also someone who has roots. they want to portray that aspect of the purse and these tools have become. remember one hundred one days the mechanic in a arrested it was the entire incident was captured on the shop surveillance cameras footage that was used by his defense in court. video taken by rami gonzales his daughter on his cell phone footage went viral helping him out of immigrant detention six months later breaking the ice one video at a time. around the world migrants and refugees are on the move and to a large extent journalists and aid agencies are the main sometimes only sources of information on these migrant flows africa so is a journalist and filmmaker who's been on the speak for more than a decade he's tracked refugees escaping from wars the treatment of migrants at

borders across europe and the lives of those left behind when loved ones leave or massacres so joins us now from chicago matthew i thank you for joining us here on the listening post and welcome you've spent years focusing on the issue of migrant flows spend a lot of time working in europe tell us a little bit about the coverage that you've seen and also how you think it's affected both policymakers and the european public as you said i've spent years covering this issue and i remember during the peak of the global refugee crisis in september two thousand and fifteen i remember one day where b.b.c. b.b.c. journalist was at munich train station in germany where train by train refugees were getting off and it was a big story every global news agency was out there and news channels out there covering it and i remember the b.b.c. journalist was trying to find people to speak with. but she couldn't find anyone who spoke english and i don't mean to single out the b.b. . see you're the journalist in particular but with the coverage at that time there

were no there were very few journalists who actually spoke arabic who spoke dari who spoke the language of the refugees and migrants who were coming to europe and what that meant is that we weren't able to hear from the refugees and migrants in their own languages and it wasn't just b.b.c. al-jazeera english also had teams out there who didn't speak any of the languages and also editors and news outlets were contacting me and trying to commission stories focused only on english speaking refugees and migrants at the time months after people like nigel for another anti immigrant or anti refugee voices in europe in the united states were able to stand in front of pictures of masses of migrants and refugees crossing into europe and use language like an invasion on a breaking point the fact that we hadn't heard from so many of those people and they just remain these nameless storyless people in the months leading up to that

not it wasn't the only reason that let him do that but it definitely contributed to it we should have heard more from the refugees and migrants in their own voices i guess if we had heard more directly from a lot of the refugees and migrants perhaps who would have known more about the reasons behind their migration do you think that that's a point that is so them made as in we show pictures of the refugees of migrants arriving but perhaps not explain enough about why and they all have different reasons you know why they undertook the journey a lot of the people who are coming to europe or who have been coming to europe in recent years ago are from countries like iraq afghanistan yemen syria these are all countries that many of our governments have been directly involved in you know having troops on the ground or selling these governments or different actors in those countries weapons so that they can fight against each other i think it's important to understand the root causes and i think it's been lacking part of the reason definitely is that it takes a lot of time and resources. to travel to west africa or to afghanistan or to south

asia and kind of explore the root causes and for the past few years unfortunately especially in the english language media coverage has been dominated by breck's it and by donald trump and there's been very little coverage that really gets in depth at any other issue be it the migration crisis climate change ongoing conflict in syria and that's unfortunate your latest series is called the missing in india you made a decision not to focus on the people that migrated but focusing on their communities the families left behind why did you decide to do that and how important do you think it is to do that if we are going to see i guess a complete overview of the migration. of my father just passed away last month so i'm very aware of the pain that comes with you know the death of a loved one i cannot begin to imagine what it's like for people who have had loved

ones and relatives disappear for years without knowing whether or not they're dead or alive. but sadly that is a reality for thousands of people around the world who do not know their status who do not know if their loved ones are you know alive or dead living in a foreign country or not. and that's why i think it was very important to tell those stories these are the people who have been hardest affected by this issue and i think just in general we could all benefit from having a little bit more. understanding a little bit more compassion injected into this debate and coverage of refugees and migrants because it's sorely been lacking in so much of the global media and that's what i was trying to do in the series the missing rustica cell thank you so much for sharing your expertise and experience with us here on the listening post thank you thank you. they are images seen on screen more and more often border control

officials are searching for the legal goods interrogating and deporting those the desirable all in the name of protecting the homeland and those pictures don't just stand up for newscasts no border security shows are now a subzone or of reality t.v. producers say the programs provide an insight into the essential work of customs and immigration agencies but in the post nine eleven climate and in the context of a global refugee surge the format smacks of tabloid t.v. at its worst often exaggerating and sensationalizing the threats posed by those crossing the border for governments with law and order policies to sell these shows are like paid political advertising without the paid part for broadcasters it's t.v. made on the cheap never mind that those tuning in at home might be left without the store to view of what really happens at their nation's borders the listening posts johannah hoose reports now on the danger is over border security t.v.

