now i was letting again, so we are in shock because even though we prepped for it, we didn't prep for it to get as high as a had. and so that was even more mass marta struck in it's impacting much of the state in the mountains dumping $54.00 centimeters of snow in just 24 hours in the hills charged by wild fires. the soil is unable to retain much moisture in the long term. that means all of this rain will do little to ease california's drought. right now it's causing major mudslides and send in massive boulders, into valleys. roads are being washed away, sink holes, making travel impossible. and in drought stricken california, thousands of trees weaken by the floods are now be knocked down by wind gusts of up to 96 kilometers an hour. people have been killed and power knocked out for tens of thousands. this major emergency declaration will allow citizen states to some federal money to help cover the cost of the rescues in the recovery. it will

provide grants to people who need to find temporary shelters or make minor repairs . for those who don't have insurance, they can get low interest loans from the government to help them rebuilt. more people will need that help. the next atmospheric river is expected to hit sunday evening. and last through monday. paddock all hain al jazeera washington. ah, let's take you through some of the headlines here and al jazeera. now nepal is observing a day of morning after it's was there crash and 3 decades. the plains data recorders have been recovered. 16 i'm of 72 people on board of been confirmed dead. the airlines aircraft went down in pa cora, russia and bell roast have begun. 2 weeks of military ad drills, the battle russian defense minister the describe, the exercises as defensive. some analysts say moscow is pushing mince the,

joined the war in ukraine. ali hash him has more from moscow. these drills are also shifting the attention inside ukraine from the borders with russia to the borders with bellows. and this will cause that the ukrainian authorities on the green and government will also move forces towards the north. just to take into consideration that there might be any kind of shift on the, on the front. now, if lays most wanted, matthew boss has been arrested after 30 years on the run. police detained my tale massena denado in the sicilian city of palermo. he was receiving medical treatment in a private clinic. he's considered the last remaining god, father of the call center for matthew oxfam says extreme wealth and extreme poverty have increased simultaneously for the 1st time in 25 years. is calling for higher

taxes on the rich. in indonesia, 5 men of god on trial, over the deaths of a 135 people in a stampede at a football match. in october last year it was one of the world's worst sporting disasters. 3 police officers and to match organizers are charged with criminal negligence, causing death. the news continues off the inside story. ah, a sales democracy, thousands of tennesseans have been protesting against what they say is a dictatorship and an unprecedented economic crisis. but can the anger make

a difference? how's it being viewed in the region? this is inside story. ah hello there and welcome to the program. i'm laura kyle major rallies in the tennessee and capital protesters say the president is reversing political freedoms gained more than a decade ago. that's when the arab spring let the oust let's. the ousting of the former president, dean l, aberdeen. ben ali and sparked uprisings across the arab world. this time shenanigans accused president chi site of orchestrating a power grab and further weakening the economy. or a con reports. ah, protesters like hobby boogie, the avenue, and the hot tuna they want present

a fleet out of power. the street has long been stayed for political change. 12 years ago, protest grew here, spread across the country. and with him, weeks toppled long time president. vinny albertine ben. oh, no opposition. groups that have long been rivals have unified and they include the national salvation front coalition and the free constitution party under anniversary of the resolution down more united than ever before. and i laugh progress has been made in this particular point. and the way out is quite simple or is it is actually a dialogue, a national dialogue between stakeholders in this country and national and were presented to us or the different. but it was, yeah, it was many thaws and attempt to placate the protesters. the president attended to

rally on friday. one man shouted to him, they're hungry. the country isn't economic crisis, inflation is thawing. jobs are scarce. and $1900000000.00 bailout from the instructional monkey fund is being discussed. but with many concerned, the country is becoming more authoritarian. the united states may block it last month, parliamentary election, thought 11 percent vote of course ballot. it was meant to reshape the legislature to solve for the president of the thief, executive powers in july 2021. 0, but now chi said is under pressure from growing opposition groups and anger on the streets, nor han onto theorem. let's say a quick look at what's happened engine is year since they are up spring in 2011. the moderate islamic policy and are the dominated parliament for the 1st 10 years

