catalonia region. and a bitterly divided washington d.c. find something democrats and republicans alike can share for. how we've got to weather and see southern parts of europe now the sunshine is returning on places i still a few showers into central possibly with your charitable z. east med as well the further north you can see it's lotty dry into those central areas of here about towards the north and this is where the next change is coming in big swathe of clouds rolling in here weather systems pushing across the british isles down across the low countries as we go on through the next day also 17 celsius in london in the cloud and the rain as we go on into sunday much fresher

red same behinds are picking up a northerly wind and temperatures will struggle to get into double figures that colder air making its way into france as well 15 celsius or the west sunshine dry weather down to warsaw the possible little bit of cloud there still affecting portugal and western parts of spain still a fair bit of cloud too into central parts of the med just around most of pulling away from southern europe corsica now the brightest skies into the southeast as we go on through the weekend and that we reflected across the fog northeast of africa want to see showers still a possibility around the sinai peninsula chance of some showers too into tunis or over the next couple of days but prices guys gradually come back in behind. sponsor. every week news cycle brings a series of breaking stories. as we turn the cameras on the media services control much of egyptian media it becomes an extension of the arm of the

president and focus on how they would put on the stories that matter the most getting an accurate informative story out of there is not. a pose a too late we already have the information they're listening post on al-jazeera. over again the top stories. at least 42 people have been killed during friday protests in iraq a curfew has been imposed across 8 provinces and thousands rallied rejecting the prime minister's promise of economic reforms a march by a 1000000 people in chile turned violent on friday night police fired tear gas.

mask protesters who set fire to a street barricades president sebastian pinera says he's heard the message of the. u.n. says it supports an audit of bolivia as disputed presidential election result that's triggered nationwide protests and the official vote tally points to a victory by the incumbent president ever more obvious. lebanon is bracing for a day of antigovernment protests take a look at the scene in the capital beirut that's where demonstrators have started blocking roads people are calling for a civil disobedience movement until the government steps down they're frustrated and angry over corruption and lebanon spiraling economic crisis. stephanie decker spoke to some protesters to find out how anger against the government has been building for years. 7 badla has barely slept this week. running on adrenaline. she and her friends are blocking roads in downtown beirut to

keep the pressure on the government. i look at. the protests that have erupted all across lebanon have not come from nowhere. this has been building for years have seen over the past. protests people are getting really angry about all these manifestations of state failure. was very clear. that this is managed very poorly. on people and people pay taxes thing which. explains what that feels like i'm glad we started having the problem. so we were running fighting for survival every day. it's my god my. god

it was a suburban morning. probably with that we. were . all really around it. writes. the 2015 garbage crisis was another turning point politicians bickered over who would collect it off the streets fueled by their business interests resulting in the country drowning under piles of garbage it triggered demonstrations then to the same messages coming from everyone out protesting now whether sunni shiite jews or christian their leaders have become rich adair and lebanon's expense that unity in a society that is defined by its tearing allegiances is a 1st. she accuses lebanon's leaders of exploiting sectarianism to keep the people divided don't want to stick to the political and. want to succeed you know i really didn't believe there is all over the politics.

what it's like understand more than i said. these protests may have been triggered by a proposed tax on using social media apps to make phone calls to before that a large part of the population was already at a boiling point most recently forest fires spread across lebanon the government couldn't control them its fire aircraft in disrepair it had to seek help from abroad. perilous is just one voice among many governments of come and gone and their failures of piled up to become unbearable but the leaders who govern this country have remained the same for decades and the people want accountability stephanie decker al-jazeera beirut. the united nations says months of floods in

south sudan have affected almost a 1000000 people entire communities have been submerged since july forcing hundreds of thousands from their homes and where 60 percent of people are already going hungry crops have been washed away the weather forecast there's more rain for weeks to come. the u.s. says it will refuse entry to zimbabwe's state security minister accusing him of involvement in gross human rights violations. the sanctions will stay in place until violence against peaceful protesters and members of the opposition are investigated it comes as a day of protest against long running economic sanctions put in place by the u.s. and. business owners in nigeria are complaining they've lost hundreds of millions of dollars since the government closed the border crossing with neighboring burning border guards say they're trying to stop illegal goods being smuggled in. reports from one of the hardest hit towns these trucks have been stuck here at the nigeria

binny border for 2 months. court by a sudden change in government policy they're not allowed to go forward and can't go back. as a boat has been importing and exporting goods for 23 years he says he's never seen anything like this and come to our government should they hand over to us goods that you've already paid import duty for we have more than 500 trucks on the bin the republic side of the border many of the goods are damaged. if this doesn't and assume some businessmen say they have lost hundreds of millions of dollars since the middle of august when the government ordered the borders to be closed imports. this is one of the reasons the government says it's shocked because it's illegally imported rice. officials say the flow of contraband into nigeria is killing its economy and production and opening the door to

