thailand doesn't seem to be recognizing status as a refugee accepted by australia. yeah that's profoundly concerning there are many refugees or travel to thailand on refugee papers like hakim's from around the world and you know this is one of the reason i think that we saw so many diplomats at the court today over fifteen countries were represented there that this is now a matter of major international concern not only for hakim as a football player and a person who is a refugee but also for the larger system of refugee protection which thailand is threatening to violate in a very fundamental way that has time that some doubt allowed time in the night an option to that has such title and signed up to the relevant. aspects of humanitarian law of the convention for instance. well no but thailand is a rather has ratified the international convention against torture in an article three of the international convention against torture it states that no one can be sent back to a country to which they would be tortured came has already been tortured in jails and if you wer

hello and welcome to the program denis thailand's election commission has recommended the dissolution of the party that chose a princess to be its candidate for prime minister the march twenty fourth general election in this constitutional monarchy will be the first since a military coup in two of the fourteen we'll be discussing the impact of the looming ban on the tyrants of chart party with our guests in just a moment first this report from our correspondent wayne hay in bangkok. two weeks ago the thai rak the chart party entered the political spotlight as they launched their election campaign the leaders talked about the need for thailand to innovate . but the candidate chosen to stand as prime minister proved to be an innovation too far in a country where the monarchy is regarded as above politics princess was ruled ineligible after the palace in her nomination was in violation of royal tradition and culture and highly inappropriate after a complaint from an independent constitution monitoring organization the election commission has recommended that the court dissolve the party

as they launched their election campaign the leaders talked about the need for thailand to innovate . but the candidate chosen to stand as prime minister proved to be an innovation too far in a country where the monarchy is regarded as above politics princess who was ruled ineligible after the palace in her nomination was in violation of royal tradition and culture and highly inappropriate after a complaint from an independent constitution monitoring organization the election commission has recommended that the court dissolve the party if the court agrees it would be the third dissolution of a political party backed by former prime minister taksin shinawatra who lives in exile after his overthrow in the two thousand and six military coup talks inch in a what has spent his political career fighting the establishment and on friday ties thought he had staged a major coup himself by having a member of the royal family fronting the campaign for one of his parties but it appears to have been a major miscalculation for dissolution would also mean the members of the party's executive committe

what thailand has been searching for is a balance a balance between. a monarchy system you know a constitution monarchy with the monarchy has at the center of thai society but also some kind of a democratic system because people want to have a voice they want to have represent representation they want to have a little system to represent them so i think that balance thailand has not found and this development today the big question for me is that. will it lead to an opportunity a window to rebalance thai politics for that to happen what happened today has to later on be inclusive so today it's been a big game big event is for talks in the tucked inside right but the other side they may not be satisfied so they also have to be included somehow. political analyst also there are speaking to the aid of look at us on the bus and hearted in bangkok next to china where we encounter a familiar script or young woman lands a prestigious internship in a big company or works with an entertainment i can who then sexually assaults and she is forced to shut up about

thailand doesn't seem to be recognizing status as a refugee accepted by australia. yeah that's profoundly concerning there are many refugees or travel to thailand on refugee papers like hakim's from around the world and you know this is one of the reason i think that we saw so many diplomats at the court today over fifteen countries were represented there that this is now a matter of major international concern not only for hakim as a football player and a person as a refugee but also for the larger system of refugee protection which thailand is threatening to violate in a very fundamental way but has time that time to have allowed time when he signed an option to that has such title and signed up to the relevant. aspects of humanitarian law of the convention for instance. well no but thailand is a rather has ratified the international convention against torture in an article three of the international convention against torture it states that no one can be sent back to a country to which they would be tortured came has already been tortured in jails and if you were

absolutely what that behind the scenes the policy was right now anybody's guess we know that thailand's foreign minister travelled to bahrain over the weekend and it seems that the conversation between the burn minister in thailand and one of the political leaders in but right that produced. this big change because even twenty four hours ago it looked very very likely that i came up it would be in a bank vault prison cell for many months to come and potentially they were tense about right where of course he feared he would be tortured and certainly in prison for a long period of thought he was a crowd of about three hundred people here just an hour or so ago about forty five minutes ago actually another i.v. came out so huge cheers real delight from people in the iranian community here in australia that began trying to get him free from the community in australia as well a real sense of delight and indeed surprise lots of anger that we got to the situation in the first place of course many people very very cross that he was able to be arrested in thailand that bahrain was able to issue

