so involved in the media why did he try to measure so much with it nobody's asking that question could it be didn't and to me i was vilified by the media more than any other prime minister in the western world zero nish clearly there is no prime minister or president anywhere that so savagely criticize day in day out what they will tell you all me all the victim of the well exploited test this is the name. the thing that was most important to him. finally brings him down you know if they mingle with everybody now is a lefty everybody now is out to get him that made the at the county again a misunderstanding is not a big deal when with in the finale feel watching i'm not out to get you i'm just way he really thought that this happened because the prime minister's contentions that he is up against some kind of left wing media conspiracy failed the scrutiny test on the sad side of the need to do. to the

attorney general leading the investigation mandelbrot was appointed by netanyahu himself two of the prosecution's key witnesses reported to have provided the most incriminating evidence our former confidant of the prime minister and details of what is being called case four thousand involving israel's biggest telecom company which owns the online news site while on paint a picture of elaborate media manipulation police allege the prime minister's relationship with baz x c.e.o. alone which was based on bribes netanyahu provided besuch with government contracts and regulatory favors in return for not just flattering coverage of his government but a hand in the way the website operate police say that from two thousand and twelve to two thousand and seventeen the prime minister or his staff blatantly intervened hundreds of to. times and on

a near daily basis often calling in the middle of the night to demand changes in the coverage. law there are recordings in which netanyahu speaks with a lot of it who then passes messages on to align your sure the c.e.o. . so it's obvious that netanyahu tried to intervene we spoke with journalists asking them how come there were positive articles on netanyahu or as well as negative one are you for or against him explain that what were things with the tip of the iceberg underneath there was a constant battle about whether to follow the orders that came from netanyahu or over the editorial team to just do the job. looking up while workers a while reporters and junior editors i think that some of them were maybe too young and then they couldn't see the big picture but it was not only on their shoulders it was a matter of their chief executive editor and they rector of the company those were

the people that did it not. the netanyahu a lot of which relationship resulted in politically driven material like this maybe . it first appeared on the prime minister's website on the morning of march seventeenth two thousand and fifteen the day israelis voted in the last general election within minutes it was on the wall as home page where it would remain on the order say prosecutors of the prime minister's office in london met i thought of that video the arabs are flocking to the polls which is just pure incitement it was on the home page for a whole day it was discussed totally ungentle istic and rather and. then there were dozens of articles and photos of sarin netanyahu helping holocaust survivors for instance now it's one thing to post such pieces which really have zero news value but to. then take down other articles such as the police on the public record in

israel actual information that is important that it was a disproportionate faith. that things were as complex and detailed as the indictment. i had absolutely no idea i didn't know that they were actually helping choose images for specific i didn't know that sorry netanyahu has so for sending text messages if we would have known about it would not have had any reporters that . case four thousand and the communications between netanyahu and is just one of the corruption allegations under investigation there's also case two thousand backed up by secretly recorded conversations in which netanyahu offers to support legislation that would limit the distribution of the country's most widely read newspaper israel a free tab in return for favorable coverage in the biggest traditional paper on the

market yet or not the prosecutors announcement of a coming indictment happened just weeks before an election in which the netanyahu campaign clearly has the media in its sights posters of. journalists face and bearing the slogan. also launched a facebook broadcast quote throw the fake out. in the increasingly polarized israeli media space there are still voices the prime minister wants to hear. some of whom can be found at news outlets like channel twenty. four. and a lot of the small animals that i don't get to. when the leftists criticize an

attack it's considered journalistic integrity but when a rightwing journalist says he supports the prime minister and think he's doing a great job and suddenly i get attacked for my journalistic integrity have you ever asked a leftwing journalist about their integrity you never have why do you only ask me this should be one standard for all the media once. asked whether this indictment can play in netanya his favor the answer is absolutely yes part of his genius is that he would list how to use they often say that after each netanyahu scandal his party gets an extra two seats in the election this time where right in the midst of an election an indictment helps netanyahu push the idea that the leftist media patronized is trying to dethrone netanyahu his turn media into the biggest game and this indictment in my opinion is only making

