Should it come to that will be must watch t. V. Were looking at other media stories that are on our radar this week with one of our producers tarik not tarak one year ago this week the saudi journalist im all for shock she walked into that saudi consulate in istanbul where he was suffocated killed and then dismembered the cia has concluded that the man who ordered that killing was the Saudi Crown Prince mohammed bin solemn on known as and the us this past week and b. S. Went on c. B. S. s 60 minutes in the u. S. To defend himself how did that go through richard 101 from on 1st appeared on 60 minutes back in 2018 c. B. S. Of Norah Odonnell themed rather impressed with. This time around she was much more forceful did you order. Absolutely not you know this was a heinous crime like those but i take full responsibility as a leader in saudi arabia especially since it was committed by individuals working for the saudi government is a pretty weak response because mohammad been found mine is the found a government and a killing of a high profile citizen on foreign soil would never have been carried out without his faith all right but he was just one target of riyadhs campaign against internal dissent he was a journalist had that platform in the Washington Post his story was always going to get a lot of targets but c. B. S. Also asked about female dissidents in saudi arabia who have also spent time in prison how did n. B. S. Deal with that so the question was about a new general how to rule who story is when we him much less about shes a womens rights activist who was kidnapped from the u. A. E. Back in march 28th seen and has been imprisoned in fighting ever since i dont know. About reports that have lewd has been tortured while in jail this is how he responded. If this is correct it is very heinous islam forbids torture the saudi laws for be torture of human conscience forbids torture and i will personally follow up on this matter as you can imagine this exchange has generated a lot of debate online not least among saudis i spoke with the activist and blogger a member and shot about the interview on 60 minutes. Obviously hes contradicting himself because in the previous interview that he didnt previously on the same show he said that the woman had been arrested because there was evidence against them but now hes saying that he doesnt know havening i believe is fully aware of it and the fact that theyve been keeping her away is kind of for a red flag that there is something happening decided government is trying to hide it and perhaps one of the reasons why they didnt have more is its own prison because theyre afraid that shes going to speak to the International Community about what happened that was a moment shot on female activist still in jail for still paying a price in fact arabia a year after her shock to killing ok thanks to our. Indias Prime MinisterNarendra Modi has honed the art of the political spectacle the rallies the rousing speeches he held want to couple of weeks back that attracted 50000 people including donald trump in Houston Texas it was the 15th 4 in rally mode he has held why its not as though modi supporters with foreign citizenship can actually vote in indian elections but they do have money theirs is amongst the wealthiest immigrant communities in the u. S. So houston was a fundraising opportunity that neither modi nor trump could afford to pass up the Indian Diaspora has other political uses that modi is tapping into back home when an indian emigrant is seen as having made it abroad as a lawyer a doctor or a tech whiz and they support modi that reflects well on the Prime Minister and it all gets fed into the well oiled modi media messaging machine the listening posts may not be now on or around remote he is careful clever use of overseas indians to appeal to voters on. Houston Prime Minister met in the movie has a problem already by. Actually he has a few if you would indias Prime Minister which images would you rather see on Television Screens back home hundreds of foreigners descending on the capital new delhi in protest soldiers deployed across in lockdown trying to keep a lid on the geopolitical powder keg crowds of people protesting you your partys ideology and policies. Would you prefer a picture is like the. 2 50000 supporters most of the indian americans. Filling a giant stadium and cheering at your rally the american president standing alongside weaving its supporters and walking hand in hand with you which pictures would you choose. More the currently is besieged on a number of fronts the economy is in a shambles kashmir is another burning issue increasingly youre getting a fair amount of negative International Attention so this was a show of strength for modi and its also a message sent both to his supporters that we will do what we want to do we are standing strong and a message sent to his detractors that i remain unfazed by your criticism i could clearly see that mr moody was on a damage control mode at a time when things were slightly sour between india and the United States of america especially when it comes to trade. So actually houston i could see that he was making that pitch to the United States and was also making sure that everything is hunky dory between india and the u. S. And particularly between the 2 personalities mr modi and mr trump the socalled how the mood in houston was just the latest of 15 foreign rallies modi has headlined since coming to power in 2014 and President Trump is just the latest foreign leader to stand alongside him. Back in 2015 it was london David Cameron and an even bigger crowd of 60000. As Prime Minister modi has travelled out to be a nearly 100. 