on axis the iranian backed hezbollah and its allies they hold power in lebanon they are allied with the syrian government and they wanted to use this summit as an opportunity to reinstate syria's membership in the arab league they were pushing for this and there is still no arab consensus to return syria and to the arab cold syria's membership we have to remember was suspended back in two thousand and eleven because of its violent crackdown on anti-government protesters so two heads of state attending one of them the qatari and we are lebanon attaching a lot of importance to his presence because qatar is a country under blockade saudi arabia and its allies impose the siege on qatar so the lebanese media is really describing his decision his last minute decision to attempt as qatar trying to break the siege imposed on lebanon lebanon expected to come under more pressure the arab countries who stayed away of course are allied to the united states and the united states the strategy in the arab world is to exert pressure on iran and try to contain its influence in the arab world the saudi

u.a.e. coalition has launched a series of strikes in yemen. who see a military base and drone facility was targeted it's the first time the coalition has carried out the strikes in the capital since yemen's warring sides met for un back talks in sweden last month. still ahead on al-jazeera chomps offer to compromise gets a frosty reception as the u.s. government shutdown continues. hello there is still not entirely dry forest in the southern parts of china at the moment we've got one weather system that's moving away but behind it was still going to see the clouds thicken up enough to give us a few outbreaks of rain in the south and the northern edge of that over some of the mountains it will be still attending wintery that gradually eases as we had three chews day and safer than all the parts of it down it's also looking joy the showers

will continue along the eastern coast though and some of them will still be quite heavy now as he had out towards the west we've got plenty of cloud over parts of pakistan that's wrapping itself up towards the north as well that's giving some of us a fair amount of dust giving a lot of thunder and lightning some rain and some snow as well to the far northern parts that will gradually edges way eastwards as we head through the day and choose day so for more of this in nepal we'll see that system work its way across us further south looking fine and dry but we are seeing some plaid in the fossil been tip of india and across sri lanka and across parts of sri lanka that will be giving us some rather heavy downpours right here in doha it's turned cold now and it's going to stay that way as we head through the next few days so maximum temperature getting to around twenty two and still dropping down to around thirteen at night that's in the city elsewhere we are getting down to around eight that cold air is also working down towards the.

every weekly news going to see a recent breaking story and then of course there's donald trump. the ice into the clouds channelise that's right out of a hamas group that calls for the annihilation of israel that is not what that phrase means i believe. as we turn the cameras on the media focus on how they recruit on a story that matter the most embarrassing a free palestine listening post on al-jazeera. and watching are just zero time to recap our headlines now demonstrators are

rallying in the greek capital against the proposed name change deal to normalize relations with neighboring macedonia wants to change its name to the republic of north. and the great subject because that's the name of one of their regions. police fired tear gas to break up protests in the khartoum and areas activists say dozens of people have been killed in a month the protest which first began over the rising price of bread. zimbabwe's president is warning the police crackdown on protesters is just a taste of things to come police have made hundreds of arrests and at least five people have been killed during demonstrations against the high fuel prices. now the bloc of sixteen southern african countries has congratulated felix just a kennedy on winning the presidential election in the democratic republic of congo the nation's top court rejected allegations of vote rigging by his opponent martin

for you know for you know is now calling for a nationwide protest so he is the only legitimate. as the latest. this is. the highest court in democratic republic of congo announcing the next president felix just acadia. the constitutional court dismissed an appeal by the main opposition contender martin for you lou who claim that the summer thirtieth poll was rigged for you'll argue that just the k.t. had made a power sharing deal with outgoing president joseph kabila a charge both men deny. for you is refusing to accept the court's ruling prompting fears of further unrest. i consider myself the only legitimate president of the democratic republic of congo i call on the congolese people not to recognize someone who would take on that role in legitimately nor to

a by orders coming from. the electoral commission had announced that she is sick eighty received thirty eight point five percent of the vote compared with thirty four point seven percent for for you willow. the un says thirty four people have been killed since the provisional results were released the lead up to the poll was also marred by violence and controversy over the decision to delay voting in some areas for health and security reasons which in effect meant more than one in a quarter million people from an electron of almost forty million works glued it. these official figures have been disputed by the influential catholic church which says it deployed forty thousand monitors across the country but the winning candidate supporters have welcomed the court's decision was that the constitutional court acted responsibly and in a sovereign manner the court decided in a litigation presented before it by the congolese and did not have to answer to any

