last week to target to crecy activists were al jazeera sarah clarke is in hong kong for as syria receives significant amounts of people on the live pictures just how many are expected to take part in this rally or just why is it being. in this particular rear. well of looks like thousands are here now and there's still lots more flooding in from the mt which is hong kong's train line transport system so it's not the numbers here are building and the reason why it's in your long is simply because last sunday we had a mob of people wearing white shirts you came in and violently attacked a number of anti-government ready protesters who were turning from every peaceful rally back in central now they attacked them with roads with batons and more than 40 people were injured some critical the rates of whites here and there is much right next the police station which is on my left you've got to see the people

behind me they targeting the police station because i said the police didn't help despite numerous cries for help thousands of fine calls to the place saying please help us from this more who volley attacked those people protesters even indiscriminate attacks on passengers on board the m.t.r. here so the reason why it's here is for that and the main message behind this particular a rally today is accusations against the police that they didn't help and instead they colluded and cooperated with the group the mob of the criminal gang we often refer to as triads here and that's what the accusation has been made that these guys and this mob were triad supported and pro beijing supported attackers. you're talking of the police or the police haven't given permission for this rally does this make this into a legal gathering. well it does they said they sought permission which is what they do for. all these protests and the

police did not have them access so i did not the permission to go ahead with this so yes it does make it a legal assembly which could also give the police the right to a wrist at the moment it's still peaceful there's a lot of verbal confrontations the people here are yelling shame on you police one protester has just climbed up on top of the police station and hung up a sign but yes it is it's an illegal assembly because they did not get approval and there's another rally on sunday here in hong kong it's back in essential now that rally is a walk from china park which is right in the hot of hong kong's business district and the request was to march down to i pod which is try to cross from china's liaison office in an area called. the police have denied that much to go ahead they've allowed the rally to start and stay. but that request to walk down to the area where beijing's a liaison office is that spain is a court hearing tonight and with protesters once again appealing to try to let that rally go that much go ahead. ok sarah clarke and i thank you very much indeed

there's lots more still to come on al-jazeera including what's next for ports of weekends after they force their governor to step down. and mothers selling their own daughters ensign marriage big stream news man most refugees are going to see a don't want to see safari. hello again and welcome back to international weather forecast for today is going to be a severe weather day here across parts of northern italy and with that we do expect to see a gusty winds and hail as well as possibly the threat of a tornado or 2 now we do have a frontal boundary just to the west that's going to be slightly moving towards the east that's going to cause

a lot of instability so it's going to be turning the afternoon in the overnight hours that we do see a lot of that activity right here across parts of northern and northwestern italy also we could be seeing some localized flooding from the heavy rain across much of that area the other big thing is take a look what's happening out here towards the east temperatures have been on the rise here on saturday notice warsaw 27 degrees and the temperatures are still going to be quite hot across much of the area as a matter of fact warsaw here at $32.00 degrees as we go towards sunday stockholm at $29.00 and tia at $29.00 as well for helsinki though look at your temperatures over the next 3 days today 28 sunday 20 about 30 degrees your average is 22 degrees so well above average but by the time we get towards monday we're going to be going back below average and across much of that area where here across northern parts of africa it is going to be quite stable across much of the region so for tripoli $32.00 degrees few benghazi at $29.00 and $1.00 more day for cairo at 36. the weather sponsored by countdown is. every weekly news cycle brings

a series of breaking stories is maximum jail term has jumped from 5 years to 175 years joined the listening post as we turned the cameras on the media donald trump shouldn't be the one deciding who is a journalist and who isn't and focus on how they were caught on the stories that matter the most they will cause a recall search will tire shut down both international and domestic news coverage on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera could come out of the top stories for you know the u.n. human rights chief has condemned what she calls international indifference to the

rising death toll in syria's rebel held it live province michelle bashfully says those targeting civilians should be charged with war crimes in the past 10 days 104 people have been killed 27 of them children. bahrain has gone ahead with the execution of chain men convicted of terrorism charges despite international concern about the fairness of the trial u.s. special reports our own extra judicial killings and us canada has called on battery not to carry out the death sentences amnesty international says the man were beaten and tortured in custody to take confessions and photos of people are marching in hong kong in the same area where protesters were attacked by alleged gang members last week the turnout isn't expected to be as high as in previous protests after police banned the rally sizing a serious risk of violence. among. foreign minister is in iran to

