with around 35 of those still yet to be can tie and that still a lot of fog that we've got in the lead skype giving that predicted a full cost conditions over the next $3.00 to $4.00 days and what have firefighters done to prepare for these worsening conditions or is there anything they can do is look there is certainly some work that we can do our forefathers have taken advantage of those 5 routing conditions for the last 4 to 5 days being undertaking back burning hakan time and utilizing heavy machinery to construct can timelines but we've also had for foreigners in the field using cane tools to create in time and lines down some very rugged a steep terrain especially through the blue mansions to draw on hold up to the west and saw it in time and launch a lot of hard work they've done over the last 3 to 4 days and i guess in the last in the next $3.00 to $4.00 days it will certainly go to show whether that hard work pays off or unfortunately without we do say that far across iraq and timelines yeah hard work i imagine and it's also dangerous is stressful and tiring for many of the firefigh

carlos dileo joins us from france via skype. you are the director of the emery center for aids research. reading your resume is like reading a history of service to the aids community and work in fighting aids. things are looking up now in terms of treatments. but was there a point where you despaired that you wouldn't get to this stage? >> thank you, michael. i appreciate you taking the time to talk to us, to me. clearly i've been involved in this battle for over 30 years. and i will tell you that, yes, at the beginning there was a lot of despair. but i think what really we have learned is that we have come together this far because people have worked together with researchers, industry, with governments to really through research advance knowledge. we are where we are right now. we have treatments. we have prevention that we have because we have worked together and research has taken us here. so i want to really say it is really working together where we are making progress. i'm convinced we will be able to end this epidemic b

on sundays he skyped with his parents john and terry. john is a musician and terry a school guidance counselor. >> how did he seem to be doing? >> it was rough at first, the language thing was the big thing. >> you were a stranger in a strange land. >> yes, yes. >> was it a lonely feeling? >> yeah, it was. but it was made better by the fact that there foreign teachers in town. >> along with the teachers, there was one other person, a gn teachers adjust, a local english speaking businessman named kenji harayama. kenji, a pretty accomplished guitarist found out that zach was, too. >> i was amazed by his songs, his original songs, and also he played guitar very well. >> kenji pulled out an old gibson, handed it to zach. >> he said consider it yours while you're here. >> zach took that guitar to school trying to break the ice. >> i would play music for them. i think that helped break down the barrier a bit. >> just three weeks in, overwhelmed by homesickness, hep called his parents. he had had enough. >> maybe as embarrassing as it is, i was

get a chance to meet laura as well, over skype. >> look how gorgeous she is. seriously. >> hi, laura. >> hi. >> i just have to tell you, you loving jono the way you do, makes me and magda so happy about nathaniel's future. >> oh, thank you. >> have you ever felt like people stared at you a lot when you were a kid? >> yeah, um, i did have people staring at me. and when i was younger, i always thought they were staring at me in a bad way. um. but as i've got older, i've learned that loads of people stare at me because, you know, they like my hair, or they like my clothes, you know? they're not staring at me in a bad way. sometimes they stare at you in a good way. >> oh, korean barbecue is ready. >> how many surgeries have you had when you were a kid? >> i think i must have had maybe like 15. >> that must've been rough. >> reporter: when the topic of surgery comes up around the dinner table, there is one major difference that is clear, jono has never needed a trach, the life-altering breathing tube in nathaniel's throat that he's lived with since he was a month o

well let's talk to a bit aziz out of my head he's a saudi human rights activist and joins us via skype from dublin. is this verdict has been roundly condemned as a whitewash a sham do you think justice has been served will have these 5 people taken the fall for the saudi government. i don't think we are even close to justice. the public process prosecutor in saudi arabia if he had gone a little bit higher so let's say if he said i'm a sad man is connected it wouldn't be a court order to bring we have a disadvantage because. we are an absolute monarchy where. justice is very hard to actually see when as a special or touch from the u.s. . government was all this coming now and that's just. to make things clear just man was out of saudi arabia for a whole year before he was killed so this is not an incident that is out of context this is really. at the edge of europe does so do government where it can said they're killing dissidents is legal now kate experts say that if pressed yeah let me just jump in here because experts say that he could not have been killed without the knowledge of th

