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 long gone children are growing up here people are putting down roots and now this small town is about to get bigger. Burnet smith aljazeera dorm is refugee camp in northern iraq. Alleyways as director and senior associate of the turkey project at the center for strategic and International Studies and he says its unlikely that there will be an immediate cease fire in north korea. Its difficult to conceive over a more complicated situation than the one we have where the Syrian Government. You know which the this administration as as well as the previous one has really fight theyve called for an ounce there of president assad and because of his actions trump has cleared the way for the Syrian Government and the russian auspices to work out a deal with the syrian kurds and through to all the syria and now hes very late in the day hes. Announcing some sanctions which are going to have absolutely no effect whatsoever on the turkish government and to compound the error hes sending rice pres
In 2020, oscar nominated actor elliot page announced via his instagram that he is a transgender man. Star of the x men series and Hit Filmsjuno and inception, as well as Netflix Super hit the umbrella academy, page has enjoyed the Career Heights Actors could only dream of all the time crushed under the weight of a secret identity battle. Now hes ready to share even more about his life. And hes invited us for a sit down chat to talk about his gender, his Mental Health, and his career in hollywood. Elliot page, welcome to the bbc. Thank you so much for speaking to us. Thanks for having me, for wanting to talk. How are you doing right now . Im doing pretty good, yeah so were here to talk about your book, pageboy. Yourfirst book, your memoir. What made you want to write the book now . Gosh well, one of the reasons was that it really. Felt possible for the first time. In the past, before stepping into my truth, being in this body, theres no way i could have sat down and been still with myse
so we re here to talk about your book, pageboy. yourfirst book, your memoir. what made you want to write the book now? gosh! well, one of the reasons was that it really. felt possible for the first time. in the past, before stepping into my truth, being in this body, there s no way i could have sat down and been still with myself long enough to focus and to do something like this. so just the act of being able to do that, being able to create, feeling this all come out, was so exhilarating. and in this time now, where there sjust, you know, horrific attacks towards the trans community, constant misinformation and lies about our lives, and having this platform that i do have, it felt like the right time, i suppose, to share my story, especially in knowing how much it s meant to me when people have shared theirs. there s a beautiful quote in it by someone i hadn t heard before. the quote is, this world has many ends and beginnings. a cycle ends. will something remain? maybe