Transcripts For ALJAZ Saudi Women Reform Or Repression 20240712

To ask for the publication to be prohibited that case still going ahead but with all these excerpts already be made public thats likely to bolster the courts position that it would follow precedent that Supreme Court has laid down a precedent that it will not see government interference in free speech as anything other than censorship so its unlikely that the court was going to rule in the administrations favor in the 1st place a Senior Administration official has been speaking to reporters claiming that john bolton had gone to the National Security council to get the manuscript vetted but group are impatient with the slowness of this and has gone ahead to. Go to publish without getting full in his see approval of the Book Publishers on the other hand contend that john bolton worked very closely in a vetting process of the book and one of the excerpts that is mentioned in the various publications john bolton refers specifically to the fact that he could use President Trumps exact words for example when he was meeting with president xi however because of the National Security council vetting of the book he wouldnt use the exact words so boltons publishers are absolutely insistent that theres no National Security issue here what there is is a great embarrassment for President Trump and that is not something that could lead to the banning of the publication but certainly the details are very damaging and they are very detailed indeed and well wait and see if as likely the court rules in favor of the publishers that the public can get a full look at the succumbed within a weeks time. Bolton also claims that trump told chinas leader that beijings mass in terms of. Ethnic minorities was exactly the right thing to do this is despite trump publicly condemning the master to master tensions and earlier on wednesday trump signed into law an act that all that arises sanctions for chinese officials involved trump says he regards some provisions of the act as long binding the u. S. Has welcomed efforts by china and india to talk and to ease tension after fighting on the disputed border in the himalayas on monday 20 indian soldiers were killed a former us Police Officer who fatally shot a black man in atlanta last week has been charged with murder and assault rolf shot ray shot brooks in the back on friday during an incident at a Fast Food Restaurant roxas death has heightened racial tension just weeks after the killing of George Floyd George fords brother has urged the Un Human Rights Council to work for justice for black people in the u. S. A group of 54 african nations called for action the violence arrest of a nurse at a protest in paris is causing outrage across France Police were filmed removing the woman from a crowd of demonstrating Health Workers who were demanding better pay for their work during the Pandemic Police say she was arrested for throwing objects. Lawyers in malawi have staged a protest against what they say is government interference in the judiciary president peter moved to reka has sent the countrys chief justice into early retirement just 2 weeks before an Election Rerun the president s durley attempted to overturn a ruling the course of his bid for reelection. But a Turkish Military official has denied claims that the navy harassed a french warship which was on a nato mission in the mediterranean he said that no communications have been established with either side meanwhile the turkish to the gate led by foreign minister never look cover solo has been missing libyas internationally recognized government. Is the governments main backer and that is the headlines the news continues here on out as they are after Al Jazeera World next. Are women equal to men the biggest absolutely we are all human beings and theres no difference there with the crown prince. How can i help you know 5 years in terms of opening up saudi arabia and i think especially what youve done for women committed to empowering its use empowering women you know your. Uncle feel so hot im comfy in the sound of them about that all afternoon it was a fear. I. The rights of women in saudi arabia have been a subject of debate for many years. The government has said it supports the empowerment of women and young people and they have been reforms including lifting the ban on women driving in june 28th they can also now attend sporting and musical events. But at the same time the arrest and detention of women speaking out against the government seems to have continued and this potentially undermines the kingdoms public desire to improve the status of women. In this program and al jazeera arabic team examines claims that over a dozen saudi women activists are awaiting trial that several are in detention and that many have fled the country because of how our assessment over their political views what is now happening as a woman has the choice to bring a woman has a choice a green answer to an action a woman to dont have to say i couldnt drive a car i couldnt find a driver because now you cant im saying whats happening its like a revolution in a very positive way and i want to just thank you. The 10 and the religion of the title of going to the shops and just how tough and honest i. Can feel this was the. Fun of the. Faith and. And mubasher