can carry on for one final fours but if the c.e.o.'s who were to leave the coalition there are other policies that might well support on confidence and supply basis on on an important vote by vote basis angle america's coalition with the social democrats and the c.s.u. really has to ask itself whether it wants to stay inside the government and deal as ministers or reject and go into opposition but for the moment we wait to see what will happen over the next few hours dominic kane life is in berlin factor in the tonic. now check of the weather is next and then one mother's heart break why people like this could have a big influence on mexico's election. and high up in the mountains hidden from view we travel to the monasteries that are about to get global recognition.

hello there for many of us in china it's been very wet recently it is the rainy season and that rain has certainly been quite active here are the latest pictures out of this young sheep province showing just how deep that water is it is causing quite a few problems there and she and she isn't the only province where we've seen problems with wet weather this system has also been stretching of course into this issue province giving us a lot of heavy rains here as well now as we head through the next couple of days there will be a few more outbreaks of rain but probably not quite so much as that that we've seen recently the shower as well will see one or two across parts of hong kong as well as our temperatures make it to thirty three degrees i think for hong kong where today will be chouse day that's where looks like we'll see more in the way of rain towards the west looks fine for many of us in parts of viet nam maximum temperature pretty high there put a sticky thirty nine degrees it was we head across towards india and bangladesh you

can see all the rain that we've got here not really in the south and then another batch up towards the northeast that's across india and nepal very very wet here at the moment and we're likely to see more outbreaks of rain centered over this region as we head through monday and choose day on tuesday also watch out for the heavy rain in the west of india. every weekly news cycle brings a series of breaking stories but it was in the truck didn't happen on the board through the eyes of the journalists the images marijuana. the listening post as we turn the cameras on the media and focus on how they report on the stories that matter the most. serious someone from the country who guides you to lead you to the story of the bar line road listening post on al-jazeera.

and again you're watching there has reminder of our top stories this hour polls about open for mexico's elections posts at all levels of government are up for grabs the presidency is the most important race and leftists can sit on dress money or lopez obrador. in mexico city is the favorite to win. by syrian vice jets and their russian allies have killed at least seventy five civilians and there are province over the last twenty four hours and talks have resumed between rebel groups and russian negotiators as they try again to end the fighting. bombs going off in the center of jalalabad in afghanistan just hours

after president ashraf ghani left at least twelve members of the sikh minority community were killed in the blast that also injured twenty prevention government officials. a series of bombings in jalalabad where i saw the taliban have a strong presence. more now on our top story elections in mexico that largely hinge on voter fury of a corruption and violence as many as thirty thousand people were murdered last year alas in america to lucianne human tells one grieving mother story from mexico city . this is my son her son he was nineteen and studied architecture but he said mantel piece is in fact a shrine to her two murdered sons place where she can at least keep their ashes close to her three years ago the eldest herson was kidnapped in. a few hours later fifteen year old

a football player was murdered along with his brother in law invade a goose where they used to live even though the family paid the ransom to get her son back he was never returned eventually the remains of my eldest son were found in a bass grave along with one hundred ninety other missing people in your area. i thought one day i would find. only thing i have of him now is his call and a piece of hip and leg because those monsters chop them all to pieces. there's no peace for the families of the more than thirty thousand mexicans who were murdered last year and the equal number who are still missing records that are expected to be surpassed this year. but there is another type of crime that is also destroying mexico this is what's left of a school that collapsed during last september's earthquake here in mexico city and

these little angels represent the nineteen children who were crushed to death when a structure that was built illegally by the school's owner fell on top of them she had apparently paid off local officials to turn a blind eye to the building code the victim's parents say that they died not because of the earthquake but because of corruption a phenomenon that is spreading like a disease throughout mexico in every aspect of life. which is why confronting crime violence and the widespread corruption that makes those things possible are the main issues for tens of millions of mexicans as they choose a new president. one has to be the criminal so they'd let you work in peace sometimes it's the police that bribes corruption is everywhere. in geo mexican's against corruption and impunity says the corruption costs the poorest thirty five percent. into their income putting poverty and violence in a vicious circle and when you start. kaname with those levels of violence and those

levels of corruption of course nobody's going to want to invest and that's where. you have more inequality more poverty and of course more crime at that i mean that there is neither a silver bullet nor a presidential candidate with serious proposals to turn the tide and yet like millions of mexicans money seller hasn't given up fairly or he to carry an income here there will be now there will be a new government which has the power to do more we hope this time things will change. after losing so much hope she reminds us is the last thing you can lose you see in human i just see that mexico city oakland harding is a latin america analyst and director of latin form and he joins us now from manchester in the u.k. good to have you with us as the frontrunner lopez obrador has made zero tolerance for corruption a cornerstone of his campaign how is he planning to achieve that. very good

