We still have plenty of heat across here for the moment but a change is on the way you can see that changes the cloud drifts out of the ball to see its way further southwards across that western side of russia across a good part of probably lul way down actually toward rumania as the temperatures falling behind 23 celsius in warsaw over a 10 degree drop in temperatures here some of the value there for a limited even down into book rest for out in the rain as we go through friday as you can see that makes its way across the black sea central and western past tuesday rather hot paris still getting up to 31 celsius could break 40 celsius there formatter it so the early summer heat looks set to continue hate will pick up across london by sas taking up to around 30 degrees maybe a touch higher 34. 00 there for paris staying very warm across much of western europe at this stage but further research you can see that freshening northwesterly winds will continue to see in case where you get across the maid its fine and dry lots of sunshine hot sunshine say we get it and 38 celsius there in karachi lots of warmth there across much of north africa over the next couple of days attempts to pick up to around 24 celsius there for back where you are sticking we can try. Top stories leaders from the group of 20 nations are holding talks in japan u. S. President donald trump has met with Russias Vladimir Putin on the sidelines the 1st formal. Meeting in vienna with the remaining signatories to the 2015 nuclear deal will be the last chance to save the agreement to. Expand its Uranium Enrichment Program beyond the limits of the agreement to 2 rising tension with the u. S. The Rex Tillerson has revealed his struggles working with the trumpet ministration and is all good encounters with the president s son in law during his time of u. S. Secretary of state he made the remark about well testifying before congress about his rocky 13 months on the job john hendren has more washington d. C. The United States former secretary of state says he often had to practice diplomacy in the dark Rex Tillerson told congress that president Donald Trumps son in law jared cushion or directed his own Foreign Policy without tillerson is knowledge President Trump did not know him and President Trump had no idea about how the process was supposed to work he probably thought oh well this is the way i run my business in a newly released transcript from closed door testimony to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs tillerson says he was surprised to walk into a washington restaurant to find jared cushion or meeting with mexicos foreign secretary i could see the color go out of the face of the foreign secretary of mexico as i very i smiled big and i said welcome to washington and i said i dont want to interrupt what you all are doing i said give me a call next time youre coming to town tillers and says he was taken aback when he was told cushion or in president ial adviser steve bannon knew of the blockade of qatar before it happened question on or about may 20th 2017 there was apparently a private dinner that was hosted between Steve Bannon Jared cushion or in the rulers of saudi arabia and u. A. E. Respectively were you aware of that dinner answer no question that wasnt something you would heard previously answer no question and to clarify sir not prior to when i just said it answer correct question whats your reaction to a meeting of that sort having taken place without your knowledge and sir it makes me angry here in washington the revelation of dueling Foreign Policy is want to seen as a diplomatic debacle Foreign Policy run as a Family Business with the agency in charge of diplomacy often sidelined it sems to suggest that its totally chaotic why for example would you appoint a secretary of state because thats a trouble point not a holdover from obama where you hear so distrustful of your own appointee that you shield him out of the. Decisions trump until is in had a tempestuous relationship tillerson reportedly called trump a moron by all accounts trump has a much closer relationship with delusions replacement former cia director mike pompei o trump tweeted that pompei a was doing a great job while tillerson was dumb as a rock and lazy as hell john hendren aljazeera washington. The 2nd of 2 debates for democratic president ial candidates has come to a close in miami its all front runner and Vice President joe biden face off against the likes of buddy sanders and come on her wrist and reports from miami. Outside the debate hall crowds gathered to back their candidate of choice. Many support the 2 best known former Vice President joe biden and vermont senator Bernie Sanders but everyone here wants change 1st of all we have our man so mad take america think hard right now but i think. Thats right. Because by doing so with unite. The people together and that hes going to make it better than trump i will release children from cages on a stage candidates keen to make the voices heard made this the robust debate many expected at times it was hard to hear what was being said i mean isnt that why we are not at senator kemal how its hit home with an emotional attack on the former Vice President on the issue of race it was hurtful. To hear you talk about the reputations of 2 United States senators who built their reputations and career on the segregation of race in this country and it was not only that but you also worked with them to oppose bussing and we got neither Bernie Sanders nor joe biden attacked one another perhaps a wise move for 2 of the leading candidates when he came to President Trump though the vermont senator didnt hold back while President Trump youre not standing up for working families when youre trying to throw 32000000 people off their health care that they have and that 83 percent of your tax benefits go to the top one percent thats how we try we expose them to look for it that you. Would smile for joe biden this may be seen as a bruising debate but as one of the most experienced politicians on stage he