. border force americans to keep. these up to keep the patrol the border the border security australia's front line immigration detainees are illegal workers who are deployed to only receiving immigration screening profound undesirable and unsuitable dogs to some of the border security t.v. shows on air over the past year or in a time where immigration is increasingly part of popular discourse and he immigration discourse is increasingly part of popular culture so the idea that we need to shut down our borders that illegal immigration is changing our culture and our demographics and so border security shows really appeal to people's desires to control borders they. exist in

a vacuum. and i think you just need to look at the sort of language that's used around immigration certainly in the striking example the show is called border force astride his front watermen front lawn it is a militaristic terms it's something you associate with with war and with conflict and i think that that really sets the tone for we're talking about. the format is simple and it's cheap crews get behind the scenes accompanying border security as they search for illegal goods interrogate the suspicious and the poor the unwanted and c.b.s. a officers watching this coming play. border crossings and airports service filming locations while shows like australia's frontline or border patrol new zealand also feature raids on my current workers overseas overstayers those have already made it into the country. right so no pressure immigration i suspect they have called this . japan's recently premiered.

or caught at the moment of deportation wrapping up that drama it follows a group of immigration officers in their hunt for so cool illegal aliens the broadcasters face a lot of critique for its lack of balance and for turning the perils of immigration into entertainment one of the problems with programs like caught at the moment of deportation is that there's no journalistic rigor it looks journalistic because you're with the officers with your camera with you is of your work and feel you can judge what's happening but we don't actually talk to the other side well they're also. it was also the last possible one segment tokyo immigration officers stake out an apartment building the police officers after the apartment they find three guest workers interrogate them on camera and then the next day they are deported.

we tend to think that they're guilty but there's been no due process it seems like mission accomplished police the show's doing my good save a but in order to do that the nature sensationalize and exaggerate the idea of threat and our borders. shows to give the impression that countries are under siege from overwhelming numbers of people and seeking to write laws and flout radio license. what i don't show because it doesn't like and say tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of people who pops through borders legitimately every die. stuart moore is the executive producer of border force america's gatekeepers the show originally produced for british broadcaster u.k. t.v. but since sold to national geographic for american audiences. the ten part series follows the department of homeland security's customs and border protection agency

. and their operations at the bridges that connect the u.s. and mexico moore's calls his show an observational documentary and dispute the idea the border control shows misrepresent the threats posed by those crossing the border to record things which would happen even if our cameras aren't there it is truly a kind of a fly on the wall of stock series watching from the point of view of customs and border protection suits lately there's been a trend are people trying to. marc. on this type of bottles one of the problems that we had is that we're a small crew covering twenty eight bridges there was a drug bust in daily bases but some of them happened three hundred miles from where we were at that time can film it if we had a crew in every bridge and we would sure the true extent of the problems that officers face and so i think we kind of got a fair reflection of what we do and how they operate. for critics the issues go

beyond the narratives that the shows create such as casting border security officials as the good guys the program border security canada's frontline is a textbook case of that syndrome or at least it was according to a study conducted by a group that campaigned for the cancellation of the show in most episodes more suspects were deemed guilty based on the color of their skin and producers turned to migrants improved into unwitting actors. one migrant worker oscar muttered to run suit the program in two thousand and thirteen for breach of privacy drones workplace was raided by the border security agency and his deportation was filmed and prepared for broadcast but durand won his case in two thousand and sixteen the show was canceled and the episode never went to air during the course of that raid we got calls from family members to say you know help us get our family members out of detention and during the course of that conversation

a number of family members said there was a massive film crews and through that we realized that you know basically canada border security was trying to film a very sensationalist raid and during the course of talking to the men who were in detention we found out that oscar durand as well as a number of other workers signed consent forms to be on this t.v. show and this generated a massive campaign against the t.v. show on the basis that people's privacy rights were being violated that people were not able to give informed consent that deportation was being used as entertainment . the criticism of canada's frontline went far beyond durant's case the show's production company forced forgot a helping hand from the government in the form of subsidies and they agreed to surrender at the tour you can true of the program to the border protection agency it's the price that the producers paid in exchange for accidents and they aren't the only ones to do so in the case of the strike investigations of on top of that

the immigration problem the department of border security has fought assaults on every single program that goes to way and is able to manipulate the show to its own and says these are for all intents and purposes government propaganda this is not to suggest that what's happening is not the reality of what's happening but it is it is a prejudiced and distorted view that reality the authorities in this truly had a little bit too much control and i think that's unfortunate especially if i was sure that tarn. the fact when we signed a multimedia agreement with homeland security which is very non restricted they have no editorial control over what we put out but i think what the god of it is the inform the public through a process which is excessive and you know members of the public not going to watch some corporate video about you know c.b.p. with my actually watch a show about the southwest border and the work that c.b.p. does told in a kind of independent way by independent producers it's essential the free p.r.