other injunction. fifty five year old felix just to katie who leads the country's largest and oldest opposition party founded by his father is expected to be sworn in within ten days. dorset al-jazeera. joins us now live from the capital kinshasa so this announcement by sol the african countries a bit of a setback for watson so you know. certainly that considering that the southern african development community at one point once the results of started being announced had said that he would push for a recount of the election results but they're not long after that took quite a step back saying that the sovereignty of the independence of the d.r.s. you should be respected and this is a good one it's now it's in its nest of congratulations to the d r c president the president elect to look to security as one of the people of the country saying that it's pulled off an election despite the logistical and security issues that the d r

three is facing that at one point was quite concerned about what was happening in this country and that it had called a meeting between the zambian and south african presidents a lot of a diplomatic maneuvering dealing with president kabila the concern being what would happen if there was instability in the city and what would it mean for the region but of course now that explain it eclipse the results all congolese to accept that ruling by the constitutional court but still we're hearing from the european union are saying that it still has serious concerns and that was also the last word from the african union saying that it would at some time send a high level delegation to the d r c to ding of the president of rwanda paul kagame in our thoughts that will still happen given that the constitutional court has ruled on the election results essentially the r c defying the a you making that ruling now going ahead with the inauguration because the a you had said that the

court's ruling should have been suspended i mean some media that watching the situation develops in contrast. democrats are rejecting don tom solvent break the deadlock over the longest government shutdown in u.s. history the president's temporary protection to some undocumented immigrants if he wins backing to build a border wall with mexico democrats say his company's office is one sided and rob reynolds says mol from washington d.c. . with the government shutdown dragging toward the one month mark president trump offered democrats a deal give him five point seven billion dollars for his border wall and he'll lift the threat of deportation for a million undocumented immigrants number one is three years of legislative relief for seven hundred thousand dock and recipients secondly our

proposal provides a three year extension of temporary protected status or t.p.s. . the immigrants tromp referred to our young people brought to the u.s. illegally by their parents as children known collectively as the dreamers and non-citizens from countries hit by natural disasters who had been permitted to live in the u.s. both groups were stripped of legal protections by trump but court rulings have so far prevented the government from deporting them it was an offer trump's democratic opposition could and swiftly did refuse house speaker nancy pelosi issued a statement saying quote it is unlikely that any one of these provisions alone would pass the house and taken together they are a nonstarter she repeated the democrats' arguments that the wall would be ineffective and senate democratic leader chuck schumer said trump was treating the dreamers a very like hostages. trump described hardships faced by migrants and

a flood of drugs coming into the us drugs kill seventy eight thousand americans a year and course to our society in excess of seven hundred billion dollars critics point out that most of those drugs are smuggled through legal points of entry and that a wall would have little effect on stopping traffickers what happens next the republican controlled senate will take up trumps proposals and almost certainly pass a bill in corporate ing them and restoring funds to end the shutdown that bill will then go to the democratic controlled house where pressure to pass it may become intense you can just peel away twenty twenty five democrats who want the government open and are not so adamant against a wall you can't carry the day even if the government even if the democratic leadership remain opposed to the wall

a possible grounds for compromise palosi said there needs to be a permanent solution for dreamers and t.p.s. recipients not just a three year reprieve if both sides start bargaining again the longest ever government shutdown could be brought to an end rob reynolds al-jazeera washington it's two years since president trump was sworn in and since then the white house has been seen as plagued by conflict chaos and confusion kimberly takes a closer look from washington d.c. . it's an understatement to say the first two years of donald trump's presidency have been different we have features we have three hundred hamburgers many many bridge for us so help me god with the promise to bring washington to its knees and drain the swamp trying to work to fulfill his most popular phrase we will make america great again in many ways trumpets change the country sometimes by

default there so much this watching the show much uncertainty there's so much chaos right now that we simply don't know which way is up he refuses to act like previous presidents often using twitter to announce big news or get that son of a the field to insult his opponents they call or pocahontas he often shuns advice from his top aides which is led to a stunning number of departures including his secretary of state his defense secretary two chiefs of staff and two national security advisers. unemployment is at its lowest rate in fifty years but economists warn that may not last in twenty nineteen trumps also pointed to conservative judges. but it is his biggest campaign promise that has proved to be his toughest challenge we are building a wall trump has made it clear he wants a wall along the southern border of the united states with mexico to stop illegal

