was the leader of bahrain's largest shia opposition group all with fuck it was outlawed and ordered to be dissolved in two thousand and sixteen as part of a crackdown on dissent in the kingdom bahrain has a shia majority but is ruled by a sunni monocacy rights groups say the charges against him are politically motivated someone is already in jail after being arrested in two thousand and fifteen he's currently serving a four year sentence on charges of inciting hatred and insulting the interior ministry for amnesty international is calling for the immediate release of share some on and all of the prisoners of conscience. well to start with. for us is a prisoner of conscience is spending changed since twenty at the end of twenty three fourteen and he is serving a four year sentence. the new charges. absurd in the sense that back in twenty eleven when the uprising was happening there was at their attempts to mediate and to to find a solution to to the situation and. chalice and man had found calls with the prime minister not the prime minister the minister of foreign of of affairs of stat

he's certainly gained the support of various shia groups did not align with the former prime minister including that of outsider but one wonders without that base, how difficult it might be to govern. how much will these individuals like gus howie who leads a militia and is in parliament against the law by the way, they're not allowed theoretically to be in the parliament if you're also a militia leader and i might also add that we provided our hospitality to him before about four years after we after him in the wake of a brutal kidnapping and murder of i think it was five american soldiers. there, these kinds of figures are going to put a lot of stress and strain on what goes on. and this is a time when iraq's government has to perform. the people have been writing essentially, demonstrating in the southern part of iraqiin particular , basra provides the bulk of the oil for expert and its basic services are substandard and so forth so that will be the challenge. i share the assessment but now the shelby is going to be a huge challenge. we have to start by acknowledging that they did

to vote and of course the opposition societies have urged their members particularly the majority shia community not to vote. since the seventeen hundreds the mostly shia population has been ruled by a some leaking the government's recently been propped up by military support from the saudi a number of the government their forces were instrumental in crushing the popular uprising in twenty eleven which was spearheaded by the she opposition to the royal family. amnesty international human rights watch and others condemn buttering droolers as repressive and the election system discriminatory with all opposition leaders jailed or disqualified from running for elections no independent media operating in the country and scores of independent activists journalists and human rights defenders are imprisoned and many of whom have alleged torture during their detention it's unlikely that today's elections will result in a parliament that's truly diverse and representative of the wide range of views that exist and behind any society. the crackdown on the opposition means political groups whether

to vote and of course the opposition societies have urged their members particularly the majority shia community not to vote. since the seventeen hundreds the mostly shia population has been ruled by a some leaking the government's recently been propped up by military support from the saudi a number of the government their forces were instrumental in crushing the popular uprising in twenty eleven which was spearheaded by the she opposition to the royal family. amnesty international human rights watch and others condemn battery and rulers as repressive and the election system discriminatory with all opposition leaders jailed or disqualified from running for elections no independent media operating in the country and scores of independent activists journalists and human rights defenders imprisoned and many of whom have alleged torture during their detention it's unlikely that today's elections will result in a parliament that's truly diverse and representative of the wide range of views that exist and behind in the society the crackdown on the opposition means political groups whether re

allowed in this year either the former british colony is ruled by a sunni monarchy over a majority shia population this imbalance has caused tensions in the past in two thousand and eleven she has protested demanding greater rights but any opposition was quickly crushed by the government which was backed by tanks from the bring saudi arabia bahrain's assembly consists of an upper house appointed directly by king hamad bin. called the shura council and an elected council of representatives the main lawmaking body each with forty seats but critics say this lower house has no real authority this simply sherman actions they mean nothing but they mean an empowerment for the dictatorship. to give their own of the parliament following their performance within the last year and this is the body which has authorized military course to try civilians almost three hundred sixty six thousand citizens have been declared eligible to vote but not everyone is eligible to run for the election shake man is one of the most well known opposition figures but he's been sentenced to life in prison and his poli

and bill how far is the cool from all democratic rights in bahrain driven by the fact that it is a shia majority ruled by a sunni minority how far sectarian interests ruling the debate in bahrain. well i think if you go back to twenty eleven when the when the protests first began they were peaceful and they were sunni and shia who actually went to lulu roundabout and gathered there it was the bahrain studier square and so there was not really a significant tarion divided up point but the regime really pushed the sectarian line and suggested and i've continued to suggest that iran is behind any protests than any is sent that emerges the push for democracy well i think it comes from many bahraini z. both sunni and shia who would like to see their country functioning better and they believe that it will only function better if there is actually some movement towards a more open and democratic parliament bill law of gulf masses to come thank you very much. taiwan's ruling pro independence party has suffered a major defeat in local elections in a city where it had held power for twenty years

