we've set some so and in our case they said they consider it to give us a human to review instead of refugee status so they missed it basically keep this in your eye then and so the war is finished or at least until the think. it's a safe country to go back to so. they do i mean they are considering to give us a human to visit but i mean we have to wait at least six months but they did say try to speed the process and probably give us an answer within three months. ahead for you on the program rescue a strong food into the depths of a cave in thailand as a break in the raid eases flooding and spies on the search efforts will tell you why hundreds of orphanages are being shot down in uganda.

hello and welcome back across europe we've got unsettled weather conditions across some eastern areas down through the baltic states through into parts of russia it is looking very uncertain a few days and cold air really sinking quite a way south the more central areas of quiet and western areas are still looking very warm indeed temperatures across parts of france into the mid or even opposite thirty celsius ukase not looking too bad there twenty eight commit a little bit as we head through into monday but you notice that circulation that low pressure centers still very close to poland stage and temperatures really struggling in the capital so we don't se in areas who got a few showers around the balkans but general of fine weather thirty two for both rome and athens you'll notice as we move across the other side of the mediterranean sea weather conditions are fine with the winds coming up from the desert we've got a forty high there in chu miss thirty six in cairo and heading on through into

monday not much change expected across the region for central africa a plenty of big storm clouds moving through the flow particularly across the gulf of guinea and through into west africa and here we're looking at some big storms coming through over the next twenty four hours bamako should stay largely dry southern portions of africa may need dry but we have got the risk of some rain affecting cape town at times. eradicating leprosy in cambodia relies on education on treatment. on. him but he early you know disability yet. until three year old four year more he'll have this ability to play it a bit and didn't know wait for the next generation of antibiotics just the way taking bill at the bottom of the ocean. revisited on al-jazeera.

welcome back just a quick look at the top stories now hundreds of protests have taken place across the united states against a troubled ministrations controversial migration policy for than two thousand children remain separated from their parents despite president trump signing an order to end the practice the free syrian army says peace talks with the government and its ally brush are broken down in the southern province of daraa several rebel held town villages in the area have now accepted government rule and more protests have been held in the south korean capital seoul against the arrival of yemeni asylum seekers more than five hundred have flown to jeju island since december.

but all the news divers have managed to go several kilometers into a flooded cave in thailand looking for twelve young footballers and their coach has been missing for a week a new opening to the underground complex was discovered on friday offering hope that the boys might still be found alive scott hyder reports from chiang rai relatives remain positive despite so many questions and very few. week after the boys and their coach passed through this entrance into the tom long cave a line of ambulances and hundreds of workers carry out a drill for their rescue. non-home is the mother of one of those boys she tells us thirteen year old among them loved all sports but football was his favorite mother and son are very close uncharacteristically he did not ask for permission to go to the cave. he's a good boy he liked to play football fields he was small i always support him i

never thought any of the light would happen because whenever he would leave school he always. for the first few days after monk went missing his mother. just cried at one point she was so distraught and exhausted she fainted she's only just started eating again she did not previously know any of the other parents of the missing boys now they're getting strength from each other i feel much better now and this the poet is making me stronger i have to be strong but i received my son comes out today the tumbling cave complex goes on for kilometers now this is a section of it across from where the searching for the boys and their coats is going on now now people here locals believe that there is a spirit in these caves and this is where they come to make offerings to it while offerings to the caves spirit and gods continue. so does the searching for

a second day water is flowing from the mouth of the cave decreasing the level inside the flooded sections of the cave complex and rain has been light. and in the hills another chimney or hole leading down toward the cave is being explored as a possible way into the cave complex. the spirit of the cave is fable to be that of a woman who is waiting for her husband to return to her much like the relatives who have been here since last saturday he's got other al-jazeera chiang rai. mexicans will be heading to the polls on sunday in an election that could end the country's politics big business is pushing its favorite candidates but the country's working class are expected to be the king makers hoping for an end to violence poverty and corruption in america and as how you see in human explains. michael steele of a side you'll have to rent a car parts factory that exports to the united states to a mexico's number one industry and like dozens of other prominent industrialists