discuss regional developments with his a rainy and kinds of pars in an attempt to defuse the intensifying gulf crisis amman is playing the role of mediator in the row over impounded british and everybody in tankers well last week muscat urged to iran to release the u.k. flagstone imperio iranian revolutionary guards detained its 2 weeks after u.k. war marines helped seize the iranian tanker grace one of gibraltar. a delegation from in mar has arrived in rangoon refugee camps in bangladesh the group traveling to coax is bizarre is trying to convince the refugees to return home that's where hundreds of thousands have been taking shelter after fleeing atrocities by myanmar's army in 2017. and conflicts in mimosa northern state of catch sheen is forcing more people from their homes a cease fire between the governments and the independence army ended in 2011 since

then instability has been putting many families at risk including women who are being trafficked to china mama jump june reports. along me and mars border with china in this camp for the internally displaced the stories are full of sorrow. as singer hour works she contemplates the desperate choices she's been forced to make how work dried up when the 17 year old ceasefire between me and more government forces in the kitchen independence army broke down in 2011 how being unable to support her family but seeing route to a decision that still rocks her with guilt has had all the ga and my daughter was still young i didn't want her to get married at 1st but the chinese family said they would take care of her well my relatives the greek she should have a better life so i made the decision for my daughter to marry a chinese men. the groom promised to pay almost $7000.00 to sing rao but

ended up paying only around half of that saying raus daughter we're not identifying for her safety eventually returned home. my friends keep asking me how it was to marry and live in china was it fun were you happy i told them it wasn't fun and that i'm not happy i was very sad and disappointed to get married. the escalation of hostilities in kitchin state has resulted in a huge increase in the number of displaced many people who used to cross into china to earn a living as day laborers can no longer do so saying come who works with the kitchen women's association says that makes the situation more dire for the internally displaced and that a growing number of families are now forcing their daughters into marriage alone i i think many of the parents want their daughters to marry a chinese man because they thought their have a better life in china they thought the chinese government would take care of

china's citizens perry road for some there is a darker side to finding a new life away from the kitchen and out of me and more. according to human rights watch traffickers are increasingly preying on the despair of women who feel they have no choice but to seek work across the border this woman who are also not identifying for her safety was trafficked to china hong kong on my long lost a suffered i lived in terrible conditions they were abusing me with sexual violence i do want to sleep with them by i was forced i begged them to let me go but he was not listed in and he raved mounted became pregnant. at a contacted china's ministry of foreign affairs for comment but has not received a reply human rights watch says another reason the situation is worsening is because for every year since $1087.00 the percentage of women in china has fallen a gender imbalance that is leaving many chinese men without wives. for now concern

is growing that more traffickers will try to take advantage of the increasing desperation of people who are already vulnerable homage and doom al-jazeera. earthquakes in the northern philippines have killed at least 8 people to tremors with magnitudes of 5.4 and 5.9 struck on saturday near the bataan this island at least 60 people were injured sense there's been significant damage to homes and other buildings. brain and storms have hit european countries that injured record heats and recent days and either heat wave appears to be moving northward sward screen learns where it could cause unprecedented ice melts greenland's ice sheet covers 80 percent of the island's territory and is the 2nd largest in the world the ice loss in 2012 was 4 times the rate in 2003 among likely be even bigger this year the extent of the melt in june has been 4 times the average between 19812010

well this month alone it's lost 160000000000 tons of ice that's roughly 64000000 elim pick size swimming pools that's also volume off the ice sheet is 2900000 cubic kilometers if all of that eventually melts could raise global sea levels by 7 meters devastating most of the world's coastal cities. we know that the arctic is warm so much more than the rest of the world we have processes called out to have the patience so that climate change is felt much more strongly in the arctic than it is here even in europe right now and so when we get these big melting events happening they tend to be more extreme than they were in the past at the moment we're not we're very close to a wreck or to melt year 2012 we're getting very close to matching that frank now we won't really know till the end of this month or even mid august which one has been the highest note but that's what we're looking at right now it's probably fair to

