and so very resolute so i think this meeting is not a finish up it's a start and we know there are some still active at least but survivors of abuse were angry they wanted to hear the pope say that abusive priests and those who cover up for them will be thrown out of the priesthood. just words words words avoided seven years for change and others have been waiting thirty years for change and again he needs to do something concrete to remove bishops who have covered things up if there's a pope for the media critic of the karimov. traditions are vital to the longevity and appeal of the catholic church such as the angelus prayer given by the pope each sunday in st peter's square but the traditional secrecy with which the church has covered up decades of sex crimes is a threat to its very future while people still flock in their thousands to hear the

pope speak in person at the vatican and there are hundreds of millions more roman catholics around the world but pope francis is aware that sexual abuse is a nexus tensional problem for the catholic church it's driven away worshippers and if it's not properly handled more will leave. the vatican never said this unprecedented meeting would solve the problem cardinals have called it a step on the road they must now produce follow up measures for clergy to take back to their countries and put into practice chalons al-jazeera the vatican. still ahead on al-jazeera senate votes on whether to give michael sallah second term as president up to his biggest rivals are banned from running plus not so picture perfect the problem is not confronting some of iraq's historical landmarks .

however the weather's lousy try and find across much of the middle east but it was at least the sort of the med it is still a little on the disappointing side but some places a cloud just sliding assets we could see some rather heavy rain for a time making its way towards cyprus last monday's picture generally five and dry beirut not doing too badly at around twenty two degrees we'll see some of the temperatures of baghdad and also for kuwait city further east for fours and fives the fork will over the next day also lawsuit dry look behind me there they go he comes out whether it will be absolutely tipping down northern parts of syria see some heavy rain pushing up across the turkish mountains we're looking at snow eighteen degrees there for beirut little bits and pieces a cloud also sliding down across northern parts of saudi arabia as we go on through the next day or so monday not see bad twenty five celsius here in doha quite a keen wind fashion model wind setting in as we go on into choose day where we'll

see ten which is hanging on to a similar value but there is that in place and that thick cloud just pushing a little further south was set up initially could see one of two spots of rain as well a few spots of rain too into the eastern parts of south africa some wet weather on the card table for much of the region it is fine and dry we have got some lively showers continuing across the east of madagascar. sponsored by countdown to. my main every weekly news cycle brings you see the recent breaking stories and of course there's donald trump. it's the world's journalists that's right out of a hamas group that calls for the annihilation of israel that is not what that phrase joined the listening post as we turned the cameras on the media focus on how they were caught on the stories that matter the most impact is a free palestine listening post on al-jazeera.

welcome back our top stories on al-jazeera more people may have been killed in violent confrontations along them as well as border with brazil than previously thought at least twenty five people died in the town of sunda in may now when venezuelan forces try to stop opposition supporters from bringing aid into the country u.s. president donald trump says he's extending a deadline to increase tires on chinese imports after what he's calling substantial progress in the latest bond of trade talks with bain. and the head of the roman catholic church has called for an all out battle against the abuse of minors both francis made the pledge on the fourth and final day of an unprecedented conference

on sex abuse within the church. the polls have closed in cuba where millions of people have been voting on whether to approve a new constitution it recognizes a free market but still embrace this communism as the official political ideology a final draft was adopted by parliament in december the new constitution also includes changes to the judicial system and limits the president to serving two consecutive five year terms mariana sanchez has more from cuba. the government says that it's been a large turnout a couple of hours before the polls close to seventy six percent of cubans according to the government numbers have come out to vote now very few people at the polling stations despite the. high turnout there are very many polling stations around the country so there were no lines to be seen however if many people were

out there although we also saw volunteers helping the government officials to knock on doors they went door to door to tell people to come out and vote now some analysts believe to this new constitution it will have a majority of a yes vote because it brings in new ideas into. the cuban life it recognizes among other things a limited to private property it opens a cuban economy to international markets and it also. brings in a novelty would choose. presidential term limits which again is a novelty in cuba now some analysts believe that twenty nearly twenty percent of cubans could vote no because this constitution is against their principles or because many believe that the one party system the communist party still remains

