abides by the slogans of the revolution for freedom peace and democracy. but not all parties are in agreement on how to form the government and what it should look like. what. kind of announcing that it has suspended talks with the military council it seems that they did in front of bombing headquarters is not coming to an end anytime soon and more than a week after al thing president bashir of sudan is nowhere near forming a transitional government. what's comes next will largely depend on how much pressure the protesters can put on the military council and how long it takes for the divided parties to come together to start a new face for the country. people morgan on to zero. fighting in libya has killed at least two hundred fifty four people in the last three weeks that's according to new figures released by the world health organization it says thousands of people have been injured troops loyal to the warlords after trying to take the capital from the un recognized government. let's also to come here and al-jazeera including

we tell you why this about india's prime minister narendra modi is proving so controversial. and how iraq is planning to improve facilities and millions of pilgrims visiting one of his biggest religious sites more on that stay with us. it's been snowing throughout the weekend in the lebanese martyrs you get an idea of why because the circulation of a turkey is just feeding the syrians are three now and i was been getting snow of course that depends on height there's a certain amount of rain around as well and having the north was but by monday most of that should have gone you still got rain in the wars in iraq to syria snow a tight up and. the rain spreading across into western iran. that will keep moving

in that general direction between monday and tuesday leaving most of iran for to minister the fuchsias the south that's admittedly but behind it it's looking far not much of a breeze the sun is out you're in the teens but i think it will feel quite good at least twenty two in baghdad bit of a drop in temperature now given what's happening to the north you normally end up with some change in the gulf states and this represents the potential for thunderstorms on monday for at least a cloudy sky the winds coming from the south and the north so neat here dusty breeze but should all be through by choosing and then we get northerly blowing that it will be cooler briefly dusty i think that about twenty eight and there have the drop in humidity sweet try with a dusty forty from mecca. sponsored. by main street every weekly news. breaking story and that of course is donald trump

. it's the outstanding that's right out of a hamas script that calls for the annihilation of israel that is not what that phrase means he joined the listening post as we turned the cameras on the media focused on how they were taught on the stories that matter the most in battle use a free palestine a listening post on al-jazeera. welcome back a quick reminder the top stories at this hour police say two hundred ninety people are now confirmed have been killed in sunday's attacks police have arrested twenty four suspects the president is chairing an emergency meeting to review security.

protest leaders in sudan are no longer recognizing the military transitional council there accusing it of not taking the process seriously just to say they'll step up demonstrations until a civilian government is put in place. the ukrainian comedian and a lot of messalonskee as won the presidential election by a landslide the political novice is estimated to have taken around seventy five percent of the vote as rival petro poroshenko was backed by the west has conceded defeat al jazeera as robin forrester walker reports from the capital. well we'll have that report and a bit later for you but. he is from the ukrainian congress committee of america he says there are concerns that selenski does not have the experience to negotiate an end to the war in eastern ukraine with russia. you have to understand that a lot of his campaign promises were just that very short sentences he proposed

doing a major restructuring of the. military structure in ukraine without any explanation about head how getting that passed in parliament and similarly he's proposed we all restarting the minsk agreement talks the normandie process inviting the united states and the u.k. into that however that doesn't take into account that russia as the other party in mediation needs to agree to that russia is the party in the means process that has violated it according to the international observers so to say that he will restart it doesn't take into account that he needs to be dealing with russia and does that mean this is what people have been asking during the campaign does that mean he will then travel to russia and try to do a tete a tete with putin as putin's advisor mr peskov announced on friday that putin is ready to meet with any future ukrainian the meter who is willing to concede on terms. having played the role of president in a t.v. show below to meet zelinsky is now on course to make that role

a reality winning an overwhelming majority of votes cost on sunday. thank you to my parents for their support and for living through all of this thanks to my team for their strength and stamina has my wife heard all of the things that was said about me in this campaign and perhaps she would never have married me faced with defeat president petro poroshenko was magnanimous but he will continue to play a role in ukrainian politics do you say yes dear ukrainians i want to underline that the new president will face strong opposition very strong but i want to say that the country our ukraine which is the best in the world well only benefit from it. poroshenko painted zelinsky as naive and did experienced dangerous for a country at war with russia with questionable links to an unsavory oligarch. but

