Seems to be falling short in the u. S. News media yes richard that very same u. S. Media saying that what same papers that have done a lot of selfexamination about mistakes they made mistakes that could well have played a part in trumps 2016 victory now 2 years into his presidency it seems that much the media is still struggling with how to deal with him to this past week no shortage of potentially explosive material over which to question him lots and lots of stories about the inhumane conditions at those Detention Centers down on the border with mexico and yet when trump sat down for an interview with n. B. C. s chuck todd on meet the press told let him get away with some blatant lies but i ended separation i inherited separation from president obama not trying has said that before blaming president obama for those family separation policies but hes been knocked down not only did toddler. Get away with that but the meet the press twitter account later posted to tweet echoing trumps lie before eventually posting a 2nd tweet noting that trumps claim is false and all that from a program that used to be one of the holidays hitting Political Interview shows on the american air waves usually tropper trucks saturation levels of News Coverage when that doesnt happen its actually noticeable and there was one such case this past week where the follow on power verge of an allegation didnt really hit the mark far from it rich just over a week ago the advice columnist carol published an extract in new York Magazine an extract from her upcoming book in it she accuses President Trump of raping she says that he attacked her in the dressing room of the Department Store back in the 1990 s. Now thats front page news for most people not it seems for many of the top newspaper editors the only one that gave it top billing was the Washington Post the New York Times ran the story in its book section treating it as a story about an upcoming memoir and not a Rape Allegation against a sitting president on the t. V. Side carol did appear on m s n b c but none of the Major Networks a. B. C. C. B. S. N. B. C. Fox devoted more than a passing reference to the story Brian Stelter whos the host of reliable sources the media analysis show on c. N. N. So theres a theory about media fatigue fatigue that is about now more than 20 allegation of trumps harassment and sexual abuse of women its media fatigue now what kind of hope do we have the coverage that were going to get down the road we are still almost 18 months from these elections ok thanks flow. The latest stare down between washington and tehran over iran shooting down of that u. S. Drone made for plenty of scary headlines the threats of military retaliation from President Trump eventually came to nothing but this is a situation that is being closely followed by oppositional iranian groups including crown prince raise a levy the son of the former shah of iran the prince has recently offered many an exclusive interview to western news outlets presenting himself as a credible democratic successor to iran islamic leadership that is debatable given that the princes father ran an authoritarian regime protected by a brutal force of secret police until he was toppled in 1979 however the monarchy remains popular in large segments of the iranian media diaspora channels like the u. K. Based manila toti the b. B. C. Persian the is stamboul based gem t. V. And t. V. Which comes out of los angeles those channels have pioneered a shondra of programming you might call the stage of t. V. Documentaries and entertainment shows that skate right past the repression of the shahs reign and focus on the social freedoms of those times the listening posts i mean actually ravi now on the iranian media diaspora its penchant for nostalgia and the rose tenting of irans pre revolutionary history. Every friday night my new t. V. A persian language Satellite Channel based in london invites viewers to turn back the clock sal and thats when theres a month or so made it into nearly as our money or time time no delivers a feast of archival footage showcasing life even on under its last shot Mohammad Reza pahlavi. What the u. S. See is a vision of a liberal and stylish it on led by a benevolent king its enough to make you wonder why the. 1979 revolution and the overthrow of the shah ever happened you see women out and about on the beach on University Campuses in the workplace participating in and sports images of the shah and his wife his 3rd wife usually the empress. Always looking very beautiful looking very glamorous the idea is look at how how beautiful and happy and fashionable everybody was in the past and like we are now where their mom. And i found it quite extraordinary when i visited iran a few years ago to find out that almost every person in iran was familiar with monitor. Were going to the channel 6 earth with access to run Archive Footage from the period before the revolution. Thats moscow boffin Macoutes Arias Balakot any of our answer has such a last name the best yardy that is the body of a. Man a tour started it. Broadcasts for audiences inside iran to provide them with entertainment and news that they would otherwise not receive certainly all the channels inside iran are censored certain topics are taboo. Matter to provide those topics such as monica which has been the biggest. When my motto launched in 2010 it entered an already crowded market iranian Media Outlets broadcasting in exile. The 1st we will be iranian immigration took place in the lead up to the 1979 revolution. Mass protests against the shah his oppressive government and his brutal secret police the starbuck would bring him down. The Popular Uprising eventually coalesced behind the countrys new leader Ayatollah Khomeini and in 1979 the