i think this country hasn't dealt well with the issues of race i mean we have a president who is a racist the democrats have to capitalize on donald trump on the republican party's handling of race a recent poll found that sixty three percent of americans disapprove of crumbs handling of the issue but the controversy in virginia is a reminder of the democrats' poor record on race so that you get to know them to step down as quickly as possible but you know like all the southern states has a long history of democratic party racism just a few weeks ago the state's african-american lieutenant governor just in fairfax who would succeed governor northam if he does resign walked out of the state senate rather than preside over a tribute to confederate general robert e. lee. will briefly be at least. in twenty sixteen then democratic party presidential nominee hillary clinton had to apologize for statements like this that seem to defy black communities the kinds of kids in a concert. no conscience no empathy at the time then president bill clinton was signing legislation that led to record african-american incarceration and that's

also an issue that's likely to hold true biden if he runs in twenty twenty not only does he take credit for such legislation he was against desegregation in the seventy's we made so much. norm appears to believe he can ride this controversy out but perhaps things have changed which may be problematic for democratic politicians who in the past have turned a blind eye or even pandered to white voters for electoral gain. the upsurge of racist violence and rhetoric since donald trump's inauguration has that to a renewed sense among a radicalized younger democratic base that racism will not be tolerated in their party she had the al-jazeera. still ahead here on al-jazeera. ensuring a violent. long wait for prosthetic. and how artists are drawing inspiration from russia.

oh we've got some dry weather coming into many parts of the middle east area clapp just sliding its way across iran easing i would towards afghanistan and that could be the the main focus for disturbed weather over the next there's a you can see i strolls its way across the gulf as well facing us here in qatar but look a little further north and snow there into afghanistan but some places of cloud and gray even pushing across into pakistan further west this far to drive getting up to twenty one in pirates nineteen degrees celsius in baghdad and also into kuwait city come choose day but it's a chance to dry out further north amazed that we want it to snow flurries around afghanistan still seeing a fair bit of snow that just around the western fringes of the him alas elsewhere it stays fine and dry twenty celsius there for baghdad i'm full kuwait city and

we're going to see some of the dry fine weather stretching its way down across much of the arabian peninsula then we have got a fresher weather coming in here in doha twenty two celsius on monday our rain bad the that weather that we saw through sunday that's sinking away that's moving through clearing away brush guys to come back aim high temperatures trying to notch up their top temperature here window of twenty three degrees celsius and choose day . the weather sponsored by countdown to. my main page every week a new sankoh brings a seemingly simple breaking story segment of course is donald trump told through the eyes of the outstanding ace that's right out of a hamas group that calls for the an aisle asian of israel that is not what that phrase means at all he joined the listening post as we turned the cameras on the media focus on how they were caught on a story that matter the most in bad news a free palestine

a listening on al-jazeera. welcome back you're watching on to zero that means hell robin a reminder of our top stories president donald trump has told a u.s. t.v. network that sending the military to venezuela is an option he's also said he's turning down a meeting with venezuelan president nicolas maduro. turkey's president president the one who has criticized the u.s. for not taking a tougher line over the murder of a saudi journalist jamal khashoggi who was killed inside the saudi consular office in istanbul in october last year pope francis has arrived in abu dhabi on a three day visit to the united arab emirates is the first ever papal visit to the

arabian peninsula. has just claimed victory in el salvador's presidential election charolais has said that he's won outright securing a majority of the votes the thirty seven year old campaign does an anti establishment outsider promising to stamp out corruption the ruling party candidate hugo martinez has admitted defeat let's take a closer look at the challenges facing el salvador's next leader it's among the world's most violent countries with an annual murder rate of fifty one percent. fifty one sorry. per one hundred thousand citizens much of that stems from gang violence with more than twenty thousand people killed over the last three years knotts forced tens of thousands to leave el salvador in search of safety many as part of migrant caravans heading north towards the u.s. kevin moore is the former vice president of costa rica and a senior fellow at the inter-american dialogue joins me now via skype from san jose

in costa rica very good to have you with us live on al-jazeera if this wasn't such a serious subject we could actually start with a joke in the sense that have you heard the one about the ne'er the supermarket mogul and the former foreign minister who all want to become president of a country it might be a joke if it wasn't so serious with the issues that are on this el salvadorian election. well sure you know truth. reality t.v. service. is internal to the issues in terms of those issues ahead you know we talk about how difficult a el salvador's problems are you have gun violence on one side and the fear of that gang violence is producing a wave of people leaving the country those that are staying behind to deal with the problems have a difficult choice regardless of who wins a selection. for sure i think crime is.

