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this is. live from studio fourteen here at al-jazeera headquarters in doha. it is the last rebel held area in. syria's government. a chemical attack to take it back at least forty two people killed and once again there is international condemnation that. keeps happening but look at why they haven't been stopped. also on the grid a test for europe hungary is voting in parliament. all about populism and immigration sentiments we will be live in budapest ahead of the polls closing in around two hours time and in sports of one man's pulling power tiger woods has been injured and off the pace for years he's not a chance to win this year's masters and yet he is still one of go. superstars

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neighboring jordan and a warning that you may find some of the images distressed entire families babies children adults dead the people who remained in duma thought they could shelter from the air strikes in the basements of buildings instead witnesses say they suffocated from a suspected chemical attack. with chemicals many children have been killed in tent airstrikes by the syrian government and its allies began on saturday . with this is report a barrel bomb with some sort of gas being dropped rescuers say they're struggling to get to the survivors and retrieve the bodies of the dead because of a strong chlorine like smell they don't have the protective gear they need the healthcare system in duma has been decimated. unfortunately would deliver that

number of medical suffering not sticking us longer to. the symptoms and the treatment and cheat people and we've seen people. people should dying with you to get and it's reported that ambulances and a hospital were hit by airstrikes and the red crescent can no longer operate leaving a small team of medical professionals with scarce supplies to tend to the injured the familiar cycle of recriminations denials and calls for action has begun using language heard after last year's confirmed chemical attack in qana coom which killed more than eighty people the syrians and the russians called the allegations farcical and staged the russians offered to send their own experts to investigate and disprove the claims the united states called for an immediate end to the attacks and for the international community to respond it said russia was betraying its commitment to the u.n.

and the chemical weapons convention people say life in dumas already difficult after weeks of intense fighting has become even more miserable natasha guinea al-jazeera. about two hours ago we had this response from president donald trump many dead including women and children and mindless chemical attack in syria area of atrocities in lockdown encircled by syrian army making it completely inaccessible to the outside world and then he says and says and the naming him specifically president putin russia and iran responsible for backing animo assad he goes on big price to pay open the area immediately for medical help and better for cation another humanitarian disaster for no reason whatsoever sick and then he just added a little postscript a dig at president obama paid crossed his stated red line in the sand the syrian disaster would have ended long ago animal assad would have been history russia's response is that. these reports of the chemical attack faults this is from the

defense ministry quote the spread of bogus stories about the use of korean and other poisonous substances by syrian government forces continues yet another such fabricated piece of information about an alleged chemical attack and doomer appeared yesterday we have warned several times recently against such dangerous provocations the aim of such deceitful speculation lacking any kind of grounding is to shield terrorists and to attempt to justify possible external uses of force so that's the back and forth the response is on that now chemical attacks in syria the team down to zero dot com has matched them all since twenty thirteen and i have to say even i was surprised at the sheer number of them if you have a look at this and look at the one in just the names first of all the things we're talking about phosphorus and napalm in some cases in this case it was a a chlorine gas bomb these attacks which have happened in and around damascus duma and part of them then a lot happened further north as well it just keeps happening you can have

a look at that yourself and under the radar com chemical attacks in syria just for a bit more background information but we're going to talk right now to mohamed go to blues the advocacy manager with the syrian american medical society has been in touch periodically with his colleagues in duma though i imagine struggling to maintain a good connection with them all the time what's the latest you've heard from them. good afternoon actually this is attack number thirteen since hone in turn to seventeen which police in syria this is number ten into india team and saw the qualified staff who experienced chemical attacks for several times each artist said the evening to telling us that they are receiving hundreds of patients that was almost about eight pm syria time and then we started receiving reports on this because of the cubicle tax of the six patients from those who. have to the

hospital died after ten minutes and then the rescue teams the civil defense team reported thirty five other people who died in the shelters where they hiding where they were hiding from the world bomb and immediately after the chemical attack of the holocaust started to attack the same location of the chemical attack the contaminated area were attacked by a better bomb several times after the chemical attack the rescue teams were unable to these various specially that they don't have addiction gears the symptoms appeared on those patients and to get if two uses of one of the first photos compounds is spider of the smell that the teams explained that the. day they smelled in the in the vacation that might indicative to the other compounds mohamed these chemical attacks are particularly heinous the pictures they're so graphic as well these are supposed to be

