exhibit moves to its new location the airport christian salumi al-jazeera new york . and i will get on that as a problem in doha but the headlines on al-jazeera british prime minister treason may is facing a no confidence vote after have brecht's that dean was defeated in parliament the eyes to the right two hundred into. the nose to the left four hundred and thirty two. the leader of the labor party has called for the vote later on wednesday and that could trigger a general election but it's likely to be defeated may must present an alternative plan on monday every day that passes without this issue being resolved means more uncertainty more bitterness and more rancor the government of hurt has heard what the house has said tonight but i ask members on all sides of the house to listen to

the british people who want this issue settle. down to work with the government to do just that. now e.u. leaders and cystic the deal is the best they can offer the march twenty ninth the brics a deadline can be extended but all e.u. member states would have to approve it. you don't need to retreat you try to resume a. suspected gunmen have killed at least fifteen people at a hotel in the kenyan capital nairobi heavy security remains on the streets but it is a warning people to stay away from the area and describing the situation as ongoing . president is expected to be freed from jail the international criminal court acquitted him of crimes against humanity bo has been behind bars for seven years he was closed of ordering violence after

a disputed election in two thousand and ten well those are the headlines on al-jazeera the listening post is coming up next. a veteran n.b.c. news analyst has quit the network after three decades with the strike action on his media obsessed arc at this hour on what it is to cover up for auction it's like taking the bait i believe distractions served up on twitter as the mainstream media failed its mission. hello richard is burden you're at the listening post here are some of the stories we're covering this week news alert for the u.s. media being tough on trump can lead to being pro military think about it there's an election coming up in nigeria and the raid on

a newspaper there is probably no coincidence conspiracy theories they're everywhere and journalists aren't really sure how to deal with them plus president el-sisi and the interview his government did not want to see on the air they show you were a military dictator the one the egyptian media pretended did not happen as parting shots go it was a good one it made news when william arkin a veteran national security reporter with n.b.c. news and m s n b c wrote his resignation email last week he shared it with his colleagues it was then leaked to other news outlets among arkansas criticisms of his former employer and other mainstream news outlets in the us that by incessantly covering the presidency of donald trump the network is being held hostage by trump that in its reflexive li anti trump coverage it has become even more pro-military that n.b.c. and m s n b c are now captives of the security state back in his days with the washington post arkin worked on an investigation called top secret america on the

rapid growth of the u.s. intelligence industry post nine eleven so his critique of the establishment media is worth listening to he knows the subject matter. however american news consumers are tuning into m.s. n.b.c. and its anti trump agenda in record numbers armed with those kinds of ratings what corporate owned news channel would risk alienating its shareholders by changing tack our starting point this week n.b.c.'s headquarters in new york city. william arkin in his resignation e-mail to his employer on the perils of trump derangement syndrome the impulse to oppose any and all of the president's policies regardless of their merit. of course he is an ignorant and incompetent and pasta and yet alarmed at how quick n.b.c. is to mechanically argue the contrary to be in favor of policies that just spell

more conflict and more war really we shouldn't get out of syria and by the way we're knocking the hell out of isis will become another syria like very soon so to recap for everybody pentagon not happy. we should go for the bold move of denuclearizing the korean peninsula why did that happen what was that for no us president has ever agreed to meet with a north korean dictator before and even russia who really yearn for the cold war in almost everything we see here touch and feel and smell it's russia and don't even get me started with the f.b.i. what we now lionized this historically destructive institution. everything just so there's no conversation about whether or not these are actually positions that have merit there is no conversation about whether or not we should have even gone into

syria when they're not even legal we don't see like actual coverage of what's after me except for to condemn the president for not wanting to be there he is earning ninety eight percent of. your ire ok don't ruin it by actually being reflexive way against the two percent that make sense we should definitely get out of syria we should want to hundred percent get out of afghanistan but it's irrelevant what i think i know the huge percentage of the right wing and a huge percentage of the left wing who want to withdraw from those wars so are any of them represented in the media and the answer is no because the media's decided we're going to put up a wall if you will of fear and loathing donald trump everything about this critique with regard to the mainstream media's treatment trump is false the idea that they are anti trump well no they're in the business of telling the truth and trump is in the business of lies in the past month alone according to the washington post he has told an average of fifteen lies

