Still has a popular base after a week of antigovernment protests unprecedented in their size and the august heat told the crowd batteries is being threatened from outside. The tanks the jets are on standby within 15 minutes reachable border this is not for nothing nato forces a rattling tank tracks at our doors military power is building up on the western border of our country lithuania latvia poland and unfortunately our brother ukraine its leadership are telling us to hold a new election. Nato has denied the accusations of a military buildup in the region. Yet just a short distance across the capital a much bigger demonstration followed perhaps the largest of the Antigovernment Movement so far better russians repeating the call theyve been making since what they say was the rigged election on august the 9th that the man whos ruled batteries for 26 years has no legitimacy he should leave and there should be a new and free vote. I was earlier that the Russian Ambassador to slovakia became the 1st senior official to back the protests in a video posted online. I stand in solidarity with those who have taken to the streets of belorussian cities would peaceful marches so that their voices could be heard yes. I sincerely hope that the future of my country will be based on the positions of all sectors of society in representatives of various political forces. Have suffered for this right since his plea on saturday that russian president Vladimir Putin should help him quell the protests theyve had to phone calls the kremlin says its willing to assist batteries militarily in accordance with a collective security pact. For the moment the protesters are much concerned with possible russian intervention nor are they obviously pro western this is an emotional uprising spurred on by the beatings and alleged torture inflicted by state security their focus is getting out and writing a new chapter for batteries. Aljazeera but in our other top stories thousands of people have joined. In thailands capital calling for political reform and cuts to the morning kate students have been meeting a day protest for the past month sundays demonstration was the largest since the coup in 2014. Somali Security Forces have just ended a 5 hour siege on a hotel in the capital mogadishu a suspected car bomb and shootout at the elite hotel in light of beach story 6 People Killed and 40 others injured Security Forces say 2 gunmen are among the dead government officials often stay at that facility the head of the u. S. Postal service has been summoned to testify at a Congressional Committee later this month we join was appointed postmaster general by President Donald Trump and now facing accusations of trying to sabotage the mail network ahead of novembers election by withholding funding and limiting its operations on saturday the Postal Service won millions of mail and when the millions of maine and ballots will not arrive in time to be counted for election day. Are new coronavirus measures of come into effect in the colombian capital the capital despite protests against the countrys 5 month lock down Business Owners rallied in bogota after 2 more weeks of strict measures were imposed in 7 of the citys neighborhoods protest as want the mayor Claudia Lopez to find ways to revive a struggling economy colombia has more than 450000 confirmed cases of covert 19. World war one through our eyes is the program coming up next but there will be more news after that oscillator. World war 1. 4 years of bitter conflict. Known as the great war. All the war to end all. Its grim trains warfare. With europe the main feature. But this was a war fault on many fronts. So theres another story rarely told. Of huge importance during the war. Kind of lost in the significance. Of a story of troops in fault and die but who are often forgotten. Im driven outcome that shaped the middle east of today. This is going more one through our local high school. Malick to rekey the 2 new zealand writer and broadcaster is taking is on a personal journey across a dozen countries. His grandfathers Generation Force in the war. So far hes explored how thousands of arabs were conscripted by the british and French Colonial powers in north africa. And how arabs were forced to fight on both sides for the european allies and the central powers setting muslim against muslim. And the vital role played by arab troops in the ottoman army again literally. In this episode he looks at the roots of why the autumn ones joined the war at home. How the european powers viewed the Ottoman Empire as right for division and exploitation. And the suffering when they also mean government of young turks cracked down on the arab provinces. And the little known story of a future zionist leader in the ultimate world. Bullish jewish student walked along here 911 his name david had been guardian or would become the 1st Prime Minister of israel. Cannot live there how to go after half a year let the kid. We must say to him you mr bennett him by the dont think its funny a horrible irony of the way oh well im proud of our daughter. Ill be right there as he ought to be another one of the. Without her judgment also to give him a business with the edges monarchy and so karl. Is it because. I let the kind of that even when i do. Have the ability one at the about how the hell beat out in a courage when he derek a spotted been nabbed as mike to study how dare. You have that whether you don. How the hell how to land at the unhappy how when our german name than a poor new mayor the color and it to how do you. A very good question and one with roots deep in autumn in history. Before eating 30 the Ottoman Empire stretched from mesopotamia in the east to the red sea and most