Shipping containers tunisias leaders are meeting trying to resolve the issue of high unemployment that has been fuelling protests across the country. A conference is expected later on saturday and we will bring you details on that. A curfew was imposed on friday and the government is saying i. S. I. L. May try to be takeing this situation. Reporter they blame the government by the fact that theyre not. It has been five years since four years that forced the president out of the country after 23 years in power starting what became known as the arab spring. Tunisia still has some of the same problems that created the revolution, issues like unemployment and poverty. The president has urged the country to respect the nationwide curfew that has been put in place following a wave of protests across the country. In an address to the nation, he acknowledged the high Unemployment Rate as a factor for the protests, but he also said foreign groups were deliberately destabilizing tunisia. Transla
Of art is a papting on a wall painting on a wall, but its being displaced in all shapes and sizes across the city the u. S. Is making a renewed diplomatic push to find a resolution to end the war in syria. Secretary of state john kerry is in saudi arabia meeting leaders from the gulf to try to ease their concerns about warming relations with iran. Kerry says he is confident peace talks on syria shelled scheduled for next week will go ahead. One of the things that we did today which i think i think is is very important is to set up a clarity on how to proceed forward on the initial steps on the negotiations on syria, and we are confident that with Good Initiative in the next day or so those talks can get going and that the u. N. Representative special envoy will be convening people in an appropriate manner for the proximity talks that will be the first meeting in geneva to begin to lay down the process to try very hard to implement the geneva communication and have a transition that tak
I have all the sport and andy murray and rinker in the fourth around of Australian Open but play suspended on the main arena as he collapsed in the stands. Hello tunisia Prime Minister held an emergency Cabinet Meeting to discuss this weeks wave of protests by the unemployment, over 400 people have been arrested in connection with the violence which started on monday. And we are in tunis and joining us from there to tell us what more the Prime Minister had to say hashem after that Cabinet Meeting. Reporter he came out to tell the tunisia people the government is concerned about the ongoing situation and that the violence that has spread across the country threatens stability in tunisia and he says that the government is going to take whatever it takes to protect the country, warning that there are groups trying to take advantage of the situation to further undermine tunisias democracy. Its a very delicate moment for the tunisia people and for the government which he has trade to balanc
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