if you feel awful to. sorting this out of congolese you have to force. people in the eastern cities if any in the tempo demonstrated last week when the electoral commission said they could vote i when it came to voting activists made their own polling materials and opened their own polling stations him protest. thousands came opinion polls indicate that most congolese don't trust the electoral commission. when its president came to check on a polling station in kinshasa was greeted with chants calling him a big liar and saying that she has a recount where. millions of voters across the country counties will be contentious and many congolese say they wanted to accept the result they don't believe. webb al-jazeera kinshasa or the democratic republic of congo

to yemen and who see rebels say they fired four missiles into saudi arabia they say they targeted saudi forces near the city of jos and in a separate development two saudi soldiers were killed while fighting with ruthie's near the yemen border that's according to saudi media. well the u.n. team monitoring the truce in yemen says it's disappointed a humanitarian corridor between the port city of the data on the rebel held companies sana has not yet opened this was among many agreements reached at talks in sweden earlier this month as part of that deal the rebels have handed over control of the data to the government but the united nations wants to verify where they'll go next the u.n. says it wants to ensure that the movements of rebels is in line with the sweet agreement. still ahead here on out they've been labeled a threat to brazil by the incoming president we look at the battle leave me with columbus people. bridging the pay gap between workers and bosses swigs i mean

what's being done in the u.k. to try to make salaries fairer. from the waves of the sounds. to the contours of the east. how i once again we're still some disturbed weather affecting parts of the middle east other area clapp just spilling out it's coming down into syria that we some that also be some snow on that side we see some when she weather coming in the side of the med looking a little disturbed as well say but see some showers longer spells of rain fading in seaside person that wintry weather continuing around techie and serious and white winter weather to into afghanistan kabul heat of the day at around six celsius twenty degrees warmer than that for karate here is fine and dry the beefier showers into the western side of iran as we go on through the next monday's pitch of that

rain might just spill a few showers into the fall and also kata off to mystic here in doha that it will stay dry twenty six hours just to add codas ago wanted to choose the bluest skies coming back in thick clouds still lehr across northern parts of saudi arabia most of all so that a bit of thick cloud that just down towards the. all of africa a few spots of rain certainly a possibility now plenty of rain across southern africa because of big downpours affecting the eastern cape pushing up across to him his bird is ing into botswana all the way up into wangel seen the rain for much of the elections in the democratic republic of congo his days rather quiet. the weather sponsored by qatar and peace. time a tradition every new sankoh brings a seemingly simple breaking story and then of course there's donald trump town through the ice into blackouts channelise that's right out of a hamas script that calls for the annihilation of israel that is not what that

phrase means. listening post as we turn the cameras on the media focus on how they were caught on the story the man is still in bad news a free palestine listenings based on al-jazeera. are we going to watch al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this and al-jazeera has obtained pictures showing the saudi hit to make killed journalist. carrying large bank shortly after he was last seen alive a suspected of carrying his remains have never been found. at least sixty people have died after a storm system called flash floods and landslides in the philippines five thousand

people have been forced to leave their homes dozens are still missing. bangladesh is prime minister has another has won a landslide election victory securing a third consecutive term in office but the opposition has rejected the results and has called for a new vote fall and some polling day left at least eighteen people dead. israel's military has killed more than two hundred palestinians during months of protests at the gaza border fence thousands more have been injured in the weekly demonstrations well now the new york times has released a dummy investigation into israel's use of life are on protestors this report focuses on the death of a twenty year old medic who was kid. by gunfire during a protest in june after analyzing over one thousand photographs and videos the times concludes that iran is the no nudges killing was intentional and she did not use any security threat and was standing more than one hundred meters away from the border fence when she was killed by a sniper the israeli military says it is investigating the death they would help is

the new york times through bureau chief and one of the journalist behind the report he explains why his team chose to investigate reza his death it was important especially in the case of a medic and obviously it's the death of any civilian is his pivot by international law you know when when it's certainly intentionally that. medics are specially protected status and here is a young a young medical woman who's volunteered she's got really well known and she gets killed it seems like we really needed to know what happened in that case nobody really knew each side you know made very forceful declarations one way or the other the palestinians said she was gunned down you know with their hands in the air and this wasn't quite true. the israelis tried to portray you know they that the person is portrayed as an innocent martyr a few days later the israelis put out a tweet suggesting that you know a video suggesting that she was part of the violence the truth you know was out

