or not or do you believe those people who assume going to arrest into a country. kurdish forces in syria say i still has almost been defeated in the last territory it controls in the country the u.s. backed syrian democratic forces and a final push against the armed group in the village of goods on friday but while the group may soon suffer a territorial defeat analysts say it's too early to declare victory after schapelle reports. exhausted hungry and sick thousands of women and children have fled their resort in southeastern syria in the last week ahead of a us back to salt on the last piece of ice will so-called caliphate the town of bugaboos. the mainly kurdish fighters of the syrian democratic forces the s.d.f. say only those they call terrorists remain there now as fifteen thousand troops advance on the town and incendiary munitions rained down from the sky. we do not

know what the clashes will lead to but the military operation will continue to eliminate terrorists inside of if we notice any civilians we will try to avoid them and evacuate them during the ongoing military operation as the s.d.f. advance on five fronts they face more than a thousand hardened fighters difficult terrain suicide bombers mines and a large tunnel network but even once bug falls and i saw suffers what some are calling a final territorial defeat the group and its members will remain a serious threat this is not and of isis at all and we have seen. this and this kind of similar terrorist group autumn now thriving in africa and i won't be surprised if these same groups when taught to get. video they would have military operation inside you would order the united states of america because all the

grudges and. political crisis that open that led to the emergence of this group. there. all the battle for the goose is expected to end soon and commanders will declare the group defeated no one really knows for sure what happens after that and you should tell al-jazeera. still ahead for you on the program as french all of us protests continue for a sixteenth weekend prisoners in france are also a me to get their voices heard and a hard slog we look at why it's taking so long to clean up one of the world's most polluted britain's. hello there were things of pretty stormy weather across parts of europe at the

moment take a look at the satellite picture we can see the cloud approaching from the northwest as well is going to bring us some pretty wild weather they could be winds gusting as much as one hundred fifty kilometers per hour thanks to that system as it sweeps its way across us even on monday is just working its way up towards parts of scandinavia and this so plenty of wet and windy weather following it so many of us in the northwestern parts of europe this weather will be something of a shock a change from what we've been seeing recently where i had some windy but at least it's not too cold for the top temperature of around ten there in london for the southeastern parts of europe there is still fine and settled we're looking at sixty eight in vienna at around fourteen in bucharest in the should be some good spells of sunshine here now a bit further towards the south of there's a few bits and pieces of cloud around here that may just give us one or two showers but i think predominantly we're looking at some dry weather for most places afra bassett should be fairly pleasant with a top temperature of nineteen degrees of over the towards the south in the showers a pushing their way off now so we'll see more of them over parts of west africa i

think lagos will see quite a few of those during the day temperatures making it to thirty one there despite the showers and they will also be plenty of showers for the east as well and quite a few for us in the prevail. we want you to return to care bring your people back to life. with updates and the best of al-jazeera is documentaries the struggle continues. to no use to students continuing with australia's most generation of recovery. is a really important issue suicide writes do or mine very hard was still twice the national average rewind.

welcome back just a quick look at the stories making headlines now the u.s. president has told supporters at a major conservative conference that he will win the twenty twenty election with a greater margin than in two thousand and sixteen and the longest speech of his presidency donald trump criticized congressional inquiries against him labeled the special counsel investigation into claims of russian influence a collusion delusion. another round of high level talks between the u.s. and the afghan taliban have concluded in doha without any agreement and at least seven people have been killed in need fighting on the volatile front in the disputed region of kashmir. well in all the stories we're following the so-called yellow bus protest as it demonstrates in france for the sixteenth week in a row calling on the president to resign the movement began in november to protest

against proposal to raise fuel taxes on hasn't scrapped the plan but the demonstrations of grown into a wider anti-government challenge in a bid to address the crisis has been holding meetings across the country he has called the strategy the great debate and said that it's aimed at forming a more inclusive government and as david chaytor now reports from the city of raim the movement's also gaining support from a tough crowd. when the gate closes behind you at number twenty three boulevard robespierre in rants you might lose your freedom but you don't lose your vote the champagne city's only prison is the latest venue for president macaroons attempt to outflank deal a vest rebellion and listen to the voice of the people we can't identify the inmates but we can bring you their opinions simonis your voice things a little bit demonstrations were beneficial as they gathered not