zelinsky patrice himself as a simple guy who had come to break the oligarchic system a corrupt system many ukrainians believe poroshenko as a wealthy businessman belonged to it was either a protest vote or a genuine belief that a comedian might make a worthy commander in chief a martyr just maybe it is time maybe those who think differently i majority. is very simple either or either hope or a like with zelinsky is hope but you must mean we want change. flood to mean sitting ski i fix a new president now it seems the president elect. fiction has become fact. zillion ski and his team can celebrate this election victory but defeat. corruption and ending the war with russia is going to prove. a word in

english. he may be funny but ukrainians have shown little patience for presidents and failed to deliver roman for a steelworker al-jazeera. to morocco now where thousands of demonstrators of marched on palm and calling for the release of what they call political prisoners they say those detained campaign as fighting for change in an elected region but the government considers the fourth of july activists a security threat on the chappelle reports. bringing parts of the capital to a standstill thousands of moroccans call for one of their own to be released from jail. holding placards of nasser's of sofie the thirty nine year old leader of the he doc movement the protesters chant we are all is a sufi earlier this month he and three other men saw their twenty year prison sentences confirmed by an appeals court in casablanca says this is all all money

these people have protested in the reef region to ask for economic and social demands and they've been imprisoned as if they were the worst terrorists and this we cannot accept and we are demanding their release. they were joined in the streets and outside the parliament by civil society organizations and mothers. oppression is killing us we don't accept it we want all our children to be freed they are now on hunger strike what is the government doing. well that can come i say to the government think reasonably and find a solution for our children who were sent to various prisons that they have pity on us. coming along with pity for these forty two activists they want the government to release money to be used for economic development and job creation programs and are schapelle. mali's army says sixty. insulters have been killed in an attack on a checkpoint that happened in the town of gave the north of the capital bamako the

military has dispatched a ground reinforcements when the attack happened days after mali's government resigned the administration was criticized for its handling of the mass killing in march the president's not in talks with the opposition to form a new government reports from bamako. a prayer for a peaceful future from those celebrating easter in bamako as cathedral mali is without a government after its prime minister and cabinet were forced to step down on thursday following unprecedented demonstration on the streets of the capital in march a militia group that had received backing from prime minister micah tactful on the villagers killing one hundred sixty seven people the un peacekeeping operation in mali has more than seventeen thousand soldiers including french british and canadian troops despite doubt security forces were not deployed until seven hours after the attack and did this shocked the nation. among the demonstrators who

chanted out with foreign forces and down with the government is law student. and her daughter i said to. be no one seat when you talk of course we are angry and you are frustrated life is getting worse for us and what happened to the people but. it has to stop it hurts us if there's no chance we will keep demonstrating. change and security is what president promised when he was reelected for a second term in disputed elections last august so far his critics say he's failing to deliver his prime minister a former intelligence chief relied on militia men instead of the mali an army to bring back stability but what started out in two thousand and twelve as an armed rebellion in northern mali is now turning into ethnic violence edging closer to the capital. kate is facing mounting political pressure he's holding emergency talks at the presidential palace but the challenge for president he brought you

back mark is not only to find a new prime minister that will resurrect mali's government but one that told me that he said by the opposition the ruling party and the people who are increasingly taking to the streets to get their voices heard. the opposition rejects any possibility for a unity government and is asking peter to step down that. he stole the election from a seat if given the circumstances we should be running the country we are not going to take part in any government run by somebody who robbed us it is an uphill battle for kate and for the million people. with the violence spreading it seems there is no miracle solution in this search for peace some millions pay the ultimate sacrifice. while others pray for their country to rise again. because hawk al-jazeera bamako. police in georgia have used tear gas and rubber bullets to

break up protests against the construction of a hydro power plant around three hundred people took part in the demonstration they say the development in the mountainous region will destroy the environment and their homes. india's election commission has delayed the screening of a biography of india's current prime minister. was due to come out ahead of the first phase of indians general election. pm the renderer movie is a glowing interpretation of the life of india's current prime minister it's not something everyone here would agree with and what's more producers tried to release the film just before the country seven days election began this month but the election commission has delayed their release over concerns it would unduly influence voters the film is the most prominent in a recent line of political films and series critics say favor the government or pan the opposition it's. almost every month specially in these months leading up to

