he dismissed the accusations as politically motivated saia took a principled stance on his opponent's detention refusing to campaign while he was locked up but once the vote was decided. supporters celebrated victory on the streets i was confident place aside would win i'm very excited for my country in the past elections my vote never counted this time i'm very happy because the man i voted for has become president the president has seen his power was diminished after the 2011 revolution the prime minister and the parliament shape the domestic agenda. faces to immediate challenges convincing the political parties but one the parliamentary election to set aside their differences and form a governing coalition and solving the economic problems sayed has repeatedly said that he was committed to helping his people now he must deliver his promises. to

this. peace talks are being held between sudan's transitional government and the groups think clude fighters accused of genocide in the darfur region is not a serious hit morgan reports now from the south for some who fled the fighting a skeptical about what the latest talks can achieve. tiredness is not just to you his face but also her 3 children she fled fighting 17 years ago to live here in camp in south dar for and says the past 3 years have been the hardest. the last part of that life during the camp is different from life outside here there is a lot of suffering outside things are available here we lack many things we lack enough food there is shortage of water we have to go out searching for our basic needs. is one of the largest displacement camps in the darfur region home to more than 150000 people many arrived when the world began in 2003 between government

forces and rebel groups fighting against marginalisation the rebels accuse the sudanese government of oppressing non arab tribes. the un says were in darfur killed more than 300000 people and displaced over 3000000 the sudanese government's military campaign resulted in an arrest warrant for now deposed president obama here the i.c.c. wants him for war crimes crimes against humanity and genocide. a joint a new u.n. mission was launched in 2007 to reduce the violence but troop levels have been reduced in the past year and is set to end next year my camp has become a town more than a displacement camp housing people who fled from violence not only in south darfur but the other parts of the darfur region and while fighting may have compared to when the worst started in 2003 many people say they yet to see actual signs of peace and security to convince them to return home sudan's new transitional government following months of anti-government protests and the ousting of bashir has said its 1st priority is achieving peace. sudan's government and armed groups

including those fighting in dar for signed a deal to start talks in october the country suffering council says peace falls not only on those negotiating it but on the people as well. but we need the people to be united we don't want any more fighting we don't want people to be divided we want unity those who have done wrong in this region must say what they've done wrong so that the country reaches peace the country is not going to change so people must be patient and wait for things to improve. but camp residents have heard it all before they've seen dozens of peace deals fail and no one represent them in the latest talks. the previous government negotiated more than 40 peace deals with darfur in the past 18 years now we don't believe in talks and we have not chosen any want to negotiate on our behalf so we doubt that there will be peace because people have been picked to present us i don't even know them no one came to ask for our opinions. talks that will affect not only rashid and her children but

the future of all those displaced by conflicts in sudan he will morgan. iran south darfur and we're going to weather update thanks to announce a 0 then the scale of devastation in japan is becoming clear after it was hit by one of the most powerful typhoon in decades. and islands of discontent will assess the impact of a $1000000000.00 project in malaysia. that will help you like the west a windy weather across europe because my goodness was claimed at the way just like these cows streaming into the last few hours much of the north reeling compassed and this had bringing with it some rain and it has been fairly windy as well in fact look at this this man doing his best for them bella in a red square. clouds bringing yet more rain in the 4 calls on actual fact as we go

on into monday it will stay fairly into western russia moscow it will be cloudy but it should be a drive day the rain is generally across much of scotland navia and then we've also a slight reprieve really across the central and eastern areas not so a great deal of warmth of course at this time of year 19 degrees in vienna 22 but this is where the weather will be on monday across much of the west and you fairly vigorous storm system working its way across into portugal and spain could see some heavy rain that at times it will continue its journey eastwards on cheese day so they will have the clouds and the rain back in the forecast. the u.k. right the way through the low countries france and down into the central areas as well in fact quite heavy again across the line of the house that fine and dry across the eastern end of the med and then into northern africa will see mostly clear skies but we could just see one to 2 shells on choose day working across into algeria.

