so that's now yes the rallying cry of the protestors in an investigation and to the release of their actions but i need to mention that what we've seen is a slight change in the emotion are the impetus behind these protests whereas before you saw protesters very unwilling to confront the police head on me they're now acting with some restraint and calling people who are involved in that movement to step back if they feel that a confrontation is set to take place police on the other hand have only been acting with great restraint in saying that we've just seen one of those you see protester water cannon trucks being driven into the airport just a few minutes ago larry thank you very much to get a pile an ally for us at hong kong airport still ahead on the program omar al bashir is back in course will be live in hard to weigh saddam's deposed president will have some tough questions to answer and with warnings the u.s. china trade war could take years to resolve we'll look at the challenges and opportunities it's created.

hello again welcome back to your international weather forecast well this weekend promises to be a little bit more cloudy rainy as well as cooler across much of central europe we do have a front about it that's extending down from an earlier pressure across scandinavia and with that a lot of clouds here on our satellite image so temperatures are going to be in the high teens maybe hitting 20 in some locations with a lot of rain scattered across much of the area for vienna here on saturday it is going to be a rainy day at 16 berlin is going to be cloudy at 20 and as we go towards sunday and fortune not much of a change here if you like they are tunnel weather this is what we're going to see here as we go towards sunday as well down towards the south though over here toward zurich it is going to be a little cooler at 15 degrees there well across the northern part of africa we

could be seeing some clouds pushing through and with that through morocco algeria as well we could be seeing plenty of rain across the area now we don't expect it to be too heavy but it could lead to some localized flooding here so up here towards morocco robot just to the east of you some rain here on saturday then as we go towards sunday that area of rain starts to push towards algiers so in the mountains we could see a problem there with some localized flooding but we do expect to see attempts to there of $26.00 degrees but for tunis it is going to be quite a nice day with attempt a few of about 30 degrees there. with a sponsor it's only. weeks stores generate sound scenes of headlines it seems that much the media is still struggling with how to deal with it with different angles from different perspectives and you know hold to account separate the spin from the facts. the misinformation from journalism how to care for

must use your words but some tough stuff has to be said some critics have to be listening post. welcome back a recap of our top stories on al-jazeera iran says it has begun using new advanced centrifuges to enrich uranium this is tehran's 3rd major step in scaling back its commitments under the 2015 nuclear deal iranian atomic energy agency says europe doesn't have much time left to save the agreement police in hong kong are restricting access to the city's airport this saturday in an attempt to limit a planned on thai government protests authorities have increased the police

presence and limited trains said his sister the airport the number of people who have died from hurricane dorian in the bahamas has risen to at least 43 and that number is expected to jump dramatically in the coming days as 100 still unaccounted for. sudan's new ministers are due to be sworn in today one of a few final sets in the country's attempt to return to democracy prime minister abdullah hum docs announced his 20 member cabinet earlier this week it contains 4 women including its 1st female foreign minister a sovereign council will lead the country until election. held within 3 years meanwhile the trial of the deposed president of sudan omar bashir is set to continue this saturday after he was formally charged last week with corruption and the illegal use of foreign funds but sharon says the $25000000.00 he received from saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin salman wasn't yours for private purposes is lawyer says his client denies all charges against him and speak about this to

have a morgan in khartoum for is what are we expecting from today's hearing for maava share. won't fall it's the former president's 4th appearance in court since he was investigated and charged with corruption illicit financial gains and bribery we're expecting his former office manager to testify today because from the last session when he was charged by a big judge of former president bashir said that he did indeed receive $25000000.00 from the saudi crown prince mohammed bin some money and he said he received it through his office manager so the judge had formally requested last week that his home office manager come to testify and explain not why not how the money was used but why did the money come through a private plane and not through the official systems interim gates has also stated that the former president admitted to receiving millions of dollars from the from the from the prince of united arab emirates so there was so the judge is asking why did the money come through unofficial channels and why did not go through the

