about the security situation in off of the country from around the world consulate is a dependent on the success of its vaccines to improve its international image which is something since the beginning of the outbreak. a military coup in myanmar is democratically elected leader on sunday and she is detained and the army has declared a state of emergency phone and internet services are disrupted in the commercial capital state television it's taken off the air. fully back to boyer watching al-jazeera live from doha we'll have extensive coverage of the situation in myanmar and also ahead donald trump's office names

a new legal team for his impeachment trial in the u.s. senate and a bail hearing in hong kong for jimmy ally the billionaire media tycoon charged with violating the national security of. the military has seized power in myanmar and declared a state of emergency the democratically elected leader on sansom she has been detained along with other senior politicians from the ruling party the military says it's a response to a fraud in november's election that return the national league for democracy to power the n l d party has issued a statement in the last half hour calling on the people of myanmar to quote wholeheartedly protest against the cool while we have a team of reporters covering this breaking news story for us on the phone is standing by in young gone myanmar's largest city florence we is in kuala lumpur and katrina you is in beijing with the reaction from china or speak to all of them very

shortly but 1st victoria gate and be a report on how the who unfolded it. the military made its move in the early hours of the morning detaining democratically elected leader and sang suchi and other senior figures from the ruling party cheese n l d government won november's election by a landslide but accusations of electoral fraud led to tension between the civilian government and the military. what my stance is is that one has had the upper hand in the internal military struggles but also gone back to a chinese arms and said look this is where we think you're going in a chinese government which is not inclined to support him ocracy has said you have that in the political crisis began last tuesday when a military spokesman refused to rule out the possibility of a coup the following day mammals military chief state fears when he said the

constitution should be repealed if it was not abided by as tensions reached their peak on saturday the military issued a new statement saying the commander in chief's comments had been misinterpreted and pledged to protect the constitution. but just hours later emboldened by remus hundreds of protesters gathered in young gone at a pro-military rally where speeches welcomed a coup with the support of the people there is no our legal basis for the military true takeover of our while the military may claim there are certain powers in the constitution that allows it to do this that is very much open to interpretation and it's fairly clear that in terms of a constitutional american see that that has largely lies with the president and not with the commander in chief more than a dozen countries including the u.s. and the u.k. have urged me to adhere to democratic norms this military coup will likely lead to more sanctions. the n l

d has called on the military to accept the will of the people and has asked its supporters to stay calm on the same day a new parliament was due to open in myanmar the fate of the country's democracy is uncertain victoria gates and the al-jazeera. now this is a momentous myanmar found out the government they voted for in a landslide election in november had been kicked out of power it was announced by a newscaster on a military owned television channel take a look. due to refusing to settle voter list fraud failing to take actions not following the request to postpone lower house and upper house parliament sessions there is a need to carry along with the plan according to the 2008 constitution which talks about acts or attempts to take over the sovereignty of the union by wrongful forcible means that can lead to disintegration of national solidarity by the state of emergency is in effect nationwide and the duration of the state of emergency is

set to one year starting from this date the order is announced in line with the 2008 constitution article 417. well let's get the very latest from inside myanmar and speak to our correspondent who joins us from a young your i understand in a position overlooking the city tell us about the current situation what does this military takeover look like. most of the streets here are still relatively quiet but we have seen increased security presence creeping up we've seen movements military vehicles around the city and also now at large numbers of the riot police this is police battalion 11 and they normally wear red bandanas and they're normally police the kind of militarized all the the more militarized. section of the police and they've also been spotted around certainly to parts of downtown young gone but obviously it's happening slowly and so most streets

seem relatively normal but there is definitely growing tension growing fear and lots of anxiety about who's going to be arrested next it doesn't feel like it's over maybe more unfolding right on time so cheese national league for democracy party. the people of myanmar to oppose of the coup and any return to to military dictatorship they issued a statement in the last half hour do you get a sense that people will heed this call or are they too scared of the military. it's difficult to tell at the moment i'm sure that there will be lots of people who definitely want to and who will be emboldened by that statement and encouraged to do so by that statement but i think religious stickley it's just the being able to round up numbers announced numbers that people feel that they're safe it will

possibly take some time and perhaps if the military presence continues to increase the fear will override that and it will be too great for anything to happen immediately we'll see in the coming days days or weeks whether whether there's some sort of reaction that takes a little bit more planning what do we know if anything about the whereabouts of entente and cine and what has the military said about its plans going forward. the whereabouts of unscented cheese not clear to me at this stage. there are maybe some people in the know that sent me the statement that was just put out is is credited to her it's unclear whether they have some sort of line of communication or whether they have 10 named to the statement in order to give it some more power and a little bit more influence because she really is the face of the party she is the driving force behind their popularity you know

