safely say that there's at least twice as many people in the same location than there were yesterday this has been the scene out in front of the national assembly for more than a day now where and what started as demonstrations lead by indigenous leaders and indigenous groups from across the country has now grown to include sector all sectors of society and we're still seeing more people show up to join the front lines clashes continue with police they've been the protestors themselves the demonstrations have remained mostly peaceful but there's been a very heavy handed response from government authorities who have used rubber bullets they've used tear gas as well as sound grenades help you can hear drums behind us but there's a constant sound of a flash bang grenades going up against protesters against people in the front lines if you see behind me there are there's a lot of smoke that the air is thick with smoke as well as with tear gas but some of that smoke is coming from a building that was just on fire this is one of the federal government actually

government's main administrative office building that was set on fire only only moments ago at least 30 people we can confirm have been arrested in connection to that fire but if there's anything that we can safely say is that these demonstrations this i or this anger on the streets is only intensifying here in quito lord and in that context i mean some reports that talks might start between classes in the government is that is that likely. that's the big question still on friday the i could go in president letting what i know had it take it had. put out a statement on national television saying that he was calling on indigenous leaders to speak with him directly to find a solution to the crisis calling for a national a national dialogue but there is a split eating among indigenous leaders and the people that we're speaking to here on the street say that they have no intention. of going into talks with the president this started as a protest against

a national policy change that was removing decades decades worth of fuel subsidies but that has grown so has the ira so as the anger so of the demand from protesters they're no longer angry just about these policy changes there are there are there is no confidence left in the government and what they're calling for is for the president to resign. thank you very much indeed for the most ill to come including those in beacons head to the polls on tuesday in the country's 1st democratic test to into landmark peace deal between rival political factions. and the leaders of china and india wrapped up a 2 day summit agreeing to step up trade between the 2 rising powers. and. we got plenty of sunshine across many parts of central and southern europe lost

a clear skies here like a cloud that's further north than a fair bit over this well still very blustery across northern parts platinum or a making their way from a west to east but out into the south pressure in charge that's keeping things calm and settled with some warm sunshine as well as a $25.00 celsius in bucharest in ankara $27.00 there for athens little bit of cloud into western parts of the bat want to showers a possibility here to the west the weather the windy weather that remains across those northern parts across a low countries they into the british isles seeing bynum well seeing some very heavy rain once again as we go on through sunday that will sink its way further south was just go into monday 15 celsius in london still hanging on to 23 there in power is not too bad but notice some wet weather waiting in the wings another area of wet weather will slide its way in across the bay of biscay over the next few days pushing across the iberian peninsula back into central and southern parts the u.k. 5 and try once again i will say that sunshine across much of north africa stays largely

warm and sunny a little bit of clout then to northern parts of algeria might few squeeze out a few spots of rain here but by logic fine dry warm and sunny. on behalf of her majesty's government i apologize reservedly historic apology for one of the down to step aside in british intelligence it was a growing agreement says that the libyans could be quite useful to the west 8 years after the death of gadhafi al-jazeera world investigates western collusion with the libyan security services. good battery rendition and the west. on al-jazeera.

from one of the top stories here now to syria turkey says it is now in control of a key border town as its offensive into syria enters a full day but the kurdish led syrian democratic forces say the operation has revived the group beisel. meanwhile protests against her his offensive have taken place across europe demonstrators accuse the u.s. president donald trump of betraying syria's kurds. and authorities in ecuador say access to quito international airport has been blocked as violent protests continue to sweep the capital city demonstrators angry about austerity measures and high fuel prices. at least 2 people have been killed as typhoon made landfall on japan's main island honshu according to local media 9 people are missing their

forces have issued their highest level disaster warning and expect flooding and landslides around 7300000 people have been placed under non-compulsory evacuation orders public transport in tokyo has been suspended even before making landfall i could be scores destruction forcing the cancellation of 2 rugby world cup matches and a delay to the japanese grand prix point has more from tokyo. before the storm made landfall in japan people living in its path were urged to take extreme caution and to prepare for the worst because of the damaging winds that it would inevitably bring the heavy rainfall as well that could ultimately lead to widespread flooding in fact forecasters had said that this storm may bring levels of rainfall not seen in japan since a very powerful and devastating typhoon struck tokyo 1958 causing