president obama shifted that it was an historic shift and without choosing the shia and iran did try to. have more ethical choice in our in our policy. trump has gone back on that viscerally because he's accepted for whatever reasons the a strongly hostile posture towards iran this n b s's ordering the murder of a person in the consulate of saudi arabia is are just an incredibly moronic operation from every perspective that they make hard to make the establishment in the us glenn view mohammed bin sound man still as an acid all more of a sort of volatile semen threat. well a harder ally to stay very close where then get in bed with yes and it may it certainly will give some. ammunition to elements of the u.s. government there are other. foreign policy humanity who don't wish to align us so reflexive lee with saudi arabia since they seem they've proven themselves to be very. unwise in many of their choices but trump is the president and he for reasons good and bad mostly bad has identified saudi arabia as the way to work towards pressuring in destroying iran so that's unlikely to chan

album in his sentence ahead of the country's main shia opposition movement to life in prison on charges of spying for cattle to other senior figures from the same policy will also jailed for life alongside man who led protests against the sunni government in two thousand and eleven well it comes months after the high court acquitted the three men of colluding with the rival gulf state bahrain along with saudi arabia and the united arab emirates severed all ties with cattle in two thousand and seventeen. and was leader of bahrain's largest shia opposition group fuck it was outlawed in order to be dissolved in two thousand and sixteen as part of a crackdown on dissent in the kingdom bahrain has a shia majority but is ruled by a sunny nicky rights groups say the charges against him a politically motivated someone is already in jail after being arrested in two thousand and fifteen he's currently serving a four year sentence on charges of inciting hatred and insulting the interior ministry well joining me now in the studio is rights activists say it would die from the bahrain is a shoot for

is the head of behind main shia opposition group the hour fark party it was the largest bloc in parliament before the two thousand and eleven protests it was banned in two hundred sixteen but brings main secular opposition group known as awad has also been outlawed and its leaders serving jail time bahrain a majority shia country hundreds of people they're in jail for to modern reforms from the sunni royal family in protests since two thousand and eleven. has similar thing now campaigner behind amnesty international which is calling for the immediate release of shaikh ali feldman and all other prisoners of conscience well to start with a highly seven month for us is a prisoner of conscience he's been detained since twenty at the end of twenty three fourteen and he. is serving as will his sentence in the new charges. are absurd in the sense that back in twenty eleven when the uprising was happening there was a there were attempts to mediate and to find a solution to to the situation and. she had recently and had fun coals with the prime minister not the prime minister the minister of foreig

president obama shifted that it was an historic shift and without choosing the shia and iran did try to. have more ethical choice in our in our policy. trump has gone back on that viscerally because he's accepted for whatever reasons the a strongly hostile posture towards iran this n b s's ordering the murder of a person in the consulate of saudi arabia is are just an incredibly moronic operation from every perspective that they make harder to make the establishment in the us glenn view mohammed bin sound man still as an acid all more of a sort of volatile semen threat. well a harder ally to stay very close where then get in bed with yes and it may it certainly will give some. ammunition to elements of the u.s. government or the earth or the foreign policy humanity who don't wish to align us so reflexive lee with saudi arabia since the scene they've proven themselves to be very. unwise in many of their choices but trump is the president and he for reasons good and bad mostly bad has identified saudi arabia as the way to work towards pressuring in destroying iran so that's unlikely to

dissolved in two thousand and sixteen as part of a crackdown on dissent in the kingdom bahrain has a shia majority but is ruled by a sunni monarchy rights group say the charges against him a politically motivated someone is already in jail after being arrested in two thousand and fifteen is currently serving a four year sentence on charges of inciting hatred and insulting the interior ministry rights activists say it. says shaikh life sentence is part of the ongoing crackdown on dissent in bahrain but says it's was a clear i mean since all of the political leaders are imprisoned old or so you.