a lot of people say that people aren't really voting really voting they're voting she remains incredibly popular so it's possible that they were just using had name if you like but i am it's very likely that she's still in a fetal possible that she's been detained in her own home she does have a home that now where she spends most of her time and. joe details are yet to come and some internet connection. is still working in certain areas and some phone connections at least with the main state kerry n.p.t. has been resumed in they could go where it was so he blocked and in and in some parts of yangon as well my my phone is working still unfortunately but a few people are definitely getting back online which is a good sign although there are rumors the evidence going to be shut off completely at some point so all right ali thank you very much for bringing us the very latest there from young on correspondent in myanmar. or there's growing international

reaction to this koan nan ma the united nations secretary general has condemned the detention. of political leaders in a statement the spokesman for antonio terry's said he urges the military leadership to respect the will of the people of myanmar calling the arrests a serious blow to democratic reforms and went on to say old leaders must act in the greater interests of myanmar some a chronic reforming gaging in meaningful dialogue from violent. fully respecting human rights live to katrina in beijing for as katrina the military in myanmar has always been seen as having china's backing china's support so how is beijing reacting to the events unfolding today in. so far we're yet to hear any official response from beijing on this and it's true that china has traditionally had a very close relationship with my and their military certainly when the military

junta was in power china was very close there but china has also been quite close with aung sun suu kyi since she came to power the bottom line for beijing is that meyer is a key player in a significant part when it comes to shoring up china's position in asia and the need by emma to continue to be that reliable partner going forward so they'll be watching how this crew plays out very very closely certainly aung sun suu kyi knew that she had to be friendly with china she was cultivating that economic relationship she was persistent in the belgian road initiative she signed the china economic chordal where there were a number of infrastructure projects agreed to. the signatory of the r.c.p. this regional comprehensive economic partnership and also their relationship extended beyond economics through to politics china was one of the learned supporters of the approach to the river hinges in miami and in turn supported china

and many of its controversial policies to do with the treatment of the leaders and shin jiang to do with hong kong and to do with taiwan that being said china continues to be of primary importance to land where it's the largest trading partner the 2nd largest source of foreign direct investment but under aung sun suu kyi it is true that the influence that china has had in there has not been as great and is as unbridled as it was when the military was in power there was some infrastructure projects that had been stalled under her watch which was very frustrating for china in many china chinese companies also. she was more open to u.s. investment for example and there was a lot of anti chinese sentiment growing in my love because of this huge chinese influence and on closer she knew this and she was. and you become less reliant on china as a result and we did see trade also drop between the 2 countries under her watch so it is interesting to know that china sent its foreign minister to have talks of the

unsung suchi just 3 weeks ago and they signed a few memorandums and they had an agreement to kick start some infrastructure projects but he also sat down with the commander in chief the head of nutri at that same time it is difficult to imagine that there was some not some sort of communication between the 2 parties that the one the military might not have communicate with china consulted with china because it's very important going forward at least for the military if it does continue in this direction that it continues to have china's economic support especially if we're going to see some international sanctions come their way ok thank you for that katrina you're live there from beijing and now let's bring in foreign story who's reported extensively from myanmar and joins us now from kuala lumpur let me ask you 1st about the regional reaction what it is if there is any reaction to the events unfolding in myanmar from myanmar's immediate needs well

traditionally myanmar's immediate neighbors regional neighbors the association of southeast asian nations they have adopted as they toss a refusal to. comment on what they deem to be the internal affairs of a country now and so we've heard statements coming from individual countries condemning me and condemning what's happening in myanmar but not in very strong terms now the stronger statement we've had comes from indonesia where the indonesian government has said that electoral differences or to be addressed in accordance with available legal mechanisms now we will remember the young man military has. carried out this coup on the excuse that electoral fraud has been perpetrated so this is what indonesia has responded now coming from singapore we've heard singapore expressed grave concern but also urging all science to show restraint and then from countries where there is a an autocrat in charge countries like cambodia and thailand as expected they've