a political party but to people at different regarded the differences it was a good movement as it actually triggered his debate a debate that was needed a new national. a thirty one year old m.p. from the president's party was the heart of the debate with the prisoners she passionately rejected their cynicism about politicians and they were going to be i think we are living an excellent democratic exercise as of today we have received more than a million contributions to this debate and that is a success it was time to give back the word to the french people that if you do see the big debate is meant to reach every now and every level of society even here behind us and it is beginning to work present a manual mackerels ratings are beginning to climb once again. the same can't be said for the conditions in french prisons they have one of europe's highest rates of overcrowding. and only one of the friends is safe to be the homeland of human

rights but the penitentiary system is not giving them a means to guarantee that inmates human rights european regulations require we are to in a cell have a shower and iran is lame but sometimes we have four people in main square meters to madiba us the debates go straight to the key point it allows the detained population to be fully recognized to citizens as french citizens but radicalization is flourishing in french prisons the debate a. how to tackle that has barely begun yet and schools of high school fighters may soon be repacked rated from syria david chase al-jazeera runs. well some news from nigeria where more than fifty people are missing after an oil pipeline exploded in the south of the country blah schools as a stampede and resulted in a huge spillage in member a only niger delta it's not clear if the pipeline which

carries crude oil to the nearest export terminal has been shut down. the new york times is reporting that a deal u.s. saudi physician has been tortured by the saudi authorities newspaper alleges that while lead to tie him it was beaten and shocked with electricity cheering his imprisonment at the ritz carlton in riyadh he was one of hundreds of people arrested in twenty seventeen as part of a white a crackdown on corruption by the kingdom is still believed to be held by riyadh saudi officials have denied any mistreatment of detainees muslim worshipers that the al aqsa mosque compound back in control of a meeting hall that had been closed for sixteen years by an israeli court but after years of neglect the site now needs much needed renovation and that can't go ahead without israeli approval but it's myth reports now from occupied east jerusalem. was was this was a rare success for muslim worshippers who'd faced down israeli police over access

to a hole in the axa compound the mercy gate was sealed by the police sixteen years ago because a court had banned a hamas affiliated group that met here the group was long ago despondent says alexa's custodians but the police have consistently refused to unlock the chains so the worshippers did but at the mercy gates is an integra part of a and we sacrifice everything we have including ourselves including our children to the mosque or was to trust a walk says locking the gate is another example of israel trying to assert itself inside they are acts a compound of the roots of this discrete he's who controls the holy sites beyond that gates now israel claims sovereignty over all of east jerusalem but includes here in the old city on the l.x. a compound but in nineteen sixty seven jordan and israel agree that a jordanian money islamic trust would look after affairs inside the compound while

israel would manage security outside. groups of jewish ultranationalists escorted by police regularly visit the site and in increasing numbers to them this is the temple mount non muslims are allowed to visit but not pray the ultranationalists want that rule changed. and earlier this week the israeli agriculture minister paid one of his regular visits to the mercy gate. told israeli radio he'd like a synagogue built here i was to see all this as provocative some never every muslim has the right to enter and pray in the midst of gate who for many years the occupations unjust measures have stopped as praying here thank god today we prayed and held the friday prisoner. untouched for sixteen years the mercy gate toll now only. extensive renovation also need approval from the israeli police were inspected the site this week only they can grant permission for building materials

to be allowed in bernard smith al-jazeera in occupied east jerusalem north korean leader kim jong un is returning to pyongyang after four days in vietnam kim boarded his private train at the vietnam china border watched by cheering crowds came in the u.s. president donald trump failed to reach a deal on the denuclearization of the korean peninsula after talks and hanoi and a private chile on thursday the north korean leader had stayed on in hanoi as part of an official visit to vietnam and i'm bush's program to decontaminate one of the world's most polluted rivers is taking longer than expected the setter and indonesia provides water for twenty seven million people but every year tens of thousands of tons of waste is dumped in the river as florence louis reports from bandung in west java war funding and military support is needed to continue the cleanup. cleaning up indonesia's most polluted river is

