was freed after the tile floors he's dropped bahrain's request for his extradition you can see him here in the airport on his way back home to melbourne when hayes reports from bangkok. after arriving in thailand for his honeymoon eleven weeks ago hakim al-arabiya is finally able to return to australia his adopted home the longer he spent in prison in bangkok the more concern grew that he could be sent back to bahrain instead the footballer said he'd be tortured or killed if that happens after an international outcry bahrain dropped its extradition request hakim fled bahrain for australia in two thousand and fourteen avoiding a ten year jail sentence for vandalism which he says is politically motivated use of his release was welcomed in australia where he has asylum status the prime minister or employees coming home. or be pleased to see him at home when that or koos despite having travel documents and a thai visa he was arrested when he and his wife landed in bangkok in november there are several unanswered questions about this case particularly surrounding the issuing of an interpol r

charging him for such why does bahrain really want him back do you think. i think i was but it might help about ten because between two thousand and fifteen and two thousand and sixteen i came on one of the key athletes. to speak out again and then monday. by this time. was running for president c i came to so many about his own tortured experience the exposure he gave to the past and also he said that how comes a pearson like shift in a month to take the leadership of people while he paid to protect the plant and his home by hand and i am they exempt. because of hiking the bravery shift that a man was. despite he was the favorite candidate he knows what it's like in continual and this is why part of the behind him honest they know i believe that there is a test for them for their binge on hiking because of the damage which caused began to shift the course has only seven ish one think on this case that they were so in the they lying on a confession one of them which was expected by his the brother that's the only evidence which the judge has of allies on wh

she's the acting president of the bahrain center for human rights welcome to you all but craig can i start with you you obviously feel very very strongly about hackings case why firstly as a football player secondly he's a refugee who's under australia's protection and there's some question marks around the australian government's dysplasia in this around the it's probably red notice cross it should never have gone on anyway it's against their regulations but as a whole apply out we feel our client community in australia that if we don't stand up for him he's in very real trouble secondly because this is so much about football politics and the sorted politics of the going particular around the i.o.c. president was implicated back in two thousand and eleven twelve in the house aeration and torture all right let me let me stop you there craig so i think we need to unpack this just a little bit keep it as simple as possible when you're talking about the president of the asia football confederation we're talking about a bahraini who has since recused himself from this case because clearl

in twenty fourteen and received refugee status in australia but bahrain wanted him to return to serve a ten year prison sentence for vandalism he said he'd be tortured if he went back to bahrain which eventually dropped its extradition order under thomas is that melbourne airport forcing andrew you know extradition requests don't just get dropped as a matter of course there must have been a great deal of behind the scenes diplomacy going on. absolutely what that behind the scenes the policy was right now anybody's guess we know that thailand's foreign minister travelled to bahrain over the weekend and it seems that the conversation between the burn minister in thailand and one of the political leaders in but right that produced. this big change because even twenty four hours ago it looked very very likely that i came up it would be in a bank vault prison cell for many months to come and potentially they were tense about right where of course he feared he would be tortured and certainly in prison for a long period of thought he was a crowd of about three hundred people here just an hou

bahrain actually wearing courage to withdraw the extradition order that was always the most acceptable outcome and it actually is the best outcome because it's that extradition order and then attempted retribution by the royal and royals and government of bahrain which was the most disgusting aspect here and that's what we are fighting against mostly well i spoke to the chairman of her keams australian football club pascoe vale he says the team will be relieved to have him home but that they're not planning his return to the pitch for now. one of my so. i'm going experiences of my life trying to say that so much humanity out there and it's just me breaking down will be a great feeling to obviously spy on at the club for nothing he at least done much to give him a couple of years now being the great force that he said that he was an island in the room struck me as a horror story for the king coming out in shackles and the. lost a lot of life not taking to very solid ended easy clean and pretty good shape and you looked very fragile people can imagine on what is mental state it's one thi

the words it's have released him after bahrain the country where he was born and it's extradition request. and here in berlin christian bale is in the hell so or at least he's on the red carpet for the film vice about the life and times of dick cheney he was george w. bush's vice president but some say he was the power behind the presidential forum. i'm burnt off it's good to have you with us tonight iran is marking the fortieth anniversary of the islamic revolution tens of thousands of people gathered today in the capital tehran for a rally led by president hassan rouhani. he told the crowds that iran is determined to expand its military power and ballistic missile program and would ask no one for permission to. join the crowds. death to america death to israel and death to england a slogan frequently chanted by the many people out on the streets of tehran today it's a display of strength by the supporters of the islamic revolution in a conover like atmosphere. has come here with his wife and it's not among those joining in but he still believes in the islamic republic as a political sys

