families at the border both of those statements were lies simply not true according to inspector general's report she also attempted to end the program that allowed hundreds of thousands of people from honduras and el salvador to stay in the u.s. legally some who had been here for twenty years. she was also known for going out of her way to try and publicly please her boss asked in congress about reports he referred to african countries with a curse word she deflected asked why he wanted more people to immigrate from countries like norway her response was widely criticized. predominantly white country isn't that i'm. i actually do not know that serve but i imagine that is the case she made sure not to upset the president when asked about russian interference in the election i haven't seen any evidence that the attempts to interfere in our election infrastructure was to favor a particular political party but there is evidence the intelligence community has

explicitly said the russians wanted to help president trump. in repeated trips to the border recently the president made it clear he saw security here as an important campaign issue he says he wants his officials to be tougher and even though she was repeatedly by his side and said she supported his policies in the end none of it was enough to please the president she tried so publicly to impress leaving her department more controversial there when she came and more concretely thousands of families with the permanent scars of separation. al-jazeera washington bill schneider as a political analyst and public policy professor at george mason university he says nelson's resignation reflects trump's vision of a tough immigration policies. the president made a pledge to his supporters when he was first elected in two thousand and sixteen that he would do something about illegal immigration well the problem is getting worse and the president does not want to face the supporters again next year and

have to answer for the fact that illegal immigration has become a more serious problem than when he took office he's embarrassed by that and he holds her partly responsible he wants a tougher policy he nominated a candidate to be the director of the immigration and customs authority but then he withdrew that nomination because he said he needs someone who's tougher and nielsen was a supporter of his initial nominee he wants a tougher policy he's trying to close the border much of which would be illegal he wanted her he was pushing her to refuse to accept any more applications for asylum which would have been illegal and there were clearly places where she drew the line and refused to do what the president wanted her to do. well the next but still ahead on al-jazeera going nowhere a top american airline extends its grounding of the planes at the center of crash investigations. every day we forgive.

but good or not to launch a full game. and twenty five years on or longer an end as the hundreds of thousands of victims of the genocide. logan it's good to have you back what we're looking at some better weather conditions here across parts of iran but the flooding is still going to be a major problem over the next few days and into probably in the next few weeks because it's going to take quite a while for all of that water to begin to recede now most of the weather is making its way out here towards east so that means better conditions here across western iran but as you can see for the next few days pakistan afghanistan you could be seeing some very heavy rain coming into play would snow in the higher elevations

down here towards quite city the routes could be clouds of you with a temperature of about twenty seven degrees well across the gulf mostly cloudy conditions with the possibility of some showers in the afternoon and evening time frame in these clouds as well we could even see some windy conditions over the next few days here in doha thirty two degrees over here towards of a dobie at about thirty one really staying about the same over the next few days with riyadh a high temperature a few of thirty three degrees and still some very messy conditions across parts of south africa over the next few days for johannesburg we do expect to see a cool day with rain in your forecast down across parts of durban it is going to be twenty seven and cloudy and then as we go towards tuesday the rain continues across durban improving conditions for johannesburg but a nice day in harare with a temperature of twenty nine agrees. who was sponsored by qatar and. every. series of breaking stories and then of course there's the tone through the eyes of the world's journalists that's right out of the script that calls for the

annihilation of israel that is not what the phrase joined the listening post as we turned the cameras on the media focus on how they were caught on the stories that matter the most embarrassing if. they're listening post on al-jazeera. hello again i'm just. a reminder of the news this hour fighting around libya's capital is intensifying with airstrikes launched by the u.n. backed government and war khalifa haftar its forces calls for a pause in violence have been ignored and the u.s.

