he was abused as a child by a priest at his school whom other children had complained about you know the school protected them and allowed man three my friends and i was very dear to help pakis belongings in the rectory pack up the car and go to the new parish and the new school and spend the first night in the new rectory with them and he was being transferred for sexually abusing two brothers two priests have been charged and one has already pleaded guilty to molesting a seven year old boy as a result of the investigation many of the crimes outlined in the report however took place too long ago to be criminally prosecuted. the report places significant blame on a former bishop of the diocese of pittsburgh cardinal donald wuerl for what it describes as his role in covering up abuse worl now the head of the archdiocese of washington d.c. responded in a written statement saying that he acted with diligence with concern for the victims and to prevent future abuse in july pope francis accepted the resignation

of archbishop theodore mccarrick from the college of cardinals one of the church's most powerful bodies amid allegations of molestation and sexual misconduct i believe the bishops did they give us the opportunity to find justice and we made an apology isn't enough for shawn daugherty and other victims who are calling on lawmakers to change the statute of limitations and force the catholic church to finally pay for its sins kristen salumi al-jazeera harrisburg. small still to come on i'll just entering place in london say they are treating a crash as terrorism after all the hard drives into the desk koreans outside parliament family and friends gathered to celebrate one of the many journalists missing in syria six years after he was kidnapped.

and i want to tell you about the weather across iran it's hot very hot on the southwest and there's nothing in the sky to stop with even the showers around the caspian disappearing slowly north into took many stand and beyond so the pictures as you might expect for mid to late summer it's also down the plains of iraq forty three at baghdad breeze still blows quite stormy for science and there's nothing in the sky as far west as cyprus and possibly beyond that so dry and dusty and hot of course and that's true dancer the society a society of a forty three at doha suggests it's fairly dry and dusty not humid which is again unusual this time of the year similar stories the case in the u.a.e. but there is a hint of clout in this always suggests the potential at least fish as if that's a big thunderstorms in the last we could see in the mountains of amman it's a possibility to repeat the how the fall will keep blowing in salalah as it should do at this time of the year showers elsewhere right now are unlikely event but not

completely to be ruled out in southern africa particularly south africa having seen a bit of rain recently in the west and eastern cape the still cloud not far away i suspect the super tuesday cloudstreet news beautiful to watch from the satellite picture have a look online will disappear as the windies of the next dancer. when mexico's leaders implemented drastic and controversial energy reforms the country's oil owned by the mexican people for seventy five years was to be sold to private international companies. but to what extent is the country exposed to exploitation by profit driven multinational corporations. harvest on al-jazeera.

of the back you're watching out zero time to recap headlines now at least twenty five people have been killed and many more injured after a highway bridge collapsed in the italian city of genoa came down during heavy rain sending vehicles plunging around one hundred meters to the ground. turkey has just increased tariffs on some u.s. imports and its president called for a boycott of u.s. electronic products type out of the one says it's in retaliation for an economic attack on his country on friday washington impose new sanctions after the detention of a u.s. pastor in turkey the turkish lira has fallen more than forty five percent against

the u.s. dollar this year a new report suggests there could be thousands of victims of child sex abuse in pennsylvania in the u.s. it's the largest and most comprehensive report into abuse by catholic priests in the state it details allegations of assaults on minors by so-called predator priests over a seventy year period. place in london and treating a crash outside the british parliament as a terror incident three people were injured when a man drove into pedestrians and cyclists before ramming into security barriers the suspect is a twenty nine year old british citizen lawrence lee reports the palace of westminster is a sleepy place in august as the politicians are on holiday here during rush hour this was the scene as heavily armed police swooped on a car which had apparently been driven deliberately into the crash barriers surrounding the parliament the force of the collision clearly seemed to have crumpled the whole front of the small car its only occupant showing no resistance

as officers calmly took him out and led him away the question is who is he and what was his motivation in my opinion it was deliberate it wasn't it was no difference. to you it was a direct hit this video taken from on high some distance away shows the car seeming to drive normally before swerving violently across the road and then veering again through the security barriers and coming to a stop to police officers had to jump clear to avoid being hit. as he crossed lanes on accelerator to point his car at parliament the driver plowed through a group of cyclists at least one was injured though not seriously. by now the full security apparatus agree there were no weapons in the car but the incident was soon treated as a terrorist related the driver's refusing to answer questions from the police and they didn't know anything about him

