there have been emotional scenes of them are the plant the naval base where relatives of the sun one crew are gathering many accuse the government of the liberally keeping them in the dark and letting the crew operate a submarine that was too old. you know the submarine wasn't found but they say it's three thousand meters below the sea so annoyed they don't tell you anything that's why i say they are swans they are wicked and have manipulated us they knew about it interpol says it's arrested forty people in a major operation against human trafficking in west africa five hundred people including two hundred thirty six children were rescued in raids in child mali mauritania new cher and senegal myanmar and bangladesh say they've signed a deal for the repatriation of range of refugees bangladeshi officials say the refugees will start returning home in two months but me and mark hasn't specified how many will be allowed back in more than six hundred thousand range of crossed into bangladesh since a military crackdown began in office the u.n.

is urging australia to protect refugees at the tension center it used to run in papa new guinea police a man a silent have tried to evict hundreds of refugees who are refusing to leave those are the headlines to stay with us one o one east is next and i'll see you tomorrow thanks for watching about. the head of the september twenty fourth national election survey showed germans a satisfied with the state of their economy this is easily estonia's biggest tech success story the company was bought by microsoft in two thousand and eleven we bring you the stories that are shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost at this time on al-jazeera. in china live streaming has become a massive grades and a booming multibillion dollar business they live online to an extent to which

people in the west would find it difficult to imagine coming all those years or to be a part of the out did you know that much already as well that there is big money for the country's cyber superstars to get any attention from somebody is just a sign that you exist in a very difficult environment and endless hours of entertainment for millions of diehard fans sure have you yes. yes yes i think. i know why you have. the great popularity can bring serious repercussions controversial life streamers attract the attention of the chinese government which is already shut down three major internet platforms and thousands of individual accounts i'm steve chad on this episode one of the nice meets the cyber celebs behind the great chinese firewall.

the other. i don't know if i answer yes oh well that's like i'm not trying to talk or i just might you know that i'm a lot of i don't know what hunger enough to. transfer me with a. yes phrase. but do you know if you know. what. the book. bag on got her that. she's my son my son. tristan measurement on that you should tell me about in all this i'm so so

so so yes i send. mail to you know. you. surely even will call. me a heart attack because i don't. mean he was here. broad logical long already it's all a drink of water to go from here yes he's a good friend. so i mean. she's your girlfriend. this self-confessed unemployable young man a fortune without leaving home. you won't say how much but it's enough to buy this apartment and a couple of others. a baby i say yeah baby i think

it's all going to you. as a live stream hundreds of thousands of people tune in to watch him talk and play the full making him one of china's unlikely superstar. i'm john on the out of my. face. now and. it's a high pressure act enhanced by a large dose of canned laughter. so.

that's what i wanted. to be ok. thanks to this so-called great file the chinese experience the internet differently to the rest of us. it's not facebook or twitter or even google connecting them to the rest of the world. stripped of everything from politics to point. hundreds of millions of chinese turn to live streaming platforms for their entertainment. for them it's worth paying for millions of people have taken to these platforms as sort of new social boat a way of communicating. as a way for the sort of lonely hearts these lonely young people to connect. the live streaming phenomenon has been an irresistible story of modern china for the los angeles times beijing bureau chief jonathan cayman so it's

a technology story it's a business story it's a social story and it's a political story all wrapped into one and it's and it's very it's unpredictable. streamer and comedian one show you one has over five million fans. there tuning in to his foolish antics in the same way we would consume hours of cat videos on social media so walk the dog. one of his biggest fans stops work every afternoon to watch how much time you spend watching streaming every day. so they self. talk how big. the chinese have

a special term for streamers and their fans. who hate on these. originally applied to online gamers who may not have many social skills but who are in their element online. it turns a community of nerds into superstars what your whole world will give out my word for it if you're not happy when they see you know the whole scenario if you were to look at what it. was lazy acts of violence. but that still bothered you. thank. you and these are one of the night of the toolbar where were you when there's a mail in the lead on what it. was . all about.

show you one earns a living thanks to the generosity of his fans buy him gifts using an online currency equivalent to china's one. child he. was always by and really. ready to go to be that you know what i have to deal with. it was. a letter with the. today show you one fans will buy him four and a half thousand virtual lipsticks worth about eighteen thousand dollars. around two thirds of that money goes to the streaming platform from the wrist to show you why on six thousand dollars isn't bad for a couple of hours work mr one probably doesn't need your supporters and if you

could watch a live streaming without any thing while you. leave your whatever it is you don't like also they really don't want either the null pointer value or the. government or the other you look which are they are too simple so you. just run to the side as it were that would only from internet. in china countless small acts of generosity by fans add up to a billion dollar industry. so you know.

one show you one enjoys the trappings of his success he's got an assistant who chauffeurs him from his new apartment to the one he's bought for his mother from the go around. not a good job. yeah. we don't tie. in with him but i do. show you one had a humble upbringing his parents worked for factories before being one redundant. they'd hoped their only son would take care of them in their old i never imagined

it would be like this. so it's you know you. have enough time. you'll have your daughter you know that's how i see that. how did you feel about getting involved in life for you when he was first starting out. you're looking for her name here. finally actually. there was. an alley because. the women don't tell you so nothing or nothing you know we. live streaming has created its own fan driven economy but in the west it's often used very differently. to broadcast protests or police

shootings. i know. there's no citizen journalism in china. but it turns out that even online silliness worries the government what. bothers the communist party about live streaming. is first and foremost how popular it is how many people are on it it's about people having the ability to interact. using channels that are beyond the government's control. the industry doubled in size last year and the chinese government is grappling with how to control it. in the last eighteen months there's been a crackdown on live streaming focusing on morality first in the sense of sites.