and try and and above cording to any above the constitution. people in japan's okinawa prefecture have voted against plans to relocate a controversial us military base seventy two percent voted against the move with nineteen percent in favor of holding to the local government the referendum had a fifty two percent turnout the vote is non-binding raising questions about what effect it will have on government policy campaigners seen landfill work at henoch obey where the base would be relocated coal reefs they also see the presence of troops bring scrying to the area. and it's a wrap hollywood's biggest night of the year has just ended the academy awards and the ceremony in the sun jim is. just ended as we said let's speak to reynolds live for us on the red carpet of wrong. can you hear me. oh yes i can hear you the show is over folly and big surprise green book has won

the best picture the betting going into this ceremony was that it was going to be either roma which won several awards or perhaps meehan rhapsody which also want to couple of awards but the winner of best picture here in the ninety first academy awards is green book this is the story of two men one a cultured black pianist classical pianist and the other a sort of shady white mob bouncer who go on a trip through the deep south in the segregated one nine hundred sixty s. other surprises in this academy award ceremony best actress going to a livia coleman for her role as the mad queen and in the favorite many many people here had thought that glenn close having been nominated seven times for academy awards would win this time but it was not to be in the best actor category rami

maalik the young son of the gyptian immigrants who played the tortured rock star freddie mercury in bohemian rhapsody took away the oscar for best best actor so quite a night i would say here for diversity with both the best supporting actor actor shall ali and the best supporting actress. winning both of them of. african-americans so this is a quite of quite a night of right interesting results i would say yeah very interesting and as you said quite a night for diversity there was a lot of controversy in the lead up to the to these oscars including about the fact there was that there was no hostess here how did it all go in the end was it a smooth sad one. if the goal was to make it

a three hour long show and they went over by about fifteen twenty minutes but that wasn't too bad it's not as bad as it has been in the past and the lack of the hosts in my personal opinion watching what i could of the program between doing these sports didn't really hinder the program at all in fact it kind of moved a lot they they they kept up the pace they gave out the awards there weren't a long interludes of of you know concomitant monologues and so on and so forth so i think it was actually a benefit this time not to have the host given that there was so much controversy about kevin hart who was going to be the host and then had to pull out when it was revealed that he had some homophobic tweets and jokes it's it's remarkable that they managed to pull it out this much but you know this is a ceremony that's been going on it was first televised in one nine hundred fifty three and it really hasn't changed all that much over the years people get up they

get they get awards they make speeches they think their grandmothers or their mothers and so on and and then they go and sit down and this is the twenty first century now folly and people are asking for something different so let's see how the ratings worked on this the ratings were bad last year if this this time if they're up maybe we'll see a whole society in the future for that thank you thank you so much rob reynolds live for us on the right complex. now security forces in sudan's capital have fired tear gas at hundreds of protesters calling on president bashir to stand down the violence aimed contemned follows bashir declaring a state of emergency across the country on friday he says he was dissolving his government is made to appoint its six new ministers and eight hundred say governess from the military regime is trying to quell leaks of on rights which began over the increasing price of goods. senegal is waiting to see if mikey sob has been

reelected president results are not expected for days after millions killed early to cast a vote on sunday nicholas haq reports on the car. counting the vote under the careful watch of party observers and a nation waiting for the name of its new president. will it be incumbent president salva. or edriss sick or the outsider was months ago months ago. but we want to be as transparent as possible so that no one questions the results so we will announce the names publicly front of everyone's present. voters came early some queuing for hours patiently waiting their turn is seventy six year old said it it's his eleventh presidential election and twenty year old put a candidate who's voting for the first time. i want change there is corruption and dysfunctional justice system this needs to stop. i want stability so that we