banking system especially at a time when the country is facing an economic crisis and if found guilty the former president can face up to 10 years in jail what are the other charges against him he was charged with killing protesters in may and there's also the i.c.c. arrest warrant against same for the crimes committed in darfur. well that hasn't been mentioned in the previous court sessions and what we understand is that once these sessions are over once he's either found guilty or innocent of the charges of corruption illicit financial gains and bribery vendée can move on to the other charges but people in the streets have been protesting about the fact that these are not mentioned fully they're saying that this trial is a sham and that the real the real charges that should be against him should be the work crimes committed in darfur and in the southern regions of south kordofan we also understand that the i.c.c. is trying to open or trying to look into the issue of its arrest warrant they say that the arrest warrant is still valid therefore the transitional government that has been formed has the obligation to to hand over the former president but the

sovereign council did say that they are going to try to set up an independent judicial system to try the president and that is likely take some time which is not going to help people who are angry on the streets thank you for that had them organized for us in khartoum will of course be going back to you throughout the day to get updates of a court hearing today for sudan's deposed president judges in cameroon have adjourned the trial of the main opposition leader and dozens of other politicians after one of them collapsed in court the united states european union and human rights groups are all criticizing was described as political tara tara in cameroon reports. protesters chants in support of the man they face the rightful president of cameron maurice come to. think of it outside a military court in the capital here on day where the main opposition leader is one of dozens of politicians danding trial they're accused of insurrection and rebellion against the government charges that carry the death penalty.

have traveled more than 600 kilometers to this is. asking the government to release political prisoners tensions. the judge. mental or fortunately be done in the absence of the concerned we're used to the presence of police this is what comes with dictator this is what tyrone is a civilian is tried in a military tribunal will continue protesting until there is change. canto loss to president paul beyond his rule to 35 years in last year's election. but come to his party the cameroon renaissance movement accuses the governments of rigging the vote results. following unsee government protests cunto and more than 80 other politicians were arrested in january. their defense teams accuse the authorities of denying them basic human and legal rights in courts the lawyers

all of them are not sitting. down because almost jazz most. cases are not in a good condition to be able to defend themselves human rights groups are calling for the immediate release of come and say it's part of a violent crackdown by the president against any form of dissent this is also occurring amidst a series of other issues happening in cameroon most pressing of which is the crisis that continues to unfold in the end before the regions and we've also seen the courts who used against separatist leaders in these regions as well. the trial has been adjourned to next month after one of the accused a former advisor to president collapse in court. and. a prisoner swap between russia and ukraine is believed. to buses were seen traveling with police escort from a moscow jail to an airport early saturday the exchange is expected to involve 24

ukrainian sailors captured near the crimean peninsula last november and accused of illegally entering russia $35.00 prisoners on each side so a total of 70 prisoners are being exchanged now this what follows here is a conflict involving russian backed separatists in eastern ukraine and also new efforts to revive stalled peace talks under simmons reports. they set sail of a holders and ended up behind bars in russia 22 ukrainian soldiers and 2 members of the country's security services they were captured by the russian navy which opened fire on their 3 boats here in the kurdish strait 9 months ago russia says they legally entered its waters near the crimean peninsula seized by russia from ukraine in 2014 a british. let me draw your attention to the fact that they trespassed in russian territorial waters which were russian even before crimea joined the russian

federation that is in the place where russian territorial waters have always been used. the kurds strait gives the only access to ukrainian ports in the sea of as of but it's now largely under russian control and tensions in the region are high. in july this russian tanker was seized by the ukrainians who said it had been involved in the capture of their sailors the russian crew were later released president putin had been pressured by the european union and the united states to release the sailors an international tribunal had also ordered russia to immediately release the men and their ships the kremlin refused. several of the member of portly move from labor camps in different parts of russia to a single jail in moscow ahead of their exchange with russians being held in ukrainian prisons all russia seize control of crimea 5 years ago after sending in

troops it's also still backing separatists in a war with ukrainian forces in eastern ukraine when 10000 people have been killed since the fighting began 5 years ago. ukraine's new president little mierzwinski says he wants to revive peace negotiations with russia he's been courting european leaders recently. have already spoken by phone the prisoner exchange could be an important step towards further dialogue and to simmons'. india space agency has lost contact with its moon lander as it made its final approach it was scenes of disappointment in the mission control center it's not known if the unmanned lunar lander named crashed or whether it suffered a technical fault job or has more from new delhi. there is a palpable sense of disappointment in india as many stayed up late in the night to

