that territory just briefly what's the latest with the fighting on the ground. well the fighting on the ground has actually come to a standstill i have to say they've almost completely destroyed. in this fight has been coming for a very long time they've dug tunnels underneath the village and that's likely to be where they mount any kind of assault on. now we're hearing a few hundred hardcore fighters left. that we've been saying. thank you u.s. president donald trump has pulled back for a complete withdrawal of troops from syria the white house says it will keep it described as a peacekeeping force of two hundred troops on the ground. in

paris. parents to get their children. well i would still get a fair bit of whether into china and i will be the case over the next couple of days still decent amount of clout there into those central powers with the clout and right just pushing through easing towards the southeastern corner hong kong probably staying largely dry for sas day you go on into sunday i think by this stage you can expect to see some weather coming in here then temperatures at around twenty two degrees quite a key nice to win but china is just a fine and dry be plenty of sunshine not a dry weather not a settled weather to into much of india but you push up into pakistan and we have

seen some flooding rains here over the past few days and massive downpours and this wet weather actually into the southwest of the country not too far from karate which is unusual for this particular time of the year the cloud tending to pull away as we go on through the next couple of days perhaps still some bits and pieces of cloud around northern parts of india you can see just around karate because they'll see it came to to some drizzly right but for the most part of think it will be dry and turning dry think a clout there just around the himalayan plateau meanwhile across the middle east is steadily set there was some decent spells of sunshine possibility of the old spotted right here in qatar this weekend. whether online. you're for them not to do this or if you join us on saturday all of us have been colonized in some form or some fashion this is

a dialogue talking about a legal front and you have seen what it can do to somebody people are using multiple drugs including the phone and some people are secular everyone has a voice from the last year twitter and you could be on the street join the global conversation on mt is iraq. welcome back to come out of the top stories here the usa has been loaded on to cargo planes in miami bound for colombia that's the president nicolas maduro shot the border with brazil in an effort to block the aid and he says he's considering the size of colombia. hundreds of palestinians across the west bank have gathered

to mark the twenty fifth anniversary of the massacre at a mosque in hebron twenty nine worshippers were killed in a far right american israeli settler opened fire in one hundred four. and dozens of trucks are moving out men women and children from eyesores last on paper in syria about a thousand people have been rescued from the eastern village of bad news for the us but syrian democratic forces say thousands more still remain trapped. now a sixteen year old swedish activist has taken her class boycott campaign to paris joined a protest in the french capital she spearheading a movement of school strikes to highlight the inaction by governments on global warming worldwide demonstrations planned for the fifteenth of march let's go live now to david chaytor in the french capital david so just bring us up to date with the protests and what's been happening today. it is quite remarkable down the way that this one sixteen zero the swedish because voice has changed the whole feeling of climate change activist she started off just on

her own one day in september taking a strike from school to protest about what she thought was most important point the world is facing about is the recent climate change and dollars she's been joined by up to about six hundred people here in paris we've watched through the center of the city and come back to the plaster republic of course where protests a place. she's gaining a lot of support she's saying essentially down that they're going to be too late when this young generation takes over because by then everything will have changed and be changing too rapidly to stop it she needs action now and that reaction from the crowd and from senior climate activists has been very much supported let's hear what some say is really spent lukewarm become of what. i hope the politicians will listen to them look how much press came here to listen to these kids more than

listen to us who are always giving interviews i think people trust them they believe they are free insincere concerning their future not only for decades but for generations to come and. sees no need to have two degrees of the young. the no such thing so and no really to change because we're going to go since. we're . going to reduce the groups knew about these you were going to quote something that is difficult to change that. it's significant that this protest is now taking place in paris which of course was the host city all the climate of colds and the french president a manual macro of course was trying to stick to that was a coup. by greasing the price of diesel to try and stop the emissions of greenhouse gases but then he was envelops in the yellow vest protests and he was forced to do very embarrassing u.

