agenda. faces 2 immediate challenges convincing the political parties that won 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 about iraq to this. we got a weather update next year and i was here and then trying to find a solution for sudan's troubled darfur region but those affected have little hope for peace plus. some of the most pristine beaches in the northeastern brazil have been covered by the crude oil that's been washing up on the beaches and nobody knows exactly where this is coming from i mean gabriel is on doing our logo is brazil that story coming up.

i want to play societies all quiet now across japan a lost a clear dry and sunny we've got a little area of high pressure now pushing in replacing a storm at typhoon that's well and truly gone and we are looking at last he settled conditions the right is out there in the open waters sunshine for the most part based on pieces of fair weather clad take it up to 20 celsius as we go through choose to add a similar temperature as we go on into wednesday perhaps a little breeze or on wednesday but it will be dry and settles at the tip operation not hampered by the weather at least try and study to to the east and parts of china down towards the fall southwest is still looking rather disturbed and some heavy rain affecting a good part of vietnam over the next couple of days driven in by this key northeasterly wind right across the south china seas western parts of china will

also see some wet weather some other 2 into central and southern parts of the philippines as showers slide in the way down towards bologna they are going to drift a little further southwards as we go on through wetness day so much of borneo will see some lively showers longer spells of right south of that system dry across a good part of indonesia jakarta with a high of 32. the story of one of the most successful p.r. campaigns in the us. study after study has demonstrated the israeli perspective dominated american media coverage well part of this can you get through your thick head is hamas a terrorist organization the only thing that you're going to say is what we want and if you don't say it we're not to let you speak it would be very hard for ordinary americans to know that they're being deceived the occupation of the american mind on al-jazeera.

and again this is al jazeera let's remind you of the main news this hour as turkey's offensive into kurdish held territory in northern syria escalates syrian government troops are now positioned in several nearby locations it follows a deal between damascus and the kurds allowing syrian soldiers to deploy close to the border with turkey. ecuador's government has agreed to scrap it austerity measure the braised fuel prices the decision to get rid of fuel subsidies spark barely 2 weeks of protests in which at least 7 people died out in tunisia for more professor and political outsider is poised to become the next president exit polls suggest the syud once more than 70 percent of the vote beating the media mogul

appeal kawi. spain's top quarter sentenced 9 catalan separatist leaders to prison over their role in the region's failed bid for independence people in barcelona described the ruling as on the fair after the supreme court delivered sentences of between 9 and 13 years in prison for catalonian vice president your cat has received the longest of 13 years for the crime of sedition catalonia held an illegal referendum in 2017 in a bid to break away from spain activists of threatened mass protests in response to the verdict al-jazeera sunday a day ago is in the catalan regional capital barcelona she's on the line now so what's been the reaction to this verdict. on a solitary have it's a very i'm. afraid we appear to have lost sonia

in barcelona we'll try and get sunny back to speak to a little later in the program but the british monarch says that her government's priority is to secure the country's departure from the e.u. 31st queen elizabeth made the comments while delivering her speech to open the new session of parliament outlining the government's agenda for the year the queen also spoke of the need for cooperation between the u.k. and e.u. countries as brigs that negotiations continue my government intends to work towards a new partnership with the european union based on free trade and friendly cooperation. my ministers will work to implementing new regimes of fisheries agriculture and trade seizing the opportunities that arise from relieving the european union. an integration bill ending free movement will lay the foundation for

a fair modern global immigration system out there as lawrence lee joins us now live from london lawrence briggs it should happen what in a little over 2 weeks time now but it's far from a done deal as these negotiations go on we may well end up with an election in a few weeks time in the u.k. so what was the point of having a queen's speech today. well yeah that's that is the question that everybody keeps raising i mean plainly boris johnson wants it to be seen that it's business as usual than each saying let's get bricks it done and concentrate on all these things that the queen outlined in in the speech that all of the very mundane domestics of the stuff about broadband and more police on the streets and being tough on crime stuff they actually don't have to leave the european union are told to try to accomplish but as you say usually what happens is you might have an election and a new government comes in and then sets out its agenda in the queen's speech this

