infrastructure education was one of the best in the region now it has declined politically it's been a busy week in tunisia last sunday a parliament was elected and talks are underway to form a coalition government the conservative party another came in 1st followed by an appeal heart of both have ruled out forming a coalition leaving another with a delicate task of convincing rivals and independent members of parliament to join the government whoever gets elected will have to ensure the governing coalition is formed quickly and measures are taken to tackle poverty and economic problems if people don't feel progress soon that's why deepen the growing disillusionment they feel towards their leaders about al-jazeera. in the news ahead activists in ecuador prepared to begin talks with the president after more than a week of violent protests and a major oil spill hits 2000 kilometers of coastline from brazil the government's

now trying to find out where it all came from. the weather slushy set fire across the middle east of the i missed him a fair amount of cloud having said that just spilling out of iraq pushing across the caspian sea northern parts of iran not too much right on this if anything at klavern will thin and break further as we go through monday set around of around $24.00 celsius into the thirty's once again there mid to high thirty's to baghdad for kuwait city also for karate by rates set of around 30 degrees celsius some pleasantly warm sunshine continue going to let eastern side of the med it's right about a little more cloud just spilling in here as we go through tuesday think about general fair weather nature so it should be 5 and dry and sunny lots of sunshine too across

iran replenished just down towards the far south of a man you could catch one of the 2 coastal showers the more so it was a lot of us to go on in to choose that both of them by spot is looking fine and dry highs here in doha of around $35.00 celsius out of dry weather to into southern africa but we have got some right in the forecast some think a cloud just pushing through the southern cape the eastern cape could pick up some showers this more so up towards angola we got some think it out some showers just spilling out of the topic say they're sliding a little further south which over the next couple of days but the most it's fine and sunny. a march 13th 2019 the f.a.a. grounded the u.s. 737 max fleet based upon crash site findings and satellite data hundreds of lives lost and boeing spazz descending aircraft immobilized did profit outweigh

procedure did regulators allow industry too much control the system failed it failed our passengers it failed the global fault lines investigates system failure to boeing crashes on al-jazeera. top stories for you this hour on al-jazeera the u.s. has to withdraw up to a 1000 soldiers from northern syria as turkish forces and their allies continue their offensive says they have now entered. and have taken control of some of. pakistan's prime ministers held meetings with iran's president hassan rouhani town

is interim with the goal of reducing tensions with saudi arabia and says he is hopeful of a breakthrough soon. and the polls have just closed in tunisia where voters picked a new president in a runoff election 2 candidates both political newcomers who beat more than 20 other hopefuls during the 1st round. 9 people have been taken to hospital after a mortar attack on market issues international airport at least 7 mortars were fired at the airport around 1 pm local time the airport houses embassies and the united nations and african union missions not yet known who was behind that attack . people in mozambique are voting in the general election just 6 months after a devastating cyclons killed at least $1300.00 people the task won't be easy because thousands of those people are still homeless and living in camps malcolm webb reports now from tika one of the hardest hit areas of our province you know. floodwaters started gushing into to reason make it tires home it was when cycling

it died struck central mozambique in march 1 wall collapsed then another. she ran and climbed this tree to escape the rising torrent her sister and her 2 small children climbed this one she saw them washed away when it collapsed single figure out was a new year. i was very sad because my sister was gone that night i stayed in the tree crying the next day people came into kenya to rescue us eventually we found their bodies. this tends now to resist home hundreds of people were killed by 2 cyclamens that struck mozambique earlier this year thousands are still in camps. that's where they're meant to vote in choose days presidential election. the people here have gathered to register for food handouts the cyclons affected areas where many people have historically voted for the political opposition rights groups say

many won't be able to vote because voting cards were washed away i haven't been replaced the political opposition say the ruling for leave my party used humanitarian assistance to campaign for votes it was the port city of beirut where the 1st cyclon made landfall the city's mayor. is now running for president leads a growing opposition party called m d m we met him campaigning in a remote village 7 months ago was on the water he's not happy with the government's response even saying that if you don't vote if you don't spend your vote you want to get before so that's what we're doing and that's a very bad but the national can do is watching it and not doing anything the cyclamens ripped through rose and washed away bridges. many of which have now been repaired the ruling for the my party says its recovery program has been

a success. it promises to continue if it stays in power and it denies foul play was one of what about that's not true take the humanitarian aid and give it to the population is that the case that's not true humanitarian aid was distributed in front of the international community election season might bring handouts and promises from politicians but most cycling victims like to resign lived in grinding poverty before the storms and since an election won't change that malcolm where al-jazeera. mozambique. salvaging brags it will likely be high on the agenda as the german chancellor angela merkel and the french president emmanuel micron meet for dinner in paris the leaders of just walked into the palace in paris ahead of thursday's pivotal e.u. summit if the british prime minister barak johnson hasn't struck

