and the main opposition party have declared victory in the country's presidential election despite official results yet to be declared by the nation's electoral court incumbent president one. is seeking a second term as leader. and there. is the official tally records have been coming in it's more than clear cut we won this election that's what these exit poll returns clearly show one opposition leader salvador nasrallah the speech of the president's claim instead saying that he's the rightful winner. the results show that more than thirty percent of the ballots are being tallied anyway i read the opposition and the selection will not accept anything physical ballot results. the saudi led blockade of yemen has been partially lifted after three weeks medical supplies have been flown in and the first ship carrying food has been unloaded millions of yemenis are on the verge of starvation after years of war and tight restrictions on imports including a pope francis has left frame for

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people in the west would find it difficult to imagine coming all those years or to be a part of the audio video that you see that much already as well there's 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 to 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.

the other. i don't know if i answer yes oh well the talk i've got time to talk or i just want my i don't know that i'm a lot off i don't know what hunger enough to. transfer means a. yeah phrase. but do you know. what sort of book. because you know quite a bank account broker that. to my son my son's. a measurement on the us for ten years i don't know. what it's like. but yes i sent you know. mail trunk you know.

surely. i mean a heart attack. and i don't. mean he was here. broad logical long already it's all a drink of water to go home here yes he's a good friend. so you write. your girlfriend. this self-confessed unemployable young man a fortune without leaving home. he 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

i told him yes i do want to 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 johnny on my. own 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'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 you spend watching streaming every day. 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 your whole world will be about what was really like in the hobbit when they see you know the whole scenario if you were to look at what it. was lazy to survive the job elbow. but that still bothered with. people you know i don't help with. these out of our house where they don't know to go to hardware and when there's a mail to them what it will lead or what it. should i assume that you know that i might all. we're going to.

show you one earns a living thanks to the generosity of his fans by him. using an online currency equivalent to china's one. child the. buyer really. really. got to be that you know i had to deal with it well you know it was. the letter of the. today show you ones 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 supporters and if. anything why. she didn't actually. give us what it is

you don't negotiate they really don't know for sure why you are the. government is the question whether you love what you they. just love the other side or is it that with money from internet. 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 lord or. not and that's added a little bit when 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 know you.

have enough time. you'll how do you heard on that. last year that the ladies how did you feel about getting involved live stream when he was first starting out actually. you're looking for her name here. but i don't know how to. finally actually. get. that one to you and i like because it's. the only friends family so not that i know that 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 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 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 a 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 the number in the tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands that are a tune to the governments 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. young is co-founder of red media company that's a kind of factory for live stream. and they're all. the. time to head to such a. place for me that's not

a hobby at. yeah . that's how. i am. thank you ed.

which it was horrifying. the hyatt howling out say the wizard and had to using on their own without. come until the. stream is done just have big government breathing down their necks they also have

family on a to worry about. this or that. for more than tenable 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 the town the former were not so were they from. in the industrial city of tongue shun long as struggling to support his wife and young son as a taxi driver. but he dreams of riches and celebrity. if you want to thank god. i'm there 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. and join the w yeah your life or law for offering you a. job in the to ben and the. public will help you be in the other i mean it. the hunted down the minute. 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. that's the way it was after her wishes he lived wishing i hope i don't care at the diminished heart of any and yet she told me yes yes i said. i know. you don't mean.

this one is the worst yet i ask you why you are all those and also 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 you enter with her with her because without all of that he did on you. and the young. gun in ignorance and what did the in one sentence and you. know no one know. our former kano. and with only hold on them but dream your after a six month break shenlong is going to have another crack at live streaming. in the phone i want you to order. one

for you from. her with her in a corner. how are you. he realized that being himself wasn't enough to attract an audience. it's not a low. message maybe it. is alter ego needed to be more confident and spontaneous. what about. the deeds when leno twenty learning or zinger. well. there. and then you don't see more you. know would you and then they have the yes and i will 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 and at the same time. doesn't actually do something like that you know. we have. to do it all the legally other you know 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. thing i think about even the an ounce ok. breaking the government's regulations on morality xiaoyu one got court with his pants down. on and i am sure that the whole ship with. son is holy it is really you know it was there is no one on your hands or flies you know out of the dance of the young so that i was sure to the human. heart again we'll it's a little bit of a city then the years old when i had. many of his fans would

devastated. with their favorite stream of 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 also you know the whole from without for what i know is still. haunted knowledge and if i'm going about it here for me i. don't like it.

but. back on line with one show you won and they usually confidence streamer seems to be a little camera shy he knows self-expression is a double edged sword. if you've got a child. that boundaries exist even if he doesn't always know where they are. 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

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