obviously i mean that's what the beach nobody said it is trying to push here as well to china and any pertain to companies or violence from erupting as and so what's likely to happen. next and particularly now that we we have this reaction from the reasonable saying that there needs to be a recount or perhaps a unity government as a solution here. what's probably going to happen is you're going to hear more from the opposition leader and from the k.t. and maybe from president joseph kabila in reaction to the a call from static i think what you might see is there may be some kind of emergency meeting held by so they could maybe in them get because he's kind of a chair there now. in zambia perhaps or maybe you could maybe even see them some of the leaders coming here to d.r. he to try and talk to some of these individuals but like now all eyes of course will be on the church for monday when those constitutional judges and meet they have a big task ahead of them they have to be seen to be independent will they order

a recount or will they just say the elections were three and three and go ahead and declare to the t.v. as the president elect so a lot could happen the next few days it's going to be a busy week and you have to see at the reaction from watching for you and how he reacted to the court's. thanks for that how do we in kinshasa. project.

alice bit more mid winter rain on its way to hunan for example this masterclass doesn't look very much and it's not very much but we're feeding it with rather moist and warmish air from the science which means it will turn into clouds they will eventually give rain maybe not until tuesday but there it is the cold opposing wind is not cold just enough to produce a bit of snow over the high ground west of the house as you can see should be sunny in shanghai and in hong kong the breeze not particularly strong in hong kong humidity again not particularly high either and also got more cloud running across the far north of india which might give a shower or two in new delhi though i doubt if the verses manton baron with his no votes go straight down through the bay of bengal which seems increasingly likely to bring us to sri lanka not everywhere but in this north easterly they are not on

common cold by day and the seventeen degrees in new delhi and by night were down to single figures of course this has been consistent for a week or two. in the arabian peninsula mostly it is fine looking weather but the cloud has increased substantially in monday's forecast is a huge pole running as fast as cateye looks like will be largely drive except for maybe the far north of saturday but the breeze changes direction it's dusty. my main interest every weekly news cycle brings a series of breaking stories and then of course there's donald trump town through the eyes of the welts jannah least 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 brought on the stories that matter the most embarrassing is a free palestine listening post on al-jazeera.

hello again you're watching i just did a reminder of our top stories this hour the u.s. secretary of state is calling on countries in the gulf to end their dispute saying it's gone on too long my pompei it is in qatar urging unity among u.s. allies he's already been in the united arab emirates behind and egypt which of all blockaded qatar for the past eighteen months. the syrian army is preparing for an attack by turkish forces on the kurdish rebel stronghold of men because syria's government is deployed soldiers artillery and tanks to the suburbs of the city as

u.s. forces get ready to leave. turkey considers the kurdish why p.g. which is backed by the us a terrorist group. down influential african bloc known as sad it is calling for a recount of the democratic republic of congo's presidential election the result has been disputed by the opposition leader martin who's challenging it in court. the u.s. president is denying the latest allegations of his links with russia this time donald trump was accused of keeping himself details of a meeting with russian president vladimir putin a report in the washington post says he didn't release any notes made by his interpreter after he met putin in hamburg and twenty seventeen reportedly instructed the translator not to tell anyone in his administration what had been discussed why not release the conversation that you had with president putin

in helsinki along with some other stops that might involve them. or in the whole lot of them world you need i would i don't care i mean i had a conversation like every president does you sit with the president of various countries i do it with all countries we had a great conversation we were talking about israel and securing israel and a lot of other things and it was a great conversation i'm not keeping anything under wraps i couldn't care less a leader of the british opposition says he's going to table a motion of no confidence if the prime minister's bragg's the deal is rejected by parliament jeremy corbyn says leaving the european union without a deal will be catastrophic and will vote on teresa mayes plan on tuesday my own view is that i would rather get negotiated deal now if we can to stop the danger of a no deal from the twenty ninth of march which would be catastrophic for industry

catastrophic for trade and for the long term effects of that would be huge i think parliament did vote for an amendment to the finance bill this week which indicated its opposition to no deal but isn't totally specific on it we will do everything we can to prevent and no dealings it. let's get more on this now from sonya guy who is in london for us so what sort of a position is theresa may in right now what are the chances that she's going to survive next week's vote. well there have been very few indications that she will likely get this through successfully and get it passed there have been so many voices not excluding those from within her own government including that of the d u p who are providing or bolstering up her own minority government in

