business china was committed to deepening reforms china was committed to allowing greater foreign investment in its economy particularly in areas like education and also the health sector the problem is this laura a lot of the executives here say they've heard all of that before and that barriers still remain that they want a level playing field not level playing field is still a long way off the president in a sense was continuing a message that he began at the downforce economic forum last january and that was to present himself very much as the guardian of free trade now this trade exhibition is going to be lasting for five days interestingly the united states has not sent a high level delegation here there are a number of world leaders but no leaders for from any major western economy and i think that tells you an awful lot about how they feel about china and the promises that it's delivering about its commitment to free trade ok well meanwhile we've got

the u.s. sanctions that's been reimposed on enron and we know that eight countries won't be allowed to keep on importing iranian oil how likely is it that china is one of them . well china is playing its cards very close to its chest when it comes to iran now if you know beijing has been given a waiver by the united states and publicly china's not going to want to show its gratitude especially at a time of a deepening trade dispute between washington and beijing the relationship between iran and beijing is symbiotic as you know china buys more iran buys more oil from iran than any other country it needs to because while china is an oil producer it doesn't produce enough oil to be self-sufficient so it relies on iran so at the moment i think china's got a bit of

a breathing space but looking ahead it realizes that if it wants to carry on dealing with iran that it's going to have to deal with iran outside the sort of recognized international trading system and to buy you know iranian oil in its own currency ok many thanks for joining us that from shanghai. still ahead here on out is there a. close fete on the end of pandas going caledonians referendum on its future with france comes down to the wire. and security is tight end as one of mexico's most notorious drug lords faces course in the u.s. . from the clear blue sky of the doha morning. to the fresh fruits and breeze in the city of sanaa. we do still have plenty of showers in the forecast for parts

of the middle east eastern areas of our agent just looking fine and dry it towards afghanistan over towards to understand is back to stabbing see that cloud of right still piling in across iraq spilling out of syria wanted to show was a possibility down towards jordan and further south still so if you go on three monday morning to watch is day the west the weather will slide its way further eastward says will see some heavy rain coming back into eastern parts of iraq at this time northern parts of iraq could also see some while the wet weather along with the west of the country that sent in the case to into kuwait just notice some flakes of wintry weather was a possibility towards the caucasus meanwhile some wet weather on the cards too across parts of the arabian peninsula has some disturbed weather cause more the possibility rabia over the past couple of days hopefully that will ease somewhat but the rain never really too far away here because how it should be generally fatah dry and temp just picking up to around thirty two degrees here in. thirty two

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and again you're watching on jazeera has reminder of our top stories this hour the songs of jamal khashoggi say the family is unable to properly grieve without knowing where his body is they say their family's been by the ongoing lies since his murder more than a month ago the u.s. is saying that those responsible will be held accountable. the u.s. will we're imposing economic sanctions on iran in an hour i'll talk of its oil shipping and banking sectors all measures lifted on the twenty fifty new deal coming back despite the hans compliance with the agreement. and china's president has vowed to boost imports by easing rules for foreign companies she did being told a trade in shanghai the lower tariffs will open the country up more to more trade took a swipe of protectionist policies favored by u.s.

president all. trying gives president. has ordered parliament to reconvene next wednesday and debate his decision to replace the prime minister last week he swore in mahinda rajapaksa former president rajapaksa is now accused of bribing m.p.'s to support him in a confidence vote reports from colombo. it's unethical and despicable says opposition m.p. policy. playing recordings of phone calls he says from allies of sri lanka's new prime minister mahinda rajapaksa. bandar says he's been offered two point eight million dollars and the posting cabinet to switch sides. the scramble for votes has come after president my three policy is cena suspended parliament and fired his former ally prime minister ronald wickramasinghe are both men had joined forces in elections in twenty fifteen to

oust rajapaksa but don't under the work i'll be doing we formed his government democratically my three policy center joined us and described the ride your bike as corrupt thieving thugs and said he want to allow them to return the fact he's doing just that is very shameful rajapaksa has appointed a cabinet which includes half a dozen opposition m.p.'s who have been persuaded to join him his supporters deny allegations that anyone has been offered cash the president is accused of buying time for rajapaksa by resisting calls to reconvene parliament a constitutional amendment passed two years ago was supposed to take away the president's power to fire the prime minister jumping runa waka a cabinet minister under ousted prime minister witnessing a says this government has no legitimacy. appears. international and national political economic and social crisis and at the meantime we are going to form a grand alliance beyond party lines to protect democracy for pick freedom

