And welcome to rewind on the radio over the last 10 or so years here at aljazeera english weve built up an Incredible Library of Award Winning documentaries and on rewind were taking another look at some of the best of them and seeing whats happened in the years since they were 1st shown this week were going back to 2012 and a remarkable film from africas oldest republic the west african country of liberia and its capital monrovia where less than half the population can read and write and 64 percent live below the poverty line so with many of those people cut off from normal news sources one man decided to tackle the problem using just a bit of chalk and a large blackboard called the daily talk blackboard lists all the latest news in a simple language used by monrovias disadvantaged poor from the witness series in 2012 here is free press. Hello. Hello. You know what were doing is like this our responsibility its a mess over got the budget on you so youll recall we add them to information only from those who are the newsmaker so you wont ever see. Our job. For just leave and im the fun and create oh yes it did and the money they didnt talk. To create in people that will be on the street and everybody. Agrees people just believe that this clintons will never come into reality. But. Thats the kind of president his. I believe the people should be informed of what is happening. The leaders of the war really want to root harsh. It is this war that prompted the creation of the data i saw him eat the food wanting to be reform but there was there was no means of getting information soon the idea of the book came to me to deal talk news put that in the chalkboard news people and some to begin to click to music you can start it was just like. Starring. As sauce or refractory on the sin of wearing operation by some and will saletan i mean you are after you less so. It makes sense you had to. Get out more i want her to want to fight drug use. Every time i walk along the avenue i usually make a stop like 10 or 15 minutes in a reader and know what is going on iran in the city what is happening my country and around the continent. When the war was coming to the country people were forced to take you and they give you gone and the rich life to see you who are 5 you know. It happened to me. But i used to use 7 presses to. Take it for the 7. 00. The whole country where i was so i was compared to do it for my life. As like you take a call and go to hunt for animal in the forest and to take you and you hunting one another. Man in time of france friend of mine got one. Less loser. And even lose the life. Im an activist this is what i do to make a living. I use a bullet empty case and create straw. Our transformation from war to peace. This is how we meet here. This is the cross i just mean in front of you. Ok well now those dreams that i think. One of the problems my mom would have had with me for some time now is i dont stay with my family. Alone. You know she won a simple walk out of but now that i have who dont sit with the family every day shes busy this foreign rains a lot people call no story yeah ok let me call you by one family please yeah ok. New story i think i mean again. That all of the thing you know. All. Right here in the room. Always good every morning to get information. Information is a british beach you feel your sources. Say. Facts. Any ideas from war of. Many to go ahead one is not enough. So that we know where we can bring them back to get a religious and lots of folks just. Through the war my parents left me there anyway and they left me and i left alone. I. Cant ask. God gods son in messenger to risk you 1st see. As you go see this side no. We are trying to build a charge. And now now you come here to see a new beauty to your feet home p. C. s something is happening around you yes i think change is coming to liberia did each one would do is try to of like this is so doing to people feel that go is still with them. We all know. Where the body will form and hes hoping to be updated. By somebody that we dont know and then this is what im mumbling im told on the air by exactly how did you how being the boss involving 2 its things i believe will be what do you call me with the opposition. Alone. Good morning to our president i had this morning i would describe him in a bad. Light and. You know i just i mean. Im in about a dozen of us who are running away hoping that. One of when its good to get out of that you have an example of whats happened here that. I thank you cause when you. Look you. Know what it will all fall not all are not. Doing well what. Right i just got to. Leave you if you have been there and i. Made your point this morning you know what theyre pretty close to the mail well all i want to know where you are and its in the groups on the ballot you know. You see there by their voice if you look at it. And. You know us in general if you dont have the Signature Office you can get it used by just sitting you have to vote on the p. C. The arable land. I dont have t. V. And if you dont miss in the video game news if you dont mean the phone in the place were going to get news is from did it up. In the laundry. On my shift. I just had to do it to live. But. I am warning and believe such. And 1. 101 into right in. So. Well what to avoid a one in a going to have a 2 children. Who dont want to use it. In their own launches school ended today and. Not. Days who did it. And. Did it b. C. In. An response well they both live with me. Respond so to feed him take care of him. While. On of have me. For not. Now found no one yet. I dont lay for vent of bits on me. As mafia don dated. August of last year if i say i have doubt quite a hearts. As a kind of force here looking hung up. On him is not going to be a problem because were trying our country and what im saying. Given is me. And i can tell you this and to make it. Right in our media or from debut that. Its ours you have raised a number of a gene down. There without so many guys. Giving you know. You did it all helps to educate people. Who speak around so it got me interested. In crime i work i love doing it. Cos you book. It is to defy the me because. It is also. My country yeah. Input issues especially from china. And ive. Been using this. 5 years i wail almost every day. To all these. Issues. Are one day. To do it with. My dream. In the hour i will be very very discouraged. I mean me a