in sunday's election topless reports most of his rivals are either in jail or in exile. it's famous as a holiday islands destination popular with newlyweds on their honeymoon but in the run up to the presidential election in the maldives on sunday there are allegations by the opposition of voter intimidation and security crackdowns. there are going to be heavy. but we take part in them believing that i will support. that we will be able to overcome that. despite the alleged intimidation opposition challenger ibrahim ali has been campaigning for votes president abdullah yemenis aiming for a second term he declared a fifteen day state of emergency earlier this year provoking concerns the country is sliding towards authoritarianism i would like to call it an undemocratic dictatorship now the current regime president whatever he was doing of course

it is like kind of authoritarian rule but then what are you doing doing through you know constitutional means like he is changing though constitution amending the constitution. as well his going in the. game in his book to the economy using cheap chinese loans for large infrastructure projects such as the chinese maltese friendship bridge opened last month after four years of construction. the apparent reliance on large chinese loans has raised concerns about china's increasing influence as the chinese buy with india for a say in the strategically situated indian ocean archipelago. public school topless zero to zero. demonstrators have taken to the streets in moscow in the latest protest against an unpopular pension reform that will raise the retirement age and march was organized by russia's communist party under the new proposals the retirement age for men will rise from sixty to sixty five and from fifty five to

sixty four women the average life expectancy for men in russia is sixty six and seventy seven for women. the vatican and china have signed a historic agreement recognizing the appointment of seven state appointed chinese catholic bishops called was announced as pope francis arrived in lithuania to begin a four day trip to the baltic countries it's a breakthrough in what's been a frosty diplomatic relationship for decades or the whether the pope all the government in beijing should appoint china's bishops. because while the president has accused the current government of mismanaging the country's finances the rupee has plummeted against the dollar in recent months and inflation is at an all time high min elfin and as has more from colombia. they with joe warden opened a big green colombo six months ago bringing his savings and experience from working abroad he had big plans but his wife says an unstable economy increasing costs and

a sliding rupee have made things very difficult week and increase our prices each time gas prices increased off live increase because our customers know what price we offer certain items that so each time we come increasing so as a result we absorb the cost the price increases have been many flour fuel sugar and even bus fares commuters forced to fork out higher fares for the second time in four months. it may be a small increase in the fear but when you take the total cost its a big amount for the money. to make matters worse for the struggling economy the sri lankan rupee has lost almost nine percent of its value against the dollar so far this year and worse is expected. the devaluation has a former president demanding to take over you don't like them because. for

god's word out about anything in this radio i mean if you want to discuss. you want to excess. oh the first thing is do i look for the operating for government ministers or dismissing rajapakse as complaints and see his former administration cause the problems this from this. eighty three percent of the good. and of course we would have had to we have had to pay. lorne's in order to said previously that. but while doing that while doing all this while grappling with both my own good i'll get that out about. we have also managed to bring me who. sphere. while the government and opposition trade accusations about

who is to blame for the economic problems many sri lankans are struggling to make ends meet among them the war the nuns who are determined to stay afloat and make a go of their business despite the odds going to finance as al-jazeera colombo. salvage experts say could take at least ten years tourist or what's left of brazil's national museum which burned down earlier this month many of its priceless artifacts are lost forever or damaged beyond repair by the fire now experts are warning that a lack of funding is threatening other heritage sites in brazil from rio de janeiro marianna sanchez reports. leaders shell was left standing in the fire that destroyed brazil's national museum earlier this month left most of the country's national treasures in ashes. you know school officials are now working to rescue what survived you can joined by brazilian and german specialists experienced in the story in pieces damaged in fires and wars and. she is. the expectation of the

work of risk uing in digging i think we're talking about months or even. years of that process in addition to that what's related to claiming conservation documentation stabilization it could take years. maybe a decade experts say to recover just one part among the losses egyptian mummies frescoes from pompei and brazilian remains nearly twenty million cultural and scientific pieces. the fire has focused attention on one of the major problems facing brazil's heritage lack of funds this is that along the wharf a harbor for nearly one million slaves arrived from africa in the nineteenth century it is also i guess the heritage site of new zealand just saying it is in danger of being destroyed i other historic buildings are also at risk but the us federal prosecutor says six museums in this city alone are insecure and should

