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puts them in the 3rd largest party because more of that constituency did come out to vote some 60 percent this time around compared to just under 50 percent in april zelenka sions there is some it seems dissension with within the ranks they've decided to have a vote we understand and then the vote that the decision which should take place before $530.00 local time it's about 10 past 5 here right now that would be binding if they did come out and recommend guns that would be the 1st time such a thing happened since 1902 it signifies a couple of things firstly they want to engineer the downfall of benjamin netanyahu they've made that very clear but also they have an agenda to try and get more engaged least their leadership does that the leader of the of the joint mr i'm a nobody wants to get more engaged in israeli politics not simply make make speeches from the sidelines and talk about palestinian national issues they want to get more engaged in israeli domestic politics
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a survey out today suggested 80 percent woods would support of their constituency would support supporting a government from outside 46 percent even entering a coalition that isn't on the cards but there is an important shift potentially underway will get the news on that very shortly all right thanks very much for now harry harry for that live in less serious than. that have been more protests in egypt demanding the resignation of president abdul fattah el-sisi dozens of people were arrested after friday's lots large or rather is that you'll say denounce corruption oppression and poverty jamal reports was mass protests may be a rare sight in cc's egypt crackdown on dissent is not. in suez and government protesters who gathered for the 2nd night in a row were confronted by police and other security personnel. who fired tear gas and other forms of ammunition at what appear to be unarmed demonstrators egyptians
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1st took to the streets on friday evening demanding that former army general turned president of the fatah to sisi resigns in cairo was the numbers weren't huge their voices were loud and clear i was in alexandria egypt 2nd city people angered by corruption poverty and oppression called for the same the people demand the fall of the regime in months laura and mahalla as well as several other cities what appears to be a nationwide movement has begun to form these protests come off the back of revelations by a former military contractor named mohammed ali who exposed millions of dollars worth of embezzle months and theft of state funds by c.c. and his family at a time when the egyptian president has introduced sweeping austerity measures claiming the government has no longer able to subsidize living costs on saturday i'll be released another video giving c.c. a one week ultimatum i am still waiting for a response from the defense minister and security forces saying the c.c.
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is out he is no longer fit for this next friday is his ultimatum says i'm waiting for that decision and the next step is a multi 1000000 man march we started in our local streets but next friday we will take to the major square as. mohammed ali is not a political leader but. message has resonated with menu gyptian as the majority of whom live on just $2.00 a day or less that it was 0 the people are starving my life's savings have evaporated why why decease to starve us while he lives in the curious palaces why is he trying to humiliate us he is supposed to be a public servant working for us this season who is in new york for the united nations general assembly denies corruption allegations describing them as lies that banned all unauthorized protests after he led the military coup which deposed egypt's 1st democratically elected president mohamed morsi 6 years ago tens of
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thousands of egyptians were arrested and jailed in the government crackdown which followed now human rights watch is calling on the egyptian government not to repeat past mistakes urging leaders to protect the right to peaceful protest in upholding egypt's obligations under international human rights law or 30 should immediately release old days arrested for soli exercising their rights whilst there are parallels that can be drawn with the 2011 uprising which led to the ousting of autocratic president hosni mubarak the situation today is also different the may still be early to predict how these protests will end and whether they will force regime change or not what is undeniable though is that for many egyptians the current status quo of poverty corruption and oppression is not an option. or just. those protests have followed president says he to new york for the u.n.
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general assembly and his use to me president. protested outside his hotel accusing him of war crimes. still to come here in nicaragua use tear gas and rubber bullets on protesters who are demanding the president step down plus. for the club the way plans to. actually. go. hello there's been some rain in shanghai's a costal from the western edge of what is almost a typhoon just screen there as a tropical storm on its way to south korea so it's left behind effectively almost the northeast monsoon it's a dry picture still quite warm 27 in shanghai and 30 thereabouts the most places to get to the higher ground further west and here's any place you go to find rain in
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your non maybe sichuan mostly a politician plateau where clearly it's not cold enough for snow even the south china sea is largely devoid of shares if you will form if you will hit the coast of vietnam for example and equally the same line of latitude got the monsoon rains which are slowly receding but they seem to start recently in mudgee british good year out towards the poles are under pressure as well and that line will see yet more right on both monday and tuesday is not confined to here there is rain for the south including in strolling but this looks still like the the bit that won't go away so you're like result of that you've still got fairly active weather that humid breeze running into sudden a monstrosity of the cloud break recently how if he's no longer consistent but to the north east he's fairly quiet temperatures nearly 40 in doha still humid.
