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On behalf of her majestys government i apologize resisted the store a couple of g. For one of the duncan stepaside goods and British Intelligence that is a growing agreement says that the libyans could be quite useful to the west for 8 years after the death of gadhafi aljazeera world investigates western collusion with the Libyan Security services. Gadhafi rendition in the west. On aljazeera. And watching aljazeera lets recap the top stories right now Syrian Government forces have struck a deal with the kurdish Led Syrian Democratic forces which will see the syrian army deploy along the border with turkey yes t. F. Says this will help and liberating areas under the control of Turkish Forces and they advance into Northern Syria earlier the u. S. Announced its pulling out all remaining american troops from Northern Syria u. S. President s been accused of abandoning the kurds the americans say they want their troops out of harms way. Celebrations and tunisia as exit polls show a conservative law professor and political outsider is poised to become the countrys next president i say it is projected to end more than 70 percent of the vote beating media mogul an appeal. To mourn our top story the deal between Syrian Government forces and kurdish Led Syrian Democratic forces we spoke to Joshua Landis whos director of the center for middle east studies at the university of oklahoma explains why this agreement is beneficial for both sides. Its an important deal it means that syria is going to sweep up north to meet the turkish troops this is a scramble for northeast syria the same sort of scramble for land and resources that we saw happen when the isis cayle if it collapsed and both syria the United States raced to get oil fields and border territory its an important deal because the kurds and the assad regime in damascus both have the same enemies they have turkey as their enemy number one and the islamist rebel groups as their enemy number 2 this is a long standing. You know in a sense. I would say partnership but its not an easy partnership that theyve had damascus cannot rule ne syria without the kurds on the other hand damascus is not going to allow the kurds the kind of autonomy independence or use of their own School System in kurdish that they that they pav i think the kurds will be able to continue with that semi autonomous rule for some time because the damascus military is weak but over time damascus as damascus centralizes and reestablish itself its going to eat away at that autonomy no doubt about it damascus has made it very clear that they do not want the kind of situation that you that kurds in iraq enjoy where almost no kurds speak arabic any longer. Hungarys Prime Minister viktor orban has suffered a big political setback a candidate backed by his party has lost the law or election in the capital depressed. Was backed by several opposition parties they are also projected to make gains in local elections in the rest of the country sudans vote had one of the highest voter turnouts in local elections in nearly 30 years he said to the sas and then this victories a bit budapest becoming green and free to speak through is a bit taking the city from the 20th to the 21st century and this victories about keeping the city with all our powers where history has always placed it we will take it back to europe exit polls in poland indicate the ruling law and Justice Party has increased its majority its project projected rather to come out on top with 43. 6 percent of the vote its main rival the centrist more pro e. U. Civic coalition has around 27. 4 percent and her sentiments has more from polands capital warsaw. Its looking like a big win for the law and Justice Party only minutes after the 1st exit poll results came in its leader proclaimed victory the opposition then responding saying that it had caused even more division in the country there have been references to the a really big push by all the opposition parties but it failed now it seems according to all indicators that the policies of this ruling party have been successful theyve can be trusted it seems by voters to deliver what they promise such as some social change a right across the divides and also a number of other issues tackling the issue of the minimum wage raising that in this next and also. A whole association with the us which is bringing in a new form of politics here this party delivers populism it is nationalistic it is right wing yet it has something of a song to play but the downside to all this is seen by d opposition parties its effective trying to muzzle the media with a whole pile of of policies which are restricting Media Freedom that doesnt go down well in the your pain you know nor does it go down well what it is appoints judges according to a new policy which is very politically influenced so the years ahead in this next term a going to be interesting if not quite difficult in terms of society in poland. Safely mentioned earlier in the newscast talks between ecuadors Indigenous Leaders and the government are taking place right now meanwhile hundreds of protesters have defied a government imposed curfew in the capital quito. Joins us live there from quito so has the situation calmed down there isp and the curfew as we just said man well everyone was not in hearing to it so what is the situation now the situation is very different than what we saw take place earlier today with thousands of people defying a nationwide curfew in downtown quito where that curfew the last place of the city where the curfew actually still remains in effect but right now everything is quiet very quiet people are in their homes people that may be out at a restaurant right now are glued to the Television Screens as a not National Dialogue between members of a confederation of indigenous nations from across ecuador are sitting down for a roundtable discussion with the president of ecuador letting what i know and members of his cabinet this is a lot thats being moderated by the United Nations and people are very hopeful optimistic rather that that this will yield positive results but for