freedom party who converted to islam and now represents the party if unity and islamic party in the hague city council is there one day and it's good to talk to you thank you very much for your time and i'm good to be here now you obviously have a very dramatic political and spiritual transition from what some would call and islamophobia and islamic one but before we talk about what drew you to islam let me ask what attracted you to the dutch freedom party yes well first of all. people are talking about islam and western europe in the united states and other parts of the world and they are misguided about this because they hear a lot of negative stories in the media from other politicians and so did i blame myself that i was not really informed about islam in the past no i'm happy to be a muslim of course now since two thousand and thirteen. that was a long journey took me over a year but if you study islam sincerely with an open mind it will find. a very peaceful. religion that for what i read about your spiritual journey your interest in islam was particularly sparked by your relationsh

let me pose a question that you may not like but i still want to ask you because the mosque in the hague where or where you converted the mosque has been mentioned by the dutch and in television service as a salafi leaning community i'm sure you know it has a track record of. vitriolic speech they were preachers like for example for was june eighth who called for death or disease to people who criticized islam do you think that kind of speech should be allowed in the most particularly in your own mosque well again the this person is not involved in this mosque anymore and we're talking about a period of eight and ten years ago so things have changed even in this mosque and they are can contribute into society in a very positive way they're open minded and they are everybody is welcome to face that this most so we are talking about a different period but then on the other hand even if you call yourself salathiel whatever you cold to yourself or other groups within islam as long as you are within the law within the low you are free to talk on to people about the religion as low as you don'

andrew harding, bbc news, the hague.bombings. the names were read out, before a minute's silence was observed as a mark of respect. six men spent 17 years in jail for the bombings — which had been carried out by the ira — before their convictions were quashed. the inquests are happening after a long legal battle by the families of the victims. from the age of 4, children in england will be taught about relationships, keeping safe on—line and looking after their mental health. the new lessons will start next year — and at the same time classes in sex and relationships will be compulsory in all secondary schools. the british actress 0livia colman has been celebrating her win at the oscars, in what was a night of surprises in hollywood. she won best actress for her role in the period drama, the favourite. best film went to green book — which is about a black pianist and his white chauffeur‘s journey through america's deep south. that award has provoked controversy. with claims the film portrays race from a white perspective

we report on the legacy of the postelection crisis that saw him end up in the hague in the first place. .opes for an economic boost four women are reported ministers. we will be talking to one of them. you are watching live from paris. north korea has pledged to destroy its nuclear enrichment facilities. according to stephen beacon, washington is ready to explore ways for them to give up weapons. they need a complete list of nuclear assets before any deal can be reached. our reporter has more. marks the first time a sitting u.s. president met with a north korean leader, signing an optimistic but vague declaration of denuclearization. up for a second summit, both sides are ready to make concrete man's. >> we are prepared to d discuss many actioions that could help build d trust between our countrieies and advanced further progress. >> he revealed north korea had an october pledged to destrtroy all nucleaear enrichment facilities but washington wants clear-cut commitment. allowts north korea to expert access and monitoring mechanisms of nuclear and missile sites, ensure stockpiles of wea

but look at him in the hague today after the court's decision.k on chagos. we will be on chagos, no one can prevent us. britain never wa nted one can prevent us. britain never wanted this case to come before the court, but its allies deserted it, not least because of european frustration over brexit. so today, tim has suffered a humiliating defeat, told in essence that it has been acting illegally, clinging onto a scrap of its old empire in africa. the government has since pointed out that the court's opinion is not binding and said military bases in the indian ocean play a vital security role. but britain may yet be forced to the negotiating table. britain may find the world is a lonely place. britain needs trade and other agreements with africa and other parts of the world, and the pressures on the united kingdom to comply with this opinion will be very great. tonight, or celebrations for the small chagos community living in west sussex. we have been fighting for a long time for our right of return and our fundamental rights. maybe now ourfunda

following his acquittal by the international criminal court by both spent seven years in custody at the hague and was the first former head of state to go on trial at the i.c.c. he was charged with crimes against humanity after violence erupted following the disputed election of two thousand and ten three thousand people died and more than five hundred thousand were displaced on the his conditional release will not be allowed to leave belgium pending an appeal and with al jazeera live from london more still ahead on the program the controversial new road in the occupied west bank that separates palestinian and israeli drivers and the cypress construction boom fueled by russian oligarchs attracted to a controversial golden visa scheme. hello again welcome back we're here cross queensland we're still looking at some very heavy rain over the next couple of days this area of low pressure this is the monsoonal trough and it has been here with us for the last four days causing rain across much of the region ticklish your forecast map here on sunday and for townsville you are one of those cities tha

