kerry lamb and john lee who are all betting on the future of hong kong will no longer exist if this law is passed now protesters and police have fought in kazakhstan's capital during elections to replace the only president the country has ever known demonstrators in new assault on are calling for a boycott saying that the vote is far from fair voters are choosing a successor to new still doneness a biassed who led the country since kazakhstan declared independence from the soviet union in 1901 but he stepped down in march custom and john martin talking the interim leader backed by nasir vyas is expected to win robin force the water has more from the capital. these are completely extraordinary things because there are hundreds of protesters clashing with police in the capital city on election day people are being see they've been put into buses and those buses. but the protesters are pushing back against the

buildings moving now involve you know how to get more toward what you want to try to stop these police from leaving. put those buses on and it looks like at the moment the crowd is stronger than the police i've been speaking to some of them they say they're just. exercising their democratic rights that others have told me that they are supporters of a man who. lives in exile and leads a political party that has been outlawed in this country and prescribed as an extremist organization. and india's prime minister has become the 1st foreign leader to visit colombo since the deadly easter sunday bombings there undramatic flew into sri lanka on sunday for talks with the country's leaders and members of the opposition but often and as has more from the capital. a firsthand look at one of the main targets of the easter sunday bombings for indian prime minister narendra modi he's the 1st world leader to visit since the attacks and stopped its

announced unease church in colombo on his way from the airport worshippers had packed this church for easter sunday service on the 21st of april the 1st of 7 suicide bombers launched his attack here. within minutes 3 churches and 3 hotels had been targeted killing more than 250 people and injuring hundreds more. 10 indians were among the 45 tourists killed. it's a 3rd visit here for the indian leader who had a ceremonial welcome including a 21 gun salute despite heavy rains india is probably probably going to take a more secure assertive role as far as its regional influence is concerned and this is part of that morty has said his visit is to express india's solidarity with sri lanka's government and people in mind just be

a force stop in sri lanka but analysts say prime minister narendra modi's visit sends an important message that things are getting back to normal 6 weeks after the easter sunday carnage politics is a different story present mighty by the city center and prime minister brown a vicar missing or may have come together for more this visit but they continue to disagree on a number of issues their latest battleground the special parliamentary select committee set up to investigate the easter bombings the president has sacked his intelligence chief and says he want to allow any serving officers to testify before the committee the indian prime minister highlighted what he calls a neighborhood 1st policy by choosing the maldives and sri lanka for his 1st foreign visit after his reelection observers say it's a policy that is likely to shape regional relations in future years when a fernandas jazeera colomba well thousands of syrians in southern turkey have

attended a funeral for a prominent syrian rebel who died fighting government forces on saturday. a former football star who became the single of the revolution a procession paratroops body across the turkish border into problems turkey has 34000000 syrian refugees more than any other country. is the media in yemen's rebels of last several drone attacks targeting saudi arabia in the tree they said that they were trying to hit military facilities. port near the yemeni border but there's been no confirmation of this from the saudi government. still ahead here on out is there a call to get in and celebration of to mexico strikes deal with the u.s. of a terrorist and thousands desperate for food and medicine point to colombia from venezuela after the border is reopened those stories after the break.

hello again it's good to have you back the rain continues across much of china over the next few days and that has been the trend for the last week where we are seeing some localized flooding across much of the southern areas of china the forecast map where you see those very dark greens that is where we could be seeing anywhere between $75.00 to $100.00 and even higher in terms of millimeters of rain per day across much of that area taiwan you'll also be sings a very heavy rain that is increasing for you over the next few days hong kong $31.00 degrees is your forecast high but over here towards northern vietnam hanoi it's not the rain it is the heat at $39.00 degrees but with the humidity it's going to feel more like $42.00 degrees there well here across parts of india we are talking about the heat wave across much of the north as well as the rain down here across much of the south carolina the monsoon is now in effect few there but we are

seeing an area of disturbed weather off the coast now we could be watching this very carefully over the next few days this could potentially turn into our next tropical system as we go towards the week i want to show you as we go from monday to tuesday that starts to make its way to the north we get a better circulation across much of this area that is going to bring rain across much of southern india as well but to the north of new delhi is going to remain hot at 45 and cabin to a 28. stories generate thousands of. with different angles from different perspectives on just a long stand up with international border is finally separate the spin from the facts the misinformation from the journalism protesters complain about the under reporting of police violence the sensationalizing of the demonstrations with the