says there can be no military solution. thousands of protesters are continuing to defy a curfew in sudan's capital khartoum demanding the president resigns at least eleven people have been killed and demonstrations across through since saturday. kirsten nielsen is leaving her position as secretary of the u.s. department of homeland security she oversaw some of president donald trump's more controversial policies including the proposed border wall and the separation of migrant families. well the foreman is son chief who is fighting financial misconduct charges has just been sacked from the carmaker's board collar school and has been ousted at a shareholders meeting and japan's capital tote your the sixty five year old had already been removed as chairman after his arrest in november gone and his wife have both been protesting his innocence he is reported to be appealing to the french government for help. well let's speak to michael penn he heads up scene get

c. an independent japanese news agency and he joins us now via skype from tokyo michael it looks like things are heating up with cohen's wife carol now trying to make this an international issue. yes that's right in fact yesterday japan time she essentially fled the country she fled japan because the prosecutors were about to come after her and she knew it so she essentially took the last chance she could to get out of the country because you know she saw what happened to her husband where he got locked away for months and months and she felt that she would better serve her interests and his interests by going to france and to appealing to the french public and the french government to do something about the the treatment of of her husband carlos ghosn michel as you say he has been knocked out for months and months and he's now been rearrested do we know more about the reasons why well the

charges which have been put against him this time are actually in many ways more serious you know previously you may recall he was essentially accused of underreporting his income to the stock exchange this time the prosecutors are saying that he directly embezzled money from nissan for his personal benefit and that of his wife essentially he used a shell game of of companies to transfer the son money into his own accounts so this is a more serious round of accusations made by the prosecutors and michael now that he's actually been sacked by the shareholders let me ask you how much of this is being driven by internal this and policy and how much by japanese processes. well that is the sixty four thousand dollar question and that's what's very divisive question my own feeling based on the fact patterns we've seen in the behavior of all of the sides i tend to my analysis is that it's far more likely that this is

part of a boardroom coup and that and that. claims that he's essentially been set up does make a lot of sense so for example. if there if the sun's executives were concerned about his pay why did they never go to him and say we're concerned about your pay instead they immediately went to the prosecutors in order to have him charged with serious crimes thus hurting the entire company's reputation so it doesn't quite make sense that this is a straightforward criminal case and how the people in japan reacting to all of this . it's a very divisive issue you know in japan there is a lot of respect given to the criminal justice system you know they tend to believe them more often than not but you know go on has been somebody who's been regarded as something of a national hero for close to two decades and so to have this person who has been

lionized suddenly be turned into this criminal and this horrible person some people are going along with that thinking ok maybe he got too big for his britches and there's others who think something's not right here and they tend to think that going is being set up michael pan frenching get sued japanese news agency thanks for being with us on out is there. well american airlines says it won't fly boeing seven three seven max planes for another two months the aircraft remains grounded by u.s. regulators and other countries following crashes in ethiopia and indonesia american airlines has canceled about ninety flights a day since mid march aviation journalist seth kaplan says it will take time for boeing to win back passengers confidence. when those planes start flying there are going to be nervous flyers and i think it's true what plane has been more scrutinized then this one right and i personally would get on one using that logic

but you can't blame people for being nervous and ultimately with everything that this aircraft has been through yeah it's just going to take a lot of safe departures and landings over a period of weeks and months for people to really gain back that confidence that fixes that boeing is working on to address the issues that caused these crashes that obviously never should have gotten to this point so you can see that boeing does have somewhat of a credibility crisis u.s. regulators the f.a.a. used by some of being late to ground the plane to it's just going to take them some time and doing everything they can to restore. these two crashes of an aircraft type that makes up a tiny percentage of all the aircraft in the world plus the one percent a new aircraft that should have been the safest ever obviously something went badly wrong with the process the question is why did it you know was the f.a.a. the american regulator just under resourced and just sort of relying too much on

boeing because they did it because the best engineers are in many cases out boeing and we just as they compete for the same talent pool or was it something more than that was boeing sort of lobbying to to have things that way those are the questions that are still being answered but with every aviation disaster there always are lessons learned and things change at the last sort of entry into services call in the door craft crisis that boeing had was with the dreamliner oh about a half decade ago nobody died there but a whole series of problems and things did change in that case at boeing obviously in this case with a loss of life even greater pressure and i think you'll see changes that boeing and the way regulators approached boeing. well turkey's ruling ak party is demanding a full recount of votes cast in istanbul during last month's mayoress in a major upset to present one's party narrowly lost control of tekkies biggest city as well as the capital ankara the opposition's mayoral candidate in istanbul is

