and more threatening steps from being directed at him the same thing with colleagues like omar abdel aziz in canada. that the most recently in norway and there seems to be a common pattern with regards to the origin of that software and the methods being used by the saudi government as well as other governments in the region and beyond . now with no party holding an overall majority in the european parliament after the elections this past week and there is uncertainty over who will replace. as president of the european commission david schaper reports from brussels. who's next for the top job in brussels the german chancellor angela merkel arrived with the name of only one man on her lips to replace him. as president of the european commission that to me is this one not to be in a great coalition i support men for their vote but not all coalition partners do the same with the 46 year old but varian has never held a government elected office in his life but as the leader of the european people's party recent tradition at least say the job should be here is we know that we cannot celebrate

to kingston man but abdel aziz and the. so kingdom of saudi arabia are our greatest thanks and appreciation for the invitation to hold at this emergency summit in mecca that is in a time that it at a time when the arab. countries are in need is most pressing need to have a stability and security dear exodus is measured. highnesses this summit is held today when our. arab nation is facing many. challenges that require us to work together and increase coordination between us and order to unite the arab together and to consolidate the common and the joint arab work together to face the dangers of surrounding area in the. kingdom of jordan we stress our stance and standing by our brothers arabs to. to preserve their security and safety and there are clear refusal of any interference in the interference of any internal affairs of system arab countries or threat of their sovereignty is all or . security in any shape or form the latest of which was what the united arab emirates and the saudi arabia was subjected to. the attacks th

years the qatari prime minister shaikh abdullah bin nasa being funny and saudi king salamander bin abdel-aziz the saudis are trying to show they have wider backing in their effort to counter what they say is iran's growing influence the qatari prime minister here briefly shaking hands with the king of bahrain kuwait zimmy or trying to encourage some dialogue as he has done since 2017 he's been attempting to mediate in the dispute between cats and the blockade in countries of saudi arabia bahrain the united arab emirates and egypt. what the saudis want to do is to try to project a united front that the iranian regime interfered in our internal affairs and develop ballistic and nucular weapons it affects navigation in international oil this is a naked aggression against our stability and international security. but iraq objected to a communique attacking iran issued later which supported the rights of saudi arabia and the u.a.e. to defend their interests following what they say were attacks on shipping and oil installations and i quote any future when you have as in what proper what are my brot

ethnic tensions between arabs and berber communities despite the resignation of longtime president abdel aziz beautifully again algerians are continuing to demand the resignation of everyone associated with his regime. saudi arabia is being accused of targeting a prominent critic and britain using israeli spy ware donald a sorry as a popular satirist who regularly criticizes the saudi royal family chela palace reports. i ask them why they call my eyes jobless our outspoken and into taining don imelda saudi broadcasts assess i own you tube his videos have been viewed hundreds of millions of times it's sad that. the saudi satirist often targets his country's royal family but his comedy has pushed him and it's cross he is bad. he's lived in the u.k. for 16 years in self-imposed exile and has been under police protection since the murder of journalist jim. now his lawyers have told the saudi embassy in london they're bringing legal action for hacking his phone this is not an isolated case i think and recent weeks we have heard some new. phones and spying on our this is. the united states canada.

years the qatari prime minister shaikh abdullah bin nasa being funny and saudi king salamander bin abdel-aziz the saudis are trying to show they have wider backing in their efforts to counter what they say is iran's growing influence the qatari prime minister here briefly shaking hands with the king of bahrain kuwait see me or trying to encourage some dialogue as he has done since 2017 he's been attempting to mediate in the dispute between cats and the blockade in countries of saudi arabia bahrain the united arab emirates and egypt. what the saudis want to do is to try to project a united front that the iranian regime interfered in our internal affairs and develop ballistic and nucular weapons it affects navigation in international oil this is a naked aggression against our stability and international security. but iraq objected to a communique attacking iran issued later which supported the rights of saudi arabia and the u.a.e. to defend their interests following what they say were attacks on shipping and oil installations and i quote any future when you have that as in what proper what are

years the qatari prime minister shaikh abdullah bin nasa being funny and saudi king salamander bin abdel-aziz the saudis are trying to show they have wider backing in their efforts to counter what they say is iran's growing influence the qatari prime minister here briefly shaking hands with the king of bahrain kuwait see me or trying to encourage some dialogue as he has done since 2017 he's been attempting to mediate in the dispute between cats and the blockading countries of saudi arabia bahrain the united arab emirates and egypt. what the saudis want to do is to try to project a united front to the iranian regime interfered in our internal affairs and develop ballistic and nucular weapons it affects navigation in international oil this is a naked aggression against our stability and international security. but iraq objected to a communique attacking iran issued later which supported the rights of saudi arabia and the u.a.e. to defend their interests following what they say were attacks on shipping and oil installations and i quote any future when you have that as in what proper what are my

