al-jazeera investigates the politics of war in the middle east the most potent economic weapon saudi aramco company and the state. on al-jazeera. protestors in iraq vowed to keep up the pressure on the government despite the prime minister's offer to resign. a lot has i'm sick of this is edges it alive are also coming up more violence in the eastern democratic republic of congo where a rebel group has killed dozens of people. facebook issues a correction notice on a user's post under orders from singapore's government raising concerns about free speech plus. i'm onshore a in

a forest in my paper the home to thousands of indigenous people they say they are living in a constant fear of fiction but that they are determined to fight for what they claim is their habitat. ally iraq's cabinet has met to discuss the prime minister's offer to resign the meeting was called to find a political solution after 2 months of anti-government protests either lab mad he says his government has done everything to meet the demands of protesters but demonstrators disagree and say they won't back down until there's a complete political overall iraqis are demanding more jobs better services and an end to corruption and many are also angry at iran accusing it of interfering in iraq he affairs on 400 people have died since the protests began in october seem on a fault in has more from baghdad. the violence appears to have gone down after 2

very violent days that claimed a lot of lives but the aftermath of what has happened still very much reverberate is not just here for tahrir square but the entire nation for behind me you can see . you holding up a banner which basically says that there are not enough coffins to burry that that the people who have been killed specifically in nasiriyah which is of course one of the towns in southern iraq and witnessed some of the worst violence over the past few days at least 40 people killed over 2 days according to the iraq and human rights commission a little bit further down we've also seen memorials set up for the people who are being killed with people coming to pay their respects people crying out looking at the pictures of friends or even family that they've lost the spoke to one woman who had come to really want to help her out and who basically said that look i love the math he may have offered his resignation but that is not enough we want justice we

want justice for the people who are being killed over 400 people have died now since october 1st and people are adamant that those responsible whether it's high level government officials or those who pulled the trigger have to be held accountable. the people in yemen have marched through the streets of the southern city of toys to protest worsening economic situation there demonstrators blame the government and the saudi u.a.e. coalition for mismanaging the economy 4 years of war has destroyed roads and much needed facilities there is a basic there's a shortage of basic goods and many yemenis on the verge of fam. the army and democratic republic of congo says it's killed a rebel leader in the east the military operation comes hours after attackers belonging to the rebel leaders group killed at least 13 people in that's near the city of 20 people 28 people rather died during an attack by armed groups on tuesday

catherine soy has more from the regional capital goma the morgue in the hospital is still small to hold the bodies of 28 people killed by allied democratic forces or a.t.f. fighters in an attack this week. so saab cost gets half to stay outside the family and residents of stealing chalk are also frustrated accusing both congolese security forces and united nations peacekeepers of not doing enough to protect them from rebel attacks. what is happening here is unacceptable we need to be united to solve the security problem i have seen those bodies most competition and we cannot accept a fix for what some in this crowd have lost many relatives. by we don't want to see soldiers police or day un they must all be leaves my parents

and 3 other relatives have been killed i don't have a family now. many say that angered by the insecurity at least $100.00 civilians have been killed by a.d.f. rebels since a government offensive against them started in october. protesters have been out on the streets of the temple and goma in north kivu province police have been trying to clear this road all morning by the feeling i did because people keep bringing the stones processing go my thought said several days ago in protest there they're saying their want to get to a u.n. base to express that on top of that saying that no one the u.n. here before the u.n. and the government for the not doing enough to protect the people in beni. some human rights campaign as also accuse security forces of failing to do their job. people bad the brunt of the battle to control vast mineral resources here it's

never become his army that is going to solve it it's no he's a fellow here. but it's to cut off the supply channel of blood minerals. that's number one second there has to be talks whether we call this people 80 year full based or whatever we need to engage him and that has to be done honestly regionally by your the neighboring countries back in 08 are believed to not only plants they also hope they were able to time kathy soliah al-jazeera amount. of britain's prime minister barak's johnson has visited the site of a knife attack in london where 2 people were killed on friday it was revealed the suspect 28 year old a small khan was released from prison last year he'd been convicted of terrorism related offenses in 2012 khan was shot dead by police after stab after