against civilians why don't you want micro only european in the hague but i don't think he's given the order. to injure anyone obviously under french or if any policeman injured is another demonstrator without due cause they should be prosecuted no i don't see a problem that it's not a persistent brutal crackdown on protests on drug to kill seven well if there was an order to shoot to kill or to even to be top demonstrators who were not violent then obviously there is a crime under french law ok well venezuela. we had professor present as a human rights expert on saying that britain who is acting and the european union and the united states has been acting illegally under. the un general assembly resolutions recognizing one venezuela yes. that he's right in principle about but recognition has always been regarded as a political decision not a legal decision so that even though in international rule. remains head of state he won the election made partly because the opposition decided not to stand because they feared it would be rigged. at that may be the case but that. the legal head of

has spent seven years in custody at the hague and was the first former head of state to go on trial at the i.c.c. he was charged with crimes against humanity after violence erupted following the disputed election of two thousand and ten. coming up next al jazeera wald looks at the powerful women of morocco's atlas mountains will have another headline update for you after that in about twenty five minutes time stay with us. this month's loses some from iraq. people here speak em as ian and i for asiatic language going back several thousand. the arabic language only came to north africa in the seventh and eighth centuries. the only grab your liver is the second largest american and has its. roots in one of the mountain villages here and sings in m a z is about the harshness of her life and bouts of many other women. and there are lots more women here than man. i wish a song is about women suffering in the region feeling imprisoned she says without food or water were no one can see them. and that's what the story is about. the villages near the source of the river are poor and geography p

by the international criminal court last month laurent gbagbo spent seven years in custody in the hague in the netherlands and was the first former head of state to go on trial that the i.c.c. he was charged with crimes against humanity after violence erupted following the disputed elections in twenty ten will stay in belgium and pending an appeal. egypt's parliament is advancing plans to that abdel fattah el-sisi stay on as president six years after the end of his term in twenty twenty two the proposal still has to pass several legislative hurdles before it becomes a constitutional amendment opposition figures fear this may be a sign of the country slipping back into a forest area as i'm eighty years after the overthrow of hosni mubarak during the arab spring and you are thomas region in the southern philippines will expand to members of our local indigenous tribes voted to join it but they want to make sure that the rulers of the muslim majority territory returned their ancestral lands to them is jamila under god. get them in a bush. who then invoking the spirits of their ancestors th

hague, mum, i just some reassurance. hi, darling.ated sugar and self raising flour. no, you need plain flour. arm, 0k. don't tell me you bought any chocolate. no, ididn't. tell me you bought any chocolate. no, i didn't. are you sure you didn't buy any chocolate? yeah, i'm sure. after bagging them up but thank you. and making sure he's got the right change, it is back home to bake the cake. another new skills act is trying. george! i mean, richard! did i hear my name? george! didn't work. have i got the payment we agreed earlier? did you manage to get it? thank you very much.|j we agreed earlier? did you manage to get it? thank you very much. i think you get something and i don't. well done. don't you go anywhere, you've still got to do some as well. a decade ago, zach was an everyday kid. sporty, and doing well in class. then he banged his head at school. nobody knows how. kat says she was only rung several hours later stop so, we think of a brain injury, you think you are going to turn up, there is going to be blood, there is going

some model for the name africa will fuck around with mr hague for jim and then where i hope it. for. me. feel. i am. with that is why in the throes of a humanitarian crisis since opposition he decides he's not ruled out calling for a u.s. military intervention against president maduro but i know that we would do everything possible once again this is obviously a very very controversial subjects and we will do what's necessary.

she sees this as a tool of war and this is a country on a murdoch and she's speaking to us from the hague. yemen promises to be the most severe famine in living memory documentation supports thousands of repeated strikes and agricultural areas fisheries markets factories and water infrastructure this is in addition to the sieges and blockades salaries going unpaid for years and extreme inflation these are the methods of warfare seemingly in play in yemen there is little doubt that these mass atrocities masquerading as natural disasters should be investigated and placed within the republic of international criminal so are fresh he mentions them in there and as we've already you confirmed this is not a famine but using it as a tool of war using it as something that should be within the the bru britches that is our international criminal law where you make about. i disagree with the notion that. there is not famine in yemen i think that it is a famine it's under way. and i think this might i mean we can debate this but i think. strongly that they are powerful states like saudi arabia or unit