many deaths we've also had millions of people. to evacuated under evacuation advisories or evacuation orders many of those people living in areas deemed to be vulnerable to landslides but also in coastal communities where the people are facing multiple threats of course from the strong winds and heavy rain but also the possibility of storm surge and the fact that we are almost in a full moon meaning that the tide may well be a lot higher than it usually would be and many people living in these coastal areas are still recovering from the last typhoon that struck at the beginning of last month which caused a lot of damage and resulted in several deaths as well or thirty's taking no chances with the transport systems as well as most train services were canceled along with hundreds of flights to and from tokyo's airports 16 people have been

killed in an attack on a mosque in the village of sound lossie in northern book in a fast so 2 others were seriously wounded when a gunman entered the mosque on friday during prayers and opened fire so most is near the border with mali and armed groups linked to al qaeda and eisel if it crossed the border into confessing. just one day off to his prime minister ahmed was awarded the nobel peace prize dozens of pro-democracy activists have been arrested as a heavy police presence across the capital and have a robyn kriel has more we understand speaking to the organizers of the protests and really the head of the script about doris council who were planning this protest they said that it was to protest the assailed transition or the failing transition to democracy it's been planned for about 2 weeks they say i've known about it for about a week but we just we understand according to it is about as a police that it was actually banned this morning and then came these arrests we

don't know the motivation behind these arrests speaking it's going to make it a organizer of the rally he told me that these arrests appeared and these are his words coordination planned and then implemented by police across adice abacha activists taken from their homes and of the streets and in prisons and prisons according to nagin our he said he's currently going from police station to police station to find out exactly why we know as i said at this rally that's been planned for at least one week that i've known are the organizers say 2 weeks that had it they had applied to the city council for permission police band at this morning i've spoken to a crime in this area that's what this bill is that you she says she is aware of any arrests that were offenses not aware of these arrests and referred us back to the atlas arab east we're currently not taking our calls but yes certainly this goes against the very peace prize that the prime minister was well it yesterday. there's

a big hold elections on tuesday in the 1st test of a landmark peace deal that was signed in august and ended decades of violence between the 2 main political parties the vote comes at a difficult time for the southern african country which has been grappling with natural disasters corruption and a rebel insurgency welcom webb has been at the final campaign rallies in the puter . president with the babysitter told his supporters that in a 2nd we'll bring jobs but also flying to russia but it's dropped in that supply some of the members of his party during his 1st to the dollar headlines scandal being steady on bail opposition the leading opposition boss even although they held their final rally in the northern city of numbers the presidential candidate suppose somebody is also promised a point corruption a deadly force if you're they were mislead by devastating cyclamen just 7 months ago a man down city hall sir presidential candidate to be semangat held his final rally

that opposition of complaints of serious irregularities in the votes has registered a safety inflated the ruling party stronghold they will say complained of violence on the campaign trail electoral commission denies any problems with the registered opposition so inspired to these problems to supporters to go to the polls on tuesday but i didn't didn't he watch as the votes are counted and wait for the results to be announced. china and india have agreed to set up a high level group to tackle india's trade deficit with beijing chinese president xi jinping and indian prime minister narendra modi had met for a summit. in southern india the leaders held nearly 6 hours of talks focusing on border disputes trade routes and china's close military ties with pakistan india's tribal relations have been strained since india revoked autonomy from the disputed region of kashmir country over

a has more from mama pereira. the indian prime minister took the chinese president on a guided tour of this istanbul city of my own which is where in fact 1700 years ago india and china had commenced trade it even signed a security pact however this time around if you talk about substandard outcomes or concrete solutions to some of their festering disputes not much has been achieved however the indian officials see that the 2 leaders of manage to establish a personal rapport which should go a long way in the future to help them resolve many of these disputes including the border dispute and trade deficit the indian foreign secretary although did say that the 2 countries have decided to set up a mechanism at a ministerial level so china can address india's concern india has a whopping 3 deficit with china of over $51000000000.00 and the indian officials this time around said that they have chinese assurance that something will come out off these talks however the chinese president did not commit to anything as far as the whole was then is concerned there is also the issue of kashmir recently we've