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big stories generate sound sense of headlines it seems that much the media is still struggling with how to deal with it with different angles from different perspectives how do you hold a lawyer to separate the spin from the facts. the misinformation from journalism how careful must be your words but some tough stuff has to be said some critics have to be made listening post on al-jazeera. to take over the top stories hear it out as their president has some rouhani says
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iran will present a plan to the u.n. which is designed to secure the gulf without the need of foreign intervention president rouhani said an american that they will task force i mean threatens the region. police in hong kong have used tear gas in sharp tin district after anti-government protesters set small fires outside a shopping mall earlier crowds took over the mall transiting business is linked to mainland china. and israel's president has started talks with a rival political leaders aimed at choosing the next prime minister neither prime minister benjamin netanyahu nor his main rival benny gantz could muster enough votes for a majority government. and police have fired tear gas and rubber coated bullets until government protests is in injuring 2 people president daniel ortega has opponents say he's corrupt and they got to go. they want an election president will take of those says they're trying to stage a coup but tory
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a case in the reports. this latest protest organized by opponents of president daniel t. that turned violent almost immediately. as protest as approached riot police in the capital managua on saturday they were met with tear gas rubber bullets and stun grenades known as splash bangs the final the day one of the senior commanders grabbed one of those flash bangs and threw it directly on my forehead and it exploded and that got me disoriented and i passed out. mass protests started in april last year at 1st nicaraguans demanded social security reform then their demands grew into a movement against tika and the government over the past 17 months at least $300.00 nicaraguans have been killed and tens of thousands have fled the country more than $100.00 political prisoners are in jail. for the day as
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a mother i feel uncomfortable because freedom is freedom of expression 2 we have the right as a country to express ourselves we have the right to speak up but here where held captive they don't let us speak freely. has described his opponents as violent terrorists inciting a coup against him since the crisis began a government crackdown has targeted human rights groups journalists and activists. let me know today we are marching in memory of matt romero the young man who was murdered on september 27th by a sniper when he merely exercise his right to peaceful protest we're marching for political prisoners there are more than 120 political prisoners who are still in prison the government bans on hold for iced protests but rallies like this show that opponents are in no mood to give up on their demand for change victoria gates and be out there. the world health organization is taking the rather unusual step
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of complaining to turns an ear about its failure to share information about the a bowl of virus that turns on in government denies it was confirmed in 2 patients who suffered from an unknown illness recently the w.h.o. says tanzania hasn't handed over any clinical data up to now tanzania shares a border with the democratic republic of congo where more than 2000 people have died of it in the past year. the world's oldest travel companies fighting to stay in business lenders are threatening to pull out of a 1000000000 dollar rescue deal with thomas cook the british company needs to find a further 250000000 to avoid collapse that threatens to leave tens of thousands of people stranded on holiday and could mean the loss of around 20000 jobs or dozens of thomas cook customers at a resort in tunis here say they are being held hostage the guests say they've been prevented from leaving by hotel staff unless they pay extra fees the result said
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that the money is what is owed to them by the tour company by thomas cook those who paid a reported the been refunded by the tour operator alex which heiresses an aviation analysts and economists for the gulf times and he says thomas cook has been fighting to stay relevant for quite a while now. well get your business model of thomas cook is considered dated by many now and that's because it really does face severe fierce competition from low cost carriers from tour operators from people who just want to take trips into their own hands and using the likes of air b.n. b. so they've really had to been forced to modernize and ultimately the modernization that has taken place is an up to scratch when you compare it with those competitors and so slowly they have suffered a fall in demand as well as a variety of external factors everything from political unrest for example some of their destinations think tunisia egypt and of course dare i say rex it which has
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weakened travel demand from the u.k. so it is a british company isn't there but it has it operates in many other parts of europe it does and this is why if thomas cook fall into administration which could there is a strong likelihood of this happening later this evening with an announcement tomorrow and it's expected that parts of the group will be picked up by other companies who are or to many circling and interested in some profitable parts of the company not least lufthansa they would really like to grab on to the german subsidiary airline that thomas cook have this is a huge company it will be a significant loss to the industry the leader of britain's main opposition labor party is facing internal fighting over the brics it jerry corbin's due to address the party faithful at the annual conference after intervening to stop a motion to deputy tom watson had been arguing repeatedly with others in the party about his call for a 2nd referendum that the barber has the latest from the conference in brighton on
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the english south coast. well it's the 1st full day of conference here in brighton and already labor have outlined some key policy pledges like scrapping medical prescriptions in england reforming the way schools are assessed and so on but those deep divisions keep bubbling to the surface even before it started there was a sudden attempts to get rid of the post of deputy leader that's held by tom watson who's seen as somebody who's far more programme main than jeremy corbett himself says that he will stay in his post about he's talked about creating a 2nd deputy leader and now the key splits brecht's it we've seen some of the shadow cabinet actually appear at a rally approach remain rally on sunday when the party leader was pushed on whether in an upcoming election he would campaign for remain he remains noncommittal if you negotiate what you regard as a good brics a deal with brussels do you then campaign for it or not let's see what we get and