there still and we wanted to set out to find it. israel's prime minister says he's received a personal pledge from brazil's president elect to move his country's embassy to jerusalem benjamin netanyahu says the judge. told him it was a question of when not if the move will go ahead the incoming brazilian president is hosting netanyahu and other leaders for his inauguration on tuesday he is under growing pressure to keep the embassy in tel aviv to avoid hurting lucrative exports to our countries. brazil's largest social organization the landless workers me says attacks on its members of increase significantly since the election of the new far right president john bolton are will be sworn in on tuesday he describes the group as terrorists by latin america to use in human reports from the state of matter grosso doing so well in the west of brazil. scores of families who belong to the m.s.t. landless people's movement live in makeshift homes along this road in southwestern

brazil right now that castillo says that two months ago she was taking a shower when she heard her neighbor's screams. this shack was up in flames torched by unknown assailants luckily no one was injured animals did i think none of them made much i'm not going to tell you we're not afraid we are that's why we leave the lights on now i'm afraid but what can i do against these people nothing. she's referring to increasingly emboldened opponents of the m.s.t. who expect brazil's far right wing president elect bush for not all to make good on his promise to get rid of so-called dangerous extremists brazil's landless movement is the largest organization of its kind in all of latin america and it's also the one that suffered the most attacks of the seventy social activists who were murdered in brazil last year the vast majority belong to the landless movement and the fear is that under the new government they will be targeted even further. an

antiterrorism law being debated in the senate could make that easier for decades the m.s.t. has been fighting for land redistribution and at times members have resorted to land occupations and violence but legal experts argue the current penal code is sufficient to punish those who break the law. to give the government now in the future the power to declare any type of demonstration by political opponents as terrorism is very dangerous. back at the roadside shows of some vegetables they've grown. for every. other human rights that we go hungry a lot we trade things with our neighbors and that's how we survive by using the patches of land by the side of the road imagine if we had our arms. but instead of land they're expecting a confrontation with a new president who's declared the estimated one point five million members of the

movement of threat to brazil you see in human al-jazeera mato grosso brazil. immigration was a key part of u.s. president donald trump's election campaign it's expected to feature heavily when he officially heads out on the trail again next year as part of our series looking ahead to two thousand and nineteen kimberly how can i report someone else lives in store for the u.s. president. in the u.s. election season begins very early i am a socially running i'm running for president i am a candidate for president in twenty one thousand the campaign for the white house will officially begin expect a crowded field of candidates on the democratic side as they try to take back the presidency from donald trump in two thousand and twenty. will be helped by some fresh faces and capitol hill in january democrats will take over the house of representatives in the u.s. congress for the first time in eight years it will also be the most diverse group

in u.s. history with the highest number of women including the first two muslim american women and the first to native american women it was no solution no collusion there is absolutely no scholars but the new congress will also bring in many people who want more investigations into tribes businesses and financial transactions with foreign governments particularly russia one of those people is california congressman adam schiff who's expected to take over the house intelligence committee he's promised to probe trump's business dealings and make them public i have no business whatsoever with saudi arabia couldn't care less any inquiry will look into that claim and u.s. ties with saudi arabia riyadh has come under heavy scrutiny following the murder of jamal killed in the saudi embassy in istanbul in october democratic lawmakers in the house of representatives may press to hold the crown prince accountable even

though the royal palace has denied it this is the f.b.i. continues its investigation into trump's alleged campaign ties to foreign governments but that investigation has already netted his former campaign manager deputy campaign manager and former national security adviser among others. another meeting between north korean leader kim jong un and trump is also in the works. white house officials have indicated it could happen as early as february last june the two men made history in their first meeting in singapore. but since then pyongyang has reportedly built up its nuclear program contrary to what trump it hoped the white house is also expected to unveil its peace plan to help resolve the dispute between israel and the palestinians given the israeli elections in twenty nineteen the trump administration is said to be in discussions with israeli officials on the best time to unveil the proposals kimberley health at al-jazeera