law for them after the whole fuck around mr hague for jim and then lawyer for hope that are fairly in your court . hugo chavez says revolution is screeching to a halt inflation and unemployment cause millions to leave venezuela world powers along the job or whether president maduro should stay but the real question is how should the country move on from this current crisis. and i need another one of the eyes to my front sway or both with a suit. somebody could solve mukti of our. plans in this way got to talk so hard not to think of the mother disappeared this moment the look of a power and i'm from the start that if. this is the only thing that we do is music because everybody fights in his wake. the floor looking for the fifty pound is worthless woody allen here running on the ballot box at the moment on a q what i think is this is the found that is a constant. thank you. martha is fifty years old and has three children that she is raising by herself still. to feed her family she collects plastic on the beach. but not the best a half hour south dakota going to climb up and help your

has released the former president of ivory coast laurent gbagbo spent seven years in custody at the hague and was the first former head of state to go on trial at the i.c.c. he was charged with crimes against humanity after violence erupted following the disputed twenty ten election will stay in belgium pending an appeal. rival factions from the central african republic have signed that initial deal to end six years of fighting and agreement between ca us government and fourteen rebel groups was reached on sunday after two weeks of un led negotiations in sudan a more detailed agreement is due to be signed in the cia on capital bungie on wednesday thousands of been killed and millions displaced in fighting between christian and muslim militia since twenty thirteen five countries from africa's a hell region of the united nations for help in the fight against armed groups leaders of the kuna faso china mali mauritania and jeff made the plea for money and other aid other son is indicate of capital attacks by armed groups of surged in the region since chaos engulfed libya in twenty eleven the

well, he's yet to formally announce anything, but our own garrett hague caught up with beto monday tod out where the potential can at that time stand. >> this is palpable and positive, it's peaceful, this is the best of the country. >> where are you on that decision? >> i ran this morning and feel awesome. >> o'rourke told oprah last week and yes he's big enough to be interviewed her he'll decide by the end of the month. while he mulls that over democrats may be growing impatient waiting for past candidates joe biden and bernie sanders to answer the question will they or won't they? well, with us tonight to talk about all of it todd gilman washington bureau chief for "the dallas morning news" and our own intrepid garrett hague. you have the unique role of covering washington for texas, though i would stay in texas if i were you. i guess i'm asking for your straight up prediction. do you think the guy will get in? >> i do if he's not going to run for president i don't understand why he is showing so much ankle going on oprah and holing this rally. this was not really -- it was a counte

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we're in the hague ehagerstown . we see light rain falling. too.ome sleet earlier, when you look on the road, you see that it is shiny, mostly slushy on the black top there. your right, on the roadway -- thparking lots and sidewalks, you are seeing slushy and snowy accumulation ere. theoads for the most part, have been looking good, on the way up here and 270 and 270 north, we saw trucks on the standby. crews are waiting to treat roads. they are circling and doing their own patrols. all those throughway makin sure they're ready and ahead of the peak of the commute rahere. se school systems in our area will be on two-hour delays. frederic we're not seeing closures or delays. seeing washingtos county, they wake up this morning, they may want to give themselves an extra amount of time. the main streets are looking good. the streets can use a bit more work. seeing more accumulation to the right where people were parking. ju be careful, as we're walking and driving this morning. back inside to you. >> justin finch.nk justin, tyou. >> we turn to vir

hague today the after the court's decision. >> we will be on chagos. no one can beat us.: britain never wanted this case to come before the court. his allies wanted because of european frustration over benefit. britain severed a humiliating clinging onto a scrap of his old empire in africa. oithe government hased out that the court's opinion is not binding, and said military bes in the indian ocean play a vital security role. britn may yet be forced to the negotiating table. needs trade and other agreements with africa and heher parts oforld. the pressure is on tdo united kingm to comply. reporter: tonight, or celebrations -- more celebrations in this small chagos community. >> whave been fighting for a long time for the right of return. maybe nows our rightcan be respected from everyone. reporter: but the question remains, will britain negotiate or dig in its heels? laura: film fans around the world have been debating the wghs and lows of sunday's oscars -- who wo lost who made a terrible stage. -- speech. "green book" was the surprise winner for best picture, and olivia

from my law farther than half of the whole fuck around mr hague that for jim and then i hope that our fairly mature course. this is a stick up from the water bottle found in the stomach of the fish the brand is spawns of the coca-cola company which sells millions of bottles of soda every day the idea was that let's tell consumers they're in the bad was there the litter bugs are trying this way industry shouldn't be blamed for all this waste the company has long promised to reuse the plastic. that's. essential funding. on the. up on our mountains of ways only grow higher. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy thing for him to let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic development the only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very. time to sit down and talk. i. brought all things mark a thirteen year old best demonstrations on the streets of paris. venezuela self-proclaimed interim leader says he is not ruling out requesting a u.s. military intervention against president maduro. but i.