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government has struck a deal with kurdish forces that will see the syrian army deployed along the border with turkey the kurdish led s.d.f. says the deployment will help them repel turkey's forces have been advancing since wednesday. ecuador's government has agreed to repeal a law that raised fuel prices follows nearly 2 weeks of protests were set at least 7 people dead but in tunisia conservative law professor political outsider is poised to become the next president exit polls suggest that christ side has beaten his rival media mobile appeal call we've on a turnout of 60 percent. spain's supreme court is expected to hand out its verdict on 12 catalan leaders over their role in the an old arised referendum for independence in 2017 the ruling could complicate spanish politics and reignite tension just a month ahead of national elections i was here a sunny again go reports from barcelona. in the middle of balsa luna's

largest train station a call for self-determination by catalan activists more than 2 years since catalonia is attempt to secede they are no closer to their go but they say they refuse to give up hope of a better movie and that this is a nonviolent action one of many more that are yet to come this is to defeat the system to change it and to become a new country. if the goal is a new nation then the full force of the spanish authorities is making sure it doesn't happen the euphoria of the 2017 self declared independence gave way to serious repercussions tensions between pro and anti secessionist spilled onto the streets it led to 12 catalan politicians and civic leaders facing charges for their roles in a legal referendum on the region status. and the crisis has continued to divide catalonia the spanish government hopes that

a ruling will bring an end to this type deal an episode in catalonia and the prime independent as will likely move out of all that promise to unleash a campaign of civil disobedience in the wake of any sentencing. catalan separatists have always insisted there were peaceful movement but the have been concerns from the central government to madrid that any jail sentences could ignite further turmoil in the region especially among more radical groups. it's not by putting people in jail or pushing them into exile that will solve things will make it worse the only way to solve this is to admit that there has to be a democratic outcome the spanish government has said it wants to restart talks to end the stalemate in catalonia until now some pro secession leaders were unwilling to engage unless there was an amnesty for those facing charges and with neither side giving way no one is optimistic that there is

a way out of this crisis any time soon. al-jazeera barcelona poland's ruling nationalist party is preparing for a 2nd term in power after declaring victory in sunday's elections exit polls show the law and justice party secured more than 43 percent of the vote voter turnout was the highest in 30 years at least 40 people are confirmed dead after a powerful typhoon struck parts of central japan over the weekend tens of thousands of soldiers are trying to rescue the stranded after widespread flooding and landslides as way to hey. there was plenty of warning before typhoon had arrived but the power of the storm caught some of japan's most vulnerable by surprise intense rainfall cut off many people and communities including dozens of elderly in a retirement home and car will go way north west of the capital tokyo after the storm passed they were brought to safety by risky work as. the storm brought damaging winds in excess of 200 kilometers an hour but the main feature was

a huge amount of rainfall some areas saw a meter in 24 hours and waterways simply couldn't cope with the embankment of more than 20 rivers collapsed one of the worst hit areas was not good no prefecture west of tokyo where a 70 meters stretch of the levee gave way many homes and businesses were flooded and japan's famous blue trains were surrounded by water and going nowhere fast or slow. the major typhoon has caused extensive damage far and wide and pan at one point the special warning for heavy rain was issued for as many as 13 prefectures there has also been emergency relief from various dams and flooding of various rivers it turned out to be a record heavy rain. more than 100000 risky workers were deployed including 31000 from the self-defense forces millions were ordered or advised to evacuate but some chose not to leave their homes or couldn't get out in time japanese

a used to preparing for storms and other natural disasters but this one was different it may have come and gone quickly but many here say it was the largest most intense typhoon they've experienced and they're wondering because of climate change if it's a sign of things to come in some places a recovery has begun but this was a storm that claimed many lives and caused vast amounts of damage the full extent of which won't be known for some time with so many areas still inundated wayne hay al jazeera tokyo china's president xi jinping has warned that any attempt to divide his country will result in bodies smashed and bones ground to powder chinese state media reports that he made the comments during a trip to the poor alone he didn't mention any specific regions comments follow months of protests against beijing in hong kong. well then 700 schools have been closed across afghanistan because of the war with the taliban an eyesore that's

