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Police and protesters face off with hong kong again as china confirms it all that it cleared up by its army. A car bombing near a busy bus station in northeastern syria turkey blinds what p. G. But as for the attack that killed 19 people im happy to simply go to sports controversial quarterback Colin Kaepernick prepares to showcase the skills in front of n. F. L. Teams 3 years since his last game better and more later this news hour. We begin the news hour with violence scenes in the french capital where police and demonstrators have clashed on the 1st anniversary of the yellow vests protest movement for the some paris fire tear gas and water cannon that hundreds of them astray has after they built barricades across the city and set fire to cars and rubbish bins more than 100 people have been a rough. They yell a Vest Movement began last november over rising fuel prices and the high cost of living the weekly demonstrations soon grew into a broader revolt against president obama and across Economic Reforms means barker has more now from paris. This is the plaster its really in the center of paris its very much become the epicenter of clashes between demonstrators from the yellow press movement and lines of police many i take a couple of 1000 demonstrators amassed here earlier on they have permission to do that but the scenes quickly became violent you can see probably a tremendous amount of damage around whats left of some wooden buildings over here smoldering the fire brigade have been over here trying to put fires out and the police over here have been doing what they possibly can to remove the square of the remaining protesters theyve been firing tear gas at them and that over there is a water cannon thats been used very very liberally in deede to push people out of this area we just found ourselves unfortunately on the wrong end of that water cannon just a few minutes ago let me explain that what were looking at here is really a hard core element within the yellow best movement this isnt anything like the huge process that we saw earlier on in the year where many tens of thousands of people took to the streets of paris and other cities like bordeaux and to lose these people are very much the fringe as it were and we did also come across some people who had come by bus from power some the outskirts of the city very disappointed by what theyre seeing here they feel that it doesnt send the right kind of message it doesnt strike a chord with what the yellow Dress Movement is all about but the reason perhaps why the movement has dwindled over the last few months primarily thats a stun grenade just going off there a few of them reason why its the window in support over the last few months just because this is one of its main aid. Sort of overturning a new tax on diesel fuel but also present the emanuel by chronos being forced to cough up 11000000000. 00 in aid to help the poorest sectors of french society. Landry cheli is a former french diplomat and the founder of the political and Security Risk consultancy terrorist she joins us live now via skype from paris madame thank you for joining us here on aljazeera i dont know if you could hear a correspondent there from paris saying that what we saw today in the french capital with french groups really that the fair that the elevates have dwindled by and large because theyve been victims of their own success in the sense that a lot of the measures that they wanted have actually be agreed to and implemented by a man while the crowd what do you make of that have we seen do you think the end of the yellow vests now and i mean and the true. 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Because i can see that and know that it will take part of his administration because its. Part of their claim and is in understand there now is understand also that they have to be maybe more i dont think its enemies m. C. F. Because they are part of the french citizens and so it will be. Better for them to be reserved i mean the bigger. With you know an organisation. Many. Of the flat the fleet of their claims which is a war i mean having a decent like freezer when you walk in your salary has to early. 2 to relieve properly so its weather for them and then claim. We got to find that in. What has been. Claimed to be anthrax on the 5th of september or so and theres some other asari so thats means that they have all their parts and maybe also what they have done or that youre. Creating together lets in context for claiming and said maybe hes opened the gate for the movement that were going to get on the future of this summer and be interesting to see how that they pans out the face of the center for the moment than judicially former french diplomat thank you for having joined us and you going to have more from london a little later in the news hour now though lets go back to stand in those. Well the price of fuel xin creased by up to 200 percent in iran and thats triggering protests one persons been killed and several others injured as they tried to enter an oil refinery in the Southern City of so john the government says the rise is needed to combat fuel smuggling those reports. Anger frustration and growing concern in tehran as people protested against a 200 percent increase in fuel prices. Many simply turned off their engines on major highways across the city to show their disappointment at the sudden decision to raise petrol prices overnight. As heavy snow blanketed the capital people still lined up at the gas stations to fill up. The quota for remarked i this is not a wise decision considering our horrible economy and sanctions we are under its a cruel decision because it wont affect the wealthy people only the poor people will pay the price. This will 100 percent impact Everything Else its not just about the press of gas or commodities will be impacted by those issues this will only hurt low income families they were supposed to increase subsidies 1st then raise the price of fuel they will find another excuse to cut their subsidies later. The protests have not been limited to the capital this was the scene in the Southern City of abidjan enclose a sun province overnight here state t. V. Announced a number of individuals it described as unknown elements fired into crowds of people injuring some. The shock of this news has yet to sink in here with a new prices motorist now pay about 0. 