can live well and peacefully with stability and change of promise candidate so ready for a second mandate says he can bring but rival candidate addresses sex says cells failed to deliver so far political you cover song goes further saying the political system has failed the people. so the goals population is rapidly changing most are born after two thousand these bilinear. want to see a new form of leadership that addressing issues that matter for senegal i think especially one of them. he has been like his voice has really it could run like with young people because he's young himself is saying that it's time to change the system and also like all the candidates like it is to say in my taking i have also addressed it in the own way a different part of the programs but i've seen lacking in this campaign issues around when around like environment specially none of them really address it from

my opinion in a serious way to opposition rivals karim wadded former mayor of the car khalifa salo were barred from running in the race after being convicted for corruption the opposition accuses saul of using the courts to crackdown on dissent. this is the polling station of medina in downtown the car it's a stronghold for the opposition and despite the calls for president. to boy called this election people came out to vote because there is a long tradition of democracy in senegal and whoever wins this election will be in charge of a country wealthier than ever and estimated fifty billion dollars of oil and gas has been discovered off the coast of senegal forty qatif years of the culture of corruption and believes only the rich and the powerful will profit from this you wealth a sudden john believes it will improve the lives of all to the gillies to different voters two visions for senegal future nicolas hawke al-jazeera the car.

security and immigration a topping the agenda the first have a joint summit between arab countries and e.u. leaders egyptian president. co-chairing the summit with european council president donald tusk sisi has urged governments to unite behind the goal of defeating terrorism leaders attending the two day meeting in shammal shine also discussed ways to topple the migration crisis impacting several european countries. by years of conflicts in iraq have often made it too dangerous for international teams to help in the conservation of illogical sites but that's not all that's holding back restoration efforts stratford reports. erbil city in the kurdish region of northern iraq towers above the old city it was built by the alter winds of the nineteenth century but remains show civilization is dating back to the same area as built fortifications here around five thousand years ago. from

a distance the walls look strong and well preserved inside moisture has been seeping up into the brickwork for centuries. much of this fortress popular with locals and visitors alike has either already collapsed will could do so soon. as our college ists we are facing many obstacles and preserving iraq's last citadels we lack funding there is government neglect there is no master plan with us and international bodies we face losing our heritage and with it part of our identity. war and political instability have often made it too dangerous for international conservation teams to come to iraq for the security situation isn't the only thing affecting the preservation and restoration of archaeological sites.

throughout the long history of civilization in this region various ethnic and religious groups of often violently for control of iraq's three citadels now experts here say that conservation efforts are often held back by what they describe as the politicize ation of iraq's heritage. this is the citadel in kill cook also built by the also means on a site that dates to the assyrian empire three thousand years ago the intricately decorated walls on which cling the last remnants of once stunning mosaics a crumbling. so me and shia arabs turquand and kurds have fought over the city the centuries the c.s. said good evening sadly the preservation of the country's three said styles is at risk no one can agree how to manage them people think if you claim a stark all site it gives you an economic advantage has a like most recently killed cook was on the front line during the war against isis

which is of great strategic importance because iraq's second largest oil fields are close by. and this is all that remains of the citadel in heat in western province built on alcohol chicle site also dating back five thousand years the town on the banks of the euphrates river was occupied by iso until two thousand and fifteen but i still sleeper cells still operate in the surrounding desert the security situation has been so bad for so long that conservation efforts stopped years ago revenue from visiting tourists as is the case in kirkuk is also a thing of the past and this means thousands of years of iraq's history could soon be beyond repair. that a bill. logan

i'm funny over the headlines on al-jazeera more people may have been killed in violent confrontation along israel's border with brazil than previously thought dozens of people are believed to have died in the town of santa ana as venezuelan forces try to stop opposition supporters from bringing foreign aid into the country . at the moment we estimate there are twenty five people dead and eighty four injured the thing is we don't control the hospital the military controls it the people they killed they put them in an vehicle and took them to a military base that's why we're not sure. the exact number of did u.s. president donald trump says he's extending a deadline to increase taxes on chinese imports after what he's calling substantial progress in the latest round of talks with beijing high levies on more than two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese products were due to be imposed from monch firsts the head of the roman catholic church has called for an all out battle

