each individual they tell me here needs six pieces of bread if i try to put all the quantity they need in my hands. it's not possible this is just the shell of two people. the crisis got worse when sudan couldn't grow or buy enough wheat saudi and r.t. companies grow millions of tons of wheat here on least or purchased land but they sent it out of the country now sudan with its over two million hectares of fertile soil that even oil and the gigantic underground lake the newbie in basin is begging for outside help to satisfy its demand of wheat to feed the hungry population of nearly forty million. just to say it's too late to come these cards bread will overthrow this regime as it happened before here in sudan was the essence of his words is a code by these protesters david chance. of just zero khartoum.

still ahead here on al-jazeera the us and tell about what's described as significant progress the latest round of tool. sports never talk that sweeps to his seven australian open title in a dog with a display of tennis against the down story to the front. i know there is mostly fine for us across the southeastern parts of china at the moment we're looking at around eleven degrees of the maximum force in shanghai and around twenty two in hong kong where we'll see the clouds begin to gather there as we head through the day and choose days over the who have a province there's likely to be a few outbreaks of rain and in the north that will be turning to snow they fed the towards the west and for some of us here there's been

a fair amount of rain so we now have this area of cloud here has given us quite a bit wet weather for the eastern parts of india more of it is expected as we head through the day on monday but eventually as we slip into tuesday it looks like the rain will gradually begin to ease that we've most of us will get away with a draw a day and it'll still be quite cool in new delhi with a maximum temperature of eighteen degrees now here in doha it's actually been quite hawked over the last day or so and that's because of the wind direction thing coming up from the southwest dragging in some very dry and hot air with it it will still be dry and hot as we head through the day on monday a maximum temperature of around twenty seven degrees but then this system question slips its way towards us so expect more cloud around on tuesday and that could give us a few spots of right enough to that it should turn a good deal fresh air further south it'll still be warm force here they must got up at around twenty five degrees.

i am a tradition every weekly news cycle going to see you recently breaking stories and then of course their star trek 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 i joined the listening post as we turned the cameras on the media and focused on how they were caught on the stories that matter the most embarrassing is a free palestine listening post on al-jazeera. talk about if you're watching the oscars or news i would miss the whole romney reminder of our top stories to bomb explosions at a catholic cathedral in the southern philippines have killed at least twenty five

people and many more there's been no immediate claim of responsibility for the sunday mass attacks on the predominantly muslim island of hollow. firefighters in brazil all warning of a second down that such risk of rupturing close to the scene of friday's disaster thirty four bodies have been found so far but hundreds remain missing after told to foist water from an iron ore mine was unleashed. as well as present nicolas maduro is to now sing an ultimatum by some e.u. countries to hold new elections within the next week it's a plopped topple him and he did a merge and see debate at the u.n. security council the u.s. but opposition leader often quite bold has declared himself to room president. the u.s. envoy to afghanistan is in kabul to brief government leaders on the latest round of the goshi asians to end the seventeen year war qatar has hosted six days of talks between u.s. and afghan taliban representatives secretary of state mike pompei is says the u.s.

government is serious about pursuing peace and bringing america's armed forces home reports. afghans eager to learn more about the peace talks between the u.s. and the taliban. government leaders in kabul are not commenting they have complained about not being involved in the latest round of talks in qatar's capital . afghans we spoke to hope the talks in doha will help and the war while others are skeptical. made what has been that we are very hopeful all the afghans are tired of for exploration in suicide attack in this country they are hoping for a brighter future and i am very hopeful that these talks will bring a bright future for us and for the future of afghanistan. we afghans don't trust groups affiliated with foreign intelligence agencies the u.s. must talk with the afghan people because we are the ones who suffer this is not

peace what kind of peace is this the u.s. envoy to afghanistan is in kabul to brief president assad funny on his meeting with the taliban. and reported that there had been significant progress the taliban though we're being cautious saying talks with continue to overcome obstacles one of them is agreeing on a timeline for the withdrawal of foreign troops initially the taliban dismissed any towards the u.s. as long as american forces in afghanistan. the taliban has rejected direct talks with the afghan government which is considered an american puppet but peace in afghanistan goes beyond internal disputes the u.s. hopes neighboring pakistan can play a crucial role in the talks the afghan government and the white house have often