issued statements to say that these that what's happening in myanmar is an internal affair for that country and i think we should we most likely can expect the association of southeast asian nations of which me is a member to come out with a statement that in a condemns what's happening but not in very strong terms certainly not to the extent of what we're seeing by western nations only last week florins the military was promising to abide by the constitution which it drafted more than a decade of all is it clear to you what their plan is next work is ultimately their goal. well the military in myanmar operates in a very opaque fashion rarely issues statements and we've seen how the offer ated today when they detained. in other high ranking politicians and other government

officials in the early hours of monday morning and they didn't issue a statement on military t.v. until hours later i don't think we can expect the myanmar government to say what their plan is going forward but what we do know is that there is going to be a state of emergency in myanmar for at least another year so we can expect the country to come under full control of the myanmar military and under the under state of emergency you can only imagine how wide the powers of the military will be it means it will have the powers to impose curfew it will have powers to stop any assembly or any protest and it will possibly also suspend parliament i think we can expect those things to happen we're already seeing the military in suspend or interfere with data communications and phone lines so we can expect the military to tighten its rule in the weeks and days and months ahead thank you for the moment foreign story live in kuala lumpur. there's also been reaction from the united

states the state department has issued a statement saying the u.s. opposes any attempt to alter the outcome of recent elections or impede man most democratic transition and will take action against those responsible if the sets have not reversed where monitoring the situation closely the statement goes on to say and stand with the people of burma already enjoy it so much in that quest for democracy and peace how generous particle hain is and the u.s. and she says a new biden administration will want to take anna said to fence on the scope. i think we can expect the by the administration to take quick action on this remember this was joe biden he campaigned for president saying that america needs to reengage the world america to take up its position as leader of the free world i think you'll see this is an opportunity to send a message that you're serious about that and you want to rally international opinion we've already heard from the white house they said the president was

briefed by his national security advisor and they are warning that sanctions. that they that these people need to be released immediately and if not. we will take action against those responsible the senate foreign relations committee under senator bob menendez went even further saying that they will they will pursue economic sanctions as well as other actions and the senate foreign relations committee draft chairman going on to say these are the same people who committed the genocide in his words of the regime and that they will take necessary actions i think you'll see that by demonstration want to get in front of the 3rd one to want to get in front of the cameras they're going to want to put out whatever sanctions they want to see put in place because they see this is a time critical situation and also the 1st test of the biden presidency he said america will retake its leadership role in the world this will be his for.

well let's take a closer look at me on mars history it gained independence from britain in 194715 years later the military power in a coup. came to prominence in 1988 when the military crackdown on pro-democracy protesters killing hundreds the following year on signs which he was put under house arrest in 2010 myanmar said it would be running elections for the 1st time in 20 years 6 years later the military handed over power to the 1st civilian government and became de facto leader national league for democracy party won last november's elections by a landslide the military says a vote was fortunate i spoke to bridget is an honorary research associate at the asia research institute they said the nottingham university of malaysia she says the impacts of the military takeover will be far reaching. i think everyone in myanmar understands that they're using the law to their advantage and i think that

there is widespread anxiety and concern about what is happening not only in not only internationally but also within memory itself because the implications of the coup are not just about who's in power but it has very important implications in terms of covert 19 the economy and of course ethnic conflict in myanmar in terms of the issues the richenda i think that this is a tremendous step back and already a very serious situation you know there is no is going to be no return over hinges when the military is and power that the issues of potential exodus are clearly on the cards and of course even more serious is the fact that the sort of stalemate the peace sort of situation will will actually probably erode and you'll have increased fighting in iraq kind especially by our kind of army and so i think that this is going to have. serious issues that will emerge as

a result of the military coming back into power it's not just in the state you're got you've seen fighting in other parts of the country and i think in the shan state in the south. korean areas and those fighting has been escalating and i think that when with the military now in power what happens is that there's the buffer of sort of reaching sort of. some sort of compromise or really are or actually cease fires has been removed and the chances of this escalating in multiple areas of the country are very real and will continue to closely follow the situation in myanmar and bring you the latest developments as they happen in the meantime let's move on to other wealth news and in hong kong media tycoon and pro-democracy activist jimmy lying is appearing in the territories top courts is facing a government to pay and against the decision to extend this bail. fraud and conspiring with foreign forces under china's national security law is a critical leadership and the highest profile person to be charged under the

controversial legislation it upon and is outside the court in hong kong with more. it's highly charged we've seen minor skirmishes between supporters of jimmy law and pro-democracy supporters and the probe aging supporter this case and particulars of great interest to beijing it's a very sensitive case and it's also the 1st national security law case to reach the final court of appeal in the proceedings of the day jimmy lies l'oreal's will be arguing for bail to find out whether he will remain in jail or would be able to go home between now and the actual trial and april he was granted bail in december 23rd already but due to noises from beijing mostly in the form of state media commenting on how hong kong's courts were noughts well versed in the national security law and hong kong's national security the department of justice brought

