to have got the final us ties under president joe biden appears bad now, as they were under his pre to assess donald trump. the question now is whether in spite of all of this, a meeting is still possible between biden and china's president teaching thing possibly on the sidelines of the g. 20 summit in rome. later this year, adrian brown al jazeera hong kong. ah, you want you to there with me the whole realm, the reminder of all told stories, tennessee, as president of the minister of defense on the acting minister of justice. after dismissing the prime minister earlier, i'm thinking parliament for 30 days, the biggest political group, the entire party is calling it a qu. the white house of calls to come into it that said the u. s. government has not yet determined if it was a coup or not. and security forces dressed in civilian clothing store the offices

of al jazeera in tunis. the le staff were told to turn the phones off and with an removed from the building, press freedom advocate to condemn the false pleasure vouchers. there is offices, as did the spokes person for the un secretary general were dismayed by these reports. and we hope that all reporters, including the ones that al jazeera will be able to go about their work without harassment. and we want to make sure that as we have the situation on the ground in tunisia, that press freedoms are respected levels. the prime minister designate the g mccarty has promised to form a new government and implement a french plan to save the country from its crippling financial crisis. but the 2 time premier warned that he doesn't have a magical wand and cannot perform miracles. this is the 3rd attempt within a year to form a government check out for a while when i say why thank his excellency the president. i'd like also to thank all the members of parliament. i wished to cooperate with those who did and did not

. and they me to find the necessary solutions vital as with the constitution together, the m p 's confidence. but also real life. i want to get the confidence and trust of the people and of every single men and women. because i don't have a magic one. and i cannot create one does on my own difficult. 2021. they set to be the bloody se on record enough. gone this on, the un says maybe $1700.00 civilians were killed in the 1st 6 months of the. that's the highest death toll since it started keeping records in 2009. china is blaming the us for a stalemate in relations, accusing it of creating an imaginary enemy that says the u. s. deputy secretary of state when the sherman, that her count pants and 10 john chinas by foreign minister. she saying told washington to stop demonizing, china, those were the headlines. i'll be back with you. all the renews are in half and next it's inside story to stay with us. me.

ah ah, the birthplace of the spring is in crisis. soon as he is president, stuck the prime minister and put a freeze on parliament the 30 days to biggest political parties calling it a crew. what triggered the turmoil and democracy now at risk. this is inside story . ah, ah hello there and kim all santa maria, when a president dismisses the prime minister and effectively suspends parliament. well, that's a pretty messy political situation. some call it a qu,

whatever it is though to nuclear, is facing one of its biggest political crises since the, our spring. 10 years ago. people were already angry at the government's handling of the pandemic, the poor economy, the high unemployment. they'd already been protesting for weeks, and then events took a dramatic turn on sunday when president clay fade dismissed, the prime minister and froze parliament for 30 days, soldiers blocked civil servants from entering government buildings. security forces in civilian clothes even stormed al jazeera bureau in tunis and ordered journalists to leave. and after the biggest political party in parliament called it a coup and urged its supporters to protest. respect to the decisions by president ty said, are not correct against the constitution and against reality they bring us back to 1954. the scene of the parliament close by tanks is very disgraceful. while the president called his decisions, quote necessary to save to new jersey,

and if people 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 case is related, i will take care over the public prosecution that the fact parliamentary speaker, who is also a co founder of an actor, said the president acted above the law. sen, decisions have no basis in the constitution, nor in the law, and we are against them. because in short, it is against the constitution against the revolution and accrue against public and private liberties in the country. the president meet misinterpretations that actually clashes with the reality about well,

thousands of tennessee and celebrated the news on the streets of tunis and praised the president is the 1st time in my life. i've heard the head of the state make a wide decision. we've taken the country back the 1st time we're out on the street to celebrate. you will often hear it in as he referred to as the success story of the our spring, the one where democracy actually prevailed. but that success didn't come easily and it is now arguably at risk rewind to january of 2011. that was when protest is toppled to give long time rule. levine, elaborate in been alley at the very beginning of the arab spring. later that year, the in the party one trinity is 1st elections, but the country became sharply divided between the secular opposition and a government that wanted the country governed in line with islamic values in response to growing violence and unrest. a new constitution was a great that was 2 years later, 2014 by now which split the power between the president and the prime minister. but