expert on the joining us via skype from brussels thanks very much for being with us on the al-jazeera news hour if you look at the situation and benny right now our reporter saying it's very fluid 2 people killed there is heavy gunfire on the streets protesters marching towards about u.n. base how concerning is all of this. that's actually pretty concerning because generally in burnie area we have both been able outbreak coinciding with massacres and attacks that are ongoing since done 14 and while those attacks have been mostly attribute it to a ugandan armed group called the a.d.f. we have many different actors operating in that area that have also been identified for day involvement internet biol and so when we hear about so-called my militia we need to be aware that those are like one or 2 dozen of very different groups and some sometimes the term in my eyes even used by civilian demonstrators and protesters as well. now we've also seen is a very massive medical to return intervention to address able which is actually left local populations in doubt or the so called the internatio

it not drugs are that are you still with us all right apologies we seem to have our last hour of our skype connection with our guests from brussels we'll move on and we'll tell you about a new inquest that has begun in london to determine whether air pollution contributed to the death of a schoolgirl 9 year old kissing deborah suffered a fatal asthma attack 6 years ago families lawyers argue britain's government may have failed in its duty to prevent her death just kobold reports. the human cost of air pollution a grieving mother seeking answers into her daughter's death rosamond kissy deborah arriving at coroner's court where she hopes to prove that her daughter ella died from london's unlawfully high air pollution. elo was 7 when she developed severe asthma she was dead by the time she was 9 in those 2 years ella who lived near a very busy road was hospitalized 29 times 27 of those came when air pollution spiked scientists say ela is not an isolated case doctors see hundreds of children every year struggling to breathe needing medicine to keep them from choking on the harmful unseen gase

victim inside the consulate well our bench has me is spokesman for human rights watson joins us on skype from casablanca it's good to have you with us so what we're looking at here we've seen the people who've been convicted and sentenced but is this trial more about those who were not convicted. i guess so i've read on twitter a couple minutes ago the headline should have rather than 5 percent certain c don't you have been. responsible for an arse crime get away with it because that's what it looks like very much 1st before entering into that i must remind. us what it was a definite you know a case that we are not in any case celebrating this this this planet that sentences because we of course that as a matter of principle because i will guarantee the cruel just now are in this case specifically well if it is obvious that the case was rather to secrecy since the beginning and it still was so are we do not know the identities of the last of the readers will have a specific charge in the hold against who exactly now you know general and i see it was obvious did you like our evidence and

on skype. many questions to be answered there as gabe was outlining what is it i want to you about u.s. influence in iraq that this crowd chanting death to america was able to breach the at least the outer sort of primitive prim primitive defenses of what must be some of the toughest defenses of any installation or embassy in the world and supposedly doing it with the acquiescence or connivance of the iraqi military a pretty extraordinary set of circumstances. yes there's video thanks for having me on there's video showing the militias this isn't the only rocky protests these are uniform militias that answer directly to casa santa marta there's a video of them knocking on the gates and basically that the gates open and the militias roll and they push it push aside a couple iraqi security force personnel and they just move in if you look at the individuals in the crowd on sort of the u.s. embassy compound there are 2 of them are designated terrorists and that's case because ali you know who many

with this city chandra is assistant professor of government at georgetown university and joins us on skype from kolkata good to have you with us on the program we heard from the hill that the government is perhaps caught off guard. by the numbers of protests but surely they weren't courts of guard by the the scale of opposition to this law do you think it's a rush this through or that this was a deliberate tactic from the governments. i don't think they. come from on but. they're not just. number of decisions including one man walking around temple in new york here which was built and now is going to be rebuilt or built on the site of parades march so i think the series of steps of the government of the act and since it was reelected in me but the complete majority are and i don't think they really take the position seriously but it seems that outside the part of hunter started the political system there is a tremendous opposition society especially among young people students and to. well this is perhaps opposition outside the parliament but the p.g.p. to have an enormous mandate is a dec

