make a difference or is it too late for that of course they can make a day for and think of for the report well for politicians to his cause and of they they have an effect of full on public opinion they might be even be in office when . this comes to. in the courts here of course they make a difference just in the same manner that outrageous comments by politicians in the united states make it totally impossible for a fair trial there this case is about more than julian assange it's about the president and the children and they sat amongst other news organizations i'm wondering how effective wiki leaks can be with julian assange behind bars even with that even with the organization for ten years you're now an editor are you going to continue to publish information at the rate that you have we have been of course restrained by the situation that julian has been in for years but we have tried to work around it and we've had the ways and means to do that there had been. weeks

and months when julian has been without any ability to communicate with the outside world except through lawyers and a couple of colleagues that go in so we we are able to work around it and we can we'll continue this work christian who robson thank you very much for joining us here at the listening post today thanks. last week malaysia's former prime minister najib razak went on trial over one of the biggest corruption scandals the world has ever seen the media shorthand for the case is one and b b it involves a sovereign wealth fund by the same name that najib set up it lost billions almost seven hundred million dollars of which is alleged to have ended up in his own back account the malaysian media are all over the story but it wasn't always that way under the jeeves government there were clear red lights that reporters and the news outlets they work for feared to cross and if not for a british journalist running a website out of london one business newspaper in kuala lumpur and

a secret meeting that took place in singapore malaysians might not know about any of this listening posts flow phillips now with the media back story behind the one m.t.b. scandal. you will see this coming trial of the former prime minister. run top all seven charges this course of this trial and all the media attention around it was probably the nothing new that wanted. it three years ago when he was still in power to try to through the media office said publicly requesting that all investigation into the one m.t.p. scandal be left to him rather than conduct a trial by media we must wait for that of these investigation i don't think that that means the you know trial by the media there's no such thing as. trial by media

this isn't a trial by the public i think it's an exaggerated how can you have the biggest trial ever in the nation history subject to the principles we put up the date this is ridiculous to stop the media from covering the world's biggest case of the. this case is a global corruption scandal involving the state development fund a jeep himself set up in two thousand and nine one malaysia development had one m d b under his watch the fund lost four point five billion dollars through shell companies and opaque transactions now being investigated across twelve countries six hundred eighty one million dollars of that according to u.s. prosecutors has been found in the jeeves personal bank account. if any wrong doing. i can assure you that appropriate action will be taken against those responsible. three years later it turns out in

a jeep was the one responsible public anger against him and his party thrust a newly united opposition into power. and today najib is facing more than forty charges of money laundering bribery and abuse of power and the media both foreign and domestic are out in force the media in malaysia were prevented from reporting on it. and laws were in fact used to crack down on the media that reported or wanted to report on why and even so when the former prime minister is in this trial in a way is politically significant for the media that in the past was controlled could actually be seeing a new dawn and one that has a long record on high profile cases and also political issues despite the measures najib took to stifle reporting into one m.t.b.f. suspicious dealings the scandal was eventually broken by the media the first

investigative piece was published in twenty thirteen by an online business portal called can a bit is now defunct examining whether one m d b was in fact a giant ponzi scheme. then the story was picked up by two outlets in particular a london based blog the sarawak report founded by journalist claire castle brown and a kuala lumpur based business paper the edge that just wouldn't let the story. we start to bring a lot of stories asking a lot of questions about what is happening. and so this was going on throughout really fourteen we came together in general or february of twenty fifteen where we connected with clare i constructed a deal whereby the edge. obtained the material from savio who was a former director of the first joint venture partner with one m.t.p.

it was an extraordinary cache of documents and information exposing an extraordinary crime keeney the edge free malaysia these outfits did a terrific job in disseminating what they could on one m.t.p. but they couldn't write about it in the way that i did because. they were injured jurisdiction that was controlled by no jeep. and that's crucial to how the rest of the story unfolded the sarawak report continued its investigations from london protected from the reaches of malaysian law for tat publisher at the edge as well as some of his colleagues it was a different story we were under a lot of pressure when you are writing a big expose on the big financial scandal in the government owned company a company that was started by the prime minister at the time i saw it was unprecedented it was not an easy environment to do to work under and we always knew

that the media laws are such that the government can shut us down any time we did it eventually. the edge was shut down its sister site the malaysian insider was. blocked along with two others asia sentinel and media and journalists at the news site malaysiakini were arrested all for trying to cover one m.t.b. . the coverage highlighted something many malaysians already knew that the country's media landscape had a split running right through it while online publishers were leading the journalistic charge mainstream news outlets particularly those with close ties to the government were either unwilling or unable to touch the story. zine he has and was deputy editor of malaysia a government affiliated newspaper the close relationship between his paper and power meant certain red lines could not be crossed one mt be one of the.