row taking on thailand's military princess. overturns complexion and announcing she will stand for prime minister but the king says the move is unconstitutional. i'm phil girl welcome to the program i'm a zone boss jeff bezos has accused the national enquirer newspaper of blackmail he says the u.s. capitol she threatened to publish intimate photos of him unless he did as he was told inquirer says it will investigate the claims but there are also political overtones mr bezos of the washington post which is often criticized president trump the national enquirer zona meanwhile is a fervent trump supporter. to prove a tabloid scandal or a politically motivated attack jeff bezos has accused the publisher link to president donald trump of blackmail and a post published on the website media. last month after the amazon c.e.o. and his wife announced that divorce the national enquirer published intimate messages revealing an extramarital affair eager to know how the paper came to possess these messages has also hired private investigato

now thailand has set a next tradition hearing for april.his means -- this means a jailed footballer will spend two more months behind bars. i can november, he was arrested while on his honeymoon in thailand. the footballer has refugee status in australia. authorities are pleading with bangkok not to carry out the extradition. shackled under police escort, the footballer arrived to fight an extradition request from bahrain. an nationalbahraini team player holds refugee status in australia, escaping political repression and torture. australia's prime minister and human rights activists are urging thailand to set him free. >> we are asking the prime minister to allow him to return to australia. he is a refugee. let him return to his friends and family. was arrested in november as they arrived in thailand for their honeymoon. based on a red notice issued by interpol, they have since rescinded that. red notices are not supposed to return people to countries from which they sought asylum. bahrain once-- back for-- wants him an arson attack that d

and the whole ball of hakim and i be has been released from custody in thailand after right where he was born with drew it's extradition request was to be a claimed asylum in australia in twenty four saying so he feared torture and even death if you sent back his arrest in thailand during his honeymoon sparked an international outcry. justice for hakeem our right to be pictured here. leaving custody in bangkok. the bahraini footballer is to return to australia after three long months spent in a toy jail he was arrested in november while on his honeymoon in bangkok on an interpol warrant in his native bahrain he'd been convicted of vandalizing a police station even though he was playing in a televised football match when the alleged offenses took place our robbie's release owes a lot to form a footballer craig foster who led a campaign to secure justice for the player and if indeed his feet are on australian ground to morrow and it's going to be a cause for very very significant. celebrations and. you know spain are very very intense campaign. the fled to bahrain on political grounds

photos of him and his lover if he did not do as the paper demanded and the royal it's taking on thailand's military junta prince says it will rock up and its convention and announce that she will stand for prime minister and the country's first election since a military coup. thank you so much for your company everyone in brazil at least ten people have died in a fire that rio at rio soccer club flamengo the blaze broke out before dawn on friday at a training facility at the club officials say some of the victims were teenagers from the flamingo youth team who were sleeping in the center at the time. friends and family of those killed or injured are in shock some of them are glad to find their relatives alive. while others wait anxiously for news outside the training ground of the flamingo soccer club. the blaze broke out just before dawn and this accommodation block firefighters were called in just after five am local time but for at least ten people help came too late. obviously we're all devastated . this is certainly the biggest tragedy this club has seen in the past one hundred twenty

thailand's king denounces his sister's unprecedented bid to try and become prime minister — calling itpropriate‘. and apple's bug bounty — we'll tell you about the teenage boy who got paid for finding a facetime flaw. hello and welcome. the venezuelan opposition leader who has declared himself president, juan guaido, is calling on the military to let us humanitarian aid into the country. the first lorries carrying food and medicines have arrived at the colombian border — but venezuelan troops won't allow them in. president nicolas maduro, who has the support of the army, says he won't allow what he called the "cheap show" of false humanitarian aid, and he repeated his accusation that the lorries were part of an american "intervention" plot, aimed at ousting him through a coup. this report from our correspondent, orla guerin, contains some flashing images. a convoy that could save lives. lorries full of desperately needed humanitarian aid headed for venezuela at the request of the opposition. they didn't get far, thanks to these containers on the venezuelan side of the border. president

