the fairy tale world that persuades us all is well in the midst of an existential crisis and that i think david rothenberg having been publicly called out in the media been making with netflix this incredibly powerful serious got our planet to face very significantly from his previous wife for the 1st time in human history the stability of nature. will be. placing the wonders of nature alongside. and i think that combination is absolutely vital. we're discussing other media stories that are on our radar this week with one of our producers john hannah who's joined the former u.s. army intelligence analyst and wiki leaks whistleblower chelsea manning is back in jail just 7 days after being released what are the details here well richard manning was sent back to prison for refusing to testify before

a grand jury over her contact with wiki leaks and its founder julian assange back in 2010 now the judge seems to be tightening the screws not only is manning back in jail after having already served $62.00 days for similar charges earlier this year if she continues to refuse to give evidence she will be fined $500.00 us dollars a day after the 1st 30 days rising to a 1000 a day after 60 days now these grand jury investigations are completely closed to the public and that includes the media but what we do know is that this is an investigation into wiki leaks and it's in the lead up to what prosecutors hope will be a criminal trial of a son to has been charged with conspiring with manning to break into pentagon computers to get access to a trove of secret military documents and state department cables manning says she refuses to answer questions i will not cooperate with this or any other grand jury that's because she's already given her testimony during her trial in 2013 after which she was convicted. and jailed for 7 years before her sentence was commuted in

2017 by president barack obama turning to the u.k. now where a suicide has led to the cancellation of a long running television program the germy carl show as well as some uncomfortable questions on the ethics that lie behind certain television for months 1st of all what kind of program are we talking about here which it was very much a tabloid t.v. program modeled on the jerry springer show in the us it featured members of the public fighting very personal battles in front of a live audience facing confrontational questions from the host often to solve or perhaps exploit these family disputes aired for 14 years on i.t.v. in the u.k. but the channel pulled the plug following the death of steve diamond a participant who reportedly took his own life a week after studio taping diamond was asked to take a lie detector test to convince his fiance that he had not been unfaithful he failed the test but this story has raised questions about the impact these kind of

programs can have on the mental state of their participants ok thanks joe. to china now a country that's been flexing its media muscle and not just in the news realm for all of the attention that hollywood and bollywood attract the past 2 years have produced the 3 highest grossing movies in china's cinematic history will for a year to operation red sea and the wandering earth have different settings and themes but they're all action films and look beyond the gertrude as violence implausible plotlines and special effects and you'll detect some jingoistic themes that are very much in line with president siege in ping's brand of national assertiveness throw in some government backing either tacit or financial and these films take on a very different feel cinema has always played a central role in the media strategy of the communist party are we simply seeing more sell you lloyd based propaganda revamped for the 21st century or just a market based response to the demands of chinese movie going audience listening

posts i mean actually arriving now on the new blockbusters of chinese cinema. there blockbuster action films made in china with the chinese cuts but almost none of them are actually set in china 142 was released in july 2017 in an unnamed african country workers in a chinese fact taken hostage by mostly milly's from europe to do what they don't know we could not do during the. night were members of the un security council the action hero is actors and it up to me who plays an ex-military man i can do people like me get used to. $875000000.00 in box office only means $140.00 or 2 is not just the highest grossing film ever leave or distributed

in china it's the highest grossing non english language film. of all time. i want to make the question read see which came out in february 2018 is based in a fictional country modeled on the island called the aware. and the wandering earth released in february this year takes chinese cinema even further afield it's a science fiction film set in space together these are the 3 most commercially successful chinese films ever released and they all tell stories of china's growing international power at the end of a while for it to you there's a chinese passport scoring slogan wherever you are in the word as a government as a country is always behind you that come very very strong nationalist message to the audience and something probably avoidable. mester a film released in china these are different from previous propaganda

nationalist movies which came out of the state sector they have budgets are large enough to accommodate top actors good locations quality special effects in other words chinese movies being made on the hollywood scale about subjects that might have been in the past considered states made propagandist subjects. chinese cinema has come a long way since its days as a new message in the vehicle for the communist party films of the fifty's and sixty's such as the white haired girl the battle chung mountain. and the red detachment of women who are only spreading a unifying message a communist vision to knit a vast divided country together. the t.v. off by the 1990 s.

