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snipers, positioned, and buildings. resident michelle own has addressed the nation condemning the violence. whereas i know you'll say that the we will never allow anyone to hijack the country of what has happened to day will be followed on both levels of the judiciary and security and investigations will reach the reality and the truth. and the facts among those perpetrators will be taken to the court in the investigation of the boot port blasting, continued it because it's a commitment towards the lebanese people and towards the international community law. based on the independence of the judicial, your army that a taliban delegation is in turkey. as the new government of afghanistan continues, a diplomatic push for support and international recognition. it comes a day after talks and cotton with the group appealed to us in european officials to and afghan, a stands isolation. you as president joe biden says, his country will donate millions of corona virus vaccines to the african union. he

made the announcement while hosting canyon president hood kenyatta, the 1st african leader to visit the white house since joe biden took office. former us president bill clinton has been hospitalized in the state of california with the suspected blood infection according to a statement from clinton spokesman. the 75 year old is currently on the manned and in good spirits. i will, is authorities investigating why that a file that killed at least 46 people was started deliberately. dozens of others were injured and thursdays blazed at a 13 story building which was made up of small shops and apartments. georgia's opposition has held a rally in the capital to blue see, to protest against the imprisonment of former president. because successfully the government as he entered the country illegally from exile successfully. no face is 6 years in prison. those are the headlines. the news is going to continue here on al jazeera, after mach democracy, maybe democracy for sale. good bye. understand the differences and similarities of

cultures across the world who sentimental handy take. it will bring you the news and current affairs that matter to you. ah if go to my brothers just a moment, a fair look alone with my phone, let them have a ship bag to la la bella, the laugh ha ha ha ha i left with

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it's not that b, 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. a lot of people are

willing to bowl for politicians who don't seem to have a lot of concern. is those democratic constraints, ah, you a willing when they come to power to ignore some of the limits on their power? ah, and making sure the heck 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 as

we had an explosion of transition to democracy, an explosion of dictatorships back to lapse. oh, oh, how many of those democracy's not surprisingly, we're quite unique 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 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 was come out of a tour 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, and then everything collapse, the political elite just decided to cut the piece of cake and shared among each other me. 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 trucks of switching the felt state. lebanon 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 unity 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 sex that might be caught up, or somebody from a different sex, but you don't for anything of them to this one. it's mainly almost 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 better 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 and 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 in 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 to people who are 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 downtown data to square at 7 pm. it will only 3040 people. and so we started, you know, getting messages and people started coming with

him. there will 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 in this political system. for the past 30 years, 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 people with really going to not come out of the streets until the government stepped out. and a new government is gonna come up that 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 that had been it, but it wasn't made of defendant. people and the political class faith to gifts loose and then now 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 and lost. oh, in the process of ever finding a solution to the problem that you are in the 3rd explosion and the well apparently it comes after hiroshima and nagasaki in all of the sorts, hassles the city and killed no dental 100 people and coast. 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,

my son is joseph. and the board of bade work and that just blew up. and no budgeted now is has accountable for the i we 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 me oh, i have an n g all. so when the explosion took place, unfortunately, we had teams in place for construction because you had already done that because

you have to know that's 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 has me so so he could be an associate will see can have that. so that can and what about media media defeat on live equipment. ok. so have the muzzle title and seizures in this little a little have of i do live in the initial they can actually oh the

the entering and autonomy which cannot see the nights at the end of it. i think everybody never knew his anguish since uprising in october 2019 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 that 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 not been seen in lebanon. so had

a station price increase, the risk deviation. this is the economy. good morning 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 me 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 has 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 arab dictatorships deny the are bring. this is really. busy

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 seem 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 typical night 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 african 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 of a dream is if we can eat models, you can have eaten model. if we can fill out cars was guess. so this is how much the country became a grave for dreams, especially for the you know, because i see seen was sold the cool moment. usually dodie, let's see a demo but

a salmon and a visit. i jim, i believe jimmy gonna visit our gym and he's sort of beatable to freight to pack t one are we able to pack. ready ready joe from. ready ready a letter that a letter home now, but i'm not for my, you know, my son has been down for take off a ganga media censorship and the rise of authoritarian rule to wake up one day.

this system has been turned from an electoral democracy into a competitive authoritarian regime. i looked at the lost power in hungary, in the experiences of those who live in every day. that is a pressure on us. but we have to be very careful, of course, and we have to be brave enough to support question how democracy dies. democracy may be on al jazeera, the latest news, as it breaks, freedom of brooks and the creams of talking to each other, trying to iron out the differences. because together, they form a large block in parliament with detail coverage because the world's largest producer of low to see. but children are being used to meet the rising demand from around the world. the island has increased in land map. it's as if rivera with this corruption is pulling the island of la paloma out of the ocean. in germany's capital, there is a barber, like no other than what he to your home for. i marked natasha cross, which you ah,

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