Anxiety about russias actions against this country if conference delegates were to take a short stroll down to the beach front here they get a reality check this place is normally teaming with russian tourists at this time of year the tourist official told us that Hotel Occupancy rates are down by 80 percent if the flight from russia continues the georgian economy has really going to suffer under symons aljazeera but to me in georgia now a car bombing in the libyan city of benghazi has killed at least 4 people and wounded dozens the blast targeted the funeral of a special forces commander in the war on a cliff i have to the head of special forces attended the funeral that wasnt had our correspondent my head has more from tripoli. Symmetry is very close to the headquarters of the special forces unit which are under the control of the warlord. Have to understand that this was a funeral held for a former commander of the special forces units and he would get under the former regime of Moammar Gadhafi but in that symmetry there were the military units including the special forces individuals including their commander the current commander the major general. We know that these explosions could be used as a pretext to push the special forces individuals to join have to this military campaign to seize the capital tripoli especially we know that there are many special forces individuals including their current commander. They refused to join have to this military campaign to move on tripoli we also know that. Medical sources in a bunch of ozzys say that the number of victims could rise especially those wanted many of them have been in critical condition. Its been a year since rebels in the southern syrian province of darius surrendered and since then the un and human Rights Groups have documented cases of arbitrary detentions and arrests but as in a quarter reports from beirut the security situation is getting worse. It was a symbolic moment in syrias war when the opposition surrendered are in july 2018 the southern provinces where the prodemocracy Movement Began back in 2011 we taking it had special significance for the government even though the opposition remained in control of some towns as part of russian brokered reconciliation deals that avoided further fighting a year later state control seems weak and fragile well the situation has really regressed over the previous 3 months where weve had a spate of different assassination. Attacks on syrian army which is something which we havent really seen in areas which have been agreed upon reconciliation the state hasnt been the only target for rebel commanders particularly those who joined units of the army as well as civilians who joined state institutions have been killed its not clear who is behind the violence the opposition believes the government has much to gain. There have been many assassinations of civilians and former leaders of rebel groups who agreed to reconcile theyve been killed so the aim is to create a state of fear eventually change the socalled reconciliation deals. Some say the rest and there are is linked to the battle for influence between government allies russia and iran they have been recruiting locals and former rebel fighters into the different government affiliated military and security branches they control. Rising tensions between the rain ians on the russians across syria on the front levels 1st militias backing each other and do all senior positions the latest of which was. Basically changing all of the security agencies. Within the. Allies. To return to. Syria. They have protested for Security Forces present speaking out against the. Services as well as the arrests and detentions international Rights Groups have accused president bashar assad. But people continue to strive for freedom in the birthplace of their revolution. Beirut where the next still ahead. The french attacks on. All of west africa. The challenge. And most declare across much of the middle east which of course continuing maine in there is a high numbers as we go through the next couple of days now what you can see is and as its been pushing into northern Western Areas of turkey sudden friday we can see more of the way of showers but really it is carrying away from ankara really pushing across into georgia as you can see meanwhile in the eastern med a high of 30 in beirut and feeling quite nice for that on shore breeze and then a saturday similar sort of picture but probably more in the way of rain across georgia and spreading further east was towards the caspian sea 41. 00 in tehran and we will 38. 00 degrees celsius in kabul and then we had a calls the Arabian Peninsula no rain here but we have a little bit of cloud around weve got a warm days that you know friday in doha 45 degrees celsius 38 in abu dhabi and then at 5 on sunday should be a little bit cooler i say cool 42 is not cool but perhaps i should say feeling at a bit less whole with vats high that we had down into Southern Africa conditions here as well this in flatiron just skirting these coastal areas as we head through friday and on into saturday and temperatures it should be feeling pretty good and with a high of 22 and even capetown cooler 18 but nice under mostly sunny skies. Tony. Ive been looking at your Instagram Account and it really takes into the atmosphere behind the scenes this is a dialogue when donald trump announce his candidacy for president after that everyone has a voice. Change for democrats to be. Inspirational kalish mother. Join the global conversation on your thoughts your twitter. On aljazeera. Hello again im. Reminded of the news this hour irans revolutionary guard has denied blocking a british tank in the straits of hormuz meanwhile police in gibraltar have arrested the captain of an iranian tanker seized by british troops. Saddams Ruling Military Council says its holding 16 people over an attempted coup by all the offices as African Union mediators announced progress in talks between the military and a prodemocracy coalition. And the United Nations is to investigate the Philippine Governments a socalled war on drugs which watchdogs say has claimed more than 20000. 