mohammed and that the fact that shaikh of dollar did commute between the u.a.e. and saudi what makes him a or what made him a viable candidate to potentially replace the current amir of qatar. well the only thing that. made him actually in that position was his approval of going into saudi arabia doing it they've been meeting with that company now we have . knowledge about what happened moment back and the frame of how they can actually be circulated i'll be marketed as the men here don't want to have any qualms with them but that isn't exactly going to blow a family that much has gone on for that many people he's not that well known member of our family but if he did he was not and. he did not show any opposition tendencies in the past. there were no. reason for choosing him except for the fact that he was actually there. he was outside the. embassy and he said yes when invited to five years ago the only reason behind him being there going to that size box with i was saying before you in the clip is that this is actually now the way saudi arabia that is the way

after they were released from prison, the radicalized jihadi shaikhs passed through ideological revision and deradicalization, they were sidelined by this new generation. they lost credibility. they are even a target of this new generation. this is something very interesting in some videos online, the new jihad, young jihadi of 20 something, release video threatening the shaikhs as infidels and threatening them to death and it's very interesting. except there is one or two cases, two exceptions of this. dichotomy between the old generation and the new. which is the case of brahi brahim benshakaron, who was revealed before, who was guantanamo detainee, left in syria in 2013 and created harachakaram islam and succeeded to attract hundreds of moroccans from hundreds of generations, old and new generation but except him most of the shaikhs including those still in prison and belong to the old-fashioned of al qaeda, who became old-fashioned, are now in a conflict or a tense relation with this new generation. can we draw a profile of this new generation? i think it's complex. they belong to di

it's monitoring the situation and will stand up for all its citizens this is the video message from shaikh of della bin ali al funny. so look i'm going to go hello i'm currently in abu dhabi i was hosted by sheikh mohammad bin i'm now confined to my residence i'm not allowed to leave i fear anything may happen to me and then the blame is put on qatar therefore this is to notify you that in all cases i suffer any harm because our cannot be blamed i'm currently hosted by shaikh mohammed and he shall be responsible for anything that may happen to me finally i want to salute the qatari people the saudi people and everybody in the u.a.e. and all the people of the gulf people in the democratic republic of congo are facing three separate crises all at the same time as a military operation against an armed group accused of killing peacekeepers and widespread flooding has destroyed many homes all during a major cholera outbreak catherine story of course from the capital kinshasa it's hard to imagine just a week ago holmes stude here this is a neighborhood on the outskirts of kinshasa when floodwate

nermeen: and i'm nermeen shaikh. welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. we begin today's show with north korea. president trump took to twitter thursday to take credit for renewed communications between north korea and south korea. trump tweeted -- "with all of the failed 'experts' weighing in, does anybody really believe that talks and dialogue would be going on between north and south korea right now if i wasn't firm, strong and willing to commit our total 'might' against the north. fools, but talks are a good thing!" this comes after north korean leader kim jong-un has ordered the reopening of a hotline with south korea's leaders, bringing the biggest thaw in relations between the two koreas in years. the overture came as south korean president moon jae-in said he's open to talks next week with the north in the so-called truce village in the demilitarized zone. earlier ththis week, president trump drew international attention when he tweeted a threat to north kore

nermeen: and i'm nermeen shaikh. welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. bipartisan opposition is growing to president trump's proposal to greatly expand offshore oil and gas drilling. the reversal of the obama-era restrictions would open more than one billion acres of water in the arctic, pacific, atlantic, and gulf of mexico to offshore oil and gas drilling. initially, the interior department moved to allow offshore oil and gas drilling in nearly all of the united state'' coastal waters, but then announced it has dropped plans to open up the waters off the coast of florida following fierce opposition by florida's republican governor rick scott. scott is an ally of president trump and the state is also home to trump's winter resort at mar-a-lago. but now governors and lawmakers from georgia, south carolina, north carolina, virginia maryland, delaware, new york, , new jersey, california, oregon, washington, and other states are asking why only florida is being exempte

nermeen: and i'm nermeen shaikh. welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. uninformed. that was the word white house chief of staff john kelly used to describe his boss president trump on thursday. according to "the washshington post," kelly told members of the congressional hispanic caucus that some of trump's hardline immigration policies, including his call to build a wall along the entire southern border, wewe ununinformed. kelly said -- "certain things are said during the campaign that are uninformed." during the same meeting, kelly reportedly said -- "the president is committed to a permanent solution to daca" -- the deferred action for childhood arrivals. but the president has struck a different tone. on twitter this morning, trump wrote -- "the wall is the wall, it has never changed or evolved from the first day i conceived of it." in an intervieiew with reuters, trump also criticized a proposed bipartisan deal on immigration and border security as "horrible" an

