i did not break the law in afghanistan, not the law of mauritania where i lived. never been to the united states ever. why - and so it was like i was like walking inside myself and i was a free man, the power of writing, of talking to people through the written word was very powerful and i know you guys are readers. a book that changed your life, by reading one book. for one chapter of a book and talking to people. it was designed for the united states of america, the establishment, to say we are sorry for having been a democracy. it is a message, it simply, democracy did not work. that is why we need to take people without lawyers, without due process, put them in prison for almost two decades. to give the american people safe and keep the world safe. this is wrong. why do i know that it is wrong? i grew up in a dictatorship. i saw democracy at work, i know germany was safer, more peaceful than the kind of military dictatorship and autocratic regimes that exist in this part of the world. when i was finally released i took it upon myself to repair the damage, the

handful of countries in the sahara region that are battling on groups the g five force also includes mauritania malines air and chad in february last year they agreed to set up a five thousand strong force to counter threats that have caused thousands of deaths the joint force has its headquarters in central mali and is backed by france the us and the e.u. listener get the thoughts of our guests in paris marie rodger below where she is the editor of africa international joining us on skype from dakar under my guy former director of information at us that's the economic community of west african states and in johannesburg martin is senior researcher of the institute for securities that is welcome to all let me start by asking mr with this we're talking about attacks targeting. the french embassy and the army's headquarters is this likely to raise questions about how do the attackers managed to get into highly secured areas you know it's very difficult i don't think any any kountry any government in the world can prevent totally terrorise attacks who happen. but of course and what you can do is t

the increase in violence inside whole region has a joint counterterrorism force which has mali mauritania and you should have a response to increasing on press inside a region. which is also being supported by former colonial power france which has a point four thousand troops in the region. it's time to face up to the hard facts of brexit since the message from the reason i as she outlined her visions of persons economic usually the european union. alarms marks each day. prejudices that also twenty nineteen person will have less access to e. rockets but she insisted mutually beneficial relationship between eve on the block. is possible pharmaceuticals jk has our report. the some of the british ime minister is ambivalent discours on breaks it has often been given a frosty reception. but i browse will raise it to read in a speech in london's mansion house as she lay out her vision for the country's future trade relationship. with the eu. the first time the prime minister admitted the u. k. could have its cake and eat it too. is that we all need to face up to some hard facts. we leaving the

that the armed forces is five countries in this and how we're talking about mauritania malines air chatting for you know so as well as france have joined forces to try to preach rule that region to try to stem out these attacks but fourteen in the last fifteen days there's been just an intensification of attacks not just in britain you know fast so in the last few months we've seen u.s. soldiers being attacked in these air we've seen french and u.n. soldiers killed in northern mali so there's really been a push a targeted push from insurgent groups it seems from fighters from this help to target security forces on the ground here marty and here you know what this effect has this ripple effect on the population is people here are scared they're calling for their governments to take more action to try to stem out. this sense of insecurity and some people i spoke to here this morning were were again saying that if these people can target what is supposed to be the safest and most secure places in the capital then no one is safe in this area now and later on today. the prime minister will will

five countries that are along with france fighting the rebel groups in the sahara region that is mauritania malines air chad and. and it's unclear whether that meeting took place was. the attack happened but it's quite a cli students that this attack happened that high and the mention again and people here are artists frightened and set up there's been several attacks that have happened here since the return of democracy and there's been a call for long security so that those attacks don't happen again. thank you very much nic us hack with all the latest from the capital of the kenya fast whack a doodle. the u.n. has really satellite images of areas of east and showing the destruction in the space of a week. ago is from the u.n. operational satellite applications program based in geneva tell me duma is the west hit city. makeshift clinics in eastern who have been filling up with the wounded most of the civilian casualties are women and children. are waiting for the civilians to receive aid so we can preserve their lives we are waiting for reaction from the world. that wait for the world to

fossil malini share mauritania and chad formed a joint military force called the silo g five with five thousand soldiers with the help of france and there's still four thousand french troops on the ground and they operate alongside the g five force the european union and other international donors are also funding the five nation force well for more about the security situation in the region let's bring in. an africa analysts she is live from paris thank you very much for being with us they had been rumors of an attack in brooklyn a fossil for some time now and. it seems that many people weren't really surprised but the state is a tot was far bigger and more brazen than the previous ones what does this say of you about the current threats in this region. this is first first of all that there is a security collapse in brooklyn a fast so after the ousting of former president in his compound we will or will has sort of a deal with all of those terrorist girardi's or you know these are all those groups and he has or he had also a very good. presidential security unit. and a very good intel