watch the landing of the moon but in the last few seconds the contact was lost chief of india's space research organization adelia said that the last 15 minutes of full of terror and terrifying they indeed were the one that is disappointment there is also sympathy for the scientists who are undertaking such an endeavor and scientists believe that even though it has failed the data has so far been collected would be useful in finding out why it's failed and what can be learned at the end of it from this exercise sympathies also that because this is a very cost effective mission the indian government spend $150000000.00 that's about half of what was used in producing hollywood movie the average joes so how did succeed it would have been a lesson for scientists all over the world to find out how these missions can be conducted in a cost effective manner other than that the stated mission stated goal of the mission was to research lunar soil to take the images of lunar soil and send them to the earth in the last such mission india india's had tried to search for water

and this time the focus was on lunar soil it has failed bot prime minister modi has said very reassuring words of the scientists implying that there will be a next time. pakistan's prime minister a mon khan has mocks national defense day by visiting the line of control in kashmir india's sponsor crisis last month when it revolts the autonomy of its part of the disputed region and enforce a military law down. his forces stand ready to confront india white house economic adviser larry kudlow is warning that a trade war between china and the united states could take years to resolve both sides of increase and added in recent weeks affecting global moch a sense of pride chains despite some disruption they are opportunities for businesses in asia hi larry or somebody. with trade negotiations between the world's 2 biggest economies still

a work in progress china's close and reliant neighbors are feeling the impact. on the outskirts of bangkok wrote the poem love runs a house where a company started by his father the medium sized business is heavily dependent on china factories their supply raw materials wrought upon uses to manufacture products for his thai customers the trade war is costing him money but despite that he sees an upside. i think is a benefit to be made china may have all the material that i need but here we have skilled labor who know the art and craft we can export our products without going through china worry about the trade will in one high profile case thailand has actually won new business as a result of chinese tariffs on u.s. goods u.s. motorcycle giant harley davidson announced that it's moving the manufacturing of its china bound bikes from the u.s. to thailand by the end of the year this to avoid tariffs levied on imports of american vehicles. the company had actually opened

a factory in thailand before the trade war to supply the growing east asia market but an economic advisor to one of thailand's largest companies warns of a threat not just to thailand but to the global supply chain if china and the us can't settle their differences. clear go going to last longer they're going to have. long lasting chanting of the daleks and out of supplies here . to be continued i say that if seem to me to actually not now going to be me could have become all in the now don't know rise that you called me that means china will rely less on neighboring countries for materials and goods producing more of it so that the bad news for countries like thailand its largest export market is china the economy here relies heavily on its big neighbor to the north so businesses could be forced to recalibrate their supply chains it's got harder al-jazeera bangkok and investigation has been launched in several u.s.

states cinta whether facebook competition and putting its uses at risk the new york state attorney general is leading the. it's part of a wider check on anti-competitive practices among major dishful companies reportedly including google amazon and apple mike hanna has the details. most of those investigations are federal investigations that are being carried out in a number of companies particularly google and facebook but this particular move that was announced by the new york attorney general in the course of the day is different it's a number of states coming together the attorneys general from at least 8 states who are coming together to jointly probe the activities of facebook at this particular stage now the significance of this is that it is a bipartisan investigation facebook would be unable to say that there are political motivations behind such an investigation now the new york attorney general

outlining the probe has said that it's going to be focusing on facebook's dominance in the market and the way in which the stahmann and squid be misused it is going to look at facebook's use of consumer data about whether it is responsible for the increase in the cost of advertising so it's a widely spread very significant investigation last time a major investigation an antitrust investigation such as this was done on this basis was concerning microsoft 2 decades ago when attorneys general came together to launch a bipartisan investigation so a significant move indeed. the headlines this hour on al-jazeera iran says there isn't much time left to save the 2050 nuclear deal and is now has the ability to enrich uranium to a high level the country's atomic energy agency has announced it said major step in

