and clashes between rival ethnic groups prompting thousands to rally in the capital bamako president abraham who bought his office says he accepts the resignation of the prime minister and that of the members of his government while our nicholas hack is in neighboring senegal nick given the protests we've been seeing how much of this is about the worsening security situation and how much of this is about dissatisfaction with government. well the answer is a little bit of both there's this could lead dissatisfaction with the deterioration in the security situation and we've seen this with the ethnic violence against the poll people the poll of the. people living in mali they were attacked two hundred of them were attacked by neighboring villagers so what we've seen is the insurgency in the north is slowly spreading into something that's turning into more of an ethnic violence so yes the there is a clear deterioration of the security situation in mali but the same time the

lives of ordinary mullions is just getting worse i mean the price of basic necessities like water electricity food has risen by twenty percent in the last year and. that was reelected in august with a promise for change but many millions are not seeing the change that he's promised that he's engaged in dialogue with the opposition the opposition has been really mounting a massive protest back on april fifth we saw thousands of molly ins on the streets of bomb occur we've never seen protests that big since one thousand nine hundred one when people protested for democracy and and people were chanting slogans asking for the resignation of the prime minister as well as asking for foreign forces to leave the country so which foreign forces are we talking about here well there's thirteen thousand u.n. peacekeeping troops that are on the ground including french french troops of france being the former colonial power there that are on the ground trying to bring back

peace to this country and make now that president obama has accepted these resignations what happens next. well now he's said the president that he will announce a new prime minister and you government there will be consultation with the opposition notably majlis you see who is the main opposition contender during the last presidential election remember in august when the election took took place and the the results came out there was an uproar among the challengers saying that the vote was rigged and ever since there's been mounting tension in the political arena adding to this this chaos that you're seeing in mali adding to the security situation there is a political tension between the president and members of the opposition so there will be clear. pressure on the president to try to bring in members of the

opposition in hopes to peas these angry mali and that are taking to the streets because the situation really is just deteriorating by the day. following this story for us from santa got thank you nick. weather is next but still ahead on al jazeera keeping up the pressure crowd for them on the change. and one year after mass protests in nicaragua we examine what if anything has changed. we still got some rather unsettled weather into southern parts of china big area cloud heads are sliding its way further eastward and southward stem towards hong

kong based on cloud and rain coming in here over the next day also a little bit of convergence area here southerly winds coming in to the south of china and then we've got some of the northern northeasterly where the winds come together the force to rise it cools it condenses and it forms a pretty big downpours as a result of that friday to saturday still pretty wet so we are expecting some localized flooding to come through here maybe even some widespread flooding into one of two spots should be dry by saturday into hong kong temperatures here at around twenty eight degrees celsius dry across a good part of the philippines is always a chance of one of two shells majority of the showers there into malaysia into us in march of pushing up into a. little bit the case over the next couple sticky thirty seven the for bangkok on fraud and the similar temperatures to go wanted to send to perhaps a little more sunshine state but you can see the showers they do continue to look across a similar area bill some showers to just pushing the way into southern parts of

india also into sri lanka much of india is dry and the temperatures here and now gradually letting up. the weather sponsored by qatar airways. to me it was clear to intelligence gathering exercise my arms were shackled got my back and a hood over the head off into this interrogation to one by one and he said if you speak you are cut your throat muslim bag tells his life story and his life changing experience at guantanamo bay. it was. those are pretty. the confession a witness documentary on al-jazeera. hello

again i'm. reminded of the news this hour a sense of reversion of the reports into whether u.s. president donald trump's twenty sixteen presidential campaign colluded with russia says it found no such evidence but it doesn't clear him of obstruction of justice u.s. attorney general william barr release the edited reports on. president trump has declared total victory but democrats want trump's attorney general to testify before congress the u.s. house judiciary committee chairs says they also want to access to the full unedited version of the report. and molly's prime minister has resigned along with his entire government for weeks after a mass killing around one hundred sixty villages were killed in march the fighting between rival ethnic groups prompted thousands to rally and the capital bamako. the un envoy for libya is warning of a broader escalation in fighting in the south as clashes continue for the north

