salt import us the campaign to returned the been in bronzes and thousands of other artifacts looted during the sensuous long colonization of africa. i stick in a long time campaign as hope the events of the united kingdom on france this week will begin a process that could see the return of most of africa, stolen, historic, and cultural artifacts. ahmed edris al jazeera, a butcher, ah, is out there, and these are the top stories. the leaders of for energy, jones face tough questions before a u. s. congressional committee. the oil and gas ceos were asked about the roles their companies played in downplaying, the threat of climate change. the u. k. some of the french ambassador admit a deepening ro over post briggs fishing rights and comes hours after french authorities seized a british trula operating in french territorial waters. the espionage case against

argentine is full of president murray, cio mercury has been suspended on a legal technicality. mockery is accused of ordering intelligence agencies despite on the families of crew members of a submarine that sank 4 years ago. yes, president joe biden doesn't appear to have the full support of his democratic party for his $1.00 trillion dollar spending program. a key democratic group is saying that they will not vote on the infrastructure bill without the build back. better act, philip hill has more from washington dc. this is a separate bill at be separate, but at the same time it's kind of linked to make the 2 of them live in parallel. see the infrastructure bill is a bipartisan bill. so this is joe biden doing what he said he would do during the presidential campaign. reaching out to republicans saying, let's work together. let's make stuff happen together. and he's got the buy in of republican, so it looked like it was going to be a slam dunk. but now there are a members of the democrats who are say, well, hang on a 2nd. we're gonna hold off passing this bill because we want this built to be voted on at the same time as the built by

a built back better plan. now the reason they're doing this is this is an issue of trust. they think that they might vote this infrastructure bill in and then those who are holding out on the build back better plan might say, actually thanks for that. but you know what, we're not going to put this through. so essentially game trust and facebook has changed his name while the social media site will keep the name the parent company is now called meta chief executive. mark zuckerberg says it reflects the met a verse in a future world with formal online interaction says it brings together the company's acts, including instagram. i'm what's up under one umbrella. united states in the u. n. are increasing the pressure on students military as confrontations between security forces. and protesters continue in haul to the un security council called for the restoration of a civilian that government. those the headlines news continues, hey, on out thereafter. democracy maybe ah, 25 years ago, new iraq in the syllabus in the middle east begin

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i, the frightening, saw that in the european country in the 21st century, you have one man in power for more than 2 decades. and that's exactly what happened in russia. ah lucas shanker had a 6 year head start on total. he came to power and $94.00, put in at the end of $99.00. but he was in your pain language in, but he did young that a he is with get over there blood. when you get a day or took some humor gretsch's skin, by the time the putin came to power, look a shanker had already essentially established for full fledged authoritarian system invalid and began doing many of the same things with wickersham. go to read, you done, prisoner phone and shutting down. independent media outlets. rigging,

elections, motoring, political opponents of time. boris themself. call this the lucas, shy zation of russian. who just was when you had some annoyed yamil. ruskin belated him. excuse me, but he said, yelled aunt, but knew where that assumed galleon all day old that the poor brother scamper was come on a new meet, new cookie whom robin the human n. as in, was by yet. i still not even look leisure of it by at the moon. we will buy your room and proceed mutual. yost, i yield, sir. groan mccook. he woke, but gives repeated mistake. you. good uncle anna, who did so millennia and look a minute she students to present of, oh my so t shenika, the other students will talk to portsmouth, squishy lee grew up close. thought you was 30. can you get up? she worth of it, but i'm still and you since the year jay, yesterday you saying you put him bookstore?

i think the way he came to power in a way he established his role. he's also a textbook example of how to transform a democracy to a perfect and solid authoritarian system. didn't happen with a could a tar didn't happen with a in a military vanden happen, both tanks on the street. it happened gradually. it happened over time. it happened incrementally as muscle leaning. one said he should flock the chicken feather by feather to lessen the squawking. that's exactly how pu, combined about noon. an autocrat is some one who rows by non democratic means. any one who is authoritarian and style of rule. ah, there are many countries in the world now that have been going through this process of gradual descent from democracy to autocracy.

