for it was a sharp visual reminder as though chileans needed one of the past. later appearing before the live cameras piniella added that declaration of war against the demonstrators one in which journalists are more than just collateral damage. the media watch and geo reporters without borders says media workers have been arbitrarily and phylum clia rested targeted with tear gas and shot at with rubber bullets and live ammunition. but unlike 973 this time everybody has a phone camera and a chance to tell the story. so you have tons of food which people reporting in the streets sure tonight's basic and you have to put this in a larger context is the one of 1973 and the coup that. it can be if we in 7 days we have this tons of food showing that cross it is

committed by police officers so. can you imagine the level of violence committed by the time. we're discussing other media stories that are on our radar this week with one of our producers joe had a who's joe along with hate speech fake accounts misinformation the big social media platforms have been grappling with this issue of political advertising we've seen a lot of talk on it let's start with facebook what's the policy there and why is the company getting so much flack over well richard facebook has become an integral part of political campaigns around the world and it gets a lot of criticism for running political without fact checking them c.e.o. mark zuckerberg last question last month at a congressional hearing in washington and this is how he defended facebook's policy in a democracy i believe that people should be able to see for themselves. politicians

that they may or may not vote for so you won't take their for themselves so also deny that facebook hands off policy was designed to revenue say mind he said political ads work on for just 0.5 percent of facebook's overall revenues next year but still if you break that down facebook's is forecasting total revenues next year of 66000000000 dollars 0.5 percent of that is $300000000.00 nothing to scoff at. is also getting some stick from some of his own employees a number of whom signed a letter objecting to this whole let users figure it out for themselves approach calling it a threat to what facebook stands for then twitter c.e.o. jack dorsey jumps in and he announces a policy change on that platform no more political acts if you look at the timing richard this feels a little bit like a case of corporate trolling well facebook flounders on this issue here is twitter with what sounds like a well thought out policy for killing all political ads dorsey tweeted political

message reach of be earned not bad and the pain to reach voters has significant ramification that today's democratic infrastructure may not be prepared to handle now kristie internet people were tagging facebook and zuckerberg asking why they couldn't do the same as twitter but it's worth noting though that sweater doesn't make nearly as much as facebook does from political ads so dorsey is not turning his back on as much money but from a p.r. point of view it clearly did zuckerberg no favors this way ok thanks joe. more than 2000000 people live in american prisons that's roughly equivalent to the population of a medium sized city locked up across the country the stories of what really goes on inside are seldom heard which is striking since fictional depictions of prison life have proven to be more than marketable films like escape from alcatraz tapio the shah shank redemption more recent t.v. shows like prison break and orange is the new black there's something about in

person ration that seems to fascinate audiences however non-fictional accounts of life on the inside are much harder to come by for journalists who have tried access is the issue with prison authorities usually controlling who gets in and what stories get out but some prisoners are determined to make this a beat of their own the journalism that they produce from behind bars has real value both for audiences and the reporters involved the inmates seem to find journalism to be a useful form of rehabilitation a listening post flo phillips now on the ultimate inside story prison journalism in america. yes roland mehlis get this the crack let's get it bring it out though it. coming at you from the bang assaf osisko state prison this is uncut. broadcasting from inside one of the oldest prisons in the united states. is

a brand new radio show. uncut is about telling our stories from our perspective it's the latest product from a unique media project san quentin radio which operates out of san quentin state prison in california supported by volunteers and donations inmates how to tell their stories how to be the chronicler of their own experiences under lock. and there's a market out there awash with depictions of prison life you cannot go back on my door not going to start any fights in there with that reality shows like america's top his prisons true crime documentary series like making a murder and dramas like prison break the worst of the worst for their break list. goes on. for troy williams one of the founders of the san quentin media

initiative it was clear that people on the outside wanted to know about life behind prison walls so why not tell them the real thing to watch a lot of shows to talk about a president and they never liked seeing the get my story right and so that's when i came up with the idea of producing sank when president ford and from there things just began to take off that was back in 2010 when williams was still serving a life sentence at san quentin for robbery and kidnapping using donated equipment he began producing his own. video and audio programs about life in jail he got out in 2014 and continues to work as a producer. williams is not an anomaly across the united states as a small press corps prisoners telling stories that might otherwise never get told. some right mostly for their fellow prisoners like kerry miles sentenced to life for