a priority now is to formally establish the identity of the suspect and establish his motivation if we can. he is not currently cooperating with the morning wore on it became clear there was no further threat their governments full counterterrorism unit met to discuss what they didn't know about the matter if the aim of this was to repeat last year's attack on westminster bridge that it was more or less a complete failure but if the point was to prove that it is still possible to hit an emblematic targets like the houses of parliament then clearly it succeeded space was of the same time not a major incident but something that the security services are taking very seriously indeed. of course through strong reasons for the security services to be worried last year a car attack on westminster killed six people including a police officer and injured fifty what this was isn't yet clear but it is at least a reminder that no security can protect everything lawrence leigh al jazeera london

turkey and russia say they want to find a solution to stop the fighting in syria is it live province the foreign ministers from both countries met in ankara turkey opposes the syrian government's offensive to recapture its lip that's the opposition's last major stronghold of luto joliffe says the whole province should not be targeted russia and turkey support opposing sides in the syrian war. it's believed at least thirty abducted journalists are being held meanwhile in syria among them is american freelance journalist austin tice he was kidnapped six years ago his family friends and colleagues have been gathering in washington to mark the anniversary of his disappearance calling for the safe release of tyson dozens of other reporters have gone missing while covering the conflict my calorie falls and so you see this this aliment of hope in his early photos right and then he begins to come across things like

this a mother talks about the work of her son these pictures were taken by freelance journalist austin tice shortly before he was abducted by armed men at a road block near damascus six years ago and it was austin's deepest desire that they could have reform without any of these photos ever being taken and so i just want you to join him behind the camera and i needed to get a feeling for his heart of why keypress why did austin go there he just wanted to tell the story that was so young when he arrived. the f.b.i. has posted a one billion dollar reward for information leading to the safe location recovery and return of austin tice renewing hopes that he's still alive it's believed that more than thirty abducted journalists are being held in syria but the exact figure is impossible to ascertain in many cases the abduction is not publicized pending

the go see a sions for release what is known is that the kidnapped journalist come from a number of countries among them france spain lebanon mauritania jordan and the united states. when the most dangerous countries for journalists in the world and so at the fence like these that reason we have this situation in that country in the journalistic western lives to cover that conflict for the american public for the international community is well that's really of vital importance and in this room be aware as to there are many other fathers and mothers in syria and beyond still hoping for the safe return of their loved ones mike hanna al-jazeera washington the u.s. state of nebraska has carried out its first execution in more than twenty years using a controversial combination of drugs for the lethal injection carradine moore was

convicted of killing two men in one thousand nine hundred seventy nine the opioid phantom oil was part of a four drug combination that's never been used in executions in the u.s. a german company that makes two of the drugs tried to sue nebraska saying the state lied to get the drugs because they're not usually sold to prisons. heavy rains and flash floods in the philippines are forced thousands of people from their homes at least three people have died in the country's northern islands and one can reports . slowly picking through the rubble to recover what's left of their lives the mary keenan river burst its banks at the weekend leaving behind huge mounds of garbage and sludge. disaster management officials that in just eight hours the river rose from sixteen to twenty one meters. just shy of the record of twenty three meters nine years ago when seven hundred people were killed this car mechanic is trying to rescue his tools. all our belongings were washed away including the supplies in my

shop everything is destroyed now all that is left are good for nothing just scrap metal and here we are trying to clean them up his case is typical of the region's poorest who are living day to day before the floods and their struggle even more officials are asking the international community for help they want to strengthen and build up their flood control infrastructure. or waltz in we are now reading image. networks and as the typhoon season continues mary queen a city and other low lying parts of the philippines are bracing for more flooding in wrong card which is a thousands of brazilians are planning a mass rally to demand their controversial choice of presidential election candidate be allowed to run for my leader louise and i saluted a silver is serving a twelve year prison sentence for corruption that's left many other brazilian voters disillusioned or disinterested as daniel the reports.

