sign up to in uganda the search continues for victims believed to be trucked in a capsized boat on lake victoria at least thirty one bodies have been retrieved so far but the death toll is expected to rise more than a hundred people are thought to have been on board the pleasure boat when it overturned president yoweri museveni has vowed to punish those responsible also jabari reports they were having a party on the boat now their relatives are in mourning. close to one hundred people were on the boat when it capsized overloading in bad weather in the exact area is being blamed. to people were shouting the music was so loud and we thought that they were just having fun when the theory capsized that's when we realized they wanted help some of the fishermen who went to save them or side died because many people jumped into this small parts of this woman's nephew who is one of those fisherman who drowned while trying to save others why why did you go to the lake i

wish you never went there a nearby resort has been turned into a morgue as police continue to collect bodies there was a boat which was coming toward the shores here the speech from one of the cops. just a bit of a tired over ninety people. starting the bodies were retrieved last night. eleven we feel me. for the six. lake victoria has seen many similar disasters just two months ago hundreds drowned when a ferry sank on the tanzanian side of the largest of africa's great lakes the number of fatalities is often high because many can't swim and vessels don't have enough life jackets as a search and rescue becomes just a search operation familiar questions are being asked about how to prevent

a repeat of this latest lake disaster door such a pari al-jazeera. lots more to come here at al-jazeera including. find out why these women in the spanish capital is so angry. and the final between two famous football rivals in argentina as press spend again. from the neon lights of asia. to the city that never sleeps. hello again and welcome back well we are watching still some very stormy weather here across much of the lawn and into the gulf there the clouds right there that was the storm that was responsible for the deadly flooding in iraq now that is going to continue to bring very heavy rain across portions of iran as well as down

here across the gulf so over the next few days is what we are looking at heavy rain across parts of iran that's going to be pushing into pakistan as well as afghanistan and then down here across the gulf into the u.a.e. and maybe even muska higher elevations there could be seeing some localized flooding as we take that into tuesday well things improve clouds really go over here towards india and we are looking at some much dry conditions maybe some clouds pushing into the area over here from the mediterranean with aleppo seeing about seventeen degrees and rain in the forecast where here is a system we are talking about pushing its way over here towards u.a.e. but behind the system we are looking at the northerly winds and keeping things a little bit cooler so for riad we are going to seeing clouds in your forecast at twenty two and as we go towards tuesday more clouds there at twenty one over here towards doha we do expect to see a temperature of twenty four degrees and then for cape town we are going to be seeing unfortunately deteriorating weather over the next four days for your forecast with cape town at twenty one degrees and more rain coming into play at

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a look at the top stories here. ukraine's president says he'll call on parliament to declare martial law after russian vessels fired at and impounded three ships in the black sea russia says the boat strayed into its territorial waters near crimea that's a region of ukraine that was alec's by russian twenty fourteen. mexico is to deport some of the five hundred asylum seekers who it says tried to violently and illegally cross the u.s. border on sunday more than five thousand of them camped in the mexican border city of tijuana hoping to gain asylum in america. e.u. leaders have approved a final agreement for the u.k.'s exit from the european union but the british prime minister theresa may still needs to get her own m.p.'s to accept the deal and pass it through parliament.

the man set to lead the house intelligence committee when the us congress returns in january has accused president trump of dishonesty over his response to the murder of. adam schiff says president trump's links to saudi arabia need to be investigated an official report from washington. the us president received his intelligence report into the killing of jamal khashoggi but he's rejected the idea it firmly says the saudi crown prince ordered your creation maybe. maybe. donald trump says he's standing by saudi arabia a country he believes will help in his action against iran that could help sell a middle east peace deal to the palestinians he's. talked about the arms sales agreed with saudi arabia is important to the u.s. economy even though numerous sources dispute the value in terms of dollars and jobs but the man who will lead the house of representatives intelligence committee in january democrat adam schiff says he's seen intelligence reports too early and the

answer is more definitive the president is not being honest with the country about the murder of democracy. i think in part he feels that by saying that we don't know or that the world is a dangerous place or everybody does it he thinks it makes him look strong it actually makes him look weak but it's not just democrats are piling pressure on the white house trump our live republican senator mike lee says there are bones to be congressional hearings into u.s. links with saudi arabia look i don't know why he's siding with the saudis but i think there are things we can do to change our relationship with the saudis notwithstanding whatever his personal motivations might be donald trump me will come face to face with the saudi crown prince we heads to the g. twenty meeting of leading industrialized countries in argentina later this week despite widespread international condemnation of the killing of the washington post writer one leading saudi royal says other leaders know they have to do business

