he and al jazeera strongly denied the allegations and the network continues to demand his release greek police fired tear gas of them strangers in the northern city of thessaloniki thousands of greeks are protesting against the recent diplomatic agreement aiming to end the quarter century name route with neighboring macedonia the deal would see the balkan state renamed north. police estimated around fifteen thousand people were in the crowd the protest coincides with a visit to the city by the prime minister alexey pressed to unveil his post bail out economic strategy for greece serbia's president has pledged to continue talks with kossovo to resolve the long running dispute between the two alexander of which was speaking at the start of a two day visit the cost of zero a day after he and this cause of our counterpart called off a face to face meeting in brussels at the last minute possible that cleared independence from serbia ten years ago

a move not recognised by belgrade the two men were due to discuss a land swap under which the priscilla valley in southern serbia where the population is mostly ethnic albanian would join costs of all and then in return serbia would take control over the majority serb area of kosovo north of the river are. i will always look for a solution so we get the most and lose the least how will this work out in the future i don't know there's a long way ahead of us there will be a lot of obstacles on that road i only hope that we will be able to preserve the peace and that in future we will have more understanding for each other. so to come in this half hour a new york times report claims the ministration secret venezuelan officials to the . president.

it was raining in the crane it's raining in norway and it's raining in spain is the three areas where the rain is likely to persist and become noticeable satellite sort of proves the point when focusing on the ukraine first the circulation is going to move up through here and then back down again i think of the next day or two so that would just be wondering big storms likewise in space the showers and thunderstorms we wander around the eastern side up towards the peyronie's and affecting north africa and all this time above my head you still see wind and rain go across to norway denmark and sweden pretty standard look to the end of summer or the start of off of the most part many places are enjoying the high twenty's and the sunshine for the north african coast and no surprise you go to potential for

significant showers in morocco maybe touching north korea the temps we brought down as a result of that still twenty five in robot but still remarkably thirty five up in tunis not much different further east either the recent big showers and say hello a bit rare and i have but in west africa we have seen some pretty large rainfall totals these are probably things we could use to the waves they develop maybe some where the ethiopian are as they go out over west africa i mean benchley turned into hurricanes. the occupied west bank city of hebron is on the front line of the arab israeli conflict you don't really care after a while palestinians don't like it i didn't like it but you just don't care and no one is standing up to israeli pressure to sell his house for an unimaginable figure these people if you believe that. al-jazeera world tells the story of the house

that's a symbol of resistance to continuing occupation the hundred million dollar home. welcome back here's a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera syria and russian warplanes have carried out some of the heaviest bombardment yet the rebel positions in southern province activists and rescue workers reported more than sixty years strikes iraqi security forces are enforcing a curfew on the southern city of basra after a week of violent protests iraq's parliament has held an emergency session to work out how to contain the protests and then egyptian court has sentenced seventy five

people to death and hundreds more to prison terms over the two thousand and thirteen square sit in a total of seven hundred thirty nine defendants were charged in the mass trial. now the latest attempt to resolve the yemen war has failed to get off the ground the official government delegation is leaving the swiss city of geneva after waiting two days for who the rebel representatives to join the u.n. brokered talks there who they say didn't fly to switzerland because of safety concerns they have a change or has more now from geneva. the collapse of the peace process even before it had begun was a setback to all the efforts of the un special envoy to the yemen but he refused to be discouraged so for me the important. aspect of these last three days is we have started consultations. the process of beginning.

the road back to peace has started not quite in the way that we would have wanted. but it is begun i should be going to moscow during the course of the next few days and hopefully all to solve as well of course to discuss with. before they left a member of the yemen government delegation told me they would now force to the negotiating table that target the port offered data a vital lifeline for their economy and humanitarian supplies the process in geneva instead of building trust has exposed the gulf that separates the two warring parties and a new rift has opened with the united nations if you can the amount of out there every time these talks face a wall of irresponsibility by these coup plotters these groups who are exploiting international efforts of the yemeni government to reach peace they are being totally irresponsible the special envoy was unfortunately accommodating the coup

