sixty seven billion dollars which is essential to be tariffs on all exports from china to the united states that hasn't happened yet some people believe that might not happen until after the mid-term elections in the united states in early november so again that appears to be kind of locked and loaded if you will like we've seen with these last round. tariffs being levied by both countries so that seems to be around the corner but what's probably the most concerning right now sam and you alluded to that is that those trade talks have been suspended between these two countries even though there's been this back and forth and the trade war has been ask a lady at least there were some discussions going on on the sidelines that's not happening right now because of this latest round john is said that they are suspending any of these talks they're not sending a delegation from beijing to washington that was supposed to take place this week so right now escalation in the war and really no discussions going on sammy you know terrorists all chinese because that sounds like a huge deal how much impact and how one chinese business is right now.

right now there really isn't an immediate impact and we heard from rob reynolds in the united states that you know some of the smaller companies in the u.s. will start to feel the impact on most right away but here in china there's a couple of thoughts one is that you know because of this you know and this has been going on since the summer of this trade war every time there's been an announcement of a tariff being levied a tariff being imposed there has been a lot of discussion and a lot of headway if you will leeway heads up so a lot of companies both sides of this war were able to kind of front load exports or imports depending on which company you're talking about which country you're talking about so i think that kind of cushions the initial blowsy don't have this immediate impact on chinese companies here and it's interesting jack ma who's the founder of e-commerce giant here in china ali baba multi-billionaire he has said about this trade war that he thinks it's going to go on for quite some time he said almost twenty years he believes it's going to go on and the president of china

president xi has said that this is actually in the long run going to be something good for china because they'll have to become more self-reliant you know right now they rely on a very sophisticated supply chain components being shipped in from the united states semiconductors what she jinping is saying is that it's going to force china to step up its game when it comes to high tech or these components that are coming in from the united states here into china so you know right now it doesn't feel like there's going to be any direct immediate impact but it sounds like it's not going to end anytime soon and in the long run tennis is going to help them but we'll have to see what happens over these coming months. because tough call hyla from beijing. still ahead on al jazeera iran's elite army unit val's revenge as president has some rouhani blames the u.s. to saturday's attack on a military parade. and india rolls out the biggest health care plan in the world at the hof a billion people are expected to benefit if it works out. nice

pink skies by the time hot. or is the sun sets in the city of angels. hello again it's good to have you back well we do have some clouds are passing through parts of the caspian right now over back who we do think that things will get a little bit better as we go into the beginning of the week let's stick with your forecast map here for monday most of the rain is going to settle down here towards tehran and that is going to be light at most we don't expect to see much in terms of accumulation but it will remain cloudy at least until we get to tuesday down here towards quite city forty two over towards crotchety it is going to be thirty two degree day for you and then across parts of most of the arabian peninsula fine and dry except when you're down towards the coast those normal clouds for amman down towards lolla muscat is going to be a beautiful day here at thirty three and then on tuesday well we're going to be

seeing the temperatures start to creep up here a little bit in doha with the temperature there of about forty one degrees and then as we make your way down here towards the southern parts of africa well not looking too bad for cape town over the next few days actually a nice temperature for you of about twenty that's about what the warmest we have seen over the last couple of days but that is not going to be lasting too long because we do expect these clouds down here towards the south to start to make their way towards the north and from twenty degrees down to about fifteen degrees with more clouds in your forecast and then over here towards durban well it's going to be a very hot day for you with temperatures there of about thirty six there with sponsored by qatar airways.

you're watching how i'm just here a reminder of our top stories this hour early official results show maldives opposition leader brought him has won the country's presidential election he's won by a sixteen percent margin over current president dolly i mean widely expected to win a second woman has come forward with allegations of sexual misconduct against u.s. supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh she's spoken to the new yorker magazine about

an incident during his time at yale university denies both allegations two hundred billion dollars in additional u.s. tariffs against china have just gone into effect it will start at ten percent and climb to twenty five percent by january the first two thousand and nineteen beijing says it will retaliate the two countries have already levied tens of billions of dollars in tariffs against each other. iran's revolutionary guard says it will eventually days attack on a military parade that killed twenty five people dozens more were wounded when four gunmen opened fire on the event in the city of a vase commemorating the start of the iran iraq war iran's president is accusing the u.s. of helping support those who carried out the attack that's an accusation washington denies same bus traffic reports from tehran. as he took off for the united nations general assembly in new york iran's president gave