managed to hold his own lashley we got to unite the United States of america as much as very good he says we cant if we do theres not a single thing the American People cant do this is the United States of america we can do anything if were together both debates are over and all 20 candidates have had their moment in the spotlight but with such a crowded field its been a hectic couple of days ultimately voters across the country will decide who the winners and losers were but with almost 18 months to go before the general election anything could and probably will happen and you gallacher aljazeera Miami Florida bahrains recalled its ambassador to iraq after demonstrations broke in the demonstrators broke into the embassy in baghdad hundreds of iraqis stormed into the diplomatic compound over the u. S. Sponsored mendable conference on the Israeli Palestinian conflict police used live rounds to break up the standoff though no one was injured a 50000000000. 00 economic plan for the palestinians was unveiled by white house advisor jared cushion in bahrain earlier this week and homage and june has more from the iraqi capital. Hundreds of angry demonstrators were outside the Bahamian Embassy in baghdad they were there to protest the u. S. Sponsored manami conference in bahrain it was reported also that demonstrators breached the Embassy Compound that they were able to get up on the roof to take down the bahamian flag and also it was reported that they burned israeli flags and u. S. Flags while they were holding that demonstration and it was reported as well that the security guards on the scene guarding the embassy retreated when they saw that wall of angry protesters appear this is all happening at a time when many at the partys Political Parties and politicians have been highly critical of that mama conference when many politicians here have said that this conference is something that is gone beyond saying that its not going to help the palestinians these are off the politicians who said this is actually going to be a hindrance to palestinians being able to establish a palestinian state Going Forward so not really a surprise that this would happen at a time of such heated rhetoric the big question now will there be more protests in the days to come. The forces allied to the u. N. Recognize government in libya in full control of guardian just sold of the capital tripoli the coke to the strategic city from rival groups allied to the ward cleaver hafter on wednesday after sources have been using burial as a staging post in their campaign to seize tripoli theyve retreated to nearby to. The wired has more from god. This is the Central Command of forces loyal to the world lord. Hefted in the city of that again as the city of that has completely fall into the hand is of the forces loyal to the. Government of National Accord its a measure that set back to the forces loyal to the warlords hefted just because it was the fittest city to be taken control of by half that its forces in the west of libya when helped launch his military campaign to take control of the capital tripoli in march now from this Central Command military sources here say that have the generals. Run the battle for tripoli from hit from this Central Command from here they were running the battles in southern tripoli they were sending troops and also weapons and ammunition to their forces on the southern outskirts of the libyan capital military forces where the government here say that heavy fighting took place around this has caught a lot of. Good partners from all were some cities took part in the battle for curia all the world to the army led by un recognized promised to 5 years else or i we will not allow have to as forces here again. And now as the Government Forces are in full control of the city some of have those forces retreated. To the nearby town of on the other side of the city of the hornet the city of the one which is controlled by have the us forces we understand that in march when we have those forces fittest entered the city of the very end some of the fighters from the city allied with have those forces locals here are worried that have those were planes good targets Government Forces locations and around this area a lot of them are 2 years libyan political analyst joins us on the show now from london via set good to have you with us how much of a blow is the loss of guardian to the l. M. A. In the larger picture of trying to you might see not just take tripoli but try to take libya its huge i mean. Russians who. Were much earlier going to she was mistreated. Earlier and there are. The world. To not months ago that people who really havent been around the whole time and Origin Police either gets a huge sort of real name for. This kind of martyrdom so the International Community has some of the changes. Regardless of its policies regardless of the circulation years in he is the part of the group about things that make them how typical is going to be. But only to tripoli but storm ignorance of muslims here. That theyre not going to get is really Little Movement little he would think. That he would lose a year ago if thats the case then one would assume that you know if its such a strategically important location there would be a counter offensive can we expect that sort of counter offensive or comics specked more heavy fighting to retain that strategic location. Well it was really really i mean look its critical to scenario its going to be. For weeks if not months to come but i think we should look back at the clippers earlier erosion to see that number one hes a fairly ineffective leader a great offenses i mean listen to were very well neither about guns either at the moment you can see the roots in Eastern Libya where the full force that he promised would last that is the last. 4 years were half a dozen situations to use dr drews are a specific danger. For the forces on the ground for the civilian population and less religious it is now largely in effect of the. President and strikes and they dont really give a little