in 2015, a series of i feel attacks undermined trinity is vital tourism sector. and even though the threat was eventually contained economy never really recovered by 2019 disillusion voters were rejecting the mainstream parties. and political outside of saved was elected president. parliament became increasingly fractured with parties, finding it difficult to form a government. now analysts say a rivalry is developed between the big 3 that is the president, the prime minister and the speaker, and it's preventing any effective action to deal with tentative economic problems. not to mention the pandemic. the sellers introduce you to today's panel, all of them into the, in the capital jonas's side. and they see as a member of the trinity in parliament and an international spokesperson for the party in cairo on miss howard or danny human rights activist, a member of the executive bureau of euro med rights and on skype,

from tune is funded rita, who is the editor in chief of mosquito, a tennessee and news and analysis website. so thank you all for your time today on what has been a a tumultuous day in your country side and they see, let me come to you. first of all, the i'm not going to say this is a qu because there are, well, that's not for me to say, you tell me, do you think it is? i think the question is very clear here. it's a crew because from the moment you don't respect the constitution and you actually confiscate the powers into one single person who is at the same time beholding the executive. and there's a rary powers all in the same time. and contrary to lots, say the constitution, i think we can only use one word. this is an attempt of the 2, and this is not a personal opinion. it's back,

which has been back to the by all political full student id is. yeah. did you and the, and the party fear that something like this would happen, given all the unrest given all the, the protests that have been going on for months now? well, that's the fact that the situation soon is the whole digital prices, the economy situation. there's some, sorry, situation the pandemic and it's epic here, which is really, really concerning and this is not, you know, something which is which is new. we have been setting that same search in a moment now, but we don't think that the answer to that is that coffee powers into one single institution, the waste funds to that is not to send the all me to the parliament, the west point to that is not to consider that the discharge of power is now behold by the one and only precedents off off the public. what we say again is this by

the emergency of the situation going backwards in terms of democracy in terms of respecting institutions is not a solution, but we definitely need obviously to find out a clear yes pass to go out from this prices. but this is what you have been picturing now. and so i think i'm suggesting, since months, i mean, we are one of the political forces who have been backing this last month. the initiative of one of the most important social organizations here, which is, which is the huge event to go through and national dialogue and with no congestion, with no, again anything so beaten in the national dialogue. so again, what is berry from signing is the coffee station of the power could not

be a solution. so political prices. ok, well let's you mentioned that i then for all 3 of you, i think we should just and i can't believe i'm saying this, let's consult button is in constitution article ac which i've been looking at today which says among other things in the event of imminent danger threatening the nation's institutions, or the security or independence of the country. the president of the republic may take any measures necessitated by the exceptional circumstances, after a consultation with the head of government and the speaker, and informing the president of the constitutional court. so miss odom, donny will bring you into the conversation now. he got part of that, right? i guess he thought the situation is being that he needed to intervene, but then not only did he not consult with anyone, he kind of fired them or frozen. that's right, i mean there is no cause to see that that's it,

that they haven't brian and the speaker, i doubt that the the bottom about the work and nobody we don't know what the price is. i believe what they call, who are now exaggerated reading and that means that they can hold the, you know, we have over of them and they also make setters the way they do that the political situation would be great negro situation to make it better. oh, yours will be great that are many problems. all the different of the

governments have done have done almost nothing to approve of the search, which was the main goal. and also that there are many times when i got this problem on the media. and it would not go through my diving, which my boss brian was going to be expert. so i can but i keep bro that everybody would be wise enough in order to get that things to get back in. and

now it really needs to go in your would go that way and would happen. you know, knowing that you have said that there is where they had to go to the government. they could be in such a way and it would really, i think it would that interest kill bias which i would not like to i can so far do. let me bring you in. we've got a, we've got a problem here with something had to be done. it seems, and actually we should note, and we've seen the pictures of people celebrating the president's decision on the street. the way he went about it is questionable at best bob's may be. and i'm just playing devil's advocate here. maybe he was acting in the interests of the country . sure, that's clearly what a lot of people who are celebrating seem to think,