hampering efforts to improve education in a country with one of the worst rates of illiteracy in the world al-jazeera charlotte ballasts reports from kabul. the cost of illiteracy in kabul is being sidelined by society these afghan may never learn to read or write the consequence of 4 decades of war more than half the population living below the poverty line every morning before 9 they gather here hoping to get work as laborers on a good day they'll earn $5.00. a life is miserable we're struggling always we don't have a life i mean physically we're alive but we just exist afghanistan is one of the lowest literacy rates in the world only about 31 percent of adults can read and write the un has found there is a big gender in geographical divide nearly half of all men can read and write but less than one in 5 women here in kabul literacy rates are quite good but they drop significantly in southern cop with says for example in kandahar and helmand rights

for women feel as low as 1.6 to see it. then there is a new generation y. much now martin not like i like all of my subjects i love all my teachers i really like drawing and i try hard in that i also work really hard in english and math 11 year old ababa care course i'm self an entrepreneur he sells boiled eggs to the laborers but says he has big plans last nerve a bit of i'm confident in myself that i will become someone special in the future there won't be you know joe i want to be an engineer and when i do that i will give work to all of these laborers so what is your care doing right. he goes to a public school in a middle class suburb of kabul there are 32 students in his class he has a. freethinking needs books stationery and support his father is illiterate the

family is learning together too. hard to learn not us on the i'm proud of a booker and i'm hopeful for him sometimes he tells me that he will study very hard and find a good job i didn't ask him to do this but he wants to provide for us it's nice to make should 3700000 afghans nearly half of all school age children and not unrolled . poverty is rife pushing children into work to feed their families this cultural challenges for girls one in 5 a married before the 15th birthday schools are under-resourced and more than 700 a currently closed due to fighting with the taliban and i salute unfortunately the latest program is difficult to implement and on 4th of the reason is after 2001 the education system expanded dramatically and loss of ditto are hired but building their capacity and providing them on one professional development support. care

moves from exile or towards engineer afghanistan and its children still have a long journey to literacy hate shallop ballasts al-jazeera kabul. plans are underway to build 3 artificial islands in malaysia's northern states of penang the government says that it wants to develop the region and provide more economic opportunities but many are concerned about environmental damage florence louis reports now from. the new shoreline. in a few years this area in the northern coast of malaysia will be filled with home offices and. land reclamation the process of creating from water logged areas is taking place on a rapid scale here and land mass is projected to increase by 10 percent within the next decade. the biggest and most controversial is the penang south reclamation project an area that covers rich fishing grounds. and.

when i 1st heard about it i was shocked worried and angry we depend on displaced what we call the golden triangle. fish and crips. off this coast is where 3 artificial islands covering approximately 800 square kilometers are planned to be built it's part of the penang state government's plan to help fund an ambitious $11000000000.00 transportation network. activists worry the damage to the environment would be irreparable. the call flight and that means destroy all the money that means it is the top of the structure of. the. land reclamation projects in the northern coast construction companies have built high rises and luxury shopping malls fishing communities say they've been left

worse off by the development. after the dredging started my catch has dwindled i can only bring in 5 kilograms a day now when i used to haul in 15 to 20 kilograms a day before but local politicians have defended the large reclamation project. you have. crap in terms of can be a rush you do not want to be. so what shall we do. we will bring the people we the people. but the fishermen being forced to travel further out to see the increased financial costs outweigh any benefits florence. malaysia. is. going to hear in doha the headlines on al-jazeera breaking news out of sprain

this hour the supreme court has sentenced 12 cattle and separatist leaders for their role in the an all the rise referendum for independence in 27 team the former deputy leader oriel don't care us has been handed a 13 year prison term. more news on that in our next person here and i was there a little over 28 minutes time now syria's government a struck a deal with kurdish forces that will see the syrian army deploy along the border with turkey the kurdish led s.d.f. says the deployment will help them repel turkey's forces which have been involved advancing since wednesday chance strafford reports now from the turkey syria border you can imagine the significance of this deal when you're effectively looking at 2 national army is now facing off each other potentially in a confrontational situation so it is of great concern it is fascinating in terms of

how allegiances have changed but of course it only increases the worries of the international community all of the humanitarian organizations in the u.n. where we've already had according to the u.n. 160000 people flee their homes ecuador's government has agreed to repeal a law that raised fuel prices following talks with protest leaders celebrations are taking place in the capital quito demonstrators since sacked government buildings and set fire to media offices they don't agree to end the protests which began nearly 2 weeks ago at least 30 people are confirmed dead after a powerful typhoon struck central japan over the weekend tens of thousands of soldiers are still trying to get to people who left stranded after widespread flooding and landslides in tunisia a conservative law professor and political outsider is poised to become the country's next president exit polls suggest that christ sired has beaten his rival