elections. political films this film journalist says the political exploitation of films used to be rare in india but that's changed everything. is in some way. by the movies and so perhaps the powers that be have figured out that this is one way to get across earlier this year several bollywood heavyweights flew in a private jet to meet the prime minister many say this photo from that meeting shows a relationship between the government and some of the film industry that might be too cozy. and with influence working both ways. the government propaganda have been produced in india for decades some more than others on the other side many in the film industry have used their fame is a platform to jump into politics. openly trading on her celebrity for votes in this north mumbai constituency for the opposition congress. after starring for years in several of the different language based film industries she's become famous that

fame is a powerful tool in political campaigning. is that right. activists all those people affected this town. this kind of changes which have come out only last for another five years so i think they need to change the needle more awareness has become more crucial this is unique in atlanta with more political films and series expected to hit the screens in india in the future many people here hoping their influence can at least be contained no matter how politically popular they may or may not be as jimmy al-jazeera. the iraqi city of kabul is planning to expand an important religious site to cope with a growing number of pilgrims more than thirteen million people visit the shrines of it mom hussein on the bass each year has more now from kabul. this is why millions come here each year to see the shrine of the most revered and mom and she

a history a mom to say. with more than thirteen thousand employees some say it's a city and it's growing every year we take you though we saw. with the current stable security situation in general the foundation is contributing to establish more expansion projects at the school to observe more visitors to the holy sites the house and this is in order to maintain a momentum of great services and counter. at the friday prayer service and approved representative of the high is she authority in the country grand ayatollah ali sistani delivers a sermon. after mecca in saudi arabia this shrine is considered the second most important place of worship for shias among hosain is buried in the shrine behind me and next to him lies the body of his eldest son along with seventy seven others who died in the battle of karbala in six eighty a.d.

now that's believed to be the starting point of the divide between shias and sunnis that continues fourteen centuries later. this area will be added to the shrines already extensive grounds within the next to yours. completing an ambitious six year project. is being built to accommodate another ten million visitors annually. to him on the same foundation has also opened a hospital here for cancer patients from around the world are treated for free there is a long wait list for prospective patients but the foundation hopes with increased revenues it can also be expanded. to that are a sham use one of the business owners within the grounds of the shrine's who has witnessed the rapid expansion he has been renting the store for the past twenty years. i could muster up for those the more expansion of down around the shrine the more visitors it will attract and that will also mean our businesses can expand

it will generate more money for the whole city. the people from around the world come to see these holy grounds in their millions each year for the iraqi government religious tourism is the second highest source of income after all while. the number of visitors is increasing each year because many believe iraq security is improving that means the country's revenue is to door such a party al jazeera karbala. time for a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera shrunken police now say two hundred ninety people are confirmed dead after sunday's bomb attacks police arrested twenty four suspects as part of their investigation the president is chairing an emergency meeting to review security. colombo just waking up we understand now it has been confirmed in fact that the curfew that countrywide

curfew that was put in place yesterday has been lifted so we see people out on the streets interestingly schools and universities are still going to be closed for at least two more days they would you to start operating again today the easter holidays we're getting more details now from the police with respect to arrests that have been made a police spokesperson saying that at least thirteen suspects have now been arrested a lot of focus on two locations what some are describing is possibly having been safe houses that apartment in. that you mentioned which we saw three police killed in a suicide attack yesterday. a lot of attention being paid on those premises we understand a number of arrests were made there including women in protest leaders in sudan are no longer recognizing the ruling military transitional council there accusing it of

not taking the country's crisis seriously but testers say they'll step up demonstrations until a civilian government is put in place. we reaffirm that we cannot go back to square one we cannot be intrigued by the military blocs we cannot allow the former regime to regain power the regime is attempting to reproduce itself we stood up to it. the ukrainian comedian the law demands the lenski has won the presidential election by a landslide the political novice is estimated to take in around seventy five percent of the vote and skee has promised talks with russia to resolve the conflict in eastern ukraine as rival petro poroshenko has backed by the west has now conceded defeat. the world health organization says fighting in libya has killed at least two hundred fifty people in the past three weeks troops loyal to the warlord . trying to take the capital from the un recognized government. all right so those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after the listing statement

on selection by fidel. you stand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the. al-jazeera. church. airs. on. the. free speech ought to be a matter of concern for only here on the specialty channels outside of the states. hello i'm richard gilbert and you're at the listening post here are some of the media stories that we're covering this week the case against julian assange which is journalism at risk or is it just person we'll examine the legalities the politics the way the story has been reported and we'll go down under to see how it's been satirized and i mean julian assange and donald trump and obstruction of