against the abuse of minors pope francis made the pledge on the fourth and final day of an unprecedented conference on sex abuse within the church the polls have closed in cuba where people have voted on whether to approve a new constitution it recognizes the free market but still embraces communism as the country's official ideology cubans are expected to vote in favor of the changes on thai government protesters in sudan are defying a state of emergency declared by president omar al bashir a new vice-president prime minister and more than a dozen governors have been sworn in after the share dissolved the government on friday and security and immigration topping the agenda at the first ever joint summit between arab league countries and you need is egyptian president abdel fattah co-chairing the meeting along with european council president donald tusk sisi has urged governments to unite behind the goal of defeating terrorism and finally green book has been named best picture at this year's academy awards the

film tells a story of a friendship between an african-american concert pianist and his italian american driver in the one nine hundred sixty s. it also won oscars for best supporting actor and best original screenplay those are the headlines a listening post is next on august there. on counting the cost this week and cambodia it's the southeast asian economy that's most exposed to the u.k.'s e.u. divorce plus nine months later lebanon finally has a government but its economy is screaming for attention. counting the cost on al-jazeera. thank you we've even now been found to be the was dead attacking jellyfish and i think. it was done to the host the birth of the we want. to.

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 journalists 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 jesh and 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 india. may be one of many. angry stream every time an incident like this happens before government can respond before the you know the army can respond on the media jumps the gun asked them for war given me something somebody. concept but get

this to bob stewart one is that the anger which is justified to the demand for just all of us and them trying to figure out what is the next step to take this negative then he was into a call for war against pakistan. pakistan. thank you i am struck published. 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 nine hundred forty seven. the coverage on twenty four hour news channels has been wall to wall which is editorially defensible but descends into

a. rant especially during prime time there are anchors calling food. studios populated with former generals talking military attacked us on what is not modeled by general john not. because for the indian news media this story takes so many books kashmir pakistan the army and the attack came just as campaigning beginningless for a national election that is just months away. the attack has provoked a kind of first of all a national outpouring of grief on mainstream media channels and the spewing of lots of venom against various targets particularly against but also against bush but to mathematically 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 anchors 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 is brand of hindu nationalism t.v. output has grown more debased when that kind of cover. is fed into the indian social media messaging machine the effect can be dangerous. one of the anchors on. prime time to actually said they've already got a forum on a good finish it will be mocked oh you're going to get spanish and that's the same kind of rhetoric that almost on social media so it's interesting how social media and television have actually you know at least some 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 photoshop 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 signed by this kind of ironically it's a government sponsored scheme which is main draw students into the so-called mainstream media but these are the students who are now being attacked. between what. 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 we 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 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're being played whose messages they're read. it's very difficult to track down. who really is donning these whatsapp group 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. some stuff associated with different political parties you know. what happens with the

big national parties. and have very actively made efforts. that. really really 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 pressure through political allegiance and so if we had to. fake stories making it through mainstream media. role the quartet played would be far less it's just that one exists as a parallel universe to the other. to symbiotic relationship just. for discussing other media stories that are on our radar this week with one of our producers me actually ravi mean a facebook all over the news once again a committee of the british parliament describing the company as digital gangsters

nigerians with an election coming seeing all kinds of misleading ads popping up on the site and facebook has suspended the pages of some widely followed media outlets who are they and why the suspension of these pages is a big deal richard there are four in total but the two most popular and we're talking about millions of followers here are in the now and soap box now many of our viewers we have seen videos posted by these guys it's kind of as content that smart sharp and takes a very strong line against certain american policies both domestic and foreign that this past week c.n.n. put out a report saying that the kremlin was quote backing a viral video company aimed at american millennial and the videos have been viewed tens of millions of times but what people watching these videos may not realize is that the russian government is paying for this the company running these wages is called and media and indeed it is funded by the russian state but that's not