the moment things are quiet earlier today we did see an escalation of clashes even worse we could describe that what we could we had seen in days prior there were clashes between police and definitely people that we can confirm were injured including one young man that was shot with a projectile to to to his to his head we learned later that hes in Critical Condition but at the moment things are quiet with people waiting for this National Dialogue to to go into recess and depending on the outcome of this dialogue this evening we could either see peace restored to the streets still in the rest of ecuador or we could potentially see a continuation of the same demonstrations that weve seen over the course of more than a week now for a show about manner of a lot of press and keep to thank you. Spans military is deploying tens of thousands of troops to help with the rescue and cleanup efforts after a powerful typhoon ripped through the countrys eastern coast where the 6000000 people were advised to evacuate parts of eastern and central japan. As one of the worst storms to hit the country in decades at least 30 people have been killed many are still missing meanwhile 5 of those killed were members of a sunken cargo ship the panama registered ship was anchored off the coast of callus aki city just south of tokyo contact was lost on the saturday 4 other people were rescued and 3 are still missing. Place in hong kong made dozens of arrests after antigovernment protests turned violent on sunday footage has emerged of a man being arrested after a Police Officer was stabbed in the neck near a metro station a 2nd person was also taken into custody and a separate incident protesters attacked a woman sane helping police clear barricades from the road business is seen as being sympathetic to beijing or vandalized rallies also took place in several other areas and is that this month a protest that began a response to a controversial extradition bill adrian brown has more from hong kong. Well this is a snapshot of sunday in hong kong we are in a moment caught one of the most densely Populated Areas on earth here on this side of the street a group of local people who have been herding abuse at police just on the other side of nathan road one of the busiest federal fairs in homecoming this standoff has been going on the some time now the police have to be careful here because a lot of people live in this area and if they start firing tear gas and of course thats going to affect a lot of innocent people the protests on sunday have been following a familiar pattern with the protesters targeting businesses that they say have mainland connections once more a starbucks outlet was vandalized we also witnessed a confrontation between a mainland man im a group of local people also the light rail Transit System has also now been shot for the day off to several lines with vandalized and the other rail system the m. T. R. Has had to close 3 of its stations its a reminder that 4 months on feelings are still very high in this city. Has a stance Prime Minister says he will do what he can to facilitate talks between iran and saudi arabia and iran conason tehran where hes met irans president Hassan Rouhani and the countrys Supreme Leader ayatollah ali khomeini pakistan wants to act as a mediator between iran and saudi arabia to diffuse rising tensions in the gulf region khan will travel to riyadh on tuesday said they cast more from tehran. Pakistans imran khan has been trying to negotiate some form of mediation since the United Nations General Assembly last month in new york where he met president rouhani on the sidelines now this is the 2nd meeting between the 2 leaders in the last month and iran concept today that this initiative is a Pakistani Initiative and no one has told pakistan to do this he said that he wants to facilitate talks between the iran and riyadh. Are on is a neighbor of. Toys with iran go a long way back. Saudi arabia. Has been one of our closest friends saudi arabia has helped produce when we have needed when we have been in need and so the reason for the strip that we do not want a conflict between saudi arabia and iran we recognize that its a complex issue rick knows that. But we feel. Now that this can be resolved through dialogue president rouhani was speaking alongside him on khan and he said that iran while comes talks with regional countries but is a country thought that they could so instability in the region with back to response they were terribly mistaken. I dont change the world we discussed recent developments related to the middle east region particularly to the persian gulf and the sea of oman as we believe they are very critical regions for the gulf and the whole region we also emphasized on the strengthening of stability and more peace in the region. Tensions have been high and of region since the attack on the side around coal Oil Facilities on september 14th something the human hutu rebels claimed responsibility for but sadly arabia blamed iran something iran rejects but there was also an attack against the reigning oil tanker in the red sea now iran hasnt blamed anybody but tensions in the region continue to be high now iran connie said to visit site arabia on tuesday where is expected to meet the Saudi Crown Prince mohammed bin some of money and hes hoping that he can stall some talks between the 2 regional rivals a massive fire broke out inside a Coptic Church in egypt the church of st george was built in the 10th century it is located in the city of helwan just south of the capital cairo no one was injured in the fire is under control now at least 9 people have been taken to the hospital after a mortar attack in somalias capital mogadishu at least 7 mortars were fired at mogadishus International Airport around 1 pm local time the airport houses embassies and the United Nations and African Union missions its not known who was behind the attack and so down there are fears of the countrys main exports is under threat sudan is the worlds main producer of gum arabic used in many products from soft drinks to cosmetics but farmers say their worry there and come could dry up and the more going