question and he hopes his watchwords or some of the love and peace and. i think his main strength is outside the establishment system the two parties that are run mexico since the one hundred twenty s. . everybody's pretty well fed up with them that really great disappointment they've been inefficient have been corrupted be unable to stem the tide of violence we've been hearing about and. that is outside that he doesn't come from mexico city is not constantly their country's establishment he comes from a small village and ask you if she's down on the gulf coast and he says he's going to change things there are there are they way but people tend to have his followers tend to have a. religious belief in him further that he's going to be the savior which will rescue the country because it's

a huge expectations now on his shoulders pursue me does when the vote i mean is that they say the very least big political change there from mexico show enormous yes i mean the party in power at the moment to create a these two sure revolutionary party was in power from one hundred twenty nine term beginning of this century and since when the conservative national action party pam was in power for twelve years and then create came back so these two parties alternated and everybody's pretty well outside that it's close circle and agrees that they have been pretty hopeless that the economy stagnating this terrible violence this incredible corruption inefficiency. it's all going to change. is that i think given the mandate and the other big issue of course for any can that wins in mexico election is going to be the relationship. with the northern

neighbor with with the u.s. with trump well we heard from lopez obrador about that. you know he says groups trying to make president trump see sense to bring him back to reason he says with. love and peace and a strategy. to talk some sense into the neighbor which is going to take you really wish you luck ok calling out in great speak to you thanks very much for joining us there from manchester now a patrol of thirty french soldiers have been targeted in a suicide attack in mali or drive or set off a car bomb in the town of reuters news agency says at least two people have been killed but al-jazeera has been unable to confirm that an army spokesman says the number of wounded is unclear a four thousand strong force of french soldiers has been in the region since two thousand and twelve they were deployed in response to an insurgency by armed groups

at least forty people have been killed in a bus crash in northern india the vehicle fell into a gorge in power we got well district in them a lens state of utah and police a rescue operations are continuing and some of the victims are being airlifted to safety the cause of the crash is still unknown navy divers are pushing deeper into flooded caves in thailand where boys football team and their coach have been missing for more than a week more than a thousand people from several countries including the u.s. and china have joined some progress has been made since the weather cleared on friday but still no sign of them in chiang rai scott hyder sat down with someone who was once lost in the same caves. this is the map of that cat into inchoate own has spent his entire thirty four years just minutes from the tumble on cave but when he was a teenager it almost took his life everyone praying like many times before he went

in with some friends but this time they went in deeper and got lost for five hours and they yelled for help and someone inside heard them and led them out on his main concern about the twelve missing boys and their coach holes in the cave floor that could act as huge drains when they're flooded but also like what happened to him it's easy to lose your way don't want to scare off us like when the last life has gone you have to walk by your by only for your home you know you can walk like when you you are at home when you want you know you i think you know everything in your house but minu cost you i and you turn around and you wouldn't find a way where is the right way to go. rescue workers have come to into for assistance in understanding the topography of the cave system he said the cave map stops at ten kilometers but in reality it goes on not far from in twos cafe

a buddhist temple parking lot has been converted into a dispatch area for search and rescue team of volunteers squad from bangkok prepares to head out so after getting the call the waiting area the team rushed up here into the hills to assist other search teams there looking for more holes that lead down into the cave because this is the part of the hills that's above the party a beach section of the cave complex that's one of the areas where they think the boys and their coach might be fair weather has allowed ty a navy seal divers to also advance in the same area below in the cave but it's slow going and they still have hundreds of meters to go. there are now seven nations helping out in the growing effort to find the missing thirteen including australia the u.k. japan laos china and myanmar and thirty military personnel from the u.s. . nothing sold out and nothing is you know completely off the table when you think about ever changing conditions that being said the type three is taking the lead so

whatever direction they call it that they want to take we are fully there to advise assist and support in that aspect and those conditions might be changing soon after a few days of little rain and better visibility for helicopters monday's weather forecast is calling for heavy rain once again making the time before it arrives even more precious sky harbor al-jazeera. and protest over a water shortage in the southern iranian city of coleman shah turned violent on saturday people threw rocks at police and destroyed public property in the main square those ties disperse the crowds using tear gas the local governor has promised the issue of water will be solved within the next five days thousands of people taken to the streets across russia to protest the government's decision to increase the age of her time and in a rash of widespread discontent by trade unions close to the kremlin and critics of the government cooled from the demonstrations the pension reforms have led to a significant slump in president vladimir putin's approval ratings. what did the

