could become exhibit a in the antitrust battle about to be waged between the us government and eighty n.t. the president's outburst give life to a counter argument in the case namely that the government is trying to squeeze c.n.n. by making it poison to eighteen takeover of its parent company time warner a t.n.t. appears ready to make just such an argument there's been a lot of reporting and speculation whether this is all about c.n.n. and frankly i don't know but nobody should be surprised at the question keeps coming up because we've witnessed such an abrupt change in the application of and i trust law here. so any agreement that results in us forfeiting control of c.n.n. whether directly or indirectly is a nonstarter yet trump was already critical of the deal before his feud with c.n.n. calling it unfair during his campaign a deal we will not approve in my administration because it's too much concentration of power in the hands of two shoes. that's hardly an extreme position senators in both parties have openly worried the merger would hamper competition supporters say the companies ne

s proposed eighty five billion dollars acquisition of time warner now eighty n.t. is the united states biggest telecoms company time warner a major producer of media content department of justice says allowing both companies to merge would mean a concentration of power detrimental to conceive this president donald trump's outspoken dislike for time warner's news channel c.n.n. some also see a political dimension at play. plans by eighty and t.v. to purchase time warner one of the leading media companies in the u.s. we're ready controversial when they were announced in two thousand and sixteen even before he became president donald trump was already critical. a deal we will not approve in my administration because it's too much concentration of power in the hands of too few. trump has called c.n.n. which is owned by time warner fake news this is why plans by the department of justice to sue eighteen t. to stop its acquisition of time warner a controversial but c.e.o. has said he will fight the u.s. government's suit in court there's been a lot of reporting of specul

of meat cake moment i think and that's part of the underlying anger on college campuses as part of n.t. feds part of it is part of it's part of all the mishaps that we're seeing who knows are being blamed some of the shooting out and i hear that such so what we're seeing is this is a system that is being shaken dangerously by an increasing sense on the part of the proletariat. that that that is that fair now now there's always been people down the chain that there were paid a lot but i think the sense of fairness is does move around and i think right now there's a real sense of unfairness and it doesn't matter if it's true the perception of unfairness will cause it's going forward there which is why trying to president right everyone said screw it. i'm voting against the system or it was a bipartisan throw the bums out moment for electing trump right now and talk about trauma talk about the fed looks like he'll be in a position to point up to five f.l. i'm say such a banking member soon how do you see that playing out we've got about twenty seconds he'll blow out in what way will kill

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mentioned in the volta report bears no relation to the firm's products adding that all users of the n.t. software and an affected one british intelligence analyst told us the russian firm is well being discredited. what that is is quite frankly it's a no russian compromise out if it were gaining information gaining information about new high tech. missile systems that would be more of the traditional role of intelligence agencies seeking information but as i say this is compromising the alternative the opposition. and it's a hugely expensive program but it is one that the americans and the american code writers are extremely effective at doing the previous batch of leaked cia files released by wiki leaks was called vault seven this revealed that the agency has its own malware which exploits vulnerabilities in phones and t.v.'s and has the ability to buy a pos encrypt on messaging apps vault seven also featured a cia division called bridge which created a library of hacking techniques stolen from other countries the agency also has a tool to disguise its malware and make it seem like it'

didn't play a part in their carlin's death well the whole point of the inquest was to see whether or not n.t. presence played a part in syria's death the courts acknowledge that this medication can increase thoughts of suicide in particular patients but they don't think that the medication played a role in sarah curl and that the inquest the odds were stacked against the condoms the jury i think was very courageous but they were specifically instructed by the coroner that they couldn't actually find paxil as a cause the jury made twelve key recommendations these were detailed recommendations to prevent similar doubts six of them were aimed at the drug industry and of the drug company so if they didn't think that paxil caused or played a critical role in sarah carlin's death they certainly wouldn't put six recommendations into the pharmaceutical industry in there are a good decision. rejoinder forty pounds of fury oh goodness yes and i was not easy to deal with my son joseph at that time was fifteen years of age extremely ill it didn't matter what it was very very violent the drop of a pin wo