is being done back to front and upside down because having a queen's speech in the full knowledge that is going to be elected in a few weeks time presumably is peculiar to say the least and not least because far as johnson has and has a minority government set about minus 40 at the moment and so are the debates if all this stuff for several days the expectation is when it goes to a vote it could easily all be overturned and then you back to where you started and so the opposition parties are complaining that this is nothing to do with what the government thinks its agenda will be it wants to set out a load of measures that will turn into the conservative party's manifesto for when these seemingly inevitable election happens but of course they don't really get anywhere until they fall and find the resolutions of breck's it and that resolution as you also suggest is still as clear as mud yeah i know you're in london not in brussels what are you hearing though of the the negotiations that are going on that in brussels the reading the runes that the the mood music what's going on about it

. well i mean i mean both sides are maintaining a sort of trap it's like silence about things because they say that they want to do it in private without things being leaked to the media but the problem ease both sides keep saying things that turn out not to be true so for example boris johnson said conservative party conference he was making what he called these final offer to the european union which involved new customs arrangements in this wretched situation in northern ireland that he's now suggesting he's making concessions again so that fund often turned out not to be true equally the european union had demanded that the u.k. comes up with a new proposal by the end of last week because they said they wanted to give the 27 governments some time to talk about this before the summit on thursday and friday of this week and yet the e.u. is now suggesting that they're fairly happy for talks to carry on. as they have done over the weekend and straight through this week into the summit and so it's

very difficult to take anything that either side says really on on face value but it certainly looks like there are still enormous sticking points in the middle over what sort of customs arrangements they can come up with there's a big gap between the 2 sides and i don't think they can plainly there's only 2 weeks left now before they subside but pretty fast deadline and so the idea of extension sober exit guess again looks more and more like we've got a serious laurence leamer reporting live from a very damn westminster many thanks lawrence. a trio of economists has won the nobel economics prize for the experimental approach to alleviate global poverty indian born. and his french american wife esther do flow from the massachusetts institute of technology michael kramer is from harvard university as to the flow is only the 2nd woman to win the prestigious prize. peace talks are being held between sudan's transitional government and armed groups being clued fighters accused of

genocide in the darfur region but reports from by allah in south darfor son who fled the fighting a skeptical about what these latest talks can achieve. tiredness is not just. us but also her 3 children she fled fighting 17 years ago to live here in a camp in south dar for and says the past 3 years have been the hardest. life during the camp is different from life outside here there's a lot of suffering outside things are available here like many things we lack enough food there's shortage of water we have to go out searching for 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 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 already bashir the i.c.c. want him for war crimes crimes against humanity and genocide. i joined a new un 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. 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 the sheer has said its 1st priority is achieving peace. sudan's government and armed groups including those fighting in dar 4 signed

a deal to start talks in october the country's 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 al-jazeera

south dar for. thousands of protesters in haiti's capital are calling for the resignation of president as the country's seen nearly a month of violent protests haitians are angry of a corruption rising inflation and fuel shortages voices promise to find a solution but opposition leaders have rejected all his attempts brazil is dealing with an environmental emergency with crude oil washing up on beaches along its northeastern coast it's a growing ecological disaster made worse because the source of the oil remains a mystery of zeros cable is on the reports now from the northeast and stays of us. it's easy to find the oil that's washing up on the beaches in the northeast of brazil the supplier mental disaster is spread over 2000 kilometers contaminating some of brazil's most beautiful beaches. the state of alabama has been hit especially hard and the cleanup is

a huge challenge but that isn't the only good i made to fit the if we are part of multiple agency efforts to monitor the coastline which include the army city and state officials some oil stains appear in the north of the state but it's worse in the south. what's more difficult to determine is where is that will coming from there are many theories could it have come from oil tankers in the atlantic ocean of some suspect or could that will be from a german ship sunk off the coast of brazil doing real work too as some brazilian researchers have concluded. well nobody knows exactly where this oil is coming from the brazilian government says it's not coming from here in brazil that their bras the state run oil company has run tests on this oil and they say it's a type of crude oil that is not produced here in brazil they say this oil contains characteristics of oil normally found in neighboring venezuela so the brazilian