plotters and giving them excuses it was a long goodbye for the yemeni government still a geisha and heading home to a war wracked country with little immediate hopes of peace david chaytor al jazeera geneva. the united states has cut one of its last remaining aid programs for palestinians this time affecting cancer patients and children with serious conditions the state department has withdrawn twenty five million dollars earmarked for the east jerusalem hospital network a group of six hospitals providing treatment not available in the west bank and gaza two weeks ago the trumpet ministration cancelled a two hundred million dollars of aid to fund programs in the palestinian territories then last week it withdrew all two hundred ninety million dollars of this year's us funding to which helps palestinian refugees in the west bank gaza and neighboring countries it had already withheld sixty five million dollars from the un agency in january in the last few months countries including india of the

united arab emirates and saudi arabia have stepped up giving a total of two hundred thirty eight million dollars in extra funding to offset the u.s. cuts but the agency still faces a cash crisis while leading them more is the c.e.o. of a ghost of victoria hospital and secretary for the east jerusalem hospitals network he told our jazeera patients shouldn't be caught in the middle of political issues i cannot describe such a decision and its effect on our people in jerusalem we are the only entity in the whole of british band that provides services that are not available elsewhere including radiation therapy to cancer patients including open heart surgeries to children because of those good including. four children at the goose that would go to this is immense this is of catastrophic mitchell i mean you don't use humans as

elements for food negotiations for for. me this is not a low but this is this is inhumane this is very cruel and now i use this as a platform for the international community to intervene we cannot do. you the lives of patients are at risk i'm talking about patients who are severely sick who are about to die who have you know who already put so much effort. because of accessibility issues because of barriers it is checkpoints in gaza and other sick points i don't do is back and now come up with the with the issue of finances this is not acceptable by any standards the new york times is reporting that the trumpet ministration secretly met venezuelan military officials to discuss a coup attempt against president nicolas maduro the news paper citing unnamed u.s. officials and a former venezuelan military commander said the coup plans were discussed but

stalled on trump has been critical of underwood oh and his handling of the crisis which has led to a severe shortage of food and medical supplies in venezuela to get more now from jordan in washington d.c. well i guess another leak to the new york times beyond that what more does this article say. well barbara this article also indicates that the discussions were going on since last year just about a year ago and that it was felt that because of the political situation inside venezuela that the least that the united states government could do would be to at least listen to those members those disaffected members of the venezuelan military to actually try to get a better sense of what the actual political crisis looked like in that country the instructions according to the new york times for a u.s. diplomat was to basically listen and take notes not offer anything proactively to

help the members of the venezuelan military who were apparently thinking about overthrowing president nicolas maduro adventure the decision according to the new york times was for the trumpet ministration to not get involved but to try to be as aware as possible of events on the ground and it's rather difficult because the u.s. and venezuela have not exchanged ambassadors for the past several years and so that does make any sort of diplomatic discussion at least with the government about its issues that much more difficult to conduct and also and how surprising would it be for the u.s. to even have these talks about a potential coup. well it does raise eyebrows because of the us is a long history of interfering in the political affairs of many countries in latin america going back to nine hundred fifty three with the coup in guatemala we of

course had the aborted bay of pigs invasion in one nine hundred sixty one to our try to overthrow the government we had the u.s. support for the military hold in argentina and in brazil in the one nine hundred sixty s. there is a widely assumed that the cia was behind the one nine hundred seventy three which to post some of the our young day as the president of chile and then to the us supporting the governor general pinochet as president until he was deposed in one thousand nine hundred nine and then of course the more recent invasions which removed manuel noriega in panama as well as the invasion of grenada in one nine hundred eighty three a stance of bling to rescue medical students but that was seen as an effort to try to destabilize the government of president bush up so it's been very controversial for the u.s. to be that intimately involved in in the affairs of countries to the south and so

the idea that the u.s. would even be listening to people who are talking about overthrowing a democratically elected government would give many people pause but there are some diplomats quoted in the new york times article who say that even though the u.s. should not be taking sides and certainly is precluded from removing leaders of other countries by u.s. law that the u.s. does have an obligation to listen to ask questions and to try to get a better sense of what the situation is in a country that is one of the u.s. is neighbors jordan with the latest from washington rolls thank you. people have been protesting in towns and cities around the world to urge world leaders to take more action against climate change this is the scene in paris where thousands rallied earlier it's part of an international day of protests timed to coincide with key united nations climate talks in bangkok talks aimed to create