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we'll put that final decision to british people make that decision at that time the moment i'm saying who let you know you've got no deal well we don't you know regulations you we got the deals but we don't know if we got it why can't you tell us because i don't know if we got it yet which only corbin's also said that he and other opposition leaders would try to stop the prime minister johnson trying again to suspend parliament if the supreme court rules on monday that his previous suspension was unlawful and why does that matter so much because everybody's aware there could be a general election just around the corner everyone's in pre-election mode everybody's trying to get their message straight and that's the message from many of the young activists here in brighton labor needs a clear stance on bricks it should give the electorate. illegal gold mining is threatening a spectacular part of south america 98 percent of french guiana is covered by the surgeon rain forest but miners from neighboring brazil illegally moving in clock
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has to start. french guiana has what is a rare wealth in this day and age and natural wealth you have to take to the air to get a measure of it. it is a stunning wilderness as yet relatively untouched this is one of the most forested territories on earth the outer reaches of amazonia the canopy spreading apparently forever in all directions there are few roads into the interior we travel by helicopter or by water. but that hasn't stopped people getting in in search of wealth of another color the biggest pretty thing strays their life is gold and lots of it the price of gold is high and last week is their guardian pat also illegal gold mine. were in the air for just 10 minutes when we chanced upon this a great scar in the green and elicit gold mining operation down below the mine is
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c.s. and scatter there's a futile attempt to hide equipment here someone throwing a water pump into a mining palm. trees have been ripped out and mercury used in the mining process would have leaked into the soil and waterways most of the miners cross illegally from brazil to make a landing. it's a problem of destruction of chasing an emotion and rebirth we fly on and see evidence of more activity around $400.00 illegal mind sites in french guiana extracting an estimated 10 tons of gold annually worth nearly half a $1000000000.00. on the ground of a scientific research station we meet the head of this french territory. we have 600 soldiers power a minute she police and other services engaged daily in the fight against illegal gold mining 200 of these mostly soldiers police forestry and customs agents sleep
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nightly in the forest they lead patrols in small units of around 15 men. it's only when you enter the rainforest and you see and hear all its tremendous biodiversity you really begin to appreciate just what's at stake here. the tropics contains the world's biomass and rain forests a significant proportion of that. on his rain forest remains an invaluable resource to read mostly in time it's part of amazonia keeping it that way is the challenge. nick clarke al-jazeera french guiana. to take a look at the top stories here it out is there a president has time rouhani says iran will present a plan to the un which is designed to secure the gulf without the need of foreign
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intervention president rouhani said an american led naval task force only threatens the region show you jolly are we going to presume to plan at the u.n. so that iran in collaboration with regional states is able to maintain security in the persian gulf the strait of hormuz and the sea of oman to the world that the presence of foreign forces can cause insecurity for international waterways maritime movements and energy security but our approach will create solidarity unity and coordination with the countries of the region. police in hong kong of used tear gas in charlotte in district after anti-government protesters set small fires outside a shopping mall earlier the crowds took over the mall targeting businesses linked to mainland china. israel's president and started talks with rival political leaders aimed at choosing the next prime minister neither prime minister benjamin netanyahu nor his main rival benny gantz could muster enough votes for
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a majority government. protests have taken place in egypt for a 2nd night demanding the resignation of president abdul fattah el-sisi security forces fired tear gas at protesters in the streets of syria is. dozens of people were arrested after much larger rallies were held on friday and the process of follow the president's easy to new york he's there for the u.n. general assembly and is due to meet president tran egyptians rallied outside his hotel accusing him of war crimes. at least 26 people including children and soldiers have been killed in a bus crash in northwestern pakistan the bus was traveling on a winding mountain road in the chiller district when its last into a dirty embankment 20 passengers were injured police suspect the buses brakes failed. the world's oldest travel companies fighting to save business lenders are threatening to pull out of a $1000000000.00 rescue do you with thomas cook the british company needs another
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$250000000.00 to avoid collapse those are the headlines the list is next. on counting the cost billions spent on ads offenses but drones take out more than arabia's oil production and look at the knock on effect that pass the $30000000000.00 plan to move indonesia's sinking capital the importance of the dollar to argentina counting the costs on al jazeera. c.b.s. news distorting the record you. are. becoming i mean i mean. i'm a chicago journalist. where our planet is headed next week i'm actually. connect the dots between climate change extreme weather. hello i'm richard burton you're at the listening post here are some of the media stories that we're covering this week planet s.o.s. climate change was breaking news long ago why have the mainstream media been so
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slow and so poor in covering the inside story from the favelas of rio de janeiro the locals say they get a raw deal from news outlets on the outside so they've taken the covering their story themselves and al jazeera journalist has been in jail in egypt for 1000 days now and still has not been charged with committing a crime and as chinese kids return to school there are lessons to be learned from the state. record heat waves in europe and africa droughts in southern india on an unprecedented scale hurricanes more frequent and violent than ever and wildfires in of all places the arctic the global news media are after decades of looking the other way finally waking up to what scientists have long called an emergency climate change. take covering climate now it's an alliance of more than $300.00 media outlets including this one currently running one week's worth of climate coverage in the lead up to
