promised. the no blood would be spent and so far so good he just kept to his words on the old saw said that he would get rid of what they called. the guy and the people who have been bullied in algeria the drug so the movement. would go a very very long way into a p.c. in the streets even though the. news came out over the last half an hour or so but the social media have been very very quick in wish. many of those people to spend. in jail. certainly cheered by this do you think this will how will this impact this ongoing protest movement because let's not forget they've been out on the streets for weeks now i think that the protests will continue obviously this the fact that these people and some of them very very high ranking people like you say to ply ministers

and 5 ministers who have been in charge of some very very important departments for public works where there has been lots of money and also the finance ministry. will go along with. a lot of blow news with. the people but the people are also they want more and they want a more democratic transparent country under their watch we've got ok thank you very much indeed for joining us from qatar university law school or is still to come on al-jazeera including find out what's at stake as a main opposition party meets to choose its new leader. the death of a teenager leads to questions over police brutality violent protests and intimidation.

hello there the weather still very active over southeastern parts of china at the moment many places a seeing a lot of heavy rain with the biggest amount of saying around 250 millimeters cold from this weather system here and it's going to stick with us as we head through the next few days so yet more heavy rains and those stretching down through parts of vietnam as well so still very wet here to go into hanoi it will be a very soggy one over the next few days out towards the west and we've also seen some heavy downpours in the southern parts of india $120.00 millimeters of rain has been reported from just this one shower system here that gradually ease does it run away towards the west but i am expecting more pre one soon showers as we head through the next few days a principal weather across this region some of the showers very very heavy to the north of that though staying dry and staying very hot so

a maximum temperature in neck poll of around 45 degrees as we head through the next few days so once the west stand for some of us across the arabian peninsula the still a fair amount of cloud most of that is in the northwestern parts of yemen and just sneaking into the southwestern parts of saudi seems the heavy downpours here actually around 90 millimeters of rain in places away from there just hot now as you'd expect 39 it's a temperature. with stories generate sounds of headlining with different angles from different perspectives children of sun just long standoff with the internet. is finally over separate the spin from the facts. in this information from the journalism protesters complain about the under-reported of police violence the sensationalizing of the demonstrations we've been listening post on al-jazeera.

you're watching al-jazeera a quick reminder of the top stories this hour iraq says it will stand with iran and its escalating disputes with the us iraq's foreign minister mohammad ali he made the pledge following talks with a civilian counterparts to have a job at sorry for. the final day of voting in europe's parliamentary elections is well underway as are casting their ballots in $21.00 member states including germany france and italy and no one has successfully registered to stand in

algeria as upcoming presidential election in july virtually all of the 77 candidates failed to get the required number of signatures to separate developments the new state prosecutor is pursuing corruption charges against a dozen former high ranking officials including 2 prime ministers. but one of sudan's main opposition parties has rejected calls from other process leaders to organize a general strike your own choose stay and wait and see the division between opposition groups comes after weeks of political deadlock they're trying to force the military to hands over power to civilians in non-con has more now from khartoum. this announcement by the party would have been a very big deal before december however the political landscape here in sudan has completely changed and it's the sudanese professionals association that are currently the leader of the political pack in the country they're the ones that called for the strike and it looks like the strike will be heeded by many sectors

of civil society here in the country you know the sudanese professionals association is very much a middle class and we've been very much based in khartoum and it can bring khartoum and perhaps parts of the rest of the country to a standstill now the party said it's not the right time for this and they need to not hold a strike however although those calls may well have been heeded before december the party don't have the political power that they once had and also the transitional military council say that the opposition are actually divided and that's why we haven't been able to come to a deal with the world the opposition coalition say actually what's happening is the regional players are backing the transitional military council and they're supporting them and that's been borne out in the last few days the vice chairman of the transitional military council and he has met with crown prince of saudi arabia mohamed bin so man we've seen the chairman of the transitional military council

meets with. sisi his name is abdul fatah but han and now i'll go to holland is actually going to the u.a.e. to meet with the crown prince of abu dhabi mohammed bin zeid that's angered the protesters because they say this government this transitional military council is in effect acting like the government of sudan and they're not negotiating with the opposition coalition with their not negotiating with us in good faith so they say they've been forced into this strike action and it looks like the strike action will take place and it will hold and it will bring called soon to a standstill. the reports coming in from northern nigeria that's an armed group has ambushed a military convoy. killing at least 20 people it happened while the army was trying to relocate refugees from a camp in poor and it's the 2nd attack in the region within a week or monday and i saw a linked group struck a military base killing 9 soldiers armitage's has more from my degree. local