of speak and protect the human values a petition the got sixteen thousand signatures in a day has been presented to the speaker of parliament demanding he use special powers to recall the chamber over the head of the president. presidents are saying you know for sure if it's high stakes gamble it's paid off when parliament reconvenes if it endorses rajapaksa as prime minister and the president may well get away with what is pretty a constitutional but if parliament sticks with a single and serious a could face a challenge. with al-jazeera. media reports believed to come from british government leaks suggest u.k. is close to striking a deal to leave the european union and say the u.k. could remain in the e.u. custom union for some for a limited time and this would avoid

a hard border between the republic of ireland and northern ireland a key sticking point in the. bush crime is a treason maze dismissed the report says speculation as a joint campaign is calling for another referendum. here as midterm elections on tuesday and being seen as a critical test of president donald trump's presidency trump and his predecessor barack obama on the campaign trail rallying voters in various key states on sunday obama addressed in event in gary indiana and democratic a tight race with republican candidate democrats hope to take control of the house of representatives. well a record number of women candidates are running many galvanized by the president's sexist comments his administration's attempts to curb abortion rights and the appointment of a supreme court judge accused of sexual assault but others still back the president and his policy is all white house correspondent kimberly hellcat reports. do solemnly swear one day after donald trump was sworn in as president hundreds of

thousands of women gathered in cities across the united states to protest almost two years have passed but the u.s. president has given them little reason to change their original judgment of a man many regard with revulsion his behavior and language at times has hardened their views. after his aide omarosa manigault newman was ousted from the white house called her a crazed crying lowlife and a dog after congresswoman maxine waters encouraged her supporters to harass trump administration officials they're not going to be able to go to a restaurant they're not going to be able to stop at a gas station called waters an extraordinarily low i.q. person. but nothing has polarized the country more along gender lines than the hearings for supreme court justice brett kavanaugh christine blas a forward accused trumps nominee of sexual assault when they were in high school

truck cast doubt about her testimony mocking her recollection of the decades old event how did you get home i don't remember how did you get there i don't remember where is the place i don't remember how many years ago was it i don't. trust attacks on women are nothing new and have been dismissed by his supporters ever since the release of a video in two thousand and sixteen threatened to derail his campaign. truck shrugged off the controversy and won the white house even today well a majority of us women still disapprove of trump at least a third still solidly approve of trump's president. well everybody makes mistakes in their life nobody's perfect but god and he's made his mistakes that everybody else who's human hands i think he's a bully i do but i think you need someone like that in the office conservative women point to donald trump's historically low unemployment numbers that a rise in wages well in office they say his appointment of a female press secretary and

a significant number of female filled tapping of post proves he's supportive of women in the workplace still the battle for the female vote is intensifying republicans have released the sixty second advert aimed at winning over suburban college educated women voters only shows this demographic more than most is where conservative support is waning but notably trump never appears in the advert it's a signal even republicans realize the president remains toxic to many voters and in the fight to hang on for control of congress conservatives can't afford to lose a single female vote can really help get al-jazeera the white house thanks as a new caledonia is referendum have voted not to break away from france there are celebrations and the capsule now may are off to final results from referendum showed fifty six percent of voters choosing to remain a french territory french president says new caledonia has voted on a new feature is it. voters were allowed to make

a sobering choice with full knowledge of the facts on the relationship between new caledonia and fronts today the majority of them expressed themselves for new caledonia to remain french i have to tell you how proud i am but we have finally passed this historic step together. tens of thousands of supporters have attended rival rallies on the final day of campaigning before madagascar's elections on wednesday three former presidents and prime ministers are amongst thirty six cans that's fine for the top job millions of dollars have been spent on campaigns in a country where three quarters of the population there are less than two dollars a day has more from. thousands of people have turned out that watch is the final campaign rally. many of the people here are young as these presidential candidates he's promising increased infrastructure

development as well as investment in madagascar many of the people here say that's really represents their future. this is the first time the former d.j. and now businessman is running for election after serving as transitional president in two thousand and nine. i'm here to save madagascar i'm not a candidate for the sake of my own businesses or for my own interests or glory i'm a candidate for the malagasy people and to save this country and to develop every piano is running for reelection after winning the twenty thirteen vote for many here he represents stability for madagascar. i want him to stay president because he did a good job before and i wanted to continue. i will support him until the end because he is many things he posed to bridges and did a good job in education i want him to improve the cost of living also in the