pro all. The way and. Im good as premier now my life. Is not business. I dont want to sit and want better. So what you want to be in export their short term numbers and it is because your lab rummy you have your morning. I want to be made and. My usual possible is the white people and the lashon and people like you when people. In the evening time like this they can be on these beaches having a good time and we cant go there when the average blacks to be able to sell what i produce myself i feel happy. Does somebody say i walk on i was our overcome i was in jesus name. When a minister goes. To counseling people i feel much. In and out of tune a plan. That we have the good news for you. Now well what did i not bother to today know that it will be well with you in jesus name. Economic dialogue here that people are running for office the place you feel that job is not the left is again but today you are joining us today you look around you you are no longer you havent cosigned well if you know how people in the past that the past go for the past rocky then it is still hope for this country i want you to believe that if this possible in your generation now you can be the cause of the transformation of this country. The bureau would be one of the best country to walk in jesus name. By. Little what. I wanted. Or what to do. In my house. My real with my children. Is now behind. The deaf and dumb screwed when it was treated. The book then im now training. For our society in liberia. Yeah quiet it gives you a good job is is there a. While and then who is. So no longer bloody. So. You do to help them. I get. I get frustrated. Because youre you talking to they made you try to teach him hes not be attention to me. I was like mine dont take it i want to business im doing you know and if you are good enough to just do it. If you make some of the grew up passions for what you doing its like. Youre visions and wasnt. Going to. Be disciplined so when you say are legion you better go out to the land of the republic of liberia. One nation indivisible. With liberty and justice for all. Tara shall i go. For is happy. So thats nice a. Very funny bit in a new money in. The mood im very very optimistic. Right. Alfreds free press a wonderful film which was broadcast more than 6 years ago now so rotten show youre wondering what happened to alford what happened to his news chalkboard rewind went back to monrovia to find out what has become of the daily talk of alfred and his rate is. Low from the public on a daily basis of. Whats happening right now its a cycle. That doesnt change just before over the years you know. Really i am one of the we came a whistle which would inform the public about it. With factual information the information. People. Report everything that we see how we research it before. This is the news room this is where the news stories is published and its how its done you know like i said in newsroom is a junkie so. You look at these things i work with the good news with. This. New sticks that we have. Those stories and this is the story i have a lot of the board i have in the story. Its hard to work. On is. What youre for time and and do with your family 100 percent its very difficult you have to spend half of the time running out the stories you have to have time to research and all of these things. From where i come from any. Special. Story. In the press freedom it was difficult. Because what you publish people come after you you know it was a very tough. My shop was broken down it was the. It broke me because. Where i was a dog. Mateen man family anyway when it broke i just bet out all was lost i said though i get i get myself into. So i must continue to go out there and he also encouraged me im a keep it up so i did that a common starting a new friend called me obama used to make an issue that they had about my house so they didnt have better shoes and then i started. Believing in god that we were we had me one day and always i would do what i had timed out or does the b. B. C. What we were. Clark is preaching what we were. If you have the. Heroes used to put to good use you will have the money to people so you didnt get get your news from heroes news people and they get put out to. Get stand up point up with a refill. It did it better a Group Problem was not some town would make. The amount to buy a newspaper would get information on this say well. Yes you are really making a lot my hope for liberia is that one day liberia will not more equal opportunity for hollywood. And everybody will have a cesspool malakhov. Everyone with us as to who rose would what and how to end of the day lab euro got much better. But thats it for this week of course you can find out more about alfreds free press and watch other films from the series on the rewind page at aljazeera dot com im come all santamaria from the whole rewind same thanks for joining us. Jump into the stream and julian on Global Community this generation will have to create its own democracy with social media on as well online be part of the debate let me put some you tube comments to you when no topic is off the table is taking on all the systemic islands that people of color have suffered not only now but for decades we are going to be to transform lives the way he keeps human way to a business if were going to adapt to climate right out this street on out is there beyond going fight between donald trump and the golden state because of drones philosophy views endeavored to bully drones to conflict with belfour and exposes contrasting ideologies on immigration the environment economic and cultural issues trump is calling attention to the failure of the blue state model the battlegrounds for the 20 twentieths accent even impala reports on trump buses california on aljazeera. When you see big groups of people walking through europe theyre all individuals with children the law apes you have to hear all of them and to treat them with something that in respects. We believe. You know what you just said. We believe that. We have a strong case malays his former Prime Minister najib razak vows to clear his name after being sentenced to 12 years in prison for corruption. And im adrian for again this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the man tasked with ending the fighting in yemen tells the u. N. Security council is a real risk of a prolonged escalation of violence. Lebanon and on