carefully planned as tweets that the prime minister bags film actors is a symptom of. carefully with great attention be to people. it does make you wonder why the prime minister who has so much time for instagram influence and to meet and selfie himself with bollywood stars has not had the time to hold a single open press conference and is the 1st indian prime minister to feel to do so in effect you. were discussing other media stories that are on our radar this week with one of our producers tarak not far to the trump administration and the white house press corps are back at it what's this latest issue over accreditation well this week dana milbank of the washington post reported that the white house had revoked his press puff and what he called a must accredited reporter for press office holders get privilege access to the

white house as one of the opportunity to ask questions of government spokespeople but the trumpet ministration recently changed the criteria for accreditation the new rules disqualified not being in the white house for at least half of the previous 180 days requirement that according to milbank excludes most of the press corps. press secretary for assigned so the change was about improving security but the concern is it makes journalists conditional in a way that could disqualify reports of the white house doesn't like and this would not be the 1st time that the white house has played the credentials card would it no that's right you remember that highly publicized spot last night between president trump and feeling and reporter jim acosta on the russian vest occasion are you concerned that you may have not heard about anything with his resignation because it's a hoax or you that's enough put down the might. after the exchange the white house

revoked of course the press only to restore its again on the order of a federal judge but the disputes was a sign of how the administration views the televised press briefings and the headlines they produce one more point this white house hasn't held a full press briefing now for 2 months the longest stretch since the tradition began under bill clinton in the early ninety's you've also been following the story of an arab activist who does a lot of work on saudi arabia and who may now have a target on his back who will be talking about he added by that he's a palestinian born writer and activist currently living out of a political refugee in norway and anyone who follows the middle east online will know his twitter feed he's an outspoken and influential critic of arab dictators particularly saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin selamat and a lot of his recent work has focused on the human rights situation in 30 arabia this week we learned that on april 25th norwegian police warned about that he of

the threats against him after receiving information from the cia after the murder of saudi journalist jim out of a shock gee these kinds of threats are taken very seriously but they were a friend of hers shakti and he warned the journalists killing would embolden bin for man to go after his critics if the kingdom was not held to account among the reasons the saudis might want to go after about that he has recently been investigating a story that saudi arabia was behind the alleged hacking and extortion of a muslim boss and washington post owner jeff bezos for the threats against him by the sounds defiant if they don't want to kill me he says then i'm not doing my job ok thanks to our. breaking news out of me and maher this past week after more than 500 days behind bars to reuters reporters have been released by the government the

men had been jailed for their investigation into the killing of 10 real hinge of muslims by me and maher security forces news of their release was welcomed by journalists and activists around the world in me and maher the reporting the real him just story remains incredibly challenging since 2017 almost 3 quarters of a 1000000 rohingya muslims have fled to neighboring bangladesh and me and maurice government has been aggressive in its attempts to control the narrative however one network has been reporting the story from the inside will hinge a vision t.v. run by exiled real hands of the network relies on undercover reporters to get the information out of the stories that they tell contest the official state narrative as well as the work of media outlets in me and maher that have closed ranks with the authorities the listening posts johannah who's now on the perilous state of media freedom in me and maher and the news network telling the real him just story its way.

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hands of the burmese security forces stories that journalists from me on my tend to shy away from. for the hundreds of thousands of refugees across the border in bangladesh or hinder vision t.v. our vision provides news from abroad perspective. and we started to get news actual facts and figures from the ground and the start of the broadcast saw the ultimate goal was to tell the tools to tell the anger side of the story and to advocate. because it is under reported reported their reporting that mass rapes occur. there has been effectively a scorched earth campaign against the ranger but i got up going to where the monish are going to be done that i would have the it's you know women children have been executed along with men range of vision t.v. help to sort of counter this idea that it is just

a targeted operation to weed out range militants 5. but they're of course branded as brazen propaganda and they've been targeted with relentless attempts to discredit them we saw at the start of the crisis range of vision t.v. and very accurately reporting what was going on the number of people who were fleeing the scale of the violence. and that information wasn't used by international media at all because there's been such a fuss made by the government of burma or about the reliability of or interest sources and that's a loss because they are getting information out on the ground in rakhine state. and that significant to me almost government has blocked access to the region turning rakhine into a black hole for the new. without taxes international journalists have come to rely solely on refugees accounts for much of the medium our media run with the