obviously a massive issue in our us was mentioned for. salvatore's murder rate is and has been the highest in the world war for some time now dear and that creates a massive massive incentive for people to leave the country it's not the only issue i mean although crime is a you know it's one of the big reasons why people in the suburbs cited to you should you not to shake up the cell which meant corruption is another. you know a crucial issue to understand this election result that we that we have tonight so in terms of the. issues that many people are worried about we talk about crime

we talk about migration. part of that is all centered around the relationship between politics and gangs and it's an unusual issue too for our international viewers perhaps to to hear about the fact that there is a connection and various independent media outlets said now salvador have suggested that politicians pay gangs to vote for the year that has become a big issue in solar elections over the past two or three election cycles you know the back of the matter is that you gangs have become so powerful that they get to it served up control over entire swaths of the territory of the country. particularly in some of the main cities and in some ways you know wherever it wants to run for office has to line accommodation. with the gangs because they they have become political actor in their own direct that's not unique tools of her

though i mean. in a similar way you find this kind of phenomenon in in the butt whalers in rio in brazil you find it in the townships in kingston jamaica and for a long time you you know you could find the same kind of thing in the southern italy with the much so you know it has become not simply a security issue but also political if that is the case that whoever does come into power has to also perhaps rebuild a relationship with the united states based on the political situation el salvador where these caravans of people are heading north i mean it has angered president trump how is that going to work i mean how would you describe el salvador's relationship with its northern counterpart. it's a very it's

a very complicated relationship because berry mind that there are almost two million salvadorans living in the u.s. is song of whom live under rather pretty hairy use migratory status in the in the u.s. so the soul weighs the risk or. you don't watch huge number people returning suddenly will solder as a result of the solutions made by the u.s. government on migration issues so. clearly it will help to tread carefully when he comes to that i mean i don't think. that. you know he selection will change dramatically the fact that a lot of people in the solar want to leave the country a i don't think is going to have that kind of perfect we're not at one thing i can tell you which i think is that is that is an interesting. development in the labor

what's happening elsewhere latin america i think the election are clearly it deprives the venezuelan government or one of the few governments that had a. sort of like. you know. a supportive. role in over the past few years or see what happens certainly in the coming days as the official results come out for the moment take having some or thanks so much for joining us and my pleasure now syrian state media says us that asteroids have targeted syrian government forces near the border with iraq and u.s. planes report of a attacked an artillery position in the day or so area of eastern syria sources say two soldiers were injured and guns destroyed. eight years of war in syria have created high demands for artificial limbs hundreds of thousands of lost arms legs or both especially joining the bombardment of opposition held areas many of the

maimed the children some binge of it has more from gas into up in turkey where the syrian border. says that had said that. when i think about what happened she says i cry this is a two year old child. like millions of other syrian children she struggles with the painful memories of how she lost her leg and her brother. we first met her three years ago when she got her first breast leg she started school since then and made new friends but now she tells us she gets bullied as well for having an artificial leg and for being a foreigner as she grows older the artificial limb needs to be replaced with a bigger one this is also true for other patients whose bodies outgrow their prosthetics what if i do sometimes my classmates just leave me alone other times the children can call me things like hey you with the leg keep walking like this so

what young child has been telling me is that she wants to go to germany her father tells me that their case has been pending with the authorities for the last three years now that the situation in syria is karma the cases at this center continue to pile up in twenty sixteen they had three hundred people who required prosthetic limbs now that list has grown to two thousand but with more restrictions on who can cross the border into turkey they've opened a smaller workshop inside syria which has its own set of challenges because after eight years of war find qualified technicians difficult it cost somewhere between three to nine thousand dollars to make a prosthetic limb costs depend on injury and whether it's a hand or a complete foot or a leg. man to head the war is still happening patients who require limbs are chronic and with time they need more care many of these cases appear after the fighting has finished people need to continue their lives regardless of their disability with rising inflation and riddling help it's difficult to keep producing

high quality prosthetics every time the exchange rate in turkey changes it means fewer limbs can be manufactured but for children like donor fatigue rising prices and border problems don't mean much all she dreams of is to overcome what hinders her from being treated like all the other children in her school simon job it out of the or does the on through. japanese carmaker nissen has scrapped plans to build its new generation s.u.v. in britain the x. trail was going to be manufactured in the northern english city of sunderland the car giant says it will now make the vehicles at its plants in japan the sun warmed the continued uncertainty of the brakes it was making it hard to plan for the future now a grammy nominated rapper has been arrested by u.s. immigration officers for overstaying atlanta based musician twenty one savage moved to the u.s. from britain as a teenager in two thousand and five but he didn't renew his visa and it expired