he was detained when he travelled to thailand on holiday.a warning — this report by our correspondentjonathan head contains flash photography. a young man who thought he'd found safety in australia, now in shackles in thailand. hakeem al—araibi arrived at bangkok's main criminal court begging the thais not to send him back to bahrain, saying he would be tortured there. your wife sends her love, hakeem. he's got plenty of support. craig foster, a former australian team captain, is here, and other officials in the international football community. as we stand here and we see hakeem al—araibi in shackles, being led into a court, that says to us, that picture demonstrates clearly to every player around the world that if you come to play a club or international game in thailand, you are not safe. hakeem al—araibi scores the goal for pascoe vale... mr hakeem now plays for the melbourne club pascoe vale, after fleeing from bahrain to australia four years ago. last november, he flew with his wife on holiday to thailand. the thais arrested him at bah

and his words on his sister's bid to become thailand's political leader were unequivocal.ss's candidacy was unconstitutional. hours earlier, the king's sister, ubolratana mahidol, had been announced as the prime ministerial candidate for a party allied to the former government. a government which was overthrown in a military coup five years ago. when her name was unveiled, it seemed as if the party of the ousted thai leader thaksin shinawatra could be back in favour. and it seemed to set the stage for a dramatic election contest. a popular member of thai royalty, facing off against prayut chanocha, the army chief who led the 2014 coup. he has also been named as the candidate for prime minister. on social media, the princess said it was her right at a citizen to accept the nomination. ubolratana mahidol gave up her royal status when she married an american man in the 1970s, but is still treated as a venerated member of the thai royal family. but the princess asserted her desire to enter politics before her brother, the king, said it was utterly inappropriate. a rare display

for a football-mad country like thailand, this is embarrassing.egal grounds for holding and extraditing hakeem al-araibi are so flawed and the outrage we heard growing only louder that yoanhave to wonder why thaild is persisting with this case. his court case could take veral more months. but at least while he is here, even behind bars, haem -araibi is not back in the place he fears most, his home country, bahrain. jonathan head, bbc news, bangkok. laura: millions of americans are warming up after tf extreme coldst week. australians are now experiencing volatile weather. first it was a heatwave, and now it is a driving rain and flooding. 1000 people had to be evacuated r'om queensland, where a 's worth of rain fell in one week. our correspondent hywel griffith has this report from sydney. lohywel: as the monsoon los over the city, streets remain submerge the dark, stagnt waters carry dangers. this crocodile was snapped in one of the suburbs. more than 1000 residents were helped from their homeover the weekend, but the flood levels are still too hi

in thailand where he has met financial investments and he seems to be having a very special relation with the royals and i think this is all about really corruption and power which is just defying the imprisonment and this is the white tile and find itself to be in a position where they are really paying their fair share for the behind all of that of them really doing anything to to satisfy anyone from the international community the united nations which made explicit all of the railing governments as you mentioned or even fisa order don't pick committee like all those international. things organizations to state like it really i mean if you look into the trade between israeli and beheading and with ireland there is absolutely no comparison. really if not forty times more than what's behind and within the entire island. you talk about billions compared to less than a billion. and there's only just to pick a sion to know that thailand do apologize sorry for interrupting you that we are about to run out of time so left or right things of that depression appreciate you coming on to inte

thailand's election commission is expected to rule on the eligibility on the eligibility of princess to run for prime minister in march as elections on friday the thai rocks a chart party announced that the king's older sister would be its candidate the palace has since issued a statement calling the move unconstitutional and inappropriate her candidacy breaks a long standing tradition of tire royalty staying out of politics al-jazeera is when he is live from bangkok when is there any hope that the election commission will rule in favor of the party and the princess i think that is highly unlikely as you said on friday night really just hours after the party had made that shock announcement that the princess would be its prime ministerial candidate the palace issued what was a fairly strongly worded statement saying that it was unconstitutional or inappropriate even though she doesn't have a royal title that she gave that up back in one thousand nine hundred eighty two because she married a foreigner also a commoner but the statement really said that regardless solve that she still p

thailand's king says it's inappropriate and unconstitutional for his sister to stand as a candidate for prime minister in next month's elections chil be up against the current prime minister who led a military coup in twenty fourteen. a senior saudi government minister has denied the kingdom was involved in leaking intimate photos of the wild to richest man it comes as amazon c.e.o. jeff bezos accuses a u.s. tabloid publisher with ties to saudi of extortion and blackmail her threatening to release the photos bezos has suggested his ownership of the washington post newspaper which has reported extensively on the killing of janice jamal khashoggi by saudi agents made him a target she had brutality has. far flung he's the world's richest man as the founder of amazon and he's the owner of one of the world's best known newspapers the washington post but jeff bezos chose a no frills blogging site to tell his story following the announcement of his divorce in january a tabloid magazine the national enquirer best known for its coverage of movie and music stars published an eleven page spread de