you know, the question of whether or not that's certainly a question for scholars and it is being played out in, in, in debates hardly in denisia, could be a question for political scientists, is certainly one that the home of the president on the opponents of his concentration of our party will make. but i'm more curious to understand why it is that the decision that he made brought out such a celebration in the street and why it was. but he made a decision at this current moment and perhaps what the reactions will be going forward. you know, there were, there was not only the health crisis, i mean as being one of the worst that rates in the world for population in the recent weeks. but you also saw that the prime minister, you know, he would just last weekend, he was at a hotel resort and luxury resort with his ministers and an anti corruption watch die published the, you know, the president of that watchdog, his facebook account with temporarily restricted at the same time you also so

images of the prime minister playing tennis again at the moment when we seeing images of people in a hospital without oxygen, without an oxygen people, and had to clinics and hospitals crying about their inability to, to actually take care of their patients, we've seen hospitals overflowing, sometimes corpses being lied up in the hallways and hospitals. so all of this really didn't feed into massive anger and really anger at the incompetent or unwillingness of this government to respond to people's basic needs at health level . but also on an economic level, we've seen the government raising prices of basic consumer goods, reducing subsidies, as it's been talked with, the not to get a new loan. they've, you've seen the price of the several goods increasing at a time when people, the value you know, has gone down and in the last several years or people are also economically separate, bring. and as part of the corporate response, they've been prevented from going out of their houses or have had a limited ability to, to, to economic activity at the same time. so quite quite

a punishing response that we've seen from the government all feeding into the anger that we saw before. i died announcement yesterday. okay, well you over the lot of points verify that i think we'd better siber for a response there. i mean, i know you, we haven't got the time to go through all of those individually, but you can't deny that there have been people out on the street celebrating the fact that this government has fallen, but your party, the government led by your party. how do you respond to all of that? i think, yeah, i mean, there is no point to deny that we are facing a sip and, and vengeance crisis incentives. yeah. and this is to be thought that again, not weeks ago, but to months ago, we all in a country where do regarding the functioning with the service of the members of the ottoman. because each to all the 3rd of the go in until she him, which has been appointed by the parliament and butchered by the bottom and has been refused to take office by the president of the republic i side. so yes,

definitely very deep crisis. abundance and economy crisis, which has been definite and i would baited by, by the pounds of each. and this is something that we can't deny. i mean, there is no point to defend the prime minister or head of the government and to say that to get right of him much, we should actually do a constitutional cool. so is something in the middle, an individual. there is a national dialogue, a political dialogue, which should be dawn with people white people sitting around the table and not be deploying the army in the parliament because this is what's happening now. what we have is i put this tension and i say it again of the powers and base.

and very, i'm not saying that this methodology is the right one to go out from the crisis in rather a wage to again make this a necessary confidence and trust between the different political stakeholders, incentives, yami being less and less here. so what is urgent for us? the emergency now is have democracy back. and i'm not saying that i just concern of someone from the political class or the elite. i do consider that if we don't solve our problem democratic process, which could include actually new elections and anticipated elections of the parliamentary barrels of the president presidential, sorry, levels. and this is about and because we don't yes, sorry you talk about no i just so i just want to make sure we hear from our other

guest while you talk about a democratic process. miss, i don't, danny can't be one at the moment. can there parliament is frozen for 30 days and they can be no democratic process. let's say the 30 days pass parliament is done for president then was it depends on what the best they have in mind. and in 30 days, i knew things would be another way we usually with the old political fighting to you know, there is a problem that, that everybody should be well, which is the fact that we need to go very soon after 10 years now we, we really real comic i mean in now and i

don't think we can really for the coming days and are not i well the thing because the stories directories that quite often in these situations the 1st thing people say is we need fresh elections. that's not always the answer is it. and in fact with, with the way that trinity in politics and society seems to be so splinted that could actually end up solving nothing. notice that it worked, and i mean, it might work for this very special which, you know, really cry out in 2011. and i mean, which has been done. what i've been done is really far from grady and that's why people,