until 2019 and was then voted out. and k said voted in as president st. soon. sacks has government and suspended parliament in 2021. awarding himself power to rule by decree. in june 2022, he fired dozens of judges. the rest of the gesture he went on strike. in july, a widely boycotted referendum past a new constitution written by said, which strengthened the presidency and weakened parliament. widespread opposition to sides reforms was evident in a record low turnout of voters, just 11 percent and parliamentary elections in december. only 21 of 161 feats were filled. a 2nd round will be held on the 23rd of january. ah, over more on this, that let's go now to our guests and in tunis, terry color. we coolness and former director of the trinity and institute of

strategic studies in brussels. he has mean a creamy research analyst focusing on north africa, the brussels international center. and also in tunis is, i mean, sanusi, political analysts and journalists covering junior and north africa, very war. welcome to all of you. i mean, let's start with you because you were at these protests yesterday. what was the mood like who was at them? well, i was the brute that yesterday, and it was a bit different from the for the participated in, in the last few months. this time we can, we can see that there is a lot of people coming fro, economic reasons, just as we've heard the report there are people struggling to find find food, to find the jobs, to find any form of economic stability. and those people have been motivated to go to the streets and protests. so this is the main difference, not just with the previous protest. the mood. this was

was the kitchen to mystic really because people are hoping for a change in the next few weeks in the next few months because people believe that sides regina has been voted out really by the last election. the recall, the recall little turnout is approved for them that they read the a form of a position to the president's regime. so there was this optimistic mood and plus the, the difference between this process of yesterday and the process has been held throughout the 2 years. the to change the regime is that there was different political organizations protesting. in the same time. there was the 3 and part yet. there was some vision from the avenue, but there was also the let people give you 5 political gorgeous from the left of

the, of the proof together. so there was like the form of general opposition and, and people from all the parents who go julia is coming to the against the president. ok, a terica prince. bring you in the state at this point because i want to know what this optimism is. well placed, is there a strong enough opposition to kaiser played to bring about change in the next few weeks or months is protested. hope actually the short answer is no. there is no enough. i don't think that we have seen yesterday's procedures that i cited even though i site is heading into a political and economic crisis, especially his roadmap is going through a crisis. so what we have is a general crisis, really a, it was holding the loan power in since july, the 52021. but also the attendance. i would disagree with the idea

that yesterday was an opportunity for 1st the unified friends. it was not in my view, it was the 2 major political opposition groups invasion of front, mainly led by another. and the social justice friend, we're always trying to do with the police was always trying to distinguish between them, sent them into different sections of the avenue yesterday. they were almost at the same place, but they were basically something different. put messages, the left, the social democrats were basically saying, guess he was all that the problems at the same time by side and the islamist, i don't think that was a message a few medication yesterday. the same. the other point that they were in the he was that yesterday, it was mainly people with economic backgrounds. are the main difference,

is that people with coming to because of economic basic problems, i would say that yesterday it was again that the most station of the political, political activists name the rather than people coming from main street with economic and social problems that i think the main difference, however, between what happened yesterday and as it was stations, is that the political angle is good. and when they would say of numbers, i would eventually to a specific numbers. but they would say it was that down we went maybe from city to $4000.00 the prior to more stations to yesterday, maybe $7000.00 or more than that shows the political activists or a mass in worse than before. but at the same time, they're not able, in my view to connect to the main street social through the station that

was actually in danger. and what i decided was matt i, yesterday was basically looking for was going to happen during the night the night before the night after. that's where you can see this, what we can call the social st. be activated, but it was really very limited. right. i mean, in may neighborhoods we did not see major demonstrations during the my test shows that it's still early to say that the city is, the main of opposition is coming from the political side. yes. mean just how much support do these political activists have? how do they unify, if we look at the labor union in tennessee, as the credit be powerful? it's thinking it has joined forces with the bar association and which is his main human rights organization. can they align themselves than with a political party to join up this opposition against ty site and then bring about

change that people want the initiative that is, that is led by the bar council and b, b for human rights. and the labor union is basically a call for dialogue call for dialogue for dialogue between political parties and civil society organizations and with the president. so they know that if they include political parties, the president will not respond favorably to the initiative. in my opinion, in your opinion of every observer of chinese and politics of the prison i find will not enter fever and lead to any type of initiative or a dialogue or anything like that. and honestly, i am very, i do not think to even believe that a dialogue would, would, would resolve anything. we got the noble price for 2014, i guess for, for, for a national dialogue. but at the end of the day, i think,