Islamic Republic was born. Many and you know me. Ended up in los angeles which became a hub for persian Media Production in the eightys after that wherever iranians were migrating to new Media Outlets were taking root but x. Out t. V. Of the eightys was very raw it was very immediate so they were appealing to nostalgia literally yesterday or you know just last year a few years ago and they were also appealing to the sense of loss and unrooted ness that that folks were feeling as as new exiles their programming was mostly music and films and then some politics when Satellite Technology emerged and there was a possibility to broadcast into iran you saw that shift and more of an emphasis on political content and calls for action and calls for even revolution the channels that come out of los angeles the diaspora channels a berkeley political clearly very anti Islamic Republic in terms of their output many of them on a case certainly very nationalist and theyre so political in that regard so obvious where the direction is that i think their impact is probably less than believe it or not saw again after. A pause they dont get a thank you in mass in. Those channels that have a less clear political agenda and really have a more of an entertainment agenda i think they have Great Attraction in iran. After early jim t. V. In istanbul and 1st one in the by these channels added turkish and mexican soap operas dubbed often poorly into persian to the mix then came monotone out of london monotone stock in trade is entertainment least with nostalgia politics isnt absent from its programming its mishan fisted glossier they produced a very influential documentary on the founder of the part of it industry reza shah its a largely sanitized reading of the rain it has to be said but it is a hyundai entirety. Or cheeky boys got it done and yet when you hannah sure it was very rosy its very positive there obviously producing an agenda but its done in a quite subtle way its not so overt is to put people off immediately. At that point and arsenal then they get on about the speech that i mean. By the whole you guys oh yeah sure the taliban have me should i can order back yes me toward. The Younger Generation have the impression that before the revolution there was no poverty in iran. And certainly monitor would not discuss this of october or the censorship of cinema our newspapers and the parliament or just of the iranian government flexibly chooses footage to create a very negative image of our time monitor cherrypick glorious and beautiful archives that do not provide a true picture of historical reality to us on earth lives in a manner that will pass which. According to some who run the asperger Media Outlets like mezzanine and sorry the managing editor of the k. Hunt london website progun arky output is fulfilling a real audience demand for us in. Every single time that we put anything to do with monica with reza shah with in. With reza pahlavi the clicks go up high there is a demand its not as if we are just providing them with a sanitized version people wanted because they look at back at history and they see in those days they were proud a proud nation the source of monitors funding is a mystery and the channel itself wont talk about its large budget the Unanswered Questions have spoiled numerous theories that the cia the b. B. C. The saudi government the pile of the family all the Islamic Republic itself are all possible backers of the channel. Told requesting an interview regarding its finances and programming back saying they have a strict policy of not speaking with other Media Outlets this is one thing that journalists do one word does manage to get its funding for us and then a lot of iranians provide us with funds but they dont want their names to be no mandatory as well and certainly if you come and ask me who are my funders i will not tell you its a very tough market and why should matter to. People who wish iranians are funding it. The trust administration has been tightening the screws on iran unilaterally exiting the nuclear deal agreed to by more than 30 countries up economic sanctions and ratcheting up there today irans leaders so k. O. s. Death. And destruction. Monarchists and there are many more outside iran than inside sense that now is a time of opportunity the u. S. Based country. Son of the shah clearly agrees hes been making himself available for proof eyepieces in the western press interviews on the Us Government sponsored radio photographs of the. Met broadcasts in pushing into iran im adding to the output of all those d. S. Put a t. V. Outlets and as u. S. Pressure the sanctions and the threats squeezes the Islamic Republic the autocratic tendencies of the countrys ruling this is only helping make the case for some kind of alternative this nostalgia has been generated by the Islamic Republic itself rather than than the basically creating a new generation to test the prerevolution pair theyve actually produced a new generation much more interested in what he reads about now part of this to be honest this because even the worst aspects of the shah when it came to political repression france has been multiplied several times over by the Islamic Republic what people are producing is Popular History for the masses its not necessarily good history i have to tell you but its population thats going out and people are lapping it up. Finally back to Boris Johnson and that fight he had with his girlfriend last week that caused such a stir here in the commotion of one of his neighbors who happens to be a rapper called too many headed outside to see what all the fuss was about and ended up getting swarmed by papa razzi he decided it was the Perfect Moment to offer up a little rap that hed been working on called