with mohammed bin selman whether the leaders. in that summit will warming. who will become prince or not i think all of them recognize that the kingdom has a country. and the crown prince. are people that they have to deal with congressional leaders seem united on the conclusion reached by u.s. intelligence services that crown prince mohammed bin soundman was responsible for the operation that killed jamal khashoggi senators will receive another classified briefing on tuesday that mean well increased pressure on donald trump not just to use stronger words. but to back that up with action alan fischer al-jazeera washington the u.n. special envoy for yemen is due in saudi arabia on monday for talks with yemeni government leaders that syle mussing griffith's trip to riyadh follows a meeting with his see rebel leaders inside yemen he's trying to get all sides to

attend talks in sweden early next month millions of yemenis are facing famine after three and a half years of civil war. russian warplanes have carried out strikes against syrian rebel positions in the northern province of idlib they say it's in response to a chemical attack by opposition fighters on the government held city of aleppo there are no international observers in aleppo to verify whether the chemical attack took place the airstrikes by moscow or the first since a buffer zone around it live was established last month putting off an expected government offensive chad's president idriss deby says he wants a new era of cooperation with israel as he makes a landmark trip to the country is the first visit by a child in the this institute sides broke relations in one hundred seventy two but the meeting the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu president debbie said

pursuing ties with israel would not change his concern for the long stalled peace process between israelis and palestinians. protests turned violent in the afghan capital kabul after a shia commander was captured by security forces the. demonstrators took to the streets after the commander known as early poor was arrested they say allen pulls militia protects them from the taliban and i still on the government is accuse him of human rights abuses. sri lanka's president says he will not reinstate his sacked prime minister under any circumstances his words have reignited the power struggle in the country president my three palace city center was speaking to foreign media for the first time since a political crisis began last month when the elephant and is has more from colombo . promise to mind the rajapaksa pulling together several strands in his address to the nation talking about the mess this country had been dragged into by the

government of running over missing her that prompted prismatic policy to say no to make the change and appoint rajapaksa as his prime minister he talked about how his government during its time with him as president had managed the country efficiently despite a world economic downturn handling and managing the war that they had still come out trumps now he did say that the president as a result had found in rajapaksa the perfect man to handle the country at this juncture it will be up your gut about the dad and. the president and trust of the country to us because he knows that we have the capacity to meet such challenges as well you won't be two he's well aware of the fact they know that if a general election is held and the government led by ass comes into power we will solve all these problems will be a government that we will form together with the president our full and people oriented government. prison my policy recently who addressed foreign correspondents

earlier in the day did try and justify his actions are essentially which plunged this country into political chaos on the twenty sixth of october he did however say that if the vicar missing a faction proves its majority in parliament in the correct and legal way that he would accept a prime minister nominated by them using the figure both of you know any longer but if you will if he has the legal right to choose the prime minister by showing the majority i have told him very clearly not to bring runa lucre missing it to me i will never appoint him as we have the three main players in this crisis present policy to say in a prime minister mind the rajapaksa and ousted prime minister on a victim missing trading accusations come to accusations and claims sri lankans are no more the wiser as to what to expect interlocked his immediate future. in spain thousands of people of march to mark the un's international day for the elimination of violence against women many are angry everest by the school's recent decision to

clear two men of rape catherine sounds horrible. the streets of the spanish capital filled with thousands of women making themselves heard there calling for gender equality justice for victims of sexual assault and for an end to violence and abuse. it was one of several demonstrations held in other european countries the need for a cultural shift and to encourage more women to speak out against abuse is what drove many here to attend but most of my friends they are in those seeking the relationships that their boyfriends control them so much and they can not go with their friends and go outside or go to a party with all of them men and women have to work together to make these for the save button and go for target for everything the march was particularly poignant

for women here after a controversial decision by spanish judges on friday two men were cleared of rape the judges ruled their attack wasn't rape because even though the victim pleaded for her attackers to stop she didn't physically fight back they were sentenced to four and a half years in prison rapists usually get up to fifteen years the talk is that very night the three. no three one of them say if. the woman consent there too they said that the in the would not consent but they were i think. why because it was not threaten the woman was no threat then the one who was not the numbers she did not receive by olin's in the so at the end the doctors decided that there was an abuse you know the rape. sunday was international day for the elimination of violence. to women u.n. secretary general antonio terrace said every woman and every girl has the right