a tanks which wouldn't happen again that was supposed to be chemical to some and it was as president trump pointed out obama's red line as well and yet these attacks keep on happening you pointed out the numbers there why do you think the international community has not been able to stop these. why this is a this question with the international community and the video that is of the world . but the chemical attacks were confirmed confirmed by the investigation bodies either by the o.b. c.w. fact finding mission or the joint a physician mechanism which the u.n. security council. created in turn sixteen and they walk for two years confirm similar attacks confirm the responsibility of the scene in the g.m. of many of those attacks but the action until now the action that was. taken by the international community was not enough to stop those attacks. this is another

challenge of the international community then you the u.n. bodies to respond for this but we don't have high expectations that the united states or the debian countries will do anything about this and the in action is allowing the this even the team to do more attacks and to use that chemical weapons time after time to one hundred chemical attacks since ten to twelve to now mommy cut through from the syrian american medical society joining us from gaziantep thank you so maybe you want to get in touch with us on this topic and on anything actually that's coming up on the grid he can you contact details now the hash tag is a.j. news grid on twitter at a.j. english in fact i from my account of just retreated a tweet about the chemical weapons that you ation if you want to reply to that thread please do we're looking for your responses facebook dot com slash al-jazeera for the live stream where you can comment as you go and the what's that number is plus nine seven four five one triple one four one comments questions and contributions and in fact just to show you the type of contributions we can and do

receive through whatsapp i want you to have a look at this it's a resident of duma wanted to stay anonymous he was hiding in his basement and yet managed to record and send us this have a look. i mean do misty do this. little mink and those trucks and veterans from the new cook has never stops for more than twenty four hours the city was. loaded with books as there are over seven hundred kids think this year teams and able to save this feelin's because of don't you think any move into the city there are one hundred fifty thousand civilians within the city are exposed to any situation look like i'm doing it's quite something isn't it hearing that the noises in the background like that imagine what it would be like for him there. one foot out actually after all of that there has been

a further development in syria state media saying the last rebel group holding out against a government offensive near damascus has reached a deal to end the fighting and to leave this is a group called jaish al islam which is controlled in the northeast and northern eastern part and sort of the northern part of eastern good but this agreement will see the remaining five his and their families leave for jobless which is on the border with turkey in northern syria where moving to other news now the nigerian army says it has rescued one hundred forty nine hostages held by boko haram in borno state in the northeast of nigeria but women and children were being hailed by the armed group in the village of yeti mahdi kuta nigerian soldiers killed three of the fighters and injured another five let's talk to him a bit drifts about this he is in for us i guess the key thing here is that the nigerian troops have gone in there it's not just boko haram releasing them the nigerians have actively gone in to get them. well basically the army says

the the you ninety five or the one hundred forty five that include. forty five women and ninety four children were rescued when the army went on a patrol train to what is called the remnants of backcourt army northeast nigeria and then the encounter for quite a fight is along the way in the village of maybe you caught up now firefight ensued between the two groups and then eventually they killed the three people and arrested surprised by fighters and then as they moved closer to the village the realize that there were one hundred forty nine women and children in the village but no adult leone among them so they rescued them and they believe that these people have been held hostage by boko haram although they did not see for how long have they been held we know the nigerian military has chased our vaquero from a lot of areas and recently when you run out of it on the service of forest it it's

said that somebody called up fighters moving into communities and is warning people in the northeast of you are aware of that we're not sure whether this is an area that has been held for a good long term from by for quite some or is the remnants of book was to get out of some of these foreigners that moved into this community and took over the community and the question being asked actually is that why is the name population we know in such as during such a certain times and periods or areas but why tom has forced to leave a quarter i don't mils into it fighting force when he continued to lose fighters to the nigerian military and regional forces who are large for the low pressures on their bases in northeastern nigeria so we don't show whether these people have been abducted or their bund and their families or they have been integrated into the book what i'm fighting force i'm going to address with the update there from a budget thank you ed. polls close in

a couple of hours in hungary's parliamentary election and the outcome is pretty much certain prime minister viktor orban will likely be reelected meaning him extending the grip on power he has held there since two thousand and ten question is will his right wing idiots party gain another parliamentary supermajority this is crucial of obama wants to continue his process of constitutional change but a turnout will be vital then in determining how mr obama's coalition will freedom of speech freedom of press freedom of movement is of all when questions during this heated campaign hungry opposition figures have accused prime minister obama of corruption and an autocratic crackdown on the nation's press then back in twenty fifteen at the height of the migrant crisis hungary built fences on its southern borders with serbia and croatia trying to divert the flow of migrants reaching western europe as a result he was branded a racist by the un human rights chief because the city of them won the country to be court multicolored opens nearest rival is one of the parties or because actually

