the pro israel lobbies work to influence american political discourse extends into academia the canary mission is a website that compiles dos days on pro palestinian college students and professors in the us some of those named on it say it's akin to a blacklist designed to intimidate them into science al-jazeera has investigated the site but that documentary has yet to be broadcast leading some to speculate that even al jazeera is not immune to pressure from the pro israel lobby in the us which the network tonight. professor marc lamont hill an academic now deposed from the media platform c.n.n. gave him would know both sides of that story but as of this writing he's not talking which is the whole point of the exercise. it is crucial for people to understand the magnitude of the threat to free speech and the form of denying the ability of pro palestine activists to be parked the narrative in the

united states this takes many forms we are facing a very serious threat to free speech in the form of denying the right to speak honestly about the israeli palestinian conflict and the right to advocate. another media story that's on our radar this week is unfolding in the philippines it's one we've been following for a couple of years now the case of president rodriguez do terror take versus rappler a news website that's been the president's bet now are for its critical coverage of his government's war on drugs and its online dissent from ation campaign earlier this year rappers license was temporarily revoked and just last week the site and its founder maria ressa were indicted for tax evasion which raised more than a few eyebrows maria ressa joins us on the listening post now to discuss this case and president to take his approach to dealing with his critics in the news media. ms ressa wrapper is not the first news outlet critical of

a government to suddenly develop quote unquote tax issues we've heard similar stories in turkey for instance is the case against you and rappler politically motivated absolutely i mean i've run out of synonyms for the word ridiculous for the foundation of a lot of these multiple legal cases that we're now facing do you have any faith that the justice system in the philippines can deal with this case without folding under political pressure i continue to have faith in the individual men and women inside to sherry i mean obviously the fact that the cases have been filed show political pressure. we have a very powerful executive president detected controls not just the executive branch he is a super majority in congress and the legislature he also by that i am he leaves office will appoint the thirteen to fifteen supreme court justices right all we can do is you know expect the worst but hope for the best we've seen all those

comparisons between two territories approach to the news media and president trumps but when the trumpet ministration goes after the us media whether it's revoking the credentials of a c.n.n. white house correspondent or simply calling journalism that the president doesn't like fake news it gets a lot of flack in return from other news organizations and lots of ordinary americans are we seeing enough of that in the philippines because none of this really seems to be hurting president do terror tape politically. i think you'll be surprised you know the diff the biggest difference between the united states in the philippines is the strength of the institutions in the united states but the spite our weak institutions in the philippines what we feel in rappler is that more of our more of our supporters are coming out precisely because it's not just about one it's not just about journalism you're talking about values and principles of our constitution and i only say that if if our people do not hold government

accountable for crossing the lie then when it does this country will no longer be a democracy i think that's part of what's at stake here so it's a tough time maria ressa thank you to peru now where forty five percent of the population is indigenous but where the media have long failed to reflect the demographic facts and it starts with the language spanish dominates the airwaves there. but over the past year the country's public broadcaster canal peru has launched two new news programs in the two main indigenous languages i mara and catch will the following report is on one of those programs it's in catch you and it's called no can check for us to catch oil is the most widely spoken indigenous language in the americas almost fifteen percent of peruvians speak it fluently and its appearance on canal peru is being seen as an attempt albeit overdue to redress

the racist legacies of the colonial era we're listening posts now from lima with the journalists behind you can't. switch on the t.v. improve. any of the big radio stations open up a national newspaper and the information citizens will get the information they need will be in a language that many of them might not understand spanish last year however the proof reinstate broadcaster started airing a new show that broke the mold. yet the result was being broadcast in. an indigenous language one that many of its speakers would prefer to deny a new country where the language you speak still closs highlights your economic status