13 a liter thats a 3 fold increase the government expects to earn nearly 2500000000. 00 from the price increase and says that it will help millions of families in need had that said is that the 1st payments will be handled within the next week or 10. 00 days and transferred to the families in model year a strong president believes that if there is going to be petrol price reform all of the new revenues will be paid back to the people. That many people here fear that this decision could have far reaching consequences it stems from a number of issues while iran has huge Energy Reserves its refining capability is limited and that makes it difficult to get fuel to the pumps. The government is also fighting fuel smuggling to neighboring countries thats because iran has some of the cheapest prices in the world due to its heavy subsidies and a weak currency the economy here has been struggling for years but since the United States withdrew from the 2015 nuclear deal last year and reimpose a series of new sanctions on iran things have been getting much worse inflation is just over 40 percent with unemployment rates at over 14 percent officials here say that this fuel price increase will help people but its proving very difficult to convince ordinary iranians door so to aljazeera town. While loans has flared up again in Hong Kong Police fired tear gas at protesters withhold by petrol bombs as the largest demonstrations were happening china confirmed it sent its army in on friday. To help clean up debris near one of the universities Hong Kong Government says it didnt ask for any assistance steve saying is the director of the China Institute of the university of London School of oriental and African Studies he joins us on skype from nottingham its nice to have you with us i want to go 1st of all to what china is saying about deploying the peer lies saying this was a voluntary clean up but does it send a resume intended to send another message to the protesters and the people of Hong Kong Well the Peoples Liberation Army Garrison in hong kong d is not allowed to barracks unless to be questioned by the government a whole call no request was made by the government or phone call and they could only have the barracks by all the offices it is clearly a signal sent to protesters in hong kong to expect to be ploy to get things continues to worsen is that what your anticipating now that we are going to say given that as you say and does that the government of hong kong has said they did not invite the pale way onto the streets so what would you expect now is this what were likely to see again. Well the policy was made and b. For. The Chinese Communist party about 2 weeks ago and thats to give hong called a bit of towns to redouble its efforts to implement Chinese Governments policy on hong kong so i think they will still give hong call it be talk tom perhaps measured in months before they will call i did the garrisons in hong kong or sending the Peoples Armed police function more combination of so would you say this as being a significant change when you look at the the army being on the streets also see jumping saying that the protests are real threats or real challenge to the one country 2 Systems Program policy under which hong kong was brought back under Mainland China rule. Yes i think it is clearly a major escalation and the Chinese Government is sending now a clear signal to hong kong basically that ita yet somehow found a way out of it or d they will be facing the chinese Security Forces in and out of money thats a very worrying scenario is not. What it is very very scenario because if and when chinese Security Forces are being deployed across the border to hong kong then we will be seeing the end goal one country 2 systems more though in hong kong. Whatever the transcript say is not their intention that the fact that result almost certainly will happen. Where does this leave kerry lerman if she did not invite the troops onto the streets that theyve come onto the streets in any event and if what youre saying comes to pass and we say a much harder line from my mind china we see more chinese troops on the street where does this leave kerry why in the government a phone call well kerry lamb is for all intents and purposes already a lame duck she has proved herself to be completely ineffective not only in the eyes of the citizens of hong kong but in the eyes of the Chinese Government is really only a matter of timing when the Chinese Government will leave anyway and she must know that. So saying its been a pleasure to have you on the program thank you again for your analysis. Youre welcome. Theres plenty more ahead on the news hour including vote counting on the. President ial election to the front runner. I am scared i could lose if she gets really sick where in zimbabwe where both doctors and patients are suffering 2 months into a strike to demand better. Federal match in the semifinals of the 1825. 