Monday weve got quite a bit of cloud just along that the coast of oman tend to push further south as we head through choose that it might just produce one or 2 coastal showers that we nothing more than that and this is a time which is sticking really in the to mid thirtys celsius that we had down into Southern Africa if you will for calls across into madagascar and certainly today one of the next few days you could see very warm still in johannesburg by cheese or we could just see even a scattered thunderstorm here and you notice the rains remain quite heavy and quite wise but through much of central and southern goa and that cat extend you cross into namibia as we head over into tuesday. The weather sponsored. Every weekly news cycle brings a series of breaking stories joined the listening post as we turn the cameras on the media when the Intelligence Services control much of egyptian media it becomes an extension of the arm of the president and focus on how they would go out on the stories that matter the most getting an accurate informative story out of there is not easy they pose it too late we already have the information theyre listening pounced on aljazeera. Welcome back a quick amount of our top stories here this hour Syrian Government forces have struck a deal with the kurdish Led Syrian Democratic forces which will see the syrian Army Deployed on the border with turkey yes they have say this will help them liberating areas under the control of Turkish Forces as they advance into Northern Syria. Ecuadors government has agreed to repeal and all that ended decades old fuel subsidies of the album told to them digitally this is the latest pictures of celebrations taking place in the capital quito demonstrators say they will end the until start of protests which went on for nearly 2 weeks. The celebrations and to miss it exit polls show a conservative nor professor and political outsider is poised to become the countrys next president by citing it is projected to win more than 70 percent of the vote beating media mogul and build. Bold outlaw top story that deal between the syrian army and kurdish led fighters went at it we spoke to Joshua Landis from the university of oklahoma he explained why the deal is beneficial to both sides. Its an important deal it means that syria is going to sweep up north to meet the turkish troops this is a scramble for northeast syria the same sort of scramble for land and resources that we saw happen when the isis cayle if it collapsed and both syria the United States raced to get oil fields and border territory its an important deal because the kurds and the assad regime in damascus both have the same enemies they have turkey as their enemy number one and the islamist rebel groups as their enemy number 2 this is a long standing. You know in a sense. I would say partnership but its not an easy partnership that theyve had damascus cannot rule ne syria without the kurds on the other hand damascus is not going to allow the kurds the kind of autonomy independence or use of their own School System in kurdish that they that they have i think the kurds will be able to continue with that semi autonomous rule for some time because the damascus military is weak but over time damascus as damascus centralizes and reestablish itself its going to eat away at that autonomy no doubt about it damascus has made it very clear that they do not want the kind of situation that you that kurds in iraq enjoy where almost no kurds speak arabic any longer. At least 30 people are confirmed dead after a powerful typhoon struck parts of central japan on the weekend tens of thousands of troops are still trying to get to people left stranded after widespread flooding and landslides wayne hale reports now from tokyo. There was plenty of warning before typhoon had arrived but the power of the storm caught some of japans most vulnerable by surprise intense rainfall cut off many people and communities including dozens of elderly in a retirement home and car will go way north west of the capital tokyo after the storm passed they were brought to safety by risky work as. The storm brought damaging winds in excess of 200 kilometers an hour but the main feature was a huge amount of rainfall some areas saw a meter in 24 hours and waterways simply couldnt cope with the embankment of more than 20 rivers collapsed one of the worst hit areas was not going all prefecture west of tokyo where a 70 meters stretch of the levee gave way many homes and businesses were flooded and japans famous bullet trains were surrounded by water and going nowhere fast or slow all at the time who the major typhoon has caused extensive damage far and wide and pan at one point the special warning for heavy rain was issued for as many as 13 prefectures there has also been emergency relief from various dams and flooding of various rivers it turned out to be a record heavy rain. More than 100000 risky workers were deployed including 31000 from the selfdefense forces millions were ordered or advised to evacuate but some chose not to leave their homes or couldnt get out in time japanese a used to preparing for storms and other natural disasters but this one was different it may have come and gone quickly but many here say it was the largest most intense typhoon theyve experienced and theyre wondering because of Climate Change if its a sign of things to come in some places a recovery has begun but this was a storm that claimed many lives and caused vast amounts of damage the full extent of which wont be known for some time with so many areas still inundated wayne hay aljazeera tokyo. Police in hong kong have made dozens of arrests after antigovernment protests turned violent on sunday footage is emerged of a man being arrested after Police Officer was stabbed in the neck near a metro station. A 2nd person was also taken into custody and in a separate incident protesters attacked a woman seen helping police clear barricades from the road. Running nationalist party has declared victory in the countrys parliamentary election exit polls show the law and Justice Party is on course to win an even bigger majority out as it was andersons reports now from the capital mosul. Countdown to a projected win and polands ruling party right wing populist looking forward to a 2nd term in government. Mahmoud pub or did i know she we had reasons to be happy i. Because despite a strong front against us we managed to win and all signs pointed it was stay like this and if it stays like this the good change will continue. But what he describes as good change has polarized his country it may have led to the highest turnout in any election since 1989 the law and Justice Party does deliver on its promises for example a 125. 