be kills you so do this be the door that it was so it was the last of the but i believe what happened is going on in all the museum institutions in brazil the tragedy can happen again because there's no state budget for public museums the state is not complying with its responsibilities. the loss of the national museum and all its treasures has prompted students to try to save at least memories of the past the appeal to museum visitors to help build up an archive and received more than seven thousand e-mails with photos and videos of the museum collections already wrong which for the. what we didn't expect this we are going to prepare an archive with the different collections to show what the museum represented to us with personal memories but all this effort to recover and rebuild will remain in digital form most of the original treasures are gone forward for many innocent just . but as you. american documentary make a michael moore has released

a film that compares u.s. president donald trump's rise to that of hitler as fahrenheit eleven nine is the sequel to his controversial film fahrenheit nine eleven about george w. bush it's also a play on the day on the u.s. election everyone is all know has more from new york. he's one of america's most popular documentary makers and he's also one of the most polarizing focusing his lens on everyone from george w. bush now watch this drive from my dad to the national rifle association to the u.s. health care system it was only a matter of time before michael moore set his sights on america's polarizing president donald trump. how. did this happen you know his latest movie fahrenheit eleven nine dative the two thousand and sixteen presidential election michael moore examines the reasons why trump won what seemed at first like an

unlikely race to the presidency and most controversially at one point compares his rise to that of adolf hitler in germany in the one thousand thirty's richard penus a professor of film studies at columbia university he recently hosted a q. and a with more on the new movie he thinks the comparison is fair here and read statements that are terrifying you know coming from the president or some of his underlings it's important to realize i think that fascism is one thing and like every other system it evolves so i think fascism of the one nine hundred thirty s. would not be fascism in the twenty first century will have its own characteristics the movie is wide ranging in scope using examples as diverse as the parklane school shooting to the polluted water crisis in his hometown flint michigan to get the point across a scattergun approach that he's been criticized for in his past films one of the things about michael's films that there's a certain or shocks quality i'm just

a guy who has a camera and i'm going out there whatever they think where at least on me in terms of a political tool there's less of that here so i think you really shows what he wanted to film very very closely and i think the sequences are are very well constructed. michael moore says he intends fahrenheit eleven nine to be a wake up call to america showing people not only how donald trump got into office but how they can take him out but with so many people having already made up their mind about this proudly liberal filmmaker some argue all he's doing is preaching to the already converted gabriel's on the al-jazeera new york. just a quick look at the top stories now iran's president has promised a crushing response after gunmen opened fire on

a military parade marking the start of the iran iraq war at least twenty five people were killed during the attack in the city of la voz many were members of iran's revolutionary guard women and children also died as did the four gunmen both eisel and an arab separatist group the national resistance of claim responsibility for the shooting but iran's government is blaming gulf countries with ties to the united states and israel and our other headlines two days after a ferry capsized in tanzania a survivor has been rescued ship's engineer was found alive and then at pocket inside the upturned vessel off to navy divers heard him knocking he's one of forty one survivors at least two hundred nine people died after the vessel tipped over close to the shore of lake victoria tanzania's president is blaming overloading and apparent negligence for the disaster was ordered police to arrest the boat's oh no . a woman who's accused president trump supremes core pic of sexual assault has confirmed she will testify before a senate committee christine ford says brett kavanaugh assaulted her to party in

one thousand nine hundred two she's to go before the senate judiciary committee next week ahead of kavanagh's confirmation hearing cavanagh denies the allegations alan fisher has more. you remember that professor ford wanted to give evidence on thursday nor to monday that's because she intends travelling from the west coast of the united states a by car to washington d.c. she doesn't want to fly she wants to make sure that there are certain safety precautions taken that is because she and her family have received death threats the philippines is suspended quarrying operations in seven regions after the latest fatal landslide at least twenty nine people died in rescuers are searching for forty still missing after a hillside collapsed on thursday near a limestone quarry in naga city on cebu island the collapse was triggered by monsoon rains. police in the maldives have raided the main campaign office of the opposition presidential candidate abraham mohammad soli ahead of elections on