justice the mother report the full version finally comes out in washington and poland the catholic priest who is many media empire packs a political punch when the news broke and julian assange was forced out of the ecuadorian embassy in london last week the debates set off on the airwaves online and in print went to the core of what constitutes journalism a sound just supporters denounced his arrest as well as the prospect of his extradition to the united states as an assault on freedom of information a potential threat for journalists around the world who expose secrets others maintain that wiki leaks traffics in raw data not news stories that is sounds does not deserve the legal protection real journalists get in this legal case the devil is in the details of the indictment the fact that the u.s. department of justice chose not to charge a sanch under the espionage act as so many had predicted but under another statute

. the computer fraud and abuse act look beyond the law however and you'll find that there is no escaping the politics of this story and the mainstream media's own role in it our starting point this week is a long. long standoff with international authorities is finally over he looks like. he has aged more than seven years this is a story about wiki leaks journalism and the long arm of american just reaching all the way into the u.k. and ecuador. the issues are complex and the mainstream media coverage leaned heavily on official talking points . why did you revoke the asylum. what did he do by the.

you know the. having kicked julian assange out of its embassy and revoked his asylum in the ecuadorian government played on the media's appetite for the messy details the dirty laundry skateboarding in his underwear makings and scuffles with security guards we have to understand the government which. for many years eventually throwing away from him he needed to be a good explanation as to why and that's part of the explanation they started spinning the media narrative by essentially linking to the media this tiny detail some bits off a sundress personal life. and many other factors i can't really blame the media for repeatedly using the film clip of us i was being dragged out of the embassy with

this big gray. beard looking like a very miserable failed prophet or something and i can't blame them for you know writing about how he treated his cats that's the way the media operates with does bother me is that they allowed the impression to spread and dated for hacking it was indicted for helping chelsea manning in general and specifically for allegedly offering to possibly crack a password that's not. whether what julian assange did can be described as hacking or not depends on who is doing the describing the headline in the department of justice his press release made its position clear according to a sanchez lawyer though what our client did was to try to protect his source. but the indictment specifies does it not that was communications between us and chelsea manning in which sand is alleged to have helped manning get the information out of

the defense department computer system if that's true how problematic would that be for a centrist the point i think is important about the charges is that while the accusation is about compute conspiracy to commit computer crimes or in india a headline hacking if you look at the factual allegations what it amounts to is a discussion about how chelsea manning could protect her identity while accessing material she already had access to. material manning had already provided wiki but a savage was looking for more telling his source curious eyes never run dry. what happened next is central to this case manning had security concerns fearing that if she went in for more she would be traced the sand suggested a different route into the system by cracking another password thereby covering manning straps his lawyers say he was simply protecting his source others don't see

it that way. journalists often tell sources to you know hide their you know identity by using signal to communicate by using tor to access various things into the internet browser but what journalists are not trained to do what they don't do is they don't help crack passwords this is where assigned cross the line that all other journalists wouldn't do they wouldn't try to crack the password. for those following the wiki leaks story there was an assumption that any case against a savage would fall under the espionage act which criminalizes the acquisition and publication of classified documents by that standard all the other media outlets that published the leaked material could face the same legal consequences as a set but by basing its case on the hacking allegation rather than the dissemination of the documents and by filing the charges under a different law the prosecution can argue the charges against essential carry no

implications for other news outlets. seems to me that what they're doing by using the act in question here the computer fraud and abuse act. is that the d.o.j. is trying to distinguish sounds from other mainstream media journalists and organizations such as the new york times and the washington post who publish the information ascension and wiki leaks wiki leaks furnish them with is that how you see this that is absolutely what the d.o.j. is attempting to do which is to distinguish between what julia songe is alleged to have done in terms of his communication which elsie manning and his publishing activities which cannot be distinguished in any way shape or form from the new york times the guardian to. all of these media organizations did but if you look at again if you look at the factual allegations of what that actually accused him of. those acts are the same acts that journalists engage in all the time. julian

assange has time in the public eye has been tumultuous back in two thousand and ten when wiki leaks made its trove of classified documents publish it came under attack in washington primarily from the american right well and to prosecute anybody that led to undermining the war effort and would that include going after wiki leaks. yes since then opposition to wiki leaks has grown to include voices on the left julian assange lost many of them over material wiki leaks made public prior to the two thousand and sixteen election revealing e-mails from inside the hillary clinton team that damaged her campaign to the apparent benefit of donald trump by the following year ecuador was under new leadership. the president who granted a sand asylum was replaced by lenin moreno a more conservative figure who wanted better relations with washington there was also the shadow of the sexual assault allegations from a stand just time in sweden