choice life free of violence spanish courts received more than one hundred sixty thousand complaints of violence against women last year a sixteen percent annual increase in spain we have a complaint. in there based balance but only when it happens and by that point her marrow experiments six or violence. for the also read is they are not measures they are not progress turns they are now and they are mostly dress for those women that are suffering. sex over a list of all types. this year alone more than forty women in spain died in gender violence to fit these protesters there's still a long way to go cap and stance of al-jazeera a snowstorm across the u.s. midwest has left thousands of commuters stranded and one of the busiest travel days of the year the extreme weather forced the closure of major highways on the final

day of the thanksgiving weekend more than six hundred flights were cancelled blizzard warnings have been issued for several cities a football match between two fierce rivals in argentina has been postponed for a second time the delayed to the second leg of the copper dorrance final between river plate and bucket juniors follows an attack on the boxer thirteen bass which injured several players daniel schorr and the reports are from what decided. this time the argentine or thought he's got the security right controlling the situation that the previous day had spiraled out of control. the bulk of june his team boss attacked him players injured running battles between police and fans and violence inside the stadium the south american football thirty com a bowl said the much would go ahead and three hours before the scheduled kickoff they said it wouldn't and these fans for the second time in two days streamed out.

i'm annoyed because we came to enjoy a party we were ready river ready to play and because of a police failure to protect one bus seventy thousand fans are left with this twice i'm angry for those that came here from other countries other cities around argentina the river supporters who have had to return home because they can't spend another night here and have to go back to work as well could you news said the players after their boss was attacked were in no fit state to play either physically or psychologically and the prestigious. should be awarded to them that i mean we were clearly outages advantage yesterday and we ought to sporting disadvantage today and i believe the best for bookcase to not play because we do not have the same conditions as a roofer. meet at the headquarters in the paraguayan capital on tuesday to decide where when and possibly if the game is to be replayed the copa libertadores

final is still not over neither is the political fallout from saturday's violence with questions still being asked of the security forces river plate football club the south american football authorities and the wider arts and sciences. the phrase it's only football has never really resonated here least of all now. what went wrong and who is to blame is still to be decided to name all the fans as they so often all have been left indignant angry and confused. by argentina yet again is faced with a dilemma how to tackle its violent. crime. one of cyrus. i'm martin dennis these are the headlines here about ukraine's president says he'll call on parliament to declare martial law after

a russian coast guard vessels fired at and impounded three of its naval ships in the black sea russia says the boat strayed into its territorial waters near crimea which is a region of ukraine an expiring in twenty fourteen. martial laws introduced in order to strengthen ukraine's defense capabilities amid increasing aggression and according to international law duty called act of aggression by the russian federation martial law does not mean our refusal to resolve the issue of liberating ukrainian territory by political and diplomatic means we have intentions to keep out hearing to all international obligations including the minsk agreement mexico will deport some of the five hundred asylum seekers who it says tried to violently and illegally cross the us border on sunday more than five thousand of them are camped in the mexican border city of tijuana hoping to gain asylum in america. leaders have approved

a final agreement for the u.k.'s exit from the european union but the british prime minister to resign may still needs to get it through her own parliament the leader of northern ireland. a home which maes government realizes again said it will reject the deal. in uganda the search continues for victims believed to be trapped in a capsized boat on lake victoria at least thirty one bodies have been retrieved so far but the death toll is expected to rise well the one hundred people are thought to have been on board the pleasure boat when it. president yoweri missed seventy has vowed to punish those responsible. the man set to lead the house intelligence committee when the u.s. congress returns in january has accused president trump of dishonest c. over his response to the murder of jamal khashoggi adam schiff says chumps links to saudi arabia need to be investigated but just today those are the latest headlines

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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's saying 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 the senate prosecutors called it an administrative mistake meaning a suppose that a clerical error confirmed something that a sand 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 sound was granted asylum at the end. dorrian embassy in london and investigation into sexual assault related allegations 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 essential 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 cut and paste that appears to justify julian assange and his 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 totally random guy ended up mentioning. 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 and understanding of was. the past six years avoids being lied 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 just like. the diplomatic cables would later expose america's duplicity in its dealings with foreign governments leaks 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 he likes 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 way nothing is secret anymore in the age of the internet they fear a domino effect they realize that the inside the u.s. intelligence community there are many people who have seen all sorts of abuses see after if i that this could be hundred chelsea manning thousand and thus no then

they cannot keep julian assange so whole they can do is use legal cases about against you. weekly to which they have that. in two thousand and ten a legal case was opened against the sand 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 leader of this regime for yourself now. 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 was possible to reveal the crucial role of the u.k. authorities in creating these legal and diplomatic quagmire for example advising this huge prosecutors to question julian assange ali after these 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 the u.k.

