those when they also look at things here and they are asking for all those things because the united states is demanding it we will sit at a table for talks and also or anywhere else all initiatives are possible with our constitution on the table not with a pistol not with an imperial order but with our constitution on the options that they are proposing are not in the constitution numbers and done the work done and i want to do so do you believe that there is a real credible threat of u.s. military intervention in minnesota or is it a bluff they're also going to have. no with those hawks in the white house there is no bluff you always have to be careful and be prepared for all scenarios it was president trump who in august $27000.00 said that he would consider a military option in venezuela it wasn't bolton pompei oh it was trump bolton has said it thousands of times pompei o has said it pence has said it that all options are on the table including the military one we are prepared for all scenarios still ahead on al-jazeera a step closer to replacing the u.s.

removes tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from canada and mexico. said uncertainty is hurting hurting britain's largest steel works. the west. bank and. hello again and welcome back to your international weather forecasts were here across europe we're going to sing a very active day here across the northern part of turkey now notice the clouds right there they're going to remain and in those clouds we could be seeing some very large hail as well as some gusty winds and that could cause some problems across much of that area in terms of power outages as well to the north though we're going to see across belarus the ukraine some very heavy rain in that could least some to some localized flooding across that area speak your rain here across the central med we do have an air of low pressure across parts of italy. and with

that air of low pressure we could be seeing some heavy rain as well as in the overnight hours here in the higher elevations we could even be seeing some snow when that temperature does come down to close to freezing up towards london it is going to be a fairly nice day with some clouds at 20 here on sunday but then as we go towards the northern part of africa that same area of low pressure could be causing some windy conditions across much of the northern coastline a lot of clouds across much of this area so for it is going to be a 20 degree day a few algiers a lot of clouds in your forecast at $22.00 and then as we go towards sunday we do expect to see the rain hold off but the clouds will still be a big problem with algiers at $21.00 degrees tripoli at 22 in cairo a warm day at 34. stories generate. different from different perspectives on the sun just. finally separate the speed of the facts.

in this information from the. protesters complain about the order of police violence the sensational the demonstrations we've been listening. top stories on polls are starting to close across australia on the country's national elections that could see a change in government and leadership more than $16000000.00 australians are registered to vote prime minister scott morrison conservative coalition is going head to head with the labor party led by bill shorten and an airstrike in syria's

problems on friday killed several civilians including a father whose baby daughter on friday. could result in the worst humanitarian tragedy of the 21st century well as president has welcomed talks with his representatives on the opposition in norway. the meeting in oslo is the beginning of a dialogue with those who want him to quit the mediation comes after months of political clashes between opposition leader and. the opposition leader. the us has reached a deal with canada and mexico to remove its tariffs from steel and aluminum imports the move could put the 3 countries a step closer to ratifying a deal that would replace the north american free trade agreement the agreement will eliminate u.s. metal tariffs and canada's retaliatory tariffs on u.s. products including pork beef. obviously these continued tariffs on steel and

aluminum and our countermeasures i represented significant barriers to moving forward with the new nafta agreement now that we've had a full lift on these tariffs we are going to work with e.m.i. united states on timing for ratification but we're very optimistic we're going to be able to move forward move forward well in the coming weeks. pedicle hand has more from washington. it's been a sticking point in the relationship between the united states canada and mexico the president including those countries on his tariff list for steel and aluminum 25 and 10 percent he's now heralding that those tariffs will be removed there's some context here that it all goes back to renegotiate in the north american free trade agreement the president campaigned on this he said it was the worst deal the united states ever made and basically he renegotiated it now there's not many huge changes but still he needs to be able to tell his base before the election that he kept his promise it is facing stiff opposition in congress in

a very influential senator chuck grassley of the state of iowa had said he would not put that for a vote that he wouldn't get a vote on this new nafta deal until he got rid of the steel and aluminum tariffs so the president people have been pushing on capitol hill they want to see a vote on this new trade agreement and now because those tariffs have been removed they have a better shot than they did before tear gas has been fired in algeria on the 13th successive friday protests demanding a clean sweep of the leadership 6 weeks after forcing out their longtime president protesters say they'll stop only when the entire political elite is replaced victoria can't be reports. for months protesters have gathered outside the iconic graham who's building in the capital g. is demanding political change. but on friday mooning they arrived to find the area barricaded by police officers. tens of thousands of protesters trying to push their