a year later he was convicted on drug charges five years ago another faces deportation he's nominated in two categories at next week's grammy awards. well in the u.s. fans of the new england patriots have been celebrating their victory in the super bowl the final score against the los angeles rams it was thirteen to three it's the six title for the patriots equaling the all time record held by the pittsburgh steelers the game is the most watched television event in the u.s. with an estimated one hundred million viewers. in the wreckage of a plane carrying football or a million dollars salary has been found in the english channel the argentinian players aircraft disappeared while flying from the french city of normed to the u.k. two weeks ago when he was due to make his cardiff city debut is that really had to fund a private search after the official one was called off seller and his pilot or presumed . drawing inspiration from russia.

that's part of a cultural exchange program between russia. provocative chromatic colors and abstract shapes experimental arts in the form of architecture technology and science all on show here in a former fire station now and in the country capital eighty one masterpieces from some of the most influential figures in russian art history the director of the exhibition says it's one of many aiming to inspire young artists qatar isn't a moment in time where it is looking at technology. science are really when you see that across the country you see with the different institutions that are happening and we are part of this and it has to start somewhere and it's part of a year long cultural exchange between the two countries russian art in the twentieth century challenge traditional concepts embedding art with science astronomy and mathematics ought experimentation was interrupted in the one nine

hundred thirty s. would come in this leaders ordered artists to present an optimistic future to the masses but revived in the fifty's and sixty's. this is always paintings which is. hundred sixty eight this was the time when i learned to but. i never. decided to do. to him. from shop linear lines geometric objects and spatial dimensions evoking futuristic ideas as well as connected god this inspired by floating pieces of fact in a ball of chicken broth soup. this piece tartan is called happens tower the architect an artist designed this meant to be four hundred mi to tell of ion glass and steel now egypt. structures was meant to revolve at different speeds it

was so ahead of its time but never built a symbol of what could be achieved in the form of modern architecture. working with water the country artist in residence says he's inspired by the works. explores different mechanisms and takes on the idea of moving art coincidentally enough of always found it also linked in very strongly towards my work as i also have worked with kinetic architecture and also three d. modeling based art as well this idea of a moving object. would be placed in the middle of the room and consistently moving as well remains dynamic to me. artistic exchanges between countries and generations sends the message that radical innovations are a sign of forward thinking really mohamad al jazeera. or charges or with a reminder of all top stories several major e.u.

countries all set to recognize venezuela's opposition leader one as interim president after a deadline passed for president to call for new elections which are its offering to hold early congressional polls instead u.s. president donald trump urs told a u.s. t.v. network that sending the military to venezuela is also an option he's also said that he's turned down the meeting with president. well here's requested a meeting and i've coded down because we're very far along in the process you have a young and energetic gentleman but you have other people within their shame group that have been very very if you talk about democracy it's really democracy in action pope francis has arrived in abu dhabi is the first of a papal visit to the arabian peninsula the roman catholic leader will be in the region for three days he'll meet with muslim clerics and hold an open air mass for thousands of catholics turkey's president has called the saudi crown prince of the

former foreign minister liars over the handling of the murder of jamal khashoggi he was killed inside the saudi consulate in istanbul last october a former man has claimed victory in el salvador's presidential election najib curly says he's won outright securing a majority of the votes the thirty seven year old campaign does an anti establishment outsider promising to stamp out corruption and a refugee footballers' appeared in a court in bangkok to fight extradition to bahrain. who's been living in australia was detained in thailand in november while on holiday he says he fled bahrain because of political repression human rights groups say he could be tortured if he sent back the democratic governor of the u.s. state of virginia is defying calls for his resignation it follows a scandal over a college yearbook photos showing students in costume one in blackface and the other as

a member of the klu klux klan nor them denies appearing in the picture you could follow those stories of course on our website at al-jazeera dot com back with more news in half an hour here on our just there but next it's the listening post you stay with us. counting the cost this week we're focusing on venezuela where people are scavenging for food as a political crisis unfolds how the game of oil is influencing events on the ground plus how credits up playing a role and why the reports of rampant money little. comes in the cost on al-jazeera . today that is well enough fish in leader one guy go declare himself the country's . finest well and battle president nicolas my. question. to fortune i've got a. i'm going to write a song right now that is about all of us has served the president. hello i'm richard gives birth and you're at the listening post here are some of the stories