really give a damn about civilian law is that is that criminals in burma 100000. Or quarter of the population in general if. Youre in iraq or many muslims are going to have similar political points these polls lol or is not what they are indeed if they are old style wars they are protected conflicts that weve been seeing now for several years and one wonders whether he could continue to maintain the support of its well documented from his from countries such as saudi arabia the u. A. E. Or supporting him whether they would be willing to back him and be embroiled in a in a long term conflict as weve seen when theyre already involved in things like the war in yemen the blockade of cattle and so much pressure being put on iran. Well there certainly are a structure but its sure really you really. Only get egypt that lets you know theres an existential crisis were going to get and it starts in school areas like the american pollution about 8000 or the u. N. Organization 130000 but when you see him at least a mass of pictures microfracture of the arab spring specifically hundreds like you who like your transition to democracy or somebody who visited your oil. And thats really the key here thats why libya is a place where it exists in the super will be very curious whether where theyre going to last longer or clear libya policy for libya morons. Its a real its easier should there be a camp like egypt or libya becomes like yemen you should look him up and say well just see what happens there for the moment anyhow but its good to have you back on the Program Thanks very much for your time. If you can state media says around 250 people have been arrested in connection with a failed rebellion in the Northern State of. That number includes at least 39 members of an ethnic im hard a Political Party dozens of people were killed in the attack in the fighting that followed the Central Government has accused of hottest former security chief of organizing the rebellion harding has the latest in a suburb of. Well since saturday theres definitely been and increased military presence several roads were closed earlier in the week since saturday several of those roads have opened we actually dont have any reports at least on thursday that roads are still closed so we do think the road systems have gone back to normal but the biggest difference would be the internet and there is a mood shift there people been really frustrated at that not been able to get on line its been difficult for our team i know but to day thursday an address it was a the internet was partially restored just in parts of the city earlier in the morning here in the southern part of ethiopia there was still no internet there so we dont know how when that will be restored to the rest of the country but for now it is just centralized in different parts of the capital. And finally weve been talking about the g. 20 power meeting between World Leaders but what about the power behind the throne as its often is that the partners of those leaders also got a chance to get to know each other these are just some of the scenes earlier on friday and someone as well as stuff for these meetings dont let. Your child is there i was the whole run a reminder of our top stories leaders from the group of 20 nations are holding talks in asarco japan u. S. President donald trump has met with Russias Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of their 1st formal talks since last just summit in helsinki and during the press meeting between trump and putin the u. S. President seemed to make light of the scandal surrounding the 2016 elections. Iran has warned fridays meeting in vienna with the remaining signatories to the 2015 nuclear deal will be the last chance to save the agreement to her is threatening to expand its Uranium Enrichment Program beyond the limits of the agreement due to rising tension with the us former us secretary of state Rex Tillerson has described being kept in the dark about Foreign Policy to us and testified before a committee in washington last month details have just been released to listen accused white house adviser jared cohen of operating independently outside of the state department. Bahrains recalled its ambassador to iraq after demonstrators broke into its embassy in baghdad hundreds of iraqis stormed into the diplomatic compound over the u. S. Sponsored money conference on the Israeli Palestinian conflict a 50000000000. 00 economic plan for palestinians was unveiled by white house advisor john in bahrain earlier this week. Forces allied to the u. N. Recognized government in libya are now in full control of gharyan just south of the capital tripoli they capture the strategic city for rival troops allied to the warlord cleaver have to on wednesday after us forces have been using garrion as a staging post in their campaign to seize tripoli theyve now retreated to nearby towns. Ethiopian state media says around 250 people have been arrested in connection with a failed rebellion in the Northern State of ohio that number includes at least 39 members of the ethnic Political Party dozens of people were killed in the attack and the fighting that followed the Central Government has accused them horrors former security chief of all the lies in the rebellion and of course you can follow those stories on the web site at aljazeera dot com we will continue to follow the g 20 in a socketed pad in our news bulletins throughout the day but next on aljazeera its inside story to stay with us. Aljazeera. Where ever you. Wire eritreans in exile being silenced activists and critics to escape the oppression ad find theyre not safe abroad either who is threatening them for speaking out this inside story. Hello and welcome to the program. That eritrea is often described as one of the most repressive countries and africa peoples rights are severely restricted and opponents of the president say as if where key are locked up in jail even eritreans in exile are apparently not safe Amnesty International is accusing the government of harassing and