war george w. bush made some news this past week alongside a television comedian walk us through that story so the story began richard last sunday at of all places a game of american football in dallas texas the talk show host in question ellen degeneres again a liberal comedian and she was photographed sitting alongside george w. bush in the game the reaction was immediate a lot of her fans were really disapproving of the company she was keeping remember george w. bush started the war in iraq in 2003 over nonexistent weapons of mass destruction and it caused the deaths of at least half a 1000000 iraqis and many legal experts say he should be tried as a war criminal so degeneracy then goes on camera filming her response to her critics were they buying the explanations she was offering there were some who were willing to accept what she said but by and large it did not go down well here's a clip of what she said i think i'm friends with george bush in fact i'm friends with a lot of people who don't share the same beliefs that i have we're all different and i think that we've forgotten that that's ok that we're all different for that

segment went viral hitting 20000000 views and going on for half a 1000000 likes on twitter however it also amplified the criticisms and one of the most cutting pieces of critique was actually unspoken it came from an activist in new york city called shimon of and he decided to edit degeneracy is video adding some images in disturbing ones showing the actual consequences of george w. bush's war for instance i wish people wouldn't wear fur i don't like it but i'm friends with people who wear fur and i'm friends with people who are furry as a matter of fact i have. tweets more that we do has now also gone viral despite the best efforts of ellen degeneres as producers who try to have it taken offline claiming copyright infringement we spoke with rafael schumann of the producer of that video so i objected to allen's video response because she really didn't respond she made it look like people are just upset that a liberal per. and is sitting with the conservatives in my research to find the

images so to lay in the background i had to actually censor myself and that was because the images i found were too horrific what she did there was erase iraqis and what i did with the video and it was reintroduced iraqi he definitely did bring the iraqis back into focus the victims of that water check this was the image from that video it was shared all across ocean media ok thanks mina. we're turning now to poland as the country heads into its parliamentary elections the populist law and justice party known as peace is hoping for reelection and amongst the tools at its disposal to secure victory is the public broadcaster television or t.v. the head of t.v. he is named yet sikorsky he is beyond loyal to the ruling party before getting that job almost 4 years ago was the deputy minister in the peace government he has made sweeping changes at p.v.p.

turning it into a propaganda machine that his political masters now rely on but he's not the only course in the media business in poland his older brother yet a suave effectively runs the country's biggest opposition newspaper because that the board think family feud only one with a few political and media angles to it the listening posts for phillips now on how the story of 2 brothers and the media outlets they run reflects a deeply divided country. 9 months ago happen to damage the longtime air of the polish port city of the dance was stabbed to death at a charity concert. punish down spend that much of his attacker a mentally unstable man had just been released from prison a prison where some say he was exposed to hour after hour of television for months

on an ongoing investigation into the man's personal finances. and looked around at these young. that's the mayor's widow the regime t.v. she's talking about is the taxpayer funded. public broadcaster. sky t.v. she says its output influence the killer. in 2008. talked about. almost $1800.00 times that's about 5 pieces a day on average. should all be your very tough you say all right i don't recall any level headed accounts of the investigations into his finances but if you

regularly watch t.v. you could easily have come to the conclusion that he represented a great danger to poland. but as a. part of the coverage of pavel a damn of it is just one of many critics say reflect badly on t.v. . especially its main news program. watched by more than 2000000 people every day even more in election season which is exactly why poland is now between european elections 5 months ago and parliamentary elections this weekend. the stories on t.v. changed the tone and its reflection the florin justice party policy. they have a pattern in the beginning we usually have information about the government's biggest achievement of the day video. effect is something

that we hear about the opposition that is absolutely helpless and cannot match the government's great success programme of. the one issue how those stories are supported by images from their time in office hammering home how terrible life was back. of trucks accompanied her. during. a european parliamentary election campaign in may t.v. concentrated on the government most of the time always in a very positive light on the other hand any time the opposition i was shown it was always in a negative way either they were shown a some sort of a comical helpless group as a whole minute to a premiere or they recalled all the scandals from their time in government scandal or a fire as. i said. and it's

