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Thank you. now, you have had phenomenal success around the world since the arab spring, which propelled you to global fame. what is it now that still drives you to want to shake people? so many things. i guess, first of all, my passion for people and music and connecting. i feel that nowadays, more than ever, we need to connect with each other, and i feel that if we have this sense of union and empathy towards each other, i feel that the world could be a much better place. well, let's go back to 2010, 2011, and at that time your music was banned in tunisia. you were on avenue habib bourguiba i...

But make no mistake. what we saw, what we are seeing in tehran, in tunis, in tahrir square, is a longing for the same freedoms that we take for granted here at home. it was a rejection of the notion that people in certain parts of the world don't want to be free, or need to have democracy imposed upon them. it was a rebuke to the world view of al qaeda which -- rights of individuals and perpetual poverty and violence. let there be no doubt the united states and the united kingdom stand squarely on the side of those who long to be free, and now we must show that we will back up those words with...

And it may not last very long. zain? >> it's also been a really rough time, ben, for a lot of the tourists that were in tunisia at the time of this upheaval and all the protests. are there still many tourists in tunisia and is travel in and out of the country easy or not? >> well, travel in and out of the country is getting much better. initially basically the airport was closed and a lot of the flights are coming in, were, in fact, canceled. tour companies, charter companies, have been taking people out of the country. i seriously doubt anybody's going to be coming here at the moment, but pro...

Will also grab a potential amnesty in the use of deadly force and people really are seeing a return to the old obviously but this time of the month a mole. a journalist assignment speakman cordell for us in tunis thank you very much for that update. now there is a seventy percent chance of success that is the verdict of one senior german politician on the exploratory coalition talks between chancellor angela merkel's conservatives and the social democrats almost four months after voters went to the polls the parties have set themselves a deadline of today to decide whether they can agree on te...

Everything the united states stands for and believes in. >> mccain says the u.s. could work through turkey or the arab league, but the arab league is wide toed itself over arming syria's many opposition groups and one of the groups is al-qaeda, which the u.s. could never support. turkey may show how far it's willing to go on friday when secretary of state clinton joins officials from 70 nations at a friends of syria conference in tunis, but experts say there are geographic reasons not expect the libya style intervention. syria has four times the population of libya on a tenth the land space. t...