nation 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 muller at mit's he never compelled trump 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 rosalind al-jazeera washington while all this doesn't mean president trump is completely in the clear yet there are still questions over whether he obstructed justice alan fisher has the latest from the white house president trump went ahead with a planned event at the white house enjoying according to aides the best pieces his election i'm having a good day q it was called. no collusion no obstruction. the best pieces his election are just his supporters to watch the attorney general's

news conference and within minutes of it ending tweeted out the message he's been repeating for twenty two months no collusion nor struction the president might hope that it's game over but it's not the white house and its republican allies will keep pushing the message that it's time to move on and things well but only to the next stage of an inquiry which has cast a shadow over washington for the last twenty two months democrats want robert mueller and attorney general bill barr to give evidence to congress it is clear the special counsel's office conducted incredibly thorough investigation in order to preserve the evidence for future investigators their special counsel made clear that he did not exonerate the president and the responsibility now was to congress to hold the president accountable for his actions. congress must get the full i'm redacted report along with the underlying evidence uncovered by special counsel muller but the leader of the republicans in the senate sees no prospect of impeachment of the president well the speaker is gone out of her way to discourage

that kind of talk. but far be it for me to predict what the house may do but the speakers indicated her total lack of enthusiasm for that particular route one area democrats might push on is that miller could not decide if the president committed obstruction of justice leaving it open for congress but one of his fiercest defenders says that is no instance the intent matters and the president's intention here was not to with was not to do that and so intent matters and i know you want to cherry pick one line here because the big lie that you've left. it's over folks but it's not just democrats pushing for fresh investigations the trump reelection campaign calling for an investigation into those behind what it describes as a politically motivated show the military for p.b.s. the controversy around it isn't over alan fischer i'll just eat up the white house

. well still ahead on al-jazeera. playing against the odds to rog's musicians compose a message for the government. how low we've got lots of fine weather across here of looking pretty good as we make our way towards the easter weekend one of two showers across the eastern part was the black sea into that western side of russia the big change really is going to be across that western side where we're already seeing cloud of great spirit in the cross the iberian peninsula thirty celsius in madrid pretty poor there heavy rain as well further north there we go we warming up quite nicely twenty in london twenty four in paris was still as we go on into the next couple days and those temperatures will just pick up for madrid as we go on through says they saw as

a brighter weather to go into the second half of the easter weekend further east little bit of sherry right there just pushing over towards poland towards that western side of russia maybe down towards the the black sea as well as the mediterranean central parts of europe looking fine and dry with plenty of sunshine as is the case across the northeast of africa twenty five in cairo cloud of the way will make its way across northern parts of morocco northern areas of algeria over the next day or two and that will just begin to feel peter out as we go on into the last part of the weekend for central parts of africa into the gulf of guinea we have got some lively showers there southern parts of nigeria some wet weather to right across it if you therapy in highlands.

up to. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera time to recap headlines people in sudan have staged the biggest rally since the overthrow of president ahmed bashir last week hundreds of thousands of demonstrators massed in the capital khartoum demanding an end to his military rule. president has accepted the resignation of

the prime minister and the entire government it comes off to weeks of mass protests over the killing of one hundred sixty four herdsman the government has been accused of not doing enough to stop the wants. u.s. president donald trump is declaring total victory after the release of a sense of version of problem on those reports into russian collusion but house democrats say they want to see the full an edited version. of bruce fein is a former united states associate deputy attorney general he thinks the report is more likely to affect trump's reelection campaign next year than have any legal ramifications. as a pure legal matter for lawyers no it doesn't get him off the hook it's true that the house judiciary committee could say well even if mr muller could make up his mind we will and based upon our examination and inferences about corrupt intent we will conclude that mr trump committed obstruction of justice which was an article

