In doha. Welcome to the news grid of pakistan that works to stabilize a protest thats turned into chaos dozens have been wounded and at least six people are dead after police tried to disperse the demonstrators who cues the law minister of the me who have a report coming up social media sites and certain t. V. Channels have only just been restored in pakistan many were blocked at the height of the protests were following the social conversation inside the country as the unrest continues connected to the hash tag eighteen its were also following elections in three countries well look at honduras as president ial election the polls votes on a new parliament and well have a live report on cuba as first election since the death of fidel castro also ahead Digital Media its supposed to be the future of news and information but are giants like facebook and. Googles squeezing out small startups their failure to attract big advertising dollars is causing some operations to fold and others to scale down the organizations will examine what this means for the future of new. Year with the news grid were live on air were streaming online through you tube Facebook Live and at aljazeera dot com thanks for joining us it all happened over the space of three weeks what started as a two thousand strong protest in islamabad has escalated into a National Crisis with deaths on the streets and the government calling on the help of the army to restore order so the tension was sparked by what the government says is a clerical error but protesters say its blasphemy Mariana Honda explains. I am dead answered a call to shut down pakistan issued by cleric and Political Party leader who stands in opposition to the government for three weeks protesters have choked the streets of islamabad and when there was violence on saturday as police tried to disperse them they spread along highways to one of the major cities including a whore and. This movement is not political it is the duty of every muslim to protect the owner of islam the protesters maintain this is not political but this is an issue that could undermine pakistans government. It began when pakistans norman is desired handmade introduced a bill before parliament that made no reference to the Prophet Muhammad protest is linked it to the highly contentious issue of blasphemy and while the amendment was withdrawn blamed on a clerical error and hammett apologized the little known group behind the protests argued it remained an affront tells them they want the minister gone. And after the violence on saturday they want the entire cabinet to resign where. People arent coming out of their houses because theyre scared its a strange situation in the backyard of the narcanon this is the fault of the clerics their extremist attitudes they simply dont care about people and the business is being destroyed by the clerics doing this in the name of islam theyre absolutely wrong and people are in pain protest organizers have still managed to spread the call for demonstrators did begin encouraged by the Police Failure to get them off the streets kadhim Hussain Rizvi the cleric who leads the teddy caleb ike Pakistan Party has called on his followers to bring the entire country to a halt the government has responded by calling in the army many a bracing for what that might mean the hond and zero come out haidar is on the highway between lahore and thats been blocked by protesters. After a botched down by the Security Forces for dish the crowds that are holding a major intersection in rawalpindi fairly early on saturday the Pakistani Military chief. To come back to islamabad for a crisis meeting with the countrys Prime Minister kaukauna bochy here the Prime Minister that force was not an option that the people love the military and therefore the military could not be used against the people that it could only be the last option earlier the government had. The military to come in aid of the ship really in administration something that did allowed by the pakistani constitution or the Pakistani Military chief saying that the military was not very good deploy across the country that this was a crisis that had to be rethought as politically and through dialogue the Prime Minister the interior minister and achieve minister of the pun job green with the military chief this is the First Time Since the crisis began dated the rails whole now it is important to see what kind of reaction comes from those protesters who have been laying siege to the entire country lets talk about this and bring in security analyst symbol khan joining us from islamabad thanks for being with us so how would you rate the response of the government so far some people saying that they underestimated the magnitude of the protests. Yes hi thank you i think its more than just under estimating there the government itself is going through a crisis as you know that i think this is a crisis that has started since the disqualification of the Prime Minister of pakistan manama shitty for earlier this year this is a crisis that is that is directly linked to the elections next year there is a there is a rising number of factors trying to overthrow or trying to make the baeumler end government bid on the election next week so this is part of that also he must understand that this back party which is campaigning has a history of issues with the pm l. N. Government the support that he which is. Who killed sitting minnesota governor five years ago and then he was hanged which was a very controversial issue in pakistan he was hanged during the pm eleven government and this this extremist but he had regrouped things that be a maleng government is directly responsible for that so you and i really think that this is really going stabilizing the government but to what extent is it going to destabilize the government and what does the government do next. I think the government is pretty much destabilized and i think even before the sit in there was a lot of talk as to as we are maneuvering to get to the Election Year that there is a coalition and rising number of forces ranging against the government there are a lot of political actors who are injured against the government b. T. I. Is one tea party but then there are other smaller forces and