it's posture strengthening turkey's hand a serious player is likely engaging back door negotiations to prevent what could be a new conflict. on the turkey syria border to reuters journalists are back in court and to appeal against a jail term hundred down in september. also or were given seven years behind bars for breaking the official secrets act they had been investigating the killing of ten range of muslims in rakhine state their lawyers say the pair was set up their convictions have been globally condemned with their trial regarded as a sham. sudanese police have fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of anti-government protesters who blocked a road in the capital the protesters gathered in the center of the city after a soccer match they chanted freedom songs calling on president omar al bashir to step down several cities are under emergency rule as protesters demand a change of government the protests. today forcing schools and universities to shut

down across the country and doctors have now gone on indefinite strike more pressure on the government morgan reports from. driving his minivan is the only way out of the living he says taking passengers around used to bring in enough money but with a fuel crisis in sudan that's no longer the case. we can stay from the day before to the next day waiting for fuel with the fuel shortage sometimes you have to look for fuel in the black market for a higher price and even then you can't find fuel easily unless you know someone who can direct you to find around two gallons just so you can drop people off. fuel isn't the only thing scars in sudan there's a shortage of money to over the past few months the sudanese have been forced to line up in front of a.t.m. machines for what little cash is made available queues also appeared in front of bakeries as the shortage of hard currency mentalists wheat to make bread the proposal by the government to lift subsidies on wheat and fuel prompted protests in

many parts of the country last week as a result curfews and emergency rule were imposed in at least five cities and schools and universities have been shut across the country to prevent large gatherings of people real and bread shortages may have triggered protests across the country but other factors are helping to keep them going people seem to be frustrated not just by the comic crisis but by the way the country is being run and they want to see change the. demonstrators have been met with my fire and tear gas by police causing a number of deaths and injuries but the protests continue along with the demand that president omar old. who has ruled for almost thirty years to resign some analysts see it's time for others to take the lead. this crisis can't be left to the government to solve alone all the political parties need to come in join hands to find a way out of the crisis the crisis is no longer an economy crossness it's no political crisis and people are blaming the government port. sudan appears to be at

a standstill with the people on one side and the government and its policy on the other people morgan al-jazeera part. where the next but still ahead on al-jazeera three decades is zero production we'll tell you how nigeria is trying to rescue an idle steel factory and sunday was supposed to be election day in the democratic republic of congo it wasn't we'll tell you why. three triangles a rave you. can feel it seems and it's a beach. there's plenty of quiet weather across the middle east at the moment we're seeing a little bit of cloud they drift its way down across parts of turkey and that will continue its journey eastwards as we head through the next twenty four hours also so some raid out of that in some snow as well but is the next system we've really got to watch because that one is a slightly more aggressive say for the northern policy of turkey and to current

through into greece very very wet and windy during the day on tuesday with some heavy downpours and a fair amount of snow around as well i mean for the towards the south and here in doha it's become freezing i'm cool with a maximum temperature of around twenty two degrees on monday and it looks like there won't be a great deal of change as we head into cheese day either for the south in so long that it is a little bit milder here on my some temperature will be getting to around twenty seven for the southern parts of africa more wet weather here and the rain is looking particularly heavy from angola all the way across into madagascan the. system is set to stick about as we head through monday and into choose day so the south of all of that there's a good deal of dry weather but still the risk of one of the two thunderstorms pop sparking off during the day thanks to the hate will be pretty hot of it around thirty two degrees devil may seem normal to showers as well twenty nine zero maximum is cooler in cape town with a top temperature of twenty two. the with sponsored body counts on.

every. series of breaking stories and of course there's donald trump. that's right out of the script that calls for the annihilation of israel that is not what that phrase joined the listening post as we turned the cameras on the media focused on how they were caught on the stories that matter the most in better use a free palestine listening post on al-jazeera. welcome back. a reminder about top stories this hour indonesia's president has been

visiting the survivors of saturday's tsunami disaster her daughter has promised to update tsunami detection systems off to two hundred eighty one people were killed in indonesia a second such disaster this year. the u.s. president has announced his deputy defense secretary patrick shanahan will take over from james mattis on january first resigned on thursday in protest over donald trump's sudden decision to withdraw u.s. troops from syria. the protests in sudan have entered a fifth day forcing schools and universities to shut down across the country the protests. triggered by bread price rises doctors have also gone on indefinite strike keeping more pressure on the government. millions of people across the democratic republic of congo should have been voting on sunday to elect a new leader the polls are in place president joseph kabila has been for a week claimed on a fire that destroyed voting machines and. there have been protests over the latest