of impeachment against both clinton and nixon and move forward i don't think that's very likely to happen for the reason that i think the american people place a lot more confidence in mr muller's judgment and you're not going to throw out a president based upon an inconclusive decision then you will the house judiciary committee and i believe that's already been indicative of why the majority leader mr stanley who are issued a statement says we're not going to do impeachment is going to take too long is too complicated will take us beyond two thousand and twenty we will use this information quite legitimately in the campaign of two thousand and twenty but as a matter of law in the judiciary committee going forward i think this is over now the un envoy for libya is warning violence could intensify fights is loyal to the u.n. recognize governments have launched a new campaign in the south against walled city of a half so the u.n. security council has met in the emergency sessions in new york to discuss the battle for control of the capsules but failed to agree on the draw for

a solution for a cease fire. we need to have this resolution urgently we need we need to send this very very strong message to the population that it's desperate when you hear no. rockets falling into civilian quarters we need to strong and strong voice from from new york. supporters of former peruvian president paid tributes to him after he committed suicide as a face arrest got to say i had plenty of loyal followers but many detractors too many other sanchez reports from lima was paid tribute with tears and slogans for more than thirty years alan garcia live at the party now his followers raced the party symbol as a final goodbye to him. thousands of peruvians lined up early thursday to celebrate the life of their former leader the room i feel such great pain because so many

pushed him this far and he didn't want to allow anyone to see him handcuffed. although he was fired been proven politics able to dazzle followers f.c.s. tarnished reputation dates back to his first government in the late one nine hundred eighty s. when hyperinflation reached epic levels hundreds of surrender prisoners were massacred in several jails after his first time enough is alan garcia fled to colombia in one thousand nine hundred two and then lived in france hiding from corruption charges he returned and won the presidency again in two thousand and six but ended as one of proust most repudiated politicians was. seven years politician now was the allies are blaming the press and public prosecutors for things that. journalists following part of the money trail in latin america's worst corruption scandal revealed that during garcia's government

brazilian construction giant old david h. paid at least twenty four million dollars in bribes and prosecutors question him for months more to a lot of alan was a victim of a long campaign of insults that were already killing him little by little and then ordering his arrest without any proof for sure just to humiliate him they wanted to see him handcuffed was. however critics say that c.s.i. lights are now trying to make prove you believe that his death is a result of a political persecution. money. it is outrageous that goes he has followers are using is to side it is unfair with the prosecutor because they were following the due process if alan garcia in the face of the process decided to take such a drastic decision that is his own responsibility. the recent opinion poll says more than seventy percent of peruvians believe get to see i was guilty of corruption despite his passing the law allows prosecutors to continue investigating

him and they will following the trail of millions of dollars all they would each paid to get construction concessions doing second government and whose accounts the money and the ban. on just one just. now ukraine's president says appeal to voters to forgive him his mistakes as the trials in the opinion polls ahead of sunday's election run off the polls for the petro poroshenko will lose his bid for reelection shooter sheriff i once again ask you to forgive me but we did not work out hurts the most yes narrative but i know how hard it is for each of you to forgive my mistakes and believe again i want you to know yes this is my fault. i want to finish the job and continue work i've already done so i ask for your support on april twenty first and i will accept any decision of yours since the will of the people is most important. challenger is the

comedian and actor lauder mere design ski his only experience of politics is playing the president on television correspondent robin for a star walker has been to his hometown. this is the wreak crook at home in english a city built on iron ore and steel production. and birthplace of a man who is promising to reshape ukraine's political landscape the law to made a zillion ski. 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 this is

a city of manly iran and steal 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 a 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 oligarch lives abroad and is wanted on

embezzlement charges ukraine's incumbent president petro poroshenko accuses the lansky 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 he's still respected for that you think when you go in with good we visit if it wasn't because of moist the russians would have been here when the war started it was clear more ski he stood at the helm of the need program without taking a dime the war drags on and pensions here barely enough to live on good mostly it's got nothing to do nuffin would not start when not in america i was also shot mind and did anything bad happened there will be all right the people of creepy unique appear ready to pin their hopes on one of their own robin first you walk al-jazeera t.v. the. call facebook has admitted uploading the email contacts of up to one

