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try to stop this public because. i know. that i think after the last i'd like. to lower much of this burden you're at the listening post here are some of the media stories that we're covering this week reports of his death had been greatly exaggerated the reappearance on video of eyesores mysterious leader the majority government not c.n.n. off the air as it tries to control the narrative on venezuela young reporters growing up in public journalism gets the reality t.v. treatment and. fox news talking points put to music eighty's stuff. it was a long time between on camera appearances the world's most wanted man the leader of eisel abu bakar al baghdadi has surfaced for the first time since two thousand and fourteen the last time the world. saw him baghdad he was triumphant he was crawling

over the territory in iraq and syria that i still had captured his forces have since been routed thousands of his fighters are either locked up on the run or dead so the messaging has changed through a choreographed piece of video theater designed for two audiences for the outside world a reference to the easter sunday attacks in sri lanka the message i still can still strike anywhere any time for i saw internal audience a signal to supporters and enemies alike that baghdad is alive and in control i saw media output has been central to the movement those videos of beheadings and mass executions that the group put out back when it was at the height of its power was shocking and attracted mass coverage however times have changed for i saw and it's media output it's media messaging has changed to our starting point this week is the video and the reemergence of abu bakar al baghdadi.

then. and now. and then. in two thousand and fourteen bucker al baghdadi was in mosul in northern iraq out in the open as the self-proclaimed caliph of the islamic state. they come today he sits among his left hand dressed in military his whereabouts unknown back then i saw controlled territory in syria and iraq the size of great britain today it is a scattered force with no territory to speak of. the times have changed and the messaging and imagery reflect the contrast with his last appearance in two thousand and fourteen is really remarkable. mounting a pulpit to deliver

a sermon he's strong he's performing to a real congregation as well as the virtual so it's very rhetorical a strong. this one in great contrast he's seated doesn't move so much he's clearly a it's not clear with his wounded but he isn't as vigorous he has a gun next to him and this sends certain signals he is no longer a preacher to a real congregation he is going into the virtual space only this has turned into an insurgency not a territorial movement where. the video is set up in such a ways to convey the idea of the the warrior sculler this notion of the almost ascetic lifestyle that they are willing to make the sacrifices to be

down with the commanders the other thing that we've seen in this video is that he's accepting pledges of allegiance or by from brooklyn a faso from mali from afghanistan. as if he's planning operations that he's really in charge he's trying to convey that you know the might look very dark now because they've lost the territorial caliphate but don't give up hope. the al baghdadi video first appeared on one of eyesores media platforms. and traveled from there spreading across global news sites many of which had reported between two thousand and fifteen and two thousand and seventeen that al baghdadi had been killed his appearance was proof positive that those reports based primarily on russian intelligence sources were wrong bag.

that his message to the converted was much more complicated a harder sell that i saw was in transition not retreat from its last caliph turning back into an insurgent group a borderless one with branches prepared to launch attacks like the ones in sri lanka in multiple countries there is an overlap to the degree between the messages to the into to the converted and also mess just six zero one zero zero both audiences these can be quite a number one he is still alive but also to the converted but he's emphasizing that there are always going to be people who will think it will be truly faithful and fight for the cause of the islamic state despite the loss of territory you know she could have at it received a warm reception especially from my full supporters on social media notably telegram which i slew relies on heavily many of scene in the video proof that i feel it's still operational and is able to conduct a long war of attrition we shouldn't forget the month of ramadan is upon us and

this will see an increase in operations i believe will see an escalation of violence and astonish had seen that on for. having had its forces defeated in city after city province after province i saw still manages to get its post territorial message out but alpha com is one of the few platforms remaining in its information arsenal at its height in two thousand and fourteen i still had dozens of media offices stretching beyond syria and iraq into saudi arabia yemen and libya and i saw as media machine was prolific producing up to forty or fifty pieces of propaganda per day in many languages what most international media audiences remember are the terror videos just disturbing. hearing those horrific but they were graphic and gory and the global media reflects badly served as amplify. but

far more messaging was named internal through videos that were central to isis recruiting strategies one of the things that was most interesting at the height of the media campaign in two thousand and fourteen was eve greetings from the land of the. basically over video with all these foreign fighters from southeast asia from europe from the united states from africa talking about how wonderful it was to live in the caliphate and they made it very clear not only was a caliphate a utopian society but you had to come and bring the kids. don't get out and so this idea was that moving to iraq and syria wasn't moving to a war zone where you were moving to a utopian society in which that's what as a muslim you had to do they had offices full of people dominating all the different platforms like they had people tweeting constantly they had. things all of this did

have a very physical presence the production companies being social media offices they were tied to how they stay and so to some extent like a pest a has been degraded probably. before two thousand and fourteen media output was produced by a single outlet when i saw expanded we through the emergence of several new media outlets in multiple languages such as magazine and english. magazine and several other there was a weekly newspaper which is still running i thought still retains excellent media capacity the technical quality has not decreased even as the scale and volume have been into. one clear indication of the way eisel sees its media operations came from al baghdadi himself it's on the take.