with the election already two years behind schedule and so is in the capital with more on the logistics needed to hold the election those four million people men who are there are in the country now which is a big relief to many people the voting machines that had been recalled from the different province is told are already here technicians are reprogramming them now out of what the materials that were meant for other parts of the country are in the different regional headquarters they will be or are being transported to the various then. eventually the polling stations as well but that another big problem logistically this is a country that has a very poor infrastructure we're talking about places that you cannot get using a whole or even a bicycle you have to walk on this is also the rainy season of parts of the country

still and they've been a boy outbreak in the east so all these complications making it even more difficult for the electoral commission and it's also important to note that the government has refused all international help to call help financial help from the u.n. and other countries as well a lot of people really just watching to see how with exactly this week is going to play out this is going to be a very difficult we could not had any word from the government or not had any what either from the president joseph kabila and causing a lot of concern here. well after thirty seven is nigeria's parliament has finally approved a billion dollars to rescue one of africa's biggest steel plants the approval came after an exclusive al-jazeera report on how corruption was blocking the company's revival amid interest has revisited the attic use of steel company. a dusty haze hangs over one of africa's biggest plans as an eagle flies overhead surveying

the scene below. for more than three decades i don't just forty one plans that include steel electricity cement and footless appliance i've been idle despite the soviet era met facility being ninety five percent complete but change appears to be finally on the way we've tried to put the governance structure of the structure in place a compact on my efficient structure to enable us carry out our responsibility and what we're sure we are doing is to ensure that there is a video of the dryer on a monthly bill the parliament has pushed the legislation through to fund its completion this government is on this mission and the we want to or ensure that. walks before the end of this administration it's estimated that six hundred to seven hundred million dollars would be enough to complete the project but parliament has approved one billion dollars that has also

triggered a sudden interest from investors whether their funds come from decide the government or lot there are a special interest for so many companies on ten ukraine russia there are some other countries the plan steam powered electricity generators will soon contribute seventy megawatts to the nation's grid it will become one of africa's biggest deal plans producing up to ten million tons of steel each year while this massive plant lay dormant a south korean company with a similar sized plant built a year later by the same soviet union engineers has grown to become one of the four largest producers in the world with revenues of about fifty billion dollars a year but after more than three decades corrupt government officials and their lobbyist make sure but there is still a company never took off. the machine tools section is the busiest here engineers

are designing and producing machine spares but customer demand especially from government on factories is for externally though most facilities including the conveyor belt need an overhaul of the rail system including the locomotives and trucks are still waiting to be used. although the bridge riverport two hundred kilometers of rail link two hundred kilometers of internal roads and rail networks are been completed access to some iron ore mining sites is still a challenge. while the company with formal government support many nigerians wonder why a country which currently has a foreign reserves of forty five billion u.s. dollars cannot find a way to complete such an important project and kickstart the industrialization process how many degrees al-jazeera i just couldn't nigeria u.n. observers have arrived in yemen support city of her data to monitor a cease fire deal between the saudi backed government and heathy rebels earlier the

group message who think delegation in the capital they also help talk with government representatives in the city of aden the deal between yemen's government underneath the rebels was reached at talks in sweden almost two weeks ago. french president emmanuel mccall has called for calm after a sixth weekend of so-called yellow vest anti-government protests the interior ministry says nearly forty thousand people took part in saturday's demonstration a major decrease on previous protests and as bernard smith reports from paris well dorothy's are defending what some say were aggressive police actions. with just a few hundred yellow vest protesters on the show's elisei on saturday night a small number sparked a violent confrontation with police. as the policemen scramble to save their bikes pulled a gun. the whole incident lasted about three minutes but is an indication of how quickly

a quiet protest can turn ugly. the yellow vest protesters described as acts six began peacefully on saturday and became a nonstop march through the streets of paris the aim is always to reach the elisei palace on the front door of president emanuel macro but with police blocking roads leading to his official residence the yellow vests just kept walking and walking. it if you don't it's clear that the response including judicial would be the most severe possible no it is calm and harmony that must prevail. many people here that we've spoken to not at all interested in the concessions present manual on how to make they say they don't go far enough they're too little too late and they will keep protesting right into the new year. for six weeks yellow vest protesters have been demanding relief from high taxes and more help to france's poorest the numbers of fallen from around three hundred thousand nationwide in the first week to about

