nikken response and i'm trying to say the exact words but he said this would be the last thing that you do so they are threatening little government but it in a way my go to is calling the opposition's bluff and the united states' bluff so much so that elliott abrams had said that this was not the time for u.s. military intervention and that was certainly a disappointment to some people in the opposition who were hoping that all this would be result quickly with the u.s. military intervention clearly that is not going to be the case and why go mention that himself during the rallies saying it's up to the venezuelans to bring about change thank you very much last america added to their. opposition rally in caracas which has now concluded as you see i was saying with present with their eyes also called his supporters out into the streets. sent us this update from that rally also in caracas. the crisis in venezuela has gone on for more than two months now involves facts about physique standoff between president nicolas maduro on his supporters on one side and one grey dog the

president of the national assembly on the. other cars called us up she put nobles have been constant power cuts want to talk to trees that have pulled people for the brink but despite this the supporters of nicolas maduro say that they very much support their president despite all these challenges they say that they must gather to york to show that the president still has support not only that they say they're gathering here in a clear message against the united states against foreign intervention they say the u.s. is trying to defeat the revolution here the socialist revolution the continental for that to happen and that's why you have so many people gathered here now seem very first however the people here are angry they say about the call the american sanctions that have been imposed on venezuela to say that this isn't a time x. productive punishment and it's time to get them to bring the people to their knees

and turn against the government and not they reject this and that they will continue to support nicolas maduro as more to come for you on the program we're going to bring you the tragic story of d.n.a. one of thousands of rwandans born of right after the genocide of twenty five years ago. touched. a third day of clashes between police and migrants in northern greece after a pause of an organized movement across the border. hello again welcome back to your international weather forecast where course parts of western europe it's been feeling more like winter than it has spring and that's all because we have this big system that's bring a lot of winds as well as colder air to many locations in the overnight hours

though we haven't seen the rain turn to snow in some locations cousin some problems on the roads there of course as we go toward sunday we're going to be seeing some rain anywhere from the u.k. all the way down across france and into parts of the have been peninsula even portugal you can be seen some very heavy rain as another system makes its way off the atlantic as we go from sunday to monday we're going to see more rain here but a lot of rain is going to start to enter into southern and central parts of europe down across parts of greece that is going to be very heavy rain for you could be dismissing some localized flooding across that area up towards the north in the northeast though things will be quite nice berlin eighteen degrees in orsa eighteen degrees as well we're seeing some clouds make their way out of parts of egypt that brought a few showers there most of the weather is going to be here across the northern and the northwestern coast of africa where algeria you can be seen as very heavy rain showers possibly with the temperature there about seventeen to fifteen degrees for algiers as we make our way over here towards monday we'll be seeing some better conditions but for tripoli we are looking at some windy conditions with

a temperature of seventy degrees. fly cats are airways and experience economy class like never before qatar airways going places together.

a look at the top stories this hour the head over libya's u.n. backed government has accused the wall khalifa haftar of betraying him prime minister. spoke to the nation as have to us troops advanced on to the outskirts of the capital tripoli. tens of thousands of protesters in sudan of march to the army's headquarters in the capital hard to it's the first time they reached the building since and to government demonstrations started in december and thousands of people have been out on the streets of the venezuelan capital caracas demanding the resignation of president nicolas maduro he also called on his own supporters to rally in his face. rape is often used as a weapon of war during the genocide in rwanda twenty five years ago it was

premeditated and used on a large scale the u.n. estimates that two hundred fifty to five hundred thousand to see women were raped thousands of children were born from the trauma and their stories are rarely heard in this exclusive report from the east of the capital kigali under simmons spoke to one young woman who wanted to talk openly about her suffering. this young woman may not have physical injuries from the genocide of rwanda but since birth her life has been blighted diaz. is a child of the genocide she was born of rape and she's grown up an able to understand why her mother couldn't give her the love most children receive. to look at me and i'm sure she saw a flashback of what happened to her and they should be traumatized and was shot and chased me away many times i would stay in other people's houses during the genocide