he rhymed off a list of media specialists who have been among the countless i saw members killed in battle. which scholars who study the group say is consistent with the significance that deisel has always attached to its message and the resources it devotes to get its messages out i can't remember extremists in the past thanking communications officers and i mean i see saying yes but. this fits in this commendation of the media fits in with a long pattern of walt of the zionist state's own messaging about the importance of media i mean they put out a whole publication sometime ago which was you are a. media persons the media personnel they contribute to the jihad of the islamic state as vital a part of it as the fighters. how do bucker al baghdadi is change of

course his plan to build the global borderless caliph it comes with the caviar i still did not choose this path its fighters have been conquered and expelled from the lands they held its leader has gone from a public figure to a future of baghdad he can spin the story of isis post territorial rebranding its return to its insurgent roots however he likes and he will because he knows that these days the message is one of the very few things that i saw still can control. were discussing other media stories that are on our radar this week with one of our producers full philips flow on venezuela where the political power struggle continues we've seen those images of government forces squaring off with protesters on the streets what's happening on the media side of this story and on social media right so this past tuesday four am to be exact the opposition figure and

self-proclaimed president won posted a video online in which he called for the military to join him in the final phase of what he calls operation freedom what the venezuelan president nicolas maduro caused an attempted coup and tweets of support came in not long after for members of the u.s. administration the government started shutting down social media platforms face twitter well into mitten the blocks by the state internet service can t.v. bought twenty men. it's before the doura was going on to do a live speech everything was restored just in time for him to call out be us in colombia for the support of the opposition and we have seen this before certain websites certain social media platforms being pulled down often in conjunction with why those public appearances and the majority government is also blocked the access that venezuelans have to certain international news channels they have and that was

a direct result of this video a live feed of the venezuelan national guard in armed personnel carriers running over protesters after about a minute of that video going to various venezuelan cable companies got their orders from the government regulator qana tel to block cnn's output now c.n.n. said that its online service remained uninterrupted and people on social media reported that they could easily access the internet live stream but b.b.c. spanish language service b.b.c. mundo was pulled down and the miami based radio crackers put out this tweet after eighty nine years of uninterrupted transmission the pioneer of venezuelan broadcasting was taken off the air c.n.n.'s chief washington correspondent jake tapper why was he trending on this story for a tweet that he put out but also the video that he posted with it here's the tweet c.n.n. live in venezuela as manure a government mo's down citizens in streets now the problem was that the video started with an image with army defectors joining the opposition but the

combination of that video along with the chose a much that tapper used seemed to imply that the madeira government was in fact gunning down its own citizens not to pull the tweet but not before he'd taken some heat particularly from r t which is funded by the kremlin apparent allies of the majority government in what is fast becoming a geo political standoff ok thanks for reality t.v. has a format a proven formula that works for aspiring singers dancers or chefs. then someone came up with an idea why not try it with young would be journalists take students from various journalism courses and have them compete see who can do the best investigative reporting we have a winner journalism reality t.v. shows are currently airing in three countries armenia kenya and bolivia they offer young reporters the practical training their studies may lack and they remind viewers at a time when trust in the media is at an all time low of the importance of investigative

journalism in any democracy the listening posts johannah who's now on journalism reality t.v. . still beasts with needs to fill b.t.s. . inserts in the they'll be drawn kenya's top story. on my head ok you can put a hearty another when i'm a nasty journalistic afterwards but if we get a gust of oh it was but i doubt that most of it before that it was dead but that livia primera planet. reality t.v. or hard hitting investigative journalism in the beginning i think there was a lot of why you tried to bring us a reality t.v. show and the new to what journalism actually is really asking questions but when you think about it the reality to leave it behind the scenes and unpacks what it takes to put together a broadcast. and she's given

a salute and i think that's the excitement you're putting in a bit of color your you're making it a lot more fun this week the competition starts on the dash to get tested and we wanted to make this program accessible to people so you don't have to compete too hard we wanted to show them that it's possible to do to do some really serious journalism to get over it will be able to follow and you know and understand. every city has found to be true. and that mix of journalism and reality entertainment for for us works really well in many societies in this world are not educated or superficial they are not interested in facts and solid information so if the audience requires for entertainment to pass them true and interesting and helpful information then i'm ready to do that

even if we are criticized this is not serious. yes we are doing it like american idol we are doing like voice but this is a voice of journalists and we are very proud that we can make something interesting but also very useful. carrying under came up with the original idea. back in two thousand and six he partnered with the european journalism center e.j. c setting up a mentoring program for journalism students from armenian universities students would battle it out to produce the best piece of investigative journalism about mucked up crimes at this stage off the air. with the help of the e.j. see the competition was then exported to universities in bolivia and kenya where former b.b.c. africa editor joseph saul scope for a t.v. show. really three programs are no regular fixture is on that country's airwaves

it's a format that has remained largely the same on air as it was off air with one big difference the stories of journalist are now tracking are no longer made up providing the students with real life experience they might not pick up in the classroom obviously it's extremely important that we have that space for journalists to learn and academic approach but many young journalists tell me that their programs are not really skills orientated and that they welcome the. unity the men i working journalists was the first thing you see at the top of the story headline we hope that we're providing you know just a little bit extra that universities can't get them before they really hit the news room the story made given where we're at with big news it's really important to have a program like like like top story or a you know what i meant to ship scheme like that because these are the people we're relying on now on in the future to be able to know distinguish what is true and

what is false. not told what it is but you're a police officer and this is now and we really focus on some very key basic skills like interviewing skills how do you find the right people to interview how do you conduct your interview before you get the last question is there any form of proof of official that how do you do it professionally and ethically those are the skills the tops that i've been trying to impart on this journalist and also members of the audience. seems to be working for the students but also for the public study but e.j. see you found that kenya's top story the significant impact on the media literacy of the toadying improving public understanding of the.