latif as lawyers have filed a complaint with the united nations in the hopes that it will help free her. if the teacher is alive and we can get around the magnitude of this for women's rights in the whole of the middle east he's groundbreaking. changes about le t. for was aiming for and she wanted to flee to torture and control of her country especially when it comes to women's rights and basic freedoms. that report from date of these paula you still beach's she's with us now to tell us more hi paula thanks for joining us you followed the story closely a lot of people might think this is a princess who might have a privileged life what was it that made her attempt to flee well most importantly she wanted to live a life of her own not restricted by her father and his conservative rules we spoke to her lawyer who said that she couldn't for example just go out with side lay under the stars alone she was always chaper and and this is something that we take for granted while this isn't uncommon in these countries to have such security measures for prince this is what's made latif as life rea

data from the boat which we verified and it corresponds to her story and also what latif i spoke about in her video she talked about her experiences in the past about the church here in the past so it also gives credibility to the most recent events where do things stand with the phone now is there any hope that she will be freed well her friends have real concerns about her well being since no one has seen of her they think she's probably locked up somewhere in dubai heavily medicated obviously without any access to the outside world but that being said there is still hope her friends would be doing what they're doing right now if they had lost all hope so they are they have been talking to the u.n. this is an organization that has been successful in pressuring hughey to release their detainees. before so there certainly is hope you mentioned her sister she so this has happened before yes exactly even though these cases don't always involve royal family members such disappearances of government critics in the u.a.e. are quite common as human rights watch has reported on such cases so

latif us friends released this video after she was abducted attempting to escape they want to raise awareness of her disappearance these messages where the last that they ever heard from her the last people to see what he found where those who helped plan her escape from a french spy her bare and

also on this program a dubai royal disappears after an escape attempt on the high seas princess latif has not been seen for months in a video released after her disappearance she says she was fleeing mistreatment by her father the ruler of dubai we have a special. hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us american literary giant philip roth has died and he was eighty five years old roth who lived in new york and connecticut was best known for diving deep into the jewish american experience a novel such as american. pastoral and portnoy's complaint the grandson of jewish immigrants he wrote more than thirty books in his lifetime one every major u.s. literary awarding including the pulitzer prize. well with us in the studio to talk more about this is day to be a correspondent bess if good morning at morning philip roth was considered a literary giant many of his books were also turned into films so he was he was hugely successful what made him so successful well first of all it's hard to overemphasize how big this guy was. if you study literature he he felt like he belong more to

the studio how it all sounds rather incredible we know that the details of the story particularly latif is a duck session or true well we have the reports from the two eyewitnesses that were on the boat whom i spoke to and also let's he says lawyer who provided us with material evidence and those are last messages from lety five from the time when she was on the boat and also d.p.'s data from the boat which we verified and it corresponds to their story and then of course there is the video in which the fire herself talks about her experiences in the past where to give credibility to the most recent events she talks about how she tried to flee a few years ago and was captured and then was kept in jail for three years and was tortured there so she also talked about her older sister shams who had already tried to escape in early two thousand and she had the same. happened to her she was also captured and is still believed to be in jail and media reports of the time also correspond to her story so this is not the first time something like this has happened exactly and also these disappearan

waters it has the hallmarks of a bestselling geo political thriller but this is no novel princess latif of dubai disappeared after she tried to escape her family and her father the ruler of the emirate she had made it to the waters off india before she was apprehended human rights organizations are urging dubai authorities to reveal her whereabouts you'll still be judged reports. and. it's not such a. thirty two year old she wanted to flee from her father the ruler of dubai and prime minister of the united arab emirates shaikh mohammad bin rashid al maktoum. to. the teach us friends released this video after she was abducted attempting to escape they want to raise awareness of her disappearance these messages where the last that they ever heard from her the last people to see what he found where those who helped plan her escape from her french spine bear and a friend from finland and then. and one with. some voice or i don't have to. have fled to dubai in february twenty eighth to get it with you know they drove to oman's capital most cat and then sailed on a small boat into internation

god the mom disclaimer that i fear god we thank you prime minister shaikh has seen that you removed latif city key from your cabinet or saturn could turn up like a son of a gun i the but that is not enough that we demand more. law teach said dicky is an atheist. and his punishment is not of death was that it. was the was. the. we asked him was this not an incitement to violence a charge. that nice. that is tommy. mano b. in his nom about it ah dear is it allah and the prophet even. if you insult or abuse them up off the whole be a hot spot. so what could you do if you are hurt but do you pick up a weapon with them but you know that with them the islamic does not commit that is what when it comes to those who hurt you and make your heart cost or at least you can ask for their punishment. austar biblical to have it. be that of. the mufti's word can mobilize huge crowds in bangladesh within the space of just hours. he casually dismisses the separation between religion and the state that is in shrine in the constitution secularism he says played no role in the birth of bangladesh. approach ho

. >>> we have so many market implications because of these policies joining us is wasif latif from usaae just broke down a lot of things on the geopolitical front. what is the most important thing that investors should be watching with regard to the markets on that global macro level? >> thank you i think investors should continue to focus on the fundamentals of investing, and what drives returns in the longer term. geopolitical headlines as we've seen over the past several years, they come and go. they may cause short-term volatility in the market as investors sometimes react to the immediate headline news. in the long run at the end of the day it's the fundamentals of the companies, earnings, quality and the valuations that really drive returns. so we continue to focus on those types of factors in our portfolios, and look past some of these headlines on a day-to-day basis >> if you're talking about implementing tariffs on the basis of national security interest, does that raise warning bells in your head about any equity that is based on international trade? >> it does but as we've se

both the officer and his attorney latif gray declined to be interviewed. but gray says the reason for the dismissal from oakland depends who you talk to. and he adds his client passed a lie detector test and a background check when he was admitted to san francisco's academy. gray also says he the officer denies putting himself out there as a cia agent and using an alias. he also denies saying anything about osama bin laden. now public defender jeff adachi says he can't comment because it's an employment matter. san francisco police declined to comment on the specifics of the story including questions about the extent of the background checks for new recruits. vic lee, abc 7 news. >>> all right vic, thank you. >>> now to preying news out of san jose. paramedics now treating several high school students and teacher after they complained of feeling sick. take a look. this is live from sky7 at oak grove high school. on blossom hill road. you you can see first responders there. and someone there is on the gunnery. a treatment area has been set up on the school'

for more in press freedom well joined now by ali latif he's a journalist based in afghanistan where he has reported on issues facing afghan refugees everywhere and he joins us from the capital kabul ali good to see you on monday ten journalists were killed in one day in afghanistan very tragically and journalists are aware of the risks that they take especially in areas of conflict but how do you personally deal with that risk when you're doing your work. all right it looks like we're having some trouble hearing our feed there are journalist speaking to us from kabul we'll try to get ali back on the line a little bit later in the program. for now though we're going to move on to some other news here in germany police in the south of the country have raided an asylum seekers hostel to detain a total ease man for deportation they have previously tried to take the man into custody on monday only to be threatened by fellow asylum seekers the police response was a major operation that has highlighted germany's struggles with the high number of recent arrivals. the town of elbowing in at daw