a confidence and supply arrangement that they have been very vocal about how they are not supporting this deal and that support is crucial in this as well but it's also been right across the board certainly from the opposition party germany corbin's labor party there have been voices of opposition as well and really with mrs may being in this position of not just being in a minority rule so having hemorrhage support across party lines as well it's looking very fragile for her and the issue is exactly by how much is she going to lose this if she loses it by a number of a dozen votes let's say than the chances are knowing how tenacious she is she will try and push this through again in order to try to whip up some more support to try and get the deal through if it's by a larger margin than not that really we are looking at the possibility of that no confidence vote as mentioned by jeremy corbyn possibly even leading to if there is

the will in the in parliament to do this to push ahead for an extension to article fifty if the government does full or mrs may resigns now on the other side the twenty seven members of the european. in the other twenty seven members that is they would have to approve such an extension to article fifty that delaying and they would have to be an extremely good excuse for that i.e. a general election or another referendum these are two options that have been rejected by the prime minister theresa may but also jeremy koeppen is still counting on that general election but it's still not spoken about whether he would take whether he would fully support the second referendum in favor of any other options has a song you're going to go live for us in london thanks on the name change deal between greece and macedonia is in danger of not getting ratified by greece that's

after the greek defense minister resigned in protest over the agreement and the right wing party of cameron r c is quitting the coalition government prime minister alexis tsipras needs a parliamentary majority to ratify neighboring macedonia's decision to change its name to the republic of north macedonia many greeks are opposed to that name because macedonia is one of their largest regions for more on this now let's cross live now to john in athens greece for us so john first off what is this going to mean for the greek government are they in trouble now. well as the prime minister said he's constitutionally allowed to continue to govern with a minority he has one hundred forty five m.p.'s in the three hundred seat chamber and he could carry on that way until challenged by a vote of no confidence he has elected however he says to ask parliament for

a vote of confidence to seek those extra six seats he needs to reach one hundred fifty one in order to pass not only the macedonia name deal but also constitutional amendments that he wants to see through before the october election so he's got a good chance of getting those six seats there are at least three independent greeks m.p.'s that have publicly broken with defense minister brown has come in as their leader and said they will support the government in a vote of confidence there are two independent greeks a cabinet members who are likely i think also to vote for the government given that they have not yet attended their resignations which suggests which side they're going to be on and there are nine independent m.p.'s the government can go fishing among and there are six members of parliament belonging to a river the river party which is a center right reformist party that says it supports the precipice the macedonia

deal given that they support the deal upon which the prime minister has now staked his political survival it is possible that the party might also shift to supporting the government so what does it mean for the name change deal with with macedonia is that now in danger. well if the government survives as it has a fair chance of doing i think that it is understood by all who would vote for it that by virtue of that majority would also ask for the macedonian name deal to be passed with one hundred fifty one m.p.'s again the government doesn't consider that it needs this outright majority of one hundred fifty one to pass the macedonia deal however it wants to make sure that it does get that majority so that any approval through parliament cannot later be challenged johnson rubble is live for us in athens thanks for being homeless in hungary has become

a criminal offense police are rounding up and fining people living on the streets others have gone into hiding making them even more vulnerable to the harsh winter weather john how reports from the capital. the sleek clean boulevards of budapest this is how an increasingly or thorough tyrian government wants them to look no refugees or illegal immigrants and no no homeless people either we are just trying to enable our authorities to step up against something which we believe is against human nature and human dignity and we would like public spaces to get their meaning back and operate as they were intended it's not a decision the government took lightly a previous attempt was ruled a violation of human dignity by the constitutional court so the government changed the constitution itself all of which is heartbreaking to people like youngish torak janish lives in a caravan after he lost his home his job even his family when

a house fire and no insurance left him with crippling debt. i'm afraid of it i can't say better i'm afraid it could happen any time i wake up every morning scared that someone may not call my door and say we can take your stuff away go elsewhere the government did sists it's looking after the people being swept off the streets but we take care of them we provide shelter provisions and all the support that is required not a social workers believe that the showed their system is now and then i saw this problem heather and the government still thinks about opening some new show there is about the numbers show that there are more than thirty thousand people homeless in hungary at the moment there are eleven thousand places. cycling's through the city volunteers carrying food and blankets search for those who made it to a shelter for the night in

a railway station underpass where dozens once slept they find just three people. too many people in this in the shelters so there is a one hundred person and more than one hundred thirty yards or so it's a too crowded and overcrowding in the shelters so the volunteers means many homeless people have gone into hiding making them even more vulnerable to the elements. shelters like these this one is a private facility barely come close to meeting the needs of the homeless on the streets and while it's obviously a good idea to get people off the streets in below zero conditions like this and volunteers are doing what they can that's not the point behind the government's decision to criminalize homelessness in hungary one social worker described it as projecting power over the powerless jonah how al-jazeera budapest. in the us the catholic church is facing a crisis both financial and spiritual a report found that hundreds of priests in