near the capital. says there's a deadlock between warring sides south of tripoli fighters loyal to the un recognized government have launched a new campaign in the south against warlord khalifa haftar the u.n. security council met in an emergency session to discuss the battle for control of tripoli but it failed to agree on a draft resolution calling for a cease fire. we need to have this resolution urgently we need to we need to send this very very strong message to the population that is desperate and when you hear now grad rockets falling into civilian quarters we need to strong a strong voice from from new york. i had has the latest. forces loyal to the world a lot of highly for have to manage it to recapture. seventy seven hundred

kilometers to the south from the capital tripoli that's after the forces loyal to the you could notice the government briefly took control of a timid hand in tripoli the government forces managed to push have to us forces back beyond the disused to tripoli international airport and meanwhile have those warplanes targeted government forces locations one being for the fighters one of them is in critical condition on the political level there is also a development on the political level as the interior minister. the government fed him. stated that the ministry of interior is suspending all relations with france in terms of security and training get fields that's because as he says france is a major supporter of. all of the warlords have to also in tripoli the

military the military general prosecutor issued an arrest warrant against several officers in the east including the warlord have to himself for their involvement as the rest warrants has for their involvement in targeting civilian areas in tripoli including the only this is the only operational airport in the city airport and also that is eventually areas in tripoli city center which killed several innocent civilians. or huge crowds continue gathering in sudan outside the military headquarters where a sit in has been staged for the last two weeks protesters are demanding the immediate return of civilian rule following the overthrow of president omar al bashir last thursday a representative of russia's president has met sudan's military religious head follows a visit from a high level delegation from saudi arabia and the united arab emirates earlier this week rather vallas at the protest and sent us this update from khartoum. i am at

the fringe of this modeste of the sit in and you can see behind me the headquarters of the military and the crowds decided today to show how many people they can still bring to the streets because yesterday they have submitted a list of demands to the military council including the creation of a civilian government and i civilian the presidential council instead of the military council wants to. put them in the prison of the. last government but. we are here. and we want unity we are here to see the crater trying. to show the word who we are . being here because we need we need to pull. into the prison and we need to be. free to. some of

them they are not in the prison. they have called it the march of the millions. every single component of the city's professionals around the profession society enough to do is to do this march and the message is united and the gist of it is that the sudanese ministers tablet from the history of sudan they have said to have allusions stolen in the past by the military mission and today they want to make sure that they don't leave the streets until they see the fruits of this revolution until they see a complete change happening in this country. now a senior u.n. official has urged countries to help thousands of children stuck in a camp in northeastern syria after fleeing eisel the u.n. says the children should be treated as victims and solutions must be decided in their best interest regardless of age or gender according to unicef the al whole camp houses about three thousand children of foreign eisel fighters from forty

three countries conditions at the camp are dire and more than fifty five children have died there since december. thousands of mourners have gathered to pay their respects to peruse former president alan garcia. garcia shot himself on wednesday as police were preparing to arrest him he was being investigated over corruption allegations. well a lack of jobs and a police crackdown has forced thousands of nicaraguans to look for a better life and other countries protest against planned social benefit cuts began a year ago and the government responded with a crackdown on journalists and rights groups john heilemann met one woman who was hoping to reach the u.s. with her three children. here on from the mass protests which marked the start of the nicaraguan crisis and it's not just a political problem the. country is full of into its worst economic slump in three

decades sings like this. having been great for attracting investment. christiane is one of many people laid off one influential think tank put it almost half a million votes in a population of just six million people seen. i've been looking for work for eight months not just in my area which is publicity but in administration tourism wherever i could find a job to provide for my children but i couldn't find anything in any company they're not hiring now they're firing more people. she's heading north to the u.s. with her three children to look for work. moving sixty thousand other nicaraguans have already left the country many are in costa rica saying they're fleeing persecution since the mass protests began the government's clampdown on journalists

and human rights groups. film a new year's hit the most prominent of them until this happened. or. at eleven pm a group of about sixty police broke through the roof they tied up the young man who watches the installations by his hands and feet they took almost everything they destroyed the organization completely the computers the documents we don't know what exactly they took it into no million the government's entered into a dialogue with a group of business civil society in university leaders called the civic. but alliance representatives themselves fear it's just a play for more time the dialogue is kind of a stalled situation we were able to agree on two one was the release of all the prisoners and the second was the return to the people of nicaragua basic human rights and civil rights however they go on and has not been able to comply with those agreements so far they have shown very little compromise. the civic