00 in london it will be actions. Turkey is blaming kurdish wife p. J. Fighters for a bombing in Northern Syria at least 19 people were killed and Dozens Injured in the explosion that happened near a busy bus station in the city of albab in a lipos eastern countryside. Is an assistant professor in International Relations at the university of nottingham he says it might not have been the white pages. If this is. The result of ice all then that gives us an indication of their capacity but i dont think anybody will find this unexpected even if this isnt caused by ice on it is caused by y p g as the turks say we will and we should expect isis members in parts of syria not just the in this particular region but elsewhere but also in very much so in iraq who will be conducting these form of attacks they will go back to what they did before they declared the Islamic State in 2014 and that is to revert to being a terrorist movement and the other thing we mustnt forget is that many of those members have returned to their homelands whether its in north africa whether its in europe whether its in central asia or the far east they have gone back and we already know that some of them have committed acts of terror in their homeland so this issue of isis or i saw is a big one and this may this particular incident may or may not be a symptom of it but the issue is far bigger than this particular incident the Iraqi High Commission for human rights says the least 7 people have been killed and more than 170 injured in protest of the past 2 days Security Forces fired live rounds during outage government demonstrations on friday iraqs top shia leader grand ayatollah Ali Al Sistani called for car movies with the sermon protesters angry about widespread corruption unemployment and poor basic services. Vote counting has begun in sri lankas president ial election that is rising religious tension and the slowing Economy Takes Center Stage former defense secretary rajapaksa and also the 2 main Candidates National security has been a talking point on the Campaign Trial after the easter bombings that killed hundreds of people but no fernandos has more from. The crucial 3 years of the 2001000 president ial election is underway the count as you can see the ballot boxes coming in buses like this to the Main Counting Center here in colombo one of the main centers Royal College the Election Commission chairman. Has spoken about the conduct of the election today. The 1st. We. See years. And counting all of the votes is going on right throughout the night this process being duplicated in counting centers in every single district obviously security as you can see around me is very tight to ensure the security of the ballot now what weve heard in terms of voter turnout weve heard that there has been around 80 percent the main question is going to be which of the frontrunners go to the rajapaksa the former defense secretary or sergeant prim of the us of the minister of housing which of them secures more than 50 percent of the vote if they are not able to do that the count goes into a 2nd round where preferential votes with the counted that becomes a little bit more complicated throughout the country are waiting to find out the results of those processes. And Bernard Smith is also in colombo with more of the front runners to become the next president. Got a pirate ship packs and knows as he bows to the buddhist priest that he can rely on support from voters within sri lankas majority thing but he also needs support from minority muslims and tamils too if he is to win this president ial election many of them are nervous of the prospect of a return to power of the rajapaksa. Got a pie was defense chief and his brother mahinda was president at the end of the civil war which the u. N. Estimates killed 40000 people that party also courts nationalists this is a big clue lanka get in with. The. Staff at shoreline because center for monitoring election violence say the poll has been free but not necessarily fair with reports of people being pressured on how to vote we have never seen that much influential factors like leaders leaders that are coming forward from or one particular political party. Such as prima das is the only other realistic contender in this election he gets support from rural buddhists and minority groups who could swing the result in his favor. The Ruling Coalition is choice but this is a government that ignored warnings about the Easter Sunday suicide attacks that killed 263 people prompting rajapaksa to announce his candidacy we are hoping for a new future 3 lanka and. Elect the right candidate and the same there are many candidates so its going to be a very competitive place so i just hope there. You know whoever gets elected can deliver on their promises and ensure a safe nation and a prosperous nation and everyone can sort of believe in peace 60000000 people were eligible to vote they had 35 candidates to choose from. The run up to sri lankas last president ial election was mobbed by violence and widespread intimidation this time its been peaceful it is though a tight race passions are running high but its made out is there a colombo protests in the west african nation of guinea have led to at least 20 deaths since they began last month thousands are demonstrating against proposed constitutional amendments which they say would allow president alpha conde to run for a 3rd term in office the home of all reports. The family. Is devastated they say he was shot by the government to protest in the name capital conakry on fears that his wife was left to bring up the other 3 month old baby on her she says she tried to prevent him