wants support to either to initiate new or some sort of upright or sort of a revolution here or, and also importantly, he doesn't have so much informational support like to be used to have george's western hours worry that suckers release arrest is politically motivated. but they also want to about returning home and destabilizing and already devoid it electron robin for astir walker al jazeera re study. ah, this is out there. are these your top stores brushes president is denying his country's behind an energy shortage in europe saying moscow is standing by to help . natural gas prices have skyrocketed and the use as people are going to need support as winter approaches. era fears that the u. k. might start running out of

food because of a log jam of shipping containers. the country's largest commercial port. felix dow in england handles about 36 percent of the countries and ports at there aren't enough laurie drivers to transport the goods. and some companies are having to move shipments to other ports. a man's used a bow and arrow to kill 5 people and injured several others in no way. it happened in the town of calls beg southwestern, the capital oslo. a suspect has been arrested or various come for me if later the arrested person is a man and that's all i can say about the person suspected. in this case, he's been taken to prison. the husband and there will continue to be a large police presence over night. there are many crime scenes. the perpetrator operated over a large area. these places have been secured by police and not being searched by the crime scene. officials. it's european military is said to be increasing air and ground attacks on armed fighters in the northern te gray region. a spokesman for the to growing forces says there have been many casualties as they find government

troops on several fronts. battles are also taking place in the neighboring regions of am hora on a fall. if you're, if his government isn't commenting on the new offensive, on fight is have killed at least 25 people in the eastern democratic republic of congo. the last 4 days. security forces in north keyvi proven say a group linked to isolate carried out attacks on separate villages. kenny's president says the country is lost. one of its sporting heroes of long distance runner, agnes terrel was found stabbed to death, penny say a husband as the suspect. terrell was a 2 time will championship bronze medalist, she broke the women's only 10 kilometer road weld record in germany. just last month. typhoon composite has left a trail of destruction in china's islands, province of high. nun storm is now heading towards vietnam. those, the headlines in east continues here on al jazeera, after democracy, maybe talk to al jazeera. we ask what gives you hope

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lebanon was one of the 1st countries in the region to have a democracy, a on victor's. we are a democracy, but in vin life it's not that me. democracy has certainly been hijacked. it's a resemblance of a democracy. we live on corruption everywhere. now, we have one of the oldest democracy in that a book. but the democracy is not functioning well because it's not responding to the benefits of the citizen. oh, we are in an era when a lot of people are angry. ah,

there are discontented with their leaders and governments for not being able to deal with economic challenges like growing in equality and declining social mobility. ah, and a lot of people are willing to bowl for politicians who don't seem to have a lot of concern because those democratic constraints a, a willing when they come to power to ignore some of the limits on their power. ah, and making sure that that power is not a that remains a long standing tension. i have been studying the development of democracies and dictatorships for much of my professional life. ah, we're in

a period of what some social sciences call democratic recession. now that has to be taken in context because what happened at the end of the 20th century is we had an explosion of transition to democracy, an explosion of dictatorships, that collapse. oh, yeah. how many of those democracy's not surprisingly were quite neat. but saddening . what's also happened is that democracies in places that we took for granted that we assumed were solid, that we assumed were no longer threatened by autocratic tendencies. these democracies have also proved to be much more vulnerable than we thought. ready ready a lot of people make arguments about democracy being for sale of being hijacked. it's very hard for me to understand how we can have something

approximating political equality with the degree of social and economic inequality that we have. sort of tragic example of that in the middle east, of course, is lebanon. ah, a ah. i was born in the war when peace came, we were hopeful that something good with come out of a mature, occupied by foreign country, by syria. ah,

so before this occupation for a long time until 2005, when the occupation just left the country and this huge manifestation that took place on the 14th of march, where we actually believed for once that this was our chance to create a country. ah. c and then everything collapse. mm hm. the political, it just decided to cut the piece of cake and shared among each other in when i was a close court, they taught us what the 1st state would be. i can tell you that we are definitely on the last tracks of switching. the 5th state government was built as a safe haven for all the persecuted minorities in the middle east. but the problem