most surprised that there were not much coverage. clearly quantrill through the quality of the. many laws. to control all the fired me use the work to shackle the freedoms of the media and that was pondered by what we saw as a rights in the number of cases of individuals where they are journalists your blogger activists who came under the communications and multi-media act so they were investigated you know they were arrested and also charged under the law communications and media act was very actively use not only did he fall back on the existing very oppressive legislation in terms of the multimedia racks that existed he sought out one of the world's first full move news the news act was a direct attempt at intimidating the population at large and it was

a direct attempt a bring in the same controls over individual social media that this regime had exercised for decades over the mainstream press this new normal was was not related . attempt to silence the discussion on one end. of the anti fake news act like najib time left in office was to be short lived a few months often achieved success and to mohammed took office he did away with the law. in an ironic twist however jeep has over the past year launched a fully fledged campaign to try and rebranding himself as well as paint his trial as a politicized vendetta all on social media. but the malaysian media aren't falling for it not even those who were once part of the mainstream they say they've learned that lesson i leveled the sun in november last

year and then set up a. bottle where i believe in freedom the freedom of speech freedom of expression is a milestone. you know. again and i think a good opening for. hope that these freedoms. transparency on m.t.v. is no longer taboo. all the media companies giving its maximum coverage. to the public wants to know it's an important story and they now have the freedom to report it so yeah it's a feeling the actually for the media to report on and you know. six years ago malaysian media broke the story of the one n.d.p. scandal. pushed back.

now as he stands trial for one of the world's biggest cases of kleptocracy the media najib tried to silence around him full. day and the law have caught up with him. finally one covering global news of answer every so often an image appears that has iconic qualities that's what happened in sudan this past week when a young woman named went viral after a local. photographer snapped a picture of her standing above a crowd of protesters in khartoum leading them those images seem to capture the central role that women have played in the anti-government demonstrations that have rocked the country since december and have now resulted in a military coup and the arrest of longtime president omar al bashir we'll leave you now with her chance and some of the tweets that that viral video inspired and we'll see you next time here at the listening post.

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is new leader under pressure many see him as an ally of the former president. indonesia's election campaign heats up as it enters the last lap. band the u.s. president wants to send migrants to cities controlled by his political opponents. we begin in sudan where the head of the military transitional council has stepped down it's been replaced by another general abdel fatah. protesters welcomed the announcement and demonstrations are being scaled back the council will rule for up to two years after the military force frozen in time one of the shia to resign him out morgan has isis from khartoum. the power of protest the curate's the second victory in as many days on thursday these demonstrators were celebrating their level of president obama to share by friday his replacement the general who had

orchestrated the end of the shoes thanks to your rule had also gone. your move this is for the benefit of our nation without having to look at special interests because small that might preclude its progress we honored to say that this country has great people and a great many i would like to recommend you work together and hope that you would reach a solution very speedily i would also hope that this decision is not misinterpreted i wish my brother success in what is beneficial to our country long lives today and a peaceful and honorable country. i meant it now off is seen by many as part of the old regime and could not represent them in the military council he had it appears to have lessened. the was i think there's no weak tree like the one we've seen today and the way the military stood with doesn't listen to our demands is something that has never happened before we will be talking about this victory

to the future generations. the new leader abdul for the one hand is the inspector general of the military and like former president bashir and his predecessor at north who are both accused of war crimes in the western region of darfur he doesn't seem to have a tainted past raising hopes that he may be able to appease the thousands who have been protesting for months the protests began in december over a steep hike in bread prices and the deteriorating economy since last saturday thousands have been demonstrating in front of the military headquarters in her town demanding this year's resignation. according to the central committee of sudanese doctors dozens have been killed in violence with security forces which have repeatedly tried to disperse the sit in by force while the decision of opting for the one hundred seems largely welcome some say a civilian council is the only option for a transitional government. that actually be able to be on the street until

we see a handover of a to a civil government in. we want to see a civil government taken over for the transitional period you know they have a. government but the leaders ship of the government should be coming from the city or the country is that to hear what's plan to happen for to one has for the military council and now and a transitional period ahead but for now the people of sudan seem to be focused on celebrating the fact that they were able to lead to leaders out of power in less than forty eight hours. zeros who are morgan joins us now live from called to him here but let's start with those reports that some people at least will be packing our polls are looking outside the army headquarters. sami we can still hear people celebrating yes. in front of the army headquarters that has been going on for six days has largely scaled down

