percent so these are big big losses imagine if stock markets in the united states and britain have fallen by that amount and it's a reminder that these are very fragile markets indeed even actually in the best of times. so it's i suppose it remains an open question as to how china will react to this given did the volume of trade that it that it has with the u.s. and the leverage that it's own that it can apply. yeah i mean we have to remember of course that china exports far more to the united states than the other way around and remember in his tweet on sunday night from also warned that he was thinking about slapping tariffs on chinese products that so far have a means subject to any judy's some three hundred twenty five billion dollars worth of chinese products if that were to happen it would mean that the united states was

now applying tariffs to just about everything that china exported to the united states now i understand that there are a number of sticking points in the talks at the moment remember just last week president from said the negotiations were going well but it now emerges that there is one key area that the united states is not happy with and that is china's insistence that all tariffs get rolled back if a deal is to be signed the u.s. is saying actually some of those tariffs are going to have to remain in place whatever happens and tramples also said that these tires would come into effect on friday so we have five more days this could just be present from of course just applying the pressure up in the n.t. . adrian brown live for us in beijing they say. syrian government forces and their russian allies have launched more attacks in the rebel held province of at least ten people were killed and ninety injured on sunday

volunteer with the white helmets rescuers also died this weekend in an airstrike on a village in a province which has now been under attack for six days an underground hospital was hit by an airstrike and put out of service at least twenty security forces have been killed in a taliban attack in northern afghanistan officials saying a suicide bomber began the assault on a police headquarters in the city of pully home early on sunday before taliban fighters opened fire the armed group of stepped up attacks on police and troops even as it holds direct negotiations with u.s. officials to end the seventeen year war in afghanistan. well we've got lots more still ahead on al-jazeera we meet young south africans who won't be voting in wednesday's general election. and watched on the water in pakistan's largest lake into a health class. the

weather is set fair across the middle east over the next couple of days. a good deal of sunshine coming through a little bit of cloud you know just around the caspian sea but never towards the black sea as well but for many it's going to be dry warm and sunny twenty nine celsius there in beirut and also in jerusalem along with a lot further north just catch one of two into eastern parts of turkey also across the brazenness dry thirty four celsius the baghdad on monday twenty seven a couple of chance of a few showers these will drift away as we go through tuesday watches cassio wrote showers into iran but elsewhere across the region well see settled and sunny much as he wanted to show us just pushing up towards mania maybe using across into georgia as well mostly

a spot sorts of right see just around the arabian peninsula even here in concert with this area cloud he spots of rain a possibility when the going on in to choose they temperatures at about thirty six thirty seven maybe thirty celsius as we go through each easter by lots of warm sunshine coming through and also sunshine to into south africa. southern africa is generally settled and tries to a few shows more than parts of mozambique and those easily drift away as we go through tuesday looking at the times in their. weather sponsored by qatar at. my mate's edition every weekly news cycle brings a series of breaking stories and then of course there's donald trump told through the eyes of the world's journalists 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 caught on the stories that matter the most embed is

a free palestine listening post on al-jazeera. you're watching the news you know a reminder of our top stories this hour a cease fire agreement has been reached between israel and palestinian groups in gaza qatar and egypt brokered a deal to try and end days of cross border attacks twenty four palestinians and four israelis have been killed in the latest flare up before. the u.s. is deploying extra warships and bombers to the middle east in what it is calling a clear and unmistakable message to iran u.s. national security adviser john bolton says it is in response to some troubling

developments in the region. and president trouble is stepping up u.s. pressure on china to reach a trade deal he's announced tariff increases on chinese goods trump said the tariffs on two hundred billion dollars worth of products will rise to twenty five percent on friday. in a has landed in flames in a moscow airport more than forty people are confirmed dead the aeroflot flight had been forced to return to the same airport it had taken off from just thirty minutes before you know mohammed has details. planes from airflow to fight fourteen ninety two as it came in for an emergency landing at moscow's sheremetyevo airport and bounced off the runway. by the time the sukhoi superjet one hundred came to a halt it was engulfed in fire seventy eight passengers and crew onboard. only

thirty seven made it off alive the flight a taken off from the same airport just thirty minutes earlier heading for the northern city of months. the airline said it was forced to turn around due to technical reasons flight radar tracking shows it circled twice over moscow before making the emergency landing russian investigators have launched a criminal inquiry. to some i looked on there were seventy three passengers and five crew members twenty eight passengers are now at the airport terminal investigators and psychologists are working with them five people have been hospitalized thirty seven out of seventy eight people on board of the plane survived thirty three passengers and four crew members. the superjet one hundred came into service in russia and twenty eleven the first new passenger jet developed there since the fall of the soviet union a year later a plane on a demonstration tore to indonesia crashed on mount solich killing all forty five

