we are seeing some showers along the coast and those are the showers that you see coming in from the south china sea we do have a storm just to the south making landfall in vietnam and the showers with that to the north are going to be causing a problem here for hong kong on monday but as we go towards tuesday things get a little bit better you notice of the rain showers start to recede back towards the south but it's going to remain cloudy in hong kong where the temps are there about twenty one degrees shanghai you are going to be partly cloudy to clear we do expect to see a temper there of about eighteen degrees well over india we're looking quite nice to the north you can see not a lot of clouds in the satellite image we do have some clouds down here towards the south but not as heavy as what we had last week where we did see some very heavy rain across much of the area for sri lanka it is still going to be a cloudy day and rainy day for colombo at thirty degrees and then tomorrow we're going to be seeing more clouds coming into parts of north western india and that is going to be maybe temperatures coming down slightly new delhi about twenty seven degrees for you there and then over here across much of the middle east we are going to see some rain showers making their way across the u.a.e.

also into parts of eastern iran as well but over here towards doha we do expect to see a partly cloudy day if you are twenty four in riyadh clouds at twenty two. and trying to read stories generate thousands of headlines with different angles from different perspectives a caravan is a fact helpful e-mail and a highly dangerous one of the major issues before voters is the institution president from cannot stop talking about the news media to separate the spin from the facts the misinformation from the journal and some pretty sharp rise of a.b.c.'s reporting freight to leave the listening post on al-jazeera.

hello again you're watching out there has a reminder of our top stories. a new leaders have approved a final agreement says. the deal to the people want and delivers on the vote for the deal by the e.u. may still has a major. setback the agreement. a search operation is underway in uganda after a pause capsized on lake victoria thirty bodies have been recovered so far more than one hundred people were on board at the time. and russian the warplanes have targeted rebel held areas in northern syria hours after russia and syria accuse opposition fighters of a toxic gas attack groups say they don't have chemical weapons and deny this strike

and the government controlled city of. sri lanka's president says he will not reinstate his prime minister under any circumstances now that's reignited the power struggle in the country he's held his first news conference with foreign media since the political crisis began last month. has more from colombo now at his residence just down the road at that meeting he justified his actions he said that as far back as february this year he had had to step down saying he asked several people to take on the premiership but that didn't happen a centrally we did ask him. his way forward now he said that he doesn't see a we in the future we throw my become a singer. if you want to the legal right to choose the prime minister by showing the majority i have told him very clearly not to bring rundle recriminating it to me i will never appoint him. the president insisted that he is

a democratic leader who would listen to the majority of those in parliament and i asked the president about criticism that he was violating his election pledges to stamp out corruption to bring those offenders to book by the appointment of mine that rajapaksa who has allegations as well as members of his cabinet and now the president said in politics there are a very few people who don't have such allegations and in a situation where no party has a majority in parliament invariably there are such people who get drawn into the mix so it remains to be seen what happens in the coming days interim of course on the twenty ninth next week is a crucial vote in parliament where motion to cut spending to the prime minister's office is taken and it will be interesting to see results of that. the only hospital in account for thousands of mali and sought refuge in mauritania is set to close in a few weeks time doctors without borders is pulling out as planned after six years

want without a confirmed replacement refugees fear they'll lose vital services that are keeping people safe where the hundred for. a simple building providing the most basic of health care it's part of the operation run by doctors without borders all remain safe in the embedded camp home to fifty seven thousand mali and refugees that includes the only hospital but that will close down in a few weeks in may see if it's pulling out saying it's time to hand the job to another don't suffer deserve. to have been in the for six years and now that we've met the urgent needs of the people the situation is stabilizing we've always said we'd leave in september twentieth we extended back to the end of this year to give the people time to find an alternative. but finding an alternative has not

been easy difficulty securing funds were reportedly affected and the amiss if decision to leave and other international humanitarian groups are facing the same funding challenges the million refugees are worried the camp will be left with nothing. refugees have a real problem and absence of medical treatment will be a disaster the camp is on sand dunes and we need ambulances to transport patients we hope to myself wouldn't leave us the good work molly and sought refuge in neighboring mauritania in conflict engulfed northern mali in two thousand and twelve two were rigged rebels declared independence in the north that year a month after the president was pushed out in a coup but within three months they'd lost that ground to answer to ding a group with links to al qaida for. stick to end to back money and forces a year later and peace deals with the two are regular followed but despite a continued french military and un peacekeeping presence iceland the greater sahara