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a summit on the subject in new york city the short fall in the coverage of climate change and the shortcomings expose the ugly irresponsible side of modern journalism particularly the corporate conduct the chase for ratings and revenues in the media are complicit in and not just observers of an economy dependent on fossil fuels and that's a big part of the problem our starting point this week once again is the planet earth. a global media consortium a journalistic collective the size and reach of which is commensurate to the story and news agencies like bloomberg a.f.p. in france and getty images u.s. television networks and c.b.s. indias news 18 s v t in sweden and al-jazeera in qatar asahi shimbun and. the most widely read
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newspapers in japan and italy respectively more than 300 media outlets on 6 continents with a combined audience of more than a 1000000000 people all brought together by 2 american publications the nation magazine and the columbia journalism review to talk about one issue climate change i thought there is a critical mass of journalists out there who want to be doing more and better climate coverage and that's what led to this project covering climate now and it has been remarkable to see the way that so many outlets have stepped up big outlets small outlets radio t.v. print online and all over the world so much of the climate journalism that we do. it's about our country it's very insular and this is a global issue and especially a lot of the polluters cross borders today i was reading a story about 30 systems in philadelphia and we have the exact same problems and
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you have here where we are so. this seemed like an opportunity to join up museums and tell our audience for a week that here is an issue that the whole world is dealing with. the consortium strategy was to have all of its members churning out a week's worth of environmental reporting leading up to september 23rd and the start of a major climate conference in new york city for participants like india's hindustan times and south africa's mail and guardian the core subject is the same the story is markedly different so in south africa one of the big problems we have is we have such a big carbon footprint as a nation right but if you look at india i balk at their emissions are extremely low they're lower lower than the world average power utility eskom. which is a petro chemicals company and a few other industries these are all valid because of the apartheid regime where both these incredibly polluting industries that affect the communities that live next to them and they also have
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a huge impact on using carbon emissions it's good to put a human face to the climate change story and i think this is an opportunity to do that and at the same time track the conference in new york track it as effectively as possible look at what the government here is doing and what it plans to announce as impressive as the consortium's joint output has been the question begged is what took them so long the new york times had this page one story on a scientist working for nasa predicting much of what we are seeing today record heat waves droughts and sea level rises if global warming went on checked that piece was written 31 years ago in 1908. what followed has been not just a failing of governments but of news media as well part of which is a continuing failure to connect the dots on us broadcast networks a.b.c. c.b.s. and n.b.c. all recently gorged on the coverage of hurricane dorian some of the windows here in
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the. over 8090 miles an hour but of the 216 segments they put to air over a one week stretch only one mentioned the possible causal context climate change one very few journalists have covered the climate change beat since that new york times article in 1908 the guardian's george monbiot is among them why has it taken this long and this concerted a lobbying effort to get the media outlets where they need to be on this story if you look at the billionaire press newspapers owned by billionaires they have a very clear interest in not emphasizing climate breakdown. because doing so directly offends the commercial interests of the billionaire class as a whole in the broadcast media it's long been perceived as counter aspirational so they can have something on this stunning caribbean island and the programs they
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like to make are all about wonderful houses and amazing things you can buy great holidays you can go on. and climate breakdown and environmental breakdown more generally the specter at the feast saying actually all this apparent progress is progress towards disaster there's been a lair of top executives in the media who have been not just indifferent to these issues but to really hostile to them i've met journalists from mexico from india from southeast asia who all tell me the same thing they themselves as journalists the desperate to cover the issues but the senior figures within their organizations just keep mixing it keep saying that. because in the end money talks and when it does many media outlets listen and song go quiet
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since the paris climate agreement of 2016 the 5 biggest publicly traded or oil and gas companies have spent around a $1000000000.00 trying to shift the narrative on climate change some of that is spent on lobbying that happens out of the public eye but it also pays for the branded content advertising you may have seen on a newspaper's website and should the weather change again and you'll get to step in to keep the power flowing and the night shining or the ads that have grown common on the american airwaves slick feel good messaging it's getting the attention you deserve but the privacy you desire at a time when the standard of covering climate change is finally improving advertising often works against the journalists and with media starved of revenue like never before news outlets face a dilemma take the ad money or leave it you have to rely on advertising so at the mail and guardian. we have a strict divide between the commercial side and the editorial side but we can veto