a preview of the likely message he was taking to world leaders be touting the joy in what he has known me undoubtedly the islamic republic of iran does not overlook this crime it is clear to us to which group they belong and to where they are linked to those who are claims about respecting human rights must be held accountable the small puppet countries that we see in the region have backed by america and the united states is provoking them and giving them the necessary capabilities to commit these crimes. saturday's attack in a is having a ripple effect internationally iran's foreign ministry summoned the british danish and dutch envoys and accused their governments of harboring members of separatist groups iran accuses of attacks inside the country and tweets by a political scientist based in the united arab emirates exposed iran's fraught relationship with. said it was not a terrorist attack because the parade was a legitimate military target even though civilians were among the casualties iran's

foreign ministry spokesman said iran warned the shore's duff air of the united arab emirates that open support of terrorist operations from people affiliated with iraqi officials is the responsibility of the government and being indifferent about this is unacceptable senior iranian military officers are blaming saudi arabia while president hassan rouhani says the united states is intent on supporting ethnic arab separatists to create instability inside his country and they can confront us all they want the problem is they don't like the fact that we've called them out we've called them out for ballistic missile testing we call them out for their support of terrorism we call them out for their arms sales and they don't like it and not only that the worst of all we stop the hundreds of billions of dollars that were going to them and allowing them to do these and so plummeting that deals that they had are falling apart and they're getting desperate while rouhani is expected to use his time at the united nations to raise what he describes as america's numerous violations of international law the attack in

a vase will no doubt influence iran's message that. the supreme leader is upset at the activities of countries in the persian gulf especially saudi arabia and the u.a.e. who are playing the role of bad cop in the region even groups inside iran that carried out attacks wristed before an attack they confessions of very clear they themselves consist that they are trained into. the arabiya or the u.a.e. . a day of mourning has been declared across the country and grieving families are preparing funerals iran's foreign ministry said government sponsors of separatist groups cannot hide their role and military leaders warn they reserve the right to respond against attackers and their backers an indication of how angry iranian leaders are came by way of a statement from the chief of iran's armed forces major general mohammad buggery said his country is determined now more than ever to hunt down terrorists anywhere

in the world and wipe them out zain bus ravi olds as he wrote to her on. the incidence is raising tensions between to her and washington as leaders from both countries prepared to address the u.n. general assembly this week al-jazeera as diplomatic candid to james bays has more on what we can expect in the coming days they are words that will go down in the history of the united nations the united states has great strength and patients but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea the fahri rhetoric by donald trump in his first visit here as u.s. president stunned diplomats a year on relations between north korea and the u.s. we improved but no one expects the u.s. president will spend three days this time at the u.n. to be much more restrained. this year watch what happens in the united nations is

most powerful body the security council around the horseshoe table where ambassadors normally sit they'll be presidents and prime ministers although russia and china will only be sending their foreign ministers as the us happens to have the monthly rotating presidency president trump will chair the meeting and it's already clear this year he has iran in his sights earlier in the year he finally pulled the u.s. out of the iran nuclear deal and agreement the u.s. and its allies had made with iran to end its nuclear program in twenty fifteen while the other signatories are still technically in the deal it looks to be in deep trouble when i asked the un secretary-general antonio could terrorists about it he didn't sound confident it would survive is he dead it's not clear that a lot of contacts have been taking place a lot of. have been taking place between different members they. and so i think that is an effort u.s.