listening post on al-jazeera. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera going to hell run a reminder our top stories sudanese activists say at least one protester has been killed as the opposition begins a campaign of civil disobedience there accusing the military jointer of endangering lives by shutting down pos bottles also protest organizers in hong kong say more than a 1000000 people in the streets who oppose a controversial extradition bill they fear the proposed changes will allow china to target political opponents in the territories. protesters and police are fought on election day in concert stan demonstrators say it's far from fair voters are

heading to the polls to choose a successor to a new assault on the buyer for almost 30 years. now iran has unveiled a new air defense system which it says is capable of targeting vital jets on drones it says the system can handle 6 targets all once the announcement comes at a time of heightened tensions between tehran and washington last month the u.s. deployed an aircraft carrier group under bomber times falls to the gulf to counter what it said were threatening moves by iran well iran's foreign minister has once again hit out at the u.s. sanctions mohamed javid czar i've said that restrictions are squeezing iran's. me and affecting innocent civilians why do you think you try to do so we've said it clearly that economic wars are not different from a military war mr trump has announced that he is pursuing an economic war that targets ordinary people and is in fact terrorism this policy must stop the only solution to current problems is stopping

a policy of economic war finance ministers from the group of 20 major economies are warning that risks trade and political tensions are intensifying they've been meeting in japan ahead of the g 20 leaders summit at the end of the month the today talks focused on trade and the digital economy. thousands have been celebrating in mexico after leaders weeks to deal with the u.s. to cancel trade tariffs the event with mexico's president on that i asked man well lopez obrador took place in the town of tia juana near the u.s. border on repeller. was it was all cheers for mexican president and that is what i thought as he arrived at this rally in downtown. here then which included a march by local factory workers was initially organized as a protest against u.s. president donald trump's threat to impose up to 25 percent export tariffs on mexico . this is here is my mind. speaking to hundreds of supporters president

lopez obrador called for unity among neighbors as he outlined the importance of the relationship between mexico and the united states. the united states and mexico are not distant neighbors are born there is more than 3000 kilometers long and we have a shared history that includes hostility but also corporation and understanding. it was a festive atmosphere in downtown t one and many people expressed relief that the 2 countries had reached an agreement on. the important things that there is no pretext for investment to stop generating jobs in mexico. this is very important because the americans are friends of the mexican people and we are friends of theirs. successful negotiations between the u.s. and mexico may be a cause for celebration but they also resulted in a significant change to mexico's immigration policy since that agreement between the united states and mexico was announced the big question here in the one of the

city so close to the u.s. southern border is what will happen to the hundreds of central american asylum seekers who will now have to wait here in mexico for their asylum cases to be processed. the threat of terrorists from the trumpet ministration have subsided at least for now and so has the anxiety many felt over the past few days along mexico's northern border. i just want to. bring you a news coming out of sudan from the professional doctors association there they are telling us through independent sources that 3 civilians have been killed in this day of civil disobedience of course the streets of car to many outlying cities and towns are observing this call for civil disobedience by civil society groups in opposition groups to counter the sudanese military's aggression over the past 6 months and certainly the last week where we've seen as many as up to 60 people dead

in the capital khartoum we'll bring you more that as we get it. now the venezuelan government has reopened a border crossing with colombia present nicolas maduro closed at 4 months earlier saying that aid that the u.s. and opposition leader one go i don't want to bring in undermined his country's sovereignty. thousands of venezuelans lined up to cross the simone boulevard bridge into colombia was a rare chance for these people to purchase food medicine and other commodities no longer available or in extremely short supply in venezuela only pedestrians are allowed to cross back and forth into colombia the government of president nicolas maduro has blocked large scale food convoys. according to the united nations 4000000 people have left venezuela in recent years the u.n.

has called the mass migration the largest in the recent history of latin america and the caribbean hyperinflation poverty and political chaos are fueling the exodus the. actress and humanitarian activist angelina jolie who is a special envoy for the u.n. refugee agency u.n.h.c.r. visited a camp for venezuelan migrants in neighboring colombia she was greeted by children who spoke about the desperate conditions that forced their families to leave their country the communal suppose they use it once again we couldn't find food and if we did it was very expensive the same for my medication we couldn't find it and if we did it was triple or quadruple the price said colombia has taken in the largest share of venezuelan refugees 1300000 people jolie praised their strength and perseverance the people who have had to go through displacement i think answer