to ports and elevate and north korea fun. These fields of acacia trees have been tended by any means to a mans family for generations for 30 years hes been planting harvesting and tapping them for their sap the liquid flows slowly for days before drying into gum arabic its been the main source of income for his family for decades but hes concerned thats may not continue much longer. The elusive the one still involved in the gum arabic business most of those harvest another both while the youth no longer have any interest they prefer quickening means like mining gold or construction but those holding on to the trade. And kneels farm into the north quarter find is one of hundreds in the state involved income arabic production which accounts for nearly 15 percent of sudans income. The products has many uses from food emulsifiers to cosmetic products to herbal medical treatments but due to a lack of processing facilities in sudan the material is exported wrong and at a lower price because of its importance internationally gum arabic was the only product exempted from the u. S. Trade sanctions list imposed on sudan in 1907 so damn produces more than 70 percent of the worlds gum arabic and more than half of the 3000000 population here in north korea from parents from it but the business is changing and people moving away from farming there are other challenges. Authorities say because gum arabic cant be processed in sudan up to 30 percent of what is produced is smuggled out of the country and education experts say those involved in the business of gum arabic arent necessarily following the best farming practices Climate Change has a direct effect on the production. Of the farmers may be the. Most drought seasons in the last year affects the proportion of the 3. Most. For the forces that it benefits for a lot of these. Also to increase their incomes socalled sending. They are using the tubs that the during the off season forms for the. Authorities also say that out of the 11000 square kilometers available to plant and harvest acacia in the state less than half is being used and. As a government we are planning in the next 3 years to increase the trees in the gum arabic build working to distribute young acacia trees to farmers here so that they can farm in areas that havent been tapped yet and weve proposed building factories so that harvest is in trade as can profit from the added value to process gum arabic. Says hes going to wait to see the changes that hes told will improve his earnings he hopes that will also attract younger people into the business otherwise he fears there will soon be only elderly farmers who may not be around to see how farms have improved he will morgan on to 08 scored a fine. Check out the headlines right now on al jazeera Syrian Government forces a struck a deal with the kurdish led syrian tum a crowd of forces which will see the syrian Army Deployed along the border with turkey yes t. F. Says this will help them in liberating areas under the control of Turkish Forces as they advance into Northern Syria say to her has more from to cali that is near turkeys border with syria fast moving developments tonight and states decision to leave North Eastern syria effectively created a vacuum there are many players in the syrian conflict and all of them would like a stake in this corner of syria it is a strategic corner it is where oil fields are located it is the ag its the bread basket of syria for the damascUs Government this cash strapped it would it would definitely want to regain control of this area earlier the u. S. Announced its pulling out all remaining american troops from Northern Syria the defense secretary said he was acting on orders from donald trump the u. S. President has been accused of abandoning the kurds the americans say they want their troops out of harms way. And i could or talks between Indigenous Leaders in the government are taking place on the streets hundreds of protesters have defied a government imposed curfew in the capital quito a 24 hour one nationwide curfew was put in place on saturday and response to demonstrations in the city however ecuadors military says it will continue to restrict some movement instructors angry at a rise in fuel prices attacked government buildings and burned media offices these protests have been on for 2 weeks now celebrations in tunisia as exit polls show a conservative law professor and political outsider is poised to become the countrys next president it is projected to win more than 70 percent of the vote beating media mogul no appeal corralling aca stance Prime Minister says he will do what he can to facilitate talks between iran and saudi arabia and iran conason tehran where hes met irans president Haasan Rouhani and Supreme Leader ayatollah ali khomeini pakistan wants to act as a mediator between iran and saudi arabia to defuse rising tensions in the gulf region are the headlines keep it here on aljazeera inside story is that next. The United Arab Emirates is reportedly running a campaign to get aljazeera registered as a Foreign Agent in the u. S. Effectively restricting its operations in the country so is Media Freedom of risk and what are the limits to political lobbying this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program im peter dobby shutting down Aljazeera Network who was one of the main demands of the blockade in countries when they cut off diplomatic relations with cats are more than 2 years ago now the United Arab Emirates is reportedly running a lobbying campaign in washington to get the u. S. Government to force the network to register as a Foreign Agent that would in effect brand it as a government tool a plane aljazeera strongly denies and could restrict its operations in the United States the News Agency Bloomberg says a prominent law company a law firm was employed by the u. A. E. To achieve this goal this includes meeting Congressional Staff white house officials and journalists and academics it also involves u. A. E. Controlled digital accounts and websites twitter suspended thousands of those accounts in september. There we are here we go lets bring in our guest joining us from