the players were able to touch the badge and shia and cla p able to touch the badge and shia and clapjust a moment everybody could share. —— cheer. it was really nice, a nice time to spend together and you could see how much it meant to the players. supporting them and the boss. a major incident has been declared after eight children were injured when a fairground ride collapsed ahead of a fireworks display in woking. air ambulance crews have transferred some of the children to major trauma centres in london with potentially serious injuries. the fireworks display has been cancelled and people have been told to return home. we can speak now to andy datson who was at the event. he joins me via webcam from woking. thank you for taking time to speak to us. what did you see? was with some friends. we had all passed the slide. inaudible. we did not make too much of it. and then we heard of the sirens, saw the sirens and we started heading over to the slide and it became very clear that the incident had taken place. we saw three people on the floor being treated, from what i could tell inau

think that agenda will work in trying to isolate iran in the region because basically it's a sunni shia thing they're trying to play here go ahead and. yes but the fact is that the trump family and as especially jared kirshner have invested so much in mohamed bin samon that it's very difficult to undermine him or change him right now i mean u.s. media actually reported that the list of princes that were arrested in the ritz carlton hotel the rivals of mohamed bin some on the list was actually given to m.b.'s by jared questionnaire and that's how that's how close they are the problem is however that the new issue of normalization of arab countries with israel is not a sunni shia thing it's actually a issue of the palestinians the position of the saudis has always been under fire had they known drop the law that they would only normalize relations when a fair solution to the palestinian problem would be found and the problem we're having right now is this normalization is happening without any sort of more of lucian you know who are the palestinians is in fact the palestinian yes in fact

president obama shifted that it was an historic shift and without choosing the shia and iran did try to. have more ethical ois in our in our policy. trump has gone back on that viscerally because he's accepted for whatever reasons the a strongly hostile posture towards iran this n b s's ordering the murder of a person in the consulate of saudi arabia is are just an incredibly moronic operation from every perspective that they make hard to make the establishment in the us glenn view mohamed bin sound man still as an asset all more of a sort of volatile saving threat. well a harder ally to stay very close where then get in bed with yes and it may it certainly will give some. ammunition to elements of the us government or the earth or the foreign policy humanity who don't wish to align us so reflexive lee with saudi arabia since they seem they've proven themselves to be very. unwise in many of their choices but trump is the president and he for reasons good and bad mostly bad has identified saudi arabia as the way to work towards pressuring in destroying iran so that's unlikely to chang

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they are a shia military political organization lavishly supported by iran.he lebanese army. the united states officially designates them a terrorist organization. in 1983, they did this. the u.s. embassy bombing. and this, the marine where over 200 servicemen were killed. >> please put it down now. >> they are dangerous. they are well funded and whatever else they may be, they are not stupid. >> i have two sisters. hezbollah take care of them. here everybody support hezbollah, even the people who are not religious for one reason. because they feel protected by them. >> my host's support for hezbollah, typical of south beirut, is staunch. >> before hezbollah, lebanese were always scared. now what? now we say ha ha. we don't care. >> in the early days hezbollah used tactics that just about anyone would call terrorism. when is it permissible to use a car bomb or using civilian targets? >> for me? >> for you? >> i'm against killing. against killing anybody, even israel. this person that i'm going to kill, car bomb or whatever, he has family. >> what's the most i

to vote and of course the opposition societies have urged their members particularly the majority shiacommunity not to vote. since the seventeen hundreds the mostly shia population has been ruled by a some leaking the government's recently been propped up by military support from the saudi in iraq the government their forces were instrumental in crushing the popular uprising in twenty eleven which was spearheaded by the she opposition to the royal family. amnesty international human rights watch and others condemn bihari and jewellers as repressive and the election system discriminatory with all opposition leaders jailed or disqualified from running for elections no independent media operating in the country and scores of independent activists journalists and human rights defenders imprisoned and many of whom have alleged torture during their detention it's unlikely that today's elections will result in a parliament that's truly diverse and representative of the wide range of views that existed before any society the crackdown on the opposition means political groups whether religious