one state preyed on thousands of children over decades christian salumi traveled to pennsylvania to see how the church and its victims are responding. in the diocese of harrisburg at the first in a series of meetings bishop ronald gaynor explains to catholics what's being done to stop clergy abuse and help victims including setting up a compensation fund i hope that this is the beginning as one step to the fore for a better safer catholic church but it isn't enough for the forty sisters five of whom were abused in the diocese by the same priest they want all perpetrators and those who protect them to be held accountable in a court of law carolyn was still in diapers when her abuse started in her family's case there was evidence in the church paid a one million dollars settlement in exchange for not pressing charges or talking about the case last year when the pennsylvania attorney general released

a state wide report on clergy abuse the forty's learned that the church had received another complaint against their abuser and done nothing that was a validation to me for us and that's what victims are seeking they're seeking that moment in court it wasn't just the four unease the report found credible evidence that statewide some three hundred priests had abused more than a thousand children and that the church had a pattern of covering it up the revelations have led to a federal investigation and at least a dozen more states are now compiling their own reports in pennsylvania victims have been lobbying elected officials to suspend the statute of limitations in older cases and give victims two years to take the church in their abusers to court but legislation has gone nowhere amid fears lawsuits would bankrupt the church in new york churches have already made. more than two hundred million dollars in payouts camille bureaus oversees the awarding of funds for several dioceses and. these

programs have afforded these victims an outlet a place to go an avenue to seek some sort of compensation and admission of what happened but elected official mark razi who was raped by a priest at thirteen believes changing the statute is the only way to hold the church accountable this is about the hierarchy. aiding and abetting known perpetrators that allowed this to go on and that's why i'm bad is that this has to stop courtney says she was heartened by what she heard at the meeting not from the bishop but from other catholics a lot of them are voice thing that you know they're going to withhold their their financial contributions raising the pressure on politicians as well as the church christian salumi al-jazeera harrisburg pennsylvania.

all right it's going to round up of the top stories on al-jazeera the u.s. secretary of state is calling on countries in the gulf to end their dispute saying it's gone on too long my pompei was in qatar urging unity among us allies he's already been to the united arab emirates behind an egypt which a blockade of qatar for the past eighteen months. today in our conversations i stressed the importance of unity among the gulf cooperation council members president trump and i both believe the ongoing dispute the region has dragged on too long and the dispute benefits adversaries and harms our mutual interests our nations do important work and we have important work continue to do together and the united states hopes the parties involved will see once again the benefits of cooperation and taking actions necessary to rebuild unity in their ranks a united jews is essential to the source of the middle eastern alliance which we

hope will include the g.c.c. egypt and jordan the us president has denied accusations he hid details of his meetings with russia's leader vladimir putin the washington post is reporting donald trump took back the notes made by his interpreter after a meeting in hamburg and twenty seventeen syrian army is preparing for an attack by kurdish forces on the kurdish rebel stronghold of man beach syria's government has deployed soldiers artillery and tanks to the suburbs of the city as u.s. forces get ready to leave the name change deal between greece and macedonia is in danger of not being ratified by greece that's after the greek defense minister resigned in protest in the right wing party of cameron also is quitting the coalition government prime minister alexis tsipras needs a parliamentary majority to ratify neighboring macedonia's change of its name to the republic of north macedonia the regional african bloc sadek is calling for

a recount in the democratic republic of congo's presidential election opposition leader martin for you has disputed the result and is challenging it in court those are the headlines the listening post is next. on counting the cost blame it on briggs it's one trillion dollars worth of assets shifted out of the u.k. the change is in the aviation plus smarter and creepy the latest consumer gadgets connected to the internet on show and last vegas counting the cost on al-jazeera. a veteran n.b.c. news analyst has quit the network after three decades with the black. national news media obsessed with the trump arc of our responsibility to cover up for restaurants like taking the bait daily distractions served up on twitter has the mainstream media failed its mission. hello i'm richard burton you're at the listening post

here are some of the stories we're covering this week news alert for the u.s. media being tough on trump can lead to being pro military think about it there's an election coming up in nigeria and the raid on a newspaper there is probably no coincidence conspiracy theories they're everywhere and journalists aren't really sure how to deal with plus president el-sisi and the interview his government did not want to see on the air they show you were a military dictator the one the egyptian media pretended did not happen as parting shots go it was a good one it made news when william arkin a veteran national security reporter with n.b.c. news and m s n b c wrote his resignation email last week he shared it with his colleagues it was then leaked to other news outlets among arkansas criticisms of his former employer and other mainstream news outlets in the us that by incessantly covering the presidency of donald trump the network is being held hostage by trump