from going out to join the protest. Thank you welcome everyone my husband did not come home and after his friend called my sister and said they had killed him i said its a joke we had just parted before he left i told him dont go out then i tried to call him and ask him to return but he was not picking up my calls and he never came back. Police killed 2 other people opposition supporters wearing a hooded jacket stoop to the streets to voice their anger at president up for condi and to object his plan to change the constitution so he could run for that you know what im going to. Read that d. N. A. In youth protesting in order to prevent the foundations of the republic from being destroyed in order to keep the men in power we are not against him in person but we are against him remaining in power beyond his term in office and. The latest demonstrations were called for by the National Front for the defense of the constitution the Alliance Leading the protests young protesters been tireless in the streets of the capital and torched a bus police said they used force after protest as little stones at them. 7 public anger against constitutional reforms began several weeks ago and there have been many violent confrontations with Security Forces since then i thought least 20 people have been killed im listing to National House condemned what to describes as a human rights abuses in guinea including the deaths of protesters at a huge number of opportunity at us how to divide a disease. So the president has been in court on charges of corruption and possessing illicit foreign currency alba shia admits receiving millions of dollars from saudi arabia but says he didnt use it for private means police discovered foreign and domestic currency stockpiled it is hollow and after his arrest this year was forced from office and i pull off the months of antigovernment protests if a bogan reports from a culture. The corruption trial against sudans also president obama is in its 3rd month and on the 9th session on saturday the defense Team Presented the odds general as the main witness now the Auditor General was supposed to testify during the past 3 hearings but because he was out of town he has testified today and the judge has accepted his excuse of being out of town and agreed to listen to him this saturday now the defense team is also saying that the media has been trying to sway Public Opinion people in the streets have been saying that the president is not facing the real charges which he should face which are work crimes and crimes against humanity in the Western Region of darfur and the southern regions of blue nile and South Kordofan a newly appointed state prosecutors say that its not their job to hand over the ousted president to the International Criminal courts where his facing those charges as well as charges of genocide and an arrest warrant has been issued against him the state prosecutors say that it is up to the Justice Ministry and up to an elected government in 3 years time to decide whether the president will be tried for those crimes here in sudan or whether he will be handed over to the International Criminal courts like many of the war victims in those regions have been calling for over the past few months. Zimbabwes government is threatening more disciplinary hearings if doctors dont return to work ive been on strike for nearly 3 months now or the poor and working conditions are about our size bore from harare. Principle tar was fired earlier this month along with hundreds of other Junior Doctors in zimbabwe the government dismissed him for going on strike to demand better pay and work conditions in Public Hospitals he says he wasnt paid in october and because hes now unemployed he wont get paid in november soon he will have to move out of this department. 2 weeks. Opinions. From admitting to us Junior Doctors. In terms of food the bar was once busy Public Health facilities and usually quiet the waiting areas and awards are deserted the strike has dragged on for more than 2 months most doctors were fired after they failed to attend disciplinary hearings the reason was that they couldnt afford to pay for transport zimbabweans are struggling to deal with the worst economic crisis in a decade they are storage is a foreign currency fuel power and medicines this doctor strike is a nother hardship that many people here say they have no choice but to enjoy. For mary quant to watching her daughter braxton suffer is painful the 3 year olds temperature is very high but neither nurses nor doctors are working at a local clinic. Nice and. A lot of people are going to die if my child starts having fits in the middle of the night she could die if the hospitals were working doctors would tell me what medication and injections she needs i am scared i could lose her if she gets really sick but mary says she understands doctors want to better pay like millions of others in zimbabwe storing inflation has eroded salaries and life is hard but theyre worried mother just wants her daughters pain to end. Like she thinks its a tonsils but says right now there is no one willing to help her. Still ahead on aljazeera in the palace struggle in lebanon a lack of electricity is just one of a long list of grievances the choice facing expats in war torn libya to stay or go when hitting hard with main returning to poverty. And in sport people will have more on this motorbike i love now the. Right. Alice bits of useful and heavy rain in lebanon has been snow in iraq not much shed sing from the satellite picture but what is there is traveling south and changing the season before crosswise it looks like will be fine 11th more see how the event however