turn on his climate ambitions so that just shows what greta is saying that politicians are too short term they don't realize what's at stake here and what's at stake is the future generations of creature itself represents and it's time for action and no action must take place now she say. in paris david thank you that will food supplies are being threatened by a decline in biodiversity that's the dire warning from the united nations in a new report it says food production is becoming increasingly susceptible to shocks like pests disease and weather events that's because only nine plant species make up most of the world's crop production out of a possible six thousand when a castro's from the un's food and agricultural organization commissioned the report explain more about the study's findings. we are losing plant some crops and livestock i mean i shall leave for four natural response on climate change but

also they were stationed in the consumer's you'll see all the biodiversity for who are going to cause are we are forgetting what all were grandparents ate and now all more than sixty six percent of the relation where all eat in from nine crops and from ten peaches peaches why over grandparents you know they knew all about six thousand different plants and more than five hundred fifty and slowly we have been you know induced relies on and and commercializing only this us species and our diet diet is being with us we think this is one of the problems for the population increase in their weight becoming overweight and obese and also it's put in a risk. long term sustainable over the buy in a bit biodiversity get out of meaning by the life talk plants. fish

only by ignoring and neglecting what we called the fork for forgotten food that our grandparents use pakistan's army is promising a fitting response of attacks by india comes a week after a pakistan based group family sponsibility for a suicide car bomb attack that killed forty indian soldiers new delhi accuses pakistan's intelligence agency of being behind the attack a challenge is not about denies come on how to reports from pakistani administered kashmir. or dove or about the capital of baghdad danny and many made it there not that busy day and labor like going about their daily lives however they are apprehensive about white may happen within the next day then we. separating indian administered kashmir.

and dialogue and everything including. the future of their disputed territory of me. on national television. and war mongering and building. for the take your order to of the whole region. for wall and he also warned. be ready for the. whole nation. and did not warn india to get the message that the message of the.

day to the first of the conference looking at sexual abuse by priests will see more testimonies from victims some of them already dismissed and presented by the pope on thursday as not going far enough the head of the roman catholic church has been hosting a four day summit to address the. planning for saturday's election the vote was originally scheduled for last week but that was postponed just five hours before the polls would you to open concerns the delay and fears of finance could be so to turn out reports from. the latest stars of nigeria's film and dance world in a video promoting a peaceful election yes and the condition. there are concerns about the country's ability to hold a successful presidential poll this weekend after last saturday's surprise delay and some fear a return of ethnic violence triggered in the past by disputed results with the

background that we already have and would have so much lost be shown on misgivings and so on i about i'm about security agencies about the government itself and so on and so forth bets that high risk that results will be disputed people would read this protest the results in some places under the high risk of power. in a crowded field of candidates to stand out president mahmoud who bihari whose critics say he's failed on the economy fighting corruption and insecurity and one time vice president atiku abubakar accused of corruption but promising business friendly policies and jobs despite reassurances by the government down the independent election commission nine o'clock that the poll will happen this time and be free and fair trust in the process has been dented not a public trust in government was all that high to begin with if one has gone through the roof just one over whether you think you. can see one after spending

for so many years is really this is why we've come out here betting on one thing for john to fell through to two thousand dollars and why do you think that is if anybody's votes and who do you blame for that you know tell me you know. you know i was up was that people in the nigerians have reason to be hopeful and the reason two thousand and fifteen was the first election won by an opposition candidate since democracy was restored after military rule in nineteen ninety nine made people feel that their votes. it's. a significant. step in the election observers foreign and local trying to ensure that doesn't happen. is a leading civil society groups sending more than three thousand observers to

polling stations and conducting a parallel vote count on election night. we believe that as an institution that. had been the observer. system would help with the process because we want to actually count nigeria is africa's most populous country the continent's biggest economy. means who runs it matters to epic levels of poverty and unemployment suggest that the job could be done better if you know how al-jazeera. tens of thousands of people are running the class back here accusing the government of inaction over the death of a journalist it's been a years since investigative reporter john clune shot was shot along with his fiance what prosecutors say was a contract killing was due to publish a report alleging ties between politicians and the italian mafia four people have been indicted but no date has been set. two sons of the mexican drug lord joaquin