there was one constituency election in law where we saw a steady killa back actually come out to field candidates against pm l. N. Candidate which was the wife of the next Prime Minister of pakistan so there are that there was you know kind of died if counting of the n. L. M. By this force and then we suddenly over this one issue over an election clause which was later withdrawn by the government we have seen this this huge total paralysis of the of the Federal Capital in pakistan and i think the government has been using kid gloves and been trying to really moderate their reaction and moderate their response to this crisis thinking that they wanted to avoid some kind of an altered altercation but i theyre there but the Supreme Court of sense has stepped in and saying that the government needs to take action to bring life to normal so what hasnt been what happened in modern over over over the next couple of hours there are also reports coming in that the leader of the protest movement the big party is meant to be holding a press conference can you tell us whether you have heard that and also what you expect him to say. I think he is going to demand for us to follow the resignation of the law minister which is something that the government has been hoarding on even within be a middle end there was a lot of discussion whether they should given in to this demand and made the minister design. Resign but i think that is the thinking within the p. M. A. Lead that we should not give in into this kind of a blackmail and stand and i see that is going to be some kind of a compromise where it either the law minister over to the osce to live. In this government is going to step back from a if its not the protest as a stepping back from it is the government would be forced to step back from it and made to look more weaker than it did i mean than before already going to be a loss of face for the pm alan we thank you very much a symbol for joining us from islamabad and we are getting comments here on the newsgroup on facebook a mode saying islam cant be used like a screen for politics nicolle as well saying extremist religious doctrine mixing politics has never helped a country florists just one of the few comments that im getting here what are you seeing there harding on social media well its interesting youre saying that these comments are coming in because it has not been happy in the last few hours because social medias actually been down but just a few hours ago they have been restored after being blocked for more than a day that was at the height of the protests now a few hours ago before the sites were back on twitter they posted saying on twitter that the pakistani government has taken action to block Twitter Service as well as other social Media Services and that users are having difficulty using twitter and pakistan were monitoring the situation and hope service will be fully restored soon now also on saturday the Pakistan Electronic Media Authority ordered all private news channels to stop broadcasting they said quote live coverage of any security operation is prohibited now ironically the post was shared on twitter while social media was still down but on sunday. Just a short time ago they ordered the news channels to resume normal programming now even while social media sites were blocked people were still able to post online because of the peons or Virtual Private Networks and cut out g. Hash tag v. P. N. Is still trending now with people sharing which backdoor method worked best for them this man here he was saying that pakistanis are using v. P. N. Purposes for the first time poking fun at how thats whats trending in the country at the moment now in other parts of pakistan words like democracy religion and profit are trending but perhaps the biggest conversation is around the hash tag size about darna that means the blockade of the fight is a bad interchange that flows in out of islam abad now this is one of the most popular cartoons being shared online in pakistan at the moment as we know the protesters have been blocking the islam about expressway the main road into the capital protesters are demanding the resignation of federal law ministers the heat hommage here in this tent saying that he softened state stance on blasphemy now pakistans dawn newspaper theyre also reporting that schools will remain closed in islam of an input fun job for the next two days now we want to continue hearing from you like with the comments that weve gotten from doraine but if you cannot connect on internet for any reason you can get in touch with us with our whatsapp number here that is still up and running even in pakistan plus nine seven four five zero one triple one four nine dream well the a we do have a page dedicated to all things pakistan on al jazeera where youll find the latest updates on the situation and our online team have gathered powerful pictures as you can see out of pakistan and compile them in this article its worth a look youll find it on our website by clicking on the pakistan tab near the top left off the home page. And we do want to hear your thoughts on this story or any of the stories were covering on news grid you can tweet us at a. J. English thats our hands oh were on facebook dot com slash a. J. English or you can whatsapp us as leo was just saying im plus one seven four five a triple one one four nine and just to use the hash tag a. J. News grid well in Syria Russian Air strikes have killed at least thirty seven internally displaced syrians thats in the outskirts of datasource city this Syrian Government and its russian ally have been accused of killing one thousand civilians in eastern who thought the rebel held suburb of the capital damascus so while those attacks continue al jazeera is assam a binge of aids has been granted access to displaced syrians in jobless thats near the Turkish Border he filed this report on the struggle of the displaced people who are living there. This from the wall is what separates people on the other side from the cold blowing wind that we can feel in this camp we are in jobless and in one of the camps that have been set up for i. D. P. s majority of them have come from homs people have been telling us about the conditions they were subjected to