state do that it condemned old people fifty to sixty five years old who are waiting for their pensions to poverty i don't know and can't imagine how they will make money to leap to the retirement age to sixty five or sixty three that's very difficult in our country. seven but a mountain temples in south korea will be added to unesco's list of world heritage sites one of them is the country's only surviving wouldn't go down grayson has been visiting some of the listed ministries to understand the historical significance. the foothills of the song the sun mountain are extremely tranquil there is an absence of noise and pollution. only the prayers break the silence. it is the perfect sight for a place of worship so serene that buddhist monks travel from all over south korea just to meditate here. geographically speaking but juicer is located in the center

of south korea and our space is vast compared to other temples not only that we host the flower garden sutra there you can say serves as the identity of korean buddhism. some traditions of being carried forward since the monastery was built nearly one of the half thousand years ago. the us go world heritage listing establishes the outstanding value of a site where its conservation is recognized to be in the interests of all humanity south korea has twelve world heritage listed sites one natural and eleven cultural and wants to add more including here be architecturally significant temple. the monastery is considered an important center for the belief in the tray or the future buddha. the temples treasure hall of the great heroes serves as the main area of worship and is a rare example of a double storey main hall oh. but it's the whole of

a pictures enshrining paintings of the eight scenes from the historical buddha life which makes this place so special it is the only original wouldn't go to in korea for people to turn in as a basis we monks look to do good in the world as we consider but truces role in a peaceful reunified korean peninsula and for the community will be strengthened in the work that we do through unesco designation. is the head temple of the juggler order of korean buddhism founded in the ninth century it has what the south korean government calls eighteen cultural jim and is known for its calligraphy the monastery is one of seven south korea would like to see the venture listed. as south korea's only listed natural heritage site chosen for its geological features and ecological value but. the volcanic island contains messi of lava tubes deep beneath the earth as well as significant marine and coastal wildlife. on

saturday the forty second session of the world heritage committee voted unanimously to include all seven south korean mountain temples on the listing craig leeson al-jazeera somnus and national park south korea that attacks. come into effect in uganda despite concerns it will be used to limit political dissent a bit daily fee to use facebook whatsapp twitter snap chat instagram and other websites the government says it will prevent people spreading fake news. we're down to zero these are our top stories polls have opened for mexico's election. posts that all levels of government are up for grabs the presidency is the most important race and leftist candidate on dress manual lopez obrador seen here voting in mexico city is the favorite to win after a fiery campaign against what he describes as the mafia of power airstrikes by

syrian fighter jets and their russian allies have killed at least seventy five civilians and there are province over the past twenty four hours a string of rebel held town villages have now accepted government rule and talks have resumed which we know rebel groups and russian negotiators as they try again to end the fighting and surfside bombing has gone off in the center of jalalabad in afghanistan just hours after president ashraf ghani left at least eighteen people were killed in the blast which also injured twenty provincial of government officials it's the latest in a series of bombings in jalalabad where eisel and the taliban have a strong presence. german chancellor angela merkel is trying to patch up deep divisions within her governing coalition about how to handle the influx of refugees and migrants. the christian social union c.s.u. is meeting to decide whether to accept migration deal she struck with fellow e.u. leaders in brussels c s u has been pushing for much tougher rules. navy divers have

gone two hundred meters deeper into a flooded cave in thailand in search of a boy's football team and their coach video released by the time navy shows how murky waters and complete darkness have hampered the week long rescue operation in the cave more than a thousand people from several countries including the u.s. and china have joined the search some progress has been made since the weather cleared on friday but this still no sign of the team. and african union leaders have plenty to discuss as they meet in mauritania's capital particularly worried about south sudan where fighting has strained the latest cease fire into jeopardy just hours after it was signed but their main theme is corruption which according to estimates robs twenty five percent of africa's gross domestic products you are now up to date with all the headlines daryn as the news grades on the thirty minutes that's after listening post every year in pakistan