migrants from crossing his stubborn insistence has led to a stalemate with his democratic opponents who reminded him he also promised mexico would pay for the wall. in december the u.s. government shut down over his request for five point seven billion for a new wall it's now the longest partial government shutdown in history no collusion no nothing there's no collusion there was no collusion whatsoever although his first two years have been overshadowed by a department of. just as investigation into whether his campaign worked with the kremlin trump has proved over and over again he can weather the have to legal and political fights that come with it but is twenty nine thousand gets closer to twenty twenty a presidential election year trump faces new challenges for democrats who want him out this is our moment in history some analysts say he may survive that too you

have a progressive base that is simply i think more interested in fighting then they are in unifying the party but perhaps one of the biggest promises donald trump has kept is that he governs like no president before him kimberly healthy at al-jazeera the white house five hospitals in the gaza strip of closed down many of this says jude to fuel shortages there are fears this will put thousands at risk who depend on health centers and territory has been under israeli blockade for more than a decade gaza's health ministry is appealing for international assistance dozens of african refugees are feared drowned after an overloaded boat capsized three people have been rescued but one hundred seventeen the missing in the mediterranean sea they were in a rubber dinghy which sailed from libya most on board came from nigeria ivory coast gambia and sudan for u.s.

military says an airstrike in somalia killed fifty two fighters hours after a somali army base was attacked a shabab gunman rammed a vehicle packed with explosives into the base in jubilant six somali soldiers were killed in saturday's bomb attack gun battle which lasted several hours of attacks are continuing despite losing control of most cities and towns. the un special rapporteur on human rights in in mara's set to arrive in bangladesh young gailey will visit cox's bazaar over seven hundred thousand refugees the since escaping a military crackdown back on state in two thousand and seventeen men miles government has seized cooperation with glee and has refused to entry into the country does have one name reports from cox is bizarre. the u.n. special reports are on human rights in myanmar has been shut out by me in march the government won't allow her access to the country and is not cooperating so her work

is confined to neighboring countries and bangladesh factories in greatly the u.n. says there are now more the nine hundred thousand were injured refugees living here the bulk of them came during a spike of violence in august twenty seventh and now they're spread across a mag i can't here in cox's bazaar now it's the dry season the monsoons are behind people and life has become a little easier but as you can see sanitation lack of access to clean water and latrines can use to new to be concerned if you look here there are workers trying to prepare the can for floods that are inevitable in this part of the world there is also concern about a lost generation of children two to the lack of schools the mood here has improved considerably since last november that is when the bangladeshi government abandoned a repatriation plan in an undisclosed agreement with the government of myanmar

bangladesh had hoped to return about twenty two hundred refugees to me and bar the un warned that that could be a violation of international law there was a real outcry here and that play on it was halted so now the un special report her is shifting her attention to an island called bastion sorry it's a remote island and the government is hoping to shift a significant portion of the road into refugees here to that island it is in the path of typhoons and cycles it's prone to flooding it's literally called a floating island it's comprised primarily of silt but the bangladeshi government has already begun construction on housing and human rights groups say that refugees might not have access to basic services they've even called this island like living in. prison so the un special rapporteur is hoping to go to beslan chart no word yet on whether or not she'll be allowed access.

let's take you through some of the headlines here al-jazeera now demonstrators are rallying in the greek capital against a proposed name change deal to normalize relations with neighboring macedonia who wants to change its name to the republic of north macedonia the greek subject because that's the ancient name of one of their regions jones or office has more from athens right now there's a on again off again battle going on between a cohort of people who are throwing either rocks or fireworks or fly police. over their heads or towards their feet and the police are responding with stun grenades and tear gas grenades i think that this is to continue for some time these people have spent the last twenty four hours preparing and traveling overnight here in tend to spend the day here in a sense and to travel overnight back to their homes and go to work on monday

morning this is the main event of the week and i think they're here to stay for a while the block of sixteen southern african countries has congratulated felix just the kadian winning the democratic republic of congo's presidential election the constitutional court rejected his opponent martin fire you lose allegations of vote rigging for you know is calling for nationwide protests now police in sudan have fired tear gas to break up protests in khartoum and. i think you say dozens of being killed in the months of protests which first began over the rising price of bread. israel's missile defense system is reported to have shot down a rocket fired from syria the attack followed reports syrian government forces prevented an israeli air strike targeting an airport in damascus the u.s. frozen dissolve a concession to break the deadlock over the partial government shutdown the democrats have rejected his plan donald trump is offering temporary protections to