deonna his mother was raped in the capital kigali by an unknown hutu militia man she gave birth to danny in july one thousand nine hundred four the stigma of rape here is profound and being fathered by hutu rapists much worse mother and daughter moved to ny but secrets last long there either some people in this district knew of downey's background but she hadn't got a clue why she was being picked on in the school playground why she was being discriminated against her mother couldn't face telling her the truth this child in her formative years showed remarkable resilience but the worst was yet to come when she was eighteen she confronted her mother about the truth and there were repeated rounds. of i used to live in total despair to the point where i would think it's better if i wasn't on my d.n.a. thought she'd found understanding from

a boyfriend but things went drastically wrong. after you knew my history he developed a hatred towards me it took two other people and the plans to harm me. me he is the one who made me pregnant it was so we could because my mother got traumatised all over again. dielman is being given support from a small charity this woman counsels men and women born of rape she says instead of being treated as victims they are mostly persecuted. says her baby daughter will never feel loved both she and her mother live in poverty they're unemployed and they're in a pain remains but the ana is mother clements milage is to sound optimistic. i am proud of her and even love her daughter diane is all of gods and my family is

extended now a mother a daughter and her baby sharing the darkness of a crime against humanity that will live all through three generations and drew simmons al-jazeera in rwanda two years after the world's largest outbreak of cholera the disease is surging again in yemen the u.n. says suspected cases doubled in march the health system devastated by war has created prime conditions for the disease to spread counselor president and his mom . this is one of yemen's main hospitals and it's for cholera cases are spreading fast bringing an influx of old and young. here to be ready if i brought my six on to the hospital they prescribe medicine but it's not available in the hospital we have to go looking for it outside of pharmacies. yemen has endured a series of cholera outbreaks since the beginning of the sorry you a little war four years ago last year doctors managed to contain the outbreaks but

last month more than seventy six thousand new suspected cholera cases were registered the u.n. fears a latest outbreak could be as bad as the one in two thousand and seventeen which killed more than three thousand people. and the other the head of the look at this hospital is considered a main health center the number of cases we've dealt with at up to about one thousand about forty percent have tested positive for cholera it's a crisis for the local government of types. most families in yemen can't afford to get sick prices are high and treatment is limited and most definitely death at the end the hospital lab doesn't offer the tests that we need some of them cost anywhere from seven to fifteen dollars outside the hospital and i don't have enough money we don't even have enough money to pay for the transportation to get here how can i pay this. cholera is spread primarily through polluted food and water

the war has damaged the country's infrastructure making conditions ripe for contamination. these patients are fighting for their lives it's unlikely the disease will be brought under control until the war ends and rebuilding begins katia locus of the young al jazeera thousands of people have been ordered to leave their homes in flood hit southwestern iran as more rain is now expected at least seventy people have been killed in the floods so far most of the evacuations have taken place in kazakhstan and lauriston province to prevent further loss of life about one thousand eight hundred cities and villages in total have been affected by the floods caused by an unusually heavy rains. greek riot police have fired tear gas and stun grenades at hundreds of migrants including children who are trying to cross the border to neighboring countries this is the third consecutive day of unrest near the northern city of thessaloniki migrants have been camped there after false reports on social media of an organized movement to cross the border

catherine stansell has wall. police pushing back against migrants and refugees trying to reach northern europe they arrived in a camp in a greek town of d. of us on thursday after hearing that for the controls had been lifted and buses for compared to take people to north macedonia but the reports were false rumors circulated on social media stoking the anger and frustration of the migrants many of who have been stranded in greece for a year greek security forces have been preventing them from breaking through a cordon near the border with north macedonia though here. in greece it goes from. six. thousand already. tear gas and stun grenades are regularly use to keep back the crowd but they aren't

giving up some believe a more calm approach will get them through the borders we will try peaceful in we will see what they do. will not throw anything in not doing anything just go on friday thousands arrived at the cordon demanding to be let through setting small fires in the field and confronting police the unrest also sprach athens dozens of refugees blocked the main railway station demanding access to other e.u. countries but the greek government and the un say the borders remain closed that heard stories of people saying that from there and. there's going to be the european commission is going to come to to a sitting a briefing and discussion to try and figure out how they can open the borders with these people that. there's going to be money in buses and everything to have scored them into the system to get to the borders but the police here is is going to be to