a deal after that summit released by saturday he will be forced to ask the e.u. for another extension the son of former u.s. vice president joe biden says he will step down from the board of a chinese company that's been the target of criticism from donald trump hunter biden made his 1st public statement on his work in ukraine and china so neat as always conducted his business independently and didn't discuss it with his father president trump accused him of corruption and escaping responsibility because of his family connection his father joe biden in a tight race of course for the democratic presidential nomination. mexican border police have detained a group of up to 2000 asylum seekers they were traveling from the south of the country and had hoped to reach the u.s. border many had been held up near guatemala for weeks or even months awaiting residency in transit papers i mean. i'm not afraid i need to go on

i don't know what's ahead of me but i'm not scared because this migrant caravan is the only way forward without a visa card you can't head out from southern mexico. millions of people in poland voting in parliamentary elections the governing law and justice party is trying to tighten its grip on power it is widely expected to win the mandate would help push through many conservative policies including a strong anti immigration agenda. we are casting your ballot to make life better for all the people living here the country is heading in the right direction hope it will not turn back some of the aspects of our lives is very limited so i think that. there are some there are some limitations on our freedom to japan where the military is deploying tens of thousands of troops to help with rescue and cleanup efforts after a powerful typhoon swept through the eastern coast at least 23 people were killed

and many are missing the storm brought everything damaging winds heavy rainfall and flooding and landslides when haye has more from tokyo. those living in the path of typhoon were told to expect a short sharp burst of violent weather it soon became clear that the main feature of this storm was a huge amount of rainfall some areas saw around a meter of rain in 24 hours and waterways simply couldn't cope one of the worst hit areas was not good no prefecture west of japan's capital tokyo where a 70 meters stretch of the levee gave way many homes and businesses were flooded and japan's famous bullet trains were surrounded by water and going nowhere fast or slow. the major typhoon has caused extensive damage far and wide in eastern japan one point the special warning for heavy rain was issued for as many as 13 prefixes there has also been emergency relief from various dams and flooding of various rivers it turned out to be

a record heavy rain the coastal areas were battered by huge waves and winds exceeding 200 kilometers an hour or like them or not the building shook and the alec tricity went off for a moment that was really scary as the typhoon approached a tornado made landfall in chiba prefecture destroying houses many communities here was still recovering from a typhoon that struck last month for most in the path of the storm it came at night . the streets of tokyo were eerily quiet as businesses closed and people were urged to stay home by day it became easier to assess the damage and carry out search and rescue operations millions were ordered or advised to evacuate but some chose not to leave their homes or couldn't get out in time. the storm was compared in size and strength to a typhoon that struck tokyo in 1958 leaving more than 1200 people dead modern japan has become well drilled in dealing with the threat of natural disasters and it

seems this time it was as well prepared as it could be. was japan's 19th typhoon this year. those who experienced it say this was one of the most intense in decades many are relieved it was relatively brief allowing the recovery to begin quickly wane hey al jazeera tokyo in hong kong anti government demonstrators are staging a sit in the shopping mall and once again defied the ban on wearing masks when they gathered in the shot in district rallies volta taken place in several other areas this is the 5th month now of protests that began in response to that controversial extradition bill that has since turned into why does a man for political reform syria's adrian brown in hong kong. well this is a snapshot of sunday in hong kong we are in among cock one of the most densely populated areas on earth here on this side of the street a group of local people who have been hurling abuse at police just on the other

side of nathan road one of the busiest thoroughfares in hong kong this standoff has been going on the some time now the police have to be careful here because a lot of people live in this area and if they start firing tear gas and of course that's going to affect a lot of innocent people the protests on sunday have been following a familiar pattern with the protesters targeting businesses that they say have mainland connections once more starbucks outlet was vandalized we also witnessed a confrontation between a mainland man and a group of local people also the light rail transit system has also now been shut for the day after several lines were vandalized and the other rail system the m.t.r. has had to close 3 of its stations it's a reminder that 4 months on feelings are still very high in this city. a nationwide curfew remains in effect in ecuador as the 1st talks between the government and

indigenous groups are set to begin later on sunday president lenin moreno's said he is willing to reassess the law which ended fuel subsidies and sparked the protests more than a week ago on saturday thousands more demonstrated in the capital and manuel rappler was there for us. unrest has continued on the streets of the ecuadorian capital on saturday thousands of people flooded downtown quito. demonstrators calling for the resignation of the country's president once again clashed with police rejected from her group who must of thought that this president is using public funds to kill us and shoot at us but we want to run away if we have to give our lives then so be it i have hundreds of women from across the country joined in the demonstrations and held a march of their own in solidarity with indigenous demonstrators that they called all the government to end with they say is a violent repression of peaceful protesters who doesn't exist now for the but let