a propaganda tool that works on a very simple basis lie lie continue to repeat the lie and you will make it stick. i regret to tell you all this and i'm torn about how much i should 3rd and you know the reason why this is so difficult for me because the heritage of this television is my brother from think the live easiest way but. you heard that right yes wife kirsty the defacto editor in chief of guys that have a butcher poland's biggest liberal newspaper has a brother yet sic who just happens to run t.v. . 2 brothers who used to play on the same team now on opposite sides. it all started here and get out whether kirsty brothers were born and raised this is also the home to this now iconic shipyard the birthplace of solidarity a movement that helped to topple communism and change the face of poland but

brothers that were heavily involved in solidarity got us of course founded a kind of stein anti communist student newspaper that sick went on to edit it back then they were both on the same side of the political and media divide but in a new poland a post communist one they soon went their separate ways. yet also have joined it doesn't have a board which represents strong liberal democratic views with slight leftists characteristics yet sick however from the start it was clearly a right wing conservative. for a long time the brothers remained on good terms it all started to go wrong about 2005 when the law and justice party gained power for the 1st time the conflict was radicalized and it spiraled out of control dog owners. fast forward to 2016 just months after the law and justice party returned to power

and yet sick then a deputy culture minister was appointed as the new head of t.v. pete you see what i'm going to go to japan that you know growing huge new sellers nashville much. of that closing the shutter politics. we're trying to talk. directly with 1st request an interview with him months ago and initially it looked as though he might agree but just before we arrived we were told he's too busy to run away to t.v. now to get that one shot. our producer was put through to because he's personal assistant can go there but she poli be reiterated have asked didn't have time to meet supposed. cuz he purged hundreds of journalists from t.v. replacing them with reporters more loyal to the government a public broadcaster closely aligned with one party the law and justice party and its news coverage reflects that a propaganda machine operating at taxpayers' expense the changes yet soko scheme

made have raised concerns in brussels where the e.u. has accused poland of turning toward authoritarian politics we did manage to put these concerns to someone from t.v. chris dr brown skin president of the polish john this association and the host of a show on the network he explained that moving t.v. people to the right was the only fan way to balance out the media market in poland . ready of before 2016 the media in poland including t.v. were dominated by the left after the law and justice party victory t.v. piece started to speak the language of the victors they reported the world from their point of view from a conservative perspective yes t.v. has moved too far towards government propaganda and yes public t.v. should be in the center but then there would be nothing on the right and we'd have a symmetry against the new money to go public every stone carcass knows it was

a new study shows the madness of. the left wing space is firmly occupied by. the newspaper was founded 30 years ago in close alignment with the solidarity movement nowadays it's regarded as being in opposition to the current government scandals and alleged malpractise on misconduct by the law and justice party dominate its pages and in the run up to this election week after week but porch a has published a damning indictment of the party's 4 years in office supplements they've called the black book of peace just. it's completely critical towards the government regardless of what the government does what's more they don't just support the opposition but for many years they've embodied it. as an active politician who speaks at political rallies.

across the line as a journalist. we have a porch or do not see ourselves only the journalists we are also conscious citizens please remember these are not normal times let me give you an example. after the victory of the norn justice party a huge group of their supporters led by a catholic priest came to the headquarters of get of abortion and performed an exorcism honoring their promoting. of bringing muslim terrorists to poland of lacking morality of being evil and the government wants to destroy us but it's very like intelligently it is not a face to face attack censorship they hope to kill us financially. they put a plastic bag over i hadn't say try to bring. in many ways the

tale of the kirsty brothers. and their respective media outlets provides a snapshot a telling one of polish politics today and wherever this story goes it's going to be told in more ways than one. and finally earlier this year we run a video that was produced to help get britain through its period of political turmoil it was called breck's it yoga a form of all online therapy that as its australian inventor the a.b.c. network's sammy jay put it tackles the big issues of the day then submit them to a variety of sporting analogies and yoga poses the idea is to get everyone to just relax and breeze while mr j. has since turned his attention to hong kong and the political demonstrations that are now into their 7th month not that the british get a pass on this he's thrown in a little colonial history as well just for context we'll see you next time here at

the listening post but i'm going to warm up with that 1st position with the union jack so few of those colonial powers inside you really impose a culture and after holding this position for over a century we'll head into l. 997 handover. said lowering the union jack now feel that global empire miserably shuttering to an end and from he will transition awkwardly into. one country. 2 systems were ok might be feeling a bit uncomfortable so it's time to stand up for your rights with a mass protest sometimes. nice and peaceful it's important not to push too far you by bullets yet i mean square. and when you're feeling confident moving to. shutting down the airport. and from he into. flaming barricades. president

trump threatens to destroy turkey's economy again to find out how his conflicts of interest in istanbul. lebanon goes from one crisis to another and can gold hit a record high of $2000.00 counting the cost on i just. turkey steps up its bombardment of northern syria as the u.s. says it's preparing sanctions against it.

