the whole thing was a sham and a sound off he got a relatively light sentence five years ali abdullah saleh the president of yemen is then approached by very important figures and in yemen among them tribal leaders who really run the show there and they said you've got to release this guy. so solaces ok i'm going to partner he has the card prepared ready to sign it it leaks out to the yemeni press and ali abdullah saleh gets a phone call not from john branded or whatever obama's advisers but from president obama himself and president obama said we're very concerned about the release of this guy we don't know the full extent of what happened in that phone call with the white house and state department back to interview the state department admit that obama perhaps said the u.s. wants him to stay in jail and so the pardon was rescinded and he continues to rot away in a prison after having been convicted in a kangaroo court and it's he's in prison because barack obama wants in prison i mean it sounds outrageous jeremy and the question comes to mind as to why we haven't heard about this earlier

david petraeus who have the time was the cent com commander had conspired with president ali abdullah saleh of yemen to cover up the u.s. role in those strikes in fact i guess any official said if sala himself perpetrators will continue to lie and say the bombs are ours and not yours so i think that was the first incident that really put this independent journalist washington's radar into their target sites ok but at the same time you know this isn't the case of some pentagon bureaucrat sort of reaching out there and trying to suppress information this is the president of the united states himself intervening in endless case i mean for someone who's not familiar necessarily with the story that would it lead people to think that this kind of have done something really bad what evidence this has the u.s. have and requiring that he remains behind bars but it's already a hider was famous for in yemen was doing interviews with people that were on the u.s. hipness the leaders of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula and also with a u.s. citizen named anwar locky course was assassinated last september

present he took office last month following a year of mass protests against his predecessor ali abdullah saleh. the colombian army says troops have killed at least thirty members of the four armed lift this group it's one of the biggest sub strikes in five years according to the country's defense minister rebels are accused by the government of cocaine smuggling arms trafficking and bomb making for call the revolutionary armed forces of colombia group has been at war with the state since one thousand nine hundred sixty four. portugal is being hit by a twenty four hour public sector workers strike against government spending cuts and tax increases transport is severely disrupted with schools post and other state services also badly affected and it is processed protest was all denied by unions over thirty measures which triggered a seventy eight which were triggered by a seventy eight billion euro bailout this plan is locked into a three year program of cuts all of by the e.u. and the i.m.f. to reduce the country's huge debts. also on our world update the rebels in the west african country mali

hadi took office last month but following a year of mass protests against his predecessor ali abdullah saleh. the colombian army says troops of killed at least thirty nine members of the far left group it's one of the biggest such strikes in five years this is according to the country's defense minister rebels are accused by the government of cocaine smuggling arms trafficking and bomb making for all the revolutionary armed forces of colombia a group has been at war with the state since one thousand nine hundred sixty four. forty two is being hit by a twenty four hour public sector workers strike against government spending cuts and tax increases transport it's severely disrupted with schools and other state services badly affected by the latest protest was organized by unions over government austerity measures triggered by a seventy eight billion euro bailout lisbon is locked into a three year program of cuts ordered by the e.u. and i.m.f. to reduce the country's huge debts. rebels in the west african country mali claim to have seized power and ousted the government in a coup they have impo

thousands of protesters have hit the streets of yemen to madiba ex-president put on trial ali abdullah saleh stepped down from office last month in exchange for prosecution is expected to leave yemen after resigning but many suspect he's still involved with the government working with friends and relatives in top military positions at least two thousand people have died since an uprising against him began last year. french intelligence has been criticized for failing to arrest the toulouse government before he killed seven people. surveillance for months across is prime minister says there was no prior record that the government posed a threat to society he was killed by police sniper on thursday after a thirty two hour siege outside his apartment filled himself killing a rabbi and three children at a jewish school as well as three soldiers in separate attacks. no more excuses for missing what's being late for class in brazil where microchips are to be stitched into school uniforms to keep tabs on people's home devices will be embedded including meaning there's no escape parents receive a te

yemen had a couple of weeks ago abdullah saleh stepped down. we don't call that state a shiia state. we shouldn't. it's nonsensical. in fact, he's from that sect. you have a very strong wahabi influence. saudi funded. saudi inspired. that's very -- you have all kinds of different religious sects. in the case of yemen, i think it would be a mistake to put the question of religious freedom front and center in the transition, because there's all kinds of other issues of power struggle left over from the unification which saw essentially the crushing of a largely secular south and very progressive voices there. not an atheist communist movement but a very secular, privatized religious communist movement. you saw a developed socialist leader from a yemeni socialist party assassinated in 2002 as an isla convention. one of the most contentious things that happens in the country, the wahabis will go into zadi mosques in the north and start praying in wahabi style. they're standing there quietly, but they're doing it and it's very contentious and politi

that general david petraeus about the time was the commander had conspired with president ali abdullah saleh of yemen to cover up the u.s. role in those strikes in fact the yemeni official said. the trip will continue to lie the bombs are ours and not yours so i think that was the first incident that really put that in the kind of journalist washington's radar it is their target ok but at the same time you know this isn't a case of some pentagon bureaucrats sort of reaching out there and trying to suppress information this is the president of the united states himself intervening and in this case i mean. for someone who is not familiar necessarily with a story that went to lead people to think that this kind of thing done something really bad what evidence that's that the u.s. have and requiring that he remains behind bars so what i believe the hider with famous for in yemen was doing interviews with people that were on the u.s. hit with the leaders of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula and also with the u.s. that it's been named anwar losey course would a fascinated last september in a u.s.

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former president ali abdullah saleh handed over power to abed rabbo mansour hadi last month after a year's worth of violent protests. saleh's son and nephew remain in charge of the powerful republican guard and central security forces. in iran, parliamentary elections took place, in a vote that's expected to reinforce the rule of islamic hard-liners. people waited in voting lines in the country's first major election since president mahmoud ahmadinejad won a disputed re-election in june of 2009. that outcome led to widespread protests and a crackdown. the outcome of today's voting was not expected to change iran's nuclear program or other key policies. the prime minister of israel warned the world today against resuming nuclear talks with iran. benjamin netanyahu spoke in canada, ahead of his weekend arrival in washington. he argued that tehran would use nuclear negotiations simply as a stalling tactic. >> it could do again when it's done before-- it could pursue or exploit the talks, as they've done in the past, to deceive and to delay so that they can continue to advance their nuclear pr