shias their fantasy candidate.” democrats would most like. shias their fantasy candidate.nd in these memoirs she talks about the real trials and difficulties of having to live in a white house with all of the pressures that were put upon that couple, not least by the person who succeeded them. donald trump started the rumours about barack obama trump started the rumours about ba rack obama not trump started the rumours about barack obama not being a natural born american, hinting very clearly in racist directions. and you are out there for the 2016 campaign. how was she regarded? whatever the politics of people, did michelle obama sort of survival? she was very, very popular. and there is a tradition of this. laura bush was very popular, the only person who was never more popular than their husband was a certain hillary clinton. i can't remember what happened to her... a big thank you to my guests this evening, polly mackenzie and tim montgomerie. that's it for the papers tonight. don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. it's a

opposition group known as wired was also outlawed and its leader is in jail bahrain is a majority shia country hundreds of people have been jailed for demanding reforms from the sunni royal family over the past seven is honest internationals calling for the immediate release of chef and all other prisoners of conscience he's been detained since twenty at the end of twenty three fourteen and he is serving a four year sentence. the new charges. are absurd in the sense that back in twenty eleven when the uprising was happening there was there are attempts to mediate and to to find a solution to to the situation and. and chalice and man had found holes with the minister of foreign of all of the friends of state affairs in qatar and these were well exchanges in attempt to. get qatar to mediate in this situation at the time when the rights activists met our days as the life sentence is a blatant crackdown on dissent in bahrain. it's was a clear i mean since all the political leaders are in prisons all those human rights advocates such as nibiru egypt and whatever basically stand up and stood

country cut diplomatic ties with qatar last year but shefali so mine is the head of bahrain's main shia opposition group are with party it was the largest bloc in parliament before the two thousand and eleven protests but was banned in twenty sixteen the main secular opposition group known as wired has also been outlawed under sleeve there is also in prison obama is a majority shia country hundreds of people have been jailed for demanding reforms from the sunni world family over the past seven years well i missed internationals calling for the immediate release. and all other prisoners of conscience he's been detained since twenty at the end of twenty three fourteen and he. is serving a four year sentence. the new charges. are absurd in the sense that back in twenty eleven when the uprising was happening there was a they were attempts to mediate and to find a solution to to the situation and. chalices man had phone calls with the minister of foreign of all of the first state affairs in qatar and these were well exchanges in attempt to. get qatar to mediate in the situation at the time.

he wanted to incite the shia and terrify the sunni. what we saw after that was that playing out. and so in reality, mostly -- >> another topic, you written about the role of the military and politics. and during the 40 years from eisenhower to george h. w. bush we have a series of eight presidents, last four have not served. doyou think is a good thing? a bad thing? what are your views on the degree to which military strength is useful as serving the presidency? >> i think with the duke context for first there were certain periods where we had a huge percentage of people serving like world war alii. we are likely to people and politics and serve because so many people did. and so i think that just reflects the times. i think now we have the opposite, very small percentage of the population serving in the military. so a lot of people just don't have the experience. so i have some views. the first is, they should be people that serve in the military going into politics. but just because you served in the military, it is not a qualificati

cut diplomatic links with cutter last year while shaikh alley salamanders the head of bahrain's main shia opposition group that is the party that was the largest bloc in parliament before the twenty eleven protests it was banned in twenty sixteen behinds main secular opposition group known as has also been outlawed and its leader is serving jail time a train is a majority shia country hundreds of people have been jailed for demanding reforms from the sunni world family in protest since twenty eleven we'll see what lingers a campaign that amnesty international which is calling for the immediate release of shaikh allie sandman and all of the prisoners of conscience. well to start with shirley sandman for us is a prisoner of conscience he's been detained since twenty at the end of twenty three fourteen and he is serving a four year sentence. the new charges. absurd in the sense that back in twenty eleven when the uprising was happening there was a there were attempts to mediate and to to find a solution to to the situation and. chalice and man had found holes with the prime minister not the

wired has also been outlawed and its leader is also serving jail time bahrain remember a majority shia country but hundreds of people have been jailed since the protests in two thousand and eleven for demanding reforms from the sunni royal family his same watching now a campaign around behind it amnesty international which is calling for the immediate release of shakeout examined and all other prisoners of conscience. well to start with. for us is a prisoner of conscience he's been detained since twenty at the end of twenty three fourteen and he is serving a four year sentence. the new charges. absurd in the sense that back in twenty eleven when the uprising was happening there was a they were attempts to meet eighty eight and two to find a solution to to the situation and. chalice and man had found calls with the prime minister not the prime minister the minister of foreign of of affairs of state affairs in qatar and these were exchanges an attempt to to get to mediate in the situation at the time so to sixty is on for him to be charged with these with to be accused of spying for qata