me the women are protesting for life because we are life we've had enough of the brutal repression against ecuadorian demonstrators and indigenous ecuadorians. throughout the day smoking tear gas filled the air as more and more demonstrators filled the streets once again in doubt take a tour it appears as though mayor people are showing up to participate and joining in the front lines of these demonstrations these people are coming from all parts of the country to turn in these demonstrations carrying i learned to reverse course and economic viruses that they say are damaging for the country was at one point demonstrators set fire to one of the government's main administrative buildings another group of protesters set fire to a local television station many here have a deep distrust of the national news media with unrest spreading to other parts of the capital ecuadorian president lenin modano announced

a mandatory nationwide curfew sending the military to restore order to city streets and public spaces in the school it took today we have declared a curfew in quito and the valleys which is already having tangible results and we have established a calm in a large part of the city. with a curfew in effect many of the. capitol city streets have emptied although there are still plenty of people who remain defiant for most the hope is that an upcoming national dialogue will finally return peace to the country. below and to see them key to equality. now a mysterious oil spill is contaminated least 150 beaches along brazil's northeastern coastline there are dozens of teams trying to clean up but they say the thick crude is washing ashore so fast they can't keep up. when looking on the coastal community of quarter of a play in northeastern brazil. one of brazil's most beautiful

beaches now covered with oil it washed up on the sand here on what was otherwise a pristine beach. and it has the locals like jos a mighty is extremely worried what to do i feel very sad this is an environmental disaster even if people are cleaning it up the damage is done i've been working here for over 30 years and i've never seen anything like it. but it's not just here or oil has washed up on beaches all up and down the coastline of the northeast of brazil recent days it's been seen in 9 coastal states in more than 150 locations. it's unclear where the oil is coming from but it's already killing sea life but it's so widespread showing up on a coastline more than 2000 kilometers long there aren't enough crews to reach it all. but they're trying the best they can they're finding so much oil that they're sending teams of men out to collect it all and they're loading it on the back of

these flatbed trucks such as this and then putting it in these huge white containers to be taken away just today on this beach they say they've collected at least 2 tons of oil. local residents are witnessing an environmental disaster up close as. i went swimming today and when i got out of the water i had oil all over my hands and i'm worried because i don't know how my body will react to this when the short to walk i've seen the 5 big dead feasts it's to say because it has also reached the eaves and you hear the oil stains really you ought people here now looking out over an oil polluted ocean left wondering how much worse it can get. could repay along the northeast coast of brazil.

now past the hour here on al-jazeera and these are the top stories the u.s. is to withdraw up to a 1000 soldiers from northern syria as turkish forces and their allies continue their offensive says they have now entered and have taken control of the luke meanwhile the u.s. secretary of defense says he is concerned about the safety of american forces what we're facing is u.s. forces in a trap between a syrian russian army moving north to take on the the turkish army with that is moving south it puts us in a terrible position and the protection and safety of our service members comes 1st may i spoke with the national security team yesterday we talked on the phone i talked to the president and he is concerned and so last night he directed that we begin a deliberate withdrawal of u.s. forces from the northern part of syria pakistan's prime minister has held meetings with the iranian president hassan rouhani imran khan is in teheran with

a goal of reducing tensions with saudi arabia and says he is hopeful of a breakthrough soon the polls have closed in tunisia as runoff election where voters were picking a new president the 2 candidates are political newcomers who beat more than 20 other hopefuls during the 1st round last month also millions of people in poland voting in parliamentary elections the governing law and justice party is trying to tighten its grip on power and is widely expected to win the mandate would help push through many conservative policies salvaging bragg's it will likely be high on the agenda as the german chancellor angela merkel and french president emmanuel micron meet for dinner in paris the leaders walked into the they say palace not long ago in paris ahead of thursday's pivotal e.u. summit. on the son of former u.s. vice president joe biden says he stepped down from the board of a chinese company that's been the target of criticism from donald trump president has accused him of corruption and escaping responsibility because of his family

connections we're back with you in about 25 minutes time here on al-jazeera right after inside story. the united arab emirates is reportedly running a campaign to get al-jazeera registered as a foreign agent in the u.s. effectively restricting its operations in the country so is media freedom a risk and one of the limits to political lobbying this is inside story.

hello and welcome to the program i'm peter dobby shutting down al-jazeera network who was one of the main demands of the blockade in countries when they cut off diplomatic relations with cats are more than 2 years ago now the united arab emirates is reportedly running a low being campaign in washington to get the us government to force the network to register as a foreign agent that would in effect brand it as a government tool a clane al-jazeera strongly denies and could restrict its operations in the united states the news agency bloomberg says a prominent law company a law firm was employed by the u.a.e. to achieve this goal this includes meeting congressional staff white house officials and journalists and academics it also involves u.a.e. controlled digital accounts and websites twitter suspended thousands of those accounts in september.