guzman known as el chapo are facing drug conspiracy charges in the u.s. both men are thought to be on the run in mexico u.s. prosecutors say the brothers planned to distribute cocaine methamphetamine and marijuana from mexico to the u.s. a chap that was convicted in new york earlier this month was facing life behind bars. on a japanese spacecraft has landed on an asteroid that's thought to be as old as our solar system there were celebrations at the exploration agency said the probe touched down the spacecraft expected to return in twenty twenty with samples of the asteroid. the goal is to answer questions about the origins of our solar system and even life on earth. the academy awards are then not just days away but hollywood's biggest event has already been have a shot at by controversy just as rob reynolds has more for. oscar night is hollywood's annual celebration of itself but this year the academy of motion

pictures the people who decide the winners is already a big loser they seem to be just scrambling they seem to be making it up as they go along i think it makes them look very bad because there's more focus now on the cademy than on the films that are being nominated i mean i think people are going to tune in just to see is this going to be a trainwreck and it almost doesn't matter who wins first the six thousand member academies board voted to add a new category best popular film many saw that as condescending and after an outcry it was dropped then the academy decided that awards were essential movie making crafts like cinematography editing hair and makeup would be given out in commercial breaks not during the main broadcast again an uproar and sued from those artists and their supporters the academy back down and now all awards will be given out in

the live broadcast why is the academy tinkering with the show i mean everything in hollywood is about money and ego and the cademy gets most of its money from selling the show to a.b.c. television network and they can be really depends on that money but the ratings have been going down the oscars first started airing on t.v. in one thousand fifty three. and it's basically the same format now as one was then and now in the twenty first century the audience tastes have changed. there's also a significant sex scandal involving bohemian rhapsody the film is up. for best picture and star rami maalik is a best male actor nominee but director bryan singer is being sued by several men who say he sexually molested them as boys rumors about his alleged activities have

circulated in hollywood for years singer was fired but his name is still on the picture in another embarrassment for the academy the oscars are going to host this year actor and comedian kevin hart originally had that role but he dropped out after a series of his blatantly homophobic tweets from years past. and apparently no one else wants the job rob reynolds al-jazeera hollywood don't forget didn't catch up with only news on the website and it is on your screen the address zero dot com. a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera usa it has been loaded on to congo planes in miami colombia. the president maduro shut the border with brazil in an effort to block the aid and he says he's considering doing the same with

colombia of brazil's vice president just hold out as in his country will help but it won't cross the line. we're not going to the border ok what we're doing what are you can do we can put supplies on the our border in a forgiving as well as want they can come and get it but i don't think viewers will work ok because as you see from. river it's almost a thousand kilometers and all these are empty space in venezuela so there is not enough population there to come to brazil to to reach for poor supply ok i think we have the main points for dues humanitarian aid would be the ports and our border which. means across the west bank are gathering to mark the twenty fifth anniversary of the ibrahimi mosque mass going to have twenty nine worshippers were killed in a far right israeli settler opened fire inside the mosque palestinians now have been say strict israeli government rules imposed after the massacre keep them from

their homes and businesses dozens of trucks are moving out men women and children from i saw last on play of in syria about a thousand people have been rescued from the eastern village of baboons at the u.s. but syrian democratic forces say thousands more still remain trapped as believe they're being used as human shields the s.d.f. is hoping to carry out a full evacuation later on friday. and u.s. president donald trump has pulled back from plans for a complete withdrawal of troops from syria the white house says it will keep what it described as a peacekeeping force of two hundred troops on the ground trump has been under pressure from advisers and allies since his surprise announcement last year. a sixteen year old swedish environmentalist has taken her class boycott campaign to paris joined a protest in the french capital she spearheading a movement of school strikes to highlight the inaction by governments over global warming. so those are the headlines the news continues here on the al-jazeera of

the street thanks for watching. africa's largest democracy. the president parliament and governance corruption insecurity and economic uncertainty that dominate nigeria politics remain widespread al-jazeera brings you coverage of the issues the candidates and voters nigeria but. my name is riyadh where it's you know when international journalists and your industry. my family could be here in the street today is there a war on truth journalist maria ressa joins us to discuss her fight for press freedom and we want to hear from you leave your comments or your questions for maria in our live you tube channel and you too could be in the stream.