and businessmen he's part of a coalition that publicly supports the presidential candidate for mexico's governing party. the sample you'll need a former finance minister is a friend of big business and the free markets. to says of the populous left wing candidate who's leading in the polls mr the little sad your believes he would be disastrous for mexico we've got to separate it from this is the difference rather what wasn't too big it's. what happens after sixty years he went out of money then you know venezuela is i mean our very top story so we don't want that to have an image. and this locus of brotherhood is a longtime opponent of so-called savage capitalism and accuses prominent mexican billionaires of belonging to what he calls a power mafia. everything study. need is appealing to mexicans to vote for continuity and not for

a return to what he describes as the disastrous populism of the past and may well live in visa elections what we believe what we love what we've built is at stake in this election the country's future is at play better so because of the one of the conservative opposition party plan couldn't agree more heat to one's mexican's that the choice is between stability and the kind of uncertainty that spooks investors. but the concerns of the business. here the prospect of a president to make the have nots rather than the privileged. seems irresistible people. who says the two other candidates represent options that have failed the working class. education.

so the country. remains optimistic he says it's illegal to tell his employees who to vote for but that he has explained what he believes would be the consequences if mexico were to veer off its present course . mexico. well john heilemann joins us live now from mexico city and john the election campaign has been characterized by violence what is the situation there now. you're exactly right we're talking about more than one hundred thirty political killings during this campaign mostly local level and it's continuing just in the last couple of days there's been four more people died the security experts that we've talked to say a lot of that is due to criminal gangs who want the politicians and their local

three to be colluding with them or at least turn a blind eye those aren't willing to do that or aligned with a rival group face a serious risk of death and of course that raises questions over the more chrissy itself in those areas of the country if someone's getting into power there are questions over who they've had to say yes to such a serious problem for mexico right now and it's definitely an uptick in violence from other elections that we've had in the past another problem has been dirty tricks as we come up to the election just the other day in mexico city itself three men were arrested with a suitcase full of the equivalent of one million dollars they said that they were going to the headquarters of a major political party here and there's been reports from civil organizations of up to thirty million people in the nineteen million people electorate being offered things in exchange for their vote so there is a lot of turbulence here as we come up to voting day on sunday so many challenges

facing the country john perhaps security and violence the greatest among them why is this election so important. well it's a learn mark election in part because it's being billed as historically the biggest ever those moving three thousand four hundred positions up to for grabs including of course the presidency the entire two houses of congress would also be renewed so that's one of the reasons there's also the opportunity here for the two most establishment oldest parties in mexico they've had an almost ninety year grip on power i'm up might be broken and that's because the by far the front runner is a leftist populist who has his own party called morena this is under his manuel lopez obrador this election really has become all about him some people expressing a hope that as he says he will he can break the political class here seen as

very corrupt and so interested and he can make a new start other people on the other side of the phones very frightened by his lack of policy detail from the fact that the last two elections that he lost he wasn't willing to accept those results worried that he might take the country into an authoritarian direction so those a lot of conflicting feelings as mexico prepares to go to the polls on sunday all right well thank you very much from mexico city john homan south sudan's latest cease fires reportedly been violated within just a few hours by the government forces and rebels in the northwest are blaming each other for breaking the cease fire agreement was signed by president salva kiir and rebel leader riyadh machar in neighboring sudan at least fifty thousand people have been killed and four million forced from their homes since the civil war began in two thousand and thirteen all the african union has asked rival leaders in south sudan to stop fighting and pursue dialogue to end civil war and meeting mauritania