seen exchange of harsh words between the indian and the chinese government just before the chinese president came here he had hosted pakistan's prime minister and ran can and once again reiterated china's support to pakistan of course all of that comes in the background of india's decision in august 5 to strip indian administered kashmir of its autonomy to china continues to back pakistan on that issue and it's interesting that while india also has the same dispute with china which controls a part of kashmir that india claims the indian prime minister apparently did not even dream is that with the chinese president xi jinping gone as government says protesters have thrown petrol bombs inside a metro station as hundreds rallied against chinese control and police brutality nobody was injured by the bombs and right police are being deployed on the streets adrian brown has more from hong kong. well this march is now breaking up and it

comes after more than a week of relative calm here in hong kong relative calm now many of the protesters are wearing face masks in defiance of course of that ban imposed by hong kong police more than a week ago warning that if people did wear face masks they risk arrest and also being heavily fined but that hasn't deterred some of these protesters now this march didn't pass without incident to m.t.r. train stations were attacked one of them had a pet food bomb inside it with there were no injuries also an outlet at starbucks was once more attacked it had its window shot at starbucks of course has become a popular target for these protesters a lot of the protesters here have also been talking about the common sort of come from president donald trump who says that he thinks that the protests are now in his words deescalating well a lot of the protesters don't know whether that means that the united states is now showing the same sort of support that it did for the protest movement that's to say

support from u.s. politicians as they had say several months ago now the protests to say they are going to gather again on sunday for unspecified action certainly the protests and not on a scale that we were seeing several weeks or even several months ago there is still violence but it's not as intense as it has been in recent weeks. 4 people being killed in a shooting in new york city and he's 3 others were injured in the incident which took place in the bar of brooklyn at a suspected gambling operation 2 weapons were recovered from the scene including a handgun and a revolver. a major cleanup operation is continuing along the coastline of northeastern brazil following a massive oil spill at least 150 beaches a bit affected so far there has been difficult to track as it's line under the surface of the water and can't easily be detected it's still not clear whether the oil has come where the oil has come from but brazil's environment minister says he

suspects it originated from venezuela. as a feat that stretched the limits of human endeavor canyon runner elliott kept jogi has become the 1st half it to complete a marathon in under 2 hours during a specially arranged event in the austrian capital vienna he ran 42.2 kilometers in one hour 59 minutes and 40 seconds control gay says it's like landing on the moon laurence smith has more. things than the man at the moment he's done it to a one its old olympic champion marathon world record holder but becoming the 1st person to run the distance in under 2 hours has eluded tricky until now i see fishel marathon distance of 43.3 kilometers has a 100 year history. he was aiming to do what many had thought impossible the flat course was designed to assist a fast time vienna in autumn specifically chosen for optimal conditions and charge

he was aided by a team of 41 pacemakers laser technology helped guide the runners to maintain the record breaking pace i was the club reached 150 knowing the crowds were strong as one of the great barriers of distance running was taken apart was after the fans the right is the 19th of the 4 i took another sister to the $63.00 as i tightened i've not cath now it's the 6th after i have had just the man to run under 2 hours in order to inspire matt many people this is the best performance i've ever seen and i think could be the ones i've ever seen in in a lifetime the term legend does often though be used as the charity can now lay claim to a status amongst the greatest of toys. i think his modesty really is something that maybe doesn't catapult him to ultra superstardom in the sporting world but he is

illegal messi of running essentially he's a roger federer of the text he's the greatest distance from intel if i've ever seen a story. this was classed as a solo race and the level of assistance received all mean is this one's count as an official record but this wasn't about record this was about the realization of a lifetime ambition. lawrence make out as it. could on monday can catch up any time on our website it just about is al jazeera dot com. quick reminder the top stories turkey says it's now in control of a key border town as its offensive into syria and has a 4th day but the kurdish led syrian democratic forces say the operation has revived are still there calling on allied states that help fight the armed groups to close off airspace to turkish will planes you had to do. the turkish

invasion threatens the reactivation devices and it has revived some of its cells we are still cooperating with the international coalition to fight myself but we are now fighting on 2 fronts one against the turkish invasion and another against deisel meanwhile germany and france have banned arms exports to turkey in response to the country's assault on the kurdish groups in northeast syria turkey's actions have drawn widespread international criticism and warnings from the united states and european union of possible sanctions authorities in ecuador say access to quito international airport has been blocked as violent protests continue to sweep the capital city but just as angry about austerity measures and high fuel prices typhoon haiyan bass's made landfall in japan killing 2 people with 9 others missing highest level disaster warning has been issued at around 7300000 people have been placed under non-compulsory evacuation orders public transport in tokyo has been

