allies such as the united kingdom and the united states pointedly make reference to the gym. and to criticize a broad raft of other problems that they see with saudi arabian human rights record . united kingdom is great be concerned about the deteriorating human rights situation in saudi arabia progress on women's rights has been overshadowed by severe constriction of political space mass arrests of human rights defenders increased use of terrorist groups for political dissidents and continuing extensive use of the death penalty but most concerning is the matter. it was indicative i think of a greater willingness here to hold saudi arabia to account for a whole raft of issues that the international community is concerned about on the back of the murder of jamal khashoggi and the final report when it comes will be very interesting to read indeed still to come on out. dozens of boarding school students are kidnapped by a separatist group in cameroon. and we visit

a sixteenth century port that's form into disrepair but could now be rebuilt after lifting of u.s. economic sanctions. we've got signs is some slightly dry weather making its way into italy as we go on through the next twenty four hours or so you still say fair amounts of cloud easing through italy into the age magic into the balkans we'll see some showers still pushing up into northern parts of italy up towards the up snow over the higher ground yes that's nice than just way over towards the pyrenees as well i mean ever so sister for madrid it's on the cool side we've got more wet weather just waiting in the wings there that wet weather stretches right up into our lives it will eventually make its way across the british isles every sixty celsius i say sixty's

houses that's mild for london winds picking up as we go on through wednesday fourteen degrees at that stage was not a filled out with the strength of that wind a very blustery day lots of rain rattling its way in across the country by the time come to work as they could see some wet weather coming back into southern areas of italy not as heavy as it has been recently not as widespread but then nevertheless further east it stays dry and fine book around still him our side but rest of about fifteen degrees celsius fun to drive across a good part of north africa chance of wanted to shower still across the north of genius in northern areas of algeria maybe into labor as well for a time drying up by wednesday algeria's twenty degrees. a journey of personal discovery feel more american here and then more in the us al-jazeera is a mirror would you borrow highlights the struggles and resourcefulness of honey to

the mass compete trying to preserve their way of life. owns one a bit north of. your mom's from here you can. al-jazeera correspondent we are still here. on the top stories here now to syria u.s. president trump has called the latest sanctions against iran the toughest ever imposed the measures target the oil and financial sectors but iran's president insists it will be business as usual for his country. turkish media reporting members of a saudi team center stamboul to investigate the murder of journalist jamal

khashoggi focused instead on removing evidence from a saudi consul general's residence. speaker sri lanka's parliament says president by the apollo series saina has repeatedly misled him as a constitutional crisis over the appointment of a hindu rajapaksa as prime minister and to a second week m.p.'s won't get to vote on it until november the fourteenth of the speaker says sears' sena promised him parliament would sit on it but it's missed reports from colombo. remember the money. you might be able to draw a crowd of thousands but because new prime minister still hasn't been endorsed by parliament that's a constitutional coupe critics say president might through powerless or is saying a small in his former ally then a rival now ally again and suspended parliament more than a week ago. the speaker accuses the president of repeatedly not keeping promises of an early recall of parliament karo jayasuriya says he'll only recognise mahinda

rajapakse as appointment if m.p.'s vote for it he said it's difficult to remain silent in the face of the severe violation of democratic principles the forcible taking over of the administration of media and other public sector institutions the majority of m.p.'s is of the opinion that all changes made in the parliament are undemocratic and inconsistent with the traditions of parliament but his supporters as appointment is justified at the got to get out about the one that didn't have the internet you know this is a leader who won the war the one who saved the country i mean look all the legal things have been done and dusted he's now prime minister and i did granted i'm going to be out on murder rajapaksa accuses crete assessor of increasing the tax on abusing power a man who was fired to make way run away from a single says he's still prime minister and has the parliamentary support to prove

it. he won't leave the official residence until m.p.'s get to vote because just over a week to go before parliament. you are suggesting the rajapaksa come be just a handful of votes to give him a majority in the us if he gets it then he'll probably remain as prime minister but the manner in would be to treat our risk rising for lankan politicians but it's an al-jazeera comedy the. separatists have claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of around eighty people from a boarding school in western cameroon video released by the embers only a freedom fighters shows the students giving their names and the names of their parents the rebel group took at least seventy nine students and their principal from a presbyterian school in the city of banda on sunday it's in the country's in your speaking region where separatists are fighting for an independent state. civil rights groups fear millions of americans are being denied their right to vote in

