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the phone to use uh, digging through the rubble using garden tools for each from a local media channels shows the volume is confused and exhausted. taking in the extent of the destruction, it's unclear how many people were living here. the last official census was 24 years ago, but it's estimated to be a few 1000 complicating recovery efforts, water flowing under the debris, causing rocks to shift and to tribal violence in, in the province. international assistance is on its way with a croft and equipment coming from australia. we have actually provided assistance in getting officials from the disaster response center to uh, the price of the, the incident over the course of the weekend. we'll continue to work very closely with the puffing, you can and cabinet. and the united nations says it's teams are on the ground, helping authorities to help temporary shelters, and distribute food and water. some survivors have shed their stories with local
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media. one couple trapped in the destroyed home for more than 8 hours of to bones is tumbled down the hillside onto the village. said they feared they would be crushed. death did the miracle they suffice. jessica washington to 0 mustang and the popular again a the prime minister james more off is likely to face a no confidence votes on tuesday comes as opposition. party members nominated form of finance minister rainbow painter. as an alternative, prime minister painter was among a group of 18 ministers who defected from the top as ponti, falling on resumes later on tuesday after 3 months recess. a volunteer firefighter on the tray, and as far as the official i've been charged with starting the wildfires that engulfed central chile in february over a $150.00 people were killed. prosecutors said they have evidence that the 2 suspects active deliberately. the knew what the optimal weather conditions would be . to stop the fires this he'd waited, sleeping through pots of pakistan,
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with temperatures rising about 52 degrees, the weather office at the southern pleasant. so i've seen this thing. i'm usually high temperatures. a number of businesses were forced to shut down, as many people have to stay in doors. he labels are expected to hit the city of karachi in the coming that his expert. so blaming it's on climate change. all right, so that's it for me down. jordan for now you kind of goes find much more information on our website and is there a dot com? there it is. it is continues here on out to 0 after the listening post. thank you, and thanks for watching bye for now, the next generation in the united states, they're not happy with what is happening in gaza. they're not happy with the u. s. foreign policy, and that's why they're trying to make their voices heard. the administrators of
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each university really have a choice to either escalate and call him police, be confrontational, or actually listen to what their concerns are. city stream of people being arrested, placed in the zip tie and cops and taken away. many of the purchases we've talked to have said they will continue protesting until their demands are met. india is now 4 weeks into the biggest electoral process on the planet. lorenz remote is everywhere on every channel, all over social media and his language is deeply devices. the i c c, the charges against israel and tomas and the coverage that tells its own story. and have you read that headlines on java? they're fix that for the to the election now underway in india is happening on a scale, but no other country can match with more than 950000000 eligible voters casting
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ballots over 6 weeks. and the various parties spending a reported $15000000000.00 on their campaigns. the bidding favorite is prime minister now runs remotely, and his hindu nationalist party, the b j. p gunning, for an historic 3rd term. india also has a media space like no other featuring more than 400 news channels. the vast majority of which do modi's bidding 247. and they stepped it up a notch, conducting an unprecedented number of interviews with the prime minister, lobbying softball questions. his way funding in front of the cameras. and yet even with all of those factors playing in the b, j piece, favor modi and the parties are their star. campaigners of leaned heavily into what they consider their primary election winning strategy, bashing indian muslims calling them infiltrators out to eat up national resources. it is dangerous language and it's being repeated over and over. because despite all
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of those interviews, no one is really holding the prime minister to account it is fitting that the world's largest democracy, india has the longest election process of them all over the 1st 4 weeks of voting. and with about a week to go and unexpectedly low turn out suggests that for prime minister and a wrench for moti and his party, the b j. p. things are not going according to plan one. sure sign of the prime minister who has spent 10 years in office, mostly avoiding interviews with the mainstream media. he's spending more time with journalists than ever before. 5 minutes, the movie very gets interviews. he does not forward press conferences. how ever? from the 31st of march to the 14th of may have give 41 interviews,
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which is quite the place. what these interviews do is make him front and set them on television channels in newspapers to remind people of his career law and his appeal. the reason for the noise that mister moody is its best trump card when it comes to elections, because he does better when it comes to national elections as compared to dispute and next. and the reason being that investment elections. mr. morgan is the fees that they're projecting. so you maximize the visibility of your best performer. can i be very blunt? these interviews are nothing but sort of unpaid political advertising designed to project the prime minister to a wide audience. so i brought up gave this up to little 3 and it's a, hey, i'm doing the, i'll give you something to put in the time or cheese, but bonita not go up like the ball will be what i bought to oscar. use the local
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mess. who's got there? the questions, i'm not searching the not challenging. they don't deal with the obvious problems that have come up and mr. movies, can you record that? i'm no follow up questions, vest print, and then when he comes we've been rented, we have different from what it was. indian journalists could argue that they're just out of practice after a decade of struggling to get access to the prime minister. they're now frequent exchanges with him well presented as respond changes and on scripted appeared to have been anything by part of the vast majority of indian news outlets, including almost all of the 4247 news channels are explicitly promo for reasons ranging from the ideological to the pragmatic in such a crowded media space, most outlets have come to depend on revenue from government advertising,