is a professor at the american university of gun astonished joins us from copenhagen on skype a very warm welcome to the paul graham do you think this interim result is if i can call it a step forward in terms of this much needed clarity. thank you so much yes i do believe that this is that. the lingering uncertainty and just the long way has. has quelled a lot of initiative i think in terms of the day to day workings of the government and. the question now is if this slightly greater degree of certainty will change anything. from the past few months of conses station. so yeah i mean investment in the private sector has stalled it's not ideal given the high levels of poverty and unemployment and the peace process that's unfolding simultaneously but it's important to note that these are preliminary results and that they will be subject to further scrutiny. abdullah has as you mentioned in a statement rejected the results. due to concerns over about 300000 questionable votes but he'll be able he has i presume submit his complaints to the e.c.c. to the so there is a procedural mechanism

with us now professor of political science at the national university of kiev a more the academy on skype from kiev thank you for your time is is president selenski giving away too much the pictures we see today are obviously good from exchanges things happening actual developments but is he as i outlined there possibly giving away too much. it's implementation of presidential promises in promising during the election campaign most of the people want to have peace in the east of ukraine into a stop gel political conflict so president has to implement his promises and it's also part of the decisions of normandy forward to meeting of leaders of france germany russia and ukraine so the president does what was decided at the meeting and what is expected by his electorate definitely there are political forces in ukraine who are not interested in easing of the situation not in deescalation they want to continue fighting until the victory of ukraine which is definitely in the physician but it's maybe profitable for several political forces the extreme radicals and also for those who are politica

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we are joined via skype from auckland. good to have you on the al jazeera newshour. you wrote shortly after the volcanic eruption that perhaps it is time for the tourism industry, government, and volcanic experts to review current rules. can you elaborate or explain what you mean by that? thanks for having me. we need to look a little bit more into not necessarily the operation, because that is pretty well-organized, but i think what we need to look at is the information for the tourists , so that the tourists know exactly what potential risks they are in for, and then make a very important decision. when you look at the incident on --day they know exactly what risk they are taking, but the more general tourists who just go there because the opportunity presents itself, they need to know what kind of risk they are potentially taking and decide if they want to take that risk or not. anchor: the big question that is now being raised is that there were warning signs in the weeks prior to the eruption, and last month the alert level was raised to 2. many people are wonde

at the american enterprise institute handel has written on modi's government he joins us via skype from washington d.c. . and the renter modi has defended the bill but critics say look at undermines india's secular constitution just how divisive is this bill but i would argue that this is the single most divisive thing there are in ramadi has done since he 1st came to bar in 2000 and 14 'd it has polarized the country not merely in terms of into the north and so that's was as close as part of it but i think more importantly between those indians of all faiths including many hindus 'd who see this as challenge to india secular foundations and b.g.p. supporters who see this as a great humanitarian gesture to religious minorities in those 3 countries by the son of ghana's bangladesh and southern and many people say the bill allows modi to draw attention away from domestic issues like the worsening economy unemployment the crisis in the farming community do you think he's deflecting attention from his own domestic political issues no i think it does allow him to deflect attention but i don'

his a researcher at the university of exeter a strategy and security institute he's joining us via skype from there thanks through time with us on the al-jazeera news hour how challenging are the next couple of weeks going to be for parliamentarians in particular in iraq and in the search for a new prime minister are we looking at a political tug of war. i think we're going to see something that we see quite often in following iraqi elections although albeit this is not an election it's just a prime minister stepping down but you often see iraqi political parties who have the parts of the kind of the 6th sectarian more hostile system the division of ethno sectarian political seats and power. they will be conducting a lot of horse trading to see which candidate which party ultimately gets the top job and that will also include deals between the parties for which party will get control of which ministries and all their budgets i don't think that we're going to see too much of a significant change in terms of policy in terms of the form. this is just me a window dressing and the question is

and commentator and was the media adviser to former iraqi president jalal talabani he joins us now on skype from erbil how do you see this playing out given that the protesters clearly are not going to accept this nomination. well i think the that look will continue the protesters will not accept certainly danny. they all remember last year's protests. happened when he was the. the governor of that city they they all remember that the way that the brutal way that they crossed the protest last year he is very close as they say to the general to the commander who's in the sound again who was crushing the protests he is yet another candidate of the of the blocks that the protests are primarily gives their gains so. he's seen as somebody who's close to iran and the protests essentially are against. the iranian influence so i suspect that we will see more and more protests more and more. but more rejection of his candidacy now the opposition from the protestors notwithstanding it places the president in a very difficult position and given that he's being supported by the iran bloc does this mean