protect them until they get to that i've heard a new. all three groups tens of thousands of refugees and migrants are living in greece part of a wave of immigration from syria iraq and afghanistan which began in twenty fifteen they became stranded in greece when balkan countries shut their borders three years ago cutting off the path to northern europe catherine stansell al jazeera protesters from the yellow vest movement have rallied across france in the twenty first consecutive saturday of demonstrations in loans riot police fired tear gas to break up the protests activists across the country demanding social and economic reforms movement prompted president emanuel might want to open a national debate in january you measures are expected to be announced on monday in an effort to quell the protests. island's prime minister says he's confident the e.u. will agree to delay breaks it the overact has says it's unlikely in a year member will veto the u.k.'s latest request for an extension prime minister

to resign may is asking for an additional three months to secure a withdrawal agreement despite this the u.k. has already started issuing passports with the words european union removed. now to the maldives where people have been voting in parliamentary elections which the president hopes will help him overcome a coalition split abraham mohammad soli is moldavian democratic party needs a needs at least forty four seats in the eighty seven member parliament from majority one have his main coalition partners has defected so he was the surprise winner of last year's presidential election ousting the incumbent he says he needs parliamentary support to fulfill his promises to tackle corruption and restore political freedoms. a rising political star in thailand has been charged with sedition and could face up to nine years in prison fina thought to juggle in one kit was greeted by hundreds of supporters as he arrived at a police station to answer a summons as future forward passing came third in last month's election the charges

against the forty year old billionaire stem from his role in a student demonstration four years ago on a phone insists he's innocent and accuses thailand's military government of trying to silence him upload. i believe there are minutes and of them everything according to the law even though the law itself is on pace to rise and we see this now a generation ago thousands of royal stags roam the kashmir valley but then now close to extinction decades of conflict poaching and poor management mean there are only around two hundred left in the wild but it smith has mall it's never been harder to spot one of these animals in the kashmir valley government census takers accounting how many royal stock also known as hangal are left here there were just two hundred seventeen after the last tally three years ago. over the years why our hunger population has declined one of the reasons one

of the main reason has been the grazing pressure nor mads from the different parts of the different parts of the very big government occupy the mean agrees in lands where out of hand we're used to. very what hunger used to get the world to the fans conflict has also played a role in the decline in the population of the hong was. the stock graze on land used by the military in india not ministered kashmir barbed wire and decades of patrolling soldiers have disrupted the stags breeding pattern. the nomads say they too have been affected by conflict and have been forced to give up grazing land it's. needed or not for the tamo started here in nairobi ninety's the indian security agencies closed our traditional route and pastures so they're not holders have to look for are denied to. the census team take samples of stock droppings these will be tested for viruses and parasites and help estimate how many stocks are left. seventy years ago three to four thousand stag roamed here.

probably the bigger edition is taking place harbor i would have fragmentation is taking place but human population who would have additional has mood very much closer to the white areas and bad definitely is one of the factors the handle is the only surviving relative of the european red deer on the indian subcontinent the government has provided funding for a breeding center that should be operational by the end of the year but it will take intensive efforts to bring the royal stock off the list of critically endangered species bernard smith our jazeera. quick roundup of the headlines this hour the head of libya's u.n. backed government has accused the wall of honey for after of betraying him this is have to us troops advance into the southern outskirts of the capital tripoli in a speech to the nation prime minister fires

a seraph said the international community must differentiate between aggressors and those who want to maintain civilian rule earlier on saturday the government launched as strike some have to us force says has been locked in fierce battle some thirty kilometers from the center of the capital one hundred underwired has more on the prime minister's speech from tripoli he has been a greeting the military individuals who have been recently joining the front lines to defend as he said to defend the capital tripoli from the aggression by have to forces has also those involved in attack in the capital or the worst of the country all of those involved in the military escalation will be brought to justice in international and local institutions. tens of thousands of protesters in sudan of march to the army's head courses in the capital hard to. it's the first time they've reached the building since antigovernment demonstrations began in december