beijing had shifted from communism to a more market driven system chinese cinema. found a new impetus the possibility of commercial success led by the example of movie makers in hong kong filmmakers on the mainland started experimenting with new johndroe action movies t.v. dramas chick flicks rum comics even satire. the producer it was clear to mainland chinese producers just how much potential domestic market had or so having come of age watching hong kong cinema in the eighty's and ninety's they began to invite filmmakers from there to come over for industry or for the model for china it was diverse it had stars and it played with different genres and what's interesting about some of these films is precisely because of the popularity of the people involved they can push the envelope a little bit from shotguns for big shots funeral had a lot of comedy revolved around product placement this was

a very cynical way of making money by putting large corporations products into the film at the same time the story of the film was about the corruption of everyday life by advertising and market culture unfunctional guns films are full of that kind of rather cynical approach to chinese culture and life today. the cynicism of satire critique once they get past the censors they can attract sizeable audiences the 2012 comedy lost in thailand made a spectacle of chinese materialism who are also if you will there. in 2016 the mermaid a fantasy romance comedy pushed an unabashed critique of environmental negligence in china well what do you call a god like they were all 14 of them are not going to know things well you've both films topped the box office. it's about more than just money though there have been

occasions when a film can actually make a political difference 2800 dying to survive was based on the true story of one man's mission to smuggle cheap cancer medicine from india into china. it generated such a response that the government was forced to announce new policies on drug pricing . perhaps inspired or possibly put on notice by the pull of such films beijing has doubled down on cinema as a tool for its own purposes it's resulted in what's called juice win lose or mean melody filmmaking fusing typical chinese political messaging with the production values budgets and mass market appeal of commercial cinema. the films have become even more popular and the current or government younger generation family years didn't go through the previous decades and it's easier for them to accept this type

of films than older generations say boy in 1000 sixty's or seventy's this is also to do with this is a production quality of those films in the past by propaganda films mostly came out of the state and studios the restructuring that took place in 2002001 saw many of those c.d.'s disappear consolidated and were frankly overtaken by private sector companies and then after a few years of this we've also seen the state sector learning from what the private sector was to a certain chinese filmmakers learn how to make films with messages that the communist party liked with the hollywood system movie stars genres etc and the box office then picked up you you've got a situation where the chinese film industry is delivering popular films at the same time meet the requirements of the proxy. superhit firms out of

growing importance for the communist parties media strategy last year the state film and television regulator was abolished and cinema was brought under the control of china's quite forthrightly named propaganda department. and aside from the routine sensing of films the government has singled out directors investors and film stars for disciplinary action the message cannot be missed no matter how successful chinese commercial cinema is beijing who means the power center and it will use its elaborate fine set of rules and laws to determine what's allowed and what's not i think there's very very what you can do what you can do some people do something without running into trouble some people just the thing thing but they're getting into trouble and it's also not just based on the current rules nor but also the current political circumstances environment and so on.

instances of content being removed after films are made are reducing in frequency this doesn't necessarily mean there's more self-censorship rather there's mutual understanding for example if i feel there's injustices taking place and things that make us angry or unhappy i want to shout about placed in front and center instead you must wrapped them up and place your critic in deeper and deeper layers of cinema. there is a padded out in chinese cinema today the more audiences chinese films attract the more earnings they bring the closer is the scrutiny they come under from the state china is ramping up its messaging not just inside the country but globally as well and big budget films could spur a new age of chinese soft power. with sequels to with 40 or 2 an operation that see

already underway chinese filmmakers could find their work being watched much more closely by beijing than ever before. and finally it has been 6 weeks now since such areas president beautifully co was forced out of office following weeks of mass on a rest but the calls for political reform keep on coming social media was where the people mobilized it's one of the few spaces for criticism of the government since the domestic state approved news media rarely make room for dissenting voices but i just. now jerry and musician and you tube star one of many using music to push socio political material often to the annoyance of the regime her work has forced her to leave the country that happened 4 years ago but it did not silence or 100 latest songs called a low list system has now amassed more than 25000000 views she makes the point that the changes made so far by the algerian powers that be are not nearly enough we'll