for a far right party it has neo nazi roots but it's rebranded itself as a moderate conservative people's posse and there are two other parties that could win parliamentary seats the center left socialist party they run about fourteen percent in friday's most recent poll and there is also the democratic coalition of the former prime minister if it ends just me here is john how covering events for us live from budapest there looks absolutely lovely behind you there john to tell us about how the day is going and what we expect later on today. well as you said that it has up until now certainly looked as though a pretty assured victory for victor oban is on the card said the opinion polls have been pointing in that direction but there are significantly high levels of turnout going on showing a pretty good turnout particularly for opposition parties here and i was you say

it's lovely weather here on the banks of the danube it certainly doesn't feel as though there is a big political upset in the air but i think it would be unwise at this point to rule just about anything out here's my report. there were early signs of a record high turnout that could favor the opposition in preventing hungary's ruling party feeders and prime minister viktor orban from winning a third consecutive two thirds majority in parliament through what's at stake well we've already said everything about that what's at stake is the future of hungary it's not only parties a government or a prime minister that we're choosing for ourselves but a future as well voting is secret but i'll reveal what i voted for for this to votes for for this because i thought that was the safest bit in the past or ban has altered the constitution changing the electro law and curbing media freedoms and he's promised to go further targeting n.g.o.s and civil society possibly even the independence of the judiciary. this is

a country in which allegations of high level corruption rife in which public services like health and education are in desperate need of investment and yet state run media is full of scare stories about muslim migration and even an anti semitic campaign aimed at the billionaire george soros and his network of pro-democracy probably immigration n.g.o.s here is surrounded by the opposition figures holding bolt cutters getting ready to tear down the fence that big band built to keep the refugees out and then to see opposition figures like say hungary's future in europe they need twenty eight years after the change of regime this is the first election beach. not just political but he's told. seconds. hesitation between a vest then the east who is our friends are barely in the probably the. most.

this is on the stake. yet it is the same opposition figures whose failure to unite behind a single party makes it so hard to be treated as and. the prime minister has used his power not just to undermine democratic values at home but also in building fences and rejecting refugee quotas to go and test to the european union you know widest sense therefore a win that is not a two thirds majority when would amount to a substantial defeat. now whatever the actual outcome here later tonight it does appear possible at least that viktor orban may not have things entirely his own way for long there are signs as i said there of a more coherent opposition consensus building some of the opposition parties did in fact cooperate ahead of the poll removing their candidates at constituency level so that other candidates had a better chance of beating the ruling party there's been a much publicized effort at tactical voting as well on the high turnout certainly

suggests the awful lot of people have been energized to come out to vote to do what they can to try and put the brakes on victory or bans macho on this country's democratic values john holl in budapest the polls close at seven hundred g.m.t. about an hour and forty minutes from now now patrick strickland from al jazeera dot com wrote this piece couple of days ago it's a look at the hungaroring elections through the prism of rising populism and migrant sentiments another excellent piece from him it deals with george soros as well people believe the investor is actually running in this election and then right down the bottom i went too far there there but that piece there embedded at the bottom is this edition of the listening post from late february looking at how tightly and effectively prime minister obama's controlled behind carrying media to his own benefit you'll find by those pitches pieces by searching for hungry elections it out as he wrote a column of the listing price itself is in the show's section. now the former

president of brazil louie's in osceola the silver has begun his twelve year jail sentence for corruption his supporters reacted angrily protests taking place across several cities in fact police fired rubber bullets and tear gas at the crowds and put it where little spent his first night in jail. and these are looters opponents marching and cheering through the streets many of them in support of locking up corrupt politicians or is now the first former brazilian president to be convicted of corruption and to be jailed well before he surrendered lou was negotiating terms at the metal workers union building a place that actually served as a launch pad for his career nearly four decades ago when he led nationwide strikes that helped end brazil's military dictatorship lose people's posts ono won him two terms as president two thousand and three to two thousand and eleven he left office

with an eighty three percent approval rating and was dubbed the most popular politician on earth the person who gave him that monica former u.s. president barack obama but his party's legacy was modern twenty fourteen when prosecutors began an investigation that has so far put one hundred twenty people behind bars it also paved the way for impeachment in twenty sixteen of lula's success of the former president dilma rousseff here's daniel shrine of the covering events for us in sao paolo hard to believe we're still talking about lula now and this fall from grace as well talk us through how it affects life in brazil now when you think about lula you think about dilma rousseff of the current state of politics how does it all we've together. well lula was a huge figure in brazilian politics right through from those days you mentioned when he was the leader of the metal workers union this is not the first time he's been to prison he was actually put in prison during brazil's military dictatorship