criminals and weapons. if you must in this. there are. plenty of big broad. have been exploited by some members and therefore we have a duty and responsibility to engage in legitimate actions that would be. better secure our people and more importantly simulate the little people. the port of cotton or been in is 120 kilometers from lagos nigeria officials say many goods from coated or smuggled past customs inspectors summer is the busiest of nigeria's border towns connecting the port city of cotton or in been a republic with the country's commercial capital lagos this used to be a very important trading point for imported goods especially right now in this

market i mean town there is little traffic since nigeria closed its borders the government hopes that shutting down the borders will stop because from smuggling illegal got into the country the security clampdown us forced up the prices of goods in markets and there are shortages in some places the government says the measures will grow nigeria's economy in the long term. officials say in the 1st 2 weeks of the border closures revenues from import duty went to by more than 5 percent but that left many nigerians concerned about rising cost of food stuff. that they want since we don't get regular supplies of food stuff here in same i know food is getting in across the border and no food reaches us here from legal us we are in a fix the government says it wants to stop smugglers and criminals who pose a bigger threat to the country and its economy and all keep the borders closed for now. al-jazeera. along the nigeria i've been in border.

sprains central government is cracking down on a digital platform that's being used to mobilize mass protests it calls itself tsunami democratic and was behind pro independence rallies at the barcelona airport which saw dozens of flights canceled so you go has a story they vowed to return to the streets following the sentencing of 9 catalan politicians and activists for sedition 2 weeks ago that tsunami democratic a leaderless anonymous organization called of protesters to blockade barcelona's airport one of the most defiant acts among days of protests that occurred throughout catalonia riots that came after which caused damage and disruption the likes of which had not been seen in decades. catalonia as usual peaceful protest movement became drawn into a controversy over the tactics used to encourage civil disobedience and the

question was raised who or what is tsunami democratic today in the spanish of the supreme court ruling was unowned which is and derek affront to the human rights . the only person to be associated with the movement so far is to city's catalan manager pep guardiola who has advocated for the session of catalonia for his message to catalans to get behind the tsunami democratic came out on the day protesters occupy the airport the reaction from the spanish will start to use was swift a judge ordered their websites and social media platforms to be shut down part of an ongoing investigation into the movement of charges of terrorism when we mind but hobbs's the. political parties which where do we hide behind the 1st of the over the phone and the one all to the same organisation and are now behind these anonymous blood form but it's some kind of a political leap to be preparing the action for

a lot of ones they don't mean of their website whatever it is that is on do allowed 2019 so we might. have been preparing for a lot of time so anyone who wants to join the tsunami democratic or they 1st have to download the app on an android phone and then they have to activate it by getting a q.r. code from another user that code can only be used for a limited amount of times now there's no account of such that's created however the user has to agree with being able to track their location so far the app is still awaiting activation but the movement has already called further action before and after spain's general election next month in a bid to make further waves in catalonia sonia al-jazeera barcelona. a u.s. court says confidential portions of robert mueller as report must be released to congress muller concluded

a 2 year investigation into alleged russian interference in the 2016 presidential election but large sections of his findings were withheld democrats are seeking the full report as part of their impeachment investigation of us president donald trump from washington christmas salumi explains why the court ruling is important for democrats democrats are particularly interested in any information in that report that could pertain to a possible obstruction of justice charge against the president and you may recall that the mahler report found that there was russian interference in the 2016 election but insufficient evidence to show that president trampers team were involved in any way he also left open the question of possible obstruction of justice for how president trump handled that investigation his efforts to stifle it remember he fired f.b.i. director james comey that raised a lot of questions in the possibility of charges there but the special counsel said

that he could not charge the president because it was just part of a policy not to charge a sitting president that's the responsibility of congress congress wanted to go there now the judge is saying they can indeed go there and have access to all this information that was withheld by attorney general william barr this is a major victory for democrats in addition to getting access to all of that information the judge validated the impeachment inquiry in the 1st place now the president and republicans have painted this inquiry as a sham accused democrats of not following procedures because they haven't held a formal vote to have an impeachment inquiry but the judge said that was incorrect that there was ample case history to allow the agree to go forward. u.s. airlines will be banned from flying to all cuban international airports except starting december it's the latest step by the white house to undo the obama era infrastructure on the island nation which depends on tourism secretary's they pay

requests that the move that will bar u.s. flights to cuban airports cuba's foreign minister has hit back saying the u.s. action will fail to force her to make any concessions. for the 1st time since 1933 the u.s. capitol is hosting the biggest professional baseball event of the year the world series the excitement is overtaking and uniting what is usually a divided city game 3 has now finished with the houston astros winning 4 to one the washington nationals are so in the best of 7 series jordan has more on how people are putting politics aside to enjoy this rare events. this is the washington the world has come to know that's an ask one of the other folks that's enough don't touch me. but right now this is also washington. in the middle of baseball's biggest prize the world series. it's