ahead of sunday summit which is being overshadowed by an attack on friday in mali. has more from new watch out. african leaders are concerned about the growing instability in the sahab region particularly following the deadly attack targeting their headquarters of the g five in savory in mali five is the task force which comprises troops from mauritania. new chair and bali and its goal is to. defeat groups are familiar with the state and. and the spy of the assistance the five has been getting from the international committee of the un and france it seems that this is going to be a long battle to be able to contain the rise of those groups the african union also is concerned about the instability in south sudan following the collapse of the cease fire now leaders meeting here in mauritania are going to put more pressure on

the south sudanese president. and here's why of all rick must charter trying to contain the crisis and push for a road map that would and civil war in sas and down there are also other issues like the dispute between morocco and the over the future of western sahara african union is a pan african organization they mean to speed up political and economic integration they hope to be able to have their own single market single currency and central bank but many say this is going to take some time unless african union's tackle first of all regional conflicts the need to and armed conflicts for them to be able to pursue their political agenda. washout. uganda is shutting down hundreds of orphanages that don't meet legal standards the

government suspects some of the sites are being used to make corrupt profits while others are being employed for child trafficking. and reports on a home in the northern city of good that's trying to help the children nine year old appeals parents died from aids four years ago her grandmother took care of her until she passed away the little girl who has hiv was living at a now shuttered orphanage in the northern ugandan city of gulu a pos now cared for by her legal guardian jeffrey who has four kids of his own a lot of press i'm not i'm trying. to make. my family and china thinking. about. valerie was the manager of one shelter that shut its doors the orphanage was home to children who lost their parents to aids and war the government of uganda has not. been the children's home the children. there and

some of them. even their siblings many in uganda worry the closure of some six hundred orphanages will put children out on the streets without the basic skills for survival unicef says there are two and a half million orphans in uganda and hundred fifty three million worldwide the charity hope and home says children living in orphanages are forty times more likely to have a criminal record and five hundred times more likely to commit suicide researchers say children who grow up in orphanages suffer physically intellectually and emotionally the quality of life of orphans in uganda is what's worrying the commissioner for youth and children's affairs he's overseeing the closure of orphanages that don't meet the government's criteria will host one month. when it is being used as a route. out of the country. i'm suspecting parents just leave. to be taken on by anybody under the guise of hoping them and.

one of the licensed homes in gulu st jude it's home to more than ninety orphans often it is really no place. for children to grow up in but also it has the advantages for the children because some of the children we don't often this new do have studied. while living with family is the ideal situation for orphans lesson shelters can help st jude says some of the children who've grown up in their home have turned out to be productive and successful people with university educations and fulfilling careers. on al-jazeera. one of the german chancellor angela merkel says fourteen e.u. countries have agreed to take back migrants who of which only registered with them merkel made this claim in a letter to her coalition partners demanding the government take a tougher stance on migration merkel also reportedly said she wants to establish

santas to hold and process migrants at the german border but hungary one of the fourteen countries reportedly included has denied reaching any deal. well now mumbai's distinctive buildings have been added to the u.s. go world heritage list on deck enthusiastic estimate the indian city has around two hundred buildings second only to the u.s. city of miami the majority were built between the early one nine hundred thirty s. and the one nine hundred fifty s. they were commissioned by wealthy indians who sent architects to europe to come up with the designs different to those of that colonial rule is. just a quick update of the top stories now hundreds of protests have taken place across the u.s. against the trumpet ministrations controversial migration policy more than two thousand children remain separated from their parents despite president trump

signing an order to end the practice in new york a selection of activists and actors addressed the crowd. that part was turning them on for you further down the road a break the men didn't break five men and nothing. would look good with those rules were not good a good little. girl in general oh one of the girls the renewable. little really good. girl who's really really really really good today and tomorrow in court as long as it takes we will come together and we're going to have you guys on freedom bagley no two the loud hoot that ministration going with me no tolerance on the thought morrison of children from their parents are living in the heart with reality. syrian rebels say peace talks with the government and its ally russia have

