States called for a runoff. Carlos mencia says peaceful protests would be needed to force the be to see your symbols louisas if we dont mobilize if we dont show our Democratic Power in the street this government will do what it wants with the election results. Opposition supporters scarcely needed telling wednesday was the 3rd day they marched. Is that all right we are fighting to defend our fight because every morale is not respecting the will of the people he is not respecting the laws he is not respecting anything his time in government is over and it isnt just in the past but across the country there are many people here that feel that its especially in recent years democratic standards have been slipping. Especially the countrys Industrial Center santa cruz st botolphs. President were only says called it an attempt to kook sites in the burning of government buildings your position say instead its a cry for transparency and change john home and. The pas. The remains of a right wing leader who ruled spain for 36 years of being exiled from the state more than liam Francisco Franco the re buried alongside his wife in a cemetery north of the capital madrid spain from the end of the civil war 939 until his death in 1975 the government wants to turn the site into a memorial for the half a 1000000 People Killed in the war. Time for a short break here obviously when we come back. The angry crowds are surrounding the home of an ethiopian not to be so after a standoff with the police or not students. Hello there are some very nasty storms across Western Areas of europe skies across the east and then whats happening with getting blocked these systems by this is an area of High Pressure so not having much in the way of motion out schools east of the rains that are coming down a very very heavy very persistent and leading to images like this is castle area that the force of that water through the streets amazingly those cars are not washed away but they have been deadly some of these rains more in the fall calls truth as a quite heavy as well down through corsica sardinia and also areas of italy very unsettled across much of the u. K. In the low countries still fine and dry across the central and eastern areas and staying that way on friday a little bit more Movement Across the central med more rain heading your way certainly throughout friday and at the same time more wind and rain pushing across much of the northwest of europe 10 inches typically around the normal for this time of year meanwhile across into Northern Africa again weve seen the same systems in the med impacting northern sections and some pretty strong thunderstorms working their way across egypt so something again we dont see very often although the rains typical in october but some pretty strong rains again have come down and really just more of the full cost as we go through thursday still impacting the same area pushing up into turkey and again washington and thunderstorms over the next couple of days through algeria and on into tunisia. Sponsored by town. Protesting about how does this information whether on line life basements will see him directly out of the ground like the slavery. Join us on sat this is an attack on Academic Freedom and on our ability to do research and teach freely this is a dialogue myanmar is not making it very welcoming for people to come back everyone has a voice Climate Change is real the discussion is real and im here to talk about the solutions on aljazeera. Welcome back a quick reminder the top stories here on the aljazeera u. S. President donald trump has lifted sanctions on turkey saying it has assured him a cease fire in northeastern syria will be permanent and car launched an operation against kurdish y p g fighters only this month has now made a deal with russia to create socalled safe zone. Lebanons president michel aoun is due to address the nation in the coming hours protesters have been calling for political change during demonstrations across the country over the last 8 days the army is now trying to reopen the main roads blocked by the protest. And the early results from bolivia as president ial election showed incumbent over maran as has a 20 point lead over his main rival but protests between rival groups have intensified out to his main rival columns makes a claim to be as evidence of electoral fall in the suburbs the. Government just struggling to appease protesters who say proposed reforms dont go far enough its facing growing calls from the u. N. To respect human rights a much a video appears to show troops using Excessive Force against demonstrators that reports now from santiago. Its the worst crisis the country has seen in more than 3 decades. A violent crackdown by police and military against thousands of demonstrators has left several dead. Thousands of others have been arrested that. The repression has been horrible they beat a bully to date with claps and didnt. As always the return on top when we always get stepped on. Demonstrators blame the government for a long list of social problems from economic inequality to growing lack of access to Public Health care. There is no medicine there is no supplies to treat wounds we dont have enough stuff there is a massive deficit. According to medical professionals dozens of protesters have suffered wounds from firearms and have sustained injuries to the face and torso from projectiles like tear gas canisters and rubber pellets the United Nations along with International Human Rights Groups are calling for Security Forces who have been documented using excessive violence against Peaceful Protesters to be held accountable. There have been specific cases not only violating the right to Peaceful Assembly but also the right to life and bodily integrity there have also been cases of Sexual Assault things that cannot be tolerated. On wednesday some secretary of the