washington bruce fein a constitutional and International Lawyer on skype from vienna is ready for assad to rector advocacy at the International Press institute and here in doha my jobs where the director of the Gulf Studies Center at cattle University Welcome to you all bruce can i come to you 1st how political is this. Well the Foreign Agents registration act is very political the standards for registration are triggered by twofold elements 1st you have to demonstrate that the broadcaster is controlled it receives orders from a Foreign Government and secondly you have to show that the broadcast is intended in likely to influence the Public Policies of the United States now with regard to aljazeera and believe only aljazeera english isnt available in the United States so this inquiry thats been triggered by u. A. E. As focused only on aljazeera english not aljazeera arabia or any of the other arms now is it political yes for example in the last year both russia t. V. Called r. T. Sputnik its Radio Network and China Television c. G. T. V. Have been required to register as Foreign Agents even though theyve been conducting their operations for long years in the United States without any disturbance or strong efforts in congress after the revelations disposed in the mall or report about foreign interference through the russians in the elections to have those broadcast outlets listed even though their operations have been unchanged for long years the argument is well even if theyre on paper independent of the government in fact behind the scenes and presidency in china president putin and russia really dictate what goes on those airwaves so there is clearly a political element to it we also know that when the new attorney general william barr was confirmed he stead he was going to upgrade the enforcement rigor if you will aggressiveness of the foreign edges straightest Foreign Agents registration unit i supervise that unit when i was at the u. S. Department of justice as associate deputy in the past it had not been very rigorously enforced and because in part it does encroach on freedom of speech and thats treasured under the United States constitution. But with regard to the indictment of paul mann afforded others for having not registered as agents of ukraine it could be an issue with regard to current matters relating to Rudy Giuliani and President Trump and ukraine not having registered as Foreign Agents its far more on the target on the front burner than it was in the past so thats where we stand politically right now running for senate in vienna of these people trying to come paint against Al Jazeera English or campaign against freedom of the press. Ours any effort to shrug our religious leader iraq are for that matter any our Media Organization in the United States. It isnt a problem but st believe that every Media Organization has the right to exist i would like to wear a free speech closing down are asking though dont think that it will be just another lobbying agent will get up about ego and attribute already years ill just you know has god listed scriptures as a Media Organization that has covered area were which are about the demolition network doesnt have the star bridges to prove that it took action theres no doubt about it and in the past others here are very focused. On plus right as a lobbying agent it is a general we are about as asian and we see this as an attack on the street a much absurdity here in doha what is it about aljazeera english because bruce is saying we are very specifically talking not about arabic colleagues were talking about aljazeera english lets be clear lets be clear were all grownups thats where were sitting right now what is it we do that bothers the iraqis if we put things in a context we have to remember that the disease as an it were started with and you know arabic and now as you know english have than a lot of. Would say you know element activities which according to the immoralities and sororities and other governments are very annoying for example you know the way how they broadcast about arab spring the board theory a line of you know talking about arab spring the slogan has been used in the news the way how you how does it all with that are becoming the handling the stories that is different narrative over them a lot is once because they want to show the americans the europeans the english native people and one that it was an additive which basically fits their own agenda a political agenda and theyre. As is so basically a disease or english in the United States is showing different narrative is showing different stories elements which basically contradict exactly with what the. Emirates wants this remember in either a myth against arab spring from 2011 it has been you know designed as Foreign Policy since 2011 and the fact that you know the status quo and there should be maintained and including you know the freedom of speech should be controlled you know the you know the human rights should be maintained as it was before so all of those elements actually been discussed within a disease context and dizzier is defending all of this in a you know on a slogan and the news and the stories so if it matters will be announced by this so these will be announced annoyed by this other governments im sure the others also they tried before but they failed to do so bruce coming back to you for a 2nd is the momentum behind this lobby movement growing because there are some people inside the beltway who say under donald trump the number of lobbyist companies has grown almost exponentially so theres kind of a vacuum of accountability in which these lobbying companies are moving and if theyre well financed well dressed and enthusiastic they might get listened to. Thats possible but i dont think in this case theres any evidence of that happening i 1st want to clarify however that to register is not to shut down registration just means you have to disclose and present yourself as a mouthpiece of a Foreign Government doesnt mean you need to cease operations for example r. T. E. Still operates even though its registered China Television still operates even though its