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adverts if we think they're not in line with our editorial policy or being allies basically so we do try and hold their adverts to a better standard but you know you you need money to do journalism sort of the moment this is where the money is i want to talk about something you wrote way back in 2007 the editorials urge us to cut our emissions the urge us to raise them do you see a tension between those 2 imperatives the tension is is almost overwhelming sometimes i get a lot of complaints from readers about it and it's right across. all the media you get the advertisement splashing us towards what we know is disaster i would like to see media outlets ceasing to take advertising for oil companies for gas companies for cars for planes for holidays which require flights and i don't think that's too
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much to ask these are industries which. should be on the way out anyway. as impressive as the list of companies that took part in all that climate change coverage is the list does not tell the full story consider the organizations you do not see here the ones that chose not to take part for reasons ranging from the journalistic to the ideological to the merely commercial i did make efforts to reach out to most of the biggest u.s. news organizations to invite them to be part of covering climate now new york times has declined washington post decline the wall street journal declined los angeles times declined c.n.n. declined n.b.c. news declined a.b.c. news declined they did not want to look like they were part of a campaign or trying to push
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a certain agenda on their readers we differ with that point of view we think that it fundamentally misses a key aspect of journalism which is the trying to cut through the fog and tell citizens here's what you need to know about your world here's what you can do about it. we're looking at other media stories that are on our radar this week with one of our producers you know actually rafi nina the media in egypt are severely restricted under the government there but there is one very public dissenting voice going after the president himself what can you tell us about him this person who's speaking out richard is very well known in egypt he's a film and t.v. actor his name is muhammad ali and over the past few weeks he's been posting numerous half hour long video on facebook and you tube and he's doing it from spain . well actually it's a. game about. what happens here but it's not. now it's
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not surprising i really felt he had to leave egypt in order to see some of the things he's saying he's gone where few others in egypt would dare to go. i knew he had extensive dealings with the egyptian military and says he saw up close clear cases of corruption and embezzlement by president sisi his wife and their inner circle these videos richard have been going crazy online they've been getting millions of views and many of those views are within egypt so how are the egyptian media dealing with this given that criticism of the president there is such a no no well these videos have been seen as so incendiary that president himself came out to respond he was at a conference in cairo when he spoke about allegations. will tell you know the. liberal beliefs. how to close a deal with a totally. we haven't seen such a public challenge against president c.c. before now that's in part due to the fact that the suppression and targeting of
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independent journalism has been so effective among the hundreds of journalists who are currently in jail in egypt there is as on mahmoud hussein who's been held without any charge for more than a 1000 days all right the other story we're looking at is in great britain the continuing chaos over brock's it and david cameron the prime minister who set this whole process off with that referendum called 3 years ago decides to choose this particular moment to launch a publicity tour yeah i mean cameron's been all over the british waves and he's promoting his autobiography. it was the moment he was finally in front of the camera and under the spotlight the leadership election collapse and so it came to an end very quickly and i hated leaving the job that i love serving the country and he's appeared on just about any t.v. or radio platform that will have him and is even the subject of a 2 part b.b.c. documentary on his time in office the candidate is the prime minister who called that referendum on britain's membership of the e.u. even though he said he himself is and he brags that history probably won't treat
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him kindly but the british media largely have helping him sell copies of his book which haven't exactly been flying off the shelves in the u.k. ok thanks mina. consider what you know or think you know about the favelas of rio de janeiro those sprawling hillside communities that are as synonymous with rio as the city's iconic beaches perhaps you see favelas as the brazilian media and many international news outlets have depicted them lawless communities virtual no go zones for police where the only realistic solution is a security show of force that prevailing view that the favelas need to be brought under control plays well for 2 politicians in particular president joe your boss a narrow and rio's governor wilson vets all both have given police more authority to use lethal force in the favelas through an ongoing shoot to kill policy and they routinely defend officers who kill on the job however there is an alternative media
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narrative coming out of the favelas that is emerged through community based journalistic collectives they use video footage posted on social media to document police violence and security abuses to counter the dominant mainstream media narrative on one of brazil's most important stories the listening post often now on 2 of those collectives topple and not a.v. and the work they do. they begin early in the morning when the for bella is the fleet getting ready for what police raids that come without warning and turned resident into hostages in their own time in the middle sold the 1st one of my days of a helicopter gunship it's very disturbing. that you speak with residents from all over the complex people give guidance as
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a method of defense be careful when going to such and such street the police tank is there with thank you write the information and decide where to share and when you. i'm told one of those was able to turn the favelas into a war zone and we share information in order to minimize the damage to people's lives not only physical damage but psychological too which is more serious for the residents our facebook page works as an information tool so they can feel safe it was a bizarre. time for thurso this is what it was the importance of these media collected it's easy mets mainly to fill a void left by the mass media and why is that because the press doesn't enter that because these are territories where the state is not present so if they thought is going to start with something. they are the food bellows an egg. media collectives like my t.v. v.m.