urging the act party to accept defeat. the iranian red crescent says u.s. sanctions are preventing foreign financial aid from helping people affected by flooding around special forces chief is in the flood hit south western christan province on sunday the government has promised that all flood victims will be fully compensated at least seventy people have died and more than eighty thousand have been moved to emergency shelters since the heavy rains began last month. while britain's prime minister says there needs to be a compromise on all sides in order to find a solution to the brics that deadlock to resume a has released a video message explaining why she's entered into talks with the opposition labor party had deal to leave the e.u. has been rejected by parliament three times when you think about it people didn't vote on party lines when it came to the brics it referendum and you know i think often the members of the public want to see their politicians working together more

often now there's lots of things on which i disagree with the labor party on policy issues but on breakfast i think there are some things we agree on and being free movement ensuring we leave with a good deal protecting jobs protecting security and so we're talking can we find a way through this that ensures that we can get a good deal of the deal agreed through parliament it will mean compromise on both sides but i believe that delivering bricks it is the most important thing for us. now a british man whose girlfriend was poisoned by the nerve agent novacek says a meeting with russia's u.k. ambassador failed to provide any answers charlie rally fell ill after touching a discarded perfume bottle in the english town of amesbury his girlfriend just died after coming into contact with the nerve agent police believe the bottle was used by russian assassins who are trying to murder a former double agent rwandans have been marking twenty five years since the

genocide which saw at least eight hundred thousand people killed in just one hundred days thousands attended a vigil at the national stadium in the capital kigali the beginning of an official hundred days of mourning al-jazeera as andrew symonds was there it's a flume that will burn for a hundred days the time it took to kill hundreds of thousands of people but for many of the bereaved and injured shining any light on rwanda's darkness is as hard as it was twenty five years ago. large crowds took the remembrance walk through windows parliament to its national stadium unspoken thoughts here but the spirit of solidarity earlier the president has addressed the country the are a group for all rwandans a story is for a farm the hope. law

community. is beyond repair and the dignity of the people is never fully. the prime minister the former colonial power belgium made this apology. this genocide represents the failure of the international community which couldn't war which couldn't prevent which couldn't stop this crime against humanity i stand before you in the name of a country that also wants to take responsibility for its part in history for some of the survivors the passage of time hasn't helped this man was ten when the genocide happened more than one hundred of his relatives died including his mother and father it seems to go harder for you. and i for not using.

hope is center stage in the process of kuka meaning remembrance in the rwandan language gummi says we must learn to forgive but not to forget well that's hard to see in the eyes of so many genocide survivors what they say is one thing what they really feel doesn't necessarily amount to forgiveness and so paul could ghar me is banking on the younger faces we see in the crowds the new generation he hopes there's more chance of forgiveness with them than the older generation we spoke to two people born in the year of the genocide this man explaining why he always comes to remembrance whenever we come here we learn much that we need a vessel we never had so whatever we get here cops i see in terms of you know you

can see a showings in terms of feuding i saw those and a student with a message to people all over the world you know they have to be around cause. we don't have anywhere to regret having it we are rundowns and we love each other which is not for my own. sword they have to run from my house apart from get from history as a day of emotional exhaustion draws to an end by tradition there's lights in the darkness a vigil going on into the night's more than thirty thousand people collectively mourning the panelists and for some tentatively we're really looking to the future and to simmons' zero zero. hello i'm in a star city in doha with the headlines on al-jazeera fighting around libya's

capital is intensifying with air strikes launched by the un backed government and watercolor for have to us forces cause for a pause and violence have been ignored and the u.s. says there can be no military solution. thousands of protesters continuing to defy a curfew in sudan's capital khartoum demanding the president resigns at least eleven people have been killed in demonstrations across sudan since saturday custom nielson is leaving her position secretary of the u.s. department of homeland security she is some of president on a more controversial policies and creating the proposed border wall and the separation of migrant families has more from washington d.c. the next couple of days people are going to ask the parlor game of did she really resign or did she get fired because the president often tweets out that people have resigned and we later find out that he in fact sent them out the door where does

she go because she has been so controversial issue going to be able to land a job any company going to put her on let's say their board which is usually what happens to cabinet secretaries period a public backlash because she has become the face of this policy it's not just the president the foreman essentially who is facing financial misconduct charges has been sacked from the carmaker's board school and has been ousted at a shareholders meeting in japan's capital tokyo the sixty five year old had already been removed as chairman after his arrest in november one maintains he's innocent turkey's ruling ak party is demanding a full recount of votes cast in istanbul during last month's may all race president . narrowly lost control of takis biggest city as well as the capital ankara. american airlines says it won't fly boeing seven three seven max planes for another two months the aircraft remains grounded by u.s.