created unnatural and politically confused. coalition that did not lead to anything but the crisis we are going through at the moment. so no, i don't think for example, the labor union is very strong. political stakeholder and social stakeholder, but they're not a political party. they're not going to enter an opposition directly with, with president pine because they're not in themselves a political alternative or counterpart. so no, i know, but i think all national innovations are not talking about political party, but national organizations are still hoping that the president will respond favorably to a call for dialogue parties. all of you know, across ideological backgrounds. all of them agree that the, the problem comes from, from the president by himself and from his refusal to engage when with any type of stakeholder really. and for me, honestly,

sure. and competence enrolling the country since 2019. now we're talking about the 25th of july 2021. that was cool, but he is in power since 2019. and what has he done for the country? we're not sure. and i'm not talking. i don't think i'm just finishing with that. i'm not saying that it would better be or before we're doing much better, but i'm talking with and talking about a president or progress is and is the 1st time really the 2011 that a president concentrate all powers and haven't done much with all these per octaves yeah, i mean that's, that's a great point, isn't it? because case i says that she is in needed or it does need a strong lead us to tackle corruption, to fight the political stagnation that it's offered in the 10 years after the arab spring. but he hasn't tackled either of those things and he hasn't achieved a way out. fortune is yeah. what's happened?

yeah, i think this is what's giving me the most about the, about the situation because i came in with a lot of big promises social justice, tackling the corrupt system and getting rid of corruption. very big promises that, that people believed. and people believed in when he made his crew in july 2001 people were on the street, changing his name is reporting them. and that's scary because the disappointments that we are going to find and we are finding right now the people is making them leading them to few just belief in the political system, this belief in politics. and that's what, what is the scary. and i think what i side has done is shift the blame, showed the responsibility since 2019 1st it was the parliament that it was the justice. and then when he got rid of everything that limits his power has full. i was, as you've been just said, is the strongest presidents we've ever had since 2011 and it didn't do anything

with it. now it is the time that people are going to realize that that, that he wasn't, that he wasn't working towards their interests. he was looking towards his, it's personal gain, his personal bowers and, and that's what scares me the most. the disappointment in, in that school feel the or are feeling that people talk at this stage given the chin as yet is suffering from an incredibly dia, economic situation. what the people that do they want to mort chrissy or are they happy to put up with the current status quo if they have a better quality of life if they can feed their families if they can send the children to school, if at the prospects of good jobs, what do people want? most of all, i think after all of these years since 2011 vertically medically mckorick

transition, that actually did not to bring a lot of economic and social reforms, which was the main reason why there was a revolution in the 1st place. you have so many people really the semester a. ready at least the way that this happened in tunisia, i would say you have mixed reactions. you might, we might say that many people are still basically, they still believe that we should have a good process of democracy. but they would say there are a lot of people in case number of people who would say we need mainly economic social reforms, even though it's going to happen the non democratic means. and they would say the problems of some of the base with a sigh is not. that is not because he's not delivering it. and this is going to be the main problem. one of the major challenges to follow really closely what's going to happen with the agreement with because this is an indication of how a science where your food is highly problematic. so in the beginning he sent his

government legal shape with mainly liberty forums. basically, there are 3 of the government of the state for the economy, but then just few weeks after signing the stuff level agreement, tory starts basically opposing main sections. the major sections of the agreement, especially the privatization of state own cummins. a guy said he's, he's not in the process of doing good work. he, he's failed, he has failed. he's lost the support of the people. he's lost the support of the international community. he's failed democracy as far as he saw it as far as soon as he has been so far has failed. well, we have to make a difference between our democracy favor the last 10 to 12 years and the process of failure. and i would say if i cited, i don't think that he's out of a support. they think his own,