so look i'm going to go hello i'm currently in abu dhabi i was hosted by shaikh mohammed bin i'm now confined to my residence i'm not allowed to leave i fear anything may happen to me and then the blame is put on qatar therefore this is to notify you that in all cases i suffer any harm because our cannot be blamed i'm currently hosted by shaikh mohammed and he shall be responsible for anything that may happen to me finally i want to salute the qatari people the saudi people and everybody in the u.a.e. and all the people of the gulf. people in the democratic republic of congo are facing three separate crises all at the same time there's a military operation against an armed group accused of killing peacekeepers and widespread flooding has destroyed many homes all of this during a major cholera outbreak catherine sawyer reports from the capital kinshasa it's hard to imagine just a week ago holmes a student here this is a neighborhood on the outskirts of kinshasa when floodwaters came crashing down from a nearby river many people didn't even have a chance to rescue their loved ones and

is illegal and violates human rights laws shaikh abdullah been funny is the latest in a line of a public figures to accuse abu dabi of holding them against their will cast our foreign ministry says it's monitoring developments closely our reports. latest in what appears to be a growing list of high profile figures to say they've been abducted some by the united arab emirates and others by its ally saudi arabia some of the most in the infamous i'm currently in abu dhabi i was hosted by sheikh mohammad bin saeed i'm now confined to my residence i'm not allowed to leave i fear anything may happen to me hours later iraqi officials tweeted that banally was not being held captive and was a free man prior to the gulf crisis which began when saudi arabia the united arab emirates button and egypt imposed a land air and sea blockade on qatar seven months ago abdullah bin ali was an unknown member of the qatari royal family since then as riyadh and abu dhabi continued in their push to overthrow the governments in doha the anti qatar alliance has tried to portray him as a potential replacement to th

eight women and first muslim and shaikh commissioners. >>> and they are boosting the move for pennsylvaniansts salary employees eligible for overtime pay. under the proposal salaried workers earning less $48,000 a year in 2022 would get time and a half pay time they work over 40 hou a week. the current threshold is up to $23,600 and opponents warn the ve would force employers to back h and cut back pay. >>> coming up pennsylvan uarst dispensary is open for business in jaime apody is live in south philadelphia. >> jim, we'll talk about the twisty road that took nick foles and case keenan to the championship and after that we go to the dogs. >> don't want to miss that. >> cecily tynan with the accuweather forecast. and more when "action news" continues tonight. >>> they made history in pennsylvania with the opening of the first medical marijuana dispensary and it happened in bethlehem. walter perez has the story. >> local and state officials were on horn as the first medical marijuana dispensary opened to the public. also there was ryan coate he intends on being one of the first customers. >>

way to notify you all that in case i suffer any harm qatar cannot be blamed i'm currently hosted by shaikh mohammed and he shall be responsible for anything i may happen to me finally i want to salute to the people of qatar the people of the u.a.e. and of saudi arabia and all the people of the gulf thank you a french dairy company accused of covering up contaminated baby milk says it will pay damages to families affected about twelve million tons of the powdered milk being recalled across eighty three countries due to the risk of salmonella poisoning and palestinian president mahmoud abbas will address the pillow central council meeting opening imminently with the u.s. decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital dominating the agenda. have declined an invitation to the meeting with disagreement on how to respond to the u.s. decision those are your headlines stay with this one i want to waste is next. in china women are in short supply. millions more men than women. so when it comes time to marry the odds aren't good. it's estimated one in five men won't be able to find a bride a pe

is illegal and violates human rights laws shaikh abdullah ben ali al funny is not the first public figure to accuse abu dabi of holding them against their will jamal of sheil reports so a little. funny is the latest in what appears to be a growing list of high profile figures to say they've been abducted some by the united arab emirates and others by its ally saudi arabia some of them in the infamous i'm currently in abu dhabi i was hosted by sheikh mohammad bin saeed i'm now confined to my residence i'm not allowed to leave i fear anything may happen to me hours later in murat your fishel street to the bin ali was not being held captive and was a free man prior to the gulf crisis which began when saudi arabia the united arab emirates bahrain and egypt imposed a land air and sea blockade on qatar seven months ago abdullah bin ali was an unknown member of the qatari royal family since then as riyadh and continued in their push to overthrow the governments in doha the anti qatar alliance has tried to portray him as a potential replacement to the amir of qatar shipped i mean been hammered fu