ended in failure the free syrian army says they refused to surrender in the southern province of daraa several rebel held town villages in the area have now accepted government rule elsewhere more protests have been held in the south korean capital seoul against the arrival of yemeni asylum seekers about half a million people in south korea have signed a petition urging the government to revise refugee legislation. the german chancellor angela merkel says fourteen e.u. countries of agreed to take back migrants who originally registered with them local made the claim to coalition partners who want the government to be tougher on migration hungry has denied its agree to anything. and south sudan's latest cease fire has reportedly been violated within just a few hours with both the government forces and rebels blaming each other for it the agreement was signed by president salva care and rebel leader react machar on wednesday you're up to date with all of our top stories there will be more news in

about twenty five minutes time so i will see you then but coming up next on al-jazeera it's the listening. president carter what is on june twenty fourth of march when you live on such an economy and tell us if you. have. a. question. yes yes yes but i think the president executive. hello i'm richard gilbert and you're at the listening post here are some of the media stories we're covering this week turkey president and the ones party wins the

election with more than a little help from their friends in the news business and the challenges and dangers that come with trying to cover political unrest in the democratic republic of the congo as elections approach in pakistan and certain news outlets are coming under pressure and it looks like it's from the military. this should be a musical lament from iran for a social media platform the government has taken down. one turkish president red chip type delivered his reelection victory speech last week he spoke of one nation one flag one state he could've taken that a bit further and talked about one media and one voice is own because that's the way the campaign was covered the main state owned t.v. channel t r t acted as if it were state run for every minute of coverage it gave to one's main rival it gave the president ten and privately owned broadcasters were much better since coming to power in two thousand and three heir to one has

overseen a restructuring of turkey's media space media conglomerates that fail to support air to what have been sold off to allies who will hundreds of journalists have been jailed hundreds more media outlets have been shut down if used of terrorism a lot was riding on this election and as the victor heir to want to set to take up sweeping new powers that he says will help him put turkey's economy back on track its critics however say he now has kind of blown the further silence dissent or a starting point this week is the capital. some time selections coverage can be difficult to assess when his coverage of a campaigning politician and fair coverage. under so that what constitutes critical or fawning card data is easier to deal with doing the math the way opposition members working for turkey's broadcast regulator grew to do

according to them in the months prior to the election t.r.t. turkey's main state owned t.v. station devoted sixty seven hours of air time to president to air to one while his main rival. got less than seven hours. we had a very symmetrical situation which means dominant government up to ninety nine. three percent of the entire media sector was behind him and he's our party. are. going to have to see how to get twice kind of tight on. such and such that. stuff it might t.r.t. being a state broadcaster issued day after day i don't propaganda it's the nature of the

beast if you're the president of a country not only are campaigning you also running the country you also holding meetings you're also talking to people you're also having high level diplomats come into your presidents from other countries come and talk to you so you are more in the news anyway hanuman's there was not much in the news before he became a candidate president and i don't want what you know because don't want to. talk about made on the. i want to hear the nails the use of the faculty everybody loves to just put the blame on the media because in just set. the media has failed ok. it's show that also this is news it didn't start with his candidacy it was like that for a long time and maybe opposition leaders should also ask them selves how did they

get here. the process has been gradual the pattern unmistakable over the years to go on and his party have made headlines by arresting dozens of journalists and shutting down scores of news outlets an approach that hit its peak after the failed coup of two thousand and sixteen other developments such as the gradual transformation of the turkish media landscape through ownership changes have been less dramatic but just as consequential media companies deemed hostile by erda one have ended up selling their holdings to the government supporters the dolan group is just the latest example of that once the biggest media conglomerate in the country though one has been cut down to size over the years culminating in the sale of newspapers who yet and pasta and t.v. outlets can now day and c.n.n. turk just three months before the election between the arrests the shutdowns and the changes in ownership critical voices in turkey have fallen if not silent then