00 times visiting some 60 countries whether its new york johannesburg. To spend an inordinate amount of time on the road with communities Building Political ties and forging political narratives. Trying to bring everyone together you know we might be british you might be american but were still indian and have indian heritage. For no one really is proud to say theyre from india india was some sort of you know remote 3rd world country that no one really gave any importance to seeing Prime Minister nor they go out to Different Countries just make people feel proud to be injured i think mr modi and his b. G. Have understood the power of the diaspora very well and they have been able to tap into this power like nobody else has what is different about the current diaspora is that they have the means the internet with no air travel to be able to actually access their motherland very easily which are the waves of indian immigrants would not have been able to do and what the be to be has done is take this idea that india is your motherland and you have gone elsewhere to work and you can be loyal to abort. The b. G. P. Korten of the overseas indian did not begin with the more the government the practice began way back in the 1930 s. And by the turn of the century b. G. P. Leaders like Prime MinisterAtal Bihari Vajpayee were staging annual events and celebrating the successes of indians abroad in this years general election where in their movies b. G. P. Harnessed the diaspora constituency and it delivered staging promo the flash mobs in cities around the world and donating dollars pounds and their hands to the cause campaigning in the Worlds Largest democracy is an expensive business and tracking all those overseas donations is not easy since the system is deliberately opaque but this much we know when it comes to fundraising the b. G. P. Run circles around its Congress Party competition theyre a source of tremendous capital those dollars are very very valuable the 2nd point id say is that just in terms of influence right that this many of these people may not be able to hold but they have family members they have relatives back in india when you combine it with the ways in which information spreads on whatsapp they just sort of become these amplifiers of certain kinds of information on narratives about india and finally i think symbolically the Indian Community here is seen as a model minority or community of achieve us so if more they can claim those people as his own he gets again a certain amount of symbolic capital so to speak. As Public Relations events movies fodder and alleys dont just play to one audience the diaspora theyre also targeted at indians back home the rallies are live streamed live tweeted and more than anything they are made for t. V. It was. Close. Indian t. V. Channels have seemed amongst the most eager to jump onto the Prime Ministers bandwagon there are vested interests of owners genuine ideological alignment in some cases and often just commercial good sense because of all these popularity with increasingly nationalist masses to go wall to wall when he puts on a show like his brand. Going cold go day by day thats where the big debate coming up all the other side out there are like this morning trump mostly the media in india is largely progovernment so very few have had reports on the anti war the rallies that were happening in houston in boston in new york that will not be emphasized in the indian media what will be emphasized is mr trump. Endorsing mr moore the mr moore the endorsing trump etc so Media Management has a big part to play everyone is entitled to their opinion and it is an open free and fair democracy there is freedom of the press if you watch the engineers are extremely critical of Prime Minister monti and the b j p government more so than other foreign channels i think. Everyones just really sick to death of reading the news every day and so when movie doesnt address the International Community i think people that are willing and open to listening to him i already know the facts and they would know what actually is happening and he would hes done is actually for the benefit of india that last point is debatable the overseas rallies clearly benefit Prime Minister modi hes vetted by the many countries he visits is granted awards by governments of countries like saudi arabias russia and the United Arab Emirates even by organizations such as the bill and Melinda Gates foundation but the stated reasons for all those foreign trips is not to boost the movie brand or to provide more content for all the indian news channels in his corner it is to attract more investment into india are now better trade deals and to boost exports and all of that hasnt quite materialized 1st of all they took or were as the Prime Minister in 2014 between 20142019 he made the only one with more than that which was almost double the number of the trip that his previous estimates to montmorency had made but have they been very effective to take back investment to the country i doubt that because statistics show otherwise india is the 3rd largest investor in the u. K. The u. K. Is the 3rd largest investor in india this was the story even before 2014 and its continues to be what this should be seen as the more this spectacle is not just about more the end in. An america if theres about a sort of Global Politics of emotions and passions and the strong man populist leader and what this value is telling us that is the populist need of the world coming together and been doing constituencies through it they all have a similar vocabulary and these kinds of events are schalke acing their vocabulary and they can. To the best of the ones and this is about a certain Global Politics which we all need to keep an eye on. And finally gretta to unberth 16 year old climate activist as you have never seen or heard her before tune bergs been taking a lot of flack from socalled climate skeptics and elements in the right wing news media with an axe to grind although theyd probably prefer a chainsaw because it runs on petroleum they have gone after her over her Mental Health theyve depicted her as a victim of parental abuse the political left as