has accused the u.s. of sending law enforcement officials into its consulate in houston after it was forced to shut it down meanwhile american staff have left the u.s. consulate in chengdu with china ordered closed in retaliation the diplomatic feud between the world's largest economies is escalating over several issues including the coronavirus pandemic hong kong and allegations of spying. live pictures from west jerusalem where police have been arresting protesters who are outside the israeli prime minister's residence and they're calling for him to quit for weeks protests have been growing louder against benjamin netanyahu over his handling of the pandemic as well as his upcoming corruption trial does it have lines rewinds is next with one man's mission to deliver news to liberians using a blackboard a global pandemic mass protests demanding change economic recession and geo political tensions not to mention the small matter of

a looming election join me steve clemons in conversation with leading voices on the bottom line your weekly take on u.s. politics and society on al-jazeera. hello and welcome to rewind i'm come on sons of maria over the last 10 or so years here at al-jazeera english we've built up an incredible library all of your winning documentaries and on rewind we're taking another look at some of the best of them and seeing what's happened in the years since they were 1st shown this week we're going back to 2012 and a remarkable film from africa's oldest republic the west african country of liberia

and its capital monrovia where less than half the population can read and write and 64 percent live below the poverty line so with many of those people cut off from normal news sources one man decided to tackle the problem using just a bit of chalk and a large blackboard called the daily toll his blackboard lists all the latest news in a simple language. used by monrovia's disadvantage poor from the witness series in 2012 here is alfred's free press. hello. you are here what we're doing is like this our responsibility it's a. new so you'll recall we add them to information only from those who.

tell you want to receive. our job. or just leave and i'm the fun in it. and they didn't talk. to create in people that will be on the street and everybody . agrees people just believe that discontent will never come into reality. but. that's the kind of president. i believe that people should be informed of what is happening. the leaders of the war really didn't want to. harsh.

it is this war that prompted the creation of the digital i saw elite people who knew wanting to be reform but there was there was no means of getting information soon the idea of the book came to me to deal talk news put that in the chalkboard news people and some to begin to click to music you can start it was just like. starring. as source or refract to be on the scene in town on one operation by something and so silent that when you are after a lesson. it makes sense you had to. get out more i want her to wanted to fight drug use.

every time i walk along the avenue i usually make a stab like 10 or 15 minutes in a reader and know what is going on a rom in the city what is happening my country and around the continent. when the war was coming to the country people will force the take you and they give you gone and the rich life you see you who are fighting you know. it happened to me. but i used to use 7 presses to. take it for the 7 ball and. the whole country where i was so i was compared to do it for my life.

as like you take goal and go 200 for animal in the forest. and to take one against you and you hunting one another. man in time of france friend of mine got one. last loser. and even lose the life. i'm an actress this is what i do to make a living. i use the bullet and the casing to create stuff. our ideas our transformation from war to peace. this is how we make you. this is the cross i just mean in front of you.

ok well now those dreams that i think. one of the problems my mom will have with me for some time now is i don't stay with my family. alone. you know she won a simple walk out of but know that i have don't sit with the family every day she's busy this for rains a lot people call no story yeah ok let me call you back with family please yeah ok. new story coming in again. and all of it then you know the whole. truth. here in the room. always good every morning to get

information. information to see a bridge between you feel your sources. say. any ideas from war of. many people had one and not have. so that you know where we can bring them back to get a religious and lots of folks just. through the war my parents left me there render way and they left me and i left alone. i. can't ask. god god's son in messenger to various schemes see.

as you go see this side no. we are trying to build a church. and now now you come here to see a new beauty to you a few 100 b.c.f. something is happening around you yes i think change is coming to liberia did he change what do instructor like this is sort of doing to people feel that go is still with them. we are not seeing where the body will form and he's hoping to be updated. by somebody we don't know maybe this is what i've come to the nearby exactly how did it how being the boy was involved into its things i believe it will be what do you call me with the opposition.

alone. good morning to our president i had this morning i would describe him in a bad. light. oh i was just going on. and then about a dozen of us who were running away hoping that. when one is here to tell you about it you have to tell what's coming here that. i thank you cause when you. watch it will be. you know what it will no longer novel or not. and you don't want to hear what the. place i just yeah sure. he knew if you knew happening and it. made your point this morning you know what they're pretty close to the mail well all i want to know where you are and it's in the groups on the ballot you know. you see the body of boys if you care. and.

you know us in general if you don't have the signature office you can get it used by just sitting you have to block the p.c. . i don't have t.v. if you don't miss in the radio to gain news if you don't read news the phone in the place we're going to get news is from didn't. wake a new long day. on a ship. i just had to do it to live. and morning and believe such. an. idea had been wanting to write in called. so.