00 a month allowance for parents of each child and 0 tax for under 26 year old all in this past its a party that does do what it says on the turn but many people are concerned about whats deep inside that. The opposition says the ruling party is taking poland away from western style liberal democracy. People want cooperation and they want to see as period of visions we see in our country today unfortunately. Law and justice has moved things so radically to the right that indeed the liberal minded people dont feel at ease anymore in poland. One of the doubts in the minds of some voters is Media Freedom the state media is firmly in the grip of the ruling party and poland has dropped from 8 down to 59th in the international Media Freedom chart the ruling party is tied to the Catholic Church more than other governments and its vitriolic about gay rights. Last Summer Police moved in a long gathering of the l g b t community when men attacked shouting abuse opposition parties blamed political rhetoric for stirring up a truth. That. The government was looking set for a 2nd term promises a Brighter Future of a bold and many say if theyre better off it doesnt matter whether its left centrist all right wing Andrew Simmons aljazeera was Spains Supreme Court is expected to sentence 12 catalan leaders over their role in the 2017 band referendum for independence the ruling could complicate spanish politics and reaganite tensions just a month ahead of National Elections some of the i get reports now from barcelona. In the middle of barcelonas largest train station a call for selfdetermination by catalan activists more than 2 years since catalonia is attempt to secede they are no closer to their go but they say they refuse to give up the baton of union that this is a nonviolent action one of many more that are yet to come this is to defeat the system to change it and to become a new country. If the goal is a new nation then the full force of the spanish authorities is making sure it doesnt happen the euphoria of the 2017 self declared independence gave way to serious repercussions tensions between pro and anti secessionist spilled onto the streets it led to 12 catalan politicians and Civic Leaders facing charges for their roles in a legal referendum on the region status. And the crisis has continued to divide catalonia the Spanish Government hopes that a ruling will bring an end to this turbulent episode in catalonia and the prime independent this will likely move out of all that promise to unleash a campaign of civil disobedience in the wake of and sentencing. Catalan separatists have always insisted there were Peaceful Movement but the have been concerns from the Central Government to madrid that any jail sentences could ignite further turmoil in the region especially among more radical groups. Its not by putting people in jail or pushing them into exile that we will solve things we will make it worse the only way to solve this is to admit that there has to be a democratic outcome the Spanish Government has said it wants to restart talks to end the stalemate in catalonia until now some pro secession leaders were unwilling to engage and less there was an amnesty for those facing charges and with neither side giving way no one is optimistic that there is a way out of this crisis anytime soon. Aljazeera barcelona. Protests jeweled in guinea on monday against president alpha combos plan to change the constitution and run for a 3rd term 6 opposition figures have been arrested ahead of their planned demonstration as nicolas ha has more fun this is downtown connector in the area called telluride market area where over the weekend people have come to do their shopping to get basic necessities like rice water or oil because they fear that the shells really close down because of these demonstration already people have been arrested leaders of these protests have been arrested by men wearing ski mask and arms and this has created a sense of anxiety and then to supply what may lay ahead was so were just. You know i mean opposition figure you know one lives in a popular neighborhood but he sought refuge in the diplomatic foreigners who is. Telling them to see them so busy. With security. And here you give us. All this needs to stop some say there are risks we get murdered when we defend values as important as democracy freedom peoples right to live in a country with the rule of law prevails we must make. They want to change the constitution and run for a 3rd mandate and it is here that his opponents will gather. This is the band of protests human rights organizations have accused in the past Security Forces of using live ammunition against protesters. In unprecedented move the head of the armed forces came out with. Its troops. In the barracks. City. On edge. The some the former u. S. Vice President Joe Biden says hell step down from the board of a Chinese Company thats been the target of criticism by donald trump hunter biden made his 1st Public Statement on his work in ukraine and china saying hes always conducted his business independently of the not discuss it with his father President Trump has accused him of corruption and escaping responsibility because of family connections joe bidens in a tight race for the democratic president ial nomination in the u. S. The family of a black woman killed by a white policeman has accused the officer of murder 28 year old Tanya Jefferson was killed in her own home in texas on saturday. Well hear that from a. New footage of the officers body count shows the moment just before