a free and independent press is the cornerstone of democracy and the philippine john is maria ressa wants it to remain a mission and what she calls the war on truth is the subject of the new al-jazeera witness spell out this month have a look. digital media. is the founder of blind side. fakes it is whatever power doesn't like the president of the philippines ricotta turkey because he wants to kill as many people involved with drugs as possible and lists his critics as public. grappler on my new site known to be critical of the government at its license revoked a few weeks ago. and is disabled it's sad when people don't know what is real and what is feet. down. then the voice with the loudest

megaphone more power this is the time this is the time to tell here here's the thing and you have to make sure that our government doesn't cross it because when. we're no longer. joining us live from manila a woman who needs almost no introduction and journalist at a time magazine's person of the year maria ressa i mean sydney australia ya know she's also a journalist and the filmmaker behind the documentary about maria airing this month on al-jazeera welcome to yarrow welcome maria yeah we're going to talk about the film later in the program but first maria what is it like covering a story and being the story at the same time extremely uncomfortable and you know i wish it would end tomorrow but at the same time i'm watching and looking at everything with our or because. i just don't believe the

events that are happening. you say that it's uncomfortable actually being part of the story and covering the story at the same time but there was a moment in december when you arrived at manila airport and journalists were waiting to see you and i had questions and you having just got off the plane did an impromptu press media conference i don't see much discomfort have a look for us. on the ground. how do i feel about being arrested. well number one i am going to hold my government accountable for publicly calling a criminal i am not a criminal i have been a journalist my life i will continue to hold the government the second this obviously. it makes you feel better but i think that's the point right the point is

for the government to actually make you feel its power and that it can do what it wants to do including bending the law to the point that it's broken. that's a position that you don't really have to think about when you're supposed to be reporting running a media organization how did you get those cogent forts together you know i had just gotten off a long haul flight that weren't but i knew an arrest warrant been issued for ludicrous charges and i was i was surprised by what was at the airport but at the same time i thank you this is what i've had to do for most of twenty eighteen is anger management and what has taught us is to be able to be concise in expressing exactly what every what is happening in the moment and and what it means for the future. well rio you called the charges they're ludicrous

and i think there are several in our community that would agree and others as well who are on line this tweet this from the u.s. embassy in the philippines who doesn't normally weigh in on these types of things they write we hope the charge against journalists and rappler c.e.o. maria ressa will be resolved quickly in accordance with relevant philippine law and international standards of due process also weighing in former secretary of state of the us madeleine albright who says your arrest by the philippine government is outrageous and must be condemned by all democratic nations i'm proud to call her a friend and to stand with her in defending the principles of a free press so for our audience that isn't aware in your view what led up to this arrest i mean let me be concise again in two months i've had to bail six times and. at least nine cases that are ongoing right now in thirteen months the government has tried to shut down rappler has filed at

least five tax evasion has filed the cyber libel. as arrested me and detaining me in violation of my rights even because these arrest warrant i have a right to bail. all of these events by like defended myself and i've tried very hard at the very beginning of it to be far more circumspect i said among comfortable being part of it they now show a very clear pattern it's a trend it is meant a little it's political harassment it's intimidation and it's meant to prevent us from doing our work. ria i'm just looking here at rappler right now and the latest news stories and as a whole range of stories that you're doing from the philippines this is an online news platform what is it that rapping you saying to people who don't follow rappler that continues to irritate the to turn administration. i think we

focus on the small moon. i call it death by a thousand cuts our democracy is impunity. weaponization that's another favorite word i have because i've been so shocked watching it happen in front of my eyes first the weaponization of social media and then the weaponization of the law meaning both social media has been turned and used against its critics these are exponential attacks on social we did a series on his early years made twenty sixteen and then the way and this is from personal experience the way the law has turned and used as a weapon against perceived critics so maria february twentieth just this week was the one year mark of when rappler journalists and yourself included were banned from the presidential palace i pulled out this tweet from. rappler she says it's been a year since i was first banned from covering deter taze events let me tell you what