how the government left them under siege forced them out of the homes and told them that they only have two choices either to surrender or leave and many of them choose to come here theres about five and a half thousand people who live in this camp and theyve been telling us about how desperate life is especially as the harsh winter sets in their away from their homes they dont have much and they have been living in conditions which are very very very very poor theyve been telling us about how it is difficult to get sanitation to get water to provide medicine one of these women is with us who lives in this camp so ironic and there you heard a tougher line of just some of the dont startle them my child has a blood disease sometimes he becomes unconscious because of it im a mother of four children and i care for them alone as my husband died i have no money for medicine but my children need medicine every week tests cost eight dollars and on top of that i need to pay another eight dollars to transport my son to get the test done. And that is a story that you hear over and over again in this camp about the desperation about how people need treatment how people need to go and have access to health care the turkish government and various n. G. O. S have been providing them with some basic facilities but they say thats clearly not enough what will work for them is if they are allowed to go back home they can return to their homes in homs and in other parts of syria where the come from and this is this is a temporary solution which will not work for them well speaking of going back home there are a lot of questions being asked about who will pay for the reconstruction of parts of syria and particularly after the defeat of eisel there so James Denselow from the Foreign Policy center has written this opinion piece for aljazeera and which he spells out the challenges faced after the u. S. Led forces dropped more than five thousand bombs shells and missiles in iraq thats in august alone so you can find his piece on aljazeera dot com by searching for and reading much more about these statistics the Saudi Crown Prince mohammed bin sandman has condemned the recent attack on an egyptian mosque during the opening of the antiterrorism summit in riyadh he addressed a crowd of top defense officials from some forty muslim majority countries theyre part of a coalition that was established two years ago by the saudi prince in his words to wipe terrorists out from the face of the or. There is no doubt todays meeting is of great significance simply for the reason that over the past years terrorism has been wreaking havoc in our respective countries in the absence of concerted coordination between our countries this is becoming history with the establishment of this coalition more than forty islamic countries have dubbed held efforts in combating terrorism with them militarily financially or in terms of political and intelligence cooperation. Hassam how about i was following this story for us from the lebanese capital of beirut hashem and its interesting more than forty muslim majority countries at that summit in riyadh but i think we should stop and talk about the countries that were not there notably iran iraq and syria indeed there in the coalition which establishment two thousand and fifteen as as you know there was a time of mounting regional six tarion tension in the region this explains why the saudis says not to have the iranians the syrians and the iraqis on board to the point where a senior iraqi official described the new this coalition as a secretary and coalition against terrorism and now the Coalition Says that it would like to tackle terrorism in places like syria and iraq and no remains to be seen how they can achieve that when the dont have relations with those countries the not including those countries in this new push to tackle eisel now iran is the most powerful regional player and therefore its presence is crucial in any push by the region to try to eradicate i sell all groups are creative with either in the region now saudis would like to go along with the other forty one predominantly sunni countries but you have many quit exceeding that theres absolutely no way that can wipe out i sell and the other groups without the help from countries like syria iraq and iran but to achieve that you have to have the saudis and the iranians set aside their differences in the region so i suppose then many people think that this makes the ultimate aim quite difficult to achieve. It really is because youre talking about the when the established the coalition two thousand and fifteen the saudis said the aim is to be able to tackle the militarily too they would like to tackle their ideology and prevent them from spreading their broad tical extremist ideology in the region and also to disrupt the finance flows across the region youre talking about an operation that requires intelligence gathering sharing that intelligence between all the key players and also coordinating the military operations i still cementing is a presence in places like syria and the country as we speak talking about particularly syria and iraq are not included in that coalition so talk in practical terms i can see how this coalition will be able to move forward or start any military operation if you dont have the main concerns of countries not on board so this remains to be a very delicate task facing the coalition and as we speak the tension has been mounting with those accusations and counteraccusations between saudi and iranian officials over the last few days particularly against the backdrop of a political crisis here in lebanon which begs the question how can a rabia bring all the concerned parties together to make this a new initiative or coalition against isis succeeds has some how about a reporting from beirut thank you well kenya is no stranger to armed groups but its made progress against al shabab the military says its pushed the fighters out of a forest along the border with saudi mali our government is telling those whove been displaced by the fighting to go home but many are too scared Catherine Sawyer reports from southern kenya. Elizabeth cards lost two sons were recently killed by an unknown people believed inside borneo