protesters blame president bush if the struggling economy and rising prices he dissolve the government in february and expanded police palace. thousands of people of the nationalist streets of the venezuelan capital caracas demanding the resignation of president nicolas maduro rally was called for by the opposition leader to intensify pressure on the duo to stand down order has been recognized by most western south american countries as the nation's leader after he declared himself interim president earlier this year but we do or has also called on his supporters to gather in caracas for a rival lally and thousands of people have been ordered to leave their homes in floods hit southwest and iran as more rain is expected at least seventy people have been killed in the floods so far most of the evacuations have taken place in kazakhstan and lawyer stan provinces coming up next the listening post looks at how the media has covered one of our eras biggest stories stay with us for that

more news in about twenty five minutes time i'll see you then. or something on the market one. of the products we're talking to and i want to thank you for our analysts and how i think. that the projects are. going. hello i'm barbara starr and you're watching a special edition of the listening post rising migration and the political responses to it have been defining features of the past decade stories of refugees

tightening border controls political battles over immigration policy have all been in the headlines with conflicts ongoing around the world the impact of climate change deepening and the fallout from the global financial crisis still lingering the pressures driving people to move are only becoming greater in this episode we are shining a spotlight on the role that journalism has played in shaping what the public and policymakers know about migration we will be interviewing the filmmaker matthew a cell who was reported on migrant flows around the world will be looking at a genre of reality t.v. film that borders and checkpoints but we're starting the show with a report from the united states before president from took office only the best informed media junkies might have known that ice stands for the immigration and customs enforcement agency but the trump administration's hard line immigration policies have changed all that multiplying the number of ice arrests in homes and workplaces however the role the media play in this particular story goes well

beyond just covering it over the past year n.g.o.s and legal advocates. organizations have worked with some media outlets to track cases of enforcement abuse and they train communities to use their own media tools to document wrongdoing the listening posts flow phillips now from texas well some of the media practices and stories that have come out of those collaboration. then known as ice raids seemingly indiscriminate often undercover operations to root out illegal immigrants and they happen across the u.s. day in day out. like the case of palomar alice luna a mother taken in front of her screaming children on a southern california street in march twenty eighth seen or one hundred one days

a mechanic in los angeles arrested at work in september twenty seven teams even though agents had no probable cause or warrant. a romeo obliqua gonzales a father of four apprehended in february twenty seventh teen was dropping his daughter at school. just three examples of thousand this we know about these three because they were caught on camera eyewitness footage has been so crucial in exposing isis manipulative tactics ramiele of alec and solace was arrested by two ice agents who were an unmarked vehicles wearing jackets that only said police there's a reason why they don't identify themselves they're trying to use manipulative tactics to get information from immigrants or people who they've racially profiled in order to arrest and deport this happened in february of two thousand and seventeen and it was really the first high profile case that really showed what the human price of ice is new enforcement what looked like. u.s.

immigration and customs enforcement ice is not a new body it's current incarnation the largest investigative arm of the department of homeland security was part of a restructuring effort in the wake of nine eleven and it's not as though the obama administration didn't deport undocumented workers as many as twenty thousand a month by twenty sixteen but donald trump has gone further during his first week in office the president signed an executive order that rewrote the rules on who i should prioritize in its operations making virtually every undocumented immigrant in the country all ten point seven million fair game for arrest and deportation whether they had a criminal record or not the former director of ours mr home publicly stated the dave clark from crossing. over they should all of you in this country legally you committed a crime but entered this country you should be uncountable you should look over

your shoulder you need to be worried then i did something which last administrations had not done the actually this and every single process discretion to do so and ever handing deporting. and the one who comes to attention became the newborns what that's translated to on the street is folks who didn't have to anticipate the possibility of being arrested and deported now do seem to stay actually increase interest a lot of stories about the way immigration enforcement faulds arrests cross country families separated deportations. stories about how i see racially profiled people on the street picks up immigrants a routine court check ins uses contentious surveillance tactics and makes mass arrests some of the journalism does more extensive collaboration's between news