that year has been like and of course we can win tweet this on our accounts you can read her account of what it was like to be banned but for you what has that been like covering an administration where you don't have the access. we continue doing the best that we can do and i actually can trenchard the press secretary about this in a radio interview we were both interviewed at the same time just this sunday and i asked him you know when are you going to let us back in and why have you done this this is a violation of our constitutional rights the constitution guarantees this and he said well. i still answer the questions that that your recorder tweets to me that's not the way it supposed to be again death by a thousand cuts right slowly i think the other part that's concerning to me is levels of impunity. not just in something like press coverage but also in a far more in the britain this brutal drug war that has been ongoing since july of

two thousand and sixteen and that perhaps was really drunk or as well as the weaponization of social media these are the two stories we have not let up on and we continue to try to government to account i think in the end it comes down to a war on truth because if you can make people believe why are the facts then you can control them what's happening in the philippines in terms of journalism and the ad how facts are viewed is something that ripples around the world and a phrase i don't like using let present a test say use it instead here he is talking about rap have a look. if eight. you know that. i am not so bright. are you going to cover all of the big. so that his view of what rap stewing in riyadh can you give us

a sense of the atmosphere and the climate we were in which john i saw in the philippines. fear absolutely and that was actually my appeal to the journalist who after i posted bail i said you know this is. this is meant to send a chilling effect and this was the message of the n b i agent to one of our reporters who was video was doing a live stream that actually when they were trying to arrest me he told our reporter be quiet be silent or you're next and that's precisely the situation i think it's being me getting pregnant not so much about just making just intimidating me it's about sending a message to every other reporter working in the philippines told the line or you could be next and i think that's the fear we need to lift because you don't want self-censorship you don't want people to be afraid to ask questions because then

we've really gone down the path that's hard to come back from so here's someone who would agree with you she's a journalist in the u.k. a joint effort has and here's what she says this could mean for journalism as a whole thing to not christian the philippines on the president's task he's been dead for some time now and he's seen that and how he treats his opponents especially senates and lena who still imprisoned some like completely fabricated charges by i think detest days now using the international community somewhat turning away from the philippine drug war or at least losing interest to go after the press and for him that means going off and maria ressa and that does a reading ugly and dangerous preston for genesis not just in the philippines but will of the world's summary i should mention it's a dangerous precedent for all journalists and you're nodding your head at that when he thinking. look when president detective threatens journalists this isn't

unique frustrate president trump does that exact same thing except the institutions in the united states are just stronger than in the philippines words have impact and when the most powerful man in the country threatens reporters calls them fake news all of this ripples out and you know there's a very thin line between attacking and inciting to hate and what we've seen on social media is these words have taken a life of their own any coach towards inciting to hate and that's a boundary that's very difficult to come back from president to take to has threatened journalists he's threatened new short in his eighty's rappler wasn't the first one i mean the largest newspaper in the philippines the philippine daily inquirer was its first target he threatened to take away the franchise of the largest television network e.b.'s c.b.s.

with a rattler the difference with rappler is a we have no other businesses this is a company that was created by journalists and the single largest group of shareholders in rappler are the journalists so most of the decisions nearly all the decisions certainly through all of twenty they were led by journalists for me it's not worth doing our jobs if we're not fulfilling the mission especially at a time when our country needs it the most but he just mentioned a.b.s. c.v. and and they did an intern quite recently with the presidential palace spokesman and he was talking about the ability to at the chinese when you speak quite frankly this was his take on what you've been saying it's not the same have allowed so there's nothing absolutely there is no connection. in the so-called freedom of the press in fact i would even say that she is a walking testament that the freedom of express and as well as an expression of.

our very alive in this country wow why am i saying that until now she's still using of that freedom to assault the government and this administration is sitting at home you're free right now maria what's the problem. i think that the bill speak and while secretary panetta. is entitled to his opinion obviously freedom of speech is about being able to speak treated with the press is about being able to report without any consequences and what has happened is the full power of the state. in january last year the government tried to revoke our license to operate they tried to shut. the institution stayed up strong enough to be able to push back but the government kept trying to look for cases they kept trying they issued i mean i posted bail six times in two months that's not normal the prevented our reporter