way through that 1st security from seize responded with tear gas but outnumbered and under attack. they eventually pulled down to the area it's the 30 consecutive week protesters have gathered in the main square to demand the removal of politicians and officials the c.c.t.v. 3 shiva ousted president abdul aziz b. to be. the same only. they want to destroy us but they want we demand late or early we reject their stories of beings we are the ones who choose who represents us not the. many protesters day believe that interim president up till cardiff and salah is the right person to run the country at this critical moment presidential elections for july the protest is not just in the capital but across algeria unrelenting in their demands but complete regime change. rajoy elections under this

president can only lead to a fraudulent government but we is the one who fix $6000000.00 forms for bootlicker but we selections are rigged and dollars and we will not take part in them and we say no to the elections. some want army chief of staff my guide to step in and remove the political elite but he's wounded against what he says are attempts to create a power vacuum so. despite such warnings anti-government protesters seem determined to continue their rallies until the political establishment is gone the tory gate and be al jazeera it's the 10th anniversary of the ending of the 25 year long civil war in sri lanka tamil tiger rebels who had fought to create their own independent home one made their last stand against government forces on the jaffna peninsula and the north both sides were accused of widespread war crimes as well fernandez reports on the wait for justice goes on for the families of the many victims. the

pain never stops with. amanda laureate and now at the un didn't it as mothers were dying every day we had children bring them up as good human beings for a good life we think of our children 24 hours a day and die again and again the eldest son ugandan was shot dead in 2006 sickened sancha jeevan killed by a shell in the last month of the war. she was separated from another son mayan than as the final battle raged and thought he was dead until she saw a picture showing him in a government rehabilitation center but after 10 years of searching she's never found him. they did then we don't know where he is but he's not that he's alive i believe that what is my child situation the government has to give us an answer we're asking to give our children back let them go or else give us an answer what did they do with our children say publicly. after the civil war government troops battled the tamil tigers who were fighting for

a separate homeland following years of discrimination by the majority singhalese population in 2006 then president by in the rajapaksa backed his brother the defense secretary to launch an all out assault on the tigers in the final stages almost 300000 civilians were trapped in the middle many died in the crossfire sri lankan troops work used of deliberately shelling no fire zones a charge they denied the tigers used to villains as human shields. and they're no longer believe. after the war the suffering continues hundreds of wives and mothers have spent the last 10 years visiting all branches of the police the military government and attended every protest demonstration and vigil they have tried to raise their plight with international figures from the u.n. but nothing. subtle shifts of

a child and who has worked with many of these women says the vulnerable bear of getting income is important for them. for survival nor thought. and even then they go out to for their livelihood to work. even if they go and work in the how work days is their fierce head as mine. because they had the everybody in new orleans you know the never. the present government came to power in 2015 promising change sitting up an office of missing persons has been a key achievement but an office of reparations and truth and justice mechanisms are still pending a fact the senior most government official in the north admit i think our government representing both paper brief time i do not bring anyone is fully happy of obvious humans you all would say yes we should do more and we could have done

more that admission is of little comfort to g. kemarre and hundreds like who just want justice 10 years after the end of the war there's still a lot of work to be done many families depend on widows and they're struggling to make ends meet find employment and rebuild their lives for that this government would help them find answers is fading and patience is running thin but yet the we are desperate for any scrap of information about their loved ones enough and then there's. killing a chain. cross party talks in britain rather aimed at striking a compromise on terrorism is bracks a deal have failed labor leader jeremy corbin says discussions have gone as far as they can be 2 sides have tried for weeks to find common ground. and agree on terms

of the country's exit from the e.u. britain was due to leave on march 29th but it's been delayed until the october. well one of britain's largest still works is being hit because of uncertainty surrounding its future although it does have a reprieve for now as emma hayward reports from scunthorpe. for more than 120 years the steel works have dominated scunthorpe skyline its glory days when tens of thousands of people were all long gone and these are anxious times the 4000 or so stop on share with worries about bricks it leading its owner to ask the government to loan it tens of millions of dollars for a business in profit so we're actually getting somewhere and then. it is causing us problems the problems that's happening at the moment are no fault of the workers no fault of the management. it's way above the problem is the deal. british