to be a many here at 10. And my how would you describe how things are changing for women when they are bikes i mean its totally different because a couple of years ago we couldnt walk like us its different its really different. So where between these 2 poles does the truth lie aljazeera examines the state of womens activism in saudi arabia hearing from female Detainees International Human Rights Organizations and seeking responses from those at the center of Decision Making within saudi arabia. This is a story that begins with a series of arrests. Of saudi women. Starting in september 27th when an academic. Was arrested after talking about corruption in one of her lectures. Then in january 28th a student in womens Rights Campaigner. Was arrested after criticizing the Foreign Relations between saudi arabia and israel. Then in may 28th there was a wave of arrests including 12 prominent womens Rights Campaign is. The eldest was 70 year old doctor. A veteran campaigner for the right to drive others included hasa. And mahdi. Who oppose the countrys conservative guardianship system. Others included lou shine ill have new a man i love john. Uses and. Are all campaigners against the guardianship system. Their arrests were widely reported in saudi arabia where local media described the women asked traitors and agents of embassies. At the head a crime can. Lead to any welcome. One tomorrow but. Now. Well. They are bad enough to be admin anything but so mayor badawi is standing up against 2 of the most significant challenges facing women. In saudi arabia some are has translated her personal efforts into broader campaigns encouraging more women to speak out for their rights you are making a difference and we thank you for that. And shot. A form with f. Out and hope for consensus or do you want to follow your. Own a few yen and not a no bar none your must. Come with a great tone or bad muffy to hum a pleasure at the. Long walk theres ezine be shut in the last few. The case is. An example of many many other similar cases in saudi arabia with persons or detained with are to be lawful places for a prolonged period of of of time very often and subjected to very harsh inhumane conditions. Are thought to be helpful. And who are the target of them its the month of america. Still hold. On until. Someone but there we are talking at hamlet and the flat at the flat they had you dont want to fuck up. There why even when. You have a play that someone but there we. Sit in the band were bulkier to an arc or to add were both here whether jane has the law and yousif should then and izzy were a man in this fan. Jess said she were to never see why she year for a minute at that was sort of the hadley that kind of and it acts at that but it also there because of the setting up with them enough even though under the guardianship system as its enforced in saudi arabia women cannot leave prison without their male guardians permission even if their sentences expired and these are many cases that of course weve documented validating this in addition women who have gone to shelters government run shelters cant off and leave the shelters unless their guardian who is often times their abuser agrees that they should be able to leave. When we spoke of ivan someone who made it very clear that the world court was ahead of the popular and that actually many women didnt want to go out to work at this is an American Foreign demand i think its unfair of him to say that about women if he just takes the long waiting list of women waiting for a job in the Education Sector he would be amazed by the big number also the jobs are limited compared to the number of graduates i dont think theyre working hard enough in my. Regime that had their own but took a lot of men feel i should hear what they did in a suit you in later learned was a loop. Would she had to lay her. Whatever mohammed bin so man may have said the bloomberg. People have seen the indictment and the charge sheet against the women and the only charges against them relate to their talking to foreign media and foreign organizations like Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International there is no evidence no allegation of evidence that they talk to any foreign intelligence and it would just be ludicrous because even if they did talk to foreign intelligence what they talked about is Public Knowledge and that is the conditions of women in saudi arabia. Led to him and to those lakin and. And no. One national but. National. In the day or jane had their Number One National then my candidate national berman as. They are to be a c. E. O. For how they elected to say yes that. And what that why even say a set. Of a number of. Letters a lot whats your best effort to sort the property of those who shops. Are detected in. Judging from a. Little bit. Seem delighted for consumers. Come out in the. Free and. The all solly what dial a floor did when one of thin wire did a little. And if your mom. Says genocide it can make. You diplomacy in one stuff you. Have. A start enough of could i am a number see and then what on. The trial of the 11 women began in a criminal court in march 29th. Initially no charges seem to have been brought against the women but one london based Human Rights Organization said that the eventual charges related to the promotion of womens