a huge undertaking even the military's involved machines have been brought in to bury the tons of rubbish fished out from the cheetah it's been a year since the government launched a program to clean up the river. but one military commander tells us progress has been slow with an action plan only put in place recently but they were number of the school we were supposed to have four thousand six hundred military personnel working on this last year but we only had one thousand six hundred this year because of a lack of funds only four hundred of us involved thankfully the villagers see the benefits of this program so they've been helping us so. the cheeto river flows through northwest java and provides eighty percent of the water supply for the capital jakarta this photo taken in january by a local environmental group shows untreated waste from a textile factory dumped directly into the river runoff from farms upstream also

contribute to the contamination a government agency that routinely tests the quality of water in the cheeto room says it went from bad to worse last year. the slow progress is even more apparent in other areas this looks like a landfill but it's really part of the river the surface is completely covered with all kinds of rubbish plastic bags bottles but here you get a sense of the scale of the problem and just how massive the cleanup effort is the plan to rehabilitate the river isn't only about improving water quality floating garbage clogs up drainage the river frequently overflows during the rainy season. people in the village of cheap have had to endure floods year after year in some. in the uk we still have it i would remind you that when you look at this this happens every time it floods our streets and homes get covered in mud and trash

o'barry not for myself but for my children and grandchildren. the newly appointed governor of west java indonesia's most populous province has been tossed to the cleanup making. much progress for the perception. of five years to seven years given from the degree we showed from the dirty years of the further we can become one of. the for individuals. to make good on his word he'll have to ensure not only that the river is cleaned up but that the laws that punish those who pollute the river on forced florence larry out jazeera bondo indonesia. space x. is going to space craft capable of carrying crew the unmanned test fly is a major step forward for the company owned by billionaire mosque now private firms can develop cheaper technology to allow it to resume manned flights which were suspended eight years ago ahmed al barre d.c.

has more. it said but. nasa describes it as a historic moment that could pave the way for a new era of space exploration you are at kennedy space center in florida billionaire elon musk's company space x. successfully launched an unmanned test flight bound for the international space station. but to what today really represents is a new era in space flight and an era where we are looking forward to being one customer as an agency and as a country we're looking forward to being one customer of many customers in our in a robust commercial marketplace in low earth orbit so that we can drive down costs and increase access in ways that historically have not been possible. the crew dragon capsule atop the falcon nine rocket is the first space shuttle intended for commercial use the only passenger on this demo one mission is

a dummy named ripley carrying with him four hundred pounds of supplies for the space station it's expected to arrive on sunday and if all goes well the next mission could put two astronauts in space as early as this july nasa warty context the space x. and boeing to develop cheaper methods of going to space since retiring it's shuttles in two thousand and eleven thus ending its reliance on russia so you spacecraft which cost more than eighty million dollars a seat what it means for the space program is it's really opening up much more regular access to the space station redundancy right now relying on just one system the russian soyuz system we also have boeing starliner vehicle coming later this year so so we really will see a lot more capability in terms of our ability to launch humans into space space x. and boeing own and operate the spacecraft and will be leasing them out to nasa and other clients one struggles and regular fraîche and i think we will. rules seek

crucial customers. which the westminster and national journal has been very supportive of that of that idea so but we've been very focused on just making sure that the vehicle worked and backspacing secure liability. elon musk's ambitions go far beyond shuttling astronauts he says it won't be long before the dragon starts taking commercial customers to space some of the d.c. al-jazeera well there is more on everything we're covering right here al jazeera dot com don't forget you can watch us live there as well. just a quick look at the top stories the u.s. president has told supporters at a major conservative conference he will win the twenty twenty election with a great image and then in two thousand and sixteen he criticised congressional

inquiries against him and labeled the special counsel investigation into claims of russian influence a collusion delusion and a gallagher was at the conference in maryland he's been talking now for almost two hours one of the longest speeches i've ever heard the president makes any longer than the rallies that i've been to but this seems all the ones we would expect these talks about his relationship with china the economy immigration very little has been said about that meeting in vietnam over north korea or what michael cohen his former fixer was saying in congress last week this is really about donald trump energizing his base. high level talks between the u.s. and taliban have concluded in doha without any major agreement expectations were high after earlier discussions made what the u.s. envoy described as unprecedented progress the taliban wants foreign forces to withdraw from afghanistan but is refusing to directly engage with the government meanwhile the taliban claimed responsibility for an attack on an army base on