suspended. 16 people have been killed in an attack on a mosque in the village of sound loss in northern the king of france so 2 others were seriously wounded when a gunman entered the mosque on friday during prayers and opened fire so morsy is near the border with mali and home to armed groups linked to al qaeda and i saw. rival unionist and pro independence rallies i gathered in catalonia is regional capital barcelona spain marks its national day celebrations have been overshadowed by internal tensions of the upcoming sentencing of catalan separatist leader is a major cleanup operations continuing along the coastline of northeastern brazil following a massive oil spill at least 150 beaches have been affected so far it's not clear where the oil has come from but brazil's environment minister suspects it was venezuela listening post is up next to statements of can i finish.

just it's not. a stretch to say i'll. die my. child's if i take my time hello i'm richard gives birth and you're at the listening post here are some of the media stories that we're covering this week unrest in iraq a conflict that is beyond sectarian and the news outlets have been attacked for trying to tell the story she should have just let it go the american comedian who tried to justify her friendship with george w.

bush only to see her efforts backfire on line a sibling journalistic rivalry in poland 2 brothers and the 2 opposing media organizations under their command and finding a meditative way through the news some. nice and peaceful it's important not to push too far you might pull it out i mean square hong kong yoga coming to a mat near you the protests started small but escalated quickly social media can have that effect then came the security crackdown across iraq including the use of live ammunition more than 100 protesters have been killed as many as 6000 wounded and a number of news outlets have been attacked since the u.s. led invasion in 2003 journalists have usually attributed under arrest on the streets of iraq to sectarianism the divide between primarily shia and sunni muslims they can't do that this time iraqi protesters are demanding an overhaul. of the

political system a system known as. if he which has played on sectarian divides to curve up the spoils of war torn but oil rich or rock so that most of the wealth gets circulated amongst the political elite and not nearly enough trickles down to ordinary iraqis that's what these demonstrations have been about and given the scale of the protests it's no wonder the politicians the security forces they control and the media outlets they own are closing ranks to protect the status quo our starting point this week is baghdad. why would iraqi protesters how to change a political system that works for the few and not the many protesters determined to have their movement covered term to a comedy program rather than a news broadcast to tell their story. why would they send the videos

they captured of the demonstrations and the deadly security response to the al bashir show a comedy program airing on german broadcaster deutsche of ella's arabic service and not for instance to. their own publicly funded national broadcast. they were not looking for comedy relief they were looking for fair coverage of a story that is no laughing matter. at all bashir show is a platform for the iraqi people he is always addressing their concerns and he specially at a time when iraqi channels have been prohibited from showing the reality of iraq from showing the protests his coverage has been crucial he was dedicating. that episode. to footage from the protest is that this time instead of people listening to him it was going to be a sure show listening to the people on the street but the shabab i level saw at the

. level sort of job kind of at the heart. to live for by and his biggest criticism is where is our media why are they showing cartoons why they're showing cooking shows i mean this is probably one of the biggest moments in post 2003 iraq and the mainstream media isn't really covering it this point was we don't have a free and fair media mainstream media in our country. that was made evident by the coverage of the demonstrations more than 100 have been killed thousands more wounded but from the outset most mainstream media outlets in iraq tried to ignore the story not just. privately owned channels as well by day 2 of the protests police were firing live ammunition into the crowds iraqi television reporters started covering the story but in many cases they downplayed.