unfortunately the main and say leaving with what he's having on a delivery happening. i mean, the main prices, the prices is the cases of the, the main political figures of the lead. i'm not able to get the nice people that i'm, i'm afraid that the i think that that is going to be more even more populous or more of a, something to watch. especially for the major economic and financial problems are not result of the coming weeks. and months, yes. mean what, what are your thoughts here? is, is case out of support, does he still have some support? has he failed? what can yield tentative bear? mean there are a lot of big questions here. as to what happens. should he go? i think there is a distinction to be made between the, his loss of support from the international community and from a local political stakeholders. that's a thing. yes. and he completely lost support from that,

from the very beginning from, you know, taking over all powers. he lost the support of the international and the national community, but when you're talking about using people and you're seeing polls, for example, his still maintaining high levels of support. and again, this is not because people are endearing to, to, to his policy. but because there is a, an absolute lack of alternative, a viable alternative also of new faces. but again, just going back to the idea of a, do we do tunisians want democracy are still want democracy? do they want economic justice? the premise is, one cannot go without the other, and i think a lot to use in understand that the, the idea that again remembering why the chinese revolution happened in 2011, it was mainly economic demands at the, at the beginning in economic demands based on the idea that, you know,

retiring regimes cannot deliver on economic justice with this is again the same thing. and for site i wouldn't agree that he's not delivering, i mean he's not delivering on things. he's delivering a deal of the ins and not managing to go on with the deal. it's been months now. the deal was that was was meant to be cooked in march and with money was meant to come in march. we're, we're in january 2023. you know, having you know, shortages and conceit with and consecutive churches and conveys the commodities and k rocketing inflation. these are results. he's not, not delivering, this is in itself speaking or for, for his policies and basically be the complete contradiction between who this 4th and very left this popular discourse. and then he delivering on basically the very

1st new liberal policy. what i mean, what, what support does you get from outside of the country? he something is popping him up from outside the country i think has lost the support since he's since it's cool. i think it is very difficult for, for an actress to deal with someone without having a clear duty on the, on the next few years. and what they are seeing from the outside is that site is doing with politic day to day in his is during an improv class of point 6 in geneva is just basically changing whatever part of the system doesn't, doesn't present their gender. and that's what, what scares or what drives the way for an actress that will not support someone with no, be ready to do the plus i side also has a double a double double position when it comes to 4 in actors the he always says that there

is too much for new, wasn't trinity is very critical of, of dental countries, etc, etc. but at the same time, he's asking for a deal. he's asking for very liberal deals with the met with the war, the bank and etc, etc. so he's really is hopefully is characterized by this relationship with for the next topic. we'll of course we've got other well, thor, terry and actors in the regional area, the egypt, the, you a, they're all going to be watching pretty closely what happens in chew news? yes, they have done since the arab spring, which sounds really fun dough. what. what do you think that view is val with let me 1st say, i mean that i don't think that we have an authoritative regime now. i would say we have a semi with yesterday's demonstrations

. it's a hybrid, probably magazine. this is totally true with so many populous leaders who have these kinds of se, might authoritarian hybrid systems. this is what we haven't yet. secondly, with regards to the i tech support, i disagree with, i think he does with them off the g 7. i think he still has an active support of being actors, especially the financial b tenants. and especially with the background of a legal obligation with the french are very interested in having a stable situation at tunisia because there is no key to visibility that they would be fine. now with does not mean that they're happy with him, but they don't see a viable or that would be a reason why they would be for tenicia government and i saw it to get and i am not

sure if getting the actually there is a lobby with a student to get a. ringback even now to get it to me and i am at agreement when he goes to washington, us is a little bit skeptic, maybe with the but i don't think they have an approach a fraction with i think we again, what's going to happen, especially with the possible alternative to him with he goes to the regional regional actors and they're basically an alliance with does not mean they not can clearly that is a clear, basically a relationship between the 2 different levels of actors. i wouldn't say that when you see a g, but it's basically under the influence that she

a jumping in. we have run out of time. unfortunately, we could be a lot more about this. and hopefully we will, again, in the coming weeks and months revisit, you know, it's a fascinating development in a fantastic country. i'm not many thanks to all our guest herrick kalauia. yes. mean a creamy and i mean it's a new see for joining us today and thank you to for watching. you can see the program again any time by visiting our website that's out there, dot com. and for further discussion to go to a facebook page that's facebook dot com slash ha inside story. you know the during the conversation on twitter handle it at ha, inside story from me laura kyle and the whole team here is bye for now.

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