when he led huge protests the union of the trade unions was instrumental in bringing down that military dictatorship that was around obviously very different circumstances he stood in the elections many many times he finally won his as you mentioned in two thousand and three and even after he left office at the end of two thousand and ten. was still there he was still campaigning not just in brazil right across latin america he was a huge huge influence right across the regions and his disappearance from the scenario is going to leave a huge hole whether people agreed with him in the office he still has many many supporters across brazil or his enemies he has been a divisive figure to a large degree i'm now hearing could achieve actually about four hundred kilometers southwest of cell paolo he is in the prison behind me is on the top floor of the prison segregated separated from the other other prisoners he has been given a special cell that has been made a little bit more comfortable possibly as befits

a former president former president but he is still a prisoner he is still a house still a convicted prisoners. brazil in many ways coming to terms with that on one side down that way the police are blocking the road and there are people letting off fireworks we believe in celebration of the fact he's been imprisoned and over that way there's another police blockade and there's a small group of supporters gathered outside the prison but pretty much those. demonstrations that we saw yesterday demonstrations of support are pretty much subsided it's a quiet sunday morning here outside the jail in could achieve. coming to terms with the beginning of his twelve year sentence watching a football match at a prison has a television has been installed in his cell so he can watch his favorite team play against the met us. goodness me and fireworks in the background it was daniel thank you we were a little bit concerned about what was going on there. are reporting for us on

a lot of the silver now in jail thank you daniel if you dive back into the al-jazeera archives you will find this edition of talked about zero it's from twenty six jane. in conversation with our last in america editor lucien newman where he talked about among other things even being a presidential candidate again for the p.c. workers' party how times change you will find talk to al-jazeera in the show's section and out as they were dot com or you can just search for lula da silva just before we hit the break some of your comments and i'm just going to read one here from our day which is coming from facebook dot com slash i was there because i think it sums up what a lot of you are feeling about the syria chemical weapons story this chemical weapons attack in duma has said we're godless of who use the chemical weapons it is children and innocent people who ultimately suffer and that is i think probably the most difficult bit about looking at those pictures and you see particularly young children suffering. and it just makes you think for what doesn't and we've seen it so many times as our guest told us a little bit earlier to keep your thoughts coming in people watching on the live

stream from pakistan india algeria greece the u.s. and nigeria welcome to you all this is the news great if you're joining us on facebook live like all of those people there a story coming up for you about a band in france that has become a place for refugees to connect with the people they left behind in a few seconds and then later a state of emergency for the hospitals in gaza doctors and nurses treating hundreds of people injured during the protests they tell us how they are in such dire need of drugs and medical supplies that plenty more. hello it's been raining recently in afghanistan turkmenistan if you see the client let it slide quite clearly that still quite active and it trails down through iran towards the gulf and up behind it there were this fine again it start raining

terror on twenty one degrees is the forecast here there's a small circulation in the eastern med to shout seem likely to be syria lebanon the term she held about twenty or below as a result of that it will keep winding up of the next day or so becoming quite active i think in northern syria and eastern turkey a few showers a quite possible iraq west and iran but generally speaking it's looking quite fine here but you still got snow show up in the high ground zero for example northern afghanistan took minister as an example south of this what is the remains really these bits of cloud here might give a few spots of writing i think nothing more than that is generally dry if the dusty picture throughout the arabian peninsula we see an increase in rain in the last day or so and in the forecast certainly maybe a downside but swan and into south africa looks like a good line there and that's the one to watch for developing showers and i think will become quite big in the next day or so not in the western cape but in central and eastern parts of south africa.

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a viable option to save some of these population pretty good young techno on al-jazeera and. the headlines about the day without comment what's trending as well the latest on

that chemical weapons attack the initial number was safe and now at a revised number of. people killed. there and an update on that terrible story out of town of the of the day wasn't fifteen a junior hockey player is killed in a bus or worst nightmare it's considered in at number five israeli forces killed palestinian journalist we're going to be talking about that. in the not too distant future that is what's trending this. struggling to treat the hundreds of palestinians injured by israeli forces during friday's protests along the israel border hospitals have now declared a state of emergency in fact due to a severe shortage of supplies. is there for us. there isn't an easy atmosphere in the ward the patients are in pain but this is silent worry of those around them that is most striking. the hoody cannot contain his

