thoughts from port moresby. international summits usually end with bland communiques not chaotic scenes and the prime minister being bundled out of the conference room who peter o'neill papua new guinea's prime minister had just been telling reporters about the success of the apec summit he'd been hosting and trying to leave without taking questions on its dramatic failure but leaders are not being able to agree on even the plan this language for an agreed leaders statement at the apec summit took place behind closed doors so why the failure to get all twenty one to agree i think your writing is as the chair you are the reason not to be able to achieve a community where you have almost twenty one economies agreeing to the agreeing to all the issues that we have discussed and it is not the frustration but we all know haitians summit thank you managed to publish something even if it's pretty bland of if they haven't this thought why not ised the problems that are now been released in the design of the new prime minister chairman statement is not the same as

a communique you must be disappointed there's been not going to there's been term stegman in the past a big maybe and so use of that that where there's a good area in fact there's been an agreed leader statement after every apec summit since one nine hundred ninety three this is not the way i pick conferences are supposed to be aimed and this will be a huge disappointment to the hosts pap and you get particularly the prime minister . it was an argument over trade that caused the break down the trade disputes between the united states and china is so serious that apec leaders couldn't find any common ground they could put into words there are differing visions on particular elements in regards to trade and those prevented there from being full consensus on the communique document the leaders agreed that instead of a traditional leaders declaration they would issue they would. leave it there and sort of in g.'s. to. be

a terrorist state and regional rivalry with clear leaders from australia new zealand japan and the united states announced millions of dollars to help bring reliable electricity to the majority of people in papua new guinea and that's seen as a way to counter a growing chinese investment and influence this principle spice partnership signals our ongoing commitment to put our financial and out technical resources into connecting more households businesses and civis providers across papa new guinea apec is normally a forum for consensus and cooperation on how to grow economies this use descended into squabbles of a policies actions and words and donald trump wasn't even there under thomas al-jazeera mostly look at a weather update next here on al-jazeera than ever. as more central american asylum seekers arrive in mexico the u.s.

steps up efforts to stop them getting in. and britain's prime minister fights back against calls to rethink her break that deal. hello again welcome back we're here across parts of china we are seeing some rain showers here across the coastal areas now the next few days the rain will linger over hong kong but we do expect to see that rain start to make its way towards the north as we make our way towards tuesday conditions are going to be improving for hong kong with a temperature of twenty six we are going to see that rain up here towards fuzhou oh at about twenty one in shanghai it is going to be a cool rainy day for you at seventeen degrees well we are watching what's happening down here across parts of southern india very closely we had one storm pushing across much of that area brings very heavy rain and some of those rain showers were deadly with the flooding that was involved we are going to see more rain coming in

from the bay of bengal over the next few days monday right for tonight down here towards colombo as well bengaluru it's going to be a rainy day at twenty eight degrees and not much of a change as we go towards tuesday heavy rain across much of the south but up towards the north it is going to be a warm day for new delhi with attempt a few of about twenty eight degrees and here across much of the arabian peninsula not looking too bad down here towards the south but what we are going to be seeing the rain is up here towards northern part of saudi arabia as well as parts of iraq across that border area for riyadh and it's going to be a warm day for you at twenty four degrees not looking too bad there for doha twenty eight degrees and over here towards twenty eight. stories generate thousands of headlines with different angles from different perspectives cara fanny's fact. one of the major issues before voters

is the institution president from cannot stop talking about the news separate the spin for the facts the misinformation from the journalism the shock of a.b.c.'s reporting free to leave the listening post on al-jazeera. and again this is al-jazeera the main news this hour the u.s. government is expected to give its conclusion on who killed a saudi journalist tomorrow shoji in the next two days the cia has reportedly found the saudi crown prince mohammed bin someone is responsible for the murder president donald trump has called the reports from a chill. the united nations red cross say that hundreds of thousands of yemenis are

in immediate danger from renewed fighting in the data boards vital for food and humanitarian aid shipments widespread famine is threatened and the u.s. envoy for afghanistan says that he's hoping for a peace deal with the taliban by april so make some three days of talks and the taliban has a political office. the u.s. president donald trump has visited the devastation left by the worst wildfires in california history the number of dead has was now to seventy six people thirteen hundred people are still unaccounted for al-jazeera stressed and salumi has been missing some of those who've lost everything. at a makeshift camp next to a wal-mart parking lot. shell shocked families take stock of their losses amy bravo and her family were among the fifty thousand people forced to flee their homes as the wildfires closed in around them her trailer home and her place of employment

