Sites in the burning of government buildings your position say instead its a cry for transparency and change john home and aljazeera the past. Weather is next but still ahead. Protests in chile no sign of stopping despite the government pledging new Economic Reforms and accusations of heavy handed tactics and obstruction and hong kong journalists say an official complaint against police. Because some rather wet weather into the middle east at the moment certainly around the levant affair but a cloud just piling out of that east the side of the medics right he was saying some flooding rain some disruptive weather pushing into that western side of the reason hey we have got cloud and rain just making its way then into a good part of lebanon maybe seen some wet weather still affecting the Sinai Peninsula i think over the next couple days we could see some flooding grassy pushing its way back to northern parts of egypt say that. Service will stay there cyprus staying rather unsettled see t
That dont have a written constitution a Great Britain and saudi arabia and in saudi arabia they dont have a Supreme Court that is capable of holding the ruler the government to account and i think we can be proud of the fact that our Supreme Court did stop the government from getting rid of parliament for 5 weeks that was an outrage and of course it was the Supreme Court who protected parliamentary democracy so i guess we dont know whether we live in a parliamentary democracy or goals judicial morning but you know very little constitutional no mans land where you know very well we dont have a written constitution why not where the country that gave the world the english language shakespeare and we are incapable apparently of writing down and our hypocrisy goes deeper because you know in the sixtys when we gave. Its to all these other former colonies we gave them our constitution we wrote it down here said here is a westminster constitution ad so it they have the way they have it every
Sure that the government used to be the king now the government keeps to the law now theres a lot of press about diplomatic immunity case i want to get to that in a 2nd but i know you would. For a while perhaps you can talk about it but there have been revelations that you were bugged on what i havent read. Of course julian is in jail with a lot of islamic terrorists and belmarsh prison likely to remain for a couple of years while his extradition case goes through so. His fate will depend on the British Government or the British Government as it is in a couple of years time maybe but i think the conservatives would be happy to extradite him it may be that mr coburns government would not ok but i mean. You have such a little illustrious history of human rights cases have you ever previously been bugged by the cia as you read talking to cloud i suspect ive been bugged by the russians by the americans by their spirit and i suspect that the role of an independent lawyer acting in cases whe
To saudi arabia on a state visit. Following about its. Moscow is. Presence which include russian movies hard truths everyone is sure the home. Is ready for mr cole but for now. Its 9 oclock here. From our studio with me welcome to the program. I may just say to all of alliance kurdish officials in syria say theyve reached an agreement with the government in damascus from now on syrian troops will be able to enter kurdish controlled north. Eastern syria for the 1st time in years to help the kurds tackle a turkish offensive crossing live now to our ts paulist live for more details paula syrian troops are heading to the border could this escalate now. It certainly seems as if the situation is going to escalate tensions continue to climb and as you correctly mentioned were hearing from kodesh sources that theyve signed an agreement with the damascus government that will see the 2 sides Work Together to what they say prevent confront and push back turkish aggression now move forward the pla
That you are now complicating this american narrative of color blindness the fairness of justice regardless of race or religion and the fact is. Part of the consequence or perhaps the goal of this type of surveillance is to continue to isolate communities and keep them outside of what is deemed american and so even if we think about well what happens to a community the psychological impact ultimately the impact becomes disconnection it becomes lack of cohesion lack of safety i mean these are fundamental human rights for safety and if you believe and there is evidence that proves you are not safe in your own home right just imagine how destabilizing and how distressing that becomes on a daily basis and you know it really begs the question what if that is the goal is to continue to keep us so destabilize that we cannot organize that we cannot really think about how to come together and address sort of the disparities and how citizenship is conceived of in this country and so i think ther