the shooting the officers say they saw someone near a window and one of them drew his weapon after perceiving a threat a neighbor had called the police when they saw the front door was open. Brazil is in the middle of an environmental emergency crude oil washing up on beaches along the northeast coast its a growing ecological disaster it all the worse because the source of the oil remains a mystery. The northeastern state. Its easy to find the oil thats washing up on the beaches in the northeast of brazil this environmental disaster is spread over 2000 kilometers contaminating some of brazils most beautiful beaches. The state of. A specially hard and the cleanup is a huge challenge that hell isnt the only good i made to fit the if we are part of multiple Agency Efforts to monitor the coastline which include the army city and state officials some oil stains appear in the north of the state but its worse in the south. Whats more difficult to determine is where is that will coming from there are many theories could it have come from oil tankers in the Atlantic Ocean of some suspect or could that will be from a german ship sunk off the coast of brazil during world war 2 as some brazilian researchers have concluded. Well nobody knows exactly where this oil is coming from the brazilian government says its not coming from here in brazil at the brass the state run oil company has run tests on this oil and they say its a type of crude oil that is not produced here in brazil they say this oil contains characteristics of oil normally found in neighboring venezuela so the brazilian government thinks this oil is coming from there but venezuelas state run oil company did nies it is the source of the oil official with brazils Environmental Protection agency tells me this spill is a catastrophe and theres no quick fix to the pollution so that i do know this is an environmental emergency our work will go on until the. But for now we have no deadline to finish our work. On sunday crews tried their best to clean up the beaches but its a huge area and resources are limited to investigators are now taking to the air to try to spot the oil slicks on the sand they have found more than 150. 00 contaminated beaches so far this is a disaster on a huge scale and it cant be fully controlled until the source of the oil is identified. In the state of allegories in northeast brazil. Time for a quick check of the headlines on al jazeera Syrian Government forces have struck a deal with the kurdish Led Syrian Democratic forces which will see the syrian army deploy along the border with turkey the s. D. F. Say this will help them in liberating arizona the control of Turkish Forces as they advance into Northern Syria echoes government has agreed to repeal a law that ended decades old field subsidies after holding talks with Indigenous Leaders celebrations are taking place in the capital quito demonstrators say they will end the anti austerity protests which went on for nearly 2 weeks when he has more now from quito. There are celebrations taking place on the streets of quito right now if you can hear behind me there is fireworks going on cars honking their horns horns people celebrating what would been deemed to be in agreement finally between the confederation of indigenous communities from across the country that have been protesting for over a week calling on the government to reverse course on a Economic Policy that sought to and decades were decades long fuel subsidies and Austerity Program that the government that many saw as being damaging for the country and they seem to have managed to come up with an agreement with the government where thats exactly what theyre going to get. Theyve been celebrations into his ears exit polls show a conservative law professor and political outsider is poised to become the countrys next president i sayit is projected to win more than 70 percent of the vote beating media mogul now bill kind of the japans military is deploying tens of thousands of soldiers to help with rescue and cleanup efforts after a powerful typhoon ripped through the countrys eastern coast more than 6000000 people were told to evacuate parts of eastern and central japan typhon huggable this is one of the worst storms to hit the come from decades of these 30 people have been killed and many more are still missing police in hong kong have made dozens of arrests of the antigovernment protests turned violent footage has emerged of a man being arrested after a Police Officer was stabbed in the neck near a metro station a 2nd person was also taken into custody in a separate incident protesters attacked a woman seen helping Police Barricades from the road. All right so those are the headlines the news continues. After the listening station thanks so much and. On counting the cost President Trump threatens to destroy turkeys economy again will find out how his conflicts of interest in istanbul. Lebanon goes from one crisis to another and can gold hit a record high of 2000. 00 counting the cost and i just did a. Little. Strange. My. Child like to say. I am alone richard gives birth in europe the listening post here are some of the media stories that were covering this week unrest in iraq a conflict that is beyond sectarian and the news outlets have been attacked for trying to tell the story she should have just let it go the american comedian who tried to justify her friendship with george w. Bush only to see her efforts backfire on line a sibling journalistic rivalry in poland 2 brothers in the 2 opposing media organizations under their command and finding a meditative way through the news sometimes. Its important not to push my bullet yet i mean Square Hong Kong yoga coming to a mat near you the protests started small but escalated quickly social media can have that effect then came the security crackdown across iraq including the use of live ammunition more than 100 protesters have been killed as many as 6000 wounded and a number of news outlets have been attacked since the u. S. Led invasion in 2003 journalists have usually attributed under arrest on the streets of iraq to sectarianism the. Divide between