registered so i just want to make that clarification secondly with regard to the u. A. E. I know the law firm that theyve hired a can gump they can gump has to register as a Foreign Agent because they are a mouthpiece of the u. A. E. And that has to be disclosed to all the people they communicate with which means that their credibility is substantially diminished i think that what happens here is you a i believe is under a false impression thinking that if you can get a few members of congress to Say Something it means that theres going to be registration soon it means that the lobbyists get huge amounts of money but theres no indication that congress at all is inclined to do anything adverse to aljazeera remember that if you want to take the touchstone example of the of the attitude of congress towards you a it is these repeated votes on their interference in yemen with saudi arabia on those occasions you have very very substantial majorities in congress rebuking you a year doing war crimes in yemen you need to stop so that shows in my judgment that you a is not in a position to carry sway in the United States congress rebecoming but see you in vienna when you have a situation with according to a think it was m s n b c a little earlier today they were citing an example where one particular federal agency took 9 meetings with one of these low b. Organizations up to june of this year why did they react and open the door literally to the low being organizations instead of reacting to their own intelligence agencies. As bruce would know it better that so many lobbying organizations in the United States and thats mean an experimental religion that number of the President Trumped all lobbying organizations have always existed in the United States the be all this informed or not being aware that the us congress that department of the Us Government and their supporters are very deep pockets so. The federal agencies get them from nation they are lying lobbies. To gather information but im sure they would do their Due Diligence to find out whether what log these are claiming is true and i was just set up rubbing biting united arab. Emirates which is. It is a bit. If you see the congress has already criticized them for their moment in the yemen war it started like a warning far better lobbying against argentina its unlikely but still it is a surprise that theyre trying to do this and we would oppose it we would like to the members of the congress about this my troop is. Would it be desirable or achievable to put what these lobbyists are trying to get into context the context being and talking from my own experience here when i got off a plane 4 years ago somebody here al jazeera said peter theres no such thing as impartiality across the middle east across middle east broadcasters apart from where you are at the moment fast forward 2 years there was a big report i think it was the Washington Post the New York Times another report into 911 on the day that report was published and there was a very big glitzy glamorous t. V. News channel broadcasting in arabic in this region saying 911 but it was done by cattle no it wasnt it never was cata has never been put in the same sentence as 911 and yet its broadcast in this powerful way because somebody someplace takes an editorial decision to lets call it what it is lie yes and broadcast an agenda as news there. Lets be frank targeting minds and hearts that is one of the 2 tools to effect policies that was in the United States it even in the United States discourse and narrative has been used in the last 20 years since 911. 00 we need to we need to have to target minds and hearts and now whats been have been happening now if they want to affect the view towards images iraq and the qatar because in the last 2 years that that has been targeted for Different Reasons and as you mentioned at the beginning of this show that you know shutting down a disease i was one of the 13 demands basically proposed by the blockade countries so i just you know has been targeted was was was important you know target to those countries and i think the slogan of the hour was really annoying and Different Levels not only in the last 2 years in the last 25 years the way how they handle politics in the region the way how they look at you know developments in the region the way how they introduce development in the world to the region thats unknown some governments i think this is likely to continue actually regards whats happening now but this is not the only campaign the u. A. E. Has mounted against cats are leaked emails appear to show its ambassador to washington use of tiber as being part of a long Running Campaign to label cattle as a supporter of terrorism a charge the cattery government strongly denies then theres george nader a former adviser to the Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin zayed according to media reports he paid millions of dollars to support a washington based Public Relations campaign against cata he paid this man lobbyist eliot braiding who reportedly pushed mr trump to get rid of his former secretary of state Rex Tillerson who was believed to have intervened to prevent a saudi u. A. E. Attack on cats are bruce when the stakes here are pretty high bruce mr tillerson was seen as a voice of reason wasnt it. Yes he was and that is why in part i believe he was ousted by President Trump President Trump made his white house available to the likes of Elliott Brody who is a deputy finance director at the Republican National committee and basically mr trump has shown not only with regard to his attitude towards the u. A. E. And saudi arabia selling arms and looking askance i mean looking aside when one of our residents just code journalist with you all is assassinated with a direct in their complicity of m. B. s but the ukraine is another situation where the president basically said im for sale you know if you do things for me investigate joe biden heres an oval office visit and you can get your 400000000. 