people on board that accident was blamed on human error to the intensity of the fire it may consume a lot of physical evidence so we'll have to wait and see i didn't see any. rescue equipment in the early pictures at the scene so that may be an issue as well. where was the equipment and what kind of equipment that they have available what the fire oh what the recorders will give us some indication of this type of x. and i think the cockpit voice recorder may be most beneficial this i believe is the third accident in total for this type of airplane and so it's it's been proven to be a pretty reliable platform so it's going to be interesting to see what comes out of it has struggled to convince international airlines to buy its jets proving the planes safe will be crucial to the future of a project that had been a source of russian pride. for u.s.

secretary of state says russia's government should stop intervening in venezuela. russia's foreign minister in finland this week i'm going to meet with foreign minister lavrov in a couple of days we'll have more conversations about this the objective was very clear we want the iranians we want the russians we want the cubans out that's also what has to take place in order for venezuelan democracy to be restored to russia's foreign minister. back with this response. we now see an unprecedented campaign led by the united states in order to overthrow the legitimate venezuelan government we condemn this campaign which seriously violates all the principles of international law provided by the united nations statute. and supporters of the opposition in there as well have gathered in the capital to hold a vigil for those killed in the demonstrations to overthrow president nicolas maduro was there. a vigil to honor those who died

in this week's protests in gattaca us people gathered in this avenue to pray and ask for change that it's a twenty year old student who says he has had enough of the government's repression . i'm afraid we're tired of this of seeing our friends die of a lack of hope of a lack of change we need to continue protesting and talk things change here. earlier this week opposition leader why they will feel to rally support from the military during uprising against the government of nicola mother. thousands took to the streets to demand mother leaves office by the white gosplan did not work as planned. human rights groups denounced the excessive use of force step by the government during the demonstrations are year this week they said they used violence and ivory trade detentions in order to suppress dissent during the demonstrations in which five people lost their lives it was. died

on may first he was a pensioner that had to escape the tear gas and the rubber bullets. he fell here and died from severe injuries the out of his brother says violence in venezuela needs to end there man no it up you're nobody even my brother was a biologist but we're doing the government he said fish in venezuela he died as could be from a government that has become ruthless against the people. and the government is now planning to go after the opposition lawmakers involved in the uprising it says they were part of a coup led by the united states they are some of us are going to be in all the requests to strip parliamentary immunity are arriving at the national constituent assembly as it should be they will pass there and surely we will raise our hands to strip parliamentary immunity from all those who participated in that action why they so little war but the people on the streets remain convinced they need to

continue pressuring the government they believe they are defending democracy from an increasingly authoritarian government that has failed to resolve the problems most venezuelans face every day was. a sudan's ruling military council says it will unveil its transition plan on monday as protests continue demanding a return to civilian rule the military and protest leaders a deadlock over who will control the government before elections are held a coalition of opposition parties have submitted draft proposals for a way forward. a thousands of protesters are preparing to far in front of the army headquarters in sudan for the month of ramadan they say they will continue their sit in until the military council which ousted president obama bashir to hand over power here morgan reports from the capital hard to. for nearly

a month this is where sudanese volunteers have cooked food for thousands of protesters in front of the army headquarters and they say they'll keep the flames of their revolution alive by making more meals for the demonstrators during the holy month of ramadan. it's a beautiful feeling to serve the people here people now already working together to provide the food to provide the tents to prepare meals for the people here it's like cooking for the whole country will cater to the needs of the protesters during the holy month until we are blessed with a civilian transitional government over the past month tens of thousands have camped in front of the army headquarters of the gathered here early april after months of anti-government protests on the streets demanding the country's thirty year rule ahmed and the shares have downed the military ousted bashir on the eleventh of april and a ten member military council took over the council has been in talks with political parties and protest organizers since to form a transitional government but no deal has been reached so the sit in continues you

know what i mean again listen for the uk since the start we've come here for the revolution to have our demands are filled that's why we are here and that's why i will stay here. is a big difference between ramadan this year and the past eight years when we've been living under the regime that has been lying to people this time it's a beautiful feeling to see all at the sitting. many here have been coming on a daily basis some haven't left since the system started on the sixth of april the streets around the military headquarters have become their home and they've decorated it as such for the holy month for the first time in thirty years ramadan is being celebrated here in sudan without all wanted by the u.s. president and with thousands had to break their fast here in front of the army headquarters in far too many say ramadan this year says differently it's a switch will be even sweeter when they go forcing the military council to hand over parts of aliens is achieved on the those observing the holy month are praying civilian rule come soon to sudan and that's it. time to celebrate the revolution.