and defines your prospects. programme a cup thing the very fact that this program is being broadcast means that catch your speakers will lift their heads up and we'll be better informed and they will no longer be ashamed of speaking keep reading my email no they are language tristan is an embarrassment it was frowned upon and we were looked down on. its significance of the significance of this news broadcasting is that it recognizes the fact that this is a multicultural. multi-lingual multi ethnic country more than we still see the sun as they don't know what some people have complained they don't understand well my only response is that finally they get what it's like to be a kitsch was speaker in peru watching the national news in your own country and not understanding because it's broadcast in a language that's not your own can is it. you can she does more than just book caused in a different language the producers say their mission is to reflect

a different reality a perspective that isn't mainstream in peru so while the morning news in spanish might be dominated by his own lima politics when you can take a significant proportion of the news is truthful remote locations there's a focus on the concerns of the farming population going on when you go gentleman that means that we're not going out just yet all this and reports on government policy fiscal year many of which come but if you didn't pick up the public to take money you might tell you a few numbers him up high up fast or they be taking money to invest i'm going out but if it i just keep records it literally just because the program isn't cut it doesn't mean we're going to see just folk music and dance these are important and valuable aspects of that culture but its fundamental purpose is to address people's needs. by going to. new country because a responsibility to report on inequalities on the ground what does big business

want what does the state say about those big projects what are they taking from our earth what are we going to do with the profits from forests of the world it's our duty to tell these stories young what happened. this is not the first time peru state t.v. has bookers news and get to a canal in a month but china was a news broadcast in the early seventy's the picture on t.v. for the first time the program came about. as part of planning a nationwide agrarian reform campaign carried out by the left wing military government of general one will ask about. the last call declared in one thousand nine hundred seventy fool that there was quote no freedom of the press in peru only freedom of enterprises he reined in what he saw as the elite media established good as an official language and used the state broadcaster to promote equal rights for

indigenous groups a bit derided as populist propaganda by his critics but celebrated by many across the country who felt they'd been ignored for centuries. even the kitchen became one of prison official languages and one nine hundred seventy five in the more than four decades since it's really been given much air time is our national t.v. or radio that means that there's four million people more than ten percent of first population whose first language is not spanish a hard time understanding the news. the other side of the story has to do with narrative and the stereotypes of voices in the mainstream media upright indigenous people the smack of racism and it provoked outrage in peru and beyond. take. us into the present assure that claim to be a comedy about an andean indigenous woman living in the capital lima. a bystander

that became so popular with its viewers that it got its only weekday prime time slot conflict when. one of courage biggest private t.v. channels which things are changing a group of indigenous women from the andean region of cusco have been waging a long legal battle to get the show banned last month they won the judge ruled for the show to be taken off air and of you tube. up and. there's her suitor. religion iliotibial the president there's thousands of characters like that in the public eye at least today we've become more discerning but we used to laugh at them this went on for years and nobody questioned it. the cycle getting me to see in their one of the great western myths is that hygiene is synonymous with civilization but to trying a native indian woman is one can't you position her in a kind of pre-modern world enough she of truth to dirty rotten her speech and

masculine and demeanor this idea of the native and in woman is reflected in news narratives because they always portrayed her as a victim and they suggest that people like her are inadequate and ultimately unable to integrate into mainstream society. equity only we sikka i realized just how subtle how insidious linguistic discrimination can be it's more complex and more serious than racial discrimination even because it works by association spanish is associated with culture and catch well with ignorance. the signal. for the commercial players improves media market to get your audience hasn't even been an afterthought the language the community is scarcely represented on either private radio or t.v. in a media ecosystem that depends on ad revenue the kitchen a segment of the audience simply doesn't qualify in terms of purchasing power or

economic presence against that backdrop you can cheek along with he was a not a news show in peru's other main indigenous language products in a market that rarely includes indigenous people yes obviously these issues made it very difficult for catch your language programs to be produced for television if that your speakers weren't going to purchase goods there would be no advertising revenue so that became a vicious cycle. as public broadcasters we are preoccupied with commercial matzos main concern is the public diplomacy i don't think our language wasn't recognized by the world of finance so it was hardly featured on television or radio we've broken dot and proof that news can be produced in our language yet the. peruse national broadcaster has moved away from its all status as government mouthpiece but it also differs from commercial t.v.