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every once in a while that's why did danish capital brings light into the darkness with a cup in the hague and light dozens of installations apparently eliminating this city my absolute favorite is an artwork consisting of old cans and bicycle parts hard to imagine take a look. lighting up the darkest weeks of the year in winter copenhagen turns into an open air gallery for light. installations by artists from denmark and many other parts of the world to turn the danish capital into a tourist attraction in the cold season two. is there more shows more enjoyment to be. a fantasy in the car behind you and i really like it this time of year it's good to get out out see the lights and see the city and you know anything like this just just what. the danish mind artist mistake as hopes to be the winter blues with eternal sundown the installation shines from sundown to sunrise in the port of copenhagen it's made up of more than one hundred forty million strobe lights. it's the so warm. light for live for this city for the citizens of course making during this winter the last part of the winter fe

freedom party who converted to islam and now represents the party if unity and islamic party in the hague city council it's a wonder and it's good to talk to you thank you very much for your time good afternoon good to be here now you obviously had a very dramatic political and spiritual transition from what some would call and islamophobia fight each you i'm a slum ikhwan but before we talk about what drew you to islam let me ask what attracted you to the dutch freedom party yes well first of all. people are talking about islam and western europe in the united states and other parts of the world and they are misguided about this because they hear a lot of negative stories in the media from other politicians and so did i blame myself that i was not really informed about this in the false. i'm happy to be a muslim of course now since two thousand and thirteen. that was a long journey took me over a year but if you study islam sincerely with an open mind it will find. actually it's a very peaceful. religion that for what i read about your spiritual journey your interest in islam was particu

war criminals to book and we will make that contribution, whether that is collectively and it is the hagueinging them back here, whatever, we have to step up to that responsibility. i would we have to step up to that responsibility. iwould rather they we re responsibility. iwould rather they were under lock and key than somewhere else and potentially a threat to this country. a former head of the british army said it was a mistake to think that is had been defeated. it is not 100% victory, a mistake to think that is had been defeated. it is not 10096 victory, we may well complete the recapture of the territory that they had, but the ideology, the thinking, the support will continue and that will remain the struggle for this generation and perhaps the next generation as well. accepting fighters and their families back create security issues and is often unpopular, but many argue, to ignore them is to create an even bigger threat in the future. jane francis kelly, bbc news. our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford is here. the family of 19—year—old shamima begum are saying that she has

gathered in cruelly south of london to watch a live stream from the international court of justice in the hague the united kingdom is no big asian to bring an end. to each side ministration of the battle over. the us both people thereby enabling us to complete the decorum a vision of it already in a manner consistent with the right of people is to set up that there are many. afterwards many of them were on the prist cycle don't live in bar. for the past fifty years when maurice could have looked after us it didn't do so i don't think it's a control of our islands it's treated us like animals. in one thousand nine hundred sixty five britain split the remote islands from three years before it has gained independence the new ruling says that was illegal under international law then in the late sixty's and early seventy's britain evicted almost two thousand chicle sian's to marriages in the seychelles that was to make way for construction of a us military base on the largest island diego garcia. decades on many live in poverty and marriages where the largest recourse in communities based but severa

peers then abandoned for a lifetime we should be ashamed but for the same for for all countries on the hague that overthrew people in power investigates the plight of imperial britons african troops they gave newsnight the forgotten heroes of empire on the air. zero. and three. as president donald trump asked european leaders to take back isel fighters captured in syria and put them on trial. and the shall carry this is al jazeera venezuela's opposition leader valley rallies rather his army of volunteers to distribute american aid. one strong allies now germany.

gbagbo after his acquittal by the international criminal court has been seven years in custody in the hague walls the first former head of state to go on trial at the i.c.c. he was charged with crimes against humanity after violence erupted following the disputed twenty ten election under his conditional release back there will not be allowed to leave belgium u.s. envoy stephen the bagan is expected to arrive in south korea ahead of a meeting with south korean officials but again this the region is in the region to discuss the next steps of dismantling north korea's nuclear weapons program president trump is planning a second summit with north korean leader kim jong il the exact date has yet to be revealed. one day after the united states said it was pulling out of a landmark one thousand nine hundred eighty seven nuclear treaty with russia moscow is doing the same and abandoning the agreement is raising fears of a new arms race really chalons reports from moscow. vladimir putin held a meeting with his foreign and defense ministers on saturday shown on national t.v. and he explained what ru

