president jammeh, yahya jammeh of gambia blamed the coup on terrorist groups who he said had received backing president jammeh from the u.s., u.k. and germany. >> thank you rob reynolds in washington. >>> tensions are high in bangladesh. oirptionopposition leader khalid azea dominic kane has this report. >> an eerie calm on the streets of dhaka. to promote the opponents of sheik hasina from gathering. monday is the anniversary of her reelection but the opposition bangladesh opposition party calls it opposition day. trying to create anarchy. >> translator: i'm requesting the bnp leaders to stop the anarchy caused by killing vandalizing and torching vehicles. because of your wrong decision, you are not in parliament today. you must blame yourself. stop this anarchy and work towards peace. then you may have some chance next time. >> perhaps for that reason, the police barricaded zia inside her party headquarters in the capital until early afternoon. eventually, they let her leave. but a crowd of pro-government supporters had got to the gates. and armed with sticks, they tried to get insi

soldiers loyal to president jammeh have been going house to house in search of opponents. they've been arresting civilians and military personnel. earlier, president jammeh blamed terrorist groups of being behind the attack on the capital. >> as far as we are concerned, there isn't any single participation of the armed forces, except in nullifying the attack. so it cannot be called a military coup. there are media saying it was a coup. this wasn't a coup. this was an attack by a terrorist group. some powers that i will not name now. >> well, that's the word from the president. i'm joined now by the africa regional editor, richard hamilton. richard, actually, let's just start on what he was saying there. this was not an attempted coup, was it? >> that's the big question. and three days on, we're still really not sure what to call it. he's calling it a terrorist attack rather than a coup, because he's saying that his own armed forces were not involved, and they will breathe a sigh of relief because they will feel that they won't be purged now. >> but the house-to-house arres

they say it's matter of time before yaw -- yayahya jammeh loses power. >>> syrian president has visitedattled district on the outskirts of damascus. the twitter account said i wanted to personally thank the soldiers who were fighting there. >>> fighting is ongoing in western libya, near the air base. fighters belonging to the dawn of libya group are trying to secure the base. bad water has prevented forces from conducting air strikes. >>> lebanon's former prime minister has died at the age of 80. he first served between 1990 and 1992 but was forced to resign when the lebanese pound crashed. he was forced to resign for a second time after the assassination of the prime minister. >>> saudi arabia's king has been admitted to hospital for health tests. his half brother is next in line for the thrown. >>> israel's high court has rejected a petition to ban the demolition of homes belonging to palestinians. it includes the homes of two men who killed five israelis in a synagogue. >>> petro poroshenko says 2014 was the most difficult year since 1946 when world war ii ended. in the east soldiers

senegal say they have arrested gambian dissidents involved in a plot to overthrow president yaw yaw jammehidents say they no longer feel safe. >> reporter: in exile, alone and scared. since the failed coup this once outspoken dissident no longer feels safe to raise his voice. he says revealing his family would get him and the family he left behind in trouble. >> people have been kidnapped by [ inaudible ] at the end of the day they have been, you know killed or disappeared. so i don't feel very, very safe in senegal. >> reporter: under his 20-year rule, amnesty international documented thousands of cases of torture and forced disappearances and killings. >> translator: there are massive human rights violations in gambia. journalists and politicians have had to flee the country. civil society has literally been decapitated. >> reporter: for the united states justice department gambia is a friendly state. two americans were arrested on monday. eric holder accused them of carrying out the violent attempted overthrow of a foreign government. the leader of the national transitional council was

the coup to overthrows yahya jammeh was thwarted by forces last week. >>> accused the opposition of trying to create anarchy. in dh dhaka. >> much larger counterdemonstrations are also taking place. regular weekly protests over recent months have swells from hundreds to thousands of people calling for the rejection of muslim asylum seekers. >>> new visa restrictions have tried to come into effect for purpose and length of their stay. new rules will affect people fleeing the fighting in syria. clun toaccording to u.n. hcr more than 1.1 million are in lebanon. just over a million syrians have sought refuge in turkey. in jordan and 30,000 have fled to iraq, just over 100,000 syrians are living as refugees in egypt. jane ferguson reports now on those changes in lebanon. >> reporter: for 20 years abel hamza haven't needed a visa, folks like him haven't needed one. but now syrians will have to explain why they're entering the country and entry is not guaranteed. >> i've been working in lebanon since 1995. and now i'm stuck in lebanon. there is no way i can leave now back to syria. lebanon has be

the plotters were trying to overthrow as you mentioned yahya jammeh who has ruled gambia with summing something of an iron fist for 20 years and as a result of his policies of suppressing accident andsuppressing dissent and controlling the media has created a worldwide exodus of dissidents of his regime. as you mentioned he blamed the failed coup attempt on what he called terrorists based in foreign countries. now the u.s. has laws on the books that prevent citizens or residents of the u.s. from conspiring in the violent overthrow of a foreign government and that is what these two individuals have been charged with. >> the cia's internal watchdog is resigning. david buckley was the cia inspector general for the last few years over the handling of the cia's detention and interrogation records critical of some of cia's employees. buckley's departure has nothing to do with anything he investigated. new york city police commissioner william bratton says the murder of two police officers has had an impact on police officer activities. the stoppage continued last week. statistics obtained b

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