that in its reflexive li anti trump coverage it has become even more pro-military that n.b.c. and m s n b c are now captives of the security state back in his days with the washington post arkin worked on an investigation called top secret america on the rapid growth of the u.s. intelligence industry post nine eleven so his critique of the establishment media is worth listening to he knows the subject matter. however american news consumers are tuning into m.s. n.b.c. and its anti trump agenda in record numbers armed with those kinds of ratings what corporate owned news channel would risk alienating its shareholders by changing tack our starting point this week n.b.c.'s headquarters in new york city. william arkin in his resignation e-mail to his employer on the perils of trump derangement syndrome the impulse to oppose any and all of the president's policies

regardless of their merit. of course he is an ignorant and incompetent and pasta and yet alarmed at how quick n.b.c. is to mechanically argue the contrary to be in favor of policies that just spell more conflict and more war really we shouldn't get out of syria and by the way we're knocking the hell out of isis will become another syria like very soon so to recap for everybody pentagon not happy. happy we should go for the bold move of denuclearizing the korean peninsula why did that happen what was that for no us president has ever agreed to meet with a north korean dictator before and even russia who really yearn for the cold war in almost everything we see here touch and feel and smell it's russia and don't even get me started with the f.b.i.

what we now lionized this historically destructive institution. everything is just so there's no conversation about whether or not these are actually positions that have merit there is no conversation about whether or not we should have even gone into syria when they're not even legal we don't see the actual coverage of what's happening except for to condemn the president for not wanting to be there he is earning ninety eight percent of. your ire ok don't ruin it by actually being reflexive way against the two percent that make sense we should definitely it out of syria we should one hundred percent get out of afghanistan but it's irrelevant what i think i know the huge percentage of the right wing and a huge percentage of the left wing who want to withdraw from those wars so are any of them represented in the media and the answer is no because the media is decided we're going to put up a wall if you will of fear and loathing donald trump everything about this

critique with regard to the mainstream media's treatment from is false the idea that they are anti trump well no they're in the business of telling the truth and trump is in the business of lies in the past month alone according to the washington post he has told an average of fifteen lies a day to be anti trump is to be pro truth so i don't give any of. those particular issues any credence looks like. some aspects of this story are unique to the trump era but not all american and coalition forces whether it's the bush administration invading iraq in two thousand and three we will hunt down terror ordering the bombing of eisel in syria in two thousand and fourteen or donald trump conducting air strikes against syrian government targets in two thousand and seventeen the coverage is one sided and the voices reflect that why didn't we take out all of his military capability and like all three us twenty four

hour news channels m s n b c hires ex-military and intelligence figures many of them now employed by the defense and security industries the networks call them analysts which is misleading because many of them are advocates according to william arkin the preponderance of those voices and how much airtime they are given on stories such as trump's recent decision to pull out of the syrian conflict are evidence that u.s. news networks have become captives out. of the security state so when i started as a commentator on m.s.n. b.c. and n.b.c. in one nine hundred ninety nine there were others who were from the academic world there were others who are activists now all we hear are retired generals and admirals and high level government officials all of you have so many credentials we don't really know where to start but let's talk start with the general things that only one of us who has four stars. and all we hear is a kind of partisan analysis of how bad trump is because he's breaking with past

administration policy or whatever the american public suffers it's amazing to look at how many former national security state officials are on television i mean you'd expect maybe and it's a tele tarion society to have former intelligence officials being your experts were supposed to be democratic and i can't think of people less qualified to opine on politics and to represent the interests of average people then those officials who have spent their careers warmongering and running secret programs michael first of all tell us the u.s. media is addiction to ex-military and intelligence forces is well documented a two thousand and eight investigation by the new york times exposed how at the outset of the wars in iraq and afghanistan there was a virtual conveyor belt running between the pentagon and network television studio

the times won a pulitzer prize for that piece of journalism what changed there after it was nothing like the conflicts kept coming i'm guided by the beauty of our weapons so do the x. generals in the pentagon labeled message force multipliers i love a good goodbye note and the and as william arkin pointed out in an interview on c.n.n. the us media somehow managed to accommodate all those pro-war voices without even know. where some of the conflicts are taking place. when i think about how we cover the news i think about are we at war or are we not at war and even if we're in this so-called perpetual war or the long war as the pentagon calls it i want to know that it's being covered with the aggressiveness that's necessary right now brian we are bombing nine countries around the world and i defy you to even name what they are that's how can i add to our coverage of warfare is beyond us of the i cannot if