london home in australia after spending two months locked up in thailand the footballer was arrested in november while honeymoon in thailand he fled his native country in twenty fourteen and received refugee status in australia but bahrain wanted him to return to serve a ten year prison sentence for also charges that he's annoying. just i would defend the oyster already on business amazing to see all the people here their audience be bored all day media is devoted to me and i just know what they think today but i don't mean to have people i would think of this and then his wife who much more money i would think up too much and i think the media would say i would write and thank you one day i would be more don't want to spend thirty. thomas is a port and says the football experience to a very warm welcome home. i came out already came out to huge cheers real delight from people in the iranian community here in australia that i've been campaigning to get him through from the book to community in australia as well a real sense of delight and indeed surprise lots of anger that we got to

and the end of an ordeal he was jailed in thailand facing deportation to bahrain but now refugee football team. has made a triumphant return to. golf it's good to have you with us the unit tory is mexican drug lord has been convicted of crimes spanning a quarter of a century a us court today found him guilty on all counts walking good smith was extradited to the u.s. in two thousand and seventeen after breaking out of a mexican prison twice the sixty one year old could spend the rest of his life behind bars the jury found him guilty of smuggling tons of cocaine and heroin into the united states through his global drug. his sentencing is scheduled for june. well a short while ago the u.s. attorney in the case gave a statement outside that u.s. courthouse. this conviction we expect will bring a sense of life without the possibility of parole is a sense from which there is no escape and no return. this conviction is a victory for the american people who is suffered so long and so much guzman made billions pouring poison over our southern border. and that was the u.s. attorney there richard d

another footballer was arrested in november last year while on honeymoon in thailand he fled his native country in twenty fourteen and received refugee status in australia but bahrain wanted him to return to a ten year prison sentence for arson charges that he denies. just i would defend the law is there only on this amazing physiology of people here there they're all you'd be boiled the media is the world to me and i just know what they think they're really governments everybody i would think this and that is why i do much more money if you think i'm too much and i think that the media for the day would rise and thank you and there would be more there are going to scantily i was there was under thomas' at melbourne airport and says the football experience a very warm welcome home. i can already came out to huge cheers here real delight from people in the iranian community here in australia that i've been campaigning to get him through from the book will community in australia as well a real sense of delight and indeed surprise lots of anger that we got to the situation in the first pla

a roller coaster of twenty four hours in thailand the political party that nominated the king's sister for a prime minister has suspended her candidacy obeying an order from the king shocked the country on friday when she announced she would be running for a populist party loyal to oust of x. premier taksim shinawatra overwrought had defended her decision to stand saying she had relinquished her royal titles when she married a foreigner in one thousand nine hundred seventy two. will be speaking to our correspondent in bangkok a little bit later in the program but now we'd like to take you to some of the other stories making news around the world. u.s. prosecutors are investigating an american newspapers handling of amazon boss jeff bezos says extramarital affair bezos has accused the publisher of blackmail he alleges that the national enquirer threatened to publish intimate photos of him and his lover if he did not comply with their demands. the deputy governor of the u.s. state of virginia is facing a second accusation of sexual assault a woman has accused democrat justin fairfax of a

to thailand now which has seen a rollercoaster of twenty four hours the political party that nominated the king sister for prime minister has suspended her candidacy obeying an order from the king when raj shocked the country on friday when she announced she would be running for a populist party of oil to oust the ex premier taksim shinawatra one rod had defended her decision to stand saying she had relinquished her royal titles when she married a foreigner in one nine hundred seventy two. and for that we're joined on the line by the boston heartache who is in the thai capital bangkok hello to bust and so is there now any chance of the princes could still run perhaps as an independent. but i think it's. a question i think it's important to understand the. position of the modern city in this country the motorcade route to shoot at and highly would be and that is highly respected. in thailand and it's been for a defacto untouchable and there are strict laws criminalizing any criticism of the monarchy and it's silly of the king now the king came out yesterday in a statement which was broa