the qatari prime minister shaikh abdullah bin nasser being funny and saudi king salamander bin abdel-aziz the saudis are trying to show they have wider backing in their efforts to counter what they say is iran's growing influence the qatari prime minister here briefly shaking hands with the king of bahrain kuwait see me or trying to encourage some dialogue as he has done since 2017 he's been attempting to mediate in the dispute between cats and the blockade in countries of saudi arabia bahrain the united arab emirates and egypt. what the saudis want to do is to try to project a united front to the iranian regime interfered in our internal affairs and develop ballistic and nucular weapons it affects navigation in international oil this is a naked aggression against our stability and international security. but iraq objected to a communique attacking iran issued later which supported the rights of saudi arabia and the u.a.e. to defend their interests following what they say were attacks on shipping and oil installations and i quote any future when you have as in what proper what are my brot

dorothy's hope the presidential poll would help the country out of a crisis that forced longtime leader abdel aziz beautifully quids sara hierarchs reports. july the 4th is a proposed date of algeria's presidential election but it doesn't have any candidate so far the constitutional council has declared that almost all of the 77 candidates don't meet the legal requirements to take part candidates from the future front party a national republican party withdrew their applications calling for the lection to be delayed and for the creation of an independent election monitoring body if he can the authority can form an independent entity like a national committee with branches nationwide so that we can have an election not involving the executive powers namely the president the government and the constitutional council critics of the ruling military fear the election will work in its favor the army's chief of staff rahm agave saleh sees the election as an important step to restoring stability to algeria. year ago a presidential election will put an end to those trying to prolong the crisis it's importa

they're demanding the departure of key figures from the regime of the former president abdel—aziz bouteflikast month. in the uk, the prime minister theresa may and leader of the oppositionjeremy corbyn are blaming divisions in each other‘s party, for the breakdown of talks to end the deadlock over brexit. mr corbyn pulled the plug earlier on friday after six weeks of discussions between his labour party, and the conservatives. john pienaar reports. odd to see them talking at all about a brexit compromise, but still bad news for mrs may when they broke down. these talks have now reached what i believe to be a natural conclusion. the prime minister has announced the date she's leaving, there have been increasing noises offstage by conservative cabinet ministers and others who don't agree with much of the talks, or any of the discussion we're holding, so we are concluding the talks. so, no comfort here for a prime minister on borrowed time. helping her was hardly mr corbyn‘s priority anyway. what a time to promote the tories‘ faltering euro election campaign. no cheering crowds, not many there

they're demanding the departure of key figures from the regime of the former president abdel—aziz bouteflikaent abdelaziz bouteflika, who was ousted last month. new presidential elections are due to be held injuly. the united states and canada have dropped aluminium and steel tariffs that were imposed just under a year ago. it follows lengthy negotiations and a telephone call on friday between president trump and the canadian prime minister, justin trudeau. it could pave the way for the ratification of a new north american trade agreement. david willis reports. president trump broke the news that he was lifting tariffs on metal imports from neighbours mexico and canada in a speech in washington, dc. we have just reached an agreement with canada and mexico and will be selling our product into those countries without the imposition of tariffs or major tariffs. big difference. president trump imposed tariffs on steel and aluminium imports last march, pitting the us against all its major trading partners including the european union. lifting them in regards to mexico and canada. he's expected to

years the qatari prime minister sheikh abdullah bin nasa been funny and saudi king salamander bin abdel-aziz the saudis are trying to show they have wider backing in their effort to counter what they say is iran's growing influence the qatari prime minister here briefly shaking hands with the king of bahrain kuwait see me are trying to encourage some dialogue as he has done since 2017 he's been attempting to mediate a dispute between cats and the blockading countries of saudi arabia bahrain the united arab emirates and egypt. what the saudis want to do is to try to project a united front. the iranian regime interfered in our internal affairs and develop ballistic and nucular weapons it affects navigation in international oil this is a naked aggression against our stability and international security. but iraq objected to a communique attacking iran issued later which supported the rights of saudi arabia and the u.a.e. to defend their interests following what they say were attacks on shipping and oil installations and i quote any future when you have as in what proper what are my brothers in