say that we will not know until we've passed if it's irreversible or not there have been a lot of studies looking at how much climate change we have and and still keep the ice sheet and it's important to remember that the ice sheet will still take hundreds if not thousands of years to melt completely doesn't go overnight. but there is a lot of work now indicating that one and a half or 2 degrees might be the temperature global temperature threshold beyond which we cannot keep greenland ice sheet frozen. the governor of puerto rico will step down in a few days ricardo resales resignation force a scandal over offensive text messages but protesters are still calling for radical change and the gal who reports from san juan. on the airwaves of puerto rico's radio stations a dominated by one topic the resignation of the island's governor following

a tech scandal and accusations of corruption have shocked puerto rico ricardo rajjo will leave office in days with speculation that wonder vasquez who's next in line will play a role in selecting a new governor rather than replace him political commentator osvaldo carlos says it's the chance for a new start attorneys from the states. here in puerto rico investigating agents of the f.b.i. from other jurisdictions we have a lot of activity and i believe that this is the moment to to clean the slate and a government that will really response to a needle of people the governor's mansion is now a place of celebration where people come to take selfies and revel in the governor's removal as puerto ricans look to the future expectations high mostly on better governance a better government in general. really can connect with the necessities of our people we're brothers and sisters in the eyes of god in the eyes of the nation and

we are on the eyes of the whole world and we need to keep unite everyone they've been elected have to understand that they work for the people totally my constitutional experts in human rights activist judith birken is optimistic about the island's future she tells us change may take time but it's coming so there may not be a temporary solution that's going to be seen as a quick many way but i think nonetheless the way the protest who are in particular it's a nation of an otherwise apathetic generation will mean long term fundamental change puerto rico then is it a political crossroads it's not yet certain who the next governor will be but it is clear that the future leadership of this island needs to reset its moral compass win the trust of its people and give them hope there's now

a new generation of young voters here and they're joined by the events of the last 2 weeks and they may very well shape the future of this u.s. territory and gallacher san juan puerto rico. the rising cost of prescription drugs is forcing many americans to cross into canada to buy medicines those traveling in the so-called insulin caravan. hoping to draw attention to their struggles daniel lack reports. activist quinn nystrom shares the good news with fellow u.s. diabetics a drug that they need to survive is available at the local wal-mart store for less than a 10th of what they pay in the united states their caravan crossed 3 u.s. states to make a purchase i decided to bring this today because this kind of shows like my every day like the diabetes looks sight and this is kind of basically one or 2 months of like survival for me also along for the ride nicole smith holt who doesn't have the

disease but she's here for a very special and personal reason i am part of this caravan in memory of my son alex smith who passed away on june 27th of 2017 from diabetic ketoacidosis as a result of rationing because he cannot afford it the group came to canada to buy cheaper insulin but mostly this is a gesture aimed at u.s. political leaders in the pharmaceutical industry insulin prices are so high that one in 4 diabetics in the u.s. has to ration the insulin they can afford putting their lives in danger. we need a long term solution this just isn't isn't the solution this isn't the fix to what's going on in america but if it's temporary prices for life saving drugs in canada are regulated by a government appointed body organizers of the caravan say that should happen in the us too we are from a developed country. we are from

a great country but we are not taking care of our citizens after buying their lifesaving drugs the diabetics from the united states will come to the home of frederick banting 1920 came up with the idea that led to man made insulin. banting sold the patent for insulin for a dollar intending it never be used to earn a profit but that hasn't happened and diabetics from the united. states say it's time to honor the wishes of the man who helped make sure they could survive a disease that used to be a death sentence daniel lak al-jazeera london ontario. this is al jazeera and these are the headlines the un's human rights chief has condemned what she calls international indifference to the rising death toll in syria's rebel held at le province michelle bashfully says those targeting civilians should be charged with war crimes in the past 10 days 104 people have been killed at least 26

