mean something. the tone was beyond informal it was phoning and this interview has been physician quite carefully to avoid falling afoul of election commission rules now conventional broadcast interviews are banned while voting is under way and so this interview was labeled a nonpolitical interaction so this is mostly in the b j p spotting a loophole in the election rules and just taking advantage of it absolutely me using the bollywood card to do that you see there are many mainstream outlets that are openly aligned with the b.g.p. but the prime minister is not taking any chances bollywood actors have posed for selfies with him they've tweeted in support of him in fact there was even a film a bio pic that was slated for release just as voting began with the election commission then intervened and said it would have to wait until after results are announced ok going back to social media now for a minute the meeting this week between the c.e.o.

of twitter and one of the platforms best known users donald trump what were they talking. well reportedly one of their discussions was about something that trumpet tweeted just hours before the meeting took place he said twitter was constantly taking people off the list that's his way of saying that they were fiddling with his follower numbers now dorsey explained that as part of twitter's efforts to clean up the site a lot of fake accounts and bots have been killed and so follower numbers are being affected for people across twitter but this plays into donald trump's suspicion which exists amongst other conservatives that somehow these big tech companies are out to get the american right correct yeah this is an ongoing conversation happening on the american right that twitter google facebook they're all out to suppress their presence now have to see given the number of pick and changing algorithms there is a case to be made for more clarity in how online platforms function which way to really get into trouble however is when it fails to take action in cases where the

rules are clearly being violated take trying for example he regularly treats tweets sexist racist and insightful messages jack dorsey however has clarified that twitter does hold public and prominent leaders in to a different standard earlier this year he said we believe it's important that the world sees how global leaders think and how they act there is a new policy however in the works for twitter where they will label offensive tweets and explain why they made up on the site now that will be interesting to see ok thanks mia. turning to france now where president emmanuel mccraw has just announced a tax cut of five billion euros it was one of several new reforms and a victory of sorts for. the yellow vest protesters who first hit the streets almost six months ago demonstrating over the price of fuel the cost of living and tax fairness macro initially tried to appease the movement by boosting the minimum wage but it didn't work and when that fire consumed part of paris is not

a damn cathedral and macro led the fight. raising efforts for the reconstruction he played right into the protesters hands those multimillion dollar donations from billionaires which happen to be tax deductible underlined the issues of tax inequality and the government's priorities the media are more than just a subplot in this protesters complain about the underreporting of police violence the sensationalizing of the demonstrations and reporters have been restricted manhandled by police and subjected to arrest so the yellow vests are producing their own coverage live streaming across social networks listening posts are now on the tussle between the media the state and. i want the money. for something you know something. more.

secret get this just. like you. still money can. look you can. see that. it is really nice one of. the. things that they knew. it could even. do you have a school at twenty three the twenty third consecutive week of protests across

france the numbers on this. streets were boosted in the aftermath of the not fire and the billions of dollars that flooded in for reconstruction. the demonstrators who first took to the streets and roundabouts over the rising price of fuel before raising other economic issues and now targeting institutions they say of protecting the rich and powerful at the expense of the people they reserve a special place in their placards for the police and their sometimes brutal response as well as to journalists some of whom have been attacked by protesters. the protesters anger towards the media is understandable but it cannot justify violence or hatred of all media because this ends up being a hatred of democracy democracy is about respecting the media even when you don't like what the media says of course there was a strong grievance when the yellow vest movement began that the media was not

reporting their side of the story most notably with regard to police violence. today journalism is a profession that stands discredited by the yellow vests and wider french society at france and we are lucky enough to have great proximity to the parts of france that accuse journalists of only covering paris and the middle and upper classes and of forgetting those sections of society that feel discerned and invisible. and yet that said i don't know than about what i found when the protests began we covered it like all the social movements that have come before it why are they angry what is the response from politicians the protesters clearly showed that as long as they weren't being heard they wouldn't stop their main message was nobody is listening to us nobody ever has we are the voices you've been deaf to for the past ten twenty thirty years and this completely changes the way we have to cover things.