the white house sudan's president says he will not apologize for the ongoing turmoil in his country he's been speaking out against protests over rising prices some demonstrators have been calling on him to step down but she blames the economic problems on international sanctions but we're going to have to do this and i guess we going through a crisis and the people are facing challenges and we stay awake trying to solve it but we can't solve problems with more problems and destruction destruction and looting will deepen the problem and not solve it we will get out of this crisis despite everyone trying to get us to kneel through an economic crisis afghanistan's presidential vote has been pushed back by three months off the parliamentary elections in october were disrupted by violence and technical problems election commission has reshaped will devote from april to july to resolve the issues she wants to go polling stations in some areas failed to open by much machines didn't

work and some voter lists were in current into the cardium is a political analyst based in kabul and he says the delay is needed to ensure a fair outcome. the two thousand and fourteen election in the two thousand. election has been a very war six speed election commission i think this delays more than necessary deal a because the election commission should ensure that they are just doing proper transparent elections not the election for the sake of election this election that happened just months ago maybe they have not been able to announce the candidates they're winning candidates in at same time there has been a lot of. the election commission that they have been not fair and transparent in that there has been a lot of corruption so this is a good deal a and they should be ensuring that the coming presidential election should be an election that people can count on it people can believe on it that c.q. the public trust that said in transparent and free in quite countable maybe

diamonds in northeast india have resume the search for fifteen teenagers trapped in an illegal coal mine a rescue attempt on sunday was about and after the team could only make a partial descent into the one hundred ten need to pit the miners became trapped two weeks ago by flood waters. the u.k. and france have agreed on a plan to deal with migrants and refugees attempting to cross the english channel the plan will include increased joint patrols and surveillance and will be implemented in the coming days more than two hundred twenty people have attend to the journey since november. the growing pay gap between executives in the average worker is the target of new regulations coming into force in britain from january the first u.k. listed companies will have to monitor reveal and justify the difference in salaries but brennan reports from london as part of our series looking into new laws for two thousand and nineteen. the glass and metal towers of london's financial district

symbolize the success and sometimes excess of britain's top companies while enforced public austerity has kept a lid on the average working wage the eye watering salaries and extraordinary bonuses of the top u.k. bosses have sparked outrage in twenty seventeen alone the salary of top bosses jumped eleven percent to four point nine million dollars over the past twenty years or so we've seen the pay of a foot c. one hundred c. day from about fifty or sixty times that the average week a work to bore like one hundred fifty times now there's been no real justification for that in terms of company performance so i definitely think it is the case that there's been a major corporate governance or policy failure somewhere along the line among a string of high profile controversies in twenty eighteen with a ninety five million dollar bonus paid to jeff fairburn c.e.o. of the house bill de persimmon the public outrage cost him his job. the royal mail

paid its new chief executive rico back a seven point three million dollars signing on fee despite seventy percent of shareholders objecting and a shareholder revolt that bt failed to block a two point nine million dollars package for gavin patterson the departing chief executive remuneration committees have been the quiet for a long time now to take into account paying conditions elsewhere in the company when setting executive pay and they have absolutely failed to do this from january twenty ninth listed companies with more than two hundred fifty employees must calculate unpublicized the pay ratio between the boss and the average worker the institute of directors supports the new rules although it says some comparisons will be more useful than others but if for the same company you'll seeing say the pay ratio increase from one year to the next so top exact a moving upwards at a faster rate than that of the average employee that could give rise to legitimate

questions in the sense that you're describing and if companies refuse to moderate themselves there is scope for further government intervention perhaps policies from the government in relation to their procurement activities or in relation to the. tax system that would favor the companies with lower pay ratios and penalize those with the vast caps that have become increasingly complex in recent years the new pay ratio regulation should strengthen shareholders ability to block excessive deals and could shame companies into actually complying but u.k. boardrooms have shown themselves to be remarkably brazen despite public criticism and more may yet be needed in order to rein in the worst excesses paul brennan al-jazeera the city of london. so this is out there these are the top stories and al-jazeera has obtained pictures

showing the saudi hit team that killed journalist american soldier carrying large bank shortly after he was last seen alive the video shows the team arriving at the consul general's residence in istanbul suspected of carrying his remains which have never been found at least sixty people have died after a storm system calls flash floods and landslides in the philippines five thousand people have been forced to leave their homes dozens still missing. bangladesh's prime minister has and has won a landslide election victory securing a third consecutive term in office but the opposition has rejected the results and has called for a new vote violence on polling day left at least eighteen people dead folk counting is underway in the democratic republic of congo after a long delayed presidential election provisional results are expected in the coming days the opposition has raised concerns over irregularities in