sunday president abdullah yemeni has been in office since two thousand and thirteen is seeking a second five year term in sunday's election i'll have more on all of our top stories now it's the listening post. in the high west of china most risk taking thing. i know. that count one hundred dollars. for. each carry come to find the person doesn't have someone in their family to see. a lawyer richard gives birth in europe the listening post here are some of the stories we're covering this

week we're focusing on the world's biggest media market china two reports one on shin john what the media can report from there and what they cannot and we take you to one joe and inside the southern media group a once thriving journalistic enterprise up against new realities political and economic the me two campaign makes its mark in german media with an egyptian angle and the weather channel opens the visual floodgates on hurricane florence we begin with a story coming out of china that beijing clearly doesn't want out there reporting on it could mean a one way ticket out of the country it already has for one foreign correspondent and chinese journalists have it worse threats violence in some cases prison sentences the story is the alleged mass incarceration of weekers and other turkic muslim minorities more than a million of them in the shin john we go to top of this region and twenty three million people there are now being tracked by a high tech surveillance system the chinese media echo their government security

narrative on this that the measures are necessary given separatist movements in the area prone to violence and the terminology can be telling what the international media called internment camps forced indoctrination the chinese media this. political education set counter extremism training schools our starting point this week is the resource rich news rich region of shinji. it's not as though she is a black hole for news if it was it would be a big one since the region is twice the size of germany what should and jong is is a black hole for a certain kind of. the official narrative and has always been it was a backward feudal region and the communist party went n. the one nine hundred fifty s. and restructured both the social and economic hierarchy is there that has been

a pretty ironclad narrative in two thousand and nine that change a little bit there where these deadly ethnic riots between han chinese the majority ethnic population in china and the muslim leaders and several hundred people at least died according to state media that served as a psychological and legal justification for many of the security measures and surveillance measures that we see today satellite images prove china's government has built hundreds if not more detention camps and although they're also expanding and hundreds of thousands of people are there just for being weaker or being turkic and being most of them not because they have committed any acts of violence or terrorism the government has been very clear the chinese government and the way they see this they perceive they have a problem that could also be a security threat they believe that there are radical elements who have infiltrated the population and convince people that they should have an independent homeland

and this is this kind of separatism and also. extremism. china's government has reason to be cautious over shouldn't jump. since the ethnically driven unrest that flared up in two thousand and nine there has been periodic violence and bloodshed attributed to negro movements including one attack at the heart of the capital tiananmen square beijing's response however putting a community of eleven million people under surveillance incarcerating so many in the name of indoctrination has been wildly disproportionate china's government argues it's all to stop what it calls the three forces separatism extremism and terrorism and china's media apparatus has adopted that term parroting it in the same unquestioning way much of the us media did with the so-called war on terror. it will continue to don't change the. fun she should.

beijing's man in shin jong chan one war was made party boss there after having cut his teeth in another ethnic trouble spot tibet he has adapted some of the security measures used in tibet to shin jump including a clear focus on surveillance and technology. things like police checkpoints every few hundred meters forcible checking of people's mobile phone devices of their laptops on as well as surveillance by things like iris scans facial recognition cameras and d.n.a. checks yet many readers who are saying that they're simply been called in because they exchanged text messages or shared an e-mail several years ago that contained religious content and now they're being called enter education are being questioned at a detention camp for that very small action you can wander around some of the residential neighborhoods where we are community is where one is concentrated and find them to

be completely deserted there's no charges no trial people just sort of disappear into these places for many months at a time and even longer. mego rajagopal it has her own story to tell she is one of the very. very few foreign reporters who managed to get into sheehan giong to report on the situation there just weeks after her piece was published by buzz feed she was expelled from the country chinese officials want to limit information and imagery coming out of the region controlling access is central to their strategy but there are some cameras they cannot control the ones in space for the satellite photos of the detention centers and featured in the international need.