it on day 3 came the internet shut down affecting 75 percent of the country some news outlets based outside baghdad that were covering the story would pay the price on day $5.00 masked men converged on the saudi owned. and the kurdistan based arabic among others ransacking their buildings sending the channels a clear message. so shutting down the internet was effective in reducing the ability of the protests this could to coordinate but shutting down the t.v. stations was part of a media blackout. the iraqi government was probably up to know that violence was going to erupt heavy the heavy handed approach was going to become worse and having life media coverage was not going to go down well. and so what the

militias and government were trying to do was completely isolated iraq from the world these channels were covering events daily and from every province and that's why they were targeted because they were trying to give people a voice to speak out but i've never. locked up. one like most of the popular unrest in iraq's post-war era the issues at the core of these protests are not primarily sectarian they are systemic with. terry an undertow. iraq is not a poor country it just feels like one despite more than $100000000000.00 a year worth of oil exports roughly 20 percent of iraqis still lack a safe water supply many blame a system known as. the field which translates to sectarian apportionment and amounts to a form of ethno sectarian balance under move iraqi coalition governments hand out

ministerial and government positions according to the percentage of the population that is shia sunni and kurdish the a portion budgetary spending on that basis as well and while that approach sounds demographically defensible in practice it has resulted in endemic corruption and the failure of the country's oil wealth benefiting ordinary iraqis. the political parties but they have managed to do is make sure that they have the wherewithal the tools and the resources to keep winning elections those tools of the following . a winning government office and the wealth that the government offices have and using that to reward their supporters. you also need public opinion these political parties have their own t.v. or newspaper or radio outlets than broadcast that message because their loyal base

requires constant messaging in order to keep them activated it gives them voting for the next round of elections the half the system allow politicians to mask corruption in government basically there is no political will in iraq for any independent media because what an independent media will do is expose corruption on a grand scale but it also give voice to marginalized groups in iraq who haven't necessarily been given a platform that my. question the current political system. throughout the country iraqis feel the political process doesn't represent their voice they feel that the mainstream media doesn't really represent their voice the conventional news channels are linked to political parties now those political parties are facing a next essential for this protest are saying down with the system down with all of the parties not one party all of them so of course they won't want to cover the extent of which the citizens of iraq have grievances. until

2003 and the fall of saddam hussein the iraqi media landscape was barren consisting of just one t.v. channel 4 radio stations and 5 newspapers all state controlled satellite dishes were legal as the country transitioned out of the hussein era dozens of new broadcast outlets went on the air that the u.s. led coalition authority said would safeguard the country's new democracy all it took to acquire a license to broadcast was the money to buy one but very few iraqis could afford one those who could tended to come with political connections a decade and a half later what has resulted is a new landscape politically partisan proprietors and channels more devoted to their owner's interests than those of their view. because it's partisan. if there is a problem that doesn't have a partisan nature. then the system fails kind of doesn't know how to handle it

unlike previous protests against political parties which you know this media outlets are made in designed to cover because you can just pick sides this is the protest of a majority shia hues against a majority shia led government. so they didn't know what to do so these high did just not to cover. so in a way the system failed like you know like system matter. which explains why when iraqis took to the streets they bypassed their own domestic media outlets and look for help elsewhere. is there any wonder that young iraqis when they chose to send their videos out for the world to see that they chose a comedian working for a german broadcaster broadcasting america as opposed to sending those videos to iraqi journalists iraqi. it's not surprising toward. the

iraqi iraqis see have seen how politically affiliated the media are. and as they don't want to be associated with any particular side of the name of these protesters are very keen to get across the fact they have no political affiliation . i didn't share the rocking unteach of balla who are the independent international station on the best option. we discussing other media stories that are on our radar this week with one of our producers and actually ravi mena sticking with the iraq war for a moment but the american side of that story of the president who started that 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 a gate liberal comedian and she was photographed sitting alongside george w. bush at 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 of me. and iraqis and many legal experts say he should be tried as a war criminal so the generous then goes on camera filming her response to her critics were they buying the explanations she was offering there was 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 him and of and he decided to edit degenerates his 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 friends who should tweeze more that we do has now also gone viral and despite the best efforts of ellen degeneres his producers who try to have it taken offline claiming copyright infringement we spoke with a file she one of the producer of that video so i objected to alan's video response because she really didn't respond she made it look like people are just upset that a liberal person is sitting with a conservative in my research to find the images 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 erased iraq 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 church this was the image from that video it was shared all across social media ok thanks man. 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 the charity concert american politicians. 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 that for months on an ongoing investigation into the man's personal finances.