that we're covering this week a coup take shape in caracas washington is supporting it and the u.s. news media who are usually tough on president make nice for a change serbia faces its biggest anti-government demonstrations since the fall of the last of it but you wouldn't know it from watching the news this fake news and trump yet again but this time it's not the president it's the first lady and in malaysia a former prime minister releases a music video just ahead of going on trial in one of the world's biggest cases of corruption. you know. when we reported on venezuela two weeks back we focused on how the domestic media were covering the economic and political crisis there however when a relatively obscure opposition figure want to go to clara himself interim president he was quickly backed by the u.s. and many other governments including right wing leaders in neighboring brazil and

colombia with media outlets they're following suit the u.s. news media covered the push to remove president nicolas maduro without saying what that attempt if successful would amount to which is a coup instead the focus has been on the legitimacy of last year's election which is a. point and it focused on the dire economic situation but it mostly stayed away from the role that successive american administrations through economic sanctions have played in handicapping the venezuelan economy as a rockies iranians libyans and others will tell you this is not the first time that the us has taken a disproportionate interest in the governance of a country loaded with oil washington has a playbook for this kind of thing and so apparently to the u.s. news media our starting point this week is caracas. to swearing in ceremonies two weeks apart in qatar both of which left much to be desired january tenth nicolas maduro sworn in for

a second term as president after an election last year that the un the e.u. and the us all said fail to meet accepted standard it's january twenty first. the head of the national assembly swear some self in as president an office he's never run for and the us and many other countries quickly announce he's their man. one hand raised to the heavens he proclaims himself us president having no electoral mandate and having no religion in the constitution the getting the seat. before god and the count that's how you do it nowadays eighty percent of venezuelans have no idea who's the who this man is but he is very well known in d.c. we know that not only did mike pence home. the day before he declared himself president but in fact the u.s. government has been working with the opposition for decades so this is dramatic and

i think the simplification of that situation into goodies and baddies cowboys and and if you mental for the standing of the situation in that part of the world. why do was partly. educated in the us he's a protege of opposition figure leopoldo lopez who the majority government has under house arrest he was first elected to the national assembly in two thousand and ten however he only became head of that body early last month why don't argue that his claim to the presidency is legally sound since the constitution allows for the head of the national assembly to do that if the assembly deems the office of the president to be vacant however material supporters argue that go i doze move and washington's role in backing it are tantamount to a coup which is a side of this story that doesn't get much play in the us news media it's basically a failed state so i think at this point they're hoping that they really don't have

anything to lose by endorsing this clearly represents a coup in my opinion just recently john bolton has been forced to graft with a document that said five thousand troops to colombia and so therefore we can see the american actions are building up possibly military intervention and yet what we see from the media is they refuse to use the word crude and the reason for this is that the united states media always follows the pronouncements and projections of the us government however it is also also means. illegal seizure of power in venezuela what we have is a country and a government where the rule of law no longer applies where the government itself has violated laws repeatedly just last year just in the same. when there is no rule of law then who is to decide what is and is not

a law for move off after city government allowed me to have been doing is to only use the term coup by quoting you that's my daughter we obviously he sees it as an attempted coup anderson billy writes that it should be reported that that is his. you to cole a spade a spade and an attempted coup an attempted coup is not to be found. certainly there is no denying the severity of the problems around us with the responsibility of the chap as some of the administration's have in for instance of the humanitarian crisis there is no denying that there is also no denying that what we are seeing here is that mainly us. tend to. selling a humanitarian intervention in venezuela would be easier for the trumpet ministration if not for the us is long track record of engineering the overthrow of leftist governments in latin america there was nine hundred fifty four and

guatemala one nine hundred sixty four brazil chile and argentina in the one nine hundred seventy s. the list goes on the new york times has its own track record of finding reasons to support those coups it recently published this piece on venezuela blaming the state of the economy on the madeira government's mismanagement and corruption other factors the steep drop in the price of oil the economic sanctions placed on by the obama administration since widened under president trump go completely unmentioned although destabilizing economies through sanctions and other means before intervening or invading has been an american tactic from chile in one thousand nine hundred fifty three right through to the iraq invasion in two thousand and three. sanctions are an act of war and they hurt the most poor and vulnerable sectors of the population. you can look at iraq in the late ninety's sanctions were genocidal