of the north african coast. But over the next 80 or so heres the ottomans lost algeria tunisia egypt and in 1912 libya. Then the last territories much closer to home and the balkan wars at 912913. So britain france and russia began plotting how to exploit the potential collapse of salt on our block a means empire for their own individual benefit. Not to have made the 2nd will rule the empire from 87629000 or 8 or 9000 or 9 felt that western european powers were playing dirty games. In his mind and the minds of the advisers around him and many ottoman ops are mere appeal powers were supporting nationalist Independence Movement within the Ottoman Empire he thought that the great powers were using religion especially christianity to mobilize those nationalist movement in an effort to undermine the Ottoman Empire. The sultans view was not wrong the european powers so on rest in the arab world after nearly 400 years of ultimate rule as an opportunity. But there was a stumbling block provincial arab leaders and intellectuals were thinking about gaining independence from the ultimate. But for ordinary arabs the sultan in istanbul was the kaleb of islam the leader of the muslim world. Whichever side you were on there was a close bond with the calle of respect and loyalty for him across the arab world. An incident later in the war illustrated this clearly. The british captured 700 iraqi soldiers in 1917 and sent them to egypt. The british offer to free the prisoners if they would support an arab revolt against the ultimate ends led by sorry for the saying of mecca but few iraqis accepted most were uneasy at the idea of challenging the kale of. Books such as the 1938 work by George Antonius the arab revolt exaggerated the support of shoddy preuss ains 1916 report against the ottomans and exaggerated and painted a very negative image up on a minute rule of 400 years of ottoman rule and even many european colonialists tended to denigrate the ottoman past and to the point of referring to it as so despotic and backward that it almost welcomed the arrival of european colonialism. The ultimate army was also diverse in november 914 up 2300000 of their troops were arabs from greater syria. Of the armies 9 most senior commanders 2 were all brainy and 2 from the caucasus and 2 arab. And in politics Saeed Halim Pasha the grand vizier all Prime Minister was from egypt. The british had to find a way to challenge this holy bond between the kaleb in istanbul and his loyal arab muslim citizens. They approached hussein bin ali the sheriff of mecca he was a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad leader of the hush my people and ruler of islams most holy place. The british thought he alone could challenge the kale of an istanbul. But he would not be straightforward. On the eve of world war one most arabs were largely supportive of the Ottoman Empire. They regarded it as a protector of the of an islamic identity in an era of expanding european colonialism even many arab christians and jews especially after 1008. 00 welcomed the liberal reforms and wrote glowingly hand the of these reforms have left these iraq and rarely ever call for independence for the arab people. Tonight you know it was a significant here in this unfolding story that was when the new leaders of the committee of union and progress the young turks staged a coup removing sultan of though from it the 2nd from power. They started out in 1000. 00 each with a project of trying to hold that empire get there on the basis of question. But at the same time they found themselves in the position of trying to defend their maintain their time against both great fortunes and east new nationalist president s fall within. When the young turks reconvened parliament they created optimism in the arab world but this soon turned to disillusionment. Over all they may not have intended it that they found themselves fighting to me in n. P. P. Treat. From 9. 11 hours from italys in the nation only on once then came the balkan wars and then there came the great and this change this transformed the issue actually. Promising and bringing freedom to not peoples in to one of meeting in. Defeat in the balkans hard in the young turks and they tighten their grip on their arab possessions the balkan wars of 191213 catastrophic defeat and finally the action from what had become of all kinds brought about and enormous fun to jump in the development and education of turkish nationalists and also they became more and more dictatorial. The young turks had hoped to stay out of the war and ally themselves with britain and france but neither of these 2 countries would go against russia so they were not an option. Besides the autumn ins and germany had a history of friendship. Geyserville him the 2nd 1st visited istanbul in 889 to befriend sultan. 9 years later he landed at haifa on a state visit to the ottoman east. They made a ceremonial entry into jerusalem. And visited the tomb in damascus of salahuddin the famous mediaval muslim oreo who defeated the crusaders. There was mass celebration when he announced the germany would pay for the renovation of his grave. The kaiser also declared his friendship of the worlds 300000000 muslims and gained the nickname. Vilhelm so germany was a natural ally. But the young turks were also gambling that the european war might be over quickly. At the time there were series and. Prospect of voice in europe that in fact the civilized european powers would not fight each other for very long that this was a crisis but a cry for that might. Come to an end funeral rather than later ultimately it is for that they would be able to favor the alliance with germany which they had signed for 7 years not necessarily a