interior said he expects that any alleged Human Rights Violations will be thoroughly investigated the end. We are leaving they the for emergency and im really tired. But this doesnt not just to fight human rights abuses. Well the majority of protests in the country have remained peaceful theres also been widespread vandalism and hundreds of businesses have been looted a military in force curfew has been announced for a 5th night in a row and has been extended to other cities of cheating the concern now as more people continue to join in the demonstrations and violate that curfew is that the violence that weve seen over the past few days will only worsen. Between protests that continue to intensify and a government who seems unable to regain the trust of the public a peaceful solution to the unrest appears to remain out of reach. Something. Police in england are still questioning a man after 39 bodies were found in a container truck the driver was arrested on suspicion of murder following the discovery in grays on wednesday morning its believed the container traveled from bulgaria and arrived in the u. K. Via the belgian port as a Brother Police are working to identify the victims israels former military chief benny gantz has been asked to try to form a Coalition Government the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to do so afghans cant do it either israel may end up going through its 3rd election in the space of a year or a force that has more now from western muslim. For the 1st time in more than 10 years israelis watched a president give someone other than Benjamin Netanyahu the chance to form a new government riven rivlin urged benny gantz and israels entire Political Class to get it done and avoid sending the country to the polls for the 3rd time in less than a year. The law gives you 28 days to form a government starting from tomorrow this is a short time and these are fateful days. Gantz a former army chief has tried to present himself as a pragmatic centrist throughout his short political career now but its most significant moment so far there was no change of course if dr cuellar keep my promise to form a liberal unity government and thats what i intend to do in this government i will serve all Israeli Citizens and its in their interests i will work to form a functioning government that israel is in desperate need of a government that will strengthen israel a unity government means one composed of dances blue and white party and the likud of Benjamin Netanyahu and you who blamed gantz for frustrating his efforts to do the same thing ever since he was given the mandate last month now the roles are reversed but the same obstructions bar the way blue white says it wont sit in unity government led by a man and you know hes facing indictment in 3 separate Corruption Cases netanyahu is refusing to step down or to go 2nd in a potential rotational Prime Minister deal hes seen as having a better chance of fighting off those charges from the Prime Ministers office and theres no reason yet for the stalemate to break. Another option for gantz a minority government with external support from members of the mainly palestinian israeli joint list that would be fraught with Political Risk even if there was the will to give it a try so far gantz isnt willing to do so. Benny gantz has another path failure and the upside down of israeli politics it could just lead to success the longer he spends not forming a government the closer netanyahu gets to a possible triple corruption indictment testing the loyalty of his party. To the dancers mandate expires a final 21. 00 day scramble would ensue all kinds of deals could then be on the table if no deal gets done that it would be election number 3 early next year ari force it out west jerusalem. Several people have been killed in violent protests across ethiopia after a high profile activist accused of plotting to assassinate him controversial media entrepreneur. Says his security detail was removed in the middle of the night robyn kriel has. A message to the o. P. s Prime Minister ahmed from hundreds of mostly young ethnic or my man outside the home of the man they are calling their hero. Throughout the day young men have been coming to this neighborhood in addis ababa they say they are gathering in support to show solidarity to do 100 the popular but polarizing figure mohamad owns the influential or mia Media Network and has emerged as a prominent activist since his return from exile in the United States last year some even credit him with galvanizing support for the protests that brought Prime Minister abi to power but their relationship seems to have soured yet nothing on tuesday ill be told parliament that people with joy nationality who also own media organizations should not stir up and rest an apparent reference to muhammad who has dual u. S. And its european citizenship mohamed calls that a threat the problem is that in the parliaments Public Police are harshly threatened the media and. The usual unexpected mohamed has had official Police Protection since last year because of threats on his life late tuesday night he says Security Officials arrived at his home and told his guards to leave they refused mohammad says it was an assassination plot and he blames the Prime Ministers comments with. Some Security Officials to independently out. There that he give them green light. Im not certain about idiot. However i dont believe these were isolated incident at the o. P. s Police Commissioner and a short test you denied mohammeds account saying his message that the police were taking measures against him are false neither the government nor the police took any measure against him wednesdays protests began as news of the incident spread through the state of or mia and at the end of our interview a further twist im not sure whether i dont fall over there i dont know