are gone not to mention her daughter's toys a million things going through my head i had to we just got to figure out what we're doing and where we're going. that's yeah. her hometown called paradise now looks more like hell on earth entire neighborhoods have burned to the ground. forensic recovery teams poke through the burned out shells of homes looking for bodies of the missing the state of california is most devastating wildfire in history has claimed over twelve thousand buildings in addition to so many lives firefighters continue efforts to contain the blaze which is scorched over sixty thousand hectors the efforts are still still very active also we have units like search and rescue the national guard assisting us and multiple other resources helping us with the recovery president trump came here to paradise to view the scenes of utter devastation firsthand he met with state officials have been critical of him and promised federal assistance for californians. the president

downplaying the role of a changing climate in fueling these fires said the management and maintenance of forest lands will be the focus moving forward and he announced five hundred million dollars for that effort and i was grateful i mean we're going to have that and we're going to have forests that are very safe as we can go through the years every year we go through this and we're going to have safe farce and. that's happening as we speak but ten days after the fire broke out californians with nowhere to go are getting impatient let's bring the troops back from the border and build some homes not some walls you know because that's what we need fema trailers out here people have children people have animals and we're not out here because we want to be we're here because we lost our homes a thick haze of smoke has settled over much of northern california along with the reality it's still not clear where people can go kristen salumi al-jazeera paradise

california britain's prime minister is dismissing calls to a man breaks a deal with the european union whining in a tabloid newspaper the reason they said it's the only agreement that will work the deal is to be signed off at an e.u. summit in brussels next week a number of ministers resigned cabinet approved the agreement on wednesday some senior figures in a policy of the mounting a rethink while rebels seek support for a possible leadership challenge to zero sania gago reports now from london. there was an acknowledgment from the prime minister to resign me of just how tough this past week was as she announced the withdrawal deal with all the opposition that she has faced within her own party but she said what was facing the country in the coming seven days was going to be absolutely critical for the future she said that this withdrawal deal is incumbent upon any future deals that the u.k. is going to have with the european union she confirmed that she was going to be

meeting in the coming days with the european commission president john called younker but also what is happening is that there are a number of m.p.'s who have already submitted letters for a vote of confidence in two reasons may if she manages to survive that then she will be going forward with that now she has already lost a second breakfast secretary and that has hired a bird want to try and continue and she made reference to the fact that those tiny details of the withdrawal deal was still being thrashed out however this is the only deal she maintains on the table and that the u.k. was going to be leaving the european union and it's of much meanwhile the opposition perhaps is not offering any other alternative is the labor leader jeremy corbyn has said that while it is against this deal it is really not pushing forward

any other solution other than perhaps the possibility of another general election which at this time could prove to be a volatile maneuver and also just the fact of the matter that the labor party do not have the sufficient amount of support at this time they have consistently been behind the conservative party in the polls and they and the labor leader jeremy corbyn has even said that even though all options are on the table including a second referendum. that set me was not for him an option now but perhaps for the future israel's prime minister is making what's being seen as a last ditch attempt to keep his government from collapsing benjamin netanyahu is due to meet the finance minister and coalition member mushy come on to try to avoid a snap election the political crisis was triggered when defense minister avigdor lieberman resigned on wednesday and withdrew his party from the coalition he was upset about a cease fire agreement with armed groups in gaza fighting started last week after

a covert israeli mission nothing yahoo's been criticized for that mission and colognes kalu new party is seen as vital to prevent a coalition votes on his leadership netanyahu is apparently keen to stop the right wing lieberman benefiting from his resignation will get in levy is a columnist and editorial board member at haaretz he says that netanyahu isn't going anywhere any of it any time soon. as it seems right now if the mets will look like it looks now it will be again a right wing governments leader that by the hour but they are two are known facts to us one is the investigations against that the neo which we don't know yet how will the end of the above all the way in with the end and the second unknown fuck stories will they be new organisations new new extorts in the game because in the lift side of the centralist side of the main the these some talking

about a new party new extorts new politicians stepping in and this might change the whole picture we have to wait but as i said before don't expect dramatic changes the us is rushing to complete its border war with the mexican city of tijuana and the hope of keeping thousands of central americans out they've been making their way through mexico hoping to seek asylum in the u.s. more than three thousand of them are seeking shelter at a sports complex in the border city of a serious high teacher castro has been speaking to some of them. they came in the night bus loads of central american asylum seekers greeted by the applause of those who arrived before them. but morning illuminates the challenge ahead american workers are rushing to complete the border wall and u.s. soldiers nearby pin the area i'm asking god to help us pass and give us