2nd degree murder a crime that he the victim's family and the investigating detective all say he did not commit he spent 2 decades writing in editing a magazine the angle light produced out of a maximum security prison in the way. his sentence was commuted and he was released in 2060 i think i've wanted to do that i wanted to write since i was 5 years old and so when i was sent to go always in a state penitentiary they told me into the prison print shop where i stayed for 5 years i got to know the editor i got to know the rest of the staff and when an opening came up i certainly took took the opportunity to do that the angle light is a chronic color of not only events that happens at the prison but they are in the light has also been a conscience of the criminal justice system in louisiana and. policies nationwide than there are in maids whose journalism has jumped beyond prison rules

john jay lennon is held at the sing sing correctional facility in new york state he's serving a 28 years to life sentence for selling drugs and murder he writes speeches about life in prison for outlets like the washington post the new york review of books the marshall project and is even a contributing editor for esquire magazine. story comes from the characters so i'm constantly in conversation with my peers i'm sort of taking notes whether it be in the yard and you know i have my pen and pad and i'm talking to the person and then i'll go back to my cell and i'll sort. i transcribe those notes on my typewriter you know i don't even really do too much of my own research whenever i see a story and something i think i'm bringing i'm looking at this the story is a little different from my angle right. of the media setups in the u.s. prison system right now san quentin is where prisoners interested in journalism want to be there's a newspaper san quentin news there's the radio show on cops you can see the infield

where we see we are going here and there and there's the head part cost a house you can drag. all produced by inmates on the inside and it's not just about the variety of media on offer prisoners at san quentin can even get something of a journalism education from professional reporters like former wall street journal tech reporter yukari kane these men have learned how to be articulate have learned how to write well and they have become experts in criminal justice from the inside they're personally affected by policy and law and important discussions that are happening now and there's an opportunity for them to be part of the discussion and the debate outside not just through their own articles but through our beds. and hearing these perspectives giving them a space in the main street is crucial america has the highest documented

incarceration rate in the world but nick you lack of transparency around prison conditions makes coverage from the outside especially challenging. in our interviews with john jay leno and carrie miles from troy williams the key point they kept coming back to was their access it's unparalleled they do the kind of reporting no one else can. expose the practice of a state court of appeal. the 12 years at essentially thrown all pro se supervisory writs into the. meaning of. a writ that was filed an appeal that was filed by a prisoner without a lawyer got exposed because the staff director committed suicide in his office and sent all the documentation to an attorney who happened to be a friend of mine had i been anywhere else no one would have cared we expose that practice and that practice. changed i wrote

a piece for the new york new york magazine and it was called publish the marshall project andrew goldstein is the sky the suffers from schizophrenia he was psychotic 20 years ago off of his meds and he pushed kendra webmail in front of the subway and bad case sort of sparked kendra's law which sort of mandated that people with schizophrenia have to take their medication and it gives them more help and i could tell the story i could interview him and that's what i did. really like . telling me stories isn't just about good reporting and access from the inside it's completely dependent on maintaining the trust a present authorities many of the i'm a journalist that we spoke to said they did not experience direct censorship but they did acknowledge that there are certain limits on what they can report and those boundaries are 2nd moment said by prison public information officers.

this is rooted in sam robinson the public information officer it sank when the prison and i approve this story. at san quentin lieutenant sam up ansen is the man with the final say we do want the newspaper to be the voice of the man inside and since that way and i make a decision on not ability of the article but whether there is something in it that may have an adverse impact on someone who lives here inside the present someone other facility are very dangerous public safety. we're not here to censor i'm not here to censor the paper he gives us a lot of freedom to do exactly what it is that we need to do just because we came to prison doesn't mean that our rights and our citizenship stopped at the gate that i say everything right ho let me check with sam sam how did that send. you know. you think i could be a public information officer when. giving prisoners the opportunity to report

their own stories isn't just a means of ravening the complex truths of prison life it provides a rehabilitation. for some journalism is a way of life behind at the end of the day i guess. i would say i'm a storyteller and i look forward to telling stories and i will say you know i may live in prison but i'm no longer a criminal. it gave me an ability to think of myself outside of the box the just a prison that. i could put out through this medium of a product that could change the face of how people are viewed in prison or even how we view ourselves in prison. when you've been deprived. of talking for years on end and someone says i was a man i'm going to tell your story there is where the magic we've got the might