primarily shia and sunni muslims they cant do that this time iraqi protesters are demanding an overhaul of the political system a system known as. Which has played on sectarian divides to carve up the spoils of war torn but Oil Rich Iraq so that most of the wealth gets circulated amongst the political elite and not nearly enough trickles down to ordinary iraqis thats what these demonstrations have been about and given the scale of the protests its no wonder the politicians the Security Forces they control and the Media Outlets they own are closing ranks to protect the status quo our starting point this week is back that. Why would iraqi protesters how to change a political system that works for the few and not the many protesters determined to have their movement covered term to a Comedy Program rather than a news broadcast to tell their story. Why would they send the videos they captured of the demonstrations and the deadly Security Response to the al bashir show a Comedy Program airing on german broadcaster deutsche of ellas Arabic Service and not for instance to. Their own publicly funded national broadcast. They were not looking for comedy relief they were looking for fair coverage of a story that is no laughing matter. Well bashir show is a platform for the iraqi people he is always addressing their concerns and he specially at a time when iraqi channels have been prohibited from showing the reality of iraq from showing the protests his coverage has been crucial he was dedicating. That episode. To. Footage from the protest is that this time instead of people listening to him it was going to be listening to the people on the street this is shabab. Level sort of job then i would have the heart. And his biggest criticism is where is our media why are they showing cartoons why theyre showing cooking shows i mean this is probably one of the biggest moments in post 2003 iraq and the Mainstream Media isnt really covering it his point was we dont have a free media Mainstream Media in our country. That was made evident by the coverage of the demonstrations more than 100 have been killed thousands more wounded but from the outset most mainstream Media Outlets in iraq tried to ignore the story not just. Privately own channels as well by day 2 of the protests police were firing live ammunition into the crowds Iraqi Television reporters started covering the story but in many cases they downplayed. The. Deal on day 3 came the internet shut down affecting 75 percent of the country some news outlets based outside baghdad that were covering the story would pay the price on day 5. 00 masked men converged on the saudi owned. And the kurdistan based arabic among others ransacking their buildings sending the channels a clear message. So shutting down the internet was effective in reducing the ability of the protests this could to coordinate but shutting down the t. V. Stations was part of a media blackout. The Iraqi Government was probably up to no good. Violence was going to erupt heavy the heavy handed approach was going to become worse and having life Media Coverage was not going to go down well. And so what the militias and government were trying to do was completely isolate iran from the world these channels were covering events daily and from every province and thats why they were targeted because they were trying to give people a voice to speak out but i never. Locked up. Unlike most of the popular unrest in iraqs postwar era the issues at the core of these protests are not primarily sectarian they are systemic with sectarian undertow its. Iraq is not a poor country it just feels like one despite more than 100000000000. 00 a year worth of oil exports roughly 20 percent of iraqis still lack a safe water supply many blame a system known as move. Which translates to sectarian apportion and amounts to a form of ethno sectarian balance under move hasa some Iraqi Coalition governments hand out ministerial and government positions according to the percentage of the population that is shia sunni and kurdish the a portion budgetary spending on that basis as well and while that approach sounds demographically defensible in practice it has resulted in endemic corruption and the failure of the countrys oil wealth benefiting ordinary iraqis. The Political Parties but they have managed to do is make sure that they have the wherewithal the tools and the resources to keep winning elections those tools and the following. A winning Government Office and the wealth that the Government Offices have and using that to reward their supporters. You also need Public Opinion these Political Parties have their own t. V. Or newspaper or radio outlets than broadcast that message because that loyal base requires constant messaging in order to keep them activated keep them voting for the next round of elections the house the system allow politicians to mask corruption in government basically there is no political will in iraq for any independent media because what an independent media will do is expose corruption on a grand scale but also give voice to marginalized groups in iraq who havent necessarily been given a platform that might call to question the current political system throughout the country iraqis feel the political process doesnt represent their voice they feel that the Mainstream Media doesnt really represent their voice the conventional news channels are linked to Political Parties now those Political Parties are facing an existential threat these protests are saying down with the system and down with all of the parties not one party all of them so of course they wont want to cover the extent of which the citizens of iraq have grievances. Until 2003 and the fall of Saddam Hussein the iraqi media landscape was barren consisting of just one t. V. Channel 4 radio stations and 5 newspapers all state controlled satellite dishes were legal as the country transitioned out of the hussein era dozens of new broadcast outlets went on the air that the u. S. Led Coalition Authority said would safeguard the countrys new democracy all it took to acquire a license to broadcast was the money to buy one but very few