secretary of state might pompei i will also chair a security council meeting the day after president trump this time on north korea the situation has changed dramatically in a year seems to trust kim jong un the contrast with his approach to iran is something likely to be causing much discussion among the leadership in tehran according to a former obama administration official who dealt with both countries so i think there are some around ians or say also why we need a nuclear weapons and if we had nuclear weapons then we could get his attention and we could get his endorsement of us the same way that trump is indorsed kim jong un there are others who would say listen the north koreans have a completely different security situation they're able to threaten south korean a way that we're not anybody else maybe we need to do that leaders from around the world are here in new york but events of the united nations a lot like to be dominated by president trump and the u.s. leader is also likely to be an all the headlines diplomats say bats an unfortunate

distraction from many of the pressing issues that leader should be dealing with james pays zero of the united nations. at least one person has been killed in nicaragua after police and paramilitary groups said tanks anti-government protesters thousands of people gathered in the camp to managua demanding the release of imprisoned protesters police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at the crown before pro-government forces opened live fire flash floods have hit parts of northern india leaving homes and roads under water at least twenty five people have been stranded because of rising water levels in rivers and drains the local government in the state of him a child. there's a high risk of landslides and water borne diseases. india's prime minister narendra modi has launched his ambitious new health care plan it's a scheme designed to offer free health insurance to the country's poorest citizens

dubbed mode the care that will see half a billion people get access to health services they currently can't afford but critics say the scheme is being rushed out too quickly for political gain and lacks and the quote funds to support it deviation and is from the university of westminster he says modi carries a publicist be stunned by the government. the reality of the government for last four years has not invest in public sector in terms of held for four more the to come up with a scheme that looks ambitious and out of your in a people said it's an ambitious plan this is a strategy he all would want to want to portray himself as a strong leader with ambitious plans if they feel somehow that he's not that for someone else is at fault for the whole idea behind this campaign is to give the impression that he is again back caring for the poor people but the reality than last four years of government have invested very little in public sector in terms of health it would not work in terms of the poor people overwhelmingly voting for

more they because they're getting this help because most of the would not be aware late or if they go from villages to cities they'll find that it's very inhospitable the hospitals are not helping them out it's more likely to help through in terms of the image building which indulges in so we have to remember that this is the prime minister that invests most heavily in building image as a strong leader and his support base is not rule it's not poor people but it's largely the upper middle class and they seem to like tiger woods won the tour championship on sunday his first win the more than five years he'd been plagued by back injuries that led to multiple operations leaving him at times and able to leave his sofa for on sunday the magic was back and so is a new round of tiger mania one hundred but at least he has this report. was the comeback tiger woods

feared would never come with a smooth drive down the middle skipping to the bunker and a putt for par with woods is once again on top of i was sick right up to. fight the tough conditions you. just have to. after a spiraling five year drought woods reasserted his dominance claiming his first tour championship since two thousand and thirteen beating a thirty man field that included eighteen of the world's best golf in the world and was entered the final round with a three stroke lead a position he's been in twenty three times before and won every time i've been i was pretty emotional one when rory was was tappin out she was finishing out i looked around and i was the terminal is over because i've already put the bunker

the bunker shot on the green and i don't want to eighty and. you know it is a big number and. you know i've been sitting on it for you know seventy nine for about five years now and the comeback kid is now forty two in the five years since his last when woods missed the cut nine times and underwent four surgeries that left him wondering if he would ever play again you know when you have such a long time which we need victories getting that first one is the one that's most important it's the one where you got to get over the hole and he says so many injuries so much drama i just a lot of stuff surrounding him and he's been close a few times i think now that he's gotten over the hope you may see more of the old tiger that we've all been waiting for the last couple of years he rebuilt his life since a public outing as if lender that led to divorce in two thousand and nine. several times this season at the british open and the p.g.a.

championship he came close to winning but couldn't close the deal. in the end his swing returned and so did the crowds walking behind him as they did when he won the western open in one thousand nine hundred seven woods fresh off his eightieth p.g.a. victory now heads to france for the ryder cup as a member of the u.s. team but d.c. al-jazeera. and you can get much more on all those stories if you have a right to our website al-jazeera. have to take you through some of the stories now early official results show maldives opposition leader brought him home and saleh has won become trees presidential election he's won by a sixteen percent margin over current president abdullah i mean who is widely expected to win the message is loud and clear the people of the morlocks want

change just this instability in the next five years we will consolidate democracy by guaranteeing human rights and ensuring accountability we will establish peaceful and just society for all the godless of how you water today i assure you i will be the president of all the. a second woman has come forward with allegations of sexual misconduct against us supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh she's spoken to the new yorker magazine about an incident during his time at yale university cavanagh denies both allegations the hong kong government has banned the pro independence political party saying it's a threat to national security the hong kong national party was banned by the beijing appointed local government under a colonial era law originally used to combat organized crime. two hundred billion