home sweet home australia welcomes back a refugee footballer after bahrain dropped its attempt to extradite him. welcome to the program congressional negotiators in the us have reached a funding deal just days away from the latest government shutdown deadline the agreement covers border security the president trumps addressing supporters at a rally in el paso in texas near the mexican border earlier and he was promoting his long promised wall but the deal doesn't appear to have met his demands as walking up to the stage they said that. progress is being made with this committee. just so you know we're building the wall anyway they say that. it was at the us now yes now i was i said wait a minute i got to take care of my people from texas i got to go why don't you even want to hear about the brussels is live for us in el paso been following events that rob let's begin with the reception the president received and what he actually said in el paso. well inside the lusts paso county coliseum there were several thousand of threat president trump supporters so hale and they gave him the usual rap

it is say a rabies case has had one positive effect it's shown a spotlight on bahrain's human rights record the world now understands the absence of rule of law we've all come to learn that there's over five thousand political prisoners in bahrain jails. doesn't yet have an australian passport but this he says is hard not a country he played and hit but the one that's given him shelter under thomas al jazeera melbourne. is another story that's been talked a lot on social media japanese during star rococo care has been diagnosed with leukemia just eighteen months before the tokyo lympics the eighteen year old found out after she returned from a training camp in australia feeling on well she's going to miss this year's world championships in south korea while she receives treatment it was the first women ever to win the m.v.p. award at the asian games last year that was after winning six gold medals in the pool in jakarta the biggest gold medal haul for female athletes at a single asian games understandably she has been tips to be one of the faces of her home and picks in tokyo next ye

and the end of an ordeal he was jailed in thailand facing deportation to bahrain but now refugee football team. has made a triumphant return to. golf it's good to have you with us the unit tory is mexican drug lord has been convicted of crimes spanning a quarter of a century a us court today found him guilty on all counts walking good smith was extradited to the u.s. in two thousand and seventeen after breaking out of a mexican prison twice the sixty one year old could spend the rest of his life behind bars the jury found him guilty of smuggling tons of cocaine and heroin into the united states through his global drug. his sentencing is scheduled for june. well a short while ago the u.s. attorney in the case gave a statement outside that u.s. courthouse. this conviction we expect will bring a sense of life without the possibility of parole is a sense from which there is no escape and no return. this conviction is a victory for the american people who is suffered so long and so much guzman made billions pouring poison over our southern border. and that was the u.s. attorney there richard d

he fled bahrain in 2014 and said he was tortured there. thai authorities arrested him on his honeymoon back in november. he has refugee status from nevada and plays for a melbourne claim. >> his supporters say the charges are politically motivated. the footballer is a critic of the bahrainien government. let's talk more about this story. joining us live is fred foster in bangkok. thanks so much for being with us. so what do you make of these allegations from bahrain and their push to try to bring him back? >> well, it's terrifhorrific acg to international law and to the principles and regulations of international sport. bahrain has strong positions of governance both within fiefa, one of the members of the royal family and it was particularly the royals as well, not just the government that hakeem was involved in a prodemocracy demonstration back in 2012 but in 2015 he was very critical of a president running for the fiefa presidency at that time. this is why we feel it's nothing more than a politically motivated case and a retrobuttive on

launches a bid to seize his assets home sweet home australia welcomes back a refugee footballer after bahrain drops its attempt to extradite him. also twelve catalan separatists jew on trial for rebellion the lawyers accuse the government in madrid of subverting democracy. welcome to the program congressional negotiators in the u.s. have reached a funding deal just days away from the latest government shutdown deadline now the agreement covers border security president donald trump has been addressing supporters at a rally in el paso texas near the mexican border he's promoting his long promised wall but the deal doesn't appear to have met his demands as walking up to the stage they said that. progress is being made with this committee. to say you know we're building the wall anyway they say that. all or. now just now i am i said wait a minute i got to take care of my people from texas i got to go i don't even want to hear about. how small from el paso in texas president trump ventured here to el paso a city on the us mexico border to call again for building a substantial border barrier or wa