morgan on to zero. south africa's ruling party has held its final rally before wednesday's general election president cyril ramaphosa wrapped up his campaign in johannesburg the african national congress is hoping to retain the power it has held since one thousand nine hundred four the party has been marred by allegations of corruption it is facing a challenge from the democratic alliance as well as the economic freedom fighters. a month is pakistan's largest freshwater lake it covers more than two hundred fifty square kilometers during the peak monsoon season but it's become a dumping ground for industrial waste and that is putting the lives of people who depend on the water is there at risk come out hide a report there's good word is left of the word sprout mohan are dry. hundreds of boards harder to get indeed shallow water now there are just

a few dozen left. for these people to their homes for as long as they can remember. i don't know that anybody and i got in the previous new had about fifty varieties of fish in much a lake but in polluted water came through many fish tacos wiped out. here we used to have a good catch now we on the brink of ruin we don't even have drinking more to have we have to buy it from the city for fifty rupees for a small drum it's lunchtime and bread is begun a small stall stocked away in one corner of the book even the firewood above the water line costs money but if they said. living off the lake it was struggle and read out he does not know what really happened. let him out of the dharma we don't even have houses here how can we give education to our children if someone among us gets sick we need one thousand rupees tolerance

to take them to the nearest hospital from where all these poor people arrange the government to provide disability and houses we could live a normal life by doing other jobs like farming and such are. the elders here remember the happier. when there was plenty of fishing and the rich plant life including located provided a food for the people of montreal lake fishing i mean their main livelihood but because of industrial pull your parents now being putin did it warder bardi awarded it nor drink it well the first dogs are down the flora and fauna is gone and it may destroy a whole way of life for death be put. as we traveled deeper into this watch the expanse of water we find more problem these people who had boats and lived along the side of the lake conditions now are the worst they have known. the world can

a moment for them we request our government to make arrangements for cleaning this water so that we can resume our normal life it's the government was. sponsibility to facilitate us by providing schools hospitals houses and other facilities. month journey of their own youth to be a popular resting ground for the magnitude a bird. more than forty different fish but the only ones. moreland used for and it really be. their only source of income. they've been dorie by the leader that they were good but haven't received any bug is gone new prime minister brown connors promised a clean and green country but the people here time is running out for dan.

all right let's get a round up now of our top stories on al-jazeera a cease fire agreement has been reached between israel and palestinian groups in gaza qatar and egypt brokered a deal to try to end days of cross border attacks twenty four palestinians and four israelis have been killed in the latest flare up in violence the u.s. is sending an aircraft carrier group to the middle east to send what it calls a clear mistake a clear message to iran the u.s.s. abraham lincoln and support ships have been dispatched u.s. national security adviser john bolton says it is in response to some troubling developments in the region the latest u.s. effort aimed at increasing pressure on iran and u.s. president donald trump is stepping up pressure on china to reach a trade deal he's announced tariff increases on chinese goods trump said tariffs on two hundred billion dollars worth of products will rise to twenty five percent on

friday. syrian government forces and their russian allies have launch more attacks on the rebel held province of at least ten people were killed and ninety injured on sunday a volunteer with the whites helmets of rescuers also died this weekend in an airstrike on a village in italy a province which has now been under attack for six days an underground hospital was hit by an airstrike as put out of service at least forty one people have died in russia after a passenger plane caught fire when it made an emergency landing amateur footage captured the moment the plane returned to moscow's sheremetyevo airport the aeroflot flight was bound for the city of mon manske in northern russia but it was forced to turn back shortly after takeoff. top diplomats from the u.s. and russia have traded accusations over the crisis in venezuela marks pompei zero urging russia to stop intervening was a surrogate lover of all u.s. support to overthrow president nicolas maduro illegal under international law does

the headlines right now it's a listening post. just look at. those who voted to go to war supported to target who is now into feuding in libya who is now in to feuding in this we don't just look at these underground is it the reigning foreign minister mohammed jaziri talks to al jazeera. global headlines like this chilling new threat. my article. can seem to show how to. stop this public. i'm. thinking. i think. hello i'm richard disparate and you're at the listening post here are some of the media stories that we're covering this week reports of his death had been greatly exaggerated the reappearance on video of mysterious leader

