previously banned and knocked up party won the majority vote the following year ben ali was sentenced in absentia to life in prison for inciting violence and murder then in 2015 the chin is in national dialogue quartet a group of civil society members won the nobel peace prize for helping the transition to democracy. is that a turn in chief of the tunas in using the analysis website's mesh column and he explains what's changed since the uprising a stance of lake obit was that the reason why the government announced a 4 day lockdown although the state scientific committee has said that 4 days but they wouldn't do anything and we've actually seen and the space where people protested 10 years ago downtown tunis empty today you know that was the place where people really rejected a police state where security forces fired on them in this fight that the revolution succeeded and today they were really prevented from from entering that space so in some ways people were talking about the big counter-revolutionary atmosphere today on this day 10 years later and that really sums up where it has

the previously banned not a party won the majority vote the following year ben ali was sentenced in absentia to life in prison for inciting violence and murder then in 2015 the tunisian national dialogue quartet a group of civil society members won the nobel peace prize for its contribution to building a pluralistic democracy. ok let's bring in fred so who's the editor in chief of the news and analysis website michelle and joins us from. good to have you here on the program so cove it has kept any celebrations of at this time in check 10 years on but give us a sense of the country today there was so much fervent hope 10 years ago. yeah well i should declare by that a sensibly co but it was that the reason why the government announced a 4 day lockdown although the state scientific committee has said that 4 days but they wouldn't do anything and we've actually seen and the space where people protested 10 years ago downtown tunis empty today you know that was the place where people really rejected a police state where security forces fired on them and despite that the revolution succee

ben ali has been fighting between police and protesters in several major cities including the capital people angry about the country's economic crisis and poor public services. the governor sudan's west awful state says security is being stepped up to tribal fighting killed over 80 people there were blaming arms groups from central and south doll fall for the violence. as you have laws news continues hey on al-jazeera off to radicalized youth states. teaching you just the right streamline the night you channel. last thousands of our programs will be documentaries and. subscribe to you she would slash al-jazeera english. or the. then when i think it was i'm one of the. over the other they did a good thing you will then live with. the number living on the. show a little may even get a little bit you know. but to me out there was never a matter of one. or the me among those of us. here one in the. navy are. going to enjoy. a. god. means of their money and those with them on their navy. welcome always. the whole game should hold the deal with him also that so much damage mission must the

ali police and demonstrators force in the capital tunis for a 2nd straight night at least 630 people were arrested. in egypt has announced another major archeological discovery on earth in burial artifacts more than 3000 years old have been found in the remains of the ancient city of memphis a unesco world heritage site south of the capital cairo charlotte dallas reports one. in the shadow of the state pyramid the oldest in egypt lies a trove of true issues and since archaeologists have been digging here since 2007. they found a permit for a queen but didn't know her name and who now the most important thing that we found were followed at them bill a parent of a queen inside the temple and name and you name of a queen he was neat she was the wife of the king and this will edit and a small part about the. king was the 1st photo of the 6th in a city more than 4000 years ago. the discovery happened at this occurrence a vast symmetry of the ancient egyptian capital of mill this and you new school will hear a huge site archaeologists uncovered 22 sharks food with dozens of traces they fou

ali a result of protests that birthed the arab spring but many to new zealand still disenchanted saying the hope of that time has gone on realized absolutely nothing not at this point do you see in 10 years there's no strategy or prospects for the future or even hope for change on the contrary every year the amount of food decreases to date in 2021 practically all young people are just desperate. and so they turn to the streets harasses just like they did a decade ago palace 0. italy's prime minister giuseppe conti has survived a confidence vote in the country's senate allowing him to hold on to power it was triggered after former prime minister matteo renzi pulled his party from contest coalition last week over his handling of the coronavirus bennett. the world health organization says a highly contagious corona virus strain detected in the u.k. has been found in at least 60 countries in germany schools and businesses will stay shut until at least mid february chancellor angela merkel and state premiers agreed to extend the existing with 19 restrictions they also agreed to mandate the