torture to treatment and bahrain so as as far as they know there isn't any pending cases. which i haven't the end present or facing solution over this you know just by you know talking with us tonight you are a vocal critic of the authorities in bahrain and i gather that you even your family you say is is paying a price for that help spoken criticism tell me about that. yeah as hack you said is that when individuals seek to move to end of the country to seek a refugee we thought that this is what we are going to get the put the action we have a freedom of speech freedom of expression we could accept we could exercise our rights for this unfortunately i was stunned with that reality that my actions would have consequences for me personally the consequences for the closest to me so that when the government went and able to come after me they came the closest the most beloved to me they started with my infant son at eighteen months at the time i don't with his mother being how she was sitting at the airport and then the problem troubling following up with this i took against

we heard from a pro-democracy activist in bahrain he told us the monarchy appears out for revenge for the dissident footballers damaging testimony to talk about another bit of money up the ruling family which have a but a strong relationship with the thai rulers as well and with the thais the royal between two thousand and fifteen and two thousand and sixteen aqim was one of the key athletes to speak out again it shifted them on by this time running for a fifth of presidency i came to so many about his own tortured experience also he stated that how come if it's unlike shifts and months to see the leadership of the fellow while he failed to protect the players in his home by then and i am the example of because of axioms of bravery he knows over like infancy you know and this is why there is an order at their bench on him because of the damage which caused the game to show them on are there are just some of our top stories here on the program on aussie international for this tuesday that was quickly turning into a busy one we're back in about twenty five minutes with more of your news

he had bahrain's royal family. here is jonathan head. afnathan: the young man who thought he found sy in australia now in shackles in thailand. hakeem al-araibi arrived at the bangkok main criminal court engging the thais not to sd him back to bahrain, saying he would be tortured there. he has got plenty of support. craig foster, a former australian team captain, is here and other officials from the international football community. >> that picture demonstrates clearly to every player around the world that if you come to play an international game in thailand, you are not safe. jonathan: mr. hakeem now playsfo the melbourne club after fleeing from bahrain to australia four years ago. last november he flew with hisfe n holiday to thailand. the thais arrested him a' bahrais request. some of the world's most famous footballers a sports figures have joined the campaign to get him released. for a football-mad country like thailand, this is embarrassing. the legal grounds for holding and extraditing hakeem al-araibi are so flawed and the outra

—— bahrain. rained drop the extradition request? -- bahrain. are no full answer by the kingdom bahrain, they say they have dropped the extradition request but they still hold the right to prosecute him. he is accused of having vandalised a police station during the arab spring stock regardless of the fact that footage ofa regardless of the fact that footage of a football match shows that he was elsewhere at the time. he fled bahrain in his absence, or is convicted and sent to —— faces a ten year jail sentence if he convicted and sent to —— faces a ten yearjail sentence if he returns. during the days in bangkok, that has been a very real prospect as the thai officials looked at an extradition request from bahrain. within the last 12 hours, as you say, the request was withdrawn. bahrain says it still holds the right to prosecute and to jail him that they do not at this stage what to extradite him. now have -- now he has been given refugee status by australia, what does it mean for him? yes, he has had refugee status for the last couple of

pilot of the work is released him after bahrain the country where he was born abandoned its extradition request and fewer than a third of researchers in science related fields worldwide are women on this international day of women in science we ask our gender stereotypes still getting in the way. it's good to have you with us iran is marking the fortieth anniversary of the islamic revolution hundreds of thousands of people gathered in the capital tehran for a rally addressed by president hassan rouhani he told the crowd that iran is determined to expand its military power and ballistic missile program and he said iran will ask no one for permission to use teresa is in tehran tonight. death to america death to israel and to have to england a slogan frequently chanted by the many people out on the streets of tehran today it's a display of strength by the supporters of the islamic revolution in a carnival like atmosphere. has come here with his wife and it's not among those joining in but he still believes in the islamic republic as a political system in comparison to other countries in th

to save hockey the riot be with first arrested in two thousand and twelve in bahrain when the country was going through a massive anti-government uprising violently quelled by the gulf states ruling family he claims he was tortured in prison like thousands of others they spent three hours sitting me hard in my linux well saying will break your bones will destroy your future you will never play football again with these lyrics in twenty fourteen he fled bahrain fearing for his life and in twenty seventeen he was granted political asylum in australia where he continued his career until november last year when he went on a honeymoon trip to thailand and was detained right at the airport with authorities pointing. an interpol request to detain him as a fugitive of justice since then he has been locked up in a bangkok prison with bahrain seeking his extradition back home he is charged with vandalizing a police station and sentenced in absentia to ten years in prison that is despite the london based bahraini dissident group b i r d releasing the live television footage of him playing a foot