well what to avoid a one in a going to have a 2 children. who. are going to use it. in the unaligned to school and to the. days who did it. on response well they've both lived with me. responsible to feed him. while. new song want to have me. for not.

now found no one yet. i don't live for bent of bits on me. as mafia don that it's. bogus cos you know if i say the hard core day hearts. as a kind of force here looking hung up. on him is not going to be a problem because we're trying our country this is what i'm saying. in the. beginning. and i

can tell you this and to make it. right in our media or from debut. it dollars it raised a number of a gene down into the lives of so many and i. don't know. he did it all helps to educate people. who speak around so it got me interested. in crime i work i love doing it. he will praise me about.

it is to defy the me because. it is also. mind country. input issues especially from china. and i've. been using this. 5 years i wail almost every day. delighted to do all these. issues. we. are one day. to do it with. my dream. in the hour i would be very very discouraged.

i mean me a pro all. the way. does dream you are now. my life my future it's not business i don't want to see what did i can want better shoes would be. whatever you want to be in export their troop numbers and it is because your. lab rummy you have your morning. i want to be made and. my usual possible is the white people in the lashon and people like you when people. in the evening time like this they can be on these beaches having a good time and we can't go there when the average blacks to be able to sell what i

produce myself. i feel happy. does somebody say i work on i was overcome i told on in jesus name. when a minister goes to. counseling people i feel much. in and out of tune a plan that. let me have the good news for you. now well what did i not bother to today know that it will be well with you in jesus name. ekuban done a lot here that people are running for office the place you feel that nobody not the left is again but today you might enjoy. today you look around you you are no longer you haven't cosigned well if you know how people in the past let the past go for the past wrecking then to still

hope for this country i want you to believe that if this possible in your generation now you can be the cause of the transformation of this country. not good i would be one of the best country to walk in jesus' name. when. i wanted to stay with. what to do. in my house. my room with my children. is now behind. the deaf and dumb screwed when it was treated. the book then i'm now training.

for our society in liberia. yeah quiet it gives you a good job is is there a. while and then who is. so no longer bloody. so. you do to help them. i get. i get frustrated. because you're you talking to a mate do you try to teach him not be attention to me. i would like my don't take it i want to business i'm doing you know and if you are good enough to just do it. if you make some of the grew up passions for what you

doing it's like. you're visions ok and what if they're not. going to. be disciplined so when you say are legion you better go back to the land of the republic of liberia. one nation and its. liberty and just if for all. tara shall i go. for is happy. here. so that's nice and.

very funny indeed in a new money in. the mood there there are mistakes. of this country. alfred's free press a wonderful film which was broadcast more than 6 years ago now so sure you're wondering what happened to alfred what happened to his news chalkboard rewind went back to monrovia to find out what has become of the daily talk of alfred and his rate is. low from the public on a daily basis of. what's happening right now it's a cycle. that doesn't change just before nobody hears you know.

really i am one of the we came up a whistle which would inform the public about it. factual information the information is up. to the people. everything that we see how we research it before. this is the news room this is where the news stories is published and it's how it's done you know like i said the newsroom is a junkie so if. you look at these things i would think that the news with. this is . the decks new sticks. of the stories and this is the story the house and the board i have in the story.

it's hard to work. on is. what you're for time and and do with your family 100 percent it's very difficult you have to spend half of the time running out the stories you have to have time to research and all of those things and. from where i come from any. special liberia in your story. in the press freedom it was difficult. because what you've published people come after you you know it was a very tough. my shop was broken down it was the body. it broke me because.

i'll go where i was a dog at the muscle. mateen mon family and when when i broke i guess that out all was lost i said though i get i get i myself in though. so i must continue to go out there and these also encourage me and i may keep it all so i do that a common stock in you know a friend called me a man i used to make an issue that they had about my house so they didn't get better shoes and then dad and i started from. believing in god that we were we had me one day and i always did these i would do

what i had timed out or does the b.b.c. all of what we were. passed another clarke is preaching what we were. if you have to be heroes just to put to good use you will have the money to people so they did it all get get is news from here as news people and they get put out to . get sent up point out a reference. to did it better a group problem also got some time with. god amount to bad news people get information on this say well. yes you are really making a lot of my hope for liberia is that one of the liberian. people opportunity for all of us and everybody else us cool melich.

everyone with us as to who rose would what and. and. well that's it for this week of course you can find out more about alfred's free press and watch other films from the series on the rewind page at al-jazeera dot com i'm come all santa maria from the whole rewind team thanks for joining us. for the 1st time in recent history saudi arabia prohibits overseas visitors from performing the hutch prover match. as cook at 19 continues to disrupt people's lives we look at this decision and big impact on the saudi economy hides 2020 on al-jazeera. who's to blame for the mishandling of the coronavirus

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