let's now merged into one single entity yes it's called the central european press and media foundation and it's headed by the media mogul couple or list guy who's a close ally of prime minister orbán that's hundreds of t.v. and radio stations magazines newspapers including all of hungary's regional newspapers all handed over by their owners as charitable donations free of charge the political pitch for this is that newspapers are struggling economically so consolidation will help them to survive but many of the previously independent outlets the been handed over were struggling because the government was starving them of advertising revenues which enabled the prime minister's allies to buy them on the cheap and here's the kicker although the government has blocked media mergers before on competition grounds or ban has decreed that this conglomerate not be investigated by the competition authorities because the merger is of national strategic importance among the questions that this raises then is what's the effect

going to be on news content in hungary and what political opposition exists there to this move if any well observers say this is about politics first and cost cutting second and that hunger ariens will be seeing more shared content and less diversity in their journalism the opposition socialist party says it will sue hungary's media council which is also controlled by or banned and they are also looking for outside help from brussels but the e.u. has a pretty poor track record on intervening when it comes to member states and what governments do on the media side or burn knows that and is probably counting on it and time magazine has announced its person of the year for two thousand and eighteen collectively honoring journalists under fire who's on that list and why the subsequent debate online well there are four front covers for this week's time for different individuals or groups the capital because that newspaper in the u.s. state of maryland where five star for killed by a guy. back in june the wives of reuters journalists in myanmar one lone enjoy the

two men have been in jail for a year now maria ressa from rappler who faces dubious tax fraud charges in the philippines after years of hard hitting reporting of the presidency of roderigo to turn and the late saudi journalist jamal khashoggi who time describes as a lifelong defender of the truth of the reality is that has spent most of his career propagandizing for the ruling family in riyadh before he took sides against mohammed bin solomon when the crown prince rose to power time calls the four cases representative of a broader fight around the world in which at least fifty two journalists have been killed this year and one it did mention reporters the been killed in india and the case of russian journalist arkadi who misled the world by faking his death it was up to twitter to point out that two palestinian journalists ya some were taja and ahmed abu hussein who was shot and killed by israeli snipers while covering the

protests in gaza they were absent from times list ok thanks well before president trump took office most media junkies in the u.s. would not have known that ice stands for the immigration and customs enforcement agency but the troubled ministrations hard line immigration policies of changed all that data published this past week shows that in the past year i saw rests in the workplace have gone up by more than six hundred percent and with the president's ceaseless talking and tweeting about threats like a government shutdown if democrats refuse to fund his border wall or that migrant caravan from honduras stories about ice and its sister agencies c.d.p. customs and border protection are right up there on the mainstream media's agenda but some news organizations are doing more than just covering the story over the past year n.g.o.s and legal advocacy groups have collaborated with media. let's to

at the grassroots level track cases of enforcement abuse and they train communities to use their own media tools to document wrongdoing by listening posts flow phillips now from texas on some of the media practices and stories that have come out of those collaboration. then known as ice raids seemingly indiscriminate often undercover operations to root out the legal immigrants and they happen across the u.s. day in day out. like the case of palomar alice luna a mother taken in front of her screaming children on a southern california street in march twenty eighth seen. as a mechanic in los angeles arrested at work in september twenty seven team even though agents had no probable cause or warrant.

gonzales a father of four apprehended in february twenty seventh teen was dropping his daughter at school. just three examples of thousand this we know about these three because they were caught on camera eyewitness footage has been so crucial in exposing isis manipulative tactics ramiele of alec and solace was arrested by two ice agents who were an unmarked vehicles wearing jackets that only said police there's a reason why they don't identify themselves they're trying to use manipulative tactics to get information from immigrants or people who they've racially profiled in order to arrest and deport this happened in february of two thousand and seventeen and it was really the first high profile case that really showed what the human price of ice is new enforcement what looked like. u.s. immigration and customs enforcement is not a new body it's current incarnation the largest investigative arm of the department

of homeland security was part of a restructuring effort in the wake of nine eleven and it's not as though the obama administration didn't deport undocumented workers as many as twenty thousand a month by twenty sixteen but donald trump has gone further during his first week in office the president signed an executive order that rewrote the rules on who i should prioritize in its operations making virtually every on documented immigrant in the country all ten point seven million fair game for arrest and deportation whether they had a criminal record or not the former director of ours mr holm publicly stated that the dave clark from crossing. over they should all of you in this country illegally you committed a crime but entered this country you should be uncountable you should look over your shoulder you need to be worried then i did something which last administrations had not done they actually this and every single process discretion