dollars in additional u.s. tariffs against china have just gone into effect it will start at ten percent and climb to twenty five percent january first two thousand and nineteen says it will retaliate two countries have already levied tens of billions of dollars and tariffs against each other iran's revolutionary guard says it will eventually he says attack on a military parade in the city of avaaz that killed twenty five people the president has accusing the u.s. of helping support those who carried out the attack washington denies any involvement tensions between the u.s. and iran are in the spotlight ahead of this week's un general assembly meeting and tiger woods has won the p.g.a. tour championship his first title in five years the victory of east lake in atlanta is the eightieth p.g.a. title of his career woods won the championships by two strokes speaking after the win he said he couldn't believe it it's the listening post now. getting to the

heart of the matter the three big challenges facing human kind in the twenty first century and they are looking toward climate change and technological disruption facing realities whatever is there is not in me it is in the people of your clan and hear their story on talk to al-jazeera. in the far west of china will receive three. hundred hours. with. very tough go find the person does have someone in their family just. a lot richer just virginia at 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 to 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're going to talk to miss reach 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. described as

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 changed 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 chinese 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 shinji. 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 out to stop what it calls the three forces separatism extremism and terrorists 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. fund. beijing's man in shin jong chan one war was made party boss there after having cut

his teeth in another ethnic trouble spot to bet 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 he has many leaders 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 into our education can't are being questioned at a detention camp for that very small action you can wander around some of the residential neighborhoods where we go community is where once 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 radical politics has her own story to tell

she is one. of the very few foreign reporters who managed to get into shin jong 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 inspects the satellite photos of the detention centers and featured in the international media will not be seen on chinese television domestic reporters there are tightly controlled as a leader a journalist say toth reports on the story from washington he is the director of the u.s. funded radio free asia is weaker served. is obviously impossible for a week or reporters on the ground there to do any kind of reporting on those issues because we have already reported ourselves that now we go rioters and we are

scholars who in any way spoken out against china's repressive policies have been detaining this camps for chinese journalists this is an extremely sensitive subject they're required to follow the chinese government's a line they have to repeat the same thing so they cannot independent report on what is happening literally. so in the west we expect the press to be investigative true to show us all the holes in what is generally a democracy. but in china it's very different there's this close association between the press and the government through the eyes i think of the china chinese government i mean you can look at chinese history over many many centuries any time the center is not strong basically make it five times out of you know different parts of china so they're determined that their press will not become something

that divides country and be something that unites it. officially it's the people's republic of china but the voice that matters more than any other belongs to president xi jinping president xi has had no qualms in telling chinese journalists and the news outlets they work for the media's ultimate loyalty must be to the state not the story and beijing's interest in what happens in shin jong isn't just political it's economic the state lies in the pathway of the belt and road initiative a mammoth infrastructure and development project championed by president xi to create a vast international trade network centered around china its location is very strategic because it sits between much of eastern china and the countries of central asia. and syngenta is home to about a fifth of china's total well reserves it's also

a lot of biggest producer of coal as a region it's vitally vitally important from an energy security perspective to china. and this explains this kind of obsessive desire for stability in that region at the cost of things like basic individual rights so as not to upset its economic development plans both at home and abroad. she jinping has been president for six years now his burgeoning power and influence have been. compared to now zedong who once said the role and power of newspapers consist in their ability to present the party's line its specific policies goals and work methods to the masses half a century later. for the media outlets that spread the word those same rules still apply.