steel has now found the cash from its own lenders and investors to carry on in the short term a few orders from the e.u. because of the crisis have been added to already tough trading conditions hair it can be a long way from the political workings of westminster and even further from the e.u. is based in brussels but uncertainty surrounding breaks it is having a real impact on people's lives. 20000 jobs in the supply chain. at. busier than ever fabricating steel construction and industry certainty and the body will tell you whether i voted labor in my. certainty that kills businesses people who are investing on tracking people and it has a perk right now for all the life economy. more than 2 thirds of people in this

area voted to leave the e.u. back in 2016 there are pockets of deprivation in scum thought so securing the still works long term future is important to the town's survival if we're serious about being an independent self-sufficient nation outside the. and union can stand on its own 2 feet we have need to have our own steel building capacity that's the foundation of our manufacturing the foundation for of our defense and our security . which still is in no way alone in its struggles because of the uncertainty regarding brics it and britain speech a place in the world here they just hope it's history of steelmaking won't be snuffed out emma haywood al-jazeera scunthorpe. it's a big year for brazilian sentiment the 29000 and fell festival with 7 movies on the schedule the 1st screening in cannes coincided with mass demonstrations back in brazil against education cuts by president government cuts that are hurting the

arts sector charlie angela reports on the political message that brazil's films are sending. to the cost of brazilian film background this is their moment to enjoy they say it's also their moment to protest. extreme times call for extreme cinema. and though conceived 10 years ago back arouse angry tale of oppression feels like a bang up to date critique of brazil's current political climate. here an isolated impoverished village is forced to defend itself when threatened with being wiped off the map it's a film that shows the power of the community under fire and under fire is how the directors now feel as brazil's president. cracks down on what he calls cultural marxism with the rise of the extreme right for some reason they have. they despise

artists and culture and it's all very sinister and the way it is it seems to function. so. they have slashed all federal funding for cultural basically and of course cinema on film. another distinctly brazilian film is sick sick sick a feverish story about 1st love that becomes dangerously infected. it's a poetic 1st film from director of his petard a who shows brazil's liberal and. in some way reflects the kind of nightmarish 6 states of president society. and i think that the ending of the film is like. trying to. get the intensity back trying to get the. i don't know the love back maybe because we were in

a society of haters. it's unclear what help films like this will get from the government going forward president bush has recently merged the ministry of culture with a ministry of citizenship brazil has brought 7 films to can this year it's a record for the country and something to be celebrated but for the filmmakers here there is concern that back in brazil the crowds gathering and their future artistic freedom could be under threat challenger al jazeera can. color again the top stories on al-jazeera votes are being counted on the east coast of australia our polls have just closed the national elections may see a change in government leadership prime minister scott morrison is conservative coalition which has held power since 2013 is going head to head with the labor party led by bill shorten. will close on the west coast. syrian state media

there has been an attempted attack at the air base at least one person was killed and several others wounded that's when armed fighters launched drones on rockets towards the base close to the coastal city of latakia an air strike in syria is. their problems on friday killed several civilians including a father and his baby daughter on friday the u.n. aid chief warned the offensive there could result in the worst humanitarian tragedy of the 21st century. hundreds of people protested in libya's capital tripoli against a warlord 24 have to is offensive on the city they want to have to put down their weapons have to is allied with the brook based government in libya's east the head of that administration. has told us media they're prepared to negotiate with the un backed tripoli government but he refused to accept the preconditions that have to just forces withdraw from territory they've taken. the u.s.

