Human rights watch accused the government of banning street protests for over a year now and cracking down on dissent president ial elections are a full year away but the political deadlock has already set in there is a sense of fear and apprehension of what is to come Nicholas Hawke al jazeera cannot create time for a short break here in aljazeera when we come back. Mass protests to spains sentences council and separatist leaders to long jail terms more not stainless. How i once again welcome to mathematical at the international forecast weve got a fair bit of cloud just making its way away from northern parts of iran bright skies coming back a bit high little cloud there just around the eastern side of the mediterranean little drifts into syria lebanon jordan we were down towards israel as well just notice want to see showers into southern parts of turkey i will continue to be the case as we go on through wettest day for central areas for iraq stays hot dry 37. 00 celsius in baghdad
Here this have a look around the living queuing up. To come inside a vote which is just started inside here people join the line when they get to the front. You have to come in here and then theyre checked against the electoral register now theres been some controversy over the electoral register not so much he removed that as a province just to the north Rights Groups and the opposition complain that its been inflated by 300000 people the words there collect their ballot paper for coming this way and then placing going behind these booth to make their choice of candidate there are 4 candidates on the paper then they come this way to place it into the ballot boxes the vote things just started here just a couple of minutes ago and malcolm what does this election mean men many of those ordinary mozambicans queuing up outside the polling stations what are the issues that theyre most concerned about. One of the key issues for many mozambicans is that in spite of the. Economic growth here o
A critical source of finance but there are other reasons behind the shortage of cash in the country. On iran for example affected its funding for its ally in lebanon which is also under sanctions this is disrupted the flow of remittances countries also stop providing help to a country they believe is controlled by their rival iran people are starting to take to the streets there is panic over the currency losing value which has hurt their spending power last month the government declared a state of economic emergency for these protesters however this crisis is not new and they want those in power to be held responsible for years of mismanagement and corruption well lets talk more about whats happening in lebanon we have sami executive director of the lebanese policy studies thanks very much for being with us. So i want to ask you 1st help me out with this the central bank has enough currency reserves including dollars for the next 30 months but there isnt enough dollars for importers a
A meeting with the cia. As it plans to invade Saddam Husseins iraq in 2003 the u. S. Needed to prepare Public Opinion for the attack getting libya on govt is key to that strategy. But the iraq war went badly for the western allies. No evidence of dangerous weapons was found and the lack of a postwar strategy plunged the country into calles. Gadhafi then seized the moment in a dramatic bid to ingratiate himself with the west and have sanctions on libya lifted he claimed to have w m ds and offered to surrender them. Desperate to put a positive spin on their mission to destroy weapons in the middle east the u. S. And u. K. Led the way in rehabilitating gadhafi almost overnight. Libya was no longer. Part of the axis of evil. In return a Lucrative Oil and gas deal was signed and it was then that the cia and m i 6 began increasing their rendition of libyan dissidents to the gadhafi regime. In a vehicle that out of a 0. For a valuable advice. But its now thought the relationship between the h
Nairobi, Kenya (AP) - Massively armed men have appeared around a small farming village in the Oromia region of Ethiopia, frightening residents already on