forty thousand this weekend birds with al-jazeera paris the body of a seven year old girl who died while in u.s. border patrol custody has arrived in guatemala jacqueline culls coffin was picked up by foreign ministry officials and guatemala city her grandfather told the associated press the family didn't have enough money to travel to the airport. greece's rail industry is the smallest in europe but things are on track for attains thanks surprisingly to the country's economic crisis. explains. athens commuter railway was built ahead of the two thousand and four olympics and it changed the lives of outlying communities a journey into the city that used to take an hour now takes twenty minutes by train . it's very convenient time a cancer patient and had to go into hospital for surgery. but now i just take the

train it's a feat hopes to repeat by the end of this year when it fully electrifies the country's main rail line from athens to the northern port city of. that'll have travel time to three hours and twenty minutes so the train will now compete with the airplane that line will help realize another ambition this train loaded with goods made in china is headed for budapest the rail yard here in the port of paris is part of china's new silk road to europe the idea is for this port to become southeast europe's main supply line these changes are happening as a result of greece's economic crisis port operations were sold to the china ocean shipping company the government rail monopoly was broken up there are now seven competing train operators and helena grayle was able to focus on one particular area upgrading track now the industry is trying to make up for lost time. is the

smallest in the european union. one percent. and one of transport compared to europe. and. that's because after greece joined the european union in one thousand nine hundred one most infrastructure spending went to rebuilding its motorways and rail was neglected so the trains currently move only a tiny fraction of these containers in land mostly. by truck that is about to change this twenty five hector freight marshaling yacht is the largest in southern europe and hellenic rail has just taken over its management the ship in the gulf look at this chart connects the container port with the rail network and beyond cargo from asia will enter here and will be distributed across europe greece's economy will acquire a new dimension and greece will become one of the biggest freight rail hubs in europe. even though the greek market suffered during the crisis the country is now taking advantage of its geographical position to produce growth jump several plus

al-jazeera. for members is politician paddy ashdown has died at the age of seventy seven he was a leading figure in the peace process after the balkans war the former soldier also worked to uncover war crimes committed during the conflict in the former yugoslavia . and reports. he was a towering for some british politics credited with making the liberal democrats britain's third biggest party to have is to act out a conviction politician he devoted himself tirelessly to centrist politics for more than a decade and was admired across the political spectrum for his powerful oratory is it not now perfectly clear that what the government has to offer the country is not a continuation of the cure it's more of a poison born in india and raised in northern ireland he later served in the royal marines and special services his influence went beyond britain becoming the un's

high representative for bosnia and herzegovina in two thousand and two where he investigated war crimes including the massacre of more than eight thousand men and boys in the town. during the conflict in yugoslavia he was a forceful advocate for international intervention he would later give evidence at the trial of the former serbian leader slobodan milosevic. he retired from politics in two thousand and one but remained a prominent voice campaigning vigorously against bracks it it's not my job to be popular he once said i'm goal driven my job is to get results. on al-jazeera. and these are the top stories indonesia's president has been visiting the survivors of saturday's tsunami disaster joker widodo has promised to update tsunami

detection systems after two hundred eighty one people were killed and more than a thousand were injured in indonesia's second such disaster this year. that i've ordered a check of all the tsunami detection equipment and the replacement of broken ones i think in the new budget year of twenty nineteen early january ordered the replacement of broken equipment or old ones which could no longer be used in the us president has announced that deputy defense secretary patrick shanahan will take over from james masters on january first donald trump announced the change in a tweet pushing matters from office two months earlier than planned but has resigned on thursday over trump's decision to pull u.s. troops out of syria meanwhile a trump says he's disgusted the slow and highly coordinated withdrawal of u.s. troops from syria with his turkish counterpart trying to one agree to prevent a power vacuum in northern syria after u.s. troops leave and graham has begun sending its army to the syrian border. two