friday which killed twenty three afghan soldiers they sure about base in helmand is shared by afghan and american troops at least seven people have died as india and pakistan continue cross border shelling in the disputed kashmir region has downs military says indian fire overnight killed two civilians and two soldiers on the line of control indian officials say a mother and her two children were among civilians killed when pakistani artillery hit a house in indian administrate kashmir. forces in syria say i said as almost been defeated in the last territory it controls in the country the us backed syrian democratic forces launched a final push against the armed group in the village of by coups on friday and more than fifty people are missing after an oil pipeline exploded in southern nigeria brass caused a huge spillage in the niger delta it's not clear if the pipeline which carries crude oil to the nearest export terminal has been shut down. those are the top

stories this hour will be more news later on coming up now listening posts. plus no one race to really show tax filings right and rich to stop them getting cash that i know that for lack. of us here this is after all my gynecologist and i. watch on christmas. hello i'm richard gives birth in europe the listening post here is some of the media stories we're covering this week how one interview that was never even

broadcast your. tax reform on the news agenda a news anchor in israel learns the hard way about what can or cannot be said about the occupation and israeli soldiers like father like mother like son nicaragua where journalism and politics can be a family affair and citizen journalists have had their crack at covering the unrest in sudan now the artists are doing their thing. this week we're leading with one of those topics that television news producers would rather leave to print journalists or better yet authors because it's complicated it's about tax rates and it's not a sexy topic not a visual story until a young dutch academic spoke at the recent world economic forum in davos and made news by telling a roomful of billionaires want to fix the global economy then dig deeper pay up it's time to tax the rich then fox news is tucker carlson invited rutger bregman

onto his program mistake bregman went right after crossing the channel that he works for and the media in general for almost never covering the fundamental issue of tax reform it's fair to say that carlson did not take it particularly well the interview would not go to air but bragman managed to have the entire exchange recorded on a phone camera and once he sent it to now this an online news site it was destined to go viral and get people talking our starting point this week is tax avoidance global inequality and the complicity of big media. format is what's known as a double ender or a d.t.l. a down the line interview which means the host is in one place tucker carlson at fox news's headquarters in new york the guest in another rutger bregman in a studio in amsterdam and it was prerecorded it wasn't

a lot. of help and. now typically if that kind of interview goes wrong and the channel chooses not to air it the video never sees the light of day because it exists on the broadcasters server and nowhere else. but this one went viral obtained and released by the online site now this because in addition to showing up with an agenda. bregman had a plan he brought along a friend to record the video from the amsterdam and on his phone and to capture the audio from go thinks. he knew it was probably going to go to the protest because he was raising issues that hurt them or make them look pretty bad and part. of their thirty he was criticizing the fact that they are paid to represent

a particular comfortable idea looking your millionaire. or your not talking about what you thought is the classic car crash t.v. interview and i think that made him uncomfortable as well but i think the thing that made the most uncomfortable was that he was accused of not being an independent journalist that he was accused of working to a great ideology that will show he's paying. tax. he didn't like that he took umbrage with that they're all like oh i'm against to call this off. even twenty years ago you know this would have been unthinkable the very fact there bregman was able to get it out so quickly is itself a sign of the ability of different voices sometimes to break into the narrative and interrupt the dominant interpretations of issues like say taxing the wealthy i mean

i want i don't i don't know. the down the line interview between new york and amsterdam actually got its start in switzerland rutger bregman made waves in davos telling the world economic forum's well heeled audience that the best way to fix the global economy was to hit them in the pocket and har. we got to be talking about texas that said. however fox and carlson would have been more interested in something else bregman told his audience a billionaire and observation that happened to square with fox's own ideology fifteen hundred private yet to hear survey that and ross speak about you know how the planet perhaps crosses producers thought that man would be a kindred spirit regarding the hypocrisy of billionaires flying halfway across the world but it doesn't come at this from that kind of position at all or kind of

conservative populist position that maybe tucker carlson or fox news does but for me what really stood out from that interview was the moment when piers to tucker carlson of being a millionaire funded by building a house you're not part of this. part of the problem actually. went to the heart of this debate about the role that media and well paid people within the media potentially contribute to the debate all the lack thereof around tech specs. and the criticism. new reports in the us the coverage of tax reform in mainstream news media is disproportionately luck while tax avoidance gets sporadic mentions when celebrities from the world of sports or entertainment are involved those advocating reform like rubber bridge members tend to blame corporate leaders and