government's version of events. over hinge a vision still has eyes on the ground according to its founder mohamed nor the channel as a network of around 20 undercover citizen journalists working around the clock and a great risk to feed information from our kind for our economies it's now in the range of language to their colleagues in the nation. broadcasting in 3 languages our vision operates primarily online through each year to chant the network has become a primary source of the news for the ranger community and its multiple platforms typically get more than 150000 views per day. our vision is very unique and it is a the wolf 1st of its kind international media's are not allowed here so they can all do a good job so now we have to take over the job we are the news break up of our account because we convert a citizen into a citizen journalist existing people into journalist training them and getting the

information out would whatever possible it could when they have it is very dangerous for the people on the ground that are doing this the government want to shut this down they want to stop information getting out and so anyone who's found to be involved with or interest in t.v. would be in danger of being jailed or disappeared they'll go after the people that are interviewed they'll go after the fixer as well as going after the journalists or during the reporting. those tactics aren't just going to lie to the writing to a journalist operating in iraq coming ever since the start of the military crackdown in august 27th seen the government on some sushi has embarked on a far reaching campaign to silence reporters local and foreign. intimidation and harassment and the weight of the law had been used some journalists were cast. government were military badlands. case in point in december 27th team 2 greeters reporters were arrested and charged under the official secrets act

a lot of that back to the colonial era for allegedly having illegally acquired information with the intention to share it with foreign media. and those documents which are mostly contain information about mass graves in recalling were in fact handed to them by the minium or police just minutes before they were arrested. argued for you this past week alone and just so you were finally released having spent more than 500 days behind bars clearly told with regard to the journalists are now free that critics remain suspicious over the circumstances of their arrest those 2 reporters. very well respected the very door good wall own door so the sort of the you know the reuters teams and the a.p. teams in the country and not going to be very courageous in their reporting on this issue the government and the military and police would want to silence them the 2

reporters were trying to expose something that the military will you know wanted to highlight what the journalist it is the main reason that the government had to change that they still use you know a number of laws to detain journalists and these laws are very useful for the government. when myanmar began the transition from military to civilian rule back in 2011 there was hope a space would open up for more independent reporting that has since been shattered on some 2 cheese rule reporting critical of the authorities has all but disappeared especially on issues relating to rakhine. and it's not just due to government intimidation or self-censorship when it comes to the range of most media outlets in myanmar simply agree that the government. the vast majority of journalists bernese journalists inside the country appear to share the government

and the military's antagonism towards the ranger magazines when newspapers like the state run lots of myanmar which publishes very unsettling antagonistic editorials and articles that allude to the ranger as for example human fleas so regardless of whether you know there is space or there isn't space there's a real lack of will in reporting critically on the military but i think the local media try not to sort of. they already ns their readers so they try to sort of tread a very careful line trying to balance doing their work as well as not sort of make up the readership unhappy because i think they understand that the majority of the people don't like the the this people the government of burma is trying to say look what can we do we can't take action on a range of citizenship because there are injuries so so hated within the country

but the government has used its media channels newspapers and radio stations and television to encourage and whip up that fear and hatred of muslims so they they create this crisis and then they use it as a defense for not being able to act on it it's a tactic that they're using and it's a tactic that is proving to effective which makes outlets like ranger mission t.v. where source of the news still operating mind the authorities a bill of secrecy all the more important when trying to understand all sides of the story that the united nations calls a textbook case of ethnic cleansing. and finally are you ready to seize the day trust your instincts and reach for the stars if not we have a little something for you. anyone scrolling through a news feed these days risks being inspired even when you're not in the mood who approves of all those inspirational quotations anyway who dares assume that there's