why people and this week. but not really and then also, i mean this division in the you see the will see you on the board or what's the thing to date? ok, we have to look and we really, we like to say rekey work and everybody everybody was in english with money and people were proud of that. that is really bad. it's just and social justice. so now how old that whatever the

person is really harming what, what, what would happen and then also to do what we're asking for and the like who are expecting things to be better? and we are let's, let's bring 5 back in. so i love to get to talk about issues like connections. there's been the revolution. there was the constitution in 2014. this is all actually only happened over 10 years, hasn't it? it's, we've got to remember, it's still a really young democracy here, and there's still plenty of work to do. what would you say is being the next step? well, i mean, these sort of institutions that were created after the 2011 revolution. i mean, these are institutions that in many ways are, you know, they're following

a framework of a liberal democracy that aren't in the word that one protest. so these are, these are 300 year old old institution. these are tools from 200 years ago, but people who went in the street in 2011 had created something completely new with the revolution and were expecting something new. they were not necessarily calling or a new constitution or a new parliament. when you're looking at the democratic, legitimate, the parliament. okay, so they are elected, but you will look at the current president. he received almost as many, both as old members of the problem in the last 2019 election. which also gives a level to see when the people can i just knew about him, sorry, just quickly because we up to say if i may, if you actually ask people is the parliament in the last few years, are they responding to the needs of the people are they debating and responding to the needs of whatever sector it is, whether it's a chronology cli, environment,

neighbor issues, agricultural issues, are they responding to the needs of the people? they would say no. this is not necessarily democratic institution, which is part of the reason why we, you know, lower and lower turn out for every election, especially at the parliamentary level in the last few years. can you tell me quickly about president site, i think is an interesting character. i've read reports about people feel, you know, he can be quite awkward and he's very, very formal and he speaks classic arabic and things like this. i mean, he seems an interesting character for a young democracy. we were following the election campaign. it was something that we were to grappling with, trying to figure out who this outsider was in some, in many ways it was quite confusing because we didn't have a traditional media campaign. it may have been even just network. the former student you had taught for many years as a constitutional law professor at the law faculty. and many of the students were actually very happy about his candidacy, who had quite a lot of faith in him. you know, as i also have now started,

because people at that time were quite fed up with traditional politician. i mean, when you saw the run off for the election, where the president, with between him and a business man who has styled and felt as an outside, i wouldn't make outside, but he's certainly styles and cider. this is kind of kind of person who immediately appealed to people even without a very strong media campaign or traditional election campaign, right? we're just running out of time now. so i just want to find a word from you about, well, what we do in the immediate future here, given that the president seems to suspend it all in different parts of power, the parliament to the speaker, and the constitutional court. and all these things, would you welcome mediation assistance, arab league, another country, something like that? yeah, just a very, very, very good comment on what i've just heard about a president. i says, i mean people should not also forget about the fact that in all, all political parties has been company very hard for them to get on the to win

the 2nd turn of the election. hey, is i think one of the best presentation of a failure from political parties, this last and 9 to 10 years to be able to adopt to the moving of the situation introduced to the transformation of the society to the needs as well . all very demanding and conscious society and, and, and population. what, what are the next step? it's very, it's very easy. we demand that the parliament reopened as a member of the parliament. i was denied access to the building today by the army. and this is something which is buried dentures and which is definitely not in the course, but you said i would love to hear people who are defending digital to democracy and the democratic transition into the just talk about what the, what is the role of the army today,

why is doing the on the inside the parliamentary building? the 1st thing. secondly, we are asking for a national exactly as we've been doing this last month. and we think definitely about it today at that older social organization, national organization into the, the should play a role or i see the station obviously if there is a need for the bait to change the political regime in geneva, let's do it. yeah. the reason it's debate to change the electoral system into the the, the story it as well. but also i think that we should agree on the necessity of anticipated elections. so either an ac massage run down the and the other day. so thank you so much for your time today and your expertise. be ready to appreciate it. and thank you for watching. there is always more for you on line. first off, it's out there were dot com we, you can see this in any of our previous editions. of the show than facebook dot com forward slash h, a inside story, plenty of discussion there as well as on twitter at a inside story for the show. and come on

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