actually took the lives of five hundred thousand babies in iraq that's more children than. hiroshima and. you know is the price worth it. i think this is a very hard choice but the price we think the price is worth the media don't really report on it so it's not too surprising that the u.s. media is completely covering up the fact that there are u.s. led sanctions on venezuela that just under trump alone has cost the venezuelan economy six billion dollars the sanctions probably have aggravated the situation in venezuela but it's time that you love him erica we also assume responsibility to say some of this stuff it's our fault it's time also to recognize that a huge part of the economy was mismanaged and the international community has been offering motherlode of humanitarian aid and he's repeatedly and systematically hast denied that there are certain ominous echoes. with two thousand and three

in that now we have a very hawkish administration in washington that is talking of intervening and we have large sections of the us media. in effect. acting as cheerleaders it is far more important to shut down the material government than our government and i think donald trump is leading there that's going to happen that's going to bring us together but it's too easy to think oh here we go again you can only hope that peaceful change comes some sort of negotiated settlement which would pave the way to free and fair elections. nicolas maduro is trying to go around the mainstream taking his message on the line in this case directly to the american people. however madeira has got problems much closer to home this past week this headline how the u.s. can drown the duros economy appeared in one of colombia's biggest papers. the

hostility madeira was now we're tracking in regional news outlets is a reflection of the rise of the political right in latin america it also has to do with self interest. the millions of migrants venezuela is now producing spilling across borders. the media inside america has shifted decisively against the the venezuelan government they have seen the that disaster that's unfolding in venezuela wave upon wave of venezuelan migrants so the media in these countries are partly reflecting that in brazil and other countries where you now have right wing in some cases far right wing governments that the media also has a vested interest in reflecting the ideological viewpoint of the city government none of which reflects well on the news outlets involved or bodes well for nicolas maduro there are shortages of food and medicine the essential elements of

journalism accuracy objectivity context have also grown scarce there's a surplus of discontent on the streets one too many politicians calling himself president and too much oil under the ground to go unnoticed in washington so much at stake so many political actors with an interest and so much at issue in the coverage. we're looking at other media stories that are on our radar this week with one of our producers flo philips flo two weeks ago we looked at a government crackdown on domestic news media in sudan one newspaper in particular algerie to its offices raided its journalists harassed conditions of since grown worse they have that kind of harassment and censorship is now being felt across the board the state intelligence agency has been busy confiscating copies of and i'll tie it to sudan's leading newspapers and as of now sixty six genocide been arrested

and at least six correspondents working for foreign media have had their accreditation is revoked including reporters without is there and the turkish news agency on the dollar and all of this because president omar al bashir wants to keep a lid on the coverage of demonstrations on the street that have been underway since december right and he said just that speaking at a press conference in neighboring egypt he suggested that the media were over blowing the story we do not claim there is no problem he said but it is not of the size that some of the media portray this is an attempt to copy the arab spring and the shit is right on one thing one of the slogans being used by sudanese protest is the people want to fall of the regime was made famous by uprisings in tunisia and other arab states and given the eight year anniversary of egypt's revolution last week he might be feeling a tad nervous on to the u.k. now where the daily telegraph has paid substantial damages and apologised

unreservedly to malani a trump after the paper got a story on her wrong so wrong it seems we're not just talking one mistake the telegraph is admitting to a whole heap of them the story the mystery of millennia by american author and john this new nobody was an excerpt from a book she wrote about the women in president trump's life after an unusually swift settlement the telegraph took the story off the web and issued a point by point correction this is just part of it. mrs trump was not struggling in her modeling career before she met mr trump and she did not advance in her career due to the assistance of mr trump now here's the twist bunny's book was published four months ago and barely said lawyers had gone through it carefully so it's been out in an interview with the washington post but he basically accused the telegraph of caving in to the threat of a lawsuit and said that by calling what it published false reporting the paper had actually defamed. on all of this was perfect fodder for trump who obviously did his

bit on twitter accusing the telegraph of fake ok thanks for moving out of serbia now and the disconnect between what's happening on the streets and what's going out on the airwaves thousands of protesters marched in belgrade this past weekend the ninth straight week of the biggest antigovernment demonstration since the fall of slobodan milosevic in two thousand however news outlets that either back or fear president alexander of the church and that's the majority of the serbian media have either ignored the movement or minimized its news value to church came into office in two thousand and twelve with the reputation of a former nationalist he has since resorted to a range of political and financial measures to silence critical media outlets but he also wants to get serbia into the european union which means counterbalancing some of his autocratic tendencies with a new set of laws supposedly aimed at improving conditions for journalists laws that his critics say have more to do with pleasing e.u. politicians in brussels than addressing the concerns of citizens and media outlets