well as a pawn of the liberal news media to berg called out political leaders for not doing enough on Climate Change at a speech at the un last week and when a metal head a drummer from new york city heard that speech and the language that she used he decided that her passion and her outrage were worthy of a musical make over the result 3600000 views and counting is the stuff of which metal means are made well see you next time here at the listening. If you. Care. To planes came from studio b. And 15 and check in now to tell us that your mom. Thinks it is possible to fully clean the premises and skeletons but what you then dave is evidence that you have pretty clean mistake wanted to give an excess of the stuff is speaking about the old india before even the saudi government give up with just a Jamal Khashoggi modernist. Saudi consulate on aljazeera. Iraq lifts a curfew in the capital offer at least 73 people are killed in days of antigovernment protests. This is al jazeera live from also coming up more unrest in hong kong offered like a violent protest forced the city to shut down its rail services. U. S. Democrats subpoena the white house for documents related to their impeachment inquiry but the president says he wont cooperate plus. Im a clown reporting from the waters off the coast of French Guiana right on the my great tree roots of whales and other marine species listen to the sounds of the city. A curfew has been lifted in the iraqi capital and other areas which have seen days of violent protests at least 73. 00 people have been killed including 6 members of the Security Forces parliament is expected to hold an emergency session to discuss the protesters demands imran khan reports from baghdad. Protesters take cover under a bridge in central baghdad as gunshots ring out scenes like these have led to Strong Political reaction religious leaders and politicians taking the protest movement seriously. The speaker of the parliament mohamed. Is now publicly backing the movement. Well you must pay tribute to all the young heroes whose weapons were their words to convey their message to all the institutions of the iraqi state for the need to proceed with the real reform and the need to Pay Attention to the peoples livelihood influential shia cleric look how to also that also issued a statement saying that the government should be dissolved and new elections held the iraqi Prime Minister. Appealed for calm but his words are seemingly having little effect. The promises by the Prime Minister are to fool the people and they are firing live gunshots out us this was a peaceful protest they set up these barricades and the sniper sitting right there since last night grand ayatollah Ali Al Sistani issued a letter which was read out by his representative. And we hope that the voices of reason and logic can prevail for the best interests of the country all the officials have the responsibility to make the right decisions to move forward everyone should be aware of the danger. Excessive violence before the student 8. The government says its listening to approaches his demands and will hold an emergency session on saturday one of the main political books also issued a statement saying the government must implement sweeping reforms within 10 days other political blocks of boycotts at the problem and recession saying it doesnt have an agenda. Theyre feeling. The age of the protestors has surprised many in iraq but with a young unemployed generation its perhaps unsurprising that frustration has turned to anger and anger and violence the trend seems to be that the protests are intensifying and and certainly they will they will continue i think one question is whether they are brain celebrations or professions coming up might have some effect on breaking the momentum but certainly the there is a lot of momentum behind these protests. In baghdad there are checkpoints every few 100 meters and mobile patrols drive through the streets tension on the streets remains high several countries of war next it isnt against travel to iraq neighboring iran has shut 2 of its main border crossings with the country and the United Nations has said that the government must open a dialogue with the protesters but given no protest leaders have emerged its unclear who will open that dialogue with iran current aljazeera baghdad some protesters have gathered in Central Hong Kong despite calls to Council Demonstrations on saturday and the citys Metro Service being shut down many protesters are covering their faces in defiance of the citys lead to banning. Has more from hong kong. Despite the late message going out by protesters on saturday that the events of the day had been canceled hundreds of people still gathered in causeway bay that grew into thousands and this is a march thats going toward the one shy area now its very interesting because the protest movement they said that they wanted to cancel the events to save up for on sunday because they say theres going to be a very big day on sunday now as this is transpiring there was a video message released from kerry lamb the chief executive of hong kong enters into what she said she called wiod tears on friday the violence carried out by rioters on friday as a justification for the mass ban that she put into place and obviously as you can see on the faces of these marchers today they are defying that ban and you can probably see more of that expecting much more of that on sunday because multiple events are planned and thats why the organizers initially said they wanted everyone to stay home and rest up for a big day on sunday well chris chang is with the Hong Kong Free press he says the rail Network Shutdown is significant. Its a very unprecedented shutdown with all stations been shut the last time we see so its trying to shut down was a few days ago to national day where more than 40 station been shut down but the 1st time that organizations had been shut down there