despair he has three sides all three maimed to protest is the last one to be injured and his condition is the most worrying he has already lost his left leg in an accident a few years ago now his right one is at risk. he lost his leg because of the two governments we one would agree to transfer him the other would refuse i call on anyone who cares about us please help me get my son out of gaza he needs treatment to please help me save this leg. the. medleys in the next bed in agonizing pain his mother is angry at all parties. living in gaza is like living in a sealed box she says they only care about themselves. a man was among the first to arrive at the hospital on friday it was early in the day many more would follow the

sheer number of injured putting stress among already fragile system dr ayman sahab and he says it's now bursting at the seams. we declared a state of emergency and once his who carrying three or four patients who this time had three hundred cases in one day has fifteen times more than the capacity of the emergency unit and we've used all our stock. most injuries are in the lower part of the body external fixators for limbs antibiotics and d.j. and other necessities have run out or are in short supply getting anything into gaza requires a lengthy and complicated process under normal circumstances the health system suffers from shortages about half of the drugs needed and a third of the equipment are lacking but the situation gets even further complicated by political developments the. seventeen year old mohammed a sports lover was told that nothing more could be done here in gaza there are

train his leg is torn and he's losing a lot of blood he needs to be transferred to the occupied west back the hospital there is waiting the paperwork is done by the israelis won't allow him to make did journey no one has been able to get out since the protests began. listens for my tears roll down his cheek and hope is all but gone. but. there's no solution each time they make us dream of reconciliation failed my generation has lost the one after me that's why we go to the. friends to express the misery we live in. it's that sense of hopelessness that continues to draw do you feel was do border fence many might come back on a stretcher some will never fully recover without that hammy gaza meanwhile israel's defense minister avigdor lieberman has spoken about the violence in gaza saying there are quote no naive people in the occupied strip israeli forces

have killed thirty palestinians during protests along the israel gaza border began ten days ago thirteen hundred palestinians have been injured as well by live is ready fire palestinians plan to hold protests against israeli occupation for the next five weeks more on that from burning in west jerusalem israel's defense minister avigdor lieberman says that all the activists trying to challenge is in gaza a hamas military activists he says that everyone is connected to hamas everyone gets a salary from hamas in gaza of course not everyone in gaza is connected to hamas but what the defense ministry is trying to do is continue the narrative that israel has tried to portray israel's government and israel's military that these are hamas led protests that these protesters are trying to breach the fence to invade israel to try and challenge israel's territorial integrity and so it's defending itself against that of course our reporters have seen on the ground from the side from the

gaza side that essentially these protests are peaceful but the challenge for israel is that if it excepts the majority of peace people are protesting peacefully then there has to acknowledge the demands those protesters are making the demands for a relaxation of the blockade over gaza a chance to allow exports from gaza a chance to allow people to travel more freely and expand fishing zones these are what people want to try and make life in gaza more bearable. all right so we need to talk about the way we bring you here on this one the way the protests have been covered not just the protests the deaths the death of the palestinian journalist as well there is some controversy over the way people are talking about this and also language and semantics and with sticks but let's explain or talking about here now the mainstream media has come under fire over how they have covered the gaza protests over the last couple of days now in particular the language of for example

key words in the headline such as confrontation and clashes were used to describe what happened and it suggests a rough parity between the action on both sides and an exchange of equal blows. and there was also plenty of reference to the border between israel and gaza and some of these articles may have suggested that what happened took place on the frontier between the two states now it is important to note though that israel controls the northern border of the gaza strip as well as its territorial waters and space gaza is considered an occupied territory now three month d.c. is a professor of english and comparative literature at the university of california he wrote this opinion piece in the l.a. times saying consider for instance the enormous consequence of choosing passive rather than active language to convey what happened at least fifteen palestinians diez israel responds to protest wrote the guardian and the new york times that with

a similar headline saying confrontations at gaza fence leave fifteen dead and he goes on to explain after all those palestinians did not simply drop dead they were shot deliberately simply spitting subject from verb scares who did what to whom and under what circumstances we heard from ben white he's a journalist and author he sent us his thoughts on this. good coverage of the israeli crackdown only protest in the gaza strip has been a mixed bag there's been some good reporting but there's also been some familiar problems such as the opposition or the fact that what we're seeing on the ground are civilian protesters being shot by an occupation army i think one of the most on or under reported angles here is the israeli officials political and military have been quite clear and open about the fact that pursuing a criminal policy here and there's been plenty of reaction online to this the palestine info center which monitors various coverage they've tweeted this saying