more than three months off to his detention in thailand bahrain remains hot on the heels of football hockey over alleged terror charges he could be facing extradition despite humanitarian warnings after a thai court announced his detention would be extended without bail. was met by police officer touching down in buying call for his honeymoon in november the footballer is currently a political refugee and resident in australia however his attention has been criticized and spot campaigns calling for his release across a sport and social media. picks up the story. it's not too often that you see sports personalities club's fans and even high ranking officials unite for a cause but this has been just a case of. a football player from bahrain currently behind bars in thailand entire sports federations all jumped in to urge football authorities to save hockey al-arabiya was first arrested in two thousand and twelve in bahrain when the country was going through a massive anti-government uprising violently quelled by the gulf states ruling family he claims he was tortured in prison like tho

his family feared extradition would result in his torture and possibly death at the hands of bahrain's justice system but as a result of monday's ruling he's now heading home to melbourne. let's get more on hakim al arabiya release and for that we bring in andrew or sati of the international football players union a fifth pro which represents sixty five thousand footballers and you were part of this campaign the save campaign first tell me what was your reaction when you heard the news that he was being released. immense relief yeah it was incredible this is what we worked for every day to help people play as a people first and a player was in need this player was not even a member of our affiliate in australia the professional football association and yet when this issue was brought up immediately we saw it galvanize an entire football community first you know straight year that internationally then other sports weighed in human rights organizations it was truly incredible having been involved in in different attempts to help players at all kinds of levels but but this truly is someth

pilot of the work released him after bahrain the country where he was born abandoned.

we heard from a proto mockers activist in bahrain told us the money out for revenge for the dissident football is damaging testimony. to talk about a number that have made up the ruling family which have but it's known that in a future where we're going to do well and with the title the boy between two thousand and fifteen and two thousand and sixteen aqim was one of the key to speak out again than mine by that time running for president see that so many about his own tortured experience also he stated that how come there's been like fifteen months to take the leadership of the fellow why he failed to protect the players and his home by having him and i am they get them out of this because of i.q. of the bravery he knows oh but unlike infancy you know and this is why did the test order and the bend on i came because of democrats which could begin to shift than mine well thanks for sharing some of your stay with us here at the international we do come through a lot from programmer tons of the top of the hour with many more of your. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that w

he spent two months imprisoned in thailand fighting extradition to bahrain a twenty five year old who fled their five years ago feared for his life if forced to return to bahrain andrew thomas saw him land in melbourne was in a bangkok prison for more than two months i came al-arabiya dreamed of this moment but until monday it looked less and less likely that it would happen then suddenly he was released and soon on a plane to australia i would defend. this to music to see how did people like there's several years before every year this is what it is and i just i wanted to think that a little. bit. more than a hundred people waiting for al-arabiya at melbourne airport nonfederal even twenty four hours earlier they'd be here now we had a good word for it last night because it is very frightening the traffic is back to strong man is safe now it's not. ellery right for australia and twenty fulton after being accused of vandalism during pro-democracy protests australia recognised him as a refugee by last year he was playing professional football in melbourne but in the event l. araby got

was freed after bahrain withdrew its extradition request. claimed asylum in australia back in two thousand and fourteen saying that he feared torture and even death if he were to be sent back if the rest in thailand during his honeymoon sparked an international outcry. we'd like to bahraini human rights activists to talk about this case. is based in london with a group called the bahrain institute for rights and democracy it is good to have you on the program tonight what with what was your first reaction to the news of his release. i was a little much at the real heat of the new was and then when i was reading it breaking he was over a b. i was reading it again just to make sure that i'm reading it that i think it was an excitement moment it's m.s. victory will be torture victims i'm behind and it's also a message that it's a salute that if the message that when when someone's cell phone or when someone goes through that would be like a human eye maybe one hundred one and a nightmare it could be as good ending and that's good ending with me