alliance is also calling for early elections and justice to the more than three hundred people reported killed in two thousand and. both the government and other figures from the ruling party to share their views none were available for an interview meanwhile out in the streets protests have been effectively banned and paramilitary still roam the government firmly in control but it won't cost to a country that's already one of the very poorest in the hemisphere john homan how does it. all the actor and comedian brought to me as alinsky is the frontrunner to become ukraine's next president in sunday's second round runoff against incumbent petro poroshenko robin forrester walker went to the then skis home town to find out more about the man whose only experience of politics is playing the president on television. this is the reak cricket hold in english

a city built on iron ore and steel production. and birthplace of the man who is promising to reshape ukraine's political landscape the low to mid zielinski. zielinski place a humble history teacher who becomes ukraine's president in the hit comedy t.v. series servant of the people. the real zelinsky has no political experience but ever since announcing he wanted the top job he's been favorite to win i asked a local historian what could he can tell us about the zielinski. war on this is a city of mentally ill and steel the kind of character that will never let you down here locals who know him say success inspired selenski and his comedy troupe. you always wanted what was best not just for him but for his friends his family

would never reach just good people like him this is the apartment block zielinski grew up in and his parents still live here now it's clear he's come from humble beginnings rather like the character in his t.v. show but there is one big difference the real since he is a very powerful business associate who's helped him get to where is now. one of ukraine's most powerful oligarchs owns the t.v. station that hosts zelinsky shows. the only got lives abroad and is wanted on embezzlement charges ukraine's incumbent president petro poroshenko accuses the lenski of being called a puppet. many men here have died in the fighting against russian backed separatists a former governor of the region. financed the war effort and is still respected for

that usually when you go in with give me a visit if it wasn't a column or ski the russians would have been here when the war started it was called a more ski he stood at the helm of the need program without taking a dime for the war drags on and pensions here are barely enough to live on good wishing it you're not going to do enough and would not start when not in america there was also shot mine and did anything bad happened there will be all right the people of preview league appear ready to pin their hopes on one of their own robin first year walker al jazeera t.v. the. hello i missed out here today and how with the headlines on al-jazeera a sense of version of the reports and to whether u.s. president travels twenty sixteen presidential campaign colluded with russia says it

found no such evidence but it doesn't clear him of obstruction of justice u.s. attorney general william ball released the edited report on thursday. the report recounts ten episodes involving the president and discusses potential legal theories for connecting those activities to the elements of an obstruction offense after carefully reviewing the facts and legal theories outlined in the report and in consultation with the office of legal counsel and other department lawyers the deputy attorney general and i concluded that the evidence developed by the special counsel is not sufficient to establish that the president committed an obstruction of justice offense while president has declared total victory but democrats want trump's attorney general to testify before congress the u.s. house judiciary committee chair says they also want access to the full unedited version of the report and another leading democrat says more questions still remain

when the attorney general gives the perception that the president fully cooperated in the investigation when he didn't that they provided all the information materials when they didn't when the president in fact deprive the special counsel perhaps the single most important piece of evidence that is his own verbal testimony that misleads the american people mollies prime minister has resigned along with his entire government for weeks after a mass killing of one hundred sixty villages and ethnic violence the killings prompted thousands to rally in the capital bamako president abraham office says he accepts the resignation of the prime minister and that of the members of his government the u.n. envoy for libya is warning of a broader escalation in violence the un security council met in an emergency session to discuss the battle for control of tripoli but it failed to agree on a draft resolution calling for a cease fire. well those are the headlines join me for more news here after inside

story do stay with us. a cycle of fear a report shows journalists are facing increasing cost still be around the world the dangers are not just in conflict zones harassed persecuted and sometimes think mkhize they are facing a new threat so what's caused press freedom to deteriorate globally this is inside story.