boris next door now to. Promised the press that a full version was comic so we got in touch and landed ourselves a World Exclusive well leave you now with a slice of boris next door and well see you next time. With. They wanted 43000000000 pounds worth of weaponry that was 6000000000 in. There is no hope and a more because theres always a small. Really good business. In the asons we in the United States have privatized the old Public Function more shadow on aljazeera. Trying again to end a trade war the u. S. And china agreed to resume talks as leaders of the g 20 emphasized the need for free and fair trade policies. I dont have them see here this is live from also coming up libyas warlord orders his forces to target turkish ships and interests. It is still not proof you dont see expectations iran says some progress has been made to try and save the 2050 nuclear deal but more still needs to be done. And we report from flint michigan where the crisis over tainted water is far from over but criminal prosecutions are ending. A lot of the summit of the worlds biggest economies has ended with china and the United States agreeing to restart talks on trying to end their trade war u. S. President donald trump said he would not impose any new tariffs on china for the moment he met chinas leader xi jinping on the sidelines of the g 20 summit in a meeting described as excellent. We had a great meeting and we will be continuing to negotiate and i promised for. At least the time being were not going to be lifting tariffs on china we wont be adding an additional. You know tremendous amount of where we have i guess 350000000000. 00 left which could be taxed or could be tariffs and were not doing that were were going to work with china on where we left off to see if we can make a deal by japans Prime Minister shinzo ave hailed the summit a success saying the leaders agreed to present a united front on global trade isnt. Stubborn and trade tensions are continuing and theres a risk so we have to keep those risks and tensions in mind still we have agreed to unite in order to lead the World Economy there are some dissatisfactions between countries so although there are concerns what we have to do is establish principles in order to lead the World Economy into the future a free fair and inclusive economy and open competition those principles have been affirmed by the leaders of this g 20 meeting. Thomas joins us live now from. Summits like the g 20 are often criticized as being talking shops where not much really gets done but many leaders will be relieved that the leaders of the 2 worlds biggest economies have agreed to restart talks on that i wont be any new tariffs at least for now. Yeah well that is good news is not the best news that the could have been the coulda been a real breakthrough here when the president of china or the president of the us met and that obviously hasnt happened either but its certainly not the worst Case Scenario that would have been one or rather later rather walking out of the talks saying no further progress could be made a tool or saying from the u. S. Perspective that those tariffs that theyve threatened to increase by more than 300000000000. 00 will they could have kept those in place theyve now been withdrawn so were essentially in the status quo for now what donald trump said is that president xi has agreed that Chinese Companies will the Chinese Government will belie lots and lots of farming products from the u. S. Theyre going to give the chinese the lists of what they want them to buy in return of the quid pro quo is that u. S. Companies are going to be allowed to sell things to huawei so while away on the table for the 1st time in a while and the possibility that wall itself and whether its products can be sold in the u. S. For example that could be discussed at the end of the trade talks but the very fact that trade sort of back on well that is positive news its not the best news but its certainly a significant step in the right direction and the other big talking point of course President Trump confirming again hes entrenched in meeting with north Korean Leader kim jong un as he heads to south korea next. Thats right were not directly a g. 20 associates of thing thats of course but donald trump sending out that tweet early on saturday that really surprised a lot of people saying that he was going to go to so we all knew that already late so on saturday and that hes going to the Demilitarized Zone on sunday and if he wants to then kim jong un can come and meet him that will very quickly our producer is normally based in seoul salmi that with a lightning speed for north korea the north Korean Foreign minister said that it was a very interesting proposal and when it was made formally as he expects it will be done in coming hours it will be taken seriously now donald trump was asked his long press conference whether he would actually step into north korea to shake the hand of kim jong il if it was offered and he said well yes essentially he would have no problem with doing that that really would be remarkable the 1st sitting u. S. President ever to step foot in north korea lets have a little listen now so what trump said about all of this i understand that we may be meeting with chairman king came. And there was a find you spoke with the people came ya know in word is. Very receptive we responded and so well see because tomorrow were going to the d. M. Z. And said well im there ill shake his hand we get along theres been no Nuclear Tests theres been no long range ballistic tests. Gave us back our hearses years which was great and a lot of good things are happening over there so a lot of know will be there and well see. So well see on sunday whether that handshake actually happens and