a forest that extends to the border with somalia their home area we too as well as other parts of land more along the kenyan coast have been attacked several times over the last few years. We stayed home that night instead of going back to the camp for displaced people one of my sons was not well and so we all decided to be with him we were attacked at around eight pm two other people were killed on that night in this village the government has often blamed somalis are fighters whove been using the forest as a hideout to plan attacks and train kenyan recruits but also increasingly conflict between firmus and hard as living inside the forest one of elizabeth cards all sons was in that house when the attack us came the other one was right out there there was also a friend in the compound their mother was preparing to sleep in the next house she says that the attackers targeted the men they slit their throats and then fled the members of. This lama county administrative leader shows us some of the trouble areas he says the security operation has forced alshabaab out of the vast forests or little to three when you see. An old bulls were recently come news. Of being seen. And when i was serious in the country they dont mean free like in the past. We come out the government now once more than two thousand people have been living in this temporary shelters on the edge of the forest to go back home life is stuff for them here they have little food and a bed bag infestation but they say going back right now is not an option so. We quickly said colin if i knew you its true the government has pushed out but what we fear even more than alshabaab are the herders in the forest theyre the ones whove been killing our people lately theyre the ones who should be dealt with before we go back. Agnes also lives in the compound this is the first time in three months that she and has sand have come back to check on their home they dont have much time they tell us they have to go back to the camp before nightfall when it gets dangerous catherine sorry aljazeera we too south in kenya well the latest episode from our podcast team takes you to kenya in fact al jazeera is a has an iranian goes to a beer oh thats a slum in nairobi where he meets a young man bringing twilights to the slum a mother going to school to ensure a better life for her children and a radio d. J. Who gives a voice to bear as voiceless so ghani stories are part of a. J. Shorts are sort documentary series about ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances you can check them out at aljazeera dot com slash sorts and as you can see all the way at the bottom of the screen you can find instructions on how to subscribe to the brief itself over to Lauren Taylor in london with more of the International News hi lauren thanks very much during a ship carrying more than five thousand tons of flour has docked in her data the largest food delivery to the yemeni port since the Saudi Led Coalition partly lifted a sea and air blockade meanwhile the Un Childrens Agency says it has sent one point nine million doses of vaccines to yemen the Organization Says that every ten minutes a yemeni child dies from preventable diseases Coalition Fighting humans who see rebels tighten the blockade after miss are fired on the saudi capital in early november a promise to reopen yemens main airport and the port of her data to humanitarian traffic last week today it is fair to say that yemen is one of the worst places on earth to be a child more than eleven million. Yemeni children are to be in acute need of humanitarian assistance thats almost every single yemeni boy and girl. But he said east in china are investigating a massive explosion that killed at least two people in the port city of. Sixteen people were injured two of them seriously and Windows Windows were shattered as far as a kilometer away from the blast also brought down several buildings that had already been shed jule for demolition he said of course still unsettled. Solidarity vigil has taken place in gaza for those killed in an attack on an egyptian mosque on friday fighters targeted washed up as a sufi mosque in north sinai killing more free hundred people welcome web reports from gaza city. Hundreds of people have gathered here in gaza those killed in the attack in egypt since friday the gunman opened fire at a mosque in the town of and i read killing more than two hundred recently about one hundred kilometers from here many palestinians live in the heart of egypt so some people here knew some of those who were killed this morning events organized by some of gazas political factions but it has some political significance. This is a message of sort of going to the muslims would be born after the bus which had been. Meeting with the board or the. Date it is brokering reconciliation told to. Make Political Parties and hamas as well as well the hottest in them factions this is meant to lead to one hundred over of power here on friday from hamas to the Palestinian Authority of ministration of gaza and the monitors of these developments for. You to write in gaza. Is the reason why brothers ninety political faction want to show solidarity with egypt at the moment but many people in gaza are now doing that right after. All. Failed attempts at reconciliation the only way to see what will happen in the coming days if this reconciliation will actually produce something. Libyas coast guard has recovered the bodies of thirty one refugees who died when their boat sank off its northwestern coast on saturday at least three children are among the dead about two hundred people have been rescued and taken to tripoli the coast guard spokesman has told aljazeera that forty people are still missing. Among the bodies that were tragic scenes the sharks have devoured parts of their bodies thankfully the survivors have been recovered and so for me for now back to during window. Thank you all if youre watching us on facebook youll see in a moment a look at how alaskas Indigenous People have been fighting for their land thats on facebook and coming up on the news grid after a moment news organizations in russia and the u. S. Caught in a tit for tat diplomatic squabble. Weather remains in the forecast for parts of the middle