a decade ago that case is what led him into the ecuadorian embassy in the first place and while the investigation was dropped two years ago it remains a key. argument for those who want to send out and into court however none of that is material to the d.o.j. these legal case it was always built around the manning leaks and the question of whether what julian assange did was an illegal form of political activism or in fact journalism that served the public interest the accusations that he is not a journalist because he does not serve the public interest i find them quite ridiculous it's just impossible for a journalist created go all the mainstream consensus feel to qantas journalists on that the finish and the having journalists with access to or additional documents which down allow us to see how lot of the narrative. i think of columns important

journalistic practice i have complete personal discussed for joining i'll never be a fan of his but if they had charged him under the espionage act for the me a receipt and publication of materials and nothing else i would have had to stand stuck behind him if only because i don't want the government ever being the one to decide you are a journalist who's entitle to first one protection or not i'm less interested in the debate about who is a journalist and who isn't than i am in the question of was this an act of journalism that is constitutionally protected and there's no question in my mind that the song was to gauge in a very valuable fact some of this is a bit strange some of it is is arguably bad journalism but what he's being indicted for was an act of journalism those. were discussing other media stories that are on our radar this week with one of our

producers johannah host joe there's a tasty little julian assange and wiki leaks angle in the release of the unredacted version of the mother report into the trumpet ministration and allegations of russian collusion in the two thousand. u.s. elections will get to a center in a minute but first walk us through the way the u.s. media have been covering this story well three weeks ago when trump's hand-picked attorney general william barr first released his four page summary of the four hundred forty eight page report the president insisted that he was pretty much cleared of any wrongdoing so it looks like the media had some reckoning to do after a few years of relentlessly pushing the collusion story but as it turns out our summary was selective at best but misleading at worst the report is actually far more damaging to trump than barr initially let the public to believe especially when it comes to the issue of obstruction of justice which mother said trump tried repeatedly and it's worth remembering that back in one thousand nine hundred

seventy four during that watergate investigation obstruction of justice actually enough to lead to president richard nixon's resignation so here is media are understandably all over this story ok now walk us through the julian assange in this well miller's report accuses the wiki leaks founder of lying about the sources of those thousands of democratic national committee e-mails that his side published in two thousand and sixteen the report provides some pretty compelling evidence that a son in trying to hide the identity of the russian sources who gave him. d.n.c. e-mails openly implied his source was seth rich a d.n.c. staffer was murdered in washington in two thousand and sixteen now the miller report also provides evidence assad was in touch with his contacts in russia even after rich's death so he definitely has some explaining to do ok thanks joe we're turning to poland now and the story of a catholic priest and his radio station that lie at the heart of the country's politics for nearly thirty years today has been preaching and broadcasting from the

pulpit is stationary does not attract particularly large audiences and the content can be inflammatory however politically about the punches far above its. weight anyone running for office in poland knows that the current populist government included today a shreds it is such a divisive figure his many media empire is so polarizing that one journalist has written a stage play about this story it opened a few weeks back and much like read sick and self it's getting mixed reviews but listening posts flow phillips now from poland on the tangled web of politics power the priesthood and the press. thanks. december twenty fifth the twenty fourth anniversary of rodeo maria best. job you know it to do it does a year bill but it does the job for.

december twenty sixth the twenty fifth anniversary of reading. the opposite them to try to show you president. jerry project over. december twenty eighth the twenty seventh anniversary of dr ian restore the moments just. after this course of the. service ship i still just advisers. the prime minister the president the leader of the ruling party who paying their respects to one. topic with. the result of it is degrading that leader as the prime minister ministers of the polish government drive like crazy to the other side of poland all because it's what for the retake

we should. there they are all holding hands dancing and singing celebrating gradual marina's and a very serious it's unacceptable in the twenty first century that one individual. can hold such power it's incredible. it's hard to overemphasize the role today should to place in polish society according to a recent survey just seven percent of poles do not recognise his name and that's in large part thanks to the media conglomerate he created what started as a single radio station in the small mediæval town of torrent a three hour drive from the capital warsaw has since grown into an empire ready or maria was followed on to the airwaves by t.v. trump a daily newspaper nash genya a media college a mobile network as well as a publishing outfit in part set up through his foundations in part through his