that case back to the courts on december 31st and he was returned to jail jimmy lie as a media mogul and one of the most high profile pro-democracy activists it's a very strong international ties this case is set to set aside to set a precedent for national security law cases in hong kong law was imposed by beijing on july 1st it's very vague and seen as draconian and it seemed to have many moving goalposts so lawyers here and prosecutors here are still said to be finding their way and this particular case is set to be able to define certain parameters for hong kong's national security law more and more cases are expected to be brought to prosecution in the future. in the us former president donald trump has named a new legal team to had his impeachment to defend it comes after parted ways with

his lead impeachment noise on saturday he's accused of inciting his supporters to storm the capitol building on. 6 after he repeated false claims of election fraud his aides say they plan to auggie the trial is unconstitutional because he's no longer in office harry lipman is a former deputy assistant attorney general and has more on how republicans may be feeling the impeachment trial oh impeachment itself is just the levy leveling of charges by the house of representatives it happened here while he was in office and then the senate decided under republican leadership to take a long break until the 19th and now that they have returned he is out of office for the trial but that's happened before under the constitution and it is permissible nevertheless i think many most republicans would like to avoid

having to pass judgment on his actual conduct and so they are embracing this theory that it's unconstitutional because that permits them to vote for acquittal without having to actually give a thumbs up or thumbs down on the conduct itself. from st petersburg in the west to valley of aust all came in the far east tens of thousands of russians of ronnie to cross a country demanding the release of jailed kremlin critic alexina vonnie more than 5000 people have reportedly been detained assad has more. time for america we don't have to stay longer to demonstration in russia before you might be arrested right here in the. police wasting no time in taking these protesters away from the feeling that they had been warned says that's still floating in the current circumstances the risk of the protest organizers and active participants provocations is increasing and their aim is to violate civil order in this

situation your personal safety can be under threat but alexina valmy supporters braved the subzero temperatures to have this say. these ones pushed out by police 5 themselves on 2 frozen waters in vladivostok. justice just what i'm seeing now is some kind of inadequate reaction people were coming out peacefully they were not doing anything illegal now there is intimidation but as you can see no one is afraid of the city square is completely blocked off by police but there is someone there from the protesters and there are arrests there are many people this time but police and special forces have prepared in advance and blocked the square was the kremlin seems to have been rattled by this latest wave of protests. and i haven't heard that. and have adopted a 0 tolerance approach. even putting pressure on online platforms to shut down any talk of demonstrations. and involved he says he's poisoning in august last year was

state sanctioned something the kremlin has denied. the opposition leader and critic of president vladimir putin spent months in germany recovering by this movement is more than just support from the valmy. it's been a mobilizing call for those for straight to do everything from the economy to longstanding claims of corruption navellier supporters have used social media to spread his views and to organize protests. there have been thousands of arrests across russia and with just days to go before novelli appears in court to face charges of parole violations the kremlin is keen to shut down and discredit him and his supporters said big al-jazeera israel is sending 5000 vaccine doses to palestinian medical workers according to a government spokesperson the country has been criticized for excluding palestinian occupied territories from its vaccine roll out more than a quarter of israel's 9000000 people has received at least one dose but territories

under israeli occupation have mostly relieved relied on the un's kovacs scheme india's prime minister narendra modi has broken his silence on the 4 month long samas protests describing violence in the capital new delhi last tuesday as an insult to the country one person died during demonstrations which saw the fama stall in the city's historic red fort have been blocking votes since new ivory cultural laws were brought in last september ending at gun to guaranteed prices paid by the government modi says he will not change his mind on the new laws but has repeated an offer to delay them for 18 months believe me the country was saddened by the insult to the indian flag on the 26th of january in delhi we have to fill the future with new hope and novelty. on indian government small known designed to help street vendors cope with cold 1000 has provoked controversy many say it's being damaged by corruption mismanagement and nepotism imran khan reports

