the bananas or the engine of the economy on the canary islands accounting for 30 percent of jobs. the spanish government has designated more than $16000000.00 in financial aid to help farmers recover. local officials say the government should do more. the you look to see where the dental jemila, the 14000000 euros of a to been provided to the community is stuart. but it's only equivalent to what the affected areas produce in just one year or 2. after sunset, the glow from kimbry becker lights up the landscape yet again and the threat of the love it becomes visible from tens of kilometers away. all alvaro can do is watch and hope his farm is spared. alexander lurch al jazeera la palmer. ah.

so again, i am fully battle with the headlines on al jazeera. at least 14 people have been killed in an explosion in serious capital is the worst attack in damascus in years, 2 bombs went off in an army boss, while another one was found to be a by are soon after syrian government forces bombed to the northern province of it live killing at least 13 people, including children, dozens more were injured. the attack violates a ceasefire. find in march. russia is hosting the taliban at an international conference on afghanistan. delegation is in moscow meeting representatives of regional powers, including china, india, and pakistan. to sir mika, luis gucia though, so his skill, the social, economic, and humanitarian problems, the new government and capital have taken on show the current situation in afghanistan cannot be cult stable. first of all, terrorist groups such as idol and al qaeda has to be stopped. they are again trying to raise their heads and all different parts of the country issues. and the drug trade remains pressing problem in afghanistan. school in ethiopia as trying to have

hit the capital of the nor then to gray region. for the 2nd time this week, at least 3 people were killed in mckelly on monday, the government initially denied still strikes that later. the state news agency reported an air force re saying communication equipment was hit, more than 80 people have died during days of floods affecting india is northern and southern states. cause in the state of which are a kind are working to save stranded people. the waters have inundated farmland and swept away bridges and a damning report into the brazilian government. handling of the corn of irish pandemic will soon be made public ill apparently recommend president j boss narrow face criminal charges for his handling of the crisis. those are the headlines on al jazeera, emily anglin will have the news are for you right after democracy. maybe frank assessments is orcus likely to change biking behavior and it's not going to change

their behavior. they are going to continue to do what they do. and in depth analysis of the dates, global headlines inside story on our jazeera ah, all. the no. i thought my journalistic camera, 44 years ago in 1985. i was appointed the most school bureau, chief of hungary and television. those were the board bunch of years. nobody at that time wanted to go to the soviet union. and when i

came back home, communism was over in hungary. it was a completely new and strange world. the whole troops must be withdrawal for important that everybody in hungary had great expectations about democracy and about changing to capitalism. and that that time hungary was in the forefront of the changes the hungarian society created legislation model type artist, a new parliament elected by the people and old all the institutions of democracy were billed when the old bond government came to power in my view, it margaret a sharp change ah, i would say it is much closer to dictatorship. where are the exclusive only

ideology is to retain power at whatever cost the $59.00. okay. yeah. the deal. yeah. both up, any type of test 120 and he sent or not or not, or no load. i spell out your buffet as the special guy as asha was an m ha made the don't actually didn't the other frequency i got as if they get and i don't thing that victor or band will be voted out of power. no prices is high enough. just he wants to be in power and that is his only goal in life. this is why i think he's so dangerous for getting democracy. the

prime minister came to power for the 1st time, very young still in his thirty's, in 1998. when he lost the elections, i think he made a while to himself that he will never let go with the power to make them keep us stephanie. i mean the se, then. yeah. or bothered to lecture me was defeated in 2002. that the reason why he was in the election because he didn't occupy the museum, my 2010, when he just came to power with a 2 thirds majority, is mans that politically, he can do anything he wants because he had

a full even constitutional strong position in parliament with what am i going off with? if he wanted, he could have introduced a kingdom in hunger because of the process. you saw major. if you can override the constitution, you can change the, the cardinal roles, you can do whatever you want. they changed it within 24 hours. so when he came to power in 2010, i think he had strategic plan off not letting go for this bower. and the more you want to know that you were brought with respect sir, it's not for us is not, is free here, less free and hungry. first before he occupied the institutional system, prosecutor's office. therefore, there can be no high level investigation started in government related corruption. and of course he needed to conquer the media because he understood that the media

is the force key element of any democracy or power. the media with the central bank and many other bodies. so the so called independent institution of brookfield laws, their independence, it has, it really became a typical populace politician. i think the only thing that matters is himself retaining power and making himself ready to reach abraham lincoln once said mm, if you want to test a man's character, give him power. ah, it's important to recognize that democracy without constraint can be extremely dangerous. in some places what we've seen is a decay in those liberal rights. i'm without actually seeing an elimination of free and fair election. you're the, if you could get the planet, but i don't see them

a little button on the final dark. but in to go more systematic runway during most of modern history, up through the mid to late 20th century. the main way in which democracies died was through some kind of violent break. with the past, you know the military out on the street with the tags and the guns over throwing democratically elected government. these days democracy doesn't die. suddenly, it dies by a 1000 cuts step by step and die silently and incrementally as elected leaders like victor or bon and hungry. rather than autocrats violently over throwing democratic regimes. they come to power through the ballot box and rather than ending free and fair elections, they gradually undermine the norms and institutions of democracy from with. and so

what am i supposed to go to problem with this is that sometimes citizens don't know exactly what's going on until you wake up one day and your free press is gone. you wake up one day, the system looks the same, but deep down the system has been turned inside out and transformed from an electoral demarco into a competitive authoritarian regime. i think in the also there an playbook the 1st thing. what you have to do. if there are still elections is to change the information environment. the news 10 years ago when mister or one came to the polar tv lines that he has to control