east over the next couple of days we still got a fair amount of cloud around the black sea the caspian sea and at times that cloud has been taken out to produce some rather lively showers armenia ninety nine millimeters of rain in twenty four hours the west weather will sink a little further southward so heading towards the q white maybe into western parts of iraq kuwait city with a top temperature twenty one degrees celsius cold enough in baghdad just eighteen degrees but brighter skies for the time being across that eastern side of the mediterranean cloud will start to spill in from the southeastern corner of here pushing across towards the levant as we go on through tuesday so middle of the wake do expect to see a little more damp weather coming through here whether to into the Arabian Peninsula more specially around northeastern sections of saudi arabia you can see this line of shower cloud down towards the Far Southwest of the razor southern end of the red sea but a bit of time weather possibility here in doha temperatures getting up to around twenty eight degrees celsius starting to feel a little wintry dare i say meanwhile weve got some wet weather once again just around the northeastern parts of south africa pushing up towards mozambique maybe a few showers there it is about be over the next few days harare with a high of twenty two. In syria thousands have disappeared without a trace. Forcibly taken from their families when the most terrible thing im certain this to be. This has been the invisible weapon of the syrian dictatorship that of a mother sometimes a call to good brother to god continued to be humiliated and coltrane. The disappeared of syria but this time on aljazeera. Overthrown and exiled they point and can say for all this miss let me tell you an intimate film about the struggle of the elected leader of madagascar to return to his country and reinstate his presidency you know the truest russians and we none of us think is that although no one would look for a change this return of a president at this time on aljazeera. Hand. The bottom line aljazeera take a look at whats trending right now on our web site the top story most read by our. Line audiences on pakistan. Defiant after the deadly crackdown a story weve been covering for you here on the bridge and well be keeping an eye out throughout the evening as well. Lets take a look at some of the most important issues that face people as elections take place in three countries right around the world so honduras heads to the polls to choose the next president Public Safety will be one of the main talking points for candidates as the country is considered one of the most dangerous in the world final results are expected on monday and the first state and federal elections are taking place in the polls northern mountain districts thats the first phase of the vote across thirty two districts power has been devolved away from the Central Government to seven newly created states and ballots will be counted until the entire nation goes to the poll which will take about ten days then there is cuba its holding municipal elections as the country transitions away from sixty years of the castro brothers rule at the same time thousands are rallying across the country to mark the First Anniversary of the death of revolutionary leader fidel castro and after two terms in power the late leader fidel brother raul castro says he will be stepping down an electoral cycle will start with a municipal vote on sunday and with the selection of a new president in february country is facing many challenges ahead including a decline in aid from venezuela we cure exports and the cas crunch meanwhile cubas relationship with the u. S. Has worsened due to the u. S. President donald trump taking a hostile stance and now we bring in our latin america editor of the seer newman shes joining us from heaven as a first set the scene for us on the municipal elections. Well there even it sounds as though its not a big deal in municipal election but it is the only time in the whole electoral cycle or process in cuba where citizens actually vote directly for their officials and theyre doing so in large numbers all over the country they actually first of all elect them on the on the neighborhood level committees me to they choose the candidates and then people can go neighborhood by neighborhood and choose amongst them but thats it after this its in the hands of the provincial minister the provincial org and then they choose the National Assembly which as you mentioned will eventually in february choose the successor for many people are beginning to complain about that they say they want to have a right to choose their president directly but that is not the way the system works and probably one of the most interesting things about this years election apart from the fact that it will determine in some way or other who will succeed the raul castro is the fact that darts a number of dissidents attempted to become candidates on the larger than ever amount to understand that several dozen did but they were filtered out and they will not be running for these elections as usual and how much and its you know one of the things is that you dont have to be a member of the communist party but you do need the blessing god of emotion i wanted to just add that you dont have to become a member of the communist party but you have to be supported by god to see how much enthusiasm but with the whole is there than for these elections well thats going to be interesting to know how many people will cast blank ballots thats a sort of a way to cast a protest vote and the we wont know that until monday but there are long lines of people its expected that cubans must vote into the consider their duty and they do have a very high turnout here in cuba how much enthusiasm it depends on whom you ask. Ok lets see if we thank you for giving us that update from havana so as lucy was saying and with cuba undergoing immense change what does it actually mean to be cuban in this time so we have a series online that looks at the pleasures and struggles off six different peoples cuba six people six films there they are you can see them online youll find them by searching for my cuba in the search on al