this take this note from the new york times is racist unprofessional and complicit in the crimes israel commits against humanity as american mainstream media white washes israel massacres and adam says that israelis picking off palestinians from two hundred yards away if with sniper fire being described as clashes reminds me of the time when white nationalists driving a car into a group of protesters was also described as a clash but not everybody agrees that way as says that the mainstream media tend to portray palestine as the victim and israel as the offender but i feel they tried to manipulate the audience into judgment in fact the complexity of the gaza conflict is beyond imagination or we'd like to get your thoughts on this let us know he's ing any of the platforms here with the hash tag for it your decision in the questions because we're going to talk to someone about us now phyllis bennis

service a fellow with the institute for policy studies also author of the book understanding the palestinian israeli conflict live in our washington bureau nice to see you again phyllis we all know the u.s. what should say the official u.s. position when it comes to israel palestine and how it tends to skew towards israel does it surprise you then that it seems the media is all parts of the media are taking the same tack. you know it's not surprising at all and it's very consistent i think it is important to recognize that there have been some shifts just today both the new york times in a a rather lengthy article quoting a number of gazan voices talked about the long term goals of the protest the washington post this morning had a major profile on. the journalist who was killed so there's been a bit of a shift but i think the broader problem is this effort that at best at best the

mainstream media tries to equate the two sides as serry mike d.c. indicated in his op ed in the l a times speaking of clashes the confrontations left these people dead well the confrontations didn't leave anybody did israeli soldiers killed these people so that sense of where responsibility lies gets blurred i think what we have to recognize though is that we're also looking at a situation where what gets left out is very very important so when the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says explicitly as he did i think it was about three or four days ago all thirty thousand protesters are legitimate targets. the gym it targets of his sharpshooters they had warned that one hundred sharpshooters were being sent to the border acknowledging that they would shoot anyone in that crowd of thirty thousand people many of them children many of them old people half of them women so this notion that it's only about the press i think we should be

very clear about the problems of the press but we also have to recognize what happens when government officials make those kinds of statements and then in the press here that's not covered sufficiently we don't get an analysis that says right after that and of course that would be a direct violation of international law it is a do just come back that was you describe all of that for those like you just come back to the simple question of why for example palestinian journalist is killed he is shot and dies as a result of that it seems so clear cut and yet there is this reluctance even with someone who is you know in the media themselves this reluctance to actually just say yes he was kidding right. there is that reluctance to that reluctance in the u.s. press and parts of the european press as well i would say comes from the longstanding alliance between the us and israel which is not only about the three point eight billion dollars a year that goes directly of my tax money to the israeli military it's not only

about that it's not only about how the united states protects israel in the united nations and make sure that there is never real accountability for these war crimes it goes to how children in this country in the united states grow up understanding israel israel is taught to us kids from kindergarten on up through university to be seen as a heroic and victim country that emerged out of the holocaust that made the desert bloom the palestinians under the best of circumstances are simply invisible under most circumstances they are the problem they are terrorists they are in the way of the israelis it cetera et cetera so this kind of education miseducation in this country historically has been a huge problem now again we have to recognize there have been enormous shifts what we saw in today what i mentioned earlier what we saw in today's new york times in

washington post we would never have seen and we never did see earlier during say the first intifada which was also a nonviolent uprising that went on for years across the entire west bank and gaza and occupied east jerusalem right so there have been enormous shifts it's just not yet enough phyllis bennis i thank you for your time very interesting to talk to you on this subject. and have a look at this twenty four hours in gaza it's on the interactive team at al-jazeera dot com am a tick tock as they call it examining one day in the life of a palestinian family living amongst the rubble of the gaza strip for them it's normal life but if you read this and look at it for yourself you will see it is far from normal twenty four hours in gaza interactive pieces are under the more menu at al-jazeera dot com and a comment from molly on facebook live who simply said gramma equals power nicely put molly all right let's have a look at some other world news now and it clark is in london with that camilla

thanks very much as first of the man who drove a van into a crowd in the city of munster was known to police germany's interior minister was among the officials to lay flowers at the site of saturday's attack which killed two people the forty eight year old plowed his van into dialis sitting outside a restaurant before killing himself he'd previously been investigated for harassment probably damage and fraud police say the attack does not appear to be terror related well john mccain has more now from. the sense of shock following saturday's incident here in the city of mint has been replaced to a certain extent by the desire to show grief and condolence for those who were caught up in this incident those who lost their lives and those who were wounded in the incident the federal interior minister horst zero four was joined by the prime minister of the state of the state of north rhine-westphalia. laying floral tributes as you can see here behind me which is the scene of the crime also