ali a result of protests that birthed the arab spring but many too newsy unskilled disenchanted saying the hope of that time has gone on realized ashes mean nothing much but that. in 10 years there's no strategy or prospects for the future or even hope for change on the contrary every year the amount of hope decreases to date in 2021 practically all young people are just desperate thanks and so they turn to the streets harasses just like they did a decade ago charlotte dallas al-jazeera. it's been one year since south korea reported its 1st case of the corona virus the country has been battling a 3rd wave but there are signs it's now under control since a record $1200.00 cases were reported on christmas eve the number of new infections has been steadily dropping rob mcbride reports from seoul. ode one time south korea was the worst affected country outside china when the fear of this new and relatively unknown virus was very real. everyone to restrain themselves from group of interactivity is not only an indoor places but also places. drawing on experience from previous epidemics and w

ali was. the 2nd straight night been running street battles between police and protesters in the capital tunis people are angry about the country's dire economic crisis and poor public services police have arrested 240 people. a nationwide lockdown in portugal has led to a wreck orderly vote turnout for this sunday's presidential election almost 250000 people have already cast their ballots nearly 5 times as many as last time the health system is buckling under the pressure of a rise in severe covert 19 cases tighter measures to slow the spread of the virus are expected to be in place for at least one month. china's economic recovery is beating expectations in the 4th quarter g.d.p. grew by 2.3 percent that makes it the only major economy in the world to avoid a contraction last year despite the coronavirus and demick the 1st case of code 19 was detected in the city of who hired in december 2009 teed. egypt has announced another major archeological discovery it's on earth a treasure trove of c

ali for the 2nd straight day there's been fighting between police and protesters in several major cities including the capital tunis people angry about the country's economic crisis and its poor public services the police have arrested 240 people most of them with teenagers. still ahead on al-jazeera a palestinian course is hearing a case against an israeli settler in what's believed to be the 1st case of its kind we'll have more from the occupied west bank. thank. you. the blizzards have ceased now but the winter storms rolling through the east and we left behind a fairly cold but not exceedingly cold weather throughout the rest of the u.s. many states will see cloud the little bit as snows like these through the rockies it's been particularly warm in los angeles and san diego up to 31 a couple of days goes cool down a little bit but there will be a change in typewriting los angeles for example may well see the santa ana winds developing there those could be dangerous because is it is dry in california and fires have not entirely disappeared so there is a risk but this particular wind i

ali. the 2nd straight night of the been running street battles between police and protesters in the capital tunis people are angry about the country's dire economic crisis and poor public services the police have so far arrested 240 people. now in what's believed to be the 1st case of its kind a palestinian court is hearing about an israeli settler accused of damaging land and property palestinian courts don't normally have jurisdiction over israeli citizens but this case is being heard because it involves a dual citizen need abraham reports from the occupied west bank. was that an effort has been trying to build his house for the past 8 years but he hasn't been able to he says israeli settlers regularly attacked the building in the occupied west bank so he filed a lawsuit against one of them but in what is believed to be the 1st case of its kind it's a being heard in a palestinian court not an israeli one his house is located the village he says problems began after 2 illegal israeli sett

have continued in tunisia days after the 10th anniversary of the toppling of president zuma but in ben ali for the 2nd day there's been fighting between police and protesters in several major cities including the capital people are angry about the country's economic crisis and poor public services the police have arrested 240 people most of those teenagers. egypt has announced another major archeological discovery are nothing a treasure trove of coffins and bury a lot of that's more than 3000 years old they've been found in the remains of the ancient city of memphis a unesco world heritage site south of the capital cairo ripples. in the shadow of the state pyramid the oldest in egypt lies a trove of traces and it says archaeologists have been digging here since 2007. they found a permit for a queen but didn't know her name and who now the most important thing that we found were followed at them bill a picture of a queen inside the temple and the name and you name of the queen. she was the wife of the king and this was at a small part about the king tapes he was the 1st pharaoh of the 6