capital antananarivo former president marc ravalomanana made his final push for the presidency he returned from exile about two years ago after a coup in two thousand and nine. this year say they want to see. this. the former president has a significant support base. any opposition leader charged with spying for kaesong has been sentenced to life in prison she was acquitted earlier this year court overturned the decision he was sentenced along with two colleagues the charges of spying relate to political unrest in twenty eleven the accusations only came to light after the country cut diplomatic links with cats are last year. hundreds of people have rallied in ukraine's capital care of demanding punishment for those behind the death of an anti corruption campaigner catarina died on sunday from

severe burns that she received an acid attack in july police arrested five people investigators have blamed separatists for ordering the attack. one of mexico's most notorious drug lords will go on trial in the us later on monday. known as el chapo has been held in solitary confinement in new york for the last two years security for the trial is expected to be high especially for witnesses and jurors. reports. for the last two years joaquin el chapo guzman has been held in solitary confinement in a new york jail after his extradition to the u.s. on an array of drug trafficking and murder charges security for the trial considering guzman scaped from prison twice in mexico once through an elaborate tunnel in his prison cell. even with guzman in handcuffs prosecutors and the judge worry his associates could still pose

a danger to people involved in the trial they cooperated witnesses and even jurors this former new york city police detective says precautions will be taken and the jury will likely be kept in a secret location that they don't want to get any witness tampering they don't want to have any threats they don't want to put their families in that position too so they're going to be extremely careful with what they do with the witnesses despite this seeming mountain of evidence against guzman this is a trial that will be very complicated and along with dozens if not hundreds of eyewitnesses expected to be called to testify the judge is saying this is a trial that could go on for more than three months. edgardo buscaglia it world renowned expert on organized crime and drug trafficking says many of guzman's crimes took place in the u.s. from ordering killings to trafficking drugs to the signing the money laundering channels into u.s. criminal networks. commercial activities within the u.s.

they infiltrated the banking system through a very well known banks around the world so you have an incredible number of. cases who are the criminal network led by chuck was money has being involved in all kinds of crimes within u.s. borders and in many other countries he says the trial will have little impact on the day to day operations of those months in a low a cartel as a message is fine in terms of the actual impact on a criminal network it will not make any impact the prosecutor saying he conviction of guzman will do one thing it will put an infamous drug kingpin away pretty good gabriel's andro brooklyn.

you know without a zero these are our top stories the sons of jamal khashoggi say the family is unable to properly grieve without knowing where his body is they say their family's been deep each employed by the ongoing lies since his murder more than a month ago the u.s. says reiterating that those responsible will be held to account for brennan's has more from washington d.c. . shoji who's thirty three said quote i really hope whatever happened wasn't painful or that it was quick the sons of jamal khashoggi appealing for the return of their father's body and also eulogizing him saying that they believe he was courageous man and an amazing father in the words of one of the sons and they also expressed some concerns that his life and his work and his legacy were being manipulated after his demise in the pursuit of varying political agendas just under an hour the u.s.

will reimpose economic sanctions on iran that target oil shipping and banking sectors all measures lifted under the twenty fifteen nuclear deal or coming back despite to iran's compliance with the agreement u.k. france and germany say they deeply regret the decision. china's president has valve's abou symbols by easing rules for foreign companies xi jinping made the pledge as he opened a trade fair in shanghai and boosting the country's image as an importer he said china will lower tariffs streamline customs checks and clamp down on intellectual property theft it took a swipe at protectionist policies favored by u.s. president donald trump trying to present my free parser as santa has ordered parliament to reconvene on the fourteenth of november last week he fired prime minister runa wickremesinghe and replace him with former president mahinda rajapaksa become a singer insists his sacking was unconstitutional. he has mid-term elections on g.'s day being seen as a critical test of president obama's presidency but trumpet his predecessor barack

obama on the campaign trail rallying voters in various key states on sunday obama addressed an event in gary indiana the democrats hope to take control of the house of representatives there's are your headlines of it back with more news here on out is there that's after the listening post stay with us. stories of life. and inspiration. to. a series of short documentaries from around the world that celebrate the human spirit against you know it's. close. to. al-jazeera selects express yourself. bureau in new york city. all right. i really haven't read it from my

character and think. yeah land. grant trying to make. me. hello richard gives birth and you're at the listening post this coming tuesday november sixth americans will be voting in midterm elections which will be seen as a referendum on the trump presidency so it's fitting that one of the major issues before voters is the institution president trump cannot stop talking about the news media consider the stories monopolizing the us airwaves recently the coverage of that migrant caravan from central america the pipe bomb sent to c.n.n. amongst others and the president's incessant tweets all developments with significant media aspects to them this week we're breaking format focusing on the u.s. in the second half of the program we examine a christian broadcasting network that somehow backs a president who is nobody's idea of a saint we'll also talk to jay rosen an academic who's been studying the u.s.