a really big deal really it's brought the city together. joining forces to push american baseball's youngest team the nationals to victory. it's been a long time since a baseball team has given washington this much to celebrate the all senators team last competed in the world series in 1933 when the country was in the grips of the great depression but even during postwar prosperity and the senators were lousy the fans still turned up now with impeachment looming and the airwaves loaded with accusations of political witch hunts and fake news i think any time you get it daisy sports team doing well it really elevates the city and we can always use a little bit of unity in this place i think it's bobby but closer to get there you know and that they are winning they can. go rob or something in common hot bats and

the joys of seeing in the team anthem baby shark are giving exhausted washingtonians a reason to smile now this is a story about celebrating washington's unity but my producer reminds me that we need to remain bipartisan isn't that right chris. rosalyn shorten al-jazeera washington. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera. iraqi police a fired stun grenades at antigovernment protesters they were trying to storm the heavily fortified green zone where the iraqi parliament is at least $42.00 iraqis have been killed during nationwide protests on friday demonstrators are demanding the resignation of government leaders as well as an end to corruption and economic

hardship in the oil rich country it's also the name has more from baghdad now very tense this morning stun grenades have already been deployed as protesters attempted to breach barricades to get to the green zone that is where top government offices are as well as the american embassy i don't know if you can see behind me there is a tent that was set up several 100 people spent the night here i'm actually speaking right now to come sam sam says that he has been in tahrir square for 3 days what did you want to tell me well i want to talk to you about what's going on over here we've been here 3 days. we've been. signing over there. we've been looking for help from anyone you know. not that government the government looked somewhat innocent. as nobody cared about us in chile riot police to fire did some of the 1000000 marchers in the largest

anti-government demonstration for decades president sebastian pinera says he's heard the message of the protesters complaining about inequality in the rising cost of living but u.n. says it supports an audit of bolivia as disputed presidential election result that's triggered nationwide protests the official vote tally points to a victory by incumbent president abel morale this lebanon is bracing for a 10 day of anti-government protests this is the scene in the capital beirut where demonstrators have started blocking roads people are calling for a civil disobedience movement until the government steps down or frustrated over corruption and lebanon spiraling i can on the crisis yemen's internationally recognized government in southern separatists backed by the u.a.e. have reached an initial agreement to stop fighting against each other a deal is expected to be signed within 2 days time. those are the latest headlines on al-jazeera there's more news coming up that's right after the

listening post that's next to stay with us. the prime minister's. mission if you believe the british on the 31st of october and making this country the greatest place on a tiny good mood in a full he would drama with bricks it on al-jazeera. a criminal record at 1.5. countries. hello i'm richard burton you're at the listening post here are some of the media stories we're covering this week the protests in lebanon are a multi-faceted story that many of the countries news outlets want no part of in ethiopia a showdown between

a media mogul and the winner of the nobel peace prize prime minister. post colonial residue governments in sub-saharan africa are still using laws that the called honest left behind to silence journalists and never mind the tear gas it is 11 on after all and the beats must go on for a week and a half now the streets of lebanon have been jammed with protesters the biggest anti-government demonstrations there for 15 years among the aspects of this story that stand out although it has since grown into a nationwide movement against a government corruption and economic mismanagement these protests were triggered by talk of a new tax on whatsapp and other internet cull services like facebook messenger and face time secondly while so much of lebanese politics is sectarian there is nothing factional about these demonstrations the issues are economic the protests. stairs are a nonsectarian coalition not that you would know that watching some of the television

channels coming out of beirut unlike the movement they are supposed to be covering much of lebanon's media is split along sectarian lines some of the more independent outlets have jumped on this story but those controlled by politicians have been spinning downplaying or just ignoring the unrest that's what happens when the media play a central part in a system that so many citizens are trying to change our starting point this week is beirut. watching television in lebanon these days on some channels at least is like watching a nation talking to itself. channels like. these are just running constantly on the interviews of the crowd basically telling the crowd to just be going to. talk about what happened

to their family about their story. i mean. these reporters they stand there and people just warm around them and wait for their turn. but others argue it does about me. what it is they feel good about other talking about issues local issues bigger issues like you know having sectarian political system driven by warlords. it is that system the protestors are out to change. but it was economic issues power outages water shortages and proposed new taxes on the base. 6 like few week even online phone calls on platforms such as what's the 1st brought people onto the streets which is where the

domestic media come in with their built in bias lebanese politics and power are carved out tween political factions the president comes from a christian per the prime minister's office is reserved for a sunni muslim and the shia muslim always gets to be speaker of the part of some of lebanon's biggest t.v. channels t.v. future t.v. and n b n are owned by or aligned with those political parties. then there is hezbollah's t.v. and the state on channel tele liban both of which downplayed the demonstrations or ignored activists stormed taliban's offices in protest 3 other privately owned channels apparently with agendas of their own l b c m t v and alger did have all provided wall to wall coverage of the unrest. in the media landscape. by handful of. about 12 families or.