freedom for the football player hockey team although he was arrested in november on his honeymoon in thailand today authorities have let him go after the country of his birth brain ended attempts at extradition. i'm calling assman bulk of the program iran is marking the fortieth anniversary of the islamic revolution tens of thousands of people have gathered in the capital tehran for a rally led by president hassan rouhani he told the crowd that iran is determined to expand its military power and ballistic missile program and he will ask anyone for permission to do so. our correspondent terrorists are joined those crowds on the streets of tehran to see how people in the capital are celebrating today. this way of strength by the government a mistake that i say that we are. when i was still was in law. school and still. watching from the side oh yes i was made out of that and signed the demonstrations back in nineteen seventy many of them to the supporters of the revolution showing that the race i don't know . has been supreme leader. how many they missed their career and you know they're also s

after arriving in thailand for his honeymoon eleven weeks ago hakim al-arabiya is finally able to return to australia his adopted home the longer he spent in prison in bangkok the more concern grew that he could be sent back to bahrain instead the footballer said he'd be tortured or killed if that happens after an international outcry bahrain dropped its extradition request hakim fled bahrain for australia in two thousand and fourteen avoiding a ten year jail sentence for vandalism which he says is politically motivated use of his release was welcomed in australia where he has asylum status the prime minister or employees coming home. or be pleased to see him at home when that or koos despite having travel documents and a thai visa he was arrested when he and his wife landed in bangkok in november there are several unanswered questions about this case particularly surrounding the issuing of an interpol red notice against his name which was requested by bahrain but given that hakim a lot ab had asylum status in australia that notice should never have been granted the red notice was grante

foreign minister made a trip to bahrain thailand's government announced the extradition request has been dropped. was for him to leave a little more than twenty four hours ago this seemed a very very long way away the public campaign to get the melody free didn't seem to be going anywhere we now know the pressure behind the scenes was it was a flurry of diplomatic activity there is still unanswered questions about the process that led to all right these arrests and after it's the lack of support from organizations like the asian football confederation the camp. it is say a rabies case has had one positive effect it's shown a spotlight on bahrain's human rights record the world now understands the absence of rule of law we've all come to learn that there's over five thousand political prisoners in bahrain jails. doesn't yet have an australian passport but this he says is hard not a country he played and hit but the one that's given him shelter under thomas al jazeera melbourne. is another story that's been talked a lot on social media japanese during star rococo care has been diagnos

we will talk more about thailand.nting political pressure in that country, and have echoed affect the outlook. this is bloomberg. ♪ oomberg. ♪ ♪ political tensions are rising in thailand just a month before the first general elections since the coup five years ago. the former prime minister has abandoned plans to make his sister run for office, as the monarch publicly opposed the idea. >> later today, we have the election commission meeting amid all the changes. let's bring in our bloomberg editor, joining us out of bangkok. tell us about all these developments over the weekend. >> hi, yes. it has been a remarkable turn of events, from a princess being nominated as a prime ministerial candidate, for the party affiliated, to the king coming out with a statement 12 hours later saying that this was an appropriate and would not be allowed. today we have the election committee meeting. they are right now meeting. we don't know what outcome there will be, but certainly they will be considering the kings comments, and it is

thanks for joining us i'm marian evans dean we begin in thailand which has seen a roller coaster of twenty four hours the political party that nominated the king's sister for prime minister. has suspended her candidacy obeying an order from the king google rock shocked the country on friday when she announced she would be running for a populist party loyal to ousted ex premier toxins shinawatra the right had defended her decision to stand saying she had relinquished her royal titles when she married a foreigner in one thousand nine hundred eighty two. all right now to some of the other stories making news around the world the fiance of murder of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi has said she would welcome a change in u.s. president donald trump's approach to the killing meanwhile there's been an angry backlash on capitol hill after trump failed to meet a legal mandate to tell congress whether he'll impose sanctions on those responsible for she's murder. he was prosecutors are investigating an american newspaper his handling of amazon jeff bezos is extramarital affair bezos has accused the p

thailand's king condemns his sister's shocked decision to enter the race to be prime minister calling it inappropriate. and amazon c.e.o. and washington post owner jeff bezos takes on the pro trump national enquirer accusing it of blackmail. and i venezuela's opposition has made a new appeal to the military to allow aid stuck on the colombian border to be let into the country trucks carrying food and medicine arrived in cougar town thursday but president nicolas maduro ordered his troops not to let the aide in the opposition has warned that blocking it could constitute a crime against humanity and a representative for the south declared president. as urged the armed forces to ignore my dura saying the supplies also for them and their families. if i do what i'm being a part of this is for you it is here for your children this is to provide aid to the soldiers of the fatherland it is time to be on the people side i assure you he will be the guarantors that these tons of humanitarian aid go to where they have to go out president has called that fake aid and a cheap show by the us saying