a side of. about three thousand members of the caravan are now in t. wanna ilesa radius and her family joined the line at the checkout port of entry adding their names to a wait list of more than fourteen hundred families ahead of them. they already travelled a month on foot but it'll be weeks more before their turn to claim asylum more night they're sick daughter will sleep with no roof and no bed they have them all. she could with and has the flu and an fever u.s. authorities are allowing only a few dozen asylum seekers a day to pass through the port of entry citing strained resources is a was going on they seeds due to the lack of resources but they have the resources to deport thousands of people a day they just want people to give up the border wall is a solid barrier between tijuana and the us that extends all the way into the ocean

trying to swim around or trying to scale the top is simply too dangerous of a prospect for the vast majority of migrants get a desperate few have tried. most are unaware of u.s. president donald trump executive order to deny asylum to anyone who crosses. but almost all say they're planning to wait anyway they'll claim asylum legally they say even though it means prolonging their time in the u.s. borders shadows. castro al-jazeera t. want to mexico in athens protests of three and petrol bombs and stones at police during a demonstration to mark the anniversary of the one nine hundred seventy three student revolt against military rule fifteen thousand people took part in saturday's process which began peacefully police responded with tear gas and stun grenades and protesters of marched in the czech republic demanding the resignation of the prime minister on about this is accused of misusing european union funds ten years ago

pressure on the billionaire increased after it was revealed that he'd gone to crimea to avoid being questioned by police the rally in prague twenty nine years since the velvet revolution which ended communist. and environmental battle in the balkans is he. up with a group of women determined to stop a network of rivers running dry two thousand seven hundred hydroelectric dams threaten an ecosystem in bosnia and herzegovina david chase a report. the christian river runs through a mountain forest once a rich hunting ground outside sarajevo for the emperor of austria hungary a business cartels plans to build a small hydroelectric plant here though means these waters could soon run dry diverted into concrete pipes to drive. the women of the village of christie are the only thing standing in their way the project would

destroy the hopes of reviving tourism in a national park devastated by the war here in the one nine hundred ninety s. . police who used to clear block a day built to prevent construction crews reaching the site of women with battens outraged public opinion. they continue that twenty four hour guard above the river which is a source of drinking water as well as taking the fight to the courts. we've seen examples of the dams there before the river beds we would all have to move out and leave our homes throughout the balkan region a total of two thousand seven hundred hydroelectric plants are planned on the construction in bosnia-herzegovina they already supply forty percent of the energy supply. environmentalists say that building a hydroelectric dam is similar to cutting down

a tropical rain forest and its impact on the local ecology investors maybe getting a quick return on that money but a huge swathe of species in the local habitat a port on a downward escalator to words extinction ecologists have described it as a tsunami of down building that will profoundly old to the whole region the real motif they say is far from the ideal of clean sustainable energy having some really really one of the most beautiful rivers. and they are going to be destroyed for the . greed but in ten years time solar power is forecast to be much cheaper than hydroelectric and the pristine forests and rivers of the balkans will probably have gone for at the beach a to al-jazeera sarajevo. it

is good to have you with us hello adrian finnegan here in doha with the headlines on al-jazeera the u.s. government is expected to give its conclusion on who killed saudi journalist jamal khashoggi in the next two days the cia has reportedly found saudi crisper hamad bin solomon was responsible for the murder of president donald trump has called that finding premature. it should never have happened and we'll be having a very full report over the next two days in the meantime we're doing things to some people that we know for a fact were involved and we're being very tough on a lot of people with this sort of we're going to come up with a report as to what we think the overall impact was and who caused it and who did it you talk about a killing we're not talking about anything else we're talking about it killing so who did it the united nations and red cross say that hundreds of thousands of yemenis are in immediate danger from renewed fighting in who data the port is vital for food and humanitarian aid shipments is widespread famine is threatened the who

these now control most of yemen while the exiled government controls a section of the south the u.s. envoy for peace talks with the taliban in afghanistan says that he's hoping for a peace deal by april so make a little sad has had three days of talks in castle with the taliban as a political office the taliban spokesman said discussions are aimed at renewing the peace process and ending u.s. military involvement in afghanistan the taliban controls most almost half of the country and frequently attacks security forces and government targets leaders at the apec summit have failed to agree on a final communique after two days of meetings in papua new guinea canada's prime minister blame disputes between member nations over trade tension between the us and china dominates the discussions on saturday china's president xi jinping took aim at the us us protectionism while u.s. vice president mike pence said that washington will not cut tariffs britain's prime minister is dismissing calls to amend her breaks that deal with the european union