in primetime and it's syndicated reruns so it's great for me invest a little bit of time by allowing a camera to have got an hour long the mercial for the great things regardless during a. commercial in more ways than one the free advert for the agencies being profiled t.v. hits that's affordable for those producing at the what about the bits that don't make the cut the crucial back stories of the lives ruined that just don't make for good television perhaps at a time of unprecedented displacement audiences should be more discriminating over border control t.v. programming that clearly crosses the line. and that's it for our special episode on the media coverage of the migration story we'll see you next time right here at the listening.

for the no magic jack tries survival is about reaching their destination if we don't hurry will never be able to give the time of the storm we follow the mongolian herdsmen on a treacherous migration. is dangerous to the ices of them as they strive to preserve their traditional way of life you are living longer sometimes luser in the u.k. there was the cold war because of the storm risking it all mongolia on al-jazeera. the u.n. chief has a libyan war road to stop advancing on tripoli as his forces reach the southern outskirts.

watching al jazeera live from doha also ahead. load not satisfied yet another round of massive demonstrations in algeria despite the president's resignation people a mahdi vent their anger at leaders they blame for ethnic violence that claims nearly one hundred sixty lives last month and their fields may be green and productive but pakistan's farmers say things have never been so bad we'll find out why. thank you for joining is libyan troops commanded by warlords. say they've advance into the southern outskirts of the capital tripoli in a push against the internationally recognized government the u.n. and world powers a demanding they host the offensive fighting has been going on iran the old

international airports have to say as he wants to in his words liberate the city but the government in tripoli has a u.n. support and soldiers loyal to it say they've captured at least one hundred four forty five. men from tripoli and one hundred reports. the prime minister of libya has you and back the government meeting the troops thirty kilometers west of tripoli i was in earlier fighters loyal to the warlords twenty four have attempted to enter tripoli but eventually surrounded dozens of their vehicles you will see used a setback for hathor who has ordered his troops in his words to liberate tripoli it's raising fears of a major confrontation with the u. and recognized government the united nations secretary general antonio arrived in tripoli this week he flew to eastern libya to meet hafter in an attempt to ease tensions he also visited tobruk whom to libya's parallel parliament which is backed

by have to i still hope it will be possible that a lot of station in and around tripoli. and united nations remain. available facilitate any political solution able to unify the libyan institutions here in tripoli libyan officials say the capital remains calm and the reassuring people who live here that government forces are ready to repel any attack on the city now that the very problems the situation is normal and there is no form of fighting prime minister fayyad satirized has given orders to the air defense to stand up to any possible threat to the lives of civilians. libya has been in turmoil since the need to bag the removal of its long time ruler i'm really get deaf in twenty eleven and since twenty fourteen it has

had two competing governments have to do we need to the east of libya leading a lose alliance of factions but his repeatedly except present his intention to march on tripoli beyond his military ambitions some analysts say have to his goal is a loud voice in diplomatic efforts to secure a peaceful future for the last several years general haftar has stalled or to go. for real and processes in paris last year which of which is. purse would have to move towards tripoli and he did settlement to this crisis looks more difficult but the u.s. and other world leaders will apply more pressure to try to pull libya burke from the brink and joins us now on the line from tripoli with the latest on what's the situation right now in libya's capital how close are have task forces to try to

maybe a tripoli sorry. well military commanders with a government of national accord say that the clashes going on between the government forces and forces loyal to the warlord pretty fast in the outskirts in the southern outskirts certainly namely around the tripoli international air force and other other two neighborhoods what good would be good for the business shares that's. going on now they say that it is sporadic and it's not heavy clashes at this moment we understand that have been the forces have got enforcement since yesterday from the city. and on the other hand the government forces have been receiving the enforcement from the city of misrata and several other cities in the wake of the country which have declared general

mobilization of forces to move to the southern outskirts of tripoli to support the government forces also the military commanders say that they have captured doesn't have to his forces they have been taken prisoners also a government of national accord has given orders to enforce to tug is to have ten forces. from the city of misrata also say that the other is positioning now in civilization's in this part of the outskirts of tripoli as you know exactly the situation that minutes it is collation by have them forces being condemned by civil the international situation including the united nations g seven countries and also the meeting the closed door meeting yesterday by the united nations security