the majority government not c.n.n. off the air as it tries to control the narrative on venezuela young reporters growing up in public journalism gets the reality t.v. treatment and. fox news talking points put to music eighty's stuff. it was a long time between on camera appearances the world's most wanted man the leader of eisel abu bakar al baghdadi has surfaced for the first time since two thousand and fourteen the last time the world saw him baghdad was triumphant he was crawling over the territory in iraq and syria that i still had captured his forces have since been wrote it thousands of his fighters are either locked up on the run or dead so the messaging has changed through a choreographed piece of video theater designed for two audiences for the outside world a reference to the easter sunday attacks in sri lanka the message i still can still

strike anywhere any time for i saw internal audience a signal to supporters and. enemies alike but baghdad is alive and in control i suppose media output has been central to the movement those videos of beheadings and mass executions that the group put out back when it was at the height of its power was shocking and attracted mass coverage however times have changed for i saw and it's media output it's media messaging has changed to our starting point this week is the video and the reemergence of abu bakar al baghdadi. then. and now. and then. in two thousand and fourteen abu bakar al baghdadi was in mosul in northern iraq out in the open as the self-proclaimed caliph of the islamic state.

today he sits among his left tenants dressed in military garb his whereabouts unknown back then i saw controlled territory in syria and iraq the size of great britain today it is a scattered force with no territory to speak of. the times have changed and the messaging and imagery which reflect the contrast with his last appearance in two thousand and fourteen is really remarkable then he's mounting a puppet to deliver a sermon he's strong he's performing to a real conversation as well. so it's very rhetorical a strong. like. this one in great contrast. doesn't move so much he's clearly aged it's

not clear with his wounded but he isn't as vigorous he has a gun next to him and. this sends certain signals he is no longer a preacher to a real congregation he is going into the virtual space only this has turned into an insurgency not a territorial movement. the video is set up in such a ways to convey the idea of the the warrior scholar this notion of the almost ascetic lifestyle that they are willing to make the sacrifices to be down with the commanders the other thing that we've seen in this video is that he's accepting pledges of allegiance or buy from brooklyn a faso from mali from afghanistan. ok how. as if he's planning operations that he's really in charge he's trying to convey

that you know that might look very dark now because they've lost the territorial caliphate but don't give up hope. the al baghdadi video first appeared on one of eyesores media platforms. and traveled from there spreading across global news sites many of which had reported between two thousand and fifteen and two thousand and seventeen that al baghdadi had been killed his appearance was proof positive that those reports based primarily on russian intelligence sources were wrong while baghdad his message to the converted was much more complicated a harder sell that i sold it was in transition not retreat from its last caliph turning back into an insurgent group a borderless one with branches prepared to launch attacks like the ones in sri lanka in multiple countries there is an overlap to the degree between the messages

to the into to the converted and also mess just six zero one zero zero both audiences these can be quite the number one he is still alive but also to the converted but he's emphasizing that they're always going to be people who will think it will be truly faithful and will fight for the cause of the islamic state despite the loss of territory. that it received a warm reception especially from eiffel supporters on social media notably telegram which i slew relies on heavily many of seen in the video proof that i feel it's still operational and is able to conduct a long war of attrition we shouldn't forget the month of ramadan is upon us and this will see an increase in operations i believe will see an escalation of violence and astonish had seen that on faith. having had its forces defeated in city after city. province after province i saw still manages to get its post territorial message out but alpha com is one of the few platforms remaining in its

information arsenal at its height in two thousand and fourteen i still had dozens of media offices stretching beyond syria and iraq into saudi arabia yemen and libya and i saw as media machine was prolific producing up to forty or fifty pieces of propaganda per day in many languages what most international media audiences remember are the terror of. those horrific but they were graphic and gory and the global media reflects badly served as amplified but far more messaging was aimed internal through videos that were central to i saw a recruiting structure one of the things that was most interesting at the height of the media campaign in two thousand and fourteen was eve greetings from the land of the. basically over video with all these foreign

fighters from southeast asia from europe from the united states from africa talking about how wonderful it was to live in the caliphate and they made it very clear not only was a caliphate a utopian society that you had to come and bring the kids. and so this idea was that moving to iraq in syria wasn't moving to a war zone where you were moving to a utopian society in which that's what as a muslim you had to do they had offices full of people dominating all the different platforms like they had people tweeting constantly they had. five things all of this did have a very physical presence the production companies. media office says they were tied to having a state and so to some extent like a pest a has been degraded. before two thousand and fourteen i feel as media output was produced by a single outlet when i feel expanded we through the emergence of several new media