there we are here we go let's bring in our guest joining us from washington bruce fein a constitutional and international lawyer on skype from vienna is ready for sound director of advocacy at the international press institute and here in doha my jobs where the director of the gulf studies center at cattle university welcome to you all bruce can i come to you 1st how political is this. well the foreign agents registration act is very political the standards for registration are triggered by twofold elements 1st you have to demonstrate that the broadcaster is controlled it receives orders from a foreign government and secondly you have to show that the broadcast is intended in likely to influence the public policies of the united states now with regard to al-jazeera and believe only al-jazeera english isn't available in the united states so this inquiry that's been triggered by u.a. e. as focused only on al-jazeera english not al-jazeera arabia or any of the other arms now is it political yes for example in the last year both russia t.v.

called r.t. sputnik its radio network and china television c.g. t.v. have been required to register as foreign agents even though they've been conducting their operations for long years in the united states without any disturbance or strong efforts in congress after the revelations disclosed in the motor report about foreign interference through the russians in the elections to have those broadcast outlets listed even though their operations have been unchanged for long years the argument is well even if they're on paper independent of the government in fact behind the scenes the presidency and china president putin and russia really dictate what goes on those airwaves so there is clearly a political element to it we also know that when the new attorney general william barr was confirmed he stead he was going to upgrade the enforcement rigor if you

will aggressiveness of the foreign edges straightest foreign agents registration unit i supervise that unit when i was at the u.s. department of justice as associate deputy in the past it had not been very rigorously enforced and because in part it does encroach on freedom of speech and that's treasured under the united states constitution. but with regard to the indictment of paul mann afforded others for having not registered as agents of ukraine it could be an issue with regard to current matters relating to rudy giuliani and president trump and ukraine not having registered as foreign agents it's far more 'd on the target on the front burner than it was in the past so that's where we stand politically right now running for senate in vienna of these people trying to come paint against al jazeera english or campaign against freedom of the press. ours any effort to shrug our religious leader iraq are or for that matter any our media organization in the united states. it isn't

a problem but st louis that every media organization has the right to exist i would like to wear a free speech closing down are asking though don't think that it will be just another lobbying agent of the bar that we go in but already years i'll just eat a scab listed. as a media organization that has covered area or which are about the demolition network doesn't have the star bridges to prove that it took action there's no doubt about it and in the past others here are very focused. on plus right as a lobbying agent it is a general media organization and we see this as an attack on a street of much absurdity here in doha what is it about al-jazeera english because bruce is saying we are very specifically talking not about arabic colleagues we're talking about al-jazeera english let's be clear let's be clear we're all grownups that's where we're sitting right now what is it we do that bothers the iraqis if we

put things in a context we have to remember that the disease as an attack started with and you know arabic and now as you know english have than a lot of. would say you know element activities which according to the immoralities and saudis and other governments are very annoying for example you know the way how they broadcast about arab spring the board theory a line of you know talking about arab spring the slogan has been used in the news the way how you how does you know with arabic and english handling the stories that is different narrative of where their mouth is once because they want to show the americans the europeans the english native people one narrative which an additive which basically fits their own agenda a political agenda and they're. as is so basically a disease our english in the united states is showing different narrative is showing different stories elements which basically contradict exactly with what the

. emirates wants this remember either a myth against arab spring from 2011 it has been you know designed as foreign policy since 2011 and the fact that you know the status quo and there should be maintain and including you know the freedom of speech should be controlled you know the you know the human rights should be maintained as it was before so all of those elements actually been discussed within a dizzy or a context and dizzier is defending all of this in a you know on a slogan and the news and the stories so if it matters will be announced by this so these will be announced annoyed by this other governments i am sure the others also they tried before but they failed to do so bruce coming back to you for a 2nd is the momentum behind this lobby movement growing because there are some people inside the beltway who say under donald trump the number of lobbyist companies has grown almost exponentially so there's kind of

a vacuum of accountability in which these lobbying companies are moving and if they're well financed well dressed and enthusiastic they might get listened to. that's possible but i don't think in this case there's any evidence of that happening i 1st want to clarify however that to register is not to shut down registration just means you have to disclose and present yourself as a mouthpiece of a foreign government doesn't mean you need to cease operations for example r.t.e. still operates even though it's registered china television still operates even though it's registered so i just want to make that clarification secondly with regard to the u.a.e. i know the law firm that they've hired a can dump a can gump has to register as a foreign agent because they are a mouthpiece of the u.a.e. and that has to be disclosed to all the people they communicate with which means that their credibility is substantially diminished i think that what happens here

