global arms market with a surge in sales to the middle east they differ in the stockholm international peace research institute shows u.s. exports grew twenty nine percent over the last five years and the flow of arms to the middle east increased by eighty seven percent those are the headlines rewind is next. tall as military government is accused of using repressive science in general critics. of. thailand's rebel losses. hello welcome to rewind i'm richelle carey since al jazeera english launched more than a decade ago we have built up an extraordinary archive of award winning documentary here on rewind returning to some of the best of them finding out what's happened in the years sense back in two thousand and nine millions of americans were celebrating a new president in the white house promising radical change and a better future president obama inspired the entire nation no more so than in baltimore or over sixty percent are african-american and violent crime and drug related deaths have been on the rise for decades but what became of all that optimism in the years following obama's election and two thou

struggle for the little that remains i'd like to bring in orally until the from the stockholm international peace research institute also known as slippery he is senior research on the hill region he's joining us from the swedish capsule stockholm mississippi grace have you on that deed to africa i'm in twenty fifteen mahdi's government signed a peace agreement with some of the armed groups but the jihad just remained active why was that process simming seemingly ineffective. twenty fifty five it's. just one part of it. we should refer to. both of you to give you. a tour through two thousand and twelve it seems that the twelve has evolved as you said with no new writers. or bridging north. central. just a piece. right so i mean as you say there it is a complex mix of plot the sort of the tribalism issues you've now got the jihadist threat and i wondered if that complicates any effort to try and get it to quash this insurgency as a whole. yes of course i mean i actually was in the north for quite well i don't like this new trace of peace begins and these are just contacts we can actually negotiate with problem one o

struggle for the little that remains i'd like to bring in orally until the from the stockholm international peace research institute also known as slippery he is senior research on the region he's joining us from the swedish capsules mrs harvey great to have you on africa i'm in twenty fifteen madea's government signed a peace agreement with some of the armed groups but the jihad just remained active why was that process simmering seemingly ineffective. well there are twenty fifteen or twenty five. he's addressing one part of the goal we should refer to the. independence of your chain of your old. records approach to two thousand and twelve it seems to the twelve o'clock that has evolved as you said we know are you up to speed he had sectors operating normally valued at no central that's not being addressed by the p.c. games right so i mean as you say there it is a complex mix of plot the sort of the tribalism issues you've now got the jihadist threat and i wondered if that complicates any effort to try and get to quash this insurgency as a whole is of course i mean i actually was in the north for quite well i don'

the global arms market with a surge in sales to the middle east data from the stockholm international peace research institute shows u.s. exports grew twenty nine percent in the last five years the same time the flow of arms to the middle east rose eighty seven percent russian and chinese arms sales have fallen while turkey israel and european nations have increased their share the dates for the upcoming general election in india have been announced the vote will take place over several weeks starting april eleventh in the world's biggest democratic exercise involving nine hundred million voters. first. and with that india's election campaign is officially underway voting will be in seven days is beginning april eleventh with both counted on may the twenty third. in twenty fourteen more than eight hundred fourteen million indians were eligible to vote this year organizers say the total will be roughly nine hundred million making it the largest election in history. the controversies have already begun some opposition parties have accused the election commission of delaying the polling dates to give the governm

arms markets with a surgeon sales to the middle east that's the finding of the stockholm international peace research institute it shows u.s. exports grew by twenty nine percent in the last five years the flow of arms to middle east increased by eighty seven percent russian and chinese arms sales of fall and while europe turkey and israel have increased their share. around fifteen thousand people marched through the streets of moscow protesting against a new internet bill to allow the government to cut off the russian internet while protesters see it as another step toward censorship the government says the bill is needed to protect the country stefan some reports. another attempt to isolate russia from the outside world this is how these protesters see the latest bill to control the internet with most of russia's media under tight government control the internet and social media are considered the last remaining sources for independent information i don't want to leave all i can churn in the use of fire wall i want internet to be free and. i want to think three years ago it was a joke about that day we'll wat

friends is booming yes that late at the latest numbers are in and according to the stockholm international peace research institute military spending is going up around the world usa today reports that the global rise was driven partially by a nine point six billion dollar hike in u.s. arms expenditures you see the red white and blue is still the world heavyweight champion of military spending despite russia's recent move in the second place surpassing the united kingdom the united states is position as the top arms producing nation in the world remains unchanged and for now a new challenge. and there any reasonable thinking person not talking war cheerleading deafen cable news every night this should be concerning this should be a very concerning bit of data because when your country is home to five of the world's ten largest arms dealer sorry defense contractors you have to ask yourself is your country really a bastion of peace or is it really just warmongering for prosperity so today now the.

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friends is booming yes that late at the latest numbers are in and according to the stockholm international peace research institute military spending is going up around the world usa today reports that the. global rise was driven partially by a nine point six billion dollar hike in u.s. arms expenditures you see the red white and blue is still the world heavyweight champion of military spending despite russia's recent move in the second place surpassing the united kingdom the united states' position as the top arms producing nation in the world remains unchanged and for now a new challenge. and there any reasonable thinking person not talking war cheerleading daft on cable news every night this should be concerning should be a very concerning bit of data because when your country is home to five of the world's ten largest arms dealer sorry defense contractors you have to ask yourself is your country really a bastion of peace or is it really just warmongering for prosperity. so today now that the numbers are and let's find out just who is the best of the best in the business of death as we start watching the hawks.

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for years 2010-2018, from the stockholm international peace research institute, it compiles data on arms transfers and conflicts around the world. using excel functions, i matched those data up with the world's population database for corresponding years from the world bank. then, using simple arithmetic ical committed and graft arms exportso determine arms per capita for all the countries in the database. what i found is that israel these the entire world in arms huge marginen by a every single year between with the exception of 2011, in which sweden, strangely, was not an neck-and-neck with them. one of israel's biggest military hardware niches is it drones. exports of global drone come from israel. the united states is in second place, with less than 24%. the attractiveness of israeli arms is that they boast of being combat tested. hermes point, israel's 900, which was still in the testing phase when it was used against civilians in gaza in 2014. a mere three weeks after that onslaught in gaza, that murdered 2200 people and maimed tens of thousands more, israel held a "israelade show

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starting to mount according to the annual global arms report from sipri that is the stockholm international peace research institute industry benchmark for this sort of news it is saying that there has been a seven point eight percent increase in the past four years compared with the previous four years and then a twenty three percent increase on the four years before that so we got some graphics in the big picture to start with basically looking at the last forty years which actually saw as you will see that broad decrease in the international transfer of major weapons until the early two thousand which of course coincides with the iraqi war the so-called war on terror and any number of conflicts which have followed and it's all gone up since then but you know there's an even simpler story to tell in these next two charts one the united states sells the most arms by a long long way thirty six percent of global exports you add in russia france germany and china and you have got seventy five percent of global exports accounted for with just those five countries where do they go in short they go to the middle east sa