and al qaeda linked fighters still operate that's a problem for mali and refugees who want to go home pretty much everyone here feels it's still not safe more pressure than on the un refugee agency responsible for the kir we are hoping that the international community will respond. in the coming. of the head of daughter because it is very important we cannot leave fifty seven thousand. life in this isolated corner of the sahil days it is a struggle temperatures as high as fifty degrees celsius sandstorms and drought but for now they have no choice but to stay with this decent health care or not. which is iraq. u.s. president donald trump has repeatedly accused iran of being

a state sponsor of terror in point. death to america is a clear example of terrans intentions but some iranians say americans should not take that shot literally. i. it's a phrase that has come to define decades of hostility between two countries. death to america is a rallying call for iranian leaders to bring demonstrators to the streets it's a polarizing statement but many defend it as a minimum response for decades of harmful american policies in the middle east with their hands tied politically and economically for years some say the least they can do is raise their voice i think this policy would be the same that segment of publics chance that. i think if. there was a decree. that no one is allowed to say that i don't think you'll see any change in u.s. foreign policy but the slogans critics say in an era of trouble it's

a problem of messaging giving his administration political ammunition to use against iran. in some corners of american political society iran supporters say trump is the problem during a visit to tehran nation of islam leader louis farrakhan said trump's policies in the middle east could trigger a global conflict. to bring about yet. but he's sure. you won't be. so young when the world you. not peer review you bring up yet great nation. in the. years when pressed by a local reporter to say the phrase seemingly a political stunt this season civil rights activist responded i know she.

will iran and. they have a right to change it but i shan't. let. farrakhan has been an unrelenting critic of successive american governments but even for a controversial figure like him uttering a phrase so incendiary in the united states was going too far. for decades the language of protest in iran has been dominated by the three words death to america but opinions have been split and in the wake of more sanctions iranians are again asking if that slogan accurately defines public opinion here for many iranians it's time to abandon the politics of the past. the slogan to america is wrong we shouldn't want any country when we want someone. for us. our officials say death to america but some of their children now live and study

there. the slogan is not a good thing because it explicitly calls the other side hostility thank you i never said it i never will not all people in iran say it's not anti-american demonstrations are often fueled by anger even hate speech and despite varying viewpoints it's difficult to deny us actions have done more damage than any iranian name calling. and spain a judge's decision. downgrade rape charges against two men has provoked a mass march to condemn violence against women the judge ruled the attack was not rape because although the victim pleaded for her attackers to stop physically fights back they were convicted of sexual abuse instead and sentenced to four and a half years usually rapists get up to fourteen years. is an activist who is participating in the women's rights protests in barcelona and she joins us via

skype from that city thanks very much for being with us and other such outrage is there on the streets of spain how is spain's law biased against rape victim well absolutely the problem is not the law which is clear but the problem is that we just were interesting because law in ways that are clearly. the girl beats a girl beats a star girl who was crying when all this was happening and so the judge assigned the fact that two men raped her the size of her saying or very accurately did not constitute rape so the problem is not only the law the special very very judges who are just protective of her visit to that you say that because we spoke to a criminal lawyer just in the last show who said that rape was not defined as rape if there was no violence or evil. we should define what my other sees and i

think that holding a woman against her wheel even if you don't beat her to the head which seems to be the only kind of violence the judges will fight is violent or not who judge your sense rapists. but if you are and you are not we didn't get there then there is not violence or not i think it's very my lens that you are saying all the words crying and that they still rape you don't think maybe that's ok there has been this introduction into politics has made us means yes law do you think that that's going to improve the situation the situation is not going to improve as long as judges who are not convicting rapists in the way that they should be convicting them or are just not held responsible for it and just can walk freely with no problem whatsoever so i mean there's a bigger change that needs to be. we need to be making

this bigger change by changing specially men's mentality on what i'm not relationships they want and are something very deeply about what kind of person who would want to have sex with someone who doesn't really you know engage in what they're doing so i think first of all we need to change this mentality that women are just objects that men can be crap and just you know have fun with how they feel about it and as long as we will change that mentality there's no matter what radical also change because there will always be judges who will think that it's ok to rape women very good indeed to speak to thanks for taking time to join us from buffalo. know with al jazeera these are top stories. approved a final agreement for the u.k. is accept despite approval of the deal by the e.u.