a draft legal framework for limiting the global temperature rise which can be presented at the final round of discussions in poland in the sumburgh but the discussions have stalled in a rout over how poor countries access funding to fight climate change well meanwhile in san francisco a dutch team is launching a giant plastic collector to clean up the sea the pacific ocean between california and hawaii is one of the most polluted areas in the world containing as many as two trillion pieces of plastic waste that a special six hundred metre long system will scoop up bits of floating plastic and act as an artificial coastline critics though say it targets only the small amount of plastic on the surface and more should be done to stop the rubbish from actually entering the ocean political parties in sweden have been holding their final rallies as companion draws to a close ahead of sunday's general election the prime minister and leader of the

social democrats stefan loaf and appealed to voters to unite against the rise of far right groups warning that dark forces are mobilizing the country is renowned for its inclusive policies but many voters are worried that immigrants are putting housing health care and welfare services under increasing pressure. well the rising and the immigration feeling is also left many swedes worried about the future of their country as jonah hold reports now from stockholm. is no longer quite sure what country she's living in i felt. he made me feel very small. born in sweden to muslim parents who've lived here for decades far came face to face with unfamiliar prejudice when a job interview was terminated after she refused on religious grounds to shake the hand of her male interviewer she won her subsequent claim to the swedish labor court if you have asked me this in

a few years ago my answer would be that they are very accepting but. i am not sure i would answer the same thing because. i think that race is people that. are sewing themselves more and they are encouraged to sell themselves more so people are not afraid to say i hate you because you're for us therefore i hate you because you're wearing the far right party that speaks for them that is called the sweden democrats with neo nazi roots and its image cleaned up to appeal more broadly now this once fringe movement is poised to play in the political landscape as sweden's second largest priority i think that what we're seeing is a sweden this is very important to kind of strive for our classical is as we say it's swedish values and it has to do with. equal we have a gender equality that is very very strong in comparison with other faiths this is

about keeping sweden swedish that's an additional thing sweden together it's a it's a message resonating widely in what used to be one of europe's most open and free thinking societies expose magazine sweden is leading investigative journal has long charted the rise of the far right and the catalyst of the of naziism which is this weekend yeah i mean the party has been through some. changes of course but there is a sort of a core are a radical nationalism a quest for one general in sweden and placing immigrants and minorities at the center of everything that's wrong in society the relentless rise of the right here the sweden democrats winning five percent of the vote in twenty ten almost thirteen percent four years later and this time perhaps one in five votes twenty percent tells the story of a country changing fast reacting in part to the huge influx of refugees since

twenty fifteen of which some people nostalgic for a simpler time are more culturally homogenously past a lot of people are telling their to the swedish society but i'm weren't. there so what. a question of identity that lies at the heart of this election. much more on those elections in sweden everything else that we have been covering here on the program on the web site the address on your screens al-jazeera dot com . and now a reminder of our main headlines syrian and russian warplanes have carried out some of the heaviest bombardments yet of rebel positions in southern province activists and rescue workers reported more than sixty airstrikes well helicopters dropped barrel bombs syria's military is threatening a major offensive to retake it which is the last froebel stronghold in the country

iraqi security forces are enforcing a curfew on the southern city of basra after a week of violent protests iraq's parliament held an emergency session to work out how to contain the protests fueled by anger over a lack of work and basic services the prime minister high there are led by the urged members of parliament to help prevent on confrontations. we should draw a distinction between the political factors on the other issues namely security and services unfortunately events have developed rapidly since the parliament's first session of monday last as a result of the escalating political wrangling which if turned into armed confrontations will be gravely dangerous we are keen on steering away from plunging into such danger now the situation in basra is owner control human rights groups have condemned the egypt sentencing of hundreds of people charged over a two thousand and thirteen pro muslim brotherhood sit in in cairo

a total of seven hundred thirty nine defendants were charged in the mass trial the court confirmed the death sentences on seventy five people while forty five more were given life terms of prison square protests lasted six weeks and then did with the killing of around nine hundred protesters by security forces. boko haram gunmen have retaken control of the town of northeast borno state some residents had only returned to the town in june encouraged by the nigerian government they fled in two thousand and fifteen after one of the deadliest encounters in the fight against boko haram protesters have been gathering in towns and cities around the world to urge leaders to take action against climate change thousands rallied in the center of paris earlier on saturday as part of an international day of protests timed to coincide with key united nations climate talks in. well that's it for the news for now i'm going to be back in just a few minutes with this week's listening post stay with us.