many polling stations the voting machine due to war. and this was not the proclivities and also you know many polling station i want. i want people i want to read this is or didn't we're not allowed to be. israel's prime minister says he has received a personal pledge from brazil's president elect to move his country's embassy to jerusalem and you know he says that boston are told him it's a question of when not if the move will go ahead the incoming brazilian leader is under pressure to keep the embassy in tel aviv to avoid hurting lucrative exports to arab countries. navy divers in northeast india have resumed their search for fifteen teenagers trapped in an illegal coal mine a rescue attempt on sunday was abandoned after the team could only make

a partial descent into the one hundred ten meter pit the miners became trapped two weeks ago by a search of flood water pumps are being used to flush the water out brought you up to date swear the headlines turned out to more news coming right up after the listening post. the marshall islands holds a toxic legacy from years of u.s. military nuclear testing. as the sea levels rise one on one east investigates the threat this fall opposers on al-jazeera. on the twenty second of may a series of major news stories broke across west africa in

a simultaneous publication now known as the west africa leaks journalists from eleven countries had pored over gigabytes of data nearly thirty million leaked documents on tax havens and the secretive offshore companies of the rich and powerful like the panama papers investigations of two thousand and sixteen and the paradise paper's stories last year this collaboration was coordinated by the i.c.i. j. the international consortium of investigative journalists based in the us it worked alongside the norbert zongo cell for investigative journalism or sonos though in brooklyn a fast so we've reported on the i.c.i. j.s work before and we've been tracking these particular investigations since february when the journalists involved first met to lay the groundwork what sets the west africa leaks apart from other i.c. i j collaboration's is the media landscape the conditions in which the journalists work taking on powerful individuals institutions and a global financial system that secretive by design is difficult for any reporter in

west africa that's just the beginning and one of this group of journalists greatest challenges was getting their readers their governments and in some cases even the media outlets they work for to care listening posts nick knew or had now on the making and breaking of the west africa leaks. the west africa leaks is the largest of our collaboration of investigative reporters from across west africa division that there is immediate. the reason seems to be based on their reporting. we have thirteen journalists are exploring nearly thirty million offshore financial records and this is just ridiculous you. suppose she's.

why. is someone who has nothing no islamist no twenty in my name why is she. this is a mom who is championing the course i'm sure but makes that liberates effort to deny. me tax from oil same with global media collaboration's not only is that the more the merrier the more the country. and. western gulf will project the west africa leaks got its start in sending up we're going to find a much more interesting name for this project over the next two days the list of the better i'm still in it to day workshop organized by the i.c.

i j and snow's journalists were given access to a compilation of data from six major leaks held by the i.c. i just i'm just going to go through the main database and share with you so you. just the purpose of the workshop was not only to introduce the journalists to the data but also to help them start reading between why you don't go offshore and write in a name now that you want to. taxes lawyers and potential crooks are a lot more sophisticated and therefore understanding how to read the signs and how to interpret the red flags in offshore documents is crucial on was. not on my contacts it. done more in doing stories of this nature it's very important to take the right

terminology to use it's not for you the journalist to see somebody has. the duty. to go and so the. pastors or. you can i mean i don't. it gets in the default but this woman least. he. didn't even know how. to put the. simple don't want to. send. then you would put this is an address. it's not necessarily true address an accurate address where you. walk yeah right you don't let walk. alone doesn't tell a story you need to investigate what presents do you want to have

a part of the work but fortunately i did find some documents and i started building hypothesis and the documents and setting the questions. were coming to the end of the first editorial meeting out here in dhaka the journalists behind me have been given access to six projects or relating to the murky world of offshore finance primed for the investigations time to head and begin digging through the data and hopefully start connecting the. as the west african leaks i c r j s seventh major media collaboration investigating official finance they can of course speed legal legitimate reasons for an individual or company to keep assets offshore over the past few years however the consortium has broken multiple stories documenting serious abuse of the system. there are good reasons why the ice has to focus on

west africa for its latest investigative collaboration first the economics according to the un more than sixteen billion dollars a year is moved offshore from west africa illegally which amounts to more than the g.d.p. of six of its poorest countries combined second governance authorities either lack the ability or the will to stop money from being stashed offshore where kompany taxed and as the investigations reveal politicians are often the worst culprits. and then you have the media news organizations that are on state run not typically by those in power or those close to the second average all too often there's a way from holding the check count which is why didn't take long for these journalists to start finding some news with the story. of the second largest and the second poorest country in west africa aska editor of the eleven more newspaper is investigating