a stabbing rampage but it's clear to me that. this guy was out he'd served half of his sentence he was out on automatic early release and i have long said that this system simply isn't working it does not make sense for us as a society to put it in putting terrorist people who have committed of terrorist offenses a serious bond offenses out on early release. challenges in london force he says there are big questions about the judicial system now. after a half way through a prison a sentence usually they are released from prison they're given an electronic tag monitored put back to be they see out the rest of their conviction rest of their sentence outside of jail that's what happened to us mina khan he was released from prison in december 2018 so effectively even though he is still technically serving

out his term was he was free to go and commit this attack yesterday in london so immense bravery from members of the public that's being commended bravery to fruen from the police force in dealing with it so quickly but big questions being asked about why someone convicted of serious offenses was let out of jail halfway through that and was free to do such a thing of political importance this political ramifications for boris johnson who is 2 weeks away from the general election he's campaigning at the moment so it perhaps in damage limitation mode he's been quick to stress that he has always believed that letting serious criminals out of prison hof way through their terms is the wrong thing to do and he has reiterated that just a short while ago saying that this system is not working and it needs to be changed

. almost as government is denying its prime minister is planning to resign joseph muscat is under pressure over the government's alleged cover up of the murder of a journalist 2 years ago stephanie cutter. was killed in a car bomb explosion while investigating corruption involving politicians and business leaders. peru's opposition leader keiko fujimori has been released from prison after 13 months she was detained pending trial accused of receiving bribes from a brazilian construction company hundreds of her supporters gathered outside the prison celebrate her release community is the daughter of former president alberto fujimori by ana sanchez is in peru scared to lima she says this may not be the end of her legal battles. she was freed up to the constitution most 5 years ago approved. lewdness corpus requested by her sister she has been in jail for 2018 and wanted to know what her imprisonment for accepting money

for her potential complain over various personal then giant construction company 'd is it has been a common thing for politicians like her businessman a former clinton aide that are under investigation now for how do you keep money such as brazilian companies now hungry nice doesn't mean that she is free of charge of the best geisha to her hotel is receiving money from other rich continues she could be charged jail but prosecutors jailed her because they thought that they said that she was obstructing justice and that she could leave the country so now of course there's a huge complaint from the prosecutor's job to there are a lot of people of course who are in favor of the body supporters of her that are

very happy that she's out now but like i say she could go back to jail quite soon. hundreds of high school students have rallied in central hong kong calling for democratic reform and standing against what they say is police brutality join the recent protests follows the arrest of dozens of students and polytechnic university protesters there had barricaded themselves for almost 2 weeks after some of the most violent scenes since the protests began all right still ahead on magazine when we come back we look back at the mexican president's efforts to tackle crime he completes his 1st year in office plus. it marks like loney baghdad his state and pots of zimbabwe i'm how to. tell you why many families are still struggling.

hallard snowed in beijing that so the south not it's not going to happen well at least on the hard ground probably west in sichuan were hans' temperatures still going to be of the order of 10 degrees it's might be colder further west with rain for at the scrubber $26.00 in hong kong. shanghais cloud disappears you get the sunshine for both shanghai and hong kong a bit cooler feeling but more sunshine in the sky though humidity is probably a cold morning as well. the rain recently in india has been about expect on the southeast corner in sri lanka there's no change there that's going to continue to be the case nothing much happening up in the far northwest nelson immediately in the full cost but worse there are a few showers running up and as the high ground was to been plotted and we have got the potential development off the somali coast over tropical cyclone not sure he'll come to much for his one to watch and certainly to house the rain in that area otherwise it is funnily enough as you might expect for this time of year seasonal

weather prevails similarly in the arabian peninsula there is an increase in crowds potential for a shower to the northern side of the but the preventing breeze isn't really preventing a bit of dust in the western side of society because of the wind in the south but it's quiet and quite warm in there are. probably the last thing the president said to you about impeachment when you last spoke to him for our. society it's not at all you. pretty damning allegations on the web. how worried are you that the conditions are still like for another i think they are right join me many often as i put up from questions to my special guest and challenge them to some straight talking political debate here on out there.