media for more than thirty years one of the most authoritative media critics out there will discuss donald trump's attacks on the mainstream media why it is that they work how c.n.n. became a hate object and the larger crisis of credibility that american journalism faces today but first a look at some of the stories that have made headlines and produced sound bites as election day approaches. the lane is now on the air a man as my grandson is now with the midterm elections approaching the political stakes rising as the new lows just keep on coming a caravan of migrants on route from honduras in search of a better life but on rightwing outlets like fox news it was something more sinister a looming invasion thanks to a caravan he's fact heavily and highly dangerous and the president went even further happens all the time from the middle east and it's not even saying bad or good but it's

a real bad ones but you know they had just said. that they could very well be. there's no proof of anything there's no proof of anything election or attack yesterday last weekend in pittsburgh a gunman opened fire inside a synagogue killing eleven worships his social media movements were traced to gas a platform popular with the ultra right that features a particularly nasty brand of anti-semitism. and there were the pipe bombs mailed to various truck critics including the channel that is his bet was the one he loves to hate c.n.n. all of the perpetrators were trump supporters however the president accepted none of the blame for his rhetoric let alone their actions putting it instead on the media to set a more civil tone and to stop the endless house and constant negative and oftentimes false attacks still accusing c.n.n.

and the opposition democratic party of exploiting the attacks ahead of voting while trump supporters like blue dogs who hosts a show on fox business suggested the bomb scares including the ones against his journalistic colleagues at c.n.n. have been fabricated as the president doubles and triples and quadruples down america's media eco system now resembles a battlefield their chairs and it raises the french south of our border words are the weapons you. want to shoot i'm not spirit and hyperbole are the currency somebody is going to get hurt or shut that border and the false flags are flying. jay rosen thanks for joining us in the listening post today why don't we start with this question how has donald trump two years into his presidency turned the media into such a useful enemy perhaps the most useful political enemy of them all well let's start

with some basic facts about donald trump as president of the united states one is he doesn't know anything about the issues that he must deal with he isn't good at the job nothing he says can be trusted and when you have a president like that what's going to happen they see generates a lot of bad news for him self and he has managed to convince his supporters that this happens because the news media hates him as the far left media once again. judy just so different and he's gone one step further to say to them when they criticize me it's because they hate you. and so he's not only turned the press into a hate object but he's made it the foundation of his support when trump was elected you used as seasonal metaphor to describe political journalism in the us you talked

about the establishment media having entered winter what did you mean by that how did political journalism fail its public describe the disconnect well i meant first of all that about a third of the country had exited from the press system meaning that they mistrust the product on principle presented unique challenges to the press and our press corps is not very good at rethinking its routines on the fly so for example the spectacular fall down in the run up to the iraq war as well as the failure to alert the country about the financial crisis in two thousand and eight weren't followed by any deep reflection of reform and we saw the same thing after the two thousand and sixteen election and a set of trying to fix what had gone wrong in political journalism our press corps

simply moved on to the next story which in this case was a very big story donald trump as president on the recent migrant caravan story fox news has pointed answer for but there were some other news organizations that also bought into the narrative the trump and the republicans were trying to push to what extent do you think news outlets from the center even from the left or near left are also giving this particular story outsized attention once again allowing trump to be the media's assignment editor or can they just not help themselves. it's just yet very difficult for t.v. producers to resist that even something as simple as showing us on the map where those people were and how close in fact they were to the u.s. border which at one time was like a thousand miles away or hundreds of miles away even something as simple as that was too difficult for cable news producers so that was

a case where trump and his propaganda. outmaneuvered t.v. news and simply capitalized on some of its weaknesses there's this ongoing battle between president trump and c.n.n. trump screams fake news c.n.n. responds with a robust defense of its journalism for those of us on the outside this would seem to be an easy argument for c.n.n. to win it seems like a slam dunk why hasn't that been the case well i think what you have to understand here is that for this portion of the public trump is the major source of news about trump which is to say that for that part of the country and authoritarian new system is already up and running. and in that sense nothing c.n.n. could say would make a bit of difference to the core of trump's supporters who have now assimilate is