is u.a.e. i believe is under a false impression thinking that if you can get a few members of congress to say something it means that there's going to be registration soon it means that the lobbyists get huge amounts of money but there's no indication that congress at all is inclined to do anything adverse to al-jazeera remember that if you want to take the touchstone example of the of the attitude of congress towards you a it is these repeated votes on their interference in yemen with saudi arabia on those occasions you have very very substantial majorities in congress rebuking you a year doing war crimes in yemen you need to stop so that shows in my judgment that you a is not in a position to carry sway in the united states congress raffi coming but see you in vienna when you have a situation with according to a think it was m s n b c a little earlier today they were citing an example where one particular federal

agency took 9 meetings with one of these low b. organizations up to june of this year why did they react and open the door literally to the low being organizations instead of reacting to their own intelligence agencies. as bruce would know it better that so many lobbying organizations in the united states and that's mean an experimental religion that number of the president trying to call lobbying organizations have always existed in the united states the only is informed or not being aware that the us congress that department of the us government and their supporters are very deep pockets so. the federal agencies get them from nation they are lying lobbies. to gather information but i'm sure they would do their due diligence to find out whether what log these are claiming is true and i was just set up

blogging biting united arab. emirates which is. it is a bit. if you see the congress has already criticized them for their moment in the yemen war it started like a good morning far better lobbying against argentina it's unlikely but still it is a surprise that they're trying to do this and we would oppose it we would like to the members of the congress about as much to put it. would it be desirable or achievable to put what these lobbyists are trying to get into context the context being and talking from my own experience here when i got off a plane 4 years ago somebody here al jazeera said peter there's no such thing as impartiality across the middle east across middle east broadcasters apart from who a you are at the moment fast forward 2 years there was a big report i think it was the washington post the new york times another report into 911 on the day that report was published and there was

a very big glitzy glamorous t.v. news channel broadcasting in arabic in this region saying 911 but it was done by cattle no it wasn't it never was cata has never been put in the same sentence as 911 and yet it's broadcast in this powerful way because somebody someplace takes an editorial decision to let's call it what it is lie yes and broadcast an agenda as news there. let's be frank targeting minds and hearts that is one of the 2 tools to effect policies that was in the united states it even in the united states discourse and narrative has been used in the last 20 years since $911.00 we need to we need to have to target minds and hearts and now what's been have been happening now if they want to to affect the view towards images iraq and the qatar because in the last 2 years but that has been targeted for different reasons and as you mission at the beginning of the show that you know shutting down a disease i was one of the 13 demands basically proposed by the blockade countries

so i just you know has been targeted was was was important you know target to those countries and i think the slogan of jazzier was really annoying and different levels not only in the last 2 years in the last 25 years the way how they handle politics in the region the way how they look at you know developments in the region the way how they introduce development in the world to the region that's unknown some governments i think this is likely to continue actually regards what's happening now but this is not the only campaign the u.a.e. has mounted against cats are leaked e-mails appear to show its ambassador to washington use of tiber as being part of a long running campaign to label cattle as a supporter of terrorism a charge the cattery government strongly denies then there's george nader a former adviser to the abu dhabi crown prince mohammed bin zayed according to media reports he paid millions of dollars to support a washington based public relations campaign against cata he paid this man lobbyist

eliot braiding who reportedly pushed mr trump to get rid of his former secretary of state rex tillerson who was believed to have intervened to prevent a saudi u.a.e. attack on cats are bruce when the stakes here are pretty high bruce mr tillerson was seen as a voice of reason wasn't it. yes he was and that is why in part i believe he was ousted by president trump president trump made his white house available to the likes of elliot brody who was a deputy finance director at the republican national committee and basically mr trump has shown not only with regard to his attitude towards the u.a.e. and saudi arabia selling arms and looking askance i mean looking aside when one of our residents jim code journalist with you all is assassinated with a direct in their complicity of m.b.'s but the ukraine is another situation where

the president basically said i'm for sale you know if you do things for me investigate joe biden here's an oval office visit and you can get your $400000000.00 in military aid or or diplomatic aid and i do think that the quid pro quo is known out there in the foreign countries are responding to that and they can do it with regard to offering mr trump or is relatives very lucrative financial business opportunities and what's happening with with gutter is that when it was shown that mr teller sin was going to balk he wasn't going to capitulate he ended up losing his job it's a little bit like what happened to their ambassador to ukraine she lost her job when she wasn't going to be a token president trump and go and make false claims about the need to investigate the bidens and that's unfortunate where we are at present and is one reason why this impeachment campaign is being fueled much of if this doesn't turn up from this