religious order the order of redemptorist. when the station made its first broadcast in one thousand nine hundred one it found fertile ground coming just two years after the fall of the anti clerical communist regime for some the catholic church served as a rallying point for others it was their saving grace love elude you i just didn't think you struggle for many people father retic offers a haven and creates a community to be good everyone you've interviewed in the mission should because what is what it was among his listeners are a lot of elderly people looking to find their lee in the modern world sometimes the speed of today's world terrifies them. i just feel as if they are plastered vagal would say give simple answers to all their questions hallelujah and let's move on. or give them a sense of security. the

main reason why he is so well known and so relevant is because he provokes a very contradictory emotions his for a logical program which is also political creates a sort of sect in the polling. church. if i'm read your mother your listener i know straight away what my views are from i will vote for who my enemy is post my blog and. there is a myth around father rejects wealth that has been propagated for many years even by public t.v. supposedly he drives a luxurious car apparently he was buying a helicopter all of this gossip conjures up an image of a media mogul behaving in luxury in reality yes father riddick is a media moguls because he owns a multimedia operation but he is in fact a poor man he lives in a cell on your. behind me as the heartland a father of six media empire the sign he reads which means well turns out if you're

a journalist not so much we tried to talk to father and so all of our requests were rejected according to a spokesman when sick when he speaks to media other than his own outlets and due to years of bad experiences with the media neither he nor anyone associated with this organization was made available as ridiculous self as said if you want to learn about us follow our media we don't need to speak to others it. became evident when our producer tried to talk to parishioners leaving grit exactly church if you think . this sort of hostility can also be seen and heard in retakes media. used to my own media my own style of shoes the whole do you want a piece. that you know wished i thought of the father with six contempt towards the european union is well known and i remember his statement in december two thousand

and eighteen that the european union is actually the soviet union and he regularly makes comparisons between the two in that same month he also said the european union is like a gas chamber it is a commodity as of up. there is a huge show on both red you maria and t.v. it's one called unfinished conversations the guests on the show are openly and to semitic homophobic xenophobic. spacek to snare the priest on the show recently he said the satan possesses homosexuals and fights against us meaning that homosexuals are on satan side someone isn't satan so it's natural to ask what is their right to live without it look at what level of if you. wish. father reads it and the priests in his order do come across as having a disrespectful attitude when it comes to gay culture but it's actually the listeners that are outraged you get listeners calling in incensed by this so-called

homo culture and it's often the fathers that event trying to tone down the statements. some of the output has sparked so much control to see the journalist martin college has written a play about ready america and the potentially dangerous impact it could be having on some of the station's most avid listeners as well as on polish society and culture more generally its title. is a play on words of a traditional polish christmas carol god is ball has become enemy is born. roger maria's most important symbol for building an identity he's searching for an enemy that can be blamed for all misfortune. for the roots it is not just roger maria's leader he's the face of the operation today might even describe him as a trademark has become so powerful that no one in the roman catholic church can

reprimand him no one can say hey stop this is not a vangelis he's too strong. one of the elements the play touches on is this close when a. ship between pulpit patrick has him power and politics in the past poland's elders within the catholic church did express their discomfort with with cigs involvement in politics though it did little to stop and when the conservative lore and justice party returned to power in twenty fifteen a new honeymoon period began on or joe barton without father rejects participation in helping to build a unified strong electorate and i looked at her things just like him thanks to the ideology he pushes on the airwaves the kind of indorsement the leader of the law and justice party received would not have been possible if this be reshaped preclude she'd be one of the people i need. to respond please say no question.

but as for my immediate thousand and eighteen press collected data on government spending and it showed that since october two thousand and fifteen father red six initiatives have received at least eighty million polish lotty twenty one million dollars from various ministries and companies it's a huge amount of money is on the field. for his followers this is money well spent for his critics would say is less priest more businessmen profiting off his loyal audience and the politicians who crave his support the very same politicians who go to great lengths to make life difficult for news outlets they don't like. venture further sinister saying that he has upset you. the controversial king of the pulpit proselytizing politics not just press.