and khalid shaikh hoon in april last year even though no gym investigators ever visited that site let him monday to has now expired and moscow is requesting that changes are made in particular it once signed to visit to be part of any future investigations russia also stresses the importance of eyewitness accounts for u.k. on vasudev to syria peter ford say's standards need to improve there's no independent corroboration of these reports and pull reasons to disbelieve the now discredited white helmet had chlorine gas being used it would have been a cloud which would have been visible and photographable so the report. very hard to credit what was said simply not logical it's almost comical in its absurdity regardless who used them grotesque it's not serious the americans are not serious at all they just want to score points in their wrestling the big power game with russia. and someone asks where are you from should you be offended that very question has stirred a debate about racism after a social media campaign was launched in sweden hellacious that they explained. well from sounds l

of fabricating qatar to seize their neighbor's wealth well let's hear more now on what the shaikh had to say. and i've delivered. some startling. unless he. and i stood them. and he said. and i. got. them. i didn't. think. i heard it. but i just got it. i. just i. just. lost. a mouse was. not. what i thought. was one of the. letter. and well for one month. one. letter a little while it. could be. the u.s. defense secretary says the focus for his nation's national security has moved away from terrorism on to the competition between the great powers jim mattis has accused china and russia of being reversion ist powers as he laid out his defense policy plans it's the first new strategy of its kind since twenty fourteen shihab rattansi has more from washington d.c. general mattis warned that washington was in danger of losing what he called its qualitative edge in weaponry against china and russia that's despite the estimates that say that washington spends more than the next eight to ten countries combined on weaponry including russia and china this was the pentagon's interpretation of t

of knowing what it is that you will you stand accused of and even as your report mentioned khalid shaikhmohammed the. to be the reason why guantanamo was set up came the in two thousand and seven after he'd been tortured in secret detention sites now why they can't take him on to the u.s. mainland to prosecute them is because you can't enter torture testimony into a u.s. court so it's of massive own goal in catching the one perpetrator who may have been responsible for the greatest atrocity in the united states in recent history because they tortured him wasn't vague former guantanamo detainee thanks so much for sharing your views and expenses with us thank you gift. the french president manuel micron is warning turkey against invading the northern syrian area of a free turkey has been attacking the kurdish region for more than ten days now a freeness controlled by the y.p. gee that's a syrian kurdish group that turkey considers a terrorist organization stephanie decker has. solidarity with the people of africa in this protest as in the kurdish run area in northeast syria where people sa

family who said he was being held against his will in the united arab emirates has now been released shaikh abdullah bin ali of me has now left abu dhabi for kuwait on sunday he released a video statement saying that if anything were to happen to him qatar is not at fault the u.a.e. had denied the allegations saying he was free to leave whenever he chose. pope francis has expressed what he's called his pain and shame over treaties sexual abuse scandal is the first time he's commented on the crisis surrounding a former priest who was found guilty in twenty eleven of abusing teenage boys in a song no which is in south central chile but officials from twenty countries are meeting in canada to increase diplomatic and financial pressure on north korea to give up development of long range nuclear missiles in bangladesh as well one hundred fifty thousand ranger refugees will be repatriated to neighboring min mark within two years as part of a deal agreed by the two countries there's no official date for when the repatriation will begin and concern remains for the safety of the ranger once they ret

throughout their investigation at no point did they ever actually visit the site of the chemical attack in shaikh on the time that the joint investigative luck and as it came out with its report the russian envoy was quite quite critical of the work by the gem. of the u.s. and the u.k. continued to manipulate the opinion of the u.n. security council and of the international community they deliberately refused to listen to us and they twist words in our stance the fools the state that it was worse or that close the joint investigative mechanism and they forget to mention that it was russia that proposed the resolution to enhance this mechanism and its impartiality but they blocked it we proposed this resolution because the previous joint investigative mechanism discredited itself by its mendacious report which would fail to withstand the least scrutiny so who blocked this resolution the u.s. and the u.k. the same countries that now accuse us of closing the joint investigative mechanism i want to tell you one thing stop playing games with the your p c w and show that you are ready to create an impa