this move to richest english in this particularly toxic way might not happen because of president trump's some in law he needs cats remind me he needs doha to buy into his peace plan for the middle east for the palestinians for the israelis cancer is up there in the top 5 nations who give money to the palestinian cause is just a big. yeah i mean again we go back to the political context of the whole the whole thing i mean there is no doubt that this administration began this was been told what the has been told and what's been actually paid to the administration they still believe that other oil is important in a lot of fires in the region and they know that what others do is than when it comes to the afghani fire when it comes to the palestinians when it comes to the even to what's happening now in syria and to the lebanese file so they know that what other is doing let's not forget that i did military bases well in seoul and

the security in security in the region so they know the contribution of the to the security of the world and also to promoting the principle that and i think defend it was comes to the freedom of speech freedom of the media the principle of human life those issues they are sharing with other i think i don't think so that would be easy for that in the nation for that all of this and listen to the obvious ravi at the risk of sounding oversimplistic here when it comes to being a u.s. politician is part of the toxicity of this debate to do with the name al-jazeera and the associations with that name going way way way back where george w. bush the then president did put it out there that he might think about bombing certain al jazeera offices and also let's be honest about this bruce will come to this country britain with isn't just 2nd ballistae with having let you know certain u.s. politicians if you showed them a map of the middle east and said point at doha some of them i get the feeling

couldn't really do it. well we have to remember that bill has a huge us and this which was used during the you not war and all that during the 1st war the 1st war and in iraq and then later again already started operation so little has being very crucial to measure operations for the united states by far and there are only 2 sheets on both sides of the divide bottle what contribution though has many of the u.s. foreign policy. as you just pointed out are. quite eye up on the list of countries that need to be on boat for the middle east peace but until it looks. like the government the united states government. or. if it takes action against understeer it would be counterproductive but let me say something

else which. despite of our earlier saying closing down and deceit i think what i meant was if i just you know has to register as a foreign legion it could pails it's free to worship to do just of ours are they didn't an expedition to journalism's did not and the car and some of the. white house all of which nobody thinks so that could happen to deceive and that. because al-jazeera is a general we don't realize mission b. obama. but definitely impacts press freedom of press freedom in the arctic states which claims to have which claims that we are having with the 1st amendment that it doesn't allow in this government of our laws against it so. we have to see how. well it is something will live on that idea of press freedom and what the media can or does not or chooses not to report bruce coming out too

much into if one china. hopes is all you do pitch leaks i mean the industry if you channel hope and you watch russia today that there ought to stink moments when you go ah but it's the kremlin if you watch chinese television in english you go ah the government in beijing i mean is anyone in washington in high places factually watching al-jazeera english and letting the journalism speak for itself instead of listening to what these lobbyists are saying unfortunately no i think you're right this is driven by politics it's not driven by an even handed analysis of the speech whether it's biased whether it shows that it's independent or just an echo chamber of the government you pointed out i think earlier we know what is driving the u.s. policy in the middle east and towards gutter it's unfortunate but you 1st have to ask what is israel's policy towards got there or saudi arabia u.a.e. our policies in the middle east are overwhelmingly driven by who is in the prime

ministership in jerusalem for israel and what their views are and in so far as israel a gives a signal no isolate qatar we sort of turn around and and and follow the marching orders israel is the most important lobbying foreign country in the united states by far and if you want to know if there is any momentum why are the senators doing this it would only because israel gave them the green light with regard in general to the freedom of speech and if you analyze the programming word to be any indication that qatar was curtailing you know anything that was thought adverse to the gutter foreign policy may i not on all the programming but i've never been censored i don't know anybody else who said that on programming al-jazeera tells them what to say i do know that's not the case with the al arab programming by

saudi arabia but i do think that there's at least some assurance that. even if there were a listing decision made you would have an opportunity to challenge its legality in court to show it was arbitrary capricious and based on all teary or political motives not based on the programming and organization of al jazeera english and i suspect much appear in doha that this will never happen if u.s. politicians got an unawareness of al-jazeera arabic they would realize how popular says i mean 40000000 times we'll dip into al-jazeera ring ok we're not talking about our colleagues in arabic we're talking about is religious but it's not because al-jazeera arabic is giving the viewers what they want it's not arabia's got talent on the x. factor and game shows it's information and it's freedom of information because the platform it's a window of an open formula slot formats the platform to listen to different views to participate to engage to listen to the discourse which has been the prevented for years and years this is in arabic what is the portal both of the an english for

years people who are speaking english in the world they listen to one narrative about the middle east and jazeera english comes to see and to deliver a different narrative to say different views about middle east that is the views from within the people in the middle east and they say about themselves rather than others describe what's happening in the the english dizzier english has you know offered the platform to talk in english to the people in the states in the nothing them everywhere in english language about them in the middle east and to listen to the people is negative rather than to the other outlets who have their own agenda their perception of the region and that is i think annoying others let's just say the last word in vienna ravi the 1st big foreign policy trip for this current us administration donald trump went to riyadh he in effect green lit the g.c.c. blockade of catterick kicks in very quickly after that initial visit if he tells