outlets in multiple languages such as magazine in english or less la magazine and several other there was a weekly newspaper which is still running and i thought still retains excellent media capacity the technical quality has not decreased even as the scale and volume have added into. one clear indication of the way ice will cease its media operations came from al baghdadi himself it's on the take that. he rhymed off a list of many media specialists who have been among the countless i saw members killed in battle. which scholars who study the group say is consistent with the significance that deisel has always attached to its message and the resources it devotes to get its messages out i can't remember extremists in the past.

thanking communications officers and i mean i see you all saying yes but. this fits in this commendation of the media fits in with a long pattern of walt of the zionist state's own messaging about the importance of media i mean they put out a whole publication sometime ago which was you are a. media persons a media personnel they contribute to the jihad of the islamic state as vital a part of it as the fighters. how do bucker al baghdadi is change of course his plan to build the global borderless caliphate comes with the caviar eisel did not choose this path its fighters have been conquered and expelled from the lands they held its leader has gone from a public figure to a future of baghdad he can spin the story of isis post territorial rebranding its

return to its insurgent roots however he likes and he will because he knows that these days the message is one of the very few things that i saw still can control. discussing other media stories that are on our radar this week with one of our producers flo philips flow on venezuela where the political power struggle continues we've seen those images of government forces squaring off with protesters on the streets what's happening on the media side of this story and on social media right so this past tuesday four am to be exact the opposition figure and self-proclaimed president won posted a video online in which he called for the military to join him in the final phase of what he calls operation freedom what the venezuelan president nicolas maduro caused an attempted coup and tweets of support came in not long after for members of the u.s.

administration the government started shutting down social media platforms face twitter well into mitten the blocks by the state internet service can t.v. bought twenty men. it's before the dura was going on to do a live speech everything was restored just in time for him to call out be us in colombia for the support of the opposition and we have seen this before certain websites certain social media platforms being pulled down often in conjunction with why those public appearances and the majority government is also blocked the access that venezuelans have to certain international news channels they have and that was a direct result of this video a live feed of the venezuelan national guard in armed personnel carriers running over protesters after about a minute of that video going to various venezuelan cable companies got their orders from the government regulated qana tel to block cnn's output now c.n.n. said that its online service remained uninterrupted and people on social media

reported that they could easily access the internet live stream but b.b.c. spanish language service b.b.c. mundo was pulled down and the miami based radio crackers put out this tweet after eighty nine years of uninterrupted transmission the pioneer of venezuelan broadcasting was taken off the air c.n.n.'s chief washington correspondent jake tapper why was he trending on this story for a tweet that he put out but also the video that he posted with it here's the tweet c.n.n. live in venezuela as mature government mo's down citizens in streets now the problem was that the video started with an image with army defectors joining the opposition but the combination of that video along with the chosen was that tapper used seemed to imply that the madeira government was in fact gunning down its own citizens not top of pulled the tweet but not before he'd taken some heat particularly from r t which is funded by the kremlin apparent allies of the majority government in what

is fast becoming a geo political standoff ok thanks for reality t.v. has a format a proven formula that works for aspiring singers dancers or chefs. then someone came up with an idea why not try it with young would be journalists take students from various journalism courses and have them compete see who can do the best investigative reporting we have a winner journalism reality t.v. shows are currently airing in three countries armenia kenya and bolivia they offer young reporters the practical training their studies may lack and they remind viewers at a time when trust in the media is at an all time low of the importance of investigative journalism in any democracy the listening posts johannah who's now on journalism reality t.v. . he'll be switched. to bill b.t.s. . inserts in the they'll be drawn kenya's top story. on my

head ok you can put a hearty another when i'm in ask journalistic capitals what if we get a gust of oh it was but i doubt that most of the people stood by them but livia primera planet. reality t.v. or hard hitting us to get it journalism in the beginning i think there was a lot of why you tried to bring us a reality t.v. show and dilute what journalism actually is really asking questions but when you think about it the reality to leave it behind the scenes and unpacks what it takes to put together a broadcaster. and she's given a salute and i think that's the excitement you're putting in a bit of color your you're making it a lot more fun this week the competition starts on the national tests and we wanted to make this program accessible to people so you don't have to compete too hard we also wanted to show them that it's possible to to do some really serious journalism