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which the b, j. p controls. media owners often own diversified conglomerates. there are other companies do business with b, j, p, governments in new delhi. and in various states, so it is in their interest to be in the party is good and to many news organizations to mention that have been critical of body of landed in legal trouble with the government, including the taxes or the selection of i would glad fence interviewers modi, choose us to talk to their for, can be as revealing as the questions those interviewers do or do not ask me how to get to the fact that some of the names that come to mind i wrote, will become the architectural tv 18. i think up to my from our times now are the swami from the top like gum or the not. busy from india to dates and other outlets
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such as n i c, i watched out any news that was drawn to interviews, there was some national dealings as well in the san dimas, in times of india and a couple of significant vision of the media outlets. none of these interviews are being drawn to to anyone who was known to be able to critic close the government or prime minister. i wouldn't ask the prime minister about his daily routine and what time he wakes up and what he eats for breakfast, or how he maintains his energy to the data. serious journalists should be asking about the problems of unemployment. the problems of jobless roles, price rise, and inflation. the fact that there are people in his party that continually played the rest of the rising politics on the ground. people who have been convicted of acts of terrorism who remain members of his part to get what he thinks about that. these are questions to ask. the prime minister of the country, write
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a record of his dom, the rest itself. the ground was uh, pretty clearly established because it cannot be and that's why you don't have follow up questions about pick a doctor up here one minus the other day. the fact is that today there's not a single channel that is willing to buck the trend. all of these outlets in english can be all in different reason. the language is, uh, so the whole into the government and so much in all, mr. monique, that you didn't have any kind of serious question. there have been rhetoric sections a missed all of the soft falls, a few hard heating questions, most notably about the unmistakable turn taken by moti ends, a b, j, p. in their election message to explicit muslim batch, split up name with a model because of the secret key that the sped. yeah. the stuff at the law is to kansas. i'm mad. i don't know if you sent me
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a pull the how do the use? i'm going to get you spell the a really good job, but to go back to the interviewer could have reminded most of some of his other campaign speeches containing coded rogatories language like that that has been long used to describe indian muslims, but she left him off the nor has moody been asked to answer for some of the ugly campaign ads. his party has pulled out. like this one, a cartoon depiction of rose guntee, the leader of the biggest opposition party, the congress, feeding muslims to the point where they out grow. other minority groups in india and rules, the rules basically making claims that the congress wants to see is private roads and redistributed among the slips. and he has been citing these claims to the congress of election manifesto. now if you look at the conferences election
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manifesto, these 2 claims to know what the future in, in, in that document. but whenever more the speak set, an election valley argues, speaks as an in an interview. these are broad teams that he's been focusing on the job the, the, this has sort of become the, you know, mean blank for major blank of the media is tempe, and i'm just, i'm moving him, says his own political campaign has gone back to org troops of the can do right where they are trying to sort of create a polarizing image of the opposition as a group of rag tag coalition fog div, that's going to eliminate or going to side line the majority in those. so that's been a very clear shift in message of the b b from the beginning of the election. the fact that he's gone back to the or sort of troops of him move up politics signifies the need for the b j. b to ensure that the base is not in the state of the civic
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ends at 10 years during the run for moody's rule. according to the reporters without borders press freedom in india has sunk from 140 s to 159 out of the 180 countries on fabulous with back track record. it takes a special kind of goal to say, as moody did last week, that his prior reluctance to get into and his continued refused to hold even a single press. congress is because of a quote, lack of neutrality in the indian media. media are the border. there is such a lack, but it works in bodies phase for that and then not again to suggest otherwise does not inform indian voters. it leaves them missing for the agenda of the media is to ask difficult questions of those water box. and the whole purpose of living in a democracy is that the leaders present themselves for questioning. i'm. i'm not
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afraid to answer questions because uh, that's the way journalism is. what the world considered as news uh on tv. you do not have that and then get to the you have propaganda. outlets. things will get much worse. obviously, if mr. moody comes back to par. i barely watch television news in india any more? my says i can't bear to watch it. the i'm on screaming at each other all the time. it sounds pretty much in the bottom. what would happen in another? don't just more of the same and as long as, as an audience and keep delivering, that's beside tools, right? there's a reason why indian use television was on the safe control is the only 90 because it was a very fall of communication propaganda, whatever. today, if you don't need to be government going to be part of the propaganda machine, we just are, the bigger your business, the more reliant you are on the government for money. and therefore,