thats not true of iraq where rain is about to fall to its been snowing on the high ground in iran and tear on my get some more is probably 7 degrees it wont last long if anything this area of iraq is getting slowly colder this is all high ground of course come down to the sea level and youve got a lot of right and probably sundry and itll be hanging around kuwait drifting south possibilities uninstalls in society of course they might reach bahrain even counter on sunday or monday now north of it is not particularly kabul is will be the winter change i think south of all this still quite warm 30 in the middle of oman but we are talking about squeezing 30 now not easily getting to see how were heading towards wintry weather the present time of year is also quite undone in Southern Africa particularly south africa where so storming Kwazulu Natal the rains and head across to madagascar though it does not like sunday is dry and joburg nicely warmer 28. From a cost to jerusalem to buy i am on the go make this claim choose my own form milestone in history my own background. 3 short films that show how people take a stand against evictions in the struggle in communities the 1st time they arrested i was 11 years old a. J. Selects on aljazeera. I was taken to military are those that i was submitted beaten up not in force they were say dont think the intention was to make sure that injures no longer entitled to be the basic rights for Citizenship Rights one 3rd villages were burnt down were funneled into what is now become complex where the marines are basically your prince exiled coming soon on aljazeera. Youre watching aljazeera heres a reminder of our top stories this hour. Have been on the streets for more than 11 hours the 1st anniversary of the start of the yellow faced the police have tried to break up the demonstrations with water cannon and tear gas iranians are protesting against an increase in fuel prices the government says its part of a plan to combat smuggling one person has died during demonstrations in. Violence between protesters and police has flared up again its happened chinas Peoples Liberation army troops made a rare appearance to help clean up hong kongs government says it did not request. A shaky cease fire in and around gaza has been tested after 2 rockets were fired towards a town in israel is driving warplanes struck hamas targets in gaza in response 34. 00 people died earlier this week in the worst cross border fighting in months every force that has moved. Israels assassination of the senior Islamic Jihad commander. Led to a fierce round of escalation and more than 33rd the deaths inside gaza. Its also revealed and made worse the frictions between hamas which governs the gaza strip and Islamic Jihad which through rocket crews had been the trigger for repeated escalations in recent months. Has been pursuing a negotiated truce with israel it chose to stand back after the assassination of others i mean jihad fired hundreds of rockets and was in turn targeted by israeli gastro. Thanks d a senior hamas figure tells me the difference is a will on the way to being resolved but that hamas had no interest in going to war you talk about being dragged towards a bigger conflict by whom by Islamic Jihad by their actions by by i know im talking about no i think that it is not either said to take or this is going to to enter a war with israel so its not easy i think we have to have calculations about the prize theyre going to square this is about the results and the tactics how different our civil people how to or not to put more to bear than our people i think we have to put all these calculations in the chair but it is not easy i think its not a lot for any policy and virtually to get this in a lot i want to fire missiles. But in the aftermath of heavy israeli airstrikes one of which killed 8 civilians including 5 children there have been calls across gaza for hamas to do just that in the early hours of saturday morning 2 rockets were fired at the israeli town of a shaver intercepted by the anti missile iron dome system a few hours later israeli warplanes struck hamas site here in gaza a sign babs that hamas is good she wing had responded to public pressure. Theres been several protests since thursday cease fire and in a sign of the continuing tension a senior hamas figure was even barred from paying his respects at a ball otters mourning tent thats going to get this very angry that hamas did not join the fight against israel in that with the shooting that the 48 hour Israeli Escalation and it seems to me that we might even see further fiction and further complicated relationship in the future. Israel said it killed in order to stop the rocket attacks he directed perhaps also hoping it would inhance hamas is control of the gazas weaponry the question now is whether his death has removed an obstacle dividing gazas 2 biggest factions or whether the events of the last few days have done yet deeper damage to their relationship or if will sit ill just 0 gaza. Protesters in lebanon have been on the street for almost about the longest of the bans is electricity Stephanie Decker reports from beirut. Theyre making a point of being here around the clock the 24 hour protest calling for 24 hours of electricity the problem is we dont have 24 hours electricity provided by the government this is. So huge of this fact we have each person has to have a house we have to have a generator to fill the gap where we dont have electricity. So we will end up paying for extra city so the electricity is like 6 hours a day. Just the government electricity and we have provided electricity for our eating our money literally eating our money reform of the Electricity Sector is part of caretaker Prime Minister saad had a visa reform plan but with the ongoing political stalemate those reforms are as abstract as the idea of an interrupted electricity let alone has had functioning 24 hour electricity since before the civil war thats before 975. 