the midterm elections they say states under republican control are unfairly purging voter rolls affecting minorities one example of this is in georgia where a white republican faces strong competition from black democrat john hendren reports from atlanta. daniel known go was puzzled by the government letter the civil servant had voted in georgia for a decade but this time the state told him he'd done it wrong so he phoned the secretary of state's office. the woman on the phone told him he filled out his ballot correctly and signed it but he failed to sign the on velo the ballot came in we get it we just can't take it we don't have the only information we need and the option to. you know doesn't up doesn't work and landry don't really have that option but again comparing. this voting rights advocates say is voter suppression in action the man they accuse of leading a campaign to prevent minorities from voting is georgia's secretary of state brian

camp he oversees voting in the state and just happens to be running as a republican for governor he's in a dead heat against democrat stacy abrams who hopes to become georgia's first female black governor. camp has purged one point four million voters from state electoral rolls critics say disproportionately blacks and minorities who tend to vote for democrats georgia is one of several states you know is a state of confederacy. the civil war has never ended has a campaign with many too many ways to continue to try to suppress the vote a lawsuit by the new georgia project and other civil rights groups says three hundred forty thousand in georgia were wrongfully purged most of them minorities it is a conflict of interests on its face. on the scale and impacts the results of this election video camp is strictly enforcing voter id laws in an

registering those who have not voted for two elections or have moved this is someone who has to be held accountable to do his basic jobs we have made it easier to vote and hard to cheat and just because mrs abrams files a flossy balts lawsuit or the new. georgia project it doesn't mean it's right the lawsuit by civil rights groups says similar voter purges are happening in twenty six republican controlled states across the u.s. many polling stations like this one in atlanta you can vote early but for some voters by the time they found out there was a problem with their registration it was already too late one thousand year old linnea gordon was looking forward to voting in her first election for stacy abrams . a letter where i. know same that i'm even more information but i gave all the information that i needed they sent the letter before me after that day seen it more information

in daniel numbed his case the state has the discretion to allow his mail in ballot it's just decided not to as he phoned kemp's department he got one other bit of bad news so and that's the case with mine and my wife's that is correct. with a few days left election day his wife will also be notified that her ballot has also been rejected by the state of georgia john hendren al-jazeera at lamda. kristen's newman joins us live from pittsburgh in pennsylvania kristin how much of an issue is this alleged disenfranchisement of minorities nationwide. well voter suppression is an issue nationwide not only the issue of suppressing voters in the twenty six states that john hendren talked about it takes different forms in other states as well because the rules that govern elections vary from state to state here in pennsylvania for example there's been an issue with the way

the voting districts have been drawn in earlier this year a panel of judges actually found that. the the lines for the voting districts were unconstitutionally drawn to favor republicans and so the state had to hurry up and reconfigure all of the voting districts in the state and now they're considered to be more balance so we see these issues happening all over the country north carolina another state that had an issue with unconstitutional voting districts but there they didn't have enough time to reconfigure them in time for the election and most of these examples we are seeing right now accuse the republicans of doing these nefarious acts but throughout history certainly both parties have been accused of taking steps to help their party stay in power when they had that power and you were in pennsylvania as you mention the how important is the stage in these midterms. pennsylvania is very important it's

considered a swing state in two thousand and sixteen it did support donald trump for the presidency by a very narrow margin but for almost thirty years before that it had voted for the democratic candidate for governor for president so democrats do think that they have reason to believe that they can gain seats in their quest to retake the majority in congress here in pennsylvania that's because of the change in those voting districts for one also because of the history of supporting democrats in the past also they're very encouraged by the number of women candidates who are running for both state and local offices here in pennsylvania there are twenty representatives of pennsylvania in washington d.c. eighteen of them in the house all of them right now are men but now there are seven women on the ballot for house of representatives and democrats think given the backlash against president trump which is particularly strong among women voters

that they are going to pick up seats here in pennsylvania for sister to me thank you very much indeed jury selection is under way in the u.s. for the trial of one of mexico's mission a tourist drug lords looking man also known as chopper who has been held in solitary confinement in new york for the past two years security of the trial is expected to be high especially for witnesses and jurors. it's been revealed that the lion air plane that crashed into the sea off indonesia last week had the same fault on four earlier flights if mission downloaded from the plane's black box showed a damaged airspeed indicator now relatives of one hundred eighty nine people killed on board want to know why the aircraft was allowed to keep flying and actually o'brien reports. it was amazing charged with emotion as distraught family members came face to face with investigators and the co-founder of lion air and the never

call us or do they express their sympathy they gathered in indonesia's capital jakarta to get the latest on the investigation one hundred eighty nine people were on board the boeing seven three seven mechs when it plunged into the java sea yamato between the ninth just minutes after takeoff. the plane had been grounded just a day earlier after a pilot reported problems with the flight control system it was flying erratically with fluctuations in speed and altitude but lyonesse it was fixed and cleared to fly again divers pulled the data recorder from the water on thursday and it's revealed an ongoing problem. with. a malfunction of the is speed indicator was found in the last four flights we've asked boeing to take the necessary actions to prevent the same accident from happening again especially on the boeing seven three seven eight. lyon has been a frequent target of complaints about poor service and safety issues the president