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pop will have to fill an information void. one that's especially dangerous during the net daily military raids in the battle the collective gather photos videos and information in real time you can share them with residents on facebook and watch. the decades rear security forces have operated with almost total impunity in the for the focus of the full disclosure below for you what you're going to tell us a little soap and they all want to tell us a little bit about this is that you want to facing off with residents occupying and invading hun. but not without pushback from the media collective well it's reading listlessly the scene there was several instances where we used our videos to get justice there was the case of it why do dishes lose a 10 year old boy who was shot by a soldier the 1st thing the residents did was called up where we wanted our video
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to serve as evidence of the crime scenes to avoid someone moving the body or placing a gun in the child's hand the policeman wouldn't allow us in the area but we are from the favela the favela people have their own resources. another resident let us go up on his roof and we filmed everything from above a footage was used by the public defender in eduardo's case and it made news across the country. rio's favelas are more than 100 years old they are impoverished communities where the state has historically showing little interest in residents while being in the 1980 s. the drug trade pushed its way into the for about its trapping the population there between brutal warring gangs and police forces with a reputation for violent or brazil's president jaya both the novels and rio's
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governor wilson both support more extreme action. while that is also in the us regarding the question was what is the someone going to be sure that you will go this route you go to the source. the governor of recently took part in a police operation. because. residence a helicopter is used to fire indiscriminately and launch grenades on the ballot. rio's militarized security forces now kill an average of 5 people day brazil of its wall government officials say a war on drugs it's inside the favelas feels more like a war on the pole. was when they use the war metaphor to justify this kind of action they forget that in a war there's a ceasefire a curfew or a series of actions that should prevent the war becoming
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a genocide but both are not all as presidents and it's all israel's gov we have a synchrony of a state genocide policy we have a governor who wants to be rambo that was. my me i said me me do you think she about you and it needs to be said well that's all the plan. the security policy in which the excess is measured by the number of bodies left on the floor it's clear how this government's focus is on barbarism. how can anyone and violence if you increase the number of people killed rio's police have been more lethal than during the 5 governments that came before so how can anyone solve security issues if no one invests in inclusion policies police operations have always existed in the for values death has always existed unfortunately that's all the fellows are used for they only see the favelas through the sights of their rifles favela or both of the flu. brazil's
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mainstream media have a troubled relationship with the boys or for you to just say get a hold the favela the horse sing and all he would be if the majority of brazilians and the vast majority of the people of the bad of our of african descent the faces in the media and on the airwaves are disproportionately white when the media do report on the favelas it's for all the wrong reasons but. i must draw this is joyous the terminology can be problematic varies by his scumbag ideas bandy it. may be. an official voices are often privileged over voices from within the favela. many journalists have also embedded with security forces and train with the violence in
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time one to locals. big scale. however the dangers for journalists covering this beat our radios in 2002 to me a reporter from the largest t.v. network. with tortured to do. in what was called a macabre ritual of violence a trademark of the natori with drug lord he was investigating dubbed the madman by rios toppling the brutality of his mudda shocked brazilians not least knew that it's who have been reluctant to send reporters into the favelas everything. was a colleague of tim lopez. i'm not a press or p.r. officer for the mass media companies but we need to be fair here how can i as a journalist report those stories if i conquer in how i need to access these people's realities and what's the reality that we hear about it's violence bad news
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do. seem pretty high speed edging my guess that due to the impossibility of access despite the tremendous richness from the favelas we get just one story about them this is not coverage. to cover is to be there but we are not for instance this interview is being recorded in a posh neighborhood in the south would we be able to record this inside of a villa we would need authorization. it's very common to hear t.v. journalists say that they don't go into the favelas because it's too violent we can't deny some of that is true this interview for instance we should be doing it inside the limo but today was an intense day of gunfights it would be irresponsible to tell you come let's do it day if a journalist wants a scoop from inside the for that they should listen to
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a favela person but what we say doesn't have credit following thinking i just f y y and that a.v. are fundamental because they have a direct link with everyday life they listen to the residence they give visibility and amplify those voices to have alternative communication tools like not a.v. and pop poet so speaking out against the logic of war and the dehumanization of black bodies in the favelas is fundamental for my mental. rio's 5 a lot of the people of the favela face the political establishment hell bent on treating them as a hostile population as well as media outlets hindered by difficulties of access but also by bias and a tendency to peddle the narrative of war. amidst all this the media collectives b.v. or heter and the numerous others across rio tell stories from the inside broadcasting