. it was supposed to be one of the indian government's flagship coded 19 relief packages the plan was simple help the poorest street vendors stay on their feet and offer them small loans to help them get through the pandemic the street vendors are in some ways the beating heart of the economy with little or no expenses they sell their wares from the street at a price india's poorest can afford without that many in the country would go hungry and the vendors themselves broke the prime minister narendra modi was involved in the creation of the scheme and lent it to his 9. $138.00 us dollars to be paid back over a year at a low interest rate however many of the vulnerable street vendors didn't qualify and i don't know why. but what about i never got a loan and if she doesn't she doesn't eat. the local bodies i'm not approving of papers that can get us the loan the other organization helping us and fill in forms but most of them all being rejected all forms will loan approval and just

being rejected. her pleas are unlikely to change much arvin saying of the national street vendors association says corruption and nepotism also blame the people who are not. when things they have also been given them in their word to show that large numbers of people are getting low on the government's hailing the scheme is a success with one politician from the governing b j p applauding modi's efforts. this is a very ambitious scheme of prime minister modi and the scheme is basically for the very poorest sections of the society you must have seen during the lockdown all the handcart vendors or those who sell things on the streets were greatly affected to the point that they completely lost their means of livelihood. but for street vendors like location here well it's far from a success going to days i'm not a violation i tried many times i even submitted all the papers i always got the

same reply from bank officers that it's in process and will be done but i never got the loan if i would have gotten the loan then i would not have faced problems i would have done my business in a better way for now in the street vendors get by as best they can and hope that government will make good on its pledge to help fight me and them get through the pandemic observe more news on our website the very latest on our top story then the call in myanmar at al-jazeera dot com. again i'm fully back to bo with the headlines on al-jazeera the military has seized power in myanmar after detaining leader on sun sochi and other senior politicians the army says it's a response to allege fraud in elections that returned the national league for democracy to government internet connections and some phone services were disrupted in parts of the country state television went off air hours before parliament had

been due to reconvene for the 1st time since november's vote on sochi has called on the public to reject the cool she says the move is aimed at putting myanma back under dictatorship and urged people to protest the file has the latest from young gone. we've seen movements military vehicles around the city and also now at larger numbers of the riot police this is a place battalion 11 and they normally wear red bandanas and then only place the kind of militarized on them the more militarized. section of the place and they've also been spotted around certainly to parts of downtown young gone but obviously it's happening slowly and so most streets seem relatively normal but there is definitely growing tension growing fare and lots of anxiety about who's going to be arrested next. in other news donald trump has named a new legal team to head is impeachment defends it comes

a day after the former president ordered ways with his lead impeachment lawyers he's accused of inciting his supporters to storm the capitol hill to hill building on january 6th after he repeated false claims of election fraud his aides say they plan to argue the trial is unconstitutional because he's no longer in office. in hong kong media and pro-democracy activists jimmy law is appearing in the city's top cause his facing a government appeal against the decision to extend his bail the 73 year old is accused. of committing fraud and conspiring with foreign forces and more than 4000 people have reportedly been detained across russia during protesters demanding the release of jailed kremlin critic and mixing of army is a 2nd weekend of demonstrations and follows return to russia this month those are the headlines to stay with us on al-jazeera.

and i want you all to know that we are fighting the fake news space phoning the enemy of the people and this president has undermined us from the very beginning he's called this enemies of the people he has told us that we are fake media and he is trying to undermine and try to wedged between the electorate and us the fake news is creating violence. you know. if the media can't be trusted to report the news then that's a dangerous place for america what you just did is inflammatory and the body in this room is only trying to do their job they are the same they were discussing the news. your. children in the end of the book they go through. so what do you base your maximum amount sit down sit down

could you please say sir down you get one why should. you do. this is the white house welcome to it this is where all of us insane wretches and all the television people put together the information that we provide to the alleged. i work for c.n.n. it's an analyst of playboy i write a column and i cast behind as you can see where everybody does their life shot all the major networks. that room used to be where we had briefings but we haven't had a briefing in about 2 months so instead what happens is there's a makeshift podium you see people bringing chairs out here we have 49 chairs and air conditioning 50 feet away. you know she is just joining us there is sarah how do we sanders the press secretary. scheduled to come out here this morning to state run television fox and probably come over and visit with us and

hopefully have a few words to say to us and we'll try to find out some information places that place. in the morning there are you do you think about this asking trying to the city would you give props tax returns i think it's hypocrisy at its best can you tell me the president this is replaced what used to be a daily press briefing is now a short 5 to 10 minute gaggle out in the driveway of the white house already so they can control the press a little bit better keep the questions and the answers down there right now if you have sure one question to the distractors this administration has gotten a lot of heat and for its credibility to know what you guys and so i would argue that i don't doubt your credibility or an order i'm just asking the question aren't about me so the question is for the sizable portion of the public to believe that this administration has no credibility what is your response to that i think it's real simple if we come out and do the very best job every single day the media is