hello again you're watching edge the interim honor of our top stories this hour iraq's cabinet has met to discuss the prime minister's resignation od the lab demand he announced his intention to quit on friday following weeks of antigovernment protests that often turned was. beyond me and democratic republic of congo says it's killed a rebel leader in the east military operation comes hours after attackers belonging to the rebel leaders group killed at least 13 people in the city of which are. british prime minister boris johnson has visited the site of a knife attack in london where 2 people were killed on friday police identified the attackers in this month on who was released from prison last year 28 year old had

been convicted of terrorism related offenses in 2012 khan was shot dead by police. of the rape and murder of a 27 year old woman in india's southern city of hyderabad is causing outrage police have detained 4 men after finding the burned body of the veterinarian under a bridge priyanka reddy was gang raped in a secluded and in and secluded in a murdered before her body was doused in fuel it was found on thursday morning she called her family earlier to say her motorbike had a flat tire on the indian government has toughened some of its laws to reduce crimes against women following the rape of a woman on a bus in 2012 in 2013 the prison term for rapists was doubled to 20 years voyeurism stalking and trafficking of women were also. classified as criminal offenses parliament voted to lower the age of suspects who could be tried for rape

and other sexual offenses from 18 to 16 so the latest figures show nearly 39000 women were raped in india in 2016 including more than 2000 girls under the age of 12 a copy to question on is secretary of the all india progressive women's association she says politicians diverts from the issues at hand when responding to cases of violence against women the specific thing that is going to you know peculiar to india right now is that you have a. government which is fanning up. tensions between hindus and muslims and it's doing politics in that name and so what happens is that such an incident happens and a large part of the response that is made by the ruling party and its supporters and so on on media social media is to try and see all of the 4 men at a festival to one of them is muslim and some muslims out the problem rather than think

back to the uk is the problem this suspect the consent of the problem the fact that our government and not doing enough to make our streets well lit and people and most then gleeful women to be out in large numbers that is the problem the fact that your police encourages victim blaming is that it's a problem you know there's an attempt to divert to be from all of that. a millions of india's indigenous people are living in fear of being evicted from their land that's because they governments have been slow to enforce a law that protects their rights politicians say the forests need to be conserved but critics say they're only promoting business interests and visited the state of my dear pradesh where the native community is fighting back. dave singh and surely by our farmers and forages. living off the forests in the state of market in central india through the family of 5 eat what they grow and drink from the stream

. but their claim to land in the forest was rejected by the local government and india's supreme court ordered dereliction. singh is aware of the government's plans to create a violent sanctuary in the forest. there are we as a diverse these are the original inhabitants on the forest belongs to us for use the truth is we can't live without our jungle and we just can't live in a city. more than a 1000000 indians across different states in india like multiple chat disco and child country may lose their homes and their way of life if the court order is carried out. by behavior is one of the many farmers who've already been evicted. the allege that they were beaten up by government forest workers and forced from the forest years ago and warning forest officials burn down our homes and metres

homeless we were forced to even look for jobs is duly leaders from our new plant activists say the 2006 forest rights act guaranteed the right of these people to their land but see the government is seeking to weaken this law with indigenous people out of the way it's easy for the governments to simply sell of lands to corporate storing those trees and mining operations misses has been happening for the past 5 years in on allies not scale the act recognize the right of 150000000 people to inhabit and live off 14000000 hectares of forest land in india so they could preserve their customs and culture and protect the forests the people here insist the forests provide them with everything they need it would be nice to have a few street lamps and a few paved streets but they refuse to give up the forest and move to a city they say if there's anything they fear more than forest officials it is the continuous erosion of their culture and identity for the forest department staff

now it's all about following procedure. those whose claims have been rejected to being checked by village committees this is on the process now. while they wait for the supreme court's order they've seen and she headed by live off the natural riches of the forest. the sea along with their compatriots all over india they will fight the powers that be to protect their traditional way of life to live with that is al-jazeera want to put the india. a facebook is calling for a measured approach by the singapore government in implementing its new fake news laws that's after for the 1st time it added a correction notice to a user's post saying the original message contained false information but it did not alter the text single force law allows the government to publish corrections alongside claims about public institutions false statements could carry prison terms of up to 10 years and hefty fines only all the digital giants and social