a court has set churcher once for four years to honor. our. strike. on archie i say. hello i'm barbara sarah and you're the listening post here are some of the stories we're covering this week the sentencing of two voters journalists in myanmar and the failed promise of media reform there there's a voice from inside the house the white house and it's speaking through the pages

of the new york times the magic and mystery of the british royal family and the role of the media in spinning the fairy tale plus putin the renascence man or at least that's how the russian state t.v. sees him police in myanmar admitted there had been a set up the burmese military said the massacre that was reported did indeed happen and yet after eight months in prison to reuters journalists wallow in and shot or have been sentenced by a burma's judge at the seven years in jail their crime obtaining secrets that documents as they research the killing and mass burial of ten range of men in two thousand and seventeen the story of the ethnic violence against minority range of muslims in myanmar has been in the headlines for over a year now international media had access into the country severely restricted and much of the local media have taken the government and military side over the treatment of the range up amid stories of military orcas. rated violence recently

confirmed in the united nations report the trial and sentencing of the reuters reporter has captured the tension inside and outside me and are they listening posts meenakshi ravi now on the case of waldo and shot and the very high price journalists in myanmar pay if they report unfavorably on them in the tree. outside a courtroom in yangon myanmar and on the morning of the third of september journalists awaited news on the sentencing of two burmese reporters one the one and. the detained down seven years in prison and just as he had done so many times in the eight months before that the two men came out to declare their innocence and get into the trial. and were hauled into

a police car to be driven away to jail. which is asia editor kevin connolly he was inside the courtroom when the judge issued the sentence against his colleagues we had been prepared intellectually prepared when there was possible. that the judge would rule as it did. but nothing can prepare you for confronting. injustice as it happens the very hard artwork that for the families of all of us for both young families we've been following this case from the beginning that we already know that there will be and that it is actually but that it's i mean it is it is not very good but in this moment but it is not surprised us because we've been through this situation for a long. long and rested in december last year a blues policeman admitted in court that the man had been entrapped and he had been

researching a story about the. mass killing and burial of tendril hinge a man in myanmar is northern rock and state the police offered them a key secret state documents that would corroborate their findings the documents would in fact not secret the situation was a setup and the reporters were arrested and charged under the official secrets act a law that has been on the books since one thousand twenty three when myanmar was called burma and was a colony of great britain these two voices journalists were one of the few journalists that were actually doing investigative work into the situation in rakhine state they were sentenced under a colonial era law at the official secrets act but other repressive laws are extensively used as well the unlawful associations act peaceful assembly act the penal code as a whole raft of repressive laws these two generally is reduce their freedom and their their life to expose the genocide exposed the highest crime that was quite

common to bedlam there is military and this is the biggest threat for them for the military but they will never tolerate this. government has a unique structure unlike any government anywhere else in two thousand and sixteen entente suchi the political activist who had been kept under house arrest for fifteen years during the military dictatorship took up the post of state councilor akin to a prime ministership it was a momentous event i'm a historic day for the better people around the world men must transition from a military to civilian government was heralded as the start of an era of democracy for the country. and the reality was never quite so simple twenty five percent of parliamentary seats are reserved for the burmese military and as mandated by the constitution three key ministries of home affairs defense and border affairs are headed by serving members of the military franson suchi and her m.a.d.

party being in government has effectively made. working alongside and often in subservience to her former captors of his a c.t. and her government are limited in their powers because the military are still very much in control the military control the police and much of the judiciary so i think cities government cannot stop the police arresting journalists or other human rights activists however they do have the power to stop prosecutions going forward and also under presidential amnesties they can release political prisoners but more importantly they have the power to repel these repressive laws that are being used but we've seen none of those actions by by the government in terms of and there to intrude on the fifty there is a manifesto that is but the problem is about media you know not done yet where we are very disappointed about it so media freedom is not brought our country. to