with the system with this country is that we couldn't build a system that answers the diverse society that you have in lebanon. oh, it's about having a diverse society living in a you need to the system. and the system not answering the needs of the minority in lebanon. if you ask someone, would you rather have a lead to your group from your own tech? it might be caught up or somebody from a different sex, but you don't for anything of them to this one. it's mainly when you understand this and you understand the problem is that in the system, then you understand why these people are caught up. and when they come to office, they don't work for the method of the state and the citizen they work for the method of their party and their group. me

you have a. busy society that historically been carved up in terms of power and wealth by these different confessional leads from these different religious and social groupings. and it just becomes a kind of a lead cabal to extract the wealth of the society and serve the different, competing a lead interest, but not the collectivity, not the society as a whole. now, here in 2021. we are in the 15th consecutive year

of democratic decline me i democracies fail for many particular reasons. they may be extremely corrupt and self serving with a lance that are not governing well in serving the public trust. people get disillusioned with the ruling elites and parties. ah, and when people see that the rulers they have elected are serving their own interests rather than the public interest. it's very alienating, it's very de molar moralizing. it's very infuriating people are supposed to be able to choose their politicians,

and those leaders and governments are supposed to come to power and put in place policies that help make people's lives better. that is what democracy is all about . ah, what we've seen over the past several decades is governments that have been increasingly either unable or unwilling to do that. ah, so if we look at the trends of the last few decades, we can see some very troubling trends. growing levels of inequality. a sense that the future is going to be much less certain than we expected during the post war period. and in these kinds of contexts, people are rightly angry. ah, people become vulnerable to the appeal of populist, illiberal, or authoritarian leaders who say,

i'm the answer. trust me and of course them when you trust and authoritarian populace things get even worse. ah, another really critical political trend of the last decade is an unprecedented number of protests against existing governments. whether democratic or undemocratic is for corruption, for lack of responsiveness across the globe. and i think more and more lebanese are recognizing this are seeing verse and wanting a new social and political bargain in the country. oh, toby, 17 was a turning point in my life. that was the chance people who had fed up because the government to settle thinking of the forms, we're thinking of adding taxes. we want something new. this is finished with go to don't sound

a little square at 7 pm. it will only 3040 people and we started, you know, getting messages and people started coming with him. there were 40000 people with, for the 1st time old confessions, or religious effects were on the street. those individuals just voicing did hussar and it anger against a disposal of the illusion. 11 was, every one means everyone. everybody needs to be held accountable for every action that they have done and responded to consistent. for the past 30 years, i had the 1st demand was for the government to resign and the government g side. and then we asked for formation of a new cabinet of independent speak with

will going to have not come out of this street until the government stepped out. and a new government is going to home of the professionals and they don't belong to any sectarianism to any political association with any of the ones that we have currently with one of them. and they formed this, i've been it, but it wasn't made of defendant. people and the political last faith to gifts loose until now and nothing happened and nothing with . and we thought that we've reached an activity that's nothing with

and then we discovered that hell has layers ah august 4th explosion came and we lost houses, lost people and lost oak in the process of ever finding a solution to the problem that you are in the 3rd explosion and the world apparently it's comes after hiroshima and nagasaki in order to soothe hassles the city and killed more than $200.00 people. and cuz i think $5000000000.00 in losses. so many people, dad and so many chance, if not hundreds of thousands homeless as a result of bad governance because governing really isn't happening. and the logic

of rule in a country like lebanon isn't to govern. it's to divide up the wealth and power of the country. so it was a corrupt political has agreed to put not that it's joseph and the board of bade woods and that just blew up. and no budgeted now is has accountable for that. i will live in that much corruption, that even human lives. it's not worth it anymore to those people. it's not just that they failed us. it's that they are to mills who

i have an n g all. so when the explosion took place, unfortunately, we had teams in place for instruction because you had already done that because you have to know that in lebanon, it's personal initiatives and civil society who does the work of what a state should be doing. because we do not have a state that tells me so, so he is coming from the my name will be an associate will see, can have that. so that can and what about media media defeat on ben said let me call them ok. so have the muzzle title and seizures in this little a little have of i live in the

initial they can actually oh i the entering and autonomy which cannot see the night at the end of it. i don't think everybody never knew his anguish since uprising in october 2019th when bank re open and people went back to the bank . they had limits on their with their own 2nd talk was the currency started evaluate. they, we had a fixed rate for the pounds was $1.00 equals $1571.00