sources say the attack happened when the military was escorting a group of civilians from the village of near saddam very towards the world on saturday morning now the military has not issued a statement regarding this attack and this is not by the way the only attack in recent days a few days ago there were claims by islamic state in west africa province that it had attacked military positions around google area killing so many soldiers just days after they released a video which they claim to show the execution of soldiers fighting the insurgency in law is nigeria recently both factions of both the islamic state in west africa programs that align to the islamic state of west africa province as well as the cold war. in other parts of borno state have launched attacks but the ice up targets mainly military targets in the region while both foreign fighters the other

ones led by factional leader i will because i've been raiding villages for food items and the rest they missed mostly target civilians and they also attacked military positions and now the nigerian military in collaboration with the multinational joint task force the regional force like involved in the elected area have ramped up their attacks and operations against in the region claiming to have killed several of them in attacks carried out on their bases in the north east. some bubblies main opposition party is gz officially named its next president now listen to me has been the interim leader of the movement for democratic change since last year as the party's 1st congress since the death of its funny morgan chung the m.d.c. has been plagued by in fighting since he died. the us president has hinted on social media there will be no major progress on a trade deal while he's in japan so far he's spent his time that. taking in

traditional japanese culture and on monday he and prime minister shinzo abbey will hold a bilateral summits where trade will be discussed when he has more. to do something of a contrast is donald trump set ringside at the grand sumo tournament in tokyo alongside the 1st lady and japanese prime minister shinzo a bear and unconventional president watching the most ritualistic and traditional japanese sport was earlier in the day the 2 leaders had a round of golf but on monday the games will stop and they'll get down to business although no significant announcement on a trade deal is expected it's thought that shinzo bear won't make major concessions particularly in agriculture before an upper house election in july the us produces one better access to japan's food and agriculture markets that have traditionally been protected by subsidies and other non-tariff areas the rural voter base is one

that she won't want to risk losing ironically u.s. farmers would have had better access to japan if the united states had remained part of the trans-pacific partnership multilateral trade deal that came into force in december but donald trump all the u.s. out of that agreement after he won the election. trump also wants to revive the u.s. car industry believing that imports have harmed american innovation. as you arrived in japan classic car enthusiasts gathered outside tokyo keeping the glory days alive. what i like most is the design and also the sound of the v 8 engine i don't think the design has aged the designer who came up with this car 50 years ago is amazing. to help the revival the president wants japanese companies to invest more in the states he made demands japan limits vehicle exports and has threatened to increase tariffs japan has been there before in the eighty's with the reagan

administration what was agreed at that time was a quarter an upper limit for cars and that resulted in major investments of japanese car makers in particular honda and toyota in the u.s. economy i do think that the negotiations are heading in this direction. for now this visit seems to be mainly about relationship building with japan trying hard to impress and keep the united states on side when hey al-jazeera tokyo. the u.s. geological survey has reported a magnitude 8 earthquake in northern peru it happens around 75 kilometers southeast of the district of laguna us there's been no reports of casualties but para cuts were reported in several cities twitter users posted video showing damage to some buildings. indonesia's disputed election is now in the hands of the country's top courts following a challenge by the defeated candidates on saturday at least 7 people have been

killed in clashes between opposition protesters and police since choose day and night there are calls for a formal investigation into how police handled the situation under thomas reports now from jakarta. down a narrow alley in a poor area of jakarta is a family in mourning this was the home of the youngest person to die in the protests in indonesia as capital for a handful jari was 15 late on tuesday night he got what messages from excited friends there was something big going on in the center of town just 15 years old. in brand's parents don't think he took part in any bullets and they don't know how or why shot. of a word to the hospital in 4 hours no one could tell me anything but eventually they took me to a body i didn't want to to be him but he was there when i heard about it i was

distraught i can't believe that he's got little. piece to make me laugh he was a kind boy a lovely boy. police say they didn't fall out of bullets last week just tear gas and rubber coated bullets to control and dispersed violent crowds. they say their action was restrained doing only what they had to but others question. people from human rights groups say from their early investigations into what happened here last week basis back the place of using unnecessary force and of violations of human rights. they say they've seen disturbing videos like this one of what appear to be police beating a man cowering in fear another appears to show men in uniform attacking someone who's already been detained human rights activists want a formal investigation into police tactics and actions. the police