way to notify you all very in case i suffer any harm qatar cannot be blamed i'm currently hosted by shaikh mohammed and he shall be responsible for anything i may happen to me finally i want to salute the people of qatar the people of the u.a.e. and of saudi arabia and all deployed of the gulf thank you. one of the world's biggest dairy company says it will pay damages to families affected by its contango native baby milk french company tallis was accused of trying to cover up the extent of the salmonella contamination at one of its plants now in a rare media interview c.e.o. emmanuel bears near has admitted the problem affects eighty three countries or about twelve million tens of powdered baby milk being recalled lawsuits have been filed by families who say their children suffered salmonella poisoning after drinking the milk at least thirty fallen ill in france and one in spain that actually got reports. after weeks of silence over the contaminated baby milk powder scandal the boss a french company like tallis has responded to critics who say the manufacturer covered up the extent of the

member of a cattery royal family says he is being held against his will in the united arab emirates shaikh abdullah ben ali al family released a video statement saying that if anything were to happen to him catalan is not fault he's been living in saudi arabia since the blockade by some of castle's neighbors began with the u.a.e. denies that he is being held against his will. one of the world's biggest dairy company says it will pay damages to families affected by its contaminated baby milk french company tallis was accused of trying to cover up the extent of the salmonella contamination at one of its plants now in a rare media interviews c.e.o. emanuel best near has admitted the problem affects eighty three countries where about twelve million ten's of powdered baby milk are being recalled lawsuits have been filed by families he say that children suffered salmonella poisoning after drinking the milk at least thirty known to have fallen ill in france and one in spain natasha butler reports. over the contaminated baby milk powder scandal the boss a french company like tallis has responded t

altogether because some prisoners were deemed too risky to be freed and they include highly that shaikh mohammed the alleged mastermind of the nine eleven attacks who was charged with two thousand nine hundred and seventy three counts of murder well joining us now in the studio is my affair why she's the director of reprieved that's an organization focused on ending extreme human rights abuses including counter-terrorism practices thank you so much for joining us here in the studio i mean we obviously he said in the state of the union address on tuesday but all of trump had made similar noises about one panel bay so it's all really a surprise what's your reaction to well there's been a lot of rhetoric about filling up guantanamo with bad doods but this is a really retrograde step the executive order that he has now issued says that he will revise a bomb as planned and a plan that i think the rest of the international community supported to close guantanamo and instead keep the. facility open the torture chamber that it is open it's quite i mean it's sort of raises the question of how ma

shut guantanamo altogether because some prisoners were deemed too risky to be freed include khalid shaikh mohammed the alleged mastermind of the nine eleven attacks he was charged with two thousand nine hundred seventy three counts of murder well the u.s. president avoided criticizing russia in his speech and now he's released a classified document that alleges and he trumped bias at the f.b.i. which is investigating his links with russia democrats say the trumpet ministration is trying to discredit the inquiry a white house correspondent committee how could this. thank you and god bless america goodbye for many people it was the text of donald trump stated the union speech that made headlines instead it was his unscripted comments as he left the chamber referencing a secret memo purporting to show top law enforcement tools were used for political purposes of the twenty sixteen presidential election was released for iraq the war on the. right. it's a classified memo written by top republicans and members of the house intelligence committee they allege it shows a misuse of power by the f.b

a sudden dramatic al-jazeera has obtained or you have recordings of a cattery royal family member shaikh abdullah bin. the man who was portrayed by saudi arabia as the main opposition figure to the cattery government he is now accusing saudi arabia and the case in the gulf crisis in order to seize castle's wealth and i accuses mohamed bin selman mohammed bin zayed us the saudi and abu dhabi crown prince is of crossing the entire crisis in the audiotape the stress and to end his life because of the immense pressure from abu dhabi's crown prince surrounding the gulf crisis shake up till it was residing in saudi arabia since the blockade began last june he then moved to the u.a.e. where he accused the government of detaining him he was then moved to q wait he's now in a military hospital because his wife e.g. commanders say turkish forces of around seventy shells at villages controls in the african district of northern syria the bombardment from turkish territory began around midnight and continued into friday morning a y p g spokesman in africa and says this marks the heaviest bombardment