hello and welcome to the program i'm a media freedom is in decline and journalists around the world are working in an intense climate of fear this year's evaluation by reporters without borders shows a market drop in the number of countries where it is safe for journalists to work and it says political leaders rhetoric has fueled violence against them in many parts of the world the world press freedom and the index covers the state of journalism in one hundred eighty countries it found eight percent of them have a media climate considered good for journalists the biggest deterioration is in the americas with the us brazil venezuela and nicaragua performing poorly the middle east and north africa region continues to be the most dangerous for journalists. on the flip side ethiopia and gambia as rankings have climbed significantly norway stayed top of the list while sweden last one place to become third and north korea is no longer the most dangerous country for journalists it's turkmenistan.

i already let's bring in our guests from london baden white president and founder of the ethical journalism network rami hooty is professor of journalism at american university of beirut he is currently in new york to address an international forum on press freedom and again from london caroline muscat co-founder and editor of the shift news welcome to the program caroline let me start with you it used to be that journalists mostly came under threat due to violence covering war covering dangerous stories that really has changed fundamentally in the last several years has it not it has we are seeing a change and threats and the kind of intimidation that genesis are facing. this climate of fear that we're talking about test started over the last intensified of the last couple of yes we are not looking at things like cyber harassment they set

of. harassment all the challenges that make janet's life on the ground very difficult and make it very hard to act rami i want to start the discussion today by discussing the united states a country where the notion of freedom of the press is in shrine in its constitution not only has the u.s. fallen in the reporters without borders list this year it's fallen three places in this year's index but it is now classified as having a problematic climate for journalists so just how significant is this. it's very significant in terms of the modern historical legacy where the united states along with some western european countries are really trampy and of the independence of the press and free expression of citizens and the privacy of citizens that's changed now and trump really is the latest manifestation most dramatic manifestation of this because he publicly openly attacks the media and

says they're enemies of the people and and educates his followers to in some cases the followers go and beat them up and stuff but this did not start with trump this really started with george bush and the war in iraq where george bush suddenly said in the global war on terror you're either with us or against us anybody who doesn't fully support the american government policies and war in other areas as an enemy of the people is a danger is a threat is a subversive element and this process has gone on for about twenty five years and it's getting worse and worse and a spreading all over the world but in the us the interesting thing is that while the government is pushing. to restrict press freedoms and personal expression and criminalize it in some cases such as for instance supporting the b.d.s. peaceful sanctions against israel movement they push back from the u.s. is very serious including the american civil liberties unions and law cases all over the country saying that the freedom of expression that isn't shrine then the

constitution has to override everything else and there's a huge battle this is really the great new ideological battlefield in not just the western world but the rest of the world as well eight in the report calls the period since president trumps election in two thousand and sixteen and one of american journalism communities darkest moments and it also links trumps notorious anti-press rhetoric with terrifying harassment it says in the report and particularly at women and journalists of color so from your perspective how much have trump's words degraded the atmosphere i mean i don't think there's any doubt that. notwithstanding the difficulties the past presidents have had with the press there's no doubt that. president trump has elevated to a new and quite. unacceptable level hostility to the press he's generated a movement against mainstream press he has tried to humiliate and to isolate

and to intimidate some of the the best journalists in the world and it seems to me with what he's done is that he has created in the public mind a deep suspicion and hostility towards mainstream journalism and given the circumstances that we are in nationally and globally with the information landscape that's a very dangerous thing in particular he's given a green light to populist unscrupulous politicians all around the world to bring the press and investigative journalists for example into the crosshairs of conflict he is very much. the leading light in a very dark force in global politics today it includes putin it includes or no one in turkey it includes others who really are generating now very hostile climate in which journalists find it difficult to work so i don't

think i've known and i've been in this business for more than thirty years representing journalists internationally i don't think i've known a worse period in terms of the problems and challenges facing journalists and the threats that are out of free expression rami this report says that the americas have suffered the greatest deterioration of any of the regions first off why are things getting so much worse in places like brazil in venezuela nicaragua and secondly the fact that things are so much worse in the u.s. what does that mean for the safety of journalists in other parts of the world. well the us has a leader as seen as a leader across the world in many arenas and it used to be a leader and free press now it's a leader in pushing back against the freedom of the press and criminalizing free expression so anybody who's critical of trump or american policy is as seen in the trompe and world to be an enemy and