organizations and advocacy groups groups that have done research and can show people a thing on t.v. we covered a project that was put together by the immigrant defense project the center for constitutional rights here in new york city tracked immigration raids and it showed a marked increase in operations targeting people with no criminal record so what we've seen under the truck administration is a huge increase in arrests all of these different colors correspond to different types of inforce an activity that was served. like a physical arrest or surveillance or use of force we have one hundred twenty eight cases observed here forty eight here a swatch kind of projects served for additional kind ability journalism the martial project new york magazine collaboration was really interesting because it kind of was a mix of the two it was grounded in there are points of individual immigration enforcement actions and deportations and in new york in particular that's fascinating because

seeing the mapping up here is what has actually happened is useful to immigrant new yorkers who can actually turn ambient buzz of rumors about what might be happening into a sense of what has actually happened and to navigate their own lives. abolish ice is the collective name given to a growing movement protesting ice's new mandate and that of its pawn the agency customs and border protection or c.b.p. . the movement was energized by the release of a new audio recording back in june twenty eighth with the sounds of children crying out for that paris. and that has continued have a sense with the president's constant references to the quote threat of the migrant caravan to criminals establish the trust bush is marching to let out that want to turn back now because you're not getting in their beds to the golden a lot of

traction in the mainstream she started filming and advocacy groups not just the media have suggestions on how to tell the story. and put it to a series of what shall organized by what they mcallen texas it's a city why only u.s. mexican border given the spiting immigration enforcement and this particular value the group says it's essential to the people here with the tools and techniques needed to film events as they have. this program is a crash course in how video can help immigrant communities expose injustices advocate for asylum seekers and defend against deportation it teaches people not just how to document ice and border patrol abuses but how to do it safely and ethically our trainings focus on digital security issues so how to secure the content on your phone how to secure your communications your computer your social

media we also focus on filming tactics what should you film what shanshu film then go that it's often met one with both. the comic and the so now we're also seeing me sick and up with them oh nothing must be on. their head. but up with that. and then a really crucial component of our work is helping people think their strategies around what to do after you film how you save it and how you can impact whether or not it can be used as evidence in a court case or a legal proceeding there for a record something i would just posted online but like now we know that there is specific procedures that i should take before posting that. what shops like this one having a real impact on local communities but the power of citizen video is going well beyond having video footage having kind of a first person document is often the difference between something being

a local story if not a national story we've seen in several cases things that were initially posted his facebook videos is becoming things that you know national outlets have said in their newsroom gee this is getting a lot of play on social media maybe you should write it up a video showing an illegal immigrant am i right it's crap or off the street or try to reassure us which i don't want to attack the new technology has become extremely important in your legal else for ice. and also because a law breaker. for the advocates of that unauthorized person he or she is not just a law breaker which is true but here she is also a parent here she is also a contributing member of the community here she is also someone who has roots. they want to portray that aspect of the purse and these tools have become very

important in making that happen. remember one hundred one days the mechanic in a arrested at work the entire incident was captured on the shop surveillance cameras footage that was used by his defense in court. and that video taken by romney gonzales's 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 source of information on these migrant flows africa so it 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 well 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 spent 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 trained by train refugees were getting off and it was a big. story every global news agency was out there and news channel was out there covering it and i remember the b.b.c. journalist was trying to find people to speak with you. but she couldn't find anyone who spoke english and i don't mean to single out the b.b.c. or that journalist in particular but with the coverage of 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 the 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 or 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 you know 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 the 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 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 i think a 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 undesirable 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. the patrol the border the border security australia's front line immigration and the times of illegal workers who are deployed to only receive 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 you used to reading it certainly in your stride example the show is called border force

astride your front watermen front lawn 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 it's simple and it's cheap crews get behind the scenes accompanying border security as they search for illegal goods and interrogate the suspicious and the poor the unwanted c.b.s. a officers want to know it's coming to play. border crossings and airports service filming locations well 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. razzano pressure immigration i suspect they have called this. one. japan's recently premiered. at the moment of deportation wrapping up that drama it follows a group of immigration officers in their hunt for so 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 but police officers after the apartment they find three of the 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 shows during my could save