rights as well as sharing information with journalists and International Human rights agency. Following an International Outcry however some of the women were granted temporary release but others still remained in custody but with the outbreak of the covert 1000 pandemic all their trials have been postponed indefinitely. The aljazeera arabic team looked for accurate 1st hand information about the prison conditions of the women activists their search took them thousands of kilometers away to soften africa where they tracked down a human not deciding a former female detainee in saudi arabia crucially shed been held in prison alongside the high profile women activists. My dad wanted me to become a teacher he told me to go over for a year and try it out and see if i liked it and i could continue with it so i went to saudi arabia for a year basically that morning before i could go to work i got a call saying that i should come to the admin building a in the us if i supervise i was there just tell me that i had a problem with my passport and i need to go with somebody to the. What office. The moment i left the University Premises i saw the secret service says take about 6 cows in a line and they were all fully armed soldiers as well as police when they took me to my apartment and theyve been raided my apartment and from there we lived there was taken to the Security Headquarters in i. Am about night that through the supervisor came to me he came with his own phone and he said to me im doing a favor im going to allow you to find your pianist please dont tell your parents where you are just tell them with your ok and investigate my death tell me that its not on to your. Things have been arrested as well that same night around 11 oclock i was flown to today thats the present the habana that was my 1st night in prison. I did meet her nephew says in the demand for the. Krauts retired for the help of c. S. C. Well crafted apparatus yes future doc ock. In tax cuts. Details of the bond prison can be pieced together from sources in the Public Domain and the testimony of former detainees is iran 20 kilometers from jeddah on the west coast of saudi arabia. Its a maximum security facility completed in 2015 with space for 7200. 00 prisoners according to the saudi media baron is the most advanced prison facility in the country former prisoners have criticize it heavily but the authorities claim it offers top class facilities including gyms and swimming pools. Besss a sketch of a president the fact that a jew in there is just a sketch shows the female section and it this entire section here is. We call it includes we as ive written your grouping is for those who come out of status you can file and add them transferred to the group where. The side here the cells for such a confinement. We are here in the middle east a new wing that has been opened its called the activity wing so basically the flow of homes where girls can do activities this is basically their old investigation at home so when we came out for investigation we were being taken out from our cell and then taken to the investigation and all the way to change that and there opened a separate investigation as you can see here interesting question was very close to that group cells and we do yemeni things so i think for that reason they move their investigation phones very fast so we basically say anything and best saved up. In the british capital london a male saudi dissident has a Family Connection with. His elderly mother and 2 of her other sons have been held there for over 2 years with no scheduled released. And the lot of them with the can talk to. A little lost a little under. Mao them in the. Field when the. Mothers are a lot of that of the one in the house. In a year. Goes out of the year for what although not all the time as. I was from a couple. Of. The north and what i didnt know you how obviously thats the law so no. Longer available. No and look at a car like i think a horse to see out of d 10 with a hammer to see a kind of collusion with the best most anything thats a lock to be. Out of he just. Kind. Of the man who did the demo took the bit from the tank you know definitely said the bible or to college. Say that i dont want to deal with naming of die how in the toss a muscle pops for the. What i prefer to call ok he said its called. Marita what eric sort of so the l. S. A. Diet along with the more talk of our 2 how to care more how come by. Germany would help another 10 years later that america place it might the colony and conduct taccone later date on which the idea was hatched and are going to stomach the colombo called the magistrate sam in the middle. Some couple 100 a lawyer will not come sammy had taken the fight and come. 30 weeks after i was arrested the investigate this came in the room where the picture myself holding my dads weapon and he said to me that if you have photos on your phone a woman that oppose the government when i can comment is on the i havent seen so he took out the photo from his folder and he showed it to me and i asked him do you know who is this they said no i said this is me. The crime in south africa is very high so most helms specific least wanted to guns and it went astray and had to use the gun so that in case anything happens they can defend themselves. Sound you arabia uses a