threatening activists living in europe and elsewhere in africa eritrea is a member of the Uns Human Rights Council which is meeting in geneva this week one eritrean in exile in kenya described her experience to aljazeera a small car where. We used to are together the people of all the high minot says shes never enjoyed the freedom she fought for she was 17 when she joined eritreas rebellion and fought for independence from ethiopia she seen here in one of the rebels mountain hideout in the 1980 s. Independence came in 1901 who she says freedom did not if they want to kill you they can kill you automatically. She owned a factory but she didnt join the governing party or contribute to its funding she says shes been harassed ever since including here in kenyas capital nairobi where she lives in exile she says eritrea is ambassador to kenya of terrorism and had her arrested by local police is. Business like he took he saw was like 56 they. Had caught the same answers things he tried to deport us. Rights activists say that the kind of harassment that a bieber says shes experienced here in nairobi is just the tip of the iceberg and that eritrean critics of eritreas government you are living in exile all around the world everything really harassed intimidated and even beaten by government supporters so the reporters who rights group Amnesty International says its documented cases of harassment and intimidation eritrean human rights activists over the last 8 years has published a report and its research is say those in kenya the u. K. Sweden and some other European Countries a most risk yet their government hes gained of exporting their repression from from its territory to another country and it doesnt look good. On your moderate record and it doesnt look good to the recovery of the countries where it is repression is happening the report document seemingly coordinated threatening tweets from staff at eritreas embassies. Its ambassador in kenya didnt agree to give us an interview. Bieber says the harassment has made her more critical most of her activist colleagues here in nairobi were too scared to speak to us. Shes campaigned for 4 of her friends from her days as a rebel who were students arrested in eritrea she doesnt know if theyre still imprisoned or dead the same fate she says awaits her if she ever goes home malcolm webb aljazeera nairobi kenya. Well the situation in eritrea is old sue bleak Rights Groups say the one party state doesnt tolerate dissent researchers believe there are more than 360 prisons in the country Compulsory National Service in the military is indefinite and activists say conscripts are being used as forced labor there is no private media and only 2 percent of the 5000000 population can access the internet Reporters Without Borders says press freedom in eritrea is only slightly better than north korea and with an estimated 4000. 00 people leaving the country every month eritrea is one of the largest sources of african refugees in europe thank you we can now bring in our guests and in london we have salaam kids on that shes the director of release eritrea thats a Human Rights Organization and add is i believe on skype our africa analyst and senior lecturer at Kiel University and also in london martin plaut klout a Senior Research fellow at the university of london and hes also the author of understanding eritrea inside africa most repressive state welcome to all of you thank you very much for being here on the program. The one thing that many people know about harry tre is that very little is known about that country and what goes on inside that country so thats something i do want to explore as this program unfolds but before that id like to talk about this whole idea of dissenters not only in the eritrea but also of those outside the country coming under the reach of the regime which is very alarming and so im don i want to start with you and youve worked closely with refugees many of them who whove left the country and have been able to tell you about whats happening in there but id also like to know what youre hearing about their experiences when they speak out against the government and how theyre affected by it. Oh yeah actually its only people that have left the country that are actually able to speak about whats been happening to them so its not surprising that the regime is actually trying to come down on their own people who have already left and are trying to to speak about the realities of what they have left and what the kinds of things that people tell are really extreme religious persecution where people are actually banned from praying together if theyre not members of government sanctioned churches people who are incarcerated for not returning to their National Service posts even for a couple of days. People who are accused of thinking about leaving the country people who are accused of sympathizing with the Opposition Forces outside the country so people are being attacked for all sorts of things was there in the country outside the country when they come up people are threatened by actions being to you know dont you fear for your family back home is a common a Common Thread another one is that you know the hunt of their volition which is hundreds the government is alone going it will catch up with you anywhere you are so the entire eritrean spore a cunt be kind at times be grouped by by fear of what the government might be able to do martin law does not just eritreans abroad who are facing harassment from the hands of the government salaamed put it you 2 have come under attack for you for speaking out can you tell us about your experience. Well its happened a couple of times i mean when weve had arranged talks in london they have been attempts to break up the talks at universities some of the times physical mostly just yelling and shouting and trying to make it impossible to talk but a more serious one happened late last year where somebody tried to suggest to me that they should would like to meet me in the you know im a journalist and author so im always