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the more willing you want to do the governments building, whoever the government of the day made this past week, the international criminal court announced its intention to seek arrest warrants for leaders in both israel and of how mos, the reaction from tel aviv and washington has been fast and furious, tara nelfa has been following how it all unfolds. well, this was an historic decision by icvc, prosecute a kareem khan the 1st time the court has targeted assisting western back leader. in this case, benjamin netanyahu for war crimes and crimes against humanity. there was some unusual choreography in the way the announcement was made. hon went public before the arrest warrants, were approved, which may be a sign of the pressure he is under. he puts out not just an official statement on social media, but also this prerecorded interview with sienna. we're not going to be swayed by the different types of threats, some of which are public. and so maybe, you know,
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this court is built for africa and for sucks like putin was what one senior leader told me the i think the prosecutor was talking about the intimidation. he and his office have come on the in recent weeks where he also revealed how western need of view the quotes and the kinds of lead as it should. the few. while the icpc has had an open investigation into the situation in palestine for more than 2 years, con, chose to now are his focus to war crimes committed since october the 7th, which has done little to modify israel and 5, mister con, texas place of the great anti semites in modern times, labor and critics anti semites, is hardly new material for is ralph prime minister. he then followed up with a series of interviews with us networks, which included this band conceal of threats. he delivered on a b, c. i'm not concerned at all about our status. i think that the prosecutor should be
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concerned about his status reactions in the us have been similar. president joe biden called the licensee and susan, outrage, us, many of us have pointed out the us government's hypocrisy in protecting, as well as and community, given how into the optic they agreed to be arrest warrants issued for vladimir putin. while the media and political debate rages on about the icbc decision, israel continues to masika name and stuff, palestinians, and garza including and rough, which president biden one said with a red line. thanks. talk. in 8 months of the war on god, media coverage, especially from outlets in the united states, has been torn apart by critics, the repeated inaccuracies, the grudge of taishan. i'm just really talking points. the striking absence of context. such failings can jump out at you because often they're in the headlines. copywriter is committed all kinds of journalistic sense and sometimes try to
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justify them by saying that headlines need to be brief. but the results can be in complete, misleading text. that is quite often at odds with the reporting the false. and since many readers never get past the headlines, the misinformation contains there can have an effect on public opinion. one historian, also a rod has been on a journalistic mission to fix those headlights. she's been tweeting them out with stripe, through annotations, and protects her work has gone viral because it's so on point. we spoke with also a rod about how an american academic has found herself patrol in a small but significant corner of the 4th state. the world of headlines, my name is s, all right, and i am the historian of the modern released. and since the beginning of this war and actually before this war, i have been correcting headlines the
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as a historian. i know how important narrative and story telling is and the way that the story is being told in the western media especially, is not right. and it's not accurate. the so i tend to focus on headlines because the reality is most people don't read beyond them. the often news content is payroll or people just don't have that much time within their day to dedicate every topic headlines do, catch the eye though, and the shape the way that people think about the, the framing of stories on palestine. israel in the western world, particularly the u. s. has always been very one sided these headlines and stories. and the way they're written, the use of language. it's all deliver it and all intention. and i wanted people to see how simple change of words could improve the way the stories are framed in the
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journal isn't one pattern i see so often is headlines that whitewash israel's culpability. and war crimes by not even mentioning the word is really an original headline. from the new york times reads strikes, pound drop off flattening large law. and this is an older headlines since before the recent attacks. we're seeing the roof on now. there's so many issues with this one. but let's start with the most clearing which forces behind the strikes israel, right? so why is that not mentioned? it's an old mission and not emission is not accidental because you see a pattern of it happening. event strikes. you could have at the 3 letters and made it very clear that they were in fact airstrikes. there's a mention of alpha, but no reference to the fact that it's in gaza that causes a part of the policy new territories. and this might confuse people who aren't
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knowledgeable about the entirety of the geography, but also the fact that russia is the last refuge for postings. and this trip is so important. i mean, that's the reason why rafa is in the news. and in the headlines the 1st place, you know, there might be a counter argument that says, uh, well, all the details or what the entire article is for the headline doesn't have to give all of that away. but you see that the addition of just a few words makes it very easy to bring the context into the headline. and then you can explain the details in the body of the piece. but this headline in its original form. so problem not a because it attributes basically nothing to know why. you're not clear where this is taking place. you don't know what exactly happened and you have no clue who didn't. thursday's attack has been described as a massacre of civilians. hundreds of starving palestinians had gathered to collect food aid when they were attacked. so this headline was published after the flower