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. >> sreenivasan: all right, associated press' brandan farrington jning us via skype from pensacola tonight. thanksmu >> reporter:nk >> sreenivasan: the housey judicimmittee released a report today detailing the constitutional grounds for presidential impchment. staff for the democratic majority on the committeepa authored the 5 report, which addresses the history and purpose behind the impeachment process. democrat members of committee are meeting this weekend behin closed doors to draft formal articles of impeachment against president trump, which the house could vote on as earlys next week. an american graduate student was freed today in a prisoner swap with iran after being held for more thathree years. xiyue wang, a 38-year-old student, was conducting research in iran when he was arrested in august of 2016 and charg with spying u.s. officials denied the charge and a u.n. human rights panel found that iran had "no legal basis" for the arrest and detention. wang was flown out of tehran on a swiss government plane and was met in zurich by the state representative for iran, brian hook, thi

shanahan's with us now on skype from sydney he is a research fellow at the lowly institute institute for international policy roger just to build on what someone was saying without stating the obvious the stars escalate things and rocket attacks sustained rocket attacks are one thing but when a u.s. contractor loses their life it ups the stakes. certainly and i think they'll be a lot riding on the investigation or the inquiry that u.s. forces will be doing inside iraq because that allows the determine the next steps that the u.s. authorities are going to have to take where they flow of foreign secretary of state on those threats or where there are books to attribute this to islamic state or whether it's indeterminate but the investigation is really the next step in this matter regardless of who is behind it is it vague capitalizing on a moment of weakness because the protests have really taken over iraq for the last few months the political situation is no better arrived at the country office so many years of being vulnerable seems even more vulnerable well again we're going to turn

crime prince mohammed bin soman he's believed to have overseen the murder whilst giving orders over skype and the prosecutor says he was investigated but not charged and was released study prosecutors said blame deputy intelligence chief siri for coordinating the killing but the prosecutor says he was released for insufficient evidence while the residence of the saudi consul general at the time ahmed tavi is where turkish investigators say geez body parts were disposed off he too has been released by the prosecutor well let's bring in al-jazeera senior political analyst marwan bush are on the line from soha amar won an extraordinary verdict to a story that really has put the spotlight on saudi arabia. yes absolutely. perhaps the 4th think. of this. of this terrible tragedy against our colleague a journalist a man who ships it started with the saudi denial of that anything had happened at the so the consulate in istanbul saying that they don't know what he is and so on so forth at that point that there are these released what they knew about the incident then the saudis came forward with s

fellow at the for as gigi center in africa for africa at the london school of economics joins me now via skype from kent in the u.k. good to have you with us on the program mr a several stakeholders whether we call the militant groups or terror groups who do you think might be responsible in this particular case. well plans to have i mean this particular case none of them have actually claimed responsibility so we it's quite difficult to say who exactly they are of though this recent attack is actually looks like a stage chile of the previous one or follow up on the previous one taken advantage of to christmas day last of course so one wonders whether the president and his military officials have been very careful to choose their words well apportioning blame because as you say they haven't singled anyone or to any particular group but more often than not the assumption is that it sort of i saw related because al qaeda also operates in the area yes both isis an arcade that operate in the area but we also have. known jihadists messner east's are operating in the area and unless one claims once

>>and so 900 flu related deaths this year in julius now over skype is doctor may finkelstein who is that medical director. that is a product that connects patients with doctors like this through video chat so thank you so much for being with us doctor mia. what's the reason for this early start to the season do we know. >>knows for certain why. the flu paris seems to like the winter season. there seems to be part of that and we've seen a lot. and the southeast so. it is growing each week. >>doctor the last time the flu season was this early 2003 2004. it was really a severe flu season is that possible again. >>looking you can't predict it's going to be severe or not i think we just have to go one day at a time and be prepared patients and physicians and and just the general community be ready for what's going to be lying. >>every doctor expert says go get the flu shot even if you haven't done so now it's not too late so we know that have you heard or do we know how effective this year's flu shot is yet. >>to the cdc. there are 3 strains that we're currently seeing it a both the h one n.