reuters journalists are back in court in myanmar to appeal against a jail term handed down and dissent in september while known until we were given seven years behind bars for breaking the official secrets act they had been investigating the killing of ten muslims and rakhine state their lawyers say the pair were set up their convictions have been globally condemned with their trial regarded as a sham sudanese police of fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of anti-government protesters who broke the road in the capital khartoum the protesters gathered in the center of the city after a soccer match several cities are under emergency rule as protesters demand a change of government millions of people across the democratic republic of congo should have been voting on sunday to elect a new leader the poll to replace president joseph kabila has been pushed off for a week claimed on the fire that destroyed voting machines and ballot papers there have been protests over the latest delay with the election already two years behind

schedule those are the headlines i'll be back with more news here after the listening post do stay with us. getting to the heart of the matter how can you be a refugee after you while eight borders between five safe countries facing me on the teens who claims that from the very beginning of the abundance group providing context housing is not just about four walls and a roof hear their story and talk to how dizzy and. hello i'm richard gives birth and you're watching a special edition of the listening post it's been thirty years now since the publication of one of the most influential books ever written about the institution

that we cover the media manufacturing consent the political economy of the mass media was coauthored by knowing chomsky and edward hermann the book provided searing critiques of journalists and the news media's relationship to power it spelled out how media corporations and the journalists who work for them often end up defending the economic social and political agendas of governments and corporations it walked us through how the media represents certain privileged groups in society while effectively suppressing the voices of others most of us working on this program have been influenced in one way or another by manufacturing consent and so to mark the anniversary of its publication we want to tucson arizona to talk to norm chomsky it's a two part interview we began by showing professor chomsky the following animation one that we made last year that boiled down some of the basic arguments that he and herman made in manufacturing consent. in nineteen eighty eight noam chomsky

coauthored a book with edward herman called manufacturing consent. it blasted apart the notion that media acts as a chat and political power. media operate through five filters. the first test to do with ownership mass media firms are big corporations often they're part of even bigger conglomerates they're endgame profit. and so it's in their interests to push for whatever guarantees that profit critical journalism takes second place to the needs and interests of the corporation. the second filter exposes the real role of advertising. media

costs a lot more than consumers will ever pay. so who fills the gap to. advertisers and what are the advertisers paying for audiences. and so it isn't so much that the media are selling you a product they're out. there also selling advertisers a product news. how does the establishment manage the media that's the third filter in. journalism cannot be a check on power because the very system encourages complicity. governments corporations big institutions know how to play immediate games they know how to influence the news narrative the feed media scoots official accounts interviews

with the experts. they make themselves crucial to the process of journalism so those in power and those who look forward on that are in bed with each other. if you want to challenge our you'll be pushed to the margins your name will be down you won't be getting it you lost your access you lost the story. when the media journalists whistle blowers sources stray away from the consensus they get. that's the fourth filter when the story is inconvenient for the powers that be you'll see the flash machine in action discrediting sources trashing stories and diverting the conversation. to measure temperature concerns you need an enemy a target. common enemy is the fifth. tanya's of

terrorists and it's coming and. looking to hear those caroll public opinion. filters one big media theory can send is being manufactured all around all the time. so professor chomsky does that video capture the ideas that you wanted in the book . i think that it's brilliantly done i think its success will be measured by whether it encourages people to ask what does it mean when you have concentrated private power producing a product namely audiences for a market which consists of concentrated private power with tight links to state power what do you expect the media output to look like with the

framework of a structural framework behind if it encourages people to ask that question i think it will be very successful the title manufacturing consent it does get to the crux of how you see the role of the media in western democracies we get the feeling that you are out to destroy a few myths well interestingly the term the phrase manufacturing consent was not ours we borrowed it from the leading public intellectual of the twentieth century walter lippmann is the new art in democracy to manufacture consent so that the. ignorant and meddlesome outsiders is for is the population will be passive and acquiescent and will accept the rule of the responsible people like us and in fact the myth is that the media

or independent or several courageous struggling against power and so often true of some of the earth find often very fun reporters course while the media does an artist courageous job but within a framework that determines what to discuss what not to discuss and what we try to demonstrate in the book is that the if you simply look at the institutional structure of the media within a state capitalist society like ours they're performing a pretty much the way you'd expect. we'll get back to the rest of that interview in just a few minutes over the years manufacturing consent has sold millions of copies it's had a profound influence on many accomplished journalists and not just in the u.s. we spoke to three of them the editor in chief of the huffington post's indian