the fled to bahrain on political grounds in two thousand and fourteen and was granted refugee status by australia his family feared extradition would result in his torture and possibly death at the hands of bahrain's justice system but as a result of monday's ruling his time behind bars has ended. let's get more on this from andrew all saturday he's from faith pro the international football players union which is part of the save hakim campaign welcome to d w what was your reaction when you heard the news. huge relief joy it was something to say this is the kind of thing we work on day in day out to help players plays. and to see this get over the line and to know that i came is ordering a flight to return to his wife's safe which was really something special. now he was behind bars for around three months so why do you think he's been released now . well i think it's a number of elements that came together there was huge pressure from international media in the meantime for more than two months we were working with a wide coalition of human rights organizations by difficult communit

from jail in thailand that sought to prosecutors in the country drop their case for extradition to bahrain al-arabiya has been in a bangkok prison since he was arrested while on holiday in november despite having refugee status in australia thai officials acted on an interpol red notice no issued on behalf of bahrain who wanted him to serve a ten year prison sentence for vandalism or a be feared he'd be tortured or killed if he returned to bahrain as prime minister on the least likely this coming home and i'll be pleased to see him and when that occurs but into what happens we will continue to work these prices as you would expect us to not taking anything for granted and doing so in a why that is deeply appreciative and respectful to the thai government a correspondent wayne hay is in bangkok wayne why this sudden change of heart from the thai attorney general. yes well having been in detention for more than two months it really seemed joseph this was going to drag on for a lot longer given that it was just a week ago that he was back in court in bangkok the judge at that time refused to

in his native bahrain he'd been convicted of vandalizing a police station even though he was playing in a televised football match when the alleged offenses took place. al-arabiya is released as much to form a footballer craig foster led a campaign to pressure the bahraini government i think what's occurred over the last almost three months to fight incredibly hard for not just the young player who . virtually no one knew but a refugee who was under our protection and who we felt that all of us needed to step forward and protect to see him back here on home soil to die speaks volumes about the character the values and the pride that we have as australians. al-arabiya fled bahrain on political grounds in twenty fourteen and was granted refugee status by australia his family feared extradition would result in his torture and possibly death at the hands of far range justice system. now back in australia he's safe from persecution. well here in the german capital the berlin international film festival is currently under way our correspondent charlotte chelsea pill has been to see vice a

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dropped its extradition request hakim fled bahrain for australia in two thousand and fourteen avoiding a ten year jail sentence for vandalism which he says is politically motivated use of his release was welcomed in australia where he has asylum status as prime minister or employees claim is coming home. or be pleased to see him at home when that or koos despite having travel documents and a thai visa he was arrested when he and his wife landed in bangkok in november there are several unanswered questions about this case particularly surrounding the issuing of that interpol red notice against his name which was requested by bahrain but given that hakim allowed a beachhead asylum status in australia that notice should never have been granted the red notice was granted on the same day that he received a thai visa raising suspicions about the thai government's involvement the foreign ministry in bangkok said it didn't notify bahrain about the footballer's plans but as the case dragged on the pressure on the thai government grew after a trip to bahrain by the thai foreign minister hakim wa

bahrain had convicted him in abstentia of vandalising a police station and wanted him back. the case led to an outcry from the footballing world. yes, i think very surprised, i imagine he is as are all of us as to how quickly this happen. it was only a week ago that hakeem al—araibi appeared, his legs shackled in court, and the court remanded him for another 60 days and the thai foreign ministry telling us there was nothing they could do. the process of extradition is under way, the government has intervened and it looks like it could have taken many, many months. but the campaign to free him has gathered momentum enormously quickly, because there is a lot of well—known football names, people like gary lineker, jamie vardy, who havejoined in the social media campaign calling for his release and talking about boycotting thailand sporting events. it became obvious to the government here that this was doing enormous harm to their international reputation and that they needed to find a way out. so we had a visit to bahrain by the thai foreign minister yesterday and it is fai

hakeem al araibi fled bahrain in 2014 and received refugee status in australia. he was arrested in thailand last year while on his honeymoon. a short time ago i spoke to the bbc's hywel griffith in melbourne. i asked him for the latest. hakeem has now landed back in melbourne and is on his way home in a taxi to see his wife for the first time in more than 10 weeks. he was given a hero's welcome here and incredible really considering when he left here back in november, no—one really knew much about hakeem al araibi. however, his case has made headlines around the world, being detained in a thai jail for more than ten weeks after an extradition request from bahrain. when his spoke to us very briefly, he was clearly overwhelmed by the response. he thanked australia and all australians for bringing his case to international attention. he thanked the australian government for advocating on his behalf. he said that he felt australian. he's a refugee here, he has refugee status, he's hoping soon to be an australian citizen. he said this is his country, this is where h

