little bear before her former ambassador from former foreign minister whose reputation was really tarnished very badly because he was caught up in the web of lies that came up after the her shoji killing the congress is particularly hostile including senior republican members of congress who in the congress sent a reformer request to the presidency to deal with the holding accountable so the officials after the killing of her shoji and the white house ignored as a deadline to respond to that and there are now congressional committees investigating various dimensions of so us so do relations including the latest is the attempt apparently to so nuclear power plants to saudi arabia without going to congress as the law requires in the u.s. so there are several areas and the war in the amount of course and the internal. arrest of particularly woman dissidents so there are quite a few serious issues that have to be dealt with at once and they're all related to

policy none of them are related to personality. it's the biggest event in tinseltown the ninety first academy awards due to get underway in hollywood late on sunday robins takes a look at the film's vying to take on the coveted. the red carpet has been rolled out on hollywood boulevard and the on globes with the names of the winners are ready to open this year's academy awards feature a diverse slate of best picture nominees including the exploits of a half a consumer hero in black and. the life of an indigenous mexican housekeeper in the one nine hundred seventy s. in roma. and working for black in the deep south the problem is a story of overcoming bigotry and creating interracial friendships in green book and the like with the brilliant but troubled gay rock star in bohemian rhapsody.

films and performances selected you know the she is nominated this year for the because certainly reflects that hollywood has a greater understanding and is putting forth a greater commitment towards diversity and inclusion and i think that's a good thing for the four other best picture nominees our vice a bio pic of former vice president dick cheney a star is born a remake of a venerable tale of fame fortune in fade with a helping of popular songs black klansmen director spike lee's comedy drama about a black policeman infiltrating the k.k.k. and the favorite a lavish dive into the intrigues b. trails and lesbian love affairs in the eighteenth century british royal court the best female actor nominees include yes you know in roma lady gaga in

a star is born and melissa mccarthy can you ever forgive me but there's a clear favorite i mean glenn close it's like finally i mean glenn has been the brides for. and it's. i think everybody is like. the best male actor award contest looks like a dead heat between christian bale's startling in person a shot of cheney invites romney malek's passionate portrayal of the talented as it freddie mercury is bohemian rhapsody the television ratings for the oscars broadcast have been shrinking for years and twenty teen was the worst year yet by including a broadly diverse slate of nominees this year the film industry hopes to bring those numbers back up and give the academy awards more relevance robert oulds al-jazeera hollywood.

time for a quick check of the headlines here at al-jazeera a gunman has attempted to hijack a passenger plane in bangladesh is now surrendered to police local media reports say all passengers got off safely after it landed at chittagong airport the boeing triple seven was set to fly to dubai in the united arab emirates. as well as opposition leaders calling on the international community to keep all options open after running battles on saturday to get aid into the country the army stopped trucks trying to cross from colombia and at least two people were killed in fighting along the border with brazil. use maturer and his supporters a celebrating the massacre of a people you celebrate that today venezuelan hospitals do not receive humanitarian aid you celebrate the death of more venezuelans that is why the entire country has risen up. voting is underway in senegal to choose the country's next leader

president is banking on a booming economy to stay in office for another term opposition candidate say poverty and unemployment are rampant which is pushing people to leave the country. and votes are being counted in nigeria where president mamata biharis hoping for a second there were some reports of irregularities during saturday's delayed election first before voting began a town in the north east was attacked by suspected boko haram fighters. protesters in sudan's capital of tires on fire as they continue their calls for the president to step down bashir announced a state of emergency on friday and dissolved his government but just hours later he appointed sixteen ministers. more civilians were killed in afghanistan last year than during any of the previous nine years figures from the un show almost four thousand civilians were killed in twenty eighteen including nearly a thousand children it blames the spike in deaths and an increase in attacks and

airstrikes by the u.s. led coalition report comes as talks between the u.s. and the taliban to end the country's seventeen year war appear to be accelerating. government of killing these eleven chaldean un peacekeepers in a military base in northern mali early on sunday morning near the border without jira the un has condemned the attack and is calling for a response but those were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera. thanks so much.

thank you we even now conform to the the i was dead attacking just when i think it's kind of. like he's got to be the host the better the we want. to the. hello i'm richard burton you're at the listening post here are some of the stories that we're covering this week there's no issue that gets the indian media going like kashmir and not just mainstream journalism social media can drive the coverage of the story the troubles in northern ireland and the troubles of trying to cover them which persist to this day a russian funded news outlet takes the fall on facebook zuckerberg and co are still making the rules up as they go along and. a different kind of back and forth with donald trump. the talk on the indian airwaves is of war with pakistan again last week a suicide bomber killed forty indian soldiers in kashmir