keen to meet people and they asked me can i go and meet somewhere and so i said yes well meet at a public space at the British Library in fact and when i got there they then said well look would you mind coming outside because im with somebody hes frightened of being on camera and this kind of thing with there might be cameras in the British Library so i said sure and i met him in a little open space a cafe are just outside. And got me a coffee i set down and then he went behind a low bush picks up a box full of liquid i didnt know what it was throws it over me while hes filming me at the same time on his camera and the 2 other eritreans doing exactly the same and yells at me that im a traitor to the government that im a functionary of the cia that im abusing his country and that im all this that i deserve to be dispatched in appropriate manner all this kind of thing anyway i just backed away and left it and the man was arrested and finally prosecuted and went we went to court and he was found guilty and fined for what he had done now of course i was really worried about what had been thrown at me because of course it came a few months after the attack in salzburg in britain where people were liquid was put on people and they were they died as a result that was a russian operation but this one was done by eritreans air tran sympathetic to the regime and so it was a worrying event but i mean of course its not. Thing compared to the repression that is faced by people inside eritrea which is much much much more severe i will alow martin platt continued is continuing to speak out about whats happening in eritrea but what has this kind of intimidation done or what kind of an impact has it had on others activists eritrean activists are just general people who managed to leave eritrea from speaking out to the government has it had an impact on them and i think it is important to kind of put this into into context because eritrea is an authoritarian states the government there clearly rejects the idea of democracy as a defining form of governing population and most thought or Italian Government tried on silencing voices that are opposed to them and indeed one of the most defining feature of rhetoric and system is basically harassing intimidating and bullying all Opposition Forces particularly human rights defenders so several countries in africa. Libya sudan egypt ethiopia in the past to use this system and in fact some of them went as far as using highly sophisticated technologies produced by European Companies by Israeli Companies to conduct source get the surveillance against frontline but i defend this so this is a general pattern across africa im sure several other altos and governments use it but there is there has there is particular kind of problem in terms of Cyber Bullying and people who express their views being attacked by activists. So thats something i want to talk about is the International Community big the u. N. Human Rights Council has enlisted eritrea as a member of its council what is the justification for this and how does that make you feel salaam cabana once you hear the stories from the refugees youve been dealing with its actually quite disparaging it shouldnt be surprising but it is it shouldnt be surprising. Given the the the other countries on that list of members as well but as an eritrea and knowing intimately what goes on in eritrea it is indeed its very shocking its sudden ng it also makes a mockery of the system that is meant to monitor human rights respect for human rights at the highest level globally to be you know for one of the Member States overlooking this work to be one of the the the most abject violators so yeah its surprising its shocking and its such a lala i want to bring it down to the basics here very few people know exactly what is going on inside eritrea and if you could sum up for us what what is happening in eritrea what is happening to the average person there i think as you said in the introduction it is really very difficult to know what is actually going good in everything it is a pretty cold the system there is very little access to the media media is controlled by the government there is no independent media so we know that people leave in huge Numbers National sort of this is a huge problem. You know government does not tolerate opposing voices go through or polls a significant risk to their senses so the masses i think widespread Human Rights Violations are very well known they are very well documented but it. Its very difficult actually to get a sense of what is actually happening in the region we see the reports from time to time documenting why is byelection so human rights but beyond that we havent really seen very clear evidence of the nature of abuse as well a sions that happened there i just want to say one quick make what we have to point on the Human Rights Council and its membership but i concept i think its important to realize that the United Nations generally and its values human rights are more real is there primarily to protect individuals and particularly individuals in these authoritarian nations they are part of that broader set of compromise among various states where these nations if you look up to them pl countries that have been on a membership of the council they are some of the worst abusers of human rights so it is a given to take between the various states that takes place in terms of the process of electing countries i dont think we should put too much emphasis on who is on the Human Rights Council and who is not Martin Platts on that note firstly can you shed any more light on what is happening in eritrea particularly to the common common person and to the whole idea of this un Human Rights Council not necessarily protecting the Wider Population instead is more about the governments. Well i mean thats absolutely right and i mean the only thing i would say about it is that the u. N. Has appointed a special report on human rights in eritrea and she and her predecessor have repeatedly attempted to negotiate to