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people have to weigh your own record on this trouble in fact a few years ago there is place only for one state on the land of israel all you do not believe in a 2 state solution the official story is unfair and on purely optional already i don't care about the official story if you were to go visit today you would say what has the media been telling the world isn't watching why there's lots of graves if you join me near the hot sun on our front of my guests from around the world take the hot seat and we debate the week's top stories on the big issues here on al-jazeera. i really want to get down to the nitty gritty of the reality when

they're on line when you have that male chauvinism that is in plants with in our global federation and it is really hard to get a piece of that or if you join us on sunday. they can speak up their mind this is a dialogue everyone has a voice to talk to us in our live you tube chat and you too can be in history join the global conversation on how to 0. 6 months after signing an agreement with the rebels in yemen say they'll withdraw from the strategic port of her data a gateway for food and aids. hello i'm fully back to watching al-jazeera live from coming up

a show of force so he ran the. u.s. sends a 2nd warship in an air defense system to the gulf region. highly anticipated trade talks between the u.s. and china and without a deal but beijing keeps the door open to more negotiations next month and we speak to the families of those involved in planning and carrying out this easter sunday attacks that killed more than 250 people. yemen's who the rebels say they will unity that sri withdraw forces from the 3 strategic ports over the next 4 days that assad leaving the ports of the data leaf andros from saturday nearly all the aid into yemen comes through who data millions across the country are desperately short of food and medicine after 4 years of fighting the government says the who fee's offer is inaccurate and misleading hoofy say it's

a result of the sound refusal to implement the un brokered stockholm agreement. reports. the battle for the port of her data has been at the heart of the humanitarian crisis in yemen aid agencies have pleaded with the warring factions to withdraw from the strategic port a gateway for desperately needed food and medicines. for millions of facing famine after more than 4 years of fighting between the who thiis and coalition led by saudi arabia and the united arab emirates and now who thieves rebels will withdrawal fighters from her data according to the united nations. over 4 days the group says it will also be deployed forces in the ports as the means used for grain and mass is an entry point for oil. of course this near is a very welcome from the standpoint of humanitarian interests but again

you know we have a huge problem terms of the lack of trust between the saudi led coalition ready on one side who is the rebels army other worse very good but develops a little bit of trust that could potentially pave the way to eventually solving this conflict is going to really require some actions the yemeni government backed by the coalition has expressed skepticism over the withdrawal agreement the minister of information mohammed tweeted on friday any unilateral deployment that does not allow for the principle of joint monitoring and verification of the terms of the suisun agreement is a noose if and on except to pull the yemeni government did not state whether their side would make a reciprocal move with dural plans were brokered by a un led committee under the stockholm agreement a pax ixtapa between the rival combatants last december but soon after

a ceasefire was agreed on the 18th of december fighting. a student in her data and since then repeated attempts to enforce the truce have failed the un is expected to monitor the redeployment of fighters from the ports yes it is still unclear how far forces will withdraw and who will eventually control the reports. but if the withdrawal happens it could be the 1st major breakthrough in peace efforts in more than 4 years. some time a big advocate manager for yemen at the norwegian refugee council she says if the fighting escalates in her data it will result in a major catastrophe. the humanitarian situation in yemen is still a very very dire and worrying situation you've got millions of people in your report highlighted who are just one step away from famine you've got

a cholera outbreak at the moment so we welcome any positive to plan developments in times of opening up small safe call humanitarian agencies to be able to get to areas where we have not been able to so for example although the cease fire has reduced the violence in what they we haven't been able to access areas of father who are they the governor where you have many many people who are hungry who. as we know is a cholera hot spot one of the main cholera outbreak areas in the country 100000 people were recently displaced in the telling us that they're afraid that they've been displaced not once not twice not 3 times but up to 5. and what we're saying to the conflict parties is that this needs to stop if the fighting escalates and if there was an attack on one day the port it would be a catastrophic humanitarian situation a u.s. warship designed to land u.s.