live. finally writing headlines can be tricky and what you don't want to do is write one that makes headlines elsewhere for the wrong reasons when the washington post published its obituary for abu bakar al baghdadi the ice a leader killed by american forces last week its 1st headline described him as on a steer religious scholar thousands of complaints later the al baghdadi headline was transformed out with the scholar in with the extremist leader by then though twitter was littered with parodies of possible post headlines and how the paper might describe a range of historical figures we'll leave you with a few of our favorites and we'll see you next time you're at the listening post.

tear gas fired at protesters in hong kong as police try to break up a rally that's being billed as an emergency call for autonomy. you're watching live from the headquarters and. also ahead dozens of soldiers

killed in mali and the 2nd major attack targeting the military in just over a month. hitting back at the impeachment process the u.s. president turns up the heat on political rivals at a campaign rally. and who will come out on top in england face each other and the rugby world cup final. hello tear gas has been fired in hong kong as thousands of people rallied for the 22nd straight weekend many protesters were stopped from entering a park or an anti government gathering was planned prominent activists joshua long has called for one 100000 people to march on saturday the demonstrations have grown over the past 5 months mainly over china's increasing influence in the territory. and at least $53.00 soldiers have been killed in an attack on a military base in northeastern mali it was carried out on an outpost in the minot

a region no group has claimed responsibility well it's the latest in a series of attacks in the sa had region on september 2nd mali and military bases were targeted by fighters linked to al qaeda the government said $38.00 soldiers were killed but it's feared more had died the violence isn't limited to mali with recent attacks in neighboring turkey to faso as well as the share and groups claiming allegiance to eisele and al-qaeda as well as vocal have contributed to instability right across the region and the violence has escalated despite international intervention with the backing of france 5 countries created a $5000.00 strong g 5 force to tackle armed groups un peacekeepers are also deployed in the region let's bring in mohamed val he's our correspondent he's joining us now he's reported extensively from the region what more you're hearing about this latest attack. yes our desire sources say this attack took place on

friday and it started with 3 suicide bombers who blew themselves up inside mali in a military camp killing and wounding scores of soldiers preliminary information from the modern government did not disclose much but then they came out the minister of information said that $53.00 soldiers were killed in total and a number of others were wounded or so one civilian was killed the attack took place near the border with tunisia in the ne ne region of mahdi and it's as you said one of many deadly attacks took place to place in the last few weeks and it shows that the the groups they are fighting against the mali in army and the peacekeepers there and the french soldiers and those 5000 soldiers from the from the offer. commissions the g 5 those groups are gaining more momentum organizing themselves better and making it more difficult for those peacekeepers and other

soldiers to control the arteries and particularly for the modern army important points about how my because what are we to make of the strengths of the various groups there despite the international intervention. well there in you know that the nature of that region is very unique because said there's a there are no real borders there between those countries of the sahara it is difficult to control the thousands and thousands of kilometers of that where there are no fences there are no outposts there for those militaries most of them are encamped inside the cities in northern mali in. timbuktu most of them are primarily concerned with the safety of their personnel and not with the fighting in the desert against those groups so there is a difficulty there is an asymmetry in war between groups that can hit and run and hide in the mountains and they have some population of so there are some populations that you know help them in the region and between regular armies who

use conventional military gear and so on and they move heavily on roads and they are very visible so there is a huge difficulty there and also some people are accusing those western powers and african powers of having other agendas in that region france for itself for instance has a lot of interests in that region and there are even some who accuse all parties of you know gaining something out of the continuation of the struggle and the continuation of the existence of those groups in the area ok mohamed vall thank you for wrapping it up for us we'll take you back to the protests in hong kong and bring it if you're going to holland she's joining us from there in just a short time ago you were telling us that you've seen tear gas being fired at demonstrators what's the situation like now. that's right durian i'm standing just a few meters away from that park where people had gathered earlier today thousands