authorities wrote to the street prosecutors don't you dare get called fiend. even julian assange just supporters can see that wiki leaks this 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 stand and infuriated anti trump forces in america it's true that julian assange has

used to be a lot more popular before somebody undermined american democracy with the help of the russians and gave us this president who is destroying democracy in the united states and threatening me and 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 the ministers. 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 lenin merino who wants better relations with washington the new government hasn't a victim to say but his internet connection 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 controls 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. or some just patience will crack in the try and make it right for 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 in 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 u.s. 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 soros is become a bit of a whipping boy for right wing voices and conspiracy theory if given that he is 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 documents in news outlets attempting to link him to an organization called freedom

from facebook the company's c.e.o. among and the child. both denied knowing that the fine is was targeting for us and that's what seen and heard in 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 hired to

finance his memory reads did we ask them to do work on george soros to which the answer is yes and he adds 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 earlier this year that he 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 shore up its 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 it calls and the state and bans their work the listening posts lately for rudy now on the cinematic effort to produce patriotism in russia. brings your bread together and 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 struck a triumphant turning in their reports on the completion of the bridge connecting russia to crimea ukrainian reach an annex i rush. near.

you sure. do and earlier this month the u.s. retreated to the same message on a bigger screen there are those it believes given each other they can reach russia at the pathetics quick i mean 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 boy with 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 author such a patch arctic blockbuster it's one of a long line released in russia over the last few years and 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 create 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 pro-trade 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 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 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 new times but also from the point of view of filmmaking that we should come up with a story that also celebrates the russian army to get a share of darker skin a good stroke in the. crimea in sports a reoccurring theme but the main vehicle for restoring national pride in putin's

russia is world war two what they call the great patter to win this soviet union found an official communist ideology was replaced with nothing grappling with this void law to make putin has made patrick his and his watch were. at the accused. creates a common heritage for geographically vast and culturally diverse country evoking memories of russia as a great power and defeat or fascism a narrative that brushes service an inconvenient history like the non-aggression pact that stalin pragmatically made with hitler in one thousand that's not the ethnic cleansing carried out within the u.s.s.r. under russia's current minister of culture latham image in scheme himself the director of the military historical society that national ideal is being adapted for film in two thousand and fifteen the government issued

a state decree encouraging the use of patch of text in a mine education and in february this year the ministry of defense and not its own initiative to produce films that are heroic and patriotic i think russia has been. trying to find itself after. this a transitioning from the fall of the soviet union into a new country it's been trying to find its own identity again and push for patriotic movies are kind of a russian identity is part of that but they are just patchy tism is always called for in difficult times for any country and there's a need to both distract and unite people the theme of patrick is and was displayed constantly in soviet films the struggle against the counter-revolutionaries enemies of the people as well as the depiction of grand socialist construction projects we don't like to dwell on our mistakes and famous we concentrate on victories this

principle of making such state supported films is being resurrected north. london supposedly called cinemas and circuses the most important arts for attracting the masses. from the early days of the soviet union films needed to be socialist high quality and display soviet superiority the politburo both supported uncensored artists and the innovations of soviet filmmakers names like eyes the science evolved of antarctica became known and celebrated the world over these days films no longer hold the media monopoly they wanted but that has not stopped the kremlin from taking an interest in shaping the country fanatic output and what russians are calling queue have gone dollie finished off candles have grown all too common ground zero. be on your guard girl you got were all through. the two thousand and fourteen russian film leviathan won both the golden

globe and oscar nomination at home the film was criticized for painting an overly negative picture of russia eventually a version with less explicit language was allowed to screen was. one that failed to get past the senses was a british film armando iannucci is two thousand and seventeen a satire of the death that started our general secretary is lying in a bottle of ingenue. who didn't make himself available for an interview with us because of the film and insulting mockery of the entire soviet past and it never made it into russian theatres. this year just as the russian family at it was being released around the world is directed to deal stepanek was under house arrest and then on trial for four charges charges his supporters according to crackdown on the r. . and a few months ago the ministry of culture was granted unprecedented control over the