media companies have had some sort of run in with governments apple says it is taking another look at how it depicts border disputes on maps after ukraine criticized it for showing crimea as part of russia a video posted by a teenager on take talk about china's detention of muslim week is led to the suspension of her accounts to talk is a chinese own online platform in april australia ordered facebook and google to remove violent content after the christ church mosque shootings in new zealand and while twitter has banned political ads facebook says it will not fact check advertising from politicians all michael vo is lecturer in digital rights and regulation in the faculty of lords at university college london he joins us live from there thanks very much for being with us so let me ask you 1st of all about singapore and this new law or about labeling the posters as fake

news but not changing the content of it what do you make of that. so that's one of the provisions in the new law that came into force in october actually that's probably the weaker one of the provisions that does go through disabling content and it has minister ministers have discretion to do that if they wish to on the one hand it seems ok to just put a label like a rebuttal of some from the government of some but tension content but we have to ask a few things firstly social networks are used by everyone from individuals to campaigners to big broadcasters and with the kind of right to reply that we're giving are we treating everybody even individuals in private conversations and spaces as if they're broadcasters and is that what we want to be doing. how how would you compare this to the did the debate in in the u.s. right now over these political ads because facebook has said and this this gets to

issues of free speech as well in that they their argument is it's not our job to to . to to decide if politicians are lying or not that's that's up to voters that's up to the public and we're not going to get involved in that is that is that the right approach to be making. i think it's a really tough one particularly in the united states where freedom of expression is a really strong constitutional right things turned out a bit differently in the public debate however there's a there's a really big question over what role platform should play is it possible for a platform to have a uniform policy around how they treat facts across all countries it may be the problem with tech is not there the problem big tech is now actually the tech that is the big you know can we can we make a unified policy and if all the other hand platform start to agree to take down what governments tell them to take down and start to correct what governments tell

them to correct does that is applying to all countries does that mean that every social media company has to work with every country regardless of its human rights record in order to comply with this national law it's a really tough one whatever happens the social media companies are going to be making some big important decisions and perhaps without religion as you would like them to be there's also this there's also this issue of whether whether tech companies like facebook are getting too big and whether they there's a valid argument for them to be policed in in some way so i think the question is policed by who if you're going to say they're getting too big which country or governments or initiative are going to decide the rules of the road if we say we want to break up large tech companies do we break them up into different national levels and which case there's a danger in many countries their governments will start to use social media as a mouthpiece and a mechanism for censorship so it's

a really big challenge i'm not sure that we're going to get to hear in global rules but i'm also not sure that the public can voters are going to be very happy with the decision by facebook or google to simply set its own standards that its own rules good to get your thoughts on this michael veal thanks very much for being with us. sunday will mark one year in office for mexico's president his approval ratings remain high but critics say he has done little to solve the major problems among them a rising crime rate mexico registered a record number of homicides in the 1st 6 months of this year alan fischer reports from mexico city. luis enrique hopes one day soon his daughter will stop being a statistic one of the thousands missing in mexico he stopped strangers on the street asking for help follows up every possible lead but more than a month on i'm around me is still missing from my home in a caterpillar about an hour's drive from mexico city is he can get by couldn't get

in touch with her by foreign or what set me surges i didn't know she came to my house or when to my mother's but i wasn't worried because she did that sometimes i thought maybe a cell phone ran out of vetri the next day there was still no contact he'd no choice but to go to the authorities to report her missing missing there is pretty he will i felt defenseless and i felt impotent because i had to do all the investigation i had to bring all the information to the authorities i even had to force them to search for her. i'm irani is one of thousands of mexicans who disappeared each year some have been trafficked others have been murdered the greaves litter mexico or mexico elected a new president last year they did so largely on the promises made by andres manuel lopez obrador that he would end the plague of violence in the country but in the 1st 6 months of this year the 1st 6 months of his presidency the moderate has hit and historic high this sentence can be and we are changing the strategy to combat