british prime minister to resign may still has a major battle ahead persuading british m.p.'s to back the agreement all my focus over the next few weeks is on as i've just said on making the case for this deal as you've heard and you present your said this was the only deal possible this is being echoed by other european leaders and i think that is when people come to vote in the house of commons they will need to ask themselves about two aspects of this particularly the first is delivering direct search i think we have a duty as a house of commons as a parliament to deliver bracks it and the second question is about what it means for our constituents and as i've said the deal that we have to live that i believe delivers not just on what people want it when they vote it breaks it but also does it in a way that protects jobs protects our security of checks united kingdom a search operation is underway in uganda after a party boat capsized on lake victoria thirty one bodies have been recovered so far

but it's thought that more than one hundred people were on board at the time russian warplanes have targeted rebel held areas in northern syria hours after russia and syria accuse opposition fighters of a poison gas attack state t.v. reports breathing problems for one hundred seven people rebel groups say they don't have chemical weapons and deny the suspects a korean strike in the government controlled city aleppo there are no international observers there to verify what happened a new round of peace talks is due to start in kazakstan on wednesday. and the u.n. special envoy for yemen is due in saudi arabia on monday for talks with yemeni government leaders in exile in graphics his trip in riyadh follows a meeting with hu theoretic rebel leaders in yemen there's are your headlines more news on al-jazeera that's after the listening posts stay with us. because we're not then as. rights being vineet.

and free to be strict. on the sand and a very sweet i. wish rights that stand. them down for human rights. criminal charges they can cherry pick that charge and i'm. not charge someone publishing truthful information last night by we can take your time and the county council fires us intelligence i think they would love. to lower richard gives birth in europe the listening post here are some of the media stories that we're covering this week rumor becomes fact julian assange is in america's crosshairs we examine the case for and against wiki leaks and its journalists not content to control the narrative in the news media the kremlin turns its eyes towards russian cinema and what it say mark zuckerberg

is blaming the media for some of facebook's problems he might want to focus a little closer to home and then of course there's donald trump and it's the end of the white house correspondents' dinner as we know it sort of we begin with julian assange and the news peg like no other last week in court papers filed in the u.s. in a case completely unrelated to the wiki leaks founder there was a paragraph confirming that a secret indictment has been filed against a sanch prosecutors called it an administrative mistake meaning a supposedly clerical error confirmed something that a sanch had always feared but that the u.s. department of justice had never admit it wants him in jail it's been more than six years now since the sands was granted asylum at the ecuadorian embassy in london and investigation into sexual assault related al. geishas made by two women in sweden has long since been dropped but british police say that as sanjay will be arrested the moment he steps out of that embassy for breach of bail less than

a decade ago julian assange had media outlets eating out of his hand and governments with secrets to hide on high alert now he's at the mercy of an ecuadorian government that's running out of patience and he may be running out of time our starting point this week is a court document and a revelation never meant to see the light of day. of all the twists and turns in the story the initial deluge of classified documents wiki leaks published the resulting headlines the sexual assault related allegations made in sweden the irregularities surrounding those cases the self-imposed exile on ecuadorian territory in london and the six year long waiting game since this may be the oddest twist of all a clerical error a sloppy case of caught in paste that appears to justify julian assange has

concerns about having to face justice american style. there's nothing like a cock up to make the truth come to light so there's a filing on a completely unrelated and not very high profile case in the eastern district of virginia and they had copied and pasted a section from another indictment and so this indictment about some totally random guy ended up mentioning janus and what they haven't said is what the charges are and what period of wiki leaks activity they relight. the clerical error took place at a court in alexandria virginia right next door to washington where a grand jury has reportedly been investigating julian assange since two thousand and ten or shape an understanding of what the past six years or as being like back then wiki leaks was in its heyday. the iraq and afghan war logs revealed the brutal truth about those invasions confirming war crimes previously denied by the pentagon