his campaign stronger compressional that's a lot. more in previous elections netanyahu built an enemy in the shape of an iran . and hezbollah today the situation isn't one that enables him to build an enemy from the outside and therefore he's putting up the media and the justice system to be the enemy they say they're trying to bring me down. we're discussing other media stories that are on our radar this week with one of our producers flo philips flow the egyptian photojournalist mahmoud it better not to show released from prison this past week after something like five and a half years behind bars but he's not exactly a free man is he not exactly and should undeniably this is one of the best pieces of media news to come out of egypt lately but one condition of siobhan's release is that he spends. every night for the next five years at

a police station and all this for a case that so many consider a sham shocking was arrested back in august twenty third team during the early days of the c.c. government there was a huge pro muslim brotherhood demonstration in cairo in which at least six hundred protesters were killed shot and says he was just taking pictures but he wound up behind bars charged with murder and terrorism it took more than five years for the case to get to trial and by the time he was sentenced shah kind of virtually served out his time here's what he had to say when he got home says whoa whoa. it's also a story those also really. holds funerals well and. there are still more than thirty other journalists in egyptian prisons including al jazeera his own man hussein who's been in jail now for more than two years hussein still hasn't been charged with a crime let alone convicted. ok now to croatia where hundreds of journalists took

to the streets of the capital zagreb just last weekend to protest against pressures that are facing the media what kind of things are they talking about so they've got a variety of complaints wretched they say they're often abused and threatened and that the government medals in the country's media but what really stands out here is the sheer number of norse suits being filed against croatian journalists more than a thousand and a currently being sued for myriad reasons under a law the croatian journalists association says is being abused the way this law is written makes content deemed shaming or humiliating a criminal offense and it's pretty easy to see how powerful people can just use that to their advantage and while most of these lawsuits are being filed by politicians what's with these news outlets that are suing some of their own employees so this is the bizarre pot croatia's public broadcast t.v. is suing thirty six journalists including some of their own six months ago fired her voice zovko he's also the head of the journalists association after he spoke

out against political interference and censorship at the station he's been h.r.t. for twenty one years and now the channel is suing him for seventy thousand dollars the european federation of journalists issued a statement prime minister under a plank a bitch to get to work and to take concrete steps to limit abusive prosecutions against journalists ok thanks for next we're moving to a media story whose roots date back to the late nineteenth century european powers were setting sail for africa sweeping across the continent colonizing country after country and once they took power they wrote laws designed to ensure that the called the nies would not rise up against the colonizers laws that could also be used to silence censor jail or intimidate journalists who refused to toe the line come the late one nine hundred fifty s. africans began revolting and over the next decade or two most countries would win their. independence however much of the colonial legislation remained in place and

there is now a growing list of journalists in sub-saharan africa falling afoul of those laws that were never written with democratic societies and the listening posts nick muirhead now on the colonial era laws that still determine what can and cannot be reported in sub-saharan africa. two thousand and eighteen in the democratic republic of congo newspaper editors that were funny was jailed for publishing articles critical of a bank she was prosecuted under a different nation law dating back to nine hundred forty when the d r c was a belgian caught in november two thousand and sixteen five zambian radio journalists were arrested for allegedly calling a member of the ruling party a useless person they were charged under section one seventy nine of the zambian penal code which dates back to the british colonial times and in another former

british colony one puts. a newspaper editor at the sunday standard published a report that the former president was involved in a late night car crash he was charged with sedition i told my lawyer that you know what i am going to plead guilty to say. i believe i did that i think and he. will be but there was a change of government and the government has added to it but i was very disappointed that they threw the charges because that we need only opportunity we had the chinese the constitutionality of this edition so sedition. compared to a less well. off defamation which much more. is very specific to who can say it is people at the. the pinnacle of power in any society the assumption is that the said comments remarks views