to do so and pepper. deporting. anyone who comes to the attention became the newborns what that's translated to on the street is folks who maybe year ago two years ago didn't have to anticipate the possibility of being arrested and deported now do we've seen a substantial increase in interest a lot of stories about the way immigration enforcement faulds arrests class country family separated deportations. stories about how i see racially profiled people on the street picks up immigrants at routine court check ins uses contentious surveillance tactics and makes mass arrests. some of the journalism does more extensive collaboration's between news organizations and advocacy groups groups that have done research and can show people a thing on t.v. we covered a project that was put together by the immigrant defense project the center for

constitutional rights here in new york city tracked immigration raids and it showed a marked increase in operations targeting people with no criminal record so what we've seen under the truck administration huge increase in arrests all of these different colors correspond to different types of inforce an activity that was served. like a physical arrest or surveillance or use of force we have one hundred twenty eight cases observed here forty eight here i think that generally this kind of ice focused reporting can serve one of two functions either it's basically service journalism or it can be the kind of for additional countability journalism and i think that that latter function is what more of the ice watch kind of projects serve the marshall project new york magazine collaboration was really interesting because it kind of was a mix of the two it was grounded in there are ports of individual immigration

enforcement actions and deportations and in new york in particular that's fascinating because seeing the mapping of here is what has actually happened is useful to immigrant new yorkers who can actually turn the ambient buzz of rumors about what might be happening into a sense of what has actually happened and to navigate their own lives accordingly. abolish ice is the collective name given to a growing movement protesting ice's new mandate and that's if it's part of the agency customs and border protection or c.b.p. . the movement was energized by the release of an orgy reported back in june with the sounds of children. trying out that path. for and continues today with the president's constant references to the quiet threat of the migrant caravan to criminals to shelters to trespassers but you put up the order join back

now because you're not getting in advance the field in a lot of traction in the mainstream she started filming from an advocacy groups not just the media have suggestions on how to tell the story. and put it to a series of what shall spoil the nice by what they mcallen texas it's a city why only u.s. mexican border given the spiting immigration enforcement in this particular family the group says it's essential to put people here with tools and techniques needed to film events as they have. this program is a crash course and how video can help immigrant communities expose injustices advocate for asylum seekers and defend against deportation it teaches people not just how to don't kim and ice and border patrol abuses but how to do it safely and ethically our training is focus on digital security issues so how to secure the

content on your phone how to secure your communications your computer your social media we also focus on filming tactics what should you film what should. then go that it's off the mark on the boat. in the snow now we're also seeing mays it going up with him oh nothing must be on the map at all see. but up with it that red. and then a really crucial component of our work is helping people think their strategies around what to do after you film how you save it how you can impact whether or not it can be used as evidence in a court case or a legal proceeding for a record something i would just posted online but like now we know that there's specific procedures that i was. take before posting that. what shops like this one having a real impact on local communities but the power of sits in video is going well beyond having video footage having kind of

a first person document is often the difference between something being a local story if not a national story we've seen in several cases things that were initially posted his facebook videos is becoming things that you know national outlets have said in their newsroom gee this is getting a lot of play on social media maybe you should write it up a funny oh showing an illegal immigrant and i write this crap here off the street or try to reassure parents were high caliber lot of attack the new technology has become extremely important in your legal professionals for ice. and also i was immigrant was a law breaker. far the advocate of that unauthorized person he or she is not just a law breaker which is true but he or she is also a parent he or she is also a contributing member of the community he or she is also someone who has roots in this way they want to portray that aspect of the person and these tools have

become very important in making that happen. remember one hundred one days the mechanic in a arrested it was the entire incident was captured on the shop surveillance cameras footage that was used by his defense in court. and that video taken by romney. on his cell phone for to do one viral helping him out of immigrant detention six months later breaking the ice one video at a time. and finally back to social media and the bohemian blast from the past reversion to the birth of the music video is often traced back to queen and the song bohemian rhapsody produced in one thousand nine hundred seventy five six years before the launch of m.t.v. both the song and the video became iconic destine accurately an american of samoan descent has reworked the video turning it into

a cutting commentary on online trolling culture the stuff that we say we don't want to engage in but they started it since the original version of the song grew strongly from the individual ism of bohemian artists it's a fitting soundtrack to the self obsessed digital age that we live in today with the next time you're at the listening post. it's. a. eleven . eleven.