what a skype is though yes it's based on my time in spain. and yeah i was begging outside the tube station playing my guitar and putting a hat out you know and. yeah and i wrote this song actually my my cousin was on honeymoon and he came up the stairs and he saw me and he said you should be ashamed of yourself i'm going to tell your dad you know and and i said please don't tell my parents you know that that i'm doing this and that's where the line please don't tell the folks back home my new lead singer. so yeah it's a song about my life yeah. cold statler. linearly maybe it is. good luck. with the exact same. play the. settlers being. a. great. there was a new poll a letter i wrote. there was that we're. going to say. yes i think such. yes i you know this was a 1st when i 1st hit the air 968 i was seated some asked them how do you get on most of us unless you. well i tell you one when i 1st heard it on the radio it was on the little transistor radio yeah and i was working in a restaurant as a dishwasher yeah yeah and obviously you know and

special envoy on climate change that was during the obama administration with us on skype from arlington i believe you might have a class coming in so in so we'll get on with our interview what do you think could could be different at this. conference are highlighted greater there clearly many young people around the world of change the discussion about climate change does that make these climate conferences different. well i don't really think what makes that different is not that there are protests around the country and there always are i think it's great that civil society shows up and the the negotiators on the inside feel the pressure from the outside i think that's an important part of this process what's different of course is that over the last year almost 2 no thanks to both of them are going to others we're just seen an increase in in public interest in this issue an international negotiation this problem and on pressure on the answer of the targets that various countries but for in this process that this is just not something that you know you're going to seeing once a year o

in feisal istra body he's from indiana university is also a former iraq ambassador and joins us via skype from bloomington indiana final good to have you back on the program look i mean the violence we've seen so far is between the security forces and the protesters now it appears protesters being targeted by other groups out significant is this do you think what we have seen the . sort of. armed militia of being involved in the past targeting most of that's what that's the that's what's happening it's not unique it has happened before although there have also been reports as you mentioned of security. forces being involved this seems to be a significant escalation not because it's the worst single day of violence by the clause in part it comes from the same day that the grand ayatollah has the stand he issued his statement today about peaceable demonstrators and the obligation of the security forces to protect not peaceable demonstrators as well as telling the demonstrators that they must remain peaceful and it looks like it's an effort by a police some in the political class to disperse

with us now a researcher at the heritage institute for policy studies on skype from mogadishu it's good to talk to you again. is there any reason to think this is any group other than. not that i can think of any group oxley that is much. much more brutal that. though they have not yet claimed all socially but i think we understand that this is an act of terrorism also epic proportions. how how do they keep doing this i think about the fact that this happened at a checkpoint which you would imagine to be a strong area a fortified area and yet an attack like this on as hard as it it seems mostly university students it still happens what i think we need to understand that initial happen has been one of the most successful terror organization in the wall and that they have been able to actually exploit the security we can assist in the country and they have been actually. waging a symmetric and sort of sedatives war especially in an urban area and there are 80 is actually to inflict as many casualties was also so that they can manipulate the psychology of the people so that they can't real

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guests in turkey's capital ankara martin director of policy studies a setter a political think tank on skype from tallinn estonia mark mickelson deputy chair of foreign affairs committee of this to indian parliament and head of his country's delegation to the nato parliamentary assembly and in brussels christine there is in a senior fellow of the german marshall fund of the united states she is also a policy analyst on nato transatlantic security corp warm welcome to you or martin we're talking here about the future of nato and you saw that statement from president. saying basically that his country's banning to stop plans for defense for the baltics and poland if nato does not provide military assistance to turkey in its push against the s.d.f. in northeastern syria is this just a continuation of the strained relations between nato and turkey. you know when we look at the last several years we see that there are significant conflicts between some of the nato members and turkey is you know regarding the institution the 1st crisis erupted when certain nato members decided to dismantle patio m