expressed have a potential of cost and national security threat or a public order threat one suspects that because the the newspaper was so independent then had been writing about other matters that was clearly upset in the government of the day that they used that as an excuse to move against the journalists the irony of course is that the world's looks and sees it as the best in democracy and stable rule in sub-saharan africa and yet some fortunately sedition still remains a crime in botswana and it is used to close down the democratic space. which is by design colonial era little voice weren't written to protect democracy but to limit dissent when countries like britain france and belgium established the

african colonies in the late nineteenth century the new colonial administrations expected journalists who were almost exclusively white and mostly compliant to highlight the achievements of government perpetuating the nation of african dependence on colonialism they also want to be opponents silenced and a legal framework was created for that. but when the colonize ation process began in the late one nine hundred fifty s. an african governments started coming into power securing independence was the priority not media freedom and the new leader is so value in the lords that they inherited what happened after independence when. leaders to call before they were calling for free media but after they changed. they decided to use the strategy

that was used by the koran yet they are colonial masters and there was a reason for that why because the nation building projects the forcing of people trade now identify themselves as it says zambia. now have to be centrally managed or centrally controlled so in order to do that the new governments found it necessary to send a single message as the only voice that had their good intentions and everybody else was destroying what this government was trying to build our leaders say the media is an opposition. you know and. they don't understand the role of the media because they're all the generic version . of our leaders we're hiding behind this idea of nation building and cohesion we contacted multiple governments and countries that

still have clone you are laws in place to ask why decades after independence those laws are still on the books none of them got back to us. it's not just the legacy of colonialism that lingers on in africa but the legal residue of apartheid in south africa next month marks twenty five years of democracy in the country but journalists there still have to contend with yours that were designed to preserve white minority rule. the nine hundred eighty two protection of information act gave some thought for because apart take government sweeping powers to keep secrets and silence journalists in the democratic era many of the provisions in that glow are deemed unconstitutional but that hasn't prevented its use a big surprise was last year when an investigative journalist. who had written a book called the president suddenly found himself on the receiving end of

a police raid and. it was. his stance simply because he had confidential information from the intelligence services in his possession he's been charged under this act and while the case has been moved ahead against him it's still hanging over his head. the ruling african national congress has made several attempts to replace the nine hundred eighty two protection of state information act its version the protection of state information bill even made it through parliament. but campaign is journalists and lawyers said it was new only in name and still gave the state unconstitutional powers the bill remains unfinished business it's been on the president's desk for nearly six years now awaiting signature until then the a particular law remains in force. to start because aside there's an unwritten

cultural code in the region it's called going to the idea in african culture that a shared sense of humanity builds and binds communities that challenge for modern day. african societies and their leaders who are no longer united by the common goal of ending colonial rule it's hard to reconcile the reverence of a pointer with the irreverence of critical journalist not too long ago in this very same book so i'm not. criticizing a public figure especially political leadership could be city should be at boot but attitudes are changing as people begin to identify themselves often as text as a message is this way that their concerns these days are less about jazz i'm just looking good and more about the media or journalists not digging deep enough it's important that people realize that if they wants to live in a democratic society that there is no way that a government

a democratically elected government or a post colonial government should be in a position to use colonial era laws of apartheid north to try and subjugates the population i am convinced that if they want to keep those laws in this they truth because they have a vested interest. and there is no weight. there is no way these guys are going to go into going to stop power to the extent that generics are going to criticize them free. and finally the legal cases around the chinese mobile phone manufacturer huawei and the u.s. justice department are crawling through the courts the charges include stealing trade secrets and doing business with the likes of iran north korea and syria all countries under economic sanctions now a private chinese company has released a propaganda video of children singing the praises of huawei and who better to

produce the lyrics than a former member of the people's liberation army song and dance troupe as now put it the only way to win a revolutionary war is by mobilizing the masses now the chinese masses are being mobilized online to come to the defense of a mobile phone company only the bulk of the social media chatter on this has been mockery since while way has consistently tried to distance itself from the chinese state will leave you now with a snippet of wall way the beautiful and we'll see you next time you're at the list .