and go through it like all these young children and all of you strongest people in the world. meanwhile venezuelan opposition leader one goh i don't know when door to door in a small town south of the capital caracas he greeted residents and met with local politicians who support his efforts to topple much duro why dose said mediation efforts sponsored by norway have stalled over maduro's refusal to allow the new presidential election i went to meeting in oslo takes place with the international contact group it's because we are closer to ending the usurpation to the transitional government and free elections and when we are ready to take a step in that direction and when the regime is also ready then we will have something but not in the meantime the bridge opening relieves some of the pressure on at least a small number of venezuelans millions more inside and outside venezuela continue to suffer their futures and rob reynolds al-jazeera. iraqi

archaeologists say they need urgent help to preserve artifacts from what was the ancient kingdom of babylon and the sites have crumbled during years of conflict charles trafford let's find out more. on the capital city of an empire that reached its peak under king neb you could around 2600 years ago this road led to the tower of babel archaeologists say the walls were once adorned with blue ceramic designs the babylonian god murdoch rides along the famous ishtar gate king maybe couldn't his name is carved in qunu form a writing around 5000 years old and some of the bricks the southern palace was rebuilt on the original foundations and completed around 20 years ago but a lot of the restoration work is complicated to preservation efforts. concrete has forced moisture and salt up into the ancient foundations the water table is high

because a tributary of the euphrates river is close by bricks late in the 1980 s. to reinforce some walls have made archaeological investigations difficult. problems include the shifting heavy populated areas close by we need a vast plan of excavation the remaining archaeology needs sustainable preservation because the archaeological material is being heavily eroded rising above the site perched on top of a manmade hill is a palace built for a man who often identified himself with the babylonian kings saddam hussein's palaces an eerie reminder of iraq's more recent past. the former dictator's faces carved into the palace walls. the great holes inside the empty marble walls are covered in graffiti humira on the ceiling seems the only thing not

defiled it's saddam hussein was so obsessed with babylon that he built one of his policies here and it's from the palace walls that you get this incredible view of the ancient ruins it's believed that in the foreground here that's where the fabled hanging gardens of babylon the world located and it's hoped that after years of petitioning by the iraqi government this site is soon going to get world heritage status iraqi archaeologists say the government needs to demonstrate its commitment to the sustainable preservation of babylon conflicts and political instability has kept most international archaeological teams away for almost 30 years the importance of babylon goes beyond whether or not it's a world heritage property and that goes for many sites in this country the origin of civilization civilization itself of complex civilization the evidence of it is here in this country the origin of writing you know important governance itself

kingship and the temple complex evolving over hundreds and thousands of years according to the bible god punished the babylonians for trying to build a structure to heaven and this overgrown trench is where it's believed the tower of babel once stood experts say a star archaeological investigation of babylon in the surrounding area could take centuries. a site of a described as the birthplace of civilization in a country that's struggling to recover from each violent recent past. that al-jazeera babylon. you're watching al-jazeera with me so robin a reminder of our top story sudanese activists say 3 protesters have been killed as civil disobedience campaign is underway across the country they're accusing the military gender of further endangering lives by shutting down hospitals protest

organizers in hong kong say more than a 1000000 people have hit the streets to oppose a controversial extradition bill they fear the proposed changes would allow china to target political opponents in the territory and send them to the mainland for trial opponents say it's another sign of hong kong losing more of the rights it was supposed to be granted in the 1997 handover from british. protesters and police of 14000 stands capital during elections to replace the only president the country had ever known demonstrators in north salt are are calling for a boycott saying the vote is far from where voters are choosing a successor to nursultan nazarbayev who led the country since kazakhstan declared independence from the soviet union in 1901 to the step down in march. india's prime minister has become the 1st foreign leader to visit colombo since the deadly easter sunday bombings remotely flew into sri lanka on sunday for talks with the country's leaders and members of the opposition he'd been stopped by one of the churches

targeted in the easter attacks to pay tribute to the $250.00 people killed. thousands of syrians in southern turkey have attended a funeral for a prominent syrian rebel who died during fighting on saturday morning saying lyrics for a. former football star who became known as the singer of the revolution later the procession paratroops body across the turkish border into it province. also iran has unveiled a new air defense system which it says is capable of targeting fighter jets and drones it says the system can handle 6 targets all at once the announcement comes at a time of heightened tensions between tehran and washington. finance ministers from the group of 20 major economies are warning that trade and geopolitical tensions are intensifying they've been meeting in japan ahead of the g 20 leaders summit at the end of the month the 2 days of talks are focused on trade and the digital