scaling back its commitments under the agreement doorstep perry has more from tehran. according to the spokesperson for iran's nuclear energy organization whose tunnel vandy iran will no longer be limited to pursue its research and development program when it comes to its nuclear facilities the announcement was made because the iranians have said out to the europeans are not upholding their end of the deal this announcement means that iran is going to go ahead and it has as of friday placed advanced centrifuges in nuts hands nuclear facility to speed up its nuclear program meanwhile a u.s. satellite image appears to show an iranian tanker which was held by british authorities in gibraltar now anchored at a syrian port present donald trump's national security advisor john bolton has tweeted the image which he says shows iran was lying about the destination of the adrian daria one the number of people who've been killed as

a result of hurricane dorian in the bahamas has risen to at least 43 but government officials say the final figure could be much higher as 100 just unaccounted for authorities are now focused on bringing in food safe drinking water and shelter the trial of sudan's deposed president omar al bashir is continuing today he was formally charged last week with corruption and the illegal use of foreign funds the sheriff says the $25000000.00 he received from saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin salman wasn't useful private purposes is lawyer says his client denies all charges against him. a prisoner swap between russia and ukraine is believed started 2 buses were seen traveling with police escort from a moscow jail to an air force exchange expected to involve 24 ukrainian sailors sailors captured near the crimean peninsula last november and very legally entry russia swap comes at a time of renewed efforts to revive stalled peace talks between the 2 countries those are the headlines here on al-jazeera coming up next it's

a listening post to stay with. the cost of priceless results under threat the amazon rain forest is a blaze and its links to brazil's drive for would be a sort of production look at that plus as yet always global ambitions which have left investors seeing some big losses. counting the costs on al-jazeera. and the question of china monstrous crime taking place. region is now. still. think it would tell you. the story this is possibly the story of china's efforts to cover. hello i'm richard gives birth you're watching a special edition of the listening post it is not clear how many people are currently being held against their will by the state in the chinese province of sindh jack however conservative estimates put the number of ethnic weaker and other

muslim minorities held under some form of detention since 2017 at between one and 1500000 the apparent goal of the authorities to assimilate aggressively the minority wigger population with the much already han chinese beijing calls this its response to the threat of the quote 3 evils extremism terrorism and separatist. the tools at the state's disposal a combination of word of mouth informer based survey alliance and the latest technologies facial recognition voice pattern sequencing d.n.a. profiling along with some good old fashioned propaganda beijing and the media outlets it controls don't call them internment camps or prisons there are centers for re-education or even thought transformation foreign media outlets are mostly locked out of the profits or have seen their sources dry up or disappear getting an accurate informative story out of there is not easy later in this program we'll

look at the effect that we good journalists in the diaspora and internet sleuths outside of china have had in the news coverage but 1st the listening posts in actually ravi with a look at the shifting narratives and the occasionally orwellian language in the chinese news media in defense of the state's policies and practices in sin jack. just traveling. international reporting of this story began slowly in 2017 journalists had already heard of surveillance in china's should jog egypt with body checks facial recognition technology and food monitoring. but there were whispers about other more disturbing developments people are really frightened of speaking out so we've traveled to meet to we are willing to talk to us but this is not just. boomers of mass detentions of legal stories of vast camps and of

people vanishing for your viewing said they had received credible reports of some 1000000 weak or speak held in internment camps the silence from the chinese state was deafening initially it had nothing to see then came the denials including at the united nations the argument that i'm in way worse i didn't reject the centers. is completely true 2018 though the journalism had become more detailed 3 years ago the syria was just approaching. its a detention center measuring more than half a 1000000 square metres the reporting was much more difficult to refute and it forced to change in beijing's messaging strategy. to be 162018 the chinese state broadcaster c.c.t.v. aired a 15 minute documentary about what they called vocational training center. function

then. it told the story of what the chinese government wanted to communicate about always happening and change out which was there was radical extremism there was terrorism there was. the government was fighting this as part of this worldwide battle against terrorism was how they framed it you had a number of pieces in nationalist publications like global times. it's all the same you see both as chinese language media push not so much acknowledging that that there are weaker is who are in detention but kind of trying to spin it basically into something that's a softer more voluntary form of detention and then there was also a cultural aspect which is the idea that they are not you know stifling