direction of russia's film fund even in the film festivals have become a target the tally monkeys are docked first was hit by a new licensing reform forcing both him and his festival to relocate to latvia. those issues do need the russian state subjugated all media outlets the press the main t.v. channels and even the single liberal cable channel dogged which now has a very limited audience. to cut this tendency and i started to cleanse the whole cultural landscape destroying everything that allowed the production of alternative content and naturally his attention fell on film festivals if you. think recently the government has cut off. try to use scandal and controversy as a tool on all levels in terms of domestic policy in terms of forming public opinion but also kind of international into that you managed to use of the negative

representations to the benefit so basically as long as they can remain in that spotlight and they can appear to be powerful and impactful i think they're quite happy with it. had treated them is politically useful as a concept because it is malleable it can change shape to see patterns and if these but buses are anything to go by the meaning of patch it isn't for russia right now is when. and finally there are changes coming to the white house correspondents' dinner the annual black tie event in washington when journalists a mingle with the politicians they're supposed to cover and keep a safe distance from rather than having a comedian come in to roast the powers that be next year's event will feature and historian who will opine on the subject of free speech assuming the president trumps ok with that trump was clearly on amused at the last dinner when comedienne

michele wolf pulled no punches aimed his way who will get the last laugh this time will anyone laugh should the dinner at a time when trump calls the media the enemy of the people even be a thing will leave you now with some of the highs and lows of past correspondence standers and we'll see you next time you're at the listening post. and then of course there's donald trump. donald trump has been saying that he will run for president as a republican which is surprising since i just assumed he was running as a joke. so you hang out with him be a players like stuff curry golden state warriors. you know how to make sense too because booker you like raining down bombs on people from long distances right i don't like me as there are to be sanders we are graced with there is a presence tonight every time sarah steps up to the podium i get excited because i'm not really sure what we're going to get you know

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trade december on al jazeera. to. the taliban. there's no one way of telling the story a key thing is to tell it right and to be respectful is great to get to know the person for me to. play. larry. a serious escalation in tensions russia seizes three ukrainian ships off crimea.

hello welcome to. mexico to deport hundreds of asylum seekers who it says use violence to try to cross the u.s. border. trees are made to to listen. a warning from a key partner for britain's prime minister hours after signing a breck's it deal with the e.u. . and a final between two fierce football rivals in argentina is crisp and again a day after an attack on the proper juniors team starts. ukraine's president says he'll call on parliament to declare martial law after russian coast guards fired at and impounded three of its naval vessels in the black sea russia says the boat strayed into its territorial waters near crimea

a region of ukraine that's an expired in twenty fourteen moscow admits taking possession of the ukrainian boats an emergency meeting of the un security council has been called for by russia the escalation in hostility comes after russia used a tanker ship to block vessels traveling through the strait that's between crimea and the russian mainland very chalons has more from moscow. well even during the height of fighting in eastern ukraine and the annexation of crimea in two thousand and fourteen the ukrainian government was wary of imposing martial law or box in announcements from petro poroshenko the ukrainian president on sunday evening it looks as if we might soon get just that we can listen now to what he had to say about the possibility of martial law. martial law is introduced in order to

strengthen ukraine's defense capabilities amid increasing aggression and according to international law duty called act of aggression by the russian federation martial law does not mean our refusal to resolve the issue of liberating ukrainian territory by political and diplomatic means we have intentions to keep at hearing to all international obligations including the minsk agreement so what would this mean in practicality well. the one thing that the ukrainian president has said is that this does not mean an immediate mobilization in ukraine botts he does think that this will be the cause for calling up a primary reserve pool to be trained the martial law if it's an act it would last for sixty days initially and that it wouldn't affects according to petro poroshenko the situation in donbass east of ukraine if martial law is an act it says the president will not conduct offensive operations now the trigger for this has been

the recent flare up of tensions in the sea at hours of which is a pocket of water to the north east of the black sea you have ukraine which is the northern coast of the as of c. you have russia which is the eastern coast and crimea which is the western coast to the south there is the current straits which russia very recently has built a bridge over linking the russian mainland with crimea now basically that gives the russians a way of choking off access to the ass of sea which they have just done by placing a tanker underneath the bridge now the russians say that ukrainian naval vessels have trespass into russian territorial waters and therefore that was the trigger for them to open fire on ukrainian warships the ukrainians say that six of