economy stories on the web site www dot com. do stay with us. on the counting the cost the trump carriage 1st negotiate. the global economy. what was behind the merge with rana and the shipping line that's going green counting the cost. if you don't think you're. a crank now i. want to go. to the square when. it's time. hello i'm richard burton you're at the listening post here are some of the stories we're covering this week political unrest in sudan the story enters a new phase

a crackdown on demonstrators a clampdown on media australian police raid 2 news outlets putting media they're on high alert what is the attraction the draws british audiences to the genre of television programming big call poverty porn and is it a parody or a genuine tribute to donald trump. the israeli video that leaves viewers confused. nearly 2 months after a mass at a government demonstrations led to the overthrow of sudan's longtime president omar al bashir a mostly peaceful political transition has turned violent this past monday soldiers taking orders from the military regime that now rules sudan opened fire on protesters killing more than 100 people the exact body count remains unknown and that is by design the who imposed a communications blackout blocking access to social media disrupting phone traffic severely restricting the news and information flow over the past few weeks many

foreign journalists including those from al-jazeera have had their licenses revoked their offices raided meaning that stories about alleged mass murder and rape at the hands of the security services do not make it beyond sudan's borders when the generals took power they promised new media freedoms space for independent reporting however their tolerance for those telling the stories of this revolution has run out and they're using tactics straight out of omar al bashir is playbook our starting point this week is cartoon. it's about control the message the playbook is a playbook that many have these before and it's essentially how do we lock down how do we strike fear in the hearts of people culminates with the shut down in social media. the clinton years that this is very important

that they hold the picture would be extremely extremely harmful to the regime. much of what we know is from the civilian journalist and the cell phone videos and word of mouth that journalists have not had the access that we need to. know the people dying in the hundreds missing and injured but they still show music on t.v. . business as usual and this is exactly what used to happen during this year. sudanese activists hoped all of that was behind them almost 3 decades of home are al bashir as president finally came to an end in mid april with his overthrow arrest and imprison a temporary military government in place calling itself transitional saying it was committed to handing over power to the people but like algeria to the northwest where unrest brought down another longtime leader toppling

a president has proven easier than negotiating with men in uniforms. following the stepping down of. april and then the transitionary military council sort of saying we're going to negotiate we're going to have this sort of transition period there was hope. i think a lot of people around the world are looking at sudan as an example of ok maybe we've learned from the arab spring maybe this won't be egypt or libya or syria maybe this will be a little bit different it became clear 2 or 3 weeks ago that the transitional military council was not negotiating in good faith tensions began to rise the 2 month old city and had become the symbol of resistance and the uprising and it became very clear last week that the military council was not going to permit the sending longer. basically what happened is that they attacked protesters they started shooting anybody that puts up

a phone trying to film and so a lot of people were shot down because their phones were stolen and after that of course the slowing down of the internet and most of the networks and so that and eventually shutting it down. bar jamming internet networks the military government choked information flows inside the country and to the outside world sudanese relied. our messaging services like whatsapp and social media platforms like facebook and youtube to organize politically and to get images and information out the clampdown created a vacuum missing people could not be found and no one knew just how many people had been killed by the r.s.s. the paramilitary rapid support forces all of this took place under a transitional military council that when it took power less than 2 months ago made all the right noises and. the appointment of general abdel fatah as the head of the

t.m.c. was initially well received. and had previously met with protesters and appeared to be open to their view of. the military council released hundreds of political prisoners and the curfew in khartoum and said it would work with the opposition alliance for change and freedom the t.m.c. also made the kind of promises on media freedom that make headlines the military council sent a message to newspaper editors basically lifting censorship but after 3 decades it was impressive to see the type of headlines in the type of coverage some outlets were not as quick to jump on that actually done t.v. . but some of the outlets like 24 and have today interesting coverage she saw opposition leaders on t.v. think that was a fresh to see that type of press freedom. being allowed in the country but once the transitional military council decided i believe that they were going to

crush the uprising. that led to an increase ratcheting up pressure on journalists expulsion of journalists and restrictions of all sorts as a transitional military council closer to the crackdown closer and closer to tire shop. both international and domestic news coverage. the coverage of the story in the international media has been restricted foreign reporters who would only recently been allowed back into the country after being banned in the dying days of the al bashir regime had their movements curtailed by the new military authorities one of the most influential foreign news networks al-jazeera is currently banned from reporting from sudan its offices were raided and it had its license to broadcast revoked on may 30th the timing of the ban on al-jazeera raised eyebrows