putting in local burmese outlets on the violence against the injured people has been poor it isn't just intimidation censorship or lack of access that has affected the coverage many burmese have grown up hearing political and social rhetoric against it. calling them vermin illegals and a threat to the buddhist majority a lot of this language has been reproduced in the country's media over the years. and yet when it has come to the case of more known and choice of journalists in myanmar have largely shown solidarity this case has set on what being precedent and they can see the danger that faces them on if you look at this media the majority of them the tool of the propaganda machine of the military and they have bred so many hatred and misinformation about the range of minorities but this to me generally is when they were arrested medias to speak out but they are not taking

these two journalists expose. the crime of the military but actually this media is focusing more on the press freedom. whether media in myanmar choose to report on it or not the role of the country's military in the killings and forcing out of revenge of muslims has been documented in international reporting the un team said as two months that the military's scorched earth tactics have led to terms than thousand deaths a conservative and most damningly in a recent report published by the united nations human rights council. report states that the burmese commander in chief klein and his deputies bear quote greatest responsibility for the ethnic cleansing of range of people. the government declined our request for a statement on one case in a press conference however a spokesperson said the sentencing of the journalists was the clearest indication of an independent and

a functioning judiciary. they had been hopes that aung san suu kyi would use one of the few powers she does hold to grant a pardon to the reporters. that didn't happen i mean a media landscape already intimidated and controlled by the state there's now a chill more intense than it has been in the past few years whatever happens now nothing can make up for. eight months while all trolls have been separated from their families deprived of their freedom and honorable to work as journalists but it is important now. that the injustice of this conviction but the prison sentence be overturned it does send a very chilling message to the media and whether they are released and amnesty later or not a very strong message given about reporting on issues connected to the military issues relating to ranger and the situation in rakhine state unfortunately the

verdict if anything provides. to those. in the security forces who sought to cover up evidence of a real crime both paper to dissipate it in the maps killing her sons the ten year prison term the two men who exposed the killing were sentenced to seven years that's an injustice by any standard and it can't be allowed stand. for discussing other media stories that are on our radar today with one of our producers that nothing there's been a lot of concern over a new social media law that's been approved by the egyptian president of the five why the concern barbara this you know give egypt through print council for media regulation the power to monitor any social media account web fly or blog with more than five thousand photos which effectively means a personal choice of page can be regulated in the same way as a media outlet no think that pages or websites that publish fake news or inciting

material will be friended or blocked and of course that's a clause that can be interpreted very widely indeed a mistake international says it gives the state new total control over print online and broadcast media and i spoke with egyptian journalist i'm a handy for about the law this new media law is nothing short of social political a six year and four egyptian citizens it seeks to not only limit and suppress any journalistic. means of expression but it does so for citizen journalists more so than anything else you may not even think of yourself as a citizen journalist but you will be equally arrested if the government deems what you say to be inaccurate fake news or the worst case of all scenarios a threat to national security. so tyke this law specifically targets so-called fake news online and that's a big issue for the egyptian government is

a president seething is blamed fake news for spreading chaos and instability in egypt and july remove from terrorism loss of hope and feelings of frustration or these were in a ground network and that one objective only one objective and that is to move people to destroy that country of course accusing jonathan activists of spreading false rumors in egypt is not new but it is ironic because it's the government that is often accused by critics of spreading fake news and this information i'm going to need for told me that couple to have on the north in egypt have the effect of shutting down any discourse that isn't government approved most every media law whether it be the recent recent media law just confirm or the cyber crimes law which preceded it or the terrorism law which preceded it by several years to do one thing and that is maximize and amplify government line and doctrine

via of variety of media whether it be television radio newspapers digital or otherwise while at the very same time suffocating discourse that is alter it. and. this new media law is just the latest measure in what has been months of tightening restrictions on media in egypt and of course numerous german activists and academics continue to be arrested and jailed one of al-jazeera is journalist mahmoud sane has been imprisoned in egypt for more than fix hundred twenty days now without trial that's right without trial and without charge and the network does continue to call for his release it's take a look at another story now the new york times took what it called a rare step in the past week by publishing a pretty explosive anonymous opinion op ed piece there it is tell us why it's so explosive when barbara it's highly unusual for