we're discussing other media stories that are on our radar this week with one of our producers nuff tarik this past week the german broadcaster deutsche of like confirmed that allegations of sexual harassment made against one of its employees had quote proven credible unquote the network did not name that employee however the stories generated a ton of interest what can you tell us all richard it's widely suspected that that's and truly is the egyptian journalist and t.v. host your three food a face known to audiences across egypt for its coverage of the two thousand and eleven revolution and critical reporting of the military food of formerly worked for b.b.c. arabic and for this network al-jazeera and later for on t.v. in egypt he left the country and became the host of a show called the fifth estate on which avella in two thousand and sixteen and that's where the alleged sexual harassment effective taking place now want to achieve l a didn't name food in relation to this case it did confirm to the

associated press that he no longer works for them what have we heard from food to himself on this before about a comment posted on facebook that the accusations were baseless londa and later that they were part of a smear campaign which is perhaps the reference to where these allegations originated on the pages of a pro-government newspaper in cairo a young with that but since then we both see heard from valid that they consider the allegations credible and also from one of the accused that. he wrote on facebook that food had harassed her at his home in berlin in two thousand and sixteen. ok moving on this past week one of the biggest names in u.s. publishing time magazine was bought out it joins a long list of struggling news outlets taken over by tech billionaires from the west coast of the u.s. what's in the deal so the billionaires in question are marc benioff c.e.o. of sales force and his wife lynne benioff and the price they paid was one hundred ninety million dollars which is actually a lot of money for

a magazine that reportedly for subscriptions drop by around twenty five percent in the last year and as you said richard this is part of a trend wealthy west coast patrons throwing financial lifelines at big legacy media outlets amazon c.e.o. jeff bezos that was the washington post in two thousand and thirteen the atlantic and the n a times of also seen similar kinds of investments let's look at the long term what can these tech investors bring to help news outlets that are struggling to adapt to the digital age the media executives tend to get very excited about these kinds of deals and it's easy to see why they represent a validation of that journalism the print industry in general and more importantly they provide an injection of much needed cash for the by the visibility and influence that comes with owning one of these historic print publications even if they're not necessarily great investments and most cynical take of course is that they're just vanity purchases like buying a football team but for the news industry the bigger question is this given the

broken business model can print outlet survive without these benefactors and the answer increasingly things to be no they can't ok thanks terry. back to china now about six years ago in two thousand and twelve we reported on what was an under covered aspect of chinese journalism the rise of investigative news outlets one of the organizations we looked at then was the nan falling media group or southern media group based in the city of one show publishing papers like the southern weekly the southern metropolis daily and the twenty first century business herald the group had a track record investing in deeply reported muckraking journalism that held communist party officials to account and even resulted in some political and legal reforms that's not the case now after a few serious run ins with the authorities southern media and its journalists have come under a kind of pressure that is severely handicapped investigative reporting this is just one case in a landscape that has seen significant shifts greater state monitoring and control

of media as well as increased competition and falling advertising revenues have all had an impact the listening posts now on the decline of the southern media groups investigative reporting efforts and what that says about journalism in china today . april two thousand and three the southern metropolis daily a paper published by the guangzhou based southern media group ran a report entitled death of the detained. the story was about a young liberal picked up by police for not carrying his i.d. seventy two hours later he was dead the official explanation a heart attack the paper published the results of the autopsy that revealed the extensive beatings that had caused this when he guns death oh i want fast forward to the two thousand and eight and the earthquake in china's sichuan province reporters from the southern weekly another publication of the southern media group

broke the story of forty school construction that exponentially increased the number of dead these were stories with a real impact and the kind of journalism the chinese rarely got to see it was a charmed time for new supporters and consumers in the country and then to one thousand two thousand was the golden age of journalism investigative journalism in china and the prime example of that golden age is this other media this particular media group has done really well in attracting wide readership traffic ever has revenues and becoming one of the prime examples of high quality reporting that is also capable of making money in china. two main issues are merged alongside china's social development in the one nine hundred ninety s. the first was police abuse of power often resulting in violence or wrongful convictions the second was government corruption southern media group especially southern weekly had many outstanding journalists well versed in the methods of

western investigative journalism their reports on these subjects became the benchmark for chinese media workers at the time in sheets. china's golden age of journalism was not to last as the country approached a political milestone the two thousand and twelve transition from chairman. in town to see jinping the censors swung back into action and aggressively for the southern weekly news day two thousand and thirteen marked an unprecedented moment in china's media history that here in its new year's editorial the paper called on the country's leaders to adhere to the principles in china's constitution as it went to print however the editorial was pulled by state sensors and replaced with a version in praise of the party and its newly anointed leader journalists at the weekly staged a walkout the first of its kind in communist china hundreds of ordinary citizens would later join the protests in solidarity against the censors funk achang was in