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a sausage sandwich when they arrive to vote is an australian tradition. almost every polling station in every electorate has the source each season there are $150.00 want to make sure it's in australia $151.00 seats in parliament having $76.00 of them delivers a majority the labor opposition party already has $72.00 so if it takes just full overrule from the right of center governing liberal party labor government one liberal electorate that could pull to labor is kurang get points west of melbourne but here it will be tight in the set of points they. always use the most are towards refugees so i went for that maybe believes. basically politicians deciding it may not each other's best friend anymore and kicking each other out that's a common view they have been 5 different prime ministers since 2013 for came to

office through internal party coups rather than at elections where people say again and again as they walk in here is how frustrated they are by the constant changes in political leadership in australia some of even said to me there. rather not be voting at all but that's not an option in australia where voting is compulsory and people a find if they fail to show up bill shorten the labor opposition leader voting in nearby melbourne promises if he wins they'll be stability he's put a few tax breaks for the rich and the environment is at the heart of his election campaign the rest of the world's fighting climate change a strain has been missing this is not the aussie way to go missing in the big fights. the world will know that if i begin selected a strike is back in the fight against climate change in a city sydney that's popular my parents' generation fought for environmental issues and now so going backwards i'm praying for

a change of government i'm crossing my fingers for a change because. it's possible a former prime minister tony abbott could lose his normally safe seats over the issue of an independent candidate campaigning on the environment is the narrow favorite to beat him and his part of sydney with a very tight election result independents could hold the balance of power. the current prime minister's message is the highest taxes and more environmental regulation will cripple an already delicate economy at the selection i'll be making a simple point. i want to back you i would have backed you respirations the things that actually drive you to your goals you were to get a child to buy a house decide if you're a charmer to live in your autonomy and the why do you stop life is high taxes on all of those things is to vote liberal and nationals today. was going to get morrison will be in sydney for the result will be in melbourne but neither will be confident and or thomas is joining us now from melbourne and if the opinion polls

are right andrew then the labor party might be celebrating later on in here at their headquarters. that's right this room will be the scene of sort of russian all to the right should. it's not expected of them i mean that a party loses the polls on the eastern side of australia that includes the cities of melbourne where i am said the forest been for example and tasmania likewise just about an hour ago now and already the votes in those places all being counted now the way the preferential voting system works it's a very slow process of formally coming up with results already done that is as the votes all. so far about 2 percent of votes being counted so far they all tally by the television networks here and i try and count from initially very small numbers of votes which way this one is going and i can tell you that in the last call parul

side that we've had the reason a swing on towards the light column studies that prove that much more likely the labor party will win this election very very early in the testing like caution with that because there's an up to 5 times that we don't but that's how things look at them i mean it will come down to do marginal st in a few cities around the country i've spent most of saturday in one just to the west of melbourne which you sold day and that records and that really does show you how to find its way through some of those places and what are the issues that have been at the forefront of voters' minds for this election. conscious or in that report the environment is very much painful runs in many people's minds either a something that will start in the still more about to reduce emissions or is a big scary tax because there's no doubt that environmental regulations will also probably power possible go up in this country for some people that really is a scary prospect and certainly something the russian sense of government is night a lost soul the fact that he's saying they will hike up environmental regulation