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shout critics. but a new brigade of artists is fighting back why when a snake's thailand's rebel losses. zero. hello i'm in london just a quick look at the top stories this hour opposition protesters in venezuela have clashed with police at a new rally calling for president nicolas maduro to step down this as most of venezuela remains without electricity for a third day tensions have been rising in a country already facing crippling shortages in food and medicine blackout which started on thursday is believed to have been caused by problems it's a major hydroelectric plant but accuse the u.s. of economic sabotage but opposition says the outages another example of government

corruption and mismanagement. it's a country socialist policies also holding a mass rally in caracas against what it calls imperialism from the united states washington a slap at the sanctions on venezuela's state oil company paid as i said in an effort to close off valuable funding to move durham's government to raise a boat sent us this update from the opposition rally in caracas. out of the people of a rival leaders who i would have a go to in cadillac i think of america that used to be controlled most by the government by government supporters but now why though the opposition leader has asked people to gather year to protest here initially it was expected that people would meet in three different points in caracas but the minute that they were at that there were the potential here were three people already in the morning that were trying to set up a stage and they were detained by the government thing why you go ask people to come directly to this place to protest against the governmental nikolaus model for

city has started to be restored in some parts of the country in neighborhoods like this one for example still has not returned that has generated a critical situation i'll tell you here in the capital but around the country are you when you and you were doctors union is reporting that at least sixteen people have died because of this power outages mostly affecting hospital people on life support among other things that heavily dependent on electricity but what the interesting is that on this people over here right here in avenue that victoria government opponents are protesting but not far away right towards the end of kut acas there is another demonstration of those who are defending the government defending me. for saying that the changes that need to happen in venice will lead me to happen with all the chavez socialist revolution. colleges and universities in algeria have been ordered to close their campuses two weeks ahead of their spring break in an effort to diffuse student protests on friday one hundred ninety five

protesters were detained as tens of thousands of algerians protested against the government the demonstrations held in algiers in several other cities have been described as the largest of their kind in twenty eight years the unrest now in its third week was sparked by president abdelaziz beautifully because announcement that he is seeking a fifth term in power the u.s. backed syrian democratic forces of again delayed their final assault on the village of booze isolates last enclave in syria they say they're expecting more civilians to be evacuated from the area thousands of people many of them the wives of ice of fighters and their children have been streaming out of burrows more than sixty five thousand people are currently seeking shelter in the kurdish run of the whole camp which is said to be at breaking point north korea is suspected of planning another missile launch based on new satellite images of military facilities pictures taken over the course of two weeks of a factory at saddam don't. show

a flurry of vehicle and train activity which has now died down suggesting the items have been transported elsewhere the facility produced north korea's first intercontinental ballistic missiles. as being a third attack on an ebola abode a treatment center in the eastern democratic republic of congo hours before a visit by the head of the world health organization. again targeted a facility and which had just reopened after being attacked last month one police officer was killed and one suspect captured the attacks have made it even harder to contain the virus which has now killed five hundred seventy eight people since august aid workers have been facing challenges such as mistrust from some locals in the communities which have been worst hit by the outbreak over you more on our top stories a little bit later on coming up next it's al-jazeera wild. possible

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a royal military band at the time of our best and the diva of egypt while it was under outmaneuver in the nineteenth century. has launched his own band in eight hundred sixty and mohammed ali street in cairo which became famous for its artists and its musicians. has a band played for rich and poor alike and at weddings and funerals. the band featured in egyptian movies some of them classics. other musicians imitated the hasn't and the bands played at family and national festivities. those days are over but the has has retained a place in the hearts of egyptians today many of whom still think of it as the people's music. oh my gosh. ah. atlanta you.

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