government thinks this oil is coming. there but venezuela's state run oil company did nies it is the source of the oil official with brazil's environmental protection agency tells me this spill is a catastrophe and there's no quick fix to the pollution so that while you know this is an environmental emergency our work will go on until this is over but for now we have no deadline to finish our work. on sunday crews tried their best to clean up the beaches but it's a huge area and resources are limited to investigators are now taking to the air to try to spot the oil slicks on the sand they have found more than $150.00 contaminated beaches so far this is a disaster on a huge scale and it can't be fully controlled until the source of the oil is identified. rosendo. state of us in

northeast brazil. in afghanistan half of school aged children are out of school hundreds of institutions have been closed due to the war with the taliban and eisel that's hampering efforts to improve education reports from kabul. the cost of illiteracy in kabul is being sidelined by society these afghan men never learned 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 labor is 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 and the world only about 31 percent of adults can read and write the un has found there is a big gender and 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 ca but says for example in kandahar and helmand rights for women fall as low as $1.00 to see it. then there's a new generation was no martin not do that ok 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 night of 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 labor as so what is her care doing right. he goes to a public school in a middle class suburb of kabul there are $32.00 students in his class he has

everything he needs books stationery and support his father is illiterate the family is learning together to. the hard work not just on the i'm proud of her 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. nice to make should 3700000 afghans nearly half of all school age children and not enrolled. 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 still unfortunately the literacy program is difficult to implement and on top of that isn't is after 2001 that is a business to some expanded dramatically loss of data were hired but building their capacity and providing them on one professional development support. the care moves

from exile or towards engineer afghanistan and its children still have a long journey to literacy hate shallop ballasts al-jazeera kabul. it is critelli with us hello this is al jazeera adrian for going to here in doha with the headlines as turkey's offensive into kurdish held territory in northern syria escalates syrian government troops are now positioned in several nearby locations that follows a deal between damascus and the kurds allowing syrian soldiers to deploy close to the border with turkey meanwhile in you foreign ministers are meeting in luxembourg to consider for arms embargo on turkey. to see that a new front expect several things from this meeting a condemnation of the turkish offensive a prompt demand in the offensive more pacifically

a firm position on arms exports to turkey but above all we want this meeting to be an opportunity to do the necessary so that the united states of america holds a meeting on the international coalition against islamic state. ecuador's government has agreed to scrap an austerity measure that raised fuel prices the decision to get rid of fuel subsidies spark nearly 2 weeks of protests in which at least 7 people were killed spain's top court has sentenced 9 cattle and separatist leaders to prison over their role in the region's failed bid for independence people in barcelona described the ruling as unfair after the supreme court delivered sentences of between 9 and 13 years in prison and the british monarch says her government's priority is to secure the country's departure from the e.u. by the 31st of october those are the headlines on al-jazeera the news continues off the inside story next.

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 u.s. 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 assad to rector 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. is 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 disposed in the mall or 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 in 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 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 for that matter any our media organization in the united states. it isn't a problem free to believe that every media organization has the right to exist i would like to wear a free speech closing down are asking though doing that will be just another

lobbying agent told that they are about to go an attribute already years i'll just you know has god listed. as a media organization that has covered every little were which are about the demolition network doesn't have. great interest 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 we are about ization and we see this as an attack on the 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 how to use your 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 it were 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 sororities and other governments are very annoying for example you know the way how they broadcast about arab spring the literal but the board 3 a line of you know talking about arab spring the slogan has been used in the news the way how you how does it all without our becoming the 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 our english in the united states is showing different narrative is showing different stories elements which basically contradict exactly with what the united arab emirates wants this remember either a myth against arab spring from 2011 it has been you know designed as foreign policy since 2011 and on 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 disease context and dizzier is defending all of this in a you know on a slogan and in news in the stories so if the 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 'd 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 gump they 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. oh. 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 that all of this. are not going to well the u.s. congress that 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 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 managers you know it's unlikely but still it is a surprise that they're trying to do this and b. 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 our 911 but 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 in the last 20 years since 911 we need to we need to have to target minds and hearts and now what's been have been happening now they want 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 you as you mention at the beginning of this show that you know shutting down of the.