it happened just after t.m.c. leaders met with the rulers of saudi arabia the u.a.e. and egypt the saudi owned be a which competes against the qatari owned al-jazeera across the arabic speaking world has been far less critical of the t.m.c. over the stalled transition process and continues to report from khartoum and saudi arabia and the u.a.e. as support for the sudanese who is not limited to the airwaves 10 days after al bashir was deposed the saudi and amorality governments sent sudan $3000000000.00 worth of aid including half a 1000000000 in cash reserves which the reuters news agency described as throwing a lifeline to the country's new military leaders that decision to shut down. license was not too surprising after the 2 top heads of the military council and committee paid a visit to saudi arabia the united arab emirates and egypt that's when license was

withdrawn and there's widespread believe and so that these governments are interfering to prevent the establishment of a full democracy in the country what's important to remember about so that is its political importance but also previously bishop didn't quite pick sides. and so on on side as well as the saudis by supporting the saudi interest in yemen but the transition of that area council didn't quite feel the same way and so by actively going to saudi arabia and the emirates and saying you know what we're on your side here effectively. it then became. a porn in that in that day between. the sudan story of 2019 as unfortunate echoes of 2011 and the arab spring the sense of optimism and the prospects of a political transformation that proved fleeting the ensuing clampdown that has been

brutal the alliance for freedom and change that has so far failed to live up to its name and the space that seemed to be opening up for the news media gone before they knew it before they really had a chance to use. it was always a dark spot for media we never had independent media for the last 30 years and even before that i think you know the military council is basically a more powerful extension of the other team a biased extension of the need to clamp down on news because they only want their version of the news and so what you've got at the moment is a country a city that has been divided up that is unable to communicate to each other let alone to people outside a diaspora that is desperate to know what's going on in the country on the ground and in international media that isn't quite sure what's going on and so it essentially that they can kind of do what they want. and that's tough.

looking at other media stories that are on our radar with one of our producers i mean actually ravi there are many countries where police routinely raid news organizations but australia is not one of them and there have been 2 such raids over this past week why that's exactly what many australian journalists are wondering why the 1st raid was at the home of hearst she is the political editor of the sunday telegraph now back in 2018 she published a story about a top secret proposal to expand surveillance of australian citizens. then came another bigger lead this one at the offices of the australian broadcasting corporation b.b.c. police were there for 9 hours and the executive editor of a.b.c. news was life tweeting it throughout material was seized relating to a 2017 investigation by a.b.c. into the killing of unarmed civilians in afghanistan by australian special forces

who are stationed there now apart from these 2 raids there was a call from the home affairs ministry to the radio reporter ben forde him he was asked where he got the information or how he got the information about the turning away of 6 boatloads of asylum seekers by a stray and authorities at sea so in all 3 of these cases you have reporting based on classified government documents and this appears to be the government trying to flush out the source doesn't not exactly and if you think about why all of this is happening now for example that a.b.c. report went out 2 years ago it goes back to politics and last month's elections now there's a new majority conservative government in power and they have extensive national security laws at their disposal to clamp down on these troublesome leaks of classified information now across australia media houses unions watchdogs they've all sounded the alarm and they are pressing the government for answers but make no mistake what happened last week has put them on notice ok turning to pakistan where

the army has described a recent report by the b.b.c. as a pack of lies what did that story focus on this report by the b.b.c. was about the pakistani army is activities and one of the most sensitive regions of pakistan it's the mountainous. in the northwest now this area has been under the pakistani army is control since 2002 when pakistan joined the american led war on terror now according to the b.b.c.'s investigations tens of thousands of people mostly civilians have been tortured and killed by the army soon after the report was published the pakistani army spokesperson posted this pack of lies. tweet but it was followed up by a statement from the army in which it said that the b.b.c. sent a judgment to a questionnaire via e-mail to get their comments and then ignored the army's offer to get a full rundown of their side of the study now the b.b.c. has said that it is confident about its reporting and that it would like to interview the pakistani army on the range of subjects ok thanks me. onto

a story about a unique vision of media now born and produced in the u.k. take what the british call a benefit scroungers someone who is allegedly milking the state's welfare system for all it's worth throwing a dash of social stereotyping a little demonize ation at an element of reality t.v. celebrity culture and presto you have a television show some might find that to be an odd formula but british newspapers tabloids for the most part have long been hooked on stories about people claiming money from the state among the problems associated with poverty porn it might entertain viewers and readers but it does not inform them and caricaturing welfare recipients for the benefit of mass audiences has potential implications for the welfare system and the people who actually depend on the listening post flow phillips now on the british media's obsession with benefits the myths and the money making industry it has created.