has reached a deal with canada and mexico to remove its tariffs on steel and aluminum imports the move brings the 3 countries a step closer to ratifying a new deal that will replace the north american free trade agreement. obviously these continued tariffs on steel and aluminum and our countermeasures i represented significant barriers to moving forward with the new now. now that we've had a full lift on these tariffs we are going to work with you my united states on timing for ratification but we're very optimistic we're going to be able to move forward move forward well in the coming weeks front as well as president has welcomed talks with his representatives and the opposition in norway. says the meeting in oslo is the beginning of dialogue with those who want him to step down their mediation bid comes after months of a power struggle between maduro and the opposition leader. those are the headlines the listening post is coming up next right here on al-jazeera. just

a few months after journalist jim on a special she was killed another arab dissident was under threat norwegian security officials had to take him from his home in oslo to a secure location after attempts at the saudis were targeting him. cumin rights activist. town jazeera. r.t. or just released by the way this is probably why you are coming. from. around the world and i think that people i'm coming up that way down. below i'm richard gilbert and you're at the listening post here are some of the stories we're covering this week dateline everywhere are the news media finally giving the climate change story the coverage it deserves when television goes too far that a guest on

a british program takes his own life to the show is now off the air for good china goes to the movies in a patriotic way and blockbusters are where the action and algeria on live. where the revolution continues it's one of those news stories maybe the only one that seems almost too big to cover climate change and the scientific consensus that the planet is almost at the point of no return the evidence is overwhelming the latest came just last week in that u.n. report warning that roughly 1000000 plant and animal species now face extinction news outlets could cover climate change stories every day and still sell this story short but they struggled to find the right way to cover the relentless onslaught of data that is newsworthy still there are signs that things are changing corporate media which have fed off natural disasters covered floods and famines while shying

away from the larger causal issues are now beginning to a. and to link the global economic system to an issue that has brought us to the brink movements like the extinction rebellion and terms like the green new deal are trending and for far longer than the standard 24 hour news cycle are these changes in coverage real will they last our starting point this week is the planet earth. here i've got an experiment for you safety glasses satire is that it's most effective when it contains an element of truth in this case and inconvenient truth what i'm saying is the planets. and american television personalities scientist bill nye uses showmanship props and profanity to make his case on climate change and a topic that when covered conventionally can struggle to attract clicks quickly gets

4000000 of them safety glasses off. their nightly it is absolutely fantastic on one level it was comedy but on the other hand it was absolutely. concise in terms of the situation that we face the planet is on that scale unimagined 20 years ago metaphorically in every conceivable sense we're destroying the oceans the soil the other species the whole of life which supports our lives is being exponentially destroyed climate science is very difficult to talk about. and you know you talk about the 6th generation of climate science models coming up now with method data and so on and so on but i think this particular mean globe and. the act of basically putting it on fire. and and basically saying we. captured all of that in a very. you know the climate crisis is

a complex story to cover but there's been a shift. since the data has now grown so compelling you don't have to be a scientist to understand there was the un study from earlier this month warning that up to a 1000000 species flora and fauna could soon be extinct a 2nd u.n. body warned governments late last year they had 12 years to limit temperature rises to avoid a climate catastrophe. or trade and the state of our planet both studies drew significant coverage as did a recent wave of climate activists hundreds of climate change activists marched want to comment. act now there were the school strikes in march the brainchild of a 16 year old swede gretta. who became the face of the strikes and the focal point for the news media to access credit. cards right now from stock hopes when i say.

thank you very much for joining us this strikes went global with more than a 1000000 students involved. and then there was the extinction rebellion a street movement born in london that was tired of playing by the rules and being ignored by the media last month it disrupted traffic for days all kinds of news cameras showed up but rather than focus on the cause of the protests many of them could not resist dwelling on the affects the seemingly mostly middle class eco activists temper tantrum known as extinction rebellion came to london and shocked much of the city its absolute madness and then a bunch of protests as brings london a huge capital city to stand still still mirror protests took place in 27 other countries and for a while climate change news was everywhere but the reason it was interesting to watch the framing of an extension of value. in the u.k. i think a lot of the response was you know these are just privileged protests. going out.