used tear gas indiscriminately and treated everyone violently peaceful protesters people who just came out to watch and those throwing stones. last week's riots began as protests by supporters of presidential election contender. after in the media's electoral commission announced he had lost to the reelected president joko widodo. the re handful jari is family say he wasn't motivated by politics he was just a curious teenager his parents want to know why that led to his death andrew thomas al-jazeera jakarta indian opposition leader raul gandhi offered to resign as president of the congress party after it was beat in seconds straight election but sparty officials say the gesture was rejected its county law says since it are pradesh which has been held by his family for decades the county tennessee includes

3 former prime ministers and his government has been linking people's personal records to their biological information in the world's largest biometrics initiative supporters said it would say make it easier for the person access basic services but now some are raising concerns about privacy and government surveillance phase jamil reports. india's biometric program began with a promise to give every indian a unique number that entitles them to citizenship rights and services nearly 9 years later many say that promise hasn't been fulfilled and that romney ryan came to new delhi 5 years ago with his family from ra just on he got his biometrics card here but other than helping him get a mobile phone sim he says it hasn't been much use but. the government promised me i'd get

a plot of land in the russian cots the food but so far nothing it's let my family and i stay at the shelter and put my kids in school to begin with and there are other concerns about the program even as our sign ups continue critics say their usefulness has diminished india supreme court has ruled that private corporations cannot demand customers of our info though the government has recently passed a temporary order allowing companies to use it again but that has added to concerns over data and privacy leaks. hackers journalists and others have exposed security flaws and earlier this year domestic media reported the biometric numbers and personal information of millions of people could be bought on the black market critics say the program isn't living up to its promise never allowed that potential to be delays and was saying what the harsh mother says promised opportunities for the poor have been replaced by concerns over people's privacy especially that of critics of the government but this would biometric soviet missiles allows the

government to have access to all everybody who are. sending. travel and then the state wants to get back and it has a huge amount of what do you do that it's the hist. the government continues to defend the program saying it's a benefit to all that will streamline bureaucracy and government services. many of those the program was meant to help say the system makes them feel trapped they're still waiting for the benefits that were promised as jimmy all al-jazeera you deli . this is al jazeera and these are the top stories iraq says it will stand with iran in its escalating disputes with the u.s. iraq's foreign minister mohammad keen made that pledge following talks with his

iranian counterparts mohamed javert sorry. no not all of the chicken while but what are your we are clearly saying that we are against the unilateral measures taken by the us we are completely against these instructions and orders given to our neighbor iran we are standing by iran in its position and god willing we can play an intermediary role between the parties if necessary if you. the final day of forcing in europe's parliamentary elections is well underway now being closely watched as a barometer of the strength of the far right across the continent forces are casting ballots in $21.00 member states including germany france and italy algeria's new state prosecutor is pursuing corruption charges against a dozen high ranking officials from the governments of former president of thicker they include former prime ministers. and we area as well as 5 former

cabinet ministers their files have been referred to the supreme court's. meanwhile no one has successfully registered to stand in algeria as upcoming presidential election in july 77 percent of candidates said they intended to run for the top job but almost all of them failed to get the required number of signatures. one of sudan's main opposition parties has rejected coals from other process leaders to organize a general strike on choose day and weapons say the division between opposition groups comes after weeks of political deadlock trying to force the military to hand over power to civilians some bob boys main opposition party is due to officially name its next president soon nelson chamisa has been the interim leader of the movement for democratic change since last year is the party's 1st congress since the death of its founder morgan chung or i the m.d.c. has since been plagued by infighting were those are the headlines the news

continues here and all to syria after the listening post if you stay with us. talk to al-jazeera we heard you're just back from yemen what was the glimpse of the country that you go we listen to the children are deeply affected because of war we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter is there are. all of us watching this recording of a complex rather than we're learning about what may have actually increased interest rates so. attack iran threat years rather tell a chance that threats to american forces. hello i'm richard guess what if you're at the listening post here are some of the media stories that we're covering this week journalists and news junkies are taught to consider the source and one of the challenges in understanding the u.s. iran showdown is that the key sources are unnamed. and anti sematic video published