finally back to the julian assange and wiki leaks story one media outfit that has come to his senses defense is in the land of his birth a stray it's not the state owned broadcaster a.b.c. or any of the papers owned by the murdoch clan it's the juice media production company based in sydney whose satirical material we have featured before the juice has a series it calls on us government this one looks at the collaboration of four governments in the case australia ecuador the us and the u.k. it was created and written by giordano nonny the language is as they say colorful we did a lot of bleeping but you'll figure it out we'll see you next time here at the listening post hello i am from the british government with the fabulous announcement no i'm sorry we still haven't thought about this. but we have finally managed to wanted criminals know the other one the wiki leaks founder julian assange phone because america's. big i'm from the ecuadorian government and i'm

here to confirm that our new president is america to blame that most of them a lot of us mr scientist and we feel compelled to state in the strongest possible terms that where america is we're grateful to all out for handing over david letterman i mean julianna fanchon who is wanted on charges of making us look like war criminals which of course we are we have indicted the queues for the crime of helping you source to anonymously act the documents in the public interest otherwise known as good journalism we'll all of you to cooperate with us in this dangerous preceded by focusing on how the truth is a bit of an. attempt to destroy your press freedom american empire.

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charging the lives of the children of apartheid over twenty one leaves each story. reflecting a history of to mattick social and political change twenty eight hours south africa part one on al-jazeera. police say two hundred ninety people are now known to have been killed in sunday's bomb attacks but around five hundred injured several suspects have been arrested but investigations to go into possible intelligence failings of the minister says there were warnings about attacks on churches.

hello i'm don jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up protest leaders in. demonstrations saying they're no longer recognize the transitional military council running the country plus. a landslide election victory for a lot of the ukrainian comedian who played the president on t.v. is about to become the real war. we begin the nation trying to come to terms with one of the worst attacks and its modern history police say two hundred ninety people are now confirmed dead with around five hundred injured it's just over twenty four hours since bombs exploded at churches and hotels across the country an emergency meeting has been called by the president to review the security situation is just getting underway now but joins us live now from colombo charlie it's been twenty four hours now since those horrific bomb attacks just bring us up to date with the latest developments on the

ground charlie. and those figures the latest death toll an indication yet again of just how brutal and devastation these attacks. we understand among those two hundred ninety confirmed dead there were thirty six foreigners twenty of whom have yet to be identified because of the extent of their injuries there's also it's believed at least another nine foreigners that are unaccounted for that have that are still missing i mean one village around the area of the gold bug where one of those attacks was a catholic area all sri lanka ninety people alone dying in that village a lot of the investigation we understand has been focused on what they described as twenty two safe houses for these terrorists one of the an area called too much to go down where we saw three policeman killed yesterday in

a suicide attack there as they try to search those premises in that area another in an area called upon the palm dura which the south's a sudden sob all of colombo. at the moment as you say there is this security council meeting happening at the president's residence and we're waiting for lines to come out of that as this investigation goes forward now a colleague minal from and was here with us today and she was. i don't lot of the events and watching the events as they unfolded and this is a report. carnage in churches on one of the most important days of the christian calendar the blast so violent it blew off the roof of this church in the gumball an hour and a half outside the capital the snow covered in blood mangled use and belongings of hundreds of worshippers was i was an entity's church is

a revered catholic shrine popular among people of all feats in sri lanka. and this video posted online shows the moment the explosion happened. lined up in body bags the feet of dozens of worshippers who came to this sacred shrine to celebrate one of the catholic calendars most holy days easter sunday oh my god i heard the explosion and then the roof fell on us we took the children and ran out from the rear door but when i came to the hospital i saw my brother in law and son on the ground. three separate churches bombed on easter sunday witnesses say the explosion here was so powerful it shook the surrounding buildings but it wasn't just christians targeted so were many other people and tourists as part of a much wider operation they are the casualties we condemn for that we transported

them to their national hospital and then we have been advised to come to their shangrila in the heart of the capital and all close together are the shangri-la cinnamon grand and kingsbury hotels and the center anthony's church three churches since a bastions church in the gumbo. and zion church in batticaloa were also targeted also the tropical in hotel in the suburb of they have. the eighth explosion was in des moines to go to killing a number of police personnel police had descended on an apartment block there looking for suspects several were taken away for questioning me if you dreama right i would like to express my condolences to the families of victims and those injured in attacks that took place we will take stern action against all those who are responsible regardless of their stature. social media was restricted for several hours to clamp down on rumors and panic hundreds of injured people are being