a dangerous subversive and therefore can be attacked with legal means sometimes just beaten up sometimes intimidated and this is spreading around the world that the critical thing now is that there is a global growing network of autocrats let's call them some of them are really awful . dictators and brutal people others are just really strong autocrats who don't want to hear any views that oppose them and you see it on in brazil in the in venezuela. egypt in iran and turkey and india hungary all over the world are spreading more and more and they're really dangerous thing is that they are now getting technology for instance the united arab emirates has bought israeli tech knowledge and has passed on to presidencies in egypt to monitor electronically hundreds of thousands of people and prevent them from expressing themselves so we have the situation where thousands of websites were

just closed down in egypt a few days ago by the government in order to prevent a free discussion about the so-called referendum that's going to take place now in a few days that would allow caesar to stay president for another twenty years or so so there the web of terrible things happening is much worse than just clamping down on journalists it's about controlling the minds and the thoughts on the expressions of individual citizens and preventing citizens from work together and n.g.o.s or professional organizations or whatever to express themselves on hold the governments accountable so this is really a dangerous moment but the good news is that there is pushback. everywhere in the world and this is a great great global battle now taking place carolina the european union and the balkans are registered this year as the second biggest deterioration in this original score which measures the level of constraints and violated as according to reporters without borders report tell us about the kind of threats faced by journalists in malta well definitely i want to get it's an investigative

journalist who was assassinated and will turn sixteen talk to about twenty seven thousand. there is no real serious investigation going on three known criminals but accused of the of the assassination but you have absolutely no idea who commissioned the murder they side and single of an investigative journalist in north a country where more than ninety percent of the media is own directly by political parties these are very little room for criticism of the government. there is continued impunity and discontinues to make the rest of the journalists working on the ground more and more vulnerable the threats and cycle of hate that such investigations have revealed are directly linked to online governments porto's closed and secret groups that are used to whip up hate to get stuffed i want to collect them i know being used to target and isolate activists and journalists

who are critical of the government and once you're isolated you become a much easier target and the maltese government is refusing national and international calls for an independent public inquiry to look at what the state could have done to prevent the assassination the state's positive obligation the government is refusing to scorn. in this report sweden is highly ranked but but even sweden was downgraded this year and one of the reasons for that was because of cyber bullying of journalists and this is something that keeps coming up in the report of the borders index this year what do you make of that. well i think the the the problem about the use of technology to to to monitor the work of journalists to interfere and to intimidate journalists in the in the way they're working is is extremely disturbing and i mean sweden has been demoted

but you know in terms of the league table the scandinavian countries still shine by a long way most of the rest of the democratic world and. globally as a whole but i think this problem about technology is is not just about how the technology can be used and developed specifically to target and to intimidate journalists one of the big problems that we're facing in terms of protecting free expression these days is the failure of the big technology companies to take their responsibility as publishers they have created in many ways the technological facilities for an information landscape that shows no respect for public decency for respect for standards of expression that we have many many problems with misinformation fake news abusive communications and so on and this this deterioration in the quality of public communications has added to the general problem about free expression the public at large have no idea about how to deal

with a confused landscape in which is it difficult if not impossible to identify what is reliable what is truthful what is is worthwhile in terms of free expression and this itself focuses a massive problem so we have with technological developments with the utilization of technology by unscrupulous forces who will try to shut down journalism where is we also have the creation of an informational landscape which is increasingly toxic and that also is very dangerous for free expression around me arrayed in there talk about a toxic landscape and what comes up in my mind is you know social media and how toxic a landscape that can be can you talk a little bit about how much of a problem that is for journalists in the middle east and also at how much a problem cyberbullying is for journalists in the middle east. yes both of those things are her earnest show and just a fan who hadn't said which i agree with completely was that we really need to understand how this started and my sense having lived through it and watched it all

in the last forty fifty years it really started with the satcher reagan revolution where they decided that free market capitalism really is the mechanism to rule the world that all people should live in free market economies and therefore everything becomes commodified everything is a commodity to buy and sell them the market rules everything and this is what's happened to media all over the war started in england and in the us and i was spread everywhere the media has been broken up into hundreds and hundreds of small little groups and politicised as well as being out of my eyes at the same time so we don't have many centrist reliable news sources that would like we used to when i was in college and i had to sixty's and seventy's you could rely on the centrist major news organizations to give you a relatively fictional honest and fair news of what happened yesterday today the media has become an ideological battleground and this is going on all over the