00 dollars d in military aid or or diplomatic aid and i do think that the quid pro quo is known out there in the Foreign Countries are responding to that and they can do it with regard to offering mr trump or as relatives very lucrative financial Business Opportunities and whats happening with with gutter is that when it was showing that mr taylor sin was going to balk he wasnt going to capitulate he ended up losing his job its a little bit like what happened to their ambassador to ukraine she lost her job when she wasnt going to be a token President Trump and go and make false claims about the need to investigate the bidens and thats unfortunate where we are at present and is one reason why this Impeachment Campaign is being fueled much if this doesnt turn up and this this move to richest english in this particularly toxic way might not happen because of President Trumps some in law he needs cats remind me he needs doha to buy into his peace plan for the middle east for the palestinians for the israelis cancer is up there in the top 5 nations who give money to the palestinian cause is just a big. Yeah i mean again we go back to the political context of the whole the whole thing i mean there is no doubt that this administration began this was been told what that has been told and whats been actually paid to the administration they still believe that other oil is important in a lot of fires in the region and they know that what others do is than when it comes to the afghani fire when it comes to the palestinians when it comes to the even to whats happening now in syria and to the lebanese file so they know that what other is doing lets not forget that i did military bases well and small in the secure in security in the region so they know the contribution of the to the security of the world and also to promoting the principle that and i think defend it was comes to the freedom of speech freedom of the media the principle of human life those issues they are sharing with other i think i dont think so that would be easy for that administration to for that all of this and listen to the obvious ravi at the risk of sounding oversimplistic here when it comes to being a u. S. Politician is part of the toxicity of this debate to do with the name aljazeera and the associations with that name going way way way back where george w. Bush the then president did put it out there that he might think about bombing certain al jazeera offices and also lets be honest about this bruce will come to this country britain with us in just a 2nd ballistae with having let you know certain u. S. Politicians if you showed them a map of the middle east and said point at doha some of them i get the feeling couldnt really do it. Well we have to do remember that bill has a huge us and this which was used during the you not war and all that during the 1st war the 1st war and in iraq and then later again already started operation so little has being very crucial to measure operations for the United States and there are only 2 sheens on both sides of the divide bottle want to know has many of the u. S. Foreign policy. As you just pointed out are. Quite eye up on the list of countries that need to be on boat for the middle east peace but until it looks. Like the government the United States government and its circle. If it takes action against understeer it would be counterproductive but let me Say Something else which. Despite of our earlier saying closing down or deceit or i what i meant was if i just you know has to register as a foreign legion it could pails its free to worship to do just of ours are they didnt happen to dish and british journalist was not and the car and some of the. White house all of which nobody thinks so d that could happen deceiving and that. Because aljazeera is a general we dont get as mission be obama. But definitely an express freedom of press freedom in our perceptions which claims to have which claims that we are having with the 1st amendment that doesnt allow the u. S. Government to have or was against it so. We have to see how. Well it is something will live on that idea of press freedom and what the media can or does not or chooses not to report bruce coming out too much into if one channel. Hopes is all you do separately claim in the industry but if you channel hope and you watch russia today that there ought to stink moments when you go ah but its the kremlin if you watch Chinese Television in english you go off the government and beijing i mean is anyone in washington in high places factually watching aljazeera english and letting the journalism speak for itself instead of listening to what these lobbyists are saying unfortunately no i think youre right this is driven by politics its not driven by an even handed analysis of the speech whether its biased whether it shows that its independent or just an echo chamber of the government you point it out i think earlier when what is driving the us policy in the middle east and towards got there its unfortunate but you 1st have to ask what is israels policy towards got there or saudi arabia u. A. E. Our policies in the middle east are overwhelmingly driven by who is in the Prime Ministership in jerusalem for israel and what their views are and in so far as israel a gives a signal no isolate qatar we sort of turn around and and and follow the marching orders israel is the most important lobbying foreign country in the United States by far and if you want to know if there is any momentum why are these senators doing this it would only because israel gave them the green light with regard in general to the freedom of speech and if you analyze the programming word to be any indication that qatar was curtailing you know anything that was thought adverse to the gutter Foreign Policy. Me i did not on all the programming but ive never been censored i dont know anybody else who said that on programming aljazeera tells them what to say i do know thats not the case with the al arab programming by saudi arabia but i do think that there is at least some assurance that. Even if there were a listing decision made you would have an opportunity to challenge its legality in court to show it was arbitrary capricious and based on all terror political motives not based on the programming and organization of Al Jazeera English and i suspect much appear in doha that this will never happen if u. S. Politicians got an unawareness of aljazeera arabic they would realise how popular a system in 40000000. 