governing body rolled soccer i mean are they willfully ignoring human rights issues i know that in bahrain every year there's a there's a formula one race there was just a golf tournament in saudi arabia i mean are these things being willfully ignore words human rights ignored so that sports can go forward. i don't but i think it's the contrary i think what you're seeing now is particularly in the case you mention fee for. several years ago commissioned drawn rugby to write the rugby report on how cumin rights could be embedded into its operations and so what you're seeing is you know feet following through on its obligation to abide by the un guiding principles on business and human rights and they are the largest sports governing body that has adopted the un g.p.'s and so as a result of that you start to see new behavior out of players like you see a letter from their general secretary to the prime minister of thailand these things wouldn't happen three four five years ago so you're seeing both an increase institute of human rights abuses in sport so there's more action and more visibili

reporting from moscow we heard from a pro-democracy activist in bahrain who told us the thai and bahraini monarchy is appear to be unconcerned by international law talk about the. ruling family which have their own relationship. with the boy and i think it through the pressure of relationship they are really completely abandoning any notion of the big asian little who are we. simply put in complete disregard to only the mission of question and. all the commission of litigation and to proceed shamefully crucial because. the u.s. has accused russia of conducting tests the violate the i.n.f. treaty banning intermediate range nuclear missiles washington is sr new missile flew more than five hundred kilometers during tests russian officials point out its maximum range is just around half that what he'll be trying to and don't quarter of more. so russia is absolutely not a fan of starting a new arms race in the twenty first century after all saying goodbye to the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty isn't just an immensely serious political statement being made by the donald trump administr

high ranking member of bahrain's royal family and a man who was one of the front runners for the presidency of fever in twenty sixteen the post which was eventually won by gianni in front back then right in the middle of the campaign other raby accuse the shaikh of being responsible for his arrest and torture sheik soman was responsible for the football players for the national team how can it be that he didn't know anything about it i'm an example of it and i have evidence the royal denies these allegations but here is the most twisted part of the splot despite losing the bid to rule fief shaikh selman currently holds the position of senior vice president of the association yes the same body which is under massive global pressure to do something about our a.b.c. case and produced the following statement. use of. kingdom to take the necessary steps to ensure that mr ellery be allowed to return safely to australia at the earliest possible moment at this point thai authorities may wish they had not detained al-arabiya given the massive global outcry and something they are not even sure what t

yes well he has been living in australia since two thousand and fourteen basically fled bahrain to avoid a ten year jail sentence to do with a political protest happening this something he says was a false conviction he wasn't involved in those protests two thousand and seventeen he was granted asylum status in australia he had travel documents to travel to thailand he requested those travel documents he checked with the australian authorities if he and his wife could travel to australia for the honeymoon in november that was granted iraq at the end of november november twenty seventh and was arrested upon arrival because there was an interpol written notice against his name many questions remain unanswered about how that was granted that red pole notice which was requested by bahrain and it seems it was drawn to it on the very same day that he was given his visa to travel to thailand so it's very unclear how that came to be on exactly the same day there are certainly some allegations swirling that the thais may have had something to do with allowing bahrain to place that interpol red no

the thais arrested him at bahrain's request. some of the world's most famous football and sports figures have nowjoined the campaign to get him released. for a football mad country like thailand, this is embarrassing. the legal grounds for holding and extraditing hakeem al—araibi are so flawed, and the outrage being heard in international footballing circles growing only louder, that you have to wonder why thailand is persisting with this case. it's true that relations between the monarchies of this country and bahrain are traditionally very close, but surely that is now outweighed by all the damage this is doing to thailand's international image? his court case could take several more months, but at least while he's here, even behind bars, hakeem al—araibi is not back in the place he fears most, his own country, bahrain. jonathan head, bbc news, bangkok. last night was the biggest in the us sporting calendar, and one of the biggest in the world. the new england patriots continued their recent dominance in american football,