world now as well as in the middle east it's very obvious governments have control most of the media in most of the middle eastern countries not just the arab countries iran turkey israel as well there's a massive move by governments to boy or influence or control media and this is one of the reasons where why a social media has become such an important alternative to people's news but the governments are cracking down on social media and if somebody says something on social media that the government isn't like there are now laws in all countries that allow the government to detain somebody put them in jail just because they were accused of demeaning the leader or ruining the country's reputation vague stings like that which of course the government decides and it's the courts that it controls decides how to. interpret that so there is a huge problem in terms of why individual journalists are having more and more difficulty getting their work done and that's why so many of the best ones leave

the middle east and go overseas where they can continue to work online but they have less impact when they're outside the country and this is because of the bullying because of the threats the intimidation the imprisonment and all of the and of course the governments ultimately have to license almost anybody in the middle east in any medium has to be licensed somehow so this is a very dark moment for the region across the middle east as it is for many around the world but i would add again that people are pushing back people are not silently sitting and and taking this there are pockets of excellence and independence and quality journalism all across the middle east is one of them amid the muslim is one of them have been jordan is one of them there's many small groups big groups that are doing genuinely professional work and that's why they tend to be attacked by the order of prats caroline from your perspective how much of

a problem for journalists is cyber bullying and also the social media landscape how much of a threat does that pose. well the promise of social media the democratization of these platforms are supposed to often i think ended up in the same pos as every other channel that was ever created it has taken over. there's no need to shut down facebook accounts or twitter accounts anymore they simply just dominates through. and in motel we have proven to direct link between states trolling and the targeting of activists and citizens and in this sense i agree with what was said but these social media platforms need to take the responsibility of acting as publishers rather than neutral carriers like any editor or journalist that has to go through innovative occasion fact checking and phase that i have but it can consequence when failing these platforms need to need to take up that same

responsibility because they influenced and that that image that they are causing are quite exchanging. let's talk for minutes return to the theme of descent from asian and how bad is getting particularly in asia i mean let's talk first about me and more because that is someplace where we're distant from asia and the manipulation of social networks led to a lot of heat for rhetoric being directed toward the river in myanmar for example you have the two reporters wallow and also who they are reporters and me and more they were jailed as they were investigating an atrocity that was committed in me and more they just one of the people that surprise for their reporting just a few days ago now there was a time when something like that would apply pressure a prize that prestigious a statement like that would apply pressure on a government to release journalists of that caliber so much in the spotlight that doesn't seem to be the case anymore does it. no i think that's right i mean and i think this goes back to the discussion that we were having at the at the beginning

which is there's a political climate has been created and unfortunately led by political leaders from democratic countries which is actually in hunting the capacity for impunity in countries which were actually never very good in the first place and so you have now a sort of fresh wind in the sails of autocrats and people who are the enemies of press freedom really not to feel any responsibility the general question murder the targeted murder by saudi arabia or. is the worst example in the past twelve months but we see everywhere now governments quite happy to play fast and loose with international standards and obligations and this is created a very dangerous atmosphere but in asia we are beginning to see. pushback but there are massive problems the problems facing maria ressa the. outstanding journalist in

the philippines who is being targeted by the government there because of her work as an independent journalist so with so we have to sort of recognize that there is a political struggle here to get political organizations to get back on track in terms of respecting international standards but can i just on that i do feel the point that been made that there is pushback is actually very important this is a time where we have to reinforce the importance of journalism reliable professional an ethical journalism as a stream or useful stream of information and even in some unlikely places we're saying that now being taken up very recently there was the creation of a coalition for ethical journalism in turkey there was a coalition for media organizations in the western balkans both areas both regional areas where a muslim. elliptical problems facing journalists but then we say the journalists and media organizations and media support groups getting together to devise new