of them children well we're definitely seeing a military escalation in general but particularly from the government forces and their allies over the past 3 months or so just in the past 2 weeks i would say collated even further with daily attacks and multiple attacks daily i mean over and above what we were talking about this morning we were hearing of more asterix last night and some early today as well so it's ongoing it's relentless and the people suffering most of all are not the fighters al-jazeera has obtained a copy of a draft u.n. report on child casualties in conflict zones saudi arabia has been criticized for its rule in yemen but the report says it's trying to reduce casualties israel has been laughed off a blacklist despite killing $59.00 palestinian children last year syria and sent sudan have also been highlighted for concern. bahrain has gone ahead with

the execution of 2 men convicted of terrorism charges despite its international concern about the fairness of the trial un special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings and yes calmar has called on bahrain not to carry out the death sentences handed to shia activists are up and. they were sentenced over the killing of a policeman after a mass trial of $56.00 men last year amnesty international says the men were beaten and tortured in custody. thousands of people are marching in home combing the same area where protesters were attacked by alleged gang members last week the rally is being held in un mall near the border with mainland china huge numbers of turned even though police banned the event from taking place. well those are the headlines the u.s. continues now to syria after the listening post. talk to al-jazeera. what

guarantees will you give to the people who will be attending the minimal workshop we listen i'm supposed to explain apologize for someone who is also terrorizing we meet with global newsmakers and talk about the stories that matter to 0. justice minister said one of my. sack said. one. of his jewish. action projects. hello i'm richard despard and you're at the listening post here are some of the media stories we're covering this week brazil a new scandal relating to the carwash corruption case a judge turned politician now faces a journalistic brand of justice an exposé by reporters in puerto rico brings down

the governor there taking of a civil action while on line the enduring and rising popularity. and come of the hour come of the man boris johnson takes office in the u.k. setting at least one media heart aflutter it's not often that an investigation into a corruption scandal becomes a scandal in and of itself but that is exactly what is unfolding in brazil last month an online news outlet the intercept brazil began publishing a series of exposé about the wheeling and dealing of the minister of justice moore in a previous life morell was a judge in charge of operation carwash and investigation into the biggest case of political corruption in the country's history it resulted in the arrests of hundreds of politicians and business figures hasten the fall of one president and landed another former president behind bars morals work on that case and his depiction in the brazilian news media as an antiques. eruption crusader helped get

him the job of minister of justice appointed by president bush. now the news outlets that helped create moral were having some serious 2nd thoughts on the journalists at the intercept who broke this latest moral story are starting to feel the heat from the brazilian authorities our starting point this week is rio de janeiro. the cast of characters in this case of corruption is along the terminology confusing but the story is simple back in 2014 the judge appointed to preside over the operation car wash investigation the case brazilians call love a shuttle with sergio more the probe uncovered money laundering bribery and corruption at the state owned energy company petrol price several members of the ruling party under leftist president dilma rousseff were jailed for their part in

the scheme. back to morrow was cheered on lionized by brazil's mostly right wing media any. t.v. channels like global and. magazines like fish or he was seen as a future president now he is fighting for his political life because of an investigation into his investigation known as vast as shocked and a series of text messages between him and prosecutors that strongly suggest that legally speaking the fix was in. the most important revelation is that certain moral wasn't with the prosecution it's entirely for a bit to have a judge who is in constant conversation with the prosecution in order to arrange all the other media the media didn't create more of the superhero it just gave invisibility put a flashlight and a judge she was indeed doing

a rather heroic job by brazilian standards however surgery did have a party ideology and he was manipulating the investigations rather than taking a step back and being impartial which is what we expect of a judge or jury but as you said. brazil found itself in a historic moment where it could clean itself up and the media really bought into the image that moral himself was constructed they absorbed it they deliberately boarded this ship because strategically it was good to join the right side the side of the people fighting corruption. sergio morrow's reputation as an anti corruption crusaders scrubbing brazil queen of graft was demolished by the intercept its secret brazil archive includes leaked. sent over the telegram messaging app between moral and prosecutors investigating the carwash case the messages are explosive and

potentially game changing they clearly show a judge legally required to be neutral working with prosecutors in some cases advising them on how to present various legal cases to him they also appear to confirm the suspicion that throughout the carwash investigation morrow and the prosecution were trying to manipulate press coverage to turn it against members of the p.t. party moros work in golf the government of president dilma rousseff hastened to add downfall and led to the jailing of. the silver party colleague poster is considered the favorite to win the next presidential election. behind bars legally prevented from running a path was cleared for right wing populist. he won last year's election but also not all then made more of his minister of justice which in light of all of that collusion in the carwash case was the least he could do what this whole of us at