eleven . although. you. in malaysia schooling is a luxury for children of writing or muslim refugees but. every child deserves an opportunity for a faith and creativity the arms them with the skills to overcome any hurdle and seize the threat to his schools existence as

a test of his faith. school of hope part of the viewfinder asia series on al-jazeera. getting to the heart of the matter how can you be a refugee after a while it borders between five safe countries facing the realities their brains that from the very beginning got there by a school providing context housing is not just about four walls and a roof hear their story and talk to how does iraq. israel's army demolishes the home of a palestinian activist whose son is in jail accused of killing a soldier. hello

welcome to al-jazeera life and i'm our team that is also coming out tensions on the streets of paris where yellow vests protesters are out for a fifth weekend of demonstrations. sri lanka's disputed prime minister resigns but there's no guarantee it will end the political crisis. five years after the world's youngest nation descended into civil war we ourselves sudanese refugees if they think they'll ever go home again. and the israeli military is currently the most demolishing the home of a well known palestinian activist in the occupied west bank soldiers entered the mahdi refugee camp overnight and set explosives around the residence latifa how many lives her son has been accused of killing an israeli soldier earlier this year

palestinians are protesting against the demolition they say is a form of collective punishment that is illegal under international law natasha good name is our correspondent in ramallah. this morning several hundred israeli soldiers stormed the home of the abu hamid's inside refugee camp they use sound bombs which we could hear from my hotel relatively short distance away but pretty loud nonetheless they use drones and they began to demolish the home this family is unique there are seven brothers one is dead the other six are sitting in israeli prisons accused of attacks on israelis one of the brothers is considered to be a clue founder of fatah's military wing and their mother latif abu comedic was a woman of distinction or some note you might say because in two thousand and eleven the palestinians sent her to the un to make a presentation regarding palestine's bid for statehood inside the home today it was

miss abu honeyed she said they can go ahead and demolish my home but we will rebuild and quote we will liberate palestine right so that was our correspondent in ramallah now we can speak to the chief palestinian negotiator saab at a cat who. he's visiting for the day for him thank you very much indeed for talking to us festival your reaction then to the demolishing if this house the house of this woman who's a well known palestinian activist with six of her sons in jail and now she's losing her house. this is a war crime committed by the government to acquire and got thirty vision and you know the sponsor and he is fully responsible with his government for the war crimes being committed against the palestinian people there is around page of. or crimes. mass executions demolishing

a form confiscation of land he announced the building of two thousand settlement housing units and this call comes under the encouragement of president from and today the prime minister for strayer decided all sorts rewards and in the hours and israel's war crimes against the palestinians and against this mother made. homeless with her six sons in prison and he said and we've all done anything our government fully responsible because. i know in one's ass what's madness and who defeated by the beating the same experiences and experiments with death impose and expecting different results than at any hour believes that by diminishing the horns killing palestinians he would get peace and security he is pushing but as the end israelis fear that and gave into the cycle of violence and counter-violence and that's that was ok responsible for the blood that's being shed of palestinians i wanted to ask you what do you see impact as far as you're concerned on the morale

of the palestinian people given this absence this this a lack of mediation in with regard to trying to achieve a peaceful settlement between the israelis and the palestinians there is no. peace process to speak of them what sort of impact is that having upon the people of the territories. honestly unions are resilient people in the last two years have been under occupation since nineteen sixty seven it's almost fifty one years and the last two years have the full right to defend themselves would get there we have nowhere else to go and mr drum the president drum and now the prime minister of australia have managed to put palestinians and israelis in a car that's going on two hundred kilometers an hour not knowing that then metres from them there is an iron solid broad block so every time you hear of a palestinian killed an israeli killed i think president from and australian prime minister should look on the mirror to see who is responsible what we need are not