questions being posed in this city in this country about how such a thing could actually happen how an individual who had been experiencing for some time psychiatric problems who had a fascination for weapons who police say they found fake weapons and other items in his home how that person was able to do what he did the point also to make is as i say the sense of grief in this city the sense of questioning how could it happen what does it say about the situation of the security situation in germany the federal interior minister who was here has said it's not possible for this country to provide one hundred percent security against people what he would describe as lone wolves individuals who are not connected to anybody else and who carry out the wish to carry out such incidents well the attackers turn the spotlight on media coverage of such events and the use of the word terrorist harry browne from the center for critical media literacy says initial reports that the

attack was terror related led to it receiving greater coverage. we know from research that's just recently been published in the united states by the institute for social understands policy an understanding that the media is prone to pay much more attention to incidents up to seven times more attention to plots and incidents where the perpetrator is perceived to be muslim than when the perpetrator who may be ideologically motivated but isn't perceived to be muslim so that we have a an issue with media that the word terrorism tends to be reserved for incidents that are perceived to be associated with islamic extremism and the also that the media coverage follows that word your the attention indeed that al-jazeera is paying to do the incident in germany yesterday is unusually high i think it must be said that by and large this has not been a major international story in the last twenty four hours there's also the fact that international terrorism is one of it is in some respects the major story of

the twenty first century so we have a tendency in news to like to tell stories that attach themselves to narratives that people already understand whether it's an editor reporter or an audience we know this terrorism concept this islamic terrorism concept and when a story fits with that concept that story is easier to tell it's consonant with the concept that doesn't make it right though we know from research that's been done in the united states my own student here in dublin. has been doing research with young muslims in our land and it's clear that for young muslims in particular this kind of media coverage is deeply alienating it makes them feel mistrustful of the media and it contributes to an atmosphere of kind of fear and misunderstanding between muslim communities and other communities in the west. a caravan of central american migrants have protested outside the u.s. embassy in mexico city against donald trump's anti immigration policies the

demonstrators have traveled from the guatemalan border to the capital calling for justice for migrants their journey has angered the u.s. president to deploy the national guard to reinforce the us mexico border and that's it for most for now that's back to kemal in doha nic thank you for that relations between the u.s. government and the media haven't exactly been brilliant since donald trump come to power have and now we're learning about a new measure which might raise a few eyebrows as well the department of homeland security looking to build a media monitoring down to base filled with the details of thousands of journalists bloggers and social media influence or heeler is looking at this one my first thought is why but it seems to be quite low down the list we've got to figure out what it is first and exactly let's break it down so this will be contracted to an outside company to identify any and all coverage that relates to the department of homeland security now it will span across two hundred and ninety thousand global

new sources and social media outlets and in over one hundred languages this will include arabic chinese and russian and the chosen contractor is expected to build contact details and any other information that could be relevant for example what publication an influencer rights for and how much coverage take it now we don't know who and why such individuals will be added to this database but more importantly there is no clarity as to what the government is going to do with this information online people are talking about how increased government regulation is going to impact press freedom some say that it poses a potential threat to democracy best says that this must be stopped where our leaders i feel like no elected official on any side has the courage to represent us and then sorrow. that this is bad pay attention to the section on potential overseas travel restrictions for us journalists critical of president i will trump

however the homeland security press secretary tyler hewlett and twisted this saying the database is nothing more all then the standard practice of monitoring current events in the media now this all comes off the back of a report by the media watchdog freedom house they concluded that global media freedom has reached its lowest level in the past thirteen years only thirteen percent of the population enjoys a free press and forty five percent live in countries where the media environment is not free so what do you make of this move by the u.s. department of homeland security connect to the us on any of the platforms is. only directly for him ahmed ghailani we can look at libya now one of the world's strictest male dominated societies it's long been that way but years of conflict gen an increase in lawlessness of marginalized women even further however it looks like female activism is on the rise or double wide as that story from misrata.