the one that has perpetuated the russia collusion hoax for the last 2 years and i think before you guys start looking here and asking questions about our credibility you should take a real hard look at your 00 credibility isn't questionable the answers as you see are not forthcoming thanks aaron thank you very much shit yeah today's press is under fire but you persevered you do your job you ask the questions that's what you're here to do every day. this is the briefing room where the briefing room is operating get probably 10110 people packed in here and i work down this way. so c.n.n. and fox are down here reporters covering the white house do not have contact with the administration and we have limited contact with the actual person that work. the president he likes to say he's transparent but he shows up in the take

questions pretend he can hear some cut other people off tell people sit down shut up and off he goes. and this is not how i usually go since historically very much off the rails i mean you get it right all the time he never did and he had probably the best interactions so there's a a law that the army can't be used as a police force some it's called the posse comitatus act as i went up and was asking folks in the pressure up they didn't really know what the law even was and one of the press states he started singing a song from the lion king you could've walked up there under the past 3 or 4 presidents and then you know with your time you would have made lease no more you were talking about and i would've called it the who coon and the like and they wouldn't and they definitely would not have sang part of the song for the children's movie. on something as serious as sending armed u.s. military personnel to the border to perform

a police action on the brain and robert noel. what a stupid question that is what is. what i want you a lot of us got a lot of snow right now something can vary so it's not mile hills will start another fire over here today to move us off this fire i think it was monday or tuesday i listed 10 or 11 issues that we went through in the course of one day 11 of them would have been a huge story in the previous administration and some of them get lost because just you get rolled under i call it the chaos but yeah and i'm always shocked by the continued shock about donald trump this has been his entire adult life he's going to run this way and he has read this yeah. we'll be out on the rose garden where the president is going to appear for the

national day of prayer he may or may not take questions he's not going to take a question now but will show up because it might be our only chance to see the president today to get a question to ask. ladies and gentlemen the president of the united states that history. people are so proud to be using that beautiful word games. and hiding from me and they're not. running for questions in this thread and it's pretty cheaply done that play. the ball. to be the. word is this white house in historical perspective on the white house is very different and it's because the president is very different and i think we are in a very divisive time period and he got elected as

a sharp partisan capture. it wasn't that he created it greta just think the president has not happened experience as a government official and so business experience and the level of information that you have to provide is a lot less than it is once you get into government asking the question if you're going to push was a governor before he came here obama senator they learn that the press is part of governing and that you may not like it but you have to learn to live with it this president doesn't seem to want to live with. that. and. listen so this week following up. on the mother stuff and if we send anything off to anyone else that that's the stuff that we should do because all that stuff that

happened in the last 24 hours. recently did feature going back to the border interviewing drug dealers and illegal immigrants so what i'm writing now is basically act 2 of the muller investigation. there are stories that i have covered that stick with me this was a spot news story we did about a shooting of a police officer in san antonio and it's because of that story that i went to jail had a source and i kept that source confidential. a reporter really only has one thing your credibility. this is my 1st station id and i was covering the reagan administration business from the gulf war george bush the 96 democratic national convention clinton obama administration was not as candid is they claim to be but i'll be honest with you i don't like any of them. it's their job to put their best foot forward it's my job to find out what they're actually doing as president are

you worried about indictments coming down the stairs so it's an adversarial relationship but it doesn't have to be a person i say or watch c.n.n. should be ashamed of itself having you working for them you are a rude terrible person i always thought that all of them up until trump i could i could stomach and i i respected all of them and i don't necessarily respect from the fake news is creating violence i'll tell you what if the media would write correctly and write accurately and write fairly you'd have a lot less violence in the country you can call me the enemy of the people and call me fake news and have threats made against me and me respect what you do. well. people feel like it's ok to threaten a reporter. because

the president has threatened reporters. i had my window of my car bashed i've had people call me and say i'm going to kill you. i've had to call the police a few times because of threats i know other reporters that have bodyguards you don't get to threaten the process we're not the enemy of the people we are the people i think it's that constant barrage of fake news directed at this president if the media can't be trusted to report the news then that's a dangerous place for america in one of us if we don't get it right the audience has the opportunity to turn the channel or not read the 1st class i had with sarah sanders was about 6 months into this administration were i think as you just run your to provide the answers and what you just did is inflammatory to people all over the country who look and see see once again the president's right and everybody else out here is fake media and everybody in this room is only trying to