i think it's. the single mom with lots of kids that are house for children who want to find us. the alcoholic drinking away his dome and. the immigrant sponging off the state. to cheat just when. you break your salary for the channel 4 was benefits street channel 5 benefits. headlines in the sun on the daily express when it comes to stories about. welfare recipients the british media rely on a cast of cliche characters they recycled over and over those narratives and those kind of images to create and sustain divisions between society and undeserving populations between kind of work. between welfare dependence and

hard working the whole setup of these programs is around there being like them and also telling everybody in this studio and you're telling everybody who's watching right now that we're mugs that we're idiots and we're fulls for going out to work because why don't we all just give up work in the benefits may present the idea of a benefits culture and a benefits lifestyle as if people on benefits are choosing to be there and that language that they rocketry langridge feeds into casual contention for the poor of course kelly's going to be comfortable in the benefits system called this money coming and what we're saying is programs like make a margaret we all pay your benefits which creates intentionally and very clearly a division between the idea of tax payers and benefit recipients as enemies. britons have been fed stories about the flaws in their social benefits system for years the tabloids were the 1st to discover the audiences for such stories and by

2013 t.v. producers were tapping into that same market the b.b.c.'s we all pay your benefits came 1st similar offerings followed on other channels along with millions of views the programmes attracted plenty of criticism for the exploitation of people's hardship what has come to be known as poverty pool the term poverty is a pretty accurate reflection on this idea of. what's important for entertainment and reading about poor people in newspapers where it's for entertainment as opposed to an actual insight into these people's lives and be quite offended if people. benefits britain was political because benefits britain told the stories of people who live their lives with limited resources and. very strong there's no reason why you shouldn't tell that story you're putting programs out about people whose lives and on benefits and who live in poverty and those programs write well then

programme makers just continue to make those programmes. and that's exactly it these programmes rate well do they actually portray reality take the benefits cheat trade in the 201516 tax year fraudulent benefits claims cost the british state $1900000000.00 pounds the cost of tax evasion that year 5200000000 pounds add into the mix tax avoidance at $1700000000.00 and your 2 almost 4 times the cost to benefit from and that doesn't begin to include wealthy britons hiding their assets off shore or tax loss to the shadow economy but the media especially the tabloid press disproportionately choose to direct our attention and outrage to the form leaving high income fraudsters who are less telegenic and harder to find in the shadow i would love to see you know the flip side of the television show about

. tax avoiders that people are over this in the 1st. attack and so the hypocrisy surrounded what they choose to put on t.v. screens it will always target the most vulnerable as a programme making you always choose the best stories the characters who will make the best television in one case we filmed with some remaining in rome is going to come to the u.k. to kind benefits of the unfortunately then took british benefits back to mumbai india and built themselves a home i'm going to take benefit for being good. like this one quickly with much money we shouldn't shy. my wife from stories to all true stories just because they are sensational or the contributors of outrageous in some way thank you so much so long as the context is should be fine and really key areas of misrepresentation are around the day to day life of people in the city about what

benefits and how far that's kind of car tries by maybe i don't listen in october take a kind of active choosing to be on benefits the poll getting me are really trying very hard to get into paid work when and where that's like a realistic option. the british welfare state the provision of education childcare health and homes came about after the 2nd world war designed to ensure a good standard of living from the cradle to the grave while popular at the outset by the late 1970 s. much of the rhetoric from politicians and the press was empty well social security was depicted as a burden on the state not us citizens right the explosion of reality t.v. programs about benefits has only made this image worse. some benefits claimants have been transformed by these programs into celebrities media stars and the many

industry has since grown around them take baritones a p.r. agent who saw an opportunity in the new genre and took it. he has a book of clients who are on benefits and he says when journalists and t.v. producers need help with some kind of benefit story they call him his clients can be offered anywhere between 150 pounds 225000 pounds for a story and barry takes a cut he also told us that misrepresentation is a big part of the game any story that looks like a benefit recipient is spending big money that's the key so just one of our clients marie who can see a good example marie big number in the press for a war she wanted a horse or some people are going to go what do you have in a horse of a lot of the watching marie i know and i will be saying you've got 8 children why on earth would you want to have a horse that's going to cost you so much money while everybody comes down to lose the horse must cost thousands of homes so actually the facts that were printed