military solutions what we need is to end there is really a question that began six seven and to establish a palestinian state with these dearest of them as its capital to live side by side in peace and security with the state of israel on the ninety six seven lines this is the only solution the options that mr netanyahu has into the ending now his war crimes his the massacres his demolishing of homes but at the punishments will only lead with further deepening this cycle of violence and counterviolence side at a cat thank you very much indeed for talking to us live from the house floor thank you. for the hundreds of france's yellow vests demonstrators there back out on the streets of paris it's been more than a month now since the start of the movement which has often turned violent it started as a rallying cry against fuel taxes but it's now grown into a much wider movement against president emanuel macro himself andrew symonds is a correspondent he's live in paris and andrew tell us what you can see around you

in the mood of those people who turned out for a fifth consecutive weekend. not say they're going to give you a quick update quite a lot to be happening in the past twenty minutes on right down the charles elisei now you can see like the trail behind me the yellow versus. marched all the way down the shown sillies some confusion i was saying that look at us just take you over here while i'm talking because things are moving as i speak suddenly the vest a turning round and walking back they didn't know just twenty minutes ago they were going to plus the opera which is where there was another gathering of yellow vests the police didn't seem to turn up the troll there was even traffic driving down the shelves elisei however they're now nearly a lease a palace area which is a big security cordon and they can't go any further so there's no trouble right now it is quite

a peaceful atmosphere but it has to be said the police are making it quite clear to them that they can't go any further so let's just go with them him and just take you to. something of an update because they are now returning it would seem to where they were originally decided not to trial it has to be said the numbers here don't seem to be as large as last week. early morning six arrests in central paris compared with three hundred a week ago but nevertheless it's difficult to actually gauge the mood right now there have been chants that micron's should stand down that he's not over the president however there is also a body of opinion no doubt whatsoever out there that his concessions his tax concessions made on shoes day to a t.v. audience was the size of a well the of the view is through a world cup final that the response to his concessions how thing.

it would say quite positive in some areas but there's a really large cross strata of people involved in these protests does not seem. all right we're going to leave you there you've clearly got some assistance there helping you out and you will leave it for now anderson is that life in paris ok. the prime minister mahinda rajapaksa has quit he plans to address in the nation at some point later today mr rajapaksa was appointed several weeks ago and that set off a political crisis that left sri lanka without a functioning government and facing the prospect of being unable to pass next year's budget and let's hear brian reports. less than two months ago he was being sworn in as new prime minister but after weeks of political turmoil mahinda rajapaksa has submitted his resignation to allow president my three palace serious

enough to appoint a new government rajapaksa was previously sri lanka's president for a decade bringing to an end a long civil war with a brutal final assault on the tamil tiger rebels but in october sri lanka was plunged into a constitutional crisis when president cirrus sr appointed rajapaksa as prime minister and unceremoniously sacked. within days thousands turned out to show their anger at serious in his decision and since then there have been demonstrations supporting and opposing rajapaksa and on the negative this is not good. prime minister he finished the war and was developing the country our people our gratitude for all of this happened because mahindra did not have a majority in parliament when a country is on stable it is difficult for people like us to make a living. sri lanka has now been without

a functioning government for nearly two weeks after a court suspended rajapaksa and his cabinet when they lost to no confidence votes and on thursday the supreme court ruled that a decision by the president to dissolve parliament and call a snap election for early january was unconstitutional. rajapaksa his decision to step down is unlikely to maine through lanka's political landscape can return to a kind of normality in a time soon. brian al-jazeera are let's go live now to our correspondent in the sri lankan capital colombo min elfin and there's a minute now the departure then of mr rajapaksa how does that impact the crisis in sri lanka today. but in it just takes out one in him and of this issue that has been gripping the country over the last couple of weeks obviously the rajapaksa had been suspended from functioning as prime minister and now he moves out of the scene officially but that still leaves

a huge royd the first question is who is going to be this country's prime minister there are reports that the ousted prime minister and a vicar missing is going to be sworn in again on sunday these are unconfirmed but basically we've had the prison by policies in the vowing that he would never work with one of the committing again rejecting him as a prime ministerial option at all but obviously become missing his supporters have insisted that he is their only option and that they would only support him as a candidate who has the majority in parliament so that is one issue the other issue is the future of the government now the vicar missing a faction came into power with the coalition over national government they had to make up the numbers by coming together with all the political parties this is why the coalition was almost at the mercy of different parties and weakened now they have the prospect of this happening once again if they have to go into.