well despite frosty relations between the united states and cuba one area of cooperation between the shia countries has always remained medical and scientific collaboration and now the u.s. and cuba teaming up to fight a common enemy cancer as they test the effectiveness of a revolutionary cuban treatment for lung cancer. some of hailed it as a miracle cure in the fight against lung cancer event or researches say the revolutionary technique involves the active immunology of a protein called e.g.f. that stimulates cell growth samples of abnormally developed e.g.f. from lung cancers mixed with agents that stimulate the immune system that helps the immune system to identify and target the proteins in the cancer. say i'm a mask and it's one more weapons in the fight against cancer and we can use it together with other weapons such as chemotherapy. the treatment which has been administered by monthly injections at this cuban research center since two thousand and eleven has already been approved in bosnia power of why peru malaysia and sri lanka around five thousand patients worldwide are unde

in maine one nine hundred twenty the iraqis a mix of kurds sunny our robes and shia began peaceful protests in baghdad. the british arrested the leaders. and spark file and confrontation. they then crushed the iraqi our pricing with overwhelming force. two thousand two hundred british an indian soldiers were killed. but around eight and a half thousand iraqis were killed or wounded. by now many arabs were starting to look back on alterman rule as preferable to being under the british and french mandates. that arab people believe that they could seek greater ties with the turkish people because most arab people saw the turks as fellow muslims who are fighting a similar issue european occupation. but the defeat it also means we're also facing a changed world. five countries occupied parts of present day turkey. the treaty of seven near paris in august one thousand nine hundred twenty laid out the allies harsh post-war terms. the turks turn to the hero of. the army officer who led the ultimate defeat of the allies in the dardanelles in one thousand nine hundred fifteen. the conditions of the t

his new term goal was to civil war inside of iraq between sumit and shia. at first, without he was a terrorist group against the west. we were a problem but we want his target. he wanted to incite the shia into a civil war with the sunni, terrified so they would ban together. i've largely by the end of 2006, he had done that. what we saw after that was that playing out. so reality, mostly he was successful. >> you've written about the military, soldiers and products. during the 40 years from eisenhower to george w. bush, we had this president, not served in the military, do think that is a good thing? i think? what are your views on that? >> i think we have to do concept. there were certain some periods we had huge percentage of people surf. you are likely out of people in politics who have served because so many people had. i think that is reflects the times. i think now we have copy option, a small percentage of the population serving in the military. a lot of people just don't have the experience. i've got a few views on it. first, the should be people w

will run short of shia bios or. look at them out on your buddies comply with bush. shows just the plume of sort of emotional. mood you would pull when you want. to play. in a world of big partisan movie lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bath and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten thousand dollars fine tamping each day. eighty five percent of global wealth you loans to the rich eight point six percent market saw thirty chris. my eyes flashed your thumb with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and when rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars ai industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only number yo

the shia chaos of what's happened in neighborhoods like these distorting the numbers. i want you to understand that there are a lot of people displaced and we're finding that a lot of people don't know who they were looking for them and that is why we're posing this was. firefighters are still trying to contain the camp fire one of three wildfires raging in california thess one is said to be forty percent under control it will take two more weeks to puts out completely. the struggling german national football team netted three goals in a dominant win over russia last night germany fielded a young and fairly inexperienced side for the friendly in leipsic it was twenty two year old leroy sunday who grabbed the first goal in the eight minute to put the hosts in front of the class soulive followed that up by scoring in the twenty fifth minute saras snobbery at a third goal well on monday germany go to the fake go to face the netherlands in the european nations lee but by the time that game kicks off germany may already be relegated from the nation's league group if the net

to nigeria now where supporters of her jailed shia cleric are bearing friends and family shot dead by security forces they say the army killed more than forty five of their supporters during protests earlier this week these lawmakers movement of nigeria has been calling for the release of this leader. but the military insists he's a security risk. has this report. almost every minute another corpse arrives tearful relatives have gathered outside what is normally an islamic school but now functions as a mortuary they're still in shock. that when you know i'm heartbroken that my older brother isn't here anymore. when i'm out on us also came here to say goodbye he watched as soldiers shot his twenty year old son before his eyes the father insists he was an armed and peaceful . i don't know what you saw it in nigeria i'm absolutely shocked by the actions of the nigerian military not all soldiers behave like that and it's but those who did this to me they're not soldiers. they're terrorists. have been. an ass and his son belong to the so-called islamic movement of nigeria a shiite group wh