finished. the twenty four hour news channel and so had you were reports for bear firm is the most widely watched in france it's also the journalistic but you are of the yellow vests movement among the complaints over better mistreatment of their story other has been sensationalized the protesters have been criminalized and the instances of protest of violence have been overstated. david i'm all sailors so mum did he put his immediate cheek. to. disappoint you exist. if you saw. it look at the mall. well you should or shouldn't appreciate the lecture me but also. secondly don't. live it just good on the brother sister. level t.v.

journalists have faced aggression from demonstrators they were even attacked live on air once. and the yellow vests also taken to protesting outside bevan t.v.'s offices however the french media is credibility problems go beyond the yellow vest story and the quantifiable this past january one month into the protests. a national catholic newspaper published a poll when asked whether their journalists were independent able to resist pressure brought by political parties sixty nine percent of respondents said no that's more than two thirds of french news consumers. french journalists just like american ones when donald trump came to power they live in a bubble they're oblivious to a whole fraction of french through friday through third century parts of

a small menu that huddle in on itself they only see and analyze the knowledge factor of french public opinion leaving the rest out. the hatred of the media is not something that's particularly unique to the g.l.a. john it's universal within french society. with the. newsroom and for all i want to be clear the journalists are doing their jobs but i need to be told how to do it we don't have to criticism after all we're a community riddled with self-doubt always reassessing ourselves more than other professions what is happening now is that the polemic on the media have reached a degree of intensity seldom seen before. and. so the universe of turns alternative forms of media the demonstrations are reaching me live streams by the universe themselves as well as by video publishers like terrence news who frets up millions of views it's an approach that's put them at

odds with the police. clones the founder of charlie's deals was arrested at last saturday's protest sensibly for an obscene gesture at the police and is banned from attending further protests until his hearing in october extremely to some extent we did it. on t.v. all the france a news channel bankrolled by the russian government has reportedly quadrupled its french audience through its coverage of the yellow vests protests policy has been dedicated to the story providing the kinds of comprehensive coverage its backers of the kremlin would be likely to tolerate if the protests were happening in moscow or st petersburg. unfortunately we've seen a lot of criticism on our to france even before the channel was launched in fact r.t. france is a french channel with french journalist and they're doing their job every saturday we basically go into the streets and we have life transmissions and we give the

floor to people who come over and when the other media even the headlines in the beginning of the movement were more like this initial are either x. . right. now i think the situation is changing because the media is trying to catch up but i think the moment was lost let's way to turn into media like ours with. russia today represents russian state power even if french journalists were make no mistake it's a channel controlled by the russian government so it certainly has its own ideological and political agenda and that's their right but it's our job as journalists to provide people with useful information not just feed them what they want to hear. when it comes to social movements few combats the impact of france's yellow vests. just weeks after the protests began president mike can pledge to increase the

minimum wage this week he went further a raft of concessions including five billion euros in tax cuts. or they were the result of his income on the back and national policy debates and a direct response to the yellow vests the other debate the protestors have provoked is about the media establishment questions about media ownership how journalists cover protests why the levels of trust in french media so low questions that because of the universe a movie is born now ever before whether on the streets. or in the studio. the media finally we have known chance skin media theorist political scientist as you have never seen him before we produced a special episode last year on the fortieth anniversary of the publication of his

book manufacturing consent which changed the way a lot of people see the news media but we've never seen an animated version of chomsky in a rap song this one called soundtrack. through the struggle to was put together by the british iraqi rapper loki and his collaborator sand hill and the guy bust it features chomsky on one of the most under-reported news stories out there capitalist institutions and their indifference to the future of the planet will leave you now with an excerpt and we'll see you next time here at the listening post. sure. and our. reviewer group would point out that. the republican group one hundred thirty years. we couldn't use.