a newspaper to publish an anonymous op ed and in this case the piece was written by a senior white house official who says there are members of the administration working to quote frustrate parts of parts of trying its agenda and his worst intonations in the time that touched a note to the op ed saying that the rights of identity had to be protected and that publishing the piece anonymously was the only way to deliver an important perspective to that reaches the entire process was reportedly conducted through the secretive that even the tongues is news department had no idea that the piece was about to be published and president trump and its supporters have long said that there are two forces in america working to undermine his presidency one of the news media the other is the so-called deep state so you can imagine their reaction to this article trump questions on twitter whether the guts list white house official even exists and if so said that the failing new york times should turn them over to the government tarik thank you. the royal wedding that took place in london four

months ago played like a scene from a fairy tale and the media lapped it up events like these play a part in the british royal family's ongoing effort to rebrand itself like prince william's wedding to kate middleton back in two thousand and eleven that televised not shows of prince harry and meghan markle have helped buckingham palace repair its public image which was badly damaged following the death of princess diana in one thousand nine hundred seven but what about the role played by the intermediaries journalists in this royal rebrand well the pomp and pageantry might mean little more than ratings and clicks for international media but britain's force estate is supposed to hold the country's elite to account and they don't come much more elite of privilege than the house of windsor funded by the taxpayer but is the royal reporting british audiences usually get long on deference and shorten scrutiny the listening posts than you're touring now on the relationship between

media and monarchy in the united kingdom. on the nineteenth of may the british royal family delivered the kind of global media spectacle but only it seems capable of was one that featured in news cycles continents how exciting area went for anything charming town twenty i don't mind and it's really teaching trial with viewing figures in the hundreds of millions it's little wonder that the world's media were out in force as a journalist covering it you felt that you were covering an iconic moment in royal history well that that is some dress age and i'm still sort of just absorbing that some of those prime positions that were taken by the b.b.c. a.b.c. and we do have

a price you will sponsor some the other american networks were costing in the region all six figures every day that tells you that the networks clearly thought they were going to get a return for their money you know this is bigger than any reality t.v. show you can achieve and this is real money. who. you know officially a republican but they can't help the coverage because they worry that they will be the only news paper without any coverage that's a huge lot of media attention on there and the same time you don't get it in journalism you don't get people carrying exactly how much the wedding costs and why we're still funding it oh i think the problem if you will for people who don't like to talk about numbers. if questioning the cost of royal events can feel a touch with the british journalists that's not the case for their audiences according to a u.k. opinion poll taken days before the wedding the majority of britons opposed any public money being spent on. the royal family says it paid for the private banks of

the ceremony. they won't specify whether that money came from their private wealth estimated at more than a billion dollars or from the annual sovereign grant they received from the government one hundred five million dollars this year. however we do know that the bill for security report to be as much as forty million dollars was picked up by taxpayers britain's media covering a layer of austerity but usually quick to query public spending but when it involves royalty they can seem cheeriest the court should more questions have been asked about costs of security maybe but there is a tendency to avoid what we call sour grapes once it became clear that parliament did not vote in an extra five million pounds to pay for the wedding i think the broadcasters accepted that the funding wealth and if the royal family isn't for that it's much more attention so what we've seen in britain in recent years is advice stop the contrast of inequality so we've seen

a huge rise in the number of people using food banks public services education is a massive cuts. in the same period is finances increasing booking and palast and be awarded and it was over three hundred million man evasions so it's about making those connections to the politics that are going on in my britain. over the centuries the british monarchy has lost many of its formal powers but the sovereign and the heir to the throne do still inherit such a unique privileges tax on the profits from there are states is voluntary and doesn't have to be disclosed then there are the queen's weekly confidential meetings with the prime minister which allow her to air her views on government policy. the queen and prince charles also receive all memoranda from the cabinet and have the right to veto new laws that affect them and as a guardian freedom of information request revealed prince charles lobbies ministers

in private meetings and letter. are you still writing to a minister that like. any other involving prostitution or violence right exactly like that however the jury in the guardian's investigation the government passed a law granting the queen and prince charles an absolute exemption from the freedom of information act making it's even harder for journalists to scrutinize the monarchy instead britain's royal correspondents tend to cover the fluffiest side of royalty i think probably we can get a little preoccupied with a flippant for example if you want a royal engagement you know you're job is to relay what's going on it may well be a visit to the teenage cancer trust or an aids related charity for prince harry's work and you know you often finding that your top line in the story is wow make a stepped out of this but again there is an issue here about taking members of the royal family and holding them directly to account as you might with