m. and then you look at the authoritarian regimes, egypt, saudi arabia, russia, some of the other former soviet states. and of course, china, most of the law and these regimes are even more authoritarian now than they were 5 or 10 years ago. on the 4th day of his non gracious president, in may of 2000 vladimir putin sent armed operatives from the tax ponies. and the prosecutor general service to raid the officers of russia's largest private independent media hold afternoon. they tried to bring in reinforcements city encampment already surrounding the television tower. 2003. we had a parliamentary election. yeah. so difficult to win an election when your opponents are not on the back of them when you have

the next you know them what william. okay. black when they go back to you. hm. yeah . the way to do was bring it that i could get that to the police in it, but we always did it at them. i buy you dinner, then we go over them. they still go through the charmaine trying to sort of technical exercise. as to all details, everyone will don't label your suit opinion that may be allowed to use the label it got on you may more, but our division will be july via let our summer use did. i see a video they had done everything they could to try to guard against be felt the security services to make mass arrests, to threaten in many cases. to matter. political economy putin is a very insecure political leader. and he clearly fears that if he has a serious opposition, canada who is able to speak and travel around the country and mobilize that things

may get out of control in russia, which is the land of monopoly power and monopoly greed, and the state that is capable of being murderous when it needs to be in the night of february 27th, 2015. barshan himself almost most prominent opponent vladimir putin. he was dumb down why 5 bullets in the back. literally in the shadow of a cronan in moscow. the forest and so was on just a close call. he is a very close friend. he was someone to whom i owe everything i've ever accomplished in my political life. it's says a lot about today's russia that this is the price of freedom that you have to

pay the ultimate price. i the i was talking into occasions both times in moscow both times through sophisticated poisonings. presumably carried out by chemical agency. a tool used by the security services going back to soviet times with this method has especially proliferated on to vladimir putin. both times i was in a coma on artificial life support. and doctor so told my wife that had about a 5 percent chance to live with so many people in my generation, in russia, it was sort of inevitable to become really politicized. this did perhaps mark the beginning of the end. the 1st conscious political memory was the

democratic revolution in august of 1991 the 3 days that ended the soviet regime. as we woke up that morning in august of 1991, tens of thousands gather did this, and russian citizens, moscow bites who refused to accept that quote, a tie. when are armed with anything, i except the dignity and that determination to defend their freedom. and they went into the streets and literally stood in front of the tanks. and then the tank stopped the soviet and turned away poise. this was my 1st conscious medical memory. i was chinese, all that a time yesterday roaring approval for every freshman. now the biggest fear of any autocrats is his or her own people. it has been like this throughout history. nothing changes in this regard. it was the limited reflection, you know, for invasion know, a sort of pressure from our side is as dangerous to them as when they see crowds of

people on the streets with on latimer hooton's, watch that be many democratic peace revolutions. but none of them so far have been as dangerous, flatter mapleton as the one in ukraine with russia. lau is a most aggressive and amy of democracy in the world. the strategy of kremlin used to build your russian world and did not on the ball with the money, is not only bought corrupt shop, it's about the culture. they want everybody to fear. mm hm. and wants to

control some part of this world for they are for they think like empire and ukraine is already democracy, biggest russian speaking democracy. unfortunately to them for me in with with that it will show dignity in ukraine was a moment when the ukrainians choose not to ship with

a board ticket to do them from all of the jobs. to look, look with the advice from a close to put a more the super virgin. prego look right. you got to would you know, you won't be the all star knew. there's not old news. you all. and it was pretty much go over your own when you stores really pretty, very nice pretty we were completely pretty broad slower. ah, why you use. 2 so important for criminal and it means that it's very

important for the world for all these models for democracy i geographically ukraine ease was actually in the middle of this conflict between the worlds between the liberal world liberal democratic and certified. ah, every year we become strong, but kremlin do its best to oh, its resources we to faith because it's impossible to build a russian to. so tiny results with reinforcement, 3 units of ukrainian food, ukraine already revolt in the war. and it's not only a conflict between ukraine and russian. grain at people is not the island and the