from covering not just the presidential palace but every private engagement any engagement anywhere in the philippines where president to or to piers i've been arrested and i've been getting again you know actions speak louder than words let me bring into the conversation now your documentary maria ressa war on truth is currently showing and out of there right now are you looking at your instagram account and there's a picture here you're in france you and maria together checking a phone which is what maria doesn't all halt why did you make this film why was it so important in our. and i think the source of why mary is under pressure from the government needs to be addressed here and this is why i made the film and that's because she started to talk about this information and she put out a three part series on propaganda in the philippines and and correct me if i'm

wrong maria but that's when she saw a massive campaign against herself and from basically this disinter mission apparatus and it wasn't just that there was a massive trolling disinformation campaign against maria to put out a series on. apparatus it was that they use that as a way to use all that data as a way to then match and. suppose track that this information campaign and and say that it is it is actually an ecosystem this is something that you can map the architecture of and that you can also stop eventually i think that's what really intrigued me about that yes you the journalist and precious lots of journalists under pressure but she used that as a tool to then address the root causes of that pressure and that is tracking and

stopping this information campaigns you mentioned that are so and bring up this week here from daisy who says mark zuckerberg was deeply apprehensive about it now going deeper into the real impact of technology on filipinos and philippine democracy it was only recently that facebook hired an expert to look into disk information networks in the platform so i know in twenty sixteen you actually went up to soccer burkey went to pay spoke about data with data talk to us about that. and this was in august of two thousand and sixteen it was in singapore at that point in time and i i was alarmed that attacks began the weaponization of social a facebook began in july of two thousand and sixteen by the end of august we had enough data we knew that and i came with an example twenty six week accounts and how they could influence up to three million others i rocked this data to three facebook officers in singapore and i told them you know you really should do

something about this because we have u.s. elections coming up and if we don't trump could win and at that point in august twenty sixth we laugh but after president trump won in a number. they asked for the date again i met mark zuckerberg in during the f.t. conference in april of two thousand and seventeen and twenty sixteen he was in denial about what she was doing but by twenty seven he was starting to realize that i think i told him that you know in the philippines facebook is the internet nearly ninety seven percent of filipinos on the internet or on facebook and his response was. he found a little bit and said what are the other three percent doing. you know you are and i'm maria when we as a team the stream team was i was looking at how to really talk to you and how to bring gharyan and talk about the film wherever your name is mentioned there are an

army of trolls as many people who are respectful of your journalism and what you'll doing there that's a toe me as well this is something that you picked up. in your film have a listen to this case and you know it got a little sense of what happens around maria and rappler. you know i've been called every animal you can think of i my sexual life has been dissected and at the beginning i see step like a traditional journalist who tried to fight it and you realize no you can't it's not a minute. there i thought i see maria smiling almost all of the time even under when she's a lot of pressure but what is it like to watch. her when she surrounded by a lot of people who want to do harm i mean i suppose the troll. it's hard to say how much of the online hate can actually.

dissipate be translated into the real world and the people who are around very very much people like the rattlers people who are willing to. follow her into the trenches and. go with her wherever she wants to go she has a very supportive core team and i think that's also displayed in the film. and i suppose just to pick up on the trolling point that we made in the film that has also translated with our actual film on witness. witness has put up a huge hit video of the film and that was just a few days ago and it's for saved thirty hundred comments already ninety percent of those negative and witnesses saying something like this in

a long time it's. pretty much on president it and a lot of it has been negative feedback from maria and a lot of the major faith that maybe he she heard about maria in the cases and saying that she's actually a u.s. citizen and not to the paino and that she's a tax evader not about the film itself will campaign against this information so i think it just goes to show that this just showing distance stop from the area and i think. and a question i always have to maria is how do you wake up every day with. you know receiving constant countless hate messages him that caught be good for you. it's not healthy and how do you deal with that that's that's always been a concern i suppose is is how to do with the fallout of comes to trolling maria you realize that it's manufactured great that you know this is not normal if you look

at all those messages they're right on message and this is something that we've lived here for my gosh i'm ochs three years since july twenty sixth. we were naive enough and rapper when we saw this happening i thought maybe they were just real people who were misinformed then who we just wanted to have a conversation so we started something called hash tag no place for hate and that was when we got bombarded and even more bombarded after we finished the three part propaganda series so now you realize that you were being manipulated and i think that the whole world it when we look at what's happening with power and that the geo political power ships and how information is being used to gain power i think is happening in a lot more countries than than we know that we are aware about and this should be stopped so that's where i hold the social media platforms accountable that's been