communication lawn to bring charges of cyber crime against socalled dissidents as well as foreign nationals like you not to sign with the law what is. It its not clear and certain and it can therefore be manipulated and used by prosecutors and charges to justify any action to to to to get a conviction and sentence in the end of course every country does need to have proper cyber tools but you cant have them used in this way where they are so general and where it would also be evidence. You are not allowed International Calls if youre a foreigner so i was obviously just able to call my parents for those entire 30 years that aesthetic asked if he was my sister. Cant decide the arabia she came because we didnt have as we didnt have a phone call and then we ended up phony her and the she was with the 2 files to give us and thats how i was by so i family. And after 6 months my family came and the time for a visit they were obviously denied a visit the 1st time they asked for they asked quite a few days eventually my mom went see human rights and death and she asked them to help her and they came with my mom to the present when ever we go to prison the difficulties that you experience its not like other prisons its a mess a messy Home Security prison its set on by military its not the civilian prison so it becomes very very difficult for example the room if you do your visits that the room is like a prison cell it has a steel door year and im the military guards who love you they will open that door for you and they on a cell phone know theyre on the walkie talkie you get instructions and they open then the president s coming from one influence if they all go blind folded. After about 7 to 8 months we were told that we are innocent and all 4 of us will be released a few weeks after they investigate they came back to me and he said to me that unfortunately you want me to guess you will have to face the court. When the 3 were released it was like but if you destroy the savoy you work out in all we will miss you know love we were x. That you needed a would you even have but you can imagine you bought you without them. We were never really. So as we were never in this who are in the concern was always as a family we. Will leave. Because it was 3 years was the go on confinement just the last was only. What she came up in at least we all said his father. But unfortunately that he is a pseudonym on. Coming up in part to saudi dissidents in exile way out there limited options remain a brant or return to saudi arabia. Thats fine just come back i dont think you will see too many saudis take that offer given of course the experience that were seeing in the country right now. Join our Global Community because the price is just slashed isnt the place that blessing upon my sin upon my soul human hands equals Global Health keeping you up to date this was a war situation where we have a human rights prices that persist beyond the Health Crisis counseling your questions is a dialogue or is it just nothing we are now approaching a crossroads this is an opportunity that we must go miss the stream on aljazeera. 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Hello again Adrian Finnegan here in doha the headlines on aljazeera donald trump has been accused of asking the chinese president to help him when the u. S. Election is one of a series of allegations which will appear in a new book by the former National Security advisor john bolton the u. S. Justice department is seeking an emergency order to block the books release of the white house has filed separate legal action mike hanna reports from washington boltons publishes absolutely insistent that theres no National Security issue here what there is is a great embarrassment for President Trump and that is not something that could lead to the banning off the publication but certainly the details of very damaging and they are very detailed indeed and well wait and see if as it is likely the court rules in favor of the publishers that the public can get that a full look at this account within a weeks time olsen also claims that trump told chinas leader that beijings mass in terms of week is and other ethnic minorities was exactly the right thing to do this is despite trump publicly condemning the past tensions on wednesday trump signed into law and acts that all the rise is sanctions for chinese officials involved trump says that he regards some provisions that were in the act as normal binding the u. N. Has welcomed efforts by china and india to talk and ease tension after fighting on the disputed border in the himalayas on monday 20 indian soldiers were killed. A former u. S. Police officer who fatally shot a black man in atlanta last week has been charged with murder and assault rolfe shot brooks in the back on friday during an incident at a Fast Food Restaurant brookes death has heightened racial tension just weeks after the killing of george floyd and George Floyds brother has urged the Un Human Rights Council to work for justice for black people in the u. S. A group of 54 african nations called for action the Violent Arrest of a nurse at a protest in paris is causing outrage across France Police were filmed removing the woman from a crowd of demonstrating Health Workers who were demanding better pay for their work during the Pandemic Police say that she was arrested for throwing objects. Is the headlines now lets get you back to aljazeera world. 