straits down they have jobs to do a lot of incompetent middle. self-indulgent people who want to tell us how to live our lives which i don't think is the most honest or good. part of the media and i won't stand for anything else so we get a lot of folks who are coming into the streets are doing so because they recognize that climate change and you know extinction crises pose a massive disruption to life as we know it or extinction a 1000000000 has done alongside us think retta to my going to school strikes i think it has changed the narrative around climate change even in the mainstream you hear a lot of people now talking about the climate and the agency the climate crisis but certainly i think the narrative has moved on. star has now faded off in general and to a significant extent the challenge now for extinction a 1000000000 in the next phases i mean they've had

a quite an effective media strategy i think the challenge going forward is that we're all going to get tired of you know good natured and good humored posters about climate change and about diversity loss but that isn't going to remain on our screens forever so what happens next. if it was up to climate activists the answer would be new emission laws around the world no country produces more carbon per capita than the united states and the climate change debate there is now centered on what's called the green new deal proposed by progressive democrats in congress the green new deal aims to achieve net 0 greenhouse gas emissions by the year 2030 it's ambitious and with cost estimates in the range of 10 trillion dollars expensive that's partly because it proposes sweeping structural changes to the american economy that go well beyond the energy sector the green new deal has generated extensive coverage much of it serious and thoughtful but when the debate

makes it onto fox the most widely walk. news channel in the country the focus is less about science and economics and more about competing political ideologies you have to be brutally honest and say that these ideas are really dangerous yeah what you get from me most of the media certainly the right wing the foxes and all the rest of it and impatient it's just totally i'm going to stick to my feasible green new deal will save the planet in exchange we just give up cars and airplanes and rebuild every structure in the united states and the problem in the media is that they're complicit with the way politicians frame any change as a change that is going to happen to the average taxpayer when it comes to climate change for this is not about the average person you know getting hit in the pocket it's about those that have the most responsibility and the most you know the luxury and space to be able to make the changes without affecting our is too much it's really about timing the lens back on them and the problem is the fact that we live

in an economic system which is very deeply the same in that we sort of premise our notions of economic success indefinite growth growing the economy exponentially the goal of an economy is to grow its g.d.p. to make clear that every year that still preserves a tremendous stress somewhere earth's ecosystems and that i think is a conversation that is very hard to have the mainstream media but that absolutely needs to be a central part of the conversation why not call into question sort of our fixation on economic growth as the only metric of well being which it's not a terribly good well being is a globalized media mortal it's very financial life it's about media ratings it's about what sells it's highly sensationalized but you also beginning to see more concerted effort to mainstream climate focus is that issue of funding and resourcing except for a bit at least in that context that shift is happening. change story is also being

told on platforms in ways it hasn't been told before greenpeace has never been shy about getting its environmental message last year it added an investigative unit to examine the measurable effects of climate change and to dig into the corporate p.r. side of the story journalistically documenting the money fossil fuel companies spend to lobby governments. and netflix which makes most of its money through fictional content films and t.v. series recently added a climate change series fronted by david attenborough. was best known for making picture rich wildlife documentaries at britain's b.b.c. 6 months ago he was criticised in the guardian for missing the bigger picture as one of the british papers columnist put it. and his team were telling a full story creating

a fairy tale world that persuades us all is well in the midst of an existential crisis and that i think they haven't been publicly called out in the media and i think that netflix this incredibly powerful series called our planet differs very significantly from his previous work for the 1st time in human history the stability of nature can no longer be taken. place in the wonders of nature alongside us. and i think that combination is absolutely vital. we're discussing other media stories that are on our radar this week with one of our producers joanna jo the former u.s. army intelligence analyst and wiki leaks whistleblower chelsea manning is back in jail just 7 days after being released what are the details here well richard manning was sent back to prison for refusing to testify before

a grand jury over her contact with wiki leaks and its founder julian assange back in 2000. 10 now the judge seems to be tightening the screws not only is manning back in jail after having already served $62.00 days for similar charges earlier this year if she continues to refuse to give evidence she will be fined $500.00 u.s. dollars a day after the 1st 30 days rising to a 1000 a day after 60 days now these grand jury investigations are completely closed to the public and that includes the media but what we do know is that this is an investigation into wiki leaks and it's in the lead up to what prosecutors hope will be a criminal trial of a son too has been charged with conspiring with manning to break into pentagon computers to get access to a trove of secret military documents and state department cables manning says she refuses to answer questions i will not cooperate with this or any other grand jury that's because she's already given her testimony during her trial in 2013 after which she was convicted.