the ideology of their owners for the shortfall but the truth is the little. more complicated with a little less reductive some of the media's aversion to tax stories even the corporate owned media isn't ideological it's commercial channels not wanting to lose viewers by testing their patients and burying them in numbers documents deductions credits and loopholes. you're right reporting on tax can be dry and it can be boring and ninety five percent of that work involves reading very complicated spreadsheets financial statements and e-mails that don't make much sense i do think that television has gotten so much better and they've been great example of reporting on things like the panel in the paradise five years if reporting on tax and financial crimes has taught me anything it's that patience is a virtue i think stories run pretty well on television we have news walls we have

discussion programs that remember that if you talk about taxation you're also talking about inequality you're talking about poverty you're talking about real people's lives all that can be represented on television i think what's happening at the moment is out ideas like radical taxation across the board taxing labor income less. accumulated words these were outlier ideas only a couple of years ago but they're starting to take root now and perhaps the media is having to rethink where allocates space and time to those kind of discussions. commercial considerations are not the only thing the tax reform story is up against corporate ideology preaches that mo tax rates are a good thing that if billionaires are spared taxes proportionate to their income society will somehow benefit that's debatable but what does trickle down is the truth that starts on the executive floor and winds its way below to the newsroom

where it becomes a journalistic truism whether it is true or false for example. if a government cuts taxes it will lead to increased economic growth there is no evidence of that and yet it's repeated as though it's true it's not a challenge the cut is a great thing because businesses small and large well left to the federal robber barrons and be able to do is they see fit with their newfound hard earned cash the problem with the media really is that there has to be an ideological capture and there is a kind of narrative that has become dominant and one of the successes of neo liberalism is it seem visibility in the fact that people are not aware including journalists are not aware that they repeat sink beneath the house you know every ten children is there a cultural difference between mainstream media and the sort of voices without seeing in the general public and audiences that yes there probably is i think the

media is only now coming to terms with the fact that people are challenging more bravely the status quo that even five years ago in a forum like this would not have been mentioned it's not a coincidence that in every project that we have swiss wakes panama papers or paradise papers there is a pretty substantial number of media moguls television station owners newspaper owners magazine owners who appear surprise surprise as using tax havens as having secretive bank accounts so the question is significant is there a way in which that economic pressure leads perhaps to the distortion of media coverage the better question may be is there any way to this is my first time at davos rutger bregman has recently made waves that two institutions one a gathering of the rich and powerful the other a news network i want. to speak truth to power and i'm doing exactly the same thing

right now but your a millionaire funded by doing this. and that's the reason why you're not talking about these issues bregman made news by stating the obvious that the rich should pay their fair share because sometimes it's not what you say that matters it's where you say it but the last word on this goes to the millionaire fox news anchor who went viral fifteen million views and counting. and. he didn't really mean that. hugh we're discussing other media stories that are on our radar this week with one of our producers tara enough starting with another interview that did not go well the u.s. based spanish language broadcaster only views you on lands a face to face with venezuelan president nicolas maduro what went wrong the interviewer jorge ramos did the interview at the presidential palace in caracas but

it didn't last long barely fifteen minutes according to ramos moderate didn't like his line of questioning of the challenging him on electoral fraud human rights concerns and humanitarian issues ramos he showed me this video of three young venezuela and eating from a garbage truck. not only did my door then abruptly and the interview ramos and five of his colleagues were held by security we confiscated all of their equipment including the memory cards six of them were deported from venezuela the next day seems like some of the best interviews these days aren't making it to air what arma duros people saying about this so the information minister rodriguez tweeted that ramos was a stooge for the u.s. state department he said the government has welcomed hundreds of john but that quote we don't lend ourselves to cheap shows and to be fair richard last week spanish journalist jordi alba away from the channel called left sexed up sat down

with a mentor in an interview where he pulled no punches and nothing untoward occurred we know the history and politics at play here caracas has reason to be suspicious of western news outlets many have largely uncritical supports for what some see as u.s. regime change in venezuela the government has arrested or deported news crews from chile france and spain but jorge ramos is nobody stooge his reputation around moving on to israel now an anchor woman there named or shot at. we're taking a lot of heat over comments that she made about the occupation what did she say and why are people so worked up about it caught her took aim at an institution that is seldom criticized on israeli airwaves the military. limited the image of our us to have a couple. of people wish she was referring to a segment they just run on channel thirteen a privately owned israeli channel about the beating of

