term invasion university of texas el paso scholar daniel chuck cohen says words like that are packed with negative meaning to invade a country or region is to take it over to dominate it to be invaded by you know by another army is basically what you're saying they want to come in they want to take over they want to take what's ours but the el paso republican party chairman says trump's words are not racist and that he is welcome you know past i think the president coming here to show that he's got concern i think is outstanding there's a lot of people in this community did support him certainly many in this city will welcome from with courtesy others however they feel it is he who is invading them rob reynolds al-jazeera el paso. letter to african troops have been deployed to restore calm in malawi's capital long way after fighting broke out between protesters and place the ring continuous demonstrations since president peter won

a 2nd term in april protesters say the vote was rigged i want the head of the electoral commission to step down or i'm a tosser reports. opposition supporters say mase presidential election was rigged to favor peter metallica who narrowly won reelection of opposition leader. many people joined in the demonstrations across the country they say they want the head of the electoral commission gone. turgeon and so must resign if she missed out on election. demonstrations rollers or she doesn't. stop. people from demonstrating. against. rights of the people. opposition parties and says there were lots of irregularities analysed many votes were altered using typewriter correction fluid election

officials deny this. in some areas the army blocked roads to government buildings. president has accused the opposition are trying to sabotage the economy and spread chaos his ruling d.p.p. party denied allegations of vote rigging and fraud by these people on the street. the way we voted on the results that were announced to natalee there were so many reality is that is what has prompted me to join the marches. the constitutional court says the election dispute will be heard on august 8 opposition supporters are to stay on the street. health ministers of rwanda and the democratic republic of congo have reached an agreement on how to fight the a bowl or break after meeting in just any on tuesday the ministers have agreed to tighten health screening at the border and improve the sharing of information around and doctors will also train health professionals in congo to better treat

a bowl of patients. biggest party and other hires said that it will run a candidate in next month's presidential elections is the 1st time in her contested the presidency since the arab spring revolution of 2011 the party has nominated its vice president. rule critics say the rule holds contradictory prison positions on the role of islam in society the answer it follows the death of the 1st freely elected president president s a b c in late july. it's a dream it's full faecal thoughtful process. still has no need to apologise sions of delayed the vote to confirm a new governor the supreme court is expected to soon rule on whether they ban who came into office on friday is eligible for the job. under polls from someone who was street protests like this pushed out the puerto rico governor but the fate of the new one. is now in limbo his fate now rests with 9 justices of the

supreme court who will decide if he's illegitimate governor after the senate filed a lawsuit saying he was sworn in prematurely last friday without their confirmation the court is expected to hand down a ruling in a day in a press conference pierre lisi said the supreme court would now be the last word on the matter i then asked him this if the supreme court rules against you or you can resign immediately or you alway i guess i'll have to i don't know what the ruling will be but but we should we should just wait for the ruling and it will speak for itself but the supreme court will decide it i trust them and they'll do the right thing for puerto rico many legal minds think. acted unconstitutionally the puerto rican bar association has been around for over 170 years aside from the supreme court it's probably the most prestigious legal body here on the island and

their opinion on the current situation is very clear it is the believe of the puerto rico that he is illegitimate as governor in a moment and let's see how the supreme court of puerto rico decides maybe today and in the makes they say. we are a part. of the issue we will be. trying to help the court understand the constitutional issues but always remembering one thing this is not only a legal. illegal. it's not only about jurisprudence this is about the people of puerto rico we're still suffering from some economic humanitarian crisis and how does this affect the people of puerto rico that it's very important for us if the court rules against peer luis e. and he resigns street protests like this could erupt again. al-jazeera san juan puerto rico the noble literature prize winner toni morrison has died at

the age of 88 in new york also in georgia looks back at her life and her work. she was the 1st african-american to win literatures ultimate prize the nobel in 1903 breaking barriers along the way when i think there can a call for writing. has got to be the nobel prize but what toni morrison really did was create space to discuss racism sexual abuse injustice and love through the experiences of african-americans she became a global cultural icon and an inspiration to every would be writer the reason she turned to writing rather than reading and editing is that she saw a literary landscape that had a gap that wasn't telling a story that she wanted herself to read she shared with us lives that had not been previously shared morrison was the ultimate working single mom while raising 2 sons

and working as a book editor and professor she published 11 novels 8 books of essays and a series of children's books she won the pulitzer prize in 1988 for beloved a novel about a mother's decision to kill her child so that she would not be enslaved morrison was a bestselling author many times over but as she noted in a recent documentary her work was also feared this is the collection. nicely because it might incite. some partially set. as fast as morrison wrote the honors poured in including the presidential medal of freedom in 2012 circumstances may not have been ideal but the words that came out. were magical toni morrison's prose brings us that kind of moral and emotional intensity that few writers ever attempt. the song of solomon to beloved

tony reaches us deeply using a tone that is lyrical precise distinct and inclusive she believes that language arcs toward the place where meaning might lie toni morrison always insisted the black experience in america is as universal as every other experience as she used the well written well edited word to underscore that point toni morrison author mother icon dead at age 88 roslyn jordan al-jazeera. the watching old is there with me a reminder of our top stories pakistan says it will use maximum pressure on india after new delhi's decision to strip indian administered kashmir of its old told me