some immigrants in return for money for his broader war it's listening post now stay with us. tool is there a. person the one of the main beneficiaries is that the case listen if you want to live edition of in india that's not exactly my point we meet with global newsmakers and talk about the stories that matter is there a. while. not granted for us. i don't know. right. now. right here in. the lower richard gaisford in europe the listening post here are some of the stories we're covering this week venezuelan president maduro begins his second term

and the media landscape looks far different than when he began his first the sudanese government faces street protests and turns to an online clampdown that straight out of the strong man's playbook the wall street journal hoax and the perils of single source journalism plus had geography and american presidents nothing so becomes their legacy as their passing earlier this month nicolas maduro was sworn in for a second term as venezuela's president the election that got him there was widely condemned as rigged and opposition voices were mostly absent from the airwaves the case against him adorable and his treatment of the media is compelling his critics say that since he first took office in two thousand and thirteen almost one hundred radio and television stations have been censored or shut down as well as thirty three newspapers another fifty journalists have been prosecuted we've been following the media story in venezuela for more than a decade now when the duros predecessor and mentor of the late hugo chavez came to

power he pledged to confront the right wing media outlets that dominated political discourse at the time to democratize the media and give voice to the country's. however venezuelans now suffer under chronic shortages and not just of food and medicine of information the pendulum has swung the other way and there are signs aplenty that venezuela's bolivarian revolution has lost its way our starting point this week is the capital. these are going to. be the you eat their names you don't think in the moment the evolving from below so this healthy thing and nothing goes. beyond the movie. deal you've got to see an equal number who don't. say that.

they. must it's more propaganda than information. it's evidence that they're adhering to the guidelines given by the ministry of communications despite the doubts on the controversies that have arisen. the official line tries to justify the existence of the power reality to the one that venezuelans a living on a daily basis the content to sweeten the order to avoid contradicting official reports that's the reality of journalism and that's why the government exercises extreme control especially in broadcast media. for voices on the state of the news media in a country that's as polarized as any on the planet the government official from the human rights commission the academic a specialist on political discourse in venezuela to journalists plying their trade

online partly due to a shortage of paper the election held last may was considered a sham by the un the e.u. . and the organization of american states and recognized as legitimate by among others china russia and cuba the two main opposition figures were both disqualified from running voter turnout was the lowest ever the millions fleeing the country are now part of the biggest refugee surge in latin american history chased by chronic shortages and inflation the details of which they cannot count on their government and the media it mostly controls to provide a way to proceed by the primary source of information is the venezuelan government but it doesn't actually inform the no details about inflation or what the g.d.p. is little bit i'll get on that them a comment on the whole sanyal thing i must say meehan in their letter to see the

intergovernmental. they see a good economic. carissa we've ignored those essential statistics for years and the state stops informing and instead produces propaganda and uncertainty rules and rumor becomes king at almost every minute. minnesota has been subjected to unilateral sanctions illegal measures which is not shown by the media they only show the consequences of those sanctions the crisis that's come as a result is a biased account it's demonize the country's image which in turn justifies any subsequent action in the scene. venezuela's government does have powerful adversaries starting with a superpower to the north the takes a disproportionate interest in oil rich countries two days after the inauguration the trumpet ministration said it was looking at all the options on how we influence

the outcome in venezuela is going to he's sure to drive the nation by opposing the you know the reality washington has imposed three sets of economic sanctions on kind of us and they've had an effect they also provide them a doodle government with a convenient there to get us america to fall back on someone said but if i don't. want to be on in battle i mean we're going to see i mean as long as. the economic crisis and the resulting shortages don't just affect consumers they affect the news industry last month and next year now a newspaper founded in one thousand forty three published its final edition one of the reasons given was a shortage of newsprint. and that's what i remember you go bonus you know as one of the most important newspapers in venezuela when it was launched it represented a very innovative moment in journalism it opposed to hugo chavez's government in the nicolas maduro system and as a consequence it's suffered retaliation to

a consequence you are going to have of you have. been losing its. original essence for a while it was once one of the most influential newspapers in venezuela with a print run of two hundred thousand copies and by the end the decrease dramatically to five to six thousand made up of very few pages. in the. us has a serious problem when it comes to getting certain supplies like paper which is not made here and which we cannot afford to pools so of course the media is going to suffer. a still in circulation but they've moved online that's just the global reality so it's unfair to suggest that media outlets are being closed down to still there but they're on the internet but. this journalism isn't widespread venezuela has the worst internet in latin america and it's very difficult for people to use their phones in public like in the us and