the media mogul not deal car we are turned out of 60 percent the news continues here on al-jazeera after today's inside story next. 3 years 3 prime ministers and still no break sit down with the october 31st departure deadline and the e.u. and u.k. prepared to square off in brussels was will. do next followed the e.u. summit on al-jazeera. 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 of risk and what are 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 lobbying 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 claim 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 assad the rector 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 moeller 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 of 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 complain against al jazeera english or campaign against freedom of the press. ours any effort to show our religious leader iraq are for that matter any our media organization in the united states. it isn't

a problem but st believe 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 don't give up that ego and attribute already years i'll just you know has god listed scriptures as a media organization that has covered area were 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 a 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 literal but 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 old is you know with arabic and english handling the stories that is different narrative over them a lot is once because they want to show the americans the europeans the english native people one that it was an additive which basically fits their own agenda a political agenda and they're. as is so basically a disease or 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 in either a myth against arab spring from 2011 it has been you know designed as foreign policy since 2011 on the fact that you know the status quo and there should be maintained 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 disease or 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 rebecoming 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 trumped all lobbying organizations have always existed in the united states that all this informed are not going to read the u.s. congress that the department of the u.s. 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 biding united at a 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 and warning 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 this 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. 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 just 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 mentioned at the beginning of this 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 we've got this 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 his relatives very lucrative financial business opportunities and what's happening with with gutter is that when it was showing that mr taylor 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 happen 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 promise to use 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 and small in

the security and on security in the region so they know the contribution of our 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 administration to 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 and there are only 2 sheens on both sides of the divide bottle what contradiction 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 plan so 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 are

just part of our earlier saying closing down and deceit are. 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 us are they didn't happen to dish and british journalist was not and the car and some of the. white house or the briefings so 'd that could happen deceiving and that. because i'll just you know is a general we don't get as mission be obama. but definitely an extra freedom of press freedom in our perceptions which claims to have which claims that we are having with the 1st amendment that doesn't allow us 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 channel. 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 for actually 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 terror 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 ringers here 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 in 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 put about 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 as 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 greenlit 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. he would protest it will go to the congress we will use our and to march across institute of america national committee to do is this issue at every level of government in the united states in the. take up bottles. press freedom of the violation of human rights organizations to all of this medium and he says it is asking religious leader to distort the origin of the most ridiculous decisions of the duct. as he dies it's published their initials are the media organizations which are set up because it brought. boards from all over the world where many delusional and

brilliant stations from potch apart from or due north. it's the darky of shows that enters into highs and also dollars. by number or to. indian art it states last year. it was so it establishes others it is a media organization not an obvious follow and therefore it should not be of interest and if that happens we will take action and we will take action not it will drive to the government divide the coach he vowed 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 precise and my job sweaty 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 very modern way to do the top believe me the measure of progress. the domestic population has organized enough and active enough to believe that. soon there is a good book that will kill people or more vulnerable circle of poison on al-jazeera . kurdish fighters find a new ally in the syrian government as the turkish offensive in the northeast escalates.

and i'm a prophetic of this is al jazeera live from doha we're going to begin this bulletin by seeking you live to istanbul turkey as president writes of type one is giving a media conference at the moment let's listen in with sincere and sincere sailings. my different friends by john president mr just on my invitation. between 14th of october and 15. we are going to visit azerbaijan and we're going to depart to bucky to join the summit will overcome the. groom him sitting with our representative and a large delegation is going to be with us and like you've been after arriving back here 1st of all. you know i'm going to meet my brother.

xanadu for that so we are going to. see their business conseco in buckie relations yes yes and we're going to meet you know that business man live in outside was talking to members of the press turkey conseco 7th summit. is in. fortune's historically. first of all this summer. because its. relationship important relationships between azerbaijan kurdistan are that by john . not just specially related to do not to ban treaty on you. and this is going siding with the 10th anniversary of the treaty after the problems you all hopefully summit will also. initiate. and we're going to see.

