now broking intersections all along the route which drive from north to south and south but there are five really generous elderly the fake who are stuck in the garden a long queue the protected will not allow them to move any farther because of the anger that they're expressing after the governor's race after the projected and all will be a promise that of course really mean problems for people. who are already suffering a ship carrying more than five thousand tons of flour has docked in the yemeni port of her data the first since the saudi led coalition started to see and advocate in while the un children's agency says it sent one point nine million doses of vaccines into the country unicef says a child dies every ten minutes in yemen from preventable diseases. during a presidential election that's widely expected to return incumbent to power. heads

the center right national party has been praised for bringing down the sky high murder rates and raising economic growth but critics say he's trying to tighten his grip on power is after he supported a coup against the previous president there's the headlines today with their next stop is one of many stops watching. in china live streaming has become a massive cranes 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 all the other did you know that much already as well there's big money for the countries 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 yes i think. i know why he had. 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 on this episode one of the nice meets the cyber celebs behind the great chinese firewall.

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so so yes i sent you know. mail trunk you know yeah yeah. surely. i mean a heart attack and. i don't know then when you see a. broad logical one already it's all a drink of water to go from here yes i guess right. 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. baby baby i say yeah baby i think

i may hold on to you. as a live stream hundreds of thousands of people tune in to watch him talk sing and play the full making him one of china's unlikely superstar. i'm john on the out of my. face. alan and. it's a high pressure act enhanced by a large dose of canned laughter. no sense for someone.

that's what i wanted. to be. thanks to this so-called great fire wall the chinese experience the internet differently to the rest of us. it's no 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 and it's a political story all wrapped into one and it's and it's very it's unpredictable. you. stream out 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 would you spend watching streaming everyday. guy. like self. talk how big is. 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 are the hold up on your devout followers ready to look at the hobbit when they see you know the whole scenario if you were to look at what it would be about lazy acts of violence or elbow. but that still bothered you. i don't help with that. when he's out of our house with a gun out of the tool box where were you when there's a will to the what you want to see what it. should i see in that noble that i said my god. book.

show you one earns a living thanks to the generosity of its fans by having virtual gifts using an online currency equivalent to china. to the. buyer and really. really. hard to be that you know i have to deal 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 wong probably doesn't need your support and if.

anything why you. don't. give us what it is you don't negotiate they really do want to know for sure why you are the. government of the devil you look what you're there you're dealing with so you. just run to the side. when only from italy. in china countless small acts of generosity by fans add up to a billion dollar industry.

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 void or. not and that's added a little bit. i was in here. just for the. i don't tie. in with him but i do. show you one had a humble upbringing his parents worked for factories before being made redundant. ok. they'd hoped their only son would take care of them

in their old i never imagined it would be like this. since you do it. so you have enough time. you'll have your daughter now that's how i see that ladies how did you feel about getting involved in life straight when he was first starting out. you're looking for her name here. but i don't know how to. finally actually. get. that one to an alley because it. really does have a life 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 census cites.

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 teams 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 streamers on line and the money rolling in the industry has taken. young is co-founder of red media company that's a kind of factory for live streaming. and they're all.

countries had to. play for me that's not a home yet. so. good. this week i am. thank you ed.

which it was horrifying i. would say though quickly going to have to using their own. home until the.

stream is done just have big government breathing down their necks i also have family on out to worry about. this or that. i'll from wanting to nibble me. on them i'm a young gun you laid it out in the you know where the. go. call that in when you when you know to whom knowledge jungle of the town the from when i sing with a from. in the industrial city of tongue shun in long as struggling to support his wife and young son as a taxi driver. but he dreams of riches and celebrity. they got. 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 light streaming if his parents disapproved. of the yes you know i phone while for offering you a a you know there. have been the two men. at a bit. of a help even the other i mean they were. by the hundreds on the unit. i asked shane long 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 when i heard. that story it was our where witches who lived wishing i hope i don't turn the diminished ordinary and yet

he told me yes yes i said you know i know. you don't mean. this one is that your ass is really like you to me so i was going. to what are you going to throw 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 you will come into whether her with her because in the west and all of the divine you. live with the young. one god in the gods and whether the law in the rundown was ellen's and you. know no one no. not our formal con no. one with only her with a mark on them but dream your after a six month break shenlong is going to have another crack that live streaming.

i know what your. feel. for whatever. you. know i mean. he realized that being himself wasn't enough to attract an audience. he's not a low. message to you. is alter ego needed to be more confident and spontaneous. with. the. well. i'm offline. and they're doing it all summer you. know and you and then they have the yet and i

will one 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 you should do things like that you're going. to do the only other you know they don't have any 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 don't yeah i'm with this whole. thing i think about even. breaking the government's regulations on morality xiaoyu one got court with his pants down. on and i am sure with. a fine is holy it is. as i want on your hands or flies in lot of us is a young that i was or to the human. heart again wields a little bit of a city then he is old when i have. many of his fans would

devastated. with their favorite stream and gone it was a hole and knives now hard till my mind you know you know you guys are pyro quitters and realize that i see on a pile all. our worth. as are the new going to get the one. show you one spent a year in limbo wondering whether he'd ever be allowed to stream again. too high. or low on. runs a gun you know one guy. committed odds are you know for somebody that's what i know is. the hole inside knowledge and if i'm going about here for me i. don't like it.

but. back online with one show you won and they usually confident streamer seems to be a little camera shy he knows self-expression is a double edged sword. so you got each other. that boundaries exist even if he doesn't always know where i. it's almost as though technology offers 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. in jakarta school students are taking up weapons to fight in deadly street battles . one on one used to investigate this violin phenomenon. at his time on al-jazeera. in syria thousands have disappeared without a trace. forcibly taken from their family where

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