iraqis could afford one those who could tended to come with political connections a decade and a half later what has resulted is a new landscape politically partisan proprietors and channels more devoted to their owners interests than those of their view. Because its part of. If there is a problem that doesnt have a partisan nature then the system fails kind of doesnt know how to handle it unlike previous protests against the secretary and Political Parties which you know this Media Outlets are made in designed to cover because you can just take sides this is the protest of a majority shia hughes against a majority shia led government. So they didnt know what to do so these high did just not to cover. So in a way the system failed like you know like system matter. Which explains why when iraqis took to the streets they bypassed their own domestic Media Outlets and look for help elsewhere. Is there any wonder that young iraqis when they chose to send their videos out for the world to see that they chose a comedian working for a german broadcaster broadcasting america as opposed to sending those videos to iraqi journalists and iraqi. Its not surprising at all actually the iraqi iraqis see have seen how politically affiliated the media are. And as they dont want to be associated with any particular side of the name of these protesters are very keen to get across the fact they have no political affiliations. And in the share the rocking and each of the. Who are the independent international station out of that stops. We discussing other media stories that are on our radar this week with one of our producers and actually ravi mina sticking with the iraq war for a moment but the american side of that story the president who started that war george w. Bush made some news this past week alongside a Television Comedian walk us through that story so the story began richard last sunday at of all places a game of american football in dallas texas the talk show host in question Ellen Degeneres a gay liberal comedian and she was photographed sitting alongside george w. Bush at the game the reaction was immediate a lot of her fans were really disapproving of the company she was keeping remember george w. Bush started the war in iraq in 2003 over nonexistent weapons of mass destruction and it caused the deaths of at least half of me. Rockys and many legal experts say he should be tried as a war criminal so degeneracy then goes on camera filming her response to her critics were they buying the explanations she was offering there was some who were willing to accept what she said but by and large it did not go down well heres a clip of what she said i think im friends with george bush in fact im friends with a lot of people who dont share the same belief that i have were all different and i think that weve forgotten that thats ok that were all different for that segment went viral hitting 20000000 views and going on for half a 1000000 likes on twitter however it also amplified the criticisms and one of the most cutting pieces of critique was actually unspoken it came from an activist in new york city called shimon of and he decided to edit the generous is video adding some images in disturbing ones showing the actual consequences of george w. Bushs war for instance i wish people wouldnt wear fur i dont like it but im friends with people who wear fur and im friends with people who are furry as a matter of fact i have friends who should tweeze more that we do has now also gone viral despite the best efforts of Ellen Degeneres his producers who tried to have it taken offline claiming Copyright Infringement we spoke with a file she one of the producer of that video so i objected to alans video response because she really didnt respond she made it look like people are just upset that a liberal person is sitting with a conservative in my research to find the images to lay in the background i had to actually censor myself and that was because the images i found were too horrific what she did there was erased iraq and what i did with the video and it was reintroduced iraqi he definitely did bring the iraqis back into focus the victims of that water church this was the image from that video it was shared all across social media ok thanks me. Were turning now to poland as the country heads into its parliamentary elections the populist law and Justice Party known as peace is hoping for reelection and amongst the tools at its disposal to secure a victory as the public Broadcaster Television or t. V. The head of t. V. Has named yet sikorsky he is beyond loyal to the ruling party before getting that job almost 4 years ago was the deputy minister in the peace government he has made sweeping changes at p. V. P. Turning it into a Propaganda Machine that his political masters now rely on but hes not the only course in the Media Business in poland his older brother yet a suave affectively runs the countrys biggest opposition newspaper because at the border think family feud only one with a few political and media angles to it the listening posts for philips now on how the story of 2 brothers and the Media Outlets they run reflects a deeply divided country. 9 months ago happen to damage the longtime air of the polish port city of the dance was stabbed to death at a Charity Concert american politicians. Spin out on the couch of his attacker a mentally unstable man had just been released from prison a prison where some say he was exposed to hour after hour of television for months on an Ongoing Investigation into the mans personal finances. And of these young. Thats the mayors widow the regime t. V. Shes talking about is the tax paying fund. Public broadcaster. Sky t. V. She says its output influence the killer. In 2008. Talked about. Almost 1800. 