for some the games of the arab spring which led to the ouster of former president seen a lot with the ben ali 10 years ago seemed like a distant memory and obviously i was 20 years old when the revolution happened the people out in the streets right now we're doing the same thing maybe worse we hope that things would change for the better we hope that at the end of our studies we would find a job. depressed and visited one of the cities near the capital and called for calm but if you don't have that i know the state of poverty and i also know who is exploiting your poverty don't let anyone exploit your misery don't attack private or public property. the government has deployed army across several cities hundreds of people have been arrested mostly teenagers. the rights group amnesty international has warned against the use of excessive force. for now these protesters have vowed to stay on the streets despite the army the petition says that the police. and to syria. the constitutional court of central african republic has upheld president fast and tried there as reelection the opposition t

ali a result of protests that birthed the arab spring but many too newsy unskilled disenchanted saying the hope of that time has gone on realized ashes mean nothing not at this point you see well in 10 years there's no strategy or prospects for the future or even hope for change on the contrary every year the amount of hope decreases to date in 2021 practically all young people are just desperate. and so they turn to the streets harasses just like they did a decade ago bellus al-jazeera. still ahead on al-jazeera the outgoing us president comes under fire from the most senior republican voice in the senate over his role in the capital attack. the mob. there were provoked by the president and other powerful people. in green. how amazing tribute to the more than 400000 who died over 19 in the u.s. . however we've got some very heavy rain continuing across much of southeast asia has seen some live these storms are rumbling away across the philippines 183 millimeters of rain here in just 24 hours and we're going to see more heavy downpours across the philippines as we go through the next c

ben ali. for the 2nd straight night they've been running street battles between police and justice in the capital tunis people are angry about the country's dire economic crisis and poor public services the police have arrested 240 people. some of the world's largest gold deposits the precious metal accounts for around 50 percent of its exports but with little benefit to the people particularly those in rural areas high unemployment means some have turned to illegal mining especially during the harsh winter months out of there as charles traffic reports now the town of not in. the river nile river flows through the coldest region of killer storm. temperatures here can drop to 20 degrees below 0 this time of year but the driving snow and bitter winter conditions aunts enough to keep these men from working on the ice and in the freezing rain water because the rhythm narain contains gold. they use steel bars to break through the ice the rubber suits they were off a little insulation but at least

ali 10 years ago seemed like a distant memory and a thought as there always is there i was 20 years old when the revolution happened and the people are out in the streets right now we are doing the same thing maybe worse we hope that things would change for the better we hope that at the end of our studies we would find a job was depressed and visited one of the cities near the capital and called for calm but he didn't have the pleasure i know the status and i also know who is exploiting your poverty don't let anyone explode your misery don't attack private or public property. the government has deployed army across several cities hundreds of people have been arrested mostly teenagers. the rights group amnesty international has mourned against the use of excessive force. for now these protesters have vowed to stay on the streets despite the army the petition says that the police. i do see are. in russia dozens of people have been arrested in st petersburg are very aware of the work of the rebels they have been protesting in support of kremlin critic alexina valmy a russian oppositio

ali were increasingly isolated with people increasingly telling them that their people love them but their people didn't really love them. we had a sense this was coming, but what you can never know is what is the spark. it would have been a man, a shopkeeper self immolating in tunisia is what you can't see. you see the kindling gathering, but you don't know when it's going to ignite. the best thing you can do is expected might ignite it any time and try to get ahead of it. especially our friends in the middle east, trying to get them to reform before their people were in the streets was our way of trying to get ahead of what happened ultimately in egypt and tunisia and other places. rep. shalala: talk a little about the collapse of the soviet union in terms of what scholars knew and you were right there. sec. rice: i was. and we used to laugh at people and say gorbachev is bound to fall from power. thank you, but when was the issue. you had a general sense of things going bad is not enough. people knew the infrastructure, political, economic, social of the soviet union was weak. i w

ben ali has been fighting with police in several major cities including the capital tunis as your headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after al jazeera well . mines should go in. i live in where the beirut. and i want to have. a message sent from beirut by call him in the 1940 s. to the intelligence section of the jewish agency. the agency played a major role in founding israel. and the new states intelligence service would later become mossad started its only bill farah was thought laskin buddy gamble with kelly already a lot of. dollars so that he was in trouble as she can be false if you know the u.s. order and call india would get on the. shuttle is that what it's going to. be further up the lawyer who the hell up. to it going to the lokpal bill bledel to kill him or guard gotta be over the are we wondered about are we there for falsely she will leave. you wanted to carry other but are the other the in a 1000000 already feel it. then in which they live mart then me what i saw they come. back again feed the career and cool car you for. a lot of dismissiveness. the 1st arab isr