accused the pakistani government of providing weapons and shelter for taliban fighters accusations denied by leaders in islamabad we would like to see us and that in front of. as friend of the region so they're having exited there must not abandon afghanistan in terms of their social economic development restoration of. the development process the u.s. hopes the doha talks will lead to a cease fire and power sharing agreement that would pave the way for tens of thousands of us a day to troops to pull out of afghanistan. al jazeera it's another weekend of protest in paris people who oppose the yellow vest anti-government movement are gathering in the french capital they call themselves the blue vests on the red scarves and say the yellow vests have created a violent and destructive agenda for the yellow vests they marked eleven straight

weeks of demonstrations on saturday they first rallied in november against a proposed increase in fuel taxes that was they described it since grown into a wider anti-government movement that says president emanuel mccraw is out of touch with all we people the bottle has more from paris. there are a few thousand protesters here in the center of power is some great to scoff protests is something of a new movement here in france about to march across the city against what they say has been more than two months of destruction by the yellow press protesters they say they are simply to fade out of some of the scenes of violence we've seen over the past few weeks some of the attacks against journalists and then peace and what they're calling for is full of restoration of calm if you will of people to talk together to be more united and to respect what they call fraud says republican values and institutions that this is a grassroots movement to similar to the rest movement in that way it was born on

social media has been fueled by social media and some of the people here say they actually show the concerns of the other first protesters over things like the high cost of living and what they don't share they say is the approach in the methods that have been used by the protesters that they see as divisive press protesters might say that this is a we're. running it becomes here to defy they say look this is simply a citizens movement as a civilian movement and like the yellow vest protests and they are apolitical they say they don't have any links to any political party now we did hear from a couple of government ministers over the past few weeks who supported this movement and said that they were glad to see that somebody was an affront to demonstrating in favor of france's repopulate constituents and french unity but there's no doubt that the government certainly kept his distance from this movement is certainly wouldn't want to be involved or seem to be taking any sides at this time because it's

a very delicate time indeed for the french president. russian tanks and troops of commemorated the seventy fifth anniversary of the ending of the leningrad seen its estimated eight hundred thousand russians died from starvation disease and exposure during the two and a half year siege by hitler's troops the kremlin says the occasion is important for all russians to remember the sacrifices. changed its name petersburg when the soviet union collapsed really chalons has more. from september nineteenth forty one through till the end of january nine hundred forty four lending grads which was the second city of the u.s.s.r. the former capital of russia was cut off from the rest of the country by nazi forces aided by finnish forces coming from the north it was a horrible horrible time for people trapped inside this city the human suffering was immense there was rampant starvation shelling and air attacks too it's only

once you speak to individuals that you get a real sense of the suffering and we spoke to an amazing woman ninety seven years old you'll hear from her in the report that i'm putting together for later on sunday her family resorted to eating soup made from furniture glue to stay alive she survived sister and her mom did too but her father didn't send for other members of a wider family didn't either there are various ways in which this city has been remembering the events one of them is a military parades now opposition to that isn't widespread i have to say but there are some people who've been questioning whether showing off tanks and missiles is really the best way of on uring the lifting of such a. terrible time in the country's past a human tragedy coming to an end for the thinking of the russian state is well if we can show off the country's modern weaponry then perhaps we can reassure the citizens of the country and show the rest of the world that such

a thing should never happened again. nearly two million south koreans have gone fishing and they've had to wrap up warm to make it catch the annual ice fishing festival in hull charney is close to the border with north korea and iraq mcbride reports it's hoped the political form the peninsula will attract even larger crowds in the future it's everything you can think of doing with ice and then some. sliding down it rolling over it just staying up all it most especially fishing through it. what your own county trades on the tourism potential of being one of the coldest places in south korea in winter by the end of the festival some twenty thousand fishing holes have been drilled so you'll has just caught her first fish it takes a long time she says at the next hole park's on june knows it. his son knows it too freezing aside one's boyfriend has brought her here for

a special treat this is my first time and it's fun i can't one pull on the line is a good feeling. and for those who dare there's the chance to strip off those restricting layers and brave the near freezing water to catch them and hold on to them any way you can it's definitely for the adventurous for those who simply don't want to wait for a face but want to get in there with their. parents or take. probably. for sixteen years what chance has been building its brand helped by the humble mountain trout by the truckload their farm and released cotton then along the frozen river if ice is what you've got ice is what you do look says the county chief it's forty centimeters thick you could drive a tank across it but that's just what this town doesn't want less than thirty kilometers from the developed rhizome frontier with north korea the current peace