when you're watching al-jazeera live my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 30 minutes time through and how could this is hitting japan forcing officials to order over a 1000000 people to evacuate their homes. also a temporary truce in the trade war between the u.s. and china economies worldwide. i breaking a barrier. earlier. becomes the 1st athlete to run the marathon in under 2 hours i. welcome to the program the united states is a warning turkey of what it calls consequences and very powerful sanctions if its military offensive continues turkey's president says the operation won't stop on the 4th day of strong its artillery bombardment and ground operations against.

kurdish fighters turkish forces are pushing deeper into northeastern syria now the syrian observatory for human rights says 24 syrians have been killed so far the turkish government says 18 civilians have died on the turkish side of the border the u.n. says more than 100000 people have fled their homes since turkey's attacks began on wednesday from the president on down we have communicated with the turks on this issue i spoke with turkish defense minister a car yesterday to express our strong opposition to turkey's actions and reiterated the damage this is doing to our bilateral relationship yes officials say some american troops have withdrawn from a military position in northern syria that came under turkish artillery fire but it appears the outpost did not take a direct hit charles trafford has more than the turkey syria border. black smoke rising over northeastern syria turkey tanks and reinforcements move towards the

border with turkey military says it's captured a number of villages around the kurdish controlled towns of to lobby out and russell i mean it's reported most if not all the civilian populations are fled. the u.n. says that more than 100000 people have been forced from their homes. there are civilian casualties among the thousands of people fleeing turkey shell tillery shells soldiers and their syrian rebel allies turkey says it's conducting what it calls an anti terror operation to create a safe zone so syrian refugees in turkey can return. to kurdish syrian democratic forces all s.p.f. is putting up fierce resistance turkey considers the main kurdish fighting force of the f.d.a. was aligned with a group which is full the turkish government for decades b.s.d.'s fault alongside u.s. forces a highly effective in defeating eisel in northern syria and the turkish offensive

began after the u.s. withdrew some of its forces from the area. turkey is nato's a 2nd largest military power blocs chief met the turkish foreign minister in a prescheduled visit he called for restraint but no harsh criticism of the turkish government i shared with him my serious concerns about the ongoing operation under risk of further destabilizing the region escalating tensions and even more human suffering. why church a hostage at the mit security concerns or expect churches to act with restraints turkey's president remains defiant. there is that in the down most of the big to make it is that we are not waiting for terrorists to come to our door we're now aiming to destroy target is ations of their source took the only suspect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of our neighbors but under one condition we

are not going to accept actions against our country the turkish military is widening its bombardment of s.d.f. positions along the border forcing potentially thousands more people to flee their homes and many of whom already internally displaced victims of the war in syria. al-jazeera and the turkish syrian border. all correspondence on the whole is life for us actually calling it turkey's border with syria let's just begin with the very latest events in the ground near you what we know so far. well turkish troops along with their local allies the opposition syrian national army have yet to make their way into the 2 main towns in the pocket of territory which has been the focus of the operations since they were launched 4 days ago. and they're still under the control of the kurdish syrian democratic forces they are

resisting they are fighting back and it's not an easy battle this is built up territory so the advancing army it takes time for them to make their way into the town but there has been progress on other fronts they've reached the 30 kilometers they've pushed the 30 kilometers deep into syria reaching the m 4 international highway that highway connects the east and west of syria it's very strategic because if they can hold their ground they would cut the highway and basically divide the territory under the control of the s. the f. in the northeastern corner of syria and this really has been part of the the strategy in the military campaign to be able to cut the supply lines to make it easier for the advance to happen but a humanitarian crisis of course is unfolding in the humanitarian impact of this conflict is being felt on both sides of the border there have been casualties civilian casualties on the syrian side or monitors reporting more than 20 killed on the turkish side nearly 20 turkish civilians killed by rocket fire the office