off trying to finish what it was he started here so you might be aware of the project that omar abdel aziz was working on and of course is a project that was started in association was about actually. and the idea behind it is you know these guys the saudi regime they weaponize twitter they manipulate the media and they manipulate the platform in order to do really dark things and to just to fight really dark things why don't we do the same but in the in the opposite direction in other words why don't we also manipulate twitter to push our own narratives which are basically you know pro freedom pro profit off expression pro-human rights etc. so that was one line of attack and i would i would mention here that i have a certain philosophical difference let's say with this approach of course i was not involved in that project at all but i have this philosophical difference because i think maybe fighting fire with fire is not the best strategy because they simply have so much more fire. the 2nd approach i mean there's 3 approaches i prefer not to mention the 3rd approach at least for the meanw

corruption charges against a dozen high ranking figures from the government of former president abdel aziz beautifully they include former prime ministers. as well as 5 former cabinet ministers their files have been referred to the supreme court now at least 30 people at dead and 200 others are missing after a boat sank on lake my endo in western democratic republic of congo officials estimate several 100 people were on board when bad weather hit they were mainly teachers travelling to collect salaries by boat because roads in the region a poor. series of explosions in the in a poly capital katmandu is killed at least 4 people and injured several others a police official said 3 blast took place across the city in a residential area near a head dresses and near a brick kiln the cause of the explosions is under investigation but it might be the work of far left rebels opposed to the government a pamphlet from the group was found at the site of the 1st explosion. at least 20 people have reportedly been killed in an ambush on a military convoy in northeastern nigeria this happened while the ar

years the qatari prime minister shaikh abdullah bin nasa being funny and saudi king salamander bin abdel-aziz the saudis are trying to show they have wider backing in their efforts to counter what they say is iran's growing influence the qatari prime minister here briefly shaking hands with the king of bahrain kuwait zimmy or trying to encourage some dialogue as he has done since 2017 he's been attempting to mediate in the dispute between cats and the blockading countries of saudi arabia bahrain the united arab emirates and egypt. what the saudis want to do is to try to project a united front to the iranian regime interfered in our internal affairs and develop ballistic and nucular weapons it affects navigation in international oil this is a naked aggression against our stability and international security. but iraq objected to a communique attacking iran issued later which supported the rights of saudi arabia and the u.a.e. to defend their interests following what they say were attacks on shipping and oil installations and i quote me if i may have that as in what proper what are my brothers

and more threatening steps from being directed at him this him saying with colleagues like omar abdel aziz in canada you had the most recently in norway and there seems to be a common pattern with regards to the origin of that software and the methods being used. by the saudi government as well as other governments in the region and beyond israeli government has again reduced causes fishing area from 50 nautical miles to 10 just 3 days after expanding at israel's military spokesman says that the decision the session was made in response to incendiary balloons of palestinians have been flying towards israel fishing area was extended as part of egyptian brokered cease fire deal between palestinian factions and israel. and gerry's president mohammad to the. is due to be inaugurated for a 2nd term in office in the coming hour a 75 year old former army general won a closely fought election in february he campaigned on promises to revive the economy and corruption and fighters and then northeast many reports. from killings and kidnappings by bandits in some for a in the northwest 2 attacks by bo

and more threatening steps from being directed at him the same thing with colleagues like omar abdel aziz in canada. the most recently in norway and there seems to be a common pattern with regards to the origin of that software and the methods being used. by the saudi government as well as other governments in the region and beyond . interest in argentina brazil in the battle to legalize abortion politicians are presenting a bill to allow terminations up to the 14th week of pregnancy after failing last year following pressure from various religious groups to raise a boat has that story from point a cyrus. was he going to pollution is an epidemic hospitality that's what these women are demanding of. thousands of them marched to congress to present a new abortion bill last year the no one house of parliament voted for the 1st time in history to decriminalize and legalize abortion in this largely catholic country . however the no was rejected in the senate in a very tight vault but people like seal a funeral say they will continue trying. to set the chambers the same and it's going to be dif

president is under arrest cited with the flicka was the country's effective ruler after his brother abdel aziz suffered a stroke six years ago eighty two year old was forced out last month following weeks of mass protests demonstrators said they want a complete shakeup of the ruling elite. a key member of the coalition for freedom and change in sudan has opposed the draft constitution put forward by other opposition members almost party leader. says the document fails to outline how the military will hand over power to civilians while mohamad out those live for us now in khartoum mohamed is this disagreement being seen as just the natural process for finding putting together this draft document or is it more significant than that. well rob it is one of the first crux in opposition unity that has been. seeing us key to the success of the opposition forces walk currently negotiating with the military council for a ton to civilian rule saw that the is a huge figure in saddam's politics is a former prime minister the grandson of the foot on fighting hero. which you know who many sudanese people ha