moves are good for business. i like to be able to farm in the child free use in the festival in the north and see north koreans come here to take part to see an era of peace has always been my hope for south koreans the intriguing possibility of going north beyond the wire i'd like to maybe even visit north korea one day winters there are colder still but even the prospect of a warm north korean welcome until recently was unthinkable rob mcbride al-jazeera county south korea. other pacific island nation of the world too has a long history of community matters being settled by tribal village chiefs usually men but for the first time a woman has been anointed chairperson of a village tribal council on the island of mo so as part of her plans to transform village life she's applying a strict environmentalist agenda which includes a marine park and cracking down on illegal logging. my name is les marlene is the

parsi and i first chair lady of a tribal council in vanuatu it's always been i'm in the position my husband sound she filed for we are about sheila childless who gives me the right to ponting beasts in the uk i come from totally different islands and tribe and different. just farm and culture somewhere happy somewhere not happy idea of the day that she has. has that lesson my husband and i go to capitol hill every day to bring kids to school but those cell phone work and for shopping i am cory for enough in hospitality institution in order that when i look around me i see the destruction of forests

and marine lives after the saigon everybody relies on government handouts so the council decides that we can't wait we have to do something sure start rebuilding so in our community we put all these bylaws in place the first thing is the shelter that can shelter the families that don't have psycho on parole or most . fear is also adopting tides see what rises just keep coming in we introduce nearby lowes or to stop people making guidance around riva to protect them what the source. we have a problem with people chopping down trees for charcoal and files to sell so we introduce the byelaws to what they got for us we also introduce for people to have

their own gardens so that they don't have to rely on the process food one of the things we decided to do is to introduce the marine but they did area we care about the lives of. the less the secret clambers but they do glance we took it for granted but now in this generation we come to realize that the future for the environment is important for our kids and the future generation everything that lives around us is important it's part of our legs. so this world i'm born of a joke of it just showed why he's the best player on the planet by dismantling rafael nadal in the australian open final in straight sets this is his record sevens. australian open title for the serb it's also his third straight grand slam title in a row he's with just under two hours to win the match six three six two six three quite a contrast to the twenty twelve aussie open final when these two played out

a match that lasted nearly six hours takes djokovic just over four grand slam title count to fifty. the just trying to hold him played under journey in the last twelve months because. as rough i've been through a surgery and quite a major injury myself last couple of years but i had the surgery exactly twelve months ago and to be standing now here in front of you today and managing to win this title in three out of four slams is truly. amazing. the. your children their arms the whole rom and these are all top news stories to bomb explosions in a catholic cathedral in the southern philippines have killed at least twenty five people and injured many more there's been no immediate claim of responsibility for

the sunday mass attacks on the predominantly muslim island of hollow brazilian firefighters are warning a second mining dam is at risk of rupturing close to where a dam collapsed on friday in my gino thirty four bodies have been found but hundreds still missing state prosecutors have frozen assets belonging to the mining company vale to pay for damages venezuela's president nicolas maduro is denouncing an ultimatum by some e.u. countries to hold new elections within the next week he says it's part of a plot to topple him the u.s. is backing the opposition leader one who's declared himself a dream president in a heated emergency debate at the u.n. security council russia china and turkey rejected what they called illegal moves to remove material from power. canada to china has been fired after his comments about the chinese technology giant holloway john mccallum said it would be great for canada if the u.s. dropped its extradition request for holloway executive maine one joe she was

arrested in vancouver last month the cues to invading american sanctions on iran canada's prime minister justin trudeau didn't give a reason for why he sacked the ambassador to iraq says little some of the turkish ambassador of the death of a kurdish protester after turkish troops opened fire on demonstrators in the north west on saturday night kurdish protesters stormed a turkish base inside iraq seven autonomous kurdish region they say four civilians were killed in a turkish raid last week turkey often carries out raids in and strikes in iraq targeting the kurdistan workers party which it considers a terrorist group. russian tanks and troops of commemorating the seventy fifth anniversary of the ending of the siege it's estimated eight hundred thousand russians die from starvation disease and exposure join the two and a half year siege by hitler's troops some survivors in the city now calls in petersburg did now the parade as poorly timed military propaganda those were the