the biggest change these cheap armies on social media. so i wanted to share with our viewers what some of those look like about getting into details about them because of course they're pretty hateful but on facebook here several comments just criticizing rappler and criticizing your work marcel says it's right to go to jail it's my bias boycott the biased media another person on twitter says this is stupid journalism the truth behind race is a recipe for involvement in tax evasion rectifier facts and stop fake news but all of this some of our audience would say it's part of an intimidation scheme and that is a comment we got from an academic in manila actually who says this is a wider. plot if you will to silence journalists and silence those who are working for the truth this is richard and here's what he told the story what we're facing. increasing the notion of. meeting the uniform predictable obligation.

and ensuring what we're seeing is ruled by by an imperial presidency and his henchmen. and instrument allies in the law in order to silence your position and maria ressa right now is very much the beneficiary of the trend in the philippines. you hear his stick there richard. we've been talking to but she's part of a team and she loves the team very much want to show you the raptor team right here so you know it's not just about one person it's about a whole team of journalists and also thank you so much for joining us today you can see his film maria ressa that war on truth playing on al-jazeera and also you can see it on al-jazeera dot com. thank you so much for joining us today we really appreciate your time take care.

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get under way that we're taking the stage for what looks like the next battleground between in the battle between the venezuelan government and the opposition it comes as u.s. aid is being loaded on to congo planes that on at an on air at an air base in miami bound for colombia venezuela aid a live concert. is backed by british billionaire richard branson just at the other end of the bridge across. the border in san antonio they're getting ready for a promo duo concept called hands off venezuela on thursday night president nicolas maduro stepped up efforts to block foreign aid by closing the border with brazil latin america editor lucy newman is in san antonio on the venezuelan side of the border so to see what's the latest there we hearing word of a shooting there. yes it has a man quite disturbing a report coming out now

a community called could have knocked at the it's an indigenous community very very remote extremely poor. right by the border with colombia and the indigenous guard there had vowed not to allow the venezuelan military to try to to block that border and to prevent this food and medicine from coming here into venezuela on saturday as as it's been planned apparently two armored cars from the army tried to block the entrance into the town and there was a confrontation at least thirteen people wounded with gunshot wounds and one woman one indigenous one from the community killed so very very tense the situation there as i'm i want more we're hearing about this promo doro concert that's taking place there. well i'm here with what is called the ordain yeah bridge this is one of four crossings here in the state of this is a very pro opposition state very very restive indeed and the bridge where the

pro-government concert is supposed to take place is about ten minutes from here we've passed there just a few minutes ago it's absolutely empty there's nobody there not yet we understand that in a couple of hours more people may be brought in but so far nothing the government has proposed to bring in a group of bands but nobody tremendously famous and so what we're seeing here is a trickle of people it has been going on since three or four tents five o'clock this morning of venezuelans leaving venezuela to go into colombia so that they can see the concert on the other side so this place is actually emptying out we don't know how successful president motos efforts to try to compete with that concert is going to be but. we've been we've been keeping a close eye on it and we filed this report just a short while ago. a caravan of opposition deputies scuffle with national guardsman trying to block their way to the colombian border that's where

opposition leader vows to defy the government's prohibition to bring in tons of food and medicine donated by the united states and others. pretending that humanitarian aid is not going to reach bin as well as an act of cruelty. as opposition leaders slowly make their eight hundred kilometer journey to the border the binational bridge that joins colombia and venezuela is quickly becoming the stage for a bizarre jewel. on the colombian side of venezuela aid live concert with world famous pop stars in support of the news whalers opposition movement. and not to be outdone on the other side a hands off there's layla concert called by embattled president nicolas my little jewel to get under way in unison on friday as you can see the stage on the venezuelan side of the bridge is almost ready for the battle of the bands but this

doing music event is framing a bigger battle over who is going to take credit for providing food and medicine for venezuelans desperately in need or the. president insists he can provide for his countryman and says shipments of medicine from russia and china have just arrived to prevent opponents from attempting to bring in stockpiles supplies from neighboring brazil he's ordered the border sealed until further notice. but so far here in the border with colombia remains open and thousands of volunteers have been crossing into guy was and say they're preparing to confront the armed forces to bring food and medicine back into than israel on saturday when gives the word sorry i'm ok we know the government has blocked the bridge with containers but we're here to make it possible to bring in that humanitarian aid by whatever me. it's necessary why google says he'll be bringing the supplies across for bridges here in patchy dot as well as two ports in northern israel and. exactly how the u.s.