we're nothing like the truth but i was happy to run with that because that's what we do i don't decide if it's fact or fiction that's for the publisher does and there's an exclusive some might call it fate mary and this media myth making has a potentially more detrimental impact on politics. since the financial crisis more than a decade ago cuts to welfare have been a constant feature of government policy to sell those policies politicians often rely on the same kind of stereotypes that t.v. producers and newspaper publishers do what we've got is these programs that are setting themselves up as journalism giving tory politicians more ammunition in order to support through brutal legislation if you don't have sanctions essentially you don't have water and you don't change behavior tabloid headlines have led to a debate in the house of commons with for example george osborne talking about how

taxpayers a subsidizing these lifestyles and this was after the daily mail headlined by products of welfare u.k. it's setting an agenda that the problem is people who exist in poverty not that there are not an economic crisis or not austerity but because of people like mary that we do have to bring the benefits. in a country where social security cards are having a real impact on people in the media industry has grown creating its own set of beneficiaries it is the publishers produces p.r. agent some politicians reap the benefits and you could call it irresponsible. to use a term the media usually reserved for those on benefits seamus. and finally president trump's state visit to the u.k. was all over the news this past week mean makers balloon designers and protesters all had a field day but it's not like trump doesn't have fans overseas take israel and this

next video which was posted on you tube recently the song's title is supertramp it lauds jerusalem's prince who fights like a lion for israel recognizing jerusalem as israel's capital as well as prime minister netanyahu his claim to the golan heights has one trump plenty of friends on the far right but there was some confusion over this video the comments section indicates that a lot of people thought it was a parody and that's the problem with trump related material in the news or online you never really know we'll see you next time you're at the listening.

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streets and protesters launch a campaign of civil disobedience. a 1000000 people crowd the streets of hong kong opposing a proposal to allow extraditions to mainland china. fighting between demonstrators and police in kazakhstan during elections to replace the longtime president and stand with your sport a russian fleet kept on the sidelines tracks world governing body refuses to lift the country's doping ban saying there backsliding coming in later this news. hello activists in sudan are accusing the military of waging war on its citizens that says the opposition begins a campaign of civil disobedience they're promising to keep our protests until the gentile gives up power this was the scene earlier on sunday near the capital hard to where many people appearing to heed the call for

a general strike and they include airport workers here you can see banks piling up inside a terminal in hard to make all this follows a weeklong crackdown on protests demanding civilian rule 3 protest arose were reportedly killed on sunday the opposition is also accusing the military if in danger in lives by shutting down hospitals. there's been no official word from the military gentiles so far but an associated press journalists are members of the rapid support forces which are part of the army deployed around the capital more now from jim ausiello. sunday marks the beginning of the we can sit down but rather than work commutes and traffic jams the streets of whom are empty these videos appear to show that the public has heated the calls by pro-democracy groups for civil disobedience and a general strike the movement for freedom and change together with the sudanese professionals union had announced sunday's action in response to the military

gintas seizing of power and the continued crackdown on protesters. it's still not known how many people were killed by the security forces during last week's massacre when the main pro-democracy sits in was forcibly dispersed but a sudanese doctors group puts the toll in the past week at 117 videos like these continue to emerge showing that while the military gentle talks about dialogue its personnel are trying to beat the people into submission but when the play. we hope that our brothers in the other groups respond to our colfer dialogue without preconditions what's at stake is the nation we value the efforts of our friends who are concerned about developments in sudan we want to reach an agreement but if we don't then we will form a government. despite an attempt by the if european prime minister to mediate between the jensen and pro-democracy groups being received well by both sides

security forces arrested several of the group's leaders within hours of the if european pm departs including. the man believed to be calling the shots in the military council is its vice presidents mohamad hum done committee the former warlord in his notorious jungle weed forces have been accused of committing war crimes during the darfur conflict that doesn't bode well for sudan's pro-democracy protesters. added to that the military's leadership has held several meetings with saudi crown prince mohammed bin some on a morality de facto leader mohamed bins i it and egypt's president of the fatah sisi all of whom have been accused by human rights groups of cracking down on free speech. the main groups behind sudan's revolution have insisted they will remain peaceful and not to give up their demands for freedom despite differences violence general strikes like sunday's are an example of peaceful resistance but in a country with a history of conflict in a region where revolutions have tried to interesting wars there is genuine concern

for sudan's future. i just you know let's not speak to someone hated mubarak she's a spokeswoman for the sudanese professionals association she's joining us live from khartoum via skype thanks very much for speaking to us on al-jazeera a urbanisation is spearheading that civil disobedience campaign can you 1st tell us what kind of impact and reach the campaign is having hard to him as well as outside of the city. well the reports from today inside. cities across the land that the civil disobedience and very much. most of the basic market. banks of the city had no employees going everything came to a standstill. at a standstill there is no fall off any economic activity or life that is going on