that oversimple be able to follow and you know and understand. the basics he has found to be true. and that mix of journalism and reality entertainment for arcs for us works really well in many societies in this world are not educated or superficial they are not interested in facts and solid information so if the audience requires for entertainment to pass them true and interesting and helpful information then i'm ready to do that even if we are criticized this is not serious. yes we are doing like american idol we are doing like voice but this is a voice of journalists and we are very proud that we can make something interesting

but also very useful. carrying under came up with the original idea. back in two thousand and six he partnered with the european journalism center e.j. c setting up a mentoring program for journalism students from armenian universities students with battle it out to produce the best piece of investigative journalism about mucked up crimes at this stage of the air. with the help of the e.j. seen the competition was then exported to universities in bolivia and kenya where former b.b.c. africa editor joseph saul scope for a t.v. show. really three programs are no regular fixture is on that country's airwaves it's a format that has remained largely the same on air as it was off air with one big difference the stories of journalist are now tracking are no longer made up providing the students with real life experience they might not pick up in the classroom obviously it's extremely important that we have that space for

journalists to learn an academic approach but many young journalists tell me that their programs are not really skills orientated and that they welcome the opportunity to be mentored by working journalists was the first thing you see at the top of the story. headline we hope that we're providing you know just a little bit extra that universities can get them before they really hit the news room the story made given where we're at with big news it's really important to have a program like like like top story or a you know mentorship scheme like that because these are the people we're relying on now on in the future to be able to know distinguish what is true on what is force. i would not. want to see what you're a police officer and this is ground zero and we really focus on some very key basic skills like interviewing skills how do you find the right people to interview how

do you conduct your interview before you go to the last question is there any form of the fishbone that how do you do it professionally and ethically those are the skills the tops that i've been trying to impart on these journalists and also members of the audience. seems to be working for the students but also for the public study but e.j. c. found that kenya's top story the significant impact on the media literacy of the toad improving public understanding of the crucial role investigative journalism can play in promoting accountability and good governance. some say it's also really helped open up the space for investigative journalism in countries where it had previously been limited to investigative journalism especially now is probably the most necessary type of journalism that we need given the levels of corruption and stories that need to be exposed i'm very hopeful that top story can open up as opposed to investigative journalism it's my concerns i think would be. it's

a little bit. shallow because it will continue to showcase we important of asking the tough questions of getting the answers that sometimes you don't even get from the newscast right now the people who like they're getting the answers that we need as they will look to shows like top story and. then we'll feel a bit hopeful that ok at least we have an individual be able was not trying to be chummy with the people that were being accountable to actually trying to give us the answer that we have penguins deserve to us generally to our media and society have a huge distrust in journalism in chords in many important institutions of democracy so showing the backstage of journalism showing the hard work of real journalism i think changed a lot in perception the attitude of the public. many people now in their main understand the importance of investigative journalism for fighting corruption and solving many other issues that we have in our country. another key in this bill to

focus public attention on stories step down and we get to the media mileage they deserve i don't know not at all like a chip a hundred got you i don't think it's going to go stories about corruption that are often true politically sensitive topics like health or development but the big question remains. what up problem in a global company in the time soon stories that don't generate that many clicks on like that reporting the under-reported can come at a cost quite the show and those competing have found themselves in trouble when their reality t.v. experiment has come up against political realities top story has not been smooth sailing we've had some challenges we premiered it on the on the main channel owned by the government again a broken sting operation one time they called us up and said look we've previewed this episode which is talking about this particular governor very powerful person and the k.p.c. said nope sorry we have to cut talk this beat and i stood my ground and eventually

we had to move that whole top story to another station what a lot more bold work commercial but a good investigative judge and so there are some risks and there are some challenges like that. over in armenia it's worse journalistic battles currently airing on the public broadcaster hasn't yet been censored by addicts or your overseers but three contestants from season one are currently facing criminal charges over a story they investigated about hospital corruption. harder to know your notion of those two ramadan last month about. the young professionals for. out of both huge corruption scheme and there was an immediate change in the management in this hospital in their services and in their payment system so we showed not only the problem but whole the problem was solved during

our show our entertainment kind of for a month. the show's producers say they're doing all they can to support the journalists in question and if anything rather than back off incidents like these actually important to program makers to keep fighting their journalistic battles it's a crucial part of society what we're trying to do is journalist why not show that we have a bit of fun doing it the audience figures prove each year they can include more and more people want to be in the shows clearly we're doing something right and the audience seems to like it. finally president donald trump achieved a milestone of sorts this past week according to the washington post's fact checking page trump lied for the ten thousandth time since taking office the post says trump averages twelve point two lies or misleading statements per day or one

every two hours that is not an easy record to defend but fox news does the best it can tribe's favorite news channel is the subject of a new pop parody just put out by college humor dot com the producer nick lloyd scope of chattanooga tennessee wrote this eighty style track and he put together the video to as he says expose the hypocrisy of a network defending a guy who showed fake news all day we'll see you next time hear the listener. ulla.