00 times thats about 5 pieces a day on average. Should all be your very last few months ago i dont recall any level headed accounts of the investigations into his finances but if you regularly watch t. V. You could easily have come to the conclusion that he represented a great danger to poland. But as a. Part of the coverage of pavel a damn of it is just one of many critics say reflect badly on t. V. Especially its main news program. Watched by more than 2000000 people every day even more in election season which is exactly where poland is now between european elections 5 months ago and parliamentary elections this weekend. The stories on t. V. Changed the tone and its reflection the florin Justice Party policy. They have a pattern in the beginning we usually have information about the governments biggest achievement of the day. So effective. That we hear about the opposition that is absolutely helpless and cannot match the governments Great Success programme of. The one issue how those stories are supported by images from of their time in office hammering home how terrible life was bag. Of tricks to combine even. During. A european parliamentary Election Campaign in may t. V. Concentrated on the government most of the time always in a very positive light on the other hand any time the opposition it was shown it was always in a negative way either they were shown a some sort of a comical helpless group as a whole when you do a premier or they were called all the scandals from their time in government scandal or a. Pug and its a propaganda tool that works on a very simple basis lie lie continue to repeat the lie and you will make it stick. I regret to tell you all this and im torn about how much i should think and you know the reason why this is so difficult for me because the head of this television is my brother from think to live easiest his way but. You heard that right yes wife kirstine the defacto editor in chief of his at a board of polands biggest liberal newspaper has a brother yet sic who just happens to run t. V. 2 brothers who used to play on the same team now on opposite sides. It all started here and get out whether kirsty brothers were born and raised this is also the home to this now iconic shipyard the birthplace of solidarity a movement that helped to topple communism and change the face of poland both brothers were heavily involved in solidarity gatos of kirsty founded a kinder style anti communist Student Newspaper got sick went on to edit it back then they were both on the same side of the political and media divide but in a new poland a post communist one they soon went their separate ways. Yet also have joined because of a border china which represents strong liberal democratic views with slight leftists characteristics yet sic however from the start was clearly a right wing conservative. For a long time the brothers remained on good terms it all started to go wrong about 2005 when the law and Justice Party gained power for the 1st time the conflict was radicalized and it spiraled out of control just plug. Fast forward to 2016 just months after the law and Justice Party returned to power and yet sick then a deputy culture minister was appointed as the new head of t. V. Pete you see what im going to go beyond that you know growing each new sellers Nashville National television of the closing the shutter politics. Were trying to talk to you directly we 1st request an interview with him months ago and initially it looked as they might agree but just before we arrived we were told hes too busy to run away to t. V. Now to get that one shot. Our producer was put through to because hes Postal Assistant there but she posted he reiterated have asked didnt have time to meet supposed. Cuz he purged hundreds of journalists from t. V. Replacing them with reporters more loyal to the government a public broadcaster closely aligned with one party the law and Justice Party and its News Coverage reflects that a Propaganda Machine operating at taxpayers expense the changes you made have raised concerns in brussels where the e. U. Has accused poland of turning toward authoritarian politics we did manage to put these concerns to someone from t. V. Chris dr brown skin president of the polish Journalists Association and the host of a show on the network he explained that moving t. V. To the right was the only fan way to balance out the media market in poland. Read your posts before 2016 the media in poland including t. V. Were dominated by the left after the law and Justice Party victory t. V. Piece started to speak the language of the victors they reported the world from their point of view from a conservative perspective yes t. V. Has moved too far towards government propaganda and yes public t. V. Should be in the center but then there would be nothing on the right and wed have a symmetry against the near moments ago popped over easter on the perkins novels it was a new study shows the madness of. The left wing space is firmly occupied by. The newspaper was founded 30 years ago in close alignment with the Solidarity Movement nowadays its regarded as being in opposition to the current government scandals and alleged malpractise on misconduct by the law and Justice Party dominate its pages and in the run up to this election week after week the porch a has published a damning indictment of the partys 4 years in office supplements theyve called the black book of peace just. Its completely critical towards the government regardless of what the government does whats more they dont just support the opposition but for many years theyve embodied it. As an act of politician who speaks at political rallies. Across the line as a journalist. We have reports or do not see ourselves i live journalists we are also conscious citizens please remember these are not normal times let me give you an example. After the victory of the norn Justice Party a huge group of their supporters led by a Catholic Priest came to the headquarters of the that of abortion and performed an exorcism on a clear promoting. Of bringing muslim terrorists to poland of lacking morality of being evil the government wants to destroy us but its very like intelligently it is not a face to face attack censorship they hope to kill us financially. They put a plastic bag over i hadnt say try to bring. In many ways the tale of the kirsty brothers. And their respective Media Outlets provides a snapshot a telling one of polish Politics Today and wherever this story goes its going to be told in more