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massacre, which happened in february of this year. where we saw a really horrifying footage of palestinians killed while trying to get to the headline reads in k otic, seen, many are killed and wounded as is released open fire, which is just an absurd way of phrasing what happens. so one of the 1st problems with this phrasing is it makes it seem like chaos is inherent to the situation because it's causes not because of the extra nal forces. specifically, these really forces that are causing the situation. also, it wasn't a chaotic scene, it was a messenger. and to call it a chaotic scene is just an obscene way of talking about it. but headline also says many are killed and wounded. they've used passive voice to describe a situation with more than a 100 starving people. people who are being deliberately starved, chilled, is really forces open fire on them as they were trying to get food from the aid convoys. that's what happens when you look at reporting from other conflicts,
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like russia's war against ukraine. you see the difference in language used very quickly. in this headline, how russia is using ukrainians, hunger as a weapon of war. you can see very clear the there's no passive voice. russia is named as the responsible party and just crime that it's committed by russia. it's stated clearly in plain english, most of ukrainians are named as the victims. if you notice, i underlined that line a residence of variable ukraine because that's not how palestinians and goals are talked about. writers use cozzens rather than palestinians, so ukrainians in a specific location. a new cream are still called ukrainians. but in the case of gaza, too often, there are no references to palestinians. and this goes back to the idea of how not just in the media, but also in our political discourse. how sign is fragmented? the people might not understand the cause of the west bank, east jerusalem. they're all part of
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a palestinian state. they're all post to me in territories. and if you single out cause without explaining that they're posting news, you're essentially separating garza from the larger issue of palestinian statehood and liberation. and this falls into and is really pattern of racing posted in identity and posting in statehood by treating each of these illegally occupied territories and their people, a separate entities, people in gaza or palestinians, and journalists should call them that new share. a lot of headlines from the onion, it's a satirical new site in the us and their headlines are supposed to be a joke. they're supposed to be a humorous exaggerations, that sort of put a mirror of society and politics. and especially the way that our own media covers events, but some of the onions or posts on this particular issue on israel palestine and the us as role in it. they almost read like predictions. we've come to the point
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where the situation with gaza has become so atrocious, but the audience headlines have become pretty spot on. this headline reads. nathan, y'all, who assures critics he still has the utmost respect for us money and the context in which i shared it. was that nathan, y'all who had cancelled a visit, buying his really delegation to washington d. c. because the us finally didn't veto a cease fire resolution at the united nations. they did everything and this was back in march of this year. they did everything to undermine the resolution still by calling it non binding, but they didn't actually veto it. but need to know who it wasn't sold, said that he turned down the $3300000000.00 in tax pair of dollars. but the us is giving is real to funded tours. he was very quick in fact, to thank america for that money. mind you this and i mean had like, is from originally 2015 when the obama administration was at odds with amazing
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young government. but despite those very clear disagreements, obama still handed is real. $38000000000.00 package of military 8 over 10 years. that was the largest of his con years later. the onions headline is still applicable because nation, y'all, who's doing power. he's still snubbing the us and undermining us policy and international law. and he's still getting billions of dollars, which is happy to get the when you talk about mask off gaza is really shred it anything that resembles the sort of world order that we had become accustomed to sharing western powers specially the united states and mainstream media in the us champion for such a long time and they're still using that language. but with such an egregious level of the prophecy that everyone can see it now. and i think that's the part that's resonating with so many people with these headline corrections. the state of israel
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seems to be able to get away with anything, anything and not be held accountable. and the fact that the media so complicit in this process that it continues to whitewash israel's crime and parent basically, whatever the us is, official line is. it's a real application and it's, and these incomplete and accurate headlines are shaping how people speak. and that's where i think it's so important point. now the, and finally, the ongoing case against the julian assange may well have taken a major turn this past week. the by the administration is pursuing a science for wiki, lexis publishing of classified documents, exposing american war crimes, interact, and afghanistan. this week, british judges granted assigns the right to appeal against extradition to the us. so to make the case that he would not get a fair trial there, the judges zeroed in on washington's failure to promise that if expedited assange
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and astray and citizen would be entitled to the same constitutional protection that americans get under their 1st amendment. which states cards, freedom of speech, supporters of assange say that this ruling provides more than just a glimmer of hope. it is a potential turning of the tide. but after 5 years in a maximum security prison in the london julian assange could be a free man. in a matter of months and then a case that has implications for journalists around the world. that's big news. what's the next time? here at the listening cost? on a car travels to vote on syria saying he's back to hell are you will come back. are you excited for no file but not in the eyes of his government. with my citizenship was revoked. i was surprised. a new 3 part series detailing the struggle is
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the healthcare collapses in southern gaza. rough estimate and hospital shuts down off the 2 medical stuff are killed in his rainy attack just outside its front tools. the other ones are in jordan, this is a red line from the also coming up is reading forces scales 7 people in and i've talked in the rough on the day after striking a displacement. cam killed at least $45.00 spell stands for voting of international outcry. we recognize both the state of israel and the state of palestine, precisely because we want to see a future of normalize relations between 2 people.

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