and more threatening steps from being directed at him the same thing with colleagues like omar abdel aziz in canada. the most recently in norway and there seems to be a common pattern with regards to the origin of that software and the methods being used by the saudi government as well as other governments in the region and beyond . protest leaders in c. don are increasing pressure on the military to hand over power to a civilian run administration a 2 day nationwide strike is taking place which has just hope it will force military leaders in see a new rhymes. imran khan reports from khartoum. on any other day this would be the main transport hub for the whole of halting but the central bus station is shut and the general strike is holding disruption to the capital's airport would strike is displaying signs saying we will build our country however the ruling transitional military council criticised the strikes saying the army was part of the revolution but i don't know who the ns armed forces are part of that evolution by god we are an authentic part of this revolution and without us all

hope the presidential poll would help the country out of a crisis that forced a longtime leader abdel aziz beautifully to quit sarah reports. july the 4th is a proposed date of algeria's presidential election but it doesn't have any candidate so far the constitutional council has declared that almost all of the 77 candidates don't meet the legal requirements to take part candidates from the future front party a national republican party withdrew their applications calling for the election to be delayed and for the creation of an independent election monitoring body. the authority can form an independent entity like a national committee with branches nationwide so that we can have an election not involving the executive powers namely the president the government and the constitutional council critics of the ruling military fear the election will work in its favor the army's chief of staff rahm gave saleh sees the election as an important step to restoring stability to algeria. a presidential election will put into those trying to prolong the crisis it's important to form an independent body

you might be aware of the project that omar abdel aziz was working on and of course was a project that was structured in association with the treasury. and the idea behind it is you know these guys the saddam regime they weaponize twitter they manipulate the media they manipulate the platform in order to do really dark things and to just to fight really dark things why don't we do the same but in the in the opposite direction in other words why don't we also manipulate twitter to push our own narratives which are basically you know pro freedom pro pro freedom of expression pro-human rights etc. so that was one line of attack and i would i would mention here that i have a certain philosophical difference let's say with this approach of course i was not involved in that project at all but i have this philosophical difference because i think maybe fighting fire with fire is not the best strategy because they simply have so much more fire. the 2nd approach i mean there's 3 approaches i prefer not to mention the 3rd approach at least for the meanwhile because it's very much a work in progre

carter banned solid to leave office immediately he became president after the ailing longtime leader abdel aziz but if he coasted down last month this with as a result of public anger at the prospect of him running for a 5th term in office well elections analogy to be held in algeria in july. at least 15 people have died in a major fire at a shopping center in the indian city of sirat in the west of the country witnesses say several people jumped from the building to try to escape the blaze believe most of the dead and injured are students who are attending classes and coaching center inside the complex. well india's prime minister narendra modi has pledged to take his country to new heights after leading his party to a landslide reelection victory with most of the 600000000 votes counted the but r.t.i. janata party has secured a large majority in the parliament the election commission is still to officially confirm the result though al-jazeera said hell raman reports from the capital new delhi. india woke up on friday to news that the bharatiya janata party led by the renderer modi had secured

years the qatari prime minister shaikh abdullah bin nasa being funny and saudi king salamander bin abdel-aziz the saudis are trying to show they have wider backing in their effort to counter what they say is iran's growing influence the qatari prime minister here briefly shaking hands with the king of bahrain kuwait zimmy or trying to encourage some dialogue as he has done since 2017 he's been attempting to mediate in the dispute between cats and the blockading countries of saudi arabia bahrain the united arab emirates and egypt. what the saudis want to do is to try to project a united front to. the iranian regime interfered in our internal affairs and develop ballistic and nucular weapons it affects navigation in international oil this is a naked aggression against our stability and international security but iraq objected to a communique attacking iran issued later which supported the rights of saudi arabia and the u.a.e. to defend their interests following what they say were attacks on shipping and oil installations and i quote any if when you have that as in what proper what i my brothers