but im super i mean seriously considering. Direct and active participation in the coming election and even before the ship to ensure that the transition that thousands so i question was for will not hold back elections are scheduled to be held next man robyn kriel al jazeera. Now a court in bangladesh sentenced 16 people to death over the murder of a young woman in march john rafis killing provoked outrage across the country in april the student was tied up doused in kerosene and set alight after refusing to withdraw a Sexual Harassment complaint against a head teacher. South koreas Prime Minister has met japans leader in tokyo at a time of increased tensions not yonan shinzo are they agreed that strained relations need to be mended its the highest level meetings since tokyo introduced export controls on materials that are crucial to the south korean Tech Industry that was in response to seouls demands for compensation from japan for wartime forced labor. Both Prime Ministers have agreed that they are important neighboring countries in the region and we cant leave the difficult situation of bilateral relations as it is in terms of north korean issues we need to collaborate together Prime Minister lee urged for dialogue and Prime Minister are they once again said we need to keep promises between the countries and hopes to continue the dialogue to resolve the issues. Journalists in hong kong say their jobs are becoming harder to do was the protests continue they accuse beijing of gagging debate and say local police are cracking down with Unreasonable Force reports. Isabella studder is a Deputy Editor for quartz media based in hong kong after a decade in the industry she says her job is becoming increasingly difficult and media groups with links to Mainland China are under pressure to self censor ports the stakes place and different ways for example Chinese Capital being invested into different forms of Media Television and newspapers for example with many people saying that a lot of media outfits in hong kong are now in leaning if not outright sort of parroting the Chinese Communist party line its a view shared by the Hong Kong Journalists Association which says Media Freedom is at its worst since the former british colony was handed back to china the 9097. 00 deal gave the semi autonomous territory freedom of speech until 2047 but with more than half of hong kongs media owners also members of political organizations on the mainland critics say journalists are increasingly avoiding topics that could anger the communist party or jeopardize commercial interests in china the carnival tolerance of being politically sensitive in particular those relating to chinese suffering to Congress Party leadership through the briefings presidency to have got more and more sensitive this years World Press Freedom index from Reporters Without Borders ranks hong kong 73 on the list dropping from 800 spot in 2002 china ranks 177 out of one 180. 00 countries surveyed as well as complaints of an increasingly restricted media landscape the hong kong genesis o c action has also filed a legal challenge against the police its accusing them of using obstructive tactics on journalists covering the antigovernment protests including unnecessary and Excessive Force the prodemocracy protests of 2014 triggered a resurgence of independent Media Outlets including Hong Kong Free press which relies on reader donations to survive despite its nonprofit status the editor says it too has. And subject to political interference that says the government needs to strengthen its safeguards we have seen from pressure from your forties and threats and things like that but i have some faith that if we continue you know to just report truthfully and generally we stay out of these these debates we dont have an agenda. Then then well be able to carry on the extradition bill which triggered the antigovernment protests my being formally withdrawn but with no sign of this political process ending the citys reputation as a bastion of free press is increasingly at stake. Aljazeera hong kong. And a quick reminder of all the news of course on our website there it is on your screen address aljazeera dot com. Time for a quick check of the headlines here on aljazeera u. S. President donald trump has lifted sanctions on turkey saying it has assured him a cease fire in northeastern syria will be permanent ankara launched an operation against kurdish y p g fighters earlier this month and has now made a deal with russia to create a socalled safe zone so im concealing it is in istanbul with more. Turkey assured that the military operation is halted and the cease fire is permanent saw turkey will no longer conduct any offensive against the current Syrian Kurdish Fighters Group y p g and also the other esurance turkey gay was securing the imprisoned are still are still fighters in the area that was theres a greater theres a safe zone and theres been an explosion in one of the towns on the turkish control 4 civilians were injured it was thought to be happened in the adds main market the headquarters of turkish but syrian that. Lebanons president michel owns due to address the nation in the next couple of hours protesters have been calling for political change during demonstrations across the country over the last 8 days early results from bolivia as president ial elections show the incumbent obama rollos has a 10 point lead over his main rival protests between rival groups of intensified after his main rival car last semester claimed he has evidence of electoral fraud in sundays but Rights Groups have condemned police and military in chile using whats being described as Excessive Force against protesters at least 18 people have been killed in 6 days of demonstrations for a court in bangladesh just sentenced 16 people to death over the murder of a young woman in march news right john