by a.j. plus arabic is pulled down the network issues an apology and suspends to journalists julian assange now faces more charges in the u.s. that have precedent setting implications alarming ones for mainstream news outlets the perils that women. journalists face in the age of the internet and gimmicks galore election coverage on indian news channels and. let's go tell then who will stop us if you've heard this one before anonymous sources in washington quoted in the us media over purported intelligence reports on specific but on specified threats from a middle eastern country and this a buildup of u.s. military forces around said country because as the narrative goes somehow maximum pressure perhaps even war is the best way to bring peace to the reach this would not be the 1st time the american media withing lee or unwittingly has made the case

for war on the basis of vague anonymously sourced intelligence in 2003 it was iraq this time it's iran much of american news reporting on u.s. iran relations glosses over president trump's role how his policies have led to this standoff there's even less space given to reflect on the history of american aggression against iran which is not to say that the islamic republic ruled by authoritarians and involved in wars in syria and yemen is an innocent player however inflammatory headlines unnamed sources and decades of misinformation in the us media over iran don't help our starting point this week is washington d.c. . headlines like these about iranian belligerence a new tensions with the u.s. came from sources like the the official who declined to be identified the 3 u.s.

officials familiar with the find a defense official who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly it's a safe bet that the official was authorized to speak anonymous if we were to write a headline on the coverage of this story it would read anonymous governments. u.s. news media risks being manipulated again. all of a sudden you have a news headline that takes over the world which comes from a rather dubious and questionable sourcing but by the time that people start asking questions it's already too late because the narrative has run has to take into account a single source story we can potentially start if this zathras confrontation and this really i think increases the burden of responsibility. to make sure to take and they triple check their sourcing. and media outlets relying on certain sources

is not something peculiar or uncommon on the country because well why whether in the u.s. or elsewhere and i miss is especially true when the masses relate to state security or intelligence which always involves particular sources who can provide verification or information but i must add that there was a wall street journal report on the threat from iran it would seem very interesting is that the headline was almost the exact opposite of what the story was describing all along the reporting you would see points and information would refute actual conclusion that one would get from the headline and there's a good part of the audience that only sees that headlines on their phones on their website and then they move on to the next story. those headlines have been largely based on 2 things u.s. intelligence report that was 1st reported upon on may the 6th and gunboat attacks against foreign oil tankers 2 of them saudi the took place

a few days later and have been blamed on iran or its proxies the intelligence report has not been made public its contents have reportedly been described to various news outlets by those anonymous officials who talk about specific specified threats from iran against american interests. in the region including u.s. forces in iraq and syria. for media watchers observers of american foreign policy and victims of those policies moving on is not an option because of memories of iraq anonymous sources were an issue back then too as was dubious intelligence vague claims of iraqi w m d's he develops weapons of mass destruction that the us media swallowed far too readily and obediently if if he gets weapons of mass destruction jerry if he is what does that mean for the world iraq 2003 is considered the greatest collective failing in the history of american

journalism and it is far too soon to see those kinds of editorial practices in use once again the us media was not critical at all that george w. bush administration in the lead up to the iraq war even though there were multiple sources outside of the us government saying that there is no evidence that iraq had weapons of mass destruction and in this instance we are seeing the same sorts of attributions begin again in mind and us media they're talking a lot about threats from iran and yet they're not providing much intel about that we are now dealing with people in the top administration like john bolton who have a long track record of trying to politicize intelligence to advance their agenda whatever the regime change so the burden of responsibility is really on the sort of shoulders of the journalists to go beyond the trumpet ministration and trying to talk to u.s. allies in the region and the iranians also to get their perspective. in the news

business context and it's largely missing in the u.s. iran coverage for most americans this conflict goes back to $979.00 the islamic revolution and the subsequent hostage taking a $52.00 americans in tehran held captive in their embassy for. 444 days but it's what led to the 1979 hostage crisis that iranians remember 953 and the u.s. led to that brought down the government of prime minister mohammad mosaddegh and reinstalled the autocratic shah of iran who would rule his people for a quarter century but there's even more to us iran history such as the role that america played in the iran iraq war in the 1980 s. when the reagan administration helped sadam the scenes forces and his army used chemical weapons at least 100000 iranians were casualties and despite that long

troubled backstory in 2015 there ron came to an agreement with the us the e.u. and 5 other countries in which it agreed to limit its national nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions the iranians stuck to their end of the deal the trump administration did not pulling out of the pact last year unilaterally but u.s. news outlets that are usually not shy with their criticism of president trump provide him with much more leeway on foreign policy than on domestic issues when it comes to domestic politics especially under the trumpet ministration the us mainstream media has been quite good at trying to be critical of the administration and what it's doing but the president's trying to any budget proposal dead on arrival what is the political strategy behind this move but when it comes to foreign policy traditionally u.s. mainstream media does not really push back and try to understand the bigger context of why are we even going to engage in something like this study u.s.