a lot of people are very hopeful expecting the new leader of the military council absent for harm to address the nation shortly and they're waiting for him to announce that he will be handing over power to military council comprising of various political parties and civil society components now the only one of the main reasons people were very happy that the north did not last long in less than twenty four hours is the fact that he was part of the rejean he was part of bush's government as well he was the vice president and defense minister and people were saying that there was no difference between president obama and the sheer and no of both who are accused of war crimes in the western region of darfur the new leader general general opted for the one hand doesn't seem to have that kind of history he doesn't he's not known to have any political affiliations and people are saying that he doesn't have any skeleton in the closet so they're waiting for him to come out and address the nation and say that the council that will be leading the

transitional period regardless of how long whether it's one year or two years as initially planned by the military council when bashir was ousted they are saying that they wanted to be led by civilians while the military stays behind maintaining security and order of the country of course we yet to hear from the general himself from the new leader of the military council what he has in store for the nation but at the moment the people although they have scaled the protests largely and they're still celebrating the fact that they managed to topple two leaders in less than forty eight hours they're saying that they are ready to go back in front of the army headquarters and protest in case the statement that comes out from the new leader does not appease them. there's a lot of expectations from protests for a quick transition to civilian rule are there any talks going on or plans for talks between the military and some of the civilian leadership or. at the moment there are consultations from within the military councils themselves to come out with

a list of members of the council there's no talks between the military council and political parties but political parties and the sudanese professional association which has been spearheading the protests and calling for people to stage the sets in for the past six days as well as the past four months are saying that they have a list of demands one of them of course being a civilian council taking over and leading the transitional period they've also demanded that they won the national intelligence and security services the agency that was largely responsible for. putting down and stamping out the protesters and targeting them they're saying that they want to that's institute gone and they want to better security they want people who are not affiliated with the normal organized security forces gone including the national security system they're saying that this system has targeted them for so long to have him has imprisoned political activist and dissidents and they don't want that to be part of the system so they've already put out their list of demands even before talking to the military council but they are hoping that by putting it out there the military

council would know what to expect and will decide if it's able to meet their expectations or if it still the people that sorry can do this and people will go out at the moment again people are very cautious they're happy they're celebrating but they're very cautious waiting for that statement that is expected in a few hours from the military council's new leader or morgan from car too. well how judge corker is a member of good if not a resistance movement that's helping organize the protests i asked him earlier who he thinks should take over from the military. whole court as well as organized and there are the freedom and change tickler regime so we're all working under that umbrella so that amorello nice to take over and the leaders of them are the s.p. eight sudanese professional association so we want army to sit with the sudanese professional association and hand over power to them and then we have. the

agreed upon way path into democracy that we have already. decided are we expect them to talk to us first before coming out with a statement we do not want to hear another statement we not want to hear about the state of emergency we don't want to hear about their solutions or what they want before we want them to become institution like in any democracy or the army just be an institution that protects the people not not that rules the people we do not want to military rule we do not want to have as a leader we don't want him as a president not even for one day. hundreds of thousands of algerian serve rallied nationwide for an eighth week calling for the removal of the ruling elite more than one hundred people were arrested in the capital on friday also confrontations with security forces police say eighty officers were injured matheson explains. clad in traditional roles as this woman cries out to crowds of young protesters.

the my children are the algerian you just something like flowers in the spring you are the future i'm with you algeria will be cherishing. in response the crowd cheers long live all the demonstrations again and all jarius streets despite increasing efforts by security forces to reduce the size of the crowds there was a roadblock ings there was. that impeded people from joining the capital. years and there was also the use of what can and against a student a few days ago there was also the use of sound cannon so i think this is also the military is sending signals that the message is we heard you indeed we gave you a few concessions about do not ask for too much it's been ten days since he's

beautiful stepped down after two decades as president following weeks of public demands for him to go but the protesters say everyone linked to both of leaders government needs to be removed. that includes our own santa a long time boot of leaker ally and the man appointed under the constitution to act as interim leader and who's in a presidential election is for july the fourth protesters are also calling on some of the military's top leaders to resign including general argument going home protestors accuse of not doing enough to rid the country of what they call look for the power a group which they say has been secretly running algeria in the shadow of former president bush of flicka judges if you know the judge algeria has its men algeria doesn't need you there are plenty of people that can rule geria we want them all to leave. all the garden they all need to go we want to tell guy they need to know

that the people have empowered us to get rid of the gangs you are nuts. it's not needed speaking it's forty million algerians women men old people young people on the streets all of these people are asking you in the name of everything that's holy to leave the country alone to leave its people be algeria is a great nation it's greater than any of. the interim government maybe hoping that electing a new president will be enough to satisfy the protesters but the economy is struggling unemployment is high and demonstrators like these say they'll stay on the streets until all those they blame it all gee whiz problems are forced to go rob matheson odyssey. before e.u. countries have agreed to take sixty four migrants rescued off the coast of libya ten days ago they've been stranded on a rescue vessel there multiple with conditions getting worse by each day.