treated in hospitals which was swarmed by relatives the prime minister says warnings of such an attack were received but nothing was done authorities must figure out why the minute fernandez al-jazeera colombo. and as mandela saying in her report that there was a statement from the prime minister last night saying the authorities had some advance warning about the threat that's pretty worrying i mean what more can you tell us. the prime minister is saying that there was prior information about some of these attacks focus airily of that information all of what's been described is a little known local group now all the see this is a big indication of potential intelligence failings will certainly communication failings between the security apparatus intelligence services here and the government is also an indication certainly so analysts say of this rift it has

existed in the sri lankan government now for a good few months last year we saw here what was described as the worst calls to show a crisis in. the the president sacking the prime minister it's been understood or certainly interpreted these statements by the prime minister described as being a bit of a broadside pointing the finger of blame potentially at the president. meanwhile we have had a warning from the u.s. state department u.s. state department revising day travel advisory to sri lanka they say they are concerned about all go in plots and potentially more attacks them warning u.s. citizens to stay away from hotels shopping malls places of worship and transport. the security council meeting as i say is on going we're going to be waiting what we're waiting for for more lines to come out from that as this investigation

unfolds and charlie these bomb attacks have shocked and the wider world and how ordinary people they're coming to terms with the scale of what's happened. but you were to get a sense of how as you say shock devastated sri lankans all over these attacks let's not forget that the country went through almost thirty years of fighting between the tamil tigers and the government one hundred thousand people killed in that conflict in the sudan because since they in very proud of what they've achieved in the level of stability in this country of course tourism of huge importance is there are concerns that these attacks will keep the tourists away. but there's also a great concern amongst the governments as well that a situation like this could draw out some of the worst aspects of of some of the communal tensions and communal violence that we have seen in recent years and he

specifically said in the last two years attacks by so many attacks it will be blamed on one of the scribes right wing buddhist groups on the the muslim minority in the christian minority both of whom they accuse of proselytizing or trying to expire and converting people to those respective faiths but as you say i mean the general feeling here today will be twenty four hours of just just over twenty four hours since those attacks happened he's of great shock and mourning and a great concern. as how to push forward and wanting answers quickly because of course nobody yet has claimed responsibility for these attacks are the child in colombia charlie thank you. move on now to some other news a coalition of trying to do parties in sudan says it suspending talks with the military council but also president omar al bashir earlier this month the freedom change coalition as they call themselves made the announcement the days of talks with military leaders to form

a transitional government. in this third week of the sit in at the army headquarters in sudan's capital thousands gathered around a podium they were waiting for the coalition of the declaration of freedom and change to announce names first a billion transitional council the coalition made a different an ounce meant. that will continue with the sit in and have suspended talks with the military council will escalate the revolution on the streets through protest schedules tell all demands are implemented we'll start forming a complete transitional authority that real announced in a few days. the military council took over when it ousted president bashir on the eleventh of april ending his thirty year rule it had hoped that forcing out bashir would end the sit in that started nearly a week before after months of protests. since taking over the military council has been in talks with political parties to form a transitional government but many at the sit in say the army isn't keen to hand

over power to civilian government a key demand for them to end the protests and return home. as i would have missouri in a in my opinion where with the declaration of freedom and change because they got is this far i will be with them till the end since the council is part of the old regime and is behaving like the old regime will continue with protest till it's gone we said to those we need music because so many years. government ruling was not good and now we want to change this is there were citizens from the government to the city of us because of the ruling there doesn't have anything. the military. it has repeatedly said that it will hand over power if political parties in sudan are ready to form an inclusive government of consensus with a few men and we're hoping that we and the political parties and other stakeholders will get over our differences so we can speed up with what is needed at this time

the military council referendum that it isn't against any party and abide by the slogans of the revolution for freedom peace and democracy. but not all parties are in agreement on how to form the government and what it should look like. what. kind of announcing that it has suspended talks with the military council it seems that they did in front of bombing headquarters is not coming to an end anytime soon and more than a week after al thing president bashir of sudan is nowhere near forming a transitional government. what comes next will largely depend on how much pressure the protesters can put on the military council and how long it takes for the divided parties to come together to start a new face for the country. people morgan al-jazeera. fighting in libya has killed at least two hundred fifty four people in the last three weeks that's according to new figures released by the world health organization says thousands of people have been injured troops loyal to the war. are trying to take the capital from the un

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