president ben solid to leave office immediately he became president after the ailing longtime leader abdel aziz which i think i stood down last month and of public anger at him running for a 5th elections a juicer be held in algeria in july. well at least 15 people have died in a major fire the shopping center in the indian city of surat in the west of the country when this is say several people jumped from the building to try to escape the blaze it's believed most of the dead and injured were students who were attending classes in a coaching center inside the complex. well india's prime minister narendra modi's pledged to take his country to new heights off the leading his party to a landslide reelection victory. official vote counts modi's nationalist b j p swept to victory taking 303 seats out of a possible 542 the opposition indian national congress party led by a rogue on the trail behind it won only 52 seats but that's still up from the party's historic low of 44 seats 5 years ago the remaining 187 seats would divide it among dozens of other parties a record number of women is said to end

friday prayers an area which has become a focal point for the revolt which forced out president abdel aziz beautifully. well now here both of the u.k.'s main parties have sustained heavy losses in local elections the ruling conservatives are expected to say the labor party also took a hit but take any struggling to win out the back seat supporting voters in the north of england and he explains thank you everybody why did you resign was under pressure like never before to resume his conservative party was braced for a bad result in the local elections but it's fared worse than many predicted that in large part can be explained by frustrations over bricks it i think there was a simple message from yesterday's elections to both us and the labor party just get it all and deliver bricks it. i dozens of people have shared photos of their spoiled ballots on social media most wrote messages demanding bricks straight away although some ballot box protest as well and she breaks it labor has also struggled losing seats amid confusion over the opposition party's bricks at position leader jeremy corbet

jamal khashoggi last year put the firm on that renewed scrutiny a friend of the journalist omar abdel aziz filed a lawsuit saying his phone was monitored by the saudi government just before the death of jamal khashoggi raphael sutta is an investigative journalist at the associated press who's been covering the n.s.a. the group extensively explains now whether the company must be held responsible or not for how its technology is used. it's one that dog the n.s.o. group for years in fact because on the one hand they say that they they sell a product and what their customers do with that product is between the customers and their own national authority on the other hand and as a group has also said that they investigate allegations of wrongdoing and they suspend customers who behave badly we don't yet fully understand just how much of an insight n.s.o. has into its own customer's behavior and that's a question i hope we'll see answered sometime soon i think that in the n.s.o. groups defense i would be very surprised if it least some of their products weren't being used to genuinely go after c

intelligence chiefs say the beautifully hit was the country's effective ruler after his brother abdel-aziz suffered a stroke six years ago the eighty two year old was forced out last month and demonstrators want the ruling elite. in sudan and leading member of the opposition is opposing the draft constitution put forward by others in the coalition for freedom and change my party leader said he called mock the says the draft fails to outline how military leaders will hand over power to civilians and the runoff election for the new president is underway in the newly renamed republic of north macedonia candidates from the governing social democrats and the opposition conservatives failed to win a fifty percent majority in last month's election. south africa's running african national congress congress is holding its final rally ahead of wednesday's election the vote is seen as the most crucial since transition to democracy in one thousand nine hundred four a.n.c. has been marred by allegations of corruption it faces major challenges from the democratic alliance and the economic freedom fighte

selma abdel aziz has this report. >> reporter: french forces launched an operation to rescue what they believed were two french men kidnapped in neighboring benin. once inside, they found an american hostage and a south korean woman had been taken as well. they were able to rescue all four, but two french soldiers lost their lives in this raid. one of the freed french men speaks of his mixed emotions at his new found freedom. >> translator: first of all, our thoughts go to the families of the soldiers and the soldiers who lost their lives to free us from this hell. we wanted to present our condolences immediately to the families because our thoughts are ambivalent in relation to everything that is happening to us. >> reporter: the two french men were kidnapped on may 1st in neighboring benin on safari. they described a terrible incident where their local guide was killed by the kidnappers. they were taken and then moved on to burkina faso. the french authorities say they had to act had they did to rescue these men because their hostage takers were about to move them on to another milit

one and a half 1000000000 muslims and the those places of kink sunland and abdel aziz who with his wisdom and shrewd. foresight and. good intentions preserve in the g.c.c. and you would like to thank you and praise your good intentions and the keenness to preserve the g.c.c. and to intensify its cooperation may god help you with your efforts because the g.c.c. . by your efforts will be strong to me and face all the challenges with good will and waiver in a resolute resolve. your majesty and your highness's this emergency meeting is held within a very complex and complicated situation in the region and within the challenges that requires us to be vigilant and careful and cautious and also it needs solidarity and the cooperation in order to preserve the peace and the stability of the area and to preserve its achievements and successes against. your attendance is a confirmation of your resolve to preserve. the collective security to this area within and in the face of this provocations that we. face and what the area has seen. of attacks on the oil fields and the. again the ships outside the