council but yet people here are still very angry the. the international community is not doing enough to stop the military escalation but have to disclose it they say that really can't talk but it. is. the capital tripoli you know the. regional military activities could be the peace talks. which is to be the. only repeat of this month ok thank you so much for have updates mom would have done well had a correspondent in tripoli them meanwhile human rights watch says any fighting in tripoli will likely result in atrocities it's a statement part of which is which says fighters led by general holly for have to have a well documented record of indiscriminate attacks on civilians summary executions of captured find is and detention human rights watch also warns that militias

affiliated with the un backed government of national court also have a record of abuses against civilians whenever rival on forces clash in libyan cities it's civilians who suffer the most let's not speak to. the director of the institute a think tank that studies and analyzes libya he's live from beirut thank you again for being with us and asked first of all i want to ask you how highly for have tom has been able to make such sweeping gains in libya and is there anything or anyone that can stop him from reaching tripoli now. well i mean again it's not a conventional force in the truest sense of the word and again the term loyalty to the far off there again is not really the true it's the best way to represent what these forces are doing and how their relationship is with have to have to have a strategy of co-option so every city that isn't effectively proximity to tripoli

you know has a ray of different competing forces some that may have fought for the revolution some that may have fought for financial gain and for power and resources it's typically those groups that are fighting for financial gain and a monopoly on this term. the monopoly on the legitimate use of violence then come in and bottle with after and after gives them a bad effectively it gives them a label he calls on the army he then goes on and calls all of their opponents terrorists and so effectively have there is no closer to tripoli than he was a year ago two years ago he's still in eastern libya right by the forces that he's choosing to use to escalate the violence a very very close to tripoli and on the outskirts so what can be done now to avert a full blown battle aim trade me what can the international community do. well there certainly have to condemn and look inwards and i think we have to look within the people of the permanent members of the security council france which has been a major political backer a military backer of cliff after since two thousand and fifteen has military planners on the ground there involved or certainly at least from the prometric

sources that tell me that they were involved in the architecture in the design and execution of this matriculation now is to place a best if the u.n. security council which france is a member of comes and condemns the violence without naming hafter but is equally trying to escalate the violence on the ground so they have to look inwards and again they also have to look at the u.a.e. which is also playing a major major role in escalating the violence with its air base its intelligence base and drone base in eastern libya had them which is also been involved in the escalation of violence that after inwards a lot of this is really away from the shores of tripoli most of this is in paris and i would not be and i think the u.n. has to look inward otherwise what does it reflect as in your package earlier when one of them had said that you know many libyans are frustrated and angry and condemning the u.n. because they don't see enough and turning to terror as it was in libya for twenty four hours and did not mention twenty five there's name why it tells you that there is something wrong and perhaps broken with the international system if you can't even name the individual that is responsible for provoking the violence and it's

telling that in his statement he said i'll be there you know for the libyans whatever happens what do you mean whatever happens you know supposed to be in charge of i mean it's it's telling that there could be something wrong with the u.n. i think the u.n. has to sort out its own internal problems before it can even offer any kind of assistance to libyans ok thank you very much for speaking to us and. now they're embarrassed thank you. jerry i millions of people have rallied for the first time since the resignation of president abdelaziz bouteflika they're now demanding he follow his lead but has a point. is military might be disappointed if it was hoping that the resignation of president abdulaziz beautifully would dampen enthusiasm for anti-government protests millions of people. came back on the streets for a seventh friday for them beautifully because resignation earlier this week is only a first gesture all of that here we demand change we need these gangs to go

all of them included in so. that we cannot remain silent anymore you are no longer afraid of you you have killed our children and started the whole nation. we have seen nothing from him that he deemed i am forty one years old and i can hardly make a living well hoping for better. moves to sideline beautifully can i lie is a continuing the intelligence chief bashir talked to has been fired and earlier this week eight businessmen had their passport sees as their investigated for corruption state television showed a clearly frail eighty two year old beautifully handing in his resignation on tuesday and i think what's happened now is that certain grad schools are being settled the result is that our target is no out of office and that begins to remove some of the infrastructure of the boot of the the regime but it will only be a beginning and whether it really lies a change in the institutions of the state or not that i doubt very much.

is now in the hands of a caretaker government but the protesters have made it clear they want success to a new president.