whether it happens in south korea north korea all within the Demilitarized Zone now at the end of this g. 20 conference they say is what has been released the communique the all important communique now its good that there is one it means that all of the latest did agree to publish well its 14 pages of pretty bland stuff really talking about keeping the World Economy open soaking about things that they can all agree on things like empowering women and making sure that the ecology of the world is maintained as well but all that point very interesting because there are 2 completely contradictory paragraphs in this one which is clearly written by 19 of the 20 countries involved in 18 plus the e. U. Saying that they want to maintain their commitment to the paris Climate Change agreement and they see Climate Change infighting as that states top priority and then immediately afterwards another paragraph that talks about how much the United States is doing to stay green but how it isnt going to commit to the paris Climate Change agreement because its already doing enough now clearly the 1st paragraph was insisted upon by 19 of the 23 members and that other paragraph was insisted on by the us and the only way that we could get to the green on releasing a communique a tool was to have those 2 contradictory paragraphs very very briefly as well at the very end of his press Conference Donald Trump was offered an open goal to reject the idea that imputing had put in a newspaper in to do but liberalism was obsolete donald trump did not take that opportunity remarkable for a u. S. President not to defend liberalism when its offered to him. And you turn on a satellite fresh there thanks frank. Met russias president at the summit where he appeared to make light appear to make light of Russian Election meddling u. S. Intelligence agencies say moscow interfered in the 2016 president ial election and warn it is likely to do so again putin says its the United States responsibility to correct the tensions between their countries. It is up to america how they want to improve relations with russia we have a Mutual Understanding that we should get out of the situation its an abnormal one and it should be corrected but we should try to find a way to turn the page to look forward and to move on we confirmed already ness to support a Business Initiative but it means the Administration Needs to have the intention to correct this abnormal situation of donald trump heads to south korea next and some people are out on the streets there in the capital seoul to welcome the president s. So not everyone is happy about his visit a large group of protesters have assembled with a clear message that donald trump is not welcome. Forces loyal to libyan war have threatened to target flights and ships coming from turkey spokesman after us forces also said turkish nationals in libya will be arrested this week fighters loyal to the un recognized government recaptured a strategic city from after us forces award accuses turkey of supplying weapons to forces allied to the tripoli government and a serious matter that they were had went to that libyan city the Government Forces captured from have to us forces fighters heres this exclusive report. The road from tripoli to open again. The city and surrounding area have been a battlefield for the past 3 months. Following the latest fighting with honey for have to his forces soldiers loyal to Libyan Government regained control of the u. N. As we drive towards the city the remnants of the battles little are on the roadside. Sandbanks built to defend the city now a stumbling block for call drivers. Government forces have recaptured have to his military camps like many from of the riyadh who resisted have to his invasion. Led was forced to leave his home city in march he says he left his family behind and took part in civil battles until he and his comrades finally reclaim their home. His friends and neighbors are celebrating. We coordinated with their fellow fighters inside the city along with the western military region command to set the incursion it took us weeks but the city fell into our hands in about 7 hours. Funerals have been held for the soldiers who died defending the city. Its estimated dozens were killed in fighting since the city was seized. The fall of the u. N. Is being seen as a setback for have to his forces and their campaign to capture the capital. Government forces showed off dozens of u. S. Made antitank missiles they said were seized from have to his forces in a very yann and they say their weapons were supplied by the united arab emirates. Have to command headquarters in the un is abandoned from here have to the commanders all the forces into battle in southern tripoli over the past 3 months troops and weapons who are sent from here north to support the war on the capital. Libyans living here say french an Iraqi Military officers were seen have to hit a quarter of that money or have it kind of felt that it was a nightmare under the rule of half their forces they misused the citys facilities including hospitals which became overcrowded with their casualties. Life is slowly returning to normal but the fighting has taken its toll on the peoples lives Government Forces are in full control of a very young city some of have those forces have retreated to the nearby town of. Others to the city of daraa who are now but this is the way sion anybody and remains tense and people here are worried that half those were planes could target Government Forces within the city and without the. Area. Are still ahead on al jazeera. Mexicos president announces an economic boost to help thousands of migrants pass. I was in the car park or devon ill tell you the impact of extreme weather on people and animals