writing in the tabloid newspaper the reason may says it's the only agreement that will work a number of ministers resigned after cabinet approved the agreement on wednesday calls here with the news on a little over these grid rather a little over twenty five minutes but after this week's listening post next. trust china millions of cameras are watching citizens every move and scoring their behavior when used investigates china's surveillance crackdown. on al-jazeera. media. savvy. i can act on what. i can actually works out ok. for. the future saudi. arabia. is. the armature does britain europe the listening post here are some of

the media stories that we're covering this week the saudi operative linked to the khashoggi killing and the lengths he went to to suppress journalism in the kingdom of the koreas the unique genre that is defector t.v. . it was no accident israel tries to take down gases al aksa t.v. and a low everyone in an english artificial intelligence some newsreaders can seem artificial in that respect this guy is the real deal ai anchors on the air in china we begin though with saudi arabia and the methods the kingdom still uses to silence its critics sometimes permanently it's been more than a month now since the murder of john malkovich. riyad reaffirmed this past week that it was a rogue operation but its story keeps changing and news has surfaced of another saudi journalist to a key al just jailed eight months ago since tortured to death i'll just surround what he thought was an anonymous account on twitter a platform that used to be

a proxy public square for saudis but where an army of trolls now poisons debate harasses dissidents and spreads misinformation the mastermind of that campaign has been sowed al qahtani who work behind the scenes as an unforced error for the crown prince mohammed bin salma as his boss can. ducted a charm offensive on the western news media al qahtani was ensuring the journalists back home told the line and the critics stayed silent he was reportedly fired over the murder but the chilling effect of his work remains our starting point this week israel. took all the two weeks the saudis insisted nothing happened and all kinds of explanations about what happened and now is responsible. after the murder of jamal khashoggi those initial denials from riyadh undone by all the evidence the announcements from saudi

arabia cuts against what should fester get say from its side this building and the ensuing geo political public relations disaster one might have thought that the saudi authorities dealing with the media would be on their best behavior at least for a while. the death of a saudi arabian journalist given all the the case of put a key i'll just a blogger jailed earlier this year and his death after torture was revealed this past week could disprove that riyadh's war against journalism and criticism within goes on. certainly the message would appear to be that the saudi authorities can still. intimidating carry things out against its critics even after the death of tomorrow they will want to reimpose that climate of fear because the nervousness as well of the saudi authorities right now they fear perhaps that the

whole affair might encourage and embolden critics within the kingdom to be more vocal in the saudi element that some might claim that the murder hasn't had an impact on saudi arabia that the country will continue its harassment assassinations and kidnappings of journalists but i don't believe this is the case especially since there remain doubts over the circumstances of al just as kidnapping and murder some claim he was murdered in march two thousand and eighteen others say it was days ago so it's possible his case predates. the whole question and just serve it was not the only person there is a journalist famous journalist an opinion columnist rather he has disappeared. and in the fairy who would put an arabic has gone silent for over two years and we don't know if he's in jail. is the. some of them they want to center to to death and because she actually use social media to to write about that protest in the

eastern province and get these people who are who are would have been in prison for using twitter and facebook you're talking about thousands maybe. there was no mystery over how jamal khashoggi met his fate he was lured to the saudi consulate in istanbul and walked into a trap how tookie i'll just that was exposed and arrested is less clear however all roads would appear to lead to sowed qahtani al qahtani is a feared figure in saudi arabia he's ex-military and advisor to the royal court appointed by the crown prince they call m.b.'s muhammad bin salma he was responsible for directing the saudi troll army that went after the kingdom's critics online and reportedly spent so much time poring over twitter debates he was nicknamed mr hashtags last year al qahtani tweeted a warning to saudi dissidents telling them that using an alias on twitter would not

be enough to hide their identity hinting that he had secret ways of finding them and just last month the new york times reported that saudi arabia had been better to spy inside twitter's operation to monitor accounts critical of riyadh accounts such as the one belonging to the late. i'll just. and i was sort of comments and then when mohammed bin selman took power the tourney became very important perhaps one of three key people surrounding the crown prince of his principle role was to steer the electronic army toward supporting muhammad in someone's decisions it also involved attacking critics he's not only implicated in official jews murder but in the kidnapping of former lebanese prime minister saad hariri he's a very powerful man not only in terms of shaping public opinion but in executing mohamed bin salmond's to see. ns and feel c.s. are two hundred missing since my husband is among the forty took power he increased to saudi government control over the media one of the reporters or editors told me