alliance. which is affiliated to the president's party on the very 1st night of the demonstration or to view was broadcast. on the ground have been forced to remove their logos from the microphone because protesters have refused to speak to them every single media every single newspaper has a particular political slant so it comes as no surprise that the facing the brunt of it would not want to be broadcasting the protests with as much as m.t.v. and that are on the other side when we look at media we need to understand that live television is one of the keep the form of media and so the majority of the stations with the exception of tele ball is out broadcasting the channel. which is tied to the speaker. and the big but it also one of the powerful figures this channel has no reporters on the ground they are putting

a shot of the crowd and whenever they hear a protest chant they don't like they actually mute the sound of the entire broadcast. so it's hilarious to just turn on channel and it's really their speech that these channels are literally speechless and b n n o n t v and others al not trying to direct what's happening so that cause they have pundits on air and they kind of dip in and out of the protest very strategically inside their best efforts they still can't really control and direct the crowd but they're trying very hard to do so. spare a thought for lebanon's prime minister saud hariri future t.v. channel his family controls suspended operations last month due to financial difficulties hariri must feel like he's at a political gunfight factional free for all having been suddenly disarmed of his own channel. given all the criticism old t.v.

has been taking for its coverage we asked for an interview we were told there an official at the free patriotic movement president michel party could speak for the channel that official defended old t.v.'s journalism and directed our attention elsewhere to the coverage on l b c m.t.v. and alger d. o t v is cooperating in the midst of this this is taking the pulse of the city sending the porters sometimes to all stars surroundings and to use the porters be cursed at last. because they're hard to be. from the government side which is not the case some of these stations was part of that speech inciting people whereas usually you get all of the media is to just take the pulse of the city and the people 'd the top is happening look at international t.v.

stations and you see a t.v. station and inviting people to watch and manifestations will bush's vision is you'll know what they've come for that this is how it should be done. we look at for example some what had just described channels inciting citizens to join the demonstrations although we found no now good deed has tweeted out videos of lebanese celebrities urging the channel's followers to go out on the streets and some of those channels reporters have lost or at least parked their objectivity on this story. to the. correspondent to be a for example went viral after helping a protester escape arrest while she was live on the air as she was talking to another demonstrator a young man was called out of the crowd by assuming security forces.

what she said at the time was that she had seen the same man distributing food to either the newspapers or thing and that she knew she had to take the stand on the side. i think was a commendable moment as journalists are often pushed towards this creed of objective if you are asked. but in reality journalism should be a service in the public interest and this is there and i think this is precisely why this moment by all. the prevailing distrust lebanese have in their mainstream media has led them to lean on social media to share information but unlike the arab spring and regardless of the what's at bangle this is no facebook revolution in some ways it's bigger than millions of lebanese of all sects are not

just out to bring down a tape or a mirror cover they want to overthrow assistant secretary into the cold right down to the t.v. channels that are supposed to be telling their story they're basically. regardless of what our politicians tell us no matter how our media choose to report levanon. what if it came down the media side of the lebanese that is strong on the back of dialogue with the alternative political group because there seems to be representation in the right alternative to the current political leaders that. there are alternative political fight that are better equipped better rounded that how legitimate. and they need to be given a stronger voice in the mainstream media so that we can actually lead our country forward.

we're looking at other media stories that are on our radar this week with one of our producers tara tara 2 weeks ago the ethiopian prime minister abi ahmed wins the nobel peace prize he helped forge that peace deal with neighboring eritrea ending a military stalemate that lasted 20 years and this past week a major media owner in the country says that he's now being targeted by government agents what's the story so richard this is a story about 2 powerful men in a new and a relationship that looks like it's gone from the prime minister took power in 2018 after a wave of government protests and like you say he's just been awarded a nobel prize one journalist said the obvious rival was the time and obama moment for putin's the media mogul you mentioned. he was a journalist and. a controversial figure for a lot of people but very much credited as a galvanizing force and he showed videos and protests strategies from his living

room coming newsroom in minnesota after. a very influential player with a formidable new station his disposal the iran. media network this is hunter was the driver the prime minister when we spoke to him last year the kind of freedom that we see a little bit today is unprecedented but everybody has this doubt in their mind is this is this a dream as a going to last is this guy going to go into another dictator where we're to continue to support him but we're going to call his feet to the fire as well because there are a lot of promises he must kill so that's to our own prime minister in july 28th seen now on tuesday the prime minister issued a thinly veiled threat to jawad in parliament saying if he continues to start from arrest and undermine peace the government would quote take many.