the news room that day dancers really stepped over the last i saw. so opposes this whole situation social media and got a lot of the boarders there were a lot of protestors outside of headquarter you know watch or supporting us yellow chrysanthemums symbolizing the death of press freedom we're late outside the headquarters of the southern weekly newspaper in the city of growing. covered these incidents and they really showed these newspaper because of you saw reputation duryea last more than twenty years you've got a lot of supporters in the society those are social media and also by the propaganda department of the communist party. wants to exercise tight control over the media. and that became very very clear. once she jinping took over and declared which direction he was taking. the sultan group together lee with

the politically incorrect new year at the torino would have been seen as essentially monckton a bit of a chop and that's simply completely knocked acceptable and therefore you. you have to be made an example. so that you know with the eldest what to even think about copying what you have put through two thousand and thirteen and after the censorship of the southern media group was taken to another level reporters were harassed online content was ordered to be taken down and publishing licenses would evoke the end of two thousand and fifteen marked a low point the senior editor and former chairman of multiple southern media group publications shayne how was sentenced to four years in prison on what many observers said were trumped up extortion charges chunking a deputy editor and news director at the southern media group was forced to leave

china just before season ping's ascension to power he has watched from the outside as the state's grip on media has tightened the war. torn homes are ever since the founding of the people's republic of china in one nine hundred forty nine there have been certain boundaries the media are not able to cross these include certain political topics i think minority rights national sovereignty the military and religious the political pressure placed on the southern media group as part of a systematic process to control the media in doing so the party seeks to control every aspect including its management the publishing of reports and even who journalists can interview pressure is not necessarily always placed on individuals but on the industry as a whole under this system no media group whether it's southern media group side during punk pie or eastern media group can escape political pressure as long though . of the cold. however it was never political pressure alone that pushed the

southern media group into decline competition from online media resulted in plummeting ad revenues and stagnating media salaries many journalists left to work in business and tech startups across the country this other media groups case isn't an isolated one it's just one of the most prominent some yat-sen university recently published a report showing that across the media landscape the number of investigative journalists has more than half since two thousand and eleven for those who remain doing investigative work involves navigating both the editorial red line set in place by beijing and the changing media market social media in china is very popular we were in the reach had a very popular in china saw and always when we chat you could open your own personal account and some independent journalist just as their independent investigation a independent journalist named the team she published

a piece about a sexual harassment case saying as an university in one thousand china and aids. i did was hugely popular and influential and just a few days after the publication the university just fired that professor who was involved well you're still have some very good. news medias in china we do see news media reporting on major corruption cases for example in the last year the most senior case they put a bureau member was being reported was that option and. he could be reported because he was somebody that she wanted to make an example of and they're for. journalists could report but still on the right guy

the ones from the public and the department chinese media landscape and the relationship between the media the state is ridden with many contradictions we're seeing lack of investigations in some areas some of the stations and others and things changing. very fluid bases and very quickly the first call the battlefield is not of you know want to not be controlled or figured out given the sheer number of voices in china's vos journalistic sphere absolute government control has never been completely possible. what is undeniable however is that under siege and pain the chinese state's command of the media space has been consolidated and reinforced . with dramatic repercussions for investigative work across the country. and finally for all of the faults media critics find in broadcast journalism it can still provide a vital service when impending weather disasters like hurricane florence are

heading for the eastern u.s. t.v. ratings skyrocket because the up to date information those networks provide can save lives during simple this past week the weather channel rolled out some new next reality technology using computer generated imagery c.g.i. to give viewers in the storm's path an idea of what kind of floodwaters the hurricane might produce and for context they used a five foot two inch anchorwoman as a measuring stick the clip is as entertaining as it is informative but news consumers could use more of this kind of reporting and less of those hapless correspondents getting lashed by wind and rain for the mere sake of being alive on the scene we'll see you next time here at the listening post. we could be talking about six that was mentioning nine feet of storm surge good given how that high tide comes in with that storm but this is like on the map we can show you what this could look like if you were to find yourself in the new ones that were picked up

three feet you can see it will be coming out mention a few of my weeks this could be to knock you off your feet you could even close some are going to be in the front of the roadway this is really dangerous but once you get up into that six foot range if. you want to. take everything off the car i'm going to be looking at this point this water's over my head i wouldn't be able to stand here even with sand the feeling of the water coming in there might even be dangerous like chemical sandbags caroline floating in the water but you can't do that. this is a life threatening scenario this water is through the floor of your home in fifteen seconds you can see that fish floating range in here this is an extremely dangerous and life threatening situation if you find yourself here please get out if you need to go with the local officials and make sure you keep the advice of healthy.