a government funded project worth around thirteen million dollars in two thousand and nine a contract to build a modern refrigerated stroll to house was awarded to an obscure australian company rich stood off shore with links to the new gerry and minister of livestock. in the day i found that money was paid to the australian firm but a large amount of it went missing the new facility was meant to boost users meeting but when he went to the site of the school to house maybe a decade on he found that it had not been built. well i'll expect that to do. a if you ask about plot. and not. the next story is in the journalist however is not maksim domini earth porter for a lot of twenty. works in exile and his office not to reveal his vacation he's on

the government's raid on not only is a critical journalist but also as a member of a movement that has called for the removal of the president. has been in power since two thousand and five over the past yeah anti-government demonstrations take or have been escalating and as the authorities began to crackdown. chose to flee the country. to go. on the only one. just simply good. show. to move money trying to. get it to fit some people see. it it isn't this you want to. be do you not think that those political activities have compromised your standing

as a journalist in the country you know. syria. and . visits. it could. move even. when. good was organising a good t.v. . so i was informed there is dolls. domenici investigation focuses on the financial dealings of patrice ya kind of katrina. businessman with close ties to target and family according to leaked documents from h.s.b.c. private bank in switzerland in two thousand and five kind of keter trying to bypass turkey's banking restrictions and while one point two million dollars out of the country and in turn you set up an account at the time he held director level positions q state run companies and both of them were on the verge of bankruptcy companies challenge has been to corroborate the data in the documents with

information that crime. in exile. you create. this will do new. element in this yes or no and i'm going. to go. to school so you know we. do good in the in the school the kid with. the seats. with us at the song also in the classroom it did i was at. the rebel sons of movie lives and did it my the sort of prison that they defeat. what they did fed. emmanuel dog davy is the managing editor of drawn up business news an online

publication he is investigating a form a guy named ambassador to the united states made by way to say on his foundation's website it's described as a philanthropist and humanitarian looking through documents leaked to the arts from the permuted paste girlfriend appleby doug davy discovered that if you say used the spider web or for fuel pump and he's to hide from god named tax authorities his share of a three hundred five million dollars oil to. worry everyone by. the diploma should know better and conduct himself in the most if the culture will be registered osho companies so he would more or less maximize his profit and less in his taxes that is. contrary to the. vienna convention that ties the conduct of diplomats on duty he engaged in business activities and more seriously in offshore business why he was to lamesa that there is

a clear conflict of interest and i buz of this in this matter. into the ministry of foreign affairs. they haven't responded to my questions and that's very typical of gandhian politicians they ignore you when you have very serious and important questions to ask they would not respond if there is a pond out thought they were respond after the facts. but this simply didn't respond to the queries and only went to simple questions responses us to what the minister would do would normally under circumstances of that nature but didn't respond it seems to be a pattern of behavior here where government institutions or business leaders don't feel the need to respond to journalists why do you think that is i think it's simply impunity i definitely did everything emails phone calls on delivered lead

to. i give the order but you did the world would be over a month or two on the sort of quest to send the hope. so we're stuffed the leaks coming out next tuesday that's really spending a lot of time at the moment helping our partners get over the line. powerful people in that part of the well really don't like to respond to questions so i'm. spending lots of time on the phone. i'm going to run through ok i've got. i've been helping west africa links partners make contact with and get responses from a number of subjects across the west african region i should say that this really

is a two pronged approach that is the journalist in country will always try on their own and to make contact with that person about whom they're writing the story but as we've found in a number of cases that local journalist is seen as the need for the standing of an important person or a politician in that country to respond to it so what i'm trying to do then is call from the u.s. number and it's surprisingly effective and yes good afternoon is this is this has brought parker hello. hello ms brought back a man as will fitz given all according to the documents we have from penn in the papers you were listed as a shareholder of greater putu foundation ltd a company in the station.

your shoes davis. works for the news news people he's been on the trail of to vend the fourth parker a curse for end of the film a lot very impressive and in johnson city in the panama papers were recalled showing that. a pharmacist by trade was appointed director of a shell company called creative pretty front patients limited through this camp in the dry park and lobbied the johnson city government on behalf of a foreign mining business to land a lucrative and controversial deal for them despite a clear paper trail linking brought parker to great depression from they should limit birds she and johnson city for the night any knowledge of the company would should any editor's interest but not necessary not to bear it. in with a few hours to go to the politician of the story. not wanting.