it was here in the arid northeast of brazil. enjoyed strong supporters president with his social programs that helped alleviate poverty his imprisonment earlier this year for corruption as part of the huge car wash scandal has left many voters disillusioned with their politicians and cynical about the political process now at school there is no confidence in the electoral process brazilians don't trust politicians especially with all these corruption probe i don't see anyone talking about the elections. as popularly known is still ahead in the opinion polls his supporters believe he's innocent and the country struggling to emerge from recession they remember that between two thousand and three and two thousand and ten the store a booming economy and they believe he can save them again and lula you know there is no other option. he's a political prisoner he wasn't condemned there is no proof against him and he was

arrested for good and. it's unlikely however that the will be able to stand up since has created a political void it's never been easy to represent a country so huge so ethnically diverse so rich and yet so poor but really have brazil's politicians involved in a huge corruption scandal often hiding in distant brasilia been so unrepresentative of the brazilian electorate. tapping into that disillusionment is the anti establishment white we military man jay ableson are all his supporters growing especially in senses far from brasilia and the well to stop paolo in rio going to be a delicate sicamous when we talk about candidates we aren't hold people in general don't trust any of the candidates however i have kind of decided my candidate is going to be both so narrow. however opinion polls suggest that more than half the brazilian electorate don't know who to vote for or don't like any of the choices on

offer and won't cost a ballot despite voting being obligatory. i think brazil is heading towards complete chaos that is my impression politicians are not governing it's a complete mess the same politicians are now faced with the challenge of convincing a disparate electorate in the country of more than two hundred million inhabitants that they have the solutions to brazil's many problems. brasilia colombia's government is blocking treasure hunters from salvaging what they say is the holy grail of shipwrecks when the spanish ship san jose sank more than three hundred years ago it was said to be loaded with gold and precious stones worth billions today but as man you are part of ford's son clear who will own the treasure once it's brought ashore. stories of ship wrecks and sunken treasure have long captivated the imagination. but perhaps no wreck has fascinated underwater archaeologists and treasure hunters quite like the sun who say. attacked by

britain's royal navy in seventeen zero eight during a battle off the coast of gaza hanna colombia all but seven members of her crew went down with the ship. unfortunately the san jose was too heavy to maneuver itself against the attack and was sunk by the british. three years ago former colombian president one man will santals announced his government had found the fabled galleon. with the aid of unmanned submersibles three d. mapping technology state of the art robotics and an international team of experts the san jose was found. the catch is a company called sea search armada claimed they had found the ship more than thirty five years ago and had been locked in a fierce legal battle with the colombian government over their share of the treasure a treasure that today is valued up to twenty billion dollars. it had everything the cargo manifest lists gold silver precious stones spoils all of

the well from taxes collected over six years from colombia panama and through this is. literally wrote the book on the son who say he says there were several parties who have a legitimate claim to ownership over the treasure is the spain because it was a spanish ship peru because most of the congo was peruvian. because part of the congo was panamanian and colombia because the ship was founded on water has. recently a delegation from bolivia presented colombian officials with a two hundred page document claiming a percentage of the treasure should be given to them as reparations it's believed there are more than one thousand sunken spanish galleons off the coast of colombia alone according to you there's an estimated three million shipwrecks all around the world still waiting to be discovered apart from the treasure the cultural value of many of these vessels is

a measurable. and then you're in he for an expert in maritime law says the case of the san jose could set a precedent for future disputes over sunken treasure get bored of all of the countries involved could set up an example of a historic cultural bellows that would serve the world in similar situations all with so much at stake over the ownership of the treasure recovery efforts have been put on hold indefinitely leaving some huge of wonder how much longer will have to wait before the treasure of the san jose surface is again. a little dizzy to get the hint. i'm sam is a van with a look at the headlines here in al-jazeera now at least twenty five people have been killed or many more injured after a highway bridge collapsed in the italian city of genoa it came down during heavy rains sending vehicles plunging around one hundred meters to the ground rescue

workers are still searching for survivors turkey has increased tariffs on some u.s. imports and its president is calling for a boycott of u.s. electronic products roger tired of the one says it's in retaliation for an economic attack on this country on friday washington impose new sanctions after the detention of a u.s. pastor in turkey the turkish lira has fallen more than forty five percent against the u.s. dollar this year the crisis in turkey is spreading to other emerging markets in india the rupee is fall into a record low seventy against the us dollar currencies in argentina south africa and mexico have also been hit a new report suggests there could be thousands of victims of child sex abuse in pennsylvania in the u.s. is the largest and most comprehensive report into abuse by catholic priests in the state it details allegations of assaults on minors by so-called predator priests over