europe there is too much crime and also websites suffer constant attack we suspect that it's people from the government. there's a context a history to the story of the venezuelan the one hugo chavez was elected in one thousand nine hundred nine the first leftist president in forty years the vast majority of news outlets tilted to the right they were openly hostile to chavez is full of aryan revolution in two thousand and two charges was briefly deposed in a coup one that the media didn't just cover they were participants recognized for their efforts by coup leaders. who said they could not have overthrown the democratically elected charges without the help of right wing media outlets like veni vidi on our c.t.v. and global. the changes to the media landscape that then began under charges have accelerated under nicolas maduro global vision is just one example having backed

the coup in two thousand and two under one set of owners it is now. in the hands of . a promo doro businessman countless other media outlets including major newspapers like l. unit have stopped and called to mass look to see us have gone the same way what began as a government enforced market correction a defensible response to a media sector that was out of control has since grown into a crackdown. in which i thought they meant that they were not not when chavez was in office he enjoyed popular support most of the time so repression wasn't so necessary by the time a door it came to power sympathy for the government fell significantly due to the economic situation the social situation and so repression against the media increase that it was want to remember. is that it's all matter. babs that's the difference with the past chavez was much more patient despite the fact that the

media tried to destroy him and his family and the mother would all have been times when those who run the media should be held to account why because freedom of expression doesn't mean impunity is not just me who says it isn't tried in international treaties as well as our own constitution about that matter and i leave those in the. know sort of on this u.r.l. that we are the ones telling the truth that's what the government says but for the system to work we need media outlets that have no relationship to the government so they can tell us what's really happening and good government needs to be able to take criticism from its citizens their problem is that the reality is very obvious and there is no way to hide it any longer the money that. we're looking at other media stories that are on our radar this week with one of

our producers tarak enough tarik security services in sudan have been trying to limit coverage of protests that began there last month this past week close to thirty journalists were rounded up all from the same newspaper why would they target the journalist who working for an outlet called a jedi which is refused to comply with government censorship the newspaper and others have received almost nightly visits from the security services who harass editors and dictate what they're allowed to publish geneva has refused to toe the line and it's clearly paying the price the sunday issue of the paper was banned from publication for the third time in a row and more than ten of its editions of being seized since protests began in mid december when the journalists held a sits in outside the headquarters of the national intelligence and security twenty of them including the editor of a chef i deliver these were arrested ok so that's the government trying to control the output of one newspaper what about the online side where censorship can be so

much more difficult to enforce so the internet has been thankful to the organization of these protests are brick hashtags like sudan cities revolts have been used to mobilize people then documents and broadcast demonstrations to the world president bush it knows that and he's ordered the internet provider of to block access to proper phones like facebook twitter and what that is very egypt two thousand and eleven the restrictions haven't really what protesters have use virtual private networks the p.m.'s to get around them and videos like this one security forces trying to mow down protesters have been shed extensively on mine. all right. moving on so last week the wall street journal reports that an american conservative activist has been banned from twitter after complaints by some muslim advocacy group but the story turns out to be some kind of hoax yes and

a lab or one of the activist laura linney a far right online personality who is suspended from twitter for a slime a phobic comments a pair of internet prank that came up with a plan to see how easy it would be to convince her that shadowy muslim groups were responsible for getting how bad and so they posed to the disgruntled twitter employee and convince women that twitter thi jack dorsey had met with the council on american islamic relations nine of cat and they had lobbied for her account to be taken down it was a lie but lim a lot set up and part of the hoax is wanted to see if she would take the story to an outlet like in for was so they could expose how the right wing media food chain was instead lehman went to the wall street journal which published her account seemingly without any cooperating evidence or proper fact checking bottom line a prank designed to expose the far right media bubble inadvertently revealed from

very shoddy journalistic standards i one of the most widely read newspapers in the us ok thanks dark. turning now to had geography the definition of which is a biography that treats its subject with undue reference journalists occasionally serve up obituaries that are reverential the u.s. news media produced a few of them last year first for the former senator and prisoner of war john mccain then for george h.w. bush the country's president from one thousand nine hundred eighty nine to ninety three who died in november bush's obituary suffered from a syndrome that critics call obit omit focusing on attributes and achievements taking up column inches and television air time while controversy all aspects of his record among them alleged war crimes were omitted such obituaries fail news consumers see enough of them and you'll find that they reveal more about the journalist producing them and the news outlet involved than they do about the