3 dozen countries including all 28 members issued saudi arabia with its past rebuke at a Un Rights Forum on thursday part figured on a question about the use of the competition of the National Security prohibitions against the virtue of peacefully exercising their rights on through. That rebuke of saudi arabia by the United Nations Human Rights Commission in march 29000. 00 was in direct response to the detention a year early yet of womens Rights Campaign is in the kingdom. It came after a group of british m. P. s and International Lawyers had made a formal request to the saudi authorities to allow them to access the country and speak to the detainees but they never received a response. The cases had attracted International Political and media. Attention and 3 of the women with temporary release at least 7 remained in place. Human rights organizations european governments western governments have protested many many countries not just western governments have signed letters and issued resolutions calling for their release so why. Remains detained why assad by that we remains detained while others were released on bail is really a question that should be addressed to the saudi government many of the goals that the president. And absolutely nothing against the will of oil family they love the state but because of the conditions they kept saying because of the way that. Jail by the time they leave the present they obviously hate the state their hay. And. Claims to be fighting terrorism by the way theyre going about i think being best they are themselves. Amongst the people. What we do know for a fact that the saudi government is spending millions and millions of dollars to try to address of the damage to its reputation that its behavior has caused including of course the detention of these womens rights activists and of course its really disappointing that rather than spending all of this money on propaganda and Public Relations to try to restore the damage that its actions are causing to its reputation why it doesnt just release these women activists as well as other political activists that its attaining in the country. The al jazeera arabic team examined the case of. A saudi woman whod up to and asylum in sweden in march 27th. Claims that she was tricked into returning to saudi arabia after receiving assurances she said from the saudi ambassador to sweden the last anyone heard. Was this tweets from riyadh and. Ringback i shall marsal who returned to sound arabia after assurances on senior staff that it was safe for me now the police at king holiday airport have arrested me i want to warn all women and girls do not return this situation is the same she tweeted. The kingdoms ambassador in sweden guaranteed my. I safety wrote i shot from a san at the airport before being taken away. Aljazeera wrote to the saudi ambassador to sweden abdul aziz as i read to ask him if this account i shall marzouk was accurate in his view had a guaranteed a safety if she were to return to saudi arabia no reply was received. Marty is another saudi human rights activists also living in sweden. She keeps a low profile and initially declined to be interviewed all meet the aljazeera team but eventually in may 2019 she agreed to tell her story filming the interview at a location away from her home but in a starting in a yemen one today at. Let in have a smaller field. Of interest book to work them smooth again people. 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Saudi government has a well known Campaign Underway of trying to bring saudi dissidents critical saudi voices who are outside the country back to the country and we know that the saudi government has through intermediaries like mr arkell danny attempted to reach out to many other distance outside the country trying to persuade them to come back in some cases as you mentioned by signing some kind of apology or confession but in other cases just saying its fine just come back i dont think you will see too many saudis taking up that offer given of course the experience that were seeing in the country right now. Aljazeera contacted the saudi government through its ministry of media it asked if the former quarter devices sound bin abdul qahtani was involved in efforts including threats to persuade saudi womens rights activists outside saudi arabia to return to the kingdom. Ringback and no reply was received. I mean and that ok for i dont know him and the job was. 