c.n.n. as a as a symbol of everything they hate it's a symbol of cultural elites of the people who are in control of the system and the paranoid style of politics that trump practices and the conspiracy thinking that it often produces are all bound up with this mistrust of c.n.n. you recently returned to new york after spending four months in germany you wrote extensively about the media there you offered some criticisms but you have mostly positive things to say is it possible to boil down what it is about the culture of journalism in germany the way it's structured the way it's regulated that exposes areas where the us media are failing and perhaps regulators have failed as well well one of the first things that struck me in germany was no fox news there's just nothing like that in the german system the way that

a story can go from the fever swamps of the extreme right wing to the white house in twenty four hours that just doesn't exist in germany part of the reason it doesn't exist is that the public broadcasters occupies such a large cultural space it's very professional. and it's a huge part of the media system but that's not the only thing there's a culture. of in german journalism that makes it pretty explicit. that both public broadcasters and the profession of journalism exist to defend german democracy that and to prevent extremes of left or right from overtaking in the public sphere we don't have anything like that any united states the existence of a state broadcaster in germany in countries like the u.k. and right across europe is significant but what about the rules of the game fox

news was created only three years after the fairness doctrine was scrubbed about was the u.s. regulatory requirement that compelled broadcast news organizations no matter what story they were covering to show both sides of that story how in your view has the end of that particular requirement which still exists in countries like the u.k. and germany change that well i'm not sure why the fairness doctrine gets the attention it does on this issue i don't think it would have had much of effect in preventing the rise of fox news and then there's nothing really in the fairness doctrine especially with the weakening of the federal government as a regulator of everything that just that that occurred in the eighty's and ninety's that would have stopped i think the growth of fox news or the growth of conservative talk radio it's not just that countries like germany and the u.k.

have some sort of fairness or impartiality with choir and that is part of it but the thing that really makes a difference is that they have a dedicated finance system that makes those organizations strong we have nothing like that that there are countries in europe to spend one hundred dollars per citizen a year on public broadcast and we spend like five well you may not think that the end of the fairness doctrine had anything to do with the start of fox news rupert murdoch who owns the channel. would beg to disagree when he was asked why it is that he hadn't turned his british news channel sky news into a fox news he said because the regulations don't allow it now i get that the fairness doctrine may not have been the perfect regulatory measure but it was written in one thousand nine hundred forty nine it was forty years old when it was dispensed with by the reagan administration in most countries when they have

a regulation that isn't doing the job they rewrite it they update it so why this approach well because we don't have a congress that works at all we don't have a regular regulatory regime that works for hardly anything and a third difference that you didn't mention is that. the first amendment in the united states is is much stronger than the equivalents in germany and the u.k. so for example in the in germany it is against the law to practice holocaust denial you are allowed to. make particular ethnic groups into hate objects and so there are rules that we would never tolerate in the united states and there our understanding of the first amendment final question and one of those pieces that you posted back in two thousand and sixteen after trump one is alexion you made all kinds of observations about the american media you issued a few warnings you offered

a few bromides but i went through the comments under that piece and one reader left one saying good luck getting the genie back in the bottle does he have a point can what ails the american media be fixed yet he had a point. i think we're in a cycle where it's not obvious how we change it except through political change the fusing of the media system and the political system has proceeded to such a degree that it's very hard to imagine the how just by changing practices our press changes its status mean after all fox new does and the white house are in a way the same operation right now so i think this cycle that we're in is going to have to run its course somehow is it's going to either have to burnt out or

meet with massive political change before we see any real change in the dynamic between the press and the president ok jay rosen thanks again for talking to us here at the listening post to that thank you for having me. there are a select few broadcasting networks and president trumps good books fox news is one of them but the president also has time for the christian broadcasting network c.b.s. over the past two years c.b.s. has had exclusive interviews with donald trump as well as many of his officials and advisors this is a relationship built on joint interests evangelicals especially white evangelicals are a big part of the republican party's core vote and heading into midterm elections they're among trump's most stubborn supporters he needs to keep them onside c.b.s. provides the perfect go between and c.b.s. executives have a religious vision for the united states that the pans on a president willing to champion their beliefs even if he himself is not exactly