jazeera dot com and if you have any comments or questions about cuba or any of the stories were covering you can send. Any of the commons to our Online Platforms were on facebook dot com slash a. J. English were also on twitter our handle is a. J. News great and you can send us a whats up number one plus one seven four five zero triple one one four nine back to Lauren Taylor in london with more of the International News. As relatives of the one hundred sixty six people who died in the two thousand and eight mumbai attacks are angry that a key suspect has been allowed to walk free families of the victims laid wreaths and lit candles on the ninth anniversary of the killings ten gunmen went on a rampage across the indian city targeting Luxury Hotels a major train station and a Jewish Center of his saeed the founder of a banned group linked to the attacks was released from house arrest in pakistan on friday. Morning i did meet tonight he had to stand should not have released him yes i feel sad and for the people who have lost their lives its very sad for them. But. Hafiz saeed should not have been released by pakistan they should have a risk that him much sooner. South koreas launching a review into its antiabortion law after a major Public Campaign or the two hundred thirty thousand people have signed a petition calling for the law to be abolished so criminalized abortion in one hundred fifty three during the korean war when leaders wanted to boost the population and size of the army to face the threat of north korea is also strong opposition to legalization in nation with one of east asians largest percentages of christians. Cambodias Prime Minister has called for the closure of one of the countrys main human Rights Groups a Cambodian Center for human rights was founded by Opposition Leader kim soccer whos in jail on Treason Charges soca rejects the allegations against him the Main Opposition Party was disbanded by the top Court Earlier this month Rights Groups say hussein whos one of the worlds longest serving Prime Ministers is systematically silencing critics. Firelands e. U. Commissioner says the u. K. Must change its approach to brechts negotiations because it risks leading to a hard border between Northern Ireland and the republic of ireland which is part of the European Union border controls would be in violation of a nineteen year old deal which ended the conflict in Northern Ireland and its not just bricks it dividing the parties the Irish Language has also become a major issue from belfast need parker explains. In the heart of the. Thats a Cultural Center in west belfast i was speakers discuss the issues of the day many want the Irish Language to have official status in the courts the Regional Parliament and on road signs like gaelic in scotland and welsh in wales very few people speak their language fluently here around eleven percent claim to have some knowledge of irish a figure that steadily growing among republicans who favor a United Ireland over british rule. Along with protect from the. Speakers in scotland because annoyance. Being denied us is not just recognition of our language of respect for our identity for the past decade power has been shared here the Regional Assembly between representatives of the pro British Democratic Unionist Party the deep and the irish republican shin fein party. Pulled out in january complaining it wasnt being treated as an equal Party Central to their demand is an Irish Language act many republicans see the language as an expression of their political identity they say its a matter of civil rights. Which is my heart and soul but it was a core of my skin and you could easily identify me as being of a different color and the d. P. Worse than give it equal rights this guy i think they should be clear but certainly for us this is discrimination but theres no appetite for compromise among hard line unionists many see an Irish Language as a means of eroding and eventually ending british sovereignty the demands put for political demands which i would say are vast open and the language of several aides and i and i think if you. Put forward is not a proposal for an Irish Language active in the language of. And she damn say the disputes literally edged on the streets of belfast this graffiti calls for an Irish Language act the republican catholic west belfast the local councils have allowed residents to have their road signs in english and irish cross over to east belfast and unionists probe rich areas use exclusively english if the deadlock doesnt end by december the British Government may choose to take back direct control of the region on doing years of political progress republicans say the Irish Language is an expression of identity for many unionists its a weapon in a cultural war. Barker aljazeera belfast. Thats it for me back to dorian into or thank you well there is not a level Playing Field for media startups as digital advertisement slows in favor of tech giants like facebook and google thats according to recent reports by the u. S. Media the consequences will more layoffs buyouts and in some cases complete shutdowns according to the wall street journal a Big Media Companies like buzz feed and vice are likely to miss their Revenue Target for this year Digital Media outlets is reportedly being sold just to stay afloat and more than five hundred people are also expected to be laid off by both which includes yahoo a. O. L. On the Huffington Post and other countries too are feeling the squeeze from Companies Like facebook which has emerged as the worlds most influential publishing platform for instance according to the guardian facebooks recent test with its news feed and six small countries saw a rapid decline in traffic as well as engagements for local media organizations well Digital Media has also been a big topic in recent russia u. S. Relations and last we heard the u. S. Department force the kremlin based channel russia today to register as a Foreign Agents in the states whats happened now the right will jury now russia is heading back president Vladimir Putin just approved a new law that states that foreign media in russia need to register as Foreign Agents the kremlin has said that this is a direct response to the demand of the u. S. Department