there is and he's not a military expert he's a news media critic but i wanted to make the point and in fact it's been interesting even my colleagues have said one of those nine countries is again show me any mainstream media outlet that is anti war and what it would be this on if it were not pre-war either. the corporate media is massively pro-war so when you combine those two forces being against pro-war when he announces withdraw they hate it and they fight him with a passion that you haven't seen him a long time there are times when that just to stay in for him gets in the way of producing really good news really good commentary and we have seen that with the line is not just math is i think jim mattis is departure was different from a lot of the other previous departures we've seen because he is so highly regarded but when connie was leaving the f.b.i. we've seen this kind of happen after everyone leaves that there's this moment where

it's like oh they're so great because they've left but it doesn't really look at how these people have contributed to everything that we're saying is a problem with trump. m.s.n. b.c. which declined to answer our questions can live with the criticism and just point to the ratings they show a clear appetite for and to trump t.v. viewers clearly don't mind the pro-war bias and happily tape. in political talking points from former trump officials who have left the administration iraq last month for the first time in seventeen years m s n b c one the ratings war with fox attracting more viewers in the key demographic that advertisers want to. see has done well in the ratings and the trucker but i think part of that is a reflection of the fact that whenever you have a democratic president. sort of focus on official opposition network like fox news will do better in this case the beneficiary of this dynamic is in the senate

because you have trump and power most cable news is crap and allows a lot of crap on amazon to say there's less crap on m s n b c than there is on c.n.n. and far less than there is on fox i don't understand why m s n b c is a problem they see themselves as the voice of the resistance but the idea that this is the problem rather than fox is the problem or c.n.n. is the problem it's it's insane. or it's possible that fox news is not the only problematic news network on the american airwaves and that's not drawing a false equivalence equating m s n b c's locational blindspots with fox's constant crimes against journalism it's just stating the facts the points that william arkin made on his way out the door. we're looking at other media stories that are on our radar this week with one of our producers joanna joe egypt's president. sits down for an interview with sixty

minutes in the u.s. last week and then tries to stop that interview from going on the air why even agree to do it in the first place he had to know what was coming but as one of the show's producers said later it's almost as if c.c. was unfamiliar with the program and just wanted to appear on it because a number of other arab leaders have done the same c.b.s. host scott pelley asked some pretty direct questions about the presidential record on human rights the kinds of questions c c it never has to face from egyptian journalists. mr president the organization human rights watch shows that there are sixty thousand political prisoners that you're holding today as we sit here a sea sick clearly thought of the interview had gone badly according to that same producer on the shoot by the time she got home from the interview there was an e-mail from her contact that the egyptian embassy formally requesting that the interview not be aired now holding back that interview or burying it is not something that c.b.s. news could even consider but the president has had more success in controlling the media output back home on this has to be much more according to one of the few

independent outlets still operating in egypt not a mussar in the president's office instructed domestic media not to cover the sixty minutes interview in any way and the media blackout looks absolute instead there's been a lot of focus on the inauguration of a new coptic cathedral just outside cairo it's like the sixty minutes interview never happens let's move on to nigeria now last week the military raided several offices of the daily trust one of the biggest papers in the country arresting a couple of journalists seizing equipment why this paper and why now well richard the nigerian military post a statement on facebook saying that all this was in response to a cover story published by the daily trust on january sixth which detailed a military operation planned against the armed group boko haram and the article supposedly and i quote divulge classified military information now by undermining national security employees at the paper say the officers came looking for a reporter hunza interest wrote the story but when they couldn't find him they

arrested two other journalists instead and now these raids and arrests come after a series of setbacks in the government's war with iran and with just over a month before a scheduled national election is might be just another attempt to stifle critical reporting of the ninja erin military and its political masters ok thanks joe have you heard the conspiracy theory about al-jazeera being a secret tool of the israeli government probably not since i just made it up and put it out there. conspiracy theories are a growth industry they can affect politics last year one such theory may have helped reelect varian president viktor orban another lead to a mass shooting in an american synagogue and donald trump pedaled a few with them on his way to the white house the thing about conspiracy theories is that journalists don't really know how to cope with them debunking them fails to convince those who believe that the media are lying to them and the exposure that comes with countering them introduces people to conspiracies they've never heard of before so are the social media giants doing anything about the problem not in ways

that would hurt their bottom line online architectures algorithms help keep conspiracy communities in gauged and outraged the listening posts will young now on conspiracy theories the media and the consequences they can have in the real world . a whole. lot novel idea from. uncle george george soros hasn't visited hungary in years. but prime minister think to make the hungarian financiering fun to paste a central part of his reelection campaign last march. of hungary and believe soros is behind a plot to bring large numbers of migrants into the country