00 lives the philippines is being to prevent extra judicial killings and enforced disappearances it says the allegations are offensive. Now front has passed a tax bill targeting tech giants the 3 percent levy hits companies such as google apple facebook and amazon but its angered to the white house to talk about the reports from paris. A show of hands and a display of defiance french senators passed a law taxing tech giants despite straits by the United States washington says the levy on thoroughly targets American Companies and its opened an inquiry a move condemned by frances finance minister i think that the best way of dealing with that kind of difficulties between the u. S. And france is not through it is not opening a procedure under section 3 or one for the 1st time in history of the friendship between the us and france it is to build a compromise at the g 7 level. So that we can have a concrete and effective solution on the docks issue of digital activities the tax targets firms with the global revenue of more than 800000000. 00 including 30000000. 00 in france at least 30 companies will have to pay 3 percent tax on their french revenues because most are american including amazon and apple facebook and google washington says the levy is discriminatory in a statement the u. S. Is trade representative said the President Donald Trump had directed the we investigate the effects of this legislation and determine whether it is discriminatory or unreasonable and burdens or restricts United States commerce the u. S. Investigation could lead to washington imposing retaliate tree tariffs on france thats something the french government would want to avoid but theres little doubt that there is a growing sense of frustration amongst many french politicians with trumps approach to international disagreements can we should mr trump threatens everyone in all areas hes become an article amity when youre head of such a power you have a responsibility you dont amuse yourself by threatening states that are as responsible and all democratic is france and that seek to the find the sort of regulation needed to address todays new economies its. That there can be justice the European Commission has been pushing for tech firms to abide by e. U. Competition law rules and pay more tax in Europe Frances new law is a major step in that direction it also fulfills one of the french president s Campaign Promises emanuel mycroft move angered the u. S. But taxing wealthy Tech Companies was one of the yellow vests main demands so French Public opinion is likely to be on my cross side natasha buckler aljazeera paris u. S. President donald trump has been hosting what hes called a social media summit at the white house it included a line up of online personalities from across rightwing media while Google Facebook and twitter officials were excluded from the gathering trump has accused them of bias against him and other conservatives alan fischer has more from washington d. C. Well donald trump believes the right wing voices are being held back on social media platforms that many are being deleted that a lot of his supporters are allowed to follow him so he invited many of those who do support him online to the white house not invited the big Tech Companies people who could perhaps point to algorithms that suggest that right wing voices are not being taken off unless they breached the standards of those platforms now the economist the right wing magazine described those who were called to the white house as aggrieved discontents pessimists and reactionaries zealous ideological and cavalier with the truth donald trump actually praised those in the room for their support he said and this is a direct quote from the president of the United States he complimented them on the crap you think up donald trump if he can do one thing it is galvanize support online his online media operation is very sophisticated but he says the fact that hes got our own 60000000 followers and president barack obama has almost doubled that is a sign that many people are not allowed to follow it went on a long rant about how he has never bought followers on twitter and when he questioned twitter on why he was losing followers they were told him it was because they were trimming down the number of boats the number of false accounts that were on twitter itself its interesting that donald trump decided to hold this summit in the white house this week just a few days ago a judge ruled that he could not ban people from his official twitter account that even if they criticize them he couldnt kick them off it seems that the judge was saying look if you give it out then youve got to take it as well. April plays are is a journalist for online news website slate and she says trumps accusation of false bias by a social Media Networks is a political tactic ahead of the 2020 president ial election the pressure is coming but were not seeing actual legal change to kind of force the companies to deal with disdain for ration in a substantive way or to deal with the hate that spreads on their platforms in such a viral way and you know it doesnt look like theres going to be any sort of