edition amman satie the israeli journalist amir a hoss and matt taibbi an american best known for his work with rolling stone magazine we asked them about the book what they took from it and the importance of critical analysis of the global news media today. many fashion concerned had a big influence on me as a young reporter i had always thought if we lived in a completely free society were the reporting was outstanding the free press model worked exactly the way it should and when i read that book i realized that there were significant problems. the book and the notion and the analysis first of all unveiled america of the myth of being that such a splendid democracy so it was part of chomsky's in others and attempts to show

that there are so many deficiencies in this democracy that are being ignored by many analysts. he is seeing that there is a superstructure of power that basically uses the media as propaganda that is has his broad formulation and i would push back against that and say that it's not easy to manufacture that kind of consent to do it because when people deceive news it's not like people actually believe everything we see on the news so i think one of the legacies of manufacturing consent has been. it kind of provided a neat formulation to sum up the unease that people felt with a movie monolithic production of information. this is a very human list and optimistic statement to believe that people with

information. can bring to a change and this is how it started really when they started working in gaza in the early ninety's where did the israeli public knows nothing about your patient and what it means i was waiting for for my information to reach others and to change the awareness and i realised quite soon that this was not the case. but i think we've seen many graphic examples of how we can manufacture consent through the media. i think the ultimate example house to be the invasion of iraq in two thousand and three if you had told americans after nine eleven that we were going to invade a country that had no connection to the nine eleven hijackers and that we were going to do it under the pretense of combating international terrorism most people

would have thought you were crazy but we were able to sell that idea relatively easily to the entire american population this is fox news and fox news channel continuing coverage of the campaign which now has begun to liberate and disarm iraq but all they really needed was a few key voices among the highest pinion makers in the country and on t.v. the read we get on the people of iraq is there's no question but what they want to get rid of saddam hussein and they will welcome as liberators the united states when we come to do that and we were able to sell that war pretty easily. i think sourcing is actually perhaps one of the most interesting food does that you talks about i think sourcing is something. this have to think a lot about. we should think very hard to vote which are what are the sources that

we give credence and balance to. which are the sources that we give importance to and which of the sources we don't give importance to. so who decides about the hierarchy what is important what is most important very often they realize that if you have information that is official this is called into investigative journalism but if you actually talk about the main and the same think of the story from the most of the people themselves let's say about then juries of a water contamination in gaza if it's the people themselves this is not seen as a serious or as serious information as when it comes from an official. i come from a family of journalists my father was a reporter dating back to the sixty's when he started in the business reporters

tended to come from more humble origins a lot of people didn't go to college they entered the business as paper kids or as printers when they were sixteen or so but in the seventy's after all the president's men there are actually. journalism became sexy became a thing for upper class ivy league kids to do and by the time i was in the business and um you know i'm partly representative of the of this problem because i came from that class myself we all live in cities we represent a certain point of view we hang out with politicians and their aides. we are part of the ruling class and our failure to recognize that it's not you know it's not necessarily through any fault of our own but worse very separate and distinct from . the ordinary person chomsky's mordieu produces

a sense of inevitability which is wrong even if i see that i have the freedom to very devote whatever i want to brag about chomsky would say yeah that's because there's or do you fit in front of you when you don't even know what you country to vote how can you how could you know that i'm self-centered i think you know there's a journalist and every true leader. but what i'm saying is if you believe something different when you see that it's easy to see that people would believe would be believed because they consent has been unaffected but what if people knew exactly what's going on and still believe what they believe that and that sort of thing and i think that's what even maybe chomsky funding himself look at. the fact that if people see i don't care about the. i still believe that this should happen. and what do you see about the whole formulation of manufactured goods in the book and the concept of relevant because they offer. to every jew in the least kind of lighthouse it involves people's kept

a season and this is always important though as i said before i think that the problems are the day we have so much access to information in other ways that we are in a could lesion with the fact that people are not interested in what does not immediately their interest and this is a very said realisation so i think the legacy all of chomsky's book in that sense is that it provides us with a manual of when we need mistakes and so i think it's something that makes us think about what we're doing makes us more mindful of june. when you wrote this book in one nine hundred eighty eight roughly fifty corporations controlled every single mass media outlet in the united states now there are just six time warner viacom news corp disney among them what effect is that had do you think on democracy america all of that cheapens and reduces the

