it gets on the shelves so i think it's a wake up call in many areas and not least around situation of market failure volatility which are crucial component of the future of the cultural policy the long hot summer of two thousand and eighteen is a reminder says the national farmers union that britain shouldn't take its food production for granted and a timely one at that as concerns grow about the possibility of this country exiting the european union without a trade deal resulting in food shortages even stockpiling in the months ahead we cope with it whether we manage with whether the one thing brics is giving us is a lot of uncertainty a. worry going forward and always saying as a politicians wobbling as the drought continues both briggs's and challenging climate looks set to ensure challenging times ahead jonah al-jazeera hartford. fifty years ago at the height of the us civil rights movement

a leading cartoonist made a small but significant contribution to racial equality charles i'm sure it's introduces first black character along say charlie brown in the famous and here's the popular peanuts comic strip modern this cartoonist carrie johnson looks back at the legacy of franklin my name is carrie johnson i'm a professional caricaturists and cartoonist as a kid and really didn't have a lot of people of color to look up to the characters i'm a caricature illustrators or cartoonist when i see franklin in the newspapers i would last well that's good to see a person of color of color in the charlie brown series someone asked me. do you think frankly i haven't franklin and newspapers really helped the black community or the way people look at african-american cartoonists you know maybe i can we say that because there are so few of us out here doing doing this if it's never took

the risk to put franklin in his strip who knows would have made that that happen because one thing about it was already popular he didn't need it frankly but his teeth i think a lady wrote him a letter i remember reading about it three years ago and he said well i don't want to three and four of them pretty however he took a chance and it worked out ok i think this time to wait frankly wasn't stereotyped you know get the praise we'll do this here but he still was pretty straightforward troy brown and then when the holidays are coming around you'll see franklin with the with the but peppermint patty loose the line is they're just you know my thing is they want to be missed you most of the war but i enjoy it that. way why that much more about the stories we're following for that head to the website w w w dot al-jazeera dot com.

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we are seriously meant to wonder what this means are we in war are civilians the enemy of the state democratic republic of congo opposition leader and former rebel commander pierre bemba is back home after serving ten years in jail for war crimes he was welcomed by thousands of supporters of the airport in the capital good shots of them but was freed from jail in the netherlands after a successful appeal the international criminal court in the hague now wants to run in december in the actions the u.s. will impose sanctions on two turkish officials over the trial of an american pastor in turkey washington says brunson who led a protestant church in is near has been on fairly detain. when ian lawmakers have summoned the president before parliament to answer questions about the country's flag economy how some rouhani has come under pressure from hardline rivals he says the u.s. pulled out of a nuclear deal with the country. while fires in california are showing no signs of

abating with the u.s. state set to record one of its worst fire seasons in history far fight as a still back to seventeen blazes have killed eight people in the last week alone while the fast moving flames destroyed the early one hundred and twenty thousand hectares of the. you are officially up to date losing a car top stories this hour on the al-jazeera day stay with us for people in power and thanks as always for your company. once considered a war criminal now an aspiring presidential candidate in the democratic republic of congo. after his conviction was overturned by the international criminal court in the hague jumpier bamba talks towns as they are.

struggling with a failing economy inadequate public services and the mental some attention of two rival regional power as many lebanese hopes recent elections might provoke reforms to help solve their problems but in a country where power is apportioned along sectarian undernourished declines little ever seems to disturb the status quo we went to find out why. in may twenty eight hundred eleven and went to the polls it was the first parliamentary election in nine years and there was one question on many observers minds was it to be politics as usual or would growing concern over the country's

myriad problems affect the outcome. there was that at least a hint of change in the the first time a grassroots movement known as the civil society coalition was fielding hundred s. against lebanon's long established sectarian parties. on the other you see you see his. medical. comments and mom on the floor there he is the man who had the sheikh to deal with them but apathy was the biggest winner but his turnout was less than fifty percent despite general discussed over spiraling unemployment and faltering basic services it seemed few lebanese believed the route to solutions mais through the ballot box. other than bored with the food from launching the sham you will be of will be landing our assumption was that people were fed up after nine years of having the same parliament people would go

and call it seems that this was not the case are we at the point where people both give anymore in the all to most of an election that promise much but to live at least two to the six million citizens we've been to investigate why lebanon's distinctive political setup appears so dysfunctional and resistant to change. in twenty fifteen lebanon's capshaw beirut the first of several demonstrations against huge mounds of uncollected garbage that were piling up in the city. soon the rallies were attracting over one hundred thousand people as fury grew over the state's fadia the authorities squashed the protests in doing so a movement that would later attempt to challenge the country's unique political system.