a body in order to do that by nature sensationalize and exaggerate the idea of threat and our borders. to those shows to give the impression that countries are under siege from overwhelming numbers of people and seeking to write laws and flout radio license. you know. 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 the 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 body one of the problems that we had is that we were 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 couldn't film it if we had a crew in every bridge we would sure the true extent of the problems the offices so i think we kind of fear a reflection of what we do and how they operate. the critics the issues go beyond the narratives that the shows create such as casting border security officials as the good guys the programs 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 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 martin durand sued the program in two thousand and thirteen for breach of privacy durand 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 cancelled 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 realised 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 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 front line went far beyond oscar martin durant's case the show's production company force forgot a helping hand from the government in the form of subsidies and they agreed to surrender editorial control of the program to the border protection agency it's the price that the producers pay in exchange for accidents and they aren't the only ones to do so in the case of all the strike investigations of uncovered that the immigration department the department of border security has thought of saddles on every single program that goes to way and is able to manipulate the show to its

audience as 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 of that reality and the authorities in the story had a little bit too much control and i think that's unfortunate especially probably sure the tarnished before that when we signed the multimedia agreement with homeland security which is very non-restricted they have no editorial control over water. but i think what the get out of it is the inform the public through a process which is accessible and you know members of the public going to watch some corporate video about you know c.b.p. with my actually watch a show about the southwest border and work with c.b.p. does in a kind of independent way by independent producers it's essentially free p.r. in primetime. and it's syndicated reruns so it's great and vast

a little bit of time by allowing a camera to have got an hour long or szell for the right thing sugarplum story. 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 post.

hello i'm maryanne demasi in london the top stories this hour the head of libya's u.n. backed government has accused the wall of honey for have to is betraying him this is have to us troops advance into the outskirts of the capital tripoli in a speech to the nation prime minister of iraq also said the international community is differentiate between aggressors and those who want to maintain civilian rule

earlier on saturday the government launched air strikes on after us forces rob matheson now reports. of gunfire on the outskirts of libya's capital forces loyal to warlord probably four huffed are trying to push their way towards the city they say they've see some areas south of tripoli as well as the former international airport much of which was destroyed in fighting five years ago several of these claims have been denied by the tripoli based u.n. recognized government its troops is said to have been deployed from the city of misrata to the west and south to fight after those forces. there for asked likes but we suffered no loss of dollars it's the border that one family in the area was hit believe that we held back on the use of our air force in order to protect civilians and public and private property any debt fighter flying or tripoli will not be allowed and will be targeted the air base it game from will also be targeted

. u.n. secretary general and tony you could tell us who's been in tripoli ahead of talks on rebuilding libya's fractured political system has been forced to leave the u.n. says the talks will still go ahead. we will not give up this work quickly i know very well that holding the national conference in the conditions of escalation and fighting is difficult but we will insist on holding it on time unless other circumstances interfere. libya has been divided between two competing governments since twenty forty the un talks is seen as one of the few options for peace in libya the only explanation available to us. that he probably wanted to shift the power balance or you know to his favor just days before the reconsideration conference so he saw he get advances demands during this conference because negotiations are the they are reflections of. power on the ground in france

foreign ministers of the g seven group of countries have been voicing their concerns if libya's opposing forces continue this latest battle for control the road to a political solution will become difficult. in our other headlines tens of thousands of protesters in sudan of march to the army's headquarters in the capital khartoum. this is the first time they reach the building since anti-government demonstrations began in december protesters blame president a lot of bashir for a struggling economy and rising prices mamadou abizaid is an activist who was at those demonstrations he says the protests will continue to grow. the good thing is that it was completely peaceful there was no disturbance or david police forces or so that people were able to voice their concerns and it was it was it was a small israeli if you think about it it started in december nineteenth and until

now the longer it takes for a bishop to step down the bigger the protests will get but if you walk down the streets you will see ages from five years all up to fifty or sixty years old it all coming out of the same thing you want him to step down. well thousands of people have also been out on the streets of the venezuelan capital caracas demanding the resignation of president nicolas maduro the rally was called by the opposition leader one quite oh i don't has been recognized by most western and south american countries as the nation's leader after he declared himself interim president earlier this year but the duo accuses acquired of being a washington puppet. thousands of people have been ordered to leave their homes in flood had southwestern iran as more rain is expected at least seventy people have been killed in the flood so far less of the evacuations have taken place in kazakhstan and lower stunt provinces up next al jazeera investigations how to