has ordered a review of all flight safety regulations but many relatives are demanding an independent investigation and accountability. we can't let this happen it's within the legal processes that these technicians take full responsibility. the plane slammed into the sea so fast that only fragments of the wreckage of been recovered and that's made identifying victims difficult. i will not give up. we will be out there until the end of the search operation if there is still the possibility of finding victims who will continue the search for. this family at least has a chance to hold a funeral and a place to go to mourn for many others though the agonizing wait continues. to reuters journalist jailed for seven years and appealed their conviction. were found guilty in september violating moonless state secrets law they say police

planted documents on them while they were investigating the killing of muslims a conviction has been condemned by diplomats and human rights groups. since u.s. economic sanctions on sudan were lifted last year the government has been trying to rebuild neglected regions one area of investment is the stark port built in the sixteenth century which used to be the country's main trading hub hippa morgan has more from strike in eastern sudan. crumbled buildings the remains of an area where the ottomans ruled sudan and when trade flourished on the country's second largest ports including slave trade but for sugar abraham this is the only home he's ever known. i was born here and grew up here this place has an amazing history it was one of sudan's first ports for trade and for people people used to travel around

the world for centuries so working was built by the ottomans in the sixteenth century it along with several other ports along sudan's eastern coast served as a major gateway to the gulf and the east but since sanctions were imposed on sudan in one thousand nine hundred haven't most of the country supports load in function as straight decelerated in fact is one of the traders who felt the impact. because you know a lot of goods used to come via the sea but then it slowed down with the sanctions there were less ships coming in and now we have to go to the capital to bring stocks instead of relying on nearby port sanctions were lifted last year but says he's yet to feel any positive effect sudan's government with help from foreign countries like turkey have been working to restore still working for tourism and trade reviving the historic and economic significance of so i can well take years but it's not just the ports tourism and investment potential that are attracting foreign investors regional part dynamics also seem to have a role just across the red sea is a regional gulf crisis and the were in yemen involving

a saudi led coalition some countries such as egypt and saudi arabia fear that so working will become what is once was a military base local authorities disagree but we are well what we're trying to do is rebuild the structure for trade and tourism so working is less than twenty square kilometers how could you build a military base here a base could be built further north imports are done and that's being discussed but not here it's working but i want to see a revival of the port he and his ancestors grew up on so trade can resume instead of the old structures crumbling and becoming marriage symbols of the past he will morgan al-jazeera so work in east and sudan. and a quick reminder you can catch up with all the news on our website address for his dot com plenty of analysis there and details of the u.s. midterm elections just again. dot com.

and one of the top stories here on jazeera u.s. president trump has called the latest sanctions against iran the toughest ever imposed the measures target terror on oil and financial sectors and the u.s. is wrong they'll be consequences for any country that continues to do business with iran in response iran accused the u.s. of bullying and said its tactics were making washington more isolated internationally. we have the toughest sanctions ever imposed but on oil we want to go a little bit slower because i don't want to drive the oil prices in the world this has nothing to do with the red i don't want to drive the oil prices in the world so i'm not looking to be a great hero in bring it down to zero immediately i could get the iran oil down to zero immediately but it would cause a shock to the market i don't want to lift oil prices techies newspaper is reporting that members of a saudi team sent to stumble to investigate the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi focused instead on removing evidence

a publication is reporting that among the saudi team that arrived nine days after the assassination where experts on chemicals and toxicology they were reportedly given the job of getting rid of evidence meanwhile the u.n. human rights council has been reviewing the actions of saudi arabia and its record on rights violations a saudi delegation in geneva faced questions over the murder of jamal khashoggi addressing the council it restated the kingdom's position that it's investigating the killing and will prosecute those responsible. thousands of people have branded a supporter of sri lanka's newly appointed prime minister mahinda rajapaksa at a rally in colombo president cirrus sr told crown so you fired. because he was neglecting the local people the speaker for not because parliament has seriously and has repeatedly misled him over the constitutional crisis and affirmed

separatists of claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of around eighty people from a boarding school in western cameroon video released by the embers only a freedom fighters shows the students giving their names and the names of their parents they were taken from the city of but mended on sunday there's the top stories to stay with us the stream is coming up next by phone. from the ok and you're in the stream and i'm really could be today come satire survive in a so-called post truth era we chat with