a militant group based in pakistan just a muhammad has claimed responsibility for the worst such attack in more than seventy years prime minister narendra modi's government in new delhi has accused the pakistani government of backing the group and many indian news outlets have gone further calling for a crackdown on so-called anti nationalists at home who they describe as terrorist sympathizers the social media side of this story also deserves scrutiny twitter facebook and whatsapp the messaging there can be out of control and ugly we've reported on the pakistani media before and we will again but with india just months away from a general election we're focusing on that side of the story the stakes were already high for the ruling b j p at its primary challenger the congress party the bombing in kashmir and the way it's been covered could well affect the outcome of the biggest electoral exercise on the planet our starting point this week is a. meaning introducing one

of any. green string every time an incident like this happens before government can respond before the you know the interest on the media jumps the gun us them for walks up on me something somebody's gotta pocket concept but get this to bob stewart one is that the anger which is justified the demand for just all of us and them trying to figure out what is the next step to be taken this negative then he was into a call for war against pakistan and. pakistan. i thank you i accept that. there is no denying where the demand for justice comes from or the news value of the story on the fourteenth of february an s.u.v. packed with explosives rammed into a convoy carrying indian soldiers. it was the deadliest peacetime attack on the

armed forces since india won its independence in one thousand nine hundred seventy . the coverage on twenty four hour news channels has been wall to wall which is editorially defensible but descends into. rant especially during prime time there are anchors calling for. studios populated with former generals talking military attacked us on it's not much. john not here because for the indian news this story text so many books kashmir pakistan the army and the attack came just as campaigning begin for a national election that is just months away. the attack has provoked a kind of first of all a national out. boring of grief on mainstream media channels and the spewing of

lots of venom against various targets particularly against. against. the united i think humans are thinking there's been a jump to assume who is responsible to make people collectively responsible and this is the case on many english language and binocular channels with the exception of a few same voices what you have is a completely absurd and very dangerous competitive jingoism that's better nearly on display from all these and because india is demanding justice accountability the anchor was actually a pretty pretty strong role in shaping public opinion and in the present moment their reaction is all the more dangerous. what makes india news channels unique is that there are so many of them far more than any other country india's media boom began in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight and news channels have

since seen growth that is exponential indians can watch national news channels regional ones vernacular channels in various languages more than four hundred in all pumping out coverage twenty four seventh's. the competition for viewers has an intensity like no where else many actors feel the need to shout louder more radically just to be heard seen and clicked apart and as political debate in india has grown more polarized often over prime minister modi's brand of hindu nationalism t.v. output has grown more debased when that kind of coverage is fed into the indian social media messaging machine the effect can be dangerous. one of the anchors on on a very popular debate a prime time debate actually said there is already not fornicate finish it will be mocked out if you look at spanish and that's the sea i'm going to read about it that i'm also noticing on social. so it's interesting how social media and

television have actually you know at least some of us have actually been hand in hand when it comes to setting the narrative for the current mood the hindu right itself more broadly but the b.g.p. as a political party has been very very effective in using the internet in general and social media in particular what they've basically done is they have very quickly kind of mobilize their forces to essentially see if they can actually hammered into kind of their classic narrative of hindus versus muslims the muslim as the figure of the outsider the congress as a weak party liberals as you know anti national traitor and so on. when that narrative takes on a visual form it looks like this on the left is the suicide bomber responsible for the attack in kashmir on the right. the congress party leader running against prime minister modi's b j p it's a photo shop job and a crude one but it's made the rounds on social media designed to reinforce the

notion that congress is soft on kashmir terrorism and muslims in general and there is the probie j.p. messaging online that offers the flip side of the same basic marriage vote for modi and his party if you don't want terrorists on your doorstep among the most disturbing social media material now being spread the calls for attacks on kashmiris living outside of kashmir many of them studying in cities to the south. things like share chapters it's something similar to what's up but it's huge and you've also got tick tock you can make a fifteen second video and in these fifteen second videos people have been saying come on let's go out and get them. most disturbing aspect is the. these attacks have been founded by this kind of hysteria ironically it's a government sponsored scheme which is meant to draw students into the so-called

mainstream media but these are the students who are now being attacked. between what's tick tock shared line and height india is awash with social media and messaging apps there are two hundred million users on whatsapp alone making the country just mark and when whatsapp changed its rules recently placing new limits on the forwarding of group messages it did so after first field testing of those changes in india an implicit admission of the social and political problems has exacerbated. with elections coming and the b j p leading the way all parties now want to make the most of the apps at their disposal and they're doing so with voters necessarily realising they are being played whose messages they're read. it's very difficult to track down who is making these whatsapp group

who really is donning these whatsapp group to go because apart from that one number that you have you know off the administrator you don't really have too much of other information about who these people love some of these groups that are my party sympathizes some stuff associated with different political parties you know sort of supervising what happens with the two big national parties. and have very actively made efforts to try and get all that what's happened to come really really crucial but only crucial in a particular context and that context is a mainstream media which does not always do the job that it should be doing partly through fear partly through question.