i'm joined now by a clear hashim who is one of the co-founders of the movement in nigeria welcome to . africa how widespread would you say sexual violence is in northern nigeria. thank you for having me well it would be hard to put an exact number on the statistics because of the crew vallance of silence when it comes to sexual violence in northern nigeria but based on research done in two thousand and sixteen to seventeen a police unit commander mentioned that one only one out of seven cases are often reported and in those cases that were reported at that time you know about eight hundred rape cases and it is five percent of them where. rape incidents with kids with kids under the age of fourteen fret for and we know that you know stigma is one of the main reasons why a lot of people don't speak out about sexual violence in in your society but i wonder that when somebody does decide to do so i view all for it is helpful in most cases that are very very not we have incidents where authorities mock victims that go to report incidents of sexual violence we're going to past few weeks we

militias in yemen and this meeting on libya happening on the sidelines of the arab league summit hashim what is the united nations hoping to achieve. well the building behind there is where the meeting is taking place it started without the presence of. the head of the president's council of libya and we were told that he should be here any time soon and this is a crucial meeting where the international community the african union the european union and the arab league are trying to convince the two warring factions in libya the government in tripoli of the authorities in the east to negotiate a settlement that would pave the way for an end to the transition and new presidential and parliamentary elections one of the stumbling blocks over the last few months were basically. the issue of who should lead the army general who is in the he wants to be the top military commander of all libya something that has been dismissed by. the army in libya should be led by a civilian authority the e.u. is represented by for there come the really. their your foreign policy chief and the e.u. is very co

the just a quick comment before we hit the break and as unfortunately i only got this comment after hashimhad left talking about algeria lot of you asking well if there are so many people against president bush a flicker then why don't they just allow him to run and then vote against and vote him out of office at hashim a whole i think h a h e l on twitter if you want to put that question directly to him and have a chat to him as well after the show and see if we can get his thoughts on that as well in the meantime any of your comments or questions to send them through hash tag ha it's great this is the news good if you with us on facebook live about a story for you know about why an abortion law in el salvador cost three women ten years of their lives and then later the ongoing battle against sex trafficking worldwide we're focusing on mali the nigerian government's fight to free twenty thousand young girls and to bring them. hello again welcome back to international weather forecast what we've seen one particular storm here across parts of iraq moving towards iran and now it is making it

terms of the transitional period thank you for that hashem reporting there live from tunis and as hashim mentioned there the protesters don't just want the resignation of president abdelaziz bouteflika but over the entire political establishment so who makes up on jerry is joining elites on the military holds a lot of power behind the scenes the army chief was nominated by president whenever but if he has authority was perceived to be challenge the offices were unceremoniously sacked he's fired dozens of them those political figures who could replace but if they aren't favored by the protesters that's because they're all seen to be part of the same problem and have helped to keep him in power for the last twenty years business leaders are also closely ally into the ruling elite many are routinely awarded large contracts and government loans for public and private projects in return for their media and campaign support joining us now is use of one dan who is a professor of political science and international relations at qatar university thank you so much for being with us on the news fir

between the military establishment on one hand the opposition and the protesters on the other and hashimwould you expect to see the protests on the streets fire up again and maintain that sort of momentum which they've had for for weeks. most likely because most of her wish as she has a leading human rights activists in and one of the leaders of the project ocracy movement has insisted today that the momentum is going to continue and that the protests. jewel to appear on the streets on friday if the question now is whether they will be able to maintain the momentum if we see an increase in the number of the protests across. in a repudiation of the same scenario that we saw last friday or the friday before it could be a strong indication that the project ocracy or the anti-government movement in and syria is determined to go ahead with its plan because for them the problem is not on their of their eyes is what the problem is the establishment and will they say the stablished moment they refer to the president the presidency of the government the inner circle of the president and his close

aware arab league foreign ministers is setting up the agenda for a summit on sunday interestingly hashim the situation in algeria isn't expected to be on the arab league agenda. no mention whatsoever of the political crisis although we do understand that the president of the senate. is going to be here. to attend the. summit and i think it's going to be an opportunity for him to talk to many arab leaders about the latest developments on the ground particularly neighboring countries are closely watching the situation as it evolves in syria and in the last few minutes we've heard that it's at least a million people out on the streets and we have heard this number before in the last six weeks what are you hearing about the situation in algeria. huge crowds particularly in the capital we're getting reports of rallies in different parts of the country or united all saying in the same voice that they want the ruling elite of on syria to step aside and there were some concerns over the last few days with the army is stepping in and saying that they would like to see the constitutional council t