they could we used to go to the king and he would tell us you know talk about this don't talk about that no it is so the tiny and people who like him through whatever group will tell. the reporters what to write and tell editors what to write their is no meeting so this is just another increase in the level of control over the media. given that headroom on a control over the mainstream media the real political debate in saudi arabia occurs online primarily on twitter the government could have done what its counterparts in iran did ban the platform out right instead it allows twitter to operate in the country and takes on its critics there both overtly through official government accounts and covert through trolling false followers hacking and

surveillance and when the authorities hunt down political opponents they don't stop at the port omar abdul aziz is a saudi blogger based in canada this calls for political reform back home are delivered to hundreds of thousands over twitter and youtube but it's a hundred times and he says that months before jamal khashoggi walked into the consulate in istanbul saudi officials contacted him trying to arrange a meeting at their embassy in auto abdulaziz refuse even and they asked for their not in you and they were trying to and bug you know on the lies he is and get into his and his accounts and get into his social media platforms and that's why some of them are stopping their activism no moderation of opposition no matter how small or no matter how slim is going to be accepted autonomy. i am a target of the saudi government because of what i write every time i get an email with a with a link i'm suspicious especially from people i don't know and this fake b.b.c.

journalist she calls herself talia stalin and the fact that they didn't use a b.b.c. email also made it clear to me that was a fake account they continued to try me in the past week they have stopped but they are trying other ways to go into our computer and other e-mails. in riyadh the latest official explanation of the khashoggi murder version six point zero of the story places the blame on five allegedly rogue operatives who according to the foreign minister could face the death penalty sowed al qahtani faces a travel ban but nothing more while his boss who apparently was completely unaware of the operation that killed one of his most prominent critics can be seen on state run television meeting with investors visiting soldiers wounded in the war in yemen and smiling for selfies with saudi children. man is the crown prince and

really the almost a fact a ruler of saudi arabia has a huge challenge his image has been shattered by this certainly internationally so how does he actually manage to revivify that carefully managed image as the reformer the man of change so the saudi media or royal court are clearly going about their business of trying to show him as a response ball leader statesman who has saudi interests at heart i think it's questionable whether this will work right now certainly it won't work i think internationally it might work in some quarters in saudi arabia and that's obviously what they are hoping. saudi arabia never been a beacon of the for. them of speech and freedom of expression but i think that the saudi crown prince has taken things to the next level there is no tolerance for any kind of deflection from the regime or from the regime's narrative and the regime

stories a lot of arab regimes in the region including the saudi looting the egyptian regime including is the syrian regime have used this whole logic of keeping stability we're trying to preserve stability we're trying to keep you safe and this is a way of trying to keep control of the people and to keep them in check and to halt any form of opposition or freedom of expression. we're discussing other media stories that are on our radar this week with one of our producers will yong will starting with israel in its latest assault on gaza it has gone after palestinian media and has done so on apologetically yes last monday night israeli warplanes destroyed the headquarters of al aksa t.v. which is run by hamas and is located in a densely populated neighborhood. there were no injuries since the station was

alerted the strike was coming israel clearly didn't want to be seen killing journalists how musk called the attack barbaric and bare faced aggression israel's military justified the strike in a tweet saying a lot of broadcast incitement and violence for years and that its forces have made sure the station would not broadcast again however broadcast did resume about an hour off of the strike and included this video of hamas fighters hitting an israeli military bus with an antitank missiles. official israeli twitter accounts then use that a time to accuse hamas of targeting civilians but the bus a been carrying soldiers in an area that was sealed off to civilian traffic and the picture accompany many of the tweets actually had nothing to do with the attack it was a shot of a bus fire near jerusalem several years ago which showed civilians there while in reality they would have been nowhere near the scene moving on to india now where a prominent television news anchor has been criticized for

a report that he filed on the conflict between government forces and maoist insurgents a group known as the naxalites tell us who is he and why the controversy is centered around a report by roy who come while of the india today channel while embedded with the unit at the indian armed police force the c r p f in the central state of his god where government forces a fighting or not and those are one corps but i was planning an operation. would you like to join that that's exactly why we have her to go to the challenges that go into the battle against the necklace or we'd love to come in your boys and the whole thing was a simulation was an exercise and come while made it look like the thing every couple of minutes before the words representative video or simulation exercise by a pop at the top left but come on doesn't actually say any point that it was staged and sometimes he talks as if he's in a real battle so what kind of weapons they're fighting with. and enjoyed not so come on know he now has to be taken by these poor but as yet we have