pious listening posts flow phillips now on donald trump and c.d.n. a political match made in have. them treat everyone thanks for coming out to our first official briefing here in the very room january twenty third twenty seventeen the first white house press conference of the trumpet ministration question number one goes to how do you see. the second question jennifer wish. jennifer wish and not a name from c.n.n. no c.b.s. she c b n the christian broadcasting network we were watching that first press conference in the news room here the cheer that went when he called on the c.b. and correspondent so jenny what was that like you're in the briefing room and oh by

the way sorry associated press jenny from the b. block has a question how did that go well it's remarkable david and that was a signature moment for us because we never get called on. we've been in the white house. for. the first first time was nine hundred eighty so it's been a while it legitimate c.d.n. as a news outlet it recognizes them but does something else to trump is basically saying i see you none of those other people sees you i'm going to overturn the system that says i have to call on c.n.n. i have to call on c.b.s. i have to call on the new york times so i'm going to call on c.n.n. because we're part of this anti-establishment. radicals overthrowing the system. that isn't often compared to giants like c.n.n. and less n.b.c. and fox news c.b.s. news division is small scale that but it plays a very specific strategic role in shaping the political interests and voting

behavior of many evangelical america. the network stated mission is to prepare the united states of america for the coming of jesus christ its method the strategic use of mass communication a global ministry relying on t.v. internet and social media to spread good news. according to the network c e o c b s flagship show the seven hundred club that's roughly five to six hundred thousand u.s. beers a day not exactly the more than three million viewers sean hannity gets every night on fox news but that content is then translated and transmitted around the globe getting a monthly reach of up to fifteen million c.b.s. is the most influential evangelical christian organization in the world without a doubt it's not so due to the size of their audience it's due to the fact that all

of the other leaders. even christianity pay attention to it. and so it's a matter of not only influencing masses but it's influencing the influence served and that's what c.b.s. . well. terry heathy was the executive producer of the seven hundred club for much of the one nine hundred eighty s. the peart he's talking about is pat robertson robertson is central to the c.b. and story he founded the network in one nine hundred sixty and today j.t. eight people still hosts the seven hundred club and james is like he's a hugely influential figure in the evangelical community like the fundamentalists you of christianity. but it's not just his faith that guides his father was a u.s. senator and he himself ran for the republican presidential nomination in one thousand nine hundred. pats got politics flowing through his blood and i've always

said that he is first a politician second a minister i think he's brilliant he really years he's especially brilliant when it comes to politics and marketing you could think of him almost as a precursor to a t.v. personality running for president right he laid the groundwork for someone who is not necessarily a political person running for president and using the mobilization of conservative christian voters as the driving force behind their presidential run pat robertson believes in the end times and he believes that before the second coming of christ can happen there has to be a kind of apocalypse and so a politics of chaos actually fits in very nicely with his religious beliefs and that's going to be a great thing for christianity so to the extent that donald trump is an agent of chaos pat robertson embrace of that shouldn't know their files thousands of people

praying for him because he sees this is getting us closer and closer to the end times in the second coming. evangelicals was central to trump's election victory in twenty sixty more than eight hundred ten voted for him more than six in. ten still think he's got the country headed in the right direction and as the country gears up for the midterms just needs to keep conservative christians on the song c.v. ends influence and weak provides the perfect platform for donald trump and c.b.s. have developed a relationship over the years long before most people thought he was running for president he did an interview with c.b.s. and with david brody that seems like perhaps is thinking about it in two thousand and eleven you have to pick somebody that's going to win i think he's interviewed trunk at least a dozen times one on one who is god to me what are some of your thoughts on this post so that has enabled c.b.s. and to position itself as the inside baseball network that is the ultimate god

created this tight relationship between a seemingly ungodly president and his evangelical base appears in congress doesn't exhibit the traditional christian principles that the c.b.s. promotes so i've come here to the networks headquarters in virginia beach to off the see if this is just an alliance a political convenience. to trump doesn't come across as the most devout president of the us of a b. and b. . and you outwardly christian broadcaster in the country and yet you still support him. i think i join with a lot of people waking up the day after the election going what just happened. so he's he's an unlikely president and it's unlikely for him to be such appeal to evangelical voters that sad i think president trump is an absolute master the

master of emotion as a master politician he made very specific promises to the even joke of community about supreme court just. about the johnson amendment about christian persecution christiane it's under siege unlike other politicians who make promises in the campaign and then do something different in office he's fulfilled his promises he's he's come through a lot of what white evangelicals have had to do since trump appear on the scene is to figure out kind of how he fits in their theology and their religious commitments the office is so powerful. that you need even more a c. b. an interview says donald trump cares about us nobody has done more for christians or evangelicals or frankly religion that i have he's going to sit down and talk to