and looked around and adding on to these young. that's the man as widow of the regime t.v. she's talking about is the tax paying fund. 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. lot 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 where 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. so effective. 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 a very positive life on the other hand any time the opposition has shown it was always in a negative way either they were shown a some sort of a comical helpless group as a whole when you do a premier or they were called all the scandals from their time in government scandal or a fire. on the. propaganda 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 think and you

know the reason why this is so difficult for me because the heroism of this television is my brother from think to live easiest his way but. you heard that right yes wife kirstine the defacto editor in chief of desert abortion poland's biggest liberal newspaper has a brother yet sick 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 in get out whether kirstie 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 both brothers were heavily involved in solidarity gatos of course key founded a kind of stein anti communist student newspaper got 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 this. year also have joined it doesn't have a border china 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 just plug. fast forward to 2016 just months after the law and justice party returned to power and yet sick bena deputy culture minister was appointed as the new head of t.v. p u c but i can take the job and it will grow on each new sellers nashville national television

of the closing the shutter politike. we're trying to talk to yet say cascade directly we 1st request an interview with him months ago and initially it looked as they 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 postal assistant there but she polis we 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 you 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. christophe scott brown skin president of the polish journalists 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 course 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 moments ago probably every store clerk is novelist 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 or misconduct by the law and justice party dominate its pages and in the run up to this election week after week the porch a has published a damning indictment of the party's 4 years in office supplements they've called the black book of peace you just look at this now 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 this is where you know. 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 the that of abortion and performed an exorcism on and they're promoting. bringing muslim terrorists to poland of lacking morality of being evil the government wants to destroy us but it's very like intelligently it is not a face to face attack or an attempt at censorship they have 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 provide 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 feeling confident moving to. shutting down the airport. and from he into. flaming barricades.

so i can see this experience of what it's like to have a base in qatar airways the only places together. i don't know in tehran on the top stories on our jazeera a curfew has just taken effect in ecuador's capital quito and the president has put it under military knock down but these are the scenes and the capital right now authorities say access to key to his international airport has been blocked thousands of people have been demonstrating for days but angry at new york stars the measures that have led to higher fuel prices at least 5 people are being killed since the protests began on a week ago. turkey is pressing ahead with an offensive against kurdish fighters

in northeast syria but take military says it now controls the center of a strategic border town but the kurdish led syrian democratic forces say the operation has revived i saw meanwhile france and germany have both announced the step stopping arms exports to turkey over the offensive so you know how to reports from the turkish syrian border. they are battling their way into kurdish controlled towns along syria side of the border with turkey it hasn't been an easy fight for several days turkish troops and their allies the opposition syrian national army have pushed into the northeastern corner of syria they now say they are in control of one of 2 main towns along the 120 kilometer stretch of territory they plan to capture in the 1st phase of this operation. has fallen. they've also advanced 30 kilometers deep reaching the highway that connects to west and east syria

effectively dividing the territory under the control of the us the. positions of the kurdish led syrian democratic forces are coming under heavy fire but an incident close to a u.s. outpost along the border has added to tensions between turkey and the united states which said its forces were close to being hit by turkish artillery fire turkey's defense minister a car denies his troops targeted the position saying they were responding to fire 1000 meters away the new front in syria's war is worsening relations between the nato allies which have long been strained the pentagon was more blunt calling them damaged international pressure is mounting on turkey to stop the advance the united states is threatening to impose economic sanctions the message from here is clear we will not stop the operation president russia or the god made it clear the wife the syrian kurdish armed group that forms the backbone of the us they must 1st

withdraw 30 kilometers from the border with turkey. the humanitarian impact of the conflict is being felt on both sides turkish civilians are being killed in rocket fire that's being fired into border towns but i. don't have any protection but we're not thinking about moving out now since we have a life here we don't want to leave our home in syria they have also been casualties among civilians caught in the conflict aid groups are warning of another humanitarian disaster in syria's 8 year war the area is home to people who've already suffered violence and displacement the united nations says 100000 are on the move and this battle has just started the number of those affected may rise fast. on the turkey syria border. at least 2 people have been killed this time for made landfall on japan's main i learned. according to local media 9 people are missing sorties have issued their highest level disaster warning and expect