towards al jazeera english having to register in this way will it actually happen do you think. i doubt he will do that because. of the geopolitical reasons but if he doesn't it maybe extremely unfortunate. even protest it will go to the congress we will use our and tomatoes institute up america national committee to do is this issue at every level of government in the united states in the elites everything our partners our press freedom other violations of human rights organizations do all of this medium and it's. asking religious leader to destroy the foreign engine of the most ridiculous decisions of the duct. guys and our mission is then chills are the media organizations which are set up because it brought. reports from all over the world where any

delusion and brilliant station temperature apart from or do not report from. it's the rarity of shows that enters your host and also their college world of its rarity by number or to as you see in the arctic states last year. it was sleep or so it establishes others it is a media organization not an obvious 4 and therefore it should not be of interest to those and if that happens we will take action and we will take action not it will drive to the government right to the coach lever or to the committee saying if they were considering this action it disrupts gentlemen thank you so much thank you to i guess they were bruce fein robbie present and my job's wary and thank you to you 2 for your company you can see the show again anytime on the website al-jazeera dot com and for further discussion to check out our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story can also join the chat on twitter handle is a.j.

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a 1000 soldiers from northern syria as turkish forces push deeper into kurdish controlled area it's also in the news the polls now closed in 2 newsy away voters have been picking the next president it's either a retired law professor or a media tycoon just released from jail and a major cleanup operation underway after typhoon haiyan us brits through japan killing at least 23 p. . with the latest from europe including a top level meeting in paris as the deadline draws ever closer for potential breaks it deal. and in sports hosts japan have pulled off a historic win at the rugby world cup victory over scotland saw them reach the quarter finals for the 1st time in tournament history. so we're starting with syria where state t.v. is reporting that the syrian army is now sending troops to confront turkish forces

in the north of the country earlier we also had the u.s. announcing a major troop withdraw from the area with the pentagon saying up to $1000.00 soldiers will be pulling out as turkish troops allies continue their offensive into kurdish controlled towns in the latest advance those forces they have captured so look this town is important because it ensures supply routes from turkey as the operation goes on sunday so heavy bombardments in other towns 2. forces have now entered. and they've taken control of him but it all means that more civilians are being forced from their homes in fact that numbers coming from the united nations now up to 130000 people have been displaced rosalyn jordan begins our coverage. 5 days into the turkish military operation in northern syria the u.s. military is pulling about a 1000 soldiers out of the combat zone we find ourselves as we have american forces likely caught between 2 opposing advancing armies and it's

a very untenable situation but the kurds have been very good partners in the d.a.'s campaign they were very good fighters on the battlefield we obviously enabled that as well but at the same time we didn't sign up to fight the turks on their behalf the u.s. administration would rather keep the focus on turkish president recip tayyip erdogan whom they accuse of planning to attack syrian kurds no matter what on twitter president donald trump said will be held accountable dealing with lindsey graham and many members of congress including democrats about imposing powerful sanctions on turkey treasury is ready to go additional legislation may be sought there is great consensus on this turkey has asked that it not be done stay tuned but trump's withdrawal order has critics accusing him of abandoning the kurds even those democrats now drafting a sanctions bill against turkey for god's sakes what are they waiting for right people are being killed right now our syrian kurdish allies are being killed right

now it looks like many of the isis detainees there about 10000 fighters are now possibly going to be able to escape there are reports this morning that isis sympathizers have already escaped thousands of them and here you have secretary minutiae saying oh well we'll think about it maybe we'll do something president trump tweeting that he's going to destroy the our economy they will they look ridiculous right now and those republicans who normally support trump's foreign policy to see this yet again you know leave in an ally behind abandoning people that we frankly told that we were going to be with is disheartening depressing frankly it's weak and i don't see how it follows through on the president's promises biggest from us in the campaign to defeat isis because i think it is going to research conflicting priorities in a war zone with no clear idea where the u.s. troop withdrawal will lead rosalyn jordan al-jazeera washington. then what is with

us now from a chuckle or near turkey's border with syria so anything more to say now on this news from syrian state television about syrian forces moving up. well that would throw will of u.s. forces from this strategic corner of syria really puts the whole area up for grabs there is more than one player in the syrian conflict wants to control the territory which has or oil which is the bread basket of syria the syrian army saying that they're sending reinforcements to northern syria to confront turkish troops at the same time the syrian opposition which is allied with the turkish government there sending troops to the front lines and members bendish has long been a flashpoint town also in a very strategic location in northern syria so really the area is now up for grabs new front lines emerging there's a new map who is going to get what but as the past few hours the