a panel of noted comedians about the power of political satire and while you're leaving your comments and questions in the you tube chat take a look at this who runs by at some political satirist home for cause. the left is responsible for this result because the left has now decided that any other opinion any other way of looking at the world is unacceptable we don't debate anymore because the left won the cultural war so if you're on the right you're a freak you're evil you're a racist you're stupid you are a basket of deplorable how do you think people are going to vote if you talk to them like that when is anyone ever been persuaded by being insulted or or labeled so now if you're on the right or even against the prevailing view you are attacked for raising your opinion that's why people wait until they're in the voting booth no one's watching anymore there's no blame or shame or anything and you can finally say what you really think and that is a powerful thing the tories in charge brakes here and now from and all the polls were wrong all of them because when asked people can't admit what they think

looks that was more conflict issues television news reporter jonathan pie in twenty six commenting on the election of u.s. president donald trump was ransomed spy have racked up hundreds of thousands of things online making him a social media sensation while raising the ire of people across the political spectrum on both sides of the pond political satire has been traditionally used as a tool to punch against those in power a way to voice the concerns of marginalized groups who sometimes aren't given access to the public square. so one of the particular challenges of political satire right now when what's happening in the real world is sometimes more outlandish than any fictional news headline which would in the studio by jonathan pike. tom walk in the sanjay's we have calum in california we have christina wall she's a comedienne a writer and performance artist running for public office and in san francisco francesca freeman t.v. is also a comedian and correspondent for a. really good to have. scripting the bobsleigh come free

flowing at christina you could describe what you'll doing right now with political satire can you do that right international audience because right now absolutely specific space and i get a sense is my campaign headquarters in chinatown. presented by art salon chinatowns a is presented by the art world and i'm not actually on tomorrow's ballot i'm just campaigning i realized after years of making spectacle on theaters in guerrilla actions that i could no longer outdo the spectacle of real life politics and so i'm just going to bring my spectacle to where it's happening which is the political stage so at some point i will file and run for office but currently what i'm doing is giving a campaign speech is shaking babies kissing. trying to stage indorsements i mean yet door smits from white conservatives who normally probably

would not endorse me and and just sort of stacking my deck and collecting bribes things like what your slogan. it's the name of my failed reality television pilot. makes it right i actually had pitched a reality t.v. show that tru t.v. picked up just so they paid for a pilot we could start when obama was president and we had to shoot it when trump was president and i sort of blamed that shift for why everything about the persona that i had pitched then about this sort of naive self-centered activist conquering political apathy didn't it made sense when obama was president and then by the time we shot it in march. presidency it made no sense and or just everything just flipped upside itself and they turned down the pilot are now buying it for a season and so i mad out of we're reality. and they're ready they're also telling we're going to see this before running for office shaking hands i had to write that

down so that is your platform and i want to introduce our audience in case they're not familiar with your platform tom walker with this piece you're not going to play it because it's for the b.b.c. but i want to show our audience my problem with mansplaining this is jonathan pi this is your character and i bring this up because you got some pretty high praise for this in the former brick interface himself noted comedienne and originator of the original office the u.k. version ricky says i just watched your bit on mansplaining brilliant brain raw analytical without forgetting to be funny i like to think that i could do something else crafted and detailed if i had the patience and the energy so. happy now right that's my next post to quote thank you very much. yeah i mean that particular bit i mean i must explain the jonathan pollard the character i'm me you know we're lefties we're liberals but what i find with some of these days is that you know

certainly in the u.k. and i've seen a little bit of it here i mean in the u.k. it's not so sure as a whole for now all of. on voters stupid and on trump voters stupid well one that's not true to its tactically. not clever and three it's boring you know so what i try to do with pies because he cares about the left in the liberal ideas he's trying to lie on the left just as much as he does the right by telling them where they're going wrong and they aren't going wrong you can tell that because of who's in the white house at the moment you know something went wrong along along the line you know and is it because john pike has it because. yeah i mean certainly with this thing about left i cared deeply about free speech which isn't very fashionable on the left these days certainly in my country i think in america it's under attack but what's interesting for me is the comedy world i'm very new to the comedy world i started off as an actor of all the art forms i've

ever encountered and you wouldn't think it the comedy world is the most sense sorious the most sensitive i mean the attacks i've got from the comedy world just for standing up for the principle of free speech suddenly you're all right you're not so you're not see apologise if it's bonkers to me so it makes me double down and go no this is this is you never going to win if you if you keep down that road as far as i'm concerned and. cheska i just want to play a little clip from your questions down on some of the al-jazeera platforms so you were thinking you had quite a conservative audience but then here is the material that you're taking havoc. geography and now americans are learning that the syrian civil war is arguably the seven layer dip of wars you've got your authoritarian your rebels your civilians your foreign superpowers your warring factions your stateless fighters topped off with a whole lot of misinformation in other words an amazing way out of luck syria is about as easy to understand as a third grader trying to give you