the campaign as a media campaign produced was a devaluation of institutional politics of party politics and resume to a degree in which the electorate became so skeptical that in the. stream right wing offside of also now so both. in his election should be seen as a product of the. institutional politics having contributed to the rise of an anti politics anti establishment rhetorical that in the end did not just criminalize the left but started to criminalize the whole of the political system and started to also weaken the legislative and the congress powers basically saying that we need someone from outside of politics to take this so it very much pave the way for the rise of the right extreme right and for also nado specifically so it has had not just political implications have had political economic and social.

brazil's media system hasn't fared much better the most powerful broadcaster in the country is global it has a history of supporting right wing governments even the military dictatorship from 1964 to 85. global went all in on the carwash story which was justified to an extent by the scale of the corruption but the partisan tone of much of global coverage rang alarm that. global's coverage of the advances shuttle leaks has been more selective and less exuberant vision is brazil's best selling news magazine a right wing publication that was pro morrow and has now swung the other way partnering with the intercept on the leaks vicious change of tact followed by a change in their mission meaning brazil is mostly private and they all belong to

the traditional families powerful families. on top of that they are all conservative very belonged to a tradition one of these traditional family so until recently very was some sort of fox news and brit vitriolic giornale is right and they went bankrupt and they sold to a businessman and this guy apparently wants to give the news magazine a different orientation dettori intention so i think that's the main reason that vegas is now collaborating with the intercept them egypt the reaction of the media was incredible lots of international outlets followed up on our reporting with articles of their own but others such as the global group made a point especially in the 1st few days to emphasize the perspective of the justice ministry and to settle your moral himself now some of us out there will minister the business just a social model. blew up because she was

a male sizing static it presented all the possible things that could be wrong in our revelations in brazil there exists a section of right wing media that invested a lot in the car war story and there is no way they will ever let go of that narrative. to global end to version with questions on their approach to the olympics vision declined to comment on its editorial about face global wrote back with a detailed defense of its. average especially the significant amount of air time it is devoted to the legality of the journalism ringback this past wednesday a judge ordered the arrest of 4 people on charges of hacking sergio morrow's phone the 4 are accused of being the sources of the material as global put it it would be considered bad journalism in any part of the worked including in qatar to ignore

that the cell phones of the authorities were hacked even though back in march of 2016 when moro released a tape of a private phone call between dilma rousseff and lula da silva global was less concerned about the journalistic ethics it ran with that story as did venture and so many other brazilian news outlets though i could you do cuma in a story of such magnitude as to which involves the hacking of several authorities including the most famous judge and brazil the current minister of justice the biggest news is not the content of the alleged conversations but rather the hacking of these conversations this is very serious well much more serious was when morally a conversation between. ringback the presidents this was not in the public interest moreover the chance of a lifetime to go down in history as someone who has combat corruption you had all the power and your disposal all the media attention all the public support and no

instead of that you chose a political project you chose to align yourself to a particular group. sujit or moral can complain all he wants about the latest leaks and the news coverage he now receives but having done what he did leaking information and manipulating the media a stand simply in the name of justice and been exposed by an act of journalism he is no longer in a position to judge. we're discussing one other media story on our radar this week with one of our producers full of celebs flo the governor of port authority be covered or say you know was announced that he's resigning next week as a result of a scandal exposed by local journalists who are these journalists and what did they reveal richard russell is down for is in large part a result of an exposé by puerto rico's center for investigative journalism the

centro de petit a dismal investigate tivo or c.p.i. it's a not for profit news organization that relies on donations similar to the american outlet pro publica it's produced a number of big stories over the is but nothing quite like this one on july 13th c.p.i. published nearly 900 pages of leaked messages chats that much like the story in brazil took place on telegram between the governor and his in the circle now i would read out examples but many of them a pretty obscene sexist homophobic exchanges about political opponents celebrities like ricky martin even some journalists including the c.b.s. reporter david begnaud and puts a rican journalist benjamin taras gotye and what was the reaction to these red.