s.d.f. this is the kurdish led syrian democratic forces they are the biggest losers really they've lost ground to the turkish army and its allies they've lost control of practically 120 kilometers along the stretch of territory along the border the turkish army has moved 30 kilometers into syria from this north eastern point they've taken control of a crucial supply line so it's a really chaotic situation on the ground what happens next whether militarily or whether deals are brokered will really determine the fate of 30 percent of syria's territory and then what about the fate of all the people in the area president has been clear to say that turkey will take the greatest of care when it comes to civilians but there are also a lot of civilians who are on the move at the moment. yes 130000 people displaced by the fighting this is according to the united nations

this corner of syria is populated by arabs and kurds they have a long history of animosity which their wounds were deepened as a result of the syria syrian war there is little trust between them the kurds say they have long been discriminated against by the arabs the out of say that the kurds took advantage of the war to take to take their lands so there is a fault line here there is ethnic tensions it's not just the clashes that people are worried about that's what comes next which which a ruling authority let's say takes control of what area how could kurds live under arab authority or kurds do not trust the turkish government so it's a very messy situation on the ground you could imagine the fear and people because these people have really seen years of war they've seen the war against eisel and now the latest operation so there's a lot of fear on the ground thank you. chuckle a near the border. there is plenty more ahead for you on this news hour we'll look

at activists in ecuador preparing to begin talks with the president after more than a week of fun and protests also pakistan's prime minister's office to mediate talks between regional rivals iran and saudi arabia and then spoke to one team show continues to dominate the formula one season and we will have you a sports update a little later. so let's look at that acquittal story now the 24 hour curfew in ecuador's capital has been temporarily put on hold until sunday evening talks between protest leaders and the government set to start in less than 2 hours meanwhile troops are patrolling quito after demonstrators set fire to a government building they remain angry at the new austerity measures that caused higher fuel prices manuel drop below has our report now from quito.

unrest has continued on the streets of the ecuadorian capital on saturday thousands of people flooded downtown quito. demonstrators calling for the resignation of the country's president once again clashed with police rejected from her group who must not thought that this president is using public funds to kill us and shoot at us but we want to run away if we have to give our lives then so be it i have hundreds of women from across the country joined in the demonstrations and held a march of their own in solidarity with indigenous demonstrators. they called all the government to end what they say is a violent repression of peaceful protesters who doesn't exist out of this and the but lobby that women are protesting for life because we are life we've had enough of the brutal repression against ecuadorian demonstrators and indigenous ecuadorians. throughout the day spoken tear gas filled the air as more and more demonstrators filled the streets once again in doubt take

a tour it appears as though mayor people are showing up to participate and joining in the front lines of these demonstrations these people are coming from all parts of the country thinks a lot of these demonstrations clearly i learned through a very scarce id cannot take care says that they say are damaging for the country was at one point demonstrators set fire to one of the government's main administrative buildings another group of protesters set fire to a local television station many here have a deep distrust of the national news media with unrest spreading to other parts of the capital ecuadorian president lenin modano announced a mandatory nationwide curfew sending the military to restore order to city streets and public spaces in several school it took today we have declared a curfew in quito and the valleys which is already having tangible results and we have established a calm in a large part of the city. with a curfew in effect many of the capital city streets have emptied although there are

still plenty of people who remain defiant for most the hope is that an upcoming national dialogue will finally return peace to the country. pakistan's prime minister is trying to mediate talks between iran and saudi arabia imran khan met the iranian president hassan rouhani in teheran and then he's moving on to riyadh says he is hopeful of a breakthrough soon there on as a neighbor. boy is with iran go along way back to saudi arabia. has been one of our closest friends saudi arabia is hopeless when we have needed when we have been in need and so the reason for this trip that we do not want a conflict between saudi arabia and iran we recognize that it's a complex issue we recognize that. but we feel. that this can be

resolved through dialogue. we discussed recent developments related to the middle east region particularly to the persian gulf and the 3 of them on as we believe they are very critical regions for the gulf and the whole region we also emphasized on the strengthening of stability and a more peace in the region. more with correspondents in teheran well imran khan has been trying to mediate put together a meeting since the united nations general assembly in new york last month where he met on the sidelines president rouhani now this is the 2nd meeting that's taken place between the 2 leaders and in ron carney spoke about the historic ties but also said that this is an initiative by pakistan that no one has told fox than to carry this out and pakistan does not want to see a conflict in the region that a war between iran and saudi arabia would have global impacts you talked about the increase of oil prices the money spent on the one and the effect on civilian lives

but you also thanked iran for their support over the years and also said that president donald trump had asked iran contra act as a gold.