the you mean. you didn't you were the who you started the. we are the in there oh no you're going to do it you can listen. to the movie. or you didn't need the you. know you were. the u.s. president in north korea's leader will meet in vietnam's capital in a few hours for their second summit donald trump has met with the vietnamese president he hailed the relationship between the u.s. and vietnam as an example of what can become of north korea if it gives up its nuclear weapons by casani police say six civilians have been killed by indian mortar shells in pakistani admits that kashmir has been heavy fire across the disputed regions line of control india says five of its soldiers have been injured and they have destroyed five pakistani border posts in retaliation more than sixty people are feared buried after the collapse and of an illegal gold mine in

indonesia rescue is a searching the site in north soon away see at least one person has been found dead while fourteen others have been rescued the national disaster agency says the mine collapsed because of unstable soil and a large number of mining hopes and as senior catholic cleric has been remanded in custody in australia until his sentence for child sex offenses next month cardinal george pell was heckled as he arrived at court where a judge revoked his bail palace found guilty of molesting two choir boys at a cathedral in melbourne in one nine hundred ninety six he faces up to fifty years behind bars those are the headlines the listening posts sots now. lost and abandoned. downed and say. what i want east reveals how one is giving pakistan's lost children a new chance at life on al-jazeera. do you

think that we even now conform to the the i was dead attacking just when. you think i. was going to be the host of the we want to talk. to them. hello i'm richard gilbert and you're at the listening post here are some of the stories that we're covering this week there's no issue that gets the indian media going like kashmir and not just mainstream journalism social media can drive the coverage of the story the troubles in northern ireland and the troubles of trying to cover them which persist to this day a russian funded news outlet takes the fall on facebook zuckerberg and co are still making the rules up as they go along and. a different kind of back and forth with donald trump. the talk on the indian airwaves is of war with pakistan again

last week a suicide bomber killed forty indian soldiers in kashmir a militant group based in pakistan jesh and mohamad has claimed responsibility for the worst such attack in more than seventy years prime minister narendra modi's government in new delhi has accused the pakistani government of backing the group and many indian news outlets have gone further calling for a crackdown on so-called anti nationalists at home who they describe as terrorist sympathizers the social media side of this story also deserves scrutiny twitter facebook and whatsapp the messaging there can be out of control and ugly we've reported on the pakistani media before and we will again but with india just months away from a general election we're focusing on that side of the story. the stakes were already high for the ruling be j.p. at its primary challenger the congress party the bombing in kashmir and the way it's been covered could well affect the outcome of the biggest electoral exercise on the planet our starting point this week is india.

may be one of many. angry stream every time an incident like this happens before government can respond before you know the army can respond on the media jumps the gun and for war subset are somebody. on this too bob stewart one is that the anger which is justified by the demand for just all of us and them trying to figure out what is the next step to take and this negative then he was into a call for war against pakistan. pakistan. thank you i am struck published. there is no denying where the demand for justice comes from or the news value of the story on the fourteenth of february an s.u.v. packed with explosives rammed into

a convoy carrying indian soldiers. it was the deadliest peacetime attack on the armed forces since india won its independence in one nine hundred forty seven. the coverage on twenty four hour news channels has been wall to wall which is editorially defensible but descends into. rant especially during prime time there are anchors calling food. studios populated with former generals talking military attacked us on it's not modeled by general john not because for the indian news media this story takes so many books. kashmir pakistan the army and the attack came just as campaigning beginningless for a national election that is just months away. the attack has provoked a kind of first of all

a national outpouring of grief on mainstream media channels and the spewing of lots of venom against various targets particularly against but also against bush but that amount to much i think humans are thinking there's been a jump to assume who is responsible to make people collectively responsible and this is the case on many english language and binocular channels with the exception of a few say in voices what you have is a completely absurd and very dangerous competitive jingoism that's better nearly on display from all these and because india is demanding justice accountability the anchor was actually a pretty pretty strong role in shaping public opinion and in the present moment their reaction is all the more dangerous. what makes india news channels unique is that there are so many of them far more than any other country india's media boom began in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight and news channels have