million users without their consent facebook says it was unintentional and they didn't share the information with anyone it says it's notified users who were affected this is what's been going on with facebook this is another privacy fail an epic privacy fail now realize in the context of two billion people who are members of facebook one point five million individuals might add sound like a big deal but then if you think about the fact that their contact information was being automatically uploaded without their consent really without their knowledge you're talking about potentially hundreds of millions of people being involved in this particular situation it's like cambridge analytical but on steroids. musicians at iraq's national symphony the symphony rather ocus trying to lock to the pay

dispute with the government they haven't seen the pay check so far this year some have left but those who haven't say they will continue to perform despite the olds international named folds. the ballet studio with peeling floors of the player of dust and ramshackle chairs is the rehearsal space for the iraqi national symphony orchestra some how the musicians maintain their focus seemingly oblivious to the inevitable power cuts that have become common in iraq since last year the orchestra has been involved in what the conductor calls oh war with the ministry of culture the staff hasn't been paid so far this year and spent most of twenty eighteen without a paycheck until they were eventually paid in what the fans of. the staff of the ministry of culture acts as if they are living in another world they are disregarding the fact that the musicians haven't been paid we have suffered and we

are still suffering there are one hundred ten musicians and support staff with the iraqi national symphony orchestra their average salary is eight hundred dollars a month since the pay dispute began last year ten members have left. for years the conductor says the government has attempted to slash the annual one point four million dollars budget of the orchestra then in two thousand and eighteen an anti-corruption law was implemented it banned staff from working a state job and also getting paid to work with the orchestra since the one nine hundred seventy s. members had been granted a waiver i mean the government should be you know supporting us like because we are to be the you know cultural you know front of the whole country i mean we're the only symphony orchestra in the country and we were one of the. first symphony orchestras that were established in the middle east still but you know of course

they wouldn't consider that this is really devastating. the ministry of culture says it's at the bottom when it comes to federal funding and is struggling to pay for its entire portfolio about reaching an equitable agreement with the musicians. novela the ministry of culture needs to have an inclusive vision for the future of their i.q. symphony orchestra we need to overcome the outstanding issue you know dr wise up with a new talent to generation that embraces art and music by all iraqis. the orchestra has continued to perform this year what are to be completely honest with you were defined we're playing against all odds. the musicians say their passion is fueling them but they know they can't live on that. natasha al jazeera back to.

take you through some of the headlines here on al-jazeera now protesters in sudan have staged the biggest rallies since last week's overthrow of president obama and the sheer hundreds of thousands of demonstrators gathered in the capital khartoum demanding an end. table now has more from car two. people have been gathering in front of the army headquarters since wednesday evening that's because of the march that was held yesterday it's called a million people's march thousands and thousands and the army headquarters and political parties know that there's gathering in front of the headquarters is their main card that they have against the military council so that power is handed over to an independent transitional government we've seen the sudanese professional association butting out a notice late last night that people should continue gathering and protesting in front of the army headquarters and hold friday prayers there today mali's president

has accepted the resignation of his prime minister and the entire government it comes after weeks of mass protests over the killing of one hundred sixty follow in the villages the government has been accused of not doing enough to stop the violence. u.s. president donald trump is declaring total victory after the release of a sense of version of rottweilers report into russian collusion but house democrats say they want to see the fall edited text the u.n. envoy for libya is warning fighting for control of tripoli could intensify after an emergency session of the u.n. security council failed to agree a draft resolution for a cease fire. as well as the battle surrounding the capital feiss loyal to the un recognized government have launched a new campaign against wall old so if a hostile in the south of the country. its inside story now stay with us

here on the out of. the current president and a popular comedian a heading for the second round of the presidential election with no official plan yet promising to change the comedian on the take a share of the funds from the surface round who will lead the country after this historic connection ukraine votes twenty nineteen on al-jazeera. a cycle of fear a report shows journalists are facing increasing hostility around the world the dangers are not just in conflict 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 in 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

stretch of tradition 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 champions 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 is in 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 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 and 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 policies is 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 no 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 and 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. around 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 for criticism of the government. that 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 government portals closed and secret groups that are used to whip up hate to get stuffed i want to call it sam 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 score. 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 your aid 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 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 then the market rules everything and this is what's happened to media all over the world started in england and in the us and now is spread everywhere the media has been broken up into hundreds and hundreds of small little groups and politicized 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 pratt's 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 offer 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 us publishers rather than neutral carriers like any editor or journalist that has to go through innovative occasion fact checking and phase that i have at hand consequence when failing these platforms need to need to take up that same