a seventy year period. you see church officials routinely and purposefully described the abuse as forced play and wrestling and inappropriate contact it was none of those things it was child sexual abuse including rape. committed by grown men priests against children. above all else be protected their institution at all cost police in london treating a crash outside the british parliament as a terror incident three people were injured when a man drove through pedestrians and cyclists before ramming into security barriers the suspect is a twenty nine year old british citizen. those are your headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after the listening post and you can keep up to date with all

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media so far so good but how real will the reforms prove to be a bangladeshi photo journalist appears on al-jazeera speaks his mind and ends up behind bars i mean this is not and the saudi twitter account that crashed and burned after evoking memories of nine eleven we began with a question on the rise of far right anti immigration movements in countries like great britain do such movements and the support that they attract drive media coverage or is it the other way around do the news media through excessive coverage help manufacture that support take tommy robinson who calls himself a warrior for freedom of speech on issues such as migration when he rails against the supposedly creeping influence of political islam in u.k. society that resonates with audiences but what came first his newfound popularity or the coverage of a recent. academic study suggests that right wing anti immigration political parties such as the u.k. independence party ukip oh more of their success to the news media than they would

care to admit that news outlets do far more than just reflect current events this is a story about british politics but the issue at the core of the relationship between the far right and the news media is a dynamic at play in many countries around the globe our starting point this week is a long. time in office not intervening to the leader of all things and after the entire process later if they know. when it comes to figures like tommy robinson the question isn't just when to come for him or high to take any responsibility for that speech you think that i'm asking do you think that i'm asking you the larger question is why when you scroll back to the beginning when robinson had no tangible following did the british media cover him and provide him with the platform in the first place the intuitive idea that i think

a lot of people have in their minds many journalists included is that if you see some sort of idea or actor that you find troubling let's say with respect to the public interest you want to go and report on that you want to say look this might be a problem the counterintuitive model which is i think the one that actually holds in reality it is that it actually ends up being a feeding frenzy a lot to say nothing to you that boosts these figures further and further into public support. this is what right wing extremism in the u.k. looks like fourteen months ago a man plowed his van into a crowd near a mosque in one there were nine casualties and one fatality at the trial the court was told that the driver darren osborn wanted to kill most was a follower of tommy robinson and had been in email contact with him just days before the attack. british broadcasters saw nothing wrong with the interview rahman's right giving him air time the day after the attack and began this once the

trial concluded with tommy robinson who has repeatedly been bailed out by the media darlings born mode a bunch of pedestrians down for no other reason than that here soon they were muslims he did so inspired by tom robinson's ideology all the story would bind almost all over temporarily how muslim immigration to the country this very day after the murder they put him on good morning britain the day after donald's point goes to jail that brain tony robinson ought to be pursuing newsnight and give him a chance to represent himself as a martyr we had free terrorist attacks it was in quick succession and modern talk about them is about it was in fact what is man. i want to put on the fact that i would put the charities every single time the media has given him. and made a politician out of somebody who was essentially a far right football hooligan one of the most dangerous games that the political and political liberals and the left have played over recent years as being to call

for the banning of views they don't like because. all of this is the cult she was underestimation of our fellow citizens who we assume are going to be easily easily turned into racists easily influenced i think that's a very. dangerous content us that way of treating all fellow citizens. lots of people talk about media coverage anecdotally impressionistic but relatively few quantify it and analyze it an academic study published last week in the british journal of political science examined more than a decade's worth of coverage by british newspapers of u.k. the u.k. independence party and immigration party which fought for britain's departure from the european union the authors looked at the. chicken and egg question of the what came first was it you keeps the rise in popularity followed by increased coverage