strategies for pushback this is actually a very welcome sign but rami i want to discuss the issue of giuliana songe for a moment because his arrest just several days ago. that has raised the alarm bells for many activists and many journalists many journalism professors lawyers many of them saying that if he is extradited to the united states that that sets a very dangerous precedence for journalists all over the world going forward now there has been a debate for a while about whether or not julian assange should actually be considered a journalist but this idea of him potentially being extradited to the united states when discussing the topic of safety for journalists what do you make of that. it is a big problem if he is extradited i think the government said he wouldn't be sent

to a country that has a death penalty so we'll see what would happen but we should see this as a as an incremental a bad step in the wrong direction. in a much bigger march towards a bad directions by many people all over the world so it would create pressure on whistleblowers and people who leak information and it really tells us that there is a central weakness that is permeating much of the media all over the world now which is the lack of trust at all the different levels that exist so publics don't trust the media as much as they used to his room twenty twenty five percent roughly of different countries people say they trust the media the media doesn't trust what the government is telling them the governments don't trust the word the media that they are dealing with and there's a huge simultaneous deterioration in the core trust relationship that has always formed the strengths of the free media world which is that you can count on

what you see in the paper on t.v. or radio as being relatively accurate and fair that no longer accounts the media has been weaponized politicized polarized commercialised privatized all the bad things that can happen have happened to the media and remember the media broadly speaking are businesses they're out to make money and these businesses are now controlled by ideological extremists some of them in government some of them in other movements in their countries who want to exploit the freedom that there exists in the media to attack people that you don't like so this is a very difficult combination of pressures that people deal with and the adding julian assange is to this list of maybe him being prosecuted in the united states it just is one more element i wouldn't size it too much because there are many many other bad things going on that we probably have more ability to control right now aden it looks like you're shaking your head i'm going to give you the last word but

please be mindful the fact that we only have about forty seconds left go ahead. all i wanted to say is that i wanted to take issue with the idea that we must regard media as businesses journalism actually is moving out of being regarded as a business in the market sense today increasingly journalism isn't a business in the market sense journalism is increasingly a public institution with public purpose and it's first an ultimate aim is to provide reliable and trustworthy information the question is how we can do that without pressure from government how we can do that and make it sustainable for the future these are the big questions that are that have to be answered for the future of journalism but also for the future of democracy all right we're going to leave it there as we have run out of time thanks so much to all our guests aiden white from the hootie and caroline mascot and thank you too for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our website al-jazeera dot com and for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j.

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two thousand and sixteen campaign was dogged by charges it was working with russia to throw the election his way but when robert muller was chosen to investigate those allegations this was trump's reaction oh my god this is terrible this is the end of my presidency now bowler's investigation is done and the four hundred forty eight page report with many sections blacked out is del public the special counsel's conclusion stated at least three times accordingly while this report does not conclude that the president committed a crime it also does not exonerate him as far as the u.s. attorney general is concerned trump is not in legal jeopardy bill barr says just because muller's report is filled with details about contacts between the campaign and russian officials doesn't mean anyone committed a crime we collect this information we use that compulsory process for the purpose

of making that decision the report confirms what the u.s. intelligence community believes russia did meddle in the two thousand and sixteen presidential campaign between trump and hillary clinton rows upon tax with members of trump's inner circle were betty including with his son donald jr who is not be charged with any crime his law. oyur michael cohen a camp a better public in a fort both colored and man of fort are now headed to prison for a lawyer to the government about their auctions however moeller and is a vest a gator say there's not enough proof of a bigger conspiracy or of presidential interference if we had called that it's after a thorough investigation of the facts that the president clearly did not commit obstruction of justice we would so state based on the facts and the applicable legal standards however we are able to reach that judgment but mohler it gets never

compelled to sit for an interview in the interest of time raising questions in congress and the general public about how thorough this investigation really was rosalyn al-jazeera washington now molly's prime minister has resigned along with his entire government for weeks after the mass killing of one hundred sixty people the ethnic violence prompted thousands to rally in the capital bamako president abraham as office says he accepts the resignation of the prime minister and that of the members of his government because hack has more. there's been mounting tension in the political arena adding to this this chaos that you're seeing in mali adding to the security situation there is a political tension between the president and members of the opposition so there will be clear. pressure on the president to try to bring in members of the

opposition in hopes to ps these angry mali and that are taking to the streets because the situation really is just deteriorating by the day. the u.n. envoy for libya is warning of a broader escalation in violence the un security council met in an emergency session to discuss the battle for the control of tripoli but it failed to agree on a draft resolution calling for a cease fire. huge crowds continue gathering in sudan outside the military headquarters where a sit in has been staged for the last two weeks protesters are demanding the immediate return of civilian rule following the overthrow of president omar al bashir last thursday a representative of russia's president has met sudan's military rulers it follows a visit from a high level delegation from saudi arabia and the united arab emirates earlier this week. those are the headlines i'll be back with more news here after witness.