do their job but i think if anything has been inflamed it's the dishonesty that often takes place by the news media and then another 6 months went by and she's talking about how the administration is doing such humanitarian great things on the border when they were putting kids in cages now. that one affected me personally because i've seen what happens to children on the border come on syria you're a parent don't you have any empathy for what these people are going to do you have let's try a new guy who settles a obviously syrian trying to be serious but i'm not going to have you go out of furnishing really is it so low and the have these people have nothing they ran i know you have to get some more t.v. i mean that's how you're serving us and i want to read you know this request go ahead real honestly it's going by how much it is a serious question these people have nothing they come to the border with nothing from children you just you're a good parent of young children don't you get into the people but they go through

children that it's ok for them to spend i do not expect you to lie to me all the time on everything that you say thank you mr president i'm asking you to clarify where you get your numbers because most of the d.n.a. crimes reporting statistics that we seize show the drugs are coming across at the ports of entry that illegal immigration is down and the violence is down so what do you base your facts on come on let's go so he's got the same facts i've got his government keeps the facts and none of the government facts showed and still don't show that there's a crisis on the border and secondly out of the when you go one you get one with a set your sights and wait sit down sit down could you please answer down you get when i why should the press is not after donald trump. the press is after the facts so your own government stats are wrong or you say oh no i used

many stats and then he said it was us let me tell you you have stats that are far worse than the ones that i use. my job is to press and ask questions and ultimately the president will say what he says and people can decide whether or not he speaks the truth. the president when you have the arms embargo on you were asking other nations our allies particularly to observe it publicly at the same time i believe you concede you were authorizing breaking that embargo by the united states how can you justify this to the city. in front of this crowd my son and. it is good to see. you doing fine fine what about this place i don't know about this place. i enjoyed my time in the white house as a reporter when you come back no i would never come back it's

a young person's game it's for you it's for people with a lot of energy i never had to contend with what you have to contend with today with this president and this press secretary in this administration i've dealt with people who they dodge they weave once in awhile they would tell untruths but not regularly not so that everybody felt. so could you take them or you could i do any better than you can no no not at all i think you and the others in the press room asking the right questions failing but not because you're not trying not because you're not thinking about what the american people want to know or should want to know about the their president or his administration i never had to worry about that people wanted to know and they wanted facts no one said they were alternative facts no one said it's the press it's. news. we make mistakes we try to correct but we always make mistakes are human right. now day 85 i feel

very. close just like the sound bites and. they like it they don't like it. 3 to one so welcome back to just ask the question today it is a treat to have my mentor on this show sam donaldson who for years covered the white house for a.b.c. what's wrong with the white house today going to take dumb to trump is what's wrong with the white house i mean donald trump is basically ignorant about things other than his cunning ability as a con man right he started out to roy cohn cones philosophy clearly was we can win at any cost and never mind whether it's legal or not never mind who you heard or not you we've. got a truck has got to the last do you think trump has irrevocably harmed a the united states and b. our profession i think he has harmed it greatly i do not believe it's irrevocably

harmed i think quoting lincoln in the good sense of the american people will ultimately prevail i think the majority of people in this country want the mores want the ethics wants the morality all of the standards that we all grew up with their parents their grandparents we're a country built on standards yeah he's harmed them in every possible way but i don't think he's destroyed them up we'll see in 2020 what about our profession i think we were harmed in all of these multiple ways that people can get their news fox news very disturbing murdoch rupert murdoch has done great harm to this country yes he has and roger ailes god rest his soul i want to address the idea that every time i'm told that he's the most transparent and assessable for. but you know he is anyone who's actually watched him listen to him or read his tweets either directly

or in the news those 2 yes anyone who has his or her eyes open has gotten cold rude i'll tell you sam in the white house today there's very little humor that's what how can there be is so grim and i don't remember it the same as when i 1st knew what they're well i hope it gets caught out we can do this although you go to the name of the show is just ask the question will catch you next time. today is the nerd prom as they call the white house correspondents' association dinner right and i need to know why i am the last 3 years president trump hasn't shown up and this year he's banning any one of his staff from showing up as well. by the way and i hope.