exactly breaking news it's been reported before but after that c.n.n. report aired facebook suspended the pages even though matic media hadn't actually violated any rules facebook does not require outlets to disclose their funding on their pages but they said they took them down so that people won't be misled about who's behind them we spoke with magic media's chief operating officer he says no one was informed before the suspension happened but according to him that's not even the issue. your issue is that facebook needs to issue very clear protocols and policies for what the requirements are and pages disclosing funding sources for both government backed media sources as well as commercial media sources i think that c.n.n. has created another her head ache in a week full of headaches or facebook that creates pressure on them to articulate

a policy that's far larger and more complicated to coordinate and organize now and it is to simply single out russia and single out in the now and other state sponsored media and. i hope that they will do that and we can probably say rules that everyone else has to. now he seems to make a valid point take you too for example which is owned by google recent policy change there and now whenever material from a state funded media outlet is posted there it is disclosed so when material from al-jazeera is posted you see this line underneath about a qatari funded media outlet b.b.c. material is described as coming from public broadcaster in the u.k. but that's not the case on facebook is it no it isn't and the way facebook has gone about this suggests a whole host of news outlets could get kicked off the site it could be china c g t

n it could be the b.b.c. it could be alleges eda facebook is under pressure on various issues and this development is not reassuring it's max of the same old problems a lack of transparency and a kind of approach that's both ad hoc and selective back to c.n.n. quickly there are issues there over the hiring of a new political editor was that well c.n.n. is getting up for the twenty twenty lection and its latest hire a woman name said it has many people seriously concerned she's a republican operative who was most recently a spokesperson for trump's attorney general now we've seen c.n.n. hiding time spokespeople before but only as paid contributors as a political editor is going to be shaping coverage and editing other people's work but she has zero journalistic experience and her twitter feed says it all she's tweeted lies about president obama justified the so-called muslim ban with baseless arguments and here's a tweet c.n.n. should have found troubling she used to call the network the clinton news network

one ok thanks mina. the challenges for journalists covering conflict zones are well documented however uncovering difficult truths in post conflict situations can also be a risky business northern ireland in a period known as the troubles thirty years of sectarian violence that ended with the good friday agreement of one thousand nine hundred ninety eight is our case in point on one side were republicans principally the irish republican army the ira a militant group drawn from the catholic community that targeted civilians british soldiers and the state that they served on the other side of those who called themselves loyalists most of the protestants loyal to the united kingdom with their own paramilitary groups during that period journalists in britain and ireland faced censorship although the fighting ended long ago just last year two documentary makers were arrested over a film they made alleging that the british government was complicit in a nine hundred ninety four massacre that remains like so many other cases from that

era unsolved listening posts daniel touring now on the ongoing difficulties of documenting the troubles in northern are. yes. i was getting ready for work. listen knock at the door. when the police came in they commanded my kitchen and they produced a piece of paper which they said was the warranty offices here where we work. were banging at it and i said ok we need to take your phone on one walk lighting the voters have been seizing your phone and your laptop we were fingerprint that had our d.n.a. our mug shot taken put in the place sales of the said that they were there to look for materials linked to the time.

no stone unturned as a documentary that investigates the killing in one thousand nine hundred four of six on catholics in a pub in northern ireland. the facts on this man. the film featured a confidential report written by a police. report which mccaffrey says he was sent anonymously it shows that during the original investigation police did identify one of the suspects as a police informant which implied collusion on the part of the british state but no one was ever convicted or even stood trial for the murders i'll never forget their words we will leave no stone unturned and thank them for the after story never mind wonderful. one of the reasons for mccaffrey in bernie's arrests was suspected unlawful disclosure of information on that the u.k. official secrets act another with suspicion of theft is arrests were made on the basis. of this office had reported the theft of documents from its office

however the police ombudsman office has come back and said very firmly no we did not make a complaint of theft. their notion that they would be arrested and we haven't heard any sign of those who they named. in the film being arrested it was startling trevor. bernie and barry mccaffrey have conducted a very important public service this was a terrible murder unsolved and the evidence of collusion is very persuasive and they have peeled back the layers which remained hidden for twenty five years i'm standing inside along. the difficulties faced by journalists reporting on the troubles a result of the conflict itself varying degrees of censorship affected media outlets across the board in the late eighty's and early ninety's members of certain organizations and those associated with them could be seen on t.v.