in august and joins us by skype from albania as capital tirana and to mark is senior research fellow at the center for china and globalization he joins us from beijing welcome to all our guests max the the wording of the proposed bill is very strong and these are why as president to impose sanctions on members of the china's political b row is this a new escalation of the already strained relations between china and the united states of america yes i agree this is a serious escalation i think of. the kind of. in tensions between united states and china. do you think that the chinese reaction will be stronger through are they going to reciprocate or do you think they will just become fired to cosmetic or symbolic gestures like visas freshens visa bans speaking as a historian i have to say i think that we're in uncharted territory right now i'm frankly not sure how the chinese government will respond to this escalation by the united states it's possible as they've indicated so far that they may take measures against u.s. diplomats and other u.s. affiliated non non-governmental organiza

>>skype is usgs volcanologist wendy stovall to gi us more insight into this eruptn, thank you for being with are yofamiliar with this white island volcano. other experts rupp's every 3 to area in 5 years that this is not a safe area that they should not the tours should not even have there are you familiar with i and what do you think. am familiar with white. and actually visited white i. i was relatively safe at the time we need risk going on as bilcannot just we are very well equipped. and yesterday correct to do go there very frequely and the last time interrupted in a similar way it was and 2016 and and it was at night and there was no one on the ice, so it's kind of been known that this could happen. >>wendy you know they used to promote this thing by saying ce to new zealand's most active volcano, so it doesn't sound like it was necessarily ever a good idea as says yore suggesting, but where they're right red ags recently that were big norte. >>this is certainly ignored the. nasa science which is t organization tt monitors looking as they still have lots of monitoring equipment on

negotiations committee mehmet cherokee is managing editor of the daily star newspaper he joins us on skype from istanbul and pavel felgenhauer is a defense and military analyst he joins us from moscow in russia welcome to all of you let me start with you here here in the studio so is there deescalation deal basically dead. well. it was dead from the very beginning because we felt from early on that. the a sterner track was meant to abort a ceasefire agreed upon by the security council resolutions that there was there were periods of of relative calm at least right was there is an angle a sion going under but violations start the next day the agreement or signed it live as you said was the last one among those the escalation areas but the issue is not between the rebels and the regime it is one between the people who are being the main victim of all this deescalation thing and now tens of thousands of them are being displaced and they don't have any place to go why will it killed anyone barred meant we're going to come to the humanitarian aspects of this but 1st before we move on to that i'

victor gao he's vice president of the center for china and globalization think tank and joins us by skype from beijing i'm very lank of director at n. k. news in online news source focused on north korea he joins us from seoul in south korea and richard vides is a security analyst that the global risk consultancy we can extract he joins us from washington d.c. welcome to all of you if i could start perhaps with the victor in beijing so by calling for offensive measures is kim jong un basically signaling he's given up hope of the u.s. softening its position well 1st of all we should be satisfied that there has been substantive progress on the korean peninsula over the past 18 months or so and this should give us encourage went and work hard for her 1st arrest has there been do you think victor a lot of the analysts are saying there's been a lot of talk but not a lot of actual substance of movement on any of the denuclearize a well the 1st of all the u.s. side and there has been no major massive military exercise with all k. as the p.r. care has demanded it and certainly on the d.p. r. k. s

parliament and the only member to vote against the alex ation of crimea in 2014 he joins us from kiev via skype darren is principal russia analyst at the global risk consultancy vest maker croft he joins us now from london gentlemen welcome to this edition of inside story ilya part amount of in the caravan to start with you i mean how significant is this in terms of a milestone in the fractious relationship between ukraine and russia that this bridge has finally been built and is it operation well to my mind there's just a lot was. the main. it's already happened when it was a cartridge last year and since that time mark rein is already linked to mainland russia which of course it's extremely symbolic because the reach became the largest infrastructure or to come from. some portion of the sun at the expense of russian taxpayers for example where i mean. i can see. the council the construction of the bridge across the or final the construction of the breach across french cultural strait. to crimea. other regional fresh in your future they consult a lot of the railway bridge across the reversal b