deceased the listening posts dangled today now on the white washing of history in real time. when americans watch the news they have a variety of channels to choose from across the political spectrum but in the wake of a political death it can be hard to split the difference he was truly one of a kind on the thirtieth of november two thousand and eighteen george h.w. bush the forty first president of the united states died though president bush faced victory and defeat tragedy can triumph with modesty humor and uncommon grace find one a hard one a nice gentleman the want to wall coverage was dominated by tributes that range from the admiring to the sentimental the former president remembered for his sense of decency his kindness his commitment to others the coverage of. george bush sr it is death really emphasized personal qualities at the expense of policy

because lot of folks have been asking what's next for sully and even his dog who is . no they got more coverage than any dog since lassie when as we watched the pictures we wondered aloud is suddenly just as sad as the humans who are missing this man so very much every see did this like you know remarkable report by jenna bush bigger to a grandfather it's my turn to write a love letter. i read one could take it as a sort of like nice family tribute but then why are they employ a good journalist to cover her own family what do you want your legacy to be it has a defect of their deeply to sizing bush and making him you know this kind of like you know generic lovable grandfather you don't really get a sense of you know this man was president he made decisions that literally were life and death for hundreds of thousands of people who i saw very little coverage of what he did politically they were constantly talking about him being you

personable having class decency honor integrity caring about his children his grandchildren and they have a place and talking about their loved one and him but i think we have a responsibility in the media to go beyond that to have an honest assessment of an absolutely critical period of u.s. history we also have to remember the victims of his policy the thousands of people who died in panama who died in iraq who didn't get a chance to write letters to their grandchildren and their great grandchildren when you look at how the american media covered big george h.w. bush and they reflect the kind of outlook that seems to be under siege that is a country first at nineteen he became the youngest navy bomber pilot in world war two all the memories of george bush's reaching across party lines the fact that he wasn't

a hater all that i think accounts for the fact that the coverage was overwhelmingly if not totally positive this morning we remember. his life and his tremendous legacy when the unit addressed bush's record they offered a somewhat starry eyed view of his time in the white house what a great man george h.w. bush was and how he guided america in the world through the ending of the cold war how he unified chairman of the president's more controversial aspects of bush's legacy were given short shrift his two years as director of the cia worked. as with the invasions he launched as commander in chief against saddam hussein's iraq in one nine hundred ninety one just two hours ago allied air forces again an attack on military targets in iraq in kuwait and in panama to overthrow manuel noriega at the tator who had previously been on the cia's payroll when the agency was led by bush his history as the head of the cia in cultivating dictatorships in south and

central america and his history in the illegal war against panama should very well have been part of the obituaries the other bush the only going to be a little bit of the tone when you're going to consider all i'm used to if i mean really i think the so-called gulf war of one thousand nine hundred ninety one was really a different kind of scandal the united states bombed iraq most of the sleep started the process of destroying that country there was a so-called highway of death where the americans just muscle asleep killed iraqi troops that were in full scale retreat the use depleted uranium in their bombs and produced generations of young children born with cancer if you don't add that into the legacy of george h.w. bush i don't know who you're talking about i don't think it's surprising that the the analysis of the go forward was muted i think part of what explains the relative

quietness of the contrast between the iraq war. as george h.w. bush ford and what he did and what happened with his son what bush did not do the elder was to pursue that war into baghdad there was a sense of restraint the second thing is that the old latin expression to not speak ill of the dead applies just in general to the media the lot in saying the more to do with nearly seaborne or the dead say nothing but good has been part of death it's a get in the west for centuries but does it make sense as a rule of thumb for journalists when they assess the political legacy honoring a leader in death often means forgetting those who died as a result of their policies and as with all rules it's one that's american news outlets often break when it suits if you actually like a look at the media as a whole this principle we have to respect the dad is very selectively applied one

could only look at. his di and they've been living under this horrible dictator i don't think he will be missed by anybody the american media was not like well you know we have to think of his family and what was he like as a grandfather provocative an unpredictable strongman of venezuela has died though is all about well this guy was a tyrant he had human rights abuse was very blunt and so there's definitely they get different standard for american leaders as against sort of foreign leaders especially those outside the western world. the glueing unities to george h.w. bush into not a nostalgia that went beyond patriotism and even beyond bush himself. the repetition of words like decency and bipartisan seem to be as much about the rather he was not saying i will build a great great wall president trumps ginny's and a phobia and lying have outraged mainstream journalists. and his attacks on news