responsibility because they influenced and the damage that they are causing are quite exchanging. let's talk for a minute as a return to the theme of distance 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 aren't 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 a counsellor 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 to this list of maybe him being prosecuted in the united states it just is one more element i wouldn't have 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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the eyes of the welts generally that's right out of a hamas script that calls for the annihilation of israel that is not what that phrase means the listening post as we turned the cameras on the media focused on how they were told on the stories that matter the most him better use a free palestine there listening post on al-jazeera. and her husband gavin worst week when four teenagers broke down the back door the teenagers described as being of african appearance a still on the run the full of this happened i wasn't scared out of black people or people of color. whatever the focus on african gang crime began in march twenty sixth jane when violence broke out at the moon the festival at federation square in the center of melbourne to gird suit of african-american people coming together and knowing there was a far cry get out of the car by rolling all if you lot some of that was because the

police because i mean all of them we started choice and they're just people there in that crowd all narrative in the media at the top and a lot of political pressure on this people to commit crime and three single race whole human gets blamed for the actions of the few. to people have to pay sites i have to feel saif side there's a lot of perception issues i think that we need to deal with this. tens of thousands protest outside sudan's army headquarters demanding an immediate return to civilian rule. on sammy's a dam this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up molly's government resigns

after widespread anger over a massacre of one hundred sixty villages. no collusion no obstruction. call the whips of a political storm as a reveals the president tried to obstruct the investigation. playing against the odds iraq's musicians compose a message for the government. tens of thousands of demonstrators have gathered in sudan's capital called too demanding an end to military rule it's the biggest rally since the overthrow of president bashir last week the protesters want a civilian led transition the ruling military council is promises of reforms have done little to satisfy people's demands. let's get the latest now from him or he she joins us live from khartoum so all politicians finding some agreement on

a transitional plan. well no then they don't seem to be close since professional association put out a statement just a few minutes ago saying that on sunday evening they will be and now saying the formation of a transitional cabinet it's not clear yet if other political parties are on board yesterday we've seen seventy political parties saying that they are calling themselves the guards of the revolution and they're saying that they want a one year transition period and they want members from political parties to be part of that cabinet we've also seen the sudanese professional association which has been spearheading the calls for protests for the past four months saying that they want a presidential council that is independent from the military council and a cabinet made up of technocrats in a legislative assembly to run the country over a period of four years so at the moment it doesn't look like the political parties and protest organizers are all on the same page and it doesn't look like they're

any closer to forming a transitional government we've also seen tens and tens of thousands marching and making their way to the army headquarters not just from hard to but from various other states as well to demand that the military council which has taken power since the ousting of president bashir demand that they hand over power to an independent transitional government they say that they will not move and they will not end their sits in until power is handed over to an independent government we've also heard from the people at the protests and various other people as well and they've been saying that on top a long side the demands for a transitional government they're also demanding justice for the victims of president bush's regime for the past thirty years. it's nearly thirty years since handing has and buried her son much to my job was sentenced to death after a military trial which lasted just one day the government accused him of being a currency trader after finding foreign bank notes in his family home his mother

says the money was left to him by his father who died and that her son was a victim of the new regime then. the safe hadn't been opened before then they arrested him and told me the day after he was executed they said that they've killed someone from a powerful family to show that they can get anyone who opposes them i want justice now and i want to clear my son's name he was not a currency dealer they killed him unfairly i want justice for my son's blood. majidi my job was among the first to be executed by the military after i wanted bashir amid the military coup in one nine hundred eighty nine and he became president bush's reign lasted for nearly thirty years before he was ousted by the military last thursday four months of mass protests accuse him of mismanaging the economy and corruption as well as targeting dissidents through the feared national security agency and militias loyal to the ruling party thousands of sudanese have been killed during this year's rule including doctor by because i have that had for