markets in istanbul by skype matthew price a senior fellow at the atlantic council's eurasia center and global energy center and the former u.s. diplomat and also joining us from london and. general director of the set that institutes where he focuses on libyan affairs gentlemen welcome to you all if i could start with you i guess said in this is a controversial deal which has been proposed between libya and turkey it's resulted in the expulsion of the libyan ambassador from greece why do you think this is so controversial what's wrong with this deal well i won't say there is something necessarily wrong with it but the controversy comes from the fact that this is turkey's move against what has been an attempt to create a fact a complete on its on the southern side of it of its territories by a coalition of countries including greece including cyprus and others. of course having to do with disputes of the hydrocarbon resources our own cyprus. in cyprus disappeared government has been moving forward with plans to export those resources in a manner that would end up excluding turkey and wh

he joins us from paris mehmet selleck is the managing editor of the daily newspaper he joins us from skype from istanbul and joining us from london is new to vico carlino senior analyst for middle east and north africa at chess market that is a consultancy what we have 2 important developments in libya one of them is the announcement from general haftar that he's going to try again to retake tripoli and the other is the deal that's been done between the g.n.a.t. government in tripoli and turkey if i can start with the yuma stuff or 1st to talk about general haftar and his announcement last week he 1st tried to take tripoli very defiantly in a surprise attack in april he didn't succeed will he succeed this time. thank you for having the game is 1st of all. i doubt he will give up that's the 1st point but whether he will succeed or not i think he is determined to succeed when the i and the the possibility of him to exceeding in taking tripoli soon. you know depends and many factors but we have to remember james very important point here that the the foreign minister of the government of nati

annihilating the socialist project of jeremy corbyn we caught up with pink floyd front man what you waters via skype at his home in new york i started by asking him about the end of the road for labor leader jeremy corbett obviously that was always going to come and it's clearly a very wise decision the powers that may be sorry have achieved such an incredibly efficient hatchet job on the poor man over the last few years in but particularly over the last year the chances of him i've been doing anything really extremely slim because he has been smeared beyond all belief it's becoming more and more apparent that propaganda is almost the most important thing in our lives in the fact that the mainstream media is owned by very rich and powerful people and in consequence they may be that they coming closer and closer to controlling everything not just only elections but everything and obviously the elections they can't control they send in the troops you know and stop killing people what's what's interesting to me is that who we are what 500 years since columbus and just now this is the only thing that ma

military on the street is open again with this repression in human rights violation joining me now via skype is a member of the chamber of deputies of chile the democratic revolution politician jackson who is envelop ari's a city that has seen violent clashes between protesters and police want your thanks for joining us before we get to the latest violence reminds us way of the global south and even those in nature nation countries look to what's happening in chile as a chronicle of politics 4 told the legacy of new liberal dictatorship by a good stupid machine in chile. well thanks 1st of all for this interview it's very important where the sap and here in chile we within knock only because of our country but also for the region and also because as you said she was in the in the seventy's in the eighty's under the dictatorship she doesn't like an experiment of the new liberal policies without a democratic process you know under a dictatorship so it today we. we're living in the rules that the boys as we said to this are going to missions who passed with milton friedman's policies before the

poland we're joined by thorsten bet up director of the global public policy institute from amsterdam via skype julian managing director of vocal europe a foreign affairs think tank and from london we're joined by max for trap or thought of angle of merkel europe's most influential leader gentlemen welcome to you all thorsten let's start with you does this change in leadership at the s.t.p. mean that germany is now heading for an early election. thanks for having me no i don't think it means that germany is heading for an early election at least not anytime soon if the social democrats actually decide under the new leadership to leave the coalition and that's a big if because the party convention still needs to decide in favor of it and then also the members of parliament the parliamentary group that has voiced some doubts whether they would follow such a vote they need to agree then the s.p.d. ministers will just leave the coalition we have a budget for 2020 already agreed on and i'm going to america will just lead a minority government through our 2020 her argument will be this is out of a se

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military on the streets open again with this repression in human rights violation joining me now via skype is a member of the chamber of deputies of chile the democratic revolution politician jackson who is envelop arrays of a city the scene of a.