headlines here on al-jazeera the news good with applicator is here in half an hour next is the listening post do stay with us. the world's largest oil company fails to become public what happened. are the kingdom of the company inseparable here the world's largest oil producer and less than the world's largest definitely felt something al-jazeera investigates the politics of oil in the middle east's most potent economic weapon. saudi arab. the company and the state on al-jazeera. from the arab spring and. president. of your the other tens of thousands of. cars. in the city i think that it. sent the country. hello i'm richard gere's britain europe the listening post here

are some of the media stories we're covering this week egypt on january twenty fifth the anniversary of the arab spring most famous day we examine what's left of journalism there and look at some of the talk show hosts who safeguard the cult of personality that surrounds president. nicaraguan journalist flees the country was he trying to avoid the same fate his father faced in the one nine hundred seventy s. plus the israeli military gives its neighbors a lesson in geography the twitter sphere then escalates it to an all out mean war. it's been eight years since the fall of hosni mubarak and the uprising that briefly liberated egyptians and their media from life under one man rule fast forward to the present day and president. government is doubling down tripling down on controlling the news media measures that rights groups say are unprecedented in the country's recent history hundreds of websites blocked more than thirty journalists

imprisoned new laws allow for the monitoring censoring and jailing of journalists and citizens as well as targeting all online outlets where they are most vulnerable their bottom lines the media rights group reporters without borders warns that egypt's few remaining independent media face probable extinction or exile with the margins of acceptable speech narrower than ever and journalists expected to demonstrate complete loyalty to the state discerning truth in egypt from propaganda gets more difficult by the day or a starting point this week is the heart lacked of the revolutions that came to be known as the arab spring cairo. abdel fattah el-sisi did not wait to get into the president's office before taking issue with the egyptian news media that. this video leaked to a website called rust whose logo remains front and center was recorded in two

thousand and thirteen. with. sisi was the head of the armed forces appointed by president mohamed morsi the muslim brotherhood leader he would later deposed and imprisoned he was meeting with his officers discussing how to deal with journalists empowered by the rule the media had played in the arab spring the fall of mubarak c.c.'s off camera when he was sponsored to this officer but you get the message. i don't. have a lot of what he was talking in that video has become true that was not. fulfilling prophecy that has allowed anyone to actually control the media as much as possible to get. that. respect. and i'm.

sure that if you'd like. to take. a. nice you know. for the first time ever in egypt's history those military leaders who are almost immune against any kind of accountability or media criticism found themselves being described in gyptian media and social media as lie or deceiver or oppressors and the definitely didn't like that presidency she said and that is that the revolution had begun to dismantle the sas calls on the media and we need to return to a moment where we control the media so he says this is going to take a very large statewide effort because once we control the media and returned the cycle of fear in society then we can have ultimate control. when

a government wants to transform a media landscape the place to start is if the ownership laughing on t.v. is a channel that used to air lively political debates like many other outlets with the new owners it now toes the government line in two thousand and sixteen the state intelligence agency the g.i.s. launched its own channel d.m.c. t.v. then last year the g.i.'s was revealed to be behind an investment group called eagle capital that has bought six newspapers and websites including the site seven as well as on. t.v. it's like the cia is starting its own channel in the us walk quietly buying c.n.n. and buzz feed and hoping that no one would notice the ownership of by the intelligence. agencies changed that it's already a line in some of these private companies by actually either making it completely entertainment and just like movies and sports and such or are advocating for

a very pro state nationalistic protective kind of discourse security discourse space it will be a hell of a lot of well as you can live what the hell are they are. yet ten zero up what it had been say bob you watch a channel or a website and you say oh which intelligence agency is behind that almost obligate gyptian government through its numerous security agencies has established private companies buying and controlling various mass media establishment egyptians no longer trust their mass media godless of their private. you have officers instruction unless the news of the tires on what the next day's headlines are all national and private newspapers are practically an identical it has become a laughing stock of. the god. the legal landscape is changing too late last year egypt's media regulator the s.m.r.