providing medical aid to protesters in january you may say to them you know my son was a doctor and was carrying an out his work there is militias targeted him intentionally they didn't want anyone to provide medical aid to protesters and now i want justice for my son he didn't deserve to die for doing his job. the doctor was one of more than fifty sudanese killed during the protests they include the continuing to weeks attend at the army headquarters and how to accountability is one of the top demands of protesters here these people in the city believe those targeted and killed by the former government to be much higher and they're chanting how much of their much as blood work they want those responsible for the killings to not only be removed from power but to be held accountable for the crimes they committed. leaders of the military council which is ruling sudan into the transitional government is formed says anyone who committed crimes over the past thirty years will be held to account

and the brothers of the ousted president are i'm over allies already arrested. arrests are underway observables of the eyes to the regime in addition to others who are believed to be linked to corruption cases the most prominent of those who have been placed in custody until nine are the brothers of the former head of this corrupt regime abdullah and. has him says she waited nearly thirty years to seek justice for the death of her son and will be gone she hopes that justice will come sooner rather than later. well we have now joining us here live from khartoum and hit once again if we talk about what's happening today looks like another massive turnout of people. well sammy that crowd from last night has reduced a little bit but that's because that's what tends to happen in a protest overnight some people tend to go back home but the sudanese professional association said that on friday today in the afternoon prayers they were expecting

a massive turnout they're saying that the people in front of the army headquarters are the only card they have to put pressure on the military council to hand over power most political parties agree with that as well they're saying that if these people leave from the army headquarters then they will have no way to pressure the military council into handing over power so while there are there is a reduction in the numbers of people and the army headquarters there is still a large club crowd that has and the night in front of the headquarters and they're saying that they will not move they've obviously demanded justice they're different demanding handing over power to a transitional council and they're also demanding that people be held to account and they're saying that for them this revolution is far from over and victory is far from over because at the moment things are in control of the military council when they wanted to be in the hands of a civilian government or if things are much more when they're from khartoum.

mali's government has resigned after protests over a mass killing last month the deaths of more than one hundred sixty follow the herdsman tens of thousands of people on to the streets demonstrators are accusing the government of not doing enough to stop the ethnic violence. nicholas hogg is in neighboring senegal he says the resignations pose big challenges for mali's president. the prime ministers to me lou bay my guy did not give a reason for his resignation but it really comes as no surprise because just days ago on wednesday the national assembly and members of the ruling party and the opposition in an unprecedented move put out a motion of no confidence against the prime minister and against his government and that was supposed to be voted in on friday the resignation came on thursday night it also comes on the heels of massive protests on april fifth thousands of malia's took to the streets asking for the prime minister's resignation and calling for

foreign troops to leave the country there's thirteen thousand un peacekeeping troops as well as french troops france being the former colonial powers they're trying to find out rebel groups active in the north of the country but just three weeks ago this insurgency turned into an ethnic conflict with poll villagers being targeted by their own neighbors poser a semi nomadic group some of their neighbors accuse them of supporting some of these insurgent group of the north but the main reason why the prime minister is resigning is because many millions are unhappy about the fact that the cost of living has risen by twenty percent promises made by president. was reelected in august have not been kept the schools have not opened since september the justice system is paralyzed it seems all of the government institutions have not

been functioning adding to that is the deterioration of the security situation in mali so the president has announced that he will choose a new prime minister and you government in the days to come. u.s. president donald trump is declaring total victory after the release of a sense of version of robert mahler's reports into russian collusion house democrats are now planning their next move with a meeting scheduled for monday they also want to see the full an edited version of that report though meanwhile russia's foreign minister says there's nothing in the document that warrants the kremlin's attention or israel's in and join reports. donald trump's 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 now 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 ross 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 lawyer michael cohen and campaign manager paul band of fort both cullen and man a ford are now headed to prison for a long. to the government about their actions however muller and his investigator say there's not enough proof of a bigger conspiracy or of presidential interference if we had confidence 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 muller at mit's he never compel trump 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 rosalind al-jazeera washington question.