government official tells c.b.s. news this category of weapon is routinely supplied by iran to its proxies in iraq iran's policies in the region are often the ally and various destabilizing as if everybody else's actions in the region are benign and stabilize . then look at what saudi arabia has done in yemen in the past 4 years look at what the us did in the region by destabilizing iraq so i think this kind of demonizing the iran and portraying iran as the source of all evil in the region is by definition a hype and by the finish and results and misguided policies that could produce another tragedy like the iraq war what nobody had to cover in 195-3979 or in 2003 with iraq was an american commander in chief on twitter effectively negotiating with a major foreign state on

a microblogging site donald trump not the most articulate president the us has ever produced can be remarkably clear and forceful on twitter however diplomacy is not easily conducted when the players are limited to $280.00 characters or few the companies will be the from the very beginning trumpets use twitter as a tool in his campaign but he now uses it to make statements that differ from his actual policy when he threaten north korea with fire when he did so to restart negotiations while the latest threats by trump obviously make headlines as he's the us president they are no longer can see destructing so his strategy is no longer is a factor when. you have now i know president trump has used that on north korea and it has worked and it seems like he's trying to use the same blueprint for iran to eventually get them to the negotiating table like he did with kim jong on but there are leadership thanks very differently than the north koreans they're not looking

for illegitimacy for go up on the world stage with president trump want to negotiate with him publicly they've said it numerous times because he said he's been just respecting them and his twitter is actually an important part of this entire just respect campaign in iran. if not the main pillar. donald trump would not be the 1st occupant of the white house accused of using iran as a useful distraction from domestic political troubles in a stream of tweets in 2012 and 13 americans were warned that barack obama was preparing to do the same thing to start a war with iran in order to get elected to save face. by donald j. trump. that kind of context hasn't made it into the headlines but it's a big part of the story. we're

discussing other media stories that are on our radar this week with one of our producers tarek nasr tarek the 1st story we're looking at strikes close to home it's about al-jazeera want to its digital online outlets a.j. plus arabic last week it posted a story questioning the holocaust what did that story actually say richard 1st off this video. and the plea offensive to journalists involved have been suspended and there's an ongoing investigation into it but let me back up a little bit and give you some details on the video itself it was produced by arabic and put out with the caption said what is the truth about the holocaust and how did the zionist movement benefit from it the report then claims that the killing of $6000000.00 jews was quote a narrative that was adopted by the zionist movement the video got hundreds of thousands of views before it was pulled down and we wrote so yes

a bishop the executive director of al-jazeera digital division and if this statement we. deeply regret the mistake and the offense caused by the content individuals and communities across the world i want to reiterate that al-jazeera does not tolerate any thoughts material on any of the network platforms and we are unsure. during this additional process of being put in place for that this type of error doesn't happen again but the reaction online was instant it was already out there much of it came from within al-jazeera itself including a.j. plus the english language version did not that's right the video was widely criticized online some of the criticism has centered on just how different the content puts out by the arabic language with can be from the english language one the head of the english language version of a.j. plus with categorical tweeting i was personally shocked and appalled by a video on the holocaust published last friday by the editorial. arabic language

a.j. pluff the video since removed was an unconscionable violation of. moving on to julian assange now the u.s. justice department is charging the wiki leaks founder who would already been charged under one law with another 17 counts of breaking a 2nd law the espionage act that is disturbing not just for us she is looking at up to 175 years behind bars but also has implications for other journalists tell us why because of the precedent these latest charges with sets a son who was initially charged and the computer fraud and abuse that it's since it helped with source chelsea manning get classified material out of defense department computers that stage the justice department appeared to be trying to make a distinction between a songe and the rest of the media including needs outlets like the new york times and the guardian that partnered with wiki leaks and published its material some of these new charges under the espionage act relate to how the songe encouraged to