c proposed a new law that would allow the state to block broadcasts and websites for breaking rules that were so ambiguously word that hundreds of journalists politicians and public figures petitioned for the abolition of a law that had yet to pass among the laws that have a so-called cyber security law that under the pretext of stopping fake news with strix online journalism and encourages service providers to collect and share data on users and there's a new registration law requiring online news site. it's to pay thousands of dollars just to apply for a license if enforced it could put many sites out of business and discourage others from ever starting. the last remaining pays for free speech for some professional journalism was the internet and they are trying everything they can to curdle this

remaining space so they started with blocking these websites we have seen today find no provisions such as lengthy prison sentences. which means john that is working these websites would have to observe so many precautions and red lines if cyberspace was the last vestige of political activity then the state will regulate that as well just so that the intelligence apparatus has started to buy media outlets they have not started infiltrating things like facebook and messenger and whatsapp and if for example you forward messages on whatsapp to several individuals what you get is this dissemination of false information charged under the terrorism law and so this chilling of society and of activism has now entered this realm of cyberspace where people cannot even report on reality. it's not as though the c.c. government needs laws to jail journalists al-jazeera as mahmoud hussein is one of

dozens of reporters currently behind bars accused of disseminating false news to defame the state's reputation he's been imprisoned for more than two years solitary confinement but has never been charged that's against egyptian law and it's typical . of these pretrial imprisonment as a means of technically not having any political prisoners the court case is set up you get sent to prison based on that court that pretrial detention lasts four years without a trial ever taking place some gets really. some don't it's all part of a grand illusion manufactured by the regime but there are secret political currents working on toppling the regime and providing support for terrorist. president c.c. has grown accustomed to the journalistic red lines he has laid down with the egyptian media.

has managed. and foreign news organizations reporting from inside the country are also feeling the heat as are egyptians who speak to them ten months ago this woman told the b.b.c. her daughter had been forcibly disappeared she's been jailed accused of belonging to a terrorist group a reporter for the times of london was deported last year another journalist from france was denied entry cases that have not gone unnoticed by other correspondents based in part. they are trying different approaches. with foreign journalists if you criticize the government wouldn't give you the license to work in the country or suddenly. and we've been asked to leave. egypt they are all they all live in continuous state of intimidation and exile are

not able to do that work the state is now creating a new strategy to deal with the correspondents in egypt where if they get something wrong it's like ok you got that wrong time corresponding to that wrong then sometimes they push for credentials and so i think they are being more proactive in pushing for a certain narrative statist narrative about what's going on and you. remember the revolution the fear and access. barrier and people had no problem coming into squares and writing. i'm blogging and tweeting and saying what was happening. president stephen was very weary of the small meant of how can we consolidate power in a way where we can bridge turn the institutions controlled under the state and remove the independence that media has had for two years and that's exactly what we've seen.

we'll have more on egypt in the second half of the show right now though we're looking at other media stories that are on our radar this week with one of our producers not celebes are marcella the elections in israel are coming up in three months time and it would appear that prime minister netanyahu is look who had party wants to make media coverage an election issue what kind of signs are we seeing modest signs billboards as well as online campaigns here's a billboard that's near his party put up and tell of eve it says for leading israeli journalists and that hebrew slogan reads they will not decide the reporters from different outlets print and broadcast how to show t.v. news channel thirteen and the newspaper maariv and they've all been covering the corruption investigations against netanyahu including allegations of bribery fraud and breach of trust now those cases have been going on for a while now and on some of them involve other israeli media outlets yeah they do

one involves a newspaper are not netanyahu is accused of offering to change some of his government's media policies and the owners favor in exchange for positive news coverage and the other case involves an israeli telecoms for. netanyahu is alleged to have intervened with regulators on behalf again in return for glowing coverage on one of its news sites. netanyahu denies any wrongdoing in the cases he says the attorney general indicting him is colluding with the left and of course the media we don't see much of nicaragua in international news feeds however president daniel ortega his government is facing political unrest there how was that affected journalists trying to cover this story well it's getting harder for them to reporter many of had to flee the country the latest to go into exile is one of nicaragua's best known journalists got lost fernando tamora is the editor of an independent website of convenience and hosts a number of t.v.