at home the listening posts johannah who's now from belgrade on the state of the serbian media. the demonstrations in the streets of belgrade are now entering its third month and this early part of the story. and then about a million members among. when i should live with them and get them an adult like them i will do that. more than ever protesters are calling for an end to what they say are the author or terry in tendencies of president alexander footage and his creeping control of the media but which made it clear he is standing firm as between all those school. his comments went viral and one in five million has become the slogan of the protests the criticism myself that sort of got there at

the ball but the officers are the people that watch not just a little detail but tension. is the real live disturbances that saw off to several years of alexander futurities write the story from the ninety's when he served as the minister of information under manasseh bridge is being repeated we no longer live in war hysteria now the practices the same politics just with other means and in a more subtle way although some do not back by then it could be made about ninety percent of the media are under the direct control of the government and these outlets are not really media but some sort of a propaganda service for a long time now only seven years the government has shown that it does whatever it wants and the situation is not getting better it's getting worse by the day that is the. demonstrators have marched along pretty much the same route week in week out because as one location in the serbian capital one particular address they don't want to make. everyone in belgrade knows this building it's the offices of public

broadcaster r.t.s. but since the protests it's taken on a new notoriety it's become the symbol of so much the protesters here say is wrong with the serbian media in the. us is a public service paid for by all serbian citizens but its news program is completely in the hands of the ruling party the protests are held right in front of the r.t.s. building and yet they only get to. minutes coverage in the twenty third or twenty fifth minute of a half hour newscast brought this. newspaper politica which is also covered by the government reported on the protests on page five and despite the protests happening in front of the building used the photo from reuters and was hopelessly called what i. asked the protesters one r.t.s. to stop being state television and take on more of a public service role where every social group even if it criticizes the government

can and should have its place i think burchett's knows very well that the media are very strong government too and i think this is why so much has been done to control the media why we don't have critical programs and why most of the mainstream news is under cover propaganda and manipulation. and it's not just the state outlets news organizations with close ties to the ruling party who played this game. last year a magazine called politica which is part state funded run a cover story a six page article identifying certain independent media outlets and specific reporters as traitors and collaborators of the enemies of serbia. journalist union to describe the article as a public school to lynch critical reporters and say such mark and pains in pro-government media are common tactic to silence critics while the government

publicly distance itself from the story citing the nega zients right to freedom of opinion journalist working at outlets targeted in the article like phillips sake your message had been sent it was. i felt like i was returning to the last years of his regime i don't know what the intention of the article was probably to defame some people to stop them but the phrase dog on the front page representation. critical media outlets are aggressively attacking the government showing the true nature of this regime and how they feel about independent media outlets. that joining the government government has created an environment in which magazines like last ravana political fill free to publish something like that and this wasn't a surprise because you have similar smear campaigns in tabloids friendly to the regime every day all of us expect the day when even politico and t.v. station r.t.s. will cross that line publicly targeting opponents of the regime and independent

journalists we're only a step away from an. alexander a good church has been in power since two thousand and twelve in addition to smear campaigns he's been accused of using a host of administrative political and economic pressures to reign in critical media i visited the independent journalist association of serbia also known as nuns which three months ago together with four other media associations composed a letter addressed to the international community on serbia's deteriorating state of press freedom the ad received wasn't chosen at random serbia formally apply for membership of the european union in two thousand and nine and for years critics have said footage is more concerned with this emission brussels than in belgrade rather than replying to the media association's concerns put it wrote an extensive op-ed in a european news outlet the e.u.