joins us live now from tunis hashim how significant is this renewed intervention by the chief of staff. it's remarkable the way the army chief now is becoming of the center stage of the political landscape he's the only person who has been issuing statements over the last few days while the entourage of president. is completely silent and isolated so that's the first remark to he seems to be very very angry about a group he. made was in a meeting spreading rumors and smear campaign against the military establishment in algiers in in algeria and that the algerian army still believes that the only way out of the crisis in algeria is through article one zero two which paved the way for the president of the senate to take over as interim president of algeria and that's article seven and eight state that all. the sovereignty of algeria and all the powers resides in the people of algeria and that the army by stepping in it is not violating the constitution on the contrary it is safeguarding the constitution of the so this is quite remarkable it looks like we are into a new phase of us collat

that capital tunis where the arab league is meaty and keeping a close eye on events in algeria and hashim is a crisis in nigeria going to be a burning issue at the summit. well officials here in the arab league summit said a few days ago that they would not discuss. and i think they just work carefully trying to. send the message that they are not doing anything that would be seen by the algerian government as interfering in their own internal affairs but this is something which is going to be closely monitored by the arab league given the fact that it has a wide range of delicate issues it faces yemen syria and also libya but also you have neighboring countries here in north africa closely monitoring the situation in algeria the said is really concerned about the situation in algeria and has called for genuine political reforms an inclusive political process that would be take into account the need to. develop the livelihood of the algerian so this is a situation which is not monitored by practically everyone all over the world and if we've got hundreds of thousands of people taking part

tunis the at the moment but it's covered algeria and the region for many years for us on al-jazeera hashim talk us through how important it is in this case in algeria when the army the army chief decides to intervene. this is quite a significant moment because the army's official is saying the era of president abdelaziz bouteflika is over by asking for the article one hundred and two to be triggered now what follows is that is basically going to be a mammoth task by the political establishment in algeria to ensure a smooth entering period in the country where all the political parties or the kid actors in the country the protesters will come together and think about how to move through that transition i think the army was cautiously monitoring the situation over the past few weeks and when that so that people reacted negatively to the what they described as because matic proposals made by a president. when it comes to this national conference and your government talks about who is shaping the face of. the army decided it's about time to put an end to the uncertainty in the country because

billions of dollars in the old baucus one and we are suffering on a daily basis to meet the needs that's hashimare monitoring the complicated political situation in algeria for us thank you now if you are in algeria we'd like you to help us tell the story you can get in touch with us on whatsapp or in telegram especially if you're attending a protest or if you just want to share a video comment the number is plus nine seven four five zero one triple one four nine. moving on to some other news now at least six people have died in a large far in a nineteen story building in bangladesh as capital one thousand firefighting teams are trying to put the blaze up with the help of the navy and air force it is believed that some people may be trapped inside well we can get more on this from the bangladesh capital tunder child there he joins us now tundra can you update us on the rescue efforts. can you hear me i'm unable to hear you. we can hear you tanveer can you update us on the rescue efforts ok sure. well what we can confirm the six people so far has been confirmed dead at least twenty people by the

the institutions of the state like the constitutional council to decide the future of the country hashim alba in tunis thank you. with us here yourself one down now a professor of political science and international relations at carter university do you agree with all of that hashem saying that the the army has to be careful here in the way it's not given algeria's long history with with military intervention. the husband still is the most important and organized institution in the country obviously today's declaration by you gave them a solid as chief of staff put in the plug on. the constitutional council. the president's position is very can so at the end of the the me play did. the declaration by the leave to the constitution several times and they used a specific. of this constitution and called upon the constitution institutions to play the. they met no take the decision will go to the parliament it will meet and. the membership of the parliament will agree to it and you think they will definitely there were because of the day the most important institution in the country has spoke

about the latest developments on the ground and they have been a number of major developments hashim over the last six weeks none of them keep the protesters those from continuing to come out on the streets in these huge numbers that we're seeing what are you hearing from tunis about what's happening next door in algeria and the capital algiers and other cities where protesters have come out . what if the same amount which is obviously building up across the country thousands hundreds of thousands of people are now on the streets of the capital and jeers of across the country waving the flags of the country brandishing some of the slogans and some of the pictures of the heroes of the war of independence it all saying united in one voice we want the ruling elite that has governed algeria for twenty years to step aside and pave the way for a new assembly an assembly made of independent politicians will who have huge respect among the other junior to take over for the time being also we were there was quite interesting today or see that from some of the slogans made today. seem to be re

the board has them stay there for we will come back to you at the top of the hour for more analysis hashim in tunisia there of course we're discussing the situation in algeria where the army chief has asked for the presidency to be vacated he wants this man and that is president of the lizzie's beautifully could be eighty two year old ailing leader to be removed from power sooner rather than later in accordance with the will of the people is how the army chief puts it plenty more to talk about plenty more developments to go through and the rest of the day's news we're back in a couple of minutes right here on our jazeera stay with us. a prominent saudi john nest committed to freedom of expression silenced entirely by his own government and the most horrific way. al-jazeera weld investigates the death of jamal. which resonates to the highest levels of the saudi government with startling evidence about the disposal of his body. jamal khashoggi the silencing of a journalist on al-jazeera. it's the fust day of school in bubble elementary school in mosul. as this school is a military base firin