and more threatening steps from being directed at him the same thing with colleagues like omar abdel aziz and canada. the most recently in norway and there seems to be a common pattern with regard to the origin of that software and the methods being used by the saudi government as well as other governments in the region and beyond . there is anger in algeria after human rights activists he was on hunger strike diets come out in fact curb was jailed in march after being accused of causing ethnic tensions between algeria's arab communities his lawyer has described his death as premeditated murder the hands of the judiciary are generally seen months of protests against the ruling establishment despite the resignation of longtime president who to figure in april many want all of those associated with the previous regime to leave office. a british financial watchdog says the u.k. is the world's greatest enabler of corporate tax avoidance according to the tax justice network britain and its overseas territories figure in the list of the world's top 10 nations that have done the most to align mo

you might be aware of the project that omar abdel aziz was working on and of course is a project that was started in association was about actually. and the idea behind it is you know these guys the saudi regime they weaponize twitter they manipulate the media and they manipulate the platform in order to do really dark things and to just to fight really dark things why don't we do the same but in the in the opposite direction in other words why don't we also many police twitter to push our own narratives which are basically you know pro freedom pro profit off expression pro-human rights etc. so that was one line of attack and i would i would mention here that i have a certain philosophical difference let's say with this approach of course i was not involved in that project at all but i have this philosophical difference because i think maybe fighting fire with fire is not the best strategy because they simply have so much more fire. the 2nd approach i mean there's 3 approaches i prefer not to mention the 3rd approach at least for the meanwhile because it's very much a work in progress

referred cases to the supremes court they all served in the government of the former president abdel aziz beautifully. at least 20 people have been reportedly killed in an ambush on a military convoy in northeastern nigeria it happened while the army was trying to relocate refugees from a camp in the down boat region of borno state nobody has claimed responsibility yet . on known to be very active in the area and in sri lanka almost a 100 people have been detained by the military part of investigation into the easter sunday attacks that killed 258 people in april the suspects have been handed over to police for further investigations those other top stories talk to our there is coming up next but we'll have more news for you after that about 25 minutes time see them. when israel's political uprising is now in its 4th month on january 10th president nicolas maduro is sworn in for a 2nd term following elections not recognized as legitimate by opponents nor much of the international community this sets in motion an opposition plan to declare the president of the national assembly hall as ven

you might be aware of the project that omar abdel aziz was working on and of course was a project that was structured in association was about actually. and the idea behind it is you know these guys the saudi regime they weaponize twitter they manipulate the media they manipulate the platform in order to do really dark things and to just to fight really dark things why don't we do the same but in the in the opposite direction in other words why don't we also manipulate twitter to push our own narratives which are basically you know pro freedom pro pro freedom of expression pro-human rights etc. so that was one line of attack and i would i would mention here that i have a certain philosophical difference let's say with this approach of course i was not involved in that project at all but i have this philosophical difference because i think maybe fighting fire with fire is not the best strategy because they simply have so much more fire. the 2nd approach i mean there's 3 approaches i prefer not to mention the 3rd approach at least for the meanwhile because it's very much a work in progre

hoped the presidential poll would help the country out of a crisis that forced the longtime leader abdel azizbeautifully cow to quit several reports. july the 4th is a proposed date of algeria's presidential election but it doesn't have any candidate so far the constitutional council has declared that almost all of the 77 candidates don't meet the legal requirements to take part candidates from the future front party a national republican party withdrew their applications calling for the election to be delayed and for the creation of an independent election monitoring body. the authority can form an independent entity like a national committee with branches nationwide so that we can have an election not involving the executive powers namely the president the government and the constitutional council critics of the ruling military fear the election will work in its favor the army's chief of staff rahm agave saleh sees the election as an important step to restoring stability to algeria. so a presidential election will put an end to those trying to prolong the crisis it's important to form an in

you might be aware of the project that omar abdel aziz was working on and of course is a project that was structured in association was about actually. and the idea behind it is you know these guys the saudi regime they weaponize twitter they manipulate the media they manipulate the platform in order to do really dark things and to just to fight really dark things why don't we do the same but in the in the opposite direction in other words why don't we also manipulate twitter to push our own narratives which are basically you know pro freedom pro pro freedom of expression pro-human rights etc. so that was one line of attack and i would i would mention here that i have a certain philosophical difference let's say with this approach of course i was not involved in that project at all but i have this philosophical difference because i think maybe fighting fire with fire is not the best strategy because they simply have so much more fire. the 2nd approach i mean there's 3 approaches i prefer not to mention the 3rd approach at least for the meanwhile because it's very much a work in progre