been seen as being above politics even though everyone knows that it's the most powerful body in thailand and isn't three year old sofa which party this is this is a party that is that is backed by the former prime minister taksin chynna one who was ousted in a coup in two thousand and six the government of his sister the election of what was removed in the most recent coup and they've always been seen as being anti establishment and their supporters in the supporters of the elite the establishment in bangkok have clashed many times you see many violent scenes on the streets of thailand over the pastika decade also to now come to this stage where we have a member of the royal family out running to be potentially the prime minister of thailand for a party backed by the chena wants is certainly an intriguing development for time politics and what about the current prime minister's plans. yes be much speculation in the past few weeks really about what he may do he's always avoided questions about what his political future may be this is prior the army general who led the coup in two thousand

he was arrested in thailand last year while on his honeymoon. the bbc's hywel griffith in melbourne. i asked him for the latest. hakeem has now landed back in melbourne and is on his way home in a taxi to see his wife for the first time in more than 10 weeks. he was given a hero's welcome here and incredible really considering when he left here back in november, no—one really knew much about hakeem al araibi. however, his case has made headlines around the world, being detained in a thai jail for more than ten weeks after an extradition request from bahrain. when his spoke to us very briefly, he was clearly overwhelmed by the response. he thanked australia and all australians for bringing his case to international attention. he thanked the australian government for advocating on his behalf. he said that he felt australian. he's a refugee here, he has refugee status, he's hoping soon to be an australian citizen. he said this is his country, this is where he belongs. he's so grateful to be back here now. it's not entirely clear why bahrain and tha

thailand's economy grew slightly more than expected in the fourth quarter as higher domestic demand andivals more than offset slower exports and government spending let's go to our asia business hub where shara njit leyl is following the story. sharanjit leyl, shara njit leyl, tell us sharanjit leyl, tell us more about how they have done it? it is not often we look at thailand's economy, but it is the second—largest in this region, and remember, it is a big election year as well, which means it will be in the spotlight. as you said, it had some good news with its economy growing slightly more than expected in the fourth quarter. gdp rising 3.7% from the previous year. it was really private consumption, investment, which drove the fourth—quarter growth, which helped offset the fact that actually, its exports were hit by a slow down in global demand. of course, those perennial us— china trade tensions we keep talking about, as well as a strong currency. now, tourism is also a big deal in thailand, it has famous beaches, amazing cuisine, and that continues to draw visitors as tourism arriv

authorities in thailand have released him after the country where he was born abandoned its extradition requests. el chapo has been found to of drug trafficking by a court in the united states. el chapo was extradited to the united states in 2017 after breaking out of a mexican prison twice. the 61-year-old could now spened the rest of his lifefe in priso. the e jury found himim guilty of smuggling tons of cocaine and heroin into the united states through his global drug empire. he is expected to be sentenced in june. a short while ago, the u.s. attorney spoke outside the courthouse where that guilty verdict was delivered. >> this conviction we expect will bring a sentence of life without the possibility of parole. it is a sentence from which there is no escape, and no return. this conviction is a victory for the american people who have suffered so long and so much while guzman made billions pouring poison over our southern border. brent: that was the u.s. attorney richard donoghue speaking. let's take the story to the u.s. capitol, washington, d.c. our correspondent helena humphrey is

back he is back on australian soil after more than two months spent as a prisoner in thailand he was finally permitted to return to his adopted home of noble causes that i it is my identity that didn't i didn't see didn't fit yet but. my guess that it is that i would be doing instead i don't know if i'll abroad he was granted refugee status in australia after fleeing his native bahrain or back in two thousand and fourteen last year while in bangkok on his honeymoon he was arrested on an interpol warrant which was later rescinded on legal grounds because of his refugee status he'd been convicted in absentia in bahrain of offenses related to the twenty eleven arab spring protests and sentenced to ten years in prison but after a campaign of pressure on the bahraini anti-government the extradition request was rescinded and thailand freed him his case though is not the only one that human rights lawyers office suing with regards to the gulf kingdom. today is testament to everyone's effet i think it's really one tonight that there are not that bad rainy time who remain in detention today i