a palestinian man and his son by israeli soldiers last month the victims were hung cuffed and blindfolded and the fifteen year old boy was made to watch of his father had his ribs and nose broken the soldiers reportedly started dancing afterwards so channel thirteen got thousands and of complaints over callers remarks she received death threats and the network has since find her a bodyguard israeli politicians currently in the middle of an election campaign feast on this incident prime minister benjamin netanyahu tweeted about it but his education minister naftali bennett went right after you confused idea of soldiers give their lives so that you can sleep soundly apologize did apologize and i show you the next week but she added this i mean it's there's no mclean viber go but me make him a villain and. surely all the time i feel you a cow son of the michel mean there are still and then no. no. only at sea org.

ok thanks to our. last month we reported on one of nicaragua's most outspoken journalists fleeing the country carlos for the nando chamorro said he feared for his life that he was facing extreme threats from the government when civil unrest erupted last year against the government of president daniel ortega models news outlets all on and on the air reported on those demonstrations and the crackdown that followed more than five hundred protesters jailed more than three hundred killed this is not just a story of another crusading journalist there's a lot of history here to morrow comes from an influential family the to morrows own media outlets his mother is a former president and his late father paid for his journalism with his life that was back in the one nine hundred seventy s. when daniel ortega led the sandinista rebels the political roles were reversed and ortega was fighting to get the story out with one foot in journalism and the other

in politics that your morals don't just speak truth to power they've held power the listening post of mine to sell a piece are now on a family that lives and works at the intersection of journalism and politics in nicaragua. this is a story that spans deliberations a family history of journalism including with politics a story about the get out one that is now being told on the news from costa rica but you know what you learn. you have my bangle bit of bad. governance but number two i'm not in our heads up i'm presenting. this week one of his country's most watched current affairs she is. not as december police raided one of the other media outlets and compete in. a week later they targeted.

another media house and arrested. you know for tomorrow it was time to leave stock out on for the record they raided our offices and occupied them with the military spy unless police have harassed us my home was surrounded by checkpoints for every time i had to leave or go back home i was interrogated. was whether to wait a day or rested on a trumped up criminal charge or continue to report from costa rica and we got our work that it was that we got got a fair number of callers fernando is the journalist with the most credibility and most impact in nicaragua his journalism is heavyweights and is focused on the political and economic issues a combative journalist that power finds uncomfortable and not just the current government because he has been critical of all governments of different political stripes people more defined in the in the for long though what's happened to carlos fernando is an example of what's happening more generally i think in december and

again in the water from c.n.n. . and his head of news you see it in asia but charged in basically kidnapped by the state and they're still in jail this is how the state cracks down on the media to know many young. women. more have been reporting the civil unrest in nicaragua since a wave of protests against the government of president daniel ortega destabilize the country last april. story and he got i walk into the input device that's one reason why tomorrow is considered by the president speech persona non-grata but all that is in the name motorola the country's most influential family faith in politics and in journalism five tomorrow school father and his mother ruled the country and today his cousin one so act in tomorrow is one of the opposition movements leaders the family also was main print outlets including the

oldest and. most renowned these paper napkins are the paper's critical coverage of the crackdown to let the government pound its ink and last month published a plant from page in protest by an am blank ok for that blank page really made an impression on all of us journalists to see that a newspaper with such a long history in the caracal i would need to resort to that form of protest against censorship we really are experiencing a state of siege and persecution in the media. it's a newspaper which has always being in opposition to power and one which has always had very good journalists it is clearly aligned with an economic cost but that has not prevented it from doing the important work of watchdog journalism watchdog journalists play other. media outlets like they've always behaved more like a political party than a news paper has been able to determine who is allowed to be

a presidential candidate who is allowed to be a politician the newspaper product that's what i call it. and has a dog in this fight and he'll. yeah he's a pro-government journalist a prominent voice on state t.v. but he also has a point for the past ninety years lebensohl has been at the center of nicaraguan politics during the one nine hundred seventy s. as a food decade long summers a family dictatorship tightens its grip on power most financial models father was an editor. and the country's most outspoken opposition figure this is a fucking moron was assassinated in one thousand nine hundred seventy eight by some as a gunman protests erupted paving the way for then you know take a left wing revolutionaries the sandinista to take power.