provide him with material the kind of thing journalists do every day but they also focus on wiki leaks publishing classified documents and that has implications for mainstream news outlets then the same remember the difficulty in differentiating what wiki. from what news organizations do is what prevented the obama administration from using the espionage act against this in the 1st place which explains why the american civil liberties union calls these latest charges an extraordinary escalation of the trumpet ministrations attacks on journalism ok thanks to our we're turning now to dispatches from what they call the virtual war zone a story about the perils of online journalism reporters have always had to defend their work and the trolling of journalists is now routine but many female media professionals deal with the kind of hate messages men will never see comments about

their gender their appearance and sexuality the language can be ugly and violent threats of sexual assault and rape have grown alarmingly common because for trolls hiding behind an online profile is easy the anonymity of social media has made the dissemination of abuse and hate as easy as a simple click the listening post spoke to 2 journalists maria ressa in the philippines and said that he could go in india about their experience with online harassment and the impact it's had on their work and their wellbeing also talking us through this story hannah storm the former director of an organization that trains reporters on how to stay safe both on and off the web. used to be a war zone correspondent but in a war zone you know where the enemy you know what to prepare for you know how to

stay safe. in this new landscape. this is intimate you take it home with you you wake up with it it's with you all the time. i've been attacked as a communist operative busy a cia agent every kind of word. or and i'm all. for now and then you name it and it's been thrown out. as a journalist i'm used to defending the work i do but how do you respond when someone threatens you with rape when someone wants you dead inundated with the barracks are paid to the vitriol it's called you things like a prostitute to a whole world because somebody else is sex that they could just do things to you

that are really sexually explicit women genocide 3 times more likely to experience all my trust in them and hundreds of times shame them into silence by calling them names by undermining the reputation and by trying to violate their oldest child in august of 2016 rappler came out with a series of stories i call the propaganda machine that series showed that social media has been weaponized that accounts that are that are in the middle of this the content creators are working for government and it was all connected to anyone who questioned the drug war as soon as the series was published i started receiving an average of 90 messages per hour i'll read one to you is that all right so this one this one this is from a real real kid maybe maria ressa is dream is to become the ultimate porn star in

a gangbang scene so it's not but it's there. 2nd one is make sure maria ressa gets publicly raped to death when martial law expands to do so would bring joy in my heart. it's meant to tearing you down so low that. you don't have the confidence to continue reporting that's one and then the 2nd is to make. yourself stop you were doing. stories that go against the government narrative all of it's just a day to day. rubbish and horror that female journalists have to experience but it's not just it's very much physical it's very much psychological as well a lot of the journalists who are killed around the world get threats online certainly the physical and the virtual do collide one of the issues for news organizations is trying to understand the severity of the threat and that's often a difficult issue when you go on online harassment or go online threats to figure

out how serious do you need to take in the beginning enemies are taken seriously because i thought it was just you know people barking on social media lunatics on social media crazy people who i didn't have to dig seriously but then i started getting some very serious threat. one of the 1st threats that i got was a threat of get angry and it was a gang rape of me as well as my daughter was in school and they said we know where your daughter studies we know what school she is and we know what time she comes out of school and we're going to grab her and we're going to have a soul draw and we're going to perform gang rape you see what happens is that the bus and books are threats and then deletes the account but having deleted the account lots of other hand of them take it up and disseminate it so its purpose is

so because it creates a kind of chilling effect you get very scared you tend to sort of selves and because you're scared of what is out there the. troll posts to support sites that something like 30 percent of the much of us they spoke with had considered leaving the profession because of the impact it has had on the cement 40 percent of female journalists have actually stopped writing about certain stories if we're in a situation where journalists are impacted on to this. sixten it's really really damaging to freedom of expression as well the threats kept on growing and they kept getting more and more abusive and more ammo followed if you're a liberal you're on there and if you're a journalist you're under attack if you're a liberal woman journalist and your public enemy number one there are women who were attacked on social media were then attacked off social media the threats can