we are a culture they are preserving it. originally the young. people are allowed to do ethnic dances make their traditional make their traditional markers so their narrative has been changing over time based on how in the ass. community has been responding reacting so this public misinformation campaign sport started last august and it's happening to this day. is weaker he advocates and campaigns for legal rights from his base in washington d.c. took aim has been deceptive in the chinese official narrative i don't see john for years he and other army lists point to a framework of institutional islamophobia and a sense of superiority amongst the country's ethnic majority the hunt chinese they

see this underlies the narrative of extremism culturally alienation and the need for the state to keep a lid on a potentially explosive situation in sin jug victor gao is on the other side of this debate he's a media commentator who frequently takes issue with western media coverage for underpin bombings by we go separatists through the ninety's and early 2006 as well as the riots in sindh junks capital in 2009 when you reported the situation in she jar you need to report about the threat which does exist. i think the chinese government has all along being persistent in expressing that there are no concentration camps there are facilities and these facilities are mostly meant for education and training purposes. should you low food. you may or may far shipping jobs. and the western reports are fake

news and misleading these are places where adults wear uniforms. but where they don't go home at the end of the day. but sleep up to 10 or a cop all the world the people in the world with fake news they call it the 3 forces of terrorism. next separatism and extremism sunday should be. so they use that as kind of the face of what had happened before the security forces moved in in 2014 and made everything much safer there was a an hour long c.c.t.v. documentary that was aired this past march and they go into 2009 a room to riots some of the bus bombings that happened in the ninety's they interview the victims of those bombings the show the burned out buses dead bodies

you know in the wreckage from russian t.v. shooting and they keep kind of playing this footage over and over and then using that to justify this thousands of terrorist attacks number which we don't have any specific reference for the chinese government has been very effective in its misinformation campaign it is the long going as we speak she didn't because government has shown 0 tolerance for political dissent it would be difficult for anyone to come out and express sympathy for any issue as sensitive as do we shoot for the past 3 years has been administered by hardline officials who have intensified the campaign of propaganda imprisonments and so-called deed radicalisation this is come in the midst of one of the most stringent phases of national government under the leadership of xi jinping we did question both good

and national government for interviews we got no response. the latest numbers compiled by human rights campaigners showed that 52 journalists have been locked up in. it isn't just we good media professionals though. is a hunch chinese photographer he was picked up in a room she in november last year there's been no sign of him since numerous chinese journalists editors even academics have been swept up even when their work didn't actually take issue with chinese policies. journalists are faced with dangers everywhere in the world many journalists are killed and if you report about the pressures faced with journalists. trying to be objective i don't think journalists or international are faced with any other or more dangerous pressures compared with any other countries in the world one of the most dramatic examples is

in one totti who's a professor from beijing who had a website publishing kind of every year and in chinese and essentially trying to bridge that gap to try to have actual real harmonious relations between the ethnicities and he was detained and sentenced to life in prison. is a major story that is not exactly breaking news the camps were established 5 years ago in 2014 but over the past 3 years they've grown larger taking in hundreds of thousands more readers and they've become more secretive phone journalists have finally forced the chinese authorities to acknowledge the existence of the camps which is a start just about everything else about the story the people held there the truth of what's happening to them and the flow of information is under control. while the chinese media continue to take their orders from beijing on this story

one outlet has been vital to international coverage of sin jack radio free asia service is funded by the us government and it has a track record of breaking news on sin jack it was among the. 1st to present facts and figures to back up the rumors of the so-called vocational training camps and it has since on earth dozens of stories on the crackdown informing foreign reporters and the we like for our f.a. we go stuff the singeing story hits on comfortably and dangerously close to home many say they have had family members arrested aleem say toff is the director of radio free asia as weaker service he joins us now from washington mr say tof thanks for joining us the listening post today ever since day one on this story are a week or has led the pack breaking news on sin jang how did your organization 1st learn of this policy and the existence of these huge detention camps in early

twenty's 17 we began to realize after interviewing chinese officials we were official as police officers and local residents that large numbers of we began to disappear then through our investigation by speaking to chinese officials we were able to confirm that in kosh car prefecture alone more than 120000 a week years have been arbitrarily and actress usually detained in this camps then we began to pay attention to other areas as well in the hut down prefecture for example just in $1.00 conti nearly 40 percent of the male adult population were taken to this camps gradually we realized the chinese government were detaining large scale numbers of weaker is and other ethnic indeed.