf, some very strategically important buildings across the capital, which says a lot about the president strength at the moment, all the cards that he holes are the right. so we've been talking all the morning about the president, where is the president didn't say anything, he didn't the destination. but now this news that he's in a meeting with the labor union is it's, it's a positive find of what you find for him. so he's there, he's in charge, he's talking to the people, he should talk to people who have ways in the politics of the country. the labor unions have a history of thanks. and they have been also mediating problems between the, the components of the political class. now been able to resolve some of the problems between the components of the, of the government, the branches of the government. so they could do it again. now. the fact that he still house crowds in the streets supporting is decision of the military,

is in charge of the situation of the if the military is preventing an escalation, preventing entry to govern buildings by way of probably texting them while these are signs of the presidency still at least there and there is a semblance of, you know, order somehow in the country that there is someone in charge because it was concerned that there's a long trial since yesterday night of the president of his, his absence from the seed could encourage chaos in the industry and that's not happening at the moment except for those few spotty clashes between his opponents and his supporters. of course. but if he is talking to the unions and the unions are listening to, we have to talk in high pathetically here until the president takes to the screens you might see and speaks to the nation as a whole. so in hypotheticals, if the unions agree with the president, does this pull the rug underneath the feet of parliamentarians or those members of the public who, who disagree with what's happened on the streets of tennessee today?

well it, it might, it might convince them to come to the negotiation table. i don't see.