ways than one. And finally earlier this year we run a video that was produced to help get britain through its period of political turmoil it was called brecks it yoga a form of all online therapy that as its australian inventor the a. B. C. Networks sammy jay put it tackles the big issues of the day then submit them to a variety of sporting analogies and yoga poses the idea is to get everyone to just relax and breeze while mr j. Has since turned his attention to hong kong and the political demonstrations that are now into their 7th month not that the british get a pass on this hes thrown in a little colonial history as well just for context well see you next time here at the listening post but im going to warm up with that 1st position with the union jack so few of those colonial powers inside you really impose a culture and after holding this position for over a century well head into l. 997 handover. Lowering the union jack now feel that global empire miserably shuttering to an end and from he will transition awkwardly into. One country. 2 systems were ok might be feeling a bit uncomfortable so its time to stand up for your rights with a mass protest sometimes. Nice and peaceful its important not to push too far you by bullets yet i mean square. And when you feeling confident moving to. Shutting down the airport. And from he into. Flaming barricades. What are you protesting about how does things in competition where there online well i face minstrelsy directly out of translating slavery or joining us on set this is an attack on Academic Freedom and on our ability to do research and teach freely this is a dialogue myanmar is not making it very welcoming for people to come back everyone has a voice in the changes for the discussion is for real and im here to talk about the solutions on aljazeera. Turkish forces take more ground in Northern Syria as kurdish fighters strike a deal with the assad regime for help. In jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up celebrations in ecuadors capital after the government agrees to repeal the law that spot in the 2 weeks of deadly protests. Well professor chi saeed claims victory into his years president ial election plus. Japan ramps up rescue efforts as typhoon haiyan best leaves at least 30 people dead. We begin in syria where Government Forces have struck a deal with the kurdish Led Syrian Democratic forces which will see the syrian army deploy along the border with turkey the agreement comes in the face of a turkish offensive in Northern Syria thats led to heavy fighting the s. D. F. Says the deployment of syrian troops will help them for a year is one of the control of Turkish Forces aljazeera zenyatta reports now from the turkeys border with syria oh my god the map is changing in North Eastern syria turkey and its syrian allies are moving into what were kurdish controlled towns. And the Syrian Democratic forces are pushed from a 120 kilometer stretch of territory along the turkish syria border and 30 kilometers south. That is where turkish led forces now control an important supply line the m 4 highway that connects western syria to iraq it seems phase one of turkeys air and ground operation to eliminate what it considers and National Security threat on its border has been completed. We will divide the terror corridor 490 kilometers down the middle we will advance 30 to 35 kilometers into syrian territory according to the stage zone which we have declared before. That means there is likely a phase 2 of the military operation that would involve more fighting with the s d f who were abandoned when u. S. President donald trump effectively gave turkey a green light to launch the operation a few days ago now the u. S. Administration which long called the s. D. F. Partners unexpectedly announced would draw all of american troops from the north east leaving this corner of syria up for grabs. We are facing genocide so all options are open we are ready for negotiations with damascus the arab league the European Union and even iran who have a complainer role to stop the invasion. The population of this corner of syria is fearful of what comes next arabs and kurds live here they have a long history of animosity syrias war has deepened old wars little trust between them means there is a dangerous fault line there are reports of a russian brokered deal to allow Syrian Government troops to enter kurdish controlled towns of course bani and member that would prevent turkey from including those towns in a socalled safe zone that it wants to create in Northern Syria how turkey reacts is not clear but it may try to prevent that from happening because it would disrupt its plans to create what it calls a Peace Corridor along most of its border. Turkeys syrian allies are already heading to the front lines in members following an announcement by the syrian army that it was sending troops to the north of the country new front lines are emerging the new landscape may be drawn militarily or by back door deals but there seems to be a likely outcome this may be the beginning of the end of kurdish rule in North Eastern syria senator al jazeera on the turkey syria border. Joins us live now from Jacqueline Charles how significant then is this deal between the s. T. s and Syrian Forces and what could it mean then for the turkish campaign. Its hugely significant in terms of a change of allegiance shows you just how much pressure the Kurdish Forces in syria have been facing in recent days we understand now that certainly according to syrian state t. V. That the syrian army has started moving north towards those strategic towns of money and co bani interesting lee both towns used to be used to house u. S. Bases where u. S. Forces have been by since 2015 since the defeat of eisel in those areas and last night we saw video of kurdish Turkish Forces crossing the border joe rubble us which is basically a directly north from where those. Those Syrian Forces are traveling so a potential confrontation there. Weve heard that certainly the spokesperson for Syrian Forces participating in this. This operation with the said last night they said that the battle for