the media. and they started to buy media outlets one by one. they have different tactics. if they can buy one media, they are buying. if they intimidate the other one, they are intimidating. and if they close one media, david, close it. so there is a pressure on us. what we have to be very careful of course, and we have to be brave enough to support that pressure. ah. i was working for the largest daily newspaper at the time called hungarian nation monday on them. and 2 days after the election stay announced that the largest newspaper at the time we'll be closed. so we

decided to estimate the weekly magazine called hungary on voice. he had no money. so we are starting from scratch. 1 ready unfortunately in hungary it's nobody brave enough to print our newspaper. so i had to find. ready another option since the beginnings we are printing or newspapers inflow achia ah, some of the retail chains are not brave enough to sell us. even the readers are not brave enough to be subscriber. even the market companies de monte national swans doesn't want to, to give advertising to us because they are afraid to be punished. everybody, to deal with the government. and they doesn't want to take a risk that or last chance to remain journalist. if the

hunger boys will be closed, we have to leave the journalism and we have to find a new way of surviving. so we could be stopped at any time. by 2018, they created a huge government controlled media. conglomerate, off no less than $470.00 different media outlets. dest foundation controls about 90 percent of the media, 90 percent of the audience. this is a huge media machinery that allows the government to boost its messages in a highly concentrated form,

more changing the attitude through the information and narrative. and i think change the media landscape and change the electron system. so that makes it easier for you to read in hungary, the official politics of the government, i think is quest versus theory. and it's really remarkable that leading government officials, including the prime minister himself, are spreading the dicker. ask once, per se, curious. and if you are opening your mouth and criticizing the government, then you can easily find yourself in the very brutal and this honest this information can be they tried to silence god, you'll be glad you wouldn't fit into this propaganda balloon. imagine that you spend a lot of time and money to build up a huge air balloon of propaganda and there is a little hole in it. you have to close it,

you have to close. glad you're because glad you is the little hole. well, the truth comes out if you close your eyes and, and put aside your moral obligations or professional principles, you can continue working for, for the government media. but you will know that you are lying every day. oh, it's also a term popu. xander can be better describe this tribal politics because it's something an shop here in hungary war bomb is rex's. to relieve that of his tribe, there is nothing in between. either your be us or a gas spouse. i think this is how democracies start to die. that when you're just gone dare to open your mouth invoice and i asked you to demo state that the

government action taken guide action a great feeling to be among so many people. oh, what is i think remarkably unique in hungary case is a door bound. could do it, beads, almost no application of wireless handling. this was just one of the towns where protest is reported to have been shot at by the security services in mandalay, sometimes democracy fails. and i think this is an example now that just happened in burma because you have some power for actor external to the political system that

doesn't want to allow democracy, that feels threatened by democracy. and i think that's what's happened recently with the military coup and man maryan gun shows police stand here that you have a narrow cabal of rulers. and they control armed force. they have a monopoly of force, now that they can suppress popular uprisings for change. ah ah,

i was planning the midnight one minute cool with that commenter in shut off them at all which is a military force all steamers. ah, i was shocked for a whole day even we predicted them at all. we'll take over the control sooner or later as i am an executive member of revolutionary democratic for me and my comrade stood at our conversation about how can we respond to the action. so i will move that does not support it or rely on any political parties or organizations. we walk

on any parties who agreeing with our principles, such as abolishing the military region, abolishing 2008 constitution, which is the main pillar of military aging. and achieving for democracy and free all political prisoners. i don't want to live and see our generation live under the dictatorship. i a, [000:00:00;00] i had

a good thing i was born and grew up in the middle military combat. as my father was a soldier who my father retired from military since 1999, one on return discrimination policy over race and religion announced and implemented within the middle. according to the policy, the military officers will not be promoted if he or she, if not by the end of that call. i only have iris c by means if you are being kitchen, korean chin, or other at the next and christian muslim or other religious, your virus infect that person and a long in the society,

me a great a busy, whether the government is minorities equal to the major 30 people might have a question. also, susie and our fellows protecting the brutality, soft amador, even as the international state and why the military wants to cool. it is clear, i don't expect that to, as i say, roll through elect to real process. but usd be filled in both 20152020 election. and of course, they are not happy with it. there are places in the world where the military is so powerful. it just doesn't seem to be willing to allow a democratic political system the i think democracy stems from the innate desire of human beings for

dignity, for respect, that comes with freedom and you can have freedom without democracy. in the absence of that, what is to protect you from a knock on the door in the middle of the night from the secret police, or just the police saying you've violated this law or that. and you're being taken away and then who will defend you? and who will protect you when everybody is living under the same fear of a a i really hated because the really to

read it by hope at the 50 of to put it what knowledge of it a bit logo like the military guys to read it, play hopes and he did okay. this my wife and my brother since then like we locate him, place it in different places. a i had with guy

with hi it's alicia o a cooper at 32 your family. so i just called because i knew that they would look for me but i keep holding in different activities like a failure to be screwed up with my motorcycle group. we don't know what to do and we don't know. we're going to have to, if we do have it with me, you know, doing really deal

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independent minded people are dangerous for any dictates or this is why they try to eradicate them both in stylings, russia or soviet union in hitler's nazi germany, the same was under cut, duffy in libya. the same happened in romania and nikolai chesko and it's happening now when me and mark i haven't seen anything better than democracy. ah, if you turn the question around, you see what the lack of democracy causes in human history, mass killings, oppression, poverty. so where are we heading? ah, what we are leaving behind for our children. this is or duty to bring the bow all the day that come on guys,

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