00 thats why everyone has to rely on alternative sources and that translates to a mess crisscrossed electricity cables running streets and its like this across most parts of the country this couple tells us the situation is unbearable. Your government doesnt provide enough electricity or gas why we have to use generators but if you go to the areas where the politicians live electricity is a valuable 24 sevenths so they dont feel all problems as they dont live in a blackout the demand of those on the streets government supplied uninterrupted 24 hour electricity for all its a demand that isnt new my parents have been asking the same you know its insane that my 3rd. 40 years ago i have to say. Things that they need the same things i would ask you right now you know we pay taxes what we get nothing in return our functioning well the government the ministries are functioning well and yet the people are surviving and yet the people are still here still working imagine how much more productive they can be when the government gives them just their basic Living Standards electricity is just one of a long list of grievances including Water Infrastructure and Waste Management were told that decades of widespread corruption and mismanagement means that hardly anything works here the way it should Stephanie Decker aljazeera beirut ben as well as Opposition Leader is reviewing his push to force president Nicolas Maduro from office one is holding a rally in the capital caracas those pictures coming to you live now its almost a year since he launched his campaign to remove maturer the 36 year old came to prominence in january after he was named leader the Venezuelan National assembly. A long Time White House employee has arrived to testify at the impeachment hearing investigating President Donald Trump mark zandi works in the office of management and budget he is the 1st member of that department to testify cindis closed the door deposition is expected to include details on the hold up of military i d Ukraine Foreign nationals living in the libyan capital have been left with a stark choice they can stay in tripoli where they risk their lives because of the fighting well they can head home to poverty but moved up the wire reports on why some have chosen to stay for fear has haunted this moroccan family since the shrapnel injured their son and brother an appeal. For him and his sisters their lives were turned into a nightmare a rocket landed on their house in the salon de neighborhood in southern tripoli the excerpt luzhin blasted shrapnel into every corner of their whole. Ibrahim says he came to libya along with his family to earn a living as an electrician 5 years ago he is grateful his family survived but his wife says their children can no longer sleep properly at night. Were explosions every hour into syria my children have been so frightened that even the sound of thunder in the sky scares them in my son wakes up at night crying. Forces loyal to the world flee for hefted have been targeting residential areas with airstrikes and heavy weapons rights organizations say some attacks could constitute war crimes. A u n a panel of experts has recently blamed have to the military often civil in tripoli procreating case throughout the country but also revealed that the u. A. E. Jordan sudan and turkey have violated the arms embargo imposed on libya by supporting the warring factions many civilians have been killed or wandered by a random rocket or strikes since fighting began in april the tripoli based government says the United Nations mission in libya is not doing enough to protect them and those displaced by the fighting say they are called for help have gone unheard lucinda a British National says the house of her libyan father in law next to hers in gaza have been a shared area was targeted by an airstrike her husband they brought him as the escaped after have to his forces came for him because he campaigned against their war to seize tripoli the family moved to this house in their neighborhood but it is not far from the front line as we were speaking to them a rocket exploded nearby embedded themselves. Despite such a threat lucinda has decided to stay on well ive tried to reach the International Community because i see theres very little voices in the media. In english for them to and some whats going on and of course the same much propaganda you now have to came to save tripoli from terrorism and isis and everything which course isnt true. And theres no voices out there saying what is true and what isnt whats really happening here on the ground. Every friday in the main square in tripoli lucinda has been joining the protests shes worried the United Nations might not take action against have to this force is says theyre supported by some Member States like france and russia. Ibrahim in iraq a as a as a family they face a bleak choice either to leave and face poverty. And face the threat to their safety. And. Tripoli. Britains Prince Andrew has spoken publicly about his relationship with convicted sex offender jeffrey abstain from all this cross back to barber sarah you know your pain you senator. Stan thank you yes speaking to the b. B. C. That you could be york said he let the royal family down by staying at epsteins home after his conviction he expressed regret saying it was the wrong thing to do but some critics say the interview