observer denying accusations that he has monopolized the serbian media. we are in this period of serbian integration into the and we have an obligation to make sure media freedom remains on the agenda during negotiations because if you had to believe the government serbia is a paradise for journalists of course this is not true far from it the journalists here want to do their job freely but they are exposed to constant threats. and cannot work because all opponents of the government being financially destroyed the distribution of public funds is murky millions of euros are going towards favorable media in the last two or three years no critical media received any money. order when the budget is deliberately spent on media close to the government or in outlets whose editorial staff have political or business ties to the government this becomes a very subtle yet efficient control mechanism you either write something in line

with the government's agenda and you get paid for it or you dare to write something critical and you don't which then prevents you from working with. we take these criticisms to the government official in charge of media serbia's ministry of culture and information. i cannot understand and i'm truly surprised that someone who is dissatisfied with the situation in the country and regardless of whether it is the media or something else goes beyond the borders of serbia to complain and i really cannot agree with anyone in this country who says business to church once you have absolute control over the media that he wants an autocratic country in which he will rule as a dictator media freedom definitely exists in serbia of course it can always be improved but there is a place for criticism of the government and i don't agree with those who say that it is a very difficult to record our people to scorch. the rooted government says it's drafting a new media legislation that will improve conditions for serbian journalists that

many fear that this new set of laws called the media strategy much like the one the authorities adopted early two thousand and eleven will be just another missed unfulfilled promises do little to satisfy the demands of the protesters who've been marching the great street for weeks political benefit when it comes to the media strategy i fear that this will be another idealistic wish list a gesture to the e.u. but in practice list. it will change because there are many good north and south korea north that were covering it from other european countries but they're never actually implemented media freedoms are severely threatened and i think this is the biggest challenge for democracy and. if this continues the big question is what serbia will look like in the coming decades because without media freedom almost nothing is possible. and finally malaysia's former prime minister najib razak is going to court in a corruption trial in

a couple of week's time over allegations that he pocketed hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayers' money the sixty five year old najib is looking at a possible jail term of two hundred years that's two centuries so obviously he's released a music video in which he along with a bunch of backup singers recorded a malaysian version of a nine hundred seventy s. song made famous by a group called the manhattan's jeeves contribution is mostly spoken the word not exactly rap more of a lament really he's pleading not guilty and accusing malaysia's current ruling party hereupon of slander and revenge will leave you with a couple of verses of that we'll see you next time you're at the listening.

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said all right when you watch gold is there live from our headquarters here in doha coming up in the next thirty minutes turkey's president calls the saudi crown prince a liar and questions why the u.s. is not doing more to hold lancashire she's murderous to account. pope francis arrives in the united arab emirates and the first papal visit to the arabian peninsula. also political outside was claiming victory in el salvador's presidential vote promising change in a country known for its gangs and migrant caravans heading towards the u.s. . welcome to the program several major e.u. countries are set to recognize that as well as opposition leader. as interim president after a deadline passed for president nicolas maduro to call new elections are latin america editor lucien human has more why don't we became the face of change in

venezuela. it's late at night at the basketball court when one wide dog summons his neighbors to share with them his vision for than israela. we were born on this earth to be happy we'll do everything possible to achieve a political way out of our crisis and show that we are powerful united you are powerful never let them take away our ability to dream. he's only thirty five years old but for those who dream of seeing president nicole last mughal go why the law is the yes we can make. many in fact are comparing his looks and his style with barack obama. a remarkable turn of events considering that most venezuelans had barely heard of why the until the opposition controlled national assembly put claimed him then israel is interim president i heard of him two weeks ago when i put on the t.v.

. and what is your opinion of him anyone is better than the one we have now. this working class neighborhood used to be fiercely loyal to deceased former president chavis was it hard as we tried on this day we can't find anyone who doesn't believe that his successor last month has struck out. is angry. white or represents hope for our country we need takes over god willing investors will return to venezuela and so will my two sons because with no one believes in venezuela he's handed over to criminals twenty six year old says that now that he's heard of he likes what he hears. change to be able to go to a supermarket and find what they want a future of our children. not that it's been easy for y. daughter get his message across. the government. down tailed much of the

opposition media and that includes access to the internet. pointing to a european in geo the track censureship addressed a mass rally on saturday the state internet carrier blocked the social networks for twelve of the thirteen minutes in which he spoke. president muddles charges of foreign intervention to bring about regime change are heard everywhere was but for many venezuelans the issue of sovereignty has become less important than the promise of better days to come. to see in human al-jazeera that access. nicolas maduro has repeatedly calls for presidents presidential elections offering to hold early congressional polls instead and that's being seen as a bid to who's currently head of the opposition majority national assembly and in an interview on sunday remain defiant. we don't accept

ultimatums from anyone it's like as if i told the european union i give you seven days to recognize the republic of catalonia and if you don't we are going to take measures you know international politics can't be based on ultimatum that was the area of empires and colonies u.s. president donald trump is not ruling out military intervention in venezuela well russia has warned against the move into with the u.s. television network c.b.s. trump also said that he's refused to meet with venezuelan president nicolas maduro . well he is requested a meeting and i've turned it down because we're very far along in the process you have a young and energetic gentleman but you have other people within that same group that have been very very if you talk about democracy it's really democracy in action.