talk to the eritrean government and to visit the country and shes been consistently blocked from doing so so this absolutely no interest from the from the government in in participating in that a dialogue the other thing one mustnt forget is that the air trans are now in charge of whats known as the heart to process that is the relationship between the European Union and africa all the major african nations particularly bordering on the mediterranean are part of that system and they supposed to control the flow of refugees and migrants from africa and eritrea is in control of that now that is something sanctioned by the European Union which is really disgusting when you come to you i ask about the impact on ordinary people one of the most shocking things about the eritrean government is their lack of concern about the hardship that people undergo there has been very Little Development in eritrea since independence which is tragic because air trans are some of the most hardworking and ingenious people ive ever come across and they would certainly like to develop but the government basically says we dont need aid we dont need any assistance we can stand on our own 2 feet which in itself is quite laudable but the fact is at the end of the day they dont even encourage investment from other eritreans in the diaspora who would love to invest if there was a secure busy plan to do it in so the result is that people are very poor they are shortages of things like electricity of water all these kind of things is Poor Services that people have to rely on and that is the cost that ordinary people are having as a result of this regime. I will add one of the few facts that has kept come out and i dont know how accurate it is is that less than 2 percent of the population pay tax so how is the government surviving who is propping them up i mean martin just told us a bit about the fact that theyre rejecting not only european aid but theyre also rejecting money from eritreans abroad so how does that country functioning i think a return to roads still pay a 2 percent tax on their income this is comparable for every 10th will go to if they want to go back to their country if they want to secure for example a passport for their children that have to evidence that they have been paying that tax i do not know how many are essentially were told and how much remittance there exist in this form from those taxes. Bad you know the fact that we have not made significant progress in terms of Economic Development means that theres not really much happening in terms of the government providing the basic infrastructure is the basic necessities for for the population but you know i also want to note that i think regions are very hardworking people i think very intelligent people they have money to find a way of providing for some basic necessities i feel if you compare some of the countries thank you old. Eritrea with some other countries it is doing well where do they get the money to do that i dont know there are certain countries in the middle east with ample that have relationships with eritrea but i dont know if those countries that are supporting experience in terms of financial and other budgetary support. So im going to out on what one of the things that i think many would find baffling is this whole idea of military conscription and the fact that it is indefinite. Many people i understand or many of the refugees whove left eritrea have used that as a reason or are saying you know its bonded labor basically what are you hearing about and what do you face when you are in the military. I mean in fact its its inside in slave mental funny entire generation because if you think about it the last year of High School Education is actually only given the military Training Center this our military Training Center which is the age of 16 own 17 or young people have to go there from the entire country and from that point onwards at the age of 16 or 17 theyre all conscripts basically theyre told its 100 u. K. Chanelle facility but theyre regimented they have bare but its highly uncertain and they have got theyre given military training alongside their studies and more importantly they cannot do that year at home and from that point onwards they are basically soldiers so after that its endless if they if theyre told their past exams then they would go for 4 education education and then be given civilian jobs otherwise more will become. Become soldiers going to the army and theres no. Theres no end to that theres no. Official end to that people leave the country or people just abscond and stay at home so it becomes effectively. Indefinite there are people who have been serving since 1994 and there are people who have left after serving 20 years 10 years and now increasingly what we see is young people children leaving before they they hit that that age and because the regime has made it impossible for people to leave with their children because anybody who has a child or basically if youre a toddler and above then you cannot leave the country without special permission so people are living with their children as soon as theyre born or theyre waiting for their children to be old enough to cross the borders illegally so the national soul. Hes has got a hold on the entire sits in his seat so merry at the entire generation and yes it is an indefinite bondage of slavery martin its really hard to fathom what kind of a society is being created in it its very easy to understand why people want to leave that country sadly. You bet president is a is do you ever a clear understanding of what he is trying to build if anything at all. Thats a very good question and im afraid its hard to answer you know he is somebody who basically believes that he is eritrea that there is nothing that is not him that he personifies the entire country and that anybody who steps out of line the top or questions anything that he does is basically incorrect and against the whole nation because he is the nation and hes always taken actually inflexible view of his