other and the concern here is that this political tension could turn into violence right now thank you n.t.'s to have any lebanese capital. protesters are rallied in london in opposition to the one hundredth anniversary of the balfour declaration it was issued by persons cabinets in one nine hundred seventeen and marked a turning point in the effort to create the state of israel sonicare go as a rally and brings us more. this week the british government commemorated the signing of the balfour declaration a hundred years ago when asked which said it was proud of parts on the other side of. scale on saturday in london outside the us embassy is another voice which runs counter to that last of those who are against the legacy of the balfour declaration and i spoke with dr stuff about it lootie of how you see an activist who said that the u.k. was wrong proud of its legacy it's very important because balfour declaration was. project. it used the jewish people for their colonial purposes against the palestinian people it was a crime that led to several other crimes including the ethnic cleansing

overarching and to be honest many zimbabweans we have spoken to here in johannesburg and we saw some of the n.t. said ak interference posters in that enormous historic march in harare on saturday buses and darwin's don't want sex help and don't want sex and to be ended because the fact of the matter is that for many years ascetic has in its worst instances turned a blind eye to the discrepancies in elections if i can say like that and particularly and foremost south african president thabo mbeki adopted an approach as quiet diplomacy and for many zimbabweans not just opposition supporters they felt that that it may have actually through that role played a part in extending. his role tony page for the time being thank you very much indeed now after news of this resignation bernard smith takes a look now at robert mugabe's life and career. there were always me. that was in two thousand and seven. that was ten years later when the people let their views be known albeit encouraged by zimbabwe's military mcgarvie ignore them and then surprise them when he didn't announce his resignation in a televis

now on the sidelines of that summit in vietnam while they reaffirm their commitment to syria's solve n.t. independence and territorial integrity i also called on all parties to the conflict including president bashar assad to take an active part in the geneva political process. just now we've adopted that document with the prism of the united states it's a very crucial document because we see it for some principal things firstly we continue the fight against terrorism in syria that's the most important for the united states and for us especially in light of recent tragic events which happened there to do with recent terrorist acts as i've said we've been confronting that evil for quite some time now it's important for the whole international community that we continue to apply joint if it's of the utmost importance that we reaffirm the suffering of syria its territorial integrity that after the fight against terrorism is over we'll start the political process under the auspices of the united nations. chalons has. in his press conference in vietnam flooding a piece and said that the reaso

from the trump administration and indeed from the secretary of state who's also known for his strong n.t. iran feelings that there is some form of truth to hariri claims that his life is in danger and that iran is bent on to see the stabilizing the region through its surrogates hezbollah however it is known as well hariri is seen by his critics as a stooge of saudi arabia saudi arabia very close ties with the u.s. under the trump administration so once again we heard too from the iranian foreign ministry adviser that this is all the work of some kind of conspiracy between saudi arabia and the u.s. but as yet no comment from any official u.s. source president trump is on an asian trip at the moment so the white house is dark so to speak at this particular point. let's get the view from at tehran now zain basra v is live for us from the iranian capital so zain what are we hearing and well this come as a surprise to iranian leaders. so far we are still waiting to get for official word from anyone in your iranian leadership but a senior adviser to the foreign minister mohammad javad zarif ha

my interest in what was going on in the n.t. taught on areas because that was the area where we did not have a lot of the information in my stance from back in washington is that a lot of officials and policy makers were just writing off the resistance to the taliban. she met northern alliance leader ahmad shah masood who asked for support from the west in the fight against the taliban and al qaida. during her visit so those are unique insight into what was to come. northern alliance prisons were full of foreign fighters from several countries their goal was to participate in the global jihad. she was especially shocked by what the prisoners told her about the close relationship between pakistan the taliban and al qaida. sued urgent he wanted to alert the west he wanted more people to know about the taleban and how they were interacting with bin ladin and to emphasize that if we were opposing bin laden that we should really realize that he and the taleban were sharing the same goals and resources and funding. but julie says repo