commandos on twitter and critical music outlets kummel was accused of sensationalizing the story and misrepresenting the real dangers faced by journalists the next lights do kill and capture reporters we saw cases of both just days before convolved report but journalists reporting on the government's counterinsurgency strategy or on the expansion of mineral and coal mining in the state are routinely harassed and sometimes charged by police there's also the political context isn't there the timing of this particular report yes it is significant come ons report two days before elections for the chair to score assembly in the same show interview chad has got chief minister raman singh who's from the same party as prime minister nuri interim ot the b j p modi's popularity has been slipping of late and he's been using a lot of anti naxalite language to discredit his opponents ok thanks will. we're turning to south korea now the visit in september by president moon in the north

korean capital pyongyang was just the latest in a series of steps aimed at diffusing tensions on the peninsula however despite all that talk of reunification south koreans don't know as much about their northern neighbors as you might think most of what they do know comes from testimonies from asylum seekers which has created a brand new genre of television programming that one could call defector t.v. the formula takes a reality t.v. approach putting asylum seekers on the air exploring what their lives were like before this acting even setting them up with romantic partners from the south the producers involved say they're out to improve understanding smooth the path to reunification of countries divided since the end of world war two however skeptics aren't buying that they say that the show's run thick with sensationalism misrepresentation and sexist stereotyping listening posts christina martinez now on defector t.v. in south korea. in.

december two thousand and eleven south korea's channel eight launches a new program. and also hybrid. trucks and i wanted. to get the town and show what i wanted on. the. parts beauty contest. the only three ricocheted contestants had to be defectors from north korea. who told me that. there's never been a program about north korea before north korea was only ever seen through the news which kept talking about nuclear issues the north korean army how poor north korea knows that wasn't the. the first time now my way to meet you showed the real story of how north korean people live their culture they want to. know whatever little.

it has helped break down prejudices i think the program prepares us for unification though maybe one day but. it was the beginning of a trend south korean channels eager to find a different lens through which to present north korea could finally break away from the usual portrayal so funny and human rights abuses. and adds an element of entertainment. the question of whether they break down prejudices or ian for some is difficult in fact the matter is they mostly do both simultaneously they certainly seek to convey information about north korea there's a very famous song a young boy appears on north korean t.v. singing this.

song and then one of the panelists on one of these shows will sing the song in a way that mimics that north korean voice singing style. one thousand. pound man was the old was. in the editing suite or in some of the the ways they are framed they have the tendency to reinforce some prejudices as well as to put the original intention of those programs to depict the harmonious future of a unified korea by showing how well defectors integrate into south korean society going. but they mostly show young women describing their struggle to defect from north korea so there are. i was told see.

this gives south koreans a distorted impression of defectors and it creates prejudices about the country upon them to get the. seventy percent of north korean defectors are women and the ones that find themselves on t.v. often end up reinforcing a cultural stereotype that beautiful north korean women are the best partners for south korean men. of the. shows like love unification the young north korean women are paired with south korean men who proceed to instruct them on the ways of the modern developed country in which they now live the message in there is less than subtle little forms to the south korea nationalistic narrative that north korea is the weaker female nation. that needs protecting by the stronger more muscular in sag harbor. the concern is that such a catholic a church him

a chore and objectified image of these women is then extended to all north korean defectors and to the north korean population in general. so south koreans may end up looking down the north koreans are thinking we can treat them careless when that engrosses done and by that. there's another issue that doesn't help with the perception of north koreans on occasion some defectors testimonies have been sketchy and inconsistent parky on me is a defector who became a celebrity after a run on now on my way to meet you his stories attracted a lot of attention one of almost more about other work. but as discrepancies strapped into her accounts skepticism group here and free to see a real. or thank you monument but it's almost impossible to fact check these stories and. defectors themselves say the every put in the truth or turns out i

mean. it's that person's problem if they say one thing here another thing there it is hard to say that north korean people do that or that these programs make them do that their memory may change or they may remember something else at another time but i don't think the programs are to blame our homeland this or. there are such cases but at the same time poverty in north korea is real and it's also true that north korea ignores human rights tenants of house over to go in there. and you know it could all work to the mall so we need to see the story it may not be his or her own story they may have heard it from someone else or made it there but even when that happened the story exists. we need to be a little bit empathetic about the way collective memory and individual memory interact with each other a lot of these people left north korea several years ago as many as twenty in some

cases quite a lot of them were very young when they left so. in accuracies in their stories should not automatically put down to malice all. unknowing. as a genre has expanded so too have the narratives good friends which are aired on the publicly own channel e.b.'s between twenty fifteen and twenty sixteen brought together north and south korean teenagers in a more sober setting. just hanging out on a kind of. and on the web some of the younger defectors have become self publishing on a streaming platform in africa t.v. which he says sort of south korean you tube i don't start it up pretty well and it is obscurity i certainly couldn't you're going to. get it here's john they are self broadcasters interact with the viewers directly through the chat boxes that accompany their broadcasts i chalked up to look at how to.