marines is on its way to reinforce naval forces in the gulf region iran is this missing the very point meant as psychological warfare intimidation the arlington is joining the abraham lincoln aircraft carrier strike group we sailed through the suez canal and there is a commander see the difference are a response to possible operations by iran against u.s. forces in the region causing jordan has more from washington. earlier this week the trumpet ministration ordered the commander of the abraham lincoln and its kompany and vessels to basically be on standby for any sort of provocative actions by the iranian military now on friday the u.s. says arlington has been ordered to join the abraham lincoln and the other ships is part of its convoy as well as the deployment of a patriot missile battery in order to make certain that if there were any sort of attack on the lincoln carrier strike group that the military would be able to

defend itself what this is according to u.s. officials is a show of force to tear on that the u.s. is very closely watching its military and economic and diplomatic activities around the middle east and the u.s. military is they're essentially to safeguard the u.s. as national security interests as well as those of the u.s. as partners and allies in the region but this is raising concern particularly here in the united states that the u.s. may be engaged in a game of chicken that it may be actually adding to tensions rather than trying to find a way to discuss with terror on its concerns about terror hons policies and trying to figure out a way to ultimately negotiate a deal that would address iran's nuclear and other security issues that trade war between the well sue biggest economies is set to continue that the latest round of

trade negotiations between the u.s. and china ended in washington on friday with no breakthrough but china's top trade negotiator says their meeting was constructive and more talks could follow next month adrian brown has more from beijing. well the question now of course is the proportionality of china's response china has warned of counter measures without specifying exactly what those measures would be but lou her who has been leading the chinese negotiating team has said the talks are going to continue he said there's been a twist but the talks are not over and they will resume in beijing in a few days time it seems but lou her there's also conceded that there were disagreements during the discussions china wants the united states to lift those tariffs if a deal is done he also admits that one of the other sticking points has been how much china has agreed to purchase from the united states but generally his language

so far has been very measured by overdrawn we have come here with sincerity on behalf of the chinese government are 2 sides of conducted candid and constructive talks we both agree that the 2 sides need to maintain the good momentum of the consultations despite some temporary friction and obstruction we also agreed to meet again in beijing to continue the consultations in the future. president xi jinping is aware that in the united states president trump has the support of the democrats on this issue and of course this tariff war comes at a time when china's economy is continuing to slow and this is a key year in china as well the communist party is 100 years old and in october it will be 70 years since the founding of the people's republic a year that the chinese leader cannot afford to appear weak particularly during trade disputes with the united states but on the issue of trade this is perhaps the

one area where the u.s. and china can do a deal because china is much more concerned right now over taiwan and the support that the trumpet ministration is giving to the independence leaning leader of the island republic. donald trump says he's in no rush to reach a deal with china insisting that terrorists will rake in billions of dollars in profits for the u.s. government but as alan fischer explained to see american consumers who will end up footing up footing the bill. says a deal was close until the chinese broke it so enqueue new turn as he believes will lead to a better deal i happen to think that tariffs for a country. a very powerful you know with a piggy bank that everybody steals from including china the white house issued a statement from the president saying hiking tide of some 10 to 25 percent on 250000000000 dollars worth of goods means china piece a lot more money directly into the u.s.

treasury but that's not how tired of swak they will drive up prices on their own 6 those and i thumbs america imports from china from washing machines to steal from food to fish importers pay the tab of the costs almost always passed on to the customer and gets parts for a south carolina bike shop from china he's already added $20.00 to the cost of a new machine we don't know how we perceive that china is paying for this we're paying for it and it's been passed on to our customers $1.00 tree group says for a family of 4 they'll be paying $767.00 more a year because the increased costs kind of spring it's just frustrating because you just know that most politicians aren't familiar with what it's like to live every day you know in the middle class you had to juggle what you can afford and which you can't afford and a lot of people can't even do that donald trump says a tough negotiation brings a better deal than american manufacturing might benefit as companies turn away from

high priced chinese goods. the chinese are retaliating of one sector being hit is u.s. farming both sides are under pressure to do a deal when the world's 2 biggest economies have a problem with each other and the potential is there for the rest of the world to feel the pain alan fischer al-jazeera washington more than 100 people have been killed in the last week a syrian government forces continue their push into rebel held areas in hama and provinces and some un security council members are concerned that a full scale military operation in a province may lead to a humanitarian catastrophe diplomatic editor james space. as has more from the united nations. there have long been fears of a final offensive in adlib it is one of the last strongholds of the opposition to a sat aid workers have been concerned about an all out attack the population of the .