a politician or a business person or whatever should i be shouting a question of course as a journalist the answer is yes i should tradition protocol our d.n.a. with the royal family determines the by and large we don't we're timid feeble lot no doubt about that we ought to be bold. if the commercial value of oil news explains how it gets reported by britain's privately owned outlets that still leaves the public broadcaster the british broadcasting corporation the b.b.c.'s constitution the royal charter says its primary mission is to provide impartial news but when it comes to royalty critics say the b.b.c.'s coverage for seriously short the b.b.c. constantly talk about balance when it comes to everything else that politics economics climate change that when it comes to our family simply isn't there a thoughtful leader the sensible girl and the mischievous redhead doing things with

that unaffected style which has become the. feels unsafe in many ways. for the royals every single time there's a royal birth they will be outside the hospital waiting just filling time. to really go on this news coming in to us that there could be an announcement soon. public have to end its coverage without any place and i mean this is batman's motorbike which was altogether too much for william to keep by kill himself to resist the b.b.c. completely accepted that the state should be deferential. we put this criticism to the b.b.c. the press office replied that the b.b.c. applies to impartiality to all of our output including our coverage of the u.k. monarchy there's a saying about the british press that they're either at your throat or at your feet and in the nineteen eighties and nineties the relationship between media and

monarchy was more hostile headlines like these were common as britain's tabloids ruthlessly exploited while private lives. but the death of princess diana in one thousand nine hundred seven marked a turning point newspaper accused of hounding diana to. promise to keep a more respectful distance. as for the royal household its response to the crisis was seen as cold hearted faced with a dramatic drop in popularity buckingham palace began its rebranding with a little help from the professionals we can see in the royal household and is a set of individuals particularly in their world communications office who have previously worked very small to corporations who have particular particular knowledge about how to package royal news in particular ways that will work for the news cycle to remake the british monarchy more much and as more cosmopolitan as more multicultural and using the tools that those young girls offer them i think

the younger generation really understand if they show themselves be a bit more down to earth by working in the army for or by going to if they play the game that the media will play along with them. the success of the monarchy is modernization is on denial it's those covering them who seem stuck in the park in eight hundred sixty seven want to editor of the economist wrote above all things are royalty is to be reverenced and if you begin to poke about it you cannot reference it we must not let in daylight upon magic poking about is the job of germany. but for some british journalists the magic of loyalty may be still cost. if you got a little way that there is no question we got away. and finally russian state owned c a one t.v. channel launched a new show this past week called moscow kremlin putin in the first episode an hour

long affair the shows that famously pro kremlin host of late they were solely off aired footage of president putin trekking up a hillside cruising on a boat and speaking with schoolkids he even had the president's press secretary dimitri of peskov on so. but for an interview about putin's love for children and the secrets to his quote beautiful physique rossiya one hasn't explained the rationale for this show it probably isn't a coincidence that it comes at a time of protests over the raising of age limits for pensioners recent polls in russia have also shown putin's numbers slipping and the need of a we're leaving you with some clips from the premier of moscow kremlin putin and we'll see you next time here at the listening post. british if you would you. need to need to do.

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jazeera. every. hello there i'm barbara starr in london these are the top stories on al-jazeera syria and russia have carried out some of their heaviest bombardments yet of rebel positions in southern province activists and rescue workers reported more than sixty airstrikes with helicopters dropping barrel it comes a day after the leaders of russia and iran backed the military campaign to take back the province the spite turkey's president pushing though for

a cease fire stephanie decker has the latest now from antakya on the turkey syria border. the intensity of a barrel bomb attack captured by an al jazeera news team. the uncertainty over where the bombs were. to barrel bombs hit this village in the southern edge of the countryside. and there were no casualties. russian jets also bombarded the area throughout the day. all the strikes have focused on the southern countryside of the province and civil defense rescue volunteers also known as the white helmets search for survivors. it's been the most intense escalation since airstrikes resumed on it live on choose day after over three weeks of silent skies there were civilian casualties on both sides this is an area under government control syrian state media blaming the