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a reality seen through the lens of the family. and finally it's that time of year in many countries back to school time for students in china the 1st lesson of each year comes from the state and beijing's media apparat. yes as classes begin students and their parents are required to watch a television programme produced by the ministry of education and the national broadcaster c.c.t.v. the show is part of a government campaign to quote unify ideology on quote this year's theme of patriotism an hour and a half of flag waving history celebrating military cheering and achievement listing for any other authoritarian states and leaders who might be watching it's really a lesson in the art of propaganda we'll see you next time you're at the listening post. so
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look for to get all the women he want up with his own men she worked with local women to solve the main problem plaguing the community was motos that you called live action plan had been plainly and led the way in transforming your difficulty into a success so empowering a woman to meet you standing oklahoma. women make change on al-jazeera. this is 0. hello there i'm the star the attained this is the news out live from coming up in the next 60 minutes we do want a peaceful resolution of the so that's our objective america's top diplomat says the u.s. wants to avoid
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a war with iran and sending additional troops to the gulf is for defense and deterrence small that comes as iran's president says he'll present a gulf security plan to the u.n. as he warns foreign forces to stay out of the gulf. as rails president begins consultations to decide who should lead the new government. and hong kong's unrest continues with barricades tear gas and street battle. and on people's terms with all of sports sebastian vettel has won the singapore grand prix and at the ready will go up it's a bonus point win for oil and in the key poll match with scott. now u.s. secretary of state mike compares says the trumpet ministrations policy on iran is to avoid war. and that u.s. forces are in the region for defense the u.s.
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has been pointing the finger at iran after the recent attacks on saudi's oil facilities it's also stepping up its military presence saying it's a means of deterrence this year has seen continuing tension between the u.s. and iran following u.s. president donald trump abandonment of a deal and limiting around nuclear activities and return for the easing of sanctions 40 years of terror from this nation and they conduct is an attack on the oil fields one of the largest attacks on the global energy supply in history and so president trump strategy that we laid out 2 years ago is working and we are well on our way to forcing the iranian regime to ultimately make the decision to become a normal nation that's all we've ever asked and so the president a couple decisions on friday we tighten sanctions on the regime which put the revolutionary regime in a difficult position the iranian people applaud that they understand that their leaders are taking them in the direction that is not good for their country and we
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then announced that we're going to move some additional forces secretary defense talked about that on friday evening each of those is aimed at deterrence we do want to peaceful resolution of this that's our objective we hope that the attitude turns the work that we've done in the strait of hormuz to keep the straits open and now the additional air defense systems and capabilities that will put in the region will achieve just that well our correspondent john hendren is live for us in washington d.c. john we had pump a a call these around code attacks an act of war just days ago and now he's changing his tune. that's right and to pump a i was talking much more about diplomacy now as you mentioned when when this all happened he called it an act of war that had the american people and people around the world concerned that there would be a military retaliation by the u.s. but that's not what we've seen from the trumpet ministration what we've seen is them sending hundreds of troops to buttress the air defenses of saudi arabia and now you've got mike pompei talking about diplomacy the president on the other hand
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has been a little more reticent president trump said to reporters today nothing is ever off the table but i have no intention of meeting with iran and that's at the united nations general assembly a meeting where both he and his son rouhani of iran will be present trump says they will not be speaking but that doesn't mean that there will be lower level talks and it doesn't mean that there won't be talks through other intermediary states but there's definitely less bellicose rhetoric going on right now nevertheless you do have iran countering in a television interview this morning the foreign minister mohammad javad zarif says it's all going in the wrong direction and he said he's not confident that we can avoid a war he also said whoever starts the war won't be the one that finishes it so what's happening on the sidelines of the united nations general assembly that could potentially be an opportunity to try to deescalate some of the restaurant we've been hearing from by science. it could be if there are meetings and what we don't
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know is if those meetings will happen but the rhetoric from president trump and the rhetoric from his secretary of state is much more subdued you had rouhani offering an iranian plan he wants to keep the u.s. and other countries out of that region that is that is likely to be more of a that's not going to get a good response from president trump it's being widely considered here in the u.s. as a p.r. move but it's a precursor to what will ultimately have to be talks between these 2 countries if they are to avoid a military conflict john hendren in washington d.c. for us thank you very much john well president hassan rouhani says iran will present a plan to do united nations which is designed to secure the gulf without the need for foreign intervention he made that promise while watching parades showcasing his country is a military also will be has more from tehran. against the backdrop of