rafis killing provoked outrage across the country in april the student was tied up doused in kerosene and set alight after refusing to withdraw a Sexual Harassment complaint against a head teacher and the remains of a right wing leader who ruled spain for 36 years of being exempt from the state more than liam Francisco Franco will be buried alongside his wife in a cemetery in north of the capital madrid he led spain from the end of the civil war in 1039 until his death in 175 the government wants to turn the site into an immoral for half a 1000000 People Killed in the war. Well those were the headlines happened news continues here on al jazeera off to the streams thank you thanks for watching. The latest news as it breaks up into this month that started peacefully but the major confrontation is taking place for those with details coverage there they go will be heading down to 110 meters which is so deep that i only have 50 minutes on the seabed from around the world the remains of may never be found through your they still exist yes his legacy lives on. For years most of American Families in a chicago suburbs they were being watched by the government over white im from new york and im here in the stream join our conversation today with your thoughts via twitter or by using our live chat. Im familiar call spots around the neighborhood strange playing for the rubbish always clicking sound on the phone and i chill home visits from federal agents it was the made in 1990 s. And these signs told the british Illinois Community that something wasnt quite right the newly released documents recalled the feeling of being watched sheds light on what they feared all along but the federal bureau of investigations had been spying on them for years take a look. Right there. Take down. The. Ridge view mosque leaders have been under surveillance for years. Since august of 9099 ive been working to legally expose the very real receive it middle eastern terrorists to american citizens at home and abroad the successful investigation. Trail. I want to find out everywhere that our name is on a list. And i need people of. Privacy weaver so if the f. B. I. Has a file they will release. It. And joining us to discuss this documentary is its director filmmaker and our we she is based in los angeles but speaks to us today from her hometown in bridge view illinois where both she and i grew up together also with us we have. Teddy at the center for the. Institutional rights in new york. On a lawsuit to compel the government to hand over f. B. I. Surveillance documents of the movement for black lives and finally coming to the founder and president of the Muslim Wellness Foundation of the nonprofit focused on the Mental Health of american muslim communities can you lead joins us from philadelphia pennsylvania we also reached out to the f. B. I. To be part of this program to send us a comment that comment wells no comment when you start i want to start with the Community People online tweeting about this after getting a chance to see it streaming here in the u. S. At least this is a tweet from someone whos handle is no child for the f. B. I. Several people are turning their heads that way and will discuss why in a minute but they write this documentary shed light on a pervasive yet almost invisible manifestation of every day islamophobia and i am grateful for us yeah were validating our experiences i see of course i will give this one to you because i feel similarly its the community that you and i grew up in since kindergarten 1st grade and it was a secret but it was one we all knew about talk to us about the impetus for you and why you wanted to be the person to uncover what this was. Yeah like you say we grew up in a neighborhood where the vans and unmarked cars parked down the street when their parents warning us not to talk to strangers in suits and it was an open secret with something we all knew about we knew that we were under surveillance it was something we rarely talked openly about we rarely talked about outside of whispers and. Its something that i experienced and i thought was normal for such a long time in fact until i went off to college and realized oh most americans actually dont grow up this way this is a unique experience to growing up muslim in america you know i worked as a radio journalist for a long time and at a certain point 6 years ago i decided i really want to get to the bottom of what really happened in our neighborhood you know we live with so much paranoia with so much which is actually in effect of all the valence i wanted almost to check boxes off like this happened this didnt happen true false and so i started digging into it and investigating and when i found out with so much bigger than anything we. Had had expected or ever thought actually happened a lot of people could be watching this and thinking oh you know september 11th that was the impetus for the f. B. I. To salt looking at communities pull this happened before september 11th and also the f. B. I. Would be looking into particular communities in many many decades can you help us understand that a little bit more fly internationally what are they doing and i think i think the reality is that the point of departure for this kind of conversation is really this notion of predictive policing and so in any time of crisis in this nation real crisis or imagined crisis Law Enforcement tends to default from. Investigating criminal activity after its happened to this notion that somehow we can predict and intervene in advance and i think we need to start doing the work of collapsing that notion with with races and islamophobia and targeting because invariably its historically dysphasia. Communities that end up being targeted are the circumstances under a crude really really a crude kind of stereotypical notion that you can make determinations about individuals behavior