networks have turned the media into an enemy that's enough put down the mike drum serving as a constant point of comparison redemption in the media has never been easier to come by for former american statesman. whether there were long. i'm so excited to have you here are you as excited as i am to be here yeah yeah the reason why george w. bush looks better to a lot of the press is simply a matter of contrast president bush it's always nice to have you here thanks for joining us in the case of donald trump you have somebody who simply has no concept of what truth or false what is who violates norms was a bully who allowed like to punch him in the face. and so george w. bush looks better by comparison you cannot compare things like that you have to look at them as well for what they've done and that's exactly what the media doesn't do i mean here is a direct walk criminal the man who was destroyed iraq on an entire house

built of lies saddam hussein is a threat to america he's a man who said he wouldn't have weapons of mass destruction yet he has them when he eventually they're going to say you know he was a. he loved his children he was a bipartisan if they bring the illegal war and it calls into question the american religion that the american government acts benevolently around the world the media very much parents abuse of power sadly journalists are a part of the establishment so much in the united states it's. hard right after person guys to do an honest real evaluation of their record to speak ill of the dead but journalism is the first draft of history and it's at those moments that people come to understand their own country and our role in the world and that's

why the records of these presidents must be dissected analyzed. the key is not to erase what they've done. one last point on how geography and the politicians who don't even have to die before undergoing their mainstream media make over george w. bush really is the poster boy for that phenomenon a president whose catastrophic decision to go to war in iraq ended up killing and these are conservative estimates hundreds of thousands when he left office in two thousand and eight he looked like he was beyond rehabilitation but ever since the donald trump circus came to washington bush has been benefiting from some favorable comparisons and getting more and more of the kind of fawning coverage usually reserved for dead presidents we'll leave you now with a few examples of that and we'll see you next time here at the listening post. yesterday the president of the united states of america for eight years which is probably enough resume wise but he's also a painter with

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week's attack on a luxury hotel in neighboring kenya we're going to hear about today's attack but also a report on the hunt. for the. sport hundreds of thousands out onto the streets of athens there is plenty of feeling. about its massive. northern macedonia which is also a greek free from those protests. and they declared winner of the presidential election plus the runner up declaring himself the winner has rejected the constitutional court decision in democratic republic of congo which is confirmed as president. and the country moves forward with such a. and the u.s. government shutdown is now in its fifth week and the plight of federal workers facing more financial uncertainty is going viral and ahead of a homage to just during the show using a hash tag a.j. is great.

with the news grid live on air and streaming online through you tube facebook live at al-jazeera dot com we're starting in somalia where the u.s. says at least fifty two al shabaab fighters have been killed in and strike it is in what is known as the middle juba region this is in response to an attack hours earlier on a somali army base or at least eight somali soldiers were killed when asked about fighters overran a military camp on the outskirts of the details now with that in baba. the bodies of suspected al shabaab fighters loyal on the road as somali troops poor over the scene the fighters were reportedly killed in american airstrikes after fleeing from a somali military base earlier had stormed the base three hundred seventy kilometers southwest of the capital mogadishu military officials say six soldiers were killed during the attack and two others died after a booby trap vehicle was blown up as the army battled to recapture the base

eventually u.s. military helicopters were deployed according to a statement from u.s. africa command here attack killed in its words fifty two militants the somali army says the figure was even higher. we managed to kill at least seventy five ship bad militants after they attacked us and many more were injured we are telling people about that victory today. al-shabaab says it killed forty two somali soldiers during the battle the group retains a strong presence in parts of southern and central somalia. it's also regularly targeted neighboring kenya which sent troops to somalia as part of an african union force it says it was behind tuesday's attack in nairobi when four gunmen and a suicide bomber killed twenty one people at a hotel and office complex on friday five suspects appeared in a court in my robey in connection with that attack. al jazeera well as you mentioned across the border from somalia kenya and that is where al shabaab was

responsible for an attack on a luxury hole in a hotel in nairobi last wait twenty one people were killed in that attack with a corresponding to how many those been investigating the backgrounds of that attack is live in nairobi for us i know you'll take us to your report about that in a moment mohammed but also just linking up to today i guess it shows how active the fight against al shabaab still is in both countries. yes indeed and there are different versions come out to what actually happened about somali national army base fifty kilometers away from the port city of kiss my you according to somali military officials al-shabaab fighters carried a ball not talk about they managed to replay two to. push back the fighters after several hours of fighting but seoul says a nearby villages say that the al-shabaab fighters who attacked the base many