high ranking officials unite for a cause but this has been just a case of be a football player from bahrain currently behind bars in thailand chelsea legend didier drogba liverpool arjun robbie fowler spurs legend gary lineker five time olympic champion swimmer in four entire sports federations all jumped in to urge football authorities still save hakim al-arabiya with first arrested in twenty twelve in bahrain when the country was going through a massive anti-government uprising violently quelled by the gulf states ruling family he claims he was tortured in prison. like thousands of others they spent three hours shooting me hard in my legs while saying it will break your bones will destroy your future you will never play football again with these legs in twenty fourteen he fled bahrain fearing for his life and in twenty seventeen he was granted political asylum in australia where he continued his career until november last year when he went on a honeymoon trip to thailand and was detained right at the airport with authorities pointing to an interpol request to detain him as a fugitive of j

won't budge also coming up to the end of an ordeal was jailed and thailand's of facing deportation to bahrain but now the refugee football team all of arabia has made a triumphant return to australia. and hollywood star christian bale praises the director of his latest film device. the father used by the man around these are the smartest men around teach me does it through comedy and then through that you actually get incredible emotion from a you know she very moving through. the mind of the bell on the red carpet of the berlin film festival and also find out how the after transformed himself physically to be able to play to former american vice president dick cheney. i'm sumi so misconducts good to have you with us venezuela's opposition is renewing its push to bring in humanitarian aid from neighboring countries in defiance of the government and military now the country is facing severe shortages of medicine and food and more than one hundred tons of u.s. aid are still waiting in the colombian border city of cope with the. but president nicolas maduro has ordered the military to block the

she's the acting president of the bahrain center for human rights welcome to you all but craig can i start with you you obviously feel very very strongly about hackings case why firstly as a football player secondly he's a refugee who's under australia's protection and there's some question marks around the australian government's dysplasia in this around the it's probably red notice cross it should never have gone on anyway it's against their regulations but as a whole apply out we feel our client community in australia that if we don't stand up for him he's in very real trouble secondly because this is so much about football politics and the sorted politics of the guy particular around the i.o.c. president who was implicated back in two thousand and eleven twelve in the house aeration and torture all right let me let me stop you there craig so i think we need to unpack this just a little bit keep it as simple as possible when you're talking about the president of the asia football confederation we're talking about a bahraini who has since recused himself from this case because clea

words in thailand have released them after bahrain the country where he was born abandoned its extradition request. to our viewers watching us on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world. welcome iran has been marking the fortieth anniversary of the islamic revolution hundreds of thousands of people gathered in the capital tehran for a rally addressed by president hassan rouhani he told the crowds that iran was determined to expand its military power and ballistic missile program and would ask no one for permission many chanted death to america as they have been doing ever since the revolution the great satan as the revolutionary leader ayatollah khomeini dubbed the united states was taken off guard by events in tehran four decades ago. it was the winter of nine hundred seventy seven u.s. president jimmy carter visiting the shah of iran cold the country and island of stability and middle east within a year however the shah would be deposed in a revolution. small protest had already broken out by the end of nine hundred seventy seven protests against the shah's modernization pro

the past two months in police custody in thailand where he'd been facing extradition to his native bahrain as well as a long prison sentence or human rights groups say that the charges were trumped up today when he arrived at the airport in melbourne he received a hero's welcome. he is back on australian soil after more than two months spent as a prisoner in thailand he was finally permitted to return to his adopted home of metal pieces because the diet is my candidacy didn't i didn't he didn't fit me but . my guess is that it is i would be dead instead i don't live on abroad he was granted refugee status in australia off the free in his native bahrain back in two thousand and fourteen i lost a wall in bangkok on his honeymoon he was arrested on an interpol warrant which was later rescinded on legal grounds because of his refugee status he'd been convicted in absentia in bahrain of offenses related to the twenty eleven arab spring protests and sentenced to ten years in prison but after a campaign of pressure on the bahraini and toi governments the extradition request was rescinded and thai

the end of an ordeal he was jailed in thailand and facing deportation to bahrain but now the refugee football or hockey malo arabia has made a triumphant return to australia. and a hollywood star christian bale praises the director of his latest film vice the for me as well the man around these are margin around beats me does it through comedy and then through that you actually get incredible emotion from it you know it's a very moving film. didn't you caught up with bale on the red carpet of the berlin film festival to deal also find out about how the actor transformed himself physically to be able to play the former american vice president dick cheney. terry with a country facing dire shortages of medicine and basic supplies more than one hundred tons of u.s. aid is still waiting in the colombian border city of coup to overthrow his government. now in an interview with g w news opposition leader why they always called on the military to switch sides and put the people's needs first i would have to see him but it will always appeal to the conscience of the armed forces to pick the c