a synopsis of game of thrones ok so the assads are like the land if there is and the us is like the stars or maybe they're the target areas putin is randy bolton and feeling great joy is thick. and i'm thinking conservatives will see no to big c. . yes i think well that is i mean that's an interesting thing that you noted there in terms of the way that news broke was born out of al-jazeera right and born out of an online platform that is really targeted at young people and so many so much of the language that young people are speaking i think ever since the daily show was going back really is through satire and through comedy they want to be informed but they don't want everything to be so serious i think tom's character speaks to that as well right whenever you break down this buttoned up newscaster i think that especially young people are going to listen much more than they would if

you're if you're just over the top sincere so i think news broke set out to do that and i think to a lot we gain new fans i think so major plus people who are used to seeing let's say the syrian civil war only treated through the lens of being that buttoned up newscasts which i think afterwards so many years can get we all tune it out there's a way we both tune out. what we think is like distasteful or you know something that is off color but then also we tune out things that are way too serious and sad so how do we get people to pay attention and i was our first attempt at talking about something so so grave christina. i think i just think we i hear whit thomas saying about three speeches and their attack and i used to be a someone who's like yeah let's just have at it let's just say whatever we want until. until people begin to take alex jones seriously and then act on those things

or until someone does like oh man i've got to go shoot up a synagogue. because there's a god is helping these folks are going to go is responsible for his own actions donald trump didn't do that and i'm experienced and do that and also by alex jones now not being allowed a platform that he doesn't go away he goes underground but by suppressing an opinion you don't you don't you don't lump alex jones as a performance artist yeah. i mean it's art is give us a performance i was a performance artist yeah i love it but i don't know what's happening because it's shifting culture in a way that like who this is. now i think people civil rights people or people don't understand how human rights works and are making decisions. based on what they think that alex jones is telling them or showing up at a pizza parlor to whatever people make their own decisions right they go because a to go shoot something up but where they're getting those orders from someone at

the top or someone who is position as a story and there's nobody challenging them or their space that's challenging them that's not right then exactly and i think that's what has my question what's going on tom i mean i agree with christine and like i definitely here we are coming from i'm someone who believes that you don't have to just punch up i think that people blaming stephen colbert for you know and satirical news for the reason that like trump got elected that's obviously ridiculous i do believe in free speech but all speech actually isn't created equal unfortunately we don't live in a petri dish of life and politics and economics unfortunately the president's words have way more meaning and when a president. as was it soros i don't know people say soros is paying for migrants to come across the border who knows like that actually matters more than my little you tube channel saying that you know millennia from like you know bait is

then caviar like whatever there is so like i think that in theory just like libertarianism it's all good but in practice you get the koch brothers but it didn't but in practice donald trump is in the white house i mean and on the trail to the white house it seemed impossible when he came out with those those awful remarks you know. mexicans and you know all of that sort of stuff where you could i mean there were assholes absolutely absolutely and you go how can he possibly win the white house now and he did so there is a problem here there is that we have somehow donald trump we bred donald trump into that white house which perhaps twenty twenty five years ago when political discourse was perhaps a little bit more i mean look at where political discourse is you the left think everyone on the right is an all right nazi and everyone on the right things and from the left is a communist snowflake mean that there is a discourse and i like that that there isn't

a school but it's just not architect or i don't i mean we're here to talk about satire and comedy and i will say we need it to survive authoritarianism we need tom's work we need christina's work hopefully we need my work if we don't have political satire we won't get through this if we don't all and i think on the left and the right take ourselves less seriously while also pointing out the just brings in her pocket of the people in power and by by making fun of them an absurdist ways and smart ways in whatever ways we want to and we're not going to survive so in some ways it's more critical than ever and the field is way more crowded right but i always say listen. it's hard to be a political comedy writer in twenty thousand because immigrants are not stealing our jobs the president is so right on your point about. not only in the performance art. scene that you are you there but i want to bring in our community

here because they have so much to say on this topic and on that point you're making about how this can survive i want to bring in this from giordano nonny he's the writer and creator of something called juicy media and he writes it produces a series called honest government ads he impersonates the government and he makes ads about issues with the difference being that they are honest here he is. i think it's you know one of the reasons i created the series on this government is because a lot of the problems that we face today come from our government these are the leaders that we put in place to act and. take action on things from climate change to corruption to closing of fuel tax loopholes all the sort of stuff but they don't see the people most of the part i'm not anti government person per se i want to see on this government so the series is as much of sound as