role and that of the struggle i mean in the 30 years that they fought against the ethiopians for the independence and it was one of the most heroic struggles africa has ever seen i mean he didnt tolerate any kind of opposition of any kind people were killed. As a result and when i met him you know there is something about him hes an intelligent man but hes somebody who you know literally has looks at you as if he has an utter contempt for you and for anything that you might think about or want to say and although he used a lot of people from abroad at various times in to help the struggle for independence and there i certainly supported the independence of eritrea and you know they continued existence but you know he really he doesnt rate anybody who isnt an absolute supporter of him personally and the few people who are around him given that salaam to the people you speak to and many of them who freshly left the country have any hope that there will be some kind of regime change or that eritrea will eventually have a democracy. Absolutely every eritrean leaves for that day even those that. Say they support the regime leave for the day that change will come air trans such a small country and everybody. Is kind of has got this strong sense of identity as an eritrean and that its the strength of that identity that keeps everybody going the situation is totally unsustainable there isnt you who you would be if people were talking honestly it would be very difficult to find people who supports whats going on beyond the fear factor beyond the the sheer cheerleading type support for that for the government if you come to the nitty gritty of the continuation of the nation everybody agrees that there needs to be change and that that thats thats what keeps people like me hopeful that we will be able to salvage some kind of democracy some kind of justice for our nation and and im not unique in thinking that so much more discussion needed and so much so much more to talk about unfortunately weve come to the and diversion to id like to thank our guests donna. 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Were also watching the appearance of Saudi Crown Prince bomb advance on mine in the soccer with our correspondents myler shell but 1st lets go to our diplomatic editor james bays we are watching events unfold james in asarco and theres obviously the handshakes and obligatory smiles for the photo call but some real pressure points for trump and putin on the International Stage when it comes to syria north korea and iran another bit of a mild joke on the domestic front as well. Yes i mean i think certainly the key meeting probably because we dont really know what happened any it was between president putin and President Trump they get on reasonably well but their countries have Serious Problems and i suspect those were discussed as you say the ongoing war in syria the situation in the ukraine probably near the top of the list i think was the u. S. Is tension with iran and thats were one that russia doesnt agree with the u. S. On it believes the problem started when President Trump pulled out of the Iran Nuclear Deal so its likely there were some tough discussions about that as a say what we dont know is what happened behind closed doors so far all we know is the little bit of the meeting the very beginning what journalists call the spray when camera crews are allowed in a world of clicks of cameras to film the 2 leaders as they 1st sit down their people throw a few questions and certainly many remarked on how donald trump arent so the question about the next u. S. President ial election watch this is. Actually of course james at the end of these sorts of conferences as well as you say you know we dont know what happens behind closed doors as yet there is a general communique about what the countries are what the leaders agreed to the secretary general of the u. N. Is also in attendance and hes giving it all has given his remarks to give us an idea perhaps that he wants to move the conversation on beyond really conflicts and also discuss the economy. Cost discuss the economy and very much with him discuss the environment he really is beating. One drum at the moment antonio terrace which is the drum of Climate Change he said that he would be raising Global Warming here also what he described as Global Political war warming and then he referred to the situation with iran in his News Conference in terms of Climate Change its something thats difficult really for these meetings is something they all used to agree on even though that if they didnt agree on the details but of course President Trump has changed all that one aspect though the environment that i think the japanese organizers are trying to get in there is the use of plastics thats something theyre hoping to get into the communique tranced op the this the use of Single Use Plastics and they hope that thats not something the u. S. Will block to see what does come out certainly in those press conferences statements much later thanks very much james lets cross over to tamara shall whos also. Going of course were focusing bad with the Saudi Crown Prince whos or how hes been received in terms of his reception by World Leaders in the light of the final report from the u. N. Rapporteur implicating him really jamal in the murder of Jamal Khashoggi so one wonders how much of a repair job he has to do with other World Leaders because he was certainly very friendly with President Trump. Indeed so in fact if you saw the behavior of the crown Prince Mohammed bin saddam and you would of even fold that there was any implication that he was behind the murder of jamal especially let alone the mass of criticism he has received for the war in yemen which has been described as the single worst human disaster of humanitarian rather disaster of our current time by the United Nations hes come with a huge on so roger theyve made a big deal of reporting on how he has been welcomed we saw as he approached the stage for that family photo for us making a beeline to shake