i was born in a refugee camp west of gaza city he was close to him as a spiritual leader the late shaikh but yes seen but he was relatively unknown until he headed the hamas list and that's one the palestinian election in january two thousand and six and became prime minister he was elected to be him as his political chief in may last year and is seen as pragmatic and flexible in this attitude towards israel or u.s. state department correspondent roslyn jordan has more now from washington d.c. . because of the state department's designation east while honey is personal finances if he has any in the united states will be seens to he won't have access to them he also would never be able to get a travel permit to come to the united states u.s. persons would also be banned and face possible prosecution if they provide any financial support to honey speight partment coordinator for counterterrorism nathan sales was in tel aviv on wednesday where he made the announcement about one of the reasons why honey a is being sanctioned now and here is the president a hamas political bureau is also clos

family who said he was being held against his will in the united arab emirates has now been released shaikh abdullah bin ali. has now left for kuwait on sunday he released a video statement saying that if anything were to happen to him qatar is not at fault the u.a.e. had denied the allegations saying he was free to leave whenever he chose. pope francis has expressed what he's called his pain and shame over treaties sexual abuse scandal is the first time he's commented on the crisis surrounding a former priest who was found guilty in twenty eleven of abusing teenage boys in which is in south central chile but officials from twenty countries are meeting in canada to increase diplomatic and financial pressure on north korea to give up development of long range nuclear missiles in bangladesh as well one hundred fifty thousand ranger refugees will be repatriated to neighboring minbar within two years as part of a deal agreed by the two countries there's no official date for when the repatriation will begin and concern remains for the safety of the ranger once they returned inside story is up ne

it includes eight women in his cabinet and new jersey's first ever muslim and shaikh. >>> and now gina gannon is in the traffic center today. >> you know what i'm surprised how light traffic is i think maybe the snow scared people off. let look at the big picture behind me we see a lot of green out there. we'll take that any day of the week except on the schuylkill expressway. that westbound side is heavy 9 miles per hour from city avenue to gladwyne but around the conshohocken area to be crowded well. the vine street expressway crowded on thee and roosevelt boulevard seeing a delay. but speed restrictions because of the snow the walt whitman bridge has speed restrictions now at the mid span 35 miles per hour so definitely something to watch out for i on the walt. the rest of the area bridges are fine. that is the only one i see an issue on. this is the schuylkill expressway the the only deleif. city avenue we are definitely slow jamming up here merge from four lane its down to two this typically always happens and now 24 minutes between the vine out through to the blue route a little

member of the cattery roll family says he's being held against his will in the united arab emirates shaikh abdullah bin family released a video statement saying that if anything happened to him cata is not at fault he's been living in saudi arabia since the blockade by some of cattle neighbors began last june the u.s. denies the allegations saying he's free to leave cattle as foreign ministry says it's monitoring the situation and will stand up for all its citizens. so you're going to hello i'm currently in abu dhabi i was hosted by sheikh mohammed bin i'm now confined to my residence i'm not allowed to leave i fear anything may happen to me and then the blame is put on qatar therefore this is to notify you that in all cases i suffer any harm because our cannot be blamed i'm currently hosted by sheikh mohammed and he shall be responsible for anything that may happen to me finally i want to salute the qatari people saudi people and everybody in the u.s. and all the people of the gulf. and american artists has left his mark on one of donald trump's towers lighting it up in protest against th

well let's get more now top story the tape of the qatari shaikh accusing both sides arabia and the u.a.e. of fabricating the rift with qatar as listen to the full recording of shake up in. and i've developed. i mean this is. and this to them. and. it. got. them. how did it happen i think. i think. yeah. but. i'm not. not. that's what i thought. why not. let him. well. i don't. want to let it's a little well it. could be. serious senior political analyst says the case is shaped abdula is simply part of a wider path set up. to stabilize. clearly this is a symptom of the larger crisis and clearly it's part of a pattern. once we understand that we see why while this is just an audio recording it actually reflects something that's quite dramatic in the gulf region a region that was supposed to be a stable region within the more volatile greater middle east region. so why do i say it's a symptom of a greater crisis well because. already in the gulf crisis six months into into it the united arab emirates especially but also saudi arabia have basically been inciting against gotten all kinds of w

fabricating the rift with qatar to seize the neighbor's wealth well let's hear more now on what the shaikh had to say. and i'm glad. i'm starting. out i mean this is. and it's to them the. machine and. it. got. them. and. i think. i just thought that. i could trust. our national. political. as well as. i talk with him. on. this one and i thought. well. let's have a little while. the u.s. defense secretary says the focus for his nation's national security has moved away from terrorism to competition between the great powers james mattis has said the focus will be on countering china and russia is expanding military it's the latest sign of shifting priorities in america's defense strategy while in his first year in power president donald trump has stripped away many obama era environmental policies last june that the u.s. would pull out of the palace agreement in two thousand and twenty met with a worldwide disapproval and left the u.s. isolated and is now clark reports from paris it was followed by a series of climate related disasters in the united states from devastating hurricanes to wil