launching rockets into turkish border towns and this is why the turkish army has moved the media away from the border so humanitarian impact and this conflict is just just beginning and of course the incident. as the americans were can you just expound on that for us. that. incident is really deepening the crisis between the nato allies turkey and the united states their relationship has long been strained but the pentagon really put it very bluntly last night this turkish operation has damaged our relationship and that incident that you mentioned the u.s. department of defense saying their forces were close to being hit by turkish artillery fire the turkish defense ministry is denying that they targeted the u.s. outpost in the town of call bani there saying they were responding to fire that came from a hill which was 1000 meters from that outpost so it's really not clear if this

incident is going to even worsen the crisis turkey has been coming under a lot of pressure not just from the united states but a number of western countries to stop this operation but the message from here is very clear president to god himself saying that no matter the threats the criticism we will not stop our initial goal at least for the time being is to push the the syrian kurdish armed group which forms the backbone of the which has been fighting with the u.s. against eisel but considered a terrorist organization by turkey until this group moves 30 kilometers south of the border this operation is not going to stop and of course we'll monitor events with you through the days in the cold weather on the turkey syria border i said to asia pacific now where more than a 1000000 japanese people have been advised to leave their homes as typhoon i could be surprised as tokyo one of the strongest of a storms in japan is expected to batter the capital with record amounts of rain and high winds safety concerns of force the consolation of 2 rugby world cup matches and flights and train services have also been stopped when hey hans the latest from

tokyo. the storm still haunts the eastern coast all the island on shoot the most populated island in japan which is where poultry capital tokyo is located but certainly the capital city and surrounding areas already as you mentioned feeling the effects of this storm it certainly expected to get a lot worse in fact the peak of the strength of this storm here in the capital is expected to come at around 9 o'clock tonight local time so that's in about 5 hours from now we're seeing a lot of heavy rain falling in the city the wind is getting stronger alibi hour again that is expected to get a lot worse as far as the rainfall goes full cost of the saying that we may see this storm bringing levels of rainfall that we haven't seen since a deadly typhoon struck tokyo back in 1958 it's probably should have been a weekend when the sporting world or much all that would have been focused on japan

with those 2 rugby world cup games cancelled there is a possibility of a 3rd one on sunday being cancelled as well a decision on that will be made on sunday morning by the one of the golden eyes is the formula one grand prix in suzuka which is about 300 kilometers to the south of tokyo that is still shadowed to go on sunday but of course a final decision on that may also be made on sunday morning most train services have been canceled as well where we. train station is just across the road normally right now on a saturday afternoon evening it would be extremely busy it would be bustling it is a ghost town now. but the u.s. and china have struck a partial trade deal that could and the 15 month long trade wall between the world's 2 largest economies after holding talks with trying as vice premier donald trump suspended a tire of pike on $250000000000.00 worth of chinese imports had been due to take effect on choose day it may take more than a month for a full deal to be written. well we've come to

a deal an intellectual property. financial services. a tremendous deal for the farmers a purchaser of from $40.00 to $50000000000.00 worth of agricultural products another big issue that we've come to conclusion on is currency foreign exchange we've also made very good progress on technology transfer and we'll put some of the technology transfer in phase one phase 2 will start negotiations almost immediately after we've concluded phase one and papered it can you start. again has become the 1st person to run the marathon in under 2 hours during a specially arranged event in the austrian capital he completed the distance in 159 minutes and 40 seconds 2 years ago and it's leafy was just 26 2nd short of the target he succeeded this time help but excellent quality vienna and almost

completely fluent route. how does the man. you know that inspire met many people to tell people that the no human is limited to it i'm expecting more of that the missing piece of thought that are not that's lost. pretty. well still ahead here on al-jazeera and explosive testimony a former u.s. ambassador to ukraine during impeachment hearings again president trump. will tell you why we have taken charge of a police station in the central philippines. hello this unseasonal rains across much of indonesia out tools malaysia as well you

can see the cloud on the satellite i mean also heavy rain really of the next couple of days more widespread across much of borneo soon to se to will see some showers some heaviest spells at times and then as we go through sunday the rain.