tell. us how. allowing for a relatively unfiltered. discussion between south koreans and north koreans without any of the production framing. and they discover that they're not so different after all but why they have undoubtedly been a change of rhetoric at the political level how these shows actually improved public understanding you don't. while these programs contribute to making south koreans interested in north korea the majority still think that it's a good state should treat or you don't win the war. and these programs make people think how is it possible for us to live with them no way and so they end up reinforcing anti unification ideas things this kind of.

north korea is always described as a poor state its people are starving their human rights are infringed people see it as pathetic and they feel a sense. of alienation but over time the image of your career here is improved and lots of people are realizing that they can actually communicate with north korea to the shows are having a positive effect and that an appeal for calm. in a situation when a story is about north korea remains politicized and. defectors are rare stories of news that the summation they provide gets turned into infotainment says much about south korea and the television market and viewing habits as he does about the neighbors to the north. and finally the twenty four hour news business can be a grind sometimes the anchors come off as a bit robotic and there are a couple of news readers at china's state run shin why news agency who come by that

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news great live on air and streaming online through you tube facebook live in a down to zero dot com we know donald trump likes to draw things out and he seems to be doing just that with the jamal khashoggi case he's now talking about two days two days until the u.s. reveals who killed the saudi journalist remember the cia has already concluded it was the crown prince mohammed bin solomon and trump's insisted it's still quote too early to decide and all this back and forth as word comes of a resignation of a top white house official responsible for u.s. policy toward saudi arabia lots to talk about that will do that in a moment first this report from she our times. while touring the devastation caused by the california wildfires donald trump claimed the cia had not assessed anything yet that it was too early but that the judgment would come soon we're going to come up with a report as to what we think the overall impact was and who caused it and who did

it the state department earlier released this statement recent reports indicating that the u.s. government has made a final conclusion are inaccurate there remain numerous unanswered questions with respect to the murder of mr chaudry the state department will continue to seek all relevant facts and we will do that while maintaining the important strategic relationship between the united states and saudi arabia but according to several reports not only has the cia reached a conclusion it has high confidence in its assessment but was killed by order of the saudi crown prince the cia reached out assessment having examined communication intercepts and analyzing the power structure of saudi arabia but there's still no direct evidence confirming muhammad bin salman ordered the hits and that may be all the leeway the president needs to avoid reaching the same definitive conclusion congressional leaders have been briefed by the cia some members of congress are demanding action me senator richard blumenthal tweeted this trump must accept for

once his intelligence experts in controversial conclusion crown prince m.b.'s is culpable for casualties monstrous murder this brazen killing must have consequences sanctions prosecution removal of m.p.'s and others not continued cover up enabled by trump and the president is not willing to take those decisions the congress of the united states when it comes back. and reconvenes in washington will take decisions itself and the president might not like those decisions so he better get out in front of this oncoming train according to reports even the cia accepts that mohamed bin sounds position is secure but there are suggestions that the u.s. may attempt to use evidence of a. crown prince's culpability in casualties murder as leverage yemen the blockade of qatar within cos ration of dissidents even as some in congress see the murder of jamal khashoggi as a movement to reevaluate the entire relationship between saudi arabia and the us

others see it more as an opportunity to clip the wings of a volatile crown prince while still relying on him to advance the trumpet ministrations agenda in the middle east she overturns the old a zero washington ok here's rosalynn jordan following things from washington d.c. her president trump an interview he has given i realize it was from well it was recorded a couple of days ago but still what's even saying about this case well he was asked about the case because of course it has attracted considerable attention here in washington and one of the big questions has been about the evidence which the turkish government has been providing to the united states about the murder of jamal khashoggi let's listen to this exchange from fox news sunday. did any b.s. lie to you sir. i don't i don't know you know who can really know but i can say this he's got many people now than he had no knowledge what if the crown prince

speaking to you the president of the united states directly lied to you a lot that he told me that he had nothing to do with it he told me that i would say maybe five times at different points to one of his law as recently as a few days ago to just live with it because you need him well will anybody really know right will anybody really know but at the same time we do have an ally and i want to stick with an ally that in many ways has been very good will we have another i hope we will have been talking this sunday you know we have the sunday morning talk shows in the united states for us on who else of significance is spoken about this. lindsey graham the south carolina senator who is in line to become the ranking member on the senate foreign relations committee excuse me the chairperson of the senate foreign relations committee when it reconvenes in january he has been in recent months a vocal defender of the u.s. president but in this case he is very much fear eous frankly with the saudi