violetta to come with a newspaper during the eighty's and then the country defeating ortega in the nineteen ninety elections to become president. petro cracking john moore's legacy remains his cool values which were about the fight for public freedom as an ecological still a rallying cry that's what journalists and ordinary people find so important about that story one that sadly remains relevant to this day c c in the week and they don't. look at what came after pedophile walking chamorro which was no less influential politically it was just the ghost of what here in the cargo has come to be known as the. people who push their political interests through the medium of newspapers in order to set the government's agenda. if i used their papers to wield influence that fourth day then i don't think many

have taken from the medium with more reach television a smiling look. where they look at benign seattle where the fish. count. bottle. get in front of the senate by if yes then for the past ten years the ortega's have put up seven t.v. channels both to traditional sandinista party outlets like. oh yeah and cut government advertising across non sundanese outlets because out there knows that political polls are often won or lost depending on the media. but there are sort of i thought boy a mistake in order to take a cab back into power in two thousand and six he created t.v. stations and placed them under his children's control. we already had camilla morris all involved in channel four channel eight and then there's the state

channel number six which acts like much of the nicaraguan state in other words like a feudal system linked to the presidential family and then there is channel thirteen along with numerous radio stations this all means that in the nick of regular in context there are practically no t.v. outlets that produce an aggressive form of investigative journalism nothing on the challenges the exercise of power. but. ironically they were and tomorrow will once on the same song. in the eighty's at the beginning of the revolution or take a lead it and to morrow run its official mouthpiece the sandinista newspaper body gala or barricade drop we part of the role as i was part of the son that mr revolution touted successes and failures in one nine hundred ninety s. and the knees more went into crisis and two paths emerge one was a democratization of the left which i followed ortega continued to believe in

a one party system which meant or for terri in control we're seeing the results of that now although it will be an order. to cause two narratives one speaks of the socialist revolution the other a social democracy times changed families dug in and today the political battle in nicaragua will to a large extent be thought through the media the media each side has at its disposal . and finally two weeks ago we reported on the media side of the political unrest unfolding in sudan and the information war taking place online social media feeds there have been flooded with images and commentary now come the contributions of sudanese artists also circulating online primarily via instagram artists like abdul rahman al nazir khalid al baker and i started here whose viral images center around

the theme of freedom and dignity some of the artwork criticizes the sudanese news media for their role in succumbing to the power of the state and failing to tell the story will leave you now with some artistic impressions of a country in the midst of a power struggle and we'll see you next time here at the listening.

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the vice president of brazil talks to al-jazeera. we understand the differences and the similarities of cultures across the world. so no matter where you call home al-jazeera will bring you the news and current affairs that matter to you. al-jazeera. hello i'm maryanne demasi in london just a quick look at the top stories this hour the u.s. president has told supporters at a major conservative conference he will win the twenty twenty election with a greater margin than in two thousand and sixteen he criticized congressional inquiries against him and labeled a special counsel investigation into claims of russian influence

a collusion delusion and a gallagher was at the conference and merrier. he's been talking now for almost two hours one of the longest speeches i've ever heard the president makes any longer than the rallies that i've been to but the themes are the ones we would expect to use talks about his relationship with china the economy immigration very little has been said about that meeting in vietnam over north korea or what michael cohen his former fixer was saying in congress last week this is really about donald trump energizing his base. high level talks between the u.s. and the taliban have concluded in doha without any major agreement the taliban wants foreign forces to withdraw from afghanistan but is refusing to directly engage with the government dosage of barrios in doha. they four has wrapped up here in doha without any specific agreements being reached between the taliban and the u.s. but the taliban spokesperson is optimistic that they're on the right path he said

that the have made progress but they haven't finalized any kind of agreements and of course at stake here is the future of over thirty five million people in afghanistan something the taliban wants to make sure that they are involved in their future and their governments that is the issue here is the idea of u.s. withdrawal is there's a u.s. troop withdrawal that is there's a little fourteen thousand u.s. troops in afghanistan and the taliban wants them to leave their country the other main issue is the taliban does not recognize the current government in office. as legitimate they are not negotiating with them they're not being represented here and that is something the americans hope they can work on to bring the two sides together to have a dialogue that will discuss the future of their country with all parties involved but inside afghanistan the violence continues the taliban has claimed responsibility for an attack on an army base which killed at least twenty three