but not heard music going to ization i got around the government ban on broadcasting their voices by using voice actors we have here an opportunity for peace however other restrictions had long been in place particularly for the public broadcaster the b.b.c. . they had a system called referring up if you were making a programme about the troubles in northern ireland you had to go all the way up to the very top of the hierarchy in the b.b.c. to get their permission for example a b.b.c. programme called twenty four hours wanted to make a programme looking at the ira and some detail what it was about who supported it. they referred all the way up to the top of the b.b.c. and it was killed on the referral system was quite scary actually and i was drawn to it because it would end up with a big round table conference with the lawyer the head of eligible policy the head of news. director general and you would have to literally justify pretty much every

line and it costs dot on the army's official version of events but look it was a good process because in the end if you had the evidence you ended up with with a sort of you know strong arms wrapped around you. however i dozens of productions were censored i'm not only at the b.b.c. . in one case regulators demanded the removal of this scene from the one nine hundred eighty one documentary the propaganda war because it was deemed too sympathetic to the enemy the company behind it granada refused to comply and had to withdraw the film it was eventually broadcast a decade later. other decisions verged on the paranoid. music video by the rock group the police was banned by both the b.b.c. and i.t.v. all because of these belfast street scenes i think that the censorship the first

thing is that it was mild and i certainly think it was understandable there was a long terrorist campaign. and the governments didn't know what to do about it and one of the ways of trying to talk us through minor levels of censorship of what they thought were people who advocated terrorism so i have no dart the fact that the media was fundamentally free and that it fundamentally used that freedom responsibly. in one thousand nine hundred eighty five the b.b.c. under pressure from the government the documentary real lives at the edge of the union because of its interview with a senior ira member journalists across the country went on strike in protest at the disruption leading to messages like this being broadcast instead of music and the film did eventually yeah three months later. i was. on behalf of my people again it was one of many that push boundaries. for example

when they s.a.'s shot dead. activists in into baltar a program was made called death on the rock and that you know produced an eyewitness and her account contradicted the official version which was that a warning had been given to the irate people and they refused to surrender and then they were shot dead. they put their hands that when they fill these men with the guns in their hands of they couldn't say anything there was no interchange of what was just so and i think that had enormous impact on public opinion british and northern irish journalists reporting during the troubles were not on the direct government censorship but neither were the media truly free today two decades on from the landmark peace deal the good friday agreed censorship is seen as a thing of the par however while the conflict may be formally over the unsolved

crimes from that period proving too great for journalists to ignore. collusion the complicity of the british state in crimes committed by paramilitary groups is the issue attracting the most attention and as the documentary no stone unturned has demonstrated the most control the sea. there have been several definitions of collusion ranging from the will fall for you to record information to withholding evidence right up to the more obvious definition of nation to the state actively engaging with paramount jorgen assertion to kill someone we do need journalists to look into collusion but the trouble is that the word collusion itself is very loaded and there's a danger that it's become a gonna catch all for everything bad that the security forces did there's an attempt to establish a narrative of the ira vs collusion in other words what it is trying to do

is saying that the british state was riddled with collusion and that the ira was a legitimate response to that i would accept that in the one nine hundred seventy s. the media focus on state wrongdoing was insufficient number last i know i think that there is a grossly unbalanced focus on collusion. the role of journalism in documenting northern ireland's troubles has been hotly contested ever since the conflict began this place and with an estimated three thousand killings still unsolved it's a situation that looks unlikely to change anytime soon it's very clear that northern ireland needs to deal with its past it's not just going to go away you can't have reconciliation where you have people not knowing about what happened i think journalists have been told repeatedly over the years oh don't talk about this because that's going to unsettle the police don't talk about that because you're supporting terrorism if you talk like about and it's just not true journalism has

to investigate the truth that's what we're there for. finally the arrival of donald trump in the white house a little more than two years back was a chance to make american satirists great again so. much material to work with but as you've seen from your feeds not all of the comedic output hits the mark for our money one satirist randy rainbow has emerged from the pack he first became known online for poking fun at celebrities from the world of entertainment and then when one of those celebrities landed in the oval office he turned to politics made sense is one part musical theater one part pop music and we'll leave you with randy rainbows latest is madonna inspired take on donald trump's mexican the wall emergency it's called border lies we'll see you next time you're at the listening post your fake news some say that you're just fear mongering and using inflated statistics to help your own agenda not too many people have said the same.