00 times will dip into aljazeera right now say were not talking about our colleagues in arabic were talking about is religious but its not because aljazeera arabic is giving the viewers what they want its not arabias got talent in the x. Factor and game shows its information and its freedom of information because the platform its a window of an open formula slot formats the platform to listen to different views to participate to engage to listen to the discourse which has been the prevented for years and years this is in arabic what is the portal both of the an english for years people who are speaking english in the world they listen to one narrative about the middle east and jazeera english comes to see and to deliver a different narrative to say different views about middle east that is the views from within the people in the middle east and they say about themselves rather than others describe whats happening in the the english dizzier english has you know offered the platform to talk in english to the people in the states in the nothing them everywhere in english language about the middle east and to listen to the people as negative rather than to the other outlets who have their own agenda their perception of the region and that is i think annoying others less to say the last word in vienna ravi the 1st big Foreign Policy trip for this Current Us Administration donald trump went to riyadh he in effect greenlit the g. C. C. Blockade of catterick kicks in very quickly after that initial visit if he tells towards Al Jazeera English having to register in this way will it actually happen do you think. I doubt he will do that because. Of the geopolitical reasons but if he doesnt it maybe extremely unfortunate. He would protest it will go to the congress we will use our International Since to chop american National Committee to do is this issue at every level of government in the United States in the well take our partners well press freedom of the violation of human rights organizations all of this medium and its. Asking religious leader to destroy the Foreign Agent of the most ridiculous decisions of the. Guys its our mission is their chills as a Media Organization which i said because it brought. Reports from all over the world where any delusion entering your station temperature part of front or do not report from. 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Inside story or tweet me ill take you back im at peace at the big one for me and everyone on the aljazeera english team here in doha thanks for watching our season. Rewind to 10 days with a new series. And updates on the best amount is in these documentaries think. Its finally going to. Rewind continues with the gift of sight just so sickly intervention is one of the few where you will see patients like this seize least 10 years younger than she was yesterday just within 24 hours on aljazeera. To notice their own. They dont believe the 2 state solution the do you still believe in the 2 state solution we listen to what i just said it was that pakistan would never start a war im anti war we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that go to 0. Im Richelle Carey and these are the top stories on aljazeera Syrian Government forces have struck a deal with the kurdish Led Syrian Democratic forces which will see the syrian army deploy along the border with turkey the s. D. F. Say this will help them in liberating areas under the control of Turkish Forces as they advance into Northern Syria and a hoe to ask more from cali near turkeys border with syria. Fast moving developments tonight it states is decision to leave northeastern syria effectively created a vacuum there are many players in the syrian conflict and all of them would like a stake in this corner of syria it is a strategic corner it is where oil fields are located it is the ag its the bread basket of syria for the damascUs Government is cash strapped it would it would definitely want to regain control of this area the s. D. F. The kurdish. Had little choice because 1st of all it was abandoned by its allies the United States and it is coming under attack because the turkish army along with their local allies the opposition Syrian National army they have been launching an operation against a group they consider a terrorist organization because according to turkey the. Backbone of the s. The f. Is the Syrian Kurdish armed group the white p. G. Which is linked to the outlawed p k k so the s. D. F. Had little choice it struck a deal with damascus a russian brokered deal that agreed to hand over the territories that remain under their control to the government now the question is will they be able to do that because the opposition is making clear that they will fight back they will prevent this from happening especially in the town of members when rebel forces have already sent reinforcements to the front lines the syrian army at the same time saying that theyre sending troops to the north of the country to face what theyre calling a turkish invasion so that the risk of conflict is real is specially if these players cannot negotiate a coordinated would draw a will or an agreement of who takes what in what area all of this is happening turkeys president has dismissed claims eisel fighters have escaped from Detention Centers in northeast syria apollos and come from report rather than an unconfirmed number of people fled from a center and after it was shelled by Turkish Forces. The s. D. F. Says another Prison Campaign commish li was shelled by turkey on friday urged one says his forces will take responsibility for thousands of beisel fighters and their families and Northern Syria earlier the u. S. Announced its pulling out all remaining american troops from Northern Syria that effects the secretary said he was acting on orders from donald trump u. S. President has been accused of abandoning the kurds the americans say they want their troops out of harms way so liberations in tunisias exit