their personnel were injured three of their vessels are now in russian hands and a situation which had been brewing and getting more and more tense for months now has flared up into open hostilities well we've been speaking to task could see who's a political scientist how serious does he think the situation is. well it is very significant in the sense remember that for the last four or five years russia has been denying its military involvement in eastern ukraine of course nobody in the west believed russia but russia's always said that this is a civil war between russia and ukraine speakers and that russia is not present well this is this takes the conflict into a sort of a weight problem this sort of hybrid war into a more open a rino where russia is clearly seen from video footage that's available to anybody who wants to see it as an open aggressor. and in that sense it brings the conflict

into a different domain as it were. and there's no longer any pretense of hiding what russia is up to no. leaders have approved a final agreement for britain's exit from the block the deal maybe thiel in brussels but british prime minister to resign may still have a major battle to get it through her own parliament don't know how reports from brussels. it took european union members just half an hour to endorse the negotiated briggs's text and they did so unanimously a momentous step on the road to brics if. the mood was resolute this is the best deal possible for britain just the best possible for europe this is the totally different course. the tone in place is somber and poignant garlic thought how it will all end well think of. we will remain friends

until the end of day. and one day long. how it all ends depends now on whether the deal is indorsed by the united kingdom itself in the face of her critics to resume a must strike an upbeat tone what we see in this deal today is a deal that delivers for people delivers on the boat delivers in a way that protects jobs and livelihoods and security and our united kingdom and as i've said before i believe our best days lie ahead of us for the prime minister the hard work is just beginning. leaders view brigs it now as a done deal they didn't want it but there's no need to sugarcoat it the british prime minister on the other hand has to sell the deal to parliament and to her own people she's got to convince them it's the best deal available. there is enormous opposition to may's deal at home and it could even be hardening with what's been

described as her surrender on saturday over the future of gibraltar she handed spain and effective veto over future arrangements for the british territory the latest unpalatable compromise in the rising cost of brics it if parliament rejects the deal in the coming weeks what then may was repeatedly asked if she could resign i've said before it's not about me and i will say it again it's not about me but my focus over the next few weeks. as i've just said on making the case for this deal with the outcome in sat down to the break in gave may yet see britain stumble towards an exit without a deal or a louder and louder voices suggest a second referendum on whether to breaks it at all don't hold al-jazeera brussels. the leader of northern ireland steve perry upon which to resume a government realizes again said it will reject the. as i've said we're not voting

for this and i understand that there are many others across the commons and will not be voting for it either so what i'm calling for is a better days i'm asking trees in may to listen to what her apartment areas are saying and to listen to what those of us who are supporting her in government in terms of common sense but i agree mother saying because remember that confidence and supply agreement was to be about shared priorities in terms of precedent and certainly for us this is not something we could sign up to mexico is to deport some of the five hundred asylum seekers who it says try to violently and illegally cross the us border on sunday. while them five thousand of them are camped in the mexican border city of tijuana hoping to gain asylum in america they protested after president trump threatened to hold them in mexico until individual cases ahead by u.s. courts u.s. border agents responded by temporarily closing a major border crossing into southern california and tear gassing those trying to

cross over. ruslan jordan has more from washington. after about six hours on sunday the u.s. customs and border patrol opened the international crossing at sana c throw in california that's the major crossing in california between that state and baja california in northern mexico the border had been closed because about five hundred migrants from central america apparently tried to breach part of the fence between mexico and the united states and at that point borders patrol officers started firing tear gas at the crowd to push them away from the border it's not clear whether the mexican government is going to launch a protest with washington over the firing of the tear gas into mexican territory but officials from the interior ministry did say late on sunday that the people responsible for trying to breach the wall would be deported to their home countries

there are some eighty five two hundred people from central america currently in northern mexico right now trying to reach the united states in order to ask for asylum most of them say that they are fleeing violence and they fear for the safety of themselves and of their relatives which is why they've trucked across mexico and are hoping that they can file an asylum application with the u.s. officials as guaranteed under international law meantime the u.s. and mexico are still in a standoff as it were a belt the process of these people getting the chance to apply for asylum the president donald trump of the u.s. doesn't want any of these people to come onto u.s. soil in order to file their applications he wants them to stay in mexico until they have actually had their their applications processed mexico for its part says that it is not entered into any such agreement with the united states because that would

contravene international law mexico also says that it's having a very difficult time providing food shelter and. emergency health care for the migrants especially at a time when the government itself is about to go into a new presidency on december first this is a situation that even though the borders have now been reopened does not mean that the conflict between the u.s. and mexico over the so-called migrant caravan will end any time soon a football match between two fish rivals in argentina has been postponed for a second time the delayed to the second leg of the libretto audience final between river plate and bucket genius follows an attack on the bucket teen bus which injured several players.