flooding and landslides. 16 people have been killed in an attack on a mosque in the village of in northern booking a fast so 2 others were seriously wounded when the gunman opened fire. spain's national day celebrations have been overshadowed by tensions over the upcoming sentencing of catalan separatist leaders rival unionist and pro independence rallies have been held in catalonia regional capital barcelona the catalan leaders could face 15 years in prison for their part in the 2017 independence referendum. a major cleanup operation is continuing on the coastline of northeastern brazil following a massive oil spill at least 150 beaches have been affected so far brazil's environment minister says he suspects the oil rich native from venezuela there's the headlines do stay with us al-jazeera world is up next and you can catch up anytime on a website called i think. on

the 10th of may 28th the wife of a libyan politician one time lawyers held up an historic document a letter of apology from the british prime minister the u.k. lost its way when i got mixed up in the rendition of an innocent pregnant woman and an anti kadafi dissident but today i think it stood on the right side of history by recognizing its mistakes and by apologizing. abdulhakim bell high and his wife

fatima bouchard had been fighting for 6 years to get the british government to admit it rendered them and handed them over to the regime of moammar gadhafi in 2004 knowing that as libyan dissidents bay would be in serious or some danger on behalf of her majesty's government i apologize reservedly we are profoundly sorry for the ordeal that you both suffered and our role in it. this film follows the troubling story of the opponents of gadhafi who were imprisoned tortured and in some cases killed because the u.k. u.s. and other western governments colluded in a web of unlawful rendition. colonel moammar gadhafi was the libyan leader from 1969 to 2011. he was

a controversial figure with an ambiguous relationship with the west. his erratic behavior made it easy for the u.s. and europe to portray him as an out of control figure behind terrorist attacks conspiracies and scandals. but there was more to this relationship than was obvious so the time. in 2004 the west suddenly rebranded to get africa from public enemy number one to their new best friend. but all the while gadhafi is intelligence service the cia and the british and i 6 cooperated with each other in ways few suspected at the time. one such case was that of in all shake our lead he said to have run a military camp in afghanistan. he was captured by the pakistanis in afghanistan

after the fall of the taliban in 2001 and then handed over to the americans at background air base for interrogation by the f.b.i. . but the cia decided libby was a high ranking al qaeda figure and sent him to egypt to be interrogated. the information he provided under torture may not have been reliable but was nevertheless used by the u.s. to demonstrate a connection between saddam hussein and al qaida to justify the 2003 iraq. around 20052006 ali bin was then handed over by the u.s. to libya in the process known as brandishing. in 2009 he

was found dead in his prison cell in tripoli after having supposedly committed suicide. humanitarian organizations question the suicide including human rights watch who visited our living just before his death. the case of him and is one of the more disturbing ones because we know that the u.s. rendered him unlawfully into egyptian custody and he was tortured brutally both in us and in egypt in custody and the result of that torture produced false intelligence that led. was used as as reason to go to war in iraq and as a result of that war an iraqi you know many civilians iraqi civilians u.s. forces lost their lives. it's disturbing because it's an also proof in evidence that torture doesn't work that it produces false intelligence on many occasions of any of them on some of the ship was not. a libya was

a victim of. collusion between the u.s. the u.k. and libya which dated back to the 911 attacks on new york and washington d.c. . after the libyan revolution in 2011 thousands of secret libyan american and british intelligence documents were found they painted a dark picture of the real relationship between the 3 countries which led directly to our libby's rendition and torture physician of. hundreds of and that a. lot of them are. you who are yet in a fit of be a she one way bill went away and i left a bit of the makai that. kind of why didn't the enemy. in a time to heal that in a muslim oversight at it i'm a target from after. violent temper philip schiff and maybe.

you know most. of the bands. that are mostly men. could all be. all. over the shuttle and why. i libby's nephew says the torture started in afghanistan but then continued in other prisons around the world in egypt morocco one ton a mowbray alaska and ukraine for 5 years in. the hospital when the early early early at year after the what deeds in efi alabama's own bane of

well being upset that city. mostly subtle but. it's looking at akira libby's information about so-called weapons of mass destruction is widely thought to have been used by the u.s. as evidence of saddam hussein's possession of w m d's in iraq one less thing you pointed out that you were warned of believed by the egyptian president mubarak i believe will bark told tommy tommy franks that saddam had biological weapons be ready yeah like everybody thought he had the international community has clearly demonstrated that it this way is it a process which has been going on for 12 years trying to this.