where the media are talking at the viewer where the public's opinions about policies that could affect them is not taken into consideration this is not the case on your country so we have taken an important first step but i can say that we are providing a platform in which power is being held to account with regards to national political issues it could be in the future and that would be a great thing. and finally back to israel and the media born and raised in nazareth. isn't a category of one she is the first arab muslim news presenter on a mainstream israeli channel a little more than a month ago a viewer wrote in to complain about her habit of greeting her viewers in both hebrew and arabic saying it was improper for the station to allow that later adding that if she really wanted to speak arabic then quote let her go to al-jazeera which we can talk about. as husband saw he is an israeli actor he's jewish and an amateur

musician so together with his wife they took one of the few words letters and put it to song on the air and if that is really the letter writer happens to be watching we've got one word for you. we'll see you next time you're at the listening.

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now almost three hundred people have already been arrested in several protest movements as they converge on paris the same who'd yellow vest demonstrators some of whom have resorted to violence in recent weeks are back out on the streets despite the government giving in on some of their demands with regards to the attacks on the field now they're being joined by students as well as other activists many of them calling for action on climate change let's go now to the house of paris to the uk to trail's our correspondent there is david chase and david give us a sense and of how today's protest is building out. well we've been on the outside looking at the right police checkpoints. those are the

areas where most of the rests are going on they've been stopping and searching people looking at their backpacks anybody's got projectiles in the flares they're arrested they're put into a plastic cuffs i'm led away at the moment though they did noises building up here at the top of the seans elisei the piece of try to clear the whole area around the on the tree on. their doing doing essentially the patrols of the riot police i say try and control this area so at the moment the tension is certainly building up to something like eight thousand police deployed. in the center of paris that's double the number that we saw last saturday and the mood is is on a knife edge at the moment we don't know exactly. what the police tactics here. but that watching very closely moving through the thousands of yellow vests that are

now here inside the sean so the say but i suspect that most of the action is going to be in the side streets of those people who refuse to be searched by the police that is what we're hearing off camera at the moment and so they've got on with cars here right near the the octave trail which they'll use if necessary to break any barricades all of burning blockades that they set up that's what we saw a lot of last saturday but it seems to me that the mood here is very much against the the police the the riot police and the tactics that we sold being used against those high high school students students of course are also joining the protest so there's a very large range of people here but the police are most worried of course about the what they call the extremists from the hard left from the hard right cindy and

it casts and others who just might try and use the protest as a cover for looting or damage or simply just attacking the police at the moment but a few flares going off but nothing serious like the beginning of the demonstrations last saturday it seems to be very much under control here at the moment but i doubt if it's going to stay that way for too much longer they're very determined groups of people trying to get you let me tell you they don't want to be searched by the police sorry it is every day they act as you say trouble in the side streets let me jump in there and just asking about the objective of this that died there. the bunch of of groups. protesting a sensibly for a different reason what exactly did they want. well that's a very good question there are so many different demands amongst the the yellow vestas it's

a very amorphous structure it's controlled by the social media there are no real leaders and so you've got groups as varied as us as farmers from the rural provinces who depend on diesel that's why there was so much against the tax hikes you've got it could have a vast range of different political opinions within the spectrum of the l a vest a bell you know but there's always one thing that i've noticed as the campaign has gone through and they've called this actually for that is the fourth weekend where the demonstrations have been held here their main problem is with president emmanuel macko himself they don't like it's autocratic style they say he's completely out of touch with the old repeat put in the ordinary people's concerns he wants a new climate to clean climate clean ecology but his burden is being put on the poorest people the people who simply cannot afford to actually take that burden for