a conspiracy theory that the gary in government has been propagating. george soros is a useful character because it taps into this preexisting far right narrative about jewish control and throughout the years we've seen this anti semitism turn into documented conspiracy theories the sort of thinking is obviously extremely useful to populist politicians who want to position themselves as someone who. a defender of the people against outside shadowy forces who wish to weaken their nation. but we want populist politicians such as trump you think somebody. i would be surprised would be i would i don't know but i would be surprised a lot of people say you know. the theory that soros was funding and orchestrating a migrant caravan travelling from honduras to the us border could reach millions on social media

a series of twelve suspicious packages sent to critics one turned up. by the time the first of a dozen targeting think is on the street. sources. days later. levon people the tree of life. several posts about the migrant caravan on facebook. on the united states jewish station the conspiracy theory of time in sorest to the caravan started in some private facebook groups and in other chat forums then eventually people started tweeting about it lou dobbs starting to sort of make associations to it a lot of these folks also have affiliates who are getting money from the. state department and then from there really jumps into the mainstream there was a video shot in guatemala we don't really know what it shows in someone

distributing some kind of paper maybe take it maybe money out of money change but this video was seized as evidence that some larger group was funding and in fact erecting the caravan this is completely baseless conspiracy theory by became so popular that even a congressman was promoting it of course one of the exciting promises of social media is that the. there is no more media gatekeepers but it's also very useful if you're a conspiracy theorist and you think that the mainstream media is not going to tell the story that you think people should should hear. ideas that jews freemasons. people. secretly running world affairs have been around for centuries. about spirity theories to date is how they grow and sproat. take the breakout hit of conspiracy theorizing in trump's america q and on

a conspiracy of political intrigue game if you should real time news analysis and crowdsourcing. you still want those who believe the theory to be of government working close to donald trump and bring down the state. so none of this message forums who believe those to interpret. what's interesting about you and on and serve general modern conspiracy theorizing is that it's not a passive experience for a lot of people who believe that q. will release a puzzle or a cryptic message in the queue drop and then people in the cuban community will spend a lot of time and energy and effort in attempt to decode it as very it's very game a fight is very fun but the problem is that they they don't actually really think it's a game they think that they're actually genuinely uncovering some sort of secret from deep inside the government key to the growth of these serious is them not just

living on places like fortune or read it but them making the leap to the more widely used social media platform. a lot of other things leavers create these sort of quasi i news reports on you tube to respond and nearly real time to events to say ok this is happened in the news today again. this is all these timing. here's how this. off the fit into the queue and on theory into the sort of larger conspiracy that explains if you watch a conspiracy video it recommends another conspiracy video and those conspiracy videos are often telling you don't listen to the mainstream news stay on you tube and watch more youtube videos where people reinforce these messages that most of the outside world says are ridiculous you can buy into whatever conspiracy theory you want people can create a filter bubble that's completely their own where outside perspectives start to feel galleon to them but apart from the platforms there's another bug in the media

ecosystem that can enable conspiracy theories and that it's journalists themselves breaking news often means events over time the ability of news outlets to provide reliable information and the resulting data voids online can be spaces where conspiracy theories take hold when a student opened fire would stoneman douglas high school in parkland florida last february killing seventeen people the conspiracy theory going to currency even as events were unfolding the shooting was faked and witnesses were in fact crisis actors while journalists attempted to debunk the theory they may inadvertently have been spreading it. so i watch a news report that debunks this idea of crisis actors but i've never heard of this term before i'm not an actor in any sense way shape or form so i get out my phone and i google the term crisis actors those search results bring more conspiracy

theories the goal of conspiracy theorists and the people who want to spread these ideas around is that these conspiracy theories enter the mainstream of lexicons the tree of life shooting the alleged killer was a conspiracy theorist he bought into this narrative that the jews were trying to control the us by eating immigrants and for that reason he allegedly massacred eleven. people so i want to start by trying to scare you ok ready george soros and even as we cover this conspiracy we can watch the real time reaction on the far right saying yes they're finally talking about this incorrect thing that they believe lately conspiracy theories but source of this from the outer reaches of pole to the highest reaches a government so it's a very strange line to walk where you want to serve the public interest but you don't want to help disseminate the far right and incorrect views also in the crowd

last night wired into the d.n.a. of the any conspiracy theory is the idea that the mainstream narrative is a cover up and the vested interests including the media are hiding the truth q we're not a fast growing right wing online community which puts journalists in a difficult position just a somewhat ubiquitous cute symbol of conspiracy theory believers don't trust you there's no point attempting to debunk their claims but given conspiracy theories are rising to the surface of politics and motivating individuals to commit terrible crimes how can they be the. conspiracy theorists are trained to see all opposition as validation. they think that if the mainstream media explains why maybe elements of the conspiracy theory are absurd nonsense it's evidence that they are on the something if the mainstream media is attacking us then that means that we're doing something right. people feel very destabilized i think in our current