sum model for them after that i will fuck around with mr hague for a gym and then oil but i hope that our freddie macor. linux. join me every thursday on the elec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. it was in the one nine hundred fifty s. that our secretary of state john foster dulles proclaimed our policy is global. we started as a continental empire by clearing out the native peoples and other foreign forces then we became an overseas empire by taking islands in various parts of the world and then after the second world war we began a global empire now we are playing on the whole billiard. the united states has always had a variety of tools to use in its attacks on other countries. economic sanctions are are often just the beginning another thing you like to do is place some military pressure on that country's attorney talking about . and there has to be an effort to demonize that country and the leader of that country particularly in our own press and in the press of that leader's own country. americ

from my law for them after that it will fuck around with mr hague to jim and then i hope that are ready for. big news and that kind of crypto as the currency continues to dominate global finance and put the us dollar into the graveyard yet. in venezuela two men claim to be in charge and countries around the world are lining up behind one of the other the country is in chaos venezuela holds the world's biggest oil reserves yet its inflation is now measured in millions per cent what does this have to do with cuba let's ask. that's as close a pretty era an attorney based here in washington he specializes in international law on immigration on his high profile cases were one juan miguel gonzalez who battled to return to cuba with his seven year old son elie. ana member him and he represented the government of venezuela to extradite luis posada real estate i say that right directly right to the usa to stand trial for seventy three counts of first degree murder related to the downing of a passenger plane i was a welcome thank you good to be with you i am old enough to remember president kenne

bye bye s suppose been gathering up outside the hague today let's take a listen to what some of them had to say when his release was announced [inaudible] i'm not . we will be with. bye bye spend the suns lost seven years in custody of the hahague he was accccusef involvlvement in postst elen violence in twentnty ten to twenty eleven in the ivory coast. when some thrhree thoususand people were k killed r rose twenty four seven shanti ace been taking a look back that up by posters co correct? up until when he was charge. the only it's been seven years in prison from the home by faith. but the struggles off the formerer ivory coast presidt spawn a the decades. university professor turned activist relation became african leaderr. that was back in nineteen eighty two t the bank before the opposition party the fb. before he was exiled in france this was his first credible political platform. if he i was later authorized to run in the election he didn't win but secured a seat in parliament. in two thousand but they was proclaimed presidents after violently disputeted polls. cases based arr

freedom party who converted to islam and now represents the party if unity and islamic party in the hague city council it's a wonder and it's good to talk to you thank you very much for your time and i'm glad to be here now you obviously had a very dramatic political and spiritual transition from what some would call and islamophobia fight each you on this law make one but before we talk about what drew you to islam let me ask what attracted you to the dutch freedom party yes well first of all. people are talking about islam and western europe in the united states and other parts of the world and they are misguided about this because they hear a lot of negative stories in the media from other politicians as. i blame myself that i was not really informed about this in the past. i'm happy to be a muslim of course now since two thousand and thirteen. that was a long journey took me over a year but if you study islam sincerely with an open mind it will find that actually it's a very peaceful. religion that for what i read about your spiritual journey your interest in islam was particularly sp

waiting to see because nicolas maduro her spoken to the armed forces and told them not to let the haguevery day the opposition politicians have been pleading with the armed forces saying you need to listen to us. this is an issue that affects all of you, all of your families, this is an issue that affects all of you, all of yourfamilies, in terms of food shortages, medicine at shortages. nobody is immune to the problems. that is the argument they have been using. it really depends on what happens on the day when they feel this is a humanitarian issue or going against nicolas maduro who says it will not. the opposition say they want to do this peacefully, although want to do is get the aid through. the us singer r kelly has been charged with ten counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse in illinois. the 52—year—old has faced claims of sexual abuse against women for decades. he has never been convicted and denies all allegations. the attorney general of cook county, kim foxx said the charges related to the alleged abuse of four victims, all under the age of 17. aleem maqbool reports. # i

the international criminal court in the hague has said the former president of ivory coast, laurent gbagboson. mr gbagbo was acquitted by the court of war crimes charges on friday, on the condition that he went to a country willing to send him back should there be an appeal. pope francis has publicly admitted that there's a problem within the roman catholic church of bishops and priests sexually abusing nuns. he told reporters that some nuns had been reduced to "sexual slavery". the pope added that a number of clerics had been suspended and he vowed to do more to combat the abuse. back to our top story and democrats pleasantly surprised mr trump by awarding him a standing ovation when he said there were more women in the workforce and in congress than ever before. let's hear a little of what he had to say. all americans can be proud that we have more women in the workforce than ever before. and exactly one century after congress passed the constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote we also have more women serving in congress than at any more women serving in congress than atan