as the most religiously diverse country in the middle east lebanon has tried to prevent any one group from dominating by setting up a parliamentary system known as confession ism in which each of the main sects holds a position in government a president must be maronite christian the prime minister's sunni muslim and the speaker of parliament shiite muslim. nouri hightail and was a candidate for civil society in the elections but being born armenian orthodox she could only stand against others of that section had district this is what we are trying to fight that this is the slots of the vision you are dividing people according to their religion or to their sect and this is the only identity you are enforcing while they should be citizens aunts function with the same rights and responsibilities. lauri's district of fear is one of the roots christian heartlands still influenced by the legacy of the she dismay and leader of the right twinky to

a party during lebanon's fifteen year civil war which ended in one thousand nine hundred ninety. he was president elect for three weeks before he was assassinated in one thousand nine hundred eighty two. the. power being passed from father to son is a common feature in lebanon stein mastic politics although he was only four months old when his father was killed nadeem was a prominent member of the kids at a party. over. policeman i think. you can call it inheritance you can call it the easy way to do things but what i believe is that i believe in the same cause of my own and i have the same values and ethics of doing politics. christian are part of the. people of lebanon and of course we

cannot live in lebanon if we don't get into them the freedom and the security. was the defender of the question during the civil war when we were doing our election campaign in the spa region people would say that as shafi a without the. white male has popularity here and they see him as the continuation of that political ideology. they see between all the communities between the sunnis and the street between the christian and the muslim steve between. all this is based on the fact that no one trusts the community the system guarantees government posts to all the main parties but it can also mean politicians are placed on accountable and free to dispense patronage as they like. citizens were mistaken by voting for some people

just because they offer services or money i believe that the confessional system in lebanon has. destroyed. by we're. under confessional ism if the government call into a way to provide state welfare citizens are forced to turn to the sectarian leaders for help it's how lebanon has run for generations. today these people are all awaiting an audience with say more lot one of the main candy of lebanon streets community it's a family tradition usually we always open the house chooses to receive. either for financial assistance or jobs and sister don't have a stable government to provide jobs this is working to. these people have come in for financial help to cover medical bills and support with that children situation fees and. jobs.

the troops are an offshoot. they may have. five percent of the population but some fighting hard for this say they are still a force in. his role as leader of the main druze policy from his father he is unexpectedly candid about why i don't want to be in politics but i have to show it to my father and to my family history which what i've been basically working in politics for more than four hundred years is the family business we don't want to exist at some point so we all were always fighting this thing it's almost like if someone in the community and we always come back to us for help or for assistance unfortunately number one hundred and go to the other camp to. come to us for help he always comes back to his roots.

basically every political party is responsible for his own people the system of the country is built even myself and my father we're all accountable but nobody is going to do that. against anyone not trying on a confessional ticket getting into parliament one of the few who managed it is billionaire for me he's convinced the confessional system has done the country more harm than good. that has no equality in this country politics economists think social conditions think. of sectarianism forcing people to go forward. to even get the basic rights that combination force people to go for. the state as one of the richest men in lebanon could fund his campaign and ways groups like the civil society could not afford. the people that they had because

like the civil society that they really believed that they have a message they couldn't even. unfortunately here it's not anymore the causes that you are fighting for political program is for police politicians a lever mostly for lease you don't buy the too expensive that ruling class did not want somebody to come in unless you can afford it in my case i can afford it. during elections politicians often use local political agents known as election keys these are individuals who mediate on behalf of candidates to secure very. sophina hass was wonderful at mass to me selection keys he reveals just how the system works some people used to give money and as you know most of the people are in need of money because of the present political situation and start from one hundred dollars per person to fifteen hundred per person to give his.

people in poor state they came to us asking for money but we told them this is against the law on the other hand if you cannot pay for their rent we can support you. but the most important thing and we give it pro is medical assistance we were very very very busy. to feed now has told us he'd match every thousand people asking for help them to do the foundation claims to have been supporting families long before the elections including running soup kitchens but his charity certainly didn't hurt his candidacy equally many voters are just as.