by the way so. the purchase of a group to fiercely pro-government family should be seen as a political move on media group was giving a lot of space to diversity of opinion somewhat large public discourse of different voices etc when its was gone to the other family turkish media seizure to my mind was complete this was a very very dramatic there was no more influential independent and free media left. i think the handover of don. media was a useful thing window and media was going but i didn't go and buy previous i know that there was military pressure behind it and we've seen how newspapers control go support by filling it's off but pressure is gone and they fail hasn't come as

a result of government pressure on the country i feel it's more the process of reestablishing a balance in the media space. more than a quarter of the media outlets feeling the heat in turkey would like to blame their problems on the government but they bear some responsibility themselves the president heir to one was still prime minister when his government started cracking down on kurdish media outlets a decade ago by two thousand and nine the go one group fell afoul of erda won and suddenly found itself with a two point five billion dollar fine for back taxes when media group was being targeted a large box of turkish media sort of enjoyed this battle when the kurdish newspapers were closed down the other segments of the turkish media kept silent when someone group which is affiliated with get on the moment was brought down at the other is felt the same way this is what i call

a sickness off the turkish journalist corps and it continues today to german. other journalists they thought oh ok it's time for them to go down this really failed to come together on the principle of press freedom and i think it had an effect on all of this don went down for financial reasons the money went down because it's the mouthpiece for the good in this cult i don't think any media outlets have been closed down for speaking out against speaking out against it being closed down because the means of terrorist propaganda whether it be. whether it be given this cult movement or any other. terrorist activities and. the larger question about president aired one one that goes beyond the way his treatment of the media is perceived is do most turks even care for all the criticism from abroad from n.g.o.s the european union and others he did take fifty

two percent of the presidential vote whether the debate over aired one in the media even registers with turkish voters for millions of them even tens of millions it doesn't seem to matter. some terms for the large majority such as freedom rights these are too abstract particularly middle and lower middle classes of turkey much more focused on equality the pocket that's why freedom of media freedom of expression all of these issues are left only for us for journalists for the intellectuals and that's why we are suffering as a has created a strong belief that he is a strong leader that he is able. to lead to country and i believe this still has an effect on people his supporters believe maybe he.

figured that who cares we are better out with it. is the turkish voting public really that indifferent to freedom of the press as the election results would seem to suggest or was tied care to one's victory just a natural byproduct of the dominant news narrative in turkey all the airtime the media give to the president at the expense of his opponents all the favorable coverage he gets from journalists many of whom now work conditions and feel that too is difficult to assess and if they are to one keeps having his way we will never really know. we're discussing other media stories that are on our radar this week with one of our producers will yong will starting in the us with the national security agency the n.s.a. became big news about five years ago over its surveillance programs now we've

learned a little bit more about the physical infrastructure that enables the agency to spy on citizens and not just americans first of all where the story come from well the details come courtesy of an investigation by the news website the into set it published a report on how the n.s.a. works closely with one of the world's biggest telecoms companies eighty n.c. to tap into people's internet communications and the report identifies eight heavily secured eighteen t. buildings in major u.s. cities which function as hubs for an n.s.a. surveillance operation code named fairview fairview gives the n.s.a. direct access to rule dates of passing through the facilities which includes e-mails browsing data and other online activity and remember it was n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden who revealed most of what we know about the agency's operations back in two thousand and thirteen snowden called the intercept report the most important surveillance story you will see for years and it's not just

a t.n.t.'s customers in the u.s. affected by this is it far from it according to the report eighteen c. processing centers also allow the n.s.a. access to traffic from a partner companies who use their infrastructure for efficiency reasons including overseas palm such as deutsche telekom india's tata communications and telecom italia a spokesperson for the n.s.a. told the intercept it could neither confirm nor deny its role in alleged classified intelligence activities moving out of pakistan now and a news outlet that suddenly developed distribution problems shortly after publishing criticism of one of the country's most powerful institutions the military what's the story there it concerns dawn newspaper which is pakistan's oldest newspaper dohrn play. pakistan's military for blocking distribution confiscating copies of the paper and even threatening their vendors for the past month especially in military cantonment areas where the army has direct control over most aspects of daily life and we also know that many cable t.v.