and that will cost the average australian in their wallet well as well as that the general theme of tax and on the labor side spend more spending on schools hospitals infrastructure that has been front of same as well what hasn't been the issue in this election campaign is that issue of refugees you have a few years when many many votes of refugees the country started tens of thousands of people arriving that way that the kind of very controversial thing here and the opposition at the time the right set of positions they were then made a big deal of saying if they got into government they would stop the fights well they did with extremely harsh policies sending refugees to almost permanent imprisonment from pacific islands around well starting about never being resettled here in australia that the terror. on the refugees date still taking votes to wall street it will the labor policy this time around was dull as an election issue but promising to be just as tough with refugees as the current government so that hasn't really. an election as

a few hours from now will be as early as 2 hours now we should get a pretty clear as to which why this election is going and lights on saturday not on that stage behind me the opposition data as he is now bill she will stand up to the senate right now these traits all to him is a right the election victory that was. andrew thomas thank you. syrian state media says this air base has repelled an attempted attack at least one person was killed and several others wounded when armed fighters launched drones on rockets towards the base close to the coastal city of latakia and explosions have also been heard in the capital damascus state media reported what it described as luminous objects coming from the direction of israel and that they had been shot down israel hasn't commented but in the past its forces have attacked sites in syria that it says are connected to iran and the lebanese group hezbollah and an airstrike in syria is in the province on friday killed several civilians including a father and his baby daughter many more people were injured the u.n.

aid chief has warned his worst fears are being realized in mark local says the offensive there could result in the worst humanitarian tragedy of the 21st century our diplomatic editor james bays has more. the russian ambassador of vaseline a benzema under pressure in the security council last year russia was one of 2 countries with turkey that guaranteed it as a safe zone now it stands accused of unleashing with its syrian allies a campaign of bomb bob went on the province since late april this escalation in violence has reportedly killed and injured over 100 civilians and further displaced 180000 the aerial bombardment is alarming including the use of barrel bombs in populated areas. with 18 medical facilities and 17 schools destroyed or damaged in just 3 weeks away even more powerful words from the un's

most senior humanitarian official when i briefed today on 800 september i said a full scale military onslaught could result in the worst humanitarian tragedy of the 21st century. despite our warnings our west fears and now coming true mr revealed the un had shared the precise coordinates of humanitarian facilities with all warring parties so they wouldn't be hit but the u.k. ambassador then asked if they'd actually been deliberately targeted as a result mr president it would be absolutely grotesque if n.g.o.s and health workers providing coordinates to a mechanism they believe is there to assure their safety but finding themselves being the authors of their own destruction because it's deliberate targeting by the regime when it was time for russian ambassador no benazir to speak he accused the

council of double standards ignoring civilian deaths during the u.s. bombardment of the eyesores stronghold of russia but he denied his country's air force was currently targeting medical facilities for you but it's that we categorically reject accusations of by lading international humanitarian law neither the syrian army nor the russian space and air force is conducting has delivered against civilians or civilian infrastructure or you bombing hospitals in the us or no outside the chamber but in his speech to the council the syrian ambassador bashar jaffrey said military operations were being carried out against what he said were terrorists they were he said operations that will continue it seems this meeting has failed to stop the devastating bombardment of it lebron james plays out his era at the united nations hundreds of people have protested in

libya's capital tripoli against warlords khalifa haftar is offensive on the city they would have to it is meant to put down their weapons half that is allied with the to brooke based government in libya's east the head of that administration phinney has told us media they're prepared to negotiate with the u.n. back tripoli government but he refused to accept the preconditions that hazardous forces withdraw from territory they've taken. to austria now where the coalition government appears to be on the brink of collapse chancellor sébastien kurtz is set to talk to the head of the freedom party vice chancellor. shortly on friday 2 german newspapers published a covertly filmed video speaking to a russian apparently offering state contracts to a company in exchange for possible political supports the coalition came to power in 2017 with a hard line on immigration the freedom party became a junior partner in the government when.