of people were rally police had stopped people from going into that park and eventually stormed the park saying that it was an illegal rally although it had originally been sanctioned and authorized police said it was probably it was mostly a rally for pro job democracy candidates to address the public well. that has backfired all that tear gas all that dispersing of people young old even wheelchair bound people being pushed out of the park in a frenzy instead the protesters have stuck to their philosophy of be like water which is where they just suddenly disappear and reappear again and gather in different areas so what they've done now let me just show you here they have done exactly what the police didn't want of my cameraman could just turn this way and give you an idea of what they have achieved i guess and on this main road they've set up barricades on this view jli very busy main road this is very close to the main shopping district they have stopped all traffic there are no police in sight at the moment and the protesters after causing major disruption here have moved

further down to my left side and they're continuing their march they're trying to go to hong kong's financial district the area called central that was their intention all along that was what police were trying to stop and were unable to do so so are the protests just continue and the city once again on an on its 22nd weekend of protests has come to a standstill and for the protest as what are they hoping to achieve as you're saying on this 22nd weekend they've billed as an emergency call and joshua wang has called for 100000 people to come out onto the streets. that's right just to give you some context earlier in the week joshua wong had his candidacy for local elections rejected he says they were the reason was politically motivated so this protest was meant it had been planned even before that but he lent his voice to the protests telling people to come out on the streets to highlight the issue of the lack of democracy in hong kong and the fact that what he

says is beijing failing to promise to uphold hong kong's autonomy and squeezing its freedoms now the protesters here once again were chanting earlier stand with hong kong amongst other chant the 5 demands they want more of an investigation into police brutality we've seen police use excessive force during these protests they want hong kong to have universal suffrage as was promised to them and amongst other things they want the hong kong government to listen to them and hear what they have to say all right yes thank you for that update from hong kong there was president donald trump has defended himself on the campaign trail against a congress of the impeachment inquiry that's come after democrats approved rules for the hearings as the proceedings go public rosalyn georgia the latest. it's one thing to attack your political opponents on twitter the democrat party has gone completely in say. it's another to do what all your

political base is cheering you warn that's how us president donald trump spent his friday night. 1st they engineered the russia hoax that was a total helps the single greatest lives ever forster's upon the american people then the motor which it never ended and now corrupt politicians nancy pelosi. and shifty adam shift shifting. and the media are continuing with the during. impeachment which as this is one i never thought to be involved in the word impeachment to me it's a dirty word the rally was trump's 1st since the house of representatives formally endorsed the impeachment inquiry against him on thursday trump told the crowd he

never pressured ukrainian president belong to me or selenski to investigate former vice president joe biden and his son hunter and that he did not withhold nearly $400000000.00 in military aid to 4 selenski to comply. at the same time several democratic candidates campaigned for votes in iowa and joe biden used the event to fire back at trump. vladimir putin don't want me to be president. ah and number 2. donald trump doesn't want me to be the nominee. spend a lot of money to make sure i'm not i'm flattered. on capitol hill next week democrats once again will question trumpet ministration officials behind closed doors while some officials have already appeared others are refusing to show

up the latest energy secretary rick perry who says there was nothing wrong with trump's call to zelinsky yeah i want to present my own cause i thought it was important. if you raise which i do 'd every thing to do is back to the point that the united states has the ability to give ukraine a alternative to russia yes legislators could issue a subpoena forcing perry to appear or risk being arrested and we will make america great again thank you mr. raising the ante and the pressure on a president who says he will fight what he calls illegal effort to undermine his rule rosalynn jordan al-jazeera washington. well the u.s. democratic presidential hopeful beto over or because announce he's ending his campaign or work was urged to run for president by many democrats they were

energized by his narrow senate lost last year in texas and reliably republican states addressing supporters in iowa he said his campaign did not have the means to move forward but did say that he would stay active in the fight to defeat president donald trump at least one person has been killed in gaza after israel launched air strikes on sites it says are linked to hamas that's the group that controls gaza health officials there say 2 other people have been injured israel says it was responding after 10 rockets were fired from the palestinian territory. iraqis have held a ceremony to more than 250 people killed in protests across the country in the past month hundreds march in the southern city of busta more than 10000 people have also been wounded in the rallies against corruption and unemployment president has promised to hold elections but has yet to announce when. still ahead on al jazeera violence in chile as thousands of protesters keep up the pressure.