since seen growth that is exponential indians can watch national news channels regional ones vernacular channels in various languages more than four hundred in all pumping out coverage twenty four seventh's. the competition for viewers has an intensity like no where else many actors feel the need to shout louder more radically just to be heard seen and clicked apart and as political debate in india has grown more polarized often over prime minister modi is brand of hindu nationalism t.v. output has grown more debased when that kind of coverage is fed into the indian social media messaging machine the effect can be. dangerous. one of the anchors on . a prime time to actually said they've already got a forum on a good finish it will be mocked oh you're going to get spanish and that's the same kind of rhetoric that almost. so it's interesting how social media and television

have actually you know at least some have actually been hand in hand when it comes to setting the narrative for the current mood the hindu right itself more broadly but the b.g.p. as a political party has been very very effective in using the internet in general and social media in particular what they've basically done is they have very quickly kind of mobilize their forces to essentially see if they can actually hammered into kind of their classic narrative of hindus versus muslims the muslim as the figure of the outsider the congress as a weak party liberals as you know anti national traitor and so on. when that narrative takes on a visual form it looks like this on the left is the suicide bomber responsible for the attack in kashmir on the right. the congress party leader running against prime minister modi's b j p it's a photoshop job and a crude one but it's made the rounds on social media designed to reinforce the

notion that congress is soft on kashmir terrorism and muslims in general and there is the probie j.p. messaging online that offers the flip side of the same basic marriage vote for modi and his party if you don't want terrorists on your doorstep among the most disturbing social media material now being spread the calls for attacks on kashmiris living outside of kashmir many of them studying in cities to the south. things like share chapter it's something similar to whatsapp but it's huge and you've also got tick tock you can make a fifteen second video and in these fifteen second videos people have been saying come on let's go out and get them. most disturbing aspect is the. these attacks have been founded by this kind of ironically it's a government sponsored scheme which is main draw students into the so-called

mainstream media but these are the students who are now being attacked. between what. india is awash with social media and messaging apps there are two hundred million users on whatsapp alone making the country just mark and when we changed its rules recently placing new limits on the forwarding of group messages it did so after first field testing of those changes in india an implicit admission of the social and political problems has exacerbated. with elections and the b j p leading the way all parties now want to make the most of the apps at their disposal and they're doing so with voters necessarily realising they're being played whose messages they're read. it's very difficult to track down. who really is donning these whatsapp group because apart from that

one number that you have you know off the administrator you don't really have too much of other information about these people love some of these sympathizers some stuff associated with different political parties you know. what happens with the two big national parties. and have very actively made efforts. that. really really crucial. in a particular context and that context is a mainstream media which does not always do the job that it should be doing partly through fear pressure and through political allegiance and so if we had to. fake stories making it through mainstream media. then the role the quartet played would be far less it's just that one exists as

a parallel universe to the other. symbiotic relationship just. discussing other media stories that are on our radar this week with one of our producers meenakshi ravi mina facebook all over the news once again a committee of the british parliament describing the company as digital gangsters nigerians with an election coming seeing all kinds of misleading ads popping up on the site and facebook has suspended the pages of some widely followed media outlets who are they and why the suspension of these pages is a big deal richard there are four in total but the two most popular and we're talking about millions of followers here are in the now and soap box now many of our viewers we have seen videos posted by these guys it's kind of as content that smart sharp and takes a very strong line against certain american policies both domestic and foreign that this past week c.n.n.