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that stuff. in the stars. is. easy. for you. that's part of the trailer for how yet an upcoming biographical film about american abolitionist how it helped him and cynthia landed the title pop but many people are now upset that a revoke who is a british nigerian was cast instead of an african american actress they've been voicing their opinions online using the hashtags not my how it how it deserves better and adolf short for american descendants of slavery so why was this particular casting decision so controversial and what does the debate say about black identity in the u.s. joining us to discuss these questions in los angeles antonio moore is the co-founder of american descendants of slavery in johannesburg south africa

hollywood actor hakim cake. to numerous films including hotel rwanda and half of the yellow sun and here with us in washington d.c. heather harris is a professor at stevenson university and author of a new book mule race realities in the obama era welcome everyone so there are 2 parts to this harriet control the say hello i guess part one is the actress and her tweets and in part 2 is her heritage where she from let's let's tackle the tweets because they're controversial screengrab because as most people know if they get into trouble on line daily it tweets but somebody somewhere has them so let's just have a look at this this is cynthia in a conversation referencing ghetto american accent i have to remember i'm taking it out of context. again another conversation where people are saying well we don't think you represent african-americans and then cynthia says oh darling all of these

presumptions it is you please you are the representation for all americans that is incorrect and i give you one more the african african american is the thing i understand more fully that most if you think that a black and then it goes on and on and on so it's just the idea that people who are upset about cynthia are upset because she's tweeted things that they find disrespectful and she's paid many african-american characters money for it and sums it up on twitter with the hash tag our story or the handle our story this particular actress has made offensive remarks concerning african-americans being that harriet tubman was an african-american legend it is disrespectful to cast this lady in the role so that's one person's take what i want to share another's on this person. took screen grabs some of the ones that you have there are others that she's compiled to this person is compiled they go by the handle electric bo peep

and they explain why they think many of the tweets that they found from this actress are problematic electrical people sent us an audio common with their thoughts have a listen. why do you think carrie because there is better because cynthia riva has a very troubling very consistent 7 year pattern from 2011 to tweet a little in african-american and promoting and defending the ethnic bigotry towards the very people who aren't men ought to free descendants of chattel slavery because for the last 11 months cynthia rica has said everything to evade accountability for these actions when anti-semite be allowed to play moses why should be allowed to play our business. strong words there and tony i'm going to hand that right off to you what do you make of that aspect of this controversy well let me start off by saying that i think that what we don't recognize is to be put at odds with our own

story we have to boycott harry i mean this has started this going around a push by not just a loss but many black people across the country is claiming a reality a reality that we don't know enough about cynthia reveal her. recent article came out in the new yorker about slave trading in nigeria wouldn't it be something if we do find out that she is dolly which are slave traders in nigeria and she is not old but in addition we have a long history going back to how do you make then you will black actresses african-american actresses pushing for an opportunity to be cast in roles that go beyond just being manly in gone with the wind but now when the role is actually here you see this whole kind of shifting where we're going to look for more classically trained people we're not going to look for people that actually can play the role of us but a king. well you know the hayseeds is and you say this because as an african as an englishman i see many african-americans playing african roles. people from don't cheatle to you know. denzel washington a 1000000 and

a postman to go all of them playing iconic african roles tate de sac you know that you know there's many that will play that kind of happened well as an artist i do not begrudge them i think it's very important they get a chance to express themselves as long as they have the integrity and the honesty to portray the people that they're portraying and in a real and honest way so. you know i find this a quite had to place it as argument in one for the sense the next you're not looking at the full picture. see and i believe that kind of falls apart because what you're actually talking about is star actors in hollywood playing roles in american films in addition you create are going to terry and one this in africa has gone on astronomy that can be an american film well let me let me finish let me finish and i actually say when you talk about when you talk about will smith playing a nigerian doctor in america in a film about c.t.e. in the n.f.l.

it's an american film in addition africa is not a country tell me about your country and your tribe what you see is that idea that we're going to create 52 countries into one country given the qualities of a few of our dexterity and one is that they don't operate with their themselves in actuality these are very disassociated places so now you become one place or is it 52 places with many cross or if your are i'm not quite sure what you're trying to say but i never said it was one controversial one no it is i'm telling you that african-americans have played it a riot in different african roles character roles right we're going to say where you. got american films of the player if they're playing african characters that i'm going darn are going to use it for the other antenna and i can just take a take a take a postwoman and i can tell and making a case i had i came you making a case as we started off with cynthia and this is problematic background that she

appears to have she just got back chip so let's just address that. so that's the thing that i hear both gentlemen what i am hearing most though is the disrespect that is felt by people of african descent in america the american descendants of slaves that's what i'm here in the disrespect that has resulted because as your guests have said there have been actors playing parts all over the world mandela was played by morgan freeman and i show a few because so many. we could do the whole show by showing them but let me since . this is a steve. young denzel the man almost never ages jennifer hudson as winnie mandela yes how do south africans feel about that and then oh my goodness ugandan is forest whitaker playing in maine and the list goes on and on and on i think if you want to really get to the core of this it's about the respect that the

actress has for african-americans african-americans feel disrespected by what she said and though she is representing a very iconic character and i know through reading that it has been said i can just read the patient and say this.