fire meant when you offer a conspiracy theory often that's a way of simplifying the queues plain save the world it gives people an easy answer and the world feels scary competing i'm not michael spears fact that's an aspect i think we should be considering a little bit. but i'm just i'm in on a good. finally back to egypt and the reaction in the media there to the interview the president el-sisi did with sixty minutes in the u.s. talk show host faced a dilemma he wanted to support the president because that's what he does often in the form of a tirade night after night and he wanted to trash sixty minutes for asking c.c. real questions but he couldn't actually mention the interview because to do so would make the president look bad which would be a career ender for any egyptian talk show host so what they're going to do he went on a seven minute rant about the american media how mighty egypt is without ever mentioning

the sixty minutes interview context who needs it confuse your audience who cares we'll leave you now with the mighty egyptian media doing as they're told once again and we'll see you next time here at the listening post that is the most i have it is about god and he let me didn't you know it was it was the last my hamas fear i love that i mean it was. snob. then at that we kept. well it's trump had the ten and like eleven and he could i do shop. and i'm never good at it which about about stuff that nobody could be fabric let me repeat that. troubled kid the third element i make in not is that the of the.

bill came in let me assess the minute i you know. well a c n n no a c b is so i know washing the barrels to allah. couldn't go to cont. if you were looking at this from the outside you would really wonder what was going on what is this grace is that a religion that they have an in-depth exploration of global capitalism and our obsession with economic growth this is still the center of capitalism there is no limits i view myself as a capital artist we are trying to pave the roads smaller and smaller we don't want to be set realistic in the world we would rather have a fantasy growing pains coming soon. rewind returns it can bring your people back to life i'm sorry with brand new updates on the best of documentaries there has been a number of reforms since the program was still continues with this

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welcome to the news grid in the latest stop on his middle east puts gulf diplomacy back in the spotlight the u.s. secretary of state says he and president trump think the gulf crisis has gone on too long it needs to be brought to an end we will have the details of visit here in qatar also on the grid out we're looking at the next front in syria's war with u.s. troops withdrawing the syrian army is now sending its troops to the north as a battle looms between kurdish forces and turkey. and the democratic republic of congo's election results ended up in court a regional election monitor is now calling for a recount and interestingly the influence of the catholic church in an election observer and france's. yellow vests movement take their frustrations out on the media have all the online reaction and they have one hundred two destroying the show using the hash tag a.j. news bad.

news great live on air and streaming online through you tube facebook live in al-jazeera dot com it has been going on for five hundred eighty eight days and u.s. secretary of state might compel you know says that is more than enough he is talking about the blockade of qatar by for our countries and on a visit to doha this sunday the top u.s. diplomat was pushing for an end to the regional rift stop here is the latest leg of his tour of the middle east countries here he is with the foreign minister mohammad not the height of time he also met such as emir shaped i mean been handed out any and then expected to meet the saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon in riyadh in just a few hours but while in doha the discussion was mostly about the gulf crisis where pompei reveals even his boss president trump believes the blockade is only benefiting adversaries we're all more powerful when we're working together when disputes are limited and when we have common challenges in the region and around the world. disputes between countries that have

a shared objective are never never helpful they never they never permit you to have as robust a and powerful a response to common adversaries or common challenges. we are looking forward to the outputs of this meeting to be the foundations for a stronger future fice of relations between our two countries and we hope that through that political coordination continues on all issues of regional security of interest to both our countries so this just backtrack for a second because the gulf crisis has been out of the spotlight for a little while get a quick refresher here from a plus on what it's all about. the

nation of qatar unfortunately has historically been a funder of carers. for the actions really about their concerns regarding cutter's alleged support for terrorism a war they about the long simmering grievances between and among the g.c.c. countries. of the axis

a friend of mine knew of long before i entered the world of politics he's a great gentleman very popular in his country his people love him. here to discuss all of this us in a political analysts are nice to see him on as i said five hundred eighty eight days blockades now and we have gotten no closer to it being sold i don't know that we got any closer here today. other than an intention saying this is going to and i think we have a lot of upon through good intentions but not necessarily. the will and the means to get the how to make it happen and that's why there is no specifics or no anything and i. any progress. but i think unlike you counting the days i have the feeling or and the let it be speaking i must say that both the house and washington have stopped counting. not because they don't want that to dissolve the thing they do want to resolve but i think they've moved on i think they turned the

