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Tunis, 13 Jan (EFE), (Camera: Natalia Román Morte).- Diez years after the Tunisian dictator Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali fled to Saudi Arabia, a democratic transition that never arrives has caused disappointment among many. The Free Destourian Party (PDL), which clearly supports the old regime, leads this disappointment and some surveys show it as the winner in the next country's elections with 37% of the votes.FOOTAGE OF TUNIS. SOUNDBITES OF:-MOHAMED ASSAAD DRIDI, VOTER OF THE FREE DESTOURIAN PARTY (PDL):"It was not a revolution, It was a plan previously orchestrated and, when the events of Kasserine and Sidi Bouzid took place, they activated it. It was a plan orchestrated from the outside. The young people, as always, take to the streets when there is a problem. The politicians were implicated and earned money with it. We saw how Ben Ali was kidnapped he did not flee. " -SELIM KHARRAT, POLITICAL ANALYST:"It is a very complicated and tense socio-economic context, which represents the main danger for the democratic transition. Why? Because it makes that many Tunisians do not believe in the direction we took 10 years ago and who do not see the fruits of this political change."
Sidi Bouziz (Tunisia), Dec 17 (EFE) .- (Camera: Javier Martín) Fed up with corruption and abuse by the Police, on December 17, 2010, Mohamad Bouazizi, a young street fruit vendor, bought a drum of gasoline, sprayed it on his body and set himself on fire in front of the city hall gate of the small Tunisian town of Sidi Bouziz.An agent had humiliated him in public and confiscated all his merchandise, and, although he never imagined it would happen, his desperate act of protest became the spark that fuelled the protests of the Arab Spring.FOOTAGE OF SIDI BOUZIZ.SOUNDBITES AND TRANSLATIONS OF:TRANSLATIONS:1.- Hayet Hammami, spokesperson for the association of unemployed young graduates:"The social situation has deteriorated. From 2015 to the present there has been a setback in all senses, not only in the way of life but also in public services and there is a huge problem this year, especially after the coronavirus crisis. Many companies have closed and the unemployment rate has doubled, almost three times the percentage that the government says, around 15 per cent. It has intensified enormously and what has changed? the situation is regressive and really very hard".2.- Hamza, Bouazizi's neighbour:"Nothing has changed since then. On the contrary, it has even got worse. With Ben Ali it was better. Much better, the situation, life, security. Everything."
UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan holds talks with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Abu Dhabi. The trip -- Assad's second to the oil-rich United Arab Emirates in as many years -- comes after a visit to Oman last month, his only official engagements in Arab countries since the start of Syria's war in 2011. IMAGES
Residents in a locked down compound line up for Covid tests as Shanghai logs 39 Covid deaths Sunday, its highest daily toll despite weeks of lockdowns. IMAGES
Workers in PPE test residents, including elderly and children, in a locked-down Shanghai residential district. Shanghai, a city of 25 million and China's economic engine room, has become the heart of the country's biggest outbreak since the peak of the first virus wave in Wuhan over two years ago, rattling the country's adherence to a strict zero-Covid policy. Residents locked down since early April have complained of food shortages and over-zealous officials forcing them into state quarantine, as authorities rush to construct tens of thousands of beds to house Covid-19 patients with daily infections topping 20,000. IMAGES
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