protection but an alliance with germany that would help the ottoman state to consolidate its. Its borders its institutions and to restrain finn and that period under which there would have germany as an ally. However germany needed this deal as much as the ultimate. And. They were outnumbered on the ground in europe and could open a new Eastern Front against russia and the british. The german general era gluten doff wrote that ultimate entry into the war enabled the central powers to soldier on for another 2 years otherwise the war might well have been over by 916. This is the house in istanbul of anwar pasha he led the secret negotiations with germany on behalf of the young turk or unionist government. Here on the night of the 1st of august 1914 he secured his treaty of alliance. Unwarped pasha was a fan of everything german he spoke the language trained in Military College there and admire the way chancellor autobahn bismarck had modernized the state. They had enormous admiration for passion is for be spark in is and for the germans on that rick germany had to follow its own special path and it was envisioned as and it became a path in which the German Military the german army played god to the nation and the state it was perceived and it really was true to a large extent that the german nation and the german state were called prof in a very strong sense by pressure and the pressure an army and this is what the spark in his was all about the union ists perceive themselves as pursuing a kind of oppression path in the context of thought to manpower. And it wasnt just the young turks who admired germany some arabs were impressed by its achievements National Unity military expansion Scientific Research and economic development. The lebanese why to this layman that he wrote a poem called the 20th century was. Well in my knee feels more as he said to. Me and to me and to sit. Down and feed him a few gave me. 11 feet to leave that in the. Festival. Hall who would look to. The booming food to move north dad. In august 114 and one persons treaty was still a secret. But in the 2nd week of november came the formal ultimate entry into the war. And the grand mufti has called for muslims to join a jihad against the own powers fatah mosque in istanbul. It was a call for a holy war to old listenings including arabs who supported the canaan. The germans believed that this cold could undermine their enemies war efforts. There were millions of muslims in the british and french colonies where the germans hoped for mass uprisings. They launched a campaign to influence muslims fighting for the allies. It was led by german lawyer diplomat and ancient historian. Of his obviously very dear to his heart because of his german pictures and so on. And his interest in the middle east but in a very specific way by 899. Was it no one had a reputation as an experienced and really very well informed travel are. Open haim was an adventurer and archaeologist but was also involved in planning the route of the ballon to Baghdad Railway. The German Government wanted to build the line to compete with the british to give them access to oil and bring the region under stronger influence. Nothing unusual about the fact that siemens who was then the director of the dogshit bank which was largely in charge of the financing of the border into Baghdad Railway should contact him about the extension of the line from a low. To muzzle has fought that particular strange and he asked him if he would do some prospecting and advise them on what was the best route and he wrote about all the advantages that the best and most efficient lying to follow for the railroad and all the advantages that would accrue from following this route rather than that route. After troubleshooting for siemens at Deutsche Bank hed made a historic archaeological discovery in Northern Syria in 1909. It was in a certain sense by accident that he made the greatest discovery of his career that she discovered tell her laugh. Because really what he was trying to do was do this prospecting on his own. On officially for the village of baghdad really and she did write he did write a brief to report and devoted many more pages of that from the report to route from aleppo towards wholl than he did. To that he had discovered to tell how tough. Open heim returns to excavate tell her life in 1007 and discovered a city built in 6000 b. C. The bell into baghdad will be took 37 years to complete by which time europe would be at war again. Still to come the devastating impact of the war on greater syria and its people. We think about world war one we think about the british and french and the germans but really the Ottoman Empire suffered far more than any of the continental powers. The terrace. The facts of the ottoman repression over our of nationalists. And a modern greek city and 8 story of one of the funders of israel. And judah in center these are all to me that all of this was mainly the jewish city it was called the jews a limb of the balkans. As countries begin easing coronavirus restrictions scientists warn of a 2nd wave of infections in the last few days. In front of the neighborhood and many feel the economy is be prioritised about for human life until fall to pull your claim the focus is on doubt here because i can pull that 1000 places we bring you the latest developments from across the globe coronavirus condiment special coverage on the. All new counting the cost how powerful banking and political plans destroyed let all this economy controversy about trumps troys to oversee latin americas recovering from the deming plus a Company Awarded billions for a gas plant that wasnt even. 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