. news shows last month his news room was raided by police model said he and many other journalists have been facing extreme threats and there's a historical irony to this story tomorrow's father was also an outspoken journalist in the one nine hundred seventy s. assassinated for his work during the summer as a dictatorship so when i was toppled in one thousand nine hundred seventy nine in a revolution led by the annular data and the left wing sundanese the rebels forty years later junior is holed up in costa rica on the run he says from the other day our government ok thanks for some. back to egypt now and the talking heads egyptians call emperors every night millions tune in to televised talk shows that focus more on politics than entertainment the hosts of the programs lecture upon argue rant sometimes even cry their way through hours of air time talk show hosts

form a key filter through which egyptians have come to view their politics and they have an outsized influence on the masses under. the sea talk show hosts are expected to legitimize his presidency and vilify his critics when they do not they have a habit of disappearing from the airwaves just like that television may be dwindling in importance in many countries but in egypt where literacy rates are low it remains the medium of the masses and few institutions are more influential than the evening talk shows or listening posts tarik now for now in the highly politicized world of t.v. talk shows in each. to say that talk shows are the most important phenomenon in the way that government communicates with the public will be an undersea. under my baby shot if you don't already many even most of it's consistent it's entertaining. you get the

feeling as though you're sitting at a cafe with them. and don't mistake it for a moment this is not about bringing information to the people this is about bringing the government this or us into your homes instead of. the behavior of. the book in that. monster of destruction and merchants of the absurd when you get a let me say that in the book i did i say it's not. making it high i knew. that is a. bill in kenya that in a country where more than a quarter of the population is a literate it's the spoken word has an outsized influence by the public consciousness when already a lot of the networks start to think of course. the egyptian love affair with talk shows began in the final years of the old regime it's personally more politic

loosened his grip on the media. the hosts of these shows were colorful opinionated everything their monochrome counterparts on state t.v. were not. after the revolution a state restriction of temporarily fell away talk shows became a platform for lively popular debate everybody the talk shows were always political now they're deeply politicized with hosts delivering a nightly diatribe that goes on and on and on the monologue can be up to a half hour in some cases forty five minutes where you have a host not only talking. but working himself or herself up emotionally got a little mad sometimes you would have some video theatrical props and the other thing is the interaction not only with the in studio guests but also with viewers

at home for example we've seen relatives of some of the victims of the terrorist bombings where an audience member calls begins crying on the air. and a host begins crying as well i have got. for you and as a result the host becomes this emotional link this connection that brings people in their homes together i can see at least eighty percent of journalists i interviewed in egypt told me sees himself to be first citizens and on the second professional journalists. there is a strong cord for subjectivity within that is to community set for c.s. the issue of the idea of objective journalism as trees and the importance of the personalities at play are beyond crucial without them the shows would crumble two of them happen to be the power couple of middle eastern talkers is the

first and he is very likely the most handsomely paid i want. he has a natural instinct of intelligence and the intelligence agencies recognise that his wife is the inside she is a study in upper middle class the car and delivers her message. not as opinion but it's fact. i don't know if. a plot to walk out and just so our power the third person that comes to mind is the most grotesque figure of explicit probably think of this i had to sure go out on a fic while also not defend it all that much. is loud fascist non-apologetic out cold water you know. i get what i know what he excels at hyperbolic nationalistic form of diatribe that appeals to the lowest

common denominator. over the years the format to survive but the mission has changed president to for to him since he took power in two thousand and fourteen on a wave of nationalist fervor vowing to return stability to egypt staking his legitimacy on combating terror that's. right. talk show hosts preventing the former general of the national savior who would stand between egypt and the chaos that was consuming the rest of the middle east and much. better if you could have. that they haven't had that one either hyping a shared sense of purpose panic and victimhood one of the key aspects of the stock shows is the way they whip up a sense of national emergency. shaaban mouth

a lot about but what that that that me about that ok are you not only support the government if you bend over backwards so to speak so dissidents political prisoners are typically vilified they are portrayed as enemies of the nation as bella and i do wish i had would and i do when what. and if you portray anybody as an enemy of the nation in a time of emergency what you're saying it's ok to jail them it's ok to beat them up and in some cases it's ok to kill them talk shows i very prominent political tool or political platform for messaging you need to support that he she because said he she is facing unprecedented dentures coming from south side but also and mainly from inside sort of conspiracy coming from. oh military yeah any other little bit of a i'm not. despotic they are under fierce. every