us even though he won't talk to the washington post or the new york times or to c.b.s. i'm so donald trump values as you will continue to believe in donald trump because trump believes in you. trump may value c.b.s. and c.d.n. may value the access to press but that doesn't mean has any value in the news it's produced on it and that's coming from someone who should know ten years before fox news came on the scene we wrote the playbook for conservative news we call the t.v. news with a different spirit and all it was was an attempt to insert conservative propaganda into the news i am convinced this is a nation under god in the end right wing news is only a profit center it's not news and there's no attempt to be for unbiased and i think it's gone so far now that the public isn't aware of that but that's

still what we create blame me i'm the one who is is saying i don't want to play gotcha journalism i think there's plenty of place in the news space today where you're going to hear that what is missing i think in the landscape is well what is it that they're really trying to say what is that an edited version. last month that on that is had version came from pat roberts well just days after the killing of saudi john as. he was only asking not reminding his evangelical viewers of god's commandment thou shalt not kill or defending a fellow journalist he was echoing the president of course you don't often hear mashaal i asked one question i mean robertson has since changed his rhetoric lights off. the president changed his cause telling the truth of a live live live and while we certainly can or well planned to go scot free he's a he was reaffirming the c.b.

and it's about political relationships and one relationship in particular. that's our especial edition on the american broadcast media on the eve of the midterms so many channels so many voices consumer spoiled for choice but lacking in trust a distinct lack of regulations and a vital institution left abandoned to the corporate sector to do with journalism information and truth what they will as the late c.b.s. anchor walter cronkite used to say when he signed off each week night that's the way it is we'll see you next time here at the listening post in south career around two million dogs are eaten every year but now animal rights groups want the ancient tradition taken off the menu want to when he's depressed a good. friend or food an al-jazeera.

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this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the songs of. demand his body be returned to his family. allegations of vote buying and shady deals and deepening political crisis i. think he's a bully i do but i think you need someone like that in the office. divided over donald trump women voters are at odds over the u.s. president a day before a crucial midterm election. u.s. economic sanctions against iran have just come into force affecting hundreds of people and companies sanctions targets iran's oil shipping and banking sectors and

follow us president donald trump's decision in may to abandon the multi-nation nuclear deal with teheran. all measures lifted under the twenty fifty nuclear deal are coming back to spiked iran's compliance with the agreement eight countries including south korea have been given temporary waivers to continue importing iranian oil on iran is one of the largest oil producers and has oil and gas exports are worth billions of dollars a year so who are its biggest buyers well this chart shows iran's average exports in thousands of barrels of oil a day from november two thousand and seventeen to april this year china is the biggest importer by around seven hundred thousand barrels and next is india taking just under six hundred thousand barrels a day then followed by south korea turkey and rounding out the top five is italy or europe has come up with a way to facilitate payments for iranian exports and offset the impact of u.s.

sanctions some export experts warn it may not be enough to persuade large companies to continue operating in iran and not about the reports from paris. since president trump's announcement in may that the u.s. would reimpose sanctions on iran european leaders have been scrambling for ways to bypass them and keep the twenty fifteen nuclear deal alive in september the e.u. finally came up with a plan a new payment mechanism allowing european companies to trade with tehran and avoid u.s. penalties the but disciplines welcomed practical proposals to month tain and develop payment channels not i believe the initiative to establish a special third of a call to facilitate payments related to a dance exports including oil and imports companies violating sanctions could be cut from the powerful u.s. financial system it's a risk that most european multinationals don't want to take french companies to

town and france and citron have begun shutting their brain operations german car maker daimler is also pulling out along with british airways it's not yet clear how the e.u.'s new payment mechanism would work it could be a barter system or it could be a new e.u. backed financial body set up to deal with transactions between europe and tehran either way some analysts say it may not be enough to make big multinational fight hotel reconsider doing business with iran companies like to order companies are fruit of your essential stock i don't think they're going to take the risk of brain or from iraq so it doesn't sort of i would say ninety percent of the problems due to the recession. the plan may be flawed but it sends a political signal to washington and tehran europe is determined to maintain the accord even thorough relations between some european countries and iran have