access to information in order standing well there is a way to compensate for the the internet does allow us to reach to if people organize form collectives to interact with one of them over it's possible to use the enormous resources that are available to overcome the impact of the concentration of media and be done pretty effectively earlier this year american television viewers were treated to the spectacle on since the sinclair broadcasting system which is not that well known a company but which owns hundreds of local affiliates in the united states the sharing of biased and false news has become a call to comment on the media more than they put out of an editorial and an editorial where the same words were read by hundreds of different news anchors

small cities from kansas to the florida panhandle what did you make of all those in news anchors in all those markets mao thing those same words and reading those same script remember compelled to do so that he didn't have a choice he wanted to stay in. keep your job you read with big brother told you to read this is a mode of propaganda that we associate with the terror against that the fact that it's done but private tyranny which is what a corporation is doesn't change the character of and it's kind of interesting that in actual told her in states the old soviet union the people. studies showed that people tended to distrust the media who was so obvious that was coming from the state authorities i was found it interesting that after the wall

came down all these western journalists were sent in by various western foundations to train journalists from eastern europe warsaw pact countries but what i knew of those places was that their news consumers were far more discerning about what information they were taking in and i thought rather than sending western journalists to quote unquote train you know russian or polish journalists we should sand the news consumers from those countries to come west to train us what i think of that idea well the studies of the old soviet union which were intensive showed that a large part of the population recognized that what they're getting is controlled . authoritarian centered propaganda the western system propaganda is nowhere near the crude looks in the pen and there is

a certain amount of variety when sinclair sons of a demand that everyone read the same editorial that's unusual it's not the kind of thing that's done in the western system in the eastern system it was done and that does lead to a healthy skepticism that's exactly what you notice we don't. to go back far to the days the house and days of social media the arab spring two thousand and eleven so much optimism in the air and a belief that there rise of these alternative voices on these platforms would have a democratizing effect on governments turns out that that was misguided what happened well first of all there is a positive aspect to the social media. almost all of its movements rely on them to bring people together so and so what happened in the

first months of the arab spring was very exciting. for you you may recall that at one point. the dictator moved burrup closed the internet to try to prevent the social media from functioning what happened is that activism increased. instead of sending messages out electronically people actually talk to each other and that's the base the central way to organize and. curried a kind of culture of what i call collective so you couldn't have foreseen the emergence of the tech giants who are such a big part of the global news media today and their rise has made than unwieldy purveyors of power they brought rich at the expense of many media outlets has anyone come up with useful ways of how and what to do how to deal with them and what to do with really remember that these are not the sources of news

like the facebook doesn't have bureaus around the world what these have created is the. array of social media which are double edged sometimes they're used for constructive purpose but they have also become a major. force for undermining democracy everywhere right now brazil for example wrote the correctly. before that billions of dollars were spent to produce defamatory information on the social media against the. p.t. workers support to support the. literally new shoes you know the one. so many one example these things are no happening over and over and it's

a very dangerous for the moment you've written a great deal about latin america and a few years back leaders such as cha vez in venice were more or less in bolivia the kirshner's in argentina in ecuador they were all pushing for some form of media reform to spread ownership to limit the power of conglomerates in latin america their critics then accuse them of basically trying to usurp the powers from the political right and drag them off to the left did the critics of those leaders who were trying to reform the media in latin america actually have a point in fact the problem of in all of the countries you mentioned is they didn't do any were near enough to try to set up alternative independent public publicly controlled media that would counter the high

concentration of all to write media love america which has been a scandal for years manufacturing consent is considered a seminal work it's not an easy read for people it's and it's a difficult area to explore and dissect on television in particular because of its limitations and the limited attention spans of some of the people who are watching this program in conveying some of these ideas have you ever thought of taking some of those media training courses that those corporate executives take the train them to speak in soundbites. probably not i remember once that there was a program called the nightline to all of the a.b.c. . they got a lot of criticism because i was never on them to direct me to i'm not the kind of person they could have on because i don't understand consideration. namely saying two sentences between us that's a terrific form of propaganda so for example if your us is a run

a terrorist state you can say yes they do this and the other thing if you say if your rest is the united states a terrorist which scores way beyond iran you can't say that two minutes because first you have to break down the prejudices and assumptions of the bold moves about the united states being a force for freedom and democracy you can't do that between two so the very idea of concision is a fine technique for imposing the propaganda of the power over those who are powerful they can say anything they want against enemies and to minutes but they can't be exposed to the. final question for you when you get up in the morning where do you go to get your news first thing i look at is the new york times still it still with all of its flaws of the real it still has