government over the murder of jamal khashoggi and he believes that the crown prince had something to do with it and that he should be held accountable he was quite animated in his view but given that the president just told fox news well at least on friday he told fox news you know we don't know that see it's really not clear that he's going to have enough persuasive power over the president because there does seem to be this ongoing split over how to resolve this situation given that the saudi government appears to have been very intimately involved in the murder of mr kushner ok thank you for bringing us up to date rosalynn jordan's in washington d.c. we are heading to manassas virginia now and scottrade a policy founder and president of the national iranian american council thank you for making the time for us look that you've got to be somewhere so let's get into it straight away all this hedging which donald trump doubts it might have happened

he might have told me this he did tell me this where we have and how long can this go on do you think. i don't think you can go on for much longer i think we have reached a point in which clearly not only in the foreign policy elites but also inside the trumpet ministration itself that we have reached a momentum a tipping point in which. those arguing to continue the u.s. saudi relationship with business as usual are really losing out and that there is this very strong push for at least some form of a change perhaps it will not be as fundamental as some would have wished for but something that essentially says we have put all of our eggs in the saudi basket we're letting the saudis essentially run us foreign policy right now and that is a mistake it does not lie in the u.s. national interest and something has to change ok here's another perspective though and i admit i saw this on twitter it's not my own thought process but someone was

saying basically donald trump is just articulating what has always been the case other presidents haven't been willing to say how much influence saudi arabia has over u.s. policy but he's actually just being open about it. i think there's a lot of truth to that but it's also part of the reason why we have reached a tipping point this is not new this is not something that started with m.p.'s certainly he's far more wrecked less than previous saudi monarchs but the saudi government has been kneedeep in supporting terrorism for decades it's been kneedeep in supporting even groups such as isis providing them with the seed money grabbing radical islam and doing a lot of different things that have been highly problematic in that the u.s. for decades have turned a blind eye to so what is happening now is not that the murder of her sure was one thing that was so disastrous that everything changed it's the final straw that broke the camel's back because there's been so much going on from several decades so much frustration that has been built up and now we reached

a point in which all of that frustration seems to be leading to some form of a change on top of all of that we've got i mean we're talking about us out here in . actually there you've also got us relations or rather white house relations with the intelligence community as we know the cia has already said it was mohammed bin soundman most presidents would take the word of their intelligence agencies that if donald trump doesn't do that creates another whole problems and. it certainly does and it's questionable as to whether he can do that or not of course he has taken pleasure in trying to be the person who doesn't follow any rules but i think what the cia did here is that they really tried to corner the president because it was quite clear that trump was playing a role inside of a larger game of trying to sweep this entire affair under the rug and save m.b.'s and save the current relationship with the saudi government and the specific people

in the saudi government we should not forget that the intelligence community in the united states were not favorites are m.b.a.'s and did not favor him taking over the country they had a much longer standing relationship with people like prince naif and had hoped that someone like him would have taken over so they've always been quite wary of this and i think they see an opportunity to shift the u.s. to support away from m.b.'s and to were some of the other people inside the same saudi regime trying to one final quick question for you and it's come directly from of you and us is watching on facebook live has said quite simply is it about ensuring justice or defending an ally which is it. it certainly isn't about defending justice from the perspective of this white house and nor would i say that it is really about protecting an ally i think at this point using the word alliance may indicate the wrong qualities when it comes to the us saudi relationship i don't think the u.s. should have a bad relationship with saudi arabia i just happen to think that the u.s.

already has a bad relationship with saudi arabia because we're letting a lot of negative things happen there and let them do a lot of negative things that are actually to the detriment of the u.s. as national interest and nothing has been done about that so i think more than anything else just could potentially be something that helps reset the relationship but making sure that it is one that is far more to the interest of the u.s. and far more pushing for stability in the region than what the saudis have been engaged in so far trita parsi it's always a pleasure talking to you thanks for making the time today you bing so will the u.s. punishment had been somewhat of a murder that is what the inside story team was asking only yesterday saturday when the news first broke of the cia's conclusions that and lead that discussion with former cia officer going col and regular al jazeera contributor on u.s. affairs scott lucas you can watch it for yourself of course in the show's section at al-jazeera com and remember new edition of inside story it gets its first run every day seventeen thirty g.m.t. which is ninety minutes after the news grid finishes and you can get in touch with

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