was some major damage in some of the stations including shots here in one called the fires from there. The entrance gate being destroyed but its not order station being targeted the most see is some protest fashion that she points in different areas that have been targeted but after all these protests in certain areas the n. T. R. Corporation decided to close or to say she presumably in a preemptive action to stop. Any further damage to stations or some injure more destruction some do not have much destruction and. There was a rally planned for tonight but we dont know if it will go on right now as far as we can tell from social media the current call for action right now is actually have a rest day its that or doing any street protest because its not easy processes to get to any area or leave any area so for now until the end of the public transport receptionist services the action for processus scene it will be in action and yet some arrests us House Democrats have subpoenaed the white house for documents relating to the impeachment quire into the President Donald Trump says he wont cooperate until the house of representatives votes to approve the investigation this comes as Text Messages have revealed how much pressure ukraines president was put under to investigate trumps political rival joe biden how did joe castro has more from washington d. C. Think q. It appears ukrainian leaders clearly understood what President Trump meant when he spoke with the ukrainian president by phone in july and asked for a favor the favor was a ukrainian investigation into trumps political rivals at home the payoff an invitation for president Volodymyr Zelinsky to visit the white house and the evidence one day before the call kurt volker the former u. S. Special envoy to ukraine sends a text message his alinsky aide heard from white house will go writes assuming president z. Convinces trump he will investigate get to the bottom of what happened in 2016 we will nail down date for a visit to washington then after the call ukrainian official andre your mac tells us diplomats once we have a date will call for a press briefing announcing among other things barista and election meddling in investigations bryza is the gas company linked to the son of former us Vice President joe biden the Text Messages released by house investigators show u. S. Diplomats and tribes personal attorney Rudy Giuliani continuing to pressure ukraine to draft a statement announcing an investigation but none was released then in late august the ukrainians learned of trumps decision to withhold nearly 400000000. 00 in u. S. Military assistance the u. S. Ambassador to ukraine bill taylor appeared incredulous texting i think its crazy to withhold Security Assistance for help with a Political Campaign the response came from ordinance on land a wealthy hotelier and trump donor who was appointed ambassador to the e. U. I believe you are incorrect about President Trump intentions he writes the president has been Crystal Clear no quid pro quos of any kind there is 000 that was exactly what i saw at that salad bar that that. Defending trump came just as the u. S. Media was catching wind of a whistleblower report accusing trump of wrongdoing in his call with the ukrainian president thats whats launched the impeachment inquiry now targeting the president democrats heard from another witness friday the Intelligence CommunityInspector General who investigated the whistleblower report we have evidence of Text Messages between state Department Officials expressing concern as early as may that Rudy Giuliani had a jew there was a giuliani biting thing going on that had concerned a state Department Official we have evidence that a state Department Official was concerned that there was a linkage between Security Assistance and as he described a domestic Political Campaign democrats are trying to build a compelling case for impeachment not only to convince the American Public but also Senate Republicans it would take a swell of republican de factors to remove trump from office and thus far theres only been a trickle. Castro aljazeera capitol hill. Well joe biden says trumps behavior is erratic and puts National Interests at risk im worried that he gets so one hinged of the year left to go in this new stray shoe he does something really really really stupid in terms of our International Interest i dont mean about an election thats already hes hes basically knowledge hes trying to get people interfere in our election but other people decide who the candidate was going to be but the fact of the matter is i worry and you do too in your heart the fact of the matter is you know you wonder what this guys going to do have you ever seen a rhetorical question a president ever so on do as this guy is. Still trumps president ial Reelection Campaign is reported to be among accounts targeted by a Hacking Group linked to the iranian government the Reuters News Agency says attempts to access as accounts were im successful microsoft has confirmed that hundreds of accounts were targeted by the group known as phosphorous they include those of current and former u. S. Government officials journalists and prominent iranians living abroad classical hain has more from washington d. C. This is a pretty unusual move but it shows how much things have changed for Tech Companies since the 2016 election microsoft making this announcement saying for the 1st time in this new election cycle that they believe a Foreign Government backed hackers tried to get access to a president ial campaign and theyre not saying exactly which campaign and again this is microsoft alleging irans involvement without actually providing any proof but the allegation is that it wasnt just the president ial campaign it was former and current government officials journalists prominent iranians in america and they said it wasnt a very sophisticated attack of the almost 2700 people they tried to