critical voice can be linked to the rest of the roster of the bad guys real imagined and otherwise is constantly evolving to suit the needs of the state. qatar is now public enemy number one turkey is public enemy number two in iran is public enemy number three. and. now let me. and i think. and of course the ruler is featured prominently one way or another. there has always been a consistent awareness where the red lines are precisely and right now there are

more outlines than there were ever been censorship is ubiquitous in egypt and takes many forms the government dictates the narrative and increasingly the intelligence services are getting in on the over the past year they secretly acquired almost all of egypt's privately owned t.v. networks having dispensed with media owners whose cooperation was never in doubt it was only a matter of time before attention turned to the big personalities fronts in egypt's talk shows this summer some of the country's best known hosts who played a pivotal role in forcing president. of paradoxically disappeared from t.v. screen. and loyal government surrogates who went on vacation in august and never came back the regime in egypt has emasculated all of position it has controlled the. to a level of ninety eight or ninety nine percent they have muzzled civil society completely and so you wonder what is the remaining threat well i think the reason

the stock show hosts do present a threat is because the government is at a stage where it does not tolerate even indirect influence it wants to have direct and immediate control over everything and you have to keep in mind that it all comes down to information who has it doesn't how it's delivered hats off to the c.c. regime for understanding the link between lack of education ease of the simulation . obstruction of information the government has created an environment where dispersement of the nation unless it is tightly controlled by government is all but impossible. and finally a geography lesson delivered over twitter by none other than the israeli military this past week israel launched air strikes on iranian forces stationed in syria then the israeli government tweeted out a message to tehran you seem to be lost it said along with

a map with one set of arrows pointing to the islamic republic where iran belongs it said and another arrow pointing to syria saying where iran is that kicked off i mean war and like many conflicts in the middle east powers on the outside were drawn in the us russia and turkey among them check it out we'll see you next time there is a listening post. just

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live and that al-jazeera dot com well the philippines president has valley to hunt down those behind two explosions in a catholic cathedral at least twenty five people were killed and many more injured when the bombs went off during sunday mass no groups claimed responsibility for the bombings which happened on the predominantly muslim island off holo duncan has this reports. the first blast was inside the cathedral as worshippers celebrated sunday mass that was followed by a second explosion in the carpark a security forces were arriving there has been no immediate claim of responsibility they are trying to disrupt the peace process they're trying to destabilize it it's like like for men things of this time is a sham and to show that the government will not be able to control the area that the the places that the various conflict the attack in the capital of sulu province

comes six days after a referendum on them in the now region voters in the muslim dominated region overwhelmingly approved a deal for more self rule eighty five percent of voters backed an agreement between muslim fighters and government leaders in manila for a self administered area in mindanao which will believe to bounce a model there are attempts to stalk up of communal conflict but the thing is that so far none of these attacks on the churches have resulted in such type of hatred between muslims and christians. the predominantly catholic philippines has been plagued by decades of separatist conflict in mindanao more than one hundred thousand people have been killed and millions more in displaced in the decades long conflict in mindanao and despite the reconsideration process attacks like this show that armed groups still pose

a threat to peace in the region dogon al jazeera manila well this has been one of the most read articles on our website zero dot com philippines church bombing twin blasts hit holo cathedral so you can head there for more on the explosions and what exactly happened. let's us speak to ronnie saying she's in asia security specialist she's joining us live from london via skype brian is saying thanks for speaking to us some people saying that the failure of that referendum last week in holo had raised fears of reprisals by some of the militant groups there is that what we're seeing i think because. the rhetoric the referendum was supported by the majority of the tube two point eight million people in the area but the town of jonah's rejected it so it would seem

logical to conclude that we know they there have been militant groups active in that region for some time now including abu sayyaf which many people say this explosion has the hallmarks of obviously off group but there's been no claim of responsibility yet is that unusual. all right apologies we seem to be having audio connections with with ronnie saying from london we'll try and get her back a little later on the program we'll move on to other news now and tell you about the venezuelan president nicolas maduro who's rejected an ultimatum to call elections within days describing european countries as insolent for making the demand but his top military representative to the u.s. has already defected throwing his support behind the opposition leader one interim