of justice to our america a u. S. Branch of the Russia Television company to register as a Foreign Agent also according to a tweet by the Russian Embassy in the us the new law means that foreign media and russia will be heavily monitored we asked a challenge our correspondent in russia how this might affect journalists in the country. This is a piece of legislation which intentionally has been drafted very very loosely its designs to be a Political Tool kit essentially it doesnt mean that organizations like al jazeera c. N. N. Or b. B. C. And now automatically consider it a Foreign Agents but it requires the Russian Ministry of justice to draw up a list of organizations that it doesnt like at the moment now these organizations will be made to disclose that all the information is coming from a Foreign Agent and theyll be made to go through a fairly tedious and lengthy financial courting process say exactly where the money is coming from and what its being spent on legally its a mess according to the russian president ial Human Rights Council but that doesnt really matter thats not the point at the point of it is to be shown to be doing something in response to the u. S. Decision to put russian broadcast up partied on its own for a page and just so the on what i was asians we think that are going to be feeding the force here in russia are american organizations like Radio Free Europe and its russian language offshoots kind of voice of america but as i say this is a loosely draws a piece of leisure to legislate and where it takes us we still dont know yet. Interestingly the u. S. Has a similar law like this and its habit since one thousand nine hundred thirty eight its been used to curb propaganda in the same way the us applied to russia today so some people like this use are here theyre asking if r. T. Has to register as a Foreign Agent in the u. S. Washington c. N. N. Have to do the same in russia than this one here asks what if a Foreign Government complains that an American News outlet say fox news is spreading american propaganda human rights organizations say the new russian law is too broad and will further undermine press freedom Amnesty International they said that Media Outlets and journalists face reprisals and risk attacks on almost a daily basis many have been forced out of the Russian Media space and this law takes obstacles for media working in russia to a whole new level. R. T. Has been accused of being a moscow Propaganda Machine before suspected of meddling in the us election and twitter banned it from advertising on the platform r. T. And russia they both deny this now russian politician also wants american fast food chains to fall under the same new law meaning mcdonalds and k. F. C. Should also be considered Foreign Agents so much for a happy meal but we want to know what you think about all of this the back and forth do you think its all gone too far or is it necessary you want to know what you think you can get in touch with me directly at least or with the hash tag eighteen is great. Leah thank you and we do have viewers watching us from the United States so do send us your comments or your questions you can send them to us to any one of our Online Platforms or on twitter our handle is a. J. News grid were also on facebook at facebook dot com slash a. J. English you can send us a whats up on plus nine seven four five zero one one four nine just a reminder to always use the hash tag a. J. News grid still ahead joe will be here shell have all the sports news as the formula one season wraps up well take a look at how new management is making the sport more accessible to fans before we do that heres a check on the world weather. Documentaries that. At this time. When you know i learned that. It is really going to be. Going to be. Men and women. That are available but your story is that we just dont tell you what the hell do you really want to know the government is not going to do the one thing the demonstrators more apologized for thats what aljazeera does we asked the question so that we get closer to the truth. So joe is here here she is with the sporting a formula one friends will be wondering what to do with themselves after today absolutely nothing creating the durian because the formula one season has wrapped up in abu dhabi miss avies drive fast one the final race of the season but the titles were already clinched weeks ago by his teammate Lewis Hamilton and the. Team now the british driver made it his four crown in twenty seventeen interestingly hes credited some of that success to turning fagin mid season for what he said were how and environmental reasons now with howard zinns win and the same five teams leading the. Standings on the face of it little ip is different this season but behind the scenes there have been some big changes in the way that formula one is managed in september last year the new owners took over Liberty Media what the series to an eight billion dollars and since then theyve said theyll revive the ailing sports the group has talked about reversing a shift of f. Once t. V. Broadcast from free to air to pay broke off which it blames for a decline in view is over the last twelve years now they want to expand the race schedule pos the current twenty one races in the season the theory being that more races equals more cash to go around for everyone involved and Liberty Media have said they want to cut down costs to teams lower down the pecking order by capping spending but that subset teams like frawley who have threatened to leave formula one but having said all that so far Liberty Media has done very little announcement earlier this week about changing the sports lego lead to one twitter use a like in a two rearranging the deck chairs while the ship sinks lifeboats here f one journalist phil duncan has still confident the Liberty Media is right for formula one. I mean theres lots of things that they could change from a new one and the logo is probably want it doesnt really need need changing so i mean i guess in fairness then you can understand why they want to do they want you know put their mark on this floor and changing the logo is one of those things thats in the biggest change so far has been their attitude towards social media which