their voices are not often heard but for a community leader is determined to change that she wants women to play a bigger rule in improving society. at this fair she and other female campaigners have taken the initiative to fundraise for those most in need the sick and the poor . the income of the spare is dedicated to cancer patients in the city other than that we've also created job opportunities by opening a weaving workshop purportedly whom we've also trained. but it is not easy women find themselves at the back of every queue and it comes to seeking help even when it is not for themselves women here say they're the first female activists to do this type of work helping others in the city of misrata and they are planning to

continue but in a maze dominated society they say they face a lot of challenges. if a radio announcer says in libyan society social restrictions on women are a major handicap and whenever a woman progresses she gets picked on not just by the men but other women too she tries to address those issues through her radio show when. there are several obstacles derailing women's activism i faced a lot of difficulties at first our society did not accept the idea of a female presenter media used to be politicised during the former regime and female activists in order for us to express ourselves we need a lot of strength and resilience. this presentation to cancer patients is proof altima and her friends are making some progress it is want to step out of time but

they remain hopeful gender equality is not just a distant dream. misrata. and the richardson is here to talk sport how during tiger. tiger is not doing so well having a big influence on the first. major golf tournament of the season the masters will be decided lights are on this sunday it's up for grabs at the or gus the national course in georgia saga has slipped out a consensual instead a lesson on american has moved into pole position as helen gleason reports. out of was american patrick reid could be closing in on his maiden major title a runner up at last year's p.g.a. championship weight will take a three shot lead into the final day out the mast as. after a third round sixty seven he also has the chance to become the first player in masses history to break seventy in all four rounds. i think the biggest thing is

just going out and playing golf you know. allow the moment you know take over me you know really just go out and play some golf and you know. to go off shots and now so i can hit the ball well now. that you know i just need got to play the game and not worry about everything else and just just play all. his closest rival is four time major champion rory mcilroy the northern irishman is aiming to become only the sixth player at to win the career grand slam of cult school mage's. even an unscheduled trip into the flower beds of the augusta national course couldn't mcelroy off course the world number seven escaped from this position at the thirteenth with a par. he finished his bogey three round of sixty five with another birdie and will now renew the rivalry with reid that was seen in the singles match up at the twenty sixteen right to cup on that occasion it was the american at the railing and

counter. rogers got a three shot lead you know i feel like all the pressure is on him you know he's got to go and protect these got a few guys just a number. are pretty big time players and. you know he's got to deal with. and sleep on tonight so. you know i feel like i can go out there and play like a got nothing to lose a handful of other big names will fancy their chances of making a final day charge from open champion henrik stenson is unfair than under par with spain's john ryan hit by thirty's and an eagle in his round of sixty five an eighth and. if you can get a really good start on the front nine and post a good score again the bag name can be extremely long for the leaders we know we can happen on the back and sunday's have been many big leads appears. and rickie fowler has an other shot that winning his first major title the american is in

third place a nine under par. algis there well while tiger's never threaten the top of the later board that he was just back playing in the tournament has ensured his name is dominated social media coverage of the events and much much more first on c.v. ratings for its first two days of masters coverage has broadcast is free and said it averaged three point five million viewers that is up forty six percent from last year get this the average resale price of a weekly take it this year is nearly eight thousand dollars last year with tiger not in the master's it was around half that even private jet travel to the course as an upsurge tiger brings in the crowds wheels up says it seen a fifty percent bump in private funds two or guster this week why well this quote from the citizen times in north carolina sums it up pretty well people still want to see him perform even if he's not on top is like saying michael jordan on the wizards he wasn't the same player but he was still michael jordan. well while many

of us might dream of rolling in a winning parts at the masters another big event getting underway today looks a little less attractive the thirty third edition of the marathon they saw well the marathon of the sounds is just getting underway in morocco so horrid as it described as the toughest foot race on earth the six day event will see competitors taking on a two hundred fifty kilometer course where the race began in one nine hundred eighty six the idea of a frenchman patrick bauer who two years previously had gone on a solo walk of more than three hundred kilometers across the desert runners have to be self-sufficient they carry their own food and sleeping equipment the only exception strictly russian water which is helpfully provided by organizers more than a thousand competitors from over fifty countries are on the start line this year well you can follow this year's race on social media using the hash tag m.d.s. individuals taking part include at the marathon man there is that as an american trent mora who a few years ago completed one hundred sixty official marathons across seven

continents and of course packing the right food an obsession for most entrants this from dr rice that wouldn't answer the howard when your hobby starts the light work there is that is his food the six days of running across the sahara desert get in touch with me on twitter and they are under school sports the latest for the masters coming up in the eighteen hundred gnc news hour but for now let's get back to come out thank you and if you look up i think it's why we run at al jazeera dot com you'll see a great documentary which andy did for out zero correspondent about marathon running. they go free plug and that's how you get in touch with us hashtag go join us but on twitter facebook and whatsapp and we will see you back here in studio fourteen at our busier fifteen hundred hours g.m.t. tomorrow on. a i.

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