rebels for shelling the area. the bombing and also artillery fire started less than twenty four hours off that the leaders of iran russia and turkey met in takraw in turkey osce for a cease fire and russia refused all the escalation problem to turkey's foreign minister to make an unscheduled statement on saturday. i'm is to stop these attacks that they would happen we've made great if it's to separate radical groups from moderate ones and level but those terrorist groups would then now were brought there by the syrian government they were brought there from aleppo homes hama used in the corridors that were opened up the rickly by those who are attacking them now . a hospital was also hit according to local activists this is the sham hospital in southern italy built into the mountain to protect it from air strikes. all the areas hit on saturday were in the countryside in sparsely populated regions

and the fear is if the military campaign starts to target the cities in areas that are far more heavily populated turkey's foreign minister says up to two million civilians could flee towards its border and says it continues to pursue political avenues behind the scenes to prevent a full on military escalation stephanie decker al-jazeera. iraq's parliament has held an emergency session to try to contain protests in the city of basra a government imposed curfew is now in place and security forces are on the streets following a week of violent protests people are angry at the government for failing to provide work and basic services or than a dozen major buildings have been attacked including the iranian consulate which was set on fire on friday night earlier airport was targeted by rocket fire at least twelve people have died in the inspirations since monday. human rights groups

have condemned the egypt sentencing of hundreds of people charged over a two thousand and thirteen pro muslim brotherhood sit in in cairo a total of seven hundred thirty nine defendants were charged in the mass trial the court confirmed the death sentences on seventy five people while forty five more were given life terms in prison a robust square protests lasted six weeks and ended with the killing of around nine hundred protesters by security forces but quite armed gunmen have retaken control of the town of ne borno state some residents are only just returned to the town in june encouraged to do so by the nigerian government they fled in two thousand and fifteen after one of the deadliest encounters in the fight against boko haram protesters have been gathering in towns and cities around the world to urge leaders to take action against climate change it's part of an international day of protests time to coincide with king a u.n. climate talks in bangkok that's it al jazeera woke next.

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father and they tell him that we are from that man who made these he send us to you do you buy your. my father tell him that there is that they're going to order. six moon guards and i want you and afford they tell him there are two million with it so that much more the same no it's. not a good price and a lot of my. house and shop cost a lot. going to tell him what about fortune so they don't think a mob comes up you know. it comes out. ten million dollars. just like that you know so that a while before some of them goes in the other say no we go to law. so that that's our last and not for more or to mend those a lot for us if you don't want that's so much the same. in all three that's sense but for five years after these work. it

was. about it was holy her jewish soul in their hold it is more not locked up in shops and halls were not allowed to be here so my father was behind these who are out here and opened it and he was in that window and from that window you look at people like going to gossamer is how many customers he has a lot to offer. and two men came to him and they told who are you on the altar and so he give him. the full name they say yeah it's me what you want to say that men you know one of them at c b wants to buy your home is. welcome so he let him to go into the house but they tell us the soldiers came to you know control or you know it was so they enter with him and they say one of the hundred men involved the sea wall with the number i can't refuse these

didn't really make it. a first let me show you the house and then. they say well we're going to buy you know we don't need to see we just want it my father said no let me show you to you and let's me. yes so they enter into how the house and they come ok we like that we want to buy. hundred million dollars ok i'll make a deal but first you see these wall right here and they say yes you say. it's just to win these war dollars they have enough money where they say. no we don't have a say because like that he wants to signal we don't want to so he said each stone cost one hundred million dollars hundred million dollars and there's a lot of stones here yeah. thanks so much they say we don't want to buy

my father also ok and let me ask a question you see and say my how old will it cost a couple of thousands why you want to buy it for a while you want to they were millions they say needs avraham plays sand who wants to buy near off you know religious reasons i don't know if they really get it but anyway they say because he's my father tell them ok. i respect that but i feel and i believe that i am avraham son and grandson to sell never sell my father place for you if you believe that your father is. so you by your father place you want me to sell the place i will never do it so they say ok you don't want to sell they go out and they tell their soldiers our listeners around here you know hundreds of settlers are on t.v. so you tell them. they tell the settlers that you're

a few hundred million dollars man his strongest is stronger than him and his strength is stronger than i imagined. that man by his cell phone use is really strong he refuse a hundred dollars and he needs couple of thousands so why is this place so important. you know about me i believe is my land so i don't need to sell it. like for example you believe your land is just house but i believe my land is home life. spirit everything's maybe maybe you could sell it and buy lots and these house but you could not. buy any kind of happiness if you have billions you know having a school doesn't close by money.