president millions of people have escaped the economic pain and political turmoil finding refuge in neighboring countries are line america editor of the seiu newman reports from colombia's border with venezuela. and i did come from all over this way across the border into google dot columbia some months ago others just yesterday and they're all hungry. so when they get the signal they line up for the only plate of food most will eat today. the old and the ill go first then the rest each getting a rosary as they enter this castle a church parish for lunch. today it's rice with chicken and many are many have no mobile phones or access to television but they've heard the news about what is happening back home like biden but i feel. like i have faith that the situation room improves with a new president we can have hope again bevan israel will be the country it was

before when we could walk and feed our children. but these two brothers who arrived two weeks ago with just what they could carry don't expect anything to change despite unprecedented u.s. led efforts to force president nico last month out a model hamas hamas people are on optimal never be able to throw out a government but to the teeth and protected by the military if we had weapons if we were the terrorists the moderate says he wouldn't be in the power still on this one as whalen's lined up for a plate of food across the border in sunken stall as another towns and cities inside venezuela people are holding open air meetings to discuss the self-proclaimed president's offer of amnesty to members of the military who turn against president mahmoud of the idea is to take away his main source of support by promising officers who have commanded troops that they will not suffer reprisals under a new government found go the first to publicly accept the offer was venezuela's

military attache in washington who announced he was recognizing a low as president mugabe is here for the government come. brit officers captains colonels with troops under their command don't forget that we cannot and should not attack our people we owe ourselves to them. with the others will follow is uncertain as more and more of it is whalen's arriving. some too late the soup kitchen is closed and will not open until monday so they might have to go hungry for another thirty eight hours and will bring in lucy a new man now sees a still in cuckoo ta that's in colombia near the border with venezuela to tell us what the duras reaction is the see it's a mounting international pressure for him to step aside good morning during what a short while ago the foreign ministry and that is president mother his foreign

minister issued a an official response of course rejecting any attempts to be bullied and blackmailed into holding presidential elections within eight days time and lamenting quote the cowardice of the european union for having buckled under the pressure of the united states the earlier president in a television address really really hit into the spanish president sanchez that apparently the fact that spain is now also backing these efforts to try to force the government to to accept presidential elections within eight days has really really riled him that's because presidents and is is a socialist he called him a coward he also says that spain is acting as a fascist racist and colonial power and what are you hearing about the situation on the ground and what's taking place there in venezuela itself.

today's the day that the self-proclaimed interim president quango eyeball have asked for venezuelans to approach the neighbors or rather the families of military officers and also to approach military barracks and installations and at this hour there are groups of venezuelans now go in there carrying venezuelan flags and the idea is that they will hand over that amnesty law that was passed by the opposition controlled national assembly offering these military officers again a pardon or no reprisals if they agreed to support an interim transitional government that's happening at this hour and in about an hour and a half time why dollar is going to attend a mass. on or of the people who were killed in the last rather since the twenty third of january we understand that almost thirty people were killed and that there are almost five hundred people under arrest at this hour he's going to be giving a news conference and of course will be following that closely from here in the sea

and just on the subject of the military we saw a couple of days ago the military did come out and they did pledge loyalty to duro but is that a worry for maduro that might not the military might turn. of course that is something that is that he has to contemplate we know that when for example the as you just saw the the military attache at the venezuelan embassy in washington a high ranking colonel he turned and there is a very very strong push now precisely to get people in the military to come over to the other side to flip on my little he has complete control of that so far they've remained loyal but their points are always loyal until the day that they aren't and there have been so many many partial uprising small but uprisings over the last couple of years so that is something that i'm sure must be keeping him up at night and lucy a while i have you with us we were watching your report before we spoke to you you

were filing that report from the soup kitchen where you're speaking to venezuelan refugees what more are they telling you about their concerns their fears about what could happen in their country. it's not so much their fears as their desire they want to go home their situation here in colombia is and almost every other country in latin america where more than three million venezuelans have fled to because of the economic hardships and home really what they want is to be able to go home and so they're watching it very closely but they don't really know someone more enthusiastic as some have someone more hopeful than others that this time things will change in venezuela but in the meantime they are struggling and they're struggling it varied in a very dramatic way they can't go home they can't live very well here time is ticking and and they just need something to happen in venezuela so that they.