thailand's king condemns his sister's shock decision to enter the race to be prime minister calling it inappropriate. and experts carefully dismantled a bridge in genoa which collapsed last year killing forty three people. and over in israel as opposition has made a new pill to the military to allow desperately needed aid stuck on the colombian border to be let into the country trucks carrying food and medicine arrived in cooktown thursday but president nicolas maduro ordered his troops not to let the aid in a representative for the self declared president on why go as urged the armed forces to ignore maturer saying the supplies also for them and their families. if i do what i'm being a part of this is for you it is here for your children this is to provide aid to the soldiers of the fatherland it is time to be on the people side i assure you you will be the guarantors that these tons of humanitarian aid go to where they have to go out. president has called it fake aid and a cheap show by the us saying it should be given to poor colombians at the border as venezuelans aren't beggars la

football at ib has been released from custody in thailand after his birth country bahrain withdrew its request for his extradition was to be claimed asylum in australia and twenty fourteen say he feared torture and even death if you sent back an international campaign for his release began when he was arrested in thailand last the hakim al-arabiya pictured here leaving care leaving custody in bangkok the bahraini footballer is set to return to australia after three long months spent in a thai jail whole war even though he was playing in a televised devised what we would like what we would like to do know is to think in a greatly respect the process that they have that they have had to work through those thoughts were echoed on twitter by al-arabiya that increase that increased pressure on thailand internationally. on a radio fled bahrain on political grounds in twenty fourteen and was granted refugee status by australia his family feared extradition would result in his torture and possibly death at the hands of bahrain's justice system but as a result of monday's ruling he's now headin

here are some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world thailand's election panel as disqualified the king's sister from running for prime minister in march is election just three days after prince's tun his surprise nomination the commission said members of the royal family should be quote above politics dairy farmers on the hellion island of sardinia have vented their anger at falling revenues by pouring milk onto unsuspecting motorists prices have dipped of sixty euros since per liter compared to eighty five since last year producers say that's not enough to live on rescue workers in the south african city of durban have called a newborn baby alive from a storm drain after passers by heard her cries and alerted emergency services it's believed she was in the drain for at least five hours doctors have held the baby survival as a miracle thousands of protesters in haiti have clashed with police in the fourth consecutive day of demonstrations against corruption and the collapsing economy protesters lit tires and marched through the streets of the capital port

also on the program for growing shock artists isto thailand's king says she will enter the race to be the country's next prime minister but of course still has to decide if she can drop. class models international film festival itself director and or not a share of the kindness of strangers opens the event the first of several films by women directors in this year's competition. france and germany have reached a compromise over the controversial nord stream two gas pipeline the project by russian state energy firm got from would deliver gas to germany under the baltic sea from russia a collision had been on the cards after france appeared to set to back tied to your regulations which would have affected construction of the pipeline six hundred kilometers of the nord stream to pipeline have already been installed but the political problem surrounding it has still yet to be resolved this week france added its voice to those feeling uneasy about the project. this is what's at stake the pipeline would transport gas from russia to germany via the boat dixie the project in its current form

for the football or hockey team he has been released from custody in thailand after his birth country withdrew its request for his extradition was to arrive being claimed asylum in australia and twenty fourteen saying he feared torture and death if he was sent back the international campaign for his release began when he was arrested in thailand during his honeymoon. justice at last for a ride be pictured here leaving custody in bangkok. the bahraini footballer is to return to australia after three long months spent in a toy jail he was arrested in november while on his honeymoon in bangkok on an interpol warrant in his native bahrain he'd been convicted of vandalizing a police station even though he was playing in a televised football match when the alleged offenses took place our robbie's release owes a lot to form a footballer craig foster who led a campaign to secure justice for the player. his fate are on australian ground tomorrow and it's going to be a cause for very very significant. celebrations and as you say you know it's been a very very intense campaign. the fled to bahra

a fairly quick process and he could well be on a flight back to australia tonight's monday night thailand time which could be in the next few hours and just a reminder away to our viewers catching up with the story as to why he was in thailand why did he get caught up in the case over there. yes well he has been living in australia since two thousand and fourteen basically fled bahrain to avoid a ten year jail sentence to do with a political protest happening this something he says was a false conviction he wasn't involved in those protests two thousand and seventeen he was granted asylum status in australia he had travel documents to travel to thailand he requested those travel documents he checked with the australian authorities if he and his wife could travel to australia for the honeymoon in november that was granted iraq at the end of november november twenty seventh and was arrested upon arrival because there was an interpol written notice against his name many questions remain unanswered about how that was granted that red pole notice which was requested by bahrain and it seems it