the liberation of money bitch from white p. G. From the white b. G. Those of the Kurdish Forces. Was imminent so it has huge potential ramifications militarily and massive ramifications you can imagine as well for the 10s of thousands of People Living in those areas a great concern for this unfolding huge humanitarian crisis that were seeing its going to be very interesting to see how the turks really respond to this. And its also going to be very interesting to see what president assad in syria has been planned for the. At the end because of course as we heard the kurdish spokesperson for the s. T. s a couple of days ago said that basically because trust nobody they had no options now buts to look towards what have been enemies. Regime anyone as we heard from in his package there for some sort of assistance to avoid what they say could be genocide just away from the deal bring us up to date with whats happening on the ground where you are. But it was a very significant. Victory declared by the turks in this area yesterday they saying that they are in full control of the town of tel aviv out which is a couple of kilometers away across the border. We understand it has been quite quad overnight significantly to the east. A major town major offensive thats been going on in recent days around the town of russell eyeing that declared victory and a couple days ago within understood within understand that they were forced to retreat in the s. D. F. Mounted a Kurdish Forces mounted a counterattack we understand that area is still contest states but we also know that. The Syrian Rebels participating with also they pushed very deeply into into syria now and now theyve certainly got control of major sections of that m 4 highway which is hugely significant because it was a potential what was a major supply line for Kurdish Forces. Some serious significant gains made by the International Condemnation is increasing all the time and now we have this massively significant change of allegiance with potentially serious a serious clash between 2 National Armies the syrians. Are touch off on the turkey syria border charles thank you. Well on sunday the u. S. Announced it was pulling out all its remaining troops from Northern Syria the u. S. President has been accused of abandoning the kurds his secretary of defense has been on the sunday talk shows trying to defend Donald Trumps position we find ourselves as we have American Forces likely caught between 2 opposing advancing armies and its a very untenable situation but the kurds have been very good partners in the d. A. s campaign they were very good fighters on the battlefield we obviously enabled that as well but at the same time we didnt sign up to fight the turks on their behalf ecuadors government has agreed to repeal a law that ended decades old fuel subsidies after holding talks with protest leaders celebrations are taking place in the capital quito the demonstrators had been angered by rising fuel prices and attacks government buildings and set fire to media offices theyve now agreed to end the protests which began nearly 2 weeks ago when it happened from quito. Celebrations are taking place on the streets of quito after an agreement has been reached between Indigenous Leaders of a confederation of indigenous communities from across ecuador reaching an agreement with the president of ecuador and his ministers bringing an end to proposed economic policies that many saw it see as being damaging to the country policies that would bring an end to fuel subsidies that have been in place for decades this was a negotiation that was moderated by the United Nations at the beginning of the day that were clashes that were taking place between demonstrators and police over the course of the last week or so weve seen these these clashes and demonstrations escalating the violence and anger and tensions on the streets as collating so there is hope there is optimism that this could finally bring a lasting peace to this conflict that thats gripped the capital of ecuador now we should mention that Indigenous Leaders also condemned the violence on the streets on the part of of the police there have been cited statistics saying that there have been more than a 1000 people that have been wounded 10 people unfortunately that we can report that were killed and more than a 1000 that have been put in jail so theres optimism theres hope that this agreement will finally bring peace to this conflict here in ecuador and to me as a conservative law professor political outside is poised to become the countrys next president exit polls suggest that guy saeed has beaten his rival media tycoon the bill come on a turnout of 60 percent. Reports now from tunis on what the win could mean for the country. He has achieved what eluded his predecessors since the 2011 revolution basis ayad won the president ial election with more than 70 percent of the vote a big win and a strong bandaid for an outsider who navigated through to his ears complex Political Landscape throughout the campaign sayed focused his messages on overhauling state institutions and being political divisions and fixing economic problems but. Youve shown the world you freely made your choice and started a new chapter and id like to thank the young for their determination you continue to inspire the world. A law professor who ran as an independent defeated his rival now bill carter we the media mogul and leader of the secular heart of tennessee a party cutaway was released from jail a few days ago after being detained on charges of corruption and tax evasion he dismissed the accusations as politically motivated took a principled stance on his opponents detention refusing to campaign while he was locked up but once the vote was decided. Supporters celebrated victory on the streets i was confident basis aid would win i am very excited for my country in the past elections my vote never counted this time im very happy because the man of voted for has become president the president has seen his powers diminish after the 2011 revolution the Prime Minister and the parliament shape the domestic agenda i sayed places too