put out a report saying that the kremlin was quote backing a viral video company aimed at american millennial and the videos have been viewed tens of millions of times but what people watching these videos may not realize is that the russian government is paying for this the company running these pages is called and media and indeed it is funded by the russian state but that's not exactly breaking news it's been reported before but after that c.n.n. report aired facebook suspended the pages even though matic media hadn't actually violated any rules facebook does not require outlets to disclose their funding on their pages but they said they took them down so that people won't be misled about who's behind them we spoke with magic media's chief operating officer he says no one was informed before the suspension happened but according to him that's not even the issue. your issue is that facebook needs to issue very clear protocols and policies for what the requirements are and pages

disclosing funding sources for both government backed media sources as well as commercial media sources i think that c.n.n. has created another thread age in a week full of headaches or facebook that creates pressure on them to articulate a policy that's far larger and more complicated to coordinate and organize now and it is to simply single out russia and single out in the now and other state sponsored media and. i hope that they will do that and we can probably say rules that everyone else has to do. now he seems to make a valid point take you too for example which is owned by google recent policy change there and now whenever material from a state funded media outlet is posted there it is disclosed so when material from

al-jazeera is posted you see this line underneath about a qatari funded media outlet b.b.c. material is described as coming from public broadcaster in the u.k. but that's not the case on facebook is it no it isn't and the way facebook has gone about this suggests a whole host of news outlets could get kicked off the site it could be china c g t n it could be the b.b.c. it could be alleges eda facebook is under pressure on various issues and this development is not reassuring it's max of the same old problems a lack of transparency and a kind of approach that's both ad hoc and selective back to c.n.n. quickly there are issues there over the hiring of a new political editor was that well c.n.n. is getting up for the twenty twenty lection and its latest hire a woman name said it has many people seriously concerned she's a republican operative who was most recently a spokesperson for trump's attorney general now we've seen c.n.n. hiding time spokespeople before but only as paid contributors as

a political editor is going to be shaping coverage and editing other people's work but she has zero journalistic experience and her twitter feed says it all she's tweeted lies about president obama justified the so-called muslim ban with baseless arguments and here's a tweet c.n.n. should have found troubling she used to call the network the clinton news network one ok thanks mina. the challenges for journalists covering conflict zones are well documented however uncovering difficult truths in post conflict situations can also be a risky business northern ireland in a period known as the troubles thirty years of sectarian violence that ended with the good friday agreement of one thousand nine hundred ninety eight is our case in point on one side were republicans principally the irish republican army the ira a militant group drawn from the catholic community that targeted civilians british soldiers and the state that they served on the other side of those who called

themselves loyalists most of the protestants loyal to the united kingdom with their own paramilitary groups during that period journalists in britain and ireland faced censorship although the fighting ended long ago just last year two documentary makers were arrested over a film they made alleging that the british government was complicit in a nine hundred ninety four massacre that remains like so many other cases from that era unsolved listening posts daniel touring now on the ongoing difficulties of documenting the troubles in northern are. yes. i was getting ready for work. mission knock at the door. when the police came in they commanded my kitchen and they produced a piece of paper which they said was the warranty offices here but the work. were

being read it and i said ok we need to take your phone i walked lighting that it was a receiver your phone your laptop we were fingerprinted had our d.n.a. our mug shot taken put in the place sales to the said that they were there to look for materials linked to the time. no stone unturned is a documentary that investigates the killing in one thousand nine hundred four of six on catholics in a pub in northern ireland. the facts on this man. the film featured a confidential report written by a police. report which mccaffrey says he was sent anonymously it shows that during the original investigation police did identify one of the suspects as a police informant which implied collusion on the part of the british state but no one was ever convicted or even stood trial for the murders but i'll never forget their words we will leave no stall on turn i don't think they've left

a story nevermind two hundred. one of the reasons for mccaffrey in bernie's arrests was suspected on lawful disclosure of information on to the u.k. official secrets act another with suspicion of theft is arrests were made on the basis that the police ombudsman's office had reports and the theft of documents from its office however the from somebody so office has come back and said very firmly no we did not make a complaint of theft. the notion that they would be arrested and we haven't heard any sign of those who they named and accused in the film being arrested that it was startling trevor.