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a secret world of high risk lending in the poor and a sting operation to catch a spider what's a play for control of the next generation of mobile counting the calls on al-jazeera. to. go. fifteen dead in a gun battle and suicide last after sri lankan security forces launched raids over the easter sunday bombings. richelle carey this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. anger among protesters as several former ministers from sudan's ousted regime are

freed from prison by military rulers. criticism of the u.n. secretary general by human rights groups who accuse them of silence over the plight of china's bigger muslims while visiting beijing. and south africa marks twenty five years since the end of apartheid that ahead of next month's general election the a.n.c. is accused of ignoring corruption and chronic poverty. military commanders ensured along to say the bodies of at least fifteen people had been found after a shootout during raids connected to the easter sunday bombings cornered suicide bombers blew themselves up after the assault in the eastern city of qom a nine six children are among the dead several raids were carried out around the city police to. explosives other bomb making equipment a suicide vest and flag. joins us now from colombo really significant

rate here tell us the latest. right we've just been hearing that police have made another arrest now this is on top of several that they've made in the last twenty four hours this arrest took place at the town of trincomalee it's also in the eastern province where the gun battles in the explosions took place overnight on friday now the man who was arrested in trincomalee he had on him explosives now this follows from friday night's gun battle in the town of qom and i as you mentioned and this was also where several explosions took place police say they were the result of men people detonating explosives that killed fifteen people the bodies were recovered children and security operation is underway at the moment police have honest people to evacuate to leave their homes so they can conduct house to house raids and separately in another town in the same area a rate that was conducted on friday night security forces seized bomb making

materials including hundred fifty explosive sticks one hundred thousand metal ball bearings and i saw a flag and a uniform very similar to what the suspected bombers were wearing. these all took place in the eastern province where the area is a twenty four hour curfew that started on friday night they have also been developments in colombo where we are now on friday night the navy said they arrested three people and they found on them one kilogram of explosives this took place near the railway station in colombo and we're also hearing that there is a suspicious vehicle that's parked near one of the hotels in colombo the bomb disposal squad has been called and they are going to make a controlled detonation but all these events of the past twenty four hours really just highlight. how tense the security situation is you know a couple of days ago police were making arrests they were raiding places and they

were and bomb disposal units were carrying out controlled detonations but in the last twenty four hours security forces have been engaged in gun battle in a way that shows that the leaves are getting closer to the people who had knowledge of the attacks and who may have knowledge of upcoming attacks but it also confirms what authorities have been warning to be vigilant and to be the path for the possibility of attacks all right lawrence live for us and lawrence thank you. well raman is an associate editor at roar ok a new media website ensure she says previous warnings of individuals being trained abroad by groups like our soul were not looked into carefully. but i think that the general consensus on the ground is that people know when what about how far the fact that these some extent and it's action. now that a very extensive network on the ground what we do know is that in two thousand.

media reports of one person at least. who left the city had joined the sound stage and doing a better there and we noted that that was not taken very seriously into. the justice minister at that time we did as a radical settle opining into that thirty two who. had joined. and. i also said there that once a religious preacher but. preaching of any extremist ideology so there were warnings but it wasn't taken seriously and the reports are. small very sort of religious organizations that they exchanged ideology such as the national which is so responsible for these attacks and also the. militant who is also an industry the suspects suspect organizations behind this attack so the

leaders of these groups and multiple extremist ideology. muslims themselves moderate muslims have protested against them several people organizations have written to authorities about these groups and the idea was that it seems like nothing was taken very seriously and sit and several former government ministers arrested during the overthrow of president omar al bashir have been released and that is anger of thousands of protesters who've been in the sit in for three weeks now outside military headquarters and carteaux they say they will not go home until military leaders immediately hand over power to civilian rule otto reports from the capital. under the scorching sun falls i'm so focused as governor outside the sudanese army headquarters in ca to look for friday prayers. the someone is haven laden with political messages condemning that he jeem of the polls to former president omar al bashir messages to the demonstrations continue until the