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a back story like yours this is a dialogue i'm just tired of seeing the negative stereotypes about native americans everyone has a voice resurfacing that's your comments your questions i'll do my best to bring them into the show join the global conversation on al-jazeera. the will of people has focus and it has spoken decisively for change. a major election upset in the mall deaves the opposition candidate is the winner of a close thing for presidential vote. i'm sammy's a dan this is al jazeera live from dollhouse so coming up more trouble for

president trump supreme court nominee as second woman accuses brett kavanaugh of sexual misconduct hong kong bans a pro independence party for the first time in the grounds of national security. and tiger is out of the woods marvelous comeback for a golf legend as he wins his first title in five years. moment of happiness hope and history those were the words of the mall deaves opposition leader mohamed saleh as he declared victory in the country's presidential election early official results show solid received fifty eight percent of the vote while the incumbent president of dolly amine got forty two percent the result comes as a surprise you mean was widely expected to win most of his rivals are in jail

this war knew that charlotte bonuses report contains some flash photography. opposition supporters on the streets of manning is their leader abraham mohammed so lay claim to victory and no deeds presidential elections. for five years president i believe you mean has been in power they say he has been dethroned and wanted to concede this is a moment of happiness this is a moment of hope this is a moment of history. for many of us this has been a difficult journey a journey that has led to a prism so. excited politics in the daves has been tumultuous since mohammed in the shade became its first democratically elected president ten years ago he was ousted in occur in a spend most of his time in exile intra lanka he watched as his friend and ally soulé rallied opposition leaders into

a coalition to take power back i like to let. the president elect. dream the heart and it's jeems like living. in the last four. years with the best the motif has been in political turmoil under you mean during his five year tenure two former presidents a prosecutor general and a number of opposition politicians have been jailed in controversial trials. on the eve of the vote solus campaign office was raided by police but no evidence of electoral fraud was uncovered this was a big affair shocking what he was hoping and he was aiming was to consolidate power . and with the way that i think prior to be elections the way that you had as i would call it manipulated the institutions i think it moved from the back fire.

judge to means tainio with a pen and paper and extraordinary numbers turnout was over eighty five percent despite. i came to vote eight in the morning and i was waiting in the queue for all this time until five o'clock pm so the nine hours before voting. president you mean stayed silent as the votes were counted he had been expected to cement his grip on power but in public view the ballots piled up against him the electoral commission will announce the official results and seven days shall a ballasts al-jazeera. a second woman has come forward with allegations of sexual misconduct against a u.s. supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh she's spoken to the new yorker magazine which is published the story the allegations go back to cavanagh's time it yale university this comes as the senate judiciary committee prepares to hold a hearing on thursday for both cavanagh and christine fraud ford says he sexually

assaulted her as a teenager cavanagh has denied both allegations john hendren has more from washington d.c. . it is a bombshell to the nomination of brett kavanaugh to the u.s. supreme court there are new allegations of sexual misconduct by the judge in an article in the new yorker magazine a woman says that in college in gaelic from the one nine hundred eighty three to one thousand nine hundred four there she attended university with kavanagh at a drunken party she says he exposed himself belligerently to her and she says she did not talk about this previously because she was embarrassed by the incident in felt guilty because she had been drinking cavanaugh outright denies that is ever happened issuing a statement saying this alleged events from thirty five years ago did not happen the people who knew me then know that this did not happen and have said so this is a smear plain and simple and the white house issued a statement saying it stands behind kavanagh saying this thirty five year old uncorroborated claim is the latest in