is in the past he openly said you know he wasnt wasnt a fan of it so they felt they sort of made this temple now theyve given the teams and drivers access to to shoot video at racetracks which they want out steve before and theyve definitely grown the sport social media its gone from about zero two thats its a much higher so thats thats the biggest thing that theyve done in terms of actually what you know the schedule format or anything else has been too much of a change and i think theres a sense of perhaps frustrations of whats the source of some of the final months of their first year in charge that we havent seen perhaps enough from them theres been a lot of talking hasnt been quite enough action for me yet but maybe Going Forward we may see more but for the for the moment you know a huge difference or huge change to so this in a format that bernie presided over for so many years. He has social media and becoming more in touch with the fans one man has kept us all loving this season with his posts in that thread bulls done your recall diary now you can forget the time he held Lewis Hamiltons phone for him and posted selfies and videos from there with his account or his now famous schumi celebration where you drink champagne from a stinky shoe on the podium now if youre not following him youre really missing out. Today guys. Reporting live from space. Yeah. Im done your counter number purse that order. I dont really. Need to review it with right. Help us out. We are struggling on the way to try to find a train. To use for the roof. Thank goodness they didnt come back to me don saying before you came but maybe some f one fans have been finding the thrill of racing from the comfort of their own chairs over sixty three thousand of them from all over the world have been taking part in an f one a sports competition since september which was won by brendan lee in abu dhabi on saturday and the series has got the backing of some real f one drivers as well. I think you see the starting point i think hes going to going to get begin to be good and we need to drive better if we keep the next couple of years we can share your thoughts with me at joe you guys or else go or use the hash tag a. J. News grades ill be back with more sports at eight hundred g. M. T. But for now hand you back to during just thank you for that well to japan now where some students are using arts to comment on the crisis over north korea and its Nuclear Program so among those students are some Third GenerationNorth Koreans living in japan and hoping that tensions between the two countries will not boil over craig leeson reports. On the outskirts of tokyo two schools a separated by a wall on one side sharkey high bar and installation art student who studied at the missing university of the world. How high was the bridge. Why did you build it. So the best friendship yes. Jackie wanted to communicate with students at the north Korean School on the other side of the wall so she used her out skills to devise a way to overcome the problem on the other side student region and ethnic north korean works on her latest acrylic creation in her studio the sixty year old korean diversity like many students here her family descends from North Koreans who came to japan during its colonization of the Korean Peninsula her paintings reflect her search for identity in the divide between her familys homeland and japan the would demonstrate her personal struggle with hope and despair for the future of both nations and what i was about to when i was born and raised in tokyo but up until university i received an if nic education im Third Generation if not korean my grandfather came here during the war but he died when i was small so i didnt hear many of his stories ines sainz the identity of a Third Generation as wavering through. Chalky and remit at a combined schools exhibition they words had to be lifted over the wall to the gallery with jackies previous bridge building experience an idea was hatched to build another bridge so he could float effortlessly for the first time across the border and i could talk about washington ideal relationship might look like but it seems far off if a war breaks out it will be the first victims because about honorable position in society. The project started a deep discussion about the different ethnic backgrounds and sparked debate throughout both campuses is the question i follow the news and look at visitors feedback of our work i sometimes feel powerless by showing what are going to do i think there are things you can change what the students have achieved is a connection through common understanding a sort of diplomacy and as tensions increase on the Korean Peninsula it is an achievement which has so far eluded their political leaders many students like ri and say they are scared by the strong rhetoric and threats of nuclear war and find it hard to see a future before. The image was crossing the National Border a bridge is very symbolic and the location also has meaning it was a project that made us magine a story line as the war of words is collate between the United States and north korea its students like ri and cherokee who stand in the crossfire contemplating an uncertain future craig leeson aljazeera. Well flights to and from the indonesian island of bali have been disrupted after a volcano erupted for the second time in a week mount a gong sent smoke and asked fifteen hundred metres into the sky its been rumbling since september keeping about twenty five thousand locals from their homes the last major eruption in one thousand nine hundred sixty three killed more than a thousand people at the time. Thanks for joining us on the news grid remember you can keep in touch with us on social media the hash tag is a. J. News grid all the other ways to connect all right there well see you back here on monday at studio fourteen at fifteen hundred hours g. M. T. So you. Indulge your five senses. Africa going through seismic changes country stands out because its considered so successful why is the. President of gonna. Talk to all jesse. At this time. When every. From mother to daughter an ancient craft kept alive by a bustling matriarch. From start to finish. 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