which allegedly took months to negotiate with blocking a palace could backfire on the boil catherine stansell explains but at the time and precedented interview with a Senior Member of the British Royal family and his connections with the convicted sex offender by Prince Andrew spoke to u. K. Media about american billionaire Jeffrey Epstein you were staying at the house and convicted sex offender at the end of the day. With the benefit of all the hindsight that one could have. It was definitely the wrong thing to do. But at the time i felt it was it was to honorable the right thing to do i kick myself for on a daily basis because it was not something that was becoming a member off only american billionaire Jeffrey Epstein hung himself in his jail cell in august while awaiting trial he was accused of sexually exploiting and abusing dozens of underage girls in 2008 epstein was convicted of soliciting sex from underage girls despite this Prince Andrew remained friends with epstein he went before the cameras to try to rescue his reputation but royal watchers believe his interview may make matters worse thats thats i think that this interview will be a train wreck but i think that it will have the effect of putting far more pressure than it has already experienced on Prince Andrew why did to visit a convicted sex offender why did he find it convenient to stay with him out while should the queens 2nd some think that this was all on rable way to behave which it wouldnt be for any human being virginia. Roberts giuffre says she was one of Jeffrey Epsteins underage victims and she says she was forced to have sex with Prince Andrew 3 times she says she met you in 2001 she says she dined with you danced with you at night club in london she went on to have sex with you in a house in belgravia a longing to go and knocks on your friend your response i have no recollection of ever meeting slated none whatsoever i dont remember meeting her this is Prince Andrew with the woman he says he cant remember meeting his lack of recollection is a departure from the denials issued in the past. Buckingham palace has always denied the allegations against Prince Andrew calling them false and without foundation this was a very carefully orchestrated interview that took place here and it was sanctioned by the queen herself this is the 1st time Prince Andrew has spoken so directly about his relationship with epstein but the way he handled the interview may well lead to more questions than answers catherine stansell al jazeera london as the u. K. s Political Parties fight for undecided voters ahead of next months general election theyre increasingly turning to Online Platforms for help much of the content is slick and well produced but as the reports theyre also creating im not sure if designed to go viral. We will leave you on the 29th of march 2000. Its made to raise a lot but it also makes a serious point about the conservatives failing to deliver bricks and when they said they werent this online video is the work of momentum the Grassroots Movement that supports labor leader Jeremy Corbyn one example of how Political Parties are using eye catching Digital Content in the battle for undecided voters and Boris Johnsons conservatives are firing back with a series of memes all with a similar message but with different treatments depending on whom theyre aimed at sean top and ben gearin the young new zealand is behind many of them were hired after helping australias center right liberal party score an unexpected election victory this year were posting 30 posts a day and more than 20250 a week that means you have to generate and publish a new piece of content every 20 minutes. Thats how you get what we call the boomer means because you have to crank stuff out quickly i love this one here this sort of horrible mix of neil playing a very bold sort of Canary Yellow this advertising professional who runs his own blog on the latest political means says this deliberately garish content is often counter intuitively popular with older voters we have seen some of the advertising the conservative party have done under 30 fives and they actually its got more of a sort of retro cool eightys vibe to it where its actually quite polished of well crafted in the way that your city uses. The visual language of the internet in quite a quite nice way for the digital Team Momentum the emphasis is on spreading content with real people talking about their lived experience of issues Like Health Care but they say theyll continue to put out satirical videos to talk very seriously about the things this government has done you can talk seriously about things like grand fell into it seriously about things you know like excess deaths as a result of austerity but then you can also talk reverently because i think you know people are just always communicating one time in their communicating and so many in this campaign were seeing online content thats generating lots of laughs and then were seeing content thats getting laughed at now some experts say what really matters is simply that people are engaging with the outputs but are those sounding alarm bells i think the important thing is that in trying to get those simple catchy messages across they dont lose sight of the importance of being honest with the electorate because sometimes the simple message isnt necessary the most accurate message well i cant hide it from you ive been thinking a bit about this general Election Campaign whats clear is more than ever before the search for hearts and minds is happening online as much as it is on doorsteps the dean barber al jazeera london. 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