a coordinated smear campaign by the democrats to tear down a good man well as that was happening there was also a disclosure of a possible third allegation of sexual misconduct by break cabin that one came from michael evan adi who he is the lawyer for stormy daniels that is the porn star who has alleged she had an affair with president donald trump and in a tweet evan adi said quote i represent a woman with credible information regarding judge cavanagh and mark judge mark judge is also the one who was allegedly in the room when the original accuser christine ford says she was assaulted by kavanagh he went on to say i have an ati did that my client is not debra ramirez there was an exchange that he posted with the chief counsel of that committee in which the committee had asked for more information on evan audi's client and the alleged incident in evan audie suggested several questions citing the word rape and asking if cavanagh had ever

participated in taking advantage of women or even possibly. valor has put this whole process in turmoil and now the ranking democrat on that committee senator dianne feinstein has asked the committee to postpone any action until it can investigate further on these allegations as all this is happening it's important to note that if every democrat voted against kavanaugh they would only need two republicans to vote with them in this might be enough to make up that margin so the committee has a lot to think about in the coming days the hong kong government has banned a pro independence political party saying it's a threat to national security the hong kong national party was banned by the beijing appointed local government under a colonial era law originally used to prohibit organized crime groups in recent months the government has intensified a crackdown on activists protesters and advocates for independence and self-determination sara clark joins us now live so sara what prompted the ban.

well as you said it's an unprecedented ban move i should say by the hong kong government the police made the initial proposal back in july to have the party banned on the grounds as you mentioned of national security they stated they pose an imminent threat to national security and they were taking concrete steps by the party to realize hong kong's independence now andy chan who runs the hong kong national party he had time to put his case up against that proposal he submitted that last week and today the security minister with a small has announced that he believes that they do pose a threat to hong kong's national security and issued this ban but as you see it is that it's unprecedented move it's an historic move for the hong kong government to make this party bear and set the first time this type of move has been made since hong kong was headed back to china back in one thousand nine hundred seventy and

certainly it's quite historic. we have a new reaction from the national party about what their next step might be. well eddie chan is as stated in a in a statement that he will not be responding i see him he's either putting together an appeal potentially but if he does speak or certainly mention anything about a separatism there's a chance he could be sued and that incurs heavy penalties when the proposal was initially made there was widespread reaction from obviously the pro-democracy groups as well as the british foreign office they stated that hong kong's rights must be respected but another it all seems part of a long term or a campaign by the hong kong government and beijing to certainly muzzle any talk of independence from china it would long has been jailed earlier this year he was now the separatists for six years and now andy chan he can't run for politics and his

party has been banned so it seems to be a long running campaign by beijing and the hong kong government to muzzle any form of independence talk of the independence movement has lost a lot of. momentum i guess you could say of the years how much support does the national party really have at this point. well you'd have to say since the pro-democracy rallies back in twenty fourteen where the pro-democracy groups and the talk of independents i was initially started. it's certainly been quieter over recent months and certainly that the steps being made by the hong kong government and beijing have made it very difficult for any form of a pro-democracy groups to number one get to stand for parliament you might remember up for pro-democracy politicians democratically elected m.p.'s or politicians they were removed from parliament over the. swearing in process so certainly it appears to be empire and it will continue by beijing as i mentioned and the hong kong

government to muzzle any form of independence or pro-democracy. and so much sort of . campaigning is underway for cameron's presidential election in two weeks time president paul b.o.'s been in power since one thousand nine hundred two he's seeking reelection despite protests as the story. supporters of the main opposition party the. movement in the capital start to be. launched. before on october seventh. the presidential election comes at a critical time for coming on after years of bloody conflict between the english speaking south and the central government that's dominated by french speakers and why this could well you see. we don't know where south. i don't think that you me that you were i mean there was it was that white oh yes

yes oh that was what it was come to is promising political and cultural reconsideration but change has often eluded kind of the. president has been ruling since one nine hundred eighty two and nearly every election he's won since then was highly controversial with constant accusations of vote rigging to guarantee he stay in power during his thirty six years critics accuse him of ruling with an iron fist while failing to preserve the national unity videos shown on social media last year was said to show extra judicial killings of civilians in the south by special army brigades come to those supporters say he's a serious challenger to president and the only real beacon of hope for canada at the moment are the presidential candidate.