. it was $15000.00. 0 for today we live in a lot of inequality. and poverty that has never been seen in lebanon. so had a station price increase, the risk evaluation. this is the economy, the more inequality we have, the less democracy we have. i know nothing about equality of incomes. it says nothing about a quality of wealth, but it does say that everyone must be politically in. rather, the problem really is when social and economic inequality seats into the political sphere, there is no doubt that wealthy citizens have more influence over political outcomes than poor ones. those who are already very wealthy use their wealth to corrupt

politicians. so when you have concentrated well, the temptation of the extremely wealthy is to use their economic power to convert it into political power through lobbying and political control so that they can then reproduce their can amik concentration of wealth. and you get into a vicious cycle ah, democracy does not succeed in the ad words, because we do not know how to deal with democracy. we have dictators there just people who just want to fill their pockets who are searching for power,

who want to oppress in order to stay in there. the i have spring was a hope for everyone. it started in tunisia. this decision of this fruit vendor and tunisia, dignity had been repeatedly violated and humiliated by petty corruption by the police to emulate himself. and that was the ignition switch because it spoke to this sense of humiliation that arabs broadly felt by abusive, monopolistic, corrupt, already about

justice and dignity, respect for them as individuals which all of these era dictatorships and i see are bring. this is really quite upsetting to people who study democracy the whole was, was that, that democratic wave had finally come to the part of the world that seemed to be most immune to it. but of course, that democratic wave failed these uprisings failed because mainly of the regional dynamics that there were so few democracies in the region that there weren't others that could, could come to their aid. the anger at old dictatorships was massive, but the ability to build new democracies was not yet there governments can respond to the needs of their citizens. people's main think what we

learned from lebanon is that democratic governments have some legitimacy simply by being democratic rights. but if those systems are corrupt and if they are unresponsive, they will lose legitimacy as well. and democracy will not be able to thrive in those kinds of circumstances. ah ah, it's my last battle. this is the last time on gun fight. and if this does not happen, i don't want to see my children fighting the same bathroom again over and over again. lee knew the solution for me is for us deeper decide to realizing that this is tough, norman. wow, i'm sad. it's like it's typical night,

a soda that's what we're living and it's not acceptable. it's not okay to accept that our leaders just are corrupt, kiddos and it's high. and this is the ethical crisis where and when we start questioning, it's when we start changing, as long as we're not questioning, we cannot change we still have some to make a change in the country. but every day o dreams are coming lower. now our dream is if we can eat model, if you can have eaten model, if we can fill out cards was guess so this is how much the country became a grave for dreams, especially for the you know,

because the scene was sold boldly under colma with dolly, let's see a demo, but at a salmon and a visit i, jim, i believe jimmy canup is that i, jim and he's sort of being able to fit to pack t one are we able to pack. ready ready joe from. ready ready a letter the letter a letter to home now, but i'm not finding my, you know, my son has been down there with

take off a ganga media censorship and the rise of authoritarian rule. you wake up one day, this system has been turned from an electoral democracy into a competitive authoritarian machine and look at the loss of power in hungary, in the, in the experiences of those who live in every day. that is a pressure on us. but we haven't to be ready to get hold, of course, and we have to be brave enough to support question how democracy dies. democracy may be on al jazeera, not in america, is a region of wonder of joy tragedy. and yes, of violet. but it doesn't matter where you are, you'll have to be able to relate to the human condition with no country is the light and it's my job to shed light on how and why the venezuela, columbia borgia has become a stamping ground for trespasses as desperate people transgress and illegal passage

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