thanks formation former editor and historian who'll be publishing the news newspaper. my editor. asked not. as plain to me why he can of publish this story but from my reading. is because of the people watching this story. the news by many newspapers in west africa is owned by a politician in this case wilson cato pay the country's minister of commerce the paper is quietly seen as taking an editorial soft approach to the current government and by the looks of things to the friends of former government says well . we dropped the largess off of the news newspaper about five hours of an hour just waiting on his call to find out whether or not says it is going to publish the story he said it's a ghost of the story then great if not then there is a plan b. in the way. moments later david confirms that he said it's

a hazard checked the story so we head across time to meet. rush hour traffic means that we reach our destination of the night for the offices of the daily observer. to ensure that he gets published david has a not for the first time he says taken history to the competition. a last minute editorial meeting this cold in the story gets the green light it moves through layout and into print within twelve hours a four month investigation build for one use paper winds up in the front page of another. the news feeds of the far less antagonistic story about calls for war tripe you know we asked the paper's editor in chief for an interview you greased to speak with us when we arrived at the newsroom has left the building and won't take our calls. choose that may twenty second and across west africa the investigation. have started to go. maksim domini story

about the dealings of businessman patrice. is on the front page of loud tentative it gets picked up by radio with the supporters of the government presumably circulated on social media a front page of loud tentative quoting the paper's editor in chief of the. media. in the. investigation into what he calls the phantom slaughterhouse makes national news in liberia the daily observant leads with david story into kevin de bright pocket however literacy rates in the country radio is way most liberians get their news and for this story to hit time you will need to transition from print to broadcast in the days after publication this investigation it seems has failed to do that. it is the bank that helps clients break the law.

now h.s.b.c. secrets around. the political impact of pasta media collaboration's coordinated by the i.c.r.c. was almost immune to the bank in the news from the public and often simply from tax authorities including its engine in the panama papers investigation of two thousand and sixteen made headlines across the globe mr prime minister what can you tell me about a company called employees so now i'm starting to feel a bit strange about this question because it's like you're accusing me of something in iceland the prime minister was confronted on about his feelings he resigned a few days later the founders of the law firm. vested amongst others money has been became and there was a healthy dose of public outrage in many countries this forest of documents basically has been dubbed the paradise and it cost us paradise papers had less impact. headlines. but even by those standards the reaction to the west african

leaks has seen mutant wise. it could be the geographical focus of the stories the stubborn silence of many of those investigated or even the lack of evident public and. my question after west africa lakes is where is all that outrage where are those public demonstrations what we do know is that it's not because the communities in the countries in the citizens don't care about these stories all the have to do is speak to the reporters go on facebook to say that every single story from west africa legs was followed very closely and really great local by. case in point the king of journalist sandrine sarah dagger of la county mr fastow reported on two leading businessmen and a possible case of tax evasion. on

a prison most doctors on the stand he couldn't get they didn't want to cause them to plunder vonte a prisoner lector this is. what. your point specific bristol university to all the press corps the ministers the last the last i see people in the world will. not wash intellectually give me the mission's one hundred regime also interest and. see in this it's. been gone nearly a month after emanuel dogberry published his story the ministry of foreign affairs finally got back to him about his questions with questions of it sir. be rude to ask me to tell them specific cases i was investigated there was no need to tell them what i was getting i just wanted to move clearly what the general rules were for the conduct of diplomacy duty for me issues at the religion of duty which shows

a lack of understanding of the rule of journalist and they are running away from being held accountable. the ministry disagrees with in a statement that said the church's quote failure to disclose vital information it was unable to put the matter into context and therefore could not provide any additional information. that governments have been slow to respond to the revelations in the west african leaks or ignore them completely as come as no surprise what's been more concerning has been the lack of response from i've been used to this in the region one would expect stories of high level corruption and financial irregularities to top the news agenda are the subjects of these investigations of the very people who in large part control what gets reported in west africa and what does not. clearly there's somebody to pressure their generators that are our press not to publish. their thing kind of things