hands warmly with president putin of russia and then after the family photo was taken there was very warm reception from the u. S. President donald trump who shook his hand whilst all the other leaders were meant to be waving to the cameras this is something that. You know is in minnesota surprising considering that trump himself has said that he was willing to forego any questions about crown Prince Mohammed bin some months ethics or indeed his policies with regards to yemen or the killing of. Because he said there was billions of dollars being spent by the crown prince but having said that the saudi media particularly those on digital platforms as well have been making a loud noise about this reception theyre saying that it shows that saudi arabia is center stage because of the leadership of crown prince behind the scenes a man as they have been describing it but in reality one of the reasons why physically he was on center stage so how is because saudi arabia is the next host of the forthcoming g. 20 the next edition of it in roughly a years time and therefore it is customary for whoever will be taking on that but on to be center next to the current host of it but having said that we expect that meeting between the crown prince and donald trump a more extended one to take place on saturday obviously whats significant here sale is that on the other side of trump in that family photo was president tabor. One of turkey hell also be meeting with the the american counterpart as well and he had said that he was going to make a statement about the trophy case but very quickly to wrap up to compare how man was in that family photo with the last g 20 summit which took place in argentina just weeks after the murder of Jamal Khashoggi of the saudi consulate in istanbul where he was standing essentially alone on the back row of that family photograph and compare it to todays one it would seem at least at the International Community is willing to maybe forget or not necessarily is not necessarily as nervous to be associated with a man who Rights Groups are not only criticized for his domestic policies at home but have implicated him in the murder of. Over the moment well leave it there of course and follow events from osaka with you and our correspondents throughout the day thank you. Now iran has warned that fridays meeting in vienna with the remaining signatories to the 2050 nuclear deal will be the last chance to save the accord senior diplomats from 5 countries are meeting with iranian counterparts on friday after tehran threatened to expand its Uranium Enrichment Program the u. S. Pulled out of the nuclear deal and reinstated sanctions against iran sparking tension in the goals then washington impose further sanctions after iran shot down one of its drones they are using their economic well were imposing sanctions as a kind of weapons now were facing a very new concept their pennies ation of dollars this is what youre facing they use dollars as a veteran to impose this they are vicious their policies on other countries and that should be a stopped. They will struggle correspondent following events from tehran for us because iran really firm in its position in that it fundamentally wants to continue selling its oil despite accusing the United States of sort of economic terrorism and yet its also suggesting that its getting ever so close to ripping up that 2050 nuclear agreement. Thats exactly right so here we heard there from of course the Deputy Foreign minister of iran mr abbas rocky in vienna ahead of a meeting expected later today when hell sit down with a joint commission of the remaining signatories to the joint comprehensive plan of action his words there leave little doubt as to the message that iran will be giving to the remaining signatories to this 2015 nuclear deal its all about the economy as far as iran is concerned thats the problem this year the unilateral pullout from the by the United States the reimposition of what they call draconian sanctions akin to Economic Warfare iran will be pushing this message now what remains to be seen the real big elephant in the room the question that everyone is waiting to have answered is what will Europe Russia and china be able to say to iran that might convince it to stop its rolling back of cooperation its reduction of cooperation in terms of its commitments to the nuclear deal in may president Hassan Rouhani of iran said that since other countries that signed the nuclear deal are either unwilling or unable to maintain their commitments to the deal iran cant be the only one expected to maintain the integrity of the way and as such iran will be reducing some of those commitments now european leaders in a few in the last few days have reportedly said that they will inject some cash into a banking bypass system known as instax essentially designed as a kind of oil for Goods Program that would allow iran to continue to trade with europe but the fact is it hasnt proven itself to be successful enough in the question is if it will have any sort of scale to be able to make up for all of the problems that iran is faced economically from u. S. Sanctions now before the United States reimposed Oil Sanctions iran was selling 2800000 barrels of oil a day or oil is its primary source of revenue and if iran feels that what the europeans are offering what allies. Its like russia and china will be able to do if its enough to help to turn the tide of the economic devastation caused by american sanctions that could be a source of some sort of forward progress but the fact is so far iran has said that it is the only person it is the only actor in this deal that is maintaining its commitments to the nuclear deal and it will no longer do so alone for the moment well leave it as you monitor events force through the day thank you well still ahead here on aljazeera i get iraq as hundreds marched all day behind the embassy over the u. S. Sponsored conference on the middle east. To spain battles to control as wildfires as most of europe takes in a searing heat wave