when that thing went down with you and you came out only to. their minor speed you . know what you did shawn you stood up and was man and i love you thank you but you later. i always give in and i love it. i had a horrible relationship with think all of me but you know i gave him grief he took a lot and then left. but i thought in the end he was a man of principle and i can appreciate that i don't think sean was ever a true believer in the trump agenda and i believe that sarah and that's the difference between that and that's all the difference in the world. and. it's great stuff. since. then the press has come. in and.

they brian i watched her get up i mean you talk about somebody that's a loser she doesn't know what the hell she's doing targets because you. have to find out the facts of this you know. i'm not the enemy of any limits. police say the shooting that left 5 people dead on thursday was a targeted attack on a local newspaper the capital gazette journalists caught in the violence described the scene as a war zone with one crime reporter tweeting there's nothing more terrifying than hearing multiple people get shot while you're under your desk and then hear the gunman reload asked to comment on the journalist slayings president donald trump who earlier this month labeled the news media the country's worst enemy he walked away but tweeted his condolences as a precaution police deployed to guard the entrances of the new york times and other

large u.s. media organizations an ominous sight to mark uncertain times. nearly a year ago friends and coworkers members of our professional family ripped from us in a day none of us should ever forget one of those people was my friend when he went to use. that incident also figured in the recent reporters without borders assessment that now ranks the united states as only the $48.00 freest country for journalists and places us in the trouble democracy category you shouldn't have to worry about die off covering the news unless it is ancillary to covering the news. the 4th this day has meaning and you breathe life into it every day as they did. i love every one of you

a special love for the we have a capital because. we believe in wrong jerald job they want to point out who's right what was wrong and what we could do better so the members of my staff. enjoy the incredible about. to return to work if you want. i am proud. to work among the giants. so i'd like to thank you and i thank them thank. you for the go through and. i think most folks. when it happened. was just in shock the 1st thing i thought was i hope that it

doesn't come out at the shooter had a vendetta against specifically the news from i hope it's just something random working the site is going to the 1st place. and it was specifically targeted in the space. and that that was really really scared the hell out of. what happens if i write about somebody who really doesn't like left for dead on now is he in jeopardy of getting shot 'd ringback. i don't think i was prepared for what we've actually seen i was going to start with a recap of the inauguration but i think we've covered that pretty well from the day one when they showed 2 pictures of 2 inaugurations and said listen trump had the largest inaugural numbers of anyone and you could see by. the picture that that wasn't true you knew where this administration was heading. don't believe your

eyes believe me any credible progressively worse with sarah sanders tough but she's good you know you're also a tough and bad right and of course she and spice are an alcove gone. everything is deflection with this president he doesn't want you to look at what the left hands doing want to watch this and so he's lying to us and filling us full with smoke so he can i was actually going on the cutting of taxes for the ultra rich the robber barons running free cutting regulations and that's the thing that donald trump doesn't want you to see donald trump doesn't do anything that doesn't benefit donald trump. the real problem for the us with trump is their autocrats all over the world and despots who listen to the present the united states the leader of the free world and figure it's ok to jail beat up and kill reporters. so for the press

it's never been a more tenuous time and that i fear will continue if he is reelected. the old saying is that once there was a dream that was wrong once there was a dream that was the united states the constitution the declaration of independence are 2 of the most beautiful things ever written by man to explain how we should govern ourselves and not be at the throat of a despot. and that's what's at stake. the atmosphere is getting a little bit restless having had quiet weather for a week or 2 over the middle east beirut shows a slight warming trend with little breeze no sunshine in the sky so what's

different you might think well the breeze is coming out of the interiors cold meat causing that warming and that so joining up with active weather in west and turkey nothing showing in the sky over arabia or iran there is a blog has been a dusty wanted to keep going through monday and then we can somewhat on tuesday and then something else happens isn't particularly usual this breeze picks up quite a strong current through northern saudi the cloud starts to form which even suggests a few showers just to dry and asked a particular unusual look at this pattern the time we get to thursday you know used to seeing this rain of the desert mrs levy a significant arc of rain this is biases are running out through saudi just catching jordan and probably the west of iraq it's interesting follow it when it gets in the south of that the more usual pattern to the weather which is widespread summer showers throughout southern africa the west and south so good most of namibia is dry in this forecast jo'burg and the suit too in southern mozambique

look particularly wet with more flash floods. out of the camp of my that we wander along that we are the one grappling the extra mile they are the media don't go we go there and we give them a chance to tell their story. and that man while the military says it's taking control for a year claiming last november's election was fraudulent. either them or a car that says al jazeera live from doha mammals de facto need to. political leaders are detained a party is calling for protests. the burmese military says the power.