polls show a conservative law professor and political outsider is poised to become the countrys next president it is projected to end more than 70 percent of the vote beating media mogul in appeal. And ecuador talks between Indigenous Leaders and the government are taking place right now on the streets hundreds of protesters have defied a government imposed curfew in the capital quito a 24 hour nationwide herky was put in place on saturday in response to demonstrations in the city however ecuadors military says it will continue to restrict some Movement Demonstrators angry at a rise in fuel prices attacked government buildings and burned media offices back stands Prime Minister says he will do what he can to facilitate talks between iran and saudi arabia and iran conason tehran where hes met irans president Hassan Rouhani and the countrys Supreme Leader ayatollah ali khomeini and pakistan wants to act as a mediator between iran and saudi arabia to defeat diffuse it is rising tensions in the gulf region connel travel to riyadh on tuesday police in hong kong have made dozens of arrests after antigovernment protests turned violent on sunday but it has emerged of a man being arrested after a Police Officer was stabbed in the neck or a police or metro station rather a 2nd person was taken into custody and a separate incident protesters attacked a woman seen helping police clear barricades from the road businesses seen as sympathetic to beijing have been vandalized. Al jazeera world us next. On the 10th of may 28th the wife of a libyan politician one tone lawyers held up an historic document a letter of apology from the british Prime Minister the u. K. Lost its way when i got mixed up in the rendition of an innocent pregnant woman and to get off it just didnt but today i think it stood on the right side of history by recognizing its mistakes and by apologizing. Abdulhakim bell hires and his wife Fatima Bouchard have been fighting for 6 years to get the British Government to admit it rendered them and handed them over to the regime of Moammar Gadhafi in 2004 knowing that as libyan dissidents bay would be in serious or some danger on behalf of her majestys government i apologize reservedly we are profoundly sorry for the ordeal that you both suffered and our role in it. This film follows the troubling story of the opponents of gadhafi who were imprisoned tortured and in some cases killed because the u. K. U. S. And other western governments colluded in a web of unlawful rendition. Colonel Moammar Gadhafi was the libyan leader from 1969 to 2011. He was a controversial figure with an ambiguous relationship with the west. His erratic behavior made it easy for the u. S. And europe to portray him as an out of control figure behind terrorist attacks conspiracies and scandals. But there was more to this relationship than was obvious so the time. In 2004 the west suddenly rebranded to gadhafi from public enemy number one to their new best friend. But all the while gadhafi is Intelligence Service the cia and the british and i 6 cooperated with each other in ways few suspected at the time. One such case was that of in all shake our lead he said to have run a military camp in afghanistan. He was captured by the pakistanis in afghanistan after the fall of the taliban in 2001 and then handed over to the americans at Background Air base for interrogation by the f. B. I. But the cia decided libby was a high ranking al qaeda figure and sent him to egypt to be interrogated. The information he provided under torture may not have been reliable but was nevertheless used by the u. S. To demonstrate a connection between Saddam Hussein and al qaida to justify the 2003 iraq. Around 20052006 al libi was then handed over by the u. S. To libya in the process known as rendition. In 2009 he was found dead in his prison cell in tripoli after having supposedly committed suicide. Humanitarian organizations question the suicide including Human Rights Watch who visited oliver just before his death. The case of him and is one of the more disturbing ones because we know that the u. S. Rendered him unlawfully into egyptian custody and he was tortured brutally both in us and in egypt in custody and the result of that torture produced false intelligence that led. Was used as as reason to go to war in iraq and as a result of that war iraqi you know many civilians iraqi civilians u. S. Forces lost their lives. Its disturbing because its an also proof in evidence that torture doesnt work that it produces false intelligence on many occasions of any of them on some of the ship was not. A libya was a victim of. Collusion between the u. S. The u. K. And libya which dated back to the 911 attacks on new york and washington d. C. After the libyan revolution in 2011 thousands of secret libyan american and British Intelligence documents were found they painted a dark picture of the real relationship between the 3 countries which led directly to our libbys rendition and torture physician of. Hundreds of and that a. Lot of them of. You who were yet if itll be a shia one way bill went away and i left a bit of the. Kind of why didnt the enemy look yatim to hear that in a muslim oversight i did them attack if enough says the mystery of. Violent temper the shift in libya. You know must. All the horrors of the band. That are mostly men. Could all be. All. Over the shuttle and why. Libbys nephew says the torture started in afghanistan but then continued in other prisons around the world in egypt morocco one ton a mowbray alaska and ukraine for 5 years in. The hospital when the early early early at year after the what deeds in f. B. I. Law. Or being upset that city. Mostly subtle but. Its looking at akira libbys information about socalled weapons of mass destruction is widely thought to have been used by the u. S. As evidence of Saddam Husseins possession of w m ds in iraq one less thing you pointed out that you were warned of believed by the egyptian president mubarak i believe what barak told tommy tommy franks that saddam had biological weapons be ready yeah like everybody thought he had the International Community has clearly demonstrated that it is fed up