the broadest the most comprehensive coverage of i think any newspaper in the world and then where do you go from there than many other places. washington post the business press foreign press which is your. democracy you know many other sources. noam chomsky thank you so much for joining us the listening post that. one of the last points that chomsky made about starting his news day with the new york times we included that because we found his response telling noam chomsky is among the times is sharpest critics but he doesn't simply dismiss the newspaper he doesn't as so many people suspicious of the mainstream media have cut the cord and live in a world void of conventional news outlets he goes there but he considers the source he does the diligence shops around gets other views sometimes from outside the american news bubble he co-wrote the book thirty years ago but there's

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the new year u.s. defense secretary james mann says. by president donald trump. widening protests doctor to join anti-government demonstrations and now in their fifth day. and we need the nicaraguan cartoonists were challenging the government crackdown with their. indonesian president has been touring areas devastated by saturday's tsunami he visited a shelter housing hundreds of people who escaped the meter high waves at least two hundred eighty one people dead and more than a thousand injured in the country's second such disaster this year indonesia lies on what's known as the ring of fire scientists believe this tsunami was triggered

by undeceived landslides from the eruption of the volcano on. the tsunami swept strays and crashed twenty nieces in the land wrecking homes her tells and buildings on the shores of java and sumatra islands with. the tsunami hit without warning and with such force that this is all that's left of the stage with the band seventeen had been performing. the wave struck on saturday night at the tender. and on a holiday weekend. sweeping the stage out from beneath the band and slamming it into the crowd signaling. reportedly script out to see the full being rescued. he struggled to tell his hundreds of thousands of followers on instagram of the face of his band. bonnie and our road manager okie and he and herman a new jag not been found please pray that my wife dylan will be found there. it

happened between sumatra and job or islands on indonesia's soon to straight waves hitting with such force the water traveled about twenty meters in length and and september more than two and a half thousand people died in the indonesian city of on the island of soon away sea from a tsunami caused by an earthquake but these waves appear to be different experts believe they were caused by the end not krakatoa of all that has been erupting since june it's still to have triggered underwater landslides which displaced water to create the large waves there were no telltale trim as it came without warning you know that. i've ordered a check of all the tsunami detection equipment and the replacement of broken ones i think in the new budget year of twenty nineteen early january the replacement of broken equipment or old ones which can no longer be used. but expect say that even

with high end technology and round the clock surveillance there's no guarantee they'll be a warning of a volcanic tsunami to a certain extent you can take the volcanic activity i mean you can you can tell there's a bit of magma moving around and you can sense very very small earthquakes happening but can you predict there's going to be seen army generated by that murray that's a completely different kettle of fish if you wish much harder to try and get a sense of whether any tsunamis are going to be generated by this volcanic activity . the death toll has risen quickly emergency workers not only searching for the dead and missing but now i'm back in on the grim task of identifying bodies. survivors have crowded hospitals and emergency shelters on higher ground many with nowhere else to go and fearing for the way this. debris now let is this once picturesque coastal area people a naturally drawn to the sea to create their lives and livelihoods many will now be

weighing the beauty against the three of these which is maybe on one hand al-jazeera. under thomas has more from this on the west coast of java. it's a pretty murky day but on a clear one you can see the volcano forty seven kilometers out to sea and even now those low rumble occasionally hear underneath my voice vote you saw volcanic eruptions they've been going on for months and it was one of those on saturday night that caused a landslide that then caused the tsunami that swept through this this is the garden of a hotel you can see the swimming pool there the child's body was found after the tsunami swept through we're told the wall of water was about a meter high off the surface of the water but with all that water coming in they got over to me to see you all over there came through here presumably at a height of another. to roll to smashed into some of these bedrooms you can see one

there that's been really destroyed on the ground floor at least this hotel has an upper floor and people were able to run through that when they saw the water coming in to children did die here now the water powered through here this is the reception area of the hotel went out about three meters above sea level and they carried on and went across the road smashing into the houses on the other side and people there tell us that the water came through their homes at a height of about a meter now we're talking to here because if another tsunami would hit we have somewhere to run upstairs in this relatively well built hotel but really around here it's just so flat people have nowhere to go and this is well built but many of the holiday homes shacks really a very flimsy really built along this coast and those are the ones that have been totally destroyed. kathy as with the international federation of red cross and red