companies have dropped the dawn news channel from the services and what kind of explanations have been offered as to why this is happening now well dorn has published an editorial on its website saying it's a direct consequence of an interview it published last month for former pakistan prime minister nawaz sharif in which he criticized pakistan's military for conspiring with banned militant groups some of which have been linked with terrorist attacks both in pakistan and across the border in india the editorial is carefully worded referring to elements within all sections of the state that are contravening pakistan's constitution but anyone who follows news there will know this is a reference to the army and the role of the military and government is especially touchy given there's a general election just a month away ok thanks will. for the past year and a half the democratic republic of the congo has been in a state of political unrest the country's president joseph kabila has refused to give up power despite term limits stipulated in the constitution that meant he

should have left office by the end of two thousand and sixteen protests have occurred nationwide since then journalists trying to cover the demonstrations have been arrested threatened and harassed by both the police and the intelligence service while various media outlets have had the plug pulled on their signals their transmissions cut however journalists in the d r c face more than just threats and intimidation eighty percent of congolese media outlets are in the hands of or controlled by politicians that means all kinds of stories of corruption mismanagement and human rights abuses go on told and the d r c is not a small country geographically it's the second biggest in africa and it has the fourth largest population on the continent the listening posts johannah who's now in the state of journalism in the d r c and the media space in which information has become a splintered us politics. depending

on the channel congolese viewers tune into to watch coverage of antigovernment protests they will come away with very different versions of the story news outlets that form when line with president joseph kabila who was a demonstration illegitimates. take. a. look at this issue channel's focus on what they call the government's use of excessive force on protesters. and that's going to. easier tom way is a journalist at tacoma wa an online outlet that cools for camilla's resignation. system commander works for state broadcaster r t n c they offer conflicting narratives in a media landscape that is heavily politicized sacked journalist every

journalist took their own position on the protests the majority of coverage from markets close to the government was each one had the truth about what was really going on there reporters groton police jeeps with armed soldiers always focusing on the protestors who do the ever show the force the police always arrested by police it was definitely because i was covering all of this i was throwing accusations at the regime and they needed to sites in their face all. you know by this will not least the. no journalists have been arrested or imprisoned because of their work journalists are free to cover any demonstration of a certain journalists took advantage and injected incendiary words some journalists even used these demonstrations to support the chaos in order to overthrow president kabila but at the state run r.t. and see we can't broadcast just anything we follow the tauriel guidelines so that we show the country at its best and protect its interests we must be portrayed

arctic at the same time as being journalists to donegal and east. it's understandable that commandos work for the state run party and see is heavily politicized what is harder to understand is how according to connally's press freedom organization journalist on down there eighty percent of the d.-r. sees media outlets have ended up in the hands or under the control of politicians. to get the full picture you have to rewind a couple of decades to one day d r c was known as zaire a one party state ruled by mobutu cesa seiko for more than thirty years of all your shaun pollock before nine hundred ninety. there were only two or three media outlets all of which acted as the government's megaphone but since nine hundred ninety we've had a period of political openness and mixed blow genre of media hundreds of radio stations newspapers and t.v.

channels were created every politician wanted their own media outlet not to disseminate information but rather for political propaganda the other political congolese media is entirely owned by politicians this is the undeniable truth they intervene and define the editorial line they force you to cover some topics and not others for example prioritizing the coverage of political meetings or the companies funding their activities rather than every day life freedom of the press is completely restricted there is no chance to be independent and this creates big problems. by the way we don't have the financial means to be independent so every journalist is controlled by a politician they try to prefer end us often bribing us with loads of money you have to follow in order to be able to get to wire and so on and that is why journalists cannot deliver objective information of course there are exceptions but for the most part people have to pick sides. political financing and the corruption