or did the press coverage of the party preceded surgeon support and have a causal effect we found that media coverage is a predictor of public support in future periods but we did not find any evidence that public support is a predictor of media coverage so there appears to be a unique causal effect between media coverage of these far right wing populist parties and their rise in electoral significance i don't think that the media should be in the business of making moral decisions about what kind of voices are heard on the media i don't in the media is to blame for the rights of thomas robinson told me robinson has opinions which should be. discussed and that's not the same as saying even those opinions depriving him of mainstream media coverage just means that he gains a certain mystique as though his ideas is so frightening that you have to keep them

out of the mainstream the british media have been creating a space for whatever reason for the far right well in advance of any of the times of support for them to justify it by saying but if we put them on television will expose them and what turns out to be the case is that journalists know very little about the history of the far right just as the history of the individuals they are all dealing with about their politics or even about how to engage with or challenge their most offensive claims in the end they end up being played by the far right. one of the broadcasters that interviewed tommy robinson over the baron osborne case last year and has since given airtime to his supporters is the b.b.c. this is how it explained its decision to provide them with a bloc that there will be some politicians public figures who are views. featured in our news coverage that some of our audience will find unpalatable we wouldn't however censor a political viewpoint as we have a duty to create

a platform where as wide a range of voices as possible can be heard we aim to analyze and scrutinize the facts so our audience can make up their own minds b.b.c. wasn't the only british media outlet we approached with questions we also wrote to i.t.v. and the radio station l b c neither chose to comment they've let their work speak for itself and generally journalists are relatively inhospitable to extreme fringe far right wing populist viewpoints but once those actors do force themselves onto the agenda then there's a feeding frenzy that occurs so that's how i think media and journalists specifically can produce a reality that they actually don't really want to see. with the governing conservatives divided over the opposition labor party split over the same issue and the mostly pro brecht's a tabloid press still pushing its agenda british politics is already in

a messy state and when the broadcast media even with the best of journalistic intentions put the likes of tommy robinson on their air so that they can grill him they find they cannot do so without giving him the exposure he craves they say the road to hell is paved with good intentions that is where britain seems to find itself today and the news media aren't just reporting the story many times they have a hand in driving it. we're discussing other media stories that are on our radar this week with one of our producers joe had a hoax joe in bangladesh a photo journalist has been arrested over comments that he made on this channel what specifically has been charged with well the charges of giving false information now. police arrested shockey due for that and for allegedly making productive comments on dizzier during an interview about protests that have flared

up across the country over how dangerous the roads are i saw the bullies going. on students that a lawyer was charged under is the information and communications technology acts or i.c.t. and this is a statute that media right groups say is often used to target journalists now along criticise the excessive use of force by police and protesters and set the demonstrations are motivated by factors larger than road safety alone among those factors he says the government's gagging of the media and corruption and alarm isn't the only bangladeshi journalist who's paid a price after covering these protests far from it and supporters of the government and the prime minister cheikh hasina have reportedly attacked more than a dozen reporters covering the protests beating them and their equipment and asked for the i.c.t. at least twenty five journalists and several hundred bloggers and facebook users were prosecuted on the last year alone over online content alleged to be defamatory

or blasphemous that a government has promised to change that law but is yet to deliver moving on now to a story we did a few months back hungary and the ever tightening grip that the government there has on the media and now one of the few remaining critical news outlets has had a change of editorial too and how did that happen exactly well richard the outlet is hair t.v. which is now being bought out by as an ally of prime minister viktor orban and his ruling party now here t.v.'s former owner at lie osu meat used to be close to the president as well but ever since relations turned sour three years ago he's become outspoken and critical which was reflected in here t.v. content now just hours after the takeover of the channel's new owners shut down here is leading news program and fired several senior employees various other journalists resigned in. protests and i spoke with one of them bihari a former reporter at the channel i mean you don't know when your media outlets are

going to have. change of ownership or are going to have a change of voice or going to have a change of structure that's a real structure a new plans new values and you have your own reality use you trying to stick to them but it's really really really hard to stick to your ground use and have a job actually hungary if you work in the media now now this transaction the sale of here t.v. it's part of a larger trend isn't that media outlets that are critical suddenly ending up in the hands of or banned supporters it is indeed and we've been tracking it in the past few years there have been a number of new media owners in hungary or been associates like and divina we have patina and lorraine's measure arrows now here is what bihari had to say about this a lot of televisions a lot of. other outlets new sport.