a million dollars is the last stop for mike pence was guatemala it's the home country of an estimated forty five percent of migrants trying to enter the southern border of the united states many being migrant children separated from their parents however assistance for migrants wasn't an offer instead a message to central american refugees considering migration to the u.s. if you want to come to the united states come legally or don't come at all. if someone tells you they can bring you or your children to america outside the law don't believe that randy capps of the center for migration policy says it's the conditions in the region's northern triangle solved or and want tamala that are at the heart of the crisis you've seen an uptick in violence organized by gangs in el salvador and drug cartels in under us those two countries i have a lot of the highest murder rates in the world right now guatemala has security

issues too but the bigger issue there is poverty. the trumpet ministration announced that more significant resources would be sent to central american countries while also calling for stronger border security the vice president's trip was intended to focus on trade and security but the worsening migrant crisis in both north and south america have overshadowed his trip but up alone i visit our washington. mexicans head to the polls the sunday to choose their next president front runner and this man your lopez obrador has vowed to reverse decades of decline and poverty in rural areas but as john holdren reports from the state of michigan that will be a tough campaign pledge to fulfill. the mix can countryside decimated by poverty and empty but migration over decades. is one of the aging population of small scale farmers struggling to compete with industrial scale operations in the world the mexico and the us. i produced grains but not money.

in many communities the young have either left or turned to more lucrative ventures . they sell drugs they kidnap they live well for a few days and then they get killed just next to my house or there was kind of a kidnapping. this man promises to change the presidential front runner andres manuel lopez obrador has made the neglected mix can country side a campaign priority. he said he were focused government support from large industrial producers to smaller farms seek help them get quality seeds technological know how better access to loans and to guaranteed minimum price for their crops it's all part of an ambitious plan for mexico to produce its own food.

they're buying everything abroad that we could grow in mexico me that's going to start. in the past there were incredibly strong ties between mexicans and the land this is the birthplace of corn itself but it's a different country now daming with the urban population and the global market the question is if it's really possible or even worth the cost of resuscitating this sector. even lopez obrador team says the wholesale change he promises will be impossible one of been a straight. and agricultural economists who in general support the plan of questioned of price guarantees for individual farmers and in particular in forcing home grown food and carry a steep cost for authorities and consumers is one consequences in the view that in consequence it's going to be very expensive for the government and mexican taxpayer

that. promise them so seems split between those two banking on a ruling party which has given them just enough to survive and those like a year or more voting in the hope of change john homan how does it make to account the strain on government is one of major trade disputes have its plain packaging laws for tobacco products the well to trade organization has ruled the laws have helped improve public health cigarette manufacturers are required to remove all logos and branding from their products to introduce the losen twenty eleven but if a strong opposition from tobacco producing countries. and manufacturers like philip morris would sued the government for what it called brand damage the case was thrown out and the tobacco firm was ordered to pay the government's legal fees the latest complaint to the w t o was filed by cuba douras and dominican republic and indonesia all tobacco producing countries who claim the law was damaged international trade and violated intellectual property rights but that claim was

rejected and the ruling is expected to accelerate the rollout of plain packaging laws in other countries some chap is a public health professor at the university of sydney he says tobacco firms are unlikely to succeed in appealing the ruling. but what the industry always does with legislation that threatens its bottom line and of course in public health that's exactly what we want to do we do want more people to quit smoking and fewer people to take it up well the industry always us first of all try to defeat legislation then if it can't defeat it it tries to drive uses water it down and if it can't do that it tries to delay the implementation and what these cases are all about a trying to impose a regular treat she will globally so that other countries won't follow in a stroke his footsteps that they've lost a little bit light we've already got six countries which have implemented and we've

got in addition to australia we've got france england the united sorry the united kingdom norway island and new zealand and there are another country another citizen who have slashed waiting in the wings and hungary canada and slip mania. well in the column it's probably going to be implemented. and again jane that in the headlines on al-jazeera is a reach to deal they have full control of the number of refugees entering europe they have agreed to give more funding to turkey and north african countries to help stem the flow of people italy and greece have been given the option of setting up asylum processing center is some position. europe is not an island and we must be able to face up to this challenge was for many loyal to our values protect people and national cohesion tonight we took an important step many predicted the

impossibility of an agreement many predicted the triumph of national solutions tonight we have succeeded in finding the european solution and a way of working in cooperation. police are investigating with a rescue ship in the mediterranean was helping people smugglers the lifeline docked in malta on wednesday after being refused entry by italy and spain it had been drifting at sea for six days with more than two hundred refugees on board. police have detained a man is shot and killed five people inside a newspaper office in the us state of maryland they say he specifically targeted journalists in the city of annapolis. the syrian government offensive in the south western province of there are is on hold after a deal was reached with opposition fighters russian led talks in jordan resulted in a temporary truce at least eighty people were killed and there are on thursday. thailand's prime minister has visited the site of a flooded cave complex where

a young football team went missing last saturday perth chan archer told family members to keep the faith as the international search and rescue mission entered its sixth day has been some progress in efforts to drain water from the cave where the twelve boys and they coach went missing the president of the international red cross and red crescent has told al-jazeera the conditions are not yet in place to allow refugees to return to to me and peter moore has been visiting me and he's also made the fact a leader and son suchi seven hundred thousand fled the country since a massive military crackdown targeted them last august most are living in makeshift camps in neighboring bangladesh those are the headlines the news continues but first it is history. everything we can news cycle brings a series of breaking stories join the listening post as we turn the cameras on the