backed opposition plans to do it without being stopped is still a mystery and that's exactly what's raising the suspense and the tension on both sides of the border. now has and this is one of those bridges that wide dog hopes to use to bring that aid in we understand that they're planning to bring in a human chain to do so and i'm like the other bridge you just saw this one does not have containers or anything blocking it we went all the way to the end to the border where columbia begins and so far it's completely open although people here are telling us that they expect that by late this evening or dawn it will be blocked also by armored tanks or armored cars and we're also hearing that live dog is already at the border what we don't know is on what side of the border wasn't all right lucy in human life first there in san antonio but as well and now mohamad

jim doom has been following the border with venezuela was shut down the border with brazil he has more now from bolivia. now the venezuelan president nicolas maduro has closed venezuela's border with brazil the question is what exactly is brazil going to do next we've heard for the past forty eight hours that brazil is going forward with a plan in which aid comprised of medical supplies and food stuffs will be delivered to brazil's border with venezuela at which point a convoy from venezuela will cross into brazil we're told this would happen on saturday february twenty third would pick up that aid and within take it back into venezuela for distribution now the question becomes is this process going to get a lot more complicated going forward at this point there are still a lot of unanswered questions when exactly is that aid going to get here boa vista

which is the capital of nor the what i'm est how exactly is that aid then going to be transported to the border to the town of pocket i'm up which is right on brazil's border with israel it's the main entry point for venezuelan refugees and migrants who have been crossing into brazil and what exactly is going to happen after that nonetheless officials here reiterating as they have over the past few days that this plan will go ahead we expect we will be hearing more specifics in the hours to come watch it a spoke with brazil's the vice president off the venezuela made the announcement he said brazil will respect venice way to solve. we're not going to inspect the border ok what what are you can do we can put supplies on our border in a forgiving as well as want they can come and get it but i don't think this will work ok because. you see from until there are no river it's almost

a thousand kilometers and all these is that empty space in venezuela so there is not enough population there to come to brazil when to to reach for supplies ok i think that the main points for d.z. many tatty aids would be the ports and the border was colombia. just so you know we were hoping to get an update as well from the colombian side of the border unfortunately technical challenges have gotten the better of us on that but let's bring in our social media producer and there's been a lot of discussion online about these costs which seems to be getting the most traction well there's one that seems to be getting more attention internationally i'll start with that one and that's started by organized by led by the british billionaire serve richard branson who was involved in the organization of venezuela live all these musicians you hear so that you see here the pop stars that we see him mention and dozens of others will be in complete top for this event which

branson hopes will raise millions of dollars to be spent on humanitarian aid. nicolas maduro his regime which is responsible for this crisis is currently refusing to allow any humanitarian aid into the country we must break this impasse was soon many venezuelans will be on the verge of starvation with. one who has been recognized as venezuela's we just met president by over forty nations and the e.u. and leopoldo lopez an opposition leader currently under house arrest in caracas have also to help organize a beautiful concert to bring global attention to this on acceptable and preventable crisis and raise funds for essentially humanitarian aid and if you check out their official twitter page you'll find a ton of voices explaining why that they support this particular initiative there's others on this feed who describe how this humanitarian crisis is directly affecting

their families but branson is involvement his efforts have critics chief among them on twitter at least is musician roger waters from the band pink floyd waters says that this concert has nothing to do with humanitarian aid at all. it has to do with richard branson and i'm not surprised by this having bullet the u.s. saying we have decided to take over and his way for whatever our reasons might be that it has nothing to do with the needs of the venezuelan people it has nothing to do with democracy it has nothing to do with freedom and it has nothing to do with a so we just need to back off the chip killer the.