turkey's president has called the saudi crown prince on the former foreign minister . of the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi. and also to the u.s. for not taking a tougher stance against the kingdom over the case stephanie the latest from istanbul. speaking to the state broadcaster mentioning. ration i suppose about how there's been no real movement also referred to the united states disappointment in how they are tackling it and this is what he had to say. i cannot understand america's silence been such a horrific attack took place and even after members of the cia listened to the recordings we provided. but he had harsher words going back to when it all began. the saudi foreign minister of course he was saying that there was

a collaboration there was a collaborator to dispose of the body. this is the saudi version of course the body of mr hersh has still not been found who said well if there is a collaborator who is he where is he what is his name if you know that he also mentioned the saudi crown prince mohammed of inside man saying that initially his version was that he had left the concert and he said now we know that those two things were laws so he also called for those fifteen men the fifteen saudi nationals that flew into it on the day of the murder he said these are the perpetrators we need to know who they are and of course turkey has already requested their extradition but the saudis are conducting their own investigation nobody knows who the men are that they have indicted eleven men have been indicted five of those facing the death penalty but it is a very opaque process now all of this comes just as. the u.n. special. has wrapped up

a visit here in turkey is really the first independent person looking at this because of course it is such a politically loaded story all the countries yes they want to put pressure on saudi arabia but the same time no one really seems to be willing to go that extra mile to break relationships with the kingdom so for months still nobody and certainly a big question as well as to who ordered the killing of a high profile journalist in the saudi diplomatic mission here in istanbul. some. changes position. i think it really expresses most airlines frustration and been able to do more work than what has happened all of the countries with an interest in saudi arabia pro and con but now more or less taken their positions and now mr everyone's opinion it seems clear that that's not sufficient i am a little puzzled why he decided to take on the us again over there because by to go

six weeks maybe at most but he invited president trump to turkey it official visit in twenty nineteen and we for that mr trump tried to give mr irwin exactly what risk you're going to ask for in syria and so it's a puzzling reaction why decided to make us an enemy again perhaps for domestic reasons that you sort of you know i don't think the u.s. position is the one thing could change here with respect to saudi arabia mr trump seems to be fairly well in his view of how to deal with saudi arabia mr paoli been there and i don't think that mr brown statements are likely to change that position the pope francis has learned that in the united arab emirates for the first visit by a catholic pontiff to the arabian peninsula his three day trip will see him hold talks with the crown prince meet with muslim elders and attend and into religious meetings is to to celebrate mass at a stadium and have

a davian choose day the it's home to around one million roman catholics mostly from the philippines and india the same really is a professor of theology at villanova university he says the pope will offer a message of unity. it's a historic visit because he really represents the callup message what stress is now represents in a global world there he is much more fragment the then it used to be and the catholic church is really acting as a messenger our unity area for eternity and also facing a significant headwinds not just in the global world but also we're the only got a church were poor francis is sometimes seems is today a logical to go to church there ease in the western world especially in north america special series is really it around what can

a dark catholicism the pope surely interpret and there is ease efforts in reaching out especially towards muslims in muslim countries ears are often not really understood or taken as a sign of weakness a form a man who has just claimed victory in el salvador's presidential election the cheaper kelly says he's one of rights he's got over fifty percent within a half of those votes counted now the thirty seven year old campaigned as an anti establishment outsider promising to stamp out corruption as two major rivals from the parties that have govern the country for decades have admitted defeat and take a close look at the challenges facing el salvador's next leader it's among the most world's most violent countries with an annual murder rate of fifty one per one hundred thousand citizens much of that stems from gang violence with more than twenty thousand people killed over the last three years and that forced tens of

thousands to leave all solved all in search of safety and many as part of migrant caravans heading north to the u.s. kevin kasem or as the former vice president of costa rica he says the next president will have to find a way to engage with el salvador's gangs. the fact of the matter is that you gangs have become so powerful that they get to it serve control over entire swaths of the territory of the country. particularly in the in some of the main cities and in some ways you know whoever wants to run for office has to find an accommodation . with the gangs because they they have become political actor in their own direct if that's not unique tools or though i mean do you in in a sewer way you find this kind of the nominal in a lesson in rio in brazil you find.