afghan soldiers share a bike race in helmand province is shared by afghan and american troops the defense ministry says twenty attackers including eight suicide bombers were also killed. at least seven people have died as india and pakistan continue cross border shelling in the disputed kashmir region pakistan's military says indian fire overnight killed two civilians and two soldiers along the line of control indian officials say a mother and her two children were among civilians killed when pakistani artillery hit a house in indian administrate kashmir will india's prime minister narendra modi has called for unity over the dispute with pakistan he defended his leadership as well . august donna summer of radio these of those people who listened to statements from pakistani generals pakistan right here and via sighing there is evidence against india that they are against maybe against modi and now they are damaging the country india and tuning against the country i want to ask the people who do

you believe us or not or do you believe those people who assume being terrorists into a country. kurdish forces in syria say i still has almost been defeated in the last territory it controls in the country the us backed syrian democratic forces launched a final push against the armed group in the village of a goose on friday. or than fifty people are missing after an oil pipeline exploded in southern nigeria last caused a huge spillage in m.b.a. on the niger delta it's not clear if the pipeline which carries crude oil to the nearest export terminal has been shut down and the new york times is reporting that a deal u.s. saudi physician has been tortured by the saudi authorities the newspaper alleges that walid he was beaten and shocked with electricity cheering his imprisonment at the ritz carlton hotel in riyadh he was one of hundreds of people arrested in twenty seventeen as part of a white a crackdown on corruption by the kingdom you're up to date with our top stories

al-jazeera world is next more news after that about twenty five minutes time i'll see you later. in the one nine hundred sixteenth an unusual supporter of the palestinian cause

emerged from the holiest of places. and. the end of the father still mean when i say. it will be but that libya was in the year. he became an active campaign or even while holding high christian office. he served time in jail but that didn't deter him and he carried on his fight into his late eighty's. this is the story of hilarion capuchin a catholic archbishop in jerusalem and his controversial relationship with the p.l.o. . he was born in one nine hundred twenty two in the syrian city of aleppo his father died when he was very young so he grew up an orphan. at the age of eleven he joined the

brazilian monastery indeed a shield in lebanon where he completed his primary education lemon is our last day at canada how i did last march arsenic i'm usually could have was a lot. you know what he'd be the last two out of. were you the sober mother cindy you had to live in you have a look that i mean are bad then beautiful because for those on the philosophy you were allowed to you let me up will be. the sheer fun awful sleep that us of a. puts for our phoebe day at the. i shuffle well nerd. shader b. i ne has very well yet. though. on the twenty second of july nine hundred forty six the jewish armed group bombed the king

david hotel in jerusalem. she was deeply affected by the bombing leads her writing in his memoirs. i was the only student who left the center and ministry that. i saw the destruction and the bodies of the ninety english and arab victims i felt unbearable pain. he went back to lebanon where he was ordained a priest in one thousand nine hundred eighty two in the battalion and order of the greek catholic church. he chose the name hilario on after hilario and the greek who lived in gaza one thousand eight hundred years earlier. you know legal ability to listen to learn your own. cafferty well have see that this man has for. apology were full of the want to

be there and who we saw namely full steam me out of it when he can if this will be a local level and work in whatever they head out of commission can i was a welcome in the local or if your little one wish to see it all have the subtle silly motegi or was a little shocked or if you were in missouri you were the can and when anyone actually would have been. in one nine hundred sixty five computer he was appointed archbishop of syria and p.t. arkell vicar of jerusalem. he went to live in jerusalem. well not so. they see that their kids are all ok for a week. i lead he cannot and will thunder don't boise.

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one thousand nine hundred eighty seven israel declared war on egypt syria and jordan. the one nine hundred sixty seven arab israeli war ended with israel occupying the egyptian sinai peninsula the gaza strip the syrian golan heights and the west bank. the israeli army entered jerusalem and the city came under israeli control. it was a turning point in the life of archbishop compute. what it can do with the whole family and by the some more city in a bog a little zone when just as we were thinking in the shift for better than morality to i thought it should come ahead definitely efficient disavows it did and americana sure had that for show out it was as it. was definitely a day here out of by me a shade below god's work.