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According to the information received held in an informal facility that was referenced and cold the hotel the we dont know specifically where that is what our initial investigations received is that thats where the interrogations took place and thats where the initial torture and abuse of the women detainees take place. Little is known about the facility they call the hotel in fact theres no independently verifiable evidence of its existence. The claim of torture at this location said to be close to pond prison comes from a group called kists meaning justice base in the u. K. Its an organization that documents a ledge Human Rights Violations in saudi arabia. And. Qatar. The aljazeera arabic team tried to find out more about the socalled torture hotel one source a Family Member of a detainee who asked to remain anonymous did shed some light on it. The source claimed that the villa is in a densely populated area and that detainees are transferred there from their place of detention by private check its. Not decide the South African teacher who was held in prison had testimony about the socalled hotel one of the detainees they tell we are at the place near the place before she were india before she was taken a bit so she said to me the public see is that how a tail end i think is where princess di but they dont actually know what happens in. The mccann has and can make an medusa of a kind can mold can can. Can can fund also out of that leave if you know out of it that the well you may talk a little sort of. The get a new fee no im a little bit done with it i mean the fans can have. A sort of story i mean a lot of stuff govern like im probably one of the turbulent ability to go out and assemble people i like. Woodward for the job and ill be much a sort of. In terms of the investigation that weve been conducting in saudi arabia for the past several decades i would say that the torture allegations that weve documented over the past year are certainly unprecedented i know that in 15 years at Human Rights Watch its very very rare if ever that we documented torture of anyone male or female we dont know of course if thats necessarily means that people werent tortured before but certainly in terms of what weve been able to document this is a significant escalation. And i know my limits and not them be a what used to shoot footage that she is. Sometimes people or moment it might us it will. Be sensitive list as we can see if you. Have little youve got a. Forceful hugging the threats of rape. One of the women was having difficulty walking after the torture she endured another of the women tried to kill herself because of the torture she endured and of course a prolonged psaltery confinement has been another means of torture that the government has been using. I myself have seen quite a few girls that had to commit suicide it was an 18 year also did go off that i myself had to go and how she makes it there. And back it over a hint that is copyrighted and i think i must often take pull out of the bathroom and take out the back at an antiu. S. Why. Would we have to sort of. Get a. Job or. Would be. Allowed to have a fuckup. And wire them in. American has. To have. A ballot. For the counter to and who can have a new def in there and. Can and you had taken a. One of the girl that i spoke to also that while she was being interrogated they would line up prisoners on the chair and they went like the prisoners. In order to force her to speak and the prisoners would like. To have our say so that they wouldnt. Let down that i spent she was born in prison and for one and a half years i said it was like the most. Touching thing ever watching her learning her only world was us 4 walls watching her learn to crawl learn to speak learn to walk starting to eat the things living us 4 walls and i thought of a. Government saudi Human Rights Ministry did indeed carry out an Investigation Report claims to have. Seen the women as well as the saudi prosecutor said that it did its own investigation of the prison conditions as well to no surprise they concluded that there was no evidence of torture or there were. Was another torture that there was another report a saudi government report that was leaked that did corroborate injuries to the women. He. Took the only job you want out of jimmy wolf difficultly incentive do him in the united use a dream about a killer on that money of you multiple feet at her. Posy eltons took a lot of clock in a 2nd most book on why dont we spoke on. What couldnt means our last resort you could miss charlecote 110 we have to. Why dont we look at what are you know how jamila well know sort of your heart for home shock over how to dial a lanyard to tell you to look in which to rest rudy bill in sony a. Aljazeera wrote to the chairman of the saudi Human Rights Commission asking for a copy of their december 28th report of the prison no reply has been received. I am an incident. During lie time in the band that i learned that one f. O. s cellmates passed away the night that she passed away we had. Unusual activity we really didnt have any idea what exactly was happening but we did know that something was happening in the wing we later learned that one of the girls passed away that night it was it was that she was she didnt have a natural death she was actually torture then. Passed away. On another saudi activists a reef previously campaigned for the right to drive now living in exile in australia she actively supports the detained women activists. From all the fun i met her couple who are stuck them in their thoughts who didnt hear the noise and who lived on a box of. My now al sharif has also campaigned in the united. States in support of the detained women there she received a surprise invitation to meet the new saudi ambassador to the u. S. Princess rima bin bandar bin sultan bin abdul aziz our sound is the 1st woman to be appointed to this key diplomatic position but my. View the invitation with caution just muted theyre ready to rain for the meeting between me and prince esteem up into bender