and we can understand that we're working in that environment so we can we can never tell. all the variables have more effect. on the in bank or the lack of every population i remember one example from ivory coast where the day after the publication of a really strong west africa leak story into the underclass offshore company of a very senior politician. a newspaper associated with the political party of that politician the next day carried a headline that said. something along the lines of troublemaking journalists just out to settle the score so to my mind the fact that we haven't seen a global or even regional outcry from west africa is not indicative in and of itself of the quality but rather of significant work that remains in terms of free press and in terms of investigative journalism what no one can take away from the

west africa league says the frog that is his story is the first time you have this number of journalists within the sub who didn't do it and went in to put on a project which itself to the fall of the web. and be that in the long. bridge will save us this period she had for. four hours. african generally it's a look or some do you know sit in the suits and mover in with nothing to. go on and do more or less this reform battle just to get your laugh. the poor no particular order resume then you think that they must be a rental meant to show promise or that this. democracy. in the c.b.c. . should want. the same feeling you have

here about a poison ivy league. on a few good legal briefs you i believe will notice when at the end if you're like you feel. there's a misconception about journalism one that many reporters still hold that once you expose corruption or wrongdoing the problem then comes to an end but that's not always the case journalism is just one step on the road to accountability and unless civil society gets behind the story the political will to take action will not be there journalists in short cannot do it alone you've been watching a special edition of our program on the west africa leeks we'll see you next time you're at the listening post. too often on the streets of india. are victims but a new force plane. come back.

and so is life. on. a controversial politician elected to the highest america's biggest country. brazil is about to inaugurate its new president. joins us live from the capital brasilia on inauguration day. pictures of. supposedly containing. body into the consul's house.

and this is. also coming up dozens are killed in the philippines. flooding and landslides. but the opposition is rejecting the results of a vote. in the u.s. state of california takes the lead with a tough. tough new year. has obtained a video of what suspected to be the remains of a murdered saudi journalist being taken into the house of the consul general in istanbul washington post columnist america saw g was killed soon after entering the saudi consulate in october. as its report. it's been three months since the

murder of. and his body still hasn't been found but this video could throw more light on the sequence of events after he was killed the pictures appear to show members of the saudi hit team carrying bags thought to contain his remains into the saudi consul general residence you can't believe these things happen in embassies or consul generals things but but of course they are control of all that control will in that saudi property saudi land the local police can't really do very much about it and of course they wouldn't imagine for one minute the were actually listening to what was going on inside the saudi journalist entered the consulate hoping to pick up documents that would allow him to start a new life with his fiance he never came out alive saudi arabia blamed his death on rogue agents but turkey's president says it was a premeditated murder orchestrated by riad these pictures only add another

layer of complexity to the investigation now we have direct evidence showing members of the killing team unloading body bags or black bags of some sort so it leaves the impression. body ended up at the consular. residence and that's where the investigation should focus not what happened today a few weeks after hushovd disappearance a team of turkish investigators found traces of acid during a search of the saudi consuls residence the office of turkey's attorney general has told al jazeera that chemicals were used to dispose of casualties body and now a new book is revealing more details of the killing. diplomatic atrocity the dark secrets of the murder was written by three reporters from turkey's daily newspaper

it names two previously and identified members of the saudi hit squad as well as their links to the royal family also audio recordings which allegedly prove that the crime was premeditated and information on his show g.'s reported refusal to text message his son in riyadh and tell him not to worry if he didn't hear from him for a while as a fuller picture of the killing emerges the pressure continues to grow on saudi arabia last week the king reshuffled his cabinet hoping to deflect international criticism but the saudi side would hope that this recent cabinet reshuffle puts an end to this case and relieve saudi arabia from this pressure by the turks and the international community looking for some answers the new details are also likely to add to growing calls that saudi arabia names and indicts those behind job

killing paul chatterjee on al-jazeera at least sixty people have died after a storm system called flash floods and landslides in the philippines five thousand people have been forced to leave their homes dozens of still missing she went out into a can has more now from manila. as a preemptive measure of local government officials here say they have evacuated more than twenty thousand civilians just days before this disaster struck unfortunately though this disaster still happened it's important to note know that the thought of a number of fatalities came from different areas all across the because region the first landslide happened friday and the second one late saturday night but so many areas according to local government officials and rescuers remain inaccessible because roads and bridges have been destroyed at this point rescue energy bill operations remain and their way and those of been displaced according to the local government are receiving assistance such as temporary shelters food and medicine.