a day to be anti trump is to be pro truth so i don't give any of arkan's critique those particular issues and it creates. some aspects of this story are unique to the trump era but not all american and coalition forces whether it's the bush administration invading iraq in two thousand and three we will hunt down terror ordering the bombing of eisel in syria in two thousand and fourteen or donald trump conducting air strikes against syrian government targets in two thousand and seventeen the coverage is one sided and the voices reflect the why didn't we take out all of his military capability and like all three us twenty four hour news channels m s n b c hires ex-military and intelligence figures many of them now employed by the defense and security industries the networks call them analysts which is misleading because many of them are advocates according to william arkin the preponderance of those voices and how much airtime they are given

on stories such as trump's recent decision to pull out of the syrian conflict are evidence that u.s. news networks have become captives. of the security state so when i started as a commentator on m.s.n. b.c. and n.b.c. in one nine hundred ninety nine there were others who were from the academic world there were others who are activists now all we hear are retired generals and admirals and high level government officials all of you have so many credentials we don't really know where to start but let's talk start with the general things that only one of us who has four stars. and all we hear is a kind of partisan analysis of how bad trump is because he's breaking with past administration policy or whatever the american public suffers it's amazing to look at how many former national security state officials are on television i mean you'd

expect maybe and it's a tele tarion society to have former intelligence officials being your experts were supposed to be democratic and i can't think of people less qualified to opine on politics and to represent the interests of average people then those officials who have spent their careers warmongering and running secret programs michael first of all tell us the u.s. media is addiction to ex-military and intelligence forces is well documented a two thousand and eight investigation by the new york times exposed how at the outset of the wars in iraq and afghanistan there was a virtual conveyor belt running between the pentagon and network television studio the times won a pulitzer prize for that piece of journalism what changed there after it was nothing like the conflicts kept coming i'm guided by the beauty of our weapons so do the x. generals in the pentagon labeled message force multipliers i love

a good goodbye note and the and as william arkin pointed out in an interview on c.n.n. the us media somehow managed to accommodate all those pro-war voices without even know. where some of the conflicts are taking place. when i think about how we cover the news i think about are we at war or are we not at war and even if we're in this so-called perpetual war or the long war as the pentagon calls it i want to know that it's being covered with the aggressiveness that's necessary right now brian we are bombing nine countries around the world and i defy you to even name what they are that's how can i add to our coverage of warfare is beyond us of the i cannot if there is and he's not a military expert he's a news media critic but i wanted to make the point and in fact it's been interesting even my colleagues have said one of those nine countries is again show me any mainstream media outlet that is anti war they'll say oh it will be me that's

not fair we're not pre-war either. the corporate media is massively pro-war so when you combine those two forces being against pro-war when he announces withdraw they hate it and they fight him with a passion that you haven't seen him a long time there are times when that just to stay in for him gets in the way of producing really good news really good commentary and we have seen that with the line is not just math is i think jim madison is departure was different from a lot of the other previous departures we've seen because he is so highly regarded but when connie was leaving the f.b.i. we've seen this kind of happen after everyone leaves that there's this moment where it's like oh they're so great because they've left but it doesn't really look at how these people have contributed to everything that we're saying is a problem with trump. m.s.n. b.c. which declined to answer our questions can live with the criticism and just point

to the ratings they show a clear appetite for and to trump t.v. viewers clearly don't mind the pro-war bias and happily tape. in political talking points from former trump officials who have left the administration iraq last month for the first time in seventeen years m s n b c one the ratings war with fox attracting more viewers in the key demographic that advertisers want. to see has done well in the ratings and the trucker but i think part of that is a reflection of the fact that whenever you have a democratic president. sort of focus on official opposition network like fox news will do better in this case the beneficiary of this dynamic is in the senate because you have trump and power most cable news is crap and allows a lot of crap on amazon to say there's less crap on m s n b c than there is on c.n.n. and far less than there is on fox i don't understand why unless n.b.c. is a problem they see themselves as the voice of the resistance but the idea that this

is the problem rather than fox is the problem or c.n.n. is the problem it's it's insane. or it's possible that fox news is not the only problematic news network on the american airwaves and that's not drawing a false equivalence equating m s n b c's locational blindspots with fox's constant crimes against journalism it's just stating the facts the points that william arkin made on his way out the door. we're looking at other media stories that are on our radar this week with one of our producers joanna joe egypt's president. sits down for an interview with sixty minutes in the u.s. last week and then tries to stop that interview from going on the air why even agree to do it in the first place he had to know what was coming but as one of the show's producers said later it's almost as if c.c. was unfamiliar with the program and just wanted to appear on it because a number of other arab leaders have done the same c.b.s.