regulators following crashes in ethiopia and indonesia those are the headlines the missing post is next thousands of people have been killed raped or mutilated in south sudan's. a un report says government forces and other militia are financing the conflict with money from the country's oil industry you would never allow that rape in south sudan and we will never totally this south sudan's oil minister talks to want to zero. eight or seven hundred forty five why are we telling me roger we're talking only to am i correct one hundred fifty four angela allen telling. one of the powers to march. hello i'm barbara sarah 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 the printing 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 trump 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. hardline 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 advocacy 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. they're 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. as

a mechanic in los angeles arrested at work in september twenty seven team even though agents had no probable cause or warrant. a romulo obliqua gonzales a father of four apprehended in february twenty seventh teen while dropping his daughter at school. just three examples of thousands we know about these three because they were cool on camera eyewitness footage has been so crucial and exposing isis manipulative tactics romulan delicate and dollars was arrested by two ice agents who were an unmarked vehicles wearing jackets that only said police but 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 them 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 does new enforcement what looked like. u.s.

immigration and customs enforcement 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 ice mr holm publicly stated that the days of florida from crossing over the actually last are over they should all be scared of you in this country legally new committed a crime by entering this country you should be uncountable you should look over

your shoulder in you need to be worried then ice did something which last administrations had not done they actually this and every single process of discretion back till nine hundred seventy three and apprehending and deporting anyone who comes to your attention became the newborn's what that's translated to on the street is folks to have to anticipate the possibility of being arrested and deported now do. they actually increase interest a lot of stories about the way immigration enforcement of false arrests cross-country family separated deportations. stories about how i see racially profiled people on the street picks up immigrant 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 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 cases observed here forty year ice watched 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 ports 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 the ambient buzz of rumors about what might be happening into a sense of what has actually happened and to navigate their own lives accordingly. abolish ice is the collective name given to a growing movement protesting ice's new mandate and that of its pawn agency customs and border protection or c.b.p. . the movement was energized by the release of a new video recording back in june twenty eighth with the sounds of children crying out for that parent. for and that has continued ever since with the president's constant references to the quote threat. of the migrant caravan criminals just felt worse for trespassers but you put up the water turn back now because you're not

getting in their beds the golden amount of traction in the main street 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 spoil the nice by what they mcallen texas it's a city why only u.s. mexican border given the spiting immigration enforcement in this particular valley the group says it's essential to get people here with 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 don't kim and ice and border patrol abuses but how to do it safely and ethically our trainings focus on digital security you 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 should offend the bangle that it's often. in the so now we're also seeing mays that going up with them oh nothing must be on. there had been did a lousy job but up with it got bad. 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 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. workshops like this one having a real impact on local communities but the power of sin. some 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 and 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 we should write it up a funny oh showing an illegal immigrant am i right it's crap our office trying to try to reassure parents arrows were high caliber lot of attack on the new technology has become extremely important in your legal professionals for ice. and also those immigrant was 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 pair of shoes 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 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 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 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 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 that 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 the mate as in we show pictures of the refugees and 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 subjoin 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 and immigration detainees are illegal workers who are deployed to only receive immigration screening profound undesirable and unsuitable bodies 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 show just. exist in a vacuum. and i think you just need to look at the sort of language that's used to reading it certainly in your stride 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 it's 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 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. right so no 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 cool to 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 in one segment tokyo immigration officers stake out an apartment building the 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 sensationalizing exaggerate the idea of a threat and our borders. and the 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 to take tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of people who pops through borders legitimately every day. 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 they spew to 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 officers lately there's been a trend on people trying to. marc. on this type of body one of the problems that we had is that we the small crew covering twenty eight bridges there was a drug bust in daily basis but some of them happened three hundred miles from where we were at that time couldn't film it if we had a crew and every bridge we would sure the true extent of the problems the offices so i think we kind of got a fair 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 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 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 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 subsidy 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 cases of all the strike investigations of uncovered that the immigration department the the department of border security has thought of sort of on every single program it goes to where he's able to manipulate the show to its