and brown envelope journalism that go hand in hand are hardly the only problems that media workers in the d r c face journalist who cost the government in a bad light their stories of mismanagement corruption and a current political crisis face a threat of harassment arrest even murder. during these demonstrations many journalists have been arrested beaten up or have the material destroyed it leads to self-censorship because journalists are afraid it goes to show the government's desire to control the flow of information and essentially to stop journalists from doing their job of informing the people immediately but there are consequences for. are the things that you say in the things that you say as the media practitioner yourself not only are you thinking about the largest authority but you are off thinking about your safety that safety can come under threat because of government officials or because of militia

militants so of course there is always an issue a level of self-censorship that goes on did you see for i believe it's completely false to say that the government has tried to somewhere to muzzle journalists here in the congo journalists are free to carry out their work which is not the case in neighboring countries with least have the freedom to criticize those in power without fear. that so-called freedom to criticize fails to explain the government's habits of cutting off phone and internet services at times of heightened political tensions making it impossible for journalists to disseminate information one station that had its transmission cut moved to pull times his radio copy. set up in two thousand and two body united nations and a swiss and geo okapi broadcasts in several local languages and has become a significant source of news for congolese audiences in. un funded the outlet is

not tight to domestic political interest granting its journalists a certain level of independence and credibility. jennifer but cody a former radio copy journalist remembers the early days. i arrived in the two thousand and four and what i saw were journalists who were properly salaried who were independent took the editorial line being objective fact based very seriously journalists were largely protected because they were working in the authors of the united nations they were able to get to certain places to be first hand things that other media would struggle because they are there whacking the financial resources or they're not last. in the financial with orses the money was made available because someone has an interest in those journalists covering the news in a third way in the that nasty united nations mission in the operates on the invitation of the government even radio copy porters are not immune to interference we thought

that they themselves too were under strain increasingly even more so now as the country becomes more and more politicized and the stakes become higher when you talk about red line issues it is true that even radio cappie is not in the business of doing investigative reporting it is very hard to protect journalists in a situation where those in power are grossly on happy with what is being said. radio a copy is under pressure because it lets all sides speak we've often talked with them and they complain more and more about the increasing pressure from congress or thor to use who even threaten to close them down if they don't respect their demands in reality we think this outlet is upsetting with or to use because of its independence and professionalism if you will for should actually do just. that independence is crucial barry our d.c.

is a blogging conglomerate founded in two thousand and sixteen mostly funded by the dutch government promising an independent alternative voice the collective provides a platform for more than one hundred bloggers in eight cities but with just six percent internet penetration the impact of these bloggers on congolese both inside and outside the city remains low. barry's director. says that that is just one of the many challenges that remain before the media can play a central role in changing the course of the d. or c. his future. something has to change in the mainstream media because although we now have the internet and young people use it like never before radio remains the number. one medium radio stations could be big players bringing about change if they were able to choose their own stories independent of political influence i know it's very hard there is so much pressure from all sides but i

think they still have a chance to make up for it. and finally a couple of weeks back we touched on the story of the iranian government's plan to ban the messaging service telegraph according to security forces the social media platform used by more than fourteen million people there was being used to fuel social and political unrest so the authorities are encouraging iranians to switch to another messaging platform called sort of which comes with the government's official seal of approval that provoked an iranian music group band to come up with a new tune a parody whose lyrics poke fun at the government's pro sort of offensive the band based in the islamic republic released their video on telegram and twitter but both platforms are now blocked in iran it has been picked up outside the country however we'll see you next time here at the listening past. too big.

african heads of state and government will gather in mauritania for the thirty votes december the of the african union ongoing conflicts in the final against corruption will take center stage al-jazeera will bring you extensive coverage of the summit and its outcomes the african union summit on al-jazeera. and the hardship.