ali a result of pros who says that birth of the arab spring but many too newsy unskilled disenchanted saying the hope of that time has gone on realized after the end of the march but that's what you see in 10 years there's no strategy or prospects for the future or even hope for change on the contrary every year the amount of food decreases to date in 2021 practically all young people are just desperate. and soon they turn to the streets francis just like they did a decade ago. this is iraq. at least 3 people have died in a large explosion in madrid the caused by a gas leak the blast destroyed several floors of a residence in the latina district emergency services have advised the public to avoid the area the building is located next door to an elderly care home but no one there was hurt. still ahead in this news our english champions at liverpool have fallen behind in the premier league title race this season we're going to hear from their manager in sport. you're eating. and the hour here is general with the sport thank you manchester united at taking on full of right now and when i

ali a result of protests that birthed the arab spring but many to new zealand still disenchanted saying the hope of that time has gone on realized as it has been nothing much. in 10 years there's no strategy or prospects for the future or even hope for change on the contrary every year the amount of hope decreases to date in 2021 practically all young people are just desperate. and so they turn to the streets harasses just like they did a decade ago palace al jazeera. coronavirus injections have been on the rise again in beijing prompting tougher restrictions the 1st cases of the variant 1st identified in the u.k. have also been detected there the authorities say they'll investigate anyone who came into beijing from abroad after december the tense they want to get on top of it before the chinese lunar new year season when hundreds of millions of people traditionally travel zimbabwe's foreign minister has died after contracting coke at 19 in 2017. announced the coup that toppled president robert mugabe zimbabwe is currently recording around 50 coronavirus related deaths per day. russia's

protests engine is here after the country mark 10 years since the toppling of former presidents and ben ali the police fought with demonstrators in the capital tunis great night at least 630 people were arrested there is anger about the poor economy and services which have barely improved since the democratic transition italy's prime minister tzipi conti is facing 2 days of parliamentary votes that will decide whether his coalition can stay in power mr conti needs the approval of the lower and the opportunist to continue if he fails his administration could be forced out of office on a technical government put in place now the votes come after the former prime minister and his party withdrew from the coalition over its response to the pandemic and the state of the italian economy stephanie decker joins us live from rome what are we expecting today. well in about less than off an hour is expected to address the lower house of parliament peter as you said there he's trying to convince them to get the votes the numbers to give him that vote of confidence to continue will be setting out an

virginia ali that the co-founder of ben's chili bowl in washington established in 1958. let's bring it out as it was alan fischer who himself is no stranger to ben's chili bowl he's live for us in washington d.c. and has been monitoring. many developments for us including president trump as he prepares to leave office where is he it's almost a quiet. he's at the white house remember yesterday here shoot a lead 30 minutes before the pool was meant to gather that means the pool gather to call the president 30 minutes before they were due to be there he said no public appearances were not expecting anything today very much behind the scenes we know he spent monday talking pardons pardons pardons he was with executives in the oval office going through the list we think it's going to be somewhere in the region of about $100.00 they were looking at the list to see which ones they could publicize and which ones might cause them problems extra special attention from donald trump because he was worried that some of the pardons might alienate republican senate support of course he

one photo exists of malcolm and ali that night. it was used for a scene in the film. what actually happened that night, though, was imagined by writer kemp powers, first in his 2013 play, "one night in miami," now as the film's screenwriter. >> they were significant then. they're significant now. and, one can't help but wonder what a group like that might discuss if gathered together in a room. i mean, who wouldn't want to be a fly on the wall? >> brown: all were at personal or professional crossroads, having reached unimagined heights, but facing doubts about the way forward. >> when the play was first produced, i was actually older, at 40, than all the men in that room. and that really struck me, because we think of these men doing amazing, transformative things with the benefit of age and wisdom. but the reality is, they were young and, in many cases, they didn't know what they were doing, and they were often taking leaps of faith and believing in themselves. >> brown: also challenging each other-- does economic success bring personal freedom? at what cost? in this

