do they protect the regime as was the case under ben ali? or are they also going to protect the population and the government? the second explanation very quickly is a political one. and as bob reminded us, a largely political process and that is certainly true in tunisia. the real political battle today is not about addressing impunity of in the least secretive forces. it is more fundamentally about renegotiating tunisia social contract. what is the role and purpose of its new government, what is the government source of legitimacy and will in turn are the and responsibilities of the tunisian citizens? they have been fighting a difficult battle. there's a fundamental political battle right that in tunisia between, among islamists, both monitors, and between islam and the secular and moderate. and none have been happy with the approach to the progress of reform and the secure dissector and broadly, with the constitution drafting process as well. it appears the embassy burning has been a wakeup call, but its international reputation and its r

the employment situation tunisia's economy has struggled since the revolution that ousted president ben ali at the beginning of last year. file reports the phone hacking case against former british tabloid newspaper the news of the world is to be published by inquiry chairman lord justice leveson on thursday prime minister david cameron has already seen the findings without saying whether he supports tightening press regulations the year long investigation led to charges against high rank officials and executives and caused debate over the future of freedom of speech in the u.k. . hundreds of protesters have gathered outside of the world series to demand justice as the trials of so-called death flight pilots began in argentina the pilots are among sixty eight suspects charged with participating in torture and murder inside argentina's largest prison during the country's dictatorship in the ninety's seventies and eighties death flights were apparently carried out by the military taking political prisoners onboard with reports they were drugged and thrown alive and to see. more international

employment situation tunisia's economy has struggled since the revolution which ousted ex president ben ali's regime as a beginning of last year. birds of protesters have gathered outside a court of when to say who is to demand justice as the trials of so-called das live highlights are underway in argentina the pilots are among six to eight suspects tarred with murder and torture inside argentina's largest prison during the country's dictatorship in the seventy's and eighty's flights were apparently carried out by the military taking political prisoners and reportedly drugging them and throwing them alive. as top commanders in north africa has urged the people of mali to reject foreign intervention as a way of solving the country's conflict u.n. secretary general ban ki moon is bad in african union proposals for a military operation the plans would see more than three thousand troops and to the embattled region various groups some with links to al qaida have been fighting for control in north of mali for the past eight months after the army overthrew the government. and coming up after a shor

would be surprised to know a lot of people here in the united states a it's not just for example ben ali it's not just leaders in other faraway countries i mean there is talk now that even the united states government wanted to you know there was talk that the hamas i believe twitter page that they wanted to shut that down so talk a little bit about that. of course it's all around the world it's not only in the most brutal dictatorships i mean even russia it's recently a blacklist of websites that are censored from the internet and the so-called western democracies play a great role in the surveillance of the communications for instance there's a french company i mean sold to get the levy off nationwide interception system that helps monitor and serve a let's all older communications in the in libya so. the governments are increasingly trying to get a hold on the internet that can control communications online and they can use those extremely powerful centralized private companies just meter in these books to access their cities in the gulf so that the only solution is for people to do t

it also appears that the security forces under ben ali were underworked and since the class's of the regime is performed to some tickets for the union to demand the prison conditions. they over stage large demonstrations and protests the lack of pay and poor working her ambitions and very interestingly and surprisingly better protection for the police. the police indonesia are afraid -- and tunisia fear they will be targeted by the population which sees them as the most visible element of the old ben ali regime and they fear they may lose their jobs and they will be targeted for their activities under the regime. as the military returns, these fears have not been addressed by the new government and this leaves the security services for the exposed and unprepared for their role in the new democratic tunisia. if the practices are to be started what replaces them? and this has not yet been designed and one of the biggest challenges and particularly important one as we see the escalation of the violent incidents is is when are the police actually authorized to use force? we know the appa

the complexity of the algerian regime which lacks a single all-controlling bogeyman figure a la ben ali or gadhafi, the availability of oil revenues to placate the centers and the savviness of algeria's security apparatus which allows space for free expression and political participation and which in 2011 avoided excessive use of force in containing public demonstrations and rioting in algiers. while i think these are all plausible explanations and point to algerian exceptionalism as their own officials would say, um, i also strongly feel that there's a lack of reliable information on the diversity of views that algerians hold of their government, of their system of government, of their history and of their preferred path forward. the inner workings of algerian politics moreover remain opaque and a constant source of debate and speculation even within politically-connected circles in the algiers. so i think that an analytic mody is certainly called for, and after all, it would have been very plausible to explain away the possibility of popular upheaval in tunisia in late 2010, for examp

if they exist to protect the regime as was the case under ben ali or several to protect population in the government? the second explanation is a political one. as bob reminded us, taylor said political process and then assert nature in tunisia. the real political battle in tunisia today is not about addressing the impunity but then all the security forces. it's more fundamentally renegotiating tunisia social contract. what is the role and purpose of the government? what is the force of legitimacy and wet and turned on the right and responsibility to tunisia? we been fighting a difficult battle. there is a fundamental political battle right now in tunisia among islamists, both moderate and selassie and between islamists and secularists and under. they have been happy with an approach to the progress of reform in the security sector and more broadly with the constitution drafting process as well. it appears that the embassy burning has been a wake-up call, but his international reputation and relationship with the west has been damaged. tunisia depends on tourism trade. unemployment ha

but in tunisia for an example to give you an example of what happened in tunisia, on the one hand, ben ali did not allow the public institutions in the schools. that has been reversed and that clearly -- when you look at the laws they passed for the election, the election laws, they forced everybody to have every other candidate he a woman. as a consequence now, in the parliament, far more women members than in the past and the largest number of women as a percentage is actually within the islamic group, instead of some of the parties with only one woman. so they have a larger representation we don't know how this -- they are still debating the constitution and we will see how that works out but there is a force within and i agree with the idea that it's really not up to us. you to see the changes. in saudi arabia people focused mostly on the sunni-shia divide. that is not what you feel when you go there. sure there's a divide and people worry about it but the shia are only 10% of the population there and they really don't pose a major threat in the regime. what is happening is the connect

in tunisia, ben ali goes into exile. mubarak -- and sulla becomes leader of an opposition party. he has immunity and is still a political player. you see these factions that are really fighting while everybody else is dealing with electrical blackouts that happen every day, are dealing with the rising price of water and flour and bread and petro, and it's really quite broken. and into this steps organizations like al qaeda who in the south were able to provide services. so i think you're right, that this opportunity has been missed. i don't see any easier quick solutions. there is a frustration. i think many of the same conversations that you've had and i sat down and talked to u.s. diplomats in yemen who were intimately involved in these strikes and when i ask about conversations about the 16-year-old son of anwaral--- anwar. he was killed in 2011. what's been told to me, what's been said to me, look, you know, he was sitting with the wrong people. if you're sitting with the wrong people that's what happens. that might be a view that makes sense in washington and that might be s