be online and then go offline my colleague and good friend was actually shot in september 27th teen and a facebook user. to hit list of me and 4 other women saying that when one has been taken care of we now need to locate these 5 other women find out where they live and we need to systematically finish them all and this was and shared by numerous other facebook users now the reason why i dig these fees school and twitter thread seriously is because you know this is exactly what happened when. she feast for national media threads as you know lisa take it seriously the fact is she was killed you know in the scary thing about goatees day of the modest us faith has said that i didn't know who she was i was just told that she was damaging my religion and so i killed oh so that's the level of brainwashing and fanaticism that exists out there i don't think the government is doing anything about it actually i

think a number of these tools were there on social media i actually followed by government ministers i think social media companies need to do much more i would love it if people were engaging with me on my journalism all were engaging with me on my world but if it becomes a place for death threats and forgery of threats and for gang rape threads then i think it uses its meaning. social media companies need to have much stricter or restrictions on what is hate speech what is speech against women what is he'd speech against minorities for the. problem that i've seen is that they are in silicon valley looking at the world's lenses that don't take into account the global landscape they operate in when i hear mark zuckerberg say you know it'll take us 5 years. i just say you know we don't have 5 years in our country you sort of people are getting killed every day in the philippines for. information is the

core of our beliefs of our common reality and. we need to go get back to a point where this kind of dystopian use of information is mitigated. finally india even when you take the country's population into account it's the busiest most crowded television market in the world it has more than 900 privately owned channels more than 400 of those are news channels the 24 hour kind they've just covered a national election in which the voting not the campaigning the voting took 5 weeks imagine how much news content was churned out the reality is the prime minister narendra modi just want to 2nd term in office but we're going to look at the virtual reality and some of the other tricks and gimmicks that those news channels used to try to get viewers who vote with their remotes to tune in some of those

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elections for the european parliament as anti nationalism mounts the cash crisis that's threatening u.n. peacekeeping missions with a look at who's not paying their share. of you to send a lot of your sport to the toronto raptors of punch their ticket to the n.b.a. finals a 1st for canada and the french on. hello iraq has spoken out against how the u.s. has treated its neighbor iran in their escalating crisis but in the same breath the iraqi foreign minister told his the reigning counterparts they're willing to mediate right matheson reports on iraq's delicate position. if mohammed jeffords came to baghdad to clarify where iraq stands in the ongoing tension between the u.s. and iran iraq's foreign minister seems to have given him an answer. against the

unilateral measures taken by the us we are standing by iran in its position and god willing we can play an intermediary role between the parties if necessary. iran's foreign minister has proposed signing a non-aggression pact with gulf neighbors but iran says it will take action if necessary. we will defend ourselves against any efforts for a war with iran whether it is a military or economic one that would victimize the iranian people we will face it with strength and resistance iran and iraq have close ties to trade culture and religion but iraq relies on u.s. and foreign troops to combat the threat of eisel and it needs foreign investment especially to develop its oil fields iraq has been doing a diplomatic balancing act for years and some say that puts it in a perfect position to be able to mediate between the united states and iran but to do it successfully like most negotiations it has to be seen not to take sides

they're also fears that some shia armed groups in iraq who are allied to iran might decide to upset that balance they might decide to take their own action their own initiative against u.s. assets in iraq. iraqis filled tahrir square with the. demanding that their government put iraq's safety 1st and that their country should be at the center of talks to find a solution. in iraq that the how of. iraq has become a bridge where meetings have been held at the iranian embassy with european diplomatic missions and it's taken the decision to start talks with moderate countries affected by the situation to lobby the united states and iran to try to extinguish the fires of war. iraqis may need more evidence to convince them that they won't be dragged into an unwanted conflict rob matheson al jazeera baghdad

let's speak to a professor face on the he's a former iraqi ambassador to the united nations he's now the director of the center for the study of the middle east at indiana university he's joining us via skype from bloomington over in the u.s. thanks very much for speaking to us on al jazeera so you said that whenever tensions rise between iran and the u.s. iraq does offer to mediate so this is not the 1st time perhaps that we're hearing this but if you look at internal iraqi politics there are those who are allied with iran there are those who are allied more with the united states so if it even wanted to play this role how does iraq go about doing so. well i've always been skeptical that iraq can play that role for precisely that reason and because there are a number of internal political factors that sort of mitigate against the ability of the iraqi government to play such a role for one thing in the political class at least the parliamentary political