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back door the teenagers described as being of african appearance a still on the run before all 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 balance broke out at the moon the festival at federation square in the center of melbourne to gird super african young people coming together and over there was a far cry guarantee card by rolling all if your lot some of it was because the coins begun involved we started choice may just be able to turn that crowd all narratives in the media to talk a lot of political courage of. these people to commit crimes interesting to raise our whole human gets blamed for the actions of the few. to people who have to pay saif i have to feel saif side there's a lot of perception issues i think that we need to deal with as well. in two

thousand and eight al-jazeera documented a groundbreaking skee. preparing some of india's poorest children for entry into its toughest universities. ten years on we return to see how the students and the scheme of helping change the face of india. supa thirty announces era. carmen garza after a ceasefire deal is reached with israel following days of cross border airstrikes and rocket attacks. this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the u.s.

deploys an aircraft carrier to the middle east as a clear and unmistakable message to iran. a massive hike in tariffs on chinese goods by the u.s. ahead of crucial talks to resolve trade differences. an aeroflot passenger plane lands in flames at a moscow airport forty one people are confirmed dead. there is calm in garza right now after a ceasefire agreement between hamas and israel no israeli air strikes on the palestinian territory have been reported since the deal came into effect media mediation efforts were made by egypt and qatar to end days of cross a border rocket attacks between gaza and israel twenty four palestinians and four israelis have been killed actually name is in the israeli city of ashkelon. the renewed violence between hamas and israel came near the start of the a samik holy

month of ramadan it also was near the time when this week israelis were slated to celebrate their independence day the following week tell of was hosting the euro vision music competition and expecting tourists from around the world as has been the case previously both sides seem to signal that they were not interested in seeing a further as collation yet this time things had progressed farther than they had since the gaza war in two thousand and fourteen in terms of the death toll hamas is said to be frustrated that israel had not allegedly honored its previous agreements to help ease the suffering of gazans on khaled begin the is with the center for middle east policy at the brookings institution he says the root cause of these tensions must be addressed. we've seen that happen over and over and over again and

what that typically signify is that we're not dealing with the problem. in terms of the causes of the problem we're and stands for gaza for many many years there's been a great deal of denial frankly in the international community on the part of israeli leaders on the part of the united states and even on the part of this house senior leadership in ramallah as to what the causes are. and this is you know this is a gaza has been under a blockade for twelve years there's an israeli occupation that has been in place for fifty one years there is no political horizon that is being offered by the international community the only way out of this situation is to find a way to normalize life in gaza and light cannot proceed normally we have so many

reports by the united nations and others that basically gaza is unlivable for the two million people who live there and that is at the heart of this instability that we see over and over and over again and the solution to that problem is not a military solution it's not even really a humanitarian solution it's a political solution we have to end the blockade which is which is a policy of israel and to an extent also egypt. on the other developing story the u.s. sending an aircraft carrier group to the middle east to send what it calls a clear message to iran the u.s.s. abraham lincoln and support ships had been dispatched the carrier was supposed to dock in croatia on wednesday u.s. national security advisor john bolton says it is in response to a troubling developments in the region it is the latest effort by the u.s.

to keep up the pressure on iran is live for us in washington so again this was put out as a statement from the national security advisor john bolton what else did it say. it was a short statement but it was one that was caught washington by surprise quite frankly it was not expected it came out late on sunday night before nine pm local time here in washington john bolton in the statement you know laying out the u.s.s. abraham lincoln carrier strike group plus some bombers were being sent to the middle east and i want to read a key part of this statement it said to send a clear and unmistakable message to the iranian regime that any attack on the united states' interests or on those of our allies will be met with unrelenting force the statement went on to read in part the united states is not seeking war with arion regime but we are fully prepared to respond to any attack that was part