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a military parade iran's president proposed a new security plan for gulf waterways show your job we're going to presume to plan at the u.n. so that iran in collaboration with regional states is able to maintain security in the persian gulf the strait of hormuz and the sea of oman we announce to the world that the presence of foreign forces can cause insecurity for international waterways maritime movements and energy security our approach will create solidarity unity and coordination with the countries of the region. iran's peace plan comes at a critical time pushing a message of peace and hope in her moves at the un general assembly in new york rouhani will be trying to sink the latest american backed international coalition being formed in the middle east this time to patrol international shipping lanes in the gulf. the u.s. floated the idea of a maritime coalition after attacks on oil tankers earlier this year america and
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gulf allies blamed iran for the explosions investigators said they found no conclusive evidence to say who carried out the attacks countries that have joined the maritime patrol missions so far britain saudi arabia more recently australia and the united arab emirates following attacks on saudi oil plants last week also blamed on iran without definitive proof iran's leaders will be concerned about the u.s. plan gaining more support. not all him are those who want to link the region's incidents but the islamic republic of iran a line just like the apostles which have all been revealed if the truthful and really sick security in the region they must not seen with pins 5 digits bombs and dangerous to the region. this week of vents in cities across the country will mark the beginning of iran's 8 year war with iraq in 1900 gulf arab states supported venner rockey president saddam hussein something rouhani reminded iranians of in his speech but he also said that all can be forgiven if there is unity among
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islamic countries that the united states is only interested in dividing the region and pillaging resources and that the security of the region lasting security is only up to the people indigenous to the area. well for more on this. scene electron international studies. and he joins us now via skype from northern england mr maven what's rouhani is thinking behind all of this is this a conciliatory move or or a strategic effort to try to reconfigure some of the palette dynamics in the region . well thank you for having me 1st of all i think it's it's a bit of both to be honest i think that behind these movies is the latest in a long line of such strategies that articulate iran's position at the heart of the gulf and how and reigning in so long seeing themselves to be be the ones
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uniquely qualified to to walk and eyes regional security across the gulf so i think if we look back over the past almost 40 years now we will see a number of instances where iranian president and members of the leadership elite have articulated a version of this that says look if we want security we need to derive it through dialogue with members of our of of our own community members states from across the gulf and that's what i think this is it's the opening up of something while similar tape mislead the reassertion of iran's position these are the other states in the gulf and external forces well well we have yet to hear details of this plan was in your mind is it likely to involve them and is it realistic especially given the tensions that we're seeing in the region. yeah well that the speech that you've just been reporting on mr rouhani has been articulating this this vision that foreign powers the u.s. and western powers need to extricate themselves from the gulf they need to remove
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themselves because of their involvement which has brought devastation and had pretty negative consequences according to the army so i would imagine this vision this this strategy that's going to be secure later the general assembly will be along those lines a look at iran is is a long not sure all state with a long rich history and and it is uniquely qualified to preserve the security of the gulf but that security must be facilitated through dialogue with other members of the gulf states but there is no room for x. then all powers in this this regional security apparatus of course given the reason and the build seats in the saudis the iranians and the americans the type of rhetoric about to move will not be well received in riyadh and to be honest i can't see this getting off the ground if there is no place the united states in this this security architecture son may have been a senior lecturer in international studies at lancaster university thank you for your insights mr maven on al-jazeera. saudi aramco has told japan's top well
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distributor that it now wants to change its shipments from light crude to heavy or medium created beginning next month now saudi arabia had promised to have production back to normal by the end of september following those recent attacks on 2 of its major oil refineries at least 3 of the shipments to china and india have already been switched to heavy oil. israel's president has started talks with rival political leaders and to choose the country's next prime minister last week's election didn't produce a clear winner neither prime minister benjamin netanyahu nor his main rival benny gantz could muster enough votes from majority government now all parties will put forward their recommendations to president reagan revolution then he'll make that final decision and our correspondent harry foresaid joins us now live from west jerusalem how to talk us through how this process works and who holds most sway as we go into this. well it's underway right now here
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at the presidential residence in west jerusalem president rivlin has already met with representatives of benny gantz as blue and white party because they came 1st in the election with 33 seats he's currently either is still or just has met with the new could delegation in the party of benjamin netanyahu and the news from both of those meetings is that rivlin is very clear that he wants to see a unity government between those 2 parties says that that is what the votes suggest and that the only way of having a stable national unity government is to have one composed mainly at least of likud and blue and white of course the big stumbling block in that is that blue and white campaigned very much on removing that and you know replacing a you know saying that the corruption allegations against him the rhetoric which was referred to by law on one of the senior members.

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