crescent societies she spoke to us from pollio on the indonesian island of soon away sea and says their teams are facing a massive support mission. a lot of people have lost everything their homes have collapsed a lot of the homes and the shops and the businesses in this area they're made of bamboo and. roofs and or are tin roofs so they're not able to withstand the force of the wave they're also built right along the shoreline so they've lost in some cases their homes their businesses that means their ability to earn a living so the red cross is going in and the things that are being provided immediately include water or we're deploying fourteen water trucks. people who desperately need clean water after an event like this because infrastructure has been damaged or providing tarpaulins it's the rainy season right now if people have lost their or their shelter they need somewhere where they can be protected from the elements

so we're handing up blankets in the evening it gets quite chilly so to trying to keep people warm as best protected as possible from the elements the u.s. president has announced that he's replacing his defense secretary two months early if than expected donald trump says deputy defense secretary patrick shanahan will now take over on january fest james mattis was due to walk until the end of february john hendren has the details. for president donald trump james mattis couldn't leave quickly enough the defense secretary resigned thursday in protest over trump's decision to pull all two thousand u.s. troops out of syria but he wasn't due to leave till late february then came the outcry first on capitol hill we counted on him to be there and to stop this president from his worst impulse i think general mattis has put his finger on where the president has views that are very very distinct from the vast majority of republicans and probably democrats alike that and on

a like that then from american allies themselves on one of the soon please and i very deeply regret the u.s. decision on syria and i would like to pay tribute to general mattis and what he wrote in his resignation that i have witnessed over the last year and a half of how reliable general mattis has been that he has a west tries to meaning of what being allies was being allies it's fighting shoulder by shoulder it was those allies mattis felt abandoned in syria saying in his resignation letter my views on treating allies with respect and also being clear right about both malign actors and strategic competitors are strongly held in informed by over four decades of immersion in these issues trump reportedly chafing at the television coverage telegraph the move in a tweet late saturday saying when president obama ingloriously fired jim mad as i gave him a second chance allies are very important but not when they take advantage of us ministrations highest priority then he unceremoniously gave madison early

boot out the door in a tweet elevating deputy defense secretary patrick shanahan a former boeing executive to acting pentagon chief syria decision drew some support from republicans isn't working we've said supply them all with money we've given them uniforms have given them weapons they need to step up and they need to eradicate these violent people from their midst for the president's. critics inside and outside of his party the excel aerated exit of james mattis is just the latest outburst of a peevish president in a white house lurching from one crisis to the next just two days earlier white house press secretary sarah sanders said that is wasn't just walking out the door and the relationship would continue over the next couple of months and then came the resignation of brett mcgurk as the u.s. envoy overseeing the battle against isis and the man the president once affectionately called mad dog mattis was out the door john hendren al-jazeera

washington but it's advice says the director of the center of a political military analysis at the hudson institute he says shanahan's lack of government experience may not be such a bad thing. what we have to had more turnover under president than previous presidents and normally i mean that has a disadvantage in that you it's a bit turmoil for the bureaucracy and it's uncomfortable for people who have to report to change their reporting procedures to different people over different time that's some advantage and you get new blood new energy new experience so i'm not necessarily sure it's a negative i mean the pentagon is a really tough place to manage and having somebody who who knows the issues the managerial issues at a high level is fine we've had secretaries before him well with that background it depends a lot it was actually a lot's going to pend on who the deputy secretary is and the new joint chiefs of staff it's often the joint chiefs the chairman of joint chiefs of staff who gives

the military advice more than the secretary who tend to should focus more on the managerial question when he first entered office is he didn't have much of a policy background he inexpensive so it's a managerial experience but as he himself has said over the past year and a half he's learned a lot both from secretary madison and from his involvement in various issues so he's probably very up to date and skilled in being a business person president from seem to like business people so it's possible we'll have a better personal relationship and that could make some issues smoother such as you mentioned there's a large budget and they now need to decide do they perhaps cut back a bit or increase spending on certain areas and meanwhile trump says he's discussed the slow and highly coordinated withdrawal of u.s. troops from syria this turkish counterparts that.