media and focus on the report on the stories that matter the most knowledge is iraq . and i really could be today with more l g b t representatives in the public eye we discuss what impact they have so tell us who you are proud of our why the rest the world should know about them too just or leave your comments in our live chat maybe you could also be in the street. name. of a democratic candidate. for the kansas third congressional district and you are in the street. the politicians are slowly gaining visibility and reaching their nation's highest offices something that was on thousand mobile and till very recently well why they're all four heads of government two are also part of the l g b t community and twenty seventeen thirty

three representatives were elected to the british parliament and the united states so over four hundred candidates running for office in this year's midterm elections so what does it take to be out in the public eye and what impact does that have on all of us we're here to discuss just that in caracas venezuela we have tomorrow adrian a member of the venezuelan national assembly and the country's first transgender person to be elected to office in denver colorado leslie harris she's a colorado state representative and is the first african-american candidate elected to the state legislature in the united kingdom simul pond he's a former member of parliament in the hall he's also the first openly gay politician to be elected. and in nairobi kenya b.c. i believe me he is a t.v. personality actor activist and executive director of the b.c. of the me founding. that's an organization that fights for the rights of algae between people in one theory i welcome to the stream all of you so good to have you

here our community is really resonating with this topic on the topic is resonating with our community this is brian simms i want to start with a tweet here and he says on a positive note great way to start off the show there are more openly. people running for office than it any other time in u.s. history i think we are uniquely qualified to battle the awfulness that we see in government lately but me so the one thing i noticed many because we were introducing everybody that us fast in the field was the first person to come out on nigerian t.v. so he is also a for us i am just wondering guess that that weight of being the first what is it like is it a weight is it a release what is it you see. i think that maybe. you don't really because you're in a position where you're borrowing from one to look our current or in a bad moment you know you. have to do something no one. i mean you're

going to be very very. very. let's say your first was not like yes i would say i'm african-american. and the like now i think how do i know in the relief well and also the feeling. i mean it was part of believe to ensuring that we're representing in a way that encourages there is also also be added to also be. but it's a great place to be and i'm glad i could be open and serve here in colorado snail. well i wasn't concious of being the first because i was already out. successful. detective sim because the organization in the. constituent assembly election was an ounce. of was the good opportunity for us to get into

the other limb and didn't sit on the table to decide policy a new constitution for the other just one day after i got elected some media reported that i was the first openly gay member and they meant not only in but to. then g.l.a. how big his maiden and tamara you're part of history as well yes well i was out of eleven twelve here's the poor i ran so i got to this impression that it's your task to try to create a wordless and to create these ideas on that which it is necessary to to have a positive impact on the life for everybody are as a politician and not the center on the l.g. to be iraqi conceivably i do want to share we can guess a video comment that came from the u.k. based l.t.p. t.v.

rights activist peter tatchell so he recently made headlines following his arrest in moscow for protesting on the opening day of the world comp and russia and he can be seen how to sign retreats putting fails to act against torture of people and the activists was then approached by police and he was briefly detained before being released here's what he told the stream about why representation matters it's really important to have out and visible l.g.b. teach you public figures and the reasons are two fold. first to provide positive affirmative images of l g b t q people for those teens who are struggling with their sexuality or gender identity and second because the evidence is very clear if someone knows n l g b t q person they're much more likely to support l g b t q equal human rights so what what this means is that you're

putting yourself out far as a public person and saying this is also my personal life as well how do you do that . well. you know something really important for. me personally but also for its beauty our communities because. throughout the world since the last several hundred years with decolonization the only. misc. c.v.t. has been throughout that worked so you know when they got elected and i was do you surprised to see how little. the. league solicitors other members harlem and knew about it but also staggering you know how. you know they knew they were mrs you kitty they have all kinds of theory or if we give it is if you

didn't know what you have in. other words if they could stand point we will you know so it's really degrading to you. people and this year's of you to people. and you know. lower class and cannot. rise. above team if you could stand and are useless basically didn't butt into the society so that united got that opportunity to demystify. it reach out to get it so that's one thing you know is your case to the tailor representatives people are the legs yes it's the second thing was you know if if you and i are not

represented there then you know nobody will represent nobody else is there to represent. issues and policies that are never to be released in the. oh you know. you know i'm so glad that you mentioned the your work to demystify some strongly held beliefs in your community because that is what some of our community members are working on themselves this is a tweet from lucy out of swaziland he says where a population of one point three million and we have many a times been said to be a country of a family we need recognition from our government to be shown in legislation we have no legal remedies from discrimination and stigma in the country still criminalize the same sex relations so that's one example out of swaziland another example came to us via a video comment this is are some parsi he's the executive director of

a group called the iranian railroad for queer refugees he's now in toronto and this is why he said it is so important to have l.g.b. team members in public office and in the public eye have a listen a lot of us in the middle east we are in the closet and i think it gives us an opportunity to get into the politics and then within we can be inside the communal slowly slowly bring the change because you know these laws are very difficult to tolerate i used to really run for twenty four years and it is very hard finding and i'm sure there are a lot of energy to people in the middle east that they want to live in their countries do not exceed and escaped from their homeland and have some basic rights that. you see wondering if you can take those two comments on people who see the importance of being in the public eye but it's difficult there are a lot of odds stacked against them. yes. i

spend a lot of my in the public eye and i know what he did like one might. expect nations from the people you extract so much pressure on you to be a role model and do you also become the wall that the sunday. people who don't see us the past people who don't think but you can have a lot of people who don't think that these are. the important thing is consistency in thing in the public. hope to young people to other people who are struggling who need someone to think.