class the foreign policy voices tend to be kept often us to play a media that role how the mediator needs to have a clear voice and that has to be your troll so i have always been skeptical that iraq can ever play that role but there are other countries in the region that have also that might have more ability to play that role and i think even they are sitting on the sidelines so i'm not sure of the iraqi government will in fact be able to play this role nor indeed do the 2 principal parties appear to be looking to the government of iraq is somehow doing that why would this a declaration be made then by iraq. get off i'm not so very sure which declaration if you're talking about whether it be that it would be prepared to mediate that's right answer to that yet the answer to that is that. one of the nightmare scenario for your iraq is that is that iran which is the country with

which it shares its longest border and on which it relies for instance on its 30 percent of its energy that's my guy actually get into a shooting war with the united states on which as your setup piece also pointed out on which it relies more basic than trying to on security. one of the principal casualties in the estimates of many experts including some within the iraqi government. that one of the principal casualties of such a shooting war would be iraq itself and so this is the focus of the minds of all the entirely wrong people who call regardless of which side of the issue they come out of and you mentioned other countries just a moment ago and there are reports that seemed to suggest that not only has a iraq offered to mediate but all non as well as well as european countries and we know that the iranian deputy foreign minister was in online recently discussing regional issues with officials there do you see any one of those countries online

or other european countries that playing these this mediating role going forward well i mean the president of the united states has offered to speak directly to the iranians since the iranians at the moment at least are not interested in negotiating. a logical extension. of who mediate what you would think in the 1st instance some of the european allies say france germany the united kingdom part that used to be. the joint comprehensive plan of action the russians i think and the chinese are also are probably are not because they seem to not. they seem to come down a bit against american also in the region so it's more conceivable to me that european or perhaps even switzerland which offer all represents american interests

in iran and the president the united states met with this with president in the oval office oval office for 2 and a half 3 hours recently so i think it's more likely that a european power will have the ability to mediate between the 2 principals rather than a regional conference all right. we thank you very much for speaking to us from the u.s. it's my pleasure thank you still in iraq the military says at least 5 people have died after a car bomb exploded at a busy market west of most so it happened in a village near the syrian border victims were out shopping before breaking their ramadan fast. voting began on thursdays into its final stages in europe as the continent decides on the make up of fitz next parliament millions are casting ballots in 21 countries

including 3 of the biggest member states germany france and italy people in the other 7 countries voted earlier with nationalist sentiment rising these elections are seen as a battle between antony you populists and their rivals who want closer unity within the block. your largest electoral constituency worldwide. disease of how you put up for your book which i did scream good. but it has to be. told you before you didn't slip up before today. invited to participate to you see election david chaytor is covering the elections he's joining us from brussels what can you tell us dave and. well interesting remarks from. of course this is the end of his term is going to be a complete the new commission new people in place after the results of these

elections will have to wait until the last polls close in italy before we can find out what the exit polls say before we can get some initial idea of actually what's been happening but it is clear that before these elections even started there was a big debate about the euro skeptic parties the extreme right parties were rising up against what they saw as the liberal core values in the european union now it is the case with something like $751.00 seats up for grabs of course the the biggest section depending on the population the country goes to germany. and then it goes to france and it goes to the u.k. there was a general feeling in the south of the e.u. and on the east of the e.u. that they'd had enough of this power axis between france and germany and that we're seeing in these results we'll have to wait and see if it's correct but the experts

were predicting we're seeing some sort of insurgency against that said jew up believe that there was busy before in the e.u. parliament the center right and the center left and perhaps we're going to see some new groupings now coming through from the euro skeptic parties and the extreme right parties to challenge that you operate to change the way that the whole of the european parliament and the power was divided so that's what the experts are expecting and perhaps also what. the outgoing president of the e.u. commission is fearing and and they would these elections they are quite significant . you know. they are i mean after all let's face it the european union is the biggest trading block in the world it has 4 countries and it's in the top 10 economies of the world people are going to listen to what the

people in this trading bloc is saying if politics start to change here it will have an impact throughout the world and if as expected we do see the new insurgency rising in europe this will change the relationships pretty fundamentally not only inside the european union but of course also with its trading partners there's a new perhaps a period of instability coming that is not welcome anywhere because any economy needs to verity it needs and you've ever a stable future and perhaps we're going to see a politics taking a much more extreme part in the european union and in the parliament that's good for democracy but it would be good for business we'll wait and see we have to wait until the polls close in italy at the end of the all right david chaytor thank you an election is supposed to be so close to happen in algeria within weeks when you're.