of the statement there a very short one left a lot of questions as well more than more than answers in that short statement and just within the last hour or so we've had reporting from the associated press and from the wall street journal both saying quoting. unnamed administration officials that are saying that this came in response apparently to new intelligence received by the united states of a possible iranian attack on you. s. interests in the region that according to some unnamed administration source to the associated press we're also getting other mixed messages at this hour as well secretary of state mike pompei was speaking to reporters on it's on a flight to europe said that this was something that there were actions that were undertaken by the u.s. were planned for quite some time according to pompei o however according to the

wall street journal an official unnamed official told the wall street journal that this all came up within the last couple days and so we're unclear on that we did reach out to the department of defense they did confirm that this carrier group is going to the middle east but would not comment any further than that just concluded by saying it's not unusual for aircraft carriers to be deployed to the middle east or the gulf region as a deterrent to iran but what makes this different is two things number one is john bolton putting out a statement basically saying we're sending them there specifically because of iran pointing the finger to iran almost or provoke provocation that is unusual for the u.s. to do that when they deploy a big group of military assets like this and also what's different is this is bigger than just one warship going to the gulf as a deterrent this is a full battle group. gabriel thanks for that. u.s.

president donald trump is stepping up the pressure on china to reach a trade deal he's announced tariff increases on chinese goods he said the tab some two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese products will rise to twenty five percent on friday stock markets though every acted nervously to the announcement with losses in the u.s. hong kong and shanghai adrian brown has more from beijing. well once more a tweet from president donald trump has thrown into doubt whether the united states and china can indeed do a trade deal this week on sunday night the president tweeted that he was prepared to now double tariffs that he was imposing on chinese products this would affect some two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese goods that at the moment are subjected to tariffs of ten percent from says he wants to raise that to twenty five percent and he's also saying he wants to put terrorists on some three hundred twenty five billion dollars worth of chinese products that so far have not been

subject to judy's so the question now is can the trade talks that were due to resume in washington later this week now take place so far chinese officials have not responded to president trump's tweet but lou her who is leading the chinese side of these trade talks is due to leave for washington if not today then tomorrow of course the decision must now be made as to whether he will in fact be leaving stock markets here in china have been reacting very negatively to this news stock markets in chen zen and shanghai have been down significantly on monday as was the stock market in hong kong these markets are fragile at the best of times and this was a further reminder that the stock markets are indeed in the true ones. syrian government forces and their russian allies have launched more attacks in rebel held province at least ten people were killed and nine hundred injured on sunday

a volunteer with the white helmets rescue is also died this weekend in an airstrike on a village in italy a province which has now been under attack for six days an underground hospital was hit by an airstrike and put out of service. sudan's ruling military council says it will unveil its transition plan on monday as protests there continuing demanding a return to civilian rule the military and protest leaders are deadlocked over who would control the government before elections are held a coalition of opposition parties have submitted draft proposals for a way forward of thousands of sudanese protesters are preparing to fast in front of the army headquarters for the month of ramadan they say they will continue their sit in until the military council that ousted president on monday bashir hands over power to morgan reports from car to. for nearly a month this is where sudanese volunteers have cooked food for thousands of

protesters in front of the army headquarters and these people keep the flames of their revolution alive by making more meals for the demonstrators during the holy month of ramadan. and it's a beautiful feeling to serve the people here people now already working together to provide the food to provide the tents to prepare meals for the people here it's like cooking for the whole country will cater to the needs of the protesters during the holy month until we are blessed with a civilian transitional government. over the past month tens of thousands have camped in front of the army headquarters of heart and they gathered here early april after months of anti-government protests on the streets demanding the country's thirty year rule are met in the shares have down the military ousted bashir on the eleventh of april and a ten member military council took over the council has been in talks with political parties and protest organizers since to form a transitional government but no deal has been reached so the sit in continues you know what i mean again listen for the uk since the start we've come here for the

revolution to have our demands are filled that's why we are here and that's why i will stay here. is a big difference between ramadan this year and the past eight years when we've been living under the regime that has been lying to people this time it's a beautiful feeling to see all at the city where. many here have been coming on a daily basis some haven't left since the system started on the sixth of april the streets around the military headquarters have become their home and they've decorated it as such for the holy month for the first time in fifty years ramadan is being celebrated here in sudan without all wanted by the u.s. president and with thousands had to break their fast here in front of the army headquarters in far too many say ramadan this year says differently it's a switch will be even sweeter when they go forcing the military council to hand over parts of aliens is achieved the those observing the holy month are praying civilian rule come soon to sudan and that it will be a time to celebrate the revolution.