if you've gotten we're going to join an opening in europe as well and this will also add strength to our operation. corp. cover to stand down so father especially you know so tonight our base of us. until this year with this here will be avoided during the summit of circle them as an. experience of a click and we're going to take benefit of his experiences. hopefully the turkish world and the corporation will strengthen each day and this is something to be proud of for us. that all the. members of the states who will join the summit we will have bilateral meetings and

hopefully we will have opportunity to talk about our relationships in the. cup so i would like to give also information about our peace bring a parade. state leaders to. all the turkish can say. because the member is and so we're going to have opportunity to strengthen our relationship with the summit place. from c.n.n. turk turkish. there is reportedly news about the syrian army is making deal with white p.g. though how is this going to affect the operation to france of course. there is a lot of gossip. but. especially.

through. ambassadors and in addition to that at the moment we're going to incur bonnie. with russia's positive approach. it looks like we're not going to have any difficulty about member which at the moment. as we decided we are going to act on it. as you know with the united states about mineral rich book. discussion with america about marriage. we were saying that in 90 days terror organizations were going to exit from a bitch but this didn't happen. when we or any team in which we are not going to and similar which we are. the real owners of that area

are a bit more brothers are going to go into that area and then bitch and our approach to this is that they should and to bear and we are going to make it secure for them . yesterday united states defense secretary said. today we're talking about throwing the american soldiers from syria i think this is the same approach i think this is still. and there is nothing against it at the moment. as soldiers are determined in the area of operation and there is the el of effort to not to harm any civilians but some of the foreign media is reporting in

a different way. there are some events and some staged. scenes . a. number of foreign reporters were claiming that they heard bombing near civilian areas to friends. i believe in these manipulations and how you evaluate this this is how i relate it to. 600. more than 600 marches shelling to our country but the they don't see this they are blind to this of course this is not acceptable. but this is not a 1st this is always their tactic and it's a moment this is the same tactic inside and outside their own tactics but of course the truth. to cover the truth is not possible because

at the moment we have martyrs you know we have civilians who died and as a result of that martin shelling all of us we have casualties we have injured we have people who are displaced. we have people who have moved out our civilian citizens. say try to manipulate as much as they like but our people are seeing the truth and we are going to express this through written and and broadcasting vehicles by media but of course they are going to put their effort they're going to do their trick but we are going to continue telling the truth. this is not going to stop us it's not going to prevent us do what we want to live in the same. view. related to my friend's question. there are many strong reactions from countries

and there are some contradictory expressions of statements to. the some of the countries and having some criticisms and the what are you going to say about the christian society talking about the arab league yes and arab league actions in western countries there are some there is some self criticism. maybe they are saying last we have turkey has got a right to do this operation what are you going to say about this. of course these reactions will change because as you know. law is the can't last forever on the jury and and at the moment what's happening at the moment the good will they can see all this. i. have

spoken to chancellor merkel yesterday a day before that i spoken to. stroke. in my believe in meeting in in my conversation with them the i realize that they don't know many important truth or not aware and they are on the very strong. misinformation on the campaign. i explained to them. some immediately if you want to have a sincere approach share. with you all in the call this empowers we are in the coalition powers to reach us and within the coalition that. will rule i.e. looking for truth or. not of course they're trying to hide something that we have what is it we are to fix all these and not ally be careful all these countries are nato members not on

a mission where this was the 5th article of nato we are. under attack from a terror organization. so according to the you know what article of the who should they be siding with with us or not but with the aid night a member are you going to be with you or not nato ally oh are you going to be with us. who are you going to be with are you going to be with the terrorists of course they can't answer this. yup the antecedent. all the things they say what's on it what are they intending what is their reason it's impossible to understand somebody sometimes one things just amongst all the nato members we are the only muslim country is it because of that maybe kind of because it

looks like it's going this way. and of course we know this terrorist group is on the nature. and of course nato and one of its responsibilities is the fight against terror so but it is passive we're in front of the 5th article but of course the general secretary of nato is also embarked of course i met him. he met my. state secretary. it was a very good meeting. i think his stand is very different but member countries some of the member countries their standpoint is different because all of europe and all of the talking to them they for example especially mr boris johnson then he said to me how can i help you now. he came to this point of course at this point we have to stand up straight.