. the diplomatic cables would later expose america's duplicity in its dealings with foreign governments. was partnering with news organizations heavy hitters like the new york times the guardian and moaned in france making headlines around the world by the end of two thousand and ten the moment named julian assange its person of the year time magazine's readers did the same and rolling stone called him rock star of the barack obama's vice president joe biden had another term for a sandwich high tech terrorist if you go in challenge and threaten and undermine the world's most powerful institutions as wiki leaks has done they are going to impose on you or tell you there was actually a two thousand and eight us army report that described what you as an enemy of the state and talked about different ways that they could destroy the organization and we can read about that document because ironically it got leaked to wiki leaks

which then published it on its own website the left was very excited about what he said excited about the fact that things that governments had traditionally kept secret were no longer big going to be kept secret. that seem to be part of this whole new wave of nothing is secret anymore in the age of internet they fear a domino effect that they realize that the inside the u.s. intelligence community there are many people who have seen all sorts of abuses see after we find that they could be hundred chelsea manning thousand and us know then they can knock julian assange so whole they can do is use legal cases about against julian assange and wiki leaks which they have done. in two thousand. a legal case was opened against a sanch in sweden for sexual assault based on the testimonies of two women he

denied the allegations and asked to be questioned in london a common practice in such cases he said he feared that going to sweden could lead to an extradition to the us the swedes initially refused but eventually interviewed him at the ecuadorian embassy in two thousand and sixty six years after the investigation began then the swedes dropped the case without ever laying charges a basic fact that seemed lost on news organizations the week of the treasure for yourself it's all going out. do you think sweden will reactivate the rape charges or the two jobs and. despite the swedes closing the case the u.k. says it will arrest a sanch if he steps out of the embassy for breaching his bail conditions it's a standoff the un calls a case of arbitrary detention a denial of a sanjay human rights stefan you're more it see is an investigative journalist who has probed how the essential case has been conducted in both sweden and the u.k.

thanks to my freedom of information act requests in sweden it is possible to reveal the crucial role of the u.k. authorities in creating these legal and diplomatic work my for example the advice in this to each prosecutors to question julian assange all the ass thirty years extradition to sweden they write the police do not think that the case is being that wheat is just another extradition request depressed was running some stories to lie sweden could drop case says a savage and. wrote to the street prosecutors don't you dare get cold feet. even julian assange just supporters can see that wiki leaks is. practices can be contentious such as exposing material without redactions after the failed coup in turkey in two thousand and sixteen it published what it called

the emails three hundred thousand of them they revealed the personal details of millions of turks putting their privacy and much more at risk similar complaints have come from afghanistan saudi arabia and other countries and the sanchez decision to publish material during the two thousand and sixteen u.s. election campaign e-mails from inside the clinton team hacked by persons unknown but that u.s. intelligence agencies say came via russia have damaged wiki leaks is journalistic standard and infuriated anti trump forces in america it's true that julian assange has used to be a lot more popular before somebody undermine american democracy with the help of the russians and gave us this president who is destroying democracy in the united states and threatening man to our world i don't see a songe as a victim anymore i see it as someone who helped to victimize american democracy and if julian assange is being demonized for that and count me among his demonize or.

conversations that we've been able to read that have been leaked seem to be suggesting that julian would be willing to do things specifically to help the trump campaign certainly that's a legitimate critique of wiki leaks that i think we can all see evidence for what we've never seen any evidence for is that there's been any even communication let alone call operation or cooperation between wiki leaks and the russian government even though and for some reason it's now totally acceptable in western media outlets to simply assert as though it is fact. julian assange has said the source of the clinton e-mails was not the russian government nor was it a state party a sanjay also has issues with his new landlord the ecuadorian president who granted him asylum rafael correa has been succeeded by lennon marino who wants better relations with washington the new government hasn't a victim to say but his internet connections his communications with the outside

world are now controlled by the embassy with his health reportedly failing the lack of sunlight getting to julian assange cannot even go to a hospital for fear of being arrested and the sand also has caused me to feel aggrieved by the same news outlets that once feasted on the material that he handed to them on a plate not unlike his ecuadorian hosts many of those news organizations have turned against him if you are in the embassy of a country you should probably try and be a good house guest he's also on multiple times acted against that could almost diplomatic interests he picks a fight with spy which is one of the allies he interfered in the us election and. in the end they will find something to get him out or a sign just patients will crack in the try and make a bright for it whatever you think of julian whatever you think of wiki leaks what