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explores prominent figures of the twentieth century. influenced the course of history. that did not get enough credit for it in the book to be a big historical figure but he was the biggest con the way the prisoner and the prison came together to end apartheid in south africa nelson mandela and f.w. de klerk face to face. tension along venezuela's border with brazil as the standoff intensifies with at least two dozen reported dead.

back to bo this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up u.s. president donald trump puts off raising tariffs on chinese goods hailing substantial progress on talks to end a trade war plus the pope promises an all out battle against abusive priests calling them tools of satan but victims are disappointed and dates a rod polly would hands out its top film awards we're live in the songe minutes with the latest on the way. it's feared more people may have been killed in violent confrontations along venezuela's border with brazil than previously thought a local man says at least twenty five people died in the town of santa ana as venezuelan forces try to stop opposition supporters from bringing in foreign aid it

was conformationally of two dice near the border with brazil as indigenous groups backing the opposition were fired by venezuela's military. and has a latest from pocket in brazil and on the border with venezuela. potentially twenty five people killed and at least eighty four injured data is information that is coming to us courtesy of emillio gonzalez he is the mayor of the good on a region that is inside of it as a way of a close to the border with brazil we're talking specifically about the town of sound and that this is a town we've been speaking a lot about the past few days where there are indigenous groups that have been supporting the venezuelan opposition and they have been getting into clashes with venezuela's military off until today we had heard only that it was confirmed that two people had been killed and that seventeen had been injured those seventeen we

were told were being treated in brazil at a hospital called how i'm a general hospital in the capital of this part of brazil both of these which is about two hundred kilometers south of us if this pans out if this is true this would raise the death toll dramatically would be a serious escalation compared to what we've heard before now the mayor spoke to an assembled group of journalists he said that it is difficult getting precise information because he says that all the people that were killed were taken to essentially an area that venezuela's military is using where they are keeping the bodies there and because of that they don't have precise numbers nonetheless this is the most precise information we are getting from from venezuelans from people from inside even israel who have crossed over into brazil officials from that region who are now saying that they believe that at least twenty five people have been killed. while international pressure is mounting on venezuela's president nicolas maduro after he ordered that violent border assault to stop the foreign

aide opposition leader one guy joe is calling on world leaders to keep all options open to help free his country the u.n. has joined a chorus of condemnation against the use of force by venezuela's military i latin america at its embassy in yemen reports from san antonio in venezuela. venezuela security forces again denounced in the aftermath of saturday's violent response to unarmed protesters i mean for the first time the un high commissioner for human rights strongly condemned the use of excessive force by venezuela's national guard and especially pro-government armed groups the venezuela's government has a different explanation. the plan was to use terrorist to cross the sea bridge run over anyone they saw people and then blame the government of nicolas maduro. as for the quality of pro-government armed gangs and we saw take over the streets and

shoot the protesters in san antonio rodriguez claims there is a legal colombian paramilitaries who operate on both sides of the border. however after taking refuge from the gunfire we were able to see and film members of the college devils alongside national guardsman while they looted a close store then surely some of the guardsmen joined in to pick through the booty call it deals maybe paramilitary but residents tell us they are venezuelan operating in open complicity with security forces oh yes or no and then they belong to the government and they come through here threatening people slashing tires breaking windows. i mean i shot someone on the corner there stealing motorcycles. on sunday morning they were still roaming the streets albeit more discreetly near the now closed cmon believers. ridge. it's here that we found more of an israel is