legal change moving into 2020 you know its not even like clear that its required that you have to label that a political ad as you know who its paid for by or that it is a political ad on these platforms so its not clear that anything is going to change and hes really tying tying their hands from doing anything so in one camp we have congress and members a lot of democrats saying the social Media Companies need to clean up their act they need to make sure that there arent you know trolls from russia or other foreign governments or even here in the United States forwarding this information and then on the other hand you have trump saying well this is censorship and and so its really forcing the companies into a place of an action then israel and president Nicolas Maduro as government and opposition parties have agreed to keep talking in a bid to resolve the political and Economic Crises the breakthrough follows 3 days of meetings in barbados that mean representatives of mature and one quiet are the Opposition Leader has declared himself interim president before the talks began madeira had said he was optimistic that they could find a path to peace. A west African Leaders are gathering in ivory coast to discuss the rollout of a single shared currency its part of an initiative to strengthen regional ties and trade bonds as reports from abidjan there are plenty of challenges. Roasted coffee beans are ready for processing at this plant on the ask itself. The factory is just one west African Business looking to cash in on the regions effort to liberalize trade. The plug says having a single currency will be good for business. There are different currencies in the region transactions among mean the countries is difficult right now but having a single currency makes trading a loss easier. Regional leaders have been pushing to integrate they kind of ease they believe they are no closer to having a single currency than at any time but theyre all stickles. Different the level of Economic Development differs from one country to another for example the economies of nigeria ghana i cant give why are so smaller countries will simply drag the more advanced economies just like europe we all produce Raw Materials and import most of our needs there is little imports among member nations the c. F. A. Is one of west africas major caresses its a legal tender in 8 of the 15 countries in the region and if regional leaders have their way it will be replaced by a new currency for the whole of west africa. Negotiations for the single currency board after the euro have been underway for 30 years the implementation of the i called west africa single currency was delayed several times but the recent agreement of an african free trade area is soon by some as an incentive enough for regional leaders to finally launch it after 3 failed attempts. While businesses say a common currency will ease regional trade not everyone is hopeful that all 50 repetitions of the economic bloc of course have the political will to see it through all the next year by decrease aljazeera. Well you can find much more on our web site including details on the heightened shipping security in the gulf at al jazeera dot com. Hello im under with the headlines irans revolutionary guard has denied blocking a british tanker in the strait of hormuz meanwhile police in gibraltar have arrested the captain of an iranian tanker seized by british troops last week probably chalons has more from london this is the result of days of searches that have gone on on the tanker they have seized documents the police have Electronic Devices at the moment there are no charges but the police say this investigation is carrying on Sudans Transitional Military Council says its foiled an attempted coup the council says it was carried out by a group of serving and retired officers and that 16 people are being held African Union mediators have announced progress in talks between the military and a prodemocracy coalition it had been hoped that a power sharing agreement would be signed on thursday about it didnt happen. The un is to investigate the Philippine Governments socalled war on drugs which watchdogs say has claimed more than 20000. 00 lives the philippines is being urged to prevent extra judicial killings and enforced disappearances it says the allegations are offensive italian prosecutors have opened an investigation into possible corruption involving deputy Prime Minister. It follows media reports that a covert Russian Oil Deal was devised to funnel millions of euros to his Ruling League party and already a recording of a meeting in october allegedly exposes a close aide of self and 3 russian men discussing a deal but theres no evidence of a transaction actually took place salvini has denied his party received any money from moscow or u. S. President donald trump says hes not backing down on efforts to determine citizenship status of people in the country but hes abandoned plans to put a question on citizenship in the 2020 census a car bombing in the libyan city of benghazi has killed at least 4 people and wounded dozens the blast targeted the funeral of a special forces commander who also the world Khalifa Haftar the head of special forces was attending the funeral but wasnt hurt well those are the headlines the news continues here after the stream to stay with us. As iraq rebuild itself following years of conflict women struggle to play a bigger role politically and Domestic Violence also remains a problem. Some of the brave women battling abuse talk to al jazeera about the struggles they face and their pursuit of justice. 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