a wish for you christine i'm wondering what your take on that is especially because you are running for office well i'm running and then i am going to run and what i'm finding in this process is is is as much as you think it's as easy as like just run for dogcatcher it is very expensive to run a campaign and just to file in california you need to pay three percent of the first year's salary to run for governor that's about three thousand five hundred dollars so even if i'm running as a performance art piece that's a significant amount of money and then like someone like gavin newsom i think raise about fifty million dollars up to now so this is not something i can pull off and to get that money you got to get a lot of but and it's a very tricky dance that i'm learning just in trying to navigate what am i going to run for how will i do this without getting a sudden stroke at whole foods collecting signatures and you know like dirt and it's i gathered i said i had trash an audience gavin newsome is a very well known politician from california please continue. yeah so it's so so i

get it's very tricky to figure out how to get indorsements and having to say the right thing to a union or association of nurses it's it's such a weird game. of building this army and that you can't just have this opinion as an artist anymore so a lot of this is me trying to negotiate what i used to believe in as an artist seeing how does it apply to me corteen bakker and it's a very tricky i mean it's interesting a lot of people often say to me that one i find it really weird when they say are you green with everything jonathan pony says you go well then you're mad but. will you run for office complete from for a point to pay them and sometimes they're not joking and you go i mean i wouldn't i wouldn't have a clue what star and i would have no desire to do it you know sometimes all satire is to me and i totally understand what you're trying to treat the south so to me is

just about looking at something from a different angle you know shining a mirror on something you get things wrong to use hyperbole you go over the top the idea of running for office called emotion and then we're off to. yeah it's a nightmare but it's it's the only way i could figure out how to address that because it would take to even by the time i would get to a stage to address what happened that day twitter got to the fun but seriously about really doing it to just yes for all because you know what i mean by that is is a you doing it to see what it's like to run for office to. say yeah yeah i mean i would like to run to win and it's a process of learning how this works i mean i could be like the thousands of people who run as a joke or just to see their name on a ballot but i but i'm going to run as a performance artist i will bring my crazy paraphernalia with me wherever i speak i will. do you have a political agenda yes i do i'm also testing out stump speeches made genda right

now is just a finish sewing the set and to get people to show up at my rallies christine and many times when my money best tomorrow. i was not tomorrow i'm not on the ballot tomorrow but i'm thinking that if everyone who listens in california writes me and is governor i can. be a surprise winner yes. let me just share with you some of francesca not francesca's what we sent scenes from texas where some of christina's work because i'm wondering are there any topics for political slant on that or two to boot to tackle and there's something going to you tube channel that just jumped out at me it's running . so we are now going to christina's radical crime school have a look have a listen hello young comrades. i'm going to show a picture this is my way of figuring out if you've been tainted by the patriarchy here let's show you who do you think it is let me me me

why it's just like this thing about white people that just makes me. like they're right there. and i'm just like walking into the pool and they just give me a desk and i'm just like so this guy was in the pool. with the moon walk out and look at this guy or a bad guy. who do we think this is make a guess oh i don't know will do or who is he married to. yes. oh yes donald does what we don't. really know about him as. the president. how do we know about the current christina i think there's somebody in political saturates writing there but here's a question. i guess anything that's too touchy too sensitive to

make fun of to make a political joke about running out of first. oh alas i wanted the kids to go the kids in that series this is this is more shot like a documentary of that day of need seeing if we could cram school is a nickname for a tutoring center an asian american community they get the because you're a little like cramming in all these subjects and so we thought what if we could cram them with social education in a day and and so. we're not we didn't put any of those reactions in their mouths and a lot of people like your indoctrinating the kids or us we created it because we felt like how do we teach kids to deal with the. rhetoric floating around now in the trump era and it's not too young because two of our producers will parents of one of the kids and actually suggested that we do it because they live in ohio where she's one of the few asian girls there and. understanding that people

are looking at her weird and she said see how things have changed in a sense the election. i'll jump in and say that i mean i think you get doing online content you get a lot of responses i'm sure you guys both know and of course one of the biggest i think the biggest moment of this year in terms of political satire was michelle wolf's white house correspondent yeah speed right and her entire her monologue where she made fun of sarah huckabee sanders. but then you know her makeup right said she will burn lies or burn the truth and then use the like the ash to make a perfect smoky of course the media went absolutely insane and a little bit to tom's point about kind of the oversensitivity that and i don't i don't again it's one strand of and in this case it was actually much of mainstream media and liberal media that was like you've gone too far and i would actually say that a lot of mainstream media and specifically liberal media only says you've gone too