had earlier presented shaikh about a as a potential turn of civ to cut as a mere had been living in saudi arabia himself remember this is all in the context of saudi arabia the u.a.e. behind egypt passing their ties with qatar last june accusing its government of supporting terrorism denies this here is check of the video. so. hello i'm currently in abu dhabi i was hosted by sheikh mohammad bin saeed i'm now confined to my residence i'm not allowed to leave i fear anything may happen to me and then the blame is put on qatar therefore this is to notify you that in all cases i suffer any harm qatar cannot be blamed i'm currently hosted by ship mohammed and he shall be responsible for anything that may happen to me finally i want to salute the qatari people saudi people and everybody in the u.a.e. and all the people of the gulf of the laws as a whole with me here is a cut the reactor dimmock and research i mean this is an interesting twist isn't it i wonder if you could explain to our viewers first a little more when i say that he was presented as an alternative to cut of the media can you p

and now let's bring in a shaikh who is director of data and polling at political consultancy restless and global of the european analyst so you were watching that news conference with me we heard from jill and i mean a lot of the things that they would expect that the say they did say but what did you make i guess of the body language the way they said it about the future effectively of french british relationship post breaks it well i think behind the flowery language i mean both the text of what the leader said would have been agreed with their respective teams but of course there is the issue that is dividing them that is correct that man on mccall has very firmly positioned himself as a avowedly pro european you know anti trump and to populists and he backs that kind of leader and it was very interesting that he mentioned that bracks it wasn't discussed but he took pains to point out that he respected does the decision but he regretted it so there's a sophisticated diplomatic game going on here on one hand france and the rest of the e.u. are aware that they want to collaborate ver

nermeen shaikh: and you've talked about the massive discrepancy between women survivors remembering every single detail of what happened and male abusers completely forgetting. jessica leeds: yeah. women remember, in exquisite detail, when it happened, how it happened, where it happened, how they got out of it, how they got home. most of them talked about throwing their clothes away. most of them said that they felt responsible for what happened, and they women remember, in exquisite d'l anybody, even their parents or their spouses or everything. they remember it, whether they were eight years old or whether they were 30 years old. amy goodman: you said you never wore a dress on a plane again? jessica leeds: i stopped wearing skirts. i started -- pantsuits were the -- amy goodman: because he reached up your skirt. jessica leeds: yeah, yeah. and i cut my hair from being long to short. it was one of those things where you as -- and this is what i object to. you, as the victim, take on the responsibilities to, somehow or another, prevent these situations from happening. amy goodman: do you w

that situation the chair of the qatar twenty twenty two world cup and also that the amir's brother shaikh mohammad bin hamad replied with his version of a map this is showing where the world cup was placed with because you can see there in the qatar's place and then there was this image that's been going the rounds as well showing the solar system but instead of you can see the usa. of the museum open just last november to mark a partnership between france and the u.a.e. the dome extends for twenty four thousand square meters and has received international praise although human rights organizations did warn of labor abuses jury its construction al-jazeera has contacted the luva dobby for comment but has not received a response just yet they want to get your thoughts so get in touch with us using the hash tag a.j. news great story were you a phone q well legendary musician hugh masekela has died. so my music is just as well known as his devotion to the anti-apartheid movement in south africa his song bring him home back home became a rallying cry for the release of nelson mandela he was at

all right in case i suffer any harm qatar cannot be blamed i'm currently hosted by shaikh mohammed and he shall be responsible for anything i may happen to me finally i want to salute the people of qatar the people of the u.a.e. and of saudi arabia and all the people of the gulf thank you. pope francis has held a special mass to mark the world day of migrants and refugees at a time when there are more displaced people than ever before according to the un's refugee agency more than sixty five million people have been forcibly displaced twenty two and a half million people are refugees more than a quarter of them from syria and there are the ten million people who are stateless not considered to be citizens of any country that includes more than six hundred fifty thousand revenger forced out of myanmar since august one of the most dangerous places is the mediterranean or than fourteen thousand people have died in those waters since twenty fourteen trying to reach europe these are sharp reports. in the five years of his papacy pro francis has stressed time and again christianity's mission