will run short of shia but you also. look at the model you punish comply with pushed. to show the plume of sort of emotional. move you will do what you want. and. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. when the whole make this manufacture consent to step into public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the flame and merry go round lifts only the one percent of. the time we can all middle of the room six. million real new. fracking gave americans a lot of new job opportunities i needed to come up here to make some money i could make twenty five thousand dollars as a teacher or i could make fifty thousand dollars a year truck so i chose to drive truck people rush to a small town in north dakota was an unemployment rate of zero percent like gold rush is very very similar to a gold rush but this beautiful story ended with pollution and devastation a lot of people have left here i don't know too many people here and just slow down so much the

the iranians have an idea of a shia crescent from iran to beirut. to bring it into being would probably engender a conflict with israel and possibly even the united states. lebanese hezbollah, the assad regime. so the saudis have made a lot of promises to their partners, now it's time to pay up. i think they'll struggle to manage that coalition. finally, just dealing with the other players in the conflict, primarily the u.s., israel and turkey. that have the potential to frustrate russia's ambitions, i think they'll struggle, i think they'll struggle to deal with those three players and i think you saw that, it was fairly clear recently when the syrian regime accidentally shot down the russian io 20 and although the ministry of defense and the general staff continue to blame israel, putin after a talk with netanyahu was very quick to say this was a tragic, a tragic series of events that no one was really at fault for. i think the reason is that this is while the idlib confrontation with turkey was going on. the last thing russia needed was a confron

genocide charges a united nations backed war crimes tribunal is this a hand down its judgment on no one shia and the former head of state to sumpin those are the headlines on al-jazeera we'll have more news for you that's coming up right after people and power that's next they with us. al jazeera says it's just swell and. it's. thousands of migrants have died trying to reach europe by crossing the mediterranean from libya many thousands more have been saved from certain death by n.g.o.s search and rescue vessels so why do you countries want to stop those ships from giving aid to troops in maritime law when the alternative is a libyan coast guard with a record of a resting shooting at those it's supposed to be helping weeping to sea to find out . migration and how to best respond to it and control it has become one of europe's most complex and hotly debated problems. the arguments have been loudest around the central mediterranean and the dangerous which is between libya and its me which many thousands of migrants have crossed with the help of people smugness. for the last five years e.u. nav

will run short of shia but you also. look at them out on your body as capello is forced to move from zero to a show just the plume of sort of emotional. move you would do when you want. to hear. what politicians do you shocked america. to put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or somehow want to be rich. but you'd like to be close this is like the forty three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters of my house. there should be a. little one else chose something seemed wrong all right old boy just don't call. me you'll all get to shape out just to come to cancer. and engage with equal to trail all. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crime stamped each dish. eighty five percent of global wealth you longs to the rich eight point six percent market saw a thirty percent

known as web has also been outlawed and its leader is also serving jail time behind as a majority shia country hundreds of people have been jailed for demanding reforms from the sunni royal family and protests since twenty eleven we'll see what lingers a campaign on behind amnesty international which is calling for the immediate release of shake and he said man and all other prisoners of conscience. well to start with. for us is a prisoner of conscience he's been detained since twenty at the end of twenty three fourteen and he is serving a four year sentence. the new charges. absurd in the sense that back in twenty eleven when the uprising was happening there was a there were attempts to meet eighty eight and two to find a solution to to the situation and. chalice and man had found holes with the prime minister not the prime minister the minister of foreign of all of the fast state affairs in qatar and these were exchanges an attempt to to get qatar to mediate in the situation at the time so six years on for him to be charged with this with to be accused of spying for qatar is totally

from one hundred seventy five to nine hundred seventy nine plum pens museums and memorials detail the shia horror of the past a past that lingers. were they deserved to get the sentence because they committed such be crimes the rest of my family members were killed and the only child who survived that regime. this is an important moment for cambodia it's courts recognising that what happened here was indeed genocide. for more delegates bring it our south east asia correspondent and heartache in bangkok bastion what more can you tell us about the two men who've just been found guilty of committing genocide. well terry they were the two most senior figures of the camero regime who are still alive. is or was the deputy of the leader a former khmer rouge leader pol pot who died in one nine hundred ninety eight and. was the head of state under the khmer rouge they were both serving life sentences already for crimes against humanity that they were convicted of in an earlier trial but they deny any responsibility. for these for these crimes and they were indicted in this trial with along with two