has been done to him over the last six to seven years is a very sustained. syria's and deliberate violation of his basic liberties and yet that has been almost entirely disregarded by the western media instead the attempt is to make you view him with such disdain and contempt it's incredibly insidious because what they're doing is essentially the dirty work of those who are violating julian assange and his rights being turned over to the us government being prosecuted for journalism for publishing documents has always been his principal worry and it ought to be the worry of anyone who does journalism anywhere in the world. we're discussing other media stories that are on our radar this week with one of our producers tarak not tarik last week the new york times produced an investigative piece on facebook some of the questionable tactics the company has been using to go after its critics what did that piece actually reveal primarily

that facebook hired a p.r. code to finance a company with strong links to the us republican party to produce negative news coverage on not just its competitors like apple and google but also the platforms critics including billionaire investor george soros sources become a bit of a whipping boy for right wing voices and conspiracy there if given that he's liberal and generous off the thoughts described facebook as a menace to society in a speech at the beginning of this year the times reported that the finest sent a document to news outlets attempting to link him to an organization called freedom from facebook the company's c.e.o. a month and if the show. both denied knowing that defined his was targeting for us and that's what c n n hero did on one interviews about last week this is a common tactic used by anti-semitic and outright groups that's why i think people

are so shocked when they found out about this i think that was one of the parts of the report that a lot of folks had real questions about does that strike you as stooping low. yeah i wasn't particularly happy about that piece of it and that's certainly a big part of what i when i read about this what made me want to look into this more deeply so it's one of those what did the c.e.o. know and when did he know what stories october was also laying the blame for the hiring of this p.r. firm on others isn't a yes this evictee his communications team which is led by shrake facebook published an internal memo written by shrake in which he admits he did time had to finance his memory reads did we ask them to do work on george soros to which the answer is yes and he it would be irresponsible and unprofessional not to understand the backgrounds and potential conflicts of interests of critics so schrag is covering the conference on this which is convenient since he already announced he's

leaving the company ok thanks to our. at a recent gathering of world leaders in paris the french president emanuel macro talked about nationalism saying that it was the exact opposite of patriotism many assumed he was speaking in directly to donald trump and of lattimer putin however patriotism is something that putin lays claim to he describes it as a central tenet of today's russia and then relies on nationalistic rhetoric to boost morale and to shore up his political base and not just on the television airwaves on the silver screen as well while russia has been criticized over its an accession of crimea in two thousand and fourteen alleged election meddling in the us and spy poisoning in the u.k. the cinematic treatment of the contemporary russia story is somewhat different crimea for instance is the stuff of rom coms russia's history on the battlefield and in the world of sports is a horrific and triumphant tale the kremlin not only backs those films to the tune

of millions of rubles it clamps down on film makers that cause anti state and bans their work the listening posts lately for rudy now on the cinematic effort to produce patriotism in russia. ground zero is my bread the grid yours must be a hundred of them might be in their chest must that you missed your chance may two thousand and eighteen russian brew costs that struck a triumphant turn in their reports on the completion of the bridge connecting russia to crimea ukrainian reach an annex by russia you should. see it you sure. do and earlier this month the u.s. retreated to the same message on a bigger screen. but each they can't reach russia at the pathetics quick i need them with the crimean bridge is a patriotic comedy propaganda camouflaged as a light love story with the idea that

a nation can do anything that human. i would say every other one of my given question it speaks of the great construction project of new times because a great country must have great construction projects and historic. claims he must of crimean bridge was written by margarita simonyan as editor in chief of state funded news network r.t. simonyan is one of russia's most influential journalists a surprising ideal candidate to offer such a patch arctic blockbuster it's one of a long line released in russia over the last few years and it had strong support from the country's top politicians and. the because it's used. it's clear that crimea is a subject of national interest with the kremlin apparently contrary to at least one point five million dollars to the rom coms budget but this film and the two thousand and seventeen release of crimea will cream bond at the box office. but.

i think that it's not looking good in terms of box office success for such crimea themed films the state productions about sport a much more successful. but the filmmakers are not interested in the historical facts let's take the film legend seventeen the whole plot is about the soviet victory against the canadian hockey team russia did win that first match but canada went on to win the series in the here but here the world issue now that russia is not always pre-trained well abroad and there is kind of some political adversity between russia and other countries society demands some kind of motivation to keep going and sports and success and sports is one of those aspects of people really what's a film get

a very positive feeling that yes i can do it. for the production to celebrate the might. of the american military. and as russians and most are dominated by hollywood i think there is a kind of a feeling among the government officials that there needs to be a response to that not only militarily in terms of you know kind of making you tanks but also from the point of view of filmmaking.