sexy banana e says there was one woman who gained a following for eating a banana in a sort of sexually suggestive manner and so the government issued a new edict banning the eating of bananas on that's a specific edict it was a specific edict from china from china's media watchdog that you can't eat a banana you can't eat a banana suggest you can't eat a banana and i suggest of manner while live streaming. since then thousands of streamers have been banned and strict new regulations introduced in july three major internet platforms were ordered to shut down their streaming service is impossible to overestimate the degree to which the communist party will go to maintain its grip on the discourse the government itself has hundreds of sensors and forces internet companies have their own teams of sensors that can number in the tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands that are tuned to the government's

demands they know where they have an idea of where the red lines are and it's their job to shut things down. to keep stream is online and the money rolling in the industry has taken. thank you. what. have. you the young is co-founder of red media company that's a kind of factory for live stream and.

sometimes has had to. push the button not to hum yet. so. i. want you to recap. this week i am. thank you ed.

for sure. it was hell fire. the hyatt howling out say they had seen using those on their own . home until the.

stream is done just have the government breathing down their necks they also have family on out to worry about. this or that. form want untenable me. i'm a young gun you laid it out in the you know when the. bill. called it in when you were you know to whom knowledge jungle of a town the from what i've seen with a phone. in the industrial city of tongue shun shall shin long is struggling to support his wife and young son as a taxi driver. but he dreams of riches and celebrity. if you want to go. on until six months ago he had a thriving career as a live stream and made these little comedy sketches with his wife.

but it's hard for a jew so full sun to pursue a career in life streaming if his parents disapproved. of the idea for your wife or law for offering you a. job in the to ben and. have a go he'll be in the other gardening and. the hunted down the unit. i asked shenlong if he could take me back to his village to meet his parents they lived through the cultural revolution when individual expression was suppressed. how do they feel about their son's ambition to be an internet star why didn't you want him to be live streaming on her. that's the way it was are her. wishes he lived wishing i hope i don't care at the diminished target audience

yes. yes yes i said you know i know. you know that. this was the worst you ask you why you're doing. this and you know what are you doing here. from his parents point of view shenlong might as well be from another planet but he knows china has changed and he's determined to embrace the future. cumbia into whether her want to because in the west and all of that he did on. the young. gun in the guts and whether the one in the rundown was ellen's and you're. now a former kano and with only a dream your after a six month break shenlong is going to have another crack at live streaming. in the

phone i want you to watch your. nine by her with her in the corner. so how are you. he realized that being himself wasn't enough to attract an audience . he's not alone. nice lady. is alter ego needed to be more confident and spontaneous. with. the dudes one million no twenty learning you know singer. well. then i plan on doing it on some very hard all. year and then

name of the year and i will make of the yes i will venture. shenlong can make more than two hundred dollars streaming for a couple of hours compared with forty dollars a day as a taxi driver. no wonder he sees live streaming as a ticket to a better life. whether they're from the countryside or the city anyone can become a stream and find an audience. but can i hold on to their stardom and stay within the government's boundaries at the same time. it doesn't actually do something like that you ok well. you know. since i want to do it i'll believe that you will have the general idea about

confidence and spontaneity can get you more fans. going too far can mean fall in foul of the senses. that's a lesson show you one learned the hard way when a live stunt brought his career tumbling down. he got drunk and then started streaming for you know in the end you know yeah i'm with this whole. the whole entourage paying i think about it to put you on on joke a. breaking the government's regulations on morality xiaoyu one got court with his pants down. on and i am sure but i you know it's funny it's all it was really you know it was as i went on your hands i see a lot of events as a young that i'm sure doesn't you know that you know sometimes again we'll it's a little bit of a city then there is also that. many of his fans were

devastated. with their favorite stream and gone it was a whole lives now until my mind you know you know your odds are piling up with the realize that i see on a pile on the whole. are worth. it and then you're going to get the one. show you once spent a year in limbo wondering whether he'd ever be allowed to stream again. tonight. colorado. runs a going you know i'm the guy. with the dogs or you know the pole from without forward a n.o.c. on. the whole side all day if i'm going about here so we are. going .

ok but actually i. wish. i was. back on line with one show you won and they usually come for the stream or seems to be a little camera shy. he knows self-expression is a double edged sword. you got a shot of that. that boundaries exist even if he doesn't always know when i. it's almost just i take knology off as a promise of freedom that can never quite be realized. yes i mean people say in china that people live in a cage here and yet the walls of the cage for many of the bars of the cage are so

far away that people don't know they exist or don't know where they are and i think the metaphor holds true for the live streaming phenomenon. the latest news as it breaks the last time senegal qualified for the world cup was in two thousand to fifteen years on it hope to do even better in russia next year with detailed coverage hard to imagine that only seven years ago people were living

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