based on their fundamental identity and so my experience representing people who have been targeted like this is that not only does it infringe on Civil Liberties not only as a tear communities are but it really attacks basic fundamental Human Dignity and thats really the radical part of what his film has done is to tease out the lived experience of folks have been talking this goes back to the early to the founding of this country. Can. The f. B. I. Who they will have to take why they went into this particular community and they will say this is why we didnt im going to play a little comment from them in just a moment but from your perspective what do you saying is the reason why the f. B. I. Would go into a community that has no history of terrorism and then start to look for it. Well i think you know the reason why im nodding is because the government always needs a convenient villain and in order to sustain some narratives about communities of color about american muslims they need to sort of manufacture reasons why this is something that will protect National Security and because so Many Americans cling to this myth of meritocracy of the partiality it sort of lends itself to this notion that while of course of the government is looking into a Certain Community it must have its reasons and i think sometimes even as the community thats being targeted we also begin to believe that like well if we havent done anything wrong right that we have nothing to hide and that the American Government has our best interests at heart and so i you know i kind of chuckle to myself because you know as a muslim as a descendant of enslaved africans i feel like this intersection of identities d really kind of limbs itself to. Always sort of keeping a skeptical eye on the government and sort of always questioning the narrative the public narrative thats being disseminated because we often find that its false so what is that about because we got this tweet from someone who watches the stream very often so its really about the topics that we cover and the issues that many communities face but they wrote this this is anthony who says im going to go out on a crazy live here and say the f. B. I. Had good reasons to put resources into the surveillance and race didnt come into the equation at all. I mean everyones laughing their ass it looks like you want to take this on 1st go ahead for it i mean. Ill jump in and just like picking up back off what dr rashad was saying this idea that if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to worry about is a claim that we came across a lot even in our own community in bridge view people really felt that if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to worry about and the entire premise of this statement if aleph because it is based on this idea that innocence matters and it doesnt based on your you know racial profile be thrown your last name be found your religion even if you have nothing to hide you have a hell of a lot to worry about so. Yeah how do we know that like. If i can i theres another problem with that which is that even if you have nothing to hide the cost of of being targeted by the surveillance state is immense and so i was so the center for Constitutional Rights represented the Muslim Community in new jersey following the n. Y. P. D. Is blanket Surveillance Program after 911. 00 and not a single lead was produced despite thousands of man hours and immense resources put behind that program but the experience of our clients is is really of being utterly demeaned having their every aspect of their life no matter how quotidian no matter how normal subject to scrutiny one of our clients operated a school for muslim girls out of the basement of her home the n. Y. P. D. Was there writing down the the students who went in their ethnic makeup and to suggest that that doesnt impose tremendous cost on individuals trying to live their lives is. It i mean this is really i think the beauty of the film it forces the confront what it means to to have the state turn its power on you in this way lets have a look a little clip from the film because i know you have all watched if i want to solve this to someone i wouldnt still havent watched it watch the full a u. S. Attorney. And to sit down and to talk. About why operation. The operation they focused trial why it was even why even existed and this is what he told asio have a look. Do you think that this long investigation was justified. If there are had been crimes uncovered ah or crimes prosecuted that would have been justified here are you trying to say you think the investigation you know was a result of islamic phobia or prejudice. Susan i do not think that certainly was not my world view certainly certainly is not. And have i ever thought that that was what was happening i would have not been part of it because that is not obviously who i am maybe not so obvious but it is an order of i mean it if its a bigger question which it is or is are islamic phobia in this country of course there is more the years are its really f. B. I. Well i think its. Well he did say he just didnt say. Any more comfortable asio. Yeah i mean its so interesting on camera that hes really having a somatic response yet in this moment to the discomfort of knowing something and hiding it and also yeah not being forthright about something so much we saw a lot of it was you know like things are kind of coming out of it yes yes really coming out of this chance to pretty incredible thing to capture on camera actually when you know someones not telling the truth in their words but another truth is coming out in their body and theres so much. I think the other the other problem here is that he said if there had been crimes cover that would have been justified and the question becomes well what if your crime
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