protesters achieve their goal at a time to civilian rule in sudan. a soon as the press over the now familiar chance feel the road it will not then we need a civilian government to set up a foundation for a modern sudan followed by elections that have integrity and represent the will of the people. and there's not a seven hundred of the former regime divided the people through segregation and racism and today we are united as one nation without tribe creed or color we are ready to develop a progressive sudan the protesters wacom outside the military told us even before bashir was removed from office although the transitional military council has given in to some of them to be amongst the protestors last till digging in for a fight and refusing to discuss the feeling here is that the council is simply invites i'm hoping the protesters won't be disappointed and then go home despite

international support for the protest as the ten member military council has so far resisted calls for transition to a civilian administration they argue any small vacuum could propel sudan into a civil war three council members submitted their resignations on wednesday under pressure from protest leaders who say they have presented the interest of all bashir to aldridge and the three good jubilation among the protesters who mosque in that tens of thousands for what organizers hoped would be a million strong march in the past few days the numbers have been bolstered with many people arriving from other parts of sudan to join the sit in. her tome sudan. and mohamed vall is live for us now in khartoum at the scene at the military headquarters are people have been gathering for the sit in that has lasted three weeks so mohamed the two sides are supposed to be meeting to try to hash out

some of their issues they seem very far apart how's this going to play out. let me first give you the utmost b. of the place where i'm standing i'm right at the epicenter of what used to be the epicenter and still of this uprising and of the sit in it started to pick up and now more crowds are coming from every direction this is the time of day when they come and join the city because of the heat during the middle of the day and this is a sign again of it is a result that is always on the part of the protest us not to relent until they get the demands from the military side asked to do a question. that's a committee that has to be decided between the two sides a joint committee is going to meet today for the first time. the two sides have appointed their members twelve from each side of the road to be for the first time to they go to discuss those sticking points very difficult issues of discord

between them among them who should lead the transition who should have the sovereignty over the whole transition period the military want to maintain about. this the say it should be some print civilian council with only a limited military representation they also want the transition to take four years because they think that that's the time they need to make sure they have prepared the ground they have to make sure they have got rid of the former regime of the seven it's transitional justice to take its course and everything to be ready for a new election in the country the military side they say they need only two years for this transition so there is also disagreement over the on. so there is discussion about the copying of the carbon each of the civilian deaths seems to be no disagreement about it. but there are a lot of points including. the problems that have been you know obesity in this country and keeping this country backward for thirty years getting rid of that

evidence of the former regime will also issues to be covered today and it is the first meeting it's not expected but they're going to dissolve those issues today all right mohamed vall live for us at really as you said the epicenter of this thank you. the interior minister of libya's u.n. recognized government says its forces will launch a counterattack against warlord khalifa haftar within days when three hundred people have been killed more than twelve hundred injured since forces launched an offensive to take control of the city over three weeks ago on friday the united nations said rockets and mortar shells hit residential neighborhoods in the capital only thirty nine thousand people have been displaced since fighting began. because of the. now the ministry of interior had to assign a large force of coast guard to secure our coasts and shores against the invading groups he was sent by the world half dot to invade us as it was said they want to stick to the way of refinery to destroy it and this is

a terrorist act that is very similar to al qaida and eisel we will deal with strictness and force with anyone who may threaten our safety and security either in tripoli or any other city to support the government home thousands are protested and then libyan city said tripoli and misrata against khalifa haftar are solved on the capital but not until a have reports from tripoli. here in the main square in the libyan capital libyans have come out to condemn what they call the military aggression by have that its forces on the capital tripoli also in other cities on the west of libya including the city of misrata libyans have taken to the streets to condemn the military escalation but this is the third to friday in a row since their military escalation is started on april fourth the protesters here.