insecurity and violence because it was a failed strategy that only consisted in the use of force and it didn't deliver any results it only made things worse. despite his election promising a new security policy there have been clear challenges to the rule of law in mexico the most blatant when the authorities were forced to release the captured son. drug lord joachim el chapo guzman when the cartel took control of the area he was being held and so what we have is a government that makes promises allows us publicly that he will make a change but then does not implement the promises he makes. in the meantime we have thousands of people searching individually for their loved ones without in this is sorry. for luis and ricky thinks his daughter may still be alive. we've been searching for her and in hospitals even in prisons i suspect that this is probably a case of trafficking. he says they're still hoping for her return but hope may not

be enough to see for alan fischer al-jazeera mexico city. of thousands of people who survived a devastating cycle in zimbabwe 8 months ago are still living in tents hundreds were killed and thousands displaced one cycle any day struck parts of southern africa there are fears the rainy season will now make the lives of survivors even worse than with us or has more from chin money money in eastern zimbabwe. home for mabel check out our used to be a house with a small garden now she lives in the tent with her husband and children. they survived tropical cycle that struck parts of eastern zimbabwe in march but she says adjusting to this new way of living is hard her family never has enough food and whenever it rains it's terrifying not to just sit up to do much and only dug up from it brings back bad memories i keep thinking what if that terrible storm

happens again last time could spit in my life what if this time is different in a day and always kid living in. many people in this camp say they want to place to call their own again but they don't know when or if they'll be moved some used to live in this rural community before you die struck it was a worst storm to hit somebody within cycling ilene nearly 20 years ago people say they heard this rumbling noise the 1st the one saw what it was and then they saw these rocks and boulders tumbling down from the mountains over there being pushed by the water and raging when all the homes in its path were destroyed and this is all that's left. others were lucky the violent flood and debris now really missed a few buildings and schools in other places entire communities were devastated. here 300 households are working together to repair damage to a dam it's part of an initiative to help people rebuild you want to make sure you

understand why your house failed or why that specific breach why that school. roof . and if needs be if you are need to put your specific. systems in place so it doesn't happen again then that's that's where you want to put the effort and money in. roads and bridges are also being prioritized but it's a race against time the rainy season has just started people could again be at risk if proper infrastructure isn't in place. hundreds of people in eastern zimbabwe died during cycle need i many more are still missing presumed dead and those who survived are hoping this rainy season but we say how do we toss al jazeera she is about. this is al jazeera let's get a roundup now of the top stories iraq's cabinet has met to discuss the prime minister's resignation either larger maddy announced his intention of quit on

friday following weeks of antigovernment protests that often turned violent see him on a fault in is in banking. memorials set up for the people who are being killed with people coming to pay their respects people crying are looking at the pictures of friends or even family that they've lost the spoke to $1.00 woman who had come to really go to the war on and who basically said that look i love the mafia may have offered his resignation but that is not enough we want justice we want justice for the people of were being killed over $400.00 people have died now since october 1st and the people are adamant that those responsible whether it's high level government officials or those who pulled the trigger have to be held accountable now the army and democratic republic of congo says it's killed of rebel leader in the east the military operation comes out after attackers belonging to the rebel leaders group killed at least 13 people near the city avoid. britain's prime

minister's visit to the site of a knife attack in london the left 2 people dead on friday police have identified the attacker. he was shot dead by officers on had been convicted of terrorism related offenses 2012 maltese government is denying its prime minister is planning to resign joseph muscat is under pressure over the government's alleged cover up of the murder of a journalist 2 years ago the rape and murder of a 27 year old woman in india's southern city of hyderabad is causing outrage police have detained 4 men after finding the burned body of the veterinarian under a bridge she was gang raped in a secluded area and murdered before her body was doused in fuel those are the headlines we're back in half an hour right now it's up front. tool to al-jazeera we were targeted that it's true russia has this been addressed

by took a listen what is the proposal. for a couple and we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter which is a. race has always cost a shadow over u.s. politics even before donald trump emerged on the scene but it is an era in which white nationalists are both marching in the streets and working in the white house is this a unique moment in u.s. history in this up from special all of us one of america's leading public intellectuals the renowned academic and activist dr cornell west. cornell west thank you for joining me on up front since donald trump became president in 2016 races a racist attacks racist rhetoric has gotten worse in the united states but i'm just

wondering from your perspective how unique a moment is this this trumpy and loma.