page in so many ways. especially in the bilateral relations in the sense that. washington no longer no longer looks forward what three are up with the or k or thinks when it upgrades its strategic relations with qatar when it deepens its indication of conscious cultural relations with qatar when it increases its trade relations with cut when it expands its investments with qatar and by cutting the same thing for doha i think the. leaders in qatar no longer are paying as much attention as it did a year and a half ago when this when the crisis first opened or even when the first dialogue with washington happened last january i think just like they moved out of a pick i think now they're just trying to put their house in order pink attention to their economy to their relations with the rest of the world deepening their role as a mediator are more various conflicting parties in the region and around the world

so i think while both parties want to get this issue resolved i think both parties have moved on ok what about the other parties because and i've got the so my i pad or can we just have a look at this this was an article from al-jazeera dot com the other day which i must say my pump had tried to say oh it's ok this is no big deal but anthony zinni who was supposed to be tasked with resolving the crisis step down because and you can see it there his on because of the unwillingness of regional arab leaders to in the dispute with qatar so is it more about the other players that they have dug in their heels and can't go any further with them ok so here i think there are two readings for why we haven't resolved this issue because frankly i think it is resolvable i don't of that word exist result mobile. i think if you look at it from washington perspective. watching proponent proponents for washington including danton is of the world and also ford would say look we tried but you know them these people in the gulf or you know the arabs or or you know how it is among those

tribal societies and so on so i don't want to cooperate don't want and it's very hard to swallow their pride it's already tough enough to climb down a normal tree imagine if you quite calm down a palm tree remember that so i think there is that reading and there's the other reading and i to be frank with you i am leaning towards the second reading. which i think washington is not too uncomfortable with the gulf crisis it's benefited a lot from the gulf crisis it hasn't sold as money as much weapons it hasn't gotten as much good deals economic and otherwise as since the gulf crisis started so i think the top administration has really taken advantage has sucked the whole lot of this conflict and i think so many ways whether it is cut out of the u.a.e. so they're sort of they have they've all been forthcoming for washington wanted to washington to intervene wanted washington to take their side and even with pay for it in that actually of course so i think in that sense if there was

a will on the part of washington a part of the top administration there would have been a way to resolve and because as tom said some of the countries that are in the region i think you meant saudi arabia cannot survive two weeks without washington well you know they have leverage in one to play more locally if we take washington out of the picture just look at it as the gulf issue the g.c.c. itself the gulf cooperation council is that just irrelevant now does that not matter because i believe the secretary general of the of the g.c.c. was actually here and that sort of made me think oh maybe they are trying to do something but really i wonder how significant a relevant the g.c.c. as well look i mean has looked at the general secretary not too positively over the last year and a half because he hasn't played his cards well in fact it looked like as a rainy he took sides almost in the conflict so i don't think that really played down well in is it or is it relevant not inside the although here in qatar would like to say you know what as i said turn the page listen to what we need to do but

we can't say it's irrelevant because once they resolve the differences i mean it is still one of the richest. collection of countries in the middle east perhaps around the world it has a higher per capita income than most countries around the world so if these countries can get together on some principle of sort and do good in the region instead of fighting among these. themselves from sort of proxy things in the region if they would do that i think they can also even put more pressure on washington they can even bring it won't to you know to be more reasonable in the region because along with other other countries the gulf countries can have hugely positive role if they decide to but they're going to be busy with killing journalists with fighting among amongst each other via i think human rights and paying up washington for silence of course it's not going to go anywhere and they will continue from week to week or moment was a pleasure thanks very much for coming in diplomacy on the agenda here in qatar as

it likely will be in saudi arabia which is my next stop though of course is now under strain you've got trade deals you've got you've got jamal khashoggi to discuss retailer can we had human rights to that list to yes we can as well as iran the wars in yemen also syria all expected to be discussed but so is also this backlash against the murder of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi and this opinion piece in the new york times is attracting a lot of social media attention the sister of the women's rights activists in a saudi jail gives a detailed account of her deal. on pompei o to raise the plight of all activists in saudi jails she describes how her sister jane is spending months in prison without being charged where she now says she's been beaten water boarded given electric shocks and also threatened with rape while she was arrested last may along with six other well known activists for what prosecutors describe as posing

a threat to state security jane is well known for her campaign to lift the ban on women driving inside your abia that ban was lifted a month after her release. now in the new york times article her sister q. says royal advisor sought of qahtani of laughing while he watched the torture being carried out she says in various occasions he threatened to rape and kill her and then throw her body into the sewage system qahtani has been accused of orchestrating the killing of jamal khashoggi. well pressure is now mounting on the u.s. secretary of state to do more ken roth from human rights watch has questioned my pump air and is wondering whether he will be seeking the release of the saudi activists who are jail during his meeting with the crown prince mohammed bin selman an amnesty international has tweeted directly saying at least twelve saudi human rights offenders most of them women have been detained without charge since may twenty eighth in the dock.