his careen policies so i think most people are saying it's time the president michael is starting to talk to the people of france right across the country remember these demonstrations are going on but the biggest ones are going to be here around the uk to trio yet again and we understand from president michael's ministers that he will be giving a televised address to the nation on tuesday of next week but it all depends very much of what happens today the police are very much prepared for more violence and as i say they've doubled their presence here compared to last weekend ok david chase and then line. in the heart of paris he'll keep is right up to date with developments in the french capital. now there's been a stampede in a nightclub in italy six people were killed one hundred others were injured it was near and that's on the a.j. attic case in the italian media is reporting that people panicked and ran for the

exits after somebody used a can of pepper spray there are two significant legal developments which are piling pressure on u.s. president donald trump documents released by prosecutors in new york have for the first time directly linked the president to financial crimes allegedly committed during his twenty sixteen white house campaign and separately robert mullins teen which is investigating suspected russian interference in that very campaign says moscow contacted donald trump's then personal lawyer michael cohen as far back as twenty fifteen now melissa same is also saying that charms former campaign manager paul manifold he has violated a plea deal by lying to them on five different masses including about his contacts with a russian associate now the white house is saying that none of this reveals anything

new and is not damaging to the president so there are many different strands to this story is she happy returns our correspondent in washington. shortly after the release of some of the prosecution documents the u.s. president expressed his lack of concern totally clears the president he wrote thank you it's not clear exactly what he was referring to but some believe the contents of the latest memos should provide some cause for concern for donald trump michael cohen was trump's long time lawyer and fix up he's pled guilty to tax evasion and campaign finance violations and it's this latter charge that now directly implicates the president in its filing prosecutors in new york say code made to hush money payments to women in contravention of campaign finance law that filing says as cohen has now admitted with respect to both payments he acted in coordination with and at the direction of individual one individual one is assumed to be donald trump so prosecutors are directly implicating the president in the crime the special counsel's moment about co and confirmed what was already in the

public domain about failed attempts to build a trump tower in moscow that continued even as trump was on the campaign trail expounding about his proposed russian foreign policy however there are two new areas which might be of concern to trump firstly miller writes cohen provided the special counsel's office with useful information concerning certain discreet russia related matters core to its investigation that he obtained by virtue of his regular contact with company executives during the campaign and cohen provided relevant and useful information concerning his contacts with persons connected to the white house during the twenty seventeen twenty eighteen time period. it's unclear what information miller is referring to during the campaign but it's striking cohen is also discussing trump's first year in office with the special prosecutor. miller has also submitted a document about former trump campaign manager paul manifold he was convicted of illegal lobbying for the ukrainian government as well as financial fraud the special prosecutor says manifold broke

a plea agreement reached to provide information in return for like a sentence this involves a redacted name miller says while negotiating the agreement for provided information about reduction that was pertinent to an investigation in another district however after signing the plea agreement manifold told the government a different and exculpatory version of the events in addition miller says manifold lied about context he had with the trumpet ministration off that he had reached that plea agreement the former director of the f.b.i. happened to be in capitol hill for a closed door questioning on friday he praised the special counsel's investigation that gave a reminder that a lot of questions remain the most important occasion of that is you don't know anything about it except when he files something court and that's what makes it so don't trump has now been implicated directly in campaign finance violations but it's not clear what these latest findings have to do with the russian collusion investigation if anything however taken in conjunction with this heavily redacted

document that was filed earlier this week in conjunction with the investigation into a former security advisor michael flynn there's plenty of speculation. washington that an executive of the chinese tech giant huawei will remain in custody in canada over the weekend prosecutors are seeking. additional to the united states which accuses her of breaching sanctions on iran kristen salumi reports among china's business elite among one zoo is considered royalty the daughter of the founder of telecom giant way a company c.f.o. and possible heir to the throne but to the united states mom is a wanted criminal the charge confirmed in a canadian court on friday.