far when you make fun of all women on the right making fun of women on the right is absolutely a no go zone so right wingers get to go crazy where you can say what let hillary clinton eight five babies this morning as she wed her lizard tail like that's a perfectly normal sentence. but if you make fun of. scented sushi if you listen and it's got great just got its own point of the city video i want to weigh in here because our community is doing that so this is the gamer whose writing on you tube live the ability to humiliate the politicians is what makes political satire effective not sure you all would agree with that but that's one person's view so in talking about the role and the responsibility that saturates have monster bronnie famed comedian writes in the role of satire is to expose apocryphally and make fun of those in charge when they deserve being made fun of ricky gervais' has another thought on that he says it's only responsibility is not to break the law and cause actual harm the same as anyone and anything else in

ideal world. told me that the question was can you go too far as the subject and the simple answer is no i mean my number one fan ricky gervais's. point often says that it happens all the time that we mistake the subject of a joke for the target of the joke and that is that is often a mistake so i didn't in the things should be should be out of bounds. guess i accompany the times phone this fast we have less than one minute left for you to tell us where you are appearing next tom. i'm appearing to. have some theater in washington a count of what it's called seven to nine in this ticket still available for both christina. i'm doing a show with undocumented immigrants at the dream resource center near macarthur park it's free it's at seven o'clock. i love we have working altis on the show. the night of the punchline in san francisco pre-election in show and also november

fifteenth at the. francesca christine thank you so much for sharing your thoughts your insights on political satire good to have here now before we go we want to leave you with a sneak peek of a new doc from our colleagues at witness takes us into the world of former refugee and current fashion model holly made in i travel to her home state of minnesota on friday for a screening and a discussion of the film that's now streaming at al-jazeera dot com. for a girl who was once a refugee she's now. struck to the one way i'm looking for a job this cannot be my life. i have never really bought into anyone or any group. and i've heard it all i've heard a long enough you're not a good move you're not american and i.

have had good i was so good. welcome back. i. heard oh it was really i. was going out but i'm just. not in both the days when the world wants to be like one thing or the other. i think in all like all groups somebody has to go out and be the first.

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history has called it the great war in the second deficit and the declining onto an empire forges its alliance with germany and the central powers as the war gives birth to three nationalist movements the will determine the future world war one through the eyes on a legacy or. on november sixth the united states will vote will president total trump gain or lose growing will be live from the white house i'm here on capitol hill as the results come in join us for special coverage of the u.s. midterm elections on al-jazeera. with the headlines on al-jazeera the u.s. is calling the latest sanctions against iran its toughest so far tear on has

accused washington of bullying and said its tactics were backfiring by isolating the u.s. internationally the measures target iran's oil and financial sector. we have the toughest sanctions ever imposed but on oil we want to go a little bit slower because i don't want to drive the oil prices in the world this has nothing to do with the red i don't want to drive the oil prices in the world up so i'm not looking to be a great hero and bring it down to zero immediately i could get the iran oil down to zero immediately but it would cause a shock to the market i don't want to lift oil prices. our diplomatic editor james bays has more from washington d.c. . the message the treasury secretary and the secretary of state wanted to send was that the sanctions lifted when the u.s. during the obama administration joined other international partners in the twenty fifteen iran nuclear deal a rule now back in place but if you read the small print that's not exactly the

case some of the iranian nuclear facilities have been given waivers so they can still work producing nuclear energy for civilian use the trumpet ministration wants all countries to stop importing iranian oil but for now secretary of state mike pompei o says age nations who get temporary waivers to the u.s. will be granting these exemptions to china india italy greece japan south korea taiwan and turkey the two cabinet secretaries said they'd keep a laser focus on iran but why single out just one country in the region james face from al jazeera english you talk about the destabilizing behavior of iran in the region how does that differ from the bad behavior of saudi arabia. so let me just go through the list underwriting lebanese hezbollah presents a threat to united states of america and to israel underwriting the hoodies and yemen causing an enormous conflict to take place there in that country the efforts in iraq to undermine the iraqi government funding shia militias that are not the

best interests of the iraqi people their efforts in syria the list goes on the difference in behavior between those two countries is remarkable. that france and perhaps needs some point checking the u.n. says there's no evidence iran has recently supplied the who feeds with weapons while the saudi led campaign has been responsible for the majority of civilian deaths in yemen saudi arabia certainly has its own destabilizing role in the region just look at the blockade of carrots are and if you are criticizing iran for its human rights then saudi's appalling record also needs to be scrutinized particularly in the light of the murder of jamal khashoggi in istanbul james zero washington. newspaper is reporting that members of a saudi team sent to istanbul to investigate the murder of journalist. focused