you did if he was today alive and writing the story of somebody who had walked into the consulates shia in istanbul and died in the way he did what do you think she would say about that death and what would you think he would say about what that says about his country i think that he would take a step back jamal is a very sober analyst and i think that he would say as he did in so much of his writing and even his last article that there is a dark force rising in saudi arabia it has global consequences it has domestic consequences and the manifestations of it you can see today with the women who agitated for rights for women to drive are languishing in prison right now inside saudi arabia as you and i speak it was one of the causes that he raised i think jamal would say about his own murder that this was a manifestation of something darker and that that saudi future and saudi citizens deserve something far better and i think that would be a selflessness honestly in the way he commented and while i don't think jamal necessarily saw this and for himself it was remarkable to me how selfless

their support for shia militia in iraq. in lebanon. in syria. in yemen. et cetera. and their effort to essentially lebanon-ize iraq and syria, as well as lebanon. in other words, to have enormous power on the street through very well trained and equipped militia forces. but also to have some of the leaders of those forces, or connected with those forces actually in the parliament, so that you have the kind of legislative clout that hezbollah has in lebanon. sadly, none of this actually transpired. the maligned activity continued. if anything, it may have actually increased. helped because of the threat of isis in iraq and to a degree elsewhere. the missile program, the other big concern, continued with the testing and ever-more dangerous and more accurate missile systems and longer range. and ultimately, i think that led this administration, to conclude that even though technically, iran had not violated the jcpoa, that these other activities again were of such concern that they had to reimpose the sanctions that had been put on iran largely by congress, keep in min

in a sentence ahead of its main shia opposition movement to life in prison on charges of spying for castle to other senior figures from the same party were also jailed for life alongside shaikh ali cell man who led protests against the siniora government in two thousand and eleven it comes months after the high court a question of the three men of collusion with the rival gulf state. early numbers in the u.s. point to the highest turnout for a midterm poll in decades will and thirty million people have already cast their ballots in these elections which are being seen as a referendum on president obama's policies democrats hoping to win back the majority in the house of representatives when voters go to the polls on choose day and as president says he will if this is a pension of parliament in ten days' time is international pressure builds him to resolve a leadership battle my tree policy or same as shut down parliament off to appointing all of president into rajapaksa as prime minister the man he replaced the ousted prime minister ronnell wickramasinghe continues to criticize the move as

injured in the iraq side district near the border with afghanistan most of the casualties were minority shia muslims backus on a prime minister in qana condemned the bombing calling it an act of terrorism the no one has yet claimed responsibility for that. and over the border in afghanistan a suicide bomber set off his explosives inside an army base mosque killing at least twenty six soldiers this is in host province in the east just as friday prayers were finishing almost sixty others wounded there. the u.n. special envoy for yemen has urged all warring sides to maintain peace in hyundai is saying the attention of the world is on the yemeni port city this is a crucial gateway of course of food and aid for millions of yemenis who are on the brink of famine the rebels have agreed to talks which could result in the u.n. running the port city iraqi coalition forces have been battling the hoodies for control of the data for months now but it's important to be here because the danger is the center of gravity of this war and it's here that we can begin that road people often ask me why we need to

it's just like we work with groups such as the kurdish agp and the shia arab islamic revolution before003 in iraq, but when we went into iraq we didn't support that political party or this political party. we just tried to work with all iraqis to help provide a constitutional democratic system and this is what we're working in the international community to do for all syrians. >> well, thank you. my time is up. i would just say one must be very careful about preserving the integrity and good name of the united states. it's one thing to decide that we're not taking political sides. it's another to abandon an ally that put blood on the table when they were the only ones willing to do it. and the kurds fought and won territory and it's a fine line between saying once we get to peace, you know, you're a party at the table, but you're not the only party or a favorite party and it's quite another to make them and to actually abandon them because of outside pressure from another country with a different agenda. >> thank you, mr. connolly. thank you so much. now we're pleased to hear from amba