and why do you believe that that is the right strategy to bring the city to a standstill and what is the message that you're trying to send to the military council. no the former. stands in solidarity against. the. council it's just a strong message that you are not. people. and

we reject all forms of. attack that. proposal of talks from the military because in your latest statements you say that you will not go back to the table with the transitional council until those responsible for last week's attacks are brought to justice so what you're doing is also refusing to talk. and power. of course we cannot go back to talking to them and that is because when we started negotiations it was over the handover of power to civilian authority what they responded with violence against this it seems violence against people that is unexplainable unacceptable and that is a space you cannot move past we cannot sit for negotiations all our preconditions

these are our rights and what they have taken forcibly so what is it that you need to. rights what is it that you need to see or what would you like to be done for some sort of trust to be built with the military council there is no trust that they've built. what they have is they've broken everything that they should what they have done it is so criminal that there's no way to go back there's no way to communicate with this council anymore negotiate over anything what it has to be done is an instance handover to a civilian authority and justice needs be done i guess the members of the military council as they were the ones who gave such forceful evacuations for the massacre that happened on that they're. all right we'll leave it there we thank you very much for speaking to us from khartoum some of. you know. now al jazeera is correspondent has just come back from hard to many is joining us

and here in the studio and i suppose that listening to the spokeswoman from the really shows how difficult the situation is on the ground right now in sudan in one that's absolutely right the sit in was a big thing and they developed from very small process into this huge almost convoy like family friendly atmosphere you're now seeing 2 distinct phases of the student the sudanese uprising so you saw before it is very family friendly as i say atmosphere carnival like there was a lending library that people were creating and it was very peaceful then the events of june the 3rd happened and now we're seeing this almost white washing literally white washing of the city when you drive through the streets and we did the other day. all of the artwork has been removed all of the sites everything that you had has been removed and it's almost like the military are trying to tell the protestors that never happened and of course they all just their office was closed and you were banned from reporting in sudan what happened at that time well we were

on the friday night before the events of monday june the 3rd and we knew something was coming we didn't quite know what it was my producer didn't have a lot in our correspondent went down and met with the military that she shot the officer at gun point and we were very worried and very concerned and they said you can't keep broadcasting you shut you down but no real reason was ever given to us it was simply you have to stop broadcasting and on the point that. we know actually there is an internet clampdown we know that they've banned reporters from reporting like there's an internet climb down in this city from what you see here from what you saw during your time there how were the protests organizers and the people in the streets able to mobilize and come together and share information while they're using traditional means it was very much i digital revolution it was the you know websites and it was putting things out more top and things like that now people are just using ordinary text. surging to get their messages to each other they still trying to use the internet but it's very restricted and the

sudanese military are clamping down and so they're using traditional message not even more because a very important the a moment the mosque on friday will give a sermon and he'll talk about what happens next in the next coming days the r.s.s. the rapid support forces were saying that rogue elements and drug dealers were behind the violence that we saw on june the 3rd what were your observations at that time when you were there well they've maintained this all the way through the t.m.c. have always said that the protest movement has been infiltrated by criminal elements by rogue elements but they've never provided any evidence for this every night we were at the protests we didn't witness anything illegal that was going on so there may well have been but we didn't see it and we were literally every night up and so we you know we would ban it. so they haven't given any evidence for it now there was an area called colombia now colombia was full of people who were drinking and smoking by things illegal in sudan but that was that could have been played as

a police operation it didn't have to be a military operation and they didn't have to use that as an excuse to go into the city and break the sittin up so the fact that they used heavy handed tactics and used the people in colombia as an excuse to play the sit in shows you the military wanted to clear that city and what do you make of the civil the disobedience campaign that's going on right now from your impressions on the ground did you feel that organizations like the s.b.a. and others have a strategy going forward or are they just take what they say monday the civil disobedience is literally the only thing that they have left and they are very good at mobilizing people there was a strike i think about 10 days ago last 2 days it was almost like a dress rehearsal for what we're seeing now and the strike held the city was crippled this country was almost brought to a standstill so after that i think yes be a realist sudanese professional socialist and realize that they could mobilize people in that way if there was sufficient anger it depends how long the strike holds people have to earn money people have to trade they have to go to their

offices and shops to get a wage it depends how long it can hold the other really interesting thing there is is the barricades now the barricades being set up in streets all across it on.