hundreds of women are victims of so-called honor killing one on one east searches for the truth in a case that exposes the growing clash between old beliefs and modern life on al-jazeera. president carter watches on june twenty fourth of march when you will be watching me. until the president. has. a. question i want to ask yourself what the president did executive. hello i'm richard ginsberg and you're at the listening post here are some of the media stories we're covering this week turkey president party wins the election with more than a little help from their friends in the news business 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 the. 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 have taken that a bit further and talked about one media and one voice his 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 air 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 to further silence dissent or a starting point this week is the capital. some time selections coverage can be difficult to assess when is coverage of a campaigning politician and fair coverage. 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 month prior to the election t.r.t. turkey's main state owned t.v. station devoted sixty seven hours of air time to president 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 on and he's our party. sciatic it twice kind of tight on. such and such than. that. stuff it might t.r.t. being a state broadcaster issued day after day on 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 there was not much in the news before he became a candidate president and on what you know not be done. you know by just. made on the job. i want you to hear them as your nails accuse them of everybody loves you 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 we get here in. the process has been gradual the pattern on mistakes all over the years to the one 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. the purchase of a group to fiercely pro-government then that of 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 sending it 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. of a critical. media outlets feeling the heat in turkey would like to blame their

problems on the government but they bear some responsibility for 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 the one and suddenly found itself with a two point five billion dollar fine for back taxes when media group was being targeted large. 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 good on the moment was brought down at the other is felt the same way this is what i call a sickness of 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 man 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 anything close down because their 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 the quality 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 him. 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 of fear 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. as 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 eighteen t.'s partner companies who use their infrastructure for efficiency reasons including overseas palms such as door to telecom 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 dorn 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 door 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 this management 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 step forward line with president joseph kabila who's 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 is going to use. easier time way is a journalist at tacoma wa an online outlet that cools rebel as 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 but do they ever show the force the police since i was arrested by police it was definitely because i was covering all of this i was throwing accusations of the regime and they needed to sightsee in their face all. their you know by the usual middle east the. no journalists have been arrested or imprisoned because of their work journalists are free to cover any demonstration however certain journalists took advantage and injected in soon jiri 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 when the d r c was known as zaire a one party state ruled by mobutu cesa seiko for more than thirty years our vote for sean paul appeared 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 by the 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 everyday 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 the 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 at 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 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 build 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. un funded outlet is not tight to domestic political interest granting its journalists a certain level of independence and credibility. jennifer but cody a former radio 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 and 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 but 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 to. be 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 companies 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 ortiz because of its independence and professionalism if you prefer should actually do just. that independence is crucial barri r.t.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 deer sees 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 both 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 bad 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 post.

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here with the news that we're live on air we're streaming online through you tube facebook live and that al-jazeera dot com it is election day in mexico where according to polls a leftist politician and dress money well lopez obrador is widely expected to take charge of latin america second largest economy all posts every level of mexico's governments are also up for grabs in these elections in what's become a referendum on spiraling violence corruption and scandal places can go plague politicians the third time may be the charm for lopez obrador he's a former mayor of mexico city who ran for the presidency twice before he gained popularity thanks to promises to deal with violence and corruption well many of the country's poorest citizens say they get little to no help from all stories when a family member is murdered or latin america editor of the seer newman has more from mexico city.

this is my son her son he was nineteen and studied architecture but he said mantel piece is in fact a shrine to her two murdered sons place where she can at least keep their ashes close to her three years ago the eldest herson was kidnapped in. a few hours later fifteen year old allen a football player was murdered along with his brother in law invade a goose where they used to live even though the family paid the ransom to get her son back he was never returned eventually the remains of my eldest son were found in a bass grave along with one hundred ninety other missing people in your area. i thought one day i would find. the only thing i have of him now is his call and a piece of hip and leg because those monsters chop them all to pieces.

there's no peace for the families of the more than thirty thousand mexicans who were murdered last year and the equal number who are still missing records that are expected to be surpassed this year. but there is another type of crime that is also destroying mexico this is what's left of a school that collapsed during last september's earthquake here in mexico city and these little angels represent the nineteen children who were crushed to death when a structure that was built illegally by the school's owner fell on top of them she had apparently paid off local officials to turn a blind eye to the building code the victim's parents say that they died not because of the earthquake but because of corruption a phenomenon that is spreading like a disease throughout mexico and almost every aspect of life. which is why confronting crime violence and the widespread corruption that makes those things