the new ambassador in d. C. Im happy to me turn this is really a good sign. My demands are simple the immediate unconditional release of the womens rights activists in jail all the prisoners of conscious. The lifting the ban on the Family Members of the travel ban and Family Members and my last demand is all new jobs on. A member of the al jazeera arabic team visited the Saudi Embassy in washington to request an interview with the ambassador. But he was refused entry. For a Georgia Special investigative drove me for could sweep through a bus a remote. Basset or princess rima has previously spoken in support of female empowerment in saudi Arabia Aljazeera wrote to her asking for her view of the detention of women activists but she did not reply. The aljazeera arabic team also wrote to the saudi Public Prosecutor the general directorate of prisons and the state Security Agency about torture against women detainees but did not receive any reply. Also learned that many of the president has set for you as well. Because they had signs of torture on their body to investigate to and wait until those signs of torture disappear from their body before they make them to court because they dont want the president to go to court and then complain to the judge. A child or saudi arabia closed door tiles to know what is allowed in had no lawyer it was clear from the beginning that the. Judges intention wasnt to help me as a detainee you was just there to do his job or sentencing people is to vent our fee and send us through and he hasnt to lance based on the picture which falls under cyber crimes in saudi arabia. The difficulty. Which. Causes. Thank you you can. Always change. But you know i just wanted to update you on where things are with the case in the u. S. So there except are now. Wanting your consent to be able to just send it from here to the authorities in saudi arabia because they are there and receive it and once its received they have to reply. To the allegations that are made ok ok. Well on our side weve got absolutely no problem with that so yes youve got the full constant to proceed with the case. But we had to. Live in a sad way and that in a black and a time when you have a good will have a history. And a hustler had. Any news that. When they did a talk in a can hurt and i had been to me and of course. A swipe at the last. Man who has suffered. As weve already said saudi arabia has introduced social reforms including lifting the ban on women driving and the government has talked publicly about quote empowering its Youth Empowering women. But at the current time at least 7 possibly more women activists arrested in 20000 remain in detention the exact number is unclear. In any case Court Proceedings in saudi arabia are normally closed to International Journalists and outside observers it is known that a small number of the activists were granted temporary release but their cases remain active and no date has yet been set for them to be concluded. Nor does the end of the detention of womens rights activists in saudi arabia appear to be anywhere in sight. Meanwhile across the United States we have got most of his guys through the bulk of the country but you see here just sitting against the carolinas this one will stop an area of low pressure bringing more in the way of rain but out across the west it has been dry it has been hot on the winds have been strong there are dozens of wildfires burning now this one is in Southern California look at this you can see exactly why they had to shut that stretch of route one the fire is really all raging really fueled by the dry conditions and the very strong winds this particular fire has already burned over 458 has or about 182. Theres more in the way of the hot dry weather is a go through thursday but its also some rain working its way in from the northwest working its way across the Northern Plains the midwest seeing some very heavy downpours throughout the day still not system sitting across the virginia virginia virginia and also across into the carolinas a few scattered showers in the south and that band of rain extends further south into the Central Plains on friday not this could be good it could how to extinguish some of the fires that you cross into oklahoma but at the same time it could actually bring with it some thunderstorms and if the lightning is just without the rain of course that also could actually spark off some more fires so plenty fiber and across the Southern Plains out across the west it is still dry it is still warm with a high of 26. 00 and. Still working in asia and africa that the days where id be changing editing my own stories in a refugee camp because i wouldnt. And right now. Were confronting some of the greatest challenges that humanity has ever faced and i really believe that the only way we can do that is with compassion and generosity and compromise because of the only way we can try to solve any of these problems is together here is so important we make those connections. Donald trump is accused of asking china to help him get reelected and a book by former National Security advisor john paul. Hello im adrian figure this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up india and china try to ease tension off the violence on the disputed border in the himalayas. The brother of george floyd