sell a massacre and then there would be more news after that in about twenty five minutes time to stay with us say a bit later. in episode two with how to sell a massacre polina hanson's one nation party is in america. the will sure is. there in search of millions of dollars from the u.s. company it's a sort of number you guys seem to get a big ten obs one. they want the cash to buy control of democracy in a stranger yet you. share. with you the hell. with the rest of the go you know ahead of every different side

the only way for us to stay free is by having whatever cuts down cuts. one should use coached by the national rifle association on how to make history inspire leaves they need more guns now to break down the narratives that people react to gun is it make it is something you need to be in a good deal of shooting. need to have every single school in america going to be in the point next program and by that. i mean armed security more guns more guns are going to change and change. you want to put messaging out there that are going to go out. easy that you're seeing one nation one state mission to america to be kept secret. to the public eye over the loser because it works on looking up a new. thing and they haven't made it but i think it may be about do something

effective. and they visit one of america's wealthiest political donors month in china a couple of months we have eight weeks of momentum revulsion for a tough spot. previously in how to sell a message of good i would say it says diana just released one nation party arrives in the us capital but a very busy way coming up. a mission to make friends in america's multi-billion dollar gun industry and to source millions in political donations while they're at it. with the country of. one nation has asked this man roger to help set up key meetings in washington. roger is the public face of gun rights astray an organization calling for the

loosening of strict gun laws live. to hear first entering a meeting the first their annual meeting as freddy's gun laws would tighten following a messenger in the town of port arthur a gunman killed thirty five people with an eye out fifteen assault rifle. automatic and semiautomatic guns were banned in a strange year in what became known as the national firearms agreement hundreds of thousands of guns were destroyed since not in ninety six and zero mass shootings people would not mind if you silence instruct. the n.r.a. fia's that just radius lose mains fire american politicians to follow suit it's the left wing anti gunners who literally point to australia using the mainstream media as the shining model as to why we need gun bans and gun confiscation raja's connections to the us gun lobby have led to one nation's in a circle. the party's chief of staff james ashby hopes gun lobby donations can lead

one nation to electoral victory. it would be and you know. if we took to see. that to you anyway. you a twenty you're on a lot of nasty enough you don't know that it never. gets yeah. but roger isn't who he claims to be is working undercover for me peter charlie. i'm a reporter from al-jazeera investigative unit we created gun registration as a front to infiltrate the pro-gun lobby and to understand how they operate hey guys you are right i want here louisville and there are a conference they soliciting so you say. over three years roger filmed with

concealed cameras. can you go the hundreds of hours of hidden camera recordings. and yeah you. can of those already been where i was. at the hotel in washington d.c. the one nation delegation relaxes with broacha as it prepares for potentially game changing meetings with the gun lobby. and they happy that the media is well out of sight. always thought i've done a lot of truth about sunday and i've got a lot of good you won't get it and see that's why you get up so much like you know it's tough you know all this of. james ashby is a key political strategist and chief of staff for the right wing party. he wants

the n.r.a. to provide one nation with its electoral clout and know how to value their jobs or lose or rather. that's one stock to up to to behave himself. it's really developed this week for folks who. are going to. his colleague steve dixon dreams about what he do with lots of money living like a drug lord with an arsenal of guns. i'm gonna have a right to feel better and you are not the ones tony thought runs in the ship that we went. right for you yeah you're into a. good loving young and everything but this that's what they do if they tell you should stop it and we can protect ourselves just because. dixon leads one nation in the is trillion state of queensland and he's a candidate for the senate in the upcoming federal election. he has

played a key role in helping reshape one nation's firearms policy. we had a policy in life it's what he wants what plan to make things better for registered shooters want to acquire one. pound fence vote on said elise we're on your saud we want you to be alpha should be the best that you can. in an interview for the gun rights astray your website the one nation party leader said today's gun laws make the innocent move on rable only just taking a nap and dancing to fatten gin paypal or actually allowing for most to actually have firearms. for years pauline hanson has been pushing a populist anti immigration agenda. i believe we are in danger of being swamped by asians.