ben, it's fascinating. i'm fascinated to see how far some of these things go. we'll talk about this more tomorrow and thank you for joining us and thank you for yours and brandy's great reporting on this. ben collins nbc news reporter covering all things weird and weak. president trump wasted no time taking on the coronavirus, as deadly virus is spreading rapidly around the world. the doctor at the national institutes of health is joining me. i want you to join me on monday as i host a virtual panel discussion on alzheimer's for the world economic forum in davos, switzerland. i'll be joined by experts who are tackling this crisis that have an effect on families and that is work www.forum.world. more ali velshi after this. wwwd more ali velshi after this thousands of women with metastatic breast cancer, which is breast cancer that has spread to other parts of the body, are living in the moment and taking ibrance. ibrance with an aromatase inhibitor is for postmenopausal women or for men with hr+/her2- metastatic breast cancer, as the first hormonal based therapy

connectionly ben-adir becoming malcolm x capturing the essence of each man. >> i think this is like the first time i've seen a project where i wasn't thinking about the work. i was so engrossed in everything. >> reporter: the story by playwright ken powers imagined how that historic meeting of the minds at miami's hampton house would have played out with the themes and issues of the black struggle and how to overcome still as relevant today as they were over half a century ago. being a fly on the wall for kitchen table talk. >> what are you doing. are you doing enough? you know, that's the question we all ask ourselves. >> the fact that it was set in the time that it was and it's still -- we could have these conversations like right now, you know, tells us how little has changed but also the fact we get to do a film like this tells us how far we have come. >> america is a different experience for many people and attention has to be paid to the truth in them. >> let me hear you. ♪ you got it you got it >> reporter: oscar winner regina king not just bringing the story to life but ma

hi there, ben. the ecb has confirmed that england all—rounder moeen ali will miss the first test against sri lanka after testing positive for covid. team mate chris woakes has been deemed a posible close contact and both will self—isolate for ten days in sri lanka. here's our cricket correspondent jonathan agnew. they were tested on friday, and they threw on saturday and they flew on saturday and arrived sunday morning where they were tested again twice at the airport. two different types of tests i understand. one set of tests came back negative, but then the one that did come back showed that moeen ali was testing positive. so it is clear that there is an issue as to why everyone tested negative on the friday and then this one now appears positive. moeen ali is ok. he faces ten days of self isolation in his hotel room. he has food delivered to his door. he is not allowed out of his room. so he has got ten days ahead of him i suspect he would rather not have. it also knocks him out of the first

. >> ben, let's get into some of these characters. before i does you about ali alexander in hiding, this is alexandria oscasio-cortez talking about what she called her brush with death. take a listen. >> i can tell you that i had a very close encounter where i thought i was going to die. i want to cut straight to the chase. one, it was an extremely traumatizing event. and it is not an exaggeration to say many, many members of the house were nearly assassinated. it's just not an exaggeration to say that at all. >> and, you know, that is not exaggeration. we've now seen -- we now know representative mcgovern is the guy walking in the hallway on the other side of that video where all of those riots were banging to try to get through and then the one went through -- went through the glass and was shot. on the other side of that were representative mcgovern and other members of congress. if they had gotten through, god knows what they would have done to them. likely someone would have died. the chief of staff saying the panic buttons were

only survived a pandemic but also political unrest in the nation's capital famous for its chili dogs ben's also known for its high profile diners including former presidents and martin luther king jr earlier we spoke to virginia ali the founder of the historic restaurant who says the city is going through unprecedented times. i'm 87 years now and i have written this many inaugurations this is unheard of this is unreal i'm never seeing anything like this this is just been and then mazing time in we what we experienced a week ago was a ride a rude awakening as to how things can go and we weren't there plan for it obviously but our capital very own capital was literally literally devastated and the fear that took place in the entire house and that it's come to today i mean even today bridges are closed entering this city so we've gone in and it's a situation here that's unheard of and unreal eventually vote open in the 1938 so when yes 62 years we experience the riots of 1968 when the civil rights movement that took place but nothing compared to what we are experiencing today and of course it