men send marvelous animal and then it's gone, submits goes, well, shop population will be heading off to next summer. the question, as every year is how many will return? john holmes, out 0 metzger. ah, just gone exactly how fast these are your top stories. the british conservative m p 's, the david amos has died out to being stab repeatedly. he was meeting members of his own constituency in a church building when a man reportedly entered and attacked him, a suspect has been arrested. britain's prime minister barak johnson paid tribute to his party colleague. i think all our hearts are full of shock and sadness to day add to the loss of the david. a miss m p who was killed in his constituency surgery . in a church after almost 40 years of continuous service to the people of essex and

the whole of the united kingdom. and the reason i think people are so shocked and saddened is above all. he was one of the kindest, nicest, most gentle people in politics. and he also had an outstanding record of passing laws to help the most vulnerable security source is in afghanistan, say at least 41 people have been killed and another 70 were wounded. after the largest shia mosque in the southern city of kandahar came under attack, it happened during friday prayers. there are reports of 3 suicide bombers. taking part in the attack. funerals had been held for 7 people killed in bay roots worth street violence. and more than a decade the city was rocked by near constant gunfire for more than 4 hours on thursday, with unidentified snipers on rooftops. you know, for it is an english speaking western cameroon of calls for com. after school girl died from police fighting a car to checkpoint among killed the officer responsible. the incident took place

in bouie or where anglo phone separatists have been in conflict with government forces. the last 4 years. hundreds of people who gathered in booking offences capital to pay tribute to the former president thomas sancho on the anniversary of his assassination. it comes to days after the trial of those accused of his murder was postponed. the polish parliament has amended legislation to allow border guards to expel immediately, migrants across the border without paperwork, human rights groups. the measures violate international law. protest to the ruptured across italy as a tough anti corona virus measure comes into force. the new rule requires all workers to show a green pass to go to work. pass proves the holder has been vaccinated for they've tested negative those headlines. the news continues after democracy may be more news on this channel in a little under 30 minutes, see that? me

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a democracy. oh, on victors, we are a democracy. but in vin life, it's not that me. democracy has certainly been hijacked. it's a resemblance for them walking. 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. is those democratic constraints ah, a willing when they come to power to ignore some of the limits on their power? ah, and making sure that that house is not a means a long standing tension. tomorrow. 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 back to lapse. oh, oh, how many of those democracies 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 ready ready ready a lot of people make arguments about democracy being for sale or 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 to sort of tragic example of that in the middle east,

of course, is lebanon. i a ah i was born in the war. when peace came, we were hopeful that something good would 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 collapsed. the political elite just decided to cut the piece of cake and shirt among each other me. when i was at close quarters, they taught us what the fed state would be. i can tell you that we're definitely on the last tracks of switching the felt state. lebanon was built as a safe haven for all the persecuted minorities in the middle east. but the problem of the system with this country is that we couldn't build a system that answers the diverse society that we have in lebanon.

it's about having a diverse society living in a unitary system. and the system not answering the needs of the minorities in lebanon. if you asked someone or would you have a lead to your group from your own sack, it might be caught up or somebody from a different tech, but you don't anything about them to this one? it's mainly about 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 citizens, they work for the better of the party and their group. me you have

a 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. ready democracies fail for many particular reasons. ah, they may be extremely corrupt and self serving with the lance that are not governing well and serving the public trust. ah, 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. ah, 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 in authoritarian

populace, things get even worse. if 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 said we're thinking of the forms, we're thinking of adding taxes. we want something new. this is finished with go to downtown, the little square at 7 pm. it will only 3040 people. and the we stuff that,

you know, getting messages and the people started coming with him. there will 40000 people for the 1st time, old confessions, or religious effects were on the street. those individuals just voicing that hussar and anger against a disposal of the illusion. 11 was everyone, everyone, everybody needs to be held accountable for every action that they have done in this political system. for the past 30 years, i had the 1st demand was for the government to resign and the government resigned. and then we asked for formation of a new cabinet of independence. people with real going to not come out of the streets until the government stepped out. and

a new government is gonna home up the dell professionals and they don't belong to any sectarianism to any political association with any of the ones that we have currently with a form to describe it. but it wasn't made of independence and the political class faith to gifts with no, nothing happened and nothing has changed with and we saw that we've had activity that's nothing with us. we discovered that has layers the

whole august, 4th explosion came and we lost houses most people and we lost hopes in the process of ever finding a solution to the problem that you are in the 3rd explosion and the world apparently is, comes after hiroshima and nagasaki you know, it's, so it has to city and kill $200.00 people and because i think $5000000000.00 in losses, so many people, dad and so many tense, 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 that has agreed to put this in the port of bade. and that just blew up. and no budget to 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 feel us. it's that they are terminals. oh, 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 has me so so he is going to be my, i'm not going to be going to go. so we'll see can have some heads up can and they know what the know about. hey, they alyssa, media, media. why defeat on the sad, lately calling from the ok. so have the muzzle title and seizures in this little little have of i live mr. the new kid for the initial they keep telling me

the entering and autonomy which cannot see the nights at the end of it. i think i hate everybody. another news anchors since uprising in october 2019 when bank to the open and people went back to the bank. they had limits on their with their own. second talk was the currency started evaluate. they, we had a fixed rate for the denise pounds was $1.00. it was $1571.00. it was $15000.00. 0,

for today we live and 11 of inequality and poverty has never been seen in lebanon. so had a station price increase. curtis deviation, 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 seep 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 converted 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 the. ready democracy does not succeed in the ad words, because we do not know how to deal with democracy. we have dictators, there are just people who just want to fill their pockets, who are serious differ power, who want to oppress in order to stay in their seats. the i have spring

was a hope for everyone. it started in tunisia by 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 authority. it's about justice and dignity, respect for them as individuals which all of these arab dictatorships and

i see are bring. this is really quite upsetting. to people who study democracy, ah, 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. ah, 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, 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 battery 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 was simple canada boom,

that's what we're living and it's not accepted. it's not okay to accept that our leaders just are corrupt, kiddos, and a time. and this is the african crisis where and when you start questioning, it's when we start changing as long as we're not questioning, we cannot change we still have some hope to make a change in the country, but every day, oh dreams, unbecoming blower. no other dream is if you can eat more or you can have eaten model if he can fill out cards was guest. so this is how much the country became a grave for dreams, especially for the, you know, a coma with dolly. let's see

a salmon and events that are jimmy jimmy canup is that i am on the he's sort of beat a bit different to paki anovia with. ready ready a letter back, a letter home. huh now, but i'm not finding my, you know, my, it has been done with hoffa ganga,

media censorship and the rise of all of their italian rule. you wake up one day, the system has been turned from an electoral democracy into a competitive authoritarian shame. i looked at the love of 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 that question how democracy dies. democracy may be on al jazeera ah, in the country with an abundance of results for the trade already won indonesia, his big firms. for me, we moved full to grow and fraud. we balance for green economy, blue economy,

and the digital economy with the new job creation law, indonesia is progressively ensuring the policy reform to create quality jobs. invest, let be part when denise is growth and progress, invest indonesia now awe british conservative m p. david amos is killed in a knife attack while missing his constituents. a 25 year old man has been arrested . ah, hello and welcome. i'm pete adobe. you're watching al jazeera alive from doha. also coming up a bomb attack in afghanistan targets a. she a mosque during friday, prayers killing more than 40 people lebanon in morning funerals are held in beirut off to the biggest street by.