justice is attempting to block an eighty five billion dollar deal between mobile service provider eighty n.t. and time warner the proposed agreement would merge content from the broadcaster with a t.n.t. the delivery networks the government says the doing would mean higher fees for both rival services and customers the argentine maybe so sell and detected earlier did not come from the missing submarine the sound was picked up by two ships involved in the search those are the headlines on al-jazeera do stay with us as the guantanamo twenty two continues next. we are standing outside of the. and. the other side said my in front of. the district court heard to your case this morning. or been delivered his decision. and then i couldn't continue they all were just looking at me and i can hear probably it pin drop at that moment it was so quiet then i continued i said touch or declare that you are all the n.s.a. and you must release right away. because it is a member some i as a learned of a possible. outcome for. in the more your larger culture from called comes up in them called them partial wel

and both on the ministerial front and on the n.t. corruption from these measures are all designed to consolidate bin solomon in power but also to improve the execution of his very very vicious plans for economic transformation that's called vision twenty thirty that's the the headline so what is the extraordinary range of of plans for the future of the kingdom so it's also another reminder of how a country which is. quite hard to understand certainly from the outside can be very opaque is repeatedly hitting the headlines only last week he unveiled in some of them tell these plans for this make it cities futuristic new. area on the red sea he talked about returning certainty arabia to moderate islam things which generated you know screaming headlines across the globe and attracting very very intense attention to what's going on so the decrees to note that doing that yet again but underlying how rapid the pace of change is in saudi arabia at the moment and i suppose there are also risks to that because you have but a tickle changes tha

and i had to back to peter some of the n.t. very much she later.he oldest pipe organ in the united states is struggling to make its one hundred fiftieth birthday a lack of money for repairs is a big concern in new york city the music director at some patrick's old cathedral mens' has become as much a mechanic as he is a musician to keep the pipes into you. man so i am the director of music here at the basilica of st patrick's cathedral in new york city. this organ was built by a man named henry urban back in eight hundred sixty eight and i like to think it was his finest work. it was boyce for this room he designed it for this room and that's such an important part of why this organ special. it's a wonderful combination of visual art and also sonic r. . and has almost two thousand five hundred pipes it is all mechanical so you can see how everything works so here we are inside oregon. down here we have the bellows and they go all the way underneath the instrument and they go up and down and therefore. there is no electricity in eight hundred sixty

from the trumpet ministration and indeed from the secretary of state who's also known for his strong n.t. iran feelings there is some form of truth to hariri claims that his life is in danger and that iran is bent on to steve destabilizing the region through its surrogate his ball or however it is known as well as into as was pointing out to her is seen by his critics as a stooge of saudi arabia saudi arabia very close ties with the u.s. and of the trumpet ministration so once again we heard too from the iranian foreign ministry adviser that this is all the work of some kind of conspiracy between saudi arabia and the u.s. but as yet no comment from any official u.s. source president trump is on an asian trip at the moment so the white house is dark so to speak at this particular point all right mike hanna live for us there in washington thanks mike. the way he joins me now on the set here he's a professor and i contemporary history in middle east and qatar and i we spoke in many times on some of the major issues in the middle east right now so this decision is pretty much stunned everyon

mega merger the us department of justice is moving to block the n.t. in t. and time warner deal but does the president have an ulterior motive and harrison amsterdam's called the european banking and medicines agencies which will leave the u.k. post breck's it will look at what the moves mean for the two cities. also coming up in cape town students at africa's first school of design thinking that the task of dreaming up a museum for children. and daniel winter and this is your business update the u.s. department of justice is suing to stop eighty and t.'s proposed acquisition of time warner the suit sets up the biggest anti trust court clash in decades over the eighty five billion dollars.