arms and so 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 the authorities in the story had a little bit too much control and i think that's unfortunate especially if i was sure that tarnished before that when we signed the multimedia agreement with homeland security which is very non-restricted we have no editorial control over what we 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 not going to what some corporate video about you know c.b.p. with my actually watch a show about the southwest border in the work that c.b.p. does 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 and vast

a little bit of time by allowing a camera to have got an hour long for the great things that are being stored. commercial in more ways than one the free advert for the agencies being profiled t.v. hits that's affordable for those producing it 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 armed vehicles transporting players riots police we've got one on one

east explores why indonesian soccer fight and die for the sport on a. counter because this week libya's wealth has pitted east against west we take a look at the war economy how a conflict with russian backed fighters has hurt ukraine's most important economic region a white international investors are betting on a bodie with india's elections counting the cost on al-jazeera. the u.s. calls for more on how to start to stop his offensive in libya. hello i'm a study attained this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up thousands of protesters in three don challenge the authority of their president ignoring

a curfew outside the military headquarters. the u.s. homeland security secretary neves had post with speculation that the border issue led to to head down for. class a facing a tight race for reelection israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is accused of using racism to win votes. by fighting around libya's capital is intensifying after as strikes launched by the un backed government and warlord khalifa haftar us forces have troops are reported to be preparing to open new fronts and their push towards tripoli the u.s. has called for an immediate halt to have to as offensive and says there's no military solution to libya's problems. head reports from tripoli. and back tripoli government more trucks mounted with machine guns does the libyan

capital on the orders to stop will. advance on tripoli. we call on those brainwashed and radicalized to lay down their arms we will not allow that you wanted to return to rule libya will be a civil state and our plates will be to the heartland and god we announced the launch of the volcano of wrath in order to restore the seized areas. began last week and so far his forces say they have seized some areas around the capital. such a day these sand the taking over the old fort but pushed out by forces loyal to the tripoli pleased to government have to its forces have now increased their attacks opening new fronts in the south of tripoli. they are in bad government in the capital is urging civilians to leave as where there is fighting a natural is called by they and was ignored by all sides. have to his forces say

they are fighting terrorist to groups that are backed by the. arabia and egypt are familiar tripoli has become the capital of terror and terrorists tripoli is the capital for a group of criminals who number around one or two thousand but they have weapons and they control the political decisions no stranger sway they have the money by controlling the central bank of libya and the oil companies the head of libya's tripoli based a government has accused to have to end his forces of betraying the country and has won it over would without any winners. libya has been divided between two competing government says twenty fourteen analysts to say have to his fighters will face a stiff resistance in tripoli i don't see any lack of intent i am more concerned about capability and that's where i'm not sure whether his forces are up to the task i mean he was able to you know take over much of the south west i mean

easily tripoli is going to do you know he's going to face a lot of resistance so we're looking at you know a long protracted conflict the u.n. says talks to rebuild libya's fractured political system will go ahead as planned but would really libyans are now facing the prospect of some of the worst fighting since the twenty eleven uprising that toppled former leader. mahmoud up to. tripoli. thousands of protesters are continuing to defy a curfew in sudan's capital demanding the president resigns i i they are holding a certain outside the she has residence in khartoum and the nearby army headquarters for a third day at least eleven people have been killed in protests across you don since saturday but she has security council is calling for dialogue to end the

crisis. reports. thanks it's the second day of a sit in at the sudanese army headquarters in khartoum the first time crowds have reached this part of the city since antigovernment rallies began in december over the price of bread and escalated into calls for an end to president omar bashir is three decade will find. they face the army compound calling for freedom the protesters want the military to support their goal to remove the president i think it's time to crunch. the military will have to side with the region and. a bit the clock. that's a possibility or they would have to take a stand and least. try to ask for the president to resign the seeing