bangladesh's prime minister shake us and has won a landslide election victory securing a third consecutive term in office the opposition has rejected the results claiming widespread vote rigging local media say the ruling alliance has won at least two hundred eighty seven out of three hundred seats where voting took place the opposition says the polls were rigged and wants a new vote on the neutral government some polling day left at least eighteen people dead child stratford has more now from dhaka. elicitation certainly here in the capital dhaka is quiet at the moment but it would be an understatement to say how angry opposition parties are. because of this result such a vast majority of understand the latest figures from the election commission or at least two hundred eighty seven of the two hundred ninety eight contested seats two

seats were well let's. uncontested we're expecting to hear comments from the opposition and in each a casino the latest a casino will be speaking to the press act residents but of course this huge election when with this massive majority comes off the serious allegations of vote rigging and intimidation violence in the run up to this election indeed allegations of vote rigging yesterday on election day and some violence as well at least seventeen possibly eighteen people killed in various locations across the country certainly according to the opposition that we've spoken to any investigation by the election commission is not going to be credible by any means opposition told us they said that the election commission was deeply politicized and has been corrupted. by a government's agenda again by government intimidation a ruling party

a vote counting is underway in parts of the democratic republic of congo after presidential elections there rating was extended in some polling stations which opened late the main opposition coalition has complained of irregularities sunday's vote is two years overdue as marc webb now reports from the capital kinshasa. president joseph kabila voted early has left the democratic republic of congo fifteen eighteen years. this election two years a veggie is to choose his successor my only concern is that we have this very every right. and property for the timeout might be low. and this is the man he wants to take over rama zani shattering he's on the european union sanctions list accused of rights abuses seventy i think victory is on my side and tonight i will be president. but the heavy rain in the capital kinshasa didn't put people off. and

there's no sign of a low turnout by thirty eight percent of eligible voters had already registered. but no fool of being able to vote is a polling station inside this primary school scott voting machines ready to go if there's no copy of the electoral register here subsequently facts for the people inside to be dusted sunrise waiting to vote the big crowd of people outside as well they sense is running thin people here blame the presidents of the electoral commission for not delivering and demanding their rights of facts. we were sleeping in two morning we're looking for which bush we won't go anywhere. everyone here is showing their support for candidate number four martin fire you live here one of the main opposition contenders three of his strongholds have been excluded from the presidential poll the electoral commission says because of conflicts and the butler outbreak in reno that some here we are we're having problems somebody else

everything is going peacefully now if you pull over for. me if people for you if you fall off with. saudi they're out of congolese and you have to force. people in the eastern cities if any in the template demonstrated last week when the electoral commission said they could. i when it came to voting activists made their own polling materials and opened their own polling stations him protest. thousands came. opinion polls indicate that most congolese don't trust the electoral commission. when its president came to check on a polling station in kinshasa was greeted with chants clearly of a big liar saying that she has every level where. the aliens and floated across the country counting will be contentious many congolese say they won't

accept the result they don't believe. web al-jazeera kinshasa or the democratic republic of congo. sudan's parliament has passed its two thousand nine hundred for school budget comes as protests spurred by lack of economic opportunity continue in cities across the country politicians say the new budget will reduce inflation but many donalds they'll deliver on the from even more good reports now from the capital khartoum. after days of demonstration over the poor state of the economy which have morphed into calls for the government to step down stance parliament passed its twenty nine hundred first call budget. was the most important thing about the budget is addressing the hard currency issue an increasing exports by thirty percent while reducing imports by increasing the production the budget also focuses on oil production reducing imports of oil costs the new budget

promises to reduce the country's inflation from its current rate of seventy percent to twenty seven it's also aims to increase economic growth by five point one percent and raise spending by nearly three point four billion dollars while cutting budget deficits to three point three percent from the current three point seven that some economists think will be difficult to achieve and. there's a huge deficit in the budget about one billion dollars there is also a deficit between exports and imports and an increase in inflation these are challenges facing the government so anything that doesn't address those issues affect the implementation of the budget. the newly passed spending bill also leaves important questions unanswered. the new budget will maintain subsidies on wheat and feel but doesn't explain where the government will get the hard currency needed to pay for the subsidies because the shortage has left long queues at petrol stations and lack of right in some bakeries which has triggered a nationwide protest process that.