host scott pelley asked some pretty direct questions about the president's record on human rights the kinds of questions c c is never has to face from egyptian journalists. mr president the organization human rights watch shows that there are sixty thousand political prisoners that you're holding today as we said here a c c clearly thought the interview had gone badly according to that same producer on the shoot by the time she got home from the interview there was an e-mail from her contact that the egyptian embassy formally requesting that the interview not be aired now holding back that interview or burying it is not something that c.b.s. news could even consider but the president has had more success in controlling the media output back home on this has been much more according to one of the few independent outlets still operating in egypt not a mussar in the president's office instructed domestic media not to cover the sixty minutes interview in any way and the media blackout looks absolute instead there's been a lot of focus on the inauguration of a new coptic cathedral just outside cairo it's like

a sixty minutes interview never happens let's move on to nigeria now last week the military raided several offices of the daily trust one of the biggest papers in the country arresting a couple of journalists seizing equipment why this paper and why now well richard the nigerian military post a statement on facebook saying that all this was in response to a cover story published by the daily trust on january sixth which detailed a military operation planned against the armed group boko haram and the article supposedly and i quote divulge classified military information now by undermining national security employees at the paper say the officers came looking for a reporter hans idris wrote the story but when they couldn't find him they arrested two other journalists instead and now these raids and arrests come after a series of setbacks in the government's war with iran and with just over a month before a scheduled national election is might be just another attempt to stifle critical reporting of the ninja erin military and its political masters ok thanks joe have

you heard the conspiracy theory about al-jazeera being a secret tool of the israeli government probably not since i just made it up and put it out there. conspiracy theories are a growth industry they can affect politics last year one such theory may have helped reelect varian president viktor orban another led to a mass shooting in an american synagogue and donald trump pedaled a few with them on his way to the white house the thing about conspiracy theories is that journalists don't really know how to cope with them debunking them fails to convince those who believe that the media are lying to them and the exposure that comes with countering them introduces people to conspiracies they've never heard of before so are the social media giants doing anything about the problem not in ways that would hurt their bottom line online architectures algorithms help keep conspiracy communities in gauged and outraged the listening posts will young now on conspiracy theories the media and the consequences they can have in the real world

. a whole. lot novel idea from. uncle george george soros hasn't visited hungary in years. but prime minister viktor orban make the hungarian born financiering from one to paste a central part of his reelection campaign last march. the hoff of him gary and believe soros is behind a plot to bring large numbers of migrants into the country a conspiracy theory that the gary in government has been propagating. george soros is a useful character because he taps into this preexisting far right narrative about jewish control and throughout the years we've seen this anti semitism turn into

documented conspiracy theories the sort of thinking is obviously extremely useful to populist politicians who want to position themselves as someone who. a defender of the people against outside shadowy forces who wish to weaken their nation. but we want populist politicians such as trump you think somebody. i would be surprised would be i would i don't know but i would be surprised a lot of people say you know. the theory that soros was funding and orchestrating a migrant caravan travelling from honduras to the us border could reach millions on social media a series of twelve suspicious packages sent to critics. question by the time the first of a dozen targeting think is on the street in the. days

later. eleven people dead. tree of life. several posts about the migrant caravan on facebook. on the united states. station the conspiracy theory of time in sorest to the caravan started in some private facebook groups and in other chat forums then eventually people started tweeting about it lou dobbs starting to sort of make associations to it a lot of these folks also have affiliates who are getting money from the. department and then from there really jumps into the mainstream there was a video shot in guatemala we don't really know what it shows is someone distributing some kind of paper maybe take it.