what's happened in alt. buzzers appears to don's military is not yet ready to go that far as the protests continued president bush met with leaders of the army to discuss the crisis the defense council which is headed by bush says the protesters must be heard but warned against letting the country slide deeper into chaos. security forces have responded to the protest movement with the fees crackdown. dozens of people have been killed since the protests began according to an international human rights group but the army has not intervened riot police fired tear gas at protesters. and that's one point which senses reported the sound of gunshots. the. president bashir has stepped down as head of his ruling party in the hope of calming the protests but the

demonstrators insist they won't give up until his presidency comes to an end. al-jazeera. and now the european union has called on the sudanese government to respect the rights of protesters amid accusations of a crackdown by security forces in a statement the e.u. says there should be a commitment to a commitment to a peaceful credible adjustment and inclusive process that will allow sudan to carry out essential reforms and also said peaceful demonstrations should be permitted security forces should not use tear gas and live ammunition against peaceful protesters. is a sudanese american journalist in virginia he says the defiance shown by the protesters is unprecedented. what happened on saturday april sixth i think is a game changer in this wave of protest i personally did not expect that large number of people. make a sit in right in front of the army's headquarters and stay that long and the party

not to intervene in the ways that it has done in the past so i think the government is really assessing how it will handle the coming weeks and with with the appeal of the anti of this wave of protest some of the images that are coming out of khartoum show that soldiers even. middle and somewhat high ranking. merging with the protesters dressing them no not firing on them i think that tells you something whether you know there's been suggestions that there is seems to be some clearing of a division between the army and security and intelligence forces and on how to deal with this whether the army actually will respond to the protesters demand. that they. help in removing the president i think that remains to be

seen well the u.s. secretary of homeland security keston nelson is out donald trump announced that she behaving had position on twitter and on the offense says she resigned to care that trying to spend less than happy a face with how the southern border is being handled has a callahan takes a look at her next. it's fair to say that cures didn't else and will go down in history as the most controversial secretary in the history of the young department of homeland security she put in place what many saw as draconian policies under her watch thousands of children were ripped from their parents trying to cross the southern border many housed in crowded camps until a federal judge stepped in and demanded the families be reunited she leaves office with potentially thousands of children misplaced separated from their families and the government now says it could take up to two years to reunite them all because for many they didn't keep appropriate paperwork her actions were met with scorn and

widespread protests at her home. i don't restaurant with marches across the u.s. and pleas from overseas that has got me to beg and asked president donald trump to please return my baby soon i don't want to keep waiting a long time two months is enough punishment for mothers to learn not to cross she responded with a tweet saying there is no formal policy of separating families and justified her order with this this is ministration did not create a policy of separating families at the border both of those statements were lies simply not true according to an inspector general's report she also attempted to end the program that allowed hundreds of thousands of people from honduras and el salvador to stay in the u.s. legally some who had been here for twenty years. she was also known for going out of her way to try and publicly please her boss asked in congress about reports he

referred to african countries with a curse word she deflected asked why he wanted more people to immigrate from countries like norway her response was widely criticized. is it predominantly white countries and i'm. i actually do not know that serve but i imagine that is the case she made sure not to upset the president when asked about russian interference in the election i haven't seen any evidence that the attempts to interfere in our election infrastructure was to favor a particular political party but there is evidence the intelligence community has explicitly said the russians wanted to help president trump. in repeated trips to the border recently the president made it clear he saw security here as an important campaign issue he says he wants his officials to be tougher and even though she was repeatedly by his side and said she supported his policies in the end none of it was enough to please the president she tried so publicly to impress

leaving her department more controversial the when she came and more concretely thousands of families with the permanent scars of separation political al-jazeera washington the house is annoying and executive director of the revolving door project which examines government appointments he believes the u.s. president has influenced nielsen's decision to resign i'm sure she was affectively fired and it's possible that trump in a passive aggressive manner made it that she felt like she had to resign to retain so or some scrap of dignity least dignity in her own eyes about herself but i think she was forced out because donald trump is as he has often been a politically perilous moment and i think he has view of his presidency is that he is the producer of a television show and the storyline that brings in the viewers that brings in his base that retains that connection between trump.