we're awaiting well this idea. that when they're on line it's undoubtedly a chief goal. of again inequality in society today or if you join the sunset criminal justice system is dysfunctional right now this is a dialogue what does it feel like bring you to go back for the first time everyone has a voice and allow refugees to be the speakers verjee joining the conversation on our . hello i'm maryam namazie and london he is around up of the day's top stories now tens of thousands of people are protesting across the united states against the trumpet ministrations controversial migration policy more than two thousand children remain separated from their parents despite president donald trump signing

an order reversing a policy as well as a quick reification of families protesters also calling for an end to immigrant detention and the travel ban targeting muslim majority nations al-jazeera is gabriel as all know is with protesters in new york. thousands of people marching here in new york city they just completed a march over that for most bridge there well over ten thousand people here i would say and they're calling for two things number one the reunification of the children that are already separated from their family members and number two they are saying stop stop the zero tolerance policy of president donald trump that is still holding and criminalizing asylum seekers after they cross the border into united states now just here in new york city it's thought that there are over three hundred children that are in shelters here that have been separated from their immigrant family members now this number we don't know exactly because the federal

government the government that has this information is not actually sharing the exact number with new york authorities but it's believed to be over three hundred we see a very diverse crowd of people out here all saying that they have to come out in force to make sure that their message is not only heard here in new york but washington as well and even around the world. well to news from syria now where the rebels and there are province say that peace talks with the government and its ally russia have ended in failure a string of rebel held town of accepted government rule following an intense bombardment campaign that forced more than one hundred sixty thousand people to flee cat telep as had diane has more. shot with the celebration over syrian forces claiming control of rebel held town isn't dora province syria's state media showed these images allegedly showing unwavering support. but on syria's border

a desperate plea more than one hundred sixty thousand civilians have fled in just five days neighboring israel and jordan have closed their borders jordan says it can't afford to take in more syrian preview g.'s. we came from the city of hama it was drawn by bombs and under siege with pleading with jordan and its king hoping to go through the. airstrikes led by syria strongest ally russia have gone on for at least ten days rebel forces have been all powered peace negotiations and on and off cease fire deals with russia follow. the previous ceasefire deals had been breached before. that vision syrian regime forces launched an attack on the other side so who made this agreement the united states and russia they both have responsibility and this needs to stop. daro was one of the last rebel told areas in syria symbolically it's much more it's here where the uprising

against syria's government began seventy years ago now its fate may have international implications it has a very important strategic value for israeli because it's about its north border the u.n. warns the situation could turn into a humanitarian crisis. yes many of those who try to flee now have nowhere to go. lopez so the young al-jazeera. the german chancellor angela merkel says fortini you countries have agreed to take back migrants who originally registered with them buckle made the claim to our coalition partners who want the government to be tougher on migration hungriest denied its agree to anything that and more protests have been held in the south korean capital seoul against the arrival of yemeni asylum seekers around five hundred fly into j. zhou island since december about half a million people in south korea have signed a petition urging the government to revise refugee legislation well as the top

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my name is stephanie and this is much on. the map because of the suit university of london. hearing the words apart or. oppression. it may have begun with my readings and study of the palestinian struggle. words from china about their disposition and those. sometimes how the last seventy years have seen. against an ongoing process i just session and i think it's an hour and a cleansing but my journey actually begins with. it is not. all there is a collage of fish to malaysia people a lot. and you know i.

thought i thought they were still in syria so there ya go. thank you and i'm so outside of little outside almost. at home then a little. while life this is your. don't want to wake up at all and should think about talk. to five.

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know i wouldn't assume that. you know the family stay long enough to make me feel welcome. and. she's a small place to have a home but it is a home and i just don't know insisted give me his room to sleep in. then i want to. know. got up. but not now. yeah not. well. and. lots of people coming in and out of the house must have seen at least thirty different people normal evening for them although when you start kind of zoom in

zoom in now and thinking where i am in the refugee camp with. with choose. who's been been here for seventy years. and. and he's been a refugee almost all his life kind of feels feels strange. but is so permanent for him to be in a camp and being a refugee. thank . you. thank you thank you you. thank

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