deteriorated in october danish officials said they prevented a planned iranian attack on opponents in denmark a few weeks earlier france's government said that they had foiled a similar plot their efforts to preserve this accord but it's more about maintaining cordial diplomatic ties the problem is that relations are not good right now there is no french ambassador in iran or a reigning in bastogne france and then we have the ledger in prague on opponents in real count and the one in denmark trump hopes u.s. sanctions will force take brawn into a new deal but so far iran says it won't renegotiate with e.u. leaders openly defying washington over the issue if the accord collapses it would be a crushing blow to europe's credibility and sasha bottler al-jazeera paris china's president has promised to open up access to markets and make business easier for foreign companies xi jinping made the pledge as he opened a trade fair in shanghai aimed at boosting the country's image as an importer he

said china will lower tariffs streamline customs checks and come down on intellectual property theft it was addressed why put those pushing protectionist trade policies such as president donald trump words here serving him from words in china's economic growth over the past forty years has been achieved with a commitment to opening up the developments of china's economy in the future can only be guaranteed with more openness i've made it clear before and now again that china's top one never be closed it will only open wider china will not stop its commitment to opening up a pursuing or open global economy our correspondent brown has more from shanghai. well not for the first time this is an event that's all about chinese symbolism this was president xi jinping rededicating himself to free trade once more his audience which included a number of world leaders but no leaders from any major western economy was

a century this china is open for business as it has been for the past four decades he said china was committed to allowing more foreign investment in its economy especially in areas like health as well as the financial sector but some of the business executives in the audience listening to the president's words are saying they've heard all of that before and that barriers still remain to doing business here in china they say there's still no level playing field they complain that in order to do business here in china they have to enter into joint ventures and that often means handing over sensitive know how also in the background of course the sanctions of the united states is now imposing against iran iran and china are both important trading partners china buys more oil from iran than any other country and it does not want to be seen to be abandoning iran especially at this time now china has not commented publicly so far about the united states decision but it does seem

that china may have been given a waiver to allow it to continue purchasing oil from iran so publicly china does not want to express its gratitude especially at a time of a deepening trade dispute between washington and beijing. as. say their family is unable to properly green without knowing where his body is because he was killed more than a month ago when he went to saudi consulate in istanbul turkey investigators believe his body was dismembered. and sons say their family has been deeply troubled by the ongoing lies since his murder more than a month a game well anderson is joins us live now from outside saudi consulate in istanbul bull and sons have been speaking out plus we have new leaks in the turkish media

that's right but that message from his two sons. very emotional words a couple of highlights here describing their father as courageous generous very brave a really moderate person who is liked by everybody who loved his country but really these two men in particular feeling the pressure he's the elder ward he's from jeddah in saudi arabia he was allowed out of saudi arabia by special arrangement to go to the united states he met his brother there who is from the united arab emirates and they did speak to the c.n.n. news organization the american news organization explaining what they felt and really giving a simple humanitarian message we want our father's body back this is what

salah had to say or what we want. is to bring him back here with medina with his with because of his family in saudi arabia in saudi arabia yes i talk to talk about that with. the saudi authorities and. i just hope that it happens. but you need to find somebody needs to find his his body yes. i mean that the sessions are going. to be hopeful about that. words chosen very carefully there but a very powerful potent request a simple one as the leaks continue the latest suggestion from the sabah newspaper the pro-government newspaper is that two of the search team that came out the large

search team of eleven from saudi arabia that arrived in turkey on october the eleventh team of eleven on the eleventh they had actually included two people singled out by the seven newspaper quoting a reliable source these two men one is said to have been a chemical experts the other said to be a toxicologist in the assertion in this report is that they were not there to investigate a murder but they were there to cover it up that they were engaged in a number of visits to the consulate and also a number of visits to the consul general's residence where it's thought the body parts may have been disposed of one theory that they could have been sunk in an acid bath dissolved another theory that they could have been dumped in a well there is still a lot of arguing going on between the saudis and the turks about access about

a whole variety of things a very bitter situation now between turkey and saudi in terms of investigating this whole murder case but as i say one simple message when can we see when can we receive the remains of our father that's the one strong message of the day without any shadow of doubt laura and. thanks very much and. just hours after the u.s. exercise in the core relationship with saudi arabia would remain unchanged despite my pompei demanding justice for their father's killers reports from washington. more than a month after jamal khashoggi killing at the saudi consulate in istanbul u.s. secretary of state mike pump aoe had a mixed message punish the journalists killers but maintain business as usual in u.s. saudi relations we need to get to the bottom of it we need to fight.