russian leave it. i believe that it's a war against democracy. it's not the crisis, it's hand. might she to be sure if we lose it? ah, it will be a loss for all the world. and when there are a war politically with your values, principles and institutions, you either have to decide that you're going to defend them and fight back. or we are going to be a very, very grave risk. as i sit here, russia is massing troops on the ukrainian border as i sit here,

russia is mobilizing new military power in the arctic ocean and so on. china is mobilizing its military in the south china sea and bearing down on taiwan. i don't think we should seek a cold war, but it is in period a new period of normative battle over democratic values in the world. i think democracies of the world have to recognize this and rise to the challenge with figuring out how to deal with the rise of china is the great challenge of the 21st century. dis gotten more authoritarian over the past decade,

state champion and alternative to western democratic capitalism. that gives dictatorships like china's an incredible vulnerability should a day come when that regime is no longer able to provide economic growth. it will no longer have any reason to stay in power and the only choice it will have therefore, if it wants to stay in power, is to use increasing repression and increasing violence against its own citizens. ah ah. so in 2014 i was us to the leader. we had the masses of civil disobedience,

women call it the umbrella movement. news, news, news by law people were promised to moccasin autonomy by the chinese government. we didn't believe them after the tenant masika. and under that one party did his ship, so we have hundreds of thousands of blocking the major on may of hong kong, showing a very strong tech know that we are demanding for democracy. and the government should let them draw voice. they saw us troublemakers, or even the traders of the country because among other products system in hong kong . so we actually suffered a lot of them at 1st season attacks. i decided to run for election. i managed to win the election at the age of

23 and becoming the youngest elected legislative in hong kong history. it shows how some people want to change. yeah. but at the end of the day, the government, they always can find ways to suppress you. they managed to kick me out of the counsel 9 months after i represent the people in it. a month i went to joe caught the umbrella bisman. i felt definitely bad about it, but i actually had a mental preparation for that. and i feel life is actually one of the pest up in our system journey

i in the end of the day, the movement, the not seat. but it was of very memorable page of history because it reflects the very 1st massive disobedience movement. over time, i decided to flee out of the city in order to preserve a voice. and soon enough i left the city. i found myself on the want of based off the national security at all. if i were to be back to hong kong, i will immediately be arrested and be submitted to the national security court. the charges they put on me on the metal, the penalty of it is life imprisonment. we are literally facing the most powerful author of harry, jamie,

in the world. so we are actually facing david versus goliath battle. ah, if everyone wants to change the country only thought about their personal safety, then nothing in history. whatever, ford, we know the risks and we accept them because we think our country deserves so much better than being rude in the 21st century by a collector crashing sanisha. poster photo punch. sure, that's a problem. yup. and let us, let me do

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you know the local daily, but and then triple tracer got you and her? sure. no, you will give me anyway. she's up there and she never get rochester. me isn't my delux or what's your place in your mind you're pursuing a yes ma'am. i we sure that ukrainians are ready to die for democracy.

you fight. that's it. that's it. if you are not ready to fight, you lose any weight because the idea that these guys poor jungle shaneka we'll go wild themself, not valuable. they dea, it's afraid they'll. busy ah, the most powerful lesson i learned in my life is that however strong a dictatorship hold, strong and pervading forces, however strong and half of the repression. when enough people are waiting to stand up what's right, they succeed. and i think even in the darkest times, in the darkest days when it seems to be most difficult and most appeal to climb,

i think it's very important to remember that you know, so he dissidence i had the saying that night is dark as before the dawn and i think that is a very important fashioned term. mm. when this, when people need to be hide was clunky, was founded on bloodshed with exclusive interviews and in depth reports. if the families that are teaching each other, how to search, not really the authority, al jazeera, has teens on the ground, liquid rock, big shot up into the air as well as chemicals. being released to bring you more award winning documentaries and live nice too many have been forced to flee their homes escaping violence, conflict and poverty. but in the last decade, weather related crises have become a primary trigger for the displacement of people as droughts,

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