instead on removing evidence the publication claims experts on chemicals and toxicology were among the saudi team but arrived nine days after the assassination meanwhile the u.n. human rights council in geneva has been reviewing the actions of saudi arabia and its record on rights violations a saudi delegation faced questions over the murder. and restated the kingdom's position that it's investigating the killing and will prosecute those responsible. thousands of people have rallied in support of sri lanka's newly appointed prime minister but when director packs are at a rally in colombo president serious cena told crowds he fired to run a recruiter singer because he was neglecting local people but the speaker of sri lanka's parliament says serious cena has repeatedly misled him over the constitutional crisis i mean a friend separatists have claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of dozens of people from a boarding school in western cameroon video released by the ambers only

a freedom fighters shows the students giving their names and the names of their parents the rebel group took at least seventy nine students and their principal from a presbyterian school in the city of bam and on sunday present top stories stay with us out there a correspondent is come out next more news for you after that by phone or. in some ways alaska's nothing less than a promises. in the summer the constant sun might suppose so beautiful it seems

a crime to look away. from a distance the tundra looks like a muted patchwork. only when you bend towards the ground to check if the berries have ripe and if the mushrooms have come up after rain can you see the spongy cosmos it contains. in the rivers salmon move powerful like together. and in the times between night and day when even the salmon seem to still we were taken by the raw force of a landscape stripped of its summer an astrologer. my name is america. i've got tired after america and. and my mom's side of the family is new to boston . i'm an online journalist for al-jazeera and. my mom's village has one of the last subsistence salmon cultures worlds but their way of life could disappear. for an hour persists and i feel really

grateful to be a part of it. if people ask i usually same from qatar or the middle east. my dad says that when he was growing up the lifestyle in qatar was very simple and sometimes i wish i could have seen what that world looked like. the peace of life a slow everybody knew everybody. and there's just one place to get your vegetables and fish down at the coastline. oil and gas completely transformed the country. and even my lifetime the city has dramatically changed. there's this glittering skyline that developed almost overnight and we have all this wealth now . people are usually shocked when i tell them that my mom is from alaska my dad is

from qatar and they always always ask how they met. but the story is pretty boring really they just met in the university and at the time they still had to see if they can make things worse this is not fun. coming to don't have felt the first time i was excited to come and see the country because. you know it's just someplace new and different fuels come to a little bit of someone that isn't something i want to adopt a situation where you think this is going to be home for you know i'm i think i'm almost the thought of wants to learn. about different cultures and religions can that all new dalton away from moscow all the way to the fault of the war the never been here and just lived on promises here taking the woman both of them. what did you promise the parents of the fairness to bring her back of do you know

this. but do you remember picking two of the first well i think i was probably. pretty nervous about what he would think those are going to experience see them go there or you know what can gravel on the way you can see this huge like cross shaped runway and then you're looking all around the country to be like what what's here where is it because i mean he was like from a urban situation and stuff and i just thought man he's probably going to think that he's coming to absolutely nowhere you know but. it all worked out in the end he adapted to village life easily. but to survive you have to do it yourself you have to go catch your own food you have to build your own children and i think the all the tools around them isn't for me i know what parts so it's coulter. cults are often called turned to do you want your kids to know

their cultural houses are doing a good positive things and of course as parents we want the best hope of both we just wanted you to be able to experience everything things that you didn't have a chance to experience here i mean formal education obviously girls went to school here and then through the family you learned all the traditions you know even ramadan and all the you know all the family celebrations whereas yes in alaska you have got like twenty one hours of daylight you were free to roam around and do things that you wanted to do you. feel more american here and that more air in the us. i think that's just. the nature being half of one thing half of the others yes or no outside of things.

since i was born we've tried to fly back each year to help my grandma with the salmon run i just remember being so excited to go to where as an adult i forget how much i miss it until i'm there the only way to get to the village is on a ninety day or plane flying forty five minutes out from anchorage which is the nearest city. i mean good family. the community that my grandmother lives in is actually two villages one is called

and one is called the hill and the hill in is up the mouth of the river that feeds into lake. lake is part of this broader water system that produces forty six percent of the world's sockeye salmon. salmon return to the place that they're hatched so they're hatched they go out into the ocean and stay there for a few years and then fight their way back to lay their own eggs. we probably should come to the back door can we just walk through oh yes because they want to see. my grandma around about a breakfast here for at least twenty years pretty much the same as you remember at your member when your kids planted all those trees they got so big you can see them make hardly disappear so scared of this of like run. yeah isn't

this the room where we found the interns. yes. miss america here down here the memories here are so.