preparing to migrate to one of the countless illegal border crossings fleeing the violence and poverty that is driving millions of venezuelans from their homeland to see an human i just see the sun i'm telling you that israel. u.s. president donald trump says he's extending a deadline to increase tariffs on chinese imports after what he is calling substantial progress in the latest round of trade talks with beijing high levies on more than two hundred billion dollars of chinese products were due to be imposed from march face there elizondo has more from washington on sunday we'd been getting some information out that the discussions on sunday were not so much focused on these individual issues but they were focused more on how to enforce a potential in agreement so that was a good sign coming out of the meetings on sunday and when people are talking about how to enforce an ingredient agreement that usually means they're pretty close to one but the good news here for both beijing and washington at least is it looks like they're very close to a deal well that's not speak to

a nod tongan who advises the chinese government on economic and development issues he's live with us from beijing thank you so much for being with us on al-jazeera first of all what do you make of the timing of this delay by president trump do you think his decision was influenced by his upcoming meeting with kim jong un. well actually not i think really what he's doing is political calculus this is a kind of pantomime that's going on he he really needs a win right now and beset at home with all sorts of issues the the upcoming summit does not look very promising given the fact that the positions haven't changed no one agrees on what denuclearization means in terms of lifting sanctions and in terms of china this is very important to donald trump he needs this in two respects one it's a relaunch of his campaign able to prove its popularity it was certainly boost the markets and for china it's very very important because they need time to readjust

their internal structure because this is even if something is put together it's not likely that this will be the final outcome and as these negotiations continue then what is china what is beijing most concerned about what would constitute a red line for them red lines or are mostly political you cannot change the way that the government involves its state owned enterprises it's not like they're going to disassemble them and things like that i think most of the issues have it's already been decided that there's going to be a lot more openness there's going to be a big number in terms of what china promises to buy from the u.s. in terms of energy and agriculture in particular there might be some layoffs in terms of settling at least partially this thing the things going on with z.t. in hallway but that will probably continue but he really needs this when when he's

beset at home with all these political troubles the moeller report and things like this i think he'd like to time this so that any kind of announcement kind of overshadows whatever is happening with that report so would you say then that china has the upper hand right now in the negotiations. not at all both both sides are going to be equally hurt by this. the bank of america came out with a study about a few weeks ago in which they talked about if this second tranche of tariffs were imposed it would actually hit the u.s. harder but that doesn't mean there would not be pain in china both sides need to recalibrate their their economies if they do not want to or wish to go forward together and that will take time and as i said there's no winners in a trade war this is simply who gets hurt the most thank you for talking to us in our tongan china economic and political affairs analyst joining us now from beijing

my green book has been named best picture at this year's academy awards a film tells the story of a friendship between an african-american concert pianist and his italian american driver in the one nine hundred sixty s. it also won oscars for best supporting actor and best original screenplay rob reynolds has been following the oscars for us joins us now live from los angeles on the red carpet quite a night for diversity tell us about the big win is that the oscars this year. this is very much so very big night for diversity fully in fact well this is a record setting oscar ceremony because there were seven awards handed out to individual black artists in six different categories including. best actor for. best excuse the best supporting actor for the

best supporting actress for regina king in beale street if the street could talk spike lee the director taking home an oscar for best adapted screenplay and other awards to professionals african-american professionals in the field in. categories like costume design and production design in addition roma and its director alfonso war room were big winners tonight roma took the best picture category who are own was named best director shows me i'm sorry it's been a bit of a long night let me start that part over again. roma took best foreign language picture category the oscar for that and to best director for roma he also won best cinematography because he shot and

directed the film so best actress that was a surprise many people thought glenn close was going to get her for her role in the wife but instead it was a livia cold wind who portrayed the mad clean and in the favorite who walked away with the statuette for best actress and best actor no shock there it was rami malek for his impassioned for trail of the very talented but very tortured rock star freddie mercury in the film the me and rhapsody. does the same rob and there was a lot of controversy in the meet ups into the cans to the sat morning with no host house moves was it all at the end. it went it went quite smoothly there were no gaffes it moved along pretty quickly the goal was to have the broadcasts run for three hours it went a little bit over but.