of our around it and was in the process of moving from holes in the base on somali national v.a. calls when the somali government forces train full sprint as well as port from the u.s. forces stationed in somalia and managed to recapture the base of course this comes just days after that attack in the upscale shopping center here in nairobi in which twenty one people were killed kenyan police say most of the gunmen who carried out that attack or kenyans something that is raising that kenya after all might be facing some homegrown terrorism this sprawling informal settlement in near it down central kenya life here may seem us ordinary as in any other slum but the residents so much jungle outmoded. one of the gunmen in last tuesday's al-shabaab

a talk in the capital nairobi was born and grew up here. salim ali get lost cut in this photograph during the night will be a tuck and he grew up in this house his neighbors those shocked i'm not surprised they say al shabab was over the years recruited many young men including salim from here. rotty percent is one of magickal community leaders we generally have to harlem because our children have no jobs they need to eat most of them have dropped out of school and their parents are too poor to help them continue with education the parents have no idea when and how al shabaab recruiters get hold of their children older people i have a hundred government response hasn't helped either he says residents of my general blame the ease with which al-shabaab can recruit on law literacy joblessness and drug abuse among the youth here it is a situation that is far more compounded by feelings of state elimination by

residents of this neighborhood kenyans in the past have blamed the violence carried out by al-shabaab on fighters coming from beyond their national borders but last tuesday's assault on a shopping complex in the capital is forcing kenyans to consider the threats posed by those near the home police confirmed most of the five attackers were conditions . in nairobi somali majority suburb obviously residents of come out to show their anger about the tague. unified in grief their message was one of love in the face of such. businesses in the business leave markets remain closed for several hours to honor the dead a remarkable moment of defiance by a community long blamed for a tux in kenya that no longer do people feel that is just a problem for one particular community and that community should be vilified.

repressed. and driven out to. the rest of kenya now that is settling in we're happy to have that but we're also ready to help share our experiences security officials say there's no quick fix to the threat of domestic terrorism the only conceivable solution they say might lie in a combination of education gun control and internet regulation. how to brazen daylight a tux one in nairobi kenya another one in the thick of southern somalia say a lot about the strength of the group al-shabaab might have lost most of its upon strongholds in central and southern somalia but analysts say they still have the strength to carry out us much damage as possible mohammed thank you for that actually before you go i wonder i just had a question through from one of our viewers on facebook live at ali who's asked and

i want to give us a short answer to this who funds al shabaab his interests know how they manage that . they get the question who funds mohammed. well shabab has been getting has been taxing people living in areas under its control and also extorting money from businesses including some of them biggest companies is somalia and also taking. people's property forcefully and that's how they've been funding them as well as the chuckle trade so. i mean they have multiple sources but as they continue to lose territory the they're not getting as much as they used to before great thank you for that mohamed do appreciate it mahommed is in nairobi there and that's how things work on the newsgroup if you've got a question you can send it in straight to our team here and we can put it straight to our guests or correspondents like that hashtag a.j.

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to a parliamentary vote in the next week and he has actually already survived two votes of confidence over that contentious agreement so just to put it on the map these what makes a little more sense is what we just described and was going to very roughly outline macedonia for you there if why our o.e.m. former yugoslav republic of macedonia this is what you're going to color now and again just being quite broad here but it doesn't clue to the greek city of this along ok this northern region this is the greek macedonia region so you see they border each other and this is what the greeks are unhappy about that there would be like this confusion and rights over who gets that name macedonia they're the protests though they're happening down here in athens and that is where john psaropoulos is for us john an update from you. well much of that mass process protests that you refer to has now petered out it's been broken up by repeated volleys of tear gas canisters fired by the police you can

still see some of the clouds there behind me but the crowd visibly small and unfortunately although this did start out as a peaceful protest there was one particular cohort of more violent demonstrators who started shooting fireworks at the police and they of course responded but the substance of the protests the reason why many thousands of people have boarded buses and traveled overnight athens from all corners of greece is that they are unhappy with the so-called precipice agreement the agreement that would recognize greece's northern neighbor as north macedonia the reason is that they feel that greece's neighbor hasn't conducted itself itself in good faith and they don't also feel that greek negotiators were tough enough greece agreed ten years ago finally after many years of resisting this to share the name of its northern region of macedonia but.