i am. the heir . to the you. of the dream that i had i think it was in one thousand three hundred ninety four is

probably the most profound dream that i've ever had because it came true but it begins with me walking. in a circle in what seems to be a prison with my arabic teacher and every teacher was a is a great pacifist. and we are being surrounded by soldiers who pointing guns at us. as we're walking i'm saying to him dear brother how much of this humiliation are we going to stand and take and he says to me patience step brother patience. as he's saying this to me. everybody's fired upon all of us walking in the circle of this prison are fired upon and everybody stops and starts dropping like flies except me. five months ago sat in that same started this cruel war against kuwait the night the battle has been

joined. around one thousand nine hundred ninety one i was a regular teenager was someone who was struggling with concepts of identity really was i british was i muslim was an asian was a pakistani as i started to think about my options for the future it was then that the gulf war broke out many muslims of watch the developments in the gulf with growing dismay some muslims see the present conflict as a war against islam. i had been beaten up by racist skinheads i've been told numerous times from school on words from separate school never in the jewish school that i went to go home how do i call myself british when there are

organizations like the british movement who tell me that i'm not british. everybody wants to be part of something and so part of my journey would be finding blogging in again finding belonging in my father's tales of old india trying to be black speaking with a accent and so there was a whole process of trying to find where i fit and eventually i came at the end of that journey actually islam. i included all. one for war began in the balkans i remember being shocked that these people being killed because they were muslims. when i saw what was happening to them i thought that's happening to me because i'm a muslim i went on this one convoy and in a matter of days we were in bosnia i was slightly scared going into was

on when i got there and saw destroyed houses the famous bridge in mostar their member of the graveyards filled with new graves and then spending time at refugee centers in these big trucks villages contrast it against the brutality. then i came to a place which was part of. the third corps. good coffee army a post on sco or they are in army was made up of former volunteers and local bosnians it reinforced for me the sense of a muslim identity the transcends national boundaries there was a sense that these were the bravest and the most effective of the fighting forces. they called themselves of course mujahideen is the terminology they used to

describe themselves so when i saw that which i have been a come from around the world to do what these united nations forces would not do. i felt not only is this the right thing to do is the only thing to do i support them . and it is waking me up to a wider reality. in one thousand. joke was that connected with bosnia and with that personal development and ninety eight i think that's one we opened my friend and a colleague of mine a bookshop an islamic bookshop that was part of my development into the from being somebody who's. partially islamic to somebody who's fully islamic it was of course during this period that i started getting under the radar of the security services.

the bodies of eleven americans killed in the nairobi bombing are on their way home to the united states a somber process that's brought grief to the nation and anger to government leaders vowing to track down those responsible today ordered forces to strike at terrorist related facilities now afghanistan and sudan because of the imminent threat though presented to our national security. this man was the target of the american missiles or some of been large the saudi fundamentalist who's used his personal fortune estimated at two hundred million pounds to fight american interests worldwide pledging a holy war to ordinary people in sudan the american missile strike on khartoum was shockingly unexpected from their government although they have heard is that it was a totally unjustified act of united states terrorism. i've always understood that my view on the west was i've been extremely critical of it it's also my own source

who i live for the language i speak i think in this land which is a place where my mother is buried my sister's buried and my kids grew up and where i grew up it's where i have my memories of childhood and happiness and joy. coming into conflict with the west would also mean coming into conflict with home and that's something i've never ever want to do i pick a to. remember distinctly there was a. knock on my daughter early morning around six o'clock and i opened the door three people two men and a woman and they said mr beck would like to talk to us and it really odd one of them identify themselves as a police officer the other guys didn't really say who they were. they sat down and we spoke and it was about an individual somebody i knew.