possible are the main issues for tens of millions of mexicans as they choose a new president. one has to pay the criminal so that they'd let you work in peace sometimes it's the police that bribes corruption is everywhere. the mexicans against corruption and impunity says the corruption costs the poorest thirty five. into their income putting poverty and violence in a vicious circle and when you start. kaname we those levels of violence and those levels of corruption of course nobody's going to want to invest and that's where you and you have more inequality more poverty and of course more crime at that i mean that there's neither a silver bullet or a presidential candidate with serious proposals to turn the tide and yet like millions of mexicans might the seller hasn't given up phaedo the or he kadian and come here there will be and now there will be a new government which has the power to do more we hope this time things will

change. after losing so much hope she reminds us is the last thing you can. see in human just mexico city and will stay in mexico city in this time bring in john holeman he is joining us from there and john before i come to you we're just going to show some live pictures off jose antonio me that he is voting or rather he just voted at a polling station in mexico city he is the a ruling institutional revolutionary party as candidates are those are live pictures from mexico city you can see the candidate walking away he had just voted out a poll john so while that is happening tell us what you've been seeing in mexico city how turnout has been it's about two hours since polls have opened. exactly that we're quite early still on a sunday morning people have been coming into the polling station that we've been at just it's been a regular turnout but quite gradual here but one thing that is going to be

important in terms of the turnout this election is the young vote that's because almost half of the electorate are under the age of forty so there's a sense that if they do turn out bucking a general trend globally where there's quite a lot of voter apathy among the young they could really swing this election and i'm here right now we say the ventura say there is a student an industrial engineering student that's just about to leave and go out into the world of work so for young voters this election like yourself says what are the main issues for you. well i think like what comes to my mind right now it's basically like there is a lot of violence lately and like everywhere there is violence like you can get out get away from crime anywhere you are and then i think salaries are also like main issue because well pretty much i think there is really it's really hard to get

a job lead with a good salary unless you're like kind of connected or you know legs someone so that makes it kind of car and i guess. good salaries are. a problem for the lowest in the o.e.c.d. right now so imagine you for yourself just going out to university and trying to get a job is quite a problem we've been speaking as well about the political class in mexico right now what do you feel about the people that are running your country well i think like every grow up like there is always been like the same political system dissing parties and like there's always been corruption and like there's on thrown something like we all know and it's there and they it's treated like it's not going to change ever but like we're kind of fed up of that we really need change and we really want it ok a lot of polls been taken so that the young vote seems to be swinging towards a front runner under his manual lopez obrador who says he's going to bring that

wholesale change what would sure a personal opinion about that well i think i think most of us are kind of leaning towards to him because he is kind of like a little bit different than the others and he has proposed like his proposals are kind of like turn the political system kind of upside down so that's a way for a lee a lot of people like appeal to him but steele like in my in my personal opinion i think it's kind of shady that he got like of their like not getting stained by corruption. so i think that's just like it's hard to be there to get big like as a president and not being really corrupt. exactly so a more balanced view of that what do you hoping for in terms of your country what would you like to see in the next six years as you go into the workplace and in the time that's ahead well what i would really like to see it's like they may be

corruption stopped a little bit like programs there like that would get released they get released you know the money that the government spends on people that they actually spend it on them make more schools more quality education i think those are the things that will make us a better country. thank you very much for that so so it's a ventura young voter there's many of them as i said in this election almost half of the country's electorate are going to be under the age of forty turning out but i think a lot of concerns we've been talking to young voters. in this campaign is it's going along in the last couple of months the same as the rest of the country an end to the corruption or at least a lowering of the corruption in mexico a lowering of the violence in the country

a more opportunities mexican salaries are low fifty three million. of the country's population a below the poverty line so people are looking for things to change here and important to know john as well that obviously the focus is on the presidential candidates but people will also be voting for parliament. that's very true congress is going to be important here it's going to be completely to have a complete turnover and that's going to be very important if the front runner and that is money will preserve the daughter who's got a twenty point advantage does win because if he then also has a majority in congress that it will give him a lot more scope to bring through the programs in the plans that he wants to do with the country quite ambitious plans he said that he can eradicate corruption for example just with his example he said that he will solve the security problem without giving much indication of exactly how he would do that so if he does have

congress on his side he will have quite enough buntay just playing field to make those things happen all right john home and we'll cross over to you a little later on for the tenth time being thank you for that update from mexico city and social media has played a significant role in mexico's elections but there is going to a large scale social media doesn't dissemination of partisan political messages and false news so here al jazeera look some of the fake news stories dominating the internet so you can head to al jazeera dot com to have a read through this we are also on facebook at facebook dot com slash al-jazeera we're also on twitter our handle is at aging gliss use the hash tag a.j. news grid and you can send us a whatsapp or telegram up.